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| “Shwesettaw Pagoda Festival is one
of the most significant pagoda festivals in the country, and
it gives the Buddhist people of Myanmar the chance to visit
this sacred site in the forest – a place where Lord
Buddha put his left-side footprints,” |
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| “I came to Myanmar
to measure the level of cooperation from the
government with regard to my recommendations,”
.... “I have to say that regarding my
recom-mendations to the government, I found
positive signs,” |
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| ”The financial crisis and multi-billion-dollar
economic stimulus packages being put forward must not forget
the faces and voices of migrants and mobile populations who
are among the most vulnerable,” |
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| The flights are offered every Thursday
and Sunday, leaving Yangon at 14:15 and arriving in Kuala
Lumpur at 18:40. The return leg departs Kuala Lumpur at 19:40
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 They
are bundled up along the pews of a church in Nyaungdon,
a mainly Karen village in Labutta township, Ayeyarwady
Division. There are three faded orange sheets held up
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 “Shweda
region is the best place to grow grapes. The region
has medium rainfall and good water resources. Heavy
rain is bad for grapes,” said U Hla Myint, who
has been a grape farmer in the Shweda region for many
years.
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“We are writing a five-year action plan. When
it is finished and endorsed by the Department of Forestry
under the Ministry of Forestry, it will be the blueprint
for turtle conservation in Myanmar,”
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 “We
didn’t know our daughter could be treated until
a friend told us about the operation,” she said.
“My daughter was treated last November when
they surgically inserted a shunt.” She later
returned for a second operation.
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HOW green are Myanmar’s hotels? A group of
expert travel and tourism bodies are in the process
of finding out. They are selecting contenders for
the ASEAN Green Hotel Award 2010.
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“There are 22 sewage channels in Yangon and
122 exit channels into rivers to be cleaned up,”
committee chair and Yangon city mayor Brigadier General
Aung Thein Lin said at a press conference earlier
this month. “
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 “When
I decided to venture out into landscape and travel
photography, the first thing I did was attend Mike
Langford’s workshop on travel photography in
Sydney and discover many things,”
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“We talk to UNDP and NGOs about our targeted
areas before we go into the cyclone response project.
The villages we operate in are not randomly chosen,”
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 This
was 1995 – Taungoo had barely reopened to tourists
after years of insurgency. The “Visit Myanmar
Year” and subsequent tourism boycott campaign
were at least 12 months away. The number of annual
visitors to the country was still in the tens of thousands.
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“The htamane competition was fairly successful,
considering that it was the first time we had organised
such an event,” said Dr Aung Htay Lin, the joint
secretary of the association. “The one-hour
competition was contested by five teams, each with
10 members – one supervisor and nine people
to cook the htamane,”
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 Members
of the Magwe Division cycling team (L-R: Kyaw Min
Oo, Myo Lwin, Aung Myo Naing) prepare to compete in
the final of the 4000-metre team pursuit event at
the States and Divisions Championships at Thuwunna
Stadium, Yangon, on February 20.
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 Customs
captain Soe Myat Min (second right) watches as the
ball goes out for a corner after he narrowly failed
to turn it into the net in the first half of his side’s
1-1 draw with Commerce.
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