Some wards and villages in the township of Kyaikmaraw started to face scarcity of drinking water as the dry season set in.

A peace dialogue was held with eight ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) at the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre-NRPC in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.

President U Win Myint accompanied by Union Ministers Lt-Gen Kyaw Swe, Lt-Gen Ye Aung, Dr. Myint Htwe, U Han Zaw and Nai Thet Lwin, Myanmar Police Force Police Chief Lt-Gen Aung Win Oo and officials left Nay Pyi Taw by Tatmadaw special plane yesterday morning and arrived in Kachin State, Myitkyina.

A total of 18 Myanmar nationals who were trafficked to Thailand were repatriated through the cooperation between the Rehabilitation Department under the Ministry for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement in Myanmar and the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security in Thailand

Roundtable discussions titled “Youth and Scourge of Narcotic Drugs” were conducted this morning at the monastery in Kyunpako Village, Hlaingbwe Township, Kayin State.

Under the guidance of Ministry of Border Affairs and Kayah State Government, an opening ceremony of new school building for No. 2 Basic Education High School (branch) of Ngwetaung village,