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Volume XI, Number 330 6th Waning of Tabaung 1365 ME Thursday, 11 March, 2004 Lt-Gen Ye Myint visits Sayadaws in Mandalay, inspects Four political objectives Ayeyawady Bridge (Yadanabon) Project * Stability of the State, community peace and YANGON, 10 March — tranquillity, prevalence of law and order Member of the State Peace * National reconsolidation and Development Council * Emergence of a new enduring State Consti- Lt-Gen Ye Myint of the tution Ministry of Defence, to- * Building of a new modern developed nation gether with Mandalay Di- in accord with the new State Constitution vision Peace and Develop- ment Council Chairman Four economic objectives Central Command Com- * Development of agriculture as the base and all- mander Maj-Gen Ye Myint, round development of other sectors of the arrived at Mandalay Gen- economy as well eral Hospital yesterday. * Proper evolution of the market-oriented eco- Next, Lt-Gen Ye Myint nomic system and party presented offer- * Development of the economy inviting partici- tories to State Ovadacariya pation in terms of technical know-how and Sayadaw of Phayagyitaik investments from sources inside the country Naya Monastery in and abroad Chanmyathazi Township, * The initiative to shape the national economy Mandalay, Agga Maha must be kept in the hands of the State and the Pandita Abhidhaja Maha national peoples Rattha Guru Abhidhaja Lt-Gen Ye Myint offers provisions to a Sayadaw in Mandalay.— MNA Agga Maha Saddhamma- Four social objectives jotika Bhaddanta Medhiya- astery who is temporarily quirements of the project on in harmony, he urged. * Uplift of the morale and morality of the bhivamsa who is receiving residing at the Kyaungtaik. Sagaing bank. Officials re- Next, Lt-Gen Ye Myint entire nation medical treatment, and Lt-Gen Ye Myint and ported on arrangements for presented a computer set to * Uplift of national prestige and integrity and asked after the health of the party proceeded to the construction of a railroad TadaU Basic Education preservation and safeguarding of cultural Sayadaw. Ayeyawady Bridge under the approach road. Lt- High School through the heritage and national character Next, they visited (Yadanabon) Project on Gen Ye Myint gave instruc- headmaster. * Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit Masoeyein Kyaungtaik Mandalay bank, where tions to the officials. Lt-Gen Ye Myint ar- * Uplift of health, fitness and education stand- (Taik-haung) in Nyaunggon they were welcomed by Afterwards, he met with rived back here by air in the ards of the entire nation Ward, East Daywun, Maha- Chairman of Mandalay departmental personnel in afternoon. aungmye Township and City Development Commit- TadaU Township Peace MNA presented offertories to tee Mayor Brig-Gen and Development Council. INSIDE Sayadaw Abhidhaja Maha Yan Thein, Secretary At the meeting, Lt-Gen Ye Commander attends work Rattha Guru Agga Maha Lt-Col Maung Pu and offi- Myint gave a speech, call- coord meeting of Bago Perspectives Pandita Bhaddanta Panña cials. ing on local residents to Let’s work in concert Samibhivamsa. At the project, Deputy cooperate with the govern- Division Police Force under the leadership They also presented of- Superintending Engineer U of the government ment in taking charge of YANGON, 10 March — mander Police Col Thein fertories to Sayadaw of Htay Myint reported on the undertakings for re- Bago Division Police Force Kyi explained the accom- (Page 2) Kyapyan Pitaka Monastery tasks being carried out for gional development. held its work coordination plishments and future pro- Article of Taungpyin Htilintaik in installation of steel beams He added that the Prime meeting in Toungoo on 8 grammes of the Divisional Chanmyathazi Township to the facility. Lt-Gen Ye Minister, in his inspection March, with an address by Police Force. Kayin State with many Agga Maha Sahddhamma Myint left necessary instruc- tour, had already fulfilled Chairman of Bago Division Also present at the work splendours Jotikadhaja Bhaddanta tions and inspected the con- the requirements of the re- Peace and Development coordination meeting were (Page 7) Panñavamsa. struction site. gion. Council Commander of local authorities, departmen- They asked after the Accompanied by offi- In this regard, local Southern Command Maj- tal officials and police of- Circulation health of the Sayadaw of cials, Lt-Gen Ye Myint and people and departments are Gen Ko Ko. ficers. Mawlamyine Webyan Mon- party looked into the re- to make combined efforts Division Police Com- MNA 22,796
Lt-Gen Ye Myint inspects construction of Ayeyawady Bridge (Yadanabon).— MNA Emergence of the State Constitution is the duty of all citizens of Myanmar Naing-Ngan. 2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 11 March, 2004 PERSPECTIVES 59th Anniversary People’s Desire Armed Forces Day Objectives * Oppose those relying on external elements, Thursday, 11 March, 2004 — To strive hand in hand with the people for acting as stooges, holding negative views Let’s work in concert successful realization of the State’s seven-point under the leadership of policy programme * Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability — To crush internal and external destructive of the State and progress of the nation the government elements hindering the stability and progress of The State Peace and Development Coun- the State through people’s militia strategy * Oppose foreign nations interfering in cil has been building all the infrastructures — To implement border area development tasks internal affairs of the State needed for all-round development of the Union and the five rural development tasks hand in and higher living standard of the national peo- hand with the entire people * Crush all internal and external destructive ple. The government, on its part, has been ful- — To build up a strong and efficient Tatmadaw to elements as the common enemy filling sector-wise requirements in all regions uphold ‘Our Three Main National Causes’ throughout the nation and so the people, on their part, should put their energies into the development work for their townships, districts Deputy Minister meets service and states or divisions. personnel of IPRD in Monghsat Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt on 29 February went on an inspection tour of Taungup township, Rakhine State, and fulfilled the requirements for development work in the township besides upgrading two high schools (branch) and two middle schools (branch). And a 25-bed hospital in An township was also up- graded to a 50-bed facility. In his meeting with members of Taungup Township Peace and De- Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Thura Aung Ko and wife velopment Council, departmental personnel and present offertories to a Sayadaw recently. Wellwisher members of social organizations, the Prime Daw Tin Tin Wai also donated K 100,000 to Shwe Minister said that as we have laid down the Minwun Sasana Yeiktha. — MNA seven-point future policy programme for the emergence of a peaceful, modern, developed discipline-flourishing democracy, it is necessary Deputy Minister for Information Brig-Gen Aung Thein for the people to work in concert under the inspects Mongtong TV relay station. — MNA leadership of the government so that our na- YANGON, 10 March— Deputy Minister for Informa- tional goal is realized. For the development of tion Brig-Gen Aung Thein, Director-General of Informa- Rakhine State, the government is building edu- tion and Public Relations Department U Chit Naing, cation, health, social and economic infrastruc- Deputy Chief Engineer of Myanma Radio and Television U Myint Aung and officials arrived in Monghsat on 6 tures. The Yangon-Sittway highway is the tan- March. gible result of the government’s efforts for The deputy minister and party, together with Chair- improving transport in Rakhine State. Eight man of Monghsat District Peace and Development Coun- hundred and ninety-four miles of road includ- cil Lt-Col Aung Htay proceeded to Pungpahkyem in Deputy Director-General U Khin Zaw explains meas- ing 537 miles of tarred road have been built in Mongtong Township in the evening. ures for utilizing water most beneficially in meeting the state. In addition to new roads, a total of The deputy minister met departmental personnel. He with farmers. — A&I twenty-seven bridges has also been constructed. inspected TV relay station and IPRD office there. Now that the transport in Rakhine State Seminar on utilizing water held On 7 March, the deputy minister and party met serv- ice personnel at Mongtong Township IPRD office and has improved, one can travel from Sittway to YANGON, 10 March — Under the Myanmar-Japan fulfilled the requirements. The deputy minister inspected Yangon through the Sittway-MraukU-An- technical cooperation programme, a seminar on utilizing Township IPRD office and TV relay station. Minbu-Magway highway or the Sittway-An- water most beneficially was held at Irrigation Techno- He went to Mongkhok and met departmental person- logical Development Centre in Hlegu recently. Deputy Taungup-Padaung-Pyay highway or the nel. In the evening, he inspected Monghsat District IPRD Director-General U Khin Zaw and directors of the Irriga- Sittway-An-Taungup-Thandwe-Gwa- office. On 8 March he inspected Monghsat TV relay sta- tion Department, technicians of JICA, departmental per- Ngathaingchaung highway. To open educational tion. In meeting with service personnel, the deputy min- sonnel and farmers were present on the occasion. — MNA opportunities to the national people in the state, ister spoke of the need to work hard for the development basic education schools are being upgraded and Rural road Cash donated for of the region, assuming that the region was their home- new ones built. Moreover, for the youths to be opened Children Hospital town. — MNA able to pursue higher education easily, Sittway YANGON, 10 March YANGON, 10 March University, Government Technological College Respect paying ceremony of — A ceremony to open — A ceremony to donate Pyuntaza BEHS 4 April and Government Computer College have been Paukkon-Zwekaik rural cash for the funds of opened in Sittway. Not only that, public health road in Kawa Township Yangon Children Hospital YANGON, 10 March — A ceremony to pay respect care services can be carried out on a wider was held this morning. Di- was held today at the hos- to the retired teachers of Basic Education High School, scale in the state as new 100-bed and 200-bed rector-General of Develop- pital. Wellwisher Mr Pyuntaza, Bago Division, will be held on 4 April morn- hospitals have been opened. ment Affairs Department Vellutini Jacqyes Frangois ing. The teachers and those wishing to raise the fund We would like to call upon the entire under the Ministry for of France explained reason Progress of Border Areas of donation and donated K for the teachers are to contact Daw Khin Saw Mu (Tel: national people to work together in all the 663179), U San Maung (Tel: 02-23591), U Tin Oo (Tel: national endeavours under the leadership of and National Races and 1 million towards the hos- Development Affairs Col 56) and Dr Khin Maung Aye (Tel: 40). — MNA the government for all-round development of pital fund. Medical Super-
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553 US service members killed since An Iraqi doctor the beginning of military operations treats a patient in Iraq after he was injured when BAGHDAD, 10 March—As of Tuesday, March 9, 553 US service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq , according to the Department of police and US Defence. Of those, 379 died as a result of hostile action and 174 died of non-hostile causes, the department said. troops repulsed The British military has Since the start of military reported by the Department of an attack by reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; operations, 2,753 US service Defence: Spain, eight; Bulgaria, five; members have been injured —Navy Petty Officer 2nd guerillas on Thailand, two; Denmark, as a result of hostile action, Class Michael J Gray, 32, Rich- Ukraine, Estonia and Poland according to the Defence De- mond, Va.; killed in an auto- late Monday, have reported one each. partment’s figures. Non-hos- mobile accident Friday in Ku- 8 March , 2004 Since May 1, when Presi- tile injured numbered 424. wait; assigned to Navy De- dent Bush declared that ma- The latest death reported tachment Kuwait Navy Base. in Mosul, 400 jor combat operations in Iraq by US Central Command: _ Army Capt Gussie M kilometres had ended, 415 US soldiers —A US Marine was Jones, 41, Louisiana; non- have died — 264 as a result of found dead from a gunshot combat related death Sunday north of hostile action and 151 of non- wound Monday at Camp Vic- in Baghdad, Iraq; assigned to hostile causes, according to tory, Kuwait. the 31st Combat Support Hos- Baghdad, Iraq. the military. The latest identifications pital; Fort Bliss, Texas. INTERNET European central banks Internet strike new gold deal Thai Commerce Minister to visit China S’pore, Vietnam sign
