With all infrastructures built by State, people of Chin State are ...

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

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Lt-Gen Ye Myint addresses the opening ceremony of Mindat-Matupi tarred road (102-mile) in Chin State. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW,21 July — The 102-mile Mindat-Matupi tarred road, built by Public Works, was inaugu-rated in Matupi in Chin State yesterday morning withan address by member of the State Peace and Develop-ment Council Lt-Gen Ye Myint of the Ministry ofDefence.

Also present on the occasion were Chairmanof Sagaing Division PDC Commander of North-WestCommand Maj-Gen Tha Aye, Minister for Construc-tion Maj-Gen Saw Tun, Vice-Chairman of Chin StatePDC Col Hsan Aung, officials of the SPDC office,departmental officials, local authorities and otherstotalling 2000.

In his speech, Lt-Gen Ye Myint said in ChinState there are four main roads — Haka-GangawRoad, Haka-Matupi Road, Kalay-Falam-Haka Roadand Mindat-Matupi Road. The 102-mile Mindat-Matupi road opened today links Mindat and Matupi in

With all infrastructures built by State, people ofChin State are to strive for improvement oftheir livelihood and regional developmentMindat-Matupi tarred road inaugurated

Chin State (South). It is the main exit of Matupi as wellas a road that links Yezwa on Matupi-Haka Road.Mindat-Matupi Road was first built in 1955 and it wasrebuilt into the earth road in 1973. Being the earth road,it was not serviceable in the rainy season.

That was why the Head of State gave guidancethat measures were to be taken to improve the roads inChin State. Pakokku-Pauk-Kyaukhtu-Mindat Road wasopened on 27-11-2003 to get easy access to Mindat inChin State (South) and to improve economic, socialand transport sectors by linking other states anddivisions including Magway Division, he said. Fourgroups were assigned duties to start upgrading Mindat-Matupi Road on 12-12-2004. But there were difficul-ties in building the road due to geographical condi-tions. However, thanks to the strenuous efforts ofpersonnel of Public Works and local people whoactively participated in construction tasks in accord

with the State policy of ensuring harmonious develop-ment of all the regions across the country, the 102-mileroad had been opened successfully. Now there are1,062 miles of roads in Chin State compared to only695 miles before 1988. In accord with the guidance ofthe Head of State, 183 new bridges of 180 feet andabove were built. Among them Bar Bridge in ChinState was first built. The bridge, 340 feet long, wasbuilt across Manipur River on 12-12-1992. It wasopened on 13-3-1998.

Lt-Gen Ye Myint continued that another bridgein the state is Kattel Suspension Bridge, 440 feet long,that was inaugurated on 25-4-2002. It lies on Tiddim-Reed Road across Manipu River. In addition,Manswang Bridge also situated on Tiddim-Reed Roadacross Manipura River was built on 20-3-2005. It is abailey bridge with 460 feet in length. In the past thejourney between Mindat and Matupi was rough and aday-long trip. But now one can travel from Matupi-Mindat to Pakokku within 12 hours, he added. TheState, mobilizing its own resources, is building roadsand bridges to ensure equitable development of allparts of the country and more unity and amity amongnational brethren. Not only in Chin State butalso in other states and divisions, roads, bridges,railroads, airports and jetties being built one after

Chin State (North) is now in a position to get easyaccess to other states and divisions via Haka-Gangawexit and Kalay-Kalewa-Yagyi-Monywa exit.

(See page 8)

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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 Desire

The government, in its drive for nationaldevelopment, is implementing throughharmonious combination for the border areasand national races development project thatcovers border areas, the 24-special developmentzones project that covers states and divisions,and the rural development tasks that covercountryside regions of the nation. As a result ofthe projects, all parts of the Union includingShan State have now had prospects fordevelopment.

With the centre of the four of the developmentregions established under the plan by thegovernment—Taunggyi, Lashio, Kengtung andPanglong—Shan State has seen peace, stabilityand all-round development.

In the past, local youths in the fringes of ShanState were deprived of opportunity to pursueeducation owing to the armed insurgency. Now,peace and stability has been restored, and soalmost all the villages have been served withschools, and local youths of national races havean easy access to higher education in TaunggyiUniversity, Panglong University, GovernmentTechnological College, Government ComputerCollege and Education College.

Today, Shan State has got basic foundationsfor development such as a network of transportfacilities, schools, universities and colleges wherelocal national race youths can pursue highereducation, specialists hospitals, general hospitals,health care centres, rural health care centres andcoal-fired and hydro electric power stations.

In particular, the region has enjoyedincreasing development with industrial zonesand border trade centres that can effectivelyenhance regional development, such modernborder cities as Muse, Chinshwehaw, Laukkai,Mongla and Tachilek, thriving tourism industryand good trade.

The development of the entire Unionincluding Shan State is the fruitful result ofefforts for restoring stability and peace. So, theentire national people are duty-bound to makecollaborative efforts in harmony for greaterdevelopment of the Union, while preserving andprotecting the already-restored peace andtranquillity.

YANGON, 21July—The Fifth AnnualGeneral Meeting of theMyanmar ASEANWomen’s FriendshipAssociation (MAWFA)was held at the InternationalBusiness Centre here thismorning.

Member of theBoard of Patrons under theAssociation wife of the

Myanmar ASEAN Women’sFriendship Association meets

Foreign Affairs, executivecommittee members cumwives of senior officials ofthe Ministry of ForeignAffairs, wives of theambassadors and diplomatsfrom ASEAN embassiesin Yangon and theassociation members.

This was followedby the cash donations forthe association. The

Zaw Win-Daw Khin KhinHtay, K 100,000 by U LuMaw-Daw Phyu PhyuNyunt, K 100,000 by UHong Swan-Daw Aye AyeMu, K 100,000 by DawMyint Myint Aye, K100,000 by U Tun Myint-Daw Aye Aye Nyunt, K100,000 by executivemembers, US$ 50 by DawKyi Kyi, K 50,000 by

Minister for Foreign AffairsDaw Myint Myint Soemade an opening speech.

Chairperson of theExecutive Committee DawKhin Hnin Nyun also spokeand the secretary presentedthe report of the committeefor the year 2005-2006 andthe treasurer submitted thefinancial statement for theyear 2005-2006 that wereapproved by the meeting.

The meeting wasattended by honorarymembers who are wives ofthe ministers, members ofthe Board of Patrons DawLai Lai Kyi and Dr DawKhin Mya Win, wife of theDeputy Ministers for

donations included US$200 by the PhilippineAmbassador, K 100,000 byhonorary members, K400,000 by Chairman ofCB Bank U Khin MaungAye, K 300,000 by U AungMyo Min-Daw Aye AyeMyint, US$ 100 by theIndonesian Embassy toMyanmar, K 100,000 bythe Thai Embassy toMyanmar, K 100,000 bythe Embassy of BruneiDarussalam to Myanmar,K 100,000 by theVietnamese Embassy toMyanmar, K 100,000 bythe Embassy of the LaoPeople’s DemocraticRepublic, K 200,000 by U

Bangladeshi Women’sAssociation, K 50,000 byU Sonny Aung Khin, K50,000 by Training,Research and ForeignLanguages Department ofthe Ministry of ForeignAffairs, K 100,000 byIndian Women’sAssociation and others.

Daw Myint MyintSoe and responsiblepersons accepted thedonations and presentedcertificates of honour to thethem.

The meetingended with the concludingremarks by the chairpersonand a luncheon was hostedto members of theassociation.

The MAWFA wasformed on 26 July 2001 topromote cooperation andunderstanding andencourage culturalexchange among thepeoples of Southeast Asiathrough the collaborationof ASEAN ladies. — MNA

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Those attending the fifth annual general meetingof MAWFA pose for a documentary. — MNA

Embassy of Indonesia donates US$ 100 toMAWFA. — MNA

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Laotian FM visits Cambodia tostrengthen cooperation

PHNOM PENH, 20 July—CambodianDeputy Prime Minister and Minister ofForeign Affairs Hor Namhong onWednesday held talks with visitingLaotian counterpart ThonglounSisoulith, aimed at enhancing twocountries’ cooperation.

“We have in-depth talks on furtherstrengthening the ties between our twocountries and exchanged views over theregional issues and issues of commonconcern,” Hor Namhong told reportersafter the meeting. Both of them praisedthe development of bilateral relationshipsince diplomatic ties between the twocountries were established 50 yearsago. “We have continuous exchanges ofvisit at high levels recent year, whichhas great importance to promote the in-

depth development of our two countries,”Hor added.

Hor said that Cambodia and Laoswill soon sent their teams to resolve theirremaining border issues. Cambodian andLaos have already finished two-thirds ofbordering demarcation. They also agreedto construct the highway linking the twocountries as early as possible.

Meanwhile, the two countriesdetermined to strengthen the cooperationwith other ASEAN member countries inan efforts to reduce the gap among them.

Thongloun Sisoulith, Deputy PrimeMinister and Minister of Foreign Affairsof Laos, arrived here on Wednesdayafternoon to pay a three-day official visitat the invitation of Hor Namhong.

MNA/Xinhua

Ten dead as storms sweep Japan TOKYO, 20 July—At

least 10 people died and13 went missing in Japanon Wednesday astorrential rains sweptthrough a wide swathe ofthe country, triggeringmudslides and floods.

More than 60 cm (24inches) of rain has fallenin the last few days,disrupting rail and roadtraffic.

Weather forecasterswarned that the raincould continue and

might trigger moremudslides and floods incentral and westernJapan.

Among those affected,at least four died and fourothers went missing aftermudslides struck housesin Okaya, in Naganoprefecture in centralJapan, Kyodo Newsagency said.

Also in Okaya, an 80-year-old woman wasfound dead after her homewas crushed by mudslides,

a local official said. About 200 troops

joined hundreds of rescueworkers in searchingcollapsed houses andswollen rivers for thosemissing in the region.

A 66-year-old mandrowned in an irrigationchannel in Yamanashiprefecture in centralJapan, a local officialsaid. A 26-year-old manwent missing after his carwas swept into a river inthe central Japaneseprefecture of Gifu, KyodoNews agency said.

