NAY PYI TAW, April 28, 2025 —In honor of the monks, nuns, and civilians who lost their lives in the major earthquake that struck on March 28, offering alms to monks and merit-sharing ceremonies were held across the earthquake-affected regions of Myanmar to mark the one-month anniversary.

At the ceremony held in Nay Pyi Taw, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Chairman of the State Administration Council and Prime Minister, attended and participated in the merit-sharing activities. Together with the attending senior monks, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and high-ranking senior officials viewed a documentary presentation depicting the impact of the Mandalay earthquake.

Following the screening, the Chairman of the State Administration Council, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and his wife, Vice Chairman of the State Administration Council, Vice Senior General Soe Win and his wife, along with other Union-level officials, respectfully presented offerings to the senior monks.

After listening to Dhamma sermons delivered by the senior monks, the ceremony continued with merit-sharing rites, including the pouring of water of dedication in memory of the monks, nuns, and civilians who perished as a result of the Mandalay earthquake. It was also reported that offering of day meals (daytime alms) to the senior monks was performed as part of the event.

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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ငလျင်ဘေးပြန်လည်ထူထောင်ရေးလုပ်ငန်းများအဖြစ် ပြန်လည်တည်ဆောက်ရေး လုပ်ငန်း များ စတင်နေရတဲ့အချိန်မှာ ဆောက်လုပ်ရေးလုပ်ငန်းသုံးပစ္စည်းဈေးနှုန်းတွေ အဆမတန် မြင့်တက်  လာတဲ့အတွက် သက်ဆိုင်ရာအဏာပိုင်တွေက ဆိုင် ၆၂ဆိုင်ကိုအရေးယူခဲ့ပါတယ်။

တာဝန်ရှိသူတွေက ဆောက်လုပ်ရေး လုပ်ငန်းသုံးပစ္စည်း တင်သွင်းဖြန့်ဖြူးရောင်းချသည့် ကုမ္ပဏီများ၊ အရောင်းဆိုင်များအား ဧပြီ ၅ ရက်မှ ၁၂ ရက်အတွင်း ခေါ်ယူတွေ့ဆုံကာ ဆောက်လုပ်  ရေးလုပ်ငန်းသုံးပစ္စည်းများကို ဈေးနှုန်းအဆမတန် မြှင့်တင်ရောင်းချခြင်း၊ ဈေးနှုန်းမြှင့်တင်ရောင်းချရန် ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ဖြင့် သိုလှောင်ထားခြင်းများ မပြုလုပ်ကြရန် သတိပေးပြောကြားခဲ့ပြီး ဝန်ခံကတိပြု လက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးစေခြင်းများ ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့ရတယ်လို့ နစက သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက်အရသိရပါတယ်။

ဒါပေမယ့် အချို့သောစီးပွားရေး လုပ်ငန်းရှင်များက လိုက်နာဆောင်ရွက်မှုမရှိဘဲ မတော်လောဘဖြင့် ဆောက်လုပ်ရေးလုပ်ငန်းသုံးပစ္စည်းများကို ဈေးနှုန်းအဆမတန် မြှင့်တင်ရောင်းချမှုများ ဆက်လက်ပြုလုပ်နေကြတဲ့အတွက် အရောင်းဆိုင်တွေကို ကွင်းဆင်းစစ်ဆေးမှုတွေပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။

အဲသလိုကွင်းဆင်းစစ်ဆေးရာမှာ အရောင်းဆိုင်၆၂ ဆိုင်ဟာ အဆမတန်အမြတ်ယူရောင်းချနေကြောင်း တွေ့ရလို့ သက်ဆိုင်ရာက အဲဒီဆိုင်တွေကို အမှုဖွင့်အရေးယူထားတယ်လို့ နစက သတင်းထုတ်ပြန် ချက်မှာ ဖော်ပြထားပါတယ်။

ဆောက်လုပ်ရေးလုပ်ငန်းသုံး ပစ္စည်းအရောင်းဆိုင်များ စားသောက်ကုန်နှင့်လူသုံးကုန် ပစ္စည်းအရောင်း  ဆိုင်များအနေဖြင့် အများပြည်သူအခက်အခဲဒုက္ခများ ကြုံတွေ့နေရသည်ကို အခွင့်ကောင်းယူကာ ဈေးနှုန်းအဆမတန် မြှင့်တင်ရောင်းချခြင်းများ မပြုလုပ်ကြဖို့ အာဏာပိုင်တွေက မေတ္တာရပ်ခံထား   ပါတယ်။

အဲဒီအပြင် ထိုကဲ့သို့ ဈေးနှုန်းအဆမတန် မြှင့်တင်ရောင်းချနေသည့်သတင်းများ သိရှိရပါက တာဝန်ရှိ အုပ်ချုပ်ရေး အဖွဲ့အစည်းများထံသို့ သတင်းပေးပို့ကြဖို့ သက်ဆိုင်ရာက နှိုးဆော်ထားပါတယ်။

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YANGON, April 27, 2025 — Authorities in Myanmar have taken legal action against 62 shops accused of excessively inflating the prices of construction materials during the country’s earthquake recovery efforts.

