{"id":25862,"date":"2020-12-20T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T06:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/20\/british-banks-under-pressure-over-45m-loans-to-firm-with-links-to-myanmar-military"},"modified":"2020-12-20T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T06:35:10","slug":"british-banks-under-pressure-over-45m-loans-to-firm-with-links-to-myanmar-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25862","title":{"rendered":"British banks under pressure over \u00a345m loans to firm with links to Myanmar military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say the deals revealed in new report are a breach of firms\u2019 human rights responsibilities<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups are demanding that two of Britain\u2019s biggest banks explain why they have lent tens of millions of pounds to a technology company building a telecoms network that is part-owned and used by the Myanmar military.<\/p>\n<p>HSBC and Standard Chartered have loaned $60m (\u00a344.5m) to Vietnamese telecom giant Viettel in the last four years, a period when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/14\/war-crimes-judges-approve-investigation-violence-against-rohingya-icc-myammar\">Myanmar military has been accused of committing war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity<\/a>. Viettel is a major investor in Mytel, a Myanmar mobile network that, since its launch in June 2018, has grown to become the second-biggest operator in the country with over 10 million users.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/20\/british-banks-under-pressure-over-45m-loans-to-firm-with-links-to-myanmar-military\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say the deals revealed in new report are a breach of firms\u2019 human rights responsibilitiesHuman rights groups are demanding that two of Britain\u2019s biggest banks explain why they have lent tens of millions of pounds to a technology company bui&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[291,6,1070,53,82,61,1793,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-business","category-hsbc","category-human-rights","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-standard-chartered","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25863,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25862\/revisions\/25863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}