We often take a few features of our smartphones for granted. Those of you who live in the US usually get access to all the cool new things first, followed... by Rita ...
Indian President Ram Nath Kovind on December 12 launched a mobile app for farmers in Myanmar and dedicated a centre to promote agriculture research and ...
SolarHome crowdsources $10 million in debt. The Myanmar-based distributor of pay-as-you-go home solar systems has raised a new round of debt funding, ...
Myanmar operator MPT has launched a data pack offer, in partnership with OTT *service* Viu. Customers who take up the operator's offering will be able to watch ...
If you apologize in a void, does it really count? Greta Van Susteren's year-old mobile application wants you to think so. Launched with much fanfare last ...
SINGAPORE -- Southeast Asia's largest ride-hailing group plans to take its mobile payments *service* into Cambodia and Myanmar as it expa.
GrabPay Vietnam and GrabPay South East Asia Digital Payments plan.
Myanmar authorities have launched an investigation into an apparent human-trafficking operation that recruits women as brides and surrogate mothers for ...
December 5, 2018. By James Owen and Heesu Chung. Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Email Print Share. “We don't have to employ more traffic police; the ...
A trove of emails and internal documents released by a British lawmaker on Wednesday illustrate how Facebook rose to dominance years ago by using people's ...
The growing up milk brand, and Myanmar Times combined to launch the country's first app-assisted photo release published in The Myanmar Times Daily on ...
Sue Halpern on the woes of the social-media platform Facebook and its executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg amid reports on incriminating e-mails ...
Troubled Myanmar app company MySquar temporarily closed its mobile money operation and social media app MyMingalarbar, in addition to making multiple ...
All the #Myanmar #news you need to know for December 13, 2018. Myanmar English news, Myanmar business news, Myanmar news today, Myanmar latest ...
YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar court jailed three activists on Friday for defaming the military during anti-war protests, amid growing concern about a ...
After Grab's launch into Myanmar in 2017, the ride-hailing giant intends to follow-up with the expansion of their e-wallet GrabPay, in the ride-hailing giant's ...
Twitter co-founder and chief executive officer Jack Dorsey recently went on a birthday trip to Myanmar. As Dorsey recounted in a series of tweets to his 4.1 ...
The Department of Archaeology and National Museums is using technology to try to educate visitors about the history of Myanmar's pagodas and ancient ...
Planet Business: YouTubers press 'dislike', while Google reveals its top search terms.
The social media giant's problems just keep growing.
2.0 Limited has launched a new transport mobile app in Yangon, Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw that could rival Grab's taxi app. The new OK app, which launched ...
In a refugee camp in Cox's Bazaar, a young Rohingya refugee dreams of giving a voice to his people.
There are now less customers coming in to stores for handset applications, as they themselves can now conveniently download them, just by installing Google's ...
YANGON, MYANMAR – A Japanese information technology venture in Myanmar has launched a gourmet information app assisted by artificial intelligence ...
A free app on farmer San San Hla's smartphone is her new weapon in the war against the dreaded stem borer moth that blighted her rice paddy in southern ...
The Ministry of Health and Sports on Wednesday launched an application that will be installed in tablet computers and distributed to midwives to aid them during ...
Countless people wanted to know how to quit social media, bleed a radiator and solve a Rubik's Cube. Look no further …
HANOI — Vietnamese ride-hailing *service*, FastGo has announced it will launch its *service* in Indonesia and Myanmar – its two first international markets – by the ...
Grab's $100 million investment in Oyo is designed to help the budget hotel chain scale quicker in Southeast Asia and is in line with SoftBank Group's OYO and ...
As recently as last week, Facebook was touting the growth of Free Basics, its Internet.org project designed to give users free curated web access in developing ...
In Myanmar, the agricultural sector accounts for some 28 percent of the country's GDP.
WITH health and fitness centres popping up in big cities across Myanmar, a technology startup is bent on bringing all gyms under its innovative platform that ...
Local taxi companies say they are facing a poor business environment even with the departure of ride-hailing company Uber from Myanmar earlier this year, ...
Fred Hu will never forget the terror in his science teacher's eyes when the man was dragged away to a Chinese jail during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution.
