Feb 23, 2020
Myanmar movie industry gets new service provider
Union Minister for Information Dr. Pe Myint attended the launching of the movie and television production aid provider of CMB Films Myanmar Co; Ltd in Dagon Myothit (North), Yangon, yesterday.
Feb 22, 2020
The Tatmadaw True News Team organized a press conference at the Defence Services Museum in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
The press conference 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 also attended the press conference.
Feb 22, 2020
AN opening ceremony for the Thanlyin-Thilawa Road Extension Project was held at the near-by Thanlyin Bridge in Thanlyin Township yesterday morning.
Feb 21, 2020
Eighteen people have been hospitalized after a fire broke out at Than Zay building in Yangon’s Latha Township around 6 am yesterday morning.
The fire also destroyed 42 stalls on the second floor of the 11-storey building before firefighters put it out at 9:10 am.
The building is a combination of a market area from the ground floor to the sixth floor, and residential apartments for the remaining floor. Firefighters, Tatmadaw and police officers and other personnel were able to evacuate the 85 residents of the building with no casualties reported.
Feb 21, 2020
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement held a coordination meeting to draft a guideline for developing action plans to close IDP camps in line with the National Strategy on Resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
Attending the meeting were Union Minister Dr Win Myat Aye, Deputy Minister U Soe Aung, representatives from relevant ministries, state/regional governments and UEHRD, and Prof Walter Kaelin, International Consultant from Switzerland.
Feb 21, 2020
1. The Ministry of Health and Sports has been conducting surveillance activities on the COVID-19 acute respiratory disease, which has spread throughout China and some countries around the world, at international entry-exit checkpoints, hospital-based, community-based and in cooperation with private hospitals.
Feb 21, 2020
Education Ministry discusses quality assur
Feb 21, 2020
he Ministry of Health and Sports convened a meeting with officials from US CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the surveillance and containment of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) yesterday.
Permanent Secretary Dr Thar Tun Kyaw and MoHS officials met with the US CDC Program Director for its Thailand office Dr Joshua Mott (Asia Regional Influenza Program) and Country Director Dr Mitesh Desai from its Myanmar office and their teams.
Feb 21, 2020
The Myanmar National Symphony Orchestra of Myanma Radio and Television under the Ministry of Information, together with Japanese artistes, featured their performances at the Novotel Hotel in Yangon yesterday evening.
The event, dubbed ‘Myanmar National Symphony Orchestra Concerts 2020’, was attended by Yangon Region Hluttaw Deputy Speaker U Lin Naing Myint, Yangon Region Government’s Rakhine Ethnic Affairs Minister U Zaw Aye Maung, Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar Mr Ichiro Maruyama, heads of foreign missions in Myanmar, the invited guests and music lovers.
Feb 21, 2020
The Legal Translation Commission held their sixth meeting at the office of the Union Attorney-General on 19 February.
Commission Chairman and Union Attorney-General, U Tun Tun Oo, said the fifth meeting discussed the translation of four laws which will be included in volume 7 of translated laws.
He said they have published 20 laws up to volume 6 and this three-day meeting will discuss translation of the Penal Code, the Negotiable Instruments Act, and the Public Property Protection Act.