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• New idea floated to allow NLD leader to assume presidency
• Supplementary budget approved without opposition
• Parliament approves national ceasefire agreement
• Palaung students warn fighting is driving intercommunal tensions
• FDA shutters 22 mom-and-pop drinking-water companies
• Myanmar stays young while East Asia faces elderly demographic shift
• Polio vaccine program expands to cover Rakhine
• Zoning, not flyovers, eyed as better solution to traffic jams
• Lack of maintenance leads to car-owner headaches
• Slimming salon turns house of horrors for two former staffers

New idea floated to allow NLD leader to assume presidency Posted: 10 Dec 2015 12:51 AM PST A new idea has been presented that would allow Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to get around a constitutional provision that bars her from the presidency.

Supplementary budget approved without opposition Posted: 10 Dec 2015 12:49 AM PST For all the storm and fury directed at it, MPs yesterday passed unopposed a supplementary budget request that amounted to 11.95 percent of the existing budget for the current financial year. Not a single program or a single kyat was cut.

Parliament approves national ceasefire agreement Posted: 10 Dec 2015 12:48 AM PST The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw has given its unanimous seal of approval to the nationwide ceasefire agreement signed by the government and eight ethnic armed groups on October 15.

Palaung students warn fighting is driving intercommunal tensions Posted: 10 Dec 2015 12:45 AM PST Palaung students have warned that fighting between two ethnic armed groups in northern Shan State risks fuelling racial conflicts between their community and the Shan.

FDA shutters 22 mom-and-pop drinking-water companies Posted: 10 Dec 2015 12:41 AM PST Unlicensed bottled water companies are being shut down by the Food and Drug Administration for fear they could be bacteria-ridden and contaminated, according to officials.

Myanmar stays young while East Asia faces elderly demographic shift Posted: 10 Dec 2015 12:39 AM PST Myanmar is an outlier in a new World Bank report that reveals most Asian countries are facing ageing populations and a rapidly diminishing workforce.

Polio vaccine program expands to cover Rakhine Posted: 10 Dec 2015 12:38 AM PST Moving swiftly to stamp out what appeared to be a resurgence of deadly polio in Rakhine State, health officials have completed the first of three planned rounds of vaccinations there.

Zoning, not flyovers, eyed as better solution to traffic jams Posted: 10 Dec 2015 12:31 AM PST Flyovers are not enough to relieve congestion, city heritage experts have been told.

Lack of maintenance leads to car-owner headaches Posted: 10 Dec 2015 12:22 AM PST Since the sudden influx of cars since 2011, Myanmar drivers are learning that maintenance is cheaper than repairs, automobile industry experts say.

Slimming salon turns house of horrors for two former staffers Posted: 10 Dec 2015 12:08 AM PST A slimming salon in Mandalay became a torture chamber for two young women who worked there, according to complaints they have made to the police.

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