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. |