A floor price for paddy has been set at K500, 000 for every 100 baskets of rice for the 2018 paddy harvesting period, the Myanmar Rice Federation announced Tuesday at the Myanmar Rice Federation Stakeholder Forum 2018 in Nay Pyi Taw (One basket weighs 46lb or 20.86kg). It is the first time Myanma...

A bachelor’s degree in fishery will be launched in the coming academic year at Yangon University, an official of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation told The Myanmar Times. “We decided to offer bachelor degree courses related to fishery for the next academic year. The Hluttaw a...

Rebecca* is nervous; she clenches her fists and her eyes dart around, keeping an eye out for someone, something. She sits out in the open on a chair and, in a trembling voice, tells about her recent rape in M'Poko, a site sheltering tens of thousands of people displaced by months of violence in Bang...

Twin suicide blasts have killed at least 13 people at a bar in a border town between Cameroon and Chad. The bombers dressed in women's burqas and struck as locals were breaking the Ramadan fast. At least 13 people have been killed in twin suicide attacks by suspected Boko Haram militants on Camer...

UNHCR is deeply concerned about the tension and violence at the border between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and calls on the authorities of both countries to manage the border in a manner consistent with human rights and refugee-protection principles. As a result of restri...

Two bombs blamed on the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram exploded at a crowded mosque and an elite Muslim restaurant in Nigeria’s central city of Jos, killing 44 people, officials said on Monday. Sixty-seven other people were wounded in the attacks on Sunday night and were being treated at hosp...