Six companies are preparing to export 250 tons of petrified wood or fossils produced in Mandalay Region to China through the 105-mile Muse gate, according to U Thi Han Tun, the chairman of the Mandalay Region Petrified Wood Entrepreneurs Association. 

Officials yesterday checked the safety of Mann Creek Dam in Ngaphe Township, Magway Region, as its spillway was overflowing.

At the end of last year I went to Kayah State given the name Silver Mountain Land where there were many mythical stories. In Myanmar language Kayah State was called Ngwe Taung Pyay.

AA, TNLA and MNDAA armed groups were blowing up bridges in Nawnghkio, Hsenwi and Kunlong townships in northern Shan State, and approaching Kutkai to attack the town with heavy weapons from afar. But they fled with heavy losses when the Tatmadaw columns repulsed them, according to the information released by the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services.

To mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian Embassy and the Myanmar Cycling Federation jointly organized a ‘Cycling for Peace’ event at 6 a.m. yesterday at the Kandawgyi Park in Yangon. 

The Agricultural Department oversaw the handing over of ten tons of emergency rice rations from South Korea, in line with ASEAN+3 procedures, to flood-stricken people in Shwegyin Township, Bago Region, yesterday.