The Yangon Times
(weekly)
The Yangon Times Vol. 1, No. 13 (December 29 to January 4)
A common monetary unit that would be comprised with the Asian region's currency units, which is similar to Euro, would soon be initiated to help support the regional co-operation, Asia Development Bank was quoted as saying by Daily Times. (December 25 news)
The Department of Health is conducting a reproductive health project with the support of UNFPA in more than 100 villages throughout the country. As part of the project UNFPA held RH/BCC management training from December 12 to 16 in collaboration with JOICFP from Japan. (December 25 news)
Chicken price, which has declined before December because of the bird flu outbreak, becomes stable as public regain trust in consuming chicken. (December 25 news)
Burma has signed with China to export US$40millions worth fisheries products during bilateral border trade fair held during December second week in Kyae Gaung. (December 24 news)
The opening of Muse 105th mile trading zone, a Burma-China border checkpoint, in 2006 will help develop transformation of border trade to normal trade. (December 24 news)
Asia Development Bank would grant US$25.57 millions aid to Greater Mekong Sub-region country including Burma for the environmental conservation activities in the region, AFP reported. (December 24 news)
Even though it was winter season beaches such as Ngwe Saung and Chaung-tha were teemed with visitors because of the Christmas and New Year holidays, the travel agencies said. (December 24 news)
Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department said a German technology-based meat processing training for producing meat balls from raw meats would be open in January at the Asia Pacific Meat Project Centre, which is established in December by the department in collaboration with FAO, UNOPS, Germany-based CIM and the Netherlands-based CFC. (December 23 news)
A KOICA official said Burma should expand coffee plantation as the quality of its coffee was well accepted in international market. The plantation of coffee in 2004-2005 fiscal year is more than 40,000 acres. (December 23 news)
UMFCCI will open a general course on intellectual property at its training centre during the first week of January. (December 22 news)
Rangoon's real estate market cools down while rentals only are in progress during this week. (December 22 news)
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Yangon Times Vol. 1, No. 12 (December 22-28)
UNICEF will distribute media facilities throughout the country produced at its educational preparation workshop for kids with the age of up to five years. (December 19 news)
An expert from Wildlife Conservation Society calls for the conservation works needed to be done for endangered freshwater dolphin in Burma. Meanwhile WCS will also begin systematic conservation of gibbon in Hugaung wildlife sanctuary in Kachin State. (December 18 news)
YMWA donates lunches and dinners to poor patients whose families could not afford to take care them. So far it is donating daily to ten patients and well-wishers can also contact the association for donation. (December 18 news)
Local gold price was required to maintain stable though the international gold price increased noticeably, the Minister for Mine warned the Burmese gold traders. (December 15 news)
A new small specie of catfish is discovered in Ayeyarwaddy River by the foreign experts and is named Glyptothorax Panda. (December 15 news)
People doesn't to avoid having chicken in afraid of bird flu as there is no outbreak of such disease in the country, the Minister for Livestock and Fisheries guaranteed at a meeting held this week. (December 14 news)
The
Yangon Times Vol. 1, No. 11 (December 15-21)
Australian Oil and Gas Company is officially recruiting Burmese workers for the first time. Eligible workers will receive two-year work permit, and for those who are allowed to extend their permit another years will receive permanent residence status. (December 10 news)
Fisheries department will confine fishery products wholesalers who sell their products with water injection in order to increase weight. (December 10 news)
In establishing contract-farming system with Thailand Burmese businesses eye five fishery products to be raised under the system as those products have higher potential of penetrating international market. (December 10 news)
Myanmar paddy producer association will import fertilisers and member companies of the UMFCCI are invited for collaboration. (December 10 news)
Eel price increases since early this month and it is likely to increase till next February. Eel export to China via border checkpoint has resumed since late October. (December 9 news)
The Yangon
Times Vol. 1, No. 10 (December 8-14)
