October we will house our relaxed evening with drinks and food at The Strand Hotel in Yangon.

There will be a small Swedish food menu available with Gubbrora Burritos, Gravalax toast 3 pcs or Swedish meat ball on potato mash for only US$ 6.

Place: Strand Hotel, 92 Strand Road, Yangon
Time: 7 pm - 9 pm
Date: Last wednesday day of every month.

FÄRGFABRIKEN Center for Art, Architecture and Urbanism in Stockholm, Sweden, and TS.1 Gallery, Yangon, have the pleasure and honour to invite you to a seminar called New Urban Topologies at the Summit Parkview Hotel in Yangon, May 4-6.  The program is attached.

Your attendance would be much appreciated in this time of transition for Myanmar's largest city. Experiences and knowledge will be shared by several speakers from Myanmar, but also from Indonesia, Cambodia and Sweden. Our aim is to bring togther all different stakeholders to explore a holistic, creative view of urban development, an approach that we have so far employed in nine different  countries in Europe and Asia.

Kindly confirm your attendance to [email protected] no later than April 30. For additional backgrund, please open www.fargfabriken.se and click on New Urban Topologies

A new board has now been elected and focused on expanding our chamber there is also a new program for the fall.

The board for 2014 is:
Chairman: Andreas Sigurdsson (Individual member)          
Director (Vice Chairman): Jan Wassenius (Ericsson Myanmar)
Director (Secretary): Björn Sidfeldt (Individual member)     
Director (Treasurer): Linda Gadd (Individual member)
Director: Representative from the Swedish Diplomatic Mission in Yangon (Honorary Member)

Upcoming events to join!


Wednesday Oct 22 
Joint Chamber Board drink at Strand hotel 18.00 - All boards welcome.

Wednesday Oct 29 
Meatballs at Mojo 18.00 - Public event

Saturday Nov 15 
Golf at Pun Hlaing, SWEDCHAM's 2nd ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT

Wednesday Nov 28 
Meatballs at Mojo 18.00 - Public event

Saturday Dec 13 
Lucia celebration/Christmas party

Swedish Schlager and Meatballs at Mojo on April 4

In April we will arrange our second Schlager & Meatball event!

It is a relaxed and social afterwork at Mojo with a long table in the middle and Swedish Schlager Music playing from 6 to 9pm.  There will be a set of meatballs with mashed potatoes plus beer, wine and soft drinks to buy. Feel free to drop in during the evening and bring along friends.

Venue: Mojo
Address: Opposite Savoy Hotel on 135 Inya rd by the crossing of Dhamazeddi rd
Time: 6 to 9pm
Date: Friday, April 4th 

Find details and map here:
http://myanmore.com/yangon/nightlife-listings/listing/mojo

Join our new monthly event, a relaxed afterwork at Mojo. We will have a long table in the middle and play Swedish Schlager Music from 6 to 9pm. 

We will try to arrange some Swedish snacks and there will be beer, wine and soft drinks to buy.

Feel free to drop in during the evening and bring along friends.

Venue: Mojo
Address: Opposite Savoy Hotel on 135 Inya rd by the crossing of Dhamazeddi rd
Time: 6 to 9pm
Date: Friday, February 28th 

Find details and map here:
http://myanmore.com/yangon/nightlife-listings/listing/mojo

Doing Business in Myanmar: Ericsson's experiences from setting up an operation.
Join for a presentation by Johan Adler at Ericsson that will share experiences about setting up an office, participating in tenders, recruiting staff and many other things foreign companies face when establishing in an new market.

Format: An evening presentation with mingle over beer and snacks
Date: February 13th
Time: 6.30pm to 8pm
Location: 1st Floor, Annex Building, Strand Hotel, Yangon