Myanmar is taking measures to extend use of compressed natural gas to substitute fuel in operating automobiles in face of sustained rising world oil prices.
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Guwahati based Naga Human Rights Organization, and Naga International Support Center (NISC) have reiterated that Naga’s inhabited hills of Manipur, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Burma must be reunited to form Naga’s Homeland.
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”The 962 million-baht-loan for Myanmar is not under our economic cooperation. It is not the Thai government’s money but the EXIM Bank’s. It must be repaid with an interest,” he said.
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The Export-Import (Exim) Bank of Thailand yesterday discounted a news report of a controversial loan to Burma, saying it contained inaccuracies which could jeopardise bilateral ties.
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Army chief Gen Chaisit Shinawatra will leave for Burma next week to discuss ethnic minority groups’ problems with Burmese Prime Minister Khin Nyunt.
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Immigration Minister Paul Swain is looking at ways to make it easier for refugees to get jobs after his department reported that eight out of 10 are still on a benefit after being here for five years.
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A pressure group campaigning to isolate Burma’s military regime “named and shamed” 37 companies yesterday for trading with Rangoon in defiance of a government appeal to boycott the junta.
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Corporate social responsibility has become a major issue for businesses of all types and all sizes across the globe. On Monday three of the insurance industry’s biggest names were placed on a name-and-shame list of those doing business with the controversial regime in Burma.
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Burma Campaign UK has added Lloyd’s to its ‘dirty list’ of companies – which already includes Aon and Willis – that it claims to be “directly or indirectly helping to finance Burma’s brutal military dictatorship”.
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Myanmar’s resumed National Convention to draw up the principles of a new Constitution for the state was adjourned on July 9 until the return of the ‘open season’.
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