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Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives * Stability of the State, community peace * Development of agriculture as the base and all-round * Uplift of the morale and morality of and tranquillity, prevalence of law and development of other sectors of the economy as well the entire nation * Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic order * Uplift of national prestige and integ- system * National reconsolidation rity and preservation and safeguard- * Development of the economy inviting participation in * Emergence of a new enduring State ing of cultural heritage and national terms of technical know-how and investments from character Constitution sources inside the country and abroad * Building of a new modern developed * Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit * The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept * Uplift of health, fitness and education nation in accord with the new State in the hands of the State and the national peoples Constitution standards of the entire nation More dams for year-round greening 30-mile radius of Yangon City and summer paddy Secretary-1 inspects water supply facilities in Hlegu Township
Project of the Ministry of the dam, salient points of Agriculture and Irrigation the project, tasks of in Hlegu Township at 2 Yangon City 30-mile ra- pm. dius greening project, and They were wel- implementation of the comed by Chairman of dams projects. Yangon City Develop- Director U Myint ment Committee Mayor Than of Construction-1 Brig-Gen Aung Thein of Irrigation Department Lin and departmental also brief them on con- heads. struction of Salu, Director U Kyaw Shwelaung, Kodukwe Thein of Irrigation De- and Wagadok dams for partment reported to the greening the eastern bank Secretary-1 on the pur- of Bago River included pose on construction of (See page 8) I N S I D E According to the principles of the UN and UN Charter, all countries have to recognize equal- ity of all nations — big and small, and to respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations. They have the right to freely shape their Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein hears reports on year-round greening of 30-mile radius of Yangon City destiny. and Ngamoeyeik Dam project by Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence. — MNA PAGE 7 TEKKATHO MYAT THU
YANGON, 16 March — Secretary-1 of the State Peace and De- velopment Council Lt- Gen Thein Sein in- spected functions of Ngamoeyeik Dam Project, Yangon City Water Supply Project and Ngamoeyeik River Water Pumping Project in Hlegu Township this afternoon. Accompanied by officials of the State Peace and Development Council Chairman’s Of- fice, Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein together with Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Ministry of Defence ar- rived at the site of Ngamoeyeik Dam Ngamoeyeik Dam that is supplying water to Yangon City. — MNA Emergence of the State Constitution is the duty of all citizens of Myanmar Naing-Ngan. 2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 17 March, 2006 PERSPECTIVES People’s Desire Friday, 17 March, 2006 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views US Human Rights Report, * Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation interference in Myanmar’s * Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State internal affairs * Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy The US Department of State issued a re- port on human rights practices for 2005 dated Japanese Rotary Club members on 9 March 2006. It carries fabricated stories absolutely different from authentic events of the present footballs to youth soccer SPORTS NEWS nations that fail to follow the instructions of the US and its allies. teams in Myanmar The report targets China, Russia, Iran, 28th ISD Team Golf Championship North Korea, Cuba, Belarus and Myanmar and features unilateral opinions about human rights. 21-24 March Many countries rebutted the accusations. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar on YANGON, 16 March 15 March 2006 issued a press release to reject — To be co-organized the US report on human rights practices in by Sports and Physical Myanmar. Education Department The Tatmadaw Government since its and Myanmar Golf assumption of State duties has been discharging Federation and sponsored by ISUZU Motors Ltd, awesome tasks through political, economic and the 28th Inter-State/Division Team Golf Champi- social objectives for enabling Myanmar to catch onship will be held at Yangon Golf Club up with global nations, raising the standard of in Danyingon, Insein Township, from 21 to living of entire national people and building a peaceful, modern and developed democratic 24 March. nation with flourishing discipline. The championship will be categorized as the It has managed to get back national team scratch event, the team handicap event and reconsolidation among the national races for Mr Masuda presents footballs to Director-Gen- the men’s singles handicap event. ensuring stability of the State, community peace eral U Thaung Htaik. — NLM The meeting of the team leaders will take and tranquillity and prevalence of law and or- YANGON, 16 March — Japanese Rotary Club place at Yangon Golf Club at 10 am on 19 March. der. As a result, internal peace has been achieved members presented footballs to youth soccer teams For further information, interested persons may dial nearly cent per cent that the entire national peo- in Myanmar at Youth Tranining Camp-1 09-9972554 and 542989. ple have aspired for long. (Thuwunna) this evening. The organizer of the golf championship is It extended a warm welcome to the Present on the occasion were General Secre- the Han Event Management national race armed groups that later returned tary of Myanmar Olympic Committee Director- MNA to the legal fold and is carrying out regional de- General of Sports and Physical Education Depart- velopment tasks hand in hand with them. Now, ment U Thaung Htaik and officials, Japanese the entire nation including border areas has wit- nessed peace and stability. Rotary Club members, officials of Myanmar Foot- Summer archery In 2005, the National Convention was con- ball Federation, guests and footballers from youth course opens vened twice and a good headway has been made teams. to define and adopt the detailed basic principles. First, Mr Taiima of Rotary Club extended More than one thousand delegates representing greetings on the occasion. Mr Masuda presented YANGON, 16 March — Jointly-organized by national races, political parties, national race footballs to General Secretary of Myanmar Olym- the Sports and Physical Education Department un- armed groups and governmental organizations pic Committee Director-General of Sports and der the Ministry of Sports and the Myanmar Ar- and intellectuals and intelligentsia attended the Physical Education Department U Thaung Htaik chery Federation, a summer archery course was NC. while Rotary Club members did those to 11 youth opened in Kyaikkasan sports grounds starting on The government is now doing its utmost to soccer teams. 14th March. promote the standard of living of the entire na- The footballs donated by Rotary Club Fifty boys and twelve girls totalling 62 are tional people and it has achieved success in social totalled to 160. — NLM attending the course. The course instructors are Daw services sector including health and education. Myat Thuza Myint, Daw Thi Thi Win and U Aung No foreign states can claim to have greater inter- Hingis ousts Davenport, Hewitt Thura. The course supervisors are General Secre- est in the well-being of citizens of Myanmar than tary of MAF U Kyaw Oo, Assistant Director and the government and people of Myanmar. loses on day of upsets Manager U Than Kyaing. The report on human rights practices in INDIAN WELLS (Cali- race towards the top of The trainees are attending the course from Myanmar for 2005 dated on 9 March 2006 by fornia), 16 March — the rankings, showing the 7.30 am to 9 am six days a week. The course will the US State Department is in reality the report Martina Hingis beat sec- quick footwork and in- continue up to 11th April free of charge. The train- designed to interfere in the internal affairs of ond seed Lindsay Dav- ventive play that once ees are schoolboys and schoolgirls from No 3 Basic Myanmar. enport 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 to made her world number Education High School, Tamway. The sports gear reach the Pacific Life one. is provided by the federation. Mandalay Business Directory Open quarterfinals in MNA/Reuters NLM 2006 in circulation one of several upsets on lists of information includ- Tuesday. ing telephone numbers and Australian Open run- addresses of government ner-up Marcos offices and business in 32 Baghdatis overcame towns in upper Myanmar seventh seed Gaston in Myanmar alphabetical Gaudio 6-7, 6-3, 6-2, order. Moreover, rental Czech teenager Tomas prices of wagons of Berdych knocked out Myanma Railways are also number nine Lleyton available in the book. Hewitt 7-5, 6-3 and Those wishing to purchase Russia’s Dinara Safina the book may contact Eu- ousted her fifth-seeded reka Co Ltd at H 2, first compatriot Anastasia YANGON, 16 March floor, 30th St x 78th St, Myskina 6-1, 6-3. — Mandalay Business Chanayethazan Township Directory 2006 published (Ph 09-5009101), Manda- Just two and half by Eureka Co Ltd comes lay and at No 145, 36th St, months into her come- out and it has been distrib- Kyauktada Township (Ph back after three years A course instructor guiding a trainee at the summer archery course. off the WTA Tour, uted as of 3 March. 253295, 250121), Yangon. NLM The book contains MNA Hingis continued her
