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MYANMA Farms Enterprise has outlined a vision to increase
coffee production by up to 58,000 tonnes from 200,000 acres of
plantations by the 2014-2015 fiscal year.The director of the
coffee division at MFE, U Thaung Nyunt, said production stood
at more than 3600 tonnes from 16,000 acres. A further 20,000
acres planted in recent years was yet to go into
production.
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THE target for the monsoon paddy crop has
been set at 15.04 million acres, up about 650,000 acres on
last year, said the Department of Agricultural Planning.A
director at the department, U Hla Kyaw, said the production
target for the crop was 1.07 billion baskets, or an average
yield of 72.42 baskets an acre. |
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THE Indian government reaffirmed last week
that a proposed pipeline to carry natural gas from a natural
gas field off Rakhine State to India through Bangladesh could
be operational by 2010.“As matters stand, it will take one
year for government clearances, another one year for the
project’s financial closure and a further three years for the
construction of the pipeline,” a senior official at India’s
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Mr Sushil Tripathi,
told reporters in New Delhi on May 23, Associated Press
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THE Ministry of Transport has awarded a Singapore company
US$10.6 million to install engineering systems at Yangon
International Airport, which is being upgraded under a project
launched in April 2003. |
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The MoU was signed during a meeting on cross border
transportation held in Bangkok from May 23 to 25 and attended
by the six members of the Greater Mekong Region, said the
chairman of the Myanmar International Freight Forwarders’
Association, U Aung Kyaw Min.

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THE Ministry of Communications, Posts and Telegraphs has
signed a US$12 million contract with a South Korean consortium
to supply telecommunications infrastructure and database
management systems.
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The principal of the Institute of Fisheries Technology, U
Khin Maung Aye, said Fisheries Department officials had been
working on the project to compile information about inland
fishing equipment and methods since 2003.

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The company signed a production share contract with
Myanmar’s Ministry of Energy on August 7 last year to
explore two new offshore oil and natural gas blocks –
M-3 and M-4 – in the Gulf of Moattama, covering an area
of approximately 18,000 square kilometres.
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“The market is cool because of the effects of the
bomb blasts in Yangon early this month – people are less
interested in their businesses and are still shocked
about the event,” said a broker at the zone.
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Dagon centre shopping mall had planned to hold its
giant second birthday celebrations last week, but
unfortunately it was bombed and although it reopened for
business on May 14 its birthday party has been
postponed.
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FOR those who want to know more
about Myanmar, Myanmar’s Attractions And Delights by U
Ba Than is a useful little book - a compilation of 30
essays grouped into two sections.Section one is about
the social fabric, festivals, beliefs, traditions,
customs, and legends of Myanmar.

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The country representative of UNICEF, Ms
Carroll Long, called in the statement for UN
agencies and the NAP work together to strengthen
activities to help prevent HIV infections in women
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MY inspiration to write novels came
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graduated from Yangon University in
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His coaching career started the same year when he was
named head coach of the Adolescent School of FC CSKA, Sophia
and in 1997, he was appointed the head coach of the
Bulgaria junior national team.
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