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Traditional weavers take up other jobs as businesses decline
11/09/19
WITH traditional weaving businesses facing a decline in Kyouksitpone Myauk Village of Monywa Township, jobs for weavers are drying up, which is forcing them to turn to other sources of livelihood, according to U Khine Zaw Lat, the Village Administrator
Chinese airlines extend wings to Myanmar
11/09/19
MORE Chinese airlines are eyeing Myanmar as a lot of foreign companies flock to the Asia’s last frontier market. Myanmar offered visa free entry to Chinese visitors and tourists from some countries in an attempt to boost its tourism industry. Arrival of Chinese tourists to Myanmar is up by more than 30 per cent than previous year thanks to Myanmar’s visa-on-arrival allowance to visitors from six more countries commencing on 1 October last year
IATA launches BSP in Myanmar
11/09/19
FIVE airlines and 12 travel agents have signed up initially, with more expected to join
President U Win Myint receives outgoing Canadian ambassador
11/09/19
President U Win Myint received outgoing Canadian Ambassador to Myanmar Ms Karen MacAuthur who has completed her tour of duty at the Presidential Palace in Nay Pyi Taw at 10:00 am yesterday
Over 8,000 litres of hydrochloric acid seized in Tachilek
11/09/19
Police on Monday seized 8,280 litres of hydrochloric acid as part of a search-and-seizure operation at the Myanmar-Thai friendship bridge in Tachilek. The trade of hydrochloric acid is restricted in Myanmar
Government, NCA-S EAO Group hold meeting
11/09/19
Plan to hold 21st Century Union Peace Conference in early 2020
Second Amyotha Hluttaw’s 13th regular session holds 18th-day meeting
11/09/19
The 18th-day meeting of Second Amyotha Hluttaw’s 13th-regular session was held at the Amyotha Hluttaw meeting hall in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning where questions raised by ten Hluttaw representatives were answered by Union Minister for Labour, Immigration and Population U Thein Swe, Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation U Hla Kyaw and Deputy Minister for Transport and Communications U Kyaw Myo. The Hluttaw also discussed National Records and Archives Bill and Amyotha Hluttaw Public Complaints Committee report 1/2019 was read
Pyithu Hluttaw debates on signing Int’l Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
11/09/19
Pyithu Hluttaw debated on signing International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) at the 18th-day meeting of the Second Pyithu Hluttaw’s 13th regular session held at Pyithu Hluttaw meeting hall in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning
UK-based TV Channel takes travel documentary in Mandalay Region
11/09/19
A television channel based in the United Kingdom took a travel documentary in Mandalay Region yesterday
