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500 more jobs created as YCDC spruces up Yangon
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JOB opportunities with the Yangon City Development
Committee have risen sharply during the past 12 months because
of urban re-development projects launched in preparation for
Myanmar to host the ASEAN summit in 2006.  |
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THE government has urged the United States
to abandon attempts to destabilise Myanmar and to help the
country as a “partner” in its democratisation process.
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MYANMAR is planning to expand its communications
infrastructure as part of a program by the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations to narrow the development gap between
its older and newer members, a seminar in Yangon was told
last week.
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THAI carrier, Bangkok Airways, is holding
an event in the VIP lounge at Mingarladon Airport on May 10
to celebrate the launch of its daily service between Bangkok
and Yangon earlier this year.
The carrier began the flights on April 30 using a Boeing-717
plane
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THE director of the Myanma Motion Picture
Enterprise, U Myint Thein Pe, has dismissed suggestions that
the popularity of DVDs and VCDs is the main reason for a decline
in attendances at cinemas during the past year
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RAIN which fell in Yangon last Friday would
be followed by more isolated showers over the next two weeks,
the deputy director general of the Department of Meteorology
and Hydrology said.
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THE Sri Lankan embassy, in association with
the Myanmar-Sri Lanka Rama Temple in Bahan township, organised
a festival of lights at Shwedagon Pagoda last week to celebrate
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THE Myanmar Marketing Committee of the Myanmar
Tourism Promotion Board has organised two events in Japan
this month aimed at attracting more visitors to Myanmar
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MYANMAR will hold a contest in August to
select the country’s representative for the first Miss
ASEAN Culture 2004 quest, to be judged in the Indonesian capital,
Jakarta, in October 8.
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AN area extending from Daung Island to the
Lampi National Park in the Myeik Archipelago was proposed
as a shark protection zone late last month
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PREPARATIONS are nearing completion for the
fourth World Buddhist Summit to be held in Yangon in December,
the deputy director general of the Ministry of Religious Affairs,
U Htin Myo, said last week.
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THE Prime Minister, General Khin Nyunt, has
called on the nation’s Muslims to cooperate with the
government in its efforts to maintain peace and tranquility.
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THE market for artists’ supplies has
been steadily expanding as an increasing number of children
undergo training in how to paint, retailers said last week.
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THE Minister of Livestock and Fisheries,
Brigadier-General Maung Maung Thein, has welcomed the establishment
of an organisation to promote the prawn farming industry
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THE central leading committee of the Myanmar
Writers and Journalists Association will hold its third conference
in Yangon on May 11-12.
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THE government has granted approval for the
Myanmar Engineering Society to host the 22nd annual conference
of the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations in December,
the Prime Minister, General Khin Nyunt, said on May 1
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THE Occupational Health Division under the
Ministry of Health is planning to launch a campaign late this
year aimed at minimising health risks from exposure to lead
at workplaces.
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SHOPKEEPERS at Nyaung Pinlay Plaza in Lanmadaw
township have donated a hearse to an organisation in Yangon
that provides free funerals for the needy
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AN exhibition featuring the achievements
of a four-year national education promotion plan launched
in 2000-2001 opened at the Diamond Jubilee Hall
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A GROUP of 150 Myanmar legume farmers has
completed a two-year training program implemented by the United
Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation aimed at improving
production methods to increase agricultural yields
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WHAT
THEY WEAR IT?
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SPECIAL
REPORT | MOGOK |
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FOR the inhabitants of Mogok, the htar
pwe, or gem market, has a marked influence on day-to-day
living
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THE small West African nation Gambia has
signed an agreement to import Myanmar rice, Gambia’s
economic minister told Myanmar Times during a business trip
to Yangon last week
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DIESEL prices have decreased since the end
of Thingyan as the private sector has begun importing from
Malaysia, fuel dealers said last week
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SHE may be 69, but Daw Su Su Win is still
as tough as old boots. An energetic and engaging speaker,
she appeared eager to talk to the Myanmar Times about her
life, her achievements and her role as the first woman to
become a qualified police officer in Myanmar.
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CHIEF OF STAFF
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Myanmar Consolidated Media publishes
two national publications, both called The Myanmar Times.
As part of its growth strategy the company now seeks
to employ a Chief of Staff.
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UNICEF is seeking to recruit a dynamic,
motivated and committed professional in the field of
Immunization to work with us to help fulfill our mandate
to improve the lives of children and women in Myanmar.
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Which is the better visual medium;
photography or painting?
Khin Nyein
Aye Than sought some answers.
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DOUBLE colonnades and a row of balconies
protruding from the first floor make this Myanmar Times House
of the Week an impressive proposition for potential buyers,
although the building site directly opposite does not make
for picturesque views.
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