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Volume XVI, Number 35 4th Waning of Kason 1370 ME Friday, 23 May, 2008

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

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round devel-opment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed na-

tion in accord with the new State Consti-tution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 22 May—Chairman of the StatePeace and Development Council Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe, ac-companied by General Thura Shwe Mann of the Min-istry of Defence, SPDC member Lt-Gen Tin Aye,Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Vice-Admiral Soe Thein,Commander-in-Chief (Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein, Adju-tant-General Maj-Gen Thura Myint Aung, DeputyMinister for Health Dr Paing Soe, senior militaryofficers of the Ministry of Defence and officials of the

Senior General Than Shwe inspects relief and rehabilitationmeasures in storm-hit Mawlamyinekyun, Bogale

SPDC Office, left Pathein by Tatmadaw helicopteryesterday morning and arrived at Mawlamyinekyun ofMyaungmya District at 9.30 am to comfort the stormvictims there, after inspecting relief and rehabilitationactivities in storm-hit regions of Ayeyawady Division.

The Senior General and party were welcomedby Minister for Progress of Border Areas and NationalRaces and Development Affairs Col Thein Nyunt,who is closely supervising the relief and rehabilitationtasks in Mawlamyinekyun region.

At the hall of the local battalion, Minister ColThein Nyunt reported to the Senior General on reliefand rehabilitation measures being taken inMawlamyinekyun region, distribution of relief sup-plies, supply of water through three methods namely,rain water storage lakes, pumps and tube-wells, timelyrepairing of schools, departmental buildings, hospi-tals, dispensaries and religious buildings, contribu-tions of A-1 Co, TZTM Co and Original Group Co to

(See page 8)

Government taking relief, rehabilitation and preventive measuresagainst natural disasters for storm-hit regions and victims

�Senior General Than Shwe comforts patients who are receiving medical treatment at Bogale People’s Hospital.—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 DesireFriday, 23 May, 2008

Some areas in Ayeyawady and Yangondivisions faced loss of lives and property due tothe recent storm. Now, rehabilitation works arebeing carried out with added momentum. Thecentral level body is providing emergency suppliessuch as rice, food, plastic sheets and medicines,and arrangements are being made for deliveringthe supplies to the victims in time.

Relevant companies are contributingassistance to the plans for renovation andreconstruction of the religious buildings, schools,township people’s hospitals and governmentoffices in the storm-affected areas.

Moreover, plans are under way to buildseasonal shelters, render farm implements, rice,clean water and household utensils to those victimswho want to resettle in their home towns andvillages of their own accord, and enable them toresume their transport services, agriculturalworks and fisheries.

While implementing rehabilitation tasks forthe victims in the areas, plans will be laid downand pursued for improving the education andhealth standards of the entire regions. In theprocess, Pyapon People’s Hospital will beupgraded to a 200-bed facility and Bogale,Mawlamyinegyun and Labutta township people’shospitals, to 100-bed ones to provide better healthcare to the people in Ayeyawady Division.

Not only that, new roads in Maubin,Mawlamyinegyun, Labutta and Bogale will alsobe extended to the areas around the sea in orderto improve local transport and scale uppreparedness work against possible future naturaldisasters in the long run.

The government is now carrying out reliefand rehabilitation undertakings in accordancewith the requirements of the region concerned inthe affected areas, while the entire people includingnational entrepreneurs are participating withheart and soul in the humanitarian tasks. So, thewhole areas will enjoy better living conditions inthe economic, education, health andcommunication sectors soon.

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Appointment ofambassador agreed on

NAY PYI TAW, 22 May—The Government ofthe Union of Myanmar has agreed to the appointmentof HE Mr Yaron Mayer as Ambassador Extraordinaryand Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel to theUnion of Myanmar.

Mr Yaron Mayer was born on 9 September1959. He holds a B.A Hons. (Political Science) fromHaifa University. From 1978 to 1982, he served inthe Israel Defense Forces. Mr Yaron Mayer workedat Kibbutz Ein-Hashofet from 1982 to 1989. Heserved briefly as a teaching assistant at HaifaUniversity from 1992 to 1993.

Mr Yaron Mayer joined the Ministry ofForeign Affairs of Israel in 1993. He has served atvarious capacities at Israeli Embassies in Hungary,and India. Mr Yaron Mayer is currently a deputydirector at Southeast Asia Department, Asia and thePacific Division o f the Ministry of Foreign Affairsof Israel.—MNA

Planting of rubberplants inspected in

ButhidaungNAY PYI TAW, 22 May—Maj-Gen Khin Zaw of

the Ministry of Defence and Chairman of the RakhineState Peace and Development Council Commander ofWestern Command Maj-Gen Maung Shein inspectedplanting of rubber plants at the forward camp ofMyanma Industrial Crops Development Enterprise(Perennial) in Buthidaung on 20 May.

At the briefing hall, they heard reports by officialson cultivating of rubber plants in the township andplanting of 0.1 million rubber plants at Mount Maru.Maj-Gen Khin Zaw stressed the need to have recordson expenses in a year and to make arrangement not tolet the saplings waste.

Buthidaung Township starts planting of rubberplants since 2005-2006 fiscal year. So far, the townshiphas planted 1488 rubber plant against the target of2500 and is trying to meet the target.

Maj-Gen Khin Zaw and party arrived inMaungtaw in the evening.— MNA

YANGON, 22 May—General-Secretary of theUnion of Myanmar Federation of Chambers ofCommerce and Industry Chairman of Myanmar RiceProducers Association U Sein Win Hlaing receivedCounsellor of Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar MrMitsuji Suzuka and Second Secretary Mr AtsushiIgarashi at the office of the federation this morning.

Also present at the call were AssociationSecretary U Hlaing Soe, Joint-Secretary U Sein Htweand CEC members U Thaung Win, U Saw Mya Dinand U Kyaw Hlaing.

They discussed matters related to rendering reliefaid to the storm victims by the Japanese Governmentand the people, distribution of seeds and farm equipmentfor land reclamation and crop cultivation in the affectedareas and cooperation between the two countries forcontinued assistance.

MNA

MRPA meets JapaneseCounsellor

President of Myanmar Medical Association(Central)Prof Dr Kyaw Myint Naing accepts K 1million and medicines worth over K 10 milliondonated by wellwishers of Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippine on 22 May.—H

UMFCCI General-

Secretary U Sein

Win Hlaing meets

Japanese

Counsellor Mr

Mitsuji Suzuka.

UMFCCI

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Rescuers carry an injured onto the train at the Jiangyou Railway Station inJiangyou, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on 21 May, 2008. More than300 people injured in the 12 May quake hitting Sichuan were transferred by aspecial train to Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, on

21 May.—XINHUA

US Democrats go to pollsin Kentucky, Oregon

WASHINGTON, 22 May—Democrats in Kentuckyand Oregon are castingtheir ballots Tuesday,as the presidential nomi-nating contest betweenSenator Barack Obamaand Senator HillaryRodham Clinton ap-proaches to the end.

There are 51 pledgeddelegates at stake inKentucky and 52 inOregon. Clinton, aDemocrat from New

York, is the overwhelmingfavourite to win Kentucky,while Obama, a Democratfrom Illinois, holds anedge in Oregon, accordingto opinion polls.

Polling places openedat 6 am (1000 GMT) andwere scheduled to close at6 pm (2200 GMT) in mostof Kentucky.

Polls in Oregon openedat 7 am (1400 GMT) inmost of the state and wereclosing at 8 pm (0300

GMT Wednesday).Heading into Tuesday’s

primaries, Obama had1,915 total delegates toClinton’s 1,721, with atotal of 2,026 needed tosecure the nomination atthe Democratic NationalConvention in Denver inlate August, according toan Associated Press tally.

An MSNBC count putObama’s total at 1,901and Clinton’s at 1, 724.

MNA/Xinhua

Arab mediators setdeadline for Doha talks

BEIRUT, 22 May—Qatar-led Arab mediatorson Tuesday set Wednes-day as the deadline forLebanese rival leaders toreach a deal on ending thecountry’s political crisis,local New TV reported.

Qatari Minister of Statefor Foreign AffairsAhmad Abdullah al-Mahmood announced in aPress conference in Dohathat the Arab ministerialcommittee presented toLebanese leaders twoproposals and hoped them

to agree on one of them bytomorrow, said the report.

“The two proposals willnot be revealed, andhopefully the Lebaneseleaders will agree on oneof them tomorrow,” saidthe statement read by theminister.

The statement said thatone of the Lebanesegroups asked for moretime to give an answer toone of the proposals, butthe Arab committee set adeadline for the finalanswer for Wednesday.

Lebanese rival leadershave reached a deadlockover the election law afterfour days of talks in Qatarcapital Doha.

Lebanese rival leadershave been in Qatar sinceSaturday trying to reachan agreement on thenational unity governmentand the election law inorder to “crown” thisagreement by electing theconsensus president.

MNA/Xinhua

Abbas says no progress with Israel AMMAN, 22 May—

Palestinian PresidentMahmoud Abbas said noachievement has beenmade in talks with Israeland called for moreAmerican pressure onIsrael, according toa statement Xinhuaobtained Tuesday.

Abbas said duringMonday’s meeting withSecretary General of theDemocratic Front for theLiberation of Palestine(DFLP) Nayef Hawatmehin Amman that thenegotiations have notmade any progress on

issues of Jerusalem,border, settlements,refugees and politicalprisoners or peace andsecurity, reported thestatement issued by DFLP.

The Palestinian Pre-sident called on the UnitedStates to respect inter-national law andresolutions, and topressure the IsraeliGovernment for seriousnegotiations towards acomprehensive solutionby the end of 2008.

He was partly referringto Israeli Prime MinisterEhud Olmert’s expansion

policy in the West Bankand Jordan River Valley,and the takeover ofJerusalem, observers said.

