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Volume XIII, Number 160 6th Waning of Tawthalin 1367 ME Friday, 23 September, 2005

Established 1914

Emergence of the State Constitution is the duty of all citizens of Myanmar Naing-Ngan.

Commander attends fourthcash donation ceremony for

Performing Arts Competitions

* Development of agriculture as the base andall-round development of other sectors ofthe economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-orientedeconomic system

* Development of the economy inviting par-ticipation in terms of technical know-howand investments from sources inside thecountry and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economymust be kept in the hands of the State and thenational peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrityand preservation and safeguarding ofcultural heritage and national charac-ter

* 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 Con-

stitution* Building of a new modern developed na-

tion in accord with the new State Consti-tution

Four political objectives

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

YANGON, 23 Sept— Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the

State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent

a message of felicitations to His Majesty Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-

Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, on the occasion of the National Day of the

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which falls on 23 September 2005. — MNA

YANGON, 22 Sept — Chairman of YangonDivision Peace and Development Council Com-mander of Yangon Command Maj-Gen Myint Sweattended the 4th cash donation ceremony of fundraising and prize-distribution sub-committee for 13thMyanmar Traditional Cultural Performing ArtsCompetitions and accepted cash.

The ceremony held at City Hall yesterday wasalso attended by Chairman of Yangon City Devel-opment Committee Mayor Brig-Gen Aung TheinLin, Deputy Minister for Culture Brig-Gen Soe WinMaung, Vice-Mayor Col Maung Pa, No 4 militaryregion commander Col Hla Aye, chairman of thesub-committee YCDC-secretary U Tin Soe andmembers, officials and wellwishers.

First, Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin pre-sented K 3 million donated by YCDC to Com-mander Maj-Gen Myint Swe.

The commander and the mayor then acceptedK 2,016,500 donated by wellwishers including K 1million by entrepreneurs, K 200,000 each by Minis-try of Education, Internal Revenue Department ofthe Ministry of Finance and Revenue and ShweThanlwin Co, K 100,000 each by trainees of MPACourse No 4 and U Khin Maung Than (Ray Ship-ping Enterprise Co Ltd), K 915,000 by businessmen

State Peace and Development Council ChairmanSenior General Than Shwesends felicitations to King of Saudi Arabia

and K 35,000 by Yangon Division CooperativeDepartment. The commander then presented certifi-cates of honour to the wellwishers.

Commander Maj-Gen Myit Swe delivered anaddress saying that to promote Myanmar traditionalculture and hand down lofty national cultural heritageto the youth today, the competitions are held yearly.The 13th competitions are going to take place withseven lofty aims.

By holding it, it is sure that the youth will setpatriotism and culture of our nation in their mind, headded. The commander then expressed thanks fordonations and the ceremony ended.

So far, the sub-committee has accepted K29,275,500 including today’s fourth cash donation.

Those wishing to donate cash may contactthe following number ( ph 251407) of Yangon CityDevelopment Committee.— MNA

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As to educating the peoples of the worldwe must say that the First Fellowship of Bud-dhists held in 1950 in Colombo unanimouslydecided the term Hinayana should be droppedwhen referring to Buddhism existing in Sri Lanka,Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, etc.

Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe accepts cash donated by a wellwisher for 13th Myanmar TraditionalCultural Performing Arts Competitions. — MNA

To promote Myanmar tradi-

tional culture and hand down lofty

national cultur al heritage to the

youth today, the 13th Myanmar Tra-

ditional Cultural Performing Arts

Competitions are held yearly. The

competitions are going to take place

with seven lofty aims.

SITAGU ASHIN ÑANISSARA

(AGGA MAHA PANDITA) D.LIT, PH.D

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* 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 DesireFriday, 23 September, 2005

PERSPECTIVES

Strive for regional developmentwith national spirit

The State Peace and Development Coun-cil has been systematically implementing thedevelopment plan for border areas and na-tional races, the development plan for 24 spe-cial regions and the five rural developmenttasks for harmonious progress of the entireUnion. As a result, all the regions of the Unionare developing simultaneously. The success ofthese plans are due to the concerted efforts ofthe government, the people and the Tatmadaw.We should not be complacent with what wehave already achieved but to make continuedefforts with national spirit to gain more andmore success.

Member of the State Peace and Devel-opment Council Lt-Gen Maung Bo of theMinistry of Defence, accompanied by respon-sible officials, on 17 September visited Kyar-in Seikkyi in Kayin State and inspected thesituation of political, economic and social de-velopment and fulfilled all the requirements.

Thanks to the correct leadership of thegovernment, efforts of township-level respon-sible officials and departmental personnel andactive and enthusiastic cooperation of the lo-cal people, Kayin State, like any other statesand divisions, has become more and moredeveloped. Unlike in the past, the momentumof regional development work can be raised asthey are now enjoying unprecedented peaceand stability. Groups of national races whohave returned to the legal fold are workingtogether with local people for regional andnational development and for higher livingstandard.

Sticking to the national policy and en-listing the united strength of the national peo-ple, the government is making constant effortsfor national development. As all the states anddivisions have favourable climatic and soil con-ditions for agriculture, people are required togrow more crops suitable to their respectiveregions.

We would like to call on all the nationalpeople of the Union, in their drive for bothregional and national development, to pooltheir resources, make the best use of develop-ment infrastructures and at the same time safe-guard them so that they can be durable andserve our interests in the long run.

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Rail Transportation Ministry honours outstanding children

YANGON, 22 Sept—The Ministry of Rail Transpor-tation honoured the children of its staff who passed2005 matriculation examination with four distinctionsand above at the ministry this morning.

Present on the occasion were Ministry of RailTransportation Maj-Gen Aung Min, Deputy MinistersThura U Thaung Lwin and U Pe Than, officials,outstanding students and family members of employ-ees.

The minister delivered a speech, expressing hispleasure for the fact that of the children of the staff, 135passed the matriculation exam with flying colours. Heurged them to make efforts continuously to becomereliable human resources.

The minister presented prizes to four children whopassed the exam with six distinctions; deputy minis-ters, children with five distinctions; and directors-general and managing directors of the departments andenterprises, 15 children with four distinctions. — MNA

Religious Affairs Minister receives Indian AmbassadorYANGON, 22 Sept —

Minister for ReligiousAffairs Brig-Gen ThuraMyint Maung receivedIndian Ambassador MrBhaskar Kumar Mitra athis office at 10 am today.

They held discus-sions on matters concern-ing bilateral religious af-fairs.

Also present at thecall were Deputy Minis-ter Brig-Gen Thura AungKo, Director-General ofReligious Affairs Depart-ment U Myo Kyaw, Di-rector-General of Depart-ment for Promotion and

Propagation of the SasanaDr Myo Myint and offi-cials concerned.

MNA

UMFCCI officials meetSingaporean businessmenYANGON, 21 Sept —

Advisor to the Union ofMyanmar Federation ofChambers of Merchant andIndustry Dr KyawHtin,Vice-Presidents UZaw Min Win and U AungLwin of UMFCCI, Joint-Secretary-1 Dr MaungMaung Lay, Joint-Secre-tary-2 U Tun Aung andparty met a 15-membersdelegation led by Mr Vijay

Iyengar, Managing Direc-tor of Agrocorp Interna-tional Pte Ltd of SingaporeBusiness Federation at theoffice of UMFCCI yester-day afternoon.

Next, they discussedmatters relating to invest-ment opportunity, exportand import, functions oftransit trade and trainingcourses. Afterwards, theysinged an MoU. — MNA

Basic Organizational Courseof Botahtaung Township

USDA concludesYANGON, 22 Sept — Central Executive Com-

mittee member of the Union Solidarity and Devel-opment Association Minister for Forestry Brig-GenThein Aung attended the conclusion ceremony ofBasic Organizational Course No 17 of USDA atBotahtaung Township USDA yesterday.

At the ceremony, the CEC member gave anopening speech and presented prizes to those win-ners.

Next, CEC member Minister Brig-Gen TheinAung donated K 100,000 to Joint-Secretary ofBotahtaung Township USDA U Htin Win. After-wards, Yangon East District USDA executive U SeinMyint gave certificates to the trainees.

Later, Township USDA executive U Hla Theinpresented gifts to the instructors.

MNA

All this needs to be known

* Do not be frightened wheneverintimidated

* Do not be bolstered whenever flattered* Do not be softened whenever appeased

Minister Maj-Gen Aung Min presents prize to a six-distinction winner student. — RAILWAYS

Minister for Religious Affairs Brig-Gen ThuraMyint Maung receives Indian Ambassador Mr

Bhaskar Kumar Mitra.— MNA

UMFCCI Vice-President U Zaw Min Win andManaging Director Mr Vijay Iyengar of AgrocorpInternational Pte Ltd of Singapore exchange notes

of MoU.— UMFCCI

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Asia-Pacific nations battlerising cancer, heart disease

NOUMEA (New Caledonia), 21 Sept — Asian and Pacific nations are strug-gling to stem the rise in cancer and heart diseases which kill 25,000 peoplea day in the region, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

A WHO report onnon-communicable dis-eases in the Western Pa-cific, which stretchesfrom China to Fiji, saidhealth services could beoverwhelmed by chronicdiseases, many largelypreventable, unless extraresources were quicklyallocated.

“There appears a realdanger of under-resourced health servicesin many transitionaleconomies being over-whelmed by the demandfor chronic illness care,”

said the report at a WHOconference in Noumea,capital of New Caledoniain the Pacific.

“Non-communicablediseases, notably heartproblems and cancer,already account forseven out of every 10deaths in the WesternPacific region, and thesituation is expected toworsen.”

The report assessedfive nations, China, thePhilippines, Samoa,Tonga and Vietnam, andfound a increase in

chronic non-communica-ble diseases.

In China, there was an31-per-cent rise in hyper-tension, involving 160million people over theage of 18, between 1991and 2002, it said. In thesix years to 2002 therewas a 40-per-cent rise indiabetes in China, involv-ing some 20 millionpeople.

Obesity in China hadrisen 97 per cent, to in-volve 60 million people,between 1992 and 2002.

MNA/Reuters

BMA says thousands of Britishdoctors cannot find jobs

L ONDON, 21 Sept — Thousands of young doctors might be unable to find work because of ashortage of jobs and the problem could be worse than feared, the British Medical Association saidon Tuesday.

Roadside bombs woundtwo US troops in Iraq

BAGHDAD, 21 Sept — Roadside bombs explodednear three US convoys in and around Baghdad onWednesday, wounding two soldiers, an official said.The attacks came one day after the death toll for USforces rose to more than 1,900 since the Iraq invasion.

In the southern city of Basra, two Iraqi citizenswho were wounded in clashes between British forcesand Iraqi police died in a hospital Wednesday, raisingthe civilian death toll to five, police said. The fightingoccurred Monday when British forces stormed a Basrajail to free two British soldiers who had been arrestedby Basra police.

In the worst attack on US forces Wednesday, aroadside bomb exploded as a US military convoy drovethrough the Abu Ghraib area on the western outskirtsof Baghdad, leaving two soldiers with minor wounds,said US Lt Jamie Davis, a spokesman for the USarmy.—Internet

Kidnapped S African childfound dead in suitcase

JOHANNESBURG, 21 Sept — A 10-year-old SouthAfrican girl who was kidnapped for ransom hasbeen found dead in a suitcase, evoking painfulmemories of a similar case last year which shockedthe crime-weary nation.

Police said Marissa Naidoo's body was discov-ered in a suitcase in an apartment 18 miles east ofJohannesburg on Sunday and that her suspected kid-napper had leapt to his death as detectives forcedtheir way into the apartment.

