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DOMESTIC NEWS: Taxation system should have transparency...Car catches fire in Mawlu of Indaw Tsp...Brake-failed Hilux hits
motorbike in Bago...Biker meets her tragic end
while overtaking tractor-trailer...Suspect for housemaid?s
death faces nine-year
prison sentence...Unattended mosquitorepellent
coil kills old
woman in bed...State Chief Minister visits
food poisoned victims...Mandalay Region Chief Minister meets youths...Kachin state
E&I minister
meets local
people...School uniforms, stationery
provided to primary school
children...Child born on board
express bus...Free medical care provided
in Ponnagyun Tsp...British director to give
screenplay lectures in
Myanmar...Agricultural loans disbursed
to farmers in Lewe...Encircled zedis of Shwedagon
Pagoda to be renovated...Anti-DHF activities being
carried out across the nation...YCDC to construct recycle
power plant, incinerator...Free traditional medical
treatment given to people...Mobile library gives service to readers...Illegal trafficking of cows,
oxen seized in Mawlu...One dead, six injured in
Kyaikto car accident...Stimulant tablets seized in Kyaikto...Workshop on experience sharing in conflict
management held...Mass walk activity marks International Olympic Day...Low pressure area formed over
northwest Bay of Bengal...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall
(22-6-2013)...1370 jade lots sold out at 8th day
of Golden Jubilee MGE.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein sends
felicitations to PM of the Grand Duchy,
HRH the Grand Duke of Luxembourg...Lawkamarazein or Kuthodaw Inscription
Shrines included in UNESCO world heritage...Foreign companies seeking
Myanmar market shares in
Taunggyi...Asia Foundation donates
publications for libraries...SEA Game
billboard
erected in
Kawthoung...Workshop on experience sharing in conflict
management held...Union FM sends felicitations
to his counterpart of Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg...Myanmar Scout Squad meets
ASEAN Scouts Association
for Regional Cooperation.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Milk for Schools".....
ARTICLES: "Mega city in north of Yangon"
Byline: Maung
Thitsar..."Nayone full moon day commemorates
Mahasamaya Sutta Day"
Maha Saddhamma jotika dhaja
Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt
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2013-06-23
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DOMESTIC NEWS: 35-year-old man of extraordinary height found at Hton Pauk Chai
Village in Natmauk Township...Nay Pyi Taw FC, Ayeyawady
FC draw 3-3...Kyaukpadaung Township sees
daily traffic rule enforcement...Education Ministry doubles basic education
stipends...Stationery donated to
monastic education school...Cooperative
society formed
in Mandalay...Riot police get drill in
Meiktila...International Olympic Day
sports activities held...Jade lots sold through competitive bidding system...Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Union Election Commission
Nay Pyi Taw
Announcement No. 17/2013
1st Waning of Nayon, 1375 ME
(24 June, 2013)
Six Defence Services Personnel
Amyotha Hluttaw Representatives
substituted...Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Union Election Commission
Nay Pyi Taw
Announcement No. 16/2013
1st Waning of Nayon, 1375 ME
(24 June, 2013)
Four Defence Services Personnel
Pyithu Hluttaw Representatives
substituted...Natural disaster prevention talks in
Kungyangon Tsp...DaikU Township gets RC bridge...Volunteers donate stationery, nutritious
snacks in Mawlu...Coordination meeting between township
administrator and supportive committee
for township/ward development held in
Thingangyun...Repaving of Myoma road in Pakokku...Free private school launched in Natmauk...Community-based child
rights protection groups meet...Handing over ceremony of Buddha Tooth Relic and Golden
Chamber held...Lapadaungtaung Copper Mine Investigation
Report Implementation Committee holds
coord meeting.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein sends
messages of felicitations to Croatian
President, Prime Minister...President U Thein Sein felicitates
Slovenian Counterpart, Prime
Minister...Thanks to Industrial Zone Project, Kyaukpyu region could
see development...New ATR 72-600 airplane for AIR
KBZ lands at Yangon Airport...Myanmar holds Malaysia (B) team
to a draw in front of home crowd...Humanitarian
aids
distribution
discussed...Myanmar Foreign
Correspondents Club meets...Union FM felicitates
Croatian Counterpart...Union FM sends felicitations
to Slovenian Counterpart...Four RCC bridges put into
service in Hlaingbwe...Handing over ceremony of Buddha Tooth Relic and Golden
Chamber held...Diagnostic Workshop on Agriculture
Sector held.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Long live the Dhamma!"
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2013-06-25
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Arrangements made to review existing laws including
the Constitution: Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker...More than K 1.4 million stolen from hotel
bedroom in Chaungtha...Construction Ministry holds prize-giving ceremony...Airport police struck, killed by taxi...Speedster meets his end in
motorbike crash...20-year-old cyclist killed
in crash with container
truck...Tamway?s 155th street sees inundation after
heavy downpour...Tachilek honours first-ever
five-distinction winner...Yangon industrial zone
warehouse demand soars...Heavy rains inundate
Meiktila market circular
road...Trees planted as greening wind in Kyaukme
activities in Ayadaw...Stone bowl in NyaungU donated
by Lord Kinwun?s offspring...Trees, lamp-posts fell,
buildings damaged in stormy wind in Kyaukme...Monsoon agricultural loans
disbursed to local farmers in
Sagaing Township...Golden Jubilee Myanmar
Gems Emporium continues
for sixth day...Union Ministers meet entrepreneurs in
Kayah State...Nyaunglebin upgrades BEMS
Branch...Mobile team sends seized commodities to ST
Branch...Hopang gets new two-storey
school building...Poverty alleviation tasks in
Pakokku District...Blood donation ceremony held
at Central Women?s Hospital...Drug addict rehabilitation
course conducted in Mandalay...Farming rights certificates
issued in Yebyu...Second round of Union-Level Peace Talks between
Union Peace-making Work Committee and KNPP
concludes...Union Peace-Making Committee, KNPP agree to push ahead with nationwide
ceasefire accord...Clarification of the Daily Eleven newspapers? announcement [re amendment of 1982 Citizenship Law].....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: CB Bank donates cash for Myanmar citizens
in Malaysia...CB Bank donates cash for Myanmar citizens
in Malaysia...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives Thai guests...UK minister meets press after four-day visit...PowerEdge VRTX – Converged
IT solution designed for remote
and small office environment...Union Attorney-General receives
guests from Asia Foundation...Delegation from OCSC pays
visit to UCSB...British Minister of State for International Development,
Deputy Border Affairs Minister inspect rehabilitation tasks in
Rakhine State...Myanmar exporters enjoy
exemption of EU?s GSP.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Corporate Social Responsibility".....
ARTICLE: "Central economic zone project under
implementation for development of Muse" Byline: Thein Zaw Oo (Shweli)
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2013-06-21
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2013-06-21
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Noteworthy amounts of rainfall
(21-6-2013)...Man found dead in Maesai
creek in Tachilek...Man discovered hanged in hospital toilet in
Tachilek...Bayintnaung Flyover construction project
gaining momentum...Damaged roads near
Bayintnaung junction given
temporary repair works...No one hurt in Lanmadaw car
crash...Three family members
die after having toad,
mushroom dinner...Private school founders to be transparent and
straightforward: Union Minister...Essay contest hails Myanmar Women?s Day...Milk feeding
ceremony
held in
Tachilek...Suspects involved in swords, knives seizure in
Meiktila arrested...Outstanding youth?s experience recounted in
Monywa...Free WiFi Internet access at
Myingyan District IPRD...138th Anniversary of Kayinni National Day held...Plan underway to build Yangon-Dala
Bridge across Yangon River...1550 jade lots sold at 7th day Golden Jubilee
Myanma Gems Emporium.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein accepts
credentials of Ambassador of the
Republic of India...President U Thein Sein
accepts credentials of Chilean
Ambassador...Commerce Ministry conducts
advanced, basic courses on
Intl?s trading...Young Myanmar golfer wins
junior golf championship for
two straight years...Mandalay stadium construction nearing
completion...Industrial crops course
conducted...Truck plunges off Yangon-
Mandalay highway...Mongpyat farmers
concerned over possible
drought...Cash and kind provided to
fire victims...Yangon Region WAO
organizes literary talks...Union FM receives Chilean,
Indian ambassadors...Private school founders to be transparent and
straightforward: Union Minister...Preparations for body
building contest inspected...Announcement
The XXVII SEA Games will be hosted in Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon,
Mandalay and Ngwehsaung from 11 to 22 December, 2013.....
"PERSPECTIVES":"Clean Yangon".....
ARTICLE: "COLOURFUL PAPERS FOR COLOURFUL
MYANMAR" Maung Hlaing
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2013-06-22
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2013-06-21
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Union Peace-making Work Committee, KNPP hold peace
talks for second time...Unattended electric iron sparks
house fire in Pakokku...Knowledge on traffic rules disseminated in
University of Technology (Toungoo)...Foresters interrupt illegal teak, hardwood
and forest products flow...Educative talks on traffic
rules given in Pakokku...Inter-village road to benefit
local people in Hopang...Unemployed young man dies after drinking
pesticide...Young man fatally wounded
in water slide pool stabbing...Woman passenger sustains
head injury after falling off
vehicle...Farming rights certificates
presented in Mohnyin
District...Toungoo market gets
abundent supply of Djenkol
beans...Regional plan duties assigned
in Pauk Tsp...Kachin State minister meets
farmers...Exercise books donated for
schoolchildren...Tree planting ceremony held
in Taungtha...Library opened in Indaw
Township...Smuggled goods seized
by mobile team in Waw
Township...Free spoken English course
conducted in Myeik...Pirate CDs
seized in
Pyinmana...Motorbike rider shot dead...IPRD provides WiFi FoC...Meeting on copyright law (draft) held...Mandalay youths donate blood
for Central Women?s Hospital...Saw Township Forest Dept
opens BEPS...Talks on combating
illegal trading in timber,
environmental conservation
held in Indaw...Firemen of over 25 years?
service honoured in Htigyaing...Meiktila MADB provides
loans to farmers...Walking aid products
donated to hospital, rural
health centre...DHF campaign launched in
Kawkareik...Golf accessories presented...Golden Jubilee Myanma Gems
Emporium continues for 5th day.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein
receives Speaker of Thai
Parliament and Thai
House of Representatives
and party...Dawei Deep Sea Port project brings equal benefit to Myanmar, Thailand:
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker -
Myanmar will see more economic development in future as world
economy moves to Asia: Speaker of Thai Parliament...ROK to offer loans of 500 million USD to Myanmar...President U Thein Sein receives ROK
Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Hyun Oh-Seok...Thai delegation visits Uppatasanti Pagoda,
Gems Museum...Union Attorney-General attends ?Recent Development of
Myanmar and Challenges it Faces—from the Legal and other
Perspectives? workshop in Japan...Globetrotters visit Myanmar
via Mae Sot of Thailand...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann holds talks with
senators, representatives in US...Myanmar-EU Forum
Nay Pyi Taw, 17-18 June 2013
Joint Press Release.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Schools, failing or succeeding?".....LETTER TO THE EDITOR: "Voice"
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2013-06-20
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Senior General Min Aung Hlaing
attends first monsoon
tree-planting ceremony...Farmers team of Letpadaungtaung region
tour Meiktila grape farm...Mobile team exposes illegal commodities
in Waw...Divorced husband seriously injures wife...Talks on technique of growing paddy
through GAP...Over speed vehicle hits
lamp-post in Dabayin...Hino hits Dyna bus, leaving one dead in Sagaing...Cash donated to
schoolchildren in Meiktila
relief camps...Expansion of Mandalay detour under way...Newly upgraded school
opened...Expansion of Mandalay detour under way...Ywangan
Township
committees meet
for private sector
development...Free Wifi Internet access
available in NyaungU...CSCs issued to eligible citizens...Driver killed in passenger bus crash...Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Union Election Commission,
Nay Pyi Taw -
Announcement No. 15/2013 -
Two Defence Services Personnel Region Hluttaw
and State Hluttaw Representatives substituted...Golden Jubilee Myanmar
Gems Emporium continues
for 4th day...Trainees from Youth
Participation in Governance
course visit Hluttaws...Book on Universal Declaration
on Human Rights (Myanmar
version) introduced...Anti-DHF campaign undertaken in Twantay...Workshop on artificial
material held...Cash and kind donated to families in Meiktila...Stimulant
tablets
worth about
K 20 million
seized in
Nawnghkio...Fire at J-Donuts Shop in Myenigon...Power Nets distributed in Aungbyupyin Village...Immigration & Population Ministry clarifies over ?the government is planning to
amend the 1982 Myanmar Citizenship Law? covered by the Daily Eleven Newspaper -
The Earth cannot swallow a race to extinction, but another race can.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein meets officials from milk donor
companies...Muse attracts foreigners, locals with SEA
Agriculture Games poster...Union NPED Minister back home
from ASEAN-US Road Show...No plan to hire Myanmar white
elephant to Thailand...Cash donation for protection of
Myanmar workers in Malaysia...Republic of the Union of Myanmar,
Press Release of Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security -
?ILO Conference lifts all remaining restrictions on
Myanmar?...EU-Myanmar trade
cooperation discussed...Vice-President U Nyan Tun arrives back from Thailand -
Holding Myanmar-Thai-Japan tripartite meeting for seeking ways for
practical implementation steps as quickly as possible crucial...Myanmar delegation attends Myanmar-Thai-
Japan tripartite meeting...Mandalay Region Chief
Minister meets Chinese
Ambassador...SEA Games billboard erected...Cash donated to
schoolchildren in Meiktila
relief camps...Notice to FEC holders...Myanmar-EU Forum held for first time...Central Committee for ASEAN Chairmanship
and establishment of ASEAN Community meets...Book on Universal Declaration
on Human Rights (Myanmar
version) introduced...Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham attends opening ceremony of School Milk Program.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Towards quality education"
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2013-06-19
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2013-06-19
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Wartime bomb unearthed
in Insein...Wrecked warplane discovered in dense forest of Bago Yoma...Thazi bailey bridge collapses under weight of 12-wheeled
truck carrying bulldozer...One woman died, one other
injured after colliding with
vehicle during their trishaw ride...More than K 2.5 million worth of
narcotic drugs seized in Tachilek...Health, education officials visit relief camps in
Sittway Tsp...Myanmar
Journalists
Association
opens new
office...Nay Pyi Taw Traffic Police
Corps grant stipends to
offspring of members...Blood donated to mark
World Blood Donors Day...Ayeyawady River erodes
riverside village, Mann creek
inundation destroys crops in
Minbu Tsp...DHF campaign undertaken
in Letpadan...Loans disbursed to vendors
in Pyapon...Pakokku fire
outbreak
claims no life,
but property...Prize presentation for inter-major football
tournament of Dawei Technological University...Respect paying ceremony held in Twantay Tsp...Stipends for 2013-14
academic year granted in
Thaton...Preventive
measures
against DHF
carried out
in Dagon
Seikkan...Bovine diseases control in
Khamaukgyi Township...Work coordinated to hold
International Day against Drug
Abuse and Illicit Trafficking...Reckless motorcyclist hits
stationary passenger bus...Work coordination meeting of Central Committee and
Work Committees for holding Hluttaw meetings held...Gems Emporium continues for third day.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Vice-President U Nyan Tun and party visit Map Ta Phut industrial
estate, Amata City and Amata Nakorn indus..trial estate in Thailand...Huawei taking lead in
Internet infrastructure
auction...Myanmar, EU discuss promotion of
bilateral relations...Opening of Training of Trainers for Civil
Service from CLMV countries held...ASEAN Senior Officials on Culture and Arts hold
special meeting...Thai parliamentary delegation
arrives in Myanmar...OESC meeting focuses on
migrant workers issue in
Malaysia...Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System
(GIS) course opened...Talks on danger of cultural invasion given in
Yinmabin Township...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker meets
Myanmar community in San Francisco...Cash and kind donated for Myanmar
workers in Malaysia.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Monsoon diseases"
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2013-06-18
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Union L & F Minister meets milch cow
breeders in Pobbathiri, Zabuthiri Tsps...Monsoon season cultivation
starts in Ayadaw...Upgrading of cooperative
societies based on
microfinance scheme stressed...Yamethin fish farm stabbing:
Three dead and one injured...Insein fire reduces four houses to ashes...Yadana Theinga Bridge to be
commissioned into service soon...Swa sees more transformers...Yangon to see punitive actions
against undisciplined vehicles...MPs visit Yazagyo people?s hospital
construction site...Anti-human trafficking knowledge shared in Tachilek...Old staff quarters in
Yangon collapses...School milk campaign launched in Mandalay...Tributary in Mandalay
dredged for proper drainage...Tree planting ceremonies held
in Sagaing Region...Yaunggaw village in
Myitkyina Tsp taps stream...Road to BEHS in Dabein upgraded,
exercise books donated to 14 schools...24/7 electricity supply
resumed...Lamp-posts erected in
downtown Ayadaw...Free health
care services
given to locals
in Loilem...Monghsat marks World Environment Day...Rounds of ammunition found
in Bago...Stipends provided to students
of staff from Kyaukse District
Police Force...DRAIN DREDGED:[photo]...Mass participation is needed in dam construction...Eastern hilly area of
Pyinmana Township gets
inter-village road...Golden Jubilee Myanma Gems Emporium continues for second day.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein
felicitates Icelander
counterpart, PM...Union SWRR Minister
meets UNFPA Resident
Representative...Union FM felicitates
Icelander counterpart...IRRI distributes flood resistant paddy strains...Victorious Myanmar golfers
arrive back home...
"PERSPECTIVES": "Broadest public support".....
ARTICLES: "Myanmar seafood exports to go up" Byline: Maung Thitsa
Photo: Tin Soe (Myanma Alinn)..."Public Service Media under Democratic Reform-6" Banya Aung [Correction: ?Public
Service Media under
Democratic Reform-5? - 16 June]..."AIR KBZ adds one more ATR 72-600
aircraft to its fleet"
Byline: Po Thaw Zin.....
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2013-06-17
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2013-06-17
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham attends Golden Jubilee
Myanma Gems Emporium opening ceremony...Microfinance provided to
township MCWAs of Nay Pyi
Taw Council Area...Roads under maintenance in
Kengtung...Ngamoeyeik Creek needs
re-dredging...Phaungpyin gets rural bridge...Bronze Buddha images
seized in Kengtung...Traditional
medicine
practitioners
provide free
treatment in
Mandalay...Healthcare trainees visit
Thawutti rural health centre...Farming rights certificates issued to farmers
in Kutkai Tsp...Pyinsalu carries out drainage works...Anti-DHF campaign launched in
Kyangin...Medical equipment donated...Shan State Govt to assume
duties of mobile team for food
safety, combating illegal trading...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker opens two upgraded
schools in Pyawbwe Tsp...Books, stationery, school
uniforms donated to Magway
nunneries...One BEPS upgraded in Tiddim...Retaining wall under
construction in Katha...Health Care Services given at
Dagon (East) Industrial Zone...Rehabilitation tasks for fire
victims carried out...National plan for township
people-centered development
workshop held...Shan State Development
Affairs Committee members
inspect Namhsam Town Hall...Hluttaw experience recounted.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Lt-Gen Wai Lwin receives
Former World Bank
President and Former US
Deputy Secretary of Defence...Workshop on Red Cross
knowledge dissemination held...7th Myanmar-Bangladesh Foreign
Office Consultations held...Myanmar Futsal
coach attends
Futsal workshop...Special delegation arrives
back from Malaysia...Union Foreign Affairs Minister
back home...SSMNC Chairman Sayadaw,
Union Religious Affairs
Minister leave for China...Union FM attends 3rd Ministerial
Meeting of Myanmar-Indonesia Joint
Commission for Bilateral Cooperation...Legislation for standardization of laws
coordination meeting held...Vice-President U Nyan Tun to attend 2nd Joint Committee meeting on Comprehensive
Development of Dawei Special Economic Zone and its related project areas...We could address issues of protection of Myanmar
workers, actions to be taken against attackers and security
of those who want to continue to work there: U Zin Yaw.....
"PERSPECTIVES":"Make the world a greener
place".....
ARTICLES: "Pulonetonetone wooden bridge in
Kawthoung" By: Maung Maung Kyaw Soe (Botany)..."Myanmar Chess Game" Maha Saddhamma Jotika dhaja
Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt...Public Service Media under Democratic Reform-5" Banya Aung
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2013-06-16
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2013-06-17
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Teak logs found in dredging
old lake...DHF campaign undertaken in
Tatkon Tsp...Plan to upgrade 20 reading rooms near Bago
mountain range...Speed boats under inspection for
safety equipment of passengers...Yangon university major repair costs over
K 3800 million in 2012-2013...Condo basement parking lot inundated...Yangon University boat team
to celebrate 90th birthday...Compensations provided for
land grabs...One injured, four vehicles
damaged in police car crash...Failed transformer in Dala
replaced within hours...Low pressure
over Northwest
Bay of Bengal...Union minister calls for resilient society...Myanmar Gazette...Students get books, stationery
in Ayadaw...District IPRD provides wifi at library...Gangaw Township Cooperative Syndicate
meets...Kengtung DAC joins hands with private
company in sanitation...Plan to open cultural museum
in Lashio...Self-reliant clinic opened in Ayadaw Township...0.002 gram of
opium seized
in Katha...50th Myanma Gems, Jade and Pearl Emporium
Central Committee meets.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: National workshop on air pollution and acid deposition held...EU lets Myanmar back into preferential trade scheme...Union Health Minister attends World Health Assembly...India Rupee notes seized by mobile
team...Myanmar, Thai to promote
higher education sector...U Hau Do Suan presents
his Credentials to Governor
General of Canada...Mekong countries media interaction in coincidence
with China-South Asia Expo in Kunming...Union SWRR Minister meets guests of
OXFM International [OXFAM?]...50th Myanma Gems, Jade and Pearl Emporium
Central Committee meets...Myanmar special delegation
encourages Myanmar
workers...Five Myanmar workers
dead, six injured in separate
attacks in Malaysia...Myanmar government to coordinate with Malaysian
government to ensure safety of Myanmar workers.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Smokeless tobacco".....
