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Five-Point Road Map of the State Administration Council

1. The Union Election Commission will be reconstituted and its mandated tasks, including the scrutiny of voter lists, shall be implemented in accordance with the law. 2. Effective measures will be taken with added momentum to prevent and manage the COVID-19 pandemic. 3. Actions will be taken to ensure the speedy recovery of businesses from the impact of COVID-19. 4. Emphasis will be placed on achieving enduring peace for the entire nation in line with the agreements set out in the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement. 5. Upon accomplishing the provisions of the state of emergency, free and fair multiparty democratic elections will be held in line with the 2008 Constitution, and further work will be undertaken to hand over State duties to the winning party in accordance with democratic standards.

MFF striving to achieve export target this FY

THE Myanmar Fisheries Feder- ation (MFF) is striving for earn- ing the income generated from fisheries export this financial year 2020-2021 to keep up with US$715.337 million registered in the previous FY2019-2020. The value of Myanmar’s aquaculture exports as of 8 Au- gust in the current FY dropped dramatically to $650.36 million, whereas Myanmar exported $715.337 million worth of fishery products to the external market in the corresponding period of last FY. This year’s export from the fisheries sector falls short of $64.501 million to reach the value recorded the last FY. Con- sequently, MFF is beefing up the exports of both freshwater and saltwater fish to meet the goal. The disruption in container shipment wreak havoc on aquaculture export. To tackle this, the State authorities fulfil the requirements, and the One- “The disruption in contain- Stop Service (OSS) was established. Myanma Port Authority processed to facilitate the transportation. The container shipment has become smooth in June. PHOTO: KANU er shipment wreak havoc on aquaculture export. To tackle in June. Furthermore, the Provi- vice-president of MFF. Those enterprises in the fisher- products, marketable fish prod- this, the State authorities ful- sional Government of Myanmar “Keeping the businesses ies sector are truly appreciated. ucts, especially fish, shrimp, eel fil the requirements, and the will make those stakeholders going and growing is a pivotal The federation is trying to meet and crab are primarily exported One-Stop Service (OSS) was engaged in the fisheries sector role in the country’s economy. the last year’s export earnings in to foreign markets. established. Myanma Port Au- get vaccinated for the COVID-19. All the sectors including agri- the last two months of the cur- In the past ten months, a thority processed to facilitate the This move ensures the trade culture and livestock need to rent FY (August-September),” monthly income from the fish- transportation. The container partners for seafood safety,” commit this. MFF is conducting she added. eries sector is worth $65 million. shipment has become smooth said Dr Toe Nanda Tin, senior the business on a regular basis. Of 175 various aquaculture — Nyein Thu (MNA)/GNLM

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NATIONAL NATIONAL NATIONAL NATIONAL NATIONAL Imports of Myanmar attends 24th ASEAN Second COVID Three supporters Terrorist supporters, PDF anti-COVID-19 DGICM through videoconferencing vaccination of of PDFs, ten PDF catering officers, CDM support equipment, medical to discuss initial steps of Master Plan prisoners begins at members of Kayah in-charge arrested with products continue on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) Insein prison State arrested explosives, rations in Yangon PAGE-2 PAGE-3 PAGE-4 PAGE-6 PAGE-7 27 AUGUST 2021 2 NATIONAL THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR

State Administration Council Press Release Re-invitation to Myanmar citizens who reside in various regions for many reasons

1. Some student youths, State service personnel and citizens, with worries, have evaded to areas of EAOs and foreign countries due to the incitements and intimidation of NLD members, extremist followers, unlawful associations and terrorist groups such as CRPH and NUG, stimulation of CDM, and persons and organizations at home and abroad not wishing to restore peace and stability of the State since Tatmadaw assumed the State responsibilities on 1 February 2021. 2. They are further worried about the dictatorship statement and speeches of unlawful association and terrorist group CRPH and NUG, and some relevant persons. As they face no security guarantee and difficulties in socio-economic life in those areas, they wish to return to their native lands. 3. The State Administration Council will specifically ease restrictions for service personnel, intellectuals and intelligentsia, and persons from various arenas and citizens who, with worries, absconded from the country except for persons who committed murders, robberies, setting fires, mine explosions and intentional attacks on security troops, those who crowded to attack public service personnel and some people, those who destroyed government and private-owned buildings and those who are highly involved in the CDM activities by providing monetary assistance and other means. 4. As those who evade their native areas are also citizens, the State Administration Council will arrange their returns from the evaded areas to various parts of Myanmar. 5. As such, the information was released that if those who evaded to various areas, except for persons who committed any kinds of crime, wish to return to their native lands in Myanmar of their own accord due to multiple worries, the citizens abroad can contact nearby ward, village, township and district administration bodies and relevant embassies, military attaché offices and consulates in accord with the easing restrictions under the law. Information Team State Administration Council

The State Administration Council will specifically ease restrictions for service personnel, intellectuals and intelligentsia, and persons from various are- nas and citizens who, with worries, absconded from the country except for persons who committed murders, robberies, setting fires, mine explosions and intentional attacks on security troops, those who crowded to attack public service personnel and some people, those who destroyed government and private-owned buildings and those who are highly involved in the CDM activities by providing monetary assistance and other means.

Imports of anti-COVID-19 equipment, medical products continue

THE Ministry of Commerce is A total of 69 tonnes of oxygen Nay Pyi Taw and three oxygen making efforts to ensure peo- (liquid) carried by four bowsers, plants to Yangon, two oxygen ple have access to the essential 21 tonnes of liquid oxygen, 13,173 plants to Mandalay and one ox- medical supplies that are critical empty oxygen cylinders, seven ygen plant to Sittway were also to the COVID-19 prevention, con- oxygen plants, 919 home oxygen transported respectively. trol and treatment activities, in- concentrators, 4,104 sets of Cov- It is reported that the Min- cluding liquid oxygen and oxygen id-19 test kits, 4,800 sets of PPE istry of Commerce is coordinat- cylinders, arranging continuous suits, and 25 tonnes of masks ing with relevant departments, importation on public holidays. were imported via Muse, Chin- facilitating the importation of On 26 August (Yesterday), shwehaw, Kampaiti, Myawady, essential medical supplies re- anti-COVID-19 equipment, med- Tachilek, and Hteekhee trading quired in prevention, control ical products including oxygen posts and Yangon International and treatment of COVID-19, as plants and concentrators were Airport. well as contact persons for in- imported by 25 companies and Four v ehicles carrying liq- quiries can be reached through transported by 50 vehicles, in- uid oxygen were transported to the Ministry’s Website — www. cluding four bowsers. Mandalay, Bago, Yangon, and commerce.gov.mm. — MNA

Lorries are seen carrying the imported liquid oxygen tanks and transporting them to the needed areas. 27 AUGUST 2021 THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR NATIONAL 3 BGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGA The first priority of current government

Efforts must be made to increase number of agriculturists and breeders under the proper plans similar to economists, legal experts, technologists, engineers, medical doctors and nurses. Region and state chief ministers need to turn out the educated persons. Ensuring plentiful of educated persons is the first priority of current government.

(Excerpt from the speech to the meeting 1/2021 of the Provisional Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar made by the Republic of the Union of Myanmar State Administration Council Chairman Prime Minister of the State Senior General Min Aung Hlaing on 11 August 2021) CHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHD Union Minister for Industry inspects DaikU starch plant, Thagara industrial region in Bago UNION Minister for Industry production of methyl alcohol in Dr Charlie Than inspected Dai- the factory; to manage to pro- kU Starch Plant and Thagara duce more methyl alcohol that Industrial Region in Bago Re- are used in the COVID-19 pre- gion yesterday morning. vention activities; to enhance During the inspection tour the capacity of employees to in DaikU Starch Plant, the produce high quality and stand- Union Minister said the State ard products; to pay attention to Administration Council has giv- the management of fixed assets en instructions to encourage such as factory land, building agricultural-based industries and machinery, and to inspect and production of agricultur- the production of methyl alco- al-based products, by support- hol with the machinery used ing local SMEs based on agri- to produce starch powder and culture and livestock. sweeteners before. He instructed officials to In the afternoon, the Union cultivate climate-friendly indus- Minister arrived in Thagara In- trial crops and livestock farm- dustrial region and inspected ing in the vacant land owned by No (14), No (15) and No (26) the factory; to strictly adhere to Heavy Factories, coordinating The MoI Union Minister is inspecting the methyl alcohol production process at the DaikU Starch Plant. GMP guidelines for the current business requirements. — MNA

Myanmar attends 24th ASEAN DGICM through videoconferencing to discuss initial steps of Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) THE 24th meeting of the ASEAN Chairman addressed the meeting Directors-General of Immigra- and representatives and senior tion Departments and Heads of officials from the ASEAN coun- Consular Affairs Divisions of the tries discussed the activities Ministries of Foreign Affairs (DG- related to immigration and the ICM) and related meetings were initial steps of the Master Plan held through videoconferencing on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) yesterday morning in Manila, the by the country and coordinated to Philippines. hold the 25th DGICM to be hosted Director-General of the Im- by Singapore. migration Department U Aung The 24th DGICM and its re- Kyaw Soe, who was the Chairman lated meetings: the 4th ASEAN of the 23rd DGICM in 2019, handed Heads of Major Immigration over the DGICM Chairman-in-Of- Checkpoints Forum (AMICF) fice statue to Mr Jaime H Mor- and the 16th ASEAN Immigration ente, the Chairman-to-be of the Intelligence Forum (AIIF), and 24th DGICM from the Philippines the 16th DGICM and Australia by videoconferencing. Meeting were also held on 25 Au- Afterwards, the 24th DGICM gust. — MNA

2,635 new cases of COVID-19 reported on 26 August, total figure rises to 383,514

MYANMAR’S COVID-19 positive cases rose to 383,514 after 2,635 new cases were reported on 26 August 2021 according to the Ministry of Health. Among these confirmed cases, 311,952 have been discharged from hospitals. Death toll reached 14,850 after 113 died.—MNA 27 AUGUST 2021 4 NATIONAL THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR MNHRC joins 2nd SEANF meeting, side event

