Emergence of the State Constitution Is the Duty of All Citizens of Myanmar Naing-Ngan

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Volume XI, Number 325 1st Waning of Tabaung 1365 ME Saturday, 6 March, 2004

Religious title offering ceremony being held on a grand scale at Maha Pasana Cave on Kaba Aye Hill.—˚MNA Religious titles conferred on members of the Sangha, nuns and laity YANGON, 5 March —Religious titles were presented to mander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief Peace and Development Council and their wives, ministers 261 members of the Sangha, 24 nuns, 28 lay men and 22 lay (Army) Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and wife Daw and their wives, the Chief Justice, the Attorney-General and women at home and abroad at a ceremony held at Maha Mya Mya San, Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt and wife the Auditor-General and their wives, the chairman of Civil Pasana Cave on Kaba Aye Hill here this afternoon, attended Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe, Daw Khin Than Nwe, wife of Lt- Service Selection and Training Board, the chairman of by Daw Kyaing Kyaing, wife of Chairman of the State Peace Gen Tin Oo, member of the State Peace and Development Yangon City Development Committee the mayor and wife, and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of De- Council General Thura Shwe Mann and wife Daw Khin Lay senior military officers, deputy ministers, the vice-mayor, fence Services Senior General Than Shwe. Thet, Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development the deputy chief-justice, the deputy attorney-general, the The ceremony was graced by the presence of member Council Lt-Gen Soe Win and wife Daw Than Than Nwe, director-general of the State Peace and Development Coun- Sayadaws of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee, Secretary-2 Lt-Gen Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin Khin cil Office, departmental heads, heads of missions and Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Sayadaws and title recipient Win, members of the State Peace and Development Council diplomats of Sri Lankan Embassy, Cambodian Embassy, Sayadaws and nuns. Also present were Vice-Chairman of and their wives, the Commander-in-Chief (Navy), the Com- Laos Embassy and Nepalese Embassy to Myanmar, the State Peace and Development Council Deputy Com- mander-in-Chief (Air), the chairman of Yangon Division (See page 9) INSIDE Perspectives Utilize the natural resources most effectively (Page 2) Prime Minister attends ceremony to drive stake for construction of gandakuti for Tampalawha Maha Muni Buddha Image in Bago (Page 16) Circulation 22,654 Daw Kyaing Kyaing and party receiving Five Precepts from Vice-Chairman of State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee Sayadaw Bhaddanta Paññindabhivamsa.— MNA

Emergence of the State Constitution is the duty of all citizens of Myanmar Naing-Ngan. 2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 6 March, 2004 PERSPECTIVES 59th Anniversary People’s Desire Armed Forces Day Objectives * Oppose those relying on external elements, Saturday, 6 March, 2004 — To strive hand in hand with the people for acting as stooges, holding negative views Utilize the natural resources successful realization of the State’s seven-point most effectively policy programme * Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability — To crush internal and external destructive of the State and progress of the nation Taninthayi Division is blessed with land elements hindering the stability and progress of and marine resources and deep sea fish and the State through people’s militia strategy prawn, petroleum and gas contribute towards * Oppose foreign nations interfering in — To implement border area development tasks national development. internal affairs of the State Pearl culture is a reliable and potential and the five rural development tasks hand in business of the division. Mineral resources can hand with the entire people * Crush all internal and external destructive still be explored not only in the sea but also in — To build up a strong and efficient Tatmadaw to elements as the common enemy the land. uphold ‘Our Three Main National Causes’ With the aim of developing Taninthayi Division, the Government is fulfilling the re- quirements in education, health and transportation sectors of the division. The government is implementing the development tasks spending a large sum of money with the aim of developing even the far-flung areas. Chairman of the State Peace and Devel- opment Council Commander-in-Chief of De- fence Services Senior General Than Shwe met members of Taninthayi Division Peace and De- velopment Council, departmental officials, chairmen of Myeik District and Township PDCs, officials, members of Union Solidarity and Development Association, social organizations, townselders and entrepreneurs at Pale Yadana Hall in Myeik on 28 February. In his guidance given to officials, the Sen- Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt receives Faits & Projets Magazine Publisher Ms Delphine Evmoon ior General said that exploiting the land re- of France.— MNA sources, paddy cultivation is to be extended so that there will be sufficiency of rice in Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt receives French Taninthayi Division; that lands where oil palm publisher of Faits & Projets Magazine and rubber can be grown are still left and thus the crops can be exported through extended YANGON, 5 March— Prime Minister of the Union of Also present at the call were Deputy Minister for cultivation; that pepper which earns foreign Myanmar General Khin Nyunt received Faits & Projets Maga- Foreign Affairs U Khin Maung Win and Director-General exchange can be grown well in the region; and zine publisher Ms Delphine Evmoon of France at Zeyathiri Thura U Aung Htet of the Protocol Department. Beikman on Konmyinttha at 5 pm today. MNA that effective exploitation of natural resources in Taninthayi Division contributes towards the national economic progress and per capita Merits shared to mark success of rice and ‘soon’ offering ceremony income of the people in the division. YANGON, 5 March — Vice-Chairman Sayadaw ministry, and guests. their efforts to attain Nirvana. It is sure that Taninthayi Division will Organized by Yangon Divi- Abhidhajamaha Rattha Guru Sayadaw Bhaddanta Later, Maj-Gen Myint become a prosperous one on which the State sion Peace and Development Abhidhaja Agga Maha Pañindabhivamsa invested Swe, Brig-Gen Thura Myint can rely if the tasks can be implemented with Council, a ceremony to offer Saddhammajotika the congregation led by Maj- Maung and the congregation might and main after realizing the better pros- rice and ‘soon’ to members Aungmyebonsan Sayadaw Gen Myint Swe with the Five presented offertories to mem- pects for development. of the Sangha took place at Bhaddanta Pañindabhi- Precepts, followed by the reci- bers of the Sangha, followed Maha Nayaka Kyaung- vamsa and SSMNC Secre- tation of Metta Sutta by by a sermon delivered by In response to the government’s good- dawgyi on Kaba Aye Hill this tary Sayadaw Abhidhaja Sayadaws. Sayadaw Bhaddanta Kumara. will, officials concerned are to make efforts morning. Maha Rattha Guru Abhidhaja Next, Maj-Gen Myint Afterwards, the commander, for development through hard work. For na- Chairman of Yangon Agga Maha Saddhamma- Swe supplicated on matters the minister and the congre- tional development, the State, the people and Division Peace and Develop- jotika Magway Sayadaw related to holding the cer- gation shared the merits the Tatmadaw are to make endeavours har- ment Council and Com- Bhaddanta Kumara, member emony, saying that the cer- gained from good deeds. moniously. mander of Yangon Command Sayadaws, Minister for Reli- emony was held under the Sandi herbal medi- We would like to urge local people to Maj-Gen Myint Swe attended gious Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Notification No 1/2004 re- cines family offered provi- strive for local rice sufficiency, regional and the ceremony and offered pro- Myint Maung, Deputy Com- leased by the State Peace and sions to 18 members of the national development by utilizing the natural visions to members of the mander of Yangon Command Development Council to con- Sangha present on the occa- resources in Taninthayi Division effectively and Sangha. Col Wai Lwin, local authori- fer religious titles on title- sion, while U Sein Hla Win Also present on the ties, commanders of Military recipient Sayadaws at home of Sein and San Co Ltd do- extending the cultivation of paddy and new occasion were State Sangha Commands, directors-gen- and abroad and Sayadaws nated K 3,000 each to the items of crops. Maha Nayaka Committee eral of departments under the from different states and di- Sayadaws. visions who attended the fifth After the ceremony, Roads to be temporarily closed Thai Minister of Sports and State Central Working Com- the commander, the minister YANGON, 5 March — The 59th Anniversary Armed mittee for the Sangha’s fourth and officials offered ‘soon’ Forces Day Parade columns are going to march back and Tourism arrives meeting, adding that he be- to the Sayadaws present on forth between Myoma Ground and Resistance Park on 10, YANGON, 5 March — At Thai Embassy and officials. lieved such meritorious deeds the occasion. 12, 14, 17, 21, 23, 25, and 27 March (Armed Forces the invitation of Minister for At 10 am, the Thai Minister done today would support MNA Day). Hotels and Tourism Brig-Gen and party met with the Minis- During their marching drills, roads such as Thein Zaw, Minister of Sports ter for Communications, Measures for assessing hotel Shwedagon Pagoda Road-U Wizara Road, Shwedagon Pa- and Tourism of Thailand Mr Posts and Telegraphs and for goda Road-Pantra Road, Shwedagon Pagoda Road- Sontaya Kunplome and party Hotels and Tourism at his of- grades coordinated Minguntaik Road, Shwedagon Pagoda Road-Ziwaka Road, arrived here by air this morn- fice and discussed promotion YANGON, 5 March— president of Myanmar Travel U Htuang Bo Road-Kabaaye Pagoda Road (up to Bahan ing. They were welcomed at of tourism industry between A meeting to coordinate Association, the president of roundabout), Shwegondaing Road-Kabaaye Pagoda Road Yangon International Airport Myanmar and Thailand. measures for assessing hotel Myanmar Hoteliers Associa- (up to Shwegondaing traffic lights), Inya Road- by Minister for Hotels and At the call were Deputy grades was held at the Min- tion, officials of hotels, the Dhammazedi Road, U Wizara Road-Hanthawady rounda- Tourism Brig-Gen Thein Minister Brig-Gen Aye Myint istry of Hotels and Tourism, chairman of Myanmar Mar- bout, U Wizara Road-Chindwin Road, Pyay Road-Bagaya Zaw, Deputy Minister Brig- Kyu, Thai Ambassador Mr here, yesterday morning, at- keting Committee and oth- Road, Pyay Road-Dhammazedi Road, Ahlon Road-Pyay Gen Aye Myint Kyu, Direc- Suphot Dhirakaosal, Direc- tended by Minister for Ho- ers discussed services of the Road, Manawhari Road-Pyay Road, Pyihtaungsu Yeiktha tor-General U Khin Maung tor-General U Khin Maung tels and Tourism Brig-Gen hotels and fixing of prices. Road-Pyary Road, Pyay Road-Zagawa Road and Myoma Latt and officials, Thai Am- Latt, President of Myanmar Thein Zaw. Later, the minister Kyaung Road-Samon Road will be closed temporarily, it bassador Mr Suphot Travel Association U Kin After giving an ad- gave necessary instructions. is learnt. — MNA Dhirakaosal, the consul of the Zaw and officials. — MNA dress by the minister, the MNA

