Established 1914

11th Waning of Kason 1369 ME Friday, 11 May, 2007Volume XV, Number 25

Emergence of the State Constitution is the duty of all citizens of Myanmar Naing-Ngan.

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-rounddevelopment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participation interms of technical know-how and investments fromsources inside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be keptin the hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integ-rity and preservation and safeguard-ing of cultural heritage and nationalcharacter

* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education

standards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peaceand tranquillity, prevalence of law andorder

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 10

May — Vice-Chairman

of the State Peace and

Development Council of

the Union of Myanmar

Deputy Commander-in-

Chief of Defence Serv-

ices Commander-in-

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye receives

Indian Chief ofNaval Staff and party

Chief (Army) Vice-Sen-

ior General Maung Aye

received the goodwill

delegation led by Chief

of the Naval Staff Ad-

miral Sureesh Mehta

(PVSM, AVSM, ADC)

of the Republic of India

at Bayintnaung Yeiktha

of the Ministry of De-

fence, here, at 9 am to-

day.

Also present at the

call were Member of the

State Peace and Devel-

opment Council

General Thura Shwe

Mann of the Ministry of

Defence, Commander-

in-Chief (Navy) Vice-

Admiral Soe Thein,

Commander-in-Chief

(Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein

and Minister for Foreign

Affairs U Nyan Win.

The Indian goodwill

delegation was accom-

panied by Indian Mili-

tary Attaché Colonel

Jasvinder Singh

Chopra. — MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye welcomes Indian Chief of the NavalStaff Admiral Sureesh Mehta in Nay Pyi Taw. — MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye receives

Indian Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta in

Nay Pyi Taw. — MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 11 May, 2007

PERSPECTIVES* Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesireFriday, 11 May, 2007

The government is now implementing

hydropower projects by effectively utilizing

water resources.

One of them is Khabaung Hydropower

Project being implemented on Khabaung

Creek, about 15 miles west of Ottwin. So far,

the intake structure, conduit of the sluice

gate, and outfall channel of the project have

been completed. And the power station is

under construction and steel pipelines are

being laid.

Overall, 84 per cent of the whole project

has been completed up to now. Upon comple-

tion, it will be able to generate about 120

million kilowatt hours a year through 30-

megawatt generation capacity machinery.

Pathi Hydropower Project near Pathi

Creek, about 10 miles northeast of Toungoo,

has been completed nearly 40 per cent up to

now. On completion, the project will be able

to produce about eight million kilowatt hours

a year through two-megawatt generation

capacity machinery.

Experts, service personnel and officials

concerned are duty-bound to ensure com-

pletion of ongoing hydropower projects

ahead of schedule by harnessing the water

resources to their utmost for national devel-

opment and economic growth of the nation.

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All this needs to be known* Do not be frightened whenever

intimidated* Do not be bolstered whenever flat-

tered* Do not be softened whenever appeased

YANGON, 10 May —Chairman of Yangon CityDevelopment CommitteeMayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin, accompaniedby Joint-Secretary U AungThan Win and heads ofdepartment, inspectedsanitation and proper flowof water at drains beingundertaken by Engineer-ing Department (Road andBridge) of YCDC down-town Yangon this morn-ing.

When the mayor ar-rived at Mogaung Roadnear Pyithaya Avenue inYankin Township, Joint-Secretary U Aung ThanWin and officials reportedon sanitation tasks atKhunnapinlein Creek be-tween Yankin and

Sanitation for proper flow of water at drains inspected

Tamway townships.They inspected sani-

tation at drains and creeksin Thuwunna ofThingangyun, South

Okkalapa and NorthOkkalapa townships.

The mayor instructedofficials to regularly carry

out dredging of garbageand silt at drains andcreeks.

MNA

Myanma Women’sSelected Volleyball Team

leaves for VietnamYANGON, 10 May — To participate in the 4th VTV

Cup Women’s Volleyball Tournament to be held in HoChi Minh City of the Socialist Republic of Vietnamfrom 12 to 19 May, Myanma Women’s Selected Vol-leyball Team led by Manager U Myo Wunna Tun ofAsia Light Supermarket left for Vietnam by air thismorning.

The team was seen off at Yangon InternationalAirport by Vice-President U Thein Win of MyanmarVolleyball Federation, General Secretary U Nyi NyiLwin and executives.

The team comprises coach U Thein Swe of theMinistry of Sports and selected players— Htaik HtaikWin (Transport), Nilar Aye (YCDC), Mya Mya Htwe(Industry-1), Ya Min Hla Win (Transport), Ma Inn Hsan(Home Affairs), Yi Yi Lwin (Defence), Moe Moe San(Transport), Cho Cho Win (Defence), Khine Khine Soe(Defence) and Aye Nanda Kyaw (Industry-1).

MNA

Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin inspects dredging of garbage inShwehlay Chaung Creek in North Okkalapa Township. — YCDC

Poll shows most Americansback Iraq pullout timetable

WASHINGTON, 10 May — Six out of 10 Ameri-cans support setting a timetable for pulling UStroops out of Iraq, even though a clear majoritypredict civil war there if US forces withdraw nextyear, according to a poll published on Wednesday.

The USA Today/Gallup poll also found a major-ity of Americans expect terrorist attacks on the UnitedStates regardless of whether US forces pull out in2008.

The poll results “underscore the limited tractionthe Bush Administration’s arguments have gotten asWhite House officials and congressional Democratsnegotiate an interim bill to finance the war,” USAToday said.

Last week, President George W Bush vetoed a124-billion-US-dollar war funding bill because itcalled for a phased withdrawal of combat troopsstarting no later than 1 October.

“Six in 10 support setting a timetable for with-drawal and sticking to it regardless of what’s happen-ing in Iraq,” USA Today said. Thirty-six per cent saidUS troops should stay until the situation in Iraqimproved.

Only 22 per cent of those polled agreed with theadministration argument that US forces in Iraq arepreventing new terrorist attacks on the United States,the paper said.

Seventeen per cent said the US deployment madea terrorist attack more likely, and 58 per cent said ithad no effect either way, it said.

“If US troops withdraw next year, 68 per centpredict a civil war in Iraq, 66 per cent the use of Iraqas an al-Qaeda base and 55 per cent new terror attackson the United States,” USA Today said.—MNA/Reuters

NEW DELHI, 10 May — India tested its surface-to-surface medium range Prithvi-1 missile from a de-fence base in east Indian state of Orissa on Wednes-day, Indo-Asian News Service reported.

The missile was launched from the IntegratedTest Range of Chandipur in the coastal district ofBalasore, about 230 kilometres from the state capitalBhubaneshwar, at 10:04 a.m., the Defence Ministrysources said. Prithvi is one of the five missiles underdevelopment by the Defence Research and Develop-ment Organization (DRDO).

MNA/Xinhua

India tests surface-to-surfacePrithvi-1 missile

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The National Theater is reflected in a pond in the centre of Beijing on 8 May,2007. The pond, with a capacity of 14,000 cubic metres and serving as part of

the National Theater complex, pooled water for an anti-leakage test whichwas proven to be successful. —XINHUA

China slashes US report againstChina’s policy on religion

BEIJING, 9 May—AChinese Foreign Ministryspokeswoman on Tuesdayexpressed “strong dissatis-faction” and “firm opp-osition” to a US religionbody’s report against thereligious situation in China.

The United StatesCommission on Inter-national Religious Free-dom (USCIRF) once againtook potshots at the

religious situation in Chinaand other develop-ingcountries in its 2007 annualreport, the spokes-womanJiang Yu said when askedto comment on the report.

That part of the reportwhich involves Chinaskews and accuses Chinaof its policies on religionand ethnic minorities,which shows once again theorganization’s ign-orance

and prejudice, said Jiang. “It is obvious to all that

the Chinese Governmentprotects Chinese citizens’freedom of religious beliefaccording to law andChinese citizens enjoy fullfreedom of religious beliefprotected by law,” thespokeswoman said.

“We advised theUSCIRF to stop interferingin other countries’ internalaffairs under the pretext ofreligion,” Jiang said.

MNA/Xinhua

Residents stand among the debris as clean up continues in a tornado-damaged area of Greensburg, Kansas, on 9 May, 2007. —INTERNET

KABUL, 9 May—A UNstaff member was shotdead in volatile KandaharProvince of southernAfghanistan on Tuesday

US military deaths in Iraq at 3,380WASHINGTON, 9 May—As of Wednesday, on 9 May , 2007, at least 3,380

members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war inMarch 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes sevenmilitary civilians. At least 2,751 died as a result of hostile action, according tothe military’s numbers.

The AP count is eight higher than the Defence Department’s tally, last updatedWednesday at 10 am EDT.

The British military has reported 148 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland,20; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, six; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four;Latvia, three; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand, two each; and Australia, Hungary,Kazakhstan, Romania, one death each.—Internet

UN staff member shot deadin S Afghanistan

morning, said a statementof the UN AssistanceMission in Afghanistan.

Sadequllah, 38, whowas a driver for the

UNHCR, the UN refugeeagency, was killed appar-ently by gunmen on amotorbike at around 7 am(0230 GMT) while on his

way to work in Kandahar,the statement said. Themotives for this attack areunknown, and an inve-stigation by the authoritiesis under way.

