NLD, ethnic parties unite in push for constitutional reform before 2015 election
Aung Sun Suu Kyi, opposition leader and head of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD), has united with leaders...
June 20, 2013
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India’s Exim banking on Myanmar
Exim Bank of India has been granted a license to open a representative branch in Myanmar, ...
Tanintharyi official accused of selling refugees’ land
An administrative officer in Maw Taung, Tanintharyi Region, has been accused of illegall...
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$500 million tourism deal announced
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced at the WEF on Wednesday that it had agreed a Myanmar tourism plan valued at nearly half a billion dollars ...
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced at the WEF on Wednesday that it had agreed a Myanmar tourism plan valued at nearly half a billion dollars ...Microsoft connects with Myanmar
Microsoft becomes the latest big name to invest in Myanmar, forming a partnership with a local IT firm, and announcing its plans at ...
Editorial
Microsoft becomes the latest big name to invest in Myanmar, forming a partnership with a local IT firm, and announcing its plans at ...Migratory discontents
Migration is one of humanity’s oldest impulses. The first hunter-gatherers left Africa in the dim recesses of time for reasons we can only ...
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Migration is one of humanity’s oldest impulses. The first hunter-gatherers left Africa in the dim recesses of time for reasons we can only ...OPINION—Stillborn democracy
I woke up one morning at the end of January in northern Kachin State listening to the birds singing in the morning mist.
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I woke up one morning at the end of January in northern Kachin State listening to the birds singing in the morning mist.Photographer helps monks and nuns find ‘spiritual link’
When photographer and Young Global Leader (YGL), Gina Badenoch, found out that this year’s YGL Forum would be held in Yangon, ...
Development
When photographer and Young Global Leader (YGL), Gina Badenoch, found out that this year’s YGL Forum would be held in Yangon, ...Thein Sein vows to tackle poverty
President Thein Sein vowed to tackle Myanmar’s severe poverty in a speech in Yangon on Sunday.
President Thein Sein vowed to tackle Myanmar’s severe poverty in a speech in Yangon on Sunday.Business
India’s Exim banking on Myanmar
Exim Bank of India has been granted a license to open a representative branch in Myanmar, according to Indian Media. The move follows a Mem...
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Foreign investors eye leases on Yangon real estate
Several foreign businesspeople have recently made moves to lease land in Yangon, circumventing a longstanding law that...
Deloitte moving forward in Myanmar despite NY scandal
Accountancy firm Deloitte was fined $10 million by New York State on Tuesday for its misconduct in advising Standard Cha...
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Myanmar must stand tall on illegal wildlife trade
CONTRIBUTOR - Earlier this month, leading government, industry and civil society leaders descended upon Naypyitaw for the 22nd World Eco...
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Don’t build walls between communities
EDITORIAL- It could have been Berlin during the Cold War. But it wasn’t. Instead, the street I was on some 10 years ag...