30 April 2014
Potential investors in the Arakan State’s Kyaukpyu Special Economic Zone are standing by in expectation of invitations to make their bids, but there is still no date set for invitation issuance as leaders are still working on the plan for developing the SEZ. A working group made of consulting firm representatives has been selected to […]
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28 April 2014
The Arakan National Conference is now underway in Kyaukpyu, a coastal township on Ramree Island. The goal of the conference is to find solutions to a number of issues, including communal conflicts and violence problems that plague the state. The national conference of the Arakan (also known as Rakhine) people was scheduled for five days […]
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04 April 2014
A committee of the Kyaukpyu Special Economic Zone has released its report on the development of the Kyaukpyu deep-sea port. In the report, the committee states that twelve locations have been identified as appropriate sites for the port, expected to be the top deep-sea port in Southeast Asia. Members of Economy Zone Tender Invitation and […]
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04 April 2014
Win Myint, Deputy Construction Minister of Burma revealed they are awaiting China’s reaction to the suggested highway connecting the prospective Kyaukpyu industrial zone on the west shoreline of Burma with Ruili in Southwest China. Burmese reporters have quoted unidentified Construction Ministry representatives as saying that Naypyidaw had declined a US$2billion loan offered by China to […]
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03 April 2014
Japan’s foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, met up with his Burmese equivalent, Wunna Maung Lwin, along with President Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during the course of two days of political and economical conversations last week. Kishida arrived in Rangoon on Sunday afternoon and restated Japan’s support for democratic changes, as economic […]
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