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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.
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.
Additional sentences for Latpadaung activists
Five activists previously sentenced to prison after a protest Rangoon last year, are sentenced to four months each in prison by the Ahlone township court.
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.
Shouldering China’s toxic burden
Fears that pollution in China will stifle development could push Beijing to export destructive industries abroad, with worrying implications for its neighbours