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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.

 
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.
 
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 reported.
 

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.

     

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.

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.

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.

 
 

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.

“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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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 and children.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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UNICEF is seeking to recruit a motivated and committed professional of the highest integrity to assist the Assistant Administrative Officer in carrying out broad administrative-related functions and supervision of vehicles, drivers, premises and equipment.

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