DRIVEN by its vision to become an innovative leader in Myanmar's growing energy sector, locally-owned Parami Energy Group of Companies plans to invest ...
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Myanmar Energy Weekly Brief" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. An overview of this week's ...
YANGON, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) — A stake driving ceremony has been held in Manaung township, Myanmar's Rakhine stake to build a solar power plant which can ...
Improved trade and investment will bring many benefits to both countries says leaders and members of the business community in Myanmar and India.
Hong Kong-listed VPower Group inked a deal with the government to operate a rental power project in Mandalay Region. The company signed a power ...
NEW DELHI — Indian President Ram Nath Kovind concluded a five-day state visit to Myanmar last Friday (Dec 14), during which India sought to synergize its Act ...
All the #Myanmar #news you need to know for December 18, 2018. Myanmar English news, Myanmar business news, Myanmar news today, Myanmar latest ...
SolarHome, a Singapore-based company that brings pay-as-you-go solar solutions into off-grid households in Southeast Asia, has received US$10 million in ...
Nay Pyi Taw: India has said that peace and stability in Myanmar are in its own interest as the two countries stressed on the need to maintain security and stability ...
Posco Daewoo, the trading unit of Posco, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a solar plant that it will build for free of charge on an island in Myanmar in hopes ...
By Naing Ko Ko 17 December 2018. Fiscal and monetary management in Myanmar are suffering amid global trade and investment uncertainty. The global trade ...
Background. Hydropower is the foundation of the Chinese transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. In the past two decades it has added more ...
Sinopec has started supplying regasified LNG through a second pipeline connection to PetroChina's China-Myanmar gas pipeline.
Parami Energy will accelerate the distribution of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) next year, CEO U Pyi Wa Tun said yesterday. He said in a press conference that ...
South Korea Renewable Energy Summit 2019 will be held on March 13th - 14th in Grand Ambassador Seoul Associated With Pullman, Seoul. The summit will ...
It is no understatement to say that there are tectonic shifts underway for trade and shipping as trade logistics and supply chains are being disrupted, not by ...
Multiple power centres in United States politics complicates foreign policy, particularly when a country is in the spotlight for the wrong reasons.
Facebook is among a number of companies from the US, UK, France, Switzerland and China named on a “dirty list” of corporations accused of involvement in ...
Myanmar's government has played its cards well in the U.S.-China competition for influence.
Myanmar's president appointed the country's national security adviser U Thaung Tun as the head of a newly formed ministry that aims to boost local and ...
India plans to expand its gas pipeline network into Myanmar through Bangladesh.
GS-Caltex Corp., one of South Korea's leading refineries, said Tuesday that it will donate 50000 energy-saving cooking stoves to Myanmar as part of a corporate ...
On December 5, Shan communities and local Members of Parliaments held a press conference in Yangon, City Hotel, to call for an immediate cancellation of the ...
Osotspa, a leading Thailand-based consumer products manufacturer and distributor, and Loi Hein, Myanmar's largest drinking water and beverage business, ...
India News: NEW DELHI: President Ram Nath Kovind's first visit to Myanmar starting on Monday will be an occasion to build upon the strong bilateral ...
The National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB) was made up of exiled pro-democracy leaders who were elected to the national parliament ...
The Myanmar government needs to ensure that mega Chinese investment projects truly serve the national interest.
Mumbai: CDC Group Plc, the UK government's development finance institution, plans to raise around $100 million by selling a stake in Ayana Renewable Power ...
The 2018 ASEAN - India Business Summit was on 27 November 2018 in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. The Business Summit consisted three events, the ASEAN ...
In a part of Myanmar that is especially susceptible to natural disaster, primarily related to yearly monsoon rains and flooding, CWS has led Community-based ...
Home to one of the world's oldest oil and gas industries, oil exploration in Myanmar began in the early Bagan era. During the reign of King Anawrahta in the ...
MANILA/BEIJING/TOKYO -- The Philippines has become a new front in China and Japan's infrastructure rivalry as companies from both countries bid to bui.
Two start-ups led by women, EainChat and My Healthcare, were selected to represent Myanmar at the Women's Forum Global Meeting event in Paris earlier this ...
Last year on 19 November, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed that during his meeting with the State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi ...