Two people remainedunaccounted for after amudslide buried a housein Kyoto prefecture onWednesday, Kyodoquoted local officials assaying.—MNA/Reuters

Two die in Dutch walksue to heat

AMSTERDAM, 20 July —Two people died onTuesday in theNetherlands on the firstday of a four-day walkafter temperatures rose tomore than 30 degreesCelsius (86 degreesFahrenheit), Dutchtelevision said.

Around 300 peoplefainted and 30 walkers hadto be taken to hospitalbecause of the heat.

Temperatures in theNetherlands are set to riseto 36 degrees Celsius(96.80 degrees Fahren-heit) on Wednesday inwhat is a second heatwavein three weeks.

The organizers havecancelled the walk, whichdates back to 1909 andhas around 44,000participants from acrossthe world.

In France, two elderlypeople died on Tuesday,probably also due to heat.Temperatures topped 35Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) inthe Gironde Prefecturewhere they have died.

An 85-year-old mandied in a hospital in

Bordeaux and an 81-year-old woman who lived inthe city was found dead inher home.

Both suffered frommedical conditionsaggravated by hightemperatures, localauthorities said.

A heatwave in 2003killed some 15,000 peoplein France, with bodiespiled up in mortuaries andunclaimed corpses buriedin paupers’ graves.

MNA/Reuters

Gunmen kill senior officialin western Baghdad

BAGHDAD, 20 July—Unknown gunmen shotdead a senior official ofthe Iraqi Interior Ministryin western Baghdad onWednesday, a ministrysource told Xinhua.

Major-General FakhriAbdul Hussein, head oflegal department in theInterior Ministry, wasgunned down by armedmen in front of his housein Mansur District at about7:00 am (0300 GMT), thesource said on conditionof anonymity.

Separately, a policesource said that threecoordinated explosionsincluding a car bomb

occurred near TechnologyUniversity in easternKarradah neighbourhood,killing five people andwounding 18 others.

The attack set a nearbybuilding ablaze anddamaged two civiliancars, the source said,adding that ambulances,fire engines and Iraqipolice rushed to the areato evacuate the victimsand put out the fire.

Violence has persistedin Iraq despite theformation of a newnational unity governmentin the war-torn country inlate May.

MNA/Xinhua

Thief compensates victim forstolen bike

BERLIN,19 July—Policesay a thief in Germanywas so overcome withremorse at having stolen abicycle, he wrote the victima letter and fullyrecompensed him for theloss.

After the theft in theBavarian village ofBidingen was reported,police in nearby Mark-toberdorf made an appealin a local paper for anywitnesses to the crime tocome forward.

Soon afterwards, thevict im received ananonymous letter fromthe thief containing$670 in cash—the exactvalue of the bicycleaccording to the policenotice.

“The thief also toldthe man he was sorryhe couldn’t rememberwhere he’d left thebike,” police spokesmanGerhard Kreis said.

“He may just have beena thoroughly honest

person who saw the errorof his ways. You still getthem you know.”

Internet

Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) holds a ceremony to welcome Swedish KingCarl XVI Gustaf in Beijing, China, on 20 July, 2006.–INTERNET

A general view of Beijing-Guangzhou railwaytrunk line destroyed by flood in Shaoguan,

south China's Guangdong Province, on19 July, 2006.—INTERNET

A young sea lionstands by its newresidence at the

Donghu Aquariumof Wuhan, capitalof central China’sHubei Province on

20 July, 2006. A“crystal palace”made up of ice

pieces was built forthe sea lions toavoid the hot

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CAIRO, 20 July — Fivewomen were killed in anEgyptian village onTuesday when a small gascylinder exploded, set fireto their house and blewout one of the walls on topof a neighbouring house,the state news agencyMENA said.

The women were thewife of the owner and thewives of her two brothersin one house and a 65-year-old woman and hergranddaughter in thehouse next door, it said.

The accident tookplace in Minya Province,in the Nile valley about140 km (85 miles) southof Cairo.

MNA/Reuters

SINGAPORE, 20 July—The Singapore Exchange(SGX) on Wednesdayproposed that a clearingand depository utility beset up within theAssociation of South-East Asian Nations(ASEAN) to facilitate theintegration of regionalmarkets.

“The objective of theentity is to provide

MANILA, 20 July — Fifteen farmers were killed and22 others wounded in the early morning Thursdaywhen a truck carrying them overturned on a downhillroad in Negro Oriental Province, central Philippines,said local officials.

The deadly accident took place in the town of LaLibertad of Negros Oriental Province as the victimswere riding in a 10-wheeler truck to a market to selltheir products, the officials said.

La Libertad Mayor Josie Sy-Limkaichiong saidthat she could not determine exactly what caused theaccident up to now, but she said rains may have madethe road slippery, or the driver may have fallen asleepas it was very early in the morning.

The mayor said that the municipal governmentwould provide medical and financial needs tothe victims.

MNA/Xinhua

BEIJING, 20 July— Anearthquake measuring 5.6degrees on the RichterScale jolted a county innorthwest China’s Qing-hai Province at 5:53 pm(Beijing Time) Wednes-day, according to theChina SeismologicalBureau.

The epicentre waslocated in a spareslypopulated pasturing areaon the Qinghai-TibetPlateau at 33.0 degreesnorth Latitude and 96.3degrees east Longitude,about 70 kilometres southof the county seat ofYushu.

The area was hit byanother earthquakemeasuring 5.0 degreeson the Richter Scale onTuesday.No casualtiesfrom both the quakes havebeen reported, accordingto the bureau.

With a population of240,100, Yushu Countyis located in the

HANOI, 20 July —Flood and landslidesparked by torrential rainin Vietnam’s northernprovinces of Bac Can andVinh Phuc have killedfive people and left sixothers missing, localofficials told XinhuaWednesday.

In Bac Can, floodingand landslides have killedfour people, including

TOKYO, 20 July — A mass of jellyfish forced aJapanese nuclear power plant to slow part of itsoutput this week after the slimy creatures blockedup the plant’s seawater cooling system.

“It’s the first time we have had to lower poweroutput because of jellyfish,” a Chubu Electric PowerCo spokesman said.The water intake at ChubuElectric’s Hamaoka power plant in Shizuokaprefecture, about 150 kilometres (90 miles)southwest of Tokyo, stopped automatically onWednesday when the slippery customers gotblocked in a filtering device.

Without enough seawater coming in to thecooling system, Chubu Electric had to lower theoutput of two of the reactors at the plant to 60-70percent of capacity.Output returned to normal bythe evening after the company removed the jellyfish,the spokesman said.”We sometimes do the samething when debris from typhoons sticks to thefilter,” he said.No radioactive material leaked outdue to the incident, he added.—Internet

Singapore eyes to set up ASEANclearing and depository utility

clearing and custodyfacilities to ASEANexchanges for cross bordertrading of ASEANproducts by theirrespective brokers. Theproposed entity could bejointly owned by ASEANexchanges,” SGX ChiefExecutive Officer HsiehFu Hua said at an industryconference.

The regional utility is

also expected to helpfacilitate growth ofsecurities trading withinthe ASEAN community,mitigate the risk faced byclearing brokers, as wellas lowering costs andincreasing value tocustomers, according toHsieh.

“As an initial step, wecould promote integrationthrough harmonizing andaligning our marketpractices and standardswith the internationalinvestment community,”he added.

MNA/Xinhua

Jellyfish slowJapanese nuke plant

Earthquake joltsN-W China

southwest of Qinghai. Itis under the admini-stration of the YushuTibetan AutonomousPrefecture, which coversan area of 198,000 squarekilo-metres or 27.5 percent of the province’stotal.— MNA/Xinhua

15 killed in road accidentin Philippines

Five killed, six missing due to floodin northern Vietnam

three adults in a family,and left five others missingsince 17 July , said anofficial from theprovincial Storm andFlood Prevention andRescue Committee, whoidentified herself Thao.

The five missingpeople included threeschoolteachers from BaBe District, who wereswept away by strong

water flows as a boatcarrying them wascapsized, she added.

In Vinh Phuc, floodshave killed a person andleft another missingwhen they were collec-ting firewood, said anofficial from theprovincial People’sCommittee, who dec-lined to be named.

MNA/Xinhua

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accidentin Egypt

Tourist walk past a billboard of 39th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on displaynear the Petronas Twin Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 21 July, 2006.

INTERNET

Rescue workers use a crane to hoist the bus in the accident scene of China’smetropolis of Shanghai, on 19 July , 2006. The accident occurred

Wednesday at about 6:40 pm when a 49-seat Benz bus carrying 30 peoplerushed out of the Hangzhou-Shanghai freeway in Songjiang District,

leaving at least seven people dead and 22 others injured. Initial investigationshowed that the driver’s misoperation was to blame.—INTERNET

Airbus 380-800 on display at Farnborough International Airshow inFarnborough, southern England, on 17 July, 2006.

INTERNET


Poor nations ‘being pushed back’LONDON, 20 July—The

world’s poorest nationsare at a “critical momentof transition” whichthreatens to push themeven further behind, theUnited Nations haswarned.

The 50 least developedcountries, most of whichare in Africa, lack themeans to compete in arapidly globalising world,says the UN’s Unctadagency.

Unctad’s latest report

says aid should be used tomake poorer economiesmore productive and boostwealth creation.

“We need to go back tothe basics,” said co-authorZeljka Kozul-Wright.

“If countries do notinvest in infrastructure,they are not going to sowthe seeds for growth anddevelopment in future,”she told the BBC Newswebsite.

According to Unctad’sannual Least Developed

Countries (LDCs) report,the poorest nationsachieved an overall 2004growth rate of 5.9% —their best performance for20 years.

But that average masksbig disparities among theLDCs in terms of growthperformance. At the topof the table, Chad achieveda 31% increase in GDP,while for the worstperformer, Haiti, GDPshrank by 3.8%.

Internet

Peru, Russia sign nuclear cooperation agreement LIMA, 20 July—

Peru and Russia havesigned an agreementto develop nuclear tech-nology in the field ofenergy cooperation, Peru’sForeign Minister OscarMaurtua said on Wed-nesday.

This agreement willcontribute to Peru’s socio-economic developmentvia energy resources thathave a smaller impact on

the environment, Maurtuasaid at a ceremony wherehe signed the agreementwith Serguey Kirienko,the head of Russia’sFederal Atomic EnergyAgency.

