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Volume XVI, Number 62 1st Waning of Nayon 1370 ME Thursday, 19 June, 2008

* Development of agriculture as the base andall-round development of other sectors ofthe economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-orientedeconomic system

* Development of the economy inviting par-ticipation in terms of technical know-howand investments from sources inside thecountry and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economymust be kept in the hands of the State and thenational peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrityand preservation and safeguarding ofcultural heritage and national charac-ter

* 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 Con-

stitution* Building of a new modern developed na-

tion in accord with the new State Consti-tution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

INSIDE

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NAY PYI TAW, 18 June — Member of the StatePeace and Development Council Lt-Gen Kyaw Win ofthe Ministry of Defence, accompanied by Chairman ofShan State (East) PDC Commander of Triangle Re-gion Command Maj-Gen Min Aung Hlaing and offi-cials, met departmental personnel and local people atAung Myat Hall in Tachilek on 16 June.

Chairman of Tachilek Township PDC U TheinMyint reported on progress of local food sufficiency,agriculture and rural development tasks. The com-mander gave a supplementary report.

Lt-Gen Kyaw Win presented uniforms, exercisebooks and stationery to members of the Union Solidar-ity and Development Association and Red Cross Bri-gade and students.

In his instruction, Lt-Gen Kyaw Win expressedthanks for cash and kind donations of the local peoplefor storm victims. He said that as Tachilek is a bordertown, departmental personnel and local people are to

Lt-Gen Kyaw Win supervisesdevelopment tasks in Tachilek,

Mongphyat Townships

focus on cementing friendship of the two countries andenhancing prestige of the nation, and efforts are to bemade for regional development.

In Mongphyat, they met officials and local peopleat Bayintnaung Hall. Lt-Gen Kyaw Win heard reportson matters related to the township presented by thechairman of the Township PDC.

Lt-Gen Kyaw Win presented uniforms and gifts tomembers of the USDA and Red Cross Brigade andstudents and gave necessary instructions.

In meeting with USDA members, Lt-Gen KyawWin heard reports on their participation in regionaldevelopment tasks in cooperation with the local peoplepresented by Mongphyat District USDA Secretary UTun Shwe.

At Mongphyat People’s Hospital, Lt-Gen KyawWin comforted the patients and presented cash assist-ance and gifts to them.

Later, they visited the hospital.—MNA

YANGON, 18 June—Minister for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi, Col ThanNaing Oo of No. 77 LID,Managing Director U SeinTin Win of Myanma Pe-troleum Products Enter-prise and donors of AsiaWorld and IGE Compa-

Relief aid provided to stormvictims in Kungyangon

nies on 16 June went toYetain Village inKungyangon Townshipby boat. They donated pro-visions to the Sayadaw ofthe village and the minis-ter presented householdgoods, personal goods andstationery to the victims.

Next, the minister anddonors met with the vic-tims of ThayetthonebinVillage and providedfoodstuffs, personal goodsand stationery to the vic-tims.

The minister andparty yesterday inspectedrepair of the lake andlamp-posts in the town-ship and fulfilled the re-quirements.

MNA

Lt-Gen Kyaw Win of Ministry of Defence comforts a patient receiving treatment at People’s Hospital in Mongphyat. — MNA

Beware of rats that are trying to makeholes in the walls of the granary

MAUNG DE DOH

The people should not consider that the baseless accusationswill subside one day. We should consider that the accusations areparticularly designed to break up Myanmar where there areplenty of crops, as though rats are making holes in the walls.

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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 DesireThursday, 19 June, 2008

Loss and destruction is great whenever anation or a person encounters natural disasterand rehabilitation tasks are to be carried outspeedily.

A severe cyclonic storm hit some areas in thecountry during early May and there was a greatdeal of destruction and lots of lives were lost.Rescue operations were carried out in no timeand reconstruction of towns and villages is beingundertaken.

Rehabilitation tasks in the storm-ravagedareas are very huge and extensive. As it is not anordinary task, the government is making effortsfor regional development on priority basis.

The respective companies have rebuilt thedamaged schools and monasteries inHainggyikyun including a basic education highschool (branch) in Kyaukkalat Village inNgapudaw Township, one of the storm-hit regions.The government has formulated education andhealth care promotion programmes for the wholeregion and is implementing them while carryingout the rehabilitation tasks for the local people inthe storm-hit regions.

In implementing the reconstruction task ofKyaukkalat Village the village basic educationhigh school (branch) was to be upgraded to a highschool with the aim of making long-term socio-economic progress of the local people and turningout human resources in the region. Moreover, thepeople in the region can enjoy better health careservices as Pyapon People’s Hospital wasupgraded to 200-bed one and hospitals in Bogale,Mawlamyinekyun and Labutta Townships wereupgraded to 100-bed ones.

The government is undertaking therehabilitation tasks of the storm-hit areas in accordwith the requirements of the region. It is necessaryfor the entire people of such regions to undertakethe tasks for improvement of economic, educationand health conditions.

Speed up development tasksfor storm-ravaged regions

YANGON, 18June—Minister forAgriculture andIrrigation Maj-Gen HtayOo met JapaneseAmbassador to MyanmarMr Yasuaki Nogawa atthe meeting hall ofIrrigation Department inYankin township here on16 June.

At the meeting,they discussed thematters related to theagricultural assistance tobe provided by Japanesegovernment for storm-hitfarms.—MNA

A& I Minister meets Japanese Ambassador

NAY PYI TAW, 18June—Minister forElectric Power No. 1 ColZaw Min met ThaiAmbassador to MyanmarMr Bansarn Bunnag at themeeting hall of theMinister’s office in NayPyi Taw this morning.They discussed mattersrelated to hydropowerprojects.

Also present on theoccasion were DeputyMinister U Myo Myintand directors-general,managing directors andofficials of thedepartments under theministry.—MNA

Electric Power No. 1 Minister meets Thai Ambassador

YANGON, 18 June —Excellent Performance inSocial Field (Third Class)Award winner U TheinNgwe of the ComputerSection of the New Light

NLM staff donates blood for 47th time

Rehabilitation tasks resume inSarkyin village

of Myanmar Dailydonated blood for the 47thtime at the blood bank ofThingangyun SanpyaHospital, here, today.

NLM

YANGON, 17 June—Rehabilitation tasks arebeing carried out in storm-hit Sarkyin Ywama andSarkyin villages of Labutta

Township, AyeyawadyDivision.

Wa Wa Wincompany renderedassistance to repairdamaged schools in thevillages. The students arepursuing learning attemporary tents and villageDhammayons with theminimum delay.

Myanma Agri-culture Service distributed58 power-tillers, 60 cattle

and 1800 baskets of paddyto farmers and now they areengaged in the farmingwork. Sarkyin village hasover 9000 sown acreage.Power-tillers, cattle andpaddy strains have beendistributed to the farmers.

Rice, edible oil,blanket, mosquito net,tarpaulin, aluminium potand wears were distributedto each rural people.

MNA

Maj-Gen Htay Oo meets Japanese Ambassador Mr Yasuaki Nogawa. —A&I

Col Zaw Min meeting Thai Ambassador Mr Bansarn Bunnag. —MNA

In memory of late Daw Khin Hla Hla, UThaung Sein and family of Yankin Township

presented recently K 100,000 and medicalequipment to Joint-Secretary U Maung Maung

Gyi of Hninzigon Home for the Aged.— H

U Thein Ngwe(NLM).—H

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US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 447WASHINGTON, 18 June—As of Tuesday, 17 June, 2008, at least 447 members of

the US military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result ofthe US invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defence Department.The department last updated its figures on 7 June at 10 am EDT. Of those, themilitary reports 310 were killed by hostile action.

Outside the Afghan region, the Defence Department reports 65 more membersof the US military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, twowere the result of hostile action. The military lists these other locations asGuantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Jordan; Kenya;Kyrgyzstan; Philippines; Seychelles; Sudan; Tajikistan; Turkey; and Yemen.

There were also four CIA officer deaths and one military civilian death.Internet

Mississippi River breaks through Illinois levee

Iran says uraniumenrichment is a “red line”

Israel confirmscease-fire with

HamasJERUSALEM,18 June—

An Israeli defence officialsays a cease-fire with theHamas rulers of the GazaStrip will begin Thursday.

The official says that ifthe fighting ceases, Israelwill agree to ease theblockade of the Gaza Strip.The Israeli says that thetalks on efforts to releasean Israeli soldier held byHamas will be intensified.

The official spokeWednesday on conditionof anonymity due to thesensitive nature of thetalks.

Egypt, the mediator ofthe talks, had announcedthe agreement on Tuesday.Hamas confirmed itshortly afterward.

Internet

Obama rejects McCainterrorism criticism

WASHINGTON, 18 June—Democrat Barack Obamarejected any lectures fromhis White House rival JohnMcCain on fightingterrorism Tuesday, in ascornful riposte to a day-long onslaught from theRepublican’s camp.

“Let’s think about this:these are the same guyswho helped to engineer thedistraction of the war inIraq at a time when wecould have pinned downthe people who actuallycommitted 9/11,” Obamatold reporters on his plane.

“In part because of theirfailed strategies, we’ve got(Al-Qaeda chief Osama)bin Laden still sending out

audio tapes. So I don’t thinkthey have much standingto suggest that they’velearned a lot of lessons from9/11,” he said.

