Sunday, December 31, 2017

ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ေဒါက္တာေဖျမင့္ Myanmar International Radio အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာျဖင့္ ထုတ္လႊင့္ရန္ ျပင္ဆင္ထားရွိမႈ အေျခအေနမ်ား ၾကည့္ရွဳစစ္ေဆး

ရန္ကုန္၊ ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၃၁
ျပန္ၾကားေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ေဒါက္တာေဖျမင့္သည္ ယေန႔မြန္းလြဲပိုင္းက ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ဗိုလ္တေထာင္ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ Skynet ၀င္းအတြင္းရွိ Myanmar International Radio အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာျဖင့္ ထုတ္လႊင့္ရန္ ျပင္ဆင္ထားရွိမႈ အေျခအေနမ်ားကို ၾကည့္ရွဳစစ္ေဆးသည္။

စာေပညီလာခံ ၂၀၁၇ က်င္းပခဲ႔ရာတြင္ စြမ္းစြမ္းတမံ ပါ၀င္ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ႔ၾကသူမ်ားအား ဂုဏ္ျပဳညစာစားပြဲျဖင္႔ တည္ခင္းဧည့္ခံ

ရန္ကုန္ ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၃၁
စာေပညီလာခံ ၂၀၁၇ ေအာင္ျမင္ခမ္းနားစြာ က်င္းပခဲ႔ရာတြင္ စြမ္းစြမ္းတမံ ပါ၀င္ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ႔ၾကသူမ်ားအား ညီလာခံ က်င္းပေရးေကာ္မတီက တည္ခင္းဧည့္ခံေသာ ဂုဏ္ျပဳညစာစားပြဲကို ယေန႕ ညေန ၆ နာရီက ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ရွိ ေတာ္၀င္ဂါးဒင္း ဟိုတယ္၌ က်င္းပသည္။

ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ေဒါက္တာျမင့္ေထြး အမ်ိဳးသားတီဘီေရာဂါတိုက္ဖ်က္ေရးစီမံကိန္း (ရန္ကုန္႐ုံးခြဲ) ႏွင့္ တီဘီေရာဂါ ကုေဆး႐ုံ-ေအာင္ဆန္းသို႔ သြားေရာက္စစ္ေဆး

ရန္ကုန္ ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၃၁
က်န္းမာေရးႏွင့္အားကစားဝန္ႀကီးဌာန ျပည္ေထာင္စုဝန္ႀကီး ေဒါက္တာျမင့္ေထြးသည္ ယေန႔နံနက္ပိုင္းတြင္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ရွိ ကူးစက္ေရာဂါအထူးကု ေဆး႐ုံႀကီးမ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ  အထူးကုေဆး႐ုံႀကီး-မဂၤလာဒုံ၊ အမ်ိဳးသားတီဘီေရာဂါ တိုက္ဖ်က္ေရး စီမံကိန္း (ရန္ကုန္႐ုံးခြဲ) ႏွင့္ တီဘီေရာဂါ ကုေဆး႐ုံ-ေအာင္ဆန္းသို႔ သြားေရာက္၍ ျပည္သူမ်ားအား က်န္းမာေရး ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ ေပးေနမႈမ်ားကို လွည့္လည္ၾကည့္႐ႈ စစ္ေဆးသည္။

မိုးယြန္းႀကီးအင္း ေတာ႐ိုင္းတိရစၧာန္ေဘးမဲ့ေတာအား အမ်ားျပည္သူမ်ားလာေရာက္ ေလ့လာအပန္းေျဖႏိုင္ရန္ စီမံေဆာင္႐ြက္ထားရွိ

ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၃၁
သယံဇာတႏွင့္သဘာဝပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ ထိန္းသိမ္းေရးဝန္ႀကီးဌာန၊ ျပည္ေထာင္စုဝန္ႀကီး ဦးအုန္းဝင္းသည္ ယမန္ေန႔  ညေနပိုင္းတြင္ မိုးယြန္းႀကီးအင္း ေတာ႐ိုင္းတိရစၧာန္ေဘးမဲ့ေတာသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိခဲ့ရာ ေဘးမဲ့ေတာ ပညာေပးျပခန္းအတြင္း လာေရာက္အပန္းေျဖသူမ်ား ေလ့လာၾကည့္႐ႈ႕ႏိုင္ရန္ ေရဝပ္ေဒသမ်ားႏွင့္ စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍ ပညာေပးျပသထားမႈမ်ားအား ေဘးမဲ့ေတာအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴးမွ ရွင္းလင္းတင္ျပသည္။

Saturday, December 30, 2017

Stimulant tablets and marijuana seized in Maungtaw

 December 29, 2017
Acting on a tip-off, police arrested four men in connection with yaba pills and marijuana found in a house in Maungni Village in Maungtaw Township on 27th December.

Police arrests suspect for child smuggling at Thandwe Airport


December 29, 2017
Police arrested a women on suspicion of smuggling a child at Thandwe Airport on Wednesday.
During interrogation, Ma Mi Mi Htay, 30, who lives in Myothit Ward, Ponnagyun Township, said that she accepted the job to transport Thar Nge (a) Har Me Du Shaw Shee, 8, from a IDP camp of Sittway, to Yangon for K100,000.

State Counsellor responds to questions at Peace Talk in Loikaw

December 29, 2017
In the Peace Talk with local youths held yesterday in the State Hall of Loikaw, Kayah State, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi responded to questions submitted online.

Peace Talk with youths in Kayah




December 29, 2017
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said yesterday that, in her experience, regions and states that have endured conflict have a better understanding of the value of peace.

Friday, December 29, 2017

Government to speed up work for rights for disabled



December 28, 2017
The National Committee on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (NCRPD) held a meeting yesterday in Nay Pyi Taw, with a commitment for promoting rights for the disabled in Myanmar.

မသန္စြမ္းသူမ်ား၏ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ားဆိုင္ရာ အမ်ိဳးသား ေကာ္မတီ ပထမအႀကိမ္ အစည္းအေဝး က်င္းပ ဒုတိယသမၼတ ဦးဟင္နရီဗန္ထီးယူ တက္ေရာက္ အမွာစကားေျပာၾကား



မသန္စြမ္းသူမ်ား၏ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား ဆိုင္ရာ အမ်ိဳးသား ေကာ္မတီ၏ ပထမအႀကိမ္ အစည္းအေဝးကို ယေန႔ နံနက္ ၉ နာရီခြဲတြင္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရိွ လူမႈ၀န္ထမ္း၊ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးႏွင့္ ျပန္လည္ ေနရာခ်ထားေရး ဝန္ႀကီးဌာန အစည္းအေဝးခန္းမ၌ က်င္းပရာ မသန္စြမ္းသူမ်ား၏ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား ဆိုင္ရာ အမ်ိဳးသား ေကာ္မတီ ဥကၠ႒ ဒုတိယသမၼတ ဦးဟင္နရီဗန္ထီးယူ တက္ေရာက္ အမွာစကား ေျပာၾကားသည္။

Mro national killed in Maungtaw Township



 December 28, 2017
A man from a Mro village in Maungtaw Township, Rakhine State, was found dead with multiple stab wounds on Wednesday after he did not return from a fishing trip.

ျပည္သူ႕လႊတ္ေတာ္ ဥကၠ႒ ဦးဝင္းျမင့္ စင္ကာပူ သမၼတႏိုင္ငံ သံအမတ္ႀကီး အား လက္ခံေတြ႕ဆုံ



ျပည္သူ႕လႊတ္ေတာ္ ဥကၠ႒ ဦးဝင္းျမင့္ သည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ ဆိုင္ရာ စင္ကာပူႏိုင္ငံ သံအမတ္ႀကီး အျဖစ္ အသစ္ ခန္႔အပ္ျခင္း ခံရသည့္ H.E. Ms. Vanessa Elisabeth Chan Yuen Ying အား ယေန႔ နံနက္ ၁၁ နာရီတြင္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရွိ လႊတ္ေတာ္ အေဆာက္အအုံ၊ ျပည္သူ႕ လႊတ္ေတာ္ေဆာင္ ဧည့္ခန္းမ၌ လက္ခံ ေတြ႕ဆုံသည္။

