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The organisation’s managing director, Tomohiro Ando, said the relatively low cost of labour in Myanmar compared with other Southeast Asian countries was making it an attractive option for Japanese firms operating in southern China’s coastal region, which are grappling with demands for higher wages that have accompanied sustained economic growth.

 

CHINA’S economic boom is helping boost Myanmar jade sales, as evidenced by this month’s massive jade and gem auction, a senior official from the state-owned Myanma Gems Enterprise (MGE) said last week.

 

INDIA is seeking to expand border trade with Myanmar, Bangladesh and China under a new five-year economic plan announced by the New Delhi government earlier this month.

 

THERE continues to be a high-level of illegal remittance from Myanmar workers abroad who resist the authorities’ demands that they transfer funds back to Myanmar through government-owned banks, say overseas employment sources in Yangon.

Matpe: K68,000 for 60 viss, up from K61,200. The ready-cargo variety was K705,000 a tonne, up from K628,000 and special-quality, ready-cargo matpe rose to K755,000 from K702,000 a tonne.

 

“The ingredients the machines use are physic-nut oil or fish oil together with ethanol and sodium hydroxide,” said company owner U Tin Win.

 

AS a part of the government’s long-term goal to eliminate imports of edible oils, a new oil refinery factory completed by the Yuzana Edible Oil Group, a subsidiary of Yuzana Group, started operations late last month.

 

Until the mid 1990s, Yangon remained largely constrained to its traditional peninsula setting between the Bago, Yangon and Hlaing rivers. People moved in, but little of the city moved out.

 

MANDALAY real estate agents said this month the market in Myanmar’s second largest city had remained steady although there was a shortage of agents in the city relative to demand.

 
HOUSE OF THE WEEK

LOCATED in the heart of Mandalay City, The Myanmar Times House of the Week is a large and elegant two-storey home built in the tradition that suggests an imposing home must have a great owner.

 

INTERNATIONAL commu-nication links and inability to use credit cards are among the factors that deter more American tourists from travelling to Myanmar, travel agents from the United States said last week.

 
Last year in the city, 454 accidents resulting in 52 deaths and 577 injuries occurred between 6:00pm to 6:00am. Between the hours of 6:00am to 6:00pm, there were 452 accidents that left 46 dead and 782 injured.
 

ESTABLISHMENT of the proposed Economic Community of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations could help accelerate the economic growth of its members, a report published by the Australian government earlier this week said.

 

Dawei in Tanintharyi Division received 44.7 centimetres (17.6 inches) of rain on July 4, the highest amount in a single day in the month of July in the past 55 years. The previous record during this period was 30.5cm on July 3, 1985.

 

“This is an excellent agricultural producing country,” Dr Raymond Krommenacker, regional coordinator of the Asia and Pacific Economies section of the World Trade Organisation, told The Myanmar Times in an interview in Yangon last week.

 

STATE-OWNED Myanma Economic Bank (MEB) is expanding remittance services to more branches throughout the country this year, said a senior official from the Ministry of Finance and Revenue.

 

“Computer monitors especially are in short supply, but we think the situation is temporary and will be back to normal by the end of the month,” one computer parts retailer told The Myanmar Times last week.

 

“Until I learned about the internet, the only aim I had in my life was to open a sewing shop after graduation,” said Ma Lei Lei Lwin, a 23-year-old university student, speaking through an interpreter using sign language.

 

NINE more special police units to investigate human trafficking cases will be set up in seven states and divisions later this year, doubling the total number of such units in Myanmar, said an official from the Ministry of Home Affairs.

 
WHEN she was young, she was always in her parents’ garment factory – playing with a piece of cloth or a ball of thread, sometimes falling asleep in a pile of clothes.

 

As I consider myself an artist, I will do whatever role is offered to me. I am interested in all these things.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (UNIAP)

Regional Project Manager (RPM)
Project - RAS/03/1000 (Phase III)

Type of Appointment: Appointment for Activities of Limited Duration (ALD-4) Period of Employment: 1 Year

Duties and Responsibilities: The Regional Project Manager will be substantively and operationally responsible for the timely achievement of project results and ------

Interested candidates should submit a detailed resume and UN Personal History Form (P11) along with a cover letter highlighting relevant skills and experience in regard to the position, and clearly stating the position by 23 July 2006. Women candidates are encouraged to apply. Kindly send the application to:

Human Resources Associate
G.P.O. Box 618, Bangkok 10501
Or e-mail to: hr.thailand@undp.or.th
Competitive salaries and benefits will be offered according to the UN Scales applicable in Thailand.
Only short listed candidates will be notified.

 
 
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