THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003 1

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Vice-Senior General Maung Aye gives instructions to local authorities from Hinthada District, departmental personnel, social organization members andlocal people in City Hall in Hinthada.— MNA

YANGON, 1 Aug — Vice-Chairman of the State Peace and

Development Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of

Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Sen-

ior General Maung Aye, accompanied by Secretary-2 of the

State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Soe Win,

members of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-

Gen Khin Maung Than, Adjutant-General Lt-Gen Thein

Sein and Quartermaster-General Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin

Aung Myint Oo, Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Vice-Admi-

ral Kyi Min and Commander-in-Chief (Air) Maj-Gen Myat

Hein, Chairman of Ayeyawady Division Peace and Devel-

opment Council Commander of South-West Command

Maj-Gen Htay Oo, ministers, deputy ministers, the director-

general of the State Peace and Development Council Office

and departmental heads, left Maubin and arrived in

Myaungmya at 12 noon on 29 July.

They were welcomed there by Command Staff Colonel

Col Tint Swe of South-West Command, Chairman of

Myaungmya District Peace and Development Council Lt-

Col Tint Aye and officials.

At Sasana Beikman in Myaungmya, Vice-Senior Gen-

eral Maung Aye and party attended the ceremony to donate

rice to Pariyatti Monasteries in Myaungmya.

Also present were Sayadaw Agga Maha Pandita

Bhaddanta Dhammapiya of Zeya Meidani Monastery and

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye attends rice offering ceremonies inMyaungmya, Pathein and Hinthada

members of the Sangha, local authorities and religious

associations members.

Secretary of Township Sangha Nayaka Committee Maha

Ganthavaçaka Pandita Bhaddanta Panñasiha administered

the Five Precepts.

Next, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye offered eight

requisites and provisions to the Township Secretary Sayadaw.

The Secretary-2 and party donated eight requisites and

provisions to the Sayadaws. At 1 pm, Vice-Senior General

Maung Aye and party met with local authorities of

Myaungmya District, Myaungmya, Wakema, Einme,

Mawlamyinegyun and Labutta townships, departmental

personnel, members of social organizations and entrepre-

neurs.

District Chairman Lt-Col Tin Aye reported on organiza-

tional set-up of the district, implementation of economic

aims of the district and undertakings of the district in

agriculture, livestock breeding and development sectors.

Minister for National Planning and Economic Develop-

ment U Soe Tha reported on short-term plans laid down for

development of the State, efforts made for exceeding the

target in implementing the plans and the role of Ayeyawady

Division in carrying out development tasks for the economic

sector.

Next, Secretary-2 Lt-Gen Soe Win spoke on the occa-

sion. He said that 10 years ago, the people of Ayeyawady

Division faced difficulties in travelling from one place to

another due to barriers posed by rivers and creeks. There

were only over 400 miles of roads in Ayeyawady Division

in 1988. As the Tatmadaw government has built bridges and

roads, at present, Ayeyawady Division gained better trans-

port. As a result of developing transportation, Myaungmya

District has achieved greater progress. It is necessary to

accelerate development momentum.

Afterwards, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye delivered

an address. He said that due to insurgency in the past,

Myaungmya District lacked peace and stability. Nowa-

days, as a result of prevalence of peace and stability,

Myaungmya region has achieved good opportunities. It can

be said that greater success has been achieved due to

harmonious cooperation of the Government, the Tatmadaw

and the people. Efforts are to be made for gaining more

development with momentum. Next, he cordially greeted

those present.

After the meeting, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and

party paid homage to Shwe Buddho Pagoda in Myaungmya.

Next, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye signed in the

visitors’ book and presented cash donations to the pagoda

board of trustees.

Progress in construction of Government Technological College in Pathein.— MNA

(See page 7)

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PERSPECTIVESSaturday, 2 August, 2003

Due to the border trade with a neigh-bouring country and its potential for agricul-ture and livestock breeding development, Kalayregion in Sagaing Division promises furthergrowth. And as it is contiguous to Chin State,it can contribute a lot to the economy, educa-tion and health sectors of the state.

Member of the State Peace and Develop-ment Council Lt-Gen Thura Shwe Mann, Sec-retary-2 Lt-Gen Soe Win and member of theState Peace and Development Council Lt-GenYe Myint on 25 July met with division-levelofficials, the chairman of Kalay District Peaceand Development Council and members, dis-trict- and township-level officials, members ofsocial organizations and townselders. Speakingat the meeting, Lt-Gen Thura Shwe Mann saidthat Chairman of the State Peace and Develop-ment Council Commander-in-Chief of DefenceServices Senior General Than Shwe visitedKalay recently and that, during his visit, theHead of State had development measures forKalay region taken. As Kalay region is gainingmomentum in its development, it can becomefurther developed if the Government, the peo-ple and service personnel work in concert.

Because of agricultural plans, cultivatedacreage has increased in Kalay region. Not onlythat, Kalay Industrial Zone is now producingjeeps, which are widely used in Kalay regionas well as in various regions of Chin State. LikeKalay region, various regions in other statesand divisions, under the leadership of the State,are striving for their own development on self-reliance basis and meeting with considerablesuccess. The more peaceful and stable the Unionis, the more attention can be given to develop-ment tasks. Now, even the border regions aredeveloping remarkably.

Respective regional authorities, servicepersonnel, members of various organizationsand local people have to work all out for thedevelopment of their respective regions, fordevelopment of each and every region will leadto national development.

The Government has been making con-stant efforts for the emergence of a peaceful,modern and developed nation, which calls forthe active participation and cooperation of theGovernment, service personnel and the entirepeople. And we should not be complacent withthe achievements we have already gained butmust move on till we attain our national goal.

From regional to nationaldevelopment

Do not be frightenedwhenever intimidated

Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan addresses annual prize presentation ceremony and providing ofassistance to retired personnel and students of staff.— NLM

YANGON, 1 Aug—

The News and Periodicals

Enterprise of the Ministry

of Information held the an-

nual prize presentation cer-

emony in conjunction with

the ceremony to provide

cash assistance to retired

personnel and students of

staff, at the meeting hall of

the New Light of Myanmar

Daily on Strand road at 5

pm today, with an address

by Minister for Information

Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan.

Also present were

Deputy Ministers U Thein

Sein and Brig-Gen Aung

Thein, directors-general and

managing directors of de-

partments and enterprises

under the ministry, direc-

tors, chief editors, officials,

the patron and the president

of Myanmar Foreign Cor-

respondents Club, guests

and prize winners.

Master of ceremo-

nies Director (Admin) U

Soe Win read out the

agenda of the ceremony.

First, Minister Brig-Gen

Kyaw Hsan delivered an

address. He said that today

is an auspicious day because

the ceremony is to present

prizes to winners in the

state-level competitions,

outstanding staff and those

who did not take leave the

whole year, retired service

personnel and outstanding

students of staff.

The News and Peri-

odicals Enterprise has dis-

charged duties assigned

conscientiously, and the ra-

tio of income and expendi-

ture was more fair in 2003-

Minister for Information attends annual prize presentationceremony of NPE

2004 than previous year.

The enterprise is able to

carry out its task in accord

with the guidance of the

Head of State — to increase

production while taking

thrifty measures. The dailies

of the enterprise are improv-

ing both in form and es-

sence.

He said that strenu-

ous efforts are to be made

for achieving more success.

All service personnel are to

place emphasis on perform-

ance of duty conscien-

tiously, measures to be

taken in cooperation, tasks

to be carried out with four

outlooks and consideration

and practice of frugality.

In conclusion, he

urged all personnel to har-

moniously to try to realize

the aims of the enterprise

with new strength.

Next, Managing Di-

rector U Tin Kha of NPE

reported on the purpose of

the ceremony.

Afterwards, Minister

Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan pre-

sented cash assistance to 11

honorary title recipient per-

sonnel through Managing

Director U Tin Kha and

prizes to 11 divisions of the

enterprise through Director

(News) U Hla Tun; Direc-

tor (Admin) U Soe Win and

chief editors.

Next, Deputy Minis-

ter U Thein Sein presented

prizes and cash assistance

to 15 winners in the state-

level competitions, three

columnists, two outstanding

trainees in the training

courses and 174 retired per-

Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan presentshonorary prizes to winners through Managing Director

U Tin Kha of NPE.— NLM

Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan presentsprize for earning foreign exchange to Chief Editor

U Maung Maung Aye of New Light of Myanmar Daily. NLM

YANGON, 1 Aug — A combined team comprising

members of local intelligence unit, Kale Special Anti-

drug Squad and local police force, acting on information,

searched a jeep with number plates (Za/1040) on its way

from Kale to Chin State at the 8-mile check-point in Kale

on 5 July. The team arrested passenger Ma Ket Htway

together with 144.961 grams of heroin covered by ground-

nut in the polythene bag.

Action is being taken against Ma Ket Htway,

daughter of U La Hu of Monta Village in Kale under

Sections 15/19 (A) of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic

Substances Law by Kale Police Station. — MNA

144.961 grams of heroinseized

sonnel through officials.

Deputy Minister Brig-Gen

Aung Thein and Managing

Director U Tin Kha also

presented prizes to the win-

ners through officials.

Today’s ceremony

Deputy Minister U Thein Sein presents prizses foroutstanding staff of NPE to an official.— MNA

YANGON, 1 Aug—

Hailing the Intenational Lit-

eracy Day, which falls on 8

August 2003, the Informa-

tion Work Committee of the

Leading Committee for Or-

ganizing International Lit-

eracy Day and Ceremony to

mark international literacy

decade today announced to

hold the article contest.

The word account of

the article must be between

3,000 and 5,000 with title

“to Myanmar constant learn-

ing society”. The work must

be written on one page only.

Entries invited to articlecontest to mark International

Literacy DayThe entries which must be

own creation and attached

with two copies, brief biog-

raphy of the competitor and

two licence-size photos, are

to be sent to the prize selec-

tion committee, Myanmar

Education Research Bureau,

No 426, Pyay Road,

Kamayut Township, Univer-

sity Post Office, not later

than 22 August 2003 (Fri-

day).

Handsome prizes

will be presented to the

winners.

MNA

of NPE is for the first time

not only to provide cash

assistance to retired person-

nel and students of staff but

also to give away prizes to

winners and students.

  MNA

THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003 3

BAGHDAD , 1 Aug— Al Qaeda is probably among “terrorist” groups operating against American forces in Iraqthe US commander in the country said Thursday.

US Commander says Qaeda probably working inIraq, attacks more sophisticated and more deadly

Attacks on his troops are getting

more sophisticated and more deadly,

Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez told a news

conference in Baghdad, with “profes-

sionals” clearly involved. But US forces

were learning from their reverses.

Sanchez said this week that Iraq

was becoming a “terrorist magnet” for

anti-American groups. Asked if Osama

bin Laden s al Qaeda network of radi-

cal Islamists was among those present,

he replied: “They probably are operat-

ing in Iraq.”

He also named Ansar al Islam,

which formerly had a base in the moun-

tainous Kurdish-controlled zone of

northern Iraq, and said he thought “other

extremist groups” were active too.

“There are foreign fighters that have

come into this country,” he said. “And

some Islamic fundamentalists also.”

Suggestions that ousted dictator

Saddam Hussein might be cooperating

with al Qaeda were floated among pos-

sible grounds for the US-led invasion,

although evidence is lacking and bin

Laden was a fierce critic of Saddam’s

secular regime.

Sanchez said an increasing sophis-

tication in attacks on his forces had

contributed to greater casualties of

late — 19 soldiers have been killed in

the past two weeks alone, out of 52 in

three months since Washington de-

clared major combat over.

“The fighting goes on,” Sanchez

said of the three months that has now

passed since 1 May, when President

Bush made that declaration.

“We’re fighting a low-intensity

conflict that is multifaceted,” he added,

listing disparate groups including

“criminals,” Saddam loyalists and

“radicals” among US foes.

Internet

Commander says troopsin Iraq powerlessagainst bombs

RAMADI , 1 Aug —The US military commander ofIraq’s biggest province said Thursday American troopswere virtually powerless to stop escalating booby-trapand bomb attacks on their convoys.

“Frankly there is little that we can do as far as force

protection,” said Col David Teeples, commander of the 3rd

Armored Cavalry Regiment in al-Anbar province, home to

some of Iraq’s most restive and anti-American cities.

Over the past two weeks, his forces have witnessed an

escalation in attacks by improvised explosive devices —

TNT, plastic explosive and propane cylinders hooked to

electrical wires triggered by remote control devices.

US troops have responded by stepping up highway pa-

trols in an effort to stop the bloodshed.

“Any piles of sand, bags, garbage, tires, anything that

may be close to the road is going to be taken very cau-

tiously,” Teeples told Reuters in an interview in his com-

mand center in one of Saddam Hussein former palaces on

the edge of Ramadi.

“It is going to be cleared with a bulldozer or there will be

action by the convoy against those that may be close enough

to command detonate that.”

Guerrilla attacks have killed 52 US troops since President

Bush declared major combat over on May 1. A number of the

attacks have taken place in al-Anbar province.

US military officials have blamed the violence on former

Baath party members and guerrillas loyal to Saddam, who was

toppled by a US-led invasion on 9 April. Teeples said about 25

hardcore Baath party officials in the towns of Ramadi, Falluja

and Habbaniya were financing attacks. —InternetAn Iraqi works on the Iraq-Turkey pipeline. The coalition revealed that the pipeline willhave a capacity of between 200,000 and 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) when it reopens

within a few days. — INTERNET

Thailand’s34 provinces

face floodthreat

Cao Chunsun (R) helps his wife Yan Zhuoxiu wearoxygen mask in their camp near a construction site of theQinghai-Tibet Railway located 5,000 meters above sealevel. The couple both from Lhasa, capital of southwest

China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, arrived at the TangraMountain in 2001 for the railway construction. Cao is a

technician and Yan an expert on frozen earth. Theysupport each other and their love is praised by manyother workers working on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

This photo is undated. — XINHUA

Iraq’s main oil pipeline to Turkey toopen within a few days

BANGHDAD , 1 Aug — Iraq main pipeline from Kirkuk north to Turkey, wrecked ina post-war sabotage attack, will reopen within a few days, a coalition official revealed,correcting an earlier statement it would not open before October.

dustry sources on saboteurs,

in a crippling blow to US

plans to pay for Iraq’s recon-

struction with oil revenues.

A string of sabotage at-

tacks, carried out by Saddam

Hussein loyalists or criminal

gangs, have hobbled the US-

led coalition’s ability to ex-

port oil. The US-led admin-

istration is banking on 3.4

billion dollars in oil sales to

pay for half of this year’s

six-billion-dollar budget and

is setting up an Iraqi security

force to guard oil sites.

