Yangon — one person died and seven were reported missing after a mudslide at a Myanmar refugee camp in Thailand’s Mae Hong Son Province on Sunday night, the Karen Refugee Committee (KRC) confirmed to The Irrawaddy. The torrent of earth and rocks, caused by heavy rain, poured down the hill and int...

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will plan to offer two-step loan of 11.5 billion yen (about Ks151.6 billion) for next fiscal year 2018-2019, state media has reported. At the 9th day meeting of the seven regular the session of Second Pyidaungsu Hluttaw held on 22 February, 14.9 billi...

Ministries was held in Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population in Nay Pyi Taw on September 11. In order to meet the demand for legal workers in Thailand’s fishing industry, a meeting was held between officials from Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population and Myanmar Overseas Employm...

Ministryof Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation has granted permission to establish fish and prawn farming zones after the Myanmar Fishery Federation (MFF) has submitted a proposal to the authorities, according to MFF. Union Minister Dr. Aung Thu announced the ministry’s approval on the establishme...

YANGON — Myanmar has received proposals from foreign countries to open private medical and nursing universities in the country, Union Minister for Health and Sports Dr. Myint Htwe told the Upper House on Monday. “We are planning to open private medical and nursing universities. Many (founders of ...

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...

A roundtable discussion on reviewing the framework for political dialogue with Government, Hluttaw and Tatmadaw groups continued at the National Reconciliation and Peace Center in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. “When we reviewed the number of agreements gained at the second and third Union Peace Confere...

Ten ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) that have signed Myanmar’s nationwide peace accord wrapped up their third summit in northern Thailand on Tuesday, agreeing that leaders from government, the national military, and ethnic armies should meet soon for talks to try to overcome obstacles to the count...

ထိုင်း-မြန်မာနယ်စပ်ရှိ ဒုက္ခသည်များ အပါအဝင် ပြည်တွင်းစစ်ရှောင် ပြည်သူ (IDPs)များအတွက် ထောက်ပံ့မှု အကူအညီများ ဆက်လက်ရရှိရန် နိုင်ငံတကာသို့ စည်းရုံး လှု့ံဆော်မှုလုပ်ငန်းများလုပ်ဆောင် သွားမည်ဟု ကနေဒါနိုင်ငံ ကရင်လူမှုအသိုင်း အဝိုင်း (KCC)က ပြောဆိုလိုက်သည်။ ကနေဒါနိုင်ငံ၊ Alberita ခရိုင်၊ (Edmonton) မ...

အသေးစားနှင့် အလတ်စား (SME) စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်း တစ်ခုလျှင် ငွေကျပ်သန်း ၅၀၀ ထုတ်ချေးမည် ဖြစ်ကြောင်း မြန်မာ့ စီးပွားရေးဘဏ်မှ စက်တင်ဘာ ၅ရက်တွင် ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့သည်။ မြန်မာ့စီးပွားရေးဘဏ်သည် SME လုပ်ငန်းများအတွက် ပံပိုးကူညီရန် JICA မှ တရားဝင်ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှုအကူအညီ (ODA) ချေးငွေရယူပြီး SME လုပ်ငန်းများအတွက် နှစ်ဆ...