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Cash-dominated Myanmar is taking a huge step toward modern financial integration now that credit card company Visa has begun training employees of local banks...

Electricity-starved Myanmar wants to beef up its dilapidated power grid with investments of $26 billion over the next decade, local media reported. The country currently...

The US Congress on August 2 voted for an extension of the disputed import ban against Myanmar products. Both the Senate and the House...

The World Bank has opened up a new country office in Yangon, the commercial capital of Myanmar. The international financial institution will prepare a...

SAIL Marketing & Communications, a Yangon-based advertising and consultancy firm, inked an MOU with the Myanmar Olympic Committee, becoming the sole advertising agency for...

The Daiwa Institute of Research, a major Japanese think-tank, has been chosen by the Central Bank of Myanmar to spearhead a $380-million project designed...

The tourism industry in Myanmar has been identified as a highly appealing sector for investment for Thai businesses. Experts say that the best growth prospects...

Now that the once-isolated Southeast Asian nation has officially become approachable by US investment, foreign businessmen plying name cards across Yangon and Naypyidaw bodes well for the success of reforms.

Authorities in Myanmar are looking to the Singapore education model for technical and engineering staff as the country ramps up efforts to develop a...

Industry giant General Electric has become the first US firm to seal a deal with Myanmar after sanctions were lifted by US President Barack...

An Inside Investor online poll among people frequently travelling in Southeast Asia for business has shown that Singapore is the most popular city for...

After more than 15 years of harsh sanctions against Myanmar, US companies now get the opportunity to refresh economic relations with the former pariah...

As calls for increased foreign and local investment are sounded by the re-emergent nation of Myanmar, more and more major regional players are signaling...

Myanmar's president Thein Sein said on a televised speech on June 19 that the country is set for a "second wave of economic reforms",...

Next year's World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia will be held in Myanmar, Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the WEF,...

The world's largest advertising group WPP, owner of advertising, public relations and market research companies such as Ogilvy & Mather, Burson-Marsteller, Hill & Knowlton,...

The recent political and economic opening of Myanmar will see an upgrading of the formerly isolated country's transport infrastructure. Due to its strategic location,...

Myanmar is in the process to award concessions for nine onshore oil and gas blocks to seven foreign oil companies, the Myanmar energy ministry...