Internet

“The pipeline will open

within the next few days,”

the official said about the

fuel line going from oil-rich

Kirkuk north to the Dohuk

province and then on to the

Turkish Mediterranean ter-

minal of Ceyhan. “It will

have a capacity of between

200,000 and 300,000 bar-

rels per day (bpd),” the offi-

cial said Thursday.

The official had earlier

said the pipeline was down at

least until mid-October after

it was severely damaged in a

June 12 blast blamed by in-

BA NGKOK , 1 Aug—Some 34 provinces in Thai-land were at risk of floodcaused by rains, local Presson Thursday quotedAgriculture Ministry assaying.

The 34 provinces, includ-

ing Thailand’s most north-

ern and southern provinces,

had such experiences beforeand would be told to brace

for more as the rain season

continued, said Agriculture

Minister Sora-at

Kinprathum. In such a situa-

tion, the Agriculture Minis-try was drawing up flood-

prevention plans.

According to the plan,

the Royal Irrigation Depart-

ment will closely monitor

weather conditions and wa-ter management, while mo-

bile pumps, helicopters and

planes would be in hand in

case of emergencies.

Besides, the Agriculture

Ministry decided to distrib-ute cash to people affected

by the likely flood instead

of sending them farming

equipment as before. Sora-

at believed this was the most

efficient way to relieve thevictims of floods, for the

purchase and transport of

farming equipment would

consume a lot of time.

MNA/Xinhua

Blair says would relishmore time in office

LONDON, 1 Aug —Britain’s Tony Blair, battling theworst political crisis of his premiership, said on Wednes-day his enthusiasm for office remained strong but heaccepted he needed to rebuild public trust in the wake ofthe Iraq war.

“There’s a big job of work

still to do and my appetite to do

it is still undiminished,” Blair

said when asked if he would

stay on for a full third term if his

Labour Party were re-

elected.“But who the country

elects is ultimately a matter

for the country,” Blair added.

Polls show that public

trust in Blair and his gov-

ernment has plunged fol-

lowing the Iraq conflict and

after the apparent suicide of

a scientist caught up in a

row over the reasons for

going to war. “I accept there

is an issue that we have to

confront,” Blair told his fi-

nal news conference ahead

of a summer break when

asked about sliding levels

of trust.

Blair, 50, will go down in

history on Saturday when his

administration becomes the

longest Labour Government

ever.But the milestone has

coincided with calls, some

from Labour members, for

Blair’s resignation over the

justification of the Iraq con-

flict following the failure to

unearth any weapons of mass

destruction — the primary

Anglo-American motive for

war. — MNA/Reuters

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Chavez warns US not to meddlein his country’s affairs

CARACAS, 1 Aug — Venezuela’s Presi-

dent Hugo Chavez on Wednesday warned

the United States not to meddle in his coun-

try’s affairs following comments by a US

official about a possible referendum on his

rule.

“I have to remind the US one more time

that they have no right to express their opin-

ion... we are an independent country not a

colony of North America,” the President

told thousands of cheering supporters during

a street rally.

Chavez, who survived a coup in 2002

and later outlasted a two-month opposition

strike, now faces a campaign for a recall

referendum from foes who accuse him of

dictatorial rule in the world’s No 5 oil ex-

porter. The outspoken ex-Army paratrooper

elected in 1998 has often riled Washington

with his fierce populist, anti-capitalist rheto-

ric and close ties with states such as Commu-

nist Cuba.

His comments followed remarks made

by State Department spokesman Richard

Boucher urging the government and opposi-

tion to respect an accord they signed in May

on the possible referendum on Chavez’ rule.

MNA/Reuters

4 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003

The photo taken on 29 July, 2003 shows the Dome of the Zhaoling Mausoleum undercomprehensive renovation together with Fuling Mausoleum and the Palace Museum of

the Qing Dynasty in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province. Therenovation projects of these three ancient building complexes, aimed at bidding for theWorld Cultural Heritage, cost a total of 300 million yuan (US$36 million). — XINHUA

Iraq attacks kill two moreUS soldiers

BAGHDAD , 1 Aug—A US soldier was killed Thursday when his armored personnelcarrier ran over a land mine on the dangerous road from central Baghdad to the city’sairport, the military reported.

The mine exploded be-

neath a M113 armored per-

sonnel carrier, killing the

soldier and wounding three

others.

It was the second death

reported by the military

Thursday, a soldier was

killed in a small-arms fire

attack northeast of Bagh-

dad late Wednesday night.

Two others were wounded.

The U.S. Central Command

said the soldiers were from

the 4th Infantry Division.

In Baghdad, Iraqi wit-

nesses reported another

attack on two US trucks

carrying unexploded ord-

nance to Baghdad Interna-

tional Airport for destruc-

tion. The witnesses said a

rocket-propelled grenade

was fired on one truck and

the ordnance exploded. A

US armored vehicle could

be seen burning on the road.

Ali Khamid said he saw

two US soldiers taken away

by helicopter and two oth-

ers, faces covered as if dead,

loaded into an ambulance.

The military said it had no

information on the inci-

dent.

The latest confirmed

deaths brought to 51 the

number of US troops

killed in hostile action

since May 1, when

President Bush declared an

end to major combat in

Iraq. In all, 166 Ameri-

cans have been killed in

combat in Iraq, 18 more

than died in the 1991 Gulf

War.

Internet

ALEXANDRIA (Virginia), 1 Aug—Investigators havedug up more than 20,000 pages of classified documentsfrom the government’s National Reconnaissance Officethat convicted spy Brian Regan buried in state parks inVirginia and Maryland, officials said on Wednesday.

Investigators also recovered five CD-ROMS and five

videotapes buried by Regan, a former US Air Force intelli-

gence analyst who used to work at the government recon-

naissance agency that runs the nation’s spy satellites.

“We are confident that every last page has been recov-

ered,” US Attorney Paul McNulty told a news conference.

“None (of the material) ever made it to foreign hands.”

Regan was sentenced in March to life in prison after

being convicted of attempting spying for Iraq and China,

and illegally gathering defence information.

He agreed to cooperate with investigators, and went

with them to three of the sites in Maryland to help find the

buried documents, the officials said. Investigators recov-

ered all the documents from March through June.

McNulty said Regan removed the documents from the

National Reconnaissance Office and buried them in 19

secret locations. Regan told investigators where he also

buried two containers with codes giving the locations of the

documents. Regan admitted he took the documents as part

of a unsuccessful plot to sell them for millions of dollars to

Iraq, China, Libya and Iran, McNulty said.

The documents, which were classified top-secret or

higher, involved satellites, early warning systems and weap-

ons of mass destruction, he said.

McNulty said Regan, who was arrested nearly two years

ago as he was about to board a plane for Switzerland, had

been prevented from carrying out what “may have been one

of the largest espionage schemes of all time”.

If Iraq under Saddam Hussein had obtained the mate-

rial, it “would have been an extraordinary threat to us”,

McNulty said. — MNA/Reuters

US digs up classifieddocuments buried by spy

RAMADI, 1 Aug—US

forces in charge of one of

Iraq’s most restive regions

have told tribal elders they

will offer a reward of $500

(310 pounds) to any Iraqis

who hand in shoulder-fired

anti-aircraft missiles.

At the first meeting of

the governing council of

Anbar province, a swathe of

western Iraq that includes

the tense towns of Ramadi

and Falluja, Colonel David

Teeples of the 3rd Armored

Cavalry Regiment asked for

cooperation in ending guer-

rilla attacks on US forces in

the region.

Ramadi and Falluja are

hotspots in the “Sunni trian-

gle” north and west of Bagh-

dad, where many locals

openly back deposed leader

Saddam Hussein and U.S.

forces often come under at-

tack.

Army spokesman Cap-

tain Michael Calvert said

troops had found three mis-

siles that had fallen to earth

after being fired at US

aircraft in two separate

attacks. —Internet

Iraqisoffered $500forshoulder-firedmissiles

WHO official says SARS maycome again, but in different genre

MACAO , 1 Aug — Although severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) infectionfrom human to human has been interrupted globally, the virus is by no meanseradicated. It may come again in winter, but present in a different genre, warned thevisiting World Health Organization (WHO) official, Shigeru Omi, in Macao Wednes-day.

“This particular disease may not come,

but new diseases present similar symptoms

on human beings like SARS may turn up,”

said the WHO Western Pacific Regional

director, who arrived in Macao Special Ad-

ministrative Region (SAR) Monday on a

three-day inspection visit at the invitation of

the SAR government on the review work of

SARS control.

Omi called on the whole international

community to stay vigilant against SARS.

“But there is no need to be panic. If a new

SARS disease came, the experiences gained

would ensure a response better than what we

did before,” he said.

Omi is the fourth WHO expert to visit

Macao this year, which is a member of the

WHO’s West-Pacific Region. He highly

praised the Macao SAR’s effective contain-

ment of the disease, which broke out in

Macao’s neighbouring regions of Guangdong

and Hong Kong in April.

MNA/Xinhua

British Airways reports record loss,bemoans war, SARS and strike

LONDON, 1 Aug—British Airways unveiled a record loss for the first quarter of thefiscal year, saying that with the war in Iraq and the SARS virus it had endured “themost testing period in aviation history.”

BA’s pre-tax loss for the

three months ending June 30

was 45 million pounds (63

million euros, 73 million dol-

lars), against a pre-tax profit

of 65 million pounds for the

same quarter last year.

Adding to the gloom was

a hefty bill for this month’s

strike by BA check-in staff at

Heathrow airport, which chief

executive Rod Eddington an-

nounced would cost the air-

line around 30 to 40 million

pounds. The wildcat strike

stranded tens of thousands of

angry passengers in London,

and the threat of further walk-

outs was only ended late on

Wednesday night after a deal

was reached with trade un-

ions representing Heathrow

staff. Uncertainty about

whether there would be more

strike action had hit bookings

and would reduce future rev-

enue, BA added. “Clearly the

disruptions at Heathrow two

weekends ago were terrible

for customers, terrible for our

staff and terrible for our busi-

ness,” Eddington said later on

BBC radio.—Internet

Thai government passes alcoholadvertisements ban

BANGKOK,1 Aug—Thai

Cabinet passed a bill to ban

advertisements for alcoholic

and energy drinks on TV

and radio between 5 am and

10 pm in an attempt to curb

road accidents, the Nationnewspaper reported

Wednesday.

The advertisement ban

will begin on October 1, but

advertisements where con-

tracts on air time have al-

ready been signed will be

given until January 1 next

year before the ban is en-

forced.

Between 10 pm and 5

am broadcasts of alcohol

advertisements are allowed

only when the content is

considered beneficial to so-

ciety and they are accompa-

nied by subtitles and logos.

After January 1, the ban

will be applied to all broad-

casts of local sports events.

However, live broadcasts of

professional sports like Thai

boxing and league football,

as well as overseas events

where alcoholic and energy

drinks are featured, will be

exempt.

Sita Divari, the govern-

ment spokesman, also re-

vealed that it was the Prime

Minister who urged the

Cabinet to extend the ban to

include energy drinks.

The new restrictions re-

flect a hardening of attitudes

towards alcohol, which has

been blamed for causing

thousands of deaths each

year on our roads and high-

ways. According to the fig-

ures of the British MedicalJournal, Thailand has the

highest rate of road fatali-

ties in the world at 40 deaths

for every 100,000 people,

or 2.9 people dying an hour.

Drink-driving motorcy-

clists who fail to wear crash

helmets, and motorists who

drive without safebelts, are

most reasons causing death

in traffic accidents.

MNA/Xinhua

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US Army troops of the 1st Armoured Division guard the scene as an armouredpersonnel carrier burns after insurgent attacked the troops in Baghdad, Iraq, killing

two soldiers and injuring two others on 31 July, 2003.— INTERNET

THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003 5

German art collector and photographer Gunter Sachs passes by “Marylin Monroe” byAndy Warhol at the ‘Museum for Art and Trade’ in Hamburg, northern Germany,

on 31 July, 2003. Photographs by Germany’s playboy legend of the fifties and sixtiesand art pieces he has collected are on display until 21 September.—INTERNET

Rebuilding Iraq may cost up to$100 billion, Bremer says

WASHINGTON , 1 Aug— Iraq US administrator said on Thursday that rebuilding thecountry could require anywhere from $50 billion to $100 billion of outside money overthe next couple of years.

Paul Bremer, in an interview with

CNBC’s “Capital Report,” said for at least

the next few years “we’re going to have to

spend a lot more money than we’re going to

get revenues even once we get oil produc-

tion back to prewar levels.”

Bremer said he did not know what the

total cost of getting the country up and

running again was, but said: “It’s probably

well above $50 billion, $60 billion, maybe

$100 billion. It’s a lot of money.”

United Nations sanctions that had stifled

Iraq’s economy for 13 years were lifted in

May, when the United States and Britain

also won broad powers to run Iraq and sell

its oil until a new government is estab-

lished. Iraq has the world’s second largest

oil reserves after Saudi Arabia.

Bremer said that eventually he hoped the

Iraq would be able to fund itself through oil

revenues but “they’ve got a real problem in

the next few years.”

Earlier this week, US senators from both

parties criticized the Bush administration

for not spelling out the costs of rebuilding

Iraq.

In testimony to Congress, Deputy De-

fence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and White

House Budget Director Joshua Bolten said

they could not estimate costs because they

said the situation in Iraq was too fluid.

Bolten did say “for the next couple of

months” he predicted costs of maintaining

US troops there at about $4 billion per

month.

Internet

US admits killingcivilians in Baghdad raid

BAGHDAD, 1 Aug— Four days after US troops killed

several passers-by in Baghdad during the hunt for Saddam

Hussein, the US commander in Iraq admitted Thursday that

innocent people had died, but stopped short of accepting

blame.

“On the issue of the innocent civilians that were killed and

injured in that raid, we established some...traffic control

points to isolate the area that we were operating in,” Lt. Gen.

Ricardo Sanchez told a news conference in answer to ques-

tions about the bloody raid.

Angry neighbours accused the Task Force 20 special unit

hunting Saddam’s inner circle of failing to block all the side

roads leading to a house they were raiding Sunday in Bagh-

dad’s upscale Mansour neighborhood. When a car strayed

into the fire zone, soldiers blasted it with machineguns. US

soldiers and medical staff at a nearby hospital told Reuters

five men, including a teen-ager, were killed.

