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  • Keel Dietz & Clare Hammond / May 6, 2021

    Three months on from the military coup, what should the international community do to support the people of Myanmar?

    Governments around the world must take stronger action to respond to the calls of the people of Myanmar and help secure a more peaceful, democratic future for the country

    Riot police stand on guard in front of the Central Bank building during a demonstration in Myanmar, February 2021
  • Hanna Hindstrom / July 14, 2020

    Myanmar jade mine disaster highlights government inaction

    The recent deadly landslide should be seen not as an unfortunate accident but as a predictable and preventable calamity that should shame the government into action.

    Big machines are used to excavate jade in Hpakant, Myanmar
  • Mark Normington / Dec. 31, 2019

    It’s the end of the year, the Global Magnitsky sanctions are here

    We welcome news of targeted sanctions against Hun Sen’s cronies in Cambodia and leaders of the armed forces in Myanmar – and that Magnitsky-type sanctions could be coming to the EU.

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  • Mike Davis / March 29, 2019

    မြန်မာအဲရစ်ပရင့်စ် (Erik Prince)– (သို့မဟုတ်) တရုတ် ရပ်ဝန်းတခု ပတ်လမ်းစီမံကိန်း ရည်မှန်းချက်အောင်မြင်စွာဖော်ဆောင်နိုင်ရေး

    (နယ်စပ်ဝန်ဆောင်မှုအဖွဲ့ (FSG)က မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် လုပ်ငန်းတစ်ခုထူထောင် နေသည် ဟူသော သတင်းများပြီးခဲ့သည့် ရက်သတ္တပတ်က ထွက်ပေါ်လာပါသည်။)

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  • Mike Davis / March 29, 2019

    Erik Prince in Myanmar – an own goal in the making for China’s Belt and Road investments?

    Erik Prince's private security firm, backed by China’s state-owned Citic Group, is setting up shop in Myanmar, with local partners linked to the country's corrupt multi-billion dollar jade trade.

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  • Ali Hines / March 21, 2019

    Is Rubber The New Palm Oil?

    We could be seeing a new global poster boy for the widespread deforestation crippling the environment: rubber.

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  • Paul Donowitz / July 16, 2018

    Can China be an agent of stability in northern Myanmar?

    As Myanmar wraps up its latest round of national peace talks in Naypyidaw, China has once again played an instrumental role behind the scenes.

    Machines are used to excavate jade in Hpakant on an enormous scale
  • Paul Donowitz / July 16, 2018

    တရုတ်နိုင်ငံသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမြောက်ပိုင်းတည်ငြိမ်ရေး ဆောင်ကျဉ်းပေးနိုင်သူ ဖြစ်နိုင်မလား

    မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၊နေပြည်တော်တွင် နိုင်ငံတော်အဆင့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးဆွေးနွေးပွဲများကို အပြီးသတ်နေချိန်တွင် တရုတ်နိုင်ငံသည် ကန့်လန့်ကာနောက်ကွယ် အရေးပါသော အခန်းကဏ္ဍမှ ပါဝင်လျက်ရှိသည်။ ကမ္ဘာ့အင်အားကြီးနိုင်ငံကြီး၏ ဖိအားကြောင့် ကချင်လွတ်မြောက်ရေးတပ်မတော် (KIA) အပါအဝင် မြောက်ပိုင်းမဟာမိတ်အဖွဲ့များ၏ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များသည် ဆွေးနွေးပွဲသို့ တက်ရောက်လာခဲ့သည်။

    Machines are used to excavate jade in Hpakant on an enormous scale
  • Eryn Schornick / Sept. 27, 2016

    How secret company ownership is a risk to businesses and investors

    To make sound and responsible investment decisions investors need to know who they are dealing with and what their track record is.

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  • Rachel Owens / Sept. 9, 2016

    After Panama Papers scandal, we have a real chance to reform the corruption-plagued extractives sector

    New briefing sets out opportunities for groundbreaking reforms in Myanmar's mining sector

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