ေကာင္းျမတ္သည့္ အစဥ္အလာမ်ားကိုအတုယူၿပီး ျပည္သူခ်စ္သည့္ စစ္သည္ေတာ္ေကာင္းမ်ား ျဖစ္လာေအာင္ ျပဳက်င့္ေနထုိင္

တပ္မေတာ္သူနာျပဳႏွင့္ ေဆးဘက္ပညာသိပၸံဘြဲ႕သင္တန္း အမွတ္စဥ္(၁၅)ႏွင့္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးသူနာျပဳသိပၸံဘြဲ႕ သင္တန္းအမွတ္စဥ္(၂) သင္တန္းဆင္း ဂုဏ္ျပဳစစ္ေရးျပ အခမ္းအနားကို ယေန႔နံနက္ပိုင္းတြင္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ တပ္မေတာ္ေဆးတကၠသိုလ္ စစ္ေရးျပကြင္း၌ က်င္းပရာ တပ္မေတာ္ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီး မဟာသေရစည္သူမင္းေအာင္လႈိင္ တက္ေရာက္မိန္႔ခြန္းေျပာၾကားသည္။

3,000 issued NVC and NID cards in Maungtaw Township



December 28, 2017
An official from Rakhine State Immigration and Population Department said nearly 3,000 people from Shwe Zar Village, Maungtaw Township, Rakhine State have been issued National Verification Cards (NVCs) and technology-based National Electronic IDs (NIDs), a pilot programme.

Mro villager killed after two murdered in June by terrorists



 December 28, 2017
Trane villagers confirmed the discovering of the body of U Laung Pyaw, 45, a Trane (Mro) villager in a field on farmland near Myaw Chaung (North) Village at around 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

NSCN invited to attend Union Peace Conference-21st Century Panglong



December 28, 2017
The Peace Commission invited the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) yesterday to attend the third meeting of the Union Peace Conference- 21st Century Panglong.

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing attends parade of military nurses



December 28, 2017
Tatmadaw Commander-in-Chief Senior General Thray Sithu Min Aung Hlaing attended and addressed the passing out parades of the 15th Intake of Tatmadaw Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Science and the 2nd Intake of the Lady Nursing Science yesterday morning at the parade ground of Defence Services Medical Academy in Yangon.

UN pressure hurting, not helping Myanmar: China

December 28, 2017
SEOUL — The United Nations' independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar has called for international pressure on China and Russia to try to get them to oppose human rights abuses in Myanmar.

Thursday, December 28, 2017

29th anniversary of Daw Khin Kyi’s death commemorated



December 27, 2017
To commemorate the 29th anniversary of the death of Daw Khin Kyi, wife of the national leader General Aung San, a ceremony known as “Soon”, a rice meal donation ceremony for monks, was held at the residence of her daughter, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, on University Avenue Road in Yangon yesterday morning.

Two Reuters reporters appear in court, remanded for another 14 days



December 27, 2017

Two Reuters journalists who have been detained in Myanmar for the past two weeks appeared in court yesterday and were remanded in custody for a further two weeks.

MNHRC Chairman clarifies situations on the ground in Maungtaw



December 27, 2017
Dr. Win Myat Aye, Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement received MNHRC headed by U Win Mra, Chairman of Myanmar National Human Rights Commission at the May Kha Lar Hall of the Ministry yesterday afternoon.

President U Htin Kyaw accepts credentials of Ambassador of the Republic of Poland



December 27, 2017
H.E. Mr. Waldemar Dubaniowski, the newly-accredited Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, presented his Letter of Credence to U Htin Kyaw, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, at Presidential Palace, Nay Pyi Taw at 2:30 pm yesterday.

