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Myanmar considers revisions to international health regulations
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WORKSHOP to consider revisions to the World Health Organisation’s
international health regulations was held in Yangon on May
27 and 28. The workshop, organised jointly by the Ministry
of Health and the WHO, was part of a series of meetings held
throughout the world by members of the UN agency.
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 GOVERNMENTS
and aid agencies the world over are clamoring to obtain a
highly effective drug that has been used in Myanmar to fight
malaria for nearly 10 years, fuelling speculation that a global
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THE Minister of Health, Dr Kyaw Myint, was
the recipient of a World No Tobacco Day Award announced at
the 57th World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 20.
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THE Ministry of Health and the United Nations
Children’s Fund are planning to launch a program at six
big hospitals later this year aimed at preventing the mother
to child transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus,
which causes AIDS.
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 WORK
will finally begin on Pyay Tower after a six-month delay,
the developers of the project have said.The National
Development Company Group Ltd will begin construction
on its 18-storey project on Pyay Road between Narnattaw
Street and Hanthawaddi Street in June after the start
date was put back from December last year
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THE government last Friday awarded
prizes to the nation’s biggest exporters and praised
their contribution towards creating a foreign trade
surplus in the fiscal year ending in March. Minister
for Commerce Brigadier-General Pyi Sone said at the
prize-awarding ceremony that Myanmar total foreign trade
was US$4.5 billion in the fiscal year 2003-2004, down
from $5.3b last financial year
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Sporting activities are a great
way to enjoy yourself and keep fit.
Interviews by Saw Thiha
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Thinking Aloud talks to U Zaw
Htut, managing director and chief technical officer
of web development company, Myanmar’s Net Inc.
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A.M.I, a medical N.G.O is looking
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Myanmar & English languages are
compulsary. Chinese, Shan and Rakhine languages are
good advantages
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