"Myanmar government has launched migration of Unicode standard across the country to support e-government program for the development of the nation. The use of Unicode standard system has become an important stage under Myanmar's e-governance master plan, State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi said at the launching ceremony in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday. She called for using the common standard communication system and language between the government ministries, its departments, business companies and the public. She stressed the importance to have a common font system which would help for a wider use in online applications such as online shopping, mobile money and mobile health as well as e-visa, e-passport and e-ticketing. Witnessing an increase in Myanmar's e-government development index from level 169 in 2016 to 157 in 2018, Suu Kyi attributed the significant surge to setting up over 40,000 km of internet fiber cable during the two years' period and the building of 15,000 mobile telecom stations with over 50 million mobile phone users..."