BASEL (Switzerland), 10 March— Europe’s central to promote rice and fruits agreement on banks said on Monday they had reached a new deal that BANGKOK, 10 March — Thai Commerce Minister Watana Muangsook is to lead a comprehensive coop raises their limits on annual gold sales, capping total delegation to China next week to promote rice and fruits, as the government continues sales at 500 metric tons per year for the next five years. its endeavours to expand trade with China, the Thai News Agency reported Monday. framework The new accord will start in September 2004, replacing The delegation of government officials among the Chinese public, the Ministry of SINGAPORE, 10 March — the 1999 gold agreement that expires on that date and had and rice exporters will head for the southern Commerce is confident in the huge growth Singapore and Vietnam capped gold sales at 400 tons per year, the central banks said. Chinese city of Kunming on March 12-15, potential of sales of hom mali rice in signed on Monday an agree- Britain said it would not take part in the new programme where they will organize a roadshow to China. ment on comprehensive because Britain did not intend to sell any gold during the promote sales of Thailand’s famous hom At present the average export price of cooperation framework period covered by the deal. mali rice. hom mali rice is 520-550 US dollars per tone. following the premiers of the The agreement was announced on the sidelines of the As interest in hom mali rice is rising MNA/Xinhua two countries who held talks Group of 10 meeting of central bankers from top industrial- focusing on bilateral coop- ized nations and emerging markets. eration. “Gold will remain an important element of global mon- According to a statement etary reserves,” the joint statement by 14 central banks and issued by the Singapore the European Central Bank said. The last agreement, signed Prime Minister’s Office, in 1999 and due to expire in September, caps sales at 400 Prime Minister Goh Chok tons per year or 2,000 tons over the life of the five-year Tong discussed with his vis- accord. — MNA/Reuters iting Vietnamese counterpart Phan Van Khai ways of Nigeria seeks Russian investment strengthening bilateral coop- eration, and both sides agreed to develop industries that it was important for the ABUJA, 10 March— Nigeria is to seek more invest- two countries to take advan- ments from Russia to develop its burgeoning industrial tage of their economic sector, a senior Nigerian official said here Sunday. complementarities for mu- Mustafa Bello, Executive Secretary of the Nigerian tual benefit. Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), made the re- Phan Van Khai, who is marks when Valery Vozdvizhenskiy, trade representative of on a four-day working visit the Russian Federation in Nigeria, paid him a visit in his to Singapore, will meet with office in the capital Abuja. Singapore President SR “The NIPC is to organize an investment promotion visit Nathan and Senior Minister to Russia,” he said. As the storm moved away from the peninsula, NASA's Terra satellite captured this Lee Kuan Yew on Tuesday. MNA/Xinhua image of South Korea under a blanket of snow on 7 March, 2004. — INTERNET MNA/Xinhua
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¥ dollars worth of repairs ¤ KIRKUK, 10 March— Millions of dollars are needed to repair Iraq’s northern oil pipeline before it can resume prewar level of crude oil exports, an official at the state Northern Oil Company said. “A number of pumping and produc- million barrels a day. But its second war levels. Explosion at government tion stations and power generation sta- pumping station near Mosul was On Monday, Iraq’s State Oil Mar- tions linked to the pipeline were either bombed and destroyed during the 1991 keting Organization issued a tender for building in Iraq damaged during the war or looted in the Gulf War, reducing its export capacity lifting 6 million barrels of Kirkuk crude MOSUL, 10 March—Seven people were injured Tues- aftermath of the war,’’ company expert to almost half. oil from the Turkish export port of day after a grenade was tossed in a building housing a Ghazi al-Talabani told Dow Jones A spate of acts of sabotage in the Ceyhan between March 12-19. local governing council, police said. Newswires on Monday. aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq last It is not known yet, however, if Iraq Police said the attack may have been aimed at several US “They need to be repaired before we year has hampered Iraq’s efforts to can sustain that level of exports from soldiers who had been in the building earlier, but left before can resume normal levels of export that resume oil exports through the pipeline. the north or not, taking into considera- the grenade was thrown. Seven people, including three po- we used to do before the war,’’ he said. “Al-Ajeel pumping station near tion possible acts of sabotage. liceman and four Iraqis were hurt in the blast in the Bab al- The twin 1,049-kilometre (655-mile) Tikrit, 200 kilometers (124 miles) north “We need millions of dollars to get Toub local council building. No attackers were caught. Kirkuk-Yumurtalik pipeline to Turkey of Baghdad, for example, has sustained these stations working again,’’ al- On Monday, attackers opened fire on a car carrying two used to export around 900,000 barrels a 100 percent destruction,’’ he said. Talabani said. Neither he nor other local council members, killing one and wounding the other, day before the US-led war that ousted Last week, Iraq resumed pumping NOC officials would comment the re- police said. Insurgents also attacked a police checkpoint the government of Saddam Hussein. oil through the pipeline at a capacity of sumption of oil pumping through the Monday night, injuring four policemen. Three of the attackers The pipeline has a capacity of 1.6 400,000 barrels a day, well below pre- pipeline. —Internet were killed, said Police Lt Khalid Abdelkarim. —Internet Support for Bush falls on economy and Iraq WASHINGTON, 10 March—President Bush, the target of months of criticism during the Democratic primary season, has seen public support fall to the lowest level of his presidency for his performance on the economy and the situation in Iraq, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll has found. A majority of Americans — 57 percent As a result of these doubts, Bush narrowly — say they want their next President to trails likely Democratic presidential nomi- steer the country away from the course set nee John F Kerry by 4 percentage points, 48 by Bush, according to the survey. Bush’s to 44 percent, among registered voters in a standing hit new lows in crucial areas such hypothetical presidential matchup. Consumer as the economy (39 percent support him), advocate Ralph Nader, an independent, Iraq (46 percent) and the budget deficit (30 claims 3 percent. Of a dozen policy areas, percent). Kerry leads Bush in eight, including the Bush’s overall support, 50 percent, economy, education and health care, while was unchanged from February and equal Bush leads only in the war on terrorism. The to the lowest of his presidency; only the two candidates are virtually tied in the other war on terrorism continues to garner him three: Iraq, same-sex marriage and civil US soldiers secure the road while a 'Husky' vehicle searches for devices on Tikrit to the support of more than six in 10 Ameri- liberties.
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Scientists get a computerized grip on ear prints Roadside bomb kills US soldier in Iraq
Ford in deal to LONDON, 10 March — Criminals are used to trying to avoid leaving fingerprints at BAGHDAD, 10 March—One US soldier was killed a crime scene. But now British scientists have developed a computerized system that use Toyota and another injured by a roadside bomb north of the allows them to identify ear prints just as easily. Iraqi capital on Tuesday, a military spokeswoman Criminals often wear in the early Twentieth system,” said Professor Guy said. gloves but are less likely to Century. They came back into Rutty, head of the forensic hybrid system The soldiers were driving in a four vehicle convoy cover their ears and before use in the 1990s but unlike pathology unit at the southeast of the town of Baquba, 40 miles north of would-be burglars touch a fingerprints they were never University of Leeds in technology Baghdad, when the bomb exploded at around 9:30 am. doorknob or try to pry open a organized in a computerized England. The wounded soldier was in a stable condition. window they might press their system. “Basically we have Instead of manually TOKYO,10 March — The death brought to 380 the number of US soldiers ear against the glass to hear if brought it up to speed and sorting through ear prints and Toyota Motor Corp said killed in action in Iraq since the start of the US-led war. anyone is home. modernized things con- images, Rutty's system allows on Tuesday that it had Internet Ear prints had been used siderably. We've produced a investigators to systema- concluded licensing to identify individuals and computerized system for tically search an ear print agreements with Ford criminals long before identifying ear prints along database. Motor Co covering the fingerprints became popular the lines of the fingerprint MNA/Reuters use of its hybrid system and emissions purifica- More Vietnamese people suffer from dengue fever tion technology. HANOI, 10 March — Up to 3,326 Vietnamese people were found to suffer from Under the agreements, dengue fever in the first two months of this year, up 150 per cent over the same period Toyota’s hybrid system con- last year. trol technology, among Of the patients, five died Dong Thap Province, whose infections, including 58 fa- other technologies patented of the disease in the period, weather is favourable for the talities last year, year-on-year by the company as a result local newspaper Vietnam Ag- development of mosquitoes rises of 48 per cent and 45 per of its development of riculture on Monday quoted that are the main transmitter cent, respectively. hybrid systems, can be used sources from Vietnam’s Hy- of the disease. Vietnam may To curb the spread of the in Ford’s own hybrid giene and Epidemiology In- face a new strain of dengue disease, prevention centres system, which is still being stitute as saying. fever-causing virus which is nationwide have continually developed. Most of the dengue fever more dangerous than common called for local people to use “We have said that en- sufferers live in southern lo- viruses, the paper said. mosquito nets and intensify vironmentally friendly tech- calities such as Ho Chi Minh The country reported mosquito-killing activities. nologies should not be City, Tien Giang Province and 35,073 cases of dengue fever MNA/Xinhua owned by a single com- pany,” a Toyota spokes- Romanian creates gas shutdown device in case of quake woman said. BUCHAREST,10 March— A Romanian scientific researcher has created a system to Toyota signed a similar protect natural gas networks against earthquakes, the Romanian news agency licensing agreement with Rompres reported on Monday. Nissan Motor Co in The system, which is It was created by a re- for its manufacture are eas- Septebmer 2002. called the “device for rapid searcher from the Seismo- ily available. Shares in Toyota were valve shutdown in case of logic Observatory in The moment a seismic down 0.76 per cent at 3,900 seismic shock,” is aimed at Timisoara, western Romania. shock occurs, the device starts yen, compared with a 0.45- A US Army personnel from the 4th Infantry Division, towns running a high seis- The device costs 350 automatically and the valve per-cent fall in the Nikkei 1-22 battalion secures the area during a night raid in the mic risk and it meets the euros apiece and the tech- shuts down within fractions averag. city of Tikrit, 110 miles north of Baghdad, on 9 March, world standards. nology and materials needed of a second. — MNA/Xinhua MNA/Reuters 2004. — INTERNET
