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| 17-Dec-2018 | Myanmar's New Port to Boost Economic Growth Myanmar's special economic zone has a major new shipping port, built with financial help and expertise from Japan. Officials from the 2 nations marked the completion of the port in Thilawa Special Economic Zone near Yangon... |
| 13-Dec-2018 | Himalayan Nation Nepal Gets First Modern Train Tracks JANAKPUR, Nepal — The competition between two Asian giants, India and China, for influence over tiny Nepal is yielding a bonanza in the form of the Himalayan mountain nation’s first modern railway — and possibly... |
| 09-Dec-2018 | Asean Cities to ‘Get Smart’ BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN) – Thailand to lead smart-city project, with Bangkok, Phuket and Chon Buri featuring prominently in cross-border partnership. Thailand will play a leading role in implementing the smart-city network covering 26 cities in the... |
| 26-Nov-2018 | Chinese Firm Finalises New Yangon City Proposal The government body in charge of developing an ambitious new Yangon city project has reached the final stage in negotiations with state-owned China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) in preparing pre-project documents (PPD). Launched by the regional... |
| 13-Nov-2018 | Opec Ineffective, Dr M Says Ahead of Global Oil Policy Meeting KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 13 — There’s less than a month before oil producing countries meet to decide their output and the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) has come under rebuke from Malaysia’s prime... |
| 10-Nov-2018 | After Lanka and Pak, China Now Inks Port Deal With Myanmar BEIJING: China has clinched a multi-billion-dollar deal to build a port at a strategic town along the coast of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar, its third project in India’s neighbourhood after Sri Lanka and... |
| 09-Nov-2018 | China and Japan Set to Reshape Shipping in Myanmar China and Japan are forging ahead with independent plans to improve Myanmar's transportation infrastructure, with projects that have the potential to alter the flow of people and goods in the region. Beijing on Thursday inked a... |
| 13-Oct-2018 | Vietnamese Enterprise to Conduct $250m Infrastructure Projects in Indonesia Three infrastructure projects between a Vietnamese and an Indonesian enterprise with total investment to the tune of US$300 million have been signed in the presence of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc. According to the agreement,... |
| 11-Oct-2018 | New Railway Set to Fuel Tibet’s Economy, Trade With India and Nepal: Experts The construction of the Sichuan-Tibet railway, dubbed the world's most challenging railway, will have a big influence in boosting Tibet's integration into South Asia and the China-proposed Belt and Road initiative (BRI), as well as... |
| 03-Oct-2018 | Fixed Broadband Next Phase of Growth in Myanmar Telecomms: ZTE Yan Xiao, CEO of ZTE Myanmar, is convinced the next big area of growth in the Myanmar telecommunications sector lies in high-speed, fixed broadband internet. With competition in the mobile space getting more intense, now... |