A police squad confiscated a gun and bullets from two motorists in a vehicle search in Dawei, the capiotal city of Taninthayi Region on 11 January; the Ministry of Home Affairs reported.
The Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement has been providing Ks. 10,000 to a senior citizen above 90 years of age monthly under its social pension programme.
A fisherman who went missing after an offshore fishing boat sank near an island in the sea about 20 miles southeast of Haigyikyun Township, Ayeyawady Region at around 5 a.m. today due to strong winds was found dead under the sunken boat.
They confiscated different sizes of ownerless sewn timber logs weighing 40.17 tons. The confiscated timber logs are currently being kept at a local timber production camp.
An old mortar shell, which is believed to be from the Warld War II period, was unearthed in Bagan, a UNESCO world heritage-nominated site in NyaungU Township, Mandalay Region today.