Meanwhile, Hawatmehcalled on Abbas to haltnegotiations until theIsraelis cease settlementactivity and aggression.

He also called for “jointmanagement in highpolitical negotiationsunder the roof of theresolutions of inter-national legitimacy and anational unity currentlyabsent due to the largerinternal division.”

MNA/Reuters

Britain plans to storeall e-mails, phone calls

Heavy fighting eruptsin Sudan oil town

KHARTOUM, 22 May—Heavy fighting erupted betweenSuda’s Army and southern Sudanese forces in thedisputed oil-rich town of Abyei on Tuesday, aid workerssaid. The fighting, which first erupted last week after alocal dispute, is the latest of a series of clashes in thetense central Abyei region claimed by both Khartoumand semi-autonomous South Sudan.

More than three years after a 2005 north-south peacedeal to end decades of civil war, the sides have notagreed on borders or a government for the region.

MNA/Reuters

LONDON, 22 May—Amassive governmentdatabase which wouldstore everybody’s e-mails,Internet information,phone-calls and textmessages is being con-sidered to help securityforces in the fight againstcrime and terrorism.

At the moment, recordsof phone-calls and textmessages are kept up to12 months by telecomscompanies in compliancewith an anti-terrorismEuropean Union directive.

But a new Home Officeproposal would seeInternet service providers(ISPs) and telecomscompanies handing overrecords containing bil-lions of e-mails as well asInternet usage and voice-over-Internet calls, media

reports said on Tuesday.Police and security

services would be able tohave access to theinformation after seekingpermission from thecourts. The Home Officesaid communicationmethods had changedrapidly during the past 15years.

MNA/Reuters

Palestinians standaround a vehicle

damaged after an Israeliair strike in the Jabalya

camp, northern Gazastrip, on 21 May, 2008.In the latest violence in

the Gaza Strip, anIsraeli aircraft fired a

missile at a car carryinga Hamas mortar crew.They fled the vehicle

before the projectile hitand were unhurt but five

passersby werewounded, medical

workers said.—XINHUA

Stocks tumble on $135 oil, Fed meeting minutesNEW YORK, 22 May—

Wall Street pitched lowerfor the second straightsession Wednesday asrecord-high oil prices anda bleak economic assess-ment from the FederalReserve deepened in-vestors’ worry about risingcosts and a shaky employ-ment picture. The DowJones industrial average

fell 227 points, logging itswidest two-day loss sincelate February.

Early in the day, stocksbegan falling on the surgingprice of oil, which shotup more than $4 andbreached $135 a barrel forthe first time on the futuresmarket Wednesday. Thestock market slumpedfurther after minutes from

last month’s Fed meetingrevealed that while policy-makers expected sharplylower economic growth andhigher unemployment laterthis year, inflationary risksare likely to keep the centralbank from cutting ratesagain. Lower interest ratesspur economic growth, butthey also tend to accelerateinflation.—Internet

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This photo released by the US Navy shows a S-3B Viking. Venezuela on

Monday denounced what it called the violation of its national airspace by a US

military aircraft, and said it would demand an explanation from

the US ambassador.—INTERNET

ROSARITO (Mexico), 21May — Four people be-lieved to be Americanswere shot in the head anddum-ped in a notoriousdrug-smuggling area innorthern Mexico near theborder with California,Mexican police said onMonday.

Police in the beachtown of Rosarito, across

QUITO, 21 May — The Ecuadorean Space Agencyhas built the first Latin American plane that can producea period of microgravity, the Agency said Monday.

The plane, a Sabreliner T-39, will be used for scien-tific experiments and for training astronauts, RonnieNader, director of special operations at the Agency,told the media.

The plane must reach its highest altitude and descendin a 47 degrees angle to produce microgravity for some25 seconds before levelling off.

Microgravity is a state of very low gravity, but notperfect weightlessness. Nader said the crew floatsinside the plane during the period of microgravity.

Developing the microgravity plane is part of thescientific Dedalo programme that will last 10 years,Nader said, adding that the plane will use a gravimeterof its own design to measure the microgravity.

MNA/Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 21 May–US efforts to close themilitary-run prison atGuantanamo Bay havereached a standstill due tolegal and practical pro-blems, Defence SecretaryRobert Gates said onTuesday. “The brutallyfrank answer is that we'restuck and we're stuck inseveral ways,” Gates tolda US Senate hearing whenasked about his desire toshut down the detention

RAMALLAH, 21 May —The minority of Pales-tinians believe that Israelwill agree and stick to aceasefire with Hamas inthe Gaza Strip, a newpublic opinion pollshowed.

According to the poll,which involved 1300people aged more than 18years old, only 10.4 percent of the surveyedpeople believed that Israelwill abide by the lull thatEgypt is trying to achieve.

The survey, made byal-Najah Universitybetween 15 May and 17May, included 800 peoplein the Gaza Strip and 500people in the West Bank.Its margin of error wasplus or minus 3 per cent.

Hamas and thePalestinian factions have

LONDON, 21 May—Growing interest in atomicpower among Iran’sneighbours could spiralinto a nuclear arms race inthe volatile Middle Eastunless preventive measuresare taken, a leading think-

ISLAMABAD, 21 May —Top Indian and PakistaniForeign Ministry officialsmet on Tuesday to reviewtheir four-year-old peaceprocess that has stalledsince domestic politicalturmoil erupted in Pakis-tan last year.

The nuclear-armedrivals’ foreign secretaries’meeting will be followedon Wednesday by talksbetween Indian ExternalAffairs Minister PranabMukherjee and his Pakis-tani counterpart, Shah

Old rivals India, Pakistanresume peace process

Mehmood Qureshi.It is the first contact

India has had with leadersof a new Pakistani civiliangovernment and analystsin both Pakistan and Indiasaid Mukherjee will besounding out Pakistan’snew leaders.

Mukherjee said uponarrival that Pakistan’s newdemocratic environmentheld great promise and hehoped progress the twocountries had made wouldbe consolidated, thoughthat depended on an atmo-

sphere free from militantviolence. “The presentenvironment, I’m sure,will help us in addressingvarious issues related topeace, stability andeconomic development,”Mukherjee said.

The officials discusseda so-called compositedialogue which coverseight areas including thedivided Himalayan regionof Kashmir, border dis-putes, terrorism andecono-mic cooperation.

MNA/Reuters

Minority Palestinians believe Israelto stick to ceasefire

accepted the Egyptian lullinitiative and now arewaiting to hear from Egyptabout the Israeli response.

The poll also tackledthe political developmentsin the Palestinian ter-

ritories, the resumption ofpeace talks between Israeland the PalestinianNational Authority (PNA)and the feud betweenHamas and Fatah.

MNA/Xinhua

Iran’s neighbours looking atnuclear power

tank said on Tuesday.In a report, the London-

based International Insti-tute for Strategic Studiessaid Iran’s nuclear pro-gramme had promptedother states in the oil-richregion to consider acquir-ing nuclear technology.

“In the span of 11months between February2006 and January 2007, atleast 13 countries in theMiddle East announced

new or revived plans topursue or explore civiliannuclear energy,” said thereport, entitled “NuclearProgrammes in the MiddleEast In the Shadow ofIran”. “This upsurge ofinterest is remarkablegiven both the abundanceof traditional energysources in the region andthe low standing to date ofnuclear energy there.”

MNA/Reuters

Ecuador builds planeproducing microgravity

Four Americans killed in Mexico near borderthe border from San Di-ego, said they discoveredthe bodies of three menand a woman on Sundayin an abandoned car in aremote patch of scrublandnear the Pacific coast.

“The bodies had beenthere for at least a week.They were spotted by localpeople out hunting,” amunicipal police spokes-

man said.Police concluded the

victims were US citizensbecause the vehicle hadCalifornia license plates,the three men were ofAfrican-American appea-rance, the woman wasCaucasian and a USdriver’s license was foundin the car, the spokesmansaid.—MNA/Reuters

US efforts to close Guantanamoat standstill

site for terrorism suspectsat the American naval basein Cuba.

Human rights groupsand many governments,including allies of theUnited States, have calledon the Bush Admini-stration to close the prison,saying it violates inter-national legal standardsand harms America’sstanding in the world.

Gates has said hewanted to close the site,

where inmates have beenheld for years without trial,after he took over fromDonald Rumsfeld at thePentagon in late 2006 andassigned officials to lookinto the issue.

But the former CIAchief said the effort hadrun up against severalmajor problems. The firstwas that the United Stateshad identified about 70prisoners who could bereturned home in theorybut not in practice.

“The problem is thateither their home govern-ment won’t accept themor we’re concerned thatthe home government willlet them loose once wereturn them home,” hesaid.—MNA/Reuters

Indian actress Aishwarya Rai (C) speaks to her father-in-law, actor AmitabhBachchan (R), as she arrives with her husband, actor Abhishek Bachchan(L), for the screening of the film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”.—INTERNET

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Singapore telecom launchesmobile TV on phone

SINGAPORE, 21 May—Singapore Telecommuni-cations Limited (SingTel),Southeast Asia’s giantoperator of telecommuni-cations, launched itsmobile TV service onTuesday.

The new service pro-vides live TV channelswith electronic pro-gramme guide infor-mation and video-on-demand, said SingTel in a

statement. Users who sign up for

the service have a choiceselection from SingTel’smobile service’s contentofferings - from popularlocal channels like Channel8 Prime Time and ChannelNewsAsia to premiumchannels like Mei AhMovies Channel.

SingTel said it was thefirst operator in Singaporeand one of the first in Asia

Pacific to launch a mobileTV client with true TVviewing experience onmobile phones.

“With Singapore’s highmobile penetration rate andSingTel’s customer baseof over 2.5 million mobileusers, the largest inSingapore, it makes senseto offer compelling contenton our mobile platform sothat Singaporeans haveaccess to their favouritemobile TV contentwherever they may be,”SingTel’s vice president ofconsumer marketingWong Soon Nam said inthe statement.