“The safety and well-being of those Afghan andinternational staff whowork for the UN in Afg-hanistan is a matter ofparamount importance tous,” said Tom Koenigs,the special representativeof the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan.

“We will spare no effortto ensure that Sadequllah’smurderers are found andproperly brought toaccount,” he added. UNstaff members are attackedin this guerilla countryfrom time to time. FourNepali security guards andan Afghan driver workingfor a UN agency were killedby a roadside bombing inKandahar City, capital ofKandahar Province, on 17April.—MNA/Xinhua

Photographer Dmitry Chebotayev is pictured inaction in Sukhumi, in this 19 August , 2004 filephoto. Chebotayev has died along with six US

troops in a bomb blast in Iraq, RussianAmbassador to Iraq Vladimir Chamov said on

Monday.— INTERNET

LONDON, 10 May—Tony Blair has announced hewill stand down as prime minister on 27 June.

He made the announcement in a speech to partyactivists in his Sedgefield constituency, after earlierbriefing the Cabinet on his plans.

He acknowledged his government had not alwayslived up to high expectations but said he had been verylucky to lead "the greatest nation on earth".

He will stay on in Downing Street until the LabourParty elects a new leader — widely expected to beGordon Brown.

In an emotional speech, Mr Blair said he had beenprime minister for 10 years which was "long enough"for the country and himself.

He said expectations had probably been "too high"in 1997, but he insisted living standards had improvedunder Labour.

It was for others to judge whether he had mademistakes, added Mr Blair, but he said he had alwaysdone what he thought was "right".

"I may have been wrong. That's your call."But believe one thing if nothing else, I did what I

thought was right for our country. And I came into of-fice with high hopes for Britain's future, and, you know,I leave it with even higher hopes for Britain's future."

In conclusion, he said: "Actually I've been luckyand very blessed. And this country is a blessed na-tion.” — INTERNET

Blair will stand downon 27 June

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A 20 day old tiger cub plays in its enclosure atPuerto Vallarta’s zoo in the western Mexican stateof Jalisco on 8 May, 2007. The tigers were born at

the zoo. —INTERNET

A helicopter makes a water drop as firefighters work to contain a bush fire inthe Griffith Park area of Los Angeles, California on 9 May, 2007.—INTERNET

Macedonia’s Karolina performs “Mojot svet / My World” during therehearsal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 semi-final in Helsinki

on 9 May, 2007. —INTERNET

NARATHIWAT, 9 May—A roadside bomb killed sevenThai soldiers instantly Wednesday in one of thedeadliest insurgent attacks against security forces thisyear.

The bombing took place as the soldiers werereturning from a mission in an army vehicle inNarathiwat province’s Rangae district. The specialwarfare unit fromLopburi province in central Thailandwere assigned to carry out psychological operations towin back the hearts and minds of local villagers.

Suspected insurgents remotely detonated the bombby an electrical wire. The powerful explosion killedthe ill-fated soldiers instantly and their vehicle wascompletely destroyed.

The assailants shotall the soldier in the head tomake certain they were dead before making off withseven M16 rifles and six pistols.

The incident occurred in a mountain range near thearea which a group of insurgents used as trainingground. Army rangers raided the area in February thatled to an exchange of gunfire, killing five insurgents atthat time. —Internet

SINGAPORE, 9 May—Ukraine and Singaporehave launched negotia-tions for a bilateral FreeTrade Agreement (FTA),a statement from theSingapore Trade andIndustry Ministry saidTuesday.

The FTA will increasebilateral trade and

SEOUL, 8 May — A USsoldier was sentencedTuesday to eight monthsin prison for assaulting aSouth Korean taxi driverwithout any specificreason, South Korea’sYonhap news agencyreported.

The accused personassaulted the victimwithout any specificreason to inflict seriousharm, said Judge HanYang-seok of the SeoulCentral District Court.

The judge, however,suspended the jail term forthe soldier, identified onlyby the initial of his familyname B, for two years,saying he had com-pensated the driver andthat the US militarydemoted the soldier andcut his pay.

The private first class

BERLIN, 9 May—Labour and employmentministers from the Groupof Eight (G-8) nationsagreed on Monday to paymore attention to the socialdimension of globali-zation.

The ministers pledgedat a meeting in Dresden tointroduce a stronger socialcomponent in theirbilateral relations withdeveloping and thresholdcountries.

The meeting focusedon strategies for more andbetter jobs, corporateresponsibility and im-

LOS ANGELES, 9 May— One person was killedearly Monday when abomb exploded in acasino parking garage inLas Vegas, about 300miles (about 482.8kilometres) northeast ofLos Angeles.

Police identified thedead as a hotel employeewho was killed when adevice he picked upexploded, police said.

The device was putatop a car on the secondfloor of a parking behindthe Luxor hotel-casino,police said.

The blast was not aterrorist act but anapparent murder of aLuxor employee. Nothreat had been madeagainst the Luxor, policespokesman Bill Cassellsaid. — MNA/Xinhua

Singapore, Ukraine startFTA negotiations

investment, and providegreater confidence forinvestors and businesses,the statement said.

Key elements of theFTA will includemeasures to liberalizetrade in goods andservices and the invest-ment regime and co-operate in the protection

of intellectual propertyrights and other generalprovisions.

Ukraine was Singa-pore’s 55th largest tradingpartner last year, with totaltrade amounting to 774million Singapore dollars(about 510 million USdollars).

MNA/Xinhua

G-8 ministers to underline socialdimension of globalization

proving social protectionsystems in developing andemerging economies.

German Labour Mi-nister Franz Muente-fering, who hosted thegathering as his countryis holding the presidencyof the G-8, said globaliza-tion should bring workand security and not justbenefits to the inter-national financial world.

EU Commissioner forEmployment and SocialAffairs Vladimir Spidla,who attended the me-eting, said in an interviewthat globalization needed

to have a just and socialdimension.

“These components donot come out of the blueOne has to work for them,”he said, adding the G-8nations had a lot of powerand possibility to bring thisabout.

He urged industry todo more than legallyrequired to improveeducation, social dialo-gue and environmentalstandards, echoing Mue-ntefering’s early call forindustry to play a role inimproving social stand-ards. —MNA/Xinhua

S Korea sentences US soldier in jail for assaultbelongs to the honourguard unit of the 8th USArmy. A US Army privatewho was also involved inthe assault was ordered topay a fine of two millionwon (2,164 US dollars).

The soldiers wereconvicted of pummelling

the 51-year-old taxi driver,identified only by hisfamily name Baek, in theface when he was urinatingin a public bathroom on astreet in the Itaewon areaof central Seoul on 17November.

MNA/Xinhua

Bombexplosion

kills one inLas Vegas

Seven soldiers killed indeadly attack in South

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A Chinese ethnic minorities culture exhibition was held in Hong Kong on 5May, attracting many visitors. All kinds of costumes and artworks from

various Chinese ethnic minorities were showcased. –INTERNET

Cambodia eyes APECmembership

PHNOM PENH, 9 May —Cambodia wants to be amember of the Asia-Pacific Economic Coo-peration (APEC), said asenior official here onTuesday.

“We want to be anAPEC member becausewe want to integrate oureconomy into the regionand the world,” saidCambodian Deputy Prime

Minister and Minister ofForeign Affairs andInternational CooperationHor Namhong.

However, whetherCambodia becomes anAPEC member or not isnot important because theEast Asia Forum is stillvery important for thecountry, he added.

In addition, manymembers of the APEC are

in the East Asia Forum,and the forum is alwaysheld in the countries of theAssociation of South-eastAsian Nations (ASEAN),he said.

The East Asia Forumbrings together the 10ASEAN countries plusChina, Japan and SouthKorea.—MNA/Xinhua

A tourist admires peonies in a park of Yinchuan,capital of west China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous

Region, on 8 May, 2007. Over 80 varieties ofpeonies are in full bloom in the park as it turns

warm. —XINHUA

China’s car exports risein 1st quarter of 2007BEIJING, 10 May—China exported 99,800 vehicles

in the first quarter this year, 5.32 percent up on thesame period of last year, according to figures from theGeneral Administration of Customs.

The export of sedans (also known as saloons), orpassenger cars excluding sport utility vehicles (SUVs)and multi-purpose vehicles (MPVs), soared by 49percent on last year to 25,000 units.

Car parts and other related exports soared 36.3percent to a value of 8 billion US dollars, whileimports rose 18.5 percent to 5.4 billion US dollars.

China produced 2.19 million vehicles in the firstthree months of the year, up 22.6 percent on the sameperiod of 2006. This included 1.6 million passengercars, up 23.7 percent.—Internet

ECLAC, FAO sayLatAm good shape for

biofuel production SANTIAGO, 9 May —Latin America, especially the

southern cone nations, has very favourable conditionsfor producing biofuels, two UN bodies said in a reportreleased on Tuesday.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) andthe Economic Commission for Latin America and theCaribbean (ECLAC) said that Brazil, Bolivia,Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay are inthe best shape to produce ethanol fuel from sugarcaneand corn. Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia and Boliviahave a lot of potential to produce biodiesel becausethey enjoy extensive soy and palm oil industries.

In order to counteract the possible negative effect,these governments will have to strengthen coordinationin agriculture, energy, environment, trade, finance andtax sectors, said Jose Luis Machinea, Ecla’s secre-tarygeneral. However, Central American and Caribbeannations are not in good shape to trade biofuel becauseof a shortage of agricultural land and because their dietis based on corn.

