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

9th Waning of Tawthalin 1368 ME Friday, 15 September, 2006Volume XIV, Number 152

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

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

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

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

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

ards of the entire nation

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

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

tution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 14 Sept — Kachin Statelaunched its fourth consecutive year of nationalimmunization day in the region capital, Myitkyina,on 3 September.

The ceremony held at the town hall was opened

Children given polio vaccineand gifts in MyitkyinaCommander coordinates means toextend monsoon paddy cultivation

with an address delivered by Chairman ofKachin State Peace and Development CouncilCommander of Northern Command Maj-Gen OhnMyint.

(See page 8)

NAY PYI TAW, 14 Sept — A ceremony to set upMyanmar Fisheries Federation (Magway) washeld at the town hall of Magway Division inMagway on 9 September, with addresses byMinister for Livestock and Fisheries Brig-GenMaung Maung Thein and Chairman of Magway Di-vision Peace and Development Council Col PhoneMaw Shwe.

After Vice-President of MFF U Han Tun hadmade clarifications on matters for setting up thefederation, General Secretary U Kyi Ngwe assignedduties to executives of Magway Division FisheriesFederation. Next, Chairman of Magway DivisionFisheries Federation U Aung Kyi Nyunt extenedgreetings on the occasion.

At his visit to Myathalon Pagoda in Magway forhomage, the minister made cash donations.

Accompanied by Chairman Col Phone MawShwe, the minister and party proceeded to a goat farmof Livestock and Veterinary Department in Minhla

Myanmar Fisheries Federation(Magway) formed

Township. In response to the reports presented byDirector-General U Maung Maung Nyunt

(See page 8)

Commander

Maj-Gen

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and wife

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polio vaccine

to a child at

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tion Days in

Kachin State.

MNA

Livestock and Fisheries Minister Brig-Gen Maung Maung Thein inspects a goat farm ofLivestock Breeding and Veterinary Department in Minhla. — (LIVESTOCK & FISHERIES)

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In truth, it is man that plays themost indispensable role in establishing along-lasting rural library. Such a pru-dent drive also calls for a large numberof people with a good habit of reading.And a library committee made up ofbookworm members is important for en-suring durability of the facilities. In ad-dition, a librarian or a group of librar-ians have to take turns to supervise thework.

Four political objectives

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Friday, 15 September, 2006

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

People’s Desire

Production of potenttraditional medicines

Myanma traditional medicine is anage-old art of curing diseases and Myanmatraditional medicine practitioners havecompiled volumes of treatise on variouskinds of potent medicines and therapiesand provided health care service to peoplesince time immemorial.

The government has been workingfor development of Myanma traditionalmedicine by establishing a traditional medi-cine university to turn out traditionalmedicine practitioners, nurturing herbalgardens to preserve medicinal plants andencouraging research on production ofpotent medicines and development of newtherapies.

Medical Research Department (Up-per Myanmar) near PyinOoLwin is con-ducting research on malaria, TB, hyper-tension, diabetes, diarrhoea and dysenteryand working on production of potent medi-cines to cure these diseases. At the herbalgarden of the department are grown morethan 400 kinds of medicinal plants that canbe used in producing medicines for curingvarious diseases including the six majordiseases mentioned above.

At a time when the government isencouraging the development of Myanmatraditional medicine, we would like to callon Myanma traditional medicine practi-tioners and private producers of traditionalmedicines to cooperate with the govern-ment to be able to carry out extensive re-search and distribute potent medicines forcuring the six major diseases common inMyanmar.

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Construction of Hockeypitch discussed

YANGON, 14 Sept — Officials of MyanmarHockey Federation today held a meeting and dis-cussed matters on construction of a Hockey pitchwith artificial turf here.

At the federation’s meeting No 4/2006, Vice-President of the federation reported on tasks carriedout for the construction of the pitch, the first of itskind in Myanmar.

At the meeting, U Kyaw Win of MMM Con-struction presented cash donated by Yangon-MeccaTour Service to the construction funds through thepresident of the federation.

MNA

253 drug-related casesexposed in August

YANGON, 14 Sept — Tatmadaw, MyanmarPolice Force and the Customs Department ex-posed 253 drug-related cases exposed in August2006.

They seized 97.8871 kilos of opium in 46cases, 5.1583 kilos of heroin in 91 cases, 0.4355kilo of opium oil in 10 cases, 37.3532 kilos ofinferior opium in twenty cases, 8.9319 kilos ofmarijuana in nine cases, 207,968 stimulant tab-lets in 54 cases, 0.0211 kilo of stimulant powderin one case, 0.37 kilo of stimulant solid (ice) inone case, 68.25 litres of acetic anhydride, 790.5liters of chemical liquid, 761. 81 kilos of chemi-cal powder in one case and four cases in failureto register and six other cases.

Action was taken against 378 persons —303 men and 75 women — in 253 cases in Au-gust. — MNA

Police find hundreds ofguns in Kent raid

LONDON, 14 Sept — Police investigating drug-related killings in London have found hundreds ofguns in three raids on addresses in Kent and havearrested a 55-year-old man, Scotland Yard said onWednesday.

Law enforcement agencies in the United Stateswere conducting a linked operation in New Jersey.

Officers with search warrants raided two resi-dential and one business address in and aroundDartford at 6 am.

At one of the houses police found hundreds offirearms, including shotguns and automatic and semi-automatic weapons.

The arrested man was held on suspicion of sup-plying firearms.

Scotland Yard said the searches were the culmi-nation of a major operation — codenamed Mokpo— to tackle the supply of guns to criminals in Lon-don. — MNA/Reuters

A wellwisher presents K 100,000 donated byYangon-Mecca Tour Service to President of

Myanmar Hockey FederationBrig-Gen Myo Myint (Retd).

MHF

Acting Chairman of Aungmyaeythazan Township Peace and Develop-ment Council speaks at a briefing on National Immunization Days

campaign in the township, recently. —H

YANGON, 14 Sept —Doh Kyay Ywa Journal,volume-3 No 18 has ap-peared for the subscriberswho wish to widen theirhorizons on agriculture andlivestock breeding.

The journal rangesfrom methods for cultiva-tion of grape and beans,features on health and so-cial life to stories, humour,cartoons, poems and localnews.

The copies of thejournal can be purchasedat the offices of Informa-tion and Public RelationDepartment in varioustownships.

The manuscriptsand commercials can besent to No 22, 24, Pansodan

Doh Kyay YwaJournal appears

Street, Yangon, Tel-371340, 371342.

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US Embassy in Damascus attacked

Rise in travellers withChikungunya virus reported

HAVANA, 13 Sept—Cuba let loose a blistering indict-ment of US foreign policy as top diplomats from morethan 100 developing countries at the Non-Aligned Sum-mit hammered out policy stands to counter US might.

“They would impose a genuine worldwide dictator-ship through war and economic power,” charged CarlosLage, vice president of communist Cuba’s Council ofState, in a heated speech to delegates that lashed out atUS “hegemonic power.”

“The end of the Cold War was not the beginning ofthe peace that many dreamed of,” he said. “The realstory has been growing domination by one nation thatunscrupulously applies economic and political pres-sure, and believes it has the right to invade any country Cuban President Fidel Castro smiles while meet-

ing with Argentine congressman Miguel Bonasso(unseen) as he recovers from stomach surgery, inHavana where heads of state and representatives

of the member countries of the Non-AlignedMovement gathered for a summit, on 13 Sept,

2006. —INTERNET

Dancers take part in aDurga Puja carnivalin the eastern Indiancity of Kolkata, on

13 Sept, 2006.—INTERNET

Model Regina Deutingerwears what is supposedto be the world’s mostexpensive Dirndl dress inMunich, southern Ger-many, on 13 Sept, 2006.

XINHUA

Cuba slams US as Non-Aligneddiplomats work to counter US heft

to achieve its objectives, and which is leading theworld we share to its own destruction.”

Lage slammed the United States as a “morallydecadent empire.”

“The ideas of limited sovereignty, humanitarianintervention, preventive war and regime change arefascist; they are not modern theories to defendfreedoms and fight terrorism,” he argued.

“At a time of wars and threats of more wars, the worldis more and more unjust and unequal,” added Lage, in apointed critique of rich countries’ waste and vanity hesaid contrasted painfully with the needs of the poor.“Poverty in this world is a consequence of centuries ofcolonialism and neocolonialism,” Lage said. —Internet

22 Filipino students sicken by food poisoningMANILA, 13 Sept— At

least 22 Filipino studentsin a central province wereill and rushed to hospitalon Tuesday after they atea kind of local popular

street snack, officials said. The ill students, aged

12 to 14, are from EmilioGaston ElementarySchool, Silay City, NegrosOccidental Province, said

Senior SuperintendentCharles Calima, the pro-vincial police director.

Shrimp omelet, a lo-cally available snack, issuspected as the poison-ing source, a report of theInquirer news networkquoted the official as say-ing.

The 22 students boughtthe snack from a 12-year-old schoolmate on Tues-day early morning. Soonafter, three of them vom-ited while others com-plained of dizziness andstomach pain, accordingto the report.

All of the 22 are out ofdanger and are being keptin the hospital for 12 hoursfor observation to makesure that they are all right,doctors said.

MNA/Xinhua

DAMASCUS, 13 Sept— The Ameri-can Embassy in Damascus was attackedby a group of militants on Tuesdaymorning, three militants were killedbut no one in the embassy was hurt.

The attack occurred at about 10:05am (0705 GMT) and intense gunfirewere heard in a following gunbattle.

