As the International Labour Organisation (ILO) prepares to hold a crucial debate for Burma’s continued membership of this UN agency, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) today released an updated list of foreign companies doing business with Burma, bringing the total number to 474. Beside long-standing business partners of the junta such as Total (France) and more recent ones, such as Daewoo (Korea), the ICFTU’s updated inventory lists 38 “newcomers”, including Sanyo and Polyphon...The ICFTU stresses that its list represents only the “top of the iceberg”. Before putting a company on its “Burma companies database”, the ICFTU...engages in a detailed research and consultation process which includes an exchange of correspondence with the company in question.