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.
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Lead Story Logging News Sagaing
Forestry Dept seizes 10 tons of timber from boat in Katha
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
Logging war: Truck runs checkpoint in Pegu
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
Soldiers nabbed with illegal logs in 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.
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Loggers declare one-year moratorium
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
Search intensifies for killers of forestry officer
A band of illegal loggers who beat a forestry officer to death in Shwebo are still at large.
Kachin Lead Story Logging News
Life imprisonment for Chinese loggers in Kachin
153 of the men were handed the maximum punishment of life imprisonment, while two others, who are minors, were sentenced to 10 years.
Wa, govt troops in standoff over logging dispute
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
Govt forces using airstrikes against Kachins
Burmese military claims it deployed airstrikes against the KIA in efforts to quell illegal logging in the northern region.
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Timber talks: Burma and China discuss logging
Talks held to support both countries’ interest in responsible, cross-border timber trade, say officials.
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Business weekly 16 January 2015
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
China-Burma talks on illegal timber
In light of recent bust in Kachin state, officials meet to discuss the widespread illegal trade.
Lead Story Logging Natural resources News Shan
Four forestry officers slain in Shan State
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.
Will ASEAN be a conduit for transnational organised crime?
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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‘Burma will become a responsible timber-trading country’
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
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.
Burmese woodworkers log in to new bidding market
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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Will Burma’s timber ban curb or entrench corruption?
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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Life among the logs
Whole families are working day and night in Rangoon’s logging ports, husking the bark from logs to sell as firewood.
Timber ban, effective in April, leads to wood export rush
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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Timber merchants, China must cooperate if export ban is to succeed
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.
Trading in timber
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[…]
From illegal timber to tiger skins, Myanmar is destroying its environment for a quick buck
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[…]
