myanmar striving to keep pace with changes and ... of the state constitution is the duty of all...

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8th Waning of Taboung 1368 ME Saturday, 10 March, 2007Volume XIV, Number 328

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

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

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Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein addresses meeting 1/2007 of Central Committee for Preservation of Myanma Cultural Heritage. — MNA

Myanmar striving to keep pace with changes anddevelopments and stand tall among the global nationsCentral Committee for Preservation of Myanma Cultural Heritage meets

NAY PYI TAW, 9March—Chairman ofCentral Committee forPreservation of MyanmaCultural Heritage Secre-tary-1 of the State Peaceand Development Coun-cil Lt-Gen Thein Sein thisafternoon attended themeeting 1/2007 of theCentral Committee heldat the meeting hall of theMinistry of Culture hereand made a speech on theoccasion.

The meeting wasattended by members ofCentral Committee forPreservation of MyanmarCultural Heritage minis-ters, the director-generalof the State Peace andDevelopment CouncilOffice, the director-gen-eral of the Prime Minis-

ter’s Office, directors-gen-eral of departments, offi-cials and others.

In his address,Chairman of the CentralCommittee Secretary-1Lt-Gen Thein Sein saidthat two of the four socialobjectives are uplift of na-tional prestige and integ-rity and preservation andsafeguarding of culturalheritage and nationalcharacter, and uplift ofdynamism of patriotic

spirit. The two social ob-jectives cover the charac-teristics of uplift, preser-vation, safeguarding anddynamism. Now is thetime when the world isexperiencing rapid devel-opment in science andtechnology in the processof globalization. At sucha time, all are to preserveand safeguard their ownculture and heritage fromfalling into degeneration.

At present, each

and every nation in theworld is trying its utmostin political, economic andsocial spheres to serve itsown national interest.Like others, the Union ofMyanmar is striving inorder to keep pace withchanges and develop-ments and stand tallamong the global nations.In the meantime, it hasbeen endeavouring forperpetuation of the Un-ion, the heritage of ances-

tors. Based on nationalis-tic spirit, efforts are beingmade for the nation to keepabreast of countries of theworld as an independentand sovereign one.

To be patriotic,one needs to know the his-torical trends of his own

nation and race. The pri-mate fossils found inPontaung-Ponnya Regionstand witness thatMyanmars are the originof mankind which havebeen in existence for 40million years. (See page 8)

At present, each and every nationin the world is trying its utmost inpolitical, economic and social spheresto serve its own national interest.

The government knows whatis happening in the nation. Despitethe sanctions imposed by someWestern nations and financial or-ganizations, the government hasbeen striving to serve the interest ofthe nation and people to the best ofits ability.

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

People’s DesireSaturday, 10 March, 2007

The government is building village-to-village roads, village-to-town roads andbridges large and small to bring about bet-ter transport in rural areas.

Padaungpaing (Myopya Road) andThayagon-Padaukpin gravel road inKangyidaunt, Inma tarred road, Inma-Intakaw-Khayekan gravel road and Inma-Thayettaw road section in Nyaungdon Town-ship were opened in February 2007.

No 2 District-to-District Earth Roadlinking Seikphyutaung Village andBomathandaung Village in Pyinmana Town-ship is being upgraded to a 30 feet wide fa-cility. As the road is a vital link betweenPatheingyi and Mottama in Mon State, cross-ing Kyaukse, Myittha, Wundwin, Yamethin,Tatkon, Pyinmana, Lewe, Yedashe andTaungoo in Bago Division, it contributes agreat deal to regional as well as national de-velopment.

In some regions there are model vil-lages fully equipped with new tarred roads,affiliated high schools, rural health care cen-tres, libraries and generators reflecting ru-ral development.

Tawlati Model Village in TaikkyiTownship, Yangon North District was putinto commission on 8 March. The village wasfacilitated with a self-reliant library, a pre-primary school of the Village Maternal andChild Welfare Association and a stationhospital. On the opening day, donors con-tributed K 2.3 million towards the funds ofthe hospital.

As the State, local authorities and do-nors are making concerted efforts for bettertransport and supply of clean water in ruralareas including the needs of education, healthand economy, they will develop along withthe improvement of the socio-economic lifeof local people.

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YANGON, 9 March — A ceremony to open theInternational Conference of Theravada Buddhist Uni-versities, jointly organized by the InternationalTheravada Buddhist Missionary University of theMinistry of Religious Affairs and Sitagu InternationalBuddhist Academy, was held at ITBMU in MayangonTownship this morning.

Present on the occasion were Chairman of StateSangha Maha Nayaka Committee Magway SayadawAbhidhaja Maha Rattha Guru Abhidhaja Agga MahaSaddhammajotika Bhaddanta Kumara and memberSayadaws, Chancellor of Sitagu International Bud-dhist Academy Agga Maha Pandita Bhaddanta DrÑanissara, Rector of ITBMU Bhaddanta DrNandamalabhivamsa, chancellors and vice chancel-lors, rectors and pro-rectors, principals, faculty mem-bers and expert Sayadaws from 22 Buddhist Universi-ties and Colleges in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India,Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, SriLanka, Thailand, Vietnam and the US, Minister forReligious Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maung, Di-rector-General Dr Myo Myint of Department for Pro-motion and Propagation of the Sasana, Pro-Rector(Admin) Dr Myint Kyi of ITBMU, diplomats andofficials of the foreign embassies, departmental offi-cials of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Buddhismresearchers and experts from abroad, faculty membersand students of ITBMU.

Professor of ITBMU Bhaddanta DrDhammassami acted as MC.

Chairman of SSMNC Magway SayadawBhaddanta Kumara delivered an SammodaniyaSandesakatha.

Next, Minister Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maungread out a greetings message.

Chancellor of Sitagu International BuddhistAcademy Agga Maha Pandita Bhaddanta Dr Ñanissaradelivered a keynote speech.

Rector Ven Phra Theppariyattiwimol of

International Conference of TheravadaBuddhist Universities commences

Chancellors, rectors and faculty members of22 Theravada Buddhist Universities, Colleges

of 13 countries participate in conference

Mahamakut Buddhist University and Rector Ven ProfDr Phra Dharmakosajarn of Mahachulalongkorn-rajavidyalaya University of Bangkok in Thailand ex-tended greetings.

After the opening ceremony, the ChairmanSayadaw of SSMNC together with the chancellors andvice-chancellors, rectors and expert Sayadaws from 22Buddhist universities and colleges in 13 countries andBuddhism researchers from abroad posed for docu-mentary photos.

Members of the Sangha attending the confer-ence are from University of Chittagong of Bangladesh,Preach Sihamuni Raja Buddhist University and PreachSihanouk Raja Buddhist University of Cambodia, DelhiUniversity and Nalanda University of India, Interna-tional Buddhist College Songkhala of Thailand,Mahachulalongkorn University and Mahamakut Bud-dhist University of Bangkok of Thailand, TribhuvanUniversity of Nepal, Buddhist & Pali College of Sin-gapore and Burmese Buddhist Temple of Singapore,the Light of Buddhadhamma Foundation of Los Ange-les of the US, Vietnam Theravada Buddhist College,Buddhist & Pali University and BuddhasarvakaBhikkhu University of Sri Lanka, Ketarjasa BuddhistCollege, Bodhidhamma Buddhist College, NalandaBuddhist College, Syailendra Buddhist College andSmaratungga Buddhist College and Finarakkhita Bud-dhist College of Indonesia, Samgha College of LaoPDR, and ITBMU, State Pariyatti Sasana Universityand Sitagu International Buddhist Academy ofMyanmar.

The conference continues its agenda at MountPopa Hotel in Magway Division on 10 and 11 March.Members of the Sangha will exchange views on prac-tice and experiences of Theravada Buddhism, set up anorganization of Theravada Buddhist Universities andsign MoUs on sharing and exchange of technologies,instructors and trainees in the conference.

MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maung reads out greetings message at ceremony to open theInternational Conference of Theravada Buddhist Universities.—MNA

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Vietnam regrets about USHuman Rights Report

HANOI, 8 March — Vietnam regrets that the 2006 US State DepartmentReport on Human Rights still has biased remarks on Vietnam’s situation, alocal spokesman said on Wednesday.

“It’s our state consistent policy topromote and protect human rights, con-sidering it an important element forsustainable development toward the goalof building a strong country with wealthypeople in an equal, democratic andcivilized society,” Ministry of ForeignAffairs’ spokesman Le Dung said whileanswering questions on Vietnam’sreaction to the report.

Vietnam has also done its utmost toensure the implementation of humanrights through building and improvingthe legal system, undertaking concretemeasures for economic, social andcultural development, he said, addingthat the country has gained manysignificant achievements in improvingthe exercise and facilitation of its citizen’s

rights and freedoms in all fields. However, as in other countries in the

world, the dissemination of informationwhich violates moral principles, finetraditional values and customs and otherlaws is not allowed in Vietnam, Dungnoted.

Given differences in political regime,development level, cultural values andhistorical background, various countries,including Vietnam and the United States,inevitably hold different viewpointsand approaches to human rights, he said.

“In our opinion, the two sides shouldintensify contacts and dialogues topromote mutual understanding in theinterest of the people of the twocountries,” the spokesman said.

MNA/Xinhua

Los Angeles experiencesdriest rain season

LOS ANGELES, 9 March — Los Angeles hasexperienced the driest rain season until now sincerecord-keeping began in 1877, the National WeatherService (NWS) said on Wednesday.

Downtown Los Angeles has received only 2.42inches (61.468 mm) of rain since the season began July1, the NWS said in a statement.

That’ is a “whopping” 9.13 inches below thenormal level, which is 11.55 inches, or 21 per cent ofwhat is customary, said the statement.

The previous driest July 1-March 6 period, when4.02 inches of rain was recorded in downtown LosAngeles, came during the 2001-02 rainy season.

