As the first time ever, 22nd World Economic Forum will take place in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar next week. During the forum, it is expected that more than 900 candidates from 55 countries will be joining. As from the report;
The meeting from June 5-7 will bring together government officials, business leaders, civil society representatives and academics, to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing Myanmar and East Asia...
Sushant Palakurthi Rao, senior director and head of Asia at the World Economic Forum, said the event would help ensure that development in Myanmar translates into “inclusive growth”, as the country continues on a path of "bold economic and political reforms.
Yangon, Myanmar (MML Blog) : Desmond Tutu, South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop met Aung San Suu Kyi, opposition politician and chairperson of the National League for Democracy in Yangon, Myanmar today. Photos by DVB TV News
Carlsberg beers and Myanmar Golden Star : The world's well-known brand Carlsberg said on Friday that it has formed a joint venture in Myanmar with privately owned Myanmar Golden Star Breweries to brew and market Carlsberg beers in the country. Carlsberg will own 51% in the new JV.
Following the current war between Myanmar government forces and Kachin ethnic minority rebels, China has urged an immediate ceasefire after an artillery shell flew over the border and landed inside China for the second time since late December.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hong Lei, said the shell landed 500 metres inside China on Tuesday, .... and made immediate emergency representations to Myanmar, expressed strong concern and dissatisfaction with the situation, and demanded that Myanmar earnestly investigate and adopt a series of measures to prevent further similar occurrences.
Intel - the semiconductor manufacturer’s microprocessors and hard drives will now distribute officially in Myanmar through a distribution agreement with US marketing group Ingram Micro Inc and its local agent KMD.
Processor ထုတ္လုပ္ေရးမွာ နာမည္ၾကီးေနတဲ႔ Intel ကုမၸဏီဟာ ျမန္မာ ျပည္တြင္းက KMD ရယ္ ၊ ေနာက္ အေမရိကန္ ကုမၸဏီတစ္ခုရယ္ တဲြျပီး Intel ထုတ္ကုန္ပစၥည္းေတြကုိ တရား၀င္ ျဖန္ခ်ီေတာ႔မယ္လုိ႔ သိရပါတယ္ ...
Intel also said it would explore the possibility of running a training programme for Myanmar teachers to set up and operate PCs in their schools and improve digital literacy.
A spokesman for the chip maker added it has no plans yet to establish a permanent presence in Myanmar but would focus on building business through its external distribution agents. (Source @)
PHNOM PENH (Cambodia): Although Asean Economic Community (AEC) was planned to be launched on Jan 1, 2015 earlier, it has postponed to Dec 31, 2015 after Asean leaders have decided to delay in preparation of the necessary regulations.
President Obama greets officers at Yangon International airport as he arrives Yangon for the historic visit where he'll meet country leaders and political parties.
WASHINGTON: The senior White House officials were met by International human rights activists yesterday to press U.S President Barack Obama to take a tough line with leaders in Myanmar and Cambodia during his visit to Southeast Asia from November 17-20.
And a senior administration official told Reuters that "We of course intend to raise human rights issues in both Burma and Cambodia."
