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

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Aug— On the occasion of the 42nd Anniversary of the National Dayof the Republic of Singapore which falls on 9th August 2007, Senior General Than Shwe,Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has senta message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr S.R. Nathan, President of the Republic ofSingapore. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Aug— On the occasion of the 42nd Anniversary of the National Day of theRepublic of Singapore which falls on 9th August 2007, General Soe Win, Prime Minister of the Unionof Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Ministerof the Republic of Singapore. — MNA

Senior General Than Shwesends message of felicitations

to Singaporean President

Prime Minister felicitatesSingaporean counterpart

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development of other sectors of theeconomy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented eco-nomic system

* Development of the economy inviting partici-pation in terms of technical know-how andinvestments from sources inside the countryand abroad

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

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

ards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace andtranquillity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Consti-

tution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 8 Aug — Member of the StatePeace and Development Council Lt-Gen Maung Bo ofthe Ministry of Defence, together with Chairman ofTaninthayi Division PDC Commander of Coastal Re-gion Command Maj-Gen Khin Zaw Oo, inspectedprogress in construction of Dawei Airport on 6 Augustafternoon.

Project In-charge Major Tin Aung reported onimplementation of Dawei Airport construction project.The commander gave a supplementary report.

Lt-Gen Maung Bo inspectsprogress of Dawei Airport

Construction ProjectIn his instructions, Lt-Gen Maung Bo said that

as the 12,000 feet long, 100 feet wide and 26 inchesthick runway and the 600 feet long and 300 feet wideapron have been completed at Dawei Airport, officialsof Department of Civil Aviation and Myanma Airwaysare to cooperate with local authorities to keep theairport lush and green. And, officials at different levelsare to supervise the maintenance tasks for durability ofthe airport.

Lt-Gen Maung Bo together with the com-

mander inspected the runway and gave instructions ondredging of drains along the runway.

Accompanied by the commander and Col ThanSoe of Dawei Station, Lt-Gen Maung Bo met service-men and family members of Dawei Station at AungSan Hall of the local battalion in Dawei and urged themto actively participate in rural development tasks.

Next, he presented exercise books and station-ery for the families through Col Than Soe of DaweiStation.—MNA

Lt-Gen Maung Bo of Ministry of Defence inspects the runway of Dawei Airport. — MNA

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

People’s DesireThursday, 9 August, 2007

Establishment of three ASEANpillars and overcomingchallenges through cooperation

The Association of South East Asian Na-tions (ASEAN) was established on 8 August1967 and now it has turned 40 years. Theassociation was formed with the aims of pro-motion on mutual cooperation on economic,social and cultural aspects among its mem-bers in the region and development of themember nations.

This year marks the 10th Anniversary ofjoining of Myanmar to ASEAN. Myanmarjoined the association in 1997 with the expec-tation of cooperation and contributing to theregional peace and stability, prosperity anddevelopment in the region and beyond.

South East Asian region gained economicprogress and it has been a haven of peace andharmony due to endeavours of the leaders ofall ten South East Asian nations.

Now the ASEAN is working on its Char-ter to give the grouping its legal personalityas well as to further strengthen its coopera-tion through enhanced structure and deci-sion-making mechanism. The adoption ofthe ASEAN Charter will serve a firm foun-dation in achieving the ASEAN Communityand fulfil the aspiration and shared values ofevery member country and ASEAN as awhole.

In the forty-year history, ASEAN notonly has successes but experienced manychallenges, natural disasters and hazardousproblems. However, it has shown its resil-ience and successfully met the challenges. Three pillars — ASEAN Security Com-munity, ASEAN Economic Community andASEAN Socio-Cultural Community serve asa strong foundation. The way of working insolidarity, consultation, consensus, mutualrespect and non-interference is the strengthof ASEAN. We are confident that the ASEANwill overcome the challenges through nobletraditions, solidarity and cooperation.

YANGON, 8 Aug — A ceremony to presentcertificates and awards to winners in CPA and DAexaminations of Myanmar Accountancy Council willbe held at International Business Centre on PyayRoad at 9 am on 8 September.

Those who passed the second semester ex-aminations of CPA held from August 2002 to January2007 and the second semester examinations of DAheld from September 2002 to November 2005, andthe outstanding trainees will be presented certificatesand awards at the ceremony. Besides, those whopassed the first semester examinations of CPA held

Certificates and prizes presentationceremony of CPA and DA on schedule

from November 2002 to March 2007 and the firstsemester examinations of DA held from September2002 to November 2005, and outstanding traineeswill also be presented certificates and prizes.

Those who are invited to attend the ceremonyare to send K 2,000 and a passport size photo toNo (1/9), Training School of Auditor-General’sOffice on Thakhin Mya Park Road in Ahlon Town-ship not later than 24 August and draw invitationcards prior to the ceremony.

The list of names of outstanding trainees willbe announced at the training school. — MNA

YANGON, 7 Aug —Patron of Rakhine StateUnion Solidarity and De-velopment AssociationChairman of Rakhine StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofWestern Command Maj-Gen Maung Shein andCEC Member of USDAMinister for TransportMaj-Gen Thein Swe metwith members of the asso-ciation in Sittway Town-ship USDA Office on 4August.

After hearing reportsat the meeting, the com-mander and the ministergave necessary instruc-tions and presented cashassistance to Sittway andMaungtaw district

Commander, Minister meetUSDA members in Sittway

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Aug—On the occasion ofthe 42nd Anniversary of the National Day of theRepublic of Singapore which falls on 9th August2007, U Nyan Win, Minister for Foreign Affairs ofthe Union of Myanmar, has sent a message offelicitations to His Excellency Mr George Yeo,Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic ofSingapore. — MNA

Foreign Ministerfelicitates Singaporean

counterpart

YANGON, 7 Aug—Minister for ConstructionMaj-Gen Saw Tun accom-panied by officials of Pub-lic Works inspected workof Sittoung Bridge(Moppalin) constructionproject yesterday.

The ministeroversaw building of theapproach road to the

Construction Ministeroversees work

bridge on Waw bank andgave instructions on con-struction of the bridge tothe officials concerned.

Afterwards, heinspected work of build-ing Bago-Thanatpin-K a y a n - T h o n g w a -Thanlyin road in KawaTownship.

He went to con-struction site of the roadthat will link with ThilawaIndustrial Zone throughDagon Bridge and calledupon the officials to buildit meeting the set stand-ards. — MNA

USDAs.During the tour of

Rakhine State, Com-mander Maj-Gen MaungShein and Minister Maj-Gen Thein Swe also metwith members of War Vet-erans Organization inRakhine State and pre-sented cash assistance todistrict and townshipWVOs in Sittway andMaungtaw districts.

After the meeting,the commander and theminister inspected dam-ages to the embankmentalong the Strand Road dueto erosion and called fortimely completion of therepair work of the em-bankment.

Head of the Discipline

Enforcement Departmentof Myanmar Women’s Af-fairs Federation Daw MyaTheingi also met withmembers of the organiza-tion in Rakhine State at theBandoola Yeiktha ofSittway station on 4 Au-gust and provided uniformsand cash assistance toRakhine State Women’sAffairs Organization andRakhine State Maternaland Child Welfare Super-visory Committee.

MNA

U Tin Aung-Daw Khin Khin Sein and familyof Bahan Township donated K 100,000 to

Hninzigon Home for the Aged throughMember of Executive Committee U Chit

Myaing recently.—H

Minister Maj-Gen Thein Swe presents cashassistance to Sittway and Maungtaw district

USDAs.— TRANSPORT

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strikes in Pakistan will becounter-productive

EU threatens tit-for-tat visa limits onAmericans after US tightens law

US border cop chargedwith murdering migrantBISBEE (Arizona), 7 Aug—An Arizona judge ruled

on Monday that a US Border Patrol agent must standtrial for murder for shooting dead a Mexican immigrantin a case that prompted condemnation and increasedtensions with Mexico.

Agent Nicholas Corbett was charged in April onfour counts of homicide in connection with the 12January shooting death of Francisco Dominguez Riverashortly after he crossed a stretch of desert borderbetween Douglas and Naco.Cochise County Justice ofthe Peace David Morales ruled on Monday the evidencesupported lesser charges of second degree murder inthe shooting, but tossed charges of first degree murder,which supposes premeditation.

Morales ruled following a preliminary hearing thatheard evidence from three migrants present at theshooting, together with a pathologist, Cochise CountySheriff's Department detectives and two Border Patrolsupervisory agents.—MNA/Reuters

ISLAMABAD, 8 Aug—US-Pak relations appearto be on the boil onsuggestions of unilateralAmerican strikes againstal-Qaeda leaders onPakistani soil with Pre-sident Pervez MusharrafTuesday saying it will be“counter-productive” tothe joint fight againstterrorism, PTI reported.

The comments byPakistani General in thehighest level rejection ofUS suggestions of pos-sibility of striking at al-Qaeda targets in Pakis-tan’s border areas camehours after President

George W Bush expressedconfidence of “getting thejob done” given anopening.

Musharraf told visitingAmerican Senator Ric-hard J Durbin in a meetingin Karachi that Pakistanremained resolved tofighting terrorism, theforeign ministry said.

