Feb 01, 2020
THE 2019-2020 Academic Year Basic Education Student Sports Festival awarding ceremony was held at 6 pm in Wunna Theikdi Stadium in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
Union Minister for Education Dr Myo Thein Gyi, Deputy Minister U Win Maw Tun, directors-general and deputy directors-general of MoE, officials from the Ministry of Health and Sports, and coaches and students from across the states and regions attended the ceremony.
Jan 31, 2020
THE second-day meeting of the Second Amyotha Hluttaw’s 15th regular session took place in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday where MPs raised starred questions and amendments to The Minimum Wage Law, 2013, were debated.
Firstly, uninducted Tatmadaw Amyotha Hluttaw representatives took and signed the oath of office in the presence of Speaker Mahn Win Khaing Than.
Jan 31, 2020
MYANMAR Ethnics Culture Festival 2020 will have the unveiling of its archway and exhibition booths at 7:30 am on 1 February and its formal opening ceremony at 6 pm on the same day in Kyaikkasan Grounds of Yangon Region. The festival will be held from 1 to 7 February.
The unveiling ceremony will be broadcast live starting from 7:15 am and the opening ceremony at 5:45 pm on the TV channels MRTV, MITV, NRC, Skynet Up To Date, Channel 9, Fortune TV, DVB, Myanma Radio and the Facebook pages of MRTV Radio, Ministry of Information, MRTV and Myanmar Digital News on the same day.
Jan 31, 2020
THE Second Pyidaungsu Hluttaw held its 4th day meeting of 15th regular session yesterday, approving to get Euro 50 million ODA loan from the Government of Poland for rubbish recycling project in Yangon municipal area.
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker U T Khun Myat announced the record of Hluttaw on reforming residential quarters and townships in Yangon Region. The motion was sent by the President’s Office.
Jan 31, 2020
Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker Mahn Win Khaing Than received Ambassador of Viet Nam Mr Ly Quoc Tuan at the Amyotha Hluttaw guest hall in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
During the meeting, they cordially discussed promoting friendship relations and cooperation between Myanmar and Viet Nam and strengthening of inter-parliamentary communications.
Also present at the meeting were Deputy Speaker of Amyotha Hluttaw U Aye Tha Aung and officials from Amyotha Hluttaw office.
MNA
(Translated by TTN)
Photo: MNA
Ref: The Global New Light of Myanmar
Jan 31, 2020
THE Oversight Committee on Car Imports and Related Activities held meeting No. (1/2020) at the Ministry of Commerce yesterday.
Committee Chairman and Union Minister for Commerce Dr Than Myint said they had announced the model year regulation for car imports in 2020 with Notification No. 60/2019 on 31 October, 2019. He said they also issued Notification No. (2/2020) and (3/2020) to ensure companies, sales centres and showrooms are done so systematically. He urged attendees to discuss the challenges departments face in importing cars.
Jan 31, 2020
PYITHU Hluttaw Speaker and chairpersons of committees held Coordination Meeting (1/2020) in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday afternoon.
In his opening remark, Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U T Khun Myat said the term of second Hluttaw has reached 4th anniversary on 31 January, and MPs performed their duties of legislations, checks and balances and representations to the public during this period, with passing 124 laws in the second Hluttaw, totaling 356 laws with the first Hluttaw.
He also called for cooperation in unity to overcome all the challenges and difficulties.
Jan 31, 2020
MINISTRY of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation organized a preparative meeting for the 35th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC 35) which will be held in Thimphu, Bhutan, from 17 to 20 February.
The preliminary meeting of national-level held at the Thingaha Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw was attended by FAO Representative in Myanmar Ms Xiaojie Fan, MoALI’s Deputy Director General from the Department of Planning Dr Thandar Kyi, directors and officials from relevant departments and organizations.
Jan 31, 2020
UNION Attorney-General U Tun Tun Oo received UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar Ms Christine Schraner Burgener and party at the former’s office in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday afternoon.
The meeting discussed implementation of recommendations in the Independent Commission of Enquiry(ICOE) report, preparing third report on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), development in peace-making process, bill for preventing violence against women and enforcing child rights law.
MNA (Translated by Aung Khin)
Photo: MNA
Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar
Jan 31, 2020
JOURNALISTS from local and foreign media groups gathered news in Ywama, Myoma Zetitaung, Thityin and Tatyar villages in Buthidaung Township yesterday. They met and interviewed village administrator and local people.
In the afternoon, they went to Kanyinchaung Economic Zone in Maungtaw. Maungtaw Township Administrator, and officials from the economic zone detailed about the zone and answered the questions raised by media groups. The media group also collected the information in the economic zone.