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    Tagged: timber

    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.

    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.

    Environment Lead Story Natural resources News

    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.

    Lead Story Logging News Shan

    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.

    Environment Lead Story Logging Natural resources News

    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 Business Weekly Lead Story News

    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.

    ASEAN Crime Lead Story News

    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.

    Environment Interview Lead Story Logging Natural resources News Trade

    ‘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.

    Business Business Weekly Lead Story News

    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.

    Business Lead Story News

    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).

    Analysis Environment Lead Story News Politics

    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.

    Life among the logs video

    Features Lead Story News Society Video

    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.

    Environment Lead Story News

    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.

    Business Environment Lead Story News

    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 video

    Video

    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[…]

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    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[…]

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