“He emphasised thatonly Pakistan’s securityforces, which were fullycapable of dealing withany situation, would takecounter-terrorism actioninside Pakistani territory,”a foreign ministry state-ment said quoting Mu-

sharraf.“In this regard, the

President pointed out thatcertain recent US state-ments were counter-productive to the closecooperation and coor-dination between the twocountries in com-batingthe threat of terrorism,” itsaid.

Bush while preservingambiguity over Americanintentions told reporters hewas confident that with“actionable intelligence”US will be able to bringtop al-Qaeda leadership tojustice.

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Troops annihilate “terrorists” under cover of military vehicles during arehearsal in Russia’s Chelyabinsk, on 6 Aug, 2007. The first joint exercise of

the joint anti-terrorism military drill, dubbed as “Peace Mission 2007”,sponsored by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and it was slated

for 9-17 Aug, was carried out on 6 Aug, here. —XINHUA

BRUSSELS, 8 Aug—TheEuropean Union isthreatening to impose tit-for-tat entry restrictions onall US citizens travellingto Europe in response tonew American lawsdesigned to strengthensecurity at airports andprevent would-be terro-rists entering the country.US tourists can now travelto Europe without a visa.

Franco Frattini, justiceand home affairs com-missioner, is drawing upplans for an EU-widesystem of “electronictravel authorization”(ETA) similar to thatwritten into US law byPresident George Bush

late last week as part ofnew homeland securityrules proposed by the 9/11commission and endorsedby Congress.

The ETA requirestourists from 14 mostlywest European states,including Britain, bene-fiting from the US visawaiver programme toregister online and givedetails of their passport,travel plans and plannedsocial and businessmeetings at least two daysbefore departure. A simi-lar scheme operates inAustralia. The new systemhas heightened fears aboutprivacy protection as theEU and US already

exchange informationabout transatlantic pas-sengers and airline mani-fests, with several would-be travellers refused entryto planes at US insistence.It is also seen as a deterrentto business travel to theUS and to tourism ingeneral, which is down10% in the US since 2000while it is up 13% inBritain and 20% in France.

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A player rides a bike underwaterduring a recreational game at Dalian SunAsia Ocean World in Dalian, Northeast China’s Liaoning Province,

on 5 Aug, 2007.—INTERNET

Vietnamese rescuers are moving thousands of people to higher ground on 7Aug, 2007, after a storm dumped heavy rain in the central region, killing 14

people, officials said.—INTERNET

Up to four dead inUK civilian plane

crashLONDON, 7 Aug— A

civilian plane crashedshortly after taking offfrom a British airportkilling up to four people,an Isle of Wight Airportspokesman said onSunday.

“We think there werefour people on the plane,”Isle of Wight Airportmanager Richard Steelesaid. The Piper Cherokeeplane was travelling fromSandown, where the air-port is located, to an un-specified destination inFrance, but crashed withina minute of taking off.“The airport’s fire servicesresponded rapidly, sup-ported by the local firebrigade,” added Steele.

Sunday’s crash is beinginvestigated by the AirAccidents InvestigationBranch.—MNA/Reuters

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This computer-generated image released by the Beijing OrganizingCommittee for the Games of XXIX Olympiad shows the National Stadium,also known as the Bird’s Nest, for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. TheChinese capital is gearing up to celebrate the one-year countdown to the

opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games on 8 Aug. —INTERNET

Taleban say Bush, Karzairesponsible for fate of Koreans

GHAZNI (Afghanistan),7 Aug—Taleban insur-gents said Afghan Pre-sident Hamid Karzai andUS President George WBush, meeting in CampDavid on Monday, mustagree to free jailed rebelsor be responsible for thedeaths of 21 Koreanhostages.

The renewed Taleban

threat comes as nego-tiations to free themremained deadlocked withno agreement even onwhere to hold talks bet-ween South Korean dip-lomats and the kidnap-pers.

The Taleban havekilled two of the hostagesand have repeatedlythreatened to kill theremaining 18 women andthree men unless theAfghan Governmentagrees to free jailed rebels.

“Karzai has gone toAmerica and it is possiblehe will take a strongdecision with Bush torelease the Koreans andagree to exchangeprisoners because Bushand Karzai are responsible

for securing the hostages,”Taleban spokesman QariMohammad Yousuf toldReuters by telephone froman unknown location.

Asked what the Tale-ban would do if there is noswap, Yousuf said: “Theresponsibility will lie withKarzai and Bush.”

Afghanistan has refusedto release Taleban pri-soners, saying that wouldencourage a kidnapping“industry”.

“We will not doanything that will en-courage hostage-taking,that will encourage ter-rorism.

But we will do every-thing else to have themreleased,” Karzai toldCNN.—MNA/Reuters

Circus acrobat Henri Ayala of Columbia, stands ona chair on a high wire above a circus tent during anattempt to set a Guiness World record by balancing

on a chair on a high wire out of doors, York,northern England, on 7 Aug, 2007. —XINHUA

Photo taken on 7 Aug, 2007 shows the new decorated Terminal No 2 of thePudong Airport in Shanghai, east China. As part of the expansion project ofthe Pudong Airport, Terminal No 2 has finished its fitment, entering the last

stage of adjustment.—XINHUA

Girls outshine boys in Pakistan HSSC examsDOHA, 7 Aug— Sixty-nine per cent of

students who appeared for the HSSCPart - I examinations of Federal Board ofIntermediate and Secondary EducationIslamabad, Pakistan were passed, theboard announced here yesterday.

In the exams, girls outshined boys inall streams, the board said.

Of the total 196 students appeared forthe examination from Pakistan EducationCentre (PEC) Doha, 135 students gotthrough.

Maqaddas Jamil of Pre-EngineeringGroup topped at PEC by securing a total

498 marks in AI Grade. While PECregistered a 74 per cent victory in thePre-Medical Group, the Pre-EngineeringGroup witnessed 81 per cent victory.

The Science General Group andHumanities witnessed 67 per cent and51 per cent pass respectively.

In the Pre-Medical Group, AishaSafdar is the top scorer in PEC. AishaAslam stood second and Ayesha Ejasthird. Muhammed Umair and AfifaMuhammed Abdullah scored second andthird highest marks in the Pre-Engineering Group.—Internet

“Fortune” claims Mexican tycoon as world’s richest manMEXICO CITY, 8 Aug

— Mexican telecombillionaire Carlos Slimhas overtaken Microsoftfounder Bill Gates as theworld’s wealthiest manwith riches of 59 billionUS dollars, Fortunemagazine said onMonday.

Fortune, which tracksthe performance of theworld’s top companies,said Slim has increased

his net worth by 12 billionUS dollars so far this yearbased on the market valueof his companies listed onstock exchanges.

In an online profileof Slim, 67, Fortunesaid he had a fortune of59 billion US dollars basedon the value of his publicholdings at the end of July.

“Gates, the Microsoftfounder and perennial No.1, had a net worth

estimated to be at least 58billion US dollars,” themagazine said.

Slim, the son of aLebanese immigrant,owns Latin America’slargest cell phone com-pany America Movil.

Fortune said Slim’scompanies, ranging froma restaurant chain to abank, made up a third ofthe Mexican stock marketand his family’s holdings

represented more than 5per cent of Mexico’s grossdomestic product last year.

In July, a respect-ed Mexican financialjournalist announced thatSlim had overtaken Gatesas the world’s richest manbut the magnate said hedid not care.

“It’s water off aduck’s back to me,” thecigar-smoking Slim toldforeign correspondentslast week. “I don’t knowif I’m No 1, No 20, orNo 2,000. It doesn’tmatter.”

Gates and billionaireUS investor WarrenBuffett, who was thesecond-richest person inthe world until Slimovertook him this year,have been giving more oftheir money to charity inrecent years.

Slim also backsphilanthropic causes andlast week announced a300-million-US-dollarplan to build 100 schoolsin Mexico, but says hedoes more good bycreating wealth and jobsthrough his owncompanies.

MNA/Reuters

Five US soldiers killed in bomb attacks in IraqBAGHDAD, 8 Aug —

Five American soldierswere killed and 13 otherswounded in roadsidebomb explosions acrossIraq on Monday, the USmilitary said on Tuesday.

A soldier was killedand another woundedwhen an explosively-formed penetrator, or EFP,detonated near his vehicleduring combat operations

in western part of thecapital, a military state-ment said.

EFP is a shapedcharge explosive designedto penetrate armoureffectively. They werefirst developed during theWorld War II.

Previously, US offi-cials accused Iran ofproviding and trainingmilitants in Iraq with these

deadly armoured-piercingroadside bombs, but Irandenied the accusations.

In an earlier state-ment, the military an-nounced the killing of fourof its soldiers and thewounding of 12 more in asingle roadside bombattack on Monday in Iraq’srestive province of Diyala,northeast of Baghdad.

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UAE national airline records20% growth in seat load

ABU DHABI, 7 Aug—Etihad Airways, thenational airline of theUnited Arab Emirates(UAE), registered agrowth of 20 per cent in itsseat load factor in the firsthalf of 2007 comparedwith the same period in2006, local newspaperGulf News reported onMonday.

