BANGKOK -- American companies are still importing teak from Burma despite sanctions imposed after the military seized power last year, a report based on trade data said Tuesday. Teak is one of the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A dog stands atop a stack of logs in Myanmar in 2015. The country is the source of what's widely considered the finest teak in the ...
YANGON, MYANMAR -Access to lumber from teak, acacia, bamboo, ironwood and michelia champaca could improve as Myanmar rejoins the world community. The wood species are growing in the dense Burmese ...
On Dec. 16 last year, the Maersk Sana, a Singapore-registered cargo ship, cruised into the United States and docked at the Port of Miami an hour before dawn. On board was a container carrying 51,000 ...
Large amounts of Myanmar’s rare teakwood are being smuggled illegally into neighboring China owing to “systematic corruption” within the top echelons of the Southeast Asian nation’s officials, ...