The Tazaungdaing Festival, also known as the Festival of Lights, falls on the full moon day in the eighth month of the traditional Myanmar calendar. It is celebrated in Myanmar as a national holiday …
First record of long-lost Ruellia bella reported in Myanmar
Ruellia is a very large genus of chiefly tropical American herbs and shrubs (family Acanthaceae) that have showy solitary or paniculate flowers with the simple or two-lobed style recurved at the apex …
Thailand tracking 200 people as infected returnees skip COVID-19 quarantine
Thailand was racing to track down about 200 people in its northern provinces on Monday to stop a potential coronavirus outbreak, after three Thai nationals entered the country illegally from Myanmar …
Amid Tensions in Myanmar, An Indigenous Park of Peace Is Born
The Karen people of eastern Myanmar have long fought for autonomy over their lands. In a bold move, they have turned a war zone into a protected area that respects their cultural traditions and looks …
Stimulants worth over 2.15 mln USD seized in Myanmar’s Yangon region
YANGON, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) — Myanmar authorities seized 4,660,000 stimulants in Myanmar’s Yangon region, according to a release from the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) on Monday.
COVID-19 second wave drives Myanmar business closures to new record
A record number of businesses in Myanmar were shut amid an ongoing second wave of the coronavirus pandemic as lockdown orders since September hit swathes of the economy, according to an Asia …
2 returnees from Myanmar among 21 new Covid cases
Thailand on Monday added 21 new imported coronavirus cases, including two Thai women returning from Myanmar, bringing the total to 3,998. No new deaths were reported.
Xiaomi and other China smartphone titans dominate Myanmar
A smartphone boom and reforms introduced in 2013 that ended a state phone service monopoly have led to the modernization of Myanmar, despite a relatively immature digital economy. Since 2013, …
Myanmar’s cross-border migrant workers and the Covid-19 pandemic
English Analysis on Myanmar and 3 other countries about Protection and Human Rights, Recovery and Reconstruction and Epidemic; published on 26 Nov 2020 by TNI …
Myanmar extends Covid-19 preventive measures to Dec 15
Yangon, Nov 29 (IANS) Myanmar’s national-level Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment for Covid-19 has extended the period of preventive measures until December 15.