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  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    Telenor ASA
    Myanmar junta approves Telenor’s divestment from country

    Exit of Norwegian group, which has been trying to leave for months, has dismayed human rights activists

  • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
    EU targets Myanmar’s lucrative energy sector in latest sanctions

    Companies under pressure to divest from country and cut off funding for junta

  • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
    News in-depthNikkei Asia
    Yangon’s calm masks Myanmar’s pain a year after military takeover

    Commercial capital adapts to ‘new normal’ but fear and violence lurk just below the surface

  • Tuesday, 8 February, 2022
    Myanmar activist warns Telenor that sale will endanger junta’s opponents

    Norwegian telecoms company is struggling to appease both regime and human rights campaigners

  • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    Has plant-based meat peaked?

    Alphabet announced a 20-for-one stock split on Tuesday

  • Tuesday, 1 February, 2022
    Myanmar businesses defy army nationalisation threat and join strike

    Companies caught in middle as opposition organises stoppage to mark anniversary of coup

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    Australia’s Woodside pulls out of Myanmar gas projects

    Energy company relinquishes exploration licences over human rights abuses

  • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
    Inside BusinessJohn Reed
    Stay or go: the dilemma for multinationals in Myanmar

    Companies are having to make judgment calls on dealing with a repressive regime

  • Sunday, 23 January, 2022
    News in-depth
    Myanmar junta’s air strikes force thousands of people to flee to Thailand

    Conflict in east of country reveals how violence after coup is widening and intensifying

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    Total and Chevron pull out of Myanmar gas project

    French group cites lack of progress in sanctions on gas revenues flowing to junta

  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to four years for importing walkie-talkies

    Myanmar junta has brought numerous charges against deposed leader since staging coup in February

  • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
    John Reed
    Myanmar massacre fuels calls for vote on UN arms embargo

    Christmas Eve civilian killings brought condemnation but have not yet sparked international action

  • Friday, 17 December, 2021
    South Korean companies met Myanmar officials despite coup censure

    Samsung and LG representatives joined regime civil servants at event organised by Korean embassy

  • Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
    Meta removes Myanmar army-linked businesses from Facebook

    Social media company denies ban is related to lawsuit launched by Rohingya refugees

  • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Deposed leader’s plight is a dark day for Myanmar

    Aung San Suu Kyi’s sentencing is symbolic of detention of thousands

  • Monday, 6 December, 2021
    Kirin Holdings Co Ltd
    Japan’s Kirin launches Singapore arbitration to exit Myanmar venture

    Brewery seeks to extricate itself from military junta-linked partnerships after February coup

  • Monday, 6 December, 2021
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Aung San Suu Kyi handed first sentence by Myanmar court

    Ousted leader found guilty of inciting dissent against junta and violating Covid rules during campaign

  • Monday, 6 December, 2021
    News in-depthTelecoms
    South-east Asian telecoms merge into mega-groups to invest in 5G

    Lax regulators are allowing too much consolidation and harming competition, analysts warn

  • Sunday, 28 November, 2021
    Argentine court to hear Myanmar Rohingya genocide case

    Matter brought under universal jurisdiction allowing grave crimes to be tried anywhere

  • Sunday, 21 November, 2021
    News in-depth
    Companies struggling to exit Myanmar ventures face prospect of investor flight

    Campaign groups press multinationals to be ready to leave empty-handed

  • Thursday, 18 November, 2021
    FT Magazine
    The open-source investigators trying to bring justice to Myanmar

    They’re using pioneering digital forensics to lay the groundwork for future crimes-against-humanity trials

  • Tuesday, 9 November, 2021
    Telenor ASA
    Telenor’s sale of Myanmar unit to M1 sidelined over junta’s opposition

    Norwegian telecom draws up contingency plans to exit country in wake of coup

  • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
    Myanmar military assault in Chin echoes Rohingya crackdown

    Soldiers set fire to homes and churches as UN urged to avoid ‘repeating mistakes’

  • Sunday, 10 October, 2021
    UN warns of Myanmar aid shortfall as country faces ‘triple crises’

    Coup, economic collapse and pandemic increase number of people in need of emergency help

  • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
    Myanmar violence mounts after shadow government embraces ‘war’

    Armed resistance threatens parallel administration’s quest for international support, warn analysts

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