A few elites will benefit from reviving Dawei SEZ, but what about the rest? Civil society organizations demand authorities to halt the controversial Dawei project and rethink. CIVIL society organizations have demanded the authorities to reconsider the plans to revive the controversial Dawei Speci...

The stream of refugees and migrants crossing from Venezuela to Brazil has increased exponentially over the last five years, with almost 200,000 arriving since the start of 2017. Of these, more than 100,000 have since moved on, leaving the current total in the country at some 98,000 with an average o...

Eighty nine companies from 17 countries are investing in Thilawa Special Economic Zone, and construction of Zone-B infrastructure will be completed this year, according to a Cost of Doing Business in Myanmar report. Thilawa SEZ is located on 2,400 hectares of land, 14 miles southeast of Yangon c...

The Mon State government will issue licences for salt farming through the Salt Industry Department, an official said. U Khin Soe of the department said the date of the licence release will be decided at a meeting of the department today. “Applicants have to bring their land ownership documen...

The ministry plans to set up a central providence fund for pensioners instead of contribution by the government, said Union Minister for Planning and Finance Soe Win. The number of pensioners in the country is at almost one million. Pension fund accounts for one-sixths of revenue incomes. The min...

Les travaux à haute intensité de main d’œuvre (THIMO) pour la réhabilitation des axes routiers de N’dres et de Kakamangoulou dans le 4ième arrondissement de Bangui ont été lancés ce 11 janvier 2016 dans le quartier Boy Rabe. Ces travaux ont pour objectif d’améliorer la praticabilité de ces tronçons...