He added that theagreement complies withthe guidelines of theInternational AtomicEnergy Agency (IAEA)and avoids violation ofthe nuclear non-

proliferation treaty.The agreement includesjoint nuclear researchprojects, an expertexchange programme anda technician trainingprogramme.

Russia has signedsimilar agreements withthe United States, Britain,Germany, France, Italy,Canada, South Korea,Brazil, Argentina, Chileand Cuba. —MNA/Xinhua

Official says China faces “serious”soil pollution

BEIJING, 20 July—China’s to penvironme-ntal official said TuesdayChina faces “serious” soilpollution that jeopardizesthe ecology, food safety,people’s health and thesustainable developmentof agriculture.

“It is estimated thatnationwide 12 million tons

of grain are polluted eachyear by heavy metals thathave found their way intosoil. Direct economiclosses exceed 20 billionyuan (about 2.5 billion USdollars),” said ZhouShengxian, director of theState EnvironmentalProtection Administration(SEPA).

Addressing a nationalvideo conference on soilpollution, Zhou saidharmful substances in thesoil are absorbed bycrops. As people consumesuch crops, their health isat risk. “Soil pollution hasworsened. According toincomplete statistics,about 150 million mu (10million hectares) of arableland in China has beenpolluted, ” said Zhou.

China has around 1.8billion mu (120 millionhectares) of arable land.

On Tuesday, SEPAand the Ministry of Landand Resources jointlylaunched China’s first soilpollution survey backedby a budget of one billionyuan (125 million USdollars).

The programme aimsto assess soil qualityacross the country byanalyzing the amount ofheavy metals, pesticideresidue and organicpollutants in the soil. Usingthe results of the survey,the two organizationswill conduct pilotprojects on rehabilitatingand comprehensivetreatment of polluted soil.They will also work toestablish a soil qualitysupervision andmanagement system.

MNA/Xinhua

Coalition soldier killed,two injured in Afghanistan

KABUL, 20 July—Firefight in Afghanistan’ssouthern Uruzgan Province left one soldier of theUS-led coalition forces dead and injured twoothers, a Press release of the US military saidWednesday.

“A Coalition soldier was killed while conductingcombat operations in the Carhar Cineh District ofUruzgan Province on Tuesday,” the Press releasesaid.

“Two Coalition soldiers were wounded in thefighting and taken to a Coalition hospital. They arelisted in stable condition,” it added.

However, it did not disclose the names andnationality of the soldiers.

It is the second coalition soldier killed in thevolatile Uruzgan Province in the past three days.

MNA/Xinhua

Gas explosion kills five in S-W China province GUIYANG, 20 July — A

gas explosion has leftfive people dead at acoal mine in southwestChina’s Guizhou Province,local authorities saidWednesday. The accidenttook place at about 5:50

pm on Tuesday at a coalmine located at ZhaiziVillage, YemachuanTownship of HezhangCounty, according to asource with the countygovernment. Al thefive miners working

General view of a Security Council meeting to discuss the conflict betweenIsrael and Lebanon at United Nations headquarters in New York on

20 July, 2006.—INTERNET

In a photo providedby the Miss Univer-se pageant, Nadine

Chandrawinata, MissIndonesia 2006, checksout part of the national

costume of KuraraChibana, Miss Japan

2006, before the tapingof the opening number

for Sunday’s MissUniverse pageant, on 20July, 2006, at the Shrine

Auditorium in LosAngeles.—INTERNET

underground were killed inthe blast, the source said,adding their bodies wererecovered Wednesdaymorning. The coal minehad been illegally operatedbefore the tragedy, thesources said.—MNA/Xinhua

A woman presents a Bagua (the Eight Diagrams) abacus of the Ming Dynasty(1368-1644) in Huizhou County, east China's Anhui Province,

on 17 July, 2006. — INTERNET

Pakistan, India talks aboutillegal border crossings

ISLAMABAD, 20 July — An important meeting ofPakistan Rangers and India's Border Security Force(BSF) was underway Wednesday at Wagah border ofPakistan and India, local private Geo TV reported. Indian team head Sri A Jain has alleged that illegalcrossings of Pak-India border was continued whilePakistan officials have called the Indian allegationbaseless. Earlier, Deputy Director General of PakistanRangers (Punjab) Brigadier Muhammad Qaiser KhanTareen received the Indian delegation led by BSFDeputy Inspector General Sri A Jain at the Wagahborder crossing. Tareen said that after construction of barrier at theborder and searchlight monitoring it was impossiblefor a person to cross the border. The meeting of Pakistani and Indian border forcesofficials holds extraordinary importance in the wakeof postponement of the secretary level talks.

MNA/Xinhua


Vietnam has investment of $ 43m abroad HANOI, 20 July — Vietnam poured over 43 million US dollars into eight projects abroad between

January and mid-July, a local official told Xinhua on Wednesday. The projects mainly

involve in exploring andexploiting oil and gas inSingapore, growingrubber trees in Laos and

building a big hospitalin Cambodia, saidNguyen Anh Tuan,deputy head of theForeign Investment

Lithuania’s new government sworn in RIGA, 20 July — The swearing in of Lithuania's new government, led by

Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas, was done in Parliament on Tuesday,according to reports from Vilnius.

Kirkilas' four-partycoalition, with 53 seats inthe 141-seat Parliament,is Lithuania's 14th sincethe Baltic countryregained its independenceand its first minoritygovernment.

Kirkilas’ SocialDemocrats took six Cabinetposts, including theMinistry of Finance, theMinistry of Environment,the Ministry of SocialSecurity and Labour, theMinistry of Transport, theMinistry of Defence andthe Ministry of Educationand Science.

The National

Farmers’ Union got threeministries, including theForeign Ministry, whichwill be headed by PetrasVaitiekunas, whopreviously served asambassador to Belarus,the Ministry ofAgriculture and theMinistry of Economy.

The other two paritiesin the coalition, the LiberalCentral Union and theCivil Democratic Union

each got two ministerialportfolios.

The new governmentpledged to fight cor-ruption, reverse a de-mographic trend that hasseen Lithuania's popu-lation shrink due to lowbirth rates and emigration,speed up the country’sinfrastructure develop-ment and boost the growthof science and techno-logy.—MNA/Xinhua

Manila tellsvillagers around

volcano toevacuate

MANILA, 20 July —Philippine authorities or-dered about 4,000 peopleto evacuate their homesand farms near an eruptingvolcano in the centralregion, disaster officialssaid on Tuesday.

On Friday, volcanolog-ists raised the alertlevel to 3 on a 1-5 scaleafter 2,462-metre (8,077-foot) Mount Mayon beganspewing ash and lava. Theexperts said Mayon, themost active of 22volcanoes in the South-east Asian country, wasshowing signs of a majoreruption within weeks.

“Residents outside thedanger zone were alsoadvised to bevigilant dueto risks of rockfalls andpyroclastic flows on thevolcano’s slopes,” thePhilippine Institute ofVolcanology and Seis-mology (Phivolcs) said ina statement on Tuesday.

Phivolcs said volcanictremors had eased butlava continuedto flowfrom Mayon’s crater,creating a stream ofincandescentmud androcks as far as 800 metresdown the southeasternslope.

MNA/Reuters

China to spend heavily onwater treatment, recyclingBEIJING,20 July — China will invest up to 300

billion yuan (37.5 billion US dollars) in urbansewage treatment and recycling during the 11thFive-Year Plan (2006-2010) period, a senior officialwith the Ministry of Construction has said.

Zhang Yue, deputy head of the ministry’s urbanconstruction department, told Xinhua that Chinawill further open its water sector to foreign andprivate capitals to raise the necessary funds.

In a document released last December, theChinese Government said by 2010, 70 per cent ofthe waste water in Chinese cities must be treatedbefore being discharged into the environment.

Zhang said the Ministry of Construction hasin collaboration with the National Developmentand Reform Commission and the StateEnvironmental Protection Administrationdrafted a plan for urban sewage treatment andrecycling between 2006 and 2010. The plan isexpected to be approved by the State Councilsoon, he said.

According to the plan, major cities must have 80per cent of their sewage treated by 2010. For mediumand small cities, the rate should be between 60 to 70per cent.

MNA/Xinhua

A boy jumps into the water at Vienna’s Schafbergswimming bath, on 20 July, 2006. A heat wave hits

Austria these days with temperatures up to37 degrees Celsius. —INTERNET

A Liberian vessel (Sea Victory Monrovia) sails at the Kenyan docks in thecoastal city of Mombasa, on 18 July, 2006. Kenya’s main port is targeting

cargo business for reconstruction of southern Sudan to expand its business,and the government is planning a second port to serve northern neighbours

like Ethiopia, an official said on Tuesday.—INTERNET

Canada asks Israel, Lebanon not toattack evacuation ships

A shop owner tries to salvage anything of value from his shop destroyed in abomb attack, on 20 July, 2006, in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north ofBaghdad, Iraq. Late Wednesday a car bomb exploded in a popular market inKirkuk, killing one civilian and wounding seven others, police Brig Sarhat

Qadir said. —INTERNET

Agency under theMinistry of Planningand Investment. Otherdestinations of theprojects include

Malaysia and the UnitedStates. Vietnam, whichhad total investment ofover 367 million dollarsabroad in 2005 main-ly in Laos, Russia,Cambodia and Indone-sia, is expected toannually invest 200million dollars abroadbetween 2006 and 2010,Tuan said.

To date, the countryhas granted licences to158 overseas investmentprojects with a totalregistered capital ofmore than 670 milliondollars in nearly 40countries and regions.Laos has attracted mostof the Vietnameseinvestment abroad, henoted. — MNA/Xinhua

OTTAWA, 20 July —Canada wants Israel andLebanon to guarantee theywill not attack seven shipsscheduled to pick upCanadians stranded inthe strife-torn country,Foreign Minister PeterMacKay said on Tuesday.

“We want assurancesthat those ships willbe protected and affordedthe utmost safety,”MacKay said during aninterview with theCanadian BroadcastingCorporation. The first ofCanada's seven charteredpassenger ships isscheduled to arrive at theport of Beirut onWednesday.

Officials say that thevessels, capable of carry-ing an estimated 2,000Canadians a day, are

expected to take theCanadians to Cyprus andTurkey, where charteredaircraft will take thepassengers back to Canada.

Officials said theCanadian Government hasdispatched a militaryreconnaissance squad toLebanon to ensure theCanadians’ safety andoffer logistical advice.

