Tag Archive: Myanmar

• Mar-18-2022

  Myanmar – Thai baht and Chinese yuan acceptable in border trading.

  According to several reports Myanmar has made it legal to use Thai baht and Chinese yuans in border trading. It...

• Mar-18-2022

  Myanmar – Is Russia involved in the printing of Burmese banknotes?

  Giesecke+Devrient has suspended in early 2021 the printing of Burmese banknotes in response of growing violence following the military coup...

• Feb-8-2021

  Myanmar – Government denies rumors of demonetization of large bills.

     You saw it first here… Rumours and fake news were spread in social media about the demonetization of large...

• Jun-19-2020

  Myanmar – New banknote of 500 kyats.

        You saw it here first! The Central Bank of Myanmar announced yesterday, 18 June 2020, that on...

• Jun-17-2020

  Myanmar – More new notes to be issued.

  U Soe Min, Vice-Governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar, declared on Monday that the image of Independence hero General...

• Jan-7-2020

  Myanmar – New banknote of 1,000 kyats issued.

  On January 4, to mark the 72nd Anniversary of Independence, the Central Bank of Myanmar started distributing the new banknote...

• Dec-20-2019

  Myanmar – New banknote.

  The Central Bank of Myanmar announced the issuing of new 1,000-kyat (MMK1,000.3) currency notes with the image of late national...

• May-24-2019

  Myanmar – The Central Bank halts use of foreign currency.

  The Central Bank of Myanmar is attempting to curb the use of foreign currency in private payments, as it tries...

• May-19-2019

  Myanmar – New banknotes in 2020.

  Myanmar’s Parliament approved on May 17 the issue of a new family of notes with the portrait of General Aung...

• Jan-10-2019

  Myanmar – Forgeries of 10,000 kyat notes.

  News about forged notes of 10,000 kyats (MMK10,000.1 and MMK10,000.2) have led many merchants in Myanmar to refuse them. Several people caught...

• Nov-17-2017

  Myanmar

  The Lower House of Parliament approved putting the picture of late Independence hero Gen. Aung San on the country’s currency....

• Oct-31-2017

  Myanmar

  The issue of new banknotes with the image of Bogyoke Aung San has been proposed in Parliament. The new notes...

• Jun-14-2017

  Myanmar

  The Central Bank of Myanmar announced today that it will issue this year more secure banknotes of 5,000 and 10,000...