The application cur-rently works on severalNokia phone models.SingTel said it is currentlyin discussions with othermobile handset manu-facturers to support theservice.—MNA/Xinhua

A worker wipes theprice display board at a

gasoline station inManila on 21 May,

2008. Rising prices ofoil and other

commodities havestoked fears of inflationand posed problems for

central banks underpressure to cut interest

rates to stimulateslowing economies.

XINHUA

Brazil’s Petrobras beatsMicrosoft in market value

Brazil creates big job opportunitiesin Jan-April 2008

RIO DE JANEIRO, 21May—Brazil createdrecord-high job oppor-tunities during the January-April period this year, thecountry’s Labour Ministryannounced Monday.

Some 848,000 jobs were

created in the first fourmonths of this year, a year-on-year hike of 21 per cent,according to figuresreleased by the ministry.

Over the past 12 months,formal employment in theSouth American nationincreased 6.29 per cent,meaning that over1,700,000 jobs werecreated. In April alone,more than 290,000 formaljobs were created, up 1per cent from March andthe second best result everrecorded in April, theministry said.

MNA/Xinhua

RIO DE JANEIRO, 21May—Brazil’s state-owned oil and gas companyPetrobras has become thethird “most valuable”company of the Americas,ahead of Microsoft, con-sulting firm Economaticasaid Monday.

Based on the price ofits stocks on Friday,Petrobras’ market valuewas estimated at 287.2billion US dollars, whileMicrosoft’s was at 279.3billion US dollars.

Economatica said Pet-robras’ preferential stockshad risen over 110 per centand Microsoft’s dropped3.5 per cent in the past oneyear. The performance ofthe Brazilian oil and gasgiant was attributedmainly to the discovery ofhuge deep-water fieldsthat could convert thecompany into one of the10 biggest oil and gasproducers in the world.

US oil giant ExxonMobil topped Eco-

nomatica’s list of theAmerican continent’sbiggest companies, with amarket value of 489 billionUS dollars, followed byGeneral Electric at 320billion US dollars.

Apart from Petrobras,other Latin Americancompanies such asBrazilian miner Vale andMexican telecom com-pany America Movil werealso on the list.

MNA/Xinhua

EU farmers see WTO losses of at least 30bln euros BRUSSELS, 21 May —

Europe’s farmers stand tolose sales worth at least 30billion euros (47 billionUS dollars) a year undernew proposals floated tounblock world trade talks,a European farmers repre-sentative said on Tuesday.“From what we see, Europe

is not getting anything likethat back on industrialgoods and certainly not onservices,” Shelby Mat-thews, chief policy adviserfor COPA COGECA,which represents Euro-pean farmers, told Reuters.As part of a new push for abreakthrough in the World

Trade Organization’sDoha negotiations for aglobal trade deal, media-tors published new com-promise proposals onMonday, spelling outwhere agreement might befound on farm and indus-trial goods.

MNA Reuters Suez Energy wins bid forhydro-power plant in Brazil

More Nicaraguansseeking jobs

abroad MANAGUA, 21 May—

Some 63.3 per cent ofNicaraguans are inclinedto seek jobs in othercountries, up from 55.5per cent at the end of 2007,according to a pollreleased Monday.

Of those intending toseek jobs abroad, 44.5 percent prefer the UnitedStates, 28 per cent preferCosta Rica, while 12.3 percent prefer Spain,according to the pollconducted and publishedby a company called M&RConsultores. Nicaraguanswant to leave their countryto find better jobs andimprove their economicalsituation, the poll revealed.

About 42 per cent ofrespondents said the mainreason for seeking jobsabroad was the lack of jobsdomestically, while 23.6per cent cited poverty asthe cause and 17.1 per centsaid the rise in food priceswas triggering theexodus.— MNA/Xinhua

RIO DE JANEIRO, 21May—A consortium ledby French-Belgian multi-national Suez Energy wonthe public bidding Mondayto build a hydroelectricpower plant in the Amazonrainforest region.

The Suez group,Consorcio Energia Sus-tentavel, offered to produceenergy at 71.4 reals (43.53US dollars) per megawatthour, 21.6 per cent belowthe auction's established

price cap. Jirau Energia, the rival

consortium, offered 78.9reals (48.1 dollars) permegawatt hour.

Suez Energy holds a50.1-per-cent stake in thewinning bidder, which isalso comprised of Brazi-lian companies CamargoCorrea Investimentos,Eletrosul Centrais Eletricasand Companhia Hid-reletrica do Sao Francisco.

MNA/Xinhua

French fishermen and farmers, protesting against high fuel costs, block theaccess of the oil terminal in the southwestern port of La Rochelle. A French

fishermen’s leader on Wednesday called an end to protests that crippled cross-Channel traffic after the government agreed to unlock promised aid.—INTERNET

A green turtle swims in a tank at the SunshineInternational Aquarium in Tokyo on 18 May,

2008.—XINHUA

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Minister briefs on relief efforts in storm-hit areas

Minister U Soe Tha briefs on relief and rehabilitation measures at Sedona Hotel.—MNA

YANGON, 22 May — Aceremony to brief on reliefand rehabilitation effortsaftermath the CycloneNargis was held at SedonaHotel here today.

It was attended byMinister for NationalPlanning and EconomicDevelopment U Soe Tha,Minister for SocialWelfare, Relief andResettlement Maj-GenMaung Maung Swe,Minister for Health DrKyaw Myint, depart-mental officials, diplo-mats, representatives of 39donor countries andofficials of 12 INGOs.

Minister U Soe Tha

briefed on formation ofCyclone Nargis which had200 miles in radius andhad a wind speed of 145miles per hour. He alsobriefed on conditions ofstorm-hit areas includingHaigyigyun, Ngapudaw,Labutta, Mawlamyine-kyun, Pyapon, Bogale,Kyaiklat and 40 townshipsin Yangon Division andloss of people inAyeyawady and Yangondivisions due to the storm.Cyclone warnings wereissued in newspapers andbroadcast in radio and TVas from 24 April. Afterthe storm hit the deltaregion and Yangon

Division on 2 and 3 May,the emergency meetingwas held on 3 May and itwas chaired by the PrimeMinister, Chairman of theNational DisasterPreparedness CentralCommittee, he said.Ministers concerned havesupervised the reliefefforts after the storm andarmed forces have beenparticipating in rescue andrelief work in storm-hitareas of Ayeyawady andYangon divisions. ThePrime Minister alsosupervised the rescue andrelief works in YangonDivision on 4 and 5 Mayand in delta region on 6

and 7 May, he added. Thecentral committee andsub-committees have beencarrying out rescue worksand providing medicalcare to survivors. He alsoshowed the death toll, thenumber of injured victimsand damages caused bythe storm on a chart.

Minister U Soe Thaalso briefed on rescue andrehabilitation tasks anddistribution of relief foods,drinking water and reliefaids to storm-hit areas inthe delta region byhelicopter and threephases of the relief work.Altogether 419 reliefcamps have been set up.

Over 59.63 % of powerconsumption rate ofYangon is now beingsupplied to Yangon and76.28 % of communica-tion lines out of over150,000 lines are now ingood condition. Watersupply to Yangon by theYangon City Develop-ment Committee hasreached 98.5 %, he said.

Minister U Soe Thasaid the total amount ofcash and relief aidsreached 7.378 billion upto 16 May and thecommittee had received2960.31 tons of relief aidsdonated by UN agencies,INGOs and donor

countries up to 19 May.Those relief aids aredistributed to storm-hitareas by helicopter dailyand medical teams weredispatched to the areas toprovide medical treatmentto survivors. Medicalteams from neighbouringcountries and local healthemployees are providingmedical care to survivors,he said. He also briefed onamount of budget to bespent on the rehabilitationwork and projects forpreparedness againstdisaster in the future.

Ministers U Soe Tha,Maj-Gen Maung MaungSwe and Dr Kyaw Myintreplied to queries raisedby those present.

Also present on theoccasion were 158representatives from UNagencies, donor countriesand ASEAN nations anddepartmental officials.

Afterwards, repre-sentatives of UN agencies,donor countries andASEAN nations visitedAtwinpadan relief campin Hlinethaya Townshipand relief camp in DagonMyothit (North).

MNARepresentatives of UN agencies, donor countries and ASEAN visit Atwinpadan relief camp in Hlinethaya Township.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 22 May—Departmental officials,members of social organizations, families ofTatmadawmen and wellwishers from the states anddivisions continued to donate cash and kind and reliefitems to storm victims through national spirit.

Today’s donations for the storm victims were K26,972,100 and relief supplies worth K 16,843,700by wellwishers from Nay Pyi Taw ; K 24,011,366 byfamilies of Tatmadawmen and wellwishers from Shan

Wellwishers from states and divisions continue to donate cash and relief items to storm victimsState (North) and Kayah State; K 941,900 and reliefsupplies worth K 1,077,300 by families ofTatmadawmen and wellwishers from Shan State(South) and Kayah State; K 1,472,540 and reliefsupplies worth K 31,839,250 by families ofTatmadawmen and wellwishers from Kayin and MonStates; K 20,865,770 and relief supplies worth K31,893,600 by families of Tatmadawmen andwellwishers from Sagaing Division; relief supplies

worth K 24,317,400 by families of Tatmadawmenand wellwishers from Mandalay Division; K69,595,250 by families of Tatmadawmen,departmental officials and wellwishers from BagoDivision; and K 4,800,000 by wellwishers fromMagway Division.

Today’s donations including K 22,067,111 were K276,697,287 in total. The donations of cash and kinduntil 22 May were K 8,532,563,493 in total.—MNA

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National Disaster Preparedness CentralCommittee issues News Release No. 7

NAY PYI TAW, 22 May—The National Disaster Preparedness CentralCommittee issued News Release No. 7 today.

