Art Show to Mark 30Th Anniversary of Diplomatic Ties Between Union of Myanmar and ROK Opened

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Volume XIII, Number 97 2nd Waning of Waso 1367 ME Friday, 22 July, 2005 Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives * Stability of the State, community peace * Development of agriculture as the base and all-round * Uplift of the morale and morality of and tranquillity, prevalence of law and development of other sectors of the economy as well the entire nation order * Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic * Uplift of national prestige and integ- * National reconsolidation system rity and preservation and safeguard- * Emergence of a new enduring State * Development of the economy inviting participation in ing of cultural heritage and national Constitution terms of technical know-how and investments from character * Building of a new modern developed sources inside the country and abroad * Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit nation in accord with the new State * The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept * Uplift of health, fitness and education Constitution in the hands of the State and the national peoples standards of the entire nation Pariyatti Sasana Pala Association offers Waso robes

YANGON, 21 July—The Pariyatti Sasana Pala Association of Pali Tekkatho Nyaungdon monastery in Bahan Township, Yangon West District, held its 24th Waso robes offering ceremony in conjunction with cash donations presentation for Abhidhaja three- storey refectory this afternoon at the refectory on Koemin Koechin Street in Bahan Township. Present on the occasion were Presiding Nayaka of the monastery Abhidhaja Maha Rattha Guru Bhaddanta Sobhana and members of the Sangha, Chairman of Yangon Division Peace and Develop- ment Council Commander of Yangon Command Maj-Gen Myint Swe and wife Daw Khin Thet Htay, Commander of No 3 Military Region Col Tin Hsan, senior military officers, local authorities, wellwishers and lay persons.Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe and wife and officials presented Waso robes and offertories to members of the Sangha. Yangon Division PDC donated K 100,000 to the funds for construction of a refectory; U Kyonkinyaw- Daw Aung Poe Hlyan and family, K 9.5 million; Presiding Sayadaw Abhidhaja Maha Rattha Guru Bhaddanta Sobhana, K 5 million; Administration Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe and wife Sayadaw Bhaddanta Indaka, K 2.5 million; U Hla offersWaso robes and alms to a Sayadaw at INSIDE Maimg-Daw Khin Hnin Wai and family K 2 mil- Pariyatti Sasana Pala Association’s 24th Waso The motorway of the Thanlwin Bridge lion; U Chit Aye-Daw Than Than Swe and family, robes offering ceremony. — YANGON COMMAND (Mawlamyine) was opened on 5 February, 2005. K 1.5 million; U Nyan Myint-Daw Shwe and family, K 1.1 million; and U Aung Kyi-Daw Ohn Khin Tekkatho Nyaungdon Kyaungtaik Bhaddanta Narada Now efforts are being made to complete the and family, K 1 million to the commander. Bhivamsa delivered a sermon, followed by sharing railway in time. Next, Hlayadana monastery Sayadaw of Pali of merits. — MNA PAGE 2 PERSPECTIVES Art show to mark 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Union of Myanmar and ROK opened

YANGON, 21 July 30th Anniversary of Dip- public of Korea was held Minister for Foreign Af- Also present on Maung, Deputy Minister — The Myanmar-Korean lomatic Relations beat the National Museum fairs U Nyan Win and the occasion were for Hotels and Tourism Contemporary Art Show tween the Union of on Pyay Road, here, this Minister for Culture Maj- Deputy Minister for Cul- Brig-Gen Aye Myint in commemoration of the Myanmar and the Re- morning, attended by Gen Kyi Aung. ture Brig-Gen Soe Win Kyu, departmental heads of the Ministry of For- eign Affairs and the Min- istry of Culture, ambassadors and officials of foreign missions here, the Korean Ambassador and staff of the ROK Embassy, members of the Korean Association, officials of Myanmar Tradi- tional Artists and Arti- sans Asiayon and guests. Minister for For- eign Affairs U Nyan Win formally unveiled the signboard of the art show. Minister Maj-Gen Kyi Aung delivers an address at the Myanmar-Korean Contemporary Art Show in commemoration of the 30th (See page 8) Anniversary of Myanmar-ROK Diplomatic Relations. — MNA Emergence of the State Constitution is the duty of all citizens of Myanmar Naing-Ngan. 2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 22 July, 2005 PERSPECTIVES People’s Desire Friday, 22 July, 2005 * 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 Unitedly take part in * Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State nation-building tasks * Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy The national goal of the State is to build Departments, townselders in MYANMAR GAZETTE a peaceful, modern and developed nation and Kengtung offer Waso robes YANGON, 21 July — The State Peace and efforts are being made to realize the national Development Council has confirmed the following YANGON, 21 July —The Waso robes offering goal by upholding Our Three Main National persons as heads of service organizations shown Causes and implementing the political, economic ceremony organized by the state/district/township departments in Shan State (East) and townselders against each on expiry of the one-year probation- and social objectives. ary period. For the emergence of a developed nation, was held at Sasana Beikma in Kengtung on 18 July. Chairman of Shan State (East) Peace and Develop- Names Appointments the 24-region development plan is being car- ment Council Commander of Triangle Region Com- (a) U Ye Phone Myint Managing Director ried out without outside help as the strength of mand Brig-Gen Min Aung Hlaing and wife, military Myanma Jute Enterprise the nation lies within. officers, departmental officials and townselders at- Ministry of Agriculture As the government, the people and the tended the ceremony. and Irrigation Tatmadaw have been working in concert day First, the congregation took the Five Precepts (b) U Kyaw Nyunt Director-General and night, 175 dams and 186 bridges 180 feet from Dhammawdaya Pariyatti Monastery Sayadaw Central Trade Disputes and above long have emerged in so short a time. Bhaddanta Arjeya. Next, Commander Brig-Gen Min Committee Of all the bridges 180 feet and above long, the Aung Hlaing and departmental officials offered Waso Ministry of Labour longest one is the Thanlwin Bridge robes and alms to 36 members of the Sangha. (c) U Chit Shein Chairman (Mawlamyine). It is the bridge not only Mon After the ceremony, the commander and wife, Social Security Board State and the State but also Myanmar engineers and officials also offered ‘soon’ to the members of Ministry of Labour should always be proud of. the Sangha.— MNA MNA The Thanlwin Bridge (Mawlamyine) will surely serve the long-term interests of the na- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Appointment of German tion and the people. More than 900 vehicles and holds robes offering ceremony 1,300 motorcycles are using the bridge every Ambassador agreed on YANGON, 21 July— Daw Khin Mya Win, the day. YANGON, 22 July — The Government of the Ministry of Foreign Af- Myanmar ambassadors, As the bridge cost a lot of money, it is Union of Myanmar has agreed to the proposed ap- fairs held Waso robes directors-general and necessary for all those concerned to maintain pointment of Mr Dietrich Andreas as Ambassador offering ceremony at wives, deputy directors- the bridge as the bridge is situated near the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Mingun Tipitaka general and wives, the place where three rivers meet, the water is deep Republic of Germany to the Union of Myanmar in Nikaya Monastery in directors and their fami- succession to Dr Klaus Peter Wild. and the current swift. Watercraft using the Dagon Towship this lies. waterway under the bridge will have to follow Mr Dietrich Andreas was born in 1943. He pur- morning. The minister and sued his studies in law and economics from 1962 to rules and regulations. The bridge has both the Present on the oc- wife and party offered 1971. Subsequently he joined the Federal Foreign motorway and the railway. casion were Sayadaw ‘soon’ to members of the Office and attended the diplomatic academy for the The motorway of the Thanlwin Bridge Tipitakadhara Bhaddanta Sangha. Senior Foreign Service from 1972 to 1974. (Mawlamyine) was opened on 5 February, 2005. Indaçariya and members Sayadaw Bhad- Before being appointed Ambassador of the Fed- Now efforts are being made to complete the of the Sangha of the Mon- danta Pandiçça adminis- eral Republic of Germany to People’s Republic of railway in time. astery, Minister for For- tered the Five Precepts to Bangladesh in 2001, he had served in various ca- When the railway is finished, people will eign Affairs U Nyan Win the congregation. pacities at the Federal Foreign Office and the Ger- be able to travel from Yangon to Dawei direct and wife Daw Myint The minister and man diplomatic missions in Belgrade, Lagos, Bang- by train. The construction of the Thanlwin Myint Soe, Deputy Min- wife, the deputy minis- kok and Zagreb. — MNA Bridge (Mawlamyine) is one of the development isters U Kyaw Thu and ters and wives donated endeavours of the government. wife Daw Lè Lè Kyi, U Waso robes and provi- Sangha and shared merits Waso robes The government is carrying out develop- Maung Myint and wife Dr sions to members of the gained. — MNA ment tasks for the perpetual existence of the offering ceremony Union and higher living standard of the people. Therefore, we would like to call on the entire to be held at national people to lend themselves to all the Eindawya nation-building tasks being carried out by the government. Monastery YANGON, 21 July — Maha Dhammaramthi Waso robes offered, Eindawya Pagoda Board of Trustees will hold the outstanding monks 2nd Waso robes offering ceremony on 24 July morn- honoured ing at Eindawya Monas- YANGON, 21 July—Waso robes and alms were tery in Dagon Township. offered to over 180 members of the Sangha led by Sayadaws will deliver Tipitakadhara Dhamma Bhandagarika (Yaw Foreign Affairs Minister U Nyan Win and wife Daw Myint Myint Soe offer sermons every Sabbath Sayadaw) of Maha Withuddhayon Pali Tekkatho Waso robes and alms to a Sayadaw.—MNA Day at the pagoda. — MNA Monastery on Nandawun Street in Bahan Town- ship, and eight outstanding members of the Sangha CASH DONATED: Cash donation ceremony for who passed their examinations with distinctions the prayer hall of PhaungdawU Standing Buddha were honoured at a ceremony at the monastery yes- Statue on 3rd Ka Street in Ka+Kha Ward, Insein terday morning. took place at General Administration Department Lay persons offered Waso robes and alms to of Insein Township on 21-7-2005. Member of the members of the Sangha. Ashin Vadhirapani State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee ka Ad- Lankarabhivamsa recited religious verses to honour ministrator Sayadaw of Ywama Pariyati the eight outstanding members of the Sangha. Sarthintaik Agga Maha Pandita Bhaddanta Next, the Yaw Sayadaw delivered a sermon Tilokabhivamsa graced the occasion by his to the congregation. presence. Donor U Hla Kyi (Advocate) and MNA daughters donate K 1 million to the chairman of Pagoda Board of Trustees. — H

