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

Volume XV, Number 282 1st Waning Day of Pyatho 1369 ME Wednesday, 23 January, 2008

Established 1914

* Stability of the State, communitypeace and tranquillity, prevalenceof law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participationin terms of technical know-how and investmentsfrom sources inside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must bekept in the hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and moralityof the entire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and in-tegrity and preservation and safe-guarding of cultural heritage andnational character

* Uplift of dynamism of patrioticspirit

* Uplift of health, fitness and educa-tion standards of the entire nation

Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 22 Jan — Secretary-1 of the

State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Thiha

Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo received a delegation led by

Mr Sitaheng Rasphone, Minister of Agriculture and

Forestry of Lao People’s Democratic Republic, at the

office of SPDC, here, this morning.

Present at the call together with the Secretary-

1 were Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen

Htay Oo, Director-General Col Kyaw Kyaw Win of

SPDC Office, Director-General U Tin Htut Oo of

Agricultural Planning Department under the Ministry

of Agriculture and Irrigation and Director-General U

Kyaw Kyaw of Protocol Department under the Ministry

of Foreign Affairs. The Laotian Minister was accompa-

nied by Mr Kouily A Souphakhet, Ambassador of Lao

PDR to the Union of Myanmar, and delegation mem-

bers. — MNA

Secretary-1 receives Laotian delegationSecretary-1

Lt-Gen

Thiha

Thura Tin

Aung Myint

Oo wel-

comes

Laotian

Minister Mr

Sitaheng

Rasphone

in Nay Pyi

Taw.

MNA

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo receives Laotian delegation led by Minister Mr SitahengRasphone in Nay Pyi Taw. — MNA

INSIDE

PERSPECSTIVES

Now, the govern-ment has builteducational basicfoundations andprovided modernpedagogical andelectronic aids.Teachers are, there-fore, obliged tonurture and guidetheir students withkindness and goodvolition for con-tinuous productionof reliable intel-lectuals andintelligentsia.

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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 DesireWednesday, 23 January, 2008

Towards all-rounddevelopment of the youth

Today, science and technologicaladvancements have been followed byundesirable consequences that somecountries with superiority in wealth are tryingto gain domination over the Third Worldand exercising a strong bias in the field ofinternational relations. The situations reflectthat the people need to work hard on self-reliant basis for the motherland to be able tostand tall in the international communityand enjoy development.

The drive for development of the nationand the people calls for continuous productionof human resources apart from goodfoundations such as stability, peace andnational unity.

In pursuit of national educationpromotion plans, the government is takingsteps to create an education system that cancreate a life-long learning society.

Only a competent teacher can sharpenthe abilities of a student effectively. Ensuringhigh ability, education qualifications andconcepts of students depends on teachers’competence in educating, guiding andnurturing them.

In particular, teachers have to nurturethe students at full capacity for superbimprovement in the subjects, after identifyinginterest, innate nature, personality and sizeof diligence of each student.

Now, the government has builteducational basic foundations and providedmodern pedagogical and electronic aids.Teachers are, therefore, obliged to nurtureand guide their students with kindness andgood volition for continuous production ofreliable intellectuals and intelligentsia.

NAY PYI TAW, 22Jan—Minister for LabourU Aung Kyi went on aninspection tour to HtantabinTownship TuberculosisHospital (100-bed) ofSocial Security Board ofthe Ministry of Labour on20 January.

The minister metwith officials concerned anddiscussed matters onworksite safety measures,effecive prevention andtreatment of infetiousdiseases, health careservices of workers andenhancement of the healthstandards.

Y e s t e r d a ymorning, the ministertogether with Director-General of the Factories andGeneral Labour LawsInspection Department U

NAY PYI TAW, 22 Jan—Minister for Industry-2 Maj-Gen Saw Lwin visited No 2 Auto Factory(Htonbo) of Padaung Township in Bago Division(West) yesterday.

At the assembly hall, the minister heard reportsthe officials concerned and discussed with them matters

YANGON, 22Jan—STI Education willhold Seminar on Servicesand Tourism ManagementDiploma Course No 9 on26 January.

The seminarcovers topics onmanagement, humanresources manage-ment,wholesome foods servicesand financialmanagement.

The centre willalso hold workshop onmanagement of smalland medium scalebusinesses from 15 to 18February in conjunctionwith the certificatepresentation ceremony tomark its secondanniversary.

PYINOOLWIN, 22 Jan —Measures for elimination ofelephantiasis in PyinOoLwin Districtwere explained to health staff andvolunteers at General Hospital inPyinOoLwin on 15 January.

First, Commandant of the 700-bed Defence Services Hospital inPyinOoLwin Brig-Gen Myo MyintThein recounted experiences in

Minister looks into No 2 Auto Factory (Htonbo)to meet the production target, standized quality, tominimize production cost, loss and waste and electricpower.

The minister inspected the maintenance of thefactory, Myanmar Station Wagon vehicles and the engineparts production of DS-70 in TE vehicles.—MNA

Minister inspects TB Hospital and MingaladonIndustrial Zone

Seminar on services and tourism managementdiploma course to be held

In cooperationwith London TeacherTraining College (LTTC),Association of Managersand Administrators(AMA), QueensfieldInternational Businessand Australian Institute of

Training and Education,STI Education isconducting diplomacourses.

Interested personsmay contact the centre, atNo 377, Shwe BonthaStreet, Pabedan Township

(Tel 01-250056 or 01-700273 ) or Room No 7,Building No 4, MyanmarInfo-Tech, HlineUniversity Campus (Tel01-507046, 507047,507048 or 01-507151,507152). — MNA

Awareness of elephantiasis raised inPyinOoLwin

dealing with the disease and MedicalSuperintendent of the 300-bed GeneralHospital Dr Tin Nyo Nyo Latt briefedon measures for fighting the mosquito-borne disease in the district.

Afterwards, health staff andmembers of social organizationsreceived skills in combatingelephantiasis.

H

Aung San Tin and met withmembers of theManagement Committee ofMingaladon Industrial

Zone.The minister in-

spected the trainees whowere attending Work

Proficiency Course ofMyanmar Asia Optical CoLtd.

MNA

Labour Minister U Aung Kyi meeting with trainees and instructors ofMyanmar Asia Optical Co Ltd in Mingaladon Industrial Zone. — MNA

STI

Education

Centre.

MNA

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I N T E R N A T I O N A L N E W SObama says Bill Clinton’scriticism is “troubling”

COLUMBIA (SouthCarolina), 22 Jan—Democratic White Househopeful Barack Obamasaid in an interview airingon Monday that formerpresident Bill Clinton’srecent criticism of hisrecord and campaignwere “troubling” and hewas ready to fight back.

Obama, an IllinoisSenator who is duelingBill Clinton’s wife Hillary

for the Democratic pre-sidential nomination, saidthe former president hadmade statements about himthat were untrue.

“You know theformer president, who Ithink all of us have a lotof regard for, has takenhis advocacy on behalfof his wife to a level thatI think is prettytroubling,” Obama saidin an ABC interview to

air on “Good MorningAmerica”.

“He continues tomake statements that arenot supported by thefacts— whether it’s aboutmy record of oppositionto the war in Iraq or ourapproach to organizing inLas Vegas,” he said.

"This has become ahabit, and one of the thingsthat we're going to haveto do is to directly confront

Bill Clinton when he'smaking statements thatare not factuallyaccurate," Obama said.Bill Clinton has been anactive presence on thecampaign trail for hiswife, a New YorkSenator, and has becomeincreasingly critical ofObama as the rivalrybetween the two senatorshas intensified.

MNA/Reuters

Musharraf to improve Pakistan’simage in Europe visit

ISLAMABAD, 22 Jan—Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Sundaythat his four-nation European visit is aimed at improving Pakistan's imageand removing certain misperception about happenings in the country and theregion.

Belgian Prime Minister GuyVerhofstadt (R) meets with Pakistani

President Pervez Musharraf inBrussels.—INTERNET

Musharraf made the remarks to themedia at the Chaklala Airbase beforehis departure for an eight-day visit toBelgium, France, Switzerland and theUnited Kingdom.

Musharraf said that during his

bilateral meetings with leaders of thesecountries and during his address ondifferent issues of the World EconomicForum (WEF) in the eastern Swiss city ofDavos, his focus would be on clearingmisperceptions and giving them correctperspective of the developments inPakistan and the region.

He said that the organizers of theWEF annual meeting at Davos were keento listen to him and they would providehim an opportunity to address the numberof meetings, which is the rare privilege.

About his engagements in Brussels,he said that the European Union was animportant international player and hewould have an exchange of views withthe leadership of the European Union onbilateral and global issues.

MNA/Xinhua

Bomb blastinjureseight

soldiersin Thailand

BANGKOK, 22 Jan—Suspected insurgents inThailand’s southernmost province of Narathiwaton Monday detonated a roadside bomb and thenlaunched gun attacks, injuring eight soldiers of asecurity patrol team.

The soldiers were ambushed as they were on patrolduty along the railway tracks in Rueso District,according to the Bangkok Post’s webnews.

