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• FDA conducts survey and tests on food at Mandalay market
• Bagan World Heritage zone to be extended
• Reproductive health motion recorded in Amyotha Hluttaw
• Journalists protest against law prosecuting their colleagues
• Rescue work continues in military plane crash
• Biggest Bogyoke statue to be unveiled Saturday
• Squatters to be evicted from monasteries
• N’gaga villagers hope for end of fighting and return home
• Myanmar disabled to get more jobs, protection law soon
• Feedback needed on new power policy

FDA conducts survey and tests on food at Mandalay market Posted: 14 Jun 2017 01:48 PM PDT A food survey, advocacy meeting and testing by a mobile laboratory van were conducted at Yadanarpon market in Chan Mya Tharsi township by the Food and Drug Administration in Mandalay on Monday.

Bagan World Heritage zone to be extended Posted: 14 Jun 2017 01:45 PM PDT Efforts to list Bagan as a UNESCO World Heritage site are underway and an application could be made by September, U Aung Aung Kyaw, director of the Department of Archaeology and National Museum in Bagan, has told The Myanmar Times.

Reproductive health motion recorded in Amyotha Hluttaw Posted: 14 Jun 2017 01:42 PM PDT A motion urging the Union Government to include reproductive health, civics and democracy on the syllabi of colleges, high schools and middle schools has been entered into the record by Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker Mann Win Khaing Than.

Journalists protest against law prosecuting their colleagues Posted: 14 Jun 2017 01:41 PM PDT Journalists from Mandalay have released a statement protesting against Section 66 (D) of the Telecommunications Law and the prosecution of journalists for praying at the corner of Maha Muni Pagoda and for giving out pamphlets.

Rescue work continues in military plane crash Posted: 14 Jun 2017 01:37 PM PDT Search and rescue operations for the missing Tatmadaw transport plane will go on, said the Tatmadaw Commander-in-Chief's office in a statement Wednesday.

Biggest Bogyoke statue to be unveiled Saturday Posted: 14 Jun 2017 01:32 PM PDT Myanmar's biggest Bogyoke statue will be unveiled at Mandalar Tagun Park in Mandalay on Saturday, according to U Min Htet Nyein Chan, a member of the Bogyoke Aung San Centenary Statue and Square organising team.

Squatters to be evicted from monasteries Posted: 14 Jun 2017 01:29 PM PDT Lay people who have been living with their families in Mandalay's monasteries will be evicted in accordance with the law.

N’gaga villagers hope for end of fighting and return home Posted: 14 Jun 2017 01:24 PM PDT Families from N'gaga village who fled the increasing military tension in Tanai's resource-rich mines and nearby villages say they want end of fighting between Tatamadaw and ethnic Kachin armed group to return home as hundreds of workers and residents from gold and amber mines and at least four villages are temporarily being given shelter in Tanai.

Myanmar disabled to get more jobs, protection law soon Posted: 14 Jun 2017 01:18 PM PDT Disabled people can look forward to more job openings and other opportunities, Dr Win Myat Aye, minister of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, said.

Feedback needed on new power policy Posted: 14 Jun 2017 01:15 PM PDT Feedback and comments are being sought from relevant ministries and State/Regional governments in order to formulate a policy combining the electricity and energy sectors at the earliest possible date, said deputy permanent secretary of the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE), U Htay Aung.

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