Etihad’s planes were onaverage 65 per cent full inthe first six months of2007, a figure oftenconsidered an industrybenchmark for an airline’sbreak-even point, thereport said.

The Abu Dhabi-basedairline flew 90 per centfull in economy, 76 per

cent full in business classand 49 per cent full in firstclass in the first half of2007.

The results are animportant step forward forthe four-year-old Etihadthat is expected to becomeprofitable in 2010, evenas it makes significantinvestments in newaircraft and routes.

“We are flying at fullspeed at the moment... Themajority of new aircraftare in and we can see themarket is picking up,” theairline’s executive vice-president Geert Bovensaid. Etihad has beenimplementing an ex-pansion plan to fly allroutes on a daily basis,

with 35 of its 44 desti-nations now available.

To continue its networkgrowth plans, the airlinesigned in July a deal of 2.2billion US dollars withAirbus for three A330freighters, as well as fourA340-600s and five A330passenger aircraft.

MNA/Xinhua

Angola to build over40 modern hotels

LUANDA, 7 Aug—More than 40 new four- and five-star hotels with modern facilities will be built and putinto operation in Angola’s leading cities across thecountry before 2010, Angola’s official news agencyANGOP reported on Monday.

Eduardo Jonatao Tchingunji, Hotels and TourismMinister, was quoted as saying that the initiative is partof efforts of the his ministry to collaborate in thesolving of the nation’s poverty and unemploymentproblem.

The minister said “it is important to create conditionsfor adequate accommodations, showing ourcompetence in this sector to meet the fast developmentof the national economy”.

He added that the government therefore will set upmore tourism schools and hotel staff training schoolsto bring up more competent hotel staffers to providefirst-rate accommodation service.

MNA/Xinhua

Nigeria to establishtwo more oil refineries

Cyprus, Israel examine furthercooperation in agriculture

Russia expands keyaircraft market in Cuba HAVANA, 7 Aug—Russia has delivered the first of

three Tupolev medium-haul jet planes to Cuba,expanding one of its main export markets forcommercial aircraft, the Cuban Communist Partynewspaper Granma reported on Monday.

The cargo version of the TU-204 arrived in Havanaon Sunday and two passenger jets will be deliveredbefore the end of the year as Cuba upgrades its agingSoviet-era fleet, the paper said.

Last year, Cuba received three Ilyushin IL-96-300slong-haul passenger jets used on routes to Europe andLatin America by Cuban carrier Cubana de Aviacion.

A Russian diplomat said the sales to Cuba are one ofthe most important export contracts for Russia'scommercial aircraft industry since the collapse of theSoviet Union in 1991.

The deal was financed by Ilyushin Finance Co. Cuba last year agreed to buy 100 million US dollars

a year in civilian aircraft from Russia over the nextseven years, including short-haul regional AntonovAN-148 planes. —MNA/Reuters

ABUJA, 7 Aug—State-owned Nigerian NationalPetroleum Corporation(NNPC) said here on Mon-day to work with someinternational oil com-panies to establish twonew refineries with capa-cities for 200,000 barrelsdaily each.

Levi Ajuonuma, Gen-eral Manager of GroupPublic Affairs Divisionunder NNPC Group, saidthe two new refinerieswould be located in Nig-eria’s port city of Okrikaand Brass in oilrich south-eastern Niger Delta Area.

The NNPC said in itsbrief sent to the Ministryof Energy that the cor-poration would inauguratethe new refineries by 2011

or 2012. Ajuonuma saidthe additional refinerieswould bring the totaldomestic refining capacityto 845,000 barrels per day.

The current demand ofabout 30 million litres ofpetrol daily required600,000 barrels refiningcapacity daily, he said,adding the domestic re-fineries’ limited pro-duction capacity could notsatisfy the country’s robustdemand for product oil,such gasoline and diesel.“Even if Warri and Kadunarefineries were to operateat 100 per cent capacity,there will still be need toimport the shortfall tosatisfy consumers,” Aju-onuma said.

MNA/Xinhua

NICOSIA, 7 Aug—Cyprus Agriculture Min-ister Photis Photioudiscussed on Monday withhis Israeli counterpartpotential cooperations incommon agricultural

strategy, trade andresearch programmes.

Cyprus Agriculture,Natural Resources and theEnvironment MinisterPhotis Photiou, who iscurrently visiting Israel,told Cyprus News Agencythat the Israeli sideresponded positively to hissuggestion that Israelimport Cypriot agri-cultural products whenthey stop cultivation of theland, a practice that takesplace every seven years inIsrael. Photiou said heexamined the issue ofwater shortage in Cypruswith Shalom Simhon,Israeli Minister ofAgriculture and RuralDevelopment. He wel-comed Israeli companiesto take part in tenders fordesalination plants inCyprus.— MNA/Xinhua

Customers eat at a McDonald’s restaurant in Shanghai. About 95 percent ofMcDonald’s China “crew” will see a pay rise by 12 to 56 percentage points, or

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Actress Michelle Pfeiffer (R) and husband David EKelley pose after Pfeiffer’s star was unveiled onthe Hollywood Walk of Fame during ceremonies in Hollywood, California, on 6 Aug, 2007.—XINHUA

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A woman visits an indoor ice sculpture exhibition in Wuhan, Central China’sHubei Province, on 5 Aug , 2007.— INTERNET

The file photo of 2 Aug, 2007 shows tourists ride horses on XilingolGrasslands, in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.—XINHUA

Nga Thong, a 23-year-old elephant from Ayutthaya Province, leaves after therehearsal of the opening ceremony of the 24th Universiade Bangkok 2007 in

Bangkok, capital of Thailand, on 6 Aug, 2007.—XINHUA

Lao President starts state visitto Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, 7 Aug — Lao President Choummaly Sayasone arrived inCambodia on Monday to pay a state visit from 6 to 8 August.

Choummaly and hissenior delegation wereinvited to pay this visit byCambodian King NoroomSihamoni, according to aPress release from theCambodian ForeignMinistry.

During this visit,Choummaly will meetwith Cambodian KingSihamoni, Prime Minister

Hun Sen, Senate Presid-ent Chea Sim and Nati-onal Assembly PresidentHeng Samrim, it added.

Meanwhile, Thong-loun Sisoulith, LaoDeputy Prime Ministerand Minister of ForeignAffairs, will lead adelegation to attend the10th meeting of theCambodia-Lao Joint

Commission of BilateralCooperation scheduledfrom 8 to 10 August inSihanoukville city ofCambodia, the Pressrelease said.

The meeting aims atstrengthening and ex-panding cooperation inall fields between the twocountries, it said.

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Six miners trapped in collapsedUtah mine

LOS ANGELES, 7Aug— A minor earthquake occurred in the US western stateof Utah on Monday, causing a mine to collapse in which six miners were trapped.

The mine was less than20 miles (about 32kilometres) from theepicentre of the 4.0magnitude earthquake,authorities said.

The Genwal minereported a “cave-in” at3:50 am local time, anhour after the earthquake,said the sheriff’s office atthe Emery County where

the quake took place. “Rescue workers are on

scene trying to locatesix miners that are unac-counted for,” said thesheriff’s office.

Walter Arabasz, thehead of the University ofUtah’s SeismographStations, said there was aclear link between thequake and the minecollapse, based on wavelengths.

A command centre

was being set up inHuntington, the EmeryCounty, about 15 miles(about 24 kilometres)from the mine, saidTeresa Behunin, anaccountant with UtahAmerican Energy, whichowns the mine rescueteam with heavy equip-ment has been sent to themine, about 140 miles(about 224 kilometres)south of Salt Lake City.

MNA/Xinhua

80 feared drowned ineast India boat tragedy

NEW DELHI, 7 Aug— About 80 people are feareddrowned after a boat capsized in Indian easternstate Bihar on Monday, according to the Hindu’sreport on Tuesday.

The report said the boat, on its way to SamastipurDistrict from Patna, the capital of Bihar, with 100people, went down in the swollen Ganga river. Mostof the people were labourers. At least 10 personsreportedly swam to safety. Rescue operations wereunderway to trace the others. — MNA/Xinhua

UN team in Iran for nucleartransparency talks

TEHERAN,7 Aug— A technical team from the United Nations nuclear watchdogarrived in Teheran on Monday to discuss an “action plan” to give the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency (IAEA) more access to Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Iran’s offer of greatertransparency aims todefuse Western suspi-cions that it is concealingplans to make atomicbombs behind a civiliannuclear programme, acharge Teheran denies.Having failed to convinceworld powers about itspeaceful intentions,Teheran faces a possiblethird round of UN

sanctions for not haltinguranium enrichment, aprocess that could haveboth civilian and militaryapplications.

The four-memberIAEA team, headed byMichio Hosoya, will holdseveral days of talks withofficials from Iran’sAtomic Energy Organi-zation led by its deputyhead Mohammad Saeedi,

the official IRNA newsagency said. “The talks,due to be continued untilThursday, would focus ondrawing up the guidelinesfor inspection of Natanznuclear facilities in centralIran,“IRNA reported,citing an unnamed source.Natanz is home to Iran’snuclear enrichmentwork.