Following the devastating earthquake, reconstruction activities have begun across affected areas. In response to widespread complaints of surging prices, responsible agencies summoned importers, distributors, and retailers of construction materials between April 5 and 12, warning them against unjustified price hikes and stockpiling with intent to manipulate the market. Businesses were required to sign formal pledges committing to fair pricing practices, according to a statement issued by the State Administration Council (SAC).

Despite these measures, some business owners continued to sell construction materials at exorbitant rates. Field inspections revealed that 62 shops were profiting excessively from the crisis, prompting authorities to initiate legal proceedings against them.

Officials urged vendors of construction materials, foodstuffs, and consumer goods not to exploit the public's hardship by raising prices unfairly. They also encouraged citizens to report any incidents of unjustified price increases to the relevant administrative bodies for further action.

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Nay Pyi Taw, 27 April 2025

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Chairman of the State Administration Council and Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, has called for greater efforts to further enhance the quality and performance of military weapons and equipment to meet the demands of the battlefield.

Speaking at the ceremony marking the Diamond Jubilee (75th Anniversary) of the Defence Industries Corps in Naypyitaw on April 26, the Senior General emphasized that the production of military equipment must go beyond existing standards to achieve excellence across all sectors.

“The Defence Industries Corps emerged together with Myanmar’s independence and has consistently played a vital role throughout history in safeguarding the independence and sovereignty of the Tatmadaw,” he said.

According to an official statement issued by the State Administration Council, the Defence Industries Corps was systematically formed on April 26, 1950, and the date has been commemorated annually as Defence Industries Corps Day.

The event highlighted the Corps' historic contributions to national defence and its ongoing role in strengthening the country’s self-reliant military capability.

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Nay Pyi Taw, 25 April 2025 - The State Administration Council (SAC) has announced that 32 members of the People’s Defense Force (PDF) have re-entered the legal fold as of April 25. The information was released by the SAC’s press team in an official statement.

According to the release, the individuals—30 males and 2 females—originated from various regions of Myanmar, including Mandalay Region, Sagaing Region, Yangon Region, and Shan State.

A responsible official briefed the group on the relevant legal provisions concerning regional peace and stability. The explanation emphasized the importance of upholding law and order within their communities.

Following the discussion, the returnees voluntarily surrendered the weapons and ammunition they had carried to representatives of the Myanmar Tatmadaw (military).

Authorities subsequently provided financial assistance to the individuals and arranged for them to be reunited with their families.

The move is part of the government’s broader efforts to encourage reintegration and stability amid ongoing conflict in parts of the country.

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25 April 2025

🔥 Tariff Escalation Timeline

• Feb 1: U.S. imposes a 10% blanket tariff on all Chinese imports.
• Mar 3: Tariffs increase to 20%.
• Apr 2: Tariffs rise to 54%.
• Apr 9: Tariffs escalate to 125%.
• Apr 10: Tariffs peak at 145%.    

In response, China imposes:

• Apr 11: 125% tariffs on U.S. goods.

📊 Trade Impact

• U.S. Imports from China: Projected to shrink by 40%.
• Global Container Shipping: Expected 1% decline due to U.S. trade policies.
• U.S. Trade Deficit with China (Jan–Feb 2025): $52.9 billion. 

💸 Economic Consequences

• Average U.S. Household Cost: Tariffs amount to an average tax increase of $1,243 per household in 2025.
• Corporate Earnings: Major firms like Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo have revised earnings forecasts downward due to tariff impacts.
• Consumer Prices: Prices for goods from retailers like Shein and Temu could rise by up to 125%.  

🛠️ Strategic Responses

            China’s Measures:

• Bolstering unemployment insurance and raising incomes.
• Considering lifting tariffs on select U.S. imports like semiconductors.

            U.S. Considerations:

• Potentially reducing tariffs to 50–65% to ease tensions. 

Source : Various News Sources