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

Established 1914

Volume XV, Number 342 2nd Waning of Tabaung 1369 ME Sunday, 23 March, 2008

Maintain fine traditionof the Tatmadaw

Our Tatmadaw has proved capableof adequately dealing with any crisis dueto its good discipline, loyalty, unity,capability, willingness to make sacrifices,willingness to give priority to nationalinterests over individual interests, highmorale, courage in the face of difficulties,endurance and perseverance. As thesepoints constituted the noble traditions ofthe Tatmadaw, it is incumbent on all ofus to maintain these characteristicsforever.

Senior General Than ShweChairman of the State Peace and Development Council

Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services(From address delivered at the 58th Anniversary Armed

Forces Day Parade)

NAY PYI TAW, 23 March — On the occasion of the anniversary of the Pakistan Day,which falls on 23 March, 2008, Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent message of felicitations to HisExcellency Mr Pervez Musharraf, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. — MNA

Senior General Than Shwe sendsmessage of felicitations to President

of Islamic Republic of Pakistan

NAY PYI TAW, 23 March — On the occasion of the anniversary of the Pakistan Day, whichfalls on 23 March, 2008, General Thein Sein, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar, has sentmessage of felicitations to His Excellency Mr Mohammedmian Soomro, Prime Minister of theIslamic Republic of Pakistan. — MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein felicitates Pakistani counterpart

NAY PYI TAW, 22March — A ceremony toinaugurate KyauktanBridge built by BridgeConstruction Project Spe-cial Group-10 of PublicWorks was held at thepandal near the bridge onAn-Sittway section ofYangon-Sittway Highwayyesterday.

Speaking on theoccasion, Vice-Chairmanof Rakhine State Peace andDevelopment CouncilBrig-Gen Than Tun Aungsaid that Kyauktan Bridgeis 452 feet and five incheslong and 32 feet wide. Ithas 24 feet wide motorwayflanked by four-foot-widepedestrian ways. The

Kyauktan Bridge inaugurated on An-Sittwaysection of Yangon-Sittway Highway

Minister for Construction Maj-Gen Saw Tun, Vice-Chairman ofRakhine State Peace and Development Council Brig-Gen Than Tun

Aung and Brig-Gen Ye Aung of local station formally open KyauktanBridge. — MNA

bridge can withstand 60-ton loads. After realizingthe goodwill of the Headof State, the government,the Tatmadaw and thepeople are joinning handsin carrying out all-rounddevelopment tasks ofRakhine State. The gov-ernment has spent a largeamount of money on con-struction of roads,

bridges, hospitals andschools in Rakhine State.Therefore, departmentalpersonnel and local na-tional people are to safe-guard the bridge for itsdurability.

Speaking next,Minister for ConstructionMaj-Gen Saw Tun said theState set the target to build

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SPECIAL FEATURES TO HAIL THE 63rd ANNIVERSARY ARMED FORCES DAYProgress of Agriculture Sector in the

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POEM CARTOON

Soon, a referendum will be held to approve the draftof the State constitution. It is virtually impossible thatthe draft constitution wins the satisfaction of all thenational people. U Ba Hman hopes that it will win thesatisfaction of the majority of the people.

To shoulder the duties* A breeze in early summer A cooing sound of the cuckoo With flags and banners fluttering Launched on 27 March The Fascists Resistance

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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 DesireSunday, 23 March, 2008

Tatmadaw safeguarding theinterest of the State and people

The Tatmadaw has been upholdingnational politics and it has also beenperforming the three major duties— duty todefend the nation, duty to undergo trainingand the duty to serve the interest of thepeople.

It was documented that the Tatmadawborn during the independence struggle, handin hand with the people made efforts forregaining independence. The Tatmadawmembers were determined to sacrifice theirlives for the sake of the country and its people.The patriotic Tatmadaw is so named becauseit has been safeguarding the national interestat the risk of their lives.

Nowadays the Tatmadaw hand in handwith the people is participating in the tasksfor building a peaceful, modern, developedand discipline-flourishing democratic nation.At the same time, it is building strong capablemodern patriotic Armed Forces in accordwith the dignity of the State.

Every Tatmadaw member is trying togain qualifications such as strong morale,perseverance, making sacrifices, having espritde corps, unity, strong and brilliant combatskill and three capabilities, following the fouroaths.

The Tatmadaw that has safeguarded theState during the successive periods is alsoserving the national interest and safeguardinglives and property of the people.

The Tatmadaw will have to continue tosafeguard the land territory, air space andterritorial waters of the State and ensureperpetuation of sovereignty forever.

Shwephonepwint Pagodaholds Buddha Pujaniya

YANGON, 22 March — The 51st Buddha Pujaniyaof Shwephonepwint Pagoda was held in conjunctionwith alms offering ceremony at the Dhammayon of thepagoda in Pazundaung Township yesterday evening.

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PagodaU Tint Lwin explained matters on organizing theceremony.

Next, the congregation received the Five Preceptsfrom Sayadaw Agga Maha Pandita Agga MahaGanthavacaka Pandita Bhaddanta Kesara of Mya TheinDan Monastery.

Those present offered provisions to 108 membersof the Sangha including State Ovadacariya Sayadawsand 29 nuns.

MNA

Foreign Minister felicitatesPakistani counterpart

NAY PYI TAW, 23 March — On the occasionof the anniversary of the Pakistan Day, which fallson 23 March, 2008, U Nyan Win, Minister forForeign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar, has sentmessage of felicitations to His Excellency Mr Inam-Ul- Haque, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the IslamicRepublic of Pakistan. — MNA

YANGON, 22 March— Wellwishers ThiriT h u d h a m m a

Kyungon vil lage inWakema Township,yesterday.

At the ceremony, theChairman of MyaungmyaDistrict Peace andDevelopment Council andmembers, the chairman ofKyungon village PDC andmembers and thecongregation received thesermon delivered bySayadaw BahddantaTejasara of KyungonMonastery and offeredprovisions to the membersof the Sangha. They sharedthe merits gained.

Next, the wellwisherfamily offered day mealto the Sayadaw andmembers of the Sanghaand sponsored apilgrimage for lay personsto Zalun Pyidawpyan ManAung Myin BuddhaImage.

MNA

Ordination, novitiation ceremonyheld in Wakema Township

Horizon League BasketballTournament continues

YANGON, 22 March — The Horizon LeagueBasketball Tournament 2007-08 jointly organized byMyanmar Basketball Federation and HorizonInternational Education Center continued at KyaikkasanGymnasium here on 16 March.

In the men’s event, KKS won over Furious on101-45 points and Blueboys edged out The Gyuts 80-74 points. In the women’s event, Ballababies passedthrough Precious on 41-28 points.

After the matches, KKS was at the top positionon the chart by seven wins in seven matches, Red Starstood up in second and Cow Boy third.

NLM

An

official

offers

alms to a

Sayadaw.

MNA

Manijotadhara U MyintSoe and wife Daw MyaMya Soe and family helda ceremony to ordain 6men and to novitiate 130boys at MahasiShwegyin monastery of

Women

players of

Balla-

babies

and

Precious

competing

in

Horizon

League

Basketball

Tourna-

ment.

NLM

USDA Joint Secretary-General on tour ofMagway Division

NAY PYI TAW, 22 March — Union Solidarity andDevelopment Association Joint Secretary-General UZaw Min and Chairman of Magway Division Peaceand Development Council Col Phone Maw Shweattended the physic nut plant growing ceremony at No2 nursery farm on bypass near Dahatkan village inMagway Township, on 17 March.

A total of 10,000 physic nut seeds has been sownand 500 physic nut grafts planted. Magway Townshiphas put 5,280 acres of Land under phyic nut agaist thetarget of 7,115 acres.

Joint Secretary-General U Zaw Min and Col PhoneMaw Shwe met departmental officials, Division/District/ Township level USDA executives, organizersand members, members of social organizations,townselders and local people at Magway, Minbu,Pwintbyu and Salin Township PDC offices. JointSecretary-General U Zaw Min and Col Phone MawShwe gave instructions on regional developmenttasks.—MNA

Kite-flying festival1 to 3 April

YANGON, 22 March — The fourth kite-flyingfestival 2008 organized by Myanmar Traditional SportsFederation will be held from 1 to 3 April at the YouthTraining Centre (Thuwana) here.

Interested persons may obtain application formsat MTSF office at Aung San Stadium from 25 to 29March. Enquires can also be made at the MTSF office.

MNA

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A car bomb explodedclose to a police station inthe northern Spanishtown of Calahorra onFriday after a warningfrom the Basqueseparatist group ETA, butonly one person was hurt,the town’s mayor said.

