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A bank employee counts Vietnamese dong notes at a branch in Hanoi in November 2009. Pic: AFP not just a matter of issuing (and removing) laws and regulations but also of building the institutions that make such paper meaningful: a Central Bank; Auditor General; Government Inspectorate; commercial and arbitration courts; judiciary; professional associations; research institutes and universities; and many more. Another lesson from Vietnam is that reform is a continuous process of issuing, reviewing, amending and removing policies and one that requires much effort and government capacity. In the 1980s, the Vietnamese government structure was top-heavy and cumbersome. Many small matters could only be decided at the highest levels. That was fine when not much was changing for example, when there were few foreign investors but during the 1990s it was clearly a bottleneck to progress. Since then, a process of decentralistion and administrative reform has tried to keep pace with the demands of a modern and competitive market economy. The government of Myanmar will face the same challenge; the faster it can decentralise authority across the board, the faster it can benefit its own people. Vietnam has made mistakes as well and there are negative lessons to learn. Establishing stateowned product-specific monopoly corporations was a very different approach to Japan and South Korea, where private corporations were encouraged to compete against each other for export markets. Vietnam has also not handed over macroeconomic policy management to technical experts, such as a truly independent central bank, so great confusion persists about appropriate policy instruments and targets. Further, Vietnam has been slow to liberalise and make competitive its financial sector. Yet these negatives are outweighed by the positives that enabled Vietnam to achieve middleincome country status in 2011 with a reported poverty rate of 12pc in 2009. In subsequent articles in this series I will choose particular aspects of the Vietnamese reform experience, explain them, and relate them to contemporary Myanmar. I have chosen topics of importance, but also of relevance to donor organisations, who will be planning many new interventions read projects with the government this year. These topics include microfinance, integrated rural development, promoting private sector development, and trade liberalisation. Myanmar has a broad and comprehensive policy reform agenda ahead of it, yet it is neither alone nor unique. The experience of other countries, like Vietnam, can give guidance both good and bad. (Dr Adam McCarty is an Australian economist who has been living and working in Vietnam since 1991 as a university lecturer and consultant, conducting policy research and project evaluations for donor agencies. In 2001, he established Mekong Economics Ltd, where he is chief economist, and his work a across the Mekong region has covered microfinance, state enterprise reform, rural development impact evaluations, trade policy, aid effectiveness, and the education sector.)
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By Shwe Yinn Mar Oo NEWLY established Myanmar National Congress will field three candidates in the April 1 by-elections, its chairman said last week. U Kaung Myint Htut, who ran as an independent candidate in November 2010, losing to former Yangon mayor U Aung Thein Linn in South Okkalapa, will contest the Pyithu Hluttaw seat of Mingalar Taung Nyunt against candidates from the National League for Democracy, Democratic Party (Myanmar), Union Solidarity and Development Party and National Unity Party. The party is also fielding candidates in Mayangone and Dagon Seikkan, U Kaung Myint Htut said at a ceremony to open the partys head office, in Mingalar Taung Nyunt township, on February 26. The candidates have already started campaigning but we want to make public meeting. This is not only for attracting votes, but also to raise the peoples awareness about politics, he said. THE Ministry of Health is aiming to inoculate about 6.4 million children aged nine months to five years as part of a mass measles immunisation campaign, an official said last week. Dr Aye Ko, health director of the Department of Health for Yangon Region, said at a measles campaign advisory meeting on February 28 that the national campaign would target all children, regardless of their vaccination history. The campaign will take place from March 22 to 31 and is the first since 2007. It will be conducted by the Ministry of Health with funding from the United Nations Childrens Fund and the World Health Organisation and assistance from American Red Cross and the UN Foundation. Dr Aye Ko said the national campaign was important for those who might normally miss out on vaccination, such as children in remote areas. The vaccination campaign is conducted because the measles cases were detected again in Myanmar during 2011, he said, adding that there were 1774 confirmed cases of measles last year. Yamon Phu Thit
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Stability of the State, community peace and tranquillity, prevalence of law and order Strengthening of national solidarity Building and strengthening of disciplineflourishing democracy system Building of a new modern developed nation in accord with the Constitution
Building of modern industrialized nation through the agricultural development, and all-round development of other sectors of the economy Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system Development of the economy inviting participation in terms of technical know-how and investment from sources inside the country and abroad initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in the hands The of the State and the national peoples
Uplift of the morale and morality of the entire nation of national prestige and integrity and preservation Uplift and safeguarding of cultural heritage and national character Flourishing of Union Spirit, the true patriotism Uplift of health, fitness and education standards of the entire nation
Min Ko Naing (centre) and other 88 Generation student leaders arrive at Mandalay Airport on February 25. Pic: Si Thu Lwin
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important than their status. All we do is prevent the government from [incorrectly] using its power and make sure the governments activities follow the law and are in the public interest. Our activities
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NLD supporters wait for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at the Manaw ground in Myitkyina township on February 24. Pic: Shwe Yinn Mar Oo
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By Andrew RC Marshall
ar Pu Village, Shan State In Myanmars new war on drugs, meet the weapon of mass destruction: the weed-whacker. Its two-stroke engine spins a metal blade, which is more commonly deployed to tame the suburban gardens of wealthy Westerners. But today, in a remote valley in impoverished Shan State, Myanmar police armed with weed-whackers are advancing through fields of thigh-high poppies, leaving a carpet of stems in their wake. When the police are finished, their uniforms are flecked with a sticky brown sap harvested from these flowers for centuries: opium. Myanmar produced an estimated 610 tonnes in 2011, making it the worlds second-biggest opium supplier after Afghanistan, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The area under poppy cultivation has doubled in the past five years. Now, emerging from half a century of military dictatorship, Myanmar says it wants to buck that trend. Since taking power a year ago, the civilian government of President U Thein Sein has launched a series of political and economic reforms. It has also dramatically accelerated a campaign to eradicate opium poppies and shed Myanmars pariah status as one of the worlds top drug producers. Myanmar officials allowed a Reuters reporter and photographer to visit former conflict areas in remote Shan State to examine the campaign, marking the first time in decades that Western journalists were able to report freely in the region. The five-day journey with the UNODC and local police came as Myanmar appeals to foreign donors for US$500 million to finance a program it says will wean 256,000 households off poppy-growing over the next three years. Wiped out by 2014? Every year the international community spends millions of dollars [on anti-narcotics initiatives] in countries like Afghanistan and Colombia, and the outcome is not satisfactory, U Sit Aye, senior legal adviser to President U Thein Sein, said in an interview. Here, with international assistance, we guarantee to wipe out the opium problem by 2014. It is an ambitious goal. Police, soldiers and villagers armed with sticks and weed-whackers have destroyed 21,256 hectares (52,525 acres) of poppy fields since September,
more than triple the area eradicated during the previous growing season, according to Myanmars Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC). This has potentially prevented almost 30 tonnes of heroin, opiums most notorious derivative, from hitting the world market, according to calculations based on UNODC statistics. But opium had been harvested from some poppies before they were destroyed, Reuters found. And while more poppy is being destroyed, more is also being grown: the total area under cultivation will likely rise by about 10 percent between 2011 and 2012, the UNODC estimated.
the government and ethnic rebel groups including two factions of the Shan State Army have allowed poppy eradication in what were once no-go areas for the Myanmar authorities. But the ceasefires were fragile, and a poorly managed eradication campaign could cause them to unravel. Alternative crops Chopping down opium poppies is the easy part. Helping former poppygrowing families develop alternative crops and livelihoods is complicated and costly. In Afghanistan, on the other side of the Himalayas, opium production is so vast and sophisticated that it resembles a legitimate agribusiness in some areas. But in Myanmar, poppies are produced mainly by subsistence farmers who depend upon the cash opium generates to buy food. About 256,000 households are involved in opium poppy cultivation, the UNODC estimates. The opium yield from an acre (a third of a hectare) of Myanmar poppy is worth about $1000. Thats a life-saving sum of money in Myanmar, where a third of its 60 million people live on a dollar a day. The rapid elimination of opium poppy creates serious problems for these households, Eligh said. You have people who couldnt harvest their poppies, who dont have any money, having to survive for the next five or six months with almost nothing. Alternative crops cant be planted until the rains come in June or July. Weve got a very narrow window, Eligh continued. If they dont get help during that period, then there is a very real chance that theyll go back to poppy. The UNODC argues that the ceasefires create a rare opportunity for the international community to help Myanmar tackle its opium problem and, by extension, its civil war. The CCDAC is asking the international community for $524.48 million to develop alternative livelihoods for poppygrowing households. Getting it will be an uphill task. Thanks to sanctions, Myanmar receives less humanitarian aid per capita than almost any other poor country. After 1988 we were sanctioned and banned by Western countries, said Police Colonel Tin Maung Maung, the most senior operational officer in the CCDAC. We got no assistance from them. Without outside help, he said, We cannot do it. We need international support. Blessing and curse Myanmars strategic location is a blessing and a curse. As it emerges
This suggests that, with or without foreign assistance, Myanmars three-year target is unrealistic. Most opium produced in Myanmar comes from Shan State, which is part of the Golden Triangle, an area that was probably named after the gold once used to buy opium. Here, and in neighbouring Kachin State, poppies thrive not just on cooler weather and higher altitudes, but on poverty and conflict. For half a century, Myanmar has been torn apart by fighting between government forces and various ethnic rebel groups ranged along its borders, where people have endured the worst human rights abuses. The United States recently upgraded diplomatic ties with Myanmar after Hillary Clintons historic visit in November, the first by an American secretary of state since 1955. But the US and European countries regard peace with Myanmars longsuffering ethnic minorities as a key condition for lifting crippling economic sanctions. Forging a lasting peace is arguably U Thein Seins toughest challenge, and it is complicated by opium. As in Afghanistan and Colombia, the drug trade has long fuelled conflict in Myanmar, providing cash to buy weapons and a lucrative product to fight over. Opium and conflict were so intertwined that one problem could not be solved without the other, said Jason Eligh, UNODC country manager for Myanmar. The path to peace is lined with poppies, he said. We must address that. Recent peace talks between
Top: Illicit drugs valued at more than K93 billion are burned at a destruction ceremony in th on December 8, 2009. Above left: A patient huddles in a blanket at a government-run drug r Above right: Used syringes at a government-run drug rehabilitation centre in Lashio. Pics: Wi from nearly 50 years of isolation and misrule, the countrys long borders with China, India and Thailand grant access to Asias most dynamic economies. They also make it a regional hub for manufacturing and distributing narcotics. of Taunggyi, is a ribbon of blacktop unfurling through rice fields and bustling market towns. At the roadside, Buddhist novice monks in maroon robes held out bowls to solicit donations. This reporter travelled in UN vehicles sandwiched between trucks carrying armed police. Their presence was not ceremonial. Last July, outside the nearby town of Loilem, a rebel group called the Shan State Army-South ambushed a Myanmar police convoy, killing six people, reported the Shan Herald Agency for News, a news service run by Shan exiles in Thailand. Shan rebels and a government militia belonging to the Pa-O, the states secondlargest ethnic group, clashed regularly. Hostilities subsided in December after the SSASouth signed a ceasefire, but men with guns still roam this restive region. UNODC regional chief Gary Lewis described Shan State as a swirling and often toxic mix of money, guns and drugs. Cheroots, temples and garlic The Pa-O are devout Buddhists, known for growing poppies and building beautiful temples. At the village of Kyauk Ka Char, the first stop in the five-day tour of the state, the temple was the grandest structure in a community of simple wooden houses with rusting tin roofs. Inside, three giant Buddha statues smiled down upon a group of villagers waiting to greet their rare visitors: Lewis and Eligh from the UNODC, and Police Colonel Myint Aung of the CCDAC. The villagers wore turbans, in the Pa-O style, and smoked cheroots and chewed betel nut. Lewis delivered a stark message. The days of poppy
dont even Youto take the have opium to market. The market comes to you.
It shares a porous 2100kilometre frontier with China, where 2.2 million users consumed 45 tonnes of mostly Myanmar heroin in 2008, said the UNODC. Shan State is named after Myanmars largest ethnic minority. The road east from its capital, the former British colonial hill-station
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them. This years opium crop will be greatly reduced because of these tools, said Police Colonel Win Naing, Shan States chief of police. UNODC officials agreed, but cautioned that eradication wasnt the only factor influencing the seasons total production. One was bad weather. In many parts of Shan State, heavy rain had washed away poppy seeds or damaged young plants. This alone might have halved the yield before eradication began. Another factor was the total area under cultivation, which had risen by at least 10pc between 2011 and 2012, estimated the UNODC. In other words, although more poppies had been destroyed, more had also been planted. A third factor became apparent outside Kyauk Ka Char, where a poppy field the size of a soccer pitch lay strewn with stems. These were felled in a recent operation but, as tell-tale marks on their bulbs revealed, not before some of the opium was harvested. This suggested that the ongoing eradication campaign might not reduce the total yield by as much as the Myanmar authorities had hoped. The poppy-farmers of Kyauk Ka Char might have received a tip-off. More likely, the police had simply arrived too late. Since 2006, Chinas National Narcotics Control Commission has given Myanmar satellite maps to help locate and destroy poppy fields. But Shan State police said they have gotten no other international assistance, and were hampered by lack of personnel and equipment. Many fields were so remote and well-hidden that not even satellite maps were much help. Sometimes, we have a map but still cant find growing there. Thailand still produces about 5 tonnes of opium every year, despite dispatching troops on regular poppyeradication missions. This fact alone suggests that Myanmars bid to eradicate opium in just three years is fanciful. But the target of 2014 was chosen for a reason: that year, for the first time, Myanmar will mark its growing acceptance by the international community by chairing ASEAN, a position it was denied six years ago amid Western uproar over its human rights record. One potentially embarrassing UNODC survey map showed dense poppy cultivation only a few hours drive from Myanmars capital Nay Pyi Taw, where ASEAN and world leaders will gather in 2014. ASEAN has declared that its 10 member states will be drug free by 2015, an equally fanciful target considering the regions soaring use of methamphetamine. Better known in its pill form as ya ba, it is also manufactured in huge quantities in Shan State. When asked whether poppies or pills were the bigger law-enforcement challenge, Pol Col Tin Maung Maung of the CCDAC replied, Both are a great problem for us. Reuters
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price that some Pa-O villages left it to rot in the fields. Transporting these crops to market was also a problem. Poppy-growing villages such as Kyauk Ka Char are remote, with unpaved roads only passable in the dry season. By contrast, the market for opium was guaranteed and transport wasnt an issue. Most farmers grew two crops. The first, which accounted for three quarters of the annual opium yield, was planted in September or October, and harvested about three months later; then a second crop was planted. Areas with good irrigation could even plant a third. During harvest season Chinese-speaking traders on motorbikes toured the villages and paid cash for opium. You dont even have to take the crop to market, said Eligh. The market comes to you. Poppy debts Daw Moe Mohm, 48, a single mother of six daughters, had borrowed K300,000 from a Taunggyi moneylender to buy fertiliser for her poppies, which were recently destroyed. I just wanted to cry, she said. With her cash crop gone, Daw Moe Mohm couldnt repay the loan or even the interest on it a crushing 8pc a month. She had no way to grow rice until the rains came, and no cash to buy it. We know your need is great and more help is required, Lewis told her. We will act on it. On the way back to Taunggyi, Eligh called a colleague at the World Food Program and an emergency supply of rice arrived in Kyauk Ka Char less than three weeks later. More rice was bound for other villages nearby. The UNODC has three projects aimed at current and former poppy-growers in Myanmar. Located in the Shan townships of Hopong and Loilen, the projects offered a range of assistance: developing alternative crops, improving the land with irrigation and fertilisers, households involved in opium poppy production, Eligh said. When the poppy fields of War Taw, a village in Loilen township, were destroyed, the UNODC gave people tools, seeds and agricultural training. But this help was not enough to stop War Taws young men and women from leaving for Thailand, where an estimated two million Myanmar people now work, most of them illegally. With the poppies gone, that exodus could accelerate. Daw Nang Khae, a 49-yearold poppy-grower, reckoned about 60 villagers a tenth of War Taws population worked in Thailand. Her 29-year-old daughter left for Bangkok five years ago to work as a maid and never returned. Three months ago, her teenage son left too. It breaks our heart to watch them go, said Daw Nang Khae. But we had to borrow money to buy food and cant pay it back. Thats why we send our children away. Traditional medicine Poppy eradication removes not just a cash crop but, for many hill-tribes, a medicine. The villagers of Kaw Mong Pyin, an isolated village in eastern Shan State populated by ethnic Akha, regard opium as a life-saving traditional remedy. Weve used it since our ancestors time, said U Asan, 43, a poppy-grower who was raising 10 children and 20 oxen. U Asans village felt untouched by modernity. The women wore elaborate headdresses hung with coloured beads and silver coins dating back to British colonial times. Pigs slumbered beneath wooden houses with thatched roofs. When his cattle got sick, said U Asan, he fed them a mixture of ginger, garlic, salt and opium. The villagers also baked opium with garlic to treat their own diarrhoea, a life-threatening illness in remote areas. Without opium, he said, the villagers would need basic medical help for their families the nearest hospital was a five-hour walk away. We only use a little, said U Asan. Too much makes you dizzy. But another pressing health issue is opium addiction, which is rife among hill-tribes such as the Akha. Every time I go home I start smoking again, said U Abo, 49, a long-time opium smoker being treated at a government clinic in the Shan State town of Kengtung. No poppies are grown in my village, but opium is very easy to buy. Poppy proliferation The weed-whackers destroy not just fully grown poppy plants, but also a hard-to-spot second stage of seedlings which some farmers plant between
we Sometimesbut have a map still cant find the [opium] field. We just walk around in circles.
the field, said Sai Aung Kyaw Win, 39, a veteran UNODC surveyor who spends months trekking through poppy-growing areas. We just walk around in circles. International acceptance Neighbouring Thailand was proof that alternative development worked, the UNs Eligh said, although it took more than 30 years and $1 billion to halt large-scale poppy-
he Shan State town of Kengtung rehabilitation centre in Lashio. in Nyunt Lwin, Christopher Davy are finished, he told the villagers, before asking what help they needed to grow only legal crops. Nobody said a word until a local schoolteacher, who was translating between Pa-O and English, urged people to talk freely without fear of arrest. The authorities had destroyed their poppies once before, in 2005, and given them no compensation or assistance. Growing alternative crops wasnt easy, said U Aung Tun, 40, a father of four. Many people grew cordia trees, whose leaves were used to make traditional Myanmar cheroots. But the recent influx of cheap Chinese cigarettes meant that fewer people smoked cheroots, making the leaves increasingly unprofitable. We tried growing garlic and sugar cane but there was no market for it, U Aung Tun said. We lost everything we invested. Garlic fetched such a low
providing microfinance to landless households, setting up cash-for-work programs, vaccinating livestock, and building roads and clinics. This is funded with $7 million from the European Union, Germany and Japan. It was barely enough to help 10,000 of the 256,000
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The damaged nose of the Air KBZ aicraft that crashed at Thandwe Airport on February 17. Pic: Supplied which saw the aircraft come to a stop on a pile of gravel beside the runway. Among the 51 passengers, 32 were foreigners and the other 19 were local passengers. The front wheel of the aircraft was broken due to the accident but luckily none of the passengers or Air KBZ staff were injured, said the spokesperson. He confirmed the company was in discussions with Myanma Insurance about a payout. The spokesperson said the accident was caused by a hydraulic system failure that prevented the front landing gear from deploying before landing. One of the foreign passengers who was on the flight said that no care at all was provided by Air KBZ after the accident. Now we know what they mean by their slogan, Air KBZ Flying Beyond Expectation, he said. One industry insider familiar with the incident said that after the accident, the pilots and crew members were spirited away to the best four-star beach resort to enjoy the rest of the day while the passengers were left alone to make it to their hotels with no more contact or service from the airline. He said some passengers did not want to make the return trip to Yangon with Air KBZ, but received no help from the airline in booking tickets with other airlines. One passenger wanted to get back to Yangon only by car, he said. Air KBZ, which is owned by Kanbawza Bank, was launched on April 2, 2011 and operates schedule flights from Yangon to Nyaung Oo, Mandalay, Heho, Tachileik, Dawei, Myeik, Myitkyina, Kalay, Kawthoung, Thandwe and Sittwe.
