Mar 02, 2020
THE proportion of Chinese patients who recovered from the novel coronavirus and were discharged from hospitals continued to rise in the past week to reach 52.1 percent, a Chinese health official said on Sunday.
Mar 02, 2020
Peasants Day 2020 was commemorated at Wardu Village-tract, Kangyidaung Township, Pathein District, Ayeyawady Region yesterday morning.
Mar 01, 2020
AMYOTHA Hluttaw Speaker Mahn Win Khaing Than joined the 100th anniversary celebration of law department at the Yangon University yesterday.
Mar 01, 2020
A conference on natural resources and environmental conservation was held at Park Royal Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning with the objective of extracting natural resources of the Union within the legal framework.
Mar 01, 2020
A coordination meeting to analyze and review the preventive measures against the COVID-19 virus in Yangon Region was held at the office of the Yangon Region Public Health and Medical Services Department yesterday.
Feb 29, 2020
THE fourth meeting of the 47-member leading committee of the 8th State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee concluded at the Wizaya Mingalar Dhammathabin Hall on Kaba Aye Hill in Yangon yesterday.
The meeting was attended by the member sayadaws of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee led by Chairman Sayadaw of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee Abhidhaja Maharattha Guru Abhidhaja Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotika Bhamo Sayadaw Dr. Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa.
Feb 29, 2020
Members of local and foreign media team visited Thetkaebyin camp opened near Sittway yesterday morning, and collected news there. They arrived back in Sittway from Maungtaw.
In the afternoon, they left Sittway and arrived back in Yangon. The team comprises journalists from Myanmar Now, Eleven Media Group, VOA, CAN, European Press Agency (EPA), BBC Media Action and Aljazeera. The local and foreign media team has been visiting Maungtaw for 36 times to report local situation since December 2016.
Myint Maung and J Ti
Feb 29, 2020
JOURNALISTS from local and foreign media groups gathered news at Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps in Buthidaung Township, Maungtaw District, Rakhine State yesterday morning.
First, they visited IDP camp at Thiri Mingalar Ywama Monastery in Buthidaung and gathered information on camping of school children and how they reach to the IDP camp.
Next, the media group visited Post Primary School of Ywama Village and gathered news on school children sitting for their examinations.
Feb 28, 2020
MYANMAR Special Economic Zone Central Committee held its first meetingfor the yearat the Ministry of Commerce in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday discussing measures to be taken for speeding up the implementation of special economic zones in the country.
The meeting was opened with remarks made by Vice President U Henry Van Thio, who is also chairmanof this committee.
In his remarks, the chairman stressed the important role of the special economic zones for the economic development of the country, urging the cooperation of all ministries concerned in making the SEZs a success.
Feb 28, 2020
THE Pyidaungsu Hluttaw continued its 15th regular session yesterday, debating amendments to the 2008 Constitution and discussing the findings of the Hluttaw Joint Public Accounts Committee on tax earnings of Union-level institutions in the second half of the 2018-2019 financial year.
During the debate, MP U Aung Kyaw Zan of Pauktaw Constituency spoke against a pro-posed amendment to sub-section (a) of Article 26 of the 2008 Constitution. He said he agreed that civil services personnel should remain free from party politics, as prescribed in sub-section (a) of Article 26.