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* Development of agriculture as the base and all-rounddevelopment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participation interms of technical know-how and investments fromsources inside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be keptin the hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integ-rity and preservation and safeguard-ing of cultural heritage and nationalcharacter

* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education

standards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peaceand tranquillity, prevalence of law andorder

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 27 June—A strong earth-quake of intensity (6.7) Richer scale with its epicenteroutside Myanmar (Andaman Island, India region)about (500) miles of Kaba Aye Seismological ob-servatory was recorded at 18 hours, 12 minutes, 46secconds MST today.—MNA

Earthquake Report

NAY PYI TAW, 27June— The Government,the people and theTatmadaw are taking partin sanitation tasks, healthcare and reconstructiontasks in the storm-hit re-gions. Tatmadaw (Navy)

Tatmadaw (Navy) takespart in reconstruction of

storm-hit villageshas already transported2555.845 tons of goodsto storm-hit regions.

Members ofTatmadaw (Navy) are un-dertaking reconstructionand sanitation tasks instorm-hit villages in co-

operation with local resi-dents at Kyeinchaunggyi,Kyunthaya, Kyung NyoGyi, Mawo andThazingon village-tractsin Bogale Township, atAleyekyaw, Amat,Kanbae, Saluseik,Thingangyi, Hlwasar,Daneseik, Hlaingboneand Konegyi village-tracts in Labutta Town-ship and at Hinegyikyunand Kyaukkalat,Pyinkayaing andThetkethaung villages inNgapudaw township.

MNA

YANGON, 27 June— Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence attended a ceremony to hand overnew school buildings donated by Yangon DivisionUnion Solidarity and Development Association thismorning.

He also inspected upgrading work being done inYangon City.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe, accompanied by Chairmanof Yangon Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of Yangon Command Brig-Gen WinMyint, USDA CEC member (Yangon Division In-Charge) U Aung Thein Lin and officials attended theceremony to hand over the new school buildings ofNo. 25 Basic Education Primary School on Pinyastreet in Ward 5, South Okkalapa Township.

Commander Brig-Gen Win Myint, USDA CECmember U Aung Thein Lin, Director-General U AyeKyu of No. 3 Basic Education Department and Secre-tary U Aye Myint of Yangon Division USDA cut theribbon to open the ceremony.

(See page 9)

Yangon Division USDA donates new schoolbuildings to Basic Education Schools

Naval servicemen distributing clean water to local peoplein storm-hit villages. —MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe inspects new schoolbuilding of No. 25 Basic Education PrimarySchool in South Okkalapa Township. —MNA

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PERSPECTIVES* Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesireSaturday, 28 June, 2008

It is incumbent upon all the citizensincluding new generation youths to preservethe national culture. Failure to preserve thenational culture may lead to underminingnational prestige and integrity, and that mayresult in the disappearance of the State andthe people.

At present, the world nations areexperiencing the impetus of globalization.Some big nations are making an attempt tooverwhelm developing countries politically.Meanwhile, some nations with superiority inwealth and technology are trying to exporttheir culture and traditions to developingnations making better use of modern ICT.

Currently, it is found that most of youthsare under the influence of alien idea,expression and lifestyle through music, finearts, song and dance and modes of dress.

The advancement in science andtechnology is a good sign. But the people arerequired to make their idea, knowledge andway of thinking new and innovative to keeppace with changes and developments.

In the meantime, the new generationyouths are to avoid copying music, song anddance and modes of dress of alien nations.And all are to remain vigilant against theinfiltration of modes of dress, expressionand lifestyle that are contrary to Myanmarculture.

The preservation of culture andtradition is indispensable for a nation or arace. All in all, the entire national people areto live with modes of dress that are in line withMyanmar culture and traditions. Only then,will they be able to preserve and promotetheir national prestige and integrity.

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YANGON, 27 June—Giordano donated a waterpurifier, a 500-litre steel tank and a generator worthover K 1.2 million to No. 4 Basic Education PrimarySchool in Pyapon Township in Ayeyawady Divisionon 24 June.

MNA

Giordano donates waterpurifier

NAY PYI TAW, 25 June—Secretariat memberof the Union Solidarity and Development AssociationMinister for Industry-1 U Aung Thaung met withUSDA secretaries and executives of eight districts inMandalay Division at Mandalay Division USDA on23 June. Next, Chairman of Myanmar IndustrialDevelopment Committee U Aung Thaung visitedMandalay Taw Win Industry Co Ltd in MandalayIndustrial Zone. He looked into production of SteelBall at the Foundry Department, water pump, 3 Kilowattdynamo, machine parts of physic-nut grindingmachines, automobile spare parts, machine parts offarming equipment, oil purifier, pumps, physic-nutgrinding machines, water cooling pump, panel box atthe Machine Shop Department, lathes and machineryat the Machine Shop 2 there. He called for massproduction of import-substitute goods throughadvanced technologies and skill. On 24 June, MinisterU Aung Thaung together with managing directors of

Industry-1 Minister inspects project siteof glass factory

various industries looked into cement factory inKyaukse industrial zone where the managing directorof the Myanmar Ceramics Industries reported onmeasures to be taken for higher output of the factory tothe minister. The minister inspected control system inthe Computer Control Room and called for meeting theproduction target. Next, he proceeded to project site ofglass factory in the Kyaukse industrial zone andinspected allocation of land, estimated supply of sandand raw materials. The project will be implementedsoon. Myanmar Ceramics Industries and China CAMCEngineering Co Ltd of People’s Republic of China arejointly implementing the project.The estimated quantityof the sand deposit is 4.8 million tons which can beused for about 154 years. Upon completion, transparentglass, color glass, bullet-proof glass, windscreen, mirrorand so on can be produced and the production capacityof the factory is 117 tons per day and 41700 tons peryear.—MNA

Minister U Aung Thaung visits Mandalay Taw Win Industry Co Ltd.—MNA

Giordano makes donation of water purifier to

No. 4 Basic Education Primary School in

Pyapon Township.

MNA

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Gun rights activists cheer upon hearing the newsfrom US Supreme Court that Americans have a

constitutional right to bear arms, ending a ban onowning handguns in Washington, DC in its first

ruling on gun rights in 70 years.—INTERNET

Mayors: Gun ruling won’tstop prevention efforts

WASHINGTON, 27June—Washington’sblanket ban on handgunswill fall and tight gun lawsin places like Chicago andSan Francisco are sure tocome under attack. Butmost of the nation’sfirearms regulations willprobably stay on thebooks, and some

politicians said Thurs-day’s Supreme Courtdecision won’t hinder theirefforts to preventbloodshed. The high courtstruck down the Districtof Columbia’s ban onhandguns, ruling thatAmericans can keep gunsat home for self-defense.It was the justices’ first-

ever pronouncement onthe meaning of gun rightsunder the SecondAmendment.

But the court said theright to bear arms is notabsolute and suggestedthat the ruling should notaffect federal restrictionson the sale of guns or whomay own them and wherethey may be carried.

“In limiting its opinionto the matter of self-defense, and in saying theright is not absolute, theUnited States SupremeCourt decision today is anexplicit statement ofsupport for cities all acrossAmerica who are creatingreasonable measures tolimit the ability of thosewho will do harm, whowill maim, who will buy,carry weapons illegally,”Philadelphia MayorMichael Nutter said.

Internet

Toxic cargo halts Philippine ferry recovery

Police say teens beathomeless Ohio man

to death

Gunmen kill top Mexican police official, bodyguard

SAN FERNANDO, (Philip-pines), 27 June—Philip-pine officials Fridaysuspended recoveryoperations at a sunkenferry containing hundredsof dead bodies afterlearning it was carryinglarge amounts of highlytoxic pesticide.

Government authoritiesthreatened legal pro-

ceedings against theferry’s operator, SulpicioLines, for not informingthem of the insecticidesinside a 40-foot (12.2-metre) shipping con-tainer.

Some 100 US andFilipino divers have beenworking at the site afterthe Princess of the Starswent down in a typhoonon Saturday carryingmore than 850 people.Only 57 survivors havebeen found.

Sulpicio Lines has “alot to answer for,” Phili-ppines Vice PresidentNoli de Castro, who isoverseeing the recoveryoperation, said in a radiointerview.

He added that passengerferries are not authorisedto carry such chemicals.

The latest news is likelyto complicate an operationwhose slow pace wasalready causing mountinganger. As of Thursday,only 15 bodies had beenpulled from the wreckage.

Officials identified thepesticide as “EndoSulfan” which has beenblamed for causing mentaland genetic disorders, skindiseases and even cancerin rural communities inIndia, according to mediareports.

The pesticide, which wasconsigned to pine-applegrower Del Monte, wassupposed to have beencarried in a cargo ship,according Norlito Vicanaexecutive director of thefertilizer authority.

Internet

Egypt archaeologistsfind ancient painted

coffinsCAIRO, 27 June— A team of Egyptian archaeologists

have discovered several painted wooden coffins,including some dating back to the 13th century BC ruleof pharaoh Ramses II.

“These coffins were found in the tombs of seniorofficials of the 18th and 19th dynasties,” near Saqqara,Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt’s Supreme Councilof Antiquities said on Thursday.

“Some coloured unopened coffins dating back tothe sixth century BC were found as well as somecoffins dating back to the time of Ramses II,” whoruled from 1279 to 1213 BC, he said.

Several statues were also found in the tombs whichrepresent the owners of the coffins, said Ahmed Saidwho heads the Cairo University archaeological teamthat found the coffins.

Internet

CLEVELAND, 27 June—Agroup of teenagers beat ahomeless man to death aspassers-by slowed to watchthe attack, some of whichwas caught on videotape,police said.