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¡ ¢¡ ¥§ ¨¢¡ WASHINGTON, 5 March —The Senate Intelligence Committee questioned the heads of the major US intelligence agencies behind closed doors on Thursday about prewar estimates on Iraqi weapons programs, which critics say showed a stronger threat than what was discovered after the US-led invasion. The directors of the CIA, the Na- Whether Iraq had weapons of mass the panel. Europeans say Iraq war tional Security Agency, the Defense destruction has become a political is- The committee plans to have CIA Intelligence Agency, and the National sue ahead of the November presiden- Director George Tenet return to answer raised threat Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, tial election. Republicans say it is too more questions before it completes its WASHINGTON, 5 March— A majority of people living in flanked by staff, met with the Senate early to reach any conclusions and report, expected in April. the two countries bordering the United States and in five panel that is drafting a report expected Democrats raise questions about One key intelligence report before major European countries say they think the war in Iraq to criticize the prewar intelligence on whether the White House exaggerated the war, a National Intelligence Esti- increased the threat of terrorism in the world, Associated Iraq. the threat to gather support for the war. mate issued in October 2002, said Iraq Press polls found. “Virtually every concern that you Senators also focused on questions had biological and chemical weapons In the United States, people were evenly divided on ever read about or heard about was about “what can be done to fix any and a program to develop a nuclear whether the war has increased or decreased the terror threat. brought up,” said Senate Intelligence potential failures that might have taken weapon. Since the US-led invasion of The AP polls were conducted by Ipsos, an international Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, a place,” said Sen John Rockefeller of Iraq in March 2003, no such weapons polling firm, in Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Kansas Republican. West Virginia, the senior Democrat on have been uncovered.—Internet Mexico, Spain and the United States. — Internet Resolution violation did not make Iraq war legal, says Blix LONDON, 5 March— Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said in an interview on Friday he did not believe the Iraq war was legal because Baghdad had broken United Nations resolutions. “I don’t buy the argument the war was reasons Bush and Blair gave for the war — legalized by the Iraqi violation of earlier have been found. resolutions,” Blix told Britain’s Independ- Blix said while it was possible to ent newspaper. argue Iraq had violated UN resolutions He said it would have required a second adopted since 1991, it was for the UN UN Security Council resolution explicitly Security Council to take action not authorizing the use of force for the invasion individual states. of Iraq to have been legal. “It’s the Security Council that is party Blix has become highly critical of to the cease-fire, not the UK and the Washington and London since the war, US individually, and therefore it is accusing President Bush and British the Council that had ownership of the Prime Minister Tony Blair of hyping cease-fire in my interpretation,” he said. US soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division look at a flare shortly after they fired a the threat posed by Saddam Hussein . He repeated his belief that Bush and mortar near one of the palaces of Iraq’s former leader Saddam Hussein from the Tikrit Since the Iraqi leader was toppled, no Blair had acted in good faith but said both Palace Complex recently.—INTERNET banned weapons of mass destruction — the leaders’ credibility had suffered.—Internet China’s govt helps Stamp marks 10 years of Last week’s boost grain output Sino-Singaporean industrial park earthquake ZHENGZHOU, 5 March — Farmers are busy digging SUZHOU, 5 March— China Post and Singapore’s SINGPOST have jointly pub- wells to irrigate their spring crops in Huaxian County, lished a stamp to mark the 10th anniversary of the founding of Suzhou Industrial killed 628 in central China’s Henan Province, but unlike previous Park, the biggest cooperation project between China and Singapore. years, they are being paid for their efforts. The stamp, with a face 2001. development, with a gross Morocco Huaxian is listed among the top 100 grain producing value of 8 jiao (0.8 yuan), The governments of domestic product of 36.5 bil- counties in China. The payments, which are valued accord- was published by the Beijing China and Singapore signed lion yuan (4.41 billion US RABAT, 5 March — A ing to the depth of the well, are part of a series of local Stamp Plant on Monday. an agreement on building dollars) in 2003. The park total of 628 people were ul- government policies to encourage farmers to grow grain. The design of the stamp the Suzhou Industrial Park, registered a revenue of 4.6 timately killed and 926 oth- Nearly all major grain producers in the country have is a sculpture named “Har- in east China’s Jiangsu Prov- billion yuan (556 million US ers injured in last week’s adopted similar incentives for grain production, like slash- mony” against the backdrop ince, on 26 February, 1994. dollars) last year. earthquake in northern Mo- ing agricultural taxes, subsidizing farm equipment and of the Suzhou Industrial Park. Construction of the park The two sides issued a rocco, according to a rescue quality seed purchases, and providing more loans for grain The sculpture, standing on began on 12 May that year. set of two stamps featuring committee report released production. the west bank of Jinji Lake in The industrial park has the park in 1996. Wednesday night. China’s grain output has been declining since 1999. Last the park, was erected in June flourished after 10 years of MNA/Xinhua According to the report, year’s production was 430.65 billion kilos, 5.8 per cent less 101 of the 926 injured are than 2002. At the same time, demand for grain totalled 485 Intel Corp, the still in hospital, and 2,539 billion kilos. world’s largest houses were destroyed, with Experts attributed the fall to many factors, including computer chip 152,300 people being home- lack of enthusiasm for farmers in growing grain because of maker, on 4 less. low prices. March, 2004 The Moroccan Govern- To stop the decline and to ensure food security, the narrowed the ment has provided the vic- central government implemented incentive policies from range of its tims with 18,760 tents, the second half of last year. At the beginning of 2004, the quarterly 168,870 blankets, 1,561 tons government also issued “No 1 Document”, the first docu- revenue estimate of food, 106 tons of medi- ment in 2004, to underline problems in the farming sector. toward the cines and 48 tons of clothes The document details the central government’s decision bottom end, in addition to power genera- to slash agricultural tax rates by one percentage point and saying its core tors and farm equipment. abolish taxes on special farm produce. microprocessor Since the earthquake, Also, resources will be channelled into the development business was more than 20 countries of regions specializing in the production of key high-quality performing at including China have of- grains. Up to 10 billion yuan will be earmarked from the the lower end of fered humanitarian aid to country’s grain venture fund, which is worth 30.2 billion historical victims. yuan, to directly compensate farmers for losses caused by seasonal Moroccans in other parts low grain prices. patterns. An of the country have also do- About 70 per cent of China’s grain is produced in what Intel technician nated food, clothes and the document calls “regions specializing in the production holds a wafer medicines to the tremor-hit of key high-quality grains”, such as the three provinces in containing area, said the committee. northeast China, the plains along middle and lower reaches hundreds of MNA/Xinhua of the Yangtze River and Huaibei Plain in north China. Pentium 4 “As long as the grain output in those major grain- processors in generating regions is stable, the whole country will avoid this November Don’t grain shortages,” said Han Jun, director of the agricultural 2002 file photo. department under the State Development and Research INTERNET smoke Centre.— MNA/Xinhua

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¥ in five major European countries think the war in Iraq increased the threat of terrorism in the world. ¤ (AP)A majority of peo- of President Bush’s role. Canada, two-thirds had a on world affairs,” he said, ple in Canada, Mexico and The AP polls were con- negative view. and long has been a buffer five European countries ducted by Ipsos, an inter- Sam McGuire, director between the United States have an unfavourable view national polling firm, in of opinion research at Ipsos and Europe. US soldier investigated of the role that President Britain, Canada, France, UK, said Mr Bush’s low Three-fourths of those Bush plays in world affairs, Italy, Germany, Mexico, ratings in Britain are nota- in Spain and more than 80 in Iraq Associated Press polls Spain and the United States. ble, given that country’s percent in France and Ger- TIKRIT, 5 March—The US military is investigating found. Just over half in Mexico close alliance with the many had a negative view two incidents near Kirkuk involving claims that Only in the United and Italy had a negative United States. Britain tra- of Mr Bush’s role in world American soldiers killed five Iraqis while on missions to States did a majority of view of Mr Bush’s role. In ditionally has been seen as affairs. seek out insurgents, the Army said Thursday. those questioned, 57 per- Britain, the closest US ally the United States’ “Bush has a lot of work In one, a group of Iraqis claimed soldiers shot and killed cent, have a positive view in the war in Iraq, and in “staunchest European ally to do if he wants to be popu- four people Wednesday in the northern Iraqi city. In the lar in France,” said Edouard other, an Iraqi man was killed 27 Feb during a US military Former top LeCerf, director of opinion operation to arrest insurgents. research for Ipsos France. Both involved soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division Australian The AP-Ipsos poll that arrived in Iraq about a month ago to replace soldiers who diplomat to head found that people in the two had been in the country for about a year. They followed a 18 countries bordering the US Feb killing of an Iraqi girl, also near Kirkuk. Soldiers were Iraq inquiry and in five major European cleared of any wrongdoing in that case. CANBERRA, 5 March — countries think the war in “I don’t think it’s a case of unseasoned soldiers being A former top Australian dip- Iraq increased the threat of twitchy on the trigger,” Army spokeswoman Maj Josslyn lomat and intelligence chief, terrorism in the world. Aberle told The Associated Press. “These are soldiers who Philip Flood, was appointed In the United States, have been specifically trained for the combat mission they on Thursday to head an in- people were evenly divided are facing in Iraq.” dependent inquiry into in- on whether the war has in- Aberle said the military is investigating the complaint telligence that led to Aus- creased or decreased the that soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment tralia’s involvement in the terror threat. of the 25th Infantry Division killed four Iraqis early Iraq war. Internet Wednesday. Prime Minister John She said the soldiers were on a mission to capture Howard said Flood, a former insurgents involved in attacking an American forward operation base in the area when militants fired AK-47 machine head of Australia’s Foreign Iraqis shout as they Office and head of the Of- guns at them. fice of National Assessments condemn the attack in The soldiers returned fire and captured two men, one of (ONA) that advises the Baghdad, whom was wounded. The wounded man was taken to Kirkuk Hospital for medical treatment. Prime Minister, would re- on 3 March, 2004. port back to the government “Later that day, some civilians approached a (US by June 30. INTERNET military) base claiming that four civilians were killed during MNA/Reuters the earlier fire fight,” Aberle said. —Internet Indonesian govt First Int’l Women’s Film China’s launches $1b int’l agenda on Festival to be held in India education, MUMBAI, 5 March— An international festival of films by woman directors from bond India and four other countries, the first of its kind, will be held here from March 5. science JAKARTA, 5 March— The Indonesian Government The five-day festival— Argentina, Czech Republic, by Jane Campion from New launched a one billion US dollars international bond, BEIJING, 5 March — “Made by Women” — is to besides India. Zealand, “La Cienaga — Premier Wen Jiabao Friday more than double the initial plan of 400 million US be inaugurated by film di- The festival would also The Swamp” by Lucrecia dollars, following overwhelming demand from global pledged to continue rector Aparna Sen of India at pay tribute to the first Martel from Argentina and implementing the strategy of investors, The Jakarta Post reported Thursday. the Y B Chavan auditorium, woman film-maker ever the landmark film “36 invigourating China through The 10-year bond was launched with a yield of 6.85 per according to sources at `Point — French Producer-director Chowringee Lane” by science and education and cent, lower than the 7 per cent target set earlier by the of View’, a non-profit or- Alice Guy, who made films Aparna Sen. stay on the road of sustainable government. ganization and one of the in 1896 — a century ago, it The festival, before it development. Government officials could not be reached for confirma- organizers of the film festi- said. concludes on April 23, “In the course of tion, although the increase in the size of the offer had been val. The films to be featured would travel to six major development, we will expected as Minister of Finance Boediono had hinted earlier The festival, also com- at the festival include “The Indian cities — Delhi, steadfastly give priority to in the day. memorating the Women’s Apple” by Samira Kolkata, Hyderabad, education and devote more “There is a possibility it will be more than 400 million Day on March 8, would Makhmalbaf (Iran), “Dai- Chennai, Trivandrum and energy and financial US dollars, as we see room for it,” Boediono told reporters showcase the works of di- sies” by Vera Chytilova Bangalore, the sources said. resources to accelerating its before the announcement late on Wednesday. rectors from Iran, Australia, (Czech Republic) “Sweetie” MNA/PTI development,” Wen said in a Demand for the bonds has topped four billion US report on government work dollars, more than 10 times larger than the 400 million US at the opening of the Second dollars initially planned. Session of the Tenth National The upcoming issue, jointly managed by JP Morgan and People’s Congress. Deutsche Bank, will be the first since the 1997-1998 finan- This year China will cial crisis after the government issued its maiden sovereign begin to implement the bond issue in 1996 worth 400 million US dollars, due to plan to make nine-year mature in 2006. compulsory education In the 2004 state budget, the government plans to issue basically available through- a total of 32.5 trillion rupiah (3.8 billion US dollars) in bonds out the western region and throughout the year — both international and domestic — to basically eliminate illiteracy help plug the deficit. among the adults there by 2007. The central government State budget deficit is forecast to narrow to 1.2 per cent will spend 10 billion yuan on of gross domestic product this year, down from 1.9 per cent this work. last year. Meanwhile, the central Earlier, Bank Indonesia governor Burhanuddin Abdullah government will contribute said demands from investors had skyrocketed to 4.2 billion six billion yuan to carrying US dollars, in what he claimed as a vote of confidence from out the second phase of the the international community on Indonesia’s economy. plan for renovating dangerous “Demands received from Asia, Europe and the US have primary and secondary school reached 4.1 billion US dollars. This is a warm welcome to buildings in rural areas. Both our economy,” he said. central and local governments The demands were booked during a week-long roadshow Christopher Dresser’s ceramic designs for Linthorpe Art Pottery are displayed in an will increase their investment ending on Wednesday by a government team to a number of intricate carved case in the former Andrew Carnegie mansion, which is now the to develop modern distance the world’s major financial centres, including Hong Kong, Smithonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, on 1 March, 2004. education in rural primary and Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Boston and Los Angeles. The pottery, which shows Dresser to be a daring colorist, is part of the exhibit, “Shock secondary schools. MNA/Xinhua of the Old: Christopher Dresser,” which open on 5 March through 25 July. — INTERNET MNA/Xinhua THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 6 March, 2004 5

