MYANMAR plans to improve food safety in a bid to boost agricultural exports and extract more value from a sector that accounts for 38 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product. Ye Tint Tun, director general of the Department of Agriculture, said exports of agricultural products made up 23 per cent of Myanmar’s export […]
Solving Southeast Asia’s Drug Problem
September 22, 2015 by
The Obama administration has once again named Myanmar and Laos to its list of twenty-two countries determined to be major drug trafficking countries or major drug transit countries. The White House memo, issued on Monday, noted that Myanmar “failed demonstrably during the last twelve months to make sufficient or meaningful efforts to adhere to their […]
Oil and gas stumbles with price drop
September 14, 2015 by
Some offshore exploration activities have been delayed and natural gas exports are generating lower income. Benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude for October delivery traded for US$44.02 yesterday on global markets, vastly different from a year ago, when crude was above $100 a barrel. Faced with dropping prices without a commensurate drop in costs, many energy […]
