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• Ayeyarwady River waters breach danger mark, flooding Amarapura villages
• Conference provides a microphone to Myanmar’s ‘minority minorities’
• NDAA asks for inclusion of other armed ethnic groups at Panglong meet
• Nay Pyi Taw township needs economic progress to draw residents: official
• Singapore funds two more first aid outposts along ‘death highway’
• Bagan to bid for heritage status in 2018
• VIVO workers, employer reach labour agreement
• Mandalay rallies in support of Panglong Conference
• MCDC election to be held in September
• Lower house bill committee suggests scrapping Emergency Provisions Act

Ayeyarwady River waters breach danger mark, flooding Amarapura villages Posted: 02 Aug 2016 12:12 AM PDT The waters of the Ayeyarwady River in Mandalay have surpassed the danger mark, with floodwaters yesterday inundating more than half the villages in Amarapura township and forcing closure of a major university outside Myanmar's second-largest city.

Conference provides a microphone to Myanmar’s ‘minority minorities’ Posted: 02 Aug 2016 12:11 AM PDT From Nagaland in the northwest to Dawei in the deep south, delegates made their way to join the week-long conference aimed at strengthening links between young people from different ethnic backgrounds, achieving peace and generating consensus on how a federal Myanmar should look.

NDAA asks for inclusion of other armed ethnic groups at Panglong meet Posted: 02 Aug 2016 12:09 AM PDT A powerful armed ethnic group, the National Democratic Alliance Army, yesterday appealed to the government to invite its three allies currently engaged in fighting with the Tatmadaw to the upcoming Panglong Conference.

Nay Pyi Taw township needs economic progress to draw residents: official Posted: 02 Aug 2016 12:03 AM PDT Growth of the local economy is key to attracting more residents to Nay Pyi Taw's Pobbathiri township, where plans to create a retirement community for former civil servants have fallen flat, according to Nay Pyi Taw Council member U Tin Tun.

Singapore funds two more first aid outposts along ‘death highway’ Posted: 02 Aug 2016 12:00 AM PDT Singapore Red Cross has donated US$360,000 to support building two additional first aid stations along the Yangon-Mandalay "death highway".

Bagan to bid for heritage status in 2018 Posted: 01 Aug 2016 11:50 PM PDT The plight of Bagan's "limbo hotels" could come under the spotlight again as the authorities start the process of getting the city's famed cultural zone listed as a World Heritage Site.

VIVO workers, employer reach labour agreement Posted: 01 Aug 2016 11:49 PM PDT Fifty members of the sales staff at a VIVO smartphone service centre in Bago Region will now have set work hours, a minimum daily wage and paid public holidays, after management and the employees reached an agreement on July 28, a protest leader and a township labour official told The Myanmar Times yesterday.

Mandalay rallies in support of Panglong Conference Posted: 01 Aug 2016 11:45 PM PDT Peace is coming and all Mandalay is coming out to greet it. Over the next week, political activists, civil society groups and ordinary residents throughout the region will be holding rallies in support of the 21st-century Panglong Conference.

MCDC election to be held in September Posted: 01 Aug 2016 11:42 PM PDT Elections for Mandalay City Development Committee members, representing six townships, will be held by the end of September, a spokesperson for the election commission said yesterday.

Lower house bill committee suggests scrapping Emergency Provisions Act Posted: 01 Aug 2016 11:23 PM PDT Military MPs and elected lawmakers are set to spar over a controversial law that has been used to jail political dissidents and carries a potential death penalty for saboteurs and conveyors of state secrets.

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