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

Established 1914

Volume XV, Number 331 6th Waxing of Tabaung 1369 ME Wednesday, 12 March, 2008

INSIDE KHAING MYO NYILAR AUNGPAGE 7

Let’s approve State Constitution (draft) to shape prosperous future (2)

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round develop-ment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participation in termsof technical know-how and investments from sources insidethe country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 11March — As a gesture ofhailing the 63rd Anniver-sary Armed Forces Day, anew building for the peo-ple’s hospital in Homalinwas opened at the hospitalyesterday.

Minister forHealth Dr Kyaw Myint andCEC Member of UnionSolidarity and Develop-ment Association Minis-ter for Sports Brig-GenThura Aye Myint formally

Homalin People’s Hospitalupgraded to 100-bed facility

opened the new 100-bedfacility.

Chairman ofSagaing Division Peaceand Development CouncilCommander of North-West Command Brig-GenMyint Soe unveiled thebronze inscription of thehospital.

The commanderand the ministers visitedthe dental unit, the medicalstore, wards, deliveryroom, operation theatre,

laboratory and X-rayrooms of the hospital.

A ceremony to do-nate cash to the hospitalwas followed and Com-mander Brig-Gen MyintSoe accepted over K 14.6million donated by HkamtiDistrict Peace and Devel-opment Council and over

K 11.2 million donatedby wellwishers to thefunds of the hospital.

Minister DrKyaw Myint acceptedover 9.4 million Kyat do-nated by wellwishers tobuy medical equipment forthe operation room, overK 4.5 million to buy medi-

cal equipment and K 2.1 mil-lion to buy an oxygen tank.

Afterwards, Minis-ter Brig-Gen Thura AyeMyint accepted over K 1.9million presented by donorsto buy ECG machine andover K 5 million to buy fur-niture for the hospital.

(See page 8)

Minister Dr Kyaw Myint and Minister Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint

formally open 100-bed People’s Hospital in Homalin.

MNA

We people favour peaceful coexistence with the other world people. We have never doneanything harmful to the interests of any other country. We consider that some are trying to harmthe interests of our country merely due to their lack of knowledge of our country’s culture, customsand traditions.

In the past, our country was not in a position to shape its brighter future. It is believed that unlikethat, now our country has a prosperous future ahead of it.

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

People’s DesireWednesday, 12 March, 2008

Enhance image of MyanmarRed Cross Society

The Myanmar Red Cross Society not

only puts in the fore Red Cross principles

such as humanitarianism, voluntary services

and unity but also engages in the

International Red Cross works and national

development tasks.

The Society dedicates itself to public

health care service, disaster preparedness

activities, relief work and humanitarian

services in collaboration with relevant

ministries, and social organizations at home

and abroad.

In addition, with the aim of helping the

youth cultivate good habits, the Society is

constantly nurturing its youth members and

uplifting the dynamism of their willingness

to contribute towards public welfare services,

and voluntary services to rescue victims of

natural disasters, along with nationalistic

spirit and patriotism with which they are

loyal to the motherland and the people.

The government has assigned not only

primary duties but also national duties on

the MRCS. Now, the Society is working

sector-wise with might and main in

cooperation with other relevant social

organizations, thus helping the nation enjoy

fruitful results of their collaborative works

all the more.

Therefore, those playing in the

leadership role of the MRCS and members

are obliged to make continued endeavours

to ensure emergence of a new nation in the

interests of the people, considering that they

are fostering the image of the Society and

shouldering the national duty by devoting

themselves to their services.

YANGON, 10 March—Chairman of TaninthayiDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of CoastalRegion Command Maj-Gen Khin Zaw Oo andCEC member of UnionSolidarity and Develop-ment Association (In-charge of TaninthayiDivision) Minister forLivestock and FisheriesBrig-Gen Maung MaungThein met withdepartmental personnel,Social Organizations,townselders at GeneralAdministration Depart-ment in Palaw Townshipof Myeik District,Taninthayi Divisionon on8 March.

The Commander andthe Minister deliveredaddersses on the occasion.

Next, townselder UHla San accepted clothing

Commander, Minister supervisedevelopment tasks in Taninthayi

Division

donated by Ministry ofIndustry-1, Ministry ofTransport, cash byTaninthayi Division PDC,100 bags of rice byMinistry of Livestock andFisheries, 100 bags of riceby Asongkong Co, K 1

million by TaninthayiDivision USDA, clothingby Kawthoung TownshipUSDA, K 500,000 byentrepreneur U Hla Winfor the fire victims of No 1Ward in Palaw Township.

In the evening, the

commander and theminister inspectedproduction of rubber ofVinde Co in Thamokvillage. They later met withproprietors of cold storagefactories and helddiscussions.—MNA

Yekyithit Water-colourArt Show to be opened

YANGON, 11 March — A total of 19 artistswill display their artistic works at Yekyithit Water-colour Art Show, as part of the second step ofSnowflake Art Gallery at the corner of SanchaungStreet and Shinsawpu Street from 1 to 7 April.

Some 90 water-colour paintings created byartists Hla Tin Tun, Maung Maung Thein, AungThein, Kyi Win (Yankin), Hla Han, Kyi Win (Today),Lun Pe, Mya Thaung, Tin Aung Hteik, Mon Thet,Win Myint Moe, Hla Thein Aung, Thein MyintThein, Zaw Win (Kyimyindine), Ko Maung KyawThan, Sangyong Ko Ko Aung, Nay Win Aung,Maung Oo (Paung) and Saw Tin Wai will be ondisplay at Snowflake Art Gallery.

The Snowflake Art Gallery will hold talkson painting, artistic works and discussions anddemonstration on painting after the coming waterfestival. Please contact Daw Hnin Hnin Oo (Tel-01-511076, 09-5014153, 09-5043082) for furtherinformation. — H

YANGON, 11 March —Organized by MyanmarGolf Federation and

Fire breaks out in Nay Pyi Taw Lewe,engulfs 43 houses

Final of Golf Championship postponedsponsored by InternationalBeverages Trading CoLtd, a final of Grand RoyalSpecial Reserve GolfChampionship which wasscheduled to hold on 14-17 March was postponedto 21-23 March at CityGolf Club.

Those who had wonqualifiers are to contact

Commander and USDA CEC memberinspects developments of Kayin StateNAY PYI TAW, 10

March — Chairman ofMon State Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of South-EastCommand Maj-Gen ThetNaing Win, CentralExecutive Committeemember of UnionSolidarity andDevelopment AssociationMinister for ReligiousAffairs Brig-Gen ThuraMyint Maung andChairman of Kayin StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Brig-Gen Zaw Minmade an inspection tour ofPaikyoun Township inKayin State on 7March.They donatedprovisions to Sayadaw andSangha and enshrinedreligious object intoAnhaingmei Hsutaung-pyae Pagoda in Paikyounand also grew a Bo tree.

Afterwards, they metwith the members of theUSDA and villagers andthe CEC member presenteda computer and K 600,000for Parahita school andpublications for nationalculture and uplift and acomputer for PaikyounBasic Education HighSchool.

In the evening, theCEC memberaccompanied by thechairman of Kayin StatePDC met with members ofTownship USDAs , socialorganizations membersand the people at the AungSan Hall of HlaingbweTownship in Kayin State.The CEC member andchairman of Kayin StatePDC accepted 1,000USDA membershipapplications.

