Subscribe to our tender alert mailing list The Rakhine State government will invite tenders for the construction of an airport in Mrauk-U, State Planning and Finance Minister Kyaw Aye Thein said. He told the Myanmar Times that the decision to put the airport project out to tender was due to insufficient funds in the state’s […]
Mung bean output to be increased to meet demand from India
December 8, 2016 by
The number of mung bean plantation acres will be increased this winter to meet India’s demand of 10,000 tonnes of mung bean, according to the Rakhine Agriculture Department. India has said it will purchase 10,000 tonnes of mung bean during the next fiscal year, which has prompted the agriculture department to begin the process of […]
Police raid Rakhine-to-Malaysia Smuggling Junket, Detain 22 Muslim Teens
October 26, 2016 by
Court proceedings and a manhunt have been launched after police disrupted a human smuggling pipeline from Rakhine State to Malaysia in two separate raids in Yangon this weekend. Nearly two dozen Muslim teenagers between the ages of 12 and 18 were rounded up by police and detained. According to officials, the male teens being trafficked […]
