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Myanmar Times
April 27, 2018
Earlier this month, Pulse joined 30 participants - mostly university students aged 18 to 30 - on a tour of a century-old mosque and an Armenian Church on Bo Aung Kyaw Street in Yangon. So far over a hundred people have been on the tour while 49 people have already signed up for the tour this weekend.
Frontier Myanmar
April 26, 2018
U Aung Kyaw Htoo, the ministry's deputy secretary for domestic and international relations and information, told Frontier on April 12 that the minister did not say precisely whether he would approve or reject the project. “What he said was that if the public does not agree with the plant, it cannot be done,” heÃÂ ...
Radio Free Asia
April 25, 2018
Tun Aung Kyaw, Secretary of the Arakan Nations Party, which represents the interests of the ethnic Rakhine people in Rakhine state, urged the government to reconsider its decision. “Bengalis who really lived in Rakhine state can speak Burmese or the Rakhine language,” he said, using a disparaging termÃÂ ...
Dallas News (blog)
April 25, 2018
Two teenagers have been arrested after a deadly street-racing crash last month, Forney police said. Armando Leon, 17, and Dustin Blake Denton, 18, were taken into custody Monday and charged with racing on a highway causing serious injury after an investigation into the March 21 crash that killedÃÂ ...
Myanmar Times
April 25, 2018
U Aung Aung Kyaw said that if the ministry decides to re-allow climbing, it should choose the stronger pagodas and those that have less historical and archaeological value. “The important thing is how they will manage these pagodas. Do they have a management plan for that?” he said. “Also, they shouldÃÂ ...
Frontier Myanmar
April 18, 2018
“What the mobile money operators are doing now is building their empire, not [working] for financial inclusion,” said Aung Kyaw Moe, whose company launched 1-STOP, an e-commerce network of buyers and sellers in Myanmar, in January 2016. While Voogt from M-Pitesan acknowledged it was an issue,ÃÂ ...
Frontier Myanmar
March 29, 2018
Activist Ko Aung Kyaw said that Aung Ko Htwe had “done some wrong things” because he was upset about being charged under section 505(b). “Now he is being sued under this [Union Seal] law,” he said. A photo published by DVB shows Aung Ko Htwe being dragged from the court by three policeÃÂ ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
March 13, 2018
Members of the Karen National Liberation Army, the armed wing of the KNU, march to mark the 69th anniversary of Armed Forces Day in Karen State in February. / Aung Aung Kyaw / Facebook. 14. By Lawi Weng 13 March 2018. Clashes broke out at least eight times from March 4 to 8 between the Karen National LiberationÃÂ ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
March 13, 2018
During the Lower House session on Monday, lawmaker Sai Aung Kyaw of Kyethi Township asked if the Tatmadaw would return 31 acres in Nam Gon watershed area and 165 acres of farmers' land confiscated by No. 131 Light Infantry Battalion in Kyethi Township. “The 165 acres were used as rotatingÃÂ ...
Myanmar Times
March 13, 2018
His assistant, Aung Kyaw Tun, will take over as head coach if the Taung Gyi-based team for the time being. Soe Myat Min joined Shan Untied in 2013 as head coach of its youth team. Two years later he became head coach of its senior team. And last year he became the first local coach to win both theÃÂ ...
Myanmar Times
March 9, 2018
U Aung Kyaw Soe, extractives programme manager of MCRB, added at the press conference that Nay Pyi Taw's enforcement ability is weak especially in self-administered areas under the control of ethnic armed groups such as Bago, Kachin and Kayah. Some mining industries in those areas are under theÃÂ ...
Myanmar Times
March 9, 2018
Young men collect donations for the Ka Htein festival using a loudspeaker, on Bo Aung Kyaw Street in Yangon in October 2017. Shin Moe Myint/The Myanmar Times. Village to open road with contest. A village committee in Ayeyarwady Region has come up with a creative way to woo people to attend aÃÂ ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
March 8, 2018
“One is for households in Ye Township, and the other is for the developer of an industrial zone in Bago,” said U Than Aung Kyaw, deputy director-general of the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA), at a press conference on Monday. The Southern Myanmar Development Co.,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 2, 2018
Htun Aung Kyaw, a leader of the Arakan National Party, the main political party here in Rakhine State, told me the key points as he sees them: The Rohingya are illegal immigrants, they have been trying for decades to create a separate Islamic state, they include armed insurgents who commit atrocities, andÃÂ ...
Myanmar Times
March 1, 2018
Action should be taken at state level,” he says. But some government companies are doing their bit. Ko Tin Lin, who sells lottery tickets on Bo Aung Kyaw Road, has never felt any earthquakes. But he has learned about them when MPT, a publicly-owned company, sent him messages on his mobile phones.
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
February 27, 2018
Seventeen regional lawmakers from the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) submitted objections to nominees U Aye Ngwe, a former director of the Irrigation Department, and U Aung Kyaw Moe, a retired education officer. The two were proposed by the chief minister on Feb. 14 at an emergencyÃÂ ...
Myanmar Times
February 26, 2018
“We can't say how much time will be needed for the restoration,” said U Aung Aung Kyaw, director of the department's Bagan branch. Nara Thiha Patae Paya was built by King Nara Thiha Patae, and Manuha Nanpaya Temple was used as the residence of Manuha Min, according to the department'sÃÂ ...
Myanmar Times
February 23, 2018
Aung Kyaw Nyunt 23 Feb 2018. U Zaw Min Oo, chief external relations officer of MNTC at MyTel launching. Aung Kyaw Nyunt/The Myanmar Times. Fourth telco to cover large network. Mytel's services set to launch in March. Beginning from its initial stage of market penetration, Mytel, Myanmar's fourth telecommunicationsÃÂ ...
Eleven Myanmar
December 31, 1999
The sub-Union Election Commission of Bago Region is currently compiling the voter lists starting from April 19, Aung Kyaw Moe, Secretary of Bago Region Sub-Union Election Commission, told the Daily Eleven. “We have not yet collected voter lists one house after another. The ward administrators haveÃÂ ...
Myanmar Times
December 31, 1999
Some of the donations were used to build the man-made mounds which cost about K70 million each, the committee said. U Aung Aung Kyaw, director of Department of Archaeology and National Museum in Bagan, said the decision to construct the mounds was made after State Counsellor Daw Aung SanÃÂ ...
Dallas News
December 31, 1999
Aung Kyaw Moe left his home in the Rakhine province of Myanmar (formerly Burma) knowing he could never return. "It's a one-way trip," he said. The people in Rakhine are under siege by the military because of their faith. They are Rohingya Muslims in a heavily Buddhist country. Aung Kyaw Moe made itÃÂ ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
December 31, 1999
However, cracks in the base [of the structure] meant that it could not sustain the weight above it, causing the collapse,” explained U Aung Aung Kyaw, director of the department's Bagan office. The department is consulting with experts on how to handle the remaining ruins of Temple No. 1,066 in order toÃÂ ...
Myanmar Times
December 31, 1999
“We are planning to set up more cold chain facilities this year. Cold storage is a vital part of the expanded immunisation programme. Vaccines must be stored in electronic or solar refrigerators to maintain the potency of the vaccine,” Dr Aung Kyaw Moe, assistant director of the Department of Public Health,ÃÂ ...
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