ETHNIC NATIONALITIES COUNCIL

MADE ISLAND, Myanmar, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar Vice President U Tin Aung Myint Oo on Monday spoke highly of a Sino- Myanmar oil and natural gas pipelines project on Made Island, Rakhine state's Kyaukphyu. The project is being implemented by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and related companies. The Myanmar vice president also said that he appreciated the Chinese company's support for Myanmar's charity undertakings.

YANGON, Myanmar — It was a newspaper article that just months ago, Myanmar’s draconian state censors never would have approved. It told how prison authorities crudely attempted to cure a scabies outbreak by wiping down naked inmates with medicine-laden brooms — a demeaning act that revealed the poverty of the nation’s prisons and the decrepit state of its health care system.

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Feb—As the government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar offered the olive branch and New Mon State Party (NMSP) requested to engage in dialogue, Union-level Peace-making Group comprised of Union Minister for Rail Transportation U Aung Min, Union Minister for Industry U Soe Thein, Union Minister for Electric Power No (1) U Zaw Min,

Myanmar President Thein Sein has denied his country is trying to obtain nuclear weapons from North Korea, describing allegations of a covert programme as "unfounded". "We are not acquiring nuclear weapons from North Korea," the Straits Times newspaper on Tuesday quoted him as saying in an interview during a four-day state visit to Singapore.