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“We usually stockpile construction materials, which helps us to avoid sudden cost increases but we’re not immune: Steel rods have jumped from K100,000 last year to K300,000 now,”
 
“We believe that monsoon winds will withdraw from the northern part of the nations in the first 10 days of September; from the middle part of the country from September 11 to 20; and should have receded from the delta and southern part of the nation by the end of the month,”
 
“We plan to set up permanent care centres for orphanages in Pyapon and Labutta townships and we are going to establish vocational training centres for those children in Pathein township,”
 
Bangladesh has plans to build a road linking it with Myanmar, but the plan has yet to be implemented, even though the agreement between the two countries was made over five years ago.
In addition to over 300,000 buffaloes and cattle, in the most affected 11 townships of Yangon and Ayeyarwady divisions, about 66,000 pigs, over one million chickens, and around 500,000 ducks, were killed in the cyclone, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) reported.
 
MYANMAR’S authorities were by far the greatest providers of medical assistance to its population after Cyclone Nargis despite the widespread international criticism of a poor response, according to an analysis released on September 3.
 
U Tin Win said Redclaw – whose scientific name is Cherax quadricarinatus – is native to Queensland and the Northern Territory, Australia, while a number of countries in the Middle East and Asia, especially Indonesia, have successfully established Redclaw aquaculture.
 
“Singapore brought in legislation requiring people to assess themselves, so the government doesn’t need to push them to pay their taxes on time. But here, most citizens don’t pay tax on time. It’s a big problem,”
 
“As a direct result of the program I was chosen to attend the Youth Camp for Asia’s Future, which was held from July 29 to August 18 this year in South Korea,”
 
The festival on Inle lake in February 2009, to be called Inle Orchid Images, will display many types of orchid and is aimed at tourists. It will also feature the booths of Inle, Kalaw, Taunggyi and Pindaya selling traditional foods around a floating market. The festival will last for three days.
 
MUSLIMS in Myanmar last week began observing Ramadan, the ninth and holiest month of the Islamic lunar calendar, during which food, drinks and all other kinds of worldly pleasures are prohibited from dawn to dusk.
 
A CROSSBORDER fibre optic cable between Myanmar and Thailand, built under the Greater Mekong Subregion Information Superhighway project, is ready for use on a trial basis, Myanma Post and Telecommunications said last week.
 

“In previous years farmers would generally use OP [open pollination] seeds. But in the past three years, farmers have become more aware of the benefits of the F1 seeds and sales have increased about 30pc throughout the country,”

 
“The main reason for this project is to build a central-ised network for the commod-ity exchange centres scatter-ed across the country. The project was delayed because of Cyclone Nargis but we have now recommenced work,”
 

A suitable apartment can now be rented for about US$300 a month, compared to $200-plus before the cyclone, and the rent for a detached house has risen from $600 to up to $700 a month, depending on size, location and other factors, in those townships.

 
“I learned a lot about their tastes in food and so forth. I love them. And you can’t compare the simplicity of their way of life with anything else. I immersed myself in their nature, spirits and rituals for three years. But at that time, the only thing I could give them back was music,”
 
WAI Phyo made his name in the music industry way back in 2002 with a solo album of alternative rock tracks. But many fans have been left wondering what happened to him as the artist has all but disappeared from the music scene in recent years. Fans will be relieved to know that he is ready to make his come back with a new solo album: Hmattaing (The symbol).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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