Anthony Waters, 42,suffered a lacerated spleenand broken ribs during theattack Wednesday nightand died at a hospital, policesaid. “The pack mentalitygoing on in the city ofCleveland must end,”police Commander CalvinWilliams said Thursday at

a news conference wherehe urged the attackers tocome forward.

Portions of the attackwere caught on a sur-veillance camera outside atowing company on thecity’s east side. Police saidthe videotape showspassing cars slowing towatch three teens attackWaters until he staggeredinto the parking lot, wherehe was assisted byemployees of the towingcompany.

Internet

MEXICO CITY, 27 June—Gunmen killed a topfederal police official andhis bodyguard Thursday asthey ate lunch in MexicoCity, the latest attackagainst authorities waginga nationwide battle againstdrug cartels. Igor Labastidawas director of the federalpolice division monitoringtrafficking and contraband,said a Mexico City securityofficial who was not

authorized to give hisname. Federal policerefused to comment.

Labastida’s secondbodyguard and a womanwere injured.

The motive for the attackwas unclear and policeofficials had made noarrests. The assault was thelatest against Mexicanofficials involved in thenationwide fight againstdrugs and organized crime.

Edgar Millan Gomez,Mexico’s acting federalpolice chief, was killed inMay outside his MexicoCity apartment. Policeblamed the Sinaloa drugcartel. President FelipeCalderon has sent morethan 20,000 troops acrossMexico to take backterritory controlled bysome of the world’s mostpowerful drug gangs.

Internet

A man gives water to a boy who was wounded in

a bomb attack in Anbar’s town of Garma as he

lies in a hospital in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west

of Baghdad on 26 June, 2008. A suicide bomberblew himself up at a tribal council meeting inIraq’s Anbar province on Thursday, killing 20

people, days before US forces are due to hand theprovince over to Iraqi control, police said.

INTERNET

Afghanistan: Allied deathtoll reaches 7-year high

KABUL, 27 June—The number of US andallied troops killed inAfghanistan in June hasreached 40 — the highestmonthly toll of the seven-year-old war.

The latest casualtycame when a coalitionservice member on areconnaissance patrol inwestern Afghanistan waskilled Thursday, the US

led coalition said Friday.The incident took

place in the GulistanDistrict of Farahprovince. Five othercoalition and two Afghansoldiers were wounded.

Three US led troopssouthwest of Kabul inWardak province werealso killed Thursday.

Taliban militantshave increased theirattacks this year. The top

US commander insoutheastern Afgha-nistan, Maj. Gen. JeffreySchloesser, said Tuesdaythat attacks on his troopswere up 40 percent in thefirst five months of2008.

In 2007, 876roadside bombs blew upand 439 were found.This year 431 haveblown up with 354found.—Internet

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SEOUL, 27 June —South Korea’s Customsauthorities announced aset of measures Thursdayto ensure the safety of USbeef.

Earlier in the day, thegovernment published alegal notice of a recentKorea-US beef deal on itsnewsletter, the finaladministrative step priorto the resumption ofimports, despite simme-ring public concerns over

S Korea vows strictercustoms clearance

for US beef

A worker cleans a giant sculpture in the coastalBrazilian city of Santos recently. The giant

sculpture was created by Japanese naturalizedBrazilian, artist Tomie Otake, to celebrate 100

years of Japanese immigration to Brazil.INTERNET

MOSCOW, 27 June— Russia is prepared to sell stakesof up to 49 per cent in its civilian nuclear projects toforeign investors, Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russia’satomic energy agency Rosatom, said on Wednesday.

Russia has resurrected its atomic assets andcapabilities after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, andis looking to build new projects — two new reactors ayear from 2012 to almost double the share of atomicenergy to 30 per cent by 2030. “We’d rather makebillions of dollars together than hundreds of millionsalone,” Kiriyenko told an audience of nuclear executivesand government officials from around the world at theopening of the nuclear conference Atomcon in Moscow.

The Soviet Union developed an extensive nuclearprogramme and built plants across its hegemony butwhen a reactor at Ukraine's plant in Chernobyl in 1986exploded most projects were placed on hold.

But Vladimir Putin, Russian president in 2000-08and now Prime Minister, aims to revive Russia’s atomicreputation and formed a new company calledAtomenergoprom which owns the civilian sector of theRussian nuclear industry.

MNA/Reuters

Russian nuclear chieftempts foreign investors

AMSTERDAM, 27 June— Somali pirates havereleased a Dutch-ownedship they seized a monthago and demanded a 1.1-million-US-dollar ran-som, the Dutch shippingcompany said on Wednes-day.

The statement said the

MADRID, 27 June — Spanish national police detaineda police officer and 37 other people having ties to a drugtrafficking and illegal immigration network, authoritiessaid on Wednesday.

The involved police sub-inspector and his wife usedto sell drugs and launder money in discotheques ownedby themselves, according to the General Directorate ofthe Police and Civil Guard.

Nineteen ground staff members at Marid’s BarajasAirport and a worker of one low-cost airline werearrested on suspicion of transporting suitcases andpackages full of drugs from Venezuela and Colombia.

Nine undocumented immigrants were also arrested.All those arrested except for the police officer are ofColombian origin, authorities said.

Information indicating possible illegal activitiesinvolving the police officer reached the authorities atthe end of October 2007. —MNA/Xinhua

BANGKOK, 27 June — A deputy commander of theArmy Taskforce based in Thailand’s southernmostprovince of Yala was severely injured on Wednesdayduring a bomb blast triggered by suspected southerninsurgent. Another four soldiers on the vehicle wasalso injured, a military source told Xinhua.

The bomb, which was installed by suspectedinsurgents in the area, was triggered by mobile phonesignal on Wednesday afternoon while all the fivemilitary men were on duty by an Army vehicle inYala’s Yaha District.

Major Thanitphon Pongwilai, deputy commanderof Yala Taskforce 14, was travelling in the pickuptruck with his subordinates to train defence volunteersat a village when they vehicle was a hit the blast.

All the five were hospitalized. — MNA/Xinhua

Somalia hijackers release Dutch shipheld for month

captain and crew wereunharmed but it gave noinformation on how it hadsecured the ship’s release.

“Any such detailsprovided in the publicdomain could, we believe,encourage would-bepirates and add furtherdanger to the victims of

such attacks,” DutchReider Shipping BV said.

An ally of the pirateswho gave his name onlyas Abdullahi had said theowners were willing topay 700,000 US dollars .

MNA/Reuters

S Thai bomb blast injurescommander, soldiers

Spain cracks drug traffickingnetwork

mad cow disease.“We will step up

clearance procedures andbuild a system that cantrack the country-of-originof imported beef even afterit enters the local market,”the Korea Customs Ser-vice said.

The service said it alsoplans to oblige importersto clearly label the age andorigin of the meat in a bidto help prevent it frombeing confused withKorean products in theprocess of trading.

Any importer thatbreaks the regulationwould be sternly puni-shed. The Customs ser-vice said that it will alsodesignate 12 Customsclearance offices that willexclusively deal with USbeef shipments.

MNA/Xinhua

US elections: Obama and Clinton holdfirst joint rally

UNITY, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 27 June—Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton todaywill hold their first public event together since Clinton withdrew from the Demo-cratic nomination fight, as they seek to rally Clinton's supporters behind Obamaand regroup the Democratic party for the upcoming general election fight.

The Democrats hope the rally will encourage Clinton backers, many of whomremain bitter about the result of the exhausting 16-month primary fight, to fall inbehind the Illinois senator.

Political observers have little fear her disgruntled supporters will defect toRepublican John McCain, but the party needs to whip up enthusiasm among therank and file, to encourage grassroots Democrats to volunteer and donate money.

The rally, in the aptly named town of Unity, New Hampshire, comes afterseveral days in which both camps have made concerted efforts to unify the party'stop fundraisers. They want to bring Clinton's top donors and cheque bundlersonto the Obama team, and hope well-heeled donors who have contributed thelegal maximum to Obama will help Clinton pay down $10m in outstanding cam-paign debt.—Internet

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in a coal miner uniform in a980 meter deep coal mine in the town of Rovenki in Ukraine’s Donetsk regionto her meeting with leaders of Ukraine’s coal enterprises. Ukraine’s coalmines are considered among the world’s deadliest.—INTERNET

In this image released by Funai on 29 May, 2008,Indians are seen in the ethno-environmental

protected area along the Envira River in Brazil’sAcre state, close to the border with Peru, in May

2008. Anthropologists have known about thegroup for some 20 years but released the images in

May 2008 to call attention to fast-encroachingdevelopment near the Indians’ home in the dense

jungles near Peru.—INTERNET

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Tourism revenue up in Malaysia

Macao schools, transportresume operations

Study says India thirdin sourcing talent

Ukraine to harvest 40million tons grain in 2008KIEV, 27 June—Ukraine’s grain yield will reach 40

million tons in 2008, including 20 million tons ofwheat, an official said on Tuesday.

“According our forecast, we will get 40 million tonsof grain this year, including 20 million tons of wheat,”Minister of Agrarian Policy Yuriy Melnyk told a newsconference.

Melnyk added that Ukraine planned to harvest aroundnine million tons of barley, nine million tons of cornand 2 million tons of legumes and various other cerealcrops. Ukraine harvested around 29.3 million tons ofgrain in 2007, down by 14.5 per cent compared to theprevious year.—Xinhua

Uruguay detects firstnatural gas reserves

MONTEVIDEO, 27 June —Uruguay has detected itsfirst natural gas reserves off its coast, the country’sstate-run energy company announced on Tuesday.

According to the first seismic studies, it is evidentthere are gas accumulations on the continental shelfoff the coast, Raul Sendic, President of Uruguay’sstate-run oil company ANCAP, told a local radiostation.

