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• Disability no longer handicap for college entrance: ministry
• Yandnarbon night market to open at end of July
• Students set up union at Sittwe Technological
• Kawmhu squatters get ID cards
• Over 1000 Mandalay farmers protest land seizure, suits
• No entry to UNHRC fact-finding mission in Rakhine
• With Japan’s help, Myanmar sets up money-earning postboxes in three cities
• Bidding for waste-to-energy plant soon
• K20m in donations collected for family of maid in S’pore suicide

Disability no longer handicap for college entrance: ministry Posted: 29 Jun 2017 02:42 PM PDT Restrictions on the disabled to pursue a college education will be removed and they will be eligible to apply to study in institutions of higher learning, said U Aung Aung Min, deputy director general of the department of higher education.

Yandnarbon night market to open at end of July Posted: 29 Jun 2017 02:41 PM PDT The Yandnarbon night market will be opened for business during the last week of July, according to U Ti Kyi Aung, general manager of the Myanmar Da Yi company, Ltd, which is managing it.

Students set up union at Sittwe Technological Posted: 29 Jun 2017 02:40 PM PDT The Technological University in Sittwe township, Rakhine State, held its first student union election to choose a chairman, vice chairman and general secretary on Monday.

Kawmhu squatters get ID cards Posted: 29 Jun 2017 02:37 PM PDT Smart cards have been issued to squatter families in Yangon Region's Kawhmu township, and over 900 other families were given smart cards that show they are not trespassing, said U Kyaw Thu Soe, administrator of the township.

Over 1000 Mandalay farmers protest land seizure, suits Posted: 29 Jun 2017 02:35 PM PDT More than 1000 farmers in the Mandalay Region staged a protest against what they described as unfair lawsuits filed against them pertaining to seized land.

No entry to UNHRC fact-finding mission in Rakhine Posted: 29 Jun 2017 02:18 PM PDT The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will not allow a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) fact-finding mission into Rakhine State to probe allegations of human rights violations.

With Japan’s help, Myanmar sets up money-earning postboxes in three cities Posted: 29 Jun 2017 02:15 PM PDT Myanmar is replacing its aging postboxes with new ones offering advertisement space in three major cities with Japanese assistance to reform the Southeast Asian country's postal system.

Bidding for waste-to-energy plant soon Posted: 29 Jun 2017 02:11 PM PDT The next energy plant which can recycle all waste and rubbish produced in Yangon will be built after calling for tenders, according to Dr Aung Myint Maw, Assistant Chief Engineer, Pollution Control and Cleansing Department of Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC).

K20m in donations collected for family of maid in S’pore suicide Posted: 29 Jun 2017 01:51 PM PDT Public donations amounting to K20 million has been collected for the grandparents of Ma Zinmar Oo, a Myanmar national worked as a maid and committed suicide in Singapore two weeks ago.

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