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Indonesia to sell 10% stake of state-owned gas company JAKARTA, 20 July—Indonesia plans to sell as much as 10 per cent stake of state-run gas distributor PNG this year, part of a strategy to bridge budget deficit, local media reported on Tuesday. "For PNG, the stake owns 60.2 per cent, fell swelling as higher fuel that will be sold is maxi- by 25 rupiahs (0.0028 US prices increase fuel sub- mum 10 per cent," State dollar) or 0.8 per cent, to sidy expenditure. Enterprises Minister 3.075 rupiahs (some This year budget defi- Chinese soccer fans hold posters as they wait outside the hotel where Real Sugiharto was quoted by 0.0034 US dollar) on cit may rise to 35.2 tril- Madrid soccer players are staying, Beijing, on 21 July, 2005. Real Madrid is the Jakarta Post as saying. Monday at the Jakarta lion rupiahs (some 36.2 on a four-day tour of China and will face Beijing Guoan in a friendly The PNG stake, of Stock Exchange. billion US dollars) or 1.3 soccer match on Saturday. — INTERNET which the government The government this per cent of the gross do- year aims to raise 3.5 tril- mestic product (GDP), lion rupiahs (some 3.6 compared with the targeted Foreign insurance companies pressure domestic industry billion US dollars) by sell- 20.3 trillion rupiahs ( about BEIJING, 20 July —As more and more foreign insurance companies enter the Chinese market, ing stakes of state-owned 21.3 billion US dollar) or which has been gradually opening after China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), companies, according to 0.8 per cent of the GDP, the domestic insurance industry has felt rising pressure. the country's 2005 budget. according to the govern- Meng Shaoyi, director of the International Depart- the Chinese market, and with limited investment Indonesia's deficit is ment.— MNA/Xinhua ment of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission volume, he said. (CIRC), the country's watchdog for the industry, made The situation has changed a lot, however. In Shang- the remark in an interview with the Beijing-based Eco- hai, foreign-funded companies now account for 14 to US soldiers in Iraq nomic Daily, a leading economic newspaper in China. 15 per cent of the total market share, and in Guangzhou, Over 40 foreign insurance companies, including 27 of the capital of southern Guangdong Province, the pro- report low morale the 46 insurance companies among the top 500 com- portion is about 10 to 12 per cent, said Meng. WASHINGTON, 20 July—A majority of US soldiers panies, have set up agencies in China, according to At the end of 2004, according to China's WTO in Iraq say morale is low, according to an Army the Economic Daily's report on Tuesday. obligations, the country fully opened its insurance report that finds psychological stress is weighing par- "China has implemented its commitments to the market to overseas investment. Now more than half ticularly heavily on National Guard and Reserve WTO by opening its domestic insurance market to of the country's insurance companies are foreign- troops. overseas investment in stages, so the pressure brought invested, according to figures from the CIRC. The report said substantially fewer soldiers had to by foreign companies was not big immediately after Statistics with the CIRC show that the growth be evacuated from Iraq for mental health problems the country became a WTO member," Meng was rate of China's insurance industry is about 30 per last year. quoted by the newspaper as saying. cent every year. It has become one of the fastest The Army sent a team of mental health specialists At that time, only a small number of foreign growing industries in China. to Iraq and Kuwait late last summer to assess con- insurance companies began offering services in MNA/Xinhua ditions and measure progress in implementing pro- grams designed to fix mental health problems dis- Vietnam reports more young Car bomb covered during a similar survey of troops a year earlier. Its report, dated 30 January, 2005, was cancer patients blast hits US released on Wednesday. The initial inquiry was triggered in part by an unu- HANOI, 20 July—The rector Nguyen Van Loc them are hospitalized too patrol in number of Vietnamese told Xinhua on Tuesday. late. Some 90 per cent of sual surge in suicides among soldiers in Iraq in July children suffering from On average, the hospi- the patients did not go to northern Iraq 2003. Wednesday's report said the number of sui- cancer has risen in recent tal annually receives 200 hospital until they exhib- cides in Iraq and Kuwait declined from 24 in 2003 TIKRIT, 20 July — A years. The number of new cancer patients in ited complications like to nine last year. car bomb detonated children aged 5-15 being recent years, he said, not- nervous disorder. A suicide prevention program was begun for sol- Wednesday next to a treated for the disease at ing that a large number of Vietnam has annually diers in Iraq at the recommendation of the 2003 US military patrol in the country's Central the children are suffering detected some 150,000 assessment team.—Internet Pediatric Hospital in Ha- from leukemia and malig- new cancer patients in re- Iraq's northern town of noi capital rose to 1,708 nant brain tumour. The cent years. Leading types Toz-Khormatu, causing in 2004 from 1,394 in mortality rate among chil- of cancer include lung can- casualties, police said. 2003 and 1,262 in 2002, dren infected with cancer cer, breast cancer, and "A booby-trapped ve- the hospital's Deputy Di- is high, because most of leukemia.—MNA/Xinhua hicle, parked on the side of a road in Toz- Khormatu, blew up early Indonesia finds 74 bodies morning as a US military patrol passed by, destroy- after ferry sank ing a US Hamvee killing or wounding all on JAKARTA, 20 July — Indonesian rescuers have found the bodies of 74 people who were on a ferry that sank off a remote eastern province earlier board," a police source this month, but 100 more bodies could be trapped in the wreckage, an from the US-Iraqi Joint official said on Tuesday. Coordination Center, told Most of the bodies were discovered think there were still around 100 Xinhua. washed up on shores near the coastal bodies inside the ship," he said. Two civilians were city of Merauke, about 2,300 miles east Yowono added that rescuers and also wounded in the at- of the capital Jakarta. The vessel went Navy divers planned to tear apart the tack in the town, located down in rough seas off far eastern vessel to retrieve the trapped bodies. some 90 km east of Tikrit, Papua Province on 7 July. But bad weather and strong waves had the source said.US troops "We only managed to pull one body hampered efforts. immediately blocked the out of the ship wreckage," Sumpeno Fifteen people including two crew roads leading to the scene Yowono, head of the Merauke rescue members were rescued after the ferry and cordoned off the area agency, told Reuters by telephone. sank about 20 nautical miles off searching houses for sus- Men stand outside their cars as they queue for "Based on the information from Merauke, near Indonesia's border with pects, said the police petrol in Baghdad's Sadr City on 20 July, 2005. eyewitnesses and port officials, we Papua New Guinea.— MNA/Reuters source.—Internet INTERNET

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¥ forest cover target ¤ NEW DELHI, 20 July — India is unlikely to meet a target of increasing forest cover to one-third of its territory by 2012 because some trees will be cut for industrial activity to meet the needs of economic development. The environment and Forests Min- tion increases and more people cut trees istry said in its 2003 forest report re- for fuel, they say. leased on Tuesday that 23.68 per cent or The Forest Ministry said it could not 778,229 square kilometres (300,373 ignore the development needs of Asia's square miles) of the nation's area was third-largest economy while protecting covered by forests, which included trees the country's forests, mainly concentrated in non-forested areas, up a marginal in Himalayan regions in the north and 0.65 per cent from 2001. northeastern states. "To reach the 2012 target is a Raja defended the policy of allow- herculean task. We may face hurdles," ing limited mining in forested areas but Andimuthu Raja, the Environment added that mining firms had to compen- and Forests Minister, told a news sate by planting twice the number of conference. trees they cut. "If we do not give some (forest) The ministry's forest report said land to industrial and mining sectors, while the overall forest cover increased we would jeopardize economic growth." marginally in 2003, the area under dense But Raja said that with current af- forests — which have a canopy density forestation efforts, India would reach of above 40 per cent — was down by its 2007 target of 25 per cent forest 26,245 square kilometres from 416,089 cover. square kilometres in 2001 due to Cambodian woman wearing a traditional headscarf or Krama, sells lotus Illegal felling of trees is a huge deforestation. flowers to visitors to a Buddhist pagoda in Phnom Penh on 21 July, 2005. concern as India's billion-plus popula- MNA/Reuters INTERNET

Wen Jiabao encourages Chinese, Mauritanian presidents exchange university graduates to congratulatory messages BEIJING, 20 July — Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Mauritanian counterpart Maaouya Ould work in western China Sid'Ahmed Taya on Tuesday exchanged congratulatory messages on the occasion of the 40th anniversary BEIJING, 20 July — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries. encouraged university graduates to go and work in In his message, Hu said the peoples of the two traditional friendship and push their mutually benefi- the western region in his comments on a letter to countries have enjoyed profound traditional friend- cial cooperation further to open up a new and more him from graduates of China Geological University ship. In the 40 years, the bilateral relationship devel- prosperous prospect for the friendly cooperation be- based in Wuhan of central China. oped smoothly through the efforts of the two countries. tween the countries and peoples. A total of 261 students who graduated this year The friendly relationship between China and Mau- For his part, President Taya said Mauritania will as from CGU wrote to Wen recently, saying they volun- ritania sets a good example for developing countries in always remain committed to the strengthening and teered to go and work in the western region and terms of coexisting in harmony and mutually benefi- development of its relationship with China. dedicate themselves to the development of the west. cial cooperation as their exchanges and cooperation The two friendly countries are always advocates of "I'm very glad to read your letter and deeply moved have been fruitful in the fields of politics, economy and the principles of peace, security and justice in interna- by your ambition, courage and determination. trade, culture and education, Hu said. tional relations and this will be kept on as the solid You have made a right choice. I believe the tough China and Mauritania support each other and act in cornerstone for their special relations, Taya said. experiences in the west will become the greatest trea- close coordination in international affairs, Hu said. He Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Foreign Minister Li sure of your whole lives," the Premier wrote. also said in the new historical condition, China will Zhaoxing also exchanged congratulatory messages with MNA/Xinhua joint hands with Mauritania to carry on and develop the their respective counterparts on Tuesday.— MNA/Xinhua LONDON, 20 July—A poll indicates that al- Japanese Poll says most most two-thirds of Britons think the London bomb Civilian deaths in Iraq attacks are linked to Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Britons link decision to take part in the invasion of Iraq. set at 25,000 FM visits The poll, commissioned by the Guardian news- LONDON, 20 July—A British research group said London paper, found 33 percent of Britons said Blair bears “a on Tuesday that about 25,000 civilians died in violence Singapore lot’’ of responsibility for the London bombings, while in Iraq in the two years after the start of the US-led attack to Iraq 31 percent said he bears “a little’’ responsibility. invasion. SINGAPORE, 20 July war And 28 percent said his decision is not respon- Iraq Body Count compiled its figures of killings — Japanese Foreign sible for the atrocities.—Internet that occurred between 20 March, 2003, and 19 March, Minister Nobutaka 2005, from reports by the major news agencies, includ- Machimura, who arrived ing the Associated Press and British and American in Singapore on Tuesday newspapers. for one- day official visit, The results could not be independently confirmed. called on Singapore US and coalition authorities say they have not kept a Prime Minister Lee Hsien count of such deaths, and Iraqi accounting has proven Loong, Foreign Minister to be haphazard. George Yeo and Defence “There are no wholly reliable figures for civilian Minister Teo Chee Hean deaths,” Britain’s Foreign Office said. “It is recog- separately. nized by everybody that statistics are very hard to The two sides dis- collect under these circumstances.” cussed issues including The new estimate was much lower than the figure the reform of the United of 98,000 civilian deaths that appeared in a study in the Nations (UN), the post- medical journal The Lancet in October 2004. tsunami reconstruction “The ever-mounting Iraqi death toll is the forgot- efforts in Indonesia as ten cost of the decision to go to war in Iraq,” said John well as the Korean Sloboda, a psychology professor at Keele University Peninsula nuclear issue, in central England and co-founder of the group. according to Hatsuhisa Iraq Body Count found: Takashima, Press Secre- US-led coalition forces were responsible for 37.3 tary of the Japanese US Army soldiers with the first Armoured Division prepare to secure the roof of percent of the total. About three-quarters of those Foreign Ministry. a suspected guerilla leader’s house in the town of Taji, on the outskirts of fatalities occurred during the invasion phase up to 1 MNA/Xinhua Baghdad, in this military handout photo released on 19 July, 2005.