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07 December 2023
Italy withdraws from China's Belt and Road project: govt source
Myanmar people pass by a 'Ooredoo' telecom company advertising in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: EPA
Business
31 July 2022
Ooredoo sale risk to digital rights in Myanmar
Campaign group Free Expression Myanmar (FEM) has urged telecoms company Ooredoo to...
This picture taken on June 30, 2022 shows palm oil trees at a plantation in Ijok, in Malaysia's Selangor state. Photo: AFP
Business
28 July 2022
Bitter harvest: Malaysian palm oil farmers face...
Overripe palm oil fruits hang untouched in trees while others lie rotting scattered...
IMF chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas. Photo: IMF
Business
27 July 2022
IMF cuts global growth outlook due to US, China...
Surging inflation and severe slowdowns in the United States and China prompted the IMF...
People ride on a swing in the amusement park in front of the Evergrande Center building in Shanghai, China, Photo: EPA
Business
24 July 2022
Chinese real estate giant Evergrande ousts top...
Embattled Chinese real estate giant Evergrande has ousted its CEO and CFO after an...
The logo of French oil and gas company TotalEnergies. Photo: AFP
Business
22 July 2022
HRW: TotalEnergies withdrawal from Myanmar will...
Campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticised the way TotalEnergies has...
A view of the logo at the front building of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Mandaluyong City, east of Manila, Philippines. Photo: ADB
Business
21 July 2022
ADB slashes Asia growth forecast as fuel, food...
The Asian Development Bank on Thursday slashed its 2022 growth forecast for developing...
This file photograph taken on January 22, 2022, shows a signboard for TotalEnergies EP Myanmar past a shuttered gate in Yangon, after energy giants TotalEnergies and Chevron said they would leave Myanmar following pressure from human rights groups to cut financial ties with the junta since last year's military coup. Photo: AFP
Business
21 July 2022
France's TotalEnergies says Myanmar exit now...
French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies said Wednesday that its planned withdrawal from...
Central Bank of Myanmar, Nay Pyi Taw. Photo: Mizzima
Business
18 July 2022
Myanmar central bank orders borrowers to stop...
Myanmar's central bank has ordered borrowers with foreign denominated loans to suspend...
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News
17 July 2022
Airlines' fragile recovery from Covid
Airlines are recovering from huge Covid fallout but face fresh turbulence from rocketing...
A man walks in the Lujiazui financial district, in Shanghai, China, 14 July 2022. Photo: EPA
Business
17 July 2022
China growth falls to two-year low on Covid,...
China logged its slowest economic growth since the initial Covid outbreak Friday,...
A shopkeeper counts the Myanmar kyat currency at his shop in Yangon. Photo: AFP
Business
17 July 2022
Myanmar sees loss in confidence in financial...
A recently released policy brief from the World Bank on the financial sector in Myanmar...
Gas reserves in the Yetagun field in the Gulf of Moattama off Myanmar have declined significantly. Photo: PTTEP
Business
30 June 2022
Petronas' Yetagun gas project exit will...
Petronas, the existing operator of the Yetagun gas project has handed the project over to...

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