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ADDIS ABABA, 15 March — Ethiopia said on Monday a US report regarding human rights situations in the Horn of Africa country is “full of hearsays”. The report, released last week by the US State a result of dangerous strategy formulated by Department, focuses on the situations of human rights opposition parties,” the statement said. of several countries, including Ethiopia, said a The violence “instigated by oppositions” claimed statement from Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry. the lives of members of the police and citizens, it The report's allegations concerning human rights said. However, the endorsement of the report by the violation in Ethiopia was “totally groundless”, the US State Department through its Human Right statement said. Bureau, which “did not” base on facts and “without Ethiopia gives special attention to respect of human verifying complaints submitted to it with the intention rights as enshrined in the national Constitution, it of political gain”, makes it “questionable”, the said. Ethiopia has been mobilizing the entire statement said. The statement said the US State governmental bodies and institutions as well as citizens Department has “not attempted” to verify the positions with a view to implementing human rights conventions of those bodies and the government in particular practically, it added. Ethiopia has also striven to regarding the complaints, which it said, is “unethical”. “minimize human rights violations that may occur as MNA/Xinhua Computer researchers warn of net attacks WASHINGTON, 15 First detected late last control of an Internet name compromised directory March—Security re- year, the new attacks direct server in South Africa and computer, which unleashed Six horses for a king’s searchers are warning about such massive amounts of deliberately corrupted its overwhelming floods of a new variety of unusually spurious data against vic- contents. amplified data aimed carriage powerful Internet attacks tim computers that even Name servers are wherever the attacker HENAN, 14 March—The bronze sculpture named that can overwhelm popular flagship technology com- specialized computers that wanted. “six horses for a king’s carriage” is installed in Luoyang, Web sites and disrupt e- panies could not cope. help direct Internet traffic to Experts traced at least central China’s Henan Province, on 14 March, 2006. mails by exploiting the In one of the early cases its destinations. 1,500 attacks that briefly shut The sculpture is designed on the basis of historical computers that help manage examined, the un-åknown The attacker then sent down commercial Web relics unearthed in this city in an ancient tomb dating global Internet traffic. assailant apparently seized falsified requests to the sites, large Internet providers back to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770 BC-256 BC) in and leading Internet 2002. infrastructure companies The pit contains six horse skeletons and one chariot, during a period of weeks. a form echoing historical records, which said that the The attacks were so targeted earliest Chinese kings rode in chariots pulled by six that most Internet users did fine horses in wars.—Internet not notice widespread ef- fects.Ken Silva, the chief Iraqi police dig up security officer for VeriSign Inc, compared the scale of 27 bodies in Baghdad attacks to the damage caused BAGHDAD, 15 March — Iraqi police said they found in October 2002 when nine 27 bodies with gunshot wounds in southeast Baghdad of the 13 computer "root" on Tuesday, raising the number of victims of killings servers that manage global in the capital since on Monday morning to at least 80. Internet traffic were crippled Police said they appeared to have been killed in the by a powerful electronic last few days. attack. VeriSign operates South Korean firemen spray water onto burning buildings at a US Army base in Seoul, The unusually high number of violent death comes two of the 13 root server on 16 March, 2006. Police arrested a South Korean women on suspicion of burning two days after car bombs ripped through a Shiite down several buildings at a US Army base in Seoul on Thursday because she was angry computers, but its machines militia stronghold in Baghdad, killing 52 people in the were unaffected.—Internet at what she saw as “US Terrorism”.— INTERNET latest wave of sectarian bloodshed. — MNA/Reuters “King Kong” named top movie at Sharon Stone to get back to Empire Awards LONDON, 15 March — Multi-million dollar Hollywood blockbuster “King Basics in Paris Kong” was named best movie at Britain’s Empire magazine film awards. Paris opening on Tuesday, 21 March at The remake of the classic The Chocolate Factory” berg and Peter Jackson for the Pathe Marignan, just off the Champs movie about the giant ape while Thandie Newton took the gong. “Pride And Preju- Elysees. with a heart beat “Crash”, the best actress award for dice” was voted best British Also expected are director Michael which won a host of Oscars, “Crash”.The unlikely movie while “Team Caten Jones (The Jackal, Memphis “Sin City”, “War of the winners of the best director America: World Police” Belle), Charlotte Rampling and David Worlds” and “Star Wars award were Steve Box and was named best comedy. Morrissey, who plays a psychiatrist Episode III”. Nick Park for the animated The awards, voted for by appointed by Scotland Yard to evaluate “This was absolutely, comedy “Wallace & Gro- readers of Empire magazine, Stone.Sharon’s hottest scene as novelist really needed because we mit: The Curse Of The were a better reflection of Catherine Tramell in the latest crime were doing really badly Were-Rabbit”. what filmgoers really liked thriller features Stone in a barely there this year,” said British “That’s just ridiculo- than the Oscars, said editor- purple kimono by Fendi. actor Andy Serkis, who us,” Park said after beating in-chief Colin Kennedy. Paris has been plastered with posters played Kong. the likes of Steven Spiel- MNA/Reuters of Stone in Christian Dior's latest ad “This film was made British Council in Gaza set ablaze campaign for its skincare line Capture with a lot of passion and a Totale, but in “Basic Instinct 2” the leggy GAZA, 15 March — Palestinian militants set fire to lot of love, the script was Sharon Stone blonde’s character has her entire crafted, it was a very the British Council office in Gaza on Tuesday as part PARIS, 15 March—Paris is getting apartment done in Fendi Casa. of protests over an Israeli seige of a West Bank jail political film — and it only ready for the arrival of Sharon Stone, At least Dior and Fendi are sister brands, where a leading militant is being held, a Reuters cost 270 million US who will attend the Continental premiere both controlled by Bernard Arnault, whose witness said. dollars,” he quipped as he of “Basic Instinct 2” here next week. LVMH conglomerate is the world’s Militants and Palestinian police earlier exchanged accepted the award. “La Sharon,” as the locals call her, biggest luxury group. gunfire outside the council office, a cultural centre in Johnny Depp was named will be the biggest gun to attend the Internet best actor for “Charlie And Gaza. — MNA/Reuters
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continue nuclear talks BEIJING, 15 March — "All concerned parties uranium. On Tuesday, Iran should continue talks should step up diplomatic the permanent members with Russia aimed at efforts. China hopes Iran of the Security Council, brokering a compromise will fully cooperate with including China, will in the international the IAEA and adopt meet to discuss a draft standoff over Teheran's confidence-building statement on Iran's nu- nuclear plans, a Chi- measures to create the clear plans. nese Foreign Ministry conditions for a negotiated In recent days, Iran has spokesman said on resolution," spokesman sent uncertain signals about Tuesday. Qin Gang told a regular the Russian plan, which There was "still space" news conference in would allow it to develop for a negotiated settlement Beijing. nuclear power but oblige it in the deepening con- He was referring to the to enrich atomic fuel frontation that has pitted UN nuclear watchdog, the in Russia under in- Iran against increasingly International Atomic ternational inspections. impatient Western powers, Energy Agency. The United States and Audi Sport North America driver Frank Biela of Germany in an Audi R10/TDI who say Teheran wants to Iran faces a possible European Union say Iran Power (1) accelerates into Turn 5 during the afternoon practice for the be able make atomic UN Security Council may seek to divert enriched American Le Mans Series 12 Hours of Sebring at the Sebring International weapons and may push the resolution as Western fuel to weapons develop- Raceway on 15 March, 2006, in Sebring, Fla. Biela had the fastest time during dispute to the United countries move to cur- ment. the session with a lap time of 1:48.598 and a speed of Nations. tail its plans to enrich MNA/Reuters 122.654 MPH. —INTERNET American arrested with arms in Iraq BAGHDAD, 15 police in a northern Iraqi Abdullah Jebara, the March—An American town was carrying Deputy Governor of described as a security weapons in his car, a Salahaddin Province, told contractor arrested by provincial official said. Reuters the man was arrested in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Monday. He was removed from the provincial government building by US forces on Tuesday, Jebara said. The Joint Coordi- nation Centre between the US and Iraqi military in Tikrit said the man, whom Protestors are blocked by mounted police outside the Sydney Conservatorium of it described as a security Music during an address by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Sydney contractor working for on Thursday, 16 March, 2006.—INTERNET a private company, possessed explosives Gunmen kill third Iraqi journalist in one week which were found in his BAGHDAD, 15 March— editor of news magazine field after the withdrawal of car. It said he was arrested Gunmen assassinated the Alef Ba, had attended a Arab and other foreign on Tuesday. editor of an Iraqi weekly meeting of the Iraqi journalists," Shihab al- The man was stopped near his home in Baghdad, Journalists Union in which Timimi, head of the by police for violating a police and colleagues said they urged all sides to journalists union, said on daytime curfew in Tikrit, on Tuesday, in the third recognize the neutrality of Monday after the meeting. a security source said. killing of an Iraqi jour- journalists in Iraq. More than 70 foreign and American security nalist in a week. "Iraqi journalists now Iraqi journalists have been US singer Martina McBride poses for personnel rarely travel Hours before he was have become a target reported killed since the US- photographers at a fund raiser for the National alone. US officials had no gunned down on Monday because they are the only led invasion in March Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance in New York , immediate comment. evening, Muhsin Khudhair, ones who are working in the 2003.—MNA/Reuters on 15 March, 2006.—INTERNET MNA/Reuters British male drivers waste six million hours a year US to send 700 more LONDON, 14 March — their partner before basic directions on a bit said awareness of the soldiers to Iraq British male drivers throwing in the towel and of scrap paper. RAC problem could improve waste nearly six million stopping to ask the way, Direct Insurance product driving standards. WASHINGTON, 14 March— The US military is hours a year lost on the the poll showed. Based on manager Craig Martin Internet dispatching an Army battalion of at least 700 soldiers road because they are responses from 2,000 to Iraq from their base in Kuwait to provide extra reluctant to ask for adults, the survey also Motorists travel security during a Shiite Muslim holiday period, three directions. Men who are revealed: Some 64 percent along the A1 in military officers said on Wednesday. lost wait an average of of couples admitted to northeast England. A More broadly, a substantial number of US and Iraqi 20 minutes before giving having arguments over Royal Automobile security forces are being repositioned inside Iraq in up and asking for getting lost on the road. Club Direct In- anticipation of potential sectarian violence related to a directions, while women Only 27 percent of surance survey found Shiite pilgrimage this month marking the holiday, one only wait 10 minutes couples plan their that British male official said. before seeking help, journeys before setting drivers waste nearly The troops from Kuwait include mechanized infantry according to a survey off. Just 36 percent of six million hours a with Bradley armored fighting vehicles as well as from Royal Automobile couples rely on landmarks year lost on the road combat engineers, another official said. Club Direct Insurance. and road signs to find their because they are The military moves, which have not been publicly Men even endure a destination reluctant to ask for announced, come amid a spike in sectarian violence "nagging period" of One in four couples directions. and expectations that it likely will remain a problem as around 10 minutes from still scribble down INTERNET fractious Iraqi political leaders attempt to form a new government.—Internet THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 17 March, 2006 5 China values friendly ties with Asian neighbours