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BAGHDAD, 10 March — Guerillas fired mortars at a Baghdad police station on Monday, wounding two policemen and three civilians, police said, in an attack that coincided with a signing ceremony for Iraq’s interim Constitution. A projectile also hit a nearby house, US military, the Army said. smashing windows and blowing a hole in a Security forces have been on high alert Judge bans Saudis from watching wall but causing no casualties, witnesses for possible guerilla attacks aimed at dis- said. Another loud blast after the signing rupting the signing ceremony. ceremony was a controlled explosion by the MNA/Reuters US TV channel RIYADH, 10 March — A prominent Saudi judge has forbidden people to watch or Japan, Sweden agree to cooperate in contribute to the US-backed satellite channel Alhurra, saying it promotes Washing- ton’s global hegemony, al-Hayat newspaper said on Monday. Sheikh Ibrahim bin it was a “channel that causes “Its goal is to facilitate Iraq’s reconstruction Nasser al-Khudeiri declared corruption”, the Saudi- American hegemony over TOKYO, 10 March — Japanese and Swedish leaders agreed Monday to carry out that watching Alhurra, work- owned newspaper said. the religious, political and cooperation in Iraq’s reconstruction. ing for it, advertising on it or “People working for it are social spheres in the Japanese Prime Minister Persson, who arrived in Persson expressed his full even writing to it were all considered American world.” Junichiro Koizumi told his Tokyo on Monday for a two support for Japan’s dispatch haram (forbidden) because agents,” he told al-Hayat. MNA/Reuters Swedish counterpart Goran day visit, said the difference of Self-Defence Force to Iraq Persson that the two coun- on the Iraq war “is behind for humanitarian assistance. tries should cooperate in the us”. Sweden opposes the US- The two leaders also dis- reconstruction, Kyodo News led invasion in Iraq, while cussed the nuclear standoff quoted Japanese officials as Japan is a strong supporter on the Korean Peninsular. saying. of its long-standing ally. MNA/Xinhua
MEXICO CITY, 10 March — Guatemalan President Oscar Berger said Monday that his country will not send Guatemala troops to Iraq due to the lack of fund, reports reaching here from the Guatemalan capital of Guatemala City said. not to send At a Press conference in the Guatemala City, Berger said the government decided not to participate in the Spain-led Plus Ultra Brigades, a stabilizing force in Iraq. “We do not troops to have resources to send the troops,” he said. Berger had announced his decision of dispatching troops to Iraq last Friday when holding a joint Press conference Iraq with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in the Spanish capital of Madrid. — MNA/Xinhua
Hubble shows ultra-deep vision of South Korean TV cameramen and photographers chant slogans at a protest near the cosmic infancy US Embassy in Seoul,on 9 March , 2004. —INTERNET BALTIMORE, 10 March — Scientists unveiled a monster baby picture of the universe US study shows unique Three US on Tuesday, in an image snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope that looks deep into the cosmos, back 13 billion years to just 700 million years after the Big Bang. quality of primate brains soldiers Hubble has looked back first infant galaxies were form- “It doesn’t seem like much WASHINGTON, 10 March — A study of the brains of in time before, but this image, ing, a time of great interest to ... but when you realize that primates ranging from tiny bush babies to humans and injured in known as the Ultra Deep Field, astronomers because it marks this is a time when a phase apes shows that size really may matter, researchers said is the most profound vision a transition point from a cos- transition occurred in the uni- on Monday. the orbiting telescope has ever mic dark age. verse... this is a very critical Afghanistan All primates have an unu- gested human behaviour could captured, scientists said at a “This is the deepest view time, you want to have details KABUL, 10 March — As sually large frontal cortex, a be traced in part to a dispro- briefing at the Space Tel- of the visible ever taken,” said on that critical time,” Hubble the United States-led war on part of the brain used by hu- portionately large frontal cor- escope Science Institute. Rodger Thompson, one of a astronomer Mario Livio said terrorism is going on in Af- mans for higher thought and tex compared to the rest of the The new picture looks like team of astronomers who put in an interview. ghanistan, another three reasoning, they found. From brain. a scattering of jewels on black the image together with two of Livio and other astrono- American soldiers were lemurs to chimpanzees, that It turns out that smaller velvet, but it is in fact some Hubble’s sophisticated instru- mers likened the development wounded during the week- part of the brain is especially primates such as lemurs and 10,000 galaxies crammed into ments. “It’s an amazing time of the universe to the develop- end in the war-plagued coun- large compared with overall bush babies actually devote a a section of sky about one- to be an astrophysicist.” ment of a human being, not- try, US military spokesman brain size, the California In- larger proportion of their tenth the size of the full moon. Thompson and other sci- ing that the most dramatic said here. “Saturday stitute of Technology team brains to the frontal cortex. The image peers only 300 entists emphasized the impor- changes occur at the earliest evening, west of Ghazni, a found. But because they are small million miles deeper into the tance of looking at the earliest ages, making even a seem- coalition vehicle was dam- “In primates, having a overall, this area is small. ancient universe than similar times of galactic development, ingly slight increase in the aged by a landmine or im- bigger brain means you have Humans and apes are big Hubble images made in the which can be more dramatic depth of observation a giant provised device. Three sol- a disproportionately larger and have big brains, so while 1990s, but this extra distance and sweeping than the evolu- leap for basic study of the diers were slightly injured frontal cortex,” said Eliot the proportion is not as big, the sees back to when the very tion of galaxies as they age. cosmos.—MNA/Reuters in the incident,” Lieutenant- Bush, a PhD candidate at frontal cortex ends up being Colonel Bryan Hilferty told Caltech who worked on the huge, comparatively. newsmen here. “The sol- study. This could explain some diers were from the US 10th While the study does not behavioral differences that Mountain Division,” he offer any deep insight into make humans, apes and mon- added. what separates humans from keys — the large primates — Coalition forces in re- other mammals, it does show unique. taliation, Hilferty said, had that much of what makes “Primates are able to un- put three suspects under cus- people and our cousins the derstand abstractions — tody and initiated an inves- apes different may lie in our maybe understanding those tigation to identify the cul- primate heritage. two monkeys over there are a prits. A comparison to carni- mother and a daughter, The incident took place vores — the order that in- whereas maybe other mam- just one day after the killing cludes lions, tigers and dogs mals don’t have that ability,” of nine suspected Taleban — shows they do not have Bush said in a telephone inter- members in neighbouring the same disproportionately view. “In humans, the frontal Paktika Province on Friday. large frontal cortex. cortex is involved in a lot of MNA/Reuters This may explain why a 5- interesting things such as so- pound house cat is every bit as cial relationships. I think that intelligent as a 100-poun lion. quite possibly is what it is Bush said the finding, pub- about.” For their study, Bush Donate This composite photo by the Hubble Space Telescope, released on 9 March , 2004 by lished in this week’s issue of and his professor, John Allman, NASA, a long-duration exposure, is the deepest-ever view of the universe, looks back to the Proceedings of the Na- compared 43 mammals, in- the edge of the big bang, and shows a chaotic scramble of odd galaxies smashing into tional Academy of Sciences, cluding 25 primates and 15 blood each other and re-forming in bizarre shapes.—INTERNET disputed theories that sug- carnivores. — MNA/Reuters THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 11 March, 2004 7 Efficient use of electricity Kayin State with many splendours * Use daylight as the main source of light * Use the least possible amount of electric- Moe Htet Myint (Delta) ity only if there is not enough natural light Head of State Sen- Seik. From there our car The name, Kya-in- which is a success story, it * Use the least possible amount of electric- ior General Than Shwe drove another 16 miles to Seikkyi, is a combination has rich natural resources. ity required in production and service toured Kayin State begin- Myainggale in Kayin State. of the names of two dif- The town grows rubber, enterprises ning 3 March 2004. Then we crossed the ferent places, Seikkyi, ly- pepper, betel nut, and cit- During the tour, he Thanlwin River Bridge ing on the Attaran River rus fruits, and runs a live- * Preventing waste of electricity benefits gave guidance to person- (Hpa-an). The road to bank and Kya-in, a village stock breeding industry. the user and others nel concerned, saying, Zathabyin runs near the about two miles from Pathi Creek flows “Unlike the past, Kayin foot of Zwegabin Moun- Seikkyi. Lying at the foot through Thandaung Town- There are about 500,000 households us- State including Hpa-an has tain that is 2,371 feet high. of a mountain range, the ship. It is a farming town, ing electricity in Yangon. Thus, saving a been achieving unprec- A new bridge has town is mainly relying on where tea, beetle nut, and edented progress at been built on Gyaing River farming business. The dajankol are being planted. four-foot fluorescent lamp everyday by each present. bordering Mon State and town grows lemon, orange Lying over 4,000 feet household amounts to saving power that is The Government Kayin State. After we had and citrus fruit. above the sea level, it is a equal to the capacity a 20-megawatt power has been spending a large crossed over the bridge, we The Yonsalin River hill station of Kayin State, station can supply. amount of financial power went to Myawady. flows through Papun. The which is sometimes a mist- to build all the necessary Kayin State is main products of the town shrouded town. In addition infrastructures including formed with seven town- are hpala, a kind of carda- to tea, which is its main roads and bridges in Kayin ships — Kawkareik, Kya- mom plant, beetle nut, business, the town also Efficient use of fuel State to enable it to catch in-Seikkyi, Papun, Hpa-an, chili, wood and wood- grows coffee, cocoa and * Saving one gallon of fuel per car per up with other states and Myawady, Hlaingbwe and based goods. Natural cinchona. month will save the nation one US dollar divisions in terms of de- Thandaung townships. honey from Papun is fa- Kayin State is velopment. Pa-O, Bamar, Mon and mous in the nation. The achieving development in * Thus, a total of 455,822 cars in Myanmar “It has already built Shan national races are liv- local people of the state all aspects at present. The can save US$ 5.5 million in a year many schools and colleges ing in unity in the state. are enjoying a better State has extended all the and upgraded the Hpa-an Prime Minister Gen- economy. There is now an transport, educational and * The amount, US $ 5.5 million, can build a Degree College into a uni- eral Khin Nyunt attended all-weather road running health infrastructures. It is major bridge across Ayeyawady River versity, paving the way for the ceremony to open the between Myainggyingu and also rendering assistance for the local people to gain main hall of the Hpa-an Hpa-an. the development of eco- access to basic education University in Hpa-an on 9 Myawady is a bor- nomic, agricultural, live- and higher learning. Simi- February 2004. In his ad- der town lying on the bank stock breeding and indus- All this needs to be known larly, it has built hospitals, dress delivered at the cer- of Thaungyin River. The trial sectors. All in all, the dispensaries and upgraded emony, the Prime Minister town lying 2,000 feet Government has been en- * Do not be frightened whenever the existing ones to im- said, “The opening of the above the sea level is at deavouring for the marked prove the health care serv- main hall in commemora- the foot of Dawna moun- development of the socio- intimidated ices. tion of the Union Day, an tain range which is over economy of the people. * Do not be bolstered whenever flattered “As the Govern- auspicious day, indicating 6,500 feet high. Although, ***** ment has already built all the solidarity of the Union it is an economic hub and (Translation: TMT) * Do not be softened whenever appeased the necessary infrastruc- people, and the glory of border trading town, its (Myanma Alin:10-3-2004) tures with goodwill, the the nation, is a success and people continue to preserve regional sector will have pride not only of Kayin their traditions and culture. to strive for the economic