THE Human Rights Commis- FORUM. sion of Malaysia hosted the Then, MNHRC Chairman 2nd Working Group Meeting of discussed the activities and Southeast Asia National Human challenges for human rights Rights Institutions Forum (SE- while commission member Dr ANF) on 25 and 26 August and Tin Maung Maung Than pre- the Dialogue Between the Asia sented promising economic sta- Forum for Human Rights and tus in the post-COVID-19 and Development (FORUM-ASIA)/ other matters. Asian NGO Network on NHRIs The delegations of human (ANNI) and the Southeast Asia right commissions of Indone- NHRIs Forum (SEANF) on 24 sia, the Philippines, Thailand August via a virtual online plat- and Timor-Leste, Chairman, form. Vice-Chairperson and mem- Myanmar National Human bers of MNHRC also joined Rights Commission Chairman the Dialogue Between the Asia U Hla Myint and Vice-Chairper- Forum for Human Rights and son Dr Nanda Hmun joined the Development (FORUM-ASIA)/ meeting together with the other Asian NGO Network on NHRIs delegations of FORUM member (ANNI) and the Southeast Asia countries. NHRIs Forum (SEANF) held During the working com- the 1st meeting of FORUM held Strategic Plan, suggestions for establishment of Permanent on 24 August. They discussed mittee meeting, the officials dis- in April 2021, the establishment economic rights of COVID-hit Secretariat of FORUM, rights human rights-related matters cussed and shared the signs of of website and creation of a logo communities in the post-COV- for elderly persons and rights jointly conducted by SEANF progress and challenges of hu- for FORUM, the host country ID-19 period, the collabora- issues, including the convening and FORUM-ASIA/ANNI. — man rights organizations after for 2022, the draft of 2022-2026 tion of FORUM and AICHR, of the 18th Annual Meeting of the MNA Second COVID vaccination of Price list of medicines commonly used against COVID-19 as of prisoners begins at Insein prison 6 pm on 26 August THE inmates of Insein Prison in received the first jab. We will Yangon Region Director U Price in Yangon Region got their second vaccinate all the inmates,” said Myo Oo of Prison Department Company No Product Name Kyats Name COVID jabs yesterday, according the prison official. and other officials, including the (Retail) to the prison officials. The prison officials conduct- Insein prison in-charge inspect- “The prisoners of Insein ed the vaccination programme ed the vaccination processes. Anti-inflammatory Prison are vaccinated against for 2,417 inmates in accordance The medics and nurses of the 1 P.O Dexamethasone 1,450 JDS COVID-19 as the second injec- with the COVID-19 health rules. prison hospital will continue 2 P.O Prednisolone 2,000 Aorta tion today. This is the first day of Those who received the second to vaccinate the inmates in the second COVID vaccination. jab completed their first one on the coming days. — Myint Mo/ 3 Injection - Dexamethasone 160 Aorta It will take about three days as 28 July. There were 7,190 prison- GNLM Antiviral there were 7,200 inmates who ers for the first injection. 4 P.O Favipiravir 200 mg 31,000 AA Medical 5 Injection - Remdesivir 70,000 GHI Anti thrombosis Nyi Lay 6 Injection Enoxaprim 40 mg 7,000 Naing Nyi Lay 7 Injection Enoxaprim 60 mg 9,000 Naing Symptomatic

8 P.O Paracetamol 500 mg 1,200 AA Medical

Medi Myan- 9 P.O Bromhexine 1,000 mar

Please visit the Website page www.mccpmd.org and Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/323302521392189/ posts/1720802588308835/?d=n to know the prices of other med- icines. An inmate at Insein prison receives the second jab against COVID-19. PHOTO: MIN HTET

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THE pigeon pea (red gram) price According to this statement, continues rising from early April the previous notifications dated 2021 and it surged to above over 19 March 2021 and 26 March 2021 K1,320,000 per metric ton in the were cancelled. last week of August. Additionally, Myanmar can The pigeon pea price was on export 250,000 tonnes of black the rise in March-end 2021 amid gram (urad) and 100,000 tonnes the low yield and the Kyat weak- of pigeon pea under the G-to-G ening in the local forex market. (government to government) The pigeon pea market is bullish pact during the April-March pe- along with the Kyat depreciation, riod between the 2021-2022 finan- according to the domestic mar- cial year and the 2025-2026FY, as ket. per the Memorandum of Under- The gram fetched up only standing between the Ministry of K837,500 per tonne in early Feb- Commerce and India’s counter- ruary. The price in April-end part signed on 18 June. showed a remarkable increase Myanmar yearly produces of K 1,000,000 per tonne as against Myanmar’s pigeon peas are primarily shipped to India and also exported to Singapore, the US, Canada, about 400,000 tonnes of black February’s rate. On 26 August, it Pakistan, the UK, and Malaysia. But, the export volume to other countries rather than to India is extremely gram and 50,000 tonnes of pigeon touched a high of K1,322,500 per small. pea. tonne. The majority of the trad- More than 1.8 million tonnes The domestic bean market the quota system and limit period. Myanmar shipped over 1.6 ers accept only immediate cash of various pulses and beans were is positively related to the law On 15 May 2021, India’s Min- million tonnes of different vari- payment, a trader from Mandalay exported to foreign markets be- of supply and demand, said an istry of Agriculture and Farmers eties of pulses, especially black market stated. tween 1 October and 13 August official of Myanmar Pulses, Beans Welfare approved not only black gram, with an estimated worth of Myanmar’s pigeon pea is pri- of the current financial year 2020- and Sesame Seeds Merchants gram but also other pulses be- US$1 billion, to other counties in marily shipped to India and also 2021, with an estimated value of Association. ing imported from Myanmar that the FY2018-2019. During the last exported to Singapore, the US, US$1.4 billion. Of them, the pigeon India set an import quota on have the bill of lading up to Octo- FY2019-2020 ended September 30, Canada, Pakistan, the UK, and pea export accounted for 183,507 beans, including black gram and ber-end 2021, with relaxations of the country delivered 1.6 million Malaysia. But, the export volume tonnes, generating an income of pigeon pea, starting from 2017. conditions regarding clearance tonnes to the external market, to other countries rather than to $122.38 million, the Commerce Myanmar earlier had to export consignment up to 30 November generating an export value of India is extremely small. Ministry’s data indicated. black bean and pigeon pea under 2021. $1.195 billion. — MM/GNLM

USD Vs MMK exchange rate hits K1,700 per Mandalay Agriculture Dept to cover dollar despite CBM continuously selling dollars 150,000 acres of cotton regionwide MANDALAY Agriculture De- farming commenced in July-Au- at auction-rate to control instability partment projected to plant over gust. This variety is marketa- 150,000 acres of extra-long-sta- ble with high potentials. The dollar on 26 August with a rise ple cotton in the region to boost growers can also receive the of over K300 in over sixmonths. production of quality cotton seed of pedigree quality. The In the first seven months of seeds for the local growers. irrigation system can also sup- 2021, the highest and lowest ex- This project is aimed to dis- ply adequate water to the farms. change rate is currently fixed tribute the pedigree seeds to the The department will dissemi- around K1,327-1,345 in Janu- growers, enhance cotton quali- nate technology to improve the ary, K1,335-1,465 in February, ty, reduce the production input yield,” she stated. K1,420-1,550 in March, K1,550- cost and bolster the production The projected acres include 1,610 in April, K1,585-1,730 in rate. More than 20,000 acres of 328 in Mandalay District, 1,734 May, K1,595-1,620 in June and cotton have been planted, for in PyinOoLwin District, 33,138 K1,626-1,670 in July. In 2020, now, constituting 13.66 per cent in Kyaukse District, 365,652 in the exchange rate moved in the of projected acres, said Daw Aye Meiktila District, 20,388 in My- range of K1,465-1,493 in Janu- Aye Mon, head of Mandalay Re- ingyan District, 877 in NyaungU ary, K1,436-1,465 in February, gion Agriculture Department. District and 58,900 in Yamethin K1,320-1,445 in March, K1,395- “The department is making District. 1,440 in April, K1,406-1,426 efforts to increase the income of Among them, over 20,000 The CBM sold US$28 million in seven times at its auction rate in August in May, K1,385-1,412 in June, the local growers and produce acres of cotton sowing have so far, with the average exchange rate for the auction ranging from a minimum of K1,646 to a maximum of K1,663 per dollar. K1,367-1,410 in July, K1,335- the quality crop. The extra-long been completed. — Min Htet 1,390 in August, K1,310-1,355 staple cotton farming is mostly Aung (Mandalay Sub-Printing KYAT is depreciating against In July, the bank reportedly in September, K1,282-1,315 in seen in Mandalay Region. The House)/GNLM the US dollar at K1,700 per sold $39 million at an auction October, K1,303-1,330 in No- dollar in the local foreign ex- rate. Besides, the bank also vember and K1,324-1,403 in change market although the sold $12 million at an auction December. Central Bank of Myanmar rate in June. In 2019, the rates are (CBM) is selling the dollar at The CBM is conducting an pegged at K1,508-1,517 in July, auction-rate constantly to con- auction for foreign exchange to K1,510-1,526 in August, K1,527- trol the value of the currency. reduce the fluctuation of for- 1,565 in September, K1,528- The CBM sold US$28 mil- eign exchange rates in a short- 1,537 in October, K1,510-1,524 lion in seven times at its auc- term period. in November and K1,485-1,513 tion rate in August so far, with The dollar exchange rate in December. the average exchange rate for against Myanmar Kyat stood On 20 September 2018, the the auction ranging from a min- at around K1,330 per dollar at dollar exchange rate hit an all- This project is aimed to distribute the pedigree seeds to the growers, imum of K1,646 to a maximum the end-January. Then, the rate time high of K1,650 in the local enhance cotton quality, reduce the production input cost and bolster of K1,663 per dollar. jumped to around K1,700 per currency market. — NN/GNLM the production rate. 27 AUGUST 2021 6 NATIONAL THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR ေဘာ်လခဲမိ ပူေပါင်းစစ်ေဆးေရးဂိတ်၌ အကမ်းဖက် PDF အဖွဲဝင် ၁၀ ဦးအား လက်နက်/ခဲယမ်းများှင့်အတူ ဖမ်းဆီးရမိခဲ့သည့် တည်ေနရာြပေြမပုံ Three supporters of PDFs, ten PDF ဒမဆသ N members of Kayah State arrested