The district, where many foreignmissions, vital security installations,and houses of the most senior Syriangovernment officials are located, hasbeen sealed off by security guards.

According to the official SANA newsagency, a terrorist group of four gun-men launched the attack using handgrenades and machine guns.

Syrian anti-terror forces exchangedfire with the attackers, killing three ofthem and wounding the fourth, SANAsaid. The attackers used two cars, thefirst of which failed to thrust into theembassy and exploded outside.

The other was a booby-trapped whitepickup parking in front of the embassy.The explosive devices hidden in the carwere later successfully dismantled bySyrian experts.

A member of Syria’s anti-terror squadwas killed during the brazen attack.

A senior Chinese diplomat, Politi-cal Counsellor Li Hongyu, 41, wasslightly injured by a flying shrapnelwhile he was standing on top of agarage within the Chinese Embassycompound, which is located very closeto the US Embassy.

Another 10 citizens were also in-jured in this terrorist operation, seven ofwhom were workers of a technical work-shop of the Syrian ElecommunicationEstablishment on a repair mission in thearea.—MNA/Xinhua

A burnt car is seen near the wall ofthe US Embassy compound in Da-mascus, which was the target of anattack on 12 Sept, 2006. —INTERNET

LONDON, 13 Sept—Cases of the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virusin people returning to Brit-ain from islands in the In-dian Ocean have risen dra-matically, public health ex-perts said on Wednesday.

More than 115 travel-lers have shown symp-toms of the illness, whichcauses a high fever, head-ache, nausea, vomiting

and muscle and joint pain,so far this year, comparedto an average of about sixcases annually.

The Health ProtectionAgency (HPA), whichmonitors infectious dis-eases, said there has beena rise in cases of the ill-ness in the Indian Oceanislands, particularlyReunion.

Sir William Stewart,

the chairman of the HPA,told its annual conferencein Coventry that cases inmainland India are alsoincreasing.

“Therefore it is impor-tant that travellers to theregion follow the usualhealth advice on how toavoid being bitten by mos-quitoes and other insects,”he said in a statement.

MNA/Reuters

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SYDNEY, 13 Sept—Acommonly used anti-inflammatory drug isunder review afterconcerns it could in-crease the risk of heartattack.

The review by theTherapeutic Goods Ad-ministration follows re-search by the Universityof Newcastle whichfound diclofenac sodiumcould increase cardio-vascular events by 40 percent.

The drug is mostcommonly known asVoltaren but is also soldunder the names Clonac,Diclohexal and Fenac.

The international

BEIJING, 13 Sept—Chinese police havedestroyed 113 illegal gunfactories and shops in athree-month crackdown onweapons and explosives,the Ministry of PublicSecurity said on Tuesday.

Police also charged1,794 people for illegallypossessing explosives, guns

MANAGUA (Nicara-gua), 13 Sept —Nicara-gua’s main electricitydistributor, Spanish-basedUnion Fenosa, extendedpower rationing on Mon-day, imposing eight-hourblackouts it blames onhigh global oil prices.

Union Fenosa has beenrationing power on andoff for months and blamesthe INE energy regulatorfor not allowing it to raiseelectricity rates to reflectthe jump in the cost of thepower it buys fromgenerators.

One of the poorestcountries in the Ameri-cas, Nicaragua is a net

WASHINGTON, 13 Sept — India’s state-run oil companyhas signed an agreement to explore Cuba’s Gulf ofMexico waters for oil at a time when US companies andpoliticians are concerned over exploration in the area,The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Cuba Petroleum Director Fidel Rivero Prieto saidupon signing the agreement that six foreign companieshad signed for 16 of 59 blocks in Cuba’s Gulf waters,two companies more than previously announced,according to the report.

Prieto declined to name the two other companies orwhich blocks they had taken due to possible USobjections, it added. India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp’soverseas arm ONGC Videsh Ltd signed joint productionagreements for blocks 34 and 35 covering 1,660 squaremiles. “What we are doing is completely withinthe law,” the company’s managing director,RS Butola, said when asked about possible USobjections. — MNA/Xinhua

HELSINKI, 13 Sept—Chinese Premier WenJiabao told Europeanbusiness leaders onTuesday that Chinaworked hard to maintaina basic balance betweenimports and exports andthat it did not seek anexcessive surplus.

In a speech entitled“Enhance Cooperation toMake Win-win Progress”,at the 2006 China-Europebusiness summit, Wenelaborated on China’spolicy on resolving thetrade imbalance with the

Multiple pileup is seen on the Chuo Expressway inAchimura, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, on

14 Sept, 2006. —INTERNET

Wen Jiabao says China strivesto maintain trade balance

European Union (EU).EU statistics showed

that the block ran a deficitof 131.6 billion US dollarsin trade with China in2005, said Wen, notingthat a number of factorshad contributed to thedeficit.

“Ninety-five per centof the deficit occurredin processing trade and81 per cent was causedby foreign companies’investments in China,” hesaid.

Wen said that theglobal relocation of

industries had led to asignificant change in theflow of internationaltrade.

In looking at China’ssurplus in its trade withthe EU, to just apply thecurrent rule of origin doesnot give one the completeand real picture ofinterests and balance inour trade,” he added.

“China’s policy is tomaintain basic balancebetween import andexport. It does not seekexcessive surplus,” thePremier stressed.

MNA/Xinhua

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Steven MacLean (L) and fellowspacewalker Dan Burbank stow their gear near the end of their extravehicularexcursion installing the P3/P4 truss on the International Space Station in this

view from NASA TV on 13 Sept, 2006. —INTERNETIndian oil company signsagreement to explore off Cuba Anti-inflammatory drugs found to boost heart attack risk

research was based onstudies from dozens ofpeople who had used thedrugs, Diclofenac andIndomethacin.

Professor DavidHenry from NewcastleUniversity says theresults of the review ofthe 17 studies into thesafety of the drug need tobe interpreted carefully.

“I think that for people

at low risk of heartattacks it probablydoesn’t constitute muchof a risk,” he said.

“For people who areat risk of heart attackbecause they’ve gotrisk factors of thedrugs that we’ve lookedat, Diclofenac andIndomethacin of theolder drugs had an

increase in risk, so didVioxx, but it had alreadybeen taken off the marketin 2004.”

He says the findingssurprised him.

“The findings werethat some of the drugsincreased the risk of heartattack and some didn’t,”he said.

Internet

A US Forest Service firefighter in Los AngelesCounty keeps watch

over a back fire whilefighting the 27,000 acre

Day Fire in Castaic,California, on 13 Sept,

2006.—INTERNET

Nicaragua power cutsworsen

importer of crude oil,which it uses to generatemost of its electricity.

Around 80 per cent ofNicaragua’s power isgenerated from oil.

MNA/Reuters

Chinese police destroy 113 illegal gunfactories, shops

or knives during that period.From 2 June to 10

September , police dealtwith 48,393 peoplesuspected of possessingexplosives, guns orknives, 4,684 of whomwere arrested and 1,794were prosecuted,” saidthe ministry spokesman.

Police seized 2,445

tons of explosives, 4.81million detonators and117,000 guns. About 40,000safety risks were identifiedin explosive factories orstorehouses, of which 32,000were subject to rectificationnotices, while 667 factoriesand storehouses had theirlicences revoked.

MNA/Xinhua

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French soldiers, part of the UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon, unload anarmoured vehicle at the port of Beirut, on 12 Sept, 2006.—INTERNET

Former US deputy secretary of statesued by ex-CIA agent

WASHINGTON, 14 Sept— Former CIAundercover agent ValeriePlame has added formerdeputy secretary of stateRichard Armitage in hercivil suit in the CIA leakcase, CBS News reportedon Wednesday.

Armitage was suedfor violating the Plame’sconstitutional right toprivacy, according to thereport.

However, the suit didnot accuse Armitage, who

ranked number two inthe State Departmentbetween 2002 and 2005,of participating in anadministration conspiracyto blow Plame’s cover.

Plame and herhusband, former USdiplomat Joseph Wilson,filed a lawsuit in Julyagainst Vice PresidentCheney, Cheyney’sformer chief-of-staffLewis “Scooter” Libbyand Bush’s politicaladviser Karl Rove,

claiming that they hadviolated her constitutionalrights and discredited herby disclosing that shewas an undercover CIAoperative. Armitage ad-mitted last week thathe had inadvertentlyrevealed Plame’s identityto journalists in 2003, butinsisted that there is nogovernmental conspiracyagainst Plame in the leak.

It took three years forthe former deputysecretary of state to reveal

his role in the case. Plame’s CIA status

was disclosed by themedia in July 2003, daysafter her husband accusedthe Bush Administrationof twisting prewarintelligence to exaggeratethe Iraqi threat fromweapons of massdestruction in an articlepublished in The NewYork Times. Since thenWilson has been allegingthat the Bush Administra-tion leaked his wife’sidentity in retaliation forhis article.

In December 2003,the US Justice Departmentassigned Special CounselPatrick Fitzgerald tolaunch an investigation ofthe case and a number ofWhite House aides andreporters were questionedafter that.

Last October, Libby,the former chief of staff toCheney, was charged forlying to investigators anda grand jury about hisknowledge of Plame.

MNA/Xinhua

Turkish police seize 250 kilos of explosives

French military equipmentarrive in Lebanon

ANKARA, 13 Sept—Turkish police seized 250kilos of explosives and23 members of an extremeleftist organization inoperations against aterrorist organization inseven provinces of thecountry, Istanbul Gov-ernor Muammer Gulersaid Tuesday.