As many as 50,000Canadians are believed toreside in Lebanon. Thebulk of them arepermanent residents ofLebanon with dualcitizenship and areunlikely to leave. Andanother estimated 5,000Canadians are visitingrelatives for the summerholidays.

Meanwhile, PrimeMinister Stephen Harper

rejected criticism thatCanada had been slowerthan other countries inhelping its citizens leaveLebanon.— MNA/Xinuua


Adding glory to Mongla

I find happiness

every time I compare the

scenes of the photos

taken at border areas

before 1989 and the ones

shot at the time of

development at present.

Photos that were taken

in 1989 and 1990

documented the birth of

the history of border area

development. The

photos I got from U Than

Aung of the Information

and Public Relations

Department five years

under the arrangement of

Public Relations

Subcommittee, a

subordinate body of the

Work Committee for

Development of Border

Areas and National Races.

The documentary shot

during the trip was

broadcast by TV

Myanmar in a feature

under the title –The bloom

on Thanlwin River bank.

The development

momentum of Mongla

region reached new

Myint Soe (Na-ta-la)

College in Yangon or

Mandalay. Vocational

schools are being run to

improve the living

conditions of nationality

girls and women and to

ensure their secure life.

Youths who have

completed arts, science

and engineering diploma

courses from one of the

two degree colleges are

discharging duties under

various ministries for

development of their own

regions. The Ministry for

Progress of Border Areas

and National Races and

Development Affairs has

been making arrange-

ments for the qualified

students of the degree

colleges to attend B Tech

course, master of arts

course or master of

science course. In the near

future, those students will

have the opportunity to

pursue PhD courses.

Border Area

Nationalities Youth

Technical School opened

on 9 July 2006 is one of

the village which had only

14 or 15 houses. His

significant shots at

Mongla village included a

picture in which U Sai Lin,

the national race leader of

Special Region 4, passing

a bamboo bridge over a

creek at the entrance to

the village together with

visitors. The photographer

also recorded villagers of

Silu warmly welcoming

the team. All those

pictures were taken 16

years ago. But during

and the whole Shan State

(East) Special Region 4

was globally declared an

Opium Free Zone in April

1997, a result of six years

of efforts to beef up

alternative farming

programmes in the area.

Large farms the region is

running with aims to

export stand witness to the

fact that the programmes

are going strong till today.

Border areas

including Mongla region

are now gaining rapid

progress. But how are we

going to maintain the

sound foundations of their

rapid progress? Who will

continue to shape the

future of border areas?

They are no other persons

than the national races of

Myanmar. The govern-

ment on its part has been

running 27 nationalities

youth development

schools and 34 vocational

training schools for

women in the border areas

and one Nationalities

Youth Resource

Region Command Maj-

Gen Min Aung Hlaing,

Deputy Minister for

Home Affairs Brig-Gen

Phone Swe, the Director-

General of Education

and Training

Department of the

PBANRDA Ministry,

that is running the

school, national race

leaders of the Special

Region and others.

Th i r t y - e igh t

trainees are attending the

three six-month courses

— basic civil engi-

neering course, electrical

engineering and welding

course, and mechanic

course — at the school

free of charge. In

addition, the

government bears all the

expenses of the courses.

The school helps define

the government’s

goodwill towards

national race youths and

in shaping the future of

border areas.

Mongla region

is the first to be

ago were old but, as

valuable as gold for me.

The photo-

grapher took those

pictures in 1990, during

his trip to Namtit region

in northern Shan State,

Mongla and Silu regions

in eastern Shan State

when he went there

together with a team of

UNDP staff. Namtit then

was just a hamlet. His

photos show a car bogged

down in the muddy

village entrance road and

those 16 years, hamlets

like Mongla and Namtit

have become modern

border towns enjoying

progress and prosperity.

The muddy entrance road

to Namtit has become a

tarred one, and Mongla

Town and the grand

Shwepyi Bridge have

taken the place of Mongla

village and the bamboo

bridge.

It was 1997 that

an information team

visited Mongla region

heights in 1997. Mongla

Town was complete with

pagodas, a Buddhology

museum, a middle school

(now upgraded into a high

school), a 50-bed hospital

and a TV retransmission

station. Near the town was

the Wanton Dam. The

main market was under

construction and hotel

services were gaining

momentum for

development. The Drug

Elimination Museum has

been an honour to Mongla,internationally proclai-

med as an Opium Free

Zone. It is a place fully

enjoying the fruits of

peace and stability and

rapid development.

Hence, we can say that

the Border Area

Nationalities Youth

Technical School adds

glory to Mongla region.

(Translation: TMT)

the endeavours the

government has been

making to develop human

resources of the

hinterlands. It is the first

such school ever built in

the border regions. The

opening ceremony was

attended by Chairman of

Shan State (East) Peace

and Development Council

Commander of Triangle

Development Degree

College each in Yangon

and Mandalay for human

resources development.

A student who

passes the matriculation

examination from any one

of the nationalities youth

development schools may

attend the Nationalities

Youth Resource

Development Degree

It was 1997 that an information team visitedMongla region under the arrangement of PublicRelations Subcommittee, a subordinate body ofthe Work Committee for Development of BorderAreas and National Races. The documentary shotduring the trip was broadcast by TV Myanmarunder the title –The bloom on Thanlwin Riverbank.

The opening ceremony of the Border Area Nationalities YouthTechnical School in progress.

Border Area Nationalities Youth Technical School.


(from page 1)another by the government. In Chin State (South) Mindat-Kyaukhtu-Pauk Road has also been upgraded. There-fore, one can travel from Mindat to Pakokku in a halfday. And one can also travel from Pakokku to AnawrahtaBridge across Ayeyawady River and then to other states

With all infrastructures built byState, people of Chin State are…

and divisions.Likewise, Lt-Gen Ye Myint said, Chin State

(North) is now in a position to get easy access to otherstates and divisions via Haka-Gangaw exit and Kalay-

its bright future. With all the infrastructures built by theState, the people of Chin State are urged to strive for theimprovement of their livelihood and regional develop-ment. All in all, he said, as Mindat-Matupi Road hasbeen upgraded, one can travel from Mindat to Matuipionly in six hours although it took about five days in thepast. Pakokku can also be reached in a day. Due to thelaunch of bus lines to run along the route to Mindat,Matupi and Pakkokku, economic, social, health andeducation sectors of local people will improve. So, all

the people of Chin State are to participate in the effortsfor nation-building tasks with Union Spirit and maintainthe road, he urged.

Afterwards, Commander Maj-Gen Tha Aye

In conclusion, the commander thanked thosewho put their energy to the road construction and urgedthe local residents to maintain the road.

In his speech Construction Minister Maj-GenSaw Tun said as part of the government’s efforts for thetransportation sector, the 102-mile long Mindat-Matupitarred road was inaugurated. A total distance of roads inMyanmar has increased from 13,635 miles in 1988 to19,021 miles in 2006. In Chin State, after the constructionof the Mindat-Matupi Road, the total distance of earthenand tarred roads reaches 1,062 miles. In Chin State,there are four main roads — the 70-mile long Haka-Gangaw Road, the 173-mile long Haka-Matupi Road,the 115-mile long Kalay-Haka Road and the 102-milelong Mindat-Matupi Road. Haka-Gangaw Road willalso be upgraded this year to become an all-weatherfacility, the minister said.

Meanwhile, bridges on the state’s roads willalso be renovated and upgraded. Bar Bridge on Kalay-Falam-Haka Road has been upgraded and will beinaugurated this year.

Although it was a five-day journey from Mindatto Matupi in the past, now it will take only 6 hours dueto the newly inaugurated 102-mile long tarred road.Moreover, living and education standards of residents inChin State will improve, the minister said.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Ye Myint unveiled thestone inscription of the Mindat-Matupi Road.

Commander Maj-Gen Tha Aye, ConstructionMinister Maj-Gen Saw Tun and Chin State Peace andDevelopment Council Vice-Chairman Col Hsan Aungformally opened the road.

The second and third sessions of the Mindat-Matupi Road opening ceremony were also held at milepost Nos 70/0 and 56/0 of the road and Maj-Gen ThaAye, Maj-Gen Saw Tun and Col Hsan Aung formallyopened the road. After the opening ceremony, Lt-GenYe Myint and party pose for documentary photos togetherwith local people.

The 50-mile long road section of Mindat-MatupiRoad was tarred in 2005-2006 and the section from milepost Nos 50/0 to 102/0 was upgraded in 2006-2007fiscal year. — MNA

A local resident expresses thanks. — MNA

Lt-Gen Ye Myint unveils the stone inscription of Mindat-Matupi tarred road (102-mile). — MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Tha Aye, Minister Maj-Gen Saw Tun and Vice-Chairman of Chin StatePDC Col Hsan Aung formally open Mindat-Matupi tarred road. — MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Tha Aye speaks at theopening ceremony of Mindat-Matupi tarred

road (102-mile) in Chin State. — MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Saw Tun speaking at theopening ceremony of Mindat-Matupi tarred

road (102-mile) in Chin State. — MNA

Kalewa-Yagyi-Monywa exit. The government has beenencouraging Chin State to boost cultivation of paddy,maize grains and tea and carry out sericulture. Neces-sary assistance is being rendered to Chin State to be-come a state of tea. Besides, the government has givenall necessary assistance to boost breeding domesticatedwild oxen. That is why Chin State has potential to have

said the 102-mile long tarred road section of Mindat-Matupi Road links Chin State (South) and Matupi. Theroad was 16 ft wide and earthen one until 1988 and couldbe used only in the open season in the past.

In 2004-2005 fiscal year, the road was dividedinto four sections and upgraded by road constructionspecial groups, he said.

As Mindat-Matupi Road has beenupgraded, one can travel from Mindat toMatupi in six hours although it tookabout five days in the past.


Commander Brig-Gen Hla Htay Win inspects CNG-run taxies ofBandoola Transport Col Ltd. — MNA

Daw Mar Mar Wai speaking at a ceremony togive health educative talks. — MNA

Secretary Dr Khin Mar Aye of Health Sub-Working Group gives talks on health.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 21 July — Minister for Industry-2Maj-Gen Saw Lwin and officials met with staff of No2 Agricultural Machinery Factory (Malun) in MinhlaTownship, Magway Division, on 17 July. GeneralManager U Thein Aung reported on production of thefactory for the 2006-2007 fiscal year to the minister.