The CEC memberdonated K500,000 forHlaingbwe TownshipGeneral Hospital Fund andpublications for culture anduplift to HlaingbweBEHS.—MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Khin Zaw Oo hands over clothes donated byMinistry of Industry-1 to fire victims in Palaw. — L & F

the committee for holdingthe championship (Tel:09-99-72554, 01-653174)not later than 16 March.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 11 March — A fire broke out atPyiwin village in Nay Pyi Taw Lewe at 4.15 pmyesterday, engulfing 43 houses.

No sooner did the accident happen, Commanderof Nay Pyi Taw Command Maj-Gen Wai Lwin andofficials concerned got to the scene, and put out the firewith 12 fire-engines.

The fire-victims were temporarilyaccommodated at refugee camps at the PyiwinMonastery and provided with necessary help.

It was learnt that the fire started from the houseof U Than Htay. — MNA

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Hu calls for enhancing Nat’ldefence for world peace

Over 20,000attend wine

festival in SydneySYDNEY, 11 March—

More than 20,000 peoplewent to Sydney’s HydePark on Sunday for thecity’s biggest ever outdoorwine festival.

Earlier in the day, NewSouth Wales Minister forState Development IanMacdonald said 100 NSWwineries would showcasetheir wines in the northernsection of Hyde Park aspart of NSW wine week.

“Hyde Park will betransformed into a wine trailshowcasing fine wines fromMudgee, Cowra, Bathurst,Orange, Western Plains,Gundagai, the Riverina,Canberra, New England,Hastings River, Hilltops,Hawkesbury,/Nepean,Shoalhaven coast, SouthernHighlands and the Hunter,”Ms Mac-donald said.

MNA/Xinhua

BEIJING, 11 March—Chinese President HuJintao on Monday calledfor redoubled efforts tostep up defence and Armybuilding to guaranteenational security and makegreater contribution toworld peace.

Hu made the remarkswhen he attended ameeting of the delegationof the People’s LiberationArmy to the ongoingannual session of theNational People’s Con-gress, or China’s Parlia-ment. “We must intensifyour effort to strengthennational defence and stepup Army building whilegoing all out for economic,

political, cultural andsocial development, so asto support and guaranteethe progress of socialismwith Chinese charac-teristics and make greatercontribution to worldpeace,” said Hu, alsochairman of the CentralMilitary Commission.

The modernization ofthe Armed Forces shouldbe aimed at combatreadiness, and military

training should beconditioned to the age ofinformation technologies,he said.

“We must aim atimproving the capabilityto win high-tech regionalwars and keep enhancingthe ability of the militaryto respond to securitythreats and accomplish adiverse array of militarytasks,” the President said.

MNA/Xinhua

I N T E R N A T I O N A L N E W S

Oil soars to record near$108 in focus

NEW YORK, 11 March—Oil shot up more than 2 percent on Monday to a record near 108 US dollars abarrel, extending a rally led by investors seeking ahedge against the tumbling US dollar and inflation.

US crude traded up 2.24 US dollars to 107.39 USdollars a barrel by 1:20 pm EDT (1720 GMT), off arecord 107.85 US dollars hit earlier in the session.London Brent crude jumped 1.63 US dollars to 104.01US dollars.—MNA/Reuters

Five US soldiers diein Baghdad bomb blast Indian Army to focus on modernization efforts

BAGHDAD, 11 March—Five US soldiers werekilled and three otherswounded in a bomb blastin central Baghdad onMonday, the US militarysaid, in the worst singleattack on US forces inBaghdad in months.

An Iraqi interpreter wasalso wounded in theexplosion, which hit thesoldiers while they wereon foot patrol, the militarysaid in a statement.

Iraqi police said thesoldiers had been walkingin the street in MansourDistrict when a suicidebomber wearing an ex-plosives vest walked upto them and blew himselfup. A police official atBaghdad’s Yarmoukhospital said ninewounded Iraqis had beenadmitted, including apoliceman.

They had spoken of asuicide bomber who hadexploded among theAmericans, he said.

MNA/Reuters

NEW DELHI, 11 March—Indian Army is focusingon areas like improvednight-fighting capability,better command andcontrol and precision-guidance systems formodernization of theforce, the results of whichwill be visible in the nexttwo years, a top officer

said on Monday.“Improving missile

capability and all-weatherbattlefield surveillance areother thrust areas we arelooking at. In the next twoyears, we may see thefructification of our effortsin modernization,” De-puty Chief of Army StaffLieutenant-General ZU

Shah said at an Army-industry interactionfunction, the Press Trustof India reported.

Stressing on theimportance of increasedself-reliance in defenceproduction, Shah assuredthe private sector ofensuring a “level-playingfield”.—MNA/Xinhua

The burning wreckage of several cars lay on theAbu Dhabi to Dubai highway, following a multi

vehicle crash near Ghantoot, United ArabEmirates in which at least four people were killed

on 11 March, 2008.INTERNET

Japan AerospaceExploration Agency

astronaut Takao Doi ishelped by white room

technicians beforeboarding the Space

Shuttle Endeavour as thecrew prepares for

launch, on 10 March,2008.—INTERNET

Johannes Vogel, chairman of the Young Liberals, the youth organization ofGermany’s free-market liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), dives into a

glass case full of water in front of the chancellory in Berlin on 7 March. Thestunt was part of a protest for more and better job opportunities for young

people in Germany. —INTERNET

Iraq blames misunderstandingfor Iran-US talks mixup

BAGHDAD, 11 March—An Iranian delegation failedto meet US officials in Baghdad for talks on security inIraq and was forced to go home last week withoutmeeting the Americans due to a mix-up over dates,Iraq’s Foreign Minister said.

Observers who closely follow the talks were leftpuzzled after Iran said they would start on 6 March, theUnited States ambassador said no date had been set,and Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister said only that theywould take place within the week.

MNA/Reuters

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HAVANA, 10 March —The European Union’s topdevelopment aid officialleft Cuba on Sundayconvinced that EU diplo-matic sanctions against theCommunist island shouldbe dropped after FidelCastro’s retirement, hismain aide said.

EU Aid CommissionerLouis Michel visitedHavana to gauge thepolitical climate followingthe replacement of theailing 81-year-old Castroby his brother Raul Castroon 24 February, Cuba’sfirst change of leader inalmost half a century.

Michel said he will tryto persuade the EU’s 27member states to scrapdiplomatic sanctions thatwere adopted after acrackdown on dissent in2003 but have not beenenforced since 2005,Michel’s top aide and

KUALA LUMPUR, 10 March— Malaysia’s PrimeMinister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was sworn in for anew five-year term in office Monday at the nationalpalace.

Badawi, wearing a black traditional costume, wassworn in by Malaysia’s Supreme Head Mizan ZainalAbidin at the royal palace in Kuala Lumpur in asolemn ceremony, local TV footage showed.

Also attending were Deputy Prime Minister NajibRazak and other senior ministers.

Badawi, 68, was sworn in two days after his rulingcoalition Barisan Nasional, or National Front, won140 of the 222 parliamentary seats on generationelection day on 8 March.

The National Front coalition has ruled Malaysiasince independence from Britain in 1957.

