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Tapo ca; ascetic practices; this is the way to auspiciousness

* 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

NAY PYI TAW, 31 Aug — On the occasion of the 51st Anniversary of the IndependenceDay of Malaysia, which falls on 31 August 2008, His Excellency Senior General Than Shwe,Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has senta message of felicitations to His Majesty Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Ibni Al-MarhumSultan Mahmud Al-Multafi Billah Shah, Yang di-Pertuan XIII of Malaysia.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwesends message of felicitations to

King of Malaysia

NAY PYI TAW, 31 Aug—On the occasion of the 51st Anniversary of the Independence Day ofMalaysia, which falls on 31 August 2008, His Excellency General Thein Sein, Prime Minister of theUnion of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Dato Seri Abdullah bin HajiAhmed Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Seinfelicitates Malaysian counterpart

windbreakers, and flow-ering and fruit trees.

Lt-Gen Myint Swealso attended the monsoontree-planting ceremoniesin Kandawgyi Garden, thePeople’s Square and Peo-ple’s Park, the PyithuHluttaw compound,Shwelinban industrialzone in Hlinethaya Town-ship, Dagon Myothit(South) Township andThanlyin Township andgrew plants.

A total of 3,000 treesincluding Gangaw, star-flower, Pyinma, ma-hogany, teak, Kanyin,tamarind, neem and Salwere grown in KandawgyiPark, 4,600 plants in thePeople’s Square and Peo-ple’s Park, 700 in thePyithu Hluttaw compoundand some 900 in DagonMyothit (South) Town-ship.

Altogether 35,200plants have been grown inYangon West District,48,000 in Yangon NorthDistrict and 284,000 inYangon South District.

Trees planted throughout Yangon DivisionIn Yangon Division

over 625,000 plants havebeen grown in the placesof trees fallen due to thecyclone.

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YANGON, 30 Aug —Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defenceplanted a Sal tree at thedesignated place in theprecincts of Theingutarahill at the west archway ofthe Shwedagon Pagoda inthe monsoon tree plantingseason this morning.

Chairman of YangonDivision Peace and De-velopment Council Com-mander of Yangon Com-mand Brig-Gen WinMyint and Chairman ofYangon City Develop-

ment Committee MayorBrig-Gen Aung Thein Linalso planted a Sal tree anda Gangaw tree.

Lt-Gen Myint Sweand Commander Brig-Gen Win Myint grewLinlun tree (Buchananialatifolia) and a toddy palmtree at the designatedplaces in the northern plat-form of the pagoda.

Members of the Pa-goda Board of Trusteesand religious associationsgrew over 1,500 plants in-cluding 54 Bo trees,

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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, 31 August, 2008

Myanmar is a country with a variety ofabundant natural resources. Its forestcoverage stands at more than 50 per cent ofits area.

Various types of forests exist in manyregions of the nation based on climate andgeographical features. Forest products partlyfulfil the basic needs of the people.

The government is now putting into actionseveral plans it has laid down for conservationof the forests around the nation. The plansinclude the arid zone greening project, specialteak plantations project, regeneration andconservation of mangroves, and watershedproject.

Myanmar is blessed with many types ofinvaluable forests such as teak forests,evergreen forests, tropical deciduous forests,and mangroves. Therefore, the people areduty-bound to prevent deforestation.

People gain many benefits from forestsand trees—prevention of landslides, cleanwater, scenic natural beauties, conservationof soil, protection of wildlife, conservation ofwatershed areas, and prevention of airpollution.

The people are therefore to protect andconserve the forests and trees for theirsustainable development and furtherregeneration.

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NAY PYI TAW, 30Aug—The Departmentof Meteorology andHydrology issued earth-quake news that amoderate earthquake ofintensity 5.8 Richter scalewith its epicenter outsideof Myanmar (China)about 800 miles northeastof Kaba Aye Seis-mological observatorywas recorded at 15 hrs 03min 40 sec MST today.

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NAY PYI TAW, 30Aug—A Myanmardelegation led by DeputyMinister for ForeignAffairs U Kyaw Thuarrived back Yangon byair yesterday evening afterattending the 4th PoliticalConsultations between theMinistries of ForeignAffairs of the Union ofMyanmar and the SocialistRepublic of Vietnam inHanoi from 25 to 28August at the invitation ofDeputy Minister forForeign Affairs Mr DaoViet Trung of Vietnam.

On 25 August,Deputy Minister U KyawThu and party attended the

YANGON, 30 Aug—“Horses are to be bredsystematically forproducing antivenin”,said Industry-1 MinisterU Aung Thaung whileinspecting horsebreeding and productionprocess of horse bloodat Myanmar Phar-maceutical Factory(Yangon) in Gyogon,Insein Township, hereyesterday.

He also called uponthem to vaccinate thehorse against pandemicdiseases and conductresearch and developmenttasks for yieldingantivenin against viperbite from poultry eggs. Helater fulfilled their

Eggs yield snake antivenin

requirements.The factory is

redoubling efforts for

Dy FM back from Myanmar-Vietnam PoliticalConsultations meeting

Flood and StormPrevention of Vietnam MrDao Xuan Hoc, DeputyMinister for Agricultureand Rural Developmentand Central SteeringCommittee members. Thetwo sides exchangedexperiences in preventingand overcoming theconsequences of naturaldisasters.

Accompanied byMyanmar Ambassador toVietnam U Aung Thein,Deputy Minister U KyawThu called on DeputyPrime Minister andMinister of Foreign AffairsMr Pham Gia Khiem at thelatter’s office on 26 August

researching the ways ofproducing antiveninagainst viper bite and

Moderate quakejolts outsideMyanmar

meeting and took part inthe discussions. Myanmarand Vietnamese DeputyMinisters for ForeignAffairs exchanged viewson mutually beneficialcooperation, ways topromote the existingfriendship and cooperationbetween the two ForeignMinistries and the twocountries, matters ofmutual interests as well asfor the benefits of theregion as a whole.

In the afternoon,Chairman of Tripartite CoreGroup Deputy Minister UKyaw Thu met with Vice-Chairman of the CentralSteering Committee of

evening.On 26 and 27

August, the deputyminister and party visitedanimal husbandary andfreshwater aquaculturefarm and foodstuffmanufacture in Bac NinhProvince, Viettel Cor-poration and PetroVietnamExploration ProductionCorporation in Hanoi andhad friendly discussionswith the respectivepersonnel.— MNA

Deputy Minister U Kyaw Thu poses for agroup photo at Myanmar-Vietnam Political

Consultations Meeting.FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Minister U Aung Thaung inspects breeding of horse for yielding snakeantivenin.—INDUSTRY-1

producing antidotes forhuman.

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Cuban leader verifies preventiveactions to face hurricane threat

Egypt opens border crossingwith Gaza Strip

Explosion in Sri Lankan capitalwounds at least 44

Philippine 2004 ferry blast suspectdeported from Bahrain

The center of Tropical Storm Gustav ispictured over the Caribbean Sea in thisNOAA satellite image. —XINHUA

GAZA CITY (Gaza Strip),30 Aug — Palestinianofficials say Egypt hasopened its border crossingwith the Gaza Strip,allowing hundreds ofpeople to enter and leave

the coastal territory.Egypt has opened the

Rafah crossing for twodays beginning Saturday.

Thousands of Egyptiancitizens had been stuck inGaza with the border

sealed. Egypt closed thecrossing last year aftermilitant Muslim groupHamas seized power ofthe territory.

Palestinian officials saythey believe Egypt isopening the crossing as agoodwill gesture beforethe holy Muslim month ofRamadan which beginsnext week.

Officials will allowhundreds of Palestiniansneeding medical treatmentto enter Egypt.Palestinians with foreignresidency permits can alsoleave Gaza, whilePalestinians who had beenstuck in Egypt will be ableto return home.—Internet

M ANILA, 30 Aug — Asuspected terrorist whomasterminded thepassenger ferry blast thatkilled over 100 peoplesouth of Manila Bay fouryears ago was deportedfrom Bahrain to thePhilippine on Saturday,local media reported.

The PhilippineNational Police officialstold local news network

ABS-CBN News thatRuben Omar PestanoLavilla Jr., a listed terroristof U.S. State Department,was arrested in Bahrainlast July and the Bahraingovernment had decidedto send him back to thePhilippines.

Lavilla is the spiritualand the supposed founderof local terror group RajahSulaiman Movement, a

group of Christian revertsor converts whichauthorities said has linkswith the Abu Sayyaf groupand Jemaah Islamiyah.

Police said Lavilla isincluded in the sanctionedlist of the United Nation'sSecurity Council. He isfacing charges of rebellionand murder before a localcourt.

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HAVANA, 30 Aug — Cuban leaderRaul Castro Friday verified thepreventive actions taken in the west ofthe country to face the tropical stormGustav, which has a possibility to

become the biggest hurricane since theKatrina in 2005.

In the western province of Pinar delRio, Castro talked with officials to knowabout the preventive action plan, andshowed his confidence in the people'straining to face the storm, according to aTV news bulletin.

Weather forecast showed Gustav wasmoving toward Great Caiman and Cubaon Friday noon, being expected to strikethe center of the region with a wind speedof up to 150 km per hour.

Civil Defense National Staff receivedcyclonic alert in the west of Cuba, whilethe eastern side was still on the watch forrainfalls, flooding and state of the dams.

