NEWS TOPICS: Are shiny new taxis sign of great things to come? » New low-cost airline targets Myanmar passengers » Tigers to reclaim jungle under WCS plan » National Convention '75pc complete' » The oversized wonders of Mingun » Women shoot for status in photography » Astrologer sees new beginning ‘after February? » India abandons plans to build gas pipeline across Bangladesh » U of Yangon offers social work course » ASEAN academics discuss agriculture » Curry contest allays flu fear » KOICA finishes volunteer IT project » In Myanmar, mobile phones are status symbols » New arthropod discovered in Myanmar » Nay Pyi Taw dairy cow zone to be established » Posh shoppers demand posh produce » UMFCCI relocates » New Mandalay to Bagan river cruise to launch » Flood danger remains, but not on Ayeyarwady » Environmental groups agree on cooperation » All Myanmar to get ADSL in 2006: govt » Mobile internet service launched...BUSINESS: Discount rice shops cut price by third » Signs of oil and gas in deeper seas » Myanmar to discuss revival of Silk Route to Bangladesh » Used car sales up in July » Govt denies border trade suffering » Open up to foreigners, say realtors » Lifestyle rules in planned communities