“Children make much more of an effort when they have a goal, so creating art for this show helped them develop their ideas and skills, and vastly improved their ability to make art,”

“Monsoon started in southern Myanmar on May 13, swept into the delta region the following week and hit Yangon on May 29,” said U Tun Lwin, the director general of the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology under the Ministry of Transport.

“Progress could be undone by a market-induced reversal, the production of new drugs, or the opening of new trafficking routes, and new markets. We therefore have to consolidate the progress that has been made and take further action to prevent a spread of drug abuse,”

“Literary writing aside, most Myanmar-language magazines and journals today are publishing simple works of prose that are full of nonstandard grammar and foreign words,”

U Kan Saw said one of the first challenges the business had to overcome was to develop a machine capable of washing and cleaning used plastic bags to the quality standard required by buyers.

“We started with what we could gather in Singapore. Our collection has already grown from 750 donated Myanmar-language books on opening day to more than 1100 books now,”

“Our goal is to organise bloggers from all over the world who write in the Myanmar language and to introduce people who are not familiar with the internet to the concept of blogging and teach them how to post their own blogs,”

“It is not compulsory for seamen to get insurance but more and more of them are signing up. In 2004-2005 more than 12,000 sailors were insured while in 2006-2007 the number had increased to more than 17,000,”

Subjects in the course included speech and occupational therapy, educational therapy for children with special needs, teaching methods for children with delayed mental development and parental counselling,

The success of that fund-raising effort led to the formation of the Online Donation Group and its first campaign enabled it to donate 1000 medicine packages and 100 blankets to victims of a fire in Hlaing Tharyar township in December 2005, Ko Aung Myo Thu said.