A GROUP of 35 Myanmar police officers left for China on August 26 to begin a month-long course as part of bilateral cooperation program to strengthen drug enforcement.

WITH the tourist high season due to begin in mid-October, travel companies are predicting that the number of arrivals will be little changed from last year.

THE immediate past president of the Myanmar Engineering Society, Professor Dr Sein Myint, was appointed as a vice president of the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology at its inaugural general meeting in Thailand last month.

PROMOTING better nutrition plays an important role in enhancing health standards, the Health Minister, Professor Dr Kyaw Myint, said earlier this month.

MYANMAR’S participation in a project funded by the Australian government will assist in raising quality standards in the fruit and vegetable sector, a senior government horticulturalist said last week.

THE Ministry of Information plans to increase the price of the three state-run daily newspapers from October 1.

WORK will be completed next year on two dams being built to provide irrigation and generate electricity, said an official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation.

THE development of an environmental performance assessment system in Myanmar was the focus of a two-day workshop held in Yangon late last month.

NINE pairs of computer scientists who won awards in the national ICT competition organised by the Myanmar Computer Professionals Association received their prizes at a ceremony at MICT Park on September 10.

I WATCH satellite television every day. I mainly watch news broadcasts, MTV, movies and the Discovery channel. The programs I like most are news broadcasts and those on the Discovery channel.

I graduated from Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu in 1970 with a major in political science and received a Master’s degree in 1983 in political science from the same university.