MNA/Xinhua

BAGHDAD, 11 March —A woman suicide bomberblew herself up outside thehouse of a tribal leaderin Diyala Province innortheast of Baghdad onMonday, killing him andthree others, a provincialpolice source said.

A woman arrived earlyMonday the house of ShiekGhadhban al-Karkhi, andasked to meet him as he isthe head of the Karkhiyahclan in the town of Kanaan,southeast of the provincialcapital of Baquba, thesource told Xinhua oncondition of anonymity.

The woman blew up herexplosive vest when theShiek came out to meether with two of his familymembers and a guard,killing them all, the sourcesaid. —MNA/Xinhua

JAKARTA, 11 March— Indonesian President SusiloBambang Yudhoyono departed for Iran on Monday todiscuss nuclear issue, trade and investment.

The President would also visit Senegal and Dubai,said state spokesman Dino Patti Djalal.

During his visit in Iran from Monday to Tuesday,the President would meet with his Iranian counterpartMahmud Ahmadinejad and the country’s Supremeleader Ayatollah Khamenei, Dino said.

One of the topics to be discussed was nuclear issue,he said.

The visit comes a week after Indonesia, a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council,abstained from voting when the Security Council gavean approval on an additional sanction against Teheranover its rejection to stop nuclear programme, which theCouncil suspects it is directed for mass destructionweapons, but Iran says it is for peaceful purpose.

MNA/Xinhua

RAMALLAH, 10 March— A senior Palestinianofficial accused Israel onSaturday for weakeningthe Palestinian NationalAuthority (PNA) andpreventing it from carry-ing out its missions in thePalestinian territories.

Yasser Abed Rabbo, aPalestinian negotiator told“Voice of Palestine”Radio that “Israel is doingits best to weaken thePalestinian Authority bypreventing it from resto-ring security and order inthe West Bank and Gaza.”

Israel has been im-

Malaysian PM takesoath for new term

Palestinian official accuses Israel forweakening PNA

posing a tightened closureon the Gaza Strip and hassetup roadblocks thatdivided the West Bank anddisabled the PNA todeploy its security forcesall over the area. “Closure,roadblocks and expandingJewish settlements, inaddition to the militaryaggression against Gazawould only lead to wid-ening the gaps betweenthe two sides,” said AbedRabbo. Following anIsraeli military operationon Gaza Strip, PresidentMahmoud Abbas decidedto halt the talks with Israel

on permanent status issuesafter more than 120Palestinians were killedand 400 wounded. AbedRabbo asserted that thereis a double game playedby both Israel and Hamasmovement to worsen thesituation and escalateviolence “in order toseparate the Gaza Strip andmove the control on theenclave to Egypt”.

Hamas took control ofthe Gaza Strip in mid Junelast year after its militantsousted President Abbassecurity forces.

MNA/Xinhua

EU commissioner wantsCuba sanctions abolished

European CommissionDirector-General forDevelopment StefanoManservisi said.

The EU measures,which included a freezeon visits by high-levelofficials, were diplomaticand did not stop trade andinvestment in Cuba,unlike the embargo theUnited States has main-tained against Havanasince 1962.

In 2005, the sanctionswere suspended conting-ent on periodic reviewsof Cuba’s human rightsrecord. —MNA/ReutersObama refuses to be running

mate of Clinton

WASHINGTON, 10 March— US Senator BarackObama Monday flatlyrejected suggestions hewould be a vice presi-dential running mate forSenator Hillary Clinton.

Obama made the re-marks at a rally in Colum-bus, Mississippi, CNN

reported.Clinton, Obama’srival for the Democraticpresidential nomination,and her husband formerPresident Bill Clinton havesuggested a joint Clinton-Obama ticket — withObama in the second slot.Obama forcefully shot thatidea down.

“Senator Clinton isfighting hard. She’stenacious. I respect herfor that. She is workinghard to win the nomi-nation.But I want every-body to be absolutely clear.I’m not running for vicepresident. I’m running forpresident of the UnitedStates of America,”Obama told supporters.

“With all due respect.I won twice as many statesas Senator Clinton. I’vewon more of the popularvote than Senator Clinton.I have more delegates thanSenator Clinton.

So, I don’t know howsomebody who’s insecond place is offeringvice presidency to theperson who’s in firstplace,” he said.

Internet

Woman suicidebomber killsfour in Iraq’s

Diyala

Indonesian Presidentleaves for Iran

Close-up of a field ofcorn. A planned

increase in US ethanolproduction from corn

would spellenvironmental

“disaster” for marinespecies in the Gulf of

Mexico, said a co-author of a sciencestudy published on

Monday.—INTERNET

Democratic president hopeful, Sen Barack Obama,D-Ill, addresses supporters at Jackson State

University in Jackson, Miss,on 10 March, 2008,touching on most of the issues of his campaign:the war in Iraq, education, health care and the

economy. —INTERNET

Rescue workers remove a car from a canal after a crash near Cardenas,Mexico, on 10 March, 2008. —INTERNET

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Polar lights are seen in the sky in Longyearbyen of Norway where China’sYellow River Station is located, on the early morning of 10 March, 2008.

XINHUA

China to learn from Indiaon outsourcing business

Photo taken on 10 March, 2008 shows the head ofa huge kite in the shape of a python in Linyi, eastChina’s Shandong Province. The kite is about 320

metres long and 23 kilograms weight. —XINHUA

BEIJING, 10 March—TheChinese Government wasstrongly advised by asenior corporate executivehere Saturday to learn fromIndia to effectively developoutsourcing business.

“The government shallexpand preferential taxpolicies on software firmsto all outsourcing businessso as to help develop anadvantage based on lowcost,” said Zhang Chun-jiang, a member of the 11th

National Committee of theChinese People’s PoliticalConsultative Conference(CPPCC), at a plenarymeeting of its first annualfull session.

In 2006 Indian firms tookup 65 per cent of theworld’s IT industry out-sourcing market and 47 percent of office workoutsourcing. The majorreason was that Indianfirms benefited greatlyfrom governmental in-

dustrial strategy, especiallyfree-of-tax policy, Zhangsaid. Compared withforeign outsourcing com-panies including Indianones, Chinese firms arelagged behind in servicequality and the attractionof talented people, thepolitical adviser said.

Training programmesin line with internationalpractice shall be in-troduced, Zhang said.

Xinhua

All items from Xinhua News AgencyAPEC members agree toboost renewable energy

LIMA, 10 March—Representatives of the 21-memberAsia Pacific Economic Forum (APEC) agreed to boostrenewable energy technology and research projects atthe 35th APEC Energy Working Group meeting, Peru’sMines and Energy Ministry (MEM) said on Sunday.

Some 105 officials met in Iquitos, capital of northernPeruvian province of Loreto, on 3-7 March. The MEMsaid it had presented hydroelectric, wind power andgeothermal energy projects at the meeting.

Another topic discussed was the diversification ofenergy sources to prevent high international energyprices from having such serious consequences foreconomies such as Peru.

Since its inception in 1989 in response to the growinginterdependence among Asia-Pacific economies,APEC has become a major regional forum acting as theprimary regional vehicle for promoting open trade andeconomic and technical cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region. —Xinhua

B’desh waives import duty ofpoultry feed material

DHAKA, 10 March—Bangladesh has withdrawnimport duty and mandatory pre-shipment inspection(PSI) for import of poultry feed raw material and allkinds of machinery of poultry farms consideringfinancial losses caused to the farmers due to bird flu.