If downtown receives less than 2 inches of rainbetween now and June 30, when the rainy season ends,it will have been the area’s driest season ever, accordingto the NWS. — MNA/Xinhua

A Fujifilm representative uses IRsimple technology to wirelessly transfer a

photo from one camera to another during a preview for the Photo

Marketing Association International (PMAI) convention in Las Vegas,

Nevada, on 7 March, 2007. The IR (infrared) system can also be used to

send a photo to a IRsimple printer. —INTERNET

Crash probe says frontwheels snapped

YOGYKARTA ( Indonesia) , 8 March — The frontwheels snapped off an Indonesian jetliner as itcrash-landed and skidded into a rice field whereit burst into flames, investigators said as theyprobed Indonesia’s second deadly plane crashthis year.

Teams of forensicdoctors struggled Thurs-day to identify the morethan 20 people killed, mostburned beyond recognitionby the fire that tore throughthe Garuda Airlines Boeing737-400.

“In everyday language,parts of their bodies turnedinto charcoal,” policedoctor Col Slamet Por-nomo said, adding thatjewelry and even someteeth had melted.

“The regulations aregood, but the problem isin implementing them,”said aviation analyst DudiSudibyo.

Nearly 120 peoplesurvived Wednesday’scrash at Yogyakarta’sinternational airport,jumping through em-ergency exits flames andsmoke filled the cabin.

Survivors said the planeseemed to be going toofast as it approached therunway after a 50-minutejourney from the capital,Jakarta.

Top investigator Mar-djono Siswo Suwarno saidthat the plane’s frontwheels snapped off as itlanded, and that fire spreadfrom punctured fuel tanksin the right wing.

“We are trying to findout why the wheel broke,”he told The AssociatedPress.

Authorities said therewas no indication ofsabotage or a mid-airexplosion.

Internet

The tale of Harry Potter and the super wealthyLONDON, 9 March—JK

Rowling, the author of theHarry Potter series, hasgained entry to the bil-lionaires’ club, becomingthe only British woman inthe Forbes 2007 list. Herbooks about the teenagewizard and the spin-offfilms have conjured up anestimated $1 billion(£516.8 million) for thewriter.

The Forbes 2007 listreveals that the number of

billionaires in the worldhas risen to nearly 1,000 -with 29 Britons nowmaking it into the ultra-rich club.

It also revealed that thenet worth of the 946 menand women who fall intothe dollar billionaire campis around $3.5 trillion(£1.82 trillion), up $900billion (£467 billion) onthe previous year, whenonly 793 names figured.

Bill Gates spends his

13th straight year as theworld’s wealthiest personwith an estimated $56billion (£29.04 billion).

His friend and fellowphilanthropist WarrenBuffett takes second placewith a personal fortune of$52 billion (£26.97 billion).

The Chelsea ownerRoman Abramovich —worth an estimated $18.7billion (£9.7 billion) islisted as the world’s 16thrichest person.—Internet

Visitors take pictures of blooming cherry trees inShinjuku park in Tokyo on 7 March, 2007.—INTERNET

This photo provided on 3 March, 2007 by the ClevelandMuseum of Natural History shows Dr Michael JRyan with the holotype skull of the new horneddinosaur, Albertaceratops nesmoi at an unidentifiedlocation. Ryan, curator of vertebrate paleontologyfor the Cleveland Museum of Natural History,published his discovery in the March 2007 Journal of Paleontology. — XINHUA

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Musicians play classical Chinesemusic at ChinaXi’an (International) Travel Fair 2007 in WestChina’s Shaanxi Province on 7 March . ChinaXi’an (International) Travel Fair 2007 opens in

the capital city of Shaanxi on 7 March, 2007. XINHUA

President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia (L) meets Japan’s Prime MinisterShinzo Abe (R) at the premier’s official residence in Tokyo on 8 March, 2007.

Saakashvili is on a five-day working visit to Japan.— INTERNET

Members of the Military Policeman Corps ofSouth Korea’s Capital Defence Command rappel

from a helicopter during an exercise in Seoulon 8 March, 2007. — INTERNET

Turkish plane makes forced landingdue to false bomb alarm

ANKARA, 8 March — A Turkish Atlas jet plane enroute to Istanbul made a forced landing in southernTurkey on Tuesday due to a false bomb alarm, thesemi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

The report said that the plane, taking off from theErcan Airport in Northern Cyprus at 18:50 (1650GMT), made the forced landing at Antalya Airport insouthern Turkey after officials in Istanbul received aphone call claiming there is a bomb on the plane.

Search operation was carried out after the planelanded, but there was no sign of bomb on the plane, itsaid. — MNA/Xinhua

BEIJING, 8 March —Some 1,500 people gatheredat the Great Hall of thePeople in Beijing onTuesday to celebrate the 97thanniversary of InternationalWomen's Day.

Addressing the recepti-on, Gu Xiulian, presidentof the All-China Women's

LONDON, 8 March —Fraud costs Britain aminimum of 13.9 billionpounds a year, and thefigure could be as high as20 billion, according to areport on Wednesday.

Commissioned by theAssociation of ChiefPolice Officers (ACPO),the report recommendedthe setting up of a NationalFraud Reporting Centre toencourage victims offraud to come forward —something they are oftenreluctant to do.

“Once the averageBriton dreaded beingburgled or having their carbroken into, now they’reworried about identityfraud, mass marketingscams and other forms of

LONDON, 8 March —Britain on Wednesdaynamed veteran counter-terrorism officer Jon-athan Evans to takecharge of domestic spyagency MI5, as it gra-pples with whatauthorities call a severe

Beijing holds reception tocelebrate Int’l Women’s Day

Federation, said the pastyear was the first year ofChina's 11th Five-YearProgramme as well as ayear that witnessed furtherdevelopments in the causeof Chinese women.

According to the mid-term evaluation of theProgramme for theDevelopment of ChineseWomen (2001-2010),considerable progress hasbeen achieved in women’sparticipation in politics,economy, and women’seducation, health and legalprotection.

“Job opportunities forwomen were increasedand women's legal rightsand interests wereeffectively protected,” sheadded. Gu, also vice-chair-woman of the StandingCommittee of the NationalPeople's Congress (NPC),

said the year 2007 is animportant year forChinese people to fullyimplement the scientificoutlook on developmentand to accelerate thebuilding of a socialistharmonious society.

“The Chinese womenare ready to join handsand work together withwomen of other countriesfor women’s advance-ment and development,for the strengthening ofmutual understanding,trust and cooperation ofpeoples around theworld,” Gu said.

Senior Chinese off-icials including Vice-Chairman Wang Zhaoguoof the NPC standingcommittee and VicePremier Wu Yi alsoattended the reception.

MNA/Xinhua

financial crime,” saidACPO’s spokesman oneconomic crime MikeBowron. Analysing datafrom global and nationalsurveys, the report wascompiled by MorganHarris Burrows LLPtogether with ProfessorMichael Levi of Cardiff

University and took a yearto produce. “Professor Leviand his team haveconservatively estimatedthat in 2005 fraud cost theUK 13.9 billion pounds,”said Bowron, who is alsocommissioner of the Cityof London police.

“But this figure excludes

some major areas ofcriminality, such as in-come tax and EU fraud,where statistics are simplynot available. “Addingthose es-timates into themix, it's likely fraudrepresents a 20-billion-pound annual loss to theUK.”—MNA/Reuters

Britain names MI5 veteran asnew spy boss

and unparalleled terroristthreat.

Evans, previouslynumber two at MI5, willtake over on 8 April fromEliza Manningham-Buller, who announcedlate last year that she wasstepping down.

The 49-year-old clas-sics graduate had been hotfavourite to succeed her.He faces what officialsconsistently describe as adaunting, and growing,array of threats.

Britain sufferedWestern Europe’s firstIslamist suicide bombingson 7 July, 2005 when fouryoung British Muslimsblew themselves up onLondon undergroundtrains and a bus, killing 52people.

Since then, authoritiessay they have preventedhalf a dozen Islamistattacks, the most recent inJanuary when policefoiled an alleged plot tokidnap and kill a BritishMuslim soldier.

Security sources saytheir main focus now is on“homegrown” militants,mainly British nationals.

A series of recent in-vestigations, includingthe 7 July probe, havehighlighted connectionsbetween British Muslimsand foreign-based rad-icals, particularly inPakistan.

MI5 rates the terroristthreat to Britain as“severe”, the secondhighest level on a five-point warning scaleintroduced last year,meaning that an attack is“highly likely”. London’spolice chief has called thecurrent threat “unparalle-led”.

MNA/Reuters

Fraud costs Britain 13.9 bln pounds a year

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Many fishing boats stay in the Liangang Harbor in Lianyungang, a port cityin east China’s Jiangsu Province on 5 March, 2007 as huge storm tides

pounded the port. — INTERNET

Malaysia says will not sellout to US in trade talks

KUALA LUMPUR, 8M a r c h — M a l a y s i adeclared on Wednesday itwould not sell out itsnational interests in free-trade talks with the UnitedStates, laying the foun-dation for a face-savingexit from the negotiations.

Prime Minister Ab-dullah Ahmad Badawi saidafter an extended Cabinetdebate on the faltering talksthat he would not surrenderto Washington on issues ofnational interest. “Thegovernment fully under-stands the thinking andconcerns of the people on

this matter. I would like toassure that the nation’sinterest will always besafeguarded and wouldnot be sacrificed in anyway,” he told state newsagency Bernama.

Abdullah’s remarksmatch previous Malaysianstatements on the talkswith its largest tradingpartner, but there is somepessimism inside govern-ment circles that Malaysiacan conclude a deal that ispolitically palatable toboth countries. TheMalaysian Cabinet meton Wednesday to review

the progress of the talks,during which Washingtonhas pressed Malaysia toopen up governmentcontracts to US firms — arequest that trespasses onpolitically sensitive affir-mative-action policies.

These policies —which ensure that a certainamount of state contractsare handed out to majorityethnic Malays — are apolitical sacred cow butare unpopular with foreigninvestors who say theyhave bred cronyism andinefficiency.