A total of 23 membersof an extreme leftistorganization, who weresuspected of involving interror acts, were arrestedin the operations in theprovinces of Istanbul,Manisa, Aydin, Kayseri,Antalya, Mersin and

Malatya, according toGuler.

Police also seized 2,720bullets and 11 handgrenades in the operations,Guler added.

Guler said that thekillers of three people,including a police officer,and 48 bomb attackers inIstanbul and 76 othersthroughout Turkey werealso arrested in theoperations.

Istanbul has witnessedseveral deadly bombattacks in the past andKurdish rebels have beenblamed for the attacks.

MNA/Xinhua

BEIRUT, 13 Sept—Morethan two dozens of Frenchbattle tanks and armouredvehicles arrived in

Lebanon on Tuesday asFrance builds up itspeacekeeping forces inLebanon, LebaneseNational News Agencyreported.

The report said that 13tanks and other armouredvehicles arrived inBeirut’s port aboard acargo ship, where theywere expected to beunloaded later in the dayand join French forcesstationed nearby.

A second French navalship with additionalvehicles and spare partsare expected to arriveWednesday, a Frenchmilitary official wasquoted as saying.

MNA/Xinhua

Malaysia to offer Internetservice in all airports

The photo taken on 14 Sept, 2006 shows an eggcarving — a picture of rooster.—XINHUA

KUALA LUMPUR, 13Sept— Malaysia AirportsHoldings Berhad(MAHB) will provide

free wireless Internetaccess at all of its 39airports by the end of nextyear, its managingdirector Bashir Ahmadsaid Tuesday.

Bashir made theremarks after launchingthe wireless Internetservice in Kuala LumpurInternational Airport(KLIA).

The MAHA spentabout 25 million ringgits(6.75 million US dollars)to upgrade the backbonenetwork at KLIA, saidBashir. “Currently, theexpanded wireless ser-vices are available at thesatellite building, contactpier, arrival and departurehalls,” he said.

MNA/Xinhua

China to regulate organ donationprocedures and transplants

BEIJING, 13 Sept—China’s Ministry ofHealth is drafting newrules to make organdonation easier for thepublic. The regulation willstandardize the organdonation procedures andencourage people tobecome donors.

“Many more donorsare needed, but they oftenmeet difficulties whenthey apply, so the ministrymust standardize theapplication process andtechnology of transplants,which is complicated andrisky,” said ministryspokesman Mao Qun’an.

Mao was respondingto questions about reportsof would-be donors

having their wishesunrealized because ofconfusion over theprocedures or whichagency to apply to.

The regulation wouldspecify the whole appli-cation process andstipulate the requirementsfor medical institutionsconducting transplants.

“Only the medicalinstitutions that meetthe technological req-uirements can undertaketransplant surgery,” saidMao. It is estimated thattwo million Chinese needtransplants each year, butonly 20,000 operations areconducted because of ashortage of organs.

MNA/Xinhua

The music band S.H.Efrom China (Taipei) posesduring a news conference

to promote their vocalconcert in Shenyang,

northeast China’sLiaoning Province, on 13

Sept 2006. —XINHUA

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Members of an honour guard wait for heads of state to arrive at Havana’sJose Marti Airport, on 13 Sept, 2006, for the Non-Aligned Movement summit

hosted by Cuba.—INTERNET

Protesters shout slogans on the roof of a house asthey try to stop its demolition to make way for a US

base extension in Pyongtaek, about 70 km (44miles) south of Seoul, on 13 Sept, 2006. South

Korea’s Defence Ministry began demolishing emptyhouses to make way for the extension of the US

base site in the township. The slogans reads “Stopremoval of house, People live in here.”—INTERNET

Two-year-old white tigers Keerthi, left, and Kunal, face each other in an enclosureat the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad, India, on 13 Sept, 2006.—INTERNET

BEIJING, 13 Sept— TheChinese Government is tostrengthen cooperationwith the United Nationsin AIDS prevention andtreatment, vice-chairwo-man of the StandingCommittee of the NationalPeople’s Congress He Lulisaid on Tuesday.

He made the remarksin a meeting with PeterPiot, executive director ofthe Joint United NationsProgramme on HIV/AIDS(UNAIDS).

China to strengthen “AIDS”cooperation with UN

She said the gov-ernment had alwaysattached great importanceto cooperation with theUNAIDS and hoped theglobal spread of thedisease could be con-trolled through theagency’s work.

Piot said the UNAIDSwould continue to supportChina’s AIDS preventionwork and hoped tostrengthen cooperationwith China in AIDSprevention, and thetreatment and care ofpatients.

China reported its firstAIDS case in 1985.Official estimates put650,000 Chinese livingwith HIV, including75,000 AIDS patients.

The government hasissued many policies andmeasures on AIDS pre-vention and treatment. InFebruary, the StateCouncil issued a set ofdetailed regulations onAIDS, banning discri-mination and requiringfree treatment and testingfrom local governments.

Last year, the centralgovernment allocated 800million yuan (101 millionUS dollars) to AIDS pre-vention and treatment andlocal governments spent400 million yuan (50million US dollars).

China needs moresupport from the UNAIDSin AIDS prevention andtreatment, said He.

MNA/Xinhua

CARACAS, 13 Sept—Venezuela’s Oil Ministeron Monday urged theOrganization of Petro-leum Exporting Countries(OPEC) to closely monitorthe world oil market toprevent prices from fallingbefore the group’s nextmeeting in December.

“There’s a consensusto wait and evaluate pricebehaviour in the comingmonths. Depending onthat evaluation, a decisionwill have to be made at theend of this year or early in2007,” Minister Rafael

HARARE, 13 Sept —Zimbabwe’s state grainutility said on Monday itwas enlisting the help of thecountry’s defence forces tocollect grain from farmersin a bid to boost laggingdeliveries.

Maize is a controlledcommodity in Zimbabweand is sold only to the GrainMarketing Board (GMB),which distributes it to privatefirms for milling.

“The GMB wishes toinform the farmers that therewill be a massive graincollection exercise, whichwill be carried out inconjuction with members ofthe defence forces,” the

IBB (Yemen) , 13 Sept— At least 42 people werekilled and more than 80 injured in a stampede onTuesday in a Yemeni stadium where President AliAbdullah Saleh was holding a pre-election rally, aYemeni official said.

The official, who declined to be named, said the 42people were killed in the crush that took place after thePresident left and people rushed to get out of thestadium in the southern province of Ibb.

A Reuters reporter at the scene said the stadium wasvery crowded, with people standing on the ground aswell as in the stands.

Some 150,000 people were inside the building andan even larger number had thronged the streetssurrounding it.

He saw ambulances and police cars rushing theinjured to hospital.

“The President promised to compensate the familieswho lost a relative today. They will receive monthlysalaries,” the official said. — MNA/Reuters

GUANGZHOU, 13 Sept — Sirens are commonplace butmilitary model planes will feature for the first time in anair raid drill scheduled to be held in Guangzhou, capitalof south China’s Guangdong Province, on Saturday.

The drill is part of the activities organized tocommemorate the 75th anniversary of the Mukden(present-day Shenyang) Incident which occurred on18 September, 1931, when Japanese troops beganoccupying northeast China. 18 September has beenchosen as the day to remind the Chinese people of thenational humiliation.

A circular issued by the people’s air defencedepartment of Guangzhou City Government says sirenswill wail three times between 3:40 pm and 4:40 pm ineight urban districts and two county-level citiesadministered by Guangzhou. A simulated attack willbe conducted in which military model planes will dropbombs over strategic targets in Guangzhou, whileparamilitary artillery forces on the ground fight back,says the circular.The drill, the seventh of its kind, willbe the largest ever held. More than 1,300 professionalair defence personnel will take part in various activitiessuch as emergency evacuation and firefighting,alongside 20,000 civilians including students, civilservants and residents.— MNA/Xinhua

Venezuela urges OPEC to closelymonitor world oil market

Ramirez said in a state-ment.

World oil prices surgedto a record 78.40 US dollarsa barrel in mid-July afterfighting erupted in Lebanon.

The prices plunged tobelow 66 dollars a barrelon Monday, after Iran saidit might consider haltingits uranium enrichmentprogramme and OPECofficials said they wouldmaintain the group’s 28million barrel-a-day pro-duction target.

Venezuela, the world’sfifth-largest oil exporterand a founding memberof OPEC, has been one ofthe nations campaigningfor high oil prices withinOPEC.

MNA/Xinhua

Zimbabwe enlists Army help to collect maizeboard said in a statement.

“This is being done inorder for GMB to fulfil its

strategic commitment ofensuring food security,” itadded. —MNA/Reuters

Mily model planes to be atair raid drill in Guangzhou

At least 42 dead, scoresinjured in Yemen crush

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Anisakhan on path of development

IntroductionWhen I got home from a journey, a friend of

mine and one of my colleagues said that my complex-ion had turned a little darker. But, I did not feel sorrybecause I do not have a fair complexion. Maybe, toexpress their sympathy for me, they meant I had beentravel-worn. I had made a journey for six days in arow passing towns and villages one after another.Despite being nearly 60, I managed to make such along journey of more than 600 miles without inter-ruption owing to my enthusiasm.The itinerary1. I left Nay Pyi Taw by train for Mandalay at 12 pm

on 22 August.2. I arrived at Mandalay at 6 am the following day.

After having my tea, I went to the Central Insti-tute of Civil Service (Zeebingyi). I had my lunchthere and visited Phon Myint Aung library inPyinsar Village and Thabawa Alinyaung libraryin Nwenin Village, Anisakhan. I spent the nightin Zeebingyi.

