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Obama should meet with Suu Kyi and Thein Sein: report
Reposted from Mizzima A new CSIS report has recommended that President Barrack Obama meet with both Aung San Suu Kyi and Burmese President Thein Sein when they are both in the US in September. A group...
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Myanmar to delay foreign investment law
Reposted from Financial Times By Gwen Robinson Myanmar is to delay the implementation of controversial foreign investment legislation passed this month, but will step up reforms in areas including the...
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Myanmar’s Opposition Leader Urges End to Sanctions
Reposted from The New York Times WASHINGTON — Myanmar’s opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, called for the lifting of American sanctions against her country on Tuesday, beginning an emotional...
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US likely to lift more sanctions from Burma
Reposted from WAtoday By Mark Landler WASHINGTON: The US may further ease sanctions on Burma, following the wishes of the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was visiting Washington to receive the...
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US lifting import ban on Myanmar goods: Clinton
Reposted from Business Line New York, Sept. 27: The US will begin easing an import ban on goods from Myanmar, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Myanmar leader Thein Sein, in a further lifting of...
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How Japan Inc stole a march in Myanmar
Reposted from World News Report YANGON/TOKYO: Japan Inc is charging into Myanmar. The rush began one night last October, when Myanmar’s new president rolled out a map after dinner to show an aging...
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Long Reliant on China, Myanmar Now Turns to Japan
Reposted from The New York Times By Thomas Fuller YANGON, MYANMAR — On a street in central Yangon the final moments of Kenji Nagai’s life were captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, an image that...
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Myanmar Clears Less Restricted Investment Law
Reposted from The Wall Street Journal By SAM HOLMES Myanmar’s parliament passed a more business-friendly foreign-investment law Thursday that removes some previous restrictions on foreign ownership of...
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Silk Road Plans Investments for Myanmar Fund: Southeast Asia
Reposted from Bloomberg By Klaus Wille Silk Road Management, an investor in frontier markets, will take stakes in three Myanmar projects by year-end, the first private-equity deals in Southeast Asia’s...
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PepsiCo to sign Myanmar bottling deal as rivalry with Coke grows
Reposted from The Star Online SHANGHAI: PepsiCo Inc is in talks to sign a bottling agreement in Myanmar, ramping up the competition with Coca-Cola Co as they fight for market share in a country...
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ACO Investment Plans $700 Million in Myanmar Private-Equity Bets
Reposted from Bloomberg By Cathy Chan Myanmar, the Southeast Asian nation that exited 50 years of military rule in 2011, offers investors the best growth opportunity in the region, said Hari Achuthan,...
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Google boss calls for free speech in Myanmar
Reposted from Mizzima News Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt called for “free speech” and for the government to be kept out of internet regulations during a speech to students in Yangon on...
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Booming Burma is a win-win scenario for business in South East Asia
Reposted from GT Global Trader By Eric Jackson When a repressive regime comes to an end, there is always optimism inside and outside the country that it will herald a bright new dawn of freedom and...
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Myanmar president’s US visit to focus on foreign investment
Reposted from Financial Times By Geoff Dyer and Richard McGregor When Thein Sein arrives in Washington on Monday as the first Myanmar president for almost half a century to visit the US capital, he may...
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Myanmar Sanctions Won’t Be Extended, McConnell Says
Reposted from Bloomberg By James Rowley & Daniel Ten Kate U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the congressional sponsor of economic sanctions against Myanmar, said he won’t seek their...
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Abe Goes to Myanmar as Japan Inc. Eyes Asia’s Cheapest Wages
Reposted from Bloomberg By Daniel Ten Kate Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today becomes the first Japanese leader to visit Myanmar in 36 years as his nation’s companies seek to invest in the former...
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Japan gives Myanmar $504M loan, forgives debt
Reposted from Myanmar Business Network Japan’s government on Sunday extended its first loan to Myanmar in 26 years and canceled the remainder of the Southeast Asian country’s debt, as Tokyo looks to...
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Burma’s ‘Vital’ Stock Exchange Plans Proceeding on Schedule
Reposted from The Irrawaddy By Simon Roughneen RANGOON — Burma remains on track to establish a stock exchange in the commercial hub of Rangoon by the end of 2015, Burma’s Central Bank Deputy Governor...
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Myanmar May Attract $100 Billion in FDI by 2030, McKinsey Says
Reposted from Bloomberg Businessweek By Daniel Ten Kate Myanmar may attract as much as $100 billion in foreign direct investment over the next two decades if it spends enough to achieve its economic...
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Myanmar’s Moment? Eight reasons to be optimistic about Southeast Asia’s...
Reposted from Foreign Policy By Heang Chhor, Richard Dobbs Myanmar is attracting a lot of attention these days. The visit by President Thein Sein to Washington in May, the first by a leader of Myanmar...
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