ARTICLES: "Flood preventive measures in Ayeyawady
Region under implementation" Byline and Photo: Ko Htwe..."Public Service Media under Democratic Reform (3)" Banya Aung [Correction: ?Public Service
Media under Democratic
Reform (2)? 13 June]
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2013-06-14
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DOMESTIC NEWS: MRTV retransmission station
in Panglong Sub-Township
launches pilot transmission...School buildings constructed, trees planted in
Yedashe Township...Narcotic drugs seized at
Mandalay Railway Station...Buses equipped with CCTVs...Oil press can earn family
income in Myaing Tsp...Vehicles put under traffic
rules...Drowsy driver
plunges car
into canal...Villages in Ayeyawady Region
installed with solar panels...Khawkyuwa suspension bridge opened...YCDC carries out landscaping
in Thamagon roundabout...Garment factory worker
attempts suicide...Anti-DHF measures carried
out in Nay Pyi Taw...Pyinmana Forest Dept
gives educative talks on
environmental conservation...Ten workers suffocated, lost
consciousness by gasifier?s
gases...Myanma Airways suspends
flights of MA-60 fleet...Talks on retail business at
UMFCCI...Strong earthquake hits
outside Myanmar...Agricultural sector needs 3 Ps, cooperative societies to achieve quick-win: President...Golden Jubilee Myanma Gems Emporium on
15-27 June...School Environment Day
activities...MPT announces low-priced SIM cards sale
plan for June...Basic tailoring course concludes in Myitkyina...FDA (branch)
opens at Tamu
Border Camp...BEHSs in Chin State to get
Internet-accessible computers...MEB uplifts banking services
to customers...School building handed over in Singaing...Three teak saplings for every Kalay household household (sic)...10th meeting of Committee for implementation of
Latpadaungtaung investigation report...FPTP or PR?...Environmental conservation planning for
Letpadaungtaung Copper Mines...Low pressure area
to South Orissa
Coast of India.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar would help foreign investors the most possible degree:
President...Modern dental equipment donated...Japanese
speaking
contest on 30
June...Study Overseas & Career Fair 2013 kicks off...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker receives guests
of UNOHCHR...Data Center launched in Yangon...Preliminary meeting on Improvement of
Road Technology held...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing receives former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defence.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Child labour".....
ARTICLES: "Timber extraction reduced for
sustainable forest development" Htway Myint Naing (Sagaing)..."Public Service Media Law under Democratic Reform (4)" Banya Aung
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ီDOMESTIC NEWS: Insurance in Myanmar
enters private sector...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall
(12-6-2013)...Public Relations Workshop
shares knowledge to trainees...Mayor oversees development
tasks...DHF preventive measures
taken in townships on wider
scale...Illegal cows seized in Tada of
Kyauktan Township...Drugs seized in
Mohnyin Tsp...Anti-DHF measures conducted...Sagaing Myoma market road
blocked...Rakhine State Health
Department taking anti-DHF
measures...Mandalay witnesses three fire
outbreaks during two-day period...Drain spillovers fill roads in
Meiktila...Music legend performs in
Mandalay City Hall...Illegal wood
seized in
Katha...Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Union Election Commission
Nay Pyi Taw
Notification No. 13/2013 -
Three Defence Services Personnel
Amyotha Hluttaw Representatives substituted...Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Union Election Commission
Nay Pyi Taw
Notification No. 14/2013
Three Defence Services Personnel
Region Hluttaw Representatives
substituted...Republic of the Union of
Myanmar
Union Election Commission
Nay Pyi Taw
Notification No.12/2013
Defence Services Personnel Pyithu
Hluttaw representatives substituted...Man sentenced to 26 years for
setting woman fire in Lashio...UEC receives party
establishment application...District IPRD provides wifi at library...Cooperative University confers diplomas in
Economics...Cash assistance donated to
Health Care Group...Health care for Hlinethaya
Tsp DAC staff...Reinforced concrete road
being paved in Sittway...Pilot assessment program
for Myanmarsar reading
skills discussed.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein receives outgoing UNDP Resident Representative...MoU on staff training programme
signed...Illegal commodities seized at
India-Myanmar border...27th SEA Games billboards
put up in Magway...Education Ministry,
UNICEF provide stationery,
books to schoolchildren...Rice exports
to China
increase...Chinese Navy Ship Haixun 01
starts four-country trip...Union Constitutional
Tribunal Chairman receives
Deputy Chief of Mission of
US Embassy...Men?s and Women?s
National and U-18 Basketball
Championships on 22 July...Union Minister receives UN
Resident and Humanitarian
Coordinator...Pyithu Hluttaw Deputy Speaker receives Thai
guests...We will help all Myanmar citizens whether they are legal or illegal so
that they can come back home.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Every child is special".....
ARTICLE: "Public Service Media under Democratic Reform (2)"
Banya Aung
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2013-06-13
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Long and difficult period of efforts for national brethren to be
finally sitting together at the negotiation table...Union Peace-making Work Committee, RCSS meet...CNG buses ready to join bus lines in Yangon...Outstanding trainees awarded
in Buddhist culture course...Seizure of stimulant tablets at entrance to
Nawnghkio...Monastic education schools for 2013-2014
academic year...Illegal cattle seized in Pyapon...Traffic accident kills motorcyclist in
Ottwin...Drain dredged for flood prevention...Alatchaung Village to get
access to electrification...Field trip for health care services in
rural area...New hospital, school buildings under
construction...Municipal elections held in
Bilin...Villagers volunteer for roadwork...Locomotive runs into staff
quarters...Stationery provided to needy
students...Well goes well in Yamethin...Educative talks on traffic rules organized...Township Administrator Cup
Football Tournament commences...Peace and prosperity a must:
Dr Sai Mauk Kham...Trees grown to mark World Environment Day...Monsoon tree-planting ceremony held in Haka...Preventive measures against DHF being
undertaken in Twantay...Car donated to social
organization in Toungoo...Basic education schools fumigated in Nyaunglebin...Taninthayi Region Minister
meets teachers...Schoolchildren get stationery and school
HRD uniforms in Dawei...People of the country are obliged to participate in the drive against
corruption as it cannot be solved by individuals.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Daewoo E&P contributes
to Road Upgrading Work
in Kyaukpyu...Certificate Course and Basic Diplomatic Skills
(31/2013) conducted...U Tint Swai presents
Credentials to President of
the Hellenic Republic...Myanmar, JICA sign loans contract...GE supplies Myanmar?s capacity
building efforts with USD 7 million.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Find ways to improve livelihood
of farmers a priority".....
ARTICLE: "New generations with peace
and prosperity" By: Nyi Nyi Tun,
Yan Gyi Aung;
Photos: Than Oo
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2013-06-11
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Concrete water pipelines laid in placement of
old decay iron one in Dala...Stimulant tablets seized in
Tachilek...Fire destroys saw mill, paddy
in Thanatpin...Outstanding policemen
honoured in Pathein...Preventive measures against
DHF emphasized in Thanlyin...Passenger express bus hits overturned truck...Motorcyclist dies of traffic
accident...Thakayta Township school enrollment week
ceremony held...Dam, lake under repair in NyaungU Township...Expresses plying between Yangon and Kalay daily...Tree planting ceremony marks
World Environment Day...Gifts for Fire Services Department...New book shop and advertising department
opens in Kyauktada Township...Expectant mothers provided with eggs in
Mandalay...Upgraded BEMS opened in Dabayin...Daewoo E&P contributes to Road Upgrading Work
in Kyaukpyu...Kani gets free medical care...Monthly free vaccination campaign in
Zabuthiri Tsp...One dies in industrial accident...Three sacred Buddha tooth relic replicas to be displayed for public
obeisance in Mandalay, Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon...UEC receives party establishment
application.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein sends message
of felicitations to Philippine counterpart...President U Thein Sein felicitates
Russian counterpart, PM...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing receives Admiral Surasak Rounroengrom and party...Thailand Week 2013 organized in Yangon...Myanmar U-23 leave for Vietnam...Myanmar gymnastics athletes participate in
Singapore open...FM sends message
of felicitations to
counterpart...Union FM sends
felicitations to Russian
counterpart...Myanmar golfer team
leaves for Thailand...Union Chief Justice meets
British guests...Chief of the General Staff (Army, Navy and Air)
General Hla Htay Win meets JMFA Chairman...AGM of SEA Regional Natural
Disaster Risk Management
Committee being held...Union Minister meets
Reuters SEA Chief...Myanmar to compete in Asian
Junior Wrestling Championship...Myanmar navy ship completes Bangladesh goodwill visit...SEA Games billboard erected
in Yamethin...Three sacred Buddha tooth relic replicas to be displayed for public
obeisance in Mandalay, Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon...Myanmar, Royal Thai Navy to cooperate...Special group to probe into
the case of Myanmar migrant
workers in Malaysia...MAI offers KL-Yangon flight
50% discount.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Make a list in order to deploy
your skills".....
ARTICLES: "Archipelago off Taninthayi Coast to become unique tourist attraction" By Sabei Pyu Kyaw..."Public Service Media under Democratic Reform"
Banya Aung
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2013-06-12
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Greater Yangon Project: building and
water supply aspects...Illegal timber seized in
Sagaing, Mandalay Regions...Inpaung-Myohla road
emerges as gravel one in
Yamethin Township...Natural gas pipeline in
regular distribution...Sub-power stations, power lines under
construction in Thayawady District...BEPS branch put into service,
reading habit rose...Dengue campaign launched
at schools in Nay Pyi Taw
Council Area...Stipends, stationery donated
to students in Layein village
BEMS...Yangon Highway Bus
Terminal being expanded...Free eye treatment provided
to eye patients in Sitagu Eye
Hospital...Farming rights certificates
granted...Bago gets fourth traffic light...Police arrests
gambling
suspect...Sugarcane farmers upbeat due to early
monsoon...A & I Ministry to assist in production, selling
fertilizers to farmers...Yangon Region Chief Minister attends school
handing over ceremony...Duties assigned to departmental personnel in
Pakokku...Bago Region MCWSC meets...Myanmar Senior PGA Championship
wraps up...Stimulant tablets seized in
Hsihseng Township...2nd Junior Golf Myanmar
Tournament concludes...Weather Forecast for 2nd Dekad
(10-days) of June 2013.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein
felicitates Portuguese
counterpart, PM...Myanmar parliamentary goodwill delegation leaves for US...Tourists very interested in process of
sculpture in Bagan region...Htanhsan cave in Taunggyi
charges USD 10 per
foreigner...BC to organize climate talks...Amyotha Hluttaw Committee
Chairman leaves for Singapore...Myanmar delegation leaves
for Philippines...Myanmar cycling team leaves for PRC to
take joint training...Myanmar puts 30 booths at 1st China-South Asia
Expo in Kunming...Union FM felicitates
Portuguese counterpart.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "No water no life".....ARTICLE: "Cross border trade between Myanmar, India to
get boost from a new road"
Byline: Maung Maung Myint Swe
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2013-06-10
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Noteworthy amounts of rainfall
(8-6-2013)...Stimulant tablets, heroin
seized in Mabein...Houses lost in landslide at Sittoung River...Opium seized in Waingmaw...Short circuit fire engulfs five
houses...Office work course
commences in Magway...Mandalay-Bhamo passenger vessel launches
maiden trip...Bus shopping at department store...Chin State plans to build
hotel zone in Mindat...Health care provided to workers at worksite...CSCs issued
in Momeik...Suspension bridge opened in
Bhamo Tsp...Shweli Dam receives major repair...University
of Forestry
gets new
two-storey
building...World Environment Day marked in Mongnai...Salin Township WVO grants stipends for
students...Swimmers invited to
participate in Olympic Day
competition...Pros and cons of PSM draft law discussed...Tarmacking of Mandalay University entrance
road...School uniforms donated to students at relief
camps in Meiktila...Community-based Natural Disaster Risk
Mitigation discussed in Mawlamyinegyun...Hsipaw residents get citizenship scrutiny cards...Station hospital renovated in Peinzalok...Volunteers coordinate efforts on child
protection...Illegal beef seized in Thonze.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Ho Chi Minh City Expo-2013 opens in Yangon...MITT to start running 2013-14 academic year...Selected Myanmar tennis
players leave for Thailand...Chin State gov?t, UNICEF
meet on drawing social
development plan...Development of Myanmar-
India border regions
discussed...Liaison officers course
concludes...Pros and cons of PSM draft law discussed...Union Sports Minister calls athletes for
achieving success in every sport event...Total Solution for
Air-conditioning & Mechanical
Ventilation System Seminar.....
"PERSPECTIVES":"Counterfeit drugs:
a growing global threat".....
ARTICLES: "China-Myanmar corridor to emerge as trade facilitator" By
Maung Maung
Myint Swe..."Royal Ploughing Ceremony (Le Htun Mingala) in Nayone"
Maha Saddhamma Jotika dhaja
Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt..."Yadana Theinga Bridge on Ayeyawady River to be
completed soon"
Byline: Tin Maung
(Mandalay Sub-printing House)
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2013-06-09
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Fire engines, hoses donated to
fire brigade in Dala...Trap cameras to cover nature of wildlife at Htamanthi
Sancutary (sic)...Myanmar Senior PGA Championship kicks off...2nd Junior Golf Myanmar Tournament
2013 kicks off...Illegal commodities seized on Tamu-Kalay-
Kalewa Road...DHF prevention conducted
in Insein Township...Enthusiasts
join basic
driving course
in Loikaw...UAB opens Mandalay branch...Boiler
explosion
causes noddle (sic)
factory fire...Python handed over to Forest Dept...Pobbathiri Tsp Sangha
Nayaka Office opened...Pyinnya Alinn Library
opened in Hsipaw...Kaboe diversion weir irrigating
farmlands in KhinU...Mandalay schools collect more than 20000
high school students...Upgraded BEHS opened in Aunglan...Myanmar to focus on capacity building
of young workforce...Heavy rain damages road section on
Pathein-Monywa Highway...Knowledge shared to farmers for cultivation
of high yield paddy strain...Volunteers plant trees, clear plastic bags...Mayan Village to have access to electricity...West Bank Village gets Knowledge Bank...Lightning
kills one in
Mongpan...Land plots donated to
Pariyatti monasteries in
Mawgyun, Yangon...DHF campaign launched...Matriculation exam results released
through Nay Pyi Taw Myanma Athan...Matriculation examination results
released.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Contribution of forum helps Myanmar reintegrate
into international community...Over 3400 globetrotters visit
Shwedagon Pagoda within five days...It is the best time for foreign investors to make
investments in Myanmar: President U Thein Sein...Private companies offer mobile and
money exchange services at WEF...WEF Founder pledges continued
assistance for Myanmar?s reform process...India offers capacity building
training to Myanmar...Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia and the
Philippines agree to set up ASEAN Common
Smart Tourism...Vietnam takes quick step to invest in
Myanmar?s unexploited hospitality industry...President U Thein Sein receives Philippine
counterpart...World Economic
Forum helps put
Myanmar back on
international stage...Memorandum of Cooperation between
MRCS, NRCS signed.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Share to fight malnutrition"
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2013-06-08
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DOMESTIC NEWS: MMCWA donates K 3 million for surgical
treatment of cleft lip and palate patients...Transformer installation for urban
electrification...Buddhism culture course
concludes in Natmauk...Cooperative society members
get loans...Collected works of new
authours introduced...Farmers get farming right certificates in
Lashio...Heroin worth K 120 million
seized in Hopin...Car plunges into roadside
near Myaungmya Suspension
Bridge...Stolen artifacts seized on
Pyay-bound ferry...Surveys start for new Kalay
airport site...Inter-religion dialogue organized
in Pyawbwe Township...Fire breaks out in Yangon
noddle (sic) factory...Garment factory fence collapses...Sale schedule for 50th
Anniversary Myanma Jade,
Gems and Pearl Emporium...Investment in oil-palm and sunflower
production discussed...Livestock and Fisheries Ministry to
cooperate with MICB...Publication of the undertakings of respective ministries in response to complaints filed to PSCAC...Cash and kind donated to
monastic education school...New school
building
handed over...Duties assigned to
departments, townships in
Mawlaik District...Sanitation
carried out at
Inlay Lake...Lashio marks World Environment Day...Lamp-posts, power lines
replaced in Dawei.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: World Economic Forum on East Asia (2013) opens...Digicel to bring world level
communication services to
Myanmar... Exclusive Interview by news team of News and Periodicals Enterprise with Mr
Naoyuki Shinohara, IMF Deputy Managing Director...WEF reverberated with voices of businessmen from around the world
News Team from NPE...Myanmar-India Trade Fair organized in
Monywa...Myanmar boxers leave for
Kazakhstan for joint training...President U Thein Sein receives UNDP
administrator...Singapore to provide training to
Myanmar college lecturers...President U Thein Sein receives
Vietnamese PM...Debate at World Economic Forum...Publication of the undertakings of respective ministries in response to complaints filed to PSCAC...President U Thein Sein holds talks with LPDR Prime Minister...WEF launches report to help boost Myanmar?s
energy reforms..."YGLs launch a programme to tackle child malnutrition" - Moe Thuzar Soe.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Grow more trees"
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Main objective of reforms undertaken by government in last
two years has been to create a brighter future for prosperity...Greater Yangon Urban Development
Plan discussed...DHF prevention at BEHS No 1 in Kayan...Relief aid provided to victims in Lashio...Sanitation carried out for proper flow of
water at drains...Painting, cartoon, poster and computer painting
contests held in Lashio...Embankments
under repairs
in Myeik...Vessel fire at Theinbyu Jetty...Fire breaks out at paper
warehouse in Myaungmya...Tatmadaw mobile teams give medical
care to local people in NyaungU,
Kyaukpadaung...Shwetaung-Myaungdaga power grid installation to complete in 2013...Garment workers? wage
demand still unmet...Donors fund poor children?s
education...New Way workers return to
workplace as dispute settled...Disaster risk management
workshop organized in
Kungyangon Township...Private hospital opened in Myitkyina...Preventive measures against land erosion
conducted in Nyaungdon...Committee for implementation
of Latpadaungtaung Copper
Mining Project Investigation
Commission?s report meets...Prices of motorbikes raising
in market of Monywa...Microfinance disbursed to
basic cooperative societies...Talks raising public
awareness for environmental
conservation...Man arrested on
suspicion of murder.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein felicitates
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, PM...President U Thein Sein meets CEO and
Managing Director of Woodside Ltd...President U Thein Sein receives Hong
Kong-based Standard Chartered Bank
Executive Director...Chinese ambassador?s wife
makes donation at child care
centre...President U Thein Sein receives Founder and
Executive Chairman of WEF on East Asia...Thiri Pyanchi U Tun Nay Linn
concurrently accredited to
Argentina...U Tin Yu concurrently
accredited to Ukraine...President U Thein Sein receives Emeritus Senior Minister of Singapore...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives S?pore?s
Emeritus Senior Minister...Union FM felicitates Swedish
counterpart...Philips, Yangon Heritage
Trust, partner to highlight
Yangon?s cultural
heritage sites...Panasonic Asia Pacific Pte Ltd opens Myanmar branch...World Environment Day (WED) observed in Nay Pyi Taw...World Economic Forum kicks off in Myanmar.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Happy schools"
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2013-06-06
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HLUTTAW SESSIONS: Parliamentarians to report to
Hluttaw Office (The seventh regular sessions of the first parliament will start on 25 June...)...Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Notification No (2/ 2013)
First Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
seventh regular session
summoned...Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Pyithu Hluttaw
Notification No (1/ 2013)
First Pyithu Hluttaw seventh
regular session summoned...Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Amyotha Hluttaw
Notification No (1/ 2013)
First Amyotha Hluttaw seventh
regular session summoned.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: President U Thein Sein?s
radio message to be aired
on 4-6 June...Kyauktan Township sees preventive
measures against frequent floods...Painting contests organized in
Kalay...Authorities constantly
checking safety of boats in
Yangon River...Cargo vessels resume route
in Chindwin River...Myanmar chess game to mark
Olympic Day...Kayah State CM calls
for timely completion of
construction works...Lake dredged to reduce risk
of water scarcity...New school buildings opened
in Shawpya, Chaungtha
villages...US Embassy?s English classes
camp out in NyaungU...President U Thein Sein attends opening ceremony of Cooperative Business Centre...Hanthawady BEHS (branch)
gets new building in Gangaw...Tree planting—Myanmar pride...Shwebin Ngwebin Library
opened in Talokpin Village...Animals vaccinated in
Maungtaw District...Thandaunggyi Township gets
a new court...Sittoung Bridge No. 3 scheduled
