Après avoir été réélu avec 92,51 % des voix, le président du Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, a été investi samedi pour un deuxième mandat de cinq ans. Il a promis de continuer la lutte contre le terrorisme dans son pays, ciblé par la secte Boko Haram. Le président Mahamadou Issoufou, réélu le 20 mars ...

Over 90 percent of Mon State’s incumbent ward and village tract administrative positions will open in coming elections that aim to bring local-level leadership in line with new legislation, according to an official. U Myint Than Win, Mon State government director, confirmed that the state governm...

Southern Myanmar may soon get its first cardiac center after the Mon State Hluttaw green lit a proposal for a heart specialty wing to be added to the Mawlamyine General Hospital. Three MPs discussed the proposal on December 8 and it was approved without any objections. "We have found that th...

The New Mon State Party is ready to sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) within two months, a party official said, but is uncertain whether it will it sign it on its own or as part of the United Nationalities Federal Council. “We held discussions with the UNFC members and we need to disc...

Loikaw has a new sister city across the border with Thailand. The Kayah (Karenni) State capital signed an agreement with Mae Hong Son on March 9. Kayah State and Mae Hong Son Province officials said the new pact will help both sides to boost tourism, trade and rural development projects. “Agri...

A new political party will be established within six months to represent the entire Mon people. The decision was made during the Mon Political Conference held at the 2500 Sasana Beikman Monastery in in the Mon State’s capital Mawlamyine on January 13-14. “We will finish drafting the party cons...

Mon State Government will provide a 30-year land rental grant in villages that have never experienced land issues, stated head of Mon State General Administration Department at 100-day Project meeting at State Government Office’s Aung San Hall, last week. “The 30-year land grant will be provided ...

State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi held talks with a delegation of the united nationalities Federation Council, led by its Chairman U N’ Ban la, on the country’s peace process at the national reconciliation and Peace Centre in Yangon yesterday. During the landmark talks, the first of their ...

Mon State — an ethnic Karen lawmaker is asking the Education Ministry to let ethnic language teachers in government schools wear their traditional dress. Nang Moe Moe Htwe, who represents Karen State’s Hlaingbwe Township in the Upper House of the national Parliament, sent a letter to Education Mi...

Mon State Government should help the salt-manufacturers in Mon State to get bank loans for their sustainability, according to Minn Tin Win Maung (alias) Nai Hu, a member of Mon State salt-manufacturers’ association live in Pa-nga, Thanbyuzayat Township. “The government needn’t issue the loans. ...