MNA/Xinhua

17 killed in Sri Lankan heavyfighting

Kenya Govt lashes opposition,summons UK envoy

NAIROBI, 22 Jan— TheKenyan Governmentcondemned as “sabotage”on Monday a plan by theopposition to widen itsprotests against PresidentMwai Kibaki’s re-electionto a boycott of companies

linked to his allies. And inan increasingly militantreaction to criticism fromabroad, Foreign MinisterMoses Wetangulasummoned Britain’s HighCom-missioner AdamWood to express

displeasure at criticism ofKenya’s 27 Decemberelection made in Britain’sParliament.

“Our elections don’tneed a stamp of authorityfrom the House ofCommons,” Wetangulatold reporters in the latestsalvo by the governmentagainst Western powersdoubting the vote.

The British missionconfirmed the meeting onMonday with Wood, butwould not commentfurther. After a bloodyweekend that added to thedeath toll of around 650since the vote, the OrangeDemocratic Movement(ODM) has vowed tocontinue street rallies fromThursday and also calledfor economic protests.

MNA/Reuters

COLOMBO, 22 Jan — The military in Sri Lanka saidat least 15 rebels and two soldiers were killed in heavyfighting broke out between Tamil Tiger rebels and thegovernment troops in the northern Jaffna PeninsulaMonday morning.

Officials from the Media Centre for NationalSecurity said the Army launched an attack againstLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels,killing 15 and injuring 30 at Nagarkovil in the JaffnaPeninsula around 2:30 am local time (2100 GMT).

Two soldiers were killed and nine were injuredwhen the troops destroyed 24 rebels’ bunkers in thebattle.— MNA/Xinhua

Black smoke rises from bombs dropped by US warplanes on suspected

Al-Qaeda hideouts in Arab Jabour. — INTERNET

Palestinians shoutslogans in front of theRafah crossing callingon Egypt to open theirborder with the Gaza

Strip on 21 Jan,2008.— INTERNET

JERUSALEM, 22 Jan—Israeli Prime MinisterEhud Olmert said onMonday that Palestiniansin the Gaza Strip mighthave to go without Israeli-supplied petrol for theircars as long as militantscontinue to fire rocketsacross the border.

“As far as I’mconcerned, all the residentsof Gaza can walk and haveno fuel for their cars,because they have amurderous terrorist

regime that doesn’tallow people in the southof Israel to live in peace,”Olmert said in broadcastremarks.

Israel has closed itsborder crossings with theHamas-controlled GazaStrip, cutting fuel suppliesto the territory’s mainpower plant and petrolstations. The UnitedNations and the EuropeanUnion have urged Israelto restore the flow of fuel.

MNA/Reuters

Olmert saysfuel-starved

Gazans can walk

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WASHINGTON, 21 Jan—More Americans than everbefore are ready for aBlack president in thecountry, according to apoll released on Monday.

The poll by CNN andOpinion Research Corpfrom 14 to 17 Jan showsthat 72 percent of whiteAmericans and 61 percentof black Americans said thenation is ready for a blackpresident, compared to 65percent of whites and 54percent of blacks surveyedin 2006. The poll that inter-viewed 743 whites and513 blacks was releasedas Americans honor Mar-tin Luther King’s Day, thethird Monday in January,

Jordanian opposition supporters shout anti-Israelislogans against a fuel blockade which led to powercuts in Gaza during a rally for the Islamic Action

Front in front of the Jordanian parliamentbuilding in Amman on 21Jan, 2008.—INTERNET

Leader of Thailand’s People Power’s Party Samak Sundaravej, right, and party’sdeputy Yongyuth Tiyapairat, left, take part in a group photograph on the ground

outside parliament house in Bangkok, Thailand on 21 Jan, 2008.—INTERNET

A view of the swimming pool at the resort of San

Alfonso del Mar in Algarrobo city on the

southern coast of Chile, some 100 km (62 miles)

west of Santiago, on 21 Jan, 2008.

INTERNET

ISLAMABAD, 21 Jan— Pakistani villagers saidgunship helicopters launched strikes on Sunday in anarea regarded as a stronghold of a Taleban commanderlinked with the assassination of opposition leaderBenazir Bhutto.

The air attack on positions held by fighters loyal toBaitullah Mehsud, a commander with close ties to al-Qaeda, followed overnight shelling of villages aroundLadha, a town in the remote South Waziristan tribalregion.

There were no fresh casualty reports available, butthe military said on Saturday that it had captured 40militants, and killed 90 during operations in the area onFriday.

Mehsud was linked to a spate of suicide attacks lastyear, and his supporters are believed to be givingsanctuary to al-Qaeda fighters and Pakistani jihadigroups angered by President Pervez Musharraf’salliance with the United States. — MNA/Reuters

KRONBERG (Germany), 21 Jan— A senior Saudiroyal has offered Israel a vision of broad cooperationwith the Arab world and people-to-people contacts ifit signs a peace treaty and withdraws from all occupiedArab territories.

In an interview with Reuters, Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former ambassador to the United States andBritain and adviser to King Abdullah, said Israel andthe Arabs could cooperate in many areas includingwater, agriculture, science and education.

Asked what message he wanted to send to theIsraeli public, he said: —MNA/Reuters

DUBAI, 21 Jan — Of-ficials from more than 20labour importing andexporting countries meetin Abu Dhabi on Sundayto discuss the regulationof the market for Asianmigrants amid growingcalls for their protectionfrom abuse.

Pakistani forces attack onmilitant stronghold

Asian countries discuss migrant labour in UAE Asian workers fill all

sorts of low-paid con-struction, domestic, retail,manufacturing and agri-cultural jobs across theGulf, often outnumberingthe nationals.

The issue of migrantworkers’ rights has comeinto focus in recent

months as the weak dollarmeans the real value oftheir remittances havefallen.

Most are paid indollar-linked Gulf cur-rencies and the issue hasled to strikes and riots inDubai.

MNA/Reuters

Poll shows more Americans readyfor Black president

US Democraticpresidential candidate

Senator Barack Obamatalks at a rally inColumbia, South

Carolina.—XINHUA

and Democratic presi-dential candidates’ cam-paign heat up in South Car-olina before the state holdsits Democratic primary on

26 Jan, where a large num-ber of black voters are seento play decisive role.

The black civil rightsleader and Nobel winner,who is famous for his “Ihave a dream” speech,advocated peaceful resi-stance and equality forpeople of all races. He wasassassinated on 4 April,1968, at 39 while standingon the balcony of a motelin Memphis, Tennessee.

Four decades later,about 52 percent of blackAmericans and 43 percentwhite Americans said theybelieve that race relationswill always be problem inthe United States, accord-ing to the poll. —Internet

Senior Saudi prince offers

Israel peace vision

PYONGYANG, 22 Jan— The DemocraticPeople’s Republic ofKorea (DPRK) onSaturday accused theUnited States ofdeploying fighter planesin South Korea recently,saying the move iscontrary to thedenuclearization processof the Korean Peninsula.

“Such moves reflect

the true intention of thehostile US policy towardthe DPRK,” a spokesmanof the official PeacefulFatherland UnificationCouncil told the KoreanCentral News Agency(KCNA).“The aforemen-tioned deployment by theUS is evidently an openchallenge to the improvingof inter-Korean relationsand the process of peaceful

settlement of the nuclearissue on the KoreanPeninsula,” the KCNAquoted the spokesman assaying. The spokesmandemanded the UnitedStates stop suchprovocations imme-diately and honestlyfulfill its obligation topeace on the KoreanPeninsula.

MNA/Xinhua

Blast hits Bucharest’s sports centre BUCHAREST, 22 Jan — An explosion ripped through

Romania’s Lia Manoliu national sports centre in thecapital on Sunday, causing extensive damage to itsgymnasium, but no casualties, the official Rompresnews agency reported.

Three fire engines rushed to the scene andpreliminary investigations showed the blast was causedby a gas leak in the gym. The gym’s floor wasdestroyed and all the doors and windows were shattered,said Catalin Eftene, spokesperson for Romania’semergency authorities. — MNA/Xinhua

DPRK accuses US of deployingwarplanes in S Korea

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This Image released by the Jordanian Royal Palace in Amman, showsJordan’s Queen Rania, right, visiting a Palestinian patient from the Gaza

Strip as she receives treatment at King Hussein Medical Centre in Amman,Jordan, on 21 Jan, 2008. —INTERNET

Singapore attracts recordinvestments in 2007

SINGAPORE, 22 Jan—Singapore attracted 16.1billion Singapore dollars(about 11.3 billion USdollars) in manufacturingfixed asset investments(FAI) in 2007, exceeding10 billion Singapore dollarsfor the first time ever, theEconomic DevelopmentBoard (EDB) announcedMonday.

It grew by 82.95 per centfrom 2006's 8.8 billionSingapore dollars, andalso exceeded the targetof 8.5-9 billion Singaporedollars set a year ago.

When fully imple-

mented, the investmentscommitted in 2007 willcreate 28,600 new jobs andadd 11.6 billion Singaporedollars per year to thecountry’s gross domesticproduct (GDP), said theEDB.

Singapore has beentrying to pursue capital-,knowledge- and inno-vation-intensive invest-ments, which the EDBsaid are key to thecontinued and sustaineddevelopment of Singa-pore’s economy.

