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Myanmar launches digital platform to modernize rice industry

STORY: Myanmar launches digital platform to modernize rice industry SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 3, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 4, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:32 LOCATION: Nay Pyi Taw CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the event STORYLINE: The Department of Consumer Affairs of Myanmar's Ministry of Commerce and the Myanmar Rice Federation jointly launched the Myanmar Rice Online (MyRO) website to transform the country's rice industry. A ceremony to launch the digital platform MyRO was held in Nay Pyi Taw on Friday and was attended by over 200 people, including government officials, businesspersons and media. Speaking at the event, Deputy Prime Minister and Union Minister for Planning and Finance U Win Shein said that the registration of storage warehouses and rice millers at MyRO website would help enhance stability in domestic rice prices and ensure the calculation of a balanced level of domestic rice sufficiency for rice export. He further emphasized that this event marks just the initial phase of the journey t

Meeting on Myanmar in Tokyo

Meeting on Myanmar in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar's finance and revenue minister Win Shein (back) delivers a speech during a meeting of officials from Myanmar and its main creditors held in Tokyo on Oct. 11, 2012 to discuss how to settle roughly $900 million in overdue debt to help the country's economic development. In the front is Japanese Finance Minister Koriki Jojima.

Meeting on Myanmar in Tokyo

Meeting on Myanmar in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar's finance and revenue minister Win Shein (L) and Japanese Finance Minister Koriki Jojima shake hands during a meeting of officials from Myanmar and its main creditors held in Tokyo on Oct. 11, 2012 to discuss how to settle roughly $900 million in overdue debt to help the country's economic development.

Meeting on Myanmar in Tokyo

Meeting on Myanmar in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Koriki Jojima (back) speaks during a meeting of officials from Myanmar and its main creditors held in Tokyo on Oct. 11, 2012 to discuss how to settle roughly $900 million in overdue debt to help the country's economic development. In the front is Myanmar's finance and revenue minister Win Shein.