By Luca Powell Winning the U.S. visa lottery last year changed Ye Lin Htet’s life. In Yangon, the capital of Myanmar, Htet had just graduated from university. The lottery win was a surprise: more than 20 million people apply every year, competing for just 55,000 visas. So Htet, 22, accepted the visa and traveled to […]
Burmese fitness app Flexible Pass gets 6-digit Pre-Series A funding, focussing on new products and category
August 22, 2019 by
Flexible Pass, Myanmar-based health and fitness app, announces that it has raised a six-digit Pre-Series A funding. Without revealing the total funding raised, the second funding round was raised from three existing investors from the company’s first funding round: Yangon Capital Partners (YCP), Seed Myanmar, and Nest Tech. The company said that it will use […]
HK: Myanmar Eyed as Source of Domestic Helpers Amid Surging Demand
November 23, 2017 by
Hong Kong is looking into importing domestic helpers from Myanmar to meet surging demand, Secretary for Labor and Welfare Law Chi-kwong said. It is all part of the government’s efforts to increase the sources of maids and lower the city’s reliance on the Philippines and Indonesia, Law said in a blog post on Sunday, adding that […]
Myanmar’s Phandeeyar Accelerator startup graduates Chate Sat, White Merak secures six-digit funding
July 11, 2017 by
Myanmar’s Phandeeyar Accelerator startups Chate Sat, a freelancing platform and White Merak, an animated comic application have secured a six-digit funding each from local and foreign investors on Thursday. Chate Sat which means connect in Burmese, has raised the investment from Vulpes Investment Management Pte Ltd back in May, alongside additional investment from Theta Capital based in Singapore […]
Myanmar’s ‘Sea Gypsies’ Threatened by Dynamite Fishing and Drugs
July 11, 2017 by
Destruction has been wrought by fishing boats, many believed to be from neighbouring Thailand, which use dynamite and trawlers to sweep the seabed With a swift breath the teenage boy dives into the turquoise waters of southern Myanmar, a spear clutched in his hand, but below him lies nothing but a graveyard of broken, grey […]
Facebook ‘ban’ of anti-Muslim slur sparks Myanmar outcry
June 1, 2017 by
Myanmar netizens were in an uproar on Monday after Facebook seemingly banned people from posting the word “kalar,” often used as a slur against Muslims, at a time of rising Islamophobia in the country. Facebook is under global pressure to clamp down on hate speech, violent threats or deliberately misleading information on their platform — […]
