PM urges Western nations to correct ‘misperceptions?: WESTERN nations had ignored the positive changes taking place in Myanmar and it was time that false perceptions about the country were corrected, the Prime Minister, General Khin Nyunt, said in a major speech in Yangon on January 27... Devastation in region as Myanmar remains free of bird flu virus: A SENIOR government official said last Friday that Myanmar remained free of the avian influenza that has devastated the poultry industry in many East Asian countries... Online visa debut: ONLINE visa applications have begun flowing in to the Immigration and National Registration Department since the e-visa system was launched on January 21, a departmental official said last week.The official said seven applications had been received up until last Friday... Seminar on Myanmar a ‘landmark? event, says veteran American scholar: AMERICAN scholar John Badgley has come half way around the world to attend a government-sponsored conference on Myanmar?s future, but he speaks with the confidence of man on his own territory... City FM unveils plan to launch question and answer program: LISTENERS to Yangon?s City FM radio station will have an opportunity to ask questions on a wide range of topics in one of three new programs being launched in the coming weeks... ASEAN agro-industry body lists priority products for integration: SOYBEANS, maize, and processed fruits are likely to be given first priority in a plan by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to accelerate integration in the agricultural sector, it was decided at an historic meeting in Yangon on January 12... Soft launch held for e-procurement system: A SOFT launch of the government?s e-procurement system held at Yangon?s MICT Park on January 25 featured a presentation showing how it will streamline tendering procedures... Buddhism has answers for globalisation: scholar: Dr Vineeta Shanker, a project coordinator with the British-based World Faiths Development Dialogue, said that while globalisation was inevitable, Buddhism had answers to its good and bad effects... Myanmar in talks with India over fuels exchange: NEW DELHI ? India will sell diesel to Myanmar by August and is in talks to buy gas from the country, Petroleum Secretary B.K. Chaturvedi said last Thursday... Women boost beauty industry with increased brand-awareness: WOMEN from 25-40, cosmetics-savvy and brand-conscious, are leading the beauty industry revolution, a survey of Yangon?s leading market players indicated last week... Growth of suburbia marks modernisation of Yangon: WHILE the Department of Human Settlement and Housing Development continues its policy of high-rise construction in Yangon along the Pyay Road corridor, Myanmar?s capital city has been modernising in a manner altogether less apparent: through the spread of suburbia.