With the aim of creating an uneducated society by depriving children of their right to education and instilling fear among the public, the NUG, CRPH and their subordinate PDF terrorist groups, which have been designated as terrorist organizations by the government, are carrying out various destructive activities across the country. These include intimidation and coercion of students, teachers and parents abductions and killings and arson and bombing attacks on education facilities.

In order to cause injuries to both peaceable civilians and administrative authorities who are striving to restore the rule of law, extreme terrorists provide financial assistance and instigate destructive activities, such as detonating explosive devices and remote blasting, against public roads, railways, government offices and houses.

ON the occasion of World Oral Health Day, Regional Director for WHO South-East Asia, Saima Wazed brought attention towards the need for prioritizing oral health to tackle diseases and bring about positive health outcomes in South-East Asia.
“World Oral Health Day, marked annually on 20 March, draws attention to oral health being a key indicator of overall health, well-being and quality of life.
Oral diseases are among the most common noncommunicable diseases worldwide, affecting an estimated 3.5 billion people,” Wazed said.

GERMANY has reopened its embassy in Damascus after a 13-year closure, Syrian media reported on Thursday, coinciding with a visit by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.
Baerbock’s trip, her second to Syria since the collapse of former President Bashar al-Assad’s government in December 2024, saw the reopening of the diplomatic mission. German media, citing Baerbock, reported that a small number of diplomats, fewer than 10, will be stationed at the reopened embassy.

THE malicious media spread fake information, claiming that security forces torched the village and opened fire using heavy and small weapons in Ngatayaw village, Yesakyo Township, Magway Region, on 19 March, and the villagers had fled their villages.
According to a local security official, such news was invalid. Security forces conducted security measures in Yesakyo Township and did not take any security measures in Ngatayaw village on that day.

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on Ukraine’s continued attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, despite the partial ceasefire brokered by US President Donald Trump.

"How the US will handle this deranged terrorist scum going forward, and how they will manage to corral them back into some kind of stall and direction—this is a big question," Zakharova told Russian media.

Pyapon March 20
Daw Moe Myint, a seafood trading business owner in Pyapon Township, Ayeyawady Region, stated that up to 77,000 viss of Platu
fish were sold to the Yangon market in February.
Platu fish, naturally caught in Pyapon Township, continue to be supplied to the Yangon market. In January, only 55,000 viss of Platu fish were sold, compared to 77,000 viss in February.

France will upgrade one of its main air bases along its border with Germany to host Rafale fighter planes armed with nuclear cruise missiles, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday. 

The Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur base in eastern France hosted nuclear weapons until 2011, when the planes were relocated to a different site. 

 “The Luxeuil air base is about to be upgraded in an unprecedented way and regain its full role in France’s nuclear deterrent,” Macron said.

In Shwedaung Township, Bago Region, an explosion occurred while a male terrorist was transporting improvised explosive devices for an intended act of terrorism, resulting in his arrest after sustaining injuries.