Pre-1995 model cars to be deregistered
Old buses in Yangon will be replaced with the modern buses. Photo: Phoe Khwar Following up the deregistration of 20-year-old buses, pre-1995 and 1995 model cars in Yangon will continue to be swapped,...
View ArticleSearch continues amid slight improvement in weather
Military personal carry bodies at Maungmalcan Beach. Photo:MNA Twenty-six bodies from the downed military transport plane were discovered yesterday, bringing the total number of bodies to 59. The...
View ArticleState Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi arrives in Sweden
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is welcomed by Myanmar Embassy staff as she arrives at Stockholm Airport in Sweden. Photo: MNA State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Sweden at 1.30 pm...
View ArticleReproductive health education discussed at Amyotha Hluttaw
Speaker of Amyotha Hluttaw Mahn Win Khaing Than. New buildings for a high school in Rakhine State, a bill amending the Myanmar Coastal and Inland Water Transport License Law, and reproductive health...
View ArticleFlooding, irrigation, crop insurance discussed at Pyithu Hluttaw
Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw U Win Myint. Land use in Nay Pyi Taw, reduction of flooding and the repair and construction of irrigation ditches were among the issues discussed at yesterday’ meeting of the...
View ArticleState Counsellor: UN Rakhine probe would have increased tensions
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven at the Government Rosenbad in Stockholm, Sweden, yesterday. Photo: Reuters A United Nations decision last year to send...
View ArticleState Counsellor meets Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Sweden’s Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom (R) stand outside the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm, Sweden on 12 June 2017. Photo: MNA State Counsellor Daw Aung...
View ArticleMyanmar’s first graders receive first new curriculum in 20 years
Children learn lessons at a school. Photo: Supplied by JICA MORE than one million first grade schoolchildren will receive new textbooks starting this month based on a curriculum developed by the...
View ArticleNay Pyi Taw car accident victims get cash assistance
Nay Pyi Taw Council Chairman Dr Myo Aung presents cash assistance to the relative of a victim. Photo: MNA An accident involving a Mandalar Min express bus and a truck carrying workers occured yesterday...
View ArticleOver Ks 3 billion to be spent for rural development
Sagaing Region Planning and Financial Department will spend a total of Ks 3.133 billion on the rural development in Pale township, Yinmabin district in Sagaing region in FY2017-2018, according to a...
View ArticleHuts occupied by squatters cleared
Workers demolishing one of many huts built by squatters on a State owned project site near the Yangon-Mandalay Highway. Authorities demolished about 400 huts occupied by squatters in outskirts of...
View ArticleMyanmar- Thai friendship cycling tour held in Kawthoung
Participants cycling at the opening ceremony of the 4th Myanmar-Thai cycling tour in Kawthoung. The opening ceremony of 4th Myanmar- Thai Friendship cycling tour was held in front of clock tower at...
View ArticleCash assistance donated for aircrew, military personnel and families onboard...
Lt-Gen Sein Win accepts cash assistance for the families of victims from the Y-8 plane crash. Yesterday in Nay Pyi Taw, Union Minister for Defence Lt-Gen Sein Win accepted cash assistance donated for...
View Article2nd Amyotha Hluttaw 5th regular session 13th day meeting
Road tarring in Chin State, construction project monitoring, and the status of the Inland Waterway Transport Bill were among the issues discussed at yesterday’s Amyotha Hluttaw meeting in Nay Pyi Taw....
View ArticleEducation Ministry to remove hurdles to jobs for disabled
The Ministry of Education will make arrangements to have undemocratic orders and instructions which are hindering disabled persons from acquiring jobs repealed or amended as needed after careful...
View ArticleChairmen of Amyotha Hluttaw Committees meet representatives from Yangon...
Rights Committee of Amyotha Hluttaw held talks with Yangon Region Hluttaw’s Pledges, Guarantees and Undertakings Vetting Committee and the Committee on Scrutinizing the Hluttaw Representatives over...
View ArticleState Counsellor addresses Swedish Parliament
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi gives a speech at the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament, in Stockholm yesterday. Photo: TT News Agency/Christine Olsson via REUTERS Speech by H.E. Daw Aung San Suu...
View ArticleMoney donated for victims of plane crash
Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U Win Myint hands over cash donation for families of the victims of plane crash to Brig-Gen Maung Maung in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. Cash assistance was given yesterday by the...
View ArticleDaw Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Swedish PM Mr. Stefan Löfven
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven hold talks at the Government Rosenbad in Stockholm yesterday. Photo: MNA State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi met with...
View ArticleOutgoing Austrian Ambassador calls on President
President U Htin Kyaw shakes hands with Austrian Ambassador Mr. Enno Drofenik. Photo: MNA President U Htin Kyaw met Austrian Ambassador Mr. Enno Drofenik, who had completed his tour of duty in Myanmar,...
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