Established 1914

Volume XVI, Number 152

3rd Waning of Tawthalin 1370 ME

Wednesday, 17 September, 2008

Four political objectives

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives* Stability of the State, community peace
and tranquillity, prevalence of law andorder* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitution* Building of a new modern developed nationin accord with the new State Constitution* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development of other sectors of the economy as well
* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic
system* Development of the economy inviting participation in termsof technical know-how and investments from sources inside
the country and abroad* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural
heritage and national character* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education
standards of the entire nation

Coastal road networks as
disaster escape routes
Prime Minister tours Labutta Township

INSIDENAY PYI TAW, 16 Sept—Chairman of National
Disaster Preparedness Central Committee Prime Minister General Thein Sein visited Thingangyi and Polaung
Villages and Pyinsalu in Labutta Township yesterday
and made arrangements for regional development.
Prime Minister General Thein Sein together with
Maj-Gen Ko Ko of the Ministry of Defence, Chairman

May new players be
statesmen

FIFA president gives Soweto’s
Soccer City stadium thumbs up

Prime Minister General Thein Sein visits
local people living in new homes at Polaung
Village in Labutta Township, Ayeyawady
Division. —MNA

National politics means doing
one’s bit in the national cause. For
instance, independence struggles
for liberation from the British, AntiFascist Resistance, military operations launched in the 1950s to drive
nationalist Chinese troops out of
the Myanmar soil after the announcements on the invasion for
the global information, and theprocess of transition to democracy.
KYAW MIN AYE

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1of Ayeyawady Division Peace and Development Council Commander of South-West Command Brig-Gen
Kyaw Swe, the ministers, the deputy ministers, thedirector-general of the Government’s Office and officials arrived in Thingangyi Village from Pathein byhelicopter.
(See page 8)

Blatter reiterated his support and confidence in South
Africa that the country will host the first African’s
Soccer World Cup event.
The Executive Mayor of Johannesburg AmosaSOWETO, 16 Sept—“I’m very impressed withthe building progress of the stadium so far. It is big Masondo assured Blatter that the city was ready.
Internetand looks great,” said Blatter after today’s site visit.
Soccer City, which will host the final match of
the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Blatter joked with the international and local
media that even the pleasant Johannesburg weather
was on “their side” in ensuring that the building of the
95,000 capacity stadium will be completed on time.
Blatter was flanked by the Local Organising Committee Board chairman Irvin Khoza, CEO Danny
Jordaan, business tycoon Tokyo Sexwale, transportminister Jeff Radebe and the FIFA delegation.
He however cautioned that it was equally important for the country to focus on preparations forFIFA President Joseph Blatter(R), seen here
next year’s FIFAConfederations Cup.
mingling with construction workers at theHe said the stadiums earmarked to host theGreenpoint
WC2010 football stadium in Cape
Confederations Cup games next year should be readyon time.
Town.—INTERNET

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PERSPECTIVES
Wednesday, 17 September, 2008

Salt farming to return
to normal soon
Seven townships in Ayeyawady Division and
40 townships in Yangon Division suffered heavy
loss of lives and property including economic
enterprises during the storm that hit hard
Myanmar this May. Now, rehabilitation tasks
have reached their peak in the storm-affectedareas thanks to the voluntary service and relief
supplies provided by the government, national
entrepreneurs and local and foreign donors.
So far, more than 2000 houses have been built
for the homeless victims, and they have resettled
and restored their livelihoods.
Agricultural farming, fish farming and salt
farming are the three main sources of livelihoods
for local people in Ayeyawady Division. Up tonow, over 8000 power-tillers, over 2000 draught
cattle, over 1.7 million baskets of paddy seeds andfuel have been provided for the storm-stricken
areas for timely restoration of agricultural work.
As a result, 90 per cent of the total sown acreageof paddy fields has been put under paddy.
Likewise, local fishermen have restored theirbusinesses due to the assistance of over 9000
fishing boats, over 10,000 fishing nets and fishinggear.
Myaungmya, Labutta, Pyapon andNgapudaw townships lost more than 20,000 acresof salt farms, more than 20,000 tons of coarse salt,
and related equipment in the catastrophe. So, itcalls for continued efforts for the salt farming, amain business of the region, to return to normal.
The process covers repairing of the dykes of thesalt farms, saltwater lakes, and the embankmentsof the lakes.
After the process, salt farmers have tocomplete the draining of seawater into the lakes,
exposing the saltwater to the sun, and collectingcoarse salt beginning October till the rainyseason.
Now, a target has been set to produce 300,000
tons of salt including mining salt. The salt farming
will return to normal soon if related ministries
render assistance to salt farmers, and salt farmers
and workers work hard.

MFF President U Zaw Zaw makes a speech
at coord meeting on development of
Myanmar football. — NLM

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2People’s Desire* 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

CEC member attends Dedaye Township USDA AGM
NAY PYI TAW, 16
Sept—CEC member of
the Union Solidarity andDevelopment Association
Ministerfor
RailTransportation Maj-Gen
Aung Min delivered anaddress and presented
prizes to outstanding
students at the annual
general meeting of
Dedaye Township USDA
at the meeting hall of
Dedaye Township Peaceand Development Council
on 14 September.
The
ministerviewed learning of school
children at Nay Yaung Ka
village (Affiliated) BEHS
USDA CEC member Maj-Gen Aung Min presents prize to anin the township andoutstanding student.—MNA
presented K 1 million for
construction of school hospital, the minister by the storm and presented minister also met withbuilding.
looked into patient ward K 1 million for repairing health staff and local people
At the station and surgical ward ravaged surgical equipment. The at the hospital.—MNA

Thanbyuzayat Township
USDA holds AGM
YANGON, 16 Sept—The annual general meetingof the Thanbyuzayat Township Union Solidarity andDevelopment Association was held at the township
USDA’s office on 4 September. Chairman of Township
Peace and Development Council U Maung Maung
spoke on the occasion.
Secretary of Mon State USDA U Tin Soe
Moe Naing and officials presented prizes to 12
distinction winners and the schools with the highest
pass rate in the matriculation examination andthose who participated in community welfare
services.
Secretary of Township USDA U Khin MaungOo accepted cash and presented certificates of honour
to wellwishers.—MNA

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Storm NewsNAY PYI TAW, 16 Sept—According to theobservations at 16:00 hrs MST today, depression
over the Northwest Bay of Bengal is not moving
significantly. It continues crossing the Orrisa Coastof India.—MNA

Officials, supporters seek means
to develop Myanmar football
YANGON, 16 Sept— A coordination meeting on
development of Myanmar football was held at Sedona
Hotel here this afternoon, attended by General Secretaryof Myanmar Olympic Committee Director-General ofSports and Physical Education Department U Thaung
Htaik and officials, President of Myanmar Football
Federation U Zaw Zaw, vice-presidents and executives,
entrepreneurs who provided assistance to Myanmar
League Football Tourney, responsible persons from
Myanmar League teams, mediamen and guests.
President of MFF U Zaw Zaw clarified the
purpose of the meeting.
Next, Director-General U Thaung Htaik andofficials and President U Zaw Zaw presented certificatesof honour to well-wishers who donated cash fordevelopment of Myanmar Football. The donations
included K 50 million by IBTC Co Ltd, K 10 million
by Myanmar CP Livestock Co Ltd, K 5 million by
MDG Co Ltd and K 3 million by Khin Maung Nyunt
Co Ltd.
Next, General Secretary U Tin Aung andexecutives explained future work programmes to be
implemented by MFF.
President U Zaw Zaw replied to queries raisedby those present and the meeting ended with theconcluding remarks by the director-general—MNA

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NATO, US takegreater toll on Afghans

Pakistan orders troops
to open fire if US raids

KABUL, 16 Sept —The number of Afghan civilians killed in insurgent attacks and airstrikes by foreign troops has risen 40 percent in the past year, andmore died in August than in any month since the2001 ouster of the Taliban, the UN said Tuesday.
Exactly 800 of the 1,445 Afghan deaths between
January and the end of August_ or 55 percent —were caused by Taliban and other insurgents, the UN
said. During the same eight-month period in 2007,
1,040 civilians died.
US or NATO airstrikes caused 395 deaths — twothirds of the total casualties inflicted by pro-government forces, the UN said.
Some 330 civilians died in August alone, including about 92 killed in a US-led raid on the villageof Azizabad, the UN said. The Afghan government
and UN have blamed the US for killing scores ofcivilians in that operation.—Internet

ISLAMABAD, 16 Sept—Pakistan’s military has ordered its forces to open fire if US troops launch another air or ground raid across the Afghan border, anarmy spokesman said Tuesday.
The orders, which come in response to a highly
unusual 3 Sept ground attack by US commandos, arecertain to heighten tension between Washington and a
key ally against terrorism.
Army spokesman Maj -Gen Athar Abbas said thatafter US helicopters ferried troops into a militantstronghold in the South Waziristan tribal region, themilitary told field commanders to prevent any similarraids.
“The orders are clear,” Abbas said in an interview.
“In case it happens again in this form, that there is avery significant detection, which is very definite, noambiguity, across the border, on ground or in the air:open fire.”—Internet

