Chinese partner has ties to controversial Myitkyina SEZ; Rakhine govt backs plan, but Arakanese lawmaker, rights group say public has not been consulted.
A tense calm has returned to Hong Kong as police clear debris left in the wake of chaotic clashes between protesters and police and business resumes.
Social media-based commerce is booming in Thailand and across Southeast Asia, where small sellers are engaging with and selling directly to customers via social apps.
First Myanmar Investment Co. saw a 36-percent rise in gross profits over last fiscal year, while expenditures of 14.4 billion kyats held net profits back by 41.7 percent.
Organizers of recent protests are confident that anger over the government’s failure to withdraw an extradition bill will boost numbers at Monday’s rally.
The Ministry of Home Affairs tells The Irrawaddy that drug traffickers often open bank accounts in relatives’ names or purchase assets to launder money.
Khun Kaw Lar, aka Maung Myo, received the maximum penalty for shooting a couple in 2018, leaving one dead; he was also sentenced to 10 years of hard labor for...
The station, in Magwe Region’s Minbu Township, will have a total capacity of 170MW, producing 350 million kWh of power a year and lighting up 210,000 homes.
China processes five times the rest of the world’s rare earth elements, which are needed for everything from iPhones to military jets. It would take years to catch up.
China has become a data collection and labeling hub, thanks to insatiable demand from a burgeoning artificial intelligence sector backed by the ruling Communist Party.
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