Official ADAPT 2030 Website (Keeping Your Families Reset Prepared)

I bought a set of maps from one of those hard working guys selling printed materials as you wait at stop lights or in traffic jams around Yangon. I scanned the map set of 15 Townships of Yangon plus the full city map at 3500×4900 so you should have good detail.

I was able to find some better quality topographic maps from the British published in 1962. This set of Yangon scans will be good enough to get you to the places you need to visit. Especially if you are looking at places to rent, neighborhoods are easily recognizable.

Yangon City Township Map Scans Set 1

Yangon City Township Map Scans Set 2

In keeping with the forum’s mission statement of building a global, economic community, the majority of speeches kept a laser-like focus on Myanmar and East Asia’s business potential – and the many steps that must be taken to unlock it – in panel discussions with names like “The Business Mandate in Myanmar”, “Pursuing the Asian Century” and “Asia’s New Narrative”.

World Economic Forum on East Asia Full Programme Agenda 2013 Myanmar

With Myanmar set to reintegrate into the world the question remains: how can smaller investors invest in Myanmar given that direct access is limited? The best way, DBS Vickers says in a note, is to “invest through foreign companies already in or expanding into Myanmar.”

Opportunities are abundant, it says, but pure plays are scarce. It tips Singapore-listed Yoma Strategic Holdings is the closest thing to a pure play. “With close to 100% of its land bank in Yangon, Yoma is a direct proxy to Myanmar’s booming real estate sector and is well positioned to benefit from Yangon’s severe demand/supply mismatch for quality residential, office, hotel/serviced apartment properties.”

For list of Singapore Investment Plays [Read more…]

But of all the numbers that illustrate the insufficiency of Myanmar’s current energy architecture, perhaps the most startling is that even if electricity output doubles every five years, it will take the first of those five-year periods just to meet today’s needs. In the meantime, demand is projected to increase by 12% a year.

Nearly three-quarters of Myanmar’s people live without the ability to turn on the lights. In the capital, Naypyidaw, a little less than half of residents live without the ability to plug in a television, microwave or desk lamp. [Read more…]

Under special assignment, Attorney-General Office, Ministry of Science & Technology, other related ministries and NGOs carrying out drafting of IP laws with assistance of WTO and WIPO.

A general look at the state of IP protection for firms considering investing in Myanmar. What protection is afforded if a company brings new technology or processes to the country.

As member of ASEAN, bound to “ASEAN Framework Agreement on IP Cooperation, 1995”

Presentation on Myanmar IP Law and Technology Transfer 2013

Most of Myanmar is in a greenfield condition, with no legacy of fossil power generation — or any power generation — to work against or replace. Also, no one expects the central grid to expand into remote areas for at least a decade, if not longer. Flexible, decentralized community-based renewable energy systems like solar are therefore the best way to power the countryside. Solar lamps and water pumps are part of the equation, as is micro-hydro in the mountains and biomass gasifiers and charcoal makers in the rice belt and even tidal power along the coasts. [Read more…]

Myanmar’s economic reforms need to be understood in the context of the country’s desire to modernize and industrialize. The Myanmar government, has consistently emphasized that investments have to be aligned with their broader environmental and social goals. The main economic priorities that we see guiding Myanmar’s development are:

Job Creation, Sustainable Growth, Re-engagement of the International Economic Community

Investing in Myanmar – Strategies for Singapore Companies 2013 PDF

Today, Myanmar has an electrification rate hovering just above 25%. In rural areas, where 40 million people reside, energy access drops to barely more than 15%.

Laos, for example, had an electrification rate hovering just above 30% in 2000. Nearly 70% of the population lives in rural areas. The Government of Laos put an emphasis on off-grid renewable energy expansion; more than 10,000 solar home systems were deployed and numerous village mini-grids utilizing solar, small-hydro and biomass energy sources were established. Today, after little more than a decade, more than 7 in 10 Laotians have access to electricity. [Read more…]

Natural resource within Myanmar  and the successful development of extractive industries require sound institutions and organizations, with a clear understanding of their functions, boundaries and interdependencies, as well as the nature of their relevant stakeholders.

Institutions are one element of responsible natural resources management explored by the World Economic Forum’s recent Global Agenda Council publication – Natural Riches? Perspectives on Responsible Natural Resources Management in Conflict-Affected Countries. [Read more…]

Myanmar is very much aware and recognizes the need to respond to the changing dynamics in economic growth, environmental sustainability and energy security that is the result of global transition, as well as the importance of the combined goals to have energy security and access, sustainability, economic growth and development.

