UNCENSORED video tapes and VCD’s, smuggled into the country
illegally, together with Myanmar CD’s, video tapes and articles
which are out of place in Myanmar culture, were put to the torch in
the compound of Aungthabye Yeiktha in Mayangon Township just prior
to Thingyan Festival. Full
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IT’S a long way
from Cartagena, Colombia to Yangon, but that’s exactly where Foreign
Minister U Win Aung attended the 13th Ministerial Conference of the
Non-Aligned Movement – a group comprising mainly developing nations
of the Southern Hemisphere. Full
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Myanmar’s
official website, The Golden Land, had been awarded one of the three
best websites for the year 2000 from among those of 28 countries in
the Asia and the Pacific region. The other two websites are Asia
Observer from Singapore and Inside China Today from the People’s
Republic of China. Full
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