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🇲🇲✈️🇹🇼 Belated personal news: I left Yangon at the end of 2021 after calling Myanmar home for more than half a decade, moving to Taipei to cover news in Taiwan and Burma. Here’s my goodbye essay. 1/3
Thompson Chau
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Thompson Chau
@tchau01
Taipei
Joined April 2016
- #Myanmar’s top business body, the influential UMFCCI, objects to the junta’s hasty #cybersecurity bill via a public statement. It says the law would hurt the digital economy and harm tech investment and innovation. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
- 🔥 Beijing’s non-interference policy abandoned? #China appears to be threatening #Myanmar with “more drastic action” following burning of Chinese factories & threats made to oil & gas pipeline. Jaw-dropping commentary from Chinese state media CGTN: news.cgtn.com/news/2021-03-1…
- “I may escape or I may be detained by the military by the time you read this, but I will never surrender my country or our children’s futures”, #Myanmar govt doctor Dr Htar Htar Lin told her colleagues as she resigned. #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar frontiermyanmar.net/en/striking-he…
- “We are an e-government,” #Myanmar’s @DrSasa22222 tells @TheEconomist, adding that there are no plans for his cabinet to go into exile. Why are the generals worried about @NUGMyanmar? This piece sums up how the NUG is doing and what challenges lie ahead.
- 💥💥 news for #Myanmar’s business community: @CrphMyanmar nullifies junta-appointed Myanmar Investment Commission permits and decisions. One of the clearest instructions so far for investors at home and abroad. No mention of “parallel MIC”. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
- .@FrontierMM supports the @theGNI @info_mcrb statement asking for a return to full mobile internet in #Myanmar. #keepiton We encourage companies and business bodies, including the Myanmar-Hong Kong chamber whose board Frontier sits on, to join us.
- Foreign chambers in #Myanmar representing American, European, French and Italian businesses have declined the junta’s invitations for a meeting. #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar
- Sg payments firm Coda says it had removed Tatmadaw-owned Mytel from its payment channels. Mytel customers can no longer pay via Coda’s services. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmarBurma Campaign UK has today removed Coda Pay from the ‘Dirty List’ of companies linked to Burma’s military. Coda Pay today informed Reuters that Mytel had been deactivated from its payment channels. burmacampaign.org.uk/coda-pay-remov…
- .@Telenor_mm warns: “a whitelisting approach on mobile data may lead to the propagation of a highly restrictive type of #internet” that will hurt access, business & economy. It calls for #Myanmar’s immediate full restoration of internet services. Link: telenor.com.mm/en/article/the…
- NEW: A senior executive at one of Taiwan’s top industrial conglomerates has been barred from leaving China. It’ll spark alarm in the Taiwanese business world, which had been less affected by Beijing’s crackdown on those who defend Taiwan’s sovereignty. 1/2
- “Local papers face particular risk. There’s not a lot of int’l attention being paid to them. They can go missing, they can be detained without people even noticing.” @john_hq3 #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar
- The latest investor to call out the #Myanmar junta’s violence is Thilawa SEZ-based steel producer Meranti Steel. CEO says “we... entirely reject the use of violence against peaceful protesters” and calls for “immediate dialogue”. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