Close to 400 projectswere committed last year.

Among the key projectswas the multi-billion-dollar petrochemical ex-pansion project ofExxonMobil.

When completed in2011, it would be Exxon-Mobil’s largest integratedchemical and refining sitein the world.

Finland’s Neste Oil isalso building the world’slargest next-generationbiodiesel manufacturingplant here, while Switzer-land’s Novartis is buildinga large-scale biotechno-logy plant.

MNA/Xinhua

Models display creations with a Mickey Mousetheme at Hong Kong Disneyland on 21 Jan,

2008.—XINHUA

Citizens choose shopping basket in Qionghai, south China’s HainanProvince, on 21 Jan, 2008. —XINHUA

Sinopec crude oil output up2.27%, natural gas up

10.33% in ’07BEIJING, 22 Jan—China Petroleum and Chemical

Corporation (Sinopec) announced on Monday that itscrude oil output reached 291.67 million barrels lastyear, up 2.27 per cent from 2006.

According to unaudited figures released by Sinopec,it produced 283 billion cubic feet of natural gas in2007, up 10.33 per cent. Sinopec processed 155.58million tons of crude in 2007, a year-on-year increaseof 6.33 per cent. Output of gasoline rose by 7.35 percent to 24.69 million tons; diesel, up 3.84 per cent to60.08 million tons; kerosene, up 31.02 per cent to 8.32million tons and light chemical feedstock, up 3.21 percent to 23.47 million tons.

Output of ethylene, synthetic resins and syntheticrubbers rose by 6.02 per cent, 12.08 per cent and 19.76per cent, respectively, from 2006.

However, output of synthetic fibers fell 5.66 percent and that of urea was down 2.73 per cent.

Total domestic sales volume of refined oil productsrose 6.9 per cent to 119.39 million tons in 2007.

MNA/Xinhua

S Korea considers openingGovt jobs to foreigners

Indonesian IMS eyesmarket-based pricing system JAKARTA, 22 Jan—To prevent illegal

coal trading due to the introduction ofthe proposed domestic market obligation(DMO) policy, producers in Indonesiaurged the government to introduce amarket-based pricing system, local Pressreported Monday. The IndonesianMining Society (IMS) said setting up amarket-based pricing system domes-tically would address the huge disparitybetween local and international coalprices. The domestic coal price currentlyaverages around 20 US dollars per tonunder existing contracts betweenproducers, industries and the government,while the international price hit the 90dollars mark last week.— MNA/Xinhua

SEOUL , 22 Jan—SouthKorea’s incoming admin-istration is consideringallowing foreigners tocompete for all SouthKorean Governmentpositions, except for thoserelated to national securityand intelligence, thetransition team ofPresident-elect LeeMyungbak said Monday.

Lee’s transition teamsaid it has finalized itsdecision to almost fullyopen government jobsto foreigners and is topresent a revision of thepublic service law to theNational Assembly laterMonday.

“We have decided torevise the law so thatcompetent foreigners can

be appointed to neededpositions,” transitioncommittee spokespersonLee Dong-kwan said in abriefing. “We will alsoseek measures to commitforeign officials to con-fidentiality even afterretirement.”

The decision came afterLee last week told his teamto work out measures totake advantage of foreignspecialists’ expertise inhelping South Korearevitalize and upgrade itseconomy. The currentpublic service law allowstemporary recruitment offoreign nationals only in asmall number of fieldssuch as research,technology and education.

MNA/Xinhua

World oil prices fallon demand fears

LONDON, 21Jan—World oil prices slidon Monday on deepening worries abouta potential drop in energy demand owingto the weakness of the US economy,analysts said.

New York’s main contract, light sweetcrude for February delivery, shed 1.76dollars to 88.81 dollars per barrel inelectronic deals.

US markets are closed on Monday forthe Martin Luther King holiday butelectronic trading is open.

Brent North Sea crude for Marchdelivery slumped by 1.46 dollars to 87.77dollars after earlier dipping to 87.55dollars — a low point last seen in mid-December.—Internet

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In this file photo provided by 20th Century Fox, Jessica Alba as Sue Stormand Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards encounter the Silver Surfer in

‘Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.’ Alba recieved Razzie nominationson 21 Jan, 2008, for three films, ‘Awake,’ ‘Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver

Surfer’ and ‘Good Luck Chuck.’— INTERNET

This photo, published

on 21 Jan, 2008, shows

a giant dead whale

suspended in the air by

a crane at a fishing

dock in the eastern

Shandong Province.

XINHUA

Israel Aerospace

Industries Ltd said an

advanced imaging

satellite it produced,

employing synthetic

aperture radar (SAR)

technology, was

launched into orbit on

Monday on an Indian

Polar Satellite Launch

Vehicle.

XINHUA

PARIS , 21 Jan—Colombian President Alvaro Uribesaid on Sunday he was “open for dialogue” with rebelsholding scores of hostages in the jungle, after an offerby the Catholic Church to help create a safe haven fortalks.

He was speaking in Paris after meeting relatives ofFrench-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt at thestart of a tour to discuss European efforts to release theprisoners.

Betancourt, a former Colombian presidentialcandidate who has been held since 2002, is amongdozens of hostages in the hands of Marxist rebels theRevolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known asthe FARC. After meeting Betancourt’s son Lorenzoand ex-husband Fabrice Delloye at the ColombianEmbassy in Paris, Uribe said he was ready to hold adialogue with FARC under a framework proposed bythe Church with the support of European envoys.

“We are open for dialogue in the same way as wehave been strict in fighting terrorism,” he toldjournalists. “We fight terror acts and are open fordialogue to give our country a permanent solution.”

MNA/Reuters

LOS ANGELES, 21 Jan — A US Border Patrol agentwas killed during an operation, prompting HomelandSecurity Secretary Michael Chertoff to call the incidenta “heinous” act, authorities said on Sunday.

The incident took place Saturday when the patrolagent was struck and killed by a fleeing vehicle he waspursuing in an anti- smuggling operation at the Cali-fornia-Mexico border, according to Jeremy Schapp-ell, a spokesman for the Border Patrol.

The agent was trying to stop two vehicles that hadillegally entered the United States from Mexico whenhe was hit, said Schappell. The name of the victim wasbeing withheld until relatives could be notified,Schappell said.

The death, the first for the Border Patrol in 2008,drew a sharp response from US Homeland SecuritySecretary Michael Chertoff. “Dangerous criminalgroups have chosen to respond to our tougher securityposture at the border with increased violence,” Chertoffsaid in a statement. —MNA/Xinhua

PARIS, 21 Jan —France’s oldest man, aFirst World War veteranwho refused a medal andspoke powerfully aboutthe horrors of war, has diedat 110, leaving just oneveteran alive from theconflict. Louis de Caz-enave died at his home inthe Auvergne region incentral France on Sunday,the government said.

President NicolasSarkozy called his death areminder of the 1.4 millionFrench who had lost theirlives in the 1914-18 war.

Cazenave survivedboth the Battle of theSomme in 1916 and theSecond Battle of the Aisnea year later, two of thebloodiest episodes of the

TEHERAN, 21 Jan—Iran received a fourthdelivery of nuclear fuelfrom Russia on Sunday topower Teheran’s firstatomic power plant and itexpects four more beforethe consignment is com-plete, an official Iraniannews agency said.

Russia delivered thefirst batch of about 80 tonsof uranium fuel rods toIran on 17 December andurged Teheran to scrap itsown, controversial pro-gramme for making fuel.

Iran says it wants the

Iran gets 4th batch ofnuclear fuel from Russia

capability to make its ownfuel so that it will havesecure supplies in thefuture.

“The fourth shipmentof Bushehr nuclear powerplant fuel arrived in Iran,”IRNA news agencyreported, quoting Iran’satomic energy productionand development com-pany. The shipment of 11tons arrived on Sunday.

“The process of de-livering the remaining fourshipments will take placebased on a specific time-table,” it said withoutgiving dates.

Washington and otherWestern powers fearIran’s uranium enrich-ment and other nuclearactivities are aimed atbuilding nuclear weapons.

MNA/Reuters

US patrol agent killed atborder with Mexico

France’s oldest man dies,one WWI survivor left

“war to end all wars”.Born in October 1897,

de Cazenave became aninfrantryman in 1916 andretired in 1941. He refuseda military decoration butwas eventually awardedthe civilian Legion ofHonour in 1999.

“Some of my comradesweren’t even given awooden cross,” he told LeMonde newspaper in2005. Recalling eventsetched into his mind 88years earlier, he gave agrim account of theoffensive on Germanpositions along the riverAisne which caused about350,000 French and Ger-man deaths and led after-wards to a partial Frenchmutiny.—MNA/Reuters

Colombian President“open for dialogue”

on hostages

GAZA, 21 Jan— Israeli forces fired missiles innorthern Gaza Strip early Saturday, killing two Hamasmilitants and wounding three others, medical sourcessaid.

Mu’awia Hassanein, director of ambulance andemergency in the Palestinian Health Ministry, saidIhab al-Bana, 30, and Ali Jum’a, 25, were dead whenthey were rushed to the hospital, adding that three othermilitants were moderately hurt.