McCain supporters hadlashed out at a call byObama for suspectedextremists to be pro-secuted, in light of aSupreme Court ruling lastweek allowing Guan-tanamo Bay detainees tochallenge their detentionin the courts.

McCain foreign policyaide Randy Scheunemannsaid militants had to be

fought on the battlefieldand not in the courts, andaccused Obama of “aperfect manifestation of a10 September mindset,”from a day prior to the 2001attacks.

“If Obama did receivethat 3:00 am phone call,I guess his response wouldbe to call lawyers atthe Justice Department,”Scheunemann added,referencing a campaignad on national securityby Obama’s primaryopponent Hillary Clin-ton.—Internet

TEHERAN, 18 June—Iransaid on Tuesday uraniumenrichment was its “redline” and would continue,despite an enhanced offerof incentives from bigpowers to stop activity theWest fears could yieldnuclear bombs.

The EU’s top diplomat,Javier Solana, presentedTehran on Saturdaywith an adjusted packageof economic benefitsdesigned to persuade it tocurb its nuclear work, andsaid Iran should stopenrichment during nego-

tiations to implement theoffer.

“We have repeatedlysaid that enrichment isour red line and we shouldenjoy this techno-logy. The work will becontinued,” deputy for-eign minister AlirezaSheikhattar told reporters,according to the statenews agency IRNA.

The incentive packageagreed by the UnitedStates, Russia, China,Britain, France andGermany last month anddelivered by Solana is a

revised version of onerejected by Iran in 2006.

Western powers havewarned Iran it will facemore sanctions if it spurnsthe offer. Iran has shownno sign it will changeits position, and suggestedit was in no hurry torespond to the incentivesproposal, saying it is beingreviewed.

“We will give ouranswer as soon as possible.But we do not knowexactly when it will be,”the Iranian official said.

Internet

This video frame grab image shows onlookers observing smoldering rubblenear a destroyed building after a car bomb tore through a market area in thenorthwestern Hurriyah neighbourhood of Baghdad, on 17 June, 2008. The

bombing, the deadliest such attack in more than three months, has killedmore than 50 people and wounded dozens.—INTERNET

Water is pumped to the street from the LaMont Ltd warehouse in Burlington,Iowa. Rising waters burst through an overtaxed levee on the Mississippi River,sending gushing torrents into an Illinois town as the sodden US midwest reels

from days of epic flooding.—INTERNET

GULFORT, 18 June—The rising MississippiRiver broke through alevee Tuesday, forcingauthorities to rescue abouta half-dozen people byhelicopter, boat and four-wheeler as floodwatersmoved south into Illinoisand Missouri.

But even as the waterjeopardized scores of

additional homes andbusinesses, officials saidthe damage could havebeen worse if the federalgovernment had not takensteps to clear flood-proneland after historic floodsin 1993.

On Tuesday, theflooding halted car travelover two bridges linkingIllinois and Iowa and

covered tiny Gulfport andthe surrounding area with10 feet of water.

“I’m not going backafter this one,” 83-year-old Lois Russell said asshe watched watersurround her house nearGulfport. It was the thirdtime she had fled her homebecause of flooding since1965.—Internet

British terrorism suspect isconfined to home

LONDON, 18 June— A Jordanian who defeated aBritish government attempt to deport him as a“significant international terrorist” was freed fromprison on bail Tuesday but confined to his home for 22hours a day.

Omar Mahmoud Othman, known as Abu Qatada,was among the highest profile terrorism suspects in aBritish jail. A special tribunal dealing with foreignterrorism suspects published a seven-page documentsetting stringent conditions for his release.

He is forbidden to use any cellphone or computer, orconnect in any way to the Internet, and may be awayfrom home only between 10 and 11 am and 2 and 3pm.—Internet

Four soldiers die in AfghanistanLONDON, 18 June—Four UK soldiers, one believed to

be a woman, have been killed in Afghanistan after theirvehicle was caught in an explosion, the MoD has said.

The explosion happened east of Lashkar Gah inHelmand Province. Prime Minister Gordon Brownpraised the dead soldiers’ “bravery, dedication andprofessionalism”. The dead soldiers’ next-of-kin havebeen informed. The deaths take the number of Britishsoldiers killed in Afghanistan since 2001 to 106. Threeof the soldiers were killed in the blast and another waspronounced dead at the Camp Bastion medical base.One of the dead soldiers was a member of theIntelligence Corps, the MoD said.—Internet

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Japan’s toy giant Tomy employee displays the world’s smallest personalkaraoke cube “Hi-kara”, 7cm cubic machine with 2.4-inch LCD display and

microphone equipped headphone at a preview of the annual Tokyo ToyShow, on 17 June. Tomy will launch the machine in October, targettingchildren who are too young to go to “karaoke box” parlours.—INTERNET

A fisherman returns from shopping as idle squid vessels are moored atNiigata Port in Niigata, northern Japan, on 18 June, 2008. Around 3,000

squid vessels halt operations across Japan on Wednesday and Thursday dueto soaring fuel costs.—INTERNET

RIO DE JANEIRO, 18June — The president ofBrazil’s state-ownedElectronuclear enterprisesaid on Monday that fourmore nuclear power plantswill be built in Brazil.

At a seminar on nuclearpower held in Rio deJaneiro, Othon Pinheiroda Silva said two of thenew plants will beconstructed in the north-east of the country, one inthe southeast while thefourth’s location has yetto be decided.

The details of the

Brazil to build four newnuclear power plants

projects would bediscussed next year, headded.

The four new plants aredesigned to have a mini-mum combined gene-rating capacity of 6,000megawatts, accounting forabout 70 per cent of thenation’s nuclear power,and is thus fundamental toguaranteeing the supply ofelectricity in Brazil in thenext two decades, Silvasaid.

Currently, the jointgenerating capacity ofBrazil’s two operating

power plants, Angra I andAngra II, is 2,000megawatts. Angra III,which will be constructedin the next half of this year,is expected to have a capa-city of 1,350 megawatts.

MNA/Xinhua

PHNOM PENH, 18 June— Cambodian CommerceMinister Cham Prasidhhas called for banning onimport of the cars andtrucks made before 2000,afraid that Cambodiacould become a trash binfor used vehicles, English-Khmer language news-paper the CambodianDaily said on Tuesday.

“I am going to proposea ban of cars and trucks(made before 2000) toPrime Minister Hun Sen,”he said at a inaugurationceremony of the national

CARACAS, 18 June — Venezuelan anchorman JavierGarcia of Radio Caracas Television Internacional(RCTV) evening TV news has been found dead in hisapartment and he was stabbed in the chest and the rightleg, the police said on Monday.

Garcia, 37, had been missing for two days and wasfound dead Sunday by his brother in his apartment inColinas de Bello Monte, in southeast Caracas.

This was the second slaying of a journalist thismonth. Pierre Gerges, vice-president of the DiarioReporte de la Economia newspaper, was shot dead inearly June.

“As many Venezuelan families that receive thenews of the death of a loved one, today it is our turnto regret the painful and premature departure of a dearcoworker and friend, a very respected journalist of thishouse”, RCTV said in a communique.

The Public Prosecutor and the scientific police areinvestigating the crime, while the motive remainsunclear.

MNA/Xinhua

Venezuelan RCTVjournalist stabbed

to death

Cambodian minister urges ban onold-cars import

distribution branch of theHino Motors Ltd of Japanhere on Monday.

“Now it is time toencourage our people touse brand-new motors andcars because they have thelatest technology,” headded. The country haslong relied on usedvehicles that are often sub-standard and the proposedban would help optimizethe country’s vehiclemarket, he said.

“We can not forbid theimport of used cars andtrucks (entirely), but we

need set a threshold (suchas setting their productionyear at 2000),” he added.

Also on the occasion,Senator Sy King Triv,whose KT Pacific Groupjointly established thebranch with Hino MotorsLtd, said that Hino willsoon fit in with the truckmarket of Cambodia andupgrade the current situa-tion that second-handtrucks are dominant, hencegenerating problems likehigh cost of fuel, low effi-ciency and frequent main-tenance. —MNA/Xinhua

Death toll from Japan earthquake

Rescueworkers

remove mud asthey search for

survivorsaround an innthat was swept

away by alandslide inKurihara,

Miyagiprefecture.INTERNET

TOKYO, 18 June—Search teams Wednesdayrecovered another bodyfrom the wreckage of ahotel destroyed by alandslide following anearthquake in northernJapan, bringing thequake’s death toll to 11,media reports said.

According to KyodoNews agency and national

broadcaster NHK, thebody was the fifth pulledfrom the site, which wasinundated by mud, rocksand fallen trees when thehill behind the two-storyinn was sent crashingdown by the force of the7.2-magnitude quake onSaturday.

The reports said abouta dozen people were

missing and more than 250injured. Officials could notimmediately confirm thereports.

Two more peoplewere believed to have beenat the inn when the quakestruck, but efforts to findthem have been slowed bythe volume of mud thathas covered the site.

Internet

NEW DELHI, 18 June —India is planning to build43 new information techno-logy cities across thecountry to retain its topstatus in the business andto be in a position to tapthe huge surge in demandfor IT-enabled servicesover next 10 years.

The move comes at atime when the risinginfrastructure and em-ployee costs in big citiesis threatening to bluntIndia’s crucial costadvantage, according tothe Times of India Mon-day.