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HE security forces ar- completed the PDF training rested Myo Pa Pa, who course) who transported the Tprovided the cash, uni- materials to the PDFs in Kayah forms, rations and medicines State were arrested in Shan to the PDF members in Kayah Pine Ward of Loikaw Township State, at Star City housing in on 15 August. These two sus- Thanlyin Township of Yangon pects used the cash assistance on 12 August. provided by Myo Pa Pa to by According to her confes- equipment and medicines for sion, she received K22,369,850 PDFs in Dimawhso Township. —K15,727,500 in July and According to the confes- K6,642,350 in August from To- sions of these two suspects and gether Myanmar organization report of a dutiful citizen, the po- of Myanmar people living in Sin- lice arrested the 10 Dimawhso gapore in her KBZ pay account PDF members –Mahn Di Zin through Nyein Chan Thu from (aka) Nga Man, Naing Tun Lin Seized explosives and firearms. Singapore and K500,000 from U (aka) Seik Kalar, Myo Zaw Hein ciation NUG gave instructions Moreover, those 10 PDF Myint Aung from Dagon Town- (aka) Myo Gyi, Han Pyae Nyi to the PDFs to launch attacks members participated in at- ship to support the PDFs. (aka) Ngar Kalay, Kyaw Min in Kayah State. Moreover, tacks on the Dimawhso police She then used the cash as- Htet (aka) Byatta, Kyaw Zin Oo Dimawhso PDF members Na- station and security mem- sistance to buy the weapons, (aka) Arnoe, Phyo Bo Bo (aka) Dimawhso together with the ing Win, Phone Zaw Paing and bers near Kyauk Sal Kan of uniforms, rations and medi- Phyu Phway, Paw Lu (aka) Bin guns and bullets at Bawlake Tun Lwin Oo collected cash Dimawhso Township in May cines for 20 times for Loikaw Bin, Kaung Htet Aung (aka) inspection point on 18 August. contributions from local and and also near Church in Daw PDF, Dimawhso PDF and Kaung Htet and Sein Than These 10 suspects said foreign countries. Other mem- Ngan Khar Ward in June. KNDF (Karenni Nationalities Htay (aka) Than Chaung who that they participated in attacks bers Aung Soe Oo (aka) Thar Therefore, the security Defence Force) of Kayah State. wore the uniforms of Karen- in Dimawhso during May and Thar and Aung Myint Myat troops arrested 13 suspects The other two suspects Lin Lin ni Nationalities People’s Lib- June. The absconders Khun (aka) Aung Myat purchased including PDF members and Khaing (aka) Htwe Khaing and eration Front in transporting Bi Htoo (aka) Lwee Zi Nyein the firearms with this cash as- supporters and will take action Ye Naing Htwe(aka) Ko Ye (who the firearms from Pasawng to and Chit Tun of unlawful asso- sistance. against them. — MNA­ Myeik oxygen plant to run in three days

AN OXYGEN plant with the to fulfil oxygen requirements in because they were struggling capacity to generate about ten Myeik township. to breathe as no oxygen was 40-litre oxygen containers per “The plant will generate available, he added. hour has arrived in Myeik. And ten 40-litre oxygen cylinders People in Myeik township it is almost ready for operation per hour. The oxygen cylinders need oxygen due to the COVID-19 within three days. will be given priority to patients outbreak. Now, the plant is The plant that can produce who are under treatment at the completed. It can produce about ten 40-litre oxygen hospital. The building for the oxygen cylinders to meet their cylinders per hour arrived oxygen plant is completed. We daily oxygen needs. Besides, at the Myeik general hospital can run the oxygen plant by another oxygen plant is being on 25 August. The NZO-60 the end of this month,” said an constructed in Botechaung vil- NM machines started to be official. lage in the township and will be installed, and the plant will be Oxygen is the key to saving completed next month. — Aye in full function within three days lives. Some people have died Maung/GNLM 27 AUGUST 2021 THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR NATIONAL 7 Terrorist supporters, PDF catering officers, CDM support in- charge arrested with explosives, rations in Yangon

A total of five suspects includ- porting Group formed by most ing a former NLD’s Pyithu NLD former Hluttaw Repre- ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းေဒသကီးအတွင်းရှိ CDM ဝန်ထမ်းများအား ေငွေကးေထာက်ပံ့ပီး PDF အဖွဲများထံ ေငွေကး၊ ရိကာှင့် လက်နက်ခဲယမ်းေထာက်ပံ့ေပးသူများအား ဖမ်းဆီးရမိမ Diagram Hluttaw Representative were sentatives, under the guidance arrested together with explo- of Phyu Phyu Thin, a member NUG sives and rations in Yangon on of illegal CRPH. She received CDM ဝန်ထမ်းများအတွက် ေငွကျပ် သိန်း ၁,၁၀၀ ခန�် 21 and 22 August. financial aids for CDMers from ေထာက်ပံ့ခဲ့။ According to a report, Phyu Phyu Thin and distrib-

ြဖြဖသင်း(CRPH အဖွဲဝင်၊ ေဝဖိးဟန်(ရန်ကုန်တိုင်း PDF security forces searched the uted them to a total of 1,000 NLD ပါတီ၊ ြပည်သူ�လတ်ေတာ် တာဝန်ခံ၊ NLD ပါတီ၊ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်ေဟာင်း) ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းေဒသကီး house on Tayayone road in Min- CDMers. လတ်ေတာ်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်ေဟာင်း) gala ward, Taikkyi Township Htein Win (former member

and arrested Htein Win, Aye of the Information Department PDF များအတွက် CDM ဝန်ထမ်းများအတွက် ၆၅ သိန်း ေထာက်ပံ့။ Min Soe, Aye Thuzar, Zaw Lin of Yangon Region government) စာရင်းြပစု။ and Khin Myat Thu (Former confessed that he was the Dep- ေအးမင်းစိုး (PDF ရိကာတာဝန်ခံ ၊ မဂလာဒုံ ထိန်ဝင်း (မဂလာဒုံ ပကဖ NLD အလုပ်အမေဆာင်အဖွဲဝင်) ဒုေခါင်းေဆာင်၊ NLD ပါတီဝင်) ခင်ြမတ်သူ(NLD ြပည်သူ�လတ်ေတာ် နီနီေမြမင့်(NLD ြပည်သူ�လတ်ေတာ် (၂၁-၈-၂၀၂၁ ဖမ်းမိ) (၂၁-၈-၂၀၂၁ ဖမ်းမိ) NLD’s Pyithu Hluttaw Repre- uty Chief of the People’s De- ကိုယ်စားလှယ်ေဟာင်း) ကိုယ်စားလှယ်ေဟာင်း) (၂၁-၈-၂၀၂၁ ဖမ်းမိ) (၁၂-၅-၂၀၂၁ ဖမ်းမိ) sentative) on 21 August. fence Force for Mingaladon

Following the confession Township, under the instruc- မဂလာဒုံ PDF ထံ ၈ သိန်းေထာက်ပံ့။ လှဒါန်းေငွ ၁၅ သိန်း made by Htein Win, 35 sound tion of Wai Phyo Han (former လက်ခံပီး PDF များအား ေထာက်ပံ့။ စံပယ်(မဂလာဒုံ ပကဖ ေဆးဘက်ဆိုင်ရာတာဝန်ခံ) bombs, 28 smoke bombs, and Yangon Region Hluttaw Rep- ဥမာခင် (၂၂-၈-၂၀၂၁ ဖမ်းမိ) (၂၃-၈-၂၀၂၁ ဖမ်းမိ) ြဖြဖခိုင်(ခ)မယ်ရီေပလီ related materials used in home- resentative, NLD member). (ှင်းဆီအပ်ချပ်ဆိုင်)

KNU နယ်ေြမရှိ PDF made mines were found and He supported Nyi Nyi Min and များထံ ၁၀၃ သိန်း ေထာက်ပံ့။ မဂလာဒုံ PDF ထံ seized at No (330/B) Minye Min Min (a) Ba Sai with 6.5 mil- ဆန်/ရိကာေထာက်ပံ့။ လှဒါန်းေငွ ၃ သိန်း ထွန်းထွန်း လက်ခံပီး PDF များအား (၂၃-၈-၂၀၂၁ ဖမ်းမိ) Kyaw Swar road, Kyeepwayay lion kyats to purchase arms ေထာက်ပံ့။ ခင်စာဝင်း ward, Thingangyun Township for PDF and prepared to open (ိုင်ငံလင်း ၏ ဇနီး) ေကျာ့ေမေအာင် (၂၅-၈-၂၀၂၁ ဖမ်းမိ) on 22 August. A total of seven PDF training courses in Taikkyi (PDF အဖွဲဝင်) related suspects were also ar- Township, Yangon. rested in townships in Yangon According to the confes- ေအးငိမ်းမိုး ေအာင်သူထက် (၂၄-၈-၂၀၂၁ ဖမ်းမိ) (၂၄-၈-၂၀၂၁ ဖမ်းမိ) on 22 and 23 August. sion of Aye Min Soe (Former Khin Myat Thu claimed Mingaladon Township NLD ex- the instruction of Wai Phyo Region Social Affairs Minis- livered foods to PDF training that she was in charge of Yan- ecutive member), he was the Han. Since March, Khin Sandar ter) provided rice and cooking courses in Thanlyin, Hlegu, gon Region in the CDM Sup- Ration Officer for PDF under Win (Wife of Former Yangon oil to PDF groups, and he de- Taikkyi Townships under the instruction of Nyi Nyi Min. It is also learned that Tun Tun also provided 10,300,000 kyats to PDF in KNU area. It is reported that action will be taken against those who support and provide PDF groups with financial assistant, food and arms. The people are also requested to secretly re- port any information about them and related suspects to the relevant authorities and to work together for immediate peace and stability in towns Seized explosives in Thingangyun Township. Arrestees and confiscated rations in Taikkyi Township. and villages. — MNA Rising price makes Kawlin pineapple retailers convenient THE retailers from Kawlin the market reopened, the prices township say that they reaped rose to K1,000 for a small one and a healthy profit from the sale of K2,000 for the big one. Compared pineapples as the price has gone to those, the price has almost up again. doubled, said a buyer from the Annually, abundant pineap- Kawlin market. ples from Bhamo town and Mezar Pineapples are mainly sold areas are being sold at the Kawlin to farmers from rural areas. A market by car and three-wheel pineapple is currently offered motorbikes. from K1,000 to K3,000, depend- Earlier in July, the pineap- ing on the size and freshness of ples were priced at K500 for a the fruits, said a retailer. Yearly, small one and K1,500 for two the pineapple traders from Kaw- big fruits in the Kawlin market. lin township go to the pineapple However, the Kawlin market plantation in Bhamo and Mezar was temporarily closed from areas and buy all the pineapple to 11 to 17 August to prevent the sell them back in the market. — spreading of COVID-19. When Myat Tun Min (Kawlin)/GNLM

