Greece 'may need 10bn euros more' in aid - Stournaras

Greece may need a third bailout but would not accept new austerity measures, the Greek finance minister has said. Yannis Stournaras said: "If there is need for further support to Greece, it will be in the order of about 10bn euros (£8.6bn; $13.4bn), or much smaller than the previous programmes." Greece has already received two bailouts totalling about 240bn euros. Meanwhile, Angela Merkel has warned about writing down any more Greek debt. Germany's chancellor said a so-called haircut of Greek debt would be bad for...

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လာမည့္ႏႇစ္မႇစ၍ ဘတ္ဂ်က္ေရးဆြဲရာတြင္ လူထုအေျချပဳ ဘတ္ဂ်က္အျဖစ္ ေျပာင္းလဲသြားမည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ျပည္နယ္/တိုင္း ဘတ္ဂ်က္ပမာဏ ပိုမိုမ်ားျပားလာမည္

ေက်းလက္ေဒသ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရး အတြက္ လာမည့္ ၂၀၁၄-၂၀၁၅ ျမန္မာ ႏုိင္ငံ၏ ဘတ္ဂ်က္ အသုံးျပဳမႈကို လူထုအေျချပဳ ဘတ္ဂ်က္အျဖစ္ ျပဳလုပ္မည္ျဖစ္ရာ ျပည္နယ္/တုိင္းေဒသႀကီး ဘတ္ဂ်က္သည္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ဘတ္ဂ်က္ထက္ ပိုမုိႀကီးမားမည္ဟု သမၼတ႐ုံး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ျပည္ ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ဦးစုိးသိန္းက ေျပာၾကားသည္။ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၅ ရက္က ရန္ကုန္ ၿမိဳ႕ရႇိ Myanmar Peace Center တြင္ က်င္းပခဲ့သည့္ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတ၏ ေက်းလက္ေဒသ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရးစီမံကိန္းအတြက္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕ ၀န္ႀကီးမ်ားႏႇင့္ INGO မ်ား၊ NGO မ်ားမႇ တာ၀န္ရႇိသူမ်ား၊ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတြင္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ဦးစိုးသိန္းက ယခုကဲ့သုိ႔...

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Environmental impacts of Thilawa project informed to locals

Thilawa SEZ Management Committee organized a meeting on August 23 to inform the local residents about possible consequences of the first phase of Thilawa Special Economic Zone Project. Located in Thanlyin Township of Yangon suburb, Thilawa Special Economic Zone Project is a joint venture between Myanmar and Japanese governments. Japan-based Nippon Koei Company and Resource and Environment Myanmar are together conducting the environmental and social impact assessments [EIA/SIA] of Thilawa project. A team of the representatives have explained...

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Myanmar plans to implement two new deep seaport projects

Myanmar is planning to construct another two new deep seaports in the Tanintaryi coast and Ayeyarwady region, according to Myanmar Port Authority (MPA). Thailand is interested to construct Kalargote deep seaport project located between Mawlamyaing and Yay in Tanintaryi coast. Singapore is also interested to invest at Ngayokekaung deep seaport located at Ngayokekaung Bay in Ayayarwady region. Emerald Grand Hotel Group from Thailand and Super Axis Development Pte Ltd. from Singapore have signed MoU with the MPA in this month to analyse...

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Effectively regulating tax is vital to controlling rising land prices in Myanmar, finance deputy minister said at a press conference in Nay Pyi Taw on August 23.

Effectively regulating tax is vital to controlling rising land prices in Myanmar, finance deputy minister said at a press conference in Nay Pyi Taw on August 23. “Actually, land prices increase because people buy and sell lands as if they are gambling. Myanmar has just started to develop and so people want to do some gambling. That gambling spirit cannot be easily stopped. We are trying to give a vent for the gambling spirit, and that is to establish the stock exchange. The stock exchange is a decent place for people,” said Mr Maung Maung...

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ျမ၀တီစက္မႈဇုန္ တည္ေဆာက္ေရးအတြက္ ေျမေနရာမ်ား စတင္ေဖာ္ထုတ္

ျမ၀တီစက္မႈဇုန္ တည္ေဆာက္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းခြင္ တစ္ေနရာ ျမ၀တီၿမိဳ႕ နယ္စပ္ကုန္သြယ္ေရး စခန္းအနီးတြင္ ျမ၀တီ စက္မႈဇုန္အတြက္ ေျမေနရာ ေဖာ္ထုတ္ျခင္း လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား စတင္ေဆာင္ရြက္ ေနၿပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ ျမ၀တီနယ္စပ္ ကုန္သြယ္ေရးဇုန္ႏွင့္ ရြာသစ္ေက်းရြာၾကားရွိ ေျမဧကမ်ားအနက္ ညီေနာင္ဦး ကုမၼဏီ လီမိတက္မွ ေျမဧက ၁၅၀ တို႔အား ျမ၀တီစက္မႈဇုန္ တည္ေဆာက္ေရး စီမံကိန္းအျဖစ္ ေျမကြက္ေဖာ္ထုတ္ျခင္း လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကို မတ္လမွစ၍ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ "အခု...

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