The International Institute of Abhidhamma has announced that it will soon host talks on the Abhidhamma at its campus in the Kaba Aye Pagoda compound in Mayangone township, Yangon.
Start preparing now: that’s the advice journalists who covered in the recent ASEAN Summit in Jakarta are giving the Myanmar government, which has applied to chair the regional bloc in 2014.
As expectations grow among leading private sector journals about the granting of daily publishing licences, editorial executives and journalists have acknowledged that the move will create significant challenges.
A united States diplomat said he tried to find “common ground” in meetings with members of the new government and other stakeholders on an official visit last week.
The principal of a Yangon school for the visually impaired has blasted parents who choose not to enroll their children in formal education
More than 14,000 prisoners were released last week under an amnesty announced by the government on May 16. The amnesty, which came after President U Thein Sein, lopped one year off the sentences of all prisoners...
Traffic police have attributed an increase in fatal accidents on Yangon Region roads to a combination of excessive speed and careless driving.
Veteran writer Nat Nwe, who was well known as the founder of international affairs magazine Nwe Ni, passed away at his home in North Dagon township last week after a long battle with illness, former colleagues and friends said.
The presiding judge at Kamaryut Township Court last week accepted an application to withdraw criminal charges in the case against Mr Ross Dunkley, co-founder of The Myanmar Times.
A prominent Yangon clinic that provides free healthcare treatment to the needy plans to open a branch in Bago Region’s Pyay township later this month.