The minister urged the officials and staff to exerttheir utmost efforts to develop advanced farmimplements and natural gas-run tractors. Later, theofficials conducted the minister around the factory.

On 18 July, the minister and party went to PakokkuIndustrial Region of the Ministry of Industry-2 inMyaing Township. At the briefing hall, Project DirectorU Tin Htut Aung of Myanma Industrial ConstructionServices explained construction of Machine ToolsFactory to the minister. The minister later called uponthe officials to complete the work on schedules.

Next, Managing-Director U Oo Zun of MyanmaTyre and Rubber Industries reported on cultivation ofphysic nut in the industrial region to the minister. Theminister and party inspected the sites to build factories,and the officials also conducted them around theindustrial region.—MNA

Industry-2 Ministryexerts effort to developnew farm implements YANGON, 21 July —

Chairman of YangonDivision SupervisoryCommittee for EnsuringSecure and SmoothTransport Chairman ofYangon Division Peaceand Development CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen HlaHtay Win inspectedParami Taxies to be putinto service in Yangon infront of the meeting hallof Yangon CommandHeadquarters thisevening.

Bandoola TransportCo Ltd will use Sonata IIICNG taxies manufacturedby Hyundai MotorCompany.

The commanderinstructed officials tomake arrangements for

Low-fare taxi service opens on July 23

enabling the public andstudents to take taxies atlow fare and to placeemphasis on secure andsmooth transport.

Parami taxies willtransport passengers withcharging K 100 for everymile. The taxi service willbe launched from Parami

Highway Bus Terminalin South OkkalapaTownship at 6 am on 23July.

MNA

YANGON, 21 July —Yangon North DistrictMaternal and ChildWelfare SupervisoryCommittee organized aceremony to presentmembership applicationsin conjunction with aceremony to giveeducative talks on ChildCancer and ReproductiveOrgans Cancer atKanaung hall inShwepyitha IndustrialZone this afternoon.

Daw Mar Mar Wai,chairperson of YangonDivision MCWSC

Talks on Child Cancer givenattended the ceremony andmade a speech.

Daw Saw Shwe,chairperson of YangonNorth District MCWSCpresented membershipapplications to Daw MarMar Wai.

Later, Paediatrician DrDaw Khin Saw Yi andObstetrics and Gynaeco-logist Dr Daw Aye AyeShwe of Insein Hospitalgave talks on child cancerand reproductive organscancer.

Daw Mar Mar Waialso inspected the delivery

room of ShwepyithaTownship MCWA andmet expectant mothersthere. And she providedcash and kind to them.

The chairpersonof Yangon DivisionMCWSC and party wentto Pre-primary School inShwelinban IndustrialZone, Hlinethaya Town-ship and presentedumbrellas to thechildren.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 21 July — Minister for ElectricPower No (2) Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint receivedMr Zaho Ruolin, Chairman of China National ElectricEquipment Corporation at the ministry, here , yesterdaymorning.

Also present at the call were theDirector-General of Electric Power Department andthe Managing Director of Electric Power SupplyEnterprise.— MNA

Minister for Electric PowerNo (2) receives Chinese guest

YANGON, 21 July — With the sponsorship of theeducation sub-working group of the social and culturalworking committee under Myanmar Women’s AffairsFederation and the Yangon Division Women’s AffairsOrganization, the educative talks were held at the YouthTraining Centre (Kyaikwaing) of the Social WelfareDepartment this afternoon.

It was attended by Secretary of the sub-workinggroup Dr Khin Mar Aye and members, Secretary ofYangon Division Women’s Affairs Organization DawSwè Khin Mar Win and members, chairpersons of district/township/ward women’s affairs organizations andmembers. Secretary of Yangon Division Women’s AffairsOrganization Daw Swè Khin Mar Win extended greetings.Secretary of the sub-working group Dr Khin Mar Aye andmember Dr Khin Thet Myaing gave talks.—MNA

MWAF organizes educative talks

Minister for Foreign Affairs U Nyan Win andwife being welcomed by Egyptian AmbassadorMr Mohamed Mohamed Minessy and wife atthe reception to mark the National Day of theArab Republic of Egypt on 21-7-2006. — MNA


Ayeyawady Bridge (Yadanabon)nearing completion

The AyeyawadyRiver is the artery inMyanmar. In Myitkyinaof Kachin State, BalaMin Htin Bridge wasbuilt across AyeyawadyRiver that originatedfrom northernmost ofMyanmar. Furthermore,other bridges built acrossAyeyawady River areAyeyawady Bridge(Magway) in Magway,Anawrahta Bridge inChauk, Nawade Bridgein Pyay, Bo Myat TunBridge near Nyaungdon,Maubin Bridge inMaubin and DedayeBridge in Dedaye. Atpresent, the 8th bridge

over Ayeyawady Rivernamely AyeyawadyBridge (Yadanabon) isnearing completion.

A y e y a w a d yBridge (Yadanabon)linking Khawadaw Wardof Mandalay and TagaungWard of Sagaing is underconstruction at the place,2,000 feet upstream fromthe existing Inwa Bridge.

Inwa Bridge issituated in the strategicpoint of the central area ofMyanmar. So far, InwaBridge has been in servicefor about 70 years after itsopening in 1934. Since1992, over 15-ton loadedvehicles have not been

permitted to pass throughthe bridge for itsdurability. Therefore,vehicles in excess of thepermitted load passthrough the river byZ-craft.

To overcomedifficulties of transportsector, construction tasksof Ayeyawady Bridge(Yadanabon) Project onMandalay bank com-menced on 30 October2001 after the stakedriving ceremony.Likewise, construction ofthe bridge on Sagaingbank started on 26November 2002. Atpresent, the bridge is

nearly complete due toconcerted efforts of bothconstruction teams onMandalay and Sagaingbanks.

According to thedecision of the SpecialProjects ImplementationCommittee Meeting 1/99, engineers from PublicWorks under theMinistry of Constructiondrew the design ofAyeyawady Bridge(Yadanabon) that canwithstand earthquakejolts, by conductingdetailed survey of theaxis, soil test and possibleearthquakes.

(See page 11)

Progress of Ayeyawady Bridge (Yadanabon) construction project seen fromSagaing bank on 7-7-2006.

* My birthplace, my landWith yearning to be there sometimeMy mind gets worned out severallyThough it’s not worlds apartI, from the Upper LandHave been roamingThe Lower Land, lower placeArriving to make moneyLower Myanmar with great beautyMade me fall in loveFar apart from Upper Land

* As the occasion allowedHeaded for birthplace, Upper LandWith the one who’s ever at my sideMy spouse likened to a lassI made the journey’Cause I was in Yangon most of the timeFeel odd when I go elsewhereThe road may sometimes be roughLet her see what she mightTo make the journey up completeI put in my all.

* However,Journey to Upper LandWas smooth as could be’Twas as if in YangonA cushy ride in the coachBeside the route, its environsWere full of emerald green fieldsAnd the woodlands of same colourTheir freshness gladdens me’Cause this journey brought happinessWanting to see how beloved spouseOf low land abode was feelingTook half a glance andCaught a face brimming with a smile

Shoon Mya Aung (Trs)

NAY PYI TAW, 21July — Minister forInformation Brig-GenKyaw Hsan receivedChairman Mr BernardChen Tien Lap of

Information Minister receivesforeign guests

Ntegrator Pte Ltd andparty at the minister’soffice this evening.

Also presentwere the directors-general and managing

directors of departmentsand enterprises under theministry, deputy director-general and head ofoffice.

MNA

Coord meeting of Energy Ministry heldNAY PYI TAW, 21

July — A coordinationmeeting to increase theproduction of chemicalfertilizer run by thefactories of MyanmaPetroleum ProductsEnterprise under theMinistry of Energy washeld at the meeting hall ofthe ministry in Nay PyiTaw yesterday eveningwith an address byMinister for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi.

Also present wereDeputy Minister Brig-Gen Than Htay, thedirector-general, mana-ging directors, directors,factory managers andofficials.

In his address, theminister gave instructionson producing chemicalfertilizer to meet the target

during the 2006/07 fiscalyear and running offactories at full capacity.He heard the reports onprogress of maintenanceworks and production ofchemical fertilizerpresented by officials

concerned.Next, the deputy

minister, the director-general and officials gavesupplementary reports. Themeeting came to an end withconcluding remarks by theminister. — MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan meets Chairman Mr Bernard Chen Tien Lap of Ntegrator Pte Ltd. — MNA

Article and photo: Thaung Win Bo

Return Journey toUpper Land


Rorbert Lee, late Hong Kong movie star Bruce Lee’s younger brother,poses in front of Bruce’s statue during its inauguration ceremony at

Avenue of Stars tourist spot in Hong Kong Thursday, on 20 July, 2006.The ceremony marked the 33rd anniversary of the death of the Hong

Kong film and martial arts legend.—INTERNET

Ayeyawady Bridge (Yadanabon) …(from page 10)The bridge will be

3,675 feet long. InwaBridge is 3,948 feet inlength. AyeyawadyBridge (Yadanabon) willhave two 367.5 feetbridge spans, three 735feet spans and two 367.5feet spans. The approachbridge on Mandalay bankwill be 1,140 feet longand the approach bridgeon Sagaing side, 780 feetlong. Hence, the totallength of the bridge willbe 5,614 feet. The bridgewill have a 49 feet widefour-lane motorwayflanked by six feet widewalkways. Its clearancewill be 700 feet wide and40 feet high. The bridgecan withstand 60-tonloads.

Steel frames for thebridge were importedfrom the People’s

Republic of China.Myanmar engineers builtthe bridge that can endurethe wind speed of 90 milesper hour.

The lower structureof the bridge was builtwith five feet diameterreinforced concrete piles.The approach bridgesection was constructedwith 280 piles and themain structure of thebridge with 191.

Both approachbridges are supportedwith 28 pillars and themain bridge with eightpiers. The upper structureis of reinforced concretebeams and floor.

The main bridge hasbeen installed with archsteel frames andreinforced concrete floor.The arch steel frame is 49metres high and its spanis 224 metres wide.

