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Myanmar National Airlines (MNA) is planning to fly to Bangkok with a new ATR aircraft four times a week starting on February 20.

On February 26, it plans to launch two weekly flights to Chiang Mai.

At present, MNA offers regular service to 28 cities, including Hong Kong and Singapore.

It has been building up its fleet over the past two years.

Six ATR 72-600s were ordered in 2014 and the first two were delivered in December and this month. - Eleven Myanmar

Indonesia goes ahead

with high-speed railway

The Indonesian government will go ahead with the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed-railway project, the first in the country, despite problems with permits, especially concerning the Environmental Impact Analysis (Amdal).

The groundbreaking ceremony was slated to take place yesterday in Walini, a small town in the regency of West Bandung, West Java, after Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar confirmed the ministry had approved the Amdal documents for the project on Wednesday.

Although the ministry has given its approval, the company that will develop the high-speed railway, Kereta Cepat Indonesia China, is required to improve certain documents within one month, including the environment management plan and the environment monitoring plan.

“Well, we can issue the permit; at the same time we will provide room

for improvement in a month,” Siti said on Wednesday, adding that bureaucratic procedures should not get in the way of projects that benefit the people. – The Jakarta Post

15% rise seen in VN’s

wood product exports

Vietnam’s exports of wood and wood products are expected to expand by 12-15 per cent this year from US$6.9 billion (Bt250 billion) last year, according to the Handicraft and Wood Industry Association of Ho Chi Minh City (Hawa).

Speaking at a seminar in the city on Wednesday, Nguyen Quoc Khanh, Hawa chairman, said companies had export orders until June.

The woodwork industry is among the country’s 10 biggest in terms of exports, he said. – Viet Nam News