3. On 24 August morning, I took four classes. In theafternoon, I gave educative talks to the studentsat No 2 Basic Education High School inPyinOoLwin, to schoolboys and then to school-girls at So San boarding house. I spent the nightin PyinOoLwin.

4. I left PyinOoLwin on 25 August morning andvisited Thabawa Alinyaung library at YittanVillage in Myittha Township, Zabudipa libraryat Tetsi Village in Natogyi Township, and Yadanalibrary at Ywagyi Village. I inspected NatogyiInformation and Public Relations Department.On arrival at Myingyan, I met with members ofBo Cho library organizing committee. I leant thatMaj-Gen Moe Hein would make another dona-tion of 10 million kyats. I spent the night inMyingyan.

5. At the librarian refresher course in Myingyan on26 August morning, I met the 300 employeetrainees and encouraged them. Later in the morn-ing, I left Myingyan. I visited Yaung Ni Oolibrary at Nan Myint Village in Taungtha Vil-lage. I had lunch at Taungtha IPRD office. Iproceeded to Popa via Welaung and visited MyaParami library in Popa. I gave educative talks on“Leading a meaningful life” to the students atPopa BEHS. I spent the night in Popa.

6. On 27 August, I visited three libraries in LetpanbinVillage, eastern Indaing Village, and DagamaVillage in Kyaukpadaung Township. In the af-ternoon, I gave informative talks on “Fruitfulresults from good deeds” to local people inDagama Village. I went to Meiktila and spent thenight there.

7. On 28 August, I left Meiktila and arrived back atNay Pyi Taw at about 3 pm the same day. I wasutterly exhausted.

Tired but pleased with journeyNeedless to say I had a suntanned face, stem-

ming from an over-600-mile journey for six daysrigorously. I felt very pleased with my tour of ruralareas. During the tour, I never failed to push the car Itook when it got bogged in sand. So, my colleaguesaccompanying me requested me not to do so, and said“Leave it to us, sir. We can manage it by ourselves”. Inmy youth, I used to push cars that bogged in sand, sothere was nothing strange. Frankly, somehow I felthappy to push that car with my whole body sweatingand covered with dust.

With respect to my journey, the abbot of DagamaVillage monastery told me, “As you said in a book;tired but pleased”. During my trip, I visited villages,many of which I had never been to. I had never takenNatogyi-Myingyan-Taungtha-Welaung-Popa road,either.Rural village libraries

It is very heartening to see that rural villageshave been facilitated with self-reliant libraries. For thedurability of the libraries, the Ministry of Informationlaid down five guidelines.

1. to arouse the public interest in reading2. to raise funds of the libraries3. to construct buildings for villages without a

library4. to furnish the libraries completely5. to produce competent librariansFor ensuring durability of libraries, efforts are to

be exerted in harmony rather than individually. In thisregard, there needs four strengths — local administra-tive bodies, local people and library committees, Un-ion Solidarity and Development Associations at dif-ferent levels, and Information and Public RelationsDepartments.In the past

It was a challenging task to establish libraries inrural areas, that is evidenced by the background histo-ries of the community learning associations, Thahayaassociation and ward libraries that came into existencebefore and after independence. Not every town, villageand ward could not be served with a library. Only asmall number of villages saw libraries at that time. Andthe facilities lasted only five to ten years.

In truth, it is man that plays the most indispen-sable role in establishing a long-lasting rural library.Such a prudent drive also calls for a large number ofpeople with a good habit of reading. And a librarycommittee made up of bookworm members is impor-tant for ensuring durability of the facilities. In addition,a librarian or a group of librarians have to take turns to

supervise the work.Five fundamental factors1. librarian, a librarian committee2. regular readers, villagers3. modern publications suitable for respective re-

gions4. buildings and complete set of furniture5. funds

There is no need to cling on to any ideologyand sectarianism. Dogmatism and negative attitudeand all sorts of destructive acts make a nation and itspeople go downhill, whereas vast knowledge andhigh intellectual power brings progress and pros-pects for development to the nation and the people.It is most encouraging to learn that, so far, more than54,000 villages have been facilitated with a libraryeach. It is needed to create growing number of soundopportunities to achieve the goal of development.Perquisites

Firstly, it is needed to show positive attitudeand to be energetic. Hand work and tenacity is key tosuccess.

Secondly, it is required to update the proce-dures in conformity with circumstances and presenttime and to be logical and acceptable to the majority.Without doubt, success can be achieved with sucheffective methods.

And never will success be achieved when thestaff carry out their tasks perfunctorily without asense of duty. Only when the people and localresidents take part in the drive with zest and zeal, willthe goal of establishment of community libraries beachieved. The people are a fundamental factor for thegoal. Organizational measures are to be taken toequip the people with the sprit of self-motivation.Inspired by the noble tasks for the development ofthe libraries, I made a trip down to the grassrootslevel. It is my conviction that it is needed to be patientand diligent and to organize the people to achieve thegoal. Besides, I have to emulate the ways and meansof successful persons.PyinOoLwin

I paid a visit to Phone Myint Aung libraryestablished by retired Senior Assistant Teacher UPhone Myint in Pyinsar Village, PyinOoLwin. It hasa wide range of periodicals and publications includ-ing a complete set of the Life of Buddha compiled byMingun Sayadaw Ashin Vicittasara. Local peoplevisited the library to borrow books.

Near Anisakhan, there is Nwenin Villagewhere Nwenin library was opened with the dona-tions of the abbot of the village monastery. Just afterthe establishment of the facility, wellwishers do-nated a lot of furniture and publications to the facil-ity. Indeed, the facility came to being soon after theabbot made a suggestion that a library be opened inthe village.Conclusion

Anisakhan is endowed with parks and gardensand blessed with temperate climate. When I witnessedThabawa Alinyaung library of Nwenin Village, Icould not help appreciating the efforts of the villagersincluding graduated youths and encouragement of theSayadaw. And the facility has made a good progresswithin a year. Reading is a good habit that can becultivated easily. So, what is needed is just to increasethe number of books and publications of the library.

Translation: MS

Chit Naing (Psychology)

In truth, it is man that plays the most indispensable role inestablishing a long-lasting rural library. Such a prudent drivealso calls for a large number of people with a good habit ofreading. And a library committee made up of bookworm mem-bers is important for ensuring durability of the facilities. Inaddition, a librarian or a group of librarians have to take turnsto supervise the work.

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(from page 1)and farm manager Dr Aung Than, the minister madearrangements to fulfil the needs and inspected the goatbreeding farm.

Arriving at Sandakunantha Kyaungtawya pa-goda in Minbu, the minister and party viewed river catfish swimming in Mon Creek.

During the inspection of a pig breeding farm ofLivestock and Veterinary Department in Pwintbyu, theminister attended to the needs. — MNA

Myanmar FisheriesFederation…

(from page 1)The commander and wife Daw Nu Nu Swe,

the Patron of Kachin State Organization for Wom-en’s Affairs and the Chairperson of Kachin StateMaternal and Child Welfare Supervisory Commit-tee, gave polio vaccine to children.

Deputy Commander Brig-Gen San Tun, sen-ior military officers, Secretary of Kachin State PDCLt-Col Maung Myoh, departmental personnel, mem-bers of social organizations, faculties and students ofthe Education College in the town, trainee nurses,mothers and invited persons also took part in theactivity in which the vaccine was given to 50 chil-dren of age under five.

Acting Head of Kachin State Health Depart-ment Medical Superintendent of Kachin State Gen-eral Hospital Dr Win Ko Ko gave talks on the na-tional immunization days and public health activi-ties. He was speaking there on behalf of the head ofKachin State Health Department.

The commander and party also presented giftsto the children.

Accompanied by officials, Commander Maj-Gen Ohn Myint and Daw Nu Nu Swe visited themilitary hospital at Myitkyina Station where theygave polio vaccine to children age under five. Thecommander and party also presented gifts to thechildren.

After the ceremony, the commander went toWashaung village in Waingmaw Township, andobserved the thriving monsoon paddy plants at amodel plot. He also supervised the work of fertilizerfeeding and weeding.

At a nearby briefing hall, he held discussionswith officials and made arrangements to boost paddyproduction.

Later, he met with local farmers, coordinatingmatters relating to extended cultivation of monsoonpaddy. He also provided effective methods to raiseper acre yield, run perennial farms on commercialscale and grow more physic nut. He then inspectedthe thriving paddy fields in the township.

In the afternoon, Commander Maj-Gen OhnMyint visited the 30-acre farm of Myitkyina Station,where he discussed with officials ways and meansfor the greater success of cultivation work. — MNA

Children given poliovaccine…

NAY PYI TAW, 12 Sept — Accompanied byresponsible personnel, Chairman of Sagaing Divi-sion Peace and Development Council Commanderof North-West Command Maj-Gen Tha Aye attendeda coordination meeting for ensuring smooth and se-cure transport and generation of electricity to ruralareas held at Myathala meeting hall of Division PDCOffice on 7 September.

First, the commander gave a speech on meas-ures to be taken for beefing up electricity and trans-port on the occasion.

Next, Division Senior Electrical Engineer UAung Myint briefed on efforts made for electricity

Commander attends coord meeting, awardswinners in Myanmar Traditional Cultural

Performing Arts Competitions

in rural areas while Division Superintending Engi-neer U Khin Maung Tint and Director of DivisionDevelopment Affairs Department U Khin Maung Swepresented reports on road functions.

Afterwards, responsible personnel presentedreports on tasks carried out for road construction andelectricity supply in their respective districts.

The commander attended to the needs andmade concluding remarks.

