Private sector must do more on exports, says Secretary 1: SECRETARY 1 of the State Peace and Development Council, Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt, has called for greater efforts to promote exports from the private sector... SEAFDEC advises on shrimp farming: MYANMAR?s emerging shrimp culture sector had the advantage of being able to learn from the mistakes made by other countries, a senior official with a regional fisheries organisation said... Tourist influx tipped for Mekong region: EXISTING and planned travel links were helping the Mekong region to benefit from increasing tourism arrivals, a regional meeting in Yangon was told on April 5... Department of Labour finds places for 56,000 job seekers: MORE than 56,000 people found jobs last year with the help of the Labour Department, its director general, U Soe Nyunt, said... $7m in jute exports highest in 20 years: EXPORT earnings from jute set a 20-year record of US$7.2 million last year, according to Myanma Jute Industries. .. Two Wa soldiers killed during border incursion: TWO Wa soldiers were killed during an incursion by a combined force of Thai troops and Shan rebels into Myanmar in late March, the government said last week... WHO outlines plan for reducing AIDS threat: THE World Health Organisation has pledged to maintain its full cooperation with the government in its efforts to counter malaria, tuberculosis and HIV-AIDS... Foreign ministers briefed on options for highway project: THE foreign ministers of Myanmar, India and Thailand discussed plans for building roads linking the three countries at a meeting which began in Yangon on April 6... Air link debut for Mandalay: A CHINESE regional airline launched the first regular international service to Mandalay on April 1... Rush hour parking banned in two downtown streets: IN a move aimed at easing traffic congestion, the Yangon City Development Committee has introduced a parking ban in some downtown areas during the morning and evening rush hours...Thai caught with 6 kilos of heroin: THE government has rejected a report in a Bangkok newspaper claiming that anti-narcotics agents in Thailand were involved in the arrest of a Thai on drug trafficking charges in Myanmar on April 1...Myanmar?s long and documented history of making big glazed jars: THE reluctance of many international academics to acknowledge the long tradition of ceramics in Myanmar is nowhere more apparent than in their treatment of glazed earthenware jars associated with the seaport of Martaban or Mottama on the Gulf of Martaban... How to become an editor Ko Yoe Kunt had to read a few books over and over just to kill spare time while working as a geologist in the jungles of Myanmar. Eventually, he began writing short stories. He won the Sarbay Beikman award for a collection of short stories in 1984 and he was awarded with the Myanmar National Literature Award in 1989 for the same collection.