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People wear masks at the arrival lounge at the Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar, 31 January 2020. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
February 4, 2020
Public Health Department, Central Epidemiology Unit Deputy Director Dr. Khin Khin Gyi said that one more coronavirus suspect case has been found in...
NCA Implementation Framework Coordinating Leader Sao Sai Nguen addresses the coordination meeting in Yangon yesterday. Photo: MNA
February 4, 2020
Government officials and representatives of ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) that have signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) held a...
February 4, 2020
Health services personnel are closely monitoring 59 Myanmar students, who were brought back from Wuhan city of China, to the isolation rooms of...
February 4, 2020
Aung Htein — Displaced civilians have continued to arrive at the Sa Nyin IDP camp outside the Myebon Township village of the same name, despite a...
February 4, 2020
Aung Kaung Zaw — Citing the poor condition of the Kamar Chaung Bridge along Kyunpat Road in Manaung Township, Arakan State, residents there are...
A troop of Tatmadaw soldiers were patrolling in Kyauktaw Township. (Photo - DMG)
February 4, 2020
Myat Swe — The Tatmadaw and Arakan Army traded “fierce” fire for hours on February 1 near Amyet Taung village in Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township,...
February 4, 2020
Wun Tha — A new village of resettled Hindus near Aungbala village in Maungdaw Township is grappling with water scarcity, according to locals. Ma...
February 4, 2020
Hnin Nwe -— A 20-year-old resident of Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township who recently returned from China and was hospitalized with illness less than a...
February 4, 2020
Myo Thiri Kyaw — The sound of gunfire, a frequent occurrence in Mrauk-U Township for nearly a year, has not been heard there since a final proposal...
February 3, 2020
A 21 years old young man from Kam Hton Gyi sub-town under Meabon township was hospitalized with injuries after the security forces released him. Ko...
Home Affairs Minister Lt.Gen Kyaw Swe. Photo: EPA
February 3, 2020
The military-appointed home affairs minister, Lt-Gen Kyaw Swe, will resign from government and return to the army pending approval from the president...
February 3, 2020
More than 200 monks and nuns did not take the Tharmanay Kyaw examination held in the Arakan State capital Sittwe due to the region’s instability,...