MNA/Xinhua

TwoHamasgunmenkilled in

Gaza Strip

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Russia’s PresidentVladimir Putin (R) and

his Moldovancounterpart VladimirVoronin speak as they

meet in Moscow’sKremlin , on 22 Jan

2008. Voronin is on aworking visit to Russia.

INTERNET

ABU DHABI, 22 Jan—A company of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)vowed to build the world’s greenest city with zero-carbon, zero-waste and car-free, local newspaper Khaleej Times reported on Sunday.

UAE pledges to buildworld’s greenest city

Under a Sustain-ability Action Plan, UAE’sAbu Dhabi Future EnergyCompany (Masdar) willfinish the project by 2015with its partner and adviser,the World Wide Fund forNature (WWF), an inter-national nongovern-mental organization.

The six-square-kilo-metre project, named“Masdar City”, will belocated near Abu DhabiInternational Airport, and

outside it will be irrigatedwith grey water andtreated waste waterproduced by the city’swater treatment plant.

Masdar City is partof the Masdar Initiative,which was launched inApril 2006 by the AbuDhabi government tofoster the developmentand commercialization ofadvanced and innovativetechnologies in renew-able, alternative andsustainable energies.

MNA/Xinhua

is claimed to be the world’sfirst zero-carbon, zero-waste and car-free city.

Masdar City’s electri-city will be generated byphotovoltaic panels, whilecooling will be providedvia concentrated solarpower. According to thereport, the city’s water willbe provided through asolar-powered desali-nation plant.

Landscaping withinthe city and crops grown

A Citibank branch ispictured in Singapore

22 Jan, 2008. Purchaseof stakes by Singaporestate-owned funds in

Western banks such asCitigroup and UBS

were “good long-terminvestments”, the city

state’s finance ministersaid on Monday. —

INTERNET

US military death toll rises to 3925BAGHDAD, 22 Jan— Two American soldiers were killed on Saturday in two

incidents in central Iraq, the US military said on Monday. One soldier was killed by a roadside bomb attack in the area of Arab Jabour

in south of Baghdad, a military statement said. The area, which is a stronghold of militants affiliated to al-Qaeda in Iraq

network, was the scene of ongoing major offensive launched by US and Iraqitroops.

In western Iraq, a marine was killed during combat operations in AnbarProvince, another statement said.

The names of the deceased soldiers are being withheld pending notificationof next of kin, the statements said.

The latest deaths brought the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq to morethan 3,925 since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to media count based onPentagon figures.—MNA/Xinhua

Two Russian soldiers killedin Chechnya

MOSCOW, 22 Jan— Two Russian soldiers werekilled in an attack in the Caucasus region of Chechnya,Russian news agencies reported on Monday, citinglocal police.

Two soldiers were killed and another woundedin an exchange of fire with unidentified militants ineastern Chechnya on Sunday evening, RIA Novosti,Interfax and ITAR-TASS news agencies said.

Russian troops and police on Monday continuedhunting for at least 20 militants in a neighbouringdistrict of the region, RIA Novosti said.

MNA/Xinhua

SYDNEY, 22 Jan— TwoAustralian graffiti artistsdrowned when a flashstorm swept them along adrain they had been spraypainting in Sydney beforetrapping them at its barredocean outlet, police said.

A third graffiti artist,who remained consciousduring the ordeal,managed to squeezehimself through the barsand into the ocean wherehe was rescued by surferson Sunday.

“It’s believed three

Two graffiti artistsdrown in Sydney

people, two men and onewoman, were allegedlyspray painting the wallsof a stormwater drain atMaroubra (Beach), whenit started to rain,” policesaid in a statement onMonday.

“As a result of thestorm, the drain is believedto have filled with water,trapping the two men anda woman inside, beforethey were washed furtherdown the drain towardLurline Bay about 1kmaway,” said police.

MNA/Reuters

Private plane collisionkills four in S California

LOS ANGELES, 22 Jan— At least four people werekilled after two private planes collided in midair onSunday afternoon in southern California, authoritiessaid.

The collision occurred near the CoronaMunicipal Airport, about 72 kilometres southeast ofLos Angeles, according to Ian Gregor, spokesmanfor the Federal Aviation Administration.

MNA/Xinhua

Mexican army capturessenior drug cartel member

MEXICO CITY, 22 Jan—Mexico’s Army hasarrested a leading member of one of the country’smost notorious drug cartels, the attorney-general’soffice said on Monday.

Soldiers detained Alfredo Beltran Leyvaon Sunday in the northwestern city of Culiacan, aspokeswoman for the office said. Beltran Leyva andthree other people arrested with him were carryingsome 900,000 US dollars in cash in two suitcases.

MNA/Reuters

Japan’s NHK chief resigns over insider trading

S Korea indicts crewmen,ship owners for oil spill

Tokyo, 22 Jan— Thepresident of Japan’spublic broadcaster NHKsaid on Monday he wouldresign to takeresponsibility for aninsider-trading scandalinvolving staff at themedia group.

NHK President

Genichi Hashimoto saidhe has tendered hisresignation.

“The management’sresponsibility for sharplydenting the audience’sconfidence is grave,” hetold reporters.

Hashimoto said twoof NHK’s 10 managing

directors would step downon Tuesday over thescandal. The Securitiesand Exchange Sur-veillance Commissionwas looking into thescandal, while NHK itselfsaid it would check all ofits 11,000 employees.

MNA/Reuters

SEOUL, 22 Jan— SouthKorean prosecutorsindicted the Chineseowners of an oil tanker andSamsung Heavy Industrieson Monday along with fivecrew members of thevessels involved in thecountry’s worst oil spill inDecember.

A sea-bound cranemounted on a Samsungbarge punched holes in theHong Kong-registeredtanker Hebei Spirit on 7December, causing a leak

of more than 10,000 tonsof crude oil that washedup on South Korea’s westcoast beaches, including anature reserve.

An official at theprosecutors’ office saidthey indicted the Indian-national captain and thefirst officer of Hebei Spiritand the captains of thebarge and two tug boatsthat towed it, all for failureto exercise due caution.

MNA/Reuters The prosecution also

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 23 January, 2008

YANGON, 22 Jan— Lt-Gen Myint Swe ofMinistry of Defence andwife Daw Khin Thet Htayhoisted Seinbudaw(diamond bud) andHngetmyatnardaw atopAungmyay Bodhi Pagodaat Latyatsan Village inThanlyin Township today.

The ceremony tohoist Seinbudaw (diamondbud), Hngetmyatnardawand htidaw (umbrella)atop the pagoda, wasopened with three-timerecitation of Namo Tassa.

Afterwards, thecongregation led by Lt-Gen Myint Swe and wifereceived Five Preceptsfrom Vice-Chairman ofState Sangha MahaNayaka CommitteeSayadaw of Yankin MahaDhammikarama KyaikpiMonastery Agga MahaPandita Agga MahaSaddhamma JotikadhajaBhaddanta Gunosana andSayadaws recited Parittas.

NAY PYI TAW, 22Jan — Secretary-Generalof the Union Solidarityand DevelopmentAssociation U Htay Oomet executives andmembers of MeikhtilaTownship USDA at the

Lt-Gen Myint Swe hoists Htidaw, Seinbudaw, Hngetmyatnardawatop Aungmyay Bodhi Pagoda in Thanlyin Township

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Myint Swe and DawKhin Thet Htay presentedthe Seinbudaw (diamondbud) donated by Chairmanof the State Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander-in-Chief ofDefence Services SeniorGeneral Than Shwe andwife Daw Kyaing Kyaingto Sayadaw Agga MahaPandita Agga MahaSadhamma JotikadhajaBhaddanta Gunasana.

Next, DeputyMinister for ReligiousAffairs Brig-Gen ThuraAung Ko and departmentalheads presentedShwehtidaw (goldenumbrella) to fix atop thepagoda and offertories toMembers of the Sangha.

Sayadaw Bhad-danta Gunasana delivereda sermon and thecongregation shared meritsgained.

Afterwards Lt-Gen Myint Swe and wife,

Deputy Minister Brig-GenThura Aung Ko, seniormilitary officers anddepartmental heads

conveyed Seinbudaw(diamond bud), Hngat-myatnardaw and tiers ofgolden htidaw (goldenumbrella) around thepagoda clock-wise andsprinkled scented water onthe religious objects.

At the auspicioustime, Lt-Gen Myint Sweand wife, the deputyminister, departmental

heads and local peoplehoisted Seinbudaw(diamond bud), Hngat-myatnardaw and tiers ofgolden htidaw (goldenumbrella) atop the pagoda.

O f f i c i a l sconcerned and members ofthe board of trustees of thepagoda also hoisted tiersof golden umbrella atoppagodas circling

Aungmyay Bodhi Pagoda.The ceremony

concluded with the three-time recitation of BuddhaSasanam CiramTitthatu.

After the cere-mony, Members of theSangha led by SayadawBhaddanta Gunasanaconsecrated AungmyayBodhi Pagoda. — MNA

USDA Secretary-General meets members ofMeikhtila Township USDA

office of the district andtownship USDA on 19January.

In his speech atthe meeting the Secretary-General stressed the needsfor USDA members tomake efforts for the

development of the regionby performingconstructive works andcollectively participate inuplifting the agriculturalsector, main economics ofthe nation.