Bangladesh’s National Board of Revenue has issueda statutory regulatory order (SRO) signed by thecountry’s President, officials said here on Sunday.

Bangladesh poultry farmers import about 500,000tons of raw ingredients for poultry feed annually fromIndia, China, Thailand and Myanmar.

According to the Livestock Ministry, the bird flu hasso far affected 46 out of the country’s 64 districts sincethe virus was first detected in a farm near capital Dhakaearly last year. The government has set up a fund of onebillion taka (about 14.3 million US dollars) forcompensation to poultry farmers.—Xinhua

HK jewellery show attracts over 31,000 buyers

Migrant workers getdefaulted wages in ChinaBEIJING, 10 March—Chinese legislators have helped

millions of migrant workers get defaulted wages andshut down tens of thousands of small, illegal coalmines in the past years, as part of their efforts tosupervise the government’s work and promote socialharmony, top legislator Wu Bangguo said Saturday.

Wu, chairman of the Standing Committee of the10th National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s toplegislature, made the remarks while delivering a reporton his committee’s work over the past five years.

Migrant labourers from rural areas, whose numberis estimated at 210 million, have become a pillar of thecountry’s work force, but they face various problems,including pay arrears, work-place injury compensation,health care and their children’s schooling.

Wu said that legislators found in 2003 in theirinspections, visits and appeal letters from ordinarycitizens that many migrant workers’ wages weredefaulted. The finding prompted the NPC StandingCommittee to call on governments at all levels andconcerned departments to adopt effective measures tosolve the problem.—Xinhua

Police officers searchfor evidence at a bombsite in Colombo on 10

March, 2008. Onecivilian was killed

while four others wereinjured in the

explosion blamed onTamil Tiger rebels in

the Sri Lankan capitalof Colombo. —XINHUA

HONG KONG, 11 March—A latest internationalshow has attracted 2,306exhibitors and 31,333buyers from around theworld, both record levelsfor the show, organ-izer Hong Kong TradeDevelopment Council(HKTDC) said Sunday.

The 25th Hong KongInternational JewelleryShow, which the TradeDevelopment Councilsaid was the world’s thirdlargest of its kind, washeld from 4 March to 8March.

The HKTDC said thenumber of buyers fromemerging markets weregrowing fast, with a 3-per-cent surge for Russia and28 per cent for the UnitedArab Emirates.

Hong Kong, a southernChinese special admini-strative region and the

world’s fourth largest finejewellery exporter, saw agrowth of 17 per cent in itsjewellery exports in 2007to 33.8 billion HK dollars(4.3 billion US dollars).

Organizers launched awide range of activities,including seminars,

jewellery parades andnetworking cocktails toexpand the portfolio of theHong Kong InternationalJewellery Show andstrengthen Hong Kong’sstatus as the world’s majorjewellery sourcing centre.

Xinhua

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The wreck of HMS Hunter, found by the

Norwegian Minehunter HNOMS TYR, is seen in

this handout photograph received in London

on 8 March, 2008.—INTERNET

Forest blaze kills sevenfirefighters in Honduras

TEGUCIGALPA, 10 March — Seven firefightersdied in Honduras on Sunday overwhelmed by araging forest blaze on the outskirts of the capital, themilitary said.

The firefighters, four soldiers and three forestryworkers, were part of a 200-strong team beenbattling to contain the fire on a mountainside closeto Tegucigalpa since Friday.

They were working to put out the fire and suddenlythere was a change of wind direction and they wereengulfed by flames, General Orlando Vasquez toldlocal radio.

Honduras is at the start of its summer and forestfires at common at this time.

MNA/Reuters

Police kill suspected robbernear Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, 10 March— A man who attemptedto rob a jewellery store and was shot by police hasdied, authorities said on Sunday.

The suspect shot at police deputies when theyconfronted him outside the store near a parkingstructure in the Orange County outside Los Angeles.Police deputies returned fire and struck the man.

The man was treated at a hospital for a gunshotwound but later died, according to Orange CountyInterim Sheriff Jack Anderson.

The incident occurred just before 5:30 pm Sunday(0130 GMT Monday). There was no report of injuriesamong the police deputies, police said.

MNA/Xinhua

Afghan intelligence official,ISAF soldier killed

KABUL, 10 March — Unknown gunmen shotdead a district intelligence official in southeasternAfghanistan while a roadside bomb blast killed aforeign soldier in a neighbouring province, officialssaid on Sunday.

Violence has surged in Afghanistan in the lasttwo years with some 6,000 people killed in 2007, thedeadliest year since US-led and Afghan forcestoppled the Taleban in 2001. The shooting tookplace on Saturday in the province of Khost.

“The incident took place in the Mandozai Districtwhen the district intelligence chief Habib Khan wasleaving home for the office,” said district chiefDawlat Khan. “The incident is under investigationand no one has been arrested yet.” —MNA/Reuters

DAMASCUS, 10 March— The foreign ministers ofIran, Oman, Qatar and Syria held an unannouncedmeeting in the Syrian capital on Saturday ahead of anArab summit clouded by a crisis in Lebanon.

The four met at a restaurant near the city’sinternational airport, witnesses said. The Iranian andQatari ministers left Damascus immediately afterwards.

Diplomats said the meeting most likely followedup on discussions on Lebanon between Iran and SaudiArabia in Cairo this week and how to adjust proposalssubmitted by the Arab League to divided Lebanesepoliticians to end the deadlock. —MNA/Reuters

KHARTOUM, 11 March— Sudan wants Europeanpeacekeepers to pay40,000 US dollars com-pensation after four nom-ads were killed as theytried to retrieve the bodyof a French soldier nearthe border with Chad, aForeign Ministry officialsaid. The French special

MADRID, 11 March—Spanish Socialists cele-brated their re-electionon Sunday with sparklingwine and songs in thestreets, well aware thattheir hangover may lastnot hours but years.

Spain’s economy isslowing, property pricesare faltering and hundredsof thousands of people arelosing their jobs as adecade-long constructionboom runs out of steam— many of them immig-

Waves hit the sea wall in Porthcall, south Wales on 10 March, 2008. A stormrushing in from the Atlantic lashed the south west on Monday as high winds

and tides brought the risk of coastal flooding. —XINHUA

A Bedlington Terrier licks an ice-cream at the Crufts dog show inBirmingham, central England on 9 March , 2008. Crufts was founded in

1891 by entrepreneur Charles Cruft and has long been established as one ofthe world’s greatest dog shows.—XINHUA

Iran, Gulf foreignministers meetin Damascus

Jubilant Spanish Socialists seehangover ahead

rants who have helped fuelSpain’s stellar growth.

“It is going to be verydifficult,” said JorgeMoreu Arcos, a 43-year-old draughtsman.

“There’s been a lot ofcorruption in town halls,and house prices couldn’tkeep doubling every sixyears.

The problem with theeconomy is a global onenow.”

Across town, disillusi-oned Conservative voter

Pilar Hernandez said theeconomy was unlikely toimprove under eitherparty as global oil and foodcosts push Spanishinflation over 4 per cent— while real wages havenot risen in 10 years.

