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Myanmar's energy system
Published on 05/06/2013
» Myanmar's energy sector is a major asset as the country moves towards industrialisation and economic liberalisation. The World Economic Forum's New Energy Architecture Initiative recently completed a six-month, multi-stakeholder study into Myanmar's energy infrastructure and the challenges faced by the countries ahead.
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Potential for Myanmar growth
Published on 05/06/2013
» Myanmar's economic, social and political liberalisation has created enormous growth opportunities for the country. But it will take some time yet before the country can be considered competitive relative to its neighbours in the rapidly-growing Asean region.
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Laws foundation of Asean projects
Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 04/06/2012
» More clarity in the legal framework and dispute settlement and a greater role for public-private partnerships (PPPs) are needed for better development of infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia, says the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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East Asia should brace for shocks
Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 04/06/2012
» Building a resilient economy and closer concrete cooperation between East Asian nations will help to cope with the European crisis as it affects the regional economy.
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Private sector must lead the way in R&D
Business, Sulak Sivaraksa, Published on 05/06/2012
» The government should allow the private sector to drive research and development and make it easier for people at universities to move into business, says the secretary-general of the national science technology and innovation policy office.
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Economists mixedon Asean labour flow
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 05/06/2012
» Integration in some areas in Asean such as labour should come gradually to ease the risk of a "brain-drain", according to experts speaking at the World Economic Forum on East Asia last week.
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Thein Sein pulls pin on visit to Thailand
Published on 28/05/2012
» YANGON: Myanmar President Thein Sein has cancelled a trip to Thailand for an international economic forum that also invited opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, officials said Sunday.
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Asia is crucial to ending poverty
News, Published on 28/05/2012
» Amid the economic distress emanating from the United States and Europe, no statistic better captures the broader dynamics of the world economy than the recent World Bank announcement that the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to cut extreme poverty by half was met globally in 2010. This was fully five years before the 2015 deadline.
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Govt says WEF not threatened by protests
News, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 29/05/2012
» The government is confident that this week's World Economic Forum on East Asia will proceed smoothly despite the spectre of mass street protests tomorrow.
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No worries over Thein Sein no-show
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 29/05/2012
» President Thein Sein's no-show at the World Economic Forum in Bangkok this week is unlikely to undermine the friendly relations forged between his government and the Yingluck Shinawatra administration.
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