British troops assaulted
IraqisUS military deaths in
Iraq war at 4,158

LONDON, 16 Sept—The Ministry of Defence (MoD)
has admitted nine Iraqi men suffered unlawful assaults
while being detained by British troops.
The men are bringing a claim for civil damages
against the MoD for physical and sexual abuse they
say they suffered at Camp Bread Basket, a food distribution depot near Basra, in May 2003.
Three soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Royal
Regiment of Fusiliers were court martialled, jailed andexpelled from the Army in February 2005 for mistreating suspected looters in the incident.
That led to the head of the Army apologising to thepeople of Iraq.
Leigh Day & Co, the firm of solicitors acting forthe men, said the MoD made the admission in papers
filed in connection with the damages action, but said
the ministry had said it was unable to admit or disputethe details of the treatment.
An MoD spokesman said it had admitted liability
under Iraqi law but not British law. Sapna Malik, from
Leigh Day & Co, said: “The maltreatment of the men
was hideous, humiliating and degrading and the legacy
lingers with them to this day.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 16 Sept—As of Monday, 15 Sept,
2008, at least 4,158 members of the US military
have died in the Iraq war since it began in March
2003.
The figure includes eight military civilians killedin action. At least 3,377 died as a result of hostileaction, according to the military’s numbers.
The British military has reported 176 deaths;
Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13;
Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five;
Slovakia, four; Latvia and Georgia, three each;
Estonia, Nether-lands, Thailand, Romania, twoeach; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, South
Korea, one death each.—Internet

Two dead as Hamas, clan
battle in Gaza CityGAZA CITY, 16 Sept—A
gunbattle raging in a
crowded Gaza City
neighborhood between
Hamas forces and a heavily armed clan left two
clan members dead,Hamas officials said Tuesday. Machine-gun fire andexplosions were audible

Tuesday morning aroundthe neighborhood home to
the Doghmush clan, a notorious family with links toboth militant and criminalgroups.
Members of the clan
were responsible for kidnapping a BBC journalist
last year.—Internet

A general view of Ain
al-Hilweh refugee
camp on a hillside
above Sidon, south of
Beirut 4 June, 2007.
INTERNET

Odierno takes
US commandin Iraq

BAGHDAD, 16 Sept —General Ray Odierno tookcommand of US-led
forces in Iraq on Tuesday,
AIN AL-HILWEH (Lebanon), 16 Sept —Three Palestinians were killed in fight- faced with the challenges
ing between rival factions at a refugee camp in south Lebanon on Monday, secu- of pulling off large-scalerity sources said.
attacks by militants at a
The fighting began when gunmen shot dead a member of the Islamist Jund al- time when American troop
Sham militant group in Ain al-Hilweh camp, 40 km (25 miles) south of the capital levels are being reduced.
Beirut.
Odierno replaced General
The killing triggered fierce exchanges of gunfire and grenades between the David Petraeus at a
militants and Fatah gunmen in which a second Jund al-Sham member was killed. ceremony presided overFew hours after the fighting stopped, the father of a senior Fatah official was by US Defence Secretary
shot dead by unknown attackers.—Internet
Robert Gates.—Internet

Asian markets tumble on
Lehman collapse
TOKYO, 16 Sept — The steep decline in US stocks
sent Asian stock markets tumbling sharply Tuesday
as investors were rattled by concerns over an
expanding global financial crisis.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index fell
4.8 percent to 11,632.99, falling under than 12,000point level for the first time since mid-March.
South Korea’s Kospi shed 6.2 percent, andTaiwan's benchmark was off 4.6 percent. The
battering in Australia and New Zealand wasn't quite
as severe, with key indices down 2.4 percent and 2.7
percent respectively. Hong Kong’s stock index
tumbled 6.49 percent in early trade, with Lehman
Brothers suspending trading of warrants.
In Tokyo, Kyodo news agency reported that theJapanese unit of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. hasrequested bankruptcy protection at a Tokyo court
after the 158-year-old firm filed for Chapter 11
bankruptcy in New York on Monday.—Internet

Floor traders at the Hong Kong Exchange react
Tuesday to news of falling shares.—INTERNET

AIG tumbles, worsening
financial carnage
NEW YORK, 16 Sept—American International
Group Inc shares tumbled 50 percent after the giant
US insurer’s credit ratings were slashed, feeding
market fears as top US investment bank Goldman
Sachs reported sharply lower quarterly earnings.
The cost of borrowing between banks surged as
financing troubles piled up for AIG and the markets
faced further fallout from the failure of investmentbank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
AIG was down 50 percent, bringing its decline forthe year to 96 percent. Before the decline, AIG was
the top US insurer by market capitalization.
AIG ended 2007 with 116,000 employees, morethan four times as many as Lehman.
Asian share markets, many of them closed for aholiday on Monday, tumbled as investors absorbed
the weekend’s dramatic events on Wall Street, where
Merrill Lynch agreed to be sold to Bank of America
for $50 billion. In Singapore, hundreds of anxious
investors thronged the office of an AIG unit toredeem their policies.—Internet

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People stand outside the world headquarters forLehman Brothers in New York 15 September,2008.—INTERNET

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Five killed, 12
injured inroad accident
in E Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, 15 Sept —At least five persons were
killed and 12 others injured in a road accident ineastern Pakistan on Monday morning, official Associated Press of Pakistan(APP) reported.
The APP quoted police sources as saying thata passenger bus comingfrom Sargodha collided
with a vehicle near
Bhuwan chowk in
Chakwal in Punjab province.
Resultantly, five passengers were killed and12 other sustained injuries. Seven among the injured were stated to be ina critical condition. The
local administration andrescue team rushed to thesite and carried out relief
operation, according to
APP. —Internet

Thousands flee heavy
Darfur fighting
KHARTOUM, 16 Sept —Thousands of villagers
have been forced to flee
their homes after morethan a week of heavy
clashes between Sudaneseforces and rebels in North
Darfur, aid sources said on
Monday.
Entire villages havebeen abandoned after
residents took shelter insurrounding mountains
and open land, cut off
from food aid and clinics,
humanitarian officers
said.
The fighting has further
undermined hopes forpeace at a time the government is trying to challenge an attempt by theInternational Criminal
Court’s prosecutor to try
President Omar Hassan
al-Bashir for war crimesin the western region.
A UN investigator said
on Monday that the hu-

man rights situation was
grim in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan.
Darfur rebel groups
said Sudanese soldiersand allied militias
launched a string of heavy
ground and air attacks ontheir positions in northDarfur throughout last
week and over the weekend. One rebel leader said
fighting continued on
Monday.
Internet

A Chuanju Opera player shakes hands with a foreign audience during the
Mid-Autumn soiree in Beijing, capital of China, on 14 Sept, 2008. —XINHUA

Crude oil settles at $95
NEW YORK, 16 Sept —Crude oil closed below
100 US dollars for the firsttime since February on
Monday as the US financial turmoil sparked concerns about demand and
Hurricane Ike spared the
Gulf refineries.
Light, sweet crude for
October delivery tumbled
5.47 dollars to settle at
95.71 dollars a barrel on
the New York Mercantile
Exchange (NYMEX).
Prices made a landslide of 7.05 dollars to
94.13dollars a barrel inthe early morning pre-session electronic trading.

US dollar falls against yen but
rises against euro, pound
NEW YORK, 16 Sept— The US dollar fell against
the yen and the Swiss franc, but rises slightly against
the euro and the pound on Monday as investors worried that the crisis of US financial sector would hit
global economy.
US stocks fell sharply on Monday after Lehman
Brothers filed for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch agreed
to be taken over by Bank of America. The Dow Jones
industrial average lost more than 500 points, its steepest point drop after the 11 Sept attacks in 2001.
The dollar tumbled in Asian and European trading
before climbing back. Investors took the greenback asa safe-haven currency against the euro and the poundon concerns over shock wave of the meltdown in US
finance systems. Low yielding currencies, the yen and
the Swiss franc, rose against the dollar on risk aversion. —Internet

A model displays the
newly launched Apple
iPod nano in Mumbai,
India, on 15 Sept,2008. The iPod nano,
the thinnest version
yet, will be priced at Rs
9700 (US$ 211.93) for
the 8GB model and Rs
12,500 (US$ 273.11)
for the 16GB one.
INTERNET

