On 15 September 2026, Norwegian police announced that Telenor ASA, the Norwegian parent of the operator that once ran Telenor Myanmar, has been charged in two separate investigations linked to its Myanmar business. According to the joint press release from Kripos and PST (Norway’s national criminal investigation service and its domestic security service), published on … Read more
On September 17, 2026, PUBG MOBILE’s Myanmar publicity partner, Vero Myanmar, sent Myanmar Tech Press a press release about Yangon Galacticos’ trip to the PMGO 2026 Season 2 SEA Finals, held September 11–13 in Malaysia. The release is warm and forward-looking: it calls the tournament “a valuable experience,” quotes the team’s coach about eyeing the … Read more
In April 2026, a Myanmar-born AI researcher published a project that, on paper, sounds like exactly the kind of story a Myanmar tech outlet should have been first to tell: an open-source large language model that writes and explains code in Burmese. It didn’t come from a government ministry, a telecom operator, or a well-funded … Read more
Myanmar’s military-run Ministry of Immigration and Population has issued a pre-qualification tender for a “National e-ID Smart Card Pilot Project” covering the 2026-2027 fiscal year, seeking 110,000 cards that combine a chip-based smart card with a Visible Digital Seal (VDS) paper format, according to reporting by biometricupdate.com on September 8, 2026, which reviewed the procurement … Read more
This is Myanmar Tech Press’s weekly column, where we connect the past several days of coverage, check back on things we flagged earlier, and add the analysis that a single news article doesn’t have room for. This time, that means a phone that finally has a price tag, a banking order that may or may … Read more