The full text of the News Release is as follows: —

News Release No. 71. The Union of Myanmar invited health care teams from neighbouring

countries to provide health care to the victims to the storm ‘Nargis’ that hitthe nation. The 47-member team from the Republic of India that arrived on17 May is providing health care with heart and soul in Pyapon and Bogaleregion; the 50-member team from the People’s Republic of China that arrivedon 18 May, in Kungyangon region; the 30-member team from Thailand thatarrived on 17 May, in Myaungmya and Labutta region; the 23-member teamfrom the Lao People’s Democratic Republic that arrived on 18 May, inKyauktan region; and the 33-member team from Bangladesh that arrived on21 May, in Maubin region, totaling 183 members from five countries.

2. Health staff from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Defence, andmedical experts from NGOs, totaling 2029, and members from variousprivate enterprises, private medical experts, members of Red Cross Society,Auxiliary Fire Brigade, and other health care and relief groups totaling about36,000 in the aftermath of the storm headed for the storm-affected areas assoon as possible, and they are providing health care to the victims. Now, themedical teams from neighbouring countries are working in cooperation withthem, thereby strengthening the health care to the victims.

3. In the meantime, internal and international donors are continuously donatingmedicines and relief supplies, which are being used effectively in the healthcare services.

4. Therefore, we hereby announce that we heartily thank the countries,governments and their people for contributing to the health care of thevictims to the storm ‘Nargis’.

Dated: 22-5-2008 National Disaster Preparedness Central CommitteePlace: Nay Pyi Taw

Singapore medicalunit arrives

YANGON, 22 May—The 15-member medical teamled by Dr Arif Tyebally of Singapore arrived at Yangonby C-130 aircraft here this afternoon.

The medical unit brought along a total of 1.27 tonsof medicines and medical supplies. They werewelcomed by the Singapore ambassador to Myanmarand officials at the airport.—MNA

A medical unit led by Dr Arif Tyebally arrivesat Yangon International Airport.—MNA

Relief supplies contributed by UNHCR arrive Yangon InternationalAirport.— MNA

Relief items donated by Red Cross Society of Spain arrive YangonInternational Airport.—MNA

YANGON, 22 May —A ceremony to hand overthe relief items worth baht40 million donated byRoyal Thai Army washeld at MichaunggonMonastery in Myawadyyesterday.

At the donationceremony, the militaryofficers of the Royal ThaiArmy explained thepurpose of the donationand made a speech.

Brig-Gen AungNaing of MyawadyStation accepted reliefaids and spoke words ofthanks.—MNA

Minister supervises relief, rehabilitationworks in Pyapon, Kyaiklat

YANGON, 22 May — Minister for Hotels andTourism Maj-Gen Soe Naing and Minister for RailTransportation Maj-Gen Aung Min met with medicalteams on board the floating hospitals at the jetty inPyapon on 21 May.

The four medical teams comprise specialists,physicians and nurses from Directorate of MedicalServices of the Ministry of Defence Services, Ministryof Health, India and Amara Health Care Foundationand they will provide medical care to storm survivorsin villages in Pyapon, Kyaiklat and Dedaye townships.

On 17 May, Minister Maj-Gen Soe Naing went tothe temporary relief camp in Pyapon and accepted reliefaids donated by private donors and distributed them tostorm victims at the camp. He also accepted relief aidsdonated by NGOs and organizations in NyaungdonTownship and Hinthada District Peace and DevelopmentCouncil on 18 and 19 May. On 16 May, Minister Maj-Gen Soe Naing and Deputy Minister for EducationBrig-Gen Aung Myo Min held talks on distribution offurniture, exercise books and prescribed text books toschools in Pyapon. After the meeting, Minister Maj-Gen Soe Naing went to the relief camp No 1 and fulfilledthe requirements of the camp. — MNA

YANGON, 22 May —AN-12 flight carrying 17tons of plastic sheets,blankets, mosquito netsand kitchen utensildonated by UNHCRarrived at YangonInternational Airport at7.30 am, C-130 flightcarrying over 11 tons ofrice, medicines, emptybottles of purified water,water purifiers, blanketsand foodstuff donated byThailand at 10.18 am,another AN-12 flightcarrying over 15 tons ofpersonnel health caresupplies, kitchen utensiland tarpaulin donated by

More relief aids arrive

Spain Red Cross Societyat 11.30 am, another C-130 flight carrying 12.5tons of plastic sheetsdonated by Save TheChildren at 1.06 pm.Moreover, C-130 flightalso arrived carrying over23 tons of blankets, plasticsheets, bottles of water,plywood, two lifeboatsand health suppliesdonated by United Statesof America four times.

Likewise, 1.5 tons ofmedical supplies donatedby Denmark-basedUNICEF, over 2 tons ofmedical supplies donatedby Indonesia, 0.445 tons

of relief supplies donatedby Netherlands, 1.62 tonsof relief supplies donatedby Republic of Korea RedCross Society, over 3 tonsof bottles of purified waterdonated by SingaporeChristian Association,1.56 tons of 22 packing ofmosquito nets donated byIFRC, 1.35 tons of 110packing of personnelsupplies donated byMyanmar Embassy inThailand arrived. Therelief aids donated fromforeign countries havebeen distributed to thestorm-affected regionswithout delay. —MNA

Royal ThaiArmy

donates reliefsupplies

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Government takingrelief, rehabilitation…

(from page 1)reconstruction tasks, ar-rangements being made forsupply of foods and tem-porary shelter for resettle-ment of the victims in theirnative regions of their ownaccord, providing of im-plements to the people foragriculture and fisheriesindustries, giving of healthcare services to the localpeople by opening thehealth care clinic on boardthe vessel and require-ments.

After hearing the re-ports, the Senior Generalgave guidance, saying thatthe government is takingrelief, rehabilitation andthree-step preventive andpreparedness measuresagainst natural disasters forthe storm-hit regions andthe victims. He said thatthe current floating hospi-tal programme is an effec-tive one in providing healthcare services to the people.In addition, the plans are

under way to upgrade thehospitals in the region andopen the rural dispensariesin the long term, he added.

The Senior Generalcontinued to give guidancethat arrangements arebeing made to constructroads leading to the coastalvillages and build 20-30feet high embankments forpreventing floods to be ableto take development andnatural disaster preventionand preparedness meas-ures. He stressed the needto open tractor camps inthe main regions and pro-vide paddy strain, draughtcattle and agriculturalequipment to the local peo-ple for rehabilitation oftheir livelihoods.

SPDC member Gen-eral Thura Shwe Mann in-structed local authorities tocoordinate relief and reha-bilitation tasks without di-viding administrative ar-eas of districts and town-ships, provide draught cat-

tle to the local farmers whowill work in the farmlandswhere tractors cannot en-ter, supervise suitable ag-ricultural tasks of the localfarmers, fulfill the require-ments of local fishery in-dustry and timely submitthe requirements of the re-

gion to the State.After cordially greet-

ing the family members ofthe local battalion, SeniorGeneral Than Shwe andparty in a motorcadeviewed rehabilitation tasksin Mawlamyinegyun andkeeping the urban area

clean.At the Township Hos-

pital, they were welcomedby Head of TownshipHealth Department DrAung San and doctors,members of the specialistteam from Yangon Gen-eral Hospital and NorthOkkalapa People’s Hos-pital.

They comforted stormpatients being warded atthe hospital. After lookinginto rehabilitation meas-ures of Mawlamyinek yun,they cordially greeted thelocal people.

On arrival at Bogale at

11.20 am, the Senior Gen-eral and party were wel-comed by Minister for For-estry Brig-Gen TheinAung who is closely su-pervising relief and reha-bilitation tasks there, Com-mander of No 66 LID Brig-Gen Maung Maung Ayeand officials.

At the control office,Minister Brig-Gen TheinAung reported on progressin taking relief and reha-bilitation measures inBogale, sending the stormvictims from the reliefcamps to the rear camps inMaubin, supply of drink-ing water, sending thosewishing to go back to theirnative villages of their ownaccord, carrying out of re-settlement task, contribu-tions of Htoo Trading andAir Bagan Family and Dia-mond Mercury Co in reliefand rehabilitation tasks,progress in reconstructionof education, health andcivil buildings, providingof agricultural and fisheryequipment for those whogo back to the native re-gions and repair of theembankments.

In his guidance, theSenior General urged offi-cials to systematically takemeasures on relief, reha-bilitation and preventionagainst natural disasters byadopting the steps of theplan and construct theroads leading to the coastalregions as soon as possi-ble.

(See page 9)

Arrangements are being made to construct roadsleading to the coastal villages and build 20-30 feet highembankments for preventing floods to be able to takedevelopment and natural disaster prevention andpreparedness measures.

Senior General Than Shwe gives instructions on the relief and rehabilitation works ofMawlamyinekyun Township .—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe comforts storm victims at No. 1 BEHS in Bogale Township.—MNA

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Government takingrelief, rehabilitation…

(from page 8)In his speech, General

Thura Shwe Mann said thatHead of State Senior Gen-eral Than Shwe adopted thepolicies and work plans indetail to carry out relief andrehabilitation tasks and toprevent natural disasters inthe long run. The success-ful implementation of theplans in accord with theguidance depends on thecollection of accurate andcorrect facts and figures inthe respective regions. In-deed, the rehabilitationtasks are more numerousand extensive than that ofthe relief works. Therefore,regiments and units and lo-cal authorities need to sys-tematically perform the re-habilitation tasks.

He stressed the needto set up the regular supplyroute to be able to continu-ously provide rations andsupplies to the people whohave resettled in their na-tive regions. The govern-ment has sufficiency offood and funds and planned

to fulfill the requirements.Therefore, it is necessaryto take care of supply anduse for the people.

