Despite High Operating Costs, CEO of Yangon’s New Bus System Remains Optimistic

YANGON— Dubbed one of the first big reforms made by the National League for Democracy government in Myanmar’s financial hub Yangon, a new public transport system known as the Yangon Bus System (YBS) will turn one next month. The new system was aimed at replacing the former capital’s old bus service—the Rangoon Motor Vehicles Supervisory […]

E-Ticketing Comes to Rangoon’s Public Transit

RANGOON — A local company teamed up with a Singapore-based land transportation management company to implement an electronic ticketing service for Rangoon’s public transportation system, according to the companies’ representatives. The local company, Integrated Smart Solutions Co. Ltd (ISS), and MSI Global Pte Ltd—a subsidiary of the Land Transport Authority of Singapore, announced the partnership […]