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[myanmar_information] The New Light of Myanmar (Tuesday, February 25, 2003)
The New Light of Myanmar (Tuesday, February 25, 2003)
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1. Senior General Than Shwe sends felicitations to
His Highness of State of Kuwait
2. Malaysian Minister calls on Secretary-1
3. Keeping department offices neat and tidy
coordinated
4. National Training Workshop for Community
Learning Centres Personnel held
5. MMPE holds coordination meeting
6. Transport Minister attends opening of
Seismology Course
7. Coord meeting of Ministry of Energy held
8. Health Ministry booth inspected
9. Training course on administration of justice opened
10, Training course for enhancing calibre of public
relations officers opened
11. Myanmar-Japan Business Forum held
12. NPED Minister meets Malaysian Minister
13. Commerce Minister meets Malaysian Minister
14. Myanmar study group arrives back from Singapore
15. Minister receives guests
16. Labour Minister meets Malaysian Minister
17. Professional golfers for Myanmar Open
Golf Tour arrives
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1. Senior General Than Shwe sends felicitations to
His Highness of State of Kuwait
Yangon, 25 Feb ? Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of
the State Peace and Development Council of the Union
of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His
Highness Sheik Jaber Al- Ahmad Al-Sabah, Amir of the
State of Kuwait on the occasion of the National Day of
the State of Kuwait which falls on 25 February 2003.
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2. Malaysian Minister calls on Secretary-1
Yangon, 24 Feb ? Secretary-1 of the State Peace and
Development Council General Khin Nyunt received
Minister of Primary Industries of Malaysia Dato Seri
Dr Lim Keng Yaik and party at Zeyathiri Beikman on
Konmyinttha here this morning.
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3. Keeping department offices neat and tidy
coordinated
Yangon, 24 Feb? A coordination meeting to keep
department offices neat and tidy was held at the
meeting hall of Yangon City Development Committee at
the City Hall this afternoon.
Present were Chairman of Yangon Division Peace and
Development Council Commander of Yangon Command
Maj-Gen Myint Swe, Chairman of YCDC Yangon Mayor U Ko
Lay, the deputy ministers, Vice-Chairman of YCDC
Vice-Mayor Col Maung Pa, heads of departments of the
office of the Chief Justice, the Attorney-General?s
Office and the Auditor-General?s Office, Commander of
No 4 Military Region Brig-Gen Myo Myint, the
directors-general and managing directors of
departments and enterprises, Secretary of Yangon
Division Peace and Development Council Lt-Col Kyaw
Tint and chairmen of District Peace and Development
Councils.
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4. National Training Workshop for Community
Learning Centres Personnel held
Yangon, 24 Feb?A ceremony to open the National
Training Workshop for Community Learning Centres
Personnel co-sponsored by Myanmar Educational Research
Bureau under the Ministry of Education of Myanmar and
the Asia-Pacific Region Bureau for Education of UNESCO
Bangkok was held at MERB on Pyay Road here this
morning with an address by Chairman of Myanmar UNESCO
National Commission Minister for Education U Than
Aung.
In his address, Minister U Than Aung said: today?s
capacity building workshop is jointly organized by
MERB of the Ministry of Education, Myanmar and the
Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, UNESCO
Bangkok. This one is the third workshop conducted by
MERB and UNESCO Bangkok.
The products of the previous workshop are the
translation and publication of the materials concerned
with the introduction of Continuing Education via
Community Learning Centres. Participants were also
invited to the Regional/Sub-regional workshop. As a
result, this workshop can be conducted at MLRC with
the financial and technical support from the
Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, UNESCO
Bangkok.
The workshop is aiming at improving the capacity or
power that means the ability to do something on the
effective management and the strategic implementation
of Continuing Education via Community Learning
Centres. To achieve the aim and objectives of the
workshop 30 participants from different States and
Divisions will endeavour to learn how to manage and
implement CE activities effectively and share the
knowledge and skills of existing CE in Myanmar. The
participants will pay a visit to Community Learning
Centres of Hlaingthaya Township which was established,
managed and implemented by themselves with ?For them,
By them, With Them? concept.
