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

Volume XIV, Number 127 13th Waning of Wagaung 1368 ME

Established 1914

Monday, 21 August, 2006

* 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

YANGON, 20 Aug— Lt-Gen Myint Swe ofthe Ministry of Defence

Lt-Gen Myint Swe attends cash and kind donationceremonies of Tatmadaw families and wellwishers tomonasteries in Ahlon, Tamway, Mingala Taungnyunt

cil Commander ofYangon Command Brig-Gen Hla Htay Win and

senior military officerspresented offertories tomembers of the Sangha.

Lt-Col MyoNaing of Yangon Com-mand Headquarters, Cmdr

Nay Win of Ayeyawady Na-val Region Command andLt-Col Swe Lin ofMingaladon Air Base do-nated provisions ofTatmadaw families andwellwishers to the Sayadaw.Likewise, wellwishers do-nated cash and kind to the

monasteries. Next, Lt-Gen MyintSwe, the commander andsenior military officers ac-cepted cash donationsfrom wellwishers and pre-sented certificates of hon-our to them.

attended the ceremony todonate provisions ofTatmadaw families andwellwishers to six monas-teries in Ahlon Townshipthis afternoon.

The ceremonywas held at SasanaHitakari KwinkyaungPariyatti Monastery inAhlon Township. Lt-GenMyint Swe of the Minis-try of Defence and thecongregation receivedthe Five Precepts fromPresiding NayakaSayadaw BhaddantaSujata.

Lt-Gen MyintSwe offered robes andalms to the Sayadaw.

Chairman ofYangon Division Peaceand Development Coun-

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At the ceremony, 412wellwishers presented donationsincluding TV sets, radio cassetteplayers and publications worth overK 69 million. Ayeyawady Libraryhas been served with over 7,300various kinds of periodicals, over800 CD-ROMs, 15 computer setsand the Internet access.

(See page 8)

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Ministry of Defence and congregation receive Five Precepts from a Sayadaw atthe donation ceremony of rice and cash to six monasteries in Ahlon Township.—MNA

2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 August, 2006

Monday, 21 August, 2006

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 Desire

For perpetuation oftraditional culture The Myanmar Traditional Cultural

Performing Arts Competitions have been

held since 1993 and now the competitions

have entered the 14th time and they will be

held on a grand scale in Nay Pyi Taw.

The performing arts competitions are

being held for preservation of cultural

heritage and national prestige and integrity

in accord with the social objectives calling

for uplift of national prestige and integrity

and preservation and safeguarding of

cultural heritage and national character and

uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit.

As information technology of today is

advancing rapidly, there are advantages and

disadvantages in various fields of the nations

of the world.

Cultural products of the west are targeted

on youths under 20, two-fifths of the world

population. In musical world, electronic

music may affect traditional music which

has been preserved for thousands of years.

The electronic music can influence people

especially new generation youths.

Western culture has influenced about 75

per cent of the world population through the

television and this is a challenge to the culture,

patriotism and traditional customs of the

nations.

Preservation and safeguarding of

Myanmar traditional culture is part of the

government efforts to defend the State. All

the people of the nation are urged to make

concerted efforts for perpetuation of

Myanmar traditional culture.

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YANGON, 19 Aug — Minister for RailTransportation Maj-Gen Aung Min, Deputy MinisterU Pe Than and officials yesterday inspected Kyangin-Okshitpin section of Kyangin-Pakokku RailroadConstruction Project.

Project Director U Myo Win of MyanmaRailways reported on the axis chosen for Kyangin-Pakokku Railroad, heavy machinery and workundertaken. Deputy Minister U Pe Than gave asupplementary report.

The minister said under the guidance of theHead of State Pathein-Monywa Highway was built fordevelopment of the west bank of Ayeyawady River.The Head of State also gave guidance on construction

YANGON, 20 Aug — Minister for Electric PowerNo (2) Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint and officialsattended the opening ceremony of 33-KV new powerline in North Okkalapa Township on 15 August.

Chairman of Yangon East District Peace andDevelopment Council Lt-Col Maung Maung Sheinexpressed thanks, and said that the new power lineswill improve the production of business in the industrialzones.

Col Khin Maung Soe, Chairman of YangonCity Electric Power Supply Board urged the officialsand the people to expose illegal power consumption. Inaddition, System Improvement tasks were being carriedout so that the people will have regular access to theelectricity, he added.

The minister gave necessary instructions.

Minister inspects power lines, sub-power stations

The minister and party attended an openingceremony of North-Okkalapa Sub-Power Station andCol Khin Maung Soe of Yangon City Electric PowerSupply Board formally opened the station. The ministerinspected progress in installation of 33 KV extensionpower lines and fulfilled the requirements.

At the construction site of Bayintnaung Sub-Power Station in Hline Township, the minister heardreports on progress of construction work and futuretasks by an official and gave necessary instructions.

The minister and party inspected newly-built230 KV Hlinethaya-Bayintnaung river crossing powerline and fulfilled the requirements. They also inspectedinstallation of power line at 33 KV Switch Yard inHlinethaya Power Station and heard reports on powersupply presented by an official. — MNA

Construction of Kyangin-Okshitpin section ofKyangin-Pakokku Railroad Project commences

of Kyangin-Pakokku Railroad that will lead to Pakokku-Gangaw-Kalay Railroad to be opened soon. Theminister told service personnel of MR to participate inthe project that ensures smooth transport for localpeople and smooth flow of commodity.

The minister and party inspected earth worknear Sharbo Village and Kyatpyin Village. TheKyangin-Pakokku Railroad includes five sections—Kyangin-Okshitpin, Okshitpin-Thayet, Thayet-Minbu,Minbu-Salin and Salin-Pakokku.

Construction of Kyangin-Okshitpin railroadsection is being undertaken. The minister and partyalso inspected construction of Phatashin Bridge onPathein-Kyangin Railroad.— MNA

Minister for Electric Power No (2) Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint inspectsPower Station in Hlinethaya Township. — ELECTRIC POWER NO (2)

Rail Transportation Minister Maj-Gen Aung Min inspects Kyangin-Okshitpin section ofKyangin-Pakokku Railroad Construction Project.— RAILWAYS

THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 August, 2006 3

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Two men walk past the headquarters of the People's Bank of China (PBOC) inBeijing, on 18 Aug, 2006. The People's Bank of China (PBOC)announced onFriday that it raise the one-year benchmark interest rates by 27 basis points from 19 August.—INTERNET

Vehicles drive down a flooded street in Karachi on 18 August, 2006. Pakistan'sbiggest city declared a public holiday on Friday as it cleaned up from heavy floodingthat killed at least 15 people and more rain was expected, officials said. —INTERNET

A composite photo of twenty AIDS pins,representing some of the hundredsof unique pins, many hand made,

worn by delegates at the 16th InternationalAIDS conference in Toronto

on 18 August, 2006. —INTERNET

Ford Motor Co saidrecently it would tem-porarily halt productionat 10 assembly plantsbetween now and theend of the year as partof its turnaround planto respond toweaken-ingUS demand for fuel-hungry trucks andSUVs amid high gaso-line prices.—INTERNET

Four US troops killed in AfghanistanKABUL (Afghanistan), 18 Aug— Four US servicemen and at least one Afghan soldier have been

killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan.Three US soldiers died

in clashes in the volatileeastern Kunar region, aspokesman said.

Another US soldier andan Afghan soldier werekilled in a gun battle withTaleban fighters in south-

ern Uruzgan province, anofficial said.

The country is seeingits bloodiest period sincethe fall of the Taleban in2001, says the BBC Ka-bul correspondent.

Militants have recently

stepped up their insur-gency against govern-ment and foreign forcesin the south and east.

NATO’s InternationalSecurity AssistanceForce (ISAF) said the USsoldiers were embedded

with the Afghan army astrainers and "operating insupport of the Isaf mis-sion."

A coalition patrol wasfirst struck by ahomemade bomb andthen came under attackfrom small arms and ar-tillery fire in Kunar prov-ince, on the border withPakistan, the US-led coa-lition said in a statement.

In Uruzgan, up to 150Taleban fighters attackeda joint NATO-Afghanarmy convoy.

Three American sol-diers were also woundedin the gun battle whichlast for four hours.

Internet

India offers dramatic tariffconcessions for ASEAN products

India provided prefer-ential market access formore than 94 per cent ofASEAN's exports to In-dia, Indian senior officialssaid after consultationswith their ASEAN coun-terparts during the pre-paratory meeting here forthe upcoming 38thASEAN Economic Min-isters (AEM) meeting.

The preferential mar-

ket access included 95 percent to 100 per cent forseven ASEAN membersand 85 per cent or morefor the other three mem-bers, they said in a Presspaper.

During the consulta-tion meeting, India tableda detailed tariff elimina-tion for over 4,000 tarifflines, or 77 per cent of thetotal tariff lines and

phased tariff reduction formore than 600 ones, or 12per cent of the total.

India also offered tosubstantially reduce itsimport duties on somehighly sensitive productsof ASEAN, includingpalm oil, black tea andpepper.

Indian officials saidthat India had offered anextensive list and hopedASEAN members wouldreciprocate accordingly inorder to facilitate the con-clusion of a FTA betweenthe two parties soon.

Indian Prime MinisterManmohan Singh said lastyear that his country hopedthat India-ASEAN FTAnegotiations could becompleted by 2007 to helppush bilateral trade to 30billion US dollars.

MNA/Xinhua

48 Bangladeshi students getChinese Govt scholarship

DHAKA, 19 Aug — TheChinese Embassy in Bang-ladesh here on Thursdayheld a farewell party for 48Bangladeshi students whohave got the Chinese Gov-ernment scholarship andare leaving for Chinese uni-versities this month.

Expressing congratula-tions to the students, Chi-nese Ambassador to Bang-ladesh Chai Xi said, "I'mvery happy that this yearthere are 48 students getthe scholarship, recordingthe highest number in his-tory."

Awarding of ChineseGovernment scholarship toBangladesh students wasstarted in 1976, and 288students had benefitted bythe year 2005.

