Kachin Lead Story Logging News
Burma army to assist in tackling illegal logging in Kachin
Minister tells parliament plans are afoot to form a taskforce to crack down effectively on any logging operations in the area.
Kachin Lead Story Logging News
Minister tells parliament plans are afoot to form a taskforce to crack down effectively on any logging operations in the area.
Lead Story Logging News Sagaing
The officials, based on a tipoff, searched the boat on the Irrawaddy River and found around 10 tons of timber in a hidden compartment.
Lead Story Logging News Pegu Division
The incident is the latest in a spate of violent confrontations between law enforcement officials and illegal loggers in Kyauktaga Township.
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Lead Story Logging News Sagaing
The officials said they stopped and searched the lorry, which was accompanied by two servicemen, following a tip-off. They found 29 logs of milled lumber, weighing a total of nearly three tons.
Environment Lead Story Natural resources News
Burma’s largest producer of timber has declared a nationwide, one-year moratorium on logging, according to a spokesperson for the state-owned enterprise.
Lead Story Logging News Sagaing
A band of illegal loggers who beat a forestry officer to death in Shwebo are still at large.
Kachin Lead Story Logging News
153 of the men were handed the maximum punishment of life imprisonment, while two others, who are minors, were sentenced to 10 years.
Wa forces have surrounded a government position after 16 of their workers were detained in eastern Shan State.
Kachin Lead Story Logging Natural resources News
Burmese military claims it deployed airstrikes against the KIA in efforts to quell illegal logging in the northern region.
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Talks held to support both countries’ interest in responsible, cross-border timber trade, say officials.
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In business this week: Applications to practice on Burma’s stock exchange are open, and Burma exports rice to India.
Environment Lead Story Logging News
In light of recent bust in Kachin state, officials meet to discuss the widespread illegal trade.
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According to a Shan State government administrator, the forestry officers had earlier seized 200 tons of illegally felled logs and were on their way back to check the haul. “We assume someone had a grudge,” he said.
Organised crime businesses in ASEAN countries is in the order of US$100 billion per year – that is no less than the combined economies of Brunei, Cambodia and Laos.
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DVB interviews Bar Bar Cho, joint secretary of the Myanmar Timber Merchants Association, about how Burma’s new logging export ban will affect his industry.
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BUSINESS in BURMA THIS WEEK: Telenor pledges to erect 2,400 telecommunications towers across Burma; Exim Bank looks at southern highway; Traders Hotel rebranded as Sule Shangri-La; and Yoma announces deal with Mitsubishi.
Domestic Burmese companies can now afford to bid for raw timber since a ban on exporting wood came into force on 1 April, according to the Myanmar Timber Merchants Association (MTMA).
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While the raw timber export ban is a step towards avoiding a regrettable transformation in one of Burma’s major industries, it may only work in tandem with more reforms that tackle the country’s deep-seated corruption.
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Whole families are working day and night in Rangoon’s logging ports, husking the bark from logs to sell as firewood.
Raw timber export is estimated to rise by 33 percent this year, in the lead-up to a nationwide ban on the commodity, according to the Myanmar Timber Merchants Association.
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Burma’s Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry announced six months ago that a ban on the export of raw timber will go into effect on 1 April 2014. The Myanmar Timber Merchants Association has requested that foreign timber merchants cooperate with the government to stop illegal exports.
The Burmese government has announced a policy that will stop the export of raw timber starting next April. Environmentalists say the decision could save Burma’s forests. Burma is one of[…]
Oct 14, 2007 (AP) – Truckloads of illegal timber cross the Myanmar border to sawmills in China, while markets along the Thai border openly sell bear paws, tiger skins and[…]