Jan 04, 2020
THE Surbung airport in Falam Township, which would be the first major airport in Chin State, will be opened at the end of May, according to the state’s Ministry of Road and Transport.
The Surbung airport will be equipped to handle ATR72 planes. The construction of the airport was started in the 2015- 2016 fiscal year (FY).
Out of the 7 states in the country, Chin State is the only state without air transportation because of its difficult topography. Now, an airport will open in Falam soon.
Jan 04, 2020
HE Myanmar Motion Picture Museum (MMPM) will be opened in January inside the Myanmar Motion Picture Organization (MMPO) compound on Wingabar Street, Yangon, according to the MMPO.
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Jan 04, 2020
THE Alliance of Myanmar’s Worker and Farmer Party (A.M.W.F.P) headquartered at No. 2626, Inn Win (4) Street, Nandawyar Ward, Bago in Bago Region, submitted an application for registration as a political party in accord with the Section 5 of the Political Parties Registration Law on 19-12-2019. In their application, they mention that they will use the name, the flag and the emblem as described hereunder.
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Jan 04, 2020
THE size and description of the new currency notes are as follows –
Jan 04, 2020
THE Committee for Implementation of the Recommendations on Rakhine State held their 21st coordination meeting at the meeting room of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
Jan 04, 2020
THE final day of the 2020 New Year Dhamma ceremony took place yesterday evening at the People’s Park, near the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, with Sitagu Sayadaw Dr. Ashin Nyanissara delivering a sermon.
Among the congregation were Yangon Region Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein and his wife, Speaker of Yangon Region Hluttaw U Tin Maung Tun, and Deputy Speaker U Lin Naing Myint, members of the Yangon Region cabinet, and departmental officials.
The last event of the three-day Dhamma ceremony attracted over 100,000 people.
Jan 03, 2020
THE third Yangon Interna-tional Gems and Jewellery Fair 2020 will take place from 10 to 13 January at the Lotte Hotel.
The jewellery fair is being organized by the Gems and Jewellery Entrepreneurs Association of Yangon, with the support of the Myanma Gems Enterprise and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Envi-ronmental Conservation.
Jan 03, 2020
UNION MINISTER for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr Win Myat Aye received cash and kind for local people in dis-aster-affected areas from the well-wishers of Myanmar com-munities in foreign countries
through Union Minister for International Cooperation U Kyaw Tin yesterday.
Jan 03, 2020
A CHINESE film crew of Hainan TV Station took the lifestyles of the people in Yan-gon near Kandawgyi Nature Park and Myitta Nyunt Railway Station on Wednesday.
They also filmed the New Year’s Eve holiday of people going on pilgrimage to the Shwedagon pagoda and cooking together and eating together Myanmar traditional foods, celebrating the event.
Jan 03, 2020
GEMS and jades are on sale for local merchants in Myanmar kyat during the six-day emporium at Mani Yadana Jade Hall in Nay Pyi Taw from 2 to 7 January.
Union Minister for Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation U Ohn Win, Deputy Minister Dr Ye Myint Swe and officials visited the emporium yesterday morning, and looked around the display of gems and jade lots.
The emporium will sell 286 lots of gems in open tender system on 4 January, and a total of 3,695 jade lots from 5 to 7 January in the same system.