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Ballet dancers float on Germany’s Rhine River in a boat from Inle Lake, in this image captured by German photographer Bettina Flitner as part of her “Boatpeople” project. The series of photographs features people from various walks of life posing on the boat, which she shipped to Germany following a visit to Inle Lake. The “Boatpeople” exhibit is currently touring Europe, but Ms Flitner says she hopes to show the photos in Myanmar in the future.
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According to Chinese astrology, each of the 12 years of the zodiac cycle is governed by an animal – rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. So, for instance, anyone born in 1997, 1985, 1973 – or 1961 – counts as an Ox.
 
GENEVA – More than 90 percent of the 235,816 people killed worldwide in natural disasters last year succumbed during the cyclone in Myanmar or the earthquake in China’s Sichuan province, the UN said Thursday.
 
THE establishment of a regional monetary fund will be high on the agenda of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Thailand next month, the grouping’s secretary general, Mr Surin Pitsuwan, said in New Delhi last week.
THE government has praised the Association of Southeast Asian Nations for helping to provide assistance to victims of cyclone Nargis in comments ahead of a decision next month on whether the regional grouping will continue to play a key role in the relief effort.
 

The men, who were rescued by helicopter on January 17, were still being interviewed last week by Australian immigration officials, who were hoping to clarify how they came to be drifting in shark-infested waters off the country’s northern coast.

 
“People may have doubts about us but what we can guarantee is that we will compensate customers with brand new computers if we damage their old computer,”
 
One is Saint Mary’s Cathedral, located at the corner of Bo Aung Kyaw Street and Bogyoke Aung San Road, and the other is the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity next to Bogyoke Aung San market.
 
STATE-OWNED telecommunications company, Myanma Post and Telecommunications (MPT) plans to connect Yangon with Mandalay soon with fibre optic cables at the cost of K1 billion, a company spokesperson said last week.
 
“They fund their business with their own investment. Moreover, the Myanmar industrial sector is like an import substitution business, and is not export-oriented. So, it does not affect our business as much as in other countries,”
 
“The trade figure for the fiscal year 2007-2008 as with whole was $11 million. But the trade department hopes to reach $21 million for the current fiscal year 2008-2009, and has slackened some rules and regulations in order to achieve this figure,”
 
A WAVE of bad financial tidings sweeping out from the global financial crisis is expected to hit the cargo shipping industry in April, said a spokesperson from the Myanmar Seafarer’s Employment Association.
 

“We dare not construct an apartment block just because we have a proposed site. We have to be very careful to choose a site that can ensure high demand, such as Pabedan, Lanmadaw or China Town,”
 
“Myanmar is definitely earthquake-prone because it is located in the Alpide Seismic Belt and it is also vulnerable to tropical cyclones, storm surge and floods because of its location in the tropical monsoon climate belt of Southeast Asia,”
 

“In the past, our creations have been published just in newspapers and magazines, so we were slow to attract worldwide attention. I hope it will give artists the opportunity to show their work directly to the world,”

 

“I had to take one year [to complete] this 6th solo show. I am really satisfied to show all the ‘isms’ at this show. Among the four ‘isms’, modernist paintings are special because I have been studying modernism for only a short time. I think we should learn and create at every age even though we get older”

 
“I don’t believe this news [that the contract has not been extended] because both sides have agreed to renew the contract. Before I returned to Brazil I spoke with the executives from the MFF and they said they were interested in me continuing my work there and that they would write to me to extend my contract with them. So I am still waiting for that. Because of this I have already refused some job offers from other countries,”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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