Internet

Sri Lanka is immersedin a decades-long civil warin which more than 70,000people have died.

The Tamil Tiger rebelshave fought for anindependent state in thenorth and east since 1983.

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Team Australia presents their fireworks display over the country’s landmark SeriSaujana Bridge, during the Malaysia International Fireworks Competition2008, being held in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on 29 Aug, 2008.—INTERNET

Revelers stand on afloat decorated with

flowers during the battleof flowers’ parade in

Laredo, northern Spain,on 29 Aug, 2008. Thisyear marks the 100th

anniversary of the battleof flowers’ parade inLaredo. —INTERNET

Models wear creations by high school studentYuko Yoshida (R) and Aika Sato during the HighSchool Student Fashion Design Award 2008 in

Tokyo on 30 Aug, 2008.—INTERNET

COLOMBO, 30 Aug —The Sri Lankan militarysays an explosion hasrocked the capital,Colombo.

A military official saysdetails on casualties werenot immediately availableafter Saturday's blast.

Pushpa Soyza, aspokeswoman for aColombo hospital, says 44wounded people arereceiving treatment there.

The military officialspoke on condition ofanonymity citinggovernment policy,

Darling warns of economic crisisLONDON, 30 Aug —

The UK is facing itsworst economic crisis in60 years, ChancellorAlistair Darling hasadmitted.

He told the Guardiannewspaper that theeconomic downturnwould be more "profoundand long-lasting" thanmost people had feared.

Using strong lan-guage, Mr Darlingacknowledged voters

were angry with Labour'shandling of the economy.Shadow ChancellorGeorge Osborne said Mr

Darling had "let the catout of the bag" about thestate of the economy.

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Suicidebombing hitint’l troops’convoy near

KabulK ABUL, 30 Aug — A

suicide bombing hit theconvoy of internationaltroops Saturday morningin Paghman district,outskirts of the Afghancapital Kabul, casualtiesfeared, said a police officerat the site.

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Putin: Western sanctions not toisolate Russia

Russian Prime Minister VladimirPutin

MOSCOW, 30 Aug — Russian PrimeMinister Vladimir Putin said theproposed Western sanctions againstMoscow would not leave the countryisolated. “I believe that a country—Russia in this case—that can enable itscitizens to maintain their honor anddignity, protect their lives and fulfill itsinternational legal commitments ... willnot be isolated,” Putin said in aninterview with German television

company ARD.“Europe and the United States are

not the whole world,” he said in theinterview, which was shown on Russia’sChannel One television on Fridayevening.

The premier also accused theEuropean countries of being under thethumb of the United States.

“If European states want to servethe foreign policy interests of the UnitedStates, I do not think they will gainanything thereby,” he was quoted by theInterfax news agency as saying.

Earlier this week, Russian PresidentDmitry Medvedev signed decreesrecognizing the independence of SouthOssetia and Abkhazia, which broke fromcentral Georgian rule during wars in theearly 1990s. Georgia, a former Sovietrepublic and a staunch US ally, has longbeen at odds with Russia over the twobreakaway regions and its own bids tojoin NATO and the European Union.

Earlier this month, Georgia sent introops to reclaim South Ossetia,triggering a military counter-offensivefrom Russia. The conflict ended with aceasefire agreement between Tbilisi andMoscow brokered by France. —Xinhua

China, Turkmenistan to expandcooperation in various fields

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) shakes hands with Turkmen PresidentGurbanguly Berdymukhamedov before having talks in Ashgabat on 29 Aug,

2008.— XINHUA

ASHGABAT, 30 Aug —Visiting Chinese PresidentHu Jintao and his Turkmencounterpart GurbangulyBerdymukhamedov haveagreed to expandcooperation in variousfields so as to push the

friendly ties forward,according to a jointstatement issued hereFriday.

The two leaders notedwith satisfaction thatbilateral ties have enjoyedsound and steady

development and yieldedrich fruits in recent years.

They agreed furtherdevelopment and con-solidation of bilateral tieswill continue to guide theforeign policies of bothcountries. —Xinhua

A member of Frenchtire manufacturer

Michelin moves someof the 8,000 tyres

stocked on the racingcircuit the day before

the Le Mans 24 Hoursendurance race in Le

Mans, Francerecently.—XINHUA

Visitors watch a videopresentation at the

Sony exhibition standat the International

Funkaustellung (IFA)consumer electronicsfair in Berlin Aug. 29,2008. The IFA is the

worlds largestconsumer electronicsexhibition and opensto the public from 29Aug to 3 Sept, 2008.

XINHUA

Wall Street tumbles aspersonal income fallsNEW YORK, 30 Aug — Wall Street took a dive

Friday, as the US government said personal incomesfell more than expected in July and Dell reporteddisappointing results.

The US Commerce Department reported thatpersonal incomes fell 0.7 percent in July. It was thefirst decrease since August 2005 and worse than the0.1 percent decrease that analysts had expected.Meanwhile, consumer spending rose a modest 0.2percent, in line with previous estimates. But the readingincreased 0.6 percent in June. The decline of personalincome overshadowed a better-than-expected readingof University of Michigan consumer sentiment index.

Lower-than-expected earnings from Dell draggeddown technology-heavy Nasdaq. Dell fell 14 percent,after the company’s profit margins came in well belowwhat analysts had expected due to the decrease ofproduct prices. Meanwhile, analysts from Citigroupand Bank of America cut target price for the world’ssecond-largest personal-computer maker. —Xinhua

Malaysia’s rice production expected to meet86% of needs by 2010

Death toll of listeria outbreak in Canada rises to 9OTTAWA, 30 Aug — Another death has been linked to the current listeria

outbreak that is sweeping across Canada, raising the total death toll to nine, healthofficials said Friday.

The death happened in the western province of British Columbia, where a totalof two people have died of the disease. The other six deaths occurred in Ontarioprovince. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, there are 29confirmed cases of the outbreak strain in the country and 35 cases under investigation.

The outbreak originated from the tainted meat products of Maple Leaf Foods,Canada’s biggest food company. The company has closed down its Toronto facilityand issued a recall of 220 products. — Xinhua

All items from Xinhua News Agency

KUALA LUMPUR, 30Aug—Malaysia’s produc-tion of rice is expected toachieve 86 percent self-sufficiency level (SSL) by2010 following additionalallocations to maintainfood security, Finance

Ministry said in itseconomic report releasedon Friday.Paddy plantationacreage is projected toexpand following thedevelopment of new paddyareas, land rehabilitation

and improved agricultureinfrastructure, includingirrigation systems, theministry said.Currently, Malaysia hasreached SSL at 73 percentfor rice.

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Malaysian govt reiterates commitmentto improve well-being of society

Two killed, 16 injured inblast in central Turkey

ANKARA, 30 Aug — Two people were killed and 16others injured in an explosion in a factory in centralTurkey on Friday, the semi-official Anatolia newsagency reported.

According to the report, the explosion, which occurredat 2:50 pm local time (1150 GMT), rocked a gunpowderplant of Turkish defense company MKE Barut Factoryin Kirikkale province, leaving two people dead and 16others injured.

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Interview: French parliamentariansays world knows China better

through Olympics

Delivery of a second Airbus A380 to Emirates, the airline of the United ArabEmirates, will suffer a further delay of two months, French daily Le Figaroreported Saturday. Emirates put its first giant A380 into service on 1 August

with a direct flight from Dubai to New York.—INTERNET

Chinese director Jia Zhangke (C) poses with other cast members during aphotocall of his short film Cry Me a River at the 65th Venice International

Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on 29 Aug, 2008. —INTERNET

Flood-affected villagerswalk through Jankipurvillage in Poornia district,India on 29 August. At least20 people are feared deadafter an overloaded rescueboat capsized in the flood-hit eastern region wherehundreds of thousands of

people have beenmarooned.—INTERNET

PARIS, 30 Aug — “The BeijingOlympic Games was a window throughwhich people around the world gained abetter understanding about China,” saidBernard Debre, a member of the FrenchNational Assembly, on Friday.

Debre, who attended the openingceremony of the Beijing Olympics, toldXinhua that he was overwhelmed by thesplendid performances.

“It was an unforgettable night,” hesaid, “the best thing about the openingceremony was that it combinedChina’s traditional civilization withmodernization.”

China has impressed the whole worldnot only with brilliant Olympics openingand closing ceremonies but also theexcellent organization of the Games, saidthe lawmaker.

Beijing has adopted a series ofmeasures to ensure the smoothproceeding of the Games, and the settingaside of special Olympic lanes hasparticularly facilitated the movement ofthe athletes around the city, he added.

The unique designs of the Olympicstadiums such as the Bird’s Nest and theWater Cube are also very impressive, hesaid. —Internet

Indian boat mishapclaims 20 lives

KUALA LUMPUR, 30Aug — To improve thepeople’s living standard,Malaysian government onFriday reiterated itscommitment to improveaccessibility to qualityeducation and health care,enhance the provision ofaffordable and qualityhousing as well as increasecoverage of water andelectricity supply to thepoor.

In addition, thenetwork of transportfacilities would also be

expanded, public safetyenhanced and theenvironment protected,said the Economic Report2008/2009 released by theFinance Ministry onFriday.

Given the challengesof rapid socio-economicdevelopment and itsimpact on families, policyinitiatives would be taken

to promote a more caringsociety, said the report.

