US terminated remaining sanctions against Myanmar on 7 Oct 2016

On 7th October 2016 – President Obama signed the Executive Order to terminate the remaining economic and financial sanctions against Myanmar that make it very difficult for US banks, financial institutions and companies to do business with Myanmar. That means the following group of people and entities have been removed from the US Sanction List […]

Complete List of 204 entities and individuals removed from the US Sanction List for Burma

The following deletions have been made to OFAC’s SDN List for Burma as of 7/10/2016:   STATE PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BURMA [BURMA].   SHWE, Than; DOB 02 Feb 1935; alt. DOB 02 Feb 1933; nationality Burma; citizen Burma; Senior General, Minister of Defense and Commander-in-Chief of Defense Services; Chairman, State Peace and Development […]

Time to re-look your investment plan in Myanmar as Obama pledges to lift all remaining sanctions against Myanmar

President Obama this morning pledge that the US will lift all remaining sanction s against Myanmar after meeting Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at the Oval Office.   Currently the last remaining Myanmar tycoons on the SDN List are Steven Law of the Asia World Group U Zaw Zaw of the Max Myanmar Group U […]

The sanctions game: US mulls rewriting Myanmar blacklist

Subscribe to our Tender Alert. We send out email alert on Tender and EOI as it happens. Rolling back US sanctions on Myanmar will top the agenda Wednesday as President Barack Obama hosts democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi, with American firms desperate to tap millions of consumers once cut off by the former junta. […]

US eases Myanmar sanction to aid business

Photo Credit: File Photo from Nov. 14, 2014  meeting between Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon (Nyein Chan Naing / European Press Photo Agency) The US government has removed 3 government banks and 7 government agencies responsible for promoting investment and export in various sectors of this resource rich country off the sanction […]