BANGKOK — Forty thousand people, many of whom live in poverty or are socially excluded, now have access to electricity in rural villages across three states in ...
New York - November 27, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Soneva, the world-leading luxury resort operator, has launched the Soneva Foundation's ...
In the current scenario, security has become all encompassing”. non-traditional security issues. South Asia Conference.
Feathers found in Burmese amber dating back 100 million years are so exquisitely preserved that palaeontologists have been able to make a detailed study of ...
Myanmar's government has announced new oil and gas tender plans just as green shoots are being sighted in Southeast Asian upstream investment. But the ...
China National Petroleum Corp. launched the Chuxiong-Panzhihua gas pipeline on Friday, CNPC said on Monday.
House of Representatives MP from Pale constituency Khin San Hlaing said that with regard to most of the yearly loan repayments being made to China, it was ...
Up to 19 million US dollars in investment to turn ASEAN region into the most innovative and comprehensive learning ecosystemTransforming SEAC into ...
Posco Daewoo, the energy development arm of South Korean steelmaker Posco, will invest $94.2 million to drill three wells in the A-3 Block offshore western ...
The most senior Japanese business leader in Myanmar urged the government to recognise how liberalisation, efficient bureaucracy and reliable power supply ...
Industry Desk: The Indian central government will initially spend Rs 700 billion (70,000 crore) to spread gas pipelines across the country. It is also working out ...
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's main opposition group promised on Monday to remove curbs on free speech and the media and to rein in the police if it ...
India's landmark court ruling is inspiring movements in other parts of Asia to repeal colonial-era laws.
For his first episode of "Oliver North's America Heroes" on NRA TV, the organization's new president is profiling one of God's soldiers, Dave Eubank, a former ...
The Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE) is drafting a renewable energy law to develop the sector, said U Maung Maung Kyaw, Chief Engineer from the ...
Myanmar's government recently gave the go-ahead to some of the largest power projects in recent years, but it now faces a major short-term challenge.
The United Kingdom will assist Myanmar in implementing renewable-energy projects. a senior UK official said.
House Republicans voted yesterday to keep the monstrous war in Yemen going. But they couldn't have succeeded without the help of several Democrats.
On August 30 the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MoEE) announced it would be opening *fresh* rounds of bidding for oil and gas blocks in the first half of next ...
Thailand-based Modern Energy Management (MEM) says it has teamed up with an undisclosed investor to develop a 130 MWp solar PV project in Myanmar.
PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) has a five-year investment plan (2019-2023) worth a combined US$16.105 billion (Bt527.51 billion) to support its ...
New Delhi: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan has held a meeting with H.E. U Win ...
New Delhi: India is planning to set up a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Myanmar as it looks to expand energy diplomacy in its neighbourhood, ...
Mekong-Lancang co-operation needs to focus on maintaining an efficient working model and ensure projects bring benefits for all member countries.
As the scramble for more power sources intensifies, focus has centered on tapping Myanmar's gas fields to meet demand. But can the country afford its own ...
To illustrate how artificial intelligence (AI) could affect the future battlefield, consider the following scenario based on a future book I am writing entitled The ...
The prospects for the LNG market have changed dramatically in the last two years as China has more than doubled its LNG imports, confounding all ...
September 4 (Renewables Now) - Thailand-based renewable energy consultancy Modern Energy Management (MEM) has joined hands with an unnamed ...
New bids for oil and gas exploration and development rights on a series of blocks, along with reforms to joint-venture requirements, are expected to stoke ...
After announcing high-profile gas-fired power projects earlier this year, the Ministry of Electricity and Energy is now focusing on a string of hydropower dams ...
By THOMAS KEAN | FRONTIER. The Ministry of Electricity and Energy has issued a notice to proceed to the developers of the 60-megawatt Deedoke ...
Myanmar is planning to double its electric power capacity by 2021 by building natural gas-fired power plants, two senior officials told Reuters on Wednesday, ...
The world is running out of time to take action and limit the worst impacts of climate change. The IPCC has issued stark warnings that we have to cut carbon ...
Toyo Thai Power Myanmar Co Ltd (TPMC) plans to invest between US$350 million (K471 billion) to US$500 million to set up a liquefied natural gas (LNG) ...