Local newspapers on Monday had front-pagecoverage about the case, which echoed that of LeighMatthews.

Matthews, 21, was found shot to death south ofJohannesburg nearly two weeks after disappearingfrom her university campus in July 2004, even thoughher father had paid a ransom for her return.

The police said in a statement that Marissa waskidnapped from her primary school on Thursday andthat the abductor had contacted her father demand-ing 500,000 rand (77,500 US dollars) in ransom.

MNA/Reuters

"We know there's aproblem, and we're keento work with the govern-ment to help deal with it,"said Jo Hilbourne, chair-man-elect of the BMA'sJunior Doctors Commit-tee.

But the figures weredisputed by the Depart-ment of Health (DoH)which said they weremisleading.

In July, the BMAwarned that at least 2,000newly-qualified doctorswould struggle to findwork because of a short-age of suitable jobs.

The BMA says theproblem has come aboutbecause an expansion inmedical school places hasnot been matched bymore training posts ormore senior jobs, com-bined with an influx ofoverseas doctors lookingto train in Britain.

A survey of 2,356

junior doctors carried outin August found that al-most one in ten had beenunable to find work.

The BMA said if thatproportion was replicatedacross the country, thenas many as 3,000 doctorscould be affected, forcingmany to go abroad.

"These are peoplewho are desperate towork for the NHS, andhave spent years of theirlives in training at a hugecost to the taxpayer,"Hilbourne said.

However, the DoHsaid it did not activelyrecruit junior doctorsfrom abroad and saidthere were only about

100 young medics whodid not currently have ajob.

"The Department ofHealth does not agreethat 'thousands' of Brit-ish-trained junior doctorsare unemployed, espe-cially when job opportu-nities and training postscontinue to be advertisedeach week," the DoH saidin a statement.

It added that everyyear some junior doctorsleft Britain to train over-seas, such as to Australiaor New Zealand, but de-nied they were being per-manently lost to theNHS.

MNA/Reuters

Heavy rainstormdrenches Jinan

JINAN, 21 Sept —Jinan, capital city of eastChina's Shandong Pro-vince, was drenchedwith a record-breakingrainfall since Sunday,which was the biggestone in the autumn dur-ing the past 54 years,said the city meteoro-logic observatory Tues-day. The unremittingrain, with a precipitationof more than 170 mm,set a new record sincethe city established itsweather records in 1951.

The observatory saidit was very rare to see arainfall exceeding 100millimetres in the autumnin Jinan. The only excep-tion occurred in the au-tumn of 1964, when theprecipitation reached102.3 millimetres.

MNA/Xinhua

Brazil launches first foreign bond innational currency

BRASILIA, 21 Sept — The NationalTreasury Department of Brazil Mon-day launched a foreign-debt bond innational currency real, the first foreignbond in the Brazilian legal tender.

The bond, maturing by 2016, isdesigned to avail the good momentBrazil experiences in the internationalmarket, with a risk estimated by bro-

kerage services at 370 points. According to financial market re-

ports, the demand for the bond is above2.0 billion US dollars.

Initially, the government will offer500 million dollars, but it could raisethe figure to nearly 750 million becauseof strong market demand, reports said.

MNA/Xinhua

Chinese police conduct an anti-terror exercise to save the'hijacked passengers' in a bus in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, on

21 September, 2005. —INTERNET

Families are evacuated from a neighbourhood after a gun battle erupted inBaghdad on 21 September, 2005.—INTERNET

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Ex-UK official says Iraqworse than Vietnam

LONDON, 21 Sept— The invasion of Iraq is a bigger disaster than the Vietnamwar, and Prime Minister Tony Blair should have resigned for making a false casefor intervention, former Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said on Wednesday.

ASEAN lawmakers urge speedier economiccooperation, integration

VIENTIANE , 21 Sept— Delegates to the ongoing 26th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamen-tary Organization (AIPO) appealed for regional countries to accelerate their economic cooperation andintegration. Chinese senior official meets

with foreign trade union leaders SHANGHAI, 21 Sept— Chinese senior official Wang

Zhaoguo met with leaders of international and foreigntrade unions in east China’s Shanghai City on Mon-day, calling for world trade unions to take povertyalleviation as one of their key tasks, local sources saidon Tuesday.

Wang made the remarks on the eve of the Interna-tional Forum on Economic Globalization and TradeUnions (IFEGTU) 2005, which opens here on Tues-day. Wang is vice-chairman of the Standing Commit-tee of the National People’s Congress, China’s toplegislature, and president of the All-China Federationof Trade Unions.

“With the globalization of economy, the world’sfortune has been greatly accumulated, “ Wang said.“However, the gap between the rich and poor has beenenlarged. To reduce and alleviate poverty requiresefforts from each country, the world community, aswell as trade unions.”

He said the Chinese trade unions are willing toenhance cooperation and exchanges with foreign andinternational counterparts based on independence,mutual respect and non-interference in each other’sinternal affairs. It is the second time China hosts theIFEGTU. The major topics for this year’s forum arestrategy and measures to increase unionization, tradeunions and poverty alleviation in the context of eco-nomic globalization.—MNA/Xinhua

“Here we actually wentin, created a war that wouldotherwise not have occurredand now we see a completepolitical vacuum,” Rifkindsaid on British Broadcast-ing Corp TV.

Blair, who based the casefor war on claims that Iraq

was building stockpiles ofweapons of mass destruc-tion, should have resigned“the moment it becameclear that he had misrepre-sented (to) Parliament,abused the intelligenceagencies,” Rifkind said.

“No prime minister whohas gone to war on a falseprospectus — whatevergood faith he may or maynot have had — should re-main in office when it turnsout to be the single biggest

foreign policy disaster thiscountry has known sincethe war,” he said.

Rifkind, who served asforeign secretary in 1995-97, is now a candidate forleader of the oppositionConservative Party.

Although Rifkinddrew a comparison to theVietnam War, Britain de-clined to contribute troopsto support the UnitedStates in that conflict.

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The AIPO's committee on economic matters onTuesday agreed that the 10 members of the Associa-tion of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) shouldintensify current economic cooperation programmesand initiatives, particularly the Vientiane Action Plan(VAP), with due attention paid to narrowing the devel-opment gap, including the digital divide, within theblock to realize the establishment of the ASEANEconomic Community.

The committee also called for stronger support andcontribution from ASEAN member countries, theblock's dialogue partners, and other regional and inter-national organizations to the future ASEAN Develop-ment Fund, the block's common pool of financialresources to support the implementation of the VAPand subsequent action plans.

The six-year VAP adopted in Laos last year is aimedat facilitating the establishment of the ASEAN Com-munity by 2020 on the three pillars, namely security

community, economic community and social-culturalcommunity, and narrow development gaps amongmembers, especially the least developed countries.

The lawmakers appealed for more experienced AIPOmembers to further assist the new members in humanresource development and capacity building.

They also called upon the members to beef up theircooperation on promoting cultural and eco-tourism, bysuch measures as embellishing cultural sites, prevent-ing the loss of artifacts, and preserving cultural diver-sity and religious traditions.

Regarding energy, they urged ASEAN countriesto further promote the utilization and production ofrenewable sources, and called on them to step upcooperation among themselves as well as betweenthe block and its partners on the field, with specialattention paid to encouraging stronger participationof private sector.

MNA/Xinhua

International drums festival opens in Sri LankaIndonesia to buildtsunami

monument in Aceh JAKARTA, 21 Sept—

The Indonesian Govern-ment has planned to builda monument to rememberthe 26 December tsunamiattack, which remains tobe the most destructiveand deadly natural disas-ter in two centuries.

The monument will bebuilt on a mass grave of thetsunami victims in thenorthernmost province ofAceh, which bore the bruntof the disaster, the Antaranews agency reported onTuesday. The mass graveis located at Ulee Lheu Vil-lage in the provincial capi-tal of Banda Aceh.

“Inside the Ulee Lheumass grave, more than14,000 bodies of victimsin last year’s disaster wereburied,” acting BandaAceh Mayor MawardyNurdin was quoted assaying.— MNA/Xinhua

An Iraqi policeman takes cover during a gunfight with guerillas in Baghdad'sMansour District on 21 September, 2005. —INTERNET

Malaysia's King

Yang di-Pertuan

Agong XII (L) and

his grand daughter

visit a reindeer farm

close to Arctic

Circle in

Rovaniemi, Finland,

on 21 September,

2005. The King and

Queen of Malaysia

are on a three-day

state visit to

Finland.

INTERNET

COLOMBO, 22 Sept —Nearly 100 of the world’smost talented masterdrummers gathered in theSri Lankan capital of Co-lombo on Wednesday tokick off the first-everWOMAD (World of Mu-sic, Arts and Dance) SriLanka Festival of Drums.

The festival, which isscheduled to last five days

until 25 September, willshowcase 16 performancegroups from 11 countries,an official from the SriLanka Tourist Board(SLTB) said.

The SLTB-spon-sored festival is the firstWOMAD festival entirelydevoted to the celebrationof drums, rhythms andpercussions.

Celebrating the is-land’s association withdrums, going back over2,500 years, the festivalconsists of indoor and out-door concerts and work-shops in Colombo andother major Sri Lankancities. — MNA/Xinhua

Over 3,000 Bangladeshifishermen missing in rough sea

DHAKA, 22 Sept — Atleast 200 fishing boatswith over 3,000 fishermenaboard went missingtill Tuesday evening asthe trawlers sailing fromthe coastal districts ofthe country are believedto have capsized in theturbulent sea under theinfluence of a deepdepression.

Of the total fisher-men missing in the sea,over 1,000 are from the

southeastern Cox’s Bazarwhile 2,000 are fromBarguna, BDNEWS, aprivate news agency inthe country, reported onWednesday.

Among the missingtrawlers and fishermen,Indian police held at least40 trawlers along with250 fishermen when theytook shelter in the WestBengal coast, the reportsaid.

MNA/Xinhua


India asks UN to adopt strongercounter-terrorism agenda

UNITED NATIONS , 20 Sept— Cautioning the international community againsta non-selective approach to deal with terrorism and non-proliferation, Indiaon Monday focussed on the centrality of the United Nations in fighting themenace asking the General Assembly to adopt a strong counter-terrorismagenda.

Suggesting the United Nations pro-vide “cohesion” to global efforts to dealwith terrorism, External Affairs Minis-ter K Natwar Singh said “whether it isterrorism or non-proliferation, unlessthere is a non selective, uniform andsustained approach, the objective of theinternational community cannot beachieved”.

Singh asserted there is no betterinstitution than the United Nations tofight the scourge of which India hasbeen victim for past two decades.

“As an initiator of the draft Com-prehensive Convention on InternationalTerrorism, India welcomes and is fullycommitted to the decision taken by theheads of state and government to con-clude their negotiations on the conven-tion during the 60th session of the Gen-eral Assembly,” he said at the 60thsession of UNGA.

Making a strong case for expansionof the 15-member Security Council in

both permanent and non-permanent cat-egories, Singh said if the institutionalreform has been faltering and many aredoubtful of securing a just solution, it isbecause the Council does not reflect theworld of today. “One cannot argue infavour of democracy in the rest of theworld and leave the UN Security Coun-cil undemocratic,” Singh said.

“The Security Council is not aboutany country’s prestige or power but abouttransforming the balance power in theworld. Our experience in India from thefreedom movement to present timesshows that diversity is a source ofstrength and effectiveness. The samewould be true of a reformed Council,”the External Affairs Minister said.

