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 ...
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 ...
A report on global trade data showed U.S. companies were still buying teak wood from Myanmar as recently as last month despite the government placing sanctions on the country last year after its ...
Florida companies Teakdecking Systems and Florida Teak imported more than half a million pounds of Burmese teak from Myanmar despite U.S. economic sanctions against the Myanma Timber Enterprise, the ...
In a two-month undercover investigation, the campaigning NGO Environmental Investigations Agency (EIA) found that nine companies in five EU countries had failed to meet the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) ...
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) says decking on luxury yachts made in the UK have illegal wood on them. EU rules dictate that point of origin in the chain of sale must be legally-sourced ...
Rural teak farmhouse in Kywe Chin Village, north of Nay Pyi Taw, 2017. Myanmar’s traditional teak farmhouses, included on the 2020 World Monuments Watch, embody the country’s unique vernacular ...
American companies continue to import teakwood from military-ruled Myanmar in apparent violation of U.S. sanctions, an advocacy group said in a report released yesterday. Justice for Myanmar (JFM), a ...
The paper discusses the results of a multivariate analysis of the data on four important strength properties, namely, specific gravity, modulus of rupture, modulus of elasticity and maximum crushing ...
THERE is probably more romance wrapped up in the history of the great teak forests of Burma, without the addition of the latest war chapter of the Fourteenth Army, than in any other afforested region ...
A Myanmar logging elephant pulls a teak log across a shallow stream on Jan. 15, 2001, near Shwe Pyi Aye camp in the jungles of central Myanmar. DAVID LONGSTREATH AP Florida companies Teakdecking ...