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…
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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.
Burmese army still holds 10 Mansi villagers captive, says FBR
Burma’s government forces are holding 10 local villagers captive and are continuing their attacks in and around the village of Nam Lim Pa in southern Kachin State’s Mansi Township, according…
18 Kachin villagers captured by Burmese army in Mansi
FBR reports that 18 villagers were apprehended in Mansi during an assault on the KIA, but govt says the operation was to arrest illegal loggers.
Thai smugglers unlikely to be given pardons in Burma
The two remaining Thai detainees in the Kawthaung smuggling and trespassing case are hopeful of a presidential pardon, but Burmese authorities are showing no signs of leniency.