Lehman Brothers dealings
frozen in Germany
BERLIN, 16 Sept — German financial regulatorsordered on Monday a freeze on dealings by the Frankfurt branch of Lehman Brothers, just hours after the
US parent of the bank said it would file for bankruptcy
protection, German media reported.
The Bonn-based financial-services regulator BaFin
said the subsidiary, Lehman Brothers Bankhaus AG,
was barred from selling assets or making payments,
according to German news agency DPA.
Internet“Earthquake” in theWall Street during theweekend has made thetraders concern about theoil demand as the
economy condition gets
more worrying.
The US fourth lar gest bank Lehman filed
for bankruptcy and its rival Merrill Lynch reacheda deal of 44 billion dollars to sell itself to Bankof America.
Moreover, top US insurer American International Group struggled toseek capital. New Yorkstocks plunged amid newWall Street landscapewith Dow Jones lost over
400 points in the afternoon trading.
Meanwhile, Hurricane
Ike has left the refineries
along the Texas coast
without major damage.
The International Energy Agency said it would
release strategic oil reserve if necessary.
The news helped easepressure from oil prices.
Internet

NY Gov sees Wall Street losing up to 40,000 jobs

Small investors react as they monitor share prices during morning trading ata brokerage in Hong Kong on 16 Sept, 2008. —INTERNET

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New York Gov David Paterson on Monday said WallStreet might lay off 40,000
workers in a worst-casescenario following Lehman Brother’s bankruptcy
filing and problems atother big financial firms.
Paterson, speaking a
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tional Group, said the impact of the financial sector’s downturn may not beknown for months or evenyears.
The Democratic governor at the news conference also announcedplans to aid American International Group, allowing the insurer access to$20 billion of its own
capital, staving off aliquidity crisis.
Paterson, who said hewould not put any taxpayer dollars at risk, said

his efforts to shore up AIG
focused on clearing theway for the New Yorkregulated company toshift money to its parent
company from its insurance subsidiaries. The
transaction will serve as abridge loan.
Paterson blamed thelack of transparency incredit markets for the financial sector’s meltdown, saying many transactions were “beyond theperusal” of regulators.
Internet

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Millions of Texans still without
electricity after Hurricane

Fish remain stuck in a fence as flood waters caused by Hurricane Ike
recede, in West Orange, Texas, on Monday, 15 Sept, 2008.
INTERNETA USTIN , 16 Sept —Millions of Texans are still
living without power
despite intensified efforts
to restore the electricity
grid, local media reported
Tuesday.
Some 2.6 million
people in Texas arehaving to make dowithout power after
Hurricane Ike hit the Gulf
Coast last Saturday.
According to officials,
only 700,000 of them now

have their electricity
again, but the outage,
unprecedented in its scale,continues to darken mostof the upper Texas Gulf
Coast.
Local energy supplierCenter Point Energy
reported that 1.6 million
customers, or 69 percent
of its customers, were still
without power, and TexasNew Mexico Power Co,
which
servescommunities near the

hard-hitcoastline,
including Angleton andTexas City, said 65,000of its customers, or 58
percent, are without
electricity.
Restoring power is key
to solving other hurricanerelated problems,
includinggasolineshortages, fresh foodsupplies, ice and water
issues, local officials
said.
XinhuaUS biologists discover new ant species
in Amazon rainforest

Brazil declines invitation
to join OPECWASHINGTON, 16 Sept — University of Texas announced Monday that biologist Christian Rabeling discovered a new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant in the Amazon rainforest, which is likely adescendant of the very first ants to evolve.
The new ant is named Martialis heureka, whichtranslates roughly to “ant from Mars,” because the ant
has a combination of characteristics never before recorded. It is adapted for dwelling in the soil, is two to
three millimeters long, pale, and has no eyes and large
mandibles, which Rabeling and colleagues suspect it
uses to capture prey. —Xinhua

BRASILIA, 16 Sept — Brazilian Mines and Energy
Minister Edison Lobao on Monday declined an invitation from Saudi Arabia to join OPEC, explaining that
Brazil plans to refine, not export, crude oil from recently discovered deep water reserves.
Paulo Roberto Costa, a high-ranking executive withthe state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA oil company, confirmed that Brazil had turned down the offer to join
the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) because it plans to refine crude at home andmainly export processed oil products. —Xinhua

11 people killed in car accident
in NE Brazil

Brazil’s Petrobras approves contracts
to build 10 offshore oil units

RIO DE JANEIRO, 16 Sept — Eleven people were
killed and another 13 injured in a car accident Sundaynight on the BR-242 Federal Road in Brazil’s northeastern Bahia state.
Brazil’s Federal Highway Police (PRF) said on
Monday, the accident occurred after a van collided
A folk artist displays a piece of his works titled
head-on with a car after a failed overtake. The car“Chang’e
flying to the moon”, a legend about theoverturned and the van fell into a ravine.
Chinesemoon
goddess Chang’e, during the MidThe PRF has yet to determine how many passengers were traveling in each vehicle. A total of 24 peo- Autumn Folklife Festival in Nanjing, East China’s
Jiangsu Province on 13 Sept, 2008.—XINHUA
ple were involved in the crash, more than the combined maximum capacity of both vehicles, 22 passengers. —Xinhua

All items from Xinhua News Agency

RIO DE JANEIRO, 16 Sept— Brazil’s state-owned oil
and gas giant Petrobras said on Monday that it would
contract to build 10 offshore oil production platforms
in the coming eight years for a newly found pre-salt
oil field.
The 10 new units, to operate in ultra-deep waters,
will tap the pre-salt oil reserves discovered recently
off the country’s southeastern coast.
According to the company, the first two units will
be chartered from third parties. Each will have a daily
production capacity of 100,000 barrels of crude and 5
million cubic meters of natural gas.
XinhuaChina-Japan co-op sets fine example forcountries with different social systems
T OKYO , 16 Sept—
China-Japan cooperation
may well set a good example for countries withdifferent social systems,
said Wang Chen, directorof the State Council Information Office of China, at
the Fourth Beijing-Tokyo
Forum on Tuesday.
In a keynote speech at
the plenary meeting,
Wang said that there areimportant bases andfavorable environments
for the long-term development of bilateralfriendly relations.
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5Chinese former Foreign Minister Li
Zhaoxing (R) talks to
Yasushi Kudo, representative of a Japanese
nonpolitical organization, at the opening
banquet of the 4th
Beijing-Tokyo Forumin Tokyo,Japan,
on 15 Sept, 2008.
XINHUAship, geographical proximity is the natural link, political mutual trust serves as
an important basis, mutually beneficial cooperation
the economic basis andlong-term people-to-people exchanges the important bridge, said Wang.
This year marks the
30th anniversary of thelaunch of China’s reformand opening-up, he said,
adding that China has
made world-acknowledged outstanding achievements in its development in the past 30 years.
XinhuaHe Pingping from Inner Mongolia, China’s autonomous region, the world's
smallest man sits on the lap of Svetlana Pankratova from Russia, the Queenof Longest Legs, as they pose at Trafalgar Square in London, on 16 Sept,2008. Pingping, born with primordial dwarfism, holds the Guinness World
Record for the smallest man at 74.61 cms (2 feet and 5.37 inches) andPankratova holds the Guinness World Record for the longest leg of any
woman at 132 cms (4 feet 4 inches) in length.—INTERNET

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Report: North Korea conductedmissile engine test
SEOUL (South Korea),
16 Sept —North Korea
has carried out an engine
ignition test for a longrange missile capable ofstriking the western
United States, a South
Korean newspaper reported Tuesday.
A US reconnaissancesatellite detected theNorth testing the engine
of what appears to be a
Taepodong-2 missile —Two Palestinian man walk beyond a gate of the closed Karni crossing point or an upgraded version ofconnecting Gaza Strip and Israel, on 15 Sept, 2008. Israeli army on Monday shut it — at a west coast misdown commercial crossing points into Gaza in response to a rocket attack that sile base it began building several years ago, thetargeted southern Israel territories a day earlier. — XINHUA

Cuba estimates Gustav, Ike
damages at US$5 billion
HAVANA, 16 Sept—Hurricanes Gustav and Ike together delivered the worst hurricane-related blow in
Cuba’s storm-battered history, causing “around US$5
billion” in collective damage, the communist government announced on Monday night.
Nearly 450,000 homes were damaged and morethan 63,000 of those completely wiped out. At least
200,000 Cubans have been left homeless and “hundreds of more families” will have to find temporary
housing while authorities work to rebuild, according
to a statement that took more than half an hour to read
during state television’s nightly newscast.—Internet

Mass police arrest pairwearing stolen clothing
Police say two Springfield residents
who cleared a downtown clothing store
of its entire inventory were easy to nab_ they were arrested wearing some ofthe stolen clothing with price tags still
attached.
Police said the duo were charged
with breaking and entering with intent
to commit a felony, and larceny of morethan $250 in connection with the
Wednesday morning theft.
Sergeant John Delaney said police
were alerted by a local resident who
saw the suspects repeatedly walk in andout of Mr S. Lee's Clothing store's rear
entrance carrying boxes and bags.
The suspects were arrested after ashort foot chase.
Delaney said the stolen merchandise
is worth “tens of thousands” of dollars.

