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“Peoples’ awareness and knowledge
of healthcare is now better and more widespread so the country’s
purchasing power of medical equipment and quality pharmaceuticals
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FISHERIES exports are expected to recover
from Cyclone Nargis by August or September and may exceed
last year’s total exports, a Department of Fisheries
(DOF) official told The Myanmar Times last week. |
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WASHINGTON – US lawmakers have dropped
plans to impose sanctions that would have pressured US energy
giant Chevron to pull out from a gas project in Myanmar, congressional
aides said last week. |
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 “Shampoo
and cosmetics were the two most popular product categories
for Revlon when we began distributing here in 1996. At that
time there was no market for skin care, only for cosmetics,”
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rely on diesel to run the machines, such
as motors for paddlewheels, at our shrimp
farms while other countries like Thai-land
and Vietnam have electricity at their
farms,” |
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THE Online Donation Group and Myanmar
Marketing Association have started work
on a project to build about 40 bamboo
houses for homeless families in cyclone-affected
areas, said a spokesperson for the Online
Donation Group earlier this month.
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Society (MES) will introduce new building
technology to assist in the construction
of long-lasting, low-cost houses in the
cyclone-hit Dedaye Township, MES president
U Than Myint announced last week. |
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period will be one year and four months
and the initial earthmoving works for
the construction will begin in the next
two months," Father Land Construction
spokesperson Daw Hla Kay Thwe said. |
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in Yangon are only about one third of
those in Shenzhen in southern China, because
customers there value new design, enjoy
better living standards and have firmer
opinions on architectural concepts,”
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kitchen is one of the features of the
house with wet and dry areas to ensure
good food hygiene. It’s big enough
– about 25 feet long – to
allow you to cook up a storm when guests
drop by. |
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In the wake of Nargis the association
quickly determined that 172 of its members in
Yangon and Ayeyarwady divisions had been affected
by the cyclone. They were each given K30,000
worth of relief goods and K10,000 in cash. |
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 “I
was able to hold a funeral for my father but
I haven’t heard anything about my mother.
I didn’t think she could have survived
after two months, but hope came back after I
heard that her name was announced on the radio,” |
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 “Some
producers do grow, dry and then export their
Oyster and Monkey Head mushrooms in whatever
quantities they can but it’s certainly
not on a large scale yet,” |
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seeds are priced depending on their quality: High-yield
seed is K9000 a basket and low-yield is K5000. “We
always use the best quality for summer paddy,”
Ko Than Lwin’s wife says.
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 “We’re
ploughing our farms with power tillers that we rent
from other farmers who bought them before the storm
because all of our cattle perished. “This has
increased the cost of farming a lot,” |
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INDIA and Myanma Post and Telecommunications
have announced plans to build 11 IT skills enhancement
centres later this year, said a spokesperson from the
enterprise’s information technology department. |
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“If we click on the internet
pages, there are millions of facts and figures about
studying in Singapore and the universities and colleges
you can attend. But it’s a difficult decision
to choose the right one for individual students,” |
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 Whilst Zaw Wate has been careful to include a few famous spicy dishes in the menus, mostly from Sichuan, the majority of the dishes are based on food from Guangdong province. As such, the dishes are not too hot and are more likely to appeal to the wider clientele the restaurant is trying to attract.
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