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Highway to intensify ties with Bangladesh

The MoU for building the 133-kilometre highway, which will help to expand bilateral trade, was signed in Dhaka on April 4, the first day of the three-day visit by General Khin Nyunt.The MoU followed the signing of a letter of intent to build the highway during a visit to Dhaka in 2002 by the Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, Senior General Than Shwe.The highway will link Buthidaung in Rakhine State and Ramu in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Province, where a ceremony was held on April 5 to lay a foundation stone for the project.
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	Thinking Aloud talks to the Thai ambassador, Mr Suphot Dhirakaosal.

Boom for beach resort operators

Most of the bookings were from Myanmar, though many expatriates and foreign visitors have taken the opportunity to spend the holiday at the beach.One of the most popular beach resorts for Myanmar is Chaungtha, about 200 kilometres west of Yangon.[Fullstory]

Millions gather to revel, throw water and party on

Pandals erected for concerts and water throwing will be focus of much of the fun for the festival, from April 12 to 16.Many revellers will spend the festival getting a drenching as they travel from pandal to pandal in cars, pick-ups and trucks.
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For some, a time to make merit, meditate

Many men enter the monkhood during Thingyan to cultivate their minds by studying the Buddha’s teachings and by living austerely according to the rules which apply to the Sangha, or the community of monks. Ordaing as a monk is also a means of earning merit for oneself or one’s parents.[Fullstory]




	Tourists’ search for inner peace draws them to mediation centres

	Le Planteur clinches Gold Plate Awards

	Once upon a time in Myanmar . . .

	First complete DVD made



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Myanmar women’s soccer team get ready for Japan

THE 25-member Myanmar national women’s soccer team leaves for Japan this week to compete in the Asia zone qualifying games for the Olympic Games in Athens in August.The qualifying round will be played at Yokohama from April 18 to 22.
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Temperature and time at Yangon

National NGOs urged to expand activities

“The greater involvement of local NGOs is necessary since they represent great potential resources to improve human development in Myanmar,” said Mr Brian Heidel, the program director in Yangon for Save the Children (UK).
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Auditor General’s office signs MoU with China

The MoU is the first to be signed by the Office of the Auditor General with a foreign country. It was signed in Beijing on March 26 by Myanmar’s Auditor-General, Major-General Lun Maung, and China’s Deputy Auditor-General, Mr Linghu Ann.The MoU is for the exchange of information on auditing methods and technologies, said U Thein Myint, the director of the Myanmar Office of the Auditor General.
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Private banks plan merger for May, the first of its kind in Myanmar

Myanmar banks were nationalised in 1963 as the then-government sought to take control of the private sector, but after the government reverted to a market-oriented system in 1989, private banks were again permitted to operate.
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Pork consumption on rise, show YCDC figures

Daw Nu Nu, a pork retailer at Than Market in Chinatown, said sales have climbed slowly since she started her business about eight years ago. However, sales had risen sharply since the start of the year because of concerns about the bird flu outbreak that affected other countries in Asia.
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Brisk sales at Central Tower

“We began selling the units some months ago, but things have really picked up over the past few weeks,” said U Win Myint, chairman of Shwe Naga Min Company which is building the tower.“In the beginning, we sold only about two apartments a month but we sold ten in March,” he said.
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New Condominium on Maha Bandoola Rd

BUILDING work has begun on Yathar Condominium, a 12-storey commercial and residential building on the corner of Maha Bandoola Road and 31st Street, the developer said last week.Asia Express Construction began work on the 10,500-square-foot site at the beginning of April and expects to finish building by June 2005.
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