Internet

Bush sees “realthreat” of new terror

attempts WASHINGTON, 1 Aug —

US President George W

Bush said on Wednesday

there was a “real threat” of

al-Qaeda attempts to attack

the United States, possibly

through airline hijackings,

but he was confident they

would be thwarted.

“The threat is a real threat.

... We don’t know when,

where, what,” Bush said at a

news conference when asked

about new government warn-

ings of possible al-Qaeda

attacks.

“We have got some data

that indicates that they would

like to use flights, interna-

tional flights for example,”

he said. “I’m confident we

will thwart the attempts.”

In an action disclosed on

Tuesday, the Homeland Se-

curity Department last week

warned the airline industry

that al-Qaeda was planning

new suicide hijackings and

bombings in the United

States or abroad.

The United States blames

Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda

network for the September

11, 2001, hijacked plane at-

tacks on the United States.

MNA/Reuters

Bush defends “AIDS”funding, renews $15b

pledge WASHINGTON , 1 Aug— President George W Bush said

on Wednesday he would fully fund his five-year,15-billion-US-dollar plan to combat AIDS, brushingaside questions about his commitment to the initiative.

Activists expressed outrage earlier this month after the

Republican-led House of Representatives moved legisla-

tion backing Bush’s request for two billion US dollars next

year — One billion US dollars less in AIDS funding than

had been expected.

“We sent up something less than three billion because

we didn’t think the programme could ramp up fast enough

to absorb that amount of money early,” said Bush, who

touted the AIDS initiative during his recent visit to Africa.

Bush said distribution systems for AIDS drugs had to be

in place before the money was sent out, and that suggestions

he was backing away from his 15 billion US dollars

commitment were “simply not true”. — MNA/Reuters

MalaysianMinister urgesban on “Bruce

Almighty” KUALA LUMPUR, 1 Aug—

A Malaysian Government

minister has called on Islamic

authorities to ban Hollywood

actor Jim Carrey’s latest film

“Bruce Almighty”, newspa-

pers reported on Tuesday.

In the comedy, Carrey

plays the role of a television

reporter who is given the

power of God for a week.

“It’s not appropriate to

show the film in this coun-

try,” Abdul Hamid Zainal, a

Minister in the Prime Minis-

ter’s Department, was quoted

as saying.

The minister said censors

should refer the film to the

Islamic Affairs Department

to decide whether it should

be screened. Just over half of

Malaysia’s 24 million peo-

ple are Muslim.

“We cannot equate our-

selves with God — even as a

joke,” Abdul Hamid said.

MNA/Reuters

Over 15,000Nepalis killedby tobaccoevery year

KATHMANDU, 1 Aug—

More than 15,000 Nepali

people die of diseases

caused by tobacco consump-

tion every year, according

to fragmented studies re-

leased by a study centre un-

der the Nepali Health Min-

istry on Wednesday.

About 60 per cent of

Nepali people are smokers,

and the consumption of ciga-

rettes and tobacco products

has increased by 1,200 fold

in the last 15 years in the

country, said Shanta Lall

Mulmi, executive director

of the Resource Centre for

Primary Health Care, pre-

senting the working paper.

At present, there are

three cigarettes and 35 to-

bacco related industries in

Nepal, which produce over

6.6 billion sticks of ciga-

rettes and 6,000 tons of to-

bacco every year, Mulmi

said.

MNA/Xinhua

Iraqi POWs cannot be compensated from fundWASHINGTON , 1 Aug—A federal judge on Wednesday sidad with the US Government and said seized Iraqi assets

could not be used to compensate 17 Americans held as prisoners of war during the 1991 Gulf War.US District judge Richard Roberts

agreed with government lawyers who

argued that with the ouster of Saddam

Hussein, the law that would have al-

lowed the prisoners to dip into frozen

Iraqi assets for their compensation no

longer applied.

Earlier this months Roberts awarded

653 million US dollars in compensatory

damages and 306 million US dollars in

punitive damages to 17 prisoners of war

and their families who sused Saddam,

the Iraq Government and the Iraqi intel-

ligence service for pain and suffering.

compensation for victims of state spon-

sored terrorism.

“The (government’s) position that

POWs are unable to recover any portion

of their judgment as requested, despite

their sacrifice in the service of their

country, seems extreme,” Roberts wrote

in his ruling.

But he noted that the move by Con-

gress and Bush in May took place before

the court awarded the prisoners their

compensation so he had to side with the

governmnet.

MNA/Reuters

Iraq never responded to the lawsuit

filed in April 2002.

Attorneys for the prisoners wanted

their client to be paid from blocked Iraqi

assets held by the US Government. But

Justice Department officials said the

funds were to be used to rebuild Iraq.

In addition, the Justice Department

said President George W Bush in May

made “inapplicable any provision of

law that applies to countries that have

supported terrorism.

The law under which the prisoners

were awarded the money allows for

CIA finds latest tape “highlylikely” Saddam

WASHINGTON, 1 Aug—The CIA technical analysis of an

audio tape aired this week has found that it was “highly likely”

the voice of Saddam Hussein, a CIA official said on

Wednesday. “We’ve determined it is highly likely to be him,”

the official told Reuters.On the audio tape, aired by Dubai-based Al Arabiya

television on Tuesday, the ousted Iraqi leader said his sons

Uday and Qusay, who were killed by US forces last week, died

as martyrs and vowed America would be defeated.

MNA/Reuters

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US Army troops from the 4th brigade, 1st field artillery 1st AD, inspect the damagecaused by an unidentified remote controlled bomb injuring two soldiers,

on 31 July, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq.—INTERNET

6 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003

Iraqi police officers look at an AK-47 rifle, confiscated from an unidentified man, sittingleft, from his car at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq on 31 July , 2003. The United Statesis training police, and there are now about 17,000 officers, plus at least 1,000 traffic

police, 1,000 customs inspectors and 1,000 guards at facilities, said Bernard Kerik, theformer New York City police commissioner in charge of rebuilding Iraq’s internal

security. — INTERNET

Kodak technician Dan Merola inspects boxes of KodakRoyal Gold film coming off a packaging line in Rochester,NY in an undated handout photo. Eastman Kodak Co said on31 July, 2003, it is shifting its 35mm film-finishing opera-tions to Mexico and China and eliminating as many as 900jobs. While the photography company will keep making35mm film at its hometown manufacturing hub, it will moveproduction lines that slit the consumer film into rolls and package them in signature yellow boxes. — INTERNET

India helpsNepal build

medicalcentre

KATHMANDU, 1 Aug—

The Indian Government has

agreed to provide a grant as-

sistance of about 10.5 million

US dollars for the construc-

tion of a medical centre in

Nepal, according to a Press

release issued by the Indian

Embassy here Wednesday.

The 200-bed emergency

and trauma treatment centre

will be set up in the south of the

existing National Academy of

Medical Sciences at the Bir

Hospital in Kathmandu.

“The proposed centre

will be housed in an eight

storied building with two base-

ments, containing state-of-the-

art equipment and other facili-

ties including five major op-

eration theatres, in order to

provide the best possible

trauma medical care services

to the patients,” the Press

release said.

Indian assistance has

been playing a crucial role in

the development of the Bir

Hospital, the Press release

added.—MNA/Xinhua

US military convoyattacked near Kabul

KABUL, 1 Aug — Two

civil affairs vehicles of US

forces were under attack by

remote control bombs on

Thursday near the Afghan

capital, a US military Press

release said. The two-car con-

voy was about 26 kilometers

southwest of Kabul on the

way to a school project when

it was hit by the improvised

explosive devices at around

10 am local time, said the Press

release issued by the US-led

coalition forces in Afghani-

stan. Three separate explosive

devices apparently activated

by remote control struck both

vehicles, it said, adding that

one vehicle was disabled in

the attack but no personnel

were wounded.

MNA/Xinhua

Iraq arms searchersbrief US Senate

Committee WASHINGTON , 1 Aug — US-led experts have not

found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but haveuncovered documents pointing to a programme to de-velop such weapons, US officials said, as the two menleading the hunt on Thursday briefed senators on theirefforts.

Former UN weapons

inspector David Kay and

Army Major General Keith

Dayton were testifying at

closed-door hearings of the

Senate Armed Services

Committee and the Senate

Intelligence Committee. Kay

was sent by the CIA to Iraq

as a special adviser to de-

velop a strategy for finding

alleged weapons of mass de-

struction. Dayton, director of

operations for the Pentagon’s

Defence Intelligence

Agency, heads the Iraq Sur-

vey Group searching for evi-

dence of chemical, biologi-

cal and nuclear weapons in

Iraq. US officials, speaking

on condition of anonymity,

said Kay and Dayton had not

come up with a “smoking

gun” in the search for such

weapons even after investi-

gators spoke with key Iraqi

scientists, but have found

evidence of weapons pro-

grammes.

The United States went

to war in March saying Iraq

posed an imminent threat be-

cause it possessed large

amounts of weapons of mass

destruction. No such weap-

ons have been found since

the government of Saddam

Hussein was toppled in April.

A defence official said

members of the Iraq Survey

Group “have come across in-

formation of a variety of

types — through interroga-

tion of people, conversations

with people, (and) docu-

ments that have been recov-

ered that clearly point to a

WMD programme.” “One

document will lead us to

someplace else, or name peo-

ple. Then we’ll try to go find

those people,” the official

said. Some of the informa-

tion from some of the lower-

level Iraqis “has proved very

fruitful — not led us to any

buried ‘smoking gun,’ so to

speak, but certainly has given

a lot of insight into how they

moved things around and

when they did”, the official

added. — MNA/Reuters

As Iraq attacks deadlier,US must weigh risks

TIKRIT , 1 Aug — It calls to mind a wagon train rumbling through hostile territory;armed men riding shotgun up top squint into an angry sun, seeing a potential enemyin every approaching figure, behind every patch of scrub.

The US Army machine-

gunners swivelling their

sights onto passing cars on

Iraq’s busy Highway 1

through Saddam Hussein’s

Sunni heartlands north of

Baghdad have reason to be

nervous.

Three months into an

edgy sort of peace declared

by their President on May 1,

51 American soldiers have

been killed, their slow-mov-

ing convoys and isolated

guardposts making soft tar-

gets for shadowy enemies

able to strike at will with vast

stocks of secreted Iraqi mili-

tary hardware and homemade

bombs.

Some strategic reflec-

tion ought — and appears

— to be under way as it is

getting harder for the troops;

a third of the deaths have

come in the last two weeks

alone. And there could be

worse, much worse to come,

security analysts say.

MNA/Reuters

At a national conference

on economic performance of

the oil and petrochemical

sectors Wednesday, indus-

try leaders said the sectors

generated 880.1 billion yuan

(107.3 billion US dollars)

during the first half of the

year, up 31.3 per cent, while

industrial added value to-

talled 274.8 billion yuan (335

billion US dollars), up 36.6

per cent.

The sectors also recorded

848.7 billion yuan (103.5 US

dollars) in sales, up 33.2 per

cent. Tan Zhuzhou, president

of the China Association of

Oil and Petro-chemical Indus-

tries, said the performance of

the sectors could be charac-

terized as high growth, high

returns in general and de-

creasing losses for firms in

the red.

Despite the improved

performance, the loss-mak-

ing firms in the two sectors

registered 7.23 billion yuan

(881 million US dollars) in

operating losses, down by

17.4 per cent year on year.

MNA/Xinhua

China’s oil, petrochemical sectorssee record mid-year profits

BEIJING , 1 Aug — China’s oil and petrochemical sectors reported 92 per centgrowth in their mid-year profits year on year to 89.7 billion yuan (10.9 billion USdollars), a record high.

Iraqi scientistsdeny existence ofWMD programmesWASHINGTON , 1 Aug — Despite vigorous efforts, the

US Government has been unsuccessful so far in solicit-ing evidence from key senior Iraqi scientists to supportits prewar claims that ousted Iraqi president SaddamHussein was pursuing a programme to develop weap-ons of mass destruction (WMD), the Washington Postreported Thursday.

High-tech toolsused by US forces

to hunt SaddamLOS ANGELES, 1 Aug — US forces has intensified their

hunt for Saddam Hussein as more high-tech tools arebeing used in Iraq, the USA Today reported Wednesday.

The report said US forces are searching with satellites

that record suspicious changes on the Iraqi terrain, spy

aircraft that scour hiding spots with thermal scans and

unmanned drones that feed live video to military headquar-

ters in Iraq.

The radar in Apache helicopters, originally designed to

target moving tanks, has been reconfigured to track cars and

detect unusual traffic patterns, said Ted Martin, the 4th

Infantry Division’s operations officer.

“The systems, the people and the training we have here

aren’t designed to hunt one human being,” Martin said. “But

everything we have can be applied to tracking down this key

leader.”

When the Army receives a report of a suspicious meet-

ing, it will deploy unmanned planes and send in helicopters,

Martin said. If the lead looks promising, infantry troops

backed by Bradley fighting vehicles can be dispatched.

MNA/Xinhua

When interviewed un-

der the direction of the Cen-

tral Intelligence Agency,

four senior Iraqi scientists

and more than a dozen at

lower levels have denied that

Saddam had reconstituted

his nuclear weapons pro-

gramme or developed and

hidden chemical or biologi-

cal weapons since the United

Nations inspectors left in

1998, the report said.

Some scientists have

been arrested and held for

months, others have made

deals in return for informa-

tion and at least one has

agreed to be interviewed out-

side Iraq, the report added.

Several key Iraqi offi-

cials questioned the signifi-

cance of evidence cited by

the Bush Administration to

suggest that Saddam was

stepping up efforts to develop

new WMD programmes.

MNA/Xinhua

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003 7

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye…and of enhancing their livingstandard.

Concerted and collectiveefforts will have to be madeby themselves for develop-ment of own region and ownnation. The strength of thenation lies within. As long asthe State, the people and theTatmadaw are making ef-forts, the national objectiveswill be realized sooner, hestressed.

He said that educatedpersons and highly-qualifiedhuman resources are of para-mount importance in build-ing a nation. Thus, it is in-cumbent upon the universi-ties and colleges opened inthe region to produce highlyqualified intellectuals andintelligentsia.

The people themselveswill have to make efforts fordevelopment and moderni-zation of own nation whichlagged behind in develop-ment for various reasons.Weighing advantages anddisadvantages or construc-tive activities and destruc-tive acts, earnest efforts areto be made for regional andnational development, hesaid.

Next, Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye greetedthose present. After the meet-ing, Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and party in-spected Pathein by car.

On 30 July morning,Vice-Senior General MaungAye and party attended theprovisions donation cer-emony for the PariyattiSarthintaiks held at theSasana Beikman in Pathein.

