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“We are very proud as we have constructed this international-standard zoological garden within seven months,” Lieutenant General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council, said in his opening speech.

 

“As the new constitution has already been drafted, it will be put to a national referendum in forthcoming May, and subsequently the multiparty general elections will follow in 2010 in line with the provisions of the constitution,”

 

“Most developers are trying to accomplish their project as soon as possible and we are also accelerating our Taw Win Complex project on Pyay Road despite high materials costs and labour charges,”

 

THE Indian government last week approved US$132 million in funding for a project to establish a new trading route with Myanmar, media reports said.

“The initial strategy was largely road focused,” said Cooney. “We’re looking at new links but also new nodes – inland waterways, air, rail. The countries will keep adding links across the borders, much as Europe is doing now.”

 
THE ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information (COCI) has selected a tea set made from coconut husks as the Myanmar Work of Excellence at the ASEAN Award of Excellence in Arts and Crafts Exhibition, held on March 10 and 11 in Bangkok.
 
“It was very hard for me to try and go against my parents’ wishes and study drama at school; they didn’t want to support me. Only when they heard about the standard of education at the State School of Music and Drama did they allow me to go,”
 
“The aim of introducing meters is so officers, staff members and others can travel around the area easily and conveniently,” U Than Zaw, the CEO of Max Myanmar, said at the launch ceremony, held at the headquarters of the company’s Nay Pyi Taw Taxi and Car Rental Service in Thapyaykon Market.
 
THE government of South Korea is seeking qualified candidates from Myanmar to apply for full scholarships for undergraduate studies at higher education institutions in that country, according to a press release from the South Korean embassy in Yangon.
 
“In the not-so-distant future, it is likely that we’ll resume transit trade along the border region to benefit from the advent of the Greater Mekong Sub-Region’s East-West Corridor,”...
 
“If these projects are not completed before the deadline, they will have to pay overdue fees, so I think many high-rise projects will meet the deadline,” said U Zaw Win, the chief engineer of the YCDC building department. YCDC has set overdue fees at K100,000 a day.
 

“Most customers see microwave ovens as a luxury and they don’t think it’s a necessity. “And some people are worried about the negative health effects microwaves might have on them,”

 

“In designing and renovating this building, we tried to achieve a cooperative image by adopting an existing warehouse structure and applying some industrial aesthetics,”

 
“Whenever you breathe in and out, you must do it with Sati (mindfulness). Only then, you’ll find it easy to focus your mind. But this can only be done by practice. So, in my opinion, meditation is the training of my mind,”
 
“They are tired by learning school lessons the whole year. So we try to take use their mental and physical exhaustion to benefit them,” said Ashin Chekinda, who is also an associate professor at the International Theravâda Buddhist Missionary University in Yangon.
 
FORESTRY have narrowly avoided relegation from the Myanmar League thanks to a 2-1 victory over Ministry of Energy in the final game of the season at Yangon’s Thuwunna Stadium.
“I was tiring just to get there: We flew to Singapore and then on to Barcelona before catching a train to Valencia and I was exhausted by the time we arrived. It was also quite cold, which didn’t make things easier for me because I’m not used to it....."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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