When the market reopened, the prices rose to K1,000 for a small one and K2,000 for the big one. Compared to those, the price has almost doubled. 27 AUGUST 2021 27 AUGUST 2021 8 OPINION THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR ARTICLE / NATIONAL 9 Don’t give up in ` Are the neighbours of Myanmar listening? Myanmar Daily Weather Report responding to (Issued at 4:00 pm Thursday 26 August 2021)

BAY INFERENCE: Monsoon is moderate to strong over the COVID-19 pandemic By Kyaw Myint Htun (Paris) Andaman Sea and South Bay and weak to moderate elsewhere NARCHY unfolding ed UN officials, it is labelled as UN continue to push for an in- to call the country. Just because over the Bay of Bengal. in Afghanistan. After “uncivilized”. But nothing should ternational investigation into the people differ on the name of the URRENTLY, the Provisional Government of Myanmar set A 20 years, there are five be deterred from pointing out to the sun and make statements to Rights Commissioner in Geneva actions of the local authorities. country, matters of vital interest to FORECAST VALID UNTIL MORNING OF THE 27 Au- an aim to decline a half down of infection rate in August 2021. keywords for the people of Af- the brightest minds in the UN justify her position. Nothing more. about human rights abuses of her They can come up with all kinds the ordinary citizens of Myanmar gust, 2021: Rain or thundershowers will be isolated in Mag- C It decided to vaccinate 50 per cent of the total population ghanistan: “you are on your own”. who they really are. When they Are Myanmar’s neighbours lis- own UN colleagues? She shouts of good-sounding names such as, could not be discussed. History is way Region, scattered in Lower Sagaing, Mandalay Regions, this year, and if possible, vaccination will be extended for the people Where are the brightest people smell blood, they stop at nothing tening? Weren’t South Sudan the about all kinds of things under “Truth and Reconciliation Com- repeating itself again. In recent fairly widespread in Ayeyawady Region and widespread in of more than half the population of the country. from the UN? Where are all these anyway! newest “baby” of the UN ten years the sum from the ivory tower in mission”, “Blue Ribbon Commis- years, foreign forces have tried the remaining Ragions and States with likelihood of isolated The first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic brought righteous people from the UN who People are questioning who is ago? Are Myanmar’s neighbours Geneva except when it comes to sion”. All will serve as covers for to impose how certain minority heavyfalls in Upper Sagaing, Taninthayi Regions and Kachin lesser losses to Myanmar but the third wave of the pandemic makes usually shout from their ivory tow- the brilliant military mind behind watching what is happening in her own colleagues. Is it too “In- the UN and its usual suspects to groups in Myanmar should be State. Degree of certainty is (100%). an attempt to leave a great loss in the country. However, not only ers in places like New York and the Taliban’s swift advance. Within South Sudan? South Sudan was convenience” for her to criticize continue to interfere with their called. Not the terms that have the government but the entire people are defying the attacks of the Geneva? Are Myanmar’s neigh- days, they are on the outskirts of supposed to be the UN’s bright her own colleagues? Has there meddling in the internal affairs of been used by the local Myanmar STATE OF THE SEA: Squalls with moderate to rough seas pandemic in the third wave through the emergency meetings to bours listening? Kabul. The capital is surround- shining star. Where are all these been any attempt to have really the sovereign state. people for decades but it has to be are likely at times Deltaic, Gulf of Mottama, off and along take preventive, control and treatment measures for the disease, Afghanistan has been the ed. But wasn’t it that some of the righteous brightest officials from truly independent investigations Now that criticism is being the term favourable and imposed Mon-Taninthayi Coasts. Surface wind speed in squalls may medical examination over the patients and contact persons, and game of adults. In English foot- world’s mightiest militaries with the UN? Are they still in their ivory about the abuses of the UN offi- directed where it should be, are by foreign elements. reach (30-35)m.p.h. Sea will be slight to moderate elsewhere the practice of the stay-at-home programme. At an opportune time, ball terms, it is a Premier League the most advanced weaponry have towers shouting good sounding cials inflicted upon the Haitian we being viewed as “uncivilized”. It’s all about not solving the in Myanmar waters. Wave height will be about (7 – 9) feet in the result will come out who will win over the crisis. game. No place for clubs in the been training the Afghan forces for liberal slogans while South Sudan people? How about Truth Find- These powers that be are not sup- country’s problems once and for Deltaic, Gulf of Mottama, off and along Mon- Taninthayi Coasts As an early plan adopted fourth division! When adults play the last 20 years? Where are they? descends into further darkness ing Commission? Are Myanmar’s posed to be criticized, especially all doing things that are in the in- and about (4-7) feet off and along Rakhine Coast. by the previous government, the game, the UN is shoved aside, What happened? Are Myanmar’s and no future in sight for the South neighbours listening? by lowly people from third world terest of the Myanmar people. It is Myanmar arranged to pur- powerless, marginalized, with no neighbours listening? Sudanese children? What is the UN doing in countries. all aimed at how to create lasting OUTLOOK FOR SUBSEQUENT TWO DAYS: Continuations An act of those chase anti-COVID-19 vac- way to get in the game, nor be The UN envoy to Myanmar The list of failures doesn’t Ethiopia? Is what happening in In the height of the tensions problems under the “divide and of increase of rain in Upper Sagaing Region and Kachin State. cines from India. But, India allowed to get in the game. They made some comments last week stop there. 13 billion in foreign Ethiopia suddenly beyond their in Myanmar in February and conquer” strategy. who give up for itself is struggling with the are, however, prolific at putting from her native Switzerland. It aid poured in for the purpose of “mandate” for the time being? March, outside elements intensely The mightiest military allianc- FORECAST FOR NAY PYI TAW AND NEIGHBOURING miseries of COVID-19 and it out statements just to be seen as must be nice up there in the Alps! “nation-building” for Haiti. Haiti That’s just all recent. We are launched a campaign to misinform es can force into any small coun- AREA FOR 27 August, 2021: Isolated rain or thundershowers. is difficult to sell the vaccines doing something. Let us be reminded that the Envoy is labelled as an “aid state”. Are not even digging deeper back into the Myanmar public that “white try in the world at any time and Degree of certainty is (100%). any problem is to Myanmar. When a small developing has no prior experience in manag- Myanmar’s neighbours watching what happened in Rwanda. knights” will descend from the sky. impose their will as long as they Currently, the Provision- country like Myanmar faces a ing the political crisis. She may not what is happening in Haiti? Strong leaders emerged in If the fate of Myanmar and want. But nation-building and last- FORECAST FOR YANGON AND NEIGHBOURING AREA al Government of Myanmar crisis, all these brightest minds have experience in managing any Oh, how about the sex abuse some Asian countries in the re- its people are to be dependent on ing peace cannot be forced upon FOR 27 August, 2021: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree called surrender. tried to purchase the vac- from the UN usually bully their major crisis, let alone a political cases on the helpless, hapless gion to steer their countries on these “white knights” go look no by outsiders. Nation-building has of certainty is (100%). cines from Russia and Chi- way in. Throw all kinds of mud. crisis so complicated as Myanmar. and vulnerable Haitians by the the right path. There is a country further than the stories above. to come from within respecting In encountering na. Fortunately, China, India, Threats! impose resolutions in the The situation is so unprecedented UN peacekeepers? How about the that ended decades of guerrilla There is no need to look deeper and putting into context the coun- FORECAST FOR MANDALAY AND NEIGHBOURING Cambodia and Thailand ex- UN. It’s either you do as you are that it would be impossible for the cholera outbreak? Apart from the war. For three decades citizens back into history. try’s traditions and cultures. AREA FOR 27 August, 2021: Isolated rain or thundershowers. pressed their good friendship told according to what we think Envoy to refer to the lessons she expression of sorrow, has anyone of this country were living in fear Twenty somewhat years ago, Are Myanmar’s neighbours Degree of certainty is (80%). the COVID-19 relations and attachment to and like or else! Second-guessing studied in school. It is doubtful from the UN has been held ac- of suicide attacked and bombings. foreign elements, including the listening? Myanmar by donating vac- is not allowed and is no practice that anyone has done a disser- countable? Expression of sorrow A strong determined leader ended UN and its masters created the (The views and opinions in cines and related supplies. of democracy. But when these tation on such a scenario either. and everyone moved on as noth- this. In doing so, the people began situation that people could not sit this article are those of the au- pandemic, the Their donations are really small countries direct criticism So, what would she do? She will ing happened? Have there been to live in a peaceful environment down to have meaningful discus- thor only.) – Ed. contributing much to the at the UN and its righteous mind- continue to talk to everyone under any statements from the Human Yet, the brightest minds from the sions because they differ on how vaccination programme of government Myanmar. As such, the en- tire people need to join hands and the with each other in prevent- ing the disease. Now, foreign aid would be under limitation Japan halts use of 1.63 mil. Moderna vaccine doses over contamination people need for Myanmar. So, Myanmar people joining hands with each other need to rely on APAN’S health ministry and at this point does not have time in Spain, and fall under three and other entities not to admin- to accept the themselves to fight against said Thursday that foreign further comments on root causes.” lot numbers -- 3004667, 3004734 and ister any of the vaccine showing the pandemic. Jmaterials were found in Regarding possible problems 3004956, the health ministry said. abnormalities, even doses not concept “never On the other hand, re- some unused doses of Moderna in other countries, the U.S. com- The Health, Labour and Wel- subject to the suspension. gion and state governments Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine and the pany said, “On an ongoing basis, fare Ministry said it would ask The Japanese company add- are assigned the duty to use of around 1.63 million doses Moderna monitors and expedi- each facility that received the ed it will make efforts to prevent surrender, ever resurge the economy of manufactured on the same pro- tiously assesses questions we doses not to use them. the suspension from affecting the businesses triggered by the duction line has been suspended receive about our products from The composition of the for- availability of coronavirus vaccine infection of COVID-19. The as a precaution. global markets.” eign materials, a few millimetres doses in the country. conquer”. government pledged to pro- Both Moderna and Japanese “Local authorities will make in size, has not been determined. The problem came to light at vide aid to businesspersons drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceuti- their own decisions about disclo- Foreign substances have been a time when Japan is struggling after reducing tax rates. cal Co., which is in charge of the sure of information following these confirmed since Aug. 16 at vaccina- to contain a spike in coronavirus Amid the crisis of the COV- sale and distribution of the vaccine assessments,” the company said. tion sites in Tokyo and some other infections, with the government ID-19 pandemic, garment in the country, said they had not Prime Minister Yoshihide prefectures. The ministry said it announcing a plan Wednesday factories are booming in Myanmar with the creation of job op- received any reports regarding Suga told reporters, “I have been received a report from Takeda on to place eight more prefectures portunities for the local people. Meanwhile, the government will safety issues. Some of the 1.63 briefed by the health ministry that Wednesday. under its COVID-19 state of emer- resume the development projects in all parts of the country. million doses distributed to 863 it will not have a significant im- The sites include the mass gency. While vaccinations against An act of those who give up for any problem is called surrender. vaccination centres have already pact,” when asked about the possi- vaccination center operated by the COVID-19 are under way in Japan, In encountering the COVID-19 pandemic, the government and the been administered. bility of the suspension disrupting Self-Defence Forces in Osaka, the the highly contagious Delta variant people need to accept the concept “never surrender, ever conquer”. “To date, no safety or efficacy Japan’s vaccination programme. Defence Ministry said. of the coronavirus has sent daily issues have been identified,” Mod- The 1.63 million doses of Mod- Takeda has requested an reported cases surging in many This file photo shows a vial of COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna erna told Kyodo News, adding it is erna vaccine were produced on the emergency probe by Moderna, parts of the country. Inc., taken on 24 May 2021, in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. “carefully assessing this matter same production line at the same while urging medical institutions SOURCE: Kyodo PHOTO: KYODO 27 AUGUST 2021 10 ENVIRON: WORLD THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR LED streetlights contribute to insect population declines: study