Green Environment Techno Co., Ltd offers to distribute the environmental-friendly bio-plastic manufacturing technology for free to the local businesses. On the contrary to the massive utilisation of un-renewable plastic that is now seriously damaging the environment, bio-plastic will benefit the environment as it can decay within 70 days and the residue will be reused as fertiliser. (December 2 news)
The tidal power project, the first in its kind being installed with 100 per cent domestic equipment, in Labutta Township in Ayeyarwaddy Division began generating electricity since November. (December 2)
Myanmar Police Force began distributing educational pamphlets since November 30 in four downtown townships to raise awareness on protection of crimes. (December 2 news)
About 2000 tourists most of who are France, German and Italian visit Mrauk-U in Rakhine State annually. (December 2 news)
An eight-member eye specialists group from Singaporean The Eye Institute will provide eye operations in Sitagu clinic in Sagaing Division. The group said it would cure as many eye patients as possible during its visit. (December 2 news)
Thai officials from Board of Investment will visit Burma in early December and hold talks with members and officials from Myanmar Fisheries Federation for seeking investment opportunities in the country's fisheries industry. (December 2 news)
World Travel Industry awarded the Hotel Nikko the World Travel Awards for the second time. (December 3 news)
UNAIDS plans to distribute ARV drugs for free to more than 20,000 HIV positive patients in Burma to help halt the disease. The Ministry of Health, local and international NGOs are also participating in the plan. Burma will expand the AVR drug distribution and local and overseas donors are invited for the assistance. (December 2 news)
The Yangon Times Vol. 1, No. 9 (December 1-7)
There is more supply in Rangoon's property market especially in Bahan, Yankin and Kamaryut townships, and detached houses with about K150 millions and apartments with about K20 millions only have potentials to buy or sell. (November 27 news)
Birdwatchers are warned to use the personal protective equipment while they are doing research or bird watching tours in order not to be infected by the diseases such as bird flu. (November 27 news)
The British Broadcasting Corporation will visit Burma to explore the country's situation that is free from bird flu. During its first visit to the country BBC would be allowed to travel around the suspected places, an official from the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department said. (November 26 news)
Burma had wiped out smallpox, leprosy and polio and it still was free of bird flu, a professor said at a biennial medical specialities conference held at Myanmar Medical Association. (November 26 news)
Education campaigns for HIV/AIDS prevention would be conducted nation wide in World AIDS Day, which falls on December 1, an official from Rangoon office of the UNAIDS said. (November 26 news)
A private TAS Co., Ltd is planning to increase the use of the small scale bio fuel casing, which can produce enough fuel for cooking and lighting for five to seven household members, in Pyinmana, Sagaing, Patheingyi, Thaton and Thayawaddi. (November 26 news)
Thirty-one co-operative associations under the Ministry of Co-operative will exhibit furniture and handicrafts at Burma-China border trade exhibition to be held in December. (November 26 news)
Rangoon police force arrested two of a five-member gang that steals motor cycles in Rangoon's townships early this month. (November 26 news)
Burma will soon export rubber wood to Malaysia, Sri Lanka and China. It has already exported the woods to South Korea, which wanted to import 30 to 40 tonnes per month. (November 26 news)
The Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department is examining the animals that died with suspected fatal diseases such as bird flu with advanced technology like Polymerase Chain Reaction system. (November 25 news)
Thailand offered importing Burma's buffalo and oxen after its delegates had surveyed the animal-breeding situation in the country, an official from the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department said. (November 23 news)
The Yangon Times Vol. 1, No. 8 (November 24-30)
Myanmar Police Force will operate round the clock patrols in Lanmadaw, Latha, Kyauktada and Pabedan townships as part of crime free weeks project. The patrolling activities that include seminars, vehicles, motor cycles and bicycles patrolling are being conducted in Latha Township as first step of the project. (November 20 news)
The Myanmar Pearl Auction-2006, the biggest in its kind, to be held in mid-February next year is expected to attract more than 80 pearl trading companies abroad. (November 20 news)
