"The Global New Light of Myanmar" 2017

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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Freezing temperatures hit hilly areas...Disaster preparedness for states and regions...Vice President U Myint Swe attends coord meeting to hold 2018 Union Day...Notification of disbursement of loan to SMEs...President U Htin Kyaw and First Lady attend Christmas ceremony...Poultry farmers face difficulties with rising price of poultry feed...Fire breaks out in three Yangon townships...Fire outbreaks decline this year but losses are high...No injuries in Hopong Town kitchen fire...Disaster preparedness for states and regions...Muse police searching for Myo Ma Pawn Shop attackers...Establishment of Kanyinchaung Economic Zone in Maungtaw tsp...Enjoying peace and stability in Mro ethnic villages...Murder, theft cases in Maungtaw and Buthidaung...Cash donation ceremony held in Rakhine State...Myanmar Investment Commission Meeting 17/2017...One attacker and three suspects arrested in Maungtaw, Rakhine... Eight teams to compete in KBZ Bank Women?s League 2017-2018.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Htin Kyaw accepts credentials of Ambassador of Peru...President U Htin Kyaw accepts credentials from Ambassador of Ukraine...Border exports of watermelon to China increase........External trade with international countries tops $22.6 billion in current FY...About 700 tonnes of condensed milk imported in early December...Tourists visit Myanmar via Tachilek border gate...China increases imports of rice, corn, vehicle fuel against last year...Myanmar secures bronze in Than Nien Cup by defeating Thailand....."OPINION": "One who knows nothing can understand nothing".....ARTICLE: "Protection for Southeast Asia?s Rarest Wildlife through Community Engagement" - By Maung Aung Mon
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmnar
2017-12-23
Date of entry/update: 2018-01-05
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Myanmar soon to be prepared for quakes...Vice President U Myint Swe delivers speech at successful completion of nationwide census...Third day of 2017 Mid-Year Myanma Jade and Gems Emporium...Rubber latex training to prevent shortage of skilled labours...MRF provides rice harvesters, dryers to Maungtaw, Buthidaung and Yathedaung...Three bombs explode near police station in Hpakant...Myanmar fishing boat sinks off Andaman Sea...Illegal gun and ammunition seized in Kalay township...Accomplishment of process on Census, 2014 and its benefits...Myanmar earthquake response...Literary Conference 2017 held for 2nd Day...President U Htin Kyaw sends message on 43rd Anniversary Rakhine State Day...MFF new referee course concludes...Myanmar beats Thailand in Viet Nam?s Thanh Nien Challenge Cup.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Htin Kyaw, Japanese PM hold talks...Singapore delivers humanitarian aid to Rakhine State people...President U Htin Kyaw reaffirms Myanmar?s commitment to Universal Health Coverage...State Counsellor receives UNSG?s representative... chemical-free black sesame seeds passed quality examination to sell in Japan market...Domestic gasoline consumption rises by six fold in past five years...Rice exports this FY exceed target...US dollar exchange rate rising on demand from traders...Rice exports through border gates in November double against October...First Lady attends flower arrangement ceremony in Japan...Myanmar Scout delegation attends 1st Solar Scout Jamboree Festival in Thailand...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker receives NDI Regional Director for Asia...Union Minister for information hosts dinner for chairperson of Press Council of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal and party...MOFA and CCPR jointly organize a workshop on International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights...Man holding Bangladeshi SIM card and identity card arrested in Maungtaw....."OPINION": "Water for development".....ARTICLE: "Shape our future after sculpting figures!" - By Maung Muditar
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-15
Date of entry/update: 2018-01-04
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Mro national killed in Maungtaw Township...Gov?t to speed up work for rights for disabled...Live broadcast of State Counsellor?s Peace Talk with local youths...3,000 issued NVC and NID cards in Maungtaw Township...Country-wide procurement of medicine, medical equipment reviewed...Organic paddy grows well in Indawgyi region Danyingone wholesale vegetable market open...MIC invites entrepreneurs for logistic services sector...NSCN invited to attend Union Peace Conference-21st Century Panglong...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing attends parade of military nurses...Bus rapid transit system to be launched in Mandalay...Akhar ethnic people celebrates traditional new year in Kengtung...Ngamoeyeik River to be upgraded for water bus service...Dawei cultural heritage displayed at Dawei District IPRD...Khin Mar Lar Tun gets hattrick as Sports & Physical Education trounce University...MNL match commissioner seminar 2018 wraps up in Yangon.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Amyotha Hluttaw Deputy Speaker receives UNICEF?s June Kunugi...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U Win Myint receives new Singaporean Ambassador...German tour groups visit Myanmar via Tachilek border gate...Companies to be scrutinised for re-export of sugar in September...UN pressure hurting, not helping Myanmar: China....."OPINION": "We will preserve our ancestral heritage!".....ARTICLE: "Youths and Independence Day"- By Maung Thaung Win [Ex-Diplomat]
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-29
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-30
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Peace Talk with youths in Kayah...State Counsellor meets locals in Loikaw, visits ethnic village...State Counsellor responds to questions at Peace Talk in Loikaw...Ancient statues of Buddha unearthed in Kalay District...Water supply infrastructure to be built in Yangon region...Driver killed as vehicle overturns on Ledo Road in Kachin State...Pharmaceutical factory to be established...Blue water lake in Hpa-An crowded with visitors...Reorganizing of Union Legal Supporting Group...AGTI Society donates Ks10 million for Rakhine State Maungtaw region...1,150 tablets of WY/R brand drugs caught in Maungtaw...Police arrests suspect for child smuggling at Thandwe Airport...Stimulant tablets and marijuana seized in Maungtaw...Issuing of NVCs and NIDs in Maungtaw...Independence Day Lethwei Fight to be held in Toungoo...Myanmar footballs star Kaung Sat Naing to stay with Samut Sakhon F.C.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Commerce Ministry to introduce beans and pulses to China...More than 210 tons of fish products exported into Bangladesh via Sittway...Myanmar freshwater prawn prepping for export...Myanmar imports over 8,000 tonnes of fertilizer by sea routes...Supreme Court Bar Council meets in Attorney-General?s Office...U Myint Swe appointed as Non-Resident Ambassador of Myanmar to the Federal Republic of Nigeria ....."OPINION": "We ourselves must bring about our national interest".....ARTICLE: "Agricultural Development Sector of Myanmar" - By Than Aung Soe [Pyithu Hluttaw Representative]
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-30
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-30
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Two Reuters reporters appear in court, remanded for another 14 days...29th anniversary of Daw Khin Kyi?s death commemorated...Domestic investment flows into six sectors in November unlike October...MNHRC Chairman clarifies situations on the ground in Maungtaw...Inspector Kyaw Thet Khaing sentenced to 5 years in prison for soliciting a bribe...Civil staff housing project to be implemented in Dagon Seikkan Township next year...46th Myanmar Health Research Conference to be held...Mini trucks and 1300cc cars selling well...MIC permitted US$234.9 million of FDI in November...CBM to sell Treasury bond and notes to cover budget deficit...Doubled price for shops puts vendors in chaos...MoC refutes allegations of contaminated peas, beans...Sitagu Buddhist missionary makes donations in Yathedaung, Maungtaw and Buthidaung...Sitagu Buddhist missionary donates ambulances, cash to Rakhine State...More vocational training courses to open in Maungtaw...Monsoon paddy harvested in Rakhine State by Agricultural Mechanisation Department.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Htin Kyaw accepts credentials of Ambassador of the Republic of Poland...President U Htin Kyaw accepts credentials of Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore...Anti-Corruption Commission receives 4,516 complaint letters as of November 2017...Resource persons invited to ?Promote Integrity to Counter Corruption” symposium...Upgrading of signaling system almost complete...About 200 tourists daily flocking to Kawkathaung Cave...U Moe Kyaw Aung presents credentials to president of India...16th China-Myanmar Border Trade Fair continues in Shweli....."OPINION": "Four characteristics of the independent nation"......ARTICLE: "Safeguarding Independence is the Entire National Populace?s Duty" - Shwe Taing Lwin
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-28
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-30
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: 70th Tipitakadhara Tipitaka Kovida Selection exam opens...Dr. Baddhanta Kumarabhivamsa delivers admonition at Opening of 70th Tipitaka Kovida Selection Exam...Implementation committee meets on recommendations of Rakhine Advisory Commission...Mung bean price bounces back above Ks600,000 a ton within four months...Gas turbine for 225-megawatt project experimentally being generated...Curfew extended in Maungtaw for two months...200,000 children vaccinated against Japanese encephalitis in Rakhine...Illegal pharmaceutical products seized in Maungtaw...Three types of registration conducted in Maungtaw...Six kilos of marijuana seized in Maungtaw...11 power plant projects under way in Yangon...two administrators in Ye tsp face corruption charges...Senior general at opening ceremony of Kan thar Yar International Hospital...Maungtaw Myoma Market reopens.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: 200,000 children vaccinated against Japanese encephalitis in Rakhine State...Union Minister U Kyaw Tin receives UNICEF Representative to Myanmar Ms. June Kunugi...Japan merchants to purchase elephant-foot yams from chin State...Kawthoung border trade income increase against last FY...16th China-Myanmar Border Trade Fair held in Shweli...Vice Senior general Soe win receives H.E admiral Sun Jianguo....."OPINION": "70th Anniversary of the Myanmar Independence Day".....ARTICLE: "Flaming Torch of the National Liberation" - By Maung Maung Kyaw
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-27
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-27
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Two Mayyu Mountain roads to support development in Maungtaw region...Clear and concise news and information vital for peace and harmony between two different societies...Breakfast food donation for patients in Sittway People?s hospital, Rakhine State...Rakhine State Chief Minister and ministers meet locals from Yanbye Township...Union minister inspects road and bridge construction in Ayeyawady...Christmas prayer ceremony in Pyinmana...The Heritage Hotel Kempinski Yangon to be opened in 2018...MRF exploring new export market with increasing rice production...high price of onion seeds led to small acres of cultivation in Nay Pyi taw...Two Mayyu Mountain roads to support development in Maungtaw region...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing attends ceremony to handover new building to No. 1 Latha school...Russia, UN sign project services for feasibility study for renovation, capacity improvement of Sao San Htun hospital.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Low-pressure persists in Andaman Sea...Myanmar-China sign MoU on travel sector development....."OPINION": "We need to be worthy of independence".....ARTICLE: "Invisible Intrusions and Independence" - By Saw Myo Nwe
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-26
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-26
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Myanmar human rights body releases statement on detained journalists...Vice President U Myint Swe attends traditional medicine practitioners? conference...Coffee plantation zone planned for Kayin State...Buddha Pujaniya festival of Kyaik Khauk Pagoda to be celebrated...Local freshwater fish supply in Mandalay Region inadequate...Vehicle and auto parts import value down by US$239 million as of 24th November...Solar street lamps installed in Sapugan Village, Kawhmu Township...Sittway General Hospital, Satyokya bridge inspected...Jade and Gems Emporium concludes...Police donate blood at Sittway General Hospital...Monsoon paddy harvested in Rakhine State by Agricultural Mechanization Department...SG Min Aung Hlaing at fourth graduation of female army cadets...Third batch of youth volunteers in Sittway to conduct humanitarian assistance...Union Ministers,Rakhine State Chief Minister tour Maungtaw relief camp...Electro-fishing blamed for dead dolphin in Sagaing...1,150 tablets of WY/R brand drugs caught in Maungtaw...700,000 visitors to Kyaiktiyo pagoda within two months...Hanthawaddy United keeps eye on GFA FC?s Mark Sekyi...Myanmar to fight for third place against Thailand today in Viet Nam?s Thanh Nien Cup.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Anti-trafficking revised law to be instituted...VP U Henry Van Thio calls for sustainable tourism plans...U Win Myint receives UNICEF representative to Myanmar...U Win Myint receives Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) delegation...Union Minister Lt-Gen Ye Aung meets with Foreign Affairs Minister of China...Union Minister for Information Dr. Pe Myint receives US Ambassador to Myanmar...SE Asian librarian?s conference to be held...Thura U Shwe Mann receives US Ambassador to Myanmar...Rakhine State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu receives Mr. Yusuke Matsuoka..."OPINION": "Thousand-year-long unity of glamour and prestige".....ARTICLE: "Hilly region of Chin nationals beginning to brighten from darkness" - By Min La Pyae
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-22
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-25
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: VP graces Christmas eve...Christmas of Love and Peace for every country men and women...Talks on scouting development given in Bago...Rural women development program in progress in Myawady...Union Minister visits 25-year old handicraft industry...About 650 star tortoises conserved at Shwesettaw Wildlife Sanctuary...Online booking system for vehicle inspection, registration...MPF conducting research to produce ten more new products this FY...Fire in Rakhine State?s Taungup Township causes Ks 2 million loss...Maubin Industrial Zone scheduled to be complete within three years...Remote-controlled mine found near 105th-mile Trade Zone in Muse...800 acres of farmland to be reclaimed in Kachin State in 017-2018 FY...New Naval vessels commissioned into service...Investing in early childhood development for successful future...UEHRD provides aids at villages in N Rakhine...2nd small industrial products expo launches in Mandalay.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Local recruitment agency invites skilled workers abroad to return home...Over 930 tons of betel nut exported to India within a week...Laboratory to test fuel oil quality to start to run next month...Indonesia sends LPG to aid electric sector....."OPINION": "Effective exploitation of our valuable touristic sites".....ARTICLE: "Need to Collectively Cooperate in Eradicating Trafficking in Persons" - By May Thet Hnin
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-25
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-25
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: State Counsellor attends ceremony to open Daw Khin Kyi Women?s Hospital...Catholic youths sing Christmas carols at residence of Tatmadaw Commander-in-Chief...Forum to set minimum wage in Yangon...Union Minister for Information in Lashio...President U Htin Kyaw and First Lady attend pre-Christmas prayer and lunch...Tomato growers receive good price for latest harvest...Rural electrification project implemented in Sittway District...Elderly killed in hit-and-run crash in Yangon...Rakhine Chief Minister inspects development of the state Rakhine...Over 97,000 baskets of paddy farmed by displaced people of Maungtaw sold...Human Rights Commission meets communities in Maungtaw...Over 500 in Maungtaw to be formally trained as teachers...Yangon defeats Zwekapin in football friendly...Myanmar football?s FIFA ranking jumps 10 levels...Milner urges Liverpool to become ?more boring? after Arsenal draw...NEXT GENERATION PLATFORM...Development of public-oriented tourism industry in Thandaunggyi Region...History, Language, Literature and Religion of Lisu Nationals...Views of Migrants.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Fish paste industry relies mainly on local market...Pathein parasols exported to Germany...Export income up by $1.66 billion against last FY...Phapros and Medi Myanmar agree to build Drug Factory in Yangon...Singapore stands at the top of chart with the largest investment this fiscal year...Myanmar-India trade tops $940 million..."OPINION": "An Independence message to remember".....ARTICLE: "Wish for Progress of Electricity Sector, Major Necessity of the Nation!" - By Ti Kyi Maung
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-24
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-25
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Over 5,000 receive free medical care in Rakhine...VP President addresses coordination meeting for 2018 Independence Day...Notification of Disbursement of Mediumterm Loan from MEB to SMEs...Reverend father sends Christmas prayers to Myanmar citizens from Presidential Palace...12th Pyin Oo Lwin flower festival to feature 200,000 flowers...Dawei special economic zone project to start first phase...A speed boat capsizes in Yangon River...Ocean liner sailing in Attayan River causes shortage of fish...Army to investigate 10 bodies found in Rakhine...Upgrading of Angumaw-Maungtaw road to be completed in May.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: India pulse companies stock up on Myanmar beans...Union Minister for International Cooperation U Kyaw Tin accepts credentials from Mr. Andrew Kirkwood, Director & Representative of UNOPS Myanmar...State Counsellor receives Indian Foreign Secretary of Ministry of External Affairs...Social security services to be upgraded...Ninth day of 2017 Mid-Year Myanma Jade and Gems Emporium...Sea trade reaches US$16.8 billion as of 8th December in current FY...$25 million from India for development of Rakhine State...KAMAZ introduces Russian trucks to Myanmar....."OPINION": "Myanmar Companies Act, 2017 of great virtues" - ARTICLE: "Make medicines accessible for all" - Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh..."Why gender is important for biodiversity conservation" - UN Environment
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-21
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-21
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Field survey for Maungtaw restoration...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker attends Pre Christmas Celebration...100 Myanmar books comes out in early 2018...Urea Fertilizer planned to sell under tender system...Myanmar?s largest corporations lend support to save wild elephants ...Sisters killed in auto accident...Beekeepers prepare to produce honey this blooming season...Police arrest knife-wielding robbers within one day...Strength of the nation lies within...Doctors provide free treatment in Rakhine State...Kayin new year ceremony held in Minhla...Ethnic Kayins celebrate New Year...Queen of traditional songs celebrates 75th Birthday...Old and new batch of outstanding students celebrate...JCB Football Clinic and friendly tournament launched in Yangon.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Htin Kyaw and First Lady return from Japan...Bilateral talks centred on inviting over Japanese Investment...813 jade lots sold at 2017 Mid-Year Myanma Jade and Gems Emporium...Special Representative visits Myanmar to strengthen its cooperation with UN ...China donates USD 0.5m for peace process...Rubber export at border gates in November increases against October...Bangladesh increases imports of freshwater fish from Sittway border...Myanmar?s agriculturalist and horticulturalist group to join the 5 Assam International AgriHorti Show 2018 in India...Myanmar-Middle East trade tops $257 million in current FY...Antivenom to place on export market in early 2018 ...Without Regional Collaboration, Southeast Asia Will Struggle in the Fourth Industrial Revolution...Ethnic Kayins celebrate New Year...First Tibetan Cultural Exhibition in Shwedagon Pagoda...Myanmar football star Kyaw Ko Ko likely to transfer to Chiang Rai United..... "OPINION": "Water needed for everyone" - ARTICLE: "Natural Beauty of Lisu Nationals" - Maung Maung Kyaw
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-18
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-20
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Kayin New Year celebrations in Nay Pyi Taw...VP U Myint Swe attends 2017 International Migrants Day ceremony...Number of tiger and wildlife species in Hugaung Tiger Reserve collected...Chindwin River Bridge (Khamti) nears completion...Myanmar Navy seizes four boats carrying illegal timber logs in Hainggyikyun Township...Endangered Ayeyawady dolphin found dead in Katha...Slight earthquake jolts near Rakhine State?s An Township...Local merchants to buy rice from Rakhine...Three pairs of dryers installed in Rakhine State...Kayin New Year ceremonies held countrywide...Unidentified corpses uncovered in Indin Village cemetery, Maungtaw Township...Road Construction in Maungtaw...Rakhine traditional ?Kyin? wrestling demonstration in Sittway.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Fishery export income up by US$74 million over past nine months...Seventh Day of the 2017 Mid-Year Myanmar Jade and Gems Emporium ...State Sangha Maha Nayaka Sayadaws and Rector Sayadaw receive China Tibet Research Center delegation...Chinese government donates US$500,000 to JMC-U...Vice Senior General receives Chinese PLA Southern Theater Command delegation...New tourist sites opening in Myanmar..... "OPINION": "All-Inclusive Conservation of the National Cultural Heritages" - ARTICLE: "Collective safeguard against human trafficking, the greatest danger for migrant workers" - Khin Yadanar
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-19
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-20
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: State Counsellor inspects model rural house and child care center...Donations for UEHRD projects...Coordination meeting on implementation of Permanent Residency held...CBT in Thandaunggyi has become popular this year...Upgraded aquarium museum in Nay Pyi Taw zoological garden to be reopened...Two-year survey shows pollution worst in lower Bago River...Upgraded road to Alaungdaw Kathapa to open in January....Magway Region to grow more onion in this winter...High supply on pomelo causes price fall...Ginger to be cultivated in Rakhine State...Deputy Minister U Kyaw Lin inspects house and roads construction...Investigation carried out into 10 bodies found in Maungtaw...NCA signatories committed to achieving results at Union Peace Conference ? 21st Century Panglong...Road link between Sittway, Maungtaw to benefit local people.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar,Bangladesh agree on term of repatriation...Union Minister Nai Thet Lwin receives Tibet cultural delegation...Union Minister U Thaung Tun receives Chinese Special Envoy for Asian Affairs...Eight Myanmar marine workers receive compensation...Daw Aung San Suu Kyi receives China?s Special Envoy of Asian Affairs...861 jade lots sold on day 8 of Jade and Gems Emporium..More than 8,000 tonnes of fertilizers imported by sea...Border imports of motorbikes from neighbours decreased...Union Minister for Planning and Finance meets with Mandalarian entrepreneurs...New UN DESA report finds numbers of migrants continue to rise...Poland confers Honorary Doctorate on U Phyo Min Thein....."OPINION": "Need to lift the major economic driving force " - ARTICLE: "Migrants As Well Belong to Our Human Society" - Maung Thaung Win
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-20
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-20
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Fake drugs destroyed in Yangon...Ministry of Defence issues press release on land returned to the nationVice President U Henry Van Thio attends pre-Christmas prayer and dinner...2017 Myanmar Saemaul Leaders? workshop and prize-giving ceremony...Monsoon old Pawsan rice price increases by over Ks300,000...Men arrested for drug smuggling in Bamauk Township...Number of visitors to Chaungtha beach declines by 10 per cent...967 jade lots sold at 2017 Mid-Year Myanma Jade and Gems emporium...Textile industrial Park to be launched in January...Literary Conference 2017 concludes...Medicines, household goods and solar light systems donated to Rakhine State Government...Fake drugs, low-quality denatured alcohol worth over Ks1.8 billion destroyed...Myanma?s lacquerware on brink of extinction...Mount Kyaik Htee Yoe cable car opening ceremony in Mon State...Central Myanmar villages becoming popular for fossil ornaments...HUAWEI unveils the HUAWEI nova 2i blue colour...Yangon beats Mahar in football friendly...Just Educated or Really Educated?...Basic English Grammar for Basic Students...Museum to showcase heritage of Salon...
