Myanmar first: World Economic Forum

 Yangon - More than 900 delegates from 55 countries will convene in Nay Pyi Taw next week when the 22nd World Economic Forum on East Asia takes place in Myanmar for the first time. 

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/352806/

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Report hails Myanmar's 'huge potential'

Blessed with natural resources, including significant gas reserves and precious gems, experts believe Myanmar has the potential to more than quadruple the size of its economy by 2030 if it manages to build...
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Myanmar strives to implement SEZ projects to boost economy

(Xinhua) 13:16, May 31, 2013   

YANGON, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has been striving to implement three special economic zone (SEZ) and deep sea port projects sine the new civilian government took office in March 2011, as part of its efforts to create jobs and boost economic development.

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UN chief hails agreement between Myanmar gov't, KIO

(Xinhua) 13:12, May 31, 2013   

UNITED NATIONS, May 30 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday welcomed the agreement reached between the government of Myanmar and the Kachin Independence Organization(KIO) on the same day.

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Myanmar-China gas pipeline ready for trial operations: CNPC

Singapore (Platts)--31May2013/106 am EDT/506 GMT  

The Myanmar-China natural gas pipeline has been completed and is ready for trial operations, and a parallel oil pipeline is 94% complete, state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. said Friday on its website.

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Myanmar signs peace deal with Kachin rebels

Published: May 31, 2013 at 12:08 AM  

YANGON, Myanmar, May 31 (UPI) -- Myanmar's government and rebels fighting for more autonomy in the northern state of Kachin have signed a deal expected to end years of fighting.

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2 Myanmar nationals and Singaporean jailed for sham marriage offence

Published on May 31, 2013

By Elena Chong   

Two Myanmar nationals and a Singaporean who were involved in a sham marriage offence were jailed on Friday.

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တိုက္ပြဲမ်ား ထပ္မံမျဖစ္ပြားရန္ႏႇင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္တြင္ ျပည္သူလူထု ပါ၀င္ေသာ အလုပ္အဖြဲ႕ ထားရႇိရန္ အပါအ၀င္ အခ်က္ ၇ ခ်က္ကို အစိုးရႏႇင့္ KIO တို႔ သေဘာတူ လက္မႇတ္ေရးထိုး

Created on Friday, 31 May 2013 03:18 

ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ တတိယေန႔တြင္ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ (၇) ခ်က္ကုိ လက္မႇတ္ေရးထုိးအၿပီး ဦးေအာင္မင္းႏႇင့္ ဆြမ္လြတ္ဂမ္တုိ႔အား ေတြ႕ရစဥ္   ...

ျပည္ေထာင္စုအဆင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရးလုပ္ငန္း ေကာ္မတီႏႇင့္ KIO ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ကိုယ္စားလႇယ္အဖြဲ႕တို႔ ျမစ္ႀကီးနားၿမိဳ႕၌ သံုးရက္ၾကာ ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့ၿပီး ေမ ၃၀ ရက္ ညေနပိုင္းတြင္ ေဆြးေႏြးမႈကို အဆံုးသတ္ခဲ့ပါသည္။

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KIO, Govt Sign Preliminary Agreement, Hopeful of Reaching Ceasefire

By NYEIN NYEIN / THE IRRAWADDY| Thursday, May 30, 2013 |  

 

Government negotiators and KIO leaders exchange the preliminary agreement they signed on Thursday. (Photo: Facebook/ Hla Maung Shwe)

MYITKYINA, Kachin State—Burma’s government and ethnic Kachin rebels signed a preliminary agreement on Thursday that would reduce military tensions in northern Burma and lead to further progress towards reaching a peace deal. The parties however, failed to reach an official ceasefire agreement.

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Myanmar, Kachin rebels agree tentative peace pact

30 May 2013   
Myanmar on Thursday reached a tentative peace deal with ethnic minority Kachin rebels aimed at ending the country's last major active civil war, which has displaced tens of thousands of people.
Deputy commander-in-chief of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Major General Guam Maw (centre L), shakes hands with a senior Myanmar military official (R) as they meet for talks in Myitkyina, in Kachin state capital. (AFP Photo)

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Myanmar Economy Could Quadruple to $200 Billion

Manufacturing will be integral to the pace of economic growth and may create 10 million jobs.

30 May 2013 AFP, YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar has the potential to quadruple the value of its economy to $200 billion by 2030 if it presses on with reforms, embraces technology and shifts away from agriculture, a study said Thursday.

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Suu Kyi to attend Myanmar energy conference

Published: May 30, 2013 at 6:51 AM   

LONDON, May 30 (UPI) -- Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to attend an oil and natural gas summit next month in Myanmar, event organizers said.

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25 suspects detained for riot in north Myanmar

(Xinhua) 18:33, May 30, 2013   

YANGON, May 30 (Xinhua) -- At least 25 suspects were arrested and interrogated for leading communal riot over the last two days in Lashio, Myanmar's northern Shan state, which caused one person killed and five others injured, official sources said.

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အစုိးရႏွင့္ ေကအုိင္အုိတုိ႔ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးသေဘာတူညီခ်က္ ၇ ခ်က္

ေမလ ၃၀ ရက္ ၂၀၁၃ ခုႏွစ္။ ျမစ္ၾကီးနားျမိဳ ့။

၁-ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္အစုိးရႏွင့္ ေကအုိင္အုိတုိ႔ ႏုိင္ငံေရးေဆြးေႏြးမႈမ်ား ဆက္လက္ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ သေဘာတူသည္။

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Special Report - An image makeover for Myanmar Inc

By Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshall   

YANGON | Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:26pm BST    
 

(Reuters) - He's the flashiest tycoon in one of Asia's poorest cities, with a canary-yellow Lamborghini parked outside his neoclassical mansion.

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