Shan State Coffee Producer Wins ASEAN Business Award
Genius Shan Highlands Coffee named among region’s top sustainable social enterprises
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Iconsiam Cements Bangkok's Shopping Mecca Status With $6M Opening Blowout
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Shopaholics planning a trip to Bangkok have a new mecca in Iconsiam, a 525,000-square-meter luxury shopping mall that opened its doors to the public on Saturday.
Transparency in Delayed $2B Development Project Requested in Lower House
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The project agreement was signed by the outgoing government just one week before the handover of power to the NLD in March 2016.
Newly Amended Law Helps Officials Seize Land, Critics Warn
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Rights groups urge gov’t to scrap Vacant Land Law, which they say leaves IDPs and ethnic landholders particularly vulnerable.
Five Arrested for Violent Abduction, Robbery in Yangon’s Ahlone Township
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Six men were hired to forcefully retrieve debt owed by a currency dealer.
Bangladesh Pushes Ahead With Rohingya Repatriation Plans Despite Int'l Resistance
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Authorities in Bangladesh say they are making final preparations to start repatriating the first group of mostly Rohingya refugees to Myanmar on Thursday.
Cheers to Traditional Kayan Rice Wine
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This weekend, knock your bamboo cups together in celebration of the traditional brew warming bellies across rural Kayah State at Yangon’s unique Kayan rice wine festival.
State Counselor Pushes for ASEAN Investment in Myanmar
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi cited improvements to investment policies, economic reforms and plans to improve the ease of doing business as reasons for ASEAN investors to look to Myanmar.
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Transparency in Delayed $2B Development Project Requested in Lower House
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