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.
Feb 20, 2020
THE Pyithu Hluttaw’s 15th regular session held its 9th day meeting yesterday, with questions to the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Health and Sports and the Ministry of Construction.
The MPs also discussed preparing the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) in implementing the ASEAN Economic Community.
The Hluttaw also approved recommendations of Bill Committee for bylaws of Pyithu Hluttaw Election, Amyotha Hluttaw Election and State/Region Hluttaw Election.
Feb 20, 2020
THE 15th regular session of Amyotha Hluttaw held its 9th day meeting yesterday, and the questions of MPs were answered by the Deputy Ministers from the Ministry of Electricity and Energy, the Ministry of Planning, Finance and Industry, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation and the Ministry of Health and Sports.
MP U Soe Thein from Kayah State constituency 9 asked about the number of petrol filling stations in Yangon, licensing policy for the stations and regulations for safety measures against natural disasters.
Feb 20, 2020
CHIEF Justice U Htun Htun Oo of the Union Supreme Court stressed the need for the judges at different levels of court to uphold its independent judicial entity in his opening speech at the 18th coordination meeting between the Union Supreme Court and the high courts of states/regions and the districts’ courts, held at the USC Meeting Hall in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.
Feb 20, 2020
THE Ministry of Health and Sports released the updated information about its surveillance measures against the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on 19 February.
1. The Ministry of Health and Sports is conducting the screening process to prevent respiratory disease COVID-19, which is now spreading China and other countries, at the international gateways and at the hospitals, through public-centered monitoring processes and in coordination with private hospitals.
Feb 20, 2020
CHAIRMAN U Hla Thein of the Union Election Commission received Mr Holly Ruthrauff, leader of the External Team of Election Experts of the Department for International Development – DFID (UKaid), and delegation at the UEC office in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.