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• Action to be taken against traffic violators from June 10
• Motion to debate unemployment accepted
• Free farmland for farmers in Sagaing
• Ma Ba Tha to continue under new name
• Coastal areas on orange cyclone alert
• Drought may destroy summer paddy
• Secession, self-determination haunt second round of Panglong conference
• MP wants damaged roads repaired

Action to be taken against traffic violators from June 10 Posted: 28 May 2017 01:19 PM PDT The Mandalay City Development Committee has announced that action will be taken against those who violate traffic rules in Mandalay effective June 10.

Motion to debate unemployment accepted Posted: 28 May 2017 01:14 PM PDT MP U Khin Cho has asked the authorities to address the 34 percent unemployment problem facing the country.

Free farmland for farmers in Sagaing Posted: 28 May 2017 01:11 PM PDT The Sagaing regional government is giving out free lands, starting from the second week of May, to farmers that do not possess any farmland.

Ma Ba Tha to continue under new name Posted: 28 May 2017 01:09 PM PDT Ma Ba Tha chair Sayadaw Ashin Tilokabhivamsa said it is necessary to note and to be careful that the ban on the Patriotic Association of Myanmar (Ma Ba Tha) was not because of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee.

Coastal areas on orange cyclone alert Posted: 28 May 2017 01:06 PM PDT Myanmar has been put on a cyclone orange alert for coastal areas as a depression over the Bay of Bengal moves towards landfall and may cross near the Rakhine State coastal area.

Drought may destroy summer paddy Posted: 28 May 2017 01:03 PM PDT Summer paddy crop grown in Pwintphyu and Salin townships in the Magwe Region may be damaged if it does not rain until the end of the month, said farmers last Thursday.

Secession, self-determination haunt second round of Panglong conference Posted: 28 May 2017 01:00 PM PDT The government and ethnic armed groups have failed to reach an agreement on the issues of secession and self-determination in the final day of the second round of the 21st-Century Panglong Conference.

MP wants damaged roads repaired Posted: 28 May 2017 12:55 PM PDT Heavy vehicles, especially lorries, plying to and fro from cement factories in the Kyaukse township, Mandalay Region, have resulted in damage along some parts of the roads.

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