“After 2003, more companies exporting furniture began to set up and the market became much more competitive. Now we export only five containers per month,”

Myanmar has had legislated copyright protection since 1914. It was introduced when the country was ruled by the British as a province of colonial India and survives to this day, with the odd administrative change.

MYANMAR architects wishing to enter the fold of the ASEAN architectural community are being advised to attend a two-day workshop hosted by the Association of Myanmar Architects’ regulatory committee at Kandawgyi Palace Hotel on April 1 and 2.

SIXTY-FOUR single-storey houses being built in North Okkalapa township, Yangon, are expected to be finished by June, the deputy director of the Department of Human Settlement and Housing Development, U Myint Swe, said.

THE growl of engines sputtering along Pazundaung Creek forms a constant background noise as sampans make their daily journeys to the Patheinnyunt jetty, each carrying about 10 tonnes of sand to deliver to the wholesale centres before dark.

EQ specialists say there are five main points to enhancing EQ at work.
“That is what we call the ARMEM principle,” Dr Muruga, a best-selling author and public speaker on entrepreneurship, said during the “Happy at Work – Enhancing EQ” seminar held last month at Traders Hotel, Yangon...