"I will go to NanjingNormal University (NNU)to study Chinese at the endof this month," said FarhanaAkter, who has just got thebachelor's degree from

Dhaka University. "BeforeI get the scholarship, I havebeen studying Chinese inDhaka University for oneyear." Farhana said shewill take a one-year Chi-nese course in NNU andthen go to Shanghai topursue MBA degree.

MNA/Xinhua

KUALA LUMPUR, 19 Aug — India offered dramatic tariff concessions forproducts from the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) here onFriday in a bid to conclude a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) early with thegrouping.

Chavez pokes fun at new USspy chief for Venezuela

CARACAS (Venezuela),20 Aug— VenezuelanPresident Hugo Chavezpoked fun on Friday at

the freshly appointed chiefof US spy operations onVenezuela and Cuba, JackPatrick Maher, calling him"Jack the Ripper".

During a speech to hun-dreds of screaming sup-porters in his home prov-ince of Barinas, Chavez,who is running forreelection in December,was handed a CNN reportsaying Maher had beenappointed to head US ef-forts to collect intelligenceon the two Latin Ameri-can countries.

Chavez, a constantcritic of Washington whosays socialism can uniteSouth America against US

"imperialist" influence,said the appointment ofMaher was a sign that "theempire is organizing a planfor December or beforeDecember".

Chavez often accusesthe United States of plot-ting to overthrow him.

"Whatever that planmight be, we are going todefeat it!" Chavez said.

When Chavez first readMaher's name from theCNN report, he called him"Jack the Ripper". tolaughter from his audi-ence, and said US intelli-gence services are "stu-pid".

MNA/Reuters

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a newsconference after a meeting in Berlin on 17 August,2006. Merkel said on ThursdayGermany would notprovide ground troops to a United Nations peace-keeping force in southern Lebanon and that hercountry may provide naval security as part of its effort to keep peace in the region.—INTERNET

View of the Ozone layer shot by European Space Agency (ESA) satellite ERS-2.The recovery of the earth's ozone layer, which protects life from excessive solarradiation, would take five to 15 years longer than predicted, two United Nations agencies reported on 18 August, 2006.—INTERNET

An actress from ElsComediants TheatreCompany performs dur-ing the show 'Mozart an-dante' (Walking Mozart)in the southern Spanishtown of Almeria on 18August, 2006.—INTERNET

French soldiers from an engineering unit arrive to join the United NationsInterim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on the border with Israel at the Leba-nese port of Naqura, near the southern city of Tyre (Soure), on 19 August,

2006.—INTERNET

Scientists say Ozone layer recovery will take longerGENEVA, 20 Aug — The atmosphere will take up to 15 years longer than previously expected to recover

from pollution and repair its ozone hole over the southern hemisphere, the United Nations' weatherorganization said Friday.

Thinning in the ozonelayer — due to chemicalcompounds leaked fromrefrigerators, air condition-ers and other devices —exposes the Earth to harm-ful solar rays. Too muchultraviolet radiation cancause skin cancer and de-stroy tiny plants at the be-ginning of the food chain.

Scientists said Friday itwould take until 2065, in-stead of 2050 as previouslyexpected, for the ozone

layer to recover and thehole over the Antarctic toclose.

"The Antarctic ozonehole has not become moresevere since the late 1990s,but large ozone holes areexpected to occur for dec-ades to come," ozone spe-cialist Geir Braathen toldreporters in summarizing anew report by the WorldMeteorological Organiza-tion and the UN Environ-ment Program. The report

will be released next year.The ozone hole, a thinner-than-normal area in the up-per stratosphere's radiation-absorbing gases, has formedeach year since the mid-1980s at the end of the Ant-arctic winter in August, andgenerally is at its biggest inlate September. Experts saidthey extended the projectedrecovery becausechlorofluorocarbons, orCFCs, would continue toleak into the atmosphere

from air conditioners, aero-sol spray cans and otherequipment for years to come.

But there was cause forcelebration, they said, not-ing a decline in CFCs inthe first two atmosphericlayers above Earth.

"The level of ozone-de-pleting substances contin-ues to decline from its1992-1994 peak in thetroposphere and the late1990s peak in the strato-sphere," WMO secretary-general Michel Jarraudsaid in a statement.

Less of these chemicalsare used every year, he said,after 180 countries in 1997committed to reducingCFCs under the MontrealProtocal. "This shows thatthe Montreal Protocol iseffective and is working,"he said.—Internet

Five die in N-E Indiaheat wave

NEW DELHI, 19 Aug — At least five people have died of sunstroke inthe past week in northeast Indian state Assam which recorded the highesttemperature in August in the past 16 years, Indo-Asian News Servicereported.

The temperature lastweek was at least fourdegrees Celsius higher

usual, said DulalChakraborty, deputydirector general of theRegional MeteorologicalCentre in Guwahati.

Guwahati, themajor city in the state,recorded 38 degreesCelsius last week, thehighest temperature inAugust in the last 16years, the weatherauthority said.

The unusually hotweather was caused bythe dry continental windsfrom southern China,Chakraborty said.

MNA/Xinhua

Vietnam evacuates thousands,flood toll rises to 27

HANOI, 19 Aug — Vietnam ordered the evacuationon Friday of thousands of people in its central andnorthern regions to avoid flash floods and landslidestriggered by prolonged torrential rains that have killedat least 27.

Flooding hit the key coffee-growing region of theCentral Highlands and four central coastal provinces,killing at least eight in Binh Thuan Province and fourin Nghe An Province, a government report said.

State-run Vietnam Television said eight people,including two children, had died when landslidesburied their homes in the mountainous northernprovince of Cao Bang on Friday morning.

The channel showed footage of rescuers pullingthe body of a baby girl from the mud.

Six drowned in four other provinces and one in theMekong Delta province of Dong Thap. The floods alsodisplaced thousands of people, inundated 5,000 houses,submerged nearly 40,000 hectares (100,000 acres) ofmainly rice and corn crops and blocked traffic.

MNA/Reuters

US soldier killed on patrol inBaghdad

BAGHDAD, 19 Aug — An American soldier was killed on Thursday nightwhen a roadside bomb went off near a foot patrol south of Baghdad, the USmilitary said. It is reported that in a bid to win the trust of Iraqis, US soldier arepatrolling the streets in some Baghdad neighbourhoods on foot, instead of ridingarmoured vehicles. The deaths bring the number of American soldiers that diedthis month in Iraq to 26.

At least 2,603 US military personnel have been killed in Iraq since the US-led war in March 2003, most of them died as a result of hostile action, accordingto media count. — MNA/Xinhua

than normal and therainfall this summer was41 per cent less than

THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 August, 2006 5

Scott Horowitz, NASA’s associate administrator for the Exploration SystemsMission Directorate, is present at a news conference in Washington, on 18August, 2006. Two private American companies, SpaceX of California andRocketplane-Kistler (RpK) of Oklahoma City, were selected to develop and

demonstrate commercial orbital transportation services, according to NASAon Friday. —INTERNET

Security personnel surround an Excel Airways Boeing 767 after it made anemergency landing at Brindisi Airport in south-eastern Italy on 18 August ,

2006 , when a message was found indicating a bomb was aboard. Civilaviation authorities said no bomb was found.—INTERNET

Mikhail Nasanovich, a potter, makes a pitcher as hisson Jury watches during a folk festival in theBelarussian town of Ivenets, some 60 km (37 miles)southwest of Minsk, on 19 August, 2006.—INTERNET

Police say bombs onGerman trains may

have been terror plot WIESBADEN (Germany), 19 Aug— Two bombs

discovered on trains in the German cities of Dort-mund and Koblenz last month may have been partof a terrorist plot, the federal criminal police saidon Friday.

British flight lands in Southern Italyfor bomb scare

ROME, 19 Aug— A flight for British low-cost airline Excel Friday was forcedto land in the southern Italian city of Brindisi because of a bomb scare, Italiannews agency ANSA reported.

An Italian Air Force fighter jet escorted the plane to Brindisi Airport after thepilot warned of a possible bomb threat and asked for permission to land, the newsagency quoted Italian anti-terrorist police as saying.

Italian police and firemen immediately evacuated the passengers, boarding theplane to carry out a thorough search.

The flight was in the route to Egypt from Gatwick Airport, ANSA said, and thepilot launched his alarm as the plane was flying over Brindisi. —MNA/Xinhua

Pakistan arrests suspects inUS consulate attack

ISLAMABAD, 19 Aug— Pakistani authorities have arrested six militantsbehind a suicide car-bomb attack outside a US consulate that killed fourpeople, including a US diplomat, officials said on Friday.

Acting leader says Cuba preparedfor US aggression

"It's more likely thanunlikely that there was aterrorist background,"Joerg Ziercke, presidentof the federal crime office(BKA), told a news con-ference in Wiesbaden.

Federal prosecutors hadearlier said they were look-ing at possible terroristlinks after luggage withpropane gas was found ontrains at stations in bothtowns, but were also ex-amining if it could havebeen a plot to blackmailthe railways.

Ziercke said blackmailwas now deemed unlikelyand that preliminary in-vestigations pointed to a

planned simultaneous at-tack.

The bombs were fittedwith timers set to go off 10minutes before the trainsarrived in the two cities,but neither device ex-ploded.

Rainer Griesbaum ofthe Federal ProsecutorsOffice said the probe indi-cated the plot most prob-ably involved people liv-ing in Germany rather thanoutsiders.

The police also saidthey were looking for twomale suspects caught onvideo cameras gettingonto the trains in Cologne.

MNA/Reuters

"At 3.00 am on 1 Au-gust, I decided to raise ourcombat readiness and ca-pacity significantly, bymobilizing tens of thou-sands of reservists andmilitiamen," Castro saidin his first public state-ment since he tookpower, on a temporarybasis, last month. Cuba'sleader since 1959, 80-year-old Fidel Castro,temporarily handed overpower to 75-year-old De-fence Minister RaulCastro, on July 31 beforeundergoing an operationfor intestinal bleeding.