The topics are as follows: Establishment of new CLC;
Community Mobilization; Needs Assessment;
Participatory planning and resource mobilization;
Networking and linkage; Monitoring and evaluation;
Documentation and dissemination; and Capability
building.
The participants need to have the clear thinking for
the effective implementation of NFE activities in
Myanmar. In doing so, some essential NFE concepts
should be clearly understood. What is NFE, CE and CLC?
We should find out the concepts first.
Non Formal Education refers to any organized
educational activity operating outside the formal
school system to provide selected types of learning to
out-of-school youths and adults.
Continuing Education includes all of the opportunities
all people want or need outside of the basic literacy
education and primary education.
Community Learning Centre is a learning place usually
set up and managed by community people. It serves all
people in the community including adults, youths and
children regardless race, sex, caste and region etc.
It is known that some Myanmar CLCs are now trying to
apply ICT in Basic Literacy Programme, Income
Generating Programme and Better Life Programme. The
result will be CLC as the learning centre for that
specific community. As the literacy decade is now
declared from 2002 to 2012, Basic Literacy Programme
will be continued according to Myanmar 30 year
long-term plan and EFA Plan of Action. CE will be
provided through CLC parallell.
I would like to urge the participants to bear in mind
our vision that states ? To create an education system
that can generate a learning society capable of facing
the challenges of the Knowledge Age?. And also our
motto that states ? To build a Modern and Developed
Country Through Education? and ask you to try your
best with concerted effort for NFE activities to form
Myanmar learning society.
In addition to these, it must be conceived that NFE is
not concerned only with the Ministry of Education, but
all related ministries, NGO, INGO and well- wishers
which should be well organized and cooperated with
each other in order to build Myanmar as a modern and
developed nation.
Improve your organizing capacity, implementing
capacity and managing capacity through this
opportunity.
Then, Ms Darunee from the Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau
for Education, UNESCO Bangkok made a speech.
The workshop continues up to 1 March.
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5. MMPE holds coordination meeting
Yangon, 24 Feb? A coordination meeting of Myanma
Motion Picture Enterprise was held at the MMPE (Head
Office) this afternoon.
Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan discussed
matters relating to the lease of the cinemas, quick
payment of installment for lease of the cinemas,
maintenance of the cinemas, durability of equipment
used in film industry, purchase of modern film
equipment, welfare for service personnel of MMPE and
cooperation with Myanmar Motion Picture Asiayon for
emergence of Myanmar films of international standard.
Present were Managing Director of MMPE U Bo Kyi and
officials.
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6. Transport Minister attends opening of Seismology
Course
Yangon, 24 Feb ? A ceremony to open Seismology Course,
jointly organized by Ministry of Transport and World
Seismic Safety Initiative-WSSI which was organized by
international seismologists and scientists was held
at the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology on
Kaba Aye Pagoda Road this morning with an address by
Minister for Transport Maj-Gen Hla Myint Swe.
Directors of WSSI Prof Haresh C Shah and Mr Satoru
Ohyu explained about salient points of seismology and
purpose of the course and the ceremony came to a
close.
Altogether 30 representatives of Yangon City
Developement Committee, Myanmar Engineers Association,
Seismologists Committee, Yangon Technological
University, Public Works, Department of Human
Settlement and Housing Development, Department of
Geology of Yangon University and Department of
Meteorology and Hydrology are attending the course.
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7. Coord meeting of Ministry of Energy held
Yangon, 24 Feb ? The fourth quarterly coordination
meeting of Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, the Ministry
of Energy, took place at the ministry on Pyay Road
this morning.
Minister for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi made an opening
speech. At the meeting, general managers of oil fields
reported on production of petroleum and natural gas
and the minister laid down future tasks.
Energy Planning Department Director-General U Soe
Myint, MOGE Managing Director U Sann Lwin and
officials gave supplementary reports.
The minister then gave instructions on boosting
production of petroleum and natural gas, measures to
be taken for prevention of fire and minimizing loss
and wastage and made concluding remarks.
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8. Health Ministry booth inspected
Yangon, 24 Feb? Minister for Health Professor Dr Kyaw
Myint inspected preparation of the Ministry of Health
booth at the Defence Services Museum on Shwedagon
Pagoda Road this afternoon.