“It’s amazing howmuch prices are going upwhile salaries aren’t atall,” said the 54-year-old,who works in a schoolcafeteria. “We’re short ofdecent politicians.”

MNA/Reuters

Sudan asks EU to pay compensation for dead nomads

forces sergeant was shotafter he accidentallycrossed into Sudan fromChad last week and cameacross a Sudanese Armycheckpoint.

Sudan’s Army saidfour nomads later foundthe soldier’s body andwere killed when one ofhis hand grenades ex-

ploded as they tried to loadhim on to a camel.

Sudan’s Foreign Min-istry on Monday saidofficials had requestedcompensation from aEuropean Union dele-gation which flew toKhartoum to collect thesergeant’s body on Friday.

MNA/Reuters

LONDON, 11 March —A storm rushing in fromthe Atlantic lashed thesouthwest on Monday ashigh winds and tidesbrought the risk of coastalflooding.

Gusting winds broughtdown trees and ripped tilesoff roofs, damaging powerlines and cutting electri-city to parts of southWales. The EnvironmentAgency issued sevensevere flood warningsaround the Cornish andDevon coastlines andadvised local people tocheck the agency’s floodhotline and listen to localradio. Gusts of up to 80miles an hour are forecastat the height of the stormaround midday, withblustery weather expectedto continue until Wednes-day. A coastguard tugwas sent to assist a 7,500-ton tanker with 13 crewon board which wasdrifting in storm-hit seasoff the Isle of Wight.

MNA/Reuters

Atlantic stormlashes southern

England

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 12 March, 2008 7

Independence is defined sovereign power.Sovereignty is complete power of the people or thepower to serve the interests of the entire people. If thesovereign power of a country falls under colonialists,the people of the country will be enslaved. If so, thecolonialists will take control of the sovereign poweror the legislative, executive and judicial powers ofthe country and will promulgate the laws designed tooppress their colony. And they will exploit the countryat will and exercise the administrative (bureaucratic)machinery to make the people live in dire poverty. Inaddition, they will try to prolong their colonial rulethrough suppressive laws.

Myanmar fell under the yoke of Britishcolonialists for over 100 years. Throughout the periodof over 100 years, Myanmar people were risingagainst the colonialists to regain the independence.In other words, it took over 100 years for Myanmarpeople to regain their sovereign power, risking livesand limb.

After regaining independence, for nearly half acentury, Myanmar had to withstand a wide range ofstresses and strains triggered by the armed struggleline the insurgents took at the instigation of aliensand due to doubts, dogmatism, sectarianism,intransigence of the party concerned, and personalitycult. During the period, the people lived in a state ofpanic, let alone enjoying the taste of independence,whereas those vying one another in groups and inparties of different policies for power were in practiceof armed insurrection with great relish. The colonialistcountries were very pleased to note that the insurgentswere troubling the people instead of working inharness with the people for national developmentwith the use of expressive geographical features andrich natural resources. The more Myanmar peoplesuffered from havoc and plights, the colonialistcountries were pleased more.

The Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League(AFPFL) government practised the ParliamentaryDemocracy System from 1948 to 1962. The AFPFLgovernment split into two factions—Stable AFPFLand Clean AFPFL. Moreover, the Socialist Partysplit into three factions, Communist Party, fivefactions, and Pyithu Yebaw (PVO), two factions.So, national solidarity built in the time ofindependence struggles became disintegrated. Inthe past, they shared national outlook andmanaged to help the nation regain independence

Let’s approve State Constitution (draft)to shape prosperous future (2)

Khaing Myo Nyilar Aung

again. However, sticking to various forms of politicaldogmatism, they took respective trends that couldmake the nation lose independence. So, theTatmadaw in perpetual service of national interestsand the people had to safeguard the motherland formany times for ensuring non-disintegration of theUnion and perpetuation of sovereignty(independence).

Since 18 September 1988 on which it took up Stateduties, the Tatmadaw has devoted itself to formidabletasks for restoration of peace and stability, nationalreconsolidation and all-round development of thenation. In the meantime, it took measures to introducethe multi-party system to the nation. From 1988 to1989, altogether 235 political parties, leftist and rightist,got registered. To form a political party, it just neededa group of ten people, each of whom would contribute50 kyats, and they just had to get registered. Over 200of the 235 registered parties had no specific partypolicy, party principles or party strength.

Some persons representing 93 parties stood forelection at the multi-party democracy general electionsin May 1990, and the remaining parties became defunct.The parties, whose representatives were not elected,also became defunct, thus reducing the number to only10 after the elections. It was exposed that three or fourparties were composed of aboveground (UG)representatives planted by the BCP from the jungles.So, the Multi-party General Election Commission hadto abrogate those parties.

In the US, Republican Party and Democratic Partyorganizing small parties compete with each other forpower and come to power on the basis of electionvictory. The two major parties are slightly differentfrom each other in procedures but they pursue thecommon goal.

In Britain, Conservative Party and Labour Partyare major rivals. Liberal is the opposition party. All theparties were given birth by the British capitalism(colonialism). Both the US and the Britain possess afine tradition: they use force to suppress all forms ofmovements to secede from them. They never tolerateany movements to break up or secede from them. Theyremain indifferent if a handful of people hold protests.However, a large number of people stage massdemonstrations strongly, they effectively suppress thedemonstrations. They allow demonstrations staged bya small number of people, with the intention of deceivingthe other countries.

Each of the two countries allow two partiespursuing common goals to exist. They never allowany parts to secede from the Union. They use force ifdemonstrations become strong. However, they aidand abet parts of other Union countries to secede.And they recognize the break-away parts immediately.If the protesters become anarchic and violent and thegovernment concerned had to use force, they accusethe government of violation of democratic rights,human rights and freedom. Copying the old methodsof the British that it annexed other countries afterweakening them first through opium trade plans, theneo-colonialists destroy the patriotic spirit andnationalistic fervour of the youth of their targetedcountries. They also emasculate the revolutionarystrength of those countries, and deceive anti-government people and use them for the expatriateplans to devastate the countries.

Assessing such plans, patriotic forces and nationalforces of every country have become vigilant againstthe political snares set by the colonialists. Every countryhas to strengthen the military, economic and nationalforces and serve the interests of the people concerned.Myanmar has managed to avert being caught in thepolitical traps of the colonialists, stand firmly on itsown feet, and restore peace and stability for twodecades, braving a wide range of destructive acts.

Implementation of national development projectscalls for huge funds, and nation-building tasks cannotbe carried out effectively so long as peace and stabilityhas not been restored. Despite the subversive acts andeconomic sanctions by internal and external elements,the government managed to build internal peace andconstruct a large number of bridges, roads, railroads,schools, universities, colleges, hospitals, industrialzones and irrigation facilities on self-reliant basisthroughout the nation. The magnificent progress of thenation is largely due to the hard work the entire peopleof more than 56 million have exerted in harmony.

Making effective use of the fruitful resultsthanks to the harmonious work, the entire peoplewill have to build a peaceful, modern and developeddiscipline-flourishing democratic nation. They willhave to do their bit in the processes for timelyemergence of a constitution essential for transitionto democracy.