Sendic said he was “very enthusiastic” about thefinding, which will also allow authorities to determineif there is oil off the coast.

However, surveys must continue to determine theviability of the “exploitation and commercialization”of the natural gas reserves, he added.—Xinhua

Ecuador refuses to resumediplomatic ties with Colombia

KUALA LUMPUR, 27June—Malaysia earned46.07 billion ringgit(14.18 billion US dollars)in tourism revenue lastyear, an increase of 27 percent from the previousyear, local newspaper theNew Straits Timesreported Wednesday.

This was a markedimprovement on thecountry’s revenue of 36.27billion ringgit (11.16billion US dollars) in2006, Deputy TourismMinister Sulaiman AbdulRahman said at theParliament on Tuesday.

For the whole of last

year, the ministry spent40 million ringgit (12.31million US dollars) onoverseas tourism pro-motions and 20.5 millionringgit (6.31 million USdollars) in the first sixmonths of this year,Rahman said.

Xinhua

MACAO, 27 June—Local schools and publictransport resumed normaloperations in Wednesdayafternoon, as tropicalcyclone “Fengshen” con-tinued to move away fromMacao and make its landfallin Southeastern China.

The magnitude of thecyclone has reduced, and itwas located 120 kilometresnorth off Macao coast,sweeping north-westwardat a speed of 15 kilometresper hour, according to theupdate released at 1:28 pmWednesday by the MacaoMeteorological and Geo-physical Bureau (SMG).

The SMG issued athunderstorm warning at1:25 pm. As the bad weatherlessened, local educationauthorities resumed classesin local primary and middleschools, but crchescontinued to be suspendedfor this afternoon.

Meanwhile, ferryservices between Macaoand Hong Kong, sus-pended last night, alsostarted its daily operationsat noon Wednesday, andmost of the flights in theMacao InternationalAirport were resumed.

Xinhua

QUITO, 27 June—Ecua-dor will not resumediplomatic ties withColombia after the latterdecided to postponerenewal of relations,Ecuadorean ForeignMinister Maria IsabelSalvador said Tuesday.“They have talked aboutpostponing the decision,we have made the decisionnot to resume relationswith Colombia,” Salvadortold reporters withoutsaying how long therupture will last. “If thesituation does not

improve,” especiallyColombia’s stancetowards Ecuador, “we donot rule out the eventualpossibility of imposingtrade restrictions,”Salvador added. TheColombian governmentdecided to postpone thereestablishment of diplo-matic ties with Ecuadorbecause of “aggressive”remarks by EcuadoreanPresident Rafael Correa ina recent newspaperinterview. Correa toldPagina 12 that for a full re-establishment of ties, his

government woulddemand that theColombian attack “befully clarified,” and saidthat “the bombs (used)were American”.

Correa and hisColombian counterpartAlvaro Uribe agreed twoweeks ago to reestablishties this week at the tradeattache level, a step towardnormalizing diplomaticrelations severed in Marchafter the Colombianmilitary entered Ecuador’sterritory to chase Colom-bian rebels.

Xinhua

NEW DELHI, 27 June—India has been ranked thirdin sourcing talent, globalstaffing services firmManpower said, the Timesof India reportedWednesday.

India is the third mostpopular country forsourcing talent after Chinaand United States. Asmany as 11 of the 26foreign countries surveyedsourced talent from India,according to the latestManpower Inc BorderlessWorkforce Survey releas-ed on Tuesday.

The other seven majorcountries for sourcingforeign talent across theworld are UnitedKingdom, Germany,Japan, Spain, France,

Canada and Poland. India also received the

highest remittances about27 billion US dollars fromnationals working abroad

in 2007, it is closelyfollowed by China,Mexico and Philippines,Manpower said.

Xinhua

A motorcyclist makes his way through a floodedstreet after heavy rainfall in New Delhi on 26

June, 2008.—INTERNET

Gold jewellery is seen,

in the district museum

of prehistory in Halle,

eastern Germany, on 26

June, 2008. —INTERNET

India’s first electric carlaunched in Delhi

NEW DELHI, 27 June— After 13 years ofresearch and develop-ment, India’s first electriccar Reva was launched inthe capital DelhiWednesday morning,according to the Indo-Asian News Service.

“It is a green day forDelhi. I have been usingthe car myself for shortdistances and I like it a lot,”Delhi’s Chief MinisterSheila Dikshit said at theceremony.

She said Delhi’sgovernment wascommitted to taking stepsto improve the city’senvironment.

“I appeal to all thosewho have several cars to atleast buy one Reva,” shesaid.

To popularize the

battery-operated car,Delhi’s governmentannounced a 15 per centsubsidy on its base price,12.5 per cent exemption ofvalue-added tax (VAT), anda refund of road tax andregistration charges.

The subsidy andexemptions would bringdown price of Reva’s basemodel to 299,000 rupees or7,100 US dollars. It ismanufactured by the RevaElectric Car Co, inBangalore, India.

Xinhua

All items from Xinhua News Agency

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The 3rd July is a significant day forthe entire Myanmar women. Myanmarwomen have earned a good reputationglobally for their enjoying rights andfreedom most, being capable of playing aleading role, managing the householdconcerned, and keeping peace. Someforeign writers in their works stated thatMyanmar women were well capable ofpreserving religious faith, social norms,traditions and culture.

In successive periods, the nation sawpatriotic female political leaders, nunliterati, and royal family member literati.During the colonial period, manyMyanmar women showed their brilliantperformances at risk to their lives to helpthe nation regain independence. In thisage in which the world has been like aglobal community, Myanmar women areserving as entrepreneurs on whom thenation can place much reliance. They aregetting well with fellow partners of othercountries in accordance with the principleslaid down at the World Women’sConference.

The Myanmar National Committeefor Women’s Affairs, a national force ofthe motherland, was formed in 1996. In2003, the committee was reconstituted asthe Myanmar Women’s AffairsFederation, and the 3rd July was designatedas Myanmar Women’s Day. Since then,the day has been celebrated on a grandscale by holding conferences at whichrepresentatives from states and divisionshold discussions and submit reports.

It is common knowledge thatMyanmar women are making a goodheadway in the fight against narcotic drugsin cooperation with the countries thatshare borders with Mekong Region.Members of the MWAF madecontributions towards the tasks forprevention against trafficking in personsby giving educative talks and coordinatingwith the help of members of the MyanmarPolice Force. The drive for enhancing thelife security and development of Myanmarwomen rests on community peace. Withthis concept, members are making all-outefforts to help achieve the goal. Myanmarwomen do not need to stay abroad to earnmoney. On Myanmar Women’s Day, theMyanma Radio and Television boadcastscommemorative TV plays, discussions,songs and costume shows, and prizes foroutstanding performances are awarded towinners every year. Moreover, prizes arepresented to those who are outstanding inliterature, and winners in contests such asRed Cross ability contest, sports events,events for the disabled, photo contestsand article and short story contests,outstanding members of Fire Brigade,and Myanmar Police Force and blooddonors.

MWAF members have takenresponsibilities for protecting and guidingMyanmar women for preservation ofnationalistic spirit, patriotic spirit,traditions, culture and national character.The federation conducts many coursessuch as vocational training courses,

Myanmar Women’s Day thatwill make Myanmar history

Saw Mon NyinnBuddhist culture courses (basic),handicraft courses, typing courses,tailoring courses, and pre-primarycourses, and supervises tasks for maternaland child health, personal hygiene, anddisease control. In this regard, leaders ofrespective groups are also giving closesupervision.

It is fair to say that Myanmar womenhave achieved greater success in sport.They have won many medals in thefootball, volleyball, acrobat, Taekwando,track and field events, judo, swimming,wushu, weightlifting, sepak takrawcontests, international sports events, andOlympic games.

Now, the nation has seen womanengineers who play an important role innation-building tasks. I still rememeberleader engineer Daw Si Than and partyof Yeywa Hydropower Project. Thearticle contest “Let’s work together fordevelopment of women” made splendidprogress. Thanks to the encouragementthe government has given, MWAFmembers have come to preserve andsafeguard national prestige and integritymore than ever, and to be convinced thatthey are duty-bound. It is very hearteningto learn and witness that women aretaking part in various sectors in theinterests of the nation and the people.

Here, there is a notable point that it isrequired of Myanmar women to preservetheir kind-hearted nature, and to remainas those who have shame and fear tocommit unwholesome deeds. Someyoung women are unwilling to preserveown traditions and culture as they thinkhighly of western culture. They need toresist the domination of western culturethat is penetrating the nation at a highspeed. Some young women wear shortsand tight skirts rather than traditionalcostumes. They have been brazen enoughto wear gowns in public. They alsowrongly think that they can be proudonly when they wear mini skirts. So, Ihave to recite the poem I wrote toMyanmar women whenever opportune.The poem is designed to warn immodestwomen that they should not wear westerncostumes but value traditional ones.

Have Myanmar young womenmended their ways? While femaledancer liberty Ma Mya Yin waspresenting dances, one of the fans askedher to take off her stockings, making anoffer that he would award a gold coin ifshe accepted his offer, but in vain. MaMya Yin was in no mood at all toexpose her calves to the audience.Unlike in the past, today, there is noneed to make any offer to have a chanceto see calves of young women.Exposing calves is not discarding ownculture, but I wish they would not wearshort pants and skirts.

I feel as if Myanmar young womenpledge that they will never wear westerncostumes beginning from the 3rd ofJuly this year. I wish it would not be adream.

Translation: MS

YANGON, 27 June— As a gesture of hailingthe Myanmar Women’sDay wellwishers donatedcash to MyanmarWomen’s AffairsFederation here today.

