Over 3,000 volunteers for SEA Games

The Ministry of Sports recently made a nationwide drive to recruit volunteers from across the country to work as interpreters and volunteers to provide basic assistance during the games, and later selected 3,055 as volunteers among the applicants. They received training for volunteering and the training completion ceremony was held on Thursday at Wonnatheikdi Stadium in Nay Pyi Taw, the official capital of Myanmar.

The SEA Games will be held from December 11 to 16 at the major cities – Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon, and Mandalay – as well as at Ngwesaung Beach in Ayeyawady Region.

 

First-of-its-kind car park

Authorities are planning to build a multi-storey car park in central Yangon to reduce traffic congestion, according to the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC). 

The car park, the first of its kind in the country, will be a 15-storey structure to be built on a land plot owned by the YCDC. It will have a capacity to hold more than 100 vehicles. The committee said it will charge a fee for parking, and will send study teams to Japan.

“We are planning to build the first high-rise car park on Seikkanthar Street in the city. It will be built on YCDC-owned land,” said a committee official.

 

Chinese held over diamond theft 

Myanmar police arrested two Chinese nationals at the Yangon International Airport for trying to run off with two diamonds stolen from a shop in Yangon, according to police from Panbedan Township Police Department.

The diamonds worth Ks 20 million (more than US$20,000) were stolen on November 22 from a jewel shop named “Nayhlawon” at Bogyoke Market in the city.

Moe Moe, the shop owner, said two Chinese arrived at her shop to buy two diamonds worth Ks 20 million and took a look at them. They left after a while. Inspecting the container where the diamonds were kept, the owner found they were missing and called in Panbedan Township Police.

The police soon caught up with the two Chinese nationals and the diamonds were found on one of them.