I had the pleasure of meeting this gentleman, Mr. Stanley Weiss, last year in Bangkok and since then I’ve been following his work, columns and interviews. I highly suggest you watch the interview below as he discusses SE Asia and specifically Indonesia and Myanmar. American businessman Stanley Weiss, the founding Chairman of Business Executives for National […]
Read More →Another great writeup by my friend Roger Lee Huang who’s doing his thesis on Myanmar. Major changes are currently taking place in Myanmar. In little over a year, the nominally civilian government under President Thein Sein has introduced a series of liberal reforms leading to rapprochement with the West. The re-engagement with the broader international […]
Read More →Given that the market has begun to waver around the 1,200 point over the past week and with foreign fund flows slowing slightly we have to ask, should the SET Index continue to be so bullish? Brokerage houses are now upping their targets for the SET Index this year, others are starting to place targets […]
Read More →Foreigners will no longer need a local partner to set up businesses in Myanmar and may be granted a five-year tax holiday from the start of commercial operations, according to the draft of a new investment law obtained by Reuters. This is a very big step ahead. Together with reform of the FX law, this moves […]
Read More →My good friend Roger, who’s doing his PhD specifically on Myanmar recently wrote this paper on the developments there today. It’s a country that is going to grow extremely quickly, my only fear for them is that the government takes a short term viewpoint to the country’s future, although I’ve been assured by several parties […]
Read More →Roger, the author of this article, is a close friend of mine from our international high school days in Bangkok and he’s now doing his PhD thesis on Myanmar. He has an absolutely brillant if quirky mind on politics and history in general. Now I just quickly want to throw in my thoughts re Myanmar. Myanmar […]
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