Surbung Airport in Falam Township, Chin State, the first major airport in the state, will open in September 2020, said U Ye Htut Aung, Deputy Director General of the Department of Civil Aviation. Construction of the K 30 billion airport, which began in 2016-17, had originally been scheduled for c...

The Kayin State government has demolished 30 houses that were illegally built on forest land in the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army’s (DKBA) new town project in Myawady Township, a government official said. U Kyaw Myo Thu, spokesperson of the Forest Department, said the houses were demolished on ...

YANGON (REUTERS) - Thousands of people rallied in Myanmar's commercial capital on Wednesday (Feb 27) in support ofconstitutional reform, amid mounting tension between the ruling party and the military over changes to the charter that enshrines the army's role in politics. Protesters gathered in the ...

ဧရာဝတီတိုင်း၊ ညောင်တုန်းမြို့နယ်အနောက်ဘက်ရှိ ရန်ကင်းစင်ရာကျေးရွာ၌ လွန်ခဲ့သောခြောက်နှစ်ခန့်ကပင် လှပသောရေချိုးရာအရပ်အဖြစ် တည်ရှိနေသည့် သဘာဝကျကျကမ်းခြေတစ်ခုဖြစ်သော ညောင်ချောင်းသာကမ်းခြေကို ယခုနှစ်ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၂၃ ရက်နေ့တွင် တရားဝင်ဖွင့်လှစ်မည်ဖြစ်သည်။ “ညောင်ချမ်းသာကမ်းခြေက မြန်မာနိုင်ငံက ထင်ရှားတဲ့ကမ်...

ချင်းပြည်နယ်၏ ပထမဦးဆုံးသော လေဆိပ်ဖြစ်လာမည့် ဖ လမ်း (ဆူရ်ဘုန်) လေဆိပ်ကို ၂၀၂၀ ပြည့်နှစ်၊ စက်တင်ဘာလ တွင် ဖွင့်လှစ်နိုင်မည်ဟု လေကြောင်းပို့ဆောင်ရေး ညွှန်ကြားမှု ဦးစီးဌာန၊ ဒုတိယညွှန် ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ် ဦးရဲထွဋ်အောင်က ပြောသည်။ အဆိုပါ လေဆိပ်အသစ် တည်ဆောက်ခြင်း စီမံကိန်းကို မူလ စီမံကိန်း အစီအစဉ်အရ ငါးနှစ် ...

Rural areas far from the national grid will get electricity through renewable energy sources, says Minister of Electricity and Energy U Win Khine. He said the government will provide electricity to these areas through renewable energy as lower population density and electricity usage may not make...

The government will hold an elderly care training course this month to promote the welfare of senior citizens and open up more overseas job opportunities, said Myanmar Health and Sports Minister U Myint Htwe. The six-month course will be start on Thursday with the help of non-governmental organis...

The Myanmar processed food industry needs more investment support in order to develop further, U Aye Win, chair of the Myanmar Food Processors and Exporters Association, told The Myanmar Times. Currently, Myanmar processes basic raw commodities such as rice, beans, maize and other agricultural pr...

At least 400 people were left homeless by a fire that gutted dozens of houses at Nu Po refugee camp on the Myanmar-Thai border, an officer of a local Myanmar aid agency said on Tuesday. Saw Bway Sae, secretary of the Karen Refugee Committee, said 88 houses were destroyed in the fire on Monday aft...

Thailand's cabinet agreed on Tuesday to establish a Temporary Myanmar Labour Data Collection Centre in Samut Prakan for the convenience of migrant workers seeking to renew their passports in order to continue working in Thailand. The idea for the centre, which will renew the passports of two cate...