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-17
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-17
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Opening ceremony of Myanmar e-Sport Federation and Yangon HOG e-Sports Center...Terrorists destroy backhoe in Maungtaw...Wild elephant found dead in Ngaputaw Township...43rd Anniversary Rakhine State Day ceremony held...Rakhine-born magician wows audience...Literary Conference 2017 continues...Achievement in the Education Sector...Lisu Literature Centenary Jubilee held in Myitkyina...SG Min Aung Hlaing attends 70th Anniversary of Myanmar Air Force...Group discussion continues on successful completion of nationwide census...Container cranes for Myanmar International Thilawa Terminal arrive...Four of six members of Ava Tailoring family receive long prison sentences...Police detains terrorist suspect in Maungtaw.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: 2017 Mid-Year Myanma Jade and Gems emporium sells 32 gem lots...40,000 vaccinated in Buthidaung, Rakhine State...JCC Chairman U T Khun Myat receives Director of NDI, Asia...President U Htin Kyaw meets professors, students of Osaka University in Japan...State Counsellor meets Finnish Ambassador...More than 680,000 foreign day-trippers visit Myanmar across Thai border since April...German touristscruised Chindwin river...Cement imports decline by nearly 6,000 tonnes in late November...Japanese company to build bulk grain terminal at Thilawa...More than $2.9 billion trade deficit in current FY...China increases border imports of sesame seeds....."OPINION": "Myanmar?s ongoing economic reforms with SMEs development" .....ARTICLE: "Understanding ASEAN: One Rising interest of citizens in ASEAN" - Sayar Mya(MOFA)
2017-12-16
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-16
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Description: EXECUTIVE:-THE REGIONAL GOVERNMENT...Meeting held to discuss fishermen?s living status and inshore, offshore fishing licences.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Two reporters, two policemen arrested in Yangon...?Pragmatic approach? needed for SME emergence: VP U Myint Swe...human Rights Commission inspects camps...Literary Conference 2017 in Yangon...Meiktila mountaineering team to climb mountain over 7, 800 ft. high...More than 1,300 people buy farmers? life insurance in Sagaing Region...Fishery training to be provided at Yangon University...Gun and three bullets seized in Kalay Township...Vehicles at knockdown price selling steadily in Yangon market...Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda sees fees of Ks 3 billion over 4 years...Stimulant pills, motor bike seized in Tantike village, Taninthayi Region...Sittway observes Rakhine National Day with traditional ?Kyin” wrestling Competitions...Monsoon paddy harvested in Rakhine State by Agricultural Mechanization Department...Aid delivered to Maungtaw Rescue Camp in Maungtaw...?Pragmatic approach? needed for SME emergence: VP U Myint Swe...Dr Pe Myint receives Facebook policy director and Chief Representative of JICA Myanmar...Myanmar to play Vietnam U-21 today in Viet Nam?s Than Nien Cup...MFF Grassroots Football Festival 2017 starts in Dawei.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: 2nd steering committee meeting held on rule of law and human rights...Second day of 2017 mid-year Myanma Jade and Gems emporium held...India efforts to improve Myanmar?s internet...President U Htin Kyaw and wife arrive in Japan...India-Myanmar-Thai friendship car rally begins Myanmar leg in Myawady...Thai tourists visit Nay Pyi Taw via Myawady border gate...Australia hands over Rigid Hull Inflatable Rubber Boat to Myanmar...Myanmar Revises Poverty Measure to Reflect Needs of Population in 2015...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing arrives back home from Nepal....."OPINION": "We must remove false allegations with truth".....ARTICLE: "Time is Up to Encourage the SMEs in Myanmar!" - Than Phyo Naing [Kany-inkyo]
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-14
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Some restrictions in Bagan?s property zone to be relaxed...Mid-Year Myanma Jade and Gems Emporium commences...Union Minister Thura U Aung Ko performs religious affairs in Thandwe District...Message of Greetings sent to the 2017 Literary Conference by State Counsellor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi...Free Literature, Free Voice ? Literary Conference 2017 opening ceremony...Two injured in mine explosion in Kachin state...Illegal drugs worth more than Ks 130 million seized in Myeik Township...Three gold miners injured in an explosion in Hpakant Township...Mid-Year Myanma Jade and Gems Emporium commences...Union Minister Dr Pe Myint addresses Film Conference...Executive members elected for Myanmar Historical Society formed...Stimulants worth Ks12,54 million seized in Mohnyin Township...Plan to make Emerald Green Project in Maungtaw region...Monsoon paddies of displaced harvested systematically...Schools reopened in Maungtaw...Rights commission meets Muslims in Maungtaw...Ownerless 95,000 stimulant tablets seized in Maungtaw...Two men held for Taka notes possession...23 developmental projects to be carried out in Maungtaw Township...Distribution of postcards marking the 43 th Rakhine State Day begins.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President and First Lady in Tokyo to attend health forum...3rd Asia-Pacific Water Summit concludes...Awareness Center to be opened in Yangon to study gold and gems central market...Bamboo production still not keeping up with domestic, foreign demand...Myawady trade shows slight decline against last FY...Sino-Myanmar border trade sees small decrease, despite rise in Muse...Some restrictions in Bagan?s property zone to...Third Asia-Pacific Water Summit: Water Security for Sustainable Development...Qatar Embassy in Yangon celebrates National Day held...Air pollution in Yangon exceeds WHO standard...Myanmar Poverty Assessment Part Two released...Senior General calls on Nepal President, Nepal Prime Minister and Defence Minister...Japan, Myanmar groups band together to develop affordable housing...69 bailey bridges on Myanmar- Indian highway to be upgraded...Myanmar in Group C at 2018 AFC Futsal Championship...Myanmar U-21 draws with Viet Nam at U21 International Football tournament 2017....."OPINION??: "Welcoming the MoU between Myanmar and Denmark" .....ARTICLE: "Let us eradicate bribery and corruption for national development!" - Maung Thaung Win [Ex-Diplomat]
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-13
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-13
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Description: EXECUTIVE:- MYANMAR GAZETTE: Heads of service organizations transferred, confirmed and appointed...Appointment of Permanent Secretary.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Dr Pe Myint meets election commission members of Myanmar Music Council...New ships delivered for Yangon water Bus Service...One dead after youths scuffle in Taunggyi...Project to prevent river bank erosion to begin in January...Gold transactions drop by half over previous years...Union Supreme Court sits to pass judgment on special criminal appeal cases and hear special civil appeal cases...Programme outlined for monetary assistance to expectant mothers and infants under two...More insect infestations caused by planting only one type of timber tree...Certificates of honor awarded for successful completion of Peace Music Festival.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: WATER FOR DEVELOPMENT - 3rd Asia-Pacific Water Summit opens in Yangon...Outcomes of 3rd Asia-Pacific Water Summit will pave way to achieve national goals and Sustainable Development Goals: VP U Henry Van Thio...Outcomes of 3rd Asia-Pacific Water Summit will pave way to achieve national goals and Sustainable Development Goals: VP U Henry Van Thio...Tatmadaw Commander-in- Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing in Nepal...Vice President U Henry Van Thio receives Japanese Minister and party...State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi receives visiting ministers attending 3rd APWS...Official dispatch of domestic workers under discussion...Vehicle import policy changes decrease import values of vehicles, auto parts...Discussion on increasing Myanmar-UNIDO cooperation...Relief from Indian Government distributed to locals in Maungtaw...Workshop on Issuance of Foreign Bonds in Yangon..... OPINION: Establishment of strengthened entrepreneurship needs good environments...Myanmar Overwhelmed With Holiness and Poured with Holy Water - Ko Yin Aw.
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2017-12-12
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Work under way to put Maungtaw into national grid system...Maungtaw sells up to 50,000 baskets of paddy to this date...Buddhist missionary presents provisions for monks...The Hluttaw Developmental Fund alloted to village officials in Mawlaik Township...Dr Win Myat Aye surveys construction site for rehabilitation center...Chin State Hluttaw Speaker meets locals in Tiddim Township...Pyay in Bago Region introduces sugar-cane harvester...New tour destination to be created between Inle Lake and Loikaw...New project aims to benefit over 40 villages in Thaton Township...Dispute between employer and employees decrease this year...Police search for mobile phone theft...Over 55 tonnes of illegal teak, hardwood seized in Bago Region in one week...Interviews with Myanmar?s entrepreneurs and the future of innovation...11th Mandalar Open Chess Championship continues in Mandalay...Grand Final and Awarding ceremony of Peace music Festival held in Yangon...Pyin Oo Lwin Photographic Society launches opening ceremony...Lotaya, Yamon win Tharaphu Magazine?s Mr & Miss Crown 2017.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Senior General visits Nepal for promoting relations between two countries...Senior General visits Nepal for promoting relations between two countries...Ferries ready for Literary Conference 2017...Areca nut exports to India continue to decline...Income from sugar re-export drops this FY from late cut-off date for re-export licence...Twelve foreign investment proposals seeking MIC approval with capitals of US$650 mil...UMFCCI to submit 17-point suggestion from its convention to government...Import of consumer goods increases by over $500 million...Myanmar wins award at a Southeast Asian video festival...70th International Human Right Day celebrated...Myanmar U-21 football team in Viet Nam ....."OPINION": "National roadmap that education will bring about!" .....ARTICLE: "Dreaming Corruption Free Myanmar" - Htun Tin Htun
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2017-12-11
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-11
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: New livestock research and development centre to be established...Young entrepreneurs are the engines of growth: State Counsellor...U Aye Tha Aung meets the residents of Kyaintali and Gwa...Asia-Pacific Conference on Water to be broadcast live...International Human Rights Day celebrated...State Counsellor gives guidance in speech at 2nd Myanmar Entrepreneurship Summit 2017...Outstanding young entrepreneurs encouraged, honoured at 2nd Myanmar Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 in Nay Pyi Taw...Old cave discovered in Southern Shan State...Driver faces charges after road accident...Four arrested for drug possession in Yangon...Police file charges against knife wielder...Growers reap healthy profits on sales of Chrysanthemum flowers...We thought not only profit for our company but also creating job opportunities for the local people...Make efforts for establishing the culture of entrepreneurship...Panel discussions in 2nd Myanmar Entrepreneurship Summit 2017...Children?s literacy festival held in Baw La Khae Township, Kayah State...Yangon win a confidence builder in football friendly...Over 300 cyclists attend event in Thanlyin.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Border trade with ITC reaches over Ks27.76 billion...Denmark, Yangon Film School, and University Law Faculties mark International Human Rights Day 2017 ...Shinhan Bank holds Seminar at UMFCCI...Myanmar defeated by Viet Nam in M-150 Cup..... "OPINION": "Practical work that will withstand external pressures".....ARTICLE: "Remove the stigma of drug use, decriminalize possession for personal use" - Anand Grover....."SUNDAY SPECIALS": "Ava seen in the Twilight" - Nwe Phyo (Cherry land)..."Basic English Grammar for Basic Students" - Lesson 30: Voices (Active Voice and Passive) 2..."Mental Health of Teachers (3)" - Dr. Nu Nu Win ..."Shan State, a photogenic paradise for all photographerss" - Chan Thar (Meikhtila)..."Three reasons why tourists are prohibited from climbing popular temples in Bagan" - Nadi Hlaing..."Courtesy is home-brew" - Htet Zaw Htoo....."SUNDAY COMICS": "Mi Chuu" - Htoo...People Will Be People" - Maung Shwe Win..."Sunday Jokes" - Maung Maung Aung
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2017-12-10
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Killers of NV card issuer sought by police...Education reform from memorisation to rationalisation: State Counsellor...2017 International Anti-Corruption Day event in Nay Pyi Taw...Complaints should be made properly with required evidence: Anti-Corruption Commission...Officials meet to plan malaria elimination in region by 2030...Pyin Oo Lwin Elephant Camp to be opened soon...Workshop, panel discussion to be held to increase number of skilled seafarers...Myanmar?s electricity sector to receive extensive foreign investment...Government budget to upgrade Hlaingthaya night market...U Henry Van Thio attends National Cultural Central Committee meeting...Mine explosion in Rakhine injures three soldiers...National Instruments hosts Myanmar Professor Days in Yangon...2nd Day of Media Development Conference held...Try to become decent military engineers for the country and Tatmadaw.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar, US-ASEAN Economic Council discuss economic cooperation...Union Ministers receive Japan Youkou Sakura Friendship Association...Marine exports from Myanmar-Thailand borders increased...Myanmar to cooperate with Demark to promote work environment of Myanmar?s garment sector ...Hotels room rates need to be fixed to increase number of tourists...Myanmar to play Viet Nam today in Thai?s M-150 Cup 2017....."OPINION": "Let us build up national database system for strengthening democratic system!" - Aung Myo Win..... ARTICLE: "Enhancing public resources through progressive tax policies can help reduce inequality, highlights a joint UN-Oxfam study" - ESCAP News
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2017-12-09
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Rakhine rebirth requires global cooperation: Union Minister...AMIRO notification in NV card disbursement process...Ethnic youths from border areas visit Nay Pyi Taw...United Nations Peace Bell replica donation ceremony in Pyithu Hluttaw...Signing ceremony between Malongo Coffee Company and coffee growers...Meeting on preparation for GMS Malaria Elimination in 2030...6th Media Development Conference held...Factories to be inspected for EMP and Wastewater Treatment Plant activity...Personal information of passengers at highway terminals to be collected soon...Bumpy ride for global gold price since April causes unstable domestic market...SG Min Aung Hlaing comforts injured military personnel in Pyin Oo Lwin...Vaccination of half a million children planned in Rakhine State...CBM and US-ASEAN Business Council representatives meet...Public Peace Movement Week events in Palaw and Thayetchaung townships...Fire breaks out in Pauktaw Tsp...Suspected bombs found under Taungphyu bridge in Mrauk-U...Book Club established in Sittway ...Monsoon paddy harvested in Rakhine State by Agricultural Mechanization Department...CCTVs installed at Maungtaw Myoma Market.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President gives policy guidance to newly-appointed Myanmar Ambassadors accredited to France and Brazil...Myanma Railways to purchase 66 coaches from Japan...American businesses observe investment opportunities in Myanmar...Pulses exports down by $343 million from last year...CBM and US-ASEAN Business Council representatives meet...Uptick in Asia-Pacific economic growth, but policy focus needed to improve prospects for achieving sustainable development, says UN...Myanmar U-23 selects team for Thailand?s M-150 Cup....."OPINION": "Those who enter the labyrinth "..... ARTICLE: "Let us help protect loss of our hard-earned investment!" - Hsaung Thazin
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2017-12-08
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Workshop for HDI users held in Nay Pyi Taw...Analysis on poppy cultivation, opium production released...Number of housing savings account holders at CHDB exceeds 20,000...Thilawa road project to start in April 2018 ...Three young men killed in single motorcycle crash...MoNREC plans to extend new offices nationwide under nine-year plan ...Over 5500 acres of paddies winnowed in Maungtaw...Border Affairs Department builds four new villages in Maungtaw District...Village in-charge killed in Maungtaw...Embassy personnel meet locals in Maungtaw...Grant agreement of US$ 321.44M for healthcare sector...Dinner hosted in honour of ethnic delegation...Public Peace Movement Week events held in Taninthayi Region.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Action taken on resolution related to Myanmar at Special Session of UNHRC...Union Minister for Information meets Vice President of China Radio International in China...State Counsellor receives Executive Director at Rafto Foundation for Human Rights and NBC Director...Myanmar cement now exporting to India ...Low pomelo production cannot satisfy export demand ...Deputy C-in C-of Defence Services meets Director of DCAF...Dinner hosted in honour of officials who contribute to 13th ASEM Foreign Ministers? meeting...Sagaing Region tourism up by 14 per cent in seven months...More than 200 foreign students learn Myanmar language in Yangon, Mandalay...Feedstuff, drug factory to be built in Thilawa...Russian Pacific Fleet to visit Myanmar...Anti-corruption commission Chairman U Aung Kyi receives UNODC delegation...Myanmar U-21 ties MNL AllStars 1-1 in football friendly...Shan United in Group F of 2018 AFC Cup ....."OPINION": "Restore our national dignity by anti-corruption" ..... ARTICLE: "Give Back Pavements to Us!" - Than Phyo Naing
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2017-12-07
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Mawlawi Federation urges people without ID to get NV card...Data on trees and plants to be published ...Campaign for malaria-free Myanmar in 2030 underway...VP U Henry Van Thio attends Central Committee for Myanmar SEZ meeting...Authority reinforcing safety precautions on Japanese Encephalitis vaccination programme...Free eye care services are given to eye patients in Myitkyina...TMH Telecom Public Co., Ltd soon to be listed on Yangon Stock Exchange ...More than 2.1 million tons of rice and broken rice exported to foreign countries ...Over 3,580 acres of paddies harvested in Maungtaw as of December...Over 2,000 land confiscation complaints resolved in one year...Internet contributes to abandoned babies?...Public Peace Movement Week in Myeik...14 people rescued from capsized Myanmar fishing boat...Anti-aircraft bullets seized in Myawady Township...Fire broke out in monastic school...Child development measurement project to be implemented in nine places...Power and Might of Youths...Ethnic delegation tours Nay Pyi Taw...Nearly 800 houses under construction for displaced villagers in Maungtaw...Myanmar U-23 football team draws 1-1 with MNL All Stars.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor receives BIMSTEC Secretary-General...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker receives IBAHRI?s director...Amyotha Hluttaw Deputy Speaker receives Chargéd? Affaires of British Embassy in Myanmar...Vice President U Myint Swe receives Secretary-General of BIMSTE...Union Minister U Thaung Tun meets Indonesia Minister...Union Attorney-General separately receives IDLO Field Program Manager and IBA Director...MoU on media cooperation...Indonesia Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs leaves Nay Pyi Taw...Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman receives NMC members....."OPINION": "Peace and prosperity needs freedom from partiality" -.....ARTICLE: "Despite recent growth, tourism in Myanmar faces near-term challenges" - Oxford Business Group
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2017-12-06
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Hindus from IDP camps in Sittway return home...Rebuilding Rakhine...Infrastructure built, renovated for repatriation of refugees...Activities week being held for Asia-Pacific malaria elimination...Coordination meeting to publish NRPC periodical...Every baby wants to be breastfed: unwanted infants abandoned after delivery...Kites, related accessories sell well in Mandalay this season...Villagers hope to get safe drinking water upon completion of water project...Farm land and forest destructed by unauthorized gold diggers...Young man in critical condition after being stabbed in Ye Township...Non-producing rubber plants fetch over Ks80,000 a ton...If you have burning desire and willingness, everything is possible for you: Mi Sandi, a vocalist...Public Peace Movement Week events in Kawthoung and Taninthayi towns...Man injured in old bomb explosion in Kachin State...Administrative machinery needs to be strengthened to restore rule of law.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Deputy Speaker receives IBAHRI Director...Indonesia Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs arrives...Union Minister Lt-Gen Sein Win receives DCAF Director Mr. Thomas Guerber...Myanmar export import status during FY 2017-2018 from April to September...Suspicious package in Myanmar Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand....."OPINION": "Peace process and preparation in every sector".....ARTICLES: "Prosperity of a Nation Depends on Development of its All Youths" - Aung Kyaw Moe
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2017-12-05
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: New fish market in South...Religious titles presented for the 23rd time...All-Round Youth Development Festival proves great success...Cars bought using installment plan popular among city dwellers...Businesses? EIA, SIA, EMP report to government found weak points ...Senior General attends religious ceremony in Sittway...Festival to develop youths...Interview with Professors at the Youth All-Round Development Festival...All-Round Youth Development Festival shows Shan paper and lotus robe making process ...Folk games win highest visitor?s interest...Four singers reach Grand Final of Peace Music Festival ...New tour destination to be created at Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary, Sagaing...Worldwide book distribution on State Counsellor clarified...Watercolourists stage their works through exhibition...Trishaw drivers in Dala Township face low demand due to motorcycle taxies...New youth players to be selected by Magwe FC today...Yadanabon FC makes emergency reinforcemant with new players.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Disability denies 1b global people from full social integration...Rare books displayed at the festival...Fourth World Internet The conference opens in Wuzhen...Export via border gates up by $126 mil, import shows decline of $40 mil ...China imports more than 50,000 tonnes of rice from Myanmar in one week...Myanmar exports domestically produced cement to India via Tamu border...Tourists able to visit Ah Myint Old City by land and water routes...."OPINION": "Shame to do evil" - Htun Tin Htun..... ARTICLES: "Penetration into the Market Economy" - ..."The Land of Music" - UTA