While India has heldon to its pre-eminentposition, its IT companiesare losing their global costadvantage with the emer-gence of countries likeVietnam and the Philip-pines, which offer similarservices at cheaper ratesand are threatening India’sstatus as the world's backoffice. —MNA/Xinhua

India plansto establish

43 new“IT” cities

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All items from Xinhua News Agency

Commuters make their way through a flooded street after heavy rainfall inthe northern Indian city of Mathura on 17 June, 2008. The monsoon arrived

at least two weeks early in northern India, bringing despite to its bakingplains, but in Assam it swamped about 500 villages in waist-deep water,

leaving about 300,000 people homeless.—XINHUA

Photo taken on 16 June, 2008 shows a tourist’s boat sails under a rainbowformed near the Iguazu Falls in Iguazu, Brazil. Iguazu means big water in itsGuarani origin. The waterfall, located on the border of the Brazilian state ofParana and the Argentine Province of Misiones, consists of 275 falls with the

longest drop height reaching 90 metres. —XINHUA

Local people hold banners to bid farewell to ZhangPeng, a crew member of the crashed helicopter on

a quake relief mission on 31 May, in TengzhouCity, east China’s Shandong Province, on 17 June,

2008. Zhang’s bone ash is returned to his hometown of Tengzhou on Tuesday. A Mi-171 militarytransport helicopter carrying five crew membersand injured civilians crashed 7.5 kilometres fromYingxiu Town in the quake-hit southwest China’sSichuan Province on 31 May. Searchers found the

crash site after a 12-day search.—XINHUA

JERUSALEM, 18 June —Israeli and Syrianrepresentatives Mondayconcluded the secondround of indirect peacetalks in Turkey, local dailyYedioth Ahronoth re-ported on its website.

Israeli Prime MinisterEhud Olmert’s negotia-tion delegates, YoramTurbovich and ShalomTurgeman, reported posi-tive atmosphere during the

Syrian-Israeli indirect peacetalks concluded in Turkey

talks, said the report.Israeli officials in

Jerusalem, however,clarified that the up-coming meeting betweenOlmert and SyrianPresident Bashar al-Assad in Paris on 13 Julywill not revolve aroundthe peace talks.

“This is a Frenchinitiative; if it happens -great. Olmert said he willattend the meeting and has

emphasized his willing-ness to meet with Arableaders,” the sources werequoted as saying.

Xinhua

BEIJING, 18 June —Online Chinese shoppersspent 16.2 billion yuan(2.3 billion US dollars) in19 major cities in the firsthalf of 2008, ChinaInternet Network Infor-mation Centre (CNNIC)said on Monday.

The findings werebased on a survey carriedout in four municipalitiesdirectly under the centralgovernment — Beijing,

ANKARA, 18 June — Turkey’s exports of automotiveproducts to Russia rose by 116 per cent to 697.6 millionUS dollars in the first five months of 2008, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Monday.

Turkey’s total exports from the automotive sectorincreased by 46.14 per cent to 11.3 billion US dollarsin the same period, said the report.

In recent years, exports from Turkish automotivesector to Russia increased considerably. After Turkey’sautomotive exports to Russia hit record high, Russiabecame the fifth largest importer of Turkish motorvehicles and spare parts. —Xinhua

OTTAWA, 18 June— A 29-year-old man was killedand his mother injured when they were struck bylightning in Canada’s Saskatchewan Province, reportsreaching here said Monday.

The accident happened Saturday when the man washelping his parents build a deck on their cabin in avillage located 170 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon,the biggest city in the province.

The son and the mother were down the deck sawingup lumber, when suddenly came one crack of lightingand one sound of thunder, hitting the two, the mayor ofthe village told reporters. —Xinhua

LIMA, 18 June —Bolivian President EvoMorales has called on theColombian Governmentand the country’s rebelsto reach a political accordto end their conflict, theBolivian daily La Razonreported on Sunday.

The fight for libera-tion and against injusticeshould not claim lives ofordinary people, thenewspaper quoted Mo-rales as saying.

He added that anagreement between thegovernment and theRevolutionary ArmedForces of Colombia(FARC) is the best way tohalt the conflict in theSouth American nation.

The 17,000-strongFARC, the largest rebelgroup in Colombia, hasbeen fighting governmentforces since it was foundedin 1964.

Government troopshave launched severalattacks on the FARC sincethe beginning of this year.

Xinhua

Russia becomes 5th largestimporter of Turkish autos

Son killed, mother injured bylightning in W Canada

JAKARTA, 18 June —Indonesian Governmenthas officially appointedthe state-owned oil-and-gas company Pertamina todevelop Natuna oil blockin Riau Province after thefailure of extensioncontract with US-basedoil-and-gas companyExxonMobil, the country'sMine and Energy MinisterPurnomo Yusgiantorosaid here Monday.

The minister said thatcurrently Pertamina andthe ministry had discussedabout the term and

Indonesia appoints Pertamina todevelop Natuna oil field

condition of the productsharing contract.

We have appointedPertamina,” he said at ahearing with the Parlia-ment at the Parliamentbuilding here. —Xinhua

Chinese online shoppers spend 16.2byuan in first half

Shanghai, Tianjin andChongqing — and 15developed cities such asChangchun, Dalian,Nanjing, Hangzhou,Jinan and Guangzhou,among others.

About 8.4 billionyuan, more than half ofthe total, came from maleconsumers, while 3.1billion was attributed tostudents.

Xinhua

Morales urges

Colombian

Govt, rebels to

end conflict

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Lee Byung-chun (2nd L), a professor at Seoul National University’s school ofveterinary medicine, poses with his assistants and the four cloned puppies at his

laboratories in Seoul on 16 June, 2008.—INTERNET

Libyan coast and theLibyan authorities haverecovered one survivorand 21 bodies, theEgyptian Interior Ministrysaid on Monday.

The boat sank on 7June after sailing from theLibyan town of Zuwarah,close to the Tunisianborder, and was headingfor Italy, a ministryspokesman said.

The Libyan Govern-

TEHERAN, 18 June —Iran’s Government plansto ask Parliament for 7billion US dollars Iranwithdraws to pay forincreasingly expensivefuel imports, a newspapersaid on Monday, despitegasoline rationing launch-ed by the world’s fourth-largest oil producer lastyear.

A senior Oil Ministryofficial, HojjatollahGhanimifard, warned the

DUBAI, 18 June — Theworld’s top oil exporterSaudi Arabia will boostoutput next month to thefastest rate in decades tohelp keep pace withdemand and tame what itsees as unacceptably highfuel prices.

Riyadh plans to liftoutput to 9.7 millionbarrels per day (bpd) inJuly, United Nations chiefBan Ki-moon said onSunday after meetingSaudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi.

That would be a riseof 550,000 bpd or over 6per cent since May and

ISLAMABAD,18 June—The Foreign Office ofPakistan Monday sum-moned the AfghanAmbassador to Pakistanregarding Afghan Presi-dent Hamid Karzai’srecent statement, local TVchannel DAWN NEWSreported.

Karzai Sunday told a

Saudis to pump oil at fastest rate in decadeswould take Saudi crudeoutput to its highestmonthly rate since August1981, according to USEnergy Information Ad-ministration data.

“9.7, that is what he(Naimi) said,” on Julyoutput, the Abu Dhabi-based The Nationalnewspaper quoted the UNSecretary-General assaying on its website.

The Saudi output plancomes to light a weekbefore the kingdom hostsan unprecedented meetingof producers and con-sumers to tackle marketinstability.

A relentless rise in oilprices to well above 130US dollars a barrel hassparked fuel protests fromAsia to Europe and roiledfinancial markets aspolicymakers fear higherinflation will slow theglobal economy.

Saudi King Abdullahtold Ban that Riyadhwould do its utmost tobring the price down.Saudi Arabia has alreadyincreased supply by300,000 bpd this monthfrom May to meet dem-and from buyers primarilyin the United States.

MNA/Reuters

Boat sinks off Libya, over 120 missingCAIRO, 18 June — A

boat carrying 150 Africanmigrants en route toEurope sank off the

ment informed theEgyptian Government ofthe incident on 13 Junebecause they believe that12 of the passengers wereEgyptians, he added.

The bodies were insuch poor condition that ithas not been possible toidentify them, he said.

The spokesman wasreading from an incidentreport and had no otherdetails. —MNA/Reuters

Iran Govt to ask for $7b for fuel importsamount needed during theIranian year that ends inMarch 2009 could riseeven further if inter-national gasoline andother fuel prices continuedto rise.

He told the dailyTehran-e Emrouz news-paper in an interviewthat consumption wasestimated at 80 millionlitres in Iran, above afigure of roughly 75million litres given by

officials when rationingwas introduced formotorists in June 2007.

Officials had pre-viously said both con-sumption and imports fellsharply after Iran launchedrationing to curb soaringconsumption which hadrisen well beyond itsability to refine crude,forcing the governmentto rely on expensiveimports.

MNA/Reuters

Pakistan summons Afghan ambassadorover Karzai’s statement

news conference thatAfghanistan had the rightto self-defence, andbecause militants cross-over from Pakistan “tocome and kill Afghans andkill coalition troops, itexactly gives us the rightto do the same”.

Strong protest hasbeen lodged to Afghanis-

tan over Karzai’s state-ment about sending Afg-han troops in the Pakistaniterritory, according toDAWN NEWS.

Responding to Kar-zai’s statement, Pakis-tani Prime MinisterYousaf Raza GilaniSunday told a private TVchannel that Pakistanwould not allow anyoneto interfere in its internalaffairs.

