The local unit of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group sold over $90,000 worth of goods in the first hour of its first-ever online sale aimed at Myanmar shoppers on Sunday. The local version of Alibaba’s global “11.11” online sale was conducted by Myanmar’s biggest online shopping platform, SHOP.com.mm. SHOP said in a statement that over […]
PetroChina Yunnan Refinery to be Operational by June
China National Petroleum Corp, the country’s largest oil and gas producer, aims to start operating its new refinery in the country’s southwestern Yunnan province by June, an auxiliary project of the China-Myanmar crude oil pipeline. The first batch of refined oil products is due in early September, said Yu Mingxiang, a senior engineer at PetroChina […]
Swiber Bags $215M Contracts in Myanmar, Vietnam and Qatar
Swiber Holdings Limited, a Singapore-based offshore construction services provider to the oil and gas industry, reported Tuesday that it has won three contracts, worth $215 million, in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The firm clinched an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract from a European oil major to perform pipeline replacement work in […]