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Volume XIII, Number 97 2nd Waning of Waso 1367 ME Friday, 22 July, 2005

Established 1914

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 objectivesFour political objectives Four social objectives

YANGON, 21 July— The Myanmar-KoreanContemporary Art Showin commemoration of the

Art show to mark 30th anniversary of diplomaticties between Union of Myanmar and ROK opened

YANGON, 21 July—The Pariyatti Sasana PalaAssociation of Pali Tekkatho Nyaungdon monasteryin Bahan Township, Yangon West District, held its24th Waso robes offering ceremony in conjunctionwith cash donations presentation for Abhidhaja three-storey refectory this afternoon at the refectory onKoemin Koechin Street in Bahan Township.

Present on the occasion were Presiding Nayakaof the monastery Abhidhaja Maha Rattha GuruBhaddanta Sobhana and members of the Sangha,Chairman of Yangon Division Peace and Develop-ment Council Commander of Yangon CommandMaj-Gen Myint Swe and wife Daw Khin Thet Htay,Commander of No 3 Military Region Col Tin Hsan,senior military officers, local authorities, wellwishersand lay persons.Commander Maj-Gen Myint Sweand wife and officials presented Waso robes andoffertories to members of the Sangha.

Yangon Division PDC donated K 100,000 to thefunds for construction of a refectory; U Kyonkinyaw-Daw Aung Poe Hlyan and family, K 9.5 million;Presiding Sayadaw Abhidhaja Maha Rattha GuruBhaddanta Sobhana, K 5 million; AdministrationSayadaw Bhaddanta Indaka, K 2.5 million; U HlaMaimg-Daw Khin Hnin Wai and family K 2 mil-lion; U Chit Aye-Daw Than Than Swe and family,K 1.5 million; U Nyan Myint-Daw Shwe and fam-ily, K 1.1 million; and U Aung Kyi-Daw Ohn Khinand family, K 1 million to the commander.

Next, Hlayadana monastery Sayadaw of Pali

30th Anniversary of Dip-lomatic Relations be-tween the Union ofMyanmar and the Re-

public of Korea was heldat the National Museumon Pyay Road, here, thismorning, attended by

Minister for Foreign Af-fairs U Nyan Win andMinister for Culture Maj-Gen Kyi Aung.

Also present onthe occasion wereDeputy Minister for Cul-ture Brig-Gen Soe Win

Maung, Deputy Ministerfor Hotels and TourismBrig-Gen Aye MyintKyu, departmental headsof the Ministry of For-eign Affairs and the Min-istry of Culture, ambas-sadors and officials offoreign missions here,the Korean Ambassadorand staff of the ROKEmbassy, members of theKorean Association, offi-cials of Myanmar Tradi-tional Artists and Arti-sans Asiayon and guests.

Minister for For-eign Affairs U Nyan Winformally unveiled thesignboard of the art show.

(See page 8)

Pariyatti Sasana Pala Association offers Waso robes

Tekkatho Nyaungdon Kyaungtaik Bhaddanta NaradaBhivamsa delivered a sermon, followed by sharingof merits. — MNA

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PAGE 2 PERSPECTIVES

The motorway of the Thanlwin Bridge(Mawlamyine) was opened on 5 February, 2005.Now efforts are being made to complete therailway in time.

Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe and wifeoffersWaso robes and alms to a Sayadaw at

Pariyatti Sasana Pala Association’s 24th Wasorobes offering ceremony. — YANGON COMMAND

Minister Maj-Gen Kyi Aung delivers an address at the Myanmar-Korean Contemporary Art Show in commemoration of the 30thAnniversary of Myanmar-ROK Diplomatic Relations. — MNA

2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 22 July, 2005

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

People’s DesireFriday, 22 July, 2005

PERSPECTIVES

Unitedly take part innation-building tasks

The national goal of the State is to builda peaceful, modern and developed nation andefforts are being made to realize the nationalgoal by upholding Our Three Main NationalCauses and implementing the political, economicand social objectives.

For the emergence of a developed nation,the 24-region development plan is being car-ried out without outside help as the strength ofthe nation lies within.

As the government, the people and theTatmadaw have been working in concert dayand night, 175 dams and 186 bridges 180 feetand above long have emerged in so short a time.Of all the bridges 180 feet and above long, thelongest one is the Thanlwin Bridge(Mawlamyine). It is the bridge not only MonState and the State but also Myanmar engineersshould always be proud of.

The Thanlwin Bridge (Mawlamyine) willsurely serve the long-term interests of the na-tion and the people. More than 900 vehicles and1,300 motorcycles are using the bridge everyday.

As the bridge cost a lot of money, it isnecessary for all those concerned to maintainthe bridge as the bridge is situated near theplace where three rivers meet, the water is deepand the current swift. Watercraft using thewaterway under the bridge will have to followrules and regulations. The bridge has both themotorway and the railway.

The motorway of the Thanlwin Bridge(Mawlamyine) was opened on 5 February, 2005.Now efforts are being made to complete therailway in time.

When the railway is finished, people willbe able to travel from Yangon to Dawei directby train. The construction of the ThanlwinBridge (Mawlamyine) is one of the developmentendeavours of the government.

The government is carrying out develop-ment tasks for the perpetual existence of theUnion and higher living standard of the people.Therefore, we would like to call on the entirenational people to lend themselves to all thenation-building tasks being carried out by thegovernment.

Waso robesoffering ceremony

to be held atEindawyaMonasteryYANGON, 21 July —

Maha DhammaramthiEindawya Pagoda Boardof Trustees will hold the2nd Waso robes offeringceremony on 24 July morn-ing at Eindawya Monas-tery in Dagon Township. Sayadaws will deliversermons every SabbathDay at the pagoda. — MNA

Waso robes offered,outstanding monks

honouredYANGON, 21 July—Waso robes and alms were

offered to over 180 members of the Sangha led byTipitakadhara Dhamma Bhandagarika (YawSayadaw) of Maha Withuddhayon Pali TekkathoMonastery on Nandawun Street in Bahan Town-ship, and eight outstanding members of the Sanghawho passed their examinations with distinctionswere honoured at a ceremony at the monastery yes-terday morning.

Lay persons offered Waso robes and alms tomembers of the Sangha. Ashin VadhirapaniLankarabhivamsa recited religious verses to honourthe eight outstanding members of the Sangha.

Next, the Yaw Sayadaw delivered a sermonto the congregation.

MNA

CASH DONATED: Cash donation ceremony forthe prayer hall of PhaungdawU Standing BuddhaStatue on 3rd Ka Street in Ka+Kha Ward, Inseintook place at General Administration Departmentof Insein Township on 21-7-2005. Member of the

State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee ka Ad-ministrator Sayadaw of Ywama Pariyati

Sarthintaik Agga Maha Pandita BhaddantaTilokabhivamsa graced the occasion by hispresence. Donor U Hla Kyi (Advocate) and

daughters donate K 1 million to the chairman ofPagoda Board of Trustees. — H

Appointment of GermanAmbassador agreed onYANGON, 22 July — The Government of the

Union of Myanmar has agreed to the proposed ap-pointment of Mr Dietrich Andreas as AmbassadorExtraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the FederalRepublic of Germany to the Union of Myanmar insuccession to Dr Klaus Peter Wild.

Mr Dietrich Andreas was born in 1943. He pur-sued his studies in law and economics from 1962 to1971. Subsequently he joined the Federal ForeignOffice and attended the diplomatic academy for theSenior Foreign Service from 1972 to 1974.

Before being appointed Ambassador of the Fed-eral Republic of Germany to People’s Republic ofBangladesh in 2001, he had served in various ca-pacities at the Federal Foreign Office and the Ger-man diplomatic missions in Belgrade, Lagos, Bang-kok and Zagreb. — MNA

Ministry of Foreign Affairsholds robes offering ceremony

Departments, townselders inKengtung offer Waso robes

YANGON, 21 July —The Waso robes offeringceremony organized by the state/district/townshipdepartments in Shan State (East) and townselderswas held at Sasana Beikma in Kengtung on 18 July.Chairman of Shan State (East) Peace and Develop-ment Council Commander of Triangle Region Com-mand Brig-Gen Min Aung Hlaing and wife, militaryofficers, departmental officials and townselders at-tended the ceremony.

First, the congregation took the Five Preceptsfrom Dhammawdaya Pariyatti Monastery SayadawBhaddanta Arjeya. Next, Commander Brig-Gen MinAung Hlaing and departmental officials offered Wasorobes and alms to 36 members of the Sangha.

After the ceremony, the commander and wife,and officials also offered ‘soon’ to the members ofthe Sangha. — MNA

MYANMAR GAZETTEYANGON, 21 July — The State Peace and

Development Council has confirmed the followingpersons as heads of service organizations shownagainst each on expiry of the one-year probation-ary period. Names Appointments(a) U Ye Phone Myint Managing Director

Myanma Jute EnterpriseMinistry of Agricultureand Irrigation

(b) U Kyaw Nyunt Director-GeneralCentral Trade DisputesCommitteeMinistry of Labour

(c) U Chit Shein ChairmanSocial Security BoardMinistry of Labour

MNA

YANGON, 21 July—Ministry of Foreign Af-fairs held Waso robesoffering ceremony atMingun TipitakaNikaya Monastery inDagon Towship thismorning.

Present on the oc-casion were SayadawTipitakadhara BhaddantaIndaçariya and membersof the Sangha of the Mon-astery, Minister for For-eign Affairs U Nyan Winand wife Daw MyintMyint Soe, Deputy Min-isters U Kyaw Thu andwife Daw Lè Lè Kyi, UMaung Myint and wife Dr

Daw Khin Mya Win, theMyanmar ambassadors,directors-general andwives, deputy directors-general and wives, thedirectors and their fami-lies.

The minister andwife and party offered‘soon’ to members of theSangha.

Sayadaw Bhad-danta Pandiçça adminis-tered the Five Precepts tothe congregation.

The minister andwife, the deputy minis-ters and wives donatedWaso robes and provi-sions to members of the

Sangha and shared meritsgained. — MNA

Foreign Affairs Minister U Nyan Win and wife Daw Myint Myint Soe offerWaso robes and alms to a Sayadaw.—MNA

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Indonesia to sell 10% stakeof state-owned gas company JAKARTA , 20 July—Indonesia plans to sell as much as 10 per cent stake

of state-run gas distributor PNG this year, part of a strategy to bridgebudget deficit, local media reported on Tuesday.

"For PNG, the stakethat will be sold is maxi-mum 10 per cent," StateEnterprises MinisterSugiharto was quoted bythe Jakarta Post as saying.

The PNG stake, ofwhich the government

owns 60.2 per cent, fellby 25 rupiahs (0.0028 USdollar) or 0.8 per cent, to3.075 rupiahs (some0.0034 US dollar) onMonday at the JakartaStock Exchange.

The government thisyear aims to raise 3.5 tril-lion rupiahs (some 3.6billion US dollars) by sell-ing stakes of state-ownedcompanies, according tothe country's 2005 budget.

Indonesia's deficit is

swelling as higher fuelprices increase fuel sub-sidy expenditure.

This year budget defi-cit may rise to 35.2 tril-lion rupiahs (some 36.2billion US dollars) or 1.3per cent of the gross do-mestic product (GDP),compared with the targeted20.3 trillion rupiahs ( about21.3 billion US dollar) or0.8 per cent of the GDP,according to the govern-ment.— MNA/Xinhua

Foreign insurance companies pressure domestic industry BEIJING , 20 July —As more and more foreign insurance companies enter the Chinese market,

which has been gradually opening after China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO),the domestic insurance industry has felt rising pressure.

Meng Shaoyi, director of the International Depart-ment of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission(CIRC), the country's watchdog for the industry, madethe remark in an interview with the Beijing-based Eco-nomic Daily, a leading economic newspaper in China.Over 40 foreign insurance companies, including 27 ofthe 46 insurance companies among the top 500 com-panies, have set up agencies in China, according tothe Economic Daily's report on Tuesday.

"China has implemented its commitments to theWTO by opening its domestic insurance market tooverseas investment in stages, so the pressure broughtby foreign companies was not big immediately afterthe country became a WTO member," Meng wasquoted by the newspaper as saying.

At that time, only a small number of foreigninsurance companies began offering services in

the Chinese market, and with limited investmentvolume, he said.