“We will neitherinterfere in the internalaffairs of any country, norallow anyone to interferein our affairs,” said Gilani.

MNA/Xinhua

Some of about 300protesters clash with

Ukrainian police duringa rally against the North

Atlantic TreatyOrganization (NATO) infront of President ViktorYushchenko’s office in

Kiev.—INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 18 June— US soldiers who killeda Reuters journalist in Iraqacted within military rules,but the Army’s probe ofthe incident was taintedby its failure to preserveevidence, a Pentagoninvestigation said onMonday.

The Defence Depart-ment’s inspector general,the Pentagon’s watchdog

JERUSALEM , 18 June —Israel has tightened rulesfor Palestinian staff of theUnited Nations who travelin and out of the occupiedWest Bank, increasingtensions with the worldbody, internal UN emailsand aid workers said onSunday.

The Israeli Armyinformed UN officials inJerusalem that Palesti-nians using the main

US inspector says Army probe of“Reuters” death tainted

agency, found that USsoldiers who fired on aReuters car in westBaghdad in August 2005,killing Reuters Televisionsoundman Waleed Kha-led, reasonably respondedto what they thought wasa threat.

But the inspector gene-ral criticized the Armyinvestigator for losing acritical piece of evidence

— video from a Reuterscameraman in the car thatcaptured events leading upto and including theshooting.

That Army investi-gator’s actions rightfullyled Reuters to believe theinvestigation was notthorough or independent,the inspector general’sreport said.

MNA/Reuters

UN says Israel restricts its Palestinian staffcheckpoint for the WestBank city of Ramallahwere required to cross onfoot through a terminal forinspection rather than drivethrough in their UNvehicles, a UN email said.

The message, sent toemployees last week andobtained by Reuters onSunday, directed Palesti-nian staff members to useanother crossing.

UN Palestinian staff

have also been asked atthree checkpoints to sign aform used by police inconducting searches andmaking arrests.

Another internal UNemail told staff not to signthe form. Israeli officialshad no immediate com-ment.

An aid worker said thetightened restrictions had“ratcheted up ten-sionsbetween Israel and theNGO (non-govern-mentalorganization) commu-nity”.

US Secretary of StateCondoleezza Rice, who isvisiting Israel and the WestBank this week, criticizedIsrael for not doing enoughto ease restrictions onPalestini-ans in the WestBank. Several thousandPalestinians work for UNagencies in the West Bank.Thousands more work inthe Hamas-controlledGaza Strip.

MNA/Reuters

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Beware of rats that are trying to makeholes in the walls of the granary

A rat is an animal of destruction. Rats in a forestdestroy paddy fields, while rats in towns and villagesdestroy granaries and barns, steal dried fish from thekitchen, and destroy the clothes in the cupboard. A ratis good at disturbing people. In the process of stealingan egg, a rat grips firmly with its teeth the tail of itsfellow rat that is firmly putting its arms around the eggand drags the fellow rat. A rat has a sharp nose and canenter the room through a very small hole of the floorand the walls of a house. If the floor or the wall of thehouse has no hole, it bites the floor or the wall to makea hole in it. It also digs a hole in the earth to get insidethe house.

Underground and aboveground saboteurs at homeand from abroad who are desperate to destroy Myanmarare like rats. Their characters are so identical to that ofrats, I think they were the reincarnations of rats.

They are such persons who know no regardwhatsoever if their fellow members will come topower. Instead of mourning for hundreds of thousandsof victims who lost their lives during the storm ‘Nargis’that rocked the nation, they are happy with thesituations of the nation with the thought that thecountry has got into crises, and they will soon be ableto overthrow the government. Frankly speaking, theyare like thieves and robbers who want to rob a sickperson in bed.

They are also like rats because they are findingways and means to exploit the consequences of thestorm ‘Nargis’ in their bid to attack the government.

Taking advantage of Myanmar people’s interestin omen and astrology, they, in the aftermath of thestorm told international news journals that the stormwas omens that gods did not want the referendum thatwould be held a week later, and the storm meant thatthe heaven would not give mandate to the militarygovernment.

They are good at spreading rumours designed tocreate public panic. A rumour spread with the intentionof provoking a public panic in the aftermath of thestorm said that the nation would face a storm thatwould be more destructive than Nargis, and a strongearthquake would happen soon. The rumours stillhave adverse effect on the people. A rumour said thaton 16 May, tidal waves that were as high as a four-storey building would reach Yangon because the lionstatues in front of the Shwedagon Pagoda were thirsty.However, some believed. The prices of life jacketswent up in Yangon then.

It is just a small matter if taken for granted.

Maung De Doh

According to the political strategies, only when therewas a public panic, they could incite mass riots andthey could panic the people into buying rice and edibleoil. Then, commodity prices would go up sharply andthe people would be dissatisfied with the governmentand there would be political movements. They werelike rats that make holes in the floor or the wall whenthey did not find any holes in them.

Moreover, they tried to spread rumours aboutrelief and rehabilitation tasks in the storm-hit areas.

As the first phase, they drove a wedge between thegovernment and international community. In the plot,they claimed that the government did not accept theinternational assistance at the expense of the lives ofthe victims. They also said with a straight face that ifnecessary, international community would have to useforce to enter the nation considering humanitarianassistance. They said so because a naval fleet wasbeing anchored at the entrance to the nation.

When the government refuted the allegation andsaid that the nation was accepting internationalassistance, they claimed as though relief officials weremisappropriating the supplies.

In their attempt to sow misunderstanding betweenthe government and the people, they claimed that therelief supplies did not reach the storm-hit areas; thatthe supplies hardly flowed to the storm-affected areas;that the government was forcing the victims to returnto their home places that had not been regenerated, anddid not render assistance to the victims for their living.They also said that the victims had no cattle or paddyseeds to grow crops. And the farmers would die ofhunger due to the fact that the farmlands were floodedby sea tidal waves. The State-owned media hadspotlights on the efforts the government, the people,the Tatmadaw and departments concerned had beenmaking in collaboration. So, their accusations did notyield any fruit.

In desperation, they drove a wedge between theservicemen and the people, and among the people.There was an accusation that in sharing the reliefsupplies in Hainggyikyun, families of the servicemen

took more share than the people. In fact, servicemenhad their rations. They did not need to rely much onthe relief supplies because departments concernedhad made arrangements for reconstruction of theravaged buildings. It had come to the knowledge oflocal people of Hainggyikyun that a medical teammade up of military doctors, and servicemen wereparticipating in the relief and rehabilitation works.

An accusation said that relief camps were set upin the villages, the majority of whose populationswere Buddhist Bamars, whereas the government didnot pay enough attention to the the villages of ChristianKayin nationals. They also tried to sow discord andsuspicions among the national brethren of theAyeyawady delta by mentioning old incidents such asthe Kayin-Bamar conflicts that took place in WorldWar II, and the delta region armed revolt in theinternal insurgency period.

In reality, they should not rekindle such incidentsor exploit the victims for political gains. The peoplewitnessed on TV that relief and rehabilitation workswere being carried out for welfare of the victims,irrespective of race and religion. Similarly, measureswere being taken to reconstruct monasteries, Churchesand mosques. In safeguarding the people, thegovernment took measures considering itself to bethe parents and the people to be its children withoutdiscrimination against or in favour of particularpersons. Maybe, internal and international donororganizations and private donors will come to losetheir generosity gradually. However, the governmentstand and attitude will remain unchanged and willcontinue to take care of the people. It will neverignore the interests of any particular citizen under anyreasons.

The people should not consider that the baselessaccusations will subside one day. We should considerthat the accusations are particularly designed to breakup Myanmar where there are plenty of crops, asthough rats are making holes in the walls. Rats bynature destroy whatever they see as soon as they havegot inside the room.

Today, the world has come under various threatssuch as food shortage, oil shortage, economic decline,battles and terrorism. Onus is put on every citizen towork hard to ensure peace and security of themotherland. Therefore, I would like to urge the peopleto equip themselves with nationalistic spirit and UnionSpirit in order that the rat-like saboteurs will not beable to get into the nation.

Translation: MS

It had come to the knowledge of local people ofHainggyikyun that a medical team made up of militarydoctors, and servicemen were participating in therelief and rehabilitation works.

The State-owned media had spotlights on theefforts the government, the people, the Tatmadawand departments concerned had been making incollaboration.

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Doctors provide medical care to storm survivors at People’s Hospital in Dedaye. — MNA

Fishermen at work in Ngatantaya River in MawlamyinegyunTownship. — MNA

The 37th Directors’ Meeting of Asian Clearing Union-ACU inprogress. — MNA

YANGON, 18 June—Member of NationalDisaster PreparednessCentral CommitteeMinister for Progress ofBorder Areas and NationalRaces and DevelopmentAffairs Col Thein Nyunton 16 June met withdepartmental personnel ledby officials of GeneralAdministration Depart-ment under the Ministry ofHome Affairs and seventeams comprising membersof USDA before theirdeparture for Mawlamyine-gyun Township to carry outrehabilitation tasks in 16storm-hit village-tracts inthe township. The ministerurged them to take part intasks with strenuous effortsfor improvement of

PBANRDA Minister performs rehabilitationtasks in Mawlamyinegyun Township

rehabilitation taskseffectively and fulfilled therequirements.

The teams will givehelping hands inreconstruction of villages,distribution of paddy seedsand ploughing of farmlandsin time and fishery sector.

