TRADITIONAL cultural values have an important role in helping to combat HIV-AIDS, the Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Mya Oo, told a ceremony on December 1 to mark World AIDS Day.

A MEMORIAL service to honour soldiers who died in Myanmar during World War Two was held in the grounds of the Thiripyitsaya Sakura Hotel at Bagan on November 24.

THE government has dismissed allegations made against it in a letter sent by a senior American diplomat to the United Nations Security Council last month calling for it to take action against Myanmar.

SENIOR officials at the Health Ministry have called on the Myanmar Motion Picture Association to help raise awareness about the four cleans (clean hands, clean food, clean water and clean toilets) campaign to promote better standards of hygiene.

PROVIDING eye treatment with overseas counterparts helped Myanmar ophthalmologists to upgrade their skills and knowledge, said a senior medical specialist.

TALKS have begun to consider the introduction of a national earthquake warning system, said a director of the Suntac Technologies company, U Maung Maung Khin.

HIGHER fuel costs have forced the country’s three privately-operated domestic airlines to more than double the cost of fares for Myanmar travellers.

THE Myanmar Police Force says strong support from the public is essential for the success of a special campaign to reduce crime rate launched in Yangon earlier this month.

COLLABORATION in the ICT sector is essential to promote its software outsourcing capability, said the president of the Myanmar Computer Industry Association, U Aung Zaw Myint.

A GROUP of state school teachers left for Tokyo last month to participate in activities held under the Japan-ASEAN Youth Friendship Program. The 20 teachers from state schools throughout the country arrived in Japan on November 22 for the program, lasting just over three weeks.

MYANMAR has more than 60 booths featuring a diverse range of products at the annual border trade fair with China which opens at Shweli in Yunnan Province on December 12, an official said last week.

MYANMAR exported 100 tonnes of honey by normal trade during the first half of this fiscal year, a more than three-fold increase over the same period last year, said an official from the Myanmar Apiculture Association.

THE Myanmar Football Federation’s (MFF) first step into the increasingly popular sport of futsal is nearing its peak as the Yangon City Development Council Futsal amateur tournament concludes on December 16.

I STARTED learning about HIV when I was at high school. HIV is the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS, a disease that results in the body’s immune system breaking down and being unable to fight infection. .....

I graduated from the Yangon Institute of Economics in 1968 with a Master of Commerce degree. I was a lecturer at the institute from 1969 to 1981...