The government will streamline free basic healthcare for poor people under the National Health Plan, a senior official said. The Ministry of Health and Sports is implementing the plan, which started last year and will continue until 2021. Dr Thant Sin Htoo, the plan’s programme manager, said ...

President U Win Myint said at the National Planning Commission meeting, that Myanmar GDP growth is expected to be 7.6 percent in 2018-2019 Fiscal Year because of increased foreign investment inflow, improved mid-term loan to businesses and strong potential of SMEs’ growth. Reviewing 2017-2018 Fis...

To strengthen Myanmar’s private schools, an accreditation system is needed that recognises different kinds of private schools, education experts said at a seminar that discussed a draft law on private education on Saturday. U Kyaw Moe Tun, executive director of Parami Institute of Liberal Arts & ...

The budget for school infrastructure projects has been cut so that teachers can have the pay increase that President U Win Myint promised shortly after he was sworn into office in March, Education Deputy Minister U Win Maw Tun said. “The cut was made according to the law. It is not because we don...

Myanmar mall operator Ga Mone Pwint Co has teamed up with Thailand’s Thonburi Healthcare Group to start a new facility, Ar Yu International Hospital, in Yangon, where demand for high quality standards of healthcare is rising fast. The new US$70 million hospital, which will open in mid August, is...

Plans are being made to provide basic telecommunications service in remote areas of Myanmar, said U Kyaw Myo, deputy minister of Transport and Communications.The country’s telecom operators will pay into the fund, said U Kyaw Myo, and the fund will pay for the expansion to remote areas, based on a p...

A project to build a technical school in South Dagon Township, Yangon Region, has been approved and its funding will be included in next year’s budget request, a regional legislator has said. U Aye Naing, who represents South Dagon in the Pyithu Hluttaw (lower house), said the vocational school w...

Myanmar is planning to allow visa free for tourists from Japan and South Korea with a one-year trial period starting from October 1 and Chinese tourists including Hong Kong and Macao can visit Myanmar with visa on arrival in the same period, according to Ministry of Hotel and Tourism. “It should ...

In late May and June, local and foreign investments created nearly 16,000 new jobs, according to the Directorate of Investment and Companies Administration. Foreign investments created 8,866 jobs in May and 4,415 in June while citizen investments created 1,766 jobs in May and 993 in June. Duri...

Myanmar President U Win Myint has called for raising momentum of reform in line with the global trend, stressing that the reform needs to be conducted in a timely manner toward building a democratic and federal union, Xinhua reported quoting state media. He urged the administrative, legislative a...