Now just a few weeks until the opening ceremony, opinions diverge whether or not Burma has prepared well enough for hosting the SEA Games. Expectations of gold medals are high,…
Day: November 22, 2013

Business Weekly
BUSINESS IN BURMA THIS WEEK: Sponsors for the SEA Games; international oil firms post finals bids for Burma’s offshore reserves; Japan in position to take over Dawei project; Singaporean bank…

Latpadaung committee pledges US$1.68 million for local development
The Latpadaung implementation committee says that a US$1.68 million budget has been allocated for regional development, including programs of job creation for locals; education; healthcare; electricity supply; supplying potable water;…

NLD, other parties arrive in Chiang Mai to meet ethnic armed groups
Representatives of Burma’s main political parties, though not the USDP, sit for talks with officials of ethnic armed groups at a historic meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where they are…

Japan on stand-by as ITD dumped from Dawei project
Thailand and Burma seized control on Thursday of the multi-billion dollar Dawei special economic zone from Italian Thai Development Pcl to rescue the floundering project and convince foreign investors to…