President ofMWAF Daw Khin KhinWin accepted thedonation at MWAFoffice and presentedcertificates of honour tothe donors. Also presenton the occasion wereVice-President DawKhin Thet Htay and CECMembers of MWAF.

Agga Maha ManiJotadhara U Thein Winand Agga Maha ThiriThudhamma TheingiDaw Ni of ShwethanlwinCo donated K 500,000;Myanmar WomenEntrepreneurs’ Asso-ciation K 300,000, UKhin Maung Aye andDaw Khin Lay ofGold Power Co Ltd K300,000.

MNA

Cash donatedto MWAF

* On record for generosityCharity spirit they haveWith goodwill donating they areFor Sasana to perpetuate

* Brilliant women of lettersDeserve are theyPraise and honourOf world and Myanmar

* Win they awardsConferred by int’l communityEfficiency they have inPromoting trade and economy

* Victorious Myanmar womenWinning gold, silver medalsIn ASESN and int’l eventsRepresent Myanmar they

* In factories they are workingStriving to boost productionWith skill and knowledge they haveWomen so hardworking.

* Serving mankind’s interestIs the hand that rocks the cradleSo dutiful are theyCheerful good mothers

Nang Mon Hein(Translation)

Honourable Myanmar Women

MWAF President Daw Khin Khin Win accepts cash donation froma wellwisher. — MNA

Hailing Myanmar Women’s Day

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NAY PYI TAW, 27 June—Minister for Industry-2Vice-Admiral Soe Theinvisited No (2) Machineand Machine Tool Factoryof Myanma Machine Tooland Electrical Industriesin Hline Township on 24June. The minister heardreports on production ofthe factory and productionand distribution of theproducts of the factoriesby the factory generalmanager and the generalmanager of Electrical andElectronic ProductsFactory (Dagon).

Next, the ministerlooked into productionprocess of the factory and

Industry-2 Minister inspects factoriesgave necessaryinstructions.

Afterwards, theminister went to Electricaland Electronic ProductsFactory and inspectedproduction of florescentlamps at the factory.

At No (1) AutomobileAssembling Factory(Yangon), the ministerinspected assembling ofTE vehicles andproduction process of thefactory.

Next, the ministerproceeded to South DagonIndustrial Zone in DagonMyothit (South) and heardreports on productionmatters of the factories in

the industrial zone and gavenecessary instructions.Managing Director UKyaw Win made asupplementary report.

The minister alsovisited factories in thezone.

In the evening, theminister heard reports onarrangements forassembling of double cabautomobile, progress onassembling work andstorage of raw materialspresented by ManagingDirector U Hla Myint Theinand gave instructions onworksite safety andhandling of machine toolsskillfully. —MNA

Construction of Swa Creek Bridge in progressNAY PYI TAW, 27

June — Minister forConstruction Maj-GenSaw Tun this afternooninspected progress inconstruction of Swa CreekBridge.

Senior Engineer UKyaw Lin of BridgeConstruction Special

Group 14 reported onconstruction tasks. Aftergiving instructions, theminister attended to theneeds.

Reinforced con-crete beams have beeninstalled between A1 andP1 and approachstructures and piers are

under construction.Swa Creek Bridge

will be of RC type. It willbe 270 feet long and it willhave a four-lane motorroad flanked by three-foot-wide pedestrian way. Thebridge will withstand 60-ton loads.

MNA

YANGON, 27 June — Under the arrangements ofthe Ministry of Health, a seven-member team led byDr Ni Ni Aye of Bago Division Health Departmentcollected malaria carrier mosquito at the 3rd-mileCamp and the 5th-mile Camp in Labutta Township on23 June evening.

On 24 June, the health staff performed the tasksdisseminating health knowledge and distributing thepamphlets to the victims at the camps, providingmedical check-up to children between two and nineyears of age, testing blood of ailing children andadults, giving anti-malaria medicines to the patients,inspecting larvae at water tanks and ponds, sprayingand fogging. — MNA

Health staff carry outanti-malaria tasks at relief

camps in Labutta Township

Relief aids arrive at YgnInt’l Airport

YANGON, 27 June — Flights carrying 23.76 tonsof relief supplies donated by Thailand-based WFP and74.87 tons of relief aid donated by British Red CrossSociety arrived at Yangon International Airport today.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 26 June—Minister for ElectricPower No-2 Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint met GeneralManager Mr Chen Longbo of China National CompletePlant Import & Export Corporation Limited(COMPLANT) of the People’s Republic of China andparty at his office in here on 25 June. At the meeting,they discussed matters on cooperation in constructionof power plants.—MNA

EP No-2 Minister meets guests

CPT Ministry conducts tree planting ceremonyYANGON, 27 June —

Ministry of Communi-cations, Posts andTelegraphs organized atree planting ceremony for2008 in Nay Pyi Taw

yesterday. Employees ofthe ministry volunteeredfor planting trees in thecompounds of the auto-exchange office, GeneralPost Office, the ministry

and staff quarters of theministry in Nay Pyi Taw.

Minister forCommunications, Postsand Telegraphs Brig-GenThein Zaw planted a treein front of his office duringthe ceremony.

The deputy minister ofthe ministry andemployees participated inthe ceremony and planted2,500 perennial treesduring the ceremony.

After the ceremony,the minister attended aceremony to provide cashassistance to students ofthe staff families of theministry held at the officeof the minister today andpresented cash to thestudents through heads ofthe departments under theministry.—MNA

Officials of Myanmar Writers and Journalists

Association accept 300 sets of personal goods

worth K 1.8 million donated by Ministry of

Industry-1 recently.—H

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw views planting trees at the tree planting ceremony of the Ministry of Communications,Posts and Telegraphs.—MNA

Minister Vice-Admiral Soe Thein inspects assembling of vehicles

at No (1) Automobile Assembling Factory (Yangon).—MNA

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YANGON, 27 June— Concordia Inter-national Co Ltdintroduced high-techi n f o r m a t i o n - r e l a t e daccessories, health gearand engineeringequipment and held aspecial monsoon sale atthe Strand Hotel thismorning.

Company Manag-ing Director Dr Than Win

Civilian loses ankle inmine blast

YANGON, 26 June—A civilian by the name ofU Nyunt Zaw of Bokepyin Township of KawthaungDistrict, Taninthayi Division, lost his left ankle ashe stepped on a mine planted by KNU insurgentswhile he was going into the woods for some rattanon 23 June at 3.00 am. The victim is receivingmedical treatment and other necessary assistanceat Bokepyin Township Hospital. – MNA

YANGON, 26 June — A market vehicle of theMinistry of Industry-1 is selling products of MyanmaFoodstuff Industries, Myanma Paper and ChemicalIndustries, Myanma Pharmaceutical Industries,Myanma Ceramics Industries and Myanma Generaland Maintenance Industries in front of Myoma Marketin Labutta.

A tailoring shop is opened in Labutta for givingservice to the customers. — MNA

YANGON, 27 June —Myanmar Women’sAffairs Federationorganized a paper readingsession to mark theMyanmar Women’s Daywhich falls on 3 July, 2008at the hall of the federationon Thanlwin Road inBahan Township, here,this morning.

It was attended byPresident of MWAF DawKhin Khin Win, Vice-President Daw Khin ThetHtay, CEC members andmembers of the federation,Patron of YangonDivision Women’sAffairs Organization DawKyin Myaing andmembers, socialorganization members,

MWAF organizes paper reading session to mark Myanmar Women’s Day

guests and resourcepersons.

First, PresidentDaw Khin Khin Windelivered an openingaddress.

Next the paperreading session followed.Member of Intellectualand Intelligentsia Groupof MWAF Daw Khin OhnThant presided over thesession. Professor Dr DawKhin San Yi ofManagement Departmentof Yangon Institute ofEconomics read out thepaper on development ofMyanmar micro financeand role of women, JointGeneral Secretary ofMWAF Daw Khin HtarMay, on anti-trafficking

in person and role ofwomen and Secretary ofNationalities AffairsWorking Group ofMWAF Secretary ofCentral WorkingCommittee of MyanmarWomen Sports FederationDaw L Khun Yi, on sportsand health of Myanmarwomen. Resource personsanswered the quarriesraised by those present andthe session went intorecess.

In the afternoonsession, National literaryawards winners Writer DrDaw Tin Win (Dr Ma Tin

Win) presided over thesession. Pro Rector (Retd)of Yangon Institute ofEducation Daw Htoo HtooAung read out the paper on

education for all and roleof MWAF and AssistantLecturer Daw Lei LeiAung, on national cultureand role of Myanmar

women. Resource personsanswered the queries raisedby those present and thesession came to an end.

MNA

YANGON, 26 June—Motorized boats and sixvessels carrying 20 kinds of medicines, 1000 bags ofrice and 210 bags of salt provided by township HealthDepartment to medical teams in storm-hit villages andstorm victims left Athint jetty in Mawlaminegyun forHsinmawechaung, Kyonlamu, Swezon, Myitto,Yuzana, Mathalinkon, Kwinchaung, Kyungyar,Danichaung, Nathmu, Hlinephone, Shaukchaung,Thuyechaung, Mabay, Kyarchaung, Myattha, Kyarhonand Kyatshar villages in Mawlamyinegyun Townshipyesterday morning.—MNA

Concordia Int’l Co Ltd opensspecial monsoon sale

formally opened the saleand managers of relatedsections explained factsabout Fuji Xerox copiers,high-tech information-related accessories,health-related equipment,new model Omnitest Plusimported from Germany,Japan-made GeodeticTotal Stations, DigitalTheodolites, LaserLevels, Autolevels,

GPSs, digital scales andother accessories.

Above machineshave guarantee cards andservice centres are openfor them if there is anytechnical failure.

The salecontinues up to 29 Junefrom 10 am to 5 pm dailyand anyone can visit thesale for free.