The situation has changed a lot, however. In Shang-hai, foreign-funded companies now account for 14 to15 per cent of the total market share, and in Guangzhou,the capital of southern Guangdong Province, the pro-portion is about 10 to 12 per cent, said Meng.

At the end of 2004, according to China's WTOobligations, the country fully opened its insurancemarket to overseas investment. Now more than halfof the country's insurance companies are foreign-invested, according to figures from the CIRC.

Statistics with the CIRC show that the growthrate of China's insurance industry is about 30 percent every year. It has become one of the fastestgrowing industries in China.

MNA/Xinhua

US soldiers in Iraqreport low morale

WASHINGTON, 20 July—A majority of US soldiersin Iraq say morale is low, according to an Armyreport that finds psychological stress is weighing par-ticularly heavily on National Guard and Reservetroops.

The report said substantially fewer soldiers had tobe evacuated from Iraq for mental health problemslast year.

The Army sent a team of mental health specialiststo Iraq and Kuwait late last summer to assess con-ditions and measure progress in implementing pro-grams designed to fix mental health problems dis-covered during a similar survey of troops a yearearlier. Its report, dated 30 January, 2005, wasreleased on Wednesday.

The initial inquiry was triggered in part by an unu-sual surge in suicides among soldiers in Iraq in July2003. Wednesday's report said the number of sui-cides in Iraq and Kuwait declined from 24 in 2003to nine last year.

A suicide prevention program was begun for sol-diers in Iraq at the recommendation of the 2003assessment team.—Internet

Vietnam reports more youngcancer patients

Indonesia finds 74 bodiesafter ferry sank

JAKARTA , 20 July — Indonesian rescuers have found the bodies of 74people who were on a ferry that sank off a remote eastern province earlierthis month, but 100 more bodies could be trapped in the wreckage, anofficial said on Tuesday.

HANOI, 20 July—Thenumber of Vietnamesechildren suffering fromcancer has risen in recentyears. The number ofchildren aged 5-15 beingtreated for the disease atthe country's CentralPediatric Hospital in Ha-noi capital rose to 1,708in 2004 from 1,394 in2003 and 1,262 in 2002,the hospital's Deputy Di-

rector Nguyen Van Loctold Xinhua on Tuesday.

On average, the hospi-tal annually receives 200new cancer patients inrecent years, he said, not-ing that a large number ofthe children are sufferingfrom leukemia and malig-nant brain tumour. Themortality rate among chil-dren infected with canceris high, because most of

them are hospitalized toolate. Some 90 per cent ofthe patients did not go tohospital until they exhib-ited complications likenervous disorder.

Vietnam has annuallydetected some 150,000new cancer patients in re-cent years. Leading typesof cancer include lung can-cer, breast cancer, andleukemia.—MNA/Xinhua

Most of the bodies were discoveredwashed up on shores near the coastalcity of Merauke, about 2,300 miles eastof the capital Jakarta. The vessel wentdown in rough seas off far easternPapua Province on 7 July.

"We only managed to pull one bodyout of the ship wreckage," SumpenoYowono, head of the Merauke rescueagency, told Reuters by telephone.

"Based on the information fromeyewitnesses and port officials, we

think there were still around 100bodies inside the ship," he said.

Yowono added that rescuers andNavy divers planned to tear apart thevessel to retrieve the trapped bodies.But bad weather and strong waves hadhampered efforts.

Fifteen people including two crewmembers were rescued after the ferrysank about 20 nautical miles offMerauke, near Indonesia's border withPapua New Guinea.— MNA/Reuters

Car bombblast hits US

patrol innorthern Iraq

TIKRIT, 20 July — Acar bomb detonatedWednesday next to aUS military patrol inIraq's northern town ofToz-Khormatu, causingcasualties, police said.

"A booby-trapped ve-hicle, parked on the sideof a road in Toz-Khormatu, blew up earlymorning as a US militarypatrol passed by, destroy-ing a US Hamvee killingor wounding all onboard," a police sourcefrom the US-Iraqi JointCoordination Center, toldXinhua.

Two civilians werealso wounded in the at-tack in the town, locatedsome 90 km east of Tikrit,the source said.US troopsimmediately blocked theroads leading to the sceneand cordoned off the areasearching houses for sus-pects, said the policesource.—Internet

Chinese soccer fans hold posters as they wait outside the hotel where RealMadrid soccer players are staying, Beijing, on 21 July, 2005. Real Madrid is

on a four-day tour of China and will face Beijing Guoan in a friendlysoccer match on Saturday. — INTERNET

Men stand outside their cars as they queue forpetrol in Baghdad's Sadr City on 20 July, 2005.

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LONDON, 20 July—A poll indicates that al-most two-thirds of Britons think the London bombattacks are linked to Prime Minister Tony Blair’sdecision to take part in the invasion of Iraq.

The poll, commissioned by the Guardian news-paper, found 33 percent of Britons said Blair bears “alot’’ of responsibility for the London bombings, while31 percent said he bears “a little’’ responsibility.

And 28 percent said his decision is not respon-sible for the atrocities.—Internet

NEW DELHI , 20 July — India is unlikely to meet a target of increasing forestcover to one-third of its territory by 2012 because some trees will be cut forindustrial activity to meet the needs of economic development.

SINGAPORE, 20 July— Japanese ForeignMinister NobutakaMachimura, who arrivedin Singapore on Tuesdayfor one- day official visit,called on SingaporePrime Minister Lee HsienLoong, Foreign MinisterGeorge Yeo and DefenceMinister Teo Chee Heanseparately.

The two sides dis-cussed issues includingthe reform of the UnitedNations (UN), the post-tsunami reconstructionefforts in Indonesia aswell as the KoreanPeninsula nuclear issue,according to HatsuhisaTakashima, Press Secre-tary of the JapaneseForeign Ministry.

MNA/Xinhua

Civilian deaths in Iraqset at 25,000

LONDON, 20 July—A British research group saidon Tuesday that about 25,000 civilians died in violencein Iraq in the two years after the start of the US-ledinvasion.

Iraq Body Count compiled its figures of killingsthat occurred between 20 March, 2003, and 19 March,2005, from reports by the major news agencies, includ-ing the Associated Press and British and Americannewspapers.

The results could not be independently confirmed.US and coalition authorities say they have not kept acount of such deaths, and Iraqi accounting has provento be haphazard.

“There are no wholly reliable figures for civiliandeaths,” Britain’s Foreign Office said. “It is recog-nized by everybody that statistics are very hard tocollect under these circumstances.”

The new estimate was much lower than the figureof 98,000 civilian deaths that appeared in a study in themedical journal The Lancet in October 2004.

“The ever-mounting Iraqi death toll is the forgot-ten cost of the decision to go to war in Iraq,” said JohnSloboda, a psychology professor at Keele Universityin central England and co-founder of the group.

Iraq Body Count found: US-led coalition forces were responsible for 37.3

percent of the total. About three-quarters of thosefatalities occurred during the invasion phase up to 1May, 2003. — Internet

BEIJING , 20 July — Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Mauritanian counterpart Maaouya OuldSid'Ahmed Taya on Tuesday exchanged congratulatory messages on the occasion of the 40th anniversaryof the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.BEIJING , 20 July — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao

encouraged university graduates to go and work inthe western region in his comments on a letter tohim from graduates of China Geological Universitybased in Wuhan of central China.

A total of 261 students who graduated this yearfrom CGU wrote to Wen recently, saying they volun-teered to go and work in the western region anddedicate themselves to the development of the west.

"I'm very glad to read your letter and deeply movedby your ambition, courage and determination.

You have made a right choice. I believe the toughexperiences in the west will become the greatest trea-sure of your whole lives," the Premier wrote.

MNA/Xinhua

India unlikely to meet 2012forest cover target

The environment and Forests Min-istry said in its 2003 forest report re-leased on Tuesday that 23.68 per cent or778,229 square kilometres (300,373square miles) of the nation's area wascovered by forests, which included treesin non-forested areas, up a marginal0.65 per cent from 2001.

"To reach the 2012 target is aherculean task. We may face hurdles,"Andimuthu Raja, the Environmentand Forests Minister, told a newsconference.

"If we do not give some (forest)land to industrial and mining sectors,we would jeopardize economic growth."

But Raja said that with current af-forestation efforts, India would reachits 2007 target of 25 per cent forestcover.

Illegal felling of trees is a hugeconcern as India's billion-plus popula-

tion increases and more people cut treesfor fuel, they say.

The Forest Ministry said it could notignore the development needs of Asia'sthird-largest economy while protectingthe country's forests, mainly concentratedin Himalayan regions in the north andnortheastern states.

Raja defended the policy of allow-ing limited mining in forested areas butadded that mining firms had to compen-sate by planting twice the number oftrees they cut.

The ministry's forest report saidwhile the overall forest cover increasedmarginally in 2003, the area under denseforests — which have a canopy densityof above 40 per cent — was down by26,245 square kilometres from 416,089square kilometres in 2001 due todeforestation.

MNA/Reuters

Chinese, Mauritanian presidents exchangecongratulatory messages

In his message, Hu said the peoples of the twocountries have enjoyed profound traditional friend-ship. In the 40 years, the bilateral relationship devel-oped smoothly through the efforts of the two countries.

The friendly relationship between China and Mau-ritania sets a good example for developing countries interms of coexisting in harmony and mutually benefi-cial cooperation as their exchanges and cooperationhave been fruitful in the fields of politics, economy andtrade, culture and education, Hu said.

China and Mauritania support each other and act inclose coordination in international affairs, Hu said. Healso said in the new historical condition, China willjoint hands with Mauritania to carry on and develop the

traditional friendship and push their mutually benefi-cial cooperation further to open up a new and moreprosperous prospect for the friendly cooperation be-tween the countries and peoples.

For his part, President Taya said Mauritania will asalways remain committed to the strengthening anddevelopment of its relationship with China.

The two friendly countries are always advocates ofthe principles of peace, security and justice in interna-tional relations and this will be kept on as the solidcornerstone for their special relations, Taya said.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Foreign Minister LiZhaoxing also exchanged congratulatory messages withtheir respective counterparts on Tuesday.— MNA/Xinhua

Wen Jiabao encouragesuniversity graduates towork in western China

Poll says mostBritons link

Londonattack to Iraq

war

JapaneseFM visitsSingapore

Cambodian woman wearing a traditional headscarf or Krama, sells lotusflowers to visitors to a Buddhist pagoda in Phnom Penh on 21 July, 2005.

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US Army soldiers with the first Armoured Division prepare to secure the roof ofa suspected guerilla leader’s house in the town of Taji, on the outskirts of

Baghdad, in this military handout photo released on 19 July, 2005.— INTERNET

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Japanese protest against USArmy exercises in Okinawa

TOKYO, 20 July — Some 10,000 people staged aprotest Tuesday against US Army exercises using liveammunition in the town of Kin, South Japan’s OkinawaPrefecture, Kyodo News reported.

According to Kyodo, the protesters, includingOkinawa Governor Keiichi Inamine, highlighted thedanger posed by the exercises at a new combat facilityat the US Marine Corps’ Camp Hansen, which is only300 metres away from residential areas.

Marching up to the front gate of Camp Hansen, thedemonstrators called on the US Army to stop theexercises and remove the facility, claiming that peo-ple living in the vicinity risk the danger of being hit bystray bullets.

“I will do my utmost to have the facility shut downso that residents can enjoy their peace and quiet,”Inamine was quoted by Kyodo.

The US Army started the exercises on 12 July amidprotests by the local residents. — MNA/Xinhua

Singapore, Hungary todevelop economic links

SINGAPORE, 20 July — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong andvisiting Hungarian Prime Minister Gyurcsany Ferenc vowed here on Tuesdayto develop economic links between the two countries.

Chinese textile firms tap furtherinto world market

BEIJING , 20 July — Chinese textile companies are striving to restructuring their export products andexpanding further into the world market as the United States threatens to close the door to several linesof China-made textile and garment products.

“It’s a top priority for us to diversify our productsand further tap the world market,” said a businessexecutive from Youngor based in the city of Ningbo,east China’s Zhejiang Province. “We must not cling tothe US market alone.” “Domestic companies have toset up their own early warning systems,” he said in atelephone interview with Xinhua on Tuesday but de-clined to be named. “We’d be in a passive and embar-rassing position if we hastily seek countermeasuresonly after other countries have imposed restrictions.”