Also present on the oc-casion were StateOvadacariya Sayadaws andmember Sayadaws of State

(from page 1)Afterwards, they left for

Pathein by helicopter. Theywere welcomed there byMinister for ConstructionMaj-Gen Saw Tun, DeputyCommander Brig-Gen TintSwe and officials.

At the city hall in Pathein,they met with local authori-ties, departmental personnel,social organizations and lo-cal people. First, the com-mander reported on GDP ofAyeyawady Division, culti-vation of monsoon and sum-mer paddy, breeding of fish,fresh water and sea prawn,breeding of river catfishthrough cage system, culti-vation of main crops in 2003-2004, boosting cultivation ofcrops, planting of pepper,coffee, Thitseint (Bellaricmyrobalan) and teak and useof natural fertilizers.

Next, Minister U SoeTha reported on implemen-tation of short-term eco-nomic projects, economicdevelopment of AyeyawadyDivision and its contributionto development of the State’seconomy.

Afterwards, Secretary-2Lt-Gen Soe Win made aspeech. He said that progresshas been made in the nationdue to combined efforts ofdepartmental personnel andthe people under the leader-ship of the State. All thepeople are to value the fruit-ful results of progress madein the nation on self-reliantbasis and safeguard them fortheir durability.

Since the people are long-ing for peace and progress inthe region, it is incumbentupon the regional adminis-trative bodies and servicepersonnel to make strenuous

efforts for bringing aboutpeace and progress in theregion.

To be able to serve theinterests of the people in theregion, the regional admin-istrative bodies are to makeinitiatives and cooperate withthe departments concerned.Accordingly, the regionaladministrative bodies are tostrive together with the peo-ple for regional and nationaldevelopment.

Next, Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye made aspeech. He said thatAyeyawady Division is oneof the divisions on which theState has to depend economi-cally. Efforts will have to bemade for extended agricul-tural and livestock breedingundertakings in anticipationof growing population al-though there is food suffi-ciency for existing popula-tion of the State.

Tremendous efforts arebeing made to meet the tar-get of producing 1,200 mil-lion baskets of paddy in2003-2004 to ensure ricesufficiency for at least 100million population. Farmersare making concerted effortsfor extended cultivation ofpaddy since the new policyof paddy trading was intro-duced. To this end, it is ex-pected to meet the target ofpaddy production, he pointedout.

The government has beenmaking systematic efforts forensuring water supply for ag-ricultural purpose and bettertransport in the region as wellas for uplift of standard ofeducation and health. Thegovernment has been doingwith the aim of ensuring foodsufficiency for the posterity

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye presents cash donations for Shwe Buddho Pagoda inMyaungmya to members of the Board of Trustees.—  MNA

Sangha.Next, Chairman of

Ayeyawady Division SanghaNayaka Committee(Shwekyin) MaunghtaungKyaungtaik Sayadaw AggaMaha Pandita BhaddantaMahosadha Pandita deliv-ered a sermon, followed bysharing of merits gained.

The ceremony ended withthe three time recitation ofBuddha Sasanam CiramTitthatu.

Afterwards, Vice-Senior General Maung Ayeand party arrived at PatheinUniversity. They were wel-comed there by Deputy Di-rector-General of the HigherEducation Department(Lower Myanmar) U SeinWin, Rector U Cho and Pro-Rector U Tun Thein. Vice-Senior General Maung Ayeand party cordially greetedthe professors and associateprofessors.

They proceeded to theGovernment Computer Col-lege in Pathein and left nec-essary instructions.

They inspected progressin construction of Govern-ment Technological Collegein Pathein. Principal DawYee Yee Myint reported onthe conducting of courses andstudy of the students at thecollege; and Managing Di-rector of Arkar Oo Co Ltd UMyo Aung, on constructionof the building and workprogress. Minister for Sci-ence and Technology UThaung gave a supplemen-tary report. Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye gave instruc-tions.

Next, Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye and partyheaded for Hinthada, where

they were welcomed byDeputy Commander ofSouth-West Command Brig-Gen Tint Swe, Col Than TunAung of Ingapu Station andofficials.

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and party at-tended the offering of rice tothe Sayadaws and monaster-ies in Hinthada held at theprayer hall of Hinthada MahaAtula SakkyaramsiHsehtatkyi Pagoda.

The ceremony wasgraced by the presence ofOvadacariya Sayadaws ofthe State Central WorkingCommittee of the Sangha andmember Sayadaws of Town-ship Sangha Nayaka Com-mittee. Also present weredepartmental officials, andmembers of social and reli-gious organizations.

Maha Dwara NikayaSasanabaing Agga MahaPandita Abhidhaja AggaMaha Saddhamma JotikaHinthada Mahitayon Mon-astery Presiding SayadawBhaddanta Indriyasabha ad-ministered the Five Precepts.

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye presented eightrequisites, rice, edible oil andoffertories to the Sayadaw.The Secretary-2 and partyoffered eight requisites andprovisions to the Sayadaws.

The Sayadaw delivereda sermon, followed by shar-ing of merits gained.

After the ceremony,Vice-Senior General MaungAye inspected the site cho-sen for construction ofHinthada District SasanaBeikman and the scale modelof the building and gave nec-essary instructions.

(See page 9)

Central Working Commit-tee of the Sangha, the Town-ship Sangha NayakaSayadaws, division, districtand township level depart-mental officials, members ofsocial organizations and Wutassociations and others.

The congregation re-ceived the Five Precepts fromChairman of AyeyawadyDivision Sagha NayakaCommittee (Wailuwun) Pre-siding Sayadaw ofWailuwun Kyaungtaik AggaMaha Pandita BhaddantaNagavamsa.

Next, Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye presentedoffertories and eight requi-sites to State OvadacariyaAgga Maha Pandita KabaAye Kyaung SayadawBhaddanta Sirindara. After-wards, Secretary-2 Lt-GenSoe Win and party presentedoffertories and eight requi-sites to members of the

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye inspects the site for construction of Sasana Beikman in Hinthada District.—  MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye gives instructions at Government Technological College in Pathein .—  MNA

8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003

Japan had two interesting news in addition to the

international major news items — the meetings of the

heads of governments and states of the respective coun-

tries to discuss the re-building of Iraq after the end of US-

Iraq War as requested by the leaders of the two powers,

and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), with no

remedy to cure and prevent it in sight.

One was about a group of people who wore the

white uniform. They rode white cars, and parked their

cars in rows along the roads in Japan. They used white

cloth in fencing the row of cars and tying the trunks of the

nearby trees. When the cars were parked at the place for

long, the mayors of the respective towns had to issue

orders to remove the vehicles. When the mayor of a town

issued the order, they move to another town in their long

convoy of cars. The moving convoy was constantly fol-

lowed by a group of journalists. The news about the con-

voy’s whereabouts were featured in the dailies and broad-

cast on radio and TV everyday. That group of men and

women in white cloth was a religious association launch-

ing the activity in accord with their belief.

Another news was about a seal. The sea animal

emerged in the Tama River, which was called the

Tamakawa. The seal was named Tamakyan. It was like a

festival as there were a lot of people watching the sea

creature and the journalists covering the event. Tamakyan’s

travel from one river to another river was an interesting

news in Japan. Soon its right eyebrow was hooked up to

a fish-hook that was attached to a string. Strangely, a fish-

hook that was left in a watercourse was hooked up to it.

It had become an interesting news, and the Save Tamakyan

Committee began to discuss whether to release the mam-

mal from the hook or not. As it was in the Saitama Pre-

fecture, the commissioner himself had to discuss the mat-

ter from a broadcasting programme. Fortunately, Tamakyan

was released from the hook automatically. Thus, the busy

Japanese people did not continue to bother with the crea-

ture.

Concerning the SARS, the infested countries were

coloured red on the map. I was amazed and happy to

know that Myanmar was left as a single patch of SARS-

free country in the region. SARS was regarded as the first

global major infectious disease of the 21st Century. But

my country was able to overcome the dreadful disease.

Wars broke out in the world one after another, and

when a war ended the people were being killed and

wounded by the live mines the war had left behind. While

the peoples from certain countries were suffering from

the global disaster, Myanmar was free from them. I had

listened to a programme about the Japanese people living

in Myanmar. The programme was broadcast by Radio

Tokyo. On the programme, a Japanese woman said. “If

we review our stay in Myanmar, we feel that we are a

very lucky people. As we are living in Myanmar, we have

become to realize that loving kindness is more important

than the valuables and property.” I didn’t hear any one of

them say that there was no democracy and human rights

in Myanmar. I assume that they had not faced any kind of

restriction while enjoying their normal life in Myanmar.

I have been living in Japan, which has democracy and

human rights, for a number of years. Unfortunately, the

people in Japan including me have to face one kind of

natural disaster or another every year.

Japan has been in the economic downturn since

long. Very often, we were hearing about the suicides of

the owners of the big companies which had to be dis-

solved. Atami on the Izu peninsular, where I was living,

was once a famous major town always crowded with local

visitors. But the number of visitors to the town is decreas-

ing at present, followed by the closure of hotels one after

another. Under any system or policy, the most important

requirement for a country is food, clothing and shelter.

Do you have real amity?

The Buddhist teachings say that we are not free from

sufferings, and one thing that is sure is that no individual

can choose his own sufferings.

Atami is the gateway to Izu peninsular. On the

beach of Atami is a couple of bronze statues of a man

wearing the Japanese traditional costume in posture of

kicking a woman in kimono dress lying on the ground.

The statues represent a well-known story in Japan.

The story was like this: Once there were two lov-

ers — Omiya and Kanichi. One day a rich man saw the

beautiful Omiya and fell in love with her. Omiya left

Kanichi when the rich man proposed her by promissing a

large amount of valuables. But soon the rich men lost his

fortune and became poor as he didn’t work hard, rose up

from bed late in the morning, and bathed and drank in the

morning,

Japanese rise up early in the morning. The major-

ity of the Japanese do not seem to have enough sleep.

Thus, most of the passengers on trains were sleeping while

travelling. Mostly, Japanese used trains for travelling from

one place to another whether it was a short trip or a long

one. And all the passengers whenever they got a seat,

started to sleep. But they always woke up at the right

station. Some even sleep while standing on train.

Japanese usually take a bath in hot water and take

alcohol in the evening, and that is one of their traditions.

They hardly bathe and take alcohol in the morning. And

alcohol is an essential thing on special occasions and in

cooking meals. It is also a culture of Japan.

Now let us continue the story. The rich man be-

came poor as he discarded the Japanese tradition. But

Kanichi on the other hand worked hard as he felt hurt for

Omiya had left him as she was blinded by the valuables

(daiyamondo ni me ga kurande). He became rich. At that

time, Omiya came to him and apologized for her wrong-

doing. But Kanichi kicked her, telling her that she had

known her fault at then; and that beforehand, she was

blinded by the glittering of the valuables that she could

not even see him.

Some said that it was a true story of Atami. It tells

us the fact that those who try hard will succeed. And the

words “daiyamondo ni me ga kurande” are used in criti-

cizing a person who loves valuables too much. However,

not all the women are like Omiya. There are women like

Mother Teresa in many places of the world. In our coun-

try also there has been a large number of women serving

the national interest since ancient times to this date.

Myanmar women are also taking part actively in the bodies

to prevent violence against women and taking care of

mothers and babies.

In Myanmar, it is quite easy to differentiate be-

tween those who are working for the national interest and

those who are working for self-interest. One should con-

sider whether he should commit such deeds that will push

the nation under others’ domain. Serious thoughts are re-

quired to find the answer to the problem without holding

personal views.

Saddam Hussein was gone, but the suffering of his

country and people have become a common knowledge.

Fortunately, our King Thibaw got time to travel from

Mandalay Palace to Gowein jetty.

But now the situation is not as the same as in the

past. If any mishap comes, it is sure that the people will

be the victims. We would not dare to accept democracy

and human rights if we would have to find them like

bomb and bullet shells in the ashes. I would like to re-

quest the daredevils who have courage to do so to have

consideration for the youths who are the nation’s future

hope. And I would like to urge them to have real love for

the youths and people, and to prove their amity with deeds.

(Translation: TMT)Myanma Alin 19-7-2003

Dr Mya Mya Win

* Oppose those relying on external elements,acting as stooges, holding negative views

* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stabilityof the State and progress of the nation

* Oppose foreign nations interfering ininternal affairs of the State

* Crush all internal and external destructiveelements as the common enemy

People’s Desire

There are about 500,000 householdsusing electricity in Yangon. Thus, saving afour-foot fluorescent lamp every day by eachhousehold amounts to saving power that isequal to the capacity a 20-megawatt powerstation can supply.

Efficient use of electricity* Use daylight as the main source of light* Use the least possible amount of electricity

only if there is not enough natural light* Use the least possible amount of electricity

required in production and service enter-prises

* Preventing waste of electricity benefits theuser and others

* Saving one gallon of fuel per car per month

will save the nation one US dollar

* Thus, a total of 455,822 cars in Myanmar

can save US$ 5.5 million in a year

* The amount, US $ 5.5 million, can build a

major bridge across Ayeyawady River

Efficient use of fuel

Do not be bolsteredwhenever flattered.

Journalism trainees visit farmily ZoneYANGON, 1 Aug — The

trainees of Journalism

Course No 1/2003 organized

by the News and Periodicals

Enterprise under the Minis-

try of Information led by

Manager U Nyunt Hlaing

this morning visited the Veg-

etable Cultivation and Live-

stock Breeding Special Zone

(Nyaung-hnapin) being un-

dertaken by Yangon Divi-

sion Peace and Development

Council in Hmawby Town-

ship, Yangon North District.

They were welcomed

there by Deputy Commis-

sioner of Yangon North Dis-

trict General Administration

Department U Thein Naing

and officials. At the Hmawby

Hsan Hall, Deputy Commis-

sioner U Thein Naing and

Manager of Hmawby Town-

ship Myanma Agriculture

Service U Thein Lwin

briefed the trainees on meas-

ures being taken at the spe-

cial zone. Next, the trainees

observed crops plantations

and raising of poultry there.

The trainees also viewed

vegetable plantations grown

with the use of green house

system being undertaken by

the Myanma Agriculture

Service under the Ministry

of Agriculture and Irrigation.

Project Manager U Mya Win

explained facts about the

agricultural project to the

trainees and conducted them

round the project site. Next,

the leader of the trainees

spoke words of thanks.

MNA

YANGON, 1 Aug —

 The concluding ceremony

of junior engineer-2 civil

personal course No 3 was

held at the central training

school (Thuwunna) of the

Ministry of Construction this

morning.