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By Aye Thidar Kyaw GOLD prices are on their way up and are tipped to continue rising, gold traders and jewellery shop owners said last week. On February 29, a tical (0.576 ounces) of gold was selling for about K760,000, a K2000 rise from a week earlier but a nearly 5 percent increase on the late January price of K725,000. Traders said the rise was being spurred by strong demand for Myanmar gold from across the border, even though its illegal to export gold. Even if the world gold price is stable and the dollars value doesnt change much in Myanmar I think gold prices here will increase further, said U Win Nge from Aung Thamadi gold shop in Lanmadaw township, he said on February 27, when the price was K756,600 a tical. Several industry insiders said that if a gap opened between Myanmars gold price and the international market rate which is also increasing people would take the opportunity to smuggle gold abroad, mostly to China via the border trading zone at Muse in Shan State. On February 29 the international price was US$1785 an ounce AFP news agency reported. Using an exchange rate of K810 to the dollar that equals a price of
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A man works to refine gold at a workshop in Mandalay in January 2011. Pic: Kaung Htet about K833,000 a tical or just slightly less than 10pc above the domestic price. A Myanmar Gold Entrepreneurs Association official said if the domestic price fell too far below the international rate smuggling would increase. Thats what happens when the gap is too large and we cant stop it because thats how the market works, he said, adding that he doubted prices would decline in the short term. He added that the high prices were also scaring off customers.
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Workers clean a fountain at the front of Junction Square in Kamaryut township last week. Pic: Boothee
By Veronica Smith WASHINGTON Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke said on February 29 that stagnant wages and unemployment were holding back the US economy, chilling a surge in optimism that came after the government raised its estimate for fourth quarter growth. The Fed chief warned of sluggish growth in 2012 as fretful consumers keep their wallets zipped, though he admitted a disconnect between the data showing strengthening in the manufacturing sector and, at the same time, still-weak consumer sentiment. The fundamentals that support spending continue to be weak, Bernanke said in semi-annual testimony to Congress. Real household income and wealth were flat in 2011, and access to credit remained restricted for many potential borrowers. Consumer sentiment,
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UNOCHA MYANMAR VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT (UNOCHA/YGN/2012/002) The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Myanmar is seeking the applications from dynamic and highly motivated Myanmar nationals for the following vacancies. Detailed terms of reference/ requirements for vacancies can be requested at the UNOCHA Office. The positions mentioned below are Fixed Term Appointments (FTA) for 1 year with possibility of extension, for multiple duty stations. a. Field Coordination Officer (NOA, 2 positions) Requirements Masters Degree or equivalent in Economics, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Sciences or related field. Minimum 2 years of progressively responsible professional experience in the field of humanitarian/ recovery affairs, knowledge on global policies and guidelines related to humanitarian/recovery affairs and humanitarian reform. Ability to write clearly and concisely in English and local language(s). Strong computer skills. Proven high-level representation skills, such as speaking at meetings and providing situational analysis. Proven capacity to work effectively in small teams. Experience working in implementation and delivery of humanitarian/recovery projects at the field level is a must. Experience working in a complex settings that requires sound judgment, and operational flexibility. Previous experience in a similar capacity with humanitarian agencies, in particular the UN, preferred. Fluency in English and Myanmar language. Knowledge in any other local languages will be an asset. Candidates should clearly indicate the Vacancy Number and Post Title in their applications, and should submit them together with complete duly filled UN-P11 form, bio-data stating personal details, academic qualification and work experience, copies of master degree certificate and scores transcript, and a recent passport sized photograph. Applications should be addressed to: Admin and HR Unit, UNOCHA Myanmar Inya Lake Hotel, 1st Floor, Room 113, 37, Ka Bar Aye Pagoda Road, Mayangone Tsp. Closing Date: 19 March 2012 (COB) Only short-listed candidates will be notified. Interviews will be competency based.
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A leading foreign automotive distribution company is looking for dynamic, service-oriented and self-driven individual, who has strong desire to excel. Responsibilities: Achieve sales target given Communicate and implement all marketing initiatives Handle all in-coming enquiries Handle general operations & administrative matters Other duties as assigned by the management. Requirements: Degree holder Effectively bilingual (both written and conversational English) At least 2 years of working experience (preferably in sales & marketing) Work experience in foreign company would be desirable Ability to travel would be an added advantage. Interested applicants, please send your resume with a recent photo, expected salary and availability to [email protected] by 10th March 2012.
VACAENCY ANNOUNCEMENT Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a Japanese governmental organization responsible for implementing Official Development Assistance (ODA), Myanmar Office is seeking a Receptionist for its expanded works in the Union of Myanmar. Key responsibilities: - Welcoming and receiving incoming international and local visitors and telephone calls - Managing incoming and outgoing letters and documents, making copy, and other duties as appropriate - Establishing and ensuring effective working relationship with visitors - Establishing effective communication and working relationship with government counterpart organizations - Keeping records of incoming and outgoing mails - Carrying out any other duties that may arise from time to time All staff members have to maintain professional security, accuracy and integrity. Failure to do this may result termination of employment contract. Job description may be revised as necessary. Duration of Assignment: Initially up to 31 March 2013, with possibility of yearly renewal upon satisfactory performance. Eligible candidate should possess following qualifications; - university degree - fluent in English (reading, writing, speaking) - age less than 30 years - ability to work in a team and maintain harmonious relationship with other staff and other organizations and - good computer skill and knowledge of Word, Excel & Power Point, e-mail and internet How to apply: Qualified and interested persons are requested to send the applications with updated C.V, educational credentials and references to JCIA Myanmar Office, Room 701, 7th Floor Sakura Tower, No.339, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Kyauktada Township, Yangon not later than 16 March 2012. From the first week of April 2012 (negotiable), yearly renewal upon satisfactory performance. Note: Only short listed candidates will be contacted for subsequent interviews.
World Bank president Robert Zoellick answers a question from the media during a press conference at the World Banks Beijing office on February 28. Pic: AFP President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao during a major transition of power that begins at the end of this year. Despite this high-level support, the report is likely to face resistance from people with vested interests in the current model, Zoellick said. Reforms are not easy they often generate pushback, he said. Liu Shijin, vice minister of the Development Research Centre, said the reforms were necessary as the Asian powerhouse slows to 5-6pc annual growth in the next 20 years from the current 9pc. Chinese leaders frequently talk about the need to reform the countrys economic model, partly by reducing its heavy reliance on exports and increasing domestic consumption. But significant reforms have been slow as stability-obsessed leaders try to maintain rapid economic growth seen as essential to create enough jobs for the countrys 1.3 billion people and keep a lid on unrest. Beijing prohibits or restricts foreign investment in certain sectors such as auto, energy, finance, banking and telecommunications, drawing criticism from overseas competitors over the lack of market access and unfair treatment. Domestically, privately owned firms often complain about the lack of competition and the fact they cannot access financing from commercial banks, which prefer to lend money to major state-owned enterprises. The report also urges Beijing to commercialise the banking system and gradually remove interest rate controls as it seeks to complete its transition to a market economy. Other recommendations called for greater innovation, further social welfare reforms, better protection for farmers land rights and market incentives to encourage companies and households to adopt green technology. Such concrete measures were necessary as China seeks economic growth based on stability, said Li Wei, Minister of the Development Research Centre. Despite the ongoing eurozone crisis and weakness in the United States, Zoellick played down fears of an economic disaster in China in the near term. There are stress points that will expand over time rather than [turn into] a crisis, Zoellick said, forecasting a soft landing for the Asian powerhouse. But he acknowledged that the devil will be in the implementation of the reforms. AFP
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failure and averted the possibility of a severe credit crunch and additional recessionary pressure across the [euro area], Standard & Poors wrote in a report. We also think that the ECBs actions have helped warm up public funding markets from the deep freeze of late 2011, although investor demand remains selective. Nevertheless, S&P said the actions did not address the underlying structural issues in the banking sector, including capital shortfalls at various banks, the questionable viability of some business models in the medium term, and continued uncertainty over the appropriate carrying values of assets such as certain sovereign exposures, it said. Capital Economics economist Jennifer McKeown cautioned that hopes that the funds will also solve the [eurozone] fiscal crisis and breathe life into the ailing eurozone economy are likely to be disappointed. Italian and Spanish banks, apparently using funds from the December operation, did increase their purchases of sovereign debt in January, no doubt contributing to the fall in government borrowing costs as a result. But overall eurozone bank purchases of government securities rose by less in January than in November and December, before the first LTRO. And even if banks have more money to invest after a functioning interbank market or solve the sovereign debt crisis, he said. Berenberg Bank chief economist Holger Schmieding welcomed the move as helping confidence. The euro crisis is a crisis of confidence. Whatever makes markets believe that Europe is getting its act together can restore such confidence. With its aggressive three-year LTRO, the ECB has managed to impress markets, Schmieding said. Investors are starting to believe that the ECB will do what it takes to prevent an the implosion of the common currency which many global investors had wrongly predicted late last year. The ECB has shifted perceptions of Europe. Looking ahead, analysts were sceptical the ECB will want to undertake a third LTRO amid concern within its governing council about the potential longer-term inflationary impact of so much cheap funding being made available. T h e r e w o n t automatically be a third round, said Austrian central bank head Ewald Nowotny in an interview in The Times. European stock markets rose were firmer on the move, led by banking shares while the euro held steady, giving up very modest gains on the news. AFP
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Schoolchildren walk past drawings and a slogan on a wall in the center of Athens. Pic: AFP todays operation, we are not convinced that they will stash it in risky government bonds, Mckeown said. The head of the German banking federation BdB, Michael Kemmer, also warned that the ECB liquidity was no panacea for the eurozones ills. The measures are buying time but they cant replace
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The Ningbo Museum, which was designed by Pritzker prize-winning Chinese architect Wang Shu in Ningbo, in east Chinas Zhejiang province. Pic: AFP Palumbo said. As with any great architecture, Wang Shus work is able to transcend that debate, producing an architecture that is timeless, deeply rooted in its context and yet universal. Other Pritzker laureates include Norman Foster, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. Last year the honour went to Portugals Eduardo Soutoo de Moura. AFP
Czech Minister of Culture Alena Hanakova (left), Brnos mayor Roman Onderka (centre) and a descendant of the original owners of the Tugendhat villa, Daniela Tugendhat, at the opening ceremony of the reconstructed Mies van der Rohe villa in Brno on February 29. Pic: AFP
to Be Like Mike and wear Air Jordan sneakers. Forbes magazine has estimated Jordans net worth at $500 million, largely because his Nike brand items remain a $1 billion moneymaker. After flopping in the front office for the Washington Wizards after his 2003 retirement, Jordan took an executive role with the NBA Charlotte Bobcats and then purchased the North Carolina-based NBA club. AFP
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A Panasonic Eluga Power waterproof smartphone in a glass of water during a demonstration at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on February 28. Pic: AFP also sets great store by waterproofing. The mobile phone is with us 24 hours a day. It accompanies us to the bathroom, to the shower, or under the rain. So it is a necessity for the phone to be robust, Nobuo Ohtani, Fujitsu corporate senior vice president, told AFP. While better known abroad for their laptops, the Japanese giant is also trying to sell phones to Western markets. In Barcelona, it showcased its range of phones on sale in Japan, as well as a new quadcore phone with extra processing power. Besides being waterproof, the phone also appeared crack-resistant when hammered repeatedly with a falling steel ball. Ohtani said Fujitsus smartphones will also offer human-centric technology that makes the devices easier to view or hear, a particular advantage for elderly users. This technology includes sensors that raise or lower the volume of a call, or even slow down speech if the caller is speaking too quickly. AFP
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people and resources are being devoured faster than they can be replenished, he said. Our approach is simply unsustainable, said Gilding, the former director of Greenpeace International. Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, it will stop. The With China and other developing countries booming, in many cases thanks to technology, the worlds resources are being rapidly devoured, he said. The Earth doesnt care what we need, Gilding said. Mother Nature doesnt negotiate; she just Weve had 50 years of warnings and pretty much done nothing to change course, he lamented, his eyes watering with tears. Those people who think technology will get us through are right; they are only missing that it takes a crisis to get us going ... We a counter-point to Gildings dark vision. Im not saying that we dont have our share of problems climate change, species extinction, resource shortage but ultimately we have the ability to see problems way in advance and knock them down, Peter
Diamandis said. He argued that rapidly improving sensors, robotics, digital medicine, synthetic biology and computing power in the internet cloud provided hope for a better future. He added that a Slingshot device about the size of a college dorm room refrigerator and capable of cheaply making drinking water from even the most tainted of sources was being tested with the backing of a beverage company. Diamandis also heads Singularity University in Silicon Valley, which serves as a training ground and academic boot camp for entrepreneurs, inventors and technology industry executives. AFP
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A distraught Yuko Sugimoto searches for her son, Raito, in the tsunami-devastated town of Ishinomaki, Miyagi preference, on March 13, 2011, and together at the same location on January 27. Yuko was reunited with Raito on March 14, three days after the tsunami struck. Pix: AFP/Yomiuri Shimbun (left), Toru Yamanaka (right). More pix: P. 25.
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Supporters of Vladimir Putin in Moscow on February 23 ahead of a rally for the March 4 presidential elections. Pic: AFP the equivalent of US$2300. As a precinct chairman, Ivanova was paid $300 for work over a threeweek period. She was summoned again, this time in the presence of the district education official in charge of Ivanovas school. United Russia must get an extra 200 votes, she was told. I said not a single (parliamentary) deputy is worth my imprisonment, Ivanova recounted, fortified by a pot of tea. They said, Fine, someone else will do it but you must close your eyes. Ivanova said she was infuriated at the sense of impunity. They all were so sure nothing would happen to them, she said. On election day, she made sure the observers sat next to the ballot box. Late at night, they took the results to election offices, where the young man she had encountered earlier and the district schools supervisor awaited. The young man threw the results on his desk. United Russia had achieved 22.7 percent of the vote in Ivanovas precinct. Though some St Petersburg precincts reached the mid-30s, it was not a good day for United Russia, which won just under 50pc of the vote nationwide. Nothing can be done here, she recalled him saying. I decided I wasnt going to leave things like that, Ivanova said, taking out a tissue from her purse as her eyes began to water. But I didnt know where to go, or whom I should complain about. I didnt have any proof. I only had my honest word and now that seems like such a rare thing. At the end of December, when higher-ups pressured her principal not to give her an annual bonus, Ivanova quit her job. I like my principal very much, Ivanova said. She was afraid she would be fired. After 30 years, she was earning about $900 a month as a teacher and assistant principal. Her 55-year-old friend, the other precinct chairman, quit in support but decided not to go public. Ivanova went to the newspapers, and soon her story was all over St Petersburg. Recently, Natalya Nazarova, the district schools supervisor, accused Ivanova of damaging her reputation and asked for $3700 in damages. Nazarova, who has declined to speak to the Russian press, could not be reached for comment. Thirteen school principals in
procedures she had long since mastered. Instead, a young man she had never seen before confronted her and a few others. Youre very experienced, he said, as she recalled in late February. We need your help. His message: United Russia, the ruling party connected to Putin, needed more votes. Ivanova said she was shocked; her first thought was that her honesty was being tested. Shes a fixture at her precinct, based in School 575, where she teaches. She a The fourth of March historiclives nearby, inon neighbourhood Vasilyevsky Island. Her is not the end. daughter teaches at the school and also serves on the election commission. Ivanovas complaints about fraud. He predicts the forthcoming children went to the school, and coming election will also be unfair, the family Ivanova, her husband, but said the opposition has no daughter, son, daughter-in-law and intention of easing its pressure on grandson share an apartment. We each have one room, she said, Putin and his government. The fourth of March is not and we meet in the kitchen. Ivanova was sure United Russia the end, he said. Its just the would win anyway. beginning. We need more votes, she Ivanova, 53, a speech therapist and Russian teacher, has worked quoted the man. Your work will on elections for 14 years. When be noticed. One of the other election workers a city election official summoned her to a pre-election meeting last spoke up. How much? he asked. fall, she expected to rehearse the They would be paid, he was told,
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NEW YORK James Murdoch, the younger son of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, stepped down on February 29 as executive chairman of News International, News Corps scandal-plagued British newspaper unit. James Murdoch, 39, will remain News Corps deputy chief operating officer and focus on international television operations, the New York-based media and entertainment giant said in a statement. News Corp. said James Murdoch was stepping down from News International following his relocation to company headquarters in New York as deputy chief operating officer, a move which took place last year. Related reports, P. 22.
US military officers salute as coffins containing the bodies of Army Major Robert Marchanti and Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel John Loftis arrive at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, on February 27. The two officers were shot dead by an Afghan colleague in the Afghan Interior Ministry in Kabul on February 25. Pic: AFP unfortunate and tragic, influence the long-horizon view that were taking with respect to our partnership with Afghanistan and to our enduring work there, Little said. Another military spokesman, Captain John Kirby, acknowledged tensions had flared over the burning of the Islamic holy book at the Bagram airbase and after two US officers were gunned down inside the interior ministry. But he said the scale of protests had begun to decline and that US troops were still operating successfully alongside Afghan forces. These events theyre troubling, theyre worrisome, theyve got everybodys attention. And yes, tension is high here in Kabul right now, Kirby said by video link from the Afghan capital. But across the country writ large... the mission continues and were seeing the protest activity decline. The United States has repeatedly apologised for the Koran burning at an incinerator and insisted it was a mistake and not intentional. The incident set off seven successive days of protest and violence, with the death toll estimated at about 40.