As one of China’s most recognized name brands forgarments, Youngor has avoided production of “100per cent cotton” shirts and jackets after the UnitedStates slapped quotas on Chinese-made cotton-knittedshirts and pants. Yet most textile firms are sober-

minded at the US restrictions. “We cannot get anywhere by criticizing the United

States alone, “ said Jin Changyi, general manager ofGolden Globe Textile Corp in the provincial capitalHangzhou. “The only thing we can do at the momentis to fix our production and marketing strategies tominimize the impacts of such restrictions.”

To be specific, Jin said his company will focus onthe Middle East and African markets and will increasethe proportion of high-end products, particularly genu-ine silk garments. Jin’s company exports up to 400,000pieces of cotton and silk garments every year, includ-ing approximately 50,000 pieces to the United States.Among its importers are leading US retailers includingWal-Mart. — MNA/Xinhua

“Haitang” brings heavyrainstorms to east China

HANGZHOU, 20 July — Affected by the TyphoonHaitang, two counties of Cangnan and Pingyang ofWenzhou City, East China’s Zhejiang Province, re-ported 400 millimetres heavy rainstorms on Tuesday.

The provincial flood control and drought relief head-quarters said the whole Zhejiang Province saw greatprecipitation since Sunday.

The precipitation of the township of Chanchang,Cangnan County amounted to 564 millimetres.

The rainstorms brought about a water level surge ofZhejiang’s major rivers.

Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu urged on Tuesday gov-ernments of all the coastal provinces to launch theiremergency plans against the disastrous weather.

Hui said the governments should make all efforts tosafeguard the life security of the people and must befully aware of the possible floods and geological disas-ters after the landing of typhoons. — MNA/Xinhua

During their meeting, Lee invitedHungarian companies to use the busi-ness infrastructure and facilities in Sin-gapore to base their regional operations.

“Hungary can use Singapore as aspringboard to exploit the opportunitiesin this new Asia,” Lee said, adding thatthe Association of South-East AsianNations (ASEAN) is strategically locatedbetween China and India, the two emerg-ing powers in the region.

Singapore expects to work with Hun-gary on the enhancement of Asia-Europerelations as both countries are part of the

ASEAN- European Union (EU) dialogueprocess, according to Lee.

Gyurcsany, who arrived in Singa-pore on Tuesday morning for a two-dayofficial visit, introduced investment op-portunities in Hungary to Singaporeanbusinessmen during a business lunch.

The Singapore Business Federationand the Hungarian Investment and TradeDevelopment Agency also signed aMemorandum of Understanding onTuesday, aiming to grow and deepenbilateral business and economic rela-tions. — MNA/Xinhua

Vietnam to import more sugar HANOI, 20 July —

Vietnam's Trade Ministryhas just allowed localfoodstuff producers toimport additional 30,000tons of sugar, partly dueto the country's thinnersugar supply.

Early last month, theministry allowed the firmsto import 57,000 tons ofsugar to make such prod-ucts as cakes, candies,milk and monosodiumglutamate, the VietnamSugarcane and Sugar As-sociation said on Tuesday.

Vietnam producedover one million tons ofsugar during the 2004-2005 sugarcane crop,which has just ended,down 10.7 per cent againstlast crop, due to prolongeddrought. During this crop,plants nationwide turnedout 902,000 tons of sugarin addition to 180,000 tonsfrom households.

Sugar prices in the localmarket currently stand ataround 50 US cents per kilo,up some 30 per cent againstearly this year, mainly dueto the lower sugarcane out-

put and speculation. As aresult, a large volume ofsugar is being smuggledinto Vietnam.

Vietnam's total areaunder sugarcane cultiva-tion was 287,000 hectaresin the previous crop whoseoutput stood at more than15.5 million tons ofsugarcane, according to thecountry's General Statis-tics Office.—MNA/Xinhua

US, Australia reject call for troop withdrawal timetable from Iraq WASHINGTON , 20 July — US President George W Bush and visiting Australian Prime Minister John

Howard rejected on Tuesday calls for an Iraq withdrawal timetable. Speaking to reporters after talks with Howard,

Bush said that the American troops will be in Iraq "aslong as necessary to complete the mission."

Bush said that US troops' mission in Iraq is reallyimportant. "We're laying the foundation for peace. Afree Iraq, a democratic Iraq in the heart of the MiddleEast is part of a vision that understands free societiesare peaceful societies."

Bush said that it does not make any sense to "tellthe enemy how long you're going to stay somewhere,"noting US troops will not leave Iraq until the Iraqis are

ready to do the fighting themselves. In his remarks,Howard also ruled out setting a timetable or withdraw-ing before Iraqi forces can ensure security and havebuilt the foundations of a democracy.

"I'm not going to try and put a time limit on ourcommitment in Iraq. I'm not," Howard said. "We willstay the distance in Iraq. We won't go until the job hasbeen finished. Australia, a staunch supporter of theUS-led war on terror, currently maintains around1,400 troops in and around Iraq. — MNA/Xinhua

US Marines with the 2nd Marine Division conduct a patrol during OperationGuardian Sword in the Iraqi town of Hit, about 150 km (90 miles) west of

Baghdad, in this military handout photo released on 19 July, 2005.—INTERNET

Souvenirs display for sale in Hong Kong Disneyland on 20 July, 2005.INTERNET


Nepal to allow man-powerfirms to open branches abroad

KATHMANDU , 20 July — The Nepali Government is working to allow man-power companies to open branches in countries like Malaysia, Qatar, theUnited Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

“The initiative for thebranch offices is to enableNepali companies to seekjob opportunities directly.It will help in monitoringthe numbers and their con-ditions,” Minister for La-bour and Transport Man-agement Ram NarayanSingh told reporters hereon Tuesday.

Presently, Nepalicompanies deal with thosecountries through brokers,who are mainly Indians andBangladeshis.

It would also mini-mize the possibility ofcheating and fraud whilesending Nepalis to work inthose countries, the minis-ter said.

He also said that thegovernment is also think-ing of developing commu-nication network in thosecountries to make remit-tances legal and safe.

The government isalso working to send la-bour attaches in countrieswhere a large number of

Nepalis are working, headded. The Finance Minis-try has even allocatedbudget for four labour at-taches abroad, he said.

According to officialdata, in each of the coun-tries like Malaysia, Qatar,the United Arab Emiratesand Saudi Arabia, morethan 100,000 Nepalis areworking.

About 12,540Nepalis went abroad to takeup jobs last month, the min-ister said. — MNA/Xinhua

India seeks civil society inputs forAIDS control plan

NEW DELHI , 20 July — India’s nodal AIDS control body, National AIDS Control Organization(NACO) on Tuesday launched an e-consultation to seek civil society groups’ opinion/suggestions on thenext phase of the national AIDS control policy (NACP).

The HIV prevalencerate in India at present issaid to be around 1 percent, and there arenearly 5.1 million peo-ple battling with thedeadly scourge in thecountry.

According to theUNAIDS India officials,the third phase of theNACP has to come intoforce from March 2006,and the suggestions/opi-nions of the civil society

groups would help themdesign the AIDS controlprogramme in a betterway.

“We have an oppor-tunity to develop a planthat in the next five yearswill effectively controland reverse the spread ofthe epidemic that touchesour lives in several ways.Over 950 Indian NGOsare already working withus in this fight. We needtheir input and experi-

ence to develop a planthat takes in considera-tion everyone’s voice andconcerns,” NACO ProjectDirector, SY Quraishi,said on Tuesday whilelaunching the pro-gramme.

This is the first timeIndia will be consultingthe whole civil society toinput into its nationalAIDS control policy.

The e-discussionwill be facilitated

through “Solution Ex-change”, an initiative ofthe United Nations Coun-try Team in India thatoffers a forum for com-munities of developmentpractitioners.

On request fromNACO, experts appointedby the Joint UnitedNations Programme onHIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)are moderating the dia-logue.

MNA/Xinhua

Vietnam to vaccinatechickens, ducks against

bird flu HANOI , 20 July — Vietnam will use over 400

million batches of vaccine to inoculate its chickensand ducks against the deadly bird flu that has killed40 people in the country, half of them sinceDecember.

Agriculture Deputy Minister Bui Ba Bong said ina plan seen by Reuters on Tuesday that the governmentwould use 415 million doses of Dutch and Chinesevaccines in a programme starting in two provincesfrom 1 August.

Other provinces facing high risk of infectionwould follow between 1 October and 10 November,before the arrival of the winter when the deadly virusseems to thrive best.

Vietnam has an estimated 210 million poultry. The Chinese vaccine against the H5N1 virus,

which international health officials fear could mutateinto a form which might trigger a human pandemic,would be used on ducks.A Dutch vaccine against theH5N2 virus, a less virulent strain which is not wide-spread in Vietnam, will be used on chickens.

“The vaccine against the H5N2 virus works wellagainst the H5N1 virus as it functions against the H5subtype,” Dau Ngoc Hao, deputy head of the Agricul-ture Ministry’s Animal Health Department, toldReuters.— MNA/Reuters

Jamaica opensembassy in

Beijing BEIJING, 20 July —

Jamaica, one of the Carib-bean nations, opened itsembassy in Beijing onMonday.

Jamaican Minister ofForeign Affairs and For-eign Trade KD Knight,Chinese Vice ForeignMinister Yang Jiechi, andambassadors from someother Caribbean nationswere present at the open-ing ceremony.

In his address to theopening ceremony,Knight said that since theestablishment of their dip-lomatic relations in 1972,China and Jamaica haveincreased their friendlyrelations steadily and keptgood coordination in eco-nomic and cultural fields.Jamaica is firmly commit-ted to the one-Chinapolicy. He expressed thehope to further enhancebilateral cooperation in thefields of trade, mining andtourism. — MNA/Xinhua

China, Japan, S Korea seekcooperation in youth exchanges

BEIJING , 20 July — Young leaders from China, Japan and South Koreagathered here on Monday to discuss trilateral cooperation between theNortheast Asian neighbours at a 11-day forum.

The titanium claw isslightly larger than a hu-man hand with the weightof less than one kilo. Itwill be attached to a ro-botic arm on Victor 6000,an unmanned submarinemade by Ifremer which,

with a reach down to6,000 metres, is one ofthe deepest divers everbuilt.

According to design-ers of the gripper, it isdesigned to retrieve evena pin by blind-gripping or

passive self-adaptive mo-tion, said Ng Tze-chuen, aprivate dentist who de-signed the claw with YungKai-leung, a PolytechnicUniversity engineeringprofessor.

MNA/Xinhua

The Future LeadersForum 2005: China-Japan-South Korea, aninitiative for youthexchanges among thethree nations, is co-spon-sored by the All-ChinaYouth Federation(ACYF), Japan Founda-tion and Korea Founda-tion. 14 delegates work-ing in the three countriespolitical, business andacademic sectors partici-

pated in the forum. Zhao Yaqiao, an of-

ficial with the ACYF, saidthe participants will carryout open discussions onvarious topics in North-east Asia so as to increasemutual understanding andtrust between the threecountries. “The forum isexpected to consolidatethe existing youth ex-change mechanism.”

Besides Beijing, the

participants will alsotravel to Gifu Prefecturein Japan and Gwangju inSouth Korea for a furtherexchange of views.

Along with their fast-growing trade coopera-tion, the three Asian na-tions also enjoy close linksin other fields. They areseeking diverse ways toenhance their interde-pendent relations.

MNA/Xinhua

HK robotic claw to help deep sea exploration HONG KONG, 20 July — A Hong Kong-designed robotic claw will be used

by Ifremer, a French oceanographic and environmental research agency, fordeep sea exploration, reported South China Morning Post on Monday.

A Chinese farmer uses pesticide on his farmland inthe suburb of Xi’an in northwest China’s Shaanxi

Province on 20 July, 2005.—INTERNET

An employee of Lumica Corporation displays the company’s ‘Glow Football’ at atoy show in Tokyo on 20 July, 2005. The ball, which has 24 built-in illuminators,

goes on sale in Japan on Wednesday for 2,800 yen ($24.80). — INTERNET


KUNMING , 21 July — China, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar,Singapore and Thailand gave tariff cuts to each other on 7,455 kinds ofcommodities as of Wednesday.

China, six ASEAN membersextend tariff cuts to each other

The practice waslaunched in compliancewith the Trade in GoodsAgreement of a Frame-work Agreement forOverall EconomicCoope-ration betweenChina and countries ofthe Association of South-East Asian Nations(ASEAN) signed lastNovember.

