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“I didn’t join the first course because I’m
Christian and I thought Vipassana was only for Buddhists,”
Ma Shee Myar told The Myanmar Times using sign language.
“But many of my friends went and told me about their
experience. Ever since then I’ve been looking forward
to trying it.”
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MYANMAR is poised to embark on a process
to restore civilian rule under a democratically-elected
government, following an announcement
by the government on February 9 that
parliamentary elections would be held
in 2010.
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 “This
is the first time we have hosted a dinner in Myanmar; we
did not invite other embassies in Yangon,” said the
counsellor at the embassy, Mr Kim Kwang Chol.
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workforce would not affect Myanmar seeking jobs there, say
agencies that arrange overseas employment. |
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Cho Thiri Maung, 30, the executive director of Malika
Power Engineering Ltd., was speaking on her return to
Yangon from the Lao capital, Vientiane, where the awards
were presented to a representative from each of the
10 ASEAN countries on February 7. |
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 “City
residents used to rely on trishaws for short trips and
motorcycle taxis for longer distances but in the past
two years more people have been using motorcycles for
trips of all distances, no matter how short,”
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injuries have been provided in Myanmar since the Health
Ministry has improved the quality of surgeons and nurses
through training courses at home and abroad, and through
upgrading facilities at operating theatres and intensive
care units,” |
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 “This
medicine is good for treating swelling, paralytic stroke
and tympanitis,” said Daw Myint Myint Khin, the
keeper of one of the shops, as she pointed to a bottle
of wine-soaked lemons. “You have to apply it to
the part of the body where the problem is occurring,”
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competition to buy eels at local markets
is a much fiercer than in the border markets
because all the traders are competing
to buy as much as they can to profit from
the higher export prices. Unfortunately,
they are also fighting for less eels to
begin with,”
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 “Among
our consumer level cameras, the Sony T-200
has dropped from K589,000 to K529,000;
the Sanyo S-500 has fallen from K155,000
to K130,000; while the Chinese-made JXD-661
MP-4 has dipped from K85,000 to K60,000,”
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 “There
are 98 plots in the project
and we selected Hlaing Tharyar
for this development because
the area is booming,”
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 Substitute
Kyaw Oo added insult to injury on 70 minutes after leaving
three defenders in his wake to shoot past the keeper. The
play summed up Agriculture and Irrigation’s distinctly
lacklustre performance and was their fourth loss in eight
matches. |
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 Nearing
the end of the fight both men went for broke and tried to
finish their opponent by knock-out using powerful kicks and
punches. However, this only resulted in embarrassment as both
men fell out of the ring five times in total. |
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