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2017-12-04
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Voices from the heart heard at a ceremony to pay homage and respect to elderly writers...Dawei SEZ to be put on track...Mass walk event of Youth All-Round Development Festival held...Fisheries department takes legal action against illegal imported fish sellers...Bike rental program to launch in Dagon University in first week of this month...Cherry trees to be planted across Chin State next monsoon season...Festival to develop youths...Young and old participate in 2nd day of All-Round Youth Development Festival...Homage paid to elderly writers on Sasodaw Day...Voices from Youth All-Round Development Festival...Tatmadaw Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing in Sittway...December Sports Month in Maungtaw and Buthidaung begins with mass walk...Rakhine State Hluttaw in line with local populace: Rakhine State Hluttaw Speaker ...Mass walk marks Youth All-Round Development Festival...Peace Music Festival competition result to be announced...Special Course No. 8 for doctors concludes at CICS (Lower Myanmar)...MFF Grassroots Football Festival 2017 kicks off in Bago...Myanmar U-21, U-23 to test with MNL All-Star team.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor back from China working visit...Aid from India reaches Hindu families in Rakhine...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U Win Myint returns from Japan..Norway in talks to invest in Kayin rubber sector...Myanmar-ROK trade exceeds $400 million in current FY...Union Minister for Ethnic Affairs receives delegation from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region...Union Minister for Information to attend Fourth World Internet Conference in China...Countries in WHO South-East Asia Region to accelerate road safety measures....."OPINION": "?Love and Peace” Itinerary " - Pope Francis..... ARTICLE: "Let Us Help Campaign for Farm animal Census" - Dr. Mway Ku....."SUNDAY SPECIALS": "?Different creators of different Children” - Khin Moh Moh Aung..."Basic English Grammar for Basic Students" - Lesson 29 : Voices (Active Voice and Passive Voice) ..."Mental Health of Teachers (2) " - Dr. Nu Nu Win ..."Geosciences and Mount Popa" - Than Tun..."Trone Tribe from Northern Extreme of Myanmar" - Maung Maung Kyaw..."Too much forgiveness makes danger" - Thit Thit Zaw....."SUNDAY JOKES": "ha ha" - Htoo..."People will be People" - Maung Shwe Win..."Sunday Jokes" - Maung Maung Aung
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-03
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-03
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: VP U Myint Swe attends Youth All-Round Development Festival...CPI in October shows slight increase against September, so does inflation rate...Rubber sale centres to be implemented in Mon state...Local fuel price increases by Ks45 per liter in 30 days ...Local buying more gem souvenirs than foreigners...Would that Yangon University Campus had been out of hibernation, always! : Writer Ponnya Khin...Youth festival should be held every year so that we can show our talents and abilities ...Festival to develop youths...Outdoor sports activities at the Youth All-Round Development Festival attract students...VP U Henry Van Thio inspects airport, office construction sites and preparations for APWF...Judge of the Supreme Court of the Union inspects Kyaukpyu Prison ...Over 845,000 stimulant tablets confiscated in Naf River...Two suspects arrested, ammunition seized in Maungtaw, Rakhine State...Three men arrested in Naf River...Voices from Youth All-Round Development Festival...Myanmar Investment Commission?s work in 2017 September and October...Number of home stadiums for MNL-1 football teams reaches nine...Myanmar Youth Academy friendly matches today.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar, China to deepen close ties...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker meets Japan Prime Minister ...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker concludes ROK visit...Mahn Win Khaing Than Visits National Museum of Korea...Pyithu Hluttaw Deputy Speaker U TKhun Myat receives DCAF delegation...ITAB, MLIP concludes meeting...Expansion of Mandalay flights attracts more tourists...Report on Yangon-Hanthawaddy-Bago corridor and development of southwest Yangon given to Construction Ministry...Bilateral trade between Thailand and Myanmar reaches US$2.45 billion...Mister Tourism World 2017 to be held in four cities...SG Min Aung Hlaing addresses at 59th Intake Graduation of DSA...Ks2.2 billion to implement Maungtaw Kanyinchaung Economic Zone....."OPINION": "Different religions at the confluence of kind hearts of similarity" .....ARTICLE: "Did You Fall Prey to Pesticide Residue Crops?" - Dr. Wunna Htun
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-02
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Kayin State Government to donate houses, wells to Maungtaw...Roundtable discussion on third session of 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference...Union Minister for Information views Youth All-Round Development Festival...Ministry to issue skills certificates for 15 more kinds of jobs...30 per cent of pharmaceuticals in local markets found to be illegal...Legislation for rubber sector being drafted...Government earns over Ks5 billion from jade and gems taxes...Mid-year Gems Emporium to be held from 12 to 21 Dec...Five suspects arrested, stimulant tablets seized ...Those who want to return and live in Myanmar should abide by the existing law...Meeting on film about the life of Bogyoke Aung San...Nay Pyi Taw to host martial arts contest in December...Millennium anniversary of Laungshe Township to be celebrated...Myanmar National League changes its name to MPT MNL 2018.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor in China for working visit...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker meets Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker in Hiroshima, Japan...Pope Francis leaves Yangon...Japan-UNICEF partnership to benefit over 25,000 school children in Rakhine...Dr Win Myat Aye attends meeting in China on strategies for the disabled...Yoma signs US$400 million contracts to build Yoma Central & The Peninsula Yangon...Coffee production and management training by Japanese experts...Those who want to return and live in Myanmar should abide by the existing law...KBZ Bank crowned with Bank of the Year in Myanmar for five consecutive years...King Bumibol?s birthday, Father?s Day celebrated...Bagan to get community tourism centers....."OPINION": "Bringing about peace through loving-kindness".....ARTICLE: "Help an emergency patient on the road" - Tekkatho Zaw Htoo Oo
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-12-01
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: 12th senior official meeting of COMMIT held in Nay Pyi Taw...Meeting held for 21st Century Panglong 3rd session...2nd coordination meeting of Myanmar Laws Translation Commission...Reports of ethnic cleansing in N-Rakhine is not reliable: Myanmar church ...Man killed in hit-and-run car accident ...One dead, four injured in mine explosion...Yaba pills seized in Lewe Township...Electrification project launches between Ayeyawady, Chindwin rivers...Radish growers reap profits in domestic market...Our Country Will Receive God?s Blessings, I Felt ...State Counsellor?s vision on peace process...Myanmar Football Federation signs All Nippon Airways as sponsor..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pope prays for Myanmar healing...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker visits Kamakura Pagoda in Japan...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker visits Republic of Korea ...Pope meets with Chairman of State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee...Tourists visit Myanmar ...Coffee production and management training by Japanese experts...Indian Oil Corporation to start exporting jet fuel to Myanmar in December...Pope Francis in Yangon....."OPINION": "Safety First On The Job Is ofGreat Importance" - Su Thet Hmu .....ARTICLE: "Progress in least developed countries hinges on access to modern energy" - UNCTAD
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2017-11-30
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Senior General separately receives Saw Mutu Sae Poe of KNU, Belarus mily delegation ...CBT to be implemented in seven villages in Ayeyawady Dolphin Conservation Area...Death toll climbs to six in Minbu coal mine blast...Comprehensive Motor Insurance should be compulsory for commercial used cars ...Plan to cultivate 24,123 acres of summer paddy and 459,219 acres of winter crops in Rakhine ...Sai Din Bridge to be completed in March...Sharing Hygienic Knowledge to be prioritized in Maungtaw...Two IEDs found in Maungtaw...Myanmar national futsal team awarded Ks30 million and US$5,000..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pope asks for peace and equality...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker holds talks separately with Japanese Speakers...17th ASEAN Senior Official Meeting on Minerals held...President welcomes Pope Francis...Appointment of Singapore ambassador agreed...Myanmar?s trade with EU hit over US$1.2 billion in first half of this FY...Export increases by US$1.36 billion from last FY...Address by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar...Address to Government Authorities, Civil Societies and the Diplomatic Corps....."OPINION": "Significant legal maxims and principles " - U Khin Maung.....ARTICLE: "Visit of Pope Francis to Myanmar" ..."UN urges everyone to take action to end violence against all women and girls" - ESCAP News
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-29
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: 6th JICM on NCA held...Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control meeting 1/2017 ...Union Supreme Court sits to pass judgment and hear cases...Workshop on General Principles of Federalism...Prawn hatcheries to be set up in Myeik and Dawei...Neo-Voluntary-Health-Care Training opened...Rakhine State MPs calls for more transparency of govt?s works...New Yangon Water Bus jetties to be opened...Maungtaw authorities hold talks with local companies over resettlement and rehabilitation...Seven trapped, four injured in coal mine blast...Postponed Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan qualifier to be set in coming March.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pope in Myanmar...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker leaves for Republic of Korea...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker visits Japan...Tourists arrivals drop by 11 per cent as of October...Joint venture companies granted to import agricultural machinery...MIC describes export-oriented investments grant tax exemption...Senior General meets Pope Francis....."OPINION": "Join in youths all round development festival!" -.....ARTICLE: "Heartbeat of a mountain dweller in Nay Pyi Taw" - Lon Jon Sun Maing
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-28
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Festival to Develop Youths...All-round youth development ensures national progress...Myanmar climbers undergo trainings in Himalaya...Endangered tigers in Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary to be observed using camera traps...Mekong Region faces increase in prevalence of non-communicable diseases ...Opium worth Ks 43 million seized in Indaw Township...Three died, four injured in head-on collision...15-year-old boy still missing almost a week...Teachers see no boundaries as long as there is peace and security...Raising awareness for GAP guidelines...Authorities urge people to make complaint about sale of wildlife meats in Yangon...Peace Music Festival starts 4th round of level 3 in Yangon...Basic technical training opens to produce pigeon peas value-added products...5th Pride of Myanmar programme 2017-2018 launched in Yangon...Myanmar football star Aung Thu confirms the transfer to police tero.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor to start China visit soon...Speaker U Win Myint leaves for Japan...Biography of His Holiness Pope Francis...Senior General arrives back home from China...Kawthoung border trade revenue increases against last FY...Bilateral trade with Viet Nam tops $377 million in current FY...Five sectors proposed to list on National Export Strategy...Fisheries export revenue declines at Thai-Myanmar border gates these days...Bilateral trade between Singapore and Myanmar hits around US$1.26 billion in first half of current FY...Private sector imports up by over $1.3 billion...Myanmar Chief Boy Scout to attend ASARC and 6th Scout Jamboree...Basic and advance training courses for scouts to be launched in Myanmar...Mongolia beats Myanmar U23 in friendly match....."OPINION": "Your Holiness, you are welcome to our country" - Maha Saddhama Jotikadhaja, Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt... ARTICLE: "Collective force is our strength! " ...
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-27
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Youths to volunteer for rehabilitation in N Rakhine...131st Anniversary of Construction Ministry?s Public Works Department celebrated...Implementation Coordination Meeting on NCA...Ceremony to honour elderly journalists ...Visitor arrivals to Sagaing Region increase this peak season...Government and private entrepreneurs to meet for pre-discussion of Tax Law...Four injured in rollover accident...Voices of the first group of UEHRD youth volunteers ...Preparations for all-round youth development...Suspects arrested, drugs and arms seized in Tachilek...Meeting for publishing 100 Myanmar Books Series and republishing Myanmar encyclopedia held...Slight decrease in night temperatures expected in Upper Sagaing, Kachin and Chin...Efforts aim to extend Yangon Port to mouth of Andaman Sea: Yangon Chief Minister.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: ASEAN Friendship Games and ASEAN Food Festival convened in Yangon...Visitor arrivals to Sagaing Region increase this peak season...Myanmar-East Asia trade totals $6.9 billion in first half of this FY...Myanmar, EuroCham sign MoU on economic cooperation...Senior General visits special forces training school...13 Myanmar migrant workers, Thai driver killed in road accident in Thailand...2017 China-Myanmar tourism and culture road show....."OPINION": "From Yangon University to the Ayeyarwady River" - Dr. Thazin Lwin..... ARTICLE: "Systematic urbanization of our towns and cities"...."UN forum in Bangkok calls for more effective policies to enhance youth participation in sustainable development" - ESCAP News..... "SUNDAY SPECIAL": "2017 China-Myanmar tourism and culture road show" - Thit Thit Zaw..."The Value of Family Gathering" - Min Zaw Thit..."Basic English Grammar for Basic Students" - Lesson 28 :Where and When to Use Which Tenses (3)..."Mental Health of Teachers" - Dr. Nu Nu Win..."A visit to a Daing Net ethnic tribe village" - Nay Htet Khaung..."Ivory Prostheses: A Myanmar Success Story" - Dr Szastakowski..."Different People in Different Culture" - Nwe Phyo... "Family" - Thin Hlaing Hmwe... "Wants and Needs" - Honey Soe....."SUNDAY COMICS": "ha ha" - Htoo..."People will be People"- Maung Shwe Win..."Sunday Jokes" - Maung Maung Aung
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-26
Date of entry/update: 2017-11-26
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyidaungsu Hluttaw 6th regular session concludes.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Three deaths are not connected with encephalitis vaccination: Health Ministry...UEHRD Rakhine performance is evaluated...Ministry of Health and Sports second notification on Japanese encephalitis vaccination...Authorities destroy 40 acres of opium fields in Shan State...Qatar Airways Cargo starts Doha-Yangon freighter service...Prices of Areca nut high in domestic market...Black opium weighing over 2,000 grams seized in Indaw Township...No more permits for wood-based industrial enterprises...Vice President U Myint Swe attends 12th regular meeting with Myanmar entrepreneurs...CCDAC discusses alternative development implementation work...Rice harvest gains speed in Rakhine...Sunday Talk on ?Local and international assessment on Rakhine State situation”...National Verification Cards issued in Maungtaw...New village project in Maungtaw 50 per cent complete...MRTV to broadcast Sunday Talk on Rakhine issue...Suspicious boat in Maungtaw Township detained...13th UPDJC meeting held...Photo gallery to be exhibited in Yangon region...Yangon Supreme Court receives YHT Commemorative Blue Plaque...Official complaint forms to be issued to tell-com customers ...Photo contest marking flower festival to be held in flower city.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Aid from India to Rakhine...UNICEF representative to Myanmar presents her credentials to State Counsellor...More than 140 foreign projects permitted by MIC with capital of US$4.2 billion...Expo to be held next month to select pedigree avocado varieties...Myanmar U-21 football team beats Mongolia in last minute...Myanmar, Indonesia fall in the same group in 2018 ASEAN Women Championship ....."OPINION": "Fulfillment of educational requirement is of great nobility" .....ARTICLE: "Evil Soul and a Grave Error"..."Progress in least developed countries hinges on access to modern energy" - UNCTAT
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-25
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw agrees formation of two new ministries.....PYITHYU HLUTTAW: Roads, bridges to be inspected by third party...AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: School buildings in Rakhine to be upgraded: Ministry of Education.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Message sent by State Counsellor for introduction of the book on health standards...Ceremony for introduction of health standards...Supplementary NProtocol and Exchange of the Instruments signed...Over 300 tons of jade from Phakant to be displayed at Gems Emporium...Awareness about illegal trade in wildlife animal parts to be provided...Vehicle catches fire in eastern Shan State?s Tachilek...Licences for over 160 jewellery mining blocks to expire next month...The Republic of the Union of Myanmar Union Election Commission...Strength lies in Differences. Not in similarities: Prof. Dr Aung Tun Thet...Rakhine State Minister and officials inspect rice harvesting and land for new villages...Monsoon paddy harvested in Rakhine state by Agricultural Mechanisation Department...National drug control policy confirmation workshop held...Meeting of Monitoring Committee for Environmental Conservation and Climate Change being held...Yangon United recruits Hanthawady?s midfielder Maung Maung Lwin.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor receives Bangladesh Foreign Minister...Industrial zones to be implemented in Taninthayi region...Border trade amounting to over US$ 4.4 billion...Video Message of His Holiness Pope Francis to the People of Myanmar...We urge the international community not to put such a pressure on Myanmar: Hungary?s Minister for Foreign Affairs...The Republic of the Union of Myanmar and the People?s Republic of Bangladesh signed the Arrangement on Return of Displaced Persons from Rakhine State...Discussion on Bagan-Siem Reap direct flights...Adventure Bagan Temple Marathon to be held in coming Saturday ...Bangladesh hands over three ambulances for Rakhine State...China?s Blue Sky Rescue Team conducts disaster Response Training...Myanmar U-21, Mongolia to play football friendly today....."OPINION": "May all people ever achieve food safety" .....ARTICLE: "Visions on ASEM of the State Counsellor"
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-24
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYITHU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyithu Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 15th day meeting-the question raised by U Thet Naung of Lahe constituency, ?To prevent deforestation, loss of soil erosion due to rotation farming year after year and to conserve the natural environment, terrace farming in which various kinds of crops can be grown should be introduced in substitution. To do so, arrangements of model plantation fields by the use of technology were made.....AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: 2nd Amyotha Hluttaw 6th regular session holds 15th day meeting-" a lawyer representing an indigent client facing life imprisonment or the death penalty from its current Ks 2500 per day was one of the issues discussed in yesterday?s meeting of the Amyotha Hluttaw".....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Threats against NVC applicants won?t be tolerated...Japanese Encephalitis vaccinations continue in rural areas of N Rakhine...Profitable rubber production requires quality...Voices from Diversity Management Forum...18th Secretariat committee meeting of UPDJC held in Nay Pyi Taw...Meeting of assessment board for upgrading capacity of Hluttaw and its result (1/2017) held...Tribunal issues final decree in appeal 2/2007 ...Coordination meeting held for convening youth multi-development festival..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar, Bangladesh hold meetings on Rakhine issue...Import suspension on cars with right-hand drive approaching, Japanese car auction prices skyrocketing...Japanese embassy offers free consultations to Myanmar students for further studies in Japan...Tourist guide association calls for action against foreign tour guides...Mandalay jade market in decline from low supply, demand...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing visits Nanyuan ...Myanmar signs MoU with New Zealand for joint pledge on cooperation for development (2017-2021)...MIC invites local and foreign investors to invest in Kayin State...Mr.Vijay Kumar Singh: We will do what Myanmar wants...Myanmar football star Aung Thu going to Thailand?s top league....."OPINION": "Hard work will reduce criticisms regarding Rakhine State" - Thin Hlaing Hmwe.....ARTICLE: "Hard work will reduce criticisms regarding Rakhine State" ..."Asia-Pacific forest and farm producers pivotal to improving smallholder livelihoods and achieving regional SDGs in climate-resilient landscapes" - FAO Myanmar
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-23
