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INDIA’S Minister of External Affairs, Mr K. Natwar
Singh, arrived in Yangon on March 24 for a three-day visit
aimed at further consolidating bilateral ties.The visit, at
the invitation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, U Nyan Win,
was aimed at “carrying forward the ongoing high level dialogue
between India and Myanmar,” said a statement issued by the
Indian External Affairs Ministry on March
23.
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STARTING with the recognition of Myanmar as
the official name of the country, a powerful and compelling
independent report commissioned by the European Union has
called for an alternative, sweeping approach on how best to
help Myanmar achieve national reconciliation, develop its
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SILKAIR, the regional wing of Singapore
Airlines, will increase the frequency of its service to Yangon
under a plan to expand its network capacity by 14 per cent
during the next seven months, the carrier said on March
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YANGON City Development Committee says it expects to issue
permits for more than 500 Thingyan pandals this year, about
the same number as during the traditional new year water
throwing festival in 2004. |
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GENETIC information about more than 12,000 varieties
of plants has been collected by the Department of Agriculture
and Irrigation since it established a seed bank in 1990, a
senior official said last week.U Soe Myint, a director at the
Department of Agricultural Research at Yezin in Mandalay
Division, said the collection included more than 6000
varieties of rice as well as oil seed and other industrial
crops.

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A PLAN is underway to replace about 35 per cent of
Myanmar’s table grape production with high-quality varieties
to help farmers realise higher profits and to reduce
dependence on foreign-grown imports, said a government
horticulturist last week.

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U Thet Naung, an assistant director in Mandalay of the
ministry’s Department of Dry Zone Greening department in
Mandalay, told Myanmar Times that the use of the stoves by the
three million households in the region could reduce firewood
consumption by 2.4 million tons a year.

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Dr John Sale, a British scientist who works as a freelance
biodiversity conservation consultant, said Myanmar researchers
who focus on biodiversity-related issues can provide
information that will help improve conservation plans for the
country.

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“Bago is an attractive tourist destination with
famous pagodas, and with rich history and historical
sites, so a one-day trip is not enough,” said U Kaung
Htut, the assistant general manager of MTT, under the
Ministry of Hotels and Tourism.

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“The business situation has not changed much, with
sales just so-so compared to last year,” said U Zaw Moe,
the manager of sales and marketing at TMW Enterprise
Limited, which is the sole distributor in Myanmar of
Japan-made Sony electronics.
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The minister was speaking at the 14th Annual General
Meeting of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers
of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI), which was held at the
Myanmar Convention Centre on March 12.
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New executive chef Richard Sousa has
been hard at work since he arrived and his magic fingers
are turning out pastries as light as thistledown, fruit
tarts as luscious as a summer’s day, chocolate delights
too sinful to be eaten and crusty breads which taste
straight from the farmhouse.

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“This bazaar will raise funds for the victims of the
earthquake and tsunami in Aceh and North Sumatra, and
some of the proceeds will also be donated to the Yangon
General Hospital,” said Mr. Wyoso Prodjowaristo , the
Indonesian ambassador in Myanmar.

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PHARMACEUTICAL products must be affordable as
well as safe, efficacious and of high quality, the
Deputy Health Minister, Professor Dr Mya Oo, told
a workshop held at the Myanmar Medical Association
on Theinbyu Road, Yangon, from March 15 to
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Myanmar
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I DIDN’T appreciate the importance of
good hygiene until I suffered a bout of diarrhoea
recently. It taught me to pay more attention to good
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I graduated from the Burma Institute of
Technology (now the Yangon Technological University)
with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in
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FOOTBALLER Soe Myat Min and wushu martial arts
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