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to promote ¥ ¨ minorityin Iraq ¦ § ties with BAGHDAD, 5 March — The number of foreigners involved in attacks in Iraq has Djibouti increased significantly, but Iraqi guerillas remain the mainstay of the insurgency, a senior US military official said on Thursday. ANKARA, 5 March — Turk- Brigadier-General Martin Dempsey said control. “So less than 10 per cent of the ish Foreign Minister and that while foreign fighters posed the big- physical enemy is foreign fighter and that is Deputy Prime Minister gest threat in terms of the sophistication proven true in the number of people we Abdullah Gul said on Wednes- and effectiveness of their attacks, it was captured.” day that his country will fur- wrong to suggest Iraq was awash with Dempsey, commander of the 1st Ar- ther improve its relations with foreign guerillas. moured Division in charge of security in Djibouti while taking new “That’s a misconception,” he told re- Baghdad, said in the past six months about steps in its policies towards porters. “When we say foreign fighters, we 35 suspected foreign fighters had been taken Africa. are really talking about expertise, financial into custody in the capital, mainly Syrians Gul made the remarks at a support, sometimes about command and and Jordanians. —MNA/Reuters joint Press conference with visiting Djiboutian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Interna- Blast in western Baghdad kills at least 3 tional Cooperation and Par- BAGHDAD, 5 March — A rocket slammed into a Baghdad street near a telephone liamentary Relations Ali Abdi exchange on Thursday, killing at least three people, Iraqi police at the scene said. Farah. On Wednesday, a bomb quently been attacked. Police car. “Three were killed and The two ministers also exploded in another telephone at the scene of Thursday’s at- two were wounded,” police- signed an agreement on coop- exchange in Baghdad, spark- tack said the rocket had skid- man Luay Majeed said. Some eration in culture, education, ing fears that guerillas were ded along the ground after the of the crowd that gathered af- science, Press, youth and targeting Iraq’s communica- initial impact, hitting a car and ter the attack shouted anti-US sports between Turkey and tions system in a new form of killing its occupants. A large slogans, chanting: “America Djibouti. sabotage. The country’s en- crowd of Iraqis stood around is the enemy of God.” Gul said that despite the ergy infrastructure has fre- the mangled remains of the MNA/Reuters geographical distance between the two countries, there was a Israel signs deal to import water from Turkey close friendship between them JERUSALEM, 5 March— Israel on Thursday signed a deal to buy drinking water from in the long history. Turkey in a move aimed in part at enhancing relations between the two Middle East allies. Commenting on the stra- Under the agreement, Israel will buy 50 million cubic metres of water a year from tegic importance of the east- Turkey’s Manavgat River for 20 years. That would account for about three per cent of ern African country, Gul said Israel’s annual fresh water consumption of 1.5 billion cubic metres. that the Djibouti port was one Turkey and Israel have become an important Israeli strategic ally in recent years and have Iraqi women weep as they visit the cordoned off area, of the most important ports in widened security cooperation. on 4 March, 2004, at the site of Tuesday’s suicide attacks the continent and enhanced Turkey will ship the water to Israel in specially built tankers. A shipping company has yet cooperation with it would be to be chosen while Israel will equip its ports with a suitable water storage facility. in Baghdad, Iraq which killed at least 58 people and beneficial.—MNA/Xinhua MNA/Reuters injured 200 more. —INTERNET China saw 27.39% growth Indian scientists claim to devise in social security insurance last year technology for diabetes drug NEW DELHI, 5 March — Indian scientists claimed to have devised a technology which may speed-up drug BEIJING, 5 March — Chinese taxation departments development against the disease for which currently there is no medicine in the world. collected a total of 169.174 billion yuan (20.481 billion “We have filed the US that the world market for a tional method, it would take tested on animals, the pro- US dollars) in social security insurance last year, up and Indian patents for the diabetic drug is likely to be months to see the impact of fessor said. The obtaining 36.487 billion (4.417 billion dollars) or 27.39 per cent technology,” Dr C S Dey, billions of dollars, he said a drug. alternative is to test all of increase year-on-year. professor at the National In- The technology, in-vitro In the usual screening of them on animals. A spokesperson for the State Administration of Taxation stitute of Pharmaceutical screening model, involves drug molecules against dia- The team is negotiating said Wednesday that 129.645 billion yuan (15.695 billion Education and Research biotechnologically modify- betes, scientists need to kill with companies for its com- dollars) in basic pension insurance was collected last year, up (NIPER), Punjab, told a ing animal cell lines so that a number of animals which mercialization. The tech- 22.54 per cent over the previous year, 10.031 billion yuan symposium on Non-alco- they behave like diabetic are genetically modified for nique has potential not only (1.248 billion dollars) in unemployment insurance and 27.32 holic Fatty Liver Disease, cells. The cell lines that have the purpose, Dey said. in India but the world over billion yuan (3.307 billion dollars) in basic medical insurance. organised by Ranbaxy Sci- been modified are muscle Such animals are expen- as pharmaceutical compa- The country’s taxation departments also collected a total ence Foundation here Tues- cells from mice, Dey said. sive, costing about 10,000 nies engaged in drug devel- of 1.425 billion yuan (172.5 million dollars) in workplace day. The potential drug mol- rupees to 20,000 rupees per opment against diabetes injury premiums and 751 million yuan (90.92 million dol- The new technique ecules can then be fed to piece, he said. Besides, ani- would like to use it, he said. lars) in birth insurance, according to the administration. would reduce the expendi- these modified cells and mal testing has been a prob- The team is working on MNA/Xinhua ture on drug testing for dia- their impact analysed. It lem in the country, he added. further improving the tech- betes, hasten the process and would minimize analysis Thus, out of thousands nology so that these cells is ethically more desirable. time as a molecule may be of molecules, scientists can can absorb more glucose The development is sig- tested in as little as single zero down to ten molecules from the medium, he said. nificant in view of the fact day while in the conven- which can be clinically MNAPTI Airbus, American blame each Two die in helicopter other for 2001 crash crash near WASHINGTON, 5 March — American Airlines and aircraft maker Airbus blamed each other on Wednesday for the second-worst air disaster in US history — a 2001 England airport crash that killed 265 people in New York. LONDON, 5 March — A American blamed the The submissions also matized New York City just helicopter crashed Wednes- November 12, 2001, crash crystallize arguments the two months after hijacked day near Bournemouth Air- on the plane’s flight control companies have been mak- airliners slammed into the port, southern England, kill- system, while Airbus said the ing piecemeal and in private World Trade Center in the ing two people on board. pilot was improperly trained. since the Airbus A300-600 September 11 attacks. The Augusta helicopter Documents submitted by lost its tail fin over New York The American Airlines came down close to a wooded each company to the National and plunged into a residen- crash was the first time any- area about one mile east of the Transportation Safety Board tial neighbourhood near John one could recall a tail fin and airport and burst into flames signalled that the govern- F. Kennedy Airport. rudder snapping off a com- shortly before 2000 GMT, a ment is close to finishing one All 260 people on the mercial plane, creating a mys- BBC report said. A Dorset of its most complex air crash American Airlines flight, tery that has tested the most police spokesman said two investigations. It was also the bound for the Dominican advanced theories on the ef- bodies had been removed from agency’s first probe involv- Republic, and five on the fects of turbulence and aero- the scene while police were China is the world’s largest mobile phone market with ing the European-based Air- ground were killed. The dynamics on aircraft con- still searching the area for any 277 million users.—INTERNET bus. crash shook an already-trau- struction.—MNA/Reuters other bodies. — MNA/Xinhua

