An official from Mandalay’s main cemetery has rejected a news report about a young woman who was incorrectly pronounced dead.
The government has formally apologised to monks for a police raid on a Letpadaung protest camp that left up to 100 people injured.
Township officials in Mandalay Region’s Myingyan township are under pressure to re-hold elections for some ward administrator posts in the township.
Residents of Kangyikone and Zeekone villages in Mandalay’s Patheingyi township have filed a suit against Mandalay City Development Committee for demolishing their homes.
Gold miners whose protest march from Yangon to Nay Pyi Taw was broken up by police have called for fresh talks with the company at the centre of a dispute over mining rights.
A senior monk has been accused of desecrating and stealing the heads of three Buddha images near the ancient city of Inwa.
Ward and village-tract administrators in Mandalay Region will be selected by Sunday, December 30.
Monywa residents criticised changes to a commission tasked with investigating the Letpadaung mine expansion that saw the team whittled down from 30 to 16 members.
Monks in Mandalay, Taunggyi and Mogok staged peaceful protests at monasteries after the government failed to respond to a set of five demands issued following the crackdown at Letpadaung.
As many as 10 monks injured in clashes between police and protesters near the Letpadaung copper mine project could be sent abroad for treatment.