The report, which was released after a request fromBrazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva, also said costprices of bioenergy production in Brazil are halfamount in the European Union and a third in the UnitedStates.—MNA/Xinhua

Iranians eager toinvest in Zimbabwe

MOSCOW/ BRUSSELS, 9May—The EuropeanCommission called onUkraine on Tuesday toupgrade its pipelines afteran explosion on Mondaydestroyed a 30-metresection of the trunkpipeline that carriesRussian gas to Europe.“A similar accidentoccurred in the samesection of the samepipeline in 2001,” FerranTarradellas Espuny,

HARARE, 9 May—Iranian businesspeoplehave expressed theirkeenness to invest inZimbabwe and engage inventures to produce variousgoods and commodities inthe country, The Heraldreported on Tuesday.

The Iranian Govern-ment, which hasexpressed its willingnessto conduct business withZimbabwe, has sinceinstructed its ministries toopen an Africa desk. Thiswill facilitate quick andeasy access for businesstransactions, the news-

paper said. Zimbabwean Deputy

Information and PublicityMinister Bright Matonga,who recently returnedfrom Iran, was quoted assaying that there washuge potential forbusiness and lucrativemarkets in Iran.

Matonga added thatIran, which enjoys cordialrelations with Zimbabwe,had made inquiries aboutbuying a huge consign-ment of asbestos from thiscountry and the order waslikely to be concludedsoon.— MNA/Xinhua

EU tells Ukraine to upgradepipelines after blast

spokesman for EnergyCommissioner AndrisPiebalgs, told reporters.“The Commissionconsidered that add-itional proof thatUkrainian networks — orat least part of thenetwork of pipelinessupplying gas to theEuropean Union — needsto be overhauled.”

The future of theUkrainian gas pipeline —and Russia’s oil pipelinethat runs across Belarus toEurope — is already indoubt because of Russia’sdesire to escape whatPresident Vladimir Putinhas called “parasite”transit nations.

MNA/Reuters

A monkey drinkswater from a

roadside tap in thenortheasternIndian city of

Siliguri on 7 May ,2007. — INTERNET

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A young girl in a fairy costume looks at a ‘Peace’ tank created by Germanartists Ulrike Rosenbach and Michael Fischer-Art in front of the

Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on 8 May, 2007. —XINHUA

Sculptor Daniel Edwards takes the intestines out of his sculpture “ParisHilton Autopsy” at the Capla Kesting Fine Art studio in the Brooklyn

borough of New York on 9 May, 2007. —INTERNET

JOHANNESBURG, 9 May— The governments ofSouth Africa and Switzer-land have signed a bilateralair services agreement thatwill result in a rise in touristand business traffic to thetwo countries, SouthAfrica’s Department ofTransport said on Tuesday.

Flights operated bySwiss International Air-lines would be increase to12 per week betweenZurich and Johannesburg,from six flights per weekcurrently, said theministry’s spokesmanCollen Msibi.

Eight die in east Indiadue to rains

NEW DELHI,9 May— Unexpected stormsaccompanied by heavy rains and lightning in partsof East Indian Orissa region killed eight people,including six women, on Monday night, Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported Tuesday.

Heavy rains lashed Orissan capitalBhubaneswar and parts of Angul, DhenkanalNayagarh and Puri areas in Orissa Monday night.

While four victims died after being struck bylightning in Dhenkanal, three lost their lives inAngul and one person was killed in Puri. Severaltrees were uprooted and electricity supply wasdisrupted in these regions. — MNA/Xinhua

Australian troops attackedin Iraq

CANBERRA, 9 May— Australian troops havebeen attacked in southern Iraq but no one was hurt,according to Tony Rawlins, commander ofAustralian troops in southern Iraq.

The soldiers were on a routine security missionin Samawah City, the capital of Al MuthannaProvince, Monday afternoon local time when theywere attacked.

“As they were leaving the provincial jointoperations centre, coming out through the backgate, down a side alley, they were engaged by twoto three people,” Rawlins told AustralianBroadcasting Corporation radio Tuesday.

“(There was) one rocket-propelled grenade anda small burst of fire from an AK-47 (rifles),” hesaid.— MNA/Xinhua

Five killed in mortar attackin S Baghdad

BAGHDAD, 9 May — Five people were killed andtwo others injured on Monday when a mortar roundstruck a house in southern Baghdad, an InteriorMinistry source said.

“A mortar round landed on a house in theSaidiyah neighbourhood, killing five people andwounding two others,” the source told Xinhua oncondition of anonymity.

Separately, six unidentified bodies were foundin the Hay al-Amil neighbourhood, in southwesternBaghdad, the source said.

The bullet-riddled bodies were bound andblindfolded, showing signs of torture, he said.

MNA/Xinhua

KATHMANDU,9 May— The United Nation’sChildren’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that up to 10million children in South Asia are affected by HIV/AIDS, The Himalayan Times reported Tuesday.

UNICEF said, however, that only a tiny proportionof them are actually HIV positive while the vastmajority are at high risk because they either have aparent living with HIV or have been orphaned by thevirus.

This was revealed by the UNICEF Regional Officefor South Asia and the South Asian Association forRegional Cooperation (SAARC) at a meeting of therepresentatives from the SAARC countries here,according to the daily.

The participants of the two-day regionalconsultation on Children Affected by HIV/AIDS willreview the situation of children affected by HIV/AIDSin the region.

They will also work towards facilitating a commonstrategic approach to guide policies and actions toprotect the HIV/AIDS affected children.

MNA/Xinhua

KATHMANDU, 9 May— The Ministry of Health andPopulation (MoHP) will launch a two-day sub-nationalimmunization campaign for polio eradication on June2-3 in 17 more districts, Yasovardan Pradhan, directorat the Child Health Division (CHD), said here onTuesday.

Earlier, the MoHP launched the campaign in sixdistricts. The campaign is being launched in districtsbordering India to control the spread of polio virusbecause polio cases were detected in some parts ofIndia, the director said.

“Two drops of oral polio vaccine will beadministered to each child under five in polio boothson the first day,” he said, adding that health workerswill organize house-to-house campaigns the next dayin the southern Tarai districts to make sure no child isleft out.

The CHD is also launching a campaign againstJapanese Encephalitis from the second week of May.“We have made preparations for the campaign andplan to launch it from Kanchanpur in far-westernNepal from the second week of May,” Pradhan toldreporters.

MNA/Xinhua

BAGHDAD, 9 May —The death toll rose to atleast 16 people killed andup to 70 others injured onTuesday when a suicidecar bomb struck a busy

S Africa, Switzerland signair travel agreement

“Zurich is a strategichub for passenger con-nectivity to South Africa,and this will allow for asignificant inflow oftourist and businessrelated traffic to SouthAfrica, more especially asSouth Africa progressestowards the 2010 FIFAWorld Cup event,” Msibiwas quoted as saying bythe SAPA news agency.

He said such com-mitment between SouthAfrica and Switzerlandwould contribute to asuccessful football WorldCup.

The initial AirServices Agreementbetween the two coun-tries was signed inOctober 1959.

Tuesday’s agreementincluded elements suchas the principle ofmultiple designation ofairlines, a liberal doubledisapproval tariff regimeand a flexible routeschedule.

MNA/Xinhua

Nepal to launchanti-polio drive

UNICEF says HIV/AIDS affecting10 mln kids in S Asia

Death toll rises to 16 in suicidecar bomb attack in S Baghdad

market in the town of Kufanear the holy city of Najaf,160 kilometres south ofBaghdad, local police said.

“Our latest report saidthat at least 16 people werekilled and some 70 othersinjured in the suicide carbombing in the com-mercial Jesr Street in Kufa,some 10 kilometresnortheast of Najaf,” thesource told Xinhua oncondition of anonymity.

Earlier, the source putthe toll at ten people killedand 25 others wounded in acar bomb blast at a busymarket. A suicide bomberdriving an explosive-ladenvehicle at about 10:15 am(0615 GMT) at the crow-ded commercial street wheredozens of shops and openmarket located, the sourcesaid.—MNA/Xinhua

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Shan State (South) where 1000 flowers bloom - 3

In 1987, most of the shops in Loilem

Market were built with pinewood and

they were a little more than make-shift

booths. Besides, the town got electricity

only from 6 pm to 9 pm every day. As the

capacity of the generator was not enough

for the town’s power consumption, the

light of a 50-watt bulb was so dim. Up to

1988, the whole Shan State consumed

only about 24 megawatts.

During the time of the Tatmadaw

government, power consumption of Shan

State has risen to 12 times. Up to 1988,

the state used 24.285 million units, and

up to 2007, it used 301.46 million units.

Thanks to Zawgyi Hydelpower Plant,

power can be supplied to Loilem round

the clock. In addition to large Zawgyi 1

and Zawgyi 2 hydelpower plants, Tatgyi

and Kunhing hydelpower stations and

Tigit coal-fired power station are also

generating electricity. Now, Loilem is

sparkling with bright electricity lights at

night.

Yadanasi Sayadaw (Loilem)

The Tatmadaw government has been

building more and more power plants in

the whole nation. Head of State Senior

General Than Shwe inspected Shweli 1

Hydroelectric Power Project on 18 April

2007. The project is being implemented

on Shweli River 17 miles south-west of

Namhkam in northern Shan State.

