More than 200 farmers staged a protest on Tuesday in the town of Hpruso in Karenni State against land grabs by the Burmese military by marching to the confiscated farmland in question to plough it. Over 1,200 acres of farmland were allegedly confiscated about 10 years ago from 109 residents in So...

KNU Joint Secretary Padoh Saw Eh Nar stated that land measuring of the KNU 4th brigade region in Myeik/Dawei district will commence from the start of January to February, in order for the lands to be officially recognized by Myanmar government. The lands that will be measured are the low land and...

Yangon, 5 Aug — According to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), a community infrastructure project was implemented last year contributing to the development and rehabilitation in ethnic minority areas in Myanmar. The project was funded by Japanese government and implemented...

The military junta now governing Thailand is pressing forward with plans to create a special status border trading area with Burma as Thai overland exports mushroom and financiers urge the establishment of border factories. The move could lead to greater control of migrant Burmese labor by attemp...

A development master plan for the Yangon-Hanthawaddy-Bago corridor and Yangon's southwest will be drawn up by the Department of Urban and Housing Development of the Construction Ministry and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the government announced. A project steering committ...

NAYPYITAW—The Myanmar Army, also known as the Tatmadaw, has returned over 300 acres of land it previously confiscated on the grounds of the food security of Tatmadaw troops in Rakhine State’s Ann Township. “The Tatmadaw has left 300.18 acres of land and handed it over to the government. The gover...

Government and civil society organisations have endorsed a national nutrition action plan aimed at reducing malnutrition among mothers, children and adolescent girls in Myanmar. The plan was endorsed at a meeting in Yangon on Monday by the ministries of Health and Sports; Agriculture, Livestock ...

The Myanmar Health Assistant Association on Sunday launched a five-year plan to improve the public health sector and the general health of Myanmar people, the association’s president said. "This is the first strategic plan of the association. We tried to compile invaluable input and suggestions f...

The master plan for Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial hub is scheduled to be unveiled by the end of this year, according to Phyo Min Thein, Yangon region chief minister. Phyo Min Thein said at Vice President Myint Swe’s meeting with Myanmar businesses last week that the plan would consist of building ...

Nigeria makes history today with the launch of a strategic plan and roadmap to achieve zero hunger by 2030. The plan tagged: “Synthesis Report of the Nigeria Zero Hunger Strategic Review” articulates what Nigeria needs to do to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2)—one of the recently ado...