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Norwegian telecom company Telenor is faced with a big backlash to its strategy of focusing on expanding in developing countries as Myanmar’s unrelenting junta...

Myanmar’s economy is in free fall after the February 1 coup that threw the country into substantial turmoil and probably decades back in development,...

Those were the days: Burmese people happily queue for Telenor SIM cards when business started in 2014

Malaysian telecom company Axiata Group and Norway’s Telenor are planning to merge their operations in the Southeast...

Axiata to merge Asian business with Telenor The two telecom companies Axiata from Malaysia and Telenor from Norway are...

Pakistan will be the first country to manufacture Malaysia’s home-made car brand Proton outside the Southeast Asian...

Myanmar’s fourth telecom operator, under the brand of Mytel, officially launched its services in the country on June 9 and offers 80 per cent...

Giving millions of “unbanked” people the opportunity to undertake money deals by simply using their mobile phones has turned out to be a highly...

Norway’s Telenor said it would launch telecommunications services in Myanmar on Sept. 27, becoming the second foreign telecoms company to start operating in one...

Myanmar's state-owned telecom operator Myanma Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) is planning to reduce its local calling rates per minute, according to sources from the Ministry of...

Shops in Myanmar's second largest city Mandalay have begun selling a limited number of Ooredoo SIM cards, as the Qatari company remains tight-lipped about...

The number of mobile data users in Myanmar has increased steadily since 2011 and is approaching 3 million this year, according to the Myanmar...

Myanmar's economy should grow 8.5 per cent during the current fiscal year, higher than earlier forecast thanks mainly to rising gas production and investment,...

A group of Buddhist monks in Myanmar has called for a boycott of mobile phone network operator Ooredoo because the company is from a...

Myanmar's rising Buddhist nationalism is taking an economic turn. Qatar's Ooredoo, which is scheduled to launch its mobile-phone service in Myanmar this July, has...

Foreign investment in Myanmar has created more than 150,000 job opportunities for citizens, according to the Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC). The MIC grants permissions for...

Ooredoo, the Qatari telecommunications operator formerly known as Qtel, will launch 3G mobile services in Myanmar in the third quarter of 2014 after it...

US-headquartered Baker & McKenzie, the world’s second-largest law firm by revenue, opened an office in Myanmar to serve foreign investors entering an economy emerging...