A relief flight of Myanmar Airways International (MAI) landed at Yangon International Airport yesterday afternoon, bringing back 172 Myanmar nationals stranded in Malaysia.
An ancient building of more than 100 years old was used as Shwe Mann Aung Si daily house in Mandalay to be able to raise downhearted dwellers for loss of lives and property in the Second World War. Nowadays, the Department of Archaeology and National Museum opens its Mandalay branch at such building constructed with European architectural works in colonial era as part of preservation.
The authorities continue to crack down on high-infection-risk businesses such as KTVs, bars and nightclubs which violate the orders to close amidst the COVID-19 pandemic due to a significant rise in coronavirus cases since mid-August after a surge of locally-transmitted infections, which struck Rakhine State in mid-August.