PEOPLE’S thirst for electricity would create a lot of opportunities for investors to do business in Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region bordering Kanchanaburi Province. Kyaw Kyaw Win, a small-scale food manufacturer living in Dawei, the capital of the region, said locals were eager to welcome any bid to boost access to electricity by the authorities as long […]
Yangon furniture zone in the works
December 11, 2017 by
Local furniture makers and Yangon Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein met recently to thresh out details of a planned furniture industrial zone aimed at developing the country’s furniture industry. The planned industrial zone is also expected to boost the quality of the furniture products intended for exports, according to Kyaw Kyaw Win, president of […]
Development waves hit Myanmar’s regional cities
January 9, 2017 by
YANGON — Large mixed-use projects are under construction in Mandalay and other regional cities across Myanmar as developers broaden their focus outside of Yangon, the country’s largest city. Local real estate giant New Star Light Construction is slated to complete a commercial-residential complex in Mandalay this year, the biggest in the nation’s second-largest city. The […]
The Wartime Supply Road That Became Myanmar’s Thriving Trade Route
October 12, 2016 by
YANGON — As trucks barrel down the well-paved road between Mandalay and the southwest of China, few of the men working on the construction sites lining the road probably realize that it was once a vital wartime supply route. As Myanmar’s overland tradewith China expands, the roadis now being revived as a bustling trade artery between the two countries. In Mandalay, […]
What Opening Up an Isolationist Nation to the Global Economy Does to Traffic
June 20, 2016 by
Three years ago, traffic may have cost Burmese 24-year-old Kyaw Kyaw Win his job. He migrated to Yangon, the commercial capital of the country now known as Myanmar, in search of worktwo years after the start of crucial economic development reforms that opened the once-hermit nation to international investment. The country of more than 51 […]
