INFORMATION SHEET N0. B-1016 (I)

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MYANMAR INFROMATION COMMITTEE
YANGON
INFORMATION SHEET   N0. B-1016 (I) 8th August  1999 
                        
(1)     Opening Ceremony of Breastfeeding Counselling Course Held
        Breastfeeding Counselling Group opened a course to mark World 
Breastfeeding Week at Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association (MMCWA) 
Headquarters in Yangon on 7 August under the sponsorship of MMCWA and UNICEF. 
Regarding the health sector the government is implementing national health 
plans in connection with the motto "Health for All by the Year 2000", and 
while making endeavours for economic and social development of the future 
state, it is also implementing disease control tasks, health promotion 
programmes and treatment and health rehabilitation work, considering the 
crucial role of the health of women and children. In doing so, national 
policies on breastfeeding have been laid down so that health care centres can 
organize women and children to follow. Breastfeeding Hospital Initiative 
project is being implemented at hospitals throughout the country. Moreover, 
mothers who give births at home are being educated about systematic 
breastfeeding. MMCWA has celebrated Breastfeeding Week with activities since 
1994. The association is educating mothers who attended development centres 
for children throughout the countries about what breastfeeding is the best 
for babies. Students at high and middle schools are given health knowledge 
about breastfeeding and lectures on breastfeeding are given at vocational 
training courses and 3-R courses opened by the association. In the first week 
of August every year, Breastfeeding Week activities are held at different 
levels of MMCWA. 

(2)     SEA Games Federation Council Meets
        Member of 20th South East Asia (SEA) Games Federation Council, 
Chairman of Myanmar Olympic Committee, Minister for Sports attended SEA Games 
Federation Council Meeting held in Brunei Darussalem on 5 August. Also 
present at the meeting were Chairman of 20th SEA Games Federation Prince Haji 
Sufri Bolkiah, council members of ASEAN countries, members of Leading 
Committee for Holding the 20th SEA Games and officials. Chairman Prince Haji 
Sufri Bolkiah extended greetings. Minutes of 20th SEA Games Federation 
Council Meeting held in May, 1998 was approved. Later, report on progress of 
work of Leading Committee for Holding the 20th SEA Games was submitted, 
followed by a general round of discussions. The meeting approved the plan to 
hold the 21st SEA Games in Malaysia in 2001.

(3)     Nationalities in Pinlaung Township Get Adequate Drinking Water Supply
        Pa-O, Taungyoe, Shan and Danu nationals on 5 August celebrated the 
successful efforts for drinking water supply from springs and streams to 
their Hsekhaung Village in Pinlaung Township, TaungGyi District, Eastern Shan 
State. Pipes stretching 55,235 feet were laid from the Naungtaw Spring in 
Tikyit Village-tract to two big reservoirs and 49 drinking water supply 
stations to distribute clean drinking water to villages. The project 
expenditure was set up by the UNICEF fund and over K 2.7 million by Water 
Resources Utilization Department. Regional people contributed K 1.3 million. 

(4)     Outstanding School Boy Back from Japan
        The third standard school boy Maung Thura Aung of Basic Education 
High School No. 1 in Dagon Township and his mother arrived back Yangon by air 
from Japan on 6 August after receiving the outstanding award at the prize 
presentation ceremony of Asia Children's Painting Competition held in 
Yokohama, Japan, on 4 August. 

(5)     Official Leaves for Israel
        Assistant Director U Aung Htay Win of Labour Department of the 
Ministry of Labour left Yangon by air for Israel, on 7 August to attend 
International Course on Financial and Organizational Management Through 
Computer Usage for Trade Unions to be conducted from 8 August to 7 September 
in Tel Aviv, Israel. 

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