Communities in Yangon live surrounded by garbage – blocking doorsteps, piling up in front of windows and clogging water systems. While much of this waste is homegrown, some of it was shipped halfway around the world.
BY Frontier
A decision by the Yangon regional government to ban heavy trucks from the city’s streets during the day was blamed for a massive traffic jam on Strand Road yesterday.
Employers’ groups in Malaysia say the recent move by the Myanmar government to ban workers from going to the Muslim-majority country amid a deepening diplomatic crisis will have little impact on its economy, insisting that it can rely more heavily on migrant workers from other countries, including Bangladesh and Indonesia.
A draft law to replace the century-old Myanmar Companies Act will improve transparency and ease the burden on small and medium enterprises.
The fighting in Kachin State is widely regarded as an attempt by the Tatmadaw to force the KIA to sign on to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement. But there’s another reason.
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