Singapore developers eye buyers inMyanmar

Singapore's biggest real estate developer, Far East Organization, is shifting the focus of its promotions in Myanmar from residential to commercial spaces. At a property and sales exhibition, held August 17-18 at Yangon’s Parkroyal Hotel – its 14th in Myanmar since 2010 – the company pitched Singapore as a good match for Myanmar property investors looking for business properties. “In the past, we mostly brought residential projects, but this time we’ve chosen projects preferred by Myanmar buyers, like commercial warehouses … and office...

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German budget surplus increases

news europe Higher taxes have boosted public finances in Germany which according to official data released today had a budget surplus of 0.6 percent of GDP in this year's first half . The Federal Statistical Office, Destatis, said that Germany, Europe's biggest economy, ran a surplus of 8.5 billion euros in the January-June period. That's a slightly better performance than in...

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Irish taxpayers have paid €220m forEU and IMF bailout services

Taxpayers in Ireland have paid more than €220m in fees to the EU and the IMF in the context of the country’s bailout, besides €1.4bn in interest payments paid last year alone, according to the Irish newspaper, The Independent. The fees, covering services including administration, are charged whenever the Irish government receives a loan or tranche under the €67bn programme. According to the figures published in the newspaper, between 2010 and 2012, Ireland paid about €224m worth of fees. The Irish debt-management agency, the National...

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YCDC block the construction of high-rise buildings near historic pagoda

Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) has blocked two separate proposals to construct 11 and 22-storey buildings inside of the restricted areas near Shwedagon Pagoda. The locations of the restricted areas situated between Damazedi Road and Shin Saw Pu Road on the north ward of Shwedagon Pagoda, between the junction of Min Ye Kyaw Swar Road-Circular Train Road-Shwedagon Pagoda Road and Yaw Min Gyi Street on the south ward of Shwedagon Pagoda, Alan Pya Pagoda Road-Zoological Garden Street-Kan Street-Kan Street-Netmauk Road-Kabaaye Pagoda...

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Myanmar eyeing possibility of building new deep-sea port

The Myanmar government will jointly perform a feasibility study with a private company from Thailand to explore the possibility of building a new deep-sea port in the country's southeastern Mon State facing the Gulf of Moattama, state media reported Friday. The Port Authority of the Ministry of Transport recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Thailand's Emerald Grand Hotel Co. to start conducting, within three months, the feasibility study for the Kalargote deep-sea port project located between Ye and Mawlamyine...

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Qatari firm vows 'affordable' mobile access for Myanmar

Qatari telecoms giant Ooredoo on Friday pledged to introduce "affordable" phone services to Myanmar next year as it pumps $15 billion into one of the world's few remaining frontier mobile markets. The firm, which in June along with Norway's Telenor won bids to provide mobile coverage to a nation where less than 10 percent of the population has telephone access, should be formally awarded its 15-year 3G licence by the end of this year. It will then start to roll out its mobile services -- including money transfers and weather data...

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သီလ၀ါ၊ ထား၀ယ္၊ ေက်ာက္ျဖဴစသည့္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္းမ်ားအျပင္ တနသၤာရီ ကမ္း႐ိုးတန္းႏွင့္ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္း ေဒသႀကီးတြင္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္းသစ္ႏွစ္ခု ထပ္မံတည္ေဆာက္ရန္ စီစဥ္

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ တည္ေဆာက္ရန္ စီစဥ္ေနသည့္ သီလ၀ါ၊ ထား၀ယ္၊ ေက်ာက္ျဖဴစသည့္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္းမ်ားအျပင္ တနသၤာရီ ကမ္း႐ိုးတန္းႏွင့္ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္း ေဒသႀကီးတို႔တြင္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္းသစ္ႏွစ္ခု ထပ္မံတည္ေဆာက္ရန္ စီစဥ္ေနေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာ့ဆိပ္ကမ္း အာဏာပိုင္မွ သတင္းရရွိပါသည္။ မြန္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္ၿမိဳ႕ႏွင့္ ေရးၿမိဳ႕အၾကားရွိ တနသၤာရီ ကမ္း႐ိုးတန္းတြင္ ကုလားဂုတ္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္းအား ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံမွ လည္းေကာင္း၊ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္းေဒသႀကီးရွိ င႐ုတ္ေကာင္းေအာ္တြင္ င႐ုတ္ေကာင္း ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္းအား စင္ကာပူႏိုင္ငံမွ လည္းေကာင္း အေကာင္ေဖာ္ရန္ စိတ္၀င္စားမႈ ရွိေနေၾကာင္း...

