Business

By Cherry May / MPA YANGON, Myanmar — Wholesale markets, commercial shopping centers, and urban retail networks across Myanmar are suffering from unprecedented domestic commodity depletion, driving consumer prices into a severe inflationary spiral that has left local populations...

By MPA NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — In a move widely condemned by financial experts as detached from economic reality, Myanmar’s military junta chief, Min Aung Hlaing, declared that the state apparatus cannot independently rebuild the country’s fractured economy, calling for...

By Cherry May YANGON, Myanmar — Widespread public outrage and fierce condemnation from anti-junta revolutionary forces have erupted across Myanmar after the top executive sisters of the Kanbawza (KBZ) Group—the country’s largest private financial conglomerate—personally accepted a controversial "National...

8 June 2026 By Moe Nya MAE SOT, Thailand — A massive influx of highly sophisticated counterfeit Thai Baht banknotes has flooded the Myanmar-Thailand border trade zones in recent days, triggering widespread panic among international merchants and currency exchange...

25 May 2026 By Foe Aww Yaw NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Myanmar’s military junta leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, has unveiled plans to establish computerized greenhouse networks to boost agricultural exports, a move independent experts have swiftly dismissed as...

16 May 2026 By Mon Lay MANDALAY, Myanmar — Myanmar’s military junta leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, has drawn widespread domestic criticism after telling citizens they must develop "business vision," despite critics pointing out that his regime's policies...

MANDALAY, Myanmar — The cost of dying is the latest financial burden to hit residents of Mandalay, as the city’s major cemeteries prepare to double their cremation fees starting May 9, 2026. According to a public announcement by local...

1 May 2026 By Ra Wai BANGKOK, Thailand — Justice For Myanmar (JFM) has issued an urgent call for Thai regulators to investigate and block a major investment in a Thai-listed company by a network linked to a notorious...

28 April 2026 By Moe Nya YANGON, Myanmar — Shop.com (Shop App MM), a key component of the global Alibaba Group under Daraz, has announced its permanent exit from the Myanmar market. The move is being seen by economists...

28 April 2026 By Ra Wai MAWLAMYINE, Myanmar — Allegations of high-level corruption have surfaced in Mon State, linking the former junta-appointed Chief Minister, Aung Kyi Thein, and the current Minister for Border and Security Affairs to a lucrative...