The governmentwould expand andenhance social assistanceprograms in keeping withthese policy objectives andto mitigate the impact ofhigher prices, especiallyamong the vulnerablegroups, the report said.

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New York residents markanniversary of Hurricane Katrina

NEW YORK, 30 Aug —New York City residentsmarked the thirdanniversary of HurricaneKatrina slamming into theGulf Coast region of theUnited States Friday witha Manhattan march tosupport those displaced bythe storm. According to areport available onwww.ny1.com, the marchthrough the streets ofManhattan was dubbed “ACall to Action, A Day ofUnity,” and participantshoped to draw attention tothe plight of the workingclass residents who havebeen displaced bygentrification.

In Washington SquarePark, the Judson Memo-rial Church hosted afundraiser for thosedisplaced by the storm.Meanwhile, a new

report released Fridayfound that nearly half ofthe 1,000 Louisianaresidents who died inHurricane Katrina wereaged 75 or older.Researchers from theCenter for Disease Controland the Louisiana Officeof Public Health werecited as saying that manyelderly residents were ill-prepared for the aftermathof the storm or too frail toleave their homes.

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NEW DELHI, 30 Aug —In Indian Bihar, at least 20persons were feared deadwhen an army boatcarrying flood victimscapsized in the swollenKosi river in Madhepuradistrict during rescueoperation, NDTV reportedon Saturday.

The boat, carrying over60 flood victims and somepersonnel of the army,overturned and sank near

Mirganj in Murliganj blockof the district Fridayevening.

The tragedy occurredas the boat wasovercrowded with peopleeager to reach a safe place.The boat had gone to rescuevillagers from Murliganjarea and when returningthe boats were caught inswirl. Some of the rescuedvillagers jumped out of fearunsettling the boat, whichcaused the disaster.

The state disastermanagement departmentadditional commissionerPratyaya Amrit said while32 of its occupants weresaved by the rescue team,20 others, including anarmy havildar, werereported missing andfeared drowned.Additional rescue teams ofthe army and NationalDisaster Response Forcehave been pressed intoservice to locate the bodiesand possible survivors.

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Now, Myanmar’s transition to democracy is going

to come to fruition. To put it another way, the nation

will transform from the rule of the Tatmadaw to the

people’s rule in two years.

It took many years for the nation to create the

present conditions. It took longer than it should be due

to various forms of difficulties, crises and disruptions.

In the meantime, the disagreement between those

who put their wishes in the fore and those who were

gearing up for a prosperous future of the nation grew

into conflicts.

The real desire of the people is to form a democratic

human society. They understand and accept the

situations that take place in the transitional period.

They are worried that the nation’s situations will go

uncontrollable. So, they joined hands of their own

accord with the Tatmadaw government to achieve the

national goals.

In the process, the Tatmadaw government upholds

the desire of the people; puts national interests in the

fore; does not betray the motherland; builds a new

nation; and implements the four political objectives,

four economic objectives and four social objectives.

The State’s 12 noble objectives are very rewarding

because they were laid down in the opportune time.

Despite the hindrances created by local anti-

government elements, the drive to realize the

objectives is going smooth.

The events that took place in May 2008 gave

profound evidence to reliability of the above-

mentioned points. Moreover, they indicated to

Myanmar’s political improvement, economic

growth and social vigour in tandem. In other words,

they reflected the nation’s achievement in

implementing the State’s political, economic and

social objectives.

As the first political objective, community peace

and rule of law were restored nearly cent per cent.

Moreover, national reconsolidation was achieved. As

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a result of discharging the duties based on these two

achievements, the government could take necessary

measures, announcing that it would hold the referendum

for approval of the State constitution, the final stage of

the political objective “Emergence of a new enduring

State Constitution”, on 10 May 2008.

However, while trying its best for transition and

national development, Myanmar suffered a major

setback triggered by the storm “Nargis” that devastated

the southern part of the delta in Ayeyawady Division

and some regions of Yangon Division. Had not the

government carried out nation-building tasks much,

the nation would have been in dire straits. Only with

the achievements in the political, economic and social

sectors, could the nation show resilience to the

catastrophe.

The people’s political awareness remained serene

when they were in the face of the unprecedented

natural disaster. Myanmar people by nature want to

broaden their horizons and build a new one if the

present one is out of order, and equip themselves with

unwavering spirit. So, they kept on carrying out

transition process. The referendum was held

successfully in the 278 townships except the 47

townships that were in the process of being rehabilitated

to recover from the natural disaster. Two weeks later

on 24 May, the referendum was held in the 47 remaining

townships.

That political movement was largely due to

economic prospects of the nation, along with high

morale and education standard of the entire people,

dynamism of patriotic spirit, and preservation of the

national character.

Some regions were paralyzed by the storm

“Nargis”, but the nation’s economic policy eased the

sufferings to a certain degree. Myanmar’s economy is

not a system which cannot endure the domino effect in

the economic downtur¡n.

- The nation is working hard to achieve

development of agriculture as the base and

all-round development of other sectors of

economy as well.

- It took measures to ensure that various regions,

multi-purpose agricultural projects and other

economic sectors can rely on each other to

avoid a situation in which the whole nation

relies on only one or two regions for the

economy.

- It is working hard for proper evolution of the

market-oriented economic system.

- Local and foreign technical know-how and

investments are being made to an extent. (In

that case, considerable success has been

achieved despite economic sanctions and

trade embargo imposed by some foreign

countries).

- Now, the initiative to shape the national

economy has been kept in the hands of the

State and the national peoples.

- Besides, with a lot of experience, the State

has been successful in implementing the

border area development project, special

construction project, rural development tasks,

24 special region development project, urban

area development project and national

economic development project. Likewise,

State investments have yielded lots of benefits

nationwide.

Therefore, relief and rehabilitation tasks have

been carried out in the cyclone Nargis-hit regions

keeping pace with the times. Most of the affected

areas have mainly relied on the water transport since

ancient times. In the time of the Tatmadaw

government, a network of bridges were built and

those regions can be accessible by road at any time

thanks to the emergence of Bo Myat Tun Bridge,

Twantay Bridge, Dedaye Bridge, Pyapon Bridge,

Maubin Bridge and Myaungmya Bridge.

(See page 7)

The real desire of the people is toform a democratic human society.They understand and accept thesituations that take place in thetransitional period.

Had not the govern-ment carried out nation-building tasks much, thenation would have beenin dire straits.

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(from page 6)

With experiences gained from the history of

Myanmar, there has always been cooperation of the

government, the people and the Tatmadaw in every

national defence duty and in every nation-building

endeavour. Today’s transitional period can be called the

period of nation-building tasks. So machinery, workforce

and expertise existing in the sites of nation-building

tasks could be moved to and used in relief and

reconstruction work of the storm-hit regions. The people

on their part also actively participated in the tasks. As

Tatmadaw members are always ready to serve the public

interest anywhere anytime, they were able to reach the

storm-affected areas the earliest to do rescue work.

Besides providing workforce, the State also

sent enough State funds and food items to the storm

survivors. Construction companies from various

development projects moved to the affected regions

in time to lend their helping hand. Various social

organizations also rendered their humanitarian aid.

National entrepreneurs made their generous donations

for the well-being of the State as well as the people.

Similarly, the national people from all corners of the

country helped as much as they could.

Myanmar has had a fine tradition that the

government always protects the people and the

Tatmadaw always participates in the public welfare

tasks. The reconstruction effort in the storm-hit regions

this time was far greater than the previous times. It is

systematic and the people are well-disciplined with

farsightedness.

Two fruitful results are that entrepreneurs came

to put more energy into the State and the public welfare

tasks as if they are national corporations and that the

people from all walks of life came to give a helping

hand in times of emergency. It means that social

infrastructures have come into shape. In other words,

it can be reviewed that the people of all backgrounds

have concentrated on national politics without heading

for party politics.

Myanmar was in a chaotic state in 1988 due to

the repercussions of international incidents. However,

the State, the people and the Tatmadaw managed to

overcome all difficulties and Myanmar has been in a

peaceful transitional period. Later, some big nations

interfered in Myanmar’s affairs to have a tremendous

change. But Myanmar also overcame the hardship.

Unexpectedly, the cyclone Nargis caused a shock to

Myanmar. Again, the government, the people and the

Tatmadaw were able to address the problem.

As regards the fourth objective of the four

political objectives, it is time to build a new modern

developed nation in accord with the new State

constitution. At the same time, it is necessary to

further consolidate the first three objectives. It is also

needed to keep in the fore the four economic objectives

and the four social objectives.

Today’s Myanmar is making headway and its

situation is like a glass that has been half-filled with

water. It is our duty to fill remaining half. The

prevailing objective conditions of the nation have

proved that we have had confidence, wisdom, goodwill

and energy to fill the glass to reach its rim.

Translation: MS+ST

The glass with halffull of water

An Observer

With experiences gained from the history of

Myanmar, there has always been cooperation of

the government, the people and the Tatmadaw in

every national defence duty and in every nation-

building endeavour.

Today’s Myanmaris making headway andits situation is like aglass that has been half-filled with water. It isour duty to fill theremaining half.

