Basic primary healthcare packages will be implemented in the National Health Plan (2017-2021) for township and primary-level hospitals such as those with 16 and 25 beds, said its director Dr Thant Sin Htoo. “We have to meet the infrastructure and manpower demands of health centers and hospitals b...

A two-day land policy workshop was held in Moulmein from September 4-5. (Photo: Mimin Nwe / Facebook) Over 100 civil society representatives from across Mon State participated in a two-day land policy workshop in the state capital of Moulmein. The attendees formed a new 15-member acting co...

The Union government is drawing up a plan to help children survive and thrive, Ministry of Planning and Finance director general Daw Whar Whar Maung told The Myanmar Times yesterday. Specifics details were not released for the plan, which was discussed at a meeting in Nay Pyi Taw on October 21, b...

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has handed over an updated version of its 2040 master plan for Yangon’s development to the region government, which is waiting until it has received a bevy of other plans from other agencies before deciding which recommendations to adopt. JICA fir...

Mae Pa, Thailand – The UN’s refugee agency unveiled a draft plan this week detailing how to carry out the voluntary repatriation of 110,000 refugees residing in Thailand’s camps, drawing mixed reactions from camp leaders. Thailand currently has more than 110,000 refugees from Burma residing in ni...

More than 6,400 acres of confiscated land in Ayeyawady Region has been returned to its rightful owners with Vice President U Henry Van Thio calling on authorities in regions and states to speed up work in order to release remaining lands, state media reported yesterday. Speaking on the occasion i...

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has developed a comprehensive livelihoods strategic plan for Malawi. UNHCR resident representative Monique Ekoko said this in Lilongwe on Thursday during presentation of the Household Socio-Economic and Livelihoods Assessment (HSELA) and relate...

To strengthen Myanmar’s private schools, an accreditation system is needed that recognises different kinds of private schools, education experts said at a seminar that discussed a draft law on private education on Saturday. U Kyaw Moe Tun, executive director of Parami Institute of Liberal Arts & ...

After 18 months of negotiation punctuated by strikes and protests, the government on June 29 proposed a K3600-a-day minimum wage and opened a 14-day window for lodging any complaints over the amount. More than 200 factories from the Shwe Pyi Thar and Hlaing Thar Yar industrial zones, as well as 2...

MANDALAY- The government officially allowed foreign tourists to visit “Ruby Land” Mogok Township, Mandalay Region since the beginning of August, says MP Saw Thaung Tin from No.2 Constituency in Mogok Township. The foreign tourists were banned from visiting to Mogok Township since the beginning of...