A staff from the Park Royal Hotel in Yangon's Dagon Township fell to his death from the 8 storeys building yesterday morning.

Many low-quality prescribed drugs are being illegally imported into Myanmar together with those with adequate standard legal drugs, the minister for trade and commerce said at a health-care show on February 22 in Yangon.

Four people who allegedly burned a Buddhist monk alive during the Meikhtila riots and three people, including the owners of New Weint Sein gold shop, who allegedly started the riots, will go on trial within a few days, Mandalay Region’s advocate-general said.

A group of men destroyed stalls near the site of a religious school in suburban Yangon on Tuesday night, following a clash on Sunday when the school was partially dismantled by municipal authorities and local residents for breaching a permit granted to repair it.