STREETLIGHTS — particularly that were unlit. tion at the roadside grassy areas. those that use white light-emit- They also examined a site “We were really quite taken ting diodes (LEDs) — not only with one unlit and two lit sections, aback by just how stark it was,” disrupt insect behaviour but are all of which were similar in their lead author Douglas Boyes, of also a culprit behind their declin- vegetation. the UK Centre for Ecology and ing numbers, a new study carried The team chose moth cater- Hydrology, told AFP, adding the out in southern England showed pillars as a proxy for nocturnal team had expected a more mod- Wednesday. insects more broadly, because est decline of around 10 per cent. Artificial lights at night they remain within a few metres “We consider it most likely had been identified as a possi- of where they hatched during the that it’s due to females, mums, ble factor behind falling insect larval stage of their lives, before not laying eggs in these areas,” populations around the world, they acquire the ability to fly. he said. but the topic had been under-re- The team either struck the The lighting also disturbed searched. hedges with sticks so that the their feeding behaviour: when Artificial lights at night had been identified as a possible factor behind To address the question, caterpillars fell out, or swept the the team weighed the caterpil- falling insect populations around the world, but the topic had been scientists compared 26 roadside grass with nets to pick them up. lars, they found that those in the under-researched. PHOTO: WWW.DOUGLASBOYES.CO.UK/AFP sites consisting of either hedge- The results were eye-open- lighted areas were heavier. rows or grass verges that were lit ing, with a 47 per cent reduction Boyes said the team inter- the unfamiliar situation that runs and feeding more as a result to by streetlights, against an equal in insect population at the hedge- preted that as the caterpillars counter to the conditions they rush through their development. number of nearly identical sites row sites and 37 per cent reduc- not knowing how to respond to evolved in over millions of years, — AFP Spain’s Mar Menor lagoon ‘paradise’ Shellfish! How men hogged spits out tonnes of dead fish seafood in ancient Roman

cials said they had removed 4.5- city hit by Vesuvius 5.0 tonnes of remains but huge numbers of sea creatures are A team of archeologists exam- dent Silvia Soncin told AFP still dying. ining the remains of victims that Herculaneum provided “The worst-ever wildlife from the eruption of Mount an “extraordinary population” death toll in the Mar Menor is not Vesuvius in 79 AD have discov- to study historic diets because yet over,” the World Wildlife Fund ered coastal people of the time the natural disaster gives ar- (WWF) tweeted on Wednesday. ate far more fish than modern cheologists a snapshot in time. “It’s a terrible situation,” Italians, with men getting more “Cemeteries are usually said Pedro Garcia, director of re- of the high-status food than used over a certain period, gional conservation organization women. we’re talking about hundreds ANSE, who feared the death toll The researchers, led by a of years, and the food sources could be twice that given by the team at the University of York, may have changed because of authorities. Beneath the calm of analyzed amino acids — the changing climate or different one of Europe’s largest saltwater building blocks of proteins — in trade routes,” she said. ‘Politicians you let the Mar Menor die’ proclaims a banner on the beach. lagoons — 135 square kilometres 17 adult skeletons excavated Though Herculaneum PHOTO: AFP (52 square miles) separated from from the city of Herculaneum, a and nearby Pompeii were de- FIVE tonnes of fish and crusta- tourists to the southeast. the Mediterranean by a 22-kilo- popular seaside resort that re- stroyed by the volcano, most ceans have washed ashore over Images of dying fish forcing metre sandbar — a toxic storm mained buried under volcanic inhabitants managed to escape the past 10 days at Spain’s Mar their heads above the surface, has been brewing as a result of ash until the 18th century. in time, senior author Oliver Menor, once a lagoon paradise gasping for oxygen alongside years of nutrient pollution from By studying the ratio of Craig, a professor of bioarche- that is slowly dying from agri- baskets piled high with countless intensive agriculture. carbon and nitrogen isotopes ology told AFP. The 11 men and cultural pollution. dead creatures have trauma- “I haven’t been able to swim of the amino acids and applying six women studied by the team The sparkling saltwaters tized the Murcia region, raising here for three years with this a statistical model, they were were picked at random from have spat out millions of dead or urgent questions about the Mar horrible stench,” a woman on the able to differentiate between 340 people who died on the dying sea creatures on to sandy Menor’s future. beach told Spain’s RTVE public food groups with a new level beach and from nine adjacent beaches which have long drawn On Monday, regional offi- television.—AFP of precision, the team wrote in fornici — stone chambers for the journal Science Advances boats — where they had sought on Wednesday. shelter from the pyroclastic From the shadows: the secret, Lead author and PhD stu- flow.— AFP threatened lives of bats

It could be a scene from a bad has eclipsed its many gifts to lucent wings stretched out and horror movie: Torchlights slice the world. inspected. through the darkness inside a Dozens of Greater Mouse- A male pup, born just a few church in western France as the eared bats are passed from hand weeks ago in the church raft- building echoes with the shrieks to hand — gloved to avoid a bite ers, is hanging upside down by of hundreds of bats. — by volunteers and scientists its claws in a tube placed on a But these creatures of the in Saint Martin’s church at Noy- weighing scale: 19.7 grammes night are scaring no one. al-Muzillac, in Brittany. (0.7 ounces). Once the physical They are having their an- Each bat is painstakingly assessment is finished, the latest nual check-up, as scientists try examined, its sex, height and addition to the colony is implant- A general view shows the archaeological site of Herculaneum in to unravel the secrets of an an- weight noted, its blood taken, ed with a tag, no bigger than a Ercolano, near Naples, with the Mount Vesuvius volcano in the imal whose fiendish reputation teeth checked for wear, trans- grain of rice.—AFP background. PHOTO: AFP/FILE 27 AUGUST 2021 THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR PANDEMIC: WORLD 11 Scars of Papua conflict weigh on Indonesia’s vaccine drive

“WILLIAM” is refusing to take placed with some other chemical rumours in Papua mirrors a a coronavirus vaccine because substance that will kill us,” he similar phenomenon across the he fears Indonesia’s military added. border in Papua New Guinea, an will use the country’s inocula- There is no evidence of a independent nation with strong- tion programme to poison him genocidal plan by Indonesia, er cultural and historical ties to and wipe out his fellow Papuans. which has drafted the armed Papua than the rest of Indonesia. Decades of conflict, racism forces to help run a nationwide Social media posts there and human rights abuses are vaccination drive, including in falsely claimed to show evidence fuelling Covid conspiracy the- Papua. of locals being forcibly vaccinat- ories among his neighbours at But a widespread hatred ed in a mass medical trial, and a time when their breakaway of the military runs deep in the even suggested that the vaccine region is facing a renewed threat region, located on the eastern campaign as part of a racial gen- from the pandemic. edge of the Southeast Asian ar- ocide plot. “I won’t take a vaccine if it’s chipelago nation and just north Papua’s long history of con- brought here by Indonesia,” Wil- of Australia. flict and mistrust has created liam, who asked not to use his Security forces have been Decades of conflict, racism and human rights abuses in are fuelling Covid a wide audience for fearful ru- vaccine conspiracy theories in Papua at a time when the breakaway region real name, told AFP. accused of committing atrocities mours. is facing a renewed threat from the pandemic. PHOTO: AFP/FILE He said that he would glad- against Papuan civilians during “The conflict has been going ly sign up for any dose admin- decades of fighting between a gest gold mine -- a potent sym- countries, has found its efforts on for so long (that)... whatever istered directly by the World rebel independence movement bol for Papuans of the region’s to fight the pandemic hamstrung the central government is do- Health Organization. and government troops. exploitation and environmental by both limited vaccine supplies ing will appear suspicious,” said “But (many people) here Much of this conflict has cen- devastation. and hesitancy driven by the Adriana Elisabeth, a Papua ex- are worried that if the jabs come tred around William’s hometown ‘Trauma of violence’ spread of online disinformation. pert at the Indonesian Institute through Indonesia they’ll be re- of Timika, near the world’s big- Indonesia, as with many The spread of unfounded of Sciences.—AFP

