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Fire Destroys Rangoon Market |
| By BA KAUNG |
| More than 600 shops are destroyed as a fire consumes one of the largest markets in Rangoon. |
Security Concerns Dampen Chinese New Year Festivities in Rangoon |
| By AUNG THET WINE |
| The Year of the Tiger looks set to begin not with a roar, but a whimper, as worries about bombs and protests get in the way of the traditional Chinese New Year shopping frenzy. |
Timor-Leste: Choosing Between Asean and Burmese Reform? |
| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
| Timor-Leste says it continues to back democratic reform in Burma, despite suggestions that it is softening its stance on the military-ruled country to win membership in Asean. |
Weekly Business Roundup (February 13, 2010) |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| A leading European independent think-tank says the European Union's economic sanctions against Burma have been a failure and may have actually strengthened the military government's position. |
NLD Prepares for Expansion of Party Leadership |
| By BA KAUNG |
| Senior representatives of Burma's opposition party have begun to arrive in Rangoon from all over the country to participate in next week's expansion of the party's leadership. |
Ju Ju Kay appointed tourism ambassador
Ju Ju Kay was appointed tourism ambassador at the Miss Tourism 2010 pageant ...UN rights envoy prepares for Burma visit
United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights, Tomas Ojea Quintana, is set to visit military-ruled ... Hope mounts over Tin Oo’s release
Following an operation on his eyes, expectations have risen over the possibility of tomorrow’s...Business
Cement prices soarA spurt in demand for cement has sent prices soaring by over Kyat 1,000 in the past week, according to construction material suppliers ... |
Burma’s national airline sold to private bank Myanmar Airways, Burma’s national carrier has sold 80 per cent of its shares to the privately held Kanbawza (KBZ) bank ... |
Inordinate delay in procuring import licenseProcuring import licenses is taking inordinately long for traders on the Sino-Burmese border, traders at the105-mile border trade zone ... |
Will junta focus on agricultural reform?A United Nation’s report recently urged Burma to prioritize its agricultural sector in the fight against poverty, as it has considerable ... |
Thailand concerned over agricultural smuggling from BurmaThailand has increased surveillance along the Thai-Burma border since the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) came into full effect ... |
Junta to privatize oil industryBurma’s military government notified private businessmen on January 19th of their plan to privatize Burma’s oil industry. Sources in Rangoon’s .... |
Rangoon market destroyed in Union Day blaze
Thingangyun Market, one of the biggest in Rangoon, was gutted by fire this evening, ...