The project will generate 600

megawatts and over 51 per cent of work

has been completed. Two more

hydropower projects on the river -- the

Shweli 2, with 460-megawatt generation

capacity, in Moemeik Township, and the

Shweli 3, with 360-megawatt generation

capacity -- will also be implemented.

The 54-megawatt Kengtawng

hydropower plant project near

Kengtawng Falls in Loilem District, Shan

State (South) and the 7110-megawatt

Tarhsan hydropower plant project on

Thanlwin River in Mongpang Township

will also supply electricity to the nation

in the future.

Apart from power projects to supply

electricity to the whole country, the

Tatmadaw government is also developing

the education sector. The number of basic

education students in Shan State has

increased nearly 200 per cent, school

enrollment rate, 289.18 per cent, and adult

literacy rate, 216.85 per cent when

compared with 1988.

Up to 1988, Shan State did not have an

arts and science university. The Tatmadaw

government has established two arts and

science universities and one degree college,

at which over 20,000 students are pursuing

higher education. Four special

development zones have been set up in

Shan State for its development. Taunggyi

special development zone in southern

Shan State and Panglong special

development zone now have a

Technological University and a Computer

University each. According to the list

collected in 2005, the two universities

had 6598 students.

Thanks to the efforts and goodwill

of the Ministry of Information, Myanmar

has become the first country in the world

to have a library each in all villages. The

ministry has been opening libraries with

the aim of raising the entire people's

education and intellectual level, widening

their scope of knowledge, enhancing their

thinking power and the power to control

their mind and nurturing them to have

correct concepts, and enabling them to

lead a stable life and to differentiate

between right and wrong. Up to 55,717

self-reliant rural libraries had been opened

in Myanmar on 31 March 2007 thanks to

the combined efforts of the government,

the local people and the donors.

A grand ceremony to mark the

opening of rural libraries in Shan State

(South) was held in Taunggyi on 2-4-

2007. At the ceremony, a trust fund was

set up, and TVs, radio-cassettes, videos,

books and buildings were donated.

Chairman of Shan State Peace and

Development Council Commander of

Eastern Command Brig-Gen Thaung

Aye, Minister for Information Brig-Gen

Kyaw Hsan, Minister for Commerce

Brig-Gen Tin Naing Thein, Chairperson

of Shan State Maternal and Child Welfare

Supervisory Committee Daw Thin Myo

Myo Aung, social organizations, senior

military officers, officials and donors

attended the ceremony.

Wellwishers also donated 35 TV

sets, 82 radios, 5420 books and

periodicals, 84 buildings, 18 videos, 18

voltage controllers and cash worth over

K110 million for rural libraries. A total of

3087 libraries and 20 TV retransmission

stations that can cover up to 8797.26

square miles have been built in southern

Shan State. Taunggyi has a sub-printing

house that has been publishing the

newspapers.

People of all ages can now read

various kinds of books and periodicals,

watch TV and listen to the radio to enhance

their knowledge bank.

(Translation: TMT)

(Myanma Alin: 10-5-2007)

*********

Wellwishers also donated 35 TV sets, 82 radios,

5420 books and periodicals, 84 buildings, 18 videos,

18 voltage controllers and cash worth over K110

million for rural libraries. A total of 3087 libraries

and 20 TV retransmission stations that can cover

up to 8797.26 square miles have been built in

southern Shan State. Taunggyi has a sub-printing

house that has been publishing the newspapers.

Acrobats practise

with bowls during

training at the

Qian Jin acrobatic

troupe in

Shenyang, capital

of northeastern

China’s Liaoning

Province, on 9

May, 2007. The

troupe will perform

in Hong Kong on

the 10th

anniversary of its

return to China on

1 July.

INTERNET

Experts to train immune cellsto kill nose cancer

HONG KONG, 10 May—Scientists in Hong Kong andAustralia will soon test anexperimental treatment for noseand throat cancer–which“trains” the patient’s own whiteblood cells to fight the disease.

The trial will begin overthe next three months andblood samples will becollected from 30nasopharyngeal (nose) cancerpatients in Hong Kong, saidlead researcher Daniel Chua,associate professor of clinical

oncology at the Universty ofHong Kong.

These will be flown to theQueensland Institute ofMedical Research, wherescientists will isolate and“train” a certain class of whiteblood cells, or T-cells, to fightthe disease.

The battle-ready T-cellswill then be cultured and thewhole army of cells will bereinjected back into the cancerpatients.

MNA/Reuters

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YANGON, 10 May — Chairman of Yangon DivisionPeace and Development Council Commander ofYangon Command Maj-Gen Hla Htay Win attendedthe dinner in honour of get-together of outstandingmembers of Myanmar Red Cross Society 2007 held atUniversity of Nursing on Bogyoke Aung San Streetthis evening.

Present also were Vice-President Daw Khin Thet

Dinner hosted in honour ofoutstanding Red Cross members

Htay of Myanmar Women’s Affairs Federation andCEC members, Chairperson Daw Mar Mar Wai ofYangon Division Maternal and Child WelfareSupervisory Committee, executives of MyanmarMaternal and Child Welfare Association (Central),officials of the Ministry of Health, President ofMyanmar Red Cross Society Prof Dr Tha Hla Shweand members, representatives of International

Committee of the Red Cross and InternationalFederation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies,outstanding members of MRCS and guests.

MRCS President Prof Dr Tha Hla Shwe deliveredan address on the occasion. An outstanding Red Crossmember spoke words of thanks. Next, the commander,guests and outstanding Red Cross members were servedwith dinner. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 10 May— With a view tofacilitating developmentof fisheries sector andjoint-ventures of the twonations, visitingVietnamese FisheriesMinister Mr Ta QuangNgoc and wife Mrs LuongThanh Chau and partywent on an observationtour of Annawa ColdStorage in Pazundaung

Vietnamese Fisheries Minister observesproduction of prawn and fish

Township on 8 Maymorning.

At the briefing hall,officials of FisheriesDepartment explainedproductivity of the factory,prospects of foreignmarket and domesticdistribution to the visitingminister and party. Theyreplied to the queriesraised by the minister andparty.

The visiting ministerand party made someobservations on pro-duction of fish and prawnand finished marineproducts, sales of fish andprawn at Nyaungdan Jettyand local demand. Next,they visited a laboratoryof the FisheriesDepartment in ThakaytaTownship where officialsreplied to the queries

raised by the visitingminister and party.

Afterwards, theyproceeded to 5000-tonCold Storage of GreatInternational Co inHlinethaya Township. Atthe briefing hall, Director-General of the FisheriesDepartment U KhinMaung Aye and officialsbriefed the visitingminister and party onproduction techniques ofthe factory, its export and

background history of thefactory.

The following day,they visited the fresh waterfish farms ofAnnawahlwan companyin Maubin and Nyaungdontownships of AyeyawadyDivision. MyanmarFisheries Federation UHtay Myint hosted dinnerin honour of the visitingminister and party atYuzana Garden Hotel.

The visiting minister

and party left Yangon byair this morning and theywere seen off at YangonInternational Airport byMyanmar Livestock andFisheries DevelopmentBank Governor U KyawLwin and wife, Director-General U Khin MaungAye of FD and Director-General U Maung MaungNyunt of LivestockBreeding and VeterinaryDepartment.

MNA

Chairman of Myanmar Red Cross Society Prof Dr Tha Hla Shwe delivers an address at meeting of outstanding Red Cross members of MRCS. — MNA

Vietnamese Minister for Fisheries Mr Ta Quang Ngoc and party viewprawns from fishing boats at Nyaungdan Jetty. — L & F

Director-General of Fisheries Department U Khin Maung Aye (R) andDirector of International Cooperation Department of Vietnam

Mr Nguyen Viet Manh (L) sign the agreement on boosting trade ofaquatic resources. — MNA

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YANGON, 10 May — The Basic Tailoring CourseNo 5, the Advanced Tailoring Course No 1 and theVocational (Wickerwork) Course No 1 were openedat the Women’s Vocational Training School ofEducation and Training Department in Pale on 7May.

Chairman of Sagaing Division Peace andDevelopment Council Commander of North-WestCommand Maj-Gen Tha Aye delivered an address.Also present on the occasion were local authorities,departmental officials and social organizationmembers.

Training courses opened at Women’sVocational Training Schools

A total of 45 trainees are attending the BasicTailoring Course, five at the Advanced TailoringCourse and four at the vocational course.

The Basic Tailoring Course No 7, the AdvancedTailoring Course No 1, the Knitting Course No 6 andthe Vocational (Wickerwork) Course No 1 were alsoopened at the Women’s Vocational Training Schoolin Putao. Chairman of Kachin State PDC Commanderof Northern Command Maj-Gen Ohn Myint gave aspeech. A total of33 trainees are attending the basictailoring course, ten at the advanced tailoring course,four at the knitting course and four at the vocational

course.Ceremonies to open the basic and advanced

tailoring courses, knitting and vocational(wickerwork) courses were held at Women’sVocational Training Schools in Muse and Lashio ofShan State (North), Kengtung, Monghsat and Tachilekof Shan State (East), Myeik and Kawthoung ofTaninthayi Division, Pakokku, Yesagyo, Myaing,Pauk and Seikphyu of Magway Division, Yinmabinand Salingyi of Sagaing Division, Leshi, Lahe andNanyun of Naga region, the basic and advancedtailoring and vocational (wickerwork) courses inMudon and Ye of Mon State, Hpa-an and Myawadyof Kayin State, Loikaw of Kayah State and Maungtawof Rakhine State, the basic tailoring, knitting andvocational (wickerwork) courses in Dunban,Dawphoneyan and Bhamo of Kachin State, the basicand advanced tailoring, knitting, basic weaving, oysterart and wickerwork courses in Haka, Falam andMindat of Chin State, the basic and advanced tailoring,knitting and wickerwork courses in Matupi, Tiddimand Kanpetlet.

