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 Senior
General Than Shwe calls on General Secretary of Central
Committee of Communist Party of SRV
Yangon, 18 March — Chairman
of the State Peace and Development Council Senior General Than
Shwe met with General Secretary of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Vietnam Mr Nong Duc Manh at the hall of the
headquarters of the central committee at 10.30 am yesterday.
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 Senior
General Than Shwe visits Hanel Co in Sai Dong Industrial Zone
Yangon, 18
March—Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Senior
General Than Shwe and party, accompanied by Chairman of the
Presidential Office Mr Nguyen Van Chien and officials, arrived
at Hanel Co in Sai Dong Industrial Zone yesterday.
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 Efforts
required for domestic media
network to reach remote border areas; TV Myanmar and Myawady TV
to beam programmes to areas beyond dailies’ range
Yangon, 18 March — The
Working Committee for Progress of Border Areas and National
Races held its 2/2003 meeting at Zeyathiri Beikman Hall,
Konmyinttha, here, yesterday,
 Self-reliant
roads opened in North Okkalapa Township
Yangon, 18
March — As a gesture of hailing the 58th Anniversary Armed
Forces Day, self-reliant tarred roads were put into service in
Shwepaukkan, North Okkalapa Township in Yangon East District
this morning.
GIS
applications course opened
Yangon, 18
March — The GIS applications training course, jointly sponsored
by the Settlement and Land Records Department of the Ministry of
Agriculture & Irrigation and UNESCAP, was opened with ceremony
at the branch office of the department here yesterday.
Book
Fair to be opened
Yangon, 18
March — As a gesture of hailing the 58th Anniversary Armed
Forces Day which falls on 27 March 2003, a book fair organized
by Sarpay Beikman of Printing and Publishing Enterprise,
Ministry of Information, is to be opened on the first floor of
the Central Press of the enterprise at No 228, Theinbyu road
from 21 to 30 March.
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 Lt-Gen
Khin Maung Than addresses opening of course on breeding of
hybrid broilers
Yangon, 18
March — The course on breeding of hybrid broilers, organized by
Livestock, Feedstuff and Dairy Products Enterprise of the
Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, was opened at the meeting
hall of LFDPE (Head Office) this morning.
 Jade
lots
fetch over
US$ 1.5 M
Yangon, 18 March — Chairman
of Central Committee for Holding the Myanma Gems Emporium Deputy
Minister for Mines U Myint Thein visited the 40th Myanma Gems
Emporium at the Myanma Gems Emporium Hall on Kaba Aye Pagoda
Road here this morning.
Roads to be closed temporarily during parade drills
Yangon, 18
March — The parade columns for the 58th Anniversary Armed Forces
Day Parade will practise the parade drills marching from the
Myoma Grounds to the Resistance Park, and from the latter to the
former as well.
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International Relations
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 Secretary-2
Lt-Gen Soe Win visits
farm machinery factory in Vietnam
Yangon, 18
March — Secretary-2 of the State Peace and Development Council
Lt-Gen Soe Win, visited a farm machinery factory in Thanh Tri
District, Hanoi, at 2 pm on 16 March.
Bangladeshi guest calls on Ministers
Yangon, 18
March — Home Secretary of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh Mr
Muhammad Omar Faroog called on Minister for Home Affairs Col Tin
Hlaing at the latter's office at 9 am today.
Information Minister receive guests
Yangon, 18
March — Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan received Mr
Koji Chino, producer and director of “Thway” film, and party of
Japan at his office at 2.45 pm today.
F &
R Minister greets Malaysian university students
Yangon, 18 March — Minister
for Finance and Revenue Maj-Gen Hla Tun greeted the students of
Camberson University Business Management Department of Malaysia
visiting here on a study tour of the Central Bank of Myanmar at
the central bank this morning.
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Curriculum Vitae of Begum Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of the
People’s Republic of Bangladesh
Yangon, 18
March —Begum Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of the Government of
the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, was born on 15 August 1945.
 Minister
U
Win Aung leaves for Malaysia
Yangon, 18 March — Minister
for Foreign Affairs U Win Aung left here for Malaysia by air
this afternoon to participate in the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’
Informal Meeting to be held on 18-20 March 2003 in Kota Kinabalu
Sabah, Malaysia.
H&T
Minister receives guests
Yangon, 18 March — Minister
for Hotels and Tourism Brig-Gen Thein Zaw received Director Mr
Lertsak Nopburanand of LP Holding Co Ltd at 1 pm, President Mr
Yasuhiro Matsuda and party of Myanmar Innwa Co Ltd at 2 pm,
President Mr Hiroyuki Suzki and party of INDEX, World Wide, at
2.45 pm and President Mr Toh, Jin-Gyu of MTT Co Ltd, Republic of
Korea, at 3.30 pm at his office today.
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Seminar on ICT Awards Competitions held
Yangon, 18 March — A seminar
on the competition for the second Myanmar National ICT Awards to
be organized by the Myanmar Computer Federation, and the
competition for the Asia Pacific International ICT Awards to be
held in Australia from 24 to 26 September, took place at the
Myanmar Information and Communication Technology Park in Hlaing
Township yesterday.
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25th
ISD Golf Tourney opened
Yangon, 18
March — Under the arrangement of the Sports and Physical
Education Department and Myanmar Golf Federation, and sponsored
by Isuzu Mortor Ltd, Japan, the 25th Inter-State and Division
Golf Tournament, opened this morning at Yangon Golf Club,
Danyingon, here.
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Myanmar CP Inter Club Tennis Tournament to be held
Yangon, 18
March — As a gesture of hailing the 58th Anniversary Armed
Forces Day, the Myanmar CP Co Ltd sponsored a Myanmar CP Inter
Club Tennis Tournament, which will be held at Theinbyu Tennis
Court from 22 to 28 March.
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