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Time to stamp out trafficking in persons due to fallout from COVID-19
17/09/20
The impact of COVID-19 is not confined to sickness and death. Individuals without an income and other forms of support due to impacts of COVID-19 are at greater risk of being fraudulently recruited and falling victim to trafficking.
Myanmar eyes US fish market with local fisheries exports
17/09/20
Myanmar fisheries sector is hit hard by the coronavirus fallouts, and the Ministry of Commerce is endeavouring to penetrate the US’s fish and seafood market, Yangon Region Fisheries Department stated.
Pansodan-Dala ferry reduces routes due to commuters’ decline
17/09/20
Pansodan-Dala ferry line has reduced its operation routes because of the declining number of commuters and prevention of coronavirus transmission, according to the Delta Division of Inland Water Transport (IWT).
Don’t go outside of Yangon unnecessarily
17/09/20
With regard to travelling, as soon as positive cases were reported in Rakhine State and many cases were found in Sittway, travel restriction from this state to other areas was imposed.
Elderly people in Mongyu receive social pension
16/09/20
Staff from the township Department of Social Welfare, members of the township Women’s Affairs Association and Maternal and Child Welfare Association provided social pension to elderly people above 85 years old in ward and villages in Mongyu Township, Tachilek District, Shan State(East) this morning on a door to door basis.
Drugs seized in some townships
16/09/20
Police members from Kachin Police Force searched a motorbike driven by Ma Thein Shwe on Tanaing-Maingkhu Road in Suatngaing Ward in the town of Tanaing on 15 September and seized heroin weighing 0.495 kilo and 17100 stimulant tablets.
Thailand deports Myanmar migrant workers to Myawaddy
16/09/20
A total of 207 Myanmar migrant workers including 157 men and 50 women were handed over by the Thai authorities to their Myanmar counterpart at No. 2 Myanmar-Thai Friendship Bridge in Myawaddy on 16 September.
COVID-19 emergency requirement items handed over to Shan State Government
16/09/20
A ceremony to provide COVID-19 emergency requirement items to Shan State was held at the meeting room of the office of United Nation Development Program (UNDP) in Mingalar Oo Ward in Taunggyi, Shan State this afternoon.
65 Myanmar seafarers placed under hotel quarantine in Kawthoung
16/09/20
65 Myanmar seafarers from a ship docked at a jetty in the Andaman Sea near Kawthoung Township, Taninthayi Region were placed under 21-day hotel quarantine on September 15.
DRD officials inspect newly-built rural road in Bamouk Twsp
16/09/20
Officials from the Department of Rural Development made a field trip to Naunglone Village, Bamouk Township in Sagaing Region to inspect a rural road on 15 September.