NAY PYI TAW, 30Aug – Minister for RailTransportation Maj-GenAung Min and DeputyMinister Thura U ThaungLwin inspected coach andwagon workshop(Myitnge) yesterday. Officials concernedreported on functions ofthe workshop and thedeputy minister gave asupplementary report. The minister gave

Rail Transportation Minister: Put allenergies into work to hit targets

instructions onsupervision of the workand carrying out the tasksto hit the targets in accordwith the standard set. The minister observedmanufacturing of spareparts for carriages,flooring and roofing of thecoaches, wagons, andsleepers for upper class,installation of led lightingsystem in the ordinarycoaches and completion

of first and upper classcoaches. The minister inspectedproduction process of set-squares and stockpiling ofconcrete sleepers. The minister went todiesel locomotive shed(Ywahtaung) andinspected e-library andrepair of locomotives anddisplay of rubber spareparts.

MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Aung Min inspects engine parts at diesel locomotiveshed (Ywahtaung).—MR

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With noble mind–In serving public interest–Do not deviate from own way–Because of slanders–Just carry it on

(Venerable Shwe Hintha Sayadaw)

NAY PYI TAW, 31 Aug — On the occasion ofthe 51st Anniversary of the Independence Day ofMalaysia, which falls on 31 August 2008, HisExcellency U Nyan Win, Minister for Foreign Affairsof the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message offelicitations to His Excellency Ybhg Datuk SeriUtama Dr Rais Yatim, Minister of Foreign Affairs ofMalaysia.

MNA

FM U Nyan Winfelicitates Malaysian

counterpart

NAY PYI TAW, 30Aug— A ceremony to handover Technical TrainingSchool (Mandalay) washeld at the training schoolin Aungmye ThazanTownship, Mandalay on29 August morning.

Minister forIndustry-2 Vice-AdmiralSoe Thein andAmbassador of thePeople’s Republic of ChinaMr Guan Mu formallyopened the training schooland unveiled its stoneinscription.

This was followedby the handover of thetraining school in whichMinister Vice-AdmiralSoe Thein expressedthanks and ChineseAmbassador Mr Guan Muspoke.

Next, ManagingDirector of MyanmarAutomobile and DieselEngine Industries U SoeMyint and Economic andCommercial CounsellorMr Tang Hai of PRCEmbassy signed the

Ministry gets PRC-aided Tech Schoolagreement on handover ofthe facility and exchangedit.

After that, theminister presented gifts tothe ambassador and guestsand had a documentaryphoto taken together withthem, which brought theceremony to an end.

Afterwards, theminister and guests viewedlecture halls and workshopsof the training school.

The training school,complete with one mainlecture hall, laboratory, one

special learning hall, fourworkshops, one recreationroom and one sub-powerstation, will conduct a one-year fundamental technicaltraining course coveringsix-subjects and will be ableto produce 200 techniciansper year.

The training schoolwas established with thegrant of the PRC under theprogramme of providing aidbetween the MyanmarGovernment and the PRCGovernment.

MNA

YANGON, 30 Aug — As part of contributing towelfare services for Hninzigon Home for the Aged, theOrganizing Department of the Myanmar Women’sAffairs Federation served the aged with specialrefreshments and donated cash to the funds of thehome in Bahan Township this morning.

Head of the Organizing Department Dr DawNyunt Nyunt Oo handed K 150,000 for the specialrefreshments and K 100,000 to the funds throughofficials.

Chairperson Daw Khin Myo Thu of YangonDivision Women’s Affairs Organization and partypresented K 100,000 to the funds and Thiri ThudhammaTheingi Daw Tin Nwe Oo, traditional medicines worthK 150,000. — MNA

Cash and kind for the aged

YANGON, 30 Aug —A ceremony to concludeBasic Electrical SkillCourse No. 1/2008 washeld at the IndustrialCoordination andInspection Department onKyaikwaing Pagoda Roadin Mayangon Township,here, yesterday morning.

At the ceremony,Deputy Director-GeneralU Than Aye of the ICIDmake concluding speechon behalf of the Ministerfor Industry-1, andpresented prizes andcertificates to outstandingtrainees.

A total of 76trainees had attended theICID-organized course.

MNA

Basicelectrical

skill for staffNAY PYI TAW, 30 Aug — As a token of sympathyfor storm survivor women in Ayeyawady Division,CEC member Daw Ni Ni Win of the MyanmarWomen’s Affairs Federation handed over K 30 milliondonated by the federation to Ayeyawady DivisionWAO Patron Daw Win Win Maw and GeneralSecretary Dr Daw Myint Kyi, relief supplies by AllChina Women’s Federation to Chairperson of DivisionWAO Daw Yi Yi Aung and chairpersons of DistrictWAOs.

Later, they discussed systematic allotment ofcash to the women from storm-hit townships. — MNA

Women-to-womenassistance in Delta

DonateBlood

Minister Vice-Admiral Soe Thein and PRC Ambassador Mr Guan Muformally open Technical Training School (Mandalay).—MNA

Technical

Training

School

(Manda-

lay) in

Aungmye

Thazan

Town-

ship,

Manda-

lay.

MNA

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1. Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

2. Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

3. Keeping genuine patriotism based on nationalsolidarity alive and dynamic

4. Turning out younger generation who willcontinue to safeguard the national cultureand character

Objectives of the 16th MyanmarTraditional Cultural Performing

Arts Competitions

YANGON, 30 Aug —Myanmar hosted theASEAN-India Workshopon the Development ofBuddhist PilgrimageTourism in Bagan,Mandalay and Yangonfrom 25 to 28 August,attended by officials ofTourism Ministries ofASEAN countries andIndia, private touroperators and experts.

On 25 August,Deputy Minister for Hotelsand Tourism Brig-GenAye Myint Kyu, DeputySecretary-General ofASEAN Mr NicholasTandi Dammen andUndersecretary Mr BaniBrata Roy of IndianMinistry of Tourismformally opened theworkshop at BaganNanmyint Tower.

In the first-daysession of the workshop,Director-General U HtayAung of Directorate ofHotels and Tourismpresided over theworkshop together withmembers of the panel of

NAY PYI TAW, 30Aug — Sports Ministrytrounced Culture Ministry10-2 in the second roundof the 2nd Inter-MinistryFootball Tournament atNay Pyi Taw No. 1Football Ground.

At Nay Pyi TawPyinmana PaunglaungSports Ground, Ministryof Information andMinistry of Livestock and

Childcare knowledge for familiesYANGON, 30 Aug – Organized by Yangon

Division Social Welfare Department, Basic Course forEarly Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) willbe conducted every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from12 September to 26 October. Those wishing to attendthe course may contact Yangon Division Social WelfareDepartment at No 247/269 on Shwegondine Road inBahan Township (Ph: 552957,552927).—MNA

YANGON, 30 Aug— A workcoordination meeting on enhancing thequality of treatment of central levelhospitals to keep abreast of internationallevel took place at the University ofNursing (Yangon) on 28 August withan address by Deputy Minister forHealth Dr Mya Oo.

After the meeting, the deputyminister and party inspected medicalcheck-up of pregnant women at OPD ofthe Central Women’s Hospital.

Next, they looked into the use ofultrasound, functions of the Bio-chemistry Department, Microbiology

Sports win over Culture by widemargin, Information and L&F

in 2-2 drawFisheries held a 2-2draw.

Among thespectators were Ministerfor Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan,departmental heads,trainees of Basic LibraryScience Course ofInformation and PublicRelations Department,departmental staff andfamily members.

On 1 September,Commerce Ministry willplay against DefenceMinis t ry a t Nay PyiTaw No. 1 Footbal lGround, while ReligiousAffairs Ministry willcompete against HomeAffairs Ministry at NayPyi Taw PyinmanaPaunglaung SportsGround.

MNA

Health Deputy Minister inspects hospitalsDepartment, Hematology Departmentand Parasitology Department, treatmentgiven at intensive care unit, operationtheatre, special child care unit anddelivery room and gave necessaryinstructions.

On arrival at the Children’sHospital, the deputy minister and partylooked into the use of X-ray, ultrasound,medical treatment given at the newlyborn child unit, Medical Ward-1,intensive care unit, Surgical Ward-3, andfunctions of blood bank, HematologyDepartment, and laboratory.

MNA

ASEAN-India Workshop discusses Developmentof Buddhist Pilgrimage Tourism

chairmen UndersecretaryMr Bani Brata Roy of Indiaand Director Mr Binh VuThe of VietnameseNational TourismAdministration. Expertsexplained flourishing ofBuddhism and pilgrimagetours. Representatives ofthe ASEAN and Indiadiscussed development ofBuddhist pilgrimage oftheir countries.

At Mandalay HillResort on 26 August,Director-General U HtayAung presided over theworkshop together with DrKhin Maung Nyunt andmarket promotion expertDr Zulkifli Bin Mohamadof Malaysia. Theparticipants discussedseeking ways for joint

Buddhist pilgrimagebetween ASEAN and Indiaand project process.

On 27 August, themeeting to review theworkshop took place atInya Lake Hotel in Yangonand the participantsapproved the discussionreport and procedure onDevelopment of BuddhistPilgrimage Tourism Plan.

Representatives ofASEAN and India visitedShwedagon Pagoda, MahasiMeditation Centre, Shwe-zigon and Ananda Pagodas,lacquerware houses, MahaGandayon Monastery,Maha Muni BuddhaImage and InternationalTheravada BuddhistMissionary University inYangon. — MNA

Minister Brig-Gen

Kyaw Hsan enjoys

the match between

Ministry of

Information and

Ministry of

Livestock and

Fisheries.