BEIJING, 15 March — A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman stressed on Tuesday that China values, and hopes to develop, friendly and cooperative relations with all neighbouring countries including those in South Asia. Foreign Ministry Premier Wen Jiabao to cooperation across a range spokesman Qin Gang Pakistan and some other of subjects and coordination made the remarks when South Asian countries last in international issues. responding to a Pakistani April and a state visit by Qin said China will journalist’s question on Pakistani President Pervez work with its South Asian China’s general strategy of Musharraf to China in neighbours to safeguard developing relations with February this year. Qin said peace and stability in the South Asian neighbouring during Musharraf's visit region and promote com- countries, Pakistan in the two sides achieved mon development. General view of the Sphinx and pyramids at Giza on 14-3-2006. The Great particular. consensus on bilateral MNA/Xinhua Sphinx of Giza, one of the most famous monuments of Pharaonic Egypt, is to get Qin said China follows a facelift, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture said.—INTERNET the principle of building friendship with neigh- 1,700-year-old wooden business card bouring countries and regards Pakistan and all unearthed in Jiangxi Province other countries in South NANCHANG, 16 entombed. Provincial Institute of Asia as its friendly March — Artifacts The plaque, which is Archaeology. neighbours. China hopes to retrieved from a 1,700- made of wood, helped The name plaque is make joint efforts with its year-old tomb discovered archaeologists identify 3.2 centimetres wide, 24.7 South Asian neighbours to at a construction site in Lei Tiao Poyang as the centimetres long and 0.7 further the development of this city in east China's person buried in the tomb, centimetre thick, Fan said. friendly cooperation to Jiangxi Province includes said Fan Changsheng, A similar name plaque was benefit each other, said Qin. a name plaque of the director of Jiangxi also discovered in the Qin mentioned the tomb, but archaeologists official visit by Chinese could not be discern what it said. The plaques are A trader is busy with his among the 50-plus relics work in a stock exchange found in the tomb which in Cairo, capital of was discovered at a con- Egypt, on 15 March, struction site at Nanchang 2006. —INTERNET Railway Station. The cache includes nine pieces of lacquer WASHINGTON, 15 March — The United States does work, ten pieces of bronze not have proof that the Iranian Government is ware, 12 pieces of US responsible for military personnel and weapons porcelain and 24 pieces of smuggled into Iraq, Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint wood ware. general Chief of Staff, said on Tuesday. MNA/Xinhua President George W Bush said on Monday that roadside bombs in Iraq had components from Iran and A clutch of recovered says no Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last week fossilized dinosaur eggs that Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel had been are displayed by proof inside Iraq. “I do not, sir,” Pace, a Marine Corps US Immigration and general, answered at a Pentagon news briefing when Customs Enforcement Iran he was asked whether he had any proof that Iran was during a news con- behind these developments in Iraq. ference on 15 March At the same briefing, Rumsfeld also acknowledged 2006, in Los Angeles. behind that he had no proof for the allegations. INTERNET “Unless you physically see it in a government- weapons sponsored vehicle or with government-sponsored Envoy says US may ban troops, you can’t know it,” he said. in Iraq “With respect to people, it’s very difficult to tie a thread precisely to the government of Iran,” he said. Venezuelan flights MNA/Xinhua CARACAS, 15 March —Venezuelan flights to the United States would be banned if Venezuela bans flights by most US airlines to the South American country, US Ambassador William Brownfield said on Tuesday. Venezuelan authorities want the US such as neighbouring Colombia. Federal Aviation Administration to end The FAA ruled in 1995 that Venezuela safety restrictions on Venezuelan airlines must tighten its airline safety procedures and said they will decide on 30 March and downgraded its civil aviation authority, whether to impose a ban on US flights. restricting flights because Venezuela “I hope this doesn't happen because if it allegedly didn’t meet international safety happens, it’s not a possibility, it’s not a standards. probability, it's with absolute certainty Despite the restrictions, two Venezuelan that my government ... would also halt the lines still serve the United States using flights by Venezuelan airlines to the United rented planes, Aeropostal and Santa States,” Brownfield said. Barbara. “Under that situation, Venezuela Venezuela’s proposed ban, which would doesn’t win, and the United States doesn't prohibit flights by Continental Airlines Inc. win,” he added. In 1995, the FAA lowered and Delta Air Lines Inc., and restrict some Venezuela's carriers to category 2, forcing by AMR Corp’s American Airlines, comes Venezuelan airlines to fly planes rented amid increasingly tense ties between A British soldier secures a British armoured vehicle that was damaged in a from US companies or from airlines Caracas and Washington. roadside bomb attack in the southern city of Basra, on 15 March, 2006. operating out of category 1 countries, Internet INTERNET 6 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 17 March, 2006 IEA revises down forecast for world oil demand growth in 2006 PARIS, 15 March — The International Energy Agency (IEA) revised down on Tuesday its forecast for 2006 world crude oil demand growth from 1.78 million barrels per day (bpd) to 1.49 million bpd. In a monthly report, the which about 50 per cent passenger and freight agency estimated a total are diesel powered. traffic this year. oil consumption of 84.7 In North America and The agency said, million bpd worldwide, key industrialized nations “While there is reason to with a decrease of some of the Pacific, demand is expect prices to soften if 300,000 bpd, mainly due likely to grow by just everything runs smoothly, to high oil prices and a 20,000 bpd in the first the reality is that limited decline in demand in quarter compared with the spare capacity and a bumpy Southeast Asia, one of the same period last year, the road ahead are likely to major dynamos of the IEA said. support prices for some world’s growth. It noted especially that time.” The current oil prices But it said the demand oil consumption could are now floating at around for 2006 was still higher decline 20 per cent this year 62 US dollars a barrel in Ferrari Formula One driver Michael Schumacher of Germany arrives at than the demand growth of in Indonesia. London as well as in New Sepang International Circuit outside Kuala Lumpur, on 16 March, 2006. 1 million bpd in 2005. The IEA also pointed York. —MNA/Xinhua Malaysia will host the grand prix on Sunday.—INTERNET For Europe, the report out that airlines were said that Western European making “substantial adju- countries were gradually stments to their opera- Iraq war to define Bush’s role in history replacing gasoline-fuelled tions”, mainly through WASHINGTON, 15 March — Three years after the US-led invasion, the Iraq war is dominating George vehicles with new cars, of increasing international W Bush’s presidency and defining his legacy, the USA Today newspaper reported on Tuesday. As Franklin Bush’s own advisers of America’s first war of all that had been pushed Roosevelt is remembered predicted that history the 21st Century, the front- aside because of Iraq, most for his leadership would judge Bush by his page report said. political scientist Steven during World War II and decision to order a Many of the Pre- Schier was quoted as Lyndon Johnson for preemptive attack on Iraq sident’s signature pro- saying. Nearly two-thirds Vietnam, presidential in March 2003, and by the grammes and proposals, of Americans said the Iraq scholars and some of long-term consequences such as No Child Left war would be what Bush Behind, individual was most remembered for, investment accounts in according to a USA Today/ Hungary to produce H5N1 Social Security, and tax CNN/Gallup poll taken simplification, have either last Friday and Saturday. vaccine for humans been overshadowed, The invasion of Iraq BUDAPEST, 15 March— approved by the national beaten back, or shelved. has shaped not only what Hungary has developed an pharmaceutical institute And the “compre- the President has done in effective vaccine for (OGYI) for commercial hensive conservative” he office —including not humans to be immune production in Hungary, the described in 2000 has been only what the Presi- from the H5N1 bird flu Prime Minister said. replaced by a wartime dent hopes will spark virus, Prime Minister According to him, the President arguing the need democracy across the Ferenc Gyurcsany vaccine would be used on to stay the course in a Arab world— but also announced on Tuesday. people who are working conflict that lasted longer what he has been unable The vaccine was closely to sick birds. and cost more than most to do because of the war’s Chinese paramilitary police practise in a training developed by the However, the vaccine can Americans imagined when demands, the report said. session in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu Province, Hungarian company only fight against the it began, according to the “There’s no ques- on 15 March, 2006. —INTERNET Omnivest and has been current H5N1 virus in report. tion the President’s legacy human bodies, but not a The Administration will be dominated by Macedonian police seize 124 kilos mutated form. was expecting to move on Iraq,” March Mc Kinnon, At present, the H5N1 to other issues in Bush’s a top adviser in Bush’s of