As part of the Monsoon Season Greening Campaign, the Ministry of State Administration Council Chairman's Office (3) held its 2025 Monsoon Season Tree Planting Ceremony at the Tax Appellate Tribunal Office in Nay Pyi Taw in the morning on June 25.

Union Minister for the SAC Chairman's Office (3) U Maung Maung Tint, Deputy Minister U Htin Kyaw Thu, Chairman of the Tax Appellate Tribunal U Myint Oo, members of the Tax Appellate Tribunal, the Director-General, and other officers and staff attended the event.

Colombian recyclers filled Bogota's iconic Plaza de Bolivar with plastic bottles, demanding better work conditions from the national government and city authorities. Bogota, home to 8 million people, lacks a public selective waste collection service, leaving nearly 26,000 recyclers to do the work.

According to the observations at 17:30 hrs MST today, monsoon is strong over the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal, due to the easterly waves and westerly waves, rain or thundershowers are likely to be scattered in Mandalay, Magway, Lower Sagaing Regions and Kayah State, fairly widespread to widespread in Naypyitaw, Yangon, Bago, Upper Sagaing,  Ayeyarwady, Taninthayi Regions and Kachin, Kayin, Chin, Mon, Rakhine, Shan States with likelihood of regionally and isolated heavyfalls during tonight to 30-6-2025.

A slight earthquake of magnitude (4.8) Richter Scale with its epicenter outside Myanmar (Nicobar Islands, India Region), latitude 8.87°N, longitude 94.05°E, depth (10) kilometers, about (565) miles south-southwest of Kaba-Aye seismological observatory was recorded at (16)hr (29)min (45)sec M.S.T on 25th June, 2025.      

DMH