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As many as 47 global and Myanmar-based human rights organisations have written to Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, King Harald V and Telenor board chair Gun Waersted.
In a letter to the Norwegian firm’s board chairperson, the groups said Telenor was ignoring the rights implications of selling its Myanmar unit to a junta-linked company.
Norway's Telenor exits Myanmar, sells stake to military-linked firm Norwegian telecom behemoth Telenor has sold off its Myanmar operations to the Lebanese investment firm M1 Group, a firm now on the Burma Campaign UKs ‘Dirty List’ in 2019 for business ties with the country’s brutal military. | 10 July 2021 4:38 AM GMT KOLKATA: Norwegian telecom behemoth Telenor has sold off its Myanmar operations to the Lebanese investment firm M1 Group, a firm now on the Burma Campaign UKs 'Dirty List' in 2019 for business ties with the country's brutal military. Late on Thursday, Telenor announc...
April 10, 2021 Share 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, where almost 1 million Rohingya residents had been massacred or driven into exile. “While potential investors should be wary of inadvertently supporting the persecution, well-placed investments could yield rewards and spur a developing economy,” wrote the website World Finance – which bills itself as “the voice of the market” – in February 202...
March 01, 2021 United front: Once the initial shock wore off, mass protests started across the country under the umbrella of a leaderless civil disobedience movement - REUTERS/ STRINGER United front: Once the initial shock wore off, mass protests started across the country under the umbrella of a leaderless civil disobedience movement - REUTERS/ STRINGER× The country hasn’t had a quiet moment since the military seized power on February 1 * Yangon has been masked up and non-essential workers have stayed at home since August. Now, everybody is essential — but in the service of d...