Two visitors have a “close contact”
with an elephant at a wild animal
park in South Africa.

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mass-circulation Chosun
Ilbo newspaper reported,
quoting an unnamed
South Korean government official.
The test took placeearlier this year, the report said, without providing a date.
It would be a key stepin development, andwould confirm that theNorth has been working
to boost the range of its
missiles.
The entire missile
base in North Pyongan
Province in western

North Korea is expected
to be operational nextyear, the report said.
The Taepodong-2
missile can fly as far as
4,160 miles, and the upgraded version would
take that range to morethan 6,210 miles —within reach of the western United States.
South Korea’s Defence Ministry said Tuesday it could not confirm
the report because it involves intelligence affairs on North Korea.
Internet

Obama camp hits back at Iraq
double-talk claim

Cell-phone ban sought for
California train operators

PUEBLO (Colorado), 16 Sept —Barack Obama’s
White House campaign angrily denied Monday a report that he had secretly urged the Iraqis to postpone adeal to withdraw US troops until after November’s
election. In the New York Post, conservative Iranianborn columnist Amir Taheri quoted Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari as saying the Democrat made thedemand when he visited Baghdad in July, while publicly demanding an early withdrawal.
“He asked why we were not prepared to delay anagreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,” Zebarisaid in an interview, according to Taheri.–Internet

LOS ANGELES, 16 Sept— The state’s top rail safety
regulator said on Monday he would seek an emergency
order banning train operators from using cell phones,
as federal investigators sought to determine whether
the engineer of a commuter train was text messaging
before a crash that killed 25 people.
Michael Peevey, president of the California Public
Utilities Commission, said some railroad operators
have policies prohibiting the personal use of cell
phones, but they’re widely ignored.
“Our order would make it the law and we’ll go after violators. We owe it to the public,” he said.
Internet

Black bear busts secret Utah pot farm
One Utah community is cheering a
special bear, but don’t call him Smokey.
Investigators say a large black bearraided a clandestine marijuana growing
operation so often that it chased the

Man shows up in Pa courtwith loaded handgun
A central Pennsylvania man faces additional charges after showing up for ahearing on summary charges of public
drunkenness and disorderly conduct
with a loaded handgun.
A police officer found the weapon
when the 22-year-old man arrived for ahearing Tuesday at District Judge
Jonathan Grine’s office in State College.
The man was arraigned on new
charges including possession of a firearm in a court facility and taken to Centre County jail in lieu of $10,000 cashbail.
Court documents indicate the man's
earlier actions led court staff members
to believe he was armed. Police say hecalled asking if there was a locked box
to store his gun, later entered the office
and ran out, returned and checked thecourt calendar, then took pictures ofsigns saying weapons are prohibited.

NEWSALBUM

grower away. “This bear is definitely
law-enforcement minded,” said Garfield
County Sheriff Danny Perkins. “If I canfind this bear I’m going to deputize
him.”
Deputies found food containers
ripped apart and strewn everywhere,
The photo shows a car beingcans with bear teeth marks, claw marks accidentally blowed onto the house by
and bear prints across the Garfield hurricane in Yan Ji, Jilin Province.
County camp on Tuesday.
Perkins said the operation on Boul- Texas UPS driver goes one
der Mountain included 4,000 “starter”
million miles, no crashes
sacks of pot and 888 young plants.“ThisA routine package delivery turned
particular bear apparently was not gointo a milestone for a UPS driver in East
ing to give up and basically chased these
Texas.
marijuana farmers away,” Perkins said.
Brent Boyd on Thursday surpassed“Our county is so tough on drugs that
1 million miles on his UPS delivery van,even the wildlife are getting in on thethe same vehicle he’s driven for 22
action.”years with the company.
The odometer on Boyd’s 1987 GMC
truck rolled over to all zeros as he began his delivery route near Palestine(PAL’-uh-steen).
The 51-year-old says he’s never had
an accident with his company vehicle.
Boyd told The Associated Press that
his truck has gone through at least three
engines and been repainted almost as
many times.
VTwo Australian spectators with
But he’s resisted offers for a new van.
watermelon helmet on the head
Boyd says the truck is “like home” andwatch athletic event at Beijing 2008 feels like “sitting in the recliner in yourhouse.”14.
Paralympic Games.

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 17 September, 2008 7

May new players be statesmen
Kyaw Min Aye
Once I noticed a foreign newspaper “New has been categorized into two groups: national politics

in. Casting a vote in the election is also national

Statesman”. One day, I noticed an aphorism by James and party politics since 1988.

politics because the people are responsible for electing

Freeman in an article of a collection of articles thata reliable people’s representative who will manage“National politics means doing one’s bit in thesays “The difference between a politician and a national cause. For instance, independence struggles
statement is : a politician thinks of the next election for liberation from the British, Anti-Fascist

the national affairs on their behalf.”
I also would like to present some excerpts from

Resistance, military operations launched in the 1950s

the article “Difference between two new political

The term “statesman” touched my heart, and so to drive nationalist Chinese troops out of thesystems” by Maung Su San stated in the 8-8-2008

and a statesman thinks of the next generation.”

I looked it up in Webster’s New World Dictionary. It Myanmar soil after the announcements on theissue of Modern Journal.

invasion for the global information, and the process“The purpose of my presentation is that thestatesman (n): a person who shows wisdom, of transition to democracy. They are national politics

people will come to notice the events that take placeis defined:skill, and vision in conducting state affairs and every patriotic citizen can take part in.

after the adoption of a new constitution through thedealing with public issues or one engaged in the“And people in the political field are categorized

recent political issues of Thailand. The elections will

into two kinds: statesman and politician. According to

be held in 2010. Now, there have been a new

In Modern Pronouncing Dictionary it is defined: the dictionary, a statesman is a wise politician or aconstitution with new programmes. So, the politics

business of government.

statesman (n): person skilled in the management visionary politician, and a politician is an ordinary

will be somewhat different from the old ones.

politician. So, the politics a statesman practices is“Now, the new constitution has been adopted.

national politics, and giving priority to national interest

Elections will be held in accordance with the newstatesman (n): a man versed in the arts of rather than to the interest of own party can be definedconstitution. So, the Tatmadaw government willof public or national affairs.
And in Khitthit Dictionary, it is defined:

serve as the Caretaker Government.

government, a politician, one eminent for as national politics.
“I have learnt that a politician thinks of the next

“In addition, new players will come out in

So, in my opinion, the term “statesman” can be election and a statesman thinks of the next generation.

accordance with the New Election Law and Politicalpolitician; one eminent for political abilities.

defined as a visionary politician, a national politician. How meaningful it is! If a politician has become aParties Law.

Soon after that, I happened to read two articles carried statesman, he will never focus on his party’s interest of“New players will play under the control of ain two journals, and visualized the future politics of coming to power, and he will usually think of thereferee in a new football pitch. So, there will be new

the nation.

political system. .... I wonder what the new playersinterest of the entire people.

The first article is “National Politics” by Maung“Political parties are part of democracy system. In

Wun Tha and it is stated in the 19-8-2008 issue of the democracy system, a political party cannot deceive
Popular Journal. I would like to present some excerpts the public. If they do, they cannot do so long, because

will be like. I will be able to guess their behaviors only
after the promulgation of the new Election Law.
“The issue Myanmar has yet to address is theif so the people will punish such a deceptive party inmatter of speed. There will be no alternative agenda“It is not long the term ‘national politics’ has the next election. The practice of that voting system isand forum. So, I would like to call for speeding up the

become popular. To the best of my knowledge, politics national politics that the entire people can participate

possible programmes. So, speed is the major problem.

from the article.

Here, the people should distinguish between
decoration and substance. A dialogue is decoration,

A politician thinks of the next election not substance. If a citizen is excessively fond of

decoration, he will be caught in the snare ofand a statesman thinks of the next decoration. Sticking to decoration is, indeed,foolishness.”
I would say, the two articles are worth reading
generation. How meaningful it is! If a thoroughly.
I think a reader will be able to visualize
future Myanmar politics by studying these twopolitician has become a statesman, he will thearticles. Myanmar will need political parties andalong with statesmen in its new politicalnever focus on his party’s interest of coming politicians
trend. Not only political parties and politicians but
individuals and civil societies can practise politics.
to power, and he will usually think of the also
I wish that the new players that will come out in the
new Myanmar political trend are statesmen.
interest of the entire people.
Translation: MS******

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Prime Minister General Thein Sein inspects construction of Labutta-Thingangyi road section on Labutta-Thingangyi-Pyinsalu road. — MNA
destroyed.
He said the government is making arrangements for the people inthe villages that are likely
to face natural disaster tolive in a safer place inaccord with their wish.
Road network linking seaside regions is being implemented so thatthe people can go to safer
places easily in case ofnatural disaster. Moreover, Labutta-ThingangyiPyinsalu Road is underconstruction, he added.