MNA/Reuters

Three coffees a day keep memoryloss at bay for older women: StudyTORONTO, 7 Aug—A daily doseof caffeine helps fight memory loss — at least

for older women, a studyreleased Tuesday says.Researchers in France

found women aged 65 andolder who drank at leastthree cups ofcoffee or teaa day were able to retainmemory and thinkingskillsbetter than womenwho drank less than onecup.

But men didn’t ex-perience the same bene-fits.

The study publishedTuesday in the medicaljournal of the AmericanAcademy of Neurologyfound the benefits forwomenincreased withage.

Women over 80 whodrank three or more cupsof coffee or equivalenttea daily were 70 per centless likely to have afailing memory, thestudy says.

Caffeine consumption,however, was not foundto prevent dementia.

Researchers tracked thecognitive abilities of 7,017people over 65 yearsold— 4,197 women and2,820 men— over fouryears. All subjects, wholived in France,weretested over the years fordementia and cognitiveperformance, such asmemory, attention andorientation.

The researchers cautionthat further study is neededbefore they advise womento increase their daily doseof caffeine.

Other scientists agreethat benefits need to beweighed against the risksof caffeine consumption,such as anxiety andincreased heart rate.

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YANGON, 8 Aug—Altogether 16 membersof Insein Township National League forDemocracy of Yangon Division including U TinWin, U Than Htut, U Hla Oo, U Myo Naing, UKyaw Win and U Aung Htay Oo on 23 Julyresigned from the party of their own volition,sending letters of resignation to the NLDHeadquarters and local authorities concerned.

In their letters of resignation sent to InseinTownship Multi-party Democracy General ElectionSubcommission, they said that they resigned fromthe party of their own accord as they no longer puttrust in and supported it.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 8Aug — Minister forEnergy Brig-Gen Lun Thireceived BangladeshiAmbassador to the Union

Sixteen membersof Insein Township

NLD quit

Energy Minister receives Bangladeshi Ambassadorof Myanmar Mr MKhairuzzaman at theministry, here, yesterday.

Present also atthe call were Deputy

Minister Brig-Gen ThanHtay, the director-general and the managingdirectors of thedepartment and

enterprises under theministry. They franklydiscussed energymatters.

MNA

Lt-Gen Maung Bo attends monsoon paddycultivation ceremony of Dawei District,

physic nut growing ceremony in LaunglonLocal farmers urged to extend cultivation of monsoon paddy

for meeting target of 500,000 acres in Taninthayi Division

NAY PYI TAW, 8Aug — Member of theState Peace andDevelopment Council Lt-Gen Maung Bo of theMinistry of Defence,together with Chairmanof Taninthayi DivisionPDC Commander ofCoastal RegionCommand Maj-GenKhin Zaw Oo and ColThan Soe of DaweiStation, attended thecollective monsoonpaddy cultivation ofDawei District in thepaddy field nearKanaingda Village ofDawei Townshipyesterday.

T a n i n t h a y iDivision Manager U TinMaung Myint ofMyanma AgricultureService reported onarrangements forgrowing of 36,000 acresof monsoon paddy.

Speaking on theoccasion, Lt-Gen MaungBo said that asTaninthayi Divisionproduced 305.51 millionbaskets of paddy in2006-07, with a 125.62per cent of food

sufficiency. He stressedthe need to extendcultivation of monsoonpaddy for meeting thetarget of 500,000 acres inthe division. AsHsinthwelat paddy strainyielded over 100 basketsof paddy per acre inTaninthayi Division,farmers in the wholedivision are to use suchquality paddy strain in therainy season. He addedthat agriculturalSupervisory Committeesat different levels are tosupervise extendedcultivation of edible oilcrops this year. He saidthat companies andentrepreneurs are to plantoil palm for meeting thetarget of 500,000 acres.Furthermore, he urgedlocal farmers andhorticulturists to growrubber on 200,000 acresof land.

Accompanied bythe commander, Lt-GenMaung Bo viewedcollective cultivation ofmonsoon paddy andpresented prizes to paddytransplanting teams.

They attended

the physic nut cultivationceremony at the farm inSakhangyi Village ofLaunglon Township.

Dawei DistrictManager U Kyaw Hla ofMAS reported ongrowing of crops in thefarm.

In his address,Lt-Gen Maung Bo saidthat Taninthayi Divisionhas allotted the areas foryearly cultivation ofphysic nut to meet thetarget of 500,000 acres.Myanma AgricultureService plans to grow150 acres of physic nutat Sakhangyi Farm to beable to distribute seedsand saplings to the localfarmers. In addition,technicians of the farmare to share technologyon systematic nurturingof physic nut with localgrowers and socialorganizations. Lt-GenMaung Bo urgedofficials to supervisecultivation of physic nuton a manageable scale atother perennial cropfarms.

Lt-Gen MaungBo and the commander

presented physic nutsaplings to localauthorities and socialorganizations. Afterplanting physic nutsaplings at the designatedplaces, they viewed localpeople who wereengaging in the growingof physic nut on 150acres land.

After theceremony, Lt-GenMaung Bo met withchairmen and membersof ward and village PDCsand instructed them to

join hands with localpeople in undertakingregional developmenttasks.

At DaweiUniversity, Lt-GenMaung Bo heard reportson academic matterpresented by Rector (In-charge) U Kyaw KyawHtay and construction ofbuildings at the universityby Senior Engineer UThein Saw of PublicWorks and officials. Thecommander gave asupplementary report.

Lt-Gen MaungBo and party inspectedprogress in constructionof the main four-storeybuilding of the university.

Next, theyattended the ceremony ofthe cash and kinddonation for 17 religioustitle recipient Sayadawsof Taninthayi Division atthe Dhamma Beikman ofShinpin Khayu Pagoda inDawei. They donatedprovisions to members ofthe Sangha and sharedmerits gained.— MNA

Lt-Gen Maung Bo of Ministry of Defence donates cash and provisionsto a Sayadaw.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi receives Ambassador of Bangladesh to MyanmarMr M Khairuzzaman.— ENERGY

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Kayah State has witnessed unprecedented

progress among the states in the country. It is situated

in the eastern part of the nation. And its area is 4530

square miles. Such national races as Kayah, Kayan,

Mono, Kayaw, Yintale, Gekho Geba, etc reside in

Kayah State together with Kachin, Kayin, Chin, Pa-

O, Bamar, Mon, Rakhine, Shan and Intha. With a

population of over 300,000, the population density of

Kayah State is over 70 per square mile.

Being a hilly region bordering with Shan

plateau, Kayah State is between 2,950 feet and 6,000

feet above sea level. The current of most rivers that

flow from north to south is strong as they have to pass

the hilly and uneven regions.

Prevalence of peace is the basicrequirement of development. The Tarmadawgovernment extended olive branch to the nationalrace armed groups to give up the armed struggleline and to actively take part in nation-buildingendeavours together with local people. This is thegenuine goodwill of the government towards allthe national people. This being the case, efforts arebeing made to bring about equitable and

Kayah State on the righttrack of development

Ketu Nilaharmonious development across the nation.

With the prevalence of peace, unprecedented

progress has been made in Kayah State. In 1988,

Kayah State was unable to enjoy self-sufficiency inrice. In the time of the Tatmadaw governmentKayah State has undergone a great change with avast farmland facilitated with irrigation networks.Dawtacha Dam that benefits 1000 acres of farmland

was built in Bawlakhe Township in 1997 and Loinanpha

Embankment that benefits 2150 acres of farmland in

Dimawhso Township in 2002. Moreover, steps have

been taken to implement more river water pumping

stations and to reclaim virgin and fallow land. As a

result, the sown acreage in Kayah State has increased

from 89,992 in 1988 to 276,106 in 2006.

In the meantime, efforts have been made for

supply of irrigated water to farmlands. So, there were

seven reservoirs, lakes and embankments in 1988 and

the number increased to nine in 2006. There were

61,501 acres of monsoon paddy in 1988 and the

number increased to 100,348 in 2006. And the per acre

yield increased from 42.38 baskets in 1988 to over 60

in 2006. The sown acreage of gram has increased from

1,031 in 1988 to 41,480 in 2006 while that of maize has

increased from 3,431 in 1988 to 17,467 in 2006. The

sown acreage of groundnut has increased from 6,883

in 1988 to 14,353 in 2006 while that of sesame has

increased from 1,888 in 1988 to 13,947 in 2006. The

sown acreage of sunflower has increased from 554 in

1988 to 4,762 in 2006 and that of mustard from 62 in

1988 to 320 in 2006.

In the same way, the number of livestock

being bred in Kayah State has increased over two times

from 540,000 in 1988 to 1,432,000 to date while the

acreage of fish breeding ponds has increased from 3 to

359.74.

In the forest sector, there were 74 square miles

of reserve forest in 1988 and the number increased to

270 in 2006. Although there was no protected forest

in 1988, there were 2181 square miles of protected

forest in 2006. Although there was no teak plantation

in 1988 there were 3,410 acres of teak plantation in

2006. Likewise, there were 200 acres of watershed in

1988 and the number has increased to 3,085 in 2006.