Grab and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) yesterday launched a partnership to raise funds for supporting ...
Facebook outlined the steps it is taking to prevent its platform from being used as a tool to fuel the ethnic violence occurring in Myanmar. Product manager Sara ...
HTANTABIN, Myanmar -- When disease or insect infestation struck his rice plants in years past, farmer Kyaw Shwe could only guess at causes and remedie.
A Japanese information technology venture in Myanmar has launched a gourmet information app assisted by artificial intelligence technology to cater to growing ...
Facebook is admitting that it didn't do enough to prevent its platform from being used to incite violence and spread hate in Myanmar.
By seizing new opportunities, women in the remote village of Thayetchaung are leading the world, one savings group at a time.
The Best Trip platform includes travel guides and online booking options for some of Myanmar's choicest tourist destinations, including Yangon, Bagan and Nay ...
Facebook has removed 18 accounts and 52 pages associated with the Myanmar military, including the page of its commander-in-chief, after a UN report ...
Welcome to Friday's editionof the Reliable Sources newsletter. This is Oliver Darcy, filling in for Brian Stelter, and ready to walk you through a busy day of ...
For millions of people buying inexpensive smartphones in developing countries where privacy protections are usually low, the convenience of on-the-go internet ...
One year since more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees were forced to flee from Myanmar to Bangladesh, the denial of their legal status coupled with ...
From lunch delivery to comics, Myanmar's start-ups are bouncing back after decades of isolation.
It's becoming common to say that Mark Zuckerberg is coming under fire, but the Facebook CEO is again being questioned, this time over a recent claim that ...
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo arrested in December after reporting on massacre of Rohingya Muslims.
Americans have soured on Facebook in the past year, as more people come to terms with the toxic role that the social media platform plays in their lives. A new ...
AirAsia and Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) have joined hands to launch a promotion that they say will make travel more fun and affordable for ...
In a press briefing held at the Novotel Yangon Max on Tuesday afternoon, Myanmar's largest telecommunications operator announced ...
Editorial: Bangladesh appears poised to repatriate members of the Muslim minority who fled the campaign of violence against them. They would be at grave risk.
The Arakan Patriotic Party (APP) has called on the Arakan League for Democracy (ALD) party to merge with it as they share the same goals and policies, ...
The United Nations has warned that Facebook's platform is contributing to the spread of hate speech and ethnic violence in crisis-hit Myanmar. It's yet another ...
The international criminal court has ruled it can prosecute Myanmar for alleged crimes against humanity against the Rohingya people, an unprecedented ...
Facebook picked election evening in the U.S. to release a major report on its role in Myanmar, where it is widely accused of failing to prevent its social network ...
The time for talk is over. The international community has to act, or it could fail in Myanmar just as it failed in Rwanda, says former diplomat Charles Petrie.
YANGON -- Myanmar is proving a fertile ground for technology startups, their numbers doubling over the past year, according to Phandeeyar, a private g.
There are many good reasons why it's often best for organizations looking to deploy or consume Android applications to use the Google Play mobile apps store.
Telenor Myanmar, in partnership with Huawei and WowBox, has launched a video streaming application. Dubbed 'WowPlay', the new Android application is ...
A startup from Myanmar is taking aim at becoming the "Netflix for games" among mobile game systems. And in Southeast Asia's emerging countries, the CEO ...
Date & time: Thu, 4 Oct 13:29:18 UTC Magnitude: 4.5. Depth: 50.0 km. Epicenter latitude / longitude: 19.46°N / 96.41°E Nearest volcano: Popa (203 km) Primary ...
In reaction to criticism around the use of Messenger in some countries worldwide, particularly Myanmar, Facebook has introduced new tools that it allow users of ...
Genocide is still taking place against Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar and the government is increasingly demonstrating that it has no interest in ...
The Rohingya are a Sunni Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar. In 1982, the government of Myanmar revoked the Rohingya people's citizenship. Over the last ...
In the cramped former home of Jack Ma, founder of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, about thirty young engineers sit elbow-to-elbow, working to attract ...
