Indonesian police on Sunday detained 80 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar on a remote island off Sumatra after they had got lost attempting to reach Malaysia, an official said.
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Singapore will open a Yangon Overseas Centre to encourage growing trade and investment in Myanmar.
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Sectarian and ethnic tensions running high in Myanmar boiled over far outside the country’s borders Friday, when Buddhist fishermen and Muslim asylum seekers from the country brawled with knives and rocks at an Indonesian immigration detention center, leaving eight dead and another 15 injured. (more…)
Thailand’s peak electricity use was much lower than expected on Friday, offsetting a fall in output caused by a cut in gas supply from Myanmar, although the government said power use may rise next week and industry fretted about long-term supply.
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Singapore’s National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan told a business forum in Yangon this morning that the tourism industry here is “guaranteed” to rocket soon and that to prevent a shortage of skilled workers his government will set up a vocational center for train hospitality workers. (more…)
Myanmar’s Ambassador to Thailand has said he expects some of the Myanmar prisoners in Thai jails will be granted amnesty or penalty reductions on HM Bhumibol’s 86th birthday this coming December. (more…)
Myanmar’s Minister for Commerce, Win Myint, held talks with Indonesia’s Minister for Economic Affairs in Naypyitaw on April 2 to discuss promoting trade between the two countries with a view to reaching US$1 billion in bilateral trade by 2016.
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Boosted by the government’s Bt2.2-trillion infrastructure development project, which will create linkage between the Kingdom and Myanmar, Thai companies should grasp the great opportunity presented by the neighbouring country’s new openness to increase their investment there, seminar participants said yesterday.
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Thai border forces tightened security at Ban Mae Surin refugee camp in Mae Hong Son Province on Sunday, where a blaze earlier in March killed 38 people and displaced more than 2,000. (more…)
Several hundred Burmese migrant workers at a shrimp factory in Thailand are protesting what they say is exploitation by Burmese and Thai employment agencies. (more…)
Indonesia’s state-controlled gold and nickel miner Aneka Tambang on Tuesday said it was seeking to mine for gold in Myanmar this year as soon as it secures a permit from the Burmese authorities.
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Indonesia’s largest cement producer PT Semen Indonesia Tbk (SMGR) says it will build a US$200 million cement plant in Myanmar early next year as part of its expansion into the Southeast Asian market. (more…)
A total of 14 Burmese nationals who had been trafficked into Thailand’s fishing industry were rescued by the Thai authorities on Friday and Saturday of last week, bringing to 29 the total of those rescued so far this month.
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Many of Myanmar migrant workers with official documents in hand in Thailand are becoming jobless, suggesting that Thai companies preferred undocumented workers, Htoo Chit, a senior advisor for The Education for Development Foundation (EDF), said. (more…)
Singapore’s National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said the island-state is looking to Myanmar to be a source for produce, particularly seafood and vegetables, according to Singapore media reports. (more…)
Rice industry leaders from Burma, Thailand and Vietnam met in Rangoon on Wednesday in a first attempt to coordinate Burma’s rapidly growing rice exports with two of the world’s largest rice exporting countries. (more…)
Born in eastern Burma’s war-torn Karen State, Meen Pulu is now a naturalized Thai citizen and a member of the Thai Karen hill tribe.
Italian-Thai Development (ITD) will hold at least 25% in each of the eight Myanmar joint ventures to develop infrastructure at the massive Dawei Special Economic Zone and deep-sea port. (more…)
Malaysian authorities have rescued at least 136 people believed to be ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing strife in Myanmar aboard a leaking boat with no food or water, an official said on Monday. (more…)
Fishermen in western Indonesia rescued more than 60 ethnic Rohingya asylum-seekers from Myanmar found adrift in a wooden boat, police said Friday, in the second such arrival this week. (more…)