New Australian virus cases soar over 1,000 for first time Rising infections in and growing pressure on hospi- Norway tals, state premier Gladys Bere- jiklian announced a modest eas- ing of restrictions for vaccinated Covid-19 infections are rising people from mid-September. Up rapidly in Norway, with over to five fully vaccinated people will 1,000 new cases in the last 24 be allowed to gather outdoors hours. Bergen reported 94 new in non-hotspot areas after New infected individuals on Wednes- South Wales hit a target of six mil- day and more than half of those lion jabs in a population of about infected are young people aged eight million. “That was the op- 18-23. 18 cases in Bergen cannot tion that met the mental health be traced back, while 74 are close and wellbeing of our community contacts and two are infections but also provided the lowest risk following stays abroad. setting,” Berejiklian said. She Asked whether he feared said the health system was able the first week of school may be to cope with the added strain after a reason for the high numbers, capacity was boosted, pledging Egil Bovim, Chief physician for that “everybody who needs help infection prevention said: “We will get that help”. see that a not insignificant pro- More than half of Australia’s 25 million people are stuck in lockdown as a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak It came as authorities ex- portion of those infected are continues to surge. PHOTO: AFP tended stay-at-home orders for from the first week of school.” AUSTRALIA on Thursday re- state, which includes the coun- over 15,000 cases and spread to the rest of New South Wales to “I have to say I’m worried ported more than 1,000 new local try’s most populous city Sydney, smaller towns and cities, prompt- September 10, as concerns grew now, yes, I am. We need to see coronavirus cases for the first announced a record 1,029 cases ing the return of lockdowns and over rising cases in regional are- what we can do to bring these time during the pandemic, as a of Covid-19 for the previous 24 travel restrictions across Austral- as that deputy premier John Ba- numbers down and to bring in Delta variant outbreak surged hours. An outbreak that began in ia’s populated southeast. rilaro described as “a tinderbox the right measures that can do in Sydney. New South Wales the city in mid-June has reached Despite the soaring figures ready to explode”.—AFP it”, he added.— AFP

Ardern defends virus elimination policy A public health information sign on NEW ZEALAND Prime Min- one of the world’s last Cov- the elimination approach. a beach in Auckland. ister Jacinda Ardern defended id-free zones. “In their view, it’s not only PHOTO: her “Covid zero” elimination That infection has since possible, it remains the best SHUTTERSTOCK/ STEVETODD/AFP strategy Thursday amid fears ballooned into the largest clus- strategy and I totally agree,” an outbreak of the highly trans- ter the country has recorded she said Thursday after an- missible Delta variant has ren- throughout the entire pandem- nouncing 68 new community dered the previously successful ic, with 277 cases. cases. policy ineffective. Ardern said she believed Her Australian counterpart A Delta case emerged in even the Delta strain could Scott Morrison this week said Auckland last week, ending a again be stamped out in the it was “just absurd” to try to six-month run without local community and health experts eliminate Delta, adding: “New transmission in New Zealand, were advising her to stick with Zealand can’t do that.”—AFP 27 AUGUST 2021 12 ECON: WORLD THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Biden and tech bosses talk S. Korea hikes interest rates for first time since before pandemic cybersecurity after ransomware SOUTH Korea on Thursday as authorities in the world’s became one of the first major 12th-largest economy grapple attacks economies to hike interest with surging household debt rates following the coronavirus and an overheated housing PRESIDENT Joe Biden gath- pandemic, as authorities try to market, which analysts warn ered Wednesday with business rein in growing household debt could threaten economic sta- and government leaders to dis- and a frenzied housing market. bility. cuss improving cybersecurity The central Bank of Ko- South Korea’s household following high-profile attacks rea raised its key rate to 0.75 debt rose 41.2 trillion won ($35.3 that raised questions about the per cent from a record low 0.5 billion) during the April-June vulnerability of so-called critical per cent — where it had been period to a record high 1,806 infrastructure. since May 2020 — with officials trillion won, roughly equivalent Biden and key cabinet offi- asserting the economy was ex- to the country’s GDP. cials hosted chief executives of periencing a “sound recovery”. “Household loan growth Apple, Google, Amazon and Mi- A few countries have be- has accelerated and housing crosoft, along with leaders from gun to lift borrowing costs, prices have continued to in- the finance and utilities sectors. among them Brazil, Russia, crease rapidly in all parts of The gathering comes after Chile and Mexico, and inves- the country,” the BOK said in hacks and data breaches that tors around the world are a statement. Apple CEO Tim Cook attends a meeting with US President Joe Biden on have targeted a major US oil watching closely for when the The country has contin- how to improve cybersecurity. PHOTO: AFP pipeline, a meatpacking compa- US Federal Reserve will start ued “sound recovery”, it said, ny and the Microsoft Exchange cybersecurity efforts over five questions about protecting 16 to taper its huge stimulus pro- adding that “exports have email system, as well as ran- years, as well as “$150 million “critical infrastructure” sectors grammes. sustained their buoyancy and somware attacks hitting various to help US government agencies including energy, utilities, de- It was its first rate rise facilities investment has shown sectors. “I’ve invited you all here upgrade protections”, accord- fence, food and manufacturing. since November 2018 and came a robust trend”.—AFP today because you have the pow- ing to a tweet from CEO Satya Some analysts have called er and the capacity and respon- Nadella. Amazon promised in a for tougher sanctions against sibility, I believe, to raise the bar statement to make its security Russia and other countries ac- on cybersecurity,” Biden said. training for employees available cused of harbouring cybercrim- After the talks, major tech to the general public, and Google inals. Others have suggested companies, including three said it will invest $10 billion over more scrutiny of cryptocurren- global leaders in cloud comput- five years to help “secure the cy, which is used by hackers to ing, announced training pro- software supply chain”. collect ransomware. grammes and investments in The latest attacks, which af- A senior administration offi- cybersecurity. fected Microsoft email servers cial told journalists the meeting Microsoft, for example, and the widely deployed Solar- would focus on “concrete” meas- plans to inject $20 billion into its Winds security software, raise ures to improve security.—AFP

South Korea has raised interest rates for the first time since the US manufactured goods orders start of the pandemic as it tries to rein in growing household dip in July debt. PHOTO: AFP/FILE

the report said. Asian markets struggle as traders Meanwhile, the transporta- turn focus to Powell speech tion sector retreated as nonde- fence aircraft orders plunged, ASIAN markets mostly fell bankers and economists, which though spending on motor ve- Thursday as hopes for the will be closely followed for any hicles and parts rose. global recovery and signs of a indication about its policy plans Ian Shepherdson of Panthe- possible slowdown in new vi- in light of rising inflation and on Macroeconomics noted that rus infections play off against the economic rebound. the data “were hit by a sharp China’s regulatory clampdown The bank is widely expect- drop in net orders for Boeing and the prospect of an end to ed to begin easing back on its aircraft — which are trending Federal Reserve largesse. vast bond-buying programme higher but are wildly volatile”. Equities and oil have by by the end of the year, though But, he said, “Businesses and large enjoyed a positive the spread of the Delta vari- are sitting on record cash piles, week, helped by full US approv- ant and its impact on growth so we expect capital goods or- al of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine has some observers and even US manufacturing orders slipped in July but spending on motor vehicles ders to run hot for some time and speculation the Fed will hawkish Fed members rethink- and parts rose. PHOTO: AFP/FILE yet.” take its time in removing its ing the wisdom of doing so. SPENDING on big-ticket US Department reported, a small- Excluding aircraft and oth- ultra-loose monetary policy Analysts said the speed manufactured goods dipped er decline than analysts were er transportation, which tend whenever it begins to do so. and timing of a pullback could slightly in July, but was held projecting. to swing wildly, orders actually However, while Wall Street be crucial. up by a surge in demand from Orders from the military increased 0.7 per cent -- far more continued to chalk up new re- “When the Fed actually the defence sector, according prevented a much bigger drop than the consensus forecast. cords, Asian investors shifted announces the taper, it will to government data released in the total, with a 20.5 per cent “Supply side headwinds are a little more cautiously as they likely also give some degree Wednesday. increase in defense capital goods showing some tentative signs of assessed the outlook. of information on what pace After two months of increas- orders and a smaller rise in air- easing, but it’ll take a long time to Top of the agenda this it will take and how flexible or es, durable goods orders slipped craft. return to pre-Covid conditions,” week is Fed boss Jerome Pow- inflexible they want to be with 0.1 per cent compared to June Without the defence sector, said Oren Klachkin of Oxford ell’s speech Friday to the Jack- the process,” Guneet Dhingra, to $257.2 billion, the Commerce total new orders fell 1.2 per cent, Economics.—AFP son Hole symposium of central at Morgan Stanley, said.—AFP 27 AUGUST 2021 THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR BIZ: WORLD/ AD 13 Malaysia’s business confidence weakens in Q3 due to pandemic