MNA

Deputy Minister Dr Mya Oo speaks at the meeting on enhancingquality of treatment of central level hospitals.—MNA

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Many overhead power lines of electricitysupply network were damaged in Yangon andAyeyawady Divisions due to the storm that hit thereon 2 and 3 May. Most of the people thought thatelectricity might not be supplied to Yangon for quitesome time. Thanks to concerted efforts of electriciansand workers, main points of Yangon such as MilitaryHospital (500-bed), the Department of MedicalResearch and Myanma Radio and Television gotelectricity at night after the storm had hit. At night of4th May, electricity could be re-supplied to YangonGeneral Hospital, City Hall, Shwedagon Pagoda andresidential areas in Kyauktada, Pabedan, Latha, Bahanand Mayangon townships. One month later, all thestorm-hit areas in Yangon Division could be suppliedwith electricity cent per cent.

Remarkable efforts of officials at differentlevels under the Ministry of Electric Power No. 2were seen following the guidance of the Head ofState.

I had interviews with officials of Yangon CityElectricity Supply Board on its power supply to thelocal people and industries.

In shaping the Union of Myanmar as a modernand developed nation, electricity is essential.Electricity plays a pivotal role in undertaking sector-wise development of the nation. Indeed, only whenefforts are to be made for consolidating the electricitysector, will the remaining sectors be developed.

In Yangon, power consumption of factories,workshops, industrial zones and modern housingsbecome higher because they apply modern technologyand electronic equipment in their livelihoods.

According to the data up to 1 January 2008 ofthe Yangon Division Immigration and NationalRegistration Department, there were 1,238,168households in Yangon Division. Yangon includingindustrial zones, waterworks of YCDC, CNG linesand fuel stations, state-owned factories, lamp-postlights and traffic lights, religious buildings and

YESB serving local people,industries with electricity

Article & Photos: Kayan Soe Myint

YESB Secretary Lt-Col Maung Maung Latt(Retd) explains current power supply system

in Yangon.

Technicians of

Power Control

Division of MEPE

discharging duties to

ensure electricity

supply to Yangon

round the clock.

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diplomatic residential areas consume 512.5 megawattsin day time and 497 megawatts at night time. Atpresent, YESB is fully supplying power to the powerdemands.

In line with the guidance of the Head of State,the YESB was formed with one chairman, one secretary,one joint-secretary and four heads of department —management, finance, supply and engineering — on 1April 2006.

YESB keeps under its control five 230/66/33KV power stations, 19 66/33/11 KV power stations,263 33/11/6.6 KV power stations and 6,126 11/6.6/0.4 KV power stations. Moreover, overhead powerlines such as 61.03 miles long 66 KV line, 3,203.67miles long 33 KV line, 681.805 miles long 11 KVline, 393.75 miles long 6.6 KV line and 2,359.12miles long 0.4 KV line are also under control of theYESB. Furthermore, the board has undergroundpower cables — 22.39 miles long 66 KV line,432.66 miles long 33 KV line, 120.13 miles long 11KV line, 312.25 miles long 6.6 KV line and 162.14miles long 0.4 KV line.

Due to higher power consumption in YangonDivision, the YESB built more 66/33/11 KV powerstations, five power stations at MRTV-3, Tawwin,Waibagi, Shwepaukkan and Dagon Myothit (North)Township including a 66 KV power line, fourtransformers at Pathein Nyunt, Parami Bailey,Kyaikkasan and Hlawga and one 230/66 KVtransformer and seven 66 KV power lines —Hsinmaleik-MRTV-3, Thakayta, Thakayta-PatheinNyunt, Dagon (East)-Shwepaukkan, Dagon (East)-Waibagi, Dagon (East)-Industrial Zone andKyaikwaing-Seinpanmyaing.

The YESB manages to supply electricity to4,388 factories of 14 industrial zones in YangonDivision, 136 factories of ministries, 86 factories ofMinistry of Industry-1, 35 embassies andorganizations, 36 CNG filling stations, 42 waterworks,47 hospitals including military hospitals, 134 traffic

lights, lamp-post lights and 747,600 houses includingthose who consume power by paying foreignexchange. In addition, the board installed paddyhusk-fired power generators in Kamamat Village inKayan Township and Thawuntaung Village inTwantay Township.

Electricity generated from natural gas turbinesunder the Ministry of Electric Power No. 2 andhydropower plants under the Ministry of ElectricPower No. 1 are purchased from the respectiveministries at the fixed prices for supplying power tothe people through the national grid system. ThePower Control Division of Myanma Electric PowerEnterprise under the Ministry of Electric Power No. 2sees to stabilizing of power supply functions through thepower, line and carrier-PLC system.

With regard to the opportunities for more powerconsumption of the people and for installation ofelectric meters, Secretary of YESB Lt-Col MaungMaung Latt (Retd) explained that the board managesto install electric meters for the people and substitutionof overhead lines and transformers in Yangon Divisionin line with the motto “Every power consumer mustget electricity”; that power consumers are beingprovided with installation of electric meters with K57,000 per home meter; and that the electric meterswith the capacities of 10 kilowatts, 20 kilowatts and30 kilowatts and industrial-use power meters arebeing installed at designated places within a dayunder supervision of the township electrical engineers.He continued to say that for further information andcomplaints, every power consumer may dial01-229144 and 01-215048 of YESB, 09-51-00951,01-215039 and 01-215047 of Inspection Department.

*****Translation: TTA

Myanma Alin: 27-8-2008

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Marcus Eriksen steps onto the pier inHonolulu on Wednesday, 27 Aug, 2008,after he and fellow eco-mariner JoelPaschal completed a three-month,2,600-mile voyage from Long Beach,Ca., in a makeshift raft. The raft calledJUNK was made of 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna 310 fuselage.

Albanian artist Saimir Strati, 42, createsa cork mosaic of a guitarist at theSheraton Hotel in Tirana 21 August,2008. Strati is using 300.000 corks on abanner measuring 96 square metres, tocreate what he hopes will be enteredinto the Guinness World Records. Thework will take around 27 days to complete.

Love triangle behind Dutch hijack hoax

Ancient gold treasure puzzlesGreek archaeologists

In this hand out image providedby Ar is to t le Univers i ty o fThessaloniki a 2,300-year-oldgold wreath among human bonesin a water-logged gold jar foundis seen. Archaeologists say the dis-covery, at the ancient city of Aigaiin northern Greece, is very impor-tant due to the richness of theartifacts and the unusual cir-cumstances in which they were buried.

NEWSALBUM

Mattel awarded100 million dollars in

Barbie-Bratz spatMattel, maker of the ever-popular

“Barbie” fashion doll, was awarded100 million dollars in damagesTuesday, after a jury last month foundMGA Entertainment in breach ofcontract for making the Barbie-rival“Bratz” doll.

“Mattel has pursued this case firstand foremost as a matter of principle.We have an obligation to our employeesand to our shareholders to defendourselves against competitors whoengage in unfair business practicesagainst us,” company CEO Bob Eckertsaid in a statement after a Californiajury announced the compensationaward.

A 10-person jury on July 18unanimously decided Bratz had beendesigned by Carter Bryant while hewas still a Mattel employee, in breachof contract with the toy giant.

Bryant entered into a contract withCalifornia-based MGA, licensing Bratzto them in September 2000, while heworked for Mattel, which he left onemonth later.

A telephonethreat saying aDutch holiday

flight would behijacked turnedout to be a hoaxcall by a jealouslover, Dutch newsagency ANP re-ported on Friday.

The plane oper-ated by Dutchbudget airlineTransavia was dueto leave Rotterdamfor Bodrum in Tur-key on Tuesdaybut was evacuatedafter emergencyservices received a

phone call sayingit would be hi-jacked.

The Dutch pub-lic prosecutor saidon Friday therewere no indica-tions that the planewas at real risk,and it was nowtreating the case asa hoax.

A 31-year-oldman held for ques-tioning was re-leased on Friday,but a man and a

woman are stillbeing held on sus-picion of supply-ing false informa-tion, the prosecu-tor said on itswebsite.

ANP quoted thelawyer of thereleased manas saying thehoax call aroseout of a love trian-gle consisting ofhis client and an-other man andwoman.

The University ofThessaloniki said in a state-ment Friday that the "aston-ishing" discovery was madeduring its excavations thisweek in the ruins of ancientAigai. The city was the firstcapital of ancient Macedonia,where King Philip II — fatherof Alexander the Great — wasassassinated.

Gold wreaths are rare andwere buried with ancientnobles or royalty. But the findis also highly unusual as theartifacts appear to have beenremoved from a grave duringancient times and, for reasonsthat are unclear, reburied inthe city's marketplace nearthe theater where Philip wasstabbed to death.

Senior Chinese leader urges betterservice, security work for

ParalympicsBEIJING, 30 Aug—

Senior Communist Partyof China (CPC) officialZhou Yongkang Fridaycalled for better servicesand security work for nextmonth’s ParalympicGames during an inspec-tion of Beijing South Rail-way station.

Zhou, a member of

the Standing Committee ofthe Political Bureau of theCPC Central Committee,on Friday toured facilitiesfor the disabled at the sta-tion such as lanes for theblind and special lifts.

“We should spare noefforts in providing thebest service and maintain-ing security for the

Paralympics,” Zhou said.Zhou then took the

Beijing-Tianjin intercityexpress to the industrial cityof Tianjin.

He inspected restr-ooms for the disabled onthe train, stressing that thedisabled should be re-spected, well cared for andbetter served.

