In Frontier’s first interview with Myanmar Yatai International Holding Group, the company said it wanted to be a model for Chinese investors.
In Frontier’s first interview with Myanmar Yatai International Holding Group, the company said it wanted to be a model for Chinese investors.
The Ministry of Electricity and Energy will announce in the coming weeks the winners of a tender for 30 solar projects that received more than 150 bids, many from Chinese companies.
A lack of job opportunities in Mon State has turned some migrants to smugglers in order to cross back into Thailand illegally.
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There’s been a broadly positive response to the new Myanmar Investment Law, which levels the playing field between domestic and foreign investors and seeks the accelerated development of targeted areas and economic sectors.
In major cities such as Yangon and Mandalay, military recruiters are known to target poor and vulnerable boys who they threaten, drug or tempt with promises of well-paying jobs.
Frontier speaks to Sudhir Shetty, the World Bank chief economist for East Asia and the Pacific, about Myanmar's new Investment Law.
In the remote mountains of Kachin State, a crack force holds on to a strategic outpost in the face of heavy Tatmadaw offensives aimed at cutting the KIA territory into two sections.
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