INTERNET

Jalal Khalid, who was just

released from detention,

holds his five-year old

daughter Suha at a US

base inside Baghdad’s

Sunni neighborhood of

Azamiyah, on 21 March,

2008.—INTERENT

A handcuffed protestor in a Tony Blair mask demonstrates outside DowningStreet in London, on 20 March, 2008 . Demonstrators gathered in Whitehall onthe fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by Britain and the US.—INTERNET

Car bomb explodes inN Spain after ETA warning

Annan says military action inIran would be disaster

Curfew imposed in S Pakistanfollowing violence

Israeli soldiers killPalestinian farmer in S Gaza

Rainfalls, floods cause 42 deathsin Ecuador

Russia’s Lavrov in Mideastpreparing for peace talks

DAMASCUS, 22 March— Russia is preparing tohost a Middle East peaceconference this year thatwill try to relaunch talksbetween Israel and Syriaabout the occupied GolanHeights, Russian officialssaid in Syria on Thursday.

“We have not issuedinvitations but we’re

working out how toincorporate differentsuggestions,” RussianForeign Minister SergeiLavrov said after meet-ing President Basharal-Assad.

He told reporters theconference would be afollow-up to a US-hostedmeeting in Annapolis in

November that resumedpeace talks betweenIsrael and the PalestinianAdministration, ledby President MahmoudAbbas. Lavrov hadannounced plans to hostthe next Middle Eastpeace conference afterthe Annapolis talks. Hesaid on Thursday thateveryone in Annapolis hadagreed to the Moscow con-ference.—MNA/Reuters

GAZA, 22 March — APalestinian farmer was shotdead on Thursday morningby Israeli troops” gunfireeast of the city of KhanYounis in southern GazaStrip, medics and witnessessaid. Mo’aweyaHassanein, chief ofemergency and ambulanceservices in the PalestinianMinistry of Health, told

reporters that Israelisoldiers shot dead 65-year-old Hassan Abu A’bed insouthern Gaza Strip.

Witnesses said Israelisoldiers stationed near theborders between southernGaza Strip and Israel open-ed fire at the farmer whenhe approached his farmwhich is close to the borderarea.— MNA/Xinhua

MADRID, 22 March —A car bomb exploded closeto a police station in thenorthern Spanish town ofCalahorra on Friday aftera warning from the Basqueseparatist group ETA, butonly one person was hurt,the town’s mayor said.

ETA has launchedsporadic attacks in Spainsince it ended a ceasefire itannounced in March 2006by bombing MadridAirport in December 2006,killing two people.

Javier Pagola, mayor

of Calahorra in the Riojaregion, said a policemanhad been slightly hurt byflying glass. “One GuardiaCivil has been hurt by glasswhich entered his home,”Pagola told state television.“There is a lot of damage.”

The police station andsurrounding area—crowded with peopleattending the Holy Weekreligious procession —had been cleared andcordoned off before theexplosion.

MNA/Reuters

ISLAMABAD, 22 March— The local administrationof southern Pakistan’sSindh Province imposed acurfew after violenceerupted on Friday, local TVchannel Geo reported. Theviolence erupted and

situation spiraled out ofcontrol after theunidentified armed menresorted to heavy firing inKhairpur city in SindhProvince, said the report.

Several people werefeared injured in firing. A

police vehicle and a fire-brigade vehicle were alsoburnt during the violencein Khairpur. Securityforces have started topatrolling in the city afterthe violence took place.

MNA/Xinhua

QUITO, 22 March —The two-month long heavyrainfalls and consequentfloods in Ecuador havekilled 42 people while eightothers were missing, saidthe Civil Defence onThursday.

Some 12,372 families

abandoned their housesdue to the floods and3,168 were lodged intemporary sheltersthroughout 13 provinces,said the Civil Defence,noting the floods havecaused losses of over 82million US dollars in the

agricultural sector. Ecuadorean Interior

Minister Gustavo Larreasaid the heavy rainfallshave affected some 3.5million Ecuadoreans,almost one third of thecountry's total population.

MNA/Xinhua

NEW YORK, 22 March —Military action against Iranover its nuclear ambitionswould be “a disaster” andthe only way to solve theimpasse is through dialogue,

former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan said onThursday.

Over the past year, USPresident George W. Bushand Vice-President Dick

Cheney have ratcheted upthe rhetoric against Iran,which is defying inter-national demands to halturanium enrichment. Theysay Washington wants adiplomatic solution to theIran standoff but refuse torule out military options.

Uranium enrichment canbe used for generatingelectricity or bomb-making.Teheran says its nuclearpurposes are peaceful butWashington and othercountries fear this is not thecase. “We cannot, I’m sure,take on another militaryaction in Iran, and I hopeno one is contemplatingit,” Annan said at a briefingwith UN correspondentsin New York.

MNA/Reuters

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A Cambodia woman and her child look at anilluminated fountain at the Independent Monument in Phnom Penh on 21 March, 2008.—INTERNET

Students apply colouredpowder on each otherduring the celebration of“Basant Utsav”or Springfestival at Shantiniketan,200 km (124 miles) northof Kolkata on 21 March , 2008.—INTERNET

Egyptian media slam US policy in Iraq

Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq ParvezKayani (C) poses for a photograph with officials andtechnicians during the test flight of an UnmannedAerial Vehicle (UAV) at an undisclosed location on 20March , 2008. Pakistan successfully conducted a finaltest flight of its indigenously developed UAV. —INTERNET

CAIRO, 21 March —Major Egyptian news-papers on Wednesdaystrongly criticized the USpolicy in Iraq on the eve ofthe fifth anniversary of theUS-led invasion on theMideast and Arab country.

“Iraq is experiencingthe worst stage of its

modern history and isliving under a brutalmilitary occupation,” AlAhram said in its editorialon Wednesday.

Five years ago, theUnited States launched theIraqi war under the pretextof its disarmament andbringing freedom and

democracy to Iraqi people,the influential Egyptiannewspaper said.

However, Iraqis noware not free as the UnitedStates claimed, they do notenjoy democracy and theirdaily life is full of bombing,torture and assassinations,Al Ahram said.

Citing a report issuedby Amnesty International,the newspaper said everythree of four Iraqis aredeprived of drinkingwater, one third of theIraqis depends on urgentaid to live and half of thepopulation is unemployed.

Voicing its regret to thecurrent situation in Iraq,Al Ahram said this tragicreality would not changeexcept the United Statespulls its troops out of Iraq.

On Monday, US VicePresident Dick Cheneysaid during his visit toIraq that the United Stateshas made a “successfulendeaver” in Iraq on theeve of the fifth anniversaryof the US-led invasion thatfalls on 20 March.

MNA/Xinhua

Pakistansuccessfully

test flies UAVISLAMABAD, 21 March

— Pakistan on Thursdaysuccessfully conducted afinal test flight of itsindigenously developedUnmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) “Uqaab”.

A statement issued bythe army said that the flightdata collected indicated thatall design parameters hadbeen successful-ly validated. The perfor-mance of the UAV “Uqaab”can be compared to any ofmodern stateof the art UAV in itscategory, said thestatement.—MNA/Xinhua

Syria, Russia call for just solutionto M-E conflicts

US soldier dies in vehicle accident in Iraq

DAMASCUS, 21 March— Syrian ForeignMinister Walid al-Muallem and his visitingRussian counterpartSergei Lavrov called onWednesday for a just and

comprehensive solution tothe Arab-Israeli conflicts.

The two ministersstressed the necessity tofind such a solution to allpeace tracks, including theSyrian-Israeli one, the

SANA news agencyreported.

They agreed that thePalestinian issue is thefocal point in the region,pledging efforts toachieve unity among thePalestinians.

Both sides alsopointed out thatthe forthcoming ArabSummit in Damascus on29-30 March provides anopportunity in this regard.

On the situation inLebanon, the two sidesexpressed support to theArab League initiativeand the efforts by ArabLeague Secretary Gen-eral Amr Moussa, andtheir willingness to see itimplemented on theground. —MNA/Xinhua

BAGHDAD, 21 March— An American soldierdied in a vehicleaccident in the volatileDiyala Province,northeast of Baghdad,

the US military said onThursday.

The accident occurredon Wednesday when thesoldier’s vehicle rolledover in an area in the

province, a brief militarystatement said withoutspecifying the exactlocation.

The statement addedthat the accident is underinvestigation.

Since the US-led warin Iraq broke out in March2003, more than 3,990US soldiers have died inIraq, according to mediacount based on Pentagonfigures.

MNA/Xinhua

Thai suspect inSwedish tourist

murder surrendersBANGKOK, 21 March —

A Thai man suspected ofkilling a Swedish touriston the southern resortisland of Phuket hassurrendered to police aftera three-day manhunt,police said on Wednesday.

Hanna CharlottaBacklund, 27, was foundstabbed to death onSaturday near her

bungalow on Mai Khaobeach in northern Phuketwhere she had gone for awalk.

“Initially I just wantedto rape her,” a handcuffedAkaradech Tangae saidwith a smile as he wasbrought to Phuket policeheadquarters on Wednes-day. “But she resisted andI had to kill her,” said the31-year-old labourer whosurrendered to police onTuesday.—MNA/Reuters

Bulgaria police nab 350,000euros in fake notes

SOFIA, 22 March — Police arrested two Bulgariansand seized 350,000 euros (541,100 US dollars) incounterfeit notes aimed for distribution in the EuropeanUnion, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.