It was attended by

Minister for Construction

Maj-Gen Saw Tun, Deputy

Ministers U Tint Swe and

Junior engineer-2 civilpersonal course concludes

Brig-Gen Myint Thein, di-

rectors-general and manag-

ing directors of the depart-

ments and enterprises, the

principal of the training

school and course instruc-

tors.

The minister ad-

dressed the ceremony.

The course was at-

tended by 29 trainees and it

lasted 13 weeks. — MNA

THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003 9

Minister for Health Dr Kyaw Myint presentsbreastfeeding hospital prize to a winning hospital.— MNA

Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe presents breastfeeding prize to awinner.— MNA

UMFCCI PRESIDENT RECEIVES GUESTS: Union ofMyanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce andIndustry U Win Myint received Vietnamese EconomicCounsellor Mr Ta Huu Thinh and his successor Mr LeHai Chau at his office Thursday morning. The photo

shows that the Vietnamese Economic Counsellor calls onUMFCCI President U Win Myint.— MNA Opium-substitute lychee nursery in Wa region.—˚MNA

Thriving opium-substitute orange plantationin Wa region.—  MNA

Thriving opium-substitute orange and mango nursery inWa region.—MNA

Thriving opium-substitute lychee nurseryin Wa region.—MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye…(from page 7)

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and party metwith local authorities, depart-mental officials, members ofsocial organizations andtownsfolk at City Hall ofHinthada. At the meeting,Chairman of District Peaceand Development CouncilLt-Col Maung Pyone re-ported on the district’s plansand aims for 2003-2004, ac-complishments, cultivationof monsoon and summerpaddy, groundnut, sesamum,pigeon pea, tapioca, corn,pepper, sugarcane, jute andvegetables, measures beingtaken for smooth transportand education sector.

Minister for NationalPlanning and Economic De-velopment U Soe Tha re-ported on improvement ofthe State’s economic sector,implementation of projects,and plans to be accomplishedby respective districts andtownships. The Secretary-2elaborated on accomplish-ments of economic, educa-tional, health and transportsectors in building up a mod-ern nation.

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye delivered anaddress, saying that HinthadaDistrict is one of the 24 de-velopment regions andHinthada, Maubin andPathein regions have beendesignated as developmentregions in Ayeyawady Divi-sion. He said that fully utiliz-ing good foundations of edu-cation, health and transportconstructed by the govern-ment, officials concerned areto make concerted efforts forregional development. Withcomplete development ofstrategic regions, the wholeUnion will develop fully, hesaid. In conclusion, Vice-Senior General Maung Ayecalled for thorough and ef-fective implementation of

lofty development projectslaid down by the governmentfor bridging the developmentgap among the parts of thenation. Next, Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye had acordial conversation withthose present.

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and party wentto the Government Compu-ter College in Hinthada andmet with Principal DawNyein Nyein Lwin and teach-ers. They proceeded toHinthada University, wherethey were welcomed by Di-rector-General of HigherEducation Department(Lower Myanmar) U SawLwin, Pro-Rector ofHinthada University U SoeMyint and professors.After cordially greeting thestaff, they inspected theuniversity.

They went to HinthadaGovernment TechnologicalCollege in Hinthada. Princi-pal U Thet Htoo Han reportedon establishment of the col-lege, courses being con-ducted, and strength of thestudents. Minister U Thaunggave a supplementary report.Next, Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye greeted theteachers.

Member of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Chairman of theOrganizing Committee ofMyanmar War Veterans Or-ganization (Central) Adju-tant-General Lt-Gen TheinSein, who accompaniedVice-Senior General MaungAye, together with Ministerfor Construction Maj-GenSaw Tun, and member of theorganizing committee Min-ister U Thaung, met withmembers of Division, Dis-trict and Township WVOs atthe office of AyeyawadyDivision Peace and Devel-opment Council on 29 Julyevening. — MNA

Kanyutkwin Station Hospi-tal in Pyu Township, BagoDivision; and the Phado Sta-tion Hospital in KyauktadaTownship, which were alsoregarded as breastfeedinghospitals.

Later, Ms Corroll Longand Dr Stephan Jost of theOffice of Resident Repre-sentative of the WHOawarded officials from thestation hospitals, regarded as

breastfeeding hospitals, inAyeyawady Division,Sagaing Division and BagoDivision (East).

Director-General of theHealth Department Dr WanMaung and officials alsogave away prizes to nurses,midwives and representa-tives from the townshipswhich were regarded asbreastfeeding townships.

MNA

YANGON, 1 Aug — TheMinistry of Health organizeda ceremony for recognitionof breastfeeding hospitalsand townships at the hall ofthe Institute of Nursing(Yangon) on Bogyoke AungSan Street here this morn-ing.

Minister for Health DrKyaw Myint delivered anaddress on the occasion.

Present on the occasionwere Deputy Minister forHealth Dr Mya Oo, Presi-dent of the Myanmar Mater-nal and Child Welfare Asso-ciation Dr Daw Khin WinShwe, directors-general anddeputy directors-general ofdepartments under the min-istry, rectors, directors, medi-cal superintendents, officialsfrom UN agencies and so-cial organizations, and oth-ers.

In his speech, MinisterDr Kyaw Myint said thatWorld Breastfeeding Weekhas been observed world-wide as well as in Myanmarsince 1992. This year, the12th World BreastfeedingWeek will be observed inMyanmar as of today.

From 1992, August 1 to7 has been designated as thebreastfeeding week, whichis observed worldwide withceremonies.

The Ministry of Health,under the leadership of theNational Health Committee,drew up plans systematicallyand is implementing themwith the aim of promotingnational health standard.Among them is thebreastfeeding plan, whichhas been realized since Janu-ary 2003.

Up to this year, a total of321 hospitals have been des-ignated as breastfeeding hos-pitals, and 99 townships asbreastfeeding townships.

The chosen motto forWorld Breastfeeding Weekthis year is “Breastfeedingin a globalized world - forpeace and justice”.

Mother’s milk containsantibiotics. Therefore, for hu-man beings, milk powderproduced from the animal’smilk is not as good as themother’s milk. Breastfeedinghas many fine points.

Therefore, it is necessaryfor health staff to educate thepublic, especially mothersand expectant mothers, topractise it.

The saying that goes“The hand that rocks the cra-dle rules the world” high-lights the fact that the futureof a child is in the hands ofhis mother.

Like previous years,World Breastfeeding Weekwill be observed from 1 to 7August. Today, 1 August, atotal of 17 hospitals and 19townships will be awarded.

The breastfeeding plancan not be carried out by thehealth staff alone. Successwill be achieved only whenhealth-related ministries,NGOs, and the public lendthemselves to this campaign.During the past 10 years, theministry could carry out theplan in 321 hospitals out of757. Therefore, it can be saidthat the achievement is lessthan 50 per cent.

Thus, it is incumbent onhealth officers of states anddivisions to make efforts toan extent that all the hospi-tals in their states and divi-sions will be regarded asbreastfeeding hospitals.

Moreover, the hospitalsand townships regarded asbreastfeeding hospitals andtownships are to maintaintheir already achieved sta-tus. The breastfeeding poli-cies and the 10 steps ofbreastfeeding are needed tofollow, he said.

He also expressed histhanks to the UNICEF, whichrenders assistance to makingfield tour of hospitals andtownships to inspect whetherthe breastfeeding policy waspractised there. He alsothanked the WHO for its helpin the holding ofbreastfeeding counsellingtraining workshops.

Resident Representa-tive of the UNICEF MsCorroll Long also spoke onthe occasion.

Next, the minister pre-sented awards to officialsfrom the Aphyauk StationHospital, Taikkyi Township,Yangon Division; theShwekyin Township Hospi-tal in Bago Division (East);the Nyaungphyu StationHospital in Monywa Town-ship, Sagaing Division; andthe Amyint Station Hospitalin ChaungU Township,which were regarded asbreastfeeding hospitals.

The deputy minister alsopresented awards to officialsfrom the Palaw TownshipHospital and the KyunsuTownship Hospital inTaninthayi Division, andZayatkyi Station Hospital inHtantabin Township, BagoDivision (East), which werealso regarded asbreastfeeding hospitals.

Dr Daw Khin Win Shwealso presented awards to of-ficials from the ZeyawadyStation Hospital and the

Breastfeeding hospitals and townships recognized and honoured

10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003

South Okkalapa Industrial Zone(Article & Photos— Sein Shwe Hlaing)

2-ton Truckassembled by

SouthOkkalapaIndustrial

Zone.

Okkala Jeep

of South

Okkalapa

Industrial

Zone.

South Okkalapa Industrial Zone is not

far from downtown Yangon. In 1958,

Thakayta, South Okkalapa, North Okkalapa

new townships were established and since

then, South Okkalapa Industrial ward has

been set up.

The industrial zone is located on 35

acres of land and comprises 153 factories

and workshops and five factories are under

construction. The South Okkalapa Indus-

trial Ward is upgraded to the industrial zone

on 20 July, 2001 and it is located in Yangon

East Heavy Industry Zone.

Now, Brig-Gen Pyi Sone, Minister for

Commerce, acts as In-charge of the South

Okkalapa Industrial Zone and is giving ad-

vice and providing necessary assistance for

the development of the zone.

It includes 10 factories for consumer

goods, seven ice factories, nine garment fac-

tories, 21 filigree workshops, seven plastic

and rubber factories, 41 saw mills and wood

work factories, two paper factories, 24 food-

stuff factories, seven car servicing work-

shops, and 15 warehouses.

The industrial zone has invested K 175.07

million (US$ 0.40 million) and its productiv-

ity is equivalent to K 149.23 million (US $

0.13 million). It creates 1,499 jobs. Sein

Diamond enamel paint factory produces

import-substitute paints. Moreover, saw mills

and wood work factory not only export

furniture and Myanmar handicrafts but also

sell low-cost furniture for the domestic use.

There are also filigree workshops and tin

melting plant in the zone and they are very

convenient for the entrepreneurs. Seminars

are also held aiming to develop the industrial

work. Brig-Gen Pyi Sone often goes there

and supervises the work.

He gives instructions on boosting pro-

duction of trucks for import-substitute cars.

Trucks are useful for transportation.

Therefore, trucks have been assembled

since July, 2002 and three two-ton trucks

were produced in December. Production of

OKA 01 (Okkala Jeep) launched in Decem-

ber, 2002. Later, the industry zone also turns

out OKA 03 and OKA 03 (Okkala Wagon).

The trucks were on show at Myanma

Industrial Exhibition-2003 held in Manda-

lay and endowed with best innovation prize.

Similarly, Okkala jeeps, Okkala wagon

and truck of the zone were displayed at

Myanma Auto Show-2003 and OKA 01 jeep

won the third best product prize.

Therefore, these two prizes reveal that

South Okkalapa Industrial Zone has acquired

a high level of competence in vehicle pro-

duction.

The industrial zone has assembled a total

of 21 vehicles — eight jeeps (OKA 01), five

jeeps (OKA 03), seven Okkala Wagon and

three two-ton trucks.

At preesent, the industrial zone set target

to manufacture 35 jeeps, 20 trucks and 15

wagons in 2003-2004 fiscal year.

(Translation: AMS)

Paddy-plus-fish project in people’s interest and rural developmentHla Tun (Twantay)

At the invitation of the

Fisheries Department of theMinistry of Livestock and

Fisheries, the 21-member

group made a two-day trip to

a region which was contigu-

ous to my birthplace.

The term Ayeyawady iswell-known not only in

Myanmar but also in the

world. Myanmar’s Aye-

yawady River is stated in

comparison with Yangtze

River in the People’s Re-public of China.

Our destination was

Pathein District in

Ayeyawady Division, the

region of Myanmar’s rice

bowl. In the past, people hadto rely mainly on waterway

to travel to Pathein. The 114-

mile distance took the pas-

sengers about 14 hours in the

past. But, now one has to

take only about three hoursto get to Pathein thanks to

the emergence of new roads

and bridges. If one would

like to proceed to the

Chaungtha Beach by car, he

has to travel 34 miles more.

In Myanmar, the ChaungthaBeach is the most beautiful

and pleasant one except

Ngapali Beach. About 30

miles from Pathein Ngwe

Hsaung Beach, which has

become popular this year.Our group left the News

and Periodicals Enterprise on

Theinbyu Road by car at 3.30

pm on 24 July. That day, the

weather was fine. On our

way, we passed theBayintnaung Bridge and the

recently-opened Daka

Bridge. We spent the night at

the Paradise Hotel in Pathein.

Even though it was in the

rainy season, 24 out of 28rooms were occupied by lo-

cal and foreign visitors at

that time. So, it can be said

that the occupancy rate is

high. On the morning of 25

July, we attended the cer-

emony jointly organized by

the Fisheries Department and

the Division Maternal andChild Welfare Association

Supervisory Committee,

held at the pandal in front of

the paddy fields of

Khonzinkon Village in

Kangyidaunt Township,about 11 miles from Pathein.

The implementation of

the paddy-plus-fish project

is in accordance with the

guidance of Head of State

Senior General Than Shwe.Chairman of Ayeyawady Di-

vision Peace and Develop-

ment Council Commander

of South-West Command

Maj-Gen Htay Oo addressed

the ceremony and releasedfingerlings into the paddy

fields. The commander and

wife, Deputy Commander

Brig-Gen Tint Swe and wife,

officials and members of the

Maternal and Child Welfare

Association put fingerlings

into the paddy fields. At theceremony, Head of Division

Fisheries Department U Win

Myint Maung explained the

paddy-plus-fish project.

Next, bags of fingerlings

were presented to farmers.On that day, a total of 250,000

fingerlings of diffenent spe-

cies were released into the

500 acres of paddy fields in

the townships of Kan-

gyidaunt and Pathein at therate of five hundred

fingerlings an acre. More-

over, 925,000 of fish was put

into the fields of 1,850 acres

in Pathein, Maubin, Myaung-

mya and Pyapon districts.Commander Maj-Gen

Htay Oo, after the ceremony,

cordially greeted the local

farmers and urged them to

boost the per acre yield ofpaddy, to minimize expenses

and to use traditional organic

fertilizers in cultivation in-

stead of urea fertilizers.

The highest rice-produc-

ing divisions in Myanmar areYangon, Bago and

Ayeyawady. Of them Aye-

yawady is the top of the three.

Therefore, it is known as

the rice barn of the country.

Now, the division also takesa leading role in fish and

meat sector.

It is learn that the farm-

ing method of paddy-plus-

fish was carried out first in

India 1,500 years ago.Nowadays, Thailand,

Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos

and Vietnam also have been

accustomed to this method.