State, but also of the Un- Our car passed over development that can ion itself. the Gyaing River fulfill all the local require- “Soon, the Hpa-an (Kawkareik) Bridge to ments. Only if there is Government Technological travel to Myawady. The self-sufficiency in all sec- College will magnificently 1,200-foot bridge was built tors including agricultural, emerge. The future is at a cost of K 855 million fish and meat, and indus- bright for the students of and 0.892 million foreign trial sectors, and an in- Kayin State.” exchange. Tayokhla village crease in economy and In 1988, there were in Hpa-an Township has production, will the Kayin 17 hospitals in Kayin been upgraded to a model State enjoy development State. But there are now village. Projects including with greater acceleration 25 hospitals including the a river water pumping sta- and a higher living stand- 200-bed Hpa-an People’s tion project have been im- ard. Only if there is no Hospital, the 50-bed plemented for its all-round gap between the states and Myawady Hospital, and development. divisions in educational 25-bed Myainggale Hospi- Kawkareik is a busy opportunities and an in- tal. town located on the road crease in the number of There were only to Thailand. In addition to educated persons, will all 1,064 primary schools, 65 its agricultural business, The 59th Anniversary Armed Forces Day commemorative postcard. the states and divisions in- middle schools and 20 cluding Kayin State gain high schools in the state in progress and will the na- 1988, but there are now Up to 12% of world birds species tion be able to stand 1,144 primary schools, 78 shoulder to shoulder with middle schools and 31 other nations.” high schools. Over 100 threatened In Hpa-an, the capi- more schools have been JOHANNESBURG, 10 The report cited the cuted, the report noted. According to the tal of Kayin State, there opened in the state from March — As many as 12 destruction of natural bird The endangered Spanish report, birds are sending is a state/division level 1988 to this date. A Gov- per cent of the world's habitats through modern imperial eagle had lost 30 human beings some im- hospital, high schools, ag- ernment Computer College 1,000 bird species are at intensive agriculture as the per cent of its juveniles in portant messages that riculture and farming high and a Government Techno- risk, according to a report single biggest threat to the this manner. should not be ignored, schools, colleges, the logical College have been released at the Birdlife In- future of birds worldwide. In total 966 threat- highlighting the role of Hpa-an University with its opened in Hpa-an in addi- ternational World Conser- However, other fac- ened species of birds had birds as indicators for the Adipati Road, and the tion to upgrading the Hpa- vation Congress in South tors also play a part such populations of less than environment. Government Technological an College to a degree Africa's coastal city of as the illegal, unreported 1,000 worldwide, while MNA/Xinhua College. As soon as I college in 1999 and then Durban on Monday. and unregulated fishing for 502 species had crossed the bridge over to a university in 2003. State of the World's Patagonian toothfish in the populations less than 2,500 Donthami River, I saw the In accord with the Birds published in the con- southern Indian Ocean, and about 77 species had 4,000-ton capacity national education promo- gress showed that of the which has led to the ex- populations below 50, ac- Myainggale Cement Plant tion plan, the university 1,121 bird species under tinction of some albatross cording to the report. located in Hpa-an Town- has an IT Centre, and two threat, 179 face imminent species. Besides Africa, In- ship, Kayin State. language labs where 96 extinction with seabirds In Europe, Asia and donesia is said to be the Our car travelled an students are attending and Asian forest birds Africa, high numbers of region where the conser- eight-mile-long journey classes. It has also the showing particularly dra- raptors are being caught in vation of bird species is from Thaton to Duyin VSAT e-mail and Internet. matic declines. power lines and electro- most at risk. 8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 11 March, 2004 Cash donated to Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association YANGON, 10 March— A of Myanmar (SAM) Presi- MMCWA presented a cer- ceremony to donate cash to dent Mr Chandran Menon tificate of honour to the am- Myanmar Maternal and explained the purpose of the bassador and spoke words of Child Welfare Association donations. thanks. was held at the multi-pur- Next, Singaporean Am- Also present on the oc- pose building of the associa- bassador Mr Simon Tensing casion were Vice-President tion at the corner of de Cruz handed over K 3.5 of MMCWA Dr Daw Tin Thanthuma and Parami million donated by SAM to Lin Myint and CEC mem- Roads in South Okkalapa President of MMCWA Dr bers, guests and Township this morning. Daw Khin Win Shwe. wellwishers. Singapore Association Next, the president of MNA Commander inspects agriculture and regional development YANGON, 10 March — signs. Col Khin Maung Myint of Chairman of Shan State The commander paid obei- Tangyang Station reported on Singaporean Ambassador Mr Simon Tensing de Cruz presents K 3.5 million donated by (North) Peace and Develop- sance to Monsalinda Nagayon land preparation for cultiva- Singapore Association of Myanmar (SAM) to MMCWA President Dr Daw Khin Win ment Council Commander of Pagoda in the Kyaungtaik. He tion of 500 acres of lands and Shwe.— MNA North East Command Maj- supplicated on construction 200 acres of special high yield Gen Myint Hlaing, Deputy of 108-foot Yantaing Aung crops and future plans. Commander inspects Kawlin-KhinU-Monywa Commander Brig-Gen Hla Hsutaungpyi MyoOo Pagoda, The deputy commander Myint and officials paid obei- a replica of the Shwedagon gave instructions on weeding railroad section sance to three bronze Buddha Pagoda. and the commander then gave YANGON, 10 March— sleepers between mile posts sides of YeU-Monywa rail- images in Thathana Aye The commander met com- instructions. The commander Chairman of Sagaing Di- No 509 and 510 on road. Kyaungtaik in Lashio on 8 manding officers of Lashio inspected feedstuff factory of vision Peace and Develop- Kawlin-KhinU railroad and At Tinteinyan Station in March. Station. Officials reported on local national culture com- ment Council Commander maintenance of the rail- Dabayin Township, the The commander inspected extension of cultivable lands mittee in Lashio. The com- of North-West Command road, and gave necessary commander heard reports construction of Dhammayon in the 1,000 acres land recla- mander inspected Topwaaung Maj-Gen Tha Aye in- instructions. on construction of and gave instructions on meet- mation project, cultivation of feedstuff factory, summer spected sanitation tasks in After inspecting Tinteinyan-Dabayin rural ing the set standand, and mak- crops during the rainy season, paddy plantation, transplant- Kawlin on 3 March and Kantbalu and KhinU sta- gravel road. Next, the com- ing durability, decoration with land preparation and future ing contest and fulfilled the went to the water supply tions, the commander met mander gave necessary in- Myanma architectural de- tasks. requirements.— MNA project site of the Town- with township authorities. structions and fulfilled the ship. He then explained regional fuel requirements. The commander gave development tasks and at- Tinteinyan-Dabayin Cornerstone laid for construction of Buddha instructions to officials on tended to their needs. gravel road will be three Image in Taunggyi tasks to be carried out In the afternoon, the miles and two furlongs meeting the set standard. commander saw over thriv- long and 18 feet wide. It YANGON, 10 March — bers of the Sangha graced designated places. The The laying of cornerstones the ceremony by their attend- Sayadaw placed the gold The commander then ing of summer paddy and was built at a cost of K for construction of Buddha ance. Also present were casket in the middle of the inspected substitution of cold season crops on both 11.5 million.—MNA Image of Aungthabye Chairman of Shan State foundation. Swedaw Monastery in Peace and Development Next, the Sayadaw was Gita Nandawun music concert to be held Taunggyi Township, Shan Council Commander of East- re-ordained. The commander YANGON, 10 March — formance at the concert. 7 pm, and the admission fees State (South), was held in ern Command Maj-Gen and wife and wellwishers As a gesture of hailing the Moreover, violin Ko Tin are K 500, K 1,000, K 2,000, conjunction with the 277th Khin Maung Myint and wife, donated offertories to the 59th Anniversary Armed Ngwe’s violin orchestra will K 3,000 and K 5,000. Tick- Kyathingan offering cer- senior military officers, de- newly-ordained members of Forces Day, Gita Nandawun give performance. And ets can be booked at Chantha emony at the monastery on 5 partmental officials and the Sangha. music concert, sponsored by modern musical instruments book house, No 120, 34th March morning. wellwishers. Afterwards, soon was the Myanmar National De- and ancient musical instru- Street, as well as at The presiding Sayadaw The commander and offered to members of the velopment Company Group ments of Mon and Naypyidaw Cinema begin- of the monastery and mem- party laid cornerstones at the Sangha. — MNA Ltd and organized by Myanmar will also be ning 13 March. Bogalay Tint Aung and played to the accompani- MNA Winners in Military Code of Conduct, Gitalulin Maung Ko Ko, ment of songs by celebrated Extempore Talks Contests announced will be staged at National vocalists and young singers Soccer tune-up, Theatre on Myoma Kyaung who won gold medals in the Office of the Ministry of De- (Navy). 11 March YANGON, 10 March— Street here on 20 and 21 performing arts competi- fence the second and Cpl Than Similarly, Sgt Phyo Winners in the 59th Anniver- March. tions. Furthermore, Moe Di, YANGON, 10 March — Htay of Yangon Command Maung Hla of Yangon Com- sary Armed Forces Day Com- Gitalulin Maung Ko Ko, Ayaing and Yan Paing Soe The tentatively selected the third. mand, Cpl Myo Swe of North- memorative Military Code of famous pianists and gold will present hearty Myanmar footballers are In the Pvt level contest, West Command and L/Cpl Conduct and Extempore medalists in piano contests laughters. undergoing training for Pvt Nyan Soe of the Camp Thet Myint Htwe of South- Talks Contests were an- will present their piano per- The concert will start at Myanmar-China friendly nounced today. Commandant’s Office of the West Command won first, soccer match to be held in Military Code of Con- Ministry of Defence won the second and third prizes re- 33.7 acres of poppy fields the People’s Republic of duct Contest first prize, AB Kyaw Min Tun spectively. China. The first prize went to 2nd- of the Office of the Com- Pvt Kyaw Zeya of South- destroyed The soccer tune-up be- Lt Min Thu of the office of the mander-in-Chief (Navy) the West Command secured the YANGON, 10 March — A poppy plantations in the sur- tween the white team and Commander-in-Chief second and Pvt Myo Nyunt of first prize, Pvt Ye Zaw Htoo combined team comprising rounding areas of Padumone the red team of the tenta- (Navy), the second to Capt the Office of the Commander- of the Office of the Com- Tatmadaw members of the and Nanpok Creek in Hkamti tively selected Myanmar Daw Phyu Phyu Phwe Myint in-Chief (Air) the third. mander-in-Chief (Air) the sec- local battalion, members of Township on 19 and 20 Feb- team will start at 4 pm to- of Yangon Command and the Extempore Talks Contest ond and AB Aung Zaw Win Military Intelligence Unit, ruary. The teams are de- morrow at Aung San Sta- third to Lt Kyaw Zaw Lin of In the officer level con- of the Office of the Com- members of Myanmar Po- stroying the illegal poppy dium. The admission fee is the Office of the Commander- test, Capt Lin Thu of South- mander-in-Chief (Navy) the lice Force, departmental per- fields during the poppy cul- K 500 for grandstand and K in-Chief (Air) in the officer West Command won the first third in the Pvt level contest. sonnel and local people de- tivation season for 2003- 200 for ordinary class. level contest. prize, Capt Daw Khin Hnin MNA stroyed 33.7 acres of opium 2004. — MNA MNA WOII Nyunt Win of Myint of Yangon Command Yangon Command won the the second and 2nd-Lt Thein first prize, WO Kyaw Aye of Zaw Oo of Coastal Region the Camp Commandant’s Command the third. Office of the Ministry of De- In the WO level contest, fence the second and Air Navi- the first prize went to Air gator-I Aung Zaw Tun of the Navigator-I Aung Than Tun Office of the Commander-in- of the Office of the Com- Chief (Air) the third in the mander-in-Chief , the second WO level contest. prize to Senior Air Signaller Lance Corporal Than Oo Soe Lwin Moe of the Office of Yangon Command secured of the Commander-in-Chief the first prize in the Cpl level (Air) and the third prize to contest, Sgt Aung Kyaw Htay WOII Soe Thein of the Office of the Camp Commandant’s of the Commander-in-Chief 33.7 acres of illegal poppy plantations being destroyed in Hkamti Township on 19 and 20 February.