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw to debate formation of two new ministries- formation of two new ministries. The two new ministries are the Ministry of the Office of the Union Government and Ministry of International Cooperation.....PYITHU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyithu Hluttaw 6th regular session 14th day meeting held-Replying to a question raised by U Thant Zin Tun of Dekkhinathiri constituency on plan to take action against licensed slaughter houses that are not operated according to set procedures.....AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: 2nd Amyotha Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 14th day meeting.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Head of service organizations appointed....Partnership is crucial for the maintenance and promotion of peace and sustainable development which can only be achieved through collective efforts: State Counsellor ...Opening ceremony of 8th meeting for traditional medicine of Mekong region countries launched...Framework, ToR, SoP Work Group meeting concludes...Workshop titled Democracy administration launched...Myanmar anti-corruption committee in cooperation with UNODC launched Financial Investigation Course...13th JMC-U meeting starts in Yangon...Vaccination of Children against Encephalitis in Maungtaw..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: 13th ASEM FMs? Meeting kicks off...President receives Deputy Defence Minister of Laos...State Counsellor separately receives heads of ASEM partner countries and associations...Myanmar bean price reaches record high in local market...Mandalay attracts FDI of US$230 million more than last FY...Harbour Trade Tower being developed with capital of US$30 million...This FY intends to attain US$650 million from fisheries export sector...Education is one of the big issues we can cooperate with Myanmar: Finland FM Timo Soini ...Union Minister for the Office of the State Counsellor receives Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office of Britain...Minister of State for Foreign Affairs U Kyaw Tin separately receives heads of ASEM partner countries ...VP U Henry Van Thio receives Finland Foreign Minister and party...Delegation led by Senator Jeff Merkley calls on Rakhine State Chief Minister...Dinner hosted in honour of participants of 13th ASEM...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives Deputy Speaker of Indonesian Regional Representative Council...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker receives Deputy Speaker of Indonesian Regional Representative Council...Forty per cent of edible oil consumption imported from abroad ...34 illegal overseas recruitment cases reported in Yangon this year....."OPINION": "Extraordinary rendezvous".....ARTICLES: "The 11th ASEM Summit"..."An action plan for clean air and better health" - WHO Regional Director Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-21
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS- PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyidaungsu Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 10th day meeting-?The objective of the Framework Agreement is to make it easier for buses and coaches from one of the ASEAN countries to enter another ASEAN country".....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: AP blamed for distorted report on State Counsellor?s comments...Three bodies with slit throats found in Maungtaw...Road upgrades in Rakhine State...Distance University students studying peacefully in Rakhine...Second day of 13th JMC-U meeting held in Yangon...Nine teams from private sector,UEHRD hold coordination meeting...Man suspected of terrorism arrested in Maungtaw...Interview with U Aung Hla Tun, Vice-Chairman of Myanmar Press Council concerning AP news agency?s misinterpretation of an important fact from the speech by State Counsellor...Myanmar National League Committee Meeting 2017 held...Myanmar National League 2018 coming soon.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Cooperation and connectivity achieved at ASEM FMM...Union Minister for the Office of the State Counsellor meets American Congressional delegation led by Senator Jeff Merkley...Amyotha Hluttaw Deputy Speaker U Aye Tha Aung receives German official...13th ASEM Foreign Ministers? Meeting concludes...Myanmar Youths can apply for ASEF education programmes...Thanlyin Bridge-3 to be constructed as suspension bridge...16th China-Myanmar Border Trade Fair and 12th JBTC...The Netherlands seed potato saves cultivation cost in southern Shan State ...Over 2,000 apartments from low-cost housing project to be sold...Minister of State for Foreign Affairs U Kyaw Tin signs MoU with New Zealand and separately receives team leaders of ASEM partner countries...Tatmadaw Commander-in-Chief in China...Finnish Embassy celebrates 100th anniversary of independence...Vice President U Myint Swe receives Hungary Minister of Foreign Affairs...Ground-breaking for installation of weather measuring instruments...State Counsellor Receives Leaders From ASEM Partners...Myanmar signs MoUs with Lithuania, Hungary and Cambodia ...China ready to further boost cooperation with ASEAN: FM....."OPINION": Distance University students studying peacefully in Rakhine"..... ARTICLES: "The Writers? Day in the month of Nattaw." - Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja, Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt..."The Relation between Mobile Phones And Auditory of Our Ears" - Thin Hlaing Hmwe
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-22
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Three veteran writers win Lifelong National Literary Award... Chin State farmers busy in harvesting monsoon paddy in time...Livelihood trainings given to farmers in Wakema Township...Ye Tsp?s latex production declines from hot climate...Pepper yield likely to decline in Ye Township ...Our village is peaceful, we want no more violence...Schools in Maungtaw, Rakhine State reopens...Residents of Myitkyina Town to receive free eye surgery next month...Peace Music Festival starts 3rd round of level 3 in Yangon...Pa-O people celebrate New Year Festival in Thaton Township...Arts Exhibition, in commemoration of Artist U Kan Nyunt?s centenary celebration held...First Ever Yangon 100PLUS Active Run Event takes place with 5,000 Runners.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor meets Chinese FM...Third day of 13th ASEM Senior Official?s Meeting held...President U Htin Kyaw receives China?s Foreign Minister...Representatives arrives in Nay Pyi Taw for 13th ASEM Ministerial meeting...Union Minster U Kyaw Tint Swe hosts dinner for Chinese Foreign Minister...The 8th Model ASEM 2017 concludes in Nay Pyi Taw...External trade revenue rose by US$3 billion against last FY...Singapore company proposes purchase of 50,000 tons of quality rubber from Mon State...Japanese FM emphasizes bilaterial economic cooperation...Senior General receives Foreign Minister of China...Closing ceremony of 11th ASEF Journalist Seminar 2017 launched...Foundation laid to build new Station Hospital in MraukU held...Union Minister Dr Win Myat Aye receives H.E Ms. Retno L.P Marsudi...Myanmar artist wins 1st place in Category 36 of 2017 American Arts Awards...Myanmar to compete in International U-21 Vietnam?s ThanhNiên Cup....."OPINION": "Focus on different points of views"..... ARTICLES: "The 11th ASEM Summit" - Translated by Khin Maung Oo..."The past, the present and the future of ASEM " - Translation Tin Maung Than
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-20
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Message of Greetings sent by the State Counsellor to the Shan New Year Celebrations...Buildings donated for drug rehabilitation centres...Union Minster for the Office of the State Counsellor attends opening of NCA-S EAO office in Yangon...Community policing gives rise to public safety issues in Kayin State: residents...Hovercraft services available in Ngwehsaung Beach...Waste-to-fuel plant in Monywa?s Butalin Tsp nearly complete...Yaba pills worth Ks1.95 billion seized in Maungtaw...Kayin State investment fair to be launched for equal development ...Thousands of muskmelons a day sent to Muse market...School, self-help, fiction, non-fiction books sold in Yangon Book Street...Pilgrims visit Zalon Mountain after upgrading of mountain road...Thanlyin Technological University to provide job preparation training course...Ks448 million donated for UEHRD...Opening ceremony of ASEM A cash donation ceremony for the FMM 13 to be broadcast live...Waste-to-fuel plant in Monywa?s Butalin Township nearly compete...Rising rate of diabetes patients in Myanmar.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: ASEM Senior Official?s Meeting continues...11th Asia-Europe Foundation Journalists? Seminar...11th ASEF Journalists? Seminar kicks off...Over 478,000 foreign daytrippers visit Myanmar from Tachilek border this FY...8th Model ASEM 2017 discusses partnership, peace and development...Ministry of Health?s notification on Japanese encephalitis vaccinations...Delegations to ASEM FMM 13 arrive in Nay Pyi Taw...LS Cable & System Asia to build power cable plant in Thilawa SEZ..... "OPINION": "Friendship and openmindedness" -....."ARTICLE": "The past, the present the future of ASEM" - Lu Lay Waing....."SUNDAY SPECIALS": "next generation platform" - Khin Moh Moh Aung..."Basic English Grammar for Basic Students" - Who and whom ..."The 3rd ASTEN Conference" - Dr. Myo Win ..."Suffering of Rakhine?s Mro ethnic people" - Nay Htet Khaung..."Much Money Make Many" - Htun Tin Htun..."To my esteemed teachers who are teaching english" - Thin Hlaing Hmwe ....."SUNDAY COMICS": "ha ha" - Htoo..."People will be People" - Maung Shwe Win..."Sunday Jokes" - Maung Maung Tin
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-19
Date of entry/update: 2017-11-19
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYITHY HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyithu Hluttaw 6th regular session 13th day meeting held.....AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: National honorary athletes promoted in civil service jobs.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Framework, ToR, SOP Work Group meeting...Free legal aid available for needy...Tomato cultivation successful in Pinlaung region...Price for taxis not licensed in Yangon declines...More than 100 Individual Trading Cards issued for trade over 7 months...Myanma Insurance pays Ks692 mln for fire at Kandawgyi Palace Hotel...Over 100,000 children in Buthidaung to be vaccinated against encephalitis...Veterinary service provides in Maungtaw, Rakhine State...Monsoon paddy harvested in MraukU, Rakhine State...World Diabetes Day ceremony held ...Cash donated to UEHRD...Bago Region Chief Minister pledges to assist development in Rakhine...Rakhine State Investment Committee holds its Meeting 2/2017.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: IMF: Myanmar economy is rebounding, future is bright...ASEM Senior Officials? Meeting held...8th Model ASEM 2017 held...More than US$400 million of FDI flows into Mon State...ASEM Senior Officials? Meeting held...Major tasks of Asia Europe Foundation-ASEAF...Dinner hosted in honor of 11th Asia-Europe Foundation Journalists? Seminar...Second coordination meeting to hold 3rd Asia-Pacific Water Forum ...Ministries sign MoU with Eni Foundation...Thura U Shwe Mann receives Singaporean Ambassador...Scattered rain and thundershowers expected in Taninthayi Ragion, Kachin and Mon states ...Myanmar national football teams to play Mongolia in friendly....."OPINION": "We will overcome difficulties with our hands joined hand in hand!" -....ARTICLES: "Skilled workers, employments and job opportunities" - Khin Yadanar..."Time to stop the careless use of antibiotics — the lives of millions depend upon it” - Ms Katinka De Balogh
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-18
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyidaungsu Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 8th day meeting.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Entrepreneurs contribute to UEHRD in Rakhine State...300 schools in Maungtaw District to be opened by November...Union Minister Dr Aung Thu inspects paddy harvesting...Myanmar marine conservation policy workshop held ...MIC approved 31 investment projects within two months...Local fuel price on the rise...WY stimulant tablets seized in Dawei...Coastal fisheries development project to be implemented...New Elephant being opened...Three bodies discovered, murder suspect arrested within hours...Nineteen suspected of involvement in 25 August terrorist attacks arrested ...National Verification Cards issued in Maungtaw, Rakhine...Multiple mine explosions on Yangon-Sittway Road...Four out of 20 suspects found to be involved in terrorist attacks...Fixing artificial limbs for disabled persons in Taninthayi...DICA branch office to be opened in Hakha, Chin State...Second season of Myanmar Women?s League to start soon.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Amyotha Hluttaw Deputy Speaker receives Deputy Director of IMF...17th ASEAN ORL-HNS Congress being held...Sino-Myanmar border trade as of 3rd Nov shows a steep drop against last FY...Union Attorney General receives head of International IDEA...ASEM and Myanmar; ASEM and World...Japanese encephalitis vaccination launched in Gantgaw District, Magway Region...Senior General receives EU Ambassador...Chinese FM to attend ASEM FM meeting, visit Bangladesh and Myanmar...Climbing on pagodas in Bagan should be banned...Students arrive in Nay Pyi Taw to attend 8th Model ASEM 2017....."OPINION": "We Will Prove Truth and Bring About Virtues" ..... ARTICLE: "Myanmar can flourish through agriculture" - Maung Lu Aye
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-17
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYITHU HLUTTAW: National development needs includes investment in children.....AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: 2nd Amyotha Hluttaw 6th Regular Session Holds its 12th Day Meeting..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Anti-money laundering Central Committee holds meeting in Nay Pyi Taw...Yangon Region Hluttaw motion on restricting building construction on old ponds and reservoirs...Renovating of GTI school building will be completed no later than November...Yaba worth Ks10 million seized in Loikaw...Donations of UEHRD for Rakhine State...Children under 15 in Maungtaw Township receive encephalitis vaccinations...Rakhine State Government, UEHRD take steps for socio economic development ...Harvest of monsoon paddy model plot carried out in Thandwe, Rakhine...Harvest of monsoon paddy model plot in Ma La Kyun village in Kyaukpyu...Vaccination campaign paints rosy picture of health care in Rakhine State...Political party apply for registration at UEC...Public Announcement for remonstration...U San Lwin presents credentials to Supreme Pontiff of the Holy See...Mro village to have access to education, healthcare, and jobs...Passengers request to change locations of bus stops in Yangon...Lethwei Nation Fight 3 to be held in Yangon.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor meets top US diplomat...State Counsellor returns from Philippines after attending the 31st ASEAN Summit...Signing of MoU between UCSB and CAG...2017 ceremony for nation-wide vaccination against Japanese encephalitis held...Foreign companies eye Bago Region rather than Yangon to invest...Fisheries export income up by about US$57...Thai-Myanmar border trade showed slight decrease against last FY...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing receives US Secretary of State...Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)...ASEM?s key objectives...U Myint Thu concurrently appointed as Permanent Secretary...Myanmar, Bangladesh agrees to establish communications system for fighting terrorism....."OPINION": "World Bank needs to show balance and justice" .....ARTICLE: "Natural Environment, Industries and Myanmar?s Creeks and Rivers Waiting for Saviors"
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-16
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYITHU HLUTTAW: MPs debate third-party system for construction work.....AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: Ministry clarifies rises of electricity charges.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Vice President U Henry Van Thio inspects National Landmark Garden...Tender winners of railway improvement projects to soon be announced...At least 20 illegal wildlife trade markets to be shut down in Golden Triangle region...20 suspects arrested in Maungtaw, one IEd discovered ...Union Minister Dr. Pe Myint and media in Rakhine...Monsoon paddy harvested in Gan Gawgyun village, Sittway...Rural Development Training Centre handed over...Reader?s talks to be held every Sunday...Youths launches voluntary services in northern Rakhine...Ownerless cattle in Maungtaw rounded up...Man-made tunnels discovered in Maungtaw...Shan United FC makes preparation for ASEAN competitions.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar ties India in 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualifier...State Counsellor meets Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Shinzo Abe...Imported vehicles still need to take out from Yangon Port...Myanmar-Bangladesh border exports show increase of over $6 mn...AYA Bank, MPU, JCB introduce corporate credit card in Myanmar...Closure of in Myawady-Maesot market for Japan-used car led to increase in auto parts price ...31st ASEAN Summit and Related summits conclude...4th Myanmar-Bangladesh meeting held...Luminarc 2018?s Stylish New Range (Rainbow Theme)...Myanmar ties India in in 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualifier....."OPINION": "Political Climate of the World and Myanmar?s Foreign Policy" - the government, the people and Tatmataw.....ARTICLE: "Education sector of the future" - Thein Tun ..."Modern slavery and child labour: Asia?s unacceptable record" - —UNIC Yangon
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-15
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Camps, new houses to complete in one month...Gov?t delegation meets leaders of Wa Special Region-2, Mongla Special Region-4 separately...Public responsibility in fighting human trafficking discussed...Efforts aim to turn out 5,000 skilled employees ...Customs seizures at Myanmar ports of entry worth Ks4.8 billion in October...Innovation Centre to be constructed near Yangon Nan Thida Jetty...Authorities take legal action against five illegal diggers...Yangon taxis needed to register...97th National Day 2017 event...Children kidney foundation Mandalay, the emergence of sharing...Department of rural development conduct basic sewing course in Buthidaung...More than 1.3 million acres of summer paddy to be grown in Ayeyawady Region...Buddha image consecration and libation ceremony held in Thiri Mingala Gaba Aye Pagoda...Troops did not commit sexual violence nor killed civilians: Investigation Team ...Mro ethnic people to benefit from new Khonhtaing village...Clarification regarding harvested rice in N-Rakhine...Dr Pe Myint and Rakhine State Chief Minister visit Maungtaw .....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor attends ASEAN summit in Manila...Import of capital goods by private sector continues to decrease...31st ASEAN Summit and Related summits held in Manila...Myanmar secures first in Yunnan Asian National Badminton Championship 2017...Myanmar to play India tonight in 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualifier....."OPINION": "We never let destructive elements ruin our aims and objectives" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Friendship between brethren living over one thousand miles far away" - Lulay Waing
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-14
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Republic of the Union of Myanmar Message of Greetings sent by President U Htin Kyaw on the occasion of the 97th Anniversary of National Day Celebrations ...IPD issuing NVC and conducting NID recording in Rakhine State...More traditional hospitals to be opened nationwide...Winter birds start migrating to Paleik Lake...MyME project educates more than 3,000 out-of-school children in three years...Distance University Students studying peacefully in Rakhine State...Youth?s day introduction ceremony in Rakhine State...Yangon Region creates over 5,000 jobs for locals...Myanmar to host Exhibition on Indigenous Medicine, Greater Mekong...Paddy harvesting in Maungtaw region in progress...Music concert for centennial Myanmar Scout anniversary...Peace Music Festival starts 2nd round of level 3 in Yangon...Yangon Weekend Book Street displays various kinds of books ...Good understanding between coach and team leads road to AFC Futsal Championship 2018...Yangon United FC recruited former national team footballer in team.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Visible progress is being made in ensuring a level playing field...Minister of State for Foreign Affairs U Kyaw Tin attends ASEAN Ministerial Meetings...External trade hit US$18.9 billion as of early November this FY...Peanut, green gram, paddy and sesame to be granted GAP certificate this winter season...Border trade with India down by $20 million against similar period of last FY...JOTUN Company opens new paint plant in Bago Region...Myanmar will work together with all ASEAN family members to become more connected and integrated...Union minister for Planning and Finance U Kyaw Win attends ASEAN Economic Ministers? Meeting...Foreign media interviews Muslims heading to Bangladesh...Ava ancient city attracts more visitors in early peak season...Fallen Commonwealth soldiers of world wars remembered....."OPINION": "Together with the people" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "The National Day" - Padaung Than Kywe
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-13
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Media coverage on Rakhine issue to be speeded up...First Lady Daw Su Su Lwin attends stake driving ceremony for Visakha Ponami Gonwei four story building...Union Minister Dr. Pe Myint attends ceremony for donations to Rakhine State and opening ceremony of Yangon Book Street...Hotel projects to be undertaken around Rih Lake...Disabled request bylaws for their rights at the soonest...Car crash on KawkayeikMyawady Asia Highway...Audi, Fiat to open car showrooms in Yangon...Sales from Maungtaw paddy kept as national budget...Second day of 7th State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee holds meeting...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker attends cash donation ceremony.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor arrives in Clark, Philippines...All children to be vaccinated against Japanese encephalitis...Myanmar earns over $3.8 bn from export of manufactured goods...Import of food and equipment for hotels and restaurants increased this year....."OPINION": "Detailed records for rice harvest in Rakhine " - Aye Min Soe.....ARTICLE: "Top 10 most widely traded animals in the Golden Triangle identified in new report" - Shreya Dasgupta/Mongabay.com..... SUNDAY SPECIALS: "The Importance of Technology" - Kris Ye Yint..."Basic English Grammar for Basic Students" - Wh questions (Question Words)..."A Conection of Excellence" - Dr. Khin Zaw...Two popular colonial-era forts in Magway.....SUNDAY COMICS: "Ha Ha" - Htoo..."People will be People" - Maung Shwe Win..."Sunday Jokes" - Maung Maung Aung
