Online Tax Payments Available Soon

14 Nov 17
Author: Zin Thu Tun | 07 Nov 2017 As a part of the National League for Democracy (NLD)-led government’s efforts to increase tax revenue, the Ministry of Planning and Finance will ...

State-Owned Factories Looking For New Management

14 Nov 17
Investment & Finance State-Owned Factories Looking For New Management Author: Lin Latt | 07 Nov 2017 Most state-owned factories are not making profit and are operating at loss, while eating up ...

Investor – friendly environment and human capital essential for Myanmar’s success in the Belt and Road Initiative

25 Jun 17
Jonathan Woetzel, senior partner of McKinsey & Company and director of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), told The Myanmar Times that success of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Myanmar ...

Thai contractor TTCL plans over – $6b investment in two coal power plants in Myanmar

19 Jun 17
June 11, 2017: TTCL Plc, one of Thailand’s largest listed contractors, is considering investing over $6 billion (Bt 204 billion) in setting up two coal-fired power plants in Myanmar, according to ...

JICA offers K1.3b loan to SMEs

19 Jun 17
JAPAN International Corporation Agency (JICA) is going to lend K1.3 billion via local banks to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), an official from JICA told The Myanmar Times. JICA also extended ...

Chin State SMEs to Be Eligible f or K8.5 bn Worth of JICA Loans

19 Jun 17
Chin State’s small and medium busi­nesses (SMEs) will be eligible for up to K8.4 billion worth of small loans which the govern­ment plans to make avail­able later this financial year, a ...

Officials Consider New Trade Zone on Indian Border

19 Jun 17
Senior officials have met with their In­dian counterparts to discuss the possibility if opening new border trade zones in Chin state. U Aung Htoo, deputy minister for commerce, told a parliamentary ...

Yoma Doubles Sales From KFC Business But Overall Net Profits Fall

19 Jun 17
Yoma Strategic Holdings, the Sin­gapore-listed com­pany that is the local fran­chise holder in Myanmar for fast food giant KFC, has reported a net loss for the last financial year despite boosting ...

London – Listed Firm Invests in Plans for Watsons – Like Pharmacies in Myanmar

19 Jun 17
Myanmar Invest­ments Interna­tional, a com­pany listed on London’s AIM market that has investments in telecoms and microfinance, has en­tered into a formal agree­ment with two firms to set up a pharmacy, ...

More economic zones needed to boost manufacturing: MIDA

19 Jun 17
Businesses and economists suggested that economic growth would depend on a growing manfacutring sector, liberalisation and revising the governing framework of different sectors. Deputy minister for the Ministry of Commerce, U ...