heroin bird flu virus is trans- second term like Social presidential campaign, missible among birds, but Security reform and the was quoted as saying. TIRANA, 15 March — Macedonian police and Customs on Monday seized can’t be transmitted among “ownership society”, but MNA/Xinhua 124 kilogrammes of heroin at Novo Selo on the border with Bulgaria, and humans. However, it’s detained four people, according to reports reaching here from Skopje on widely feared that the virus Tuesday. Floods ravage would mutate one day and In a subsequent raid attempt was foiled during Customs officers. cause a global epidemic. at the suspects’ home, northwestern Turkey a routine inspection by MNA/Xinhua MNA/Xinhua police also confiscated ANKARA, 15 March — Floods ravaged Turkey’s two machine-guns, four northwestern province of Edirne, paralyzing revolvers, one rifle and a transportation and isolating towns, semi-official large amount of Anatolia news agency reported on Tuesday. ammunition, in addition Edirne governor local authorities would to one kilogramme of Nusret Miroglu was also evacuate students at heroin and about twenty quoted as saying that the boarding schools. amphetamine pills, the floods had reached the Torrential rains and Macfax news agency “dimension of disaster”. melting snow have caused reported. Access to some towns rivers to flood since The seized narco-tics in the province could Monday in a large border have an estimated value only be made through area including parts of of 3.7 million euros (4.4 armoured vehicles and Bulgaria, Greece and million US dollars), transportation in key roads Turkey. The Edirne according to police. and crossings came to a Meteorology Office said on The Turkish-bought halt, said the report, adding Tuesday that rains would drugs, which had been Iraqi soldiers check motorists on a bridge after authorities imposed a vehicle ban that restaurants and tea continue on Tuesday and put into 234 packages, to prevent violence in Baghdad, on 16 March, 2006. Three months after it was gardens were inundated that the temperature would were being transported elected, Iraq's parliament will finally sit on Thursday but the session will be largely while many trees were drop to around 1 degree into Macedonia in a lorry. devoid of practical meaning as talks on forming a national unity government are uprooted. centigrade. But the smuggling still deadlocked.—INTERNET Miroglu said that the MNA/Xinhua THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 17 March, 2006 7
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Human rights that everyone should have mean of more than 100 Asian and African countries or the the times when their colonial machinery was operat- the rights to freely handle ways by oneself for one’s declaration of the Bandung Conference is the same as ing in high gear. What the colonialists during the livelihood, and food, clothing and shelter. That is the UN Charter. Adhering to the UN Charter, Bandung time said was that God had assigned them to civilize freedom of human beings. Every nation has their Declaration, five principles of peaceful co-existence, the savages and barbarians. natural resources and produce. So, the people of international law norms, and ASEAN principles, They branded Nazi Germany, Mussolini’s Italy respective nations have the rights to exploit their Myanmar has been taking all possible self-reliant and Prime Minister Tojo’s Japan as “Fascist Axis”, resources. If the people of a nation are deprived of measures for not falling under alien subjugation again, “Fascist terrorists” and “Fascist murderers”. In access to their natural resources and foreigners are ensuring non-disintegration of the Union, perpetual launching the Cold War against the Soviet Union that unjustly exploiting the resources, such people are existence of independence and sovereignty, enabling was becoming a global power after the World War II, considered to be under alien subjugation. national people to fully enjoy the taste of independ- they profusely used the words “socialism that leads In the past centuries, many nations in Asian, ence free from armed insurgency, and raising the to poverty”, “single party totalism”, “democracy” African and South American continents accounting standard of living of the people through the effective and “free world”. for 77 per cent of the Earth fell under servitude of European imperialists. The British governor of India presented Myanmar, which British colonialists un- The four-point People’s Desire and six reso- fairly occupied, as New Year gift to the British Queen on 1 January 1886. British companies exploited lutions of Bagan mass meeting are the voices of Myanmar’s timber, minerals, precious stones and oil the national people. Myanmar is creating its as well as agricultural produce to raise the finance of the British government. At that time, the British and destiny on its own in accordance with the European capitalists had seized the administrative power from landlords. They defined the word ‘de- desire and voices of the people to transform mocracy’ that the colonialist governments enabled their national imperialists to freely trade and colonize itself into a peaceful, modern and developed weaker nations and protected their national colonialists through authority and armed forces. Brit- democratic nation. That is indeed an effort of ish capitalist parliamentary democracy deprived Myanmar of her independence, sovereignty, democ- Myanmar to fully enjoy human rights. racy, human rights and natural resources. More than one hundred countries including use of terrestrial and aquatic resources. Jimmy Carter who became US president in Myanmar fought the imperialists, sacrificing a lot of The four-point People’s Desire and six resolu- 1976 polished the word “human rights” the West had lives, blood and sweat of their people to regain their tions of Bagan mass meeting are the voices of the ignored for a long time, and used it as a weapon to independence. Indeed, they strove for regaining their national people. Myanmar is creating its destiny on its attack the Soviet Union, Middle East Arab countries human rights, independence and natural resources. own in accordance with the desire and voices of the prospering with oil wealth and especially, the Iran When old colonialists and neo-colonialists rivaled people to transform itself into a peaceful, modern and led by Ayatollah Khomeni. The US government was for new colonies in World War II, patriotic national developed democratic nation. That is indeed an effort attacking the socialist countries and Arab nations, on people stepped up their fight against the colonialists of Myanmar to fully enjoy human rights. whom the US did not have a clear view, by saying to regain their sovereignty. Thanks to the desire, Some quarters are trying to disturb and that they were violating human rights and lacking tenacity, unity and sacrifice of lives of national obstruct Myanmar’s sound results of peace, stabil- freedom. people, Myanmar regained its independence on 4 ity, unity and progress with the slanders on human The duty to slander the countries unjustly January 1948. rights violations. The US State Department issues listed by the US president as the ones embracing According to the principles of the UN and UN the so-called global report on human rights prac- religious extremism and violating human rights falls Charter, all countries have to recognize equality of all tices every year, and presents it to the Congress. on the State Department. During the Carter adminis- nations — big and small, and to respect for the Usually, the US congressmen are hostile towards tration, the US State Department assigned the US sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations. the nations facing lopsided and unjust accusations missions abroad to compile a report on the receiving They have the right to freely shape their destiny. All of the US State Department. country once ever year. The compilers and the coun- countries have to abstain from intervention and inter- The US State Department attacks the targeted tries that are unjustly accused know best the reports ference in the internal affairs of other countries. All nations that are against the US domination by issuing are just lies compiled to the liking of Washington. the members (so far 191 countries) have signed the reports on human rights practices, drugs and religious The word “human rights” has become dirty UN Charter. freedom every year. The targeted countries always and corrupt as it has been misused by former The aims of the UN are to avert wars like the reject and refute the US accusations angrily and colonialists, neo-colonialists and intruders again and world war that cost millions of lives, to prevent any strongly. In this way, the US accusations are always again. Hence, we need to find out how Myanmars country or bloc from using force to trouble the world end up in the dustbins of global nations. and many other global countries view it and the true people, and to enable world people to live freely. In The US and its allies usually change their words situation of human rights in America so aggressive in the UN Charter, it is stated that even the UN has no or accusations they use as political weapons according slandering other countries around the world. rights to interfere in the internal affairs of member to the changing eras. The dictionaries of the colonial (To be continued) countries. powers including the US not even had words like (Translation: MS + TMT) The policy of non-aligned movement made up “freedom”, “democracy” and “human rights” during Myanma Alin: 16-3-2006 8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 17 March, 2006 More dams for year-round… (from page 1) in the area of greening 30-mile radius of Yangon City all the year round, and the plan to supply water to Zaungtu Dam. Director U Hla Myint of Construction-6 of Irrigation Department reported on construction of Tarwa, Paingkyon, Shwehlay and Kayan sluice gates that will prevent flow of salty water into Thanlyin, Kyauktan, Kayan, Thongwa and Kawa townships and that will protect fresh water in the same area included in the project area for greening 30-mile radius Yangon City all the year round, supply of water to 65,000 acres of farmlands through water supply methods. Director-General U Win Shwe of Department of Water Resources Utilization submitted reports on supply of water to farmlands from eight river water pumping stations in Yangon Division, General Man- ager Dr Min Aung of Myanma Agriculture Service on cultivation of 1.2 million acres of monsoon paddy exceeding the target in Yangon Division, and arrange- Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein inspects progress of building Ngamoeyeik river water pumping project. — MNA ments being made for growing 240,000 acres of sum- mer paddy, and Head of Water and Sanitation of supply of water to Yangon City from Ngamoeyeik Dam. In conclusion, the Secretary-1 stressed the need to control equal supply of water to the City and farm- lands. The Secretary-1 and party oversaw greening of Ngamoeyeik Dam and its environs and gave necessary instructions to officials. With the aims of growing double cropping, supplying water to farmlands in rainy season if neces- sary, taking flood prevention measures of Ngamoeyeik Creek, and supplying 135 million gallons of water to Yangon City daily, implementation of Ngamoeyeik Dam Project started in 1992-93, and the tasks were completed in 1994-95. Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Senior General Than Shwe formally opened the Dam on 26 March 1995. Ngamoeyeik Dam is an earth embankment meas- uring 15,500 feet by 75 feet. The dam can store 180,000 acre-feet of water. The Secretary-1 and party proceeded to the site of Ngamoeyeik River Water Pumping Project that will benefit 8,000 acres of farmland. The project is being implemented by DWRU near Moksoe Nyaungbin Vil- YCDC Dr Tun Than Tun on supply of 135 million region are to be submitted as soon as possible. It is lage of Hlegu Township. gallons of water to city dwellers. necessary to build Wagadok and Kodukwe dams for Director-General U Win Shwe of DWRU re- Chairman of Yangon City Development Com- contribution to the plan for greening 30-mile radius of ported on facts about the project. Lt-Gen Myint Swe mittee Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin gave a supple- Yangon City all the year round and cultivation of gave a supplementary report on river water pumping mentary report. summer paddy. He quoted that the Head of State had projects in Yangon Division involved in the plan for Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Ministry of Defence given guidance to construct dams and embankments greening 30-mile radius of Yangon City all the year explained tasks are being undertaken for realizing the and feeder canals at the same time. As such, all are to round. plan to green 30-mile radius of Yangon City all the carry out tasks in line with the guidance of the Head of The Secretary-1 inspected completion of the year round, and functions of water supply from State. lake of the project that is 72 feet long, 60 feet wide and Ngamoeyeik Dam to farmlands and Yangon City. YCDC is to coordinate with Irrigation Depart- 13 feet high. The Secretary-1 and party left the project After hearing the reports, Secretary-1 Lt-Gen ment for repairing the main canal to be able to extend site in the evening. — MNA Thein Sein said that the expenditure for repairing four canals and sluice gates in Kungyangon and Kawhmu Fire fighting drills practised at Mandalay Sub-printing House YANGON, 16 March the Township FSD U Soe bers. the Township FSD fire Round-table discussion — The talks on fire pre- Than, Platoon Com- The Deputy Chief prevention and fighting vention co-organized by mander (in-charge) of Pale Editor explained the in- tasks. held in Htaukkyant Myanma Alin-Kyemon Ngweyaung Ward Auxil- structions of the Ministry Next, demonstra- YANGON, 16 March — Deputy Leader of Reha- Sub-printing House of iary Fire Brigade U Khin of Information for putting tion on fire fighting drills bilitation and Reintegration Working Group Daw Khin News and Periodicals Maung Thein and mem- out fire, and the Head of followed.— MNA Myo Myint of Myanmar Women’s Affairs Federation, Enterprise under the Min- accompanied by Leader of the Sub-Working Group for istry of Information and Prevention against Trafficking in Persons Daw Khin Aungmye-thazan Town- May Soe, Leader of the Sub-Working Group for Pre- ship Fire Services Depart- vention of Violence against Women Professor Daw ment, was held in con- Htay Htay and members, held a round-table discussion junction with the practice together with 183 women workers from Mingaladon of fire fighting drills at Industrial Zone at the Dhammayon of Shwekyetyet the sub-printing house in Pagoda in Htaukkyant, Mingaladon Township, yester- Aungmyethazan Town- day afternoon. ship on 10 March after- It was attended by Patron of Yangon Division noon. Women’s Affairs Organization Daw Mar Mar Wai, It was attended by Chairperson of Yangon Division WAO Daw Khin Deputy Chief Editor Myo Thu and members of Yangon North District and U Nyunt Zaw and offi- Mingaladon WAOs. cials, Fire Brigade mem- Daw Khin Myo Myint and Prof Daw Htay Htay bers of the sub-printing gave lectures on legal affairs of trafficking in human house and staff of the sub- and prevention of violence against women. —MNA printing house, Head of Fire fighting drills being practised at Mandalay Sub-printing House. — MNA THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 17 March, 2006 9 Information Minister receives officials of The Big Deal About Walking New Skies Satellites Singapore BV
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Studies show that walking is GREAT for your health! If you’re not in the best shape (not many of us are!), walking is a great way to improve your overall health and start to get back into shape. Benefits of walking: * Walking lowers your blood pressure! * Walking improves your mental well-being! * Walking helps increase bone density! * Walking helps control your weight! * Walking improves flexibility and muscle tone! * Walking can help reduce cholesterol! * Walking can help lower your blood sugar! * Walking can fit into any lifestyle! * Walking is good for the whole family! Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan receives Mr Ronald Breggen Believe it or not, a 1996 study by the US Department of Health found and Mr Matthew Oh of New Skies Satellites Singapore BV. — MNA that regular participation in a physical activity like walking helps you live YANGON, 16 March New Skies Satellites Sin- yesterday. longer! Part of the reason walking is so great is that it helps lower the risk — Minister for Informa- gapore BV and Mr Mat- Also present at the of heart disease — fit and active people are about 50% less likely to suffer tion Brig-Gen Kyaw thew Oh (Director Sales, call were Deputy Minis- from cardiovascular disease than inactive folks. Total inactivity is almost Hsan received Mr Ronald Asia Pacific) at Myanma ter for Information Brig- as bad as smoking, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol! Breggen (Corporate Head Radio and Tele-vision on Gen Aung Thein and de- For general good health, the experts suggest about a half hour of Office, Netherlands) of Pyay Road, here, at 11 am partmental heads. MNA walking on most (if not every) days of the week. Getting up and getting in motion helps strengthen your bones and increase your flexibility. And Winners of essay, poem, article competitions to mark regular walkers are less likely to suffer injuries from a fall because of their stronger bones and supple muscles. 61st Anniversary Armed Forces Day announced Another benefit of walking (and any regular exercise) is that you’ll sleep better! It makes sense that the body would need to work a little bit YANGON, 16 March— to Ma Shwe Yamin Oo, ard, BEHS-7, ninth standard, BEHS-3 Mawlamyine; Ma Khant before it gets tired. Sitting around all day makes you more weak than truly The following is the list of winners of essay, poem, Myitkyina, Ma Nan Yamon Myint, sixth stand- tired! article competitions to mark Eindray Kywe, eighth ard, BEMS-2 Taunggyi; If you want to up the ante from general good health to better fitness, the 61st Anniversary standard, BEMS-2, Ma Khin Thinzar Tin, fifth make your walking pace a little faster. A good rule of thumb is that you Armed Forces Day. Taunggyi, Ma Wintwah standard, BEHS-11, should be able to carry on a conversation while you walk — but your pace At the Basic Educa- Phyo, ninth standard, Aungmyethazan, Manda- should be brisk. Aim to walk fast without overexerting yourself. Even ten tion High School level BEHS, Thonze, Maung lay; and Maung Yan Paing minutes of walking at a brisk pace (three or more times a week) can help poem competition, Maung Waiyan Kyaw, ninth stand- Oo, fifth standard, BEPPS, make you more fit!— Internet Kaung Wai Oo, ninth stand- ard, BEHS-7, Mawla- Mingalar, Loikaw. ard, BEHS-1, Bago, won myine, and Ma Chaw Wint At the professional the first prize, Ma Theint Wint Mon, ninth standard, level article competition, U Dali, eighth standard, BEHS-1, Myeik. Soe Myint, JAT, BEHS-2 m¨;ys\AN †ray\ l¨>rn\s∑y\ BEHS-3, Dagon stood sec- At the Basic Educa- Thazi won the first prize, ond and Maung Aung Thet tion Middle School essay Daw Nan Tin Yi, JAT, Moe, eighth standard, competition, the prize went BEHS-7, Mawlamyine, the kak∑y\tuik\P¥k\ lk\K¥c\;Sk\ BEHS-6, Pathein, third. to Maung Shamwayla second and Daw Tin Tin The consolation prizes went Dongkhaung, seventh Khaing, JAT, BEMS-11 standard, BEMS-3, Meiktila, the third. Daw Course for taking bird flu preventive measures opened Myitkyina, the second to Ma Htar Shin, SAT, BEHS-2, YANGON, 16 March May Myat Hmu Aung, sixth Myeik; Daw Thanda Chit, — A ceremony to open standard, BEHS-1, Bago Demonstrator, Pali- the course for taking bird and the third to Ma Kay Thetkata Department, Uni- flu preventive measures Khaing, seventh standard, versity of Traditional Medi- was held at the Health BEHS-3, Dagon (North). cine, Mandalay; U Aye Staff Training School in Maung Kyaw Kyaw Thet, Than, JAT, BEMS-2, sixth standard, BEPPS-11, Letpadan; Daw Khin Mar Dagon Township this Maha Aungmyay, Manda- Kyi, Demonstrator, morning. lay; Maung Thuwon Hlaing, Myanmar Department, Chairman of the seventh standard, BEHS-1, Myaungmya Education Work Committee for Pyay; Maung Kyaw Khaing College; and U Win Thein, Control of Bird Flu Dis- Htet, seventh standard, PAT, BEPS, Aye Myint ease Deputy Minister for BEMS-1 Pathein; Ma Ei Tharyar, Pyinmana fetched Health Dr Mya Oo gave Thantha Soe, sixth stand- the consolation prize. a speech. Director-Gen- ard, BEHS-1, Sagaing; and The winners of first, eral Dr Tin Win Maung Nan Htet Htet Aung, sixth second and third prizes will of Health Department Deputy Minister for Health Dr Mya Oo addresses opening of course for taking standard, BEPPS-3, be awarded on 26-3-2006. reported on arrange- bird flu preventive measures. — H EALTH Hlinebwe, won the conso- Those who won prizes at lation prize. university, college and sci- ments made for taking tor (Infection) Dr Soe hands and tasks of sur- flu disease. The course At the Basic Educa- ence level competitions bird flu preventive Lwin Nyein briefed those veillance for prevention will last till 19 March. tion Middle School level may report Higher Educa- measures and outbreaks present on washing of against outbreaks of bird MNA poem competition, Ma Zin tion Department (Lower of avian influenza dis- Thwe Thwe Aye, seventh Myanmar) and winners at ease at chicken. Pre-school teachership course-9 opened standard, BEHS-3, Bago, the BEHS and BEMS level Director Dr Kyaw won the first prize, Ma Phu competitions, the principal, Moe of Medical Research YANGON, 16 March — An open- U Than Oo of Myanmar Academy of Art Pyi Thu, sixth standard BEHS-1, Sangyoung, Department (Lower ing ceremony of pre-school teachership and Science, Coordinator of Education BEMS-6, Pathein, the sec- Yangon, on 23-3-2006. Myanmar) demonstrated course-9 conducted by