The commission, which answers directly to the President’s Office, meets several times a month to approve foreign, joint-venture and local investments. According to MIC information dating back to January 2015, the average number of investments approved at each meeting is just under 10. No more than 20 projects have been approved at any previous meeting. […]
Vietnam’s Viettel Nears Deal to Invest $800M in Yatanaporn Teleport
January 5, 2015 by
HANOI/YANGON — Vietnam’s Viettel Global and Myanmar’s state-backed Yatanarpon Teleport are awaiting approval for an investment of at least US $800 million to build Yatanarpon’s telecoms infrastructure, officials from both companies said on Friday. Myanmar—where communications were tightly controlled by the former military junta—is one of the world’s last telecoms frontiers, with just a small […]