And there was no Thitseint (Belleric myrobalan)

plantation in 1988 but there were 300 acres of the

plantation in 2006.

Agriculture, livestock breeding and forestry

sectors are the backbones of the development of a

country and the transportation sector should be

implemented for the same purpose. Therefore, the

Tatmadaw Government upgraded the transportation

sector in Kayah State to bring about equitable

development of the country.

Transport and communication facilities were

inadequate in Kayah State before 1988. There were

Aungban-Pinlaung-Moebywe-Loikaw Road, Toungoo-

Leiktho-Yado-Loikaw Road and Loikaw-Hopong Road

in Kayah State. Toungoo-Leiktho-Yado Road was not

serviceable all the year round before 1988.

During the time of the Tatmadaw Government,

the government upgraded roads in the state including

Toungoo-Leiktho-Yado Road. In Kayah Sate, the185-

mile long road was constructed, Loikaw-Ponchaung-

Shadaw Road, Toungoo-Mawchi-Loikaw Road,

Bawlakhe-Ywathit-Suitpaing Road and Hpasaung-

Maesaenan-Maese-Nanman Road were upgraded.

Moreover, over 180-feet-long Htise Kha Bridge and

Htoochaung Bridge are under construction.

Aungban-Loikaw Railroad linking Shan State

and Kayah State was inaugurated on 27 March (Armed

Forces Day), 1993. The railroad is 106.62 miles long

with 25 railway stations on it.

Similarly, the Tatmadaw Government has

also upgraded the communication sector of Kayah

(See page 9)

The photo shows a microwave station inLoikaw of Kayah State.

Prevalence of peace is the basic requirement of

development. The Tarmadaw government extended olive

branch to the national race armed groups to give up the

armed struggle line and to actively take part in nation-

building endeavours together with local people. This is the

genuine goodwill of the government towards all the national

people. This being the case, efforts are being made to bring

about equitable and harmonious development across the

nation.

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(from page 8)State. The number of post offices has increased fromeight in 1988 to 13 in 2006. The number of telegraphoffices has increased from three in 1988 to 11 in 2006.There was no facsimilie, e-mail and advancedtelegraph service in Kayah Sate until 1988. KayahState got 29 facsimilie and e-mail offices and oneadvanced telegraph service in 2006. The number oftelephone offices has increased from three in 1988 to15 in 2006. There were three exchange offices, 558direct-call lines and 558 auto telephones in the state in1988. Now, there are nine exchange offices, 1937direct-call lines and 1937 auto telephones in the state.There were no microwave station and rural telephoneexchanges in Kayah State before 1988. In 2006, onemicrowave station and six rural telephone exchangeswere established in the state.

Before 1988, there were only 168-MW-Beluchaung-2 Hydropower Plant and 0.108-MW-Hpasaung Hydropower Plant in Kayah State. Duringthe time of the Tatmadaw Government, BeluchaungHydropower Plant which generates 28 MW wasconstructed in the state. The consumption of electricityin the state has also increased from 4.405 MW in 1988to 21.17 MW in 2006.

Kayah national people enjoy the fruits of thedevelopment of socio-economic life. Regarding theIndustrial Sector, there are 285 privately-ownedfactories and seven state-owned factories and 34cottage industries.

Marble slabs and antimony have been producedat Mawchi Mine in Kayah Sate since 1988. Over 212matric tons of marble slabs and 260 matric tonnes ofantimony were produced at Mawchi Mine in 2006.These are fruits of efforts of the Tatmadaw Governmentin striving for development of socio-economic life ofKayah national people.

Land and acquatic resources are used forthe development of a country. Similarly, humanresources should also be nurtured to efficientlyexploit the natural resources.

The Government opened more basic

education schools and appointed more teachers.Hence, the number of students increased. Inaddition, school enrolment rate and adult literacyrate increased in the State.

Thanks to the opening of an Arts and ScienceUniversity in Loikaw that is one of the 24 specialdevelopment regions, the local youth are able to pursuehigher education, and the education sector of KayahState will surely improve.

Although there were only 333 schools in thestate in 1988, the number reached 388 in 2006. In 1988there were no multi-media classrooms and e-learningcentres but the schools across the state were installedwith 21 multi-media classrooms and 17 e-learningcentres in 2006. Likewise, the number of teachers was1,987 in 2006, up from 1,259 in 1988. The number ofstudents increased to 52,430 in 2006 although it was29,916 in 1988. The school enrolment rate ofkindergarten students was 53.26 per cent in 1988 butit was 95.92 per cent in 2006.

In the higher education sector also, althoughthere was no university in the state in 1988, now anArts and Science University has been opened in thestate. With one e-learning centre, 40 teachingprogrammes, 140 faculty members and 2,939 universitystudents, Kayah State is trying to develop humanresources of the higher education sector.

According to the national education promotionprogramme, the technological college and the computercollege in Loikaw have been upgraded into theuniversities and there are now about 400 basic educationschools in Kayah State including 35 schools openedunder the border area development programme.

As a result, socio-economic life of the Kayahnational people has improved and the youth of thestate are now in a position to enjoy learningopportunities though its education standard waslow in the previous eras. Indeed, peace and stabilityand unity of Kayah State is fundamental for itsdevelopment.

Therefore, Secretary-1 of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Lt-Gen Thein Sein, also

Chairman of Myanmar Education Committee,delivered an address at the opening of the mainbuilding of Loikaw University in Kayah State on 5August 2007. In his address, he said:

“Kayah State complete with universities inwhich arts and science, engineering, architectureand computer science and even master’s degreecourses are being conducted is a state where therewas no university and college in 1988. Hence, theemergence of such splendid building facilitatedwith modern teaching and learning aids is of greatsignificance.

“Only when local people are fit and healthywill they be able to carry out development tasks intheir regions. And only when local youths arenurtured into intellectuals and intelligentsia willthey be able to maintain the already-achieveddevelopment. With this concept, efforts are beingmade to create opportunities to pursue highereducation in all parts of the nation and to fullyprovide health care services to the people ofdifferent regions.

“Faculty members are to nurture thestudents to become intellectuals and intelligentsiain their own region who will maintain and furtherdevelop fruits of peace and stability and unity thathave been already achieved.”

The speech of the Secretary-1 not onlyhighlighted the good political, economic and socialfoundations as well as prospects of Kayah State butalso urged the local nationals to maintain and safeguardthese already-achieved fruitful results.With these sound political, economic and socialfoundations, Kayah State is serving as a force witha view to ensuring national solidarity of the futurenation.

All in all, the development of Kayah Statecontributes towards achieving the national goal ofbuilding a peaceful, modern and developed discipline-flourishing democratic nation.

Translation: TS+AMS+STMyanma Alin + Kyemon: 8-8-2007

The night scene of illuminated main building of Loikaw University.

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Information Minister receives guest

YANGON, 8 Aug — Minister for InformationBrig-Gen Kyaw Hsan received Mr Dato AinuddinNoordin, Advisor to MEASAT Satellite SystemsSdn Bhd of Malaysia, at Myanma Radio andTelevision on Pyay Road here today.

Also present at the call were Director-Generalof MRTV U Khin Maung Htay, Managing Directorof Myanma Motion Picture Enterprise U AungMyo Myint and Chief Engineer U Tin Wam ofMRTV.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 7 Aug — Minister forCommunications, Posts and Telegraphs Brig-GenThein Zaw inspected construction of TeleportBuilding at Yadanabon Myothit project site inPyinOoLwin yesterday.

At the briefing hall, the officials reported to theminister on water supply tasks being carried out byDevelopment Affairs Committee, construction of roadsand supply of electric power by Electric PowerDistribution Enterprise.

During his tour, the minister also inspectedAnisakhan Auto-Exchange in PyinOoLwin. At theoffice, the official reported to the minister oninstallation of machines at the office.

While in PyinOoLwin, the minister alsovisited an auto-exchange project site in PadeythaMyothit.— MNA

Minister on inspectiontour of PyinOoLwin

YANGON, 7 Aug —Minister for ElectricPower No 2 Maj-GenKhin Maung Myint,together with Yangon CityElectric Power SupplyBoard Chairman Col Khin

Maung Soe and officials,visited the vehicledivisions of YCEPSB andMyanma Electric PowerEnterprise yesterday.Officials concernedreported on functions of

the divisions.After giving

necessary instructions, theminister inspected thedepartmental vehicles,tanks of fuel and pumps.

MNA

Minister for Electric Power No 2visits vehicle divisions

(from page 16)made by Chairman of the NCC Work Committee UAung Toe regarding already-adopted basic principles,amendments, additions and repeals of basic principlesand detailed basic principles.

Afterwards, U Thein Aung of the Ministry ofSports read out the proposal of the delegate group ofState Service Personnel regarding amendments, addi-tions and repeals of basic principles and detailed basicprinciples. After that, U Soe Myint Thein of CivilService Selection and Training Board and U TheinHtay of Mandalay City Development Committee madesuggestions concerning the proposal.

After seeking approvals of those present, themeeting chairman delivered the concluding remarks.