Minister Col TheinNyunt together with JointSecretary of Nay Pyi TawDevelopment Committee UThan Shein and members,social organizationsmembers, Orthopedists andnurses leftMawlamyinegyun forNgwezinyaw village byShwe Htay Myint vesseland presented rice, edibleoil, salt, personal goods, 12power-tillers and 2496baskets of paddy seeds to

the storm victims ofShaukchaung village-tractand its surroundingvillages.

Medical team providedhealth care to patients onboard Shwe Htay Myintvessel.

Next, the minister andparty went to Ngatantayavillage and presented rice,edible oil, salt and personalgoods to storm victims andK 200,000 for village BEPSto the headmistress. Themedical team gave medicaltreatment to patients onboard.

Agricultural andfishery works in thetownship have returned tonormalcy and cultivation ofmonsoon paddy is beingcarried out.—MNA

37th Directors’ Meeting of AsianClearing Union-ACU held

NAY PYI TAW, 18June—The 37th Directors’Meeting of Asian ClearingUnion-ACU hosted byMyanmar was held atThingaha Hotel in Nay PyiTaw this morning.

It was attended byGovernor of Central Bankof Myanmar U ThanNyein, governors andvice-governors anddelegates to ACU frommember countriesBangladesh, Bhutan,India, Iran, Nepal,Pakistan and Sri Lanka,the Secretary-General ofACU and members,delegates from Belarus asobservers and officials ofCentral Bank ofMyanmar.

First, Governor ofCentral Bank of Myanmar

U Than Nyein made anopening speech on theoccasion, saying that ACUwas first formed over thepast three decades. TheACU carried out the tasksin order to improve tradeand financial mattersamong the membercountries. It is crucial togear up cooperativemeasures in performingtrade and ways forpayment among themember countries for thedevelopment of trade andeconomy. He believes thatharmonious efforts and themight of ACU membercountries will be able toovercome challenges. Thepresent ACU meeting isthe good opportunity tobe able to effectively laydown policies and

exchange outlook andexperience.

Next, the ACUDirectors’ Meetingfollowed. U Than Nyeinpresided over the meeting.Those present discussedoperational functions withrespect to the trade andpayment among themember countries duringthe meeting.

The ACU was firstformed in 1974. Myanmarbecame a member countryin 1977. Cooperativemeasures were taken inthe financial mattersincluding payment andbudget in accord with rulesand regulations of theACU and that broughtbenefits in trade amongthe member countries.

MNA

YANGON, 18 June —A man lost his left leg in amine explosion in BagoDivision on 13 June.

On his way to Binbyeregion to gather bamboo

Man loses leg in KNU insurgent-plantedmine blast in Kyaukkyi Tsp

shoots, U Kyaw Nge, 36,son of U Boe Thaw, ofThapyaygon Village inKyaukkyi Township,stepped on a mine plantedby KNU insurgents. The

mine explosion blew offthe victim’s left leg. Hewas rushed to KyaukkyiPeople’s Hospital in thetownship.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18 June—A special medical teamof Directorate of MedicalServices under theMinistry of Defencecarried out chlorinationand spraying ofinsecticide at 3rd-mile

DMS gives medical treatment in Labuttacamp, 5th-mile camp andYadanadipa SportsGround in LabuttaTownship on 16 June.

Similarly, the specialmedical team performedpreventive measures andhealth care services in

cooperation with theemployees of Ministry ofHealth and officials inMyaungmya, Bogale,Pyapon, Pathein,Hainggyikyun andNgapudaw townships.

MNA

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YANGON, 17 June—Shwe Toe Aung and MoeHsan Pan Vessels carrying5250 baskets of paddystrains arrived in Labutta

Paddy strains arrive in Labutta TspTownship to be able tocultivate monsoon paddyin the villages thismorning.

Myanma Agriculture

Service will distributepaddy strains to thefarmers as soon aspossible.

MNA

YANGON, 18 June—International reliefsupplies are continuouslyflowing to YangonInternational Airport forthe storm-hit regions.

Two IL-76 planesand two AN-12 planesfrom Thailand-basedWFP carrying one lifeboat, a package of liftjackets, one engine, 134coils of rope, 5092 plasticbuckets, 80 packing ofalum, 84 packages of

International relief supplies keep onflowing to Yangon International Airport

mosquito nets and 1111tinned fish weighing39.645 tons arrived atYangon InternationalAirport at 8.43 am, 9.56am, 2.22 pm and 3.25 pm;a C-130 plane from theUSA carrying one box ofrice, two boxes of tinnedfish, 240 boxes of drynoodle, three boxes ofcookie, eight packages ofblanket weighing 7.463tons at 8.58 am; a AN-12plane from Malteser of

Germany carrying 628packing of emergencyitems weighing 7.117 tonsand a C-130 plane fromThailand carrying 23packing of towel, 342packing of varieties offoodstuff, 347 packing ofmedicine, 342 packing ofbottled drinking water, 18packages of blanket and54 packing of nutritiouspowder weighing 11.395tons at 12.22 pm.

MNA

YANGON, 17 June —Some private vesselswhich were damaged inthe s torm s tar t re-running their daily tripsin MawlamyinegyunTownship. Private shipsin MawlamyinegyunTownship are e ightdouble-decker ships,two ships with Yangonlicence and five double-decker ships wi thAyeyawady licence.

In addition to theirnormal route, the shipsare also taking partin rebuilding work of

Private vessels re-run in Mawlamyinegyun Township

Pakistan-Myanmar FriendshipAssociation donates relief supplies

YANGON, 17 June—P a k i s t a n - M y a n m a rFriendship Associationheld a ceremony to donaterelief supplies to the storm-hit regions at the lounge ofYangon InternationalAirport this morning.

It was attended byDirector-General of FireServices Department ofthe Ministry of SocialWelfare, Relief andResettlement U MyintTun, Director U Zaw Winand departmentalofficials, chairperson ofP a k i s t a n - M y a n m a rFriendship AssociationDaw Kyi Kyi Win (a) MrsShirin Niazi, ActingAmbassador to MyanmarMr Habibur-Rehman,Military Attaché ColMuzammil Hussain Shahand officials.

First, Daw Kyi Kyi

Win explained thepurpose of the donationand handed over reliefsupplies to Director-General U Myint Tun.

Today’s donation ofP a k i s t a n - M y a n m a rFriendship Association

was rice, sugar, foodstuff,clothing, shoes andmedicines weighing 0.6 tons.

So far Pakistan-Myanmar FriendshipAssociation has donated3.52 tons of re l iefsupplies.—MNA

the vi l lages inM a w l a m y i n e g y u n

Towship.MNA

People’s Hospital in Pyapon seen after being repaired. — MNA

Chairperson of PMFA Daw Kyi Kyi Win (a)Mrs Shirin Niazi hands over relief aids to

U Myint Tun. — MNA

Photo shows tents set up at a relief camp in Pyinsalu. — MNA

Farmers plough fields in Ohnpinsu Village in Labutta Township. — MNA

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To present theobjective conditions ofproviding health careservices to storm victimsin Labutta Township ofAyeyawady Division tothe people of the wholenation, we made a trip tothe 5th-mile relief camp

Health care services speeded up in Labutta TownshipArticle: Myo Nyunt (Kyemon)Photos: Htay Aung (Kyemon)

Photo shows a dispensary of Ministry ofHealth.

Specialists of Ministry of Health giving health care services to apatient.

A medical team of Japan providing health careservices to a patient.

Water tanks seen at a relief camp to supply purifieddrinking water to the victims.

A health staff vaccinating a child for prevention against outbreak ofinfectious diseases.

and the 3rd-mile reliefcamp at the entrance toLabutta on 7 June.

The storm victimswere being accom-modated systematicallywith tarpaulin tents at therelief camps. Thedispensary of theMinistry of Health andmedical teams of theMyanmar MedicalAssociation (Central), theDirectorate of MedicalServices of the Ministryof Defence, Zay Gabar

Company and the medicalteam from Japan weregiving health care servicesto the victims.

Moreover, the watertank and water purifierwere installed to supplyclean drinking water to thevictims the whole day.

In an interview,Township MedicalOfficer U Hla Kyaing said,“After repairing the

damaged parts of LabuttaPeople’s Hospital withinthree days, the stormvictims are being providedwith health care services.In the emergency period,the hospital gave treatmentto 500-600 patients. Inaddition, special care wasgiven to expectantmothers. During theemergency period,surgical treatment wasperformed on 62 patients.”

Furthermore, Dire-ctor U Soe Lwin Nyein ofInfectious Disease Controlof the Ministry of Healthrevealed, “Emphasis isbeing placed on takingpreventive and controlmeasures against

diarrhoea, dysentery,measles and lockjaw, inaddition to chlorinatingwells and lakes and

fumigating.”He continued to

say, “One specialist teamfrom Yangon arrived hereto participate in health careservices. In the maternaland child welfare tasks,iron medicines were givento the mothers andchildren. Moreover, health

staff from the regions freefrom the natural disasterwere sent to providehealth care services to thestorm victims who wentback to their nativevillages. Furthermore, themobile medical team inthe floating hospitalWaythantayar also gavemedical treatment to thevictims. As a result, therewas no outbreak of

infectious diseases in thevillages around Labuttaand relief camps.”

We made aninterview with ProjectManager Dr U Than HteinWin and asked himvaccination tasks to guardagainst outbreak ofinfectious diseases. He

said, “A total of 2,180children from ninemonths to 10 years of agewere vaccinated againstmeasles at relief camps.”

