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Burma
Australian Sean Turnell, the director of research at Myanmar Development Institute, has been under detention since the coup last week.
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Burma
Foreign firms are closing as businesses express concerns about the recovery and the security of their investments after the coup.
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Business Roundup
Foreign investment continues to arrive in Myanmar with a major South Korean bank opening in Yangon as honey producers eye EU exports.
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Burma
Studies on the way on possible environmental and social impacts by Kyaukphyu port project that will give China access to the Indian Ocean.
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Burma
The authorities are trying to provide Yangon with a reliable power supply to sustain economic growth.
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Burma
Yoma Central strikers say they are not being paid their wages or social-security allowances.
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Burma
The SEZ committee says it lost confidence in Italian-Thai Development as its consortium had repeated delays and breaches of financial obligations.
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Business Roundup
Myanmar’s hotels have been closing and the authorities axed a deal to develop a giant economic zone. Meanwhile, an alarming fall in foreign trade has been reported.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
The country is trying to buy millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines and offset the economic impact of coronavirus.
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Burma
Visiting Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing would supply 300,000 doses of a coronavirus vaccine to Myanmar.
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Business Roundup
This week a Japanese beer giant took a stand against Myanmar’s military, tea orders arrived from the United States and remittance firms were licensed to transfer cash.
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Burma
After a suspension of dividends to probe military funding claims, the Japanese brewer says an investigation ended inconclusively due to denial of information.
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Business Roundup
Myanmar’s economy is trying to break out of the COVID-19 gloom by relaxing restrictions and starting large infrastructure projects.
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Business Roundup
Investment in Myanmar’s Thilawa Special Economic Zone has slumped this year as the World Bank predicts more trouble amid ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
All oil, gas, timber and gem contracts must be published on Jan. 1, lifting the lid on a sector dominated by Myanmar’s military, its cronies and ethnic armed groups.