In the evening, the commander attended a prizepresentation ceremony of Myanmar TraditionalCultural Performing Arts Competitions in SagaingDivision. Next, the commander, wife and responsi-ble personnel presented prizes to winners in thecompetitions. Afterwards, prize winners performedsongs and music to the commander and those inattendance.

MNA

YED launches NutritionPromotion Week

YANGON, 14 Sept — A ceremony to launchYangon East District’s Nutrition Promotion Weekwas held in the people’s hospital of Dagon Myothit(South) this morning.

First, Chairperson of Yangon East DistrictMaternal and Child Welfare Association Supervi-sory Committee Daw Nan Shwe Yin formally openedthe ceremony while Chairman of Yangon East Dis-trict Peace and Development Council Lt-Col MaungMaung Shein unveiled the nutrition educative sign-board.

After Chairman Lt-Col Maung Maung Sheinhad made a speech on the occasion, he and respon-sible personnel presented prizes to winners whoparticipated in the nutrition week activities.

In connection with nutrition development tasks,Secretary of Yangon East District MCWSC Dr DawSandar gave talks and schoolgirls from MingalaTaungnyunt Township performed a play on nutritiondevelopment.

After the ceremony, the chairman and his wifefed vitamin A tablets to children who are under theage of five, distributed iron tablets expectant moth-ers and tested amount of iodine in the iodized salt.

MNA

Industrial on-jobtraining school (Upper

Myanmar) opensYANGON, 14 Sept — A ceremony to open an

industrial on-job training (Upper Myanmar) underthe Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation was heldat the workshop of Irrigation Department, MandalayDivision on 4 September.

First, Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Ir-rigation U Ohn Myint formally unveiled the sign-board of the training school whereas Director-Gen-eral of Irrigation Department U Kyaw San Winopened the training school.

Next, the deputy minister and the director-gen-eral made speeches on the occasion. Director of In-dustrial Division No 4 U Sai Yi Hkam spoke wordsof thanks.

Some 50 trainees are attending a three-monthcourse.

MNA

All this needs to be known

* Do not be frightened whenever

intimidated

* Do not be bolstered whenever flattered

* Do not be softened whenever appeased

Commander Maj-Gen Tha Aye formally opens 14th Traditional Cultural Performing ArtsCompetitions in Sagaing Division.— MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 14 Sept—Chairmanof Shan State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander of EasternCommand Brig-Gen Thaung Aye on 6September made an inspection tour ofHopong Township to provide closesupervision on regional developmenttasks.

He inspected the 100-acre physicnut farm being undertaken by theForest Department in HopongTownship and gave instructions onagricultural tasks.

Next, he attended the driving ofstakes for digging a lake under thepatronage of Hopong KoyinlayMonastery for supply of clean waterto local people in Sanwaw Village. Thecommander and officials drove stakesat the designated places.

On completion, the lake will be a585' x 585' x 35' one with a waterstorage capacity of 75 million gallons.

The commander also attended theceremony to drive stakes for buildinga pagoda to be named ThitsarMandaing in the precinct of themonastery. He drove the stakes tolaunch the project. He sprinkledscented water on the stakes.

The ceremony to share merits forthe lake and donation for the buildingof the pagoda took place at themonastery. Tonkham Monastery abbot

Social organizations exhorted to make harmoniousefforts in discharging regional development tasks

Shin Aloka and members of the Sangharecited religious verses.

The commander and wife offeredalms to members of the Sangha,followed by sharing of merits gainedfor the donations.

Next, he inspected the 50-acrephysic nut plantation and mixedcropping of mango and banana, andcorn plantations and attended to theneeds of the farm. He looked into thecrop plantation of Taunggyi PoliceForce and assessed the reports by theofficials and fulfilled the requirements.

In the afternoon, the commanderaddressed the meeting of socialorganizations held at the city hall ofTaunggyi to coordinate matters forregional development. Officials of thesocial organizations gave an account ofwork progress. The commanderprovided assistance for the achievementof the projects, calling on the socialorganizations to be cohesive in theregional development tasks.

He saw over the building of anoffice for Shan State Women’s AffairsSupervisory Committee at ThittawWard in Taunggyi and the renovationof Kyunhmyaw park at the junction ofBogyoke Aung San Street and theeastern section of the circular road. Heleft instructions on the tasks and fulfilledthe needs. — MNA

YANGON, 14 Sept — Photos havebeen invited for the colour photo contestin honour of the Independence Day,which falls on 4 January 2007. Thecolour photos depicting developmentsof the State, cultural factors andpanoramic views are to participate in thecontest. The size of the photo is 10inches by 14 inches and numbers ofphotos are not limited at the contest. The

cameras of different kinds can be used toenter the contest. Handsome prizes willbe awarded. The colour photos are to besent to U Aye Kywe, Deputy Chief Editor( Production Division), Information andPublic Relations Department, 22-24,Pansoden Street, Yangon, not later than4pm on 15 October. For furtherinformation, dial 01-371342, 371340.

MNA

Colour photos invited

FIRE BRIGADE RECEIVES WATER PUMP : Officials of MandalayDivision and District Fire Services Departments inspected a waterpump donated by Fire Services Department (Head Office) to Eindawya Fire Brigade in Chanayethazan Township on 30 August 2006. — H

MEMBERS OF THE SANGHA IN MAWLAMYINE RECEIVEALMS: Chairman of Mon State Peace and Development Council

Commander of South East Command Brig-Gen Thet Naing Win andwife Daw Myint Myint Soe offer alms and provisions to members of

the Sangha at a ceremony to offer provisions to members of theSangha in Mawlamyine on 11 September 2006. — MNA

DESKS DONATED TO PRIMARY SCHOOLS: CEC of USDA Mayor ofYangon City Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin hands over a document related todonation of desks to primary schools in Dagon Myothit (South) Townshipon 12 September 2006. Headmasters and headmistresses of primary schools in the township accepted the donation of Yangon Division USDA. — YCDC

NAY PYI TAW, 14 Sept — The14th Myanmar Traditional CulturalPerforming Arts Competitions (BasicEducation Level) of Mon State wereopened at Yinmar Hall of No 8 BasicEducation High School on 5September.

Mon State Peace andDevelopment Council ChairmanSouth-East Command CommanderBrig-Gen Thet Naing Win, SecretaryLt-Col Soe Myint Aung and officials,State Education Officer U Tun Yi andprincipals and competitors werepresent.

Commander Brig-Gen ThetNaing Win opened the competitions.

Next, the students of No 8BEHS performed entertainment and thestate education officer made a speech.

The commander viewed the

Mon State opens Performing ArtsCompetitions

competitions and presented gifts to thecompetitors.

Later, the commander inspectedthe Than Lwin Garden of MawlamyineTownship Development AffairsCommittee and gave instructions.

After inspecting the constructionof Kaungkinthit swimming pool ofTownship Development AffairsCommittee, the commander attended therice offering ceremony held in Yoego,Phaout and Kokkame model villagesand made donations.

Next, he attended thecoordination meeting at Aung San Hallof Mon State PDC office and heardreports on implementation of annualprojects as planned by officials.

The meeting ended with theconcluding remarks by the commander.

MNA

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WASHINGTON, 14 Sept — A Harvard University study of US mortality ratessays years of efforts have failed to narrow the gap in the life spans of thehealthiest and the least healthy, according to a report in the Los Angeles Timeson Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, 14 Sept — Fifty-seven per cent of Americans believe thatterrorists will “always find a way to launch attacks no matter what the USGovernment does”, according to a latest CNN poll released on Tuesday.

NEW YORK, 13 Sept — Older adults with memory complaints, despitenormal test results, may actually be exhibiting the earliest sign of dementia,according to a study conducted at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover,New Hampshire.

Memory loss may be first sign ofdementia

As reported in thejournal Neurology, DrAndrew Saykin and hisassociates used specialMRI tests to evaluatevarious brain regions in40 subjects who com-plained of memory lossin the absence ofdementia,40 subjectswith early dementia, and40 healthy comparisonsubjects.

Patients with psy-chiatric disorders, sig-nificant brain disease orthose younger than 60years were excluded.

Certain brain regionsof patients who com-

plained of memory losslooked similar to thosewith early dementia.

However, in otherbrain regions, thesubjects with memoryloss appeared to be nodifferent from healthysubjects.

Subjective complaintsof memory loss “maysignify a very early stageof the dementing processfor some individuals,”the team writes.

Therefore, theyrecommend that olderadults who report sig-nificant problems withmemory loss “warrant

evaluation and closemonitoring over time.”

MNA/Reuters

BAGHDAD, 14 Sept — A US soldier died of woundssustained due to “enemy action” in Iraq’s westernAnbar Province, the US military said on Wednesday.

A soldier, assigned to a battalion under a MarineExpeditionary Force, was killed on Monday, themilitary said in a statement.

The name of the soldier is being withheld pendingnotification of next of kin, it added.

Since the US-led war in Iraq broke out in March2003, more than 2,660 US soldiers have been killed inIraq, according to media count.

MNA/Xinhua

Most Americans see anotherterror attack inevitable

Study finds wide gap in life spansamong Americans

The survey also foundthat the percentage ofAmericans who blamedthe Bush Administrationfor the 9/11 terror attackshad risen from a third toalmost half over the pastfour years.

Asked about howmuch blame should beattributed to the BushAdministration for theattacks, 45 per cent said

either a “great deal” or a“moderate amount”, upfrom 32 per cent in a June2002 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.

But the poll showedthat the Clinton admin-istration did not get offlightly either, with 41 percent of respon-dents blaming hisadministration a “greatdeal” or a “moderate

amount” for the attacks. That is only slightly

less than the 45 per centwho blamed his admin-istration in a poll carriedout less than a week afterthe attacks.

