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“We’ve only become aware of its (aluminium cladding) full potential in the past two or three years, though neighbouring countries have used it for more than 12 years,” Design 2000 Co., Ltd chairman U Sun Oo said.

 

MALAYSIAN telecommunications giant Merchantrade Asia Sdn. Bhd. has made a proposal to the Myanmar Government to invest in the country’s telecommunications sector by setting up 6000 call shops throughout the country, the company announced last week.

 

“When I started my first film, I was only 21 but my family background is mostly from the movie industry,” she says. “My grandfather and uncle were directors and my mother is a producer.”

 

MALAYSIAN work permits this year will only be issued to those who have completed an induction course arranged by the Malaysia Ministry of Manpower, sources within Myanmar’s overseas employment industry said last week.

 

X-RAY machines will be installed at the Asia World port, Thilawa port and Muse (105 Miles) border trade zone in February, the Government announced last week.

 

A STRUGGLE between Thailand and China for domination of stainless steel exports to Myanmar is seeing China take an increasing share of the market, say traders at Yangon’s South Dagon township, the city’s largest stainless steel wholesale centre.

 

MORE than 30,000 people use the government ferry service each day to cross between Yangon’s Pansodan Port and the town of Dala on the opposite side of the Yangon River, said Inland Water Transportation officials.

 

A HOUSE should be modern yet classical, the Yangon architect cheerfully affirmed. Grand but intimate. Made of brand-new as well as traditional materials. It should be transparent, with oversized windows and sweeping views that lead from one room to the next.

 

The creative minds behind the public sculptures we, for the most part, take for granted are architects, and it is their duty to understand the way buildings influence how we think and behave.

 
HOUSE OF THE WEEK

A RELUCTANCE on the part of home-owners in Yangon to risk too much of their investment on quirky or creative designs has meant a lot of the homes on the market are painfully similar. The same designs and – if you pay for it – those same Corinthian pillars.

 

THE latest session of the National Convention to draft a new state constitution, which began on December 5, was adjourned last week until the end of the year. The announcement was made by the Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council, Lieutenant-General Thein Sein, at the close of the session on January 31 at the ..

 
MR Alan Rabinowitz, an American wildlife biologist who has set many milestones in his two decades working for the preservation of tigers and other wild cats around the world, achieved yet another hard-won goal on his most recent visit to Myanmar last month.
 
THE government of Norway has pledged US$1 million in assistance to help fight human trafficking in the Mekong sub-region, an area that includes Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as China’s Yunnan Province.
 
U KHIN Maung Sein, owner of Zaw Literature House, has been collecting old and rare books since 1977 and has so many that it took a large truck to transport them to Lokanat Gallery, where they are currently being displayed.

 
Japanese national Chinatsu studied photography at the Osaka University of Arts before taking on a project in 1994 to photograph 10 Southeast Asian countries, one of them being Myanmar.

 

FROM 8:30 am to 4 pm Dr Nyo Nyo Thein is devoted to her patient’s needs, but from 4 pm on she concentrates on the needs of her younger rock-singer sister, Phyu Phyu Kyaw Thein.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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