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.
Jan 30, 2020
OFFICIALS at the Nga Khu Ya Reception Centre in Maungtaw, Rakhine State, yesterday scrutinized and accepted 26 displaced persons from nine households who returned from Bangladesh of their own volition.
In accordance with the procedures for accepting returnees, security personnel inspected each returnee at the designated place for security reasons, and immigration officials gathered records from them for immigration purposes.
Jan 30, 2020
U SOE HAN, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, called in Mr Manjurul Karim Khan Chowdhury, Ambassador of Bangladesh to Myanmar, at 3 pm on 28 January 2020 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw.
Jan 30, 2020
UNION ELECTION Commission Chairman U Hla Thein received Norwegian Ambassador to Myanmar Ms Tone Tinnes and party at the UEC office in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.
Jan 30, 2020
U AUNG HLA TUN, the Deputy Minister for Information and the Chairman of Committee for Accepting and Scrutinizing Tender for School Textbooks, presided over the committee’s coordination meeting yesterday afternoon.
After an opening remark of the Deputy Minister, Joint Secretary and Director General of Printing and Publishing Department U Aung Myo Myint explained formation of sub-committee, tender rules and legal actions against breaching the rules.
Jan 30, 2020
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing received Air Chief Marshal Manat Wongwat, Commander-in-Chief of Royal Thai Air Force, at the Zeya Thiri Beikman in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.