Pointing out that a change in thecomposition of the Council is an “im-perative,” Singh said the G-4 frame-work resolution has made UN reforms acentral issue which can no longer beignored. — MNA/PTI

Thai FM optimistic aboutDeputy PM’s bid for UNSG

UNITED NATIONS , 20 Sept— Thai Foreign Minister KantathiSuphamongkhon on Sunday voiced his optimism about the bid of ThaiDeputy Prime Minister Surakiat Sathirathai for the next United NationsSecretary-General.

“I would say so far so good,” Kantathitold Xinhua in an interview, when askedabout the campaign of Surakiat for thepost of the UN Secretary-General.

He added that Surakiat has receivedpositive response from more than 70countries, including China.

“We are optimistic. We hope that thecampaign will proceed in a positive wayin the future,” he said, adding that Surakiatis also the candidate of Southeast Asiafor the top UN position.

Kantathi said he understood that East-ern Europe and Sri Lanka also haveshowed interest in the top UN post. “That’sthe contest that will take place, but so farour candidate is doing well.”

“The most important thing is for himto be able to introduce himself to differ-ent countries and for them to learn abouthis views, and to ask him questions,”Kantathi said. “The main thing is per-sonal touch and of course he will be doingfrom now until the decision time.”

Thai Prime Minister ThaksinShinawatra officially declared Thailand’s

bid to gain the post of the UN Secretary-General in June 2004.

Surakiat, 47, is the youngest DeputyPrime Minister in the Thai history. Hehad served as Finance Minister and For-eign Minister before being appointed tothe current post in early 2004. Surakiat isalso an international law expert and hadtaught at universities.

“He has management skills, and hehas international experience. He is dedi-cated to the work of the internationalcommunity. So he has the strength, back-ground and experience,” Kantathi said.“We feel that he is appropriate for thatposition.”

The incumbent UN Secretary-Gen-eral, Kofi Annan, will wind up his secondterm by the end of December 2006. Thetop UN post is rotating among regionalgroupings within the United Nations.

Under the UN Charter, the Secre-tary-General is picked by the SecurityCouncil, but has to be confirmed by the191-nation General Assembly.

MNA/Xinhua

UN hit by power failureduring General Assembly

UNITED NATIONS, 20 Sept— A power failure shutdown lights, telephones and elevators at the UnitedNations headquarters in New York on Monday,interrupting a hectic day of meetings during theannual UN General Assembly.

Hundreds of staff were evacuated from the upperfloors of the 38-floor building after a fire in an electri-cal switching station on the 28th floor, a UN spokes-woman said.

Foreign ministers of the five permanent membersof the UN Security Council — the United States,Russia, China, Britain and France — had to find a newvenue for their annual lunch set for Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan’s top-floor dining suite.

“There is no reason to believe it has anything to dowith sabotage or terrorism,” UN spokesman FarhanHaq said. “There is no indication of any threat on thebuilding but we have to make sure.”

He said the General Assembly would continue itsannual meeting as normal but many UN staff were senthome because power would only be fully restoredovernight. — MNA/Reuters

Bahrain uncoversmoney laundering ring,

detains Iraqi M ANAMA , 20 Sept— Bahrain police have

detained an Iraqi man after uncoveringsuspic ious f inancial t ransact ions worth29 million US dollars, the Interior Ministrysaid on Monday.

A ministry statement said the man’s assetshad been frozen pending the investigation andthat the public prosecutor was now reviewing thecase.

“Investigations inside and outside Bahrain andwith the help of anti-fraud units in Europe revealed thatthe man and several others conducted several suspectmonetary transfers worth 11 million dinars,” the state-ment said.

It said the Iraqi man had entered Bahrain on aforged French passport.

The statement did not link the transactions to terrorfinancing. Bahrain is a regional banking hub and aclose ally of Washington.

MNA/Reuters

Chinese tourists gather to watch the tide on the bank of Qiantang River inHangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang Province on 20 September, 2005.

INTERNET

At least 16 killed inPhilippine storms

MANILA, 22 Sept — At least 16 people have beenkilled since last week due to the weather disturbancesthat hit many Philippine provinces and cities, includ-ing Metro Manila, relief officials reported on Thurs-day. The Office of the Civil Defence (OCD) deputyadministrator and spokesman Anthony Golez told re-porters that over 3,000 families from the provinces ofCamarines Sur and Ilocos Sur were affected, some ofthem are housed in evacuation centers because of themassive flooding.

Golez said that low-lying areas in the provinces ofIlocos Norte, Cagayan, ALbay, Camarines Sur are stillsubmerged with floodwaters which were as high aswaist-deep, rendering a number of roads impassable tovehicles.

Relief officials have so far accounted about 54million pesos worth of properties, mostly agriculturalproducts, were destroyed by the weather disturbances.

OCD officials said they have already coordinatedwith authorities from the Department of Public Workand Highways for the clearing of landslides that blockedthe vehicle access to several roads in the Ilocos region.

MNA/Xinhua

Flames stream from the broken nose gear of a JetBlue Airbus 320 as itmakes an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport

on 21 Sept, 2005. —INTERNET


India plans 12 satellites in four years to invest 30b rupees BANGALORE , 21 Sept— India is planning to launch 10 to 12 communication satellites in the next four

years with an investment of over 30 billion rupees, Chairman of Indian Space Research OrganizationG Madhavan Nair said on Tuesday.

“We are planning inISRO to orbit another 10 to12 communication satel-lites into GSO (Geo-stationary orbit) in the nextfour years. These satelliteswill increase our onorbittransponder capacity...”, hesaid inaugurating a Satel-lite Users’ InterferenceReduction Group 2005Meeting/Interference

Conference. India’s INSAT system

today consists of eight op-erational satellites and 144total communication trans-ponders in C, extended C,Ku, and S frequency bands.The 10 to 12 plannedlaunches are expected toadd an additional 100 to120 transponders.

“We also have two of

these satellites (out of totaleight) carrying meteoro-logical payloads, and onesatellite being an exclusivemeteorological satellite”,he said.

Later, talking to report-ers, Nair said: “Currently,we have 144 transponders.We have to have some-thing like 256 transpond-ers before this plan period

(2007) itself. Each space-craft will cost around threebillion rupees”. Accord-ing to him, there is a hugedemand for transpondersfrom DTH (Direct-to-Home) and VSAT sectorsas well as for various ap-plications. There is alsoneed to replace some of theold satellites, he added.

MNA/PTI

16 Cambodians killed inMekong River floods

PHNOM PENH, 21 Sept—The annual rain and storms in Cambodia havekilled 16 people living along the Mekong River since the river first beganflooding over its banks more than a month ago, an official said on Tuesday.

Since late July,Mekong floodwaters havedrowned 16 people inKratie, Kompong Cham,Kandal, and Prey Vengprovinces, said Keovy, anofficial of National Dis-aster Management Com-mittee.

The floodwaters havealso destroyed roughly10,000 hectares of the es-timated 32,000 hectares of

rice fields planted alongthe Mekong from up-stream Stung Treng Pro-vince to downstreamTakeo Province, accord-ing to Nhim Vanda, firstvice- president of the com-mittee.

“I’m very worried thatthe flood will have theeventual damages ofbridges, roads and someriparian vegetation,” he

added. However, Nhim

Vanda said that Cambo-dia needs more rain forbetter productivity of fishecology and agriculture.

Cambodia has the an-nual rainy season fromMay to October, and morethan 80 per cent of its 13million population dependon agriculture.

MNA/Xinhua

Pakistani soldier killed inbomb blast in tribal region

ISLAMABAD , 21 Sept— One Pakistani soldier waskilled and five others were injured early Tuesdaywhen a roadside bomb hit an Army vehicle in thecountry’s tribal region close to the Afghan border,a local official said.

The vehicle was on its way to Wana, the locationof the headquarters of South Waziristan tribal agency,when the bomb exploded through a remote control atthe town of Shakai, the official said asking not to beidentified. Shakai is located 30 kilometres away fromWana.

The vehicle was totally blown up in the blast. No people claimed responsibility for the attack. The Pakistani military believes that scores of al-

Qaeda suspects are still hiding in the tribal region.These militants fled Afghanistan in the wake ofUS-led military operations in late 2001.

Pakistan has deployed some 80,000 troops alongthe border with Afghanistan to check the militants’cross-border movement. — MNA/Xinhua

China invites private overseas capitalto invest in railways

BEIJING , 21 Sept—China welcomes enterprises and finance organizations from home and abroad toinvest in railways, said Lu Dongfu, Vice-Minister of Railways, at the China Railway Investment andFinancing Reform Forum on Tuesday.

China needs two tril-lion RMB yuan to buildrailways in the coming15 years.

According to the Midand Long Term RailwayNetwork DevelopmentProgramme, the routelength of China’s railwayswill reach 100,000 kilo-metres by 2020, with aseparation of passengersand freight traffic on busytrunk lines and half of thelines to be double trackedand electrified. Main tech-nical equipment will ap-proach the advanced levelof the world.

By 2020, 12,000 kilo-metres of passenger linesand 16,000 kilometres ofnew lines will be com-pleted. Meanwhile,13,000 kilometres of sec-ond line construction and16,000 kilometres of elec-trification on the existinglines need to be completed.

Hu Jinglin, directorgeneral of the EconomicConstruction Develop-ment of the Ministry ofFinance, said to reach thegoal, financing is critical.

“We can never do it ifwe rely on the traditionalfinancing system,” he said.

The railways in Chinaused to be invested in bythe central government,which cannot provide asmuch money to this sectorany more.

Wang Qingyun, direc-tor general of the Trans-port Department of theState Development andReform Commission, saidthe development of rail-ways has lagged behindnational economy for thelast 20 years.

At present, about280,000 cars are requestedeveryday to transportgoods while only half of

the requests can be met.Wang attributed the slowdevelopment of railwaysto lack of funds.

Wang urged the gov-ernment to introduce amarket economy to thissector, separate enterprisesfrom government, and de-fine property right owner-ship clearly. He suggestedthat the government investmore in commonwealprojects while other projectscan use private capital. Theprice fixing and supervi-sion systems should also bereformed.

MNA/Xinhua

Donation ceremonyheld in Tibet to promote

solar energy use LHASA, 21 Sept— A donation ceremony was

held on Tuesday in Lhasa, capital of southwestChina’s Tibet Autonomous Region, to helppromote solar energy utilization in Tibet.

About 10 inland citiesdonated 6.53 million yuan(786,537 US dollars) tohelp Tibetan herdsmenand farmers equip theirfamilies with solar ap-pliances.

The activity, dubbed“Love Tibet and HelpTibet Sunshine Project,”was launched by the Sup-port Tibet DevelopmentFoundation on 29 June.Ten cities, includingGuangzhou and Zhuhai inGuangdong, Kumming inYunnan, and Luoyang inHenan, have participatedin the activity.

“The development ofTibet has always been con-

cerned by people inGuangzhou. Improve-ment of living standardsin Tibet is also the wish ofpeople across China,” saidPeng Yusong, deputy headof the Guangzhou CityUnited Front Work De-partment.

In rural and pastoralareas of Tibet, many peo-ple still rely much on tra-ditional energy includinglivestock dung, grass turf,shrubs and wood. Biologi-cal energy accounts forabout 90 per cent of thetotal energy consumptionin rural Tibet, accordingto the Foundation.

MNA/Xinhua

NICOSIA, 21 Sept—ACyprus Airways plane fly-ing from Cyprus to Greecemade an unscheduled stopin Rhodes on Tuesday af-ter controls flashed up aproblem with the air con-ditioning system, the com-pany said.