President U Htin Kyaw accepts credentials of Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore



December 27, 2017
H.E. Ms. Vanessa Chan Yuen Ying, the newly-accredited Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, presented her Letter of Credence to U Htin Kyaw, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, at Presidential Palace, Nay Pyi Taw at 3:05 pm yesterday.

Resource persons invited to “Promote Integrity to Counter Corruption” symposium



December 27, 2017
The Anti-Corruption Commission has invited resource persons to read papers at the “Promote Integrity to Counter Corruption” symposium, which is scheduled to be held in Yangon on 22nd and 23rd January 2018.

16th China-Myanmar Border Trade Fair continues in Shweli



December 27, 2017
The 2nd day of the 16th China-Myanmar Border Trade Fair 2017 was held yesterday at Shweli (Ruili) in Yunnan Province, China.

16th China-Myanmar Border Trade Fair continues in Shweli



December 27, 2017
The 2nd day of the 16th China-Myanmar Border Trade Fair 2017 was held yesterday at Shweli (Ruili) in Yunnan Province, China.

Sitagu Buddhist missionary donates ambulances, cash to Rakhine State



December 27, 2017
Sitagu International Buddhist Missionary donated ambulances and cash to Rakhine State yesterday to help redevelop the state which saw armed attacks by terrorists.

More vocational training courses to open in Maungtaw



December 27, 2017
An opening ceremony for vocational training organised by the Department for Rural Development was held in Maungtaw and Buthidaung regions yesterday.

Sitagu Buddhist missionary makes donations in Yathedaung, Maungtaw and Buthidaung



December 27, 2017
A donation ceremony organised by the Sitagu Sayadaw, was held in Maungtaw yesterday. The venerable Sitagu Sayadaw is well-known for his teachings and for his philanthropic work in Myanmar.

Monsoon paddy harvested in Rakhine State by Agricultural Mechanisation Department



December 27, 2017
Areas of Rakhine State that were affected by terrorist attacks were facing difficulties in harvesting monsoon rice, prompting the Agricultural Mechanisation Department (AMD)to deploy harvesters.

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတ ဦးထင္ေက်ာ္ ထံ ပိုလန္ႏိုင္ငံ သံအမတ္ႀကီးႏွင့္ စင္ကာပူသမၼတႏိုင္ငံ သံအမတ္ႀကီး တို႔ သံအမတ္ ခန္႔အပ္လႊာမ်ား ေပးအပ္


ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၇
ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတ ဦးထင္ေက်ာ္ ထံ ျမန္မာ ႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ ပိုလန္ႏိုင္ငံ သံအမတ္ႀကီးအျဖစ္ ခန္႔အပ္ရန္ သေဘာတူညီၿပီးျဖစ္ေသာ သံအမတ္ႀကီး မစၥတာ ဗယ္လ္ဒယ္မာရ္ ဒူဘန္ႏုေရာ့စကီး သည္ ယေန႔ မြန္းလြဲ ၂ နာရီခြဲ တြင္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရိွ သမၼတအိမ္ေတာ္၌ ၄င္း၏ သံအမတ္ ခန္႔အပ္လႊာကို ေပးအပ္သည္။

အမ်ဳိးသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီး ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္း၏ ဇနီး ေဒၚခင္ၾကည္ ကြယ္လြန္ျခင္း (၂၉ ) ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္ ဆြမ္းေကၽြးအလွဴႏွင့္ ဘာသာေပါင္းစံု ဆုေတာင္းပြဲက်င္းပ


ရန္ကုန္ ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၇
အမ်ဳိးသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီး ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္း၏ဇနီး ေဒၚခင္ၾကည္ ကြယ္လြန္ျခင္း (၂၉) ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္ ဆြမ္းေကၽြး အလွဴကို ယေန႔ နံနက္ ၁၀ နာရီက ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ တကၠသိုလ္ရိပ္သာလမ္း အမွတ္ (၅၄)ရွိ သမီးျဖစ္သူ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္၏ အတုိင္ပင္ခံပုဂၢိဳလ္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ေနအိမ္၌ ျပဳလုပ္သည္။

