Soft option on hardwood: Rangoon to scrap Thai logging deals on border
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The Burmese government has ended an arrangement that allowed Thai timber companies to log along the Thai-Burmese border. The Burmese government says it is negating the deal because Thai companies are supporting ethnic insurgents in the area. Others feel simply that Burma no longer needs the revenue gained from the logging concessions. After forcibly taking power in 1988, the current Burmese regime was spurned by the world's leading democracies, and was financially crippled. Logging revenue was critical to its survival. Subsequent discoveries of oil and natural gas have negated that need.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1993
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It's Rangoon, not rebels: Burmese government behind camp attacks
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The Burmese military has apparently conducted the raids on camps of refugee Karens in Thailand that it has blamed on a breakaway Karen faction. The raids have thus far destroyed six camps housing 10,000 refugees, apparently with the intent of forcing them back into Burma and intimidating Thailand into not protecting them. Thailand has responded weakly, and appears to have too much at stake in economic development along the border to risk a war.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1995
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Collective insecurity
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The incursion of more than 100 Burmese troops into Thailand is threatening to worsen relations between Burma and Thailand. Fighting between Burmese troops and rebel Karenni guerillas spilled over the Thai border following a major offensive by Burma against the rebels. Relations between the two countries had earlier improved in 1989. Prior to this, traditional hostility marked Thai-Burmese relations.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1992
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