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Oil prices fall as US drilling rig count rises again
AFPCategory: BusinessInternationalOil rig. Photo: EPAOil prices fell Friday as data showing an increase in US petroleum drilling activity added to worries about excess supply.Petroleum companies...
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Myanmar’s Kanbawza Bank opens office in Bangkok
Bangkok PostCategory: BusinessInternationalKanbawza Bank office in Bangkok. Photo: KBZ BankKanbawza Bank (KBZ Bank) has opened a representative office in Bangkok, the first Myanmar bank to establish an...
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Asian markets fluctuate as US presidential hopefuls clash in debate
AFPCategory: BusinessInternationalDemocrat Hillary Clinton (R) and Republican Donald Trump (L) shake hands at the end of the first Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, USA,...
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KBZ sets up office in Singapore
MizzimaCategory: BusinessInternationalKBZ Bank, Singapore representative office opens at One Raffles Place bulding in Singapore. Photo: KBZ BankKanbawza Bank (KBZ Bank) Limited, part of the KBZ Group...
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Vietnam cools on TPP trade pact after Trump election
AFPCategory: BusinessInternationalVietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks to media during a press conference after the 8th Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam Summit (CLMV-8) and the 7th...
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Trump’s TPP withdrawal gives China chance to redraw trade map
AFPCategory: BusinessInternationalUS President-elect Donald Trump at the clubhouse of Trump International Golf Club, in Bedminster Township, New Jersey, USA, 20 November 2016. Photo: EPAChina will be...
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China to tighten controls to curb capital flight
AFPCategory: BusinessInternationalChinese Reminbi (RMB) notes. Photo: EPAChina will further tighten controls on individuals' foreign currency purchases to try to curb massive capital flight from the...
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China sets biggest one-day yuan rate increase since 2005
AFPCategory: BusinessInternationalA clerk counting Renminbi banknotes in a bank outlet in Huaibei, Anhui province, China. Photo: EPAChina on Friday raised the exchange rate for the yuan against the US...
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Myanmar, Thailand push ‘one destination’
Bangkok PostCategory: BusinessInternationalBalloons carrying visitors fly at sunrise over old temples of the ancient temple city of Bagan, Mandalay Region, Myanmar, 25 January 2017. Photo: Hein...
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Thai-Myanmar council push
Bangkok PostCategory: BusinessInternationalThai businesses are ramping up ties with their Myanmar counterparts in five main areas -- agriculture, border trade, energy, industrial development and...
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India plans to sell refined crude oil products to Myanmar
MizzimaCategory: BusinessInternationalIndian Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan. Photo: EPAIndia plans to sell refined crude oil products to Myanmar as part of New Delhi's...
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Malaysian airline to fly Kuala Lumpur-Yangon this month
Global TimesCategory: BusinessInternationalPhoto: Malindo AirA Malaysia-based Malindo Air will start flying to Myanmar's commercial city of Yangon from Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur at the end of...
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China remains Myanmar’s largest foreign investor
MizzimaCategory: BusinessInternationalA general view of Shwe Gas terminal in Kyauk Phyu, Rakhine state, western Myanmar. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPAAccording to data released by the Directorate of Investment...
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ADB sees improved growth prospects for ‘developing Asia’
MizzimaCategory: BusinessInternationalEconomic growth prospects in developing Asia for 2017 have improved on the back of stronger-than-expected export demand in the first quarter of this year,...
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Global markets jarred by North Korea fears
AFPCategory: BusinessInternationalNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Photo: EPA/KCNAWorld equity markets were lower Friday on the back of simmering tensions between the United States and North Korea,...
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Bandwidth to be sold to Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and Bhutan
Southasian MonitorCategory: BusinessInternationalA woman browsing the internet at an internet cafe in Yangon. Photo: AFPBangladesh is building a link to sell 100 GB/s bandwidth to Myanmar, Cambodia and...
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Bumper harvest in India drives down demand for Myanmar pulses
MizzimaCategory: BusinessDomesticInternationalFile photo - Protest over rising food prices in New Delhi, India in 2015. Photo: EPAIndia says a bumper harvest of pulses and beans back home has driven...
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Indian diesel imports to begin just before Modi visit
Subir BhaumikCategory: BusinessInternationalMr. Ken Tun, CEO, Parami Energy Group, Yangon. Photo: Thura/MizzimaThe first consignment of high speed diesel from India will reach Myanmar on Sept 3 ,Parami...
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Bangladesh looking for rice imports from Myanmar
Subir BhaumikCategory: BusinessInternationalMyanmar farmers collect harvested rice grains with a harvesting machine in a paddy field on the outskirts of Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Photo: Hein...
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‘Tremendous opportunity for growth’ identified in the BIMSTEC region
MizzimaCategory: BusinessDomesticInternationalParami Roundtable discussion on Myanmar and BIMSTEC at Park Royal hotel in Yangon, 1 September, 2017. Photo: Thura/Mizzima Participants at a Yangon...
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