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• Frontiir Receives $30M Investment from UK’s CDC
• Myanmar, ASEAN Team to Visit Rohingyas Camp
• No Room for ’88 Museum, Says Company Renovating Yangon Secretariat
• Art Exhibit Builds Bridges and Distorts Experience  
• Four Police Injured in AA Attack on Outpost in N. Rakhine
• Local Entrepreneur Offers Plastics Alternatives
• China Leads Investment in Yangon
• More Than 100 Tons of Plastic Waste Enter Irrawaddy River Daily: Survey
• ‘The Ugly American’: A Remembrance
• Work on City Side of Yangon-Dala Bridge to Start Next Month
• All Sewn Up? Vietnam Garment Makers Face Hitches in Lucrative EU Trade Deal
• Global Warming Reshapes Almanac for Tea Growers in China’s Yunnan
• India’s Parliament Approves Changes to Right to Information Law Despite Protests

Frontiir Receives $30M Investment from UK’s CDC Posted: 26 Jul 2019 06:46 AM PDT The money, representatives from both organizations say, will help the internet service provider expand low-cost coverage to poor communities in Yangon and beyond.

Myanmar, ASEAN Team to Visit Rohingyas Camp Posted: 26 Jul 2019 06:42 AM PDT Last time a similar envoy visited the camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazaar, they refused to answer Rohingya concerns over post-repatriation citizenship and safety.

No Room for ’88 Museum, Says Company Renovating Yangon Secretariat Posted: 26 Jul 2019 06:37 AM PDT Anawmar Art Group, which has ties to a senior junta figure, says historic Yangon building's museum space is intended to honor Gen. Aung San and national Martyrs.

Art Exhibit Builds Bridges and Distorts Experience   Posted: 26 Jul 2019 06:25 AM PDT A dizzying array of global artistic talent in a range of new media exhibits is on display at Building Bridges Yangon. Writer Myint Myat Thu shares some favorites.

Four Police Injured in AA Attack on Outpost in N. Rakhine Posted: 26 Jul 2019 05:05 AM PDT One AA fighter killed in early morning assault in Buthidaung Township, military says.

Local Entrepreneur Offers Plastics Alternatives Posted: 26 Jul 2019 04:42 AM PDT Ko Kyaw Kyaw Htike's Zero Plastic brand offers reusable products made from biodegradable materials to lessen the burden of single-use-plastic waste.

China Leads Investment in Yangon Posted: 26 Jul 2019 04:06 AM PDT Of 113 projects worth more than $200 million launched in the region in the first nine months of fiscal 2018-19, 65 are from China.

More Than 100 Tons of Plastic Waste Enter Irrawaddy River Daily: Survey Posted: 26 Jul 2019 02:25 AM PDT Workshop participants call for increased public education, regulation on waste sorting.

‘The Ugly American’: A Remembrance Posted: 26 Jul 2019 01:57 AM PDT This much-misunderstood prototype of American engagement with the world deserves revisiting, even if the novel and film that made it famous are rightfully forgotten.

Work on City Side of Yangon-Dala Bridge to Start Next Month Posted: 26 Jul 2019 12:34 AM PDT Structure is due to be complete by early 2022; Yangon's Bonegyi St. will be closed to buses for a year and a half.

All Sewn Up? Vietnam Garment Makers Face Hitches in Lucrative EU Trade Deal Posted: 25 Jul 2019 10:10 PM PDT Low pay and long hours are making it hard to meet new factories' growing demand for workers, which had already increased by 7 percent since 2018.

Global Warming Reshapes Almanac for Tea Growers in China’s Yunnan Posted: 25 Jul 2019 09:47 PM PDT "The entire precipitation pattern has changed due to global warming," said Xiao Chan, head of weather services at Beijing's National Climate Center.

India’s Parliament Approves Changes to Right to Information Law Despite Protests Posted: 25 Jul 2019 09:41 PM PDT Once the amendments were passed in the Indian parliament's upper house on Thursday, the entire opposition walked out of parliament.

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