Mar 07, 2020
THE second Pyithu Hluttaw continued its 15th session yesterday, with Union-level organizations answering questions raised by MPs and two proposals being submitted before the parliament.
Land seized for sand mining will not be released: MOPFI
At the Pyithu Hluttaw yesterday, the Ministry of Planning, Finance and Industry replied to a question on the confiscation of land in Bokpyin Township. Deputy Minister Dr. Min Ye Paing Hein denied that the ministry has plans to release the confiscated land as it has established a new village for local people.
Mar 07, 2020
THE daily coordination meeting on COVID-19 (30/2020) was held at the Ministry of Health and Sports yesterday.
Union Minister Dr Myint Htwe first addressed the meeting. He said Myanmar still has no lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19. He said there are 2 suspected patients and 58 patients under surveillance who have had their lab samples sent to the National Health Laboratory. Fifty-four results have come back showing negative and 6 results are still pending. All patients who are cleared of COVID-19 have been discharged with good conditions.
Mar 07, 2020
GOVERNMENT representatives and the representatives of (NCA-S EAO) held a bilateral coordination meeting at National Reconciliation and Peace Centre (NRPC) in Yangon at 10 am yesterday to implement the minutes of the 8th Joint Implementation Coordination Meeting (JICM) on Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement.
Mar 07, 2020
NAY PYI TAW Council distributed land compensation amounting to K130.488 million to 42 farmers from Pobbathiri, Dekkhinathiri and Ottarathiri townships in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
The second land compensation distribution ceremony was held at the Nay Pyi Taw City Hall. At the ceremony, Nay Pyi Taw Council Chairman Mayor Dr Myo Aung said the council realized that the farmland are the farmer’s life and they could not be evaluated with money.
The council paid compensation to farmers to ensure that they can gain benefits from urban development through their farmland.
Mar 07, 2020
THE Government and the ethnic armed organizations signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement-NCA (NCA-S EAO) held a work coordination meeting in Yangon yesterday in preparation for implementing the decisions made at the 8th Joint Implementation Coordination Meeting-JICM.
Speaking at the meeting at the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre in Yangon, Union Attorney-General U Tun Tun Oo said the meeting would discuss the issues related to the framework agreements and implementing post-2020 tasks step by step and seeking the basic agreements between the two sides.
Mar 07, 2020
A military helicopter carrying military attachés crashed in a village in Kutkai shortly after taking off yesterday. There were no fatalities, but two pilots were injured in the accident.
The accident occurred around 3:40 pm yesterday when local and foreign mediapersons and military attachés from foreign embassies in Yangon were headed to Kutkai to cover the seizure of narcotic drugs and precursors worth K93 billion by the military between 28 February and 4 March around Kaungkha and Lwekham villages in Kutkai Township, Shan State (North).
Mar 07, 2020
SECURITY forces seized narcotic drugs and drugs-related materials worth over K 93 billion from 28 February to 4 March in northern Shan State, according to the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Office.
Military attaches from embassies in Yangon and media personnel flew to the the area in Kaungkha Village-tract in Kutkai Township yesterday by the Tatmadaw Plane and helicopters and observed the seizures.
Mar 06, 2020
Mr William Schabas, professor of international law at Middlesex University, UK, and professor of international human laws and human rights at Leiden University in the Netherlands, gave a lecture on the experiences at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and on international law at Yangon University yesterday.
Similarly in the afternoon, Dr Christopher Staker, member of the Bar of England and Wales, gave a lecture on legal matters at Yangon University.
Mar 06, 2020
Hluttaw representatives continued to debate proposed amendments to the Constitution during the 18th-day meeting of the Second Pyidaungsu Hluttaw’s 15th regular session yesterday.
U Naing Htoo Aung of Natogyi constituency first took the floor and said that the word ‘disciplined’ in Articles 6-(d) and 7 should be removed as a ‘multi-party democratic system’ already carries the meaning in an even more comprehensive context.
Mar 06, 2020
The Committee for Preventing Grave Violence against Children in Armed Conflict held the first coordination meeting with the UN Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting (UNCTFMR) at the office of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.