Feb 19, 2020
The first day meeting of Drug and Precursor Intelligence Specialists was held yesterday at the Mercure Hotel in Mandalay yesterday.
At the meeting, Secretary of the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control Chief of Myanmar Police Force Police Lt-Gen Aung Win Oo and Precursor Programme Manager of UNODC for Southeast Asia and the Pacific Mr Reiner Pungs made opening remarks.
Feb 19, 2020
In spite of a thick fog enveloping the Yangon River in early mornings of late, jetties and shipyards are lined with passengers from Dala Township waiting to travel to Yangon for work by ferry. Therefore, Cherry Ferry operators are trying to start operations as soon as visibility increases.
“This morning, we could not see the way clearly because there was fog everywhere. So, we could not run four routes in the early morning and kept our water buses at the jetty. But, we started operations between 8 am and 8.30 am,” said an official from the Cherry Ferry.
Feb 19, 2020
THE 72nd anniversary of Chin National Day will be celebrated on 20 February at the football ground of BEHS No.3, Thantlang, Chin State, at 9am on the day.
The celebration of the national day will be broadcast live on Myanma Radio and Television (MRTV), National Races Channel (NRC), MITV, Channel-9, Up to Date, Mizzima, DVB, Myanma Radio, Myanmar State Counsellor’s Office Facebook Page, MRTV Facebook Page, Myanmar Digital News Facebook Page, Skynet DTH Facebook Page, starting from 8:45 am of the date.
Feb 19, 2020
Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) affimed its commitment to cooperaiton in clearing land mine in Myanmar, according to the meeting between the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, and the NPA yesterday.
The meeting between Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr Win Myat Aye and a delegation led by the NPA’s Country Director Ms Marte Graff Jenssen held at the ministry in Nay Pyi Taw.
Feb 19, 2020
Government officials and representatives of ethnic armed organizations signed in the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement concluded their three-day meeting yesterday in Yangon, reaching eight common agreements to implement the decisions of the 8th Joint Implementation Coordination Meeting on the NCA.
The meeting also discussed preparations for holding the 4th edition of Union Peace Conference-21st Century Panglong as scheduled within the first four months of 2020, peace procedures beyond 2020 and implementation processes.
Feb 18, 2020
Yangonites were worried about the air quality of the city they are living in. In this regard, Yangon (Kaba Aye) Station of Meteorology and Hydrology Department has been issuing the daily air quality of Yangon (PM2.5) it had measured since 6 this February on its Facebook pages. So, a media team of the News and Periodicals Enterprise interviewed Dr. Kyaw Moe Oo, Directior General of Meteorology and Hydrology Department as follows:
Q: Residents of Yangon are worried about the air quality of the city. Your answer please!
Feb 18, 2020
THE 1st Myanmar-Poland Foreign Office Consultations was held on 17 February 2020, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw. The meeting was co-chaired by U Soe Han, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mr Marcin Przydacz, Vice Minister (Undersecretary of State) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland.
Feb 18, 2020
SINCE 26 February 2008, the National Health Laboratory (NHL) has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a national flu center and conducts tests on flu and respiratory viruses and assist in surveillance and treatment of communicable respiratory viruses.
Feb 18, 2020
UNION Minister U Win Khaing of the Ministry of Electricity and Energy, together with Rakhine State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu and state government’s Electricity, Industries and Transportation Minister U Aung Kyaw Zan, inspected the test drill Mahar (1) that is located at the Block A-3 of Myanmar west offshore.
Feb 17, 2020
THE working groups of the government and Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement-Signatories, ethnic armed organizations (NCA-S EAO) held a coordination meeting on implementing the decisions made at the 8th Joint Implementation Coordination Meeting (JICM) yesterday.
The meeting was held at the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre (NRPC) on Shwe Li Road, in Yangon.