In business this week: Fewer liquor licenses to be issued; India-ASEAN highway faces traffic conundrum; Burmese debit cards go global.

In business this week: Fewer liquor licenses to be issued; India-ASEAN highway faces traffic conundrum; Burmese debit cards go global.
Media and garment mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-Ying paid former World Bank president and US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz US$75,000 last year for “services in regards to Myanmar,” leaked documents…
Dec 29, 2009 (AFP), Burma has freed four Taiwanese fishermen held in detention for over a month for alleged illegal fishing, a Taipei official said Monday, after a fine was…
Dec 7, 2009 (AFP), Burma has charged 128 foreign fishermen with violating immigration laws after they were arrested last month for illegal fishing, an official said Sunday. The group, currently…
Dec 4, 2009 (DVB), Nearly 130 men on board foreign fishing boats who were captured and detained in Rangoon's Insein prison last month are lacking food and basic amenities, sources…