MNA/Reuters

Competitors in theStiletto Run race over

350 metres in PCHooftstraat in

Amsterdam on 8March, 2007. Thewinner receives a

monetary reward of10,000 euro from theorganizers, a glossy

magazine. — XINHUA

Russia to cancel remaining$160m Ethiopia debt

ADDIS ABABA, 8March—Russia will writeoff the remaining 160-

million-US-dollar debtowed to it by Ethiopia,Moscow’s ambassador to

Addis Ababa said onWednesday.

In 2005, Russiacancelled just over 1.1billion US dollars owedto it by the Horn of Africacountry, which was ruledfrom 1974 to 1991 byformer Marxist leaderMengistu Haile Mariamand his Soviet-backedregime.

“Ethiopian andRussian officials haveconducted discussions,and have agreed on howbest to cancel theremaining 160-million-US-dollar debt whichEthiopia owed to theformer Soviet Union,”Russian envoy MichaelAfanasiev told reportersin the Ethiopian capital.

MNA/Reuters

Elizabeth Hurley wearsher wedding dress in a

sketch provided byItalian design houseVersace on 7 March,2007. Hurley wore alow-cut, full-lengthwhite dress with an

ocean of ruffles for theskirt when she married

Indian businessmanArun Nayar on

Saturday, according toa sketch from designer

Versace. — XINHUA

Beijing, Shanghai, Mumbaito join world wealth league

Brazil calls on Japanto reduce agricultural tariffs

BRASILIA, 8 March—Japan should reduce agriculturalprotectionism to boost trade with Brazil, Luiz FernandoFurlan, Minister of Foreign Trade, Industry andDevelopment, said on Tuesday.

The important change would mean that Japan wouldhave more than just a “defensive vision of the domesticmarket”, Furlan said at a meeting on Brazil-Japaneconomic cooperation in the Brazilian city of SaoPaulo.

He said Japan was one of the coalition of protectionistnations that prevented agreement in the Doha Round ofWorld Trade Organization talks, which deadlocked inmid-2006 as developed nations insisted on continuingto subsidize their farmers.

“The best path for increasing the flow of trade andinvestment between Brazil and Japan is to promotecloser relations between the Common Market of theSouth (MERCOSUR) and the Asian nation,” Furlansaid. — MNA/Xinhua

LONDON, 8 March—Big cities likeBeijing, Shanghai and Mumbai fromsuch fast developing emerging marketslike China and India will join the worldrich city list by 2020, according toPricewaterhouseCoopers prediction onWednesday.

The report predicts that by 2020 therewill be five megacities with populationsin excess of 20 million: Mumbai, MexicoCity, Sao Paulo, New York and Tokyo,which will contain more than 35 millionpeople. PwC said the world’s megacitiesare comparable in size to fully fledgednational economies. Tokyo and NewYork currently both have GDPs inexcess of 1.1 trillion US dollars —making them as big as Canada and Spain,the EU's fifth biggest economy.

The prediction said that the capitals

of “old Europe” such as Vienna, Romeand Berlin, are likely to slide down theGDP rankings, but will benefit fromrevenues from tourists from cities in theemerging economies.

The richest city in the world by percapita income adjusted for variations inthe cost of living around the world is SanFrancisco-Oakland at 71,400 US dollars.The next 10 wealthiest cities by averageincome are all American, with Londonthe first non-US city on the list in 12thplace. London currently has a GDP percapita of 53,200 US dollars.

Although London is expected to growbriskly over the next decade and a half,its rate of expansion is expected to beonly half as fast as that in Shanghai (6.5per cent) or Mumbai (6 per cent) .

MNA/Xinhua

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Investigators of theNational

Commission onTransportation

Safety carry a boxcontaining the blackbox of the Garuda

Indonesia’s Boeing737-400 jet that burst

into flames after ahard landing, in

Adisucipto Airport,Yogyakarta.

INTERNET

Mrs World 2007 contestants perform during the final of the contest in Russia'sBlack Sea resort of Sochi on 8 March, 2007. —INTERNET

Maria Sharapova waves to the crowd as she'sintroduced for an exhibition tennis match during

the Duel in the Desert to benefit the NationalJunior Tennis League and Save Doubles non-profit

charity organization in La Quinta, Californiaon 6 March, 2007. — XINHUA

TEHERAN, 8 March —The head of the Iraniannuclear programme saidany attack on the country'satomic facilities would notextinguish the knowledgegained by young Iranianscientists, Iran’s ISNAnews agency reported.

It also quoted Ghola-mreza Aghazadeh, theIran’s Atomic EnergyOrganization chief, assaying Iran had produced

Iran says attack will not destroyatomic know-how270 tons of uraniumhexafluoride (UF6) gasfeedstock for the enrich-ment process, 20 tonsmore than previouslyannounced.

The United States hasaccused Iran of seeking tomaster uranium enrich-ment technology so it canbuild bombs, a charge Irandenies saying it wants tomake fuel for power plants.

Washington insists it

wants diplomacy to endthe standoff but has notruled out military actionif that fails.

“Now even if weimagine that they (theenemies) attack ourfacilities, the science ofthis technology is now inour young peoples'brains. They cannot doanything in our youngpeoples’ brains,” Agha-zadeh said.

He said Iran now had a“few thousand nuclearexperts”.

“Even if they attack ourfacilities a chance wouldbe provided for us to buildour power plants morecarefully and take moreaction to protect our powerplants,” he added.

Iran is assembling newcentrifuges to enrichuranium at an under-ground section of itsNatanz site in the centreof the country.

It now operates about350 centrifuges aboveground at the site, whichis surrounded by anti-aircr-aft guns. “In the past1-1/2 years, we haveproduced about 270 tonsof UF6,” Agh-azadeh said.

MNA/Reuters

LOS ANGELES, 8 March — An Iraqi national wearingwires and concealing a magnet inside his rectumtriggered a security scare at Los Angeles InternationalAirport on Tuesday but officials said he posed noapparent threat.

The man, identified by law enforcement officials asFadhel al-Maliki, 35, set off an alarm during passengerscreening at the airport early on Tuesday morning.

A police bomb squad was called to examine whatwas deemed a suspicious item found during a bodycavity search of the man. Local media reports said amagnet was found in his rectum.

“He was secreting these items in a body cavity andthat was a great concern because there were also someelectric wires associated with that body cavity,” LarryFetters, security director for the Transportation SecurityAdministration at the airport, told reporters.

Maliki, 35, who lives in Atlantic City, New Jersey,was preparing to board a US Airways flight from LosAngeles to Philadelphia.

The flight left without Maliki but with his luggageaboard.

Italian journalist missingin Afghanistan

ROME, 8 March — Italian newspaper La Repubblicasaid on Tuesday it had not been able to contact itsjournalist in Afghanistan since Sunday and had alertedthe Foreign Ministry in Rome.

The Taleban said earlier on Tuesday they hadkidnapped a British journalist and two Afghans in thesouthern province of Helmand, giving no further details.

La Repubblica said on its website that its journalist,Daniele Mastrogiacomo, was in the nearby area ofKandahar when the newspaper last spoke to him.

Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema ispersonally following developments, his ministry saidin a statement.— MNA/Reuters

LONDON, 8 March — Three British animal rightsactivist were jailed on Tuesday for a total of more thanseven years for their part in a campaign of intimidationto stop companies dealing with a firm conductinganimal experiments.

Mark Taylor drove protesters around the country tocompanies which either supplied or dealt withHuntingdon Life Sciences, a company that conductstens of thousands of tests on animals per year.

During three months over the summer of 2005,workers were terrified as animal rights protesters, ledby Taylor, invaded their offices shouting "murderers"and other insults, London's Old Bailey criminal courtheard. Taylor, 39, his wife Suzanne, 34, both ofWakefield, West Yorkshire, and Teresa Portwine, 47,of New Addington, Surrey, all members of the StopHuntingdon Animal Cruelty campaign, had pleadedguilty to charges of conspiracy to interfere with acontractual relationship.

The activists caused thousands of pounds worth ofdamage in their campaign to put Huntingdon LifeSciences out of business.

Wired Iraqi man triggersscare at LA Airport

MNA/Reuters

British animal rightsactivists jailed

MNA/Reuters

TEHERAN, 8 March —An earthquake measuring4.8 on the Richter Scalehit an area in western Iranon Wednesday, injuring35 people, the officialnews agency IRNAreported.

The quake struck nearthe town of Doroud inLorestan Province, saidIRNA. It said some of the

Quake in western Iran injures 35injuries were light.

“While fleeing duringthe earthquake andbecause of windowsshattering, some people'sbones were broken andsome were slightlyinjured,” Doroud Gove-rnor Nasrollah Res-hnou

was quoted as saying.He said the walls of

some houses and shopsin Doroud were dam-aged.

IRNA said somepeople had set up tentsto shelter in.

MNA/Reuters

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Want commodity prices to come down, enjoyregular power supply?

Ngar Min Swe

A small demonstration took place on MahaBandoola Street near Theingyi Market in Yangon on 22February this year with calls to bring down commodityprices. Some foreign radio stations broadcast the newsabout it in detail. Their news programmes were followedby interviews with some politicians. And when theauthorities called in Min Ko Naing for questioning,those radio stations also exaggerated the matter. As Iwas tired of hearing their voices, I had to write an article“From ‘75’ Nga Min Swe to ‘88’ Min Ko Naing”.

RFA aired the small demonstration in its SundayTalk programme on 25 February. In the programme, Iheard a person, who called himself a nationalist, sayingthat because of flatterer media persons, a king in nature’sgarb thinking himself dressed toured the country naked.By saying so he disgraced and insulted the nation and therace with a cheap talk.

