Rubber may be on the rebound in Mon State after Singapore signed a deal for 50,000 metric tons on Tuesday. A business-matchmaking session and exhibition featuring local rubber planters and producers was held in Mawlamyine, the state capital on November 14. Singapore signed the memorandum of under...

A Mon State official has pledged K16 million (US$11,800) for a traditional Karen wrist trying ceremony, an event celebrating Karen culture and unity. “We are emphasizing development, and trying our best to support tradition and culture,” said Saw Myint Khine, Mon State’s Karen Affairs Minister. ...

The Mon State government hopes that a windfall of compensation will give a much-needed boost to farmers whose plots were damaged by recent monsoon flooding. According to Mon State’s Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Transportation, farmers will K50,000 per acre for flood-damaged farmlands. ...

The Mon State Government will implement a local business stimulus project in the forthcoming 2017-2018 fiscal year in the respective townships of Kyaikhto, Mudon, Chaungzone and Moulmein, according to the Mon State’s Hotel and Tourism Directorate Department. The Ministry of Hotel and Tourism and ...

Mon State Government has issued migrant household documents to over 1500 migrant workers living in 10 respective townships across Mon State, according to a statement by Mon State’s Department of Immigration and Population issued last week. A total of 1570 migrant families have received migrant ho...

RANGOON — Two ethnic armed groups representing the Mon and Karen people reached an agreement on Wednesday to maintain peace while they work to resolve a dispute over territory, according to leaders from both sides. Under Wednesday’s agreement, the Karen National Union (KNU) and the New Mon State ...

A project to construct a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant in Mon State’s Thaton Town was finalized at a contract signing between theMyanmar ElectricPower Enterprise (MEPE) and China Engineering Energy Group (CEEC) in Nay Pyi Taw on January 26. The Union Minister for Electric Power, ...

THE Kyauktan Industrial Zone Implementation Committee has announced that the Kyauktan Industrial Zone, located in Mon State, will officially be opened on 26 March. Construction on the industrial zone project began in 2014. It was led by the Mon State Development Committee under a directive from t...

The Asia Development Bank and the government inked an agreement for a USD $3 million grant to revitalize tourism jobs in Mon State on Tuesday [May 17], according to the Asia Development Bank (ADB). The signing ceremony was held in Nay Pyi Taw, the country’s capital, wherein representatives from A...

The government began testing an online birth and death registration system using mobile phones in Mon State on Monday, a senior government official said. The trail, which was being jointly carried out by the ministries of Health and Sports, and Planning and Finance, was funded by UNICEF and Telen...