Myanmar
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A good character is more valuable than gold.
— Burmese proverb
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Panasonic to sell smartphones in five developing countries
Panasonic Corp. will start selling low-priced smartphones for consumers this autumn in five developing countries, including Kenya and Myanmar, according to informed sources. The other three countries are Ghana, Nigeria and Bangladesh. Prices are expected to be around ¥10,000. The major electronics maker once designed and produced smartphones for sale ...
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Myanmar's new economic blueprint
Threadbare on details and containing mainly sweeping statements of principle, none of them new, the much-anticipated new economic plan outlined for Myanmar by the National League for Democracy (NLD) has disappointed academics, analysts and business leaders.
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Thailand Plus team eyed for Vietnam
The Thailand-Vietnam Business Council and the Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce in Thailand (JFCCT) have teamed up to help Thai investors in Vietnam, Indonesia and Myanmar.
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Seoul Semiconductor wins licence for $300 mln Vietnam project
It will conduct research and produce semiconductors at the plant in Ha Nam province Vietnam's FPT to invest in Myanmar financial switching system Intel to make Vietnam its CPU hub in 2015
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SE Asia stocks: Rise as oil prices extend gains; Vietnam outperforms
Petrovietnam Gas Joint Stock Corp, the country's second-largest listed firm by market value, rose as much as 2.54 percentStocks: Vietnam, Philippines fall as corporate earnings disappointVietnam's FPT to invest in Myanmar financial switching systemVietnam to unveil new stock index VNX Allshare
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Vietnam's FPT to invest in Myanmar financial switching system
The project is expected to modernize Myanmar's payment systemVietnam's FPT launches IT center, targets $1 billion software exportsVietnam's FPT seeks partial sales retail and distribution units
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Mitsubishi firms to join Yangon urban development project
Trading house Mitsubishi Corp. and real estate developer Mitsubishi Estate Co. said Tuesday they will join an urban development project in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city. They will implement the project in collaboration with major Myanmar conglomerate Serge Pun & Associates Ltd. Group, or the SPA Group. The cost is expected ...
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Myanmar building materials trade opened to local-foreign joint ventures
YANGON, Myanmar - The Ministry of Commerce has further relaxed trade restrictions on foreign companies, opening onshore trade in construction materials to local-foreign joint ventures, according to a July 7 announcement.
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EU provides €12.3 million to enhance disaster preparedness capacity across Asia and the Pacific
Source: European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office Country: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Lao People's Democratic Republic (the), Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Viet NamThe latest allocation brings ECHO's total funding for disaster preparedness programmes in the region to more than €140 million since 1996, including €27 million in ...
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Border issue delays Myanmar-Lao bridge trade
A newly built Myanmar-Lao friendship bridge remains closed while authorities on both sides struggle to agree on where the border demarcation should lie.
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Mae Sot-Myawaddy trade grows about 20%
Thai-Myanmar border trade through the Mae Sot-Myawaddy crossing rose 19.6% year on year in the first half of 2016 to 38.53 billion baht and is expected to grow for the rest of the year, Wisawa Pitisuksombat, customs chief in Mae Sot district of Tak, said on Friday.
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Suu Kyi, ministry plan to work together to solve migrant woes
Myanmar's Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi and the Labour Ministry plan to solve the issue of illegal Myanmar migrant workers by slashing their mandatory "work break" period from three years to 30 days.
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Zeid urges action to address serious rights violations against Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar
Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Country: MyanmarFour years after the 2012 violence in Rakhine State, some 120,000 Rohingya and Kaman Muslims are still living in camps for internally displaced people.GENEVA (20 June 2016) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Monday ...
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Latest humanitarian snapshot highlights floods and landslides in Indonesia
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Timor-LesteIn Central Java province, Indonesia, floods and landslides caused 35 deaths while 25 are still missing according to the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB). Myanmar As of 15 June, approximately 28,000 people in Saging, Ayeyarwady, Bago regions and Rakhine ...
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A record 65 million people displaced at the end of 2015
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Afghanistan, Burundi, Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Iraq, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Ukraine, World, YemenConflict and persecution caused global forced displacement to escalate sharply, reaching the highest level ever recorded and ...
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A new shared journey
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand (CLMVT) are being urged to embark on a new journey of mutual trade, using more technology to link trade information, jointly developing regional products, and tackling non-tariff barriers.
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UNHCR report sees 2017 resettlement needs at 1.19 million
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Afghanistan, Australia, Bhutan, Burundi, Canada, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United ...
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22 Set ProPak Myanmar 2016
Fiera internazionale in Myanmar giunta alla 3^ edizione. Settore: Food, Drink & Pharmaceutical Processing & Packaging Industries.
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Turkish FM Çavuşoğlu to meet Myanmar’s Muslim minority in Arakan
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will visit Rakhine (Arakan) state in northwest Myanmar, which is predominantly inhabited by Muslim Rohingyas, during a visit to the Southeast Asian country that begins June 12
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Food insecurity spreads as El Niño casts its shadow over Pacific and Caribbean states
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization Country: Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Somalia, ...
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NWR continues shift away from construction
SET-listed construction firm Nawarat Patanakarn Plc (NWR) will continue to expand its non-construction business with plans to invest 800 million baht this year on a hotel and precast factory expansion in Myanmar and land purchases in Greater Bangkok.