to be complete in April, 2015.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein receives Chief of the
Defence Staff of British Armed Forces...Vice-President U Nyan Tun receives NDI Chairperson...Myanmar women?s football team to receive cash
awards for its success in AFC Women?s Cup
qualifier...U-23 selected Myanmar football team?s
22-man squad announced prior to its friendly
matches against Singapore, Vietnam...Myanmar Mandalay Football Academy team
racks up its first win in front of home crowd...Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services welcomes British
Chief of the Defence Staff...Three Myanmar workers in stable
condition...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker holds talks with US
delegation, Chief of British Armed Forces and party...UEC Chairman receives NDI Chairperson...Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence
Services meets ROK Deputy Defence
Minister...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker
U Khin Aung Myint receives British, US guests...Tatmadaw cooperating friendly with armed forces of neighbours,
regional countries, ASEAN and other countries in the world.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Budding democracy?s
promising business".....ARTICLE: "Myanmar ready to hold 22nd World Economic Forum
on East Asia"
By Maung Maung Myint Swe
Photos: Kyaw Thu Win
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2013-06-04
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EXECUTIVE: Republic of the Union of Myanmar
President Office
Notification No. 52/2013 -
Enforcement of the
2013-Minimum Wage Law..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Wells sunk, lakes dredged in
Mandalay Region for better
access to safe water...Indaw Tsp village taps stream...Data Entry Project launched for
workers...Oxygen containers donated to
Mandalay philanthropic group...Motor roads being upgraded in Kachin State...Two injured in Sagaing fire
outbreak...Public notice of wheel tax
forgery...Rural development tasks being undertaken in
Letpadaungtaung Copper Mines Area...Post-primary school upgraded to
BEMS (Branch) in Hsipaw...Basic Shan Literature Courses conclude
in Hsipaw...Commercial teak saplings planted in
Namma forest reserve...Rural library broadens horizons of people
in Nyaunglebin Tsp...Bailey bridges replaced with RC type facilities
on Pathein-Monywa Road...Fighters, helicopters commissioned into service [associated photo: "Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing
sprinkles scented water on new fighter jet"]...Golden Jubilee Myanma
Gems Emporium.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: "We are making constant efforts for standing as a credible,
responsible country in the world community as both supporters
and dissidents would bear the fruits of our reforms" - The following is the translation of President U Thein Sein?s speech through radio programmes to the entire people the length and breadth of the nation [broadcast speech on his visit to the
USA]...PR [Permanent Residence - of foreigners] System aims at benefiting reforms...Union Foreign Affairs Minister meets UNFPA Representative...Myanmar ready to hold ASEAN
chair: Ms Madeleine Albright...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann receives
ROK Deputy National Defence Minister...Delegates to 22nd WEF on
East Asia arrive...Myanmar youth golfers won prizes
in 2013 European Championship...Golden Jubilee Myanma
Gems Emporium...Press Release -
Regarding the recent attacks on Myanmar citizens
working and residing in Malaysia.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Stick to monogamous
relationships".....ARTICLE: "THE TWO SCENES" U Maung Hlaing
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Cooperative works is second economic pillar of the nation ...70-year-old woman dies after being
knocked down by motorbike...Kawthoung: A pleasant town where Statue of Myanmar?s
hero King Bayintnaung stands...100-year-old religious hall sees
short circuit fire in Pyapon...Woman?s dead body found
ashore in Dawei...Knife-wielding armed men raid Htawpaing
forest camp in Bogale Township...More than K 23 million worth of watches stolen
in burglary at shop in Toungoo...Waso Chinlone Festival
in Mandalay reaches 85th
anniversary milestone...Bago FSD keeps public on alert
for flood...Furnishings donated to schools in
Ponnagyun...Murder suspect pleads guilty...Mandalay house burnt down
by fire...Yangon paper shed catches
fire...Dala police arrests two
gambling suspects...Sanitation at drains along
Kyaikwaing Pagoda Road...Outstanding staff honoured in
Kyimyindine Township...Mosquito repellent sprayed
in Ahaya Thukha Market...Heroin seized
from drug
addict suspect...Refresher courses for divers, bus conductors
opened in Yangon...Rail Transportation Ministry to provide
technical assistance to entrepreneurs.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Kawthoung: A pleasant town where Statue of Myanmar?s
hero King Bayintnaung stands...US tech firm introduces
traffic laser in Myanmar...Mandalay Region CCI meets
Thai businessmen...Myanmar Embassy in
Malaysia seeking diplomatic
means to protect Myanmar
citizens...Myanmar migrant worker
dies in worksite accident...Thai embassy donates cash to
fund of MRCS...World Bank (Yangon branch)
opened...Joint Seminar focuses on establishment
of stock exchange.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Historic evolution in Asia".....ARTICLE: "Mr Sushant Palakurthi Rao, Asia Head of WEF: We are very confident with this
excellent forum" By: Maung Maung Myint Swe
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2013-06-03
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2013-06-02
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Narrow gap between urban and rural health care services: President...Third Myanmar Job Fair kicks off...Construction of temporary market for
New Bogyoke market nearing completion...Motorbike accident kills one,
hurts other one in Myinmu...Fire reduces houses to
ashes, leaves victims
homeless in Mandalay...Overturned bus kills one
passenger in Kawthoung
District...Drowsy driver causes car
accident on expressway...Thitlaylon high school branch upgraded to full-fledged BEHS...Abandoned ammunitions
found in Monywa...Abhidhamma course conducted in Mandalay...Illegal teak boards seized in Mansi...School band course concluded in Mohnyin...Passenger
bag stolen on
Mandalay-
Myitkyina train...Drugs seized in Tamu...Child development workshop held in
Mandalay...Urban development and
management discussed...Union Minister meets employers and employees in
Hlinethaya, Shwethanlwin Industrial Zones...English proficiency course
concludes...Kalay-Monywa-Mandalay express coaches change to
Kalay-Gangaw route...Self-reliant school building
opened in Yedashe Tsp...Farming rights certificates
presented in Singaing...Chin traditional Longyi
popular in Magway market...Medics give free medical
treatment to patients in Paung...A 10-wheeled truck
overturns in Khamaukgyi
Township, hurts seven
workers...Nay Pyi Taw Police Force
grants stipends to offspring of
police staff...Myanmar Engineering Council draft law discussed prior to its submission to
parliament.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein
felicitates Italian President, PM...Union FM felicitates Italian
counterpart...Myanmar parliamentary delegation leaves
for Germany.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Man behind the wheel".....ARTICLES: "He wards off natural disaster"
Maha Saddhamma Jotika dhaja
Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt... "22nd WEF to focus social, economic development
opportunities and challenges of Myanmar, East Asia" By: Maung Maung Myint Swe
Photos: A M Soe
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DOMESTIC NEWS: No one hurt in sudden partial collapse of
building under construction...Two men charged for impersonating
police officers...Motorbike thefts from staff quarters in
Nay Pyi Taw Zabuthiri Township exposed...Meiktila Highway Bus Terminal to be
relocated...Liaison
offices to be
opened in
border areas...Farming rights certificates
presented in Phaungpyin
Township...Three artesian wells sunk in Tatkon Tsp...One killed in motorcycle
accident...Stipends
granted for
children...Preventive measures against DHF conducted
in Sittway...Township MCWA donates
books to book corner...Myanmar Gazette...Homeless victims get shelters in Lashio...New Dhammayon building handed over
in Nay Pyi Taw...Myanmar
Internet
Freedom Forum
on 1 June...Concrete roads emerge one after another in
Pyapon...Talks on reproductive health activity in NyaungU...1st Myanmar Senior PGA
Championship 6-7 June...Ownerless cows seized in
Kyauktan Township...Mongshu dwellers to get electricity...Union Peace-Making Work Committee, KIO sign agreement after
three-day peace talks...Hledan Overpass put into service.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Thilawa Special Economic Zone in pipeline,
Myanmar, Thailand committed to success of Dawei Special Economic Zone...Myanmar participates in
Global Timber Forum...H&T Ministry, Hanns Seidel
sign tourism promotion...6th EITI Global Conference held...Myanmar military delegation tour Bangkok...Pyithu Hluttaw Fundamental Rights of the
Citizens, Democracy and Human Rights Committee
Chairman receives legal expert of ICJ...Pyithu Hluttaw
Speaker receives
Philippine Ambassador...Union Foreign Minister
receives Kuwaiti lawmaker.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "A source of hope".....ARTICLE: "No To Tobacco" By Maung Hlaing
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2013-05-31
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Union Minister pledges assistance from governments
and UN for Kachin IDPs...Hline Township performs
preventive measures against DHF...Side-by-side crash between truck and
motorbike kills one rider...27th branch of YMBA formed
in NyaungU...Two men killed as truck ploughs
into tree on Yangon-Mandalay
Highway...Brake failure blamed for truck
rollover accident in Lashio...Hit-and-run car accident suspect
identified after he hands himself
into police...Green light given to five private insurance companies...New Ngamwegon village primary school
handed over...Two die in road accident in Mongphyat...More than 200 cases of Potassium
deprivation reported at Yamethin Hospital...School enrollment activities
launched in Kanpetlet...School enrollment activities
kick off in Theinni...Educative
talk on DHF
organized in
Myitkyina...Preventive measures against DHF carried
out in Tatkon...Sanitation tasks carried out in Hsipaw...World No Tobacco Day observed...Initial agreement on computerization of Central
Bank of Myanmar reaches with Daiwa...Three police killed in
skirmish...Yangon Region organizes
school enrolment day...New library building opened in Karlay of
Kholan Sub-Tsp...Household registration skills
course organized...Traffic rules surprise checks
conducted in Mandalay...20 kilograms of ICE seized...Duties assigned for
implementation of plans...Comprehensive Education Sector Review to be
carried out in three phases.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Minister pledges assistance from governments
and UN for Kachin IDPs...UCSB Chairman receives Dutch,
Norwegian delegations...Workshop on Extractive Industries
Taxation held...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing receives Lt-Gen Tarnchaiyan Srisuwan
and party from Royal Thai Armed Forces...Myanmar bags two gold, six
silver, 10 bronze in 2nd SEA
Vovinam Championship...Amyotha Hluttaw Bill
Committee Chairman receives
officials of Asia-Pacific Group
on Money Laundering.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "To end poverty".....
ARTICLE: "Tonkan-Metmung Road emerges to provide smooth
transportation between Myanmar, China" Byline: Maung Maung Myint Swe
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EXECUTIVE: Republic of the Union of Myanmar
President Office
Notification No 50/2013
5th Waning of Kason, 1375 ME
(29 May, 2013.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Candle
fire claims
lives of two
children...Fire-razed area sees land
preparations in Meiktila...Head-on motorbike collision kills
one, hurt two others in Bago
...Mandalay couple found dead on railway tracks...Criminal case leads to riots in Lashio...Educative talks given in
Mandalay...K 536 bln revenue collected
from automobile imports...Free dental care provided in
Dawei Sitagu Hospital...Diploma courses in Lashio
conclude...Radiology Department opened
in Mone station hospital...Two die in Mandalay rail accident...Truck plunges on new Strand Road...One dies in car crash on muddy road in
Kyaukme Tsp...MEDICINES DONATED TO SANGHA
HOSPITAL [photo]...Seminar on economic and administrative
reforms organized...Meiktila District to launch
anti-DHF driven in early
monsoon season...School
building
handing over
ceremony held...School enrolment launched
from 23 to 31 May...Maezali Village of Katha
Township gets a new school
building...Second leg of 2nd Junior Golf Myanmar
Tournament-2013 on 6-7 June...On-job training Course for Ward
Administrator (1/2013) concluded...Phayathonzu Sub-Township facilitated with
asphalt road...Progress seen in ongoing
peace talks between
UPMWC, KIO delegation...Storm news.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Vice-President U Nyan Tun receives delegation of World Bank...Myanmar, the Netherlands organize Seminar Towards
Safe and Sustainable Water Management in Myanmar...Myanmar women?s football team
given a hero?s welcome...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing awarded Knight
Grand Cross (First Class) of the Most Noble Order of
the Crown of Thailand...Myanmar host U-14 Asian
Cup qualifiers...Coord meeting on making Hajj pilgrimages held...Norway?s Oil for
Development Program
delegation meets chairmen
of Pyithu Hluttaw
committees...Myanmar, Indonesia discuss mily cooperation...Pyithu Hluttaw Deputy Speaker receives
legal expert of ICJ...Amyotha Hluttaw committee
chairmen and party meet
Norwegian delegation...Myanmar hands over elephant with fully grown tusks
to Sri Lanka.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Narrow knowledge gap".....
ARTICLE: "2013 World No Tobacco Day" Dr Aung Tun (Ministry of Health)
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2013-05-30
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Bay Bulletin...Yangon bus lines to see
systematic reformation soon...Talks on development of fish and
meat production sector held...Building collapses, kills three
during demolition...Unattended mosquito coils blamed
for two house fires in Mandalay...Ten-wheeled truck in blaze in Tachilek...Cooperative Business Centre to be opened soon...Respects paid to teachers at Mandalaylan
BEPS...Sittway Health Department providing
healthcare at relief camps...Fire breaks out in Myittha...Overheated
regulator causes
fire outbreak in
Mawlamyine...CSCs issued in Muse Township...Han Golf Classic Golf
Tourney (Yangon) concludes...Zingyaik hydropower plant to be privatized...Union Peace-making Work Committee Vice-Chairman
meets townselders, national race leaders in Myitkyina...Bago No. 3 BEHS organizes
school enrollment activity...Yoechaung bridge put into
service in Padaung Township...Beautifying tasks being
undertaken in Pakokku...?Sympathy? donates water to rural people...One dead in motorcycle-car collision in
Nyaunglebin...MPF launches
emergency, complaint-handling
phone lines...122 bags of caffeine weighing
3050 kilos seized...Union Peace-making Work Committee holds talks
on peace process with KIO delegation...Materials, books on making arms seized in
Tachilek.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Vice-President U Nyan Tun receives Minister of
Infrastructure and Environment of the Netherlands and party...Japanese designer makes
sportswear for XXVII
SEA Games...Chairman of UCSB deserves high
praise by Sehan University...Japan, Myanmar to cooperate in agricultural sector.....
"PERSPECTIVES":"Put in place a good
investment climate".....
ARTICLE: "Urban transport and road network of Greater
Yangon Strategic Development Plan" Byline: Ko Thet (Botahtaung)
Photo: Khin Maung Win (Kyemon)
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2013-05-29
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Two riders dead in head-on collision between
passenger bus and motorbike...Three-year-old child missing
after motor boat capsizes...Mistaken accelerator push causes crash in
Mandalay...TE truck knocks down, kills woman pedestrian...Three religious edifices of ancient Mandalay
Palace to be restored...Second Yangon ICT Show organized...Paleku-Yankin road in Yebyu Tsp upgraded...Shwe Myeik Maung library to
be established in Myeik...Dawei starts
school
enrollment...CSCs issued in Kyauktan...One killed in electric short
circuit...Elite donates car to
Myanmar Golf Federation...Farming rights certificates
presented in Mongshu...Work coord meeting on aviation safety held...Arms and ammunition seized in Hsenwi Tsp...Beikman Thit Library put into
service in Sagaing Township...MCDC to generate power from wastes...Pyapon fire engulfs one
building...First News Photo
exhibition in
Mandalay...CSCs issuance, household
registration issued...Condition of Southwest
Monsoon Advancement.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Vice-President U Nyan Tun receives CNPC Chairman...Japan considers continued assistance
important for Myanmar?s reform progress...Myanmar women?s football
team qualifies for AFC
Women?s Cup...Japan?s gift for Myanmar
traffic police corps...Deputy education minister, JICA?s Senior
Representative meet...Japan, Myanmar agree grant aid to Myanmar - Exchange of Notes concerning Grant Aid to Myanmar...Talk on
?Industrial
Policy and
Globalization?
held...Myanmar sees import of over
170,000 automobiles in 19 months...Japan announces its Work coord meeting on aviation safety held
assistance for Myanmar?s
infrastructural development - Signing of Exchange of Notes concerning Yen
Loan to Myanmar...Liaison Officer Training
Course (2/2013) commences...11 students from National Culture and Fine
Arts University leave for Japan...Sector-wise working group meeting of Myanmar
and development partnerships held...Procter & Gamble (P&G)?s water donation reaches six
billion liters.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Better economic operations and
services".....
ARTICLES: "GMS Highways provides potential for prosperity" By
Maung Maung
Myint Swe..."Come and visit Inlay Lake"
Byline: Naing Tun, Nay Myo Thurein
Photo: Htay Aung (Kyemon)
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2013-05-28
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Myawady Industrial Zone implementation
process in progress...Leaking gas pipeline in Insein Township
repaired in time...Dala dwellers provided with free Health
health care service of specialists...Sagaing Region Chief Minister attends school
building opening ceremonies...Eight-legged buffalo born
dead...Basic Life Support Training for Ambulance
Crew commences at Mandalay Orthopaedic
Hospital...Pyu man who swallowed
seven nails survives...One died in motorcycle
accident in Thabeikkyin...Villagers invade government
farm...Three injured in motorbike head-on collision
in Wundwin...Publications, periodicals contributed to MLF...Ananda replica pagoda in Kawthoung fixed
with new religious objects...Over 25 grams of heroin
seized in Mawlu...Man charged
for fire in
Mandalay...Summer paddy gets good price...MPF launches
emergency, complainthandling
phone lines...Road to Yangon West
University concreted...Padeegon of Thegon Township
gets self-reliant transformer.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein rolls out red carpet for Japanese PM -
Japan vows to provide 91000 million yen worth of
development aid to three main sectors in Myanmar...Myanmar selected Vovinam team leaves
for Cambodia...Indonesia conceals [sic - meaning?]three
points in its away match with Myanmar...Myanmar U-23 football team ready for home
and away international friendly matches...Red Cross Society Office
opened in Monghsat Township...Myawady Industrial Zone implementation
process in progress...Myanmar-Japan business
meet...President U Thein Sein hosts luncheon to Japanese PM...Myanmar, Japan cordial ties date back to days of yore - Myanmar should continue to maintain her appealing, inspiring traditions to gain respect from international community...Appointment of
ambassador agreed on...Myanmar and Japanese leaders welcome comprehensive assistance projects
ongoing or under consideration by relevant organizations including
Government of Japan and NGOs and confirm to further promote cooperation...Joint Statement between the
Republic of the Union of
Myanmar and Japan
-New Foundation for Mutual
Friendship-...Myanmar golfers leave
for Scotland...Myanmar, Japan to promote relations in all sectors in future.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "National unity or internal
peace"
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2013-05-27
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2013-05-27
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DOMESTIC NEWS: State of the
Sea...Illegal teak, hardwood seized in
Mawlamyine District...Drowning death of drunken young man
in garden lake...Ward dwellers worry over leaky gas pipeline...Squalls with
wind gusts lash
Pathi Village
in Twantay
Township...MYANMAR GAZETTE...Ancient Buddha Image
stolen in Bagan...Parliamentary commission
probes land grabs in
Natmauk...Stormy winds destroy
school building...Fire breaks out in Yaksawk...Course on Buddhist culture
conducted...Tax service unit opened in
Mandalay...Working Groups formed for
development of rural meat and
fish sectors...Meiktila victims support group
formed...Farmland Management
Committee meeting held in
Haka...Rural health branch opened in Naungtaya...MPF launches
emergency, complaint-handling
phone lines...Children of staff get cash assistance...Student kits for primary students in Mohnyin...Htilin Township turns out
midwives.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Profile of Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo
Abe and Mrs. Akie Abe...Profile of Mrs.
Akie Abe...President U Thein Sein meets Leaders of US
Senate, House of Representatives...Bago Region Chief Minister meets
Japanese guests...Thai team crowned with
success in men?s 100 km team
event...12 men, eight women exposed before
departure for neighbouring country...Cannon of second Anglo-Myanmar war
unearthed at People?s Square...Japan to help Myanmar in
Postal Service Development...Counterfeit Myanmar banknotes seized
from Thai nationals...ICCG donates medical equipment...Kyunsu Township to receive
USD 80 million aids from
World Bank...President U Thein Sein back home...Preliminary workshop for Myanmar?s
REDD+ projects held...International
AIDS
Candle Light
Memorial
organized...Surgical operation equipment
donated to Gangaw Hospital...General Electric Offices opened in Nay Pyi Taw,
Yangon...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Speaker U Khin Aung
Myint receives NDI?s
chief...Trade and Investment Agreements between
Myanmar and US inked...Information committee, US experts discuss transparency timeliness in
information.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Vesak Day".....
