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Burma
The Chinese tech giant is helping several major companies in Myanmar through their transition into the digital era amid fears over cybersecurity.
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Business
Myanmar is hoping to offset its COVID-19 woes by boosting foreign investment and allowing Yangon’s garment factories to reopen.
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Election 2020
More than 600 Myanmar migrants, many of them ethnic Shan, made often arduous journeys to Chiang Mai in recent days to cast advance ballots for November’s election.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
The health ministry says economic necessity has forced it to allow many of Yangon’s factories to reopen despite rising numbers of COVID-19 cases.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
The financial institution says 75 percent of firms across various sectors have suffered because of coronavirus and only 8 percent look to banks to cover cash shortfalls.
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Business
This week Chinese firms won numerous solar project contracts across Myanmar and a Singaporean finance firm ditched the new city project in Karen State.
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Burma
A human rights group says the Danish shipping giant, Maersk, will stop serving Myanmar’s military-owned ports in protest over Rohingya rights.
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Burma
A major Thai bank says it is opening in Myanmar and trade reopened on the Chiang Rai border. Myanmar’s government also says it is drafting an economic reform package.
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Business Roundup
This week Myanmar’s authorities continued to dig deep into reserves to help firms struggling with COVID-19 while the ban on international flights was extended.
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Business Roundup
To break the COVID-19 blues, Myanmar’s government has extended tax exemptions and held talks with South Korea to boost bilateral trade.
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Burma
The Asian Development Bank is hopeful that Myanmar’s economy will spring back from the current 1.8 percent growth to 6 percent in the next financial year.
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Business Roundup
Bucking the COVID-19 downturn, Myanmar is seeing rapid activity on Yangon’s new city and the Dawei industrial zone.
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Business Roundup
COVID-19 continues to disrupt the global economy. Myanmar’s exporters are being squeezed by the strong kyat and garment factories face a slump in orders.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
As the government imposes partial lockdowns in more areas to curb the spread of coronavirus, some fear restrictions are crushing the economic recovery.
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Burma
The government says it will offer two months’ salaries as interest-free loans to civil servants as it tries to boost the economy
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