MNA

Delegate group of StateService Personnel…

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan receives Advisor Mr Dato Ainuddin Noordin of MEASATSatellite Systems Sdn Bhd.— MNA

Chairman of National Convention Convening ManagementCommittee Auditor-General Maj-Gen Lun Maung presents cash to adelegate who is receiving treatment at No 1 Defence Services General

Hospital (1000-bed). (News on Page 16)—MNA

Amarapura, Hinthada townships in floodNAY PYI TAW, 8 Aug

— Recently the waterlevel of TaungthamanLake under U Pein Bridgein Amarapura Townshiphas been on the rise due tooverflowing Ayeyawadyand Dokhtawady rivers,reaching the floor of thebridge. Out of the eight

rest houses on the bridge,Kyipinkhaung Rest Househas been under water bysix inches.

The campus ofYadanabon University inTaungthaman Village inAmarapura Township, thecircular road ofTaungthaman Lake and

the tarred road nearMyabayet Monastery havebeen under water by twofeet to four feet. Hence,the university was tem-porarily closed.

Due to incessantrains, the river water atHinthada, Zalun,Laymyethna, Myanaung,

Kyangin and IngapuTownships inAyeyawady Divisionrose to above the dangerlevel, and responsiblepersonnel and socialorganizations are takingpreventative measuresagainst floods.

MNA

Malaysian and Vietnamese wellwishers donated US$ 565 to JivitadanaSangha Hospital through Joint Secretary-1 U Thein Aung of

Administrative Board of the Hospital recently.— H

Mayor inspects progress in preventivemeasures against DHF

YANGON, 8 Aug —Chairman of Yangon CityDevelopment CommitteeMayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin and Vice-MayorCol Maung Pa inspectedmass activity on preventivemeasure against denguefever jointly organized byHealth Department andYCDC in South OakkalapaTownship this morning.

After hearing reports

on outbreak of the diseaseand preventive andeducative measurespresented by officials atthe office of Yangon EastDistrict DevelopmentAffairs Committee in thetownship, the mayor gavenecessary instructions andattended to the needs.

Next, the mayor, thevice-mayor and officialslooked into sanitation,

spraying of insecticide andeducative talks onprevention of DHF in No11 Ward and encouragedthe local people.

Similarly, massactivities on preventivemeasures against DHFwere held in Hline,Thingangyun, Ahlon andMingala TaungnyuntTownships.

MNA

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French “Spiderman” arrested atopLisbon bridge

LISBON (Portugal), 8 Aug — A French daredevil climber, who hasscaled skyscrapers around the world, was arrested once again on Mondayafter reaching the top of a bridge overlooking Lisbon.

“AP” says journalist missing in Iraq NEW YORK, 8 Aug — An Iraqi journalist working for the Associated Press

has been missing for more than a week and witnesses and relatives say he hasbeen kidnapped, the US news organization said on Tuesday.

Vietnam battles rising floods,death toll hits 14

HANOI, 8 Aug— Vietnamese rescuers are moving thousands of people tohigher ground on Tuesday after a storm dumped heavy rain in the centralregion, killing 14 people, officials said.

Vietnam reports 200,000 cancerpatients annually

Talal Mohammed,40, worked as both ajournalist and photo-grapher for the AP inBaqouba and had beentravelling to Baghdad, 35miles (56 kilometres)southwest, when hedisappeared on 28 July,the agency said in astatement.

He was with a friend

aboard a bus when bothwere kidnapped at anillegal checkpoint nearBaqouba, relatives ofMohammed told the AP.The relatives said thedetails of Mohammed’scapture came from hisfriend who was laterreleased.

“It was unclearwhether Mohammed was

seized because he workedfor a Western news agencyor for some other reason,”the AP said. “Five APemployees have diedviolently in the Iraq war,three of whom have beenkilled since December.”

“The AP did notrelease information onthe kidnapping earlierbecause it had been intouch with US militaryauthorities in the region inthe hope of findingMohammed.”

Mohammed, who ismarried with children, hasworked with the AP sincefall 2006.

Data from theCommittee to ProtectJournalists shows that 112journalists have beenkilled in Iraq since thewar began in March 2003,90 of which were Iraqi.Another 40 media supportworkers have also died inthe same period.

MNA/Reuters

Workers collect palm seeds before sending them toa factory in Bahorok District in Langkat, NorthSumatra Province, on 1 Aug, 2007. — INTERNET

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pays a home visit to Qian Xuesen, the 96-year-old renowned scientist and founder of China’s space technology on 3 Aug ,

2007. — XINHUA

Alain Robert, 44,also known as the FrenchSpiderman, used no ropeswhen he climbed the 190metres (620 feet) over theTagus River during rushhour on Monday. Robertsaid he had been arrestedmore than 100 times forclimbing buildings.

“I’m still at thebridge with the police,”he told Reuters by phoneafter the climb. “It was avery difficult job becausethe wind was strong andthe cables on the bridgekept on swinging.”

A helicopter

hovered above Lisbon’s25th of April bridge —similar to San Francisco’sGolden Gate bridge —filming Robert for adocumentary whilehundreds of commuterslooked up.

Two policemenstanding at the top of thepillar arrested Robert fortrespassing. He will haveto pay a fine of 120 euros(166 US dollars) beforebeing released.

Robert first climbeda building at the age of12 when he got lockedout of his apartment and

decided to mount theeight stories up to anopen window.

He has sinceclimbed more than 70buildings around theworld, including Chi-cago’s Sears Tower in1999.

Robert wasproclaimed 60-per-centdisabled after landing onhis head from a 15-metredrop 25 years ago.Although he now suffersfrom epilepsy andvertigo, his confidence isunwavering.

MNA/Reuters

HANOI, 8 Aug —Vietnam has annuallydetected some 200,000cancer cases in recentyears, local newspaper

Pioneer reported Tuesday. The K Hospital in

Hanoi capital alone, whichspecializes in cancerdiagnosis and treatment,has annually treated150,000 cancer patients,including 75,000 fatali-ties, over the past fiveyears, the paper quoted thehospital’s director NguyenBa Duc as saying.

Many of the patientsare aged over 40. The mostcommon cancers includelung cancer, gastriccancer, bronchial tubecancer, and liver cancer.

The infection andfatality are attributedmainly to the pollutedenvironment and the latediagnosis of the disease.

MNA/Xinhua

Another 15 peoplewere missing.

Most of the deathswere in the Central High-lands coffee growingregion where flash floodsswept away people,houses, rice and corncrops at the weekend, thegovernment said in its

disaster report on Tues-day.

Many areas were cutoff by floods that struckthe region’s hilly terrainahead of a storm thatneared the central coaston Monday beforeweakening into adepression, the national

weather bureau said. The depression, with

winds of up to 49kilometres (30 miles) perhour at its centre, was 130kilometres (80 miles)northeast of the centralprovince of Quang Binhearly on Tuesday andmoving slowly north-west.

It dumped up to 500millimetres (20 inches) ofrain on the coffee beltand a swathe of coastalprovinces where riversrose to dangerous levelson Tuesday, the govern-ment said.

The coffee crop inthe Central Highlandswas not at risk and rainseven helped green coffeecherries develop beforethe harvesting starts inlate October, traders said.

MNA/Reuters

The poster for the “Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival 2007” is seen on thestreet in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 3 Aug, 2007.The Edinburgh Festivalis infact made up of a variety of festivals and events including the International

Festival, The Fringe, Book Festival, Film Festival, Military Tattoo, Jazzfestival and Edinburgh Mela. It is a generic term used to describe the cultural

explosion which takes place in the city in August each year. — XINHUA

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

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA TERAJU VOY NO (249)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTATERAJU VOY NO (249) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 9.8.2007 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of A.W. P.T where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINE PTE, LTD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

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Singer David Tao aims at filmmaking

Popular Taipeimusician David Tao

BEIJING, 7 Aug—Tai-wan R&B guru David Taohas long been planning aprofessional directorialdebut.

David Tao, whose fatherused to work as ananimator for Walt Disney,says he has educationalbackground in film-making, and he will beproducing professionalwork rather than theamateur type.

The singer says he hasbeen working intensely onscreenplay writing. Hehopes to start filming forhis directorial debut laterthis year, despite all theactivities lined up forpromoting his last albumtitled “Beautiful.”

The singer, known forhaving popularized R&Bin the Mandopop industry,says that music will onlybe a small part of his careerin the future whilededicating most of his timeto filmmaking.

David Tao tells themedia that he is yet tocheck out fellow musicianJay Chou’s first directorialwork titled “Secret,”which has been a boxoffice front-runner sincehitting the big-screen lastmonth.

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ICRC opens workshop on humanitarianlaw in mily operations

GENEVA, 7 Aug—TheInternational Committeeof the Red Cross (ICRC)on Monday opened herean international workshopaiming to promote theintegration of humani-tarian law into militaryoperations.

The two-week event,organized in collaborationwith the Swiss ArmedForces, are being attendedby senior officers from 60European, American,Asian and Middle Easterncountries, the Swiss-runhumanitarian agency saidin a statement.