The Airbus 320 wascarrying 148 passengersand six crew. Cyprus Air-ways dispatched anotheraircraft to transfer passen-gers from Rhodes to theGreek capital.

“It does not appear tobe anything serious. Therewas an indication thatthere could be a fault sothe stopover was a pre-caution,” airline spokes-man Tassos Angeli toldReuters.

There has been height-ened sensitivity about air-line safety in Cyprus sincea Boeing 737-300 run byprivately owned HeliosAirways crashed inGreece on August 14, kill-ing all 121 on board in thecountry’s worst aviationdisaster. — MNA/Reuters

Tiger Airways staff check a plane before take off at theterminal at Singapore’s Changi International Airport.Singapore-based budget carrier Tiger Airways plansto expand its network to southern China, India andCambodia and more than double capacity to three

million passengers next year. —INTERNET

A worker feeds an abandoned leaf monkey at the Wildlife Rescue Centre inPhetchburi Province, 100 km south of Bangkok, on 17 September, 2005. —INTERNET

Cyprus planediverted after

air conditioningscare


The Reverand of the East passes away in the West

(Continued from yesterday)The 11th of December 2004 was the final

day of the World Buddhist Summit attended byover 100 delegates from 38 foreign countries, about400 foreign observers and nearly 1,000 from hostMyanmar.

Now, I will present some parts of his Ab-stract Speech as follows:

“The Buddhist Summit will be brought toa glorious end a few moments from now. As youknow the Government of Myanmar and its peoplehave spared no effort both physically and finan-cially to make it a success and I hope that hasbeen accomplished quite well. But however muchthey have endeavoured, if there had been no par-ticipants it would have come to nothing. Now thatyou have participated in this historic event quiteenthusiastically as speakers, panellists, discussionsand so on, this Summit has come to a resoundingsuccess. Therefore the success is due to both theGovernment and people of Myanmar on the onehand and the participants like you on the other.

“This Summit is convened on the principleof unity among Buddhists regardless of their beingTheravada or Mahayana or Vajrayana, etc. We haveinvited delegates from thirty-four countries and asa record, I would like to read the names of thosecountries here.

“To tell you the truth, it is not at all pos-sible for all Buddhists to become one again with-out the labels Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana,etc., but we have some Teachings of the Buddhain common, for which every Buddhist is likelyto admit that they are authentic teachings of theBuddha. On these we will concentrate and spreadto the world both in our countries and in foreigncountries. For example, the teaching of the FourNoble Truths: Every Buddhist Sect believes thatit is the authentic teaching of the Buddha and sowe can cooperate in teaching it to the world.The Noble Eightfold Path which is one of theFour Noble Truths is an important one and wemust practise first ourselves and then teach themto the world. The impermanence of all thingsconditioned, suffering nature of all things con-ditioned and non-soul nature of all things bothconditioned and unconditioned which are alsoaccepted by all Buddhists are another subject

Sitagu Ashin Ñanissara (Agga Maha Pandita) D.Lit, Ph.D

which we all agree and so we can teach them too.The teaching of the universal love, i.e., love forall beings can be and will be taught to the world,first practising ourselves and later teaching to theworld. There are other teachings as well that areaccepted by all sects of Buddhism and we canmake effort to teach them. With the principles ofBuddhism which are after all universal principles,the world can be made into a place where peaceand harmony prevail, and people can live theirlives without worry and anxiety.

“As to educating the peoples of the world wemust say that the First Fellowship of Buddhists heldin 1950 in Colombo unanimously decided the termHinayana should be dropped when referring to Bud-dhism existing in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar,Cambodia, Laos, etc. The other thing is commercialcompanies using the Buddha image and other Bud-dhist Symbols in commercial objects to promote theirsales. We must tell them without being rude or vio-lent to leave Buddhists alone and not to desecrateour sacred objects in commercializing their commodi-ties.”

The Sayadaw quoted the Buddha as sayingthat practice of holding of religious conferences willhelp promote and propagate the Sasana. He then saidthat two meetings were held in 6th Century BC, withthe participation of Buddha Himself; that at the firstmeeting, attended by 60 monks, the Buddha advisedthe monks to preserve the original of the Dhammaand make tours for propagation of the Sasana; that1250 monks attended the second conference whichlaid down principles for the formation of the Sanghaassociation that the principles included assignmentof first and second leaders and morals and mannersof the monks.

The Sayadaw continued to say that six Sanghameetings were held during the period of 2500 yearsafter the demise of Buddha. They were three inIndia, one in Sri Lanka, and two in Myanmar, hesaid, explaining the benefits of the conferences. Heexplained that the first meeting systematically col-lected and compiled all the teachings of Buddha,the third conference effectively helped promote andpropagate the Sasana, the fourth documented theDhamma on palm leaves and the fifth on stone in-scriptions. Concerning the promotion of Buddhisteducation, the Sayadaw advised the monks to use

computers and Internet.At the end of the Summit, the participating

Buddhist leaders agreed the following objectives: * We are determined to preserve the Buddha

Dhamma in its pristine purity * We will endeavour to promote and propa-

gate the Teachings of the Buddha * We will strive for the protection, preserva-

tion and restoration of historic Buddhistmonuments

* We will contribute to bring about peace andprosperity in the world by spreading theBuddha’s sublime message of loving-kind-ness, compassion and equanimity

* We will endeavour to promote Buddhistunity and strive for friendship and mutualunderstanding among Buddhists all over theworld

* We will endeavour to promote Buddhisteducation employing modern methods andtechnology

* We will endeavour to hold the BuddhistConferences frequently to exchange ideasand promote understanding

* We will endeavour to share the knowledgeof Buddhist meditation with the people ofthe world for the sake of individuals as wellas world peace

* We believe that more Buddhist centresshould be established around the world todisseminate the original Teachings of theBuddha more effectively.

The Sayadaw played the leading role in lay-ing down and approving the objectives.

Those were the final words and accomplish-ments of the Sayadaw in serving the Sasana’s in-terest.

After the meeting the Sayadaw went to theUS for a short visit. When he arrived back toYangon in March 2005, he underwent medicalcheck up with the arrangement of the ReligiousAffairs Ministry. When doctors found that he hadbrain cancer, he flew to the US again for surgicaloperation. Now, he is no more, but his words, ac-complishments and virtue remain forever.

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YANGON, 22 Sept — Organizedby Myanmar Timber EntrepreneursAssociation, the wood-based technolo-gies courses Nos 5 and 6 were openedat Wood-based Technology TrainingSchool in Dagon Myothit (North)Township with a speech by Vice-

Courses on wood-based technologies openedThe

openingsession of

thewood-based

technolo-gies

coursesNos 5

and 6 inprogress.

UMFCCI

Chairman of MTE U Ko Ko Htwe.Afterwards, Principal of the School UKaung Yin explained the purpose ofthe courses.

Altogether 40 trainees are at-tending courses No 5 and No 6 andthey will last for four weeks. —MNA


Commander overseesdevelopment tasks in

Shwegu, Bhamo

Commander inspects tax-freemarkets in Yangon City

YANGON, 22 Sept— Chairman of KachinState Peace and Develop-ment Council Com-mander of NorthernCommand Maj-Gen OhnMyint, accompanied bydepartmental officials,met with township leveldepartmental officials,members of social organi-zations, entrepreneurs andtownselders at the hall ofBEHS No 1 in Shweguon 15 September morn-ing.

Chairman ofShwegu Township Peaceand Development Coun-cil U Yi Mon reported onprogress in transport, edu-cation, health and agricul-tural sectors of the town-ship, Commissioner U YeMyint of Kachin StateGeneral Administration

Department gave a sup-plementary report.

The commanderinstructed them to coop-erate with local people inregional developmenttasks and carry out beau-tifying tasks of the town.

In the afternoon,the commander inspectedShwegu Township Hos-pital, roads and beautify-ing tasks.

At the briefing hallfor construction of theview point near the sec-ond defile of AyeyawadyRiver, Deputy Superin-tending Engineer U WinAung reported to thecommander on progressin construction of Man-dalay-Tagaung-BhamoRoad and NgaO-Thayagon-Kyedawgyi-Udaungtaung-Hanhtet

Road. The commandergave necessary instruc-tions.

The commanderinspected Bhamo Gov-ernment TechnologicalCollege and met withfaculty members andstaff.

At the city hall inBhamo, the commandercalled on departmentalpersonnel, members ofsocial organizations andlocal people. Officialsreported on their respec-tive sectors. Chairman ofDistrict PDC Lt-Col HlaThaung gave a supple-mentary report.

After fulfilling therequirements, the com-mander gave instructionson implementation of theplans for the region.

MNA

YANGON, 22 Sept —Chairman of YangonDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Maj-GenMyint Swe inspected tax-free markets in YangonCity today.

Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe looked

into Konemyittha tax-freemarket in MayangonTownship, Nawaday tax-free market on SwaedawStreet, Yankin tax-freemarket in Yankin Town-ship, Tamway tax-freemarket in Tamway Town-ship, Hanthawady tax-freemarket in KamayutTownship and Pantra

Lane tax-free market inDagon Township, and thesale of household goods,vegetables, fish and meat,rice and edible oil. Thecommander cordiallygreeted the shoppers andshopkeepers at the mar-kets. The commanderthen fulfilled the require-ments.—MNA

Foreign Ministerfelicitates Saudi

Arabian counterpart

Myanmar-Korea tradetalks held

YANGON, 22 Sept — Myanmar-Korea tradetalks organized by Embassy of the Republic of Koreawas held at Traders Hotel this morning.

Officials of 30 local companies and Koreacompanies participated in the trade talks. They dis-cussed trade in electronic equipment, pipes, machin-ery, medical equipment and furniture. CommercialAttache of the embassy of ROK Mr Choi YoungTae graced the talks with his presence.—MNA

YANGON, 22 Sept— Maj-Gen Hla Tun,Minister for Finance andRevenue, left here by air

for the United States ofAmerica, at 7.50 pm yes-terday to attend the An-nual Conference of

World Bank and Interna-tional Monetary Fund tobe held from 23 to 25September 2005, at

Washington DC, theUSA. The minister wasseen off at the airport byMinister for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi, DeputyMinister of Finance andRevenue Col Hla TheinSwe, departmental headsand officials.

Minister Maj-GenHla Tun was accompaniedby Governor of the Cen-tral Bank of Myanmar UKyaw Kyaw Maung, Di-rector-General of ForeignEconomic RelationsDepartment Daw MyoNwe, Director of CBMDaw Ohnmar Seinand Assistant Director UMin Han Soe of the Min-istry of Finance and Rev-enue.—MNA

YANGON, 23 Sept— On the occasion of theNational Day of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,which falls on 23 September 2005, U Nyan Win,Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Union ofMyanmar, has sent a message of felicitations toHis Excellency Saud Bin Al-Faisal Bin AbdulazizAl-Saud, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the King-dom of Saudi Arabia.—MNA

YANGON, 22 Sept— Minister for Construc-tion Maj-Gen Saw Tunyesterday morning in-spected Bwetgyi BridgeConstruction Project inPyay.

The engineer in-charge presented reportson progress in buildingthe new bridge, and per-mission for vehiclesweighing under-25 tonsto pass through the oldbridge.

The new BwetgyiBridge will be built ofbored pile foundation andreinforced concretebeams.

The bridge will be600 feet long and willhave 650 feet long ap-proach bridge on PyayBank and 520 feet one onAunglan Bank, totalling

Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe inspects Tax-free Market on Kaba AyePagoda Road in Yankin Township.—˚MNA

Minister for Finance and Revenue Maj-Gen Hla Tun being seen off at theairport before departure for Washington DC.— F&R

Myanmar-Korea trade talks, organized by Embassy of the Republic of

Korea, in progress at Traders Hotel.— MNA

1,770 feet long. Themotor road on the bridgewill be 28 feet wide. Itcan withstand 60-tonloads.