In a joint operation with EU police agency Europoland German, Austrian and Bosnian police, the officersraided several sites in the Bulgarian capital Sofia,uncovering also a printing Press for counterfeitpassports and illegal weapons. The Interior Ministrysaid in a statement the fake euros were of high quality,copying perfectly seven of eleven recognition signs.

"We carried the raids late on Thursday to preventthe tangible risk of distributing the forged money inthe European Union," Interior Ministry officialPantaley Panov said. — MNA/Reuters

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China’s CNPC suffers $5.4b ofrefining loss in ’07

Land Rover recalls defectivevehicles in China

Economist: unjust trade mustbe countered

Toshiba to drop profit by quitting HD DVDs

The yellow interior of the Nissan Denki Cube electric concept car is seen atthe 2008 New York International auto show on 19 March, 2008.—INTERNET

BEIJING, 22 March —The current global traderegime is unfair todeveloping countries andruns counter to theirdevelopment, an econo-mist said on Friday.

And China has fallenvictim to US doublestandards, as the UnitedStates repeatedly imposes

dumping charges onChinese products,professor of economics atColumbia UniversityJoseph Stiglitz said.

The world is watchingthe ongoing Doha Round— the WTO initiativestarted in 2001 to developa global trade agreementeasing trade in agriculture,

manufacturing and ser-vices — but developedand developing countriesare profoundly divided onsome key issues.Agricultural subsidies, inparticular, have cast ashadow over the talk'sprospects.

The process has beenstalled by an unfair globaltrade system thatjeopardizes the interestsof developing countries,which have stood up tosafeguard what theydeserve, Stiglitz said atthe ceremony celebratingthe anniversary of theHanqing AdvancedInstitute of Economicsand Finance at RenminUniversity of China.

Through WTOnegotiations in recentyears, he said, developedcountries have continuedselling “the old wine inthe new bottle” todeveloping nations.

The US andEuropean Union havereneged on their promisesto import products fromdeveloping countries,such as agriculturalproducts.

XinhuaA staff member shows

a new clock duringthe 6th China

International Gifts,Premium and

Houseware Exhibitionin Beijing, capital ofChina, on 20 March,2008. More than 400

producers andcompanies attended

the exhibition, openedon 20 March.

XINHUA

BEIJING, 22 March —Land Rover is recalling4,304 vehicles exportedto China for sunroof flaws,a quality official said hereon Friday.

According to theGeneral Administration ofQuality Supervision,Inspection and Quarantine(AQSIQ), the recallcovered 4,304 Freelandertwo cross-countryvehicles, manufacturedbetween November 2006and January 2008.

Land Rover started to

recall the defectivevehicles on Friday,AQSIQ said.

If not repaired, thevehicle's sunroof may getjammed, distorted or evenfall off when attempting

to open on someoccasions.

Owners of the recalledvehicles will receive freerepairs or replacement ofsunroofs to solve theproblem. –MNA/Xinhua

An artist from the contemporary “LiquidTheatre” performs at a former printing plant in

Moscow, late 20 March, 2008.—XINHUA

BEIJING, 22 March —China National PetroleumCorporation (CNPC), thecountry’s leading oilproducer, lost 36.2 billionyuan (5.4 billion US dollars)in its oil refining andprocessing businesses lastyear, according to acompany report released onThursday. The companyattributed the loss to thehuge gaps in soaring worldoil prices, the low state-setdomestic price and its

“overloaded operation” toensure domestic supply.

Despite the surging pricesin the international market,China last year ordered thecountry’s oil producers andrefiners to collect theirstrengths in combating theshortages caused by extremeweather conditions.

In 2007, the CNPCdevoted about 100 billionyuan to oil prospecting andanother 32.2 billion yuan inoil refining projects in a bid

to ensure domestic supply. Also last year, CNPC

processed 120 million tonsof crude oil, representingan increase of 5.86 milliontons over the previous year.

It produced 107.65million tons of crude oiland 54.2 billion cubicmetres of natural gas athome, representing anincrease of 1.01 milliontons and 10 cubic metres,respectively.

MNA/Xinhua

BEIJING, 22 March --Toshiba Corp, Japan'slargest chipmaker, fell inTokyo trading yesterdayafter the company cut itsfull-year profit forecast 31percent on falling chipprices and costs to quit the

HD DVD business. Toshiba lost 1.9

percent to close at 677 yen(6.83 U.S. dollars) on theTokyo Stock Exchange,compared with a 1.8percent gain by the Nikkei225 Stock Average,

Bloomberg News report-ed.

Net income wouldprobably decline ninepercent to 125 billion yenin the 12 months endingon 31 March, less thanthe 180 billion yenOctober forecast, Toshibasaid.

Xinhua

OECD revises US growthforecast downwards

PARIS, 22 March — The Organization for EconomicCooperation and Development (OECD) Thursday reviseddownwards its 2008 growth forecast for the United States,whose economy is believed to be contracting, at the sametime projecting an optimistic outlook for Europe.

Henceforth, the OECD is projecting that the USeconomy will record a growth rate of 0.1 per cent and 0 percent in the first and second quarters of this year respectively,compared to the 0.3 per cent and 0.4 per cent that had beenpublished previously. The annual growth forecast, whichis currently estimated at 2 percent, is set to be revisedduring the semi-annual forecast that is expected to beissued in May, according to reliable sources.

“The American economy is stagnant, if it is not alreadycontracting,” said the OECD. “It may be premature to talkabout a recession, but with the pace of economic activitybeing well below the growth potential,” it is clear that it“is slowing down very quickly”, the OECD said in astatement. —MNA/Xinhua

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A two-day-old kitten isbottle fed at the ClarionCounty Animal Shelterin Shippenville, Pa on

18 March, 2008.Hundreds of animals,

mostly cats , wereseized in a raid ofa cat sanctuary in

Tarentum, Pa Friday.Over 300 diseased cats

are being treated at this facility.—INTERNET

An Afghan police man walks near a police damaged vehicle after it was hit bya road side bomb explosion in Lashkar Gah the provincial capital of Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan on 21 March, 2008.— INTERNET

PPP Chairman to declareparty’s PM candidate

Russians can inspect Czech-basedUS radar base

Bomb explodes in Bulgaria,no injuries reported

Britain confirms firstcase of XDR-TB strain

Turkish warplanes bombPKK bases in Northern Iraq

ISLAMABAD, 21 March— Pakistan People’s Party(PPP) chairman BilawalBhutto Zardari wouldannounce the party’scandidate for the office ofthe Prime Minister, partyspokesman FarhatullahBabar said on Wednesday.

Farhatullah did notdisclose the time and datefor the announcement,saying “Zardari Housewill unveil the candidateat an appropriate time”.

The Associated Pressof Pakistan (APP) quoted

PPP sources as saying thatthe announcement wasexpected within a coupleof days as Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had alreadyarrived in the country fromLondon on Wednesday.

Makhdoom AminFahim, vice chairman of thePPP, was one of the front-runners for the PM slot,however, the politicalscenario suddenly changedas Zardari House hinted itwas also considering “someother options”, said the APPreport.— Xinhua

LONDON, 22 March —Britain has confirmed itsfirst diagnosed case of theextremely drug-resistant(XDR) strain oftuberculosis (TB), localmedia reported on Friday.

Doctors in Glasgow,Scotland, are treating aman with the XDR-TBstrain, who reportedlycame to Britain fromSomalia and is now inisolation at the GartnavelGeneral Hospital, BBCreported.

This is the first case ofits kind reported in Britainsince the reviseddefinition of XDR-TB

was published by theWorld HealthOrganization (WHO) in2006.

"We have taken veryprompt measures to tryand manage the chancesof this person spreadingthe infection to others,"Jim McMenamen fromHealth ProtectionScotland was quoted assaying.

The doctors said thereis no risk to the generalpublic. The XDR-TBstrain is extremely resistantto traditional antibiotics andhas to be treated with acombination of antibiotics toensure that the treatment issuccessful in preventingtransmission to others.

Xinhua

DIYARBAKIR (Turkey),21 March — Turkishwarplanes bombed basesof the banned KurdishWorkers’ Party (PKK) innorthern Iraq on Thursday,local sources told Xinhua.

The sources said thatsome Turkish warplanesflew over the areas ofHaftanin, Kanemase,

Amadiyah and Nerve-Rekan in northern Iraq.

Soon after scoutingflight, the Turkishwarplanes bombed thePKK bases, said thesources. Turkey has beenfighting with the PKK,which took up arms againstthe country in 1984 withthe aim of creating an

ethnic homeland insoutheastern Turkey.

More than 30,000people have been killed inthe over-two-decadeconflict between theTurkish Army and thePKK, which is listed as aterrorist organization byTurkey and the UnitedStates. — Xinhua

SOFIA, 21 March —A bomb was detonatedlate on Tuesday near thebuilding where Bulgarianregional police chiefswere holding their annualmeeting in Plovdiv, thecountry’s second-largestcity, local Sofia NewsAgency reported on

Wednesday. Bulgarian Interior

Minister Rumen Petkovand Chief Prosecutor BorisVelchev were also at themeeting, authorities said.The explosive device wasdetonated to destroy alawyer’s office, situated ina newly constructed

residential building.Fortunately, the blast didnot claim any victims butcaused serious damage tothe whole building.