The Prime Minister inspected earth work ofLabutta-Thingangyi sectionofLabuttaThingangyi-Pyinsalu
Road which is 35 miles
and two furlongs long. The
road is divided into three
sections. The 18-mile andsix furlong LabuttaThingangyi section has
been built.
The Prime Minister andparty arrived in Pyinsalu
after inspecting LabuttaThingangyi road section.
(See page 9)

Government is making
arrangements for the people in the villages that are
Prime Minister General Thein Sein greets local people at Thingangyi village inLabutta Township.— MNA
likely to face natural disasCoastal road networks as lages are likely to face nessed the severe storm ters to live in a safer place innatural disasters as they and a great number of lives
disaster…
lie in the coastal region. were lost and a large accord with their wish.
(from page 1)
Deputy Superintending Engineer of bridge
construction specialgroup-15 of Public WorksU Win Tint reported on
construction of LabuttaThingangyi-Pyinsalu
Road under Ayeyawady
Delta Road Network Development Project.
Commander BrigGen Kyaw Swe and
Deputy Minister for Construction Brig-Gen Myint
Thein also reported onroad projects.
The Prime Minister and party inspectedhillock built near the village to protect people fromthe floods. Minister for
Cooperatives Maj-Gen
Tin Htut reported on preventive measures undertaken in case of natural
disaster and development

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8tasks.
The Prime Minister met members ofThingangyi Village Peaceand Development Council, teachers, health staff
and village people andasked them their education, health, transport andcommunications and theirlivelihood. He then fulfilled the requirements.
The Prime Minister and party visited groceries in the village. The
Prime Minister met village elders of Thingangyi
Village and nearby villages. He said the government has provided food,clothing and shelter needsof the people who faced
natural disaster and madearrangements to resume
their original businesses.
He said Thingangyi
Village and nearby vil-

The villagers have wit-

amount of property was

An aerial view of Polaung village in Labutta Township. —MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 17 September, 2008 9

Coastal road networks as disaster …
(from page 8)
They inspectedhouses built by Max(Myanmar) Co Ltd for thestorm victims in Pyinsalu
and met local people,
members of social organizations and officials.
Minister Maj-Gen Tin
Htut reported on allotmentof land, accommodationand development tasks.
Chairman of Max(Myanmar) Col Ltd U
Zaw Zaw reported on cultivation of 5,000 acres of
monsoon paddy and participation of the local people in reconstruction of
Pyinsalu. The Prime Minister fulfilled the requirements.

The Prime Minister andparty went to Polaung Village by helicopter. They
were welcomed by members of social organizations and village people.
They inspected houses
built by Wa Wa Win Co
and accommodation forthe storm victims. The
Prime Minister viewed thedevelopment of Polaung
Village.
The Prime Minister inspected condition of
Theikpangongyi Village
and cultivation of
monsoon paddy of nearby
villages. They arrived
back in Pathein in theevening.
Secretary-General of

the Union Solidarity andthDevelopment Association
U Htay Oo and CEC member U Maung Maung
Thein met secretaries,
joint sectetaries and ex1. Uplift of national prestige and integrity and preservation
ecutives of Division, Disand safeguarding of cultural heritage and national
trict, Township USDAs atcharacter
Division USDA office.
2. Uplift of the morale and morality of the entire nation
Secretary of Division
3. Keeping genuine patriotism based on national solidarity
USDA U Than Tun realive and dynamic
ported on organizational
4. Turning out younger generation who will continue tomatters of the associations
safeguard the national culture and characterat different levels andmeasures undertaken forcommunity welfare services. Secretary-General U
Htay Oo and CEC memof steel structure are 24
built school building.
(from page 16)
ber U Maung Maung
Shwedaung De- feet in length and 20 feet
Next,
Lt-GenThein gave necessary inMyint Swe delivered an velopment Co Ltd built in width each and theystructions.
three new school build- are partitioned into threeaddress.
MNA
U Aik Tun handed ings for Myohaung Ale sections.
The company willover documents related Ward BEMS and Aye
to the school buildings Mya Thida ward BEMS contribute K 350 million
to Director-General U in Thanlyin Township to the project to build 13
and Basic Education Post school buildings in
Aye Kyu.
Lt-Gen Myint Primary School at West- Kyauktan Township andSwe, the commander and ern ward in Kyauktan 10 in Thanlyin Townparty viewed learning of Township. The newly- ship.
MNA
school children at newly- opened school buildings

Objectives of the 16 Myanmar
Traditional Cultural Performing
Arts Competitions

Schools in Thanlyin and Kyauktan…

Performing arts competitions…

Yangon Command Commander Brig-Gen Win Myint and wife being
welcomed by Military Attache of Malaysian Embassy Col Sanusi Bin
Hashim and wife at the reception marking the 75th Malaysian Armed
Forces Day. —MNA

Instructor course for Reproductive Health opens
YANGON,15 Sept—Organized by the Supervisory Committee of RakhineState Maternal and Child
Welfare Association, instructor course for Reproductive Health was held in
MyaukU, Rakhine State on

12 September.
ChairpersonofRakhine State Maternal andChild Welfare Association
Daw Thin Myo Myo Aung
made a speech on the occasion and Secretary Dr Cho
Tun, Head of Rakhine State

Health Department, discussed mother related to
Reproductive Health.
A total of 30 trainees
attended the 5-day coursethat lasted from 12 to16
September.
MNA(from page 16)
the artistic skills, perseverance and diligence ofthe participants. The roleof judges is very important in respective events
to work out fair results.
Their judgements should
be based on correctness,fairness, honesty, sympathy and expertise. The remarkable thing of the 16th

performing arts competition is that the number ofparticipating teams has
increased in the drama
contest. Officials are
urged to strive for discharging their duties regarding them as a national
concern.
Next, DirectorGeneral of Fine Arts Department Secretary of the

Dengue fever prevention in five townships
YANGON, 16 Sept —Volunteers and health staff
carried out preventive
measures against dengue
fever in five townships in
Yangon Division on 10
September.
They dredged drains
and fumigated homes, put
abate into water tanks andreleased fish which eat
larvae into lakes in

Sangyoung,
Ahlon,
Kyimyindine, Insein and
Dalla townships. They also
educated residents topractice systematic use ofwater at homes.
Health Department
under the Ministry of Healthand Health Department
under Yangon City Development Committee jointly
organized the activities.

MarketFestival in
Salin
YANGON, 16 Sept—
The opening of Market
Festival of the Ministry ofIndustry-1 was held in thesouthern sector of
People’s Square in Salinon 3 September.
Official concerned
formally opened the oneweek festival. —MNA

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9Work Committee U Yan
Naing Oo briefed on preliminary measures for thecompetitions. Afterwards,
sector-wise discussions
were held.
The
meeting
ended with the concluding remarks of the chairman of the Leading Committee.
MNA

Vice-Mayor Col Maung Pa views dengue prevention in Sangyoung.—YCDC

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Before the activities,
Vice-Mayor Col Maung Pa
met with officials of
Yangon City Development
Committee and membersof social organizations andurged government departments and social organization to cooperate effectively
for prevention of the mosquito-borne disease.
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USDA CEC member performs
regional development tasks in
Twantay Township
YANGON, 16 Sept —Inmeetingwithdepartmental officials,
townselders and membersof social organizations at
the office of Twantay
Township Peace andDevelopment Council
yesterday, CEC member of
the Union Solidarity andDevelopment Association
Minister for National
Planning and Economic
Development U Soe Thagave instructions onreconstruction works anddepartmental matters.
At the office of
Twantay Township USDA,
the CEC member met withthe secretary of thetownshipUSDA,
executives and members of
Ward/Village USDAs, andlocal people at Phayagyi
model village.
The minister met withthe heads of Division/

District/Township
Planning Departments at
Yangon Division Planning
Department in Pabedan
Township today. The
minister heard reports
presented by the head of
Yangon Division Planning
Department and thosepresent and gave necessary
instructions. — MNA

With noble mind
–In serving public interest–Do not deviate from own way–Because of slanders–Just carry it on(Venerable Shwe Hintha Sayadaw)

Minister U Soe Tha meets with the heads of division/district/township Planning Departments.—MNA

USDAs in Bago Division (West) hold annual
general meetings
NAY PYI TAW, 16 Sept
— CEC Member of Union
Solidarity and Development Association Deputy
Minister for Energy BrigGen Than Htay attended
the annual general
meetings of township
USDAs in Bago Division(West) on 13 and 14

USDA CEC member Brig-Gen Than Htay
presents award to an outstanding student inKyangin Township.
MNA

Hlinethaya Township PDC Chairman U Khin
Thein Maung accepts furniture and exercise
books worth K 4 million donated by U Nyi Nyi.
MNA

