YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s president has assured his South Korean counterpart that his country will no longer buy weapons from North Korea, while conceding it had done so to some extent over the past 20 years. In his meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Myanmar President Thein Sein said his country never had nuclear [...]
Key Republican Senator John McCain called Monday on the United States to suspend most sanctions on Myanmar, saying the administration must go further than planned to encourage the country’s reforms. McCain proposed that the United States, like the European Union, freeze sanctions on Myanmar for a set time period with the exception of the embargo [...]
THE tourism industry’s pricing war – which has operators and hoteliers at loggerheads over soaring hotel room rates – is damaging the industry’s reputation, industry experts say. The influx of foreign visitors over the past six months – not only tourists but also foreign dignitaries and businesspeople – has exacerbated a shortage in quality accommodation. [...]
TOURISM can become a “success story” and important job-creation vehicle for Myanmar, the head of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation said last week, as he announced that Myanmar was seeking to rejoin the agency. Speaking to journalists on May 7 at the end of a three-day visit to Myanmar, UNWTO Secretary General Mr Taleb [...]
The President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, U Thein Sein, has announced the country will initiate the process of restoring its membership of the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). The decision was confirmed during an official visit of UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai. On the occasion, highlighting the role of tourism in the [...]
Dear Readers, We are honoured to inform our friends that we plan to set up a new section “Selected Myanmar Short Stories” in our Enchanting Myanmar website pages soon.This section will be devoted to popular and widely read Myanmar short stories by well known Myanmar authors translated into English. This would enable, not only our [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is matching Myanmar’s tentative steps toward democracy after decades of harsh military rule with a calibrated re-engagement, aware of the potential for setbacks, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Friday. Patrick Murphy, the State Department’s deputy special representative for Myanmar, said Washington is deepening its engagement with the reformist [...]
Vice President Dr. Sai Mauk Kham speaks on the formulation and implementation of Reform Strategy And Investment to develop the nation’s economy comprehensively at the coordination meeting held at Naypyitaw yesterday(May 13) For details to to: http://www.president-office.gov.mm/briefing-room/daily-news/%E1%80%92%E1%80%AF%E1%80%90%E1%80%AD%E1%80%9A%E1%80%9E%E1%80%99%E1%80%B9%E1%80%99%E1%80%90-%E1%80%92%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AB%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%90%E1%80%AC%E1%80%85%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%99%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%81%E1%80%99%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8-reform-strategy Source : http://www.enchantingmyanmar.com/
Ministry of Hotels and Tourism has invited investors to do more investment in thehotels and tourism sector, pledging its assistance for them,said Union Minister for Hotels and Tourism U Tint Hsan atthe meeting with a 15-member Singaporean businessdelegation at his officer here yesterday. The Union Minister has thanked the 15-member delegation led by Mr Tan [...]
Myanmar’s president has urged the nation’s millions-strong diaspora to return, state media reported Saturday, as the country seeks skilled workers to help smooth the passage of reform. Several million people fled Myanmar’s corrupted economy and political repression under army rule, leaving the nation desperately short of professionals to help it manage massive economic and political [...]
President U Thein Sein’s Office had now created a website starting today.The website can be accessed at the link below: http://www.president-office.gov.mm/ Source :http://www.enchantingmyanmar.com
Source: The Sangai Express Imphal, May 09 2012: The maiden Indo-Myanmar Regional Border Committee (RBC) Meet was organised by Red Shield Division at Leimakhong under the aegis of Dimapur Corps of Indian Army. According to a PIB (DW) statement, an eighteen-member Myanmar delegation led by Commander of Northwest Command and comprising of representatives from Myanmar [...]
Union Minister for Transports U Nyan Htun Aung received the delagtion from Qatar Airways led by Vice President East Asia & South West Pacific, Senior Vice President Mr. Robert Yang and Mr. Joegendra Charles Rajadurai, Manager responsible for Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand yesterday(May 9) at the Minsister’s office in Naypyitaw. The two parties discussed matters [...]
The Ministry of Culture had issued an announcement designating the following as Ancient Site Zones(AZ) and Protected And Preserved Zones(PZ): (a)Ancient Myaungmya town site at Myaungmya Township,Ayeyarwady Region(AZ/PZ) (b)Ancient Thagaya town site, Launglon Township, Tanintharyi Region(AZ/PZ) (c)Waithali viilage, Thalawady village and Ancient Waithali Townsite, Mrauk Oo Township, Rakhine State(AZ/PZ) (d)Mahamuni village and Ancient Dhanyawadi town [...]
