The Mandalay Mayor’s Mini Marathon 2020 will be held on 4 January in Mandalay to mark Myanmar’s 72nd Independence Day, according to the Mandalay City Development Committee (MCDC).
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, accompanied by Union Minister for Education Dr Myo Thein Gyi and officials, left Nay Pyi Taw for Yangon yesterday afternoon by a special flight.
According to a survey on urbanization, the population in Myanmar’s cities and towns is expected to increase from 15.4 million, or 30 per cent of the country’s total population, in 2014 to 20 million in 2030.