Six of nine piles ofthe approach bridge onPyay Bank were con-structed, and the bridgeis under construction.

MNA

Finance and Revenue Minister leavesfor Washington

Donate blood

Construction of new BwetgyiBridge inspected


USDA Secretary-General callsfor continuous efforts for

regional developmentYANGON, 22 Sept — Members of Union Solidar-

ity and Development Association are required to stepup their efforts for regional development to becomereliable members while participating in education,health and social welfare programmes in cooperationwith local people, urged Secretary-General of UnionSolidarity and Development Association Minister forAgriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo.

At a meeting with executives and members ofKyaukpadaung district and township USDA atKyaukpadaung Township USDA office on 17 Sep-tember, Minister Maj-Gen Htay Oo also attended tothe needs for regional development tasks and pre-sented books on general knowledge for libraries to anofficial.

Executives of Myingyan District andKyaukpadaung Township USDAs reported on socialwelfare tasks being carried out joining hands withlocals. — MNA

Ayeyawady River crossing natural gas pipelinelaying project in Aunglan inspected

YANGON, 22 Sept — Minister for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi inspected the site of Yonseik-Thayet 6-inch Ayeyawady River crossing natural gas pipelinelaying project near Yonseik Village of Aunglan Town-ship on 19 September.

General Manager (Pipeline) U Than Htut ofMyanma Oil and Gas Enterprise reported on tasks tolay the pipeline crossing the river, Director (Produc-tion) U Ohn Myint on construction for the natural gascontrol station, and Managing Director U San Lwin ona supplementary report.

The minister gave instructions on systematicwelding of the pipeline, and test of pressure endurance.He viewed welding tasks and preparations for layingthe pipeline crossing the river with the use of heavymachinery and watercraft.

On 20 September, the minister arrived at theproject site near Htontaung Village of Thayet Town-ship and instructed officials to closely supervise timelycompletion of the project task and worksite safety.

At No 3 Fertilizer Plant (Kyawswa) in AunglanTownship, Plant Manager U Hla Thaung briefed theminister on production and distribution of fertilizer,and Deputy Plant Manager U Saw Tun on maintenanceof the plant.

Next, the minister oversaw the main control

room and production of fertilizer, and attended to theneeds. Afterwards, he looked into functions of thestore section. — MNA

YANGON, 22 Sept — The Commander-in-Chief (Air)’s Shield ShootingTournament for 2005 was opened at Ground Training Base in Meiktila on 19September morning.

On behalf of the Commander-in-Chief (Air), Commander of Ground Train-ing Base Col Thura Khin Maung Win gave a speech and opened the tournament.

Also present on the occasion were officers and other ranks of FlyingTraining Base and Ground Training Base, senior military officers of MeiktilaStation and guests. — MNA

C-in-C (Air)’s Shield ShootingTournament opens

(from page 16)with patients. Daw KhinMaw Maw and party gaveaway medicines and re-freshment to older personsunder proper health care.Dr Phyu Phyu Win andparty of the hospital in-

spected measures for pre-vention of denguehemorrhagic fever in thevillage.

At the rural educa-tion centre, they viewedtraining of tailoring andknitting to the girls and

other handiwork. Later,they set up a trust-fund.They donated periodicalsto Myatlayyon Rural Li-brary.

The Division Or-ganizer, the DivisionChairperson and party

cordially met with Vil-lage WAO memberwomen and local peopleat the discussions on re-gional development, andthe role of women in edu-cation, health and eco-nomic sectors.— MNA

Bago Division WAO Organizer,…

Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi inspects the laying of gas pipelines across Ayeyawady River. — ENERGY

Minister Dr Kyaw Myintaddresses the openingceremony to review the

accomplishments ofNational Health Plan

2001-2006.( News on page 16 )

MNA

Members of MWAF and MCWA hold frank discussions with local womenfolk ofKayan Model Village. — MNA

Myanmar Women Entrepreneurs AssociationExecutive Daw Hnin Wai seen at the airport beforeher departure for Japan. (News reported) — MWEA

MWAF Bago DivisionOrganizer Daw Wai Wai

Thin presents publicationsto Myatlayyon Library ofKayan Model Village in

Thanatpin Township, BagoDivision. — MNA


YANGON, 22 Sept— Accompanied by offi-cials concerned, Ministerfor Information Brig-GenKyaw Hsan went on aninspection tour ofPyinmana Township In-formation and Public Re-lations Department on20th September.

After inspectingwall posters, documen-tary photos, mottoes andbooks displayed at the de-partment, Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan gavenecessary instructions.

Next, the ministerattended books donationceremony at the depart-ment in Pyinmana Town-ship.

Also present on theoccasion were Col Tin

Information Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsanurges IPRD staff in Pyinmana to strive for

dynamism of media

Ngwe of Pyinmana Sta-tion, Head of MandalayDivision Information andPublic Relations Depart-ment U Kyaw Than Tun,

officials concerned ofYamethin, Pyinmana,Lewe, Pyawbwe andTatkon, local authorities,members of township

USDA and wellwishers.The minister ac-

cepted 3000 varieties ofbooks and journals pre-sented by Chairman ofTownship Peace and De-velopment Council UKyaw Win, 1000 by Sec-retary of Township PDCU Khin Maung Htay,1000 by Chairman ofTownship Writers andJournalists Association UTin Win, a set of TV worthK 140,000 by U MyintKyaw on behalf ofwellwisher U Thein Htwe(Mingalar Ward) and aset of TV worth K 50,000by Police Captain U ChitSein.

After expressinghis gratitude to thewellwishers, the ministermet with service person-nel of IPRD and made aspeech on the occasion,

saying that the Govern-ment is making its effortsfor all-round develop-ment across the nation. Itis also fulfilling the needsfor development of hu-man resources and rais-ing knowledge in the ru-ral areas. 70 per cent ofthe country’s populationare rural people. So de-velopment of the countryis based on that of therural areas. The rural peo-ple lacked reading habitbecause the books wereout of their reach.

As such, self-reli-ant libraries were openedin the rural areas to en-able the rural people togain knowledge. The self-reliant libraries will be es-tablished all parts of thecountry by 2006. So far, atotal of 31,122 village li-braries have been set up

the whole country. Therural libraries have beensuccessfully establishedthe whole Shan State(North). The establish-ment of self-reliant librar-ies will have been almostfinished in Mandalay Di-vision soon. There hasbeen an enormous in-crease in the number ofself-reliant libraries in thecountry due to coopera-tive efforts of local au-thorities and wellwishers.

Next, the ministerurged those present tostrive for dynamism ofthe media and to takemeasures for successfulrealization of informationtasks with goodwill andto make all-out efforts tobe able to open librariesin all villages during2005-2006.

MNA

YANGON, 22 Sept —Minister for Sports Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myintenjoyed the second match

Myanmar-Malaysia Friendly SepakTakraw match continues

of Myanmar-MalaysiaFriendly Sepak Takrawmatch at the National In-door Stadium-1 in

Thuwunna this afternoon.Among the specta-

tors were officials of theMinistry of Sports, thechairperson of CentralCommittee for MyanmarWomen’s Sports Federa-tion and members, thepresident of MyanmarSepak Takraw Federationand executives and guests.

Myanmar teambeat Malaysian team 2-0(21-16, 21-16) in the dou-ble regu event. In the firstregu event, Malaysianteam defeated Myanmarteam 2-1 with (15-21, 21-18) and 15-10. In the sec-ond match, Myanmar beatMalaysia 2-0 with 22-20and 21-17.

MNA

YANGON, 22 Sept— A cash donation cer-emony to mark the “ In-ternational Day for OlderPersons” which falls on 1October was held at Lit-tle Sisters of the Poor inMingala TaungnyuntTownship this morning.

At a ceremony,Patron of holding com-mittee of the Interna-tional Day for Older Per-sons Deputy Minister forSocial Welfare, Reliefand Resettlement Brig-Gen Kyaw Myint ex-plained the purpose ofthe donation and contrib-uted K 100,000 to thefund of the Little Sistersof the Poor and presentedmedicines for older per-sons.

Cash donated to mark “International Day forOlder Persons”

Information Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan delivers an address at the books donation ceremony held at Pyinmana TownshipInformationa and public Relations Department. — MNA

Information Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan inspects posters and booksdisplayed at Pyinmana Township Information and Public Relations

Department. — MNA

Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Myint presentsK 100,000 and medicines for the Little Sisters of

the Poor through Sister Clare. — SWRC

Myanmar blocks attacks of Malaysia in the FriendlySepak Takraw match. — NLM

Sister Clare of theLittle Sisters of the Pooraccepted the donation andpresented certificate ofhonour to the deputy min-ister.

After the cer-emony, Deputy MinisterBrig-Gen Kyaw Myintand officials comfortedthe older persons.

MNA


Coal mine blastkills 9, injures5 in east China

province NANCHANG, 22 Sept

— Nine miners were killedand five others injured ina coal mine gas blast onMonday in Fengcheng, acity in east China’s JiangxiProvince, according to lo-cal government Wednes-day. The accident oc-curred at about 8:00 pmMonday at Changfengcoal mine in Luoshi Townwhen 14 people wereworking underground andfive of them survived.

The bodies of the nineminers killed in the acci-dent were found onTuesday.

MNA/Xinhua

German tourist killed inNew Zealand

The body of the mid-20s was discovered Tues-day night in a nationalpark near Taranaki, anorth town in New Zea-land, said the policeThursday.

Police said it is un-derstood the woman wasstabbed to death anddumped.

“It’s a terrible state ofaffairs,” said DetectiveSenior Sergeant GrantCoward. “It appears itwas a nasty, vicious at-tack,” said Coward.

Police said thewoman with her namesuppressed hitch-hiked inthe area earlier in the dayand stayed at a locallodge on Monday night.New Zealand has beenfamous for its safety oftour and low rate of at-tacks toward tourists.

The authorities saidthey are coping with theincident very seriouslyand trying to make clearthe cause of the deathsooner.

MNA/Xinhua

A one-year-old elephant quenches its thirst at the Ayutthaya elephant camp, 80km (50 miles) north of capital Bangkok on 21 September, 2005.— INTERNET

MWAF Vice-President meets foreign guests

Earthquake jolts Aceh,Indonesia

JAKARTA , 22 Sept — An earthquake jolted four districts in Aceh Prov-ince of Indonesia on Tuesday evening, but there were no reports abouthuman casualties and meaningful material damage.

The quake, measuring 4.8 on theRichter Scale, was felt by residents inthe province’s capital, Banda Aceh,and in the districts of Aceh Besar,Aceh Jaya, and West Aceh at 10:00pm, Antara news agency on Wednes-day quoted head of Mata Ie Geophys-ics and Meteorology Agency Syahnanas saying.

The epicentre was located at 4.77degrees of North Latitude and 94.67degrees East Longitude in a depth of

YANGON, 22 Sept—Vice-President of theMyanmar Women’s Af-fairs Federation DawKhin Lay Myint met withExternal Evaluator MsAsmita Naik of the Savethe Children UK (SC-UK), and Coordinator MsEdelweiss Silan of the Re-gional Cross-Border

Project at the office of thefederation this afternoon.

The meeting focusedon the federation’s per-formances, tasks for thedevelopment of women,and preventive measuresagainst trafficking in per-sons. Present on the occa-sion were General Secre-tary of the federation Pro-

fessor Dr Daw Khin MarTun, Head of Interna-tional Relations Depart-ment Daw Myint MyintSoe, Leader of the Work-ing Group of Rehabilita-tion and ReintegrationDaw Khin Aye, leadersof sub-working groupsand others.

