Myanmar: FDI Law Passed with $5m Restriction Dropped
September 9th, 2012
Via Irrawady.org, a report on the Myanmar’s new foreign direct investment law: Burma is open for business. Burma’s Union Parliament passed the controversial Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) law on Friday but dropped the clause which required minimum investments of US $5 million. Speaking to The Irrawaddy on Friday, Lower House MP Win Oo, a member […]
Read more »Burma’s Economic Reboot Marches On
August 30th, 2012
Via The Diplomat, an article on Myanmar’s continued economic renaissance: With its eerily quiet corridors and lack of activity, the Central Bank of Myanmar building in Rangoon serves as testament to the haphazard policies of the Burmese government’s past. Occupying a large compound in the north of the city, this vast structure has remained under-used […]
Read more »Myanmar’s Emerging Middle Class
August 26th, 2012
Via The Japan Times, an interesting article on Myanmar: Just last month I made my first visit to Myanmar, a place Rudyard Kipling referred to as “quite unlike any land you know about”. While decades of isolation have helped this century-old observation hold true, on arrival in July I was immediately struck by the vibrancy […]
Read more »Asia Private Equity Funds Line Up Dollars For Myanmar
May 28th, 2012
Courtesy of Emerging Frontiers blog, a report on efforts by Asia private equity funds to line up funds for Myanmar: Hong Kong’s Cube Capital and Marc Faber-backed Leopard Capital are among Asian private equity firms lining up nearly $500 million aimed at Myanmar, hoping to tap into its rich natural resources and fill its infrastructure […]
Read more »India’s Strategy In Myanmar
May 28th, 2012
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at the growing importance of Myanmar in India’s struggle to secure and integrate the eastern periphery of the subcontinent more closely with its own national core. As India’s domestic energy and infrastructure demands grow, meeting them will require developing stronger ties with resource-rich neighbors, especially where other regional powers […]
Read more »Vietnam And Myanmar: Growing Closer
March 29th, 2012
Via The Diplomat, a look at the relationship between Myanmar and Vietnam: Burma’s President Thein Sein arrived in Hanoi for an official visit on March 20, where he received a warm welcome from Vietnam’s leaders, including President Truong Tan Sang. Thetwo-day visit came at a time when the two countries have increasingly sought to enhance […]
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