Feb 07, 2020
CONTRACTS were signed with a private firm to construct the bridges of Gyaing (Zathabyin) and Gyaing (Ahtayan) which are included in the package-2 under the project to upgrade three bridges on East-West Economic Corridor implemented by the Bridge Department under the Ministry of Construction with the ODA loan of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Feb 07, 2020
THE Central Committee on Monitoring and Prevention of 2019 Novel Coronavirus held their daily coordination meeting (10/2020) at the Ministry of Health and Sports yesterday.
Union Minister Dr Myint Htwe first addressed the meeting with a message to the public that the speed at which the virus is spreading in China is rising with each passing day, and has jumped from a rate of 2,000 new cases per day on 31 January 2020 to 4,000 per day as of 5 February 2020.
Feb 07, 2020
Deputy Commander in Chief of Defence Services Vice Senior General Soe Win visited the 11th edition of DefExpo in India on 5 February.
The Vice Senior General and party looked around military equipment displayed at the India Pavilion & Up Pavilion before they held discussions with Air Chief Marshal of India Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria at the Air Force parlour of expo about fostering existing bilateral relation between the two countries, implementations of bilateral agreements made in the meetings of air forces and experience sharing programme of air force experts.
Feb 06, 2020
A SECOND coordination meeting to successfully convene the 2nd Htamane making competition and fun fair between ministries was held at the meeting hall of the Ministry of Information in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.
Deputy Minister U Aung Hla Tun of Ministry of Information, in his capacity of the Competition Steering Committee Vice Chair, said at the meeting that the 1st Myanmar traditional Htamanel making competition and fun fair between ministries was held in Nay Pyi Taw last year.
Feb 05, 2020
UNION Minister for Health and Sports Dr Myint Htwe presided over a meeting of health authorities on monitoring and preventive measures against 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), held at his office in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
Feb 05, 2020
THE Joint Committee on Scrutinizing Second Bill Amending 2008 Constitution held a meeting at the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw building in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
Feb 05, 2020
FRENCH entrepreneurs met with their Myanmar counterparts at a business matching event organized on Monday at the headquarters of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI).
The French businessmen were led by Mr Francois Corbin, President of the French-Myanmar Business Council and ASEAN Committee for MEDEF International. They were accompanied by the French ambassador to Myanmar Mr. Christian Lechervy.
Feb 05, 2020
UNION Minister for Health and Sports Dr Myint Htwe urged his staff to continue raising high alert on the prevention of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
Senior health officers and officials from relevant state departments held their daily coordination meeting 9/2020 in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.
Feb 05, 2020
MYANMAR has seen a decline of opium cultivation in 2019 to 33,100 hectares, which was over 11 per cent drop from 37,300 hectares in 2018, according to the Myanmar Opium Survey 2019 report released in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.
The survey was jointly conducted by the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) of Myanmar and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and it has been carried out annually since 2001, together with collecting socioeconomic data of locals in opium cultivation areas.
Feb 05, 2020
THE Annual Report Writing Group of the National Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities held its fifth coordination meeting yesterday afternoon in the meeting hall of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief, and Resettlement in Nay Pyi Taw.