There were illegal trading of the crocodile cubs and eggs in this season via border areas and that would lead to the crocodile extinction in the long run, an official from crocodile breeding farm in Thaketa Township said. (November 20 news)
Eighty-two Burmese trainees went to Israel to attend one-year agricultural diploma training course. (November 20 news)
Singapore is officially inviting Burmese workers via a Rangoon-based labour recruiting agency to work in its shipyards, dockyards, factories and hospitals. (November 20 news)
UNICEF held a funfair to mark the World Children Day on November 19. (November 20 news)
More than 200 private companies export crops mostly to China. (November 19 news)
Carp (Nga-Myit-Chin) fish farming in 136,500 acres throughout the country recovers the extinction of those fish in the rivers and creeks including in Ayeyarwaddy River. (November 19 news)
The UNAIDS is requesting assistance to continue supporting combating HIV/AIDS in Burma. It is closely working with UN agencies, Ministry of Health, AIDS control project and NGOs. (November 19 news)
Lessening numbers of buyer result in dropping down the vehicle prices and only some vehicles such as Suzuki wagon and pickup, Sunny super saloon and super pickup have demands. (November 19 news)
Burma became the seventh member of the ASEAN Chemical Industry group in 2005 and has attended for the first time the grouping's conference held in Bangkok in November. (November 19 news)
The Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries expects to earn between US$300 and 400 millions in 2005-2006 fiscal year from fishery products export. It has earned more than US$350 millions last year from export of similar products. (November 19 news)
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Yangon Times Vol. 1, No. 7? (November 18)
Qatar Airways will operate new flights that will link Madrid and Berlin to Rangoon via Doha. The Rangoon-Doha-Madrid flight will begin on December 2 and Rangoon-Doha-Berlin flight will begin on December 15. (November 13 news)
The Korean KBS broadcasting service visited Burma from November 2 to 9 for filming a documentary of Burma jade. (November 13 news)
Heads of the ambassadors from 22 embassies in Burma, 50 World War II veterans and their families attended a remembrance ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII held in Htaukkyan War Grave Cemetery on November 11. (November 12 news)
A Burma expert received UN's marine research scholarship funded by the Japanese Nippon Foundation. UN awarded ten experts from ten nations for the research scholarship and the list of candidates who received scholarships is announced on October 21. (November 12 news)
The Myanmar Medical Association's Radiation Expert Group is distributing pamphlets and posters for educating the elimination of cancers as part of a cancer elimination project. It is also collaborating with WHO for cancer control project. (November 13 news)
More than 200 acres of tilapia farms will be set up in Bago and Ayeyarwaddy divisions to supply for local consumption and export. (November 13 news)
Export earning achieved from beans and pulses become the highest among the export earning of other crops. Burma is exporting beans and pulses to India and China, and it will expand exporting to Middle East countries including Qatar, UAE and Kuwait. (November 12 news)
A group of World War II veterans visited Burma in November. A war veteran Mr Viscont Slim said that the veterans were visiting Burma because they love Burmese. (November 12 news)
Silk Air expands its operation to 14 times a week from October 30 to March 2006. Previously it operated 12 times per week. (November 12 news)
Tourism companies are improving their services in Mergui Archipelago as more tourists are visiting the place, which is one of the eco-tourism destinations in the country. (November 12 news)
Department of Fisheries will establish a laboratory to assure the quality of the exported commodities at Muse 105-mile business zone on November 15 in collaboration with Myanmar Fishery Products Processors and Exporters Association. (November 9 news)
The Archaeological Department is building Takaung Cultural Museum in Thabeikkyin Township in Mandalay Division. The museum is expected to be completed in 2006 and ancient wares unearthed at the ancient Takaung city will be displayed at museum. (November 8 news)
Cultivating zones for castor and mango will be established in Magway, Mandalay, Sagaing, Bago, and Shan (South), Mandalay, Sagaing and Bago respectively in a bid to multiply the exports of those crops. (November 8 news)
The
e-thefts
that were increasing in Rangoon during these months, the director
general of MPF said at a press conference. (November 6 news)
There is less gold demand even though the prices are slightly down. (November 6 news)
A regional youth co-ordination meeting for HIV/AIDS praised the Burma's status of less occurrence of the disease compared to Thailand and India, and its efforts on the development of adolescents. (November 6 news)