The country was hit hard by the internal strifethat broke out soon after the regaining of independence,the wrong economic policy of Burma SocialistProgramme Party and the ill effects of the four 8s unrest.The Tatmadaw government had to rebuild the nationtogether with the people through much hardship. Duringthe time, a high level official of the State visitedNyaungdon Township, where my fish farm was located,unexpectedly to know the real situation. (Commandersof the military commands toured the areas under theircommand, met with grassroots and studied the regionalsituation.) Once, two ministers sailed on board a poweredboat in the rough waters to pay a working visit to anisland in the Bay of Bengal and held discussions. WhatI want to say here is that State-level officials are touringdown to the grassroots to fullfil the requirements.

The government knows what is happeningin the nation. Despite the sanctions imposed by someWestern nations and financial organizations, thegovernment has been striving to serve the interest ofthe nation and people to the best of its ability. The so-called nationalist should not brand me a governmentfawner for my such remarks. Frankly, I am close to thegovernment, but I have never asked any privilege fromthe government. I have not a telephone yet. I value therights of citizens and civil rights. There are many otherpeople like me in Myanmar. Hence, I would like todemand the so-called nationalist to withdraw his wordsinsulting the nation and the race from the RFA again asa gentleman.

About 30 persons staged a protest with calls forbringing down commodity prices and ensuring a runningpower supply. But their demonstration will not bringdown prices nor ensure regular power supply. Awidespread unrest will hit production and transportsectors hard, followed by rising commodity prices. Thesituation may worsen to the level of occurring starvation

among the ordinary people. Politicians who like to see thenation in an abject misery will be happy if the nationreaches the said level.

At present, the nation is making all-out effortsto adopt a new constitution for the emergence of a newnation. In this regard, stability of the State is of vitalimportance. In our tradition, parents and thecommunity have to give special care to a novice-to-be.Likewise, we too will have to safeguard our nation theway the parents and the community do.

Myanmar people including myself wish to seecommodity prices falling and gross domestic product andper capita income rising. We will have to boost productionto reach this end. Rice is the staple food of Myanmar.Myanmar’s per capita rice consumption is three times thatof China, Thailand and Malaysia. Hence, total riceconsumption of the over 50 million people of Myanmar isequal to that of 150 million people of other countries.Hence, boosting rice production is Myanmar’s first priority.We will have to increase per acre yield and reclaim morevacant, fallow and virgin lands for extensive rice cultivation.

The government is paying attention toextending rice and other crops cultivation. Now thenation’s gross sown acreage has reached 29 millionacres. It has built nearly 200 new dams and about 300river water pumping stations to irrigate the lands ofcrops all year round, and is distributing more andmore chemical fertilizers and farm equipment topeasants.

The government is also allotting large stretchesof vacant, virgin and fallow lands to entrepreneurs whowill actually grow crops. In addition, it is providingmachinery, assistance and technology for land reclamationand enough fertilizers for cultivation. As the governmentand the entrepreneurs are going to cultivate more paddy,rice production will increase leading to stabilizing andbringing down the price of the nation’s main food in thefuture also.

It is heartening to note that the Head of Stateis now making inspection tours of the hydropowerprojects at every opportunity. It will take three to fourmore years to complete ongoing giant hydel electricpower projects.

Now, adequate supply of electricity has not coveredthe entire nation yet, so people should pay a carefulattention to efficient use of electricity. An air-conditionerconsumes 1,100 to 2,000 kilowatts, equivalent to electricityconsumption of 40 to 50 four-foot florescent lamps. If theuse of air-conditioners is banned in residences and offices,wards can consume more electricity. I like coolness, andI use an air-conditioner too. Priority should be given to theconvenience of houses and students to study in thisregard. So, houses and offices should no longer use air-conditioners. Those ward dwellers using air-conditionersshould be liable to fines. If so, houses in the wards will beable to enjoy more electricity supply.

We people should do our bit in the drive forreduction of commodity prices and boostingcommodity production. In the process, we shouldfocus on extensive cultivation of paddy, edible oilcrops, beans and pulses, chilli, onion and garlic on thevacant and fallow lands. And we should breed fishand produce salt on the lands where crop cultivationis not available. Today, a large number of Myanmarpeople are wasting invaluable time, doing nothing special

The government is paying attentionto extending rice and other cropscultivation. Now the nation’s gross sownacreage has reached 29 million acres. Ithas built nearly 200 new dams and about300 river water pumping stations to irrigatethe lands of crops all year round, and isdistributing more and more chemicalfertilizers and farm equipment to peasants.

the whole day, such as talking at tea shops, keepingthemselves busy for illegal two- and three-digit lotteries,visiting certain persons who they think to be able toforetell the winning numbers of these games. Someopportunists are always thinking of approachingauthorized persons or joining specific socialorganizations in their circle to seek favours andopportunities. Myanmar will never boost its productionof commodities so long as many of the people areindulging themselves with gambling and seeking self-interests. If so, the commodity prices will not fall.

Beside my fish breeding pond in Thaton are twopaddy fields, which are of equal ground level with samequality of soil. The farmer of the first field has a taste ofgambling on two- and three-digit lotteries, while thefarmer of the other field does not take any interest insuch games and is punctual in nurturing his paddy field.They grew same species of paddy. Both did not utilizefertilizers. When they harvested their crop, the firstfarmer got per acre yield of 25 baskets of paddy,whereas the other got per acre yield of 35 baskets.

Like manner, some agricultural staff still haveweaknesses in making field trips to supervise tasks andreporting on data and figures.

Local authorities, departmental personnel,national entrepreneurs and farmers on their partare to extend a helpful hand to the tasks beingimplemented by the government for ensuring all-round development of the agricultural sector. Thetasks include reclamation of virgin and fallow lands,adequate supply of irrigation water, extensiveutilization of farm machinery and implements, useof high-yield crop strains and advanced agriculturalmethods and distribution of more fertilizers. Here,a notable point is that weaknesses of a specific sidecan harm the whole process to a certain degree.

Gambling on the two- and three-digit lotteries hasadverse effects on the State’s commodity productionand services. So, those citizens who want to seecommodity prices coming down and the nation enjoyingdevelopment have to give up such illegal practices. Andall are duty-bound to prevent such gambling with anational outlook. The government should give talks onevil consequences of gambling on two- and three-digitlotteries on an effective and wider scale in a fixedperiod. When the educative period is over, punitiveaction should be taken against wholesales stakeholders,sub-bookmakers and retail bookmakers and those whotake bribes from the former.

I would like to urge certain persons from theNational League for Democracy who are exaggeratingthe demonstration for bringing down consumer pricesin collusion with certain foreign radio stations, membersof “88” generation students group and certain persons indisguise of nationalists to dissuade the people fromgambling on two- and three-digit lotteries. I would liketo make a positive suggestion that if they really want tosee price falls in the nation, they should participate inreclamation of virgin and vacant lands and to growpaddy on them. And if persons from the NLD, membersof “88” generation students group and those in disguiseof national politicians carry out agricultural tasks in thepaddy fields, we people will give them our strong support.

Translation: TMT+MSMyanma Alin, Kyemon: 9-3-2007

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(from page 1)The fact has been recog-nized by experts of theworld. Therefore, there hasbeen a firm evidence thatMyanmars have been liv-ing in the nation since yore.And utensils used by

Myanmar striving to keeppace with changes and …

tional prestige and integ-rity, thereby contributingto perpetuation of the Un-ion.

These days, thereare incidents that alienculture is infiltrating intodeveloping countriesthrough undeclared wars.This proved to be a seri-ous threat to developingnations. It is obvious thataliens are fabricatingMyanma history withevery intention of sowingdiscord and dissensionamong national brethren.

Actually, nationalbrethren have been livingin the Union through thickand thin for years count-able by the thousand. Al-though they are differentin mode of dress and dia-lects according to geo-graphical condition, theyare identical in loyalty,integrity, hospitality andgenerosity.

Research work isvery crucial for theMyanmar national racesand so is national cultural

Culture Maj-Gen KhinAung Myint explainedmeasures being taken forpreservation of Myanmacultural heritage.

After that, Direc-tor-General of Archaeol-ogy and National Museumand Library Departmentof U San Win reported onforming of the CentralCommittee, demarcationof zone boundary in 1998under the Myanma Cul-tural Heritage Preserva-tion Law, excavation ofprimate fossils, researcheson bronze age, preserva-tion of artifacts, rebuild-ing of Bagan Shwe NanDaw (palace), renovationof ancient pagodas andstupas in Bagan Archaeo-logical Zone, emergencymeasures against degen-eration of cultural herit-age due to elements andcollection of museum en-trance fees and zone fees.

Later, Deputy Di-rector-General of Fine

Responsible persons of international organizations visit bird flu suspected chicken farms in Mayangon Township.—MNA

Minister for Culture Maj-Gen Khin AungMyint explains measures taken for

preservation of Myanma cultural heritage.MNA

YANGON, 9 March— The death of 234crows, pigeons, sparrows,quails and owls was foundin townships of YangonDivision from 27February to date.

The LBVD cameto the conclusion that thedeath of birds in YangonDivision was due totemperature changes ofthe season and eating

Measures taken as to death of birdsin Yangon Division

poisonous foods, but notbird flu. Among them, 21per cent of birds werefound dead due to heatstroke, 17 per cent of birdschronic respiratorydisease, 12 per cent ofbirds enteritis, 10 per centof birds pigeon pox, 20per cent of birds poisonand eight per cent of birdssuffering injury. A totalof 12 per cent of birds

could not be detected asthey had decomposed.

The departmentwarned to guard the petdogs and cats not to eatdead bodies of crows andother birds, to spraypesticide on the dead birdsand bury them and thebodies of animal killedwith poison should beburied systematically.

MNA

Int’l organizations observe bird fluprevention in Yangon

YANGON, 9March — A bird fluwatchdog comprisingregional coordinator DrJohn Mac Arthur ofUSAID, Ms ManloweTeresal, first secretary ofUS Embassy, Mr StevenSchonberger of WorldBank, Mr KwanpadhSuddhi Dhamakitand veterinarians ofLivestock Breeding andVeterinary Departmentthis afternoon made afield trip to chickenfarms in Mayangon

Township andobserved tasks on

YANGON, 9March — A man wasarrested by duty-conscious people andhanded to PabedanTownship Police Forceas he was running downa road after snatching agold chain from a personat about 8 pm on 4 March.

