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“The demand for diesel is definitely on the rise in the manufacturing sector. Sometimes it takes three months for us to get enough fuel through the current importing process,”

 

“Electricity plays a key role in a country’s sustainable development. One of the main issues that delays our country’s development is the shortage of electricity. We should use natural gas and the income earned from selling it, to set up power plants to supply regular electricity,”

 

“India and China are eager to reopen this road; India wants to open its landlocked northeastern states to trade with China and the ASEAN nations, while China is willing to send its products through the same route.”

“We are trying to increase the production over standard yields and have already improved the yields from our demonstration plots,” said U San Hla Baw. “To do this we are upgrading the research and seed farms and providing seeds for different plantation areas,”

 

“Wholesale prices in mid-December were K600 a viss for low quality and K900 for high quality onions but by early January they had decreased to K300 and K700 respectively,”

 

“Trademarks must be strongly protected by law, otherwise international companies won’t want to invest in the country,” said one advocate who has worked in Myanmar’s legal industry for 28 years.

 

YANGON – Myanmar will auction off the building of National Library in the first week of February as part of the country’s privatisation program, local Voice journal reported last week.

 

“I love Myanmar, and the smiles of its people, which is unlike anywhere else. And the tranquility and serenity of the atmosphere makes me concentrate more on the work while I can relax with my family at the same time,”

 

“About 50 percent of the two-storey shop houses developed so far are already sold,” said U Cho Gyi Myint, assistant manager of Eden Group of Companies Ltd, one of the five developers charged with building the trade zone’s infrastructure.

 

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More apartments going up downtown

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Sein Lei Kan Thar plots selling well

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Maintenance work at the Shwedagon
 
 
HOUSE OF THE WEEK
The attractive 12-year-old, symmetrically-designed house with lots of windows is set in a compound 18 metres wide and 36 metres deep in a quiet road off Lower Kyeemyindaing Road near Central Women’s Hospital and No. 4 Basic Education High school. There is 60 years left on the lease of grant land.
 

The celebration, held every year on the first day of the lunar month of Pyatho, which this year fell on January 8, is a chance for the Kayin people in Myanmar to focus on unity, perpetuation of their race and preservation of traditional culture.

 

“Vehicles whose registration codes start with ka ka and kha kha cannot be converted into private cars because they were imported for the purpose of serving as taxis, so we’re starting the installation process with these vehicles,”

 
JAKARTA – A former Thai foreign minister, Surin Pitsuwan, took the helm of Southeast Asia’s top political and economic grouping last week, saying he would keep alive the dream of the founders of the 40-year-old ASEAN.
 
“We have placed them in the quarantine zone and we’re preparing to give them medical checkups. If they don’t have any diseases, we’ll show them to zoo visitors,”
 

“I will travel to start my program on January 20. In this program I will try to present all the interesting places and islands of Myeik archipelagos, the Salone ethnic people, pearl production, the nest of the swift birds and also the historically famous buildings and places in Tanintharyi Division. ....

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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VACANCY Announcement

Myint & Associates Co., Ltd. the leading service provider of oil and gas industry in Myanmar is seeking for qualified candidates to fill in the following positions:

- Executive Secretary/ Secretary Male or Female (5) posts
- Computer Operator (Graphic Design) Male or Female (2) posts
- MIS Technician Male or Female (2) Posts
- Logistics Officer Male (5 )Posts
- Assistant Engineer B.E. (Electrical) Male (2) Posts
- Assistant Engineer B.E. (Civil)/B.Tech (Civil) Male (2) Posts
- M&E Technician A.G.T.I (E.P) Male (2) Posts
Please send your application, together with a resume, academic records, copy of labour registration and recent photograph to the address .......

 
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