Myanmar Traditional Chess Championship Competition to be held
It is trying to arrange that Myanmar Traditional Chess Championship Competition to be held at Aung San Gymnasium in coming October. The competition is the third time and the first was held in Mandalay. Setting an aim to take part in the XXVI SEA Games including the 3rd Myanmar Tradition Chess Championship competition, a ceremony for co-ordination of rules and disciplines of sports will be held on 7 September. Press Conference on Myanmar Traditional Chess piece and playing methods will be held soon, it was learnt.
Weekly Eleven News Journal

Get emporium to be held next month
The Ministry of Mines is set to host a gem emporium early next month at a hall in Nay Pyi Taw's Zabuthiri township. Gems, jade and pearls will be sold at the emporium through at a tender system. The event is expected to be held in the first week of October. The hall is located on a 20-acre compound beside the gems museum on Yazathingaha Road. Gems businesses have until September 20 to submit items to sell at the emporium, which is popular with Thai and Chinese traders.
The Myanmar Times

Advanced technologies, solutions on sale at ICT Expo (Mandalay)
Advanced new technologies and solutions of True Value such as Real Time Tracking System, CAR Black Box, keychain, watch and data logger with GPS, Telephone Voice Logging System, Home Security System, RFID card (Radio Frequency Identification), CCTV and Wireless Service Bell will be on sale at a 10 per cent discount at ICT Expo 2010 (Mandalay) from 10 to 12 September. For further information, contact True Vale (Yangon Office) at No.(351), Room (103), Theinbyu Street, Mingala Taungnyut Township (Ph: 09 8022025), Mandalay Office at No.(5) on 26th street between 78 and 79 streets (Ph: 02 21572) and Nay Pyi Taw Office in Thanbyegon Market, Nay Pyi Taw (Ph: 067 41413).
The New Light of Myanmar

STI Education to hold seminar on education
STI Education is conducting international recognized certificates, diplomas, advanced diplomas and officer-level diploma courses. These courses cover seminar, teaching and examination supervised by experienced native teachers. STI has made an arrangement to hold seminar on job opportunity for youth at Traders Hotel on 20 June (Sunday). Foundation course of STI will be discussed at the seminar. Education consultants of STI will also discuss job opportunity, pathway to oversea learning, a variety of fields from diploma to post-graduate level and techniques. Those interested may register STI Education, No.377, Shwebontha road (Upper block), Pabedan Township, here, Ph-250056 and 700273, and Ward-4, Room-No.(7), Myanmar Info-Tech, Hline Campus Ph-507046/48 and 507151/52) in advance. The seminar is free of charge.
The New Light of Myanmar

Lawkanat exhibition
Thirty artists will hold a group exhibition from September 19 to 25 at Lawkanat Gallery on the corner of Pansodan and Merchant streets, Yangon. The exhibition features a mix of painting styles, installations and performance art.
The Myanmar Times

New Yangon-Bagan bus line
Travellers to Bagan and Pakokku will have a new bus service from September 5- as well as a motorboat connection to reduce their traveling time. Shwe Sin Satkyar Transportation last week announced the launch of its highway bus service from Yangon to Bagan, plus the motorboat service to Pakokku. Tickets are available a week beforehand for K10,400 each at Aung Mingalar, Aung San and Tarmwe bus stations. The trip takes nine hours, it will come down to eight hours when the Yangon-Kyaukpadaung road is finished. The boat trip takes from 20 to 45 minutes depending on water conditions.
The Myanmar Times

Talks on Myanmar and ASEAN on 11 September
Under the arrangements of Myanmar Fishery Federation and Myanmar Prawn Entrepreneurs Association and sponsored by Ever Flow River Group of Companies, talks on Myanmar and ASEAN will given by U Kyaw Tint Swe (Retd) of Myanmar ambassador to the UN will gave at Thiriannawa Hall of MFF on Bayintnaung Road in Insein Township here at 2 pm on 11 September. Interested persons may attend the talk.
The New Light of Myanmar