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,

“What we have seen so far are important first steps to start addressing long-standing challenges,” said Vijay Nambiar, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser for Myanmar, during a press briefing at UN Headquarters in New York. “All stakeholders both domestic and international will need to do their bit to enable the current process of change to succeed.”