The training courses will last 14 weeks each. MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 10 May — An opening ceremony ofMyanmar Spectacle Centre run by retired opticians ofthe Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Equipment Tradingunder the Ministry of Commerce was held atThabyaegon Market in Nay Pyi Taw this morning.

Director U Myat Tun Kyaw of Directorate of

Myanmar Optic Shop opens

Trade under the Ministry of Commerce and Director UKo Ko of the Cooperative Department under theMinistry of Cooperatives formally opened the centre.

A wide range of glasses are available at reasonableprices there and eye tests will be conducted from 1 to5 and from 15 to 19 monthly.— MNA

YANGON, 10 May — Pan-wut-hmone FashionShop-2 was opened at No 32, Kyansittha HousingEstate, in Hlinethaya Township on 6 May.

The fashion store was formally opened byChairman of Hlinethaya Township Peace andDevelopment Council U Khin Thein Maung, Chairmanof Administration Committee for Hlinethaya IndustrialZone-5 and owner of Pan-wut-hmone Fashion StoreDaw Phyo Thandar Hlaing.

After the opening ceremony, owner of the shopDaw Phyo Thandar Hlaing and U Khin Hlaing (ChitMoe Nyo) conducted officials and invited guests aroundthe shop.

Online brand clothes of various sizes areavailable at the shop. Pan-wut-hmone Fashion Shop-1was also opened at the building-1 of MyagandamaMarket in Mayangon Township in March.Retailersand wholesalers may contact the shop. — MNA

Pan-wut-hmone FashionShop-2 opened in

Hlinethaya

YANGON, 10 May — Two members U Kyi Aye and U Tin Hlaing of EinmeTownship National League for Democracy in Ayeyawady Division resigned on26 May and member U Thit of Myaung Township NLD in Sagaing Division on4 April resigned from the party of their own desire, sending their letters ofresignation to NLD Headquarters and local authorities.

In their resignation letters sent to Einme and Myaung Townships Multi-party Democracy General Election Sub-commissions, they said that they had noconfidence and interest in the party any longer and came to realize that the partydid not serve the interest of the people and the State. That was why they resignedfrom the party of their own volition, they said. — MNA

NLD did not serve interest ofpeople and the State

Three resign from NLD ofEinme, Myaung Townships

Opening ceremony of Pan-wut-hmone Fashion Shop-2 in progress.MNA

Opening ceremony of Myanmar Optic Shop of retired opticians of Pharmacy andPharmaceutical Equipment Trading of Ministry of Commerce in progress. — MNA

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 11 May, 2007

A Gentoo penguin takes a swim in the penguin exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zooand PPG Aquarium in Pittsburgh, on 6 May , 2007. — INTERNET

Computer monitors show the logo of Lenovo during a news conference for itsinterim results announcement in Hong Kong on 9 Nov, 2006 file photo.

Lenovo Group Ltd has signed a deal with Microsoft Corp to buy Windows,Office and other software suites for its personal computers in a deal worth as

much as $1.3 billion.— INTERNET

Retired US generals slamBush policy in ad campaign

WASHINGTON, 10 May — Three retired US generals will challenge the BushAdministration’s Iraq policy in an ad campaign starting Wednesday, FoxNews reported.

The three generals areJohn Batiste, Paul Eatonand Wesley Clark, whowill be featured in a seriesof political ad launchedby VoteVetsorg, an anti-war group, according tothe report.

Batiste, who once ledsoldiers in Iraq, said in thefirst ad that PresidentGeorge W Bush hasmisled the war and calls

for troops to come home.“Mr President, you did

not listen. You continue topursue a failed strategythat is breaking our greatArmy and Marine Corps. Ileft the Army in protest inorder to speak out. MrPresident, you have placedour nation in peril. Ouronly hope is that Congresswill act now to protect ourfighting men and women,”

he said.The ad featuring

Eaton is expected to airnext week and generallywill follow the sameformat as the Batiste ad.

The ad featuringClark, a former NATOSupreme Commander,will focus on how the Iraqwar hurt the “war onterror”. — MNA/Xinhua

A Delta II launchvehicle will start Phoenixon its much longer trip toMars from CapeCanaveral Air ForceStation some-time after 3August, the earliestpossible launch date,NASA said in a statement.

Opportunities forenergy-efficient launchesto Mars come about everytwo years, and scientistssay this year is particularlyfavourable for sending alander to far-northern Marsto arrive when sunshine isat a maximum there.

“This is a criticalmilestone for ourmission,” said Peter Smithof the University ofArizona, principalinvestigator for Phoenix.

“Our expertengineering team hascompleted assembly andtesting of the spacecraft.The testing shows ourinstruments are capable ofmeeting the high-levelrequirements for the

NASA’s next Mars spacecraft“Phoenix” arrives in Florida

mission.”Workers have been

assembling and testing thespacecraft for more than ayear in Denver, Colorado.

After launch, Phoenixwill land on a Martianarctic plain next spring. It

will use a robot diggingarm and other instrumentsto determine whether thesoil environment justbeneath the surface couldhave been a favourablehabitat for microbial life.

MNA/Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 10 May — A US Air Force C-17 cargo aircraft carrying NASA’sPhoenix Mars Lander arrived at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Tuesday.

Truck bomb kills 20, wounds70 in Iraq’s Kurdistan

BAGHDAD, 10 May — The death toll rose to 20,with 70 others wounded, when a suicide truck bombstruck the building of a Kurdish regional ministry inIraq’s northern city of Arbil on Wednesday, localpolice said.

“Latest report said that 20 people were killedand 70 others injured, including Interior Ministryemployees,” a source from the city police said,citing report from the Kurdish regional HealthMinistry.

Earlier, the source put the toll at 30 people killedand wounded. — MNA/Xinhua

Five dead in US Navyhelicopter crash in Nevada

RENO (Nevada), 10 May — All five crewmembers on a helicopter flying out of Nevada’sFallon Naval Air Station died in a crash about 10miles (16 kilometres) west of Austin, Nevada, baseofficials said on Tuesday.

Spokesman Zip Upham said the helicopterapparently struck a high-voltage power line while ona search and rescue training mission at 9:30 pm onMonday night. The remote area is about 165 miles(265 kilometres) east of Reno.

Navy investigators were in the northern NevadaDesert early on Tuesday to recover the bodies of thefive sailors.

The SH-60F helicopter was part of a helicopteranti-submarine squadron in Jacksonville.

MNA/Reuters

HANOI, 10 May —Vietnam will installnarcotics scanners at itsbiggest internationalairports amid recentdetection of passengerstransporting drugs by air,according to localnewspaper Transport onWednesday.

From the third quarter,all passengers atVietnam’s biggest

GM rolls out new salesincentives to boost truck sales

WASHINGTON, 10 May — General Motors Corp.has rolled out a new round of sales incentives for itsredesigned lineup of full-size pickups, The Wall StreetJournal reported on Wednesday.

The Detroit auto maker, which said it needs tokeep up with deals being offered by competitors, isoffering 0 per cent finance on 36-month loans forcertain versions of the 2007 Chevrolet Silverado andGMC Sierra, said the report.

It is offering reduced-rate financing on 60-monthloans for the trucks, which are among the most profitableproducts in GM’s global lineup. — MNA/Xinhua

Vietnam to install narcoticsscanners at airports

international airport, TanSon Nhat in southern HoChi Minh City, will besubject to narcoticsscanning. Meanwhile, theNoi Bai InternationalAirport in Hanoi capitalwill use the scanners ononly suspectedpassengers.

Using suchequipment as baggagescanners, magnetic gatesand liquid explosivedetectors, Vietnam’saviation security forcesfind it very difficult todetect narcotics hidden inpassengers’ luggage orbody. However, they havealready discovered somecases of transportingdrugs by air, mainly onroutes from Ho Chi MinhCity to Australia, said thereport.

MNA/Xinhua

US climber dies after fallingfrom New Zealand glacier

WELLINGTON, 10 May — New Zealand policesaid Wednesday a 20-year-old American man diedTuesday after falling from a New Zealand glacier.

Three Lincoln University students—all fromthe United States—were roped together when theyfell more than 400 metres down the side of MountFrench on Monday. One of the injured studentstrekked through icy and rocky terrain to get help forthe other survivor.

The trio had just descended the large Bonarglacier and were in an area between several smallerglaciers when the mishap occurred. Their fall endedon an ice shelf on the edge of a glacier.