As Ko GeorgeKing (a) Khin MaungNgwe of KamayutTownship was waiting

Gold chain snatcher arrestedfor the circular train atthe Pagoda RoadRailway Station in Ward-5, Pabedan Township, atabout 8 pm, the mannamed Saw Mu Ray(Kyaban) approachedhim and grabbed the goldchain weighing about .5tical after asking himwhere he was going, andran to ShwedagonPagoda Road. As KhinMaung Ngwe shouted for

help, Chairman ofYawmingyi Ward Peaceand DevelopmentCouncil U Maung Htweand member U KyawWin and Sergeant YanAung of Auxiliary FireBrigade ran after andarrested the snatcher.

Pabedan Town-ship Police Station istaking action against SawMu Ray (Kyaban), it islearnt. — MNA

Fires break out in Natmauk, MyitkyinaYANGON, 9 March

— A fire broke out in Alevillage, Natmauk Town-ship, Magway Division at11.30 am yesterday. Atotal of 42 houses weregutted by the fire that left41 people homeless. A

makeshift relief camp wasopened at a monastery inthe village and necessaryassistance is beingprovided to the firevictims.

Similarly, a firethat broke out in Tatkon

and Aung Nan wards inMyitkyina in Kachin Stateon the same day destroyedthree houses and 23 peoplewere left homeless.Authorities concernedhave provided assistanceto the fire victims.—MNA

Myanmars in successiveeras were unearthed. Thisbeing so, for Myanmarpeople the fact is some-thing to be proud of.

The preservationof cultural heritageamounts to uplift of na-

heritage. Therefore, theState Law and Order Res-toration Council formedthe Central Committee forthe Preservation ofMyanma Cultural Herit-age on 25 June 1993.

To keep pace withthe developments of theState, the State Peace andDevelopment Council re-constituted the CentralCommittee on 26-9-2006with Order No (44/2006).The committee on its partis carrying out preserva-tion work for maintainingthe existing edifices, pa-godas and stupas. It is alsotrying to maintain the an-tiques and explore morearchaeological sites. Thecommittee is doing its ut-most for Myanmar cultureto win the respect of theworld. In doing so, thepeople are to valueMyanmar culture and cul-tural heritage as a nationaltask.

Next, Minister for

Arts Department DawNanda Hmoon reported onholding of Myanmar Tra-ditional Cultural Perform-ing Arts Competitions,arrangements for confer-ring movie and drama de-grees at University of Cul-ture, Director-General ofHistorical Research De-partment Dr Ba Maung onworks of the departmentto Secretary-1 Lt-GenThein Sein who attendedto the needs.

After hearing thereports, Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein stressedthe need for officials con-cerned to strive for upliftand preservation of cul-tural heritage as they arepriceless, and made con-cluding remarks.

After the meeting,the Secretary-1 and partyviewed documentary pho-tos on preservation of cul-tural heritage displayed atthe office of the Ministryof Culture.—MNA

prevention of bird flu.MNA

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District News

(from page 16)As usual, the report falsely made sweeping accusations of human rights

abuses in Myanmar, such as extrajudicial killings, custodial deaths, disappear-ances, rape and torture, arbitrary arrests, forced relocations, forced recruitmentof child soldiers, use of forced labour, increased military attacks on ethnicminority villagers, continued detention of political prisoners, as well as restric-tions on freedom of press, religion, movement, etc.

Considering the tone and tenor of the report, the source of thesefabricated allegations must have emanated from the remaining insurgentgroup and anti-government elements, which are launching a systematicdisinformation campaign by exploiting every sensitive issue to smear andtarnish the image of the Myanmar Government.

Following its failed attempt to pass a resolution on Myanmar at theUnited Nations Security Council, the US Government has publicly declaredthat it would use all multilateral avenues, including the Human RightsCouncil, to press on Myanmar. The Report is also a part of the US strategyto exert more pressure on Myanmar in pursuit of its own political agenda.

Contrary to the accusations made in the report, the Myanmar Govern-ment is exerting all out efforts to promote the fundamental human rights, the rightto development. In order to fulfill the basic needs of its entire population, theGovernment has been relentlessly striving for all-round development of thecountry, including the remote border areas where the majority of ethnic nation-alities reside. As a result, significant improvements can be seen in the economicand social conditions as well as the living standards of the entire populace,including the national races.

Turning a blind eye to these positive developments and prevalenceof peace and tranquility nation-wide, the report released by the US is devoidof factual correctness and does not reflect the realities in the country.Myanmar strongly opposes and condemns selectivity and double standardsin the promotion and protection of human rights and exploitation of humanrights as pretext for political purposes, making false accusations of internalaffairs of other countries.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs therefore totally rejects the biased assess-ment on the human rights situation in Myanmar contained in the US Department ofState’s 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. — MOFA

Myanmar Government exerting all-out…

Central Committee for Prevention…(from page 16)

down tactics, promotion of cooperationof international community, and collec-tive efforts in various sectors.

Chairman of the Group for Preven-tion of Trafficking in Persons and Pro-tection of Victims Deputy Minister forHome Affairs Brig-Gen Phone Swe re-ported on work accomplishment.

Chairman of the Group of LegalAffairs and Taking Action Deputy At-torney-General U Myint Naing andChairman of the Group for ReceivingVictims, Reintegration and Rehabilita-tion Deputy Minister for Social Wel-fare, Relief and Resettlement Col Kyaw

Myint dealt with work progress.Central Committee Secretary Direc-

tor-General Brig-Gen Khin Yi presentedsuccess achieved in preventing humantrade. Police Chief of Staff Police Brig-Gen Khin Maung Si gave an account ofprogress in drawing the five-year na-tional level plan.

Next, responsible persons of the in-ternational organizations discussed mat-ters on cooperation regarding the drivefor prevention of trafficking in persons.Officials of the Central Committee as-sessed their discussions.

The minister gave concluding re-marks.—MNA

YANGON, 9 March — Lt-GenMyint Swe of the Ministry of Defenceinspected tax-free markets in YangonCity and progress of the road sectionleading to Dagon University this morn-ing.

At the tax-free market in DagonMyothit (North) Township, Lt-GenMyint Swe was welcomed by Chairmanof Yangon Division Peace and Devel-opment Council Commander of YangonCommand Maj-Gen Hla Htay Win,Chairman of Yangon City DevelopmentCommittee Mayor Brig-Gen Aung TheinLin and officials.

Accompanied by the commanderand the mayor, Lt-Gen Myint Swe

YANGON, 9 March — Patron ofthe Central Committee for MyanmaGems Emporium Minister for MinesBrig-Gen Ohn Myint inspected sales ofpearl and gem lots at the 44th MyanmaGems Emporium at Myanma Gems Marton Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, here, this

YANGON, 9 March — The 44thMyanma Gems Emporium is in progressat Myanma Gems Mart on Kaba AyePagoda Road and Myanmar Conven-tion Centre on Mindhamma Road inMayangon Township. A total of 2775gem merchants — 1173 from local gemcompanies and 1602 from 536 gem com-panies from abroad —have so far ar-rived here this evening.

Pearl lots will be sold till 10

Mines Minister inspects Gems EmporiumLt-Gen Myint Swe inspects tax-free marketsvisited the tax-free market and leftnecessary instructions.

After inspecting construction ofTawwin Road and digging of drains inDagon University in Dagon Myothit(East) Township, Lt-Gen Myint Sweheard reports on progress of tasks pre-sented by Head of Engineering Depart-ment (Road and Bridge) U Bo Htay ofYCDC.

Next, Lt-Gen Myint Swe andparty visited the tax-free market in DagonMyothit (South) Township, ShukhinthaTax-free Market in Thakayta Townshipand tax-free markets in Tamway andYankin townships, and greeted shop-keepers and the people.—MNA

morning. After inspecting 310 lots ofpearl, the minister cordially greeted gemmerchants.

Next, the minister inspectedsales of gem lots on the top floor andgreeted the gem merchants who wereobserving gem lots. — MNA

2775 gem merchants arriveMarch and gem lots till 12 March throughtender and competitive bidding systemat the Myanma Gems Mart.

Local and foreign gem mer-chants are permitted to observe 5858 lotsof pearl at Myanmar Convention Centretill 12 March and these pearl lots will besold from 13 to 20 March through tenderand competitive bidding system.

More gem merchants from abroadwill arrived here till 12 March. — MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe inspects tax-free market in Yankin Township.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Ohn Myint visits 44th Myanma Gems Emporium.—MNA

Local and foreign gem merchants observe jade lots at 44th MyanmaGems Emporium. — MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 9March—The MyanmaEconomic Bank of theMinistry of Finance andRevenue held a meetingat the ministry here thismorning to review theprevious year’s work.

Managers of state/division and districtbranches reported on

MEB holds coordination meetingaccomplishments.

Minister for Financeand Revenue Maj-Gen HlaTun called for combinedefforts to achieve theobjectives and regionaldevelopment.

He also called forassessment of strengthsand weaknesses of thefunctions and arran-

gements for the tasks to beimplemented in thecoming financial year. Allthe staff are to work hardin the interest of the nationand the banks, he said,calling for politeness indealing with customersand effective per-formances.

Governor of the

Central Bank of MyanmarU Kyaw Kyaw Maung,Managing Director of theMEB U Myat Maw andbranch managers helddiscussions on functionsof the MEC.

The meeting com-menced on 6 March andconcluded today.

MNA

YANGON, 9 March—The United NationsChildren’s Fund (UNICEF)and the Young Men’sBuddhist Association(YMBA) co-organized theCourses on Child Rightsand Child Protection atMingala Taungnyut Union

Child Rights and ChildProtection Course organized

Solidarity and Develop-ment Association on7 March.

