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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Women in Myanmar enduring the misery of postpartum depression can expect to suffer in silence and one reason is a paucity of health professionals with knowledge of the illness.
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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon will attend a landmark peace conference in Myanmar this month.
Beset by internal conflict for the past year, Myanmar’s former ruling party is seeking to wipe the slate clean – by removing any trace of the Shwe Mann faction from its leadership group.
Myanmar has enjoyed rapid tourism growth since reforms began in 2011 but despite the industry’s importance to the economy it fails to rate a mention in the government’s economic policy.
A last-minute decision by the previous government to recognise a Mandarin-speaking community as a Bamar group has generated controversy over one of the nation’s most sensitive topics.
The biggest nat festival of the year – an exuberant, boisterous spectacle that honours two legendary heroes who met tragic ends – was celebrated this month in a village near Mandalay.
Sex workers are prohibited from leaving a quiet community in central Myanmar where pimps are not friendly to strangers asking questions.
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