Chit Min Tun — Voting will not take place in parts of Mon State’s Belin Township during the upcoming election, according to the Mon State Election Sub-Commission office. Earlier this month the Union Election Commission announced the list of townships where voting has been canceled. Baw Naw Khee Vil...

RANGOON — Plans to build the first coal-fired power plant in Mon State have come under fire by local residents, who say they worry about pollution and potential health ramifications. The Thai-based Toyo-Thai Group held a consultation meeting on Friday with local residents to explain plans to buil...

The Mon State Government will deliver 15 million Kyat in support for the Karen New Year festival celebration which will be held on December 29. It is the Mon State Government’s first time financially supporting the Karen New Year Festival celebration, according to U Aung Myint Khine, Minister of K...

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...

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...