YANGON, Myanmar—The world’s biggest consumer companies are flocking to Myanmar, filling the once-pariah nation and its backward economy with goods previously unavailable to its 60 million people. But not everyone is happy. Some of the country’s biggest conglomerates—plugging away at the cash-strapped market for decades and fighting hard to grow despite crippling Western sanctions—are now […]
Draft telecoms law to ease import scheme
July 17, 2013 by
The draft telecommunications bill that will soon be presented to the lower house will include a provision allowing the free import of communication devices exempt from Myanmar’s standard licensing scheme, Myanmar Computer Federation executive committee member Zaw Min Oo today told Mizzima. Under the current telecoms law, importing telecoms devices and equipment required an import license […]
