“I did not expect to be appointed chief minister,” he said. “If anything, I thought I might one day become a minister for agriculture.”

“I did not expect to be appointed chief minister,” he said. “If anything, I thought I might one day become a minister for agriculture.”
A meeting of the Irrawaddy Region legislature, convened Monday to approve a replacement for former Chief Minister Mahn Johnny, was postponed and rescheduled for 18 January, with lawmakers told a…
The “88 Generation” has established a party organising committee in the ethnic Bamar heartland of Hinthada Township, Irrawaddy Division, as it eyes becoming a major political force in future.
The G-4 fighter jet was 38 miles into a 100-mile flight from Pathein to Hinthada when it lost communication with ground staff.
Residents of some villages in Irrawaddy Division’s Ngapudaw Township say they are beating back a recent infestation of rats, with hundreds of the vermin dispatched by local brigades of amateur…
Four people have been killed and about 60 houses destroyed as storms caused by Cyclone Maarutha wreaked havoc in the Irrawaddy Delta.