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He’s had 3,500 Charles, when planes hit the Trade Center, deaths on his watch, including Iraq,” said said he is now so upset, “I would vote for Doyle, whose 25-year-old son Joseph died Saddam Hussein before I would vote for Bush.” at the Trade Center. “I think it is an atrocity,” his wife, Lucy, Long time Bush adviser Karen Hughes added. “He should not be allowed to use defended the four commercials — which be- those images at all.” gan running on Thursday in at least 16 impor- With Republicans holding their political tant battleground states — as “tastefully done”. convention in New York in late August, “September 11 is not some distant event in victims said they hope Bush does not make it the past,” Hughes told ABC’s “Good Morning worse by speaking at the site now known as America.” “All of us feel deeply that tragedy Ground Zero, which many view as sacred. but it’s also important to recognize the impact “If he does, there will be a protest and it it had on our national public policy”. could get ugly,” said Doyle. Two ads refer to the hijacked airliner Several family members said their an- attacks that killed about 3,000 as the Bush noyance stemmed in part from Bush’s re- Iraq ,torn apart by years of war and sanctions, remains so rich in hidden ancient wonders campaign seeks to present him as a leader fusal to testify publicly before the federal that a leading expert believes the world’s archaeology books will have to be rewritten over who rose to the challenge. One ad shows commission investigating the September 11, the next decade. The 5,000-year-old ‘Sumerian Mona Lisa’ or the Lady of Warka, World Trade Center ruins behind an Ameri- 2001, attacks. — MNA/Reuters is displayed at the Baghdad Museum after its recovery on 23 Sept, 2003. — INTERNET Iraqi police station comes ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Retreat ends under mortar attack in Vietnam MOSUL, 5 March — Guerillas launched at least five mortar rounds on a police station and mosque in the HALONG, 5 March — The ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Retreat ended here Thursday. northern Iraq city of Mosul on Thursday, injuring three Delegates focused their discussions in the retreat on United States in Iraq, Noer Hassan Wirajuda, Minister of people including a police officer, police said. the three pillars, namely security, economy and socio- Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, said after the retreat. Officers at the station in were set up by the country’s culture of the Association of South-East Asian Nations “We have discussed common concerns in a very friendly central Mosul said the at- US occupiers as a key ele- (ASEAN) community.Nine ASEAN foreign ministers, and open manner, even on sensitive issues,” he noted. tackers fired a volley of ment in a plan to put Iraqis in general secretary of the Malaysian Ministry of Foreign The retreat’s delegates also discussed preparations for rounds, hitting the station, charge of security before Affairs, who is on behalf of the foreign minister of Malay- the 10th ASEAN summit to be held in Laos in late 2005, and the street in front and an ad- Washington hands them sov- sia, and ASEAN General Secretary Ong Keng Yong also put forward concrete directions to strengthen ties between jacent mosque, before flee- ereignty in July. discussed measures to build the ASEAN community by ASEAN and dialogue countries. Myanmar, Laos and Cam- ing by car. Gunmen assassinated a 2020 on the three pillars. bodia will join the ASEM, said Nguyen Dy Nien, Minister Police cordoned off the senior police commander in They talked about regional and international issues, of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam. area and began searching ve- Mosul in February, when including the upcoming admission of Myanmar, Laos and “The issue of peacekeeping in ASEAN has been raised in the hicles, witnesses said. One of separate suicide attacks on a Cambodia to the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), the possi- retreat, but it is too early. ASEAN is an organization which is unlike the injured was in serious con- police station in the northern bility of establishing a peacekeeping force in ASEAN, the EU (the European Union). Each country has its own policy dition, a police officer said. Iraqi city of Kirkuk and an- nuclear talks of the Korean Peninsular, and the role of the about politics and military,” he concluded. — MNA/Xinhua The attack was the lat- other just outside Baghdad est in a string on Iraqi police killed dozens of people. ASEAN supports “one-China” policy Asia remains and security forces, which MNA/Reuters HALONG, 5 March— Members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations bright spot in (ASEAN) have deep concern in situations in Taiwan, and continually supports the “one-China” policy, Indonesian Foreign Minister Noer Hassan Wirajuda said on world Thursday. He made the remarks after the ASEAN stability in Taiwan in particular, and of course economy Ministerial Meeting Retreat which concluded in the region in general. In this regard, NEW YORK, 5 March— here on Thursday. ASEAN member countries reaffirm that they Deutsche Asset Manage- ASEAN member countries have a strong continually support the “one-China” policy, ment reported Wednesday interest in the maintenance of peace and he said. — MNA/Xinhua that Asia, excluding Japan, continued to be a bright spot Father of hybrid rice suggests in the global economy aided by its proximity to China. In its report on Asia eco- efforts to improve food security nomic outlook, Deutsche BEIJING, 5 March — An eminent Chinese agronomist and father of hybrid rice, Asset Management, which Professor Yuan Longping, urges his government Thursday to spend more on projects takes its headquarters here, to increase per-hectare yield and protect the country’s shrinking farmland resources said that China was enjoying so as to ensure food safety. a boom fuelled by rising con- Professor Yuan, a noted provide more direct subsi- Partly thanks to the sumer credit and robust con- academician of the Chinese dies to grain growers in a bid spread of hybrid rice strains, fidence. In Hong Kong there Academy of Engineering, to fill them with zeal to pro- Chinese farmers are able to was room for spending to said China’s grain output duce more cereals. maintain rice production for recover further as tourism continued to drop in the Yuan, who is currently food safety, while several from the Mainland increased. fifth consecutive year in in Beijing for the on-go- million hectares of paddies In Singapore and Taiwan, 2003 to about 430 million ing CPPCC session, said have been released for grow- however, consumption tons from a record of ap- he would go on working ing other crops to raise farm- would remain sluggish due proximately 520 million hard and consistently on ers’ incomes. to the drag on confidence tons for 1998. his super-hybrid rice Meanwhile, China has, from structural transition. Yuan, a member of the project. since the early 1990s, sent Overall, the economic National Committee of the Hybrid rice, which has veteran rice specialists to situation in Japan was more Chinese People’s Political been introduced to more Bangladesh, India, Indo- favourable now than at any Consultative Conference than half of the rice acreage nesia, Myanmar, Vietnam time in the last ten years. But A view of the Otero Mesa, a large desert grassland in New (CPPCC) that is in its sec- in China, makes up over 60 and other south and South- Japanese economy was heav- Mexico is seen in this undated photo released by the New ond plenary session, said per cent of its total rice out- east Asian nations to im- ily dependent on foreign Mexico Wilderness Alliance. The Interior Department has governments at all levels put since it was developed part hybrid rice nursing, trade, and therefore, any sharp eased Clinton-era oil and gas drilling restrictions in Otero should increase input in re- by the prestigious agrono- cultivating and other re- slowdown in either the US or Mesa in a decision that has angered enviornmentalists. search programmes to in- mist Yuan Longping in the lated technologies. China could undermine its INTERNET crease per-hectare yield, and 1970s. MNA/Xinhua recovery.— MNA/Xinhua THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 6 March, 2004 7 Htidaws hoisted atop MyoU Efficient use of fuel pagodas at * Saving one gallon of fuel per car per Mingaladon month will save the nation one US dollar Garden City * Thus, a total of 455,822 cars in Myanmar can save US$ 5.5 million in a year YANGON, 5 March — Under the aegis of * The amount, US $ 5.5 million, can build a Kyaikhtisaung Sayadaw major bridge across Ayeyawady River Bhaddanta Pannyadipa, htidaws were hoisted atop 171 pagodas at Mingaladon Garden City on Fullmoon Day of Tabaung today. At the Mingaladon Gar- den City, replicas of Shwedagon Pagoda, Man- dalay Maha Muni Image, Kaylatha Hsandawshin Pa- Devotees throng at the ceremony to hoist htidaws atop the MyoU pagodas in goda, Bagan Dhammarajaka Mingaladon Garden City on Fullmoon Day of Tabaung. — NLM Pagoda, Kyaikhtiyoe Hsan- dawshin Pagoda, etc have been built. 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Vice-Senior General Maung Aye offers Abhidhaja Maha Rattha Guru title to Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt presents Abhidhaja Agga Maha Saddhammajotika a Sayadaw.— MNA title to a Sayadaw.—˚MNA

General Thura Shwe Mann presents Abhidhaja Agga Maha Saddhammajotika title to a Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Soe Win offers Abhidhaja Agga Maha Saddhammajotika Sayadaw.—˚MNA title to a Sayadaw.—˚MNA

Secretary-2 Lt-Gen Thein Sein presents Agga Maha Pandita title to a Sayadaw.— MNA

Lt-Gen Ye Myint presents Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja title to a Sayadaw.—˚MNA

Lt-Gen Tin Aye presents Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja title to a Sayadaw.—˚MNA Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe offers provisions to a Sayadaw.—˚MNA THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 6 March, 2004 9

Daw Kyaing Kyaing, wife of Senior General Than Shwe, offers provisions to a Daw Mya Mya San, wife of Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, presents offertories to Sayadaw.— MNA a Sayadaw.— MNA

Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt and wife Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe donate Daw Khin Than Nwe, wife of Lt-Gen Tin Oo, offers provisions to a Sayadaw. provisions to a Sayadaw.— MNA MNA

