Chinese authorities investigate PetroChina executives

by ; bbc                           Chinese authorities are investigating three senior executives of state-owned energy firm PetroChina over "serious breaches of discipline". China's State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, which oversees state firms, did not provide details of the breaches. ...

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Asia markets hit as Syria fears spark global sell-off

by ;bbc               Asian stock markets have fallen, extending a global sell-off sparked by growing fears of a military strike against Syria. Japan's Nikkei 225 index dipped 2.3%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down 1.3% while Australia's ASX 200 fell 1.1%. This follows declines in US and European markets on Tuesday. Speculation of a strike against Syria, also triggered...

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Japan's ANA to buy 49% in Myanmar's Asian Wings Airways: Source

by Straits Times TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japan's ANA Holdings Inc will buy a 49 percent stake in Myanmar carrier Asian Wings Airways as part of a strategy to expand overseas by investing in airline related businesses, an industry source familiar with the agreement said. ANA, will pay 3 billion yen (S$38.81 million) for the stake, the Nikkei business daily reported earlier. The two carriers may announce the deal later on Tuesday, the source said...

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By DVBBurma’s Union Parliament has approved a plan, recommended by President Thein Sein, to agree a US$261.5 million loan from the World Bank to support various development projects.The 40-year loan – at a fixed 0.75 percent interest rate – would be used to develop the communications sector and to improve schools, as well as pay for the construction of a compressed natural gas and biogas power plant in Mon state’s Thaton township.In January,...

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SCG budgets Bt12.4-billion for greenfield cement plant in Myanmar

THE NATION  Siam Cement Group yesterday said it would invest Bt12.4 billion for its first integrated greenfield cement plant in Myanmar to serve the rising demand in that market. Kan Trakulhoon, president and chief executive of SCG, said the board of directors approved the investment to construct its first fully integrated cement plant in Myanmar under that country's Foreign Investment Law. Construction is expected to begin by mid-2016. The cement plant, with annual output capacity of 1.8 million tonnes, will be strategically located...

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အေရၾကီးသတင္း

ဒီေန႔ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရး ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေရးအဖြဲ႕နဲ႔ အစည္းအေ၀း လုပ္ျဖစ္တယ္။ ျမန္မာကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႕က သူတို႔ကို ရွင္းလင္းတဲ့ မက္ေဆ့ခ်္တစ္ခု ေပးခဲ့တယ္။ အကယ္၍ အခ်ိဳ႕ႏုိင္ငံမ်ား (အေမရိကန္ အပါအ၀င္) က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား ( ႏိုင္ငံမဲ့ ျပည္သူမ်ား) ကို လက္ခံႏုိင္မည္ ဆုိပါက ကၽြႏု္ပ္တို႔ အေနျဖင့္ သေဘၤာျဖင့္ေသာ္လည္း အျခားနည္းျဖင့္ေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း ပို႔ေပးမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ကၽြႏ္ု္ပ္တို႔ အေနျဖင့္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကို နားလည္ပါေသာ္လည္း ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ လံုျခံဳေရးကိုသာ ပိုမို အေလးထားပါသည္။ (ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတရံုး ညြန္ၾကားေရးမွဴး၏ ေဖ့စ္ဘုတ္အေကာင့္မွ အဂၤလိပ္လို ေရးသားခ်က္ကို...

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