The Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) under the Yangon Region Government has invited expressions of interest (EOI) for the development of an industrial park in New Yangon City, according to the Swiss Challenge Tender Committee on October 15. This follows an unsolicited proposal to develop the industrial park by State-owned China Communications Construction Company (CCCC). […]
Yangon calls for EOI submissions for New Yangon industrial park
October 19, 2020 by Thiha
Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: CCCC, counter-propose, EOI, municipal, ndustrial park, Negotiation, resettlement, submissions, YCDC
Investment Opportunities Emerge in Kanyin Chaung Economic Zone
November 15, 2017 by thiha
Investment opportunities in Rakhine State are emerging as the government ups efforts to establish a functioning economy that will create jobs and encourage stability in the region. This month, local private sector experts and businessmen were invited to a briefing promoting investments in Rakhine. Selected sectors of the economy will be prioritised under a five-year […]
Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Aung Myint Thein, chairman of the Maungdaw border traders association, Development in Rakhine, Family Aye Chan, finance, General Secretary of UMFCCI, industry, Kanyin Chaung economic zone, Khin Aye Myat Phyu, Kyaukphyu, Manaung, Maungdaw, Maungtaw Border Merchant Association, MInistry of Information, Myebon Townships, NAAF Galaxy, Oakka Zwe from Buthidaung, Pauktaw, Rakhine State, Rakhine State Minister for Planning, resettlement, Secretary of the Kanyin Chaung Trade Zone Implementing Committee, The Myanmar Times, U Aung Kyi Soe, U Kyaw Aye Thein, UEHRD, UMFCCI, Union Enterprise for Humanitarian Assistance, Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce, Yanbye
Ensuring Next Generation Gets a Better Deal
May 18, 2017 by thiha
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 […]
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 […]
Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Burma, Daw Yu Yu Swe, Emergency Fund, Ko Aung Ko Myint, Minister of Social Welfare, MNAB, Myanmar National Association of the Blind, National Education Law, Naypyidaw, Rangoon, Relief, resettlement, Social Welfare Department, The Irrawaddy, The Ministry of Social Welfare, U Win Myat Aye, Unicef, United Nations International Children
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 […]
Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Administration Department of the Myanmar Police Force, Chin State Government, CIDB Law, Communications, Construction Industry Development Board Law, General Manager of Myanmar Railways U Aung Win, General U Tun Lwin Oo, Japan, Lahe Township, Mandalay Expressway, Mandalay Jetty, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Social Welfare, Ministry of Transport, MNBC, Myanmar National Building Code, Myanmar National Satellite Project, Myanmar news agency, Myanmar Police Force, Myanmar Railways, Myanmar Railways U Aung Win, Naga Special Administrative Zone, National Disasters Management Fund, Nay Pyi Taw, Ottarathiri Township, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Construction U Kyaw Lin, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Permanent Secretary U Soe Aung, Police Col Zaw Win Aung, Regarding Criminal Investigation Department, Relief, resettlement, The Emergency Operation Centre, The Ministry of Social Welfare, U Kyaw Lynn, U Mya Win, U Soe Aung, U Tin Myint, Yangon-Mandalay highway
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 […]
JICA dismisses accusations of negligence
June 12, 2014 by thiha
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has rejected allegations that it betrayed its own guidelines on “environmental and social considerations” in the Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ), in which it has a 10 percent equity stake. The charges were levelled by residents of the Myaing Thar Yar resettlement village, home to 68 families displaced by […]
Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Chief Representative, JICA, Masahiko Tanaka, Myanmar, negligence, resettlement, SEZ, thilawa
