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• The Judiciary Strategic Plan has yet to bear fruit
• Sell food with banned colouring and get shut down: MCDC
• Mandalay workers vow to continue protest
• No more K200 lottery tickets from June 1
• China offers to renovate Thatbyinnyu Pagoda
• Govt to implement ‘Women and Girls First Initiative’
• Plans for daycare centres nationwide
• Farmland to be returned to Mandalay farmers
• Over Kyat 4 billion spent on farm irrigation
• Thousands flee Myanmar border town after rebel raid

The Judiciary Strategic Plan has yet to bear fruit Posted: 08 Mar 2017 12:09 AM PST The Union Judiciary Law contains good features but reforms of the judicial system will have to be implemented in accordance with democratic norms under the people-elected government

Sell food with banned colouring and get shut down: MCDC Posted: 08 Mar 2017 12:03 AM PST Businesses in Mandalay that are selling food containing banned food dye now risk having their shops shut down by the authorities, which have launched an operation to ensure food safety.

Mandalay workers vow to continue protest Posted: 08 Mar 2017 12:00 AM PST Without an amicable settlement in sight, Kan Kaung Chin Yadanar factory workers have vowed to continue their sit-in protest at the factory entrance in Bal Lin village of Mandalay's Singaing township.

No more K200 lottery tickets from June 1 Posted: 07 Mar 2017 11:59 PM PST K200 lottery tickets will no longer be on sale from June 1, according to the Lottery Division of Internal Revenue Department.

China offers to renovate Thatbyinnyu Pagoda Posted: 07 Mar 2017 11:58 PM PST China has offered to restore and renovate the Thatbyinnyu Pagoda which was one of the few pagodas in Bagan damaged by an earthquake in August last year, Department of Archaeology,  National Museum and Library (Bagan branch) director U Aung Kyaw Kyaw said yesterday.

Govt to implement ‘Women and Girls First Initiative’ Posted: 07 Mar 2017 11:47 PM PST The Union government is implementing the nation's 'Women and Girls First Initiative' in four areas - Rakhine, Kachin, Kayin and the northern Shan states.

Plans for daycare centres nationwide Posted: 07 Mar 2017 11:43 PM PST Working parents around Myanmar may soon find their babysitter problems solved.

Farmland to be returned to Mandalay farmers Posted: 07 Mar 2017 11:37 PM PST More than 768.9 hectares (1900 acres) of farmland seized by government departments during the years of former governments in Mandalay Region will be returned to the owners, said dr Soe Than, Mandalay Region Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation.

Over Kyat 4 billion spent on farm irrigation Posted: 07 Mar 2017 11:36 PM PST The Mandalay regional government will spend K4.2 billion to ensure that farmers will have sufficient water to grow summer crops, Dr Soe Than, Minister for Mandalay Region's Agriculture and Irrigation Department, said on March 6.

Thousands flee Myanmar border town after rebel raid Posted: 07 Mar 2017 11:32 PM PST Thousands have fled a Myanmar town bordering China after over 30 people were killed as the army fought back ethnic rebels armed with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns, officials said Tuesday.

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