He continued to saythat with a view to nurtur-ing the children who hadbecome orphans due to thestorm and turning out theoutstanding persons, theSenior General has givenguidance to open the or-phanages in Pyapon andLabutta, and to organizethem in Maubin andMyaungmya under sepa-rate programmes. There-fore, it is necessary to col-lect the correct list of theneedy children in the re-spective regions. He saidthat he explained the ar-rangements made by theState level officials for ena-bling the local level authori-ties to realize the work plansand aims and collect factsand figures.

Afterwards, the Sen-ior General and party in-spected the scale model oflow-price housing for thestorm victims.

At Bogale People’sHospital, they were wel-comed by the head ofTownship Health Depart-ment, the specialist teamfrom North Okkalapa Gen-eral Hospital, nurses fromUniversity of Nursing andhealth staff.

The Senior Generaland party comforted the

patients at the outpatientdepartment, the male wardand the female ward.

They went to the reliefcamp opened at BogaleBasic Education HighSchool No 1 and cordiallygreeted the storm victims.They also inspected thedispensary. After that, theylooked into progress in re-

habilitation and reconstruc-tion tasks in storm-hitBogale by car. In the after-noon, the Senior Generaland party flew to Pathein

from Bogale by Tatmadawhelicopter. Next, they leftPathein by Tatmadaw spe-cial flight and arrived backhere in the evening. — MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence inspects clearance of fallen trees byTatmadawmen.—MNA

Prefabricated house in Hainggyikyun being constructed by AyonOo,FMI, Shwethanlwin, Moekyesin and Tetlan Cos.—�MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe oversees measures forcomplete clearance of fallen trees

YANGON, 22 May —Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence,inspected measures beingtaken by Tatmadawmenand YCDC staff tocompletely clear the treesfallen due to the storm andto drain the ditches inYangon city.

First, Lt-Gen MyintSwe and party looked intomeasures being taken bymilitary servicemen oflocal units and regimentsfor proper drainage at 8th

Mile Junction in

Mayangon Township andwent to the junction ofParami Road andWaizayanda Road whereTatmadawmen cleared thefallen trees and carried outthe tasks for properdrainage. Lt-Gen MyintSwe and party alsoinspected the similar taskscarried out on the roadsand streets in SouthOakkalapa, DagonMyothit (North),Thingangyun, MingalaTaungnyunt, Tamway andDagon townships.

Afterwards, theyoversaw the clearing ofrubbish by Tatmadawmenof local regiments in frontof the National Museumon Pyay Road in DagonTownship.

Later, Lt-Gen MyintSwe and party inspectedthe clearing of the fallentrees and rubbish nearHanthawady Roundabouton Pyay Road in KamayutTownship and alongUniversity Avenue Streetand Kaba Aye PagodaRoad. — MNA

Private companies participatein rehabilitation tasks in

HainggyikyunYANGON, 22 May—AyonOo, FMI Co,

Shwethanlwin, Moekyesin and Tetlan have organizedCape Nargis Committee to carry out the rehabilitationworks in Hainggyikyun in Ngaputaw Township.The office of the committee has been opened at No 309in Grand Meeyahta Hotel here.

The Cape Nargis Committee has carried out thedistribution of relief aids and shelter tents, aluminumboats donated by INGOs to the storm-affected regions.The committee conducted a joint training for the localmedical team and medical assistants from INGOs andtransported them to Hainggyikyun, Ngaputaw, Alegyun,Thingangon, Makyeein and Kyingu via Yangon-Patheinmotor road.

The committee organized a mobile team com-prising doctors and nurses from Panhlaing InternationalHospital and Save the Children based in Ngaputaw togive medical treatment to the survivors who need treat-ment. The committee has set up prefabricated housesand shelter tents, provided medical treatment, distrib-uted drinking water, rice, edible oil, salt, instant foods,plastics and clothes to the victims and transported theconstruction materials to storm affected areas by car andby boat to reconstruct the buildings and schools beforethe academic year. —MNA

Senior General Than Shwe consoles storm victims who are receiving medical treatment atPeople’s Hospital in Mawlamyinekyun Township.—MNA

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UN Secretary-General …(from page 16)

caused by the storm in Mawlamyinegyun, accom-plishment of the relief tasks, relief supplies, resettle-ment and reconstruction works, measures for growingmonsoon paddy in time while Minister Col TheinNyunt gave a supplementary report.

Next, Mr Ban Ki-moon and party made observa-tions on piles of relief supplies to be distributed to thestorm victims and then arrived back in Yangon fromMawlamyinegyun by helicopter at 6 pm.—MNA

Internationalhumanitarianassistance…

(from page 16)On behalf of the vic-

tims of the cyclone, Iwould like to take thisopportunity to express ourprofound thanks to theinternational organiza-tions and community forthe outpouring of mes-sages of sympathy andcondolences for the tragicloss of lives and exten-sive damage of propertydue to cyclone Nargis inMyanmar as well as forthe immediate responseand generous humanitar-ian assistance rendered tovictims of the cycloneNargis.

Moreover, I wouldalso like to express oursincere appreciation to themember countries ofASEAN and neighboringcountries for dispatchingtheir medical teams to as-sist in our national effortsin providing health carefor the people affected bythe cyclone.

The cyclone Nargisthat struck Myanmar on 2and 3 May was unprec-edented natural disasterthat brought massive lossof life and extensive dam-age to property in thecountry. As such a pow-erful storm never hitMyanmar in its past his-tory; no one expected itwill be that much strongor devastating. I will notdwell on in detail to theextent or impact of thecyclone Nargis as you allmay have already learnt itfrom the media coverage.

After my brief remark, theMinister for NationalPlanning and EconomicDevelopment will brief indetail on our relief andrehabilitation efforts in theaftermath of cycloneNargis.

As we have now com-pleted the first phase ofrescue works, we are nowemphasizing on the im-plementing the rehabilita-tion measures such as pro-viding health care, foodand temporary shelter tothe survivors. The nextstep will be rebuildinghomes for the survivorsand assisting them in re-habilitating their liveli-hoods mainly in agricul-ture, fisheries and salt in-dustries. In order to re-cover from the presenttragedy, our Head of StateSenior General ThanShwe had urged to takenecessary prompt actionsin carrying out relief andrehabilitation efforts rely-ing on our internal capac-ity with the close collabo-

ration of the Government,the people and theTatmadaw.

Senior General ThanShwe had also emphasizedto carry out the relief andrehabilitation in threephases. The first phase isproviding food, clothing,temporary shelters, andmedical care to the vic-tims, which is now almostcomplete at this stage. Thesecond phase which is re-construction of the vil-lages, renovation of dam-aged roads, bridges andcommunication links, re-generation of agriculture,fishery and salt-makingworks, and in the thirdphase, efforts will be ex-erted to take preparednessmeasures and arrange-ments for the victims toreturn to normalcy. Thesecond and third stage willneed time and more tech-nical and material assist-ance from the internationalcommunity.

Therefore, in all thesephases, we heartily wel-

come the humanitarianassistance from the inter-national organizations andcommunity. We are verymuch appreciative andglad to see that humani-tarian aids have been con-tinuously arriving at theYangon International Air-port. These supplies arebeing directly and system-atically transported anddistributed to the victimsof the storm. In doing so,we have mobilized ourown human resources in-cluding the members ofTatmadaw, Myanmar Po-lice Force, NGOs and lo-cal people. In the earlierdays, there were rumorsthat we were denying in-ternational assistance andthat we were selectivelyaccepting outside reliefaids. It is absolutely un-true. On the contrary, wehave accepted with appre-ciation all relief goods andfinancial assistance of-fered by any country.However, internationalhumanitarian assistance

should not be politicized.So far, we have received atotal of over 2700 tons ofrelief supplies from vari-ous organizations andcountries and also receivedover 130 flights carryingrelief goods.

In light of monumen-tal task of relief operationwhich requires more co-operation with interna-tional community in ourrehabilitation and recon-struction efforts, we wel-come the establishment ofASEAN led mechanismwhich will closely coop-erate with our already ex-isting national mecha-nism.

We are also pleased tohost the ASEAN-UN In-ternational Pledging Con-ference on HumanitarianAssistance to Myanmar inYangon on 25 May 2008.I hope that some of youwill also take this oppor-tunity to participate in thePledging Conference,which, I am confident, willgenerate additional re-sources to our relief andrehabilitation efforts. Wehave also organized a tour

for all of you to visit thedisaster-stricken areas in-cluding the Ayeyawadydelta. It will provide youthe opportunity to witnessyourselves that how yourrelief assistances haveproved to be immenselyuseful for the storm vic-tims who are in dire needsfor assistance. Your fi-nance and materials havenot only benefited thestorm victims but also be-ing a source of consola-tion and added strength tothem at this difficult time.

In conclusion, I wouldonce again like to take thisopportunity to express ourprofound thanks to the in-ternational organizationsand community for theirtimely response and ur-gent humanitarian assist-ance rendered to victimsof the storm. I also wish toassure you that the inter-national assistance pro-vided by the donor coun-tries has been properlyrecorded and systemati-cally distributed to the af-fected people of the cy-clone-stricken areas.

MNA

All this needs to be known* Do not be frightened whenever

intimidated* Do not be bolstered whenever flat-

tered* Do not be softened whenever appeased

UN Secretary-General Mr Ban Ki-moon views the collected relief aids for storm victims inMawlamyinegyun Township.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein and attendees stand in one minute silence to mourn for the loss of lives of people inthe storm-hit regions.—MNA

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YANGON, 22 May —Vice-President ofMyanmar Maternal andChild Welfare AssociationDr Daw Tin Lin Myint andmembers, Chairperson ofYangon Division Maternaland Child WelfareSupervisory CommitteeDaw Mar Mar Wai andmembers and wellwisherspresented K 500,000 andrelief supplies donated byMMCWA, YangonDivision MCWSC andwellwishers Major PyiAung and Daw Nanda Ayeand family to 156 storm-affected households atLetkhiebaho Relief Campin Kawhmu Township thisafternoon.