The workshop “aims topromote the integration ofhumanitarian law intomilitary doctrine andstandard operating pro-cedures”, the statementsaid.

Addressing the openingof the workshop, ICRCVice-President Olivier

Vodoz lamented the factthat in many armed con-flicts it is civilians whosuffer most.

He emphasized that“nothing can justify menand women, elderly peopleand children who havenever borne arms — orcombatants who have laidthem down — being theprimary victims in armedconflict or other situationsof violence. Nothing canexcuse murder, rape,looting or humiliatingtreatment”. He pointed outthat legal standards mustbe converted into explicitrules and concrete action,and into orders and pro-cedures that can be under-stood by all combatants.

According to ICRC, theworkshop on internationalrules governing militaryoperations is intended forhigh-ranking officers —from lieutenant colonel tobrigadier — with respon-sibility for training or fordrawing up operatinginstructions, or involvedin the conduct of militaryoperations.

“This workshop repre-sents a new step in theefforts the ICRC has beenmaking for 30 years tohelp governments andarmed forces fulfil theirobligations under inter-national humanitarianlaw,” ICRC said in thestatement.

MNA/Xinhua

Vietnam to enhance supervisionof OTC market

HANOI, 7 Aug—Vietnam will strengthen regulatingthe over-the-counter(OTC) market in order to reduceinvestor’s risks on the market, local newspaper VietnamNews reported on Monday.

A draft plan drawn up by the State SecuritiesCommission is expected to be issued later this month.Under the plan, the country will apply a new tradingsystem and create a more professional OTC market,and the Hanoi Securities Trading Centre will play amore active role in monitoring the market, said thepaper.

According to the new rules, all public companies arerequired to deposit OTC shares with the SecuritiesDepository Centre. Similarly, investors trading in OTCshares will also have to deposit their shares withdepository members and place all buy and sell ordersthrough accounts with securities companies. Thenthese orders will be transferred to the Hanoi stockexchange’s transaction system, allowing brokeragesto gain access, find buyers and sellers, and make dealsfor investors. — MNA/Xinhua

Levees damaged by floodin Yellow River

JINAN, 7 Aug—Floodwaters caused by continuousrains have damaged levees on the Yellow River andaltered the course of the river by more than 100 metresin east China, say flood control authorities.

The runoff in the section in Shandong Province was3,600 cubic metres per second on Monday.

Rocks had been flushed out from the bases of sevenlevees in Yuncheng County since Thursday and thelevees had collapsed in places, said an official with theShandong bureau of Yellow River ConservancyCommittee.

Local officials and residents had repaired thedamaged levees with the help of experts from theYellow River flood control headquarters, the officialsaid.—MNA/Xinhua

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fighter jet

Clashes flare up innorthern Lebanese camp

Apple updates iMacs, iLife, iWork amidschool buying season

NBA star centre Yao Ming has married to his longtime girlfriend Ye Liin their hometown Shanghai on 6 Aug. —INTERNET

A dead cow is dropped into a truck in a farm inNormandy, near Guildford, south east England

on 7 Aug, 2007. A second herd of cattle insouthern Britain has contracted foot and mouthdisease, the government said on Tuesday, raising

fears that the highly damaging animal virus isspreading.—INTERNET

TEHERAN, 7 Aug —Iran on Sunday made asuccessful test flight ofits second home-madefighter jet, state mediareported.

According to the semi-official Fars news agency,the fighter jet, Azarakhsh(Lightning), which wassaid to be “comparable”to the US F-5 fighter jet,made a successful flightin a ceremony in thecentral city of Isfahan.

Defence MinisterMostafa MohammadNajjar and some othersenior military officialsattended the ceremony, itsaid.

“The domesticallydeveloped fighter plane isanother example of thetechnological achieve-ments of Iran,” Isfahangovernor Morteza Bak-htiari was quoted as sayingby the official IRNA newsagency.

“When the UnitedStates is selling its arms toits allies in the region, ourcountry’s experts aremaking huge progressevery day toward self-sufficiency in defence,” he added.

Azarakhsh is Iran’ssecond homegrownfighter jet after Sa’egheh(Thunder), which has beendescribed as a parallel tothe US F-18 fighter jet.

MNA/Xinhua

iMacs

BEIJING, 8 Aug —Apple Inc made a large-scaleupdate of its iMacdesktops, revised its iLifeapplications and addeda new spreadsheet pro-gramme to its iWorkproductivity suite, USmedia reported Wednes-day. In an event held atApple’s Cupertino, Calif,headquarters, CEO SteveJobs introduced three newiMacs, two with 20-inLCD screens, and one witha 24-in monitor. The 20-in screens offer 1680- by1050-pixel resolutions;the 24-in screen has aresolution of 1920 by 1200pixels. The new iLife suitecame with updated

versions of all its ap-plications. The iPhoto andiMovie programmesreceived the most ex-tensive revisions, withiMovie rewritten com-pletely, allowing users to

make high-quality moviesquicker and easier,according to CEO SteveJobs.A number of tweakswere added to Numbers(a spreadsheet appli-cation), which allows

users to view two spread-sheets on the same pageand to print their chartsmore easily withoutbreaks in the data.

Jobs also demon-strated new features iniPhoto, part of therevamped iLife ’08 suite;new links between bothiPhoto and Apple’siPhone, and thecompany’s .

Mac online service;and other iLife ’08applications, including arefreshed iWeb and atotally redesigned iMovie.The new keyboard is moreMacBook-like and comesin an optional wirelessversion.— Internet

Medical plane crashes inNew Mexico, killing

five aboard

BEIRUT, 7 Aug — TheLebanese Army onMonday stepped up itsfighting against Islamistmilitants in a Palestinianrefugee camp, using heavymortar fire in attacks ontheir locations, the officialNational News Agencyreported.

According to the report,the Army targeted a Fatahal-Islam location in the so-called security square ofthe Nahr al-Bared campthis morning, causingbloody battles.

Army units alsoattacked militant groups

near Naji Al-Ali com-pound and other areas ofthe camp.

Reports also indicatedthat the militants onSunday night fired sniperfire and missile and mortarrounds on Army units inresponse to Army attacks.

The Lebanese Armyhave been battling withthe militants of Fatah al-Islam in the Nahr al-Baredcamp since 20 May Thebloodiest internal violencesince the Lebanese 1975-1990 civil war has killedmore than 200 people.

MNA/Xinhua

Air India to lease planes for international routes NEW DELHI, 7 Aug —

With shortage of aircraftaffecting its services onlong haul routes, Air Indiahas charted out plans toinduct leased planes tomaintain its internationalschedules and launch newroutes.

The current fleet wasshort by one aircraft andthe airline was operatingwithout a standby plane,severely affecting itspunctuality and schedule

integrity, official sourcessaid.

To handle the situation,Air India has recently heldnegotiations to leaseplanes after it receivedoffers for wet-lease oftwo Boeing 747-400s andtwo Airbus A340-300s.

The two Boeing jetswould replace similarplanes to maintain thepresent daily Mumbai-Chicago flight, while theAirbus aircraft would be

deployed on Dhaka-Kolkata-London andMumbai-London routes.

Two A330s are alsobeing leased for deploy-ment on the new India-

Hong Kong route fromNovember one and onIndia-Mauritius Johan-nesburg route from 15December .

MNA/PTI

WASHINGTON, 7 Aug —Five people aboard amedical plane were killedwhen the aircraft crashedovernight in New Mexico,US media reported

Monday. The victims included a

15-month-old girl whowas being transportedto a hospital, her mother,the pilot, a nurse and aparamedic. Wreckage ofthe plane were found onMonday on a mountainousarea, and the cause of theaccident was not knownimmediately.

The twin-engine turboprop plane, which wasowned by Las Cruces- areaSouthwest Medivac, wasflying to the Universityof New Mexico Hospitalin Albuquerque, NewMexico on Sunday nightwhen it crashed.

MNA/Xinhua

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S P O R T S

China’s two famous athletes Yao Ming (L) and LiuXiang shake hands during a one-year countdownceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing,

on 8 Aug, 2007.—INTERNET

Andy Roddick of the US poses for pho-tographers with the winner’s trophyafter defeating compatriot John Isnerin the final of the Legg Mason TennisClassic at the William HG FitzGeraldTennis Centre in Washington. Roddickwon 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) to end a fairy-talerun by the unheralded 416th-rankedAmerican newcomer. — INTERNET

Olympic 400 metres champion JeremyWariner runs a personal best of 43.50seconds at the DN Gala meeting in Stock-holm on Tuesday to equal fellow-Ameri-can Quincy Watts as the third fastestman in the event’s history. —INTERNET

Platini warnsEnglish soccer chiefsover greedy owners

LONDON, 7 Aug — English soccerauthorities should not allow foreignbusinessmen interested only inmaking "a quick buck" to take over theirclubs, UEFA president Michel Platinisaid in a television interview to bebroadcast on Tuesday.

"I would be worried if I were Englishbecause of all the foreign ownership,"the head of European soccer's govern-ing body said in the interview to be airedon British satellite channel Sky News.