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September.
First, he addressed theannual general meeting ofPadaung
Township
USDA and awarded theoutstanding members of
the association.
After the meeting, hewent to Myanaung
Township and attended aceremony to honour
outstanding students of
Tarkwa Village Basic
Education High School in
Myanaung Township. At
the ceremony, he donatedcash to the library of theschool and awarded
outstanding students andteachers.
During the tour of
Myanaung, the CEC
member of USDA went
to Naychi (Affiliated)
BEHS and Thakutkwin
Service Yangon), U Kyaw
(Affiliated) BEHS andWin and Daw Haymar Win(JMCC-Tokyo) presented
100 dozens of exercise
books and furniture worth
4 million to the chairman oftownship PDC. Secretary
U Aye Myint of township
YANGON, 16 Sept —PDC and the education The
Organizing
officer accepted over K 7 Department of Myanmar
million donated by Daw Ma Women’s
Affairs
Hmwe and Daw Cherry of Federation
heldaGolf Estate in Hlinethaya ceremony to present aids
Township for repair of to storm victims inschool sports ground, water conjunction with givingtank and fly-proofed talks on uplifting moral
latrines.
spirit of storm victims at
Afterwards,
the Ward 7, Hlinethaya
principal of the school Township here on 12
spoke words of thanks.
September.
MNA
On the occasion,

Furniture, exercise booksfor Hlinethaya School
YANGON, 16 Sept —A ceremony to present
exercise books and school
furniture for Nyaung Ywa
village Basic Education
Middle School No. 2 washeld at the school in
Hlinethaya Townshipyesterday with anaddresses by Chairman of
Hlinethaya Township
Peace and Development
Council U Khin Thein
Maung and Hlinethaya
Township Education
Officer U Than Htay.
On
behalfofwellwishers, U Nyi Nyi
explained the purpose of
donation.
Next, U Nyi Nyi (SST

inspected use of solarpowered generator andcomputers donated by
USDA.
On 14 September, headdressed the annual
general meetings for 2008
of Myanaung andKyanghintownship
USDAs and awarded theoutstanding members of
USDA who volunteeredin rehabilitation works instorm-hit areas in
Ayeyawady Division.
MNA

Gifts for storm victims in
Hlinethaya Township

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Head of the Organizing
Department Dr Daw Nyunt
Nyunt Oo and members,
chairpersons of thedivision, district andtownship women’s affairs
organizations
andmemberspresented
personal goods andtraditional medicines tostorm victims. Next, Writer
Annawa Soe Moe gave atalk titled “Let the rays oflife brighten”.—MNA

THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 17 September, 2008 11

Rubber: perennial tree to prevent climate change
Article & Photos: Kyaw Thura
The region of Shan State (North) was covered
with thick foliage of forests in the past and it wascold all the year round.
Later, climate changed and the region became
warm because of deforestation and slash-and-burnpractice for farming. To take preventive measuresagainst climate change caused by deforestation, thegovernment laid down plans and is undertaking cultivation of perennial trees.
In Shan State (North), industrial raw material
rubber plantations were established on a commercial scale with the aim of ensuring economic development in the long run and preventing forest depletion. At present, this gains success to some extent.
Rubber has been grown in Shan State (North)since 1996 and cultivation is on an increase yearly.
Shan State (North) is located north of 17° northlatitude and it stands at an altitude between 1800 and5000 feet. It gets an annual average of rainfall of 50
to 60 inches. On average, the number of rainy daysin the region is about 90 to 100 in a year. Therefore,
the region has favourable location and climate to growrubber on a commercial scale.
Widening the scope of knowledge, local nationalfarming entrepreneurs and organizations extended
cultivation of rubber. At present, most of vacant andcultivable lands have been put under rubber plants
in Muse and Kunlong districts. Muse District,
Kunlong District, Hopang Township, Pansang,
Nantit, Mongmao, the whole Wa region, Laukkai andChinshwehaw region gain success in growing rubber plantations.
Moreover, cultivation of rubber is being extendedin Lashio and Hsenwi townships and progress canbe made there. In Lashio Township, the 10,000 acresof rubber cultivation special zone is being establishedalong either side of Lashio-Mongyaw-Mongkyet motor road since 2007 and the target was set to achieve
progress up to the year of 2010.

Nine rubber species imported are being nurtured
at Mongpan pilot rubber farm in the MongyawMongkyet rubber cultivation special zone in Lashio
Township.
In Muse District, seeds of BPM-24 rubber strain
were taken from Mudon and Thanbyuzayat regions,and efforts are being made for producing rubber saplings within one year. So far, over 60,000 seedlings
are being nurtured at the farm. A plan is being implemented to produce seedlings and budding saplings in
one year.
Thanks to concerted efforts and agriculture technology of Myanmar agriculturists, growers from thePeople’s Republic of China buy the budding saplings
of Myanmar. Sales of about 30,000 rubber budding
saplings from Muse district fetched about K 30 million. It can be said that Myanma Perennial Crops Enterprise can earn foreign exchange through the
Myanmar agricultural technology.

A national
damselcollecting
rubberlatex at arubberfarm in
Hopang.

A Shanwoman
collecting
rubberlatex inthriving
rubberfarm in
Hopang.
Shan State (North) has plenty of land and over
500,000 acres of vacant lands to grow rubber remainin the region. At a time when the rubber cultivation
plan is realized, Shan State (North) would be a statewith the largest acreage of rubber in the country.
By organizing and providing educative talks, thelocal growers who had engaged in the slash-and-burnfarming shifted their works to plant pea, maize,
sesame, coffee and water melon in the rubber plantations as mixed cropping. As a result, the growers
have become farm owners.
Booming rubber cultivation has created job opportunities for the local national races. The Shan State(North) encountering hot weather due to depletionof forests will be covered with thick foliage of forests in the coming years and the entire region will
become lush and green in the future.
*****
Translation: TTA
Kyemon: 13-9-2008

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Centre for Human Resource Development
Yangon University of Foreign Languages
Invitation for Application toAttend Foreign Language Courses

Shanghai
tourism
festival kicks
off

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV JIAO CHENG VOY NO (084)Consignees of cargo carried on MV JIAO CHENGVOY NO (084) are hereby notified that the vessel will
be arriving on 17.9.08 and cargo will be discharged into
the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws andconditions of the Port of Yangon.
Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am
to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up to Claims Day now
declared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the vessel.
No claims against this vessel will be admitted after
the Claims Day.

B EIJING , 16 Sept—
Shanghai kicked off its
annual tourism festival
Saturday night with agrand parade and traditional fireworks. Morethan 400,000 people
cheered the opening of the
19th Shanghai Tourism
SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT
Festival, despite rain courMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY
tesy of Typhoon Sinlaku.
AGENT FOR: M/S COSCO SHIPPING CO., LTD
Spectators watched 21
Phone No: 256919/256916/256912
floats and 28 performanceteams parade along
Huaihai Road in downtown Shanghai. —Internet

The Centre for Human Resource Development (Yangon
University of Foreign Languages) will open evening courses
on Chinese, English, French, French (Translation andInterpretation), Japanese, Korean, Russian and Thai.
Commencing date of course: 6-10-2008
Commencing date for submissionof applications: 29-9-2008
Closing date for applications: 3-10-2008(For English
language the day on
which the targeted
number of applicantsis reached)
Application to be submitted to : Yangon Universityof Foreign Languages
Days: Mondays, Wednesdays,
FridaysTime: 5:20-7:00 p.m.
Education qualification: Matriculation Passed
Enquiry: Student’s Affairs Section YUFL
{Phone:514371 (Ext-202)}

Drive
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. with care

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Vietnam raises pension
to help retirees

Ministry of Information
News and Periodicals Enterprise

Invitation to Tender

H ANOI ,16 Sept —Vietnam Government willraise retirees’ payments andmonthly allowances forsocial welfare beneficiaries
by 15 per cent of next monthin a move to help them deal
with rising inflation,
Vietnam News Agency
reported here on Monday.
The increase wasintended to improve theliving conditions of retirees
and social welfare
beneficiaries, and was
following the roadmap forsalary reform, the agency
quoted Huynh Thi Nhan,
Deputy Minister of Labour,
War Invalids and Social
Affairs as saying.
MNA/Xinhua

UN says two kidnapped
Somali aid workers released
NAIROBI (Somalia), 16
Sept — Two kidnapped
employees of the United
Nations World Food
Program were released
hours after they wereabducted, a spokesman
said on Monday, but 11
aid workers remained in
captivity amid a series ofattacks on the humanitarian community.
UN spokesman Peter
Smerdon said two Somali
UN workers who had
been conducting anutritional survey were
kidnapped for several
hours by unidentified
gunmen before reachinga UN building around
midnight on Sunday. He
did not know the identityof the attackers or theirmotive.
No group has claimed

responsibility for thisyear’s rash of kidnappings, which have left
11 aid workers in captivity, or for the dozen who
have been killed. Six ofthose being held areforeigners.
Also on Monday,
Barigye Bahoku, a spokesman for the African Union
peacekeeping force inthe capital, said two
peacekeepers had been
killed since Sunday.
The AU does notrelease reliable statistics
on peacekeeper deaths andit is unusual to have
two peacekeepers killed
within hours of each other.
AU forces help guard key
buildings and the Mogadishu port, include 1,800
Ugandan troops.
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African nation of Togo
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The virus was detected
at a poultry farm housing
more than 4,500 birds inthe village of Agbata
outside the capital, Lome,according to the government.
The presence of thedeadly strain raises special

concern because it has
the potential to infecthumans.
At least 235 people
have died of bird flu
worldwide since 2003,
according to the World
Health Organization.
Internet

Bullying top concern of parents withoverweight child
THURSDAY(Health DayNews), 16 Sept —Bullying is the top “health”
concern among parents
with overweight and obese
children, according to a
new report.