In the interview,Assistant Engineer UAung Myint Soe(Environmental Sani-tation Department) saidthat the authorities carriedout building of fly-prooflatrines and supply of

clean water for thevictims. At present, theMinistry of Health incooperation with theUNICEF built 50 fly-proof latrines at the reliefcamp of YadanadipaSports Ground inLabutta, 110 latrines atthe 3rd-mile relief camp

and 110 latrines at the5th-mile camp. To supplypurified drinking water,the water purifiers wereinstalled at the reliefcamps. In addition,garbage pits were dug andfixed with covers forprevention againstoutbreak of diseases there.

Translation: TTAKyemon; 17-6-2008

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Members from the Korea Dairy and Beef Farmers Association stage a rallyagainst US beef imports in Seoul. The United States and South Korearesumed talks Tuesday on a US beef import agreement that has stoked

massive protests rocking the new Seoul government.—INTERNET

A Rainbow Lorikeet, aparrot native to South-

east Australia, perches ona tree in central Sydneyon 16 June, 2008. Thebrightly coloured bird,

which is a common sightin most parks and

gardens in Sydney, feedmainly on pollen andnectar using a hairy

appendage on the end ofits tongue.INTERNET

Police stop Saudi womanflouting driving ban

30 insurgentskilled in E

AfghanistanKABUL, 18 June—

Afghan forces backed byair power support offoreign troops have killed30 Taleban fighters inAfghanistan’s easternKhost Province, a localofficial said Tuesday.

Some 200 Talebanfighters raided policecheckpoints in TanaiDistrict Monday nightand police responded,killing 30 rebels in a three-hour clash, BadiulZaman, Tanai’s Districtchief, told Xinhua.

He said internationaltroops had provided airsupport to Afghan policein the battle.

This killing came asAfghan security forcesbacked by foreign troopshad killed over 60militants on 14-15 June.

MNA/Xinhua

Singapore seizes10.8 kilos of

heroinSINGAPORE, 18 June

—Singapore said Tues-day that narcotics officersseized about 10.8 kilos ofheroin No 4, the largestseizure of such drug inthe last 10 years, in anoperation on Monday.

Singapore’s CentralNarcotics Bureau (CNB)officers also arrested threesuspected drug traffickersin the operation, saidCNB on its website.

The drug courier is a24-year-old Malaysianman. He will be inves-tigated for the offense oftrafficking in a controlleddrug.

MNA/Xinhua

Iraqi TV presenter killed in northern Iraq MOSUL (Iraq), 18 June— Unknown gunmen on Tuesday shot dead a presenter

in a state-run Iraqi television in Mosul City, the capital of Nineveh Province, aprovincial police source said.

“Unknown gunmen shot dead Muhielddin Abdul-Hameed al-Naqeeb, apresenter working for the government-owned Nineveh television and radio, nearhis house in the al-Ziraee neighbourhood in northern Mosul,” the source toldXinhua on condition of anonymity.

Naqeeb, 50, was killed at about 8:00 am (0500 GMT) while he was headingfor his work in Mosul City, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, the source said.

The international watchdog Reporters Without Borders listed Iraq as the mostdangerous country in the world for journalists and media workers with at least 235killed in the country since the start of US-led war in March 2003. — MNA/Xinhua

Fall of Nepalmonarchy leaves

royal cows in limboKATHMANDU,18 June

— After the king, it is nowthe turn of his cows to faceremoval from Nepal’sroyal palace, two daysafter it was turned into amuseum, a governmentofficial said on Tuesday.

Gyanendra, the lastking of Nepal, left themain palace last weekafter a special assemblyvoted in May to abolishthe 239-year-old mo-narchy and turn theHimalayan nation into arepublic.

But Gyanendra’s 60cows still graze in thesprawling grounds of theNarayanhiti Palace in theheart of Kathmandu. Heused the cows for freshmilk but authorities saythe animals, consideredholy by Hindus, must alsoleave.

“We can’t keep themthere and no decision hasyet been taken about whatto do with them,” saidGovinda Prasad Kusum,a senior bureaucrat incharge of preparing aninventory of palacecontents. Nepal, a mostlyHindu nation, forbidsslaughtering cows.

MNA/Reuters

Ahmadinejad says market full ofoil, price trend “fake”

US troops kill foursuspects in northern Iraq

Nokia’s new E66mobile phone is seen in

an undated handoutimage released on 16

June, 2008.INTERNET

ISFAHAN (Iran), 18June — The oil market isplentifully supplied and therally to record high pricesis “fake and imposed”,Iran’s President said onTuesday, blaming a weakUS dollar which hesuggested was beingpushed lower on purpose.

“At a time when thegrowth of consumption islower than the growth ofproduction and the marketis full of oil, prices are risingand this trend is completelyfake and imposed,” he said.

“It is very clear that

visible and invisible handsare controlling prices in afake way with political andeconomic aims,” he saidwhen opening a meetingof the OPEC Fund forInternational Develop-ment in the central city ofIsfahan.

With high fuel pricessparking protestsworldwide, Ahmadinejadhit out at energy taxes inconsumer nations. He saidthere was an “unfair”difference in incomebetween energy exportingand importing countries.

Iran, the world’sfourth-largest oil exporter,has repeatedly said themarket is well-suppliedwith crude and blamesrising prices on speculation,a weak dollar and geo-political factors.

Oil steadied onTuesday after touching arecord near 140 US dollarsthe previous day, withtraders caught between aweaker dollar andexpectations that topexporter Saudi Arabia willramp up output to its highestrate in decades.

MNA/Reuters

RIYADH, 18 June—Saudi police have detaineda woman for violating rulesbanning women fromdriving in the conservativeMuslim country, a news-paper said on Sunday.

The woman fromBuraida north of Riyadhwas stopped by a police

patrol after driving 10kilometres (6 miles) tocollect her husband, al-Hayat newspaper said.

The woman’s “legalguardian” — her husband— was required to sign adeclaration that he wouldnot allow her to driveagain, it said. It was not

immediately clear if shewas released or would facelegal action. Saudi Arabiais the only country in theworld that forbids womenfrom driving on the basisof fatwas, or religiousopinions, from clerics whosay it is un-Islamic.

MNA/Reuters

MOSUL (Iraq), 18June — The US troops onTuesday raided a house inMosul city, the capital ofNineveh Province, killingfour suspected militantsfrom one family anddetaining four others, USmilitary and Iraqi policesaid.

The US troops raideda safehouse of a bombingnetwork member in Mosuland killed the four suspectsafter they refused toevacuate the building, aUS military statementsaid.

A provincial policesource said the incidenttook place at dawn whenthe US troops stormed ahouse in the Mahattahneighbourhood in south-western Mosul.

“It is unclear why theUS troops raided thehouse and killed fourmales, who were thefather of the family andthree of his sons, alongwith detaining four of thefamily members,” thesource told Xinhua oncondition of anonymity.

MNA/Xinhua

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Ministry of Finance and Revenue

Internal Revenue Department

Commercial Tax Directorate

Reminding to furnish the Annual Return1. Any Individuals, Partnerships, Joint Ventures,

Companies, other taxable business enterprises,Cooperative societies, State economic enterprises,State-owned mills, factories, trading and serviceenterprises, who have taxable sale proceed or receiptfrom services in the financial year 2007-2008 (1st

April 2007 to 31st March 2008) are reminded thatthey are according to the law, to fill up, sign andfurnish an annual return to the respective TownshipRevenue Office or Company Circle Tax Office, byhand or by registered post not later than 30th of June,2008.

2. If it is production business apart from salt production,those whose sale proceed in a financial year is kyat240001 and above, or the sale proceed of Tradingbusiness during the financial year that is kyat 300001and above, the receipt from Passenger transportationthat is kyat 180001and above, Entertainments, Hoteland lodgings, Restaurants, Travel and Tours(including tour guide only), Motor vehicle servicing,Insurance (excluding life insurance), Hair dressingand beauty saloon, Body fitness centres, Printing,Computer desktop and design services (excludingphoto copying) are responsible to file the Annualsale or service Return attached with annual accounts,to the respective offices. Those returns will beaccepted by opening the offices up to 18:00 hrs in theevening on the last date of 30th June 2008 (Monday).

3. If there is failure to file return without any sufficientcause, a sum not more than 10% of the tax due willbe fined by way of penalty according to theCommercial Tax Law, section 21.

4. The prescribed Annual Return forms will be providedat the respective Township Revenue Offices or theCompany Circle Tax Office, free of charge. If it isfiled by hand, the concerning office will issue theacknowledgement slip instantly.

5. Enquiries can be made for further details at theTownship Revenue Offices or the Company CircleTax Office concerned.

San LwinDirector

Commercial Tax Directorate

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV PHU MY VOY NO (801N)Consignees of cargo carried on MV PHU MY VOY

NO (801N) are hereby notified that the vessel will bearriving on 19.6.2008 and cargo will be discharged intothe premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie at the consign-ee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws andconditions 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

AGENT FOR: M/S EAGLE SHIPPING CO., LTDPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

“South Pacific” wins big atTony Awards

NEW YORK, 18 June —“Rodgers and Hammerstein’sSouth Pacific” dominated Broadway’s top honours,the Tony Awards, with seven prizes on Sunday,followed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “August:Osage County” with five wins.

