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Myanmar, Netherlands Plant Seeds of Accord
Myanmar and the Netherlands have planted the seeds of cooperation to develop the local agricultural sector, especially the development of high yielding crop seeds. A ceremony to mark the program was...
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Hong Kong to Help Myanmar Set up a Gold Exchange
The operator of Hong Kong’s gold exchange is in talks to help the government of Myanmar establish a bourse in the country for trading the precious metal, according to Haywood Cheung Tak-hay, president...
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Ministry of Information: Request for Information for Color Printing Press....
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View ArticleInsurance in Myanmar: Spreading the Risk
Even though insurance has been around for over one hundred and fifty years in Myanmar, it has all the makings of a new phenomenon. Before independence in 1948, there were between eighty to one hundred...
View ArticleEducation Reform to support Myanmar’s Industrialization Strategy
I was born in the town of Kanyutkwin in Bago Division, Myanmar in 1990. I left the country in 2005 to further my education in Singapore. When I came back to Yangon for work early this year, I noticed...
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Oil Pipeline Through Myanmar Highlights China’s Growing Import Dependence
Oil began flowing into a crucial pipeline in Myanmar this week, after years of delay. The pipeline, along with a twin natural gas line running along the same route, is an essential element of China’s...
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Waiting for Grid to Arrive, Myanmar Villages Switch on Solar
NYAUNG KONE, Myanmar, March 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For generations, residents of this farming village in central Myanmar had a set rhythm to their day – waking up with the sunrise and going...
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Coffee Culture Grows in Rangoon
RANGOON — It is 2:30 a.m. and I am on my way home after a night out with friends when I find myself watching the teashop boys on my street set up tables with their half-open eyes. The teashop’s soft...
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President’s Reserve Fund to Ensure Yangon Power Supply
The President’s Reserve Fund will be used to ensure there is sufficient electricity supply in Yangon in the coming summer, Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein said. He announced this after a meeting among...
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Non-Transparent Contracts in Yangon Region to Be Reviewed
Yangon Region Legislative Assembly legislator Kyaw Zeya from Dagon constituency told Mizzima that the assembly would review and point out the non-transparency of contracts given through nepotism by...
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Three-Fourths of Old YBS Buses Will Be Replaced With New Ones Within Four Months
Yangon Region Transport Authority (YRTA) Secretary Dr.Maung Aung told Mizzima that three fourths of all Yangon Bus System (YBS) city buses would be replaced by new ones within four months. “By the end...
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Myanmar to buy over 1,000 buses from China to reinforce transport strength
Myanmar’s Yangon regional government had entered a contract with Chinese Yutong company for buying over 1,000 buses to supply Yangon Bus Services System, official media reported Saturday. The buses...
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Yangon University is modelled on Oxford, but there are no dreaming spires
Walking around Yangon, though there are the affluent areas and fast food restaurants that exist in nearly all big cities, these areas are few and far between. Poverty pervades in this former capital...
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Myanmar’s stabs at reform test public’s patience
Myanmar’s year-old government has drawn stiff pushback from its sudden cuts to a national holiday and crackdown on unlicensed buses, burning up goodwill won with the promise of change. The government...
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Analysis: Opportunity Knocks in Myanmar Health Market
After a visit to Myanmar, Jiadi Yu, principal investment officer at the IFC in Hong Kong, is optimistic about the country’s health market. Myanmar is an exciting place for investors. The new...
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Tender to Be Called for Highway Upgrading
The Ministry of Construction will call for international firms to tender for upgrading works on a 40-mile section of the Yangon-Nay Pyi Taw-Mandalay Highway starting at Yangon, the ministry’s...
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Time to Fix the Economy With Action, Not Words
Economists and business owners, while acknowledging and applauding the measures put into achieving peace and stability, say the National League for Democracy-led government has largely ignored the...
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Rangoon MP: Owners of Unlawful Game Centers Should be Punished—Not Employees
RANGOON — A lawmaker has called for clearer definitions of illegal gambling machines sometimes found in “game centers” in Rangoon and more accountability for the owners of such firms. MP U Than Naing...
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Yangon Power Company Readies Budget for System Improvements
The Yangon Electricity Supply Corp (YESC) will spend Ks 17,618.473 million on power distribution in fiscal 2017-18. The regional government will implement the projects with loans from the Asian...
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Indian Government Considering Afghanistan, Myanmar’s Proposal to Boost Pharma...
NEW DELHI: India is examining a proposal from Afghanistan to help set up a manufacturing base for pharmaceutical products, along with another proposal from Myanmarto supply generic drugs, as part of...
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