British foreign secretary speaks after meeting Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
Bangladesh has conceded that it will be unable to voluntarily repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar as it had planned because it cannot find anyone willing ...
Farmers are beginning to reap the benefits of the rapid growth in mobile phone use in Myanmar through apps that are providing them with a wealth of ...
In many ways, Myanmar's agricultural industry holds an enviable position in Southeast Asia. The country is home to “unusually fertile soils and abundant water ...
Facebook has banned many high profile accounts in Myanmar saying they “inflame ethnic and religious tensions” in the country. “We are removing a total of 18 ...
In 2004, the same year Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates, an 18-year-old in Yangon was hard at work on Myanmar's first ...
HO CHI MINH CITY -- FastGo, a Vietnamese ride-hailing app, plans to launch its *service* in Indonesia and Myanmar in December as it hopes to become one.
The chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) has announced she is launching a preliminary investigation into the deportations of hundreds of ...
Founder of a new travel app, PK's List, which was launched in May 2018, travel expert Philippe Kjellgren (or PK, as he is most commonly known), has been ...
The social network exploded in Myanmar, allowing fake news and violence to consume a country emerging from military rule.
Modern-day dating is a minefield of faux pas and unsolicited photos. With Valentine's Day upon us, Min Ye Kyaw talks with dating app users on the rules of the ...
Myanmar leaders agrees need for 'accurate' investigation but her government has rejected foreign efforts.
Born out of the Founder Institute Program of Phandeeyar, a tech hub in Yangon, Flexible Pass provides affordable and flexible fitness options to book and use at ...
Conditions in Rakhine state 'not yet conducive' for return of refugees, says UNHCR.
Facebook officials tell The Hill they are making a serious effort to prevent their platform from being used to stir ethnic violence in Myanmar after mounting ...
Date & time: Sat, 27 Oct 09:16:44 UTC Magnitude: 5.0. Depth: 10.0 km. Epicenter latitude / longitude: 19.08°N / 95.43°E Nearest volcano: Popa (206 km) Primary ...
Pence on Wednesday voiced Washington's strongest condemnation yet of Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims, telling Suu Kyi that.
How did an international chain of coffee shops position itself to play a major role in upending not just how payments are made but also the business model of ...
More than 700000 Rohingyas have fled violent clashes and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar's Rakhine state since August last year. Photographer Hardy Amo ...
Access to credit will no longer be a problem for Myanmar people thanks to an innovative consumer lending application which allows anyone with a smartphone ...
Myanmar operator MPT has teamed up with the Myanmar National League (MNL) to launch the MPT MNL App. Users will have access to news, views, scores ...
Aid agencies give warning as Myanmar and Bangladesh begin return of 'terrified' refugees to Rahkine state.
Two Reuters journalists were sentenced to prison in Myanmar on charges of leaking state secrets, reported the news agency AFP. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo ...
HTANTABIN, Myanmar When disease or insect infestation struck his rice plants in years past, farmer Kyaw Shwe could only guess at causes and remedies.
An Intervention Application has been filed before the Supreme Court drawing its attention to the proposed deportation of seven Rohingya men to Myanmar and ...
App maker MySquar has warned investors that it may fall into administration after a probe into its company accounts revealed around £900000 was paid out to ...
Karen people in Tanintharyi region fear project to protect 800000-acre area will cut them off from ancestral lands.
The freighter, Sam Ratulangi PB 1600, was first discovered in late August near the mouth of Sittoung River with neither crewmembers nor cargo aboard.
Lower house of parliament endorses UN findings of crimes against humanity by military and calls for prosecution. Agence France-Presse in Ottawa. Thu 20 Sep ...
The Shan State capital, Taunggyi, is one of four cities piloting an app that promises to strengthen public finance management.
Misinformation has lead to violent attacks against Rohingya but report says company has been slow to respond.
Google has decided Android will follow Apple's policy of banning apps used for mining cryptocurrencies from its app store.
Meituan Dianping, which raised $4.2 billion in its Hong Kong IPO, is one of China's super-apps, with 340 million users ordering groceries, paying bills, renting ...
Guilty verdict in June was widely condemned; appeal says trial 'ignored compelling evidence of police set-up'