Donations by MWJA and Media Groups

Members of the Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association and private media groups visited Kawhmau and Twantay Townships on 9 June 2008, where they donated cash and kind for cyclone victims in the area.
They visited Basic Education Schools in Natsingon and Painhnegon villages in Kawhmu township and Payagyi and Kyaikkale villages in Twantay township, where they donated school books and stationery for the students and food stuff, clothes household goods and medicines for the villagers. They also gave free medical treatment to them.
Donations to the four villages were worth K 8.5 million and cash donation to Kawhmu township cyclone victims amounted K 0.5 million. It is learnt that there will be a cash donation of K 5 million for the affected area in Yangon Division.

Special Programme at Parkroyal

Parkroyal Yangon and Air Bagan Ltd have jointly organized promotion programme featuring Top Spender Award and lucky draw for Parkroyal members and other clients. Promotion period is 3 months, starting from June to August 2008.
Top spending member at Parkroyal during the promotion period will be awarded one Yangon-Bangkok-Yangon Air Bagan air ticket. Two non-member top spenders will be awarded one domestic Air Bagan air ticket each.
Those who spend $ 500 and above will each get coupon in lucky draw at the rate of one coupon for every $ 500 spend. Lucky draw prizes include 2 Yangon-Bangkok-Yagan air ticket and 1 domestic air ticket.

UNICEF gives priority to damaged schools

UNICEF is supplying building and repair materials for cyclone-hit schools as well as furniture and sport equipment for those schools.
The UNICEF supplies include one hundred thousand sets of teaching equipment, text books for 150,000 students, two hundred thousand corrugated iron sheets and construction materials, for the schools. UNICEF has planned supply of tarpaulin tents to serve as temporary places of leaning for the students.
The cyclone Nargis left over forty thousand Basic Education Schools damaged or destroyed, affecting about 1.1 million school children. Education is one of the priorities in Myanmar society, with eighty percent of enrolment attending the Basic Primary Education Schools in the whole country.

Best Athletes Awarded

The "best Athlete of the Year" award presentation ceremony for the year 2007 was held at the Chatrium hotel Yangon on 31 May.
Rowing sportsman Phone Myint Tay Zar received the Best Sportsman Award for 2007. The Best Sportswoman Award went to Ma Soe Soe Myar, a Takundo sportswoman. Special awards were presented to shooting sportsman Maung Kyu, Wushu Sportsman Aung Si Thu and Lala Sho a rowing sportswoman.
Each Best Athlete of the Year award winner was given a cash award of K 1 million by the Myanmar Olympic Committee and the same amount by the Myanmar Sports Wirters Federation. Each winner of special prize was awarded K 0.2 million by the Myanmar Olympic committee and the same amount by the Myanmar sports Writers Federation.

International Pledging Conference on Storm Relief

An international conference pledging relief aid for the Nargis cyclone victims in Myanmar was held at the Sedona hotel 25 may 2008.
The conference discussed matters relating to quick dispatch of medical teams, skilled rescue workers, relief supplies as well as reconstruction and rehabilitation of storm survivors.
Co-sponsored by ASEAN and the UN, the conference was attended by Prime Minister General Thein Sein, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, ministers and high-ranking officials from 51 countries and officials from UN agencies and NGOs.

Myanmar Yachting

Although there will be no yachting in the 25th South East Asian sports events scheduled for 2009 in Laos, the Myanmar Yachting Association will carry out its training programme for participation in other similar sports events inside and outside the country. It will carry out occasional training off the Chaungtha coast.
The Association played host to two international events: one was in 1996 when over 50 athletes from India, Japan and the ASEAN took part in the 9th. ASEAN Open Optimist Championship in the Inya Lake; and the other was in 2004 when 64 athletes from Japan, Sri Larka and the ASEAN countries took part in a similar championship event off the Chaungtha coast.
The National Yachting Championship, highest-someing yachting event of the year, was held 19 April 2008, with a total of 90 Myanmar yachtsmen taking part.