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MYANMAR’S partners in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations stand ready to assist its democratisation process, the Malaysian Foreign Minister, Mr Syed Hamid Albar, said on June 1.

 

WHEN a group of foreign-educated professors began the country’s first Master of Business Administration program almost 10 years ago, they weren’t only thinking of the 60 students they would admit each year. They were also thinking in terms of transforming the national economy.

 
AN editorial team compiling the first history of football in Myanmar said last week it had completed research work for the book which is due to be published late this year as part of a project which has so far cost more than K5 million.
 
     
MYANMAR has become the fourth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to introduce legislation regulating electronic transactions, an official with the Office of the Attorney General said
 
INDIA’S new government will “intensify” contacts with the country’s neighbours, the External Affairs Minister, Mr Natwar Singh, said last week.
 
A MASSIVE relief operation is under way in Rakhine State after a powerful cyclone roared ashore from the Bay of Bengal on May 19.

A statement issued in Geneva by the United Nations Office for Coordinating Humanitarian Affairs said it was the worst storm to hit Myanmar since 1968

 
ISRAEL is expanding an agricultural co-operation program under which it provides training to Myanmar government employees. The Israeli embassy said last week that 170 employees of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation would begin the training later this year, the highest number accepted under the program since it began 10 years ago ..
 
MYANMAR’S first lens and optical factory will open in the first week of July. The owner of the factory, Myanmar Asia Optical International Company Ltd, claims it will be capable of providing lens and optical apparatus to the majority of the world market.
 
IN the past 15 years the number of people taking out insurance policies has increased to record levels, according to the general manager of state-run Myanmar Insurance.
 

SINCE February last year, many of Yangon’s real estate agents have seen a stagnant property market significantly reduce their business, in terms of rentals, sales, office space and residential units.

 
DEPRESSION affects most women at some point in their life regardless of wealth, social status and age, said Dr Zaw Sein Lwin, a medical consultant at the Mental Health Hospital in Yangon.
 
AN increasing number of young couples in urban areas are choosing to be married by court officials in a trend that partly reflects a desire to avoid expensive wedding receptions
 
 

 

 
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