THE Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, Senior General Than Shwe, warned of threats from colonialists in a message to the nation to mark Union Day, on February 12.

THE Ministry of Hotels and Tourism has invited its counterparts in Mekong region countries to send delegations to a special event in Mandalay next April to coincide with Thingyan, the traditional new year.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a media release issued the next day that both sides had expressed interest in further strengthening cooperation and fostering business contacts.

THE first meeting of a committee established to prepare an agreement for building a natural gas pipeline from Myanmar to India through Bangladesh has been postponed, an Indian online news service said earlier this month.

The group was established under a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in non-traditional security issues signed during a visit to India last October by the Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, Senior General Than Shwe.

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.

THE Minister of Forestry, Brigadier-General Thein Aung has called for the establishment of more timber plantations in forested areas to help support conservation efforts.

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.

YANGON International Airport will be able to accommodate bigger aircraft and handle more passengers when work on extending its runway and upgrading its facilities is completed in July next year, an official from the Department of Civil Aviation said.

Because a democratic nation cannot be built overnight, and a democracy system cannot be copied from others. A period of 94 years after the start of the social revolution in the US, the Blacks won the voting rights.

“This is the country’s first literary award for a work in English,” said the chairman of the eight-member selection committee, U Myo Thant (Maung Hsu Shin), at a presentation ceremony held at the International Business Centre on Pyay Road on February 11.

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.

A MYANMAR ICT company will begin assembling tablet personal computers in the country later this year, the first time the technology will be made domestically.Tablet PCs feature touch-screen technology that allows users to take notes using natural handwriting with a stylus or digital pen on the monitor screen.