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Saturday, March 19, 2005 |
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Headlines
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 Research
and development highly essential for producing quality eye-catching machines
Senior General Than Shwe inspects plants, workshops at Indagaw Industrial Zone
YANGON,
18 March — Chairman of the State Peace and Development
Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior
General Than Shwe inspected plants and workshops at
Indagaw Industrial Zone of the Ministry of Industry-2,
Bago Township, Bago Division, this morning.
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General Thura Shwe
Mann inspects drills of Tatmadaw columns
YANGON,
18 March — Member of State Peace and Development Council
General Thura Shwe Mann of the Ministry of Defence
viewed the drills of Tatmadaw Columns which will
participate in the 60th Anniversary Armed Forces Day
Parade, from Myoma Grounds to the Resistance Park this
morning.
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12,000 feet long
runway at Dawei Airport under construction
Lt-Gen Maung Bo on inspection tour of Dawei District
YANGON,
18 March— Member of the State Peace and Development
Council Lt-Gen Maung Bo of the Ministry of Defence
inspected transport, education, health and agriculture
tasks in Dawei and Dawei District on 13 March morning.
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Religion
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 13th
47-member Plenary Meeting of 5th SSMNC concludes
YANGON,
18 March — The second-day and final session of the 13th
47-member Plenary Meeting of the 5th State Sangha Maha
Nayaka Committee took place at Wizaya Mingala Dhamma
Thabin Hall on Thiri Mingala Kaba Aye Hill here this
morning.
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Title recipient
Sayadaws, lay persons to be honoured
YANGON,
18 March — The Buddha Sasana Nuggha Organization,
Hitethi Group and Women’s Yogi Organization, will
organize a ceremony to honour 15 religious title
recipient Sayadaws and four lay persons who were awarded
titles by the State Peace and Development Council at
Phanyin Dhammayon of Mahasi Sasana Yeiktha at 16, Sasana
Yeiktha Road in Bahan Township, at 1 pm on 25 March .
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Sayadaw Bhaddanta
Tejinda of Gwa passes away
YANGON,
18 March — The Department of Promotion and Propagation
of the Sasana announced that Abhidhaja Agga Maha
Saddhammajotika Sayadaw Bhaddanta Tejinda of Maha
Bawdiwihara Monastery in Kalabyin Village of Gwa
Township, aged 96 and 77 vasa, passed away at 9 am on 15
March, 6th Waxing of Taboung, 1366 ME.
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Region
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Excerpts from Senior
General’s address
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Industry officials will have to draw detailed projects
on how to extend manufacturing of new types of machines,
and which parts of the manufactured machines should be
substituted with better ones and what kind of new parts
should be added to them to further improve their
quality.
 Delegates
continue reading proposals to be submitted to NC plenary session
YANGON,
17 March—Delegate groups of political parties, State
service personnel and other invited persons held
meetings at the Nyaunghnapin Camp in Hmawby Township,
Yangon Division, today, attended by members of panel of
chairmen and NC delegates.
Armed Forces Day
commemorative booths inspected
YANGON,
18 March — Minister for Immigration and Population and
Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Maj-Gen
Sein Htwa, accompanied by Deputy Minister for SWRR
Brig-Gen Kyaw Myint, Officer on Special Duty Brig-Gen
Thura Sein Thaung, ...
Tarmacking of roads inspected
YANGON,
18 March — Yangon City Development Committee Chairman
Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin this morning inspected
upgrading of roads in the city by the YCDC.
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Capacity Enhancement
Course on Public Relations (Officer) concludes
YANGON,
18 March— The Information and Public Relations
Department under the Ministry of Information concluded
its Capacity Enhancement Course on Public Relations
(Officer) No 1/2005 at the training hall of the News and
Periodicals Enterprise on Pansodan Street here this
morning.
 Coord
meeting between NCCWC, Panel of Chairmen held
YANGON,
18 March — The National Convention Convening Work
Committee and members of the panel of chairmen of the
Plenary Meeting of the National Convention held a
coordination meeting at Nyaunghnapin Camp in Hmawby
Township this afternoon.
Blood donated in
honour of 60th Anniversary Armed Forces Day
YANGON,
18 March — Hailing the 60th Anniversary Armed Forces
Day, 60 members of Yangon North District Union
Solidarity and Development Association donated blood at
the meeting hall of Defence Services Orthopaedic
Hospital (500-bed) this morning.
Respect paying
ceremony at Ba Htoo High School
YANGON,
18 March — The Golden Jubilee Ceremony of paying
respects to teachers will be held on November 2005 at
Tatmadaw Children’s High School in Ba Htoo Tatmyo.
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Makmann TV
retransmission station starts programmes
YANGON,
18 March — Construction of a TV retransmission station
in Makmann, Shan State (East), under the TV
retransmission programmes finished on 13 March 2005 and
programmes of Myanma Television have been on air
beginning 14 March, it is learnt.
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Sports
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Myanmar reaches semi
finals in Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy
YANGON,
18 March — Myanmar youth soccer team is participating in
the Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy Under-21 invitational
football tournament which is being held from 12 to 26
March in Brunei.
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