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Spain, France tighten controls as global deaths due to coronavirus pass 6,000

France ordered the closure of all non-essential businesses, while Spain went a step further and banned people from leaving home except to go to work, get medical care or buy food.


CAFES, shops and restaurants shut down across France and Spain on Sunday and travellers faced chaos at US airports as governments stepped up their fight against the coronavirus pandemic which has now reportedly killed more than 6,000.

Fight against Fakes

Watching a movie is such an experience that gives more pleasure when one tunes into the most hilarious comedy presentation.

The storyline was based on the hilarious love affair of a poor guy, being left behind by his sweetheart in marrying to a high roller at the arrangement of the parents. On the eve of tying the knot, the heartbroken boy poured his heart out by saying “You give love a bad name” and accused the girl with words filled with “fake” synonyms.

Representative responded to the Special Rapporteur on Human Right

DURING the Interactive Dialogue with Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, held in the morning of 10 March 2020 at the on-going 43rd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Permanent Representative of Myanmar U Kyaw Moe Tun made a rebuttal statement as a concerned country.

Coronavirus is a 'controllable pandemic': WHO


The global outbreak of the new coronavirus could now be considered a pandemic — a disease actively spreading globally.


THE new coronavirus out-break "is a controllable pandemic" if countries step up measures to tackle it, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday (March 12).


WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged on Wednesday that the global outbreak of the new coronavirus could now be considered a pandemic — a disease actively spreading globally.

Coronavirus: latest developments worldwide

INFECTIONS drop dramatically in China but surge abroad, the US death toll rises to six and the World Health Organization (WHO) warns we are in "uncharted territory".

Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis.

World spread

To date, more than 3,100 have died from the new virus, while more than 90,000 have been infected in 73 countries and territories around the world, according to AFP's latest toll based on official sources at 0600 GMT Tuesday.

Tasks being implemented by Citizens Fundamental Right, Democracy and Human Rights Committee of Amyotha Hluttaw

FORMATION of the Amyotha Hluttaw Committees, Commissions and Bodies are being constituted in accordance with the stipulation of 147 ( c ) of the 2008 Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. It is to ensure the rights of the citizens according to the Constitution, and also ascertaining not to deprive and divest of the basic legal rights of the citizens. Moreover, it protects the individual human rights and interests of the citizens.

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