By putting fish into the paddy

fields, the amount of pesti-cides used in the fields will

decrease because the fish eat

the pests as their food. Fur-

ther, excretions released by

fish can fertilize soil to thrivethe paddy, and the yield of

paddy will increase from 10

to 15 percent.

Two Thai officials in-

cluded in the trip were Pro-

gramme Manager Mr SurianVichiteken and Policy and

Programme Coordinator Ms

Pouchamani Wongsanla of

South-East Asia Fishery De-

velopment Centre. They

were to stay there from 23 to26 July. In an interview with

the guests, they said the

project was very beneficial

and this farming method has

been used in Thailand for 20

years. The ceremonies ofpaddy-plus-fish project had

been held in Bago and

Ayeyawady Divisions. On

the way home I recalled the

words of Commander Maj-

Gen Htay Oo. As a result ofraising fish in the paddy field,

the farmers can earn more

incomes and their region will

develop more.

I murmured “paddy-plus-fish project in people’s in-

terests and rural develop-

ment”.

(Translation: MS+ST)

Commander Maj-Gen Htay Oo and wife Daw Ni Ni Win and officials releasefingerlings into the paddy field. — THANT ZIN TUN (Kyemon)

Commander Maj-Gen Htay Oo meets with officials of the Fisheries Department. THANT ZIN TUN (Kyemon)

THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003 11

Implementation of projects for socio-economicdevelopment of all regions in the country

The City Hall of Kengtung in Shan State (East) seen on the opening day,on 18-5-2003. — MNA

The Hlawga natural gas turbine is one of the potential plants for supply ofsufficient electric power. — PHOTO: MINISTRY OF ELECTRIC POWER

Unloading of frames weighing 7693.55 tons imported from China NationalHeavy Machinery Corporation for the construction of Thanlwin River Bridge(Mawlamyine) from MV Mawlamyine seen on 26-5- 2003. — CONSTRUCTION

The Paungtok Bridge inaugurated in MraukU Township, Rakhine State,on 20-5-2003. — MNA

Ground levelling with the use of heavy machinery for constructing conduit andcontrol tower of Ngwetha Dam which is being built in Salingyi Township, Sagaing Division. It is targeted to finish the construction of the dam by the year 2004.

Local-made cars seen at the Myanma Auto Exhibition (2003) at KyaikkasanGrounds on 9 May. — MNA

Shan State (East) General Hospital (200-bed) in Kengtung seenon 18-5-2003.—MNA

Dawei University in Dawei which was opened on 22-2-2002. — MNA

The Government has been striving for enabling the nationto keep abreast with the world’s nations in terms of development.In the process, it has laid down national development projects and

region-wise development plans and work is well under way forbringing about harmonious development in economic, healthand education sectors across the nation and narrowing the

development gap among all parts of the nation.

12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003

ARRIVAL/CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV “ BAGO” VOY NO BG746/NConsignee of cargo carried on MV “BAGO” Voy No

BG746/N are hereby notified that the vessel has arrived at

Yangon port on 2-8-2003 and will be berthing on about 3-

8-2003 and cargoes will be discharged into the premises

of Myanma Port Authority where it will lie at the consign-

ee’s risk and expenses and subject to the bye-laws and

conditions of the port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily between 8 am

to 11:30 and 12 noon to 4 pm into Claims Day now

declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo

from vessel.

No Claims against this vessel will be admitted after the

Claims Day.

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Pakistani girl leaves afterheart surgery in India

Ten drugdealers

captured inNanchangNANCHANG, 1 Aug —

Police in Nanchang, capital

city of east China’s Jiangxi

Province, have captured 10

drug dealers who allegedly

sold a total of 15,000 ecstasy

pills and four kilogrammes

of “king power”, a new kind

of drug prevalent in China.

The police said that they

discovered early this month

that a man, nicknamed Shitou

or “Stone”, and a woman,

named Liao Ying were in

control of drug supply at

some recreation centres in

the city. Further investiga-

tion showed that Yang Rufei,

a man from Guangzhou,

capital of south China’s

Guangdong Province, and

Yang Xiangbao, a man from

neighbouring Hubei Prov-

ince, supplied drugs to Shitou

and Liao.

The police caught Yang

Xiangbao and Liao at a hotel

in Nanchang on July 25, and

seized Yang Rufei at a long-

distance bus station in the

city when Yang walked out,

carrying drugs he was be-

lieved to have been intend-

ing to sell to Shitou.

MNA/Xinhua

“IT” companies form allianceto enter China’s milymarket

Palestinian boy’s organs giveIsraelis new life

JERUSALEM, 1 Aug — The

family of a Palestinian boy

killed in an accident has

helped save the lives of four

Israeli children by donating

his organs, a rare act after 34

months of conflict between

Israelis and Palestinians.

Eleven-year-old Qaher

Aoude died when he fell off

the roof of his home near

Nablus in the West Bank.

His family authorized the

donation of his organs on

Tuesday over the objections

of many of their neighbours

angered by Israeli crack-

downs on a Palestinian up-

rising for independence.

“We want Israelis and

Americans to know that

while the Israeli Army kills

Palestinians we give life to

Israeli children,” Murad

Aoude, one of Qaher’s 17

siblings, said on Wednes-

day.

Schneider Children’s

Hospital in the Israeli city of

Petah Tikva said a 13-year-

old girl suffering from cystic

fibrosis received Qaher’s

heart and lungs while her

own functioning heart was

transplanted into another

young patient.

This was the first time a

so-called “domino trans-

plant” was performed in Is-

rael, a Schneider statement

said. Although the 13-year-

old girl only needed new

lungs, it is better to have both

a heart and lungs transplanted

together.

The boy’s liver and kid-

neys were given to two other

children. The organs of sev-

eral Israelis — some of them

killed in suicide bombings

and other Palestinian attacks

— have been donated to Pal-

estinians since violence

erupted in September 2000,

but donations the other way

dropped off dramatically,

Israeli health officials said.

“When (Palestinian) or-

gans were donated it was in

secret,” said Tamar

Ashkenazi of Israel’s na-

tional transplant centre.

“This may be the first time

since it began it has been

done publicly.”

Middle East tensions

have eased since the June

launch of a US-backed

“roadmap” to Palestinian

statehood in the West Bank

and Gaza Strip by 2005,

aided by scaled-back Israeli

military operations and a

ceasefire declared by Pales-

tinian militants.

Schneider received rec-

ognition in a Vatican news-

letter this week for being “a

bridge to peace”. It was noted

for transplanting the kidney

of a suicide-bombing victim

into the body of a seven-

year-old Palestinian girl.

MNA/Reuters

BANGALORE (India), 1

Aug — A two-year-old

Pakistani girl whose success-

ful heart surgery in India has

come to symbolize efforts to

revive peace between the

nuclear-armed neighbours

left hospital on Thursday and

was on her way home.

Noor Fatima came to In-

dia on July 11 with her par-

ents on a cross-border bus

service between Lahore and

Delhi that was resumed after

an 18-month suspension.

The same bus service will

take her back home from

Delhi on Friday.

Wearing a frilly purple

frock and a huge straw hat,

Noor Fatima left the

Narayana Hrudayalaya heart

hospital in the southern city

of Bangalore, and her smil-

ing father told reporters that

doctors had found her

progress satisfactory.

“It is a message of friend-

ship,” Nadeem Sajjad said

when asked if the surgery

could help revive peace be-

tween the two nations.

“It all now depends on

what the big people (govern-

ments) think,” he added.

Noor Fatima was oper-

ated on July 15 to mend holes

in her heart, and her surgery

received wide media atten-

tion. Prayers for her recov-

ery and offers of help poured

in from friendly Indians.

The Indian government

later offered to pick up the

bills to treat 20 Pakistani

children in a gesture towards

resuming peace talks.

MNA/Reuters

BEIJING, 1 Aug — Morethan 50 of China’s largestinformation technologyfirms formed an alliance onWednesday to strengthen

their hand in the lucrativedefence market, as the Chi-nese military is reforming itspurchase system by adopt-ing the practice of govern-

ment procurement.Li Jinai, a member of the

Central Military Commis-sion and director of the Gen-eral Armament Departmentof the Chinese People’s Lib-eration Army (PLA), at-tended the ceremony to markthe launch of the coalition,dubbed “The ComputerWorld Army-SupportingAlliance on Science andTechnology”. Twelve of theprestigious firms donated ITproducts including servers,personal computers, ex-changes and routers to theArmy. Company representa-tives pledged to help train ITpersonnel for the militaryand create greater awarenessabout the industry among theforces. The establishment ofthe alliance is sponsored bythe Information Institute ofElectronics Science andTechnology under the Chi-nese Ministry of Informa-tion and the Computer WorldMedia Group.

MNA/Xinhua

State-owned hospitals in Chinato embrace market

BEIJING, 1 Aug — More

State-owned hospitals in

China are to lose their gov-

ernment support and will

have to adapt to the market

as the country’s entire health

service undergoes inevitable

reform, experts predicted.

The unexpected epi-

demic of severe acute

respiratory syndromes

(SARS) has made the cen-

tral government determined

to take unprecedented action

with regard to the country’s

public health system, accord-

ing to Thursday’s ChinaDaily.

The relevant departments

under the State Council, such

as the Ministry of Health and

the State Development and

Reform Commission, are

making investment plans

with huge budgets to improve

the country’s public health

networks, according to a

three-day national working

conference on health that

ended Wednesday in Beijing.

One of the main tasks in

the coming years will be fur-

ther development of the

health care system so that it

can better prevent and con-

trol epidemics such as SARS.

The newly added task is

expected to bring new change

to the system of providing

medical treatment, another

side of the reform campaign,

said Cai Renhua, director of

the China National Health

Economics Institute.

MNA/Xinhua

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US study says bionic earcarries meningitis risk

BOSTON, 1 Aug — Receiving a cochlear implant to restore hearing dramaticallyincreases the risk of developing bacterial meningitis, US researchers warned on Wednes-day.

The meningitis rate was 30 times higher

among 4,264 children who received the bionic

ear from 1997 to 2002 compared to the rate in

the general population, said a team led by

Jennita Reefhuis of the National Centre on

Birth Defects and Development Disabilities.

They recommended in the New EnglandJournal of Medicine, where the study was

published, that no implants be undertaken

until a child has been vaccinated against bac-

teria that can cause meningitis, a potentially

fatal inflammation of the surface of the brain.

Nearly 10,000 profoundly deaf children in

the United States have received implants, al-

lowing most of them to understand normal

speech. In all, about 30,000 children world-

wide have been given implants, as well as an

equal number of adults.

The device uses a microphone to pick up

sounds and transfers those sounds to an im-

planted receiver that, in turn, delivers electri-

cal impulses into the cochlea so they can be

relayed to the brain. The surgery and rehabili-

tation cost about 60,000 US dollars in chil-

dren.

One year ago, the US Food and Drug

Administration warned consumers that the

implants had been linked with bacterial men-

ingitis, producing 17 deaths worldwide among

91 patients who developed meningitis. As a

result, Advanced Bionics Corporation, a pri-

vately held company, withdrew two brands

that contained a “positioner” that pushed the

electrode against the wall of the cochlea, the

spiral-shaped organ that normally translates

sounds into electrical impulses the brain can

understand.

MNA/Reuters

American Ballet

Theatre dancer,

Argentine

Paloma Herrera

practices at the

Colon Theatre in

Buenos Aires,

Argentina, on 30

July, 2003.

Herrera and

Brazilian ballet

dancer Marcelo

Gomes will

perform on

31 July, 2003 at

the Colon

Theatre.

INTERNET

Workers coming out of India’s Infosys softwaredevelopment factory. Analysts say India should tap the

profitable semiconductor market.—INTERNET

US, Mexico dismantle powerful drug networkWASHINGTON , 1 Aug — US and Mexican officials announced on Thursday they had dismantled a powerful

Mexican drug network that used tunnels, planes, trucks and cars to smuggle cocaine and marijuana into the UnitedStates.

In Mexico, authorities have taken into custody four

leaders of the up-and-coming drug gang headed by Ismael

Zambada Garcia while law enforcement officers arrested

63 suspects in the United States on Thursday.

US officials also announced charges against Zambada,

who they said has links to other influential Mexican drug

traffickers, and his two top lieutenants. They said Zambada

is believed to be in Mexico, but that he has not been arrested.

The latest arrests were part of a 19-month long investi-

gation called “Operation Trifecta”, which involved more

than 240 arrests in both countries and the seizure of nearly

six tons of cocaine, almost 25,000 pounds (11,000 kilos) of

marijuana and more than eight million dollars in suspected

drug proceeds.

“Today, the United States and Mexico, working to-

gether, have achieved a significant victory against the

purveyors of illegal drugs, death and violence,” Attorney

General John Ashcroft told a news conference at the Justice

Department.

“Ismael Zambada Garcia is alleged to be the head of one

of the largest, most powerful and ruthless drug trafficking

organizations in Mexico,” he said. US officials said Zambada

has been involved in drug trafficking for about 30 years.

Ashcroft said more than 50 search warrants were re-

cently executed in breaking up the ring that used planes,

trucks and cars to transport cocaine to the US-Mexico

border. Drugs then were smuggled to locations that

included Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

In Mexico City, Attorney General Rafael Macedo said,

“This cell was one of the main supply lines to the United

States.”

Macedo said Zambada, who has been at the helm of the

gang that formed two years ago, remains at large.

Three of those captured in Mexico — cell leader

Manuel Campas Medina, New Yorker Ismael Lugo Diaz

and David Castro — were detained in Zapopan in western

Jalisco state.

The fourth, Javier Meza Fernandez, was arrested in

Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora state and south of Nogales.

MNA/Reuters

China, Brazil to launch secondresources satellite this year

BEIJING , 1 Aug — The China National Space Admin-istration said Wednesday that the No 2 satellite devel-oped by China and Brazil has passed production checksand is ready to lift off later in the year.

The satellite will be sent into orbit by a Long March IVseries rocket together with a experimental communication

satellite developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences

(CAS). The two countries launched the first earth resources

satellite in 1999, which has served for one year and eight

months more than its planned service lifetime to send back

data widely used in China and Brazil.

Furnished with various advanced cameras, the No 2

satellite shares similar technologies with its predecessor.

Information from the satellite will be shared by China

and Brazil. In China, data sent by the satellite will be

received by stations in Beijing, Urumqi in northwest Chi-

na’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Guangzhou

in south China’s Guangdong Province.

