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Foreign Heads of State/Government send felicitations to Senior General Than Shwe
Yangon, 9 Jan - The following are the messages of felicitations from foreign Heads of State/Government sent to Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council and Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar, on the occasion of the 55th Anniversary Independence Day of the Union of Myanmar.
 Yangon Consumer Products Expo 2003 opened
Yangon, 9 Jan
- With the permission of the Ministry of Commerce, a ceremony to open Yangon Consumer Products Expo 2003, organized by Dragon Exhibition Ltd, took place at Yangon Trade Centre in Mingala Taungnyunt
Township this morning.
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 Management Committee for Organizing 56th Anniversary Union Day meets
Yangon, 9 Jan
- The Management Committee for Organizing the 56th Anniversary Union Day held the first coordination meeting at the Pyithu Hluttaw Building on Pyay Road at 1 pm today.
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Minister receives
guests
Yangon, 9 Jan -
Minister for Commerce Brig-Gen Pyi Sone received Mr Stuart
Broad, Purchase Director of Ruskim Seafoods Co Ltd of the United
Kingdoms.
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Myanmar will have better opportunity to penetrate AFTA
Yangon, 9 Jan - Myanmar
exports will have better opportunity to penetrate the markets of
the six original ASEAN countries at zero tariff, as it has been
permitted to enter the ASEAN Free Trade Area five years later
than the six countries, stated the National AFTA Unit today.
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Union of Myanmar
State Peace and Development Council
Notification No 2/2003
2nd Waxing of Pyatho 1364 ME
(Continued from 9
January 2003)
 H & T Minister inspects warehouses
Yangon, 9 Jan
- Minister for Hotels and Tourism Brig-Gen Thein Zaw, arrived at Beverage Division's warehouse and vehicles division of Myanmar Hotels and Tourism Services in Botahtaung Township yesterday afternoon.
 Commander attends School Family Day in Sagaing
Yangon,
9 Jan - The Sagaing Division School Family Day for the academic
year 2002-2003 was held at No 2 Basic Education High School in
Sagaing on 3 January morning.
Cornerstones laid for two-storey monastic
building
Yangon,
9 Jan
- Shan State
(East) Peace and Development Council Chairman Triangle Region
Command Commander Brig-Gen Khin Zaw attended the ceremony to lay
corner stones of a new building for Sila Dhamma Kontha Tawya in
Kengtung held at the construction site on 4 January morning.
Rules of 58th Anniversary Armed Forces Day painting, sculpture
competitions announced
Yangon,
9 Jan — As a gesture of hailing the 58th Anniversary Armed
Forces Day, which falls on 27 March 2003.
 Development
tasks in Nyaungshwe inspected
Yangon, 9 Jan - Chairman of
Shan State Peace and Development Council Commander of Eastern
Command Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint attended the ceremony to put
back into service Phaungdawbyan gravel road in Nyaungshwe on 2
January noon.
 Cooperative
Products Exhibition and Market Festival continues
Yangon,
9 Jan - The Cooperative Products Exhibition and Market Festival
2003, organized by the Ministry of Cooperatives, continued for
the third day today .
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 Minister inspects health facilities in
Magway Division
Yangon, 9 Jan
- Minister for Health Maj-Gen Ket Sein inspected progress in construction of Institute of Medicine (Magway) Project in Magway on 8 January.
A meeting on TV programmes held
Yangon, 9 Jan - Deputy
Minister for Information Brig-Gen Aung Thein delivered an
address at the coordination meeting to show good Myanmar movies
and videos in the TV Myanmar programmes at the meeting hall of
Myanma Radio and Television today.
 Pathein
Education College opens teacher training course
Yangon, 9 Jan - An
opening ceremony of the teacher training course of Pathein
Education College was held at the college yesterday morning.
Entries
invited to 58th Anniversary Armed Forces Day Commemorative Photo
Competition
Yangon,
9 Jan - The 58th Anniversary Armed Forces Day Commemorative
Literary and Photo Competition Organizing Work Committee has
already announced that it will hold the photo competition.
Rural water supply inaugurated in Muse
Yangon,
9 Jan - As a gesture of hailing the 55th Anniversary
Independence Day,ceremony to inaugurate the water supply project
conducted by Muse Township Development Affairs Committee in
Nammati village took place in the village on 28 December.
Independence Day Exhibition continues
Yangon, 9 Jan
- The 55th Anniversary Independence Day Exhibition continued at the Tatmadaw Convention Hall on U Wisara Road in Dagon Township from 9 am to 5 pm today.
 National
races from Taninthayi Division tour Yangon
Yangon, 9 January - Under
the arrangement of the Work Committee for Development of Border
Areas and National Races, national races from Myitta
Taungthonlon Region in Dawei Township, Taninthayi Division .
News from the Districts
-Student sports competition
in Taninthayi
-Trade fair and market festival to be held in Mawlamyine
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 Minister
opens high-class tenniscourt in Muse
Yangon,
9 Jan - Myanmar Olympic Committee
Chairman Minister for Sports Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint made a
speech at the opening ceremony of the high-class tennis court in
Muse, Shan State (North) on 7 January.
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MGF President's Trophy Golf Tournament continues
Yangon, 9 Jan
- The second day events of Myanmar Professional Golfers Association and Myanmar Golf Federation President's Trophy 2002-2003 men's and women's golf tournaments jointly organized by Myanmar Professional Golfers Association and MGF and sponsored by Rothmans of Pall Mall Myanmar Pte Ltd, continued at Hanthawaddy Golf and Country Club in Bago Township at 8 am today.
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Heroin 850 gms
seized in Muse
Yangon,
9 Jan - A combined team comprising members of the local
intelligence unit and Muse Special Anti-Drug Squad, acting on
information, searched a bus with number plate 9Ka/6581 near
Namhu Village on Kyukok-Pangsang-Monekoe Road at 6 pm on 11
December 2002.
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Stimulant pills seized in Lashio
Yangon,
9 Jan - A combined team comprising members of the local
intelligence unit and Myanmar Police Force, acting on
information, stopped and searched a motorbike with number plates
1Ya/61392 and seized 80,000 stimulant tablets .
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