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DELEGATES at a series of ASEAN tourism task force meetings held Taunggyi from June 28 to July 1 say the area’s attractions have enormous potential.

The area includes picturesque Inle Lake, one of Myanmar’s most popular tourist destinations.

“You are sitting on a gold mine in terms of tourism,” said Mr Jamaluddin bin Sheikh Mohammad, the chairman of the ASEAN Tourism Marketing Task Force.

 
THE Prime Minister, General Khin Nyunt, was due to leave for Beijing on July 11 to begin a week-long visit to China at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart, Mr Wen Jiabao.
 
The response to the US decision came in a government statement issued on July 9, two days after President George Bush endorsed legislation approved by the US Congress to extend the sanctions, which include a ban on all imports from Myanmar.
 
DISCUSSIONS on issues concerning Myanmar at the annual meeting of foreign ministers of Southeast Asian Nations in Jakarta earlier this month were “constructive”, a senior official said last week.The official said the ASEAN foreign ministers had recognised the government’s efforts to pave the way for a transition to democracy.
 
     
“We will engage in more aggressive operations against human trafficking once the MoU has been signed,” Police Colonel Win Khaung, the director of the Planning and Training Department of the Myanmar Police Force, under the Ministry of Home Affairs, told Myanmar Times last week.

The figures show that 1160 serious crimes were reported throughout the country last year, down from 1196 the previous year and 1370 in 2001. Serious crimes include murder, rape, robbery, burglary and kidnapping.

THE government plans to provide US$10 million to build factories at three industrial zones in upper Myanmar, the chairman of the Mandalay Industrial Zone Development Committee said last week.

THE Myanmar Track and Field Federation has begun a radical new incentive system, designed to increase Myanmar’s share of international gold medals.The newly-appointed federation chairman, U Tay Za, unveiled the system at a media conference at the Sedona Hotel on July 8.

A BIG increase in the number of airline passengers travelling to Myanmar in recent months has raised hopes for a surge in arrivals during the tourist high season beginning in October.

 
 

BRUSSELS – More than 400 international companies did business last year in Myanmar despite international sanctions over its human rights record, according to a list released last Tuesday by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

 

AS more people become familiar with the qualities and benefits of gas stoves, sales are increasing, according to several gas stove suppliers who spoke Myanmar Times last week.

 
 
WORK on a long-awaited development project along the Hlaing River in FMI Garden City in Hlaing Tharyar township has begun despite the increasing price of the construction materials.The nine-acre River Front project is expected to be finished in December.

 
 
 
ON the slightly rainy night of July 6th, the Trees, led by 15 different singers, performed for 1000 seated guests at the Golden Dragon Hall Lion City Restaurant in Hlaing Township. The concert marked the Trees’ fourth anniversary, and all proceeds went to a school for the blind and two orphanages in Myanmar.
 
UPROOT German heritage and traditional French training, parachute it into the thick of a Yangon market, and you might expect a broad palette of flavours—a palette that could easily run grey if mixed carelessly. Mr Matthias Cantauw, the new head chef and F&B man at Savoy Hotel’s upscale Kipling’s restaurant, studiously avoids this danger, churning out the culinary equivalents of azure or vermillion.
 
 

The UNFPA is planning to spend K30 million on the film, Hmyawlintchin myarswar (Expectations), which will provide information about how the virus that causes AIDS is spread and ways of preventing its transmission, including mother to child transmission.

 
 
 
 
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ART AWARD
Myanmar Contemporary
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How some of Yangon's famous people are keeping themselves fresh and fragrant all day.
AS a woman, I like using perfumes with a flower fragrance, especially rose and jasmine. I didn’t start wearing perfume until I was at university, when I started getting it as gifts from
 
I was a tomboy when I was a teenager, so I did not use perfume until I was in tenth grade as I thought it made me girly
 
I often buy cologne in Bangkok because a wide range is available there. I always buy a new bottle before I finish an old one.
 
 
 
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AS someone who is responsible for preparing meals for a family, food safety is very important for me. I have to ensure that meals are nutritious as well as safe.
 
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I became interested in the arts when I was very young. I loved to write poems and imagined becoming a poet but it was not my ambition to become a writer.
   
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