ARTICLE: "Press freedom is a foundation for democratic society, plays a role in democratic transition" (continued from yesterday) By - Thadin Lu Lin..."Kason, the month of festival of Environmental greening" Maha Saddhamma Jotika dhaja
Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt.....POEM: "Sacred Bodh Gaya"
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Consecration of Thatta Thattaha
Maha Bodhi Pagoda held...Four arrested in attempted taxi robbery...Upper-class carriage of commuter trains
draws interest of railway users...Upgrading of wooden bridge into suspension
facility ongoing in Indaw Township...Truck rollover accident on downward path of
Muse-Lashio-Mandalay Union Highway...Loaded train collides with
trailer at railway crossing in
Yedashe Township...Pyinmana sees
two fires in
single day...Magway District marks
International Day Against
Drug Abuse and Illicit
Trafficking...Circular road built in Shwezigon Pagoda...Fire breaks out in Bago...Dorm opened
in Meiktila
Nursing
Training
School...Free healthcare provided by traditional
medicines team...CSCs issued in Kalay...CSCs granted in Mongyai...Free eye treatments provided in Muse...Youth Liaison officers
course No. 3 (Yangon)
concludes...Thatta
Thattaha
Maha
Bodhi
Pagoda,
magnificent
image of
Nay Pyi
Taw...Pagodas in Nay Pyi Taw packed with
devotees on Fullmoon Day of Kason...Kyaiklat Pagoda Creek Bridge reopened...Beigon Bridge being rebuilt...One dead, 23 injured as car
overturns on
Myotha-Myingyan Road...Ownerless cows seized in
Phayagyi...Cash donated to Beigon
Monastery...Band course organized...Farmers hire threshers for
summer paddy harvest...YGH to use PET/CT scan in early 2014...Mandalarians perform meritorious deeds
at religious edifices.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar, Chinese
businessmen meet...Japanese company seeks car
export to Myanmar...Talk on Natural Resources:
Blessing or Curse? held...Myanmar-China antihuman
trafficking talks...Myanmar delegation visits Centres of
Excellence in western coastal areas of US...World Malaria Day 2013 observed...Japanese PM arrives in Myanmar...Japanese PM?s visit serves as opportunity
to lay down foundation for turning a new
page in history -
Japanese PM?s Message to the Myanmar People.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "English Language
Proficiency"
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2013-05-25
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Construction of arrival and Transport
departure building for
Aung Mingalar bus terminal
sees 60 per cent completion...Kawhmu fish farm murder
suspect under custody...Fish farm worker dead in quarrel over debt in
Twantay Township...Man dies of hanging himself in Zabuthiri
Township...Mon State hopes to see a lower
amount of fire cases this year...Rounds of
ammunitions, hand grenades
unearthed in Sittway Township...Kawthoung landslide destroys
primary school?s retaining wall...Teak saplings provided to
villagers in Hsipaw Township...Matric classes opened in
Myeik 10 days ahead of start
of academic year...Yangon social
group sinks
two artesian
wells...Sitagu eye hospital plans free eye care...Vendors vote against major
renovation of Kalay market...Low-priced SIM cards sold in
Yangon...First conference of
Myanmar Pharmacists
Association held...Passenger bus rollover kills
11, hurts 16...Bago development in good shape...Fire breaks out in Bago...Educative talks held in
Technological University (Myeik...Integrated farming system in
Kyaukhtu Township...Maintenance of village water
lake in Pakokku Township...Tha Khin Lay bus line launched
in Katha...Stimulant tablets seized in Toungoo...Sleeping drunken man killed
by train in Latpadan...Illegal
cows seized
in Waw
Township...Cleaner dies of electric shock...Gamblers seized in Pyu Township...Work permits granted to five insurance
companies...State of the Sea...Outlook for subsequent two days.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Japanese PM Mr Shinzo Abe visits Martyrs? Mausoleum, Japanese
Cemetery, Letyetsan BEPPS, Thilawa Special Economic Zone...Yangon Region Chief
Minister attends opening
of GE International Office...Japanese soldier?s remains
found in Indaw Township...Myanmar U-23 to play
friendly with MNL All Stars...Japanese PM addresses Myanmar-Japan Business Seminar...Myanmar labour, employment & social security
delegation arrives back from Japan...Myanmar weightlifting
delegation leaves for China...Mrs Akie Abe visits nunneries, youth development center in Yangon.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Manners before learning".....ARTICLE: "MWEA, reliable for the State in business management" Byline: Moe Thuzar Soe
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2013-05-26
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Workshop on promoting education
standard held...One dead, another
hospitalized after knife fight...Man stabs himself twice after
stabbing wife to death...Man stabs himself twice after
stabbing wife to death...Search for missing passengers of sinking boat
in Yangon River ongoing...Mandalay Region Chief Minister visits relief
camps in Meiktila...Fire breaks out
in Tamway Tsp...Yezagyo Township gets more
900 SIM cards in May...Seminar on mobile
technology held in Mandalay...Bago prepares to prevent flood...Magway Region ANA invites
entries for anti-narcotic
contest...Loans disbursed to members
of cooperative society in
NyaungU...C-in-C of Defence Services meets officers, other
ranks in Magway...Taunggalay Village in Bilin
Tsp gets library...Coordination meeting for private sector development held...Workshop on Disabilities and Rights of
Disabled kicks off...Ottwin Township gets rural
library in Khindan Village...WAO members make field
trips...CDMA 800 MHz SIM cards
sold in Myinmu for second
batch...Padaung rural people enjoy
free health care services...Mandalay Region Health
Care Subcommittee meets...One dead, two injured in
Insein car accident...Seven got injured in light
truck and 22-wheeled truck
accident.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein meets US Senators...Donation of Elite Tech Group
of Companies for MGF...Myanmar entrepreneurs
leave for Thailand...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker meets Swiss President
of the Council of States...Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, Amyotha Hluttaw
receives President of the Council of States of Switzerland...Myanmar, Japan discuss religious matters...Mawlamyine University
opens three-storey buildings...Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham attends 2nd day of 10th
Anniversary Celebration of the United Nations Day of Vesak...Vice-President U Nyan Tun receives Swiss
President of the Council of States...Ambassador Thura U Thet
Oo Maung concurrently
accredited to Turkey.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Our future in colour".....
ARTICLES: "ASEAN Highway-123 linking Dawei Deep
Sea Port and Thailand" Byline: Maung Maung Myint Swe;
Photo: Kyaw Thu Win..."Press freedom is a foundation for democratic society, plays a role in democratic transition" By- Thadin Lu Lin
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2013-05-23
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HLUTTAW SESSIONS: Ordinance No (1/2013) approved by
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw [Pyidaungsu Hluttaw 2nd and concluding day].....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: State of the
Sea...Theft of cash and belongings
at Toungoo hospital exposed
during few hours...Kawlin Township police
force steps up crackdown
on drug traffickers...Four young men taken into
police custody for their acts of
vandalism...Illegal teak seized on bullock
cart...Tragic drowning death of four-year-old boy
in Thongwa Township...Man dies of being run over by
train...Domino effect crash on
Yangon-Mandalay Highway...Rollover crash of loaded truck on Yangon-
Paung, 21 May— A Mawlamyine Highway...2nd Conference on Media Development in Myanmar concluded...Conference demonstrates strong support for current
media reforms in Myanmar...Seven culprits sentenced for
killing monk, arson attack in
Meiktila conflict...Mandalay grows shade trees on traffic
islands...Paddy and
other crops
thriving
in Sagaing
Township...Car donated for social
services group...NyaungU farmers upbeat after early monsoon...Free journalism English course
opened...Ceremony to supply water from
spring held...Bull show held in Nyaunglebin...Cash and kind provided
to victims of relief camps in
Meiktila...Illegal commodities seized at
junction of roads to Sittoung
Bridges...MPF launches
emergency, complaint-handling
phone lines.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: "Myanmar will continue reform
process, move forwards" - President U Thein Sein...
"The United States will help
Myanmar achieve success" - President Barack Obama...Conference leaders vow to reduce
Asia-Pacific water problems...President U Thein Sein receives former US Secretary of State,
World Bank President...Myanmar National-level Leading
Committee of PATROL meets...President U Thein Sein attends round-table
discussion of ASEAN Business Council and US
Chamber of Commerce...Cycling Contest for Pre-
SEA Games...With the help of neighbours, the strength of people,
with the help of American people, we will succeed...Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham attends 10th Anniversary
Celebration of the United Nations Day of Vesak...UNOPS holds workshop in
Nay Pyi Taw.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Set in motion a system
where students can be fit
and healthy"
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2013-05-22
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2013-05-23
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Free parking lots construction meets 75
per cent completion in Yangon...MFF to form eight work committees
for development of fisheries sector...State of the
Sea...Hlinethaya-Sint O-dan water transport
service to change its schedule...Vehicle stalled on tracks of approaching train...Seizure of marijuana in
Kyaikto Township...Yangon-Mawgyun passenger vessels in regular
operation...Inlay Lake waterlevel rising...Fishery inputs prices soaring...Heavy rains inundate roads in Mandalay...CSCs issued
in Loikaw...National Power Grid starts supplying Mongyai...Mandalay regional plan
duties assigned...Mandalay regional plan
duties assigned...Old bomb unearthed in
Phaungpyin...High-speed car goes for tea in
Toungoo...Dawei District IPRD holds
talks on reading habit...Toungoo Auxiliary Fire
Brigade honoured...Certificates presented to student
monks, laypersons in Mongnai...Mining companies in Shan State (East) meets...Traffic accident occurrs in
Kyaukse...Plan underway to construct detour in Meiktila...Free eye
surgery
performed
in Khamti
Township...Historic pagoda collapses in
TadaU...SWD opens drug addict treatment
and rehabilitation course...Moontaekwin-Kyitaung-Khawma-Nay Pyi Taw
ring road construction gaining momentum.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein visits Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library and Museum...Zeyar Shwe Myay FC,
Singtech ink sponsorship
deal...Abe to make 3-day visit
to Myanmar from next
Friday...Myanmar would be able to restore former status before
1960s: President U Thein Sein...Myanmar, ROK keen on strengthening
diplomatic ties...Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham attends Second Asia-Pacific Water Summit in
Chiang Mai of Thailand.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Coordinated and
synergetic efforts".....
ARTICLES: "Bayintnaung Bridge No.2 to help curb
traffic chaos" Byline &
Photo:
Kayan
Soe Myint..."Kawthoung: A worthwhile place to visit" Byline: Kyaw Soe (Kawthoung)
Source/publisher:
News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar
Date of publication:
2013-05-20
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2013-05-22
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HLUTTAW SESSIONS: [Pyidaungsu
Hluttaw special session, 1st day] Proposal about declaration of the state of
emergency submitted.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: MFF President meets Myanmar
women?s football team...Car and bike crash kills one on bicycle...Company worker?s death Crime
under investigation...Staff vehicles get caught in stone attack of vendors...Mongkai accessible to everyone by road...Water supply satisfies thirsty Dala wards...Government?s action is just to intimate relationship between ?pluralist media
space? and the exercise of ?social responsibility model? media culture...Although the government?s money is involved, it is
important to acknowledge to the public, that the government
is not controlling its Public Service Media...Meiktila University gets new three-storey
facility...Ingyin market funeral service
group marks first birthday...YeU primary school repaired...MEB relaxes banking
procedures...Over 60,000 SIM cards to be
sold in Mandalay this month...Global Business
Association Co
donates clothes for
Sagaing, Mandalay
quake victims...Gokdwin road on Mandalay-Muse Union Highway needs repair...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker stresses ways and means to end all
industrial disputes...Senior Level Officials Management Course
No. 1 at CICS (Phaunggyi)...Every civil servant should abide by the civil
service law: Union SWRR Minister...USDP members
delegation visit
Hluttaw...Painting, cartoon, poster and computer
painting contest held in Pakokku...CCA introduced to teachers in Pyuntaza...Citizenship scrutiny cards issued in Pauk...Kyaukkyi gets Phupwintsa
Library...Hluttaw representatives meet
locals in Chanayethazan Township...Quadruplets twins welcomed at Thaton
People?s Hospital...Drainage system to be improved in
Nyaunglebin Tsp...Publication of measures of ministries concerned for complaints sent to Public
Service Capacity Assessment Committee.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Prime Minister of Japan and wife
to pay a visit to Myanmar soon...President U Thein Sein visits Home of US first President
George Washington...International Scouts meet Myanmar
counterparts...Mandalay
Region Chief
Minister
meets Indian
guests...President U Thein Sein gives interview to
CNN, Washington Post media men...XXVII SEA Games? game logo, game marks,
game mascot caution...It is imperative to overcome water-related crises through regional collaboration
Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham addresses second Asia-Pacific Water Summit.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Social responsibility model"
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2013-05-21
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2013-05-22
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CYCLONE MAHASEN: Tatmadawmen send storm
victims back homes.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Headlong plunge of speedy truck from Thiri
Mingalar bridge in Sagaing...Man dies of wasp stings in
downtown Yangon...IWT?s ferry service in regular operation...Rusty wartime bomb unearthed in railway yard...Seizures of illegal teak and
hardwood in Sagaing, Magway and
Ayeyawady Regions...Middle-aged woman with history of mental
illness hanged herself in Labutta Township...Two-digit banker faces
arrest in Sagaing Township...Haul of tramadol capsules
seized in Tachilek...YeU storm-hit primary
school yet to get repaired...Meiktila police to take a tough line on
trafic rules violations...Buddhist cultural course opened in
Natmauk...Basic commodity
prices show signs
of soaring...
Deputy Minister visits fire
station in Tachilek...Midwifery course opened in Natmauk...Villages in Yamethin to be
electrified by solar energy...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker meets Myanmar Engineering
Society...Cash assistance for eye
surgery...Zichaung Power Plant to increase supply
soon...Quality
paddy seeds
production
course
conducted
in Dawei...CCA course opened in Kalay...Stake driven for building
new primary school...People apply for low-priced
SIM Card...Over 2.3 million allocated
for development fund in
Kyaukpadaung...Old lamp-posts replaced in
West Shwesigon Ward...Muse mine blast kills one...Outstanding Ayeyawady people honoured...Twenty-three prisoners
granted amnesty.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein
Sein leaves for the
United States to pay a
working visit...Statement by the Press Secretary on the
visit of President U Thein Sein...Basic commodity
prices show signs
of soaring...Myanmar delegation attends Offshore
Technology Conference (OTC) 2013...Union Foreign Affairs Minister
congratulates Malaysian
counterpart...Myanmar, ROK signs MoU on economic cooperation...Skills Malaysia-Invite Programme introduced.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Family"
.....ARTICLE: "Silted creeks dredged in Bago District for
prevention of floods" Byline: Peinzalok Thein Nyunt
Photo: Yan Aung Tun (Peinzalok)
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2013-05-18
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2013-05-18
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Implementation of housing
projects inspected...Mawlamyine car show...Significant day
temperatures
(18-5-2013)...Tragic death of drowned two-year-old in
Thongwa Township...Six hurt in mechanical failure–related road accident...Counterfeit bills found at bank
in Insein...Speedster crashes into concrete
blocks...Riders hurt in head-on collision
between two motorbikes...Car plunges into trench on
expressway...Smuggled cattle seized in
Kawa Township...Lightning kills two head of
cattle in Yamethin Township...Ministry of Education
School Enrolment Week
From (27) to (31) May -
People to participate in
enrolment of all school-going
age children...Multiplier course on child-centered
approach conducted in Thazi Tsp...Myanmar artists remember ex-UNSG...Thongwa Tsp opens multiplier course on
child-centered approach...Immigration
issues CSCs
to citizens in
Mandalay...Banks Supervisory Committee meets...Elite Tech Open Golf
Championship 2013 concludes...Union Minister visits CVT
training school...Mobile library in operation in Yaksawk
Township...Sanitation carried out in Sagaing...Birthday party for hip conjoined twins at
Mandalay Children?s Hospital...Farming work permits presented in Kalay...Three old grenades found in
Mohnyin...Falam gets more water...Digging of drinking water
lake in Padaung Township...Powered trailer fire burns
three houses...Loan disbursed to cooperative societies in Yaksawk
Township...Head-on motor bike collision
leaves three injured...Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham and wife attend ceremony
to honour monks who passed Tipitaka examination...Union A & I Minister views
harvesting of Palethwe summer paddy...CAD/CAM jewellery
designing workshop.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein leaves for US...Toyota opens auto repair workshop in Yangon...Yangon, Akita universities
seek to cooperate in mining...Myanmar artists remember ex-UNSG......Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham leaves for Thailand...Loikaw hosts Myanmar-Thai business
consultation.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Road slaughter".....
ARTICLE: "Mandalay-Lashio-Muse road: A trade route for Thai,
Myanmar, China, India" Byline: Maung Maung Myint Swe
Photo: Kyaw Thu Win
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2013-05-19
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2013-05-18
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CYCLONE MAHASEN: Vice-President U Nyan Tun calls for parallel
focus on preparation and rehabilitation tasks...Labutta prepares to face
cyclone...Muse prepares for cyclone impacts...Kungyangon on alert as
Cyclone Mahasen nears...No people faces life-threatening condition in
Rakhine State during Cyclonic storm Mahasen...Cyclone News...Cyclonic Storm (Mahasen)
crosses Bangladesh Coasts...Rakhine State Chief
Minister inspects
evacuation efforts in
Sittway..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Passengers hurt in rollover
crash on expressway...New bus for Myanmar selected
football players...Robbery suspects, caught within a day in
Dawbon Township...Bride dies in apparent suicide
in Myaungmya Township...One inmate escapes from
Bago correctional facility...Three piglets born with physical
deformity in Nay Pyi Taw
Zeyathiri Township...Dhammayon in Nay Pyi Taw
handed over...Burnt car remains at scene
for three months...Kyaikhtiyoe Pagoda BOT
elected...Educative talk on disaster risk
management given in Dagon
Myothit (South) Township...Lashio to receive more
electricity...Health care services given at relief camps in
Sittway...Mandalay
Region holds
contests...University/colleges
mountaineers honoured...Solar panels in high demand in Mohnyin...Administrators proficiency course opened in
Thandaunggyi...Cold season groundnut
production boosted in Katha
Township...CCA course opened in Mingin
Township...Fire engine donated in Katha...MRCS provides aid to strong
wind victims...RAILWAY STATION UPGRADED [photo]...Partly damaged cars to be confiscated and
sent to foundry...Two injured in Monghsat plane accident...Evacuees provided with health care services...Assistance provided to war victims...Border guard force gives medical
treatment in Matmung Sub-township.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Kyodo News Agency opens
Yangon branch...Japan?s non-Profit Grant Aid signed...MAI, Asiana ink codeshare deal...Tentative U-23 selected Myanmar
football team formed with 30 players...Myanmar boat race team targets more golds in SEA Games...Myanmar-Vietnam discussion
on 6 June...Myanmar fashion designers to take part in
2013 ASEAN Fashion Week.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Top the chart of rice
exporters"
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2013-05-17
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2013-05-16
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CYCLONE MAHASEN: Some people in Rakhine State moved to safer places...Nearly 70,000 local people moved to
places of safety in Rakhine State...Disaster preparedness
information on notice board
for public awareness...State is taking care of victims on humanitarian ground,
without racial and religious discriminations...Press conference on preparations for cyclonic
storm ?Mahasen? held...Cyclone warning.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Yangon installs CCTV cameras to keep a close watch
on possible danger of fire...Kawkareik man killed in old mine blast...Food poisoning after having
boiled tapioca in Myeik...Man wounded after stepping
on mine...Lightning strike kills trailer
driver in Htantabin Township...Kitchen fire reduces one
house to ashes in Pakokku
Township...Flood [photos]...Two houses get caught in ember
fire in Hpa-an Township...Shop fire in Lanmadaw Township...Two minor fire outbreaks in
Yangon ignited by negligence...Religious leaders hold interfaith
dialogue in Myitnge...Mandalay Region minister
inspects city?s traffic flow...Cash and kind donated to
Meiktila conflict victims...Nay Pyi Taw staff quarters
prone to thefts...Mani Sithu market cooperatives
society disburses loans to
vendors...Water donated to villages in
Padaung Tsp...Yamethin Township Sasana Beikman opens...Announcement released to inform the public of relaxation of restrictions to be undertaken by
the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology which have been submitted to the
Public Service Capacity Assessment Committee
Relaxation of procedures on licence and recommendation needed in doing ICT business...MYANMAR GAZETTE...Necessary assistance, health care for
homecoming of locals given...Slight earthquake hits inside
Myanmar...YCDC constructs more car parks...Press conference
on tender selection
for construction of
an incinerator and
methane gas plants
held...MPF launches
emergency, complaint-Water treatment plant, No.8 pumping
station provide enough drinking water to
Mandalarians...handling
phone lines...Door-to-door medical talks given...Natogyi sees dredging of lakes...Second Leg of Elite Tech Open Golf
Championship 2013 kicks off.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Khan receives Australian guests...IFAD to grant USD 36 million loans to Myanmar...Third Border Liaison Office for Myanmar-
China anti-trafficking (Laukkai-Nansan) opens...Myanmar?s trade, economy and
power supply discussed...Shwe Myanmar Airline launches
Yangon-Bangkok-Yangon flight...Myanmar becomes member of Global Sun Movement...Pre-SEA Games funfair at People?s square on 17 May.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Educational reform: Where
to start from?"
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2013-05-16
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CYCLONE MAHASEN - EXECUTIVE: Republic of the Union of Myanmar
President Office -
Notification No. (45/ 2013)
5th Waxing of Kason, 1375 ME
14th May, 2013
Formation of National Natural Disaster Preparedness
Central Committee...Republic of the Union of Myanmar
President Office
Notification No. (46/2013)
5th Waxing of Kason, 1375 ME
14th May, 2013
Formation of National Natural Disaster Preparedness
Management Work Committee...OTHER CYCLONE NEWS: Without racial, religious discrimination, relief works
are to be carried out - Life-saving is a must: President...Educating public awareness of cyclonic
storm ?Mahasen? for risk reduction...Kungyangon
Township...Kawthoung
Township...Thanlyin
Township...Insein
Township...Kyunsu
Township...58 missing as boat capsizes in Pauktaw Tsp...Households evacuated in Sittway,
Rakhine State...Vice-President U Nyan Tun inspects disaster risk
reduction, evacuation works...Cyclone warning.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Drunkard found dead in Thongwa...Stimulant tablets confiscated in
Tamway Township...Seizure of narcotics in Mawlu...Man jailed for murdering wife...
Opium discovered from inmate in
Taunglaylon correctional facility...Police in
Momeik seize
two drug
dealers...Tu Tu defeats Win Tun in Myanmar boxing
challenge...Yangon sees 26 fire
outbreaks in April...Kanbawza crown queen of
MNL half season...Police arrests drug abuse
suspect with opium...Ponnagyun writers meet...Committee for implementation of report of investigation
commission on Latpadaungtaung copper mining project meets...Medical equipment donated
for neonatal unit of Central
Women?s Hospital (Yangon)...Dhamma?ariya, Pathamapyan Exams held...Stake driven ceremony for Shwebontha
Dhammayon held...Myeik-Taninthayi-
Mawtaung Road sees new
bus line...Mohnyin downtown tarred
road to be expanded...Village electrification, rebuilding of lake in
Yamethin Township inspected...Gas fire in Lanmadaw Tsp...CCA course opened in Taninthayi...Animals
vaccinated in
Mohnyin...Gun attack at
Myanma oil and
gas block leaves
two dead, three
injured...A&I Ministry honoured for its efforts
for development of agricultural sector
in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area.....