Experts believe thatimplementation of thetariff cut plan will enor-mously expand trade be-tween China andASEAN, and will be offar-reaching significancein the future developmentof Sino-ASEAN eco-nomic and trade rela-tions. Beginning fromWednesday, ChineseCustoms officers startedto levy and clear com-modities with certificatesof origin issued by or-ganizations authorized bythe governments of Bru-nei, Malaysia, Indonesia,Myanmar, Singapore andThailand according totariffs readjusted in ac-cordance with the Tradein Goods Agreement ofa Framework Agreementfor Overall EconomicCooperation betweenChina and ASEANcountries.

In Kunming, capi-tal of southwest China’sYunnan Province, 946trade companies have ap-plied for registering“Forme”, or the certifi-cate of origin.

The General Ad-ministration of Customshas opened a special of-fice in the Customs houseof Shenzhen, anothermajor port of importedcommodities fromASEAN in south China’sGuangdong Province, tospecialize in grantingcertificates of origin.

By 2010, Chinaand six old ASEANmember nations, includ-ing Brunei, Indonesia,Malaysia, Philippines,Singapore and Thailand,will impose zero tariffson most normal products,while China and the otherfour new ASEAN mem-bers of Cambodia, theLaos, Myanmar andVietnam will do thesame in 2015 when freetrade between China andASEAN nations will bemade possible.

The Sino-ASEANFree Trade Zone has apopulation of 1.7 billionand 2 trillion US dollarsin gross domestic pro-duct (GDP), plus 1.2 tril-

lion US dollars in tradeterms. It will become thethird largest global trad-ing region after the Eu-ropean Union and theNorth American FreeTrade Zone.

China has alreadysigned a zero-tariffagreement on fruits withThailand, in implementa-tion since last year.

China now mainlyimports from ASEANcountries electronic pro-ducts, crude and lique-fied petroleum and gasand vegetable oil, and ex-ports electronic and ma-chinery products, textilesand garments, processedoil and cereals toASEAN.

The trade volumebetween China andASEAN reached 105.9billion US dollars lastyear, a rise of 35 per centfrom a year ago.

ASEAN has beenChina’s fifth largest tradepartner for 12 consecu-tive years.

China’s importsfrom ASEAN went up by28 per cent on averagein the past five years,four percentage pointshigher than the growthrate for China’s globalimports. — MNA/Xinhua

BEIJING , 21 July — China’ Foreign Minister dismissed on Wednesdaya Pentagon report warning that its modernizing military could pose a threatto the region, and said its rise would be peaceful.

China dismisses USconcerns on military rise

The report reflectsconcern in Washingtonover China’s growingmilitary and economicpower, and in particularthe fear a changing bal-ance of power in Asiacould threaten Taiwan,the self-governed islandBeijing claims as its own.

“China, remember,will continue to pursue apath of peaceful develop-ment,” Foreign MinisterLi Zhaoxing said at asigning ceremony to es-tablish the offices of theInternational Committeeof the Red Cross inBeijing.

“China not onlyposes no threat to any-one, we also are willingto establish friendship andall kinds of win-win co-operation with othercountries to push forwardcooperative develop-ment,” Li said in responseto a question about thePentagon report.

The Pentagon re-port said Beijing’s mili-tary buildup had alreadybegun to change the re-gional balance of powerbut it also said its abilityto project conventionalpower was limited andChina did not have thecapability to re-take Tai-

wan by force. Beijing considers

Taiwan a part of China,and in March passed ananti-secession law author-izing it to use “non-peace-ful means” to bring it backinto the fold should theisland democracy of 23million move toward for-mal independence. TheTaiwan issue puts the USin a quandary, with Wash-ington having vowed todefend the island shouldChina attack it, but alsorecognizing Beijing asChina’s sole legitimategovernment.

Last week, a Chi-nese general was quotedas saying China was readyto use nuclear weaponsagainst the United Statesshould Washington attackover Taiwan, remarks the

US criticized as “irre-sponsible”.

China alsoshrugged off on Wednes-day an agreement earlierthis week in which Wa-shington promised Indiafull cooperation in devel-oping its civilian nuclearpower programme with-out demanding it sign thenuclear Non-ProliferationTreaty.

The agreement wasseen as a counterbalanceto China’s rise, but theForeign Ministry had lit-tle reaction.

“We hope the rele-vant cooperation betweenChina and India will ben-efit the safeguarding ofpeace and stability in theAsian region,” it said in astatement faxed toReuters.—MNA/Reuters

Popular Japanese cartoon character ‘Doraemon’flies in front of an employee of Taiyo Kogyo at a toyshow in Tokyo on 20 July, 2005. The radio control-led helicopter toy goes on sale in Japan on Saturday

for 5,480 yen ($ 48.50) — INTERNET

MOSCOW, 21 July — Two astronauts briefly left the International SpaceStation unmanned on Tuesday to re-dock their transport vessel so it wouldnot hamper a spacewalk next month, mission control said.

World faces massive increasein CO2 emissions

PARIS, 21 July — The world faces a massiveincrease in carbon dioxide emissions due to popula-tion growth and the failure of wealthy countries toreduce greenhouse gases.

Tim Dyson, professor of population studies at theLondon School of Economics, said on Tuesday at thestart of the four-day 25th International PopulationCongress, which will last to 23 July in the Frenchcentral city of Tours, “We’re on a toboggan and we’vegone over the edge.”

“It (global warming) will screw everyone up, nomatter where you are,” he said at the conferencegrouping 2,000 demographers, economists, geogra-phers and sociologists from 110 countries.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC), world scientific authority on global warming,predicted in its 2001 report that rising levels of green-house gases like carbon dioxide will increase tempera-tures by between 1.4 degrees and 5.8 degrees Celsiusby the end of the century and sea levels by between 9and 88 centimetres. — MNA/Xinhua

Astronauts re-dock Russiancraft before spacewalk

Russian cosmonautSergei Krikalyov and USastronaut John Phillipsneeded two attempts toclose the hatch betweenthe Soyuz craft and thespace station, taking afew minutes longer thanscheduled at the start of

the procedure. A mission control

spokesman said the ma-noeuvre had neverthelessbeen completed in 30 min-utes rather than the ex-pected 40.“They re-dockedquicker than expected,” thespokesman said.

The pair, stationedin orbit since April, flewthe vehicle and re-dockedit in a different sectionof the station so that itwould not hinder accessfor a spacewalk sched-uled for August.

MNA/Reuters

LONDON,21 July—London’s Tube networkhas been plunged intochaos with stations clearedafter minor blasts on twotrains and a bus.

Met Police chief SirIan Blair said three Tubelines were suspended butit was time London re-turned to normal. The mi-nor explosions - twoweeks after blasts killed56 - involved detonatorsonly, a BBC reporter said.There was one injury.

Police sources say theblasts may have been nearsimultaneous and that theyare being linked with the 7July bombs.

London blasts cause chaos on TubeThey say a number of

fugitives are being sought.Two people have been ar-rested in Whitehall.

Eyewitnesses heardbangs and saw abandonedrucksacks at the sites ofthe incidents at WarrenStreet and Oval tube sta-tions as well as the number26 bus in Bethnal Green.

There was an attemptto cause an explosion atShepherd’s Bush Ham-mersmith and City line,police said.

At Warren Street andOval a man was seen run-ning away from the scene.

On the bus, there wereno injuries and the bus suf-

fered no structural dam-age. Large areas aroundall four sites were cor-doned off. Tests forchemical, biological andradiological weaponsproved negative.

One person was in-jured at Warren Street.There were reports the in-jured person may havebeen holding a rucksackcontaining the detonator.

The BBC’s AndrewWinstanley said deviceshad been found but ap-peared to have been dum-mies, containing no ex-plosives.

Police said armed of-ficers were deployed to

University College Hos-pital after an incident. Alarge area was cordonedoff.

The hospital has notreceived any casualties orbeen alerted to casualties.

The whole of theNorthern Line has beensuspended, along with theVictoria Line and theHammersmith and Cityline.

A number of otherstations were closed dur-ing the alert, includingGreat Portland Street,Westminster, Waterloo, StPaul’s and Oxford Circustube stations, as well asWaterloo tube station andKing’s Cross Thameslink.

There were also alertsat Wood Lane in Shep-herd’s Bush, around StPaul’s and, outside Lon-don, at St Albans station.

London Undergroundwent to an amber alert withtrains taken to the nextstation and evacuated.

An eyewitness at Ovalstation said there had beena small bang, and a manhad then run off when theTube reached the station.

INTERNET


Waso robes, provisions offered tomembers of the Sangha

YANGON, 21 July — A ceremony to offer Wasorobes and provisions to members of Sangha atYadanabodhi Sarthintaik, East Ywama Ward, InseinTownship, Yangon North District yesterday after-noon.

Present on the occasion were AdministratorSayadaw of Yadanabohdi Sarthintaik BhaddantaÑanrikabodhi, members of the Sangha, Secretary-General of Union Solidarity and Development Asso-ciation Minister for Agriculture Maj-Gen Htay Oo,executives of district and township USDAs andmembers and townselders.

First, the congregation received the Five Pre-

cepts from Bhaddanta Ñanikabodhi. Next, Secre-tary-General Maj-Gen Htay Oo and wife offeredWaso robes and provisions to the Sayadaw and mem-bers of the Sangha.

Afterwards, the congregation shared meritsgained following a sermon delivered by the Sayadaw.

After the ceremony, Maj-Gen Htay Oo encour-aged members of USDA and townsdwellers partici-pating in digging drain on both sides of KanUmonstery’s 1470 feet long road, repair of road andrebuilding of KanU Pariyatti Sarthintaik and madearrangements to fulfil the requirements.

MNA

Hands off!* He who loves me, more than I do

with bigger love, who could that beWell, tell me.

* My body’s heat and coldThe difference, more than I doWho can feel it, who could that beWell, tell me.

* In my feelings, the happinessAnd sadness felt, who could that beWhat kind of person, knows my feelingsWho knows more than me, could there beWell, tell me.

* In my matters, with much interestOne who’s arguing, right or wrongWhat kind of person, can match meTaking interest in what I’m doingWell, tell me.

* In my affair, with keen interestIn all matters, only when I assertWhen I do it by myself, all isFulfilled, that’s a fact.

* So, hands offYou Western media.

* No such goodwill, as on MyanmarNo one better, specialCan exist, none can.

* Know it you, that Myanmar’s wellbeingCan be served, by Myanmar only.

Po Wa (Trs)

Poem

Art show to mark 30th Anniversary Diplomatic…(from page 1)

Minister for CultureMaj-Gen Kyi Aung deliv-ered an address, sayingthat today’s Myanmar-Korean Contemporary ArtShow commemorates the30th Anniversary of Dip-lomatic Relations betweenthe Union of Myanmar andthe Republic of Korea.

At the same time, theart show presents classi-cal and modern works ofKorean and Myanmar art-ists with their differentviews based on Easternculture. The enthusiastscan enjoy pleasure andpeaceful essence from theworks of Myanmar andKorean artists at the artshow.

In his greetings, ROKAmbassador Mr Lee Ju-Heum said that Myanmarfriends will have the op-portunity to enjoy onemore aspect of Koreanculture at the works of thecontemporary art showlike the presentation ofKorean TV and drama se-ries.

Next, Chairman ChaYoung Kyu of the Inter-national Arts ExchangeAssociation of ROK ex-tended greetings.

Deputy Minister forCulture Brig-Gen Soe WinMaung, ROK Ambassa-dor Mr Lee Ju-Heum,Chairman Cha YoungKyu of the InternationalArts Exchange Associa-tion of ROK, Chairman ofMyanmar Traditional Art-ists and Artisans Asiayon

U Thaung Han and Chair-man of the Korean Asso-ciation Mr Kim ManYoung formally openedthe art show.

Next, the ministers,the deputy ministers andguests viewed round theworks of the show.

Minister Maj-GenKyi Aung presented a bou-quet to the chairman andparty of the InternationalArts Exchange Associa-tion of ROK.

The Korean Ambas-sador gave away gifts tothe Myanmar artists. Next,the ministers, the deputyministers and guests posedfor documentary photos.

Altogether 23 worksof Myanmar artists and52 of the Korean artistsare displayed at the artshow that will be keptopen from 10 am to 4 pmup to 27 July. Admissionis free.

MNA

Minister for Culture Maj-Gen Kyi Aung, Minister for Foreign Affairs U NyanWin and guests view round works at the art show.—˚MNA

Timorese minister arrives

YANGON, 21 July — Dr Jose Ramos Horta,Senior Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs andCooperation of the Democratic Republic of TimorLeste arrived here by air at 9 am today.