The minister was conducted round the Twelve Objectives
booth, uplift of health, fitness and education
standards of the entire nation at the social objective
booth, newly opened upgraded dispensaries and
hospitals at the nation-building tasks booth by
Director-General of Health Planning Department Dr Kyi
Soe and Director Dr Khin Than Oo.
The minister fulfilled the requirements.
The minister inspected the booths of the Ministry of
Health booth, guidance on health policy by Head of
State Senior General Than Shwe, two objectives of the
ministry and three methods for implementation of those
objectives. Director-General Dr Kyi Soe and
officials reported on preparations.
The minister gave instructions on display of rural
region health development and health care services.
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9. Training course on administration of justice opened
Yangon, 24 Feb? The Ministry of Home Affairs opened
the training course No 2 administration of justice and
prosecution at the hall of the ministry at the corner
of Saya San Road and Industry-1 Road yesterday
morning, with an address by Minister for Home Affairs
Col Tin Hlaing.
Then, Deputy Chief Justice U Than Oo and Deputy
Attorney-General U Myint Naing gave speeches.
Also present on the occasion were Chief Justice U Aung
Toe, Attorney-General U Tha Tun, Deputy Minister for
Home Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maung,
Director-General of Myanmar Police Force Police
Brig-Gen Khin Yi, senior police officers,
directors-general and directors of Supreme Court and
Attorney-General?s Office, the director-general of
Civil Service Selection and Training Department,
directors-general, deputy directors-general, directors
and deputy directors of departments under the Ministry
of Home Affairs, course instructors officers and
trainees.
Altogether 82 trainees of General Administration
Department and MPF are attending the course which will
last five weeks.
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10, Training course for enhancing calibre of public
relations officers opened
Yangon, 24 Feb ? Information and Public Relations
Department of the Ministry of Information opened the
training course for enhancing the calibre of public
relations officers at the training hall of News and
Periodicals Enterprise on Pansodan Street here this
morning with an opening address by Minister for
Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan.
The minister said IPRD has already opened 61
district-level offices, 248-township and 28 out of 39
sub-township offices in the country. Every office is
carrying out public relations task in the whole
country even in the border areas by establishing
libraries with television sets. They are holding photo
exhibitions, educative talks, organizing wall
magazines and publishing pamphlets. Public relations
personnel, who are working closely with the public,
have been trained in their respective fields. Training
course for enhancing the calibre of public relations
officers was opened with the objectives to upgrade the
capability of the staff and prepare for the future; to
uplift the mental ability, thought and skill of the
staff; and to be able to achieve the goals of the
Ministry of Information and IPRD actively and
effectively.
Due to the rapidly changing modern information and
communication technology, public relations and
electronic mass media technologies and information
system become faster and more effective these days.
Misusing these modern information technologies, some
nations are persuading the citizens of developing
countries like Myanmar to accept their ideas,
culture, traditions and life style, and the danger of
mentally being dominated isbecoming greater and
greater, the Minister said.
In order to prevent such danger it is needed to firmly
build the patriotism and Union Spirit among our
people. Public relations staff who are working among
the people down to grass-root level must pay attention
to this, he said.
The Minister also urged the officials of districts and
townships to follow the guidance of the Head of State
to sharpen their public relations skills, to cover the
mass media down to border areas, to make field trips
down to villages in their respective areas even in
this year to implement public relations task
effectively, to see that each and every village get
at least one daily newspaper, and to organize and
cooperate to keep at least a set of television and
radio in each village.
It is necessary to carry out their duties dutifully
with goodwill and innovation within the principle and
framework laid down by the Government. He also urged
them to diligently try in such a way that their
activies become active and interesting.
The subjects to be lectured in this training course
are aimed at renewing the information sector with the
clear national outlook, correct national stand and
honest national interest, in other words, to improve
the effectiveness in public relations work. Trainees
are urged to participate in building the modern
developed nation with new spirit after receiving the
training, he concluded. Director General of Myanma
Radio & Television U Khin Maung Htay, Managing
Director of Printing and Publishing Enterprise U Myint
Thein, Managing Director of News & Periodicals
Enterprise U Tin Kha, officials, instructors and
trainees attended the opening ceremony.