MNA

YANGON, 22 Jan— Organized by ChemicalIndustry Group ofMyanmar IndustrialistsAssociation and funded byJapan External TradeOrganization (JETRO),Yangon, educative talks on‘Anatomy of ResponsibleCare (RC)’, ‘Guide forInitiating RC’ and ‘Pointsof RCMS for ChemicalIndustry in Myanmar’ willbe given at the TradersHotel on Sule Pagoda

Educative talks given at Traders HotelRoad, here, this afternoon.

Chairman ofMyanmar IndustrialistsAssociation U Paw Heinand executive officers,departmental officials andentrepreneurs were presenton the occasion.

Chairman ofChemical Industry GroupDr Kyaw Htin andManaging Director MrEitaro Kojima of JETRO(Yangon) made openingspeeches. Then, Senior

Researcher of JapanChemical IndustryAssociation Mr KonoshinEukuma gave educativetalks on ‘Anatomy ofResponsible Care (RC)’,‘Guide for Initiating RC’ and‘Points of RCMS forChemical Industry inMyanmar’ and answered thequires shot by those present.Afterwards, Advisor ofJETRO (Yangon) gave aconcluding speech.

MNA

Aungmyay Bodhi Pagoda in Latyatsan Village (Htamalon) in Thanlyin Township. — MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe and wife Daw Khin Thet Htay present Seinbudaw(diamond bud) to a Sayadaw. — MNA

Senior Researcher Mr Konoshin Eukuma of Japan Chemical IndustryAssociation (JCIA) gives talks at Traders Hotel in Yangon. — UMFCCI

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“He abused me, he defeated me, he robbed me”, the hatred of them,who harbours this thought, is not appeased.

Who harbours hatred is not appeased

Dhammapada 3

Thai delegation led by Lt-Gen PanumatSivara visits Tooth Relic Pagoda in Yangon.

MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint and Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Than Htay inspectself-reliant sub-power station in Okpo Township. — MNA

Experts discuss measures for monitoring,controlling infectious diseases in 2008

NAY PYI TAW, 22 Jan — Health experts held ameeting and discussed measures for monitoring andcontrolling preventable diseases including polio andinfectious diseases in 2008 and laid down future tasksat the Health Department here yesterday.

The meeting was organized by the HealthDepartment under Ministry of Health and World Health

Organization-WHO.The meeting was participated by deputy Director-

General of the Health Department Dr San Shwe Win,Resident Representative of WHO Prof Adik Wibowo,Dr Nihal Singh of WHO, Ms Karen Hymbaugh and DrNalini Ramamurty of specialists for infectious diseasesand officials concerned. — MNA

Thai delegation onstudy tour

YANGON, 22 Jan— Thevisiting delegation led byLieutenant GeneralPanumat Sivara of NationalDefence College of RoyalThai Army accompanied byofficials visited the ToothRelic Pagoda in MayangonTownship, here, thismorning and offeredflowers and water to thepagoda.

Members of thePagoda Board of Trusteesexplained the historicalbackground of the pagoda.Lieutenant GeneralPanumat Sivara signed inthe visitors’ book, madecash donations to the fundsof the Pagoda and paid

obeisance to the Pagoda.Next, the guests

visited the ChaukhtetkyiPagoda on ShwegondineRoad in Bahan Township.They then offered lightsand paid homage to thePagoda. LieutenantGeneral Panumat Sivarasigned in the visitors’ bookand made cash donations.

Later Thai delegationmembers paid a visit tothe National Museum onPyay Road. LieutenantGeneral Panumat Sivarasigned in the visitors’ bookand presented souvenirsto the officials of themuseum.

MNA

Myanmar Tennis ChampionshipTourney on 26 Jan

NAY PYI TAW, 22 Jan — Myanmar TennisChampionship Tournament organized by MyanmarTennis Federation will be held at Theinbyu tenniscourt in Yangon from 26 to 30 January.

Tournament includes men’s open division,women’s open division, men’s 35 and above, 45and above, 55 and above and 60 and above andsingles and doubles.

The tennis players may contact and enroll atMTF up to 25 Jan (Tel: 01-372360). — MNA

Transformers, Sub-power stations opened in Okpo TownshipNAY PYI TAW, 22 Jan—

Minister for Electric Power-2 Maj-Gen Khin MaungMyint accompanied by CECmember of the UnionSolidarity and DevelopmentAssociation, Bago Division(West) in-charge DeputyMinister for Energy Brig-Gen Than Htay and ViceChairman of Bago DivisionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil Brig-Gen SeinMyint inspected the sitechosen for building of 33/11KV (1250) KVA sub-powerstation at Gonnyindanvillage-tract in OthegonTownship, Bago Divisionon 20 January.

At the briefing hall,Electrical Engineer of BagoDivision (West) U YeMyint Htay and officialsreported on tasks forconstruction of thesubpower station. Theminister gave necessaryinstructions.

Next, the minister andparty attended the openingceremony to startdistribution of power from11/0.4 KV (100 KVA)transformer atThayetpinseik village inOkpo Township.

Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Than Htay formally cutthe ribbon and then MinisterMaj-Gen Khin MaungMyint turned on the mainswitch. The transformer wasinstalled with thecontribution of wellwishers.

The minister and partyalso attended the openingceremony of 33/11 KV(2500 KVA) sub-powerstation and MoenyodanStreet in Okpo Township.

Managing Director UMaung Thaung of YangonTransformer and ElectronicCo presented documentsrelated to the plot of landworth K seven million tothe minister.

CEC member of theUSDA Deputy MinisterBrig-Gen Than Htayaccepted the relateddocuments of the chosensite for 33/11 KV (1250)KVA sub-power station.

Vice chairman Brig-Gen Sein Myint received K101 million— K 100million from YTECManaging Director UMaung Thaung and onemillion from owner of Aung

Thu Passenger Bus ServiceU Htay Win.

Afterwards, CECmember Deputy MinisterBrig-Gen Than Htay, Vice-chairman of Bago DivisionPDC Brig-Gen Sein Myintand officials formallyopened the 33/11 KV(2500) KVA sub-powerstation and the ministerformally unveiled thesignboard of the sub-powerstation. — MNA

YANGON, 22 Jan —Myanmar PGA and MGFPresident’s Cup GolfTournament 2008organized by MyanmarPGA and Myanmar GolfFederation, will be held atHanthawady Golf Club atHsemainggon in BagoTownship, from 19 to 22February.

The competitions will

Myanmar PGA and MGFPresident Cup Golf

Tournament 2008 to be heldinclude ProfessionalGolfers level, Men’samateur level handicapand Women’s amateurlevel handicap.

Those wishing to takepart in the competitionsmay contact phonenumbers 651374, 09-9972554 and 052-22254not later than 4 pm on 16February. —MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 22Jan—Special RefresherCourse No 30 for BasicEducation Teachersconducted by the CentralInstitute of Civil Service(Upper Myanmar) of theCivil Service Selection andTraining Board wasopened at the Yadana Hallof CICS (Upper Myanmar)in PyinOoLwin, Manda-lay Division yesterdaymorning. On behalf ofChairman of MyanmarEducation CommitteeSecretary-1 of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Lt-Gen ThihaThura Tin Aung Myint Oo,Minister for Education DrChan Nyein made aspeech.

Also present onthe occasion wereAuditor-General Maj-GenLun Maung, deputyministers, the DeputyChief Justice (UpperMyanmar), members ofCSSTB, the Chairman ofMandalay CityDevelopment CommitteeMandalay Mayor,departmental heads, theRector of CICS (UpperMyanmar), pro-rectors,division-level depart-mental officials, heads ofdepartment of CISC(Upper Myanmar), courseinstructors and teachertrainees .

In his address,Minister for Education DrChan Nyein said thatnowadays the governmentis shaping the future of thenation by enhancing theefficiency of newgeneration youths basedon education.

Basic educationteachers are the ones whonurtured and trainedstudents since theiryounger days, he said andstressed the need to nurtureand train the youths tobecome able and reliableones to be in line with therequirements of the Statewhile enhancing theirtalents and personalitytraits, making better useof the already-achieved

Teachers to strive for students to be culturally civilized and morally upright

Special Refresher Course No 30 for Basic Education Teachersof CICS (Upper Myanmar) opened

Minister Dr Chan Nyein delivers an address at opening of Special Refresher Course No 30 forBasic Education Teachers of CICS (Upper Myanmar). — MNA

education infrastructures.Not only that,

teachers are to inculcate asense of duty as well asmoral character in theyouths to be capable andmorally upright in additionto teaching while imbuingthem with a spirit ofcherishing the State andthe people and good habitand character, he said.

He spoke of theneed for teachers to makea constant effort for thepromotion of educationstandard of students, forthe development ofstudents individually andfor the realization ofeducation infrastructures.

He also called onteachers to nurturestudents to be fullyequipped with aptitudeand efficiency to becomeones capable of living alife of determination andserving the interest of theState.

In the meantime,they are to strive forstudents to be culturallycivilized and morallyupright so that they willbe able to shape theirfuture and to try theirutmost to be exemplary,he added.

