“Initial provisions for people with disabilities have already been made after the enactment of the law and bylaws connected with them,” said Dr. Win Myat Aye, the Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief, and Resettlement, at An in Rakhine State yesterday.

Deputy Minister for Information U Aung Hla Tun stressed the need for continuous efforts to put the 28-year-old Information and Public Relations Department in a strong position in the country. 

The Kokang ethnic people held their New Year celebrations in the Buddhist Kokang Dhamma Building in Mandalay yesterday.

About 890,000 students will take the matriculation examination this academic year, said Union Minister for Education Dr. Myo Thein Gyi at a meeting with faculty members and staff of Yangon Technological University yesterday. 

The government is opening elephant protection camps to increase the earnings of the State through green business or sustainable business that is not harmful to the natural environment, said Union Minister for Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation U Ohn Win yesterday at the opening of the country’s 19th elephant conservation camp.

A basic welding course, jointly conducted by Directorate of Industrial Collaboration and Rural Development Department, was opened at the vocational training school in the small city of Tada, Yangon South District yesterday morning.