Zhou said the Para-lympics should lead to na-tionwide improvements forservices for the disabled.

In Tianjin, he in-spected a community inNankai District, the Lettersand Calls Reception Officein Hebei District and lis-tened to a report on thecity's social and economicdevelopment and social sta-bility.

Zhou stressed that allsecurity sectors shall con-tinue efforts to maintain so-cial stability and public or-der during the Paralympics,which will be held from 6to 17 Sept.

Internet

Truck crashes into Cana-dian sushi joint, kills twoOTTAWA, 30 Aug—A pickup truck

crashed through the front window of abusy sushi restaurant in Canada, killingtwo women and injurinpolice saidFrida.

The blue mid-size truck slammedthrough the Halu Sushi restaurant inMaple Ridge, British Columbia onThursday night, scattering people as itcrashed into tables and chairs, wit-nesses said.The 51-year-old driver wasin police custody, but no charges havebeen filed. Cpl. Dale L. Carr said in-vestigators were looking into whetherit was an intentional act.

Candice Denoni, who saw the truckspeed into the sushi restaurant, said thedriver appeared to make no effort toslow down.—Internet

Several militants killed nearAfghan capital

KABUL, 30 Aug —The US-led Coalition on Fridayeliminated several militants in an operation to disruptmilitant activities in Kapisa province, some 80kilometers north from Afghan capital Kabul, said aCoalition statement released here on Saturday.

The force searched a compound in Nijrab dis-trict targeting a Taliban commander smuggling weap-ons into Afghanistan, as well as conducting IED (Im-provised Explosive Device) attacks against interna-tional forces, the statement said.

“After receiving heavy AK-47 and RPG fire, Coa-lition forces instructed the militants to come out peace-fully in order to de-escalate the situation when severalwomen and children exited the compound and weremoved to a safe area,” it said. Coalition forces con-tinued engaged militants with precision airstrikes, kill-ing several militants, it added.

Three charged in plotto kill British

Prime MinisterLONDON, 30 Aug — Three men charged

in connection with alleged threats to as-sassinate Britain's prime minister appearedin court for the first time Friday.

All were ordered to be held until theirnext appearance at City of WestminsterMagistrates Court. Ishaq Kanmi, 22, ofBlackburn, England, was charged with so-liciting murder, belonging or professing tobelong to Al Qaeda, inviting support forAl Qaeda, and dissemination of terroristpublications.

Abbas Iqbal, 23, and Ilyas Iqbal, 21,brothers from Blackburn, were chargedwith possession of an article suspectedto be connected with an act of terror-ism.—Internet

The schooner Bluenose II, of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, is seen off the bowof the schooner Thomas E. Lannon, of Gloucester, Mass, on 29 Aug, 2008, offGloucester, Mass. The Bluenose II was arriving for the 24th annual Gloucester Schooner Festival, which runs through, Sunday, on 31 Aug.—INTERNET

Internet

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New Mongolian Parliament sworn in ULAN BATOR, 30 Aug — Mongolia’s new Parliament

resumed its first session and swore in legislators Thursday. Proceedings at the opening session on 23 July had

been stalled when the main opposition Democratic Partystaged a walkout alleging vote fraud in the June polls. Thecountry’s two biggest parties, the Mongolian People’sRevolutionary Party (MPRP) and the Democratic Party,won 42 and 25 seats respectively In the 76-seat Parliament.

The new Parliament will elect a chairman soon andform a new government. Danzan Lundeejantsan, chairmanof the last Parliament, said the new Parliament wouldconfront major issues including the development of asocial economy.— MNA/Xinhua

Lebanese helicopter hitby gunfire, one killed

BEIRUT, 30 Aug — An Lebanese Air Force officerwas killed and several crew members wounded onThursday when their military helicopter flying oversouthern Lebanon came under gunfire from unidentifiedgunmen, local Al-Manar TV reported.

Lebanese Army command said in a statement that“the helicopter was on a reconnaissance flight when itcame under fire and was forced to land. Air forceofficer Samer Hanna was killed and several otherswounded”.

Local OTV said that four crew members werewounded when the military helicopter was forced toland in Arab Salim.

Local Naharnet website said the helicopter was hitby unidentified gunmen over Sojod hills in southLebanon, about 20 kilometres north of the Israeliborder.

Intense Israeli military flights were also reportedover the town of Jizzine in south Lebanon.

The Lebanese Army has been targeted recently.The latest incident was a bus bomb attack earlier inAugust in the northern city of Tripoli, leaving some 18soldiers and civilians killed.

MNA/Xinhua

British Navy sailors fail drugs testLONDON, 30 Aug —

Eighteen sailors on aRoyal Navy warship havefailed a routine drugs testduring deployment in theSouth Atlantic, theMinistry of Defence(MoD) said on Thursday.

It was the biggest suchincident in the Navy’shistory. The results cameduring a regular com-pulsory drug test onboardHMS Liverpool, a Type 42Destroyer.

“The Royal Navy doesnot tolerate misuse ofdrugs by its personnel andinternal action is underway against all 18individuals,” the MoDsaid in a statement.

“Notwithstanding thenumbers involved in this

single unprecedentedincident, which is beingtreated very seriously, ithas not affected the ship'sability to do its job.”

HMS Liverpool,which has 240 crewonboard, has most recentlybeen taking part in a jointexercise around the Islandof South Georgia. Sheregularly patrols theFalklands.

In the past, the warshiphad been used incombating drugsmuggling in theCaribbean, though thereis no link with the currentincident.

The 18 sailors weretested after having goneashore during a break inBrazil, media reports said.

It is not clear what drugswere involved, andwhether the 18 includedwomen. —MNA/Reuters

Peru seizes 700 kilos of pure cocaineLIMA, 30 Aug — The anti-drug police seized on Thursday 700 kilos of pure

cocaine in an operation on the west coast of Peru, Peruvian Interior Ministry said. Officials said the operation was carried out in Peru’s biggest port Callao, some

10 kilometres west of the capital city Lima. The drugs were found in a storehouse,hidden in several containers and covered with chili.

Two suspected drug smugglers were arrested during the operation. Traffickersoften ship drugs from Callao via Mexico to the United States and Europe, policesaid. Data showed that Peru, sitting in the “Silver Delta” in South America withan annual production of some 300 tons of cocaine, is the world’s second biggestdrug producer behind Colombia. — MNA/Xinhua

Workers put the final touches on seats in front of the completed three-storey pitbuilding in Singapore recently. Singapore is giving workers in the tourism sectora tune-up before tens of thousands of auto racing fans descend on the city-state for the world’s first Formula One Grand Prix night race.—INTERNET

Mexican governor blamesGulf cartel for beheadings

CANCUN (Mexico), 30Aug— The beheadings oftwelve people in southernMexico were probably thework of the powerful Gulfcartel based across theborder from Texas, a stategovernor said on Friday.bodies with signs of torture

were dumped outside thecity of Merida in the YucatanPeninsula on Thursday. A12th beheaded body wasfound 50 miles (80kilometres) away in a smalltown to the east of Merida,also showing signs of torture.

“This seems to be thework of the Gulf cartel,”Yucatan Governor IvonneOrtega told reporters, addingthat she had received severalthreats from suspected druggangs over the past threemonths.Authorities say thecartel controls drugsmuggling in seven statesalong the Gulf of Mexicofrom southern Mexico intoTexas.

MNA/Reuters

Atlantis to be at launch Pad on 2 Sept NASA, 30 Aug— Space shuttle Atlantis is on schedule

to be rolled out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s KennedySpace Center in Florida on Tuesday after technicians re-sumed normal connection work to fasten Atlantis to theexternal fuel tank. Rollout will begin at 12:01 am EDT.

A shuttle interface test will be conducted over the Labor Dayweekend before Atlantis is cleared to roll to the launch pad.

The shuttle and its crew of seven astronauts will upgradekey components and install state-of-the-art instruments onNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope during Atlantis’ STS-125mission.

Work to prepare Endeavour for space also continues on pace.Final connections have been completed between the externaltank for Endeavour and a pair of solid rocket boosters.

Endeavour is targeted to fly the STS-126 mission to theInternational Space Station in November. It will also beready in the unlikely event Atlantis encounters an emer-gency in space.—Internet

“Gustav” kills nearly 70 inCaribbean, aims at US

KINGSTON, 30 Aug — Tropical Storm Gustav wasblamed on Thursday for at least 68 deaths in the Caribbeanand US forecasters said it could hit New Orleans andGulf of Mexico oil fields as a potentially powerfulhurricane next week.

As Gustav churned through the Caribbean, TropicalStorm Hanna formed in the Atlantic Ocean with 40miles per hour (65 kilometres per hour) winds. Theeighth storm of a busy Atlantic hurricane season was ona track that could threaten the Bahamas and Florida, theUS National Hurricane Centre said.

Energy companies prepared for Gustav to deliverwhat could be the hardest hit to the heart of the US Gulfoil patch since the devastating 2005 hurricane season.

Oil prices rose above 120 US dollars a barrel inearly trade on Thursday, adding to gains all week, asGustav aimed deep into the heavy concentration of oiland natural gas platforms off Louisiana and Texas.

MNA/Reuters

US jury acquits ex-Marine in Iraqi killingsLOS ANGELES, 30 Aug

— A former US Marinesergeant accused ofkilling four unarmed Iraqidetainees was acquittedon Thursday of allcriminal charges in thecase, including voluntarymanslaughter.

