December mass walk activity held in Taungoo

Participants taking Physical exercise in the Taungoo District Sport Ground. Photo: Shwe Win (Pyay)

Participants seening to taking place to walk. Photo: Shwe Win (Pyay)

December mass walking activity (fifth week) was held in Taungoo Township, Bagon Region yesterday morning.

Over 2000 participants—Regional Hluttaw Representative U Moe Ma Kha and U Aye Min Win, Taungoo District Administrator U Aung Soe Moe, township administrator and departmental staff and students from Nursing Training School and Midwife Training School--  took part in the activity and they started walking from Min Gyi Nyo Statue. And Activity was concluded at the District Sport Ground (Mineda ground).  And then, they took physical exercises in the sport ground.

Next, the District Sport and Physical Education Department arranged the lucky draw programme for the participants. Shwe Win (Pyay)

 International Tourism Expo, Myanmar  2017  to be held

                                               in Yangon

U Bein Bridge, a crossing that spans Taungthaman Lake near Amarapura. The 1.2-kilometre (0.75 mi) bridge was built around 1850 and is believed to be the oldest and longest teakwood bridge in the world.^[It is used as an important passageway for the local people and has also become a tourist attraction. — Nyi Nyi (History)

U Bein Bridge, a crossing that spans Taungthaman Lake near Amarapura. The 1.2-kilometre (0.75 mi) bridge was built around 1850 and is believed to be the oldest and longest teakwood bridge in the world.^[It is used as an important passageway for the local people and has also become a tourist attraction. — Nyi Nyi (History)

To develop the International Tourism Service Industry and local tourism sector, International Tourism Expo, Myanmar 2017 organised by Travel Support Co. Ltd. under the auspices of the Myanmar Tourism Federation will be held in Tatmadaw Exhibition Hall in Yangon from 20 to 22 January 2017.

“We have arranged the event with the aim of increasing the development of the local travel and tourism industries in line with the modern travel and tourism industry, promotion of the cooperation between the local travel and tourism companies and international tourism companies, giving information about travel and tourism industry in detail to the public”, said director U Nway Moe Aung of Travel Support Co. Ltd.  

The experience from the expo will be of benefit to local visitors who will come to the expo. Officials will elaborate facts of the travel and tourism industry to visitors who do not know facts about place where they want to visit to relax at the exhibition, he added.

The three-day event will be arranged for the public at one place to be able to observe the different types of travel and tourism service industries, he added. The event is first-ever expo for the travel and tourism industry, with 124 booths from hotels, travel agencies, airlines, insurance companies and other agencies related to tourism will be featured at the expo. Moreover, motor service companies and mobile phone companies, cruise companies, foreign and local travel service agencies, travel-related goods sale companies will showcase their services, destinations, tourism attractions, travel packages and products through the booths.

Holding the International Tourism Expo, Myanmar 2017 will make the Myanmar travel and tourism industry develop and increase the country’s foreign exchange earnings from tourism. Also, travel-related business sectors will develop and it will provide assistance to develop the tourism areas. — Soe Win (MLA)

Geo Stone Garden opened at Mandalay University

An opening ceremony for the Geo Stone Garden, which was built for the 63th anniversary of the foundation of the Geology Department at Mandalay University, was held on the grounds between the main building of Mandalay University and academy building and the Geology Department on Friday.

The construction of the Stone Garden started on 3^rd July and was completed in the first week of December.

Present at the ceremony were U Hla Thein, Chairman of the Union Election Commission, Mandalay Region Chief Minister Dr. Zaw Myint Maung and members of Mandalay Region Government, Dr. Zaw Win, Deputy general-director of the Department of Higher Education ( Upper Myanmar), the Rector of Mandalay University and professor and heads of departments and Geology Specialisation students.

At the ceremony, the Mandalay Region Chief Minister delivered a speech and cut the ribbon to open the Geo Stone Garden. Next, the Chairman of Union Election Commission, the Mandalay Region Chief Minister and guests took a tour of the garden.

The Geo Stone Garden was created with three zones — the Igneous Zone, Sedimentary Zone and Metamorphic Zone — constructed with 150 different kinds of stones weighing a total of 90 tonnes. Plant fossils, wood fossils and minerals are also decorated in the garden. The garden will serve as a teaching aid to future Geology students, officials said. –Thiha Ko Ko (Mandalay)