Teachers are tomake constant efforts tobe in oneness withstudents, and only then,will attributes in teachersbe brilliant all the more asa result, he noted.

He said out-

standing students will turnout continuously due tothe training of the teacherswith high qualification.Patriotic teachers are ableto nurture their pupils topossess patriotism andUnion Spirit. It isnecessary for the teachersto learn the respectivesubjects for ever, he said. He said Head of StateSenior General ThanShwe had given guidancethat efforts are to be madefor enhancing the teachingskills of the teachers asthe first requirement. Heurged the teachers to strivefor upgrading teachingskills. The education worldwill develop if the teachersare better qualified. Withthe emergence of brilliantyounger generation invarious fields the nationand its people will beprosperous, he added.

Next, Minister forEducation Dr Chan Nyeinand party cordially greetedtrainees.

The five-weekcourse is being attendedby 1302 the trainees fromthe basic educationschools of UpperMyanmar.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 22Jan—Minister for MinesBrig-Gen Ohn Myint on20 January inspected thesculpturing of a jade Bud-dha image at the MyanmaGems Enterprise.

He viewed polishingof precious stones andsales of gems at the gemssale centre of MyanmaVes Joint Venture Com-pany Ltd, and local gemsshops at the MyanmaGems Museum.

He also inspected ar-

Mines Minister visits Thanlyin Tin Refineryranging jade lots for theGems Sales due to be heldin March at the MyanmarConvention Centre onMindhamma Road, call-ing for coordination ofrespective committeesformed for successful ex-hibition of the gems sales.

During the inspectiontour of the Tin SmeltingPlant in Thanlyin, he heardreports by Managing Di-rector of No 2 Mining En-terprise U Hla Thein andthe factory manager on

production process andprogress of repairing thefactory. He called forworksite safety, and ex-ceeding the target. He in-spected the productionprocess at the plant andthe crop plantations grownby the service personnel.

He visited the SaltGrinding Mill and OralRehydration Salt Factoryof the Myanma Salt andMarine Chemicals Enter-prise in Thakayta Town-ship.—MNA

YANGON, 22 Jan—TheMyanmar Women’sAffairs Federationorganized healtheducation talks and round-table discussions at No 1Basic Education HighSchool on Yazadarit Streetin Ward 7, SouthOkkalapa Township, thismorning.

Present at the talkswere the secretary and

Health education talks, round-tablediscussions conducted

members of MWAF, Headof Administration Depart-ment Dr Daw Khin SanNwe and officials,teachers and students.

At the talks, the headof the AdministrationDepartment made anopening address.Secretariat Member DrDaw Thet Thet Zin gavetalks on garbage andhealth, and Assistant Head

U Sai San Oo of theEnvironmental Con-servation Departmentunder Yangon Civil andDevelopment Committee,on garbage. YCDCdonated 10 rubbish boxesand garbage bags.

At the round-tablediscussion, Dr Daw KhinSan Nwe and officialsdiscussed facts aboutgarbage.—MNA

Round-tablediscussions of

MWAF at No 1BEHS in South

OkkalapaTownship. — YCDC

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Images

of

the

Day

Aymara Indians row their boat toward a

floating island in Sahuina, northern Bo-

livia, on 20 Sunday, Jan, 2008.

INTERNET

A preview of the Dunhuang Art Exhibi-

tion is held at National Art Museum of

China in Beijing, capital of China, on

19 Jan, 2008. The exhibition will

officially open on 22 Jan, in which 120

pieces of copies of Mokao Grotto murals

and ten pieces of unearthed cultural

relics will be displayed.

XINHUA

The Sandovaz family from Mexico snap

pictures by the 110-ton stainless steel Anish

Kapoor sculpture called ‘Cloud Gate’ and

nicknamed ‘The Bean’ during a visit to Mil-

lennium Park in downtown Chicago on Fri-

day, 4 Jans, 2008.

INTERNET

A diver dances with a nurse shark at the

Donghu Aquarium in Wuhan,

capital of central China’s Hubei Province,

on 21 Jan, 2008.

INTERNET

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P.O.Box 109,Ph: 723043

(For. Domnern Somgiat &Boonma Attorneys at Law,

Thailand).Dated: 23 January 2008

MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT

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INVITATION TO QUOTATION Sealed quotations are invited by the Myanma PortAuthority, for the supply of the following items; (1) 50 Ton Diesel Hydraulic Mobile Crane-(One Unit) (Including 5 Years Recommended Spares) Quotation Closing date/ time 7.2.2008 (Thursday)15:00 hours. Quotation forms and documents areavailable at the Stores Department, Seik KanTownship, Myanma Port Authority, starting from24-1-2008 during office hours. For further details, please contact telephone number292334,292292, and 292301.

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MYANMAR IVANHOE COPPER COMPANY LIMITED(TENDER NOTICE)TENDER. IFB No. 10/ Overseas/2008Supply of Spares for CAT Machines, Tyre, General, Tamrock Drill, Isuzu(45) lots is invited from OverseasSuppliers by CIF Yangon Basis, by LC Term.CLOSING DATE will be on 5 February 2008 at 16:00 hr and RFQ 034304, 028399, 031715, 031786 willbe closed on 29 January 2008 at 16:00 hr.Tender documents are available at the following addresses:70 (I) Bo Chein Street, Pyay Road, Hlaing Township, Yangon, MyanmarTel: (95) 1 514194 to 7; Fax: (95) 1 514208; Email: miccl@miccl.com.mmSite: Tel: (95) 71 22225/6; Fax: (95) 71 22522; Email: supply@miccl.com.mmSealed Bids are to be reached the above offices on or before the closing date.Queries can be done between 10am to 4pm at Supply Department; Tel: (95) 71 22225/6;Email: supply@miccl.com.mm before the Tender Closing Date.

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Indian bus fallsinto gorge, 38

dead MUMBAI, 21 Jan — At

least 38 people were killedand dozens injured after abus packed with pilgrimsfell into a gorge in westernIndia, police said onMonday.

The accident occurredon Sunday night, whenthe driver lost controlnegotiating a bend along ahilly stretch about 200kilometres (125 miles)north of India’s financialcapital Mumbai.

The victims, mostlyfrom Mumbai, includedfive children and 14women. Forty passengerswere injured, police said.

MNA/Reuters

Eastern Indonesiastruck by

earthquakeJAKARTA, 21 Jan—An

undersea earthquake hasstruck eastern Indonesiain the area of the Mollucasislands, although notsunami warning wasissued, the local meteoro-logy agency said onMonday.

The US GeologicalSurvey said in a bulletin onits website that the 5.9magnitude quake struck inthe early hours of Mondaymorning 179 kilometres(111 miles) north westof Ternate in the Mollucasand at a depth of 53kilometres. The Indone-sian meteorology agency,which put the quake at 6.3on the Richter Scale via atelephone text message, didnot issue a tsunamiwarning.

An official from the localagency said it was stillchecking on whether therehad been any damage orcasualties given the remotearea where the quakeoccurred. Indonesia suffersfrequent quakes, as it lieson an active seismic belt onthe so-called Pacific “Ringof Fire”. — MNA/Reuters

Tajiks see new plant as way out of energy crisis

Sri Lanka says fighting kills 41 rebels, soldier

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SANGTUDA (Tajikistan),21 Jan—Tajikistan, itsutilities paralysed by thecoldest winter in decades,on Sunday opened a newRussian-built power planthailed by the authorities asa step towards solving anenergy crisis.

Millions of Tajiks werestruggling to survivewithout heating andelectricity in their homesas temperatures plunged tobelow -20 degrees Celsius(-4 Fahrenheit) across themountainous nation northof Afghanistan.

Tajik President ImomaliRakhmon, speaking at theopening ceremony of theSangtuda-1 hydroelectricpower plant, saidadditional electricity cap-acity would help avoidsuch crises in the future.

“This year’s winter hasproved the necessity ofsolving Tajikistan’s energyproblems as quickly aspossible,” he said duringthe Soviet-style ceremony,its site festooned with flagsand portraits of Rakhmonand Russian President Vla-dimir Putin.

Its infrastructure ruinedin a 1990s civil war,Tajikistan has longexperienced power shor-tages in winter monthswhen temperatures usuallystay above -5 Celsius(23.00 Fahrenheit).

This winter’s bitter coldcaught the authorities offguard, forcing the govern-ment to resort to dailyrations of electricity, waterand gas in the nation of 7million. But with its dailyproduction capacity of 2.4

million kilowatt hours ofelectricity, Sangtuda-1 istoo small to make anyimmediate change in theimpoverished ex-Sovietnation. — MNA/Reuters

COLOMBO, 21 Jan—Sri Lanka’s forceshave attacked five Tamil Tiger boats inthe north, while separately troops havekilled 41 rebels and one soldier died infresh fighting, the military said onSunday.

A six-year truce between the stateand the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) formally ended on Wednesday,opening the way for a military push forthe Tigers’ northern stronghold and abloody escalation in a 25-year civil war.

The fighting in the northern JaffnaPeninsula, northern districts ofVavuniya, Pollonnaruwa and north-western district of Mannar came daysafter 27 people were killed in a busambush in the central town of Buttala,

which the military blamed on the Tigers.“Troops attacked a line of LTTE

terrorist bunkers ... south of AdampanTank in Mannar and completely destroyedsix to eight of them,” said a spokesman atthe media centre for national security,asking not be name in line with policy.

