Vice-President U Nyan Tun has urged authorities to step up efforts to return land confiscated by the previous government to their rightful owners. He has urged the authorities concerned to step up efforts to give back the land to farmers temporarily, firstly to those who can show documents that p...

The government has approved the seizure of more than 950,000 acres of unused vacant, fallow and virgin land that had been leased to private entities for agriculture, breeding and mining, a senior agriculture official said on Wednesday. U Myo Tint Tun, deputy permanent secretary of the Ministry of...

NAY PYI TAW, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's Union Parliament Monday approved the formation of a five-member new Union Election Commission to handle affairs of the next general election five years later. Proposed by the president-elect U Htin Kyaw, the new union election commission is headed by U ...