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...The Treasury department on Thursday added to its blacklist Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited and Myanmar Economic Corporation, which it described as controlling “significant segments of the country’s economy...
...tenacious in the face of everything from internet blackouts to night-time arrests and security forces’ firing of live rounds, which killed a woman in Naypyidaw last week and a man and a teenage boy in Mandalay...
...The World Bank's International Finance Corporation is also involved in the project. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2017 for launch in 2018, significantly boosting Mandalay grid’s capacity....
...The World Bank has also begun lending again in Myanmar (see chart), while the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is building credit facilities for mid-sized domestic banks....
...Earlier this month Qatari telecom Ooredoo (ORDS:DSM), launched mobile phone and 3G internet services in greater Yangon, Mandalay and Naypyidaw....
...Tiger Balm’s owner, Singapore-listed Haw Par Corporation, wants to take the ointment back to its roots in what is now Myanmar, betting that lingering memories of the brothers’ legacy will help it crack southeast...
...Next door is the building that once belonged to the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation....
...Substantially more troops were deployed on the streets of the main city Rangoon and the second city Mandalay on Friday and Saturday than on previous days as authorities sealed off monasteries and pagodas...
...Last year’s purchase of Mandalay Resort Group lifted MGM Mirage’s first-quarter earnings....
...Now big corporations and celebrities have been enticed into the field....
...MGM Mirage this June agreed to buy Mandalay Bay Resorts in a deal worth nearly $8bn....
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