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• Mandalay to slap higher fines on errant gold shops
• Shop owners decry poor maintenance of Shwe Mingalar
• Mandalay collects $90,000 in visa fines
• Ban lifted on going to Malaysia for work
• Changes delay enactment of Special Goods Tax Law
• Myanmar migrants turn work permits into fashion statement
• Dengue fever kills 14 people in Rakhine
• Rakhine Hluttaw panel probe Bengali threat
• Police says robbery not motive in the killing of family of four
• Five groups to sue government over 2008 Constitution

Mandalay to slap higher fines on errant gold shops Posted: 04 Jul 2017 03:09 PM PDT Gold shops which do not collect stamp duty for their sales would be penalised with stiffer fines starting July 3, an official of the Mandalay Region International Revenue Department (IRD) said.

Shop owners decry poor maintenance of Shwe Mingalar Posted: 04 Jul 2017 03:01 PM PDT The shop owners of Shwe Mingalar Market decried the regional government and the developer of the market for their failure to properly maintain the facility, which they promised to do when they sold the shops four years ago.

Mandalay collects $90,000 in visa fines Posted: 04 Jul 2017 02:58 PM PDT More than US$90,000 (K123.1 million) in fines was collected from foreign visitors who overstayed their visas in Mandalay Region in the first six months of this year, said the region's Immigration and National Registration Department.

Ban lifted on going to Malaysia for work Posted: 04 Jul 2017 02:25 PM PDT Myanmar has lifted a six-month ban on sending workers to Malaysia, a senior labour official said, as the country struggles with influx of tens of thousands of returning migrants from neighbouring Thailand.

Changes delay enactment of Special Goods Tax Law Posted: 04 Jul 2017 02:24 PM PDT The Ministry of Planning and Finance drew up a draft of rules to enact the Special Goods Tax Law, but the Office of the Attorney General of Myanmar (OAG) suggested changes, so the ministry made the amendments and submitted it again to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw.

Myanmar migrants turn work permits into fashion statement Posted: 04 Jul 2017 02:20 PM PDT Although the new decree on foreign labour has scared many migrant workers back to their homeland, other Myanmar people with legal documentation allowing them to live and work in Thailand have apparently welcomed the new regulations...by posting photos of themselves modelling the required documents.

Dengue fever kills 14 people in Rakhine Posted: 04 Jul 2017 02:17 PM PDT As of Sunday, 1,267 people had contracted dengue fever in Rakhine State, of which 14 had died, and more than 83 percent of patients are under the age of 15, said Dr San Kyawt Khine, assistant director of the state Public Health Department.

Rakhine Hluttaw panel probe Bengali threat Posted: 04 Jul 2017 02:15 PM PDT The report by a nine-member committee, formed by Rakhine State Hluttaw on June 29 to investigate attacks in the state, will be submitted to the fifth regular state Hluttaw meeting, according to committee chair U Tun Aung Thein.

Police says robbery not motive in the killing of family of four Posted: 04 Jul 2017 02:07 PM PDT Police investigators said robbery could not have been the motive in the killing of a family of four in August last year at Shwe Nant Thar village in Mingalardon, hinting the crime could have been the perpetrated by the husband.

Five groups to sue government over 2008 Constitution Posted: 04 Jul 2017 02:04 PM PDT Five groups that support abolishing the 2008 Constitution drawn up by the Tatmadaw government will sue the State, former MP U David Hla Myint said on Tuesday.

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