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• New management for Mercure Mandalay Hill hotels
• Thai pink card workers ripped off by brokers
• Mrauk-U airport to be built by tender: minister
• Mandalay limits pandal permits
• Charity groups chant slogans to raise funds
• Majority of mammals in Kayin State in trouble
• NLD seniors weigh in on by-election campaigning
• Chinese tourists second largest last year
• Local residents protest NLD MP’s bridge-name proposal
• 88 Generation to form political party in 2018

New management for Mercure Mandalay Hill hotels Posted: 03 Mar 2017 12:04 AM PST LP Holding Co., Ltd has signed a management agreement which will see French multinational hotel group AccorHotels take over the management of Mercure Mandalay Hill Resort, Mandalay Hill MGallery by Sofitel and Pullman Yangon Centrepoint at the Mandalay Hill Resort Hotel.

Thai pink card workers ripped off by brokers Posted: 03 Mar 2017 12:01 AM PST Myanmar nationals who hold "pink cards" in Thailand are being fleeced of some 7000 baht by brokers for identity documents from the homeland, according to the Migrant Workers Right Network (MWRN).

Mrauk-U airport to be built by tender: minister Posted: 03 Mar 2017 12:00 AM PST The Rakhine State government will invite tenders for the construction of an airport in Mrauk-U, U Kyaw Aye Thein, state Planning and Finance Minister said.

Mandalay limits pandal permits Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:56 PM PST The number of permits for the construction of pandals around the Mandalay moat will be reduced this year ahead of the Thingyan festival, according to the Mandalay City Development Committee (MCDC).

Charity groups chant slogans to raise funds Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:53 PM PST Social groups in Mandalay are planning a Thingyan Thangyat (chanting slogans during the water festival) to raise money for charity work.

Majority of mammals in Kayin State in trouble Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:52 PM PST Wildlife conservationists have found 31 species of mammals, including Asian elephants, tigers and leopards in the hills of northern Kayin State.

NLD seniors weigh in on by-election campaigning Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:46 PM PST The ruling party, National League for Democracy (NLD), kicked off their first public speech campaign for the April 1 by-election at Yangon's constituencies with party patron U Tin Oo together with the party's central executive committee member and also Speaker of the Pyithu Hluttaw U Win Myint.

Chinese tourists second largest last year Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:43 PM PST Recording half a million Chinese visitors last year, Myanmar is hoping to make China one of its main tourism partners, the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism said.

Local residents protest NLD MP’s bridge-name proposal Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:42 PM PST The proposal to name a bridge linking Chaungzone township and Mawlamyine in Mon State after Bogyoke Aung San has led to a protest of 3000 people.

88 Generation to form political party in 2018 Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:37 PM PST Members of the 88 Generation group will form a political party next year to contest in the 2020 general election but will not be an opposition party, said its leader.

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