We people favour peaceful coexistence withthe other world people. We have never doneanything harmful to the interests of any othercountry. We consider that some are trying toharm the interests of our country merely due totheir lack of knowledge of our country’s culture,customs and traditions.

In the past, our country was not in a positionto shape its brighter future. It is believed thatunlike that, now our country has a prosperousfuture ahead of it.

Translation: MSMyanma Alin, Kyemon: 11-3-2008

The people will have to do their bit in theprocesses for timely emergence of aconstitution essential for transition todemocracy.

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(from page 1)The new building was constructed at the cost

of over K 828 million. As it has been upgraded from the25-bed facility to the 100-bed one, the hospital canprovide health care services to residents in Homalinand townships adjacent to Homalin.

Over K 16.9 million have been contributed tothe medical funds of the hospital; over 2.5 million tothree station hospitals each and K 500,000 to a ruralclinic. Besides, wellwishers donated K 23.1 millionsto the hospital to buy medical equipment and furniture.

MNA

Homalin People’s Hospital …

YANGON, 11 March — Central ExecutiveCommittee Member of the Union Solidarity andDevelopment Association Minister for ReligiousAffairs Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maung, accompaniedby Chairman of Kayin State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Brig-Gen Zaw Min and officials made aninspection tour of Kawkareik Township on 3 Marchmorning. They inspected river water pumping projectand cultivation of summer paddy on 60 acres offarmlands in Kanne village, Kawkareik Township,Kawkareik District.

They also inspected the self-reliant reinforcedconcrete bridge which links Kanne and Tandaoovillages and then donated alms to Presiding SayadawBaddanda Suvana of Kanne village monastery.

They met with villagers and the CEC memberdonated K 800,000 for the building of a bridge and K100,000 and stationery for Kanne Village BasicEducation High School.

During the tour of Kyondoe Township, theydonated alms to Sayadaw Bhaddata Vajena andmembers of the Sangha. They also met with membersof Township USDAs, departmental heads, membersof social organizations and the local people. The CECmember donated K 200,000 for Kyondoe StationHospital and stationery for BEHS.

Next, they inspected cultivation of summerpaddy and self-reliant connection of powerlines andprogress in paving gravel road in Thanhle andKhayatwin Sanpya villages in Hpa-an Township.

The CEC member and the chairman of KayinState PDC met with secretaries and executives ofUSDAs in seven townships of Kayin State at themeeting hall of State Peace and Development CouncilOffice on 8 March.— MNA

Development tasks inKayin State inspected

NAY PYI TAW, 11 March — Central ExecutiveCommittee Member of the Union Solidarity andDevelopment Association Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen Thein Aung, accompanied by officials went on aninspection tour of Loikaw Township on 8 March. TheCEC member and party paid homage to State CentralWorking Committee of the Sangha Secretary SayadawAgga Maha Pandita Bhaddanta Thayhtila Bhivamsa ofMinkyaung Monastery in Loikaw Township anddonated robes and alms to the Sayadaw and made cashdonation for Lawkachantha Shwesekhon Pogada.

Afterwards, he inspected progress in buildingUniversity of Technology in Loikaw and gave necessaryinstructions. Then he looked into construction tasks ofBasic Education Post-primary School in LoikawTownship and contributed cash assistance for building

USDA CEC Member inspects regional developmenttasks in Loikaw and Dimawhso Townships

the school and gave necessary instructions.The CEC member paid homage to Chairman

Sayadaw of Loikaw Township Sangha NayakaCommittee Maha Saddhamajotika Bhaddanta Sandima,donated robes and alms to the Sayadaw and made cashdonation for building Mingala Pagoda.

The CEC member attended ceremonies toopen new building of a clinic, Basic Education PrimarySchool and Pre-Primary School in DimawhsoTownship and provided necessary assistance.

He also inspected progress in buildingKapalkhu village and Withekoo village monasteriesand paid homage to members of the Sangha anddonated robes, alms and cash to the Sayadaws.

The CEC member met with villagers and leftnecessary instructions.— MNA

YANGON, 11 March—Educative talks on preventivemeasures against fire were held along with a fire-fighting demonstration at Pazundaung Market here on9 March.

It was attended by Deputy Head U Tin Ko Ko ofYangon South District Market Department, those in-charge of markets of Pazundaung, Botahtaung,Kyauktada, Dalla, Seikkyi Khanaungto townships andshop owners.

Deputy Head of Kyauktada Fire Service ZoneYethurein Ko Ko Soe gave educative talks on fire-preventive measures, followed by a fire-fightingdemonstration.

MNA

Fire-preventive talks held

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Aung inspects construction of TechnologicalUniversity in Loikaw. — FORESTRY

Commander Brig-Gen Myint Soe andministers inspect 100-bed People’s Hospital in

Homalin. — HEALTH

Fools, men of little intelligence, betake themselves to intoxica-tion. The wise one protects non-intoxication as a supreme treasure.

Dhammapada-26

Wise one protects non-intoxicationas supreme treasure

Take

Fire

Preventive

Measures

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YANGON, 10March—Minister forElectric Power No 2 Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myintaccompanied by officialsconcerned inspectedinstallation of natural gas-run turbine, genera-tionof electricity at fullcapacity of the plant,operating of steam powerboiler turbine byComputer ControlSystem at the ControlRoom of Natural GasPower Plant in AhlonTownship here on 7

UMFCCI officials to take Managing CompetitiveExport Business course in Bangkok

YANGON, 11 March—Chairman of DivisionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofCoastal Region Com-mand Maj-Gen Khin ZawOo and Minister forLivestock and FisheriesBrig-Gen Maung MaungThein inspected develop-ment tasks in Kyunsu

YANGON, 11 March —Minister for EducationDr Chan Nyein together with Chairman of MyanmarBoard of Examinations U Ohn Myint today inspectedthe matriculation examination centres of No 2Kamayut BEHS, Yangon Institute of PractisingSchool, No 1 Sangyoung BEHS, No 1 Dagon BEHSand No 2 Kyimyindine BEHS and viewed studentstaking the examination at the centre.

MNA

Development tasks in KyunsuTownship inspected

Township on 9 March.During the inspection

tour of the township, thecommander and theminister met withdepartmental officials,townselders and socialorgnaization members atKyun Yadana Hall in thetownship.

Later, they visited

fish breeding of UnitedKMK (Myeik) Co Ltd inthe township.

The minister metwith employees of theministry in YangonDivision at the FisheriesDepartment in AhlonTownship yesterday.

MNA

Minister visits matricexam centres

YANGON, 11 March—The opening ceremony ofresearch and teachingtreatise and posterexhibition (2008) ofYangon West Universitywas held at the universityhere this morning.

Rector Dr Aung Aung

YANGON, 11March —Fire victims inHlinethaya received reliefaids from donars today andCEC member of UnionSolidarity andDevelopment AssociationMayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin presented food-stuff worth K 630,000 tothe victims.

The ceremonywas held at No 16 BasicEducation Primary School

Hlinethaya fire victims get relief aids

in Hlinethaya Township,and the mayor handedover food and provisionsdonated by YangonDivision USDA to the firevictims of YayokkanVillage. Chairman ofTownship PDC U KhinMaung Thein accepted theaids.

After theceremony, the mayor metwith the fire victims andvisited the relief camps.

