“We welcomed the convening of the final session of the National Convention on 18 July 2007 and we were encouraged by assurances of Myanmar that the National Convention process will be completed within two months,” the grouping’s foreign ministers said in a joint statement issued at the end of their annul meeting in Manila on July 30.

YANGON vehicles that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) will be allowed to buy gas only after they get a monthly infringement clearance record from the Yangon Division Wireless and Traffic Police Force, a private taxi driver said last week.

CONSERVATIONISTS in Myanmar are preparing the country’s first action plan to help save endangered vultures from extinction, Dr Htin Hla, director of the Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association (BANCA), said last week.

“Love is like a battle for me and I never win. The girls that I tend to go for don’t want to have a serious relationship with a celebrity. Being in the public eye is too much for them. “I want to have a normal relationship with an ordinary girl that I love. I want to be able to go on dates and feel like a normal person again.”

“I achieved a near-impossible feat,” she said. “I was a 30-year-old mother of three with little time to myself. Now I am the same weight I was when I got married at 17.”