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“I’ve sold 10 bronze irons in
this past week; they’re like hot cakes at the moment,”
said the owner of Tun Yadanar bronze-wares shop at the eastern
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THE final report on the construction of a
third Myanmar-Thailand gas pipeline will be completed at the
end of June and presented to the Thai oil company PTTEP, said
an official at a survey company on May 14. |
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A GROUP of Master of Business Administration
(MBA) graduates last week formed a charity group – Myanmar
Business Executives – to implement a micro-credit project
for Nargis victims, said U Zaw Naing, a representative of
the group. |
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MYANMAR Computer Professionals Association
(MCPA) will launch a remote sensing
certificate course – which is
related to the application of satellite
and panoramic images – on July
1, its joint secretary U Zaw Naing said.
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The CAEXPO held in previous year has
attracted 122,000 exhibitors and trade
visitors as well as 7413 exhibiting
enterprises, gaining a total trading
volume of US$4.92 billion and contracting
international investment cooperation
projects worth US$22.26 billion.
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YANGON’S real estate market is
understandably sluggish following Cyclone
Nargis, with many people presumably
consolidating their situations and not
looking for new rents said one real
estate manager.
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Inside
the house, the living room is painted
peach and has a red concrete floor. It’s
an unusual combination that doesn’t
work – the wall colours are warm
and inviting but the floor does the opposite.
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 In
the wake of Cyclone Nargis the government has
now upgraded the toll of those dead to 77,738
and those missing to 55,917, a sharp rise from
the figures of 43,000 dead and 27,838 missing
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 “That’s
the frame of reference, the measuring stick for
natural disasters,” he says. “Then
we started to say, ‘Yeah, this actually
is’ in terms of its impact on [Myanmar]
… because it’s taken out the rice
basket, it’s gone 250 kilometres inland
whereas the tsunami only went 3 to 4km inland.”
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the tsunami in Thailand, all the people came to
the camps in the first two weeks and gave things
that people need. That helps the NGOs to save
money which can later be used for long-term problems.” |
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 “Most
of the refugees taking shelter in our town come
from the villages around Labutta, which was
the worst-affected area. They were transported
here by government ships and trucks after being
rescued,”
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 “When
we reached Bogale, homeless people were still
coming to the hospitals, the refugee camps and
monasteries. The scene was so miserable, it
touched me greatly. A lot of people were cramped
in poor conditions and some were sick and injured.” |
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 In
the country, female singers rarely sing the
kind of music I make and this music may be strange
for Myanmar music lovers. But I try my best
– so please listen to what I want to sing. |
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