Bringing Pickled Tea to the World

Myo Win Aung, managing director of Ya Thar Wa Thi, makers of Shan Shwe Taung pickled tea leaf and Paline organic tea leaf in Shan State, envisions selling its products around the world. “Although it is just a family business, we want to become a huge company that proudly sells Myanmar tea internationally,” Myo Win […]

Welcome to Mogok, Myanmar’s mysterious mining mecca

High in the hills of northeastern Myanmar, past a few sleepy army checkpoints on a stretch of road where mobile phones lose their signal, an ageing signpost set against a mountainous landscape reads: “WELCOME TO RUBY LAND”. This is the entrance to a little-known and seldom-visited town called Mogok, which is said to be the […]

Myanmar Removes 1,000 Doctors From Blacklist

Burma’s government has removed more than 1,000 Burmese doctors from a blacklist that stripped them of their medical licenses and prevented many who lived abroad from returning home. As Burma attempts to overhaul its long-neglected health care system and address a major shortage of doctors, the government on Thursday removed 1,010 doctors from its blacklist […]