Naypyitaw—Construction of the Yangon Elevated Expressway project will begin next year and should be completed within three years, Deputy Construction Minister U Kyaw Lin said on Monday.Fifty-three companies from 12 countries including Myanmar have expressed interest in the project. The ministry will...

The Industrial sector is very important to development of the country. The Industry is geared largely to the processing of agricultural, mineral, and forest products. More than half of the Myanmar industrial production is accounted for by the public sector. Within each fiscal year there is a cons...

In order to connect ethnic entrepreneurs with local, and foreign enterprises for technology and investments, a public company will be set up. The plan to form a public company was announced at the launching event of the association, held on July 20. The association will help ethnic entrepreneurs ...

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 project period is from December 2017 to December 2019 and the hotel is expected to open in 2020. Ye Htut Kyaw Company, which operates Mawchi lead mine, is the main investor of the hotel, which will become the biggest hotel in the Karenni State. “Only Ye Htut Kyaw’s name has been included i...

Myanmar’s military said Wednesday that it has been returning to its rightful owners all unused lands it confiscated for decades from farmers, according to a RFA report a day after a damning report by a human rights group said the country’s civilian government had largely failed to deliver on a pledg...

Plans are underway to call an ethnic conference inclusive of all ethnic armed groups before the fourth round of the Union Peace Conference also known as the 21st Century Panglong Conference, according to sources ethnic armed group sources. The ethnic conference was first planned in July or August...

The Mon National Party (MNP) and the All Mon Region Democracy Party (AMDP) have agreed to merge during the meeting held at the AMRDP office in Mawlamyine on July 21 and elected Nai Tin Aung as the chair of the new party. “The merger of the two parties has been finalized. The main agreement was t...

The government has began informal meetings with armed ethnic groups as agreed at the third round of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference. The government’s Peace Commission held separate meetings with the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) and the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan S...

Union Election Commission (UEC) will release the lists of candidates who will compete in the upcoming by-election scheduled on November 3, on August 6, said the UEC’s member Myint Naing. There are 69 candidates from 24 political parties, including seven independent candidates, according the UEC. ...