၂၀၁၇ - ၂၀၁၈ ပညာသင္ႏွစ္၊ တကၠသိုလ္ဝင္စာေမးပြဲ စာစစ္ဌာန ႀကီးၾကပ္ေရးမႉးမ်ား တြဲဖက္ ႀကီးၾကပ္ေရးမႉးမ်ား၊ လက္ေထာက္ႀကီးၾကပ္ေရးမႉးမ်ားႏွင့္ စာေျဖသူမ်ားလိုက္နာရန္ စည္းကမ္း ခ်က္မ်ားဆိုင္ရာ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ သင္တန္းဖြင့္ပြဲ က်င္းပ


ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာ  ၂၇
ပညာေရးဝန္ႀကီးဌာန၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ စာစစ္ဦးစီးဌာန၊ ၂၀၁၇-၂၀၁၈ ပညာတကၠသိုလ္ဝင္ စာေမးပြဲ စာစစ္ဌာန ႀကီးၾကပ္ေရးမႉးမ်ား၊ တြဲဖက္ႀကီးၾကပ္ေရးမႉးမ်ား၊ လက္ေထာက္ႀကီးၾကပ္ေရးမႉးမ်ားႏွင့္ စာေျဖသူမ်ားလိုက္နာရန္ စည္းကမ္း ခ်က္မ်ားဆိုင္ရာ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲသင္တန္းကို ယေန႔ နံနက္ ပိုင္းက ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ပ်ဥ္မနားၿမိဳ႕ အမွတ္(၂) အေျခခံပညာ အထက္တန္း ေက်ာင္း၌ က်င္းပသည္။

ဟိုတယ္ဝန္ေဆာင္မႈဆိုင္ရာ သင္တန္းမ်ားမွ ထူးခၽြန္သင္တန္းသူမ်ားကို ႏိုင္ငံျခားဟိုတယ္ ၀န္ေဆာင္မႈ သင္တန္းသို႔ ဆက္လက္ ေစလႊတ္ေပးမည္


ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာ၂၇
နယ္စပ္ေရးရာဝန္ႀကီးဌာနမွ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ ေဆာင္႐ြက္ေနသည့္ လူ႕စြမ္းအား အရင္းအျမစ္ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳး တိုးတက္ေရးဆိုင္ရာ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္တစ္ရပ္ျဖစ္သည့္ ဟိုတယ္ဝန္ေဆာင္မႈ ဆိုင္ရာ သင္တန္းမ်ားကို ဟိုတယ္ ႏွင့္ ခရီးသြားလာေရး ဝန္ႀကီးဌာန၊ မိတ္ဖက္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းျဖစ္သည့္ Luxembourg Agency For Development Cooperation၊ ဟိုတယ္ႏွင့္ခရီးသြား လုပ္ငန္း ဆိုင္ရာ ကၽြမ္းက်င္ပညာရွင္မ်ားအသင္း (MHPA) ႏွင့္

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ေမာင္ေတာေဒသသို႔ သြားေရာက္ေလ့လာ၍ ေတြ႕ရွိခ်က္နွင့္ လုိအပ္ခ်က္မ်ားကို ျပည္ေထာင္စုဝန္ႀကီး ေဒါက္တာ ဝင္းျမတ္ေအးအား ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ အမ်ိဳးသားလူ႕အခြင့္အေရး ေကာ္မရွင္ဥကၠဌ ဦးဝင္းျမဦးေဆာင္ေသာ အဖြဲ႕က လာေရာက္ေတြ႕ဆံု ရွင္းလင္း