MALAYSIA’S businesses quarter of 2021 in light are more pessimistic to- of severe and prolonged wards their business con- COVID-19 pandemic in dition in the third quarter this country,” it said. of 2021 due to the severe According to DOSM, and prolonged COVID-19 the confidence indicator pandemic, an official sur- of the wholesale and retail vey showed Thursday. The trade sector plunged to a Department of Statistics negative trajectory with Malaysia (DOSM) said in minus 39.4 per cent as its Business Tendency Re- compared to 5.6 per cent port that the confidence in the second quarter of indicator further dipped 2021. to minus 21.3 per cent in Meanwhile, the indus- the reference quarter as try and services sectors against minus 3.1 per cent indicated more pessimism The industry and services sectors of Malaysia indicated more pessimism with confidence indicators dropping to minus 11.0 in the preceding quarter. with confidence indicators per cent and minus 22.8 per cent respectively in the third quarter, from minus 1.5 per cent and minus 6.1 per cent recorded in the previous quarter. PHOTO: WORLD BANK/XINHUA “Within the sectors dropping to minus 11.0 per covered, all sectors antici- cent and minus 22.8 per 1.5 per cent and minus 6.1 Concurrently, the ness situation to recede as against minus 30.5 per pate unfavorable business cent respectively in the per cent recorded in the construction sector also in this reference quarter cent recorded in the past conditions for the third third quarter, from minus previous quarter. anticipates their busi- with minus 45.0 per cent quarter.—Xinhua Hankyu Hanshin Properties engaged in 3 FAA opens Boeing safety review housing projects in Thailand amid reports of pressure US air safety regulators will open a review of operations at and 630 units in Samut International Airport. Its Boeing after feedback from inspectors assigned to provide Prakan Province in the location is northeast of cen- oversight for the government showed many feel unable to capital’s eastern suburbs, tral Bangkok and a 10-min- share their concerns. according to Hankyu Han- ute walk from Sai Yud sta- The findings have echoes of the issues surrounding shin Properties. The Osa- tion on the Bangkok mass the aviation giant’s 737 MAX, which suffered two crashes in ka-based company said the transit system’s Sukhum- 2018 and 2019 that claimed 346 lives and led to a 20-month housing complexes, all for vit Line. Hankyu Hanshin grounding of the aircraft. sale, are scheduled to be Properties counts airport In the wake of the tragedies, Boeing and the Federal completed by 2023. The employees as among po- Aviation Administration (FAA) came under intense scrutiny construction of townhous- tential buyers for the units, from Congress and the public for their close relationship es will be finished in stages which are made up solely during the airplane manufacturing process that some viewed Photo shows townhouses under construction as part from later this year. The of condos, and which are as undermining safety oversight.—AFP of the Thepharak project in Samut Prakan Province in Ladkrabang complex is lo- being developed as the Thailand. PHOTO: HANKYU HANSHIN PROPERTIES CORP./ NNA/KYODO cated near the Ladkrabang “Saphanmai” project. Industrial Estate, east of The Thepharak pro- THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR HANKYU Hanshin Prop- Development Public Co. Bangkok city centre, where ject in Samut Prakan MINISTRY OF ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION ENTERPRISE erties Corp. is engaged in The projects involve demand is expected from Province is anticipated to GROUND MOUNTED SOLAR POWER PROJECTS three housing projects for building 1,140 units in the employees at the industrial arouse interest from those IN MYANMAR condominiums and town- Ladkrabang district and park. The project in the Sai who work at the nearby (Tender No. EPGE PV 02/2021-2022) houses in Thailand jointly 500 units in the Sai Mai Mai district is under way at Bangplee Industrial Es- with local developer Sena district, both in Bangkok, a site close to Don Mueang tate.—Kyodo In accordance with section 8 2 “AMENDMENTS” of Request for Proposals RFP of EPGE PV 02/2021- 2022, EPGE herewith would like to announce that Bid Submission Date shall be amended as 1st October 2021 Australia’s Qantas posts fresh losses and the Addendum No.2 shall be issued. after ‘diabolical’ year

AUSTRALIAN airline Qan- It comes on top of al- tas on Thursday posted most US$2 billion in statu- more than US$1 billion in tory pre-tax losses report- annual losses, after what it ed in the previous financial described as a “diabolical” year, when airlines globally year caused by pandemic were hit with the initial im- travel restrictions. pacts of the coronavirus The national flag car- pandemic. rier reported Aus$1.83 bil- Qantas CEO Alan lion (US$1.33 billion) in un- Joyce predicted the air- derlying pre-tax losses for line’s revenues will have the 12 months to 30 June, plunged more than Aus$20 Qantas, like airlines around the world, has been hard hit rising to Aus$2.35 billion billion (US$14.5 billion) by by travel restrictions due to the pandemic. PHOTO: AFP/ (US$1.7 billion) when in- the end of 2021 as a result FILE cluding one-off costs such of Covid-19. closed international bor- restrictions had on the as redundancy payouts “This loss shows the ders and more than 330 national carrier,” he said and mothballing aircraft. impact that a full year of days of domestic travel in a statement.—AFP 27 AUGUST 2021 14 SOCIETY THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Mysterious ‘Havana’ syndrome imperils US diplomats

A mysterious affliction dubbed It was the most recent of “Havana Syndrome” that has dozens of such cases reported brought severe headaches, nau- by US diplomats and intelligence sea and possible brain damage to officers since 2016, first in Cuba, US diplomats has many officials then in China, Germany, Austral- convinced they are under sus- ia, Taiwan and in Washington tained attack using electronic itself. weapons. In July, the New Yorker On Tuesday, US Vice-Presi- magazine reported there have dent Kamala Harris delayed for been dozens of cases among US several hours a trip to Viet Nam officials in Vienna, Austria since after the US embassy in Hanoi the beginning of 2021. reported a possible case involv- Amid concerns a powerful ing “acoustic incidents” there, rival, possibly Russia, is mount- raising concern she could be a ing the attacks, the State De- target. partment has warned its thou- Ultimately Harris did go to sands of diplomats of the threat Hanoi, and the State Department while also carrying out extensive said it was investigating a case medical checks on those heading of what the US government offi- abroad so as to better measure US Vice-President Kamala Harris delayed her arrival in Hanoi after reports that US diplomats in the Viet Nam cially dubs an “anomalous health any effects of future attacks. capital may have experienced the mysterious illness dubbed “Havana Syndrome”. PHOTO: POOL/AFP incident” or AHI. — AFP

NEWS The New York landfill site home to 9/11 IN BRIEF debris, human remains Russia critic Navalny gives first interview from jail FOR some, the hill represents New York’s resilience; for others it’s a gaping wound. Beneath it JAILED Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has given his first interview from lies debris, mixed with human prison, comparing it to a Chinese labour camp and saying he is forced remains, from the 9/11 attacks. to watch eight hours of state television a day. The site at Fresh Kills on Navalny, who built his political career on exposing corruption in Staten Island was the largest Russia, is being held in a maximum security prison colony in Pokrov, open-air dump in the world until 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Moscow. it closed in March 2001. Today He told The New York Times the days of heavy labour in Soviet it’s a source of consternation for gulags were over -- replaced by what he called the “psychological vio- some victims’ families. lence” of brainwashing and propaganda. After al-Qaeda hijackers re- “You might imagine tattooed muscle men with steel teeth carrying duced the Twin Towers to piles of on with knife fights to take the best cot by the window,” Navalny was steel and concrete, the site was quoted as saying in the interview, published Wednesday. reopened so that rubble from the Diane and Kurt Horning, who lost their son Matthew in the 9/11 attacks, “You need to imagine something like a Chinese labour camp, where World Trade Centre could be sent are seen at the Empty Sky 9/11 Memorial in Jersey City, New Jersey. PHOTO: AFP everybody marches in a line and where video cameras are hung every- there. where. There is constant control and a culture of snitching.” The first trucks arrived the 600,000 tonnes of debris from But I can tell you that the mate- He said guards monitored them as they watched hours of state night of 11 September 2001 itself “Ground Zero”. rial has been treated with the ut- propaganda, not allowing them to read or write and waking inmates and for ten months, Dennis Dig- “I don’t know what it would most respect,” he recalls 20 years up if they fell asleep.—AFP gins led efforts to sift through be like if I had a family member. later. —AFP

What is the Islamic State threat Western in Afghanistan? nations warn of

AS desperate Afghans crowd Kabul airport trying to get on any evac- terror threat at uation flights to flee the Taliban, officials have warned of another jihadist threat: the Islamic State group. President Joe Biden said there Kabul airport is “an acute and growing risk” of an attack at the airport by the group’s regional chapter, called Islamic State-Khorasan or ISIS-K. The United WESTERN nations warned their States, Britain and Australia have told people to leave the area for safer citizens Thursday to immediate- locations. When asked directly about the threat, a Taliban spokesman ly leave the surrounds of Kabul acknowledged a risk of “nuisances” causing trouble in a chaotic situ- airport over a terrorist threat, as ation they blamed entirely on the US-led evacuation. thousands of people try to reach What is Islamic State-Khorasan? a dwindling number of evacua- Over 80,000 people have been evacuated since 14 August, but huge Months after the Islamic State declared a caliphate in Iraq and tion flights. crowds remain outside Kabul airport hoping to flee the threat of reprisals Syria in 2014, breakaway fighters from the Pakistani Taliban joined Nearly 90,000 Afghans and and repression in Taliban-led Afghanistan. PHOTO: US AIR FORCE/ militants in Afghanistan to form a regional chapter, pledging allegiance foreigners have fled Afghanistan AFP/FILE to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The group was formally acknowl- via the US-led airlift since the gathered in and around the air- deadline by President Joe Biden edged by the central Islamic State leadership the next year as it sunk hardline Islamist Taliban move- port, becoming increasingly des- to end the evacuations and with- roots in northeastern Afghanistan, particularly Kunar, Nangarhar and ment took control of the country perate as some foreign nations draw the US troops overseeing Nuristan provinces.—AFP on 15 August. Huge crowds are cease flights ahead of Tuesday’s it.—AFP 27 AUGUST 2021 THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR GLOBAL AFFAIRS 15 Post-Merkel German election a nailbiter in final stretch

