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“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
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“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,”
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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
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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. |
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Ayeyarwady delta in Myanmar and Cambodia’s Tonle
Sap Lake are among areas in Southeast Asia facing a
high risk of arsenic contamination in the water, according
to a study published on July 11. |
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 “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,” |
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who have become orphans due to Nargis in some way and
enable them to take these internationally recognised
courses with proper financing,” |
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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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publishing company has released a Myanmar-language translation
of a war memoir written by a Japanese soldier who served
in Myanmar during World War II. |
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THE Myanmar Fisheries Federation
(MFF) last week signed a memorandum of understanding
with the UK-based NGO ActionAid to promote the rehabilitation
of the fishery sector in the Ayeyarwady delta, said
MFF vice chairman U Han Tun. |
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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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under the Sule Pagoda board of trustees will hold its
41st annual Abhidhamma exams in Yangon from August 30
to September 7. |
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“Meditation is used as one
kind of method used to treat mental disease. If people
take part in meditation, there will be many positive
psychological changes, particularly to the autonomic
nervous system,” |
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“This is a best time for those
who don’t like crowds because it’s the off-season,
so visitors can enjoy their holiday without too many
other people around and also without the higher prices
of the peak season,” |
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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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MYANMAR teams have been ramping up
their preparations recently to compete in the first
Asian Beach Games, which will be held on the Indonesian
island of Bali from October 18 to 26. |
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