Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker receives Swedish Parliament Speaker
Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker Mahn Win Khaing Than holds talks with Swedish Parliament Speaker in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker Mahn Win Khaing Than received his counterpart, H.E. Mr. Urban...
View ArticlePyithu Hluttaw Speaker U Win Myint receives Swedish Parliament Speaker
Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker holds talks with Swedish Parliament Speaker. Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U Win Myint received a delegation led by H.E. Mr. Urban Ahlin, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament (the...
View ArticleVP U Myint Swe receives FEC’s Japan-ASEAN Cultural and Economic Exchange...
Vice President U Myint Swe holds talks with Mr. Norio Yamaguchi at the Presidential Palace in Nay Pyi Taw. Vice President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Myint Swe received a delegation led...
View ArticleState Counsellor receives President of the Russian-Myanmar Society of...
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi welcomes Mr. MikhailA. Dmitriev at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor and Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of...
View ArticlePresident U Htin Kyaw receives Sweden’s Parliament Speaker
President U Htin Kyaw welcomes Sweden’s Parliament Speaker Mr. Urban Ahlin. President U Htin Kyaw received Speaker of the Swedish Parliament H.E. Mr. Urban Ahlin and his delegation at 4 pm yesterday at...
View ArticleThura U Shwe Mann receives Sweden’s Parliament Speaker
Thura U Shwe Mann in discussion with Mr. Urban Ahlin. Chairman of Legal Affairs and the Special Cases Assessment Commission of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann received Sweden’s Parliament Speaker...
View ArticleSecond batch of aid from Malaysia arrives at Buthidaung Port
Officials on deck as aid from Malaysia are unloaded from the Aung Kyaw Moe (1). Rice and other items donated by Malaysia for villages in Rakhine’s Buthidaung and Maungtaw Townships left Sittway on the...
View Article4th meeting held for Myanmar Democracy Film Festival
Union Minister for Information Dr. Pe Myint addresses the meeting for the weeklong Myanmar Democracy Film Festival yesterday in Yangon. A meeting for the weeklong Myanmar Democracy Film Festival was...
View ArticleThilawa SEZ begins expansion
Vice President U Henry Van Thio and dignitaries cut a ceremonial ribbon to launch the expansion project of the Thilawa SEZ. An expansion project of the Section 2 of the Thilawa Special economic zone...
View ArticleAntagonism, extreme nationalism behind assassination of U Ko Ni: Police Chief
Personal antagonism and extreme nationalism was behind the assassination of legal adviser to the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) U Ko Ni, said Union Minister for Home Affairs Lt-Gen Kyaw...
View ArticleGovernment will provide loans in 2017 to develop the SMEs
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide Ks 15 billion loan through the government to develop small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in 2017, according to Directorate of Industrial...
View ArticleHimalaya Airlines launches commercial flights to Yangon
Himalaya Airlines on Friday launched scheduled commercial flights to Yangon, Myanmar, its fourth destination since the operations started last year. The airline said the flight to Myanmar is part of...
View ArticleYangon Book Plaza hopes to inspire Myanmar literature
Union Minister Dr Pe Myint of the Ministry of Information, Yangon Mayor U Maung Maung Soe and Chairman of Yangon Book Plaza and Daw Thet Thet Naing cut the ribbon yesterday that officially opened the...
View ArticleCambodian deputy PM arrives in Nay Pyi Taw
Speaker of Parliament of Sweden Mr Urban arrives at Nay Pyi Taw International airport. Photo: MNA Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister H.E. Hor Namhong arrived yesterday evening at Nay Pyi Taw...
View ArticleKhami ethnics in Maungtaw attacked with knife, axe
Two members of the Khami ethnic group in Rakhine State were attacked with a knife and an axe by three unknown people in a village in Maungtaw Township, Rakhine State. The attack occurred as the two...
View ArticleMemorial for U Ko Ni, revered High Court Lawyer, and U Nay Win, heroic taxi...
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi give words of condolence at the memorial service for U Ko Ni, the slain high court lawyer, and U Nay Win, the taxi driver who gave his life trying to apprehend the assassin. Photo:...
View ArticleVP U Henry Van Thio inspects regional development works in Kanpetlet & Mindat
Vice President Henry Van Thio meets with locals at Zalattwa Hall. Photo:MNA Vice President U Henry Van Thio inspected the regional development works in Kanpetlet and Mindat on February 26. Accompanied...
View ArticleUPDJC holds discussion for security sector
The political parties’ group included in the Union Peace and Development Joint Committee conducted a workshop to discuss the security sector yesterday in Yangon. At the workshop, the secretary of the...
View ArticleKBZ Bank opens settlement account in US
Dignitaries pose for a photo at the ceremony to announce USD settlement account between KBZ Bank and SMBC New York. Photo: Thura Lwin (Eco) Kanbawza Bank (KBZ Bank) Limited, part of the KBZ Group of...
View ArticleMyanma Railways to decrease freight rates as of 1 March
The circular train is crowded with passengers at Yangon Central Railways Station. Photo: Phoe Khwar AS PART OF its plans to offer extensive passenger and freight transportation services to commuters,...
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