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“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,”...
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“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. |
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 “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,”
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“After the first planned shipment,
we can increase our shipments later.
For the first one, we planned to send
about 3000 goats by chartered ship arranged
by the Malaysian buyer,” U Win
Sein, vice chairman of the federation
said.
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designing and renovating this building,
we tried to achieve a cooperative image
by adopting an existing warehouse structure
and applying some industrial aesthetics,”
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“We halted work on this project
soon after it began in 1995 because
the sales of land plots were not very
strong. But at the start of this year
these sales picked up again so we restarted
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Situated
in a 10,000-square-foot compound within
the Htut Khaung housing development near
the Thanlyin Bridge, the five-bedroom
house also has a sumptuous and colourful
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“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,”
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are very proud as we have constructed this international-standard
zoological garden within seven months,”
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“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.”
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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. |
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 “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,” |
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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. |
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was so worried that I wouldn’t make it
the best. I had invited a new singer, Thu Thu,
to sing about six songs on this album. I mainly
focused on her because I believe she has incredible
talent. |
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