March 26, 2021
TOKYO, 26 March 2021: Six private Japanese firms and a
Japanese state entity admit they paid rent on the Y Complex hotel and real
estate project that ultimately went to Myanmar’s defence ministry, according to
a Reuters report on Wednesday.
YANGON, 23 December 2020: Longtime Yangon resident and travel specialist, Edwin Briels, has been elected to the Myanmar Tourism Marketing committee for a second two-year term.
In a message to travel trade colleagues on
Facebook, he noted that the MTM would go into 2021 with a strong pitch to
regain consumer confidence with “soft stories and press releases.”
Briels headed Khiri Travel in Myanmar before opening his own travel venture Exploration Travel earlier this year.
Edwin Briels (Credit: Facebook)
Meanwhile, Myanmar resumed domestic flights
16 December after an almost nation-wide lockdown to battle the Covid-19
pandemic.
The Ministry of Health and Sports and the