The Mandalay Region government has appointed 10 experts to advise Mandalay City Development Committee on municipal issues, an official said last week.
A National League for Democracy official from Myitthar township in Mandalay Region has accused a police officer of attempted rape.
Tada Oo City Development Committee has banned women from driving tourists around the ancient city of Inwa in pony carts, residents in the area said last week.
Lawyers from upper Myanmar will meet in Mandalay later this month as part of preparations for the formation of an association of law experts to advise the government and parliament, says high court advocate Tawwin U Khin Maung Than.
Mandalay City Development Committee has banned trucks heavier than 3 tonnes from inner city streets, an official said last week.
About 80 percent of the Mandalay-Myitkyina railway has been re-laid to improve safety under a “special project” initiated by the government shortly after it took office, a spokesperson from Myanmar Railways said last week.
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.