—MNA THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 11 March, 2004 9 Study finds Obesity could erase US health care gains WASHINGTON, 10 March — The continuing epidemic of obesity in America could wipe out many of the recent improvements in health within the next 20 years, according to a new US analysis released on Tuesday. If Americans continue to get fatter at current rates, by 2020 about one in five health-care Lt-Gen Ye Myint meets with local authorities and departmental personnel at TadaU Township. (News on page 1) — MNA dollars spent on people aged 50 to 69 could be due to African nations meet in Uganda on PRC delegation arrives obesity — 50 per cent more sharing Nile water YANGON, 10 March — A four-member writers’ delegation of the People‘s Republic than now, the Rand KAMPALA, 10 March — Experts from 10 African of China led by member of the panel of chairmen of PRC Writers Association Mr Wang Corporation study found. countries that use the waters of the Nile River have begun Chonglu arrived here by air this evening. In 2000, 14 per cent of a week-long workshop in Uganda to work out how nations The visit of the PRC delegation is to promote understanding between the writers of money spent on health care can share the benefits of the huge natural resource. the two countries and enhance friendship of the two peoples. for US men aged 50 to 69 The closed-door talks, which started on Thursday The delegation was welcomed at the airport by Chief Editor of Sarpay Beikman went to obesity-related in Entebbe, 40 kilometres south of the Ugandan capital Press of Printing and Publishing Enterprise of the Ministry of Information U Maung complications including Kampala, are being held under the auspices of the Nile Hlaing (Maung Swe Nge) and officials and Cultural Counsellor of the PRC Embassy diabetes and heart disease. Basin Initiative, which was formed in 1999 to study how Mr Pan Feng and Embassy staff. — MNA In 2020, that could rise to to manage the river for power generation, irrigation and 21 per cent, the researchers transport. said. The experts are planning to write a proposal on “Improvements in how to develop the resources of the Nile Basin. The medical care, public health meeting will also discuss a treaty drawn up in 1929 and other health behaviours between British colonialists and Egypt that gives have dramatically reduced preferential treatment to the north African country. disability among older Ugandan Minister of State for Environment Americans in the past,” Lieutenant-General Jeje Odong was quoted Tuesday by Roland Sturm, a Rand local media as saying that increased desertification and Health senior economist pollution levels of water resources were catastrophic if who led the study, said in a not handled with care. statement. Opening the Nile Basin Water Resources “But the continuing Management Project capacity-building workshop, Odong increase in unhealthy urged countries in the Great Lakes region and the Nile weight has the potential to Basin to use their water resources carefully if they are to undo many of these health avoid a catastrophe. advances.” The project aims to monitor the River Nile water Obesity is defined as levels and generate data for forecasting weather patterns The PRC delegation being welcomed at the Yangon International Airport. — MNA having a body mass index in the region. — a ratio of weight to It also aims to monitor and control pollution levels Garuda Indonesia to open new routes to height — of more than 30. in the river and the lakes that feed it. That usually means being The workshop, funded by the Italian Government Singapore 15 kilos overweight for a and supervised by the Food and Agriculture Organization JAKARTA, 10 March West Sumatra with destination in Southeast woman and 17 to 20 kilos of the United Nations, drew participants from Burundi, — Beginning March 28, Singapore. The second route Asia, forcing travellers from overweight for a man of The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, national flag carrier Garuda will link Semarang in the three cities to transit in average height. Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, the Sudan, Tanzania and Indonesia will open three Central Java with Denpasar before continuing More than 30 per Uganda. The White Nile, which begins from Lake Victoria, new routes linking two Singapore, and the last new on to Singapore. cent of US adults are obese, is joined in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, by the Blue cities in Sumatra and two route will provide direct “Demand in the according to the US Centers Nile, which draws water from western Ethiopia highlands. cities in Java to Singapore, flights from Yogyakarta, three cities is growing, for Disease Control and The combined river flows through the northern part of the a company spokesman has also in Central Java, to the which led us to the decision Prevention. That translates Sudan and Egypt until it empties into the Mediterranean said. island republic. to open the new routes,” he to 59 million people. Sea. The Nile Basin supplies water to about 300 million Garuda Indonesia The Padang-Pekanbaru- said. Serious health people. — MNA/Xinhua corporate communications Singapore route will operate He added that the implications, such as heart vice-president Pujobroto four times a week, the airline would keep a close disease and diabetes risk, Norwegian women take one-third of said the new routes were the Semarang-Singapore route eye on the performance of kick in at BMIs of 30 and public sector positions result of the company’s also four times a week and the new routes. above. focus on market expansion. the Yogyakarta-Singapore “Should the demand STOCKHOLM, 10 March — Norwegian Prime “The rise in obesity “They (the new route three times a week. from those cities stay stable, Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik said Monday that female is particularly troubling routes) are part of this All flights will be or even increase, we will accounts for 34 per cent among the 9,000 leading posts in given that obesity is year’s programme, which is served by 110-seat Boeing probably add more flights,” the public sector across the country. associated with increased to expand our network in 737-300 aircraft, which he said. The Norwegian Government has set the goal that chronic physical illnesses the regional market,” Pujo include 16 business-class On February 21, women take up 40 per cent of the posts in government and mortality; its negative was quoted Tuesday by The seats and 94 economy class. Garuda Indonesia also agencies by June 1, 2006, the Prime Minister said at a consequences may even Jakarta Post as saying. Pujo said there were launched a direct flight from meeting with three women’s organizations of cooperative exceed those of smoking or The first route will currently no direct flights Yogyakarta to Kuala parties with the government. problem drinking,” Sturm connect Pekanbaru in Riau from the three cities to Lumpur, Malaysia. Bondevik said the number of women leaders has and colleagues wrote in the Province and Padang in Singapore, the top MNA/Xinhua journal Health Affairs, increased by 6 per cent in the past two years, emphasizing which published the study. “this is a fine development”. “If the obesity trend He added that women make up 42 per cent of the South African Airways gets new “Airbus” were to continue through working force in the central government, and account for JOHANNESBURG, 10 higher thrust-generating move into the second 2020, without other changes 45.7 per cent in the board of directors in enterprises. March — South African version of the CFM56 phase of its fleet in behaviour or medical Bondevik also said the focus of government work on Airways (SAA) got its first engine, which burns less modernization programme technology, the proportion women will be to achieve equal employment with equal Airbus A340-300E jumbo fuel and ideally suited for which involves the reporting fair or poor health pay for women, and to reform the retirement system. jet Tuesday, the first of six the hot-and-high con- acquisition of 41 new would increase by 11.7 per For years, the Northern European region has the to be delivered between ditions at airports such as Airbus aircraft, including cent for men and 14.1 per highest proportion of women participating in politics in now and 2005. Johannesburg Interna- nine A340-600s and six cent for women compared the world, with the 10 highest rate of female The 295-seat aircraft tional Airport. A340-300Es for ultra-long to 2000,” they wrote. parliamentarians in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and features several Tuesday’s delivery and long haul flights. MNA/Reuters Norway worldwide. — MNA/Xinhua enhancements, including a sees national carrier SAA MNA/Xinhua 10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 11 March, 2004 Nursery Market Festival continues YANGON, 10 March — The Nursery Market Fes- tival continued at Myay Padetha Park in Bahan Township here today with the aim of providing neces- sary assistance to growers and attracting the public to be interested in agriculture, horticulture, livestock breeding and vegetable farming. Kitchen crops, fruits and saplings of herbal plants are being shown at the fes- tival. — MNA The 59th Anniversary Armed Forces Day commemorative postcard. Vietnam to embark on biggest railway project HANOI, 10 March — Vietnam plans to pour a record amount of money into constructing a railway which will allow trains to run at a speed of up to 120 kilometres per hour, a local newspaper reported Tuesday. Construction of the (205.1 million US dollars). ores, steel and goods are Province, from Pha Lai to route, which runs from Hanoi The planned route is exported to and imported Ha Long in Quang Ninh, to northern Quang Ninh expected to facilitate from China. and from Ha Long to Cai Province, will begin in 2004 transport of passengers and The route will have Lan in Quang Ninh. It is and complete in 2008, with goods between the Red River three sections: from Yen scheduled to be connected to total investment of more than Delta and the Northeastern Vien in Hanoi to Pha Lai in railways in bordering Volume 2 No 23 of Shwe Naing-Ngan Journal. — MNA 3.2 trillion Vietnamese dong region where a lot of coal, northern Hai Duong localities. — MNA/Xinhua Fifth Anniversary of Kaung Thant Literary House held YANGON, 10 March —The 5th Anniversary of Kaung Thant Literary House founded Iran says it has not violated by 1999 National Literary Award winner U Khin Maung Kywe (Kaung Thant) was held at Lawkanat Hall on Pansodan Street this morning. Vice-Chairman of Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association U Tin Kha nuclear commitments (Tekkatho Tin Kha) formally opened the book exhibition. TEHERAN, 10 March — Iran’s Foreign Minister said on Tuesday that Teheran Also present were Secretary of MWJA U Hla Tun (Hla Tun-Twantay), CEC had not violated its commitments under nuclear non-proliferation safeguards and any members, invited writers and guests. The exhibition will be kept open from 10 am to shortcomings in its cooperation with the UN atomic watchdog were in the past. 5 pm daily up to 15 March.