Yangon Division USDAand wellwishers hadalready donated 50 bagsof rice, 50 viss of edibleoil and K 3.5 million to thefire victims on 26February.

The mayor laterinspected construction oftwo-storey building ofPhyo Cetana Clinic androad works at Ward 18 inthe township.

MNA

Research and teachingtreatise and poster

exhibition holdsMin formally opened theceremony. Chairman ofMyanmar Acadamy ofArts and Science U ThanOo and guests viewed thebooths around theexhibition.

Displayed at theexhibition are researchon solar power,generating of electricityfrom solar power,research treatises, booksand research posters ofOriental Studies,Philosophy, Myanmar,Mathematics, Physics,Law, Industrial Che-mistry, Chemistry,History, Geography,English, Botany andZoology and poster andresearch treatise booksof extracting biodiselfrom edible oil waste byChemistry Department.The exhibition continuestill tomorrow.

MNA

Electric Power No 2Minister inspects Natural

Gas Power Plant

March.Next, the

minister and party lookedinto installation of newNo 3 Turbine, running ofTurbines at full capacity,running of steam-powered turbine boiler,arrangements made forrepairing the old TurbineRotor and attended to theneeds.

Next, theminister presented K200,000 foraccomplishment ofreplacing new Turbine at

Commander Maj-Gen Khin Zaw Oo and Minister Brig-Gen Maung

Maung Thein inspect fish breeding of KMK (Myeik) Co Ltd in Kyunsu

Township, Myeik District. — MNA

Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin hands over foodstuff to responsibleperson for fire victims in Hlinethaya Township.—YCDC

U Kyaw Kyaw Win (R) and Daw Thi Thi Winpose for photo before their departure for

Bangkok.—UMFCCI

Ahlon Natural Gas PowerPlant and K 100,000 formaintenance of NEDOTurbine at YwamaNatural Gas Power Plantto the personnel andfulfiled the requirements.

MNA

YANGON, 11 March— An executive and a staffof Union of MyanmarFederation of Chambers ofCommerce and Industry willtake the Course onManaging a Competitive

Export Business from 10 to19 March at University ofThai Chamber ofCommerce in Bangkok,Thailand.

U Kyaw KyawWin, an executive of

UMFCCI, and Daw Thi ThiWin, staff of UMFCCI lefthere for Bangkok on 9 Marchby air. They were seen off atYangon InternationalAirport by officialsconcerned. — MNA

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ROME, 11 March —The ruling ConservativeNationalist Party scoreda narrow win in Malta’sgeneral election, beatingits traditional rival, theLabour Party, electionofficials said Monday.

The Nationalistshave won 49.3 per centof the vote, compared toLabour’s 48.8 per cent.

Saturday’s vote wasthe first since the tiny

Malta’s ruling Nationalists wingeneral election

Mediterranean statejoined the EuropeanUnion in 2004. TheNationalists, in powersince 1998, faced atough challenge fromLabour.

The island statesouth of Italy has beenruled by one or the otherof the two parties sinceits independence fromBritain in 1964.

While the 54-year-

old incumbent PrimeMinister LawrenceGonzi ran on economicachievements, his lesscharismatic opponent,Labour Party leaderAlfred Sant, 60, pushedan anti-corruption plat-form.

In the 2003 vote, theNationalists won 34 seatsand Labour 31 in Malta’s65-seat Parliament.

MNA/Xinhua

ELDORET (Kenya), 11March — Kenyan militaryhelicopters fired at targetsin the volatile MountElgon Region on Mondayto flush out gunmenblamed for killing at least12 people in the latest landdispute, witnesses said.

A Reuters reporter,who visited the scene, saidArmy helicopters struckthe forested mountain area

Kenya security forces attack landclash area

as part of a securityoperation following lastweek’s attack in whichcivilians were hacked,shot or burned to death.

“There are fivehelicopters at Cheptaisfiring in the forest,” hesaid.

Human rights groupsay more than 500 peoplehave been killed in MountElgon clashes over the past

year and a half in violencethat precedes a wave ofethnic violence overPresident Mwai Kibaki’sdisputed re-election inDecember.

G o v e r n m e n tspokesman Alfred Mutuaconfirmed the operationnear the Uganda border,saying the Army wasproviding logisticalsupport to police hunting“criminals operatingfrom mountainhideouts”.

MNA/Reuters

WASHINGTON, 11March — Hillary Clintonwill win Democraticprimary elections inPennsylvania, Kentuckyand West Virginia in thecoming weeks, but rivalBarack Obama willultimately capture theparty’s presidentialnomination, traders werebetting on Monday.

Exchange bets favour Obama forDemocratic nomination

Traders on theDublin-based Intradeprediction market also puttheir bets on theDemocratic Party to holdnew primary electionsbefore 30 June inMichigan and Florida,where earlier results weredeclared invalid in a fightover the date of theelections.

But even that, thetraders were betting,would not be enough tohelp Clinton win theDemocratic nomination tooppose Republican JohnMcCain in the Novembergeneral election.

Intrade traders gaveObama a 75-per-centchance of winning theDemocratic nominationfor US president, versus23.5 per cent for Clinton.Traders on the IowaElectronic Markets, anonprofit exchange run bythe University of Iowa forresearch purposes, gaveObama a 74 per centchance of winning, versus24 per cent for Clinton.

MNA/Reuters

RAMALLAH, 11 March— Israeli troops arrested30 Palestinians in the WestBank, mostly in the townof Nablus, during anovernight incursion, localsources and witnesses saidon Monday.

In Nablus and itsrefugee camps, Israelarrested 29 Palestinianswho were either membersof Islamic Hamasmovement or of the

Israel arrests 30 Palestiniansin West Bank incursion

Popular Front for theLiberation of Palestine(PFLP), Hamas sourcessaid.

The detentions tookplace in the city’s al-Einand Balata refugee camps,local sources said, addingthat more than 30 IsraeliArmy vehicles rolled intothe city and withdrew inthe morning after arrestingthe activists from theirhouses. —MNA/Xinhua

MAPUTO, 11 March —Tropical cyclone Jokwebattered parts ofMozambique for a thirdday on Monday, killing atleast eight people anddestroying thousands ofhomes in the northernNampula Province, RadioMozambique reported.

Eight killed as cyclone “Jokwe”lashes Mozambique

The state-controllednational broadcaster saidfour districts were beinglashed by heavy down-pours and strong windsof up to 200 kilometresper hour (125 miles perhour).

Thousands of peoplehave been forced to fleetheir homes and thecyclone has destroyedalmost 20,000 homes,wrecked electricity pylonsand uprooted trees.

Emergency officialssaid the cyclone wasmoving to the country’ssouthern regions and theyexpected the death toll toincrease.

Paulo Zucula, directorof Mozambique’sNational Institute ofDisaster Management(INGC) said CycloneJokwe was moredangerous than CycloneFavio which struckMozambique last year andkilled 10 people.

“The situation isterrible right now withdangerous winds of 200kilometres per hourtravelling to the southernparts of Mozambique,” thetold Reuters.

