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THE United Nations Committee on the
Rights of the Child advised a Myanmar delegation in
Geneva last month that the government should strengthen
efforts to integrate the principles of the UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child into its laws and practices.
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AT least two options are reported to be under consideration
for exporting natural gas to India from reserves discovered
in Rakhine State late last year. .
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THE Japanese government has provided
Myanmar with grant aid totalling ¥532 million (about
US$4.636 million) for human resource development scholarships.
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THE response to familiarisation trips
arranged for foreign travel industry representatives
has been very positive, the chairman of the Myanmar
Marketing Committee of the Myanmar Tourism Promotion
Board, Mr Raymond Bragg, said last week.
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 MYANMAR
poets U Soe Nyunt (Htilar Sitthu) and U Andrew Mya Han
(Maung Pauk S009.htmi) were awarded honorary doctorates
of philosophy in poetry by Dublin Metropolitan University
at a ceremony in Yangon last week.
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 THE
Health Minister, Dr Kyaw Myint, has expressed appreciation
of the life-saving role of blood donors and urged them
to encourage more people to follow their example.
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AN audio-visual showroom aimed at educating
the public about environmental conservation was opened
at the Natural History Museum inYangon Zoological Gardens
earlier this month.
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 THE
installation of a 20-megavolt-ampere transformer that
will increase power supplies to the Mandalay Industrial
Zone will be completed in August, said the secretary
of the zone’s development committee.
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A JOINT project by the Myanma Agriculture
Service and the Philippines-based International Rice
Research Institute has contributed to an increase in
paddy yields, a senior official from the Ministry of
Agriculture and Irrigation said.
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RENOVATIONS to the Agricultural Museum
in Kandawgyi Lake Park will be completed by the end
of June, a government official said.
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MYANMAR and Thailand have begun talks
on a project to establish contract farming zones as
part of an economic cooperation strategy agreed at a
four-nation summit in Bagan last November.
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THE Shan State capital, Taunggyi, has
been chosen as the venue for a series of meetings beginning
later this month for tourism officials from the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations as well as China, Japan,
South Korea and India.
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MYANMA Agricultural Produce Trading
says Malaysia and Thailand have shown strong interest
in buying goats from farms it is developing in central
Myanmar.
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MYANMAR and Thailand have begun talks
on a project to establish contract farming zones as
part of an economic cooperation strategy agreed at a
four-nation summit in Bagan last November.
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