The poll, carried outbetween 30 August and 2September, questionedaround 1,004 Americanadults by telephone.

MNA/Xinhua

The study, publishedin the latest edition of thePublic Library of Science

Medicine journal andbased on eight demo-graphic groups, found thatthe healthiest Americanshad life spans of about 30years longer than the leasthealthy.

The findings showedthat Asian-Americanwomen living in BergenCounty, New Jersey hadan average life expectancyof 91 years, compared to58 years for American-Indians in South Dakota.

The contributingfactors to this differencewere tobacco, alcohol,obesity, high blood pre-ssure, high cholesterol,

diet and physical in-activity, study leader DrChristopher JL Murraysaid.

“They also give ussome hints about the typesof public health andmedical care interventionsthat could make a dif-ference in these dis-parities,” he added.

The study said Hawaiiwas the healthiest statewith a combined life spanfor men and women of 80years. The District ofColumbia was the worst,with a life expectancy of72 years.

MNA/Xinhua

US soldier killed inwestern Iraq

An artist rendering illustrates the newly discovered world (HAT-P-1) that has baffled astronomers, since the planet is much larger thantheory predicts, scientists said September 14, 2006. HAT-P-1 has aradius about 1.38 times Jupiter’s but contains only half Jupiter’s

mass.—INTERNET

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This artist’s concept, released by NASA, shows the planet catalogued as2003UB313 (nicknamed ‘Xena’) which received an official name on

Wednesday, 13 Sept, 2006, as Eris, named after the Greek goddess of chaosand strife and its satellite, Gabrielle, also received a formal name Dysnomia

are shown at the lonely outer fringes of our solar system. — INTERNET

Jennifer Lopez laughs at a news conference for‘El Cantante’ during the Toronto International

Film Festival in Toronto, on Wednesday, 13 Sept,2006. — INTERNET

A doctor checks the blood pressure of a child at ahospital in Phnom Penh. Dengue fever has killed102 children this year in Cambodia, becoming the

leading cause of child deaths in the kingdom,health officials have said. — INTERNET

China on UN rejection of Taiwan’s“representation” proposal

BEIJING, 14 Sept — A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman hailed hereWednesday the United Nations (UN) rejection of Taiwan’s “representation”proposal.

“Any actions breach-ing the tenet of the UNCharter and theResolution 2758 of theUN General Assembly,or challenging the one-China principle will beunpopular among the vastmajority of UN membercountries,” spokesmanQin Gang said in astatement issued by theChinese Foreign Ministryearly on Wednesday.

Qin made the remarkon the rejection of theproposals calling for theso-called Taiwan’s“representation” in theUnited Nations and “themaintenance of peaceacross the Taiwan Straits”to be discussed at the UNGeneral Assembly.

Qin also urged theTaiwan authorities andcertain countries used by

Cambodian police arrest 450 drug suspects in first 8 months

PHNOM PENH, 14 Sept —The Cambodian police arrested 450 suspects and cracked down on 235 casesof drug trafficking during the first eight months of this year, in a stepped-up efforts to prevent thecountry from being victimized as gateway for drug smugglers, a Press release said here on Wednesday.

“We succeed in en-forcing the anti-drug lawto save people’s lives,particularly those of theteenagers, but this is farfrom enough,” the releasequoted Deputy PrimeMinister Sar Kheng astelling the government’sannual anti-drug meeting.

Cambodia neededmore human resources tocarry out more effectiveefforts to educate peopleabout drugs, promote drugtreatment and purchaseanti-drug traffickingequipment, he said.

The kingdom alsoencouraged all theconcerned governmentorgans and institutions tocooperate closely withthe related countries tocombat drug trafficking,he added.

No drugs wereproduced in Cambodia butit suffered from drugscrossing the kingdomfrom the Golden Triangleto third countries, said thePress release.

Drug transit caused

the Taiwan authorities tofollow the historical trendand stop all secessionistactivities.

On 10 August,Burkina Faso, Gambiaand a few other countries,instigated by the Taiwanauthorities, wrote to theUN Secretary-General,requesting the 61st sessionof the UN General Assem-

Cambodia a lot ofproblems, which im-pacted the public secu-rity and the nationaldevelopment and theteenagers bore the bruntof the hazard, it said.

Ecstasy pills wereusually put in sport

equipment, electricaldevices and post office’scarriages to be smuggledhere for distributionamong Cambodia’s mi-nors, it added.

Meanwhile, drugslike heroin and cocaineused to be smuggled into

Cambodia from theGolden Triangle throughLaos and by the MekongRiver, re-packed intosmall amounts here andthen transferred to thirdcountries by air or land,according to the release.

MNA/Xinhua

Indonesia, Singaporeconduct joint military

exercise JAKARTA, 14 Sept —

The Indonesian Armyheld a joint exercise withthe Singapore ArmedForces (SAF) at thecombat training centre inPaliyan, Gunungkidul, inthe Central Java’sprovince of Yogyakartaon Wednesday.

The opening of thecode-named “SafkarIndopura 18/2006” exer-cise was attended byIndonesian Army Chiefof Staff General DjokoSantoso and SAF ChiefGeneral DBC Kuek, thechief of the Army’sstrategic reserve com-mand (Kostrad), Lieuten-ant-General Erwin Sed-jono and a number ofofficials from the twocountries’ armies.

Djoko Santoso saidthe exercise involving2,569 personnel from theIndonesian Army and 450from the SAG was aimedat increasing the capa-bility of commanders inusing command and staffprocedures as well as unitleader procedures.

MNA/Xinhua

bly to discuss the issueand a proposal on themaintenance of peaceacross the Taiwan Straits.UN has rejected for 13consecutive times to addthe proposals for thesocalled “Taiwan’srepresentation in the UN”into the Assembly’sagenda. — MNA/Xinhua

Police recover explosivesin crowded Indian townMUMBAI, 14 Sept — Indian police said they

recovered a box containing explosives in a crowdedshopping complex in the western town of Malegaonon Wednesday, days after serial bomb blasts killed 32people there.

“It looks like an explosive device,” said PK Jain,a senior police officer, adding metal scrap was alsofound in the box.

Malegaon, a textile town in Maharashtra State,has been on edge since three bombs went off in andaround a mosque during Friday prayers as thousandsgathered for an auspicious day. — MNA/Reuters

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Pakistan geared to be regionalhub for trade, manufacturing

ISLAMABAD, 13 Sept—Pakistani Prime MinisterShaukat Aziz on Mondaysaid the openness ofgovernment policies andtransparency in tran-sactions is attractinghigher investments andPakistan is geared tobecome a regional hub fortrade and manufacturing,the Geo Televisionreported.

Talking to AnwarMerchant, President ofCanadian PakistanBusiness Council (CPBC)who was on a visit inIslamabad, Aziz said thatthe investment regime ofthe government coupledwith incentives and thelevel playing fieldprovided to investors have

reduced the cost of doingbusiness in Pakistan,according to Geo TV. Azizsaid that macro economicstability, continuity andconsistency of policieshave restored the con-fidence of investors andhelped the business toflourish.

The record ForeignDirect Investment (FDI)of 3.8 billion US dollarsin the last financial year isreflective of the successof government’s policies,he added, quoted by Geo.

The Prime Ministeridentified construction,agriculture-related bus-iness, infrastructure,energy, mining, info-rmation and technology(IT) and telecom-

munication as areas withvast opportunities for theinvestors, according to theTV report. He said percapita income grew by anaverage rate of 13.9 percent per annum during thelast four years rising from582 dollars in 2003 to 847dollars in 2006.

MNA/Xinhua

Nepali government schoolstudents to get ID cards

KATHMANDU, 13 Sept—With a view to checkingthe high drop out rate dueto internal displacementcaused by the conflict andsome other reasons, theNepali Department ofEducation will issueidentity cards to studentsstudying in governmentschools from next year,a leading Englishnewspaper, The Hima-layan Times daily re-

ported on Tuesday. According to the report,

students in governmentschools will be identifiedby a number starting withthe district number issuedby the Central Bureau ofStatistics.

MNA/Xinhua

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Collections 2007 during New York fashion week on


Chinese Premier,Danish PM laudSino-Danish ties HELSINKI, 13 Sept—

Chinese Premier WenJiabao and Danish PrimeMinister Anders FoghRasmussen hailed here onMonday the smoothexpansion of Sino-Danishrelations, vowing to boostbilateral cooperation aswell as cooperationbetween Asia and Europe.

In a meeting on thesidelines of the sixthsummit of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM),Wen said China andDenmark should enhancepolitical dialogue andcoordination, and tap thefull potential of economiccooperation.

Wen also tabled severalproposals for boostingbilateral ties, includingelevating cooperation levelsin science, environmentalprotection, energy andbiological technology,expanding cultural ex-changes and people-to-people exchanges, as well aspromoting cooperationbetween Asia and Europe.

MNA/Xinhua

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SINGAPORE, 13 Sept—Delegates to this week’sIMF and World Bankmeeting in Singapore, intown to discuss financialreform and world poverty,can enjoy an unexpectedperk: a 10-per-cent dis-count on botox injectionsand other beauty treat-ments.

The Raffles Hospitalis offering the 16,000delegates and theirspouses discounts onhealth screenings and

Seized turtles are displayed by Customs officials at theAnna international airport in the southern Indian city

of Chennai, on 13 Sept, 2006.—INTERNET

S'pore offers IMF delegatescheaper botox facials

“aesthetic services” suchas non-surgical face lifts,“laser hair reductionsystems” and botox shotsto smooth facial wrinkles.

