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’TIS THE SEASON: A worker displays
a Christmas lantern made of mollusc shells in Manila last
week. The Philippines, Asia’s bastion of Roman Catholicism,
celebrates the world’s longest Christmas season starting
on December 16 with dawn masses and ending in the first week
of January. Pic: AFP/Jay Directo |
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| “This transformation
crowns the many achievements of ASEAN
during the past four decades. Southeast
Asia is no longer the bitterly divided,
war-torn region that it was in the 1960s
and 1970s,” |
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“Progress in relief and recovery
efforts is being made every day. At the same time, the initial
findings of the periodic review signal that more has to be
done to meet all needs,” |
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“The Greater Mekong is not only a hotspot for biodiversity
conservation; it’s also at the frontier of economic
development. ......"
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 “The
students can do this anywhere they can get a mirror
and acid. Possible difficulties include making frames
and rubber – the substance used to contain the
acid on the mirror,” |
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 “It
is very difficult to tell whether something is genuine,”
Mr Hudson, from Australia’s University of Sydney,
says. “I think most of what is sold to foreigners
as ‘antiques’ are actually copies or at
least more recent material – say within the last
120 years – which often come from old monasteries.” |
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 “This
is the fifth time we’ve operated a tour package
to the Naga New Year Festival. This package is especially
popular among foreign visitors,” said U Thet Oo
Naing, the company’s operations manager. |
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| STATE-RUN Myanma Insurance
will pay out millions of kyat in compensation to Mawlamyine
Municipal for the two market blocks destroyed by fire
on December 1. But the payments will not cover the goods
that went up in smoke, which were estimated at K80 million. |
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| “WHATEVER our role in life,
wherever we may live, in some way or another, we all
live with HIV. We are all affected by it. We all need
to take responsibility for the response,” UN Secretary
General Ban Ki-Moon said in May of this year. |
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MAKING efforts to save children from
harm is an investment in the future of Myanmar itself,
participants at a seminar on the protection of vulnerable
children heard earlier this month. |
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“For the time being, the ASEAN
Equestrian Federation is focusing on raising the level
of the sport in Myanmar and Cambodia to the international
level, while also working to get equestrian events added
to the SEA Games,” |
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 “Thanks
to huge demand for prepaid SIM cards, the
Mandalay handset market, which was a little
bit cold before, has suddenly heated up.
I think our sales have jumped by about 80
percent,” |
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| “It depends on
the ratio and price of active ingredients
and inactive ingredients which go into the
medicine. “Some of the drugs are based
on petrochemicals but some are not. It is
difficult to say that the price of all pharmaceuticals
will be going down,”
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| Since 2001, Myanmar-China
border trade exhibitions have been held
annually and alternately in respective border
towns – Ruili and Muse – and
the last event was in December 2007 at Ruili,
a Chinese border town in southwestern Yunnan
province. |
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 The
company has cooperated with
the Yangon City Development
Committee (YCDC), which owns
the land, to build and sell
the condominiums since 2003.
Prices for these will range
from K70 million up to K120
million, depending on the size. |
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“It was particularly satisfying to
see our female team dominating India in the final and it showed
me that the women are more likely to see success than men
in the compound category at the SEA Games,” |
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