MNA

MWAF President Daw Khin Khin Win speaks at the paper reading session in commemoration of Myanmar Women’s Day.—MNA

Daw L KhunYi.

Dr Ma TinWin.

Dr Daw Khin OhnThant.

Visitors at the special monsoon sale of Concordia Int’l Co.MNA

Market vehicle of Industry-1Ministry sells personal,

household goods in Labutta

Medicines, rice and salttransported to storm-hit villagesin Mawlamyinegyun Township

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(from page 1)Next, Lt-Gen Myint

Swe inspected the newschool building funded byYangon Division USDA.

Similar ceremonywas held at No. 6 BEMSin Sarga Street in Ward 4in the township.

The commander, theUSDA CEC member, thedirector-general and thesecretary formallyopened the ceremony.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe,the commander, theUSDA CEC membersprinkled scented water onthe stone inscriptions andinspected the new schoolbuilding.

At the school hall,USDA CEC member UAung Thein Lin explainedthe purposes of the dona-tions and handed over thedocuments related to twonew school buildings toDirector-General U AyeKyu of No. 3 BED.

Managing DirectorMr Jim Bo of Ko Ko RoVolunteer Group donateda set of computer to Head-master U Tun Aung.

Townselders U Shwe

YangonDivisionUSDA …

Aye expressed thanks fordonation.

After that, TownshipEducation Officer U HanMyint presented 1226membership applicationsof USDA from the stu-dents of the two schoolsto USDA CEC member UAung Thein Lin.

The 80-foot lengthand 30-foot width newschool building of No. 25BEPS has four classrooms.The new school buildingof No 6 BEMS is 160 feetby 30 feet and a two-sto-rey one. The school deskswere also donated to thetwo schools.

Yangon DivisionUSDA is constructing two

two-storey school build-ings and three one-storeyschool buildings in the di-vision.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe,the commander and partyinspected roadworksalong Komin Kochin roadand Kaba Aye PagodaRoad in Bahan Township,beautifying tasks inKandawgyi Natural Gar-dens, repairs of pavementalong Merchant Street,beautifying work in MahaBandoola Park and reno-vation to 6-foot width and1000-foot length pave-ment in Yangon-Pyayroad section, and gave in-structions to the officials.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 27June—Minister for For-eign Affairs of the Unionof Myanmar, U Nyan Win,

Foreign Affairs Minister accepts credentialsof FAO Resident Representative

accepted the Credentials ofMr Shin Imai, ResidentRepresentative of the Foodand Agriculture Organiza-

tion of the United Nations(FAO), at the Ministry ofForeign Affiars, here, to-day.—MNA

YANGON, 27 June —Yangon Zoological Gar-dens will be reopened on 1July 2008 as its facilitiesfor keeping animals thatwere damaged due to thestorm have been repaired,it is learnt.

MNA

Ygn ZoologicalGardens to

reopen

YANGON, 27 June —The Golf tournament-2008for old students of No 6Basic Education HighSchool, Botahtaung, (Oldstudents of St Paul) will be

Old Paulian golf tourneyheld on 6 July at Thanlyingolf club. Paulians wish-ing to compete in the tour-ney may contact the ex-ecutives U Maung MaungMyint (Vice-Chairman)

(Ph-547455), U SonnyNyunt Thein (Secretary)(Ph-0985-68353) and UThein Swe (Treasurer) Ph-241224, 0951-93434.

H

YANGON, 26 June—The Fisheries Departmentand Myanmar FisheriesFederation led by the Min-istry of Livestock andFisheries have formed theSupervisory Committeefor Rehabilitation of Fish-eries Industry to restorethe fisheries industry instorm-hit areas inAyeyawady and YangonDivisions.

Boats and a varietyof fishing nets are urgentlyneeded in Ngapudaw,Labutta, Mawlamyine-gyun, Pyapon, Bogale,Kyaiklat and Dedayetownships of AyeyawadyDivision and Kungyan-gon, Kawhmu, Twan-tay and Kyauktan town-ships of Yangon Division.

A total of 1000skilled workers in build-ing boats have been hiredand have carried out boat

Fishing gear for fishermen instorm-hit areas

building tasks in storm-hit townships of the twodivisions. The new fish-ing boats will be fittedwith diesel engines.

The fishing equip-ment have been ordereddirectly from manufactur-ers at home and abroad.Now, the equipment are

being packed to providethe items for the fisher-men each.

So far, somepacked equipment havebeen sent to the townshipsin Ayeyawady Division.The rest are being deliv-ered to the storm-hitareas.—MNA

Trawlers with freshwater fish from delta region arrive at No. 3 Jetty in Kyimyindine Township. MNA

Officers and other ranks of the Tatmadaw (Navy) unloading relief items from naval vessel for victims in storm-hittownships on 27 June.—MNA

Four cubs seen inYangon Zoological

Gardens.MNA

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USDA members contribute to reconstruction ofHsincheyar Village-tract of Labutta Township

Dr Bran Maing of Kachin State USDA giving medical treatment to apatient in Thinganlay Village.

USDA members removing fallen trees in Thinganlay Village ofLabutta Township.

Group Leader U Ye Wint Naing.

Thakayta TownshipUSDA member

U Ye Kyaw Htwe.

Waingmaw TownshipUSDA member

U Thein Htay Oo.

USDA member youths rebuilding ravaged houses hit by the storm inThinganlay Village.

Local people can use fresh water from a lake that has been repaired inThinganlay Village.

We, the mediagroup, visited Uyingonand Thinganlay villagesof Hsincheyar Village-tract to observe progressin reconstruction of thevillage-tract in LabuttaTownship, AyeyawadyDivision.

On 21 Junemorning, we witnessedactive participation ofmembers of the UnionSolidarity andDevelopment Associationfrom States and Divisionsin reconstruction ofThinganlay Village.

We made aninterview with leader ofthe USDA group U YeWint Naing. He said thatunder the arrangements ofthe USDA Headquarters,a total of 276 USDAmembers from States andDivisions were formed intosix groups. Group No. 1was based in HlinephoneVillage of LabuttaTownship, Group No. 2 inPyinsalu, Group No. 3 inHsincheyar Village-tractand Group No. 4 inSaluseik Village, he said.

In Bogale Township, GroupNo. 5 was stationed inKyeinchaunggyi Villageand Group No. 6 in SetsanVillage. And, they all weretaking part in theconstruction tasks of therespective villages, headded.

He continued to saythat as the people in someregions of AyeyawadyDivision were facingdifficulties due to the storm,the USDA member youthparticipated in thereconstruction tasks withUnion Spirit. He said thatthe Group No. 3 formed with49 USDA members from

Kachin State, Yangon,Magway and AyeyawadyDivisions contributed theirservices in reconstructionof Hsincheyar Village-tract.He explained that themedical team together withthe Group No. 3 was

providing health careservices to the local people.

While conducting aninterview with the leader ofthe Group No. 3, we sawparticipation of USDAmembers in building thehouses of the local people inThinganlay Village.

At a place where thefallen trees were being

removed from the main roadof the village, we witnessedmore USDA members atwork. In an interview,USDA member U TheinHtay Oo of WaingmawTownship of MyitkyinaDistrict said that they arrivedat six villages of HsincheyarVillage-tract, and they hadremoved the fallen trees andbranches on the streets andhouses. He told us the USDAmembers also carried outsanitation work andfumigation in the villages.

Afterwards, the

media group observedhealth care services beingprovided by the medicalteam to the local people. Inthis regard, USDA memberDr Bran Maing ofMyitkyina People’sHospital explained thatthere was no outbreak ofinfectious diseases in thevillages where they hadvisited. He said that themedical team was givingtreatment to the patients forcommon diseases andcomplaints such asdysentery and diarrhoea, fluand minor injuries and thechildren under five forrespiratory diseases. So far,the medical team had givenmedical treatment to over170 patients, he added.

Member of YouthAffairs Committee ofYangon East DistrictUSDA traditional medicinepractitioner U Kyaw SoeOo also explainedproviding of treatment tothe patients in the villageswith the use of traditionalmedicines.

We continued tointerview with ThakaytaTownship USDA memberU Ye Kyaw Htwe ofYangon Division who wasremoving silt from the lakeat the village. He said thatthe group was placingemphasis on dredging of alake in each village ofHsincheyar Village-tractfor supply of fresh waterto the local people as soonas possible. In their tasks,he said that the USDAmembers drained out saltywater from the lake,removed rubbish and silt,broadcast lime powder atthe lake and chlorinatedthe water. He explainedthat they had so far madeefforts for supply of freshwater to six villages andlocal people were usingclean drinking water. Atpresent, he added that theyare taking part in othernecessary tasks such asreconstruction of thevillage.

Translation: TTA*****

Article: Myo NyuntPhotos: Thant Zin Tun

(Kyemon)

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VIENNA, 27 June — AUN nuclear watchdogprobe into a suspectedsecret nuclear reactor inSyria is off to “a goodstart” and inspectors weregenerally satisfied withDamascus’s cooperation,their leader said onWednesday.

Top inspector says IAEA,Syria probe off to

“good start”Olli Heinonen, speak-

ing to reporters on hisreturn to Vienna after fourdays in Syria, said his teamwas able to take testsamples “of quite a lot ofthings” at the remote desertsite where Washington saidDamascus had a nascentreactor before it was

destroyed in an Israeli airstrike last September.

“To a great extent, weachieved what we wanted... and agreed to do ... onthis first trip,” he said.

It was too early to drawconclusions about whatIsrael bombed, Heinonensaid, but “it’s been a goodstart”. Syria says it wasonly an ordinary militarybuilding. — MNA/Reuters

VIENNA, 27 June — Iran will withdraw assets fromthe European Union in response to the tightening ofsanctions imposed over its nuclear programme, DeputyForeign Minister Mahdi Safari said in an interviewpublished on Wednesday.