“South Pacific,” nominated for 11 Tonys, picked upawards for best musical revival, best musical director(Bartlett Sher), best leading actor in a musical (PauloSzot), scenery, costume, lighting and sound.

Sher said audiences seemed to find contemporaryresonance in the show’s themes of racial tension at a timeof war —issues of heightened interest in the US presidentialelection campaign with black candidate Senator BarackObama winning the Democratic nomination.

“The reception was completely overwhelming,” Shertold reporters, adding the show happened “to hit thisweird crease in the culture around the election”.

“August: Osage County,” the Tracy Letts play thatwon the Pulitzer Prize for drama this year, won Tonysfor best play, best featured actress (Rondi Reed), bestleading actress (Deanna Dunagan), scenic design anddirection (Anna D Shapiro).—MNA/Reuters

Iran withdraws $75 bfrom Europe

TEHERAN, 18 June—Iran has withdrawn around 75billion US dollars from Europe to prevent the assetsfrom being blocked under threatened new sanctionsover Teheran’s disputed nuclear ambitions, an Iranianweekly said.

“Part of Iran’s assets in European banks have beenconverted to gold and shares and another part has beentransferred to Asian banks,” Mohsen Talaie, DeputyForeign Minister in charge of economic affairs, wasquoted as saying.

Iranian officials were not immediately available tocomment on the report in Shahrvand-e Emrouz, amoderate weekly, which did not specify the timeperiod for the withdrawals which it said were orderedby President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.— MNA/Reuters

Indonesia to set upanti-graft courtsin all provinces

JAKARTA, 18 June— TheIndonesian Government isdrafting a regulation tosupport the establishmentof the anti-corruptioncourt in all 33 provincesand the recruitment ofspecialized judges, localPress said Monday.

The initial plan was toset up anti-graft tribunalin all 470 regencies butthe government had toolittle time for the hugeprojects and decided toconcentrate on the pro-vincial level, reportedmajor national newspaperKompas.

It takes more than 2,000specialized judges to setup 470 anti-graft courts, avery daunting task giventhat the government hasonly six months tocomplete the regulation,said the Indonesian-language daily, citingVice-President JusufKalla.

“With six months ofthe remaining time, thegovernment is confidentthat the anti-graft courtwill be materialized,”Kalla said over theweekend.

“Not in all 470regencies, but in stagestarting from 33 pro-vinces,” he said.

The judges for theparticular court must haveskill and knowledge todeal with bank frauds andmoney laundering, hesaid.

Nuclear designs found withsmugglers spur US fears

WASHINGTON, 18 June—A nuclear watchdog’s reportthat sophisticated warhead designs were found on thecomputers of Swiss smugglers has spurred fears in theBush Administration and elsewhere that atomic secretsmay be quickly spreading.

The report on Monday raised particular speculationover the significance of a US intelligence finding lastyear that Iran had suspended a nuclear-weapons designprogramme in 2003 —which slowed a Bush Admin-istration drive to confront Iran.

If the Islamic Republic had access to detailed warheaddesigns on a nuclear black market, that could free itfrom having to develop its own blueprints for aweapons programme.

“That’s a question to be studied,” a senior US officialsaid. But he said he had little information beyond thepublic accounts of the report, issued by the Institute forScience and International Security.— MNA/Reuters

MNA/Xinhua

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Astronomers find batch of

“super-Earths”

UN finds 89 bodies in disputedSudan oil area

Guangdong faces dangerof serious flooding

WASHINGTON, 18 June— European researcherssaid on Monday theydiscovered a batch of three“super-Earths” orbiting anearby star, and two othersolar systems with smallplanets as well.

They said their findings,presented at a conferencein France, suggest thatEarth-like planets may bevery common.

“Does every single starharbour planets and, if yes,how many?” asked Michel

Mayor of Switzerland’sGeneva Observatory. “Wemay not yet know theanswer but we are makinghuge progress towards it,”Mayor said in a statement.

The trio of planets orbita star slightly less massivethan our Sun, 42 light-years away towards thesouthern Doradus andPictor constellations.

A light-year is thedistance light can travel inone year at a speed of186,000 miles (300,000

kilometres) a second, orabout 6 trillion miles (9.5trillion kilometres).

The planets are biggerthan Earth — one is 4.2times the mass, one is 6.7times and the third is 9.4times.

They orbit their star atextremely rapid speeds —one whizzing around in justfour days, compared withEarth’s 365 days, onetaking 10 days and theslowest taking 20 days.

MNA/Reuters

B’desh cuts half of child mortality inpast 18 years

KHARTOUM, 18 June —The United Nations has sofar found 89 bodies in thedisputed oil-rich AbyeiRegion of Sudan fromfighting that erupted lastmonth, a senior UN official

said on Monday. A joint north-south

force is due to be deployedthere this week after theclashes, which raised fearsof a return to all-out civilwar. Both north and southcovet the central region,home to one of Sudan’stwo main oil fields.

The UN official, whodeclined to be named, said89 bodies had been foundin Abyei. “Dead militaryare 68,” the official said.

A joint north-southforce had been due todeploy on Monday butthat has now been put back

to Tuesday because ofadministrative delays inflying them in on UNplanes, said the force’scommander, ValentinoTokmac. The force wasstill waiting for tents,vehicles and uniformsfrom the northern andsouthern armies, he said.

“The problem ofvehicles will not stop us,”he said. All 639 soldiersare due to be on the groundby 18 June and they willget 10 days of trainingbefore they fully takecontrol of Abyei.

MNA/Reuters

DHAKA, 18 June —Bangladesh has cut halfthe number of under-fivechild deaths in the past 18years, said UNICEF hereMonday.

In 1990, under-fivechild mortality was 150per thousand, and thefigure came down to 68per thousand in 2008, aUNICEF official said.

“Today Bangladesh ison track to reach MDG-4on child mortality re-duction,” UNICEF repre-sentative to BangladeshDavid Bassiouni said whenlaunching its report titled“The State of the World’sChildren-2008: ChildSurvival”. He said amongother developing countries,Bangladesh has maderemarkable progress as onlysix countries in Asia haveachieved such a rapidreduction.

Bassiouni said this waseven more understandingconsidering that South Asia,as a home to world’s one-fifth population, has thesecond highest number of

child deaths in the world.He said, simple and cheaporal saline therapy andbetter sanitation practices

have contributed to re-ducing the child deaths inthe country.

MNA/Xinhua

Over 2,000 trapped by flood inRussia’s Ural regions

MOSCOW, 18 June —More than 2,000 peoplewere stranded in villages ofRussia’s Ural regions dueto heavy rainfall and rising

flood waters, ITAR-TASS

reported on Monday. Water levels in the

rivers of Tura and Nitsa,crossing the Sverdlovsk

Region, had risen by eightto 12 centimetres for thepast few days and trafficwith the besieged villageswere disrupted, the localemergencies departmentsaid. Local authoritiesestablished communi-cation with those settle-ments by ferryboats, andall the flood-trapped peoplewere provided with foodand medicine, local officialssaid.

GUANGZHOU, 18 , June— South China’s Guang-dong Province was facingthe threat of seriousflooding as two swollenrivers converged in thePearl River Delta onMonday, resulting in aflood equivalent to a worstin 50 years.

The runoff in XijiangRiver was 46,800 cubicmetres per second and inBeijiang River 15,200cubic metres per secondbefore they met each otherin Foshan City, accordingto the Guangdong pro-vincial headquarters offlood control and drought

relief, which said this wasfar higher than normal.

The danger of seriousflooding is made worseby the pull from the moon,which is rising to its mostpowerful point in themonth on Wednesday,posing a threat for riverembankments across thedelta, experts said.

More rains wereforecast in the upstreamareas of Xijiang andBeijiang Rivers in nexttwo days.

The Guangdong pro-vincial flood controlheadquarters on Mondayordered local govern-ments to reinforce riverembankments in ninecities, including Guang-zhou and to prepare toevacuate people in danger.

MNA/Xinhua

Workers spray disinfectant on vehicles leaving an earthquake hit town inSichuan Province, on 22 May. Infectious diseases are emerging as a majorthreat in China’s quake zone, with injured and traumatised victims most atrisk, the health minister was quoted as saying on 18 June, 2008.—INTERNET

Two Brown Sea Nettle jellyfish are displayed in a

tank of the Melbourne Aqarium, Australia

recently. —INTERNET

A doctor touches a premature baby receivingphototherapy at a maternity hospital in a file

photo.—INTERNET

MNA/Xinhua

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S P O R T S

(18 June 2008)Spain 2 -1 Greece

Russia 2 -0 Sweden

Forlan scores hat-trick inUruguay rout of Peru

MONTEVIDEO, 18 June — Diego Forlan scored a hat-trick to help Uruguay rout a shambolic Peru 6-0 in theirWorld Cup qualifier on Tuesday.

Forlan's striking partner Carlos Bueno scored twogoals and substitute Sebastian Abreu added another inthe final minute. Peru striker Paolo Guerrero was sentoff after 39 minutes for furiously protesting the penaltywhich led to the second goal.

Uruguay, who had drawn their last two home gamesin the South American group, moved on to eight pointsfrom six games while Peru, beaten 5-1 in Ecuador inNovember, remained on three after another heavydefeat. Peru also lost 4-0 to Mexico in a friendly 10 daysago and the latest setback is widely expected to costcoach Jose del Solar his job.

