China signs MOU for Mandalay-Rakhine railway

China and Myanmar signed an MOU this week for a new 650-kilometer railway line connecting Mandalay with Kyaukpyu, Rakhine State. The new railway will join with another planned line from Mandalay to Muse, creating an unbroken line from the Bay of Beng

Mandalay-Muse railway work to begin next year

Preliminary work on a railway project connecting Muse, near the China border, with Mandalay is due to begin next year. U Myat Thu, Mandalay Minister for Planning and Finance, told a daily that the line is among nine “essential projects” that form