‘A Drop of Milk’, a 2-year pilot program for improving maternal and child health outcomes across 138 villages in Southern Shan State, Myanmar was launched by Tag International Development (TAG), Rotary Club of Yangon & @Rotary Club of Vashon and the Pindaya General Hospital together with the support...

A total of 123,696 students are learning Karen (Kayin) literature in government schools in the Ayeyarwady Region in the 2018-2019 academic year, according to the regional education office. There were only 91,871 students learning Karen literature in the previous 2017-18 academic year in the Ayey...

Without any discrimination of citizenship or non-citizenship of Myanmar, Unique ID Numbers will be issued to all people living in Myanmar according to a coordination meeting on holding of CAS Report held at the Office of the ministry of immigration and manpower in Nay Pyi Taw on August 10. “We ar...

The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement has set to finalize a strategic plan which is designed to implement the country’s National Youth Policy. “After strategic plan for Youth Policy is completed, the ministry will implement it in stages. We will start this year,” said union mini...

In a bid to ensure the better health coverage in rural areas, the Ministry of Health and Sports plans to form mobile medical teams. According to the 2014 Nationwide Census, the average life expectancy is 66.8 years. As a long-term benefit, the ministry aims to promote the average life expectancy ...

Myanmar Strategic Holdings Ltd said Monday it opened its third Wall Street English learning centre in Yangon. The developer and operator of consumer-focused businesses in Myanmar said the centre will have the capacity to host over 800 students. Two Wall Street English learning centres, opened...

The Mon state government will provide a bushel of paddy seeds per acre for the farmlands that have been affected by the flood in the Mon State. Over 65,000 acres of monsoon paddy have been inundated in Kyaikhto, Bilin, Thaton, Paung, and Kyaikmaraw townships in the Mon State due to heavy rain in ...

About 1000 acres of bamboo cultivation zone will be established in Nay Pyi Taw and the government is set to help entrepreneurs upgrade their bamboo products, U Kyaw Thu, secretary of Myanmar Bamboo Growers Association told The Myanmar Times. The land of bamboo growers is being measured and consol...

Myanmar will receive US$27 million in funds under the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP) to kickstart a value chain financing project for agricultural businesses in the Dry Zone, said U Hla Kyaw, deputy minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation (MOALI).Th...

Myanmar will launch an insurance policy covering livestock insurance for the first time in 30 years. “We estimate livestock insurance will be launched by year-end,” Daw Sandar Oo, managing director of Myanma Insurance, told The Myanmar Times. State-owned Myanma Insurance, the Department of Lives...