THE government is ready to promote the
Myeik Archipelago as a major tourist destination and is
inviting foreigners to invest in the area, the Deputy
Minister of Hotels and Tourism, Brigadier-General Aye
Myint Kyu, said last week.Improved relations with
Thailand had paved the way for opening the area,
including the border port of Kawthaung, to greater
development, Brigadier-General Aye Myint Kyu told
Myanmar Times on February 16. [FullStory]
U Saw Lwin, an orchid
breeder, is a central executive committee member
of the Myanmar Floriculturist Association and
managing director of the Myanmar Flora Co.
Ltd.
A SENIOR member of India’s leading
industry body has welcomed a pledge by the Prime
Minister, General Khin Nyunt, to work for a further
strengthening of relations with India.Mr Rajive Kaul,
the past president of the Confederation of Indian
Industry, said General Khin Nyunt made the pledge last
Friday during a visit to the Made in India trade show at
the Yangon Trade Centre. [Fullstory]
Mr Masashi Ogawa, a counsellor at the
embassy, said the decision late last year to resume aid
had followed an assessment of political developments in
Myanmar last year, which included the release of a road
map for a transition to democracy.[Fullstory]
MYANMAR and Ireland, the current
president of the European Union, established diplomatic
relations earlier this month.An agreement to establish
diplomatic relations on a non-resident basis was signed
in Kuala Lumpur on February 10, the Myanmar Foreign
Affairs Ministry announced in a statement released the
following day. [Fullstory]
THAILAND’S Thongchai Jaidee triumphed at the US$200,
000 Myanmar Open, picking up the winner’s cheque for
$32,300 and claiming his second trophy in two months
having won the Volvo Masters of Asia in Thailand in
December.[Fullstory]
STUDENTS from a Japanese
university handed over nearly 40 wheelchairs, as
well as towels and stationery, to two Yangon
hospitals during a donation ceremony held on
February 10.
[Fullstory]
KNOWLEDGE of contraceptives has risen among
Myanmar women in the past ten years as a result of
AIDS awareness and reproductive health programs,
United Nations and government officials said last
week.[Fullstory]
MYANMA Post and
Telecommunication will issue a commemorative stamp
in May to mark to centenary of the Federation
Inter-nationale de Football Association (FIFA), an
official with the MPT said last week.[Fullstory]
“Although only a few billboard advertisements
for cigarettes and alcohol can still be seen in
Yangon and Mandalay, they are still quite common
in smaller cities,” said Dr Nyo Nyo Kyaing, the
manager of the ministry’s tobacco-free initiative
project.[Fullstory]
THE Prime Minister General
Khin Nyunt has urged Yangon’s developers to
complete high-rise projects in the city before
2006.Gen Khin Nyunt was speaking at a meeting of
the City Housing Project Supervisory Committee at
the meeting hall of Department of Human Settlement
and Housing Development on February 14.[Fullstory]
Myanmar
Investment Commission (MIC) under the Ministry of
National Planning and Economic Development, and
Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) under the
Ministry of Industry signed the Economic
Cooperation Agreement. [Fullstory]
MYANMAR companies should be
encouraged to investigate capital raising ventures
and not just rely on bank loans as they have in
the past, according to leading securities market
experts.Some private companies should also
investigate the advantages of raising capital by
becoming public companies, they said.[Fullstory]
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