“We are going to withdraw the money and investelsewhere,” Mahdi was quoted as saying by Austriandaily Die Presse.

“If you withdraw more than 100 billion US dollars,then of course this will bring about a scarcity of moneyand have an impact on the world economy.”

The 27-nation EU agreed new punitive measures onMonday targeting businesses and individuals the Westsays are linked to Iran’s nuclear and ballisticprogrammes.

Iran has also been slapped with three rounds ofUnited Nations Security Council sanctions over itsnuclear programme, which the West fears is secretlydesigned to build an atom bomb. Teheran says theprogramme is aimed purely at civil power generation.

MNA/Reuters

LAS VEGAS, 27 June —Republican presidentialcandidate John McCainsaid on Wednesday ifelected he would set theUnited States on a path towean itself from foreignoil by 2025, vowing to“break the power ofOPEC” over Americans.

Calling US depend-ence on increasinglycostly foreign oil a“dangerous situation”threatening the USeconomy, McCain said:“Starting in the term ofthe next president, wemust take control over ourown energy future, andbecome once again themaster of our fate.”

McCain and DemocratBarack Obama, rivals inthe November presidentialelection, are locked in adebate over how to deal

Iran to pull assets from EUover sanctions

Kremlinpresents

Medvedevwith plan tofight graft

MOSCOW, 27 June —Kremlin officials onWednesday presentedRussian President DmitryMedvedev with a draftstrategy for tacklingcorruption, an issue hesays will be a cornerstoneof his time in office.

Medvedev says graftis hindering economicgrowth and underminingthe state, but oppositionpoliticians say he isunlikely to be able to rootout a problem that is deeplyentrenched in Russiansociety.

The plan presented byKremlin chief of staffSergei Naryshkin includeda new anti-corruption lawto be submitted toParliament by 1 Octoberand steps to clean up thejustice system.

MNA/Reuters

Suspicious powder shuts USembassy in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO, 27 June—The US Embassy in theSri Lankan capital,Colombo, was closed onWednesday after a“suspicious powder”was found in thepremises, the embassysaid.

“The suspicioussubstance will be sent toa laboratory for analysis.Until the results are

McCain wants US weaned fromforeign oil by 2025

with a mushroomingenergy dilemma asAmericans reel from fourUS dollars-a-gallon gaso-line that has helped pushthe US economy to thebrink of recession.

McCain in speechesthis week and last has

outlined plans to provideincentives for develop-ment of electric cars,encourage construction ofnew nuclear power plants,permit offshore oildrilling and invest inclean-coal technology.

MNA/Reuters

received and a deter-mination is made that thesubstance does not posehealth or safety risks, theembassy will be closedto the public,” it said inan e-mailed statement.

The heavily-guardedembassy has thrice beenclosed in the past aftersuspicious powder wasdetected but on eachoccasion it turned out to

be a false alarm.A Sri Lankan police

officer said no formalcomplaint had beenreceived on Wednesday.

The consular sectionwill remain available toprovide emergencyservices to Americancitizens during theclosure, the embassystatement said.

MNA/Reuters

An Israeli woman stands outside her damaged house after a rocket fired byPalestinian militants in Gaza landed in the southern town of Sderot on 24

June, 2008.—INTERNET

A full-scale replica of the largest winged creatureever discovered on Earth, the Quetzalcoatlus,

dwarfs a young reporter during a press preview atthe National Museum of Emerging Science and

Innovation in Tokyo, on 26 June, 2008. The two-month long exhibition featuring the restored

skeleton starts from 28 June in Tokyo.—INTERNET

Models take the catwalk at the end of the presentation of the Men’s FashionSpring-Summer 2009 collection of French fashion house Louis Vuitton in

Paris, on 26 June, 2008.—INTERNET

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA TEGAP VOY NO (387)Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA TEGAP

VOY NO (387) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 28.6.2008 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up to Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV XIANG FENG VOY NO (8029)Consignees of cargo carried on MV XIANG FENG

VOY NO (8029) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 28.6.2008 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up to Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S CHINA SHIPPING(MALAYSIA) AGENCY SDN BHD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

UAE to ban junk foodin school canteens

ABU DHABI, 27 June—The education authorities ofthe United Arab Emirates (UAE) will ban junk food inthe country’s school canteens in a bid to combat risingobesity and diabetic levels among school children,local newspaper Khaleej Times reported onWednesday.

In addition to banning junk food in all public andprivate schools, the UAE Ministry of Education alsoplans to set new health standards in schools from thenext academic year starting from September, accordingto the report.

From September, fresh fruits, vegetables, fresh juice,cheese and milk will replace fatty and fast foods inschool canteens, said Ahmad Abdul-Rahman, directorof student activities from the department of sport andhealth programmes in the ministry.

Pizzas and burgers served in schools will be monitoredon how they are cooked and the kind of oil and meatbeing used, he added. —MNA/Xinhua

Australia issues stamp-cointo commemorate Beijing Olympics CANBERRA, 27 June—Australian Post said on

Tuesday an Australian coin shaped as a postage stamphas been created to commemorate the Beijing OlympicGames. One side of the 50 cent “stamp-coin” featuresthe mythical Chinese dragon and the AustralianOlympic Committee logo, and the other side reproducesthe usual image of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Only 8,000 of the coins will be released across thecountry in a tribute to the Chinese belief in the luckynumber eight, Australia Post said.

The limited edition 50c stamp-coin would go onsale priced at 89.95 Australian dollars (85.81 USdollars) starting on Tuesday, Australia Post said.

Group philatelic manager Noel Leahy said the stamp-coin represented China’s proud history and culture.

“With the Beijing Olympic Games set to be one ofthe most spectacular and innovative Games of all time,we thought this was a fitting event to commemorate onAustralia’s first-ever stamp- coin,” Leahy said.

MNA/Xinhua

Malaysia, Philippines navies toenhance security surveillance

KUALA LUMPUR, 27 June—The Royal MalaysianNavy and the Philippine Navy have agreed to set up aspecial communication system to enhance the securitysurveillance at the maritime borders of both countries,local reports said here on Tuesday.

The agreement was reached at the conclusion of ajoint-exercise at Sandakan in East Malaysia’s SabahState on Tuesday, Malaysia’s national news agencyBernama said. Currently, there was no particular systemfor both navies to communicate when they conductpatrols in their respective waters, Bernama said.

Some 250 personnel from both countries’ naviesparticipated in the exercises, the sixth so far this year,which were aimed at enhancing the understanding andcooperation between the navies of both countries.

MNA/Xinhua

A firefighter extinguishes a massive fire at a warehouse in Mumbai on 26June, 2008.—Internet

Chinese, foreign military experts meet

Pakistani Taleban said pullingout of captured town

Mapuche nativesoccupy part ofhydroelectric

company SANTIAGO, 27 June —

A group of 60 natives ofthe Mapuche ethnic groupoccupied Tuesday thecentre of hydroelectriccompany Pullinque in apeaceful way, 817kilometres south ofSantiago, capital of Chile.

According to localreports, the group isreclaiming the use of 30hectares of land thecompany had promised togive them four years ago.

Juan Yancupil, one ofthe group, said thecompany had only giventhem 20 hectares of land.He also reclaimed acompensation of twomillion US dollars for thecompany's occupation andthe usufruct of 11 hectaresof land for more than 60years, where the inlet pipeof Pullinque is located.

Up to now the groupstill stayed in the land ofthe company, but theinstallations of thecompany are normallyfunctioning with the localpolice watching closely.

MNA/Xinhua

PESHAWAR (Pakistan),27 June—PakistaniTaleban militants beganwithdrawing from anorthwestern town onTuesday after capturing itthe previous day in abloody clash with rivals,a government and asecurity official said.

Militants loyal tonotorious Taleban com-mander Baitullah Mehsudseized the town of Jandola,on the main road into theSouth Waziristan ethnicPashtun tribal region onthe Afghan border.

At least 12 people, mostof them members of thepro-government Bitanitribe, were killed. Themilitants also captured 13of their rivals, agovernment official said.

The fighting followsgovernment attempts toend violence by Mehsudthrough talks despiteconcerns from the UnitedStates, which saysnegotiations and peacedeals give militants a freehand to plot attacks.

“The situation hasimproved. There has been

no untoward incidenttoday and they’re movingout,“ Barkatullah Marwat,the top governmentofficer in the region, toldReuters.

“But still, they haveinfluence as many pro-government tribal eldershave left the area.”

A security official saidthe militants were pullingout after a governmentthreat to launch anoffensive against them.

Earlier, the militantstold their rivals to collectthe bodies of their menthat lay scattered in thetown after Monday’sfighting. Khazan Gul, amember of a so-calledpeace committee thegovernment set up, saidnine bodies had been re-covered.—MNA/Reuters

BEIJING, 27 June —Agroup of Chinese andforeign military expertsattended a two-daysymposium here, dis-cussing the role of theArmed Forces in dealingwith terrorism threats,radical religious groups andnatural disasters.

The symposium washeld at the National DefenceUniversity of China in the

western suburbs of Beijingand ended today. Amongthe participants were 131foreign Army officers andChinese military personnel,experts and scholars.

Over the past two days,they shared their views onthe mission and function ofArmed Forces in non-traditional security, theprinciples and patterns ofthe use of Armed Forces in

non-traditional security,relations between non-traditional security andArmy, and non-traditionalsecurity and internationalmilitary cooperation. Theuniversity is the top militaryacademy in the country.Since 2001, the universityhas organized seveninternational seminarson major internationalissues.—MNA/Xinhua

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Rich countries must take leadin tackling climate change

Dutchsmokers

decrease by17% eight

yearsBRUSSELS, 27 June—

The number of smokers inthe Netherlands has fallenby 17 per cent, or nearly100,000 a year, in the pasteight years, according tothe Dutch central statisticsbureau CBS.