It is learnt that “New Myanmar Investment Summit 2012″ will be held from June 20 to 21 at Park Royal Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar. Besides the opening keynote address on `New Investment Law & its opportunities for foreign investors’ by a senior Ministry Official, the summit brings together authorities from government, plus key sectors namely [...]
http://groups.google.com/group/travelmyanmar/browse_thread/thread/56efdc390e43b32e ဇြန္လ ၁ ရက္ေန႔မွ စတင္ကာ ဆုိက္ေရာက္ ဗီဇာ ထုတ္ေပး သြားရန္ရွိ Wednesday 9th May 2012 ဆုိက္ေရာက္ ဗီဇာ ထုတ္ေပးမႈကို ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ ၾသဂုတ္ လကုန္က ရပ္နားထား လ်က္ရွိရာ အခု ၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္ ဇြန္လ ၁ ရက္ေန႔မွာ ဆုိက္ေရာက္ ဗီဇာမ်ား ျပန္လည္ခ်ထားေပး သြားမွာ ျဖစ္တယ္လုိ႔ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရွိ လူ၀င္မႈ ႀကီးၾကပ္ေရးႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသား မွတ္ပံုတင္ေရး ဦးစီးဌာနမွ တာ၀န္ ရွိသူ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္ အရ သိရပါတယ္။ အဲ့ဒီလို ဆုိက္ေရာက္ ဗီဇာမ်ား ထုတ္ေပးရာ မွာလည္း ဇြန္လ ၁ ရက္ေန႔မွာ Business Visa မ်ားကိုသာ [...]
In any contest, the obvious winner is rarely ever the only winner. This is often lost sight of in the moment of euphoria. The overwhelming victory of Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) in the 45 by-elections to Myanmar’s Parliament has other winners, too. Myanmar’s President Thein Sein, the government [...]
Tak faces worker shortage as many head for inner city to earn more Employers in five border districts of Tak face a shortage of workers as many migrants have “escaped” to work in inner cities after the government implemented its Bt300 minimum wage policy. Due to gaps in the law, many Myanmar workers in Mae [...]
Inland Water Transport(IWT) had announced changes to the ticket prices for foreigners travelling on its boats to various destinations as follows: Mandalay-Nyaung Oo=USD 15/each Mandalay-Bhamaw=USD 12/each Mandalay-Katha=USD 9/each. For details please contact your travel agents or to IWT ticket counters. Source :http://www.enchantingmyanmar.com
The Ministry of Hotels & Tourism(MOHT) had announced that Tourist Guide Training Course No(41) will open from June 4 to July 27 at the Tourism Training School in Yangon. Applications from prospective trainees are to be accepted at the school until May 18.Entrance examinations will be held on May 20. Interested persons are to contact [...]
With one single dot of paint gently placed on a canvas, one dot beside another, and another, and another, the tradition of a people centuries old is passed on. Bright red, yellow, orange, black and white dots, all the same size, all in line, all coming together, one after the other, as they have one [...]
The Philippines Department of Tourism has a lot to boast about. The country has beautiful beaches, great scuba diving and a culture that is known for its hospitality. What it doesn’t have is a lot of money for a global tourism campaign. Thankfully, the country’s social media mad population is happy to help. In January, [...]
President U Thein Sein will probably step aside when his term ends after 2015 elections according to U Ko Ko Hlaing, a presidential advisor. U Ko Ko Hlaing was quoted by Bloomberg News as saying “The president has laid the foundation for the political reform and he is the founder of this transition,” Ko Ko [...]
YANGON 30 April 2012: Business visas on arrivals will be introduced by Myanmar, 1 June, Union Minister for Immigration and Manpower, U Khin Yee, reported in a briefing to local press, yesterday, held at the Ministry of Industry in the capital, Naypyitaw. The visa will be issued on arrival at Yangon Airport and cost US$40 [...]
TOKYO, May 3, 2012 (AFP) – Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi plans to visit Japan later this year to discuss her country’s political reform process, a report said Thursday. The Nobel laureate, who was sworn in as a member of parliament Wednesday, also plans to embark on a tour to Britain and Norway [...]
By PAUL HAVEN Associated Press HAVANA (AP) – After controlling the comings and goings of its people for five decades, communist Cuba appears on the verge of a momentous decision to lift many travel restrictions. One senior official says a “radical and profound” change is weeks away. The comment by Parliament Chief Ricardo Alarcon has [...]
While foreign dignitaries were received at the official level by the country’s president and others, a highlight of their visits was their meetings with Suu Kyi, with no official position Myanmar (Burma), a benighted country with great potential, made headlines in the past due to the depredations it suffered under the country’s military junta, which [...]
After two decades spent punishing Myanmar with economic sanctions, now Western countries cannot seem to ditch them fast enough. Aung Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), romped to victory in 43 out of 45 by-elections held across the country on April 1st. Australia, EU and America have lifted travel and financial restrictions [...]
Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar al-Baker, left, addresses a press conference at Arabian Travel Mart in Dubai on the airline’s expansion plans. With him is Qatar Airways’ Country Manager UAE Marwan Haber After a four-year absence from the route, Qatar Airways will resume operations to Myanmar in October. The national carrier will also fly [...]
The members-elect of the Pyithu Hluttaw from the National League for Democracy took their oaths of office at the final and special session of the current Pyithu Hluttaw this morning(May 2). The NLD party members were welcomed by people of the surrounding villages in front of the Naypyitaw Council Guesthouse with bouquets of eugenia and [...]
UNSG Mr. Ban Ki Mon met with Preseident U Thein Sein today at Naypyitaw and discussed the role of the UN in furthering the democratic reforms in Myanmar. Mr. Ban Ki Mon also met later with U Aung Khin Myint and Thura U Shwe Mann, Speakers of the two houses of Hluttaw respectively and then [...]
