YANGON — The government has been pushing plans for coal-fired power plants to address Myanmar’s great need for electricity. Renewable energy expert Hans-Josef Fell talks about how Myanmar can develop its energy plan. Fell is a former parliamentarian in Germany and the current president of the Berlin-based Energy Watch Group. The Myanmar government has been […]
Nationwide survey launched to draft business environment index
July 25, 2017 by
The San Francisco-headquartered Asia Foundation (TAF) and the UK-funded DaNa Facility have launched a three-year nationwide program to improve sub-national business environment. The program is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and implemented by DAI Europe, a London-based international development company. DFID provided £25 million (K43.9 billion) to fund DaNa, which supports […]
Myanmar-Japan venture to farm eels for export
January 30, 2017 by
Myanmar is set to increase its exports of farmed eels to Japan, the world’s biggest consumer of the fish, under a joint venture between companies from the two countries. Under an agreement between Myanmar’s Anawa Devi Fishing & General Trading Co-op Ltd and Daiichi Koutsu Sangyo Co, a major Japanese taxi operator which has diversified […]
Connectivity with Myanmar — the wait gets longer
August 26, 2016 by
Building a project in Myanmar was and is difficult. But, is it so difficult that the connectivity proposals mooted by Delhi early in the last decade will remain a dream or at best half complete? Exactly the same happened to proposals to connect the north-eastern States and ASEAN through Myanmar. The trilateral India-Myanmar-Thailand (IMT) highway […]
France’s Havas to Acquire Riverorchid Agency
September 30, 2015 by
France-based Havas has announced its planned acquisition of Riverorchid, a communications agency with operations in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. This move will see Havas having operations in nine out of ten Southeast Asian economies. Riverorchid brings a team of approximately 250 people offering solutions including advertising, media, PR, research and digital. “Acquiring Riverorchid […]
Japan’s JFE Engineering targets Yangon’s water quality woes
September 22, 2015 by
TOKYO — JFE Engineering will build a water treatment demonstration plant outside Yangon, looking to supply bottled water to Myanmar’s largest city, which is plagued with water quality problems. The unit of Japan’s JFE Holdings will break ground this month on the facility, to cost 40 million yen ($331,072). It will come online in early […]
Myanmar’s rice volatility keeps many farmers poor: World Bank
December 3, 2014 by
Myanmar’s rice volatility is the highest among net rice exporting countries in Asia, preventing rice farmers from earning high profits and keeping many families at or close to the poverty line, according to the World Bank. The World Bank’s research team focused their study on Manawthukha and Pawsan rice varieties locally consumed from 2004-2013 in […]
Myanmar ranks 41 in natural gas reserves
June 19, 2014 by
Myanmar ranks 41 internationally in volume of natural gas reserves, according to a research paper by the Myanmar Development Resource Institute and the Asia Foundation. The paper quoted a report on energy sector from the Asian Development Bank that says the country has about 20 trillion cubic feet of untapped natural gas reserves. The report […]
Israel aims to make its mark in Myanmar
June 24, 2013 by
Since the recent opening up of the country, Myanmar has been receiving tremendous interest from investors, conglomerates and countries around the world who are vying for a piece of the last frontier in Asia. The US and EU governments have been making attempts aggressively to normalize their relations with the former pariah nation by lifting […]
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