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ASEAN Lifetime Achievement Award conferred on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

STATE Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi conferred with an ASEAN Lifetime Achievement Award by the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute at the 31th ASEAN Leadership Forum in Vientiane, Laos, on 6^th August.

The award was accepted by Union Minister for Commerce Dr Than Myint on behalf of the state counselor, who is also the Union Minister for the President’s Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The ASEAN Lifetime Achievement Awards were also conferred on Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen and Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Dato Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

During the forum, the union minister attended a round-table discussion held under the theme  “Leading ASEAN Towards 2025 – Making ASEAN Community Work”.

MNA to begin Mandalay-Bangkok Flights

MYANMAR National Airlines announced yesterday that the carrier’s maiden flight services between Mandalay and Bangkok will be launched on 31 August.

The Yangon-Mandalay-Bangkok flights are scheduled on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

The flight that departs Yangon at 3:10 pm will arrive in Mandalay at 4:50 pm. It departs Mandalay at 5:05pm and will arrive in Bangkok at 7:20 pm. For the return flights it will leave Bangkok at 9:20 am and will arrive in Mandalay at 10:35 am. It will leave Mandalay at 11:35 pm and will arrive in Yangon at 12:30 am.

Ref: GNLM, 8 August 2016