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Myanmar & COVID-19
The Yangon government has started making 30,000-kyat cash payments to workers affected by the COVID-19 slowdown who are not covered by its social welfare safety net.
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Election 2020
State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint have avoided breaching COVID-19 travel restrictions by voting early in Naypyitaw.
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Burma
Sixteen international proposals have been submitted for the New Yangon City project to challenge the bid by the China Communications Construction Co.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
U Kyaw Thu, the 60-year-old founder of the prominent Yangon-based social welfare organization, has tested positive for coronavirus along with two of his colleagues.
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Business
Myanmar is hoping to offset its COVID-19 woes by boosting foreign investment and allowing Yangon’s garment factories to reopen.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
The health ministry says economic necessity has forced it to allow many of Yangon’s factories to reopen despite rising numbers of COVID-19 cases.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
COVID-19 in Yangon isn’t under control yet, a health official said; discussions are under way on sending home patients with mild symptoms who can afford to self-isolate.
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Business
This week Chinese firms won numerous solar project contracts across Myanmar and a Singaporean finance firm ditched the new city project in Karen State.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
COVID-19 cases are still rising, but Yangon officials are more confident they can control the outbreak after two weeks of adding hospitals beds and stepping up testing.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Myanmar has stepped up coronavirus checks to more than 8,000 per day since the arrival of antigen testing kits.
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Photo Essay
Risking his health, a Yangon bird seller waits for the few pedestrians still looking to make merit on the streets of the city’s Hledan quarter amid the COVID-19 lockdown.
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Burma
A major Thai bank says it is opening in Myanmar and trade reopened on the Chiang Rai border. Myanmar’s government also says it is drafting an economic reform package.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
The Music Zone KTV venue in Yangon’s Thingangyun Township has been blamed for 94 coronavirus cases.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Myanmar’s health authorities say rapid coronavirus tests will allow hospitals to free up numerous beds.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
The vice chairman of Yangon’s COVID-19 committee said all city residents must observe prevention guidelines; the city is preparing more facilities as testing increases.
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