MNA/Xinhua

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This aerial picture taken in March 2007 shows themud volcano in the area of Porong, a district of

Sidoarjo in East Java. Sludge has burst through anembankment built around Indonesia's disastrous"mud volcano," flooding a main road, an official

said on Tuesday 8 May , 2007. — INTERNET

Christina Rau, widow of former German PresidentJohannes Rau, poses with a sculpture of JohannesRau in Duesseldorf on 10 May , 2007. Rau, whodied in January 2006, was the eighth President of

Germany from 1999 until 2004. — INTERNET

A model of the new Hyderabad internationalairport is displayed on the outskirts of Hyderabad

India, on 9 May , 2007. The airport will have arunway length of about 4,260 meters (3 miles) and

a passenger capacity of 12 million when itcommences its first phase of operation in March

2008, airport authorities said in an official release. INTERNET

Russia announces big gas deal beforePutin’s Central Asia tour

MOSCOW, 10 May — Russia will import 50 billion cubic metres of naturalgas from Turkmenistan in 2007 and expects to build a gas pipeline linking thetwo countries, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported Tuesday.

The two countrieshave inked long-termgas contracts till 2028,when Russia 's gasimports are expected toreach 90 billion cubicmetres, ITAR-TASS citedRussian DeputyMinister of Industry andEnergy Andrei Reus assaying. According to thosecontracts, Russia will buysome 50 billion cubicmetres of gas from theCaspian country in 2008,which is equal to 86 percent of the gas exports ofthe world's No 5 gas-and-oil rich country.

Russia boughtmore than 41 billion cubicmetres of gas fromTurkmenistan last year,when the price increasedfrom 65 US dollars per1,000 cubic metres to 100

US dollars.During talks with

his Turkmen counterpartGurbanguly Berdy-mukhammedov inMoscow late April,Russian President Vladi-mir Putin called for greaterenergy cooperation.

Putin is to pay aseven-day visit toKazakhstan and Turk-menistan from Wednes-day, during which he willattend a tripartite summitbetween the three headsof states, the RussianPresidential Press Servicesaid Tuesday.

The United Statesand the European Unionhave been trying topersuade Turkmenistan toship gas past Russia via aproposed pipeline underthe Caspian Sea. Reus did not rule out the

possibility of the pipeline,stretching along theCaspian Sea coast toTurkey. "We don't limitour partners," he wasquoted as saying.

Turkmen gas iscurrently exported via theCentral Asia-Centrepipeline, which possessesan annual capacity ofnearly 50 billion cubicmetres, ITAR-TASS said.

MNA/Xinhua

Second tube of Mount Bolutunnel opened in Turkey

ANKARA, 10 May — The second tube of theBolu Mountain tunnel on the Ankara-IstanbulHighway was opened with an official ceremonyon Tuesday, the semi-official Anatolia news agencyreported.

The 2,954-metre-long tube was openedfive months after the2,788-metre-long firsttube of the tunnel wasinaugurated by PrimeMinister Recep TayyipErdogan and his Italiancounterpart RomanoProdi. Public Works andHousing Ministry'sundersecretary SabriOzkan Erbakan wasquoted as saying that thetunnel was now ready tohandle traffictechnically and as far assafety measures areconcerned.

The tunnelaccommodates threelanes of traffic in eachdirection and is expectedto reduce travel timesignificantly betweenTurkey's capital Ankaraand the largest cityIstanbul.

NEW YORK, 10 May— The more TV adolescents watch, the more likelythey are to develop attention and learning problems, and to do poorly inschool in the long-run, a new study confirms.

US Democrats craft newIraq war-funds plan

Singapore, Australia hold jointmaritime exercise

SINGAPORE, 10 May—A joint maritime exerciseinvolving the navies andair forces of Singapore andAustralia has been holdingin the Singapore Strait andthe South China Sea, from7 to 11May .

Singapore's DefenceMinistry said onWednesday in a statementthat both navies areexercising under theconventional range ofscenarios, from maritimesurveillance, air defence toanti- submarine warfare, as

well as in the maritimesecurity scenario ofdefence against small boatthreats. Shore activities inthe form of professionaldiscussions and war-gaming training are alsopart of the exercise.

The exercise, namedExercise SINGA-ROO 07,is the eleventh in the seriesof maritime warfareexercises between thenavies and air forces ofSingapore and Australia.

MNA/Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 10May— Democratic lea-ders in the House ofRepresentatives said onTuesday that they will tryto pass a new Iraq war-funding bill to keepcombat operationsrunning for the next twoor three months while alsoforcing a troop withdrawalvote in July.

House MajorityLeader Steny Hoyer, aMaryland Democrat, saida vote could come as earlyas Thursday on a new planto provide more than 30billion US dollars now for

combat operations in Iraqand Afghanistan beforeexisting war funds run out.Another 10 billion USdollars or so would beefup veterans health care andother military pro-grammes. The House votewould come in the midstof a three-month fightbetween congressionalDemocrats and the WhiteHouse over the Iraq warand as the Pentagon adds30,000 US troops to helpsecure Baghdad fromsectarian violence that hasspiralled out of control.

MNA/Reuters

Turkish mediareported on Tuesday thatas the inauguration of theBolu Mountain tunnelwith two tubes, theAnkara-Istanbul journeymay be covered in about3.5 hours, almost onehour shorter thanpreviously.

MNA/Xinhua

The findings“suggest that byencouraging youths tospend less than 3 hours perday watching television,parents, teachers and healthcare professionals may beable to help reduce thelikelihood that at-riskadolescents will developpersistent attention andlearning difficulties”, DrJeffrey G Johnson of

Columbia UniversityCollege of Physicians andSurgeons in New York Cityand colleagues write.

Children inindustrialized nationsgenerally watch 2 or morehours of TV each day.There is evidence linkingTV watching and pooracademic and intellectualperformance, theresearchers point out, but

it is not clear whether theTV time leads to schoolfailure, if kids who donotdo well in school tend towatch more TV than theirbetter-performing peers,or if there are factors suchas poverty or neglect thatmay contribute to bothincreased televisionwatching and learningproblems.

MNA/Reuters

More TV time means worse school performance

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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BOUGAIN VILLA VOY NO (126)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV BOUGAINVILLA VOY NO (126) are hereby notified that thevessel has arrivied on 11.5.2007 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.P where it will lie atthe consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up to Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

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Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

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Amendment for Closing Date of SealedTender for Supply of Total Station

The Closing Date of Sealed Tender for Supply of Total Station andAccessories advertised in THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR on (4.5.2007),(5.5.2007) is amended as follows-

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Japan becomes largest vehicle producing country

Colombian Army seizes781 kilos of cocaine

BOGOTA, 9 May—Colombian Army seized781 kilos of cocaine onTuesday in an abandonedtruck near Gaitan Port, some350 kilometres fromBogota, a regional militaryofficer said. The illicit drugbelonged to “criminal drugtrafficking gangs”, saidmilitary division comm-ander general Guille-rmoQuinones, adding that boththe truck and the drug wereplaced under the GeneralProsecutor’s custody inGaitan Port.—MNA/Xinhua

TOKYO, 8 May— Japan became thelargest vehicle producer in the world forthe first time since 1993, surpassing theUnited States, Kyodo News said Monday,citing a recent survey by an industryassociation.

A total of 11.48 million vehicles,including minivehicles with engines ofup to 660 cc were produced in Japan lastyear. Meanwhile, former champion, theUnited States fell to second with itsdomestic production down 5.7 per centto 11.26 million in 2006, according tothe International Organization of MotorVehicle Manufacturers.

According to the survey by the Paris-based organization, China rose to thethird place in 2006, with a domesticproduction of 7.18 million units,exceeding Germany.

Vehicle production in Japan hasgrown for the fifth consecutive year,with a 6.3-per-cent expansion in 2006.Japan used to be the world’s largestvehicle production country from 1980 to1993, due largely to aggressive exportsto the United States. However, majorJapanese automakers have since thenpromoted production in North America.

MNA/XinhuaDONATE BLOOD

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pvaer;®Pc\. eKt\m^P∑M>‘Pi;tui;tk\eqa Nuic\cMeta\”k; tv\eSak\AM. NASA starts undersea mission to

test medicine, techniques WASHINGTON, 9 May—

A flight surgeon, twoastronauts and a Cinci-nnati doctor began a 12-day NASA mission todepths of the ocean off theFlorida coast on Mondayto test space medicineconcepts and moon-walking techniques.

Aboard the NationalOceanic and AtmosphericAdministration AquariusUnderwater Laboratory,the crew of the NASAExtreme EnvironmentMission Operations 12(NEEMO 12) will conducta variety of advancedmedical technologyexperiments, includingrobotic telesurgery on

simulated patients. It is the first undersea

mission to include aNASA flight surgeon.

“Flight Surgeon JosefSchmid’s unique ex-perience in spacemedicine will benefit themission itself as well asthe future development ofcrew care techniques forlong-duration humanspace flight missions,”NEEMO project managerBill Todd said in astatement.

Hands-on telesurgerydemonstrations and ro-botic telesurgery tech-nology developed andrefined within this missionwill help surgeons

overcome interplanetarycommunication lag time.Technologies such assurgeon-guided automaticrobot function couldimprove the care ofastronauts on futuremissions to the moon andMars. The crew willconduct simulated un-dersea “moon walks” totest concepts for futurelunar exploration.

During the simulatedmoon walks, they willconstruct an underseastructure with the help ofa remotely operatedvehicle, similar to whatthe next travellers to themoon may do.

