Record Foreign Direct Investment Smashes Government Forecasts. Foreign direct investment in the last nine months has almost doubled inflows from the 2013-14 fiscal year.
(Photo: Steve Tickner / The Irrawaddy) RANGOON — Foreign direct investment in Burma is continuing at a staggering pace, hitting more than US$6 billion in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, according to figures from the Myanmar Investment Commission. From April to the end of December last year, 25 countries spent $6.62 billion on foreign direct investment (FDI), well above the commission’s US$4-5 billion estimates for the year to April 2015 and almost doubling the US$3.5 billion total inflows of the 2013-14 fiscal year.
Singapore-listed companies comprised more than half of the investment volume with a combined total of US$3.8 billion, reflecting an apparent trend of managing local projects remotely from the investment haven, particularly for oil and gas projects. “As far as I know China still tops the FDI list,” he said. Burma to Allow Suu Kyi’s Presidential Bid, Aung Min Tells US Audience. Thousands of bureaucrats snared in Myanmar blitz. Hommage sans précédent du président birman à Aung San Suu Kyi. Le président birman Thein Sein a rendu jeudi 27 septembre un hommage sans précédent à l'opposante Aung San Suu Kyi, la "félicitant" devant l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU pour ses "efforts en faveur de la démocratie".
"En tant que citoyen birman, je voudrais la féliciter pour les honneurs qu'elle a reçus dans ce pays en reconnaissance de ses efforts en faveur de la démocratie", a-t-il déclaré, en référence à la visite qu'Aung San Suu Kyi effectue parallèlement aux Etats-Unis, où elle a reçu la médaille d'or du Congrès américain. Aung San Suu Kyi, désormais députée, a été accueillie avec tous les honneurs aux Etats-Unis et s'est entretenue avec le président américain Barack Obama dans le Bureau ovale.
Les relations entre le chef de l'Etat birman et la dirigeante de l'opposition et Prix Nobel de la paix n'ont cessé de s'améliorer depuis un an et demi. Myanmar students join protest against land seizure. YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Students have joined farmers and other people who have been protesting the seizure of land for a copper mining project in northwestern Myanmar jointly owned by the military and a Chinese company.
The protest in Monywa in Sagaing region has been continuing since August, but expanded this week in response to the detention of its leaders, activists said Wednesday. The primary issue concerns the confiscation of nearly 8,000 acres (3,250 hectares) of land for the Monywa copper mine project, an area which includes 26 villages and several mountains. Some 20 students from Mandalay city joined a march of as many as 1,500 people on Tuesday after 12 protesters were arrested the day before, said a member of the Monywa Open Society activist group who asked not to be named because he feared official pressure.
Burma dam: Why Myitsone plan is being halted. 30 September 2011Last updated at 12:10 By Rachel Harvey BBC South East Asia Correspondent The dam on the Irrawaddy would have created a reservoir slightly bigger than Singapore In a rare concession, the Burmese government has suspended a long planned and highly controversial hydroelectric dam project in the face of growing public opposition.
The campaign against the construction of the Myitsone dam brought together conservationists, scholars, and political activists including Aung San Suu Kyi, and had become a serious test for the new civilian-led, military-backed government. Myitsone was being developed jointly by the state Myanmar Ministry of Electric Power, the privately-owned Asia World Company of Burma and the China Power Investment Corporation. Myanmar: Major Reform Underway. 2012-08-27 - Myanmar Government Reshuffles Cabinet.
Thein Sein. Thein Sein (Burmese: သိန်းစိန် [θéɪɴ sèɪɴ]; born 20 April 1945) is a Burmese politician and former military commander who has been President of Burma (Myanmar) since March 2011.
He was the Prime Minister from 2007 until 2011 and considered by some as a moderate and reformist in the post-junta government.[1] His new government undertook a series of political reforms including some deregulation of the country's censored media, releasing many political prisoners and halting the country’s controversial large Chinese-led hydro-power project. The striking developments that followed included Myanmar’s appointment to chair ASEAN in 2014, improved relations with the US, the reinstatement of major opposition party National League for Democracy (NLD) in the by-election held on 1 April 2012.[2] Early life[edit] Military career[edit] Thein Sein graduated from the 9th intake of the Defence Services Academy with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968, becoming a second lieutenant afterward.[3][5]
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