The Timor Leste Minister was welcomed at theairport by Deputy Minister for Foreign AffairsU Maung Myint and responsible officials of the Minis-try of Foreign Affairs. The Timor Leste MinisterDr Jose Ramos Horta was accompanied by Rev ArlindoMarcal, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryof Timor Leste in Jakarta, Mr Nelson Santos, SecretaryGeneral for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and MrJuvencio de Jesus Martins, Director of Regional AffairsDirectorate of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Demo-cratic Republic of Timor Leste. — MNA

Fire Services Department holdscoordination meeting

YANGON, 21 July —Work coordination meetingof the Fire Services Department under the Ministryof Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement was heldthis morning at the ministry here.

It was attended by SWRR Minister Maj-Gen SeinHtwa, Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Myint, the

director-general and deputy directors of the depart-ment and officials. At the meeting, principal of theCentral Training School of the department and headsof the state/division Fire Services Departments re-ported on tasks being undertaken. The meeting willcontinue tomorrow. — MNA

Veterans provided with cashin Mingala Taungnyunt Township

YANGON, 21 July — War veterans in MingalaTaungnyunt Township on 17 July received cash assist-ance provided by the Central Organizing Committeeof the Myanmar War Veterans Organization at MWVOConference-2005.

Chairman of the township WVO and officialspresented cash to 21 war veterans aged over 75, onedisabled veteran and three students of the townshipWVO members at the cash presentation ceremonyheld at the township WVO office on 17 July.Minister for SWRR Maj-Gen Sein Htwa addresses coordination meeting of Fire Services Department.

MNA

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs U Maung Myintwelcomes Senior Minister and Minister for ForeignAffairs and Cooperation Dr Jose Ramos Horta of

Timor.— MNA

MNA


Waso robes offeringceremony held in

Kyaikhtiyoe PagodaYANGON, 21 July — Families of Kyaikhtiyoe Hill

Missionary in Thakayta Township, Yangon Divisionheld the 28th Waso robes offering ceremony on theplatform of Kyaikhtiyoe Pagoda, Kyaikhtiyoe Town-ship, Mon State on 19 July.

Present on the occasion were Chairman ofKyaikhtiyoe Hilly Missionary Sayadaw BhaddantaNandiya and members of the Sangha, members ofpagoda board of trustees and wellwishers totalingover 2,000.

First, the congregation received the FivePrecepts from Sayadaw Bhaddanta Nandiya.

Next, wellwishers offered Waso robes to Sayadawand members of the Sangha and the congregationshared merits gained.

Today’s donations were : K 3 million by U TinHlaing and Daw Yin Yin, provisions and K 300,000by U Tin Sein and Daw Myint Myint San, K 500,000by Daw Kyi on behalf of Waso families, K 200,000by U Hant Khin, a generator worth K 300,000 by UTin Hlaing and Daw Yin Yin, a generator worth K300,000 by Daw Hla Kyi and Daw Phyu, K 300,000by U Lan Kon and Daw Khin Ti, 108 rice bagsworth K 900,000 by Aungthiri Rice Trading and K250,000 by U Hsan Win and Daw Than Myint.

MNATalks on health for women given

Commander, Mayor inspect taskto beautify Yangon

YANGON, 21 July —Chairman of YangonDivision Peace and De-velopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Maj-GenMyint Swe and Chair-man of Yangon City De-velopment CommitteeMayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin inspected thetask to beautify Yangoncity this morning.

First the commanderand the mayor observedthe tarring of the StrandRoad in KyimyindineTownship and theBayintnaung Road inHline Township.

They then inspectedthe work to ensureproper drainage systemin Hline, Mayangon andNorth Okkalapa town-ships in the city.

The commanderand the mayor madearrangements for open-ing the Kyaukyedwinrailway overpass linkingNorth Okkalapa andMingaladon townships

soonest. The projecthas already beencompleted

Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe andMayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin urged offi-

cials to organizethe social organizationsand the people totake part in the task tobeautify and upgradeYangon City.

MNA

YANGON, 21 July —Organized by MyanmarMaternal and Child Wel-fare Association, talks onhealth were given atMyanmar YES garment

factory in Hlinethaya In-dustrial Zone this morn-ing. Present on the occa-sion were CEC membersof MMCWA, officialsfrom Yangon Division

Health Department, localauthorities, social organi-zations and workwomen.

First, health groupleader Daw Nila Thaw,CEC member of

MMCWA made an open-ing speech.

The health profes-sionals then gave talks onhealth for women and theceremony ended.— MNA

Sayadaw BhaddantaVijaya passes away

YANGON, 21 July—The Religious Affairs Depart-ment today announced that State Ovadacariya Presid-ing Nayaka of Shweyayhsaung Monastery in YekyiTownship, Pathein District, Ayeyawady Division,Sayadaw Bhaddanta Vijaya (Agga Maha Pandita),aged 91, vasa 70, passed away at 11.45 am on FullMoon Day of Waso 1367 ME (20-7-2005). — MNA

Trainees of BasicBuddhist Cultural Course

observe Dhammacakka AkhadawYANGON, 20 July —

The second year traineesof Basic Buddhist CulturalCourse led by InstructorAgga Maha SaddhammaJotikadhaja BhaddantaPaññasami (Magadi-Thazi) observed theDhammaçakka Akhadawon Fullmoon Day of Wasoon Maha Ordination Hallon Kaba Aye Hill, here,yesterday morning.

All the trainees ledby master of ceremoniestrainee Ma Aye Aye Aungopened the ceremony byreciting Namo tassa threetimes. Next, trainees MaSein Sein Win and MaTheint Theint Thu recitedthe religious verse. Thetrainees offered Wasoflowers, water and oillights to the Buddha Im-age.

Wellwishers do-nated Waso robes andalms to SayadawBhaddanta Paññasami(Magadi-Thazi).

The trainees led bytrainee Ma Soe SoeKhaing read out factsabout the Dhammaçakka

Akhadaw on FullmoonDay of Waso. Trainees MaThinza Hein and Ma WinWin Swe presented mat-ters related to Desanas ofLord Buddha. TraineesMa Htar Htar Win and MaNwe Nwe Win analyzedsocial energy andDhamma energy. MaTheint Theint Thu and MaMyint Thida Khaing re-cited DhammaçakkaSutta. Next, the traineesrecited DhammaçakkaDesana in Pali andMyanmar versions. Therecitation of trainees MaAye Aye Tint and Ma MoeSanda Myint and otherson religious verses fol-lowed.

Later, they sharedmerits gained and recitedBuddha Sasanam ÇiramTitthatu three times. Afterthe ceremony, ThihaThudhamma Manijo-tadhara Thiri ThudhammaManijotadhara DuyintheeU Soe Myint-Daw KhinMar Yi donated bookletson Dhammaçakka Sutta inMyanmar language tothose present. — MNA

Factories in Magway Division inspected

Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe and Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin inspectrepaving Bayintnaung Road in Hline Township. —YANGON COMMAND

Health Working Group Leader Daw Nilar Thaw of MMCWA speaking at the health educational talks. MNA

YANGON, 21 July —Deputy Minister for In-dustry-1 Brig-Gen TheinTun together with offi-cials, inspected the sitechosen for constructionof horse and sheep breed-ing project of MyanmaPharmatical Industriesnear Yanpe village inTaungdwingyi Township,Magway Division on 17July afternoon and gaveinstructions to the offi-cials.

Afterwards, thedeputy minister and partyarrived at cereal foodstufffactory project andlooked into the progressof constructing the build-ings and installation ofmachines for the factory.

On arrival at textilefactory (Pwintbyu) in theevening, the deputy min-ister met with officialsand heard reports on thematters related to theconstruction tasks of thefactory, getting the rawmaterials to run the fac-tory, producing finishedproducts and running ofmachines. Next, thedeputy minister left in-structions.

On 18 July morning,the deputy minister over-saw the progress of con-structing Hyacinth Lakefor textile factory(Pwintbyu) and produc-ing the products.

Later, the deputyminister went to Seikpyu

Winthuza shop andSalingyi Winthuza shop,and attended to theneeds.

At Salingyi Textilefactory project, he heardthe report by the officials

on constructing the build-ings and test run of ma-chines and gave instruc-tions on the early com-pletion of the factory tobe able to put it into serv-ice. — MNA

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A breathtaking view of Tarkaw-Kengtung Road and highland crops plantations.

I’m happyif the roadI’m takingis fine. Ithank thegovern-

ment verymuch forits up-

gradingthe road.(U Soe

Oo,driver)

This roadsection

will makesignificantcontribu-

tiontowards

promotionof the

educationof us

youths.(Ma Nan

YoneKham)

An aerial

view of

Tarkaw-

Kengtung

Road

snaking its

way

through

forests

and

moun-

tains.

DevelopingKengtung, capital…

(from page 16)The section,

which is part ofMeikt i la -Taunggyi-Kengtung-Tachilek Un-ion Highway, occupies79 miles in MongpyinTownship and 35 milesin Kengtung Townshipin Shan State (East), to-talling 114 miles.

The 12-foot-widetar road was upgradedfrom a gravel road inthe past. To completethat section, 170 smallbridges and rock-filledretaining wall anddrains stretching 10,500feet had to be built.

In an interview,Ma Nan Yone Kham, alocal resident ofMongpyin, said, “Now,I’ve enjoyed a goldenopportunity to joinKengtung Degree Col-

lege. I’m very pleasedwith the development of

our region. Previously,we local people had tospend a lot of time andenergy to travel toKengtung fromMongpyin due to poortransport. And Taung-gyi-Kengtung sectionwas a poor facility in thepast. Some of its partswere rather narrow andsome parts were oftenblocked with sand dueto erosion of the sidesof sand hills. So, wecould not get to our des-tinations easily. But,Tarkaw-Kengtung tarroad has been completedand we can now go toKengtung fromMongpyin with peace ofmind at any time. I’m astudent of Kengtung De-gree College. This roadsection will make sig-nificant contribution to-

Now both youthsand adults are veryhappy with the fine fa-cility”.

Asked about thefacility, U Soe Oo, driverof a ten-wheel truck whowas waiting for the com-pletion of the road sec-tion opening ceremony,said, “I’m a driver, soI’m happy if the roadI’m taking is fine. In thepast, we often found itdifficult to transportgoods from Kengtung toTaunggyi because manyparts of the road wereburied with sand fromsand hills, and in therainy season, sometimeswe even could not find aplace to park to stop overthe night.

“We drivers had alot of difficulties in driv-ing along the road cov-

ered with sand and wa-ter. Sometimes, we hadto stay on the road forfour or five days withwhatever we had. Previ-ously, the road was fullof potholes, and at thattime, the breakdown ofa truck blocked the oth-ers following it. And ifa truck had a flat tyre,the truck in opposite di-rection could not haveenough room to pass bythe truck with flat tyre.At such times, we driv-ers had to eat what wefound in the forest andstay with whatever wehad until the truck thatbroke down had been re-paired.

“Now, the road is12 feet wide and is a tarone, so it is convenientfor us to drive. Besides,there is the drain alongthe road and it preventsdamage of the road to anextent. I’d say I thankthe government verymuch for its upgrading

With fine facilities such as the 200-bed hospital,Kengtung Degree College, Government Computer Col-lege and Government Technical Institute, Kengtung hasbeen developed from a town to the capital city on theeast bank of Thanlwin River. Besides, it has also beenfacilitated with an airport that can be used by jets topossess characteristics of a major city.

the road.”After the inter-

view, about ten trucksincluding the one drivenby U Soe Oo headed forTaunggyi.

No doubt, all thewitnesses felt deeplypleased with that fruitfulresult from the govern-ment’s drive for ensur-ing secure and smoothtransport as a major taskto effectively reduce thedevelopment gap be-

tween hill regions andthe plains.

Public Worksfaced and overcame anumber of difficulties in

upgrading Tarkaw-Kengtung section, a hillroad. It also had to useheavy machinery to levelsteep hills, deep smallvalleys and detour partsin reconstructing the fa-cility.

The governmenthas been carrying outtasks with added mo-mentum for the develop-ment of Shan State(East) that consists offour districts and 11townships.

Local people cantravel to the plains at anytime thanks to the emer-gence of the UnionHighway and the newly-reconstructed road.