Raul Castro said thathe did not intend to exag-gerate the danger, but citedstatements by senior USofficials to the effect that,should Fidel die, they wereready to "make sure therewill be no succession toCastro's regime".

The Commission forAssistance to a Free Cubacreated by US PresidentGeorge W Bush in 2004delivered a report on Cuba

last month. The Plan Cubadocument which was ap-proved by Bush stated thatan appendix had been keptsecret "in order to ensureits effective realization".

Raul Castro said thatthe United States had notrevealed the contents of

this appendix because itcontained provisions forillegal activities, but Cu-ba's defence plans aretransparent due to the sim-ple fact that they are notdesigned to harass any-one, do not violate inter-national law, and that their

only objective is to guar-antee sovereignty and in-dependence.

"We do not recognizethe arrogant and interven-tionist policies which thecurrent US Administra-tion assumes," Castro said.

MNA/Xinhua

Mass break-out hits Belgium jailBELGIUM, 19 Aug— Twenty-eight inmates escaped from a Belgian prison

early on Saturday after overpowering guards.Six were swiftly recap-

tured, but police havelaunched an extensivesearch operation for theothers.

Two prisoners managedto force their cell dooropen and took severalguards hostage, demand-

ing their keys, local offi-cials said.

The two then freed 26other inmates at Termondejail, north-west of Brus-sels. No-one was hurt inthe jailbreak.

The escaped prisonersmanaged to get into the

prison courtyard and suc-ceeded in scaling theprison walls.

The authorities wereunable to say how the celldoor had been forced orwhether any dangerouscriminals had managed toescape. —Internet

The March 2 blast nearthe gates of the US con-sulate in the city ofKarachi killed US diplo-mat David Foy, thebomber and three otherpeople on the eve ofa visit to Pakistan by

US President GeorgeW Bush.

"The recent suicide at-tack on the US consulatein Karachi has been re-solved and the culprits ar-rested," the Interior Min-istry said in a statement,

quoting Pakistani Presi-dent Pervez Musharrafas telling a securitymeeting.

Musharraf did not sayhow many suspects hadbeen arrested or identifythem.— MNA/Reuters

Bomb explodesin Indonesia’s

Poso JAKARTA, 20 Aug— A

home-made bomb wentoff near a cafe in Indone-sia's restive town of Posolate Friday, injuring noone, the national Antaranews agency reportedSaturday.

The blast occurred at11:47 pm (1600 GMT)and was heard in a dis-tance of one kilometre,said the report. There wereno immediate reports ofcasualties but the blastdamaged a nearby garden.

MNA/Xinhua

HAVANA, 19 Aug— Cuba's acting leader, Raul Castro, said that the country had adopted measures toprepare for any military aggression by the United States, according to Friday's Granma newspaper.

6 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 August, 2006

Actors in theatrical costumes perform at Nangong Square in Taiyuan, capital ofnorth China’s Shanxi Province, on 18 Aug, 2006. The fifth National BeijingOpera Seminar for College Amateurs opened here on Friday to promote the

quintessence of national culture.—INTERNET

Spanish bullfighter Juan Serrano “Finito de Cordoba” waits for the start ofa bullfight in the southern Spanish town of Malaga on 18 August,

2006.—INTERNET

Boys play by the

sea on the coast

at Vouliagmeni,

southwest of

Athens on 18

August, 2006.

Temperatures in

the region are

expected to soar

over the next

three days.

INTERNET

India urged to offer more for FTAwith ASEAN

KUALA LUMPUR, 19 Aug — The FTA talks between India and ASEAN couldnot move ahead as India was unwilling to include those sensitive products thatASEAN is interested in, a Malaysian official said here on Friday.

Malaysian InternationalTrade and IndustryMinister Rafidah Azizmade the remarks duringher inspection overfacilities at a hotel, thevenue for the 38th ASEANEconomic Ministers(AEM) meeting.

India’s offer ofhundreds of sensitiveproducts for tariffelimination or phasedreduction was not enough,Rafidah said when she wasasked to comment on the

so-called current standstillon FTA talks between Indiaand the Association ofSouth-East Asian Nations(ASEAN).

India should minimizethe sensitive list to movethe talks ahead, she added.

India offered dramatictariff concessions forASEAN products earlierFriday in a bid to concludea Free Trade Agreement(FTA) early with theregional grouping.

Senior officials from

India, who were attendinga consultation meeting herewith their ASEANcounterparts, tabled a list ofover 4,000 tariff lines fortariff elimination, or 77 percent of the total tariff lines.

They also presented a listof more than 600 tariff linesfor phased tariff reduction,or 12 per cent of the total, butthey only offered moderatetariff reductions on suchcommodities as palm oil,black tea and pepper.

MNA/Xinhua

One - fifth of VietnamWar veterans suffer

psychological disorder LOS ANGELES, 19 Aug — Nearly one-fifth of

Vietnam War veterans in the United States havea lifetime war-related psychological disorder,according to a study released recently.

Heavy rains kill five incentral India

NEW DELHI, 19 Aug — Downpour lashed several parts of central India’sMadhya Pradesh Friday claiming at least five people’s lives, Indo-Asian NewsService reported.

The disorder, called post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD), is an anxiety that can develop after exposureto a terrifying event or ordeal. It may also appear inthe US soldiers that are taking part in the Iraq War,warned the researchers from the ColumbiaUniversity.

The study was published in the August 17 issueof the journal Science.

In the late 1980s, two major US Government-funded studies reached very different conclusionsabout the rate of PTSD in Vietnam veterans. Onestudy of 1,200 veterans estimated that 30.9 per centhad developed PTSD during their lifetime, and that15.2 per cent were currently suffering from it.

This result, though widely quoted, wascontroversial. Another study conducted by US Centrefor Disease Control reported rates of 14.7 per centlifetime PTSD and 2.2 per cent current PTSD 11 to12 years after the Vietnam War ended.

Their results revealed a lifetime PTSD rate of18.7 per cent among veterans, and 9.1 per centwere currently suffering from PTSD 11 to 12 yearsafter the war. Current PTSD was typicallyassociated with moderate impairment, theresearchers found. — MNA/Xinhua

Emergencylanding for

AlaskaAirlines in

SeattleSAN FRANCISCO, 19 Aug

— An Alaska Airlinesflight made an emergencylanding at Seattle-TacomaInternational Airport onFriday morning afterlosing pressure in flight,an airport spokeswomansaid.

Alaska Airlines Flight690, from Vancouver,British Columbia, to SanFrancisco, was diverted toSeattle-Tacoma Interna-tional Airport afterreporting a rapid decom-pression.

The plane landed atabout 8:10 am, with 10passengers and four crewmembers requestingmedical assistance for earand sinus pain, said Terri-Ann Betancourt, aspokeswoman for theairport. All 14 weretreated and released,Betancourt said. AlaskaAirlines, operated byAlaska Air Group Inc,was not immediatelyavailable for comment.

MNA/Reuters

Three people, includinga woman and a child, diedwhen a multi-storeybuilding collapsed inRatlam District in the stateearly Friday in thedownpour.

Two other childrenwere killed when a wallcollapse in Hoshan-gabad, the report said.

Death toll relevant torains in the state hasreached 80 since last

week. About 38,595people have beenhomeless and takenshelter in relief camps,according to the report.

The water level of theNarmada River atHoshangabad has risenwith 400,000 cusecs ofwater being releasedfrom Tawa dam in thehigher reach, the reportsaid, adding that trafficmovement at many

places including the statecapital has come to astandstill.

Eighteen of the 48districts have been hit bythe rains. Hoshangabadrecorded the maximumrainfall of 183 milli-metres, said a floodcontrol room official.

More rain will fall inthe next 48 hours, theweather authority said.

MNA/Xinhua

Cholera spreads to allAngolan provinces, killing

over 2,000 LUANDA, 20 Aug — The World Health

Organization (WHO) has announced that a six-monthcholera epidemic in Angola has claimed 2,167 livesfrom the 52,700 cases registered and has now reachedall of the country’s 18 provinces.

In its latest update on the outbreak, the WHO saidFriday three cholera deaths had occurred in the past 24hours from 41 new cases recorded.

The highest death toll since cholera first eruptedFebruary in the Luanda slums has been in the coastalprovince of Benguela with 523 fatalities, followed byLuanda (305), Kwanza Sul (259), Lunda Norte (245)and Malange (235).

This year’s outbreak of the water-borne diseasein Angola has been acknowledged by internationalrelief organizations to be the country’s worst sinceindependence over three decades ago. — MNA/Xinhua

THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 August, 2006 7

Self-reliant libraries enhancingnational outlook of people

Chin Gya (Maubin)

According to the linguists, Myanmar alpha-

bets are derived from Bjahmi alphabets. Many stone

inscriptions in Rakhine were stated in Gutta alpha-

bets, and Pyu people in Hanlin city state also used

Gutta alphabets in writing Sanskrit stone inscrip-

tions. Pyu people in Srikestra used Bhadanba alpha-

bets, and Mon people around Madama gulf used

Palla alphabets in the 7th Century.

Myanmar has used Myanmar alphabets since

11th Century. Many Kadanba and Pallava alphabets

are found in Myanmar language. Gavampati stone

inscription of King Anawrahta was written in San-

skrit and Pali in 1058, Raja Kumara stone inscrip-

tions in Pali, Pyu, Mon and Myanmar in 1113, and

Queen Phwa Saw stone inscription in 1269 in

Myanmar.

As Myanmar preferred to use Pali literature

first, in olden days, library was called Pitakataik.

Myanmar literature has thriven since 1057, and there

brought about Manuha Pitakataik, Anawrahta

Pitakataik, King Kyaswa Pitakataik, and King Thibaw

Pitakataik in Konbaung Period.

According to the stone inscription of Queen

Phwa Saw, Myanmar had not used paper to write in

Bagan Period. At that time, those who did not have

easy access to Pitakataiks approached large teak

boxes of palm-leaf inscriptions in monasteries to

widen their knowledge. So, in olden days, Buddhist

monasteries served as rural libraries.