“Troops also recovered the bodies oftwo female terrorists and some weapons.”

The military said they had killed 39Tamil Tiger rebels in fighting on Saturdayand one solider also died. Separately themilitary in northern Jaffna Peninsula hadattacked five boats of the Tigers. Theclashes were the latest in renewed civilwar that has seen near daily air raids,bombings and land and sea battles.

MNA/Reuters

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Volcano eruption underAntarctica ice sheet confirmed

article published in the journal NatureGeosciences by Hugh F J Corr andDavid G Vaughan. The volcaniceruption from beneath rated “severe”to “cataclysmic” on an internationalscale of volcanic force. It punched amassive breach in the ice sheet and spatout a plume some 12,000 meters (eightmiles) into the sky.

“We believe this was the biggesteruption in Antarctica during the last10,000 years,” Corr said.

Evidence for this comes from aBritish-American airborne geophysicalsurvey in 2004-5 that used radar todelve deep under the ice sheet to mapthe terrain beneath. “This is the firsttime we have seen a volcano beneaththe ice sheet punch a hole through theice sheet,”Vaughan said.— Internet

BEIJING, 21 Jan—Evidence of apowerful volcano, whicherupted underthe ice sheet of West Antarctica around325 BCandmight still be active now,has been confirmed by British scientists,according to media reports Monday.

A layer of volcanic ash and glassshards frozen within an ice sheet inWest Antarctica was identified in an

Antarctica

Oman bans poultryimports from India, Iran

MUSCAT, 21 Jan—Oman has banned theimport of all poultry andpoultry products fromIndia and Iran, the statenews agency ONA said onSaturday, after outbreaksof avian influenza in thosecoun-tries.

The report gave noofficial reason for the ban.Veterinary workers begankilling thousands ofchickens in eastern Indianon Wednesday after whatthe World Health Organi-zation (WHO) said wasthe worst outbreak of birdflu in the country.

The outbreak in West

Bengal was the fourth inIndia since 2006 andpresented the country’stoughest challenge yet.

Iran has also found thedeadly H5N1 strain of bird

flu in ducks and geese inthe north of the IslamicRepublic. No human caseswere reported, local mediasaid.

MNA/Reuters

A man holds a giant Chinese salamander in thisundated handout. A giant Chinese salamander that

predates Tyrannosaurus rex and the world’ssmallest frog are among a group of extremely rareamphibians identified by scientists as being in need

of urgent help to survive.—INTERNET

East China provinceto open 40 air routesNANJING, 21 Jan—East China’s Jiangsu Province

plans to open more than 40 air routes and carry 13million passengers in 2008, according to provincialtransport bureau sources.

Pan Yonghe, the bureau director, said 30 of the airroutes linked to domestic cities, with the rest overseas.

The province will spend 400 million yuan (about53.3 million US dollars) this year in building a newairport in Huai’an City, and in expanding three others,including the Nanjing Lukou International Airport.

Last year, the province’s airports handled 10.76million passengers, an increase of 30.3 per cent over2006. —MNA/Xinhua

Two killed in spate ofshootings in

Los Angeles area

Israel arrests six Palestinians in West BankRAMALLAH, 21 Jan—Israeli forces arrested six Palestinians in the West Bank on

Saturday night, Palestinian security sources said on Sunday. Four detainees, including three teenagers, were arrested in Jenin during overnight

raids at the houses, the sources added. The other two people was detained by Israelitroops who rolled into the holy city of Bethlehem, according to the sources.

Israeli radio reported that the detainees were wanted by Israel, adding that theIsraeli police arrested 650 Palestinians this week for intruding inside Israel withoutpermission. Separately, in an internal Palestinian conflict on Sunday, Hamasmovement said security forces, loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement,arrested four Hamas members in the West Bank. Three were arrested in Tulkaremand a fourth in Jenin, Hamas said in a Press statement.—MNA/Xinhua

LOS ANGELES, 21 Jan—A spate of shootingsoccurred overnight andearly Sunday in the LosAngeles area, killing twoand wounding nine others,three critically, authoritiessaid.

The first shootinghappened at a birthdayparty in Long Beach lateSaturday when severalgang members apparentlycrashed the party andstarted a fight, saidSergeant Dina Zapalski, apolice spokeswoman.

A 17 year-old boy and a15 year-old girl werecritically wounded andlater died from theirinjuries, Zapalski said.Another 17 year-old boysuffered non-life-threa-tening injuries.

The second shootingtook place early Sundayin Compton City, whenfour or five men turned upat a party and opened fire,Los Angeles CountySheriff’s Deputy Tony

Moore said.Eight people were shot

and three were criticallywounded. Moore said itwas not known if the attackwas gang-related.

No suspect was arrestedin both shootings, policesaid. —MNA/Xinhua

A model displays a

creation from Amapo’s

Fall/Winter 2008

collection during Sao

Paulo Fashion Week

on 21 Jan, 2008.

INTERNET

A file photo provided by TriStar Pictures shows Lindsay Lohan in ‘I KnowWho Killed Me.’ The film, in which Lohan plays two characters who may ormay not be the same person, received a leading nine Razzie nominations on

21 Jan, 2008, among them worst picture of 2007.—INTERNET

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S P O R T S

Venus Williams (R)and Serena Williamsin action during theirwomen's doubles thirdround match againstEstonia's Maret Aniand Meilen Tu of theUS at the AustralianOpen tennis tourna-ment in Melbourne.

INTERNET

Crouch saves Liverpool on angry nightat Anfield

Nigeria’s Peter Odemwingie, right, in action asIvory Coast’s Boka Arthur, centre, with teammateAbdoulaye Meite, left, try to defend during theirAfrica Cup of Nations group B soccer match inSekondi, Ghana, on 21 Jan, 2008.—INTERNET

Kalou kicks Ivory Coastto perfect start

SEKONDI, 22 Jan — A second-half goal by SalomonKalou earned Ivory Coast a 1-0 victory over Nigeria ina clash of heavyweights at the African Nations Cup onMonday. The Chelsea striker netted on 66 minutesagainst the run of play to give the Elephants a dreamstart in Group B at the Essipon stadium.

Both teams struggled to play lively football in scorch-ing heat, with the temperature reaching 35 degreesCelsius. Nigeria had the best chances with OlympiqueMarseille defender Taye Taiwo hitting Boubacar Barry'sbar with a powerful free kick after 14 minutes.

Ivory Coast coach Gerard Gili added to his front lineby replacing midfielder Steve Gohouri with forwardAbdelkader Keita at halftime.

The Super Eagles continued to dictate the play butYakubu Aiyegbeni wasted two clear chances withinthe first five minutes of the second half.

Ivory Coast went ahead when Kalou dribbled pastthree Nigerians before beating keeper Austin Ejidefrom close range. — MNA/Reuters

Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova prepares to hit ashot during her fourth round match against Russia'sMaria Kirilenko at the Australian Open in Mel-bourne. Hantuchova won 1-6, 6-4, 6-4.—INTERNET

Novak Djokovic of Serbia lunges for a return toLleyton Hewitt of Australia during their fourth

round men's singles match at the Australian Opentennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia,

on 21 Jan, 2008.—INTERNET

Olympic gold medalist MichaelPhelps swims the butterfly in themen's 400 yard individual medley

during the 2008 Toyota Grand Prixof Swimming at the Belmont Plaza

Olympic Pool in Long Beach,California.—INTERNET

Roma fansbanned from

Sampdoria gameafter violence

MILAN, 22 Jan — ASRoma fans have beenbanned from attendingWednesday's Italian Cupquarter-final first leg atSampdoria following vio-lent incidents this week-end, Italy's anti-hooliganbody said on Monday.

Three Catania fanswere injured when theywere stabbed in distur-bances before Sunday's 2-0 defeat by Roma at theStadio Olimpico in theItalian capital.

The hooligan body saidin a statement it had de-cided to intervene "in arigorous manner againstRoma fans" and was de-termined to act for thelong term.

MNA/Reuters

Ferguson denies making offensive gesture to fansLONDON, 22 Jan — Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has refuted

allegations that he made offensive gestures to Reading fans as his team battled to a2-0 Premier League victory at the Madejski Stadium on Saturday.

Television pictures showed Ferguson pumping his fists and putting his left handon to his right arm after Cristiano Ronaldo's late goal secured all three points to keepthe champions at the top. Wayne Rooney had broken the deadlock after 77 minutes.

An FA spokesman confirmed that they would study video evidence of the incident,but Ferguson denied he was responding to taunts from the home fans. "All I wasdoing was expressing my relief at winning what was one of our hardest games of theseason," the United boss told reporters in Riyadh where United are playing in atestimonial match for former Saudi Arabia skipper Sami Al-Jaber.—MNA/Reuters

FIFA, UEFA agree $252m deal with clubs

Early hat-trick earns Morocco easy win ACCRA, 22 Jan — A hat-trick from Soufiane Alloudi inside half an

hour ensured an easy 5-1 win for Morocco over Namibia in theirAfrican Nations Cup Group A match on Monday.

