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THE Indian President, Mr A P J Abdul Kalam, arrived in
Yangon last Wednesday for a landmark goodwill visit, which
was expected to include the signing of an important memorandum
of understanding on the sale of natural gas to India.
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A CEREMONY was held at the International
Business Centre on Pyay Road on March 8 to
mark International Women’s Day, a global
celebration of the economic, social, cultural
and political achievements of women.
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 Zoo
director U Myint Swe and assistant director U Saw Win said
the arrival of a breeding pair of three-year-old white rhinoceros
in Yangon on March 4 and 7, followed by the arrival of one
male and two female lions on March 8, marked the successful
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THE Yangon City Development Committee has called
on pet owners to register their animals and inoculate
them against rabies, which is most prevalent during
the summer season.
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After decades doing business in a country she has
come to love, Ms Segal is starting what she calls
“a new chapter” – giving up her
home in Dagon township and spending more time in New
York City, where her first grandchild is about to
be born.
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 The
project was completed in the course of 16 months in
1942 and 1943 using Allied prisoners of war as a source
of labour. An estimated 16,000 of them died during
the construction, earning the 415 kilometres of track
the nickname Death Railway.
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MA Khine Zar, a 23-year-old university student, has
become accustomed to dealing with stern-faced salespeople
who tell her things like “If you buy it, you
can try it” while she shops, but such attitudes
still annoy her.
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 PYIN
Oo Lwin, well known as a prime area for growing a
wide variety of vegetables and flowers, will in the
coming months see the blossoming of the eye-catching
zygopetalum, an orchid of Brazilian origin.
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THE Secretary (1) of the State Peace and Development
Council, Lieutenant-General Thein Sein, last month
praised the role that government and non-government
organisations, as well as United Nations agencies,
played in helping Myanmar establish a law against
human trafficking last year.
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THE Myanma Agriculture Service has recommended the
use of selective rice herbicides, which are able to
exterminate unwanted weeds without harming crops,
to boost paddy production.
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 THE
April harvest of sunflower seeds in Mandalay Division
will be far higher than last year as cultivation of
the oil crop has exceeded expectations by a factor
of three, an official from the Ministry of Agriculture
and Irrigation said last week.
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 Located
on the 500-acre grounds of the Win Sein Tawra meditation
centre between the towns of Mawlamyine and Thanbyuzayat
in Mon State, the image is 600 feet long and 100 feet
high.
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past 10 years Basic Education High School (1) in Dagon
township has gained a reputation for producing large
numbers of top-quality medical students, largely because
of its being successful in preparing students for the
matriculation exam, said the school’s principal,
U Kyaw Kyaw. |
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“The number of such businesses has increased
significantly, and we would like to encourage
them to operate at a level that earns the trust
of customers and keeps them satisfied, as in
other countries,”
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THE Ministry of Education has introduced a
new system for supplementary examinations for
university students, effective for the 2005-2006
academic year, that limits opportunities to
pass in subjects that they had failed during
the first exam.
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“People are interested in iPods because
they’re new in the market but they tend
to pause as they check out the price and then
choose one of the other MP3 players,”
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 “We
charge members K1000 for three hours, K5000
for 20 hours for special members and K450 per
hour for irregular customers. Most of our customers
are office staff and students,”
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The opening night film Water Boys, a musical
comedy about five high school boys trying to
become a top synchronised swimming team, had
the audience rolling around with laughter, some
to the point of tears.
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“We stayed together with students from
Shanghai, Australia and the Philippines. So,
we were representing our school and our country
and we had to behave very well, clean up after
ourselves and be on time,” she recalled
to the Myanmar Times.
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Drug storage
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Myanmar
Contemporary Art Awards 2004 Finalist |
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Finance and Administration Officer (NOA/B) (1
Post) VA-2006/005
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in Economics/Finance with experience and advanced
training/courses in one or more of the following
disciplines: accounting, administration and
other related areas. The eligible candidate
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young monk stands in
front of the Mingun Bell near Mandalay. Cast in 1808 and weighing
90 tonnes, it is said to be the biggest ringing bell in the
world.
Pic: Lwin Maung Maung |
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| Animal
rights activists Sir Paul McCartney (R) and his wife Heather
Mills McCartney were on the ice floes of the Gulf of St Lawrence
last week observing seal pups before the start of the seal
hunting season. The McCartneys were attempting to raise awareness
to stop the hunt of seal pups.
Pic - David Boily, Agence France
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