The Private Sector Development Committee, chaired by Vice President U Myint Swe, and businesspersons met in Yangon yesterday to discuss reforms, including bringing about changes in export and import rules and policies.
Hnin Si Yin Kwin Foundation donated cash and foodstuffs for disaster-hit people at the office of the Disaster Management Department in Yangon yesterday.
Foreign investments are likely to increase in the current financial year once proposals for offshore oil exploration and minerals extraction are scrutinized and approved, said U Thaung Tun, the Union Minister for Investment and Foreign Economic Relations.
Yesterday morning a Nepali delegation led by President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal Mrs Bidya Devi Bhandari who was on a State Visit to Myanmar attended a donation ceremony of 30 Buddha images of various mudras that were to be donated to the Lumbini museum in Nepal.
A Myanmar delegation led by Vice President U Henry Van Thio left Yangon by air for Jakarta, Indonesia yesterday morning to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new Republic of Indonesia government.
