Traditional Myanmar Make up (Thanaka)

A girl’s face with a yellowish paste on her cheeks will always provoke a question from a foreigner: What is that they put on their faces? That is thanaka paste, the most environmentally friendly and widely used skin lotion in Myanmar. No chemicals, no preservatives, the lotion that helps the skin retains its youthfulness. In a modern world of fashion where various makeup brands and anti-aging lotions are the essential weapons against the...

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Burma Rejects U.N. Rights Envoy’s Claim of Attack

 Burma said a U.N. human rights envoy was well-protected during a visit to a city wracked by religious violence, brushing off his claims that police did nothing as a 200-strong Buddhist mob descended on his car, kicking the windows and doors and shouting abuses. President Thein Sein’s spokesman, Ye Htut, said Thursday that U.N. rights rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana was never in any danger. Members of the crowd, he said, approached the convoy only to give him a letter and a T-shirt, “so what Quintana said is very different from the...

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ျမန္မာမ်ား အေပ်ာ္စီး သေဘၤာျဖင့္ ျပည္ပသို႔ လည္ပတ္မႈမ်ား ရႇိလာ၍ သေဘၤာခရီးစဥ္မ်ား ေစ်းကြက္ျမႇင့္တင္ရန္ ေဆြးေႏြး

ျမန္မာလူမ်ဳိးမ်ား ျပည္ပသို႔ ခရီးစဥ္မ်ား ထြက္ခြာ လည္ပတ္ရာတြင္ အေပ်ာ္စီးသေဘၤာ ခရီးစဥ္ျဖင့္လည္း သြားေရာက္ လည္ပတ္မႈမ်ား ရႇိလာသည့္အတြက္ အဆိုပါ ခရီးစဥ္မ်ားႏႇင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ေစ်းကြက္ျမႇင့္တင္ရန္ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ ျမန္မာခရီးသြား အခ်ဳိ႕သည္ ယခုႏႇစ္ ၾသဂုတ္လ လယ္ပုိင္း၌ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ရႇိ အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာ သီလ၀ါ ဆိပ္ကမ္းမႇတစ္ဆင့္ အေပ်ာ္စီး သေဘၤာခရီးစဥ္ လိုက္ပါခြင့္ရရႇိၿပီးေနာက္ ရက္သတၲပတ္ ၀န္းက်င္အၾကာ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၂ ရက္က ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ရႇိ ပါ့ခ္႐ိြဳင္ရယ္ဟိုတယ္၌ ကမၻာလႇည့္ ခရီးသည္တင္ အေပ်ာ္စီး သေဘၤာလိုင္း Star Cruises ႏႇင့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရႇိ ျပည္ပခရီးစဥ္ စီစဥ္ပုိ႔ေဆာင္ေနသည့္...

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Government announces allocation of 20 million cubic feet of natural gas to Kyauk Phyu

The state-run Newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported that Government will allocate only 20 million cubic feet of natural gas per day to Kyauk Phyu in Rakhine State. On completion, the Kyauk Phyu-Kunming natural gas pipeline will transport a total of 500 million cubic feet of gas per day. 400 million cubic feet will be delivered to China and only 100 million cubic feet will be reserved for local use. According to the official announcement, the gas pipeline will be transporting 5.2 billion cubic feet of gas each year. Kyaw Soe Oo, spokesman...

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US businessmen to invest in Myanmar hotel sector

The Ministry of Hotels and Tourism announced that American businessmen have offered to invest in the hotel sector as privately owned enterprises or joint ventures with Myanmar partners. The announcement was made after Senator Jim Webb, Christopher Kingsley from Brownstone Furniture and special delegates met with U Htay Aung, Minister of Hotels and Tourism. The Americans have expressed interest to invest in Yangon, Pyin Oo Lwin and Bagan, to accommodate the growing number of visitors to Myanmar. The Ministry of Hotel and Tourism office...

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Upper House MP Tin Mya, who is a member of the Union Bills Joint Committee, said that the growth rate of Naypyitaw was the highest in the country during the financial year 2012-13. The Union Bills Joint Committee report was presented by MP Tin Mya to the Parliament during the Seventh session of the first Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (Union Parliament) held on August 8. Speaking on the issue Tin Mya, said that the Joint Committee analyzed implementation-work...

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Tender invitation to build 400 telecommunication stations

The Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology is seeking partner companies to bid on tenders for building of 400 telecommunication stations across the country. As part of the government's business expansion plan, tenders are invited from local and international companies for building radio stations, site requirement and survey, technical buildings, mobile cell towers, power systems, supply and installation of air conditioners...

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Land near the Hanthawaddy International Airport Project are selling like hot cakes in spite of skyrocketing prices after the announcement of the construction project contract award to a Korean construction consortium. According to real estate dealers even in Yangon land deals were struck at lower prices but in Bago, near the Hanthawady Airport Project, land deals are made at a much higher price. The current land prices near the Hanthawaddy...

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UK - South East Asia Knowledge Partnership- 4th September (Deadline)

As part of the UK-Southeast Asia Knowledge Partnership, the Southeast Asia Science and Innovation team is seeking applicants for Collaborative Development Awards. Please see details here and get the application form: Funding to develop collaboration between partners in Southeast Asia and UK - News articles - GOV.UK The awards are intended to support visits or short secondments by Southeast Asia researchers and policymakers to the UK, or vice versa, in order to develop specific proposals for future collaboration. Priority will be given...

