Aug 20, 2024
Reports circulating that Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) conducted an air-strike on the Myingyan-Natogyi border and areas in Thabeikkyin and Tagaung on 18 August are false. These reports have been spread by malicious news media, creating misinformation.
Aug 20, 2024
In a major crackdown on online fraud, a combined security team from the Myanmar Police Force arrested four Chinese nationals and seventeen Myanmar nationals involved in a fraudulent online money scam. The arrests took place on 18 August 2024, at approximately 4:30 pm in Chanayethazan Township, Mandalay Region.
Aug 20, 2024
Deputy Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement U Soe Kyi received Mr Sajjad Mohammad Sajid, Head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) and Mr Marcoluigi, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator ai(UN RC/HC ai) at the ministry’s office yesterday afternoon.
Aug 20, 2024
Deputy Minister for Education Dr Moe Zaw Htun, leading Myanmar delegation to the People’s Republic of China, departed Yangon by air yesterday morning to participate in the 2024 China-ASEAN Education Cooperation Week.
Aug 20, 2024
Union Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation U Min Naung met Bago Region Chief Minister U Myo Swe Win, Ayeyawady Region Chief Minister U Tin Maung Win and Yangon Region Chief Minister U Soe Thein on 17 and 18 August, respectively. They discussed how the State economic promotion fund is supporting the cultivation of summer paddy, as well as the monsoon paddy project and oil crop project activities, sown acreage expansion of sunflower and cotton crops, to develop dairy cattle farming through inbreeding programes.
Aug 20, 2024
Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs U Lwin Oo received Mr Marcoluigi Corsi, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator ai (UN RC/HC ai), and Mr Sajjad Mohammad Sajid, Head of Office of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Yangon, yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw.
Aug 20, 2024
The Ministry of Health has detected no cases of mpox (monkeypox) virus in the county after conducting 129 lab tests from 2022 to date, said Union Minister for Health Dr Thet Khaing Win, at a meeting to scale up measures to prevent the virus yesterday.
Aug 20, 2024
State Administration Council Members Daw Dwe Bu, Porel Aung Thein, Dr Hmuh Thang, Dr Ba Shwe, Khun San Lwin, U Shwe Kyein and U Yan Kyaw, Union ministers, deputy ministers, departmental officials, and relevant officials attended the final match and awarding ceremony of the 2024 Inter-State and Region Futsal Championship yesterday in Nay Pyi Taw.
Aug 20, 2024
AS of 19 August 2024, the Kachin State People’s Party (KSPP), with its headquarters located at No 328, near Seinn Mya Ayeya Park, Pyidaungsu Road, Yuzana Ward, Myitkyina of Kachin State, has been allowed to register under Section 9 of the Political Parties Registration Law.
Aug 20, 2024
Buddhists regard the full moon day of Wagoung as an auspicious day of Metta (loving-kindness) (Metta Akha Taw Day). Being Wagoung full moon day, Metta Akha Taw Day ceremonies were held at the Shwedagon Pagoda and Thiri Mingala Kaba Aye Pagoda in Yangon yesterday.