THE race to choose German from politics. ‘Tide has turned’ Chancellor Angela Merkel’s With the Afghanistan deba- The frontrunner by a whisk- successor has shaped up as the cle triggering a crisis of confi- er according to most polls re- most suspenseful since her rise dence in the West and the cli- mains Armin Laschet, the affa- to power 16 years ago, signalling mate emergency demanding ble but gaffe-prone premier of a potentially turbulent new polit- urgent action, Germany may North Rhine-Westphalia, Ger- ical era in Europe’s top economy. well be tied up for months to many’s most populous state, With a month to go until the come with a messy struggle to and head of Merkel’s Christian 26 September vote, Merkel’s con- form a coalition government un- Democratic Union. The veteran servative CDU-CSU bloc and der a new chancellor. leader sought to lend some of her their current junior partners in “It is only now dawning on enduring star power to Laschet government, the Social Dem- many people that Merkel is leav- at a joint campaign event in Ber- ocrats, are running neck-and- ing the stage,” Ursula Muench, lin last weekend, calling him a neck, with the ecologist Greens director of the Academy for Po- “bridge-builder” and saying she Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union leader Armin close behind. litical Education, near Munich, was “deeply convinced” of his Laschet is the frontrunner by a whisker to succeed Angela Merkel as That leaves wide open the told AFP. abilities. Voters, however, do not Chancellor. PHOTO: AFP question of who will steer the “Of course the candidates appear to share her confidence. conservative bloc as the candi- saw as his inconsistent strat- EU’s most populous nation after are being judged in comparison After Laschet emerged from date in April, many Germans egy to confront the pandemic. the widely trusted Merkel retires to her -- they’re big shoes to fill.” a bare-knuckle battle within the reacted sceptically to what they —AFP Israeli PM promises ‘new spirit’ in Biden meeting

was “an old and true friend of the he was dealing, what the United en’s attempt to reverse Trump’s State of Israel”. States should do,” Kurtzer said. withdrawal from a 2015 nuclear The 49-year-old leader took By contrast, with Bennett, “even deal that lifted sanctions on Iran office in June as head of an ideo- if there are differences on policy, in exchange for curbs on its nu- logically divided coalition in which which there will be, the two will clear programme. Since Trump’s his hawkish party holds only a be able to talk without this overlay move, Iran has itself withdrawn handful of seats. of disrespect.” from key commitments includ- “There is a new administra- ing on uranium enrichment. On tion in the US and a new govern- Resuming nuclear deal ‘mis- Wednesday, Israeli Defence Min- ment in Israel, and I am bringing take’ ister Benny Gantz told diplomats with me from Jerusalem a new Bennett says Iran will be the he was also sure Iran directly spirit of cooperation,” Bennett focus of his visit. attacked an oil tanker managed said. Dan Kurtzer, former US Speaking to Secretary of by a company owned by an Israeli ambassador to Israel, told AFP State Antony Blinken Wednes- businessman in late July, killing that Bennett’s visit would set a day, Bennett said he hoped for two crew members. Bennett has Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says Iran will be focus of his visit. new tone after 12 straight years “cooperation and goodwill” with said he will present Biden with PHOTO: POOL/AFP of Benjamin Netanyahu, a close Americans, primarily in “how do “an orderly plan” to restrain the ISRAELI Prime Minister Naftali nuclear programme and to shore ally of Biden’s tempestuous pre- we fend off and curtail Iran’s pur- Iranians, hinting Israel could lev- Bennett meets Thursday with up bipartisan support for Israel. decessor Donald Trump. “Netan- suit to dominate the region and its erage its new ties with Arab na- President Joe Biden at the White Bennett told reporters ahead yahu believed that he knew better race to a nuclear weapon.” tions thanks to the US-brokered House to urge pressure on Iran’s of his first state visit that Biden than the president with whom Israel fiercely opposes Bid- Abraham Accords.—AFP Shell-shocked survivors Many didn’t make it’: Haitian migrants’ describe brutal Tigray traumatic journey to Panama rebel advance WHEN Moise Cliff Raymond ar- rives at the Tuquesa River, he AFTER seizing the farming told AFP he buried all three. plunges in to wash off the filth village in northern Ethiopia, “They want to suppress from trekking five days through the rebels roamed the streets and rule us. Their deed is eth- the perilous Darien Gap jungle searching for young, able-bodied nic cleansing,” Adisse said of the in order to cross the Colombian men who had fought alongside rebels who hail from Ethiopia’s border into Panama. government forces. northernmost region of Tigray. The Haitian and his com- Anyone with a militia ID The alleged killings earlier panions, who have just arrived was a suspect. So were men with this month in the village of Hara at Bajo Chiquito -- the first com- marks on their shoulders left by are just one example of grue- munity on the Panama side -- are rifle straps, even though it is com- some abuses described by wit- covered in mud after the previ- mon for farmers in Ethiopia’s nesses of Ethiopia’s widening ous night’s heavy rain. Amhara region -- militia fighters war. “The journey was very hard or not -- to carry Kalashnikovs. Long confined to Tigray, the because it’s a long walk,” said the Before the day was over, the conflict has recently spread to 29-year-old, wearing a rastacap. Migrants queue up to register their official entry into Panama at the village rebels had fatally shot two men in two neighbouring regions, Afar “There are many dead, peo- of Bajo Chiquito, close to the border with Colombia. PHOTO: AFP their homes and marched a third and Amhara, with heavy weapons ple who didn’t make it this far.” to a nearby river where they fired fire killing an untold number of While Raymond walked, oth- taxi to take them to the village’s struggled into one of the canoes rounds into his back, according civilians and displacing hundreds er migrants who had spare cash small port. while holding onto his three- to 49-year-old Adisse Wonde, who of thousands more.—AFP or children chose to hire a canoe Another Haitian, Peter, year-old daughter.—AFP 27 AUGUST 2021 16 SPORT THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR

Myanmar fighter Tial Thang promises his fight going to end with a finish Republic of the Union

Road FC Flyweight Cham- pion. So, of course, if you of Myanmar went to a five-round fight, and you’re a champion of State Administration Council some organization, I give you respect. I respect that a lot. Nine Objectives “I think he has good 1. Political affairs striking. He’s fast, and his (a) To build a Union based on democracy and federalism, through a grappling is also decent. I disciplined and genuine multiparty democratic system that is fair don’t see his weaknesses and just. so much, so I cannot wait (b) To emphasize the achievement of enduring peace for the entire to find out my skill set with nation in line with the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA). this type of opponent. “I’ve been looking for- (c) To continue implementing the principle of peaceful co-existence ward to this type of fight. among countries through an independent, active and non-aligned He’s coming forward. I’m foreign policy. Tial Thang is ready to fight against South Korean fighter coming forward. In my past 2. Economic affairs Song Min Jong at ONE: BATTLEGROUND III event in three fights, I feel like [my (a) To enhance production based on agriculture and livestock through Singapore tonight. PHOTO: ONE CHAMPIOSNHIP opponents] were running modern techniques and strengthen all-round development in other UNDEFEATED Myanmar ly hard for this camp, and away a little bit, so I had sectors of the economy. MMA bantamweight fight- I’ve been in a fight camp to chase them down. And (b) To develop a stable market economy and promote international er Tial Thang has promised since February. So, if you I don’t see that going into investment in order to enhance the economic development of the that his fight for tonight think about it, how long did this fight. I think he’s go- entire National people. would end with a finish, it take? You know, I sacri- ing to come forward, I’m (c) To promote and support local businesses to create employment during a recent interview ficed a lot, and I have not going to go forward, and opportunities and increase domestic production. with ONE Championship. seen my kids or my wife we’re going to collide in the 3. Social affairs Tial Thang will re- since February. middle of that Circle. “I’m (a) To ensure a strong and dynamic Union spirit, the genuine spirit of turn for his next challenge I sacrificed a lot for this going to pressure. I’m go- against South Korean fight- fight, and it’s going to show. ing to go in there and block patriotism. er Song Min Jong at ONE: It’s going to show on fight his shots, hit him back with (b) To respect and promote the customs and traditions of all National BATTLEGROUND III, night, and it’s going to be three-pieces, four-pieces, peoples and preserve and safeguard their cultural heritage and which will launch at Sin- fireworks. I promise you whatever, take him down, national characteristics. gapore Indoor Stadium in guys – it’s going to end with ground-and-pound. What- (c) To enhance the health, fitness and education quality of the entire Singapore tonight. a finish”, Tial Thang said. ever it takes,” Tial Thang nation. “I worked really, real- “I believe he was a added. — GNLM Ugandan teen Kukundakwe Osaka defends US Open crown looks to change attitudes with Barty leading top rivals after Paralympic debut DEFENDING champion Naomi TEENAGE Ugandan swim- want to do,” she said. Osaka seeks her third US Open mer Husnah Kukundakwe said “I feel like I could even title in four tries as the year’s final she felt like she could “touch touch the clouds because I’m Grand Slam begins Monday with the clouds” after making her the youngest here, and just see- top-ranked Wimbledon winner Paralympic debut Thursday ing how the others are doing Ashleigh Barty leading a host of -- and hopes it could change and swimming with them is rivals. What’s uncertain is wheth- attitudes towards disability in such an amazing experience.” er New York will see Osaka re- Africa. Kukundakwe said babies discover the dominant form that Fourteen-year-old Kuku- born with disabilities in Uganda saw her win the past two Grand ndakwe, the youngest athlete are often abandoned by their Slam events she played to the at the Tokyo Games, swam in parents, and she hoped the finish. The 23-year-old Japanese the women’s SB8 100m breast- Paralympics would make them star lit the flame in the Olympic stroke, finishing sixth in her realize “the choice they made cauldron at the Tokyo Games, heat. The Games are being was really bad”. “Maybe giving but has played only two matches shown on free-to-air broadcast these kids a chance, when they since Japan ahead of the Open. Japan’s Naomi Osaka hopes to celebrate her third title in four attempts at this year’s US Open, which starts Monday in New York. PHOTO: AFP in 49 African territories thanks see that they’re different from “I know there are a lot of to an International Paralympic other people and they realize things I need to fix within my need to think about the things Wimbledon but spoke with the Committee initiative, and Kuku- that they want to do something, game, so in a weird way I’m kind that I could improve on. There media after matches in her US ndakwe hopes her race could sport can help them raise their of glad that I lost, because there are definitely a lot of things.” Open tuneup at Cincinnati. “I felt have a transformative effect. confidence,” she said. are so many things that I want to Osaka pulled out of the French like it was something I needed to “Africa in general will learn Kukundakwe was born fix before New York,” Osaka said. Open after being fined for not do for myself,” Osaka said. “I’m that people with disabilities are without her right forearm and “I feel like my level is not talking to reporters after her proud of what I did and I think it just like normal people, and also has an impairment to her that far off... if I want to keep be- first match, saying it hurt her was something that needed to be they need to do whatever they left hand.— AFP ing more positive with myself, I mental health. She then skipped done. —AFP