— INTERNET May, 2003. — Internet THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 22 July, 2005 5 Japanese protest against US Chinese textile firms tap further Army exercises in Okinawa into world market TOKYO, 20 July — Some 10,000 people staged a protest Tuesday against US Army exercises using live BEIJING, 20 July — Chinese textile companies are striving to restructuring their export products and ammunition in the town of Kin, South Japan’s Okinawa expanding further into the world market as the United States threatens to close the door to several lines Prefecture, Kyodo News reported. of China-made textile and garment products. According to Kyodo, the protesters, including “It’s a top priority for us to diversify our products minded at the US restrictions. Okinawa Governor Keiichi Inamine, highlighted the and further tap the world market,” said a business “We cannot get anywhere by criticizing the United danger posed by the exercises at a new combat facility executive from Youngor based in the city of Ningbo, States alone, “ said Jin Changyi, general manager of at the US Marine Corps’ Camp Hansen, which is only east China’s Zhejiang Province. “We must not cling to Golden Globe Textile Corp in the provincial capital 300 metres away from residential areas. the US market alone.” “Domestic companies have to Hangzhou. “The only thing we can do at the moment Marching up to the front gate of Camp Hansen, the set up their own early warning systems,” he said in a is to fix our production and marketing strategies to demonstrators called on the US Army to stop the telephone interview with Xinhua on Tuesday but de- minimize the impacts of such restrictions.” exercises and remove the facility, claiming that peo- clined to be named. “We’d be in a passive and embar- To be specific, Jin said his company will focus on ple living in the vicinity risk the danger of being hit by rassing position if we hastily seek countermeasures the Middle East and African markets and will increase stray bullets. only after other countries have imposed restrictions.” the proportion of high-end products, particularly genu- “I will do my utmost to have the facility shut down As one of China’s most recognized name brands for ine silk garments. Jin’s company exports up to 400,000 so that residents can enjoy their peace and quiet,” garments, Youngor has avoided production of “100 pieces of cotton and silk garments every year, includ- Inamine was quoted by Kyodo. per cent cotton” shirts and jackets after the United ing approximately 50,000 pieces to the United States. The US Army started the exercises on 12 July amid States slapped quotas on Chinese-made cotton-knitted Among its importers are leading US retailers including protests by the local residents. — MNA/Xinhua shirts and pants. Yet most textile firms are sober- Wal-Mart. — MNA/Xinhua Singapore, Hungary to develop economic links SINGAPORE, 20 July — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and visiting Hungarian Prime Minister Gyurcsany Ferenc vowed here on Tuesday to develop economic links between the two countries. During their meeting, Lee invited ASEAN- European Union (EU) dialogue Hungarian companies to use the busi- process, according to Lee. ness infrastructure and facilities in Sin- Gyurcsany, who arrived in Singa- gapore to base their regional operations. pore on Tuesday morning for a two-day “Hungary can use Singapore as a official visit, introduced investment op- springboard to exploit the opportunities portunities in Hungary to Singaporean in this new Asia,” Lee said, adding that businessmen during a business lunch. the Association of South-East Asian The Singapore Business Federation Nations (ASEAN) is strategically located and the Hungarian Investment and Trade between China and India, the two emerg- Development Agency also signed a ing powers in the region. Memorandum of Understanding on Singapore expects to work with Hun- Tuesday, aiming to grow and deepen Souvenirs display for sale in Hong Kong Disneyland on 20 July, 2005. gary on the enhancement of Asia-Europe bilateral business and economic rela- INTERNET relations as both countries are part of the tions. — MNA/Xinhua Vietnam to import more sugar US, Australia reject call for troop withdrawal timetable from Iraq HANOI, 20 July — put and speculation. As a WASHINGTON, 20 July — US President George W Bush and visiting Australian Prime Minister John Vietnam's Trade Ministry result, a large volume of Howard rejected on Tuesday calls for an Iraq withdrawal timetable. has just allowed local sugar is being smuggled Speaking to reporters after talks with Howard, ready to do the fighting themselves. In his remarks, foodstuff producers to into Vietnam. Bush said that the American troops will be in Iraq "as Howard also ruled out setting a timetable or withdraw- import additional 30,000 Vietnam's total area long as necessary to complete the mission." ing before Iraqi forces can ensure security and have tons of sugar, partly due under sugarcane cultiva- Bush said that US troops' mission in Iraq is really built the foundations of a democracy. to the country's thinner tion was 287,000 hectares important. "We're laying the foundation for peace. A "I'm not going to try and put a time limit on our sugar supply. in the previous crop whose free Iraq, a democratic Iraq in the heart of the Middle commitment in Iraq. I'm not," Howard said. "We will Early last month, the output stood at more than East is part of a vision that understands free societies stay the distance in Iraq. We won't go until the job has ministry allowed the firms 15.5 million tons of are peaceful societies." been finished. Australia, a staunch supporter of the to import 57,000 tons of sugarcane, according to the Bush said that it does not make any sense to "tell US-led war on terror, currently maintains around sugar to make such prod- country's General Statis- the enemy how long you're going to stay somewhere," 1,400 troops in and around Iraq. — MNA/Xinhua ucts as cakes, candies, tics Office.—MNA/Xinhua noting US troops will not leave Iraq until the Iraqis are milk and monosodium glutamate, the Vietnam “Haitang” brings heavy Sugarcane and Sugar As- sociation said on Tuesday. rainstorms to east China Vietnam produced HANGZHOU, 20 July — Affected by the Typhoon over one million tons of Haitang, two counties of Cangnan and Pingyang of sugar during the 2004- Wenzhou City, East China’s Zhejiang Province, re- 2005 sugarcane crop, ported 400 millimetres heavy rainstorms on Tuesday. which has just ended, The provincial flood control and drought relief head- down 10.7 per cent against quarters said the whole Zhejiang Province saw great last crop, due to prolonged precipitation since Sunday. drought. During this crop, The precipitation of the township of Chanchang, plants nationwide turned Cangnan County amounted to 564 millimetres. out 902,000 tons of sugar The rainstorms brought about a water level surge of in addition to 180,000 tons Zhejiang’s major rivers. from households. Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu urged on Tuesday gov- Sugar prices in the local ernments of all the coastal provinces to launch their market currently stand at emergency plans against the disastrous weather. around 50 US cents per kilo, Hui said the governments should make all efforts to up some 30 per cent against US Marines with the 2nd Marine Division conduct a patrol during Operation safeguard the life security of the people and must be early this year, mainly due Guardian Sword in the Iraqi town of Hit, about 150 km (90 miles) west of fully aware of the possible floods and geological disas- to the lower sugarcane out- Baghdad, in this military handout photo released on 19 July, 2005.—INTERNET ters after the landing of typhoons. — MNA/Xinhua 6 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 22 July, 2005 Nepal to allow man-power firms to open branches abroad KATHMANDU, 20 July — The Nepali Government is working to allow man- power companies to open branches in countries like Malaysia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. “The initiative for the It would also mini- Nepalis are working, he branch offices is to enable mize the possibility of added. The Finance Minis- Nepali companies to seek cheating and fraud while try has even allocated job opportunities directly. sending Nepalis to work in budget for four labour at- It will help in monitoring those countries, the minis- taches abroad, he said. the numbers and their con- ter said. According to official ditions,” Minister for La- He also said that the data, in each of the coun- bour and Transport Man- government is also think- tries like Malaysia, Qatar, agement Ram Narayan ing of developing commu- the United Arab Emirates Singh told reporters here nication network in those and Saudi Arabia, more on Tuesday. countries to make remit- than 100,000 Nepalis are Presently, Nepali tances legal and safe. working. companies deal with those The government is About 12,540 An employee of Lumica Corporation displays the company’s ‘Glow Football’ at a countries through brokers, also working to send la- Nepalis went abroad to take toy show in Tokyo on 20 July, 2005. The ball, which has 24 built-in illuminators, who are mainly Indians and bour attaches in countries up jobs last month, the min- goes on sale in Japan on Wednesday for 2,800 yen ($24.80). — INTERNET Bangladeshis. where a large number of ister said. — MNA/Xinhua India seeks civil society inputs for Vietnam to vaccinate AIDS control plan chickens, ducks against NEW DELHI, 20 July — India’s nodal AIDS control body, National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) on Tuesday launched an e-consultation to seek civil society groups’ opinion/suggestions on the bird flu next phase of the national AIDS control policy (NACP). HANOI, 20 July — Vietnam will use over 400 The HIV prevalence groups would help them ence to develop a plan through “Solution Ex- million batches of vaccine to inoculate its chickens rate in India at present is design the AIDS control that takes in considera- change”, an initiative of and ducks against the deadly bird flu that has killed said to be around 1 per programme in a better tion everyone’s voice and the United Nations Coun- 40 people in the country, half of them since cent, and there are way. concerns,” NACO Project try Team in India that December. nearly 5.1 million peo- “We have an oppor- Director, SY Quraishi, offers a forum for com- Agriculture Deputy Minister Bui Ba Bong said in ple battling with the tunity to develop a plan said on Tuesday while munities of development a plan seen by Reuters on Tuesday that the government deadly scourge in the that in the next five years launching the pro- practitioners. would use 415 million doses of Dutch and Chinese country. will effectively control gramme. On request from vaccines in a programme starting in two provinces According to the and reverse the spread of This is the first time NACO, experts appointed from 1 August. UNAIDS India officials, the epidemic that touches India will be consulting by the Joint United Other provinces facing high risk of infection the third phase of the our lives in several ways. the whole civil society to Nations Programme on would follow between 1 October and 10 November, NACP has to come into Over 950 Indian NGOs input into its national HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) before the arrival of the winter when the deadly virus force from March 2006, are already working with AIDS control policy. are moderating the dia- seems to thrive best. and the suggestions/opi- us in this fight. We need The e-discussion logue. Vietnam has an estimated 210 million poultry. nions of the civil society their input and experi- will be facilitated MNA/Xinhua The Chinese vaccine against the H5N1 virus, which international health officials fear could mutate Jamaica opens into a form which might trigger a human pandemic, China, Japan, S Korea seek would be used on ducks.A Dutch vaccine against the embassy in H5N2 virus, a less virulent strain which is not wide- Beijing cooperation in youth exchanges spread in Vietnam, will be used on chickens. BEIJING, 20 July — BEIJING, 20 July — Young leaders from China, Japan and South Korea “The vaccine against the H5N2 virus works well Jamaica, one of the Carib- gathered here on Monday to discuss trilateral cooperation between the against the H5N1 virus as it functions against the H5 bean nations, opened its Northeast Asian neighbours at a 11-day forum. subtype,” Dau Ngoc Hao, deputy head of the Agricul- embassy in Beijing on ture Ministry’s Animal Health Department, told The Future Leaders pated in the forum. participants will also Monday. Reuters.