The forest police force has been stepping up efforts to arrest the people, who are illegally engaged in the timber production by making field trips to different areas, according to the township management committee

No casualties were reported after a fire broke out at a monastery in Gaungkwe Village, Myingyan Township in Mandalay Region this morning

Four people—one man and three women—were killed and 15 others injured after a truck plummeted into a ravine in Hlaingbwe Township, Kayin State on Saturday

It needs to conduct a sectorwise survey to resume construction of Minbu-Ann-Sittway railroad project launched with the Union budget before 2010, said U Aung Kyaw Zan, Rakhine State Minister for Electricity, Industry and Transport

The Union Government, since it took office three years ago, has given first priority to the creation of jobs. At the same time, it realized that the main requirement for job creation was good roads, communications and electricity

There are a lot of forests and mountains in Rakhine State; there are a lot of bamboos and woods in the State as well. With modern urbanization and developed housing styles make the traditional housing conditions obsolescent, replacing with modern designs of two- or three-storied buildings. But in villages, villas in a Rakhine style are still being made of woods, bamboos and dhani-thatched roofs. The Rakhine people build their traditional houses in Rakhine architectural features