MNA

30 kilometres and 111 kilometres fromthe western part of Banda Aceh, hesaid.

Over the past week, Banda Acehand its surroundings had been hit bytwo tremors.

Some residents of Calang (AcehJaya District) and Meulaboh (WestAceh regency) said that many rushedout of their houses and sought sheltersfollowing the tremors.

MNA/Xinhua

MWAF Vice-President Daw Khin Lay Myint meets with Ms Asmita Naik andMs Edelweiss Silan. — MWAF

Death tolls rise to 12 instorm-hit Vietnam

HANOI , 22 Sept — A tropical storm, which hit central and northernlocalities in Vietnam last weekend, have killed 12 local people and injured fiveothers, according to the local newspaper Labour on Wednesday.

Japanese encephalitis toll risesto 271 in Nepal

Of the fatalities, three people inYen Bai Province died due to land-slides, six others in provinces of QuangBinh, Quang Tri and Binh Thuan due tofloods. The storm also damaged morethan 3,000 houses and destroyed sev-eral thousands of hectares of farmingcrops. To limit the storm’ aftermaths,the National Flood and Storm ControlSteering Committee called for an all-out mobilization to protect coastal dykes,

help people in dangerous areas move tosafe ones and conduct relief work.

Natural disasters, mainly stormsand floods, killed 232 people, left 38others missing, injured 187 others, de-stroyed 4,200 houses and 3,000 hec-tares of rice, and killed over 2,000 cattleand 170,000 poultry in Vietnam lastyear, causing a total property loss ofover some 57 million US dollars.

MNA/Xinhua

KATHMANDU, 22 Sept— At least 271 peoplehave died of Japanese en-cephalitis in various dis-tricts of Terai Belt insouthern Nepal so far thisyear, official of HealthMinistry said on Wednes-day.

The disease, which

has taken a heavy toll inTerai districts likeKailali, Banke, Bardiya,Rupandehi, Rautahat andSarlahi, is on the wanewith the end of monsoon,Hari Nath Acharya,spokesman at Health Min-istry, told reporters.

Until last week, offi-

cials counted a total of204 deaths caused byJapanese encephalitis,which is caused by mos-quito bite.

“We are now gettingabout five new patientsevery day,” Acharyanoted.

MNA/Xinhua

Chinese banks adopt new technology toavoid credit card fraud

BEIJING , 22 Sept — Banks in China are preparing their ATMs to meet withthe EMV international standard in a bid to avoid card fraud.

The central bank,People’s Bank of China(PBoC), has alreadystepped up the EMV pro-gramme and amendedrules on financial IC cards.Select cities in China willpilot EMV migration thisyear, and local commer-cial banks are starting con-trolled deployments foraccepting chip cards forPOS terminals.

EMV is the mergedstandard by Europay,MasterCard and Visa,which is an essential stepin countering plastic cardfraud and bring new valueadded services.

Statistics show thatcard fraud costs the bank-ing industry an estimatedannual global loss of 2.5billion US dollars.

“Although the eco-nomic loss from card fraud

is still not that high inChina, the potential mi-gration of card fraud toChina cannot be underes-timated,” said SharonDickie, director of globalmarketing for softwareand security in NCR Fi-nancial Solutions Divi-sion, which has close tieswith Chinese banks.

It is critical for Chinato be part of this globalmigration, in light of itspotential as the world’slargest credit card market,the increasing flow of for-eign tourists into Chinaand the upcoming 2008Olympics and 2010 WorldExpo, Dickie said.

“All these drive to-ward the need for China tocomply with the EMV in-ternational standard,” saidDickie.

“Based on our proven

global experience, we rec-ognize that chip-card mi-gration will be a challeng-ing task as it does not onlyinvolve the front-end hard-ware but also the back-end applications and itsinfrastructure,” saidDickie.

To protect banks’ in-vestment, NCR recom-mends local banks partici-pate in EMV-Ready pro-gramme and upgrade theirATMs with EMV tech-nology as soon as possi-ble. “Getting EMV com-pliance is part of NCR’stotal approach to securingthe entire cash cycle,” saidDickie.

As the world’s larg-est supplier of ATMs,NCR would help Chinesebanks to minimize the costand fraud, she said.

MNA/Xinhua

WELLINGTON , 22 Sept — A autopsy Thursdayis expected to reveal the cause of death of a Ger-man female tourist murdered in New Zealand,said the local police.


Egyptian PM meetsChinese envoy on Mideast

peaceCAIRO , 21 Sept — Egyptian Prime Minister

Ahmed Nazef on Monday met with visiting Chinesespecial envoy to the Mideast peace process WangShijie to discuss the Palestinian-Israeli peaceprocess in the wake of the Israeli withdrawal fromthe Gaza Strip.

Pakistan traders wantto import cement, garlic

from IndiaISLAMABAD , 21 Sept— After Pakistan Govern-

ment permitted duty free imports of meat, sugarand four more essential items from India, tradershere now want to import ginger and cement throughWagah border.

Macedonia welcomes investmentof Malaysian Cos

K UALA LUMPUR, 21 Sept— Macedonia invited Malaysian companies toinvest in that country and take part in its economic activities, MalaysianDeputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak said on Tuesday.

China, Djibouti to beef upparliamentary exchanges

BEIJING , 21 Sept— The Chinese National People’s Congress (NPC) is readyto beef up friendly exchanges with the Djibouti Parliament and conduct morebilateral cooperation in different levels and areas, said China’s top legislatorWu Banggu on Tuesday.

ASEAN countries to holdenvironment meeting to discuss haze

KUALA LUMPUR, 21 Sept— ASEAN (Association of South-East AsianNations) countries will hold a ministerial meeting to discuss the regional hazeproblem and strive to work out more concrete preventive measures, localmedia reported on Tuesday.

“The Palestinian-Is-raeli issue is constantly de-veloping and China’s gen-eral goal in this respect isto help the two sides moveahead along the road topeace,” Wang told report-ers after the meeting.

Wang said China ap-preciated the measuresEgypt had taken to solvethe Palestinian-Israeliconflict and that Egyptalso valued China’s rolein helping achieve peacebetween the two sides.

China, a permanentmember of the UN Secu-

rity Council, has long sup-ported the Palestiniancause and now it also sup-ports the Mideast peaceprocess, said the Chineseenvoy, adding that theEgyptian side hopes Chinacan play a bigger role inthis field in the future.

Wang arrived inEgypt on Sunday as partof his regional tour whichhas already taken him tothe Palestinian territories,Israel and Jordan. He willleave on Tuesday for Mo-rocco, the last leg of histrip.—MNA/Xinhua

“We’ve sent inquir-ies to the Indian cementproducers on behalf of ourclients,” a Pakistani im-porter Chaudhry BarkatAli said. “As soon as theIndian producers intimatethe price of cement, we’llplace the order.”

It will be transportedin rail wagons throughWagah border, Ali wasquoted as saying by thedaily Dawn on Tuesday.

However there is noofficial directive yet onimport of cement and gar-lic. Pakistan is currentlyexperiencing real estate

boom due to buoyancy ofits economy. Construc-tion industry was consid-ered to be the fast grow-ing sectors, putting heavypressure on cement in-take.

“Pakistani importerswere also looking into thepossibility of bringingfresh ginger from Indiaprovided a competitiverate was offered by theIndians,” Ali said.

Pakistan normallyimports fresh ginger fromThailand for meeting itsrequirements.

MNA/PTI

Wu, chairman of theNPC Standing Commit-tee, made the remarks inhis meeting with visitingDjibouti Prime MinisterDileita Mohamed Dileita.

Since the establish-ment of diplomatic ties in1979, the two sides havemaintained frequent high-level contacts, expandedtrade and economic coop-eration, and increased con-sultation in international

affairs, Wu said.China regards Djibouti

as a reliable friend, andvalues the long friendshipwith the latter, said Wu.

He also expressed thehope that the two parlia-ments would make full playof the role of bilateralfriendship, learn from eachother, enhance mutual un-derstanding, and contrib-ute to the overall develop-ment of Sino-Djibouti re-

lations. Dileita spokehighly of the greatachievements China hasmade in its economic andsocial development. Healso hailed China’s poli-cies toward Africa as wellas Africa-China relations.

He expressed appre-ciation for China’s assist-ance to Djibouti, saying ithas contributed a lot to hiscountry’s economic deve-lopment.—MNA/Xinhua

Najib said he receivedthe message when meet-ing with the visiting Mace-donian Deputy PrimeMinister Minco Jordanovat the Malaysian PrimeMinister’s Departmentcomplex.

Jordanov, who kickedoff a four-day visit to Ma-laysia on Monday, spokeabout investment opportu-nities in Macedonia as wellas its business activities,Najib told reporters.

Jordanov expressedthe confidence thatmore participation fromMalaysian companieswould have a positive in-fluence on Macedonia’seconomy, Najib said whiledescribing the investmentin Macedonia as sound.

To date, a Malaysiancompany has venturedinto Macedonia and hasobtained loans to constructan apartment and a powerplant there, Najib said.

The MacedonianDeputy Prime Min-ister also encouragesMalaysians to open tour-ism offices in the country,Najib added.

The bulk of Macedo-nia’s exports to Malaysiais machinery and trans-port equipment, while itsimports from Malaysiainclude animal and veg-etable oil and fats as wellas manufactured goods.

MNA/Xinhua

The 9th InformalASEAN Ministerial Meet-ing on the Environment,slated for 26-29 Septem-ber, will be convened inManila, Malaysian Min-ister of Natural Resourcesand Environment AdenanSatem said.

Representatives at themeeting are likely to comeup with a long-term solu-tion to the problem which“seems to be recurringevery year,” Adenan toldreporters after meetingwith his Singaporean coun-

terpart Yaacob Ibrahim. The bilateral meet-

ing, held in Kuching, capi-tal of the Sarawak State, ispart of the 19th Singapore-Malaysia Annual Ex-change of Visits (AEV),which aims to forge closercooperation and ties be-tween ministries of the twocountries.

Though ASEANcountries have an agree-ment on the haze, therearises the need to look intothe implementation sideand find out better solu-

tions, said Yaacob, whowas Minister for Environ-ment and Water Re-sources.

The haze problemshould be tackled imme-diately as it has exerted anegative influence on thetourism sector in the re-gion, Yaacob added.

Other issues on theagenda of Tuesday’s AEVmeeting included controlof vehicular emissions andan emergency responseplan for chemical spills.

MNA/Xinhua

Zimbabwe exports $118.9m worthof tobacco in first eight monthsHARARE , 21 Sept — Zimbabwe exported about 38 million kilos of tobacco

worth 118.9 million US dollars in the first eight months of the year, theTobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) said on Monday.

The TIMB said the37.7 million kilos ex-ported between Januaryand August were 15.7 percent lower than the to-bacco exported during thesame period last year.

The tobacco beingexported includes car-ryovers from last year’scrop, which amounted to68 million kilos.

The Far East contin-ues to be the major im-porter of the country’s to-bacco, taking 13,287 mil-lion kilos during the pe-riod under review, slightlydown from last year’s13.314 million kilos.

The European Unioncame second with 9.96 mil-lion kilos, also down 43.6per cent from the 17.65

million kilos last year. Exports to Africa in-

creased by 101.3 per cent,with the continent com-ing third after the EU with7.71 million kilos, up from3.83 million kilos im-ported last year.