The area has beencordoned off by policewhile officers make asecond analysis of thescene. An investigationinto the incident isunderway.

Xinhua

Strong quakesjolts N-WChina’sXinjiang

BEIJING, 22 March —The Chinese SeismologicalNetwork detected the fifthminor tremor in YutianCounty, in southwestChina’s Xinjiang UygurAutonomous Region,at 8:26 am Friday (BeijingTime). Four quakes hadrocked the KunlunMountain region earlier onFriday with the first andthe strongest measuring7.3 on the Richter Scaleand occurring at 6:33 am.

The epicenter of thequakes was located at 35.6degrees north Latitudeand 81.6 degrees eastLongitude. The first joltwas followed by fourminor ones measuringbetween five and 5.2 onthe Richter Scale between7:00 am and 8:26 am.

An official in HotianPrefecture told Xinhuathe earthquakes affectedthe townships of Aqqanand Bostan, where the totalpopulation is about13,400. —Xinhua

An artiste of theLemieux.pilon 4D Artgroup from Canadaperforms in the play titled“Norman” during adress rehearsal at the XIIberoamerican TheatreFestival in Bogota on 20March, 2008. Over 100theatre companies arepresenting their shows during the festival. INTERNET

PRAGUE, 22 March —Czech Deputy PrimeMinister Alexandr Vondrasaid on Friday that hewould not mind grantingone or two authorized

Russian officers access tothe planned US radar baseon Czech soil forinspection.

The reciprocal principlewould have to be observed,

Vondra told a forum inPrague. Access to the base,which is planned to be builtin 2010, would allowRussians to see for them-selves that the system isnot directed against them,

However, Russia'saccess would be possibleonly after the two sidesreached agreement on theissue, he said, noting thatno such agreement has yetbeen reached. Vondrashared the view of PrimeMinister Mirek Topolanek,who said earlier that heconsidered such a mutualmonitoring mechanismfeasible. MNA/Xinhua

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Hailing 63rd AnniversaryArmed Forces Day

Daseik River Water PumpingProject

Progress of Agriculture Sector inthe Time of Tatmadaw Government

An aerial view of thriving

poppy-substitute crops

plantations in Mongla region

of Shan State (East).

The water supply facilities seen at Alwansuk River Water PumpingProject site built in Thanlyin Township of Yangon Division.

WagatokSupporting Dam

Daseik River Water PumpingStation built for agriculturalpurpose in Daseik Village of

Langkho Township, Shan State(South).

Wagatok Supporting

Dam constructed to

irrigate farmlands

in Bago Township

of Bago Division.

Sr. Subject 1988 2007 Progress

1. Arable land 23.8 53.78 29.98

2. Vacant land acres (million) 26.1 10.4 increased

3. Complete Dams 138 344 206

4. Dams under construction - 40 40

5. Complete river water - 305 305

6. River water pumping - 298 298

7. Total benefited acres (million) 1.35 5 3.65

8. Double cropping acres (million) 3.89 16.8 12.91

9. Monsoon paddy acres (million) 11.81 17 5.2

10. Summer paddy acres (million) - 0.58 0.58

11. Total production of paddy 630 1500 870

12. Percentage of food sufficiency - 152% 152%

13. Beans and pulses acres (million) 1.8 9.89 8.09

14. Edible oil crops acres (million) 1.36 8.75 7.39

pumping stations

stations being built

baskets (million)

of the nation

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 March, 2008

Only when the Tatmadaw isstrong, will the nation be strong

HAILING THE 63RD ANNIVERSARY ARMED FORCES DAY:

To shoulder the dutiesHlaing Aung

Sitting in a slingchair, war veteran U BaHman was watching thebroadcasts of thetraining sessions beingundergone by the paradecolumns of theservicemen for theArmed Forces Dayparade. He watched onscreen that at dawn theparade columns werereciting the Four Oathsof Tatmadaw membersin chorus in the parade

U Ba Hman is now an elderly person. Those who willhave to carry out national development tasks and shoulderthe duties are young Tatmadaw members, intellectualsand intelligentsia, farmers, workers, and national racepeople. Only when all the youth of the nation remainunited in discharging nation-building tasks will it bepossible for the nation, which has lagged behind othercountries in development in successive periods due todisintegration of national solidarity, to stand tall in theworld. Now, the people have passed the nightmares. U BaHman believes that he will soon witness the transformationof the nation into a new one soon.

ground. We will be loyal to the

State and the people, We will be loyal to the

Fallen Comrades, We will conscientiously

obey the orders andresponsibilities given byour superiors,

We vow to sacrifice ourlives for our country,our people, and ourArmed Forces.

While reciting thefour oaths in a low murmur

together with theTatmadaw members onscreen, he had a total recallof his past experiences.In the 1960s

Gunfire shattered thesilence of the nighttimeand flames appeared in thedarkness. A piece of badnews spread thatKyungalay Village wasunder the raid ofinsurgents. Lowering hishead, primary schoolboyMaung Ba Hman had to

stay hiding under thehouse. Ballonkwin Wardin Letpadan where MaungBa Hman lived was a littledistant from KyungalayVillage. However, theresidents were in a state ofpanic, thinking what theyshould do if the insurgentswould also raid the town.The insurgents were saidto be KNDO members. Itwas said that they camefrom Bago Yomamountain range and theywere accompanied bythose ready to rob thehouses and carry the stolenproperty with the use ofelephants. It was also saidthat the insurgents wereKawthulay with long hair;that they had decided thatthey would not have theirhair cut until Kawthulayrevolution was successful;and their hair was touchingtheir shoulders. Maung BaHman wondered if theirrevolution was to burndown the villages and robthe houses of the people.Their revolution is nothingmore than planting mines,launching bomb attacksand firing small weapons

to kill innocent people andcommitting terrorist acts,so the revolution is stillfar from victory. U BaHman happened tovisualize how long theirhair would have grown ifthey are still alive. Thearmed groups that haverealized the benevolentattitude of thegovernment have madepeace.In the 1970s

Private Ba Hman wason duty under theOperation “Ye Min Aung”at a place on the westernbank of the Thanlwin riverin Naunglai Paphanregion, Shan State (North).The platoon that includedPrivate Ba Hman wasstationed near the edge ofa rock mass. At that time,the platoon was locked ina battle with the BurmaCommunist Party (BCP)and was surrounded by theenemies. Beforewithdrawing, the BCPtroops were firing heavily.And the bullets of the 0.5machine-gun and theshells of 0.57mmrecoilless gun werefalling behind the platoonof Maung Ba Hman. ShanYoma mountain range wascompletely covered withcordite smells and ranksmells of blood. Therations of the platoon hadrun out for a long time.Three or four days ago, asmall amount of leftoverrice was given to awounded private. Sincethen, they had lived onwater. They had to takerisks to fetch that water.After fetching water inthe ravine near anabandoned farm, thetroops climbed up thehill. At that time, theycame under machine-gun

attacks. So, they had tocrawl uphill and carriedthe water bottles. Manyhillside farms had beendestroyed, and villageshad been reduced toashes. Having a yamroot to ease his hunger,Maung Ba Hmanwondered when theinternal armedconflicts would end.In the 1980s

Maung Ba Hmanwas one of the troopsthat engaged in theOperation “Moe Hein(12)” that was launchedto crush down the drugsmuggling of insurgentsaround Monekyut,Lwema Ankham, andKyet-hinkhathi hill inthe border area of ShanState (East). Theenemies were said to bedrug smugglers, but atthat time they were verystrong, taking astronghold in borderareas. A brigade-leveloperation was thuslaunched withsupporting fire of105mm and 76mmartillery. The membershad to climb up the rockmountains with nopathways and passthrough the rough andhard hillsides to occupythe camps of theenemies. Before longthey had occupied theenemies’ militarycamps, sacrificing livesof many members.When the 1988 unrestbroke out, they had toleave the camps andwent back to the townsfor security, thus givingopportunities to thedrug smuggler insur-gents to reoccupy thesecamps.

