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TOKYO 16 July 2021: Japanese business entities should stop participation in a commercial real estate project involving Myanmar’s military junta, Human Rights Now, Human Rights Watch, Japan International Volunteer Center, Justice For Myanmar, and Mekong Watch stated in a joint release on Thursday.
They are targeting Yangon’s Y-Complex, where a 399-room Okura Prestige Yangon is due to open in 2022.
Justice for Myanmar alleges that foreign investment is involved in the construction and management of the Y-Complex project that funds land lease fees to the country’s armed forces known as the ‘Tatmadaw’.
One participating company, Tokyo Tatemono, stated that they
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The decision by a Norwegian telecommunications firm to pull out of Myanmar following the junta’s Feb. 1 coup d’état will deal a blow to the country’s already struggling economy and grant the military significantly more control over the privacy of its citizens, according to experts.
On July 8, Norway’s Telenor Telecommunications Co. announced that it plans to sell all of its existing services in Myanmar to Lebanese firm M1 Group. Telenor chief executive Sigve Brekke said in a statement that the company decided to leave the country after nearly a decade of doing business there because of growing challenges in terms of compliance with rules and regulations.