This comes after it previously said no more sub-contracts would be issued. It announced that the decision to hire service providers was due to the MTE’s capacity limits. Experts have questioned the differences between sub-contractors and service providers and argued that transparency is essential in any reformed processes. Last year, the MTE announced that it […]
Timber group replaces sub-contractors with service providers
August 8, 2017 by Thiha
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Myanmar’s log export ban to hurt businessmen but help forests
March 24, 2014 by thiha
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar will ban the export of raw timber logs from April 1, choking off profits in a sector that provided critical funding to the country’s former military rulers for decades, as a new reformist government steps up efforts to save forests. Myanmar has some of Asia’s largest remaining expanses of forests, from […]
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