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3 Aug 2012, 11:44 am by InternationalLaw Blogger
News reports indicate that the United States Congress voted yesterday to authorize the extension of the U.S. sanctions program on Myanmar (Burma) for one year with the possibility of extension for up to three more years. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 2:22 pm by Mandelman
  HSBC broke all previous records for money laundering by a commercial banking institution by adding terrorist funding and tax evasion to the bank’s capabilities — totaling more than $30 billion in suspect transactions all linked to sanctioned companies in Iran, North Korea and Burma. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 2:22 pm by Mandelman
  HSBC broke all previous records for money laundering by a commercial banking institution by adding terrorist funding and tax evasion to the bank’s capabilities — totaling more than $30 billion in suspect transactions all linked to sanctioned companies in Iran, North Korea and Burma. [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 11:56 am by Dan Taglioli
"The Government Could Have Stopped This": Sectarian Violence and Ensuing Abuses in Burma's Arakan State alleges that government security forces committed killings, rape and mass arrests following an outbreak of sectarian violence in western Rakhine State. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 5:00 am by Jessica Dorsey
Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has called for an investigation into the violence allegedly targeting Muslims in a region in Burma last month. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 11:59 am by Lawrence Solum
The author suggests here that Crosby's approach to preemption was so extraordinary that it would have yielded the same conclusion with respect to the Massachusetts Burma Law even if there had been no Federal Burma Law. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 8:56 am
It also would modify language in the free-trade agreement with the Dominican Republic and Central America, and would renew for one year the import restrictions on Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, imposed by a 2003 law (PL 108-61). [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 3:45 pm by Clif Burns
And here is something to read in case you were puzzled over whether to say Burma or Myanmar. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 2:07 pm by BuckleySandler
On July 11, President Obama announced that the U.S. is easing sanctions on Burma to allow U.S. companies to responsibly conduct business in Burma. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 10:18 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
INNWA BANK), 554-556 Corner of Merchant Street and 35th Street, Kyauktada Township, Yangon, Burma; SWIFT/BIC AVAB MM M1 [BURMA]. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 10:41 pm by Clif Burns
A number of private banks in Burma are not on the SDN list, although several are, such as Myawaddy Bank and the Innwa Bank which was just designated simultaneously with the release of the new general licenses for Burma. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 11:10 am
Government today implemented the necessary changes to permit new investment in Burma for the first time in 15 years and to reauthorize... [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 11:09 am by Greg Jacobs
Background Since 1997, the United States has prohibited new investment in Burma by U.S. persons, and U.S. persons’ facilitation of new investment in Burma by foreign persons. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 9:18 am by InternationalLaw Blogger
Yesterday, US President Barak Obama issued an Executive Order lifting sanctions on U.S. investment in Burma, subject to certain reporting requirements. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 6:45 pm
Burma certainly represents new opportunities, and some have referred to it as a new Asian tiger. [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 9:29 am by Sarah Paulsworth
Among those released are at least 25 political prisoners [list], according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners - Burma (AAPP-B) [official website]. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 11:49 pm by Nathan McMurray
How would a Korean or New York firm (for example) know about law in Myanmar (Burma)? [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 8:34 pm by David Jacobson
-sanctioned parties (ie Cuba, Burma, Sudan, Libya and Iran) in more than 20,000 financial and trade transactions routed through third-party banks located in the United States between 2002 and 2007. [read post]