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A giant tortoise is seen at its shelter at Galapagos National Park in Santa
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Parents of thesechildren, aged 6 to 13, also
are much more likely thanparents of children at ahealthy weight to callbullying a top health issue
for kids, according to a report released on Monday
by the University of Michigan CS Mott Children’s
Hospital National Poll onChildren’s Health.
“We found that parents
with overweight or obese
children actually view
bullying as a greater
problem than childhood
obesity,” Dr Matthew
M Davis, director of the
National Poll on Children’s
Health, said in a university
news release.“Since bullying is known to be a
problem for children withincreased weight, bullying
prevention programs will

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need to be mindful ofobesity as a potential
trigger for bullying behavior and of parents concerns surroun-ding thisissue.” Overall, parents
don’t take childhood
obesity lightly, ranking it
No 1 is among healthconcern for kids in the
National Poll on Children’s
Health. Still, only twothirds of parents actually
enforce such limits with
their children on junk foodand time spent in front of aTV or computer screen, thepoll found. Still, many
parents are talking with theirchildren about having
healthier diets and increasing their physical activity,
which Davis said is an
important first step in setting
the stage for a healthierlifestyle.—Internet

23 Indonesians
dead in crush forcash handout
JAKARTA (Indonesia),
16 Sept—At least 23
Indonesians were crushed
to death on Monday while
trying to collect $4.25 incash handouts from a richfamily at a charity event
marking the Islamic holymonth, officials said.
Eight others werecritically injured in thestampede.
Severalthousandpeople started gathering
outside the house in
Pasuruan, a town about
500 miles (800 kilometers) east of the capitalof Jakarta, in the morning
to collect their tithe, said
local police chief Harry
Sitompul.
Television footage
showed the victims —mostly women —screaming as they were
pushed into the fence
outside the home.
At least 23 died andeight others were
hospitalized, Sitompul
said, some after being
trampled and others fromlack of oxygen.
Internet

14 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 17 September, 2008

SPORTS
Blanc warns Chelsea that money
can’t buy European glory
L ONDON , 16 Sept —Bordeaux
manager
Laurent Blanc insists
Chelsea can't expect to
win the Champions
League just because they
FC Girondins de Bor- are a financial superdeaux Manager Laurent power.
Blanc, seen here addressFunded by Russian biling the press at Stamford lionaire
Roman
Bridge, insists Chelsea Abramovich, Chelsea
can't expect to win the have won the PremierChampions League just League twice and amassed
because they are aone of the strongest squads
financial superpower.
in the world, but Europe's
top club prize has remained out of reach.
Blanc's side face the Blues in the Champions League
at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday and the French coachrisked the wrath of his opponents by claiming that they
won't be able to buy their way to glory in Europe.
"They have the squad, the stadium and the financial power so they are clearly a big club," Blanc said.
"But in spite of all those things they still haven't
won the Champions League, which just goes to showwhat a difficult tournament it is to win.—Internet

Celtic’s Nakamura seeks returnto Japanese clubTOKYO, 16 Sept — Japan andCeltic midfielder Shunsuke
Nakamura says he wants to return to his his old J-League
home, Yokohama Marinos, andpossibly as early as January,
Japanese media reported Tuesday. "I'm thinking first about
Marinos. I have no other team inmind," the dead-ball specialist,
and lynchpin of Japan's World
Cup qualifying campaign, told
Japanese reporters in Glasgow
on Monday.
"Since Marinos raised me, it'squite natural for me to playthere."
Nakamura was earlier quoted
by British media as saying heJapan and Celtic midfielder
Shunsuke Nakamura, seen here,says he wants to return to his his
old J-League home, Yokohama
Marinos, and possibly as earlyas January, Japanese media
reported.—INTERNET
may return to Japan during theJanuary transfer window, as he is
tired of travelling long distances
for international matches.
Internet

Russia retain Fed tennis Cup
MADRID, 16 Sept — Russia retained their Fed Cup crown here on
Sunday to make it four titles in five years when Svetlana Kuznetsova
defeated Anabel Medina Garrigues 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 to give the visitors
an unassailable 3-0 lead over Spain.
Olympic Games bronze medallist Vera Zvonareva and former US
Open winner Kuznetsova had set up the win on Saturday in beating
Garrigues and Carla Suarez Navarro to establish a 2-0 lead.
Internet

Fagan sidelined with broken leg after horror tackle

Hull City striker Craig Fagan,
seen here in May 2008, could
be out for three months after adreadful challenge by Newcastle's Danny Guthrie left
the forward with a broken leg.

England announce
friendly fixtures

HULL (England), 16 Sept — Hull City striker
Craig Fagan could be out for three months after adreadful challenge by Newcastle's Danny Guthrieleft the forward with a broken leg. Fagan wasshielding the ball in the corner, looking to play out
time in Premier League new boys Hull’s 2-1 winaway to Newcastle on Saturday when Guthrieploughed straight into the back of Fagan and thenreceived a straight red card.
His sending off compounded a miserable matchfor Newcastle, which came just a day before owner
Mike Ashley put the club up for sale in response
to protests by fans who blamed him for the exit of
popular manager Kevin Keegan. Fagan left the
ground on crutches and Hull confirmed Monday
that an X-ray had revealed the 25-year-old former
Derby forward had suffered a fractured right tibia,
which could keep him out of action for between
six weeks and three months.—Internet

LONDON, 16 Sept — England will play
Slovakia and Slovenia in friendly internationals at Wembley next year, the Football Association (FA) announced here on
Monday.
The fixtures are designed to help Fabio
Capello's team in their bid to qualify forthe 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
England will play Slovakia on March
28 and several months later they will face
Slovenia on September 5.
The Slovakia fixture takes placeshortly before England's 2010 qualifier
against Ukraine at Wembley on April 1,
while the Slovenia match comes aheadof the qualifying clash with Croatia on
September 9.
"It's very important to play similarstyle opposition as practice for the competitive matches," said Capello.
"The Slovakia and Slovenia games
will be very good preparation for the vital World Cup qualifiers against Ukraine
and Croatia." England currently top
Group Six in the European qualifying
zone following a 2-0 win over Andorra
and last week's 4-1 victory away to
Croatia, which featured a hat-trick fromteenage winger Theo Walcott.—Internet

Villa heap more misery on winless Spurs
LONDON, 16 Sept — Spurs problems
deepened further on Monday as they
were beaten 2-1 by Aston Villa to leavethem bottom of the Premiership withjust a point after four matches.
Goals by Nigel Reo-Coker - his firstfor the club in the Premiership and firstin almost two years since scoring forWest Ham against Manchester United and Ashley Young were enough to see
Aston Villa climb to fourth in the table
as they recorded their first win at White
Hart Lane in nine visits.
Darren Bent grabbed a consolation
goal four minutes before the end.
Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neillwas ecstatic at his side's performance.
"I thought it was sensational," purred
the Northern Irishman.

Aston Villa’s English midfielder Nigel
Reo-Coker (L) celebrates scoring during
their Premier League match against
Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane,
London. Aston Villa won 2-1.—INTERNET"The first-half performance was unbelievable. "We can attack, score goals
and are a delight to watch when on form
like that.—Internet

Angela Stanford wins Bell
Micro LPGA Classic

I don’t need Champions English clubs to dominate Europe again
League to dodge
BERLIN, 16 Sept—Eng- lish don't dominate as open discussion about relish
clubs will dominate they did last year.” He laxing the country’s strict
Abramovich’s axe
MOBILE, 16 Sept — Angela Stanford won the Bell Mithe Champions League added: “I can see Chel- ownership rules and makcro LPGA Classic on Sunday for her second career LPGA
insists Scolari
again this season, Bayern sea being very strong. ing it easier for individu-

Tour title, holing a 3 1/2-foot par putt on the final hole
for a 1-over 73 and a onestroke victory over China's
Shanshan Feng. "It's been
so long," said Stanford, also
the 2003 ShopRite LPGAClassic winner.
The 30-year-old Texan,
four strokes ahead entering
the day after consecutive
67s in the second and third Angela Stanford gives herrounds, had an 11-under trophy a kiss after win277 total on The Crossings ning the Bell Micro LPGA
course at Magnolia Grove. Classic golf tournament
She earned $210,000.
on 14 Sept, 2008, inInternet Mobile, Ala.—INTERNET

