News: Aisa Focus (ျမန္မာ့ လွ်ပ္စစ္မီး ျပႆနာ ေျဖရွင္းရန္ ကမၻာ့ဘဏ္ ေငြထပ္ေခ်းၿပီ) စစ္အစိုးရ လက္ထက္က ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံကို ဓါတ္ေငြ႕ေရာင္းဖို႔ (၂၀၃၀) အထိ စာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္ၿပီးသားတဲ့။ အဲလက္ထက္က ေခ်းထားခဲ့တဲ့ အေၾကြး ေဒၚလာသန္းေပါင္း (၄၄၀)ကိုလည္း World Bank က ေလွ်ာ္ထားေပးၿပီး ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းတဲ့။ The World Bank is lending Myanmar US$140 Million to upgrade an ageing power plant in southeastern Mon State in a small step toward overcoming chronic power shortages. Myanmar which exports natural gas to Thailand under contracts signed by its former military government, has suffered an energy deficit for years. The World Bank said the interest-free loan would fund a refurbishment of the Thaton gas-fired plant, increasing its generating capacity by 250% without an increase in its gas consumption. It is the first World Bank loan to Myanmar since it forgave $440 million of unpaid debt in January.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:03:28 +0000