In THe NEws

Throughout Myanmar’s student uprisings of 1998, the 2007 Saffron Revolution, the pot-holed journey to quasi-democracy and this year’s coup, the giant Yadana gas project has been a constant.

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Justice For Myanmar alleges one of the region’s top hotel companies, Shangri-La Group, has an ongoing business link with Myanmar’s military junta that overthrew the elected government in the 1 February coup.

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မင်းအောင်လှိုင်၏ သမီးထံသို့ ချေးငွေပေးမှုတစ်ရပ်အပေါ် အရေးပေါ် အရေးယူဆောင်ရွက်ရန် Justice For Myanmar မှတောင်းဆို

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AS vaccination campaigns roll out, attention will turn once again to travel and the all too familiar tragedy being re-enacted in Myanmar. Is ostracism a heroic show of solidarity with democratic activists, already cut off from the world? Or is it hugely counterproductive?

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Activist group "Justice for Myanmar" has called out Shangri-La Asia for "continued business with the Myanmar military" through the Sule Square development. It urged consumers to boycott Shangri-La hotels and asked investors to divest. Sule Square is a mall and office development in Yangon by Shangri-La and according to the activist group, it is on land leased from the quartermaster general’s office of the Myanmar army.

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Wojsko w Birmie brutalnie tłumi protesty, używając broni dostarczonej niegdyś przez Niemcy. Niemieckie firmy do dziś robią dobre interesy z reżimem - pisze tygodnik "Spiegel".

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Justice for Myanmar activists against the military coup in their country are putting pressure on Kay Kuok Oon Kwong, who is the niece of Malaysia’s richest man Robert Kuok, over her alleged business ties with Myanmar’s military.

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The United States imposed sanctions on two more state-owned enterprises in Myanmar on Wednesday in the latest in a series of punitive actions following the country's military coup, and said it would take further action.

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အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီရဲ့ မြန်မာ့သစ်လုပ်ငန်း (Myanma Timber Enterprise) နဲ့ မြန်မာ့ပုလဲ ထုတ်လုပ်ရောင်းဝယ်ရေးလုပ်ငန်း (Myanmar Pearl Enterprise) တို့ကို အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စုက ပိတ်ဆို့အရေးယူလိုက်ပါတယ်။

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A Myanmar-based NGO has slammed Malaysia’s richest man Tan Sri Robert Kuok, whose net worth is US$12.5 billion (RM51.5 billion), for the alleged continued business ties between Kuok’s Shangri-La Asia Limited and Myanmar’s junta.

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