— MNA/Reuters Forum 2005: China- Zhao Yaqiao, an of- travel to Gifu Prefecture Jamaican Minister of Japan-South Korea, an ficial with the ACYF, said in Japan and Gwangju in Foreign Affairs and For- initiative for youth the participants will carry South Korea for a further eign Trade KD Knight, exchanges among the out open discussions on exchange of views. Chinese Vice Foreign three nations, is co-spon- various topics in North- Along with their fast- Minister Yang Jiechi, and sored by the All-China east Asia so as to increase growing trade coopera- ambassadors from some Youth Federation mutual understanding and tion, the three Asian na- other Caribbean nations (ACYF), Japan Founda- trust between the three tions also enjoy close links were present at the open- tion and Korea Founda- countries. “The forum is in other fields. They are ing ceremony. tion. 14 delegates work- expected to consolidate seeking diverse ways to In his address to the ing in the three countries the existing youth ex- enhance their interde- opening ceremony, political, business and change mechanism.” pendent relations. Knight said that since the academic sectors partici- Besides Beijing, the MNA/Xinhua establishment of their diplomatic relations in 1972, China and Jamaica have HK robotic claw to help deep sea exploration increased their friendly HONG KONG, 20 July — A Hong Kong-designed robotic claw will be used relations steadily and kept by Ifremer, a French oceanographic and environmental research agency, for good coordination in eco- deep sea exploration, reported South China Morning Post on Monday. nomic and cultural fields. The titanium claw is with a reach down to passive self-adaptive mo- Jamaica is firmly commit- slightly larger than a hu- 6,000 metres, is one of tion, said Ng Tze-chuen, a ted to the one-China man hand with the weight the deepest divers ever private dentist who de- policy. He expressed the of less than one kilo. It built. signed the claw with Yung hope to further enhance will be attached to a ro- According to design- Kai-leung, a Polytechnic bilateral cooperation in the botic arm on Victor 6000, ers of the gripper, it is University engineering A Chinese farmer uses pesticide on his farmland in fields of trade, mining and an unmanned submarine designed to retrieve even professor. the suburb of Xi’an in northwest China’s Shaanxi — tourism. — MNA/Xinhua made by Ifremer which, a pin by blind-gripping or MNA/Xinhua Province on 20 July, 2005. INTERNET THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 22 July, 2005 7 China, six ASEAN members China dismisses US extend tariff cuts to each other concerns on military rise KUNMING, 21 July — China, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, BEIJING, 21 July — China’ Foreign Minister dismissed on Wednesday Singapore and Thailand gave tariff cuts to each other on 7,455 kinds of a Pentagon report warning that its modernizing military could pose a threat commodities as of Wednesday. to the region, and said its rise would be peaceful. The practice was In Kunming, capi- lion US dollars in trade The report reflects wan by force. US criticized as “irre- launched in compliance tal of southwest China’s terms. It will become the concern in Washington Beijing considers sponsible”. with the Trade in Goods Yunnan Province, 946 third largest global trad- over China’s growing Taiwan a part of China, China also Agreement of a Frame- trade companies have ap- ing region after the Eu- military and economic and in March passed an shrugged off on Wednes- work Agreement for plied for registering ropean Union and the power, and in particular anti-secession law author- day an agreement earlier Overall Economic “Forme”, or the certifi- North American Free the fear a changing bal- izing it to use “non-peace- this week in which Wa- Coope-ration between cate of origin. Trade Zone. ance of power in Asia ful means” to bring it back shington promised India China and countries of The General Ad- China has already could threaten Taiwan, into the fold should the full cooperation in devel- the Association of South- ministration of Customs signed a zero-tariff the self-governed island island democracy of 23 oping its civilian nuclear East Asian Nations has opened a special of- agreement on fruits with Beijing claims as its own. million move toward for- power programme with- (ASEAN) signed last fice in the Customs house Thailand, in implementa- “China, remember, mal independence. The out demanding it sign the November. of Shenzhen, another tion since last year. will continue to pursue a Taiwan issue puts the US nuclear Non-Proliferation Experts believe that major port of imported China now mainly path of peaceful develop- in a quandary, with Wash- Treaty. implementation of the commodities from imports from ASEAN ment,” Foreign Minister ington having vowed to The agreement was tariff cut plan will enor- ASEAN in south China’s countries electronic pro- Li Zhaoxing said at a defend the island should seen as a counterbalance mously expand trade be- Guangdong Province, to ducts, crude and lique- signing ceremony to es- China attack it, but also to China’s rise, but the tween China and specialize in granting fied petroleum and gas tablish the offices of the recognizing Beijing as Foreign Ministry had lit- ASEAN, and will be of certificates of origin. and vegetable oil, and ex- International Committee China’s sole legitimate tle reaction. far-reaching significance By 2010, China ports electronic and ma- of the Red Cross in government. “We hope the rele- in the future development and six old ASEAN chinery products, textiles Beijing. Last week, a Chi- vant cooperation between of Sino-ASEAN eco- member nations, includ- and garments, processed “China not only nese general was quoted China and India will ben- nomic and trade rela- ing Brunei, Indonesia, oil and cereals to poses no threat to any- as saying China was ready efit the safeguarding of tions. Beginning from Malaysia, Philippines, ASEAN. one, we also are willing to use nuclear weapons peace and stability in the Wednesday, Chinese Singapore and Thailand, The trade volume to establish friendship and against the United States Asian region,” it said in a Customs officers started will impose zero tariffs between China and all kinds of win-win co- should Washington attack statement faxed to to levy and clear com- on most normal products, ASEAN reached 105.9 operation with other over Taiwan, remarks the Reuters.—MNA/Reuters modities with certificates while China and the other billion US dollars last countries to push forward of origin issued by or- four new ASEAN mem- year, a rise of 35 per cent cooperative develop- World faces massive increase ganizations authorized by bers of Cambodia, the from a year ago. ment,” Li said in response in CO emissions the governments of Bru- Laos, Myanmar and ASEAN has been to a question about the 2 nei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam will do the China’s fifth largest trade Pentagon report. PARIS, 21 July — The world faces a massive Myanmar, Singapore and same in 2015 when free partner for 12 consecu- The Pentagon re- increase in carbon dioxide emissions due to popula- Thailand according to trade between China and tive years. port said Beijing’s mili- tion growth and the failure of wealthy countries to tariffs readjusted in ac- ASEAN nations will be China’s imports tary buildup had already reduce greenhouse gases. cordance with the Trade made possible. from ASEAN went up by begun to change the re- Tim Dyson, professor of population studies at the in Goods Agreement of The Sino-ASEAN 28 per cent on average gional balance of power London School of Economics, said on Tuesday at the a Framework Agreement Free Trade Zone has a in the past five years, but it also said its ability start of the four-day 25th International Population for Overall Economic four percentage points population of 1.7 billion to project conventional Congress, which will last to 23 July in the French Cooperation between and 2 trillion US dollars higher than the growth power was limited and central city of Tours, “We’re on a toboggan and we’ve China and ASEAN in gross domestic pro- rate for China’s global China did not have the countries. duct (GDP), plus 1.2 tril- imports. — MNA/Xinhua capability to re-take Tai- gone over the edge.” “It (global warming) will screw everyone up, no matter where you are,” he said at the conference London blasts cause chaos on Tube grouping 2,000 demographers, economists, geogra- LONDON,21 July— They say a number of fered no structural dam- University College Hos- phers and sociologists from 110 countries. London’s Tube network fugitives are being sought. age. Large areas around pital after an incident. A The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been plunged into Two people have been ar- all four sites were cor- large area was cordoned (IPCC), world scientific authority on global warming, chaos with stations cleared rested in Whitehall. doned off. Tests for off. predicted in its 2001 report that rising levels of green- after minor blasts on two Eyewitnesses heard chemical, biological and The hospital has not house gases like carbon dioxide will increase tempera- trains and a bus. bangs and saw abandoned radiological weapons received any casualties or tures by between 1.4 degrees and 5.8 degrees Celsius Met Police chief Sir rucksacks at the sites of proved negative. been alerted to casualties. by the end of the century and sea levels by between 9 Ian Blair said three Tube the incidents at Warren One person was in- The whole of the and 88 centimetres. — MNA/Xinhua lines were suspended but Street and Oval tube sta- jured at Warren Street. Northern Line has been it was time London re- tions as well as the number There were reports the in- suspended, along with the turned to normal. The mi- 26 bus in Bethnal Green. jured person may have Victoria Line and the nor explosions - two There was an attempt been holding a rucksack Hammersmith and City weeks after blasts killed to cause an explosion at containing the detonator. line. 56 - involved detonators Shepherd’s Bush Ham- The BBC’s Andrew A number of other only, a BBC reporter said. mersmith and City line, Winstanley said devices stations were closed dur- There was one injury. police said. had been found but ap- ing the alert, including Police sources say the At Warren Street and peared to have been dum- Great Portland Street, blasts may have been near Oval a man was seen run- mies, containing no ex- Westminster, Waterloo, St simultaneous and that they ning away from the scene. plosives. Paul’s and Oxford Circus are being linked with the 7 On the bus, there were Police said armed of- tube stations, as well as July bombs. no injuries and the bus suf- ficers were deployed to Waterloo tube station and King’s Cross Thameslink. Astronauts re-dock Russian There were also alerts at Wood Lane in Shep- craft before spacewalk herd’s Bush, around St MOSCOW, 21 July — Two astronauts briefly left the International Space Paul’s and, outside Lon- Station unmanned on Tuesday to re-dock their transport vessel so it would don, at St Albans station. not hamper a spacewalk next month, mission control said. London Underground Russian cosmonaut the procedure. The pair, stationed went to an amber alert with Sergei Krikalyov and US A mission control in orbit since April, flew trains taken to the next astronaut John Phillips spokesman said the ma- the vehicle and re-docked station and evacuated. needed two attempts to noeuvre had nevertheless it in a different section An eyewitness at Oval close the hatch between been completed in 30 min- of the station so that it station said there had been Popular Japanese cartoon character ‘Doraemon’ the Soyuz craft and the utes rather than the ex- would not hinder access a small bang, and a man flies in front of an employee of Taiyo Kogyo at a toy space station, taking a pected 40.