Myanmar warns Emirates over breach of no-fly zone
Myanmar’s civil aviation authorities have warned that they may take action against the airline Emirates over the entrance of one of its planes into the no-fly zone above Yangon. The no-fly policy applies to much of the city’s airspace below an altitude of 24,000 feet. The Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) in Myanmar sent the warning ...
AirAsia talks on new Myanmar airline ‘have stopped’
Less than two months after announcing plans to launch a new budget airline for Myanmar, AisAsia CEO Tony Fernandes now says that talks with a potential partner for the project...
Myanmar’s first Starbucks to open in Yangon’s Sule Square
People of Yangon, get ready for some reliably average coffee. Starbucks is coming to town. The American coffee franchise’s first outlet in Myanmar is set to open in downtown...
Evidence of automation raises additional questions in Twitter ‘bot’ surge
After a week of intense scrutiny and speculation about the origins of faceless Twitter accounts that recently began following journalists in Southeast Asia by the hundreds, the...
Burmese-American women suffer widest wage gap among Asian Americans
Burmese-American women suffer the widest wage gap among all Asian American ethnic communities compared to white men, according to statistics highlighted by several civil rights...
Angry Myanmar activists grab Zuckerberg’s attention on hate speech
A whoop of disbelief erupted in the small office used by anti-hate speech activists in Myanmar when they spotted the name that had dropped into their email inbox: Mark Zuckerberg....
Myanmar improving but still ‘super challenging’ for business: study
Family-run firms, a lack of transparency, and murky money networks in the former junta-led country continue to make doing business in Myanmar “super challenging,” a...
Uber exits SE Asia in new retreat from global markets
Uber sold its Southeast Asian business to rival Grab on Monday, ending a bruising battle between the ride-hailing behemoths and marking the US firm’s latest retreat from...
AirAsia wants to launch a new airline for Myanmar
Malaysia-based budget behemoth AirAsia is in talks with a potential partner to open a new airline that will serve Myanmar, CEO Tony Fernandes told Reuters yesterday on the...
China accuses Myanmar Times of ‘malicious manipulation’
The Chinese embassy in Yangon has accused the Myanmar Times of publishing “distortions and malicious manipulation” in an article about plans for a special economic zone in...