The Myanmar Kidney Foundation (MKF) held its anniversary at International Business Center in Yangon yesterday, attended by Union Minister for the Office of the State Counsellor U Kyaw Tint Swe, Union Minister for Health and Sports Dr Myint Htwe and Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr Win Myat Aye.

A government delegation led by U Khin Zaw Oo, Secretary of the Peace Commission, met informally with ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) in Chiang Mai, Thailand, over the course of three days last week to negotiate resuming their participation in formal dialogues with the government and Tatmadaw for Myanmar’s peace process.

Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla and party, who are on a goodwill visit to Thailand at the invitation of Chief of Defence Forces of Royal Thai Armed Forces General Ponpipaat Benyasri, paid a visit to Wat Bodhisomphon Temple in Udon Thani Province yesterday.

The Department of Rural Development under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation is constructing two concrete pavements in Thangon and Bot Villages, Myothit Township in Magway Region.

The International Women’s Day for 2019 was commemorated at a monastery in Ohnpin Village, Dadeye Township, Ayeyawady Region yesterday morning.

Nine policemen have been killed in a coordinated attack by AA insurgent group in Ponnagyun Township, Rakhine State on 9 March.