Shareholders ask bus company to buy back shares

Some 200 shareholders of bus service operator Yangon Urban Public Transportation Company (YUPT) are calling on the Yangon Region government to buy over their shares in the company. This comes after a shareholder uprising over the company’s lack of profit and leadership selection disrupted YUPT’s annual general meeting in late October. Last weekend, YUPT began […]

Yangon bus committee plans PPP transformation to operate new lines

The Yangon Region Bus Control Committee is forming a public-private partnership (PPP) company and has applied to be one of several such firms that will run bus lines as part of an overhaul of the city’s public transportation system, committee chair U Min Zaw told The Myanmar Times. He said the new company will be called […]