Myeik city is a key potential driver of the import substitution model being advocated by the current National League for Democracy-led government, according to a Canada-based real estate report. The city centre of Myeik in Tanintharyi Region. Photo - Shutterstock The city in Tanintharyi Region amounts to...
Read MoreA US-based solar product company launched its services in Myanmar with the support of the International Finance Corporation and United Nations Capital Development Fund to widen access to clean energy among the rural population. The opening of its first store in Myanmar was accompanied with...
Read MoreMYANMAR has been focusing on coal and large hydropower projects and is not on track to develop renewable energy sources, local and international civil societies said in a recent statement. A file photo of a solar panel installed on a building. The use of renewable energy...
Read MoreJapan-based Fujifilm Holdings Corporation is open for business in the Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Kenji Sukeno, president of Fujifilm Holdings, speaks during an exclusive interview with The Myanmar Times. Nyan Zay Htet / The Myanmar Times The Tokyo-headquartered photography and imaging company first created its subsidiary,...
Read MoreMore than 250 people marched for one hour in Dawei township, Tanintharyi Region, on Wednesday night to call on the regional government to end power blackouts in the city and reduce electric bills. Local residents protest demanding the regional government to end blackouts. Su Phyo Win...
Read MoreAn inadequate legal framework, poor implementation process, absence of accountabilities and the lack of transparency lead to violations of human rights and environmental disruption in Myanmar’s Special Economic Zones, speakers at the Myanmar Special Economic Zones Forum highlighted. U Mya Hlaing, a representative of Thilawa Social...
Read MoreThe current New City project in Myanmar’s commercial capital will be remodelled to accommodate the city’s projected population growth and tower blocks will be part of the new plan, according to a Yangon Region minister. Daw Nilar Kyaw, the regional minister for electricity, industry and transportation,...
Read MoreRevenue decentralisation in Myanmar should allow states and regions to have their own, self-raised sources of revenues and the Union government should not be a last resort funder of sub-national policies, according to a report on fiscal decentralisation. Yangon Region Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein...
Read MoreMs. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mr. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, and Mr. Roberto Azevedo, Secretary-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) made the following statement [today] on the occasion of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Hamburg, Germany: “The economic wellbeing of billions of people...
Read MoreLinking secondary cities to Yangon or Mandalay as well as smaller towns in the regions will filter down economy activity in the two big cities to local regions, the author of Urban Myanmar said. Urban Myanmar, a policy note published by International Growth Centre, outlines how...
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