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To give further shape to the ambitious Rs 536-crore Kaladan Multi-Modal Project, which would connect the North-Eastern state of Mizoram to Sittwé port in Myanmar, thus giving the land-locked region access to sea, the centre has approved construction of a vital 100-Km highway in Mizoram. A committee of the centre, set up for projects ... Full story

YANGON, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's official visit to Myanmar, which ended on Sunday, contributes a great deal to mutual friendship existing ... Full story

Agartala, Dec 20 (IANS) India will invest Rs.1,666 crore (Rs.16.66 billion) to develop highways in Tripura and Mizoram to improve connectivity of the landlocked northeastern states with Bangladesh and Myanmar, an official said here Sunday. “The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) gave clearance for four-laning of the National Highway 44 (from Shillong) up to Tripura’s southern most border town of Sabroom,” a senior government official tols ... Full story

The Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) have appealed to world body FIFA for more funding in 2010, said president Zaw Zaw. Zaw Zaw said that he had already submitted a ten-point plan to FIFA outlining the areas in which assistance are needed and they included referee training, stadium development and maintenance, accounting methods, youth development, ... Full story

WASHINGTON/ZURICH (Reuters) - U.S. and Manhattan prosecutors detailed on Wednesday a "decades-long scheme" by Credit Suisse to hide thousands of transactions on behalf of clients in Iran, Sudan, Libya and other nations, and said the Swiss bank had agreed to pay $538 million in fines. Hot Stocks More than $1.6 billion was moved through ... Full story

Imphal, December 14 2009: The first phase fencing work at the international border with Myanmar will start from January next year. In the first phase 10 kilometer long borderline at Moreh will be fenced with barb wire. The project for fencing the Indo-Myanmar border at Moreh aimed at checking cross border movement of undergrounds, drug smugglers and other anti-social elements. The ground work for the fencing has started. In ... Full story

Imphal, Dec. 14: Myanmar is sending a cultural troupe here to take part in Manipur Tourism Festival that began at Hafta Kangjeibung on Thursday. Link commissioner K.K. Chhetry today told reporters that the 11-member team would reach the border township of Moreh in Chandel district tomorrow morning and arrive here in the afternoon for ... Full story

YANGON, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- A seminar on development cooperation, jointly organized by Myanmar and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP),is due to open in Nay Pyi Taw later on Tuesday. The second seminar of its kind, sponsored by Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation and Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development as well as the ESCAP, is ... Full story

YANGON, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar and Vietnam have been seeking direct air link as part of their efforts to boost the two countries' economic and trade cooperation and the current visit to Nay Pyi Taw of Vice-President of Vietnam Airlines Duong Tri Thanh is seen as paving way for the establishment. According to Tuesday's official newspaper New Light of Myanmar, Myanmar Deputy Minister of Transport ... Full story

Yangon: Nobel laureate and former chief economist at the World Bank Joseph Stiglitz is due to visit Myanmar this week to advise the government on its development policies, media reports said on Monday. On Tuesday, the renowned economist is to attend a seminar in Nay Pyi Taw, the military's new capital, which will ... Full story

BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping will pay official visits to Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), Cambodia and Myanmar from Dec. 14 to 22. Foreign Ministry spokesperson ... Full story

Myanmar (MNN/GFA) ― A booming bamboo crop is causing dire problems for people in an area of Myanmar. 50 families in a village in Myanmar's Chin state are facing a severe famine due to the rats eating their food. They are also being afflicted with unknown illnesses, and their children have been unable ... Full story

Despite the recent arrest of Arabinda Rajkhowa, the government’s chances of laying hands on his boss and ULFA chief Paresh Baruah are getting worse. The government has received definite information from intelligence agencies that Chinese agencies have helped Baruah set up base in China’s Yunnan province bordering Myanmar. Sources in the home ministry had earlier confirmed that Baruah was based in Kachin province of Myanmar, very ... Full story

"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small any more. It will be the fast beating the slow". Rupert Murdoch I am wondering if we have to pay for access to internet news because of Rupert Murdoch. We are now very convenient, not having to worry about subscription fees if we can access to internet news free of charge. But now this gentleman is ... Full story

Tuvalu Calls for Tighter Emissions Limits by Matthew Berger - Dec 9th, 2009 Bangladesh, Myanmar, Honduras, Vietnam, Nicaragua. These are just a few of the countries already suffering serious effects from climate change. The five lead the list of the countries most affected by climate change since 1990, according the latest risk index from Germanwatch, ... Full story