A number of businesses linked to
Bagan Cybertech, the internet service provider run by Ye Naing Win, the younger son of Khin Nyint, has been commandeered by the Burma Army, according to a staffer at the firm’s headquarters at The ISP, which employs about 300 people, is still operating. Bagan Cybertech was launched in 2002 and operates a satellite-platformed internet service provider that leases transponder capacity from Shin Satellite Plc, a company controlled by the family of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Apart from Bagan Cybertech, Ye Naing Win runs other business including caf?s and fashion shops. His Aroma Caf? chain is still opening, according to sources in Other businesses believed associated with OCMI or the former PM have reportedly been closed in recent days, including Say Ta Man Music Production. About 30 Burmese journals and magazines publishing under licenses issued by OCMI have been shut, journalists and editors said in |
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