EXECUTIVE (OTHER THAN CYCLONE):Republic of the Union of Myanmar
President Office
Notification No. 47/2013
5th Waxing of Kason 1375
(14th May 2013)
Formation of Yangon City Public Transport Authority.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Push ahead with
democratization process"
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2013-05-15
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2013-05-15
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CYCLONE MAHASEN: Rakhine State government
prepare for Cyclone Mahasen...Storm warning.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: President U Thein Sein calls for microfinance
works to bring real benefits to the poor -
Borrowers are to effectively use loans and repay in full...Man stabbed to death in debtrelated
argument...Hand luggage stolen in three-minute
phone call...Crocodile captured dead in
fisherman?s net in Kyauktan
Township...Heavy rains and strong winds
sweep through Mandalay...Torrential rain pummels Bago with vicious
wind gusts...Four legged baby receiving
treatment at Taunggyi
Children?s hospital...Above 180,000 viss of freshwater fish
supplied to Yangon fish market...Strong wind in Kyauktan
flattens houses...Nawnghkio officials to
address water scarcity...Cash donated to free
dispensary...Roads linking Tamu and
Homalin Districts upgraded...Wundwin traffic police
conduct surprise checks...Eight buildings collapse in
strong wind in Yekyi Tsp...Farming rights certificates
presented...Yamethin farmers get farming
rights certificates...Union Peace-making Work Committee meets
responsible persons of UWSP...MMCWA?s prize-presenting ceremony held...Union Border Affairs Minister inspects works
for development and peace and tranquility of
Rakhine State...Pyapon in desperate need of fresh water...World Books Day in
British Council Library...MPF launches
emergency, complaint-handling
phone lines...Assistance provided to
locals for fly-proof latrines...Stimulant tablets worth K 39 million
seized at entrance to Nawnghkio...Police seize stimulant tablets in
Bahan Township...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker stresses importance of health
promotion in Myanmar...RMGCC 4th anniversary charity golf
tournament on 19 May.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Vietnam wins ASEAN
Taekwondo Championship...Thai rally team visits
Myanmar to promote
Thai-Myanmar tourism...Japan to provide more educational
assistance to Myanmar.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "The role of midwives".....ARTICLE: "Village electrification through solar
system gaining momentum in rural areas" By: Aung Swe (Shwetada)
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2013-05-13
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2013-05-14
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CYCLONE MAHASEN: EXECUTIVE: Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Information Team
Press Release No 8/2013
4th Waxing of Kason, 1375 ME
13th May, 2013.....OTHER CYCLONE NEWS: Works underway to evacuate victims and local people
to safety in Rakhine State...Latest developments of storm covered in real
time in Kawthoung...Myeik dwellers informed real
time coverage of storm news...Evacuation starts in Sittway....Storm News.....
OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Departments concerned, Region/State governments
to help ensure private sector development...Theft of foreigner?s
belongings exposed...Cattle smuggling exposed
after arrest for car crash...Fallen tree kills two, hurts
two others in Moehti Moemi
gold mining region...Officials meet press on Inlay
hotel zone project...Mandalay Region transport minister
visits road construction sites...Interfaith leaders to meet in
Toungoo...Public works repair Bhamo bridge...One Added donates CI sheets
to victim of strong winds...Self-reliant dam built in KhinU Township...Temporary household
registrations misapplied in
low-cost SIM card draws...Four passengers missing as
motorboat capsizes...Fire breaks out in Kyaukse...CCA teaching training multiplier
course opened in Myeik...Five-member armed group
kills two civilians...Meeting on curbing of
thefts in Dhanatheikdhi
ward held...New school building
handed over in Paung...Mohnyin?s 1500-Kyat SIM
cards at 60000 Kyat per unit...Pink stimulant tablets
seized in Muse...Seizure of stimulant
tablets, heroin in
Waingmaw Township...Illegal logging at large in
Mohnyin...Union Peace-Making Work Committee
meets responsible persons of SSPP/SSA...Htikhi border trade camp opened...Low-priced SIM cards sales plans of MPT for May.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Homecoming of two victims
of human trafficking in
Thailand come back home...MSDF vessels to make 1st port call in Myanmar...Myanmar cooperates with Lebanon, ROK in economic sector...UN officials visit Mawlamyine...India-Myanmar bus line to be launched...Myanmar wrestling team
leaves for Turkey, Azerbaijan.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Inlay Lake conservation".....ARTICLE: "A Literary Lifetime Award" By Ba Than
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2013-05-14
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2013-05-14
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Better transportation brings about development of tourism
industry and more job opportunities, thereby contributing to rural
development and poverty alleviation...Kyeekaing village, an emerging
ward of PyinOoLwin Township
Pyin Oo Lwin...Asphyxiation death by smoke inhalation in
Taungtha Township...Ambulance and motorbike get caught in
collision...Firewood-loaded truck
overturns in Bago...Two wounded in head-on
collision between vehicle and
motorbike...Welding-related fire
breaks out in Mandalay...Lightning strike kills man
inside home...Course on
birth-spacing
Jadalle use
opened in
Nay Pyi Taw...Myanmar to extend anti-narcotic project
period for further five years...Farming rights certificates
presented to farmers in
Lewe Township...Illegally extracted logs seized in Ayeyawady
River...Ponnagyun farmers get farming rights certificates...Free
treatment
provided to
eye patients in Hline Tsp...Taungdwingyi police meet
townselders...?Tatlan? library opens in Yenangyoung Tsp...Union Peace-Making Work Committee
meets Special Region (4) Peace and Unity
Committee...Tatmadaw column clears a camp of an armed
group in Shan State (North)...Reckless driving hurts four in Mayangon...Enshrined relics found from pagoda cracks...Solar power for Hsipaw rural
areas...Stimulant tablets seized in
Nawnghkio Tsp...Anti-human trafficking course
opened in Shwepyitha Tsp...Citizenship Scrutiny Cards
issued in Yenangyoung...Taungpyone Village station hospital (16-bed) opens in TadaU Township...IPO seminar held...Announcement [cyclone]...Real time coverage of cyclone news on
dailies, radio and TV channels
Northern part of Rakhine Coast most likely to
experience the storm with heavy rains and squalls
in Magway, Sagaing and Mandalay regions.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Three crew members die of suffocation
in the belly of ship...Union Home Affairs Minister holds talks
with Deputy Minister of Public Security of
Vietnam...Dy Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives EU special rep...Amyotha Hluttaw committee chairman attends 10th
Meeting on the AIFOCOM.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Consumer responsibilities".....ARTICLE: "Traditional Myanma Thanakha"
Shwebo Thiri
Marlar
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2013-05-12
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2013-05-12
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DOMESTIC NEWS: HAN Golf Classic Golf
Tournament 2013 on 25 May...Sparks from loose plug cause shop fire in
Mawlamyine...Fuel shop fire in Kyaukse...Heroin worth K 12.8
million in Moemauk seized...Quarrel over a plate of salt
leads to knife attack...Wind gusts lash Bago...At least 10 passengers hurt in
overturned passenger bus accident...One killed, one
wounded in
hit-and-run car
accident...Potable water donated to water-scarce
villages in central Myanmar...Kawlin police detains drug
addict...Winner in child protection
essay contests awarded in
Pyapon...Myanmar Literary Development Workshop
meets press...Bus and van bump in
Zabuthiri Township...Hole in one...Taninthayi Region Minister meets teachers...School enrollment week set
27th-31st May...Buddhist culture course in Meiktila...World Red Cross Day marked in Mandalay...Caps and duty coats decorated to nurses...Shwetaung Farm in Wundwin to
distribute paddy seeds at low prices...Myitta Street concreted in Myeik...Bay Bulletin.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Vice-President U Nyan Tun receives JX Holdings, JX Inc., Nippon Oil &
Energy Corporation President...MoU between Public Works,
CMAK of ROK signed...Myanmar to accept two
trafficked victims from
Thailand...UMFCCI, UTCC conduct
MBA programme...Myanmar 1, Singapore 0 in U-14
invitational...Myanmar hosts 11th ASEAN Taekwondo
Championship...Systematic sign language
for deaf...UNDP to cooperate in
Myanmar?s educational
reform...Mitsubishi Corporation hands over ten polishing
machines to Mines Ministry...Fortis gives free health care in Mandalay...Pyithu Hluttaw
Speaker receives ROK
Ambassador...Myanmar to cooperate with
EU and Britain in legal affairs...Union
Defence
Minister
arrives back...Union FM receives EU special rep...Construction Ministry, USAID to make
technical cooperation...Good journalists need personal skills
and technical skills.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Literacy and peace process".....
ARTICLES: "New radio towers under construction for
new mobile phone subscribers" By
Myint Maung Soe..."Eco and Pilgrimage Touristic Attraction - Mt. Popa, a floral and volcanic range" Maha Saddhamma Jotika Dhaja
Sithu Dr.Khin Maung Nyunt
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2013-05-11
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2013-05-11
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EXECUTIVE: Public announcement on actions of ministries concerned on letters of suggestion sent
to Public Service Capacity Assessment Committee......
OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: MAI to start thrice-a-week
Yangon-Mandalay flight...Motorcyclist killed in speedrelated
fatal accident...Trawlergy [?] plunges in Ayadaw...Compensation for confiscated farmlands
awarded in Kantbalu Township...Illegal gold miners taken into
custody in Mogok Township...Owner charged over plywood factory food
poisoning...Barber shot dead at his shop in Tachilek...Mobile team seizes illegal good-loaded
light trucks...Slash-and-burn farming torches Sein-ta-lone
mango plantation in Pinlong Township...Free healthcare provided to
elder persons...Mandalay Region Chief Minister visits construction sites...MCDC opens clerical works, computing,
English courses...Library opened in Sedoktara Township...Refresher course for police officers opened...Stakeholder Consultation
Workshop with Myanmar
Dairy Sector Representatives
on Presentation of Draft Dairy
Activities Concept Notes held...Kyaukpadaung Township gets one more
transformer...Phaya Creek
Bridge
upgrading
works meet
cent per cent...Want to donate drinking
water in Twantay Township?...MPF launches
emergency, complainthandling
phone lines...New pylons erected in
Kengtung...Maize farmers earn high income...Nyaungdon Nyaung Chaungtha draws holiday makers...Inlay Lake?s conservation, regional
development tasks briefed...Mawtaung border trade camp
commissioned into service...Myanmar Gazette.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: IFAD to offer USD 36 million of loans for Myanmar?s
farm sector development...NPED Ministry, WB Group jointly organize
Introduction to the World Bank Group...Myanmar secures two gold
medals in 11th ASEAN
Taekwondo Championship...Myanmar delegation attends 46th Annual Meeting of Asian
Development Bank (ADB) and related meetings...11th ASEAN Taekwondo
Championship kicks off...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing meets President of Japan-Myanmar Friendship Association...Ministerial meeting on MoU on drug control
cooperation between six countries held...Conflict reporting course
concludes in Mandalay...President U Thein Sein receives CEO of New York-based
Clinton Health Access Initiative...Vice-President U Nyan Tun receives President
of Japan-Myanmar Friendship Association.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Civic education"
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EXECUTIVE: Republic of the Union of Myanmar
President Office
Notification No.43/2013
13th Waning of Tagu, 1375 ME
(8th May, 2013)
Committee for scrutinizing
the remaining prisoners of
conscience reconstituted...Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Union Government
Notification No. 31/2013
13th Waning of Tagu, 1375 ME
(8 May, 2013)
Formation of Board of
Scrutinizing and Monitoring of
Tax Collection.....DOMESTIC NEWS: Mawlamyine sub-power station
commissioned...Y 2012 sees
most fire
cases in
decade...Landslide kills two gold mine
workers...Tatmadawmen join hands with local people in
drinking water supply...Hit-and-run crash claims two
lives, hurt one on Kaba Aye
Pagoda road...Stake-driving for construction of Kankon Station Hospital
held in Salingyi Tsp...Free rabies vaccine for Mandalarians...Farmers preparing farms after first monsoon
rain in Meiktila...Vocational training courses
opened in Monghsat...Traffic accident leaves three injured...Stimulant tablets seized in
Sangyoung, Thingangyun Tsps...People in Sayay East village in Sagaing happy
with potable water...Makeshift relief camps in
Kyaukpyu and Myebon
Tsps inspected.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein felicitates
Malaysian PM on his re-election...President U Thein Sein receives delegates from
six countries of MoU on drug control cooperation...MFF President clarifies
undertakings for development
of Myanmar football...Union Home Affairs Minister receives UNODC
director, Israeli Ambassador, Thai Minister...Two Myanmar sports contingents go
abroad...CORRECTION: "Please read "Importation of fertilizer, pesticides and
farm implements and
equipment…" instead
of ?Exportation of
fertilizer, pesticides and
farm implements and
equipment…? in second
paragraph of second
column at the Notification
No. 735/2013 of Finance
and Revenue Ministry that
appeared on the front page
in this daily issued on 8-5-
2013.—NLM"...Magway, a tourist attraction with arid climate...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives former Member
of House of Councilors of Japan President of
Japan-Myanmar Friendship Association...Myanmar, Israel eye enhanced cooperation in
agricultural development...MoU on drug control
cooperation Senior Official-
Level meeting held.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Invest in education, but
with new visions".....ARTICLE: "Pin Creek Bridge in Yenangyoung comes into operation"
U Tin Hlaing
(Meiktila)
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DOMESTIC NEWS: LET?S BUILD THE NATION THROUGH PEOPLE?S STRENGTH - Whatever our prospects for a bright future may be, we are still at a
sensitive stage in the reform process where there is little room for error Nay Pyi Taw, 6 May—President U Thein Sein delivered a remark on the Report of the Rakhine Investigation Commission today. The full text of the remark is as follows:- ...Colonial era silver coins unearthed in Chauk...Drinking water supplied to victims at relief
camps in Meiktila...Wind gusts topple down trees, destroy
houses and buildings in Pakokku, Wundwin,
Nawnhkio Townships...Overturned car kills one,
hurts six after crashing into
iron railings of bridge...Seizures of
heroin, raw
opium and
stimulant
tablets in
Myitkyina,
Tachilek...Upgrading of road in
progress in Myeik...Safe water supply for Lashio
dwellers...Two dies in
gold mine
collapse...Unidentified
body found in
Myinmu...Summer vocational courses
conclude...Road Transport Directorate
opens basic driving course in
Taunggyi...Kawlin police
seize drugs...New Ever Light to supply
electricity to Singu, Madaya,
Thabeikkyin Tsps...One house, nine tents burnt down in
Shwepyitha fire...Two cows die in
electric shock...Free medical treatment for locals in Myeik...Citizenship scrutiny cards issued in Ahlon Tsp...New self-reliant library being constructed in
Kyweku Village of Myeik...Buddhist cultural, English
proficiency courses in Hpa-an...Two villages of Twantay hit
by heavy rains, strong winds...Free medical treatment given
to patients with eye complaint
in Ponnagyun...67th Anniversary of Fire
Brigade Day marked...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker calls for an effective law to protect farmers...Water supply works gaining momentum in
Kyaukpadaung Township...Verdicts delivered...Close cooperation between
township management
committee and supportive
committee for development
of township and ward or
village-tract stressed...Coordination centre to be set up for Rakhine victims...Low pressure area.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Microfinance works to
be promoted for poverty
reduction...Myanmar education delegates visit UK...Foreign visits planned for
outstanding students...Road Transport Directorate
discusses JV with 13 companies...Union Attorney-General discusses legal affairs in Singapore...Trademark law under draft to
protect business trademarks.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "The most powerful force" ["qualified human resources"]
ARTICLE: "Deedok waterfall, Yepyar spring attract visitors"
Byline: Aung Kyaw Tun
(Patheingyi)
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EXECUTIVE: Finance and Revenue Ministry
Minister?s Office
Notification No. 735/2013
12th Waning of Tagu, 1375 ME
(Nay Pyi Taw)
7 May, 2013 [tax exemption for fertilizer exports].....DOMESTIC NEWS: Union Health Minister
visits Central Medical
Store Depot...Only 16 killed in Kalaw gold
mine landslide...Head-on collision of two motorbikes kills
one, hurts two others...Heroin, stimulant tablets
seized in Tamu...Yedashe, Taungdwingyi, Hsinbaungwe, Kyaukpadaung,
Nattalin get caught in squalls of rain...Elevator service for pilgrims
at northern stairway of
Shwedagon resumes...Candle ignites fire, reducing houses to ashes in
Shwepyitha Township...Hsinza bridge construction completed...KSM arranges boxing showdown of big
names...Bago man stabs store staff...Mandalay Region celebrates Fire Brigade Day...Proficiency
course opened
in KhinU for
ward/village
administrators...Elite Tech Open Golf
Championship 2013 14-17
May...Firefighters undertake
sanitation tasks to mark Fire
Brigade Day...Rural development tasks undertaken...23rd Anniversary of MMCWA marked...230 KV Thaton-Mawlamyine National Grid and 230/66/11 KV 100
MVA Mawlamyine Main Sub-Power Station open...People call for increased
interaction with government
to claim louder voices...Strong winds claim one,
cause widespread damages in
Yesagyo...Shwethahlaung Road to be
put into services...MPF launches emergency,
complaint-handling phone
lines...Literary talks given
in Singaing...One boy dies of drowning in
Twantay Canal...Household registration, citizenship scrutiny
cards issued in PyinOoLwin...Environmental conservation
workshop held in Kengtung...Talks on professional engineers given...Finishing of harrowing held at
mechanized farming (3000-acre)
plantation...Slight earthquakes jolt
inside Myanmar...Myanmar National Human Rights Commission issues Statement No. (3/2013)
concerning violence that had occurred in Rakhine State.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Vice-President Dr Sai
Mauk Kham receives
former Thai PM...Myanmar Independent Power Produce workshop held...MEGA Co donates VITACAP multivitamins for SEA Games...Special Purpose Vehicle-SPV to be
formed for Dawei Special
Economic Zone.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Say no to narcissistic leaders".
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Myanmar still facing challenges in spite of international recognition -
Everyone obliged to strive for achievement of national vision and national goal...Significant day temperature
(5-5-2013)...Illegal oil pumping sparks fire in Minhla
Township...Heroin seized at Yangon International
Airport...Youth associations take part in greening
Shwebo...Heavy rains,
savage wind
gusts kills 11,
hurt seven in
Kalaw, Hsihseng,
Kyaukme...Torrential rains with a burst of high speed
wind lash Monywa...Unknown rider snatches gold
chain in Pyay...Sandbank forming in Ngawun
River attracts merry-makers...Squalls destroy houses in upper Myanmar,
Shan State...Sand paintings business grows in
Bagan...Yangon-Myawady passenger bus plunges, two injured...Truck carrying communications
materials burnt in accident...National Hockey League kicks off...Union Minister calls for CSR of hoteliers...Ayeyawady Region government honours
excellence award winners...Personnel leave for Mawtaung Border
Trade Camp...Development undertakings in three Tsps...Hsipaw faces drinking water
difficulties...67th Anniversary Fire Brigade
Day observed in Yamethin...67th Anniversary Fire Brigade
Day observed in Myeik...67th Anniversary Fire Brigade
Day held in Sagaing...Traffic lights installed on
Anawrahta Road...Temporary schools to be
built for Rakhine victims...Weather Bay Inference.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Heroin seized at Yangon International
Airport...ADB, IMF encourage Myanmar to carry on
economic reforms...Japanese law firm makes
Myanmar entry...Union Defence Minister leaves for Brunei...Myanmar exports over 1.4 million tons of rice
in 2012-13 fiscal year...Amyotha Hluttaw International Relations
Committee Chairman visits China.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Transition in progress".....ARTICLE: "Ayeyawady Bridge (Malun) to be put into service soon" By Kayan Soe Myint
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Wellwishers join hands with government for
supply of safe water to people...Monthly Weather Forecast for
May, 2013
Bay of Bengal Condition...Transparency for good democratic practice...Woman run over, killed in Natmauk...Three family members die of mad dog bites in
Myinmu Township...Drinking water for local
people in Taungdwingyi...High-voltage fault sparks fire
in Bahan Township...Young man stabs girlfriend
before killing himself with
insecticide...Lightning kills Indaw man...Two killed, two others hurt in brake failurerelated
car crash in Lashio...MCDC focuses on development of Mandalay..
City, living standard of dwellers...Over 3000 Buddha images consecrated at
Shwedagon Pagoda...Newly-repaved asphalt road commissioned
into service...Inter-village production roads emerge in
Kyikha, Tiddim townships...Plan underway to set up
natural disaster preparedness
system...Stimulant
tablets seized
in Bamauk...Saplings planted in Shwebo
before rainy season...Ambulance donated to social
association in Thabaung...Car accident hurts seven passengers...Pakokku literary awards presented...Respects paid to doyen literati in Insein
Township...3rd Khami
National Day
observed...Brokerage opened in Seikpyu...Opium seized from woman in
Yamethin...Rice offered to Sangha to mark Fire
Brigade Day in Chanayethazan...Strong winds hit Kyaukme...Concrete blocks put to ease traffic congestion...Illegal beef seized in
Ngathainggyoung...No traffic
jam on Maha
Bandoola
Street...High yield paddy harvested in Nattalin
Township...Car fire in Bago Township...Tractor skill demonstrated...UEC receives party
establishment application...Significant day temperatures
(4-5-2013)...The Voice wins most awards at 2nd
national press award presentation...Palethwe paddy harvest demonstrates
in Htantabin Township...Palethwe paddy harvest demonstrates
in Htantabin Township.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Flocks of globetrotters still visit Bagan
in hot season...Daw Aung San Suu Kyi back from Mongolia.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Sustainable tax culture".....ARTICLE: "Yangon car market remains cool" By Khin Yadana
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HLUTTAW SESSIONS: First Special Session of First Pyidaungsu
Hluttaw summoned...Notice to Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
representatives.....DOMESTIC NEWS: Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham calls for establishment of world-class universities...Pakokku to see Shwe creek bridge No (2) soon...Over 100-year-old rowing boat in
Htantabin Township...Head-on collision claims lives of married
couple...Cattle smugglers taken into custody...Short circuit sparks fire in
Shwegyin...Formation of mobile teams in Sagaing Region discussed...MPF launches emergency,
complaint-handling phone
lines...Boiling of maize destroys 32
houses in ChaungU...Bridge on Yangon-Myeik
Road under construction...Strong winds cut power lines,
blow off roofs...Kyaukkyi gets transformer in
rural area...Accountancy, book-keeping
and audit courses opened in
Mandalay...Revolver-snatchers arrested...Silver coins unearthed in digging pit for
construction of monastery...National Library (Nay Pyi Taw) opens first hall
of reference books,
archaeological books, books
in English on Myanmar
country, Myanmar books,
English books, recreation
and children?s library
storing over 250,000 books.