Department of for All U Tin Nyo, Pro-rector Daw Htoo ond and Maung Nadi The consolation wearing of the suit for Myanmar Education Research Bureau Htoo Aung of Institute of Education Sithmu, sixth standard, prize winners will be BEMS-2, Pyay, the third. awarded at the headquar- prevention against af- under the Ministry of Education took (Yangon) and others. The consolation prizes ters of the respective com- fected area of avian in- place at the department on Pyay Road A number of 233 trainees will at- went to Maung Pyi Soe mands and divisions at the fluenza disease at human in Kamayut Township this morning tend the course till 8 April. The course Paing, fifth standard, ceremonies to mark the beings. Director Dr Tin with an address by Deputy Minister for No 10 will be opened from 26 April to BEMS (Myoma), 61st anniversary Armed Nyunt of Health Depart- Education Brig-Gen Aung Myo Min. May 20. Kyauktan; Ma Hnin Aye Forces Day. ment and Deputy Direc- It was also attended by Chairman MNA Moe Lwin, seventh stand- MNA 10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 17 March, 2006 Rules for competitions to mark International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking announced YANGON, 16 March — The Cen- Name of the contest, Citizenship Scru- tral Committee for Drug Abuse Con- tiny Card number, address and the trol will organize the Short Story, things that it is own creation and that Article, Poem, Song, Painting, Car- the entry did not win prize must be toon, Poster, Photo, Computer Arts and described on the back of the entries Poster Competitions to mark the In- together with signature. The entries are ternational Day Against Drug Abuse to be sent together with two passport and Illicit Trafficking which falls on size photos and brief biography. 26 June 2006. Contestants may take part in the Two entries must be submitted high and middle level State/Division as open class for short story contest Computer Arts Contest. Students from and the entry must be between 3,000 10th standard may compete in the high and 5,000 words. Similar rules are school level contest and 5th and 7th 43rd Myanma Gems Emporium displays a Jade lot worth 1 million euro and designed for the article contest. In the standard students in the middle school the jade lot comprising five jades weigh 125 kilos. song contest, the entry can be sent to level contest. The painting must be (News on page 16) — MNA the open class only. It must be own drawn by IBM computer within two tune solo or chorus song. One entrant hours. Two copies of floppy disk with is allowed to send one entry only. It the endorsement of State/Division Bandits robbed passengers on must be recorded cassette tape entry. DACs are to be sent to CCDAC. The entrant must send two copies of The computer Arts Contest in Ye-Dawei Road song and music notes with the cas- Yangon Division will be held at Uni- sette tape master or CD master. versity of Computer Studies (Hline YANGON, 16 March — Eight the scene. When the motorcyclists The contestants may take part Campus) from 9 am to 11 am on 22-5- Mon bandits robbed passengers off learned what was happening, they made in the open class poem contest. Two 2006. Anybody may send one entry gold and silver and cash at milepost a U-turn to escape robbery. But Maung entries must be sent. It must be cor- only to CCDAC in Computer Digital 79 near Ma-lwe Hill in Yebyu Town- Shwe Thwe, 25, of Ye and Kala Le, rect rules of poem and the stanza must Poster Contest. ship, Taninthayi Division, on Ye- 20, (address still under investigation) be between 50 and 100. Any contestant can send one Dawei Road at about 9.45 am yester- died when the bandits shot at them with Cartoon, painting and poster work in the short story, article, song day. small arms. contests were categorized into four and poem, cartoon, painting, poster, The bandits led by Chan Dein The bandits fled to the west of levels— the under-10 age level, the computer arts and computer poster stopped a mini bus and light bus trav- the road after committing robbery and age 10-15, the age 15-20 and the age competitions. elling from Dawei to Mawlamyine by murder ruthlessly. Local Tatmadaw above -20. The contestant must send The entries are to be sent to threatening the drivers with small arms. columns and police are in hot pursuit the certificate with endorsement of Police Lt-Col Mya Mya, CCDAC of- During the occurrence of the of the bandits. respective school heads. They are to fice, Ministry of Home Affairs, not later robbery, three motorcycles arrived at MNA participate in the practical contest to than 20-5-2006 for short story, article be organized by State/Division and poem contests and 25-5-2006 for DACs. painting, cartoon, poster, photo, com- Anybody to participate in the puter arts, computer poster and song tn\Pui;r˙il˙ l¨cy\Bw photo open class with four colour en- contests. tries measuring 10x14 inches. It must Prize winning list will be an- m¨;ys\kc\;sc\ k¥n\;mam˙ be own creation. The entries must not nounced on 18 June 2006 and the prizes be prize winning work in any contest. will be awarded with ceremony on 26 Any contestants are allowed to win one June 2006. prize and two consolation prizes. MNA m¨;ys\kc\;sc\ Al˙Sc\
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(d) Oedema in head and face The Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department (e) Oedema in comb and wattles The notification on Avian Influenza (bird flu) to the public (f) Haemorrhages and red spots in legs and knee joints (13-3-2006) (g) 100% mortality if it is severe 1. Incidences of Avian Influenza 5. Disease control measures to be taken Avian Influenza (bird flu) is of zoonotic nature, (transmissible to hu- (a) To notify promptly the local authorities or Livestock Breeding man beings) that has occurred since December 2003 and spreads to 14 coun- and Veterinary Department (LBVD) if the disease suspected of tries in Asia and 30 countries in other parts of the world totaling 44 countries. Avian Influenza is noticed. As of the end of February it caused 96 numbers of human death. (b) If chickens are affected with any kind of disease, not to sell out 2. Situation in Myanmar to the market or any other region. Starting from the 1st week of February to the early part of March, the (c) To protect the domestic birds from contact with wild and migra- outbreaks of chicken disease, suspected Avian Influenza occurred in Shwebo tory birds. Township, Kantbalu and KhinOo Townships in Sagaing Division and (d) Not to convey the birds from other farms to the own farm and not Pyigyidagun Township in Mandalay Division. The cause of disease may be to practice mixed farming of different species. due to migratory birds that fly across the country or illegal importation of (e) Not to allow the entry of people including young children from hatching eggs and day-old-chicks. If the dead bird had been vaccinated with outside into own poultry farm Avian Influenza vaccine, it causes complication in disease diagnosis and iden- (f) Whenever enter the farm, use boots, overcoat, head wear, glove tification. and mask for protection. 3. The measures currently taken (g) To keep the farm hygienic and apply disinfectants and lime regu- The above said townships in the southern part of Sagaing Division and larly on the farm. Mandalay Division are confined as restricted zones and the movement con- (h) Not to allow farm workers to poultry markets and to change trol, temporary close down of markets and disease investigation in the poultry clothes and shoes before entering the farm if happens to do. farms are undertaken under the guidance of local authorities. Field investi- (i) To cook well poultry meat and eggs to prevent transmission to gation and disease surveillance are carried out continuously. humans. 4. Signs and Symptoms 6. The Animal Health and Development Law has been promulgated for the (a) Sudden death and high mortality, drop in egg production control of animal infectious diseases. The stakeholders involved in poultry (b) Dull, decreased feed intake and excessive drinking farming and trading are notified to coordinate and cooperate in contributing (c) Difficult in breathing, eye and nasal discharges. effectively to the control of Avian Influenza. 12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 17 March, 2006
ADVERTISEMENTS CLAIMS DAY NOTICE MV YANGON STAR VOY NO (400) Consignees of cargo carried on MV YANGON STAR VOY NO (400) are hereby notified that the vessel will be arriving on 17.3.2006 and cargo will be discharged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon. Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up to Claims Day now declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo from the vessel. No claims against this vessel will be admitted after the Claims Day. SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY AGENT FOR: M/S EAGLE SHIPPING CORPORATION Phone No: 256908/378316/376797 CLAIMS DAY NOTICE MV BANG SAO TONG VOY NO (93)
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Chinese Foreign Affairs > University (CFAU) held an exhibition on Tuesday to Australian teachers released abuse among foreigners mark the 100th anniversary KUALA LUMPUR, 15 possibility of abuse of of the birth of Dag Ham- after being kidnapped in Gaza March —Malaysian visa rulings," Minister of Ministry of Home Affairs Home Affairs Radzi marshkjold, the second UN CANBERRA, 15 overnight by Palestinian secretary-general who died March—Australian gunmen at an Israeli and Ministry of Higher Sheikh Ahmad said. in a plane crash while on a diplomats on Wednesday assault on a West Bank Education are joining He made the remarks peacekeeping mission to are assisting two Austra- jail where a wanted hands to curb any abuses when asked to comment Congo. The exhibition, in lian teachers who were militant was imprisoned. of student visas among on recent news reports video form, shows abducted overnight briefly The pair was abducted foreign students, a senior that many foreigners, Hammarshkjold's in Gaza and then released when 20 men forced their official said on Tuesday. especially Bangladeshis, working experience and unharmed, according to a way into the American "From now on, we will have come to work in the UN peacekeeping spokesman for Australian International School in re-examine all the Malaysia with student operations in recent years. Department of Foreign Beit Lahiya. procedures and see how visas. Hammarskjold was Affairs and Trade. MNA/Xinhua we can lower the MNA/Xinhua appointed UN secretary The Australian general in 1953. He was Embassy in Tel Aviv pivotal in the resolution of arranged for the a number of international head of the Australian conflicts. One of his major Representative Office successes is the formation (ARO) in Ramallah to of the UN's first peace- travel to Gaza to assist the keeping force in 1956. teachers, the spokesman CFAU president Wu said. Jianmin said Hammar- "The ARO repre- shkjold had made an sentative has arranged to outstanding contribution to meet the teachers and promoting world peace. He assist with their crossing encouraged the Chinese at the Erez border crossing university students to learn and help them contact from Hammarshkjold's family members," he said. Turkana women catch fish, on 14 March, 2006 at Loarengak on the shore of lake Drive safely commitment to his work It was reported that Turkana in northwestern Kenya. It hasn’t rained in northwestern Kenya in over a and world peace. the two teachers were year, and along with 11.5 million other people in this semiarid region that also MNA/Xinhua briefly abducted in Gaza includes Ethiopia and Somalia, people are getting desperate.