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Viet Nam-Myanmar trade fair opens in Yangon

At the four-day event, 52 Vietnamese businesses are displaying products such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, foodstuffs, garments, footwear, electronics, stationery, household utensils, construction materials, fertilisers, rubber and furniture.Meanwhile, 10 companies from the host country are exhibiting fisheries products, consumer goods, traditional handicrafts and pictures made from gems.Viet Nam...

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Myanmar biggest hydropower plant to be put on test run

The construction of Myanmar's biggest hydropower plant, Yeywa, is nearing completion and the test run on one of the turbines of the plant will be launched during next month, the local weekly Voice reported Sunday. The construction of the dam on the Myitnge River involved a number of Chinese companies on contracts signed with the Myanmar side since 2004. The project costs over 600 million U.S. dollars...

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Myanmar, Laos sign two MoUs on visa exemption, double taxation avoidance

Myanmar and Laos Friday signed two memorandums of understanding in Nay Pyi Taw respectively on mutualvisa exemption for holders of diplomatic passport and avoidance of double taxation, the state-run Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV)reported in a night broadcast. The signing came shortly after Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith met with Myanmar Prime Minister General...

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Myanmar, Laos sign travel and tax treaties

Yangon - Myanmar and Laos strengthened relations with the signing of visa-exemption treaty for their respective citizens and a double-taxation avoidance agreement, state media reported Saturday. The two agreements were signed Friday in the military's...

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Jail term extended for 2007 activist

An activist whose group played a key role in sparking the September 2007 monk-led uprising in Burma has had his 10-year prison sentence extended by eight years, sources close to his family said. Kan Myint, who spent four years in prison in the early 1990’s, was an active member of the commodity protester group, Myanmar Development Committee, whose protests against the sudden hike in fuel prices...

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Talks necessary for maritime boundary demarcation

Staff Reporter Speakers yesterday said that bilateral and multilateral negotiations is very important to find solution to the problem of national issues like maritime boundaries, demarcation of boarder, Asian highway with neighbouring countries. Addressing a dialogue on "Bangladesh's Maritime Boundary Concerns, Regional Tensions and the Centre Myanmar Faction" organized by Neeti Gobeshona...

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Meeting the Fajar generation

It is quite something to be in a room full of white-haired men and women, to watch them all greeting each other like the old friends that they were, and to realise: These were the ones who showed up. These were the ones who were lithe and eager young Malayans 50 years ago, who thought and talked about politics and showed up for meetings and rallies, in an age before cell phones or Facebook or the Public...

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Reading the classics in ... Burma

In The Myanmar Times Zon Pann Pwint reports that English classics gathering dust not fans in Burma ('Myanmar'). As U Khin Maung Sein of the Zaw bookshop says: "There is not much of a market for classic literature books. Very few avid readers now take an interest in classics of Western literature; books by Albert Camus, James Joyce and John-Paul Sartre, which were snapped up within three days...

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Learning Old Lessons

Barack Obama is back from Asia and his bow to the Japanese, his handshake with the tyrant from Myanmar and his difficult sessions with the Chinese. There sure has been a lot of talk about the president and his submissiveness in Asia. But though our historical memories are full of Commodore Perry and the opening of Japan, John Hay and the Open Door in China, and Lyndon Johnson and the open-ended war...

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[G] Uniting for a cause

Google LatLong : Uniting for a cause At an event organized jointly by the United Nations and Google at Google's office in New York, 80 United Nations delegates from more than 20 UN agencies, met with various Google product teams to explore how Google's wide array of products and services can further the UN mission and help foster innovation and new thinking. Google's Alfred Spector and the U.N.'s Choi...

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Uniting for a cause

At an event organized jointly by the United Nations and Google at Google's office in New York, 80 United Nations delegates from more than 20 UN agencies, met with various Google product teams to explore how Google's wide array of products and services can further the UN mission and help foster innovation and new thinking. Google's Alfred Spector and the U.N.'s Choi Soon-hong , the first Chief Information...

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Corruption index 2009: ASEAN country rankings

How did ASEAN countries rank on Transparency International's Corruption Index this year? The top ten least corrupt are the Nordic countries , plus New Zealand (#1), Canada, and Australia. (Netherlands isn't exactly Nordic, but it comes in at #6. Singapore (#3) is perceived as the least corrupt country in all of Asia. Brunei (#39) is perceived as being no more corrupt than South Korea. Malaysia (#56)...

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Islamic countries lobbying for treaty against religious defamation: report

[JURIST] The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has begun lobbying for the UN General Assembly to pass an international treaty protecting religious beliefs and symbols from defamation, according to an AP report Friday. The efforts of the OIC are being led by Pakistan and Algeria with full support of the organization's 54 remaining members. The proposal is strongly opposed by western countries...

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The well-wedded sculpture and poetry of Mark Behme and JoAnne Growney, by Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)

A few months ago I went to a sculpture exhibit by Mark Behme, combined with a poetry reading by JoAnne Growney, at the Friendship Heights Village Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where it seemed to me the poetry and the sculpture went together very well, as my father used to say about lyrics that were “wedded” to the music. At the same time both the sculpture and the poetry were strong...

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First climate change info center to be opened in Myanmar

An information center related to climate change will be opened in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon at the end of this month to serve as a base for planning preventive measures against climate change and disasters, sources with the Meteorology and Hydrology Department said on Thursday. The information center, set up at the Kyogone Forestry Directorate in Insein Township, will provide update news about...