E-Library keeps over 15000
books for the public reading.
The library is kept open
daily from 9:30 am to 4.30
pm except Sunday, Monday
and gazette holidays as of
3 May.
Present on the occasion
were Union...Prize awarding of Junior Golf Myanmar
Tournament 2013 held...True Shelter social
organization opens office...Teachership course on culture
conducted in Toungoo...Kason-water
pouring
festival of
Shwe Kyatyet
Pagoda...One dead, six injured in
Taungup car accident...Schools in Ayeyawady Region open to raise
pass rate of matriculation...Farmers reap benefits...Medic robbed of necklace
in Pyay...Firefighters do cleaning for the aged...Mawtaung Border Trade Camp to be
opened soon...Union Information Minister calls for applying Social
Responsibility Model...UEC receives party
establishment application...The noteworthy amounts of
rainfall
(3-5-2013).....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar to boost export volume through
adoption of national-level export strategy...US lifts more sanctions on Myanmar
to support reforms...Vice-President receives Honorary Consul-General of
Myanmar to Lebanon...Feasibility study on building solar power
plant in Minbu...Union Border Affairs Minister meets US guests...Yangon University, Hankuk University sign MoU...Myanmar, Germany focus
on institutional economic
cooperation...Development of townships
on the other banks of
Yangon discussed...Mawtaung Border Trade Camp to be
opened soon...CEOs and experts from Belgium and US observe
plantations in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area...Myanmar to host drug
control meeting.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Export-led growth".....
ARTICLE: "Inlay Lake conservation in urgent
need of public participation"
By Tin Hlaing
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Cash allotments to voluntary services in
Ayeyawady Region...Community-based mobile clinic arrives
in Taungnyo of Nay Pyi Taw Ottarathiri
Township...Drinking water supply underway
in Dala Township...Vehicle overturns on Thayet-Kanma-Pyay road...Mobile Team confiscates haul
of illegal goods...Vehicle?s mechanical failure
kills six, hurt 24 in Lashio...K 6 million donated to education, health fund...Basic tailoring course opens
in Myitkyina...Fire destroys lathe and mould
industry...Drug seized on coach of 132-down train...Drugs seized
at entrance
to Myitkyina...Arms, drugs seized in Kalay...Courses on Shan literature
and culture conclude...Ten acres of wheat harvested
in Kutkai Township...Potable water supplied to
local people in Kyaukme...Yedashe people get
drinking water...Aids for Shan culture...Farmland operation permits
issued...Dahetbin Oil Field sees output
drop...Bawdwin mine celebrates
May Day...Magwarian blood for hospitals...Katha sees better
communications...Tasks given to implement objectives of
planning in Sagaing District...Mobile teams seize illegal
goods...One killed,
three injured
in Pajero
plunge...Citizenship scrutiny cards given
in Yenangyoung Tsp...1st Junior Golf Myanmar Tournament 2013
kicks off...Public Notice [from the Ministry of Livestock
and Fisheries].....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar, Singapore to cooperate in human resource development...Union FM meets Honorary
Consul-General of Myanmar
to Lebanon...Union Livestock and Fisheries Minister
meets CP Vice-Chairman...Shan traditional drum attracts
flocks of tourists in Hsipaw...Myanmar, Singapore to cooperate in regional peace
and stability...U Paw Lwin Sein
concurrently accredited
as Ambassador to Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg...Pyithu Hluttaw International
Relations Committee Chairman
receives Honorary Consulate-
General of Myanmar to
Lebanon...Vice-President U Nyan Tun calls for effective role of export sector in
socio-economic development drive of the nation...UEC Chairman meets USAID Deputy
Assistant Administrator...Union Defence Minister receives
Singaporean guests.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Disadvantages with
advantages" [social networking].....
ARTICLE: "The Combined Office to be upgraded into
international-standard five-star hotel"
Byline: Maung
Maung Sein Lwin
(Myanma Alinn)
Photo: Tin Soe
(Myanma Alinn
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DOMESTIC NEWS: USDP members observe Hluttaw Buildings...Significant day temperatures
(1-5-2013)...Pansodan-Dalla ferry charges increased to K 100...Minbu (Saku) hosts over 100-year-old
standing Buddha Image...Mandalay sees two selfimmolation
cases within a
couple of days...Villages under water stress
in Yedashe Township...Relief aids for fire victims in
NyaungU Township...Meiktila victims return home...Overturned vehicle kill one,
hurt 17 in Heho...Farmland permits issued to farmers in
NyaungU...CCA knowledge for primary
teachers...Formation of Fund
Management Board with local
scholars discussed...Myanaung oil tanker sinks in Hlaing River...Basic fire fighting course commences...Reckless driving kills motorcyclist in Pale Tsp...Respect paying of E-Major
alumni of Dagon University...Taninthayi Region Chief Minister?s
Cup 6-10 May...18 suspects charged with Okkan
arson attacks...Midwifery course concludes in Katha...Mandalay marks World
Veterinary Day...Self-reliant concrete street
being paved in Myeik...Electricity available at
Kyonkadon village in
Pyapon Township...Traffic accident leaves one dead...Four legged kid in Loilem
receives ?nothing? from
hospital...Gambler detained...Ywama Tyre Industry commissioned into service.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: "Friendlier relations with world countries intend to ensure betterment of
people, promote trade and to make them understand Myanmar"
- The following is the translation of President U Thein Sein?s speech through radio programmes to the entire people the length and breadth of the nation...Union Religious Affairs Minister meets
Japanese guests...International Certified Basketball Referee
Course conducted...Myanmar vows to cooperate with donor
organizations to fight against AIDS...Korean-Myanmar
entrepreneurs discuss joint
venture works...Worker?s Day observed in
Yangon...Australian Senate President visits
Yangon war cemetery...Mandalay receiving more
foreign tourists...US technology giant to
help Myanmar boost IT in
education.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "People?s Power".....
ARTICLES: "The State Ovadacariya (Patron) Committee of the Sangha
of All Orders of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar" Ba Sein (Religious Affairs)..."Law and order restored in Okkan
MPF, security forces join hands to provide security"
By: Nyunt Than (MNA)
Photos: Ye Htut / Than Oo (MNA)
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DOMESTIC NEWS: "Let?s build the nation through people?s strength" - Government has been implementing for providing best protection
and rights to the entire workforce and workers are to demand the
rights in accord with existing law -
Nay Pyi Taw, 1 May—President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Agga Maha Thayay Sithu, Agga Maha Thiri Thudamma U Thein Sein sent a message on the
occasion of May Day, 2013. The translation of the message is as follows:-...Summary of Recommendations in the Report of the Rakhine Investigation Commission to the Government of Myanmar (untitled)...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing visits Cocogyun...Ten more private dailies get
green light...Religious building attacked by mob
in Okkan...President?s Excellence Award Presentation ceremony held
Formulating people-centered policy calls for mass participation.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein receives President of
Australian Senate and party...Myanmar, Brazil eye on
trade cooperation...7 Days in Myanmar: A Multimedia Showcase
covers many features of Myanmar...Hluttaw Speakers host dinner to Australian delegation...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Deputy Speaker meets
Australian Senate President...Myanmar targets 3 million tourists
in 2015...Educational cooperation discussed between
universities of Myanmar, Japan and Austria...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw
Speaker receives Australian guests...Union FM receives Foreign
Policy Adviser to former
US President.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Limit exposure to direct
sunlight during hottest time"
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DOMESTIC NEWS: MRTV to telecast State
Excellence Awards
presentation live...HGM Classic Golf Tourney on 25 May...Road signs put into place
to improve road safety in
Mandalay...Boat sinking claims
five lives in NyaungU
Township...A recent spate of car thefts
in downtown Yangon...Saplings for perennial crops available
in Thandaung Township...Unexploded WW II bomb
found in Kyaukpyu...Dead grenades and rounds of
ammunition unearthed in Bago...Mandalay City kept as garden city [N.B. photo of gardener at work]...Fire drill practised in Hsipaw...Branch of tree falls down on house in
Amarapura...Stake driven for construction of pre-primary
school in Myitkyina...Light water pump donated to fire brigade...Drug trafficker seized in
Namkham...Local roads upgraded to asphalt facilities in
Kalay...Wellwishers donate cash to
Cetana free clinic...Dissemination of dairy cattle
breeding knowledge in Mohnyin...Those of undestroyed houses
return homes in Meiktila...Ilegally imported eggs
destroyed at Muse 105th-Mile
border trade camp...Onion prices fall in Yedashe...Illegal teak doors seized in
overturned truck in DaikU...Umbrella hoisted atop Abhaya
Zinamanaung Pagoda...Book corner opened in Kawlin...Knowledge about prevention
against bird flu shared to
people...Tachilek gets new traffic lights...Rain eases scorching heat
in Mandalay...Fire drill hails Myanmar Fire Brigade Day
in Myeik...Mandalay
police detain
12 men for
gang-style
crimes...Transformer donated for
Pazunmyaung Village,
Nyaunglebin Tsp...Preventive measures against flood and
construction of drainage systems inspected in
Ayeyawady Region.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann holds talks with ROK President...Myanmar,
Vietnam to
play friendly
match on 11
June...Director-General
U Hau Do Suan appointed
as Myanmar Ambassador to
Canada...Australian Senate President and party visit
St Mary?s Cathedral, Shwedagon Pagoda.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Pilot census".....
ARTICLES: "Hteesekha Waterfall, arts of nature" Byline and Photo:
Kyee Myint Naing (Loikaw)..."A LITERARY AWARD CEREMONY" By Ba Than
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Hole in one at
Shwemantaung Golf Course...Man charged with human trafficking in
Hpa-an...Squall of rain uproots trees, lamp posts in
Sagaing Township...Two men stabbed with 10-inch long needles at
Thiri Mingala new market...Snatchers taken into custody...Self-immolation of psychotic disorder in Mandalay...Health education given at relief camp in Meiktila...Fingerlings, cattle set free
in Pathein...Fund set up for medical
treatment of members of the
Sangha...Socio-economic Development Work Committee for Ensuring
Peace and Stability and Implementation of Development in
Rakhine State meets...WY brand stimulant tablets
seized in Momauk...Painting, cartoon contests mark International Day against
Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking...Principal?s statue unveils at
Shwebo Youth Development
Centre...MPF launches emergency,
complaint-handling phone
lines...Strong winds victims get cash
assistance...Workshop on dairy cattle breeding and dairy
products development held...Committee meets to proceed with report
on Letpadaungtaung copper mine...Myanmar Gazette...Purified drinking water donated to victims
of relief camps in Meiktila...Computer course opened in Salingyi Tsp...YCDC sells low-priced SIM cards through
lucky draw...Books, journals donated in Mongkhat...Citizenship Scrutiny Cards issued in
Nawnghkio...Bogyoke Road of Kalay broadened...Electoral Stakeholders Roundtable Meeting held.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein felicitates
South African counterpart...Vice-President U Nyan
Tun receives former US
Assistant Secretary of State...Myanmar U-23 to play friendly match against Vietnamese
counterpart 11 June...Two tourists wearing Myanma Thanatkhar
near Sule Pagoda...Seminar on aviation
insurance held...Union FM felicitates
Minister of International
Relations and Cooperation
of South Africa...Israeli Chef Cooking & Contribution held
in Yangon...MFF President calls for never-say-die
attitude of footballers...Abe to visit Myanmar in late May for bilateral
summit...Myanmar?s significant reform processes
found exciting and amazing...Union Commerce Minister meets
economic delegations from US and
Thailand.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Harmonious industrial
relations".....
ARTICLES: "Low-priced SIM card makes Myanmar public happy" Win Win Maw..."Thabyey (Eugenia)" Maha Saddhamma Jotika dhaja
Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Conflict-sensitive
reporting course opened...Significant day temperatures
(27-4-2013)...Tornado touches down in some
townships of Mandalay Region...SIM cards handed over at
South Dagon (25) ward...Kengtung Township sees
couple of fires in single day...Kyaukse set to fully supply itself with safe and
clean drinking water...Cash
donation for
School for
the Deaf in
Mandalay...YCDC Cup Summer Golf
Championship 2013 goes on...Electricity supply resumes in
disaster-hit Sagaing Township...Water needy persons get water supply from
wellwishers...Umbrella hoisted atop quake-striven pagoda
in Wetlet Township...Wellwishers invited to donate
cash and kind to fire victims...Squalls destroys trees,
lamp-posts in Sagaing...Books, medicines donated to
staff of Sittoung Paper Mill...Express bus plunges into drain from bridge
on Yangon-Mandalay Expressway...Four security personnel wounded in arresting
suspect...Surprise check conducted
in PyinOoLwin...SIM card sale in Dagon
Myothit...Buddha Pujaniya of historic Kanni Myathitin Pagoda held...Lightning kills two in
Kawkareik...Educative talks on anti-human
trafficking given in Mandalay...Low-cost SIM cards sold in
Yedashe Township...Raising reading habit in
Katha District...Lychee yield drops due to scorching weather...Lychee yield drops due to scorching weather...Haul of drugs seized in Muse...Fire reduces one house to ashes
in Nyaunglebin Township...Union ministers visit
farms in Bago Region...Union S & T Minister
calls for establishment of
resource centres...First Ethnic Media Conference held in Mawlamyine...[weather]Outlook for
subsequent
two days.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS" Myanmar, Korean speakers sign MoU on bilateral cooperation...APSF Board of Executive Committee
Meeting held...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker meets Australian Senate
President...Australian Senate President arrives in Yangon...Leading Committee for holding 7th ASEAN
Para Games meets...Union Labour Minister
visits the Philippines.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Put the past behind".....
ARTICLE: "Mobile team and illegal trade routes" Byline:
Waw Win
Maung
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Work coordination meeting on provision of allowances for
monastic school teachers...Merit sharing marks
completion of Maha ordination
hall in Namsang...Mogaung emphasizes prevention
against narcotic drug...Kanbalu-Myaydu gravel road
completed in Kanbalu...Wellwishers donate cash and
kind to fire victims of NyaungU...Ayeyawady Region honours
scout youths...Servicemen supply
drinking water to people in
Taungdwingyi...Myeik hosts Myanmar-Thai entrepreneurs
meeting...MPF launches emergency,
complaint-handling phone
lines...Strong winds bring eagle to
Sagaing...About 40
grams of
heroin seized
on 58-down
Myitkyina-
Mandalay
train...Yochar Village of Kyaukpadaung Tsp taps
underground water...Over 490 grams of opium
seized in Waingmaw...Kutkai illuminated with
electricity...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann addresses
meeting to review laws...Central Committee for Implementation of Stability and
Development in Rakhine State meets...Rakhine Commission interviewed over
2000 individuals to compile report..... REPORT: "British bring in large numbers of Bengali from neighbouring country" [EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF REPORT OF RAKHINE STATE CONFLICTS INVESTIGATION COMMISSION].....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar government working on two major missions of
political stability and economic growth...Maverick operator Digicel takes on the big boys
in Myanmar...Agreement on standard catering services signed...Investors invited for Myotha Industrial Park and
Hsimeekhon Port in Ngazun Township...President U Thein Sein meets Timor-Leste Premier, UN
Deputy Secretary-General, ESCAP Executive Secretary...Appointment of
Ambassador agreed on...Australian Senate President visits monastic
education school.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "The soul of the people"
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Loans disbursed to members
of cooperative society...Drinking water
supplied to villages in
Padaung Township...Cattle smugglers seized in
Waingmaw Township...Teachers
attend
child-centre
teachership
course in
Natmauk...Fingerlings, birds released on
New Year Day...Lake dredged on self-reliant basis for water
storage in Yamethin...Negligent fire destroys 75
houses in KhinU Township...Quality Thanakha marketable in Pakokku...Free medical treatment
provided to patients in Bago...Draft Printing and Publishing Draft Law
briefed in Mawlamyine...Survey to be conducted for
integrated transport master plan...Junior Golf Myanmar Tourney
2-3 May...Over 1000 units of SIM cards sold at Thazi...Kengtung sees two fire
outbreaks in single day...Fire breaks out at old guest
house...SIM card buyers chosen by lots in Mayangon Tsp...Plan to rebuild houses of fire
victims in NyaungU...Squad arrests soccer
betting...Ammunition unearthed
in Bago...Letpadaungtaung Copper Mining
Project faces mob protests...Workshop on disaster risk reduction
and gender equality at Nay Pyi Taw
Amara Hotel.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein congratulates
Bangladeshi counterpart...President U Thein Sein calls for closer cooperation of
ASEAN members towards a people-centered community...President U Thein Sein attends working dinner of 22nd ASEAN Summit...Flocks of globetrotters interested in Myanmar
handicrafts in Mingun region...Wellwishers continuously
donate cash and kind...Fukuoka official in Myanmar
as water adviser on JICA
mission...Draft Printing and Publishing Draft Law
briefed in Mawlamyine...Australian Senator John Joseph
Hogg to pay visit to Myanmar...USAID to help Union Attorney-General?s Office...Education Ministry seeks English
language proficiency of students...President U Thein Sein meets Thai Prime
Minister Mrs Yingluck Shinawatra...President U Thein Sein arrives back in Nay Pyi Taw...
"PERSPECTIVES": "Build a green city".....
ARTICLE: "Love life without drug" Khin Maung Tun
(Lanmadaw)
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Region Chief Minister meets storm victims...Pen culture fish breeding introduced...Piglets on sales in Pale Township...Fire of garbage, old electronic equipment
?causes explosion in Loilem...Neem tree falls on motorcycle in strong winds...MCDC, people join hands in sanitation of drains...Myotha Industrial Park, Hsimeekhon Port under construction...Football friendly match between
former selected players of Upper
Myanmar, Customs (Mdy)...Rural bridge inaugurated,
culture course opened in
Homalin...Pakokku region to boost production of onion...MPF launches emergency,
complaint-handling phone
lines...Water treatment plant built to
supply water to Mandalarians...Parahita Youth Group clean
wells in Singaing...Strong winds, hailstone hit
MraukU...Shwegu Township gets Moesit Bridge...Outbreak of fire engulfs 19 houses in NyaungU...Oxen seized before smuggling in Thazi
Township...Union Border Affairs Minister inspects
Naga Region development tasks...Roads, bridges
in Sagaing,
Mandalay
upgraded...Nay Pyi Taw National Library opens first
building...Myeik facilitated
with transformer,
more power lines...Summer Buddhist Culture
Course opens in Yedashe...Low-priced mobile phone subscribers
chosen by lots...Basic Buddhist Culture Course opened in
Pyawbwe...Naungsaw Bridge collapses
in Kalay...Low-cost SIM card sale starts
in Myeik...Traffic rules broker motorcycles seized
in Monywa...Township Level Disaster Risk Management
Course commences in Loikaw...Libraries in Myeik under maintenance for
public reading.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein heads to Brunei for ASEAN Summit...Vice-Admiral Thura Thet Swe meets US
ambassador, military attach?s...US welcomes Myanmar?s
release of prisoners...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker
receives Resident Representative of UNICEF...President U Thein
Sein arrives in Brunei...Indonesian President
and wife conclude visit.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Closer ties with Indonesia".....
ARTICLES: "Thilawa Special Economic Zone
estimated to create over 200,000 jobs"
Interviewer: Soe Soe Naing (Kyemon)
Photo: Khin Maung Win (Kyemon)..."Vehicle enterance fee at Thiri Mingala Car Dealer Camp" Byline: Maung Thitsa
Photo: Tin Soe (Myanma Alinn)
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Union Transport Minister inspects development of
Yangon jetty...Union Minister inspects Yeywa
Hydropower Plant...Development tasks in Yangon City inspected...Driver who
escaped from
traffic accident
arrested...Umbrella of ordination hall
at Maha Muni Buddha Image
repaired...Water pots for public kept for 120 years in
Pakokku...Respects paid to the aged in
Kyaukse...Strong winds hit Hsenwi Township...Cargo boat fire at Bawgagyi Jetty in
Mandalay...100,000 fingerlings released into
Chindwin River...Stake driven for Myitkyina
Gems Entrepreneurs
Association...Yangon Region observes World TB Day 2013...Cash donated to religious, social tasks...Motorcycle hits walker on Meiktila-Myingyan
road...Main canal dredged for
prevention of floods at
farmlands...Over 50,000 fish released into lake in Meiktila...Mobile Team seizes jade
stones in Nawngkhio...Over one viss of gold
donated for construction of
medical ward...Kangyidaunt BEPS No 140 gets new building...Buddha Pujaniya of Shwemawdaw
Pagoda opened...Noteworthy amount of rainfall
(21-4-2013)...Tarpein (1) Hydropower Plant supplies 24
hr electricity to Bhamo District.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Early Childhood Development
Centres organize conclusion of
courses...Myanmar stands 8th position on table of world weightlifting...THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC
OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR
MINISTRY OF ENERGY
Dated: 11th April, 2013
INVITATION FOR BIDS TO CONDUCT PETROLEUM
OPERATIONS IN MYANMAR OFFSHORE AREAS (2013)1. The Ministry of Energy of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar hereby announces
Invitation of Sealed Bids for Petroleum Operations to be conducted in Myanmar
Offshore Areas (Shallow Water and Deep Water Blocks) on production sharing
basis.