President of theYMBA U Bo Ni andofficials gave speeches.

Twenty-five traineesare attending the three-daycourse.—MNA

Myanmar needs assistance frominternational communities to speed

up tasks of controlling bird fluYANGON, 9 March —

The Donor Meeting forAvian Influenza, organizedby FAO, was held atSedona Hotel, here, today.

It was attended byUNDP Resident Repre-sentative Mr Charles JamesPetrie, FAP ResidentRepresentative Mr TangZhengping, WHO ResidentRepresentative Prof MsAdik Wibowo, World BankSenior Operation OfficerMr Steven M Schonberger,UNAID RegionalCoordinator Dr John MacAurthur, representatives ofembassies of the US,France, Australia, Republicof Korea, the UK, Japan,Singapore, Italy, Thailand,Germany and People’sRepublic of China, IFRC,USAID, AusAID andinternational consultants ofFAO, the director-generalof Livestock Breeding andVeterinary Department andofficials of HealthDepartment.

Representatives ofUNDP, FAO and WHOgave speeches and therepresentative of WB, theregional coordinator ofUSAID and the director-general of LBVD reportedon prevention and controlof bird flu and international

assistance.SE Region Bird Flu

Coordinator Dr WantaneeKalpravidth discussedcontrol of bird flu inMyanmar, requirementsand challenges, thenational strategic plan forprevention and control ofavian influenza drawn byFAO and the Ministry ofLivestock and Fisheries,and requirements of thefund.

The representativesof WB said that Myanmarcould perform inspection,reporting and takingpreventive measuresagainst bird flu. Breederswith high knowledgereported news on death ofchicken to the authorities.The laboratory for animaldisease in Yangon can testbird flu applying moderntechnologies. Due to theproper plan on control ofdisease, the LBVD andHealth Department couldcooperate with localauthorities to control thedisease. Myanmar needsassistance from inter-national communities tospeed up tasks ofcontrolling bird flu, theysaid.

MNA

YANGON, 9 March —Accel International Co Ltdopened Canon ClubMyanmar at No (7/11), thesouthern wing of AungSan Stadium in MingalaTaungnyunt Townshiphere this afternoon.

First, CompanyManaging Director MrAlvin Law and MarketingManager of Singapore Pte

New model of Canon digital camerasintroduced, Canon Club opens

Canon Singaporedemonstrated CanonDigital SLR cameraESO-1D Mark III.

Those having adigital SLR camera and apiece of lens can apply forthe membership of theCanon Club.

Various models ofCanon digital camerasare available at No

NAY PYI TAW, 9March— The insurgentsare resorting to variousmeans with the intentionof undermining thestability of the State,community peace, the ruleof law and public security.

One wounded in mine blastMin Min, 25, son of

U Khaw Taw in KyaukkyiPauk village in HtantabinTownship stepped on amine planted byinsurgents and the blastwounded his right leg. Hewas on his way to the forest

to collect wood togetherwith his brother at 11.30am on 6 March .

He was taken tohospital in the township.Officials and locals aremaking efforts to exposethe insurgents.—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Hla Tun speaks at meeting of Myanma Economic Bank. — F&R

Meeting for inviting international aid on bird flu control in progress inSedona Hotel, Yangon.—MNA

Managing Director Mr Alvin Law of Accel International Co Ltd extends greetings.—MNA

Ltd Mr Joe Matsumotoformally opened theCanon Club.

A ceremony tointroduce and demonstratea new model of Canondigital cameras also tookplace at the Traders Hotel.

Mr Alvin Law andMr Joe Matsumotoextended greetings andMr Roland Poon of

(7/11), the southern wingof Aung San Stadium inMingala TaungnyuntTownship (Ph: 243036and 243038).

MNA

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350i/-

A girl explores a huge model of the brain displayed at the Shanghai Scienceand Technology Museum on 27 August, 2003. Stimulating the brain with

implanted electrodes appears to help ease the pain of cluster headaches, twoseparate teams of researchers reported on Wednesday 7 March, 2007.

INTERNET

BEIJING, 9 March — While some people are getting rich, they seem to be more superstitious, aphenomenon which deserves attention from the governments, according to a Chinese lawmaker and apolitical adviser.

Legislator, adviser warn against superstition

“Fortune-telling,Chinese horoscope andFengshui have becomepopular in some areas,casting a shadow onbuilding a harmonioussociety,” said Peng Fuchun,a deputy to the NationalPeople’s Congress (NPC),

the national legislature.Peng is also a

professor of philosophywith the WuhanUniversity in centralChina’s Hubei Province.

The example Penggave was a businessmanin southwest China’s

Yunnan Province, whopainted the hill rocksopposite to his gate redfollowing the advice of aFengshui master.

In 2000, the Year ofDragon, more than 36million babies were bornin China, and the figure

was much higher than thatin 1999 and 2001. Thisyear is recognized as a yearof Golden Pig and willalso witness a baby boom.

Animal signs ofdragon and pig are deemedlucky and fortunate ratherthan others like goat andsnake. In China, 12 kindsof animals are used tomark the years in turn.

“Superstition is notjust a matter of personalpreference. If not curbed,it would hamper socialharmony and stability,”said Huang Wei, amember of the NationalCommittee of the ChinesePeople’s PoliticalConsultative Conference(CPPCC), the country’spolitical advisory body.

Painting the rocks inYunnan can damage localenvironment, and the birthrush will cause the shortageof social facilities when thebabies grow up, go toschool and look for jobs.

MNA/Xinhua

One out of 8 Americansliving in poverty

BEIJING, 9 March — A rights report issued byChina notes that one out of eight Americans lived inpoverty in 2005, saying the impoverished Americans“constitute the ‘Third World’ of US society”.

There were 37 millionpeople living in poverty in2005, accounting for 12.6per cent of total USpopulation, says theHuman Rights Record ofthe United States in 2006,released on Thursday bythe Information Office ofthe State Council of China.

Nearly 7.7 millionUS families were inpoverty, the report says,citing figures released bythe US Census Bureau inAugust 2006.

The poverty rates ofCleveland and Detroitwere as high as 32.4 percent and 31.4 per centrespectively and nearlyone out of three was livingunder the poverty line, therights report says.

Between 2000 and2005, the US economygrew by 12 per cent in real

terms and productivity,measured by output perhour worked in the businesssector, rose 17 per cent.Over the same period, themedian hourly wage-thewage the average Americantakes home-rose only threeper cent in real (inflation-adjusted) terms. Thatcompared with a 12-per-cent gain in the previousfive years was lower than itwas in 2000, it says.

The McClatchy News-papers analysis found thatalmost 16 million Amer-icans live in “deep or severepoverty”, growing by 26per cent from 2000 to 2005,according to a recent AFPreport.

“The number ofextremely impoverished isat a three-decade high,” itsaid.

MNA/Xinhua

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SEA MERCHANT VOY NO (725)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV SEA MER-CHANT VOY NO (725) are hereby notified that thevessel has arrivied on 10.3.2007 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES PTE LTD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

MYANMAR IVANHOE COPPER COMPANY LIMITED(TENDER NOTICE)

TENDER. IFB No. TRA07 (TRANSPORT SERVICES)Supply of transport services for the transport of copper cathode, general cargoes, sulphuric acid and otherhazardous chemicals from/to the port of Yangon, MICCL’s main warehouse at mine site in Monywa,Myanmar.

CLOSING DATE &TIME 30th March 2007 at 4pmTender documents are available at the following address and queries can be done between 10 am to 4pm atMICCL Yangon office before the tender closing date.

Myanmar Ivanhoe Copper Company Limited70 (I) Bo Chien Street, Pyay Road, Hlaing TownshipYangon, Myanmar (Tel: (95) 1514194 to 7/ Fax: (95) 1514208/ Email: [email protected])

CHANGE OF NAME

Declare that U NAN DAME DHA, holder ofMyanmar Passport No.319633 have changed myname to ANAND SENGSAVANG.

ANAND SENG SAVANG

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THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF MYANMARMINISTRY OF ENERGY

MYANMA OIL AND GAS ENTERPRISEIFB NO. 1(T) MCY-MOGE/PPT (2006-2007) CAP P.O BOX 1049, YANGON

FAX NO:095-01-222964/222965

INVITATION FOR BIDS1. Sealed Bids are invited by the Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, Yangon

for the supply of:NATURAL GAS PIPE LINE BOOSTER COMPRESSOR UNITS

2. Commencing from 7 MARCH 2007 a complete set of bidding documentshall be available at the FINANCE DEPARTMENT, MYANMA OILAND GAS ENTERPRISE, No. 604, Merchant street, Yangon, MyanmaOil and Gas Enterprise, NO. 6 Complex, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar duringoffice hour by payment to the order of Myanma Foreign Trade Bankattesting remittance of US $ 100.00 in favour of Myanma Oil and GasEnterprise (or) FEC 100.00 to the above office for each set of document.

3. Bids shall be accepted only from the Bidders who officially purchased thebidding document.

4. The Bids received shall be opened in the presence of Bidders orRepresentatives who choose to attend at 13:00 hours on 23APRIL 2007at the office of Ministry of Energy, No.6 Complex, NAYPYITAW, Myanmar.

MANAGING DIRECTORMYANMA OIL AND GAS ENTER-

PRISE

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FBI investigatescounterfeit wine auctions

NEW YORK, 8 March—Federal prosecutors havelaunched a criminalinvestigation into cou-nterfeit-wine sales andsubpoenaed leading rarewine collectors and topauction houses includingChristie’s in London andZachys in New York,according a Wall StreetJournal report onTuesday. The paper said agrand jury in New York hasbegun hearing evidence inthe case and the art-fraudunit of the Federal Bureauof Investigation hasconducted interviews.

MNA/Reuters

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Scientists identify 120 new cancer genesLONDON, 8 March — An international research team has identified

around 120 new genes that contain mutations promoting cancer growth.in its latest issue publishedon Thursday.