— MNA International Atomic Energy Agency from inspectors. (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei criticized “Comparing Iran and Libya is Iran on Monday for failing to declare incorrect,” he said. “Libya has officially advanced nuclear research and equipment announced that it was pursuing nuclear that could be used to make atomic bombs. weapons and this is a violation of the NPT. But Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi But Iran has not been pursuing nuclear said the IAEA’s Board of Governors, weapons and not violated the NPT.” meeting in Vienna to discuss Iran’s He noted the IAEA’s report on Iran cooperation, should not conclude that mentioned shortcomings in Iran’s declaration Teheran was in violation of the nuclear Non- about its nuclear activities: “Shortcomings, Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as Washington which could have taken place in many has suggested. “It is a mistake to say that countries, all belong to the past and most of Iran has violated its commitments and them have been solved,” he said. Teheran will definitely not accept it,” Kharrazi said he was confident IAEA Kharrazi told the official IRNA news agency. inspections in Iran would prove that “all the Kharrazi said it was wrong to compare issues related to nuclear energy in Iran are Iran with Libya, which recently agreed to transparent and are for peaceful purposes”. scrap a nuclear programme it had hidden MNA/Reuters NAM e-secretariat portal Vietnam MWJA Vice-Chairman U Tin Kha (Tekkatho Tin Kha) and party view round books launched in Malaysia hard hit by exhibited on the occasion. — MNA KUALA LUMPUR, 10 Malaysia in enriching the March — Malaysian database by providing drought Delagation leaves for ROK Foreign Minister Syed updated information about HANOI, 10— March YANGON, 10 March — At the invitation of KOTRA, the 8-member delegation of Hamid Albar on Tuesday themselves and correcting Drought, caused by little MWEA (Myanmar Women Entrepreneurs Association) headed by MWEA President launched the Non-Aligned inaccurate data or inform- rainfall during the dry Daw Khin Myint Myint left here by air yesterday evening to attend Preview in Daegu Movement (NAM) e- ation. season, is threatening the International Textile Fair from 10 to 15 March in Daegu, Republic of Korea. The secretariat portal in an The portal will be livelihood of Vietnamese delegation was seen off at the Yangon International Airport by MWEA Advisor Prof effort to promote the managed by Malaysian farmers and their winter- Daw Yi Yi Myint, Vice-Presidents Daw Thet Yi and Daw Nu Nu Yi and Central movement. Ministry of Foreign Affairs spring rice crops, the Executive Committee members. — MNA Speaking at the and its Information and Vietnam News reported launching ceremony in Communications Tuesday. Putrajaya near here, Syed Technology Division. Some 1,000 families Hamid described the portal NAM was in the northern Son La as Malaysia’s modest established in 1961 to Province now have no effort in bringing NAM signal the neutrality during clean water for daily use, into the information and the Cold War era. whereas 1,600 hectares of communications highway. Today, with a rice and maize in central “We hope that this membership of 114 highlands Gia Lai Province effort will be the nations, NAM plays a are withering due to beginning of many more significant role in the post- drought. concrete actions that could Cold War world as The drought, which be taken by NAM to bring custodian of interests of is forecast to last to the end member states fully into south countries. of next month, has also the technological and The 13th NAM posed great threat to electronic age which is so Summit was held here in forests. vital for our sustained February last year and Thousands of development and Malaysia has assumed the hectares of cajuput trees in modernization,” he said. current chairmanship of several southern provinces Myanmar women delegation headed by Daw Khin Myint Myint seen before Syed Hamid invited NAM since then. are in risks of being on fire. departure at the Yangon International Airport. — UMFCCI NAM members to assist MNA/Xinhua MNA/Xinhua
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Another 1,400 would die in 2004. 5 5 1 1 6 6 7 7 5 1 6 7 5 1 1 6 6 7 7 5 Whaling nations say that stocks of some whales, & & 6 6 / / .. 8 8 " " 5 5 # # " " . . # # " " : : 5 5 % % : : / / & 6 / . 8 " 5 # " . # " : 5 % : / & & 6 6 / / .. 8 8 " " 5 5 # # " " . . # # " " : : 5 5 % % : : / / 9 9 9 9 9 especially the small minke whale, have rebounded and Wellwishers invited for 2 2 " " ## 8 8 5 5 % % 7 7 2 " # 8 5 % 7 2 " " ## 8 8 5 5 % % 7 7 2 are plentiful enough for traditional catches. They say = ; sinking tube-wells / . ' # >#! 4 " # 8 5 % 7 < modern harpoons mean cetaceans die with no undue suf- YANGON, 10 March— The Development Affairs = ; fering. But British naturalist Sir David Attenborough wrote ?: 0 # ' A: B # 5 1 6 " @ Committees under the Ministry for Progress of Border in an introduction to the report: "There is nothing in the . : " . ) 5 % 7 : Areas and National Races and Development Affairs are body of a whale, which is of use to us, for which we = ; making concerted efforts in sinking tube-wells in order to C5 . A >#! " " # " ) 5 % 7 9 cannot find equivalents elsewhere." get sufficient fresh water in rural areas in States and Di- ;= # E F/ 0 ! 1 2 " 2 E " G8 . 8 6 / . ' " G 5 % 7 D "They are the largest animals that have ever ex- visions where water is scarce. One 200 feet deep two-inch = ; isted, far larger than any dinosaur," he wrote, arguing that : : # 8 ' 0 ! 1 2 " 2 E " G8 #! 1 1 / 1 I / " H diameter tube-well costs K 250,000; one 400 feet deep whales were "highly evolved animals with all the sensi- two-inch diametre tube-well costs K 500,000; and one ' 2 2 4 5 # ! 4 ! ! 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No. 422-426, Corner of Botataung Pagoda Road and Strand Road for further details. Tel: 202060, 202101 (ext)-127. A D V E R T I S E M E N T S Tender Committee TRADE MARK CAUTION TRADE MARK Adam Opel AG, of Bahnhofsplatz 1, 65423 CAUTION Russelsheim, Germany, is NOTICE the Owner of the following NIPPON PAINT Trade Marks:- KABUSHIKI KAISHA (NIPPON PAINT CO., O P E L LTD) a company organized under the laws of JAPAN, Reg. No. 1030/1970 carrying on business as manufacturer and having its principal office at 2-1-2, Oyodo-kita, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan, is the owner and sole proprietor of the following Trademarks:- Reg. No. 1031/1970 in respect of “motor vehicles NIPPON PAINT and parts thereof, accessories Reg. No. 4/1722/1991 therefor” PYLOX A G I L A Reg. No. 4/1724/1991 Reg. No. 1291/1999 VINILEX Reg. No. 4/864/1991 in respect of “motor vehicles BODELAC and parts thereof” Fraudulent imitation or Reg. No. 4/865/1991 unauthorised use of the said PYLAC Trade Marks will be dealt Reg. No. 4/5037/2000 with according to law. Used in respect of:- Win Mu Tin, “paints, varnishes, lacquers M.A., H.G.P., D.B.L and putty” (Int’l Class - 2) for Adam Opel AG Any fraudulent infringe- P.O. Box 60, Yangon. ments, imitation or unauthor- Dated: 11 March, 2004 ized use of the above marks will be dealt with according Hollywood to law. Golden Age TIN OHNMAR TUN B.A(LAW),LL.B,LL.M(UK), star Frances P.O. Box 109, Dee dies Ph:248108/723043, LOS ANGELES, 10 March (For. A. AOKI, ISHIDA & — Actress Frances Dee, ASSOCIATES widow of Western movie Patents, Trademarks and Uganda earns more from exports hero Joel McCrea and one of Law, Japan.) KAMPALA, 10 March — coffee exports in terms of Tea exports improved by the last stars from Holly- Dated: 11 March, 2004. Uganda earned 279.5 mil- both higher prices and in- 58.1 per cent from 13.6 mil- wood’s Golden Age, has died Most Germans lion US dollars from exports creased volumes of ship- lion US dollars to 21.5 mil- at age 94 after a career in worried about in the first half of fiscal year ments, according to a report lion US dollars while flower which she co-starred with the 2003/04, 49.5 million US from the Bank of Uganda. exports increased from seven likes of Gary Cooper, Bette EU enlargement dollars more than the 230 The value of non-coffee million US dollars to 10.9 Davis, Frederic March, BERLIN, 10 March— Zambia million US dollars in the exports for the first half of million US dollars. Katharine Hepburn and John Most Germans are worried launches same period of fiscal year 2003/04 is estimated at 232 Maize exports also grew Wayne. about the negative results of 2002/03. million US dollars up from tremendously during the first Her family said on Mon- European Union (EU) en- trade web site The increase is attributed 176 million US dollars real- half of 2003/04 bringing in a day that Dee died two days largement, showed a poll re- LUSAKA, 10 March — to good performance in non- ized in the corresponding total of 8.44 million US dol- earlier in a hospital in leased Monday. The survey The Export Board of Zam- period in 2002/03, an in- lars compared to 4.06 mil- Norwalk, Connecticut, af- published by Leipziger bia has launched an interac- crease of about 31.8 per cent. lion US dollars in the first ter suffering a stroke while Volkszeitung daily showed tive trade information web Fish and its products was half of 2002/03. on a visit to one of her three that 84 per cent of respond- site known as TradeMap DRIVE the largest export earner in Tobacco exports gener- sons. —MNA/Reuters ents across the country con- Zambia, in a bid to help lo- this period, fetching a total ated 15.89 million US dol- sidered that more companies cal companies target export of 57.22 million US dollars lars, up from 14.96 million Don’t and investors would shift markets, independent news- SAFELY compared to 53. 04 million US dollars in the correspond- toward Eastern and Central paper The Post said Tues- US dollars in the same pe- ing period of 2002/03. smoke Europe when the EU expands day. riod of 2002/03. MNA/Xinhua on 1 May.—MNA/Xinhua MNA/Xinhua THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 11 March, 2004 13 ¦ © © © © © © © ¥ ¡£¢ ¡¢£¤¥¨£ ¥ ¥ £¢ ¨¨£ ¢ § §§ CPPCC member urges enaction of anti-drug law BEIJING, 10 March— China should enact a law so as to beef up anti-drug drive as soon as possible, said a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on the ongoing CPPCC session here Tuesday. He warned the growing number of young drug abusers against greater troubles and urged them to abandon drug addiction. Last year, people under tion proved to be a major cause opium, 5.8 tons of “ice”, or the age of 35 make up 72.2 per of HIV infection. In 2003, 63 methamphetamine hydro- cent of China’s 1.03 million per cent of HIV infections in chloride, and 72 tons of drug- registered drug addicts and China was caused by drug making chemicals were the number keeps increasing addiction, and many of the seized. rapidly. infected victims are young- Many drug dealers em- Huang Jingjun, a member sters. ployed youngsters to transfer of the CPPCC National Com- In some Chinese reform- and sell drugs, victimizing the mittee, said more than 70 per through-labour centres, drug youth and instigating them to cent of the money used to buy abusers under 25 account for victimize others, warned drugs come from illegal over 60 per cent of the total Huang, who called for arous- sources, leading many young number of detainees with the ing all the possible forces to abusers to committing crimes youngest abuser being only inform the whole society, es- such as robbery, theft and eight years old, said Huang. A pecially the young people, of prostitution to finance their dearth of social experience harms of drug abuse and step Mount Everest, where China is planning to build the world's highest weather station. addiction. and a lack of education were, up anti-drug efforts. INTERNET Meanwhile, drug addic- among other factors, have led In addition, he noted, the to the rapidly increasing fig- Chinese society should take a Fujitsu-Hitachi joint venture OPEC determined ure of young drug abusers. more tolerant and caring atti- to cut oil output The CPPCC member also tude toward young drug abus- to build new plasma display plant JAKARTA, 10 March— The attributed the grave situation ers and even those involved in Organization of Petroleum- of adolescent drug abuse to crimes by lessening their pen- TOKYO, 10 March— Fujitsu Ltd. and Hitachi Ltd. 50,000 units, the company the drug-smuggling activi- alties and helping them reha- Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Dis- in a fifty-fifty way, will in- said. Exporting Countries (OPEC) ties in the country. In 2003, bilitate both mentally and play Ltd. said Monday it will vest 75 billion yen (669 mil- Global demand for will not change its plan of Chinese police cracked some physically. build a new plant for plasma lion US dollars) in the project. plasma display panels is ex- cutting crude oil output on 90,000 drug-related crime Huang also called for display panels to increase The new plant will start pected to grow to 10 million April 1, despite the rising price cases and captured more than faster pace to tabling an ad- monthly production by production at an initial pace units in 2007 from 1.4 mil- of oil, the OPEC president has 60,000 drug dealers. ministrative regulation on 150,000 panels. The plant of 50,000 units a month at the lion units in 2003 because of said. Some 9.5 tons of heroine, management of drug-making will be built on a site next to end of 2005 and raise maxi- the expansion of service ar- “We will stick to our Feb- nearly 1,000 kilos of chemicals.