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Jun 29, 2024

VICE-CHAIRMAN of the State Administration Council Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win, who is also a Patron of the Leading Committee on Organizing the Fifth National Sports Festival 2024, delivered a speech at the second meeting of the leading committee at the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday afternoon. In his speech, the Vice-Senior General said that the word sport is defined in international dictionaries as an athletic activity requiring skill or physical powers, and from individual sports to competitions that comprise thousands of people, and the countryside level to Olympic competitions are held today. Achievements in sports can uplift the dignity of a country and its people in the world, so sports are described as war without shooting.

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Jun 28, 2024

SUBVERSIVE media outlets are fabricating news stories on social media, claiming that every household in Heho, Kalaw Township, Shan State, is forced to pay between K10,000 and K30,000 every three months to support those entering military service.

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Jun 28, 2024

THE Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA) put 28 companies on the blocklist for failing to repatriate export earnings of more than K500,000.

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Jun 28, 2024

THE Myanmar Motion Pictures Organization (MMPO) has announced that the short video competition titled ‘Enchanting Myanmar’ will be held on 26 June.

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Jun 28, 2024

SALE of rice packs (consumer packs) resumed in Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon, Mandalay and other cities after the temporary halt of sales due to recent measures to stabilize the domestic rice prices. Previously, consumer packs were sold at much higher levels, which led to a temporary halt, and now consumers can purchase at much more reasonable prices.

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Jun 28, 2024

ACCORDING to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, U Soe Lynn Han, Myanmar Ambassador to Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and the EU, attended the third meeting of the ASEAN-Brussels Committee (ABC) held at the Laos Embassy in Brussels on 24 June.

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Jun 28, 2024

THE Myanmar Libraries Foundation donated public science treatises to libraries across Yangon Region at the Community Centre in Bahan Township on 25 June.

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Jun 28, 2024

MYANMAR Music Association (Central) held a music concert commemorating Myanmar Music Day at the National Theatre yesterday. Union Minister U Maung Maung Ohn gave 1,000 handheld lights worth K3 million as a gift to the fans who attended the music concert to celebrate Myanmar Music Day.

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Jun 28, 2024

1. The banks in Myanmar have been following the directives, rules and regulations issued by the Central Bank of Myanmar. They also places a special emphasis on directives and instructions issued by the Central Bank of Myanmar, the regulatory authority, related to Anti-Money Laundering/ Counter-Financing of Terrorism/Weapons of Mass Destruction (AML/CFT/WMD). The banks do not offer local and foreign transaction services for the people and companies included in international sanction lists, including the Specially Designated Nationals - SDN list. However, the banks verify the information obtained by the communicators and are operating enhanced due diligence (EDD) for both domestic and foreign transactions.

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Jun 28, 2024

THE Supervisory Committee on Import, Storage and Distribution of Fuel Oil will distribute the blue-dyed diesel (500 parts per million) to the market, making it distinctly available for the public to purchase at fuel stations starting in early July.

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