Daw Khin Lay Thet, wife of General Thura Shwe Mann, donates provisions to a Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Soe Win and wife donate provisions to a Sayadaw.— MNA Sayadaw.— MNA Religious titles conferred… Sayadaw of Ponnamar Ramazay Monastery in (from page 1) Religious Affairs Brig-Gen Nyaungdon, Ayeyawady military region command- Thura Aung Ko supplicated Division, Bhaddanta ers, local authorities, mem- on religious matters. Osadhabhivamsa and Saya- bers of the boards of the Next, on behalf of daw of Shwewahwin Mon- Shwedagon Pagoda, the Chairman of the State astery in Mahaaungmye Botahtaung Pagoda, the Sangha Maha Nayaka Com- Township, Mandalay Divi- Sule Pagoda, the mittee Abhidhaja Maha sion, Bhaddanta Sasana Shwephonepwint Pagoda, Rattha Guru Abhidhaja Bhivamsa. the Thiri Mingalar Kaba Agga Maha Saddham- Prime Minister General Aye Pagoda and the Tooth majotika Myingyan Khin Nyunt presented cer- Relic Pagoda (Yangon), re- Sayadaw Bhaddanta tificates of Abhidhaja Agga ligious organizations, ad- Sobhita, Vice-Chairman of Maha Saddhammajotika ministrators of the markets the SSMNC Abhidhaja Titles to Sayadaw of in Yangon, wellwishers, Maha Rattha Guru Mahaaungmyebonsan Mon- officials, title recipients, lay Abhidhaja Agga Maha astery in Bahan Township, disciples and distinguished Saddhammajotika Maha- Yangon Division, Secretary-2 Lt-Gen Thein Sein and wife offer robes and provisions to a Sayadaw.— MNA guests. aungmyebonsan Monastery Bhaddanta Panñinda- Council General Thura ship, Bago Division, Secretary-2 Lt-Gen Officials concerned ush- Sayadaw Bhaddanta bhivamsa, Sayadaw of Shwe Mann presented cer- Bhaddanta Candima- Thein Sein presented certifi- ered the title recipient Panñindabhivamsa adminis- Mebaung Monastery in tificates of Abhidhaja Agga bhivamsa and Sayadaw of cates of Agga Maha Pandita Sayadaws, nuns and laity to tered the Five Precepts to Hpa-an, Kayin State, Maha Saddhammajotika Thawbanawatha Monastery Title to five Sayadaws. their seats. the congregation. Bhaddanta Indriya and Title to Sayadaw of of Myatheintan Pariyatti Member of the State The ceremony started at Vice-Senior General Sayadaw of Zayamaydani Kyaikhtihsaung Pagoda Sarthintaik in Pazundaung Peace and Development 12 noon. Maung Aye presented cer- Waso Monastery of Maha Monastery in Zokthok Township, Yangon Divi- Council Lt-Gen Ye Myint Assistant Director of tificates of Abhidhaja Maha Withuddayon Taikthit, East Model Village, Bilin Town- sion, Bhaddanta Sobhana. of the Ministry of Defence Yangon Division Religious Rattha Guru Title to Daywun Ward, Maha- ship, Mon State, Bhaddanta Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Soe presented certificates of Affairs Department U San Sayadaw of Thitzanawdaya aungmye Township, Panña Dipa, Sayadaw of Win presented certificates Agga Maha Saddham- Thin Hlaing acted as mas- Monastery in Sagaing, Bhaddanta Agghiya. Maha Htupayon Monastery of Abhidhaja Agga Maha majotika Title to four ter of ceremonies. Sagaing Division, Bhad- Member of the State and Mahasi Sasana Yeiktha Saddhammajotika Title to Sayadaws. Deputy Minister for danta Sijjanabhivamsa, Peace and Development Monastery in Thonse Town- two Sayadaws. (See page 10) 10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 6 March, 2004 Sayadaws and certificates of Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Title to two Sayadaws. Member of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Tin Aye of the Ministry of Defence presented certificates of Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Title to five Sayadaws. Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Rear Admiral Soe Thein presented certificates of Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Title to five Sayadaws. Commander-in-Chief (Air) Maj-Gen Myat Hein presented certificates of Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Title to five Sayadaws. Daw Kyaing Kyaing, wife of Senior General Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe presented certifi- Daw Kyaing Kyaing, wife of Senior General Than Shwe, presents religious title to a nun.—˚MNA cates of Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Title to five Than Shwe, confers title on a lay woman.—˚MNA Sayadaws. Minister for Health Dr Kyaw Myint presented certificates of Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Title to five Sayadaws. Minister for Religious Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maung presented certificates of Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Title to five Sayadaws. Minister for National Planning and Economic Devel- opment U Soe Tha presented certificates of Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Title to five Sayadaws. Minister for Commerce Brig Gen Pyi Sone presented certificates of Agga Maha Ganthavacaka Pandita Title to Daw Mya Mya San, wife of Vice-Senior General five Sayadaws; Minister for Finance and Revenue Maj- Daw Mya Mya San, wife of Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, presents religious title to a nun.—˚MNA Gen Hla Tun, certificates of Agga Maha Kammathana Maung Aye, confers title on a lay woman.—˚MNA Cariya Title to six Sayadaws; Minister for Mines Brig- Gen Ohn Myint, certificates of Agga Maha Ganthavacaka Pandita Title to five Sayadaws; Minister for Rail Trans- portation Maj-Gen Aung Min, certificates of Agga Maha Kammathana Cariya Title to one Sayadaw and Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Title to five Sayadaws; Minister for Communications, Posts and Telegraphs Brig-Gen Thein Zaw, certificates of Agga Maha Ganthavacaka Pandita Title to five Sayadaws; Minister for Livestock and Fisheries Brig-Gen Maung Maung Thein, certificates of Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Title to six Sayadaws; Minister for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi, certificates of Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe, wife of General Khin Nyunt, Agga Maha Ganthavacaka Pandita Title to six Sayadaws; Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe, wife of General Khin Nyunt, presents religious title to a nun.—˚MNA Minister for Education U Than Aung, certificates of Maha confers title on a lay woman.—˚MNA Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Title to six Sayadaws; Minister for Sports Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint, certificates of Agga Maha Ganthavacaka Pandita Title to six Sayadaws; Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin, certificates of Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Title to sixSayadaws; Chief Jus- tice U Aung Toe, certificates of Agga Maha Ganthavacaka Pandita Title to five Sayadaws and Maha Ganthavacaka Pandita Title to one Sayadaw; Attorney-General U Aye Maung, certificates of Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Ti- tle to six Sayadaws; Auditor-General Maj-Gen Lun Maung, certificates of Maha Ganthavacaka Pandita Title to six Sayadaws. Daw Khin Than Nwe, wife of Lt-Gen Tin Oo, presents Chairman of Civil Service Selection and Training Daw Khin Than Nwe, wife of Lt-Gen Tin Oo, confers Board Dr Than Nyun presented Maha Saddhamma title on a lay woman.—˚MNA religious title to a nun.—˚MNA Jotikadhaja title to five Sayadaws and Maha Kammathana Çariya title to one Sayadaw; Deputy Minister for Reli- gious Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Aung Ko gave away Maha Ganthavaçaka Pandita title to six Sayadaws. YCDC Vice-Chairman Vice-Mayor Col Maung Pa presented Maha Kammathana Çariya title to three members of the Sangha and Saddhamma Jotikadhaja title to three members of the Sangha; Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation Brig-Gen Khin Maung presented Maha Ganthavaçaka Pandita title to six Sayadaws; Deputy Min- ister for Construction U Tint Swe presented Saddhammajotika title to seven Sayadaws; Deputy Min- ister for Forestry Brig-Gen Tin Naing Thein presented Daw Khin Lay Thet, wife of General Thura Shwe Daw Khin Lay Thet, wife of General Thura Shwe Maha Ganthavaçaka Pandita title to six Sayadaws; Deputy Mann, presents religious title to a nun.—˚MNA Mann, confers title on a lay woman.—˚MNA Minister for Foreign Affairs U Khin Maung Win presented Saddhamma Jotikadhaja title to eight Sayadaws; Chief Justice U Thein Soe presented Ganthavaçaka Pandita Religious titles conferred… Deputy Minister for Information Brig-Gen Aung Thein title to seven Sayadaws and Director-General Lt-Col Pe (from page 9) gave away Maha Ganthavaçaka Pandita title to six mem- Nyein of the State Peace and Development Council Of- Member of the State Peace and Development Council bers of the Sangha; Deputy Minister for Progress of Bor- fice presented Ganthavaçaka Pandita title to four Lt-Gen Aung Htwe of the Ministry of Defence presented der Area and National Races and Development Affairs Sayadaws. certificates of Agga Maha Pandita Title to five Sayadaws. Col Tin Ngwe gave away to Saddhamma Jotikadhaja title Next, Daw Kyaing Kyaing, wife of Senior General Member of the State Peace and Development Council to six Sayadaws; Deputy Minister for Transport Col Nyan Than Shwe, presented Agga Maha Ganthavaçaka Pandita Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than of the Ministry of Defence Tun Aung presented Maha Ganthavaçaka Pandita titles to titles to Four nuns and Maha Ganthavaçaka Pandita title presented certificates of Agga Maha Saddhamma seven members of the Sangha; Deputy Minister for Cul- to one nun. Daw Mya Mya San, wife of Vice-Senior Jotikadhaja Title to five Sayadaws. ture Brig-Gen Soe Win Maung presented Saddhamma General Maung Aye, presented Maha Ganthavaçaka Member of the State Peace and Development Council Jotikadhaja title to five Sayadaws and Kammathana Çariya Pandita title to five nuns. Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe, wife Lt-Gen Maung Bo of the Ministry of Defence presented title to one Sayadaw; Deputy Minister for Immigration of General Khin Nyunt, presented Maha Ganthavaçaka certificates of Agga Maha Pandita Title to six Sayadaws. and Population U Maung Aung presented Maha Pandita title to two nuns, Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Member of the State Peace and Development Council Ganthavaçaka Pandita title to seven Sayadaws; Deputy title to two nuns and Ganthavaçaka Pandita title to one Quartermaster-General Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Minister for Labour Brig-Gen Win Sein presented Maha nun. Daw Khin Than Nwe, wife of Lt-Gen Tin Oo, pre- Myint Oo presented certificates of Agga Maha Dhammakahtika Bahujana Hitadhara title to one Sayadaw, sented Ganthavaçaka Pandita title to five nuns. Daw Khin Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Title to six Sayadaws. Dhammakahtika Bahujana Hitadhara title to two Sayadaws Lay Thet, wife of General Thura Shwe Mann, presented Member of the State Peace and Development Council and Ganthavaçaka Pandita title to four Sayadaws; Deputy Ganthavaçaka Pandita title to two nuns and Saddhamma Chief of Armed Forces Training Lt-Gen Kyaw Win pre- Minister for Electric Power U Myo Myint presented Jotikadhaja title to two nuns. sented certificates of Agga Maha Pandita Title to three Ganthavaçaka Pandita title to seven Sayadaws; Deputy (See page 11) THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 6 March, 2004 11 Religious titles conferred… (from page 10) Afterwards, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye conferred Agga Maha Thiri Thudhamma Manijotadhara title on five lay men. Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt presented Thiri Thudhamma Manijotadhara title to four lay men and Thiha Thudhamma Manijotadhara title to one lay man. General Thura Shwe Mann presented Thiha Thudhamma Manijotadhara title to three lay men and Thudhamma Manijotadhara title to two lay men. Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Soe Win gave away Thudhamma Manijotadhara title to Vice-Senior General Maung Aye confers a title on a lay three lay men and Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja title to two lay men. Secretary-2 Lt-Gen Thein Sein conferred man.— MNA Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja title on five lay men. Mem- ber of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Chief of Staff (Air) Maj-Gen Myat Hein confers a title on Ye Myint of the Ministry of Defence conferred Maha a sayadaw.— MNA Saddhamma Jotikadhaja title on three lay men. Daw Kyaing Kyaing conferred Agga Maha Thiri Thudhamma Theingi title on three lay women and Thiri Thudhamma Theingi title on two lay women. Daw Mya Mya San gave away Thiri Thudhamma Theingi title to four lay women and Thiha Thudhamma Theingi title to one lay woman. Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe also presented Thiha Thudhamma Theingi title to five lay women. Daw Khin Than Nwe presented Thiha Thudhamma Theingi title to five lay women. Daw Khin Lay Thet conferred Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt confers a title on a Thudhamma Theingi title to two lay women. lay man.— MNA Afterwards, Minister for Religious Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maung supplicated on religious affairs that nowadays the government and the people are giving en- couragement to purification, promotion and propagation of the Sasana such as wiping out of dogmatisms, all- round renovation of historic pagodas and stupas, building Minister for National Planning & Economic Development of religious edifices where necessary. On 4 January 2004, U Soe Tha confers a title on a sayadaw.— MNA the State Peace and Development issued Notification No 1/2004 to offer religious titles to the Sayadaws. In conclu- sion, the minister supplicated that the government and the people are to join hands in serving the interest of the Sasana. Next, Joint-Secretary of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee Nyaungdon Ponnamayama Zaykyaungtaik Presiding Nayaka Sayadaw Abhidhaja General Thura Shwe Mann of the Ministry of Defence Maha Rattha Guru Bhaddanta Osadhabhivamsa gave the confers a title on a lay man.— MNA Sammodaniya Ovadakatha. Then, Secretary Sayadaw Abhidhaja Maha Rattha Guru Abhidhaja Agga Maha Saddhammajotika Magway Sayadaw Bhaddanta Kumara delivered a sermon. The congregation shared merits gained before the concluding of the religious title offering ceremony. After the ceremony, the rice and provision offering ceremony followed. At the ceremony, families of the Ministry of Defence, the office of the Prime Minister, Minister for Education U Than Aung confers a title on a families of Military Intelligence, the office of the State sayadaw.— MNA Peace and Development Council and Central Offices, families of the Adjutant-General’s Office and the Quar- termaster-General’s Office, Defence Services (Navy), Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Soe Win confers a title on a lay Defence Services (Air), Yangon Command Headquarters, man.— MNA ministries, the Supreme Court, the Attorney-General’s Office, the Auditor-General’s Office, Yangon City Devel- opment Committee, district and township Peace and De- velopment Councils, religious and social organizations, UMFCCI, companies and wellwishers donated rice and provisions to title recipient members of the Sangha and nuns at the designated places. At the donation ceremony, Daw Kyaing Kyaing, Daw Mya Mya San, Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt and Minister for Communications, Posts & Telegraphs wife Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe, Daw Khin Than Nwe, Brig-Gen Thein Zaw confers a title on a sayadaw.— MNA Daw Khin Lay Thet, Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Soe Win and wife Daw Than Than Nwe, Secretary-2 Lt-Gen Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin Khin Win, members of the State Peace and Development Council and their wives, the Com- Secretary-2 Lt-Gen Thein Sein confers a title on a lay mander-in-Chief (Navy) and wife, the Commander-in- man.— MNA Chief (Air) and wife, Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe and wife, the ministers and their wives, the Chief Justice, the Attorney-General, the Auditor-General, the Mayor, the deputy ministers and their wives, departmental heads, officials and local people took designated places and presented rice and offertories worth K 70,579,115 to the title recipient Sayadaws and nuns. 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MOSCOW, 5 March — A ordered foreign airlines to 1970s. But when a TU-104 senior government official put “air marshals” on se- airliner was hijacked, the said on Wednesday that lected flights to and from the guard fired his weapon and Russia opposed US plans United States as a precaution hit an explosive device, caus- to put armed guards on pas- against a repeat of the sui- ing a catastrophe. senger flights having tried cide hijack attacks in the Moshkov did not specify using them with disastrous United States on September which flight he was refer- results, RIA news agency 11, 2001. ring to, but according to data reported. “Our aviation security a bomb on an Aeroflot TU- “Putting armed guards on department has prepared a 104A killed 81 people in May passenger flights can be more letter of objections on this 1973. negative than positive,” it for the United States,” He also said terrorists quoted acting Deputy Trans- Moshkov said. might see an armed guard as port Minister Gennady He said the Soviet Union a means of getting hold of a Moshkov as saying. used to put armed guards on weapon on the flight. A D V E R T I S E M E N T The US Government has passenger planes during the MNA/Reuters Egyptologist finds early king’s name in desert CAIRO, 5 March — An time of the dynasty now cil for Antiquities said in a Egyptologists have been Egyptologist said here she had known as Dynasty Zero be- statement that the presence piecing together the political found the first evidence that cause they ruled in the south of the royal name far out in history of Dynasty Zero only the earliest rulers of Egypt before Egypt was united un- the desert could indicate early for the past few decades and had influence deep into the der the First Dynasty. trade with Africa or the ex- do not claim to have identi- Western Desert, more than “We don’t have other at- ploitation of raw materials in fied all the rulers of the pe- 120 miles from their testations for any early royal the desert at an early date. riod. Their work has shed powerbase in the Nile Val- names in that area. The earli- The King’s name follows new light on Egypt’s political ley. est previously was from the the standard pattern for the history, which traditionally Salima Ikram of the 4th dynasty (about 500 years period — a falcon on top of a began when the first king of American University in Cairo later),” Ikram told Reuters. picture of a niched palace fa- the First Dynasty united the said her team had discovered German Egyptologist cade and one hieroglyph in- north and the south. a royal name dating from be- Guenter Dreyer, one of the dicating his name, in this case Ikram, co-director with fore 3,000 BC inscribed on a world’s leading experts on a forearm. Corinna Rossi of the North rock outcrop near the oasis of the period, said the inscrip- Ikram said the name did Kharga Oasis Survey project, Kharga. tion would indicate some not appear in any of the exist- said the inscription lay on a She told Reuters she read early activity in the Western ing lists of kings which Egyp- known caravan route and was the name of the previously Desert. “That is somewhat tologists have compiled for one of many inscriptions on unknown king as Aa and surprising,” he told Reuters. the period, many aspects of the outcrop.—MNA/Reuters thought he lived about the Egypt’s Supreme Coun- which remain obscure. Australia, NZ Drought causes less wine production discuss single in South Africa economic market CANBERRA, 5 March — JOHANNESBURG, 5 March 2004 wine harvest, including the only region that showed The Australian and New Zea- — The drought in South Af- juice and concentrate for non- an increase on the January land prime ministers on rica’s Western Cape Prov- alcoholic purposes, rebate and estimate. The main reason Wednesday expressed their ince means that the 2004 wine distilling wine, would total for this was the summer rain support to advance a single grape harvest will be slightly 947.9 million litres at an av- along the Orange River, economic market linking lower than last year’s, ac- erage recovery of 772 litres which resulted in grapes des- their countries. cording to the industry’s in- per ton of grapes. tined for the table- and dry At a joint Press confer- formation gathering body. This was 16.8 million li- market ending up in wine ence held here, both John The latest estimate of the tres or 1.74 per cent less than cellars. Howard and visiting Helen 2004 wine grape harvest was the estimate made in mid- Domestic sales of natural Clark agreed that the two 1.23 million tons, SA Wine January this year. wine showed a 12.1-per-cent countries’ relationship will Industry Information & Sys- “The most important rea- decrease in 2003 compared go beyond the current bilat- tems executive manager sons for the decrease can gen- to 2002, and would decrease eral Closer Economic Rela- Yvette van der Merwe said in erally be attributed to the heat by a further 4.4 per cent in tions ( CER) trade agreement. a statement on Tuesday. wave that occurred in Febru- 2004. Exports however grew The 21-year-old CER has This represented a de- ary and the drought, currently by an estimated 9.7 per cent virtually removed all trade crease of 0.8 per cent from experienced in the Western and were expected to increase barriers between the two the 2003 harvest. Cape,” she said. by an additional 11.5 per cent countries. The two countries It was expected that the The Orange River was in 2004. —MNA/Xinhua are working on a single account standard and a harmo- Indonesia expects bank of China’s loan nization of the banking sys- tems of the two countries. for gas field project The two prime ministers also agreed that their coun- JAKARTA, 5 March — Bank He added Japan is also LNG a year to China’s Fujian tries should work harder to Province starting in 2007 and of China has expressed agree- interested in investing in the help the Doha Round of ment to disburse 1 billion US project through the Japan the government has planned World Trade Organization dollars in loan to finance the Bank for International Coop- to supply 1.5 million tons a talks re-focus on agricultural liquefied natural gas (LNG) eration (JBIC) but no com- year to South Korea also from reforms. “The intransigence 352 people die of dengue project at Tangguh gas field, mitment has been mutually Tangguh. of the larger trading blocs, an Indonesian official said signed. Last December, the gov- particularly the European fever in Indonesia Wednesday. “It’s more likely that China ernment and Beyond Petro- Union and the apparent re- JAKARTA, 5 March — The of the disease and 1,625 peo- “Bank of China agreed to will become the major finan- leum (BP) signed an agree- luctance of other big agricul- death toll of the dengue fever ple became new patients on disburse more than 1 billion cier of this project,” he said. ment with Sempra Energy tural subsidisers, the Ameri- across Indonesia has reached Wednesday across the coun- US dollars during a recent Located in the eastern- LNG Corp for a 20-year sup- cans and the Japanese in this 352, while the sufferers have try. But the number of prov- meeting with us,” Kardaya most province of Papua, the ply of LNG to US and Mexi- area, means that we have to increased to 22,384 since the inces experiencing the ex- Warnika, deputy head of the Tangguh gas field is the ma- can markets. Under the agree- work harder through the disease began to hit the coun- traordinary cases decreased Indonesian oil and gas execu- jor gas source for the government, 3.7 million tons of LNG Cairns group to revive Doha try in January, a spokeswoman to 12 from 13, according to tive board (BP Migas), was ment’s LNG export. a year will be delivered from and to keep it very much on of the Health Ministry said the spokeswoman. quoted as saying by Detikcom The field is projected to Tangguh over a period of 15 track,” Howard said. Wednesday. Two people died MNA/Xinhua online news service. supply 2.7 million tons of years.—MNA/Xinhua MNA/Xinhua

