Business is down and a reduced fleet of trucks is supplying factories and delivering goods, but the need to comply with curfews across Myanmar is causing burdensome delays. By EAINT THET SU | FRONTIER Movement restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have left many people confined to their homes. Offices have instituted work […]
Myanmar to manufacture electric buses
“We need to use alternative fuels, as the fossil fuels we are burning today will be exhausted soon”, said Union Minister for Industry U Khin Maung Cho at the signing of an agreement to manufacture electric buses and erect charging stations in Myanmar. At the signing ceremony, held at the Research and Development Bureau in […]
Commerce Ministry to sign MoU with Yunnan on agro exports
Ministry of Commerce will sign a MoU with Yunnan provincial government in June to officially export rice, sugar, maize and other agricultural products to China, said U Khin Maung Lwin, assistant permanent secretary of the Commerce Ministry. “Trade Department will sign the MoU with Yunnan province government to export agro products to China and import […]
Foreign Investment in Agriculture Rests on Policy Support, Innovation, Says Dentons
Myanmar’s agricultural sector is ‘very close’ to seeing an uptick in foreign investment but only if the government continues providing policy support and if investors are willing to ‘innovate’, according to the Myanmar resident partner of the world’s largest law firm. After decades of neglect, Myanmar’s largest industry lags well behind that of regional neighbours […]