A stretch of railway track where a train crash and explosion in November 2012 left at least 25 people dead is being re-laid to improve safety.
National League for Democracy members in Mandalay cancelled a planned protest against official from their party after police did not approve their original application.
Mandalay City Development Committee has given the owners of undeveloped plots in the city until the end of this year to build a house on the land or face having it confiscated.
The Lawyers’ Network (Upper Myanmar) is poised for its official launch, says high court lawyer Tawwin U Khin Maung Than.
Train schedules on the Mandalay-Myitkyina route were amended last week, with state media suggesting the changes were designed to avoid travelling in Kachin State at night because of recent bombings.
The first phase of a US$140 million hotel, retail and residential project in Mandalay will be completed in time for the Southeast Asian Games in December, one of its developers says.
A mobile investigation team on the Mandalay-Muse highway has seized contraband valued at more than K60 million since January 1, an official said last week.
The backers of a new industrial park in Mandalay Region say they will begin selling shares in the project to local and foreign investors next month.
The number of road deaths in Mandalay increased about 40 percent in 2012, traffic police said last week.
Mandalay City Development Committee is planning to build a convention centre for international conferences, an official said last week.
