The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement is carrying out a social awareness and training program as well as carrying out a survey of street children in several parts of Yangon and Mandalay. According to U Aung Kyaw Moe, director of the Department of Social Welfare the training is ongoing in both cities now. Yangon’s northern […]
Yangon Regional Government Says it Will Step Up Efforts to Reduce Earthquake Damage
December 29, 2016 by thiha
Yangon’s regional government is planning to form an earthquake monitoring committee in an effort to reduce the potential damage to the city’s buildings and to take responsibility for carrying out rehabilitation activities, state media has reported. The committee will be responsible for the promotion of public awareness of earthquakes and the development of a […]
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Two-Thirds of Disabled Children Not Enrolled in Formal Education
October 6, 2016 by thiha
RANGOON — A joint report published by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) has stated that Burma’s national education law needs to be amended, as two-thirds of the country’s 232,000 disabled children do not obtain a formal education. A 122-page report by Unicef and the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement was launched in Naypyidaw on […]
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Three ministries clarify undertakings in first 100 days
August 18, 2016 by thiha
THE second press conference on the Union government’s undertakings in the first 100 days was held in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. The following is the brief of the ministries present at the conference. U Tin Myint, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs said the Ministry made efforts in anti-narcotic policing, closed cases involving […]
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Government’s work performance for first 100 days press conference to be held on Friday
August 11, 2016 by thiha
A PRESS conference on the government’s work performance for the first 100 days will take place at the Ministry of Information at 1 pm this Friday with four ministries— the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Border Affairs, Ministry of Electricity and Energy and Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement— giving briefings and answering […]
