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Prime Minister General Thein Sein Inspects Reconstruction Tasks in Mawlamyinegyun Township Established 1914 Volume XVII, Number 70 4th Waxing of Waso 1371 ME Thursday, 25 June, 2009 Each and every citizen has to adhere to Our Three Main National Causes as national policy Prime Minister General Thein Sein inspects reconstruction tasks in Mawlamyinegyun Township Prime Minister General Thein Sein inspects Yazudaing No. 1 Bridge project in Mawlamyinegyun Township.—MNA NAY PYI TAW, 24 June—Chairman of Natural Disaster Preparedness Central Committee Prime Minister General Thein Sein who was in Pathein, Ayeyawady Division, accompanied by Lt-Gen Ko Ko of the Ministry of Defence, Chairman of Ayeyawady Division Peace and Development Council Commander of South-West Command Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe, the ministers, the deputy minister, the director- general of the Government (See page 8) Photo shows houses in neat rows at Hlinephone village, Mawlamyinegyun Township.—MNA Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives * Stability of the State, community peace * Development of agriculture as the base and all-round devel- * Uplift of the morale and morality of the and tranquillity, prevalence of law and opment of other sectors of the economy as well entire nation order * Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system * Uplift of national prestige and integrity and * National reconsolidation * Development of the economy inviting participation in terms preservation and safeguarding of cultural * Emergence of a new enduring State Con- of technical know-how and investments from sources inside heritage and national character stitution the country and abroad * Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit * Building of a new modern developed nation * The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in * Uplift of health, fitness and education in accord with the new State Constitution the hands of the State and the national peoples standards of the entire nation 25-6-09 NL 1 18/7/30, 10:31 PM 2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 25 June, 2009 PERSPECTIVES People’s Desire Thursday, 25 June, 2009 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views * Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation Work together with the * Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State government for emergence of a * Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy modern and developed nation Lt-Gen Myint Swe attends monsoon Chairman of Natural Disaster tree planting ceremonies Preparedness Central Committee Prime Minister General Thein Sein visted Pathein on 22 June and inspected the construction of houses, schools, hospitals, roads, bridges and cyclone shelters in the storm-hit areas in Ayeyawady Division. The Prime Minister also visited the new housing project at the 3rd mile camp in Labutta and examined the progress of construction of a police station and roads and reclamation of plots. A 200-bed hospital and a 180-million-gallon water tank are also being built at the new housing project site. During his inspection tour, the Prime Minister also attended the ceremony to hand over 60 basic education schools. Then, the Prime Minister explained the situation on reconstruction of buildings destroyed by Cyclone Nargis, re-establishment of Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Ministry of Defence hands over nursery plants at monsoon tree businesses and construction of road networks, growing ceremony of Yangon Division held at the Universities’ Dhammayon in Yangon cyclone shelters and hillocks for protection University. —MNA against natural disaster and fulfilled the YANGON, 24 June— Commander of Yangon The Director of members and local people requirements. Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Command Maj-Gen Win Yangon Division Forestry planting the trees. The Prime Minister also visited the Ministry of Defence Myint, Chairman of Department gave an At Forestry Zone of glass factory in Pathein and inspected raw attended monsoon tree Yangon City Develop- account on the purpose of Kandawgyi Natural materials such as sand, dolomite, ceramics, planting ceremonies of ment Committee Mayor planting trees. Garden in Bahan limestone, soda ash and samples of soft cake Yangon Division for 2009 Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin Lt-Gen Myint Swe, Township, Lt-Gen Myint and the production line. and planted comme- and departmental officials, the commander and the Swe and party planted Reconstruction work started in storm- morative trees today. attended the Yangon mayor presented nursery commemorative trees and hit areas in Ayeyawady Division not long Lt-Gen Myint Swe, Division monsoon tree plants before they planted viewed staff planting the after it was hit by Cyclone Nargis. It is now accompanied by planting ceremony-2009 commemorative trees. trees. gaining momentum