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Infromation Sheet No.B-1127(I)



                  MYANMAR INFORMATION COMMITTEE
                                      YANGON
             
                               Information Sheet
                     No.B-1127(I)    31st October 1999

(1) Ceremony to Hand Over New Four-Storey building for BEMS in Dagon Myothit 
Seikkan Township Held

    A ceremony to hand over new four-storey building for Basic Education 
Middle School donated by Yuzana Construction Group to the Ministry of 
Education was held at the school on Gangaw Street in the compound of Yuzana 
Garden City Housing Project. The four-storey middle school built by Yuzana 
Construction Group includes 24 classrooms, an office room of the 
headmistress, a recreation room of the teachers, an assembly hall, a computer 
room, an arts room, a
domestic science room, a library and toilets, and there are also computer, TV 
sets and video cassette players. Implementation of Yuzana Garden City Project 
which occupies about 800 acres of land, continues, and single housing units, 
modern apartments, buildings of international standard, religious buildings, 
sports grounds, bus terminals, markets, super markets and parks will be built 
there.

    Before 1988, Yangon City was crowded with squatters and homeless people 
and densely populated; moreover, Yangon City with quarters which were not in 
hygienic conditions, did not possess urban characteristics. So, step-by-step 
measures have been taken to see to it that Yangon City, the capital of 
Myanmar, is pleasant and beautiful and has urban characteristics like cities 
of other countries. As the first step, Hlaingthaya, Shwepyitha and Dagon 
Myothit have been established , and people from densely-populated wards and 
squatter quarters in the city have been moved there. During the period of the 
first phase, the Government could not provide much, and but it has made 
arrangements for allotting plots, building roads and
supplying of water and electricity with the aim of enabling squatters to have 
houses of their own and to live in hygienic conditions. With a view to 
enabling government employees to have plots and houses of their own, plots 
have been allotted in Dagon Myothit and loans extended to them. New towns 
thus established have now possessed urban characteristics, and furthermore, 
it is found that Hlaingthaya Myothit, established as an industrial town, is 
thriving with industries. For the second phase, to ensure that the city is 
pleasant and beautiful, in the places where the layout of squatters was not 
systematic and in the densely-populated areas, hut-to-apartment schemes have 
been implemented in cooperation with construction entrepreneurs, thereby 
establishing modern housing estates; the schemes are now picking up. For the 
third phase, with the aim of enabling the people from the city to enjoy fresh 
air and recreation, arrangements for the garden city to enjoy fresh air and 
recreation, arrangements for the garden city project covering Yuzana City 
Project and Mingalardon City Project equipped with modern houses, markets, 
hospitals, schools, sports grounds and recreation centres, have been made in 
connection with new towns. Yuzana Garden City Project in Seikkan Township of 
Dagon Myothit is a mammoth housing project; due to repercussions of financial 
crises in Southeast Asian nations, the improvement of housing projects in 
Myanmar have been delayed to some extent, but there was no serious difficulty 
and problems. So, instructions have been given to implement housing projects 
slowly but steadily, and as a result, Yuzana Garden City Project is taking 
shape gradually. With respect to arrangements made to enable Yuzana Garden 
City to have urban characteristics, it is found that a modern four-storey 
middle school can be opened today. Moreover, bus lines between Yuzana Garden 
City and downtown Yangon, have been opened today; with the improvement of 
education and transport sectors, Yuzana Garden City will soon thrive. Yuzana 
Family built a garden city where people of middle class and government 
employees can live and donated a middleschool as well as a multimedia 
teaching centre, teaching aids, furniture and stationery; moreover, it has 
also provided assistance for the welfare of teachers and students. In Yuzana 
Garden City Project,
16-mile-long concrete road and 5-mile-long tarred road were built. Air-con 
Buses will ply between Yuzana Garden City Housing Project and Hsinma-like 
Highway Terminal in Kamayut Township.
 
(2) Workshop on Regional Collaboration in Conservation of Hkakaborazi 
Mountain Ecosystem Held

    Workshop on Regional Collaboration in Conservation of Hkakaborazi 
Mountain (the highest peak in Myanmar)Ecosystem jointly sponsored by the 
Forest Department and International Center for Integrated Mountain 
Development (ICIMOD) was held in Putao, Kachin State, from 26 to 29 October. 
Hkakaborazi Mountain ecosystem is endowed with unique and rich biological 
diversity and covers the head-waters of the most important Ayeyawady River. 
In this workshop papers related to conservation of biodiversity in Eastern 
Himalayan Region, distribution of flora and fauna of Hkakaborazi, 
socio-economic situation of local community, conservation and management of 
Hkakaborazi National Park were presented and discussed. The recommendations 
on conservation and management strategies for Hkakaborazi National Park were 
adopted. During the workshop the participants visited the environs of 
Putao-Mular Shidi Village and Machanbaw Township.
 
(3) Secretary-1 Receives National Race Group of Shan State (North)

    Chairman of Work Committee for Development of Border Areas and National 
Races Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Khin 
Nyunt met the national race group led by U Kan Ywet of Shan State (North) at 
the Tatmadaw Guest House on Inya Road at 3.45 pm on  30 October. They 
discussed regional development tasks and preservation of traditions and 
culture.

(4)     Secretary-2 Meets Delegation of Border Areas Development Corporation 
of ROK

        Secretary-2 of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Tin Oo 
met a five-member delegation led by Executive Director Dr. Ro Kun-Kil, Border 
Areas Development Corporation, Ministry of Agriculture, the Republic of 
Korea, and officials of Myanmar-based Korean company Myanmar First 
International, Korea-Myanmar Cooperation Organization, at the Ministry for 
Progress of Border Areas and National Race and Development Affairs on 30 
October. They discussed modern farming sector, mechanized farming sector and 
regional development sector. Officials present held discussions about 
technical assistance in agriculture for development of border areas, 
assistance for the transport sector in border areas and that for rural 
development.

(5) Myanmar Mayflower Bank Ltd Opens Another Branch in Mandalay
 
    A ceremony to mark the opening of Mandalay Branch No 3 of Myanmar 
Mayflower Bank Ltd was held at the Sedona Hotel in Mandalay on 30 October. 
Now, altogether 21 private banks are providing financial services 
successfully in Mandalay.  The branch opened in Mandalay  is the fourteenth 
of Myanmar Mayflower Bank Ltd, and efforts of MMB to open branches in cities 
and provide monetary services starting from June 1994 to date, are highly 
laudable. Altogether three branches have been opened in Mandalay, which takes 
up economically strategic position of upper Myanmar. Myanmar Mayflower Bank 
Ltd has already opened seven branches in Yangon, three branches in Shan State 
and three branches in Mandalay, and arrangements are being made to open more 
branches in Monywa, Meiktila, Muse, Kengtung, Myingyan and Yangon.

(6) Myanmar Cultural Troupe Arrives Back from ROK

    A 15 member-Myanmar cultural troupe led by Rector of the University of 
Culture arrived back Yangon by air from the Republic of Korea on 30 October 
after entertaining at International Travel Expo '99 held in ROK from 27 to 29 
October.

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