MNA/Xinhua

DONATE BLOOD


�� WHO says Asia must change age-old

farming to stop diseaseNOUMEA (New Caledonia), 22 Sept — Asia must change age-old farming practices to reduce

contact between people and poultry to limit bird flu and prevent new animal diseases infectinghumans, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

In launching a five-year plan to combatemerging diseases in theAsia-Pacific Region,WHO said on averageone new disease had oc-curred every year for thepast 20 years, mainly inAfrica and Asia, andeventually one will be-come a pandemic.

"Even if you controlavian flu, the next one iscoming," said Dr ShigeruOmi, WHO's regional di-rector for the WesternPacific, which stretchesfrom China to Fiji. "Ithink it is similar to tsu-namis and earthquakes...we do not know when,"Omi told WHO's West-ern Pacific annual confe-

rence in Noumea, capitalof New Caledonia in theSouth Pacific.

Avian flu was firstdetected in South Koreain 2003, only months af-ter SARS was contained,and quickly spread withinmonths to Taiwan, Viet-nam, Indonesia, Thai-land, Malaysia andChina.

The contagiousH5N1 strain of the dis-ease has since killed 64people in four Asiancountries and has spreadto Russia and Europe,sparking global fears itcould mutate and becomea pandemic killing mil-lions of people.

The latest deaths

prompted Indonesia onWednesday to say an out-break in the capital Ja-karta could be called anepidemic. Millions ofpoultry have been culledsince 2003, but bird flustill spreads.

Omi said globaliza-tion, which had seen anincrease in the movementof goods and people inAsia, and common bor-ders had also contributedto the spread of diseases,like SARS and bird flu.

"There is an urgentneed to strengthen inter-country and bioregionalcollaboration," he said.

WHO's "Asia-PacificStrategy for EmergingDiseases" plan launched

on Wednesday calls forgreater co-operation be-tween Asia-Pacific na-tions to ensure early de-tection and rapid re-sponse to emerging dis-eases.

The plan said that al-though most countrieshad surveillance systemsfor communicable dis-eases, they were not ca-pable of being used asearly warning systems.

"Many countries arestill vulnerable to futuredisease outbreaks andmost countries are stillnot well prepared forearly detection and rapidresponse to emerging dis-ease," it said.

MNA/Reuters

ITV’s finance,broadcastingexecs exit in

reshuffle LONDON, 22 Sept—

British broadcaster ITVannounced a major reshuf-fling of its top executiveson Wednesday, includingthe departures of financedirector Henry Stauntonand head of broadcastingMick Desmond.

Simon Shaps, currentlyhead of ITV's Granada pro-duction arm, was named asdirector of television withresponsibility for commis-sioning and scheduling allof ITV's channels, and IanMcCulloch was made com-mercial director.

MNA/Reuters

Mozambican police arrestthieves for stealing railway

equipment MAPUTO, 22 Sept— The Mozambican police

have arrested a gang of thieves who stole railwayequipment in the Mozambican southern provinceof Gaza, local media reported on Tuesday.

According to a Press release from the Mozam-bique's ports and rail company CFM, the thieves de-stroyed about eight kilometres of track in the province,and a preliminary assessment of the damage is that itwill cost 2.5 million US dollars to repair.

The CFM release said that their operations werehighly organized. The thieves cut paths through thebush, along which they then drove trucks. They usedmetal cutting and soldering machinery to remove therails and slice them into manageable pieces.

Similar thefts have been reported from the north-ern railway that links the Mozambican northern portof Nacala to Malawi.

The CFM release pointed out that such sabotage"ruins all the efforts to restore and modernize"Mozambican railways, and urged Mozambican citi-zens living near rail lines to remain vigilant, and todenounce any acts of sabotage to the nearest railstation.

MNA/Xinhua

Alcoholics at risk of infectionafter heart surgery

NEW YORK, 21 Sept — Patients with long-standing alcoholism who un-dergo heart surgery are four times more likely to acquire an infection after theoperation than their non-alcoholic peers, according to a new report. Theresults suggest that the elevated risk may be associated with increased levelsof two immune factors — interleukin-10, an anti-inflammation protein, andcortisol, a steroid hormone.

"A key considerationhere is that long-term al-coholics have pretty well-defined immune altera-tions prior to clinicallyevident infections," leadauthor Dr Michael Sander,from University HospitalCharite in Berlin, said in astatement.

"We believe thatthese alterations might beresponsible for the post-operative increased infec-tion rate observed in our

study and in others,"Sander added.

The new study,which is reported in theSeptember issue of Alco-holism: Clinical & Ex-perimental Research, in-volved a comparison of10 alcoholics who under-went elective cardiac sur-gery with 34 non-alco-holic patients.

Blood samples wereobtained at several pointsbefore and after surgery

to assess levels of IL-10,cortisol, and other immunefactors, the report indi-cates.

As noted, comparedwith the non-alcoholicgroup, the alcoholic groupwas at heightened risk forpost-operative infections.In addition, alcoholic pa-tients had longer intensivecare unit (ICU) stays andwere slower to wean offmechanical ventilation.

MNA/Reuters

NASA offers “Apollo on steroids” toreturn to moon

WASHINGTON , 21 Sept — NASA unveiled its 104 billion US dollars plan onMonday to return Americans to the moon by 2018 aboard a capsule-likevehicle the space agency's chief described as "Apollo on steroids".

A view of the newly-built Singapore's NationalLibrary building which is five times larger than theold premises and holds more than 634,000 itemsincluding seven levels of reference materials on

Southeast Asia stored in print and digital formatsfor visitors.—INTERNET

Like the Apollo programme that car-ried the first humans to the moon in1969, the new system would put crewmembers into a capsule sitting atop arocket, and would have a separate heavy-lift vehicle to take only cargo into orbit.

"It is very Apollo -like... but bigger,"NASA chief Michael Griffin said at abriefing. "Think Apollo on steroids."

The capsule's base would be consid-erably larger than Apollo’s — 18 feet(5.5 metres) compared with 12.8 feet(3.9 metres) — and it would weigh about50 percent more, Griffin said. It would

carry six people, instead of Apollo’s three,and be able to stay in lunar orbit for sixmonths.

The first human mission to the moonsince 1972 would likely take place in2018, Griffin said, carrying four peoplefor a four-to seven-day stay.

He defended the programme's cost,which is expected to spark criticism inlight of US commitments in Iraq and areasdevastated by Hurricane Katrina. He saidthe programme will cost 55 per cent ofwhat Apollo cost, in constant dollars spreadover 13 years.—MNA/Reuters

Giant panda Zhu Zhu looks at a birthday cake specially made for her at a wildanimal garden in Hefei, capital of east China’s Anhui Province,

on 20 September, 2005 —INTERNET


S P O R T S Number of foreign players doubles in Brazil BRASILIA , 21 Sept — The soccer teams of Brazil doubled this year the

number of foreign players hired, reaching an unprecedented numberof 22.

Maritimo coach resignsafter bad start

LISBON, 21 Sept — Maritimo coach Rui Rodrigues“Juca” has resigned after only four games of thePortuguese league season, the Madeira Island clubsaid on Monday.

The decision, posted on the club’s official web site,follows Sunday’s 2-2 draw at home to Penafiel whichgave 14th-placed Maritimo only their second point.

Juca, whose departure was by mutual consent,became the first coaching casualty in Portuguese topflight this season.

Club officials will take over the coaching dutieswhile the board looks for a successor.—MNA/Reuters

Australia to go it alone in World Cup bid

Bulgarian referee bannedfor three months

SOFIA, 22 Sept — Bulgarian referee Cvetan Georgievhas received a three-month ban for making a string oferrors during Levski Sofia's 4-4 draw against Beroe onSunday, the country's football association said.

Levski appealled to the disciplinary commission ofthe Bulgarian Football Union, saying Georgiev failedto send off Beroe striker Isak Kuoki after a secondyellow card, ignored fouls in the penalty area, andmade several other mistakes.

"He made a lot of errors and he did not showaccuracy in the penalty area," Vasil Zhechev, chair-man of the referee commission, told a news confe-rence after ruling on the suspension late on Tuesday.

Kuoki scored three minutes after the break toequalise at 3-3, but soon afterwards was shown hissecond yellow card.

Georgiev allowed the game to continue, provokingan angry reaction from Levski's bench before thereferee finally sent the forward off.

Despite the errors, football union officials rejecteda request by Levski to replay the game and said itwould not void the result.

"There was a formal infringement of the rules, butit did not affect the final score," Zhechev said.

MNA/Reuters

Monaco chairman in nohurry to replace Deschamps

MONACO, 22 Sept — Monaco chairman MichelPastor will take his time before appointing a new coachto replace Didiers Deschamps who resigned on Mon-day. “The chairman is in no hurry. He will only actafter careful consideration,” sources close to theFrench Ligue 1 club said on Wednesday.

“He has decided he would handle the matter him-self. He has been in contact by phone with a lot ofpeople but hasn’t met anybody yet.”

Deschamps handed his resignation after a poor runof form that left the 2004 Champions League runners-up 15th in Ligue 1 and out of the major Europeancompetition.

Pastor asked assistant coach Jean Petit, who hasbeen with the club since 1969 and served under ArseneWenger before he left in 1995, to take charge on acaretaker basis, hinting that Petit could stay “longer ifresults were good”. — MNA/Reuters

This situation becameintensified because of theconstant migration of lo-cal players to almost allthe leagues of the world.

The number of foreignplayers grew from 12 atthe beginning of the firstphase last April, to 22 overthe past weeks, withchances to have thisnumber increased prior tothe coming close of regis-trations in the Brazilianleague.

There are five playersfrom Argentina, five fromColombia, four fromChile, three from Uruguay,three from Paraguay, onefrom Angola and one fromSerbia and Montenegro, inthe Brazilian League.

Santos seeks to hireColombian striker HugoRodallega to replaceRobinho, recentlytransfered to Spanish clubReal Madrid for 30 mil-lion dollars.

Paraguayan strikerCesar Ramirez opened hisparticipation Saturdaywith a goal versusFlamengo, while Colom-bian attacker WasonRenteria had an outstand-ing participation in theSunday match withInternacional, where Para-guayan midfielder DiegoGavilan plays.

The clubs with moreforeign players areCorinthians, which hiredArgentines Carlos Teves(striker), JavierMascherano (midfielder)and Sebastian Dominguez(full-back).

Atletico Paranaensetook David Ferreira(midfielder) and VladimirMarin (defender) — bothfrom Colombia —, andUruguayan PauloPezzolano.

On the other hand,Palmeiras renewed thecontract of Colombianstriker Leon Dario Munozand defender VlaimidirMarin. It also brought Ar-gentine Sergio Gionio.

Uruguayan full-backDiego Lugano plays forSao Paulo; Chileanmidfielder ClaudioMaldonado, for Cruzeiro;Colombian goalkeeperJuan Carlos Henao, for

Santos, and Chilean de-fender Adan Vergara, forVasco da Gama.

Portuguesa club hiredAngolan striker Johnson;Fluminense has the ser-vices of Serbian DejanPetkovic; AtleticoMineiro, Argentinemidfielder Livio ArmandoPrieto. Gremio, whichwent down to the seconddivision last year, hiredmidfielder JeanBeausejour and strikerAlejandro Escalona, bothfrom Chile, as well asMarcelo Lipatin, of Uru-guay, in an attempt to re-turn to the first division.