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မႏၲေလးနန္းေရွ႕အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမေစ်း အဆမတန္ျမင့္တက္

ရန္ကုန္၊ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၃ အာရွသုံးႏိုင္ငံ၏ စီးပြားေရးဗဟို ခ်က္ျဖစ္လာမည့္ မႏၲေလးၿမဳိ႕ေတာ္ နန္းေရွ႕ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမ ေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ားမွာ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ သုံးႏွစ္ခန္႔က ေပါက္ခဲ့သည့္ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမ၊ ေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ပါက အဆမတန္ ျမင့္တက္သြားေၾကာင္း မႏၲေလးၿမဳိ႕ေတာ္ အေျခစိုက္ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမအက်ဳိးေဆာင္ လုပ္ငန္းရွင္မ်ားထံမွ စုံစမ္းသိရွိရသည္။ မႏၲေလးနန္းေရွ႕ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမေစ်း ျမင့္တက္ရျခင္းမွာ နန္းေရွ႕သည္ မႏၲေလး ၿမဳိ႕သစ္ႏွင့္ ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ပါက ေစ်းခ်ဳိႏွင့္ ပိုနီးျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ေနထိုင္သူမ်ား ဝယ္ယူမႈ မ်ားလာၿပီး ယင္းကဲ့သို႔ ေစ်းအဆမတန္ ျမင့္တက္သြားရျခင္း ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း...

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ရန္ကုန္ ေရျကီး ျမို့ခံေတြ အခက္ျကံု

               ရန္ကုန္ျမို့မွာ မိုးျကီး ေရလံွ် ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ အတြက္ ျမို့တြင္း သြားလာသူေတြ ဒုကၡရာက္ ၾကရသလို ကားေတြနဲ့ သြားသူေတြလည္း ကားေရနစ္လို့ ျဖစ္တဲ့ ေနရာမွာ ပစ္ထားခဲ့ရသူေတြ ရိွသလို ကားထဲ ေရဝင္လို့ ေရခပ္ထုတ္ ေနရတဲ့ သူေတြလည္း ရိွေနပါတယ္။ပုဇြန္ေတာင္ေခ်ာင္း ကလည္း ေရတက္ ၊ ေလေရာ မိုးေရာ က်တာကလည္း နွစ္ရက္ ရိွျပီ ျဖစ္တာေၾBY ; သစ္ထူးလြင္ကာင့္ မေန့က မနက္က ဆိုရင္ ပုဇြန္ေတာင္ေခ်ာင္း...

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ေျမေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ား ျမင့္မားမႈေၾကာင့္ ရန္ကုန္-ဒလ တံတားစီမံကိန္း ရပ္နားလုိက္ရ

ေတာင္ကိုရီးယားႏုိင္ငံက တည္ေဆာက္ေပးမည့္ ရန္ကုန္-ဒလ တံတား စီမံကိန္းကို ယခုအစုိးရ သက္တမ္းအတြင္း တည္ေဆာက္ေတာ့မည္ မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္း၊ လက္ရွိ အစုိးရသက္တမ္း ကုန္ဆုံးမည့္ ၂၀၁၅ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း ယင္းစီမံကိန္းကို ရပ္နားလုိက္ျခင္းသည္ စီမံကိန္းေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာသည့္ ေျမေစ်းႏႈန္းျမင့္မားမႈမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတ႐ုံး၊ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ဝန္ႀကီးဦးစိုးသိန္းက ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၃ရက္ေန႔က ျပဳလုပ္သည့္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပဲြတြင္ ေျပာၾကားသည္ဟု သိရသည္။“စီမံကိန္းတစ္ခုလုပ္ေတာ့မယ္ဆုိရင္ ျမန္မာ့ေျမေစ်းက ျမင့္ၿပီ။ ဒါေၾကာင့္မုိ႔ ၂၀၁၅ခုႏွစ္အထိ ယခုအစုိးရသက္တမ္းအတြင္း ဒလတံတား...

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Foreign trade exceeds $7 billion for first quarter

In first three months of fiscal year 2013-14, Burma’s foreign trade hit over US $7 billion, an increase of 15 percent on the same period last year, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce. Of the total trade volume, Burmese exports amounted to $3. 161 billion while imports totaled $3.919 billion, making a total of $7.080 billion. In the first three months of the 2012-13 period, exports amounted to $3.152 billion with imports standing...

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Myanmar: A Blueprint for International Development?