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-12
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:-PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw talks CBM loans, labour rights.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: State Counsellor meets Canadian Prime Minister...Rice harvest in Buthidaung, Maungtaw recorded for owners...70th Independence Day to have five objectives...Transport authority revokes licence of bus company due to complaints...Kyaiktiyo cable car service to begin in January...KBZ Opens 500th Bank Branch...Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement receives Swedish diplomat...19 arrested for involvement in August 25 terrorist attack.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U Win Myint receives Resident Representative of HSF...State Counsellor meets ASEAN, APEC leaders in Viet Nam...British tourists tour Myanmar on motorbikes...Bilateral border trade with India decreased by $21 mn this FY...Revenue hits Ks2.6 trillion so far...Rakhine State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu receives Mr. Martin Bille Herman...State Counsellor delivers statement at ASEAN-APEC Leaders Informal Dialogue in Da Nang....."OPINION" : "Learn to Love Our Ancient Cultural Heritage!" - Khin Maung Oo..."Your strength is also ours" - Min Ye Kyaw Khaung..... ARTICLE: "Development of livestock husbandry sector in Myanmar" - Dr Than Aung Soe
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-11
Date of entry/update: 2017-11-11
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:-PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyidaungsu Hluttaw 6th session 6th day meeting-holding a Seafarers Identity Document (SID) could board and disembark ships, obtain hospitalisation and clinical treatment in emergencies, transit to join ships and return home without requiring an entry visa. An SID would be beneficial for the country as it can be issued by several countries and does not require any monetary input. The SID is a standardised, internationally recognised document that makes it easy to enter into member countries with ease.....DOMESTIC NEWS: Ethnic armed groups close to signing ceasefire...Rakhine State Gov?t prepares to build repatriation camps for refugees...Paper reading of ASEAN region energy engineers...Dredging task begins at Mann Shwe Settaw...Dried prawn business faces scarcity of product ...National Verification Cards issued in Maungtaw...Monsoon paddy harvested in Rakhine State by Agricultural Mechanisation Department...Cattle in Maungtaw Township vaccinated...1,696 villages in Rakhine State now have light...Machinery of cooperation on statistics to be accelerated with added momentum...Federation of Rakhine Nationals funds monastery construction in Maungtaw...Mobile teams give health care to local people...The Pride of Myanmar...Voices from volunteers of UEHRD...Nine tasks forces of UEHRD to meet with Rakhine Gov?t...AFF inspects stadiums in Yangon for 2018 AFF Championship..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor meets Viet Nam President Tran Dai Quang...President receives Singaporean Ambassador...State Counsellor arrives in Da Nang, Viet Nam ...Myanmar labourers given priority in renewal of Certificate of Identity cards...More aquatic products exported via Kawthaung border trade camp...Bilateral trade with China hits US$5.5 billion in first half of this FY...Import of airplanes, accessories skyrockets within seven-month period...Chairman of Legal Affairs and Special Cases Assessment Commission meets Chinese Ambassador...S-Korean National Day, Armed Forces Day celebrated...Myanmar beat Cambodia 2-1 in football friendly..... "OPINION": "We will overcome difficulties with our firm resolution" - Khin Maung Oo..... ARTICLE: "Bagan Archaeological Zone touted for UNESCO?s World Heritage" - Suthethmu
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2017-11-10
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYITHU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyithu Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 10th day meeting.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Mrauk-U in Rakhine touted for UNESCO?s cultural heritage list...Peace Commission, DPN hold talks over ceasefire...Overripe rice fields in Maungtaw, Rakhine State harvested...Rakhine State Chief Minister inspects storage of grains in Maungtaw...Three men arrested for illegal logging in Bamauk...Yangon to receive 24-hour electricity supply...Many people visit Pakhan Gyi Ancient Monastery...25 trainees receive vocational skills for making snack, juice ...Final decree on 2017 by-election appeal No. 2/2017 to be made on 22nd November..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Auditor General attends 4th ASEANSAI Summit...American companies introduce digital advances at tech summit...Border trade over 4 months worth US$4.1 billion, a decrease of US$260 million...Myanmar?s regional trade hit US$5.7 billion in first half of this FY...Senior General arrives back home after attending Defence & Security 2017 in Thailand...Myanmar, Cambodia prepare for AFC qualification...Myanmar, Vietnam in same group in Thailand?s M-150 Cup....."OPINION": "Let us open the door to negotiation" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "King Bayintnaung Bell, the fourth Memory of the World" - Maung Tha
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-09
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:-PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyidaungsu Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 5th day meeting....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: President of MFF inspired Myanmar footballers ...Threats to NV card applicants by terrorists: Rakhine villagers...Comments on Myanmar ICT sector at e-Government and ICT Exhibition...Three dead after migrant workers forcibly enter gem mine in Phakant...Fourth Ayeyawady dolphin tour in dolphin conservation area begins...Three pedestrians killed, 15 injured in car crash...Illegal teak confiscated in Bago...Man arrested in murder of his wife...500 dead in 2,145 traffic accidents over ten-month period in Yangon...Destruction of onion plantations led to high price of seeds...29th Anniversary of General Administration Department...3rd Co-ordination meeting held for Convening Youth Multi-Development Festival...Myanmar Investment Commission?s work in August and September 2017...U Myint Lwin appointed as Non-Resident Ambassador of Myanmar to Ethiopia...U Moe Kyaw Aung appointed as Ambassador of Myanmar to India...U Myo Tint appointed as Ambassador of Myanmar to Brazil...e-Government Conference & ICT Exhibition 2017...Irrigation water distribution training begins..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: 267 tons of rice donated by S. Korea to Rakhine ...Monsoon paddy harvested in Sittway, Rakhine State...MOA, ASEAN Arthroplasty Association to hold conference on 9 November in Yangon...Lt-Gen Sein Win receives Singapore Ambassador...Senior General visits 2nd day of Defence & Security expo...40th Business session of the Animal Production and Health Commission for Asia and Pacific...No.1 Steel Factory (Myingyan)to operate with BOT system...Yangon counts on Japanese sister city Fukuoka to fight flooding...Myanmar footballers to play against India in 2019 AFC qualification announced....."OPINION": "Sustenance and nourishment for our minds" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "The self-identifying people are always changing their stance" - Khin Maung Myint
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-08
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:-PYITHU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyithu Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 9th day meeting.....AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: 2nd Amyotha Hluttaw 6th regular session 9th-day meeting.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Youth to take role in Rakhine aid project...National Verification Card-NVC process stepped up in Maungtaw...State Counsellor attends third meeting central organising Committee for holding the ASEM FMM13...MFF offers incentive to join the course...National-level Water Resource Committee holds 4th meeting...Message of Greetings sent by U Htin Kyaw, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, to the 62nd Anniversary celebrations of the Kayin State Day...Union Supreme Court sits to pass judgment and hear civil cases...Public Announcement for remonstration...Tunnels dug by ARSA extremist terrorists found in Maungtaw...Special edition stamps to be sold to commemorate 50th anniversary of ASEAN...A man arrested on suspicion of ARSA terrorist in Maungtaw...One civilian injured by ARSA terrorists in Rakhine State...Agricultural Mechanization Department harvesting monsoon paddy in Rakhine State...President of MFF inspired Myanmar footballers .....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi receives outgoing Singaporean Ambassador...Domestic production reduces half of cement import...Coffee plantation acreage to be extended to keep up with foreign demand...Chickpea growers to join hands with a company for contract farming...Lackluster trading on YSX hit all-time low in October...State Counsellor to attend 31st ASEAN summit and related summits...World Vision donates a million sachets of water purifier to UEHRD...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives outgoing Singaporean Ambassador...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker receives outgoing Singaporean Ambassador...SG Min Aung Hlaing attends Defence & Security 2017...?Our Performances will lead to the peace and development”: Union Minister Dr Win Myat Aye ..... "OPINION": "Bringing about emergence of a peaceful social environment" - Khin Maung Oo ..... ARTICLE: "Inland salt production in Pyu Region" - Maung Tha
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2017-11-07
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: 3-month harvest time for 20,000 acres in Maungtaw...Job market ripe for young people ...Taninthayi donates school for Maungtaw Township...VP U Henry Van Thio honours Aung La N Sang...Myanmar Motion Picture Organization donates money for the resettlement and development in Rakhine State...Fourth Irrawaddy Literature Festival in which local and foreign literati take part, successfully ends...CAN Manufacturing factory launched in Yangon ...Efforts made to set minimum wage agreeable to employers and employees: NCFMW...Commander-in-Chief honours Aung La N Sang...Peace Music Festival starts 1st round of level 3...Miss contest held in Myitkyina, Kachin State...World?s largest paper mache sculpture gives voice to endangered Myanmar elephants...Wood crafts sell well at 4th Irrawaddy Literary festival in Mandalay...Nay Pyi Taw crowns U-13 Boy?s States and Regions Football Tournament.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Natural gas export earned US$20 million more than last FY...Over 60 tonnes of dried tea leaves go to China, Thailand in one week...Union Minister of Education attends 39th UNESCO General Conference...Tourists flock to Hsin Kyone Fort in Ava Ancient City...Historical Gway Chaung Fort crowded with visitors...Commander-in-Chief to attend Defence and Security 2017...Men?s Asian Challenge Hockey Competition 2017 to be hosted in Myanmar....."OPINION": "Let us work in relays for national reconciliation and Union peace!" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "A Real Shelter from the Heat of the Worldly Life" - Dr. Saw Mra Aung
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-06
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: ?Burmese Python? Aung La N Sang bests ?Panther? in first round...Fourth Irrawaddy Literary Festival held in Mandalay...Mobile team gives health care to families of security forces...Amyotha Hluttaw Deputy Speaker inspects electrical sub-stations construction...Illegal foods seized at check point in Kyaikto...Monsoon rice in Maungtaw Township harvested with Kubota harvesters...Plan aims to make public buildings in Yangon quake-resistant...Tazaungmon Festival celebration...Meritorious deeds on Fullmoon Day of Tazaungmon in Maungtaw...Rice storage without waste, for new Mro ethnic village in Maungtaw ...Bullets discovered in Wundwin, Mandalay...KBZ Bank Women?s League 2016- 2017 award ceremony to beheld today.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: China asks for patience over Myanmar?s Rakhine issue...Constitutional Tribunal Chairman U Myo Nyunt arrives back from Republic of Korea...Myanmar prepares to directly export honey to EU market...10,000 motorbikes in one week imported across borders...China imports about 560 tonnes of herbal raw materials via Muse border...Betel nut exports from Myanmar to India declines...Union Minister U Win Khaing visits Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Public Company Limited in Thailand...Myanmar wins third in AFF Futsal Championship 2017....."OPINION": "Time to be united to stand tall in the World" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "?Half of Southeast Asia?s renewable energy projects are unbankable?" - Hannah Koh/ Eco- Business
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2017-11-04
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Aid reaches to people who returned to their villages in Maungtaw...Vice President U Henry Van Thio visits Rakhine?s projects...Maungtaw mobile team provides health care to Hindus...Academy Swe Zin Htike presented with Order of the Arts and Letters ...?Youth and Job Opportunity” talk to be held at Yangon University...Youth and Social Media Public Talk held...Motorcyclist sustains serious injuries after head-on crash...Electrical fire in Kawkayeik Township damages medical clinic ...Gold trade declines during Tazaungdaing Festival...State Counsellor congratulates MMA Super-Bout winner Aung La N Sang...Union Minister for Ethnic Affairs delivers aid to people in Maungtaw... Elevator for Ponnagyun Ooyitawdat Pagoda 40 per cent complete...Buthidaung returning to normalcy...MFF U13 Boys? States & Regions Tournament 2017 awards ceremony to be held today...Myawady takes 2017 KBZ Bank Women?s League Championship.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Local and foreign experts to request government to open Marine Geosciences Research Centre in Myanmar...Myanmar imports 140,000 tonnes of petrol, diesel by sea...Consumer goods imports exceed $2.4 bn this FY....."OPINION": "We will deal with Rakhine State affair in all perspectives!" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Myanmar looks to catalyse river transport as growth driver" - Patrick Cook....."SUNDAY SPECIALS" : "Zaw Gyi?s Literary Discussion or Tea Time" - Translated by Nwe Soe (Cherryland)..."Basic English Grammar for Basic Students" - Lesson 26 : Where and When to Use Which Tenses (2)..."Professional Growth" - Dr. Khin Zaw..."History of Kayah Race" - Ramnya..."Village administrators voice their opinions on situation in Maungtaw" - Han Linn Naing and Aung Kyaw Oo...Discovered In Myanmar Scientists in China and Myanmar have documented a new species of orchid from northern Myanmar....."SUNDAY COMICS": "ha ha" - Htoo..."People Will Be People" - Maung Shwe Win..."sunday jokes" - Maung Maung Aung
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2017-11-05
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Remaining schools to be reopened soon in N-Rakhine...Making Rakhine a priority-State Counsellor visits conflict areas in northern Rakhine...U Henry Van Thio inspects Union National Races Village in Thakayta ...Mathoe robe weaving contests held at famous pagodas...Research activities for 2018 Pwint Thit Sa report commences...Stimulants seized in North Dagon and South Okkalapa townships...Inflation rate in September shows a slight decrease against August...Free healthcare provided at Buthidaung Hospital...Residents in Buthidaung hold rally to support State Counsellor...Ayeyawady and Nay Pyi Taw in final of MFF U13 Boys? States & Regions Tournament 2017.....EXTERNAL RELATION: 100 geological research papers and monographs at Breaking New Frontiers Conference...5,780 tons of fish exported to Thailand in third week of October...Trade value with ITC totalled over Ks23 billion...Myanmar wins Star Reformers Award at Investment Competitiveness Forum...Union Minister for Electricity and Energy attends AMER7...MFF says goodbye to Myanmar women team head coach....."OPINION": "Federal Union to be built up with national unity " - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Samannaphala Sutta on Full moon of Tazaungmone" - Maha Saddhamma Jotika dhaja Sithu Dr. Khing Maung Nyunt
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-03
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Description: HLUTTAAW SESSIONS:-PYITHU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyithu Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 8th day meeting..... AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: 2nd Amyotha Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 8th day meeting.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Coalition launched in response to wild elephant skinning crisis...Dr. Win Myat Aye receives donation for UEHRD...Two sub-power stations launched in Rakhine State...Thura U Shwe Mann receives several groups from Kachin Christian delegation...Indawgyi Biosphere Reserve Inauguration held last Tuesday near Indawgyi Lake...Six Yangon townships to get modern sewage system by 2040...Two guns lost during ARSA attacks recovered...Rice bran oil mills to be established in Myaungmya, Kyaiklat and Twantay townships...Residents in Maungtaw get NV cards...Short-term priority projects in northern Rakhine underway...Plans for University of Fish underway...Outcome Statement of Workshop on Consideration of a Moratorium on the Application of Death Penalty, pending its abolition...YCDC to build parks, playgrounds in every townships...AGD introduces new interest rates for fixed deposit.....EXTERNAL RELATION: Union Minister Dr. Win Myat Aye holds talks with Danish Minister, officials from UNHCR, WFP and USIP...Mung bean and pigeon pea prices rise due to foreign demand...Senior General receives JPN-MYN Friendship Association Chairman...Myanmar misses final in 2017 AFF Futsal Championship...Myanmar-ThaiJapan Lethwei challenge to be held today in Taungoo....."OPINION": "Rakhine State affair and cooperation" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Make Myanmar More Mindful" - Htun Tin Htun
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-02
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS: - PYIDAUNGSU: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw puts new financial year debate on record _ announced a bill that would change Myanmar?s financial year calendar, a move that would facilitate development.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Consensus reached in peace process with NCA road map...?We?re ready to accept refugees after scrutinisation”...Authorities set up NV Card and National ID process in Maungtaw...Efforts for delivering aid to Maungtaw to be stepped up: MRCS...Seven injured in hot air balloon accident in Taunggyi Tazaungdaing...Road signs in Yangon Region to be standardized...10th offering ceremony of Kathina robe held in Bodh Gaya...Man who allegedly stole Ks141 mn arrested in Yangon...Thousands turn out to pray in 4th interfaith rally...Workshop on success of UEHRD projects and voluntary repatriation to original locations held...Over 50 percent of bridge?s construction completed...Bagan fight to be held on full-moon holiday..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Deputy Minister for SRR U Soe Aung receives Mr. Simon Henshaw and party...State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi receives Minister for Development Cooperation of Denmark...Community-based tourism (CBT) in Dala Township...2018 vehicle import policy changes prompt China?s automobile manufactures to enter domestic market...CBM continues to set a dollar exchange rate at Ks1,366...Last year?s top AFF Futsal Championship scorer Pyae Phyo Maung could repeat the feat....."OPINION": "No one can reach the destination without a first step" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Reducing manure and fertilizers decreases atmospheric fine particles" - Max Planck Society
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-11-01
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:-PYITHU HLUTTAW: 7th day meeting of 2nd Pyithu Hluttaw 6th regular session_a question on systematic arrangements made for collection of full commercial tax and the ease with which tax payers could pay tax. In response to the question Deputy Minister for Planning and Finance U Maung Maung Win said commercial entities that are required to pay commercial tax are fined progressively upon violations such as failure to affix a commercial tax stamp on the receipt, not affixing the proper value of commercial tax stamp and failure to issue a receipt.....AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: 2nd Amyotha Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 7th day meeting_Deputy Minister for Transport and Communications replied to the question raised by Dr Zaw Lin Htut of constituency 9, Mon State, ?Myanma Post and Telecommunication Enterprise has no plan to provide monthly fees for hiring land for the construction of telephone tower pillars at the Gawt Taw Ya village, in Thaton township for the development of rural area as it was built with the permission of Mon State Government.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Work for inclusive peace building...300,000 bamboo plants to be distributed nationwide next year...Efforts stepped up for Kanyinchaung Economic Zone in Maungtaw Tsp...AICHR workshop on Rights-based Approach ...CICS (Lower Myanmar) department head management course No. 1...Market, shops see normalcy in Maungtaw...Muslim villagers receive medical care in Maungtaw...Investment office opens to boost Rakhine?s economy...Quarter-finals of U-13 Boy?s States & Regions Tournament 2017 today.....EXTERNAL RELATION: State Counsellor receives Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand...Chairperson U Myo Nyunt leaves for ROK...Sino-Myanmar international Marathon competition in December...Advanced purchase of Myanmar?s mango from China?s merchants ...New company is preparing to enter Yangon Stock Exchange...Four cargo ships dock in Yangon ports; rice shipment is nearly ready...VP U Myint Swe receives Viet Nam delegation...Union Chief Justice attends CACJ Special Meeting in Philippines...Union Minister Dr Pe Myint meets Minister of MIC of Viet Nam...Czech Republic Day reception...94th Turkey Republic Day reception...SG Min Aung Hlaing receives Thailand Foreign Minister and Indian C-in-C separately...Group?s second positioner Myanmar to meet Thailand in 2017 AFF Futsal Semifinal....."OPINION": "The green-eyed monsters" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Fire in the sky — the Taunggyi balloon festival" - Maung Lu Aye
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-31