—INTERNET THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 17 March, 2006 13 ¦ © © © © © © © ¥ ¡£¢ ¡¢£¤¥¨£ ¥ ¥ £¢ ¨¨£ ¢ § §§ Food-allergic teens often take risks with food NEW YORK, 15 March — A substantial number of teenagers with food allergies admit to “risk-taking” behaviour such as not reading food labels or knowingly eating foods labelled “may contain” allergens, a survey shows. The poll of 174 food- it is to carry it. If the purse is allergic teens surveyed, 75 travelling (94 per cent) or allergic individuals whose small or the clothes tight- per cent were allergic to going out to eat (81 per cent). average age was 16 years fighting, odds are they will peanuts, 20 per cent to milk, However, when they are also shows that many of not carry it. 75 per cent were allergic to with friends, at school or them do not always carry “If you’re not carrying it two or more foods, 82 per dance events, or on dates, self-injectable epine- with you, it'’s a little hard to cent had had a severe “we are looking at levels phrine—the medication inject it,” Dr Scott H “anaphylactic” allergic that are generally below 65 Show attendees look at new Sony Playstation 3 that is immediately needed Sicherer from Mount Sinai reaction at some time in per cent of the time that they showcased at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las in the case of a severe School of Medicine in New their lifetime, and 52 per are carrying it”, Sicherer Vegas recently.—INTERNET allergic reaction. York warned at an asthma cent had more than three. said. Teens are least likely to Whether or not they and allergy conference in The teens reported they take epinephrine to sports Chile passes pack their EpiPens depends Miami Beach. were most apt to carry events (43 per cent). largely on where they are Among the food- epinephrine with them when MNA/Reuters anti-smoking law going, who they will be with, and how convenient Team led by Indian American develops SANTIAGO (Chile), 15 March — Chilean legislators approved a new anti-smoking law on Tuesday in a China’s flexible “nano-skins” major step toward cutting the habit in a country automobile imports HOUSTON, 15 March — In a scientific new material may well be used to build where more than 40 per cent of the people smoke. breakthrough, a team of researchers highly efficient electronic parts for highly Chile’s Lower House, smokers,” Rossi said. more than double headed by an Indian American professor flexible electronic displays and might the Chamber of Deputies, Twenty-six per cent in first two months has developed a new process to make have many other applications "all the approved the law after of Chilean teenage girls "nano-skins" that would conduct way from adhesive structures and Velcro- BEIJING, 15 March — more than a year of debate and the same proportion China’s automobile electricity for applications like incredibly like materials to nanotube interconnects that pitted a powerful of teenage boys smoke, imports more than bendy electronic displays, electronic for electronics." tobacco lobby against according to a study doubled to 29,000 units in papers and sensors. Carbon nanotubes, made of rolled- health advocates. published last year by the first two months of The "nano-skin" polymer was created up sheets of tightly- bound carbon The law limits the government Na- this year at lower import by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic molecules, are incredibly strong and smoking — but stops short tional Narcotics Control costs, the General Admini- Institute (RPI) in New York, headed by excellent conductors. But the tubes, of banning it outright — Council. stration of Customs said Pulickel Ajayan, the Henry Burlage which can have a diameter of just a in bars, restaurants and The study, covering on Tuesday. Professor of Materials Science and nanometre, are also inflexible and easily other public places. It 1994 to 2004, showed that Shipments through the Engineering. damaged. prohibits the sale of 42.5 per cent of Chileans Huangpu Customs of Swastik Kar, the lead author, said the MNA/PTI cigarettes within 100 yards aged 12 to 64 were Guangdong, a bustling (metres) of schools. smokers. The law was coastal province in south “We are very approved nearly China, reached 4,903 units, content,” said legislator unanimously, with only a a 1.2 fold increase over the Fulvio Rossi, of the few legislators abstaining previous year, the agency Socialist Party of Presi- or voting against it. said in a monthly report. dent Michelle Bachelet. Under the law, The import of sedans “It was a challenge to advertising for cigarettes and off-road vehicles with pass, though, with a lot of is limited and half the a displacement of more debate, and there were a surface of cigarette packs than 2,500 milliliters lot of interests involved, must be printed with surged 90 per cent to 3,211 but it is a law that warnings about the units, accounting for reconciles the rights of dangers of smoking. nearly two-thirds of the smokers and non- MNA/Reuters total.— MNA/Xinhua An Indian fashion designer works on designs on her computer at the Munch Design Workshop, in the technology and outsourcing hub of Bangalore. India, which has long provided the world with clothes, made cheaply to patterns drawn up in Paris, New York and other global fashion centres, is starting to design them too—INTERNET IAF plans to improve training of pilots using simulators BIDAR(Karnataka), 15 March — As part of its efforts to minimize accidents and improve the quality of training of fighter and transport pilots, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is all set to introduce training using simulators in a big way in the coming days. “What we are doing experience different kinds simulator for Dornier now is introducing modern of effects while sitting aircraft. technology in terms of inside an artificial cockpit Macmet has already computerization. We are and can go in for various developed a simulator for moving towards simulator manoeuvres and combat the AN-32 transport aircraft process of training,” Chief profiles while staying on and pilots are being trained of the training command, the ground, he said, adding on that at the training A man looks at the GS450h on display at a Toyota Motor showroom in Tokyo Air Marshal B N Gokhale the IAF headquarters is in command of the IAF in on 16 March, 2006. Toyota began selling the first hybrid sedan in Japan under said here. touch with Bangalore- Bangalore, Gokhale told a its high-end Lexus marque, saying the domestic launch on Thursday would be With the help of based Macmet and other group of visiting reporters. followed by a roll-out overseas starting next month.— INTERNET simulators, pilots can companies for building a MNA/PTI 14 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 17 March, 2006 Munich’s World Cup stadium S P O R T S needs new pitch BERLIN, 16 March — The pitch at Munich's new Allianz Arena, which will host the opening match of the World Cup on 9 June, is being replaced, Bayern Munich said on Tuesday. The German champions, who play their home games at the Arena, said the new pitch would be in place for Sunday's home Bundesliga game against Schalke 04. Wintry weather damaged the pitch which was re-laid last November. "Even Barcelona would have problems playing on a pitch in that state," Bayern coach Felix Magath told Five girls wearing the uniforms of five national teams the club's website. The Munich stadium needed re- which had won the World Cup trophy present at the pairs earlier this month after a bearing in a joint Press conference held in Beijing, on 14 March, 2006. between two concrete slabs was damaged. The World Cup trophy, which stands for the highest It is not the first stadium in Germany to require honour of international football, began its first-ever repairs ahead of the World Cup. This month cracks official visit to China on Monday.—INTERNET were discovered in a supporting column at the brand- Barcelona's Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho chal- Eriksson worried over England new Frankfurt arena, which has also had a leaky roof. lenges Gennaro Gattuso of AC Milan during their In Kaiserslautern, a Bundesliga game had to be injuries before World Cup friendly soccer match named 'Night of the Star', which called off last December after a crack appeared in the is the farewell game of Demetrio Albertini, at San Siro BADEN-BADEN (Germany), 16 March — England east stand of the 85-year-old Fritz-Walter-Stadion. Stadium in Milan, northern Italy on 15 March, 2006. manager Sven-Goran Eriksson says he is concerned The opening match between Germany and Costa about the fitness of three of his key players ahead of the INTERNET Rica will be played in the Munich stadium, which cost World Cup finals. Maccabi Haifa beat Ashdod 280 million euros (335 million US dollars) and was Arsenal defenders Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole, opened last year. — MNA/Reuters along with Newcastle United striker Michael Owen, SC to win Toto Cup are all certainties to go to Germany if fit, but none are TEL AVIV, 16 March — Israeli league leaders currently available. Maccabi Haifa stormed to a 3-0 victory over Ashdod "I have concerns about all of them, I would say, SC to win the Toto Cup for the third time on Wednes- because we're in the middle of March and the season day. Goals by Israel's Shlomi Arbeitman after 10 finishes for them at the beginning of May," Eriksson minutes, Argentine Roberto Colautti eight minutes told reporters on Wednesday. later and an injury time strike by youngster Tomer Campbell, plagued by injury over the past year, Shemesh secured the trophy. made his latest comeback in a reserve match for his Haifa remain on course to secure an unprecedented club on Tuesday but has not played first-team football clean sweep of Israeli domestic titles in one season. since February 1.