A skirmish erupted between the Tatmadaw and the Karen National Union (KNU) in the area controlled by the KNU Brigade 5 in Hpapun (Mu Traw) District in the Karen State on July 12 while the third session of the Union Peace Conference (21st Century Panglong) is being held in Naypyidaw. The Karen Nat...

Basic commodities prices have increased in flood-stricken Mon and Kayin states as well as Taninthayi and Bago regions, sources said. Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement claim that there are 25,050 people from 5,302 family households at 67 flood relief camps in Kayin State, 5,895 p...

More than 3000 acres of farmlands that were confiscated for the Mandalay international airport project at Tada-U Township were returned to their farmer-owners. Vice President U Henry Van Thio gave temporary land use certificate, commonly referred to as Form 3, to farmers who were original owners ...

Malaysian factories are hiring Myanmar labourers directly, without charging them broker fees, because of a labour shortage, according to the Myanmar Overseas Employment Agencies Federation. “Employers from Malaysia are directly hiring Myanmar workers with zero fees. This will lead to the increas...

YANGON — The Myanmar Investment Commission has approved the first phase of a multi-billion dollar “city expansion” project in Kayin State’s Myawaddy Township backed by a local Border Guard Force and Chinese conglomerate. Myanmar Yatai International Holding Group, formed by the Kayin Border Guard ...

The Ministry of Education plans to promote ethnic language teaching assistants in public schools to permanent teachers if they have bachelor’s degrees, the Department of Ethnic Literature and Culture said. The teaching assistants were hired by the Department of Basic Education to improve the lear...

The Myanmar Agricultural Development Bank (MADB) has loaned over Ks 60 billion to over 80,000 farmers from the Rakhine State during this monsoon agricultural season. Although the bank planned to give out loans from May to June in this monsoon agricultural season, it has extended the loans to the...

YANGON- Myanmar, together with Japan, will be opening Elderly Caregiver Vocational Training at the Yangon General Hospital, according to the Ministry of Health and Sports. The Union Minister of Health and Sports yesterday discussed about the opening of elderly care give vocational training course...

The government has prepared 70,000 baskets of seed to help rice farmers whose crops have been destroyed by the widespread floods, a senior agriculture official told The Myanmar Times on Wednesday. U Myo Tint Tun, deputy permanent secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation,...

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is planning to supply off-grip solar power for about 1,000 households from nine villages in Kayin State and Taninthayi region in this year, said Manager Shun So Oo from energy department of the WWF (Myanmar) on August 7. “If the state and region governments l...