Burma will soon have 7-Eleven convenience stores, according to a report by the Bangkok-based newspaper The Nation. The Japanese-owned company is working with a local partner, Zaygabar Co, to to bring the international chain to Burma, the newspaper said, citing a report by the Eleven Media Group, based in Rangoon. “They already met in Thailand to discuss the matter,†said a source citedin the report. “The [Zaygabar] company is trying its best to establish the stores within this year,†the sources said. There are more than 40,000 7-Eleven stores worldwide, with some 45,000 staff.

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Sounds good...I love 7-eleven. There are something like 3000 of them in Thailand alone and Myanmar of all places will be next so that's quite exciting for them and foreign travellers to Myanmar. Currently, Vietnam has circle K but no 7-elevens. Cambodia and Laos have their own convenience stores but no 7-elevens yet either.

I like the way you can judge the size of a Thai town by how many 7-11s it has. When I first stayed up in Isan it was in a one 7-11 town, now it has two. That place is on the up.