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L ONDON , 16 Sept —Chelsea manager Luiz
Felipe Scolari insists hedoesn’t need to win theChampions League to satisfy Roman Abramovich.
Scolari's predecessors,
Claudio Ranieri, Jose
Mourinho and Avram
Grant, failed to deliver
Europe's top club prize to
Chelsea’s demanding
owner and eventually paid
the price as Abramovich
wielded the axe.
Internet

Munich chairman KarlHeinz Rummenigge predicted on Monday. “TheEnglish are ahead of therestofEurope,”Rummenigge told German television station
Premiere TV. “The
Bundesliga is a long way
behind clubs like Manchester United, Chelsea,
Liverpool and Arsenal.
When you look at the potential they have it will
be a surprise if the Eng-

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They are one of the big
favourites.” Three of thefour semifinalists in lastseason’s Champions
League came from England. Manchester Unitedbeat Chelsea in an allEnglish final in Moscow.
Rummenigge said Germany needed to have an

als to make big investments in Bundesliga
clubs. “We have to becareful we don’t miss theboat,” the Bayern chief
said. Bayern begin theirChampions League campaign way to Steaua Bucharest on Wednesday.
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British inflation hits new 16-year
peak in August
LONDON, 16 Sept —Annual inflation hit afresh 16-year high of 4.7
percent in August on theback of soaring domesticenergy bills, official data
showed.
Despite the rising costof goods, the current turmoil on global financial
markets could spark an
interest rate cut rather
than a hike, analysts
said.
The rate held above the
Bank of England’s 2.0percent target for thetenth successive month,
the Office for National
Statistics (ONS) revealed. The reading was
higher than market expectations for a rise of
4.6 percent.
Annual inflation had
stood at 4.4 percent inJuly, which had previously been the fastest annual rate since April
1992.
“While the further
marked rise in inflation in
August dilutes hopes ofan interest rate cut before

the end of the year, much
will depend on just how
deep and extended thecurrent financial market
turmoil is, and what impact it has on the wider
economy,” said Global
Insight
economist
Howard Archer.
World financial markets have taken a heavy
knock this week amid
mounting global economic uncertainty and thedramatic collapse of US
investment bank Lehman
Brothers.
Internet

UN General
Assembly concludes
62nd session
UNITED NATIONS, 16
Sept— The UN General
Assembly closed its 62nd
session late Monday, with
its outgoing president
calling for continued efforts
to deal with challenges ofrising food and energy
prices, climate change andimpediments to development.
“A global downturn
could undermine economic
progress achieved over thelast decade,” Srgjan Kerim
told the closing ceremonyof the 62nd session of theGeneral Assembly, which
commenced from September 18 last year.—Internet

Scientists get images ofplanet with sun-like star
WASHINGTON, 16 Sept
— Scientists have snapped
the first images of a planet
outside our solar systemthat is orbiting a star verymuch like the sun.
Nearly all of the roughly
300 so-called extrasolar
planets dis-covered to datehave been detected using
indirect methods such aschanges observed in a starwhen a planet orbits
directly in front of it fromthe per-spective of Earth.
But in findings announced on Monday,
University of Toronto
scientists said they used

the Gemini North
telescope on Mauna Kea
in Hawaii to take direct
pictures of the planet,
which is about the size of
Jupiter but with eighttimes the mass.
It is also much hotter
than Jupiter, theysaid.
This planet and the starit seems to orbit are locatedin our Milky Way galaxy
about 500 light years from
Earth, the scientists said.
A light year is about 6
trillion miles, or the
distance light travels in a
year.
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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:
During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowers have been
isolated in lower Sagaing Division, scattered in Shan and Kayah
States, Mandalay and Magway Divisions, fairly widespread in
Kachin State, upper Sagaing and Taninthayi Divisions andwidespread in the remaining areas with locally heavyfall in
Taninthayi Division and isolated heavyfalls in Rakhine and
Mon States. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded wereLonglon (6.14)inches, Dawei (5.31) inches, Thaton and Gwa(4.61) inches each, Myeik (4.37) inches, Thandwe (2.88) inches,
Yay (2.40) inches, Shwegyin (2.36) inches and Hmawby (2.01)
inches.
Maximum temperature on 15-9-2008 was 83˚F.
Minimum temperature on 16-9-2008 was 69ºF. Relative humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 16-9-2008 was 100%. Totalsunshine hours on 15-9-2008 was (0.3) hours (approx).
Rainfall on 16-9-2008 was (1.58) inches at Mingaladon,(1.02) inches at Kaba-Aye and (1.10) inches at Central Yangon.
Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was (91.22) inches at Mingaladon,(101.61) inches at Kaba-Aye and (118.78) inches at Central
Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (6)mph from Southeast at (18:30) hours MST on 15-9-2008.
Bay inference: Acoording to the observations at (09:30)
hrs M.S.T today, Yesterday’s depression over the Northwest
Bay is crossing Orissa Coast of India near ‘Bubaneswar’.
Monsoonish condition prevail over Rakhine Coast. Weather iscloudy in the North Bay and monsoon is strong in the Andaman
Sea and elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.
Forecast valid until evening of 17-9-2008: Rain or thundershowers will be isolated in Kayah State, lower Sagaing
scattered in Chin and Shan States, Mandalay and Magway
Divisions, fairly widespread in Kachin State, upper Sagaing
and Bago Divisions and widespread in the remaining Statesand Divisions with likelihood of isolated heavyfalls in Mon
State and Taninthayi Division. Degree of certainty is (80%).
State of the sea: Squalls with rough sea are likely at times
off and along Myanmar Coast. Surface wind speed in squalls
may reach (40-45) mph.
Outlook for subsequent two days: Thundary conditionin the lower Myanmar areas.
Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for
17-9-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of certainty is (80%).
Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for
17-9-2008: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree of certainty is (80%).
Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for
17-9-2008: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

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Schools in Thanlyin andKyauktan Townships get
new buildings

Towards a new
golden land*

Any respect and regard for public
Should be proved with
Making preparations
To stand for 2010 election
Show their wish the people
So significantly and unanimously
Casting over 90% “YES” votes
Almost the whole nation
Reverberating with joy.

*

New thoughts and vision in handLet’s build a new golden landWithout delay march we
Try never to hinder us

Lt-Gen Myint Swe visits children at a classroom built by Shwedaung Development
Co Ltd in Thanlyin Township.—MNA
YANGON, 16 Sept— Lt-Gen Myint Sweof the Ministry of Defence attended the opening ceremony of new school buildings donated by Shwedaung Development Co Ltd for
Basic Education Middle School in Myohaung
Ale Ward in Thanlyin Township this morning.

Always we will

Chairman of Yangon Division Peace andDevelopment Council Commander of Yangon
Command Brig-Gen Win Myint, Director-General U Aye Kyu of No. 3 Basic Education Department and Chairman of the company U Aik
Tun opened the new school building.
(See page 9)

Ozone hole ‘larger in 2008
than previous year’
GENEVA, 16 Sept— The ozone hole is larger in2008 than the previous year but is not expected toreach the size seen two years ago, the World Meteorological Organisation said Tuesday.
“In 2008, the ozone hole appeared relatively
late. However, during the last couple of weeks it has
grown rapidly and has now passed the maximum size
attained in 2007,” the WMO said in a statement.
The hole in the layer over the Antarctic was
discovered in the 1980s. It regularly tends to form inAugust, reaching its maximum size late September or
early October before it fills again in mid-December.
The size it reaches is dependent on weather conditions.—Internet

Eliminate saboteurs
Using internal strength.
Khun Ye Thwe (Aye Thaya) (Trs)

Performing arts competitions to see
increase in drama contestants

Commander Maj-Gen Wai Lwin addresses coordination meeting of the Leading Committee for
Organizing Performing Arts Competitions. —MNA

A golfer Anthony Kim soaks up the sunshine as
he takes a rest. The ozone hole is larger in 2008
than the previous year but is not expected toreach the size seen two years ago, the World
Meteorological Organisation has said.

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NAY PYI TAW, 16
Sept—The second coordination meeting of the
Leading Committee forthOrganizing the 16
Myanmar Traditional Cultural Performing Arts
Competitions was held at
the meeting hall of the
Ministry of Culture, here,
this morning.
Chairman of the
Leading Committee Com-

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mander of Nay Pyi Taw
Command Maj-Gen Wai
Lwin made a speech on
the occasion. He said thatthe meeting was to disthcuss plans to hold the 16
Myanmar Traditional Cultural Performing Arts
Competitions soon. He
said as the competitions
are drawing near the respective committees andsub-committees are tocarry out their duties according to the schedule.
Officials at different levels are to focus on timely
completion of the tasks.
Preliminary measures areto be taken to adequately
accommodate participantsfrom states and divisions.
Officials are to createchances of winning
medals according to(See page 9)