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Entrepreneurs to develop Rakhine ...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker Mahn Win Khaing Than visits Bogyoke Aung San Museum...Markets start doing normal business in Maungtaw...Farm machinery course for peasants of N. Rakhine State...Two townships in Rakhine State get 24-hour power supply...PyinOoLwin to be transformed into ASEAN Flower City...Htamanthi Wildlife Reserve to be turned into eco-tourism destination...Entrepreneurs seek business opportunities in Maungtaw...University Scouts to entertain at the Tazaungdaing lighting festival Eve...Chin State Chief Minister U Salai Lian Lwal attends Chin New Year Festival...Over 2500 watch International Police Band Concert...Fire destroys four houses, one shop in Maungtaw...Shan United crowns MNL Max Cement Cup 2017.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Yangon Region Hluttaw to receive commemorative blue plaque next month...Export income up by $1.2 billion against last FY...Bilateral trade between Myanmar and South Korea reaches over US$341 million as of August...AICHR Workshop on Rights-based approach to Regional Management Strategy for EIA held in Yangon....."OPINION": "From economic development to regional peace and stability" - Khin Maung Oo..... ARTICLE: "As To Whether Local Housemaids Got Full Rights---" - Khin Yadanar
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-30
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Rice in Maungtaw harvested...NV process is first step towards citizenship...Public talk on increasing dangers of narcotics on youth...Aid flows into Buthidaung, N-Rakhine...Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee Secretariat meeting held...Yaba and gun seized in Khampat...Fisherman stabbed to death in Andaman Sea...22nd International Police Band Concert (2017) held in Yangon...The first survey for micronutrient and dietary status to be taken in Myanmar...Medical instruments donated to Sittway General Hospital ...New school buildings hand over in Letpadan Township..... EXTERNAL REATIONS: City authorities draft new car import policy on issuance of car license in Yangon...Stock trading decline quickens...Myanmar registers trade deficit of over $2.3 bn in current FY...Taiwan Excellence with New Technologies Bring Excellent Lifestyles...Myanmar loses to China 0-1 at AFC U-19 Championship 2018 Qualification..... "OPINION": "If we really lay stress on rule of law"- Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Promote green infrastructure to raise standard of living" - Zaw Zaw Aung.....SUNDAY SPECIAL: "Try hard gradually to receive big clap" - Khin Moh Moh Aung..."Green Caregivers" - Pan Pwint Thet Tant..."Basic English Grammar for Basic Students" - Lesson 25 : Where and When to Use Which Tenses (1)..."Professional Growth" - Dr. Khin Zaw ..." SINMA (OR) new potential of new resort" - Thurein ...?Sometimes I think there is too much fear about each other (in Rakhine) and that is not good”: Italian Ambassador....."Coffin dance" - Htay Win.....SUNDAY COMICS: "Mi Chuu" - Htoo..."People will be People" - Maung Shwe Win..."Sunday jokes" - Maung Maung Aung
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-29
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYITHU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyithu Hluttaw 6th regular session 6th day meeting.....AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: 2nd Amyotha Hluttaw 6th Regular Session Holds its 6th Day Meeting.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: MEB to lend Ks700 billion for revitalisation of Myanmar?s economy...Investment in fish farms demands security...Government to privatise most staterun enterprises: Finance Minister...Onion prices increase in Pyay market...Monsoon paddy in Maungtaw to be harvested on 28 October ...Authorities step up National Verification process in Maungtaw.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President and delegation return from Thailand...Union Minister U Win Khaing meets US Ambassador...Consul General Pyi Soe killed in car accident in Jharkhand?s Galagi area...China, Thailand import over 700 tonnes of Myanmar?s rubber in one week...Mineral exports by gov?t sector decreased by $117 mn...Import of capital goods up by $137 mn...Union Minister and ADB discuss cooperation for Rakhine...Singaporean and Malaysian journalists under interrogation for using drones...Union Minister Dr Myint Htwe receives Professor Judith Ellis and party...Senior General Donates Kathina Robes....."OPINION": "Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement and tasks to be performed " - Khin Maung Oo .....ARTICLE: "Now is time to stop child labour" - Harun Yahya
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-28
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:-PYITHU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyithu Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 5th day meeting.....AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: 2nd Amyotha Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 5th day meeting.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Reconstruction of homes in Maungtaw commences...National verification process to be stepped up in N-Rakhine...Three endangered baby dolphins spotted in Ayeyawady River...Two five-storey buildings to be built at Shwepyitha Industrial Zone for industrial workers...Agro-Industry Park planned for Myaungmya Township...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker donates aid for Rakhine resettlement...Speaker U Win Myint presents cash for UEHRD...Anti- human trafficking action taken in Maungtaw, Rakhine State...Union Minister receives Literature Conference committee members, UN coordinator...20% tourist increase expected in Mandalay.....EXTERNAL RELATION: President and First Lady attend Thai King?s royal cremation ceremony...State Counsellor receives Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany...Officials from World Bank, UNRC and EU Commission Meet with Dr Win Myat Aye to Cooperate in UEHRD?s Working Process...Farmers receiving good price for rain paddy harvest due to foreign demand...Bilateral trade between Singapore and Myanmar valued at US$1.26 billion in five months...Pyithu Hluttaw deputy speaker receives Mr. Martyn Brown...Checks to be made concerning foreigners trespassing on gold mining sites...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing meets UN Resident Coordinator...U Lwin Oo appointed as Ambassador to Bangladesh...Thiri Pyanchi U Tun Nay Linn appointed as Ambassador to Nepal...Development of Myanmar Films World discussed...Myanmar receives World Bank?s Star Reformer Award...Late goals by Cambodia lead to Myanmar defeat...Good start for Myanmar in 2017 AFF Futsal Championship....."OPINION": "No Alternative But to Negotiate" - Khin Maung Oo..... ARTICLE: "How can digital finance better serve Asia?s poor?" - Shigehiro Shinozaki
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-27
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:-PYITHU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyithu Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 4th day meeting.....AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: 2nd Amyotha Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 4th day meeting.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Rakhine resettlement will be fasttracked...Floods cause destruction of betel farms, doubles the price...Hotel zone planned for Kanthaya beach in Rakhine State...Implementation Coordination Meeting on Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement...Healthcare for Hindus in Sittway IDP camp...Discussion on Cyber Space held...19th National-level monsoon forum held...Shan United crowns General Aung San Shield 2017 by winning Yangon United...Gandamar draws YREO in KBZ Bank Women?s League.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar, Bangladesh agree to solve border issue amicably...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker receives UN Resident Coordinator in Myanmar...President and wife in Bangkok for Thai king?s funeral...State Counsellor receives United Nations Resident Coordnator...Housing for displaced people to be built with UNHABITAT technical assistance in northern Rakhine...MOALI signs MoU with CCA for My Finance Project...Norwegian Company to build solar power plant at Thaton Industrial Zone...International trade hit US$16.9 billion since April...Netherlands is third-largest investor this FY...Union Minister receives US, Denmark and UK ambassadors to Myanmar for Rakhine project...Minister for Border Affairs meets with UN Humanitarian Coordinator ...China company to invest $390 million to Mandalay-Myotha Industrial Park...Thura U Shwe Mann receives outgoing UN Resident Coordinator..... "OPINION": "May all live in peace in harmony and understanding forever!" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Terrifying new elephant poaching epidemic to meet demand for ?health? jewellery made from their skin" - Warren Manger
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-26
Date of entry/update: 2017-10-26
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:-PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyidaungsu Hluttaw 6th session 3rd day meeting.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Peace is at hand: UNFC...State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi attends 72nd Anniversary of the United Nations Day...UNFC to sign NCA after breaking last deadlock on November-8...Harvesting combines arrive in Rakhine State...Cash assistance for families of police killed in Buthidaung...Stimulant tablets and opium seized...MRF to conduct short and long-term projects for development of rice sector in Rakhine State...Yangon General Hospital receives YHT Commemorative Blue Plaque...Tatmadaw releases statement on Rakhine terrorist attacks...Maungtaw officials conduct field trip to resettle ethnic national villages...People hold 3rd interfaith rally in Yangon...Ownerless cattle cared by veterinary department...Public talk on drug dangers to be hosted in Myintkyina.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar, Bangladesh to cooperate on border security...Speaker U Win Myint receives outgoing UN Resident Coordinator...President U Htin Kyaw receives Japanese PM?s Special Advisor...Daw Aung San Suu Kyi receives Japanese Prime Minister?s Special Advisor...Tourists visit along Chindwin River by Cruise Ship...Japan investments in Myanmar: $717 million and counting...SMEs and Variety of Myanmar Business...VP U Henry Van Thio receives Japanese PM?s Special Advisor...Myanmar blanks Philippines 6-0 in AFC U-19 Championship qualification match...Myanmar team at AFF Futsal Championship in Viet Nam....."OPINION": "From collective contributions towards national strength" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Create rural jobs for youths to stem flight to cities, says UN" - Thomson Reuters Foundation
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-25
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: 6th regular session of 2nd Pyidaungsu Hluttaw discuss monetary issues.....OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Fish farms: skills, sustenance for people in Maungtaw...Gov?t pledges to tackle manmade impacts on eco-system of coastal areas...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker observes health care given by SPHF in Taninthayi Region...State Counsellor encourages Mixed Martial Arts contestant Aung La N Sang representing Myanmar...Kayin State Chief Minister calls for reclaiming land to attract investors...Onion price shoot up due to flood in onion plantation...MOI plans to return 24 suspended factories into operate in Jan 2018...Over Ks 2,347.5 million worth Yaba pills seized in Phakant...One killed by knife wound and one injured by shooting...PC, DPN holds 7th meeting...Provisions to victims of gale in Mrauk-U...Message from His Excellency U Htin Kyaw, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, to the United Nations on its 72nd Anniversary (Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, 24 October 2017).....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor receives Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Qatar...Office of the Labour Attaché of Myanmar Embassy refutes rumour of CI on social network...Nay Pyi Taw ?Ngalike Elephant Camp? sees second highest number of local and foreign visitors...Yangon Region attracts the most domestic investments this FY...Bangladeshi shot dead for rushing into police outpost holding kirpan...Thura U Shwe Mann receives IMF personnel...Two Daingnet ethnic men killed, two wounded in shooting incident on Myanmar-Bangladesh border...Dr. Win Myat Aye separately receives ADPC, UNHCR and Qatar Minister of State...Open work out of Aung La N Sang and Alain Ngalani to be launched...Myanmar to play the Philippines today in AFC U-19 Championship 2018 qualifier....."OPINION": "Cogwheels of a development process" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Air Pollution Kills 9 Million, Costs $5 Trillion Per Year" - Andy Rowell / EcoWatch
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-24
Date of entry/update: 2017-10-24
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Nay Pyi Taw rally supports State Counsellor?s leadership...Diversity Management forum to be held in late November...Taninthayi Region Hluttaw gets new building...Aid reaches to victims of strong wind in Mrauk-U...Shwepyitha gets another Carewell clinic...Mandalay hosts public talk ...Clothes donated to displaced people in Rakhine...Road extension, new building constructions banned in Bagan...Disability-inclusive service businesses to officially launch this month: DIBI...Photo gallery in Yangon alley to open in December...Public Company planned to be established for agricultural development in Rakhine State...BFM provides Chin State?s Htantalan with water bowsers...Four reach level-3 of Peace Music Festival...Missing pilots of G-4 jet trainer confirmed dead...Sule Square Office Tower and Retail Mall opens as newest landmark...Union Minister Dr Myint Htwe views Pekhon People?s Hospital...Healthcare infrastructures to be built nationwide within five years...Construction of Hsatyoekya Creek Bridge nearly finished...Agricultural & fisheries sector development of Ayeyawady Region discussed.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Drastic decline in Muse trade brings down total border trade value...Trade value at Kawthoung gate increases by $34 million....."OPINION": "Constructive developments to be sculpted practically" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Public + Private = Better Health Care in Southeast Asia" - Lieven Jacquemyn
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-23
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Nine private sector task forces formed to participate in UaHRD programme... Second Intha National Day held...Union Minister Dr Pe Myint visits MITV and MIR ...Police to crack down on intoxicant users in Shu Khin Thar Beach area ...Dried fish prices on the rise in domestic market during fishing season...Reclamation planned for 1,000 acres of vacant land in Sagaing...Ammunitions, raw opium and Yaba pills seized...Apartments with rental prices of Ks100,000 in high demand in Yangon...Voices from donation ceremony for UEHRD...Peace Music Festival?s level-2 contest kicks off in Mandalay...MFF U-13 Boys? States & Regions Tournament begins.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Foreign interference in Rakhine doesn?t work: China...IRRI research project works to improve rice yields...Meeting on implementation of humanitarian assistance in Rakhine...Import value goes up by $1.5 bn in current FY...Myanmar-Bangladesh border trade shows increase of $4.7 mn...Myanmar U-19 football team heads to Cambodia for AFC U-19 Championship qualification ....."OPINION": "Infinite strength of inter-faith prayers" - Khin Maung Oo..... ARTICLES: "Eradicating corruption in Myanmar" - Tommy Pauk..."School canteens under spotlight for selling unhealthy drinks to children" - Aung Myo Htet....."SUNDAY SPECIALS": "Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?" - Ma Khin Lapyae Naing ..."Basic English Grammar for Basic Students" - Lesson 24 : Making Sentences (1) ..."Some Different Attitudes and Opinions by Different Stakeholders on the Present Education System (4)" - Dr. Nu Nu Win ..."Final Inventory of monuments of ancient Bagan still an unsolved puzzle" - Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja, Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt ..."Government is crafting strategies to expand its taxation base : Sean Turnell" ..."Courage" - Paing Soe Lin..."A Beautiful Mind" - May More ..."SUNDAY COMICS": "ha ha" - Htoo..."People will be People" - Maung Shwe Win..."Sunday Jokes" - Maung Maung Aung
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-22
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYITHU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyithu Hluttaw 6th regular session holds its 3rd day meeting...Questions on: on the process and management of the President?s education award and how the public is informed about it...plans to system- atically promote demonstrators, assistant lecturers, lecturers and professors assigned in uni- versities and colleges according to regulation...lans to open an Associate Government Tech- nical Institute (AGTI) to con- duct vocational training and create work opportunities for those with experience in Pyin Oo Lwin automobile technology research compound. There was also a question by U Myint Lwin of Twantay constituency on plans to teach history as a compulsory subject from the primary to the doctorate level and a question by U Thet n aung of Lahe constitu- ency on plans to upgrade schools in Lahe Township...and: U A ye n aing of Da - gon Myothit (South) constituen- cy and the secretary of natural resources and environmental conservation committee tabled a bill on protecting and conserving wildlife, forest and fauna. Afterwards Pyithu Hluttaw Bill Committee member Sai Phoe Myat of Muse constituency read a bill committee report on protection and conservation of wildlife, forest, fauna and natural habitat. Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U Win Myint then announced that Hluttaw representatives who want to amend the bill on pro - tecting and conserving wildlife, forest and fauna to register their names indicating the clause, sub clause and subject to be amend- ed.—Myanmar news Agency .....AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: 2nd Amyotha Hluttaw 6th regular session 3rd day meeting..... OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: Rakhine rebirth needs unity: State Counsellor...Verification cards issued in Rakhine...Coordination meeting held to launch MyanmarSat 2 in June 2019...Myanmar delegation attends 137th Assembly of InterParliamentaryUnion...Drinking water project in Dala Township to be finalised by 2018...Bamboo growers in Shan State reap healthy profits prior to Tazaungdaing festival...10,000-acre mangrove forests to be designated as protected forests...New garment factory in Sittway...Appointment of Head of Service Organization...Work on construction of new houses in N-Rakhine launched...Leadership Seminar for Tech Age Girls Myanmar, Library Award Ceremony held...Guns and drugs seized in Buthidaung and Maungtaw...Trade value via Maungtaw border check point to exceed target...Birth and death records workshop held.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar, Vietnam ink MoU to promote cooperation in real estate sector...Myanmar-India trade from Tamu border decreased by $19 mn this FY...700 Muslim villagers depart to neighbouring country...17th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology held...Myanmar U-19 football team defeated by Japan club in friendly....."OPINION": "We wish to live in peace and security" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Strengthening of Solidarity for Sovereignty" - Htun Tin Htun
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-21
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Two dead as fire guts iconic Kandawgyi Palace Hotel...Gold mining firms urged to pay debts to government...MPs call for fishing rules enforcement to save aquatic resources...Ceremony for handing over machinery bought as two step loan held...Nationwide animal census to be taken in January by Livestock Breeding & Vet Dept...KBZ?s BFM foundation funds K3 billion for development projects in Rakhine...Rubber export volume up in September...Five killed, five police injured in Hpakhant jade mine attack...Ygn Region Parliament debates nationalising unused land and buildings...Rain expected over upper Myanmar due to depression...Healthcare using traditional medicines provided for Hindu IDPs in Sittway...Media, state officials meet in Rakhine...COST coordination meeting held in Nay Pyi Taw...Maungtaw to have access to electricity by the end of 2018...Myawaddy FC embarasses Gandamar FC with 14-0 win in KBZ Bank Women?s League...Yaba pills seized in Loikaw.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives EU Ambassador...State Counsellor receives EU Ambassador...Bilateral trade with China hit US$4.45 billion in five months...Invitation for Myanmar businessmen to participate in LMCE expo in China...Myanmar wins gold in World?s Dragon Boat Championship....."OPINION": "Security and Rule of Law" - Khin Maung Oo..... ARTICLE: "Considered ecologically extinct in the wild, Myanmar star tortoise population has grown to more thlife Conservation Societyan 14,000 individuals" - Wild
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-20
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Return illegal arms, devices, vehicles to police: MOHA...22 more telecommunication towers being built in Maungtaw...Large caches of guns, ammunition discovered...Parts of missing Myanmar Air Force Fighter Jet found...Roads in Maungtaw to be upgraded...Event to raise epilepsy awareness held on Tuesday in Nyaunglebin ...Pilot projects to grow more than 10,000 acres of edible oil crops next year...Paddy price increases Ks100,000 over last year...Mung bean and pigeon peas traded at bargain price in Yangon market...Justice Centre launched in Toungoo...1.4 million Yaba pills seized in Maungtaw...Senior General pays homage to deceased reverend Sayadaw Bhaddanta Sila Vamsa , presiding Sayadaw of Dhamma Rakkhinta...Reflections of a Public Health Professional, Volume One, by Dr Myint Htwe comes out...Rubbish management in to be upgraded...Sagaing Region wants two caves and forest area in Khamti to be designated as naturYangon al areas.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Security Advisor returns from UN General Assembly...Agreement signed by securities commissions of Myanmar and Thailand...19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held...10th ASEAN Science, Technology and Innovation Exhibition held...Inbound tours popular among locals...Another village designated as Ayeyawady dolphin conservation and tourism locale...Vehicle import policy changes increase slip price...Myanmar U-19 defeated 0-2 by Japanese team in friendly...Sport & Edu FC stay perfect in KBZ Bank Women League....."OPINION": "Let our epoch-making genuine efforts be known to the world" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "How Blockchain can Revolutionize Access to Finance" - Lotte Schou-Zibell
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-19