ေနျပည္ေတာ္၊ ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၇
လူမႈဝန္ထမ္း၊ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးနွင့္ျပန္လည္ေနရာ ခ်ထားေရး ဝန္ႀကီးဌာန၊ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ဝန္ႀကီး ေဒါက္တာ ဝင္းျမတ္ေအးအား ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံလူ႕အခြင့္ အေရးေကာ္မရွင္ ဥကၠဌ ဦးဝင္းျမ ဦးေဆာင္ေသာအဖြဲ႕က ယေန႕ မြန္းလြဲပိုင္းတြင္ အဆုိပါဝန္ႀကီးရံုး ေမခလာခန္းမ၌ လာေရာက္ ေတြ႕ဆံုသည္။

ကေလးသူငယ္ ကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေရး မူဝါဒနွင့္ ကေလးသူငယ္မ်ားအေပၚ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈမွ တားဆီးေရး ကာကြယ္ေရး အမ်ိဳးသားအဆင့္လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ား ေရးဆြဲခ်မွတ္ရန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုဝန္ႀကီး ေဒါက္တာဝင္းျမတ္ေအး မွာၾကား


ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၇
ကေလးသူငယ္ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ားဆုိင္ရာ အမ်ိဳးသား ေကာ္မတီ အစည္းအေဝး (၁/၂၀၁၇) ကို ယေန႔ နံနက္ပုိင္းက လူမႈဝန္ထမ္း၊ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးနွင့္ျပန္လည္ေနရာ ခ်ထားေရး ဝန္ႀကီးဌာန၊ အစည္းအေဝးခန္းမ၌ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ရာ ကေလးသူငယ္ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား ဆုိင္ရာ အမ်ိဳးသား ေကာ္မတီဥကၠဌ၊ ျပည္ေထာင္စုဝန္ႀကီး ေဒါက္တာဝင္းျမတ္ေအး တက္ေရာက္ အမွာစကား ေျပာၾကားသည္။

70th Tipitakadhara Tipitaka Kovida Selection Exam opens



December 26, 2017
An opening ceremony for the 70th Tipitakadhara Tipitaka Kovida Selection Examination was held yesterday morning in Vizaya Mingala Dhamma Thabin, Kaba Aye Hill, Yangon.

200,000 children vaccinated against Japanese encephalitis in Rakhine State



December 26, 2017
More than 200,000 children between the ages of nine months and 5 years in 17 townships in Rakhine State received inoculations against Japanese encephalitis during the vaccination campaign which started on 11 December.

Dr. Baddhanta Kumarabhivamsa delivers admonition at Opening of 70th Tipitaka Kovida Selection Exam



December 26, 2017
Following is the full text of the admonition of Sayadaw Dr. Baddhanta Kumarabhivamsa.
Dr. Baddhanta Kumarabhivamsa
On behalf of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee, I would hereby like to address the admonitory note to the candidates who are going to sit for the 70th Tipitaka Kovida Selection Examination, the Reverend Sayadaws from the Institutes of Buddistic Studies in Regions and States who are accompanying the candidates to provide necessary assistance in taking exam, and devout Buddhist laypersons headed by the Union Government.

Implementation committee meets on recommendations of Rakhine Advisory Commission



December 26, 2017
The committee charged with implementing the recommendations of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State held a coordination meeting yesterday at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement in Nay Pyi Taw.

Union Minister U Kyaw Tin receives UNICEF Representative to Myanmar Ms. June Kunugi



December 26, 2017
Union Minister for International Cooperation U Kyaw Tin received UNICEF Representative to Myanmar Ms. June Kunugi on 26 December 2017, at 3:00 pm, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw.

16th China-Myanmar Border Trade Fair held in Shweli



December 26, 2017
The opening ceremony of 16th China-Myanmar Border Trade Fair 2017 was held yesterday at Shweli (Ruili) Town in Yunnan Province, China.

Three types of registration conducted in Maungtaw



December 26, 2017
Three types of registration are currently being conducted by the department of Immigration in Maungtaw, according to a department official.

Curfew extended in Maungtaw for two months



December 26, 2017
Localauthorities has extended the curfew order in Maungtaw District for another two months for the “security, stability and the rule of law in the district”, according to the Maungtaw District General Administration Department.