MNA/Xinhua

Students attend a lesson in China Fukang Beauty & Hair School in Shanghaion 9 May, 2007. —INTERNET

Ancient ceramics discovered off Xisha Islands

Poisonous pet feed promptsstricter food safety checks

Dog and cat.— INTERNET

Some pieces of antique pottery and porcelain in anunderwater excavation of a shipwreck are on displayat a press conference on 8 May, 2007.—INTERNET

HAIKOU, 9 May—Chinese archaeologistshave recovered around10,000 pieces of antiquepottery and porcelain inan underwater excavationof a shipwreck believedto date back to theSouthern Song Dynasty(1127-1279) in the XishaIslands in the South ChinaSea.

The findings provideimportant evidence of anestablished trade routebetween China and the restof the world in the 13thcentury, according toZhang Wei, the leadarchaeologist for the 55-day excavation in theXisha Islands that drew to

a close on Tuesday.“What we found from

the shipwreck onHuaguang Reef No.1 arepearls of the ancient SilkRoad on the sea,” said

Zhang,” and it is first timewe have found suchprecious antiques in thehigh seas.”

“The fragments serveas a testimony that

Chinese people lived andtraded around the XishaIslands during the Tang(618-907) and Song (960-1279) Dynasties,” Zhangsaid.

“They also demonstratethat foreign trade duringthe Tang and Songdynasties was prosperousand that China was one ofthe earliest nations todiscover other parts of theworld,” said Zhang.

The wreck, 20 metreslong and six meters wide,was stumbled upon by agroup of Chinesefishermen in 1996, threemeters below the sea waternear Huaguang Reef.

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BEIJING, 10 May—Chinahas intensified efforts toensure food safety after aspate of incidents involvingpoisonous pet feed in theUntied States. The StateCouncil Wednesday issueda circular ordering in-spections of medicines andadditives used in animalfeed to be carried outnationwide.

melamine-contaminatedwheat gluten and riceprotein blamed for thedeaths of dogs and cats inthe United States.

Xuzhou Anying Bio-logic Technology Devel-opment Co Ltd and Bin-zhou Futian BiologyTechnology Co Ltd “ille-gally added melamine towheat gluten and riceprotein in a bid to meet thecontractual requirement forthe amount of protein in theproducts,” it said.

The firms evaded qualitychecks by labeling theproducts as export items,which are not subject todomestic quality inspec-tions. It added the localpublic security authoritieshad launched an inve-stigation into the cases andhad detained companyofficials. The admini-stration said it had found nomore melamine-conta-

minated products afterchecking 399 samples from173 exporters nationwide.

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The General Admini-stration of Quality Super-vision, Inspection andQuarantine the top qualitycontrol watchdog said onTuesday that two Chinesecompanies had exported

Encyclopedia of Life to cover Earth’s 1.8 mln species online Grammy museum to open in Los AngelesBEIJING, 10 May—The world’s

scientists plan to put descriptions,pictures, videos and sounds of all of theEarth’s 1.8 million known species onone Web site, open to everyone, USmedia reported on Wednesday. Theeffort, called the Encyclopedia of Life,will standardize the presentation of“information about the plants andanimals and microorganisms that sharethis planet with us,” said James Edwards,the project’s executive director.

Its first pages of information will beshown Wednesday in Washington wherethe massive effort is being announced bysome of the world’s leading scientific

Descriptions, pictures, videos andsounds of all of the Earth’s 1.8

million known species will be put onone Web site.—INTERNET

institutions and universities. The projectwill take about 10 years to complete.

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LOS ANGELES, 8 May —A museum dedicated tolegacies of all forms ofmusic and the history ofGrammy Awards will openin September 2008 at adowntown Los Angelesentertainment complex,awards organizers ann-ounced here Tuesday.

The 30,000 square-footGrammy Museum isscheduled to open at LA.Live, the entertainmentcomplex being built acrossthe street from Staples

Center, where the Ameri-can music industry will holdits 50th annual awards showon 10 Feb, according to theNational Academy ofRecording Arts andSciences.

Neil Portnow, presidentof the Recording Acad-emy, oversaw Tuesday’slaunch event for the awards’golden anniversary cere-mony. “Over the past 50years, the Grammy Awardshas become the world’smost famous music telecast

and the highest honorbestowed upon musicmakers,” said Portnow.

He said that the awardsshow will continue to pushthe envelope for never-before-seen live musicalperformances from new andestablished artists across allgenres, while the academycontinues to focus on itsmission of recognizingmusical excellence andadvocating for the well-being of music makers.

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14 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 11 May, 2007

S P O R T S

Tiger Woods of the U.S. watches hisball after hitting from the rough on the18th hole during an abbreviated prac-tice round due to the wet weather atTPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach on 9 May, 2007. —INTERNET

Andy Roddick of the U.S. returns theball to Gaston Gaudio of Argentina dur-ing their Rome Masters tennis match in Rome on 9 May, 2007. —INTERNET

Chelsea players applaud Manchester United play-ers as they walk onto the pitch before their EnglishPremier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge inLondon on 9 May, 2007. Manchester United have al ready won the Premier League title. —INTERNET

Chelsea, United in goalless stalemate

Utah Jazz' Andrei Kirilenko (47) ma-noeuvres around the defense of GoldenState Warriors Jason Richardson dur-ing the first quarter of Game 2 of theirNBA Western Conference semifinalsbasketball game in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 9 May, 2007. —INTERNET

LONDON, 10 May — Chelsea and ManchesterUnited, league champions old and new, produced astrictly mid-table performance on Wednesday in agoalless showdown that came a month too late.

The game, which should have been one of thehighlights of the season, was downgraded to deadrubber status when United secured the title on Sundayby virtue of Chelsea only drawing 1-1 at Arsenal.

It would have been very different if the fixture hadbeen played when originally scheduled for FA Cupsemifinal weekend in April, when United were justthree points ahead, but with the teams due to meetagain in the Cup final on May 19 it became a more ofa damage-limitation exercise.

Alex Ferguson put out a virtual second-stringteam. China forward Fangzhuo Dong donned the redshirt competitively for the first time more than threeyears after joining the club, full back Kieran Leemade his first league appearance and Chris Eagles hisfirst start. Wayne Rooney, Paul Scholes, Rio Ferdinandand Michael Carrick were on the bench and CristianoRonaldo not involved at all.

Chelsea were much more recognizable, thoughthey too gave a first start to 18-year-old forward ScottSinclair in the continuing absence of 31-goal strikerDidier Drogba and for once were without FrankLampard, missing for only the second time in 62games. — MNA/Reuters

Henin, Mauresmo safelythrough at German Open

BERLIN, 10 May — World number one JustineHenin eased into the third round of the GermanOpen on Wednesday with a 6-1, 6-1 victory overGermany's Tatjana Malek, while AmelieMauresmo returned from illness to beat China'sYan Zi 6-3, 6-3.

Henin, the top seed and a three-timeswinner in Berlin, had too much power for her19-year-old opponent and broke the Germanseven times to secure victory in just over anhour.

Wimbledon champion Mauresmo, seededsecond, was scarcely more taxed as she wonher first competitive match since having herappendix removed, beating her Chinese chal-lenger in one hour 23 minutes. MartinaHingis had to show more grit to beat KaterinaBondarenko of Ukraine 7-5, 7-6.

Hingis, the fourth seed, fought her wayback from an early break to edge the first setand she had to get out of further trouble in thesecond.

MNA/Reuters

Sevilla ease past Depor intoKing's Cup final

SEVILLE (Spain), 10 May — Sevilla reached theirsecond final of the season beating Deportivo Coruna 2-0 at home to cruise into the King's Cup final 5-0 onaggregate on Wednesday.

Juande Ramos's side, who face Espanyol in theUEFA Cup final next Wednesday, led 3-0 from thefirst leg and swiftly ended any thoughts of an upsetwhen Duda scored from a freekick after just threeminutes.

Ernesto Chevanton doubled the lead in the 33rd anda feeble Depor never looked capable of threateningSevilla's first appearance in the final since losing 2-1 toReal Madrid in 1962.

Sevilla look set to meet Barcelona at the Bernabeuon June 23. The Primera Liga leaders hold a 5-2 firstleg advantage going into Thursday's second leg awayto Getafe.

It would be a repeat of last August's EuropeanSuper Cup when they beat Barcelona 3-0.

Sevilla, who are third in the league and still in thetitle race, rested a number of key players but it did notseem to matter as they dominated from the off.

MNA/Reuters

Roma stun Inter 6-2 in thrilling final first leg ROME, 10 May — AS Roma scored four goals in the first half hour

to beat holders Inter Milan 6-2 in an extraordinary first leg of theItalian Cup final on Wednesday.

Captain Francesco Totti, whose team now take a healthy lead intonext Thursday's second leg at the San Siro, gave the home side adream start when he slammed in Rodrigo Taddei's pullback in thefirst minute.

Roma, who lost to Inter in the last two finals, were desperate toavoid a third straight defeat and quickly doubled their lead whenDaniele de Rossi diverted a volley from Philippe Mexes into the neton five minutes.

Simone Perrotta made it 3-0 after sliding in to convert CristianChivu's low cross, which completely outwitted a dormant Interdefence.

The match had been brought forward to an early evening kickoffbecause of fears of crowd trouble and league champions Inter finallywoke up when Hernan Crespo took advantage of a defensive error toround goalkeeper Doni to make it 3-1.