Market Information and Research Team will help export the burnt-paddy-husk to Japan as it is demanding the burnt-paddy-husk in use of manufacturing microchips and electric conductors. (November 6 news)
The Road Transport Administration Department will enable to conduct a surprised checking of the vehicles' smoke emission rate with the newly arrived mobile smoke detectors. (November 5 news)
District police force captured three Burmese within three days of their blackmailing to a doctor who lives in Sanchaung Township. (November 5 news)
A pair of Kyat-to-ryay turtle captured in Lwe-sa-tone, Tachileik on November 7 will be handed over to the Rangoon Zoological Garden. It is very rare to find such turtles in pairs. (November 5 news)
Public living in the Rangoon's townships, in which many snakes can be found, can buy snake-insurance beginning from this month with the premium of K500. (November 3 news)
An official from Myanmar Police Force said incomes of households that do not grow poppy were higher than the incomes of households that grow poppy. (November 2 news)
Myanma Airways will provide charter flight services for ministries and private organisations and businesses. The services are to operate mainly to the remote areas in the country to help facilitate the trade flow. (November 2 news)
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The Yangon Times Vol. 1, No. 4 (October 27 to November 2)
Burma ambassador to South Korea, U Myo Lwin, invited South Korea to invest more in Burma. He also welcomed the increasing numbers of tourists to Burma and has invited the Koreans to visit pilgrimage and site-seeing tours in the country. (Oct 17 news)
The locally produced Premier brand coffee powder and ready-made coffee sachets are being exported to China, its manufacturer said. (Oct 22 news)
The Japan International Training Cooperation Organisation that recruits international labours to cure the labour shortage in Japan said it would no longer acknowledge the companies, which charged their trainees to work in Japan via JITCO. JITCO recruited about 300 Burmese workers from 1992 to 2004. (Oct 22 news)
YMCA will open the country's first nursery school for deaf children who are between three and five years olds at its headquarters in 2006. It is also building the football grounds in Psychiatric Hospital to help improve the health of the patients. (Oct 22 news)
The YMCA's Y's Men Club will build toilets free for the poor households in Hlaingthatyar Township. (Oct 18 news)
The Ministry of Education's Seameo Regional Centre for History and Tradition is conducting a survey for the Historical Development of Rural Society and Villagers Livelihood in Myanmar in collaboration with Japanese experts from Kyoto University's Centre Southeast Asian Studies. (Oct 22 news)
Exporting of the main crops grown in Southern Shan State in 2005-06 fiscal year is expected to earn more than US$37 millions. Last fiscal year's export earning for similar items accounted for more than $36 millions. (Oct 22 news)
The Yangon
Times Vol. 1, No. 1
(6~12/10/2005)
Air Bagan will take on international routes in the region starting from November, the airline's chairman Tayza said in a press conference. Air Bagan will fly to Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, when the two new aircraft searched by the airline arrived, said an official from the airline.
Rangoon to get total 225 million gallons of daily water supply, when the water supply system from Ngamoe Yeik water dam near Rangoon is finished next month, the Mayor of Rangoon said. Rangoon will get additional 45 million gallons of clean water daily from the new project, which costs kyats 4 billion in the first phase, said the Mayor.
Construction works for a big commercial complex in Myawaddy border town will begin in the first week of October.
Irrawaddy River crossing Bo Myat Tun Bridge near Rangoon is facing the danger of collapse due to erosions on the riverbed and the banks. Water resources utilisation department is working hard on prevention jobs, such as water channel diversions and setting up breakwaters and sand mattresses.
Real estate market starts to move slowly as the Buddhist lent is ending soon.
Electronic goods prices have increased sharply in Rangoon, due to the appreciation of the US$.
250 French tourists, who are on a package tour with Tour Du Monde, will arrive in Rangoon by charter flight on 8th November, said an official from the ministry of hotels and tourism.
Burma's fresh water prawn production will reach to the top in Southeast Asia within a few years, said officials from Burma's prawn breeders association. Burma has high potential for fresh water prawn productions, said the official.
Car prices up with active market in Rangoon.