“People are coming to appreciate the durability and smoother texture of paint applied by professionals,” said U Thura Aung, an assistant manager of the Thu Kha Construction Group Co., Ltd., which provides painting services.

CONSTRUCTION on a 12-storey commercial and residential building on Pazundaung Street in downtown Yangon will be finished in June, six months later than originally planned due to the general business circumstances in the property market.

The sixth such course to be offered, the 23-day program will be held at the department’s hall in Yangon. Successful candidates will each receive a certificate as a qualified nursery school teacher.

Every year 150,000 baskets of registered seed are distributed by the Myanma Agriculture Service (MAS) to cooperative farmers, who can replant them to produce a total of six million baskets of certified seed.

THE principal of Yankin Education College, U Mai Aung, has told 800 graduating primary teachers that education played an essential role in the nation’s development.

According to the 2005 Yangon directory there are more than 300 slipper shops in this city alone, most of which make the shoes themselves in small workshops attached to the shop where they are sold. There are two main kinds of slippers which are widely worn - those made with velvet straps and those made with leather.

Ko Aung Zaw (played by Dwe) and Thandar Aung (played by Tint Tint Tun) agree to get a divorce after seven years of marriage because they cannot agree. Zaw wants to move to Yangon to start a business and his wife wants to remain in Mandalay. So Ko Aung Zaw leaves his wife and Mandalay to follow his dream of setting up a computer training centre in Yangon.