With fine facilities

such as the 200-bedhospital, Kengtung De-gree College, Govern-ment Computer Collegeand Government Tech-

nical Institute,Kengtung has been de-veloped from a town tothe capital city on theeast bank of ThanlwinRiver.

Besides, it hasalso been facilitated

with an airport that canbe used by jets to pos-sess characteristics of amajor city.

On my wayhome, I was captivatedby an aerial view ofKengtung developingwith Naungton Lakeand modern buildingsthat reflect the rapiddevelopment ofMyanmar.

Translation: MS********

wards promotion of theeducation of us youths.


TOKYO , 21 July — Honda Motor Co plans to expand its global auto-mobile sales to 4 million units in fiscal 2007 from 3.24 million in fiscal 2004which ended in March, the company said on Wednesday.

Honda to increase vehicle sales to 4 million units

Honda will intro-duce new models in ma-jor markets, including theUnited States where ve-hicle sales have been ro-bust, as well as Chinawhere demand is ex-pected to grow, Honda’sPresident Takeo Fukuitold a news conference.

The new modelsinclude the remodelledCivic that will debut thisfall, he said. In Japan

where auto sales have lev-elled off, Honda will en-hance its marketing effortsto achieve a sales increase,the president said.

With an expansionin motorcycle and powergenerator sales as well asan increase in automobilesales, Fukui said, Hondaplans to boost its consoli-dated sales to more than10 trillion yen (89 billionUS dollars) in fiscal 2007

from 8.65 trillion yen (77billion dollars) in fiscal2004. Fukui also saidHonda will improve fuelefficiency in order tocontribute to slowingglobal warming. In thisrespect, Honda plans tolaunch a fuel cell motor-cycle model for lease by2009, based on the fuelcell stack technology de-veloped for automobiles,he said. — MNA/Xinhua

BEIJING , 21 July — China’s gross domestic product (GDP) for the firsthalf of this year reached 6,742.2 billion yuan (812.3 billion US dollars), ayear-on-year increase of 9.5 per cent.

China’s GDP grows 9.5% in first half year

“It was 0.2 percentagepoints lower than thegrowth rate for the sameperiod of last year,” saidZheng Jingping, spokes-man of the National Bu-reau of Statistics, at aPress conference here onWednesday.

In the first half of thisyear, regions and depart-ments at all levels madeall efforts in implement-

ing the scientific ap-proach to developmentand various policies setby the central authoritieson economic work, withthe aim to consolidate theachievements brought bymacro-control, he said.

“As a result, fairlygood overall economicperformance was re-corded in the first half ofthis year”.

In breakdown, the pri-mary industry reported avalue added of 670.7 bil-lion yuan, up 5.0 percent; the secondary in-dustry, 3,963.5 billionyuan, up by 11.2 per cent;and the tertiary industry,2,108.0 billion yuan, upby 7.8 per cent, accord-ing to the National Bu-reau of Statistics.

MNA/Xinhua

DHAKA , 21 July — In view of a record trade deficit, the government ofBangladesh has taken a move to restructure the Commerce Ministry bycreating a new office of Director General of Foreign Trade and increasingthe number of officials in the trade cadre.

Dhaka takes move to reducemounting trade deficit

The country’s exter-nal trade balance hascome under growing con-straints during the 10months of the last fiscal(July 2004 -June 2005) asexport earnings fellsharply compared to arise in import payments,The Independent reportedon Wednesday.

Exports grew 15.37per cent to 6.9 billion USdollars between July2004 and April 2005while imports went up26.74 per cent to 9.78billion dollars in the sameperiod.

Bangladesh lost sub-stantive export orderswhen the business proce-dure and banking havealso come under growing

constraints, causing a netloss to the country’s ex-ports.

On the other hand, arise in oil price in theinternational market hascaused a rise in the gov-ernment’s import bills forcrude oils. It is also forc-ing importers to pay highprices for capital machin-ery and intermediarygoods for industrial units.

According to tradefigures released by Bang-ladesh Bank, the centralbank of the country, andthe Export PromotionBureau, the trade deficitreached a record 2.88billion dollars in the first10 months of the 2004 -2005 fiscal, while thedeficit in the correspond-

ing period of the 2003 -2004 fiscal was 1.74 bil-lion dollars.

In the last fiscal year,the trade gap widened by37.5 per cent during the10 months period overthe same period in theprevious fiscal.

The foreign ex-change reserves dip be-low the 3 billion dollarsmark with the AsianClearing Union paymentof 350 million dollarsdue last week. In thisperspective the Ministryof Commerce has initi-ated to reorganize its of-fices instituting the officeof Director General ofForeign Trade aiming toboost export income.

MNA/Xinhua

KABUL , 21 July — Afghanistan has destroyed 60 tonnes of illegal drugs witha street value of hundreds of millions of dollars in the past two weeks in a bid toavoid becoming a narco-state, an official said on Wednesday.

Afghan Govt burns 60 tons of drugs

Confiscated caches ofhashish, opium, morphineand heroin were burnedafter being seized from traf-fickers trying to smugglethem outside Afghanistan,Interior Ministry spokes-man Lutfullah Mashal said.

In total, 60 tonnes ofdrugs have been destroyed.It is a historical move glo-bally in terms of the shortperiod of time in which thedestruction took place,”Mashal told Reuters.

Afghanistan is theworld’s leading producerof heroin, and the narcot-ics trade dominates theeconomy, accounting for60 per cent of gross do-mestic product, accordingto estimates by the UnitedNations. President HamidKarzai said this month thatdrugs posed a greater risk

to Afghanistan than ter-rorism, and that the worldwould turn its back onAfghans if they failed tocurb the trade. The gov-ernment has admitted thatsome senior officials arethought to be involved inthe drugs trade.

Officials say the areaunder cultivation ofopium-producing poppy— the raw material forheroin and morphine —has fallen since last year asa result of a foreign-backedcrackdown, but goodgrowing weather couldlimit the size of any fall inoutput.

Encouraged by West-ern countries, Karzai hasvowed a “holy war” on pro-duction of opium, whichsoared to record levels af-ter the overthrow of theTaleban in late 2001. Wash-ington has earmarked 700million US dollars for thecampaign against drugswhile Britain is putting up100 million US dollars andseeking 300 million US dol-lars more from other coun-tries.

But with an estimated10 per cent of Afghansdependent on opium pro-duction, the governmentfears that rapid eradicationcould worsen security insouthern and eastern areaswhere poppy is mostlygrown and where militantsare most active.

MNA/Reuters

Vietnam eyes bigger seafoodexport in next 5 years

HANOI, 21 July — Vietnam has targeted seafoodexport turnovers of 16.1 billion US dollars between2006 and 2010, up 46.3 per cent over the 2001-2005period, the Fishery Ministry said on Wednesday.

To reach the target, the country is enhancing thecapacity of forecasting seafood prices and demandof export markets, penetrate into the Middle East,East Europe, Africa and South America, while boost-ing export to traditional markets such as the UnitedStates, the European Union, Japan and China.

It is also promoting trademarks of its key sea-food products, including shrimp, catfish and tuna,and helping more local enterprises and farmers tomeet strict hygiene and safety standards set by im-porters. Vietnam eyes seafood production of morethan 18.7 million tons from 2006 to 2010, up fromover 14.3 million tons in the 2001-2005 period.

Vietnam, which earned nearly 1.1 billion dollarsfrom supplying seafood to the world market in thefirst half of this year, posting a year-on-year rise of9.3 per cent, has targeted to make seafood revenueof 2.6 billion dollars in 2005. — MNA/Xinhua

Vietnam builds13 industrial parksin first half of ’05 HANOI , 21 July — Vietnam started construc-

tion of 13 industrial parks (IPs) in the first halfof this year, raising the total number to 123, ac-cording to the country’s Ministry of Planning andInvestment on Wednesday.

Of the 123 IPs withcombined land area of25,156 hectares, 71 areoperating with averageoccupancy rate of nearly60 per cent, and 52 oth-ers are under construc-tion.

IPs attracted 131foreign-invested projectsworth 450 million USdollars or nearly 30 percent of the total regis-tered capital of foreign-invested projects li-censed in the first sixmonths of this year.

In the period, the IPssaw 169 operational for-eign-invested projects in-crease their capital by469 million dollars, ac-counting for 55 per centof additional capital offoreign-invested projectsnationwide.

Meanwhile, theymade combined rev-enues of 4 billion dol-lars, including exportturnovers of more than2 billion dollars.

Vietnam plans tobuild additional 101 IPs,

and expand 27 existingones from now to 2010.The proportion of pro-duction value of IPs inthe country’s total indus-trial production will in-crease to 35 per cent in2010 from current 26.4per cent, and that of theirexport turnovers in thecountry’s total to 32 percent from 18.8 per cent,respectively, the ministrysaid.

IPs have so farhoused over 1,500 for-eign-invested projectswith total registeredcapital of more than 12billion dollars, and over1,600 domestic projectstotalling 80 trillion Vi-etnamese dong (nearly5.1 billion dollars).

Last year, IPs na-tionwide with totalworkforce of 700,000posted industrial produc-tion of more than 11 bil-lion dollars, and exportrevenues of 5 billiondollars, the ministrynoted.

MNA/Xinhua

Chinese park greeters dance at Hong Kong Disneyland on 20 July , 2005. The $3.6billion entertainment theme park, to be opened on 12 September , 2005, is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors from Mainland China. — INTERNET


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

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Spaniard tells of escape from“giant wave” of fire

World population

growth slowsPARIS, 20 July —

World population growthis slowing due to impres-sive drops in fertility ratesin Asia and Latin America,but Africa remains the ex-ception, according to lo-cal reports on Tuesday.

Jean Pierre Guengantof the French Institute forResearch and Develop-ment said on Tuesday thatbetween 1960 to 1965 and2000 to 2005, fertility ratesdeclined in Latin Americafrom six children for onewoman to 2.9, and in Asiafrom 5.6 to 2.2 childrenfor one mother.

But in Africa, the ratefell only from 6.9 to 5.0,said the French expert onthe second day of the 25thInternational PopulationCongress that will last to23 July in the French cen-tral city of Tours.

"In Asia, a strongcommitment to familyplanning programmes isthe main reason behind thesuccess of many countriesto achieve high levels ofcontraception," he said.

However in Africa,population rates are faston the rise, withpopulations expected totriple by 2050 in a numberof countries, includingBurkina Faso, Burundi,Chad, Congo, the Demo-cratic Republic of Congo,Ethiopia and Uganda.

Niger has the highestfertility rate in the worldwith eight children bornfor each woman followedby Mali at 7.1, the Demo-cratic Republic of Congoat 6.7 and Burkina Faso at6.2.

The world's popula-tion of 6.5 billion peopleis expected to reach 9.1billion in the next fiftyyears, but its annual rateof growth has slowed froma 2 per cent annual increasein 1960 to 1.2 per centtoday.

MNA/Xinhua

India to be next world giant to facebaby-boom

Ex-FBI agent sentenced as China spy case closesLOS ANGELES, 20 July

— A former FBI agentwho failed to tell his supe-riors about an affair withan informant later arrestedas a double agent for Chinawas sentenced on Mon-day to three months' homeconfinement.

The sentencing ofJames J Smith was a low-key conclusion to a casethat started as a high-pro-file prosecution of a sup-posed spy and ended withthe dismissal of all charges

against the main defen-dant.

Smith pleaded guiltyin May to lying to the FBIabout his adulterous 18-year affair with FBI in-formant Katrina Leung.Leung, who was knownas "Parlour Maid", wasarrested in 2003. Prosecu-tors portrayed her as adouble agent for China,but she was ultimatelycharged only with taking

classified documents fromSmith.

The charges againstLeung were thrown out inJanuary by a federal judgewho cited "willful anddeliberate misconduct" byprosecutors. Prosecutorsbarred Smith from talkingto defence lawyers, de-priving Leung of a criticaldefence witness.

The news of Leung'sarrest and lengthy affair

caused a sensation in LosAngeles, where she was aprominent business-woman, society hostessand political activist.

Smith, who workedfor the FBI for almost 20years, was also ordered toperform 100 hours of com-munity service. His sen-tence was lighter than thetwo months in prison re-quested by federal pro-secutors. — MNA/Reuters

PARIS, 20 July — Ex-perts gathering in theFrench city of Tours forthe 25th InternationalPopulation Congress saidon Tuesday that India isfacing up to baby-boom.

