Jan 24, 2020
A coordination meeting on closing a camp of the internally displaced persons-IDPs in Kyaukpyu was held at the Rakhine State Government Office in Sittway on 21st January.
The Kyauktalon Camp will be closed in accordance with the IDP camps closure National Strategy which will ensure all displaced people at IDP camps return home safely and with dignity and rebuild their life without depending on others, said Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr Win Myat Aye in his opening remarks at the meeting.
Jan 23, 2020
The Information and Public Relations Department under the Ministry of Information held its 29th anniversary at its headquarters in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
It was attended by Union Minister Dr Pe Myint, Permanent Secretary U Myo Myint Maung, departmental heads, officers and staff members.
The Union Minister extended his appreciation to officers and staff members of IPRD at all levels of States, Regions, districts and townships, who contributed to development and improvement of the department.
Jan 23, 2020
The Tatmadaw True News Team organized a press conference at the Defence Services Museum in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.
It was attended by Chairman of Tatmadaw True News Team Maj-Gen Soe Naing Oo, Vice Chairman Maj-Gen Tun Tun Nyi, Secretary Brig-Gen Zaw Min Tun and senior military officers from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Army).
Media personnel from local news agencies, daily newspapers, journals, local TV news agencies and locally-based foreign news agencies were also present at the press.
Jan 23, 2020
THE Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population and the Thales, a French multinational company, jointly organized an e-ID and e-passport workshop yesterday at the ministry in Nay Pyi Taw.
Speaking at the workshop, Union Minister for Labour, Immigration and Population U Thein Swe said his ministry, after forming a working committee, is implementing an e-ID system which would collect the biometric data of people in Myanmar and add them to a database after individual data are assigned Unique Identity (UID) numbers and registered.
Jan 23, 2020
SEMINAR on ‘Establishment of Credit Guarantee Corporation (CGC) and Financing for MSMEs’ was held in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday focusing on SMEs and MSMEs Financing in the areas of government policies, regulation and credit services for SMEs.
It was jointly organized by Ministry of Planning, Finance and Industry and the Bank of Thailand in M Gallery Hotel.
Jan 22, 2020
COMMANDER-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing received Colonel Khamlek Sengphachanh, Chief of Lao Air Force, at Zeyathiri Beikman in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday evening.
They discussed how Myanmar and Laos are close neighbours with friendly relations and increasing cooperation between the air forces of both nations and sending friendly visits to each other, according to news released by the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services.
MNA
PHOTO: C-IN-C’S OFFICE
(Translated by Zaw Htet Oo)
Jan 22, 2020
Myanmar and Japan signed yesterday the four Exchange of Notes for four loan projects, which will be implemented with the loan worth about 120,915 million Yen, according to the Embassy of Japan in Yangon.
Jan 22, 2020
Mandalay Electricity Supply Corporation, Electricity Supply Enterprise, Ministry of Electricity and Energy, and Hitachi Soe Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd. (HISEM), a tender winner for the National Electrification Project (NEP) Phase-II, signed a contract at the ministry in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Union Minister for Electricity and Energy U Win Khaing said the first phase of the National Electrification Project (NEP) was begun after a loan of US$ 310 million was received from World Bank.
Jan 22, 2020
India government offered 20,000 relief aid bags, totally worth of US$235,456, to the internally displaced persons in Rakhine State.
Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr Win Myat Aye attended the donation ceremony held at a jetty warehouse in Sittway, the capital city of Rakhine State, yesterday.
Jan 21, 2020
The Union Election Commission jointly organized a workshop with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on the prevention of hate speech, fake news and misleading information.
Chairman of UEC U Hla Thein made an opening remark on the workshop, saying the important role of social media in modern communications, its advantages and challenges including hate speech, fake news and wrong information.
He remarked on the needs for prevention of these problems in the country where the social media users have amounted to 21 million in 2020, compared with 7 million in 2015.