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11. Myanmar-Japan Business Forum held
Yangon, 24 Feb ? Myanmar-Japan Business Forum
conducted by Ministry of Defence of the Union of
Myanmar and the Association for Communication of
Transcultural Study (ACT), Japan, opened this morning
at MICT Park in Hline Township.
Vice-Chief of Military Intelligence Maj-Gen Kyaw Win,
Managing Director of ACT Foundation Mr Tomoyoshi
Kaneko and Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar Mr Yuji
Miyamoto made addresses.
Director of the Industrial Science and Technology
Policy and Environment Bureau Industrial Science and
Technology Policy Division of Japan Mr Masahiro Fujita
gave talks on Economic Relationships between Japan and
Myanmar and Mr Kunihiko Shinoda, representative of
Japan Overseas Development Corporation (JODC),
Bangkok, on economic and industrial Cooperation
between ASEAN and Japan.
Next, prospects for mutual cooperation, that for the
mutual cooperation in agriculture and prospect for
mutual cooperation in information technology were
also discussed.
The forum was also attended by Head of Department of
the Office of Military Intelligence Brig-Gen Thein Swe
and senior military officers, departmental officials,
entrepreneurs from agricultural, IT sectors and
practitioners, and guests.
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12. NPED Minister meets Malaysian Minister
Yangon, 24 Feb ? Minister for National Planning and
Economic Development U Soe Tha met with Minister for
Primary Industries of Malaysia Dato? Seri Dr Lim Keng
Yaik and party at his office this afternoon.
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13. Commerce Minister meets Malaysian Minister
Yangon, 24 Feb ? Minister for Commerce Brig-Gen Pyi
Sone met with Dato' Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik, Minister
for Primary Industries of Malaysia, and party at his
officer here this afternoon.
Commerce Minister hosted a dinner in honour of the
Malaysian Minister and party at Karaweik Palace this
evening.
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14. Myanmar study group arrives back from Singapore
Yangon, 24 Feb? After studying the major departments
and bodies in Singapore from 16 to 23 February, the
Myanmar delegation comprising 10 high ranking
officials from the ministries led by Rector Col Zaw
Min Thein of the University for Development of
National Races arrived back here this afternoon.
The delegation visited Singapore under the programme
to send abroad the staff who took part in the
discussions of the Seminar on Upgrading the Skills of
Civil Service, organized by Civil Service Selection
and Training Board and Sasakawa Peace Foundation Bank
of Japan held in November 2002.
The delegation was welcomed at the Yangon
International Airport by Director-General U Hla Kyi of
the Civil Service Selection and Training Department
and Director-General U Khin Maung Myint of the Civil
Service Affairs Department, officials, family members
and relatives.
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15. Minister receives guests
Yangon, 24 Feb ? Minister for Hotels and Tourism
Brig-Gen Thein Zaw received Managing Director of
Scantrade Co Mr Bjorn Burchard and party at 2 pm,
Chairman of Andaman Club Co Mr Vikron Aisiri and party
at 3 pm at his office separately.
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16. Labour Minister meets Malaysian Minister
Yangon, 24 Feb ? Minister for Labour U Tin Winn met
with Malaysian Minister for Primary Industries Dato?
Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik and party at his office this
morning.
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17. Professional golfers for Myanmar Open
Golf Tour arrives
Yangon, 24 Feb ? The Myanmar Open Golf Tour 2003,
co-organized by Myanmar Professional Golfers
Association and Asian Professional Golfers Association
and mainly supported by Rothmans of Pall Mall Myanmar
Pte Ltd, will be held at Danyingon Golf Club from 27
February to 2 March.
Altogether 27 golfers from Chinese Taipei, 14 from
Thailand, eight from the US, five from South Africa,
four each from India and Sweden, five from Singapore,
two each from Australia and Pakistan and two from
Malaysia including Zaw Moe and Kyi Hla Han of Myanmar
arrived here to participate in the tour.
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