The 24-page journal, which costs K250 an issue, features articles about the lifestyles of seamen, including profiles of well-known sailors and their families. “It also features international and local news about seafaring and seamen, as well as celebrity interviews to help attract the widest possible readership,”

“Supporting my family is very difficult these days,” he says, adding that the K1500 he makes a day is only about half the amount he needs to feed his family of six and educate his four children....

Innwa bookstore on Sule Pagoda Road in downtown Yangon is hosting the fair, which ends October 5. Other participating stores include Phu Pwint Wai Wai, Nan Daywi, Yar Pyae and Bawa Thakatho

The course, held at Sedona Hotel from September 26 to October 3, was being taught to two Red Cross members from each of 10 pilot townships in which the society will offer child protection services in collaboration with UNICEF.

“Now I have access to a computer all the time, 24 hours a day,” he said with a smile. “I’ve saved all my personal data, programs and projects in my laptop, and I take it with me everywhere I go.”

“Because of these factors, only 10 of the big shipyards and six of the small shipyards in the area have been able to operate this year,” said
U Maung Sein from Win Shwe War Shipyard, which operates out of Seikgyi Khanaungdo.

“People pay high prices for thanakha, so I’m changing my farm to take advantage,” the 40-year-old farmer says, adding that increasing numbers of people in the area are also making the switch to thanakha from growing crops like cotton and beans.

THE PSB Academy in Singapore and University of Newcastle in Australia awarded six scholarships and one bursary worth a total of S$206,000 (US$130,000) to seven outstanding Myanmar students last month.

“There used to be lapidary businesses on almost every street, and nearly every household was involved in the gemstone trade,” said one resident. “Compared with 10 years ago, the town has become very quiet.”....

The police, with Zaw Min’s cooperation, arrested Zaw Win and Hlaing Win August 17. The three men are in police custody (case number Pa 826/06) awaiting their murder trial under section 302 of the legal code.

“My son had been working in the field, and he had taken on many other responsibilities like deciding how many workers we should hire on the farm and which buyers we should sell our crops to,” ....

THE 100th anniversary of the birth of Saya Zawgyi, one of the most famous figures in Myanmar literature, will be marked next April with the raising of a statue in his hometown of Phyar Pone in Ayeyarwady Division.

THE Myanmar Sports Writers Federation (MSWF) will be awarded the 2006 Sport and Community Trophy by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in mid October, according to the Myanmar Olympic Committee, of which the federation is a part.

“I promised the president of the federation I would continue working for the team, but after one year when my new contract is finished I will go back my country because I have to [coach] a team there”

THE International Football Federation (FIFA) plans to increase investment in women’s football in Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) last Tuesday reported an official from the Asian Football Federation as saying.

THE Myanmar women’s football team has been drawn in Group C in the first stage of qualifying for the 2008 Olympics, alongside Australia, Chinese Taipei and Uzbekistan. Matches take place February 17 to 28.