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For Floriculture to Flourish in Myanmar
18/08/19
RECENTLY I happened to watch on MNTV, a program about “growing” Lily flowers on a commercial scale by a film academy award winning actor. I was very pleased with the program because I had all along advocated, higher investments in the “Green Investment Opportunities” of Horticulture (which includes Floriculture) together with Agriculture, and Aquaculture, to further enhance these Sectors’ contribution to the economic development of Myanmar.
Vice President U Henry Van Thio inspects gas-fired power plants, steel factory in Myingyan
18/08/19
Vice President U Henry Van Thio who was in Mandalay, inspected a 225 MW natural gas and waste heat power station, a 90 MW natural gas power station and No. 1 Steel Factory in Myingyan Township.
State Counsellor attends opening ceremony of ASEAN Food Festival 2019 in Mandalay
18/08/19
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi attended the opening ceremony of the ASEAN Food Festival 2019 held at the Mandalay Convention Centre and launched the event by cutting a ceremonial ribbon.
It is time to address non-communicable diseases
18/08/19
18 August
A MEMBER of parliament submitted a motion in August stating, to quote the Health and Sports Ministry’s reports, that there were 3 million inpatients, 12 million outpatients and 760,000 surgeries performed for kidney, liver transplants and heart surgeries in the past three years.
Sagaing timber logging remains lower than permitted volume
18/08/19
SAGAING Region is logging timber lower than its annually permitted volume, said U Than Soe, the Director of the Sagaing Region Forest Department.
Cambodia’s JC International Airlines’ Phnom Penh-Yangon inaugural flight takes off
18/08/19
YANGON International Airport (“YIA”), Myanmar’s busiest inter-national airport, now directly connects Yangon with Phnom Penh, operated by the JC (Cambodia) International Airlines starting from today.
Manchester Metropolitan University showcases master-class Fintech and AI expertise at UMFCCI-hosted seminar
18/08/19
MANCHESTER Metropolitan University (Manchester Met), one of Europe’s largest universities, has given a talk on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a master-class Finan-cial Technology (FinTech) course at a seminar hosted by Union of Myanmar Feder-ation of Chambers of Com-merce and industry (UMFC-CI) in Yangon on Wednesday, 14 August, 2019.
Development tasks benefit local people inKachin State
18/08/19
ABRIDGE crossing the Nantmyitkha Creek in Waingmaw Township, Kachin State was built by the Bridge Construction Group No-1 un-der the Ministry of Construc-tion. The 260 ft long old bridge between mileposts 480/7 and 481/0 on the Mandalay-Lash-io-Bhamo-Myitkyina Road was replaced with new structure as local people, pedestrians and ve-hicles suffered traffic congestion and experienced travel delays. The Ministry of Construction de-cided to build a new bridge over the creek with the funds from the local government.
Border trade tops $8.9 bln
18/08/19
18 August
Trade between Myanmar and its four neighbour-ing countries has reached US$8.9 billion as of 9 Au-gust, this financial year, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
Locals informed not to worry on overflow from Kyi Ohn Gyi Wa Dam spillway
18/08/19
ACCORDING to Pwintbyu Town-ship Irrigation and Water Utili-sation Department water over flowing above the Kyi Ohn Gyi Wa Dam spillway was found to be 5 ft. 8 inches at 6 am on 17 August and this was not an amount to be concerned for.
