|
Headlines
|
|
Regional News |
|
Senior General
Than Shwe and
 wife
Daw Kyaing Kyaing and party tour Vientiane, Pakse in Lao PDR
YANGON, 9 May - Chairman of
the State Peace and Development Council Senior General Than Shwe and wife
Daw Kyaing Kyaing laid the wreath at the Monument for Unknown Soldiers in
Vientiane at 8.30 am on 6 May.
|
|
Daw
Kyaing Kyaing visits
 handicraft
industries in Vientiane
YANGON, 9 May -
Daw Kyaing Kyaing, wife of Chairman of the State Peace and
Development Council Senior General Than Shwe, accompanied by Dr
Daw Khin Win Shwe, wife of Secretary-1 of the State Peace and
Development Council General Khin Nyunt, Daw San Yon, wife of the
Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Madame Naly Sisoulith, wife of
the Deputy Prime Minister of the Lao People's Democratic
Republic, visited the Headquarters of the Lao Women's Union in
Vientiane on 5 May afternoon.
|
|
Regional News |
|
Region
|
|
Regional News |
Education
Promotion Seminar 2003
 opens
YANGON, 9 May - Chairman of Myanmar Education
Committee Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council General
Khin Nyunt addressed the National Education Promotion Seminar 2003 of the
basic education sector today.
Gonbo Bridge
opened in Gangaw District
YANGON, 9 May - The ceremony
to open Gonbo Bridge on Sakku-Pauk-Kyaukhtu-Kangyi-Mindat Road in Kyaukhtu
Township, Gangaw District, was held at the pandal near the bridge on 8 May
morning.
Prize-winning industrialists honoured
YANGON, 9 May - Myanmar
Industries Association honoured the industrialists who won prizes in Myanma
Industrial Exhibition-2003 at the MICT Park in Hline Township this evening.
|
|
Myanma Auto Exhibition 2003
 opens
YANGON, 9 May -
Myanma Auto Exhibition 2003 was opened on Kyaikkasan Grounds
here at 9.30 am today, attended by Secretary-1 of the State
Peace and Development Council General Khin Nyunt.
Minister inspects branches of MEB
YANGON, 9 May -
Minister for Finance and Revenue Maj-Gen Hla Tun, accompanied by
the Governor of Central Bank of Myanmar and officials, inspected
banking services at No 2 Branch of Myanma Economic Bank at the
corner of Pansodan and Bank streets at 2 pm today.
|
|
Regional News |
|
Health
|
|
Regional News |
|
 Talks
on SARS held
YANGON, 9 May -
Talks on SARS jointly organized by Ministry of Social Welfare,
Relief and Resettlement and Myanmar National Committee for
Women's Affairs was held at Thida hall of Fire Brigade
Department on Oakponseik Street, Mayangon Township this morning.
|
|
Regional News |
|
Religion
|
|
Regional News |
|
Donations
invited to renovation of Shwephonepwint Pagoda
YANGON, 9 May - The third all-round renovation
of Settawya prayer hall and Mula Koehsu prayer hall for peaceful and
convenient obeisance of pilgrims to Shwephonepwint Pagoda in Pazundaung
Township are being carried out.
|
|
Bodh
Gaya Sayadaw leaves
YANGON, 9 May -
Paradesi Sangha Nayaka Commitee Chairman Sayadaw Agga Maha
Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Bhaddanta Ņaninda (Bodh Gaya Sayadaw) of
India left here by air this afternoon after managing religious
affairs.
|
|
Regional News |
|
Drug
|
|
Regional News |
|
Drug dealers
sentenced
YANGON, 9 May- A combined
team comprising members of Local Intelligence Unit and Mandalay Special
Anti-Drug Squad, acting on information, searched the house of Daw Kot (a)
Daw Ye Myint, No 38, 14 Htonebo, Yetkwatkyi (1) in PyinOoLwin and seized Ma
Shoung Hua together with 5,600 stimulants tablets bearing WY and R at 1.15
pm on 26-10-2002.
|
|
Regional News |
 |
|