Therefore, AyeyawadyBridge (Yadanabon) willbe the widest span facilityamong the bridgesconstructed with ironframes in the country.

Upon completion,Ayeyawady Bridge(Yadanabon) willcontribute not onlytowards better transportof large vehicles fromMandalay to Monywa,Shwebo, Gangaw,Kalay, Myitkyina andother towns throughSagaing at any time butalso toward smoothand speedy flow ofcommodities. Therefore,Myanmar engineers ofPublic Works are strivingday in, day out forcompletion ofAyeyawady Bridge(Yadanabon) beforeDecember 2006.

Translation: TTA

MADRID, 21 July —The Spanish Governmenton Wednesday signed anagreement totalling 25million euros (31.25

Spain, FAO sign agreement onfighting hunger

million US dollars) withthe UN Food andAgriculture Organization(FAO) to fund joint anti-hunger projects. The agreement, signedat the end of the firstJoint Spain-FAOCommission meeting,commits 8 million euros(10 million dollars) tobe given to the Spain-FAO Latin Americanand Caribbean TrustFund. The joint com-missionalso promised about 9

million euros (11.25million dollars) for newjoint projects andreviewed a series ofother ventures that arecurrently underway,such as food securityprojects in Mauritania,Mali and CentralAmerica; water projectsin Africa’s BurkinaFaso, Guinea, Senegaland Mali; theMediterranean fishingproject; and an Egyptiananti-bird-flu project.

MNA/Xinhua

Five 1,000-year-old wellsdiscovered in E China NANCHANG, 21 July — Chinese archaeologists

have discovered five 1,000-year-old wells in Ji’anCity, east China’s Jiangxi Province.

Many items used in sacrificial ceremonies andcarved bricks dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)were unearthed from the mud-filled wells.

The wells, from five to 11 metres deep, werefound at a construction site of a new building for theJi’an Hotel. Archaeologists arrived immediately onreceiving the news and carried out excavations andprotection of the site.

The most valuable items unearthed were 30well-preserved porcelain articles made in the famousJizhou kiln of the Tang Dynasty. — MNA/Xinhua

LAGOS, 21 July —More than 50 people werekilled in a collapsedbuilding in Lagos, Nigeria,officials said here onWednesday.

Ani Baba, an officialof Lagos State AmbulanceServices told reporters thatmore than 50 corpses hadbeen recovered from thecollapsed building anddeposited at the mortuariesin Gbagada, Ikeja andLagos Island generalhospitals.

According to him,scores of people were stilltrapped under the debris.

Olubode Ojajuni,public relations officer ofthe Lagos State Police

Drug mistakes injure 1.5million in US every year

If hospitals, clinics andother providers owned upto each and every mistake,it would help to keep trackof and eventually reducethem, and systems such aselectronic prescribingwould also help, theInstitute of Medicine reportsaid.

“Medication errorsare among the mostcommon medical errors,harming at least 1.5 millionpeople every year,” theinstitute said in a statement.

Such mistakes kill atleast 7,000 people a year,according to the institute,an independent, non-profitorganization that advisesthe federal government onhealth issues.

“The extra medicalcosts of treating drug-related injuries occurringin hospitals aloneconservatively amount to3.5 billion US dollars ayear, and this estimate doesnot take into account lostwages and productivity oradditional health carecosts,” the institute added.

One example — aDenver hospital gave anewborn infant a tenfoldoverdose of penicillin incase it had been infectedwith syphilis from itsmother in 1996.

Nurses balked at

giving the baby fiveinjections so administeredthe medicine in what turnedout to be an unusual andimproper way —intravenously. The babydied, and the autopsyshowed it did not havesyphilis and never neededthe treatment in the firstplace.

“This case illustratesthat medication errors arealmost never the fault of asingle practitioner orcaused by the failure of asingle element,” the reportread. — MNA/Reuters

WASHINGTON, 21 July — Medication errorshurt 1.5 million people every year in the UnitedStates and cost at least 3.5 billion US dollars,according to a report issued on Thursday.

India, South Africa, Brazil toexplore business cooperation

Building collapse kills over50 in Lagos

Command, told Xinhuathat the tragedy occurredat about 7 pm (1800 GMT)Tuesday, adding that 45persons were rescued sofar.

There was no“inkling of the incident”,an eyewitness said, addingthat over 120 people weretrapped in the rubble,many of them werechildren and their mothersas well as many customersin a restaurant, salon andsix other shops on theground floor of thebuilding. So far, theimmediate cause of theincident has not beenimmediately ascertained.

MNA/Xinhua

DURBAN, 21 July — India, South Africa and Brazilare expected to explore regulations for small businessesand access to finance and technology support at asummit as part of their trilateral cooperation to be heldhere next month. The summit, from 23 to 25 August,will involve India’s National Small IndustriesCorporation (NSIC), South Africa’s Small EnterpriseDevelopment Agency (Seda) and Brazilian Micro andSmall Businesses Support Service (Sebrae).

Speaking to reporters in Pretoria, NSIC DirectorArun Kumar said they envisaged sharing expertise toensure the transition of small businesses, currently inthe second economy, to the mainstream economy.

MNA/PTI

A traditional Venetian gondola passes between narrow boats in the LittleVenice area in London on 21 July, 2006. The gondola “Rosanna” has

been restored to full working order after 30 years on the canals of Venicein Italy, and is now being used on the canals in central west London this

weekend for leisure transportation. —INTERNET


A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

Singapore launches new stafftraining programme for SMEs

Annan urges quick end toIsrael-Lebanon fighting

Italy spy chief denies role inCIA kidnapping

UNITED NATIONS, 21July — Fighting bet-ween Israel and Hizboll-ah is weakening Leba-non’s government whiledoing little or nothing toundermine popularsupport for Hizbollah inLebanon, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan saidon Thursday.

In a speech to theUN Security Council,Annan called for animmediate end to thefighting and proposedsending an internationalforce to southernLebanon to bolster theLebanese Army so it canfully deploy along the

border with Israel, whereHizbollah fighters nowhave de facto control.

But Israeli UNAmbassador Dan Giller-man said Israel would notstop fighting until it hadachieved its goals whileUS Ambassador JohnBolton said he could notsee how a governmentcould reach an agreementwith a “terrorist group”such as Hizbollah.

“We have notimeline,” Gillerman said.“Diplomacy can take offonly after terror has beentaken care of.” Hescolded Annan for notmentioning the role ofSyria or Iran in the crisis.

Bolton said a SyrianGovernment decision tobar veteran UN MiddleEast envoy Terje Roed

Larsen from travelling toDamascus was frustratingthe Security Council’sefforts to get a completepicture of the crisis inorder to help resolve it.

“Now we see moreclearly the role Syriahas been playing infrustrating efforts to bringthis to a conclusion,”Bolton said.

Annan accusedHizbollah of holding “anentire nation hostage” byabducting Israeli troopsand firing rockets onIsrael. He condemnedIsrael for using excessiveforce in Lebanon, whichhe said weakened theBeirut government, killedinnocent people and waswrecking the country.

The Secretary-General said the two

Israeli soldiers capturedby Hizbollah on 12 Julyshould be transferred tothe Beirut governmentunder the auspices of theInternational Committeeof the Red Cross, with aview to their return toIsrael and a ceasefire.

Annan later was tobrief US Secretary ofState Condoleezza Riceon the findings of the UNmission he sent to theregion last weekend.

He said a quick endto the fighting wouldallow aid workers toreach those in need andwould “give diplomacythe chance to work out apractical package ofactions that wouldprovide a lasting solutionto the current crisis”.

MNA/ReutersSINGAPORE, 20 July—Singapore launched a newstaff training programmefor local small andmedium-sized enterprises(SMEs) Wednesday, asannounced by Minister forTrade and Industry LimHng Kiang. Speaking at alocal forum, Lim said thatthe programme, calledSME Training for En-hanced Performance andUpgrade (Step-UP), isexpected to benefit some

600 workers from 100SMEs in the first year.

A joint effort betweenSingapore’s Standards,Productivity and Inno-vation Board (SPRING)and the WorkforceDevelopment Agency,the programme will“identify and plugtraining gaps whileemphasizing industryand occupational skillsthat are immediatelyapplicable to the work-

place,” according toLim.

He also announced atthe forum that thegovernment and industryassociations have jointlycommitted 60 millionSingapore dollars (about38 million US dollars) toinvigorate 10 strategic in-dustries including logis-tics, furniture, fashion,infocomm technology andprecision engineering.

MNA/Xinhua

ROME, 20 July— Thehead of Italy’s militaryintelligence agency onWednesday defendedhimself and colleaguesbeing investigated fortheir possible role in thealleged CIA kidnappingof a terrorism suspect inMilan.

Nicolo Pollari told aclosed-door meeting ofthe Senate DefenceCommittee that the Sismiintelligence agency had“nothing to do withillegal acts” and wouldnot break the law to helpforeign agents.

The comments, re-layed to reporters by the

committee’s chairman,were Pollari’s first knownresponse sinceprosecutors questionedhim on Saturday overSismi’s possible rolehelping the CIA abduct aMuslim cleric in Milanand fly him to Egypt.

The suspect, anEgyptian named HassanMustafa Osama Nasr,says he was tortured thereunder interrogation.

“General Pollari saidcalmly that our secretservices did not violatethe law, even in situationsthat can be defined asborder-line,” SenatorSergio De Gregorio, the

defence committee’schairman, told reporters.

De Gregorio addedthat although Sismicooperated with foreignagents, it would not doso with “projects thatwere against the law”.

Twenty-six Ameri-cans, most believed to beCIA agents, face arrestwarrants over the Nasrcase.

Pollari declined tospeak with reporters as heleft the hearing.

MNA/Reuters

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV VASCO DA GAMA VOY NO (003)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV VASCO DAGAMA VOY NO (003) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 23.7.2006 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 INTERASIA LINESPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

ICRC concerned about humanitariansituation in Lebanon

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evacuations and tomaintain health ser-vices,” the ICRC’sdirector of operations,Pierre Krahenbuhl, toldreporters at a Pressconference.

MNA/Xinhua

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BEIJING, 20 July— TheFifth World WaterCongress is to be held 10-14 September this year inBeijing, the first timeChina has hosted the mostimportant conference forthe world water industry,said Wang Tiehong,general secretary of theorganizing committee.