New Delhi: Myanmar has joined the India-initiated International Solar Alliance (ISA), becoming the 68th member of the grouping that is aiming at optimum ...
Myanmar's high growth in electricity demand — rising by around 13 percent annually — is a challenge for the government. Demand is estimated to reach 4,500 ...
Myanmar's national electrification process is still on hold one year after the new administration took office. The replacement of the Minister of Energy in early ...
With 5.5 percent annual growth of gross domestic product, Myanmar was one of the fastest growing countries in ASEAN during 2011-2015. The growth of ...
With an offshore oil and gas tender on the horizon, the Ministry of Electricity and Energy says it is reviewing the fiscal terms in its production sharing contracts to ...
Appraisal well Shwe Yee Htun-2 has been successfully drilled with formation evaluation results indicating a gas column and net pay thickness that substantially ...
With more than four out of ten people in Myanmar without access to electricity, the nation's economic development relies on the government's willingness to ...
BANGKOK -- Thailand's PTT Exploration and Production, a subsidiary of Thailand's national oil and gas conglomerate PTT, plans to greatly expand its in.
The International Finance Corporation and government of Myanmar have released a draft strategic environmental assessment intended to help guide ...
While a recent dam collapse in Laos devastated thousands, environmentalists warn that a wave of new hydropower dams in the country could spell disaster for ...
THE BUSINESS TIMES Companies & Markets - SEMBCORP Industries on Wednesday announced that its 225-megawatt gas-fired Sembcorp Myingyan ...
Myanmar's political and economic development has become more fragile. International headlines are dominated by state-directed violence against the cou.
Business leader Serge Pun weighed into the debate on the country's energy tariff reforms at the Myanmar Global Investment Forum in Nay Pyi Taw on ...
Myanmar and Thailand have announced plans for major gas power projects, as well as greater moves to adopt renewable energy sources. The news will cheer ...
Arrangements have been made to prepare sufficient electricity to meet rising demand next year, according to the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE).
By Dane Chamorro and Tom McNulty. There has been an almost never-ending stream of negative news about Southeast Asia's energy market, once one of the ...
Myanmar is raising efforts to draw foreign direct investments (FDI) into the country after its economy took a beating in recent quarters, hit by the slide of the kyat ...
The country's first solar power plant will start operating in November, U Maung Maung Kyaw, chief engineer of the Electric Supply Enterprise, said.
The Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE) last week issued a Notice to Proceed for the Shweli-3 hydropower project on the Shweli River, near Moemeik town ...
This week we focus on India and Bhutan relations, healthcare in Myanmar — and other roundups from the subcontinent. Bhutan, India-Bhutan, India-Bhutan ...
The government is once again discussing plans to raise electricity charges to partially offset widening losses from subsidising electricity tariffs. “We need to ...
Myanmar has some of the lowest electricity rates in the world. However, connecting and supplying power to the millions of people who will drive Myanmar's ...
Key View: Myanmar's energy sector will benefit from PTT's overseas expansion strategy, as the state-owned looks to diversify away from the mature and ...
YANGON -- When Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy was swept into power in 2015, economic development was a key priority and the fledglin.
Set-listed PTT Exploration and Production Plc (PTTEP) is proposing that Myanmar's energy policymakers develop and operate a large gas-fired power plant to ...
A Pyithu Hluttaw (Lower House) legislator has called on the government to come up with a comprehensive policy to provide electricity to all villages in the ...
A 145-megawatts natural gas-fired power plant will be built in Kyaukse of Mandalay Region, according to the Ministry of Electricity and Energy.
In the wake of the suspension of the Myitsone hydropower dam, Myanmar has the opportunity to pursue new ways of planning and delivering energy to power its ...
Renewed interest in coal in Myanmar carries broad risks for the government. But while greener energy is desirable, renewables come with their own problems.
Low energy prices and the high cost of offshore exploration are prompting some energy companies to give back blocks won in a 2014 tender.
By THOMAS KEAN | FRONTIER. YANGON — The Ministry of Electricity and Energy is reviewing the fiscal terms of its production sharing contracts ahead of an ...
The Philippines-based energy company has signed the share purchase agreements to acquire a 15% stake in two Thai companies, which are building a 220 ...