India will be world'sbiggest country in popu-lation in 2050, with apopulation of 1.628 bil-

lion habitants, comparedwith today's 1.104 billion,said the International Un-ion for scientific study ofthe population.

"There's in India ademographic impetus,with 2.8 children perwoman, while China willhave less than two perwoman," said Christophe

Guilmoto, executive di-rector of the internationalcommittee in national re-search on demography.

India has however arapid decrease of birth-rate, lower infant mortal-ity, and at the same time alonger longevity, expertssaid.

MNA/Xinhua

MADRID, 20 July — ASpanish firefighter whosaw 11 colleagues die bat-tling a forest fire told onTuesday how they wereovertaken by a "giantwave" of flame headingstraight towards them atfurious speed.

Jesus Abad, the onlysurvivor of 12 firefighterstrapped on Sunday ina remote area ofGuadalajara Province, 90miles east of Madrid, es-caped with burned armsand broken ribs by shel-tering under a water truckthat had water pouring outof it, his wife told thenewspaper El Pais.

In his own first ac-count, Abad told Spanishtelevision: "The hurricaneof fire was very big. I thinkit saw us and said 'You'remine'. Because it came

from a very long way off." "The next time we

turned our heads, theflames were leaping out atus and we got in the vehi-cles to get away ... but itdidn't give us time and itcaught us. As if it were agiant wave, but of fire."

Blinded by smoke,Abad said he had driveninto a gully. He jumpedout of the window andcrawled under a watertruck that was standing onthe road.

After the fire passedhe saw that his compan-ions had all burned todeath. Abad was rescuedby a helicopter and is nowrecovering in hospital.

"You have no oxygen,you see yourself burning,you see yourself ... dead,"he said. "The will to livesaved me, because I think

we all have courage." The fire scorched up

to 13,000 hectares (32,000acres) of forest and brush.By Tuesday, it was con-tained and close to beingbrought under controlthanks to an 80-metre widefire break, eight timeswider than usual, officialssaid.

Police were question-ing a group of day-trip-pers who told them theyhad lit a barbecue on Sat-urday in the area, whichhad been turned into a tin-der box by Spain's worstdrought since the 1940s.

Causing a fatal firecan be punished in Spainwith up to 20 years in jail.

The government saysSpain has around 20,000forest fires a year, 90 percent of them started bypeople. — MNA/Reuters

A Chinese vendor and buyer weigh a basket of vegetables at a wholesale marketin Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, on 20 July, 2005.�— INTERNET


Antiviral drug supresses deadly H5N1avian flu in animal tests

LOS ANGELES, 20 July—An antiviral drug currently used against annual influenza strains has in miceexperiments suppressed the deadly avian flu virus H5N1, US scientists reported on Monday.

This study, the firstpublished one conducted onoseltamivir against theH5N1 influenza straincirculating in Vietnam,found that the drugcommercially labelled asTamiflu can dramaticallyboost the survival rate ofinfected mice. Theresearchers at St JudeChildren’s ResearchHospital have published thepaper online in the Journalof Infectious Diseases.

The H5N1 virus strain,which spread from birds tohumans, has killed dozensof people in Vietnam,

Cambodia, Thailand, andIndonesia since early 2004.Public health experts fearthat the avian flu virus coulddevelop the ability to spreadeasily from person to personand kill millions in a deadlyflu pandemic.

In this study, theresearch team gave one ofthree possible daily dosagelevels of oseltamivir or aplacebo to mice infectedwith H5N1 influenza virus.The highest dosage level,adjusted for weight, wasequivalent to the dosecurrently recommendedfor humans sick with the

flu.Although the re-com-

mended human dose ofoseltamivir is taken for fivedays, the researchers alsotested an extended eight-day course in half of themice. Oseltamivirdecreases the ability ofinfluenza virus to spreadfrom infected cells touninfected cells byinhibiting neuraminidase,which is an influenzaprotein required for thevirus to exit infectedcells.

Of 80 mice infectedwith H5N1 virus, 20

received a placebo, 30 weregiven oseltamivir at one ofthree dosage levels for fivedays, and 30 received thedrug at one of three dosagelevels for eight days.

None of the micereceiving a placebosurvived, and only five of10 mice given the highestdaily dose of oseltamivirfor five days survived.Although oseltamivirsuppressed the virus in themice, the virus continuedto grow if the drug wasstopped after five days, theresearchers said.

MNA/Reuters

Egypt retrieves antiquetaken by American in 1958

CAIRO , 20 July—Egypt received on Tuesdaya rare antique made of alabaster withhieroglyphic writings which was taken by anAmerican national from a tomb at the Valley ofthe Kings in Luxor in 1958, the official MENAnews agency reported.

Zahi Hawwas,secretary-general of theSupreme Council ofAntiquities, said Egyptreclaimed the antiqueafter Jack A Graves, aprofessor at the USUniversity of California,sent him a letter in whichhe explained how he hadgot the antique.

In Graves’ letter, theUS professor said one ofhis friends had recentlygiven him the piece.

Graves has translatedthe hieroglyphic textwritten on the antiquemonument and found itwas about the ancientEgyptian god Osiris, saidHawwas.

The inscription alsoreferred to King Seti I whoruled Egypt from 1318 to1304 BC, said Hawwas,adding that the antiquearrived in Cairo by courieron Monday.

MNA/Xinhua

New device to detect arsenic levelevolved in Bangladesh

DHAKA , 20 July—A new, simple and cheaper method to detect arsenic levelin water has been evolved in Kushtia District in western Bangladesh by agroup of foreign scientists.

Arsenic level less than10 microgram per liter canbe measured by using themethod while those nowused in the country can notdetect the contamination ifit is below 50 micro-gramme per litre, TheDaily Star reported onTuesday. The WorldHealth Organization(WHO) prescribed thattolerable limit of arsenic inwater for humans is 10

micro-gramme per litre. Thousands of people

are being affected in thecountry with the deadlypoison as they are un-knowingly taking waterwith arsenic contamina-tion of around 50 micro-gramme per litre. The newmethod is more accurateand precise and does notneed use of atomicabsorption spectrometreor other expensive equip-

ment, according to theinnovators.

In the “arsenomolyb-date” method, arsenic canbe detected by using asimple spectrophoto-metre, distillation unit forpurifying water, analyticalbalance, top-loadingbalance, glassware, anarsine generator, scrubberand absorber and somevery common reagents.

MNA/Xinhua

Study says ducks may silentlypass along bird flu

WASHINGTON , 20 July—The bird flu virus thatexperts fear will jump from birds to humans seemsto be mutating yet again, and may be able to hidein healthy-looking ducks, thus putting both otherbirds and people at risk, experts said on Monday.

They said the H5N1virus could kill someducks after causing onlymild symptoms — whichmeans it could lurk,undetected, in flocks whilespreading silently. “Thereis a real possibility that ifthese H5N1 virusescontinue to circulate,further human infectionwill occur, increasing thepotential for human-to-human transmission,” theresearchers write in thisweek’s issue of theProceedings of theNational Academy ofSciences.

The H5N1 strain haskilled more than 50 peoplein Asia since 2003. More

than 140 million chickenshave been slaughtered inthe region in a bid to haltthe disease. Public healthexperts say the avian fluvirus is mutating and fearit could develop the abilityto spread easily fromperson to person and killmillions in a flu pandemic.

Dr Robert Webster ofSt Jude Children’sResearch Hospital inMemphis, Tennessee, andcolleagues found moreevidence of the virusmutating.

“Wild waterfowl,including ducks, arenatural hosts of influenzaA viruses,” they wrote.

MNA/Reuters

Canadian planes to monitor Arctic for ship pollution OTTAWA , 20 July—Canadian spotter planes will for the first time start

monitoring Arctic waters for illegal discharges of waste by ships which coulddamage the region’s delicate environment, officials said on Tuesday.

As part of anexperiment, the aircraft,which currently monitor iceconditions in the North, willlook for signs of pollutionfrom ships until the end ofOctober, when the watersfreeze. We have observedan increase in shipping andoil drilling and explorationactivities in the past fewyears,” Environment

Minister Stephane Dionsaid in a statement.

Officials fear that anoil spill in the Arctic couldhave catastrophic effects onthe environment, in partbecause the region’sremoteness means it wouldtake a long time to sendhelp to the affected area.Canada will decide whetherto repeat the Arctic patrols

next summer once the datafrom this year’s experimenthas been studied. Canadaalready conducts aerialpollution surveys overmajor shipping routes in thePacific and AtlanticOceans, throughout theGulf of St Lawrence and inthe Great Lakes and StLawrence River system.

MNA/Reuters

Ancient Peru city reveals 5,000-year-old ‘writing’ L IMA (Peru), 20 July—Archaeologists in Peru have found a “quipu” on the site of the oldest city in

the Americas, indicating the device, a sophisticated arrangement of knots and strings used to conveydetailed information, was in use thousands of years earlier than previously believed.

Previously the oldestknown quipus, oftenassociated with the Incaswhose vast South Americanempire was conquered bythe Spanish in the 16thCentury, dated from about650 AD.

But Ruth Shady, an

archaeologist leadinginvestigations into thePeruvian coastal city ofCaral, said quipus wereamong a treasure trove ofarticles discovered at thesite, which is about 5,000years old.

“This is the oldest quipu

and it shows us that thissociety... also had a systemof “writing” (which) wouldcontinue down the agesuntil the Inca empire andwould last some 4,500years,” Shady said.

She was speakingbefore the opening in Lima

on Tuesday of anexhibition of the artifactswhich shed light on Caral,which she called one ofthe world’s oldest civili-zations.

The quipu with its well-preserved, brown cottonstrings wound around thinsticks, was found with aseries of offerings includingmysterious fibre balls ofdifferent sizes wrapped in“nets” and pristine reedbaskets.

“We are sure itcorresponds to the periodof Caral because it wasfound in a public building,”Shady said. “It was anoffering placed on astairway when they decidedto bury this and put down afloor to build anotherstructure on top.”

MNA/Reuters

A sailor repairs masts and rigging of a boat during wet weather at the harbourof the Baltic sea coastal village of Schilksee near Kiel, Germany, on 20 July,

2005.—INTERNET

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S P O R T S

Shelbourne beat Glentoran4-1 in all-island clash

DUBLIN, 21 July — Ireland's Shelbourne beatNorthern Irish neighbours Glentoran 4-1 in an all-island clash on Wednesday that put the Dublin sideinto the second qualifying round of the ChampionsLeague 6-2 on aggregate.

They will now face newly-crowned Romanianchampions Steaua Bucharest for a place in the finalqualifying round.

Owen Heary headed Shelbourne in front in the 13thminute after a late challenge from Glentoran captainPaul Leeman -- who was later sent off — gave DavidCrawley a free kick.

Peter McCann, on his Glentoran debut, replied forthe visitors seven minutes later in what proved to betheir best passage of play during a match that tested thefitness of the Northern Irish side at the start of theirleague season.

Shelbourne, midway through their campaign andwho this week slipped to third in the Eircom League,otherwise gave Glentoran few chances to test a defencethat has proved porous in domestic games.

Jason Byrne, who scored both Shelbourne's first-leggoals in their 2-1 win last week, found the net in the30th minute after Leeman was sent off for deliberatehandball in the box.

With Glentoran down to 10 men, Shelbourne domi-nated the second half. Glen Crowe volleyed in a crossfrom Heary in the 57th minute and Byrne headed hissecond goal in the 70th.

Shelbourne manager Pat Fenlon was delighted withthe performance but said they would focus on a domes-tic game on Friday before worrying about next week'smatch with Steaua.—MNA/Reuters

Thailand beat Everton in penalty shootouts BANGKOK , 21 July — Thai national team defeated Everton 5-3 on penalty

shootouts after a 1-1 draw in regulation time in the first match of the PremierLeague Asian Trophy competition here on Wednesday.

Hiddink almost certain to be newAustralia coach

SYDNEY, 20 July — PSV Eindhoven coach Guus Hiddink is almost certainto take over as Australia coach, Football Federation Australia chief executiveJohn O'Neill has said.

"It's fair to say(Hiddink) is our preferredcandidate," O'Neill toldAustralian web site FoxSports. "The ink is not dryon the paper but very close.It's a matter of days, notweeks.

"We expect that oncehis duties (in Korea) areover we'll get his undi-vided attention. It will bea great coup if we get himand I'm 99 per cent surewe will."

