Completion of Shwegyin Hydel Power Plant will lead to development of cottage industry Senior General Than Shwe tours Shwegyin region in Bago Division

YANGON, 12 March— Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe, accompanied by members of the State Peace and Development Council General Thura Shwe Mann, Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than, Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Lt-Gen Kyaw Win and Lt-Gen Tin Aye, Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Vice-Admiral Soe Thein, Commander-in-Chief (Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein, the ministers,...

Secretary-1 addresses Annual General Meeting (2/2005) of MWVO

YANGON, 12 March — Myanmar War Veterans Organization Central Organizing Committee held its Annual General Meeting (2/2005) at the MWVO Headquarters here this morning, with an address by Committee Chairman State Peace and Development Council Secretary-1 Adjutant General Lt-Gen Thein Sein.

Private sector contributing more than 91 pc to trade sector As State-run organizations quitted trading rice, cotton, sugarcane, rubber, turnover of private sector is on the increase

YANGON, 12 March — The 14th Annual General Meeting of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry took place at the Myanmar Convention Centre on Mindhamma Road in Mayangon Township here this afternoon. Prime Minister Lt-Gen Soe Win addressed the meeting.

Lt-Gen Ye Myint inspects development tasks in Tanai, Phakant

YANGON, 12 March — Member of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Ye Myint of the Ministry of Defence, accompanied by Chairman of Kachin State Peace and Development Council Commander of Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe, Chairman of Sagaing Division Peace and Development Council Commander of North-West Command Maj-Gen Tha Aye, ...

The region or state high courts should be vested with the exclusive original jurisdiction

YANGON, 12 March — The following is the clarification made by Secretary of the National Convention Convening Work Committee U Thaung Nyunt, on behalf of the Chairman of the National Convention Convening Work Committee, on the judicial sector for laying down detailed basic principles for the sharing of judicial powers to be included in the State Constitution, at Pyidaungsu Hall of Nyaunghnapin Camp in Hmawby Township, on 8 March.

Blood donated to Children’s Hospital

YANGON, 12 March—As a gesture of honouring the 60th Anniversary Armed Forces Day (2005), the Yangon West District Union Solidarity and Development Association donated blood, submitted applications for permanent blood donor membership, and carried out sanitation tasks at Yangon Children’s Hospital in Dagon Township here this morning.

Semifossilized skeleton, skulls unearthed in ancient Hanlingyi city

YANGON, 12 March — A human skeletal-remains which was buried in the seven and half feet depth in the earth was discovered while digging a well in the farmland of U Maung Naing, about 700 yards from Shwegugyi Pagoda in ancient Hanlingyi city, Wetlet Township, Shwebo District, Sagaing Division, recently.