Last month Roma inflicted Inter's only league defeat this seasonand they took a big step towards thwarting a second successive leagueand cup double for Roberto Mancini's side when namesake Mancinirattled in the home side's fourth.— MNA/Reuters

Heerenveen edge Ajax, Twenteand Alkmaar draw in playoffs

AMSTERDAM, 10 May 10 — A first-half goal fromLasse Nilsson handed Heerenveen a 1-0 home win overAjax Amsterdam on Wednesday in the playoffs for aChampions League qualifying round place.

Brazilian Afonso Alves, who also hit the bar with a30-metre free kick, set up Nilsson to score after 17minutes.

The return will be played on Sunday and the winnerwill face Twente Enschede or AZ Alkmaar, who drew1-1, in the playoff final.

Simon Cziommer struck after 12 minutes to putAlkmaar ahead but early in the second half KennedyBakircioglu curled a free kick around the wall for theequaliser. In the playoff for a UEFA Cup place, Utrechtwere held to a goalless draw at home by Roda JC Kerkrade.Groningen host Feyenoord on Thursday. — MNA/Reuters

Lokomotiv to meetFK Moscow in

Russian Cup final MOSCOW, 10 May — Lokomotiv

Moscow beat city rivals Spartak 2-1on Wednesday to advance to theRussian Cup final 5-1 on aggregate.

Russia striker Dmitry Sychevscored the winner two minutes fromtime for the railway side, who willmeet FK Moscow in the May 27final.

FK Moscow reached their firstmajor final after beating Second Di-vision Dynamo Bryansk 1-0 in thesecond leg of their semifinal on Tues-day for a 2-1 win on aggregate.

Lokomotiv, on the other hand,will be playing in their ninth final,having won six including the inau-gural Soviet Cup final back in 1936.

The cup winners will representRussia in the UEFA Cup nextseason. — MNA/Reuters

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Thursday, 10 May, 2007Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hours

MST: During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowers havebeen widespread in Chin and Rakhine States, Sagaing andBago Divisions, fairly widespread in Yangon and MandalayDivisions, scattered in Shan State, Ayeyawady and MagwayDivisions, isolated in Kachin State and weather has been partlycloudy in the remaining areas. Day temperatures were (3ºC)above May average temperature in Kachin State, (3ºC) to(4ºC) below May average temperature in Shan, Mon States,Sagaing and Yangon Divisions, (5ºC) below May averagetemperature in Bago Division and about May average tem-perature in the remaining areas. The significant day tempera-ture were Minbu and Magway (39ºC) each. The noteworthyamounts of rainfall recorded were Mindat (2.20) inches,Kawthoung (2.12) inches, Pyapon (1.85) inches, Kyaukphyu(1.34) inches and NyaungU (1.26) inches.

Maximum temperature on 9-5-2007 was 90°F. Mini-mum temperature on 10-5-2007 was 77°F. Relative humidityat 09:30 hours MST on 10-5-2007 was 96%. Total sunshinehours on 9-5-2007 was (3.4) hrs (approx).

Rainfall on 10-5-2007 was (0.24) inch at Mingaladon,(0.32) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.63) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2007 was (14.92) inches at Mingaladon,(18.86) inches at Kaba-Aye and (16.50) inches at CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was(8) mph from South at (7:30) hours MST on 10-5-2007.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy in theAndaman Sea, South Bay, East Central Bay and partly cloudyelsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 11-5-2007: Rain orthundershowers will be isolated in Kachin State, lower SagaingDivision, scattered in Kayah, Shan, Chin States, Magway,Mandalay and upper Sagaing Divisions, fairly widespread inMon, Kayin States and Ayeyawady Division and widespreadin the remaining areas. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood of ad-vancement of Southwest monsoon in Southern Myanmarareas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areas for11-5-2007: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of cer-tainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areas for11-5-2007: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areas for11-5-2007: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of cer-tainty is (80%).

WEATHER

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OBITURYU MAUNG MAUNG (Thitsar Shin)

(Pyin Oo Lwin, Aged (77) Years)Major (retired) 9.OTS

Former Secretary, Pyithu HluttawInternational Relations and Foreign Affairs

Committee Ex-Chairman MaymyoAssociation, Yangon.

U Maung Maung, son of (U Mya-Daw AyeSein), husband of (Daw Than Than) of No. (57),Myintzue Lane (2), Parami Yeikthar, Yankin Township,father of (U Zeyar Pwint)- Daw Mue Mue Maung, DawThi Thi Maung (Agri-Irrigation [retired]), U AungWin Maung 3rd Off (FG) - Daw Tin Tin Htay, ZawWin Maung - Daw Khin Khin Aye (Australia), Capt.Aung Myin Bo (retired)- Daw Kyu Kyu Maung,grandfather of Lu Lu Win Maung, Han Pwint Naing-Nan Su Su Kyi, Phyo Pwint Maung, Lue Mon WinMaung, May Pwint Maung, Julia Win Maung passedaway peacefully on 7-5-07 at (9:30) pm.

According to his wish, his body was donated toUniversity of Medicine-1 and cornea to Eye, Ear, Noseand Throat Hospital the same day.

Bereaved Family

A Hungarian dancer performs during the MissBelly-Dance contest in Budapest, on 6 May, 2007.

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Saudi Arabia holds USresponsible for violent

Iraqi situationCAIRO, 10 May —

Saudi Arabia held the USresponsible for the currentviolent situation in Iraq andinsists its opposition tomilitary solution to the issueof the war-torn country, aSaudi Arabia diplomat toldXinhua here on Wednesday.

"The US should hold100-per-cent responsibilityfor what is going on in Iraq,our policy is still the sameas before, that is for politicalsolution, against militarysolution," said Mutlaq Saudal-Mutiri, Press attache ofthe Saudi Arabian Embassyin Cairo.

On the US plan to send35,000 extra troops to Iraqlater this year, Mutiri saidthe US decision was meantto show that extra troopsare needed to prove itssuccess in Iraq, terming theissue of troops withdrawalfrom Iraq as a pureAmerican affair.

“We must admit thereis an ethnic war in Iraq now,

and the violence there willnot be reduced until the endof this ethnic war," heasserted, calling for morefocus on the reality of thestate itself, rather than thedivision between the religiongroups of Sunnis and Shiites.

On the internationalconferences on Iraq held inEgypt's Red Sea resort ofSharm el-Sheikh, Mutirisaid that the meetings aimedto probe ways how toreduce the violence in Iraq,and the bilateral meetingsand contacts between theUS and Syria and Iranindicated the USwillingness to give thesetwo countries a role in Iraq.

MNA/Xinhua

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11th Waning of Kason 1369 ME Friday, 11 May, 2007

NAY PYI TAW, 10 May — Visiting Chief ofthe Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta (PVSM,AVSM, ADC) of the Republic of India and partycalled on Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Vice-Ad-miral Soe Thein at the latter’s office at the Ministryof Defence, here, at 5.15 pm yesterday.

Also present at the call were Chief of Staff(Navy) Rear-Admiral Nyan Tun, Commander ofAyeyawady Naval Region Command Commo-dore Win Shein and senior naval officers of theoffice of the Commander-in-Chief (Navy). TheIndian naval goodwill delegation was accompa-nied by Indian Military Attaché Colonel JasvinderSingh Chopra.

At the call, Commander-in-Chief (Navy)Vice-Admiral Soe Thein and the Indian Chief ofthe Naval Staff exchanged gifts and posed fordocumentary photo.

In the evening, Commander-in-Chief (Navy)Vice-Admiral Soe Thein and wife Daw Aye Ayehosted dinner in honour of the Indian Chief of theNaval Staff, wife and party at Golden PalaceHotel in Nay Pyi Taw Hotel Zone. —MNA

Indian Chief of Naval Staff callson Commander-in-Chief (Navy)

NAY PYI TAW, 10 May — The visiting good-will delegation led by Chief of the Naval StaffAdmiral Sureesh Mehta (PVSM, AVSM, ADC)of the Republic of India and wife left here by airat 10 am today for Pyin Oo Lwin.

The delegation was seen off at Nay PyiTaw Airport by Commander-in-Chief (Navy)Vice-Admiral Soe Thein and wife Daw Aye Aye,Chief of Staff (Navy) Rear-Admiral Nyan Tunand wife, senior naval officers and their wivesand officials.

MNA

Indian naval delegationleaves for Pyin Oo Lwin

NAY PYI TAW 100.4˚F

YANGON 90.0˚F

MANDALAY 97.7˚F

MINBU 102.2˚F

MAGWAY 102.2˚F

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DAY TEMPERATURES

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Vice-Admiral Soe Thein sees off Indian

Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh

Mehta at Nay Pyi Taw Airport.

MNA

Vice-Admiral Soe Thein meets Indian Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta in Nay Pyi Taw. — MNA

YADANASI SAYADAW (LOILEM)

Four special development zones have beenset up in Shan State for its development.Taunggyi special development zone in south-ern Shan State and Panglong special devel-opment zone now have one TechnologicalUniversity and one Computer Universityeach. According to the list collected in 2005,the two universities had 6598 students.

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Pathi Hydropower Project near PathiCreek, about 10 miles north-east ofToungoo, has been completed nearly 40per cent up to now. On completion, theproject will be able to produce eight mil-lion kilowatt hours a year through two-megawatt generation capacity.

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