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• Pedestrian-only zone at Mandalay Thingyan
• Mandalay cuts Thingyan budget by half
• Workers demand rights
• ICRC’s 3rd largest rehab centre to open in Shan State
• Implementation is key: ADB Vice President
• Fair and flash mob to end Women’s Week celebrations
• Mobile lab to conduct spot-checks at markets
• Yangon CM doing well after heart surgery
• Thousands of migrants displaced in Kokang
• Planning and Finance Ministry to take over MADB

Pedestrian-only zone at Mandalay Thingyan Posted: 09 Mar 2017 11:42 PM PST The 26th Street to the south of the Mandalay palace moat will be closed to vehicular traffic during the Thingyan festival next month and turned into pedestrian-only zone to avoid traffic congestion, said U Ye Mon, deputy mayor of Mandalay Region.

Mandalay cuts Thingyan budget by half Posted: 09 Mar 2017 11:37 PM PST Mandalay is slashing its Thingyan budget by half this year, compared to the amount set aside for last year's event, city officials said.

Workers demand rights Posted: 09 Mar 2017 11:30 PM PST More than 400 workers from the Good Morning Bakery factory owned by Myanmar Mayson Co Ltd, located in Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Zone (4), have mounted a strike because 184 of them were retrenched by the management, allegedly without valid reasons on March 8.

ICRC’s 3rd largest rehab centre to open in Shan State Posted: 09 Mar 2017 11:26 PM PST A spanking new physical rehabilitation centre, built at a cost of K1.86 billion by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), will be operational in Shan State in May.

Implementation is key: ADB Vice President Posted: 09 Mar 2017 11:24 PM PST Myanmar has tremendous potential for development and the government is on the right track. These are the comments of Stephen Groff, Asian Development Bank's vice president for East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In an exclusive interview at Yangon office on March 7, he discusses importance of implementation, infrastructure investment and meetings with top government officials with The Myanmar Times Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Myo Lwin.

Fair and flash mob to end Women’s Week celebrations Posted: 09 Mar 2017 11:12 PM PST Civil society working groups and networks will celebrate the closing ceremony of Women's Week at the People's Park in Yangon on March 12 with a Women's Fair and day-long flash mob.

Mobile lab to conduct spot-checks at markets Posted: 09 Mar 2017 11:10 PM PST Spot-Checks will be conducted at markets in the Mandalay Region using mobile laboratory vehicles in an effort to ensure the safety, cleanliness and freshness of foods, according to the Mandalay branch of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Department.

Yangon CM doing well after heart surgery Posted: 09 Mar 2017 11:07 PM PST Yangon Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein, who underwent a heart operation on March 5, is doing well, the Mayor of Yangon said.

Thousands of migrants displaced in Kokang Posted: 09 Mar 2017 10:59 PM PST Over 2000 migrant workers have fled the border town of Laukkai as fighting continued between Tatmadaw and armed ethnic militia in the Kokang self-administered zone in northeastern Shan State, according to civil society groups' estimates.

Planning and Finance Ministry to take over MADB Posted: 09 Mar 2017 10:56 PM PST Myanmar Agricultural Development Bank (MADB) will be taken over by the Ministry of Planning and Finance in April, due to difficulties faced by the bank in issuing loans expediently to farmers as well as collection of loan repayments, Deputy Minister U Hla Kyaw from Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation said at the Pyithu Hluttaw.

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