The satellite can collect images covering all China’s

land and ocean areas to help observe changes in land

resources, measure farming land, calculate timber stocks,

forecast crop growth, survey disasters and pollution and

prospect for mineral resources. — MNA/Xinhua

China, Russia urge US to stoparms race in outer space

GENEVA, 1 Aug— China and Russia, with the United States clearly in their sights,said on Thursday “Star Wars” dangers were growing and called for a quick start totalks on a treaty to ban weapons in space.

The two powers delivered their plea at a

session of the United Nations-backed Con-

ference on Disarmament just over a year after

tabling proposals for a pact, to be known as

PAROS, that have met with a cold reception

from Washington.

“Dire developments augur ill for the issue

of PAROS,” Chinese disarmament ambassa-

dor Hu Xiaodi told the 66-nation forum,

declaring that efforts were under way to

“control and occupy outer space”.

“The risk of weaponization of outer space

is mounting,” he added, in remarks that

sources close to his delegation said were

aimed at the US National Missile Defence

(NMD) system due to start up in September

next year.

US officials say NMD is purely defen-

sive and intended to protect their country

from missiles fired by “rogue states” and

terrorists. The system does not envisage

deploying weaponry in orbit round the Earth,

they say.

NMD is promoted by the administration

of President George W Bush as the successor

to the mooted programme of space-based

missile defence, dubbed “Star Wars”, cham-

pioned by then-President Ronald Reagan in

the 1980s.

The new system, which would involve

firing missiles out of the Earth’s atmosphere

from land-based sites, has been criticized by

many countries, and by some US scientists.

Russia’s Ambassador, Leonid

Skotnikov, told the Geneva disarmament

forum on Thursday that his country remained

firmly committed to banning the deploy-

ment of weapons in outer space and wanted

a moratorium while a treaty was negotiated.

“We are ready to take on such a commit-

ment immediately as long as the leading

space powers join in a moratorium,” he said.

Skotnikov also called for renewed efforts

to relaunch discussion on confidence-build-

ing measures on PAROS — Preventions of

an Arms Race in Outer Space — that have

been stalled for almost a decade.

MNA/Reuters

Asia-Africa cooperationpromotes status ofdeveloping countries

BANDUNG (Indonesia), 1

Aug — Strengthening coop-

eration between Asian and

African countries will help

promote common develop-

ment and reinforce the inter-

national status of develop-

ing countries and contribute

to the establishment of a new

international order, a

Chinese envoy has said.

“The combined area of Asia

and Africa is nearly half of the

world’s total and their people

account for more than two

thirds of the world’s popula-

tion, but their economic ag-

gregates are far from propor-

tionate to their size,” Chinese

Ambassador to Indonesia Lu

Shumin said Wednesday.

He was in the West Java

capital of Bandung to lead the

Chinese delegation in the Asian-

African Sub-Regional Organi-

zations Conference, which was

held on Tuesday and Wednes-

day.—MNA/Xinhua

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SPORTS

Real set off ticketfrenzy in Hong KongHONG KONG, 1 Aug — Thousands of soccer fans rushed to snap up tickets for an

eagerly-awaited Real Madrid match in Hong Kong when sales finally opened late onThursday.

“I am very happy,” said Yau Ka-kit, a 21-

year old student who was among the first to

buy the tickets. “I had been queuing up for

four days but it was worth it.

“I’m a little tired, now I will go home and

sleep,” said Yau, who left with bloodshot

eyes and four tickets.

He was one of about 5,000 fans who had

been standing in line for tickets to the game

against a Hong Kong XI side on August 8,

which will see David Beckham, Zinedine

Zidane and Ronaldo take to the field for

Real.

Hong Kong’s soccer stadium has a

seating capacity of about 40,000 but half

is reserved for the Hong Kong Football

Association and its affiliate clubs.

The overwhelming response prompted

organizers to bring forward the start of ticket

sales to 9 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Thursday

instead of Friday morning and tickets were

expected to be sold out within a few hours.

Regular tickets cost between 500 Hong

Kong dollars and 1,500 Hong Kong dollars

but on the black market they are being

offered at upwards of 4,000 Hong Kong

dollars (513 US dollars) apiece.

Over 100 security guards and policemen

have been on guard since early this week to

stop any trouble and queue-jumping, but

that has not quelled Hong Kong’s famous

entrepreneurial spirit.

“I’ve slipped a few of our brothers into

the queue. Send some more over,” a burly,

topless man with an elaborate tattoo stretch-

ing across his shoulder from his chest to his

back was overheard saying into his mobile

phone. Half a dozen teenage boys standing

around him nodded in agreement.

In many parts of Asia, elaborate tattoos

are often a sign of gang membership. The

Real Madrid frenzy has also seized Tokyo

and Beijing, where the Spanish club are also

due to play.

In Hong Kong, the line of people stretched

for over a mile. Huddled under makeshift

tents, many played cards or slept in the

sweltering heat.

“I simply love football, much like how

women love diamonds,” said Li Fong-yee, a

66-year-old granny. “I will buy two tickets.

If my husband can’t go to the match, I shall

bring my grandson.”

But not everyone in the queue was so

enthusiastic. “This is madness. I prefer

doing housework,” said Misi Dah, an

Indonesian domestic helper who was lining

up for her employer.

Real, whose popularity has soared in the

Far East since they signed England captain

Beckham, will play a local squad next

Friday as part of a series of pre-season

matches in Asia.

MNA/Reuters

Sposa ahead at Buick Open,Woods four shots back

GRAND BLANC (Michigan), 1 Aug — Mike Sposa,a lowly 141st on the PGA Tour money list, hit aseven-under-par 65 to snatch a one-shot lead after thefirst round of the four-million-US-dollar Buick Open onThursday.

Carl Paulson, David Sutherland, New Zealand’s Craig

Perks and Paul Gow of Australia shared second place on 66.

Shaun Micheel, Australia’s Stuart Appleby, Thomas

Levet of France, Neal Lancaster, Kent Jones, Chris DiMarco,

Garrett Willis, Heath Slocum, Hunter Mahan and Jason

Buha were all a stroke further back on 67.

US Open winner Jim Furyk and British Open champion

Ben Curtis led a group of 12 players on four-under 68 while

world number one and defending champion Tiger Woods

carded a 69.

Sposa, 34, teed off in the second group of the morning

and was out in a one-under 35 at Warwick Hills Golf and

Country Club. He then enjoyed a purple patch on the back

nine, playing holes 10 through 14 in five-under with three

birdies and an eagle.

The eagle came at the par-four 12th when he holed out

from 110 yards with a wedge.

Sposa, yet to win on the tour, said he had been encour-

aged by the run of unlikely champions in recent weeks.

Curtis won the British Open two weeks ago while Craig

Stadler and Peter Jacobsen have become the sixth and

seventh oldest players to win PGA Tour events.

Curtis, the PGA Tour rookie who is making his first start

since winning at Sandwich, began on the back nine and went

out in a three-under 33.

MNA/Reuters

Real Madrid’s players lie on the carpets for muscle training in Kunming, capital ofsouthwest China’s Yunnan Province, on 30 July, 2003. — XINHUA

Roddick sets up Washingtonrematch with Rusedski

WASHINGTON , 1 Aug — Second seed Andy Roddick used a powerful serve andpunishing groundstrokes on Wednesday to overcome an inspired display by fellowAmerican Bob Bryan to advance to the third round of the 600,000 US dollarsWashington Classic.

qualifier Julien Benneteau of

France 6-2, 6-4 while fifth-

seeded Russian Yevgeny

Kafelnikov knocked out

Sweden’s Thomas Enqvist

6-3, 2-6, 6-3. Eighth seed

Nikolay Davydenko of Rus-

sia overcame qualifier Simon

Larose of Canada 6-4, 6-3.

MNA/Reuters

Roddick blasted 12 aces

and never lost his serve dur-

ing a 7-6, 6-4 triumph over

Bryan, who alongside his

brother Mike forms the top

doubles team in the world.

Roddick, who now meets

Britain’s Greg Rusedski in a

repeat of their explosive en-

counter at Wimbledon last

month, has been the top

player in service games for

two years and showed why

against Bryan, who is ranked

129th in the world in singles.

Bryan, however, almost

matched his opponent serve-

for-serve, also hitting 12 aces

and losing his serve only once,

in the final game.

Roddick, the sixth-ranked

player in the world, came up

with the big shots when he

needed them.

Roddick defeated Rusedski

7-6, 7-6, 7-5 in the second round

at Wimbledon. The Briton left

the court fuming after an

umpire over-rule in the third

set, having earlier hurled a

foul-mouthed volley of abuse

at the official.

In other second-round ac-

tion on Wednesday, Thailand’s

third-seeded Paradorn Sricha-

phan defeated Cyril Saulnier

of France 6-4, 6-7, 6-1.

Fourth seed Fernando

Gonzalez of Chile defeated

The number two seed Kim Clijsters, of Belgium, serves toMarion Bartoli, of France, during third round action at theAcura Classic women’s tennis championships in Carlsbad,California on July 31, 2003, Clijsters won 6-1 6-1.—INTERNET

Seles hopes toreturn in timefor US Open

CARLSBAD (California), 1

Aug — Nine times Grand

Slam champion Monica

Seles, who has been out of

action since the French Open,

is unlikely to play again until

next month’s US Open.

The 29-year-old Ameri-

can, beaten by Russia’s

Nadia Petrova in the second

round at Roland Garros at

the end of May, is recover-

ing from a stress fracture in

her left foot.

“Monica Seles is con-

tinuing to work with

her trainer to find ways to

ease the pain in her foot and

will continue to do so in the

hope of being competitive

for the US Open,” a spokes-

person for her agents, IMG,

told Reuters on Thursday.

Seles has been plagued

by foot injuries in recent

years. She suffered a stress

fracture in her right foot in

2001 which kept her out for

five months.

MNA/Reuters

Juventus sell defender Moretti to ParmaROME, 1 Aug — Defender Emiliano Moretti has joined

Parma from Italian champions Juventus for 1.8 million

euros (2.04 million US dollars), the Turin club said on

Thursday. Juventus signed the defender last year, after

Moretti’s club Fiorentina went bankrupt, but loaned him to

Modena halfway through the season.

The club also said midfielder Davide Baiocco would go on

loan to Reggina, who avoided relegation from Serie A when

they beat Atalanta in a playoff last month.—MNA/Reuters

Midfielder Schreuder joins Feyenoord ROTTERDAM, 1 Aug — NAC Breda midfielder Alfred

Schreuder has signed a three-year contract with Feyenoord,

the Rotterdam club said on Thursday.

Schreuder, 30, is seen as the successor to Paul Bosvelt,

who left the club a week ago to join Manchester City.

Schreuder told the Feyenoord website: “I have had a great

time in Breda, but playing for Feyenoord completes my

career. I know that I will be one of the 25 or 30 players, but

I think that I can add something to the squad with my

experience.”

No fee was mentioned but last week Schreuder almost

signed for Austria Vienna in a 1.5-million-euro deal which

fell through. —MNA/Reuters

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Friday, 1st August, 2003

View today:Saturday, August 2

7:00 am 1. Recitation of Parittas by Missonary Sayadaw U Oattamathara7:25 am 2. To be healthy exercise7:30 am 3. Morning news7:40 am 4. Nice and sweet song7:55 am 5. Delicacies8:05 am 6. � � � � � �� �� ��� � � � � �� �� ��� � � � � �� �� ��� � � � � �� �� ��� � � � � �� �� ��8:10 am 7. � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �8:15 am 8. Musical Programme8:30 am 9. International news8:45 am 10. Grammar Made easy11:00 am 1. Martial Song

11:10 am 2. Musical programme11:30 am 3. News11:40 am 4. Gems for Children12:05 pm 5. Round-up of the Week’s

TV local News2:00 pm 6. Weekly International

Sports2:05 pm 7. � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � ! � � "� � # � � �� � � � � � � � � � � ! � � "� � # � � �� � � � � � � � � � � ! � � "� � # � � �� � � � � � � � � � � ! � � "� � # � � �� � � � � � � � � � � ! � � "� � # � � �

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National Spirit4:25 pm 3. English for everyday use4:35 pm 4. Musical programme4:50 pm 5. � � * � � � � + � "� � � � � � � �� � * � � � � + � "� � � � � � � �� � * � � � � + � "� � � � � � � �� � * � � � � + � "� � � � � � � �� � * � � � � + � "� � � � � � � �% " � � � � � � , � � � � � � � �% " � � � � � � , � � � � � � � �% " � � � � � � , � � � � � � � �% " � � � � � � , � � � � � � � �% " � � � � � � , � � � � � � � �� � � # � � $ � � �-� � � � � � � �� � � � "� . &� � � # � � $ � � �-� � � � � � � �� � � � "� . &� � � # � � $ � � �-� � � � � � � �� � � � "� . &� � � # � � $ � � �-� � � � � � � �� � � � "� . &� � � # � � $ � � �-� � � � � � � �� � � � "� . &$ % � � � / ' &$ % � � � / ' &$ % � � � / ' &$ % � � � / ' &$ % � � � / ' &

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Tune in today:

Saturday, August 2

8.30 am Brief news8.35 am Music8.40 am Perspectives8.45 am Music8.50 am National news/

Slogan9.00 am Music9.10 am International news9.15 am Music (Sportlight on

the star) -Jem reeves

1.30 pm News/Slogan1.40 pm Music at your request

-Hello I love you .. Crystal Gayles - Keep it Togester .. Madonna

9.00 pm ASEAN Review

9:00 Signature Tune Greetings

9:02 Song of Myanmar Beauty & Scenic Sights “Myanma Panorama & Myanma Sentiment”

9:06 Macadamia(Perennical Cash Crop)

9:10 Headline News9:12 Easily Cooked Tasty

Dishes “Short-headedFish with Roasted RiceSoup”

9:15 National News9:20 The Beauty of the 1st

Defile of the RiverAyeyawady

9:25 Brave Youth Showinghis Strength & Ability

9:30 National News9:35 Myanmar Modern

Song “We’ll GreetYou in Mon Lan-guage”

9:40 Beungte: My Village9:45 National News9:50 Hninzigone, Home for

the Aged9:58 Song of Myanmar

Beauty & ScenicSights “Come andSee Myanmar”

2-8-2003˚(Saturday)Regular Programmes for

Viewers from AbroadEvening Transmission

(15:30 - 17:30)15:30 Signature Tune

Greetings15:32 Song of Myanmar

Beauty & ScenicSights “MyanmaPanorama & MyanmaSentiment”

15:36 Macadamia (PerennialCash Crop)

