Myanmar: Timber Sector Wants MTE to Get the Chop

Mar 27, 2017 | Su Myat Mon, Frontier
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The timber industry has called for an independent monitoring body to replace state-owned Myanma Timber Enterprise, which has been accused of hurting exports by failing to comply with international standards for transparency and accountability. An independent third party body was needed to assure foreign buyers that Myanmar was complying with international timber industry standards, said U Barber Cho, secretary of the Myanmar Forest Certification Committee.