May 17, 2026
UNION Health Minister Dr Thet Khaing Win inspected healthcare facilities in Yedashe and Toungoo townships of Bago Region yesterday. In the morning, the Union minister visited Yayni Station Hospital in Yedashe Township, where he examined inpatient services, the medicine storage room, X-ray department, laboratory, and operation theatre. He then proceeded to Myohla Station Hospital, Swa Station Hospital, Swa Rural Health Centre, and Yedashe Township Hospital, inspecting outpatient services, laboratories, inpatient wards, vaccine storage rooms, and medicine supply facilities.
May 17, 2026
Aceremony to inaugurate five major upgraded roads, namely Nawarat, Theingi, Pyithaya, Yadana and Marlar Yuzana in Ward 8 and Ward 10 in Padetha satellite town of PyinOoLwin in Mandalay Region, took place on Theingi Road yesterday morning, with President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Min Aung Hlaing in attendance.
May 17, 2026
ON the morning of 16 May 2026, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized a Diplomatic Coffee Morning at its premises in Yangon, which brought together Ambassadors, Chargés d’Affaires, and diplomats from foreign embassies based in Yangon, as well as representatives from the United Nations agencies.
May 17, 2026
THE Department of Archaeology and National Museum (Bagan Branch) has announced that cleaning activities are being carried out to enhance the physical appearance of ancient religious buildings in the Bagan World Heritage Zone.
May 17, 2026
President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Min Aung Hlaing gave guidance on regional development measures at the meeting with town elders and MSME businesspersons at the city hall in PyinOoLwin of Mandalay Region yesterday afternoon. At the meeting, the Chairman of PyinOoLwin District Management and Administration Committee District Administrator reported on the agriculture and livestock activities, disbursement of loans to MSME businesses, export of coffee to foreign market, efforts for improvement of education sector, shaping PyinOoLwin as the coffee city as well as the health city, and plans earmarked for socioeconomic life of the people during the 100-day plan period of the new government.
May 16, 2026
Myanmar authorities arrested seven Chinese online scammers in Metmung Township of Shan State (North).
May 16, 2026
A total of 146 PDF members 133 males and 13 females entered the legal fold yesterday.
May 16, 2026
The opening ceremony of the “Build-Smart & Biggest Myanmar Production Expo 2026” was held yesterday morning at the Yangon Convention Centre in Yangon to commemorate the 30th anniversary, or Pearl Jubilee, of the Myanmar Construction Entrepreneurs Federation (MCEF).
May 16, 2026
As the Hluttaw, representing the people, will raise questions and submit proposals to be able to effectively address the desires of the people, those people can openly present their difficulties and requirements, said U Khin Yi, Speaker of the Pyithu Hluttaw, at the meeting with town elders, businesspersons and social organization members at the city hall in Magway yesterday morning.
May 16, 2026
Mandalay Region is in a satisfactory position in terms of the cultivation and production of 14 key crops, and continued efforts are encouraged to achieve even higher targets, said U Min Aung Hlaing, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, at a meeting with departmental officials and micro, small and medium enterprise businesspersons at the city hall in Mandalay yesterday afternoon.