According to the stone inscriptions of Bagan

Period, kings, mothers of kings, royal relatives, min-

isters and the rich donated Pitakataiks whenever they

built pagodas, stupas, temples and monasteries. Ac-

cording to a stone inscription written in 1273, the cost

of building a Pitakataik was more than that of a

monastery in Bagan Period.

In the obelisk set up in Mya Taung monastery

on a hillock by the Tet Nwe Creek (now Shwe Creek)

near Wetkyi Inn Village between Bagan and NyaungU,

it was said that in 1442, a court official and wife from

Innwa royal city visited Bagan and donated nearly 300

different topics of treaties.

Monyway Zetawun stone inscription donated

by minister Letwe Sundara said that the minister

donated Pitaka, palm-lief inscriptions of various sub-

jects and Parabaik in addition to paddy fields and cash.

So, in Myanmar, literary donation has come into

existence since then.

After Myanmar fell under alien subjugation,

there emerged Bernard Pitakataik whose palm-leaf

inscriptions and parabaiks were taken from King

Thibaw Pitakataik. Kinwun Mingyi Pitakataik was

contemporaneous with Bernard Pitakataik and had

1,333 sets of palm-leaf inscriptions and parabaiks.

In 1952, Jubilee Hall was renamed Union of

Myanmar Pitakataik which was shifted to Pansodan

Street in 1962, and to City Hall in 1965 and renamed

the National Library. According to the data collected

in 1952, there were more than 3,000 self-reliant librar-

ies. Under the Ministry of Information were 35 librar-

ies in 74 in the states in 1972.

In adherence to the guidance of the Head of

State, the Ministry of Information has been opening

rural self-reliant libraries since 2004-2005. Up to 7

June 2006, it had facilitated 54,707 villages with a

library each against more than 60,000 villages in the

nation. The remaining villages are sparsely populated

ones.

Chairperson of Ayeyawady Division Mater-

nal and Child Welfare Supervisory Committee Daw

Than Than Nwe and party donated rice, publications

and cash to monastic education schools in the division.

The division has got 11,838 self-reliant libraries and

the number accounts for one-fifth of the libraries in

the nation.

Ayeyawady Division celebrated its success-

ful completion of establishment of a library each in its

villages along with the second cash donations presen-

tation at City Hall in Pathein on 1 August 2006. It was

attended by Ayeyawady Division Peace and Devel-

opment Council Chairman South-West Command

Commander Maj-Gen Thura Myint Aung, Minister

for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan, Division MCW

Supervisory Committee Chairperson Daw Than Than

Nwe and wellwishers.

On the occasion, the minister said that the

donations of wellwishers worked effectively and

Myanmar was proud to be the first-ever country

where all the villages have a library each.

At the ceremony, 412 wellwishers presented

donations including TV sets, radio cassette players

and publications worth over K 69 million. Ayeyawady

Library has been served with over 7,300 various

kinds of periodicals, over 800 CD ROMs, 15 compu-

ter sets the and Internet access.

During the 19 ceremonies organized by the

ministry, wellwishers donated publications, TV sets

and radios worth over K 218.7 million, about 2.3

million publications, and over K 140 million. States

and divisions are holding ceremonies to mark suc-

cessful completion of establishment of self-reliant

village libraries in respective regions.

At the 4th conference of the Myanmar Writ-

ers and Journalists Association held at Kyaikkasan

Grounds in Yangon on 1 and 2 July this year, repre-

sentatives of township WJAs donated cash and kind

worth about K 4.747 million to the libraries through

the Minister for Information.

The purpose of the establishment of rural

self-reliant libraries is to enhance the horizons of the

people to be able to be aware of instigation, deception,

enticement and threats. Therefore, the people are

exhorted to maintain the already-established libraries

for their durability.

Translation: MS

The purpose of the establishment of rural self-reliantlibraries is to enhance the horizons of the people to be able tobe aware of instigation, deception, enticement and threats.Therefore, the people are exhorted to maintain the already-established libraries for their durability.

A streetlight illumi-nates an abandonedstreet in the LowerNinth Ward of NewOrleans on 19 Au-gust, 2006. Katrina

flooded New Orleansand sent a 28-foot(8.5 meter) storm

surge into Mississippiand Alabama last

year, forcing about 1million people to

evacuate toneighboring states.

INTERNET

Zimbabwe to relaunch literaryorganization

HARARE, 20 Aug —The Zimbabwean chapterof the International PENAssociation that died a fewyears ago will bereestablished before theend of the year, the offi-cial The Herald reportedon Saturday.

The association,which brings togetherwriters from across theglobe with the aim of pro-moting literature, has

worked out a draft Consti-tution having beenadopted by at least 25 writ-ers. A board of trusteesand an executive commit-tee will be elected.

The executive com-mittee will work with In-ternational PEN and rep-resent the chapter when itis reintroduced at the In-ternational PEN Congressin Dakar, Senegal in July2007. — MNA/Xinhua

8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 August, 2006

(from page 1)Cmdr Myint Swe of

Ayeyawady Naval RegionCommand supplicated onthe purpose of the dona-tions. The Sayadaw deliv-ered a sermon, and Lt-GenMyint Swe and partyshared merits gained.

Today’s donations tomonasteries in AhlonTownship totalled 223bags of rice, 116 viss ofedible oil, 1,524 viss ofiodized salt, 7,357 bottlesof traditional medicine,152 viss of gram, 152 tubesof toothpaste and K4,648,500.

At Maha Santi Sukha

Lt-Gen Myint Swe attendscash and kind donation…

Buddhist MissionaryMonastery in NatchaungWard of Tamway Town-ship, a similar ceremonyto donate provisions to 11monasteries in TamwayTownship and nine mon-asteries in MingalaTaungnyunt Townshipwas held at3 pm, attended by Lt-GenMyint Swe of the Minis-try of Defence.

Lt-Gen Myint Swepresented robes and almsto members of the presid-ing patrons of MingalaThukha Pali Tekkatho ofTamway TownshipSayadaw Bhaddanta

Nandavamsa. The com-mander and senior mili-tary officers donated of-fertories to members ofthe Sangha.

On behalf of familiesof Tatmadaw (Army, Navyand Air), Lt-Col MyoNaing of Yangon Com-mand Headquarters, CmdrNay Win of AyeyawadyNaval Region Commandand Lt-Col Zaw Min ofMingaladon Air Base pre-sented donations to theSayadaw. Wellwishersalso offered cash and kindto the Sayadaw.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe,the commander and sen-ior military officers ac-cepted cash donationsfrom wellwishers andgave certificates of hon-

our to them. Lt-Col ZawMin of Mingaladon AirBase supplicated on thepurpose of the donation.

Today’s donations to

Tamway and MingalaTaungnyunt Townshipstotalled 416 bags of rice,179 viss of edible oil, 359viss of gram, 1,796 viss of

iodized salt, 1,989 bottlesof traditional medicine,360 tubes of toothpasteand K 29,463,550.

MNA

YANGON, 20 Aug— Thanantana Dhamma

Hindu families offer Waso robes, ‘soon’ tomembers of the Sangha

Palaka (Hindu) Orga-nization this morning held

a ceremony at Mogokrefectory on Kaba Aye

Hill to offer Waso robesto 15 Sayadaws of StateSangha Maha NayakaCommittee and 69Sayadaws of StatePariyatti SasanaUniversity (Yangon) and‘soon’ to 450 members ofthe Sangha.

At the ceremony,Vice-Chairman of StateSangha Maha NayakaCommittee Sayadaw AggaMaha Pandita BhaddantaAriya Bhivamsa investedthe congregation with theFive Precepts. — MNA

YANGON,20 Aug— The conclusion ceremonyof advanced tailoring course No-13 and basictailoring course No-42 were held at Vocational TrainingSchool of Education and Training Department of theMinistry of Progress of Border Areas and NationalRaces and Development Affairs in Myeik on 18August with an address by Chairman of TaninthayiDivision Peace and Development Council Commanderof Coastal Region Command Brig-Gen Khin Zaw Oo.

The Patron of Taninthayi Division Women’sAffairs Organization wife of commander presentedawards to outstanding trainees of the two courses.The43 trainees attended the two courses. Similarly, the twotailoring courses were held at Vocational TrainingSchools of Mudon in Mon State, Lashio and Muse inShan State(North) and Kengtung, Monghsat andTachilek in Shan State (East), Myawady in Kayin Stateand Maungtaw in Rakhine State. — MNA

Tailoring course concludes in Myeik

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence offers alms to a Sayadaw atdonation ceremony of rice and cash to six monasteries in Ahlon

Township. — MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence accepts cash from a wellwisher atdonation ceremony of rice and cash to eleven monasteries in Tamway

Township and nine monasteries in Mingala Taungnyunt Township. — MNA

Yangon Command Commander Brig-Gen Hla Htay Win donatesprovisions to a Sayadaw. — MNA

Lt-Col Myo Naing of Yangon Command, Cmdr Nay Win of AyeyawadyNaval Region Command and Lt-Col Swe Lin of Mingaladon Air Base

donate provisions to a Sayadaw. — MNA

Yangon Command Commander Brig-Gen Hla Htay Win accepts cashfrom a wellwisher. — MNA

Hindu

families

offer

Waso

robes to a

Sayadaw

MNA

THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 August, 2006 9

YANGON, 20 Aug—A stake was driven toinstall lifts at the westernstairway of theShwedagon Pagoda thismorning, attended by Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence.

Also present onthe occasion weremembers of the Sanghaled by Ovadacariya ofShwedagon Pagoda Boardof Trustees Vice-Chairman of State SanghaMaha Nayaka CommitteeAungmye BonsanKyaung Sayadaw ofBahan TownshipAbhidhaja Maha RatthaGuru Abhidhaja AggaMaha Saddhamma-jotikaBhaddanta Paññind-abhivamsa, Chairman ofYangon Division Peaceand Development Council

YANGON, 20 Aug—The fourth ceremony todonate cash to historic Vipassana Pagoda being built inMumbai, India was held at the Dhamma Hall ofDhammajoti Meditation Centre on Ngahtatgyi PagodaRoad in Bahan Township here this morning, attendedby Minister for Religious Affairs Brig-Gen ThuraMyint Maung.