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President approves law on Central Bank AutonomyOliver Slow

President U Thein Sein on Thursday last week signed a law that will give the Myanmar Central Bank more autonomy from the Ministry of Finance, opening the way for development of the country’s fledgling banking sector. The new law is the latest in a series of economic and political reforms made by the quasi-civilian government led by U Thein Sein, aimed at opening up Myanmar’s economy to the international community who has taken keener interest...

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ျမန္မာတစ္ႏုိင္ငံလံုးတြင္ ဟုိတယ္ ၈၃၄ လံုး ဖြင့္လွစ္ခြင့္ျပဳထားၿပီး မႏၲေလးတုိင္း ေဒသႀကီးတြင္ ဟုိတယ္ ၂၅၃ လံုး၊ အခန္း ၉၆၆၃ ခန္းျဖင့္ အမ်ားဆံုး ဖြင့္လွစ္ထား

ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္၏ အဓိက ခရီးသြားေဒသျဖစ္ေသာ အင္းေလးကန္မွ ဟုိတယ္တစ္လံုးကုိ ေတြ႕ရစဥ္ (ဓာတ္ပုံ-ေအာင္မ်ဳိးသန္႔) ျမန္မာတစ္ႏုိင္ငံလံုးတြင္ ဟုိတယ္ ၈၃၄ လံုးအထိ ဖြင့္လွစ္ခြင့္ျပဳထားၿပီး ဇူလုိင္လကုန္ စာရင္းမ်ားအရ မႏၲေလးတုိင္း ေဒသႀကီးတြင္ ဟုိတယ္ ၂၅၃ လံုး၊ အခန္း ၉၆၆၃ ခန္းျဖင့္ အမ်ားဆံုး ဖြင့္လွစ္ထားကာ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းေဒသႀကီးတြင္ ဟုိတယ္ ၂၁၃ လံုး၊ အခန္း ၉၂၉၄ ခန္းျဖင့္ ဒုတိယအမ်ားဆံုး ဖြင့္လွစ္ထားေၾကာင္း ဟုိတယ္ႏွင့္ ခရီးသြားလာေရးလုပ္ငန္း ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန၏ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္အရ...

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Myanmar to implement rural development program

Myanmar's Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries will join hands with local and foreign businessmen to implement a rural development program, according to officials.  Minister Ohn Myint made the announcement during a meeting with governmental bodies, NGOs, businessmen and experts in Myanmar Peace Centre on August 17. "The policy of Rural Development Department cooperated with the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries is development for socio-economic life of rural people. That’s why we are going to distribute 49 enterprises to local and...

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Tomás Quintana speaking at a press conference in Yangon International Airport Myanmar is moving forward despite facing critical challenges in national reconciliation and human rights according to U.N. envoy. U.N. special rapporteur Tomás Quintana was speaking at a press conference to mark the end of his 10-day mission on August 21 at Yangon International Airport. "Myanmar is moving forward in a significant number of areas, which has brought...

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ေငြက်ပ္ ၁၅ဝဝ တန္ ဖုန္းလုိင္း ကတ္မ်ား ျပင္ပ ေပါက္ေစ်း ျမင့္ေနေသာ္လည္း ေစ်းကြက္ အတြင္း ေရာင္းခ်ရန္ ကတ္ ျပတ္လပ္ လ်က္ရွိ

ရန္ကုန္  ၾသဂုတ္  ၂၂ ရန္ကုန္ ၿမိဳ႕တြင္းရွိ မိုဘိုင္းလ္ဖုန္း ဆုိင္မ်ားတြင္ ေငြက်ပ္ ၁၅ဝဝ တန္ တန္ဖုိးနည္း ဖုန္းမ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ CDMA 800MHz ႏွင့္ GSM လိုင္းကတ္မ်ားမွာ ျပင္ပေပါက္ေစ်း အျမင့္ဆံုး ရွိေနေသာ္လည္း ေစ်းကြက္အတြင္း ေရာင္းခ်ရန္ ကတ္မရွိေလာက္ေအာင္ ျပတ္လပ္လ်က္ ရွိေၾကာင္း ဖုန္း ေရာင္းဝယ္ေရး ေစ်းကြက္ အတြင္းမွ စံုစမ္း သိရသည္။ ၾသဂုတ္ ပထမပတ္ႏွင့္ ဒုတိယပတ္တြင္ ေငြက်ပ္ ၁၅ဝဝ တန္ ဖုန္းလိုင္းကတ္မ်ား ဝယ္လို အားႏွင့္ ေရာင္းလိုအား ျမင့္တက္ခဲ့ၿပီး ယခုအခါ ေစ်းကြက္အတြင္း CDMA 800MHz ႏွင့္ GSM လုိင္းကတ္ မ်ားမရွိသေလာက္ ရွားေနေၾကာင္း ယင္းကာလအ...

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SPA, Yoma Strategic unveil ‘landmark’ project for Yangon

The former Ministry of Railways head office and the surrounding 10 acres in Yangon will be transformed into a US$350-million mixed use “landmark” project, a spokesperson for the company planning the project said last week. Serge Pun and Associates (SPA), in conjunction with Singapore-listed Yoma Strategic Holdings, announced on November 20 that it would redevelop the company’s 10-acre plot, which houses FMI Centre, Grand Mee Ya Hta Hotel...

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