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DEVELOPMENT STATUS OF ROADS AND BRIDGES IN RAKHINE STATE P-8-9 (ARTICLE) NATIONAL NATIONAL LOCAL NEWS BUSINESS Pagoda Amyotha Hluttaw Deputy New eye care plan Exports to Hong Kong collapses in Speaker U Aye Tha Aung targets to treat about 300 reach $54 million in Bagan visits Viet Nam people with cataract nine months PAGE-2 PAGE-2 PAGE-4 PAGE-5 Vol. IV, No. 322, 4th Waning of Taboung 1379 ME www.globalnewlightofmyanmar.com Monday, 5 March 2018 Nippon Foundation builds 300th school AMYOTHA Hluttaw Speaker Mahn Win Khaing Than attend- ed the opening of Long Hey Basic Education Post-Primary School in Pa-O Self-Administered Zone on 3 March. The post-primary school is the 300th school built under the initiative to construct schools by the Ministry of Border Affairs and the Nippon Foundation in Shan State. Attending the event were Union Minister for Border Affairs Lt-Gen Ye Aung, Union Minis- ter for Education Dr. Myo Thein Gyi, Shan State Chief Minister Youth volunteers prepare to deliver the aid to local people in villages in Maungtaw. PHOTO: YAMANYA Dr. Lin Htut, Major General Win Min Tun of Eastern Command, deputy ministers, Shan State min- Fifth batch of youth volunteers provides isters, the Chairman of the Pa-O National Organization Nippon Foundation Chairman Mr Yohei humanitarian aid in Maungtaw Sasakawa, Head of Economic and Development Assistance Section at the Embassy of Japan Mr Ka- Young people have volun- into two groups and is partici- the Buthidaung Township and thayar and Thittaw and pro- zuyuki Takimi, officials from phil- teered to deliver aid to villages pating to provide aid to villagers 27 volunteers for the Maungtaw vided the villagers with rice, anthropic groups, and more than in Maungtaw, Rakhine State, in Maungtaw and Buthidaung. Township. Our Maungtaw team oil, salt, fish cans, onions and 1,000 ethnic nationals. under a programme of the Un- “The fifth batch of our distributed 268 units today, while potatoes. Milk powders were Firstly, Mahn Win Khaing ion Enterprise for Humanitar- group included 53 volunteers, the Buthidaung group supplied also provided for children aged Than, Lt-Gen Ye Aung, Dr. Myo ian Assistance, Resettlement including 47 volunteers from the 150 units,” said Ko Than Htun between six months and two Thein Gyi, Dr. Lin Htut, Major and Development in Rakhine Yangon and Mandalay regions Aung from the Department of years. “I have never been here General Win Min Tun, Mr. Sasak- (UEHRD). and six staff from the depart- Disaster Management. before. I came here as a repre- awa and Mr. Takimi cut the cere- The fifth batch of volun- ment. We are providing human- In Maungtaw, the UEHRD sentative of the Yangon Region monial ribbon to open the school teers comprising 53 people from itarian assistance by forming volunteers went to villages in social welfare association. and planted some trees. Yangon and Mandalay is divided two teams of 26 volunteers for Ngwetaung, Thayagone, Ywar- SEE PAGE-3 SEE PAGE-3 5 MARCH 2018 2 NATIONAL THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Amyotha Hluttaw Deputy Speaker U Aye Tha Aung visits Viet Nam BY the invitation of Parliamen- ty Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker U The delegation was seen tary Network on the World Bank Aye Tha Aung departed for Viet off by Yangon Region Hluttaw & International Monetary Fund Nam from Yangon International Speaker U Tin Maung Htun, (PN), a delegation led by Depu- Airport yesterday evening. Deputy Speaker U Lin Naing Myint, Viet Nam Ambassador to Myanmar Dr. Luan Thuy Du- ong and officials from Amyotha Hluttaw office. Representatives of Pyithu Hluttaw Daw Thet Thet Khaing and U Thaung Aye also followed U Aye Tha Aung. During the visit, they will meet with officials from IMF and World Bank at the World Bank Office, chair- person of the National Assembly of Viet Nam, Ministry of Educa- tion and Training, Ministry of Finance of Viet Nam and Min- istry of Industry and Trade, and they will attend the WBG Deputy Speaker U Aye Tha Aung is seen off by Vietnamese Ambassador projects.