THE Australian government provided training
in Yangon last week to enable immigration, customs and police
officials to detect fake passports.The two day course, the
first of its kind to be held in Myanmar, began last Wednesday
and was attended by more than 100 officials from the three
departments. [FullStory]
Thinking Aloud talks to U
Khin Zaw, the president of the Union of Myanmar Travel
Association and managing director of the Tour Mandalay
Co., Ltd.
A PLEASANT climate and attractive highlands
scenery have contributed to the emergence of Pyin Oo Lwin as
one of the brightest success stories in Myanmar’s property
market, investors and developers said last week.The value of
property in Pyin Oo Lwin, 42 miles east of Mandalay, has
soared in value during the past 10 years. [Fullstory]
THE government has enacted a law which allows
for the donation of organs for use in transplant operations, a
senior Health Department official said last week.Dr Wann
Maung, the department’s director general, said the law took
effect on February 19 after being approved by the Chairman of
the State Peace and Development Council, Senior General Than
Shwe.[Fullstory]
AN international group of scholars argue in a
book due to be released that week that sanctions imposed on
Myanmar by the United States are detrimental to the interests
of both countries.Reconciling Burma/Myanmar: Essays on US
Relations with Burma is due to be published on March 3 by an
American think tank, the National Bureau of Asian Research.[Fullstory]
NATIONAL tennis team members Zaw Latt and Tu Maw handed the
veteran pair of Khin Maung Win and Thet Lwin a resounding
defeat during the men’s doubles final of the National Tennis
Championship-2004 last week at the Theinphyu tennis court, in
Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township.[Fullstory]
MYANMAR is set to achieve a 30-year record in
cultured pearl production for the financial year ending
on March 31, the deputy general manager of Myanmar Pearl
Enterprises, Major Maung Maung Soe, said last week.[Fullstory]
THE South Korean government is considering increasing
funding for a program aimed at reducing the development
gap among members of the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations, an ASEAN official said last week.[Fullstory]
THE Myanmar-South Korea Friendship
Association and a South Korean counterpart have signed a
memorandum of understanding aimed at strengthening their
relationship. [Fullstory]
MYANMAR has begun exporting 100 tonnes of buckwheat
to Japan under a US$230,000 contract between the
Ministry of Progress of Border Areas and National Races
and Development Affairs and a Tokyo-based company, Taiyo
Pusan.[Fullstory]
MYANMAR Engineering
Society (MES) will begin construction its new
five-storey office on the compound of MICT Park in
Yangon Universities’ Hlaing Campus within two months,
the society said last week.[Fullstory]
THE Yangon house and
apartment rental market has increased slightly due to
sluggish property sales over the last year, according to
real estate agents.Apartment rentals began to accelerate
after the Buddhist lent when people felt free to change
their accommodation and when newly-weds began seeking
housing.[Fullstory]
The agreement was signed by the Myanmar
India Business Club and the Gawhati-based Federation of
Industry and Commerce of the North East Region of India,
and it will facilitate border trade and other business
contacts between two countries, said U Maung Shwe,
president of the Myanmar India Business Club.[Fullstory]