Drug Trade

Guiding Drug Law Reform in Myanmar

November 30, 2017 by Thiha

A draft bill amending Myanmar 1993 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law was published in newspapers in March 2017 for public consultation. It was subsequently discussed in the upper house of Parliament (Amyothar Hluttaw) on 16 August 2017. The draft bill introduces important changes to Myanmar drug law. Most significantly, it intends to place public […]

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IFC Approves Support for Controversial Tycoon’s Mandalay Cement Project

September 1, 2017 by Thiha

The World Bank’s private sector lending arm the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has given the go ahead to support a multi-million dollar plan to expand a cement factory in Mandalay Region, operated by the Shwe Taung Conglomerate. The firm’s chairman, Aik Htun, had been alleged by US authorities to have had ties to the drug […]

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Skirting Comedy Limits in Myanmar

August 4, 2015 by Thiha

MANDALAY, Myanmar — Emerging from behind a tawdry blue curtain in the garage of his three-story home here in Myanmar’s second-largest city, U Lu Maw made his way onto a makeshift stage to do what he does best: tell jokes. “I don’t trust the government,” Mr. Lu Maw, 66, bellowed into the microphone in English […]

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