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News Corporation chairman and chief executive officer Rupert Murdoch with the first edition of The Sun on Sunday as it came off the presses at Broxbourne, outside London, on February 26. An editorial in the tabloid said its journalists would be ethical. Pic: AFP/News International Group Ltd updated the inquiry on her teams analysis of millions of emails provided by News Corp. Multiple payments have been made to individuals amounting to thousands of pounds, she said, adding: There is also mention in some emails of public officials being placed on retainers. Akers said the payments were openly referred to at The Sun and were approved at a very senior level. The recent arrests at The Sun concerned the delivery of regular, frequent and sometimes significant sums of money to small numbers of public officials by a journalist, she said. She cited one case involving more than 80,000 (US$127,000) paid out over several years and another where one of the arrested journalists has over several years received over 150,000 in cash to pay his sources. Akers said police were mindful of the right that journalists had to protect their sources when pursuing stories in the public interest. But she said: The vast majority of the disclosures that have been made have led to stories which I would describe as salacious gossip rather than anything that could be remotely regarded as in the public interest. Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of The Sun and News of the World, admitted to lawmakers in 2003 we have paid the police for information in the past, but last year she insisted she had never personally sanctioned any such a payment. Brooks, who went on to be chief executive of News International, the publisher of The Sun and the News of the World, was arrested last year by police investigating phone hacking and bribery. She had resigned shortly before her arrest, but denies any wrongdoing. AFP
Charlotte Church reads a statement to the media outside the High Court in central on February 27 after the settlement of her legal action against the publishers of the defunct News of the World over allegations of phone hacking. Pic: AFP Someone in a newspaper thought that was OK. How can that be, in any rightthinking society? Church, the former wife of Welsh rugby international Gavin Henson, said she had wanted to bring those responsible to court to explain their actions, but she feared she would have learned nothing from a trial. The newspaper group had been prepared to go to any lengths to cover up the industrial scale of their illegal activity, she said, adding: In my opinion, they are not truly sorry, only sorry they got caught. The biggest settlement made so far is the 3 million, including 1 million for charity, paid to the parents of murdered British schoolgirl Milly Dowler, whose voicemail was hacked. AFP
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Iraqis see red after MPs approve $50m armoured cars deal
BAGHDAD A decision by outside, the Green Zone, MPs to spend US$50 million she said, referring to the on their own armoured cars heavily-fortified centre on a day that dozens of of Baghdad that is home people were killed in a wave to the government and of attacks has drawn sharp parliament. Each one of them has criticism from across Iraqi a full team of bodyguards society. The vote, alongside a so there is no need to have long-delayed approval of other privileges. In addition to the the 2012 federal budget late on February 23, was taken armoured cars, MPs already largely without debate or receive a budget allocation objection and will see a total for 30 bodyguards, but of 350 armoured vehicles officials claim that most bought at a cost of 60 billion only appoint a handful Iraqi dinars ($50.4 million), of guards and pocket the remainder of the allotted a parliament official said. All major political groups, funds. Iraqi MPs already receive including Prime Minister Nuri al-Malikis State of monthly salaries of $8500, Law coalition, the main generous pension benefits, Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc, plots of land and diplomatic the alliance of Kurdish passports. Lawmakers monthly pay parties and the movement loyal to anti-US Shiite cleric was dramatically lowered Moqtada al-Sadr voted in after nationwide protests favour of the move, the a year ago against official official said, speaking on corruption and government inaction. condition of T h e anonymity. But the Security should F e b r u a r y 23 decision decision came on the w h i c h be for all Iraqis same day as allocates one a wave of armoured car to each MP and an attacks in six provinces extra 25 vehicles to be i n I r a q t h a t k i l l e d 4 2 dispersed at the discretion people and wounded more of parliaments speaker than 250, in violence later has sparked the ire of claimed by al-Qaeda. The day after the vote regular citizens, religious was taken, a representative leaders and observers. The subject of buying of Iraqs most revered a r m o u r e d c a r s w a s Shiite Muslim religious approved quickly, while leader blasted the decision other laws are taking a at prayers in the shrine long time, which shows that city of Karbala on February MPs prioritise their own 24. Security should be for all benefits over the needs of the people, said political Iraqis, not just for a group commentator Tariq al- of people, said Ayatollah Ahmed al-Safi, Grand Maamuri. If they fear for their lives Ayatollah Ali al-Sistanis in this way, let them resign representative in Karbala. The duty of MPs and and sit at home, because the Iraqi people are not the government is to solve ready to waste their money t h e p e o p l e s p r o b l e m s to protect these MPs, he and provide security for everyone. Instead of buying said early last week. Iraqi journalist Wassan al- armoured cars for $50 Shimmari said lawmakers million, it would have been better to approve laws to were over-reacting. T h e y l i v e i n s e c u r e protect all of the people. AFP areas inside, or even
Syrian mourners farewell loved ones at funeral in the northwestern city of Idlib on February 25, a day after it came under heavy attack from government forces. Pic: AFP
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Left: A street in Tagajo, Miyagi prefecture, on March 13 last year and the same area on January 12. Centre: A bridge in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, on March 15 last year and the same area on January 13. Right: The Asia Symphony beached at Kamaishi, Iwate prefecture on March 18 last year and the same area on January 16. Pix, top: Kim Jae Hwan (left, centre), Roslan Rahman (left). Pix, bottom: Toru Yamanaka.
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Members of an influential Philippine religious sect, Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ), at a rally in Manila on February 28 attended by about 600,000 people. Despite tensions with President Benigno Aquino, a former strong supporter of the sect, organisers said the rally was a purely religious gathering. Pic: AFP
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NEW DELHI Indias home minister said on February 29 that police had foiled a major attack by suspected militants from the Pakistan-based Lashkare-Taiba group who were caught with explosives at a rail station. Home Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters that two men were arrested at New Delhis main station after a tip-off from intelligence agencies and work by three state police agencies. Lashkar-e-Taiba is one of the most powerful militant groups in Pakistan and is blamed for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that left 166 people dead.
Police stand guard as demolition work continues at the infamous Abbottabad compound on February 26. Pic: AFP
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy at the Academy Awards in Hollywood on February 26 after she won the best short documentary Oscar with co-producer Daniel Junge. Pic: AFP opportunity and strength to strive for her goal more effectively. The campaign is mainly aimed at making our society more humane and better to live. It is to help and remedy those who are victims of such brutality and injustice, she told AFP. The website said the film, which few have seen in Pakistan, was uniquely positioned to advance awareness, education and prevention efforts. The chairwoman of Acid Survivors Pakistan, a partner in the campaign, told AFP that the fight to eliminate the crime had only just started and that the campaign would increase awareness, partly by showing the film widely. Valerie Khan Yusufzai said eight acid attacks had been reported in Pakistan so far in 2012 and that all had been registered with police. We now need to strengthen the momentum to get more legislation passed which will complement the law that got passed in May 2011, Yusufzai told AFP. AFP
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H O L LY W O O D S i l e n t movie The Artist crowned its spectacular awards season success by winning five Oscars including the Best Picture prize at the 84 th Academy Awards on February 26. The French-directed black-and-white film earned Oscars for best director for Michel Hazanavicius and best actor for Jean Dujardin, who played a silent movie era star whose career was torpedoed by the arrival of the talkies. I love your country, Dujardin told the Hollywood audience as he accepted his Oscar, the first for a French actor. But speaking to French journalists later, he said he might consider projects in the US after winning best actor Oscar for The Artist, but insisted he would never be an American actor. In Paris, President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed the Oscar triumph as a sign of the tremendous success of French cinema and quality cinema. The movies success was witness to the exceptional vitality of our cinema and the success of the governments policies to support the excellence of this major French industry, he said. Hollywoods biggest and going, Oh no. Come on ... her, again? You know. But, whatever! she said, rolling her eyes. Octavia Spencer took the prize for best supporting actress for her role as a black maid in the civil rights drama The Help, receiving a standing ovation for her powerhouse performance. Veteran Canadian actor Christopher Plummer, 82, crowned a six-decade acting career with a long-overdue Oscar, a best supporting actor trophy for his role in Beginners as an ailing widower who embraces his homosexuality. Kissing his coveted golden statuette, he joked: Youre only two years older than me, darling where have you been all my life? Other winners included the Johnny-Depp voiced Rango, for best animated feature and Woody Allen for best original screenplay for Midnight in Paris. In the foreign language category, Irans A Separation beat films from Belgium, Canada, Israel and Poland. Its director Asghar Farhadi dedicated the award to Iranians who despise hostility and resentment, and referred to current tension between Tehran and the West over the Islamic republics suspect nuclear program.
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Oscar winners, actress Meryl Streep and actor Jean Dujardin, pose at the 84th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California on February 26. Pic: AFP most glittering night had t u r n a s f o r m e r B r i t i s h long been expected to be premier Margaret Thatcher a battle between Hugo and in The Iron Lady, earning a The Artist, two odes to film- standing ovation from the A-list Hollywood audience. making. It was the third Oscar M a r t i n S c o r s e s e s 3 D adventure Hugo, which for 62-year-old Streep and had the most nominations, her first in three decades, with 11 compared to 10 for underscoring her status as The Artist also garnered the pre-eminent actress of five prizes, but all came in her generation. When they called my technical categories. Meryl Streep won best name, I had this feeling I actress for her powerful could hear half of America
Daw Khin May, wife of U Taw Phayar Ka Lay, hands the award for best political literature to Daw Myint Myint, wife of U Own Maung at Thiri Hall on February 28. Pic: Ko Taik win the Taw Phayar Ka Lay prize in the same year with a writer and poet I admire, said writer U Nyi Pu Lay. I want to win many more awards like this. I hope there are many more literature awards and they do not to disappear again, he said. Each prize winner was honoured with a trophy and K200,000 in prize money. The ceremony ended with a poem recital of a work by U Taw Phyar Ka Lay, who was the son of U Ko Ko Naing and A Shin Htiek Su Myat Phyar Lay, the fourth daughter of King Thibaw. U Taw Phyar Ka Lay died in 2006, with most of his latter years spent in jail. His daughter, Daw Dawei Thant Sin, told the audience thant while her father was of royal lineage, he had always supported the public in their efforts for freedom, ultimately leading to his detention. He passed away in June 2006, without feeling free but now we have permission to celebrate his award proudly, so I feel he has finally escaped from that difficult situation, she said.
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Bringing along their five albums, customers can receive their ticket at Bo Bo Enterprise, No 34, 1st floor, 101 Street, Mingalar Taungnyunt Township. Ph: 205 905.
Cartoon Show
30 to 40 cartoonists from Yangon, Mandalay and Mawlamyiang will hold a cartoon exhibition at the Lokanat Gallery, No 62, 1st floor, Pansodan street, from 5th to 7th March.
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Pic: Ko Taik Customers enjoy having their caricature drawn by a member of A Phyu Yaung Twe Let Myar (White Holding Hands) group of artists at the Shwedagon on February 27.
A Yu Wa Di newspaper from 1954 containing a story on General Aung San. Pic: Supplied
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how we would present such a terrible story, and whether it was necessary to do so, she says. Manga is so familiar and can be read by people of all ages, its a good way to understand others earthquake experiences, she said. However, while many of the artistic responses have been emotional, six-member art collective ChimPom have taken a more confrontational approach, using public anger at the countrys reliance on nuclear energy. The group has produced a video called Real Times in which they travel into the middle of the exclusion zone around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi and hoist a white flag above the ruins of the plant. They paint it with the red sun of Japans national flag, before transforming it into the warning symbol for radioactive material. In a separate project, they added a panel to a mural by Taro Okamoto in Tokyos fashionable Shibuya district that depicts the fallout from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs. Aping the style of Okamotos original, the ChimPom addition shows the smoking Daiichi nuclear plant. Although the panel for which they did not have permission was swiftly removed, group leader Ryuta Ushiro insists it contributed to renewing the history of Japan and nuclear energy. Ushiro rejects some Post 3/11 artists view that there is a distinction between emotional and political responses to the disaster. When you try to create something, sharing one experience together, the action inevitably takes on a political aspect, he said. The issue is not really whether it is political or not, but whether it was made with the intention of communicating with other people. AFP
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Taro Okamotos Myth of Tomorrow by artist group ChimPom at a Tokyo train station. Pic: AFP I n Fu k u sh i m a , they were pulling buildings down, clearing the ruins. Yet there I was, with the opportunity to build something new for the community, he told AFP in a Tokyo gallery. He says the optimism of the thousand or so who gathered to watch the lighthouse pulled upright was palpable. Japanese people have a shared culture of rallying together after natural disasters, and the project was a way audiences and victims could communicate on an emotional level, he said. Manga artist Moeko Fujii, 25, says the disaster means she and her colleagues have had to change the way they go about their work. As artists weve had to rethink
A model displays a creation as part as Fendi Fall-winter 2012-2013 collection on February 23 during the Womens fashion week in Milan. Pic: AFP
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National Day of Brunei
U Wunna Maung Lwin and wife, HE Pehin Dato Rahmani Dato Basin and his wife
Ya Wai Aung, Moh Moh Myint Aung and Myo Thandar Tun
Thiri Swe
Ms Kim Mi Jo
Ko Htun Myint Aung, Dr Khin Khin Soe, Daw Khin Khin Thit and Ma Khin Thet Oo
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KMA product launch
SOCIALITE, hustled her way to the grand opening ceremony of GD Giada Boutique at Taw Win Center as well as passing by NIBBAN Dealers Night at Traders Hotel on February 21. She was at a second dealer conference, this time by LG at Traders Hotel on February 23. The following day, she enjoyed students performances at the freshers welcome event by Victoria University College at Karaweit Hotel. On February 25, she attended the new branch opening of Cherry Oo watch shop on Anawyahta road, a GNC live well products launch in Bahan township and a new product launching ceremony of the Smart Dictionary at Park Royal Hotel. Socialite ended her week attending the press event of Medical Tour in Korea 2012 by Pure Dream Company at Sedona Hotel and squeezing in a KMA cosmetics launch at Gamonepwint shopping center on February 26. She also attended Kuwait National Day and Brunei National Day on 27 and 28 February at Sedoan.
