THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR MINISTRY OF ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY DEPARTMENT OF HYDROPOWER IMPLEMENTATION Invitation to tender for the Design, Supply, Installation and Commissioning of Hydraulic Steel Structure and Electrical/Mechanical Equipment Works for Upper Kengtawng Hydropower Project 1. The Ministry of Electricity and Energy of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Department […]
Invitation to tender for the Design , Supply , Installation and Commissioning of Hydraulic Steel ; Deadline 26th February 2021
Myanmar Watermelon Nabs China’s Off-Season Market Share
China’s domestic watermelon season ends in October—except for in Hainan where a small quantity of watermelon is being grown. Watermelons from Myanmar, however, are just coming into season. Myanmar’s watermelon is an off-season fruit that usually lists from November to May of next year. At present, Myanmar’s watermelon has taken over 80% of China’s off-season […]
Deadly secret: The illegal abortions killing Myanmar’s women
Yangon, May 2 (AFP) Thiri’s heart started pounding and her whole body shook after she swallowed the final dose of pills that would end her unwanted pregnancy in a Yangon hotel. Her boyfriend had abandoned her after finding out she was pregnant — a familiar story in Myanmar, where many consider women “ruined” if they […]
Invitation for Bids (IFB) for Supply of Core Banking System for Myanmar Economic Bank. Prebid Meeting 31 May 2017.
Subscribe to our tender alert mailing list Modernization of Public Finance Management Credit No. 54020-MM/Grant No. TF017910 IFB No: MPFMp-ICB-IS2S-C2-IS218 IFB Title: Supply, Implementation and Support of a CORE Banking System (CBS) and related linkages for Myanma Economic Bank. 1. The Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar has received financing in […]
KBZ Bank opens settlement account in US
Kanbawza Bank (KBZ Bank) Limited, part of the KBZ Group of companies, announced yesterday that it has opened a USD settlement account with international bank Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation’s New York branch (SMBC New York), to offer streamlined remittance services that enable faster, more convenient trade financing and transactions between Myanmar and the United States, […]
Vietnamese IT company selected to modernise Myanmar’s public finance system
Subscribe to our tender alert mailing list Vietnamese IT giant FPT Corporation has been selected by Myanmar to implement a 11.3 million USD project that is part of a programme to modernise the nation’s public finance system, Saigon gpdaily reported on 26 February. FPT beat 12 competitors from China, India, Singapore, Malaysia and Myanmar […]
What Opening Up an Isolationist Nation to the Global Economy Does to Traffic
Three years ago, traffic may have cost Burmese 24-year-old Kyaw Kyaw Win his job. He migrated to Yangon, the commercial capital of the country now known as Myanmar, in search of worktwo years after the start of crucial economic development reforms that opened the once-hermit nation to international investment. The country of more than 51 […]