A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped in the compound of a ward administration office in Nay Pyi Taw Council Territory at about 10am on March 6, while her mother was shopping.
Six empty houses burned down after a fire started to burn rubbish blazed out of control.
The 115-mile rest area on the Yangon-Nay Pyi Taw Highway now houses a 24-hour pre-hospital care and ambulance station operated by the Myanmar Red Cross Society.
The 22nd World Economic Forum on East Asia in Myanmar is being billed by the organiser as the “largest” in the event’s history in the region.
A three-cornered struggle has broken out over control of the constitutional process in Nay Pyi Taw.
Myanmar Police Force apprehended 12 “Bengalis” as they entered Nay Pyi Taw, Nay Pyi Taw Council secretary U Aung Khin said.
A district administrator in Nay Pyi Taw has ruled that a controversial ward administrator election in Pobbathiri township was conducted in accordance with the law, residents said last week.
A 65-foot carved wooden boat has been salvaged from a creek in Nay Pyi Taw, residents said last month.
Farmers in the capital have secured more than US$200,000 in compensation from the Nay Pyi Taw City Development Committee for 170 acres of land confiscated in December 2012 for the expansion of a cement factory, ahead of a planned protest over the seizure.
Residents in a Nay Pyi Taw ward have accused the township administrator of interfering in the process of selecting their local administrator.
