Insurgents committing terrorist activities have been engaging in battles, firing heavy weapons and improvised rockets and dropping bombs using drones into the public towns, wards and villages.

BIRD feathers and bloodstains were found in both engines of the Jeju Air plane that crashed in December, according to a preliminary investigation released Monday.
The Boeing 737-800 was flying from Thailand to Muan in South Korea on 29 December when it crash landed and exploded into a fireball after slamming into a concrete barrier. It was the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil, killing 179 of the 181 passengers and crew.

INCUMBENT President Alexander Lukashenko has won the presidential election of Belarus, according to the preliminary results released early Monday by the country’s Central Election Commission.
The preliminary data from the Central Election Commission showed that Lukashenko received 86.82 per cent of the vote. Sergei Syrankov, Oleg Gaidukevich, Anna Kanopatskaya and Alexander Khizhnyak secured 3.21 per cent, 2.02 per cent, 1.86 per cent and 1.74 per cent of the vote, respectively.

MALICIOUS media spread fake news that security forces opened fire with heavy weapons, injuring three civilians and damaging several houses in Sagyin Village of Madaya Township in Mandalay Region on 26 January.

REAL estate agents say that there are buyers to live in the property market and the rental market is stable. There are fewer investors than real buyers in the current real estate market. The rental market is stable with regular tenants due to people coming from other cities to Yangon for training and people moving in, while it has increased because of more relocations during the dry season, said an agent in Kyimyindine Township.

APPLICATIONS, for TOP-J which is scheduled on 9 March 2025 in Yangon and Mandalay, will be accepted starting on 27 January, announced by Myanmar Association of Japan Alumni (MAJA).

BAGAN Archaeological Museum located in NyaungU Township in Mandalay Region has received more than K48 million from the admission of local and foreign tourists over nine months of the current financial year, according to the Department of Archaeology and National Museum (Bagan branch) under the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture.
From April to December, 45,072 domestic travellers and 300 international travellers, totalling 45,372 visited there, said an official.

The cultural heritage of a country is often of special interest to international travellers. In the Bagan region and the hilly areas, foreign tourists are accustomed to drinking green tea and tea salad.

Yangon is going EV all the way. EV private vehicle boom has been encouraged by the government through the abolition of import taxes on EVs. The imports become so popular that some auto traders are setting up entities to operate taxis from unsold stocks. Then came the coaches. Some of the popular coach companies are using EV tour buses to ply Yangon – Nay Pyi Taw route.The tide is not ending there. Now, another company has planned EV buses to be used in public transportation service in Yangon, said an official of the company.

Interested parties across the world can read the final findings in the investigation of “voting fraud and unlawful acts”, of 2020 general election on the website and mobile application, starting from November 22.