— MNA/Reuters They lead the title race by 11 points with nine matches left and are favourites to win the State Cup after Striker Villa extends contract reaching the last eight. with Valencia until 2013 Haifa dominated the entire 90 minutes in front of a MADRID, 16 March — Spain striker David Villa has small but noisy crowd at the National Stadium against extended his contract with Valencia until 2013, the an Ashdod side who have yet to win a trophy in any AS Roma's French defender Philippe Mexes of France, Primera Liga club said on Tuesday. Israeli competition. right, is fouled by Middlesbrough's Austrian defender "I hope the player continues to show the same scent Although the Toto Cup is the country's minor cup Emanuel Pogatetz during their UEFA Cup soccer for goal that he is showing now, and that he goes on to competition it carries the highest annual prize in Israeli match at Rome's Olympic Stadium, on Wednesday, 15 make history at the club," Valencia sporting director sport. Haifa's final win and accrued group stage victo- March, 2006. AS Roma won 2-1 but Middlesbrough Javier Subirats said. ries this season were worth over 1.25 million Israeli advances to the quarterfinals on away goals following The 24-year-old moved from Real Zaragoza in June shekels (265,400 US dollars). a 1-0 win in England last week. —INTERNET when Valencia, currently third in the Primera Liga, MNA/Reuters bought him out of his contract for 12 million euros S Korean Park provisionally (14.62 million US dollars). suspended by IOC He scored 32 league goals in his two seasons at Zaragoza and is now Valencia's leading scorer with 15, LONDON, 16 March — family members, of embez- The International Olympic zling about 30 million US second only to Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o in the Primera Committee (IOC) provi- dollars in company funds. Liga, who has 19. Luis Aragones called him up for his sionally suspended South He was given a three- debut in the Spain squad against San Marino last Korean member Park year suspended sentence February and he has since established himself in the Yong-sung on Wednesday. and fined eight billion squad alongside Fernando Torres and Raul. Park, who became an won (7.69 million US Press reports say Villa's buy-out clause has been IOC member in 2002, is dollars). raised to 126 million euros (151 million US dollars). being investigated by the MNA/Reuters MNA/Reuters David Nalbandian of Argentina reaches for a Ethics Commission follow- Injured Deisler out of ing his conviction for em- forehand against Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand Germany friendly against US at the Pacific Life Open tennis tournament in Indian bezzlement in Seoul last month. BERLIN, 16 March — Midfielder Wells, California on 15 March, 2006. —INTERNET In a statement, the IOC Sebastian Deisler will miss Germany's Serbia to play Uruguay in World said it had decided to provi- World Cup warm-up against the United sionally deprive Park "of States next week because of a right knee Cup warm-up all the rights, prerogatives injury, Bayern Munich said on Wednes- BELGRADE, 16 March — Serbia and Montenegro and functions deriving from day. will play Uruguay in Belgrade on 27 May in a final his IOC membership whilst Bayern said an arthroscopy would warm-up for the World Cup finals, the country's foot- the Ethics Commission be needed to determine exactly how ball association (FSSCG) said on Wednesday. continues its inquiry and serious the injury was. Deisler would "A friendly match against Uruguay will be an until the judicial authorities definitely miss Sunday's Bundesliga excellent final test for the World Cup," the FSSCG said have rendered a final judge- game against Schalke 04 as well as the in a statement. Uruguay failed to qualify for the finals ment". friendly international on March 22 in in Germany after losing out on penalties to Australia in Park, a prominent busi- Anna-Lena Groenfeld of Germany hits a Dortmund. the South America/Oceania play-off. nessman and president of backhand against Maria Sharapova of The injury-prone Deisler has had Serbia and Montenegro are drawn in Group C with the International Judo Fed- Russia at the Pacific Life Tennis Open in four operations on his troublesome right the Netherlands, Argentina and Ivory Coast, for the eration, was found guilty, Indian Wells, Calif, on 15 March, 2006. knee. tournament, which begins on 9 June. — MNA/Reuters along with three other INTERNET MNA/Reuters THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 17 March, 2006 15 Foreigners kidnapped by Palestinian militants GAZA, 16 March — Palestinian militants kid- napped six foreigners, in- cluding four Americans and two French women, in the Gaza Strip on Tues- day, demanding an imme- diate halt of an on-going Israeli raid on a West Bank Yin Yin Khaing, winner of Best Woman Athlete of the Year 2005 and U Kyaw prison. Khin, winner of Best Coach seen together with Vice-President of Myanmar Track A group, calling itself and Field Federation U Min Thein and Secretary U Mya Than Htaik at the “Jivara Gaza” which is ceremony to present awards to outstanding athletes on 14-3-2006. affiliated with the Popu- (News reported)—NLM lar front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), claimed responsibility for New drug developed for the abduction. The group’s spokes- WEATHER Alzheimer’s treatment in China man Abu Ra’aed told a local Palestinian radio that BEIJING, 16 March — cipal investigator at the Research suggests it Thursday, 16 March, 2006 Researchers from the Chi- CAS Kunming Institute might also improve his group kidnapped four Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 nese Academy of Sciences of Botany, said Wednes- memory, Hao said. Americans, who were employees at the Elite hours MST: During the past 24 hours, rain have (CAS) are excited about a day in a telephone inter- The research was American School in the new drug that might prove view with Xinhua that joined by the CAS been scattered in Taninthayi Division and weather northern Gaza Strip, and has been generally fair in the remaining areas. Day to be a breakthrough for animal tests showed that Kunming Institute of Zoo- two French women in the temperatures were (3°C) to (4°C) above normal in the treatment of Alzhei- Phenchlobenpyrrone was logy, the Drug and Dis- Beit Hanoun town in the mer’s. at least eight times more covery and Design Centre northern Gaza Strip. Kachin, Northern Shan and Kayin States, upper The new drug, which effective than the Alzhei- of the CAS Shanghai In- The group threatened Sagaing, Mandalay and Taninthayi Divisions and goes by the Latin name of mer’s drug, Aniracetam stitute of Materia Medica to hurt the hostages if the about normal in the remaining areas. The significant Phenchlobenpyrrone, was granules. and Tianjin Academy of Israeli Army did not halt day temperatures were Minbu and Aunglan (40°C) approved by the State Pharmacological re- Materia Medica. its operation at a major each. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded Food and Drug Adminis- search showed that the The research team has prison in the West Bank were Myeik (0.23) inch and Dawei (0.16) inch. tration for phase I clinical new drug is able to pro- obtained four patents for town of Jericho. trials. tect the brain from anoxia Phenchlobenpyrrone. Earlier in the day, Is- Maximum temperature on 15-3-2006 was raeli troops surrounded Hao Xiaojiang, a prin- and nerve cell damage. MNA/Xinhua 99°F. Minimum temperature on 16-3-2006 was 66°F. and stormed into the Jeri- Relative humidity at 09:30 hrs MST on cho prison, demanding the 16-3-2006 was (65%). Total sunshine hours on 8:05 am 5:35 pm surrender of six militants ¢¤¦¨ ¢¤¦¨ ¢¤¦¨¨¨¦¨¨ <¨¨¦¨¨= <¨¨¦¨¨= <= ¡¥§¥ ¡£¥§¥ ¡£¥§¥! .§ £! £ £ .£§£ ! £ £ .£§£ ££££ © © % © % % 7. 8. jailed there, including 15-3-2006 was (9.0) hours approx. &¨¨¨ &¨¨¨ &¨¨¨ §*!* §*!* §*!* ( ( ( 8:20 am (PFLP leader Ahmed Rainfalls on 16-3-2006 were nil at Mingaladon, ¨¨¨¨ ¨¨¨¨ ¨¨¨¨ > § §* !* > §£ §* !* > §£ §* !* £ £Saadat. ? ? ? 8. The mirror images of ? Kaba-Aye and central Yangon. 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Cable Newlight, PO Box No. 43, Telephones: Editors 296115, Manager 296864, Circulation 297093, Advertisement 296843, Accounts 296545, Administration 296161, Production 297032 (Office) /297028 (Press). 4th Waning of Taboung 1367 ME Friday, 17 March, 2006 Commander meets entrepreneurs for growing 100,000 acres of physic nut YANGON, 16 March — Brig-Gen Hla Htay Win, Chairman of Yangon Di- vision Peace and Devel- opment Council and Com- mander of Yangon Com- mand, met with entrepre- neurs who will put land under physic nut plants in Yangon Division, at U Ba Lwin Hall of Basic Edu- cation High School No 2 in Dagon Township this afternoon. Also present on the Commander Brig-Gen Hla Htay Win speaking at the meeting on growing of physic nut plantations in Yangon Division. — MNA occasion were Joint-Sec- retary of Yangon City Committee for physic nut and saplings, agricultural visory Committee for allotments of land for the Departmental officials Development Committee Cultivation and members, technology and require- physic nut Cultivation entrepreneurs and require- discussed cultivation of U Aung Than Win, the Sec- departmental officials, and ments for meeting the suc- Commissioner U Hla Soe ments, and Division Man- physic nut plants. Officials retary of Yangon Division local authorities. cess of the plan to grow of General Administration ager U Aung Hsan of answered the questions Peace and Development First, the commander 100,000 acres of physic Department reported on Myanma Agriculture raised by entrepreneurs. Council and members, the explained matters related nut plantation in 2006. the plan to grow 100,000 Services on cultivation The meeting ended with chairman of the Yangon to entrepreneurs, cultiva- Chairman of the acres of physic nut planta- system and matters related concluding remarks by the Division Supervisory ble land, physic nut seeds Yangon Division Super- tion in Yangon Division, to boosting production. commander. — MNA 1,572 foreign, local merchants visit Gems Empo Myanmar Gems Empo- rium Central Committee Managing Director of Myanma Gems Enterprise U Thein Swe and secre- taries of the respective subcommittees who also rendered assistance to them. Chairman of the central committee Deputy Minister for Mines U Myint Thein arrived at the mart in the afternoon, and cordially conversed with the merchants. He left the A ruby stone weighing 33.39 carats worth 3.5 million euro. —˚MNA mart in the evening. The 43rd Myanmar Gem merchants check jade lots at 43rd Myanma Gems Emporium. —˚MNA Gems Emporium is being held at the Mart on Kaba YANGON, 16 spected gems including lot from 9 am to 5 pm. Aye Pagoda Road under March — A total of 1,572 No 2429 comprising five The 43rd empo- the sponsorship of the merchants — 827 from jade blocks weighing 125 rium attracts more mer- Myanmar Gems Empo- 232 companies of 11 for- kilos (reserve price Euro chants than the previous rium Central Committee. eign countries and 745 $ one million), lot No 63 ones because of the qual- MNA from 337 local compa- which is a 33.39-carat ruby ity and quantity of the jade, nies — attended the 43rd (reserve Euro $ 3.5 mil- gems and pearls displayed A lot of golden pearls Myanmar Gems Empo- lion), and lot No 233 com- there are higher than its weighing 62.50 rium at Myanma Gems prising 68 pearls of gold predecessors. mommes worth 17,300 Mart here today. hue weighing 62.50 The merchants euro. The foreign and mommes (reserve price were conducted round the MNA local merchants in- Euro $ 17,300) at the mart mart by Secretary of