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“Last year our business was affected by Cyclone Nargis and we got just a few proposals for the 2008-2009 season. Compared with last year we expect the occupancy rate to be a little higher, somewhere between 15 and 25 percent,” |
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 “We’ve heard about our home team only roughly, not too much news about the last season. But now we can see our players live and can know about a bit more about the club’s plan for the future. I want the team to come here again and again if they have the time to play friendly matches,” |
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Sanctions have damaged the lives of ordinary workers, as well as Myanmar’s competitiveness, productivity and social and economic development, U Hla Maung Shwe, the vice president of civil society group Myanmar Egress, told The Myanmar Times. |
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“It has been found that internationally distributed publications do not publish advertisements for cigars, cigarettes and alcoholic drinks, which are all hazardous for human health,” |
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 The festival area will encompass three to four acres, with more than 1000 shops. The board of trustees charges shop owners K20,000 to run a business for the duration of the festival, he added. |
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“The Myanmar tectonic map developed with the Myanmar Geosciences Society has been completed to the deterministic stage in 2007 and is now in use in geological departments of universities and related ministries. We will update that map by adding some more data gained from recent research and then the map will become part of the active fault map of Southeast Asia,” |
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“wrong for the United States to lift sanctions on Myanmar purely on the basis of economic self-interest, or if such a decision were seen as a capitulation of our long-held position that Myanmar should abandon its system in favour of democratic rule”. |
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 Myanmar signed the cross-border transport agreement of the Mekong region in 2003, which aims to promote the development of so-called economic corridors, one of which extends about 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Mawlamyine to Myawaddy. |
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 The ceremony included the unveiling of a one-storey, six-classroom building equipped with a football pitch and basketball court, as well as the donation of school furniture, uniforms, bags and stationery valued at K2.5 million, for primary and middle school children who will attend the school. |
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 “We’re going to distribute these notebooks and netbooks in Yangon, Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw at the end of this month. These notebooks are designed to meet the needs of domestic market and we will offer extensive after-sales service,” |
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 “For example, if you want to advertise on a billboard, you need to spend at least $10,000 a year but advertising in certain print media outlets is only $5000 a year. That low initial investment is a strong factor in why we’re not turning our backs to print media ads,” |
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 “By participating at the expo, companies not only communicate directly with customers, they also meet new agents and dealers in Yangon and the rest of the country. This helps prepare for the Mandalay expo to be held next October,” |
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 “The market for construction materials is directly affected by the shortage of people looking to buy apartments. Maybe some potential buyers are still holding back to see how the market and the domestic economy unfold. Although the financial crisis seems to have passed, it looks like there are far fewer construction sites around this year,” |
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 “June and July yielded the best sales in second quarter, especially in Bahan and Yankin, in the K200-K300 million range. These commercial areas are popular with investors,” |
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“I am fond of creating things, there’s nothing like trying to create a flower. The work is interesting and makes me happy. There were hardly any shops that created floral arrangements at the time I opened the shop in 1996, which is why I had the idea to create flower arrangements,”
LAST week, Timeout got a shock invitation from the actor Okkar Min Mg for his farewell party. The actor is only 23 but since his first appearance in July 2002 he’s enjoyed broad based appeal. Timeout met with Okkar Min Mg at the party in Mr Guitar bar.
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