A school for the blind in Yangon has been providing a home away from home for the visually impaired and helping them to acquire the skills they need to be self-sufficient for more than 40 years.
BY Hein Ko Soe
Promoting savings and using them to provide long-term and lower-interest loans to infrastructure projects and export-related industries could help Myanmar emulate the “miracle” growth of other Asian economies.
Despite initial challenges, a pilot project to pay allowances to IDPs in Kachin State through mobile phone transfers has been a big success and will be expanded next year to benefit 3,400 households.
BY Su Myat Mon
A video of goods being unloaded from a train making an unscheduled stop at night on Yangon’s outskirts has focused new attention on Myanmar’s massive black market.
