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.
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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.
Jan 31, 2020
UNION Election Commission and the Facebook Team discussed preparations for relaunching the commission’s social media page ahead of 2020 General Election.
U Hla Thein, the Chairman of Commission, made an opening remark on the meeting under the topic ‘Connecting with Communities’.
He said the UEC is using its website, state-owned television and newspapers to release news about the commission, and it is also publishing update news on the upcoming elections to prevent false and fake news.
Jan 30, 2020
THE second Pyithu Hluttaw held its second day meeting of 15th regular session yesterday, with the answers of respective ministries to asterisked questions and approving the Tax Appeal Tribunal Bylaws.
The six newly substituted Tatmadaw representatives of Pyithu Hluttaw were sworn in and signed the swearing-in documents.
MP U Maung Myint from Mingin constituency asked about reapproving reasonable expenses for the civil service staff in remote areas of his constituency.
Jan 30, 2020
MR FRANCOIS LAFRENIERE, the newly-accredited Ambassador of Canada to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, presented his Letters of Credence to U Win Myint, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, at the Credentials Hall of the Presidential Palace, Nay Pyi Taw at 10:00 am yesterday.
Present on the occasion were U Kyaw Tin, Union Minister for International Cooperation, and Director-General U Min Thein of the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Jan 30, 2020
THE second coordination meeting of Steering Committee on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism was held at the Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday morning, with an opening speech of Committee’s Chairman Vice President U Myint Swe and discussions by member of committees to implement 14 plans adopted in the Asia Pacific Joint Group meeting in Beijing, China.
Jan 30, 2020
VICE President U Henry Van Thio inspected upgrade of NyaungU airport for customs, immigration and quarantine (CIQ) facilities and renovation of quake-affected pagodas in Bagan.
During the trip, the Vice President was accompanied by Union Minister for Transport and Communications U Thant Sin Maung, Union Minister for Hotels and Tourism U Ohn Maung and departmental heads.