MNA/Xinhua

Maria Sharapova of Russia returns a shot toIsrael’s Shahar Peer during their women’s singles

match at the China Open tennis tournament inBeijing on 22 September, 2005.—INTERNET

Real may try to get defeat overturneddue to referee error

MADRID , 21 Sept — Real Madrid are looking into the possibility of gettingSunday’s 1-0 defeat at Espanyol annulled after claiming the referee made anerror before the goal.

Barcelona’s soccer player Samuel Eto’o (C) fromCameroon fights for the ball against Valencia’splayers Roberto Fabian (L) from Argentina and

David Albelda during their Spanish League soccermatch at Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona, Spain,

on 21 September, 2005. Champions Barcelonanarrowly avoided a second defeat in a row when

they came from a goal down to claim a 2-2 draw athome to Valencia on Wednesday. —INTERNET

Espanyol took the lead22 minutes from the endof the Primera Liga gamewhen Daniel Jarqueheaded in Ivan de la Pena’sfree kick.

But Real’s players andcoaching staff said referee

Julian Rodriguez Santiagoblew his whistle for aninfringement in the areaseconds before Jarquescored.

“The club believe therewas an erroneous inter-pretation of the rules,” said

Real in a statement on theirweb site on Monday.

“When the refereeblew his whistle the ac-tions that occurred after-wards were automaticallydeemed to be void”.

Real, who are 15th inthe 20-team table withthree points from threegames, claim video foot-age confirms the refereeblew before the goal andthat the soundtrack rulesout the possibility of thewhistle having come fromthe crowd.

The club’s legal teamare studying precedentsfrom similar situations tosee whether the result maybe overturned and thegame replayed.

Earlier this monthFIFA declared the resultof the Asian World Cupqualifying playoff first legbetween Uzbekistan andBahrain void and ordereda replay following a re-fereeing blunder.

World soccer’s govern-ing body ruled that Japa-nese referee ToshimitsuYoshida made a “techni-cal error” in disallowing aconverted Uzbekistan pen-alty and subsequentlyawarding Bahrain a freekick instead of ordering thepenalty to be retaken be-cause of encroachment.

MNA/Reuters

SYDNEY, 22 Sept —Australia is planning anambitious bid to stage theWorld Cup alone afterFIFA scuttled their plans

to co-host the 2018 eventwith New Zealand.

Australia and NewZealand wanted to lodge ajoint bid on behalf of

Oceania but Football Fed-eration Australia chief ex-ecutive John O'Neill saidthe plan had already beenshelved.

O'Neill said FIFA'sdecision to scrap the rota-tion system after 2014 cou-pled with Australia's deci-sion to ditch Oceania andjoin Asia had made the bidunworkable.

"New Zealand is out ofthe equation," O'Neilltold the Sydney MorningHerald on Wednesday.

"FIFA won't even con-template a cross-confed-eration bid. Now that we'rein Asia, the argument iswe can not have our cakeand eat it too."

O'Neill said Australiawere now planning to go italone although he admit-ted China would be thefrontrunner to stage the

World Cup the next timeit is held in Asia.

"Of course it's goingto be tough, but even if wemiss out on 2018 we'll beputting a stake in theground for 2022," O'Neillsaid.

"We're not going togive up on this, not by along shot.

"Unarguably, Aus-tralia has proven it canhost major sporting eventsbetter than most countries.

"We've been in pre-liminary talks with all thestate governments, we'vetalked to stadium owners,and it's full steam ahead.

"We've got to be veryambitious, we've got to bemore aggressive in a con-structive way in order tomake sure we stay in therace."

MNA/Reuters


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Thursday, 22˚September, 2005

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30hours MST: During the past 24 hours, weather havebeen partly cloudy in Shan State and lower SagaingDivision, rain or thundershowers have been isolatedin Kachin State, Mandalay and Magway Divisions,scattered in Rakhine and Kayin States, upper Sagaingand Yangon Divisions and widespread in the remain-ing areas with isolated heavyfalls in Yangon Divi-sion. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recordedwere Yangon (Mingaladon) (3.82) inches, Yangon(Kaba-Aye) (2.87) inches, Hmawbi (1.54) inches,Thaton (1.50) inches, Magway (0.75) inch andPyinmana (0.67) inch.

Maximum temperature on 21-9-2005 was 83°F.Minimum temperature on 22-9-2005 was 66°F.Relative humidity at 9:30 hrs MST on 22-9-2005was 96%. Total sunshine hours on 21-9-2005 wasnil. Rainfalls on 22-9-2005 were (3.82) inches atMingaladon, (2.87) inches at Kaba-Aye and (2.16)inches at central Yangon. Total rainfalls since 1-1-2005 were (87.56) inches at Mingaladon, (90.47)inches at Kaba-Aye and (95.67) inches at centralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mph from Northwest at (13:40) hoursMST on 21-9-2005.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy tocloudy in the North Bay and monsoon is weak else-where in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 23-9-2005:Rain or thundershowers will be isolated in Shan andKayah States, lower Sagaing, Mandalay and MagwayDivisions, scattered in Kachin and Chin States, up-per Sagaing, Yangon and Ayeyawady Divisions andwidespread in the remaining areas. Degree of cer-tainty is 80%.

State of the sea: Seas will be slight to mode-rate in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihoodof withdrawal of southwest monsoon from the Del-taic areas.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 23-9-2005: One or two rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is 80%.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouringarea for 23-9-2005: Likelihood of isolated rain orthundershowers. Degree of certainty is 60%.

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Kashmir Valleyregaining its pastglory in tourism

Indonesia to raise oilprice by 30-60%

JAKARTA , 22 Sept— Indonesia will increase oilprice from 1 October at a range of 30 to 60 per cent,in an effort to adjust spiraling global oil price andto defend the country’s currency from US dollar,Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said hereon Wednesday.

“He (Vice-President) said the rise could be morethan that (30 per cent), may be 50 per cent or 60 percent,” Chairman of Indonesian Church Union AndreasYuwangoe told reporters after meeting with the Vice-President at the Vice Presidential Office here.

Kalla said the subsidy for the oil sector had beenmounted to 13 billion US dollar, according toYuwangoe.

Indonesia’s rupiah weakened to a four-year lowagainst US dollar last week due to the rise of global oilprice.

Security Minister Widodo AS said to anticipatethe possible reaction of the hike, the government ispreparing for the acts.— MNA/Xinhua

Nearly one milliontourists visited the valleythis season so far, stateTourism Minister GhulamHassan Mir said.

This is for the firsttime in the history of Kash-mir that such a largenumber of tourists visitedthe valley. In the peacetime, over 700,000 tour-ists visited the valley in1988 which was a recorditself.

Mir said a great risein tourist inflow during lastthree years was witnessedin the state and it is ex-pected to touch 2.2 mil-lion by 2010, the TourismMinister said.

He said improve-ment in relations betweenIndia and Pakistan hascreated many openings forthe people of the state andthe future holds bright forthem.

Mir said that with theopening of Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Road be-tween the two nations, adream of the people of the

state has been realized andpeople are able to movefreely across the border.

Listing the effortsput in by the governmentto promote tourism in-dustry, Mir said the in-crease in domestic andinternational flights andexpected fall in air faresand the completion ofthe upgradation of the ex-isting airport by nextyear would open floodgates for tourists in thestate.

He said another indi-cator for a bright future ofthis industry was the in-creasing interest of peo-ple towards promotion oftourism and exploitationof new tourist spots in thestate.

MNA/PTI

JAMMU , 22 Sept — Kashmir Valley regain itsposition as the most favoured tourist destination asa record one million holiday-makers visited the‘paradise on earth’ this season.

Joint-Treasurer U Maung Maung Gyi of HninzigonHome for the Aged accepts K 120,000 for three-storeyhospital for the aged donated by Daw Aye Kyi andfamily of 111, Sule Pagoda Road, Kyauktada Town-ship, in memory of the late Major Pe Myint (Retd).–H

6th Waning of Tawthalin 1367 ME Friday, 23 September, 2005

Tasks being carried out systematicallythrough health care system

Bago Division WAO Organizer,Chairpersonobserve participation of women in development

tasks of Bago Division

YANGON, 22 Sept — The meeting to reviewaccomplishments of the National Health Plan (2001/2006), organized by the Ministry of Health, wasopened at Grand Plaza Parkroyal Hotel in DagonTownship this morning.

Minister for Health Dr Kyaw Myint deliveredan address, saying that the Ministry of Health drewthe national health plans for ensuring uplift of thehealth standard of the entire people under the leader-ship of the Government and the National Health

Committee. At present, the ministry is implementingthe final year of the National Health Plan (2001-2006).

The Ministry of Health is carrying out healthtasks by laying down two aims and three strategies tobe able to implement the national health policies. Inperforming the comprehensive health care, the 30-year long-term health plan, the national health plan,the special four-year national education promotionplan, the rural health development plan, and the

people’s hospitals upgrading plan are being imple-mented with the use of man, money and materialstrengths.

Now, tasks are being undertaken systemati-cally with a view to realization of policies and aims,strategies, projects and other structures through thehealth care system.

Next, the minister invited discussions of thosepresent. The opening ceremony then came to anend.— MNA

Next, they donated exer-cise books and stationery.

Officials of Divi-sion WAO proceeded toLebu Model Village inToungoo Township, andobserved tasks of Town-ship MWAF members atthe tailoring course, knit-ting course, and medicaltreatment at the rural edu-cation centre of the vil-lage. They presented cashto the funds for health careservices of the locals.

YANGON, 22 Sept— Myanmar Women’sAffairs Federation is tak-ing part in developmenttasks of the State to en-sure uplift of women’srole. Bago Division Re-gional Organizer DawWai Wai Thin of MWAF,Chairperson of Bago Di-

vision Women’s AffairsOrganization Daw KhinMaw Maw and membersarrived at Zeyathiri Nun-nery and Home for theOrphanage Girls inHtinigon Ywama ofToungoo Township,Bago Division, on 20 Sep-tember morning.

They presentedrice and donations for thenuns and schoolgirls toNun Daw Medini whospoke words of thanks.

They viewed teach-ing of MWAF membersto the orphanage girls andmedical treatment ofMWAF member doctors.

They also donatedexercise books and sta-tionery to students of PostBasic Education PrimarySchool and magazinesand journals toLinyaunggyi self-reliantlibrary of the village.

Division WAOChairperson Daw KhinMaw Maw and party,members of MCWA,women and village eldersheld round-table talks ondevelopment tasks, uplift

of women’s life, social,economic, education andhealth care services.

On 21 September,they went to KayanModel Village ofThanatpin Township, andpresented exercise booksand stationery to studentsof Village BEMS.

At Kayan StationHospital, they askedhealth care functions forthe village and conversed

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Bago Division WAO Chairperson Daw Khin Maw Maw and party, MCWAmembers and local women seen at the round-table discussions in

Lebu Model Village of Toungoo Township.— MNA

Bago Division WAO Chairperson Daw Khin Maw Maw and party presentexercise books and stationery to students at Zeyathiri Nunnery and Home for

the Orphanage Girls in Htinigon Ywama of Toungoo Township.— MNA

Bago Division Regional Organizer of MWAF Daw Wai Wai Thin and BagoDivision WAO Chairperson Daw Khin Maw Maw and party view women at

tailoring course in Lebu Model Village of Toungoo Township.— MNA

Exercise books and stationerywere donated to students of Post-Basic Education Primary Schooland magazines and journals toLinyaunggyi self-reliant libraryof Lebu Model Village in ToungooTownship.

Accomplishments of National Health Plan reviewed

Documents

"The New Light of Myanmar" 23 September 2005 - · PDF fileKingdom of Saudi Arabia, which falls on 23 September 2005. — MNA YANGON, ... the Ministry of Finance and Revenue and Shwe