“Make time while inSingapore to refresh yourlooks,” the company saidin a full-page ad in a localpaper on Tuesday.

A hospital spokes-woman said the offer waspart of efforts to promoteSingapore’s medicaltourism.

“A lot of the delegates

come from first-worldcountries such as Europeand the United States,where such treatments canbe very expensive,” shesaid.

The island nation istrying to establish itself asa medical centre forforeigners. Some 200,000overseas patients seekmedical care in Singaporeeach year, more than halfof them from neigh-bouring Indonesia.

MNA/Reuters

BEIJING, 13 Sept — China’s top environmentwatchdog has started to set a specific standard forevaluating the impact of lead pollution on human’shealth, in the wake of a major lead poisoning case inthe northwest region.

The State Environmental Protection Administration(SEPA) has dispatched a five-member team ofinvestigators and will base the new standard on theirinspection results, said an official with SEPA onTuesday.The poisoning case swept Xinsi and Mubavillages in Huixian County in northwest China’sGansu Province, with the number of victims up to 368by last Friday.Health experts are now carrying out ageneral check among all residents in the regionidentified with lead pollution by SEPA investigators.

Earlier tests showed that the lead content in theblood of four of the poisoned children was three andhalf times higher than the normal level. One hundredand forty-nine children had been hospitalized withlead poisoning.—MNA/Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 13 Sept—Hurricanes feed on warmwater, and a study releasedon Monday shows a link

China to set standard for leadpollution impact on humans

Study says humans affect sea warmingin hurricane zones

between warmer oceantemperatures and humanuse of fossil fuels,challenging skeptics whoblame them on naturalclimate cycles.

“Our paper suggests thatit’s human-induced burningof fossil fuels that havealtered the levels ofgreenhouse gases in theatmosphere that have led tothis warming in regionswhere Atlantic and Pacifichurricanes form,” saidBenjamin Santer, a climatescientist and co-author of anarticle in this week’sProceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences. Santerand his colleagues focusedon these hurricane zones,and used computer modelsto figure out what the worldwould have been like if theIndustrial Revolution hadnever happened.

That way, they could

compare what Earth is likenow with what all availablecomputer models — 22 ofthem — indicate it wouldhave been like if humanshad never burned fossilfuels, Santer said in atelephone interview.

The question of whetherhumans cause globalwarming is a subject ofheated debate amongscientists, but there isgeneral agreement thatwarm sea surface tempe-ratures in hurricane zonescontribute to hurricaneintensity. Santer and theother researchers foundonly a combination ofhuman-made and naturalclimate influences couldaccount for the rise in seasurface temperatures byabout 1 degree F (between0.32 to 0.67 degreesCelsius) over the lastcentury—MNA/Reuters

Copper cable theft worriesChilean Government

SANTIAGO (Chile), 13Sept— Copper bandits areworrying the ChileanGovernment as they rustletelephone and electricalwiring to take advantageof a five-fold rise in prices

for the red metal in the pastthree years.

Deputy Telecommuni-cations Minister PabloBello said on Monday theftof copper cable had seenan explosive rise as thievessteal it to sell as rawmaterial on the blackmarket.Copper prices areabout 3.40 US dollars perpound these days, andearlier this year were near4.00 US dollars a pound,compared to levels of 70cents a pound in 2003.

“This (theft) issomething that has beengrowing exponentially ...and is affecting largesectors of the popula-tion,” Bello told reportersafter a meeting withlegislators to discussharsher laws against cablethieves.

Telefonica Chile,Chile’s leading fixed-linetelephone service provider,said last week it expectedcable theft to cost it about5.5 million US dollars thisyear, and affect at least500,000 fixed-line clients.

“We cannot surrenderour energy and tele-communications servicesto the criminals,” saidBello. —MNA/Reuters

A Togolese sand artist gives finishing touches to asand sculpture on the beach of the capital Lome,

on 11 Sept, 2006.—INTERNET

Workers assemble cars at the production line of Nanjing IVECO Company Ltd,a subsidiary of Nanjing Automobile Group in Nanjing, east China's JiangsuProvince, on 14 Sept, 2006. Nanjing Automobile Group has set up a 1.8 billionyuan ($226 million) unit to oversee the development of its own-brand cars basedon technology bought from failed British car maker MG Rover, state media said

on 29 August.—INTERNET

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S P O R T S

Russia’s Ilona Korstin (L) fights for the ball withChina’s Bian Lan during their preliminary matchat the Women’s World Basketball Championshipsin Barueri, 26 km (16 miles) west of Sao Paulo, on


Arsenal’s Robin van Persie, 11 at right, andHamburger’s Nigel de Jong, left, challenge for the

ball during their Champions League Group Gmatch Hamburger SV against Arsenal London inHamburg, northern Germany, on 13 Septs, 2006.

INTERNET

A synchronised swimmer of the Japanese team per-forms with her team mates during an official practicesession for the FINA Synchronised Swimming WorldCup in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on 13 Sept, 2006.The four-day world cup will start on Thursday in Yokohama.—INTERNET

Ulsan put six past Al Shababin AFC Champions League KUALA PUMPUR, 14 Sept — South Korean champions

Ulsan Hyundai thrashed Saudi Arabia's Al Shabab 6-0 athome in the first leg of their Asian Football Confederation(AFC) Champions League quarterfinal tie on Wednesday.

In a mixed day for Korean teams, nine-man ChonbukMotors suffered a 1-0 defeat away to Shanghai Shenhua.

World Cup player Lee Chun-soo, Lee Sang-ho andChoi Sung-kuk gave Ulsan a 3-0 halftime lead. BrazilianLeandro, Choi and substitute Machado added to thescoreline after the break.

Ulsan, who reached the quarterfinals by beating TokyoVerdy twice in Group F, are overwhelming favourites toadvance to the semis after next week's second leg inRiyadh.

Chonbuk will also be confident of going through afterrestricting Shanghai to one goal, courtesy of Gao Lin in the33rd minute.

Chonbuk's Kim Hyeung-bum was sent off for kickingout at Gao minutes after the goal and, in the 77th minute,Brazilian substitute Raphael Botti was shown a red card forelbowing Sun Ji in the face. — MNA/Reuters

Bookings take gloss offChelsea’s winning start

LONDON, 14 Sept — Four yellow cards havetaken the gloss off three points Chelsea earned intheir 2-0 win over Werder Bremen on Tuesday,which kicked off their campaign for the Cham-pions League glory they so desperately crave.

Kuznetsova stands tall overJapanese opponent

DENPASAR (Indonesia), 14 Sept— SvetlanaKuznetsova began her quest for a third Bali Interna-tional title on Wednesday with a comprehensive 6-1,6-2 defeat of 18-year-old Erika Takao of Japan.

The top seeded Russian, who claimed the title in2002 and 2004, found it difficult at times against anunfamiliar opponent ranked 152 in the rankings.

Takao struggled with her serve, especially in thefirst set, and Kuznetsova broke to lead 2-1 on heropponent's fourth double-fault. A crosscourt forehandwinner gave the Russian a second break for 4-1, andshe broke again for the set with a return off a secondserve.

Although Takao rallied well, a sixth double-faultallowed Kuznetsova to break again for 3-1 in thesecond set, and Kuznetsova closed out the match witha further break at 5-2.

Striker Tristan agrees to returnto Real Mallorca

MADRID, 14 Sept— Former Deportivo Coruna strikerDiego Tristan has agreed a move to Real Mallorca, thePrimera Liga club said on Wednesday.

"Mallorca have reached an agreement with Tristanthat will see the player return for his second spell at theclub," Mallorca said on their website.

He will be presented later in the day subject topassing a medical.

The 30-year-old former Spain international nego-tiated a release from his contract with Depor at the endof August after being told he did not feature in JoaquinCaparros' plans. Tristan had a two-year spell at Mallorcabetween 1998 and 2000, and ended up as the club'sleading scorer with 18 goals in the 1999-2000 sea-son.— MNA/Reuters

George Best shirt sellsfor 24,000 pounds

LONDON, 14 Sept — The ManchesterUnited shirt worn by George Best when hescored six goals against Northampton Townin 1970 sold at auction on Wednesday for24,000 pounds (44,970 US dollars). Best'sperformance during the match is widelyconsidered as one of his finest and drewpraise from opponents and teammates alike.

Roy Fairfax, the Northampton playerwho was marking the Northern Irish player,said afterwards: "The closest I got to himwas when we shook hands after the game."

The red-and-white shirt was part of asoccer memorabilia sale at auction houseChristie's. The world record price for afootball shirt at auction of 158,000 poundspaid in 2002 for Pele's shirt from the 1970World Cup final.

Best, whose flamboyant life took himfrom the heights of sporting success atManchester United to the depths of alco-holism, died aged 59 in November 2005.

The Northern Irishman, widely regardedas the only British footballer in the sameleague as Pele, Diego Maradona and JohanCruyff, died in the London hospital wherehe had spent the final two months of hislife, drifting in and out of consciousness.

MNA/Reuters

Baghdatis survives2nd test in Beijing

BEIJING, 14 Sept — Third seed MarcosBaghdatis survived a second tough testin less than 24 hours to progress to thequarterfinals of the China Open onWednesday with a 7-6, 6-4 victory overTaiwan's Wang Yeu-Tzuoo.

