Reuters reported that police in Myanmar have arrested 6 leaders of the latest protest against the planned expansion of a Chinese run copper mine with opposition leader Mr Aung San Suu Kyi planning to visit the area to hear grievances. In ...
Tags: copper mine, Monywa mine, copper
Increasing possibilities of a free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the EU is upsetting Bangladeshi readymade garment (RMG) exporters, who are already grappling against difficulties posed by Eurozone crisis and troubles in US ...
Tags: FTA, free trade agreement, RMG, Eurozone crisis
Thailand is likely to be boosted as the Asean insurance centre, in an effort to help enhance the industry to provide related services to developed economies, the country's Office of the Insurance Commission (OIC) has revealed. The country ...
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Eyeing penetration in the Japanese market,Thai lingerie producer and distributor Jintana Intertrade has entered into a Bt 1.1 billion five-year partnership deal with Sumikin Bussan Corporation,Thailand's The Nation reported.Vichai ...
Tags: Japanese market, lingerie, Jintana Intertrade, Sumikin Bussan Corporation
Tata Motors has signed an agreement with Apex Greatest Industrial (AGI), Myanmar, for the distribution of its commercial vehicles and passenger cars in Myanmar. Under the deal, AGI will supply trucks assembled at the Magwe facility in ...
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The Nu ethnic minority lives mainly in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province.The languages spoken by all four branches of the Nu ethnic minority belong to the Tibetan-Burmese branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. ...
Tags: Fairy Festival, Nu ethnic minority, customs
The 200 protesters who continue to sit in at Ledi camp on Latpadaung Mountain in Sagaing Division are suffering from a lack of food, water and medicine. Mr Aung Soe Civic society group leader said that “I am one of those living in ...
Tags: Monywa Copper, mine, lack of food, Latpadaung Mountain
Myanmar Times reported that the Pyithu Hluttaw has unanimously approved a motion to form an independent commission to investigate the Letpadaung copper project in Sagaing Region and whether a planned expansion should be allowed to proceed. ...
Tags: Letpadaung Mine Probe, Letpadaung copper project, copper, mine
The Wa are one of the peoples with a deeper religious feeling in Southwest China. Some researches done in the first years of communist reforms, just when all the life and culture of indigenous peoples must be evaluated in terms of ...
The Jingpo ethnic minority (population about 132,000 according to the year 2000 census) lives mainly in the Dehong, Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefectures with some in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, as well as in Myanmar. Their native ...
Tags: The Jingpo Nationality, Economy, Religion, Crafts, Clothes, Festivals
Taiwan`s exports to several emerging markets have clearly grown this year,and prospects look even brighter,according to Chao Yuen-chuan,President and CEO of Taiwan External Trade Development Council(TAITRA),the semi-official trade promoter. ...
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Secretary of State Clinton announced September 26 that the United States would begin the process of easing restrictions on imports of Burmese(Myanmarese)goods in response to the substantial and significant reforms that have taken place in ...
Tags: reform, United States, Myanmarese, economic relationship
Myanmar's UMH Garment Industries has for the first time established a garment factory in Kayin state based Hpa-an township's industrial zone. The move is expected to reduce pressure on industrial zones in Yangon and generate several ...
Tags: Garment, garment factory, MGMA, labour
Global apparel buying firms are exploring alternative destinations to source their garments,owing to rising cost of production in China,and Bangladesh has emerged as priority for these companies to source apparels. After convening a ...
Tags: rising cost, Source Apparels, Global Buyers Prioritize, BGMEA
Max Manufacturing Company of Burma will increase its daily cement production capacity from 500 tonnes now to 2, 600 tonnes by the end of next year and 4, 200 tonnes in 2014, according to a deal with a Thai company, the Bangkok Post reported ...
Tags: market view, cement