“They re-docked for a spacewalk sched- had then run off when the show in Tokyo on 20 July, 2005. The radio control- few minutes longer than quicker than expected,” the uled for August. Tube reached the station. led helicopter toy goes on sale in Japan on Saturday scheduled at the start of spokesman said. MNA/Reuters INTERNET for 5,480 yen ($ 48.50) — INTERNET 8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 22 July, 2005 Waso robes, provisions offered to Poem Hands off! members of the Sangha * He who loves me, more than I do with bigger love, who could that be YANGON, 21 July — A ceremony to offer Waso cepts from Bhaddanta Ñanikabodhi. Next, Secre- robes and provisions to members of Sangha at tary-General Maj-Gen Htay Oo and wife offered Well, tell me. Yadanabodhi Sarthintaik, East Ywama Ward, Insein Waso robes and provisions to the Sayadaw and mem- * My body’s heat and cold Township, Yangon North District yesterday after- bers of the Sangha. The difference, more than I do noon. Afterwards, the congregation shared merits Who can feel it, who could that be Present on the occasion were Administrator gained following a sermon delivered by the Sayadaw. Well, tell me. Sayadaw of Yadanabohdi Sarthintaik Bhaddanta After the ceremony, Maj-Gen Htay Oo encour- * In my feelings, the happiness Ñanrikabodhi, members of the Sangha, Secretary- aged members of USDA and townsdwellers partici- And sadness felt, who could that be General of Union Solidarity and Development Asso- pating in digging drain on both sides of KanU What kind of person, knows my feelings ciation Minister for Agriculture Maj-Gen Htay Oo, monstery’s 1470 feet long road, repair of road and Who knows more than me, could there be executives of district and township USDAs and rebuilding of KanU Pariyatti Sarthintaik and made Well, tell me. members and townselders. arrangements to fulfil the requirements. * In my matters, with much interest First, the congregation received the Five Pre- MNA One who’s arguing, right or wrong What kind of person, can match me Taking interest in what I’m doing Art show to mark 30th Anniversary Diplomatic… Well, tell me. (from page 1) * In my affair, with keen interest Minister for Culture In all matters, only when I assert Maj-Gen Kyi Aung deliv- When I do it by myself, all is ered an address, saying Fulfilled, that’s a fact. that today’s Myanmar- * So, hands off Korean Contemporary Art You Western media. Show commemorates the * No such goodwill, as on Myanmar 30th Anniversary of Dip- No one better, special lomatic Relations between Can exist, none can. the Union of Myanmar and * Know it you, that Myanmar’s wellbeing the Republic of Korea. Can be served, by Myanmar only. At the same time, the Po Wa (Trs) art show presents classi- cal and modern works of Timorese minister arrives Korean and Myanmar artists with their different views based on Eastern Minister for Culture Maj-Gen Kyi Aung, Minister for Foreign Affairs U Nyan culture. The enthusiasts Win and guests view round works at the art show.—˚MNA can enjoy pleasure and peaceful essence from the Next, Chairman Cha U Thaung Han and Chair- The Korean Ambas- works of Myanmar and Young Kyu of the Inter- man of the Korean Asso- sador gave away gifts to Korean artists at the art national Arts Exchange ciation Mr Kim Man the Myanmar artists. Next, show. Association of ROK ex- Young formally opened the ministers, the deputy In his greetings, ROK tended greetings. the art show. ministers and guests posed Ambassador Mr Lee Ju- Deputy Minister for Next, the ministers, for documentary photos. Heum said that Myanmar Culture Brig-Gen Soe Win the deputy ministers and Altogether 23 works friends will have the op- Maung, ROK Ambassa- guests viewed round the of Myanmar artists and portunity to enjoy one dor Mr Lee Ju-Heum, works of the show. 52 of the Korean artists more aspect of Korean Chairman Cha Young Minister Maj-Gen are displayed at the art culture at the works of the Kyu of the International Kyi Aung presented a bou- show that will be kept Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs U Maung Myint contemporary art show Arts Exchange Associa- quet to the chairman and open from 10 am to 4 pm welcomes Senior Minister and Minister for Foreign like the presentation of tion of ROK, Chairman of party of the International up to 27 July. Admission Affairs and Cooperation Dr Jose Ramos Horta of Korean TV and drama se- Myanmar Traditional Art- Arts Exchange Associa- is free. Timor.— MNA ries. ists and Artisans Asiayon tion of ROK. MNA YANGON, 21 July — Dr Jose Ramos Horta, Senior Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of Timor Fire Services Department holds Leste arrived here by air at 9 am today. The Timor Leste Minister was welcomed at the coordination meeting airport by Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs YANGON, 21 July —Work coordination meeting director-general and deputy directors of the depart- U Maung Myint and responsible officials of the Minis- of the Fire Services Department under the Ministry ment and officials. At the meeting, principal of the try of Foreign Affairs. The Timor Leste Minister of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement was held Central Training School of the department and heads Dr Jose Ramos Horta was accompanied by Rev Arlindo this morning at the ministry here. of the state/division Fire Services Departments re- Marcal, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary It was attended by SWRR Minister Maj-Gen Sein ported on tasks being undertaken. The meeting will of Timor Leste in Jakarta, Mr Nelson Santos, Secretary Htwa, Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Myint, the continue tomorrow. — MNA General for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and Mr Juvencio de Jesus Martins, Director of Regional Affairs Directorate of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Demo- cratic Republic of Timor Leste. — MNA Veterans provided with cash in Mingala Taungnyunt Township YANGON, 21 July — War veterans in Mingala Taungnyunt Township on 17 July received cash assist- ance provided by the Central Organizing Committee of the Myanmar War Veterans Organization at MWVO Conference-2005. Chairman of the township WVO and officials presented cash to 21 war veterans aged over 75, one disabled veteran and three students of the township WVO members at the cash presentation ceremony Minister for SWRR Maj-Gen Sein Htwa addresses coordination meeting of Fire Services Department. held at the township WVO office on 17 July. MNA MNA THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 22 July, 2005 9 Commander, Mayor inspect task Waso robes offering to beautify Yangon ceremony held in YANGON, 21 July — Chairman of Yangon Kyaikhtiyoe Pagoda Division Peace and De- YANGON, 21 July — Families of Kyaikhtiyoe Hill velopment Council Missionary in Thakayta Township, Yangon Division Commander of Yangon held the 28th Waso robes offering ceremony on the Command Maj-Gen platform of Kyaikhtiyoe Pagoda, Kyaikhtiyoe Town- Myint Swe and Chair- ship, Mon State on 19 July. man of Yangon City De- Present on the occasion were Chairman of velopment Committee Kyaikhtiyoe Hilly Missionary Sayadaw Bhaddanta Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Nandiya and members of the Sangha, members of Thein Lin inspected the pagoda board of trustees and wellwishers totaling task to beautify Yangon over 2,000. city this morning. First, the congregation received the Five First the commander Precepts from Sayadaw Bhaddanta Nandiya. and the mayor observed Next, wellwishers offered Waso robes to Sayadaw the tarring of the Strand and members of the Sangha and the congregation Road in Kyimyindine Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe and Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin inspect shared merits gained. Township and the Today’s donations were : K 3 million by U Tin repaving Bayintnaung Road in Hline Township. —YANGON COMMAND Bayintnaung Road in Hlaing and Daw Yin Yin, provisions and K 300,000 Hline Township. The commander soonest. The project cials to organize by U Tin Sein and Daw Myint Myint San, K 500,000 They then inspected and the mayor made has already been the social organizations by Daw Kyi on behalf of Waso families, K 200,000 the work to ensure arrangements for open- completed and the people to by U Hant Khin, a generator worth K 300,000 by U proper drainage system ing the Kyaukyedwin Commander Maj- take part in the task to Tin Hlaing and Daw Yin Yin, a generator worth K in Hline, Mayangon and railway overpass linking Gen Myint Swe and beautify and upgrade 300,000 by Daw Hla Kyi and Daw Phyu, K 300,000 North Okkalapa town- North Okkalapa and Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Yangon City. by U Lan Kon and Daw Khin Ti, 108 rice bags ships in the city. Mingaladon townships Thein Lin urged offi- MNA worth K 900,000 by Aungthiri Rice Trading and K 250,000 by U Hsan Win and Daw Than Myint. Talks on health for women given MNA Sayadaw Bhaddanta Vijaya passes away YANGON, 21 July—The Religious Affairs Depart- ment today announced that State Ovadacariya Presid- ing Nayaka of Shweyayhsaung Monastery in Yekyi Township, Pathein District, Ayeyawady Division, Sayadaw Bhaddanta Vijaya (Agga Maha Pandita), aged 91, vasa 70, passed away at 11.45 am on Full Moon Day of Waso 1367 ME (20-7-2005). — MNA Trainees of Basic Buddhist Cultural Course observe Dhammacakka Akhadaw Health Working Group Leader Daw Nilar Thaw of MMCWA speaking at the health educational talks. YANGON, 20 July — Akhadaw on Fullmoon MNA The second year trainees Day of Waso. Trainees Ma YANGON, 21 July — factory in Hlinethaya In- Health Department, local MMCWA made an open- of Basic Buddhist Cultural Thinza Hein and Ma Win Organized by Myanmar dustrial Zone this morn- authorities, social organi- ing speech. Course led by Instructor Win Swe presented mat- Maternal and Child Wel- ing. Present on the occa- zations and workwomen. The health profes- Agga Maha Saddhamma ters related to Desanas of fare Association, talks on sion were CEC members First, health group sionals then gave talks on Jotikadhaja Bhaddanta Lord Buddha. Trainees health were given at of MMCWA, officials leader Daw Nila Thaw, health for women and the Paññasami (Magadi- Ma Htar Htar Win and Ma Myanmar YES garment from Yangon Division CEC member of ceremony ended.— MNA Thazi) observed the Nwe Nwe Win analyzed Dhammaçakka Akhadaw social energy and on Fullmoon Day of Waso Dhamma energy. Ma Factories in Magway Division inspected on Maha Ordination Hall Theint Theint Thu and Ma on Kaba Aye Hill, here, Myint Thida Khaing re- YANGON, 21 July — On arrival at textile Winthuza shop and on constructing the build- yesterday morning. cited Dhammaçakka Deputy Minister for In- factory (Pwintbyu) in the Salingyi Winthuza shop, ings and test run of ma- All the trainees led Sutta. Next, the trainees dustry-1 Brig-Gen Thein evening, the deputy min- and attended to the chines and gave instruc- by master of ceremonies recited Dhammaçakka Tun together with offi- ister met with officials needs. tions on the early com- trainee Ma Aye Aye Aung Desana in Pali and cials, inspected the site and heard reports on the At Salingyi Textile pletion of the factory to opened the ceremony by Myanmar versions. The factory project, he heard be able to put it into serv- chosen for construction matters related to the reciting Namo tassa three recitation of trainees Ma the report by the officials ice. — MNA of horse and sheep breed- construction tasks of the times. Next, trainees Ma Aye Aye Tint and Ma Moe

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(from page 16) our region. Previously, The section, we local people had to which is part of spend a lot of time and Meiktila-Taunggyi- energy to travel to Kengtung-Tachilek Un- Kengtung from ion Highway, occupies Mongpyin due to poor 79 miles in Mongpyin transport. And Taung- Township and 35 miles gyi-Kengtung section in Kengtung Township was a poor facility in the in Shan State (East), to- past. Some of its parts talling 114 miles. were rather narrow and The 12-foot-wide some parts were often tar road was upgraded blocked with sand due from a gravel road in to erosion of the sides the past. To complete of sand hills. So, we that section, 170 small could not get to our des- bridges and rock-filled tinations easily. But, retaining wall and Tarkaw-Kengtung tar drains stretching 10,500 road has been completed feet had to be built. and we can now go to In an interview, Kengtung from A breathtaking view of Tarkaw-Kengtung Road and highland crops plantations. Ma Nan Yone Kham, a Mongpyin with peace of local resident of mind at any time. I’m a Now both youths ered with sand and wa- tween hill regions and such as the 200-bed Mongpyin, said, “Now, student of Kengtung De- and adults are very ter. Sometimes, we had the plains. hospital, Kengtung De- I’ve enjoyed a golden gree College. This road happy with the fine fa- to stay on the road for Public Works gree College, Govern- opportunity to join section will make sig- cility”. four or five days with faced and overcame a ment Computer College Kengtung Degree Col- nificant contribution to- Asked about the whatever we had. Previ- number of difficulties in and Government Tech- facility, U Soe Oo, driver ously, the road was full of a ten-wheel truck who of potholes, and at that was waiting for the com- time, the breakdown of This road pletion of the road sec- a truck blocked the oth- I’m happy section tion opening ceremony, ers following it. And if if the road will make said, “I’m a driver, so a truck had a flat tyre, I’m taking significant I’m happy if the road the truck in opposite di- is fine. I contribu- I’m taking is fine. In the rection could not have thank the tion past, we often found it enough room to pass by govern- towards difficult to transport the truck with flat tyre. ment very promotion goods from Kengtung to At such times, we driv- much for of the Taunggyi because many ers had to eat what we its up- education parts of the road were found in the forest and grading of us buried with sand from stay with whatever we the road. youths. sand hills, and in the had until the truck that (U Soe (Ma Nan rainy season, sometimes broke down had been re- Oo, Yone we even could not find a paired. driver) Kham) place to park to stop over “Now, the road is the night. 12 feet wide and is a tar “We drivers had a one, so it is convenient upgrading Tarkaw- nical Institute, lege. I’m very pleased wards promotion of the lot of difficulties in driv- for us to drive. Besides, Kengtung section, a hill Kengtung has been de- with the development of education of us youths. ing along the road cov- there is the drain along road. It also had to use veloped from a town to the road and it prevents heavy machinery to level the capital city on the damage of the road to an steep hills, deep small east bank of Thanlwin extent. I’d say I thank valleys and detour parts River. the government very in reconstructing the fa- Besides, it has much for its upgrading cility. also been facilitated

