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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.
FULL STORY NEXT WEEK
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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
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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 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.
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 “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,” |
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 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. |
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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. |
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 “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,” |
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| “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,” |
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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. |
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 “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,” |
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| “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,” |
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 “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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