LISTENERS to Yangon’s City FM radio station will have an opportunity to ask questions on a wide range of topics in one of three new programs being launched in the coming weeks.[Fullstory]

SOYBEANS, maize, and processed fruits are likely to be given first priority in a plan by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to accelerate integration in the agricultural sector, it was decided at an historic meeting in Yangon on January 12. [Fullstory]

A SOFT launch of the government’s e-procurement system held at Yangon’s MICT Park on January 25 featured a presentation showing how it will streamline tendering procedures.[Fullstory]

Dr Vineeta Shanker, a project coordinator with the British-based World Faiths Development Dialogue, said that while globalisation was inevitable, Buddhism had answers to its good and bad effects.[Fullstory]

NEW DELHI – India will sell diesel to Myanmar by August and is in talks to buy gas from the country, Petroleum Secretary B.K. Chaturvedi said last Thursday.
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WOMEN from 25-40, cosmetics-savvy and brand-conscious, are leading the beauty industry revolution, a survey of Yangon’s leading market players indicated last week. [Fullstory]

WHILE the Department of Human Settlement and Housing Development continues its policy of high-rise construction in Yangon along the Pyay Road corridor, Myanmar’s capital city has been modernising in a manner altogether less apparent: through the spread of suburbia.[Fullstory]