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Experts say no “showstoppers” for humans on Mars CAPE CANABERAL (Florida), 5 March— Experts in the effects of space travel on the human body told a presidential commission on Wednesday that there were challenges but no “showstoppers” in building a permanent moon base, then sending astronauts to Mars. Aerospace medical experts Stanley Mohler “It should be a relatively straightforward and Mary Ann Frey, both longtime research- programme of establishing 90-day (crew) rota- ers in the field, identified a number of health tions on a colony on the moon,” Mohler told the risks future astronauts could face, from radia- panel in hearings at Wright-Patterson Air Force tion poisoning to meteoroid collisions, but Base in Ohio. Radiation, whether from solar said NASA was developing plans for every flares or cosmic rays, was the highest hurdle known contingency. identified by the scientists. “From the medical standpoint, there is While the moon has plenty of lunar soil to further research to be done, but we don’t see shield habitation modules, a Mars mission, any ... showstoppers out there,” Mohler told which could last 15 months, most of that time the President’s Commission on Moon, Mars in transit, presents special problems. and Beyond. But Mohler said the Russians have devel- The commission, chaired by former Air oped effective countermeasures that involve US astronaut Michael Fincke, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and Dutch astro- Force Secretary Edward “Pete” Aldredge, is positioning their ships so the crew is shielded naut Andre Kuipers gesture inside the training module of a Soyuz-TMA, in Star City charged with developing strategies for imple- from most of the radiation from solar flares, and outside Moscow, on 4 March , 2004. Padalka, Kuipers and Fincke are to blast off to the menting the space goals announced by Presi- research in the United States is producing lighter- International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrome on 19 April .—INTERNET dent George W. Bush in January. weight radiation shielding.—MNA/Reuters Scientists say ants, like humans, Study says drugs cut kidney Early copy of avoid traffic congestion “Hamlet” LONDON, 5 March—Ants, just like motorists, hate failure risk in lupus could fetch up congestion and use alternative routes to avoid it, scientists BOSTON, 5 March—Patients with lupus have a better chance of preventing kidney said on Wednesday. failure if they start taking one of two drugs which suppress the immune system, to $2m The industrious insects push and shove each other out researchers reported on Wednesday. NEW YORK, 5 March— of the way when it gets too crowded, forcing some to find About 1.4 million Americans have lu- By comparison, one of the drugs found To bid, or not to bid, that is another route from a food source back to the nest. pus, a chronic disease in which the immune to be effective, azathioprine, worked about the question that will face “Ants are able to find a solution when they are faced system can confuse healthy and foreign tis- 57 per cent of the time. The other drug, collectors when offered a with congestion on trails,” said Vincent Fourcassle, a biolo- sues and sometimes attacks both. Roughly mycophenolate mofetil, was effective in 1611 edition of Shake- gist at the Centre for Cognitive Animal Research in Tou- 780,000 lupus sufferers have kidney dis- about 77 per cent of the volunteers. speare’s Hamlet at auction louse, France. ease. The research team, led by Gabriel next month. In a study published in the science journal Nature, Sandra Raymond, president of the Lu- Contreras of the University of Miami, said The extremely rare third Fourcassle and a team of researchers analyzed videotapes pus Foundation of America, said patients there were not enough people in the study to quarto edition of the trag- of thousands of ants in an experiment on collective move- have been desperate for better therapies with determine whether mycophenolate mofetil, edy, that was first published ment. fewer side effects. “Patients are thrilled,” marketed as CellCept by Roche, was actu- in 1603 is from the collec- Using a mathematical model, they explained how the she told Reuters. ally better than azathioprine, sold by several tion of Mary, Viscountess individual behaviour of the ants affected their collective A study of 59 volunteers, published in companies. Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. sells Eccles, and is expected to movement and group behaviour. this week’s New England Journal of Medi- azathioprine under the name Azasan. fetch between 1.5 million US Foraging ants prefer to carry food along a favourite trail cine, found that the conventional treatment An editorial in the Journal said both dollars and 2 million US that is marked with scent clues. In the experiment, the — injections of the drug cyclophosphamide drugs “are good options for maintenance dollars at Christie’s sale on insects had to cross a diamond-shaped bridge between the — found that the drug prevented a relapse in therapy” in patients whose lupus was dam- 14 April. location of the food and their nest.— MNA/Reuters 43 per cent of the cases. aging their kidneys.— MNA/Reuters MNA/Reuters Canada commits funding to get Sony, Marvel plan to shoot more immigrant “Spider-Man 3” movie doctors LOS ANGELES, 5 March—Hoping to cash on expected success of its pending release OTTAWA, 5 March—The of “Spider-Man 2”, Sony Pictures is already planning to shoot a third sequel, Sony Canadian Government said Pictures confirmed on Wednesday. Tuesday that 4 million Ca- Sony Pictures had al- man said. conference call, Arad said a nadian dollars (about 3 mil- ready started development The plan for a third film “Spider-Man 3” movie could lion US dollars) in funding plans for a third “Spider- was first disclosed Tuesday possibly come out in 2006, will be used to get more im- Man” movie with comic by Marvel’s film chief Avi but he would play it safe by migrant doctors to practice books publisher Marvel En- Arad. predicting its first release in medicine in the country. terprises Inc., an unidenti- Speaking to financial 2007. The Health Ministry said fied Sony Pictures spokes- analysts and reporters on a MNA/Xinhua in a Press release that this initiative reflects the government’s commitment to build Americans under 25 do not a sustainable health care system in which every Cana- save for retirement dian has timely access to quality care, regardless of BOSTON, 5 March—Millions of young Americans are not putting away any money for income or geography. retirement, according to a new study released days after the top US central banker This funding will help warned federal retirement benefits may soon need to be cut. meet Canadians’ need for According to a study found. not saving for the future now more doctors by enabling conducted by CIGNA Re- The survey was released and face the prospect of re- more international medical tirement & Investment Serv- only one week after Federal ceiving fewer benefits later, graduates who have immi- ices, one third of all US work- Reserve Chairman Alan retirement may prove to be grated to Canada to become ers under the age of 25 are Greenspan said Congress far less glamorous than many physicians here. not participating in company should consider trimming people had hoped. It will also support meas- retirement plans. future Social Security ben- “We are definitely on a A woman touches the famous stone of 12 angles in Cuzco, ures to create a better system Instead, they are spend- efits by raising the retire- road to disaster here,” said some 350 miles southeast of Lima, Peru, on 3 March , 2004. for bringing these graduates ing their salaries on every- ment age and offering less Rick Meigs, president of Government historical preservation authorities are con- into Canada’s supply of phy- day expenses and saving a generous adjustments to fu- Web site http:// cerned that automobile pollution, tourists’ sweaty palms and sicians, the ministry said. little for big-ticket items like ture payments. www.401khelpcenter.com. poor maintenance are damaging the magnificent trapezoidal MNA/Reuters MNA/Xinhua new cars or houses, the study For US workers who are rock walls in the former Inca capital of Cuzco.—INTERNET 14 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 6 March, 2004 Ameobi double sends Newcastle Inter face Benfica, Celtic get Barca in UEFA Cup LONDON, 5 March — Inter Milan will meet Benfica and last season's finalists Celtic S through take on Barcelona in a UEFA Cup fourth round draw filled with former European LONDON, 5 March— Newcastle United edged into the UEFA champions. Cup fourth round 4-2 on aggregate following an unconvincing 3-1 Liverpool play Olympique Marseille in hammering Levski Sofia 4-2 on Wednesday P victory over Norwegian side Valerenga at St James' Park on another showcase clash thrown up by the for a 6-2 aggregate win, throwing down the Wednesday. fourth round draw at UEFA's Nyon head- gauntlet to a Marseille team with an old foe, Substitute forward Shola Ameobi struck twice in the second quarters in Switzerland on Thursday. former Manchester United keeper Fabien O half to send Newcastle through after former England captain Alan With four teams, Spain is the best repre- Barthez, between the posts. Shearer, controversially left out of the team for the first leg, had put sented nation. In addition to Barca's clash Scottish club Celtic, the first British club them ahead on 19 minutes with a fierce free kick. with Celtic, twice Champions League fi- to win the European Cup back in 1967, will Erik Hagen's volley levelled for Valerenga five minutes after nalists Valencia take on Genclerbirligi of have to make the most of their home leg R Shearer's goal and the Norwegians caused problems for a Newcas- Turkey, Villarreal play Italy's AS Roma before travelling to the Nou Camp. tle side short of creativity. Valerenga goalkeeper Oyvind Bolthof and Real Mallorca face English team New- Barca will be looking for a potential all- gifted a goal to Newcastle two minutes after halftime when he castle United. Spanish quarterfinal if Villarreal see off T allowed Ameobi's near-post shot to squirm through his hands. The first leg matches will be played on Roma.Newcastle manager Bobby Robson The hosts survived a few scares before the lanky Ameobi, who March 11, with the second leg ties on March expressed some relief at being drawn with replaced Welsh international Craig Bellamy at the interval, secured 25. Inter, who won this competition three Mallorca, though the former Barca boss was S his team's last-16 spot with a neat finish one minute from time. times in 1990s, will start out with home taking nothing for granted. — MNA/Reuters MNA/Reuters advantage at the San Siro against Portugal's Benfica but almost certainly without talis- man Christian Vieri. The Italy striker was sent off in the closing minutes of Wednesday's goalless draw with Sochaux which booked his side into the fourth round on the away goals rule. Adding further spice, the winners will then meet either four-times European champions Liverpool or Marseille in the quarter- finals. Liverpool, whose boss Gerard Houllier will be returning to his home country for the second leg at the Stade Velo- drome, have come through a turbulent week with flying colours. Liverpool revealed that Houllier had received a death threat after the club's medio- cre form this season, but the Frenchman Brazilian soccer star Pele, left, greets France insisted it had not dimmed his love of the and Arsenal player Thierry Henry, at a news club or the city. conference in London,on 4 March , 2004, to The players answered their critics by mark FIFA's 100 years.—INTERNET Howell targets Ryder Cup after strong start in Dubai DUBAI, 5 March — Former winner David Howell signalled his Ryder Cup intentions after a five-under-par 67 in the Dubai Desert Classic first round on Thursday.

