Even though existence of Myanmar Archery Federation is still quite young, development programme of Archery has been implemented tremendously First South East Asian Archery Championships opened

YANGON, 10 Jan—A ceremony to open the First South East Asian Archery Championships hosted in Myanmar was held at the Kyaikkasan Archery Ground here this morning, and it was attended by Chairman of Myanmar National Olympic Council Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Thein Sein.

Foreign Affairs Minister hosts New Year dinner

YANGON, 10 Jan — Minister for Foreign Affairs U Nyan Win and wife Daw Myint Myint Soe hosted the New Year dinner in honour of diplomats and resident representatives of UN Agencies at Mya Yeik Nyo Royal Hotel here this evening.
 

Agricultural, regional development tasks inspected in east, north Yangon

YANGON, 10 Jan — Yangon Division Peace and Development Council Chairman and Yangon Command Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe, accompanied by departmental officials concerned, inspected agricultural undertakings and regional development tasks at Yangon East District and Yangon North District this afternoon.

First, Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe inspected thriving summer paddy fields by six-lane Yangon-Bago Highway near Shantegyi village, Dagon Myothit (South) township, Yangon East Distirct.

Minister inspects bank erosion prevention in Nyaungdon

YANGON, 10 Jan — Minister for Transport Maj-Gen Thein Swe coordinated with officials on prevention of bank erosion at Bo Myat Tun Bridge in Nyaungdon, Ayeyawady Division, today.

SEA Archery team managers meet

YANGON, 10 Jan — Managers of the teams to the first Southeast Asian Archery championships met at Myanmar Archery Federation in Kyaikkasan Grounds here today.

Measures taken for hydro electric power projects inspected

YANGON, 10 Jan — Accompanied by Deputy Minister for Electric Power U Myo Myint and the Directors-General, Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo and Minister for Electric Power Maj-Gen Tin Htut arrived at Shwekyin hydro electric power project which is located on Shwekyin creek, 6 miles northeast of Shwekyin, Bago District on 7 January.

Ma-le village gets bio-gas power

YANGON, 10 Jan — Chairman of Mandalay Division Peace and Development Council Commander of Central Command Maj-Gen Ye Myint inspected Ma-le Nattaung Dam Project in Singu Township and attended the opening of a village bio-gas power plant on 6 January.

Yangon Division MCWASC meets

YANGON, 10 Jan — Yangon Division Maternal and Child Welfare Association Supervisory Committee held a work coordination meeting at Yankin College this morning, with an address by Chairperson of the committee Daw Khin Thet Htay.

Daw Khin Thet Htay explained the project for all round progress of womenfolk with the supervision of the committee and future work programmes.

Paddy fields thriving in Lashio

YANGON, 10 Jan — Chairman of Shan State (North) Peace and Development Council Commander of North-East Command Maj-Gen Myint Hlaing, accompanied by departmental officials, arrived at the plantation of Yadana high yield paddy strains in the 1000-acre paddy strain-producing zone in Lashio on January 8 and inspected arrangements for cultivation of summer paddy.