The number ofmutations that appear tobe involved in driving thegrowth of canceroustumors was larger thanexpected, but ultimatelythe technique will allowscientists to acquire acomplete catalog of all themutations involved ineach class of cancer,according to Stratton.

“We have found a muchlarger number of mutateddriver genes produced bya wider range of forcesthan we expected. It’simportant because themore cancer genes wefind, the more targetswe’ll have in terms ofpotential new drugs,”Stratton was quoted as

Bae Yong Joon voted S Korea’smost popular actor

BEIJING, 8 March — South Koreanactor Bae Yong Joon has beenchosen by Internet users as the mostpopular actor in his country in 2007,according to the results of aninternet survey.Bae Yong Joon got anoverwhelming majority of votes,followed by Kwon Sang Woo, KimJeong Hoon, the lead actor of idoldrama “Princess Hours,” or“Goong,” and Ju Ji Hoon.Rain, Song Seung Hun, and JangDong Gun are also included in thelist of the top ten most popularSouth Korean actors.

InternetSouth Korean actor Bae Yong Joon.

INTERNET

Sony’s new service includes Windows MobileBEIJING , 8 March — Sony announced it is expanding its service to include

a Windows Mobile platfrom via a gamma version of Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0on Windows Mobile powered devices.

The servicewill enableconsumers to use theplatform on 75 WindowsMobile devices from majormanufacturers, according tomedia reports Thursday.

The internet searchcompany said the servicewill be supported by morethan 175 different mobile

phone models, includingmore than 100 modelscurrently listed on itsgo.yahoo.com website. TheYahoo! Go 2.0 is anapplication that givesconsumers the ability topersonalize with contentfrom the entire Internet anda reinvention of mobile

search. “Consumers havebeen clamoring for us tobring Yahoo! Go 2.0 toWindows Mobile devicessince we launched theservice less than two monthsago,” said Marco Boerries,senior vice president ofYahoo’s Connected Life.

“There are millions ofmobile phones on theWindows Mobile platformin the market today andconsumers with thesedevices want to use the mostadvanced, exciting servicesavailable.—Internet

Blue whale loves songs no longer secretBEIJING , 8 March — Blue whalelove songs are no longer a secret from the prying ears of researchers

at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, Californier.

Scientists used tags suctioned to the whales’ bodiesand tracked the whales. They discovered that as theyfeed, they broadcast calls to let each other knowwhere they are, each groupusing a different sound,media reported Thursday.

The noises also play an important role duringmating season when males sing long, low-pitchedsongs to indicate their reproductive fitness to females.Females select mates based on size and make adecisionby evaluating males’ songs. They know largermales can take in more air and hold notes longer.

Theresearchers say the dialect findings could

help guide conservation efforts for blue whales, whosenumbers dwindled to dangerously low levels beforewhalinglaws were enacted.

Scripps scientast John Hildebrand toldLiveSciencethere were once an estimated 200,000 to300,000 in the Southern Hemisphere, but today thatnumber is closer to 1,000.

“By listening to the animals,” he explained, “youcan tell something about the areas in which they areinteracting to breed and that’s important to know formanaging and conserving the animals.”

Internet

The discovery by a teamof more than 60 scientistsled by Michael Strattonof the Wellcome TrustSanger Institute inCambridge, Britain, madea significant addition tothe 350 already knowngenes linked to cancer.

The researchersanalyzed 210 samples ofcancerous tissue,surveying a family of 500genes, called kinase geneslinked to cell growthand division andsequencing more than 250million letters of the DNAcode.

They identified 158mutations in around 120genes that they believecan be implicated incancer development, theNature magazine reported

saying.The researchers in the

study compared thegenetic sequence of theDNA derived from apatient’s tumor cells withthe DNA of healthy cellsfrom the same patient inorder to find themutations that are presentonly in the tumor cells,and which could beimplicated in theirgrowth.

All cancers are thoughtto result from an ac-cumulation of mutationsin one or another of the30,000 genes in thehuman genome. Thesemutations cause a cell tomultiply uncontrollablyto form a tumor that canthen spread to other partsof the body.—Internet

This image released on 7 March, 2007 displays aportion of the natural color mosaic over McMurdo

Station, the largest research base in Antarctica.Ross Island is roughly 45 miles across at its

widest point. — XINHUA

United Nations Office for Project Services(For Local Service Only)

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is a self-financing entity

of the UN system providing management and implementation services throughout

the world. UNOPS has been designated as the Fund Manager for the Three

Diseases Fund in Myanmar. The Fund has been established by a donor

consortium in order to provide a humanitarian response to three epidemics (HIV

& AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) within the context of the National

Communicable Diseases Programme and through the engagement of all key

stakeholders. The Fund Manager is responsible for the management of the Fund

in an independent and transparent manner. In this context, UNOPS seeks highly

qualified individuals for the following positions:

Closing date: 19 March 2007

For details on these positions please visit the UNOPS website:

www.unops.org or UNOPS 3D Fund Office Notice Board at 137/1 Than Lwin

Road, Kamayut Township, Yangon, Myanmar and other UN Agencies Notice

Boards in Yangon.

Applications must include a copy of labour registration card, 2 photos, NRC

copy and Educational Qualification

• National Officer - Monitoring &

Evaluation (NOB)

• National Officer - Public Health HIV

(NOB)

• National Officer - Public Health TB/

Malaria (NOB)

• Assistant to CEO (GS5)

• Procurement Assistant (GS5)

• Operations Assistant (GS5)

• Finance Assistant (GS5)

• Team Assistant (GS4)

• Team Assistant (GS4)

• Receptionist/Office Cerk (GS3)

• Messenger (GS1)

• Driver (GS2)

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S P O R T S

Liang, Fraser share one-shot leadin Singapore

Beijing Olympic ticketsto go on sale in April

BEIJING, 9 March— Tickets for the 2008 Olympicswill go on sale next month, but the buyers of tickets forsome hot events will have to be decided by randomdraw, organizers said.

Chinese nationals and foreigners residing in Chinacan now register to book tickets online after the BeijingOrganizing Committee (BOCOG) launched the offi-cial ticketing website (www.tickets.beijing2008.cn/)on Thursday.

BOCOG released full details on ticket prices onthe site and said ticket sales would be in three phasesstarting from April 2007.

The most expensive tickets will be for the openingceremony on the evening of August 8, which will cost5,000 yuan (646 US dollars). The cheapest tickets forthat event will be 200 yuan (25.8 US dollars).

Ticket prices for the closing ceremony will rangefrom 150 yuan (19.4 US dollars) to 3,000 yuan (388US dollars).— MNA/Reuters

European exit leaves anotherReal project in tatters

MADRID, 9 March— Real Madrid's failure to over-come the first significant hurdle in the ChampionsLeague for a third season in a row appears to have ruinedyet another of the club's expensive makeover projects.

Last season's exit at the hands of Arsenal signalledthe death of Florentino Perez' "galactico" experimentand this week's defeat against Bayern Munich looks likespelling the end for Ramon Calderon's revival pro-gramme.

Calderon came to power last July promising to stopthe club's barren run of form by recruiting Fabio Capelloas coach and former player Predrag Mijatovic as sport-ing director. Results, Calderon said, would be guaran-teed by the recruitment of a string of proven profession-als including World Cup winning captain FabioCannavaro, Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy andBrazil midfielder Emerson.

At the same time the club said it would lay thefoundations of future success by signing a new genera-tion of young players such as Jose Antonio Reyes andMahamadou Diarra.— MNA/Reuters

Ziege named Gladbachdirector of sport

BERLIN, 9 March— Struggling BorussiaMoenchengladbach named ex-AC Milan, Liverpooland Tottenham player Christian Ziege as director ofsport on Thursday.

He replaces Peter Pander who quit earlier in theday after a string of poor results. Pander's departurefollows that of coach Jupp Heynckes who left just overa month ago. Ziege, 35, has been an assistant trainer atGladbach since June 2004. Pander, a trained bankerwho had held the post since April 2005, had comeunder increasing pressure at the club, which is bottomof the Bundesliga with 21 points from 24 matches.

"Borussia Moenchengladbach has severed tieswith immediate effect with director of sport PeterPander," the club said., adding Pander had tendered hisresignation.

Dutchman Jos Luhukay, formerly the assistantcoach, took over at the club after Heynckes left. Hewas the third coach to hold the position during Pan-der's tenure.— MNA/Reuters

Victor Zapata (R) of Argentina's River Plateprepares to kick the ball past to Cesar Gonzalezof Venezuela's Caracas FC during their CopaLibertadores soccer match in Buenos Aires,

on 8 March, 2007.—INTERNET

Nebraska center Aleks Maric (21) ofAustralia, passes the ball while

guarded by Oklahoma State forwardMario Boggan (4) in the first half oftheir game at the Big 12 ConferenceBasketball Tournament in OklahomaCity, on 8 March, 2007.—INTERNET

Japan’s Kotaro Kurata trains formen’s aerials at the Freestyle ski

World Championships in Madonna diCampiglio, Italy, on Thursday, 8

March, 2007. — INTERNET

First Wembley game to beUnder-21 friendly with Italy

AMSTERDAM, 9 March — The first matchto be played at the new Wembley Stadiumwill be England's Under-21 friendly againstItaly on March 24, according to the DutchFootball Association (KNVB) who will beproviding the referee.

Dutch referee Pieter Vink will officiatethe game at the 90,000 seater stadium fol-lowing an invitation from the English FA,the KNVB said on their official website onThursday.

The game will be a test event for thestadium, which has cost more than 750million pounds, and will be part of theplanned 'ramp-up' preparations for hostingthe FA Cup final on May 19, the KNVBsaid. An FA spokesman was unable toconfirm that Wembley would be the venuefor the game.