2. The following Offshore blocks are available for bidding in this bidding round:-
Offshore Shallow Water Blocks...Hotels and Tourism
Development discussed...Pyithu Hluttaw delegation to observe
British Parliament.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Impact of high temperature
on children".....
ARTICLES: "High time to make changes in service of
private hire cars (taxis)" By Khin Hsaing..."PSM and PSB for the sake of all national races" Dr. Thida Tin
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Rakhine committee meets
to speed up resettlement
before monsoon...Dy Construction Minister
inspects Yangon-Pyay,
Minhla-Monyo Roads...Significant day
temperatures
(22-4-2013)...Maha Pathana Treatise Recitation at
Lawkananda Pagoda in Sittway...CDMA-800 mobile phone applicants on
increase...Marketable soya bean cultivated in Pakokku
region...Villagers suffer from food poison of muntjac meal...Sales of solid mica increase
income of people...Strong winds hit villages in Magway Region...Environmental and social impacts to be considered
in development plans...Union Education Minister attends meeting of textbooks
printing and publishing subcommittee...Printing and Publishing Law (draft) clarified in Sittway...Union Culture
Minister visits
Pakhangyi
Archaeological
Museum...Ancient Buddha image unearthed in Ponnagyun...MPF launches emergency,
complaint-handling phone
lines...Workshop on development of
women?s life held in Muse...Cattle seized in Waingmaw
before smuggling...Respects paid to older persons
of above 75 years old in
Myitnge...Adipati White bus line
resumes its route in Yangon...Heroin seized in Kutkai Township...Cash donated to damaged houses
in strong winds...Dhamma?ariya, Pathamabyan Exams
to be convened...Farmer Channel to be launched...Slight earthquake jolts inside Myanmar...Engine failure cancels MA flight at Kawthoung.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Biography of Dr. Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono,
President of the Republic of
Indonesia...Biography of Mrs. Hajjah Ani
Bambang Yudhoyono...Brazilian entrepreneurs invited to invest in
Myanmar special economic zones...EU to lift Myanmar sanctions
in ?new chapter? in ties...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker leaves for Republic of Korea...Schedule of hosting Davis Cup cancelled.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Promote livelihoods of forestdependent
rural people"
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Cash and kind donated to
victims in Meiktila...People from Pyapon enjoy
better transportation...Relief items donated to strong
wind victims in Pyay...Transformer fires waste
over K 23.5 million in Dagon
Township...Tarmacking of Chaungphya-
Kyondoe road commences in
Kyondoe...Plan to implement second OPV
immunization programme in Rakhine State...White Heart Group provides free health care
services in Mawgyun...Yangon-Mawlamyine up and down
trains resume regular schedules...Phyusin Parahita free clinic, reliable for
needy persons in Magway...Notice to CDMA-800 MHz mobile
subscribers...Private schools prepare to open in Mandalay...Myoma market in Pakokku hustling after
Maha Thingyan Festival...Kyaukpadaung to get new market in August...Seventh white elephant gives
birth to a new elephant...Insein gas container blast kills four...Amnesty granted for 93 prisoners...
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein sends
messages of sympathy to
Chinese President, Premier...Myanmar, Indonesia vow to increase trade volume...President U Thein Sein wins
?Pursuit of Peace? award...European Union
lifts sanctions against
Myanmar...Kyodo opens branch in Yangon...Vice-Senior General Soe Win meets Thai
Commander of First Army Area...Ambassador U Paw Lwin Sein
presents his Credentials to
European Council President...President U Thein Sein, wife Daw Khin Khin Win host dinner to Indonesian
President, wife and party...Daw Khin Khin Win meets Indonesian first lady...Union FM sends message
of sympathy to Chinese
Foreign Affairs Minister...Indonesian President, wife arrive in Nay Pyi Taw...Ambassador U Paw Lwin
Sein presents his Credentials
to European Commission
President...Indonesia supports Myanmar?s crisis management process...MoUs inked between Myanmar and Indonesia...EU lifts all sanctions against Myanmar, except for arms embargo...Lifting of all economic sanctions
on Myanmar to encourage and
engender far stronger
Myanmar-EU relationship [MOFA press release].....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Ensure people-centred
development".....
SPEECH: "There can be no democracy without peace and no
peace without democracy" - President U Thein Sein?s ICG Chairman?s Award Acceptance Speech
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Union Ministers meets employers, worker
representatives for success of microfinance scheme...Respects paid
to the aged in
Kalay...Mountaineering teams clinch victories in
scaling hills...Citizenship scrutiny cards issued to eligible
citizens...RESPECTS PAID TO THE AGED [PHOTO]...Kawkareik District emphasizes boosting
production of monsoon paddy...SWD invites applicants for vocational
courses...Cash and kind donated to monastic education
students...Car crash leaves one dead, five injured in
Zabuthiri Township...Motorcycle accident kills one
dead, one injured in TadaU...Respects paid to the aged, fish released
into sea...RC bridge under construction in Meiktila...Welding triggers off fire in Magway...MPF launches emergency,
complaint-handling phone
lines...Strong winds cause damages of lamp-posts,
power lines in Bhamo...Shortage of water in Myothit
Township of Magway Region...Papun District Law Office opened...Cash and kind donated for victims at
relief camps in Meiktila...Yangon Mayor inspects development
task in Aphyauk...Fire at sleeper coach shed in
Mandalay Railway Station...Water level forecast for
third 10 days of April 2013.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Delegates from political
parties visit PRC...Significant progress in Myanmar
brought about by sweeping reforms.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Care about our Mother Earth".....ARTICLE: "The Seventh Meeting of the Sixth State Central Working
Committee of the Sangha of All Orders of the Republic of
the Union of Myanmar" Ba Sein (Religious Affairs).....POEM: "Dreams Come True" Hla Min
Chief Engineer (MMCC)
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2013-04-18
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ON ACCOUNT OF THE NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS, NLM FOR 12, 13, 14, 15 & 16 APRIL DID NOT APPEAR [ONLINE]
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Union SWRR Minister visits relief camps
in Meiktila...Community-based mobile clinic arrives in
Pobbathiri Township...Kitchen fire engulfs four
houses in YeU Township...Two more overturned car
accidents occur in March 2013...Outstanding students go on
excursion to Pakokku...Lost purse handed over to
owner...Myawady to build shelter for
human trafficking victims...Summer swimming course wraps up...Anniversary celebration of
free clinic held in Bago...Helping hands to disabled
persons...Volunteer youths recount
literacy campaign experience
at get-together...Retaining walls in Katha to prevent erosion...Garbage fire destroys rubber
plants...Rural region in Yenangyoung
Township gets tube-well...Deputy Information Minister meets
chairmen, executives of MPPA, MPBSA...MPF launches emergency, complaint handling
phone lines...Vice-President U Nyan Tun inspects regional development tasks
in Ayeyawady Region...Home of 3rd UNSG becomes museum.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Outcomes of the BFA Annual Conference 2013 will provide with great
avenues for effective realization of economic reform process of Asia...Pre SEA Games Invitational
Wrestling Competition kicks off...Sailing Championship (Pre-SEA Games) continues.....
?PERSPECTIVES": "Mutual respect and
understanding".....ARTICLE: "Eco and Pilgrimage Touristic Attraction
Sacred Man Shwe Set Taw Hill Range" Maha Saddhamma Jotika dhaja
Sithu Dr Khin Maung Nyunt
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Yangon Mayor?s water-throwing pavilion
to appear in new design...Erosion of ring road in
Mawlamyinegyun Township
threatens remaining dwellings...Fire-damaged notes,
handbags found abandoned
while clearing debris on firerazed
land in Meiktila...Passenger bus crashes into
back of stationary truck on
Mandalay-Monywa motorway...Expressway crash claims two
lives, hurt two others...School boy
attacked by
leopard in
amateur hunt...Meiktila victims allowed to go through their homes...Danger of narcotic drugs dissussed...Steam-engine roller displayed at Magway Park...Taninthayi Region observes
World TB Day 2013...Stadium, gymnasium in
Mandalay completed by 70%...Financial assistance for basic
cooperative societies in Shan
State (South)...Women trained in vocational
subjects...SPEI (Yangon) recruits
outstanding youths...Healthy blood pressure...Parliament denounces discriminatory and lawless acts...Printing and publishing draft law reviewed...2013 Myanmar National Open Sailing Championship
commences...Skirmish near Myanmar-
Thailand border...Pa-O National Day observed
in Taunggyi.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: China has committed to sharing its development with regional countries...Community woods plantations gaining
momentum in Kachin State...Printing and publishing draft law reviewed...Union F & R Minister attends 17th ASEAN
Finance Ministers? Meeting...Comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership taking shape
between Myanmar and China...Chaungzauk BEHS Branch in Thanlyin
Township gets new building...Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister gives Aide
Memoire to Indonesian ambassador.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Healthy blood pressure"
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Meiktila starts to come alive
after days of fear...Fire negligence reduces
three houses to ashes...Motorcyclist suffers serious
injuries in collision with sixwheeled
truck...Two passers-by make citizen?s
arrest to gold chain snatcher...Four young vandals detained in Mandalay...Flocks of parrots destroy sunflower
plantations in Toungoo Township...Gold shop robbery in Muse...Outstanding students make excursion tour to
Pathein...OPV given to children under
five in Rakhine State...Diamond orb, pennant-shaped vane hoisted atop
Lawkananda Pagoda in Bagan...People get health care service
with traditional medicine...Scholarship award winners
selected in Sittway...Danu nationals
hold get-together...People enjoy bullock carts race...Hotels in Nay Pyi Taw plan
free one-night stay for tourists...Heritage and Community: Methodology for Management of
Cultural Properties in Myanmar Workshop kicks off...Press conference on 2013 Davis Cup Tennis
Tournament held...Myanmar Gazette...NyaungU gets new transformer...Sitagu Sayadaw Dr. Ashin Nyanissara sends peace message to
Community Dialogue for Social Harmony & Stability in Myanmar.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar, Norway to cooperate in hydropower generation...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker meets scouts,
Norwegian Trade and Industry Minister...Singapore-Myanmar
Business Forum held...IE Singapore opens Myanmar branch...MOA signed for feasibility
study on unconventional
oil and gas drilling...Yangon Region Chief Minister hosts dinner to
Singaporean President, wife...Dy FM attends 11th Asia Cooperation
Dialogue Ministerial Meeting...Deputy Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives
member of EU Parliament?s Subcommittee on
Human Rights...C-in-C receives former US
President and wife.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Beware of rumors".....
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Tender proposals of
telecommunication operators
scrutinized...Cash and kind donations for Meiktila victims...Shwepyitha, Lanmadaw Townships start to
take pilot census-taking...Mongkai mom gives birth to triplets...Brake failure car crash on
Yangon-Mandalay highway...Motorcyclist dies after crashing
into back of stationary vehicle...Uncontrolled light truck kills
unknown woman...Trash fire in Sittway
University campus...Young girl dies of electric shock
in North Okkalapa Township...Outstanding school children go
on excursion to Inlay Lake...New diamond orb, umbrella
hoisted atop quake-ravaged
pagoda in Sagaing...Toungoo District Court
concludes office work
refresher course...Cash donated to funds of social
organizations in Mawgyun...Dagon Myothit
(North)
Township
facilitated with
new concrete
street...People take relaxation at Chaungtha Beach...Armed Forces to continue safeguarding nation
at the risk of life and limb...English Language
Training Programme
for Hluttaw capacity
building.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein leaves for China to attend Boao Forum for Asia 2013...Major telcos and investor Soros set sights on
Myanmar...Care Myanmar donates two
rural health branches...Davis Cup Tennis Tournament-2013
at Pun Hlaing Golf Course...Myanmar entrepreneurs hold
discussion with Norwegian guests...Chinese President Mr. Xi Jinping welcomes President U Thein Sein...Union Defence Minister meets
Singaporean guest...Singaporean President and party
conclude visit...The 2015 election would be a sign of progress
of democratization: Mr Jimmy Carter...Development of meat
production in Myanmar
discussed...Singaporean Minister
observes Yangon urban
housing projects.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Comic remembrance".....
ARTICLES: "Spectacular Shan State"
Byline: Min Khant
Soe (Kyemon)
Photo: Aung Kyaw
Win (Kyemon)..."World Health Day 2013" Dr Aung Tun
(Ministry of
Health)
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Maha Bandoola Park gets a facelift...Yangon Mayor?s Grand Prize goes to young photographer...Man commits arson attack
after having quarrel
with his wife...Drowning death of three
young boys in Dagon Myothit
(Seikkan) Township...Son-in-law hacked to death,
mother-in-law charged with
murder...Speedster?s tragic end
in Myaungmya...Waterfall near Leiktho sub-township
generates hydropower...Overturned vehicle hurts 11
passengers, one taxi driver...Primary students to be fed with milk
in 2013-2014 academic year...Burning of crop lands cause air pollution
in Tachilek...Anti-human trafficking activities organized
in Bago...Vocational, tailoring courses conclude
in Loikaw...Vehicles with illegal
commodities confiscated...Vehicle fire costs K 2.5 million
at Pyinmana Bawgathiri Bus
Terminal...Rural earthen road
commissioned into service...Advanced mobile phone
technology shared at MICT
Park...Committee for implementation of Report of
Investigation Commission on Latpadaungtaung
Copper Mine Project meets...18th Myanmar-Country
Coordinating Mechanism held...Myanma Posts and
Telecommunications? SIM
card sales programme...Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Committee for implementation of
report of investigation commission on
Letpadaungtaung copper mine project
Press Release No. 1/2013.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar, US to further
strengthen friendly ties, relations...Cooperatives Minister discusses microfinance
programme with PGMF...Myanmar, Indonesia eye cooperation
in forestry sector...Australia to assist in Myanmar?s mine sector
development...Kayah State govt donates
K 10 million to fire victims
at relief camp...Indonesia-Myanmar Business Forum and One on One
Business held...Singaporean guests visit National
Museum...Recent incidents in Meiktila clarified to
diplomats...UEC Chairman meets former US President
Jimmy Carter...U Aung Khin Soe appointed
as Ambassador to India...Myanmar-Australia to
promote bilateral ties...4th Karatedo Japan Cup
Championship concludes...Myanmar junior golfers win prizes
in international golf competitions...Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw holds talks with
former US President...Coordination meeting for implementation of Visa Policy in Myanmar held...Singaporean delegation arrives in Yangon.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Lower cost, better services".....
ARTICLE: "Ethnic groups in Myanmar - The eight major races of the Republic of the Union of
Myanmar and the official list of their ethnic groups" from "Myanmar Hotels & Tourism Guide 2013" (continued from yesterday)
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HLUTTAW SESSIONS: No green light to more hospitals in Nay Pyi Taw, except one for retired service personnel (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw).....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Government will simultaneously open spaces for participation of individual
organization or citizen in peace process (The following is the translation of President U Thein Sein?s speech through radio programmes to the entire people the length and breadth of the
nation on 1-3-2013)...President U Thein Sein?s
radio message on air...Loans to be disbursed for
rural development tasks...New school building handed
over in Pathein Township...Aged doctors hold anniversary
celebration...Chin National Race Minister?s
Office opened in Kalay...Union Cup Games
Dates and Venues for Sports Events...Living standard
improvement for timber
workers emphasized...Yangon Universities Boat Race wraps up...Observers visit Hluttaws...Educative talks on nacortic drug given
in Dawbon...Sports enhance moral, discipline and unyielding spirit...Republic of the Union of
Myanmar
Union Election Commission
Nay Pyi Taw
Notification No. 5/2013 - National Solidarity Congress
Party allowed to register as
political party.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: It needs to seek solutions in a peaceful way: President U Thein Sein...Vice-Senior General Min Aung Hlaing receives
Chinese Ambassador...Second Japan Festival 2013
9-11 March...Thai tourists conclude visits in Myanmar...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives US businessmen...Chairman of Pyithu
Hluttaw IRC receives
UNDP and CIIS delegates...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker
meets Chinese Ambassador to
Myanmar...Pyithu Hluttaw Deputy Speaker
receives Director of HSF...Norway?s strong support for peace process under way will
make history: President U Thein Sein.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Promoting the culture of
democracy and national
harmony"
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EXECUTIVE: As a nation it is our firm belief that only an inclusive democratic society based on equality for all citizens will ensure peace and stability, especially
in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-faith country such as ours...There should be no forced recruitment of
new soldiers - Statement No. (2/2013) of Myanmar National Human Rights Commission regarding the conflict in Kachin State.....
DOMESTIC NEWS: Fire-fighting foam for oil fire handed
over in Mandalay...A spate of thefts in neighborhood of staff housing in Zabuthiri Township...Violation of traffic rules sparks car accidents in Hsipaw...14-hour long traffic crawl in neighbourhood of Bayintnaung brokerage...Fireplace embers cause fire in Kengtung Township...Lightning strike sets houses on fire in Kutkai Township...Buddhist culture course provided to children...Invitational Myanmar
traditional chess tournament kicks off...Road under construction on hilly area of Pyinmana...Minthukha Bridge under construction crossing Namee Creek in Indaw...Maha Myitta Education Foundation to hold fund-raising trade fair, entertainment...Strict security measures taken in Minhla, Moenyo...Diamond orb, golden umbrella hoisted atop Yadana
Myasikhon Pagoda...Mandalay Region Chief Minister visits
Myanma Economic Bank, other private banks in Meiktila...Wellwishers continue contribution for riot victims...Meiktila being packed with buyers and sellers.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein accepts Credentials of SRV Ambassador...JAPAC to search for WWII
missing Americans in Myanmar...Hospital equipment donated for public health care in Yangon...Deputy Sports Minister leaves for Maldives...ACLEDA MFI Myanmar Co Ltd holds press
conference on micro financing...Myanmar U-14 to play against
Thai team in tune-up matches...Myanmar delegation attends Asia-Pacific Regional Parliamentarians and CSO Forum...Union Foreign Affairs Minister receives US guest...Myanmar delegation attends ASEAN SocioCultural Community Council Meeting...Japan provides vital support for internally displaced persons...Myanmar, UNDP to cooperate in legal affairs...UMFCCI?s President attends Seminar on Strategies
for Successful Business in ASEAN markets...Eurogate Sportswear factory commissioned into service...First meeting of Myanmar-Japan Joint Initiative...EU to assist in
electoral tasks in 2015...New ODA Loans by Japan for
national development.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Noise pollution"
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2013-03-29
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EXECUTIVE: Republic of the Union of Myanmar Ministry of Finance and Revenue Union Minister Office Order No. 544/2013
Nay Pyi Taw, 6th Waning of Tabaung, 1374 ME (1 April, 2013)...President U Thein Sein?s address on the air.....
DOMESTIC NEWS: The government will have to work hard to safeguard peace and stability and promote rule of law in the country...Yangon Mega Expo 2013 launched...Facilities for disabled persons handed over...Operation against
smuggled vehicles gaining momentum in Mawlamyine...Fuel station fire in Taunggyi...Young Mawlamyine man dies
of drowning...Holidaymakers flock together to
Chaungtha beach...MCDC gets 2% of stamp duty, 5% of income tax...Crabs whose weight is under 100 grams released into sea...Ottarathiri Township upgrades earthen road to asphalt one...Cultivation of summer Palethwe hybrid paddy demonstrated...Air tickets for promotion of Myanma Airways 14 March-13 April...Van blazed at air compressor shop...Cash assistance for war veterans in Hline Township...Old lamp-posts replaced with concrete ones...Union Minister U Hla Tun meets relocated villagers in Letpadaungtaung ...News and Periodicals Enterprise holds anniversary ceremony...Union A&I Minister promises to fulfill seed demand in Bago Region...Order restored in Thayawady District...Hledan Overpass to ease traffic chaos.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Indonesia emerges as champion of Pre-SEA
Games Cycling Competition in Myanmar...Myanmar palmist and
globetrotters...Medical equipment donation for hospitals in
Yangon Region...Nissan plans to establish car parts factory in Myanmar...Thai coaches give training at SPEI (Mdy).....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Violence against women"
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Meeting on energy
development held...Significant night temperatures
(3-3-2013)...Woman died in hospital after
accidentally swallowing herbicide
powder...Derailment happens to Dawei-Yangon
express down-train in Kyaikto Township...Grocery fire
in Tachilek...Surf plunges from the bridge,
killing pregnant woman...Oil well fire hurts one worker
in Padaukpin oilfield in
Thayet Township...Cash donation for six-storey
Sangha Hospital in Nay Pyi
Taw Council Area...Man killed in hit-and-run
accident on Kyaikwaing Pagoda
Street in Yangon...Mandalay draws renovation of ancient
religious buildings...Mandalay University of Dental
Medicine confers degrees...Knowledge about crime
reduction shared to people...Union Education Minister calls for valuing
teaching profession...Union Minister inspects tissue cultivation...HAN Golf Masters to open summer
course...Democratic reform could not be delayed nor reversed
as it picks up momentum: President U Thein Sein...Objectives of the 68th
Anniversary
Armed Forces Day 2013...Untimely rainfall warning...Earthquake news.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein vows to cooperate with Finland in
environmental conservation, resources mapping...PSM Governing Body on
study tour of media industry
in Philippines...India-Myanmar Cottage Arts Show
in Mandalay...Union Auditor-General back home...Yangon Lawmakers provide Chinese course.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Summer hazards".....
