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“The purpose of opening the shops is to lower the
current price of rice as prices have been going up at an
alarming rate. We also aim to stabilise rice prices at a
lower level over the long term,”
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A SURVEY by Myanmar and French geologists indicates the
presence of hydrocarbon deposits in deepwater blocks off
the coast of Myanmar, an official from the Myanma Oil and
Gas Enterprise (MOGE) told The Myanmar Times on Tuesday.
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“I have discussed with my Chinese and
Myanmar counterparts the direct road link with
China and both of them agreed to hold a meeting
shortly,” Bangladesh Foreign Minister,
Morshed Khan, told reporters on July 30.
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YANGON used-car dealers were active
cutting deals last week as sales and
prices continued month-long increases,
according to traders at Hanthawaddy,
the biggest car-trading zone in Yangon.
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LEGAL border trade along Myanmar's
frontiers has been largely unaffected
by a government crackdown on illegal
trade at the Muse and Myawaddy checkpoints,
private sector and government sources
said last week.
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“At the moment, local people
aren’t interested in investing
in real estate, so we need new faces
in the market,” said U Zaw Zaw,
a manager at Unity Real Estates Agency.
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here is reasonably priced given the
standard and location,” said Mundine
Real Estates Agency managing director
U Than Oo.
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The house is in its final stages of construction
and is scheduled to be ready by September.
Space around the sides of the house and out
front mean there is plenty of room for those
with a green touch to do a little landscaping
or gardening.
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SECRETARY-1 of the State Peace and Development
Council Lieutenant General Thein Sein said
last month that the National Convention to
draft a new constitution has completed 75
percent of its work and would reconvene later
this year.
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“I’m happy something like this has been
introduced here,” said one taxi driver waiting
for customers downtown. “It’s good for
the country. This is just the start of great things
to come.”
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officer of Thai AirAsia, a low-cost airline that will
start offering service between Yangon and Bangkok August
16, said last week that he expects the flights between
the two cities to operate at 80 percent seat capacity. |
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THE New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society
(WCS) launched an initiative last month that aims
to increase the number of tigers in Myanmar by at
least 50 percent in the next 10 years.
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Myanmar, women have been making an impact on the photography
scene since the 1950s, when Daw Padamya Khin (Ruby
Khin) worked as a photojournalist for the popular
Yuwadi magazine and opened the Khant Khant Gyi photo
studio.
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 “I
listen to people’s troubles from dawn till dusk
… More and more people are coming to my compound.
Now it’s almost double compared with a few years
ago,” the 68-year-old says.
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INDIA said last week it has decided to abandon plans
to build a proposed pipeline to import natural gas
from the A1 offshore gas field in Myanmar’s
western Rakhine state through Bangladesh.
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ACADEMICS from the 10 Association of Southeast Asian
Nations member countries gathered in Yangon from July
25 to 27 for a seminar to share ideas, experiences
and information on agricultural training and extension,
and to strengthen cooperation within the region.
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feel proud to receive and make calls when most of my
friends can’t,” she says, “so having
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ALTHOUGH the water in some smaller rivers in Myanmar
reached dangerously high levels due to heavy rainfall
last month, the Ayeyarwady and Chindwin rivers remain
at safe levels, said sources from the Department of
Meteorology and Hydrology.
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 “It
won’t be difficult for someone who needs information
to figure out the benefit of having access to real-time
information, which could be virtually anything, while
he or she is on the move,” U Tun Thura Thet
said.
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a 17-year-old girl, Ma Khin Yadana thought marriage
would be natural and easy. She says romantic stories
and films suggest that “you fall in love, then
you get married and you live happily ever after. I didn’t
realise marriage is a big step that should not be taken
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Tandoor & Bar-be-que, on the second floor of the
somewhat ropey-looking Asia Plaza Hotel, is the first
Indian restaurant in Yangon with a clay tandoor oven,
giving marinated meat dishes a deep and delectable
smoky flavour.
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for sustainablility: Fishmongers unload freshwater rohu
fish at the Baho San Pya fish market in Kyimyindine
township, Yangon. The government has outlined some measures
to be followed by fish farmers for boosting fishery
production, sources with the Fishery Department said
on July 27. The measures include releasing enough fingerlings
into creeks and rivers to increase production of quality
strains and avoiding catching fish and prawns with eggs
during the rainy season. To prevent the extinction of
fish and prawns in Myanmar waters, the department has
prohibited off-shore and deep-sea fishing in Rakhine,
Mon, Ayeyarwady and Tanintharyi states and divisions
during the rainy season, the sources said. The fishery
sector is the country's third largest contributor to
gross domestic product, accounting for about eight percent
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