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Southeast Asia: Drought - 2019-2020
This archived webpage describes an ongoing drought crisis in Southeast Asia that began in 2019 (as at March 2020)
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Myanmar Business Environment Index: COVID-19 Impact on Businesses
Apart from direct health impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the crisis and measures to combat it have hit the economy hard. In Myanmar, as part of the Myanmar Business Environment...
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The Settlement of Labour Dispute Law (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 5/2012)
The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw hereby enacts this Law for safeguarding the right of workers or having good relationship between employer and workers and making peaceful workplace or obt...
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The Labour Organization Law (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 7/2011)
The Ministry of Labour, in exercising the powers conferred under section 57 of the Labour Organization Law, hereby issues the following rules with the approval of the Union Gove...
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The Commercial Tax Law (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 8/90)
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Foreign Investment Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 21/2012)
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Export and Import Law (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No.17/2012)
The objectives of this Law are as follows: (a) to enable to implement the economic principles of the State successfully; (b) to enable to lay down the policies relating to expor...
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State of Knowledge: Women and Rivers in the Mekong Region
This State of Knowledge: Women and Rivers in the Mekong Region highlights women’s contributions - both actual and potential - to better governance, social, and environmental out...
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The Forest Law (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 8/92)
The Forest Law determines the basic principles, regulations and measures on sustainable management, preservation, development, utilization and inspection of forest resources and...
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The Myanmar Citizens Investment Law (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 4/94)
The Foreign and Citizens Investment Law aims to encourage foreign investment to mobilize the natural resources of the country and to promote development of technology.
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Myanmar Forest Policy 1995
The policy document formalizes the commitment and intent of the Government in ensuring sustainable development of the forest resource both for environmental and economic purposes.
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The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 8/92
This Law is called the Forest Law
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Minimum Wages Act, 2013 (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 7)
To meet with the essential needs of the workers, and their families, who are working at the commercial, production and service, agricultural and livestock breeding businesses an...
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The Social Security Law, 2012 (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 15)
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The Leave and Holidays Act, 1951 (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 58)
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Burma’s New Labor Law: Built to Fail or Shifting Toward Democracy?
Burma has long been known as a black hole for human rights. But the new leadership of the military junta hopes to shed its pariah image by loosening its oppressive policies. And...
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The Factories Act 1951 (Act No. 65/1951)
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The Labour Organization Law (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 7/2011)
The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw hereby enacts this law, in accord with section 24 of the constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, to protect the rights of the workers, to ha...
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Myanmar balances forestry exports with preservation
The forestry sector has been vitally important to Myanmar. When the country was isolated by sanctions, the selling of logs and wood helped bring in desperately needed hard curre...
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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2016: Country Report - Myanmar
FAO, at the request of its member countries, regularly monitors the world´s forests and their management and uses through the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA). This coun...