(See page 9)

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* A breeze in early summerA cooing sound of the cuckooWith flags and banners flutteringLaunched on 27 MarchThe Fascists Resistance

* People joined in every battleMass guerrilla tacticsPractised in whole nationWinning support ofPeople, monks, students

* Defeating the FascistsColonialists afraid of MyanmarBrethren cementing unityIndependent MyanmarEntering golden era

* For independenceSacrificed blood, lives theyHeroes countlessLike stars in the skyShared merits for themOnly after nation is freeSo honourable are they

* Tatmadaw born of peopleFreed nation from subjugationArmy, Navy, Air ForceUnited as true brothersSo dutiful for nation

* For the entire nationBeautifying and developingAnd safeguarding

(Hailing the 63rd Anniversary Armed Forces Day)Zaw Min Min Oo

(Translation)

From March Resistance toeternity

HAILING THE 63RD ANNIVERSARY ARMED FORCES DAY:

To shoulder the dutiesHlaing Aung

(from page 8)In the 1990s

Ko Ba Hman, an old soldier, was contributingvoluntary services at a work site of a railway projectin the central part of Myanmar. Following Mongyan,Methawaw and Marnel Palaw battles, many nationalrace armed groups made peace. Then, Tatmadawmembers, who had defended the motherland at risk totheir lives, were engaged in nation-building tasks.Tatmadaw members contributed their labour to theroad and bridge projects being implemented in thecentral part of Myanmar plus many regions includingChin, Kayah, Shan and Rakhine states, and TaninthayiDivision. He still remembers that some TE and Hinotrucks overturned in the explosions of mines plantedby insurgents near Monelaik Creek on Kengtung-Mongphyat-Mongyawng Road. At that time, it tookabout ten days for a truck to run 100 miles on themuddy road in Shan State (East). Moreover, underthe guard of two battalions, Tatmadaw members hadto repair the bridges destroyed and clear all the earthpiled by insurgents along the 18-mile road section tosend rations to the frontier military camps. Now,Mongyawng and Mongyu roads are coping withHilux passenger buses. Ko Ba Hman was pleased towatch on TV that the distance is now less than anhour’s drive. He recalled his sadness, when he wastransferred from Shan State to Mon and Kayin states,he found that trees, as thick as a thigh of a man, weregrowing along the old gravel road beside DonthamiCreek and wrecks of bridges on the banks of thecreeks due to the bomb blasts committed by insurgents.The regions then were under the reign of insurgents,so smooth transport was not possible. In consequence,the regions were not in a position to enjoydevelopment, and insurgents took refuge in thoseregions. Therefore, the regions were under the threat

of insurgents. Ko Ba Hman wishes local nationalrace people of the states suffering from the evilconsequences would enjoy the taste of peace anddevelopment as soon as possible.

Now, war veteran U Ba Hman no longer worriesabout that. He has witnessed that the whole nationhas developed at the unprecedented level. The Stateconstitution has been drafted that can guaranteemulti-party democracy aspired by the people as wellas self-administration aspired by some national races.

Soon, a referendum will be held to approve thedraft of the State constitution. It is virtually impossiblethat the draft constitution wins the satisfaction of allthe national people. U Ba Hman hopes that it will winthe satisfaction of the majority of the people.

U Ba Hman does not want at all to see anysituations in which the people have to stay hidingunder the houses following the sounds of gunfire.And local people have to leave their farmlands,lands, homes and villages to avoid the evilconsequences of armed conflicts. He wants to see thepeople building a new nation in collaboration.

U Ba Hman is now an elderly person. Those whowill have to carry out national development tasks andshoulder the duties are young Tatmadaw members,intellectuals and intelligentsia, farmers, workers,and national race people. Only when all the youth ofthe nation remain united in discharging nation-building tasks will it be possible for the nation, whichhas lagged behind other countries in development insuccessive periods due to disintegration of nationalsolidarity, to stand tall in the world. Now, the peoplehave passed the nightmares. U Ba Hman believesthat he will soon witness the transformation of thenation into a new one soon.

Translation: MS************

Objectives of the 63rdAnniversary Armed Forces Day

* To work in concert with the peo-

ple in building a peaceful, mod-

ern, developed and discipline-

flourishing democratic nation

* To realize the seven-step Road

Map of the State joining hands

with the people

* Joining hands with the people and

based on Union Spirit to crush

internal and external destructive

elements sabotaging stability and

development of the State

* To build a strong, capable and

modern patriotic Tatmadaw to

safeguard Our Three Main Na-

tional Causes

POEM:

In the time of the Tatmadawgovernment after 1988, bridgeshave been built at the rate of oneeach month and 12 dams eachyear.

So, one and all canwitness the progressthat it has beenunprecedented in theprevious periods.

YE MIN HTET

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 March, 2008

YANGON, 21 March —CEC member of the UnionSolidarity and Develop-ment Association Minis-ter for Forestry Brig-GenThein Aung looked intoprogress of construction ofnew school building forYongyi Basic EducationPrimary School in Dedayeyesterday and gave neces-sary instructions.

At the hall of DedayeTownship General Ad-ministration Departmentand Education College inBogale, the CEC member

NAY PYI TAW, 19March — Chairman ofAyeyawady DivisionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofSouth-West CommandBrig-Gen Kyaw Swe metwith servicemen and theirfamilies at the hall of localbattalion in Hinthada on14 March and inspectedeugenia and rubber planta-tions.

On 15 March, the com-mander attended the open-ing of Buddha Pujaniya of

Commander opens Buddha Pujaniya ofZalun Man Aung Myin Buddha Image

Man Aung MyinPyidawbyan Buddha Im-age in Zalun and openedthe ceremony. The Bud-dha Pujaniya of the Bud-dha Image commenced on15 March and it would lasttill 22 March.

Next, the commanderwent to the office of ZalunAuto Telephone Exchangeand looked into the instal-lation of equipment.

At mile post 12/7 onDanubyu-Taunggyi road,the commander inspected

road works and gave nec-essary instructions.

Next, the commanderviewed growing of sum-mer paddy and harvestingof mung at Akyaw villagein Danubyu Township andmet with local farmers.

Afterwards, the com-mander inspected har-vesting of summer paddyat Sakkotaung village inNyaungdon Townshipand fulfilled the require-ments.

MNA

USDA CEC member inspects regional developmenttasks in Ayeyawady Division

met with townselders, de-partmental personnel andmembers of social organi-zations and presented cashdonation for the college.

Next, the CEC mem-ber went to constructionsite of new school buildingfor Sitkon Basic EducationPrimary School in Bogaleand presented cash dona-tion.

The CEC member alsoinspected implementationof opening Bogale TintAung Library and gavenecessary instructions.

Next, the CEC mem-bers met with local peo-ple, departmental per-sonnel and members ofsocial organizations atThiri Annawah hall inPyapon and Shwe WahLatt hall of KyaiklatTownship General Ad-ministration Depart-ment.

The CEC memberMinister Brig-Gen TheinAung also inspected con-struction of new schoolbuilding for No 3 BasicEducation Primary School

in Kyaiklat Township andattended to the needs.

MNA

YANGON, 22 March— Minister for InformationBrig-Gen Kyaw Hsan metwith the personnel of Print-ing and Publishing Enter-prise and Myanma MotionPicture Enterprise at themeeting hall of Central Pressof the PPE under the Minis-try on Theinbyu Road hereon 20 March afternoon.

It was attended byManaging Director ofMyanma Motion PictureEnterprise U Aung MyoMyint, the directors, thedeputy-directors, officialsand staff.

The minister saidthat the PPE and MMPEhave successfully carried outtheir tasks and he acknowl-

Commander Brig-Gen Kyaw Swe cuts the ribbon to open Man AungMyin Pyidawbyan Buddha Image Pujaniya in Zalun. — MNA

Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan cordially converseswith personnel of Printing and Publishing Enterprise and Myanma

Motion Picture Enterprise. — MNA

USDA CEC memberMinister for ForestryBrig-Gen Thein Aung

meets local people,departmental person-nel and social organi-

zation members inPyapon. —MNA

edged their work efficiency.Achievements have beenmade due to the united ef-forts of the staff. He calledfor cooperation in the yearsto come.

Next, the ministerdiscussed works of the twoenterprises and gave nec-essary instructions tothem.—MNA

Kyauktan Bridge inaugurated…(from page 1)

roads and bridges in RakhineState as rivers and hills in theregion limited the transpor-tation services in the state. Atotal of 212 bridges with thelength of 180 feet and aboveand 5,679 miles of road haveincreased across the nation.In Rakhine State, a total of36 bridges with the length of180 feet and above includ-ing Kyauktan Bridge and592 miles of road have beenconstructed. The over 452-foot long Kyauktan Bridgeis located on Yangon-Sittway Road and it is an

Information Minister meetsPPE, MMPE staff

iron reinforced type. It isalso a two-way bridge andcan withstand 60 tons ofload.

In Rakhine State, over202-mile and three-fur-long long An-Sittway roadsection and 120-mile longTaungup-Maei-Kyaukpyuroad section have been con-structed. Meanwhile, 9-mile long Painhnetaung-Yanbye Road, 7-mile longPadekyaw-Tattaung Road,41-mile long An-Padekyaw-Maei Roadhave also been upgradedto gravel roads.

As roads and bridgeshave been constructed inRakhine State, townshipsin the state can be noweasily accessible fromAyeyawady, Yangon,Bago, Magway and Man-dalay divisions. The com-modity flow in RakhineState has picked up speed

thanks to newly con-structed roads and bridges.

Afterwards, a residentspoke words of thanks.

Next, Minister Maj-Gen Saw Tun, Vice-Chair-man of Rakhine State PDCBrig-Gen Than Tun Aungand Brig-Gen Ye Aung oflocal station formallyopened Kyauktan Bridge.

Next, Brig-Gen ThanTun Aung unveiled thestone inscription ofKyauktan Bridge.

Kyauktan Bridge is aniron reinforced type and452 feet and five incheslong. The bridge is flankedby 4-foot wide walkwaysand its motorway is 24 feetwide. The bridge can with-stand 60 tons of load.

