This week: foreign banks given open-door treatment; Burmese trade data;SMEs; electricity; nickel mining; dam construction; economic corridor from China to India; Burma's 'Oscars' up for tender; and a well-known beer company taps into the Burmese market.

Some 150 villagers gathered on Tuesday morning in central Burma’s Irrawaddy division to protest a government scheme they say is preventing them from fishing in local ponds to earn a livelihood.

  Ups and downs, comings and goings Burma’s currency strengthened slightly by 1 to 2 kyat against the dollar which was buying 967 kyat on Friday...

A fresh round of peace talks kicked off in the Kachin state capital Myitkyina on Tuesday between the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) and a Burmese government delegation.

Villages in Mon, Karen and Shan states inundated after days of monsoon rains while in Pegu some 600 residents are evacuated into monasteries and shelters.

Burma’s Livestock and Fisheries Ministry issued a warning last week to ten private agro firms and ordered them to repay billions of kyat in loans by 31 August or face prosecution