Singapore Myanmar Investco JV partner moves to block TPR Myanmar sale

SINGAPORE (June 21): Singapore Myanmar Investco (SMI) says its joint venture partner Golden Infrastructure Group (GIG) has officially initiated legal action against the group’s sale of TPR Myanmar. To recap, SMI has been engaged in a dispute with GIG since Dec 2016 regarding their joint venture in Myanmar Infrastructure Group (MIG), which is the holding […]

Myanmar’s toxic legacy of large dams

The country’s first strategic environmental review provides a chance to demand more from investors and dam builders, but is still being seen as too little, and leading to fierce resistance by marginalised communities. In September spectacular drone footage revealed the beauty of the waterfalls, rapids, ancient temples and islets of the Nam Pang River, a […]