THE resignation of the Bangladeshi Minister for Energy, Mr A.K.M. Mosharraf Hossain, would not affect a proposed natural gas pipeline project which also involved Myanmar and India, an official at the Bangladesh embassy said last week.

THE European Union has allocated €1.5million (about US$1.8 million) to Myanmar for health care and other projects which it says will benefit a quarter of a million people.

THE Indian government has donated laboratory equipment worth US$500,000 to Yangon University under a bilateral education cooperation program.

Women need to develop greater awareness about the importance of an adequate iron intake, said the senior medical officer at the National Nutrition Centre, Dr May Khin Than.

A YANGON company says a tourism website it launched earlier this month will eventually include the country’s first virtual tours featuring video clips of famous tourist destinations.

THE Yangon Division Traffic Rule Enforcement Committee has sharply increased fines for trading in vehicles outside the two designated areas in the capital, an official said last week.

THE Department of Meteorology and Hydrology under the Ministry of Transport plans to seek more than US$1 million in funding to establish tsunami warning system in Myanmar.

MULTINATIONAL and bilateral donors were briefed on the findings of an agricultural sector review project by specialists from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation at the Sedona Hotel on June 17.

AN international non-profit organisation devoted to fighting and treating preventable blindness has donated supplies and equipment valued at K2,675,000 to the eye department at North Okkalapa General Hospital.

A NATIONAL strategy on integrating energy and rural development was drafted at a workshop at the Sedona Hotel earlier this month, said an official from the Bangkok-based United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

WAVES that hit the Myanmar coast after the devastating December 26 tsunami were no more that three metres high, a team of Myanmar and Japanese scientists said in a report released earlier this month.

COMPUTER literacy has become increasingly crucial for those seeking government scholarships to study overseas, said a Ministry of Education official.

REGISTRATION is crucial for the development of small family businesses, said officials from the Department of Cottage Industries under the Ministry of Cooperatives.

THE National Seed Committee has approved the registration of more than 20 varieties of seasonal and industrial crops to be grown throughout the country.

TRAINING has begun for extension staff of the Myanma Agriculture Service so they can help farmers reach yield targets set by the government for paddy, beans and pulses and oil crops.

THE Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation have held a workshop to train primary health care workers to conduct deafness surveys.

MYANMAR has qualified for the Asian Football Confederation Women’s Championships in Japan next May after defeating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the quarter finals of the qualifying round in Vietnam last week.