Union Minister for Hotels and Tourism Dr Thet Thet Khine and Chief Minister of Ayeyawady Region U Tin Maung Win visited Azura Hotel in Chaungtha Beach to hold a meeting with government offi­cials and businesspersons in the hotels and tourism industry on 24 February.

Union Minister for Industry Dr Charlie Than visited the Daewoo Bus manufactur­ing workshop in Htaukkyant, Mingaladon Township, Yangon Region, yesterday morning.

Demand for Shwebo thana­ka is rising both in the local market and among the buyers from Thailand, according to the thanaka business circle.

The Ministry of Industry and the Myanmar Pulp and Paper Industrial Association will co­operate with each other in pro­ducing pulp and paper to meet the local demand, according to the Ministry of Industry.

The specialist medical teams including pro­fessors and physicians from Yangon, Man­dalay and Nay Pyi Taw are offering the medical treatments in the States and Regions. Specialist medical teams from general hospitals of Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw, Mandalay Children’s Hospital (550-bed) and Mandalay Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital travelled to Myitkyina in Kachin State on 24 and 25 February for the second time to give the medical treatment to local people.

Contemporary Myanmar Traditional Artists Association is trying to grasp share of international market for Myanmar traditional style drawings and paintings, while it is also organizing the artists who consistently draw only the Myanmar traditional styles to help bring out new generation artists, according to the association’s chairperson Pachi Ko Shan Lay.