Both houses of Myanmar's parliament have formed more committees respectively to carry out parliamentary undertakings, an official report said on Friday.
The House of Representatives will decide the start of deliberations on a draft revision of the 2003 Terrorism Law in a discussion at the House’s Steering Committee (Bamus) next week, a lawmaker has said.
Myanmar's Yangon regional parliament has warned that if projects being implemented by the government are found not in the interest of the public, they could be rejected, parliament sources said Thursday.
U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with King Abdullah II of Jordan at the White House on Feb. 24, the White House said Monday.
Myanmar's union parliament on Monday announced March 17 as the date for three groups of the union parliament representatives to nominate their respective candidates for presidential run.
Myanmar's newly-elected parliamentary House of Representatives (Lower House) on Friday formed a 23-member reviewing commission on legal affairs and special cases during the ongoing first session of the parliament in Nay Pyi Taw in a bid to support bill committee.
New Speaker of Myanmar's parliamentary House of Representatives (lower house) U Win Myint took over the duty from outgoing House speaker U Shwe Mann Monday in Nay Pyi Taw, according to U Shwe Mann's social website.
Myanmar's new parliament Monday elected U Win Myint of the National League for Democracy (NLD) as Speaker of the House of Representatives (Lower House) and U Ti Khun Myat of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) as Deputy Speaker of the House.
Chairperson of Myanmar's election-winning opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San Suu Kyi Friday called on all stakeholders in Myanmar to cooperate for the interest of the nation.
Myanmar's Union Election Commission has appointed 366 military-represented parliament members to three levels of the new parliament to take up 25 percent share of seats at each level of the legislative body, according to the commission' s announcement made public Tuesday.
Myanmar's current parliament speaker U Shwe Mann has called on fresh parliamentarians to strive to ensure high-quality service in the new legislative body, taking lessons from previous parliamentary activities, an official report said Friday.
U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday easily passed legislation to impose harsher sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in response to its nuclear test.
The White House on Monday announced steps to tighten the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP) for citizens of 38 foreign countries in the wake of the deadly Paris terrorist attacks.
U.S. President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Francois Hollande on Thursday reiterated their "unwavering commitment to degrade and destroy" the Islamic State (IS), the White House said.
U.S. President Barack Obama will host French President Francois Hollande here next week to coordinate counterterrorism efforts, the White House said Tuesday.
Myanmar's opposition party has won the qualified number of seats in the country's two-house Union Parliament to nominate two candidates for vice presidential run for next term.
Myanmar's Union Election Commission (UEC) Wednesday announced that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has won Sunday's general election and was re-elected as representative to the House of Representatives (Lower House) of the next parliament.
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