May 15, 2023
UNDER the supervision of the Illegal Trade Eradication Steering Committee, effective action is being taken to prevent illegal trade under the law. On 11 May, inspections were carried out by joint task forces under the management of the Kayin State Illegal Eradication Trade Task Force at the Thanlwain Bridge Combined Checkpoint, and 1,650 Ray power banks (approximately K31.2 million) without any official documentary evidence and a Toyota Hiace microbus carrying those items (estimated value of K15 million) heading from Myawady to Yangon were seized. On 12 May, 40 (81) electric rice cookers that were not declared in the import declaration (ID) (estimated value of K2.4 million) were impounded from a vehicle driving from Myawaddy to Yangon at the Kawkareik (Tadakyoe) combined inspection station. The action was taken under customs procedures.
May 15, 2023
DEPUTY Minister for Information U Ye Tint on 13 May arrived at Kyeintali Department of Information and Public Relations and inspected damage of the drain and blockage of soil in its at the back of the office.
May 15, 2023
CHAIRMAN of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing attended the natural disaster management emergency meeting at the hall of the Commander-in-Chief yesterday morning in order to assign the duties of emergency management, response, rescue and cooperation and readiness with grouping and rehabilitation as cyclonic storm Mocha may enter Myanmar.
May 15, 2023
THE second (emergency) meeting of the National Natural Disaster Management Committee took place at the Natural Disaster Management Centre of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning, with an address by Chairman of the Committee Vice Chairman of the State Administration Council Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win.
May 14, 2023
KAYIN State Chief Minister U Saw Myint Oo provided foodstuffs and other assistance to the temporarily displaced people at Dhamma Thukha Monastery in Kyondoe Township together with relevant officials.
May 14, 2023
DEPUTY Minister for Information U Ye Tint met the director of the Ayeyawady Region Information and Public Relations Department, staff of region and district offices, in charge and employees of the MRTV retransmission station and staff of the ethnic news division at the region IPRD office on 11 May. He then went to the IPRD offices of Gwa Township and Kyaintali town.
May 14, 2023
MYANMA Radio and Television has invited private entrepreneurs who want to broadcast DTH Free to Air channels to Myanmar Radio and Television’s MRTV DTH Platform (Direct to Home) to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI).
May 14, 2023
THE low-pressure area that is occurring in the southeast of the Bay of Bengal and the adjacent Andaman Sea is gradually strengthening and may become a cyclone, and according to the forecasts, it may enter the Myanmar side.
May 14, 2023
THE Transport and Communications Working Committee under the National Disaster Management Committee has been sending medicines, medical supplies, foodstuffs, and rescue and rehabilitation equipment to storm-prone areas by aircraft and vehicles since Cyclone Mocha brewed.
May 14, 2023
It is learnt that people illegally carry arms and munitions for their concerns about personal security due to the lethal attacks of terrorists on innocent people today. Although the original intention is for personal security, one’s mind can change at any time when in possession of arms and munitions. Moreover, it can cause firearm misuse for possessing illegally and it is not in conformity with the law. Therefore, the State Administration Council will manage to grant licences systematically as per the policy of carrying arms and munitions.