TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese business executive who was detained in Myanmar for more than a month has been released after being convicted of violating rice pricing rules, officials said Tuesday.

A Japanese business executive who was detained in Myanmar for more than a month has been released after being convicted of violating rice pricing rules, officials said Tuesday. Hiroshi Kasamatsu ...

Myanmar Releases a Japanese Executive After He Was Convicted for Selling Rice Above Set Prices TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese business executive who was detained in Myanmar for more than a month has ...

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Myanmar’s military authorities have arrested 11 people, including a Japanese executive, for selling rice at prices higher than prescribed levels. Officials said on Monday that the detainees ...

A worker carries bags of rice from a cargo boat at a jetty in Yangon, Myanmar, March 11, 2025. Myanmar's exports of rice and broken rice in the first 11 months of the 2024-25 fiscal year reached ...

YANGON, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's rice and broken rice exports reached 1.7 million tons in the first eight months of the current fiscal year 2024-2025, state-run Global New Light of Myanmar ...

July 1 - Four executives from supermarket chains in Myanmar, including a Japanese joint venture official, were arrested for selling rice at inflated prices, state media said on Monday, as the war ...