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Kuwait National Day
HE Essa Yousef A Shammal (Center), Yangon Region Chief Minister U Myint Swe
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One of low-cost carrier Kululas aircraft docks at Johannesburg airport on August 17. Pic: AFP Sepp Blatter, like FIFAs president, finally giving a flight to Sepp Blatter the dog, who became an internet star. Last year it offered to pay lobola, a grooms traditional wedding gift for his brides family, for Prince William to marry Kate Middleton. The question posed to passengers: How many cows do you think Kate is worth? The local airline industry is facing a pinch, with Kululas parent company Comair just announcing its first-ever financial loss. Once you play in a territory, you have to make it work all the time, it is very challenging for them to keep it interesting, Blyth said. But they have some issues now. They have to cope with ever increasing costs on fuel and a very increasing airport access cost. It is hard to keep on being humorous in those conditions. They are facing a tough time. AFP
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Flight
W9 009 AW 892 6T 406 6T 332 6T 402 W9 021 6T 802 YH 738 K7 825 6T 502 W9 009 AW 892 6T 406 6T 332 6T 402 YH 812 W9 021 K7 229 AW 762 YH 730 6T 502 W9 009 AW 892 6T 406 6T 332 YH 918 6T 402 AW 202 W9 251 YH 731 6T 502 W9 232 YH 728 6T 404 AW 892 6T 402 W9 011 W9 262 AW 602 YH 812 6T 802 K7 623 YH 730 6T 502 W9 009 YH 910 AW 892 6T 406 6T 402 W9 011 W9 256 YH 812 6T 802 K7 623 AW 752 YH 738 6T 502
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08:30 08:35 08:40 08:45 08:55 14:10 15:35 17:10 17:50 17:20 08:30 08:35 08:40 08:45 08:55 13:10 14:10 15:45 16:25 17:15 17:20 08:30 08:35 08:40 08:45 08:50 08:55 11:00 13:35 17:10 17:20 17:35 17:45 08:00 08:35 08:55 09:25 10:50 12:20 13:10 16:00 16:55 17:15 17:20 08:30 08:35 08:35 08:40 08:55 09:25 11:20 13:10 13:30 16:55 17:10 17:10 17:20 09:30 10:30 10:40 10:10 10:55 15:10 17:00 18:35 19:15 19:25 09:30 10:30 10:40 10:10 10:55 14:35 15:10 17:10 17:50 18:45 19:25 09:30 10:30 10:40 10:10 10:45 10:55 12:25 15:00 19:25 19:25 19:00 19:10 10:05 10:30 10:55 11:10 12:15 13:45 14:35 17:25 18:20 18:45 19:25 09:30 10:00 10:30 10:40 10:55 11:10 12:45 14:35 14:55 18:20 18:35 18:35 19:25
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Flight
W9 143 6T 405 AW 891 YH 909 W9 009 6T 401 K7 222 YH 917 K7 223 W9 109 AW 782 YH 732 6T 502 K7 223 YH 910 W9 109 AW 792 6T 502 YH 732 K7 223 W9 109 AW 782 YH 732 6T 502 K7 223 YH 910 W9 109 YH 732 6T 502 K7 223 W9 109 AW 782 YH 732 6T 502 K7 223 YH 910 6T 404 W9 109 AW 792 YH 732 6T 502 K7 223 YH 910 W9 109 YH 732 6T 502
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06:00 06:15 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 06:30 08:10 17:25 17:25 17:55 18:05 08:10 08:40 17:25 17:25 18:05 18:10 08:10 17:25 17:25 17:55 18:05 08:10 08:40 17:25 17:55 18:05 08:10 17:25 17:25 17:55 18:05 08:10 08:40 08:45 17:25 17:25 17:55 18:05 08:10 08:40 17:25 17:55 18:05 07:20 07:35 07:35 07:50 07:25 07:50 07:50 08:05 11:15 18:20 18:45 19:15 19:25 11:15 10:00 18:20 18:45 19:25 19:30 11:15 18:20 18:45 19:15 19:25 11:15 10:00 18:20 19:15 19:25 11:15 18:20 18:45 19:15 19:25 11:15 10:00 10:05 18:20 18:45 19:15 19:25 11:15 10:00 18:20 19:15 19:25
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W9 115 YH 811 K7 826 K7 224 6T 501 YH 731 YH 737
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MON FD 3771 8M 335 TG 304 PG 702 8M 331 PG 704 FD 3773 TG 306 TUE FD 3771 8M 335 TG 304 PG 702 8M 331 PG 704 FD 3773 TG 306 WED FD 3771 8M 335 TG 304 PG 702 8M 331 PG 704 FD 3773 TG 306 THUR FD 3771 8M 335 TG 304 PG 702 8M 331 PG 704 FD 3773 TG 306 FRI FD 3771 8M 335 TG 304 PG 702 8M 331 PG 704 FD 3773 TG 306 SAT FD 3771 8M 335 TG 304 PG 702 8M 331 PG 704 FD 3773 TG 306 SUN FD 3771 8M 335 TG 304 PG 702 8M 331 PG 704 FD 3773 TG 306
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SAT 8M 231 MI 511 8M 6232 MI 517 SUN 8M 231 MI 511
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MON 8M 336 FD 3770 TG 303 PG 701 PG 703 FD 3772 TG 305 8M 332 TUE 8M 336 FD 3770 TG 303 PG 701 PG 703 FD 3772 TG 305 8M 332 WED 8M 336 FD 3770 TG 303 PG 701 PG 703 FD 3772 TG 305 8M 332 THUR 8M 336 FD 3770 TG 303 PG 701 PG 703 FD 3772 TG 305 8M 332 FRI 8M 336 FD 3770 TG 303 PG 701 FD 3772 PG 703 TG 305 8M 332 SAT 8M 336 FD 3770 TG 303 PG 701 PG 703 FD 3772 TG 305 8M 332 SUN 8M 336 FD 3770 TG 303 PG 701 PG 703 FD 3772 TG 305 8M 332
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SAT MI 512 8M 6231 8M 232 MI 518 MI 520 SUN MI 512 8M 232 MI 518 MI 520
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YANGON TO BANGKOK
08:30 10:15 08:50 10:35 09:50 11:45 10:55 12:50 16:30 18:15 16:40 18:35 17:40 19:25 19:45 21:40 08:30 10:15 08:50 10:35 09:50 11:45 10:55 12:50 16:30 18:15 16:40 18:35 17:40 19:25 19:45 21:40 08:30 10:15 08:50 10:35 09:50 11:45 10:55 12:50 16:30 18:15 16:40 18:35 17:40 19:25 19:45 21:40 08:30 10:15 08:50 10:35 09:50 11:45 10:55 12:50 16:30 18:15 16:40 18:35 17:40 19:25 19:45 21:40 08:30 10:15 08:50 10:35 09:50 11:45 10:55 12:50 16:30 18:15 16:40 18:35 17:40 19:25 19:45 21:40 08:30 10:15 08:50 10:35 09:50 11:45 10:55 12:50 16:30 18:15 16:40 18:35 17:40 19:25 19:45 21:40 08:30 10:15 08:50 10:35 09:50 11:45 10:55 12:50 16:30 18:15 16:40 18:35 17:40 19:25 19:45 21:40
08:00 12:25 10:10 14:45 11:25 15:50 16:40 21:15 08:00 12:25 10:10 14:45
BANGKOK TO YANGON
07:10 07:55 07:10 07:55 07:55 08:50 09:15 10:05 15:00 15:50 16:25 17:10 17:50 18:45 19:25 20:10 07:10 07:55 07:10 07:55 07:55 08:50 09:15 10:05 15:00 15:50 16:25 17:10 17:50 18:45 19:25 20:10 07:10 07:10 07:55 09:15 07:55 07:55 08:50 10:05
07:55 09:20 09:10 10:35 14:10 15:35 14:20 15:45 15:20 16:40 07:55 09:20 14:10 15:35 14:20 15:45 15:20 16:40
YANGON TO MANDALAY
MON AW 891 6T 405 6T 401 W9 011 6T 801 AW 761 6T 451 K7 824 6T 501 K7 228 YH 909 6T 405 W9 251 6T 401 YH 729 6T 451 K7 622 AW 791 6T 501 6T 405 AW 891 6T 401 6T 331 6T 801 YH 737 K7 824 W9 261 YH 731 6T 501 K7 228 YH 909 AW 891 6T 405 AW 201 6T 401 W9 255 6T 331 YH 729 K7 622 K7 226 6T 501 YH 731 AW 891 6T 405 W9 251 6T 401 YH 917 6T 331 AW 751 K7 824 K7 224 6T 501 YH 731 W9 271 6T 403 YH 909 6T 401 AW 601 6T 801 YH 729 K7 622 6T 501 AW 891 YH 909 AW 891 6T 405 6T 401 W9 255 6T 801 AW 751 K7 622 6T 501 06:15 06:15 06:30 07:30 08:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 15:00 06:00 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 15:00 15:00 06:15 06:15 06:30 07:00 10:45 11:00 12:00 13:30 15:00 15:00 06:00 06:15 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 07:00 10:30 12:00 12:30 15:00 15:00 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 07:00 11:00 11:00 13:00 15:00 15:00 06:00 06:15 06:15 06:30 07:00 10:30 10:30 12:00 15:00 16:15 06:15 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 08:00 11:00 12:00 15:00 08:20 08:20 08:35 08:30 09:55 12:55 12:55 13:25 17:00 07:25 07:55 08:20 07:55 08:35 12:40 12:55 13:25 16:25 17:00 08:20 08:20 08:35 08:25 12:10 13:10 13:25 07:55 17:10 17:00 07:25 07:55 08:20 08:20 07:55 08:35 08:55 08:25 13:30 13:25 13:55 17:00 17:10 08:20 08:20 07:55 08:35 08:50 08:25 12:25 12:25 14:25 17:00 17:10 07:25 07:40 07:55 08:35 08:25 12:35 13:30 13:25 17:00 08:20 08:30 08:20 08:20 08:35 08:55 09:25 12:25 13:25 17:00
NYAUNG U TO YANGON
MON
HEHO TO YANGON
MON W9 143 AW 892 6T 406 YH 918 W9 011 6T 402 K7 223 AW 892 6T 406 YH 918 W9 011 6T 402 K7 223 K7 823 W9 116 W9 143 AW 892 6T 406 YH 918 6T 402 K7 223 W9 143 6T 406 YH 918 6T 402 K7 223 W9 143 AW 892 6T 406 YH 918 6T 402 K7 223 W9 143 AW 892 YH 918 6T 402 K7 223 K7 823 AW 892 6T 406 YH 918 W9 011 6T 402 K7 223 6T 452 W9 116 YH 738 09:05 09:20 09:30 09:35 09:40 09:45 10:00 09:20 09:30 09:35 09:40 09:45 10:00 15:15 16:45 09:05 09:20 09:30 09:35 09:45 10:00 09:05 09:30 09:35 09:45 10:00 09:05 09:20 09:30 09:35 09:45 10:00 09:05 09:20 09:35 09:45 10:00 15:15 09:20 09:30 09:35 09:40 09:45 10:00 14:55 16:45 17:20 10:15 10:30 10:40 10:45 10:35 10:55 11:15 10:30 10:40 10:45 10:35 10:55 11:15 16:30 17:55 10:15 10:30 10:40 10:45 10:55 11:15 10:15 10:40 10:45 10:55 11:15 10:15 10:30 10:40 10:45 10:55 11:15 10:15 10:30 10:45 10:55 11:15 16:30 10:30 10:40 10:45 10:35 10:55 11:15 17:05 17:55 18:35
THUR
8M 233
MI 517
14:15 18:40
16:40 21:15
TUE
TUE
TUE
8M 234
MON MH 740 8M 502 AK 850 TUE MH 740 8M 502 AK 850 WED MH 740 AK 850 THU MH 740 8M 502 AK 850 FRI MH 740 8M 502 AK 850 SAT MH 740 AK 850 SUN MH 740 8M 502 AK 850
19:40 21:05
10:05 11:15 14:00 15:00 15:40 16:45 10:05 11:15 14:00 15:00 15:40 16:45 10:05 11:15 15:40 16:45 10:05 11:15 14:00 15:00 15:40 16:45 10:05 11:15 14:00 15:00 15:40 16:45 10:05 11:15 15:40 16:45 10:05 11:15 14:00 15:00 15:40 16:45
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YANGON TO MYITKYINA
MON TUE THUR FRI SUN W9 255 W9 251 AW 201 W9 255 W9 251 AW 211 W9 255 06:30 06:30 06:30 06:30 06:30 06:00 06:30 09:25 09:25 09:20 09:25 09:25 08:50 09:25 SUN
15:00 15:50 16:25 17:10 17:50 18:45 19:25 20:10 07:10 07:10 07:55 09:15 07:55 07:55 08:50 10:05
FRI
GUANGZHOU TO YANGON
WED CZ 3055 THUR 8M 712 SAT CZ 3055 08:50 10:30 14:15 15:45 08:50 10:30 14:15 15:45
YANGON TO GUANGZHOU
MYITKYINA TO YANGON
MON TUE THUR FRI SUN W9 256 W9 252 AW 202 W9 256 W9 252 W9 256 09:45 12:05 09:35 09:45 12:05 09:45 12:40 15:00 12:25 12:40 15:00 12:40 TUE
YANGON TO SITTWE
MON 6T 611 W9 309 6T 611 W9 309 6T 607 W9 309 6T 611 W9 309 6T 607 W9 309 6T 611 W9 309 6T 611 W9 309 11:15 13:00 11:15 13:00 11:00 13:00 11:15 13:00 11:15 13:00 11:15 13:00 11:15 13:00 12:40 14:45 12:40 14:45 13:00 14:45 12:40 14:45 12:40 14:45 12:40 14:45 12:40 14:45
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YANGON TO NYAUNG U
MON W9 143 AW 891 6T 405 YH 633 6T 401 K7 222 YH 917 W9 143 6T 405 AW 891 6T 401 K7 222 YH 917 W9 143 6T 405 6T 401 K7 222 YH 917 K7 242 6T 451 AW 781 AW 891 6T 405 W9 009 6T 401 K7 222 YH 917 AW 891 6T 405 W9 009 6T 401 K7 222 YH 917 K7 242 AW 891 W9 009 6T 401 K7 222 YH 917 6T 801 06:00 06:15 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 06:00 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 06:00 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 07:00 12:30 15:00 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 06:30 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 06:30 07:00 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 06:30 10:30 07:20 07:35 07:35 07:50 07:50 07:50 08:05 07:20 07:35 07:35 07:50 07:50 08:05 07:20 07:35 07:50 07:50 08:05 08:20 13:50 17:10 07:35 07:35 07:25 07:50 07:50 08:05 07:35 07:35 07:25 07:50 07:50 08:05 08:20 07:35 07:25 07:50 07:50 08:05 11:50
16:25 17:10 15:00 15:50 17:50 18:45 19:25 20:10 07:10 07:10 07:55 09:15 07:55 07:55 08:50 10:05
SUN 8M 711
SUN 8M 712
YANGON TO TAIPEI
MON CI 7916 WED CI 7916 FRI CI 7916 14:00 19:25 14:00 19:25 14:00 19:25
TAIPEI TO YANGON
MON CI 7915 WED CI 7915 FRI CI 7915 09:55 12:45 09:55 12:45 09:55 12:45
YANGON TO HEHO
MON W9 119 AW 761 YH 727 K7 224 6T 501 YH 731 K7 822 W9 115 AW 761 YH 811 K7 224 6T 501 YH 731 W9 119 YH 737 K7 224 6T 501 YH 731 AW 761 YH 811 K7 224 W9 109 6T 501 YH 731 K7 224 W9 109 6T 501 YH 731 K7 822 AW 751 W9 119 YH 811 K7 224 6T 501 YH 731 11:00 11:00 11:00 14:00 15:00 15:00 08:00 11:00 11:00 11:15 14:00 15:00 15:00 11:00 11:00 14:00 15:00 15:00 11:00 11:00 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:00 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:00 08:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 14:00 15:00 15:00 12:10 12:10 12:25 15:15 16:10 16:25 09:15 12:10 12:10 12:40 15:15 16:10 16:25 12:10 12:25 15:15 16:10 16:25 12:10 12:25 15:15 15:25 16:10 16:25 15:15 15:25 16:10 16:25 09:15 12:10 12:10 12:25 15:15 16:10 16:25
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YANGON TO KUNMING
TUE CA 906 14:15 17:35 14:15 17:35 14:15 17:35 14:15 17:35 14:15 17:35 WED CA 906 THUR CA 906 SAT SUN CA 906 CA 906
15:00 15:50 16:25 17:10 17:50 18:45 19:25 20:10 07:10 07:10 07:55 09:15 07:55 07:55 08:50 10:05
KUNMING TO YANGON
TUE CA 905 12:35 13:15 12:35 13:15 12:35 13:15 12:35 13:15 12:35 13:15 WED CA 905 THUR CA 905 SAT SUN CA 905 CA 905
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TUE
SITTWE TO YANGON
MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN 6T 612 W9 310 6T 612 W9 310 6T 608 W9 310 6T 612 W9 310 6T 608 W9 310 6T 612 W9 310 6T 612 12:55 15:00 12:55 15:00 13:15 15:00 12:55 15:00 12:55 15:00 12:55 15:00 12:55 14:20 16:45 14:20 16:45 14:40 16:45 14:20 16:45 14:55 16:45 14:20 16:45 14:20
MANDALAY TO YANGON
MON YH 634 AW 892 6T 406 6T 402 W9 262 6T 802 W9 021 AW 762 YH 728 6T 502 K7 825 W9 009 6T 406 6T 402 YH 910 W9 011 K7 229 YH 812 W9 251 W9 150 AW 762 YH 730 6T 502 08:35 08:35 08:40 08:55 10:50 13:20 14:10 16:25 16:30 17:20 17:50 08:30 08:40 08:55 09:25 09:25 11:15 13:25 13:35 16:20 16:25 17:20 17:20 10:00 10:30 10:40 10:55 12:15 14:45 15:10 17:50 17:55 19:25 19:15 09:30 10:40 10:55 10:50 11:10 12:40 14:50 15:00 17:45 17:50 18:45 19:25 THUR
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YANGON TO KOLKATA
Mon FRI IC734 IC734 13:30 16:40 13:30 16:40
KOLKATA TO YANGON
Mon FRI IC733 IC728 10:00 14:55 15:50 16:40
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FRI
YANGON TO SINGAPORE
MON 8M 231 MI 511 08:40 13:05 10:10 14:45
SINGAPORE TO YANGON
MON MI 512 8M 232 MI 518 07:55 09:20 14:10 15:35 14:20 15:45
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MON TUE 6T 707 AW 301 6T 707 K7 317 K7 317 AW 301 AW 301 6T 707 K7 317 AW 301 07:30 07:00 11:15 12:30 12:30 12:45 07:00 11:15 12:30 12:45 09:30 09:05 13:15 14:00 14:00 14:50 09:05 13:15 14:00 14:50
8M 233
MI 517 TUE 8M 231 MI 511
14:15 18:40
16:40 21:15 08:00 12:25 10:10 14:45
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MON VN 956 WED VN 956 FRI SAT VN 956 VN 956 19:10 21:30 19:10 21:30 19:10 21:30 19:10 21:30
8M 234
TUE MI 512 8M 232 MI 518
19:40 21:05
07:55 09:20 14:10 15:35 14:20 15:45
HANOI TO YANGON
MON VN 957 WED VN 957 FRI SAT VN 957 VN 957 16:35 18:10 16:35 18:10 16:35 18:10 16:35 18:10
SAT
SAT
8M 233
MI 517 WED 8M 231 MI 511 8M 6232 MI 517 THUR 8M 231 MI 511
14:15 18:40
16:40 21:15 08:00 12:25 10:10 14:45 11:25 15:50 16:40 21:15 08:00 12:25 10:10 14:45
8M 234
WED MI 512 8M 6231 8M 232 MI 518 THUR MI 512 8M 232 MI 518 MI 520
19:40 21:05
07:55 09:10 14:10 14:20 09:20 10:35 15:35 15:45
Domestic
6T = Air Mandalay W9 = Air Bagan AW = Asian Wings K7 = AIR KBZ YH = Yangon Airways FD & AK = Air Asia TG = Thai Airways
International
8M = Myanmar Airways International PG = Bangkok Airways MI = Silk Air VN = Vietnam Airline MH = Malaysia Airlines CZ = China Southern CI = China Airlines CA = Air China IC = Indian Airlines Limited W9 = Air Bagan 3K = Jet Star
MYEIK TO YANGON
MON TUE 6T 708 6T 708 K7 318 AW 302 AW 302 K7 318 6T 708 K7 318 AW 302 11:55 15:40 16:40 17:15 11:30 16:40 15:40 16:40 17:15 13:55 17:40 18:10 19:20 13:35 18:10 17:40 18:10 19:20
8M 233
MI 517 FRI 8M 231 MI 511 8M 6232 MI 517
14:15 18:40
16:40 21:15 08:00 12:25 10:10 14:45 11:25 15:50 16:40 21:15
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FRI MI 512 8M 6231 8M 232 MI 518 MI 520
19:40 21:05
07:55 09:10 14:10 14:20 15:20 09:20 10:35 15:35 15:45 16:40
YANGON TO GAYA
WED 8M 601 SAT 8M 601 09:00 10:30 09:00 10:30
GAYA TO YANGON
WED 8M 602 SAT 8M 602 11:30 15:00 11:30 15:00
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Dutch businessman Bay van der Bunt, 63, checks a cognac in a converted cow shed at his rustic farmstead on the outskirts of the southern Dutch city of Breda on February 16. Pic: AFP even thinking back then what it would one day become. In 1978, his collection got its first major boost when Van der Bunts father gave him a gift of some 100 bottles, presents my dad received while running a small gardening service company for the wellheeled in the area. My father said: You are out of your mind to collect liquor. Why dont you invest in something worthwhile? Well, I didnt listen, he said smiling. His collection has grown to more than 5000 dusty bottles, kept safely behind lock and key in a converted cow shed at his rustic farmstead on the outskirts of the southern Dutch city of Breda. The collection consists mainly of bottles of rare cognac and armagnac, distilled from French grapes, as well as a variety of ports, madeiras and rums. Asked whether he preferred cognac or armagnac, Van der Bunt just laughed: Its like asking a polygamist which one of his wives he loves the most. The crown prince of the collection is undoubtedly a six-litre bottle of 1795 Leopold Brugerolle, bought at an auction by Christies in 1990. It is the last remaining hand-crafted bottle in the world that accompanied Napoleon Bonapartes army on its campaigns and is valued at 138,000 euros ($182,000), said Van der Bunt. T h e r e s a l s o t h r e e complete sets of eight bottles of A. E. Dor cognacs, dating from 1805, 1811, 1834, 1840, 1858, 1875, 1889 and 1893 and valued at between 70,000 to 80,000 euros a set. Or a hand-blown bottle of 1789 Courvoisier & Curlier which will set a potential buyer back 49,000 euros,
YOUR STARS
By Astrologer Aung Myin Kyaw
Aquarius Jan 20 - Feb 18 Empathy is the heart and soul of giving. Let the joy of philanthropy enter your mind, and enhance your view of everything around you. Use your virtue to reach your goals, and you will feel much more contented than if you progressed in an underhanded way. Your communication skills will be very effective, particularly in smoothing out rough spots in love and social relationships. Pisces Feb 19 - Mar 20 No matter how negative the situation, endeavour to inject a positive element into it, to even out the results. Dont allow pessimistic influences to force you to change your values, especially those that drive you to help others in need. Spending time with a new circle of friends could lead to romance. Developing love in two hearts at once sometimes requires perseverance, but the results are well worth the effort. Aries March 21 - April 19 Nothing matters more than living with selfconfidence. Never forget your responsibilities to the family circle in which your life is rooted. Society is built upon trust, and someone who loses trust in others stands to lose everything. Make yourself a trusted friend in social circles,
and there will also be no problems in your love life. Taurus April 20 - May 20 A simple, well-rounded life requires purification with a smile. Someone is thinking of buying you a present or asking you for a date. Considerable profits are in store for you. Good news will remove doubt, but someone might try to undermine your confidence. Travel may lead to a new experience or even greater prospects. What distinguishes extraordinary people is how they respond when life sends one of its inevitable curves. Gemini May 21 - June 20 Success is not sexy but its all about working the basics of excellence with a passionate consistency. Stick to the fundamentals that you know in your heart to be true, and you will do just fine. Qualify yourself by taking responsibility for your role in what is not working in your life. Focus on being self-disciplined and valuing your family. Small daily gains will lead to giant results over time. Cancer June 22 - July 22 When thinking about the prospects of success and failure, do not allow your fears to overwhelm your faith. Personal and organisational greatness is not about revolution but evolution, so be sure to focus on small but consistent victories. The paradox of our wired world is that as we became more connected electronically, we become less connected emotionally. But love is more important than everything else,
and this requires the touch of another human being to feel connected. Leo July 23 - Aug 22 Do not neglect the power of breaking bread with family and friends, and try not to lose sight of the importance of human contact. A bright flame of passion is burning in someones heart for you. Reward yourself for your efforts, and learn to take solace in the positive results of your perseverance and exertion. Work towards achieving a higher level of diplomacy. Virgo Aug 23 - Sept 22 Your softness is hard enough to break the hearts of others, and you have the power to create beauty in the souls of those around you. Protect yourself from falling prey to greed, either on your part or from others. Show grace under pressure and in the face of interference from those who are too proud to see their own faults. Know when to retreat from the forces of destructive challenge and controversy. Libra Sept 23 - Oct 22 Present more of your positive and exulted nature to the world. No ones life is perfect, and you must face challenges both large and small. You must develop the willpower to choose to be strong and logical when things fall apart. Your beautiful qualities can inspire others to greater heights, and your well-developed spirit can win over beautiful hearts and souls. Scorpio Oct 23 - Nov 21 Try to be more productive, but at the same
time relax and have more fun. Discover that creativity comes when you are relaxed, happy and enjoying the moment. You need to make space for your genius to flow. Business is about loving the people who do business with you, and giving them more value than they have any right to expect. Your romantic relationship will flower. Sagittarius Nov 22 - Dec 21 Your first responsibility as a leader is to define reality, and the last is to say thank you to everyone who helped your project succeed. Connect with your wisdom each morning with enthusiasm and open your heart a little wider. Speak your own truth. Show your respect for the gift of life that has been given to you. Your love life will be as sweet as heavenly music. Capricorn Dec 22 - Jan 19 Work out the solution by analysing the elements of the problem in the context of the law of cause and effect. The big question for you is, What are you doing to help build a new and better world? Dont blame politicians and those around you; blaming others is a means of excusing yourself from responsibility. Believe that ordinary people every so often can do extraordinary things. Take personal responsibility for your part in the problems between you and your partner.
