ELITE location, peaceful surroundings and guaranteed electricity and water supplies have helped prevent the property market in the area near the famous Shwedagon Pagoda in Bahan township from plummeting, say real estate agents in Yangon.

“The government is encouraging the country to promote human resource development, and statistics concerning the employment situation play a vital role in this,” said U Soe Nyunt, the director general of the department.

PROPERTY experts last week highlighted the need for officials to enforce stair width regulations in Yangon, since many structures have been built with narrow stairways that threaten the safety of residents.

A LIBRARIAN at the Yangon Institute of Economics has become the second winner of both annual Saya Zawgyi awards, named after the late writer and poet regarded as a pioneer of modern Myanmar literature.

The new version will eliminate the need to type four-digit character codes in combination with the ‘Alt’ key to add diacritical marks to the main characters of the Myanmar alphabet.

A SURVEY team of 11 technicians from the Ministry of Transport began a shallow water mapping project in the Yangon and Sitthaung rivers in early February, a senior government official said last week.

ROCKER Mariza, who has been silent for more than two years as far as music goes, is back with his original composition modern rock album Zat Paung (Happy Ending). Recorded at the Metal Zone studio with the Metal Zone band , it was released on February 15.

“Tourists are interested in Myanmar art, particularly images of the Buddha or monks,” said artist U Myint Soe, who has been a painter for 30 years. Before he opened his art shop at the Hotel Nikko, he had exhibitions in many art galleries and he says that it is the wealthy tourists who are most interested in art as they can afford to buy it.