It was built by Royal Steel Palace Company Limited at a cost of Ks. 258.20 million allocated by The Irrigation and Water Utilization Management Department under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation.

The new bridge is of reinforced concrete type and it will be 900 ft. in length and 30 ft. wide. The bridge has a 3 ft. long pedestrian walkway on each side and can withstand up to 60 tons of load. Constriction of the bridge began on 5 June 2017 with Ks. 2,700 million funds from the Union Budget.

A public cycling event was held in Twantay, Ayeyawady Region, early in the morning yesterday, under the supervision of the Ministry of Health and Sports and the Myanmar Cycling Federation(MCF).

At 11:30 am yesterday, two young girls identified as Ma Su Myat Wai, 19, and Ma Myo Nandar Kyaw, 19, were taking pictures on top of Taw Naw waterfall, located near the Kawkareik-Myawaddy Asia Highway in Kawkareik Township, when they fell 200 feet to the base of the waterfall.

THE value of border trade using the Individual Trading Card (ITC) amounted to K17.1 billion as of 11 January in this fiscal year (FY), which includes exports of K 3.2 billion and imports of K 13.9 billion, according to statistics provided by the Ministry of Commerce.

WITH plans to set up a joint venture for eel farming in the Mandalay Region, a group of 15 businessmen from China met with local entrepreneurs in the first week of this month to discuss the market conditions and stages of farming, according to the Agriculture and Market Information Agency.