For a personal reading contact Aung Myin Kyaw, 4th Floor, 113 Thamain Bayan Road, Tamwe Township, Yangon. Tel: 0973135632, Email: [email protected]
Business
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Computer
SAI pON pON Computer Services (On Call) Networking & CCTV installation. Ph:09- 43052564 ,09-730-85511. TRUST Computer TutorZaua Kandawlay, 09730-22743, zauatahan @gmail.com. Graphic, Video editing, DTP, Basic. Reasonable price. Effective tutoring. I.C.S system solution : Computer Maintenance, Wireless Router Configuration, Window OS&SoftwareInstallation, Netowrk services direct to the Company , Office & Home. Available Contract service.Antivirus Software License + Update = 8,500 Ks. Ph: 09-540- 9712 MY INTERNET CAFE shop is 33 computers & included 3 special rooms. Good business place and main road. Two service ( ADSL & WIMAX) ph :502928, 09-540-8250. COMpUTER Basic: Course: TypingMyanmar / English, Using Internet / Email, Printing & Scanning, MicrosoftWord / Powerpoint. Fees : 20,000 Mon to Fri: Sat-Sun. Advance ProgramingFees 100,000. 3month Course: C#/VB window and web application project. Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008/2008R2. Real Web Hosting. 3Month, Mon Web Fri, Sat to Sun. Programming BasicFees 40,000. 2 month Couse: Visual Studio C#,VB (OOp Fundamental, Multi Threating etc) Mon to Fri:Sat Sun: Ph:09-504-2775. METDC Computer Center: I Office Course- 10000/-, DTP Course- 15000/-, Photoshop20000/-, Graphic Design- 25000/-, Auto CAD- 25000/-, Thuwun-na, Ph: 705484, www. ahmatadaryi. GENERAL Computer Services. Pls Contact 09-732-13407 COMpUTER Maintenance & Services Available Services: Annual Maintenance Contracts. On Call, At Site Servicing Network Installation & Configuration, Laptop Servicing, Data Recovery. Hot Lines: 09- 513-0617, 0980-0323
2012-13 academic year Matriculation English class can be available. Ph: 09-505-8164. TEACHING combination of Foreign & Myanmar Style/ Skillful Teachers, Teachers who have got Teaching experience in Singapore,Now back to Myanmar/Teaching for those who need Foreign teaching experience/ Study Guides for Grade 10, 11 and Intl school (ISY, MISY, ILBC, Total, PISM, Crane, MLA, Diplomatic, RV), GCSE, SAT , IELTS, TOEFL , Sayar Bryan, ME ( IT) or Sayar Htet Ph; 09215-0075, Saya Thet (MBBS)(09-731- 11782), Korean Native English Teacher Tr.Kim (after 6 pm) 655647/ Tr. Taw Ti ( after 6 pm) 09-730-35744 /Tr. Phyu 09-430- 83117 , Tr. Ahme B.Sc (IC) Ph: 09-730- 59265, Sayar Min Aung (B.E , IT) (09492-80490) (Korean English teacher for young learners). GUIDE FOR YOUNG Learners if you need to coach your child, you are welcome to contact us. We are ready to support with following subjects, English, Maths, Geography History, Science, Social English Language, Myanmar Language, [email protected] ABC PRESCHOOL, Subjects : English (4) Skills, Science, Basis Mathematics,Concepts, Myanmar, Hand Work, Drawing & Colouring, Performing Art, Social Studies, Poems , Songs & Rhymes, Excursion. Time Duration ; School Hour: 9:00-15:00 (Close only Sat & Sun). English, Chinese Language, Computer Course : Sat & Sun. No.17, Kamarkyi Rd, Thuwunna Yangon. Email :preschoolabc@ gmail.com IGCSE, May 2012 intake, tutoring services for all subjects. Straight A guaranteed. Call to find out more. 09 431 977 61. No (647) Pyay Rd Inya View Condo Kamayut.
Engineering Services (Installation,Repairing & Servicing) August Engineering Service. Tel; 09-731-10321, 586509 Email; aes. august@ googlemail. com C.L.T Ladies Fashion Tailoring (Use Centimeter Unit) Bldg. 8, Rm : 1 Yankin Lane Thwe 5, East Yankin, Ph: 09-73025931. OUTSCOURCING - We are a Engineering and Trading firm which is privately owned and lead by senior citizen that engineer with diversified experience of more than 30yearsinrelatedindustry. We are outscourcing the high-tech industrial equip-ments and products (Alcohol Meters, MOBREY Boiler Water Level Control, Draeger Water Vapour Tube, SWISS LOXX Chem-Bio Escape Mask, KROHNE Flow meter, DIABON Bursting Disc, Air-driven Double Diaphragm Pump, etc.,), Medical equipments (DREGER Products) and other products & equipments which especially you required from the Worldwide countries. And develop and consult the various types of Turnkey Projects (BUSE CO2 Plant, Drinking Water Plant, Cement Plant, Bio-Fuel/Diesel Plant, Pharmaceutical Plant, Vinegar Plant, R.O Seal & Crown Cork Plant, Effluent Treatment Plant, etc.,) . Add: 141(B), 1st Flr, Bayintnaung Rd, Hlaing. Tel: 513235, 09730-75047
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PROPERTY
HousingforRent
BAHAN, Golden Valley, 0.35 acre Land, big garden, 2 storey, ph line, semi-furnished, 4 MBR, US$ 3000 per month, Ph: 09-502-0969 CHINA TOwN apartment, lift, 17x59', Ph line, 2AC, 2MBR, Jacuzzi, Funished Room, water heater, US$ 1000/ 8Lakh per month, Ph: 09-502-0969 MAYANGONE, Pyay Rd, 0.5acre land, 2RC Storey new house, 5 master bed rooms, ph, Fully furnished, big garden, US$ 3500 Per month, Ph: 09-503-4954 KAMAYUT , Inya Rd 0.3acre land, 2.2RC Storey, 2MBR, 7BR, garden, ph line, US$ 3200 per month, Pls call 09-503-4954 BAHAN, : Shwe Gondaing, Condo, 7F, 1500 Sqf , Fully Furnished, Fully Furniture, 3 A/C, 1 MBR, 2 SBR ,1PH, 750USD, (Suitable to Rent for Foreigner), near down town, near golden Vally Call-01-569448, 09-73135900 BAHAN : New University Avenue Lane, Condo, 7F, 1500Sqft , Fully Furnished, Fully Furniture, 3 A/C, 1 MBR, 2 SBR, 1Ph, (Suitable to Rent for Foreigner), 800USD. Call-01569448, 09-731-35900 CHANTHA GONYAUNG Executive Codomi-niums - Penthouse/Rooms. - 4 rooms, 5 rooms. - Fully Furnished. - Amazing serenity and satisfactory facilities, club restaurant. - 24 hours electricity internet, cable TV. -Brookers welcome. -Interested parties pls call 430078 to 87 (Ext : 0,303), 09-430-85887, 09-430-85889, BAHAN,Kanbawza Rd, Golden Valley, Bahan, Yangon. 30x30 ft, 2 new stories building with 30x110 ft land. Backyard lawn and greenery. Very quiet place.1 master bed room and 2 bed rooms. Fully furnished. Best electricity in town. YCDC water. US$ 1200/mt.Can provide phone/internet depend on price. Ph: 09-732-06783 ,09-5010816. SUpERB location for TRUCKS parking in downtown area. 5 minutes drive from Hle Dan Junction. 15 minutes drive to Hlaing Thar Yar, airport. Dhama Thukha Kyaung Rd, Hlaing. 0.8 acres compound: (a) land only (b) 2 x 3-phase industrial power meter (c) 1 x phone landline pls contact 09 5012920 SOUTH OKKALAPA: 10 minutes drive from Sedona Hotel, Mya Thida Housing , Banglow , 2 story building, Fully furnish-ed, Fullyfurniture, 4 MB, 4SB, Ph, A/C, Good Neighborhood, 15 Lakhs, Foreigners welcome. Call - 01-569448, 09731-35900 BAHAN. (for Foreigner) Pearl Condo Tower D, 6 floor Fully Furnished about 1780 Sqft, 3BR. US$1800/mt 1 year Contract. Call: 09-5018701. BAHAN. Pearl Condo Tower E, 4th floor. Fully Furnished (including kitchen ware) Inclusive of electricity, water, wireless internet, satellite TV channels. about 1780sq ft, 3BR. US$3000/mt (nego) Payable Monthly Call: 095200654
Training
SUMMER SINGING course 2012 Commencing Date : 7th March, 2012. Completion Date : 30th May, 2012. Sessions (Tue + Thur) 9:00 am to 11:00 am (Wed + Fri) 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm (Sat + Sun) 10:00 am to 12:00 noon. Contact Address : UNIQUE Music Class - No.304 (A-4), Waizayantar Rd, 16/3 Quarter, Thingangyun, Yangon. Tel : 09-430-93361. GUITAR GUIDE To Home Ph:09-731-94925 UNITED KARATE - Aikido Combat Dojo No. 267, 5th Flr Pyay Rd (front of Dagon Center II) Myaynigone,Sanchaung Tel: 09-507-7634, 09567-0442 Monday, Wednesday, 18:00 to 20:00 - Sports Karate Friday, 18:00 to 20:00 Combat Karate (Sayargyi U Thaung Din Style) Member fees - 15,000 Kyats Registrat-ion Monthly - 10,000 Kyats. United Club old members: FOC Registration Monthly - 50% off - Moe Lwin. SMART Fitness Center : Invite to all of our customer, Grantee for over weight men & women (over 200 lb), to get always smart & healthy body, Available to discuss with skillful training teacher, Teach in systematically. Ph: 09730-17729. 142, 47th St, 1st Flr, Botataung.
Language
GUIDE (For Embassy family and others) When you stay in Myanmar,do you want to ask to your children to learn Myanmar language ? Call-09-732-23668 (ko soe thi aung) FOR FOREIGNERS Interested in learning Myanmar Speaking easily & effectively in a short time with Myanmar English Teacher. Save your time & money. Contact : 09517 9125. KEEN Intl Language Centre - Progressive Myanmar Language Private Classes for Foreigners who live in Myanmar. Effective Program for new sections are available. For more information, pls contact : keencentre @gmail. com TEACHER Daw Khin Thawda Aung, English Grammar & Speaking in 60 hrs. IELTS, TOEFL, GCE & SAT in 120 hrs. Tel: 556571, 09-508-9368. MyANMAR LANGUAGE Guide (For Embassy family and others) When you stay in Myanmar, do You want to ask to your children to learn Myanmar language? Call: 09514-6505, 09-73075265. 501846 Ext:191 (Christine) LEARN ENGLISH! In a quiet atmosphere and fun with an experienced teacher Certified in TEFL patient, friendly, organized Enjoys English language: daily conversations, business issues, preparation for examinations. Develop your skills: reading, writing, listening comprehension,conversation, grammar and vocabulary. Mode of work: textbooks, novels, magazines, newspapers, audio, video, etc. To all levels & ages individual
For Rent
CAR: Model : 90 Mark II Car No: 7A, Color: Dark Gray, Car Condition: Fine, Price : 5.5 lakhs per one month (Negotiable), Contact Person : Mr. Win Lwin Thant, Contact Ph : 09-43039613 HAVE YOUR OFFICE at the prestigious central towers for only 39000 kyats a month. Pls call 09-492-47013, 01-377151. For more details about the facilities and services offered.
Expert Service
TRANSLATION: Those who are looking for a competent translator; I provide English to Myanmar and Myanmar to English. Specialize in Novel, business and ngos materialsetc: Pls Contact Daw Maw Maw San ph: 09-431-97513 mail: maw. san @ gmail.com REAL ROPERTyService P If you want to buy,sell or rent Land, Condominium, apartment, house Office and need advice regarding with property, contact 0973135900,01-569448. DOwNLOADINGService :We offer services for downloading large file with fair price. Just contact us. info. futuretech. mm@ gmail. com Ph: 09-5160225,09-515-0720 COMpUTER TUTOR :Basic, DTP, Video, editing, Graphic, Zaua. Ph: 09 730 227 43zauatahan @ gmail. com No. 7, 7A, 89th St, Kandawlay, Yangon SEARCH pROpERTY Online : Are you looking to buy, rent, sell or rent out your property? Please visit us at: www.eainsearch.com or call: 09 732 493 78 REAL EASTE If you need Land, House Apartment, Office Room, Building to buy or sell you are welcome to contact [email protected] AIRCON & Electrical
For Sale
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available, K 1.45 lakhs each. (3) Used foam rubber double mattress, 78"x 66"x 6" K.30,000. (4) Used Yamaha Clavinova electronic piano - K 800,000. Ph: 09500-3248. Address: 114, Kayebin Rd, Dagon Tsp., near Childrens hospital. IpHONE 3GS - 16G White very very good All accessories with covers iOS 5.0.1 + jailbreak, unlock 250,000 ks. ph: 09-43184138 CHINA Generator (STC20KW, 3 Phase) 1-set (6-lakhs) Ph: 541351, 552729
Want To Buy
LOOKING TO buy a large, old home with a big garden in a quiet suburb, preferably away from the main road and not in Golden Valley. House must be structurally sound but does not have to be in A1 condition. For more information please call June on + (951) 501 437
Travel
ELEGANT MyANMAR Tours Company Ltd ! Special Promotion in April 2012 to welcome Myanmar New Year!! Trip to the Virgin Islands in Mergui Archipelago by cruise 6 Days 5 Nights (5 April 2012 to 10April 2012) 550000 Ks Now (Local) & 720 USD Now (Foreigner) Special promotion trip for launching a new Mergui Princess Boat ! 5 Days 4 Nights (11 April 2012 to 15 April 2012) & (18 April 2012 to 22 April 2012) Kawthaung, 115 Island, Nyaung Wee Island, Myauk Ni Island, Ranong for shopping 660 USD per pax (Foreigner) + 430000 Ks (Local) Book now with us! Email: mergui princess @gmail. com, Ph: 01-401261, +959-43064296 pACKAGE Tour to USA & Europe for April 2012 are available at United Treasure Travel (UT) with attractive offer. For booking & inquiry, just call to 09-731-77936, 09-5165219, 558866.
Want to hire
TO HIRE Suitable building to run an office (or) to take relax two bed rooms with bathroom attached About 7 miles from Pathein bridge road side of Pathein Ngwe Saung run way Contact: 09-5201910, 534580 VILLA OR CONDO (for foreigner) Bahan, Mayankone, Hlaing, Kamayut,Thingankyun, Yankin. RC, MB, SB, Water-Well & YCDC, Good Electricity, A/C, Ph, Attached to Garden, Furnished, Rent Rate - $600 ~ $1000. Pls contact by house owner to Ms. Hnin Si within office hours 9AM to 5PM556692, 540995 NEAR yUzANA PLAzA, warehouse to hire. Ph: 546309.
Food
DE CHEF Corner Bakery Since- 1999, Rm No.03, Ground Flr. Block C, Pearl Condo, Bahan, Yangon. Tel: 554253.
Public Notice
pHOTOGRApHY Especially food and interior photography for Hotels & Restaurant Contact ; Sam (Tel : 09731-74404) MYANMAR COOK Book A unique Myanmar Cook Book with recipes for practical usage, written in English by Daw Ena WinB.FastMo hinga,Ohn no Khauk swear, Shwe taung Khauk swear, etc . . .Rice & CurryChicken Curry, Duck Curry,Prawn Curry etc,Myanmar Style. Available in Yangon (1). Innwa Book Store, Pansodan St. Tel : 389838, 374234. (2).Myanmar Book Centre, Tel 221271 (3).Bishop store, Old Yaydarshay Rd, Bahan (4).Tab Book Center, Taw win Plaza, Tel: 8600042, 8600043 (Daw Ena Win & Associates) NYOON Book Dealing: Various kinds of Books regarding Business Management, Business
Education
SUMMER and regular English Classes: Four skills and grammar will be taught by an experienced teacher with international exposure:An ideal home tutor & will guide your children with special care and attention: Contact: Teacher Maw Maw:ph 09431 97513 maw. san@ gmail.com M.ED- degree holder English teacher with 35years English teaching experience can be contacted for individual English Speaking, IELTS or Matriculation Classes. Booking for
Want To Hire
A MNC that is planning to open an office in Yangon is seeking the following for short term and long term lease; Land Crusier, Pajero, and Toyota Hiace, air-con, and must be clean, to include driver. Pls quote on a daily, weekly & monthly lease terms.