Illegal pharmaceutical products seized in Maungtaw



December 26, 2017
Illegal pharmaceutical products on a boat from which several people jumped in order to escape were seized in Maungtaw Township, Rakhine State on Saturday night. At about 9:20 pm on Saturday, police saw a boat in the Magee Chaung Creek in Maungtaw Township and attempted to question the occupants, but the five people on board dove into the creek and fled in the direction of Pan Taw Pyin Village.

Six kilos of marijuana seized in Maungtaw



December 26, 2017
Police discovered about 6.25 kilos of marijuana in a basket left by an unidentified person who fled the scene in Kan Bae Village in Maungtaw Township on Monday evening.

Senior General at opening ceremony of Kan Thar Yar International Hospital



December 26, 2017
Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing attended the opening ceremony of Myanmar Economic Corporation’s Kan Thar Yar International Specialist Hospital yesterday morning at the hospital on Pyay Road, 6 ½ mile, Yangon.

Maungtaw Myoma Market reopens

December 26, 2017
Maungtaw Myoma Market, closed for the past four months as a security precaution, was reopened yesterday morning by market officials, security personnel and shop owners.

Monday, December 25, 2017

Vice President graces Christmas Eve



December 24, 2017
Vice President U Henry Van Thio attended the Midnight Mass at the Myanmar Evangelical Christian Alliance (MECA) in Mayangone Township yesterday.

Christmas of Love and Peace for every country men and women



December 24, 2017
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, prayed for a Christmas of Love and Peace for every country men and women in his Christmas wish for the Union.

Union Minister visits 25-year old handicraft industry



December 24, 2017
Union Minister for Information Dr Pe Myint visited Shan traditional handicraft industry in Lashio in the northeast of Myanmar yesterday morning.

Rakhine Chief Minister inspects regional development



December 24, 2017
Chief Minister of Rakhine State U Nyi Pu and his cabinet yesterday met departmental personnel in Manaung and discussed regional development undertakings.

About 650 star tortoises conserved at Shwesettaw Wildlife Sanctuary



December 24, 2017
Population of star tortoises is rising and about 650 star tortoises are under captive-breeding programme at Shwesettaw Wildlife Sanctuary in Minbu Township, Magway Township, according to a recent report of Myawady Daily.

Online booking system for vehicle inspection, registration



December 24, 2017
The Road Transport Administration Department will introduce an online booking system to carry out the inspection of registered vehicles in Yangon starting on 2 January.

MPF conducting research to produce ten more new products this FY



December 24, 2017
Research activities are being carried out by the stateowned Myanmar Pharmaceutical Factory (MPF), formerly known as Burma Pharmaceutical Industry (BPI) in order to manufacture more than ten products this Fiscal Year, said U Ko Ko Aung, the managing director of MPF.

New Naval vessels commissioned into service



December 24, 2017
Building its own ships which meet the standard of boats sailing in the open seas is an honour for the Tatmadaw (Navy). Also the Tatmadaw in indeed is honourable as it is the only armed forces in Southeast Asia that can build frigates at its own dockyard.

UEHRD provides aids at villages in Northern Rakhine



December 24, 2017
Volunteeryouths of UEHRD rendered humanitarian assistance at villages in the northern sector of Maungtaw Township in northern Rakhine State yesterday morning.

Christmas carols flow on the stages of Yangon Christmas



December 24, 2017
With the host of entertainment stages, Immanuel Baptist Church on Maha Bandula Park Road and Saint Mary’s Cathedral on Bo Aung Kyaw Street are abuzz with Christians and other people of various faiths who enjoy the stage entertainments.

Sedona Hotel Yangon named “Best Business Travel Hotel” by Ctrip

December 24, 2017
Yangon, Myanmar — Sedona Hotel Yangon has been named the “Best Business Travel Hotel” by Ctrip at the second Ctrip Global Hotel Partners Summit held on 20 October 2017 in Shanghai, China. This is the first time Sedona Hotel Yangon was presented with the prestigious award. In addition, Sedona Hotel Yangon was the only hotel from Myanmar to be recognised with an accolade at the summit.