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The managing director of Delta Queen Myanmar River Cruises, U Sonny Nyunt Thein, said it is not unusual for tourists who take his company’s cruises to return again and again.

 
THE Foreign Minister, U Nyan Win, briefed the Bangladesh Prime Minister, Ms Begum Khaleda Zia, about recent political developments in Myanmar during his three-day visit to Bangladesh that ended on February 26.
 
A BUDDHIST idol thought by many to have drifted 1000 kilometres from Myanmar reached the coastal village of Meyyurkuppam in India on a raft on December 26 thanks to earthquake-driven tsunami waves, said a report from the Indo-Asian News Service last month.
 
Police Colonel Sit Aye, the ministry’s Director of International Relations, said the plan was being drafted by experts from the Central Bank, the Attorney General’s Office, the Settlement and Land Record Department, and the ministries of Finance and Revenue, Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs.
     

“Myaing township was chosen because it won the most systematic farming method award given by the ministry last October to mark United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation Day,” he said.

The assistance, which will benefit about 200,000 villagers, is being given as part of Thailand’s support for Myanmar’s poppy eradication campaign, according to a press statement issued by the embassy on March 1.

IN a move to improve road safety during Thingyan, traffic police in Yangon will for the first time use breath analysers to test the blood alcohol levels of drivers taking part in water festival activities, said Daw Ohn Kyi, a traffic police inspector.

U Tin Hlaing, the president of the Parami Group Co., Ltd., said the system has been in development since January and will detect and report any threat, such as fires or break-ins, while the occupants are away.

The vice president of the Myanmar Fisheries Federation, U Han Htun, said permanent and seasonal water resources covered about 9.4 million hectares and there was another 115,687 hectares of reservoirs.

 

Three Myanmar wood-based furniture companies were scheduled to display products at the Thailand International Furniture Fair (TIFF) 2005, held at the IMPACT Exhibition Centre in northern Bangkok from March 4 to 8.

CONSTRUCTION on a 12-storey commercial and residential building on Pazundaung Street in downtown Yangon will be finished in June, six months later than originally planned due to the general business circumstances in the property market.

 

He invited the audience, “I wanna sing with you and why don’t you stand up and dance to my song?” but the Myanmar audience, although enthusiastic, stayed in their seats and applauded. The melodies and his energetic performance made me want to dance, and the Europeans in the audience didn’t resist the urge.

 

I NEVER liked babies and small children. I always avoided them if I could because I’m not patient and I don’t enjoy them. Unlike many girls I didn’t want to hold babies or play with little children, I hated the sound of their crying and I always thought that when I married I wouldn’t have any children.

A director of the ministry’s Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department, Dr Than Hla, said the funding support from the Paris-based organisation would be used for managing animal movements, training, public awareness campaigns and research in two districts in the division.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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UNICEF is seeking to recruit dynamic, motivated and committed professionals to assist in reducing the transmission and impact of HIV/AIDS among children, women, communities and mitigating the impact of HIV among infected and affected families, under the HIV/AIDS Prevention / Care Project.

 
 
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