News coming out of Myanmar says Daw Aung San Su Kyi had announced at the end of the Party’s EC meeting today(April 30)that the elected members of Hluttaw will be attending Hluttaw and take the Oath of Office on May 2. She said the decision was made to honour the wishes of the people of [...]
The visiting United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, visited the mausoleum of U Thant this evening(April 29) in Yangon. U Thant was the 1st Asian to be elected as Secretary General of the United Nations in 1961 and served until 1971. He died in New York at the age of 65 in New [...]
Baroness Catherine Ashton,Foreign Policy Chief of the EU openned a new, embassy-level office in Rangoon.Later Ms Ashton will travel to Naypyitaw and also hold talks with ministers of the military-backed government. Earlier this week the EU suspended sanctions against Burma for a year in recognition of “historic changes”. At the press conference with Daw Aung [...]
The Union Minister for Immigration and Manpower, U Khin Yee, announced today(April 29) at the press conference held at the Ministry of Industry(1), Naypyitaw that business visas will be issued on arrival beginning June 1, 2012. He also revealed that the visa fees will be USD 40 and will be valid for 70 days. U [...]
Myanmalnsurance.com Private Insurance will be allowed and applications can be submitted by 2nd May – accoridng to Myanma Insurance Official. Application will be sold from 2nd May and will be accepted by 1st June. All submission of application will be closed on 29th June and Screening process will start said U Maung Maung Thein of [...]
Britain said it will no longer discourage trade with Myanmar according to Foreign Secretary William Hague Mr. Hague said “After discussion with Aung San Suu Kyi and very careful consideration, I can announce that the British government will lift its policy of discouraging trade with Burma,” British policy changed after British Prime Minister Cameron and [...]
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Southeast Asian and European foreign ministers meet in Brunei on Friday to chart a “new chapter” in their relations now that democratic reforms are under way in Myanmar. Human rights abuses and the harsh suppression of political dissent long made Myanmar a constant thorn in ties between the Association of Southeast Asian [...]
The World Bank indicated on Thursday that it will open an office in Myanmar in June, moving to re-engage with the country two decades after its last projects there ended, said the Associated Press. Pamela Cox, the bank’s regional vice president in East Asia, said the bank would examine Myanmar’s development needs. Cox said, “We’ve [...]
Washington, April 26 — A group of influential American human rights organisations has said the US may be moving too quickly in relaxing sanctions against Myanmar. The group, which includes Human Rights Watch and seven other US-based organisations, sent a letter to US President Barack Obama Tuesday, questioning his administration’s decision to ease several long-standing [...]
Tom Gates wanted to work in the music industry long before he started managing musicians and working for record labels. “I used to spend every penny I had on records and read liner notes, and I had a subscription to Billboard magazine when I was 12,” Gates says. “It was when I went to college [...]
President U Thein Sein and his entourage arrived back in Myanmar yesterday(April 25) from Japan after attending the 4th Japan-GMS Summit and visiting Japan on a goodwill visit later. The President was welcomed back at the Naypyitaw Airport by Vice President Dr. Sai Mauk Hkam, members of the cabinet, C-in-C of Myanmar Armed Forces Vice [...]
Canada is dropping the tough economic sanctions against Myanmar in a bid to encourage reforms that are bringing rapid change to the isolated Asian nation. The move follows a series of by-elections that saw once-imprisoned opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi campaign throughout the country, formerly known as Burma, and win a seat in the [...]
The European Union has formally agreed to suspend sanctions against Burma for a year in recognition of “historic changes”, officials say. An embargo on arms sales, however, will stay in place, the EU Council said. The EU had imposed measures against individuals and companies from Burma. It had also withheld some aid money. The move [...]
Myanmar President Thein Sein welcomed Monday opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be part of parliament, saying it is up to her to decide to take the seat she won earlier this month amid a standoff between her party and the government over the wording of elected lawmakers’ oath of constitutional allegiance. ”Ms. Suu [...]
President U Thein Sein said he has no plans to change the wording of the oath that is mandatory for all elected members of Pyithu Hluttaw according to news report. for details go to: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/No-change-to-Myanmar-parliament-oath-Thein-Sein/articleshow/12833359.cms source:http://www.enchantingmyanmar.com
YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi’s party on Sunday said it will postpone its parliamentary debut next week, in the first sign of discord between Myanmar’s newly-elected opposition and reformist government. The democracy icon and other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) will not travel to the capital Naypyidaw to enter parliament on Monday, [...]
Japan has agreed to forgive Myanmar’s 303.5 billion yen ($3.72 billion) debt and resume development aid, the two sides said on Saturday, in a further move to end the Southeast Asian nation’s isolation and strengthen its nascent democracy. The announcement was made jointly by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and President Thein Sein, Myanmar’s first [...]
Myanmar’s president told Japanese business leaders Friday that his country is eager for their investment as it carries out key political and economic reforms. After shying away from Myanmar during its decades as an international pariah, many Japanese businesses are now taking a hard look — and some are already taking the plunge. Visiting Tokyo [...]