The head of a UN delegation to Myanmar has said that he is greatly encouraged by the country's reforms but stressed that transparency is needed in the area of foreign aid in Myanmar.
Some 2,000 internally displaced people and villagers from the Wei Gyi area gathered on March 14 by the Salween riverbank to protest continued plans to construct six hydroelectric dams on the river.
Myanmar's government has made a significant move toward fully democratizing the country by approving a motion to form a committee and commission to review the country's controversial 2008 Constitution.
The Minister of Finance and Revenue announced on March 15 that all civil servants will receive a 20,000 kyat monthly pay rise beginning in April; however, government employees have voiced concern about the raise in salaries effecting inflation.
google-logoGoogle's executive chairman Eric Schmidt will be the first high-profile tech representative to visit Myanmar when he travels to the country later this week.
The vice-minister of Myanmar’s Department of Social Welfare has said that labor attachés will be positioned in those countries which have large amount of Myanmar migrant workers.
The Ministry of Finance and Revenue has announced that, as from March 15, Myanmar citizens can now travel to foreign countries without producing a tax clearance document.
Myanmar armed forces backed by police and customs officials have seized a huge cache of arms and narcotics from a hideout in the border town of Tamu in Sagaing Region.
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၊ ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္၊ ထန္တလန္ၿမိဳ ့ေန Pi Khual Dim ၏ ေနအိမ္တြင္ အရက္ေရာင္း၀ယ္သည့္ စြပ္စဲြခ်က္ျဖင့္ စစ္ေဆးခဲ့သူ (သင္းအုပ္ဆရာ) Pastor Sang Hre Lian ႏွင့္ အဖဲြ႕အား အသေရ ဖ်က္မႈျဖင့္ အမႈဖြင့္ တရားစြဲဆိုခဲ့သည္။
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