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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,” |
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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. |
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YANGON International Airport unveiled an
extended runway earlier this month that has been designed
to handle bigger aircraft, said an official from the Department
of Civil Aviation under the Ministry of Transport. |
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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,” |
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manufacturer FISCA Enterprise will invest
US$2 million to build two factories at
the highly-ambitious Yadanabon cyber city
project, according to a company advisor. |
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for both skilled and unskilled workers
from Myanmar has continued to increase
during 2008, according to Yangon-based
employment agencies.
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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,” |
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must include architectural designs and
structural solutions on how the building
will be made to withstand wind velocity
of at least 60 miles (96km) an hour for
dwellings and more than 100 miles (160km)
an hour for community shelters,”
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dining room has grey slate flooring and
is furnished with an attractive eight-seat
table that only the wash basin in the
corner is able to detract from.
Next door is a bathroom and shower that
includes – inexplicably –
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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,”
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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. |
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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,” |
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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. |
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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.
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COMBINED team of foreign and local players wowed
the crowd packed into Mandalay’s Mahamuni
Pagoda for the final performance of the month-long
Waso chinlon festival on July 18.
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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..... |
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recreate the human attachment to animals, the
longing for lost family members, parents’
love for their children and the love of grandparents’
for their grandchildren is not easy,”
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