Yangon | Simon Roughneen

From black market to stock market: changing times for money changers and tourists in Rangoon – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/39419 RANGOON – For foreigners edging sweatily along Rangoon’s humid streets, “change money?” is a common refrain around tourist...

Burma on track to set up stock exchange by late 2015 – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/35833 RANGOON — Burma remains on track to establish a stock exchange in the commercial hub of Rangoon by...

Faint waft for now from Rangoon’s budding coffee culture – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/35403 RANGOON — The same breeze blowing up through the wooden decking ripples the surface of the lake outside,...

IMF gives cautious thumbs-up on Burma’s growing economy – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/35270 RANGOON — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Burma’s economy is on track to top 6 percent growth...

Hot season highlights Rangoon’s water woes – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/33107 RANGOON — Pointing down at the three inches of water at the bottom of the school’s concrete tank,...

Businesses look for ways ahead in Burma – The Diplomat

http://thediplomat.com/2012/12/22/empowering-burmas-entrepreneurs/ RANGOON – Khin Yu Waddy Myint is manager at Pyrex Trading and Distribution, a Burmese pharmaceutical company that...

Asian giants revise Myanmar policy – The Irrawaddy (December 2012 print)

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/22757 YANGON—As reforms are slowly worked through Myanmar’s Parliament, there is a shift taking place in the country’s foreign...

Burma just opened up after 50 years. But where are all the tourists? – Christian Science Monitor

As Myanmar comes out of five decades of Army-imposed hibernation, it is finding the tourist game a tough one...

In Burma, “some things have changed, some things not yet” – Irish Examiner

Burma’s political glasnost sheds light on vast economic challenges facing one of the world’s poorest countries SIMON ROUGHNEEN IN...

Could Myanmar’s economic reform bring business to war-torn border regions? – Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2012/0910/Could-Myanmar-s-economic-reform-bring-business-to-war-torn-ethnic-regions Myanmar has passed a new foreign direct investment law. Now a cease-fire in the country’s Karen state has...