Employment
Embassy
THE EMBASSY of the Republic of Korea is seeking one personal driver. Requirements : Age 25 to 40 years old. Communication in English (Korean can be assisted). Good Inter-personal skill. Good in Health. The interested person can send the lasted CV form to 97, University Avenue, Bahan, Yangon (Embassy of the Republic of Korea), Ph: 01-527142~44 Contact person: Honey Soe (Admin Department). The project activities focus on promoting participatory development approaches for the formation and capacity development of Self Help Groups to reinforce their existing livelihood activities, starting new income generating activities, provision of community-based Home Care service, training in Self Care, etc. The overall aim of the programme is to reduce poverty and vulnerability of older people and to facilitate their participation in community development. HelpAge International(Myanmar) is seeking qualified and experienced Myanmar national for a Receptionist post: Main responsibilities: Make schedules, greet visitors to the office, undertake responsibilities associated with developing travel itineraries/visit schedules for senior management staff and visitors including flight bookings, visa processing, hotel reservation, travel insurance, etc. Perform other duties as assigned by members of the Senior Management Team. Knowledge & experience: Graduate with at least 2-3 yrs experience in Secretary Field and fluent in English both written and spoken with good interpersonal skills; ability to work for long hours; computer literate, and strong familiarity with typing skills using both Myanmar and English fonts. Interested and qualified candidates are requested to send a Cover Letter and Curriculum Vitae to the Human Resources Unit of HelpAge International Myanmar Country Office, No 10 Kanbawza Avenue, Shwe-taun-gya Ward No. 1, Bahan Township, Yangon OR by email to hr.helpagemyanmar@ gmail. com no later than 5 p.m., Monday, 12th March, 2012. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified for interview. SOLIDARITES Int'l (SI) is looking (1) Deputy Programme Manager : MBA in Agriculture or other relevant University Degree. 4 years professional experience in project management. Good knowledge of Project Cycle Management. Fluent in English/ Excellent reporting skills. Good computer skills in particular for data processing and analysis; proficiency in MS Office. Knowledge of the Chin State and the project area is considered as an advantage. (2) Deputy Programme Coordinator : MBA in Agriculture or other relevant University Degree. 5 years of professional experience in project management. For 1, 2 : Previous experience with an INGO in implementing Agriculture/ Food Security/ Livelihood projects. Proficiency in English, Fluency in Myanmar language. High computer literacy. Pls submit application (CV, cover letter, references) to the attention of: Caroline Courtois, Programme Coordinator - Solidarites Int'l Office : 44-A, Taryarwa-ddy Lane, Sayar San Ward, Bahan, Yangon OR per email: hr.solidarites. rk. mm@ gmail.com (thanks to use basic excel, word or pdf format). Closing date: 9.3.2012 . MEDECINS du Monde (MDM) is seeking (1) Counselor (VCCT) 1 post in Yangon : Graduate or Degree. Good Knowledge in English. Good communication skill. (2) Nurse (ART Counselor) 1 post in Yangon : Graduate or Degree. 1 year experience with HIV/ AIDS & ART patients. Basic English. Good communication & counseling skills. Team spirit. Pls submit CV and a cover letter to MDM Yangon Office. 16, Kan Yeik Thar St, Mayangone, Ph: 662604, 652658 (OR) Email: hr. mdmmyanmar @ gmail. com MALTESER Int'l is looking for a project Manager in Pauktaw & Myebon, Rakhine State : Preferably Master degree or equivalent professional experience in the fields of rural development; 4 years experience in project management including managing human resources, logistics and budgets; Excellent communication skills including a good sense of diplomacy & discernment; Fluent in Myanmar & English. Proficient in Microsoft Office (particularly Word, Excel, & Power Point), Previous working experience in Rakhine State is a strong asset. Pls submit application incl. CV, 2 photos, copies of educational certificate, National ID, & references to Malteser Int'l Country Office: # 1415 (6F), Pyi Taw Aye Yeik Thar St, Yankin, Email: hr.co. malteser@ gmail. com Closing date: 05th March, 2012 various school principals to contact school visit & presentation. Source and indentify potential agents to built up close contact with, and collaborate with agent to tap in to agents recruitment networks. Motivate team player, who contributes to achieve enrollment targets. Pls send in a detailed resume (stating current & expected salaries) along with a recent photograph to Rm : 809, 8 flr, La Pyayt Wun Palza, Singnal Pagoda Rd, Dagon Tsp. Or Tin Nilar Wynn (renmyanmar3 @myanmar. com.mm) not later than 10th March 2012. QUALIFIED individuals interested in competing for the below vacancies should submit their applications directly to the Logistics Media Service Co., Ltd. (1) Marketing & Advertising Manager - - 1 post (2) Senior Account Executive - 7 post (3) Senior Marketing Executive 7 posts (4) Marketing Assistants - 20 posts. Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, & Experience: Bachelors degree holder with 5 years proven experience or MBA with 3 years in marketing & advertising field especially with expertise in media servics industry. Bachelors degree in Economics with 2 years experience or LCCI second level with 2 year experience. Bachelors degree holder with 3 years experience in Marketing & advertising. Bachelors degree holder ability to learn quickly, demonstrate critical thinking, & make situation-appropriate decisions using sound judgment. Outstanding interpersonal & communication skills. Experience working in a high-paced, small company environment. To Apply: Pls submit a letter of interest, a detailed resume listing qualifications & experience with supporting documents & certificates to 297, Rm. 3, 2nd Flr, Corner of Mahabandoola Rd., & Bogalay Zay St., Botahtaung, Yangon or logimedia@ myanmar. com.mm before end of March 2012. ALBA requires experienced part time Art & Music teachers. Prefer teachers familiar with western Art and Music programs. 66, Shwedagon Pagoda Rd, Dagon Tsp, Yangon. Ph: 376236, 376314, Email: admin@ albaedu.com NATIVE English speakers wanted for part time teaching at ALBA. Experience preferred. We have current vacancies. 66, Shwedagon Pagoda Rd, Dagon Tsp, Yangon. Ph: 376236, 376314, Email: admin@ albaedu.com (1) BRAND MANAGER - M/F 1 post : University Degree & higher qualification such as MPA (or) MBA/ Masters degree is an added advantage. 2 ~ 3 years experiences. Excellent written & oral commu-nication skills in English Good computer skills on all common Microsoft applicants. (2) Accountant - F 3 post : B.Com (or) LCCI Level III. 2-3 years experience. Good computer skills on all common Micro-soft applications & accounting software. (3) Sales Executive & Respresentative M/F 6 posts: University Graduate (MBA holder prefer). 2 ~ 3 years experiences. Age 25 ~ 30. Can speak English fluently. Can use MS excel, word,pagemaker. Pls submit a cover letter & detailed CV with relevant document & a recent photo to: Rm 807, 8th Flr, La Pyayt Wunn Plaza, Dagon Tsp. Closing date: 15th March 2012. SAVOy HOTEL is urgently looking for (1) Chief Engineer - 1 post: must have 5 yrs experience in related fields. (2) HR/payroll Assistant - 1 post : must have at least 2 years experience. (3) Receptionists - 1 posts (4) waiter/waitress 3 posts. (5) Driver - 1 post. For Position 3, 4 & 5 must have at least 1 year experience in hotel fields. Application letter by email to operations @ savoyhotel-yangon. com or 129, Dhamma-zedi Rd, Yangon. Tel: (95-1) 526298, 526289. BAGAN THANDE Hotel Group Co., Ltd. is looking for Reservation Manager or Asst. Reservation Manager : Age 25-35 to be appointed for Yangon Office : 5 years experience in related field, positive attitude, Excellent writing and good communication skills in Myanmar and English, good personality, able to use computer (Microsoft word & Excel) & Internet & Email knowledge. Pls submit CV with other testimonial to : 75 (D), Banyadala Rd, Bahan , near Shin Par Ku Clinic. Ph: 546225/6, 543963. wE are urgently seeking (1) General Manager - M 1 post. (2) HR Manager M/F 1 post. (3) Logistic Manager - M 1 post.(4) Business evelopment D Manager - M/F 1 post. (5) Business Development Dy Manager/ Asst Manager - M/F 1 post. (6) Senior Executive (Commer-cial) - M/F 2 posts.). (7) Senior Accountant-M/F2posts. (8) Business Development Executive M/ F 2 posts. (9) Manager for Executive Office M/F 1 post. Pls submit an application letter, with full CV detailing experience, knowledge & skills. Pls include the names & contact details of referees to HR Department : hrd1@ pristine myanmar. com or PO Box 428 or No.B/7, Taw Win Rd, 9 Mile, Mayangone within 2 weeks. THABICO Manufacturing & Trade Company (THABICO) is seeking Information Recruiment 1 post : Age 23 ~ 30. Minimum in Bachelors Degree in Food Science/ Chemical within related field. Strong technical knowledge; Good sales & negotiation skills; Team work, ability to learn fast; Decision making and problem solving skills. Good communi-cation & written English. Pls send full resume, stating current & expected salary, and enclosing a recent photograph to : Nguyen Van Bay/ U Thein Zaw : 629/631, Pyay Rd, Kamayut . Tel: 503603/ 534439, 09-5415513. Email: vanbay. nguyen 76@ gmail.com or duyphuong@thabico. com wE ARE seeking to appoint experienced Travel Consultant & Product Executive. Please contact Nature Travels & Tours. Tel: 255 620, 09-501 1287 Email: adm.trails. myanmar @ gmail.com M-SPIRAL is an exciting new IT and marketing company opening in Yangon is seeking web & Graphic Designer : 3 years experience in both web & graphic design. Experience in Photoshop CS3 and Illustrator. Self-motivator with artistic flair.Send CV, cover letter and folio/links to hr@mspiral. com. web developer: 2 years experience in web development. Must have expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP and MYSQL. Wordpress experience preferred. Self-motivator with strong critical thinking & problem solving skills. Send CV, cover letter and folio of weblinks to hr@ mspiral.com.Finance and Administration Officer : 3 years experience in accounting & office administration. Self-motivator with strong critical thinking skills. Bachelors degree in accounting or related discipline. Send CV & cover letter to hr@ mspiral.com. Content writer: 3 years experience in print media and/or marketing. Strong English writing skills & translation experience. Corporate & entertain-ment writing & experience preferred. Send CV, cover letter , 3 recent English & Myanmar language writing samples to hr@ mspiral.com. Applications close March 6th. URGENTLy Required: (1) project Director, (2) Project Manager, (3) Site Manager. The applicants for the all the above mentioned positions must be degree holder of BE - Civil. Project location is Kyauk Phyu. Good command in English is an added advantage. Interested & qualified persons are welcomed to submit full CV, detailing skills, knowledge & experience with recent color passport sized photo-graph and copies of the testimonials to the contacts below. Ph: 09-731-89577, 221134, 218387. Feel free to contact for detail information. Mail: Application can be submitted via Email [email protected]. Pls mark applied position in front of CV. Attractive salary. Urgently required. ADVERTISING Agency Looking for an outgoing & creative Male to join our video editing team. Salary Negotiable. Knowledge of Adobe software, 2D/3D animation & editing software with min. 1 year working experience. Ability to be a team player and must be able to work independently and under tight deadlines. Call : 09-5069346 for an appointment. THE E4Y is a school education program for out-of-school-youngsters. It is an opportunity for children between the age of 13-17 years that have to leave the normal school system due to difficult circumstances. We are looking for Subject Teacher - M/F: Age under 40. Able to speak & to write English fluently. Able to work with computer very well. Experience in the related field. What we offer: Work in a friendly motivated team. Guidance & instructions of experienced teachers. Correct salary. Pls summit application form with references not later than 15 March 2012 to Vocational Orientation Program for Out-ofSchool- Young-sters/ E4Y, No : 65, Kyaikwine Boys Training Center, Kyaik-wine Pagoda Rd, Mayangone, Tel: 09731-04683.
INGO Position
HelpAge International is a global network of notfor-profit organisations. HelpAge mission is to work with our partners to ensure that people everywhere understand how much older people contribute to society and that they must enjoy their right to healthcare, social services and economic and physical security. HelpAge is widening the scope of its work in Myanmar & expanding to new geographical locations. Currently, HelpAge, in collabo-ration with relevant Government agencies and partners, in implementing projects that support older people and other vulnerable groups by strengthening their livelihood and food security, health and DRR capacities in Ayerawaddy, Mandalay and Sagaing Regions.
Local Position
A SINGApORE based trading firm having branch in Yangon is looking for an import marketing executive for sales of various items to its customers in Myanmar. Candidates should have back-ground of international trade or shipping and speak/write good English. Interested candidates may forward their C.V to lilani. vatsal@ gmail.com. SpINE ARCHITECTS A Local Architectural Firm Seeks Architect (all levels) : Diploma & Work Experience a Plus, All must know AutoCad well. 3-D modeling & Rendering skills a plus. Senior project Manager : 5 years + experience in design & construction, review & supervision of working drawings, site management, detailing ability. Autocad proficiency a plus but not essential. Civil/ Structural Engineer : 3 years + experience in structural design & construction. ETABS and Autocad proficiency required. M&E Engineer : 3 years experience in design/ installation: Electrical loading calculations & distribution Generator, voltage regulation, switch systems. Air con calculations & system planning Sanitary & piping systems. Low voltage systems (telephone, networking) Lighting. Autocad familiarity will be helpful. Foreign work experience & knowledge of int'l code preferred. Admin Assistant Any graduate, : good com-munication, English & Computer skills required. one year experience, Pls send CV with recent photo, indicating education, work experience & expected salary to SPiNE Architects at 15/A, West Parami Rd, Mayangone (Across RC-2). Ph: 660 996, 667770. Email: admin@ SPiNE architects. com Closing date: 30 March 2012 RAFFLES Education Corporation is seeking Education Consultant to be a part of our international marketing teams. We would like to invite you to join us for a challenging career and opportunities for personal growth and development. Education Consulant F 2 Posts : A minimum of Bachelor Degree holders with 2 to 4 years experience, preferably in sales and marketing ,cost management indust-ries. Good communi-cation skills & comfortable in public speaking, must be able to speak English. Able to travel to various cities in Myanmar. Initiative individual, who strives to achieve enrollment targets. Responsi-bilities : Co-ordinate & attend marketing activities such as, Education Fairs and Seminars. To penetrate into potential target markets & develop close relationship with
The Essentials
EMBASSIES Australia 88, Strand Road, Yangon. tel : 251810, 251797, 251798, 251809, 246462, 246463, fax: 246159 Bangladesh 11-B, Than Lwin Road, Yangon. tel: 515275, 526144, fax: 515273, email: [email protected]. mm Brazil 56, Pyay Road, 6th mile, Hlaing Tsp, Yangon. tel: 507225, 507251, 507482. fax: 507483. email: Administ.yangon@ itamaraty.gov.br. Brunei 317/319, U Wizara Road, Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon. tel: 526985, 524285, fax: 512854 email: bruneiemb@ bruneiemb.com.mm Cambodia 25 (3B/4B), New University Avenue Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 549609, 540964, fax: 541462, email: RECYANGON @mptmail. net.mm China 1, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 221280, 221281, 224025, 224097, 221926, fax: 227019, 228319 Egypt 81, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 222886, 222887, fax: 222865, email: egye mbyangon@mptmail. net.mm France 102, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 212178, 212520, 212523, 212528, 212532, fax: 212527, email: ambaf rance. rangoun@ diplomatie.fr Germany 9, Bogyoke Aung San Museum Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 548951, 548952, fax: 548899 email: info@rangun. diplo.de India 545-547, Merchant Street, Yangon. tel: 391219, 388412, 243972, fax: 254086, 250164, 388414, email: indiaembassy @mptmail. net.mm Indonesia 100, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 254465, 254469, 229750, fax: 254468, email: kukygn @indonesia.com.mm Israel 15, Khabaung Street, Hlaing Tsp, Yangon. tel: 515115, fax: 515116, email: info@ yangon.mfa.gov.il Italy 3, Inya Myaing Road, Golden Valley, Yangon. tel: 527100, 527101, fax: 514565, email: ambyang.mail@ esteri.it Japan 100, Natmauk Road, Yangon. tel: 549644-8, 540399, 540400, 540411, 545988, fax: 549643 Embassy of the State of Kuwait Chatrium Hotel, Rm: No.416, 418, 420, 422, 40 Natmauk Rd, Tarmwe Tsp, Tel: 544500. North Korea 77C, Shin Saw Pu Road, Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon. tel: 512642, 510205, fax: 510206 South Korea 97 University Avenue, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 527142-4, 515190, fax: 513286, email: hankuk@ kore mby.net.mm Lao A-1, Diplomatic Quarters, Tawwin Road, Dagon Tsp, Yangon. tel: 222482, fax: 227446, email: Laoembcab@ mptmail. net.mm Malaysia 82, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 220248, 220249, 220251, 220230, fax: 221840, email: mwkyangon@mptmail. net.mm Nepal 16, Natmauk Yeiktha, Yangon. tel: 545880, 557168, fax: 549803, email: nepemb @mptmail.net.mm Pakistan A-4, diplomatic Quarters, Pyay Road, Yangon. tel: 222881 (Chancery Exchange) fax: 221147, email: pakistan@ myanmar. com.mm Philippines 50, Sayasan Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 558149-151, fax: 558154, email: p.e. [email protected] Russian 38, Sagawa Road, Yangon. tel: 241955, 254161, fax: 241953, email: rusinmyan@mptmail .net.mm Serbia No. 114-A, Inya Road, P.O.Box No. 943Yangon. tel: 515282, 515283, fax: 504274, email: serbemb@ yangon.net.mm Singapore 238, Dhamazedi Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 559001, fax: 559002, 559922, email: singemb_ ygn@_ sgmfa. gov.sg Sri Lanka 34 Taw Win Road, Yangon. tel: 222812, fax: 221509, email: slembassy. [email protected], [email protected], www.slembyangon.org Thailand 94 Pyay Road, Dagon Township, Yangon. tel: 226721, 226728, 226824, fax: 221713 United Kingdom 80 Kanna Road, Yangon. tel: 370867, 380322, 371852, 371853, 256438, 370863, 370864, 370865, fax: 370866 United States of America 110, University Avenue, Kamayut Township, Yangon. tel: 536509, 535756, 538038, fax: 650306 Vietnam Building No. 72, Thanlwin Road, Bahan Township, Yangon. tel: 511305, fax: 514897, email: vnemb myr@ cybertech.net.mm Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia No.287/289, U Wisara Rd, Sanchaung Tsp. tel : 01-536153, 516952, fax : 01-516951 UNITED NATIONS ILO Liaison Officer Rm (M1212~1220), 12 Fl-A, Traders Hotel. 223, tel: 242 393, 242811. fax: 242594. IOM 12th Flr, Traders Hotel, 223, tel: 252560 ext. 5002 UNAIDS Rm: (1223~1231), 12 Fl, Traders Hotel. tel: 252361, 252362, 252498. fax: 252364. UNDCP 11-A, Malikha St, Mayangone tsp. tel: 666903, 664539. fax: 651334. UNDP 6, Natmauk Rd, Bahan tel: 542910-19. fax: 292739. UNFPA 6, Natmauk Rd, Bahan tsp. tel: 546029. UNHCR 287, Pyay Rd, Sanchaung tsp. tel: 524022, 524024. fax 524031. UNIAP Rm: 1202, 12 Fl, Traders Hotel.tel: 254852, 254853. UNIC 6, Natmauk St., BHN tel: 52910~19 UNICEF 14~15 Flr, Traders Hotel. P.O. Box 1435, KTDA. tel: 375527~32, fax: 375552 email: unicef.yangon@unicef. org, www.unicef.org/myanmar. UNODC 11-A, Malikha Rd., Ward 7, MYGN. tel: 666903, 660556, 660538, 660398, 664539, fax: 651334. email: [email protected] www. unodc.org./myanmar/ UNOPS Inya Lake Hotel, 3rd floor, 37, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Mayangone Tsp. tel: 951657281~7. Fax: 657279. UNRC 6, Natmauk Rd, P.O. Box 650, TMWE tel: 542911~19, 292637 (Resident Coordinator), fax: 292739, 544531. WFP 3rd-flr, Inya Lake Hotel, 37, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd. tel: 657011~6 (6-lines) Ext: 2000. WHO 12A Fl, Traders Hotel. tel:250583. ASEAN Coordinating Of. for the ASEAN Humanitarian Task Force, 79, Taw Win st, Dagon Township. Ph: 225258. FAO Myanma Agriculture Service Insein Rd, Insein. tel: 641672, 641673. fax: 641561.