ARTICLES: "Eco and cultural tourist attraction site
Sacred Hpo Wun Taung hill range Part I" Maha Saddhamma Jotika dhaja
Sithu Dr.Khin Maung Nyunt..."Get flight knowledge at People?s Park
and Square" Htet Khaing
(Sangyoung)
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EXECUTIVE: Government of the Republic of the Union of
Myanmar
Ministry of Information
News and Periodicals Enterprise
Invitation for Expression of Interest for Production of
The New Light of Myanmar Daily.....DOMESTIC NEWS: President Office offers a day
meal to SSMNC Sayadaws...Bill to be drafted for protection
of women against violence...MWAF organizes talks on
women and cultural sector
and legal affairs sector...Police expose motorbike theft in Kyondoe...Village lakes run dry in Yamethin
Township...Mandalay District sees more property loss in
fires in 2012...Candle fire in Kyaukpadaung
Township...Taikkyi farmers observes implementation of
mechanized farming in Thanlyin Township...Rural water supply task working on all
cylinders...Foggy condition causes delay
in departure of Dala-Pansodan
cross-river ferry service...Passengers
hurt in
overturned
car accident
in Myawady...Road accident hurts four riders
in Natogyi Township...Meiktila returns to normalcy, Tatmadawmen clear debris...Riot leaves 55 houses in ashes
in Ywadan Village, Yamethin...Platform extended at Myathalun Pagoda
in Magway...Objectives of the 68th Anniversary
Armed Forces Day 2013...Yangon Mega Expo 2013 on 30 March...Uniforms provided to fire
brigade members...First-aid Course, Basic Health
Course wrap up...MWAF provides cash assistance to eye patients...Staff quarter blazed in
Myaing Hay Wun Park...Meiktila rehabilitation committees meet...Meiktila violence suspects detained.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein sends
messages of felicitations to
President, Prime Minister of the
Hellenic Republic...Deputy Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker and party leave for Indonesia...UNSG?s special advisor on Myanmar holds discussion
with persons from religious organizations...Union FM felicitates Hellenic
FM...UN secretary-general?s special advisor on
Myanmar Mr. Vijay Nambiar visits relief
camps in Meiktila.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "To lift people out of poverty"
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2013-03-25
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HLUTTAW SESSIONS: Budget for purchase of five bulletproof vehicles sparks lively debate
in Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (16th day)..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: We need to catch up with neighbouring agro-based economies by enthusiasm,
mindset change, land reform, mechanization, and high-yield strains...Fire breaks out at fuel station in Toungoo...Collective Htamane making contest held...Hospital Management Course
conducted in Mandalay...Traffic rules enforced in
Yesagyo...Traditional medicine practitioners
give health care services...Bonfire held in Kyondoe...Knowledge shared for ICT development
in Sagaing...Jade Cooperative Society formed...Union Cup Games
Dates and Venues for Sports Events...Vehicle blazed near Bago Toll
Gate...Rural bridge put into
service in Kawlin...Alternative development
viewed in Shan State...Rehabilitation tasks in
Rakhine State coordinated...Eight private daily newspapers get green
light...Fire destroys monastrey in Hlaingthaya
Township...National races languages to be introduced to children...More electric power to supply during
exam period...USDP members observe
16th day session of
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein observes Solbergfoss Hydropower Plants...Visits of tourists on increase at Yangon
National Museum...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann receives
Chinese ambassador...Jordanian factory agrees to better food and more entitlements
as Myanmar workers? protest continues...ASEAN Summit Training for
Senior Level concluded...Historical photos show marks
Russia-Myanmar diplomatic ties...Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham receives Chinese
businessmen...Preparatory Meeting of 17th
ASEAN Conference on Civil
Service Matters held in Bagan.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Birthday present"
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EXECUTIVE: Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Ministry of Home Affairs Press Release (1/2013)
March 29, 2013 3rd Waning of Tabaung 1374 ME Announcement of warning about rioting in some areas in Myanmar...CBM makes it clear between authentic K 5000 banknote and counterfeit one...Information Ministry web portal on 1 April... Exportation of logs to be cased 1st April, 2014... Ministry of Electric Power Announcement.....
DOMESTIC NEWS: Regional development gaining momentum in Hainggyikyun...Seikkan Township WAO, MCWA perform social activities in Yangon west district...Mob goes on rampage after picking quarrel with theatrical actor in Zalun...Man axed to death in drunken brawl...Replacement of pylons, service lines for electrical safety in Kyangin Township...Farm machinery training course in Sagaing Region...Man dies after picking a fight with his spouse...100 acres of farmlands reclaimed in Kyauktaw
Township...Rural regions in Thongwa Township get tube-wells...Bhamo launches new bus lines for smooth transportation...Kyauktaw people get electricity at full capacity...Mobile team checks import of commodities in
Myeik...23 stone Buddha images unearthed in Bhamo...Forest fire at farmland in Kyaukphya Village of Myeik...Mandalay Region Chief Minister clarifies on opening of relief camp... UEC Chairman promises free and fair elections in 2015... Healthcare service provided to Meiktila riot victims... Security forces fire warning shot at mobs in Thegon Tsp... Business as usual in Meiktila...Low-priced sim cards coming soon...Meiktila still under tight security measures... About K 30 million donated to relief camps.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein accepts credentials of Philippine Ambassador...President U Thein Sein accepts credentials of Chinese Ambassador...Pre-SEA Games Sailing Contest 5-8 April...Pyidaungsu and Amyotha Hluttaws Speaker receives Chinese Ambassador...President U Thein Sein receives US-ASEAN Business Council Chairman... Pyithu Hluttaw Deputy Speaker receives Chairman and CEO of ACE... Indian-Myanmar joint venture talks 4 April... Myanmar needs to prepare for handling international and regional crisis as an ASEAN chair.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Towards a path of love and fraternity"
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2013-03-30
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Political reform process is being implemented by means of all inclusiveness
of all political parties and peace-making with national races armed groups...Hotel services, telecommunication facilities
discussed...Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Speaker?s Cup Football
Tourney commences...Mudita Clinic provides health care to people...Motorcyclist killed by truck after
knocking down dog on Yangon-
Mandalay Highway...Township
DAC gets 5%
of tax...Stimulant tablets seized
in Mawlamyine...Mechanical Training Schools turn out
technicians...Summer golf course 4 March...Union Border Affairs Minister
oversees regional development
and rehabilitation tasks in
northern Rakhine State...Loans disbursed to farmers in
Kalay District...Talks on hepatitis B given in
Pakokku...Union Cup Games
Dates and Venues for Sports Events...Corrigendum [2 March]...Vice-President U Nyan Tun calls for employment of modern machinery and
technologies to manufacture value-added products...Significant night temperature
(2-3-2013).....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein sends message of
felicitations to Bulgarian counterpart...Political reform process is being implemented by means of all inclusiveness
of all political parties and peace-making with national races armed groups...Union Foreign Affairs
Minister felicitates
Bulgarian counterpart...?Textiles of the Two Lands?
to mark 65th anniversary of
Myanmar-Thai diplomatic ties...Ordination ceremony of
Koreans held...Union Science and Technology Minister meets US guests...Union Defence Minister
receives Russian Defence
Minister and party.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Make overall investment in
agricultural development".....ARTICLE: "Myanmar selects final squad for AFC Challenge Cup qualifiers" By Shine Htet Zaw
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2013-03-03
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EXECUTIVE: Republic of the Union of Myanmar President Office Notification No. 34/2013 4th Waning of Tabaung 1374 ME 30 March, 2013 Formation of Central Management Committee for Emergency Period... Press Release Lists of banks, bank branches and exchange counters for FEC withdrawal programme... Notice- Yangon City Development Committee will collect tolls on using new Strand Road from vehicles which pass on it as from 1 April, 2013.....
DOMESTIC NEWS: New three-storey building for Bago University... Loaded truck overturns on Yangon-Mandalay Union Highway... Mandalay-Yangon passenger down-train derails near Toungoo... Electrical overload cause fire in Mandalay... Implementation of Regional development tasks in Naga Self-Administered Zone... Man detained in possession of stimulant tablets... Motorcyclist dies after crashing into brick block... MR upgrade Mohnyin, Mogaung stations... Rice and provisions donated to hill region monasteries... Summer culture course opened in Hline... Vocational training course commences in Myitkyina... Rice donated to nuns in Mandalay... ATR-72 600 airplane introduced... Padaung disseminates public-centred health care... Loans for members of market cooperative society... Farmers learn tractor driving, farming equipment utilization in Pathein... Cash and kind donated for victims at relief camps in Meiktila... Interfaith meeting held to discuss peace and harmony of all communities... Committee for Implementing Latpadaungtaung Copper Mine Project Report holds work coordination meeting... New gravel road reduces travel time in Pyu Township... Meiktila Central market re-opened... Mandalay Region chief minister calls for public cooperation in security measures... Development undertakings going well around Taninthayi Region... Weather Forecast for First Dekad of April 2013... Myanmar?s first solar-powered groundwater pumping put into service.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker asks support from New Zealand House of Representatives... Latter Day Saint Charities donates wheelchairs... Union Attorney-General meets foreign guests... Union SWRR Minister attends disaster management coord meeting... Development undertakings going well around Taninthayi Region.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Invisible threat to us?
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2013-03-31
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Weather Forecast for April 2013...Man throws himself out upstairs corridor of hospital...Traditional cane-ball demonstration event in Dalla Township...Crime of motorbike theft exposed after days-long interrogation...Hledan bridge to be put into service soon ...Carcasses found afloat on Lake Naungton on Kengtung ...Traffic jam in front of Bogyoke Market...Merrymakers in Thingyan water festival to be aware of higher UV radiation...Knowledge about bee-keeping to earn income
imparted...New Sasana Beikman opened in Sagain...Driving course on tractors, power-tillers introduced to farmers...Maintenance of roads, bridge inspected...Dental care given to local people in Minhla Township...Ngwehsaung Beach for Luyechun youth camp in
Pathein...Chinese temple fire in Meza Model Village of Indaw...Artisan wells sunk beside farmlands along MonywaYeU Road...Books donated to village libraries in Paung Township...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker attends coord meeting to draft law protecting farmers...New school buildings
handed over...Kyaikmaraw Township gets inter-village street and free clinic...NHK, AP open Yangon branches.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein to pay goodwill visit to China...President U Thein Sein invites Singaporean investment...Housing System in Myanmar course wraps up...Singaporean President receives Chairperson of Pyithu Hluttaw Rule of Law and Tranquility Committee...Want to study in Japan?...Myanmar-Netherlands discuss trade and economic cooperation...President U Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin Khin Win host dinner to Singaporean President Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam and wife...Wushu referee course kicks off...Cooperation in philanthropic tasks discussed...Pilots, co-pilots to have seven-year guarantee for job opportunities...China Arts and Entertainment Group supplies technical assistance for XXVII SEA Games...Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham receives Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar.....
"PERSPECTIVE": "National security"
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HLUTTAW SESSIONS: Amyotha Hluttaw discusses
formation of Union ministry
of national races affairs...MP voices concern over threat of illicit drugs [Pyithu Hluttaw].....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Significant day temperatures
(4-3-2013)...Refresher course of Toungoo
District Court starts...Food poisoning at plywood factory in
Homalin Township brings death toll to six...Union Cup Games Men?s, Women?s
volleyball tournament continues...Seizure of illegal teak in Sagaing Region...House fire in Dala Township...Pseudo-meat seized,
incinerated...Four die, mother, son hurt in expressway crash...Car crash hurts five passengers
in Shwepyitha Township...Green light given to construction of more
washrooms in Yangon...Work proficiency of ward/
village administrators uplifted...Kayah State to reclaim 500
acres of modern farming...Shwegu illuminated on selfreliant
basis...Myawady observes Mon
National Day...Nissan blazed
at traffic
junction...Meisei gets more electricity
from new generator...Union ministers visit Palethwe hybrid paddy farms...MLF holds 13th annual meeting...Observers visit Hluttaws...Tun Foundation Literary
Awarding Ceremony on 9 March...Union Border Affairs Minister oversees rehabilitation
undertakings in Rakhine State...Disaster risk management is a
national duty: Union SWRR
Minister.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein arrives in Vienna of Austria...Bangladesh Single
Country Trade Fair 2013,
6-8 March...Myanmar Upstream Summit organized in Yangon...India-Myanmar Business
Seminar kicks off...Vice-Senior General Min Aung Hlaing welcomes Russian Defence Minister...Union Border Affairs Minister oversees rehabilitation
undertakings in Rakhine State...Seed production, sorting technology
conducted...Myanmar, Russia to promote bilateral ties.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Sons of Buddha".....ARTICLE: "Dried fish industry in outskirts of Yangon booming" By Moe Thuzar Soe
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EXECUTIVE: Appointment of Rakhine State Minister...Formation of Investigation Team.....DOMESTIC NEWS: Environmental conservation master plans
discussed...Ministry of Electric Power?s Announcement...Two ships collide head-on in the middle of
Toe river...Yangon Mega Expo 2013 organized...Woman stabbed to death in
a family quarrel in Thongwa
Township...Hledan bridge to be tested
with first commute...Regional development task in progress
in Taninthayi Region...Patterns and regularities of
social life return normalcy in
Thayawady district...Press conference held for Yaykyaw mosque fire
in Botahtaung Township...Regional development tasks inspected in
Sagaing Region...Experience on value-added industrial
exhibition recounted...Nwetame Bridge completed
on Magway-Minbu-Salin
Tanyaung Road...Yangon school fire kills 13 children.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein meets
Indonesian coordinating
Minister for Economic Affairs...Jimmy Carter arrives in Nay Pyi Taw...Myanmar, Indonesia to promote trade
volume...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann meets
Singaporean President Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam and party...Singaporean delegation visits Myanmar Gems Emporium...Micheal Learns to Rock
concert gets success...MOC seeks Chinese and Thai interpreters...Committee for Safety of
Foreigners meets...Seminar on commercial arbitration held...Ambassador U Zaw Tun
concurrently accredited
as Ambassador to Slovak
Republic...Singaporean President, wife arrive in
Mandalay...Ministry of Finance and Revenue selects
sponsors for SEA Games.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Settle the differences with
noblest and worthiest virtues".....
ARTICLE: "Ethnic groups in Myanmar: The eight major races of the Republic of the Union of
Myanmar and the official list of their ethnic groups
Ethnic groups in Myanmar" (from "Myanmar Hotels & Tourism Guide 2013")
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HLUTTAW MEETINGS: Trust is a must to attract foreign investment: [17th day sixth regular session of first Pyidaungsu Hluttaw].....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Closing of Union Cup
Games to be broadcast live...Winners of Union Cup Games men?s,
women?s weightlifting contests...Union Cup Games Traditional Boxing
(Mway) contest kicks off...Motorized boat capsizes, sink in
the middle of Hline River...Upgrading of concrete road
in Nay Pyi Taw Zabuthiri
Township...Speedster crashes into the back of road roller on
Yangon-Mandalay expressway...Young man
dies after
consuming
pesticide
in Zalun
Township...One man dies after having
toad dinner...Fire drill at Hopin Myoma
Market...Diamond orb hoisted atop Shwesaryan
Pagoda in Patheingyi...Mawlu gets better GSM
telephone services...Yangon wins by four goals to
two in semi-final with Magway...State School of Fine Arts
turns out artists...Handbag snatched in Bago...120 boys to be novitiated in Nyaunglebin...Cash and kind donated to
quake victims...FSD members, local people participate in
fire drill...UMFCCI members visit Hluttaws...Weather forecast on squalls warning.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein sends
message of felicitations to
Ghanaian counterpart...Austrian President pledges support for fully lifting of EU
sanctions against Myanmar...Globetrotter convoy passes through Meiktila...Seminar on International Arbitration held
...Coord meeting on cooperation in development of Shweli-
Kyaukpyu corridor project held...Platforms of Yadana Gas Field Project under repair...SWRR Ministry, Asian
Disaster Risk Management
Centre sign deal.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Toward a country of
sustainable development".....ARTICLES: "Myanmar timber to be
exported to EU soon" Byline:
Myint Maung Soe..."Wushu event reaches final in Union Cup Games" Article: Pe Myint Oo
Photo: Soe Nyunt
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2013-03-06
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EXECUTIVE: Government of the Republic of the Union of
Myanmar Ministry of Information News and Periodicals Enterprise Invitation for Expression of Interest for Production of The New Light of Myanmar Daily.....
DOMESTIC NEWS: President U Thein Sein offers religious titles to recipient Sayadaws, offers rice and alms to members of the Sangha...Mobile team makes field
trip in Myeik...Head-on collision between
car, motorbike on Kyondoe-Kawkareik road...Fire negligence reduces houses to ashes in Gangaw Township...Pilot census
taking in 20 townships in Yangon Region...Seizure of illegal teak, hardwood in Sagaing Township...Man dies in Hlegu Township from mistakenly drinking pesticide for alcohol...Smuggled herd of cattle confiscated...New bridge put into service for rural development...Progress of construction of recreation centre, training facility inspected...Child run over by trailer in Dagon Myothit North
Township...Fifth Shwekyar robe-offering and consecration ceremony held in Nay Pyi Taw Uppatasanti Pagoda...Pagodas in Nay Pyi Taw packed with devotees on Fullmoon Day of Tabaung...Lt-Gen Myint Soe visits relief camps in Meiktila...President U Thein Sein offers religious titles to recipient...MMA (Buddhist Association) holds AGM...MEP arranges to supply power mainly to people...Five suspects detained in connection with Okpo violence...Meiktila under tight security...Gyobingauk, Okpo, Minhla townships placed
under curfew...Wellwishers donate cash and kind to victims in Meiktila, carry out sanitation task...Cash donated to free clinic...Cash and relief items donated to victims of Meiktila...Victims of violence provided with medical
care in Meiktila.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar youth golf team leaves for Thailand...Union Transport Minister holds talks with Minister-President of Government of Flanders of Belgium and party...Cultural cooperation between Myanmar-US discussed...Vice-President U Nyan Tun attends prize awarding of Nay Pyi Taw Invitational Pencak Silat Event...Myanmar, Belgium to cooperate in livestock breeding sector.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Foster equal rights for each and every citizen"
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2013-03-27
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EXECUTIVE: Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Information Team
Press release.....
DOMESTIC NEWS: Wellwishers donate cash, relief
items to victims in Meiktila...Significant day temperatures
(25-3-2013)...Dredging of Thayawboke
creek to benefit local
farmers in Kyauktan
Township ...National race young
women get vocational
training in Haka...Kanthayar Lake: An area of scenic beauty in
Hpa-an...Two vehicles
collide
head-on in
Shwedaung
Township...Street brawl leaves one
stabbed fatally in Shwe
Paukkan Industrial Zone...Mass participation needed in a drive to
improve road safety on expressway...School building in Indaw Township goes up in
flames...Smuggled herd
of cattle seized...More private daily newspapers granted...Objectives of the 68
th
Anniversary
Armed Forces Day 2013...calm prevails in Yangon...Tatmadawmen, staff clear debris in Meiktila...Course on census-taking opens in Mandala...Summer sports course opened...Mandalay Region Chief Minister donates offertories to
monasteries in Meiktila...Tatmadawmen on patrol
in Meiktila for peace and
stability.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein sends
message of felicitations to
Prime Minister of Bangladesh...President U Thein Sein receives Belgian delegation...Prevention of mother-to-child
transmission of HIV/AIDS discussed...EPS-TOPIK (Computer Based
Test-CBT) Centre opened ...Myanmar, UN focus on further cooperation...Union FM sends felicitations
to Foreign Minister of
Bangladesh...Pyithu Hluttaw Deputy
Speaker receives Thai guests...Appointment of Omani
Ambassador to Myanmar
agreed on...Peace process would be fostered as eternal peace to be
handed down to new generations...Mandalay Region Chief
Minister meets representatives
from international
organizations...President U Thein Sein receives UNSG?s Special Adviser on
Myanmar Mr Vijay Nambiar and party.....
"PERSPECTIVES":
Environmental-friendly
urbanization.....ARTICLES: "THE SHWEDAGON"
By Ba Than....."Mann Shwe Settaw Festival comes to full life" By A1 Soe (Kyemon).....POEM: "Tabaung" Maung Swe Ngae
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DOMESTIC NEWS: Tatmadaw?s national politics is to safeguard country...Mobile library arrives
in Haka...Confiscation of smuggled
luxurious vehicles in Mon
State...Anti-human trafficking
activity in Bago Region...Union Minister stresses more breeding
of dairy cattle...Construction of new shipyard
in Dagon Township in progress...Motorcyclist
killed in
collision with
bullock-cart
in Kawlin
Township...Replacement of wooden sleepers with concrete
one satisfies rail users...Husband set alight after
wife poured petrol on him...Merit shared for three-storey
building in Chanayethazan
Township...Winners awarded in essay,
extempore talks contests...Overturned express bus
claims four lives...Workshop on social
development held on
Sagaing Hill...Forest fire breaks out near Nyana Theikdi
Stadium...?Kyelsin Mawgun? movie artists honoured...Tatmadaw?s
national
politics...Relief aids, cash donated to victims in
Meiktila...Mandalay Region Chief Minister meets
Hluttaw representatives, religious
leaders, townselders in Meiktila...Violence, unrests occur in Okpo, Nattalin,
Thegon and Zigon Townships of Bago
Region...Separated families reunite in Meiktila...Slight earthquake hits outside Myanmar...Defence Services Commander-in-Chief hosts dinner to mark 68th Anniversary Armed Forces Day...Prize winning companies
awarded in 68th Anniversary
Armed Forces parade...Cash and kind donated for riot
sufferers.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Singaporean President and
wife to pay state visit to
Myanmar...Deputy Education Minister meets British guests...Plan to cover sports village,
stadium with thick foliage
before SEA Games...Workshop on Myanmar and
Leadership of ASEAN held...Ambassador U Zaw Tun
presents his credentials to
Hungarian President.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Maintain cultural diversity
and authenticity"
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2013-03-28
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