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  • Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015: Country Report - Myanmar

    en Myanmar Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations) Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations 2014 Forest policy and administration, Logging and timber
    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...

  • ILO Lifts All Restrictions on Burma

    en Myanmar Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs Samantha Michaels, The Irrawady 2013 Civil and political rights, Labor arbitration, Labor policy and administration, Labor rights and labor unions NGOs, Laws and regulations
    An article in The Irrawaddy on the announcement by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to lift restrictions on Myanmar. The restrictions, which were imposed by the UN ag...

  • Myanmar in Deforestation Crisis

    en Myanmar Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs United Press International (UPI) 2012 Deforestation drivers, Forest policy and administration, Logging and timber
    Myanmar's forest coverage is down to only a fifth of the country's total area and officials say they want a total ban on exporting wood to foreign countries.The country's Natura...

  • Myanmar to Draft First Labour Safety Law

    en Myanmar Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs Shwe Yee Saw Myint, Myanmar Times 2012 Labor policy and administration, Labor rights and labor unions NGOs, Laws and regulations, Safety and health at work
    An article published in the English language weekly Myanmar Times on the first law on safety and health in workplaces being drafted by the Ministry of Labour of Myanmar in 2013.

  • The Settlement of Labour Dispute Law (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 5/2012)

    en Myanmar 5/2012 Law March 28, 2012 Alternative dispute resolution, Labor arbitration, Labor policy and administration, Labor rights and labor unions NGOs, Laws and regulations
    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...

  • The Labour Organization Law (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 7/2011)

    en Myanmar Notification No. 1/2012 Law October 11, 2011 Labor policy and administration, Labor rights and labor unions NGOs, Laws and regulations
    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...

  • The Commercial Tax Law (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 8/90)

    en Myanmar 8/90 Law January 1, 1990 Civil and commercial litigation, Forest policy and administration, Laws and regulations, Logging and timber, Taxation

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  • Foreign Investment Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 21/2012)

    en Myanmar 21/2012 Law November 2, 2012 Forest policy and administration, Investment, Investment policy and regulations, Laws and regulations, Logging and timber

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  • Export and Import Law (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No.17/2012)

    en Myanmar 17/2012 Law September 17, 2012 Exports, Forest policy and administration, Imports, Laws and regulations, Logging and timber
    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...

  • The Forest Law (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 8/92)

    en Myanmar The Forest Law (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 8/92) Law November 3, 1992 Forest policy and administration, Laws and regulations, Logging and timber, Sustainable use forest
    The Forest Law determines the basic principles, regulations and measures on sustainable management, preservation, development, utilization and inspection of forest resources and...

  • The Myanmar Citizens Investment Law (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 4/94)

    en Myanmar 4/94 Law March 31, 1994 Foreign investors, Forest policy and administration, Investment policy and regulations
    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.

  • Myanmar Forest Policy 1995

    en Myanmar Myanmar Forest Policy (1995) Policy November 3, 1992 Forest policy and administration, Logging and timber
    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.

  • The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 8/92

    en Myanmar 8/92 Law November 3, 1992 Forest policy and administration, Logging and timber
    This Law is called the Forest Law

  • Minimum Wages Act, 2013 (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 7)

    en Myanmar 7/2013 Law March 22, 2013 Laws and regulations, Minimum wage
    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...

  • The Social Security Law, 2012 (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 15)

    en Myanmar The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 15 Law August 31, 2012 Social security and veterans policy and administration

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  • The Leave and Holidays Act, 1951 (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 58)

    en Myanmar No. 58 Law January 1, 1952 Laws and regulations

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  • Burma’s New Labor Law: Built to Fail or Shifting Toward Democracy?

    en Myanmar Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs Michelle Chen 2011 Labor policy and administration, Labor rights and labor unions NGOs, Laws and regulations
    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...

  • The Factories Act 1951 (Act No. 65/1951)

    en Myanmar No. LXV of 1951 Law Forest policy and administration, Laws and regulations, Logging and timber, Manufacturing policy and regulation

    This dataset has no description


  • The Labour Organization Law (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 7/2011)

    en Myanmar No. 7 of 2011 Law October 11, 2011 Labor, Labor policy and administration, Laws and regulations, Worker rights
    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...

  • Myanmar balances forestry exports with preservation

    en Myanmar Archived web content Oxford Business Group Forest policy and administration, Logging and timber
    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...