General Listing
ACCOMMODATIONHOTELS
Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon 40 Natmauk Rd, Tarmwe. tel: 544500. fax: 544400. Summit Parkview Hotel 350, Ahlone Rd, Dagon Tsp. tel: 211888, 211966. fax: 227995. Thamada Hotel 5, Alan Pya Phaya Rd, Dagon. tel: 243639, 243640, 243641. Traders Hotel 223 Sule Pagoda Rd. tel: 242828. fax: 242838. Winner Inn 42, Than Lwin Rd, Bahan Tsp. tel: 535205, 524387. email: winnerinnmyanmar @gmail.com Yangon YMCA 263, Mahabandoola Rd, Botataung Tsp. tel: 294128, Yuzana Hotel 130, Shwegondaing Rd, Bahan Tsp, tel : 01-549600, 543367 Yuzana Garden Hotel 44, Alanpya Pagoda Rd, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp, tel : 01-248944
AIR CONDITION
Chigo No. 216, 38 Street (Upper), Kyauktada Tsp, tel : 373472
No.7A, Wingabar Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. Tel : (951) 546313, 430245. 09-731-77781~4. Fax : (01) 546313. www.cloverhotel.asia. [email protected] Confort Inn 4, Shweli Rd, Bet: Inya Rd & U Wisara Rd, Kamaryut, tel: 525781, 526872 Golden Aye Yeik Mon Hotel 4, Padauk Lane, 4th Word, Aye Yeik Mon Housing, Hlaing. tel: 681706. Hotel Yangon No. 91/93, 8th Mile Junction, Mayangone. tel : 01-667708, 667688. Inya Lake Resort Hotel 37 Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd. tel: 662866. fax: 665537. Orchid Hotel 91, Anawrahta street, Pazundaung Township, Yangon, . Tel: 399930, 704740, 293261. E-mail: orchidhotel@myanmar. com. mm.
The First Air conditioning systems designed to keep you fresh all day GUNKUL Engineer supply Co., Ltd. No.437 (A), Pyay Road, Kamayut. P., O 11041 Yangon, Tel: +(95-1) 502016-8, Mandalay- Tel: 02-60933. Nay Pyi TawTel: 067-420778, E-mail freshaircon@gkmyanmar. com.mm. URL: http:// www.freshaircon.com General 83-91, G-F, Bo Aung Kyaw St, Kyauktada Tsp, tel : 706223, 371906
Reservation Office (Yangon) 262-264, Pyay Road, Dagon Centre, A# 03-01, Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 95-1-501937, 536255, 09-520-0926.
The Oasis Hotel (Nay Pyi Taw)
ASTROLOGER
Saya Min Thoun Dara Astrologer No(2), Maha Wizaya Pagoda North Stairway, Dagon Tsp. tel: 296184
BARS
50th Street 9/13, 50th street-lower, Botataung Tsp. Tel-397160.
Emergency Numbers
Ambulance tel: 295133. Fire tel: 191, 252011, 252022. Police emergency tel: 199. Police headquarters tel: 282541, 284764. Red Cross tel:682600, 682368 Traffic Control Branch tel:298651 Department of Post & Telecommunication tel: 591384, 591387. Immigration tel: 286434. Ministry of Education tel:545500m 562390 Ministry of Sports tel: 370604, 370605 Ministry of Communications tel: 067-407037. Myanma Post & Telecommunication (MPT) tel: 067407007. Myanma Post & Tele-communication (Accountant Dept) tel: 254563, 370768. Ministry of Foreign Affairs tel: 067-412009, 067-412344. Ministry of Health tel: 067-411358-9. Yangon City Development Committee tel: 248112. HOSPITALS Central Womens Hospital tel: 221013, 222811. Children Hospital tel: 221421, 222807 Ear, Nose & Throat Hospital tel: 543888. Naypyitaw Hospital (emergency) tel: 420096. Workers Hospital tel: 554444, 554455, 554811. Yangon Children Hospital tel: 222807, 222808, 222809. Yangon General Hospital (East) tel: 292835, 292836, 292837. Yangon General Hospital (New) tel: 384493, 384494, 384495, 379109. Yangon General Hospital (West) tel: 222860, 222861, 220416. Yangon General Hospital (YGH) tel: 256112, 256123, 281443, 256131. ELECTRICITY Power Station tel:414235 POST OFFICE General Post Office 39, Bo Aung Kyaw St. (near British Council Library). tel: 285499. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Yangon International Airport tel: 662811. YANGON PORT Shipping (Coastal vessels) tel: 382722 RAILWAYS Railways information tel: 274027, 202175-8.
INYA1 Resturant & Bar No.(1), Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp. Tel: 01-527506 email: [email protected] www.inya1.com
Strand Bar 92, Strand Rd, Yangon, Myanmar. tel: 243377.fax: 243393, [email protected] www.ghmhotels.com
Lobby Bar PARKROYAL Yangon, Myanmar. 33, Alan Pya Phaya Road, Dagon Tsp. tel: 250388.
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BEAUTY & MASSAGE
MYANMAR BOOK CENTRE Nandawun Compound, No. 55, Baho Road, Corner of Baho Road and Ahlone Road, (near Eugenia Restaurant), Ahlone Township. tel: 212 409, 221 271. 214708 fax: 524580. email: info@ myanmarbook.com
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COLD STORAGE ENTERTAINMENT GAS COOKER & COOKER HOODS
24 hours Laboratory & X-ray No. 330, Ground Flr, Yangon Intl Hotel, Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: (951) 218388, (951) 218292 Fax: (951) 218389
A Little Dayspa No. 475 C, Pyi Road, (Between Sweety Home & Shwe Kant Kaw Silk) Kamayut, Yangon. Tel: 09-431-28831.
La Source Beauty Spa 80(A), Inya Rd, Kamayut. tel: 512 380, 511 252. Sedona Hotel, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd. tel: 666 900 My Way Diamond Condo, Bld(A), Rm (G-02), Pyay Rd, Kamayut Tsp, Yangon. Ph: 52717, 09 51 70528
Building Materials
Est. 1992 in Myanmar Cold Storage Specialist, Solar Hot Water Storage Solutions. Tel: 09-504-2196, 09-73194828. E-mail: gei.ygn2@ gmail.com, glover2812@ gmail.com
Dance Lessons Mon-Fri 12:00 to 23:00. Sat-Sun 10 am to 8 pm Fun dancing Friday nights with Filipino musicians 4, U Tun Myat St, Tamwe. Tel: 01-541 550 The Uranium Dance Studio Pearl condo Bldg (C), 2nd flr, Bahan Tsp. Tel: 09731-42624, 09-514-0404.
Yangon : A-3, Aung San Stadium (North East Wing), Mingalartaungnyunt Tsp. Tel : 245543, 09-730-37772. Mandalay : Room No.(B,C) (National Gas), 35th St, Btw 80th & 81st, Chanayetharzan Tsp. Tel : 09-6803505, 02 34455, 36748, 71878.
DUTY FREE
Traders Hotel, 5th Floor Tel: 242828,Ext: Coreana. Sedona Hotel, Mandalay Ground Fl. Tel: 02-36488, Ext: Coreana Zamil Steel No-5, Pyay Road, 7 miles, Mayangone Tsp, Yangon. Tel: (95-1) 652502~04. Fax: (95-1) 650306. Email: zamilsteel@ zamilsteel.com.mm
GENERATORS
FITNESS CENTRE
Duty Free Airport Shopping Yangon International Airport Arrival / Departure. tel: 662676 (Airport). office: 90B/1, Inya Road, Kamayut Township. tel: 512534, 500143-5. Espace Avenir 523, Pyay Rd, Kamayut Tsp, Tel : 505214, 505222 FIT Club - Rm 101~3, Marina Residence, 8, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Mayangone Tsp, Tel : 650634, 650651 Ext:102 Parkroyal Fitness & Spa Parkroyal Yangon. 33, Alan Pya Phaya Road, Dagon Tsp. Tel: 250388. Winning Way No. 589-592, Bo Aung Kyaw St, Yangon-Pathein highway Road. Hlaing Tharyar tsp. Tel: 951645178-182, 685199, Fax: 951-645211, 545278. e-mail: mkt-mti@ winstrategic.com.mm
Qi Foot Spa At Inya Lake Hotel, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: +951-662866, 662857 Ext: 1725
24 hours Cancer centre No. 330, Yangon International Hotel, Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: (951) 218388, 218292 Fax: (951) 218389
SR 22/1, Next to the Pearl Shopping Centre, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. tel: 544 297, 549 527, 700 777 , fax: 558 044. email: eros@ mptmail.net.mm. www.erosspa.com
CAFS
EDUCATION CENTRE
Zen Wellness Care No.62 (A), Room-3, Yaw Min Gyi Street, Dagon Tsp, Yangon. Tel: +951-252939. La Brasserie (International) PARKROYAL Yangon. 33, Alan Pya Phaya Road, Dagon Tsp. tel : 250388. MHR Business & Management Institute 905, 9th floor, Modern Iron Market(Thanzay Condo) Lanmadaw St. tel: 707822. NELC (Nelson English Language Centre Young Learner & Adults No 53, Dhamayon Street, Myaynigone, Sanchaung Tsp. tel: 534287 NLEC 82 Anawrahta Rd, Corner of 39 St, Kyauktada Tsp. tel: 250225. RV! Centre Yangon Tel: 535433, 541886, 242410, 250388 Ext: 333. email: [email protected] The British Council 92, Strand Rd, Kyauktada Tsp. tel: 254658.
HOME FURNISHING
BATTERY
Lemon Day Spa No. 96 F, Inya Road, Kamaryut Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 514848, 09-732-08476. E.mail: lemondayspa.2011 @gmail.com Saw Peter Foot Reflexology Oil Massage, Body Massage, Foot Massage. Any time you want at your place. Tel : 09-518-8047.
Mr. Betchang No.(272), Pyay Rd, DNH Tower, Rm No.(503), 5th flr, Sanchaung Tsp, Tel: 095041216 The Yangon GYM Summit Parkview Hotel 350, Ahlone Rd, Dagon Tsp. tel: 211888, 211966. Traders Health Club. Level 5, Traders Hotel Yangon#223 Sule Pagoda Rd, Tel: 951 242828 Ext: 6561
22, Pyay Rd, 9 mile, Mayangone Tsp. tel: 660769, 664363. Home Plus Trading Co., Ltd. No. 457, Aung San Stadium, Mingalartungnyunt Tsp. tel: 394888. Fax: 393008.
24 hours Medical centre No. 330, Ground Flr, Yangon Intl Hotel, Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. 24 hour Call Centre : (951) 218 445 Clinic : (959) 4921 8159 Office : (951) 218 446 Fax : (951) 218 389 www.leomedicare.com
Shimmering Gold Services Co., Ltd.
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Proven Technology Industry Co., Ltd. No. FS 14, Bayintnaung Rd, Shwe Sabai Yeik Mon, Kamayut Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 951-951-701719~20, 527667, 531030, 531041, 530694. Fax: 527667, 531030. http//www. toyobatterymyanmar.com.
INYA1 Resturant & Bar No.(1), Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp. Tel: 01-527506 email: [email protected] www.inya1.com Traders Caf Traders Hotel, Yangon. #223, Sule Pagoda Rd. Tel: 242828 ext: 6519
HEALTH SERVICES
FLORAL SERVICES
CHOCOLATE
81, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 548022, 542979, 553783, 09-8030847, 09-730-56079. Email: asiapacific. [email protected].
VEJTHANI MYANMAR REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE No.125(C), West Shwe Gon Dine Road, Bahan Township, Yangon, Myanmar. 01-3449977. Hot Line: 09-507-1111, 01-555448, 555998. [email protected] www.vejthani.com
LEGAL SERVICE
U Min Sein, BSc, RA, CPA.,RL Advocate of the Supreme Court 83/14 Pansodan St, Yangon. tel: 253 273. [email protected]
BOOK STORES
ELECTRICAL
16/2, Inya Rd, Kamayut Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: 537907, 503375.
Room - 4021, 3rd Floor, Taw Win Centre. Ph: 8600111 (Ext:4021), 09-803-2581.
Innwa Book Store No. 246, Rm.201/301, GF, Pansodan Street (Upper Block), Kyauktada Tsp. Tel. 389838, 243216, 374324, 514387
G-A, Ground Floor, Pearl Center, Kabaraye Pagoda Road, Yangon. Tel: 09 500 6880 Email: chocolateheaven. [email protected]
Est. 1992 in Myanmar Electrical & Mechanical Contractors, Designers, Consultants. Tel: 09-504-2196, 09-73194828. E-mail: gei.ygn2@ gmail.com, glover2812@ gmail.com
Floral Service & Gift Shop No. 449, New University Avenue, Bahan Tsp. YGN. Tel: 541217, 559011, 09-860-2292. Market Place By City Mart Tel: 523840~43, 523845~46, Ext: 205. Junction Nay Pyi Taw Tel: 067-421617~18 422012~15, Ext: 235. Res: 067-414813, 09-49209039. Email : eternal@ mptmail.net.mm
Agent Office, 5th Floor, Junction Centre (Maw Tin), Lanmadaw Township, Yangon. Myanmar. Ph: 09-731-56770, 09-5117584, Fax: 01-516313, myanmarmeditour@gmail. com Bumrungrad Intl Rm 238, Summit Parkview Hotel, Dagon Tsp. tel: 723999, 211888. Ext: 8238.
Floral Service & Gift Centre 102(A), Dhamazaydi Rd, Yangon.tel: 500142 Summit Parkview Hotel, tel: 211888, 211966 ext. 173 fax: 535376.email: sandy@ sandymyanmar.com.mm.
Top Marine Show Room No-385, Ground Floor, Lower Pazundaung Road, Pazundaung Tsp, Yangon. Ph: 01-202782, 09-851-5597
Foral Service & Gifts shop No.2, Corner of Khay Mar St & Baho Rd (Near Asia Royal Hospital), Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon. email: yangonflorist@ myanmar.com.mm. Tel: 01-510406, 09-73184714.
No. 365/367, Bo Aung Kyaw st (Upper), IHBC, Kyauktada Tsp. Tel: 392484 , 389824, 09803-0166. Fax: 392590. Email: radiant.aesthetics @gmail.com. Web: www. kembanganradiant.com
MARKET RESEARCH
MMRD Research BLDG C, New Mingalar Market, 10-story BLDG, 8 & 9 flr, Coner of Mill St & Banyardala Rd, Mingalar Taungnyunt Tsp. Tel: 200326, 200846, 201350. Fax: 202425.
Acupuncture, Medicine Massage, Foot Spa Add:No,27(A),Ywa Ma Kyaung Street, Hlaing Township, Yangon. Tel: 01-511122, 526765. Piyavate Hospital (Bangkok) Myanmar Represent ative (Head office) Miba Gon Yee Business Group, No.506, 5th-fl, Yuzana Twin Tower, (No.8, Pangyan Tower) Cor of Dhama Zedi & Bargayar Rd, SCHG Tsp. Tel: 500600, 500800, 500900. Fax: 539799. hotline: +9595018777. piyavate@ myanmar.com.mm www.piyavate.com PHIH-Specialist Clinic FMI Centre (4th Floor) #380, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Pabedan Tsp. tel: 243 010, 243 012, 243 013
Foam Spray Insulation No-410, Ground Floor, Lower Pazuntaung Road, Pazuntaung Tsp, Yangon. Telefax : 01-203743, 09730-26245, 09-500-7681. Hot Line-09-730-30825.
FURNITURE
NatRay Co., Ltd. Rm 807, La Pyayt Wun Plaza. tel : 01-370833, 370836
Intuitive Design, Advertising, Interior Decoration Corporate logo/Identity/ Branding, Brochure/ Profile Booklet/ Catalogue/ Billboard, Corporate diary/ email newsletter/ annual reports, Magazine, journal advertisement and 3D presentation and detailed planning for any interior decoration works. Talk to us: (951) 430-897, 553-918 www.medialane.com.au 58B Myanma Gon Yaung Housing, Than Thu Mar Road, Tamwe, Yangon.
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Signature Near U Htaung Bo Round, about Bahan Tsp. tel: 546488, 543387.
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Kangaroo Child Care 55, Aung Min Gaung 1st Rd, Kamayut Tsp. Tel: 501 568, 09 504 7732. Streamline Education 24, Myasabai Rd, Parami, Myangone Tsp. tel: 662304, 09-500-6916. No.35(b), Tatkatho Yeik Mon Housing, New University Avenue, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 951-549451, 557219, 540730. www.yangon-academy.org
OFFICE FURNITURE
Schenker (Thai) Ltd. Yangon 59 A, U Lun Maung Street. 7 Mile Pyay Road, MYGN. tel: 667686, 666646.fax: 651250. email: sche [email protected].
