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“I think there is a positive sort of door which has opened and we need to keep it open and improve it,” he said, adding that the government “seems responsive” to the idea of further collaboration.
 
“By linking hands with the UN, international NGOs and the rest of the world, ASEAN has shown how international humanitarian cooperation can work to help bring relief and assistance to the victims of cyclone Nargis,”
 
THE United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s revised US$33.5 million appeal for Myanmar will directly target more than 150,000 delta households the organisation has identified as most vulnerable following cyclone Nargis.
“Fishing stopped in the delta for more than a month after the cyclone and as people start fishing again they’re reporting big and easy catches of fish and shrimp,”
 
“My kidney functions stopped very quickly. I wasn’t ready for it at all. I felt really shocked whenever I thought about what my two teenage sons would do in the event of my death,”
 
“I was very happy when I was told on June 24 I had won the scholarship,” she told The Myanmar Times at a farewell tea reception hosted on her behalf by Singapore’s ambassador to Myanmar, Mr Robert Chua, at the Singapore embassy in Yangon on Tuesday.
 

TWENTY new diesel train engines manufactured in the Chinese port city of Dalian and purchased by the Ministry of Rail Transportation will arrive in Yangon by the end of this year, said an official from Yunnan Machinery and Equipment Import and Export Company Limited, which is importing the trains.

 
“Before these rohu from India began arriving in Bangladesh we always had a strong position. But now that we’re competing directly with these Indian fish and exporters they have a few advantages over us,”
 
THE cyclone-hit fisheries sector has struggled to attract pledges from international donors an FAO spokesperson told The Myanmar Times last week after the launch of the UN’s revised Myanmar aid appeal.
 
“I advised them [Shwe Nay Chi] to change the frequency of their new digital signal before they started running the service because otherwise people with Movie-5 would pick up the signal without buying the set top box,”
 

“We did not plan to build in several of the villages within Dedaye and Labutta townships before but we’ve now realised that some of them need housing urgently. The villages we’ve targeted are Than Di, Kyone Dar Ywar Ma and Kyone Dar in Dedaye township, and Pyin Salu in Labutta township,”
 
“We want the next generation to keep in touch with contemporary art so it might be easier to focus their expression. So my friends and I sought to create an opportunity for the children who are interested in art....."
 
“I want to help people who are suffering from mental illness. I want to share with them my own methods on how to maintain a peaceful mind-set in life. I have come to realise this method through my life experience. As an actor, I had to assume the character of many different kinds of people and adopt their mind to perfect my work.....
 
CUSTOMS turned around three successive years of defeats in the Closing Cup by defeating archrival Commerce 1-0 in a tight match at Yangon’s Aung San Stadium on July 22.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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