—Myanmar News Dr. Luan Thuy Duong. PHOTO: MNA Agency Pagoda collapses in Bagan A pagoda, which has been con- The 2016 earthquake also Kitchen fire guts five homes in Tarpon, Nattalin Township served after being hit by the damaged the pagoda and it was 2016 earthquake, collapsed yes- put in the third-priority list to be A fire broke out in the north of en house owned by U Soe Naing, successfully extinguished the terday in Bagan. renovated. Tarpon Town, Nattalin Town- 48. The blaze quickly spread to flames within half an hour. About 70 per cent of the pa- “Most of the part which ship, Thayawady District, Bago the neighbouring homes, but no Charges have been filed goda No. 1066, which is a type of were reconstructed in 1996 Region, at some 8.30 p.m. on Sat- persons or animals were hurt in against the home owner for vi- cave housing a Buddha statue, collapsed,” according to the urday, destroying five homes, the fire. olating Section 285 of the Penal was damaged in the collapse. Nyung-U District Informa- according to a police report. Firefighters pressed into Code, which defines fire-relat- The cave pagoda is 26ft by tion and Public Relations De- Investigators said the fire action eight fire engines and ed negligence and recklessness. 26 ft and 40 ft height. It was also partment.—Myanmar Digital started in the kitchen of a wood- with the assistance of villagers, —071 renovated in 1996. News Holiday makers from regions/states visit Nay Pyi Taw for vacation Interview by Kyaw Thu Ko Thet Min Oo, Rubber Htet Plantation business, Kye- PHOTO: KYAW YE SWE ikto “I arranged this vacation The Myanmar News Agency in- for my workers so that they can terviewed visitors and pilgrims take recreation and can see the visiting Nay Pyi Taw during the development in Nay Pyi Taw.” long holidays. Daw Kyawt, vendor at the Myint Myint Than (From National Landmark Manaung, Rakhine State) “The number of visitors to I’ve never been to Nay Pyi U Zaw Myo Myat. Saw Phaw El Chen. Ko Thiha. the National Landmark is in- Taw even though my brother is creasing these days. I have also stationed here. He’s also free more for us to see. I hope our here. We’ve been to the national (Yangon) earned more these days than oth- during the 4-day holiday so he region gets developed like these landmark garden and the water I came with my family to er days. I have two children and showed me around Buddha big cities and I see the govern- fountain garden. We’re going to Nay Pyi Taw to visit the pago- they are relying on my income.” Gaya and then we’ll go to the sa- ment is working for our devel- PyinOoLwin after this. Our state das. The scenery around here fari and the national landmark opment too. I plant potatoes, is thankfully in peace and we is nice and spacious and the air U Khaing Zar Tun, Teacher, garden. The roads here are carrots and other vegetables are working for its development. is clean too. Myothit Township, Magway great and its quite developed. I but since we don’t have a sta- Region hope our region and the entire ble market it’s always a 50-50 Ko Thiha (Civil Servant, Nay Ko Maung Thu “I arranged this vacation for country become developed like chance to make a profit or suffer Pyi Taw) Rubber Plantation Labour 9th and 10th grade students as they this. losses. We need a stable market My friends and I gathered from Mon State have completed the examination. and good vegetable specimens. to make a donation at a nunnery “This is my first visit to Nay In Nay Pyi Taw, we visited Bud- U Zaw Myo Myat (From school in Pobbathiri Township Pyi Taw. Our boss arranged the dha Gaya first. The reason why I Heho, Shan State) Saw Phaw El Chen (Kyar-in here. I get stressed at work too trip for us. In this trip, I am very send the students to this National I’m here with my entire Seikkyi, Kayin State) so these long holidays are a happy taking relaxation with my Landmark is so that they can ob- family on vacation. We’ve just We came here via Mudon. great chance to unwind. family. We are enjoying family serve the culture and customs of visited Buddha Gaya and there’s There are 50 of us on pilgrimage Ma Soe Thandar Nwe life these days.” our ethnic people.” 5 MARCH 2018 THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR NATIONAL 3 Nippon Foundation builds 300th school FROM PAGE-1 project into northern and south- ern Shan state and the Kayah The attendees then toured State to build some 120 schools. the school, while Mr. Sasakawa, Next, Dr. Myo Thein Gyi said deputy ministers and the Pa-O the Ministry of Education was National Organisation chairman working hard to implement the opened the school’s playground. National Education Strategic The second part of the ceremony Plan, so that no one is left behind began with the transfer of the in education. school’s ownership. He also said the ministry Lt-Gen Ye Aung first deliv- would upgrade education col- ered a speech noting that the leges to a four-year programme Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker, the Chairman of Nippon Foundation and other high-ranking officials cut the day’s ceremony was an aus- for an education degree to train ribbons to open Long Hey school, the 300th school built in Shan State.