Myanmar is finalising procedures for reopening its tourism sector to foreigners early next year and will initially target visitors from Southeast Asia, according to Union Minister for Hotels and Tourism Htay Aung.

Southeast Asian foreign ministers have agreed to downgrade Myanmar’s participation in an upcoming summit in their sharpest rebuke yet of its leaders following a Feb. 1 military takeover.

The Lebanese investment firm M1 Group has pledged to spend US$330 million over the next three years to expand the Myanmar telecom business that it is buying from Telenor of Norway, bucking moves by many international investors to exit the junta-ruled country.

Drugs seizures — a proxy for production — have increased dramatically in south-east Asia this year with many pointing the finger of blame at the military takeover

Many of the more than 400 Japanese companies with local operations in the country have taken steps such as putting business plans on hold.

Myanmar's economy is expected to shrink by 18% in 2021, the World Bank said on Monday, as a result of massive unrest following a military coup and a resurgent coronavirus outbreak.

Myanmar's economy is expected to shrink by 18% in 2021, the World Bank said Monday, as a result of massive unrest following a military coup and a resurgent coronavirus outbreak.

OSLO: Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor ASA has sold its Myanmar business, blaming the difficulties of operating under the military junta and dealing a blow to activists who say they relied on the only Western operator for communications.

With the ministry and the Southeast Asian country's ruling military acting as one body, there are concerns such business projects may become sources of income ...

OPINION: Claims of "responsible investment" are undermined by ties to aircraft suppliers.

OPINION: Claims of "responsible investment" are undermined by ties to Chinese aircraft supplier.

Myanmar, which has been in turmoil since a military coup in February, cut its trade target for this year by 16%, citing the impact of Covid-19.

Thailand should try its best to curb a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections, especially preventing the spread of the Indian variant which might enter the country via the Myanmar border. Otherwise, additional borrowing to fight the new outbreak and rehabilitate the economy will be inevitable, warned Kobsak Pootrakool, former minister ...

At least 10 Japanese companies have had ties to firms affiliated with Myanmar's military or have taken part in projects that could be sources of ...

The firm, one of the biggest foreign investors in Myanmar, must now decide whether to ride out the turmoil, or withdraw from the market.

The Export-Import Bank of Thailand (Exim Thailand) has rolled out aid measures for small and medium-sized enterprises doing business in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) to mitigate the financial impact of Covid-19 outbreaks and political chaos in Myanmar.

Many ongoing infrastructure projects have been suspended in the Southeast Asian country since the military ousted an elected government in a coup in February.

New body hopes to attract foreign aid and international recognition in effort to defeat coup

The Myanmar junta's brutal military repression against anti-coup demonstrators and airstrikes against innocent villages near the Thai border between March 27 and 30 has prompted acute rebukes and trade sanction threats from the international community.