Feb 08, 2020
VICE President U Myint Swe attended the 12th Private Sector Development Committee Meeting (PSDC), in his capacity as Chairman, and the coordination meeting of Ease of Doing Business Ranking Promotion Working Group (EDBRP) in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
The Vice President said the committee has been in existence for three years as it was formed on 24 October 2016 with 20 members to implement the five objectives for private sector development, led by three deputy ministers and two permanent secretaries.
Feb 08, 2020
DEPUTY Minister for Planning, Finance and Industry U Maung Maung Win said the ministry is planning to set the prices for vehicles to be fair and not much different from private auto sales associations in the 2020-2021 financial year.
He made the comment is his answer to the question raised by MP U Phyo Zeyar Thaw (a) Zeyar Thaw from Zabuthiri Constituency at the Pyithu Hluttaw yesterday. The Second Pyithu Hlttaw held its fifth day meeting of the 15th Session.
Feb 07, 2020
PRESIDENT U Win Myint and First Lady Daw Cho Cho attended the commemoration of 73rd Shan State Day at Awaiyar fire balloon grounds, Taunggyi, yesterday morning.
Present at the event were Union Ministers Lt-Gen Ye Aung, Dr Aung Thu, U Ohn Win, U Win Khaing, U Ohn Maung, Shan State Chief Minister Dr Lin Htut, State Hluttaw Speaker U Sai Long Hseng, State Chief Justice U Kywe Kywe, Commander of Eastern Command MajGen Lin Aung, State Advocate-General,
Feb 07, 2020
THE closing ceremony of Ethnics Culture Festival 2020 was held at the Kyaikasan Ground in Yangon yesterday evening.
Theme song “Land of National People” was presented with a background video.
Feb 07, 2020
THE President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar has appointed U Aung Myo Myint, Director-General of Strategic Studies and Training Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta.
MNA
Ref: The Global New Light of Myanmar
Feb 07, 2020
U MYINT LWIN, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the Republic of Turkey, presented his Credentials to Mr Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of the Republic of Turkey on 4 February 2020 in Ankara.
MNA
Ref: The Global New Light of Myanmar
Feb 07, 2020
THE delegation of the Union Election Commission led by its Chairman U Hla Thein left for the Republic of India yesterday as study tour till 12 February on observing Delhi Legislative Assembly elections to be held on 8 February.
The UEC delegation was seen off at Yangon International Airport by officials from Indian Embassy in Yangon, UEC Office and Yangon Region Sub-Election Commission. UEC Chairman is accompanied by officials from the commission.
MNA
(Translated by TTN)
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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.