A federal court jurydeliberated for six hoursbefore finding Jose LuisNazario Jr, 28, not guiltyof charges that heunlawfully killed orordered his squadmembers to kill the fourIraqis on 9 November,2004, in the insurgentIraqi stronghold ofFallujah.

Nazario led a 13-member squad of KiloCompany, 3rd

Battalion, 1st MarineRegiment in northernFallujah in an attemptto retake the city frominsurgent forces.

Two other Marinesfrom the same squad facemilitary courts-martial inthe slayings. They wereconsidered key witnesses

in the prosecution casebut refused to testify,despite a grant ofimmunity, on grounds ofconstitutional protectionsagainst self-incrimination. The judge,however, has cited themfor contempt.

MNA/Reuters

Image above: Workers at NASA’s KennedySpace Center in Florida evaluate a sensor that

will be part of a docking mechanism to beadded to the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope

during STS-125.

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Russia says long-range missiletest a success

Floods swam hundreds of homesin Central Japan

Vietnam to movethousands from Mekong

flood zone

US sanctions could derailAirbus deal with Syria

Iran offers nuclear help toNigeria’s power sector

MOSCOW, 30 Aug —Russia successfully testeda long-range Topol missiledesigned to avoid detectionby anti-missile defencesystems from its Plesetsklaunch site, a Russianmilitary spokesman said onThursday.

“The launch wasspecially tasked to test themissile's capability to avoidground-based detectionsystems,” said ColonelAlexander Vovk of theRussian Strategic RocketForces.

Washington and War-saw formally signed a deallast week to stationelements of a US missiledefence shield in Poland, amove that has aggravatedRussian-Western tens-ions already raw fromMoscow’s intervention inGeorgia.

Russia has heaped scornon the missile defencesystem, which the US saysis aimed at Iran, andthrough its ForeignMinistry last week vowed“to react, and not only

through diplomaticprotests”. The RS-12MTopol, called the SS-25Sickle by NATO, has amaximum range of 10,000kilometres (6,125 miles)and can carry one 550-kiloton warhead.

Last October formerRussian PresidentVladimirPutin, now the PrimeMinister, said the countrywas working on new typesof nuclear weapons as partof a “grandiose” plan toboost the country’sdefences. — MNA/Reuters

TOKYO, 30 Aug —Heavy rain floodedhundreds of homes incentral Japan on Friday,leaving one elderlywoman dead and pro-mpting evacuation ordersfor more than half amillion households,domestic media reported.

Some people fledtheir home in a boat asfloodwater reached closeto their waist, televisionpictures showed, and carssank in muddy water. A76-year-old woman wasfound dead in her floodedhome in Okazaki, 230

kilometres (143 miles)west of Tokyo, while atrain in the capital washit by a landslide andderailed, Kyodo newsagency reported. No onewas injured in thederailment. Authoritiestold 140,000 householdsin Okazaki and around360,000 households innearby Nagoya to leave

their homes, nationalbroadcaster NHK re-ported.

Japan has sufferedrepeated flooding inrecent months and thegovernment weatheragency warned of morerain in eastern andnorthern Japan on Fridayand Saturday.

MNA/Reuters

ABUJA, 30 Aug — Iranon Thursday offered toshare its nuclear tech-nology with fellow OPECmember Nigeria to helprevive its dilapidatedpower sector, consideredthe biggest hurdle toeconomic growth inAfrica’s most populouscountry.Nigeria welcomedthe inter-national help, butwas quick to distance itselffrom the con-troversysurrounding Iran’s nuclearprogramme. Teheran says

it is developing nucleartechnology only to gene-rate energy but someWestern powers aresceptical.

“Nigeria is neverentering into any agree-ment with Iran for anymatter that has to do withweapons, but (will agree)to power, which is anurgent need of the NigerianGovernment,” said TijjaniKaura, Nigeria’s Ministerof State for Foreign Affairs.

MNA/Reuters

Russian Topol ICBMs missiles seen during a rehearsal for the nation’sannual May 9 Victory Day parade earlier this year. Russia has tested an inter-

continental missile, reports said, heightening tensions with the West asFrance warned the European Union could slap sanctions on Moscow over the

Georgia conflict.—INTERNET

Tourists enjoy a buggy ride in the French Quarterin New Orleans on 28 Aug, 2008, as officials

decide whether to evacuate the city as Hurricane Gustav enters the Gulf of Mexico.—INTERNET

A truck is trapped in mud caused by heavy rain brought by Tropical StormGustav in Fond Parisien village in Haiti, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Gustav

moved away from the island of Hispaniola, where it killed 23 people in Haitiand the Dominican Republic, and inched toward Jamaica’s low-lying capital,

80 miles (130 kilometers) to the west. Forecasters predicted it would hugJamaica’s southern shore before making a near-direct hit on Grand

Cayman.—INTERNET

DAMASCUS, 30 Aug —Airbus is finalizing a dealthat could secure it amultibillion-dollar orderfrom the Syrian Govern-ment, but US sanctions couldtorpedo the purchase,sources familiar with thetalks said on Thursday.

Habib Feqih, presidentof Airbus Middle East, isin Damascus to sign thecooperation frameworkagreement, which involvesthe possible lease andpurchase of a total of 54aircraft between now and2028, and help by Airbus torestructure Syria’s flagcarrier Syrianair, thesources told Reuters.

But the US sanctions,

imposed on Syria in 2004for its support for anti-American groups, couldcomplicate any Airbus saleto Syria, if not make itimpossible, since the planesuse American components,an industry executivesaid.—MNA/Reuters

HANOI, 30 Aug —Vietnam will spend nearly2.4 trillion dong (145million US dollars) be-tween now and 2010 tobuild dykes and relocatethousands of rice farmersbecause of heavy seasonalflooding in its fertileMekong River delta, thegovernment said.

The programme,approved early this week,would help 33,000 familiesresettle in areas away fromlandslides and floods, thegovernment said in astatement on Wednesday.

About 20 per centof Vietnam’s 86.5 millionpeople live in the CuuLong River Delta, theVietnamese name for theMekong River, which

produces more than half ofthe country’s paddy outputand supplies more than 90per cent of its commercialrice.

Funding for theprogramme will comefrom the state budget,grants and soft loansfrom state-run VietnamDevelopment Bank.

The funds would beused for building dykesas well as foundationsfor new villages to ensurefarmers’ homes stayabove the Mekong floods’peak level in 2000, thestatement said.

MNA/Reuters

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S P O R T SCottagers sign Etuhu

LONDON, 30 Aug — Fulham have snapped up Sun-derland midfielder Dickson Etuhu for an undisclosedfee. The 26-year-old Nigeria international has penneda three-year deal with Roy Hodgson's men.

Etuhu feels there are exciting times in store of theCraven Cottage outfit and is just delighted to be part ofit. "It feels great to have signed for Fulham," Etuhu told

Scolari in dark over Robinho

Zenit St Petersburg’s Danny (L)misses a goal against Manchester

United during their UEFA Super Cupsoccer match at Louis II stadium in

Monaco on 29 Aug, 2008.—INTERNET

Zenit beat United to lift European Super Cup

Federer overcomes pluckyAlves challenge

Ducati MotoGP riderMarco Melandri of Italytakes a curve during thesecond practice session

for the San MarinoGrand Prix at Misanoracetrack on 29 Aug,

2008.—INTERNET

Ivory Coast callup Gosso,

injured Drogbaleft out

ABIDJAN, 30 Aug —Monaco midfielder JeanJacques Gosso has beencalled into the Ivory Coastsquad for the first timefor the World Cup quali-fier in Mozambique nextmonth.

Gosso is the only newface named by coachVahid Halilhodzic, theIvorian Football Federa-tion said. Captain DidierDrogba and his long-timeattack partner ArunaDindane have both beenleft out because of injury,allowing a rare chancefor Olympique Mar-seille's new signingBakary Kone to featurein the starting line-up.

MNA/Reuters

Marion Bartoliof France cel-ebrates match

point afterbeating LindsayDavenport of theUS during theirmatch at the US

Open tennistournament at

Flushing Mead-ows in New York,

on 29 Aug,2008.—INTERNET

Dementieva safely into fourth round NEW YORK, 30 Aug — Olympic champion Elena

Dementieva secured her place in the fourth round ofthe US Open on Friday with a comfortable ifunspectacular 6-3, 6-4 victory against unseeded BritonAnne Keothavong. The match started with three breaksof serve before the Russian kicked up a gear and startedhammering in strong first serves to dominate the set.

Keothavong, 24, the first British woman to reachthe third round of the US Open since 1991, put up arespectable defence, using her powerful forehand togood effect, but she made too many unforced errors.

MNA/Reuters

Davenport loses to Bartoliin third round

NEW YORK, 30 Aug — Local favourite LindsayDavenport slipped out of the US Open in the thirdround on Friday, outpaced and outplayed 6-1, 7-6 byformer Wimbledon runner-up Marion Bartoli.

In a match interrupted by rain, the former worldnumber one and 1998 champion struggled to get afoothold against the French 12th seed and was plaguedby double faults.

Davenport, a three-times grand slam championwho returned to action just three months after the birthof her son Jagger in June 2007, was roared on by thecrowd packed into the Arthur Ashe Stadium court butBartoli dominated the match. —MNA/Reuters

MONACO, 30 Aug — UEFA Cup hold-ers Zenit St Petersburg became the firstRussian team to lift the European SuperCup after beating Champions League win-ners Manchester United 2-1 on Friday.