I was never a good footballer. Besides an innate lack of ability, there was another reason for my ineptitude: The best footballers don’t chase madly after the ball as I did. They anticipate where the ball is going and move there. So it should be with international development.Much is being made of the reopening of Myanmar to the global economy. Barely a week goes by without another multinational announcing a commitment to invest in the country. At the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting last month, Coca-Cola (KO) Chief Executive Officer Muhtar...

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Lower House signs off on $100m loan from Chinese bank

Burma’s lower house of parliament on Thursday agreed to borrow US$ 100 million dollar from the Export-Import Bank of China that will be used to fund cooperatives across Burma. During Thursday’s lower house session, the cooperatives minister along with the minister of commerce presented the plan to MPs. Speaking to DVB on Thursday, Lower House MP Phe Than said the house agreed to borrow the money and called on the Ministry of Cooperatives...

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Myanmar is new battleground for business

Indian companies seek to wrest business from Chinese firms in the world's 'next economic frontier'Mumbai (Business Times (subscription)MYANMAR, called Asia's "next economic frontier" by the International Monetary Fund, is the new battleground for Indian companies seeking to wrest business from Chinese firms.Export-Import Bank of India, the state-controlled trade financing institution, has pledged US$800 million in Myanmar, which includes funds...

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Myanmar Minister of Tourism disagrees on foreign visitors staying in private homes

YANGON- The daily English-speaking newspaper Myanmar Times reported a few days ago that Minister for Hotels and Tourism U Htay Aung was not in favour of foreign visitors staying in private homes in Myanmar “as their manners are not appropriate for local residents” as quoted from the Minister.The Minister indicated that foreigners would probably have difficulties to follow the customs of locals and if they do not, it might create a cultural...

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ျမန္မာတြင္ အာဆီယံႏိုင္ငံမ်ား ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈ ေဒၚလာ ၁၄ ဘီလီယံေက်ာ္

ရန္ကုန္၊ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၃ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ အာဆီယံႏိုင္ငံမ်ားမွ လာေရာက္ ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံထားေသာ ႏိုင္ငံျခားရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈမွာ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၁၄ ဘီလီယံေက်ာ္ ရွိေၾကာင္း ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈႏွင့္ ကုမၸဏီမ်ား ညႊန္ၾကားမႈ ဦးစီးဌာနက ဇူလိုင္လအထိ ထုတ္ျပန္ေသာ စာရင္းမ်ားအရ သိရသည္။ အာဆီယံႏိုင္ငံမ်ားက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈမွာ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၁၄၁၃၀ ဒသမ ၁၃ သန္းရွိၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံေပါင္း ေျခာက္ႏိုင္ငံမွ လုပ္ငန္းေပါင္း ၂၂၃ ခုတြင္ ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံျခင္းျဖစ္ကာ...

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ရန္ကုန္ေျမေစ်း က်ဆင္းရန္ အစိုးရစတင္လုပ္ေဆာင္၊ ေနရာ အလိုက္ ေျမေစ်းမ်ားသတ္မွတ္

ေနျပည္ေတာ္၊ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၃ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမ ေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ား အဆမတန္ႀကီး ျမင့္ေနမႈႏွင့္ အခြန္အေကာက္မ်ား ဆုံး႐ႈံးျခင္းမွ ကာကြယ္ရန္ ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းေဒသႀကီးအတြင္း ေနရာေဒသအလိုက္ တစ္ေပပတ္လည္ ေျမေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ားကို တရားဝင္ သတ္မွတ္လိုက္ၿပီ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဘ႑ာေရးဝန္ႀကီးဌာန ဒုတိယဝန္ႀကီး ေဒါက္တာေမာင္ေမာင္သိမ္း က ေျပာၾကားသည္။ ယင္းသို႔ တစ္ေပပတ္လည္ေျမ ေပါက္ေစ်းႏႈန္းကို တိုင္းေဒသႀကီးႏွင့္ ျပည္နယ္အားလုံးကို ကာလေပါက္ေစ်းႏွင့္အညီ သတ္မွတ္ေပးရန္ သက္ဆိုင္ရာေဒသ အစိုးရတာဝန္ရွိသူမ်ား...

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RIL, OVL, Cairn in race for Myanmar blocks

India's Reliance Industries, ONGC Videsh and Cairn India are vying with global energy giants Shell, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil for 30 offshore oil and gas blocks that Myanmar has put on offer. In all, 61 companies have been pre-qualified to bid for 11 shallow water and 19 deepwater blocks in an international tender, according to Myanmar's Energy Ministry. The shortlisted companies from India include RIL, ONGC Videsh (the overseas arm...

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