Out of bridges con-structed by the PublicWorks, Kyauktan Bridgeis the 212th one, and 36thbridge in Rakhine State.Kyauktan Bridge is locatedon An-Sittway Road Sec-tion of Yangon-SittwayRoad and the bridge willspeed the commodity flowand transportation betweenRakhine State and otherregions.

MNA

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An Easter egg installation is displayed at a

Hong Kong mall on 22 March, 2008.

INTERNET

Feeding time : The three white Lion cubs

which were born last week in the zoo of

Olmen, Belgium wait to be fed.

INTERNET

An undated thin-section transmissionelectron micrographshows two HIV virusparticles. People with

a genetic variationthat slows down HIVmay also be causing amutation to the AIDS

virus that makes itless potent if

transmitted to others,researchers said onFriday.—INTERNET

The Jupiter-like extrasolar planet known as HD 189733b, orbitingclose to its star about 63 light years from Earth, in an undated

illustration. Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to detectmethane in this planet’s atmosphere — the first organic moleculefound on a planet outside our solar system. Hubble also confirmed

the presence of water vapor in the planet’s atmosphere. The findingsare published in the journal Nature.—INTERNET

Ice blocks are seen floating in the Weddell Sea near the Argentine Base Marambio in theAntarctic Peninsula on 8 March , 2008.—INTERNET

Ice dance gold medalist Isabelle Delobel andOlivier Schoenfelder from France salute the

crowd during victory ceremonies at theWorld Figure Skating Championships inGoteborg, Sweden,on 21 March, 2008.

INTERNET

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 March, 2008

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

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV XIANG FENG VOY NO (8015)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV XIANG FENGVOY NO (8015) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 23.3.2008 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

No claims against this vessel will be admittedafter the Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S CHINA SHIPPING(MALAYSIA) AGENCY SDN BHD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Egypt, Russia draft deal fornuclear power tender

MOSCOW, 21 March— Egypt and Russia onWednesday drafted anuclear energy deal,which could be signednext week in Moscow, toallow Russia to take partin the tender to buildnuclear reactors in Egypt,the Egyptian negotiatorsaid.

“This agreement isfor the usage of nuclearenergy for peacefulmeans. We haveconcluded all thetechnical work of it. It isready for signing,” said

Egypt’s Industry andEnergy Minister RachidMohamed Rachid.

Rachid spoke bytelephone from Cairoafter talks with RussianEnergy Minister ViktorKhristenko, who is on atwo-day visit to Egyptlaying the ground forEgyptian President HosniMubarak’s visit toMoscow early next week.“The agreement could besigned by PresidentMubarak at that time,”Rachid said.

Through the

construction of severalnuclear power plants,Egypt is planning torevive its civilian atomicenergy programme, shutdown in 1986 in the wakeof the Chernobyldisaster.

The London-basedInternational Institute ofStrategic Studies saidthe first 1,000-megawattreactor could be builtat Dabaa on theMediterranean in eight to10 years if foreigninvestment wassecured.—MNA/Reuters

South Korea arrestsman sought by FBI

for 10 years

Mine blastvictims’families

compensatedin S-W China

KUNMING, 21 March —The families of 14 minerskilled in a colliery gasoutburst in southwestChina's Yunnan Provincehave been compensated,the local government saidon Wednesday.

Each family received200,000 yuan (28,304 USdollars) in compensationfrom the owners ofShuidongping coal minein Weixin County,Zhaotong City, where thegas outburst on Fridayevening also injured four.

The injured were instable condition. The mineowners promised to payfor their medical fees.

A preliminaryinvestigation revealedthe colliery, with adesigned annualproduction capabilityof 60,000 tons, was afully-licensed privateenterprise.

Investigators were stilltrying to ascertain thecause of the accident.People responsible for thetragedy were under policecontrol.

MNA/Xinhua

Suicide bomber kills fivePakistani paramilitary

British troopskill Afghan policeman

SEOUL, 21 March —South Korean police saidon Wednesday they havearrested a Korean-American suspected ofmurder and wanted by theFederal Bureau ofInvestigation after he fledthe United States 10 yearsago and went to SouthKorea. US-born DavidNam, 29 was apprehendedin suburban Seoul, wherehe had been teachingEnglish, police said.

According to the FBI,Nam was freed on bondpending trial inPennsylvania and thenfled to South Korea in1998. He was arrestedabout a year later but

released from custodybecause there was noformal extradition treatybetween the two countriesat that time. This led toone being reached a fewmonths later, the FBI saidin a Web posting.

Nam, who uses thealias “Solid”, is suspectedof shooting to death anelderly man during a homerobbery in Philadelphia in1996, the FBI said.

Nam will be handedover to US authorities aftera Seoul court rules on thedate of his extradition, adecision likely to be madein the next few days, theinvestigator said.

MNA/Reuters

Eight killed by heavyrains in Sri Lanka

Children ride on a boat through a flooded street

after rainfall in Riau Province, Indonesia, on 20

March, 2008. —INTERNET

WANA (Pakistan), 21March — A suicide bomberkilled five Pakistani troopsand wounded five in anattack at the entrance to aparamilitary base in SouthWaziristan on Thursday,intelligence officials said.

The incident took placeat the Zari Nur base inWana, the main town in aPakistani tribal regionon the border withAfghanistan, which haslong been regarded as ahaven for al-Qaeda andTaleban militants.

“The bomber was onfoot. He exploded thedevice when he got to thegate of the camp,” anintelligence official, whodeclined to be identified.He said five troops died onthe spot.

The attack came days

after US aircraft firedmissiles at a house in Wana,killing at least ninemilitants, including oneArab and two Turkmen.

MNA/Reuters

KABUL, 21 March —British troops shot deadone Afghan policemanand wounded another insouthern Afghanistan, theofficials said on Thursday.

NATO forces openedfire on an Afghan NationalPolice (ANP) checkpointin the provincial capital ofHelmand overnight, theAfghan Interior Ministrysaid.

British troops inHelmand confirmed theincident.

“I can confirm that an

ANP was sadly killed andanother wounded.

Also a British soldierwas wounded,” saidLieutenant-Colonel Si-mon Miller, a spokes-manfor British forces inHelmand. “The investiga-tion is ongoing.”

Afghanistan’s InteriorMinister has travelled toHelmand for theinvestigation.

Britain has some 7,800troops in Afghanistan,most of them in Helmand,a largely desert provincecut in two by a strip oflush fertile land whichproduces nearly half theworld’s opium.

MNA/Reuters

COLOMBO, 22 March —At least eight people died,six others were injuredand 174,214 peopledisplaced by heavy rainssince last week indifferent parts of theisland, the Disaster ReliefServices Centre said onThursday.

The heavy rains sincelast Saturday caused flashfloods, landslides, fellingof trees and lightening.

"At the moment wehave accommodatedaround 7,500 people from1,870 families in tempo-rary welfare camps,"Rishath Bathiyutheen, the

Minister of Disaster Relieftold reporters.

The affected districtswere Ampara, Batticaloaand Trincomalee in theeast, Jaffna and Mannar inthe north, Gampaha andPuttalam in the north west,Gampaha in the west,Badulla in the central andMoneragala in thesoutheastern area, officialssaid.

Bathiyutheen said41,000 US dollars, or 4.5million Sri Lanka rupees,had been provided by thegovernment to providerelief to the affected.

MNA/Xinhua

France to cutnucleararsenal

CHERBOURG (France),22 March — FrenchPresident Nicolas Sarkozyannounced cuts in France'satomic arsenal on Fridaybut vowed to keep a strongenough deterrent againstthreats such as thepossibility of a nuclear-armed Iran.

Speaking at thelaunch of France's fourthof its latest generation ofnuclear-armed sub-marines, the “Terrible”(Fearsome), Sarkozy saidhis naton had to face newsecurity threats, includingIran, and needed to be ableto strike back forcefully ifattacked.—MNA/Reuters

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Australian woman faces death inVietnam over drugs

29 die in Easterholiday in El-Salvador

World’s oldest schoolboy stuck inKenya refugee camp

Jumping eagle ray kills boater offFlorida Keys

30 injured in 116-car collision in CzechA girl who was wounded in a mortar attack cries

as she receives treatment in a hospital in Tikrit on21 March, 2008. The attack wounded fourcivilians in the town of Dour near Tikrit on

Friday, police said.—INTERNET

A gorilla carries anEaster basket filled with

eggs and treats at theCincinnati Zoo, on20 March, 2008, in

Cincinnati.—INTERNET

Hong Kong movie star Andy Lau holds a fan written ‘Three Kingdom’ duringan event to promote his latest film ‘Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the

Dragon’ in Hong Kong on 21 March, 2008.—INTERNET

ELDORET, (Kenya), 21March — Kenya’s post-election crisis has forcedthe oldest schoolboyon the planet, 88-year-old peasant farmerKimani Maruge, intoa refugee camp — butthere’s still no dam-pening his quest forknowledge.

From his white tentat an agricultural show-ground housing 14,000displaced people,

Maruge rises eachmorning to collect hisbooks, don his uniform— shorts and all — andwalk four kilometres (2.5miles) to his belovedKapkenduiywo PrimarySchool.