15:40 Headline News15:42 Easily Cooked Tasty

Dishes “Short-headedFsih with Roasted RiceSoup”

15:45 National News15:50 The Beauty of the 1st

Defile of the RiverAyeyawady

15:55 Brave Youth Showinghis Strength & Ability

16:00 National News16:05 Myanmar Modern

Song “We’ll Greet youin Mon language”

16:10 Baungte: My Village16:15 National News16:20 Hninzigone, Home for

Beauty & ScenicSights “MyanmaPanorama & MyanmaSentiment”

21:35 Macadamia (PerennialCash Crop)

21:40 Headline News21:42 Easily Cooked Tasty

Dishes “Short-headedFish with Roasted RiceSoup”

21:45 National News21:50 The Beauty of the 1st

Defile of the RiverAyeyawady

21:55 Brave Youth Showinghis Strength & Ability

22:00 National News22:05 Myanmar Modern

Song “We’ll Greet youin Mon Language”

22:10 Beungte: My Village22:15 National News22:20 Hninzigone, Home For

the Aged22:25 Myanmar Modern

Song “The ToweringFlower”

22:30 National News22:35 Myanma Traditional

Art Silversmith22:40 Myanmar Cuisine

“Peppery Monhinga”22:45 National News22:50 Myanmar Movies

Impact23:00 National News23:05 Ancient City

Mrauk-U23:10 Myanmar Modern

Song “Tear drop pearl”23:15 Weekly News High-

lights23:20 Preservation of

Myanmar Star Tortoise23:25 Song of Myanmar

Beauty & ScenicSights “Come and SeeMyanmar”

2-8-2003˚(Saturday) &3-8-2003 (Sunday)

Evening & MorningTransmission

(23:30 - 01:30)23:30 Signature Tune

Greetings23:32 Song of Myanmar

Beauty & ScenicSights “Mingalabar”

23:36 Macadamia (PerennialCash Crop)

23:40 Headline News23:42 Easily Cooked Tasty

Dishes “Short-headedFish with Roasted RiceSoup”

23:45 National News23:50 The Beauty of the 1st

Defile of the RiverAyeyawady

23:55 Brave Youth Showinghis Strength & Ability

24:00 National News00:05 Myanmar Modern

Song “We’ll GreetYou in Mon Lan-guage“

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hoursMST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in lower Sagaing Division, rain or thundershowershas been isolated in Mandalay and Magway Divisions, scattered in Shan State and Taninthayi Division andwidespread in the remaining areas with isolted heavyfalls inRakhine State. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recordedwere Gwa (4.88)inches, Maung Daw (2.91)inches, Thaton(2.28)inches, Kyauk Taw and Sittwe (2.17)inches each.

Maximum temperature on 31-7-2003 was 31.5°C (89°F).Minimum temperature on 1-8-2003 was 20.6°C (69°F).Relative humidity at 9:30 hrs MST on 1-8-2003 was 96%.Total SunShine hours on 31-7-2003 was (4.3) hours approx.Rainfall on 1-8-2003 was 9 mm at Yangon Airport, 14 mmat Kaba-Aye and 31 mm at Central Yangon. Total rainfallsince 1-1-2003 was 1267 mm (49.88 inches) at YangonAirport, 1454 mm (57.24) inches at Kaba-Aye and 1463 mm(57.60 inches) at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed atYangon (Kaba-Aye) was 10 mph from South at (13:10) hoursMST on 31-7-2003. Bay inference: Moonsoon ismoderate in the Bay of Bengal. Forecast valid until eveningof 2-8-2003: Rain or thundershowers will be widespread inKachin, Rakhine, Mon and Kayin States, upper Sagaing,Ayeyawady, Bago and Yangon Divisions and scattered inTaninthayi Division, Chin and Shan States and isolated inthe remaining areas. Degree of certainty is (80%). State ofthe sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmar waters. Outlookfor subsequent two days: Moderade monsoon. Forecast forYangon and neighbouring area for 2-8-2003: One or tworain. Degree of certainty is (80%). Forecast for Mandalayand neighbouring area for 2-8-2003: Likelihood ofisolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of certainty is (60%).Weather Outlook For First Weekend of August 2003:During the coming weekend, rain or thundershowers will bewidespread in Yangon Divisions and isolated in MandalayDivision.

the Aged16:25 Song of Myanmar

Beauty & ScenicSights “Mingalabar”

16:30 National News16:35 Myanma Traditional

Art Silversmith16:40 Myanmar Cuisine

“Peppery Monhinga”16:45 National News16:50 Myanmar Movies Im-

pact17:00 Weekly News high-

lights17:05 Ancient City

Mrauk-U17:10 Myanmar Modern

Song “Tear drop pearl”17:15 Weekly News high-

lights17:20 Preservation of

Myanmar StarTortoise

17:25 Song of MyanmarBeauty & ScenicSights“Come and SeeMyanmar”

Evening Transmission(19:30 - 23:30)

19:30 Signature TuneGreetings

19:32 Song of MyanmarBeauty & ScenicSights “The GemsLand”

19:40 Headline News19:42 Easily Cooked Tasty

Dishes“Featherback CleanSoup with tender gourdLeaves”

19:45 National News19:50 The Source of the

River Ayeyawady19:55 Wararya’s Dance20:00 National News20:05 Inndagaw Industrial

Zone20:10 Song “Come visit My

Home”20:15 National News20:20 Pearl Culture Farm on

Domel Island20:25 Myanmar Modern

Song“Two, Together”

20:30 National News20:35 Golden Jubilee of

Myanmar Motion Pic-tures

20:40 Myanmar Cuisine“Steamed Fish”

20:45 National News20:50 The Gold and Silver

Smith of Inlay20:55 Chin Dance21:00 National News21:05 Naga Traditional

Handicrafts21:10 Myanmar Modern

Song “Dakukuku”21:15 Weekly News High-

lights21:20 Kanbawza Thardi Mu-

seum21:25 Song of Myanmar

00:10 Baungte: My Village00:15 National News00:20 Hninzigone, Home for

the Aged00:25 Song of Myanmar

Beauty & ScenicSights “Mingalabar”

00:30 National News00:35 Myanma Traditional

Art Silversmith00:40 Myanmar Cuisine

“Peppery Monhinga”00:45 National News00:50 Myanmar Movies Im-

pact01:00 Weekly News High-

lights01:05 Ancient City

Mrauk-U01:10 Myanmar Modern

Song “Tear drop pearl”01:15 Weekly News High-

lights01:20 Precervation of

Myanmar StarTortoise01:25 Song of Myanmar

Beauty & ScenicSights “Come and SeeMyanmar”

3-8-2003˚(Sunday)Morning Transmission

(03:30 - 07:30)03:30 Signature Tune

Greetings03:32 Song of Myanmar

Beauty & ScenicSights “MyanmaPanorama &Myanma Sentiment”

03:36 Mogok, The GemsLand

03:40 Headline News03:42 Easily Cooked Tasty

Dishes “FeatherbackClean Soup with ten-der gourd Leaves”

03:45 National News03:50 The Source of the

River Ayeyawady03:55 Wararya’s Dance04:00 National News04:05 Inndagaw Industrial

Zone04:10 Song “Come visit My

Home”04:15 National News04:20 Pearl Culture Farm on

Domel Island04:25 Myanmar Modern

Song“Two, Together ”

04:30 National News04:35 Golden Jubilee of

Myanmar MotionPictures

04:40 Myanmar Cuisine“Steamed Fish”

04:45 National News04:50 The Gold and Silver

Smith of Inlay04:55 Chin Dance05:00 National News05:05 Naga Traditional

Handicrafts05:10 Myanmar Modern

Song “Dakukuku”

05:15 Weekly News High-lights

05:20 Kanbawza Thardi Mu-seum

05:25 Song of MyanmarBeauty & ScenicSights “MyanmaPanorama &Myanmar Sentiment”

05:35 Macadamia (PerennialCash Crop)

05:40 Headline News05:42 Easily Cooked Tasty

Dishes “Short-headedFish with Roasted RiceSoup”

05:45 National News05:50 The Beauty of the 1st

Defile of the RiverAyeyawady

05:55 Brave Youth Showinghis Strength &Ability

06:00 National News06:05 Myanmar Modern

Song “We’ll GreetYou in MonLagunage”

06:10 Baungte: My Village

06:15 National News06:20 Hninzigone, Home for

the Aged06:25 Myanmar Modern Song

“The ToweringFlower“

06:30 National News06:35 Myanma Traditional

Art Silversmith06:40 Myanmar Cuisine

“Peppery Monhinga”06:45 National News06:50 Myanmar Movies

Impact07:00 Weekly News High-

lights07:05 Ancient City Mrauk-U07:10 Myanmar Modern Song

“Tear drop pearl”07:15 Weekly News High-

lights07:20 Preservation of

Myanmar StarTortoise

07:25 Song of MyanmarBeauty & Scenic Sights“Come and SeeMyanmar”

07:30 Close Down

-Information Highway in Spper

9.10 pm Article/Music9.20 pm Myanma Culture by

Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt

-historoc hell of Tuntay Shwe San Daw

Pagoda. (Part-II)9.30 pm Souvenirs9.45 pm News/Slogan10.00 pm Portfolio for easy

listening

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24. The next day’s programme

16 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003

5th Waxing of Wakhaung, 1365 ME Saturday, 2 August, 2003

Four political 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

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives* Development of agriculture as the base

and all-round development of othersectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-orientedeconomic system

* Development of the economy invitingparticipation in terms of technical know-how and investments from sourcesinside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the nationaleconomy must be kept in the hands of theState and the national peoples

Four social objectives* Uplift of the morale and morality of

the entire nation* Uplift of national prestige and integrity

and preservation and safeguarding ofcultural heritage and national character

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

standards of the entire nation

Lt-Gen Tin Aye and wife being welcomed by Chinese Military Attaché Senior Col Xu Shulai at thereception to mark the 76th Anniversary of People’s Liberation Army. Friday—  MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe addresses coordination meeting on renovation of environs of Kandawgyi and Yangon ZoologicalGardens.  —YANGON COMMAND

Vice-Chairman Sayadawarrives back from England

YANGON, 1 Aug— The Buddhist delegation led by Vice-

Chairman of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee

Abhidhaja Maha Rattha Guru Bhaddanta Panñindabhivamsa

this morning arrived back here by air from the Buddhist

missionary in England.

The Sayadaw and party were welcomed back at the

airport by directors-general, officials and disciples.

MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye offers rice and edible oilto the Secretary of Myaungmya Township Sangha

Nayaka Committee. (News on page 1)—  MNA

Myanmar wins gold in WorldChildr en’s Painting Contest

Development of Kandawgyi and Zoological Gardens discussed

Desana to bedelivered

5 AugYANGON, 1 Aug— Or-

ganized by the Shwedagon

Pagoda Board of Trustees,

Chaukhtetgyi TheingyiU

Monastery Sayadaw Agga

Maha Pandita Agga Maha

Ganthavaçaka Pandita

Bhaddanta Nandobhasa will

administer the precepts and

deliver the Desana at the

ancient Buddha images

Tazaung of Shwedagon Pa-

goda at 9 am on 8 Waxing of

Waso, 5 August.

MNA

YANGON, 1 Aug — Three

students of Myanmar won

one gold prize and two hon-

ourable mention prizes in

Year 2002 10th Annual

World Children’s Painting

Contest organized by Ie-No-

Hikari Association of Japan.

In the contest, Maung

Oak Ga Tin Moe of No (7)

Basic Education Middle

School of Chanayethazan

Township in Mandalay won

gold prize under the title “My

Lovely World”. Ma Su

Yadana Tun of No (1) BEHS

of Dagon Township and Ma

Yadana Suan Htet Kyaw of

No (4) BEPS of Chanaye-

thazan Township in Manda-

lay won the honourable men-

tion prizes under the titles

“Ceremony of Freeing the

animals” and “My Family”.

A total of over 38,000

pictures of the children from

58 countries including Ja-

pan participated in the con-

test.

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Farming inspected in Shan StateYANGON, 1 Aug —

Chairman of Shan State

Peace and Development

Council Commander of

Eastern Command Maj-Gen

Khin Maung Myint, accom-

panied by departmental of-

ficials and military officers

of Taunggyi regiments and

units arrived at Shan State

Livestock Breeding and

Veterinary Department in

Taunggyi on 28 July. At the

meeting hall, Head of the

department Dr Than Aye

reported on raising of 1.7

million chickens and breed-

ing of buffaloes, cows, pigs,

sheep and goats in Shan

State (South) and work be-

ing carried out by the de-

partment.

The minister urged the

officials to extend livestock

breeding. He next heard re-

ports on production of I-2

eye drops and distribution in

Shan State (South) and

Kayah State at the labora-

tory for diagnostic tests of

the department.

On 29 July morning, the

commander attended the

Taunggyi District level com-

petition of paddy-transplant-

ing skills held in Pawritha

Village in Nyaung Shwe. He

then urged the local farmers

to strive for local self-suffi-

ciency in rice.

Afterwards, Head of

Shan State Fisheries Depart-

ment U Win Oo reported on

breeding of fish in paddy

fields. The commander and

wife and officials released

50,000 fish into the rice

fields. The commander and

officials presented prizes to

the winners of the competi-

tions. The commander and

wife and officials cordially

greeted those present.

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YANGON, 1 Aug — The

Work Committee for all-

round renovation of Yangon

Zoological Gardens and

Kandawgyi’s environs held

its fifth work coordination

meeting at the agricultural

museum on

Myaypadethakyun of

Kandawgyi Park yesterday

evening. Chairman of

Yangon Division Peace and

Development Council Com-

mander of Yangon Com-

mand Maj-Gen Myint Swe

made an address on the oc-

casion.

It was also attended by

Minister for Energy Brig-

Gen Lun Thi, Deputy Min-

ister for Livestock and Fish-

eries U Aung Thein, Deputy

Minister for Hotels and

Tourism Brig-Gen Aye

Myint Kyu, Vice-Chairman

of Yangon City Develop-

ment Committee Vice-

Mayor Col Maung Pa, di-

rectors-general and manag-

ing directors of the depart-

ments and enterprises, offi-

cials of the work committee

and guests.

At the meeting, the com-

mander said that the sample

of master plan for upgrading

the environs of Kandawgyi

has been drawn.

The officials of the re-

spective zones are urged to

report the completion of the

work being implemented and

needs of the work.

Next, Minister Brig-Gen

Lun Thi and officials

reported on requirements

for all-round renovation of

the environs of Kandawgyi

and Yangon Zoological

Gardens.

The commander gave

necessary instructions and

the meeting ended.

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