<a href=”https://youtu.be/pCvYiQYDHcE” target=”_blank”><img src=”https://consult-myanmar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/doingbusinessinmyanmar-thumbnail2.jpg” width=”600″ height=”250″ /> </a> A full percentage of people living in rural areas of Yangon Region will have access to electricity by the end of December this year, said Chief Minister Phyo Min Thein. The chief minister disclosed the information during the inauguration of Gyobyu and Theingon power sub-stations in Taikkyi […]
Invitation for Open Tender, Ministry of Construction, Department of Rural Road Development,Closing Date: 7th April 2020
1. The Republic of the Union of Myanmar has received a Grant from the Federal Republic of Germany (KfW bank) through the Ministry of Construction towards the cost of Rural Development Programme – Phase V and Improvement of Agricultural Transport Infrastructure(IATI). 2. Department of Rural Road Development under Ministry of Construction intends to implement, with […]
Request for Bids,National Electrification Project (NEP), Funding: Italian Soft Loan ,Closing Date: 26th March,2020
Country: Myanmar Name of Project: National Electrification Project (NEP), Funding: Italian Soft Loan Contract Title: Supply, Installation and Maintenance of Solar PV Systems for Households and Public Facilities Credit No.: 5727-MM RFB Reference No.: S&I – NEP-IT1 (1 lot) 1. The Government of Myanmar has received financing from the Government of the Italian Republic toward […]
EOI Consulting Service for Rural Telecom Development. Deadline: 5th August 2019
Invitation for Expression of Interest Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC) now invites eligible consulting firm to indicate their interests to provide for the implementation in a number of areas to accelerate the development of rural telecommunications (voice and internet) infrastructure and services in locations that are unlikely to attract sufficient private investment in Myanmar. […]
Entrepreneur buys unused oBike and Ofo bicycles to donate to poor children in Myanmar
When bicycle-sharing company oBike pulled out of Singapore abruptly last year, leaving the city with unattended bicycles rusting away in parks and public spaces, Myanmar entrepreneur Mike Than Tun Win saw the perfect opportunity to turn trash into treasure. “What if these bicycles could be distributed to poor students in villages so they can cycle […]
Notice of Tender, For Consulting Services, Project Management Consultant,Deadline: 10th June, 2019
NOTICE OF TENDER For Consulting Serivces Date: 20 May 2019 1. The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)’s Project Management Consultant (hereinafter referred to as the “PMC”) for the Project for “Establishment of Integrated Agriculture and Irrigation Master Plan (EIAIDMP), Ayeyarwaddy Delta Region” invites prospective bidders for Consulting services for the “Data Survey on Agriculture and […]
Extortion and abuse: Myanmar workers arrive debt-laden in Thailand
A “mafia” of recruitment agents is trapping Myanmar migrants to Thailand in debt bondage despite a 2017 law meant to fight exploitation in the kingdom’s notoriously shadowy job market, activists and workers say. Migrant labour — much of it from Myanmar — has propped up Thailand’s economy for years, with foreigners working everywhere from factories […]
More effort needed to tackle idle industrial land
A month after the first site visits to inspect idle industrial plots in Yangon, officials are warning there will be no progress in freeing up unused land without a special committee that has the power and resolve to revoke the leases of absentee owners. Yangon Region government announced in late May that it was turning […]
Israel aims to make its mark in Myanmar
Since the recent opening up of the country, Myanmar has been receiving tremendous interest from investors, conglomerates and countries around the world who are vying for a piece of the last frontier in Asia. The US and EU governments have been making attempts aggressively to normalize their relations with the former pariah nation by lifting […]