At the end of 2007,just over one quarter ofthe Dutch populationaged 12 years and oldersmoked an average ofbetween 15 and 20cigarettes or tobacco roll-ups a day, Dutch mediareported Tuesday quotingthe CBS.

The number ofcigarettes and rollingtobacco sold in theNetherlands droppedabout 20 per cent from2000, the bureau said.

It attributed thedecrease to the introduc-tion of new rules againstsmoking and its adverti-sing, anti-smoking cam-paigns and hikes inexcise on tobacco pro-ducts.

In 2007, cigarettescost 70 per cent morethan in 2000.

MNA/Xinhua

38,000 affected witharsenic-related disease in B’desh

DHAKA, 27 June— Over 38,000 people inBangladesh were affected with arsenic-related diseaseswhile water of 30 per cent tube wells was contaminatedwith arsenic till 2006, said a government survey.

Officials, experts disclosed the figures quoting thegovernment survey at a workshop held by the ArsenicProgramme of Health Department under the HeathMinistry here on Tuesday, private news agency UNBreported. In Bangladesh, arsenic contamination ofground water was first detected in 1993 in northwesternChapai Nawabganj District.

The number of arsenic patients stood at 38,412 in2006, while it was only eight in 1995 and 60 in 1998,the survey said.

Water of some 1.44 million tube wells in 270 sub-districts of 62 out of the total 64 districts wascontaminated with arsenic while 66 million tube wellswere identified as vulnerable. The workshop wasinformed that the government has undertaken differentarsenic mitigation programmes. Medicines have alreadybeen sent to different district and sub-district healthcomplexes. – MNA/Xinhua

Brazil auctions cattle raised inillegally deforested areas

Ahmadinejad to focus subsidies on Iran’s poor

GENEVA, 27 June—Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan saidhere Tuesday thatindustrialized countriesmust take the lead indealing with the threat ofclimate change.

“Looking at globalemissions from a percapita perspective, it isobvious that the richestcountries must take thelead,” Annan told the firstannual meeting of his newhumanitarian forum.

“We must have climate

justice,” Annan said. “Wemust recognize that thepolluters must pay, not thepoor and vulnerable.”

Annan created theGlobal HumanitarianForum after his retirementfrom the top UN post atthe end of 2006.

The two-day meetingfocuses on the humanit-arian threat of climatechange.

It brings togethersenior government of-ficials, leaders of inter-national agencies, CEOs

of major corporations aswell as global financiers.

Annan stressed that theworld should measure andweigh the impact ofclimate change not just inscientific terms, but by itssocial, economic andhumanitarian implica-tions.

“From jobs to health tofood security and peace ...we must consider it thesingle most destructiveforce actively confrontinghumankind today,” Annansaid.

He said the poor andvulnerable are alreadypaying a high price for theeffects of climate change,which is mainly caused byrising greenhouse emis-sions.

MNA/Xinhua

TEHERAN, 27 June —Iran’s President plans toadjust an unwieldy subsidysystem so that it helps thepoor more directly despiteinitial inflation risks, in areform opponents said wasan overdue response tocriticism of his policies.

President MahmoudAhmadinejad has in the pastopposed reforms requiringliberalizing prices of goodslike gasoline and somefoodstuffs for fear of drivingrampant price rises stillhigher, the analysts say.Change may also risk socialunrest.

But reforms announcedin a TV interview andcarried by newspapers onWednesday indicate thepresident, facing growing

grumbles from opponentsand the public, may want torebuff at least some of hiscritics before the 2009presidential election.

“Mr Ahmadinejad is notable to continue the currentsituation. He has to dosomething because thefourth year of MrAhmadinejad’s presidentialterm is starting and actuallyhe did nothing for theeconomy,” said SaeedLaylaz, a businessconsultant and frequentcritic of the president'spolicies.

He said he welcomedthe reforms Ahmadinejadannounced.

Ahmadinejad has notsaid if he will run again butis widely expected to.

Analysts say much willdepend on keeping thesupport of Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei,Iran’s top authority whohas gently urged thegovernment to deal witheconomic problems whilestill voicing backing for thePresident. — MNA/Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO , 27 June— Brazilian EnvironmentMinister Carlos Minc saidTuesday that the

government will auction3,100 cattle raised inillegally deforestedregions.

Minc told a Pressconference that under theoperation Pirate Cattle,they have seized cattleraised illegally in theenvironmental protectionarea Terra do Meio, in thenorthern state of Para.

But he denied that the

operation will raise theprice of beef as thegovernor of Mato Grossostate Blairo Maggi hadwarned.

The environmentminister added that thecattle will be auctionedwithin three weeks, andthe revenue will be usedto finance the socialprogramme “No Hun-ger”.— MNA/Xinhua

The animated character Wall-E in a scene from Pixar’s newest blue-chip animatedmovie ‘Wall-E’. The film features dystopian landscapes, social commentary and alack of conventional dialogue that are rare under the Walt Disney banner, but it sticks to Pixar’s basic themes of love, loyalty and friendship.—INTERNET

This undated handoutartist rendering providedby Philip Renne shows aVentastega. Scientistshave found the fossilskull of the most primitivefour-legged critter inEarth’s history, a keypoint in the evolutionfrom fish to animals thateventually walked onland. At lower left aretwo Bothriolepis.

INTERNET

Residents practice yoga on both sides of the US-Mexico border fence as theytake part in the ‘Yoga without borders’ encounter in Tijuana, Mexico, on 22

June, 2008.—INTERNET

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S P O R T S

France’s weightlifter Melanie Noel lifts during atraining session for the upcoming Beijing Olympic

Games in Villeneuve Loubet, southeasternFrance,on 26 June, 2008.—INTERNET

Germany’s Julia Goerges in action during herWomen’s Singles, second round match against

New Zealand’s Marina Erokovic at Wimbledon,on26 June, 2008.—INTERNET

Rafael Nadal of Spainslips during his matchagainst Ernests Gulbis

of Latvia at theWimbledon tennischampionships in

London on 26 June,2008.—INTERNET

Worthy winners Spain reachEuro 2008 final

VIENNA, 27 June— Spain reached the EuropeanChampionship final for the first time in 24 years onThursday when they turned on the style to overwhelmRussia 3-0 and set up a meeting with Germany inSunday’s final.

Three crisply-created second-half goals by Xavi,substitute Daniel Guiza and David Silva were a fairreward for Spain's gradual dominance in an enthral-ling game played in driving rain.

“We’re in the final, it’s what we all wanted but, ofcourse, now we’ve got a team in front of us which isGermany and that's a very big challenge,” said Spaincoach Luis Aragones, who will step down after thefinal.

“The first half was difficult but our second halfperformance was extraordinary.” —MNA/Reuters

Hiddink says Spain wore us out

Sharapova and Roddickslump out

LONDON, 27 June — Maria Sharapova was floored atWimbledon on Thursday by the daughter of a Greco-Roman wrestler.

Ranked 154th in the world, Alla Kudryavtseva hadbarely registered on the tennis radar but that did notstop her humiliating 2004 champion Sharapova 6-2 6-4 in the second round. After a driving forehand sealedthe biggest win of her career, Kudryavtseva leapt intothe air and shrieked in delight.

“I did expect to win, so yes I believe it!” said abeaming Kudryavtseva, who had come within twopoints of knocking out Venus Williams in the firstround 12 months ago. “Last year I was so close and Ithought I missed it once so I’m not going to miss it asecond time,” added the Russian, whose father was aworld champion wrestler in the 1980s.

Twenty four hours after third seed Novak Djokovicwas ejected from the tournament, Janko Tipsarevickept alive Serbian interest in the men's draw by squeez-ing past twice former runner-up and sixth seed AndyRoddick 6-7, 7-5, 6-4, 7-6. —MNA/Reuters

Brazil honours 1958World Cup heroes

BRASILIA, 27 June — Brazil honoured the great Peleon Thursday and the other eight surviving players fromits maiden World Cup triumph in 1958, a victory thatput the nation on the soccer map and paved the way forfour more titles.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gave the ninemen medals of honour at a banquet dedicated to their5-2 final victory over hosts Sweden 50 years ago.

“You helped us understand ... we could make Brazila winner,” Lula told the players at the ceremony.

Brazil, the most successful soccer nation with fiveWorld Cup titles, is now in a footballing trough withcoach Dunga’s men fifth in regional qualifying for the2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Dunga was jeered after the team stuttered to a 0-0draw with Argentina last week and he has come underpressure to resign following a run of poor results.

Keen on remembering better days, television andnewspapers have been running specials on the anniver-sary celebrations. —MNA/Reuters

Swiss organizers hail peacefultournament

BERNE, 27 June — Swiss Euro 2008 organizers saidon Thursday that their half of the tournament hadpassed off with even less crowd trouble than Germa-ny’s successful World Cup tournament in 2006.

The 2006 World Cup was widely praised for itsfriendly atmosphere but the Swiss authorities said the15 matches held in Switzerland had improved furtheron the German benchmark. “We achieved our aim oforganizing 15 football matches perfectly and havingthem played in a joyful, peaceful and multinationalpublic festival,” Swiss Government tournament coor-dinator Benedikt Weibel told a media conference inBerne.

Swiss police said they had made just 550 arrests andtemporary detentions during the tournament prior toWednesday’s semi-final between Germany and Tur-key — the last of the matches to be played in Switzer-land.

Across the country as a whole, they said the arrestsrepresented one detention for every 4,200 visitors --compared to one in 2,330 at the World Cup.