The 28-year-old Briton, The Englishman ended work to become a lot more Luis Mario Da Silva (C), of Brazil's Coritiba FC, kicks the the ball away under pressure champion at Dubai Creek 2003 with earnings of 1.03 consistent and I am more from Clarence Willimas Acuna (L) and Emiliano Ramiro Papa (R), both from Argentina's Golf and Yacht Club in 1999, million euros (1.26 million consistent. Rosario Central, during the first half of their soccer match in group nine of the Libertadores was one of the most consist- US dollars), including four "I'm not really playing any Cup, in Rosario, 320 km north of Buenos Aires, on 4 March , 2004.—INTERNET ent players in Europe last top-eight finishes in Septem- more great golf than I used season and is determined to ber. He has not won since to, I'm just playing a lot less Southampton name Sturrock as new manager play his way on to the Euro- making his European Tour bad golf and waiting for the LONDON, 5 March— Southampton will formally appoint Paul Sturrock as their new pean Ryder Cup team at breakthrough in Dubai in good stuff to come out. manager on Thursday, having already agreed personal terms, the Premier League Oakland Hills this Septem- 1999 but believes he has "When I'm good enough club said. ber. become a much more con- to get in (the Ryder Cup), I Sturrock, manager of Division Two lead- parture in March 2001 to take over at "I definitely feel I can sistent player. will," he added. ers Plymouth Argyle, will be officially un- Tottenham Hotspur, said he did not believe make it," he told reporters "It's taken me longer to The 2004 Ryder Cup will veiled as Gordon Strachan's replacement he had the full support of Southampton's after mixing six birdies with win the second (title) than to take place between holders after agreeing a deal on Wednesday, South- directors. a solitary bogey in bright win the first, which I cer- Europe and the United States ampton said on their web site. Sturrock, 47, arrives with no experience sunshine at Emirates Golf tainly didn't think was going at Oakland Hills Country Strachan stood down last month, having of top-flight football management in Eng- Club. "Obviously, it relies to be the case," he said. "It's Club in Detroit, Michigan initially said in January that he would leave land, though the Scot has achieved impres- upon playing well but it is a certainly not easy. from September 17-19. at the end of the season to take a break from sive results at the lower levels. goal of mine. "It's taken a lot of hard MNA/Reuters top-flight football. After a playing career spent entirely with "I played the Walker Cup "Saints will today confirm Paul Sturrock Dundee United, Sturrock's first management and I loved that." as their new manager," the club said. "(He) positions were with St. Johnstone and his old Howell won 2-1/2 points held talks with Southampton chairman club, before he moved south of the border to out of three in Britain and Rupert Lowe Wednesday before agreeing join Plymouth in October 2000. Ireland's 1995 victory over personal terms. He takes over immediately Transforming the club's fortunes, he the United States in the from caretaker boss Steve Wigley." turned them from relegation battlers to Divi- Walker Cup amateur team Wednesday was also the day that former sion Three champions in his first full season, competition. Southampton boss Glenn Hoddle, who Lowe 2001-2002, and has now taken them four He finished 16th in the had been keen to bring back as manager, points clear at the top of Division Two, his 2003 European Tour order pulled out of the race to replace Strachan. team scoring an impressive 70 goals in 34 of merit and lies 12th in the Hoddle, who made an acrimonious de- league games so far. — MNA/Reuters overall European Ryder Cup standings for this year. Owen says death threats part of modern game Bernhard Langer's 12- LONDON, 5 March— England striker "To be honest, although it is unfair and man team to take on the US Michael Owen has received several death awful, nothing surprises me anymore. It will comprise the top five in threats in his career but he said on Thursday shouldn't happen and it is not acceptable but a Ryder Cup world points it was "part and parcel" of the modern game. it has almost become part and parcel of the list, the leading five not oth- "There is no place for this kind of thing in game nowadays," said Owen. erwise qualified in a Ryder the game or in life," Owen told the Liverpool Owen said he believed England captain Cup European points list and web site. David Beckham had faced similar threats. two captain's picks. "Sadly, these days it seems it can happen "It is the kind of thing I don't think would "In previous years I've to anyone in a high profile position. I can't have happened years ago but is happening to been reasonably close (to tell you how many times it has happened to people in the game regularly now. selection)," said Howell. "If me now." "If you speak to David Beckham I'm sure I played like I did last year, I Maria Sanchez Lorenzo of Spain hits a forehand return to Owen's club manager, Liverpool's Gerard he'll tell you this kind of thing has happened wouldn't be a million miles Argentina's Mariana Diaz Oliva during their Mexican Houllier, received a death threat in the post to him about a dozen times. away, even without win- Open tennis championships match in Acapulco, Mexico, last week that is being investigated by police. MNA/Reuters ning." on 4 March , 2004. Lorenzo won 6-3, 6-3.—INTERNET THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 6 March, 2004 15 Camps 1 & 2) 20:45 National News Greeting 03:50 A Peaceful Place of Golden Monastery 16:25 Song of Myanmar 20:50 Shwezawar Lacquer- 23:32 Song of Myanmar Mind 05:40 Headline News MRTV-3MRTV-3 Beauty & Scenic ware Beauty & Scenic 03:55 Lumbini — Birth Place 06:42 Enjoy our Shan Food Sights “Myanma Pano- 20:55 Pakhanthar Myin Nyo Sights “Myanma Pano- of Buddha 05:45 National News rama & Myanma Sen- Shin rama & Myanma Sen- 04:00 National News 05:50 Myanmar Footware timent” 21:00 National News timent” 04:05 The Alaungdaw and Bags 16:30 National News 21:05 Colourful Garden City 23:36 Myanmar Map Kathapa National Park 05:55 Kachin Dance 16:35 Myanmar Traditional of Yangon 23:40 Headline News 04:10 Myanmar Modern 06:00 National News Musical Instruments 21:10 Myanmar Modern 23:42 Enjoy our Shan Food Song “Sagawa Flowers 06:05 Migadawun - Deliver- ing the first Discourse 6-3-2004 (Saturday) (Brass Instrunments Song “The Towering 23:45 National News Land” Cymbal) (Linguin) Flower” 23:50 Myanmar Footware 04:15 National News 06:10 Myanmar Modern (Programme Schedule) Song “Commencement Morning Transmission 16:40 Conservation of Sea- 21:15 Weekly News High- and Bags 04:20 Biological Expedition turtles 23:55 Kachin Dance to Hponkan Razi of Dry Summer” (9:00 - 10:00) lights 06:15 National News 16:45 National News 21:20 Mother O’pearl Mosaic 24:00 National News Region (III) (Awadam 06:20 Biological Expedition 9:00 Signature Tune 16:50 Myanmar Movie im- Painting 00:05 Migadawun - Deliver- Village- Ziadam Vil- to Hponkan Razi Greeting pact “Paunk Myauk 21:25 Song of Myanmar ing the first Discourse lage) Region (IV) (Ziadam 9:02 Song of Myanmar Myauk” Beauty & Scenic 00:10 Myanmar Modern 04:25 Myanmar Modern Village- Wang Mung Beauty & Scenic 17:00 Weekly News High- Sights“Mingalabar” Song “Commencement Song“Do you love Camps 1 & 2) Sights “Mingalabar” lights 21:35 Shwe Kyaung (or) the of Dry Summer” me?” 06:25 Song “Hill Resort 9:06 Myanmar Mat 17:05 Where the Rhododen- Golden Monastery 00:15 National News 04:30 National News Town” 9:10 Headline News dron Blooms 21:40 Headline News 00:20 Biological Expedition 04:35 Special Teak Planta- 06:30 National News 9:12 Enjoy our Shan Food 17:10 Song On Screen “Pre- 21:42 Enjoy our Shan Food to Hponkan Razi tion Programme in 06:35 Myanmar Traditional 9:15 National News destination” 21:45 National News Region (IV) (Ziadam Myanmar Musical Instrunments 9:20 Myanmar Footware 17:12 NAn Pan Market Day 21:50 Myanmar Footware Village- Wang Mung 04:40 Myanma Traditional (Brass Instruments and Bags 17:15 Weekly News High- and Bags Camps 1 & 2) Flower Arrangements Cymbal) (Linguin) 9:25 Kachin Dance lights 21:55 Kachin Dance 00:25 Song of Myanmar (Harp) 06:40 Conservation of Sea- 9:30 National News 17:20 Highland farmland 22:00 National News Beauty & Scenic 04:45 National News turtles 9:35 Migadawun - Deliver- Reclamation in Kaung 22:05 Migadawun - Deliver- Sights “Myanma Pano- 04:50 Shwezawar Lacquer- 06:45 National News ing the first Discourse Kha Region ing the first Discourse rama & Myanma Sen- ware 06:50 Myanmar Movie im- 9:40 Myanmar Modern 17:25 Song of Myanmar 22:10 Myanmar Modern timent” 04:55 Pakhanthar Myin Nyo pact “Pauk Pauk Song “Commence- Beauty & Scenic Song “Commencement 00:30 National News Shin Myauk Myauk” Sights “Come and See of Dry Summer” 00:35 Myanmar Traditional 05:00 National News 07:00 National News ment of Dry Summer” 07:05 Where the Rhododen- 9:45 National News Myanmar” 22:15 National News Musical Instruments 05:05 Colourful Garden City 22:20 Biological Expedition (Brass Instrunments of Yangon dron Blooms 9:50 Biological Expedition 07:10 Song On Screen “Pre- to Hponkan Razi Evening Transmission to Hponkan Razi Cymbal) (Linguin) 05:10 Myanmar Modern (19:30 - 23:30) Region (IV) (Ziadam 00:40 Conservation of Sea- Song “The Towering destination” Region (IV) (Ziadam 07:12 Nan Pan Market Day Village- Wang Mung Village- Wang Mung turtles Flower” 19:30 Signature Tune Camps 1 & 2) 00:45 National News 05:15 Weekly News High- 07:15 Weekly News High- Camps 1 & 2) lights 9:58 Song of Myanmar Greeting 22:25 Song “Hill Resort 00:50 Myanmar Movie im- lights 19:32 Song of Myanmar Town” pact “Pauk Pauk 05:20 Mother O’pearl Mosaic 07:20 Highland farmland Beauty & Scenic Reclamation in Kaung Sights “Come and See Beauty & Scenic 22:30 National News Myauk Myauk” Painting Sights “Mingalabar” 01:00 Weekly News High- 05:25 Song of Myanmar Kha Region Myanmar” 22:35 Myanmar Traditional 07:25 Song of Myanmar 19:36 Tabaung Festival Musical Instrunments lights Beauty & Scenic Beauty & Scenic 6-3-2004 (Saturday) 19:40 Headline News (Brass Instruments 01:05 Where the Rhododen- Sights“Mingalabar” Sights “Come and See Regular Programmes for 19:42 Pagodas in Yangon, Cymbal) (Linguin) dron Blooms 05:35 Shwe Kyaung (or) the Myanmar” Viewers from Abroad The Shwedagon Pa- 22:40 Conservation of Sea- 01:10 Song On Screen “Pre- Evening Transmission goda turtles destination” (15:30 - 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Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives * Stability of the State, community * Development of agriculture as the base and all-round * Uplift of the morale and morality of peace and tranquillity, prevalence of development of other sectors of the economy as well the entire nation law and order * Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic * Uplift of national prestige and integrity * National reconsolidation system and preservation and safeguarding of * Emergence of a new enduring State * Development of the economy inviting participation in cultural heritage and national charac- Constitution terms of technical know-how and investments from ter * 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

