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  • VIDEO: Burundi Regional Refugee Response Plan 2019-2020

    news UNHCR Africa, 21 Feb 2019 (5 years ago )
    For more than 4 years, humanitarian agencies have provided relief for Burundian refugees but funding consistently falls short.
  • Kayah State minister aims for full electrification by 2020

    news Burma News International, 04 Dec 2017 (6 years ago )
    Kayah State is aiming big when it comes to electrification. A local minister said plans are in the works to bring light to every house in the state within three years. It’s a tall order when almost one-third of the state’s population still lacks electricity. But Kayah State’s Minister of Road,...
  • Airport in Chin State to Open By September 2020

    news Myanmar Times, 27 Feb 2019 (5 years ago )
    Surbung Airport in Falam Township, Chin State, the first major airport in the state, will open in September 2020, said U Ye Htut Aung, Deputy Director General of the Department of Civil Aviation. Construction of the K 30 billion airport, which began in 2016-17, had originally been scheduled for c...
  • Newly Formed Mon Party Sets Sights on 2020 Elections

    news Network Media Group, 25 Sep 2018 (5 years ago )
    The Mon Party is aiming to win the majority of parliament seats in Mon State in the general elections scheduled for 2020. According to the party’s leadership, they will do this by building trust with a range of ethnic communities in the state. In the 2010 and 2015 elections, they explained that t...
  • Small political parties prepare for 2020 elections despite losses

    news Myanmar Times, 01 Oct 2018 (5 years ago )
    Did you know that there are nearly 100 political parties in Myanmar besides the National League for Democracy (NLD) and the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)? Most of these are regional and state parties. And while they may have been insignificant in past elections, they have never stopp...
  • Ethnic Political Parties Merge to Seek Stronger Representation in 2020 Election

    news The Irrawaddy, 11 Sep 2018 (5 years ago )
    YANGON— Homegrown political parties in Myanmar’s ethnic areas have been merging together in the hope of winning a majority of seats in both national and regional parliaments in the upcoming 2020 general elections, a victory that would grant them more authority to improve their rights. So far, ap...
  • State Counsellor And President will run in 2020 Elections: NLD Official

    news Myanmar Times, 12 Jun 2019 (4 years ago )
    State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint will run in the 2020 elections, National League for Democracy spokesperson U Myo Nyunt told a party executive committee meeting in Nay Pyi Taw on Saturday. “We will contest the 2020 election because we want to continue serving the co...
  • Phalon-Sawaw Party decides not to run within Karen State in 2020 Election

    news Burma News International, 15 Mar 2018 (6 years ago )
    The Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party (PSDP) will not compete in the Karen State in the 2020 General Election. Although the PSDP will not contest in the Karen State, it will only have the Karen National Democratic Party (KNDP), a newly merged party of three Karen parties, run in the state, Saw Kyi Li...
  • Yangon Region Will Have Full Electricity Capacity in 2020-21 FY: Minister

    news Eleven Myanmar, 04 Feb 2019 (5 years ago )
    The regional government is planning to supply full coverage of electricity in the region in 2020-21 FY, said Win Khaing, Union Minister for Electricity and Energy in a meeting held at the office of Yangon Electricity Supply Corporation (YESC) on February 2. The minister said the ministry is plann...