Hiddink, who guided

co-hosts South Korea tothe semi-finals of the 2002World Cup, has returnedto the country where he isa hero for the Peace Cuptournament with Dutchchampions PSV.

Sydney's Daily Tele-graph newspaper said onWednesday Hiddink wasexpected to arrive in Aus-tralia to sign the contractonce PSV's run in the tour-nament was over.

PSV play French clubOlympique Lyon later onWednesday. If they winthey will advance to thefinal on Sunday.

Hiddink will replaceFrank Farina, who steppeddown after six years incharge following Austral-ia's elimination from theConfederations Cup lastmonth.

MNA/Reuters

Miguel wants to cancel extendedBenfica contract

L ISBON, 20 July — Benfica defender Miguel Monteiro is seeking to cancelan extension to his contract which would keep him at the Portuguese cham-pions until 2008.

"We received on Monday an 11-page letter in which Miguel asked for thecancellation of the contract. Our lawyersare going to analyse it and we'll make astatement afterwards," club spokesmanAntonio Cunha Vaz told Reuters onTuesday.

Miguel's lawyer, Dias Ferreira, toldlocal newspapers the Portuguese inter-national had the legal right to cancel thedeal.

He said there was a provision for 30days between the old contract whichended in June and the new extensionwhen the player could decide his future.

Miguel, who began playing for theclub in 2000, agreed to extend his origi-nal contract in 2003.

The Portuguese league and the soc-cer federation say the contract extensionis legally binding.

According to local media, Miguelhas shown interest in joining other teamsincluding Valencia, Juventus and InterMilan.

The matter is likely to be decided bya soccer council which would includerepresentatives from the league and theplayers' union.

MNA/Reuters

Bolton Wanderers's Ivan Campo (L) fights for theball with Manchester City's Joseph Barton during afriendly soccer match at Rajamangala Stadium in

Bangkok on 20 July, 2005. —INTERNET

Liverpool signsSouthamptonstriker Crouch

LONDON, 20 July —Southampton striker Pe-ter Crouch agreed to joinEuropean championsLiverpool after the clubsapproved the transferon Tuesday.

Southampton saidthey had accepted a con-tract of around seven mil-lion pounds (12.18 mil-lion US dollars) for theEngland international.The 6-foot-7 Crouch haveto undergo a medical onWednesday and to signlater on that day.

"A fee of seven millionis good money and obvi-ously it was too good toturn down," Southamptonmanager Harry Redknappsaid on the club's website.—MNA/Reuters

Lyon draw with PSV to reach finalof Peace Cup

Thailand's Datsakorn Thonglao (L)challenges Everton's Duncan

Ferguson during a match in Bangkok,Thailand, pulled off a 6-4 penaltyshootout upset over Everton in the

opening match of the Premier LeagueAsia Trophy tournament.—INTERNET

Thus, Thailand enters the final onSaturday to face the winner betweenBolton and Manchester City.

In a hot and humid weather, midfielderPichitpong Choeichew put the hostsahead 1-0 in the ninth minute with adrive beyond the reach of Everton keeperNigel Martyn.

Everton found the equalizer beforethe first half break when Marcus Bentslotted the ball from a pass off LeonOsman.

During penalty shootouts, Thai goalieKosin Hathairattanakul stopped JosephYobo's attempt, while DatsakornThonglao, Teeratep Winothai,Pichitpong Choeichew, ChakritBuathong and Jakkrit Bunkham allscored for Thailand.

David Weir, James McFadden andKevin Kilbane made shots for Everton.

"We didn't play the way we shouldhave and the fitness wasn't there," saidEverton manager David Moyes.

Thai coach Chanvit Polchivinexplained that "what's more valuable

than the victory is the experience thatplayers gained from this match".

MNA/Xinhua

SUWON (South Korea), 21 July —French champions Olympique Lyondrew 1-1 with Dutch side PSV Eindhovenon Wednesday to reach the final of thePeace Cup pre-season tournament.

Robert de Pinho de Souza scored inthe 37th minute for PSV after being putthrough by Lee Young-pyo but FlorentMalouda equalized for Lyon early inthe second half after a goalmouthscramble.

The French club therefore wentthrough to the final on goals scored inthe group matches.

Once Caldas of Colombia beat K-League side Seongnam Ilhwa 1-0 in theother match in Group A in Taejon.

On Thursday Boca Juniors of Argen-tina play Mamelodi Sundowns of SouthAfrica, while Real Sociedad of Spaintake on English Premier League sideTottenham to decide the other finalistfrom Group B.

Lyon and the other top finisher fromGroup B meet on 24 July for the final inSeoul, with two million US dollarsawarded to the winner.

MNA/Reuters

Manchester Unitedsigns goalkeeper

Ben Foster LONDON, 20 July —

Manchester United signedgoalkeeper Ben Foster afour-year contract fromFootball League Cham-pionship team Stoke.

It is reported that thetransfer fee will rise tothree million pounds (5.2million US dollars).

"This is a great movefor Ben and a great oppor-tunity for him to join oneof the biggest clubs in theworld," Stoke's director offootball John Rudge said.

Foster, 22-year goal-keeper, has only playedat youth and reserve levelfor Stoke. He was loanedout to Wrexham andKidderminster last season.

MNA/Xinhua

Cole completes move toManchester City

LONDON, 21 July — Striker Andy Cole has com-pleted his free transfer to Manchester City from Fulhamon a two-year deal.

The 33-year-old has already joined his teammateson their pre-season tour of Thailand and could play inSaturday’s FA Premiership League Asia Trophy.

Cole is seen as a direct replacement for JonMacken, who joined Crystal Palace last month.

“Andy has a top-class pedigree and I know ouryounger players can learn from him,” City boss StuartPearce said.

Pearce has called for supporters to give theirbacking to the former England international, despitehis time with rivals Manchester United.

MNA/Xinhua


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Thursday, 21 July, 2005Summary of observations recorded at 09:30

hours MST: During the past 24 hours, rain havebeen isolated in Mandalay and Magway Divisions,scattered in Kayah State, Sagaing, Bago andAyeyawady Divisions and widespread in the remain-ing areas with locally heavyfalls in Mon State andisolated heavyfalls in Kachin State and TaninthayiDivision. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall re-corded were Dawei (3.70) inches, Bhamo (3.62)inches, Thaton (3.58) inches, Mudon (3.40) inches,Theinzayat (3.39) inches and Mawlamyine (3.15)inches.

Maximum temperature on 20-7-2005 was 89°F.Minimum temperature on 21-7-2005 was 69°F. Rela-tive humidity at 9:30 hrs MST on 21-7-2005 was92%. Total sunshine hours on 20-7-2005 was (4.3)hours approx. Rainfalls on 21-7-2005 were (0.47inch) at Mingaladon, (0.35 inch) at Kaba-Aye, (0.55inch) at central Yangon. Total rainfalls since 1-1-2005 were (38.54 inches) at Mingaladon, (36.61inches) at Kaba-Aye and (41.02 inches) at centralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (6) mph from Southwest at (12:25) hoursMST on 20-7-2005.

Bay inference: Monsoon is strong in theAndaman Sea and South Bay and moderate else-where in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 22-7-2005: Rainwill be isolated in Mandalay and Magway Divisions,scattered in Kayah State, Sagaing Division and wide-spread in the remaining areas with likelihood of iso-lated heavyfalls in Mon State and Taninthayi Divi-sion. Degree of certainty is 80%.

State of the sea: Temporary squalls with moder-ate to rough seas are likely at Deltaic, Gulf ofMottama and off and along Mon-Taninthayi coasts.Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (35) to (40)mph. Seas will be moderate elsewhere in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihoodof increase of rain in the coastal areas.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 22-7-2005: One or two rain. Degree of certaintyis 80%.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 22-7-2005: Likelihood of isolated rain. Degreeof certainty is 60%.

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WEATHER

ASLEEP IN JESUSU Aung Myint (a) Frank Aung Myint

(Age 81)Son of (U Sein Htun-Daw Thein Hsin), eldest

brother of (Daw Colleen), (Daw Cynthia), Daw KhinMya Yin-(Keith), (Daw Si Win)-Rev U Tin Mg Tun,(George Than Win)-Jeanne, Daw Thein Su Wai-Rev UMg Mg Din (Taunggyi) and Daw Mi Mi Lay, Dr BohZaw Win, father of Ann-Bryan, Sonya-Danny, grandfa-ther of 3 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild, passedaway peacefully at 6.10 pm on Sunday 17th July 2005at his residence No 9 E/2, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, 8thMile, Yangon. Funeral service at 9.00 AM on FridayJuly 22, 2005 at Yayway Christian Cemetery Hall andthen entombment at Yayway Christian Cemetery.

Bereaved Family

Obasanjo inaugurates 2014 Commonwealth GamesBid Committee

ABUJA, 21 July — Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo here on Tuesday inaugurated the 18-member 2014 Commonwealth Bid Committee which has former Head of State General Yakubu Gowonas chairman.

Speaking on the occasion, Obasanjo said Nigeriawas eminently qualified to bid for the games.

“This is a very serious mission that requires thatwe put our very best foot forward, be focused, dedi-cated and committed to winning the bid.”

He added that “it is for this reason that a formerHead of State is requested to lead the committee”.

The president said Nigeria, the most populousAfrican country with a population of over 138 million,was a very important member of the Commonwealthand had all it takes to host the games, adding that theNigerian Government decided to bid because of itsbelief that it was the right time to do so.

He said that winning the bid would afford thecountry an opportunity to remove the stereotypes heldby many foreigners as well as assist in opening up itstourism potentials.

“We believe this is the right time, we have paidour dues and this is our century,” he said.

Obasanjo noted that 2014 would be the centenarycelebration of the 1914 union of the country and thatwinning the bid could be part of the celebrations.

He said the committee could co-opt any expertsthat it needed to serve it and, as current chair-in-officeof the Commonwealth, he had already commenced thecampaign for the games.

According to Malam Samaila Sambawa, newly

appointed Federal Minister of Sports, the decision tobid for the games followed the successful hosting ofthe All Africa Games twice. Sambawa said he be-lieved that the country was in a very good position towin the bid following its string of successful hosting ofother major engagements.—MNA/Xinhua

CASH DONATED: His Excellency Ambassadorof Thailand Mr Suphot Dhirakaosal & Madam

Sukunya Dhirakaosal of the Royal Thai Embassydonated K 100,000 to Hninzigon Home for the

Aged recently. Chairman of Administrative Boardof the Home U Maung Tin and Vice-Chairman

Lt-Col Kyaw Shein (Retd) accept the cash donationfrom the wellwishers.— ( H)

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Kengtung is thecapital city of Shan State(East). Throughout thesuccessive periods, localpeople had to face anumber of difficultiesand take a long time to

Developing Kengtung, capital

of Shan State (East)Article & photos by Thaung Win Bo

The precinct of the

Shwedagon Pagoda

teeming with

members of the

Sangha and people

on Fullmoon Day of

Waso (20-7-2005).

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An aerial view of developing Kengtung with Naungton Lake and modern buildings.

travel from Kengtung toMongyan, Tachilek andTaunggyi in the rainyseason.

In compliance withthe guidance of the Headof State, Public Works

under the Ministry ofConstruction launchedthe project for upgradingof Meiktila-Taunggyi-Kengtung Union High-way in November 2002.Tarkaw-Kengtung Sec-

tion was put into serviceon 14 June 2005.

Thanks to theemergence of Tarkaw-Kengtung Section, onecan travel from Meiktilato Tachilek via Taunggyi

and Kengtung. Localpeople are really pleasedwith the completion ofthe section as they cannow make Taunggyi-Kengtung trip at easealthough it took several

days in the past.Kengtung is an

access to the border,through which nationalpeople can travel to thePeople’s Republic ofChina, Thailand and theLao People’s Demo-cratic Republic, and itwill help promote bor-der trade.

In order to ensuresecure and smooth trans-port in the region, theTatmadaw Governmenthas constructed or up-graded Kengtung-Tachilek, Kengtung-Mongla, Kengtung-Mongkhat-Mongyawng,Kengtung-Lwemwe,M o n g p h y a t - M o n g -yawng-Mongyu, Tarlay-P a s h o - K e n g p a k ,Namhsan-Mongton-Mongsat-Tachilek, andMonghsat-Mongpyinroads, thereby enhancingcommunication, friend-ship, and mutual coop-eration between local na-tional race people.

The emergence ofTarkaw-Kengtung tarroad in MongpyinTownship will help raisethe living standard oflocal national races.

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