Switzerland is co-hosting Euro 2008 with neigh-bouring Austria which is still due to host Sunday’stournament final. The Austrian authorities told a me-dia conference last Thursday that they had made just470 arrests among the 1.7 million fans who followedthe 12 group stage matches in the country.

The Swiss organizers said on Thursday they hadexceeded their public transport targets of having atleast 60 per cent of all long distance journeys and80 per cent of short journeys made on bus, tramsand trains.

MNA/Reuters

Lippi replaces Donadonias Italy coach

ROME, 27 June — Italy recalled World Cup-winningcoach Marcello Lippi on Thursday to replace RobertoDonadoni following their Euro 2008 failure.

The lacklustre world champions were eliminated bySpain in a quarter-final penalty shootout on Sunday andthe Italian soccer federation (FIGC) wasted little time inreacting.

“I’m very, very happy and very motivated,” Lippi toldthe ANSA news agency. The 60-year-old has not workedas a manager since resigning after Italy's World Cuptriumph in Germany two years ago.

Lippi turned down a possible return to former clubJuventus as well as several other job offers. He hasoccasionally hinted he regretted quitting the national joband now has the chance to restore the Azzurri’s batteredpride. Hours before Lippi’s appointment, Donadoni wastold he had lost his job at a meeting with federationpresident Giancarlo Abete. —MNA/Reuters

Russia delays UN meetingbecause of Euro soccer

UNITED NATIONS, 27 June — Russia had a UN Secu-rity Council meeting on the Middle East set for Thurs-day postponed because it clashed with a EuropeanChampionship soccer semifinal between Russia andSpain, Moscow’s UN ambassador said.

Asked if reports circulating among diplomats thatRussia had requested the postponement for that reasonwere true, Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told Reuters,“Absolutely. Yes, we did.” Russia is a permanent,veto-holding member of the 15-nation SecurityCouncil. —MNA/Reuters

VIENNA, 27 June —Coach Guus Hiddink saidRussia were simply wornout by Spain and couldonly keep up with themfor an hour in Thursday’s3-0 semifinal defeat atEuro 2008.

Russia’s exciting runcame to an end with a drub-bing by the same teamthat had hammered them4-1 in the group stage.

Having attracted atten-tion with their passing andattack-minded style in pre-vious matches, Hiddink'smen had few shots ontarget after being stifledin midfield.

“We could play withSpain the first half, andpart of the second half wewere still in the game,”Hiddink told a news con-ference. “But their plan totire us by their possessiongame made our marking alittle bit loose in midfieldso we had to run a lot.” For

an hour we could moveand after that it was...verydifficult to play them.

“When you play Spainyou know they have expe-rience and play one-touchfootball and they knowhow to neutralise playersas well. They know ifthey keep on touching theball at the end the oppo-nent is getting fatigued andthen they know they canscore.” Playmaker AndreiArshavin, who had causeda stir in the previous twomatches with his cleverruns and great vision,seemed to be trying toohard and created very lit-tle. —MNA/Reuters

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowers have beenisolated in Kayah State, lower Sagaing, Mandalay andMagway Divisions, scattered in Chin State, AyeyawadyDivision, fairly widespread in Shan State and Bago Divi-sion and widespread in the remaining States and Divisionswith isolated heavyfalls in Rakhine State and upper SagaingDivision. The noteworthy amounts of rainfalls recordedwere Kyaukpyu (3.38) inches, Mawlaik (3.18) inches,Hpa-an (2.87) inches, Maungdaw(2.72) inches, Ann (2.36)inches, Myeik (2.24) inches, Putao (2.13) inches, Bhamo(2.08) inches,Yamethin (0.75) inch and Pyinmana (0.47)inch.Maximum temperature on 26-6-2008 was 89ºF.Minimum temperature on 27-6-2008 was 69ºF. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 27-6-2008 was 84%.Total sunshine hours on 26-6-2008 was (Nil).Rainfall on 27-6-2008 was (0.31) inch at Mingaladon,( 0.67) inch at Kaba-Aye and ( 0.71)inch at Central Yangon.Total since 1-1-2008 was (39.21) inches at Mingaladon,(48.70) inches at Kaba-Aye and (60.47) inches at CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye)was (4) mph from Southeast at (14:30) hours MST on26-6-2008.Bay inference: Monsoon is moderate in the AndamanSea and strong to vigorous in the Bay of Bengal.Forecast valid until evening of 28-6-2008: Rain or thun-dershowers will be isolated to scattered in Kayah State,lower Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway Divisions, fairlywidespread in Shan and Chin States, Ayeyawady andBago Divisions and widespread in the remaining areaswith likelihood of isolated heavyfall in Rakhine State andupper Sagaing Division. Degree of certainty is (80%).State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seas arelikely off and along Myanmar Coasts. Surface wind speedin squalls may reach (35-40) mph.Outlook for subsequent two days: Strong monsoon.Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for28-6-2008: One or two rain or thundershowers with sunnyperiod. Degree of certainty is (80%).Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for 28-6-2008: One or two rain or thundershowers with sunnyperiod. Degree of certainty is (80%).Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for28-6-2008: One or two rain or thundershowers with sunnyperiod. Degree of certainty is (80%).Weather outlook for first weekend of July 2008: Dur-ing the coming weekend, rain or thundershowers will bein Yangon Division, scattered in Nay Pyi Taw and Man-dalay Division.

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Panama seizes 3,027 kilos ofcocaine bound for Mexico PANAMA CITY , 27 June

— A shipload of 3,027kilos of cocaine has beenseized in the provinces ofColon and Veraguas onPanama’s Atlantic coastthat was bound forMexico, Panamanianauthorities said onWednesday.

First Prosecutor ofDrugs Jose Abel Almen-gor said the drug wasseized Tuesday during anoperation called “JK”during which three Pana-manians were detained.

Almengor saidinvestigations areunderway to determinewhether the shipment isconnected to the Sinaloa,Tijuana and Gulf drug

cartels of Mexico. “The seize was made

after weeks ofinvestigation in theAtlantic Zone, known asCorredor Atlantico(Atlantic Corridor),which is frequently usedby drug traffickers totransport drugs fromColombia,” Almengorsaid.

Mexican cartels haveincreased their presencein Panama, while theColombian cartels havebecome only productsuppliers, said Almengor.

This year, Panamanianauthorities have seized 25tons of drugs that werebound for the UnitedStates. — MNA/Xinhua

A file photo shows an endangered Fijian CrestedIguana is perched on a statue of a distant

reptilian cousin, a Komodo Dragon, at Sydney’sTaronga Zoo.—INTERNET

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British paedophile bomb-maker jailed for 16 years

LONDON, 27 June — A right-wing extremist andpaedophile who wanted to “secure a future for Whitechildren” and kept explosives at his Yorkshire flat wasjailed for 16 years on Wednesday.

Martyn Gilleard, 31, from Goole, had been foundguilty at Leeds Crown Court on Tuesday of preparingterrorist acts and of collecting information useful foran act of terrorism.

He had pleaded guilty at earlier hearings topossessing live ammunition and 39,000 indecent imagesof children.

On Wednesday he was jailed 11 years for theterrorism and ammunition charges, 12 months for thechild images and given another four years because ofthe danger he posed to the public, a police spokeswomansaid.

Officers conducting a child pornography raid lastOctober had discovered racist literature, home-madebombs, knives and a rifle at Gilleard's flat.

MNA/Reuters

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Make donations to the storm victims

� Everybody may make donations freely.� Everybody may make donations to any person or any area.

However, wellwishers are urged to avoid unsystematic donations and acts that may tarnishthe image of the nation and its people.

� Certain internal and external anti-government elements, self-centred persons andunscrupulous elements are now seeking their self-interests by sending to the foreign newsagencies stories about relief and rehabilitation work they have made up and shot on video.

� Storm victims are hereby warned to remain vigilant with nationalistic spirit against thedeceptions of the self-centred persons and unscrupulous elements.

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� Skyful liars attempting to destroy nation� BBC lying

VOA deceivingRFA setting up hostilities

� Beware! Don’t be bought by those ill-wishers

Anyone may dial the following phone numbers of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and

Resettlement if he witnesses or knows that the cash assistance and relief supplies donated from

abroad and at home to the storm victims are kept for self-interest, traded, used for particular persons

and organizations, or misappropriated for other purposes.

Head of Office Ph: 067 404021 and 067 404022

Deputy Head of Office Ph: 09 860 1002

Witness may inform about misappropriation ofinternal and international relief funds and supplies

WASHINGTON, 27June— Faced with globalwarming, plants are head-ing for the hills. A study of171 forest species in West-ern Europe shows thatmost of them are shiftingtheir favored locations tohigher, cooler spots.

For the first time,research can show the “fin-gerprints of climatechange” in the distributionof plants by altitude, andnot only in sensitive eco-systems, said JonathanLenoir of AgroParisTechin Nancy, France.

His team found “a

Global warming chases plants uphillsignificant upward shift ofspecies optimum eleva-tion, the altitude wherespecies are the most likelyto be found over theirwhole elevation range.”

Indeed, comparingthe distribution of speciesbetween 1905 and 1985with their distribution be-tween 1986 and 2005showed a shift upward of95 feet per decade, re-searchers led by Lenoirreport in Friday’s editionof the journal Science.

The team studiedthe preferred location ofplants from sea level up to

more than 8,500 feet in sixregions in France.AgroParisTech is the agri-cultural branch of the ParisInstitute of Technology.

This shows that theeffects of climate changeare being felt in all areas,not just mountain summitsand polar regions, ex-plained co-author PabloMarquet of the PontificalCatholic University ofChile.

Unlike animals, ofcourse, plants can’t justpick up and move in searchof a better home.

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