100 pick-up trucks to be imported
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Up to 100 pick-up trucks will be imported from Thailand through the recently opened Mawtaung border trade zone in Thaninthayi Region.
“One tonne-load trucks are being imported for use in heavy duty work at the border trade zone,” Paw Sein, chairman of Myeik Public Company said.
“We will import 50 trucks in the first batch in the last week of May, and they will be sold to officials from the trade zone and merchants,” he added.
The Maung Daw road is not access can’t be assessable during rainy season and only small cars and cycle carry can be able to use that road, it is reported.
The road condition between Myeik and Mawtaung is in bad shape as it is an earth road.
A 5 per cent custom duty will be imposed on every truck.
S Korea honours peace activist
Min Ko Naing, a leading democracy activist in Myanmar will visit South Korea tomorrow to receive his 2009 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights awarded by the May18 Memorial Foundation.
The foundation, a South Korean non-profit organisation established in 1994, began honouring notable human-rights defenders every year from 2000. The award ceremony will be held on Saturday.
88 Generation Student leaders Ko Ko Gyi and Jimmy will be accompanying Min Ko Naing to South Korea, after which Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi will head to the United States to accept the Democracy Award (2012).
Meanwhile, the 88 Generation Peace and Open Society has been visiting people in the northern Shan state since May 4 to discuss matters of peace and reconciliation.
Workers demand raise in Yangon
Workers at a Chinese-owned factory in Yangon staged a peaceful protest on May 11 demanding that their basic monthly salary been increased to 85000 kyat (about Bt3,000) and that they be allowed to work eight hours a day.
They also demanded timely payment of overtime and no wage cuts on working days except Sundays.
“We went to the township’s negotiation office to ask them to deal with our demands, but they said no and asked us to meet the factory owner instead.
“But when we went, the owner said no, so we all gathered outside to make our voices heard,” worker Cho Thet Mon said.
The Hote Sein factory makes laminated woven bags and employs about 110 workers.
French firm to invest in tourism
French-based Croisi Europe Company will invest tourism industry in Myanmar, according to the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Department.
Patrick Schmitter, chairman of Croisi Europe Company, met with relevant officials in Nay Pyi Taw last Wednesday to discuss investment opportunities, laws and work procedures.
International companies have invested over $1.5 billion in Myanmar’s tourism industry so far.