At the relief campopened in KungyangonTownship Sports Ground,Daw Tin Lin Myint andparty presented K 500, 000and relief supplies donatedby Major Pyi Aung andDaw Nanda Aye and

Maj-Gen Tha Aye looks intoregional developments in

Ye Township

UN Secretary-General arrivesYANGON, 22 May —

A delegation led by MrBan Ki-moon, the UNS e c r e t a r y - G e n e r a l ,arrived here by air today.

They were welcomedat Yangon InternationalAirport by Minister forForeign Affairs U NyanWin, Director-General UKyaw Kyaw of ProtocolDepartment, UN ActingResident RepresentativeMr Daniel B Baker andofficials concerned.

The UN Secretary-General singed the Bookof Condolences opened fordamages and losses of lifedue to the storm ‘Nargis’

Diplomats sign the book of condolences at the Ministry ofForeign Affairs.—MNA�

UN Secretary-General Mr Ban Ki-moon pays homage to BuddhaImage at Shwedagon Pagoda.—MNA

UN Secretary-GeneralMr Ban Ki-moon beingwelcomed by Minister

U Nyan Win at YangonInternationalAirport.—MNA

at Shin Dithapamauk Hallof the Ministry of ForeignAffairs.

Later, the UNSecretary-General anddelegation members paidhomage to ShwedagonPagoda and made cashdonation.—MNA

UN Secretary-General Mr Ban Ki-moon signs the book of condolencesat the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.—MNA

Mr Lingyan Paw - Daw Yin Nwe Myo andMaung Lwin Min Khant of Kyankhinsu Wardin Mingaladon Township donated K 100,000

to Hninzigon Home for the Aged throughJoint-Secretary U Maung Maung Gyi of the

Home recently.—H

NAY PYI TAW, 22 May — Maj-Gen Tha Aye ofthe Ministry of Defence together with Chairman ofMon State Peace and Development CouncilCommander of South-East Command Maj-Gen ThetNaing Win held a meeting with departmental officials,members of social organizations and local people inKhawza of Ye Township on 20 May.

Having heard a report by an official on measurestaken for the development of the region, Maj-Gen ThaAye gave an account of the government makingnecessary efforts for the development in all sectors,and then presented provisions to departmental officialsand social organization members.

He visited the People’s Hospital in Khawza andpresented cash assistance to the patients. Later, heinspected development of Khawza by car.— MNA

Vice-President of MMCWA Dr Daw Tin Lin Myint and membersdeliver relief items to storm victims at letkhiebaho relief camp in

Kawhmu Township.—MNA

MMCWA Vice-President presents cash and kind to stormvictims in Kawhmu, Kungyangon Townships

family to 33 storm-affected households.

Next, the vice-president and partyproceeded to KungyangonTownship People’sHospital and presented

medicines and medicalequipment to the hospitaland diaper and milkpowder to townshipMCWA. They alsopresented mosquito-netsto the patients. — MNA

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Bus accidentin Mexico

kills 21MEXICO CITY, 21 May —

At least 21 people werekilled and many othersinjured Monday as a busplunged off a mountainhighway in San AgustinMetzquititlan munici-pality in the sate ofHidalgo, police said.

The Public SecurityMinistry said that theaccident took place at13:30 local time (1830GMT). The bus fromEstrella Blanca Companywas heading for the MexicoCity, as it tumbled off theroad and plunged 150metres into the ravine.

About 50 rescue mem-bers, members of theFederal Preventive Police(PFP), firemen and ahelicopter went to help thevictims. The abrupt roadmade the rescue workdifficult and it is fearedthat the number of deathscould rise. The police saidthe cause of the accident isunder investigation.

MNA/Xinhua

Police uncover hempcultivation plant in PraguePRAGUE, 21 May—Czech police seized drugs amount

for over 20,000 doses worth 7.5 million crowns (0.5million US dollars), Prague police spokesman TomasHulan reported on the website on Monday.

The police seized a total of 550 hemp plants and 15kilos of dried drug and detained foreigners suspectedof operating a large hemp cultivation plant, accordingto the website.

“Both the plants and the dried marijuana were of thebest quality, according to experts, and the final productswere exclusively for the international market withinthe EU,” Hulan said.

The detained Vietnamese, aged between 21 and 40years, were growing hemp plants at a 500-square-metre area, it added.

The police accused all the detained foreigners ofillegal production and possession of drugs. If foundguilty, they face up to five years in prison.

The cultivation unit equipment has been put at 2.5million crowns (0.2 million US dollars).

MNA/Xinhua

Gunmen kill 11 Iraqi policerecruits in northern Iraq

Philippine Army warns ofmercenary bombers in south

One in eight Germansliving in poverty

MANILA, 21 May—Philippine security forceswarned on Tuesday ofattacks in the restive southby a group of “bombers-for-hire” trained byIslamic militants.

Local insurgents in thesouth of the largelyCatholic country havesharpened their detonatingskills but a military cull oftheir leadership has leftthem without a game planand encouraged them tostart offering theirexpertise for a fee.

“We’ve heard of a groupof ‘bombers-for-hire’because many of thepeople trained to assemblecrude bombs were gettingbored and were eager tomake use of their talents,”Major-General Ray-mundo Ferrer, an Armydivision commander inthe southern province ofCotabato, said.

Ferrer said it was tooearly to say if freelancebombers were behind aspate of attacks on busterminals in the Cotabato

area, including anexplosion on Mondayevening that wounded sixpeople.

The Philippine Govern-ment, with assistance fromthe United States, has beentrying to wipe out AbuSayyaf, a small but deadlylocal Muslim terror group,as well as renegademembers of the MoroIslamic Liberation Front(MILF), a 11,000 strongseparatist movement thathas a truce with Manila.

MNA/Reuters

MOSUL (Iraq), 21May—Unknown gunmenattacked a minibuscarrying police recruitsnear the city of Mosul,killing 11 of them, a localpolice source said onTuesday. The attackersambushed the minibus onMonday evening outsidethe town of Ba'aj, 80kilometres west of Mosul,showering the minibus

with bullets, killing 11 ofthe recruits, the source toldXinhua on condition ofanonymity. The attackcame as the US troops andIraqi security forces arecarrying out majoroffensive in NinevehProvince and its capitalMosul to uproot al-Qaedamilitants in the provincewhere they were believedto be regrouped after being

defeated in Baghdad andother Iraqi provinces.

Major General KamalHussein, Iraq’s InteriorMinistry Undersecretary,told Xinhua on Mondaynight that the Iraqi securityforces have arrested up to1330 suspected insurgentssince the start of thecrackdown in Mosul earlylast week.

MNA/Xinhua

UN meeting calls for urgentfood price action

UNITED NATIONS, 21 May—A food crisis sparked byrising prices risks derailing global efforts to reducepoverty and international action is urgently needed,world leaders and experts told a high-level UN meetingon Tuesday. “Today 25,000 people will die because theydid not get enough to eat,” British Prime MinisterGordon Brown said in a video message to a specialmeeting of the UN Economic and Social Council on theglobal food crisis. Brown pledged to champion the causeof fighting poverty and hunger at an international level,including among the G-8 group of industrialized nationsthat are the main donor countries. — MNA/Reuters

US court says currencydiscriminates against the blind WASHINGTON, 21 May—The US Treasury Department

discriminates against millions of Americans who areblind or have poor vision by printing paper money thatmakes it impossible for them to distinguish betweendenominations, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.By a 2-1 vote, the court upheld a ruling by US DistrictJudge James Robertson in a lawsuit filed by the AmericanCouncil of the Blind seeking to force the department toredesign the US paper currency. The group has proposedseveral possible changes, including different sized billsfor different denominations, embossed dots and raisedprinting. The court called such accommodationsreasonable, effective and feasible.— MNA/Reuters

BERLIN, 21 May—Apoverty report released bythe German Governmenton Monday said that about13 per cent of the Germanpopulation live at or belowthe official poverty-line of781 euros (about 1,200 USdollars) per month.

The report also foundanother 13 per cent of the82.5 million Germans areprevented from falling intothe category of the poor

just because of state bene-fits such as unemploymentbenefit.

While the income of therich increasing, theincome of the poor peoplehave decreased slightly,and middle-class incomesare stagnating, the reportshowed.

The hardest hit are long-term unemployed andsingle parents along withtheir children.

In issuing the report,German Labour MinisterOlaf Scholz said thatintroducing more mini-mum wages should be “animportant programme tofight poverty”.

Germany’s conser-vative politicians, how-ever, argue that moreminimum wages wouldkill jobs and the bestsolution to poverty shouldbe a successful growth andemployment policy.

MNA/Xinhua

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A performer dressed as a Hello Kitty masotwearing a kimono performs a classical Japanese

dance at a event named “Let’s learn Japaneseculture with Hello Kitty” at Tamagawa

Takashimaya shopping centre in Tokyo .XINHUA

A staff member of the local water conservancy department examines thechannel to dredge up the imprisoned lake at Linjiaba Village of Pingwu

County under Mianyang City, southwest China’s Sichuan Province,on 21 May, 2008. —XINHUA

Light from supernovas in the NGC 2770 galaxy as imaged by the GeminiMulti-Object Spectrograph at Gemini North on Mauna Kea in Hawaii is seen

in a handout image.—INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 21 May— US space shuttleDiscovery’s STS- 124mission to the Inter-national Space Station isofficially scheduled forlaunch on 31 May, NASAannounced Monday afterthe final Flight ReadinessReview. “Preparationsare going really well,”Shuttle Launch DirectorMike Leinbach said,pointing out thatDiscovery’s remarkablysmooth processing flow

SAO PAULO, 21 May –Brazil’s environmentalagency Ibama said onTuesday it seized some4,740 tons of soy, cornand rice grown on illegallydeforested land in theAmazon as the countrystruggles with its environ-mental image abroad.

