Viettel

About the company

Viettel

Viettel is a Vietnamese state owned mobile phone network operator, under the control of the Ministry of Defence.

It is in a joint venture with Star High Public Company, a subsidiary of the military owned and controlled Myanmar Economic Corporation, in the MyTel mobile phone company in Burma. Eleven other companies, of whom details are unknown, joined together to form the third partner in the joint venture, the Myanmar National Telecom Holding Public Ltd.

Contact:

Mr Nguyen Manh Hung
General Director
Viettel
No.1 Tran Huu Duc
My Dinh 2
Tu Liem
Hanoi
Vietnam

Email: cskh@viettel.com.vn

Sources

Viettel website 14^th January 2017

http://viettel.com.vn/en/post/nh%C3%A2%CC%A3n-gi%C3%A2%CC%81y-phe%CC%81p-ta%CC%A3i-myanmar-viettel-chi%CC%81nh-th%C6%B0%CC%81c-%C4%91%C3%A2%CC%80u-t%C6%B0-va%CC%80o-th%E1%BB%8B-tr%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Dng-th%E1%BB%A9-10

Myanmar awards fourth telecoms license as mobile market heats up Reuters 12^th January 2017

https://www.reuters.com/article/myanmar-telecoms/myanmar-awards-fourth-telecoms-license-as-mobile-market-heats-up-idUSL4N1F24KI

Myanmar Times 28^th March 2016

https://www.mmtimes.com/business/technology/19679-viettel-picked-for-fourth-telco-tie-up-with-military-partner.html

Notified 5 November 2018

Added to the Dirty List 11 December 2018

The Dirty List

The Dirty List names international companies doing business with the military in Burma. The list also includes international companies involved in projects where there are human rights violations or environmental destruction.

In September 2018, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, which has been investigating human rights violations in the country, stated:

“The actions of the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States, in particular in the context of the ‘clearance operations’ in northern Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017, have so seriously violated international law that any engagement in any form with the Tatmadaw, its current leadership, and its businesses, is indefensible.”

A PDF of the full Dirty List is available here.

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