It was also attended by Director-General ofDepartment for Promotion and Propagation of theSasana Dr Myo Myint, yogis of the Meditation Centre,members of the Meditation Centre, Board of Trusteesand wellwishers.

Minister for Religious Affairs Brig-Gen ThuraMyint Maung made a speech on the occasion.

This was followed by the cash donationceremony which included K 30 million by Daw WinKyi Myint and family of Tamway Township, K 12million by U Than-Daw Saw Yin of Champion family,K 7 million and a bunch of gold worth K 400,000 byThirithudhamma Theingi Daw Nyo Nyo, K 2.5 millionby U San Win-Daw Tin Tin Yi and family of Pyinmana,golden works worth over K 1.9 million by Daw Ahmaand son U San Lin-Daw Khin Than Win and family ofLanmadaw Township, US$ 1000 by Daw Tin Hla andfamily of New University Avunue, K 1.2 million byDaw Hla Than, U Aung Kyi, U Thaung Tun, Daw TinYon and family of Mayangon Township, K 1.13 millionby U Myint Htay-Daw Thanda Kyaw and family, K 1.1million by Thirithudhamma Manijotadhara U KhinHla-Daw Khin Mya Mya Aung and others. Director-

Stake driven to install lifts at Shwedagon Pagoda

Commander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen HlaHtay Win, Minister forReligious Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maung,Chairman of WorkCommittee for All-roundRenovation of theShwedagon PagodaDeputy Commander ofYangon Command ColKyaw Kyaw Tun,departmental officials,members of religiousassociations and Wutassociations and guests.The congregationreceived the Five Preceptsfrom the AungmyeBonsan Kyaung Sayadaw.And, members of theSangha recited Parittas.

Next, Lt-GenMyint Swe presentedoffertories to theAungmye Bonsan Kyaung

Sayadaw.After that, the

commander, the ministerand the deputy com-mander presentedoffertories to members ofthe Sangha.

Later, Vice-Chairman of State SanghaMaha Nayaka CommitteeAungmye BonsanKyaung SayadawBhaddanta Paññinda-bhivamsa delivered asermon and merits gainedwere shared.

After that, theceremony to drive thestake was held at thewestern archway. At theauspicious time, Lt-GenMyint Swe and partydrove the stake andsprinkled it with scentedwater.

The ceremony

ended with the recitationof Buddha Sasanam CiramTitthatu three times.

After theceremony, Lt-Gen MyintSwe and party inspectedthe scale model of the

strutcher to be installedand attended to therequirements.

With thearrangement of theLeading Committee forAll-round Renovation of

Shewdagon Pagoda,Fortune International Ltdwill install the lifts. Theinstallation of 143 feetfacility will last sixmonths.

MNA

Cash donated for building historicVipassana Pagoda in Mumbai, India

General Dr Myo Myint and officials accepted thedonations and merits gained were shared.

Today’s donation includes K 114,004,690,US$ 3,330, FEC 850, £ 100 and items made of goldworth K 2,428,903.

The ceremony to close the religious reliquaryof the pagoda will be held on 29 October 2006 with thepresence of State Ovadacariya Sayadaws. Thosewishing to attend the ceremony are to contact theMeditation Centre not later than 31 August. — MNA

YANGON, 20 Aug — Member of CentralExecutive Committee of the Union Solidarity andDevelopment Association Deputy Minister forTransport Col Nyan Tun Aung and wife attended theceremony to present prizes to outstanding students ofPyinsi Village Basic Education High School and KannaVillage Affiliated BEHS at Pyinsi Village BEHS inNatogyi Township on 16 August morning.

The CEC member presented prizes tooutstanding students for 2005-06 academic year andteachers.

At Natogyi BEHS, the deputy minister andwife also attended the prize distribution ceremony foroutstanding students of Natogyi BEHS and MyomaBEHS (Branch). They awarded prizes to 32 outstandingstudents in the 2005-06 matriculation examination andoutstanding teachers.

On behalf of the outstanding students, MaThawda Kyemon Win who had passed the exam withfive distinctions expressed gratitude.

MNA

CEC member attendsceremonies to presentprizes to outstanding

students

Donate blood

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence and congregation accept Five Precepts from a Sayadaw at the ceremony to install lifts inShwedagon Pagoda. — MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence drives a stake to install liftsat western stairway of Shwedagon Pagoda. — MNA

Minister for Religious Affairs Brig-Gen ThuraMyint Maung accepts K 7 million from a

wellwisher to historic Vipassana Pagoda inMumbai, India. — MNA

10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 August, 2006

Development tasks of Htigyaing, Katha under supervision

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Aug — Chairman of SagaingDivision Peace and Development Council Commanderof North-West Command Maj-Gen Tha Aye viewedparticipation of social organization members incultivation of physic nut plants near MottahtaungPagoda in Tidaw Village-tract, Htigyaing Township,on 12 August.

The commander attended the ceremony tocommission Inywa Model Village. After the openingceremony, he inspected Inywa Station Hospital andInywa Market. While in Inywa, the commanderinspected development of the village.

Officials accepted cash, sports gear, schooluniforms and stationery from wellwishers at the

opening ceremony of Inywa Model Village.In the afternoon, the commander attended the

opening ceremony of Katha District Information andPublic Relations Department Office in Katha.Chairman of Katha District PDC Lt-Col Aung Aungand Staff Officer of IPRD U Nyunt Shwe formallyopened the new building.

At the hall, the commander heard reports ontasks of the department by Staff Officer U Nyunt Shwe.While in Katha, the commander inspected physic nutplantations. He viewed thriving physic nut plants alongIndaw-Katha Road. At Katha District PDC Office, thecommander instructed officials to make efforts for meetingthe production target of agricultural products. — MNA

Ministry of Industry-1honours outstanding

children of its employeesNAY PYI TAW, 20

Aug — Ministry ofIndustry-1 held the ninthceremony to presentprizes to the children ofservice personnel of theministry, who passed thematriculation exami-nation in 2005-2006academic year, at theministry in Nay Pyi Tawyesterday.

At the ceremony,after giving a speech,Minister for Industry-1 UAung Thaung awardedthree six-distinction

winners; Adviser U KyawMyint, 10 five-distinctionwinners; Adviser U MyintOo, 12 four-distinctionwinners; Director-General U Thein Aung ofDirectorate of Industries,10 three-distinctionwinners; and directors-general and managingdirectors, 40 one-distinction winners. Prizeswere also awarded tooutstanding parti-cipantsin the 13th MyanmarTraditional Cultural ArtsCom-petitions. — MNA

Communicationstations inspected

YANGON, 20 Aug—Minister forCommunications, Posts and Telegraphs Brig-GenThein Zaw and officials inspected international expressmail service this morning.

Officials concerned reported on the mailingservice and fulfilled the requirements.

The minister and party went to Hanthawadyauto exchange. The minister told service personnelto maintain equipment and enhance their workefficiency.

They proceeded to GSM and CDMA mobilecommunication station and gave instructions oncompletion of the mobile phone system project.

The minister also inspected overseascommunication station in Mayangon.

MNA

Under-3 cm eelsreleased into water

YANGON, 20 Aug— As part of environmentalconservation, the ceremonyto release eels under threecentimetres, jointlyorganized by FisheriesDepartment and MyanmarEel Entrepreneurs Asso-ciation, was held at thewetland of Nyaungdon on18 August, attended byMinister for Livestock andFisheries Brig-Gen Maung

Maung Thein.Directors U Win

Myint Maung and U KhinMaung Win explainedconservation of naturalresources to those present.Secretary of Myanmar EelEntrepreneurs AssociationU Aung Kyaw Htooexplained preventionagainst depletion of eelspecies.

Chairman ofMaubin District Peace andDevelopment Council Lt-Col Sein Maung instructedfishery workers to abide byrules and regulations adoptedby the departmentsconcerned.

Next, MyanmarEel Entrepreneurs Asso-ciation donated cash to thefunds of Mezali BEMS andsocial organizations. Later,they released 75,000 eels intothe water. — MNA

Man Utd trounce Fulham 5-1LONDON, 20 Aug—Louis Saha headed United in

front on seven minutes before his cross forced Ian Pearceto divert into his own net.

Rooney tapped in before crossing for Ronaldo tomake it four in 19 minutes.

United went ahead when a superb cross from RyanGiggs fell between Pearce and Liam Rosenior, allowingSaha to head home his third goal against his former club.

Pearce then got in front of Rooney to try to cut outSaha’s low cross from the left but could only steer theball into his own net on 14 minutes.

With Fulham in complete disarray, Rooneysidefooted a third after Antti Niemi had parried Saha’svolley before turning provider for Ronaldo to half-volleyhome a fourth with just 19 minutes gone.

Fulham’s first-half display did not merit a goal, butthey found the net when Helguson’s shot hit Ferdinandand looped over the stranded Edwin van der Sar sixminutes before the break. Michael Brown was fortunateto escape with only a yellow card for a horrible two-footed lunge on Giggs after the interval.

United extended their lead again with a devastatingattack on 63 minutes. Ronaldo picked up the ball fromScholes and fed the overlapping Wes Brown, who pulledit back for Rooney to shoot low into the corner.

United took their foot off the pedal as the clock randown, but Fulham were too shell-shocked to takeadvantage.—Internet

Man Utd 5-1 Fulham: Former Fulham man Louis Saha heads in theopening goal after only seven minutes at Old Trafford Sunday.

INTERNET

ROME, 20 Aug — Atleast seven people werekilled and others feareddead when a boat believedto have been carryingsome 100 illegalimmigrants sank off thecoast of Sicily early onSaturday morning, theCoast Guard said.

