Best Western International has launched a new hotel in Yangon's Chinatown, the second of its properties in Myanmar after the opening of the Best Western Green Hill Hotel in Yangon in late 2013.

Myanmar is projected by Asian Development Bank to be a middle-income country by 2030 as the country's political and economic arenas undergo reforms to meet new challenges, said Aung Tun Thet, economic adviser to President Thein Sein at a seminar titled \