Virtually out of contention for a World Cup place,they face the prospect of another 12 games in the groupincluding visits to Brazil and Argentina.—MNA/Reuters

Italy victorious after Group C showdown

Mutu’s miss will giveRomania nightmares

BERNE, 18 June — Adrian Mutu's penalty missagainst Italy will haunt Romania for a long time, saiddefender Cosmin Contra after his team's eliminationfrom Euro 2008 on Tuesday.

"This penalty is the reason we are going home. Wehad an opportunity to beat the World Cup winners inthe 81st minute and didn't take it," Contra told Reutersafter Romania lost 2-0 to Netherlands in their finalGroup C game.

"We will think about this penalty a lot. We willthink about it when we go home, we will think about itin our sleep," he added, referring to their 1-1 draw withworld champions Italy last Friday. — MNA/Reuters

Makelele quitsinternational stage

ZURICH, 18 June — MidfielderClaude Makelele announced his in-ternational retirement after Francewere eliminated from Euro 2008following their 2-0 defeat by Italy onTuesday.

"This tournament was my last forFrance," the 35-year-old Chelseaplayer told reporters after winninghis 71st cap in the Group C game.

Widely regarded as one of theworld's best holding midfielders,Makelele never won a major trophyfor France. His best achievementwas being part of the team defeatedby Italy at the 2006 World Cup finalin Germany.

MNA/Reuters

Croatia wary ofcomeback kings Turkey

BAD TATZMANNSDORF ( Austria),18 June — Coach Slaven Bilic warnedCroatia on Tuesday to be wary ofanother stunning late comeback byTurkey in their Euro 2008 quarterfi-nal.

Turkey booked their place in Fri-day's match in Vienna after comingfrom behind to beat Switzerland 2-1with a stoppage-time winner and de-feating Czech Republic 3-2 after trail-ing 2-1 with 87 minutes on the clockin their final Group A game.

"Their comebacks in those twogames were quite remarkable andshowed they are a force to be reck-oned with," Bilic told a news confer-ence.

"Turkey are quick and aggressiveand have several very skilful players,so I am really not surprised that theyprogressed to the quarter-finals.

"We will take nothing for grantedalthough we would certainly like toscore first because they are by nomeans invincible. Like all teams inthe tournament, they have weaknessestoo." — MNA/Reuters

Gambia says Algeria playersmade “terrorist” threats

BANJUL, 18 June — Gambia has accused Algeriansoccer players calling themselves "terrorists" of threat-ening Gambian players at a World Cup match that theywould blow up their hotel with a bomb on the return legin Algiers.

Algeria's Football Federation dismissed theaccusations as "baseless".

Gambia beat the North African side 1-0 onSaturday in the group qualifiers for the 2010 WorldCup finals to be played in South Africa. The matchesalso serve as qualifiers for the African Nations Cupfinals.

"We regret to inform you that during The Gambia/Algeria match played on June 14, 2008 at the Inde-pendence Stadium, several threats were made to ourplayers by certain Algerian players who claimed to be`terrorists'," Gambia Football Association (GFA)secretary general Jammeh EK Bojang said in a letter tosoccer's world body FIFA.

Australian officials defenddecision to skip ceremony

SYDNEY, 18 June — Australian Olympic officialshave defended their decision to ban dozens of athletesfrom marching at the opening ceremony in Beijingbecause of concerns about pollution in the Chinesecapital.

Although it is not unusual for Australian athletescompeting in the first few days to skip the ceremony tosave their energy, Athletics Australia has ordered theentire team to stay away from Beijing for as long aspossible because of concerns about air quality.

MNA/Reuters

BASEL, 18 June — Italy cameout on top in a tense three-waytussle for a place in Sunday's Euro2008 quarter-final against Spain asthe world champions beat 10-manFrance 2-0 and Romania lost by thesame margin to Group C winnersNetherlands.

Andrea Pirlo put Italy in frontfrom the penalty spot in the 25thminute of Tuesday's eagerly-an-ticipated repeat of the 2006 WorldCup final after Eric Abidal clat-tered into Luca Toni and was dis-missed by Slovakian referee LubosMichel.

Abidal's sending off was a sec-ond hammer blow for the Frenchafter inspirational playmakerFranck Ribery was carried off on astretcher at Zurich's Letzigrund sta-dium with a knee injury.

After France's elimination fromthe tournament was sealed, de-fender Lilian Thuram, 36, andmidfielder Claude Makelele, 35,announced their international re-tirements.

With Netherlands already lead-

ing 1-0 in Berne, Daniele De Rossimade sure of Italy's victory on 62minutes when his free kick wasdeflected into the net off the foot ofThierry Henry, standing in as cap-tain for the injured Patrick Vieira.

MNA/Reuters

Olympic torch relayin Tibet rescheduled

for 21June BEIJING, 18 June — The

Olympic torch relay inTibet has been resched-uled for 21 June, an-nounced the Beijing Or-ganizing Committee forthe Olympic Games(BOCOG) here onTuesday.

According to the pre-vious plan, the torch wouldarrive in Tibet on Thurs-day and leave on Satur-day. However, theBOCOG made changesafter the 12 May earth-quake that jolted the south-west part of the country.

MNA/Xinhua

Austrian heads held high despite failure to win VIENNA, 18 June —

Euro 2008 co-hosts Aus-tria exited the tournamenthaving failed to win amatch or score a goal fromopen play although theirplucky spirit pleased thehome fans whose expec-tations had always beenrealistic.

Germany captainMichael Ballack struck athunderbolt from a freekick to send his teamthrough to the last eight inVienna on Monday dur-ing an emotive game inwhich Austria createdsome tense moments fortheir rivals but were ulti-mately outplayed.

"We were beaten by asensational free kick fromMichael Ballack. You'vegot to hand it to him. It wasa sensational shot," saidAustria coach JosefHickersberger.

"But the Austrianteam has shown it is muchbetter than its reputationand can hold its own at ahigh level, even if weweren't good enough towin." — MNA/Reuters

MNA/Reuters

Russia’s Roman Pavlyuchenko (L) shoots to

score past Sweden’s Fredrik Stoor (2ndL) during

their Group D Euro 2008 soccer match at Tivoli

Neu stadium in Innsbruck,on 18 June, 2008.

INTERNET

Greece’s Sotiris Kyrgiakos (C ) fights for the ballagainst Spain’s Daniel Guiza (L) and Ruben De

La Red (R) during their Group D Euro 2008soccer match at the Wals-Siezenheim Stadium in

Salzburg, on 18 June, 2008.—INTERNET

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowers have beenisolated in Kayin and Kayah States, lower Sagaing andAyeyawady Divisions, scattered in Taninthayi Division,fairly widespread in Shan State, upper Sagaing and Man-dalay Divisions and widespread in the remaining States andDivisions with isolated heavyfalls in Rakhine State andMandalay Division. The noteworthy amounts of rainfallrecorded were Nay Pyi Taw (1.77) inches, Sittway (3.54)inches, Machanbaw (2.84) inches, Kyaukpyu (2.52) inches,Putao (2.40) inches, Pinlaung (1.97) inches and Homalin(1.81) inches.

Maximum temperature on 17-6-2008 was 88ºF. Mini-mum temperature on 18-6-2008 was 72ºF. Relative hu-midity at (09:30) hours MST on 18-6-2008 was 85%.Total sunshine hours on 17-6-2008 was (0.2) hour approx.

Rainfall on 18-6-2008 was (0.12) inch at Mingaladon,( 0.23) inch at Kaba-Aye and ( 0.16) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was (36.02) inches atMingaladon, (43.38) inches at Kaba-Aye and (56.14)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (14) mph from Southwest at (12:15)hours MST on 17-6-2008.

Bay inference: Monsoon is moderate in the AndamanSea and generally strong in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening 19-6-2008: Rain willbe widespread in Kachin and Rakhine States, fairly wide-spread in Chin, Shan and Mon States, Mandalay, Magway,Bago, Yangon, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Divisions andisolated to scattered in the remaining areas. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Occasional squalls with rough seaswill be experienced off and along Rakhine Coasts. Sur-face wind speed in squalls may reach (40) to (45) mph.Seas will be moderate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Decrease of rainin the Southern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighboutnring areafor 19-6-2008: One or two rain. Degree of certainty is(80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for 19-6-2008: One or two rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast forMandalay and neighbouring area for19 - 6 -2008: One or two rain π. Degree of certainty is(80%).

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Make donations to the storm victims

� Everybody may make donations freely.

� Everybody may make donations to any person or any area.

However, wellwishers are urged to avoid unsystematic donations and acts that

may tarnish the image of the nation and its people.

� Certain internal and external anti-government elements, self-centred persons

and unscrupulous elements are now seeking their self-interests by sending to the

foreign news agencies stories about relief and rehabilitation work they have

made up and shot on video.

� Storm victims are hereby warned to remain vigilant with nationalistic spirit

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VOA deceivingRFA setting up hostilities�Beware! Don’t be bought by those ill-wishers

Anyone may dial the following phone numbers of the Ministry ofSocial Welfare, Relief and Resettlement if he witnesses or knows thatthe cash assistance and relief supplies donated from abroad and athome to the storm victims are kept for self-interest, traded, used forparticular persons and organizations, or misappropriated for otherpurposes.

Head of Office Ph: 067 404021 and 067 404022Deputy Head of Office Ph: 09 860 1002

Witness may inform about misappropriation ofinternal and international relief funds and supplies

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