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THE discovery of a bronze Buddha image and a
small bronze bell in central Myanmar early this month had
proved that Buddhism flourished at Beikthano during the Pyu
era from the second to the ninth centuries, a senior official
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THE Deputy Foreign Minister, U Khin Maung Win, left for
Japan on July 3 for a two-day visit to explain political
developments in Myanmar in the aftermath of the May 30
incident in Sagaing Division.
U Khin Maung Win was
making the visit as a special envoy of the Chairman of the
State Peace and Development Council, Senior General Than Shwe,
a diplomat from the Japanese embassy in Yangon told Myanmar
Times on July 2. [FullStory] |
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ASEAN attorneys-general have failed to agree on a
Malaysian-drafted treaty to deepen anti-terror cooperation,
the official Bernama news agency reported. The draft was a
focus of three days of talks that ended on July 2 in Kota
Kinabalu, the capital of the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah.
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A DECISION to ban the use of vehicle horns in
downtown Yangon from last May has proved so successful in
reducing noise pollution that it has been extended to another
three townships, a senior traffic official said last
week. [Fullstory] | |
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