Jan 31, 2020
MINISTRY of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation organized a preparative meeting for the 35th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC 35) which will be held in Thimphu, Bhutan, from 17 to 20 February.
The preliminary meeting of national-level held at the Thingaha Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw was attended by FAO Representative in Myanmar Ms Xiaojie Fan, MoALI’s Deputy Director General from the Department of Planning Dr Thandar Kyi, directors and officials from relevant departments and organizations.
Jan 31, 2020
UNION Attorney-General U Tun Tun Oo received UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar Ms Christine Schraner Burgener and party at the former’s office in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday afternoon.
The meeting discussed implementation of recommendations in the Independent Commission of Enquiry(ICOE) report, preparing third report on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), development in peace-making process, bill for preventing violence against women and enforcing child rights law.
MNA (Translated by Aung Khin)
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Jan 31, 2020
JOURNALISTS from local and foreign media groups gathered news in Ywama, Myoma Zetitaung, Thityin and Tatyar villages in Buthidaung Township yesterday. They met and interviewed village administrator and local people.
In the afternoon, they went to Kanyinchaung Economic Zone in Maungtaw. Maungtaw Township Administrator, and officials from the economic zone detailed about the zone and answered the questions raised by media groups. The media group also collected the information in the economic zone.
Jan 31, 2020
UNION Election Commission and the Facebook Team discussed preparations for relaunching the commission’s social media page ahead of 2020 General Election.
U Hla Thein, the Chairman of Commission, made an opening remark on the meeting under the topic ‘Connecting with Communities’.
He said the UEC is using its website, state-owned television and newspapers to release news about the commission, and it is also publishing update news on the upcoming elections to prevent false and fake news.
Jan 30, 2020
OFFICIALS at the Nga Khu Ya Reception Centre in Maungtaw, Rakhine State, yesterday scrutinized and accepted 26 displaced persons from nine households who returned from Bangladesh of their own volition.
In accordance with the procedures for accepting returnees, security personnel inspected each returnee at the designated place for security reasons, and immigration officials gathered records from them for immigration purposes.
Jan 30, 2020
U SOE HAN, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, called in Mr Manjurul Karim Khan Chowdhury, Ambassador of Bangladesh to Myanmar, at 3 pm on 28 January 2020 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw.
Jan 30, 2020
UNION ELECTION Commission Chairman U Hla Thein received Norwegian Ambassador to Myanmar Ms Tone Tinnes and party at the UEC office in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.
Jan 30, 2020
U AUNG HLA TUN, the Deputy Minister for Information and the Chairman of Committee for Accepting and Scrutinizing Tender for School Textbooks, presided over the committee’s coordination meeting yesterday afternoon.
After an opening remark of the Deputy Minister, Joint Secretary and Director General of Printing and Publishing Department U Aung Myo Myint explained formation of sub-committee, tender rules and legal actions against breaching the rules.
Jan 30, 2020
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing received Air Chief Marshal Manat Wongwat, Commander-in-Chief of Royal Thai Air Force, at the Zeya Thiri Beikman in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
Jan 29, 2020
A reception to mark the National Day of Australia was held at the M Gallery Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
First, the reception was opened by playing the national anthems of Myanmar and Australia.
At the event, Australian Ambassador Ms Andrea Faulkner and Union Minister for Education Dr Myo Thein Gyi extended greetings, followed by a commemorative group photo session involving the Union Minister and wife, and the Australian Ambassador and attendees.