In THe NEws

As recently as last year, Myanmar was being touted as an attractive destination for international investors, even in the face of bad publicity over the government’s handling of the crisis in Rakhine State.

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The latest U.S. sanctions on Myanmar target an army-controlled gems business rife with corruption and abuses that is one of the junta’s key sources of revenue.

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EMERGING Towns & Cities Singapore (ETC) has appointed an independent reviewer to review the group's dealings in Myanmar. Nexia TS Advisory will conduct reviews on contractual payments to the Myanmar government ministries and departments, including the Ministry of Defense and Quarter Master General Office.

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The Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ) and Justice For Myanmar (JFM) has found that Adani Ports paid about US$52 million to Myanmar’s military junta to build a container port in Yangon.

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Myanmar's army controls huge swathes of the economy through two conglomerates. High-ranking officers operate family-run ventures, including military chief Min Aung Hlaing. DW looks into his children's financial ties.

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On the 1st of February 2021, Myanmar’s military grabbed power in a coup d’etat, and declared a state of emergency with all legislative, executive and judicial powers handed to Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.

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China has joined Russia in opposing direct sanctions on Myanmar's military junta by the U.N. Security Council, and has restricted its public comments to wishes for peace and stability, while the country's foreign ministry has denied tacit encouragement for the coup.

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I slutten av januar vant frihetsforkjemper Aung San Suu Kyis parti valget, til mektige militærlederes store misnøye. Like etter ble det gjennomført statskupp og Kyi ble pågrepet.

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Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been beset with political instability since it declared independence from Britain in 1948. Between 1958 and 1960 the military formed a temporary caretaker government at the behest of UN.

တောင်ကိုရီးယားကုမ္ပဏီများ၏ မြန်မာစစ်တပ်နှင့် စီးပွားရေးဆက်ဆံမှုများသည် အာဏာသိမ်း စစ်ကောင်စီနှင့်အတူ ပြစ်တင်ရှုတ်ချမှုများ ပိုမိုခံလာရသည်။ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးအုပ်စုများသာမက ထိုလုပ်ငန်းများ၏ အစုရှယ်ယာရှင်များကပင် မြန်မာစစ်တပ်နှင့် အဆက်အသွယ်ဖြတ်ရန် POSCO ကို တိုက်တွန်းနေကြသည်။

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