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“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.
 
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.
 
“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,”
DOMESTIC communication 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.
 

DEMAND from Middle Eastern countries for both skilled and unskilled workers from Myanmar has continued to increase during 2008, according to Yangon-based employment agencies.

 
“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,”
 
“[Every] submission 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,”
 
HOUSE OF THE WEEK
The 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 – two separate toilet cubicles.
 
“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,”
 
“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.
 
“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.

 

A 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.

 

“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.....
 

“To 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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