—MNA/Xinhua an existing plant in southern mum monthly output to eas for terrestrial digital ruary decision (to slash the Miyazaki Prefecture, with the 150,000 units in 2007. broadcasting in Japan, as well output). But we are reviewing start of construction set for Monthly manufacturing as the growing popularity of how long the price has been Scientists may have spotted early 2005, the company said capacity at the existing plant high-definition TVs in North above 28 US dollars (per bar- British “Beagle” probe in a Press release. will be doubled to 100,000 America, the company said. rel),” OPEC president LONDON, 10 March— Earth to make contact. The company, set up by units by January 2005 from MNA/Xinhua Purnomo Yusgiantoro, who is also Indonesia’s Minister Beagle 2, the British space But photographic images Thailand starts Scientists say driving, pollution of Energy and Mineral Re- probe which disappeared as of the area where Beagle 2 second-round sources, was quoted Tuesday it descended towards Mars, was to have come down show may cause lung cancer by The Jakarta Post as say- may have been detected on four bright spots, dubbed a of war on drugs ing. Purnomo said the current the surface of the Red “string of pearls” by scien- BANGKOK, 10 March— SHANGHAI, 10 March — Driving, prolonged expo- high price for oil was not Planet, scientists said on tists, which may be the re- The Thai Prime Minister sure to gasoline, vehicle exhaust and kitchen smoke, as caused by “ fundamental” Monday. mains of the probe. Thaksin Shinawatra on Mon- well as an unhealthy diet, may all cause lung cancer, factors, such as the imbalance No signal has been re- “It could be the lander day declared the second- Chinese scientists have warned. of supply and demand, but ceived from the craft since it with its airbags and para- phase national operation A group of researchers, of the women suffered non-fundamental ones, such was due to land on Christ- chute,” said Lutz Richter against drugs to prevent headed by Professor He secondary smoking or were as speculation by traders and mas Day last year, despite from the German Aerospace scourge resurfacing after Yumin, of the Shanghai Uni- smokers themselves,” he said. concerns over unrest in Ven- various attempts by Mars Centre, who helped plan the last-year’s war on drugs, lo- versity of Traditional Chinese MNA/Xinhua ezuela. — MNA/Xinhua orbiters and telescopes on mission. cal Press reported on Tues- Medicine, reached the conclu- “But...it is nothing con- day. sion after a five-year survey of clusive whatsoever.” This year’s campaign 2,276 lung cancer patients. Professor Colin Pillinger, against drugs, from March 8 Of 343 patients aged 50 the British scientist in charge to June 5, was a follow-up or below, 98, or 28.6 per cent, of the Beagle 2 project, told action of last year’s war on were full-time drivers, the re- a conference at the Royal drugs and aimed at exploit- search team found. Society in London he ing the weakness resulted “The percentage is even doubted the image was in from last year’s operation, higher among the younger fact the probe and was more said the Prime Minister. group of patients,” said He. likely to be “system noise” “Drug gangs are vulner- “As 33.3 per cent of those — an error on the image. able and we must repeat the under 40 years old had been The conference, which crackdown now to ensure driving for ten years or more was called to discuss the les- they are completely de- before they were diagnosed sons learnt from the Beagle stroyed,” Thaksin was with lung cancer.” 2 mission, also heard that quoted by Bangkok Post as The professor warned lung eight to 13 per cent of the saying. cancer occurred equally in men probe’s suspected landing The capital of Bangkok and women, as the male-fe- area was littered with craters and a few other provinces male ratio was almost 1:1 for and hills, making a safe land- were listed as key regions to patients aged under 50, counter ing difficult. be given special attention in to the traditional assumption that But Pillinger defended this year’s anti-drug opera- male sufferers normally out- the decision to land the craft tion. Authorities would also numbered females.Smoking there. strengthen watch over enter- remained the biggest cause of “We chose the best land- tainment venue, restaurant, lung cancer in men, but not for ing space we could within condominium, rented house, women, He said. Nami Terai, KDDI Corp spokesperson displays the mobile carrier's new service GPS, the constraints put on us. Sci- slum, and border villages for “About 70 per cent of the or global positioning system, in Tokyo on 9 March, 2004. The EZ Navi Walk system, entifically it gave us the best suspected people and male lung cancer patients are which uses satellites to find out where the user is at any time works like car-navigation chance,” he said. movement.—MNA/Xinhua smokers, but only 18 per cent equipment to guide people to their destination.—INTERNET MNA/Reuters 14 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 11 March, 2004 Leicester manager offered S to resign LEICESTER (England), 10 March — Leicester City manager Micky Adams said on Monday he felt let down by some of his P players and had offered to resign after nine of them were arrested last week on allegations of sexual assault in Spain. Five of the players were released pending further investiga- O tions, one was released and faces no further action and three have been detained by Spanish police after the allegations made during a training camp at La Manga. Adams, speaking at a news conference after returning from R Spain, said: "If I feel let down about anything it's the fact that it was a trip arranged to do specific work...if they've let themselves down, a small minority of them, it's for drinking to a certain amount of T excess in the early hours in the morning." Asked if he was convinced of the innocence of the trio detained in Spain, he replied: "Absolutely." S Adams also said: "Of the nine people that were arrested, some of them were not there." —MNA/Reuters Roberto Carlos loses appeal against two-game ban MADRID, 10 March — Real Madrid defender Roberto Carlos has lost his appeal Manchester United’s Louis Saha (L), of France, and John O’Shea (R) react after losing against a two-match ban from UEFA and will miss Wednesday's Champions League to Porto in their Champions League first knockout round, second leg soccer match at game against Bayern Munich, the Spanish club said on Monday. Old Trafford, Manchester, on 9 March , 2004. The match ended 1-1 on the night with The Brazil full-back was handed the sus- quarterfinal should Real make it through. FC Porto knocking Manchester United out 3-2 on aggregate.—INTERNET pension last week for "improper conduct" That leaves Real without both their Bra- after retaliating to a foul by Bayern Munich zilian internationals for the match against Deportivo, Porto knock Juve, Man United out defender Martin Demichelis in the 1-1 draw Bayern after Ronaldo suffered a thigh injury LONDON, 10 March— Porto and Deportivo Coruna scored the biggest Champions in Munich in the tie's first leg. in a league game at the weekend. League upsets of the season on Tuesday when they knocked Manchester United and Roberto Carlos gave evidence at a hear- Spanish international striker Raul is also last season’s beaten finalists Juventus out of the competition. ing in Nyon on Monday but Real Madrid in danger of missing out as he looks to Porto, last season’s UEFA squeeze into the last eight goalkeeper Tim Howard said on their web site that his attempt to have recover from an ankle injury. Cup winners, scored a heart- for the eighth successive straight into the path of Por- the ban reduced or wiped out had not been Referee Terje Hauge missed the incident stopping equalizer at the year. tuguese international successful. and said he had been unable to see the death to draw 1-1 at Old United took the lead midfielder Costinha. He will miss the second leg of the first Brazilian's reaction to the foul because his Trafford and beat Manches- against Porto with a 32nd Porto coach Jose knockout round tie at the Bernabeu on view had been impeded by two players. ter United 3-2 on aggregate minute Paul Scholes header Mourinho ran from his seat Wednesday as well as the first leg of the MNA/Reuters while Deportivo became the which they held until the 90th in the stands and more than first Spanish side to beat minute. 50 metres to embrace his Juventus at home for 42 That would have been players while most of the years to win 1-0 on the night enough to give them an away 67,000-plus fans inside the and 2-0 on aggregate. goals rule victory after los- stadium were stunned into Chelsea and Olympique ing the first leg 2-1 in Porto. disbelieving silence. Lyon also reached the last Scholes also had a close- Mourinho was ecstatic eight with first knockout range goal wrongly disal- afterwards: “To play like round aggregate wins over lowed by a linesman’s flag this and get a result here VfB Stuttgart and Real just before half-time which was fantastic, not just for Sociedad. Chelsea went would have put United 2-0 Porto and our supporters but through 1-0 on aggregate and ahead. the whole of Portugal,” he Lyon 2-0. “That’s proved vital, the said. The most dramatic mo- referee or the linesman did Deportivo became the ment of a night of only four not do his job properly,” first Spanish side to beat goals came in the dying sec- said disappointed United Juventus at home since Real onds at Old Trafford after coach Alex Ferguson after- Madrid won there in a Euro- Manchester United appeared wards. pean Cup quarter-final in to have done enough to Porto, who had lost all six 1962, when Uruguayan in- From right, Deportivo La Coruna’s Lionel Scaloni of Uruguay, Jose’ Molina, Victor of their previous European ternational Walter Pandiani Sanchez and Jorge Andrade of Portugal celebrate after they beat Juventus 1-0 at th end Arsenal draw matches in England, equal- struck after 12 minutes to of the second leg, second round Champions League soccer match between Juventus ized in the 90th minute when earn a 2-0 aggregate win and Deportivo La Coruna at the Delle Alpi Stadium in Turin, Italy, on 9 March, 2004. Manchester a free-kick by Benni which put them into the Deportivo La Coruna qualified for the quarterfinals.—INTERNET United in FA McCarthy, who scored both quarter-finals for the third Nemeth strike gives Enyimba asked to explain Cup semifinal Porto goals in the first leg, time. LONDON, 10 March— was parried by American MNA/Reuters Middlesbrough win using unregistered player Holders Arsenal will play over Spurs JOHANNESBURG, 10 March— African champions Enyimba league champions Manches- have been asked to provide an explanation for using a player ter United and First Division LONDON, March 10 — who belonged to another club during last year’s Champions Sunderland will meet either Middlesbrough striker League final, officials said on Tuesday. First Division Millwall or Szilard Nemeth gave the Enyimba face a possible three-year suspension from Second Division Tranmere newly-crowned League Cup continental club competition for using a player who they Rovers in the semifinals of winners a narrow 1-0 win initially registered but then sold to another team. the FA Cup on April 4. over Tottenham Hotspur in Egyptian club Ismaili, who lost 2-1 to Enyimba on Monday's draw gave Ar- the Premier League on Tues- aggregate in the final, are demanding that the Confederation senal the hardest possible ob- day. of Africa Football (CAF) strips the Nigerian club of the title. stacle in their bid to become The Slovakian struck af- Officials said on Tuesday, however, that it was highly the first club since 1886 to ter 73 minutes as he evaded unlikely Enyimba would lose their crown. win the FA Cup three years defender Dean Richards and Enyimba used Ahmed Garba as a substitute in the second in succession and the first took the ball around goal- leg of the final in Egypt in December. ever to reach four successive keeper Kasey Keller before Garba, 23, was registered for the Champions League by finals. slotting home at the River- Enyimba before being sold to Kano Pillars during the 2003 Sunderland were the last side Stadium. season. team from outside the top Nemeth’s goal spared the The Nigerian season finished several weeks before the division to reach the final in blushes of Massimo Champions League final in December and Garba returned to 1992, while Millwall and Maccarone whose penalty help Enyimba in the deciding tie, where they became the Tranmere will replay next kick on the hour was first Nigerian side to win the top club prize in African week in their bid to reach the palmed around the post football. last four. by Keller after Richards was The practice of borrowing players from other clubs has The final will take place Angelika Roesch of Germany returns a shot against adjudged to have brought been common in Africa, particularly in smaller countries, at Cardiff's Millennium Sta- French opponent Stephanie Foretz during the qualifying down Joseph Job. and poor record keeping at CAF has exacerbated the prob- dium on May 22. round of the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, Califor- MNA/Reuters lem. — MNA/Reuters MNA/Reuters nia on 9 March , 2004.