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: State Counsellor meets ethnic armed groups...Myanmar pledges to invest more in food security...UEHRD mechanism starts...Union Minister Dr Win Myat Aye provide humanitarian assistance to Maungtaw region villages...Improvement of Yangon-Mawlamyine railroad to be finlaised by 2019...Weapons, ammunitions and WYstimulants seized at Nay Pyi Taw airport...Heroin and two hand-made guns seized in Khamti...One Mark II vehicle seized without license...Mobile medical teams provide emergency health care to villagers in N-Rakhine...Funeral ceremony of presiding reverend Sayadaw Bhaddanta Arzeya of Dhammodaya Buddhist Literature Institute, Kengtung held...Myanmar Tatmadaw delegation leaves for Switzerland..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi receives envoys from UN, China...Eight more tourism companies increase this year in Myeik District...Myanmar to send nursing assistants to Japan starting December...MRF requests MOC to take action against China merchants offering inflated price for paddy...Border trade with China shows decrease of $91 million since April...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing receives PPST members...Busan Training Program to help Myanmar Yachting Team...Myanmar falls in tough group of 2017 ASEAN Futsal Championship..... "OPINION": "Move towards the peace goal" - Khin Maung Oo..... ARTICLE: "World Food Day" - Htun Tin Htun
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-17
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Description: HLUTTAW SESSIONS:- PYIDAUNGSU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyidaungsu Hluttaw resumes, to focus on financial issues.....PYITHU HLUTTAW: 2nd Pyithu Hluttaw 6th Regular Session holds first meeting.....AMYOTHA HLUTTAW: 2nd Amyotha Hluttaw 6th regular session 1st day meeting...OTHER DOMESTIC NEWS: UN envoy visits northern Rakhine...UNICEF?s project aims at door-to-door water supply in Thazi Township...Onion farmers face massive losses due to flooding...Four-year plan aims to build Agribusiness Service Centres nationwide...Wild bird garden in PyinOoLwin to reopen later this month...Community-based projects target to support seven million people...More than about 40,500 cooperatives formed so far to enhance rural development...Private sector assistance in Rakhine State...Cash assistance, supplies for displaced people in Kyauktaw...More 8 firearms seized...Housing project for Mro ethnics in Rakhine State launched...Interfaith people pray for peace in Myanmar...Reflections of Public Health Professional Volume I comes out...Public invited to Bicycle Network Myanmar?s cycling tour...ISPE beats YREO 1-0 in week 12 of KBZ Bank Women?s League.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President accepts credentials of Ambassadors Finland, EU...State Counsellor receives Red Cross delegation, USIP?s Senior Advisor...Border trade down by $88 million as of early October...Dr Win Myat Aye attends 12th ASEAN GO-NGO Forum on Social Welfare and Development...Senior General receives special envoy from China, UN Under-Secretary-General...73rd ASEAN Science and Technology Committee meeting held..."OPINION": "Let our future steps be regular ones!" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "The Relation between Mobile Phones And Auditory of Our Ears" - Thin Hlaing Hmwe
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-18
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: NCA reaches 2nd Anniversary...UEHRD launches internet website...State Counsellor hosts UEHRD dinner...Cash donation for peace process of Myanmar ..Political dialogues are the way forward...Conflicts must be resolved within democracy framework...NCA aims at solving political problem through peaceful political dialogue...Hindus from Yangon donate assistance utensils to the IDP camps of Sittway...Nearly 2000 people take part in International White Cane Safety Day...Anniversaries prove government?s commitment to peace process...Kawmu stages Public Talks...Children?s Literature Festival concludes ...Mandalay to host 2nd International Livestock and Agriculture Show...Smoke-free zone to be designated around Konlon Monastery in Pindaya Tsp ...Yangon United still in second place of MNL.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Thura U Shwe Mann receives United Nations Under-SecretaryGeneral for Political Affairs...Myanmar?s trade with EU hit over US$ 1billion in first five months of this FY...Silk Air to fly more Singapore Yangon flights instead of Scoot...Rice exports delayed due to stormy rains ...Commerce Ministry allows export of live cattle starting this month...Myanmar?s foreign trade up by $2.8 bln this FY...Export value increases by $1.3 bln this year...Myanmars in UK show solidarity with State Counsellor...SWRR Deputy Minister visits Rakhine State ...Cargo aircraft carrying goods for humanitarian aid of AHA Centre arrives Yangon....."OPINION": "Let?s take part in Implementing the tasks of peace, stability and national development" - Khin Maung Oo .....ARTICLE: "It is time we take care of our soil" - Khaing Min Thant
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-16
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: National Security Advisor explains the Government?s short and long-term plans for the development of Rakhine State ...Rebuilding houses in Maungtaw...People holds rally in support of State Counsellor?s leadership...Mon State High Court to get new building...State authorities target to spend Ks5 bn on building ponds in Falam Township...Myanmar Gems Emporium to be held from 12-21 December...Cash donation to fulfill needs of people in Rakhine State ...Isolated rain expected over big cities ...Cash and provisions for displaced ethnic people ...Children?s Literature Festival crowded with visitors...Land to be sought from gov?t for central wastewater treatment plant..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: SWRR Minister accepts assistance from AHA Centre...Over 400,000 foreign day-trippers visit Myanmar via Tachilek border this year...Statement by His Excellency U Thaung Tun, National Security Advisor to the Union Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar at the ARRIA Formula Meeting of the Security Council on the Situation in Myanmar Co-hosted by France and the United Kingdom...Nobody killed in head-on crash on Thandwe-Ngapali road...Lower-cost housing project for squatters...Bilateral trade with US hit nearly $350 mln since April...HPCL to sell lubricants in Myanmar...17th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology and ASEAN COST-73 Meeting...Media registration for ASEM FMM13...Elbow knockout winners to be awarded Ks 2million extra bonus at WLC-3 ...Awarding ceremony for coaches and disabled athletes of 2017 ASEAN Para Games held ....."OPINION": "May You Distinguish Truth From Falsity!" - Khin Maung Oo..... ARTICLE: "Don?t let yourselves to be deceived" - Khin Maung Myint....."SUNDAY SPECIAL": "Honesty" - Nann Htet Hnin Htwe..."Basic English Grammar for Basic Students" - Lesson 23 : Sentence Structure (4)..."The Weapon" - A.W Khin Myat Phone..."Supplementary private tutoring" - Dr. Myo Win ..."Maliwan Waterfall, hotspring, Pulon Tonton in Kawthoung" - Kyaw Soe..."Cinnamon: the amazing spice" - Yay Thuyae....."SUNDAY COMICS": "ha ha" - Htoo..." People willbe People" - Maung Shwe Win..."Sunday Jokes" - Maung Maung Aung
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-15
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Join hands for peace in Rakhine...Donations for displaced persons in Sittway relief camps...President, First Lady and State Counsellor attend Kathina ceremony...Encephalitis vaccinations to be given in Rakhine...Concrete products selling well in the local market...Tax exemptions or relief for domestic investors...22 GSM base stations underway in Maungtaw and Buthidaung...Yangon Region Investment Committee Meeting 4/2017...Mini-Lab for sewage treatment to be built...Meeting to hold mass support event of State Counsellor in Pyinmana Township...Children?s Literature Festival in Monywa kicks off...Thitsar Arrman FC standing second place in KBZ Bank Women League.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Minister Dr Win Myat Aye separately receives ambassadors from Japan and Britain...KBZ?s BFM, Smile Asia bring new smiles for faces of more than 100 children...German Unity Day held...Italy to assist in pilot project for Yangon urban heritage preservation...Myanmar in discussions with India on cross-border night trip plan to Lake Reed ...Garment sector likely to earn US$3 billion this FY...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing receives Ambassador of Japan to Myanmar...Four students to join Yunan Mechanical & Electrical College....."OPINION": "Believe News With Judgement" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Commission, Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Constitution" - Thet Nyo
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-13
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Independence Day to be convened with five objectives...Towards people-centred development...U Win Myint receives MRCS chair...Red Cross Movement provides cash and utensils to returning local people...Opening Ceremony for Children?s Literature Festival in Monywa...Peace Music Festival Singing Contest, 2017 Level 2 and Peace Musical Songs...Ngwe Hnin mushrooms grow well in Myanmar...Free health care given to locals in Yathedaung, Rakhine...Public talk in Kawhmu Township...Displaced people return home in Buthidaung and Maungtaw.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: 17,000 took overseas jobs last month...Traders start to purchase pigeon bean and mung bean from local farmers...Myanmar-ASEAN trade exceeds $4.3 BN in first five months of this FY...Union Minister U Thein Swe receives US Ambassador...Rakhine State Social Affairs Minister, UNA meet locals in Buthidaung...Myanmar U-19 footballers in Japan...History hopes to repeat itself for Aung La N Sang....."OPINION": "We can overcome challenges withstrength of our unity" - Aye Min Soe..... ARTICLE: "Let?s work hand in hand with the government" - Khin Maung Myint
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-14
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Aid, rehabilitation, resettlement to be speeded up for N-Rakhine...We are young, and getting younger: research study...Ministries, departments urged to carry out reforms for private business sector development...Discussion on Rakhine State Affairs, Challenges and its Future Scenario held...Ethnic Affairs Ministry?s employees receive skills for social integration...MOI holds workshop on effective use of social media...Mortality rate from coronary artery disease likely to increase...Eastern part of Yangon circular railway to be upgraded this month...Five suspects arrested in Yangon...Price of onion, garlic remain on the rise...Trade Department issues 88 individual trading cards...To boost the family income, bamboo vocational class opened in Kaw Kathaung...Naga Traditional New Year Festival to be held in Nanyun...WCS on survey trip to dolphin conservation area...More than 400 buses made before 1998 to be deregistered...Rural projects to be implemented based on development of business and population ...Use of electronic data system starts in ports...Illegal guar horns seized in Bogalay...Myawady FC stays perfect in KBZ Bank Women?s League.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Minister Dr Win Myat Aye holds talks with WFP Director...Tea leafs from Shan State exported to Malaysia, Singapore and China...Nepal offers to buy Myanmar pulses...Senior General receives American Ambassador...Myanmar to take part in Thai?s M-150 football Cup....."OPINION": "Bribery and Corruption, the Danger for National Security" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "What a great news, Myanmar ratified the ICESCR" - Dr. Khine Khine Win
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-12
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Inter-faith prayers for peace in Myanmar...Coordination Meeting for 2nd Hluttaws 6th Regular Sessions...Government to step up security measures at border to avert terrorists...PyinOoLwin Flower Festival to be held on 1st December...About 40 children to get free cleft lip and palate surgery...Yangon Water Bus to be extended depending on number of passengers...One killed and 35 injured in road accident...Poor timing in tomato cultivation led to unstable price...Tropical depression likely approaches near Shan State...Inter-faith prayers from Mandalay pray for peace...Coordinating meeting on implementing Rakhine State development held in Nay Pyi Taw...Notice to the public from Ministry of Planning and Finance and Central Bank of Myanmar...Imports of High-Quality Insecticides Discussed...2017 region and state U-25 table tennis competition held .....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Solving the refugee issue...Speaker Mahn Win Khaing Than receives Mr. Nicholas Coppel, Australian Ambassador...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives Ambassador of Australia...Thura U Shwe Mann receives Australian Ambassador...ASEAN and Japan Ministerial Meeting on Sports...Effective uses of socialmedia explored...Pigeon pea price falls to 10-year-low after suspension of India?s demand...Border trade value shows slight decrease in first half of this FY...MJA outstanding students award Japanese exchange visit 2017...More tourists visiting Mingun Bell...Entrepreneurs from Taninthayi invited to Thailand...Myanmar attracts over 2 million tourists in eight months...Myanmar U-19 football team in Japan preparing for AFC U-19 Championship ...Myanmar and Kyrgyzstan Republic draw 2-2....."OPINION": "We need not fall for traps or tricks" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Lawyer and Tears" - U Han Nyunt
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-11
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Towards a resilient Myanmar...WFP, Rakhine Govt discuss aid for N-Rakhine ...World Tourism Day observed in Nay Pyi Taw...Certificate Course in Basic Diplomatic Skills (39/2017) inaugurates...Holding of 2017 World Post Day event...Union Supreme Court sits to pass judgment and hear special civil appeal cases...Three Gas-Generators to supply electricity needed for Myawady...Yangon and Muse markets need to ban inflow of crab during breeding season...SG Min Aung Hlaing inspects Pyinpon Gyi military area and Tatmadaw vocational trainings...Prayer Ceremony of inter-faith group to be held in Mandalay...Domestic pilgrimages up compared to last year during Thadingyut Festival...Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan 2019 AFC Championship Qualifier today.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar, Thailand officials discuss certificate of identity issue at distribution camps ...MRF targets to earn US$1 bln from rice export next FY...Packaging for edible oil crop with WTO and STDF assistance...Yangon aims to be regional trade hub, Chief Minister tells OBG...Myanmar hosts the 7th ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Sports...Depression makes landfall in India...Union Minister for Border Affairs receives Norwegian Ambassador for bilateral cooperation...Myanmar Bodybuilders win gold and silver in 9th World Bodybuilding & Physique Championship....."OPINION": "Ethics and responsibilities of news media men" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "How To Help Farmers Prepare For Climate Change" - How To Help Farmers Prepare For Climate Change" - Dian Spear ..."The Bombing of the Martyrs? Mausoleum" - Yay Thuye
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-10
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Mum?s peace process hailed with portraits...Rakhine State Chief Minister tours Maungtaw region...The growing interest of Yangon?s water bus...Cash assistance provided to the staff of Department of Agriculture Land Management and Statistics in Maungtaw...Student population increases to 9.1m from 8m...Chief minister urges inclusive ideas for regional interest...Sittway selects social representatives...CB to loan fisheries businessmen for aquatic feedstuff without mortgage...Rattan and bamboo handiwork to be replaced with high-tech machines...A Slew of Visitors to Study Teak Posts Exhibited in Kanbawza Thardi Palace, Bago...Modernized Express-Car Ground in Myeik Opened...Excavation to be conducted in Kalay Township...International Arya Samaj Hindu Conference held, pray for world peace...Consent to move vendors to Latpatan Myoma market...Three killed in two traffic accidents in Meiktila Township...Woman died after falling off motorcycle...Inlay Phaungdaw U Pagoda festival concludes ...Value-added products of palm fruits produced in Kachin State...Let the world knows the burning of Mro villages...Myanmar lethwei advanced coaching course launched in Yangon.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: China, Cambodia offer to import Myanmar?s avocados...AMYAR coffee facotry in Ywangan slated to run in December...Sea trade this FY shows increase of about US$2.7 billion against last FY...News of 2018 car import policy shakes Yangon auto mobile market...Myanmar beat Thai club 3-1 in friendly futsal....."OPINION": "Didactic Teachers among those who deserve our infinite gratitude" - Khin Maung Oo..... ARTICLE: "Who are the real culprits" - Khin Maung Myint
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-09
Date of entry/update: 2017-10-09
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Rakhine State Government meets with Maungtaw villagers...Yangon water buses begin operation...Number of aged might reach 13 million by 2050...Number of daily commuters on Yangon circular trains increase to 100,000...Modern medicine factory to be opened at Shwe Paukkan Industrial Zone...Ten passengers injured from overturned express vehicle...Modern medicine factory to be opened at Shwe Paukkan Industrial Zone...Clothing fire engulfs nine houses in Mandalay...Domestic investments mostly flow into real estate development sector...Inflation rate shows steep drop in August...Tanyingon market to open next month...Last rites for Abhidhaja Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotika Bhaddanta Dhammathaya Sayadawgyi...Man found dead near Inwa Bridge in Sagaing on Friday...New elephants to arrive at Ngalaik Sakhantha Elephant Camp...Myanmar to play Kyrgyzstan in 2019 AFC Championship Qualification.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor in Brunei...No discrimination in providing aid to IDPs...$3 million to be spent on tourism development in Mon State....."OPINION": "Reasonable Solution and Approach" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Myanmar?s Economy is Projected to Pick Up Amid important Risks" - World Bank
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-07
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: U Nyi Pu pledges to improve infrastructure in N-Rakhine...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker attends ceremony to hand over new fire engines...Rakhine State Chief Minister delivers aid to Hindu women returned from Bangladesh...120th birthday event of Thakin Mya held in Yangon...Coordination meeting held for Children?s Literature Festival...Highway police on standby for safety of passengers during Thadingyut festival...Artists invited to take part in Tazaungdaing cartoon contest...Man arrested for snatch-and-run robbery...Raw bamboo and rattan collection to begin on November...Mandalay shows support for State Counsellor...Lethwei event this evening at Mandalar Thiri Stadium...EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah...State Counsellor attends royal banquet honouring Brunei Sultan?s golden jubilee...Private sector export of agro products valued at $1.4 billion since April...Shwedagon Pagoda hosts nearly 450,000 foreigners this year...Imports through Myawady border decrease by $14 million...Trade deficit exceeds $2.2 billion in first half of this FY....."OPINION": "We need to respond to false news with true ones promptly" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "First global pledge to end cholera by 2030" - GNLM with World Health Organization....."SUNDAY SPECIAL": "Unawareness can kill US" - Khin Moh Moh Aung..."Basic English Grammar for Basic Students" - Lesson 22: Verbs — Tenses(4)..."Some Different Attitudes and Opinions by Different Stakeholders on the Present Education System(4) " - Dr. Nu Nu Win ..."15 new gecko species discovered in Myanmar" - Noa Leach, phys.org... Three communities still live peacefully in two of the villages we visited: Robert Chua..... SUMDAY COMICS: "Mi Chuu" - Htoo..."people will be people" - Maung Shwe Win..."Sunday Jokes" - Maung Maung Aung
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-08
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Thadingyut festival celebrated at pagodas across Myanmar...Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker attends the rice donation ceremony...World Teachers? Day 2017 event held...Cultural heritage region of Bagan crowded with pilgrims...One man arrested, arms, ammunition, mines seized...History students go on excursion to Bagan...Hlaing Tsp to receive more water supply by Kokkowa project...Two dead after ferry capsizes on Taninthayi River...Raw opium, ICE and yaba pills seized.....EXTERNAL REALTIONS: Myanmar,Japan to open vocational training school...Muslims from Buthidaung Township at border to cross into Bangladesh...Myanmar?s garment sector second biggest exporter...FDI in first six months reaches over US$4.1 billion...Myanmar loses to Thailand in football friendly...Myanmar defeats Thailand futsal club friendly....."OPINION": "Need to prioritise eradication of terrorism" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "The truth behind the northern Rakhine issue" - Khin Maung Myint
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-06
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Rice, cash reach IDPs in northern Rakhine...Agro techniques, machinery and pedigree seeds for Maungtaw... Myanmar media meets to discuss northern Rakhine fake news...Hot air balloon competitions to be held at Taunggyi Tazaungdaing festival...Hlawga Wildlife Park to be upgraded this year...SME zones to be established in 12 townships of Yangon Region ...Abhidhamma Day and Buddha?s Mother Day on Thidingyut Full Moon...MFF and MOE to jointly implement Myanmar youth football development plans.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: ?This area is our territory?: ARSA extremist terrorists...14 Myanmar migrant workers alleging rights abuses indicted in Thailand...Pilot project to legalise export of cattle...Fall in global gold price affects local gold market...Rice exports in first half of this FY reached 1.7 million tons...Stock trading on YSX still lackluster even after YSX expo...Thailand discusses with Myanmar charitable organisations...Myanmar, Thailand footballersto play friendly match today....."OPINION": "We Swear that We Always Say Truth" - Khin Maung Oo...ARTICLES: "No Education System Ever Exceeds the Quality of Teachers" - Dr Khine Mye..."The Significant and Noble Day of Abhidhamma " - Ba Sein
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-05