This year’s Congresswill focus on waterresource management,safety of drinking water,sustainable water use andthe harmony between the

5th World Water Congress toopen in Beijing in September

water environment andhumans, Wang said.

Seminars and forumswill also be held foroverseas participantsabout the challenges facingChina’s water resourcesand its laws and policiesrelevant to the industry.

There will also be anexhibition of advancedtechniques, equipment andengineering technology inwater-processing areas,Wang added.

This year’s Congress isco-hosted by China’s

Ministry of Constructionand the InternationalWater Association (IWA).Wang Guangtao, theChinese Minister ofConstruction, will be thepresident of the organizingcommittee.

The IWA is the mostauthoritative associationin the world waterindustry. Its mission is toprovide creative, practicaland sustainable solutionsfor water crisis andconsumption.

MNA/Xinhua

NEW DELHI, 20 July —Four warships of theIndian Navy have beenkept stand-by off theMediterranean coast ofLebanon to carry outevacuation of 12,000Indian nationals living inthat country, if thesituation so warrants inthe wake of increasedIsraeli military action.

Destroyer INSMumbai, guided-missilefrigates INS Betwa andINS Brahmaputra and theauxillary fleet tanker INSShakti have been movedto the Lebanese coast toevacuate Indian nati-onals, Navy sources said.

The sources said thepossible evacuationwould be worked by thegovernment with Israeliauthorities.— MNA/PTI

Four navalwarships onstand by to

evacuate Indiansin LebanonWASHINGTON, 20 July — At least 93 people were

injured, 16 of them seriously, when a cruise ship listedsharply off Port Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday, mediareports said on Wednesday.

Two victims were airlifted to local hospitals, and 10ambulances, three helicopters, four buses and mass-casualty trailers were on hand as the vessel arrived atthe port, CNN reported.

Some passengers suffered broken bones, RosalynPostel, spokeswoman for port, was quoted as saying.

The New York-bound ship, the Crown Princess,developed a problem with its rudder, causing it to takea “heavy roll,” listing hard to one side about two hoursafter its departure from Port Canaveral, the CoastGuard said.

All 3,100 passengers and 1,200 crew membersaboard the 113,000-ton ship were accounted for,according to the Associated Press.

Some passengers said the ship was already tiltingTuesday morning, even before the sudden roll to theside, the Associated Press reported.

The ship, which was on a nine-day WesternCaribbean cruise and had been scheduled to return toNew York on Thursday, would remain at CanaveralPort for several days, and the Coast Guard planned toinspect it Wednesday. Princess Cruise Lines, whichoperated the ship, said it was investigating whatcaused the severe list. — MNA/Xinhua

Nearly 100 injured ascruise ship tilts in US

LONDON, 20 July —World leaders missed amajor opportunity toboost basic health in poorcountries this week whenG-8 leaders failed to adopta lead vaccine for a noveladvance purchase sche-me, drug companies saidon Tuesday.

The Group of Eight majorpowers had originally hopedto select a lead projectfor an advanced marketcommitment (AMC)programme when leadersmet in St Petersburg.

But rows over funding

ISLAMABAD, 20 July — Pakistan’s exports in thefiscal year of 2005-06 (July 2005-June 2006) wererecorded at 16.469 billion US dollars, showing anincrease of 14.4 per cent over last fiscal year’s14.391 billion dollars, according to trade figuresreleased on Wednesday.

The fiscal 2005-06 also witnessed the imports of28.581 billion dollars, an increase of 38.8 per centover last year, the state-run APP news agencyreported.

MNA/Xinhua

Pakistan’sexportregister

14.4% growthin fiscal2005-06

Male Sumatran tiger Rokan lays in the grass while eating his breakfast at theUS National Zoo in Washington, on 20 July, 2006. Tigers have 40 percent

less habitat than they did a decade ago, due to intense poaching and the riseof an Asian middle class that puts pressure on the big cats and their

environment, wildlife experts said on Thursday.—INTERNET

Drug industry laments G-8 failure onvaccine planmeant the proposal nevergot off the ground.

“This is a missedopportunity to take a concretestep to help the world’spoorest communities,”Harvey Bale, director-general of the InternationalFederation of Pharmac-eutical Manufacturers andAssociations in Geneva, saidin a statement.

Drug manufacturershave supported the AMCconcept as a way toguarantee a market forvaccines for use indeveloping countries,

which otherwise wouldnot be commerciallyviable.

Under the scheme,governments wouldguarantee purchase of aspecified number oftreatments for a disease,at a pre-set price, for whichall companies supplyingan effective vaccine wouldbe eligible. The firstadvance market com-mitment would havebeen used to promotedevelopment of a vaccinefor pneumococcaldisease.— MNA/Reuters

A model showcases a

costume during a

‘Bride and Groom’

fashion show in New

Delhi, on 20 July,

2006.

INTERNET

A 5.4-metre long praying mantis robot is displayed at Marunouchi square in Tokyoon 21 July, 2006.—INTERNET

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China's Jia Tong dives during thewomen's 10-meter platform event atthe FINA World Cup competition in

Changshu, a city in east China'sJiangsu Province, on 20 July, 2006.Jia took the gold medal with 385.30

points.—INTERNET

Rabobank's team rider Denis Menchov of Russia (R)and team mate Mickael Rasmussen of Denmark (L),wearing the climber's jersey, cycle past the finish lineafter the 17th stage of the 93rd Tour de Francecycling race between Saint-Jean-De-Maurienne and Morzine, on 20 July, 2006. —INTERNET

Thaworn Wiratchant of Thailandwatches his tee shot on the 18th holeduring the first round of the BritishOpen Championship at the RoyalLiverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, on 20 July, 2006. —INTERNET

Safin stunned, Haas progressat Indianapolis event

WASHINGTON, 21 July — Two-time Grand Slamwinner Marat Safin suffered a shock exit at the RCAChampionships on Wednesday in Indianapolis, fallingin straight sets to world No 512 Wesley Whitehouse ofSouth Africa.

Safin, seeded 16th, lost in 6-1, 6-4 to the 27-year-old journeyman, who has won only two matches thisseason at the ATP level.

Fifth-seeded Tommy Haas easily advanced to thethird round after defeating George Bastl of Switzerland6-3, 6-3.

The victory gave Haas a 31-12 record this year,including tournament victories at Delray Beach andMemphis. He is currently 21st in the ATP Tour rankings,only two matches short of his victory total for all of lastyear.

Two more Russians advanced as Igor Kunitsynousted Germany's Lars Burgsmuller 7-5, 6-2 and sev-enth-seeded Dmitry Tursunov advanced when Ger-man Benjamin Becker quit with heat exhaustion.Tursunov led 6-3, 5-7, 2-1 when Becker called it a day.

Belgium's Xavier Malisse, seeded 11th, used astrong serve to oust Lee Hyung-taik of South Korea, 7-6 (7-4), 6-1.

Malisse had 12 aces while winning 76 per cent (29-of-36) of his first serve points.

In the day's another big upset, No. 6 seed DominikHrbaty of Slovakia and ranked 22 in the world wasupset by Kenneth Carlsen of Denmark, 6-3, 6-3. Carlsen,No. 123 in the ATP rankings, saved 10 of 11 breakpoints during the match while winning 83 per cent ofhis first serve points (15-of-18).

Other second-round winners at the IndianapolisTennis Centre included 12th-seeded Gilles Muller, a 6-2, 6-3 winner over Paul Capdeville; and No. 8 ParadornSrichaphan, a 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (4-7), 6-4 winner overqualifier Wayne Arthurs. — MNA/Xinhua

Zidane, Materazzifined, banned by FIFA

ZURICH, 21 July — Former France captainZinedine Zidane and Italy defender MarcoMaterazzi were both fined and banned by FIFA onThursday after the head-butting incident thatmarred the World Cup final.

Brazil suddenly facecoach, player shortage

Lin, Zhang sail into 2ndround at Macao Open MACAO, 20 July — World champions

Lin Dan and Zhang Ning of China botheased to the second round of the MacaoOpen badminton championships here onWednesday.

Lin Dan sank Chan Io Chong of Macao21-5, 21-15 in the first round clash, set-ting up a meeting with South Korea'sShon Seung Mo, who knocked out the"Super Dan" in the Athens Olympics twoyears ago.

Indonesia's Taufik Hidayat, anothermen's singles title favorite, swept pastlocal player Leong Kin Fai 21-9, 21-11.

Four other Chinese players — ChenHong, Chen Yu, Chen Jin and BaoChunlai—all made it through into themen's singles second round.

In the women's singles, world numberone Zhang Ning routed Finland's AnuNieminen 21-8, 21-13.— MNA/Xinhua

Parreira resigns asBrazil coach

RIO DE JANEIRO, 20 July — CarlosAlberto Parreira resigned as coach ofBrazil on Wednesday less than threeweeks after their quarterfinal exit at theWorld Cup, the Brazilian Football Con-federation (CBF) said.

"After a meeting held this morn-ing... with CBF president RicardoTeixeira, coach Carlos Alberto Parreiraleft the Brazilian national team," said astatement on the CBF's official website.

"It was a joint decision and Parreirawill not have, from today, any profes-sional connection with the BrazilianFootball Confederation."

Parreira, who led Brazil to theirfourth world title in 1994, had been atthe helm since the start of 2003. Brazillost 1-0 to France at the World Cup afterstarting the tournament as favourites.

MNA/Reuters

Zidane, who has retiredas a player, was fined7,500 Swiss francs (6,014US dollars) and handed athree-match ban by FIFA'sfive-man disciplinarycommittee following hisred card for head-buttingMaterazzi in Berlin on 9July.

As he is no longer aplayer, he offered to un-dertake three days of com-munity service on FIFA'sbehalf as part of their hu-manitarian activities,which the committee ac-cepted.

The Italian defender,who admitted insultingZidane, provoking theFrenchman's head-butt,was handed a two-matchban and fined 5,000 Swissfrancs (4,010 US dollars).He attended a hearing lastFriday, but his sentencehas been fiercely criticizedin Italy. The bans apply tointernational competitivematches, even though it isa symbolic ban for Zidanewho has confirmed he hasno intention of reversinghis decision to retire.

Materazzi will missItaly's opening two Euro2008 qualifiers againstLithuania on 2 Septemberand, ironically, France on6 September.