An aerial With fine facilities such as the 200-bed hospital, Kengtung Degree College, Government Computer Col- view of lege and Government Technical Institute, Kengtung has Tarkaw- been developed from a town to the capital city on the Kengtung east bank of Thanlwin River. Besides, it has also been facilitated with an airport that can be used by jets to Road possess characteristics of a major city. snaking its the road.” The government with an airport that can way After the inter- has been carrying out be used by jets to pos- view, about ten trucks tasks with added mo- sess characteristics of a through including the one driven mentum for the develop- major city. by U Soe Oo headed for ment of Shan State On my way forests Taunggyi. (East) that consists of home, I was captivated and No doubt, all the four districts and 11 by an aerial view of witnesses felt deeply townships. Kengtung developing moun- pleased with that fruitful Local people can with Naungton Lake result from the govern- travel to the plains at any and modern buildings tains. ment’s drive for ensur- time thanks to the emer- that reflect the rapid ing secure and smooth gence of the Union development of transport as a major task Highway and the newly- Myanmar. to effectively reduce the reconstructed road. Translation: MS development gap be- With fine facilities ******** THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 22 July, 2005 11 China’s GDP grows 9.5% in first half year Dhaka takes move to reduce BEIJING, 21 July — China’s gross domestic product (GDP) for the first mounting trade deficit half of this year reached 6,742.2 billion yuan (812.3 billion US dollars), a DHAKA, 21 July — In view of a record trade deficit, the government of year-on-year increase of 9.5 per cent. Bangladesh has taken a move to restructure the Commerce Ministry by “It was 0.2 percentage ing the scientific ap- In breakdown, the pri- creating a new office of Director General of Foreign Trade and increasing points lower than the proach to development mary industry reported a the number of officials in the trade cadre. growth rate for the same and various policies set value added of 670.7 bil- The country’s exter- constraints, causing a net ing period of the 2003 - period of last year,” said by the central authorities lion yuan, up 5.0 per nal trade balance has loss to the country’s ex- 2004 fiscal was 1.74 bil- Zheng Jingping, spokes- on economic work, with cent; the secondary income under growing con- ports. lion dollars. man of the National Bu- the aim to consolidate the dustry, 3,963.5 billion straints during the 10 On the other hand, a In the last fiscal year, reau of Statistics, at a achievements brought by yuan, up by 11.2 per cent; months of the last fiscal rise in oil price in the the trade gap widened by Press conference here on macro-control, he said. and the tertiary industry, (July 2004 -June 2005) as international market has 37.5 per cent during the Wednesday. “As a result, fairly 2,108.0 billion yuan, up export earnings fell caused a rise in the gov- 10 months period over In the first half of this good overall economic by 7.8 per cent, accord- sharply compared to a ernment’s import bills for the same period in the year, regions and depart- performance was re- ing to the National Bu- rise in import payments, crude oils. It is also forc- previous fiscal. ments at all levels made corded in the first half of reau of Statistics. The Independent reported ing importers to pay high The foreign ex- all efforts in implement- this year”. MNA/Xinhua on Wednesday. prices for capital machin- change reserves dip be- Exports grew 15.37 ery and intermediary low the 3 billion dollars Honda to increase vehicle sales to 4 million units per cent to 6.9 billion US goods for industrial units. mark with the Asian TOKYO, 21 July — Honda Motor Co plans to expand its global auto- dollars between July According to trade Clearing Union payment mobile sales to 4 million units in fiscal 2007 from 3.24 million in fiscal 2004 2004 and April 2005 figures released by Bang- of 350 million dollars which ended in March, the company said on Wednesday. while imports went up ladesh Bank, the central due last week. In this Honda will intro- where auto sales have lev- from 8.65 trillion yen (77 26.74 per cent to 9.78 bank of the country, and perspective the Ministry duce new models in ma- elled off, Honda will en- billion dollars) in fiscal billion dollars in the same the Export Promotion of Commerce has initi- jor markets, including the hance its marketing efforts 2004. Fukui also said period. Bureau, the trade deficit ated to reorganize its of- United States where ve- to achieve a sales increase, Honda will improve fuel Bangladesh lost sub- reached a record 2.88 fices instituting the office hicle sales have been ro- the president said. efficiency in order to stantive export orders billion dollars in the first of Director General of bust, as well as China With an expansion contribute to slowing when the business proce- 10 months of the 2004 - Foreign Trade aiming to where demand is ex- in motorcycle and power global warming. In this dure and banking have 2005 fiscal, while the boost export income. pected to grow, Honda’s generator sales as well as respect, Honda plans to also come under growing deficit in the correspond- MNA/Xinhua President Takeo Fukui an increase in automobile launch a fuel cell motor- told a news conference. sales, Fukui said, Honda cycle model for lease by The new models plans to boost its consoli- 2009, based on the fuel Afghan Govt burns 60 tons of drugs include the remodelled dated sales to more than cell stack technology de- KABUL, 21 July — Afghanistan has destroyed 60 tonnes of illegal drugs with Civic that will debut this 10 trillion yen (89 billion veloped for automobiles, a street value of hundreds of millions of dollars in the past two weeks in a bid to fall, he said. In Japan US dollars) in fiscal 2007 he said. — MNA/Xinhua avoid becoming a narco-state, an official said on Wednesday. Confiscated caches of to Afghanistan than ter- Vietnam eyes bigger seafood hashish, opium, morphine rorism, and that the world Vietnam builds and heroin were burned would turn its back on export in next 5 years after being seized from traf- Afghans if they failed to 13 industrial parks HANOI, 21 July — Vietnam has targeted seafood fickers trying to smuggle curb the trade. The gov- export turnovers of 16.1 billion US dollars between them outside Afghanistan, ernment has admitted that in first half of ’05 2006 and 2010, up 46.3 per cent over the 2001-2005 Interior Ministry spokes- some senior officials are HANOI, 21 July — Vietnam started construc- period, the Fishery Ministry said on Wednesday. man Lutfullah Mashal said. thought to be involved in tion of 13 industrial parks (IPs) in the first half To reach the target, the country is enhancing the In total, 60 tonnes of the drugs trade. of this year, raising the total number to 123, ac- capacity of forecasting seafood prices and demand drugs have been destroyed. Officials say the area cording to the country’s Ministry of Planning and of export markets, penetrate into the Middle East, It is a historical move glo- under cultivation of Investment on Wednesday. East Europe, Africa and South America, while boost- bally in terms of the short opium-producing poppy Of the 123 IPs with and expand 27 existing ing export to traditional markets such as the United period of time in which the — the raw material for combined land area of ones from now to 2010. States, the European Union, Japan and China. destruction took place,” heroin and morphine — 25,156 hectares, 71 are The proportion of pro- It is also promoting trademarks of its key sea- Mashal told Reuters. has fallen since last year as operating with average duction value of IPs in food products, including shrimp, catfish and tuna, Afghanistan is the a result of a foreign-backed occupancy rate of nearly the country’s total indus- and helping more local enterprises and farmers to world’s leading producer crackdown, but good 60 per cent, and 52 oth- trial production will in- meet strict hygiene and safety standards set by im- of heroin, and the narcot- growing weather could ers are under construc- crease to 35 per cent in porters. Vietnam eyes seafood production of more ics trade dominates the limit the size of any fall in tion. 2010 from current 26.4 than 18.7 million tons from 2006 to 2010, up from economy, accounting for output. IPs attracted 131 per cent, and that of their over 14.3 million tons in the 2001-2005 period. 60 per cent of gross do- Encouraged by West- foreign-invested projects export turnovers in the Vietnam, which earned nearly 1.1 billion dollars mestic product, according ern countries, Karzai has worth 450 million US country’s total to 32 per from supplying seafood to the world market in the to estimates by the United vowed a “holy war” on pro- dollars or nearly 30 per cent from 18.8 per cent, first half of this year, posting a year-on-year rise of Nations. President Hamid duction of opium, which cent of the total regis- respectively, the ministry 9.3 per cent, has targeted to make seafood revenue Karzai said this month that soared to record levels af- tered capital of foreign- said. of 2.6 billion dollars in 2005. — MNA/Xinhua drugs posed a greater risk ter the overthrow of the invested projects li- IPs have so far Taleban in late 2001. Wash- censed in the first six housed over 1,500 for- ington has earmarked 700 months of this year. eign-invested projects million US dollars for the In the period, the IPs with total registered campaign against drugs saw 169 operational for- capital of more than 12 while Britain is putting up eign-invested projects in- billion dollars, and over 100 million US dollars and crease their capital by 1,600 domestic projects seeking 300 million US dol- 469 million dollars, ac- totalling 80 trillion Vi- lars more from other coun- counting for 55 per cent etnamese dong (nearly tries. of additional capital of 5.1 billion dollars). But with an estimated foreign-invested projects Last year, IPs na- 10 per cent of Afghans nationwide. tionwide with total dependent on opium pro- Meanwhile, they workforce of 700,000 duction, the government made combined rev- posted industrial produc- fears that rapid eradication enues of 4 billion dol- tion of more than 11 bil- could worsen security in lars, including export lion dollars, and export southern and eastern areas turnovers of more than revenues of 5 billion where poppy is mostly grown and where militants 2 billion dollars. dollars, the ministry Chinese park greeters dance at Hong Kong Disneyland on 20 July , 2005. 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STAR VOY NO (383) are hereby notified that the Jean Pierre Guengant vessel will be arriving on 22-7-2005 and cargo will be of the French Institute for discharged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will Research and Develop- lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to ment said on Tuesday that the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon. between 1960 to 1965 and Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am to 2000 to 2005, fertility rates 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up to Claims Day now declined in Latin America A Chinese vendor and buyer weigh a basket of vegetables at a wholesale market declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo from six children for one in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, on 20 July, 2005.