"They could be rich people coming tohelp English football and develop it, butthey may just want to make a quickbuck. I fear your clubs will lose identity.If it was in France, I would fight it."

Last month, Manchester City becamethe latest of several foreign-owned Eng-lish Premier League clubs when formerThai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatratook over.—MNA/Reuters

Johansson ends 10-yearwait with victory in Russia

NAKHABINO (Russia), 7 Aug — Sweden's Per-UlrikJohansson shot a final round five-under 67 to cruise toa six-stroke triumph at the rain-affected Russian Openon Sunday and clinch his first victory in a decade.

The 40-year-old, playing in only his third EuropeanTour event this year, made five birdies to set a recordlowest score for the tournament of 23-under-par 265 tobetter the mark of last year's winner Alejandro Canizaresof Spain by a stroke.

Dutchman Robert-Jan Derksen, who started the dayfour strokes behind Johansson, bogeyed the ninth aftera flawless round on Saturday to finish second with athree-under 69 and a 271 total. The former Ryder Cupplayer, whose last victory came in August 1997 when hesuccessfully defended the European Open in Ireland,also boosted his bank account by 244,250 euros (336,710US dollars) after earning just over 54,000 euros in 2007before this event.—MNA/Reuters

Ochoa wins Women’s British Open ST ANDREWS (Scotland), 7 Aug — Mexico's world

number one Lorena Ochoa claimed her first major titlewith a final round 74 at the Women's British Open onSunday.

The 25-year-old from Guadalajara, who had ledfrom round one, finished on five under par, four shotsahead of Sweden's Maria Hjorth and South Korea'sLee Jee-Young.

They both shot 71 to share second place with Ameri-can Reilley Rankin in fourth on level par after alsoshooting 71.

Ochoa, who started the day six shots ahead, neverlooked like losing her lead. She had three birdies in thefirst nine holes and dropped four shots, three on theback nine.

The only minor hiccup was at the par-five 17thwhere Ochoa hit her second into an almost unplayablelie in a fairways bunker and had to hit out sideways.However, she salvaged a bogey six.

Sorenstam, starting the round tied for third andseven off the lead, was expected to be the main threatand she opened with two birdies in the first six holes.

But the 2003 champion hit a drive out of bounds atthe 17th and could only post a 76 for a share of 16th.

MNA/Reuters

Messi’s goldengoal boots fetch

4,000 eurosat auction

MADRID, 7 Aug — Asigned pair of LionelMessi’s boots have beensold for 4,000 euros (5,514US dollars) at an auctionin Beijing on Barcelona’stour of Asia, Spanish me-dia reported on Sunday.

They were the boots theArgentina forward worewhen he scored a goal forBarcelona similar to Di-ego Maradona’s famoussolo effort against Eng-land in the 1986 WorldCup, in the King’s Cupsemifinal first leg againstGetafe in April.

Other items of Barcamemorabilia auctionedincluded the shirt Francestriker Thierry Henrywore at his official pres-entation in June and a cut-ting of Brazil forwardRonaldinho’s hair.

Around 1.5 millioneuros were raised for disa-bled children in China.

MNA/Reuters

Ferguson says Tevez to makeUnited debut on Wednesday

LONDON, 7 Aug — Argentine striker Carlos Tevez will make hisManchester United debut on Wednesday and could feature againstReading in the Premier League next weekend, manager Alex Fergusonsaid on Sunday.

Ferguson expressed excitement at the arrival of Tevez, who is setto complete a move to Old Trafford from West Ham United this weekfollowing a prolonged transfer saga which centred on who owned thestriker. On Friday West Ham reached a two-million-pound (4.07-million-US-dollar) settlement with Tevez’ representatives, pavingthe way for the player to join the Premier League champions.

“I think the boy’s got something exceptional in him,” the Unitedmanager said. “We experienced it in the last game against him at OldTrafford when he was a real handful to us.” — MNA/Reuters

FIFA says only 18 Africannations have safe stadiumsJOHANNESBURG, 7 Aug — Only 18 Af-

rican countries visited by FIFA havesoccer stadiums safe enough to allowthem to host World Cup qualifiers, theworld governing body said on Monday.

FIFA officials completed an inspec-tion of 50 of the continent's 53 footballplaying nations in June. They did notvisit Kenya, Somalia or World Cup hostsSouth Africa.

The inspections follow FIFA's deci-sion last year to insist on better safetystandards at international matches, par-ticularly World Cup qualifiers.

MNA/Reuters

Olympic Champion Manaudousacked by Turin club

PARIS, 7 Aug — World and Olympic championLaure Manaudou has been sacked by the Italian clubshe joined three months ago.

Marco Durante, president of Turin club LaPresseNuoto, said she was fired because of her disrespectfulbehaviour towards coach Paolo Penso and towards hernational team. “I called Laure this morning to tell hermy decision,” Durante said in a statement.

“If she apologizes to Paolo Penso and to the Frenchnational team after returning from her holidays, shewill be able to re-join the team. But there is only onechance in a million that Laure will understand (whatshe has done) and turn back.”

The Frenchwoman split with coach Philippe Lucasin May and moved her training base to Italy, saying shewanted a new challenge and wished to be nearer herboyfriend, Italian swimmer Luca Marin.

Manaudou is the Olympic 400 metres freestylechampion. She also won gold in the world champion-ship 200 and 400 freestyle.

Penso questioned her dedication to training in aninterview with L’Equipe on Monday.—MNA/Reuters

Poland needs more time tobuild Euro 2012 stadiums

WARSAW, 8 Aug — Poland wants to set a newdeadline for the construction of their Euro 2012 stadi-ums, Sports Minister Elzbieta Jakubiak said on Mon-day.

Since Poland won the right in April to co-host theevent with Ukraine, early euphoria has been replacedby growing concerns it may not prepare new groundsand upgrade inadequate infrastructure in time.

European soccer’s governing body UEFA saysthe tournament co-hosts must build the necessarystadiums by mid-2010.

“We need additional time and the year 2011 willbe the most suitable,” Jakubiak told a news conference.

The surprising choice of Poland and Ukraine asco-hosts ahead of Italy was originally touted by thePolish Government as an opportunity to put the coun-try on the international soccer map. — MNA/Reuters

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WEATHER

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Wednesday, 8 August, 2007Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hours

MST: During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowers havebeen isolated in Sagaing Division and Kayah State, scatteredin Kachin, Shan and Chin States, Mandalay and MagwayDivisions, fairly widespread in Bago and Yangon Divisionsand widespread in the remaining States and Divisions withlocally heavyfall in Rakhine and Mon States, isolated heavyfallsin Mandalay and Magway Divisions. The noteworthy amountsof rainfall recorded were Nay Pyi Taw (0.12) inch, Thandwe(9.45) inches, Sittway (5.87) inches, Kyaukpyu (5.27) inches,Mudon (4.31) inches, Maungtaw (4.22) inches, Mawlamyine(3.30) inches, Dawei (2.84) inches, Hpa-an (2.48) inches,Kayan (1.93) inches, Thayawady (1.89) inches, Pyinmana(1.73) inches and Minbu (1.57) inches.

Maximum temperature on 7-8-2007 was 84ºF. Minimuntemperature on 8-8-2007 was 71ºF. Relative humidity at 09:30hours MST on 8-8-2007 was 100%. Total sunshine hours on7-8-2007 was (0.1) hour approx.

Rainfall on 8-8-2007 was (1.57) inches at Mingaladon,(1.69) inches at Kaba-Aye and (1.73) inches at CentralYangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2007 was (87.16) inches atMingaladon, (88.66) inches at Kaba-Aye and (90.04) inchesat Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (15) mph from Southwest at (09:00) hours MST on8-8-2007.

Bay inference: Monsoon is strong in the Andaman Seaand South Bay and moderate elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 9-8-2007: Rain will beisolated in lower Sagaing Division, scattered in Chin andKayah States, Mandalay and Magway Divisions, fairly wide-spread in Kachin State, upper Sagaing, Bago and AyeyawadyDivisions and widespread in the remaining areas with likeli-hood of isolated heavyfall in Rakhine State. Degree of cer-tainty is (100%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough sea arelikely at times off and along Myanmar Coasts. Surface windspeed in squalls may reach (35) to (40) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Strong monsoon.Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areas

for 9-8-2007: Isolated rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areas for 9-

9-2007: Some rain. Degree of certainty is (100%).Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areas for

9-8-2007: Isolated rain. Degree of certainty is (60%).

8:30 am Brief news8:35 am Music:

-Happy nation8:40 am Perspectives8:45 am Music:

-Gone be fire8:50 am National news/

Slogan9:00 am Music:

-Tarzan boy9:05 am International

news9:10 am Music:

-Keep on smiling1:30 pm News / Slogan1:40 pm Lunch time

music:-Do I love you-You raise me up-You areeverything

9:00 pm Aspects ofMyanmar“Bago Division”

9:10 pm Article9:20 pm Topics potpourri

-Tomatos do nothelp preventcancer-Fruit, fishprotect teen’slung function

9:30 pm Favourite songschosen by musiclovers-Love-Sealed with akiss-Always &forever

9:45 pm News /Slogan10:00 pm PEL

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