"In their statements,both players stressed thatMaterazzi's comments hadbeen defamatory but not

of a racist nature," a FIFAstatement said.

"During the course oftheir hearings both play-ers also apologized toFIFA for their inappropri-ate behaviour and ex-pressed their regret at theincident."

MNA/Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO, 21 July— Coach Carlos AlbertoParreira's departure onWednesday has left Bra-zil suddenly facing a short-age of coaches and play-ers to choose from as theyset about rebuilding aftertheir World Cup failure.

On the coaching front,Vanderlei Luxemburgoand Paulo Autuori appearto be the only obvious can-didates and even theycome with question markshanging over them.

As for players,Parreira's faith in his age-ing team over the last twoyears has given little

chance for new faces toemerge in the nationalteam.

Luxemburgo's recordat club level, which in-cludes five Brazilianchampionship titles withfour different clubs, makeshim the obvious choice.

But the coach has al-ready had one bite at thecherry, a disastrous two-year spell which endedwith him being sacked af-ter a humiliating loss tonine-man Cameroon at the2000 Olympic Games.

During his tenureLuxemburgo became thecentre of an investigationover his tax returns andwas later found to haveadulterated his age, mak-ing himself three yearsyounger than he reallywas.

He also fell out withRonaldinho — now theworld's number oneplayer.—MNA/Reuters

Sports marketing pioneerMcCormack voted on to Hall of Fame

HOYLAKE (England),20 July — The late MarkMcCormack, oncedubbed the most power-ful man in sport, will be-come a member of theWorld Golf Hall of Fameon 30 Oct as part of theclass of 2006, officialssaid on Wednesday.

A pioneer of thesports marketing industryand founder of golf's offi-cial world rankings,McCormack was selectedthrough the lifetimeachievement category bythe World Golf Foundation(WGF) board of directorsselection committee.

McCormack, whosesigning of Arnold Palmerin 1960 ushered in hisInternational Manage-ment Group (IMG) com-pany, died on 16 May,2003 after failing to re-cover from a heart attack.

"Without him profes-sional golfers would notenjoy the rewards theyget today," Hall of Fame

member and former Royaland Ancient Golf Club(R&A) secretary MichaelBonallack told a newsconference at Hoylake onWednesday.

MNA/Reuters

Manchester City sign strikerCoradi from Valencia

LONDON, 21 July — Valencia’s Italian strikerBernardo Corradi has joined Manchester City, thePremier League club said on Thursday.

The 30-year-old signed a three-year contract for anundisclosed fee, City said on their official website.Reports in Spain put the fee at around 1.5 million euros(1.9 million US dollars).

“I’m delighted to have secured Bernardo, he is aplayer I’ve been looking at for some time and think hewill be a terrific acquisition for this football club,” Citymanager Stuart Pearce told the website.

Corradi, a former Italy international, said: “I hopeto bring all my enthusiasm to Manchester City and Iwant to show everyone that I want to work hard nowand during the season with my teammates. I want to dowell here.”

The Italian joined Valencia from Lazio in 2004, butwas loaned out last season to Parma for whom hescored 10 goals.

MNA/Reuters


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Friday, 21 July, 2006Summary of observations recorded at 09:30

hours MST: During the past 24 hours, weather has beenpartly cloudy in lower Sagaing Division, rain have beenisolated in Kayah State, Mandalay and Magway Divisions,fairly widespread in Kachin, Shan and Chin States, upperSagaing, Bago and Ayeyawady Divisions and widespread inthe remaining areas with isolated heavyfalls in Kachin andRakhine States. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall re-corded were Putao and Sittway (3.11) inches each, Phyapon(2.84) inches,Thaton (2.68) inches, Hpa-an (2.24) inches,Mawlamyine (2.20) inches, Thandwe (1.97) inches andPyinmana (0.55) inch.

Maximum temperature on 20-7-2006 was 82°F.Minimum temperature on 21-7-2006 was 66°F. Relativehumidity at 09:30 hours MST on 21-7-2006 was (96%).Total sunshine hours on 20-7-2006 was nil.

Rainfalls on 21-7-2006 were (0.51) inch atMingaladon, (0.39) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.16) inch atCentral Yangon. Total rainfalls since 1-1-2006 were (48.46)inches at Mingaladon, (58.03) inches at Kaba-Aye and(62.64) inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed atYangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mph from Southwest at (22:30)hours MST on 20-7-2006.

Bay inference: Monsoon is weak in the AndamanSea and South Bay and moderate to strong elsewhere in theBay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 22-7-2006: Rainwill be isolated in Kayah State, Mandalay Magway andlower Sagaing Divisions, scattered in Shan,Chin, States andupper Sagaing Division, fairly widespread in KachinState,Bago, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Divisions and wide-spread in the remaining states and divisions. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to roughsea are likely at times off and along Rakhine Coast. Surfacewind speed in squalls may reach (35) to (40) mph. Seas willbe moderate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofdecrease of rain in Southern Myanmar area.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouringareas for 22-7-2006: Likelihood of isolated rain. Degreeof certainty is (60%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouringareas for 22-7-2006: One or two rain. Degree of certaintyis (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouringareas for 22-7-2006: Likelihood of isolated rain. Degree ofcertainty is (60%).

Weather outlook for last weekend of July 2006:During the coming weekend, rain will be widespread inYongon Division and likelihood of isolated in Naypyitawand Mandalay Divisions.

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An official in chargeof the board, SetioSutarmo, told Xinhua thatover 5,541 people had alsotaken refugee at camps andtents, after giant wavesstruck onto land and dam-aged buildings and infra-structure in the southern

Indonesia toinstall tsunamiwarning system

in Java, Bali JAKARTA, 21 July —

Indonesia will prioritizethe southern waters offJava and Bali islandswhen setting up tsunamiearly warning system, aminister said here onThursday.

Research and Tech-nology MinisterKusmayanto Kadimansaid the governmentwould install the deviceon the basis of the densityof population, the amountof assets and the vulner-ability of the area fromthe possible disaster.

“We put priority onsouthern sea off Java andBali islands,” Kus-mayanto said.

Java Island is themost populated area inIndonesia and Bali Islandis the most favourabletourist destination in thecountry. Both of themhave huge infrastructures.

MNA/Xinhua

Indonesia’s tsunami death tollreaches 547, 323 missing

JAKARTRA, 21 July — At least 547 people were killed, 465 injuredand 323 still missing in the tsunami disaster, triggered by a 6.8 magni-tude quake, hitting Indonesia’s Java Island on Monday, NationalDisaster Management Coordination Board said here on Thursday.

coastal areas of Indone-sia’s West Java, CentralJava and Yogyakarta prov-inces.

The buoys would beset up in quake-vulnerablezones with high popula-tion density and hugeamount of assets, he said.

Indonesian PresidentSusilo BambangYudhoyono has said thatthe government wouldupdate and improve tsu-nami detector device togive early warnings topeople.

MNA/Xinhua

Swedish tsunami survivor Peter Damerau, left, looks on as IndonesianPresident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, right, and his wife Kristiani, lowerright, greet his sons Pidi, center, and Permarten, second left, during theirmeeting at Halim Perdanakusumah airbase in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday,

July 21, 2006. Pangandaran, one of Java’s most popular seaside resortswhen the waves hit and separated Damerau from his children for more than

12 hours after the disaster. — INTERNET

13th Waning of Waso 1368 ME Saturday, 22 July, 2006

NAY PYI TAW, 20 July — Member of the StatePeace and Development Council Lt-Gen Kyaw Win ofthe Ministry of Defence, together with Chairman ofShan State Peace and Development Council Com-mander of Eastern Command Brig-Gen Thaung Ayeon 15 July visited Maha Myatmuni Buddha Image inLaikha, Shan State (South).

They offered flowers, lights and joss sticksand paid homage to the Buddha Image.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Kyaw Win and the com-mander went to Konnin Monastery in Laikha andpresented offertories to Chairman of Laikha TownshipSangha Nayaka Committee Presiding Sayadaw of themonastery Sayadaw U Vicittasara.

During his tour, Lt-Gen Kyaw Win also vis-ited the Haw Palace in Laikha. — MNA

Lt-Gen Kyaw Win tours Laikha,Shan State (South)

YANGON, 21 July — Tax-free markets are openin Yangon for enabling city dwellers to buy freshvegetables, meat and fish and other kitchen items.

Accompanied by Chairman of Yangon Divi-sion Peace and Development Council Commander ofYangon Command Brig-Gen Hla Htay Win,Vice-Mayor Col Maung Pa and officials, Lt-Gen MyintSwe of the Ministry of Defence this morning inspected

Lt-Gen Myint Swe inspectstax-free markets

tax-free markets in Dagon Myothit (North), DagonMyothit (South), Thakayta, Tamway and Yankin Town-ships.

After inspecting the markets, Lt-Gen MyintSwe gave instructions on supervision to be made forselling of goods with correct weight and measures andsale of meat, fish and vegetables at fair price.

MNA

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Weather Forecast for (22-7-2006)

Nay Pyi Taw and

neighbouring areas

Likelihood of isolated rain.

Degree of certainty is

(60%).

Mandalay and neigh-

bouring areas

Likelihood of isolated

rain. Degree of certainty is

(60%).

Yangon and neighbour-

ing areas

One or two rain.

Degree of certainty is

(80%).

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

Lt-Gen Kyaw Win of the Ministry ofDefence offers alms to a Sayadaw of

Konnin Monastery in Laikha.MNA

Two membersresign from YeUTownship NLD

YANGON, 21 July—Two members of YeU Town-ship National League for Democracy in SagaingDivision—chairman U Tin Tun and secretary U WinAung of Magyeedaw Village-tract —resigned fromthe party on 26 June of their own accord by sendingletters of resignation to the NLD headquarters andlocal authorities concerned.

In the letters submitted to Sagaing Division Multi-party Democracy General Election Sub-commission,they said that they were no longer interested in theparty and party duties. So, they quit the party and theduties of their own volition.

Thirty-one members of YeU Township NLDhave left the party since last June 2006. Therefore, 33members have quit the party so far. — MNA

Panglong is a placefully enjoying the fruitsof peace and stabilityand rapid development.Hence, we can saythat the Border AreaNationalities YouthTechnical School addsglory to Mongla region.

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