The rising star of Moroccan football netted twice in the openingfive minutes in a shocking start to Namibia's second Nations Cupappearance -- a decade after the first.

Alloudi completed his hat-trick with a rare headed goal in the 28thminute after Tarik Sektioui had teased the porous Namibia defence toprovide the prefect cross.

Namibia, despite the early jitters, did well to fight back to 2-1 whenmidfielder Brian Brendell scored in the 24th minute but werethoroughly outplayed by a creative Morocco team.

A penalty by Sektioui made it 4-1 before halftime and substituteMoncef Zerka got his first international goal three minutes aftercoming on as a substitute in the 70th minute. —MNA/Reuters

NYON (Switzerland),22 Jan — FIFA andUEFA have agreed to payaround 252 million USdollars over the next sixyears to compensateclubs whose players takepart in World Cups andEuropean champion-ships.

The deal, involving a

110-million-US-dollarpayment by FIFA and ap-proximately 142 millionUS dollars by UEFA, wasannounced following ameeting with club repre-sentatives at UEFA'sSwiss headquarters onMonday.

It forms part of a pack-age of agreements aimedat ending years of legalwrangling between thecontinent's top clubsand the sport's governingbodies.

As well as receivingcompensation whentheir players are oninternational duty, theclubs have received as-surances that FIFA andUEFA will look to reducethe number of interna-

tional matches on thecalendar.

In return, the 18 mem-bers of the self-appointedG14 group of top clubsare set to disband, mak-ing way for a new inde-pendent European ClubAssociation.

MNA/Reuters

LONDON, 22 Jan — Pe-ter Crouch grabbed a lateequalizer to earn Liver-pool a 2-2 draw withAston Villa in a PremierLeague game at Anfieldplayed out against a back-drop of anger and proteston Monday.

The England striker's88th-minute goal rescuedthe troubled home sideafter Villa had scoredtwice in three minutesagainst the run of play.

Villa substituteMarlon Harewood can-celled out Israeli YossiBenayoun's first-halfstrike with an acrobaticscissors kick, his firsttouch of the game, in the69th minute before thevisitors made it 2-1 withan own goal from FabioAurelio.

Liverpool, who had

hoped to leapfrog city ri-vals Everton into fourthplace on goal difference,edged up to fifth on 40points and ahead of Villaand Manchester City ongoal difference.

Champions Manches-ter United have 54 pointsfrom 23 matches and leadArsenal on goal differ-

ence at the top, with Chel-sea third on 50.

"We'll keep going, it'snot over until it's over,"Liverpool captain StevenGerrard told SetantaSports television whenasked about the titlechase. "But it's certainlynot good enough."

MNA/Reuters

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Tuesday, 22 January, 2008Summary of observations recorded at 09:30

hours MST: During the past 24 hours, light rain hasbeen isolated in Kachin State, weather has been gen-erally fair in the remaining States and Divisions. Nighttemperatures were (5ºC) above January average tem-peratures in Kachin State, (3ºC) to (4°C) above Janu-ary average temperatures in Bago and TaninthayiDivisions, (3ºC) to (4°C) below January average tem-peratures in Shan State and Magway Division andabout January average temperatures in the remainingStates and Divisions.The noteworthy amounts of rain-fall recorded were Putao (0.08) inch and Machanbaw(0.04)inch.The significant night temperatures werePinlaung and Loilem (1ºC) each, Heho (2ºC), Lashioand Namhsan (4°C) each.

Maximum temperature on 21-1-2008 was 94ºF.Minimum temperature on 22-1-2008 was 61ºF. Rela-tive humidity at 09:30 hours MST on 22-1-2008 was74%. Total sunshine hours on 21-1-2008 was (8.3)hours approx.

Rainfall on 22-1-2008 was nil at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since1-1-2008 was nil at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and Cen-tral Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mph from Northwest at (13:30) hoursMST on 21-1-2008.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theSouth Bay and generally fair in the Andaman Sea andelsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 23-1-2008: Possi-bility of isolated light rain in Kachin State, weather willbe partly cloudy in Rakhine State, upper Sagaing,Ayeyawady,Yangon and Taninthayi Divisions andgenerally fair in the remaining areas. Degree of certaintyis (40%).

State of the sea: Strong easterly wind with mod-erate to rough seas are likely at times Gulf of Mottama,off and along Mon-Taninthayi Coasts. Surface windspeed in Strong wind may reach (35) mph. Seas willbe slight to moderate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation oflikelihood of isolated light rain in the extreme North-ern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 23-1-2008: Fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 23-1-2008: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 23-1-2008: Fair weather.

COLOMBO, 22 Jan—The Sri Lankan Army saida regional leader of TamilTiger rebels was killedin a battle in the northernJaffna Peninsula Sundayafternoon.

Army troopsex-changed fire with agroup of Liberation Tigersof Tamil Eelam (LTTE)rebels in Kaithady area ofJaffna around 4:30 pm(1100 GMT), killing tworebels including a regionalleader named Chengan,said Army officials.

The Army also saidtwo LTTE rebels werekilled in the northernMannar District andanother two were killed inthe northern VavuniyaDistrict, both on Sundaymorning.

Some 44 civilianswere killed by the rebels ina series of attacks insoutheast of the countrysince the governmentofficially abandoned the sixyear old Norwegian backedceasefire on 16 January. MNA/Xinhua

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N Sri Lanka

Bomber kills 15 at funeral innorthern Iraq

BAGHDAD, 22 Jan — A suicide bomber killed 15 people and wounded 10 whenhe blew himself up at a funeral ceremony in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji onMonday, a security official said.

The attack is thelatest in a spate of deadlybombings in Iraq’s northernprovinces, where the USmilitary says al-Qaedamilitants have regroupedafter being forced out ofother areas.

The bomberwalked into a tent where

residents were mourningthe death of a relative of aprovincial official.

Baiji, home toIraq’s biggest oil refinery,has been the scene of anumber of bombings in thepast few months. On 25December, a suicidebomber killed more than

20 people in the city, 180kilometres (112 miles)north of Baghdad.

The commanderof US forces in northernIraq, Major-General MarkHertling, said last monththat Sunni Islamist al-Qaeda was regrouping innorthern Iraq after beingpushed out of Baghdad andwestern Anbar Provinceand was still capable oflaunching “spectacularattacks”. — MNA/Reuters

Crash-landed plane movedfrom Heathrow

LONDON, 22 Jan — Arecovery operation wasunderway on Sunday tomove a British AirwaysBoeing 777 that crash-landedat London’s HeathrowAirport on Thursday.

The 200-ton aircraft,which suffered engineproblems and came downwell short of the southernrunway, was being movedonto electronicallycontrolled platforms in anoperation expected to takeseveral hours.

The plane will thenstart a 500-metre journeyfrom the end of therunway to the airline’sengineering base at HattonCross, which is expectedto take a further two hours.

Bruce Hunter, BA’sgeneral manager foroperational maintenance,said: “BA’s specialistrecovery team of 20engineers flies round theworld helping airlinesmove stranded aircraft.”

MNA/Reuters

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1st Waning Day of Pyatho 1369 ME Wednesday, 23 January, 2008

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

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� Skyful liars attempting to destroy nation� BBC lying

VOA deceivingRFA setting up hostilities

� Beware! Don’t be bought by those ill-wishers

NAY PYI TAW, 22 Jan— Member of the State Peaceand Development Council Lt-Gen Kyaw Win of theMinistry of Defence, accompanied by Shan State Peaceand Development Council Chairman Eastern Com-mand Commander Maj-Gen Thaung Aye and Brig-Gen Tin Maung Win of Mongpan Station, had ameeting with officers and other ranks of MongpanStation and their family members at the station inLangkho District, Shan State (South) on 19 Januarymorning.

Lt-Gen Kyaw Win underlined the importance ofcooperation of Tatmadaw members and local peopleall the more for development of Mongpan Township,

Building of discipline-flourishingdemocratic nation will be completed soon

only with development of towns and villagesand stepping up agricultural and livestock farming.

Lt-Gen Kyaw Win and the commander presentedTVs, bicycles and other personal goods to them.

They viewed the broadcasting of fertilizers on thetwo-acre model summer paddy field of U Bya YawHan, and inspected the one-acre mixed-crop plantationof U Ree Kham.

In meeting with service personnel in MongpanTownship, Lt-Gen Kyaw Win presented a TV set, thecommander fire service suits and Red Cross uniforms,Secretary of Shan State PDC U Khin Maung Gyi, avideo cassette player, and Secretary of Shan StateUSDA U Nyan Lin, publications to Mongpan Town-

ship.In his speech, Lt-Gen Kyaw Win said that today is

the Age of Knowledge, so the nation needs morehuman resources. The government is opening moreand more schools and universities in the states anddivisions, he said.

He pointed out that the building of a discipline-flourishing democratic nation will be completed soononly after the towns and villages in the state haveenjoyed development. In the process, national brethrenare required to equip themselves with Union Spirit forsustainable progress of the already-achieved infra-structures.—MNA

Lt-Gen Kyaw Win views broadcasting of fertilizer on model irrigated field of Farmer U Bya Yaw Han in Mongpan. — MNA

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