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Over 100 teachers to be appointed in Maungtaw and Buthidaung...Amyotha Hluttaw Deputy Speaker, donors deliver aid to villagers in N-Rakhine...Statement by the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission with regard to the terrorist attacks that occurred in Maungtaw and Buthidaung townships of Rakhine State...Nationalisation of Unused Confiscated Land in Yangon Region to be discussed...Hindu families pray for local ethnic nationals, public servants and Hindus killed by terrorists...More than 2,000 YBS buses installed with GPS...Complaints on 110 Yangon restaurants against failure to place duty stamps on receipts...YCDC to supply water to Dala, Seikkyi Kanaungto townships...More training courses for seafarer jobs to begin in 2018...More than 120 nests of endangered sarus cranes found in Ayeyawady Delta...YCDC collects garbage with use of over 80 threewheeled garbage trucks...Myawady FC defeats ISPE 2-0 in KBZ Women?s League..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: National Security Advisor urges careful use of terms ?ethnic cleansing” and ?genocide” ...Foreigner barred from launching drone near Shwedagon ...Private sector import of capital goods declines by $90 million...More than 64,000 tons of diesel imported by sea on 17-23 September...Myanmar-India border trade decreased by $15 million this FY...Myanmar earns over $16m from export of rice, broken rice by sea...Singapore company offers to buy organic crops...Thai fishing boat with 13 Myanmar fishermen capsizes...Statement by H.E. U Thaung Tun, National Security Advisor to the Union Government of Myanmar at the meeting on the situation in Myanmar in the United Nations Security Council...Myanmar Lethwei fighter Saw Nga Man to fight against Australian Eddie Farrell at WLC 3...Media invited to press conference for Myanmar Thailand friendly match....."OPINION": "Stop Hatred, Atrocity and Terrorism" - Khin Maung Oo..... ARTICLE: "Urban expansion opens doors for Myanmar?s construction sector" - Oxford Business Group
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-04
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: President calls for increasing budget, investment to achieve 7 per cent growth target of GDP...Number of florists on wheels increases in Mandalay...Children invited to take part in lantern cartooning competition in Mandalay...Zoological gardens to be upgraded...Chicken breeders face difficulties with rising price of chicken feeds...One motorcyclist killed in traffic accident...Number of container trucks increasing year on year...High global crude oil price increases domestic fuel oil price...Yangon Water Bus starts to run on 6 October...Myanmar?s population reaches more than 53 m on 1 October 2017...Authorities meet 10000 Muslims from Buthidaung at border as villagers plan to go to Bangladesh...Rice delivered to villagers in northern Rakhine.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Minister holds talks with Bangladeshi FM over Northern Rakhine issue...Diplomats visit three different areas in N-Rakhine...Protestors denounce foreign interference, bias media over N-Rakhine issue...President U Htin Kyaw receives H.E. General Ngo Xuan Lich and party...State Counsellor meets with President and VC of University of Hong Kong...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing welcomes Viet Nam Minister of National Defence....."OPINION": "Eradication of External Destructive Elements with Our Unity of Strength" Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "The world deserves to know the truth about terrorist attacks in Rakhine" - Thidar
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-03
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Standing together with State Counsellor...Rice sacks donate to IDP camps in Maungtaw...Sittway honours older persons...Take pride in your own profession after constituting the legality, people?s confidence, personal dignity and integrity of Police Force...Pilot project of school bus transport to be launched in Yangon very soon...DICA asking for suggestions to formulate and implement New Partnership law...International Day for Older Persons held in Mandalay...Kawthoung Dhamma School students to celebrate candle light festival and fire balloons festival...Myanmar observes International Day of the Older Persons...All-inclusive healthcare prioritized in Rakhine since 2012...Manufacturing Myanmar 2017 to be held 20-22 October in Yangon...99th Annual Thadingyut Festival to be held in Pyinmanna...53rd Anniversary of Myanmar Police Force Day held in Sittway..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Chinese Film Festival 2017 opens in Nay Pyi Taw...Tourists flock to historical buildings in Mandalay... Over 375,000 foreign day-trippers visit Myanmar via Tachilek border since April...Licences for over 170 gem mining blocks to expire in October...Sino-Myanmar border trade shows slight decline in first half of this FY...Myanmar Futsal team in Thailand....."OPINION": "Myanmar Police Force and Rule of Law" - Khin Maung Oo..."Factors affecting inward foreign direct investment" - Kyaw Win Tin.....ARTICLE: "Factors affecting inward foreign direct investment" - Kyaw Win Tin
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-02
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Schools reopen in Maungtaw, Buthidaung as stability returns...Amyotha Hluttaw Deputy Speaker delivers rice to Sittway IDP camps...Union Minister meets MMPA executive members, attends opening of MMPA Cinema...Donation for villagers remaining in villages...Forum on printing industry development...Laungdon Village post-primary school in Maungtaw Township, Rakhine State remains open...CBT project for villages in protection zone for Ayeyawady Dolphin...Toyota Hiace to be sold via installment plan...Buildings in Yangon-Dala bridge project area to be cleared next month...Golden Triangle mountain bike invitational contest to be on 17 December...Books donation to Information and Public Relations Department libraries.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Jade cutting, carving businesses trying to survive in declining market...Four states and one region received no foreign investment in first half of this FY...Children in remote Kachin State to receive Japanese encephalitis ...Aung La N Sang to fight Pierre Alain Ngalani ...Qualify football teams for 2018 AFC U-16 Championship releases....."OPINION": "Nurturing Flower Buds Not to Wither" - Khin Maung Oo..... ARTICLE: "Fake News are Rampant" - Khin Maung Myint.....SUNDAY SPECIALS: "Be a good reader, to become a unique leader" - Kyaw Zin Tun..."Basic English Grammar for Basic Students" - Lesson 21: Verbs — Tenses(4) ..."Children?s Literature Festival in Monywa from 13 to 15 Oct" - Aung Min Han..."Some Different Attitudes and Opinions by Different Stakeholders on the Present Education System(3) " - Dr. Nu Nu Win ..."Dhamayan the most massive, Thabyinyu the highest, Ananda the finest" - Maung Tha..."Many Hindu women forced to remove sindoor, read namaz: Horror engulfs Hindu women in Bangladesh camps"..."We Are City Heroes To Safeguard Our Metropolis"..."Creativity of mother to protect her young baby from foxes- A deer mother tales" - Khin Maung Phone Ko.....SUNDAY COMICS: "ha ha" - Htoo..."People will be People" - Maung Shwe Win..."Sunday Jokes" - Maung Maung Aung
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-10-01
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: More Muslim villagers emigrate to Bangladesh of their own accord...Attacks meant to harm sovereignty: MNHRC member...Coordination body for Rule of Law and Justice holds 4th meeting ...10,000 acres earmarked for fish breeding in Yangon Region...Yangon?s suburb needs more tube-wells for drinking water...MoHT to issue certificates to local pilgrimage tour operators...Dried tea leaves sell well in Lashio prior to Thindingyut Lighting Festival...Domestic gold price hovering above Ks930,000 these days...Mangroves for the Future holds 14th Regional Steering Committee Meeting...Coconut price falls in Mawlamyinegyun Township...Commodities and Monetary Aids Provided to Displaced People in Sittway...Donation for Myanmar-Bangladesh border fence...Myanmar defeats the Philippines 5-0 in AFC U-16 qualification.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: World Bank Regional Vice President calls on Union Minister...Myanmar to celebrate World Tourism Day on 9 October...Export value shows increase of US$1.1 billion in past six months...More than US$4.3 billion of FDI flows into Myanmar in six months...Mango exports decline due to bad weather...Thura U Shwe Mann receives Qatar Ambassador...Investment, trade with Indonesian entrepreneurs discussed....."OPINION": "We must respond to any false allegations with patience and truth" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Rakhine Crisis and Myanmar Economy" - Khin Maung Nyo
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-09-30
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: ARSA attacks displaced 30,200...Bridges destroyed by ARSA terrorists repaired...ASEM Senior Officials? Meeting and related Meetings continue...Gov?t officials meet locals in Maungtaw... Meeting to support and assist Rakhine State...More than 3,000 ancient monuments inventoried in Bagan ...MCRB releases antidiscrimination briefing paper...Technology, trained workers needed in fishery sector...Home-made mines found in Taunggyi...Festival in honour of Democracy Day presents special film in 3-D.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Modi wraps up trip...U Win Myint meets Chinese officials, visits Tooth Relic Temple...Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention to be held in Yangon...Myanmar coffee exports are increasingly popular...Myanmar and Bangladesh signs MoU to export 300,000 tons of rice...ASEAN ?The Legacy Award” conferred on KBZ?s Chairman...Thailand-Myanmar trade worth US$1 billion this FY...Local, foreign independent journalists report from Maungtaw...New coaches for circular train to arrive in 2020...MFF negotiates Myanmar -Kyrgyzstan match to be played in Thailand....."OPINION": "Deepening Myanmar?India Friendship" - Maw Lin.....ARTICLE: "On International Literacy Day, 2017, Remember that Literacy is the first priority" - Maung Mye Moe
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-09-08
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: 45 Hindu corpses cremated...11th World Rabies Day ceremony...UEC rejects by-election complaint in Pyithu Hluttaw race...Vice President U Myint Swe attends meeting to organize Kahtina ceremony...MNHRC members meet two societies...Healing the Country, Moving Forward in Peace, Justice and Reconciliation...Department of Social Welfare provides aids to displaced people...Wastewater treatment plant being built at Shwepyitha Industrial Zone...Short-term fish breeding to be conducted to fulfill local consumption needs...Heroin, stimulant tablets seized...Yangon Region Investment Committee holds 3rd meeting...Auto parts, electronics expo kicks off in Yangon...Telenor marks 3rd anniversary: celebrating with most affordable voice tariff...We will perform our duties in accord with the law,putting the rule of law forward: Dr Win Myat Aye...Myanmar Inter-Faith group reacts to State Counsellor?s speech...Authorities promise to provide food, security to Muslim villagers in Buthidaung...Snub-nosed monkeys of Myanmar face extinction.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: UN, diplomats? visit to Rakhine postponed...Union Minister Dr Win Myat Aye holds talks with Danish ambassador, WFP and World Bank Country Director separately...More than 1 million tickets priced from US$0.00 to welcome Lunar New Year 2018...Swift action taken against lawbreakers after extremist terrorist attacks...Minister of State for Foreign Affairs U Kyaw Tin attends 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly and related meetings in New York....."OPINION": "We invite unbiased views and objective help for peace" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "The Role of Education in Relation to Peace Building in Myanmar" - Maung Mye Moe..."Risk of Plastic Jobs that should be Taken Care Prior to Utilization" - Advertorial
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-09-29
Date of entry/update: 2017-09-29
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Ready to render assitance...Security personnel and locals provided with cash and food Local Order issued in Yathedaung Township...All Myanmar Islamic Religious Organization strongly condemns ARSA terrorist group, urges Muslims to cooperate with authorities concerned for peace and stability...Police taking action against perpetrators in Taungdwingyi...Yangon Zoo to celebrate 64th birthday of pachyderm Mo Mo next month...Most traffic accidents occur in Yangon?s Mingaladon Township...Power production of Thakayta gas-fired power plant to launch next year...New school buildings planned in Meiktila...Real estate agents say market is good...Mining Licences for about 5,000 mining precious minerals and metals expires since April...Donations for displaced persons, fallen security members...Heartfelt voices of ethnic races heard ...Five more small airports planned to build in Chin State after Falam Airport project...Watermelon prices rise in domestic market...Municipal markets to be built in three different towns in Chin State...Ministry provides financial assistance for displaced persons...Opening ceremony of Taunggyi power station held...Computer classes star.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Police taking action against perpetrators in Taungdwingyi...Deputy Speaker U Aye Tha Aung returns from Czech Republic...Foreigners invited to take part in mountain bike race in Yangon...Export value this FY increased by US$433 million...Myanmar and Japan join hands to export rice snack..... "OPINION": "Every individual can become a grain of sand in Nation Building!" - Khin Maung Oo.....ARTICLE: "Hurricanes & Storms: Effects of Irreversible Climate Change" - San Shwe Aung
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-09-11
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Voices of displaced from Rakhine...IDPs asked to assemble at provisional camps...Village land records official absconds after being sued...Myanmar Interfaith Group meets IDPs in Sittway, Rakhine State...ASEM Senior Officials? Meeting successfully concluded...Helicopter makes emergency landing due to severe weather...Yangon parks to be beautified...Registration of persons with disabilities...Eye survey results to be issued this year...Underground electricity system to be implemented...Dried fish market cools due to lower demand...Price of low-quality rice increases...Rakhine Issue and Security Outlook talk...Humanitarian aids provided to displaced people...Donation of ten trucks to Rakhine State gov?t...ASEM FMM 13 in Myanmar...Peace Music Festival organisers and donors help orphanage school and Home For the Aged...Donor funds upgrading sanitation facilities at Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker meets Myanmar embassy families in China...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U Win Myint meets H.E. Mr. Yu Zhengsheng, Chairman of CPPCC...Thura U Shwe Mann meets EEAS Managing director Mr. Gunnar Wiegand...Union Minister Dr. Pe Myint to attend ASEAN-Japan ministerial level round table talk...State Counsellor receives Hon. Jose de Venecia of Philippines...Minister of State for Foreign Affairs attends opening ceremony of Interim Liaison Office of the Embassy of China...Myanmar to showcase natural beauty for tourism expo in Japan...China imports marine products increase...Journalists return Yangon after Maungtaw trip...Miss United Continents will welcome the International Beauty Queens....."OPINION": "People?s Consideration for Natural Environment" - Maw Lin.....ARTICLE: "DIY Powerwalls and power plant houses: the best green innovations of the week" - Matt Mace
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-09-09
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Order for rule of law in Maungtaw...Action to be taken against incitement to violence...Provision to displaced people, security staff in Maungtaw donated by women?s affairs federation...Suspected terrorist arrested in Buthidaung...Outstanding first aid awards given at 2017 World First Aid Day...Tourist arrivals increased five-fold in Mandalay in nearly a decade...Domestic gold price on upward trend due to high global gold price...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing visits Thilawa Special Economic Zone...Car import system with slip to be abolished only after deregistration of all old vehicles.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U Win Myint returns from China...Union Attorney General receives Forum of Federation?s vice chairman...Union Minister Dr Win Myat Aye receives Turkish Ambassador...ASEAN, Japan ministers discuss countering fake news...Ginger exports through MyanmarBangladesh border declines...Myanmar?s regional trade hit US$3.43 billion in first four months of this FY...More than $2.2 billion in trade deficit this FY...Myanmar U-18 football team beats Brunei 7-0 in AFF Youth Championship...2017 states and regions men field hockey competition held..... "OPINION": "Every citizen needs to have security awareness" - Maw Lin.....ARTICLE: "Asia-Pacific Region: Gearing Up for the Next Transformation" - Christine Lagarde....."SUNDAY SPECIALS": "Sharing Culture" - Su Myat Chal..."A Foray to Inya Lake" - Maung Maung Aye..."Basic English Grammar for Basic Students" - Lesson 18: Verbs — Tenses(1) ..."Some different attitudes and opinions of different stakeholders in Education" - Dr. Nu Nu Win ..."Thara Saw Hti" - Khin Zar Li..."Demo Yatkwet" - Khin Zar Li..."You had better go back home when peace and stability come!: Alodawpyae Sayadaw Dr Bhaddanta Ariya Vamsa" - y Min Thit (MNA) and Aye Min Thu..."A little monkey ridding on a crocodile and crosses the stream" - Khin Maung Phone Ko..... "SUNDAY COMICS": "Mi Chuu" - Htoo..."People will be People" - Maung Shwe Win..."Sunday Jokes" - Maung Maung Aung
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-09-10
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: ASEM Senior Officials? meeting and related meetings held...2nd visit to Maungtaw made by journalists ...Statement on Peace, Stability and Rule of Law...Safety, welfare, healthcare of displaced civilians discussed...Food and clothing supplied to displaced civilians...Press conference on situation in Rakhine...New dolphin born in conservation area...Illegal timber discovered during vehicle search...Yangon Region to refer companies to DICA for investigation...Erratic weather hurts mango exports...Well-wishers donate Ks80 Million, 600 bags of rice...ARSA extremists burndown houses in Maungtaw.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Terrorism won?t thrive, Myanmar, India pledge...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker visits Shanghai...Curriculum at 14 textile schools to be revamped...Tourists cruise Chindwin River...YSX preparing to launch online trading platform...Sino-Myanmar trade value shows decline of US$137 million in five months...India-Myanmar Joint Statement Issued on the Occasion of the State Visit of Prime Minister of India to Myanmar (5-7 September, 2017)...India PM visits Bagan and meets Indians in Myanmar...Myanmar U-16 football team in Thailand....."OPINION": "Much Cherished Myanmar Golden Teak, A Nation?s Pride" - Maw Lin.....ARTICLE: "Myanmar-India Interactions in the context of dynamic international environment" - Professor Chaw Chaw Sein
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-09-07
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: ARSA burns down villages... More hacking of government websites ...SWRR Ministry accepts donations for displaced people...Myanmar Red Cross Society provides aids to people in northern Rakhine...Ethnics fleeing from terrorist attacks arrive in MraukU...About 3,000 avoiding terrorism put in 17 temporary camps in Sittway...Rice transporters avoid flooded roads with Ayeyawady River route...Aid airlifted to northern Rakhine...Pig feed consumption grows this year...The Government of Myanmar will ensure the effective provision of humanitarian assistance to all inhabitants displaced by terrorist attacks in Rakhine State...Government forces clash with ARSA extremist terrorists...Rakhine State Gov?t pledges greater support to displaced Maungtaw residents...MNHRC welcomes dropping charges against journalists by Tatmadaw...Regions and States chinlone competition 2017 holds in Nay Pyi Taw..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: State Counsellor, Indonesian FM hold talk over issue in Rakhine State...Myanmar parliamentary delegation visits China...VP U Myint Swe receives China?s Special Envoy of Asian Affairs...More than 10,000 tourists visit Myanmar via Tachilek this FY...India starts exporting diesel to Myanmar...China accounts for 95 per cent of Myanmar?s fruit exports...Commerce Ministry urges food producers to limit pesticide residue for European exports...Myanmar to pursue pulses deal with India?s Modi...Union Minister for the Office of the State Counsellor hosted a working lunch to the visiting Indonesian Foreign Minister...Senior General Min Aung Hlaing receives Indonesia FM Mrs. Retno LP Marsudi...New species discovered along China-Myanmar border...Myanmar-Kyrgyzstan AFC Asian Cup 2019 Qualifier called off....."OPINION": "Human Beings and Religion" - Khin Maung Oo .....ARTICLE: " Full moon of Tawthalin, Garudhamma Sutta Day" - Maha Saddhamma Jotika Dhaja, Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-09-05
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Description: DOMESTIC NEWS: Water resources committee holds coordination meeting... Search on for Tatmadaw G-4 jet trainer lost during flight...Officials disburse aid to displaced people in Maungtaw...Passengers suggest better train services...12-wheel vehicle accident on Asia road in Myawady...Real estate market still cool in Dala Tsp...Illegal timber seized in Gwa Township, Rakhine State...Col. Phone Tint encourages returning teachers and local ethnics in Rakhine State...Myanmar Writers Association condemns ARSA terrorist acts...Humanitarian aid provided to displaced people without segregation...Myanmar pulses market examined......"Lat Khat Than" exhibition kicks off in Yangon.....EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Red carpet welcome for Indian PM...Pyithu Hluttaw Deputy Speaker receives UNICEF Representative...Pyithu Hluttaw Deputy Speaker receives UNICEF Representative...Furniture Expo coming to Yangon ... Manufacturing exports worth US$2.4 billion this FY, up $509 million...Trade value over sea routes US$9.3billion this FY...YSX value increased in August...Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker meets Shanghai National People?s Congress Standing Committee Vice Chairperson...Indonesian Foreign Minister departs Yangon...State Counsellor discusses issue of Rakhine State with President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey...Peace process to be implemented following NCA path: Senior General...Independent journalists to visit Maungtaw...Myanmar defeated by Indonesia in opening match....."OPINION": "Power of Resolution" - Maw Lin .....ARTICLE: "Helping Wild Elephants Where They Roam" - Peter Leimgruber, John McEvoy, Melissa Songer, Aung N. Chan, Christie Sampson, Aung Myo Chit, Christy Williams, Paing Soe, Mark Grindley, Naymyo Shwe, La Minn Yinyi, Zaw Min Oo, U Chay, and the Mahout tracking team
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar
2017-09-06
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