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| WORKERS level the ground at the Kyauktalon
salt production site in Kyaukpyu in Rakhine State earlier
this month. In 2008 a total of 23,900 tonnes of salt were
produced on 2033 acres in Rakhine state, up from 14,600 tonnes
on 1330 acres the year before, according to U Toe Win, the
manager of Myanma Salt and Marine Chemical Enterprise. The
market price of salt in Kyaukpyu is K400 a viss (1 viss is
3.6 pounds or 1.6 kilograms).
Caption and Pic: Aung
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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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| THE global financial crisis will lead
to a reduction in remittances sent back to Myanmar by migrant
workers, according to leading economics expert on Myanmar. |
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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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Fires
in 2008 cost nearly K4 trillion |
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Summer
paddy crop well on the way |
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HOUSE OF THE WEEK |
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narrow access lane, barely wide enough
for two cars abreast, conveys the sense
of privacy. The green lawn, shaded with
tropical trees, provides a welcome contrast
to the concrete driveway. Parking space
is ample, including a lockup garage. |
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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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| EIGHT Myanmar non-governmental
organisations that work with local communities
to fight tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS have
received a total of US$560,000 from the Three
Diseases Fund (3DF) for 2009. |
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| “We have been asking
for donations since construction of the pagoda
began, and we are also asking for well-wishers
to attend a ceremony in Mumbai next month to offer
an ornamental metal umbrella (hti) to the Global
Vipassana Pagoda,” |
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“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,”
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 “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”
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