MYANMAR’S largest gem and jade trading consortium, the Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited (UMEHL), will hold its 20th biannual sale at the Myanma Gem Enterprise headquarters on Kaba Aye Pagoda Road from January 16 to 19.

COMMODITY prices were down across the board last week as new harvests meant more produce on the market. Matpe, however, continued a price rise which began mid-December, sources at Myanmar’s biggest commodity wholesale market, the Yangon’s Bayintnaung Complex, said.

ALTHOUGH the construction season has arrived, sales for building materials were down about 50 per cent at the end of December.

SITTING back comfortably in his swivel chair with a contented expression, U Zaw Lin Aung, the managing director of Shwemyan Shwesan Concrete Products Co., Ltd, explained how he got into manufacturing bricks from concrete rather than the traditional clay.