Taiwan’s top trade promotion body said last week that it will organise tours to explore business opportunities in Myanmar and Laos in March, targeting the industrial product market in the two countries, where demand for machinery and power supplies is high. In Myanmar, demand for imported machinery is high in the agricultural and industrial sectors, […]
Tracing the Last of Myanmar’s Once Influential Armenians
November 25, 2013 by thiha
YANGON — A hand-drawn map showed the way to the colonial teak house that my Armenian grandmother’s family left behind when the Japanese captured Yangon in 1942. My relatives are thought to have hidden jewels in the well before fleeing the family home that was reportedly turned into a brothel during the Japanese occupation. Last […]
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