A police squad confiscated a gun and bullets from two motorists in a vehicle search in Dawei, the capiotal city of Taninthayi Region on 11 January; the Ministry of Home Affairs reported.
The Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement has been providing Ks. 10,000 to a senior citizen above 90 years of age monthly under its social pension programme.
A fisherman who went missing after an offshore fishing boat sank near an island in the sea about 20 miles southeast of Haigyikyun Township, Ayeyawady Region at around 5 a.m. today due to strong winds was found dead under the sunken boat.