Mar 07, 2020
CHIEF Minister of Ayeywady Region U Hla Moe Aung held a meeting with Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation U Hla Kyaw on preparations for prevention of flood and other rural development programmes on 6 March.
The meeting at the head office of Ayeyawady Government discussed measures on the resistance of dams and dykes, and other infrastructural development programmes of rural road networks, water supply, electrification and people-centred projects in the region in 2020-2021 financial year.
Mar 07, 2020
THE daily coordination meeting on COVID-19 (30/2020) was held at the Ministry of Health and Sports yesterday.
Union Minister Dr Myint Htwe first addressed the meeting. He said Myanmar still has no lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19. He said there are 2 suspected patients and 58 patients under surveillance who have had their lab samples sent to the National Health Laboratory. Fifty-four results have come back showing negative and 6 results are still pending. All patients who are cleared of COVID-19 have been discharged with good conditions.
Mar 07, 2020
GOVERNMENT representatives and the representatives of (NCA-S EAO) held a bilateral coordination meeting at National Reconciliation and Peace Centre (NRPC) in Yangon at 10 am yesterday to implement the minutes of the 8th Joint Implementation Coordination Meeting (JICM) on Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement.
Mar 07, 2020
NAY PYI TAW Council distributed land compensation amounting to K130.488 million to 42 farmers from Pobbathiri, Dekkhinathiri and Ottarathiri townships in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
The second land compensation distribution ceremony was held at the Nay Pyi Taw City Hall. At the ceremony, Nay Pyi Taw Council Chairman Mayor Dr Myo Aung said the council realized that the farmland are the farmer’s life and they could not be evaluated with money.
The council paid compensation to farmers to ensure that they can gain benefits from urban development through their farmland.
Mar 07, 2020
THE Government and the ethnic armed organizations signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement-NCA (NCA-S EAO) held a work coordination meeting in Yangon yesterday in preparation for implementing the decisions made at the 8th Joint Implementation Coordination Meeting-JICM.
Speaking at the meeting at the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre in Yangon, Union Attorney-General U Tun Tun Oo said the meeting would discuss the issues related to the framework agreements and implementing post-2020 tasks step by step and seeking the basic agreements between the two sides.
Mar 07, 2020
A military helicopter carrying military attachés crashed in a village in Kutkai shortly after taking off yesterday. There were no fatalities, but two pilots were injured in the accident.
The accident occurred around 3:40 pm yesterday when local and foreign mediapersons and military attachés from foreign embassies in Yangon were headed to Kutkai to cover the seizure of narcotic drugs and precursors worth K93 billion by the military between 28 February and 4 March around Kaungkha and Lwekham villages in Kutkai Township, Shan State (North).
Mar 07, 2020
SECURITY forces seized narcotic drugs and drugs-related materials worth over K 93 billion from 28 February to 4 March in northern Shan State, according to the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Office.
Military attaches from embassies in Yangon and media personnel flew to the the area in Kaungkha Village-tract in Kutkai Township yesterday by the Tatmadaw Plane and helicopters and observed the seizures.
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Mar 06, 2020
Mr William Schabas, professor of international law at Middlesex University, UK, and professor of international human laws and human rights at Leiden University in the Netherlands, gave a lecture on the experiences at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and on international law at Yangon University yesterday.
Similarly in the afternoon, Dr Christopher Staker, member of the Bar of England and Wales, gave a lecture on legal matters at Yangon University.
Mar 06, 2020
The Committee for Preventing Grave Violence against Children in Armed Conflict held the first coordination meeting with the UN Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting (UNCTFMR) at the office of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
Mar 06, 2020
The report writing team of National Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (NCRPD) held its sixth coordination meeting at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
U Aung Hla Tun, Deputy Minister for Information and Chairman of the report writing team, said this sixth meeting is for the team members are obliged to try together to produce a complete report at the end of March. He also urged the attendees to discuss requirements for compiling the report.