—INTERNET THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 11 March, 2004 15 naments Showroom 21:00 National News rama & Myanma Sen- 04:05 Myanmar’s Pride & 05:45 National News 16:25 Song of Myanmar 21:05 Kengtaung Waterfall timent” Glory 05:50 Making of Traditional MRTV-3MRTV-3 Beauty & Scenic 21:10 Myanmar Modern 23:36 Ornamental Jewellery 04:10 Song “Ngwe Hsaung Lacquerware Sights “Mingalabar” Song “Golden of Outstanding De- Beach Resort” 05:55 Auspicious Glory 16:30 National News Myanmar Golden signs 04:15 National News 06:00 National News 16:35 Pa-na-ma Aae Khan Welcome” 23:40 Headline News 04:20 38 Modes of Auspi- 06:05 Expedition of Rare Gita Than (Welcoming 21:12 Inlay Blacksmith 23:42 Pickled Herbal Tea cious Conduct (An Crocodile Species In- music, a curtain raiser) Craftsmanship Leaves of Myanmar Unseemly Scene) habiting in Fresh And 16:40 Mosaic Painting of 21:15 National News 23:45 National News 04:25 Song “Land of Beauty” Seawaters (III) 11-3-2004 (Thursday) Myanmar 21:20 Golden Plum Job of 23:50 Making of Traditional 04:30 National News 06:10 Song “I’ll remain in (Programme Schedule) 16:45 National News Central Myanmar Lacquerware 04:35 Kindness to Pet Ani- Shwe Myaing” Morning Transmission 16:50 Golden Jubilee of 21:25 Song of Myanmar 23:55 Auspicious Glory mals 06:15 National News (9:00 - 10:00) Myanmar Motion Pic- Beauty & Scenic 24:00 National News 04:40 Indulge yourself with 06:20 Myanma Ancient Or- 9:00 Signature Tune tures Sights “Myanma Pano- 00:05 Expedition of Rare Traditional gourmet at naments Showroom Greeting 16:55 Scenic Beauty of rama & Myanma Sen- Crocodile Species In- Yangon’s chic “Green 06:25 Song “No right to love, 9:02 Song of Myanmar Tiddim & Cultural timent” habiting in Fresh And Elephant” yet” Beauty & Scenic Dance 21:35 Ornamental Jewellery Seawaters (III) 04:45 National News 06:30 National News Sights “Myanma Pano- 17:00 National News of Outstanding De- 00:10 Song “I’ll remain in 04:50 Interview on Marque- 06:35 Pa-na-ma Aae Khan rama & Myanma Sen- 17:05 Medicinal Plants at signs Shwe Myaing” try Painting Gita Than (Welcoming timent” Popa Mountain Park 21:40 Headline News 00:15 National News 04:55 Myanmar National music, a curtain raiser) 9:06 Ornamental Jewellery 17:08 Myanmar Modern 21:42 Pickled Herbal Tea 00:20 Myanma Ancient Or- Races Cultural Dances 06:40 Mosaic Painting of of Outstanding De- Song “Love that didn’t Leaves of Myanmar naments Showroom (U Shwe Yoe & Daw Myanmar signs bring us together” 21:45 National News 00:25 Song of Myanmar Moe) 06:45 National News 9:10 Headline News 17:10 Mogok Gem-mining 21:50 Making of Traditional Beauty & Scenic 05:00 National News 06:50 Golden Jubilee of 9:12 Pickled Herbal Tea Enterprise Lacquerware Sights “Mingalabar” 05:05 Kengtaung Waterfall Myanmar Motion Pic- Leaves of Myanmar 17:15 National News 21:55 Auspicious Glory 00:30 National News 05:10 Myanmar Modern tures 9:15 National News 17:20 Leisurely Cruise Along 22:00 National News 00:35 Pa-na-ma Aae Khan Song “Golden 06:55 Scenic Beauty of 9:20 Making of Traditional The Coast (Yangon to 22:05 Expedition of Rare Gita Than (Welcoming Myanmar Golden Wel- Tiddim & Cultural Lacquerware Mawlamyaing) Crocodile Species In- music, a curtain raiser) come” Dance 9:25 Auspicious Glory 17:25 Song of Myanmar habiting in Fresh And 00:40 Mosaic Painting of 05:12 Inlay Blacksmith 07:00 National News 9:30 National News Beauty & Scenic Seawaters (III) Myanmar Craftsmanship 07:05 Medicinal Plants at 9:35 Expedition of Rare Sights “Come and See 22:10 Song “I’ll remain in 00:45 National News 05:15 National News Popa Mountain Park Crocodile Species In- Myanmar” Shwe Myaing” 00:50 Golden Jubilee of 05:20 Golden Plum Job of 07:08 Myanmar Modern habiting in Fresh And 22:15 National News Myanmar Motion Pic- Central Myanmar Song “Love that didn’t Seawaters (III) Evening Transmission 22:20 Myanma Ancient Or- tures 05:25 Song of Myanmar bring us together” 9:40 Song “I’ll remain in (19:30 - 23:30) naments Showroom 00:55 Scenic Beauty of Beauty & Scenic 07:10 Mogok Gem-mining Sights “Myanma Pano- Enterprise Shwe Myaing” 19:30 Signature Tune 22:25 Song “No right to love, Tiddim & Cultural 9:45 National News yet” rama & Myanma Sen- 07:15 National News Greeting Dance timent” 07:20 Leisurely Cruise Along 9:50 Myanma Ancient Or- 19:32 Song of Myanmar 22:30 National News 01:00 National News naments Showroom 22:35 Pa-na-ma Aae Khan 05:35 Ornamental Jewellery The Coast (Yangon to Beauty & Scenic 01:05 Medicinal Plants at of Outstanding De- Mawlamyaing) 9:58 Song of Myanmar Sights “Mingalabar” Gita Than (Welcoming Popa Mountain Park Beauty & Scenic signs 07:25 Song of Myanmar 19:36 Let’s Talk About Lahu music, a curtain raiser) 01:08 Myanmar Modern 05:40 Headline News Beauty & Scenic Sights “Come and See Nationals 22:40 Mosaic Painting of Song “Love that didn’t 05:42 Pickled Herbal Tea Sights “Come and See Myanmar” 19:40 Headline News Myanmar bring us together” Leaves of Myanmar Myanmar” 19:42 Mazin Industry’s 22:45 National News 01:10 Mogok Gem-mining 11-3-2004 (Thursday) Wood Products 22:50 Golden Jubilee of Enterprise Regular Programmes for 15:45 National News Myanmar Motion Pic- 01:15 National News Viewers from Abroad 19:50 Expedition of Rare tures 01:20 Leisurely Cruise Along Evening Transmission Crocodile Species In- 22:55 Scenic Beauty of The Coast (Yangon to (15:30 - 17:30) habiting in Fresh And Tiddim & Cultural Mawlamyaing) Seawaters (II) Dance 01:25 Song of Myanmar 15:30 Signature Tune 19:55 An Exulting Male 23:00 National News Beauty & Scenic Greeting Dance 23:05 Medicinal Plants at Sights “Come and See 15:32 Song of Myanmar 20:00 National News Popa Mountain Park Myanmar” Beauty & Scenic 20:05 Myanmar’s Pride & 23:08 Myanmar Modern Sights “Myanma Pano- Glory Song “Love that didn’t 12-3-2004 (Friday) rama & Myanma Sen- 20:10 Song “Ngwe Hsaung bring us together” Morning Transmission timent” Beach Resort” 23:10 Mogok Gem-mining (03:30-07:30) 15:36 Ornamental Jewellery 20:15 National News Enterprise of Outstanding De- 20:20 38 Modes of Auspi- 23:15 National News 03:30 Signature Tune signs cious Conduct (An 23:20 Leisurely Cruise Along Greeting 15:40 Headline News Unseemly Scene) The Coast (Yangon to 03:32 Song of Myanmar 15:42 Pickled Herbal Tea 20:25 Song “Land of Beauty” Mawlamyaing) Beauty & Scenic Leaves of Myanmar 20:30 National News 23:25 Song of Myanmar Sights “Mingalabar” 15:45 National News 20:35 Kindness to Pet Ani- Beauty & Scenic 03:36 Let’s Talk About Lahu 15:50 Making of Traditional mals Sights “Come and See Nationals Lacquerware 20:40 Indulge yourself with Myanmar” 03:40 Headline News 15:55 Auspicious Glory Traditional gourmet at 03:42 Mazin Industry’s 16:00 National News Yangon’s chic “Green 11-3-2004 (Thursday) & Wood Products 16:05 Expedition of Rare Elephant” 12-3-2004 (Friday) Evening 03:45 National News Crocodile Species In- 20:45 National News & Morning Transmission 03:50 Expedition of Rare habiting in Fresh And 20:50 Interview on Marque- (23:30-1:30) Crocodile Species In- Seawaters (III) try Painting 23:30 Signature Tune habiting in Fresh And 16:10 Song “I’ll remain in 20:55 Myanmar National Greeting Seawaters (II) Shwe Myaing” Races Cultural Dances 23:32 Song of Myanmar 03:55 An Exulting Male 16:15 National News (U Shwe Yoe & Daw Beauty & Scenic Dance 16:20 Myanma Ancient Or- Moe) Sights “Myanma Pano- 04:00 National News 7:55 am 5:35 pm 6. 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Edited and printed at The New Light of Myanmar Press, No 22/30 Strand Road at 43rd Street, Yangon. Cable Newlight, PO Box No. 43, Telephones: Editors 296115, Manager 296864, Circulation 297093, Advertisement 296843, Accounts 296545, Administration 296161, Production 297032 (Office) /297028 (Press). 6th Waning of Tabaung, 1365 ME Thursday, 11 March, 2004 Commander inspects agricultural, regional development tasks in Thanlyin, Kyauktan Townships Armed Forces YANGON, 10 March— for ensuring contribution to and two furlongs long. Chairman of Yangon Divi- development of agricultural Afterwards, the com- sion Peace and Develop- tasks in Thanlyin and mander and party arrived at ment Council Commander Kyauktan townships and the construction site of Day Special of Yangon Command Maj- timely completion of the Bawt Creek Bridge on the Gen Myint Swe, accompa- construction tasks meeting six-lane road and comple- nied by Secretary of the set standard. tion of the tasks. The Features Yangon Division Peace and Next, the commander commander then inspected The 59th Anniversary Armed Forces Day falls on 27 March 2004. Development Council Lt- inspected progress in build- thriving summer paddy The day is commemorated every year in recognition of and tribute Col Myint Kyi and depart- ing Yangon-Thanlyin on both banks of Bawt mental officials, inspected Bridge-2 and heard reports Creek. to the relentless efforts and the spirit of sacrifice of the Tatmadaw in agricultural and regional on construction of the Next, the commander safeguarding independence and sovereignty. development tasks in bridge by officials. The and party saw over comple- In honour of the occasion, The New Light of Myanmar will feature Thanlyin and Kyauktan commander gave necessary tion of the six-lane road and articles, perspectives and poems of historical significance supported Townships this morning. instructions. construction of four box by the documentary photos as from 12 March 2004 under the On arrival at the con- The commander and culverts on that road. struction site of the six-lane party proceeded to the con- At Nyaungwaing agri- programme “The Tatmadaw (Armed Forces) in perpetual road project to link Yangon- struction site of Ngasein cultural educative camp in service of the people”. Thanlyin Bridge-2 and the Creek Bridge located on the Kyauktan Township, the road to Thilawa Industrial road under construction to commander inspected 200 Yangon Command wins Defence Services C-in-C’s volleyball trophy YANGON, 10 March — Final matches of Defence Serv- ices Commander-in-Chief’s trophy Army, Navy, Air Force volleyball tourney was held at the gymnasium of South- East Command on 4 March. In the women’s match, Office of the Commander-in- Chief (Navy) won the championship trophy, Yangon Com- mand second prize, and Central Command third prize. In the men’s match, Yangon Command won the champion- ship trophy, Central Command second prize, and South- West Command third prize. Commander of South-East Command Maj-Gen Thura Myint Aung presented the championship trophies to the winning teams. Also present were Deputy Commander Brig-Gen Myo Hla, staff officers of the command, local authorities, de- partmental officials, Tatmadaw members and families of Mawlamyine Station and athletes and managers of 23 teams that took part in the matches. MNA ¡ ¢ ¢ £¤¥¦© § ¨ Zone, the commander and link Yangon-Thanlyin Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe inspects 200 acres of party were welcomed by Bridge-2 and the road to thriving Pandaing high-yield strain of summer paddy at ¥ © Chairman of Yangon South Thilawa Industrial Zone. Naungwaing agricultural educative camp in Kyauktan District Peace and Develop- Officials of Bridge Con- Township.— MNA ment Council Lt-Col Aung struction-16 reported on Pyay and officials. progress of works. The acres of thriving high-yield At the briefing hall, commander gave instruc- summer paddy irrigated by Parade columns practise drills Superintending Engineer U tions on work site safely Bantbwegon Dam. After YANGON, 10 March— Aung San Columns led by Vice-Chiefs of Armed Nyunt Maung San of Pub- and timely completion of meeting with local farmers, Tatmadawmen, Myanmar Parade Commander Brig- Forces Training Maj-Gen lic Works reported on facts the construction tasks meet- the commander gave instruc- Police Force members, Fire Gen Min Thein and Reserve Win Myint, Maj-Gen Aung about the road construction ing the set standard. tions on arrangements to be Brigade and Red Cross Parade Commander Col Nyi Kyi and Brig-Gen Nyan project. Then, the commander made for water availability Brigade members of Tun participated in the prac- Win, senior military offic- The commander gave inspected construction of so as to extend cultivation Anawrahta, Kyansittha, tising drills from Myoma ers and officials inspected instructions on the road the six-lane earth road with of summer paddy in Bayintnaung, Nawade, Ground to the Resistance the drill practising of the construction project to be the use of heavy machinery. Thanlyin and Kyauktan Aungzeya, Hsinbyushin, Park from 6 am to 10 am columns. implemented systematically The road will be 10 miles townships.—MNA Bandoola, Myawady and today. MNA Vice-Chiefs of Armed Forces Training Maj-Gen Win Myint, Maj-Gen Aung Kyi and Brig-Gen Nyan Win inspect practising of drills by parade columns.— PUPR =:I
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