The price of rice in the domestic market is rising in spite of the decline in rates in the export market, said U Than Oo, secretary, Bayintnaung commodity depot.

Foreign investments in Mandalay Region from January to early June this year amounted to more than US$ 73 million, according to a senior official from the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration’s Mandalay branch.

AT the sixth Food & Hotel Myan-mar (FHMM) 2019 held from 5 to 7 June at the Myanmar Expo in Yangon, METRO Wholesale My-anmar engaged with thousands of  trade  visitors.  METRO  was  the  lead  exhibitor  of  the  trade  event  drawing  representatives  from hotels, restaurants and ca-terers  as  well  as  independent  traders to its booth to show case its diverse product range and in-novative one-stop-shop solution that is unique to Myanmar.

VISA, the world’s leader in dig-ital  payments,  announced  the  people of Myanmar continue to embrace digital payments with increased  consumer  spending  and  more  merchants  accept-ing digital payments across the country.

Majority of the people think of WTO as an organization aim-ing  for  Free  Trade.  However,  one should note that Free Trade is not always Fair Trade. Quot-ing  directly  from  its  website  WTO  say  it  is  the  only  inter-national  organization  dealing  with the global rules of trade. Its main function is to ensure that trade  flows  as  smoothly,  pre-dictably and freely as possible.

Myanmar’s exports of agricultural products from 1 October to 31 May in the current fiscal year crossed US$2.3 billion from $2.09 billion in the corresponding period of the 2017-2018FY, according to trade figures released by the Ministry of Commerce.