News Myanmar Business: Belarus, Myanmar sign over 10 agreements at business forum
MINSK, 7 March (BelTA) – Enterprises of Belarus and Myanmar signed 13 bilateral documents at the Belarus-Myanmar business forum in Minsk on 6 March, BelTA has learned. Belarus’ MTZ and Myanmar Empire ...
News Myanmar Business: Myanmar Set For Blacklisting by Financial Watchdog: Report
Nikkei Asia is reporting that the Financial Action Task Force is likely to add the military-ruled nation to its “call for action” list at a meeting next month. Military-ruled Myanmar could ...
News Myanmar Business: FATF meet: Myanmar blacklisted by money-laundering and terrorist financing watchdog
In February 2020, Myanmar committed to addressing its strategic deficiencies. Myanmar's action plan expired in September 2021.
News Myanmar Business: After Pakistan's removal, terror watchdog FATF puts Myanmar on 'black list'
Myanmar pledged to resolve its strategic shortcomings in February 2020 The action plan for Myanmar ran out in September 2021 ...
News Myanmar Business: Widow of death riddle Briton: I fear Myanmar deportation
Wife of man from Inverness found dead in London flat is ‘traumatised’ after Home Office decides she can’t settle in UK ...
News Myanmar Business: Myanmar Joins North Korea and Iran on Global Illicit Finance Blacklist
The Financial Action Task Force’s action follows last year’s military coup and could further isolate the junta-controlled nation.
News Myanmar Business: WWF report says online wildlife trade on rise in Myanmar
A report by the World Wildlife Fund shows illegal trading in wildlife online is growing in Myanmar in a threat both to public health and to endangered species BANGKOK -- A report by the World ...
News Myanmar Business: Myanmar orders foreign money held by banks changed to kyats
An order by Myanmar’s central bank that all foreign currency in bank accounts must be converted into the local currency has many in the military-ruled country worried over potential losses ...
News Myanmar Business: Telenor completes Myanmar business sale, to be paid over 5 years
Telenor will receive payments for the sale of its Myanmar operations over the next five years, the Norwegian telecoms company said on Friday as it announced the completion of the transaction.
News Myanmar Business: Myanmar’s Garment Workers Are Caught Between COVID-19 and the Coup
After rapid growth in the garment sector during the country’s period of opening, workers face a host of political and economic challenges.
News Myanmar Business: Foreign businesses protest Myanmar foreign currency rules
BANGKOK (AP) — Foreign business groups in Myanmar have raised concerns about new rules requiring businesses and individuals to convert all foreign currency held in bank accounts into the local currency.
News Myanmar Business: Myanmar's Suu Kyi 'in quarantine' after staff tests Covid-19 positive
Detained former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has skipped three days of her trial in a junta court after Covid-19 was detected among her staff and she was placed in quarantine, a source with ...
News Myanmar Business: Myanmar Herald journalist Ye Yint Tun sentenced to 2 years in prison
Myanmar authorities should immediately and unconditionally release journalist Ye Yint Tun and stop imprisoning members of the press for their work, said the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). On ...
News Myanmar Business: Myanmar accepts Thai baht for border trade, eyes Indian rupee
Myanmar has confirmed it will start accepting the Thai baht currency for settling border trade transactions and is also looking at a similar plan to use the Indian rupee for such trade. Myanmar’s ...
News Myanmar Business: Myanmar to accept Thai baht for border trade, eyes using rupee
Myanmar will start accepting the Thai baht currency for settling border trade transactions and is also looking at a similar plan to use the Indian rupee for such trade, the ministries of information and investment said on Tuesday.
News Myanmar Business: Myanmar to initiate rupee convertibility for trade along Indian border
Read more about Myanmar to initiate rupee convertibility for trade along Indian border on Business Standard. Myanmar intends to initiate the currency convertibility for the Indian rupee for trade along the border it shares with India.
News Myanmar Business: Despite Solid Evidence, Businessman Denies Selling Arms to Myanmar Junta
U Jonathan Kyaw Thaung acknowledges knowing Min Aung Hlaing and his family but says he has not met the junta boss since the coup.
News Myanmar Business: Myanmar OKs use of Thai currency in border trade
Myanmar's military-led administration has agreed to accept Thai baht as an official currency in border trade dealings and plans a similar arrangement for use of India's rupee ...