RANGOON — Burma’s Hotels and Tourism Ministry will emphasize development of community-based tourism as one of the first priorities in its 100-day policy, according to an official statement issued by the ministry earlier this week. The policy includes a three-pronged strategy for the country’s fas...

The Myanmar government is developing a plan to redistribute vacant or fallow plots of land to rural landless people willing to farm the land. The Union Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation Dr. Aung Thu told The Irrawaddy on Monday the government had obtained US$4.19 million from the...

Plans are being made to provide basic telecommunications service in remote areas of Myanmar, said U Kyaw Myo, deputy minister of Transport and Communications.The country’s telecom operators will pay into the fund, said U Kyaw Myo, and the fund will pay for the expansion to remote areas, based on a p...