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MYANMAR INFORMATION COMMITTEE, YANGON
Information Sheet

N0. D- 3278(I)
February 28,2005

  1. Australia’s Scott Strange emerges champion in Myanmar Open

    YANGON, 27 Feb — The fourth round and prize presentation ceremony of Myanmar Open golf tournament were held at Yangon Golf Club in Danyingon, here, this morning.

    Chairman of Myanmar Olympic Committee Minister for Sports Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint presented crystal trophy to Australia’s Scott Strange who fired a 11-under-par 227 on aggregate and Managing Director Mr Anthony Wong of Rothmans of Pall Mall Myanmar Pte Ltd, prize cheque.

    MPGA and MGF President Maj-Gen Win Hlaing (Retd) gave silver trophy to Best Myanmar Amateur Award winner Bo Bo and crystal trophy to Best Myanmar Player Award winner Min Naing. Officials of Octagon and Han Event Management presented US$ 500 each to the two Myanmar players and prizes to joint third award winners Ashok Kumar (India) and defending champion Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand with 280 each and second award winner Canadian Rick Gibson with 279.

    After the prize presentation ceremony, Maj-Gen Win Hlaing (Retd) and officials posed for documentary photo together with the golfers.

    Australia’s Scott Strange won US$ 32,300 for the first prize, Canadian Rick Gibson US$ 22,260 for the second, Indian Ashok Kumar and Thailand’s Thongchai Jaidee US$ 11,200 each for the third.

    Source: "The New Light Of Myanmar", www.myanmar.com/nlm/
     

  2. China's electricity shortage to be relieved this year

    BEIJING, 26 Feb — China’s electricity shortage will relieve to some extent this year, said a Chinese electric power official here Friday.

    The whole shortage situation, however, will remain unchanged, which it requires a fairly long period of reconstruction, said Shao Bingren, vice- chairman of the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC).

    Fifty million kilowatts of power generators were put into production last year, and this year more generators will be around, Shao acknowledged. Construction needs time, and so electricity supply situation is not very optimistic, he said.

    Since January this year, he added, the seriousness of electric power shortage has been reduced though the scope of areas with insufficient electricity has somewhat narrowed.

    Overall, large-area electricity shortage was replaced by seasonable and periodic shortages, he said.

    In the wake of high-pace growth of national economy, Shao said, the demand for electric power in China has kept growing in the past two years, and this causes electric power shortage over large areas.

    Source: "The New Light Of Myanmar", www.myanmar.com/nlm/

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