Food & Hotel Myanmar 2018, an international exhibition for food and hospitality products, is returning for its fifth year to Yangon on June 6-8 at MEP at Mindama Yangon. The event will present products and services from more than 200 leading suppliers and manufacturers coming from 20 countries. In addition, there are also four international […]
Hackers target govt websites in cyber spillover from Arakan crisis
September 7, 2017 by
Hackers targeted several government websites this week, according to state media, apparently in retaliation for Burma’s treatment of the country’s Muslim minority, as international attention on the plight of the Rohingya in northern Arakan State intensifies. The Burmese-language state-run daily Kyemon reported on Tuesday that six government websites had been hacked in a “defacement attack,” […]
Ministry Reportedly Invited Electricity Tender Without Budget Approval
March 7, 2017 by
Subscribe to our tender alert mailing list RANGOON — Rangoon residents’ hope for 24-hr access to electricity is fading after the Ministry of Electricity and Energy said that it had no budget for two private electricity suppliers, which last year won a tender to provide electricity for the commercial capital. In 2015, the previous government […]
Peninsula chain adds carefully chosen links in Myanmar, elsewhere
March 3, 2017 by
As it expands into Myanmar and Turkey, the operator of the Peninsula hotel chain is sticking with its signature formula of opening in the best of the best locations. The Peninsula Yangon will form a key part of a broader redevelopment project around the historic Yangon Central Railway Station. The headquarters of the old Burma […]
Burma’s Electricity Demand Predicted to Nearly Double By 2020
November 18, 2016 by
RANGOON — Demand for electricity consumption in Burma could double over the next four years, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and government officials have predicted. Electricity consumption throughout Burma is limited to 2,500 megawatts per day, while total production is 4,500 megawatts from both hydropower and thermal power production. The commercial capital of Rangoon accounts […]
Thailand Bid to List Kaeng Krachan Back to Square One
November 11, 2016 by
Thailand will re-submit a request to register the Kaeng Krachan National Park as a world heritage site after a Unesco committee asked it to seek the views of ethnic Karen residents in the area first. Since 2011, Thailand has been trying to get Unesco to designate the Kaeng Krachan Natural Park in Phetchaburi province as […]
Laos to share hydropower development expertise with Myanmar
August 23, 2016 by
VIENTIANE, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) — A hydro-electric-powered energy revolution has been afoot in South-East Asia over recent years with the movement of fresh and fast-flowing waters increasingly fueling the consumption of larger amounts of energy resources to spur socio-economic development, poverty reduction and improvements in both urban and rural areas. The region’s most diminutive nation […]
