The course instructors will give lectures on basic principles of natural disasters, disasters in Myanmar, climate change, mitigation of disaster risks and environmental conservation, knowledge about disaster management, review on early warning system, community-based disaster management, search and rescue and emergency hotline and cooperation.

Assistant Director of the Department of Rural Development under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation Daw Myint Win and her party inspected the work progress of construction of a two-storey facility that belongs to the DRD in Hsipaw Township, Northern Shan State on 10 March.     

The project is the first phase of the National Electrification Plan (NEP) being implemented by the ESE with loans from the World Bank.

The closing of a basic tailoring course was held in the compound of a monastery in Kalarma Gaung Village in Palaw Township, Taninthayi Region on 10 March.

Deputy Minister for Information U Aung Hla Tun met with editorial staff of the state-run print media at the Global New Light of Myanmar daily in Yangon yesterday.

Union Minister for Industry U Khin Maung Cho visited the Daewoo Bus Myanmar assembling project, a mutually beneficial joint-venture with No 1 Heavy Industries, in Htauntkyant, Yangon, yesterday, and heard a report on erection of buildings and equipment for producing Daewoo buses and mini buses.