Thai officials and their Myanmar counterparts remain committed to the long-awaited Dawei megaproject, with the Myanmar-Thailand Joint High-Level Committee (JHC) and the Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) to be set up soon to foster development. Porametee Vimolsiri, secretary-general to the Nation...

Representatives from the New Mon State Party (NMSP) and the Karen National Union (KNU) had a meeting on Sunday in Yar-bu Village, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim Divison, wherein both sides founded a liaison committee to prevent further clashes. On Thursday [September 8], gunfire was exchanged between...

The affordable housing project in Hpa-an is expected to complete two years after the project launches. Photo: Myitmakha News Agency Entitlement slips for units in an affordable housing project to be built in the vicinity of Hpa-an’s Industrial Zone, Kayin State, are already being bought and sold, l...

Burma’s Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement says it has delivered humanitarian supplies for over 3,800 villagers displaced by a recent wave of armed hostilities in Karen State. Local civilians from the areas around Hlaingbwe and Maethawaw fled their homes several days ago and head...

Union Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee meeting to form sub-committee in progress. THE seventh Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee-Union Level meeting took place at the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre in Yangon yesterday with discussions on works to form JMC-State Level (Kayin-2) in...

China and Singapore made the largest investment in nine electric power projects as of July in this fiscal year 2016-2017, it is learnt from the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA). China invested US$1.3billion into five projects in the electric sector. Meanwhile, Singapore...

Education Minister U Myo Thein Gyi told lawmakers in the Amyotha Hluttaw yesterday that educational development in ethnic minority areas is directly linked to the success or failure of Myanmar’s peace process. Efforts to expand ethnic language instruction, boost literacy rates and improve higher ...

WITH the opening of 78 labour and employment offices, licenses have been issued to 88 local and 260 overseas employment agencies to improve job opportunities for Myanmar youth, Union Minister for Labour, Immigration and Population U Thein Swe told the Amyotha Hluttaw yesterday. In his response to...

THE Amyotha Hluttaw session continued yesterday with 10 parliamentarians discussing a proposal calling for special plans to eradicate illiteracy in ethnic regions, enable ethnic people to pursue further studies and promote ethnic literature. Lt-Col Ye Naing Oo, Defence Services personnel Amyotha ...

A TOTAL of 264 enterprises have sought a licence to engage in special goods business, according to the Internal Revenue Department. According to the 2016 Union Tax Law, tobacco and liquor, teak and hard wood, jade, ruby, sapphire, emerald, diamond and finished and raw jewelry products, vehicles w...