“I had to come herewhen people startedfighting and burninghouses,” said Maruge atthe end of the day, as rainbeat on his tarpaulin tentprovided by the Red

Cross. “But I have not

stopped studying. Schoolis too important.”

Members of hisKikuyu tribe, who havein recent decades movedinto the mainly Kalenjinarea of Eldoret in westKenya to farm, wereattacked by gangs afterthe disputed re-electionof President Mwai Kibakiin December.

MNA/Reuters

MIAMI, 21 March —An eagle ray leaped onto aboat off the Florida Keyson Thursday and stabbed awoman with its barb,knocking her to the deckand killing her, a Floridawildlife investigator said.

“It’s a bizarreaccident,” said JorgePino, an agent with theFlorida Fish and WildlifeConservation Com-mission.

The woman and herfamily were aboard a boatin the Atlantic Ocean, offthe city of Marathon in theFlorida Keys, he said.

“A large ray jumpedout of the water andcollided with the victimand somehow the barbpenetrated some part of herbody, which caused her tofall back and hit her headon some portion of thevessel,” Pino said. “We

don’t know exactly whichone of those things causedher death.” Local mediasaid the animal’s barb hadimpaled the womanthrough the neck.

Eagle rays arecommon in warm ortropical waters and areoften seen near coral reefs.The spotted creatures cangrow to more than eightfeet (2.5 metres) acrossand have two to six short,venomous barbs near thebase of their whip-liketails, according tothe Florida Museum ofNatural History’s website.

MNA/Reuters

PRAGUE, 21 March —Thirty people were injured,six of them seriously, ina chain collision accidentinvolving 116 cars onThursday in a heavysnowstorm on D1motorway between Pragueand Brno in the CzechRepublic.

The injured have beenrushed to the nearesthospitals. Thousands ofothers were blocked in thetailbacks along themotorway.

The accident occurredbetween the 91st and the134th kilometre of D1,

regional rescue squaddeputy head EditaRichterova said.

Helicopters assisted onthe spot, while severalambulances have got stuckin the traffic jam, the Czechnews agency CTK quotedwitnesses as saying.

Fire fighters and policeofficers also took part inthe rescue operation, whileCzech Interior MinisterIvan Langer was reportedlyconsidering sending themilitary for assistance.

Queues are dozens ofkilometers long along D1,which is not only the oldest

and the longest, but alsothe busiest and the mostdangerous motorway in thecountry, the CTK said.

Up to 100,000 cars usethe D1 in rush hours a day.Around 3,000 accidentsoccur on the motorwayannually.

MNA/Xinhua

MEXICO CITY, 21March — A total of 29people have been killedso far during the Easterholiday in El Salvadorand most of them died intraffic accidents, ac-cording to reports reachinghere from the country’scapital San Salvador.

Apart from the 29deaths, 326 were injuredin traffic accidents, themajor killer during theholiday season, whichtook 21 lives, accordingto statistics from Sundayto Thursday. The rest eightwere drowned.The civilprotection service hascalled on citizens to drivecarefully during the Eastervacations and behaveresponsibly to avoid allkinds of accidents.

The call will alert

people against accidents,so they can better enjoytheir vacations, saidofficials from the InteriorMinistry, adding that theforthcoming days fromThursday to Sunday aremore accident prone asthousands more are to jointhe vacation.

MNA/Xinhua

HANOI, 21 March —An Australian woman ofVietnamese origin lost hercourt appeal and will facea firing squad in Vietnaminstead of serving a lifeterm in prison, state-runnewspapers reported onWednesday.

The Court of Appealsaccepted a proposal by

prosecutors in Ho ChiMinh City on Tuesday tochange the sentence forJasmine Luong, 34, whowas found guilty by aLower Court of traffickingheroin to Australia, theLiberation Saigon news-paper said. She now has15 days to appeal thesentence to the President.

Luong was arrested atthe city’s Tan Son NhatInternational Airportwhile boarding a flightto Melbourne in February2007 after the Customsfound 1.55 kilos (3.4pounds) of heroin in hershoes and luggage, thecity’s Customs reported.

MNA/Reuters

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14 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 March, 2008

S P O R T S

ACROSS 1 More sedate 5 Darkness 8 Bring on oneself 9 Concerning reality10 Commercail rep.12 High ball13 Wily14 Image17 Mineral spring18 “Sleep well!” (4,5)20 Fruit tree garden21 Artillery salute23 Work dough24 China town

DOWN 1 Gulliver’s creator 2 Part of curve 3 English river 4 Prize lottery 5 More pleasant 6 Severe, exhausting 7 High chest of drawers11 Snow-slip13 Chorister’s robe15 Artifice16 Squalid18 Watch19 Spiny plant22 Pot cover

CROSSWORDS PUZZLE

Ferrari Formula One driver Felipe Massa of Brazilleads McLaren Mercedes Formula One driver HeikkiKovalainen of Finland during the first timed practicesession for the Malaysian Grand Prix at the SepangFormula One Circuit in Sepangnear Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia, on 21 March, 2008. The second race ofthis year’s Formula One season will be held here

on 23 March.—INTERNET

France’s Yannick Ponsero performs his shortprogramme on the fourth day of the World Figure

Skating Championships in Goteborg, Sweden,on 21 March, 2008.—INTERNET

Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz, left, ishelped by a Japanese hotel staff to put on a ‘happi’coat during a welcome party of the MLB openinggame in Tokyo on 21 March, 2008.—INTERNET

Ferguson backs callfor respect to referees

Teenager gives modest Luquenodraw with Sao Paulo

RIO DE JANEIRO, 22 March — Seventeen-year-oldAdriano Duarte scored in injury time to give modestParaguayan side Sportivo Luqueno an unlikely 1-1draw at home to Brazilian champions Sao Paulo in theLibertadores Cup on Thursday.

In Santiago, meanwhile, Juan Roman Riquelmelimped off as titleholders Boca Juniors were beaten2-0 at Chilean champions Colo Colo.

Luqueno, taking part in only their third Libertadores,were playing at their own Feliciano Caceres stadiumfor the first time in the competition against the power-ful Brazilians, whose line-up included on-loan strikerAdriano.

A 20,000 crowd packed a stadium which often seesattendances of less than 1,000 for domestic games,providing a festive atmosphere as they let off fire-works from the terraces. —MNA/Reuters

Cannavaro says humble Italycan emulate France double

ROME, 22 March — Italy captain Fabio Cannavarobelieves his country can emulate France by winningthe European championships after lifting the WorldCup, if they stay humble at Euro 2008.

“If we go to the European championships withouttoo much euphoria, with humility and a desire to takeadvantage of our qualities, we are in the running,” theReal Madrid defender told Friday’s La Gazzetta delloSport.

“The example (to follow) is that of France, whowere good when winning the 1998 World Cup andlucky to double up at Euro 2000.”

MNA/Reuters

Van Pelt stays aheadin Puerto Rico

MIAMI, 22 March — American Bo van Pelt led bya stroke from compatriot Jerry Kelly after the secondround of the Puerto Rica Open in Rio Grande onFriday. Van Pelt, seeking his first PGA Tour win, shota four-under round of 68 in windier conditions than onThursday when he fired a 64.

“I got a little bit tentative on the back nine,” saidVan Pelt. “I fought on a couple swings and had to kindof nick that in the bud and go ahead and stay aggres-sive, and did that when I came over to the front sideand was able to make quite a few more birdies.”

The 32-year-old posted six birdies and two bogeysto stay top of the leaderboard but the field is wide openheading into Saturday’s third round.

Kelly produced the day’s best score of 66, alongwith compatriot Ryan Blaum, to keep within a strokeof Van Pelt while Ted Purdy was a further shot behindafter shooting 68. —MNA/Reuters

Van der Sar leftout of Dutch squad

NOORDWIJK (Netherlands), 22 March — Netherlandscoach Marco van Basten left goalkeeper Edwin van derSar out of his squad to play Euro 2008 co-hosts in afriendly on Wednesday.

Van Basten has told the 37-year-old, who has missedManchester United’s last two league matches with agroin strain, to concentrate on regaining full fitnesswith his club.

“I spoke with Edwin (van der Sar) and he told methat he still is recovering from his injury but willpossibly play (against Liverpool) on Sunday, thoughhe still is vulnerable,” Van Basten told reporters.

MNA/Reuters

Federer enjoys walkover, Fish ousts Nalbandian

MANCHESTER (Eng-land), 22 March — Man-chester United managerSir Alex Ferguson hasbacked the campaign forplayers to show greaterrespect to referees.

The Football Associa-tion has launched an ini-tiative to improve behav-iour towards officials,which has also beenbacked by England coachFabio Capello.

And even thoughFerguson has been asked

by the FA to explain hiscriticism of referee Mar-tin Atkinson followingUnited’s FA Cup defeatby Portsmouth earlier thismonth, the United man-ager labelled the harangu-ing of match officials byplayers as “ridiculous”.

“We had a pivotal mo-ment some years agowhen my players sur-rounded Andy D’Urso,”the United manager tolda news conference onFriday.

