# NLD-era investment rules try to keep the opening Thein Sein began Date: 2017 ## The fact In 2017 the NLD government kept and adjusted foreign-investment rules begun under [Thein Sein](/people/thein-sein), a completed civilian-era opening path. ## Context DICA implements. She did not sit as a factory owner. An investment-rule path is still a dated industrial-policy instrument with later coup reversal. 2016 oath is the neighbouring start. 2021 coup later reversed much of the opening. Myanmar’s State Counsellor (2016–2021) was de facto civilian head under the 2008 Constitution; she did not command the Tatmadaw’s autonomous ministries, write a Bangladeshi gazette, an ICJ merits judgment, or a 2026 [Min Aung Hlaing](/people/min-aung-hlaing) amnesty. She has been detained since 1 February 2021; as of August 2026 she is under house arrest after sentence commutations, not in office. A Nobel lecture is not a clearance-operation order. An ICJ appearance is not a personal genocide conviction. A junta court sentence is not a finding that every charge was true. Allegation of a stolen 2020 count is not stored as a completed steal. A Panglong speech is not a nationwide ceasefire. A Reuters conviction is not a completed finding that the journalists planted evidence. A 2026 ICRC visit is not a release. ## Evidence and sources Directorate of Investment and Company Administration Myanmar carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [industrial-policy activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism): a completed civilian-era investment opening can raise formal capital, with later coup reversal. ## What is established and what is not Established: 2017 NLD-era investment-rule continuation, independently reported. Not established: a unique later GDP coefficient from one notification, or that every factory was hers. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. DICA implemented. Investors committed with lag. The Tatmadaw later seized the state.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies NLD-era investment rules try to keep the opening Thein Sein began, not a later speech about NLD-era investment rules try to keep the opening Thein Sein began. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. NLD-era investment rules try to keep the opening Thein Sein began on 2017-04-01 is not a licence to treat every later Directorate of Investment and Company Administration Myanmar communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average NLD-era investment rules try to keep the opening Thein Sein began into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Her cabinet kept the opening. DICA implemented. Investors committed with lag. The Tatmadaw later seized the state. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Aung San Suu Kyi: https://factrail.ai/people/aung-san-suu-kyi ## Drivers - Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-investment-idUSKBN1730K4 - https://www.dica.gov.mm/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mm-suu-fdi-2017