Brazil’s farming, bio-fuels and ranching sectors,Latin America’s largest,have come under fire,especially in Europe, forunregulated expansion atthe cost of the environ-ment, particularly in theAmazon.

The European Unionhas been pushing to limitimports of commoditiessuch as biofuels fromBrazil on the grounds ofsustainability.

MNA/Reuters

BEIJING, 21 May — TheChinese Government saidit is to build a DNA data-base of those unidentifieddead bodies after thedisastrous Sichuan earth-quake for later identifi-cation.

The government isgoing to cremate identifieddead bodies and allowburial in those areas wherecremation service isunavailable.

For those yet to beidentified, the governmentsaid, police and medicalworkers will keep anumbered record, takepictures and collect bodytissues for DNA tests.

The police will managethe DNA database forfuture identification.

The Ministry of CivilAffairs, together with theMinistry of Public Secu-rity and the Ministry ofHealth, issued a guidanceto speed up dead bodyidentification and treat-

GENEVA, 21 May — Chronic diseases such as hearttrouble and stroke have replaced infectious diseases asthe chief causes of death globally, the World HealthOrganization (WHO) said in a new report on Monday.

The shifting health trends indicate that leadinginfectious diseases — diarrhoea, HIV, tuberculosis,neonatal infections and malaria — will become lessimportant causes of death globally over the next 20years, according to the World Health Statistics 2008report.

“We are definitely seeing a trend toward fewerpeople dying of infectious diseases across the world,”said Ties Boerma, director of the WHO’s Departmentof Health Statistics and Informatics.

“We tend to associate developing countries withinfectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosisand malaria. But in more and more countries the chiefcauses of death are noncommunicable diseases, suchas heart disease and stroke,” he said in a statement.

The statistical report documents in detail the levelsof mortality in children and adults, patterns of morbidityand burden of disease, prevalence of risk factors suchas smoking and alcohol consumption, use of healthcare, availability of health care workers, and healthcare financing. — MNA/Xinhua

CANBERRA, 21 May — The cull of hundreds ofkangaroos at a defence site in Canberra began onMonday, despite the pleas of animal welfare activistsfor it to be called off.

Dozens of kangaroos were herded into pens beforedisappearing behind hessian screens, where somewere apparently euthanized.

Despite no official confirmation of the cull,witnesses at the site said the tranquilizing and killingof the animals had begun. The stop-start cull of about400 eastern grey kangaroos on the former naval site insuburban Belconnen attracted international mediaattention. —MNA/Xinhua

NASA gives “go” for spaceshuttle launch on 31 May

will allow shuttle workcrews to take off theMemorial Day holiday.

“Right now we’re ingreat shape, and we reallyexpect to have a good threeor four days off thisweekend and come backand launch,” Leinbachsaid at an afternoon newsconference at KennedySpace Centre in Florida,according to NASA TV.

Discovery’s 14-dayflight will carry the largestpayload so far — the main

part of Japan’s Kibolaboratory to the spacestation and includes threespacewalks. It is thesecond of three missionsthat will launch com-ponents to complete Kibolaboratory.

Discovery will alsodeliver new station crewmember Greg Chamitoffand bring back FlightEngineer Garrett Reis-man, who will end a three-month stay aboard theoutpost. — MNA/Xinhua

Canberra’s kangaroo cullbegins

Noncommunicable diseasesnow biggest killers

DNA database to be built toidentify dead in Sichuan

ment before possiblerotten corpses contami-nating areas wheresurvivors are gathering.

The powerful tremor,eight degrees on theRichter Scale, joltedeastern Sichuan Provinceon 12 May, claiming atleast 34,073 lives.

For the dead who arebelieved to be foreigncitizens, the state-runChina Funeral Associa-tion will take over,disinfect the bodies andkeep them. Their relativescan contact the association,http:/bzxh.mca.gov.cn.

MNA/Xinhua

Brazilenvironmentagency seizes

Amazon soy, corn

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S P O R T S

Niang, Diawara excusedfrom Senegal

DAKAR, 22 May — Olympique Marseille strikerMamadou Niang has been omitted from Senegal'ssquad for their Group Six World Cup qualifiers afterasking not to be called up until 2009, coach LamineNdiaye said on Wednesday.

Niang, whose 18 goals made him the second high-est scorer in Ligue 1 this season, is joined on thesidelines by Girondins Bordeaux defender SouleymaneDiawara, who has also asked to be excused from thequalifiers against Algeria, Gambia and Liberia.

Ndiaye, who named a 22-man squad for the Afri-can zone group matches, has dropped FA Cup winningmidfielder Pape Bouba Diop of Portsmouth and New-castle United defender Habib Beye.

French Under-21 international Issiar Dia is in-cluded although it is not yet clear if he has receivedpermission from FIFA to switch his nationality. TheNancy striker is French-born but of Senegalese des-cent.

Senegal face home and away matches against theirthree group opponents starting at home in Dakaragainst Algeria on 31 May and finishing with the visitof Gambia in October. — MNA/Reuters

Broken-nosed hero Scholesfinally gets his medal

MOSCOW, 22 May — Manchester United midfielderPaul Scholes broke his nose in Wednesday's Champions League final against Chelsea but played throughthe pain barrier to win the medal he missed out on nineyears ago.

Scholes was injured in a first-half collision withChelsea's Claude Makelele that saw both players yel-low carded by Slovak referee Lubos Michel withScholes bloodied, bruised and needing treatment fromthe physios before he rejoined the action.

"When he came off at halftime he was very groggyand needed some tablets before going back on for thesecond half," said manager Alex Ferguson.

"Tonight he got what he should have got in 1999 -- a winner's medal."

MNA/Reuters

Davids will leave Ajax afterseason

AMSTERDAM, 21 May— Edgar Davids will leaveAjax Amsterdam after this season as his contractexpires on 30 June, the Dutch club said on their officialwebsite (www.ajax.nl) on Tuesday.

“It is a pity that we will separate as I am a boy fromAmsterdam and have special feelings for the club,”Davids was quoted as saying. “But I don’t want to stayat Ajax at any price. I said before that the chance Iwould stay was not big.

“At this time I don't know where I will go. Therehas been interest from domestic and foreign clubs. Iam fit and still feel good enough to play football on thislevel.”

The 35-year-old midfielder has won 74 caps andscored six goals for the Netherlands but has not beencalled up for the national side since Marco van Bastentook over as coach after Euro 2004.

Van Basten will take charge of Ajax after nextmonth’s European Championship. Davids started hisprofessional career aged 18 at Ajax and won the UEFACup and Champions League with the club.

In 1996, Davids joined AC Milan but he moved on18 months later to sign for Juventus, where he playedfor six years.

After spells at Barcelona, Inter Milan andTottenham Hotspur, Davids returned to Ajax in January 2007. — MNA/Reuters

Dallas sack coach MorrowDALLAS, 21 May — Major League Soccer’s FC

Dallas have sacked their Northern Irish coach SteveMorrow after losing their last four games, the club saidon Tuesday.

“We have set high standards, expectations, andgoals for this team and organization,” said Dallasgeneral manager Michael Hitchcock in a statement.

“I feel that the team was not heading in the direc-tion we had planned, and believe it is in the bestinterest of the club to make a coaching change at thistime,” he added.

Assistant Marco Ferruzzi will take charge of theteam on an interim basis starting with Saturday’shome game against Real Salt Lake City.

Former Arsenal and Northern Ireland midfielderMorrow ended his playing career with Dallas andbecame an assistant coach in 2004 before taking on thehead coach job in November 2006. — MNA/Reuters

Japan’s Jubilo eye Brzilian Edmilson TOKYO, 21 May— Japan’s Jubilo Iwata are weigh-

ing up a move for Barcelona midfielder Edmilson,whose contract at the Spanish club expires at the endof June.

Jubilo, Japanese champions in 1997, 1999 and2002, are in danger of relegation after suffering a thirdsuccessive J-League defeat at the weekend and haveidentified the Brazilian as a potential saviour.

“He’s one of the players we have short-listed,”Jubilo told Reuters on Tuesday. “The holding midfieldrole is a high priority position for us.”

Jubilo are preparing to offer Edmilson a multi-yeardeal worth around 1.5 million euros (2.32 million USdollars) a year, according to Japanese media.

The versatile 31-year-old, who helped Brazil winthe 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, hasalso been linked with a move to Primera Liga sideVillarreal.

MNA/Reuters

Shinzo Korogi (center) of Kashima Antlers ofJapan scores past Vietnam’s Nam Dinh goalie

Tran Thanh Trung during their Asian ChampionsLeague match in Hanoi yesterday. Kashima won4-0 to advance to the quarterfinals at the expense

of Beijing Guo’an.—INTERNET

Torchbearer ZhangJinsong runs with thetorch during the 2008

Beijing OlympicGames torch relay inNingbo. The Olympictorch relay resumestoday in the ancientport city of Ningboafter a three-day

pause out of respectfor victims of the

earthquake.—XINHUA

FIFA say Kenyan court rulingcould jeopardize World Cup

NAIROBI, 21 May — FIFA have ordered Kenya toput recognized officials in charge of soccer in thecountry, saying a court decision over the running of thegame could jeopardize the 2010 World Cup.

A Kenyan court last week handed the running ofthe country’s chaotic soccer set-up to a faction of theKenya Football Federation (KFF) not recognized byworld governing body FIFA.