“I went off my headwith them about that. Ithought it was ridiculousand it never happenedagain.”

“We tell them to shakethe hand of the referee atthe end of the game. It’ssometimes difficult butthey have to do it.”

“In the same way if youlose a game we invite theopposing manager for adrink after the game. Wedo it because we thinkit’s important. Life goeson.” —MNA/Reuters

INDIAN WELLS (California), 22 March— World number one Roger Federerreached the last four of the Pacific LifeOpen without hitting a shot on Fridaywhen his quarterfinal opponent TommyHaas pulled out with a sinus infection.

Swiss Federer, three times championat Indian Wells and seeking his firstATP title of the year, will next meetunseeded American Mardy Fish, whoscraped past seventh-seeded DavidNalbandian of Argentina 6-3, 6-7, 7-6.

“I deeply regret that I have to with-draw,” German Haas said in a statement.“I was playing my best tennis of the season

and was looking forward to playing Rogerthis afternoon. “I am sure the tennis will beincredible this weekend and I look for-ward to returning again next year.”

The 29-year-old, a former worldnumber two whose career has beendogged by injuries, produced an impres-sive run this week, knocking out sixth-seeded American Andy Roddick andBritain’s number 11 seed Andy Murray.

Top seed Federer, who has beatenHaas eight times in 10 career meetings,said: “I am very sorry for Tommy as Iwas looking forward to another greatmatch with him.” —MNA/Reuters

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 March, 2008 15

WEATHER

R 489 Published by the News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar. Edited and printed at The New Light of Myanmar Press,No 22/30 Strand Road at 43rd Street, Yangon. Cable Newlight, PO Box No. 43, Telephones: Editors 392308, Manager 392226, Circulation 392304, Advertisement 392223,Accounts 392224, Administration 392225, Production/Press 392369

Saturday, 22 March, 2008Summary of observations recorded at 9:30 hours

MST: During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowershave been scattered in upper Sagaing Division, iso-lated in Kachin and Chin States and weather has beenpartly cloudy in Mon, Kayin States and Yangon Divi-sion and generally fair in the remaining areas. Daytemperatures were (5ºC) to (6ºC) below March aver-age temperatures in Kachin and Northern Shan States,(4ºC) below March average temperatures in upperSagaing Division, (3ºC) above March average tem-peratures in Kayin State and Bago Division and aboutMarch average temperatures in the remaining areas.The significant day temperatures were Aunglan (42ºC),Chauk, Thayawady and Hpa-an (39ºC) each. The note-worthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Homalin(0.27) inch and Putao (0.07) inch.

Maximum temperature on 21-3-2008 was 100ºF.Minimum temperature on 22-3-2008 was 71ºF. Rela-tive humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 22-3-2008 was83%. Total sunshine hours on 21-3-2008 was (9.0)hours approx.

Rainfall on 22-3-2008 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since1-1-2008 was (0.67) inch at Mingaladon, (0.47 ) inchat Kaba-Aye and (0.35) inch at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was(4) mph from Northeast at (12:30) hours MST on21-3-2008.

Bay inference: Weather is generally fair in theEast Central Bay and partly cloudy in the AndamanSea and elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 23-3-2008: Like-lihood of isolated rain or thundershowers in Kachinand Chin States, Sagaing and Mandalay Divisionsand weather will be partly cloudy in Shan and RakhineStates, Yangon and Taninthayi Division and gener-ally fair in the remaining States and Divisions. Degreeof certainty is (60%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihoodof continuation of isolated rain or thundershowers inthe Northern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouringarea for 23-3-2008: Possibility of isolated rain orthundershowers. Degree of certainty is (40%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 23-3-2008: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 23-3-2008: Possibility of isolated rain or thunder-showers. Degree of certainty is (40%).

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Mexico discovers antidoteagainst African

snakebite

China penalizes 62 websites for illegal airingBEIJING,22 March—

Chinese authorities haveannounced that 62 websiteswill face penalties either forbroadcasting on-line audioand video programmes withbanned content or forproviding the servicewithout state permision.

The state Admini-

stration of Radio Flim andTelecision (Sarft) side in acircular on Thursday thatthese sites were found to haveviolated relevant regulationsas a resulf of a two-monthinspection,which concludedon 20 February.

They were punishedfor broadcasting obscene,

fear-inspiring or violentcontent or programmesthat might endangernational security andinterests, or for offeringsuch services without therequired qualifications orcertificates, the circularsaid.

As a result of theinspection, the admini-strations banned 25websites including thepopular www.mopv-od,com,from providingaudio and video services asthey had offered the serviceswithout authorization andhad “frequently” broadcastillegal programmes.

MNA/Xinhua

DPRK, Russia tojointly to implement

Khasan-Rajin railwayPYONGYANG, 22

March—The DemocraticPeople’s Republic of Korea(DPRK) and Russia agreedto set up a joint venture toundertake the reconstructionof the Khasan-Rajin railwayand Rajin port, the officalnews agency KCNA,reported Thursday.

The joint venture wouldbe in charge of building acontainer wharf at DPRK’sRajin Port and reconstuctingthe railway line betweenRussia’s Khasan and Rajinto connect the trans- Siberianrailway, the KCNA said.

MNA/Xinhua

MEXICO CITY, 22March — Researchersfrom Mexico’s NationalAutonomous University’s(UNAM) BiotechnologyInstitute (IBT) discoveredan antidote against Africansnakebite, universityscientists Roberto StockSilberman and AlejandroAlagon Cano said in acommunique on Thursday.

The communiquesaid that the antidote

would reduce deaths by70 per cent resulted fromAfrican snakebite and itwould also alleviatedamage caused by thesesnake attacks.

Stock said that aboutone million people areaffected yearly by thesetypes of snakebite inAfrica, of which 500,000suffer poisoning and atleast 20,000 die.

MNA/Xinhua

A man crosses a flooded San Marco’s place inthe Italian historic city of Venice in 2007. Venice isconsidening a plan to raise its buildings to counter

rising sea levels.—INTERNET

23-3-08 NL 8/1/18, 08:47 PM15

2nd Waning of Tabaung 1369 ME Sunday, 23 March, 2008

People’s Desire� We favour stability.� We favour peace.� We oppose unrest and violence.

NAY PYI TAW, 22 March—Secretariat Mem-bers of the Union Solidarity and Development Asso-ciation Minister for Industry-1 U Aung Thaung andMinister for Communications, Posts and TelegraphsBrig-Gen Thein Zaw on 20 March met with secretariesand executives of the District and Township USDAs,departmental officials, townselders, local people andmembers of social organizations at the gymnasium inMogok and gave necessary instructions.

On 21 March, the ministers attended the open-ing of the new digital auto exchange that was held infront of Kyatpyin Digital Auto Exchange in MogokTownship, PyinOoLwin District. After formally open-ing the new digital auto exchange, Minister Brig-GenThein Zaw inspected the installation of machines in thebuilding of the new facility and test-dialed the autotelephones.

The new digital auto exchange project covers

USDA Secretariat Membersmeet USDA executives

500 auto telephones.This was followed by the opening of the new

digital auto exchange that was held in front of theCombined Office Digital Auto Exchange in BogonWard, Mogok. Minister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw formallyopened the new facility.

Next, Minister U Aung Thaung and MinisterBrig-Gen Thein Zaw looked into the installation ofmachines in the building of the new auto exchange andtest-dialed the auto telephones.

The new digital auto exchange project covers1,000 auto telephones.

After that, USDA Secretariat member Minis-ter for Industry-1 U Aung Thaung proceeded to UyinKyaungtaik in Mogok and offered ‘soon’ and provi-sions to members of the Samgha led by PresidingSayadaw of West Kathe Kyaungtaik BhaddantaSandasiri.—MNA

Minister for Rail Transportation Maj-Gen Aung Min inspects Ywa Htaung Diesel Locomotive Shed. — MR

NAY PYI TAW, 21March — Minister for RailTransportation Maj-Gen

Minister inspects Coach and WagonFactory (Myitnge), Ywa Htaung

Diesel Locomotive ShedAung Min, together withDeputy Minister Thura UThaung Lwin, arrived at

Myitnge in a RBE specialtrain yesterday morning.

General Manager U

Aung Win of Coach andWagon Factory (Myitnge)explained the building of

new wagons, major repairand maintenance of RBEwagons and upgrading of

coaches and wagons.After giving neces-

sary instructions to offi-cials and factory staff, theminister viewed aroundthe factory.

Next, he looked intothe concrete sleeper fac-tory (Myitnge) and YwaHtaung Diesel Locomo-tive Shed and attended tothe needs.

The minister and partyinspected the maintenanceof No 824 Myitnge Bridgeon Dothtawady River andNo 453 Sinthay Bridge be-tween Sinthay Station andShwe Myo and construc-tion of new Nay Pyi TawStation. — MNA

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development of other sectors of theeconomy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented eco-nomic system

* Development of the economy inviting partici-pation in terms of technical know-how andinvestments from sources inside the countryand 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 integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

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

ards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace andtranquillity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Consti-

tution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

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