Category: Myanmar

Myanmar’s Pounamu Design and Construction is building a sustainable bamboo practice 19 September 2019 As a bamboo design and construction company, Pounamu’s business relies on the supply of bamboo. So in 2017, the company thought: How can we make the business more sustainable? The answer lies in training communities on sustainable bamboo forestry, treatment, and […]

Myanmar’s 280-megawatt Yeywa hydropower project to finish build in 2022 20 September 2019 Myanmar is planning to finish the construction of 280-megawatt Upper Yeywa hydropower project in 2022 and it will produce 1.409 billion kilowatts hours of electricity annually, according to Ministry of Electricity and Energy. Hydropower Implementation Department is developing Upper Yeywa hydropower project […]

Three Japanese companies to take part in Yangon-Mandalay Railway Project Phase 1 as main contractor 19 September 2019 Three Japanese companies are going to take part in upgrading the Phase-One of Yangon-Mandalay Railway Project as main contractors and A1, Shwetaung, Dagon and Max from Myanmar as sub-contractors, according to Myanma Railways. The Phase-One of Yangon-Mandalay […]

Myanmar to use US$1 billion loan for infrastructure projects 09 September 2019 Economic development, agriculture, electricity, and infrastructure projects will be the focus of a framework for loans between South Korea and Myanmar. On September 3, Union Minister for Investment and Foreign Economic Relations U Thaung Tun and South Korea’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Ms […]

Myanmar’s Dawei to Thailand’s Kanchanaburi road construction expected to start soon 4 September 2019 An invitation to tender for the project to build the two-lane Dawei – Kanchanaburi road will be issued soon, says an official for the Dawei Special Economic Zone Management Committee. “As the road project is a major component of the special […]