Centure Office Furniture Monday to Saturday (9am to 6pm) No. 797, MAC Tower II, Room -4, Ground Floor, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Lamadaw Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: (951) 212944 Ext: 303 sales.centuremyanmar@ gmail.com www.centure.in.th
Kohaku Japanese Restaurant Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon 40, Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp, Lobby Level, Tel: 544500 Ext 6231
PLEASURE CRUISES
Bo Sun Pat Tower, Bldg 608, Rm 6(B), Cor of Merchant Rd & Bo Sun Pat St, PBDN Tsp. Tel: 377263, 250582, 250032, 09-511-7876, 09-862-4563.
Bldg No. 12, Yangon Intl Compound, Ahlone Road. Tel: 09-431-85008, 09-731-60662. [email protected]
ASIA Language & Business Academy (All classes are taught by native English-speaking teachers), No-66, Shwedagon Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel:+95-1376236, 376314, 384055. http://www.alba-edu.com
Enchanting and Romantic, a Bliss on the Lake 62 D, U Tun Nyein Road, Mayangon Tsp, Yangon Tel. 01 665 516, 660976 Mob. 09-512-7795 [email protected] www.operayangon.com The Ritz Exclusive Lounge Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon 40, Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp, Ground Floor, Tel: 544500 Ext 6243, 6244 Horizon Intl School 25, Po Sein Road, Bahan Tsp, tel : 541085, 551795, 551796, 450396~7. fax : 543926, email : contact@horizonmyanmar. com, www.horizon.com ILBC 180, Thunandar 9th Lane, Thumingalar Housing, Thingungyung.tel: 562401.
SOLAR SYSTEM
RESTAURANTS
Moby Dick Tours Co., Ltd. Islands Safari in the Mergui Archipelago 4 Days, 6 Days, 8 Days Trips Tel: 95 1 202063, 202064 E-mail: mobydicktours@ gmail.com. Website: www. moby-dick-adventures.com
24 hours open. 5, Alan Pya Phaya Rd, Dagon Tsp, inside Thamada Hotel. tel 243640, 243047, Ext: 32.
The Brightest AC CFL Bulb 21, 9th street, Lanmadaw Tsp. Ph: 212243, 216861, 216864. [email protected] www.spsolarstation.com
22, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Bahan Tsp. tel 541997. email: leplanteur@ mptmail.net.mm. http://leplanteur.net Tiger Hill Chinese Restaurant Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon 40, Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp, Lobby Level, Tel: 544500 Ext 6253 Traders Gourmet Corner Level 1, Traders Hotel, #223 Sule Pagoda Road, Kyauktada Tsp. Tel : 242828 ext : 6503 Traders Gallery Bar Level 2, Traders Hotel, #223 Sule Pagoda Road. tel: 242 828. ext: 6433 Traders Lobby Lounge Level 1, Traders Hotel, #223 Sule Pagoda Road. tel: 242 828. ext: 6456
STEEL CONSTRUCTION
City Mart (78th Brahch-Mandalay) tel: 02-71467~9. (9:00 am to 10:00 pm) IKON Mart IKON Trading Co., Ltd. No.332, Pyay Rd, San Chaung P.O (11111), Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: 95-1-535783, 527705, 501429. Fax: 95-1-527705. Email: [email protected] Ocean Supercentre (North Point ), 9th Mile, Mayangone Tsp. tel: 651 200, 652963. Pick n Pay Hyper Market Bldg (A,B,C), (14~16), Shwe Mya Yar Housing, Mya Yar Gone St, Mingalartaungnyunt Tsp. Tel: 206001~3, Fax: 9000199 Sein Gay Har 44, Pyay Rd, Dagon Tsp. tel: 383812, 379823. Super 1 (Kyaikkasan) 65, Lay Daunt Kan St, Ph: 545871~73 Super 1 (Shwe Bonthar) 397, Bogyoke Aung San St, Pabedan. Ph: 250268~29 Victoria Shwe Pone Nyet Yeik Mon, Bayint Naung Rd, Kamaryut Tsp. tel : 515136.
Lunch/Dinner/Catering 555539, 536174 Road to Mandalay Myanmar Hotels & Cruises Ltd. Governors Residence 39C, Taw Win Road, Dagon Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. tel: (951) 229860 fax: (951) 217361. email: [email protected] www.orient-express.com Black Canyon Coffee & International Thai Cuisine 330, Ahlone Rd, Dagon Tsp. Tel: 0980 21691, 395052. email: blackcanyon@ yangon. net.mm.
No.5, U Htun Nyein St, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Mayangone Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 656611, 09-431-35406. Email: info@ mesamisyangon.com Monsoon Restaurant & Bar 85/87, Thein Byu Road, Botahtaung Tsp. Tel: 295224, 09-501 5653.
ILBC IGCSE SCHOOL No.(34), Laydauntkan Road, Tamwe Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 542982, 545720, 549106,545736,400156 Fax: 541040 Email: [email protected] www.ilbcedu.com ISM Intl School W 22/24, Mya Kan Thar Housing, Hlaing Tsp. tel:530082, 530083. International School Yangon 20, Shwe Taung Kyar St, Bahan Tsp. Tel: 512793.
PEB Steel Buildings 60 (A), Halpin Road, Yangon. Tel: 01-218223, 218224. Fax: 218224. [email protected]. mm www.pebsteel.com.mm
TRAVEL AGENTS
SUPERMARKETS
Asia Light 106, Set Yone Rd.tel: 294074, 294083. Capital Hyper Mart 14(E), Min Nandar Road, Dawbon Tsp. Ph: 553136. City Mart (Aung San Branch) tel: 253022, 294765. (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) City Mart (47th St Branch) tel: 200026, 298746. (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) City Mart (Junction 8 Branch) tel: 650778. (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) City Mart (FMI City Branch) tel: 682323. City Mart (Yankin Center Branch) tel: 400284. (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) City Mart (Myaynigone Branch) tel: 510697. (9:00 am to 10:00 pm) City Mart (Zawana Branch) tel:564532. (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) City Mart (Shwe Mya Yar Branch) tel: 294063. (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) City Mart (Chinatown Point Branch) tel: 215560~63. (9:00 am to 10:00 pm) City Mart (Junction Maw Tin Branch) tel: 218159. (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) City Mart (Marketplace) tel: 523840~43. (9:00 am to 10:00 pm)
Asian Trails Tour Ltd 73 Pyay Rd, Dagon tsp. tel: 211212, 223262. fax: 211670. email: res@ asiantrails.com.mm Htoo Travels 209/c, first flr, Shwe Gonedaing Rd, Bahan. Tel: 548554, 548039. Sun Far Travels & Tours 27, Ground flr, 38th st, Kyauktada Tsp. Tel: 380888.
PAINT
No.430(A), Corner of Dhamazedi Rd & Golden Valley Rd, Building(2) Market Place (City Mart), Bahan Tsp, Yangon. Tel : 01-523840(Ext-309), 09-73208079.
TOP MARINE PAINT No-410, Ground Floor, Lower Pazundaung Road, Pazundaung Tsp, Yangon. Ph: 09-851-5202
REMOVALISTS
Crown Worldwide Movers Ltd 790, Rm 702, 7th Floor Danathiha Centre, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Lanmadaw Township. tel: 223288, 210 670, 227650. ext: 702. fax: 229212. email: crown [email protected]
Italian delicatesse & Ice-cream No.150, Dhamazadi Rd, Bahan Tsp. (Monunent Book Shop) Open Daily 9:00am to 7:00pm. Italian Ice-cream, Pasta, Pizza & Bar (2) G/F, City Mart, Myaynigone Centre. tel : 508469, 508470 ext. 113 Open Daily 9:00am to 10:00pm.
No. 105/107, Kha-Yae-Bin Road. between Pyi Daung Su Yeik Tha (Halpin) and Manawhari Road/Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp. Tel/Fax: 538895, Tel: 09730-29973, 09-540-9469.
padonmar.restaurant@ gmail.com. www.myanmarrestaurantpadonmar.com
Admissions Office: No. 44, Than Lwin Road, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 535433, 09-850-3073. Email: rviacademygn@ rvcentre.com.sg
WATER HEATERS
Legendary Myanmar Intl Shipping & Logistics Co., Ltd. No-9, Rm (A-4), 3rd Flr, Kyaung St, Myaynigone, Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 516827, 523653, 516795. Mobile. 09-512-3049. Email: legandarymyr@ mptmail.net .mm www.LMSL-shipping.com
House of Memories Piano Bar & Restaurant Myanmar Cuisine & International Food 290, U Wizara Rd, Kamaryut Tsp, Yangon. tel: 525 195, 534 242. e-mail: houseofmemories [email protected]
Pansweltaw Express Cafe: 228, Ahlone Rd, Ahlone Tsp. Tel: 215363 (1)-Rm-309, 3rd flr, Ocean, East Point Shopping Center, Pazundaung Tsp. Tel: 397900 Ext: 309. (2)G-Flr, Ocean North Point Shopping Center. Tel:652959, 652960, Ext: 133. www.pansweltaw.com E-mail: pansweltaw@ myanmar.com.mm
1. WASABI : No.20-B, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Yankin Tsp,(Near MiCasa), Tel; 666781,09-503-9139 2. WASABI SUSHI : Market Place by City Mart (1st Floor). Tel; 09-430-67440 Myaynigone (City Mart) Yankin Center (City Mart) Junction Mawtin (City Mart)
95, Anawrahta Rd. Tel:296552, 293754. 336, Pyay Rd, Sanchaung Tsp. Tel: 526456. New University Avenue, 551521, 551951, 553896. U Wisara Rd, Tel: 524599, 501976.
The Global leader in Water Heaters A/1, Aung San Stadium East Wing, Upper Pansodan Road. Tel: 251033, 09-730-25281.
Water Heater
WEB SERVICES
Phoenix Court (Chinese) PARKROYAL Yangon. 33, Alan Pya Phaya Road, Dagon Tsp. tel: 250388.
Kandawgyi (Royal Lake) Park, Yangon. (opposite of Eye Hospital) Ph: 556837, 556838. Fax: 556875. E-mail: [email protected] www.whiterice-myanmar. com
LANGUAGE
Bilingual Language Centre Teaching Myanmar to Non-Myanmar No.7 (Gournd Floor), Thu-Kha-Main Street, Myaynigone, San Chaung. Tel: 09-500-6431, [email protected]
INYA1 Resturant & Bar No.(1), Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp. Tel: 01-527506 email: [email protected] www.inya1.com
Shiki-Tel (Japanese) PARKROYAL Yangon. 33, Alan Pya Phaya Road, Dagon Tsp. tel: 250388.
Yangon International School Fully Accredited K-12 International Curriculum with ESL support No.117,Thumingalar Housing, Thingangyun Township, Yangon. Tel: 578171, 573149 www.yismyanmar.net Yangon International School New Early Childhood Center Pan Hlaing Golf Estate Housing & U Tun Nyo Street, Hlaing Thar Yar Township, Yangon. Tel: 687701, 687702
World-class Web Services Tailor-made design, Professional research & writing for Brochure/ Catalogue/e-Commerce website, Customised business web apps, online advertisement and anything online. Talk to us: (951) 430-897, 553-918 www.medialane.com.au 58B Myanma Gon Yaung Housing. Than Thu Mar Road, Tamwe, Yangon.
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previously worked as a youth academy director for Yangon United FC, giving them a slight advantage of some familiarity with Myanmar National League clubs. YUFC were not well prepared for the match with the team losing four influential players in Kyi Lin, David Htan, Yan Aung Win and Kaung Si Thu to the national U-21 squad for the Brunei Cup. Another player, Khin Maung Lwin, was out injured. I am very upset about having to lose five players, four for Brunei and one injured, the head coach of YUFC, Mr Eric Williams, said. He also had an eye on the next MNL match against Yadanarbon FC as it is a crucial one for the league. Forced to prioritise, Mr Williams fielded a second string squad against BEC Tero Sasana. For us the more important thing is to win at Yadanarbon. Thats why I changed so many players, he said. Mr Ord also rested many of his regular players, giving chances to some of the teams younger players. I used young players in the game because I would like to see them [in action]; I found them satisfactory, he said. With the absence of the wingers Kyi Lin and David Htan, YUFCs left and right attacks were visibly blunted. In midfield the players battled hard to keep possession in the face of sustained pressure from the Thai side but the difference between the teams was telling as YUFC struggled against Tero Sasanas passing and teamwork. It took 23 minutes for Ponlachai to head the ball into YUFCs net for the opening goal. The second goal came late in the second half on 83 minutes when Cleiton Augusto rounded Saw El Htoo, YUFCs goal keeper, and almost snatched a second when the keeper came rushing past his defenders to take on the
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A YUFC player (2nd right) swings in a cross during the friendly match against BEC Tero Sasana at in Yangon on February 27 Pic: Boothee forward. YUFC did manage to pose a threat to Tero Sasana but couldnt turn any chances into goals. We just couldnt score today. We missed two sure chances in the first half and in the second too, Mr Williams said. After the game, Mr Ord said that if YUFC kept playing at the same standard, they could prove difficult opponents in the upcoming AFC cup. However, YUFCs first match in the competition, playing on March 7, is against Chonburi FC, runners-up in the Thai Premier League. Our club has two players selected for the national team whereas Chonburi has six and many experienced players. Yangon United will have to prepare well, he said. I hope our players in the Brunei cup could come back for the match with Chonburi, said Mr Williams, but if the U-21 squad goes all the way to the semi-final, they wont.
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Clinical French see off depleted Germany
Arjen Robben (3rd left) of The Netherlands scores the opening goal against England at Wembley Stadium in London on February 29. Pic: AFP By Ryland James BREMEN, Germany France gave themselves a pre-Euro 2012 boost with a 2-1 friendly win over an injury-depleted Germany in Bremen on February 29 as the Germans suffered their first defeat in 11 games. A first-half goal by Frances Olivier Giroud, who then set up substitute Florent Malouda for the second, inflicted the first defeat on Joachim Loews Germany since they were beaten by the same margin by Australia last March. Germanys Brazil-born striker Cacau scored a late consolation for the hosts, but the French deserved the win. It was a disciplined performance from France who open their Euro 2012 campaign against England in Donetsk on June 11 and Laurent Blancs side dominated a weakened German team lacking five firstchoice players. Germany were missing captain Philipp Lahm, his deputy Bastian Schweinsteiger, midfielders Mario Goetze and Lukas Podolski, plus defender Per Mertesacker with injury, but their replacements failed to cope with the French. Loew opted to give youth a chance in midfield with Moenchengladbachs exciting prospect Marco Reus alongside Real Madrids skilled playmaker Mesut Ozil and Leverkusens Andre Schuerrle but it was only Ozil who really tested the French. France were also missing injured pair Madrids Karim Benzema and Marseilles Loic Remy. Germany had a couple of early chances, but the French took the lead after a superb run from Montpelliers Mathieu Valbuena who found his club teammate Giroud unmarked to bury his shot past Wiese on 21 minutes. Ozil attempted a long-range strike on the stroke of half-time which flew the wrong side of the post as it finished 1-0 to the French at the break. Loew switched Miroslav Klose for Bayern striker Mario Gomez, who took over the captains armband, after the break and Blanc swapped Paris Saint Germains Jeremy Menez for Franck Ribery on the left wing. The second goal came when Giroud played the ball into Malouda who managed to scramble the ball over the line with the help of the crossbar on 69 minutes. It could have been more as only the offside flag prevented Tottenham Hotspurs veteran striker Louis Saha getting the third after he found the net with time almost up while Cacau grabbed the Germans consolation on 91 minutes. AFP
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the wish of our government, he said. Confidence is very important for national reconciliation in our country. Civil war has gripped parts of Myanmar since independence in 1948 and an end to the conflicts as well as alleged human rights abuses involving the military is a key demand of the international community. U Thein Sein a former prime minister who came to power almost a year ago after decades of military rule has launched efforts to end ethnic conflict as part of a raft of reforms. The new government has reached tentative peace deals with several rebel groups including in eastern Karen and Shan states, but bloody fighting in Kachin State has overshadowed reconciliation efforts. A presidential order issued in mid-December for the military to cease attacks against Kachin guerrillas failed to stop heavy fighting in the region, according to the rebels. U Thein Sein acknowledged that the unrest had not yet ended but said he had instructed the military not to engage in combat except in self-defence. Fighting will not stop by pointing the finger of blame at each other, he added. Ceasefires are needed on both sides first for political dialogue ... We all have to work so our ethnic youths who held guns stand tall holding laptops. Myanmars regime held initial peace talks with representatives of the Kachin Independence Organisation in January in China, with the two sides agreeing to hold further negotiations in search of an end to the conflict. Last week Daw Aung San Suu Kyi herself sometimes distrusted by ethnic minorities appealed for unity among the countrys different groups as she campaigned in Kachin State ahead of April 1 by-elections. AFP
Myanmars President U Thein Sein (bottom C) greets members of parliament after he delivered a speech at the Union Parliament in Naypyidaw on March 1, 2012. Pic: AFP PHOTO / SOE THAN WIN about how they would try to bring peace and economic development to our country, he said. But I believe that the advantages [of a pay rise] will outweigh the disadvantages ... [inflation and commodity price rises] will have to be handled whenever pay rises are done, so it is better if it is done now. But U Sai Hsaung Hsi, th e r epr esen tativ e for Kyaukme, said a wellmanaged pay hike would not necessarily result in prices rising. It may be true if money is printed to pay for pay raises. But there will be no inflation if budgets are changed without affecting the GDP-to-deficit ratio, he said. Commodity prices went up a few days ago not because of news about pay raises but because of the exchange rate for [US dollars] sharply fluctuating from K760 to K830. Traders also cannot increase prices in a market economy where there is strong competition. Representative U Ye Tun urged the government to improve its tax collection system in order to raise the funds for a pay rise. Previously when there was a pay rise it was financed by printing new bills because extra revenue could not be collected, he said. Collecting revenue doesnt mean collecting it from public. There is a lot of money that doesnt go into the governments treasury even though it is from the public. Just look at the list of Myanmars top 10 taxpayers where are the well-known business tycoons? There are clearly some rich people who are evading paying tax. He said border trade tax collection also needed to be improved. If the full amount of revenue is collected and new bills are not printed, commodity prices wont go up, he said. Representative U Sai Thiha Kyaw said parliamentarians had expected too much from the presidents speech. The hluttaw will proceed with discussing budgets as planned; it will revoke things that should be revoked, it will withdraw things that should be withdrawn, he said. The motion about pay raises has already been approved so it cant be revoked. But we have to wait and see to what extent the government will carry it out. Translated by Thit Lwin
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88 Generation leader Min Ko Naing speaks at an event in Kachin State on February 24, with the Myitsone in the background. Pic: Shwe Yinn Mar Oo