With the new civilian Government taking office as of March 2011, the need to integrate all Myanmar energy sub-sectors under one umbrella was recognized and given priority, and the initiative to form a National Energy Management Committee (NEMC) and an Energy Development Committee (EDC) was expedited.

New Energy Architecture: Myanmar (ADB) Country Report June 2013

Inauguration of World Economic Forum on East Asia (2013) was held at Myanmar International  Convention Center (MICC) in Nay Pyi Taw.

Hosting the Forum provides an opportunity for Myanmar to showcase its achievements in re-engaging with the global community and in advancing the economic transition.

The FY2013/14 budget has been approved by the parliament, and further raises spending on health, education and infrastructure, after significant increases last year.

New Light of Myanmar Government Daily Newspaper Special Edition covering the WEF 2013

Promising areas to harness wind energy are in three regions, namely Hilly Regions of Chin and Shan states and Coastal regions in the south and western part of the country and central part of Myanmar.

Only a very few small wind generators are used in lower part of the country. Ready-made wind generator of around 300-600watt capacity are available in private the market and mostly are imported from China.

Ministry of Electric Power Myanmar Wind Power Resources Survey 2012

In terms of agricultural and horticultural crops, there is the need and opportunity to develop post-harvest facilities such as processing center, cold rooms, warehousing etc. These facilities are very limited and in dire need throughout the country.

Value Adding

Downstream Processing

Supply Chain Enhancement

Bio-Energy Village Concept

Myanmar Agricultural Processing Sectors & Bioenergy Village by Hishamuddin Koh PDF

Land Utilization in Myanmar

Recommended Crops by Region

Agricultural Trade Policy

Legal Framework for Agricultural Investment

Land Tenure System                                                                                

Investment Opportunities in Agriculture Sectors of Myanmar by Aung Hlaing 2013

In Myanmar where government and business leaders are now converging for the World Economic Forum on East Asia, over two-thirds of the entire population is still rural, and somewhere between 20-40% of are estimated to be landless; a large additional percentage lack any real legal security on the land they farm.

It is worth using the occasion of the Forum meeting to remind assembled leaders that in addressing this issue they need to keep well in mind the following four points: [Read more…]

What the Government of Myanmar has achieved in a very short time is as remarkable as it is unique. The country has taken bold steps in multiple sectors simultaneously. The single biggest factor driving this change is the strong and clear intent of the government to do what is needed to improve infrastructure so that it becomes an enabler of economic growth.

In this regard, we believe the following five steps that the government is in the process of implementing would further help achieve its targets: [Read more…]

Magenta Global’s Myanmar AgriTrade, Investment & Technology Global Summit 2013 is a wide-ranging and complete coverage of Myanmar's agricultural activities provide the strategic platform where buyers, sellers, brokers, farm owners, bankers, insurers, region & township farming leaders can meet with the world's top agri traders, investors and agricultural experts.

Myanmar AgriTrade, Investment & Technology Global Summit 2013 Program Agenda June 19-21st in Yangon

After 50 years of military rule, Myanmar’s democratic opening has been swift and startling, says Richard Cockett. Now the country needs to move fast to heal its ethnic divisions.

A walk around  Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city and former capital, quickly makes it clear how far the country has fallen behind the rest of Asia over the past half-century. In large part the place is but a ghostly reminder of former glories. Under British colonial rule, before independence in 1948, Rangoon (as it was then) was a thriving, cosmopolitan entrepot, the capital of Burma, one of the region’s wealthiest countries. [Read more…]

Myanmar’s small but growing coterie of tech entrepreneurs will likely have to wait some time before attracting significant seed money from abroad, according to the head of Intel’s venture capital wing.

“Myanmar does not yet have a venture capital ecosystem,” said Intel Capital president Arvind Sodhani, after announcing US$16 million worth of investments in India and Singapore at the World Economic Forum (WEF) gathering of chief executives and regional political leaders in the capital Naypyidaw. [Read more…]

Myanmar Investment Comission New Appointee List June 2013 compiled and provided by VDB-Loi in Myanmar.

MIC_Notification-No-42_2013 Includes Chairman, Members and Secretary.