and substantial Chairman of Yangon at the Universities’ Then Lt-Gen Myint MNA improvement has been made in the health, Division Peace and Dhammayon in Yangon Swe and party viewed education, social and economic sectors due to Development Council University. staff, social organization Mayor the active cooperation of the people. In the International Olympic Day commemorative attends coord same way, it is necessary for the entire national people to continue working together with the Mass walk held in Nay Pyi Taw meeting AY YI AW government till a peaceful, modern and NAY PYI TAW, 24 in front of Myoma Market Officers and other N P T , 24 developed nation emerges. June—As a gesture of here this morning. ranks and their families June—Chairman of hailing International Chairman of Myanmar from ministries took place Mandalay City Develop- Minister for Sports Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint Olympic Day which falls Olympic Committee at designated place in front ment Committee Mayor takes part in Mass walk to mark International on 23 June, 2009, mass walk Minister for Sports Brig- of Myoma Market. At 6 Brig-Gen Phone Zaw Han Olympic Day 2009.—MNA was held at designated place Gen Thura Aye Myint, am, they started walking in attended the coordinating member of Myanmar front of Myoma Market and meeting of Mandalay Olympic Committee reached at wining post in Division War Veteran’s Chairman of the Leading front of Gem Museum (Nay Organization at the Committee for Integration Pyi Taw). Ministry of committee on 17 June and of Sport and Education Sports and donors presented made a speech. Deputy Minister Brig-Gen International Olympic Day MNA Aung Myo Min and commemorative T-shirts, Corrigendum altogether over 1,500 people food, bottles of water and Please read including officials soft drink to those Deputy Attorney-General concerned of the Ministry contestants. instead of Deputy Chief of Sports, officials Respective Myanmar Justice in the news concerned and staff and their Sports Federations also held “Labour Minister and families from the ministries games in commemoration party back home” on page in Nay Pyi Taw, members of International Olympic 9 of this daily issued on of Myanmar Hiking and Day at townships around the 24 June, 2009. Error is Mountaineering Federation country. regretted. took part in the mass walk. MNA Ed 25-6-09 NL 2 18/7/30, 10:31 PM THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 25 June, 2009 3 Iraqi schools lack minimum of necessary needs for secured environment and health BAGHDAD, 24 June — nied this report although day, small classrooms The Iraqi health minister his ministry was partici- with narrow widows and declared that almost 50 pating in the writing of dirty. Its walls were ru- percent of Iraqi schools this report. The minister ined by humidity with lack the minimum of said those who wrote the very long dark corridors necessary needs for report have political and its bathroom (the secured environment and agenda and they are not worst place in the school) health. academics or profession- had no water and it was The report came as a als. He described the place for bad actions like result of a study that was numbers that came in the beating the weak student conducted by health min- report as imprecise. by the strong ones. That istry and World Health Everyone in Iraq is the old image of school Organization. The report knows about the bad con- in my mind and I still have said 50 percent of the ditions in most Iraqi nightmares of my old schools are not clean and schools. They have been school. My school wasn’t In this photo taken on 8 June, 2009, 8-year-old Razia lies in a bed at the 70 percent of these here since Saddam’s the only one like this in Iraq hospital north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Razia was severely burned when a schools are suffering a time. For me, school was especially in poor white phosphorus round hit her home in the Tagab Valley during fighting lack of drink water. The always a house of ghosts; neighbourhoods. between French troops and Taleban militants killing two of her Minister of Education de- it was dark even in the Internet sisters.—INTERNET Roadside bomb Land of mines and snakes kills three local BAGHDAD,24 June—When I went with Jack to Basra Province in the south of Iraq to write the story about NGO employees mines, of one of the big problems that people in that area face, I never expected to find a bigger problem, in N Afghanistan another battle with a different enemy that is more ca- KABUL, 24 June— pable than mines which at least can’t move. They have Three local employees of a battle with snakes. Over the years people there had an NGO (non-govern- become experts in defusing mines that filled their farms mental organization) were but they could not deal with the snakes that killed them killed by a roadside bomb in their beds. in northern Afghan prov- We spoke with two families.
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