Live Breaking News & Updates on Myanmar extractive industries transparency initiative

Stay informed with the latest breaking news from Myanmar extractive industries transparency initiative on our comprehensive webpage. Get up-to-the-minute updates on local events, politics, business, entertainment, and more. Our dedicated team of journalists delivers timely and reliable news, ensuring you're always in the know. Discover firsthand accounts, expert analysis, and exclusive interviews, all in one convenient destination. Don't miss a beat — visit our webpage for real-time breaking news in Myanmar extractive industries transparency initiative and stay connected to the pulse of your community

Analysis: Myanmar's gemstone riches bring poverty and environmental destruction

On Feb. 28, a landslide of earth and waste from mines in Myanmar’s Hpakant township engulfed dozens of miners and scavengers looking for jade in this remote, mountainous region. Official sources claim just two deaths resulted from the landslide, but residents and aid workers said at least 23 people were killed and 80 missing. The […]

Kachin-state , Myanmar , Mandalay , China , Sagaing , Sagain , Kachin , Win-maung , Kayin-state , Mogok , Ayeyarwady , Chinese

After Myanmar coup, are India's oil investments helping support the military?

Human rights groups are pressuring oil and gas companies to sever their business links with the junta. Will Indian firms heed the call?

Myanmar , Meiti , Manipur , India , Aung-hlaing , Ayeyarwady , Malaysia , Yetagun , Kayah-state , United-states , Thailand , Zawtika

Myanmar: Incommunicado detention of Kyaw Min Htut

Myanmar: Incommunicado detention of Kyaw Min Htut
omct.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from omct.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.

Geneva , Genè , Switzerland , Paris , France-general- , France , Brussels , Bruxelles-capitale , Belgium , Aung-hlaing , Zar-myay-mon , Min-aung-hlaing

EU sanctions no 'silver bullet' against Myanmar's illegal timber trade, experts say

EU sanctions no 'silver bullet' against Myanmar's illegal timber trade, experts say
mongabay.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mongabay.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.

Myanmar , Malaysia , Taiwan , China , Czech-republic , Tanintharyi , Canada , Pianma , Yunnan , London , City-of , United-kingdom

Calls Grow to Cut Myanmar Junta's External Financial Lifelines

Calls Grow to Cut Myanmar Junta’s External Financial Lifelines
Calls Grow to Cut Myanmar Junta’s External Financial Lifelines
Myanmar soldiers are seen during the Armed Forces Day commemoration in Naypyitaw, the capital of the country, on March 27.
1.3k
By The Irrawaddy 5 May 2021
Tougher action is urgently needed to cut off foreign currency flows to the Myanmar military regime, suggested local and foreign financial experts, who argued that severing its financial lifeline would hasten the collapse of military rule.
“The largest inflows of foreign currency to the military are from the oil and gas and mining sectors. We need to totally shut off the flow of foreign currency that is keeping the junta alive,” a local economist who asked not to be named told The Irrawaddy.

Myanmar , Meiti , Manipur , India , New-york , United-states , Naypyitaw , Mandalay , Japan , Yangon , Thailand , Zawtika

US Senators Call for Sanctions on Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise

US Senators Call for Sanctions on Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise
Yadana gas field offshore facility in the Andaman Sea. / Total Myanmar
472
By The Irrawaddy 28 April 2021
U.S senators have urged the Biden administration to impose sanctions on Myanmar’s state-owned oil and gas enterprise —the largest source of foreign revenue for the military regime – in the aftermath of the Feb. 1 coup and the junta’s ongoing human rights abuses against Myanmar’s people.
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of U.S senators including Jeff Merkley, Marco Rubio and four others, sent a letter calling on Washington to target or freeze all foreign currency revenues and foreign exchange reserves held in state accounts outside of Myanmar. The senators said that the administration’s first step should be imposing sanctions on the state-owned Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE), now under the control of the junta’s leaders.

Hsaw , Shan-state , Myanmar , China , New-york , United-states , Thailand , Zawtika , Yangon , France , Washington , Marco-rubio

Foreign Oil and Gas Companies Urged to Suspend Business Ties with Myanmar Military Regime

Foreign Oil and Gas Companies Urged to Suspend Business Ties with Myanmar Military Regime
irrawaddy.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from irrawaddy.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.

Myanmar , Thailand , Zawtika , Yangon , France , Myanma , Petronas-yetagun , National-league , Myanmar-extractive-industries-transparency-initiative , Committee-representing-pyidaungsu-hluttaw , Myanma-oil , South-korea

Myanmar's Economic Year in Review

Myanmar’s Economic Year in Review
Myanmar's business hub, Yangon. / Htet Wai / The Irrawaddy
4.8k
By Nan Lwin 25 December 2020
YANGON—The Myanmar government began 2020 with high expectations that it would be the year the economic liberalization and reforms it introduced during the previous four years would begin to bear fruit. However, the COVID-19 pandemic upended its plans, slowing Myanmar’s economic growth to 1.7 percent in fiscal 2019-20 from 6.8 percent in 2018-19, not only hammering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the tourism and garment/textile sectors, but also delaying important economic events and activities needed to spur foreign direct investment (FDI).

Nabule , Tanintharyi , Myanmar , Naypyitaw , Mandalay , Japan , Yangon , Thailand , Cambodia , China , Vietnam , Republic-of

The Irrawaddy Business Roundup

The Irrawaddy Business Roundup
10 December 2020
By Zaw Zaw Htwe 19 December 2020
Yangon – This week, Myanmar’s government has been looking to relax COVID-19 restrictions to allow the economy to recover despite soaring numbers of coronavirus cases.
Myanmar has lifted its COVID-19 ban on domestic flights but has already seen a decline in foreign investment in the Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Yangon.
The World Bank has forecasted that Myanmar’s economy will start a slow recovery early next year.
Meanwhile, all firms in the extractive sector have been ordered to publicly disclose all contracts next year.
Myanmar resumes domestic flights

Laos , Yangon , Myanmar , Cambodia , Suu-kyi , Mariam-sherman , Myanmar-extractive-industries-transparency-initiative , World-bank , Thilawa-special-economic-zone , Counselor-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi , Than-thwe , Presidentu-win-myint

Myanmar President Orders Mining Firms to Publish Contracts, Boosting Transparency

Myanmar President Orders Mining Firms to Publish Contracts, Boosting Transparency
10 December 2020
7 December 2020
Myanmar President Orders Mining Firms to Publish Contracts, Boosting Transparency
A jade mine in Hpakant, Kachin State, after collapsing in July 2020. / Zaw Zaw / The Irrawaddy
5.1k
By Nan Lwin 15 December 2020
YANGON — Myanmar’s president has instructed the government, state-owned enterprises and private companies involved in the country’s extractive sector to publicly disclose any contracts from Jan. 1.
The President’s Office stated that all parties must follow “contract transparency”, starting on New Year’s Day, in collaboration with Myanmar Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (MEITI). The sector includes the extraction of oil, gas, timber and minerals.

Myanmar , Yangon , Kachin-state , Myanma , Suu-kyi , Myanmar-extractive-industries-transparency-initiative , Myanma-economic-holdings-public-company , Ministry-of-natural-resources , Ministry-of-electricity , New-year , Natural-resources , Environmental-conservation