A Coast Guardofficial at the rescuecoordination centre in

Several dead as immigrant boat sinks near SicilyRome told Reuters that asof about four hours afterthe accident, 79 immigrantshad been rescued alive andthat the bodies of sevenvictims had been pluckedfrom the sea.

The official saidsurvivors recounted thatthere were between 100and 120 immigrants onboard. But he cautionedthat such counts were

often inexact, so it wasdifficult to say how manywere still missing andfeared dead.

The boat, about 10metres long, sank some10 miles off the island ofLampedusa. One Navyship was alreadyfollowing the immigrantboat and was able to startthe rescue quickly.

MNA/Reuters

Commander Maj-Gen Tha Aye unveils signboard of a new building of District Informationand Public Relations Department in Katha. — MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw visits GSM and CDMAcommunication station. — COMMUNICATIONS

THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 August, 2006 11

350i/-

In this undated photo released on 18 Aug, 2006 by the Universityof New Mexico Health Sciences Center, in Albuquerque, NM, a

decorated needles are seen. Researchers at the University of NewMexico’s Health Sciences Center believe they have found a way to

make patients less fearful of needles, decorate them withbutterflies, flowers and smiley faces. — INTERNET

Scientist decodes air pollutionin mountain glaciers

GUIYANG, 20 Aug — Air pollution caused byhuman activities has left its mark in the glaciers ofthe Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang, at least 105kilometres away from the hustle and bustle ofXinjiang’s regional capital, Urumqi.

Chinese scientists say they have found evidenceof air pollution in the Tianshan Mountains in a 14-metre-long ice core formed between 1955 and 1998.

The peak of the Tianshan Mountains is 5,445metres above sea level and a geological label of theXinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which coversone sixth of Chinese territories. The Tianshan Moun-tains are also famous among tourists and climbers.

The ice core is located on the Heyuan-1 Glaciereast of Urumqi in an area surrounded by deserts andpreviously believed to be free from human influence.

“We have analyzed its organic acid content, whichwe think is a result of air pollution and acid rain,” saidLi Xinqing, a geochemist based in Guiyang, southwestChina’s Guizhou Province.

The analysis of the acid content suggests that theair over Tianshan Mountain has been contaminated bypollutants from forest fires, vehicle emissions andindustrial waste in Urumqi and its surrounding re-gions. — MNA/Xinhua

Landslide kills8 in northern

Vietnam HANOI, 20 Aug —A

landslide on Friday morn-ing killed at least eightlocal people and injuredseven others in Vietnam’snorthern Cao Bang Pro-vince, Vietnam NewsAgency reported.

As of Friday after-noon, local rescuers foundeight bodies, includingthree men. Most of thevictims were freelancesand migrant workers.

Rescue work by rel-evant agencies are stillactively on. The provin-cial People’s Committeehas decided to offer 1.5million Vietnamese dong(94.3 US dollars) to thefamily of each victim.

MNA/Xinhua

LUSAKA, 20 Aug — A15-year-old Zambian girlrecorded her first albumrecently in Atlanta, in theUnited States, Times ofZambia reported Saturday.

Unlike most upcom-ing young artistes who docovers by miming and lip-syncing to existing songs,Mwice Kavindele has therare gift of writing, singingand producing her ownmusic, according to the

ISLAMABAD, 20 Aug —The Asian DevelopmentBank (ADB) has agreed toprovide one billion US dol-lars for Pakistan’s NationalTrade Corridor (NTC)project that would linkKarachi to Gwadar andKhunjrab in Northern Ar-eas, local newspaper Dawnreported on Saturday.

The World Bank andother lenders have alreadyagreed to provide 1.8 bil-

ADB to give $1b for Pakistan’s trade corridorlion dollars for the Karachi-Gwadar-Khunjrab section,which is estimated to cost2.8 billion dollars.

The overall cost of theNTC programme is esti-mated at six billion dol-lars. The programme en-visages improving all sec-tors of communications,including ports, shipping,aviation, etc.

ADB’s team leaderfor NTC investment pro-

gramme Sean O’Sullivandiscussed the project withadviser to Prime Ministeron finance Salman Shahand authorities of the Na-tional Highway Authority.

Shah said the high-way would be made com-mercially viable by encour-aging commercial and in-dustrial activities and therevenue generated by theseactivities would contributeto the cost of the NTCproject.

MNA/Xinhua

Zambian talent girl recordsfirst album in US

newspaper.Her musical talent en-

compasses different mu-sic genres ranging fromjazz, Hip-Hop, Rap, R&B,Neo Seoul to Acoustic andclassical music.

She also plays a com-bination of musical instru-ments including the violin,piano, clarinet and the gui-tar. The multi-talentedMwice, who has spent partof her summer holiday in

Atlanta, has trained in bal-let, tap, jazz and moderndance, and choreographsher own dance moves andthat of her crew, the LaydeeMafia.

Although Mwice wasborn in England and hasalways lived there, she isvery proud of her Zambianbackground and she letsthe world know this fact inher Rap Intro, said thenewspaper.

MNA/Xinhua

12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 August, 2006

Armed policemen spray water to extinguish invisible fire in a virgin forestnear the county seat of Bomi in Nyingchi Prefecture, southwest China's Tibet

Autonomous Region, on 19 August, 2006.—INTERNET

Lava cascades down the slope of Mount Mayon Volcano near Legazpi City,south of Manila, on 19 August, 2006.—INTERNET

Estonia approvesanti-terrorist programme RIGA, 19 Aug— The Estonian Government

approved on Thursday an anti-terrorist programmein a bid to tighten national security and protect itspeople, news reaching here from the Estonian capitalof Tallinn reported.

Chocolate bars withhallucinogenic effects

found at Dutch airport BRUSSELS, 19 Aug— Customs officers at

Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport have warned thepublic about bars of chocolate with hallucinogeniceffects that are regularly found at the internationalairport, Dutch news agency ANP reportedThursday.

“NYT” reports probe suggests US Marineshid Haditha evidence

Libya deports over 2,200 illegal immigrants TUNIS, 19 Aug— The Libyan security authorities announced on Thursday

that they had captured and deported 2,258 illegal immigrants attempting toenter Europe through the North African country in the past 12 days, saidreports reaching here from Tripoli.

WASHINGTON, 19 Aug— A Pentagon investigation into the deaths of two dozen Iraqi civilians in Hadithahas found possible concealment or destruction of evidence by US Marines involved in the case, The NewYork Times reported on Friday.

Two DefenceDepartment officialsbriefed on the investiga-tion said the unit's logbookhad been tampered withand an incriminating videotaken by an aerial dronewas not given to investi-gators until a top-rankingcommander in Iraqintervened, the newspaperreported.

The findings, based onan investigation by ArmyMajor-General EldonBargewell, draws noconclusions about who

may have tampered withthe log and does notdirectly accuse Marines ofattempting a cover-up, TheNew York Times said.

It said the report,concluded last month butnot made public, is the firsttime details about possibleconcealment or destructionof evidence have beendisclosed.

The Pentagon had no

immediate comment. US Marines have been

accused of killing 24unarmed Iraqis in Hadithain November 2005, one ofa series of incidents inwhich US troops aresuspected of killing Iraqicivilians.

Two investigationswere initiated into theHaditha case — a murderinquiry and a probe into

the Marines' proceduresfollowing the killings.

The Bargewell reportwas sent to the NavalCriminal InvestigativeService, the Times reportsaid. According to thenewspaper, the reportfaults officers in theSecond Marine Divisionfor not aggressivelyinvestigating the Hadithakillings.— MNA/Reuters

German police detain suspect in July bomb plot BERLIN, 20 Aug — German police have taken into custody a suspect linked

to last month’s failed plot to explode bombs on German trains, the federalprosecutor’s office said on Saturday.

The police came acrossthe chocolate on Thursdaywhen a homeless personreported finding andeating a bar of it beforebecoming ill and sufferinganxiety and hallucina-tions.

The Dutch ForensicsInstitute tested a similarbar to the one eaten andfound it contained thehallucinogen psilocine, anactive ingredient in"magic mushrooms"Customs officials warnedthat the bars are found

regularly at the airport. "We suspect that

travellers have bought thebars elsewhere and thenbeen too afraid to takethem onboard their flightbecause there are drugs inthem," a Customs spokes-man was quoted as saying.

The chocolate bars areabout 10 cemtretres longwith a black/brown/goldwrapper with the words"NOIR de NOIR" and "72per cent cacao" written ingold letters.

MNA/Xinhua

Estonian InteriorMinister Kalle Laanet toldreporters after theapproval of theprogramme that anti-terrorism is not only a focalissue in the Estoniansociety, but also animportant topic beingdiscussed in internationaland domestic political

relations. He said the main goal

of the programme was toeffectively preventpossible terrorist attacksin the future. So far, theEstonian Government hasnot found any signs ofterrorist activities in thecountry, he added.

MNA/Xinhua

Among the illegal immigrants, 1,101were captured between August 1 and 11August, and the other 1,157 weredetained earlier. Libya has recentlyannounced the establishment of a new

border security service to stem the flowof illegal immigrants to Europe.

On 25 April, the InternationalOrganization for Migration set up aliaison office in Libya. — MNA/Xinhua

“The person appears to be one ofthe two suspects that have been soughtsince yesterday with the help of videofootage that was made public,” the officesaid in a statement.

Police seized the suspect at the maintrain station in the northern city of Kiel.

Earlier, police had shut the stationfor five hours. They said the move waslinked to the investigation into twobombs that were discovered inabandoned suitcases on trains inDortmund and Koblenz last month.

Police said on Friday they werelooking for two male suspects who werecaught on video boarding the trains withthe suitcases in Cologne. The footage ofthe two men was put on the Internet tohelp the manhunt.

Police have said the bombs may havebeen part of a plot designed to show angerover the Middle East crisis. The bombswere fitted with timers set to go off 10minutes before the trains arrived in thetwo cities. The explosives had been ignitedbut failed to detonate.—MNA/Reuters

THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 August, 2006 13

pvaer;®Pc\. eKt\mP∑M>‘Pi;tui;tk\eqa Nuic\cMeta\”k; tv\eSak\AM.China to allow foreign investment

in vocational training BEIJING, 19 Aug — China’s employment authorities have opened up the

country’s vocational training to foreign investment so as to meet a growingdemand for skilled workers.