The stadium is due to host its first'ramp-up' event with a local communityday on March 17, with 60,000 people ex-pected to attend.— MNA/Reuters

Shingo Katayama of Japan tees off on the sixthhole of the Classic course during the Singapore

Masters golf tournament in Singaporeon 8 March, 2007. —INTERNET

Sticky mess forReds after

chocolate gaffe TOKYO, 9 March — Ja-

pan's Urawa Reds apolo-gized to fans after out-of-date chocolate sweets weresold at a J-League gamelast weekend, a Japanesenewspaper reported onThursday. Vendors at Saita-ma Stadium sold 16 cans of"Urawa Reds Crunch" onSaturday with a sell-by dateof January 17, according toJapan's Sports Hochi.

The club may punishthe suppliers of the con-fectionary, the daily added,quoting Reds chairmanMitsunori Fujiguchi as say-ing: "We apologize for theinconvenience caused."

MNA/Reuters

Hammam wins secondterm as AFC president

KUALA LUMPUR, 9 March— Qatar's Mohamed BinHammam won a second four-year term as Asian Foot-ball Confederation (AFC) president on Thursday.

Hammam was the only candidate for the post byThursday's 1700 (local) deadline, which enabled himto retain the presidency unopposed. He will be swornin on May 8 at the AFC Congress in Kuala Lumpur.

Hammam, 58, has previously hinted at standingfor the FIFA presidency once Sepp Blatter steps down.

MNA/Reuters

SINGAPORE, 9 March— Chi-na's Liang Wen-chong and Aus-tralia's Marcus Fraser fired bo-gey-free eight-under-par 64s toshare a one-stroke lead after thefirst round of the Singapore Mas-ters on Thursday. Teeing off inone of the first groups on the lessdemanding Classic Course, the28-year-old Liang reached the turnon three-under after a bogey-free33, before storming ahead of thefield with a run of five birdies oversix holes.

Fraser started his round in theearly afternoon and recorded fourbirdies on both front and backnines to join Liang at the top of theleaderboard towards the end ofthe day.

India's Jyoti Randhawa, Ja-pan's Shingo Katayama and BritonBarry Hume are all one shot be-hind the leaders at the 1.1-million-US-dollar co-sanctioned Europeanand Asian Tour event.

The opening two rounds aresplit over two layouts at the LagunaNational Golf Club before the fieldis reduced on Friday and the final36 holes are played on the tougherMasters Course.

The leading 14 players com-pleted their rounds on the ClassicCourse with England's GraemeStorm, Ireland's Peter Lawrie, Fili-pino Angelo Que, New Zealand'sMark Brown and Germany's Mar-tin Kaymer sharing sixth place withsix-under-par 66s.—MNA/Reuters

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Friday, 9 March, 2007Summary of observations recorded at 09:30

hours MST: During the past 24 hours, weather hasbeen generally fair in the whole country. Day tempera-tures were (3°C) above normal in Kachin State,(3°C)to (4°C) below normal in Rakhine State, Mandalay,Ayeyarwady and Yangon Divisions and about normalin the remaining States and Divisions. The significantday temperature was Tharrawady, Chauk (37°C).

Maximum temperature on 7-3-2007 was 94°F.Minimum temperature on 8-3-2007 was 63°F. Rela-tive humidity at 09:30 hours MST on 8-3-2007 was60%. Total sunshine hours on 7-3-2007 was (9.1)hours approx.

Rainfall on 9-3-2007 was (nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since1-1-2007 was (nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye andCentral Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (4) mph from Northeast at (09:30)hours MST on 9-3-2007.

Bay inference: Weatther is partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea and generally fair in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 10-3-2007:Possiblity of isolated rain or thundershowers in KachinState, weather will be partly cloudy in Rakhine andMon States, upper Sagaing and Taninthayi Divisionsand generally fair in the remaining areas. Degree ofcertainty is (40%).

State of the sea: Seas will be slight to moderatein Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihoodof slight fall of day temperatures in the Lower Myanmarareas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouringareas for 10-3-2007: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouringareas for 10-3-2007: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouringareas for 10-3-2007: Generally fair weather.

Weather outlook for third weekend of March2007: During the coming weekend, weather will begenerally fair in Nay Pyi Taw and Mandalay Divisionand partly cloudy in Yangon.

WEATHER

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19. The next day’sprogramme

Rest In PeaceGeorge Alexander D’Cruz

Managing Director, G.D. International Co, Ltd,Manager, Myanmar Hoterl& Tourist Corporation

(retired)Age (80)

Beloved husband of Sheila (nee Bharatan),loving father of Barry @ U Moe Naing, Director (G.D.International Co., Ltd) - Daw Tin San Nwe (Petronas)and Suzanne @ Daw Mi Mi Thet (WHO), fell asleepin Jesus on 8th March 2007 at 11:45 pm at his residenceNo. 40A, Pyay Road, 6-1/2 Miles, Yangon. The funeralservice will be held at St. Augustine’s Church, 64 InyaRoad, Yangon at 1 pm on Sunday 11th March 2007,after which the cortege will leave for Yay Way ChristianCemetery for entombment.

The bereaved family.

NASA fires troubled US astronautHOUSTON, 9 March — Astronaut Lisa Nowak was fired by NASA on Wednesday, little more than

a month after she was arrested on charges that she tried to kidnap a woman she regarded as romantic rivalfor the affections of a space shuttle pilot.

NASA said thedecision to terminateNowak from the astronautcorps was by “mutualagreement” between thespace agency and theNavy, where she is still an

active duty officer. NASA said it “lacks

the administrative meansto deal appropriately withthe criminal chargespending against Nowak”and that her next

assignment would comefrom the Navy, which hadassigned her to the spaceagency.

Nowak, 43, a Navycaptain who became anastronaut in 1996 andflew just one space shuttlemission in July, was placedon leave after she wasarrested last month inOrlando, Florida. She wasaccused of assaulting andtrying to kidnap Air ForceCaptain Colleen Shipman,whom she viewed as a rivalfor the affections ofastronaut WilliamOefelein, a commander inthe Navy.

Police said Nowak, amother of three, drovefrom Houston to Orlando,wearing adult diapers toavoid a bathroom stop, to

confront Shipman after shelearned she was seeingOefelein.

Nowak disguisedherself in a wig and trenchcoat and allegedlyfollowed Shipman to herparked car at Orlandoairport. She carried a bagthat contained a BB gun,knife and a rubber hose,police said.

According toShipman, Nowak accostedher as she got into her car,tried to open the door andsprayed pepper spraythrough the partially openwindow.

Nowak was firstcharged with attemptedmurder, but that chargewas reduced to attemptedkidnapping last week.

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8th Waning of Taboung 1368 ME Saturday, 10 March, 2007

* To work in concert with the people in

building a peaceful, modern, developed

and discipline-flourishing democratic

nation

* To strive for successful realization of

the seven-step Road Map of the State

with genuine Union Spirit

* To crush every danger posed to stabil-

ity and development of the State hand

in hand with the people

* To build a strong, capable and mod-

ern patriotic Tatmadaw to safeguard

Our Three Main National Causes

Objectives of the 62nd AnniversaryArmed Forces Day

Minister Maj-Gen Maung Oo speaks at first coordination meeting of Central Committee for Prevention of Trafficking in Persons.—MNA

Myanmar strongly opposes, condemns selectivity and doublestandards in promotion and protection of human rights and

exploitation of human rights as pretext for political purposes,making false accusations of internal affairs of other countries

Myanmar Government exerting all-out efforts to promotefundamental human rights, the right to development

NAY PYI TAW, 9 March— The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of theUnion of Myanmar, today, issued a press release totally rejecting CountryReports on Human Rights Practices of over 190 countries including Myanmarreleased by the US Department of State on 7 March 2007 as the reportcarried a litany of unfounded and unsubstantiated allegations of human rightsviolations in Myanmar.

The following is the full text of the press release.The US Department of State on 7 March 2007 released its 2006 Country

Reports on Human Rights Practices of over 190 countries of the world, includ-ing Myanmar. As in the past, the report once again carried a litany of unfoundedand unsubstantiated allegations of human rights violations in Myanmar.

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In 2006, 60 cases inhuman trade were exposed,200 victims were rescuedand punitive action wastaken against 299 humantraffickers.

Central Committee for Preventionof Trafficking in Persons meetsWork groups protecting, preventing

vulnerable persons from being traffickedNAY PYI TAW, 9 March — The Central Commit-

tee for Prevention of Trafficking in Persons held itsfirst coordination meeting at the Myanmar PoliceForce Headquarters here this afternoon.

Chairman of the Central Committee Minister forHome Affairs Maj-Gen Maung Oo said that Myanmarjoined UN Convention Against Transnational Organ-ized Crime and Protocol to Prevent, Suppress andPunish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women andChildren on 30 March 2004. It signed the MoUAgainst Trafficking in Persons of six member coun-tries of Greater Mekong Sub-Region on 29 October2004. Myanmar is strictly observing the UN resolu-tions and combating human trade.

The Law on Prevention of Trafficking in Per-sons is intended to protect people vulnerable to hu-man trade. The work groups formed under the pro-visions of the law with deputy ministers and thedeputy attorney-general as chairmen are performingto protect and prevent vulnerable persons from be-ing trafficked in and take action against human traf-fickers under the law. Since the promulgation of the

law, success has been achieved in carrying out tasksfor elimination and prevention of trafficking in per-sons. In 2006, 60 cases in human trade were ex-posed, 200 victims were rescued and punitive actionwas taken against 299 human traffickers. CentralCommittee members departmental personnel, inter-nal NGOs, UN agencies and INGOs have madeefforts in concert to implement the four tactics ofthe national plan—prevention, taking action underlaw, protection of the victims, and rehabilitation ofthe victims. Responsible officials will cope withproblems on trafficking in persons with patrioticfervour as a national duty.

He said that now the fifth draft has been writtenfor the national level five-year plan for eliminationof human trade. The plan is made up of five sec-tors—cooperation through the policy, prevention,taking action, protection of the victims, and capacitybuilding.

In conclusion, he called for more bilateral MoUsagainst trafficking in persons, national plans to lay

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