With foreign and domestic demand faltering, the trading activity of Mandalay commodity depot slowed down.

Fruit traders are facing a se­ries of challenges while exporting mangoes to China this year, like watermelon export.

On 6 March, Shan’s new garlic prices were falling in the Yan­gon market, at K4,000 per viss. The price was over K12,000 per viss in the last few days, and it is gradually falling to K7,500- K8,000-K8,500.

The 75th anniversary of Pa-O National Day will be celebrat­ed alongside the traditional Tabaung festival in areas pre­dominantly inhabited by the Pa-O ethnic people, according to U Khun Sai Pha, Chair of the Pa-O Ethnic Literature and Culture Association of Shan State (South).

The historic sites of Dala’s old town, in­cluding the palace hill, ancient pagodas, and over 2,000 ancient glaze kilns, have been designated and preserved near the Shwesandaw Pagoda in Twantay Township of Yangon Region. U Hla Myo, a member of the Twantay Township Ancient Cultural Heritage Preservation Committee, con­firmed this.

The second-day session of the sixteenth plenary meeting of the Eighth 47-member State Sangha Maha Nayaka Com­mittee was held at the Wizaya Mingala Dhamma Thabin of Thiri Mingala Kaba Aye Hill in Yangon yesterday.