Singer Pete Doherty pleadsguilty to drug charges

LONDON,19 Aug— British rock singer PeteDoherty pleaded guilty on Friday to possessingillegal drugs, including heroin and cocaine, and isdue for sentencing on September 4, a court officialsaid.

The troubled singer, a self-confessed drug addictand on-again off-again boyfriend of supermodel KateMoss, appeared at Thames Magistrates’ Court inLondon wearing a white polo shirt and blue jeans afterspending the night in custody.

On Thursday, the 27-year-old frontman of rockband Babyshambles, was charged with seven countsof possessing drugs between April and early August.

MNA/Xinhua

A visitor takes photo of a Ferrari during the second Shanghai International Auto Exhibition in Shanghai, east China, on 18 Aug, 2006.—INTERNET

Tourists run strenuously in a race on the beach of a bathing resort of Lianyungang, a port city of east China’s Jiangsu Province,on 18 Aug, 2006.—INTERNET

A regulation, issuedby the Ministry of Labourand Social Security,effective from 1 October,allows foreign educationinstitutions to cooperatewith Chinese counter-parts.

“The Chineseinstitutions and pro-grammes must not profitfrom the trainingactivities,” said WangYadong, deputy directorof the ministry’sEmployment TrainingDepartment.

There are 330,000 jobvacancies for skilledworkers, such as millersand welders, each year inBeijing, but there was adearth of qualifiedpeople, and the situationis the same all over thecountry, Wang said.

Chinese institutionswith foreign cooperationmust be able to train atleast 200 people at onetime, and the fixed assetsand registered capital ofthe institutions mustexceed 500,000 yuan

(62,500 US dollars),according to the regu-lation.

While universitygraduates have beenscrambling for jobs inrecent years, theemployment rate ofsecondary vocationalschool graduates remainshigh, statistics from theMinistry of Education

show. From 2001 to 2005, the

employment rate was 95per cent on average, andthe average salary ofgraduates of secondaryvocational schools washigher than collegegraduates this year in thecities of Harbin, Hangzhouand Chengdu.

MNA/Xinhua

Actor and director Andy Garcia gestures as the movie ‘The Lost City’ isannounced winner of the award for best picture at the 21st Annual Imagen

Awards in Beverly Hills on 18 August, 2006. The Imagen Awards wereestablished in 1985 to encourage and recognize the positive portrayal of

Latinos in the entertainment industry.—INTERNET

Holiday web scam snaresthousands with fake sitesLONDON, 19 Aug — British travel agents warned

holidaymakers on Friday to be careful aboutbooking trips online after an Internet scam wasuncovered that has left nearly 3,000 people out ofpocket.

A number of fakeholiday websites, thoughtto be operated by the sameindividuals, have been setup and then quickly closedonce people have beenconned into paying fornon-existent holidays, theAssociation of BritishTravel Agents (ABTA)said.

“We understand thereare six or seven websitenames that have beendefrauding people,” saidABTA’s Dee Byrne. Shesaid about 3,000 peoplehave been hit by the conused by the websiteswhich include —holiday-sforunder200pounds.com,sunmedresorts.com andholidayezs.com

“Unfortunately manywill have lost their moneyunless they paid by creditcard, in which case they

should be able to recouptheir losses,” she added.

The MetropolitanPolice, the Fraud Squadand the Office of FairTrading (OFT) are allinvestigating the scamwhich is thought to havenetted hundreds ofthousands of pounds.

Byrne said ABTA’sadvice is to check its ownwebsite or that of otheraffiliated organizationslike ATOL — (Air TravelOrganizers’ Licensing) tomake sure their holidayfirm is bona fide.

“We are saying ‘justbe careful about bookingholidays over theInternet’. Obviously thereare a lot of goodcompanies that areperfectly OK, but peopleneed to check,” she said.

MNA/Reuters

China to cut tariffs on imports from five Asian countries

BEIJNIG, 19 Aug — China will cut tariffs onmore than 1,700 kinds of imported products fromIndia and four other Asian nations beginning from1 September as part of the tariff concessionarrangement reached under the Asia-Pacific TradeAgreement, the Chinese Ministry of Finance saidon Thursday.

S Korean man who jumpsoff N China hotel out of

danger HOHHOT, 19 Aug — A South Korea citizen who

threw himself out of a hotel building in northChina’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous RegionTuesday has been lifted out of danger, Chinesedoctors who treated him confirmed on Thursday.

Kim Sun Kwon, 38,was in a coma when hewas rushed to the HorqinPeople’s Hospital in thecity of Tongliao at 11:00am Tuesday, said Dr.Jiang Haishen in a

telephone interview withXinhua.

“The man sufferedfractures in the skull andribs, as well as bleeding inthe thorax,” Jiang said.“We operated on himimmediately.”

But when Kim cameto himself, he was sorestless and fretful thatone of his wounds crackedopen and he receivedanother operation, thedoctor said.

By midday Thursday,Kim has calmed downwith the help of doctors,nurses and a Chinesefriend.

Kim jumped off thefourth storey of theHoliday Inn in Horqin ataround 10:00 am onTuesday. He had earlierchecked in at the hotel as atourist.—MNA/Xinhua

Chinese exports to thefive nations, namely, India,South Korea, Laos, SriLanka and Bangladesh,will also enjoy tariff con-cessions, the ministry said.

Products affected bythe new arrangementinclude agriculturalproducts, medicines,chemicals, textiles, metalproducts, mechanical and

electrical products, motorvehicles and spare parts.

The new arrangement,reached during the thirdround of tariff concessionnegotiations among the sixmembers of the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement,will help boost trade tiesand regional cooperation,the ministry said.

MNA/Xinhua

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Sheffield Utd holdLiverpool to 1-1 draw

LONDON, 20 Aug— Sheffield United marked theirfirst top-flight appearance for 12 years by holdingLiverpool to a 1-1 draw at Bramall Lane in the firstmatch of the Premier League season on Saturday.

Reading kick off with 3-2comeback win

LONDON, 20 Aug— Reading enjoyed a memorable first taste of thetop flight on Saturday as they came from 2-0 down at home to beatMiddlesbrough 3-2 on the first day of the Premier League season.

Saif Saeed Shaheen of Qatar clears a waterobstacle during the men's 3000m steeplechase at

the Zurich Golden League meeting in Switzerlandon 18 August, 2006. —INTERNET

China's Liu Hong survived ayellow-card warning to claim thewomen's 10,000m race walk title

at the IAAF World JuniorChampionships on 19

August, 2006.INTERNET

Asafa Powell of Jamaica celebrateswinning the men's 100m raceat the Zurich Golden League

meeting in Switzerlandon 18 August, 2006.—INTERNET

Juan CarlosFerrero of

Spaincelebrateshis victory

over compa-triot Rafael

Nadalduring theCincinnati

Masterstennis

tournamentin Mason,Ohio on 18

August,2006.

INTERNET

Juventus start seasonwith Italian Cup win

ROME, 20 Aug— Underfire Juventusbegan the season with a 3-0 win over ThirdDivision Martina Franca in the first roundof the Italian Cup on Saturday.

Goals by Pavel Nedved and new signingsMarco Marchionni and Valeri Bojinov gavethe Turin giants a victory in their firstcompetitive outing since they were rel-egated to the Second Division following amatch-fixing trial.

In a twist of fate, the scene of their latesttriumph was Bari's San Nicola Stadium, theground where they beat Reggina 2-0 in thefinal match of last season to win their 29thSerie A title, a trophy they had to concedeto Inter Milan after the trial. Still smartingfrom their failure earlier this week to per-suade Italy's football federation to repealtheir relegation to Serie B, Juventus madeshort work of Martina.—MNA/Reuters

Diego inspires second winfor Werder Bremen

BERLIN, 20 Aug— Brazilian midfielder Diego sup-plied the inspiration as Werder Bremen won 2-1 athome to Bayer Leverkusen in an enthralling Bundesligaclash on Saturday.

Leverkusen went ahead with a Paul Freier penaltybefore Diego took over, setting up Miroslav Klose forthe equalizer in the 26th minute and then outpacing thedefence and crossing to hand Hugo Almeida a simplewinner 13 minutes from time. It was a second victoryfrom two games for Werder, after Diego had struck onegoal and set up another two in their 4-2 victory overHanover 96 on the opening weekend.

Bayern, double winners for the past two seasons,will seek to join them on maximum points from twomatches when they play away at Bochum on Sunday.

Nuremberg, who won 1-0 at home to BorussiaMoenchengladbach on Friday, are the only other teamcurrently with two wins out of two. They lead the tableon goal difference.

Werder and Leverkusen were two of the Bundesliga'sbest sides over the second half of last season and theyhad both enjoyed excellent wins on the opening week-end of this campaign. Werder in particular have beentipped to push Bayern hard but it was the visitors wholooked the more dangerous side for much of this game.

Their goal came after Werder's Finnish defenderPetri Pasanen had hopelessly mistimed a tackle onStefan Kiessling on a run into the area.

Kiessling was a handful for the Werder defencethroughout the game but he was guilty of several badmisses after bursting through into space.

The equalizer came from what seems set to be aregular source this season, as Diego set up Klose.

The Brazilian, signed from Porto for just six millioneuros (7.70 million US dollars) in the close season,swung over a free kick to the far post and Klose timedhis jump to beat the defence and send a header pastJoerg Butt.—MNA/Reuters

Chinese finish one-twoin World Junior race walk

BEIJING, 20 Aug— Hosts China's Bo Xiangdongand Huang Zhengyu accomplished a one-two finish atthe men's 10,000-metre race walk of the IAAF WorldJunior Championships here on Saturday.

The Chinese duo, both making their debuts on thehigh level international competitions, clocked 42 min-utes and 50.26 seconds, a disappointing result ofdistant 4:03.86 outside the world junior mark, and43:13.29 to clinch the gold and sliver medals respec-tively.