State Peace and Development Council Chairman Senior General Than Shwe sends felicitations to Ghana YANGON, 6 March — On the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic of Ghana, which falls on 6 March 2004, Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His Excel- lency Mr John Agyekum Kufuor, President of the Republic of Ghana. — MNA Prime Minister attends ceremony to drive stake for construction of Gandakuti of Tampalawha Maha Muni Buddha Image in Bago YANGON, 5 March— casion were Bago drove the stake at the cen- formed the rituals of golden Prime Minister General Dhammalankara Monastery tre of the foundation. Then, and silver showers to mark Khin Nyunt, accompanied Sayadaw Abhidhaja Agga the ministers and the deputy the success of the cer- by member of the State Maha Saddhammajotika ministers drove stakes at the emony. Next, they paid Peace and Development Bhaddanta Visuddha and designated places. homage to Sayadaw Council Lt-Gen Khin members of the Sangha, Lt- The Prime Minister Bhaddanta Visuddha. Maung Than, ministers, Gen Khin Maung Than, placed the gems casket at The Prime Minister and deputy ministers, officials Commander Maj-Gen Ko the centre of the foundation. party proceeded to the work of the State Peace and De- Ko, the ministers, the Dhammalinkara Sayadaw site of Myathahlyaung re- velopment Council Office, deputy ministers, officials also put the golden pot in clining Buddha image in departmental heads and of- of the State Peace and De- which various kinds of Bago and paid obeisance to ficials, left here by car this velopment Council Office, gems are kept, in the foun- the Image. morning. departmental heads, local dation. After hearing the reports They were welcomed at authorities, social and reli- At the auspicious time, on construction tasks pre- Wanbawdat Bridge near gious organizations, Prime Minister General sented by Myanmar handi- Thayagon Model Village, wellwishers and local peo- Khin Nyunt, Lt-Gen Khin craft technicians, Prime Bago Division, by Chair- ple. Sayadaw Bhaddanta Maung Than, Commander Minister General Khin man of Bago Division Visuddha administered the Maj-Gen Ko Ko and the Nyunt gave instructions on Peace and Development Nine Precepts. ministers laid cornerstones construction of the Image. Council Commander of Next, the Prime Minis- at the designated places. Next, they watered Bo tree Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt drives stake for Southern Command Maj- ter offered Yadana stake, The General then laid in the compound of the pa- construction of Theravada Gandakuti Taikkyaung- Gen Ko Ko and officials. Yadana casket, Golden pot the bronze plaque and sprin- goda. The Prime Minister dawgyi of Tampalawha Maha Muni Buddha Image in Afterwards, the Prime and provisions to the kled scented water on it. and party arrived back here Bago on 5 March 2004. Minister and party pro- Sayadaw. Lt-Gen Khin Afterwards, Prime Minister in the afternoon. ceeded to the construction Maung Than, Commander General Khin Nyunt per- MNA MNA site of Theravada Gandakuti Maj-Gen Ko Ko and party Taik Kyaungdawgyi in also donated provisions to Secretary-1 inspects Water Treatment Plant Project Bago where Tampalawha the Sayadaws. Maha Muni Buddha Image Then, Bago Panhlaing YANGON, 5 March — Secretary-1 of the State Peace Dr Tun Than Tun of the YCDC also reported on area will be kept. Monastery Sayadaw Agga and Development Council Lt-Gen Soe Win inspected the of the project, water treatment process, arrangements made At 7.30 am, the cer- Maha Pandita Agga Maha Water Treatment Plant Project being undertaken by the for arrival of machinery for the project, and work progress. emony to drive stake for Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Yangon City Development Committee in Thanlyetsun, The Mayor gave a supplementary report. Regarding the construction of the Bhaddanta Sasana delivered Botahtaung Township, this morning. Accompanied by reports, the Secretary-1 gave necessary instructions. Af- Kyaungdawgyi was held in a sermon, followed by shar- YCDC Chairman Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin, terwards, the officials reported on benefits to be gained conjunction with the corner- ing of merits gained. Deputy Minister for Industry-2 Lt-Col Khin Maung Kyaw, on completion of the project with the use of a scale model. stone laying ceremony at Afterwards, the stake- Deputy Minister for Science and Technology Dr Chan The Secretary-1 looked around work progress at the the venue, attended by driving ceremony and the Nyein, Vice-Mayor Col Maung Pa, officials of the State project site. The project is aimed at ensuring systematic Prime Minister General cornerstone-laying cer- Peace and Development Council Office, and departmen- sewage disposal system. It is the first of its kind in Khin Nyunt. emony followed. tal heads, the Secretary-1 heard a report by YCDC Sec- Myanmar being implemented by Myanmar experts and Also present on the oc- The Prime Minister retary U Kyi Win on the purpose of the project. engineers. — MNA

State Peace and Development Council Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Soe Win inspects construction of Water Treatment Plant.— MNA