Myanmar earns over US$ 124 million from rice exports

Myanmar has earned over US$ 124 million from rice exports between April and August this year, according to reports from the Ministry of Commerce.Myanmar earned more than US$ 97 million from exporting 241,855 tonnes of rice  while it realised over US$ 26 million from broken-rice volume of 81,130 tonnes. The rice exports were slow in July because the price rose and traders targeted the local market. The rice was exported to foreign countries not only by sea but also across border routes. Muse border trade hubs exported 98,000 tons of rice...

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သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္ ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံ စီးပြားေရး၊ ကုန္သြယ္ေရးႏႇင့္ စက္မႈ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ၀န္ႀကီးႏႇင့္ စီးပြားေရး ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္မႈ ဆိုင္ရာမ်ား ေဆြးေႏြး

သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္သည္ ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံ စီးပြားေရး၊ ကုန္သြယ္ေရးႏႇင့္ စက္မႈ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ၀န္ႀကီး H.E. Mr. Toshimitsu MOTEGI ႏႇင့္ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၂ ရက္က ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရႇိ သမၼတ အိမ္ေတာ္တြင္ ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့ၿပီး စီးပြားေရး ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈ ဆုိင္ရာမ်ားကို ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ ေတြ႕ဆံုရာတြင္ ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ခရီးစဥ္၌ အကူအညီ ေပးအပ္ခဲ့သည့္ ဂ်ပန္ယန္းေငြ ၅၁ ဘီလ်ံေက်ာ္ျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ လူေနမႈ အဆင့္အတန္း ျမင့္မားၿပီး ဆင္းရဲႏြမ္းပါးမႈ ေလ်ာ့က်ေရး၊...

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Myanmar gems to be sold duty free at Bangkok Expo

Myanmar Gems Entrepreneurs attending the 52th Bangkok Gems Expo to be held in Thailand from September 6 to 10 will enjoy a duty free policy on gems sales at the expo, according to the gem traders.The Thai government normally collects 20 percent import tax on gems and jewellery, but the duty free policy will be in effect for 15 days before and after the Gems Expo. "Thailand sent an invitation letter concerning a duty free permit. But we will have to know whether the tax is collected or not when we arrive. Myanmar gems traders were very pleased...

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90 percent of female workers employed in garment industry

Myanmar's garment industry employs 90 percent of female workers, according to Dr. Khine Khine Nwe, Secretary of Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association (MGMA) who was speaking at the Myanmar Women Dialogue held on Saturday. Myanmar has 3.6 million workers and 40 percent of them are female workers. "The garment industry used human resources and can create more job opportunities for female workers. After September 2012, numbers of foreign companies rose to 56. Among them, 44 are in the garment industry. That’s why the working force of female...

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Ooredoo plans to create over 30,000 jobs in Myanmar       Qatar-based Ooredoo is recruiting staff in Myanmar and says it will provide more than 30,000 job opportunities, according to senior representative from the company. "We want locals to work at our company. We will choose the talented staff and give the best services. We will send our staff from Myanmar to train in our headquarters at Qatar. We will train them exclusively for the necessary skills," said Ross Cormack, a senior representative from Ooredo in a conference...

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World Trade Organisation (WTO) is discussing an Enhanced Integrated Framework program to assist Myanmar's economic development, according to Ministry of Commerce. The Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) is a multi-donor programme, which helps least-developed countries (LDCs) play a more active role in the global trading system. The programme has a wider goal of promoting economic growth and sustainable development and helping to lift more people...

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A Garment Factory in Myanmar (Photo/EMG) Myanmar’s garment exports made record earnings in the first quarter of this year, according to official data from Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association (MGMA). The exports have made over $300 million in the period from January to March, almost a double from the same period last year, according to the data. "Generally most orders came during the first three months of a year averagely. This year...

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A place near Thilawa Special Economic Zone (Photo - EMG) Japanese-based Itochu Corporation will build a Yangon-Thilawa bridge as part of the Thilawa special economic zone project, according to the Ministry of Construction. A Japanese delegation, led by Koji Umemoto from Itochu Corporation, met with construction minister Kyaw Lwin to discuss matters relating on implementation of construction project in Nay Pyi Taw on August 15. Japan is...

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