Suzuki Yusuke of Japan was beaten to the bronzemedal finish with 43:45.62. —MNA/Xinhua

Holyfield makeswinning comeback

WASHINGTON, 20 Aug— Former heavyweight worldchampion Evander Holyfield made a successful come-back with a second-round technical knockout of JeremyBates in Dallas on Friday.

Holyfield, 43, had been absent from the ring since aloss to Larry Donald in November 2004 that led to hislicence being revoked by the State of New York onmedical grounds.

Late in the second round, an overhand right hurtBates and a flurry by Holyfield pinned his oppnentagainst the ropes. The fight was stopped at 2:56 of theround with Bates unable to withstand the barrage.

MNA/Xinhua

United stunned the2005 European champi-ons a minute into the sec-ond half with a Rob Hulseheader and though Liver-pool levelled with a con-troversial 70th minuteRobbie Fowler penalty,the favourites failed todominate.

United's outspokenmanager Neil Warnockwasted little time in un-loading his first salvo ofthe season at referee RobStyles.

The season's first matchwas delayed as United'sbiggest crowd for 15 years— 31,700 — squeezed infor the big day.

Liverpool last tastedvictory at Bramall Lane inAugust 1990 when theyarrived as champions,never imagining that 16years on they would stillbe waiting to add to thatrecord 18th title.

They looked a long wayfrom championship con-tenders in the first half asUnited started with all thepredictable keenness ofPremier League new boys.

Liverpool, who faceMaccabi Haifa in thesecond leg of their Cham-pions League qualifierin Kiev on Tuesday, lostJohn Arne-Riise to aserious-looking ankle in-jury after 22 minutes andJamie Carragher 12minutes later.

MNA/Reuters

That match was one of seventhat produced 22 goals and threered cards, with champions Chelseaand Manchester United both still toplay on Sunday.

Arsenal's new era at the Emir-ates Stadium started with a 1-1draw against Aston Villa, where17-year-old England internationalTheo Walcott finally made his de-but and created the Londoners' lateequalizer.

Portsmouth thrashed BlackburnRovers 3-0 with the visitors endingwith nine men while NewcastleUnited beat Wigan Athletic 2-1

and West Ham United beat CharltonAthletic by the same score.

Reading fans had spent the sum-mer itching to see their club, formedin 1871, playing at the top level forthe first time but it appeared to beall going wrong after StewartDowning and Aiyegbeni Yakubuhad Middlesbrough 2-0 up after 21minutes.

However, two goals in two min-utes by Dave Kitson and SteveSidwell made it 2-2 at halftime andLeroy Lita, a halftime replacementfor Kitson, won it for the new boysin the 55th minute.—MNA/Reuters

THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 August, 2006 15

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Sunday, 20 August, 2006Summary of observations recorded at 09:30

hours MST: During the past 24 hours, rain havebeen isolated in Magway Division, scattered in KayahState, upper Sagaing Division and fairly widespreadto widespread in the remaining States and Divisionswith isolated heavyfalls in Rakhine State, Bago andTaninthayi Divisions. The noteworthy amounts ofrainfall recorded were Dawei (4.92) inches, Bago(3.67) inches, Sittway (3.23) inches, Ye (2.99) inches,Hmawbi (2.40) inches, Thaton (2.36) inches, Monywa(1.30) inches, and Mandalay (1.03) inches.

Maximum temperature on 19-8-2006 was 83°F.Minimum temperature on 20-8-2006 was 74°F. Rela-tive humidity at 09:30 hours MST on 20-8-2006 was(96%). Total sunshine hours on 19-8-2006 was nil.

Rainfalls on 20-8-2006 were (1.73) inches atMingaladon, (1.42) inches at Kaba-Aye and (0.90)inch at Central Yangon. Total rainfalls since 1-1-2006 were (72.40) inches at Mingaladon, (83.03)inches at Kaba-Aye and (90.35) inches at CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (8) mph from West at (16:50) hours MSTon 19-8-2006.

Bay inference: Monsoon is moderate inAndaman Sea and South Bay and strong elsewhere inthe Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 21-8-2006:Rain will be scattered in Kayah State and MagwayDivision, fairly widespread in Kachin and ChinStates, Sagaing and Mandalay Divisions and wide-spread in the remaining areas with likelihood of iso-lated heavyfalls in Rakhine State and Taninthayi Di-vision. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Occasional squalls with roughseas are likely Deltaic off and along Rakhine Coast.Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (35-40)mph. Seas will be moderate elsewhere in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Moderatemonsoon.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbour-ing areas for 21-8-2006: Isolated rain. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouringareas for 21-8-2006: Some rain. Degree of certaintyis (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouringareas for 21-8-2006: Isolated rain. Degree of cer-tainty is (80%).

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“Flood Warning”(Issued at 12:00 hrs MST on 20-8-2006)

According to the (06:30) hrs MST observationtoday, the water level of Sittoung River at Toungoois(576) cm. It may reach its danger level (600) cmduring the next (24) hours commencing noon today.

Veronica Nyaruai Wanjiru of Kenya celebratesafter winning the women’s 3,000 meters final atthe 11th IAAF World Junior Championships inBeijing, on 19 August, 2006. Veronica Nyaruai

Wanjiru won the gold medal by a score of 9minutes and 02.90 seconds.

INTERNET

Several cases of thedisease have been foundin sheep and cattle inLimburg and Liege prov-inces, both bordering theNetherlands, where thedisease has already beenfound.

A transport ban isnow in force for all sheepand cattle within a 20-kilo-metre radius around the

The epicentre of the5.5 magnitude quake wasclose to the surfing hotspotPuerto Escondido, but alsoshook the capital 240 miles(385 kilometres) to thenorthwest, Mexico’s na-tional seismological serv-ice said.

“People have called tosay they felt it but wehaven’t received any re-ports of damage,” saidYanet Antayhua at themonitoring centre.

A strong tremor rat-tled Mexico City last weekwithout causing majordamage, but brought back

Moderate earthquake joltsMexico coast, felt in cityMEXICO CITY, 20 Aug — A moderate earth-

quake rocked Mexico’s Pacific coast early on Sat-urday close to the popular beach resort of Huatulcoand was felt as far away as Mexico City, but nodamage was reported.

Bluetongue disease found in Belgian farmsBRUSSELS, 20 Aug — The first cases of bluetongue disease have been discovered in Belgian farms

bordering the Netherlands, VRT news reported Saturday.affected farms, said VRTnews.

All farms within150-kilometres of the af-fected farms are underheightened supervision,meaning that their ani-mals are only allowed tobe transported within this150-kilometre radius.

Bluetongue is an in-sect-borne viral disease

to which all species of ru-minants are susceptible, al-though sheep are most se-verely affected.

However, cattle arethe main mammalian res-ervoir of the virus and arevery important in the epi-demiology of the disease.Itis characterized by changesto the mucous linings of

the mouth and nose andthe coronary band of thefoot.

Humans cannot be-come infected by the blue-tongue virus even if theyeat meat from an infectedanimal.

The disease is mainlyfound in southern Europe.

MNA/Xinhua

memories of a devastat-ing 1985 quake that killedthousands.

Huatulco and PuertoEscondido are both in thestate of Oaxaca.

MNA/Reuters

13th Waning of Wagaung 1368 ME Monday, 21 August, 2006

— To vitalize patriotism and nationalism

— To preserve and safeguard Myanmar

cultural heritage

— To perpetuate genuine Myanmar

music, dance and traditional fine arts

— To preserve Myanmar national char-

acter

— To nurture spiritual development of

the youths

— To prevent influence of alien culture,

and

— To strengthen national unity and

Union Spirit.

Objectives of the 14thMyanmar Traditional

Cultural Performing ArtsCompetitions

YANGON, 20 Aug — Twenty-eight members of Labutta Township

National League for Democracy of Ayeyawady Division including U Khin Lin,

Daw Hla Kyi, Daw Myint Sein, U Tun Lwin, U Tin Hlaing, U Ye Naung, Daw

Khin Ohn Htay, U Myo Htoo, U Nyunt Wai, U Than Win and U Myat Thu

resigned from the NLD of their own volition on 26 July, sending their resigna-

tion letters to NLD Headquarters and authorities concerned.

In the letters sent to Labutta Township Multi-party Democracy General

Election Subcommision, they said they quit the NLD of their own accord as they

lost interest and faith in the party and its leaders.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Aug —Minister for Electric

Power No (1) Col Zaw Min, accompanied by Deputy

Minister U Myo Myint, inspected progress of Yeywa

Hydel Power Project being implemented by No 2

Construction Group of Hydel Power Implementation

Department near Yeyaman Village, 31 miles south-

east of Mandalay, yesterday.

The minister inspected land preparations for

Progress of Yeywa HydelPower Project inspected

construction of the power plant. The deputy minister

gave a supplementary report.

Officials reported on supervisory tasks for

laying of concrete with the use of nuclear densiometer

to meet the set standards. At night, the minister

inspected concrete works at Stage 3A2 of RCC

embankment.

Yeywa RCC embankment is 433 feet high.

Workers in three shifts are carrying out construction

tasks.

The minister instructed officials to control

quality of the works and strive for completion of the

tasks earlier than schedule.

On completion, Yeywa Hydel Power Plant

will generate 790 megawatts.

MNA

On completion, YeywaHydel Power Plant willgenerate 790 megawatts.

The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded ( 20-8-2006 )Dawei (4.92) inchesBago (3.67) inchesSittway (3.23) inchesYe (2.99) inchesHmawby (2.40) inchesThaton (2.36) inchesMonywa (1.30) inches,Mandalay (1.03) inches.

No 1 Elec-tric PowerMinister

Col ZawMin visits

YeywaHydelPower

Project in

MandalayDivision.ELECTRIC

POWER NO 1

28 members of Labutta TownshipNLD quit as they lost interest and

faith in the party

Yeywa Hydel Power Project. —ELECTRIC POWER NO 1