{"id":66862,"date":"2020-03-24T09:06:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T01:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=66862"},"modified":"2020-03-24T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T01:34:14","slug":"myanmar-receives-6-7-million-usd-from-china-under-lmc-special-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=66862","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar Receives 6.7 Million USD From China Under LMC Special Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NAY PYI TAW, Mar 24 (NNN-MNA) &#8211; Myanmar received over 6.7 million U.S. dollars from China, under the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Special Fund, on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The signing ceremony of the agreement on the transfer of fund for LMC Special Fund (2020) projects, was held in Myanmar&#8217;s capital, Nay Pyi Taw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the ceremony, Chinese ambassador to Myanmar, Chen Hai, noted that, China and Myanmar will act as co-chairs of the LMC in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chen said, China and Myanmar, as natural cooperative partners and a community of shared future, can surely bring into play complementary advantages to deal with their common challenges together, and open a new chapter in the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myanmar will use the fund for 22 projects in the areas of agriculture, education, and ICT, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agreement on projects of the LMC Special Fund for Myanmar (first batch), worth 2.4 million U.S. dollars was signed in Jan, 2018, to aid 10 projects implemented in Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China initiated the LMC Special Fund during the first LMC leaders&#8217; meeting in Mar, 2016, with the aim of supporting the small- and medium-sized cooperation projects, put forward by the six Lancang-Mekong countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The six Lancang-Mekong countries comprise of China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand.&#8211; NNN-MNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAY PYI TAW, Mar 24 (NNN-MNA) &#8211; Myanmar received over 6.7 million U.S. dollars from China, under the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Special Fund, on Monday. The signing ceremony of the agreement on the transfer of fund for LMC Special Fund (2020) projects, was held in Myanmar&#8217;s capital, Nay Pyi Taw. During the ceremony, Chinese ambassador [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":66864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66862"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}