—I NTERNET from the vessel. woman to 2.9, and in Asia No claims against this vessel will be admitted after from 5.6 to 2.2 children India to be next world giant to face the Claims Day. for one mother. SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT But in Africa, the rate baby-boom MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY fell only from 6.9 to 5.0, PARIS, 20 July — Ex- lion habitants, compared Guilmoto, executive di- AGENT FOR: M/S EAGLE SHIPPING CO., LTD said the French expert on perts gathering in the with today's 1.104 billion, rector of the international Phone No: 256908/378316/376797 the second day of the 25th French city of Tours for said the International Un- committee in national re- International Population the 25th International ion for scientific study of search on demography. CLAIMS DAY NOTICE Congress that will last to Population Congress said the population. India has however a M.V. BOUGAIN VILLA VOY: NO (087) 23 July in the French cen- on Tuesday that India is "There's in India a rapid decrease of birth- facing up to baby-boom. demographic impetus, rate, lower infant mortal- Consignees of cargo carried on M.V. BOUGAIN tral city of Tours. India will be world's with 2.8 children per ity, and at the same time a VILLA VOY NO (087) are hereby notified that the "In Asia, a strong biggest country in popu- woman, while China will longer longevity, experts vessel will be arriving on 22-7-2005 and cargo will be commitment to family lation in 2050, with a have less than two per said. discharged into the premises of M.I.P where it will lie planning programmes is population of 1.628 bil- woman," said Christophe MNA/Xinhua at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the the main reason behind the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon. success of many countries Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am to to achieve high levels of Spaniard tells of escape from 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up to Claims Day now contraception," he said. “giant wave” of fire declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo However in Africa, from the vessel. population rates are fast MADRID, 20 July — A from a very long way off." we all have courage." No claims against this vessel will be admitted after on the rise, with Spanish firefighter who "The next time we The fire scorched up the Claims Day. populations expected to saw 11 colleagues die bat- turned our heads, the to 13,000 hectares (32,000 SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT triple by 2050 in a number tling a forest fire told on flames were leaping out at acres) of forest and brush. MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY of countries, including Tuesday how they were us and we got in the vehi- By Tuesday, it was con- AGENT FOR: M/S PREMIER SPECTRUM Burkina Faso, Burundi, overtaken by a "giant cles to get away ... but it tained and close to being Phone No: 256908/378316/376797 Chad, Congo, the Demo- wave" of flame heading didn't give us time and it brought under control cratic Republic of Congo, straight towards them at caught us. As if it were a thanks to an 80-metre wide CLAIMS DAY NOTICE Ethiopia and Uganda. furious speed. giant wave, but of fire." fire break, eight times Niger has the highest Jesus Abad, the only Blinded by smoke, wider than usual, officials M.V. GEE HONG VOY: NO (510) fertility rate in the world survivor of 12 firefighters Abad said he had driven said. Consignees of cargo carried on M.V. GEE HONG with eight children born trapped on Sunday in into a gully. He jumped Police were question- VOY NO (510) are hereby notified that the vessel will for each woman followed a remote area of out of the window and ing a group of day-trip- be arriving on 21-7-2005 and cargo will be discharged by Mali at 7.1, the Demo- Guadalajara Province, 90 crawled under a water pers who told them they into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie at the cratic Republic of Congo miles east of Madrid, es- truck that was standing on had lit a barbecue on Sat- consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws at 6.7 and Burkina Faso at caped with burned arms the road. urday in the area, which and conditions of the Port of Yangon. 6.2. and broken ribs by shel- After the fire passed had been turned into a tin- Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am to The world's popula- tering under a water truck he saw that his compan- der box by Spain's worst 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up to Claims Day now tion of 6.5 billion people that had water pouring out ions had all burned to drought since the 1940s. declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo is expected to reach 9.1 of it, his wife told the death. Abad was rescued Causing a fatal fire from the vessel. billion in the next fifty newspaper El Pais. by a helicopter and is now can be punished in Spain No claims against this vessel will be admitted after years, but its annual rate In his own first ac- recovering in hospital. with up to 20 years in jail. the Claims Day. of growth has slowed from count, Abad told Spanish "You have no oxygen, The government says SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT a 2 per cent annual increase television: "The hurricane you see yourself burning, Spain has around 20,000 MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY in 1960 to 1.2 per cent of fire was very big. I think you see yourself ... dead," forest fires a year, 90 per AGENT FOR: M/S EAGLE CORPORATION today. it saw us and said 'You're he said. "The will to live cent of them started by Phone No: 256908/378316/376797 MNA/Xinhua mine'. Because it came saved me, because I think people. — MNA/Reuters

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Antiviral drug supresses deadly H5N1 Egypt retrieves antique avian flu in animal tests taken by American in 1958 LOS ANGELES, 20 July—An antiviral drug currently used against annual influenza strains has in mice CAIRO, 20 July—Egypt received on Tuesday experiments suppressed the deadly avian flu virus H5N1, US scientists reported on Monday. a rare antique made of alabaster with This study, the first Cambodia, Thailand, and flu. received a placebo, 30 were hieroglyphic writings which was taken by an published one conducted on Indonesia since early 2004. Although the re-com- given oseltamivir at one of American national from a tomb at the Valley of oseltamivir against the Public health experts fear mended human dose of three dosage levels for five the Kings in Luxor in 1958, the official MENA H5N1 influenza strain that the avian flu virus could oseltamivir is taken for five days, and 30 received the news agency reported. circulating in Vietnam, develop the ability to spread days, the researchers also drug at one of three dosage Zahi Hawwas, Graves has translated found that the drug easily from person to person tested an extended eight- levels for eight days. secretary-general of the the hieroglyphic text commercially labelled as and kill millions in a deadly day course in half of the None of the mice Supreme Council of written on the antique Tamiflu can dramatically flu pandemic. mice. Oseltamivir receiving a placebo Antiquities, said Egypt monument and found it boost the survival rate of In this study, the decreases the ability of survived, and only five of reclaimed the antique was about the ancient infected mice. The research team gave one of influenza virus to spread 10 mice given the highest after Jack A Graves, a Egyptian god Osiris, said researchers at St Jude three possible daily dosage from infected cells to daily dose of oseltamivir professor at the US Hawwas. Children’s Research levels of oseltamivir or a uninfected cells by for five days survived. University of California, The inscription also Hospital have published the placebo to mice infected inhibiting neuraminidase, Although oseltamivir sent him a letter in which referred to King Seti I who paper online in the Journal with H5N1 influenza virus. which is an influenza suppressed the virus in the he explained how he had ruled Egypt from 1318 to of Infectious Diseases. The highest dosage level, protein required for the mice, the virus continued got the antique. 1304 BC, said Hawwas, The H5N1 virus strain, adjusted for weight, was virus to exit infected to grow if the drug was In Graves’ letter, the adding that the antique which spread from birds to equivalent to the dose cells. stopped after five days, the US professor said one of arrived in Cairo by courier humans, has killed dozens currently recommended Of 80 mice infected researchers said. his friends had recently on Monday. of people in Vietnam, for humans sick with the with H5N1 virus, 20 MNA/Reuters given him the piece. MNA/Xinhua New device to detect arsenic level evolved in Bangladesh DHAKA, 20 July—A new, simple and cheaper method to detect arsenic level in water has been evolved in Kushtia District in western Bangladesh by a group of foreign scientists. Arsenic level less than micro-gramme per litre. ment, according to the 10 microgram per liter can Thousands of people innovators. be measured by using the are being affected in the In the “arsenomolyb- method while those now country with the deadly date” method, arsenic can used in the country can not poison as they are un- be detected by using a detect the contamination if knowingly taking water simple spectrophoto- it is below 50 micro- with arsenic contamina- metre, distillation unit for gramme per litre, The tion of around 50 micro- purifying water, analytical Daily Star reported on gramme per litre. The new balance, top-loading Tuesday. The World method is more accurate balance, glassware, an Health Organization and precise and does not arsine generator, scrubber A sailor repairs masts and rigging of a boat during wet weather at the harbour (WHO) prescribed that need use of atomic and absorber and some of the Baltic sea coastal village of Schilksee near Kiel, Germany, on 20 July, tolerable limit of arsenic in absorption spectrometre very common reagents. 2005.—INTERNET water for humans is 10 or other expensive equip- MNA/Xinhua Study says ducks may silently Ancient Peru city reveals 5,000-year-old ‘writing’ LIMA (Peru), 20 July—Archaeologists in Peru have found a “quipu” on the site of the oldest city in pass along bird flu the Americas, indicating the device, a sophisticated arrangement of knots and strings used to convey WASHINGTON, 20 July—The bird flu virus that detailed information, was in use thousands of years earlier than previously believed. experts fear will jump from birds to humans seems Previously the oldest archaeologist leading and it shows us that this on Tuesday of an to be mutating yet again, and may be able to hide known quipus, often investigations into the society... also had a system exhibition of the artifacts in healthy-looking ducks, thus putting both other associated with the Incas Peruvian coastal city of of “writing” (which) would which shed light on Caral, birds and people at risk, experts said on Monday. whose vast South American Caral, said quipus were continue down the ages which she called one of They said the H5N1 than 140 million chickens empire was conquered by among a treasure trove of until the Inca empire and the world’s oldest civili- virus could kill some have been slaughtered in the Spanish in the 16th articles discovered at the would last some 4,500 zations. ducks after causing only the region in a bid to halt Century, dated from about site, which is about 5,000 years,” Shady said. The quipu with its well- mild symptoms — which the disease. Public health 650 AD. years old. She was speaking preserved, brown cotton means it could lurk, experts say the avian flu But Ruth Shady, an “This is the oldest quipu before the opening in Lima strings wound around thin undetected, in flocks while virus is mutating and fear sticks, was found with a spreading silently. “There it could develop the ability Canadian planes to monitor Arctic for ship pollution series of offerings including is a real possibility that if to spread easily from OTTAWA, 20 July—Canadian spotter planes will for the first time start mysterious fibre balls of these H5N1 viruses person to person and kill monitoring Arctic waters for illegal discharges of waste by ships which could different sizes wrapped in continue to circulate, millions in a flu pandemic. damage the region’s delicate environment, officials said on Tuesday. “nets” and pristine reed further human infection Dr Robert Webster of As part of an Minister Stephane Dion next summer once the data baskets. will occur, increasing the St Jude Children’s experiment, the aircraft, said in a statement. from this year’s experiment “We are sure it potential for human-to- Research Hospital in which currently monitor ice Officials fear that an has been studied. Canada corresponds to the period human transmission,” the