Goals from Pavel Pogrebnyak andrecord signing Danny, on his debut, gaveZenit's Dutch coach Dick Advocaat vic-tory over his old rival Alex Ferguson whowas bidding to become the first managerto win the trophy for the third time.

Ferguson might have had a feeling itwas not going to be his night when anofficial almost tripped him up on a rope ashe took his seat in the dugout beforekickoff at the Stade Louis II. His moodwas not helped by midfielder Paul Scholes'90th-minute red card for handball, hissecond caution.

United’s best moment arrived when

defender Nemanja Vidic pulled a goalback 17 minutes from time but Zenit, play-ing in front of 7,500 of their own fans aswell as Chelsea's billionaire Russian ownerRoman Abramovich, held on for victory.

MNA/Reuters

Luiz Felipe Scolari

Dickson Etuhu

LONDON, 30 Aug —Chelsea manager LuizFelipe Scolari admits heis in the dark over his club'sbid to sign Robinho fromReal Madrid.

The Blues were hopingto tie up a deal for Robinhothis week after chief ex-ecutive Peter Kenyon re-vealed the club were opti-mistic over a move for theBrazilian.

However, Real are adamant that Robinho will not beleaving the Spanish capital and the player trained withReal on Friday morning.

Scolari is keen to bring in Robinho, but he is unsureif the club will be able to conclude a deal before thetransfer window slams shut on Monday.—Internet

NEW YORK,30 Aug — Four-times defendingchampion RogerFederer clawedhis way into thethird round of theUS Open with a6-3, 7-5, 6-4 vic-tory over stub-born Brazilianqualifier ThiagoAlves on Friday.

World num-ber two Federerproduced an un-characteristic 46unforced errorsin the two-hour,

14-minute affair but denied he had a difficult time. "I was never really in danger, so it was actually

pretty good for me," Federer told reporters. "I knew thelonger the match would go the more tired he wouldget."

Federer had 19 aces and lost his serve only once butclearly needs improve his form if he is to become thefirst man since Bill Tilden in 1924 to win five succes-sive titles here.

Roger Federer rolled to his 29thstraight US Open match victory

and the women shuffled thechairs in the race to knock Ana

Ivanovic off her No. 1 perchFriday on a marathon day five of

the US Open. —INTERNET

MNA/Reuters

the club's official website."These are exciting timesat the club.

"The club has madesome terrific signingsover the summer, addingto an already talented poolof players. Last Saturday'swin over Arsenal showsjust how competitiveFulham are.

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in lower Sagaing Division, rain or thundershow-ers have been scattered in Chin, Kayah and Kayin States,upper Sagaing, Mandalay, Magway, Bago andAyeyawady Divisions, scattered in Shan State and YangonDivision, fairly widespread in Mon State and TaninthayiDivision and widespread in the remaining States andDivisions. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recordedwere Hkamti (2.52) inches, Myitkyina (2.21) inches,Belin (1.38) inches, Maungdaw and Kyaukpyu (0.87)inch each.

Maximum temperature on 29-8-2008 was 90˚F.Minimum temperature on 30-8-2008 was 72ºF. Rela-tive humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 30-8-2008 was93%. Total sunshine hours on 29-8-2008 was (4.2) hoursapprox.

Rainfall on30-8-2008 was (Tr) at Mingaladon, (0.08)inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.28) inch at Central Yangon. Totalrainfall since 1-1-2008 was (79.92) inches at Mingaladon,(90.75) inches at Kaba-Aye and (108.90) inches at CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye)was (6) mph from Southwest at (22:15) hours MST on 29-8-2008.

Bay inference: Monsoon is weak in the AndamanSea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 31-8-2008: Rain orthundershowers will be fairly widespread in Kachin andRakhine States, scattered in Shan, Chin, Mon and KayinStates, Upper Sagaing, Yangon and Taninthayi Divi-sions and isolated in the remaining areas. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Seas will be slight to moderate inMyanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Weak monsoon.Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area

for 31-8-2008: Likelihood of isolated rain or thunder-showers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 31-8-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degreeof certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 31-8-2008: Likelihood of isolated rain or thunder-showers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

Saturday, 30 August, 2008

Bolivia, Peru to cooperate infighting drug trafficking

Fuel tanker accident kills atleast 10 in Cameroon

Russian rocket sends fiveGerman satellites into orbit

MOSOCOW, 30 Aug— Russia on Friday launcheda Dnepr rocket to put five German satellites into orbit,news agencies reported.

The carrier was launched at 11:15 Moscow Time(0715 GMT) from the Baikonur cosmodrome inKazakhstan, said Alexander Vovk, head of the Pressservice of the Russian Strategic Missile Troops.

The launch vehicle Dnepr, based on the world’smost powerful intercontinental ballistic rocket RS-20,is designed to put a load of up to 3.7 tons to orbit at analtitude of 300-900 kilometres.

The five RapidEye satellites were developed bythe British company Surrey Satellite Technology forthe German Space Agency.

Each satellite weighs 150 kilogrammes and isexpected to work for seven years. The main functionof the satellites is monitoring of agriculture crops andmapping. — MNA/Xinhua

YAOUNDE, 30 Aug—A tanker truck carryingfuel has overturned andexploded in northernCameroon, killing at least10 people and severelyburning many more,police said on Friday.

The tanker, whichwas transporting fuel fromNigeria to Chad,overturned and burst intoflames late on Thursdayat Limani, close to theNigerian border, stateradio quoted policeofficers as saying.

Many of the victimswere local people whoapproached theoverturned vehicle tocollect leaking fuel whichthen caught fire, a

phenomenon which oftencauses death and injuriesin West Africa.

“What is certain isthat many people havedied ... not less than 10,and about 20 others whosustained first and seconddegree burns were rushedto hospitals in Mora andMaroua for medical care,”one police officer said.

He added the deathtoll was likely to rise.

In 1998, around 200people were killed when atrain carrying fuel crashednear the capital Yaounde,attracting many nearbyresidents who were caughtby fire as they tried tosalvage the fuel.

MNA/Reuters

14 killed in road accident inN-E Thailand

LIMA, 30 Aug—Bolivia and Peru signedon Friday an agreement tocombat drug traffickingand smuggling.

According to reportsreaching here from LaPaz, the administrativecapital of Bolivia, theagreement was signed byBolivian DefenceMinister Walker SanMiguel, and his Peruviancounterpart AnteroFlores-Araoz.

The two ministersalso hailed bothgovernment’s deter-

mination to strengthen thefight against drugtrafficking. Bolivialaunched a campaign withChile to combat drugtrafficking several daysbefore the agreement withPeru was signed.

Despite “verbalexcesses” betweenBolivian President EvoMorales and PeruvianPresident Alan Garcia, theties between the twonations are now“unsurpassable”, Flores-Arazo said when signingthe agreement.

MNA/Xinhua

BANGKOK, 30 Aug—A pickup truck crashedinto a trailer truck whileone of its tyres burst onSaturday morning inThailand’s northeasternprovince of Roi Et, killing14 people and injuring twoothers on the pickup truck,local media reported.

According to TheNation news network, thepickup truck was rushing

to a sub-districtadministrative electionwhen the accidenthappened. The tyre burstcaused it to lose controland crash into the trailertruck in Phanom PhraDistrict.

Fourteen people diedat the scene and two otherswere injured. All wereriding the pick-up truck.

MNA/Xinhua

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NAY PYI TAW, 30Aug — At Bio-diesel Plantof Eastern Command inTaunggyi, Maj-Gen MinAung Hlaing of the Min-istry of Defence andChairman of Shan StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofEastern Command Brig-Gen Ya Pyae on 28 Au-gust viewed generating ofelectricity with the use oftwo-way gasifier and pro-duction of physic nut oil.

After meeting withdepartmental officials at

Operating of Bio-diesel Plant, livestockbreeding farms inspected

the hall of Shan State PDCOffice, Maj-Gen MinAung Hlaing inspectedpoultry farm, pig farm andfish pond at NanthidaCamp No. 2 of the com-mand by Shwenyaung-Nyaung-shwe road.

At Inkhaung Vil-lage in Kalaw Township,he attended the conclud-ing of ploughing of ShanState (South) for 2008 andpaddy transplanting con-test. Next, he awardedoutstanding paddy trans-planting teams.

Maj-Gen MinAung Hlaing, the com-mander and party viewedbreeding of earthwormsand making of fertilizer ofMyanma AgricultureService. On arrival atLeinli Bridge constructionproject site on Nay PyiTaw Pyinmana-Pinlaungroad in Pinlaung Town-ship, Maj-Gen Min AungHlaing inspected progressof tasks being undertakenwith the use of heavy ma-chinery.

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NAY PYI TAW, 30 Aug— Alto-gether 11 more penguins from thePeople’s Republic of China arrivedhere today under the animal exchangeprogramme between zoological gar-dens of Myanmar and Shanhai Zoo-

More penguins arrive in Nay Pyi Tawlogical Gardens of the PRC.

The Zoological Gardens (Nay PyiTaw) was packed with local people whowere there to get their first glimpse ofthe animals and holiday-makers.

MNA

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The reconstruction effort in the storm-hitregions this time was far greater than the pre-vious times.

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