“These latest events jeopardise the organization ofthe forthcoming FIFA 2010 World Cup...the courtdecision violates football’s international principles,”FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke said in a letterto the KFF seen by Reuters. —MNA/Reuters

New York Yankees relief pitcher Joba Chamberlaindelivers a pitch against the Baltimore Orioles in the eighthinning of their MLB American League baseball game in

Baltimore, Maryland on 19 April, 2008.—INTERNET

Los AngelesLakers’ Kobe

Bryant drives to thebasket as San

Antonio Spurs’ ImeUdoka, back,defends in thesecond half of

Game 1 of the NBAWestern Confer-ence basketball

finals, on 21 May,2008 in Los Ange-

les.—INTERNET

UEFA changes yellow cardrule for Euro 2008

MOSCOW, 21 May— Any player on a single yellowcard at the end of the quarterfinal stage of Euro 2008will have it cancelled, UEFA announced on Tuesdayafter a two-day Executive Committee meeting.

The proposal was agreed unanimously by the com-mittee and means that a player given a second yellowcard of the competition in the semifinals is not thensuspended for the final if his team qualifies.

Previously, players had single yellow cards can-celled after the group stage so that if they picked upyellows in the quarterfinals and semifinals they weresuspended for the showpiece event.

UEFA president Michel Platini said he was de-lighted with the ruling. —MNA/Reuters

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Summary of observations recorded at 9:30 hoursMST: During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowershave been widespread in Kachin and Mon States,Taninthayi Division, scattered in Shan State and upperSagaing Division, isolated in Kayin State, lower Sagaing,Mandalay and Yangon Divisions and weather has beenpartly cloudy in the remaining States and Divisions withisolated heavyfall in Mandalay Division. Day tempera-tures were (3°C) above May average temperatures inTaninthayi Division and about May average tempera-tures in the remaining areas. The significant day tem-perature was Chauk (40ºC). The noteworthy amounts ofrainfall recorded were Mogok (2.56) inches, Thaton (1.34)inches, Kanbalu (1.29) inches and Putao (1.26) inches.

Maximum temperature on 21-5-2008 was 90ºF.Minimum temperature on 22-5-2008 was 75ºF. Rela-tive humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 22-5-2008 was85%. Total sunshine hours on 21-5-2008 was (3.8)hours approx.

Rainfall on 22-5-2008 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, (0.04)inch at Kaba-Aye and (Nil) at Central Yangon. Totalrainfall since 1-1-2008 was (27.76) inches at Mingaladon,(31.97) inches at Kaba-Aye and (34.76) inches at CentralYangon. Maximum windspeed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye)

was (4) mph from Southeast at (7:30) hours MST on22-5-2008.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theNorth Bay and monsoon is weak in the Andaman Seaand elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 23-5-2008: Rain orthundershowers will be fairly widespread in Kachin andMon States,Taninthayi Division, scattered in Shan State,upper Sagaing, Bago, Yangon and Ayeyawady Divi-sions and isolated in the remaining areas. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Moderatemonsoon in the Andaman Sea, South and East CentralBay of Bengal.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 23-5-2008: Likelihood of isolated rain or thunder-showers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for23-5-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for23-5-2008: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershow-ers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

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Thursday, 22 May, 2008

7:00 am1. etac\tn\;qaqna‘pSraeta\ etac\tn\;qaqna‘pSraeta\ etac\tn\;qaqna‘pSraeta\ etac\tn\;qaqna‘pSraeta\ etac\tn\;qaqna‘pSraeta\

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4. �pv\eTac\sutiuc\;rc\;qa;�pv\eTac\sutiuc\;rc\;qa;�pv\eTac\sutiuc\;rc\;qa;�pv\eTac\sutiuc\;rc\;qa;�pv\eTac\sutiuc\;rc\;qa;

Riu;raet;qMqaRiu;raet;qMqaRiu;raet;qMqaRiu;raet;qMqaRiu;raet;qMqa

8:05 am

5. Musical programme

8:30 am

6. International news

8:40 am

7. Musical programme

4:00 pm

1. ss\K¥^et;'ss\qv\et;ss\K¥^et;'ss\qv\et;ss\K¥^et;'ss\qv\et;ss\K¥^et;'ss\qv\et;ss\K¥^et;'ss\qv\et;

4:30 pm

2. eN˙ac\;eKt\et;pedqaeN˙ac\;eKt\et;pedqaeN˙ac\;eKt\et;pedqaeN˙ac\;eKt\et;pedqaeN˙ac\;eKt\et;pedqa4:45 pm3. Musical programme5:00 pm4. m¥oi;K¥s\sit\Dat\R˙c\qn\m¥oi;K¥s\sit\Dat\R˙c\qn\m¥oi;K¥s\sit\Dat\R˙c\qn\m¥oi;K¥s\sit\Dat\R˙c\qn\m¥oi;K¥s\sit\Dat\R˙c\qn\

Tk\�mk\er;et;m¥a;Tk\�mk\er;et;m¥a;Tk\�mk\er;et;m¥a;Tk\�mk\er;et;m¥a;Tk\�mk\er;et;m¥a;5:15 pm5. Musical programme6:00 pm6. Evening news6:30 pm7. Weather report6:35 pm

8. qutsuMlc\eRWˆa%\R˙c\ qutsuMlc\eRWˆa%\R˙c\ qutsuMlc\eRWˆa%\R˙c\ qutsuMlc\eRWˆa%\R˙c\ qutsuMlc\eRWˆa%\R˙c\7:10 pm9. Musical programme7:20 pm10. Musical programme8:00 pm11. Local news12. International news13. Weather report14. Myanmar video

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WEATHER

Woman rescued 196 hoursafter China’s earthquakeCHENGDU, 22 May– A 60-year-old woman was

rescued at 6:45 pm on Tuesday from rubble in Pengzhou,southwest China’s Sichuan Province, more than 196hours after the 12 May earthquake.

Wang Youqun, a retiree from the provincial capitalof Chengdu, had lived on rainwater in the past days. She,still conscious when rescuers found her, was rushed tohospital.

Wang was inside a temple when the quake struck. Shewas hit by a falling girder in the head and had been in comauntil last Tuesday, according to the rescue team from an AirForce regiment based in Chengdu.—MNA/Xinhua

23-5-08 NL 7/30/18, 12:02 AM15

4th Waning of Kason 1370 ME Friday, 23 May, 2008

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NAY PYI TAW, 22 May – Chairman of the NationalDisaster Preparedness Central Committee Prime Min-ister General Thein Sein delivered an address at thebriefing on the relief and rehabilitation measures in theaftermath of cyclone Nargis at the Mindon Hall ofSedona Hotel on Kaba Aye Pagoda Road in Yangonthis morning.

It was also attended by Minister for NationalPlanning and Economic Development U Soe Tha,Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and ResettlementMaj-Gen Maung Maung Swe, Minister for Health DrKyaw Myint, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs UKyaw Thu, the director-general of the GovernmentOffice and departmental heads, diplomats, donors anddelegates from 39 countries, officials of 12 interna-tional organizations and guests.

Before the briefing, Prime Minister General Thein

International humanitarian assistanceshould not be politicizedPrime Minister addresses briefing on relief and rehabilitation measures

Nay Pyi Taw andneighbouring areaLikelihood of isolated

rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is

(60%).Yangon and neighbour-

ing areaIsolated rain or

thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Mandalay and neigh-bouring area Likelihood

of isolated rain orthundershowers. Degree of

certainty is (60%).

UN Secretary-General Mr Ban Ki-moon comforts storm victims atKyonda relief camp in Dedaye Township.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein addresses a ceremony to explain relief and rehabilitation measures in theaftermath of cyclone Nargis at Sedona Hotel.—MNA

tive Mr Daniel B Bakerand officials concernedleft here for Kyonda vil-lage relief camp ofDedaye Township inAyeyawady Division byTatmadaw helicopter at3.15 pm today.

They were welcomedthere by Minister for En-ergy Brig-Gen Lun Thiand officials concerned.At the relief camp, Minis-ter Brig-Gen Lun Thibriefed them on blowingof the storm in Yangonand Ayeyawady Divi-sions, losses and damagescaused by the storm inDedaye Township, fieldtrips to all storm-hit re-gions led by the Prime

UN Secretary-General tours Kyonda reliefcamp in Dedaye Tsp, Mawlamyinekyun

Minister who is the Chair-man of the National Dis-aster Preparedness CentralCommittee, ministers anddeputy ministers and offi-cials concerned, accom-plishment of the relieftasks through their closesupervisions, priority be-ing given to relief suppliesand reconstruction tasks,arrival of relief items frominternal and external do-nors and systematic dis-tribution of relief suppliesphase by phase.

Next, Mr Ban Ki-moon and party togetherwith Minister Brig-GenLun Thi observed com-munication links, supplyof power through solar

system, accommodationof families of the stormvictims and consoledthem.

Afterwards, Mr BanKi-moon and party to-gether with Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi and DeputyMinister U Kyaw Thu andofficials concerned flewto Mawlamyinekyun byhelicopter, where theywere welcomed by Min-ister for Progress of Bor-der Areas and NationalRaces and DevelopmentAffairs Col Thein Nyunt.

At Dhammayon ofthe Local Battalion, Lt-Col Tun Tun briefed themon losses and damages

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Sein and those present make a one-minute silence tomourn the storm victims.

Next, Chairman of the National Disaster Prepar-edness Central Committee Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein delivered an address. In his address, thePrime Minister said: at the outset, on behalf of theGovernment of the Union of Myanmar and on my ownI would like to extend a warm welcome to all distin-guished delegates from the donor countries and or-ganizations.

We are very much grateful to you for your pres-ence here today amid your very heavy schedule. Yourvisit to Myanmar at this particular time clearly demon-strates the importance the international communityattaches to alleviating the sufferings of the peopleaffected by cyclone Nargis.

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YANGON, 22 May—UN Secretary-General MrBan Ki-moon and party,

accompanied by DeputyMinister for Foreign Af-fairs U Kyaw Thu, Am-

bassador to the UNU Kyaw Tint Swe, actingUN resident representa-

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