Memphis, Tennessee, and conditions in the North, will oil spill in the Arctic could already conducts aerial of Caral because it was researchers write in this colleagues found more look for signs of pollution have catastrophic effects on pollution surveys over found in a public building,” week’s issue of the evidence of the virus from ships until the end of the environment, in part major shipping routes in the Shady said. “It was an Proceedings of the mutating. October, when the waters because the region’s Pacific and Atlantic offering placed on a National Academy of “Wild waterfowl, freeze. We have observed remoteness means it would Oceans, throughout the stairway when they decided Sciences. including ducks, are an increase in shipping and take a long time to send Gulf of St Lawrence and in to bury this and put down a The H5N1 strain has natural hosts of influenza oil drilling and exploration help to the affected area. the Great Lakes and St floor to build another killed more than 50 people A viruses,” they wrote. activities in the past few Canada will decide whether Lawrence River system. structure on top.” in Asia since 2003. More MNA/Reuters years,” Environment to repeat the Arctic patrols MNA/Reuters MNA/Reuters 14 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 22 July, 2005 Hiddink almost certain to be new S P O R T S Australia coach SYDNEY, 20 July — PSV Eindhoven coach Guus Hiddink is almost certain Miguel wants to cancel extended to take over as Australia coach, Football Federation Australia chief executive John O'Neill has said. "It's fair to say "We expect that once co-hosts South Korea to Benfica contract (Hiddink) is our preferred his duties (in Korea) are the semi-finals of the 2002 LISBON, 20 July — Benfica defender Miguel Monteiro is seeking to cancel candidate," O'Neill told over we'll get his undi- World Cup, has returned an extension to his contract which would keep him at the Portuguese cham- Australian web site Fox vided attention. It will be to the country where he is pions until 2008. Sports. "The ink is not dry a great coup if we get him a hero for the Peace Cup "We received on Monday an 11- Miguel, who began playing for the on the paper but very close. and I'm 99 per cent sure tournament with Dutch page letter in which Miguel asked for the club in 2000, agreed to extend his origi- It's a matter of days, not we will." champions PSV. cancellation of the contract. Our lawyers nal contract in 2003. weeks. Hiddink, who guided Sydney's Daily Tele- are going to analyse it and we'll make a The Portuguese league and the soc- graph newspaper said on statement afterwards," club spokesman cer federation say the contract extension Wednesday Hiddink was Antonio Cunha Vaz told Reuters on is legally binding. expected to arrive in Aus- Tuesday. According to local media, Miguel tralia to sign the contract Miguel's lawyer, Dias Ferreira, told has shown interest in joining other teams once PSV's run in the tour- local newspapers the Portuguese inter- including Valencia, Juventus and Inter nament was over. national had the legal right to cancel the Milan. PSV play French club deal. The matter is likely to be decided by Olympique Lyon later on He said there was a provision for 30 a soccer council which would include Wednesday. If they win days between the old contract which representatives from the league and the they will advance to the ended in June and the new extension players' union. final on Sunday. when the player could decide his future. MNA/Reuters Hiddink will replace Frank Farina, who stepped Cole completes move to Liverpool signs down after six years in Southampton charge following Austral- Manchester City Bolton Wanderers's Ivan Campo (L) fights for the ia's elimination from the striker Crouch ball with Manchester City's Joseph Barton during a LONDON, 21 July — Striker Andy Cole has com- Confederations Cup last LONDON, 20 July — friendly soccer match at Rajamangala Stadium in month. pleted his free transfer to Manchester City from Fulham Southampton striker Pe- Bangkok on 20 July, 2005. —INTERNET MNA/Reuters on a two-year deal. ter Crouch agreed to join The 33-year-old has already joined his teammates European champions Lyon draw with PSV to reach final on their pre-season tour of Thailand and could play in Liverpool after the clubs Saturday’s FA Premiership League Asia Trophy. approved the transfer of Peace Cup Cole is seen as a direct replacement for Jon on Tuesday. SUWON (South Korea), 21 July — Once Caldas of Colombia beat K- Macken, who joined Crystal Palace last month. Southampton said French champions Olympique Lyon League side Seongnam Ilhwa 1-0 in the “Andy has a top-class pedigree and I know our they had accepted a con- drew 1-1 with Dutch side PSV Eindhoven other match in Group A in Taejon. younger players can learn from him,” City boss Stuart tract of around seven mil- on Wednesday to reach the final of the On Thursday Boca Juniors of Argen- Pearce said. lion pounds (12.18 mil- Peace Cup pre-season tournament. tina play Mamelodi Sundowns of South Pearce has called for supporters to give their lion US dollars) for the Robert de Pinho de Souza scored in Africa, while Real Sociedad of Spain backing to the former England international, despite England international. the 37th minute for PSV after being put take on English Premier League side his time with rivals Manchester United. The 6-foot-7 Crouch have through by Lee Young-pyo but Florent Tottenham to decide the other finalist MNA/Xinhua to undergo a medical on Malouda equalized for Lyon early in from Group B. Wednesday and to sign the second half after a goalmouth Lyon and the other top finisher from Shelbourne beat Glentoran later on that day. scramble. Group B meet on 24 July for the final in 4-1 in all-island clash "A fee of seven million The French club therefore went Seoul, with two million US dollars is good money and obvi- through to the final on goals scored in awarded to the winner. DUBLIN, 21 July — Ireland's Shelbourne beat ously it was too good to the group matches. MNA/Reuters Northern Irish neighbours Glentoran 4-1 in an all- turn down," Southampton island clash on Wednesday that put the Dublin side manager Harry Redknapp Thailand beat Everton in penalty shootouts into the second qualifying round of the Champions said on the club's web League 6-2 on aggregate. BANGKOK, 21 July — Thai national team defeated Everton 5-3 on penalty site.—MNA/Reuters They will now face newly-crowned Romanian shootouts after a 1-1 draw in regulation time in the first match of the Premier champions Steaua Bucharest for a place in the final Manchester United League Asian Trophy competition here on Wednesday. qualifying round. signs goalkeeper Thus, Thailand enters the final on than the victory is the experience that Owen Heary headed Shelbourne in front in the 13th Saturday to face the winner between players gained from this match". minute after a late challenge from Glentoran captain Ben Foster Bolton and Manchester City. MNA/Xinhua Paul Leeman -- who was later sent off — gave David LONDON, 20 July — In a hot and humid weather, midfielder Crawley a free kick. Manchester United signed Pichitpong Choeichew put the hosts Peter McCann, on his Glentoran debut, replied for goalkeeper Ben Foster a ahead 1-0 in the ninth minute with a the visitors seven minutes later in what proved to be four-year contract from drive beyond the reach of Everton keeper their best passage of play during a match that tested the Football League Cham- Nigel Martyn. fitness of the Northern Irish side at the start of their pionship team Stoke. Everton found the equalizer before league season. It is reported that the the first half break when Marcus Bent Shelbourne, midway through their campaign and transfer fee will rise to slotted the ball from a pass off Leon who this week slipped to third in the Eircom League, three million pounds (5.2 Osman. otherwise gave Glentoran few chances to test a defence million US dollars). During penalty shootouts, Thai goalie that has proved porous in domestic games. "This is a great move Kosin Hathairattanakul stopped Joseph Jason Byrne, who scored both Shelbourne's first-leg for Ben and a great oppor- Yobo's attempt, while Datsakorn goals in their 2-1 win last week, found the net in the tunity for him to join one Thonglao, Teeratep Winothai, 30th minute after Leeman was sent off for deliberate of the biggest clubs in the Pichitpong Choeichew, Chakrit handball in the box. world," Stoke's director of Buathong and Jakkrit Bunkham all With Glentoran down to 10 men, Shelbourne domi- football John Rudge said. scored for Thailand. nated the second half. Glen Crowe volleyed in a cross Foster, 22-year goal- David Weir, James McFadden and Thailand's Datsakorn Thonglao (L) from Heary in the 57th minute and Byrne headed his keeper, has only played Kevin Kilbane made shots for Everton. challenges Everton's Duncan second goal in the 70th. at youth and reserve level "We didn't play the way we should Ferguson during a match in Bangkok, Shelbourne manager Pat Fenlon was delighted with for Stoke. He was loaned have and the fitness wasn't there," said Thailand, pulled off a 6-4 penalty the performance but said they would focus on a domes- out to Wrexham and Everton manager David Moyes. shootout upset over Everton in the tic game on Friday before worrying about next week's Kidderminster last season. Thai coach Chanvit Polchivin opening match of the Premier League match with Steaua.—MNA/Reuters MNA/Xinhua explained that "what's more valuable Asia Trophy tournament.—INTERNET THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 22 July, 2005 15 Obasanjo inaugurates 2014 Commonwealth Games Bid Committee ABUJA, 21 July — Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo here on Tuesday inaugurated the 18- member 2014 Commonwealth Bid Committee which has former Head of State General Yakubu Gowon as chairman. Speaking on the occasion, Obasanjo said Nigeria appointed Federal Minister of Sports, the decision to was eminently qualified to bid for the games. bid for the games followed the successful hosting of “This is a very serious mission that requires that the All Africa Games twice. Sambawa said he be- we put our very best foot forward, be focused, dedi- lieved that the country was in a very good position to cated and committed to winning the bid.” win the bid following its string of successful hosting of He added that “it is for this reason that a former other major engagements.—MNA/Xinhua Head of State is requested to lead the committee”. The president said Nigeria, the most populous African country with a population of over 138 million, was a very important member of the Commonwealth and had all it takes to host the games, adding that the Nigerian Government decided to bid because of its belief that it was the right time to do so. He said that winning the bid would afford the country an opportunity to remove the stereotypes held by many foreigners as well as assist in opening up its tourism potentials. “We believe this is the right time, we have paid our dues and this is our century,” he said. 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Developing Kengtung, capital of Shan State (East) Article & photos by Thaung Win Bo

Kengtung is the travel from Kengtung to under the Ministry of tion was put into service and Kengtung. Local days in the past. capital city of Shan State Mongyan, Tachilek and Construction launched on 14 June 2005. people are really pleased Kengtung is an (East). Throughout the Taunggyi in the rainy the project for upgrading Thanks to the with the completion of access to the border, successive periods, local season. of Meiktila-Taunggyi- emergence of Tarkaw- the section as they can through which national people had to face a In compliance with Kengtung Union High- Kengtung Section, one now make Taunggyi- people can travel to the number of difficulties the guidance of the Head way in November 2002. can travel from Meiktila Kengtung trip at ease People’s Republic of and take a long time to of State, Public Works Tarkaw-Kengtung Sec- to Tachilek via Taunggyi although it took several China, Thailand and the Lao People’s Demo- cratic Republic, and it will help promote border trade. In order to ensure secure and smooth transport in the region, the Tatmadaw Government has constructed or upgraded Kengtung- Tachilek, Kengtung- Mongla, Kengtung- Mongkhat-Mongyawng, Kengtung-Lwemwe, Mongphyat-Mong- yawng-Mongyu, Tarlay- Pasho-Kengpak, Namhsan-Mongton- Mongsat-Tachilek, and Monghsat-Mongpyin roads, thereby enhancing communication, friendship, and mutual cooperation between local national race people. The emergence of Tarkaw-Kengtung tar road in Mongpyin Township will help raise the living standard of local national races. An aerial view of developing Kengtung with Naungton Lake and modern buildings. (See page 10)