The Cypriot needed a third-settiebreak to overcome German DenisGremelmayr late on Tuesday and wasequally tested by Wang, who was cheeredon by a crowd delighted to see a Chineseman competing with one of the world'stop players. Wang never gave an inchwithout a fight and exploited the worldnumber nine's lapses of concentration toforce a tiebreak in the first set and breakBaghdatis early in the second.

Baghdatis, however, drew on thecompetitive spirit he so amply displayedin a five-set defeat to Andre Agassi at theUS Open two weeks ago to break backand then break the stubborn Wang's serv-ice again. He finally secured the victorywith a crosscourt winner after an hourand 39 minutes and will next face ThaiDanai Udomchoke, who progressedwhen Croatia's seventh seed Ivo Karlovicretired while 6-2, 3-1 down.

MNA/Reuters

Captain John Terry,his England midfieldteammates Frank Lampardand Joe Cole as well asmarauding Ivory Coaststriker Didier Drogba re-ceived cautions.

Manager JoseMourinho had warned thatin the tournament's most

difficult group, includingchampions Barcelona,bookings could play a rolein how teams were preparedfor the knockout stages. Hedid not hide his irritationthat Chelsea had sufferedmore than other clubs, how-ever.

"I don't want to speakabout it because I have spo-ken a lot over the last threeyears," said the Portugueserenowned for his clasheswith soccer's authorities,before listing the Englishchampions' rivals who alsohad played on Tuesday andescaped with one or nobookings. "Do you think itwas violent?" he asked.

"My players are play-ers with a lot of fair play inEnglish football. Youknow the mentality of theTerrys and Lampards...they don't get yellow cardsin England; they go toEuropean football andthey get yellow cards."

Werder captain FrankBaumann was also bookedin a game full of fast end-to-end football, that was neitheroverly physical nor bad tem-pered. Michael Essien scoredin the 24th minute and Ger-many captain MichaelBallack, taking over penaltyduties from Lampard, put theresult beyond doubt in thesecond half.

MNA/Reuters

MNA/Reuters

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Thursday, 14 September, 2006Summary of observations recorded at 09:30

hours MST: During the past 24 hours, rain or thun-dershowers have been scattered in Shan and RakhineStates and Magway Division, fairly widespread inChin State, Mandalay, Bago and Ayeyawady Divi-sions and widespread in the remaining areas withlocally heavyfall in lower Sagaing Division. The note-worthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Sagaing(2.20) inches, Shwegyin (2.16) inches, Monywa (1.66)inches, Myeik (1.65) inches, Myinmu (1.57) inches,PyinOoLwin (1.34) inches, Loikaw (1.26) inches,Minkin (1.22) inches, Mandalay (0.79) inch andChauk (0.39) inch.

Maximum temperature on 13-9-2006 was90°F. Minimum temperature on 14-9-2006 was76°F. Relative humidity at 09:30 hours MST on14-9-2006 was (96%). Total sunshine hours on 13-9-2006 was (6.3) hours approx.

Rainfalls on 14-9-2006 were (0.24) inch atMingaladon, (0.31) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.20) inchat Central Yangon. Total rainfalls since 1-1-2006were (84.02) inches at Mingaladon, (94.72) inchesat Kaba-Aye and (100.0) inches at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was(4) mph from Southwest at (14:30) hours MST on13-9-2006.

Bay inference: Monsoon is generally weak inthe Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 15-9-2006:Rain or thundershowers will be widespread inKachin, Mon and Kayin States, Yangon andTaninthayi Divisions, fairly widespread in Chin State,Ayeyawady and Bago Divisions and scattered in theremaining areas. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the Seas: Seas will be slight to mod-erate in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihoodof thundery conditions in Central Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouringareas for 15-9-2006: Isolated rain or thundershow-ers. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouringareas for 15-9-2006: One or two rain or thunder-showers. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouringareas for 15-9-2006: Isolated rain or thundershow-ers. Degree of certainty is (80%).

WEATHER

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El Nino making a comebackWASHINGTON, 14 Sept — Scientists at the US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

(NOAA) reported on Wednesday that El Nino conditions have developed in the tropical Pacific and arelikely to continue into early 2007.

NOAA Climate Pre-diction Centre reported atits official website thatocean temperatures in-creased remarkably in theequatorial Pacific duringthe last two weeks. “Cur-rently, weak El Nino con-ditions exist, but there is apotential for this event tostrengthen into a mode-rate event by winter,”said Vernon Kousky,

NOAA’s lead El Ninoforecaster.

Some impacts fromthe developing El Nino arealready evident in the pat-tern of tropical precipita-tion. During the last 30days, drier-than-averageconditions have been ob-served across all of Indo-nesia, Malaysia and mostof the Philippines, whichare usually the first areas

to experience related im-pacts. This dryness can beexpected to continue, onaverage, for the remain-der of 2006.

Also, the develop-ment of weak El Nino con-ditions helps explain whythis Atlantic hurricane sea-son has been less activethan was previously ex-pected. El Nino typicallyacts to suppress hurricane

activity by increasing thevertical wind shear overthe Caribbean Sea region.

However, at this timethe El Nino impacts onAtlantic hurricanes aresmall. “We are still in thepeak months of the Atlan-tic hurricane season, andconditions remain gene-rally conducive for hurri-cane formation,” saidGerry Bell, NOAA’s leadseasonal hurricane fore-caster.

MNA/Xinhua

A star cluster is seen in an image taken from the Hubble Space Telescope.Scientists said on Thursday that they have discovered an unusually large andlight planet orbiting a star that could force them to reexamine theories about

how planets are formed. — INTERNET

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9th Waning of Tawthalin 1368 ME Friday, 15 September, 2006

— To vitalize patriotism andnationalism

— To preserve and safeguard Myanmarcultural heritage

— To perpetuate genuine Myanmarmusic, dance and traditional fine arts

— To preserve Myanmar nationalcharacter

— To nurture spiritual development ofthe youths

— To prevent influence of alien culture,and

— To strengthen national unity andUnion Spirit.

Objectives of the 14th MyanmarTraditional Cultural Performing

Arts Competitions

Minister for Electric Power No 2inspects sub-power stations in

Pyinmana, ElaYANGON, 14 Sept — The officials were to

improve systematic distribution of electric power sothat the people can have regular supply of electricpower, said Minister for Electric Power No 2 Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint in his inspection tour ofEla on 11 September.

The minister and officials inspected the sitechosen for the building of 230-KV Sub-Power Sta-tion near Pyinmana on 11 September and left in-structions on the project there.

Later, the minister and party also inspected

the construction of 33/11 KV Sub-Power Stationof No 3 Sub-Power Station ( NanOo Ceti), arrivalof Battery Band and the construction of servicequarters.

On arrival at 33/11 KV Sub-Power Station(Shwe Ceti), the officials conducted the ministeraround the sub-power station and the minister attendedto the needs.

They proceeded to the Electric Power Officein Ela, and the minister heard reports on supply ofpower for Ela and neighbouring towns and collectionof electricity tax.

The minister called on the officials to redoublethe efforts for the improvement of the power supplysystem and full supply of electric power.—MNA

Announcement forsubmitting matriculation

exam applicationsYANGON, 14 Sept—Application forms for ma-

triculation examination (2007) will be availableat the designated price at the Myanmar Board ofExaminations as from 2 October 2006.

The green application form is designated forcombination subjects Nos 1, 5, 6, 7 and 8, andpink application form, for combination subjectsNos 2, 3 and 4.

External students are to submit their applica-tion forms to the Township Education Officer’soffice concerned from 2 to 31 October.

Each of the application forms of the studentsof basic education high schools, BEHS branchesand affiliated BEHSs is to be stamped and sub-mitted to the MBE beginning from 1 to 30 No-vember.

Those who fail to submit their applicationforms in time will not be granted permission tosit for the exam. And in the exam, any changesin combination subjects will not be allowed.

MNA

Two-goal Myanmaroff to a flying start inMekong Region U-20Soccer Tournament

YANGON, 14 Sept — Myanmar U-20 teammade a flying start in the Mekong Region U-20Soccer Tournament after a win over Thailand witha 2-0 result in the debut today. Mekong RegionSix-Country Sports Tournament started in Thai-land on 12 September and will end on 17 Sep-tember.

Kyaw Thiha opened the scoring for thevisiting Myanmar in the 7th minute and Ya ZarWin Thein completed the second in the stoppagetime of 91st minute.

Myanmar face Laos at 4 pm local timetomorrow. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 14 Sept — Minister for Financeand Revenue Maj-Gen Hla Tun and Deputy MinisterCol Hla Thein Swe yesterday inspected banking serv-ices of the Myanma Economic Bank (Branch) inTatkon Township and called for improvement of theservices of the bank.

Afterwards, the minister and party went toTatkon Township Internal Revenue Department,where officials concerned reported to the minister ontasks carried out in the township.

In meeting with employees, the minister urgedthem to carry out tasks of the department dutifullyand to enable tax payers to understand the rules andregulations of the department.

On his tour of inspection, the minister alsoinspected the Myanma Small Loans Enterprise andurged officials concerned to make efforts for peopleso that they can rely on the enterprise.

He also went to the construction of the build-ing of Myanma Insurance in Pyinmana and calledfor completion of the project on schedule.

MNA

Minister inspects banking, departmentalservices in Tatkon, Pyinmana

F&R Minister Maj-Gen Hla Tun speaks in meeting with the staff of Myanma Economic Bankin Tatkon. — F&R

Weather Forecast for (15-9-2006)

Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring

areas

Isolated rain or thundershowers.

Degree of certainty is 80%.

Yangon and neighbouring areas

One or two rain or thundershowers.


Mandalay and neighbouring areas

Isolated rain or thundershowers.


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