In the past, the Department of Business Development (“DBD”) did not allow registering the “tourism” as a business objective of a legal entity unless such entity was first approved by the Department of Tourism (“DOT”) to do the tourism business.  The DBD also did not allow using the term “tourism business” as the name or... Read More

On Monday 20 August 2018, the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the Intellectual Property Association of Thailand (IPAT) co-organized a half-day policy dialogue on border measures-challengers and successes and best practices in combatting online counterfeiting in Bangkok, Thailand.  Speakers and participants were government officials from the Thailand Department of Intellectual Property, the Royal Thai Customs... Read More

1.   Major Legislations (1)  The Digital Asset Business Operation Emergency Decree B.E. 2561 (A.D. 2018) (“DABO”). (2)  The Revenue Code Amendment (No. 19) Emergency Degree B.E. 2561 (A.D. 2018) (“ARCA”). (3)  Implementation rules and regulations for implementing the laws under (1) and (2) issued by the Ministry of Finance (“MOF”) and the Securities and Exchange... Read More

On 23rd July 2018, the Ministry of Planning and Finance issued its Notification No. 66/2018 called the Myanmar Companies Regulations 2018 (“MCR”) under Section 462(1)(a) of the Myanmar Companies Law 2017 (“MCL”) to regulate company registration and compliance procedures.  Some of the major provisions of the MCR include:- 1.  An electronic registry system called “MyCo”... Read More

On 26th July 2018, the Ministry of Commerce of Myanmar (“MOC”) issued its Newsletter No. 3/2018 to list goods permitted for wholesale and retail sale businesses of foreigners or Myanmar-foreigner joint ventures (“List”) pursuant to the MOC Notification No. 25/2018 dated 9th May 2018. The permitted goods consist of 24 groups including: 1.  consumer goods... Read More