MNA/Reuters

Photo taken on 10 March, 2008 shows the construction site of the secondproject of west-to-east natural gas transmission pipeline in Fengle Town of

Wuwei City, northwest China’s Gansu Province. The pipeline will carrynatural gas from Turkmenistan and China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous

Region to the central and west China’s areas as well as the Yangtze and PearlRiver deltas. — XINHUA

Two explosions took place in eastern Pakistan on Tuesday morning, killing atleast 20 people, local TV channel DAWN NEWS reported.—XINHUA

British WWII ship found inNorwegian fjord

OSLO, 11 March — The wreck of a Britishwarship sunk by the Germans during World War II,killing more than 100 men, has been discovered onthe bottom of a deep fjord in the north of Norway,the Norwegian Navy said.

HMS Hunter went down on April 10, 1940, inthe Ofot fjord outside of the Arctic port of Narvikduring the first of two battles between the Britishand the Nazis, during which several other ships weresunk and never seen again in the deep inlet.

“We searched the area where HMS Hunter mostlikely was located and spent around 14 hours beforewe found the vessel,” said lieutenant TomThorgrimsen at KNM Tyr, the ship that made thediscovery last week.

A memorial ceremony was held on Saturday forthe victims, with over a thousand British andNorwegian soldiers taking part. —MNA/Reuters

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A person walks past a “Gassho Zukuri,”traditional Japanese thatched house at thesnow-covered Shirakawa village in Gifu

prefecture, central Japan. Historical villagesShirakama and Gokayama are famous for the

well-preserved Gassho Zukuri farmhouses,which were listed as one of the World CulturalHeritage sites by UNESCO in 1995.—XINHUA

Japanese jazz pianistYosuke Yamashita,in fireproof gear,plays the piano

which was set ablazefor his performance

in Shika town,Ishikawa prefecture,

central Japan,Saturday, March 8,

2008. His 10 minutesperformance, for hisfirst time in 35 years,attracted some 400

audience at thecoastal town.

XINHUA

The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off to begin mission STS-123

at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida

March 11, 2008.—XINHUA

View of the Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth polar station, received at a news conference on the firstphase its construction, in Brussels March 11, 2008. Belgium is building the first ever zero-emission

polar station in the Antarctic, powered by solar panels and wind turbines and designed to haveminimal impact on the climate change its scientists are studying. —INTERNET

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Workers prepare the beach around the grounded Dutch cargo ship ‘Artemis’ in LesSables d’Olonne, on France’s west coast, Tuesday March 11, 2008 after Monday’s

strong winds lashed the coast. Maritime officials said the ‘Artemis’ was approachingthe port when high winds pushed it off course.—INTERNET

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

INVITATION TO TENDERTENDER NO(1) (ES) A.M.D (2008-2009)

1. Sealed Tenders are invited by Agricultural Mechanization Department, Ministryof Agriculture and Irrigation, for the supply of the following store (in Myanmar Kyats.)

Sr. No Description Quantity

1. Tyre & Tube Sets 1-Lots,7 Items2. Assorted Taper Roller & Ball Bearing 1-Lots,41 Items3. Implement Disc, 12V Battery, Paint & Machine Tools 4-Lots,35 Items4. Tractor Spares (Zwe, 6711,7011, SH-50, SH-654, TN-800 7-Lots,276 Items JD-2800 & MF 273)5. Excavator & Dozer Spares 1-Lots,130 Items6. Plunger, Delivery Valve and Nozzle Tip 1-Lots,13 Items

2. Tender Closing Date 31st March 2008, 12:00 hrs3. Tender document are available at Equipment & Stores Branch of AgriculturalMechanization Department (Head Office), AMD Bayintnaung Road, Insein Town-ship, Yangon, during office hours from (14-3-2008). Only Tenders purchased fromAMD will be accepted.4. For more details, Contact; 01-682209, 01-682593

Director GeneralAgricultural Mechanization Department

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV XIANG FENG VOY NO (8013)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV XIANG FENGVOY NO (8013) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 12.3.2007 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S CHINA SHIPPING(MALAYSIA) AGENCY SDN BHD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Invitation for ASEAN Energy Awards 2008 CompetitionsASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) is now accepting entries

to the competitions for (1) ASEAN Renewable EnergyProject, (2) ASEAN Energy Efficient Building and (3)ASEAN Best Practices for Energy Management in Buildingsand Industries under the ASEAN Energy Awards 2008.

The entries may be from Government sectors and Privatesectors.

Application Forms are available from MyanmarEngineering Society, Hlaing Universities’ Campus, HlaingTownship, Yangon. (Tel: 95-01-519673~76, 579038), until(21st March, 2008).

Seven in Macao detainedfor drug trafficking

MACAO, 10 March—Seven teenagers involved infive separate drug trafficking cases, which were crackedby local police last week, have been taken into custody,according to a Press statement released Sunday by thePublic Prosecutor-General Office of the Macao SpecialAdministrative Region.

All of the suspects in the five cases are local teenagers,some of whom are students and croupiers working atlocal casinos.

The cases took place from 29 February to 7 March,the office said, adding that it is “rare” in recent yearsfor so many drug-trafficking cases involving teenagersin just a week.

The office also said that besides smuggling andpeddling drugs, some of the suspects even robbed apregnant woman so as to collect money to buy drugs.

The suspects, whose age the authority did not reveal,will face charges of drug trafficking, robbery andpossession of illegal weapons, and given the seriousnessof these crimes, the suspects were remanded in Macao’sprison pending court trial, according to the statement.

MNA/Xinhua

Bird flu strikes new Bangladesh district

HK, Macao, Guangdong in deal to build bridge

DHAKA, 10 March—Bird flu has spread toanother district in Bang-ladesh despite massiveculling by authorities tocontrol the outbreak,officials said on Sunday,bringing the number ofaffected districts to 47 outof 64.

The new case of the avianinfluenza was found inBrahmanbaria, in the eastof the capital Dhaka,livestock officials said.They added that the spread

of bird flu had slowed inthe previously affectedareas in recent weeks.

Nearly 1.25 million birdshave been culled since thevirus was first detected inMarch 2007, threateningthe impoverished coun-try’s growing poultrysector.

Industry officials saidbird flu had caused lossesof about 45 billion taka(650 million US dollars) tothe poultry sector, whichaccounts for 1.6 per cent of

gross domestic product. Around five million of

the country’s more than140 million people aredirectly or indirectly in-volved in poultry farming,of whom officials estimatemore than 1.5 million havenow become jobless.

No human bird flu caseshave been reported inBangladesh, a denselypopulated nation wherepoultry is commonly keptby households.

MNA/Reuters

HONG KONG, 10 March—Hong Kong, Macao andthe southern Chineseprovince of Guangdonghave reached agreementon the partial funding of abridge linking the three, aproject that will cost atotal 42.2 billion yuan (5.9billion US dollars), mediareported.

The South ChinaMorning Post reportedthat the governments ofthe three regions would

need to pay 20 billion HKdollars (2.6 billion USdollars), with Hong Kongcontributing 50.2 per cent,Guangdong 35.1 per centand Macao 14.7 per cent.

The rest of the fundingwould be sought from theprivate sector throughpublic bidding, the Xinhuanews agency said, citingremarks by GuangdongGovernor Huang Huahuaon the sidelines of theannual session of China’s

Parliament, the NationalPeople’s Congress.

The total cost is higherthan earlier projections forthe 29.6-kilometre (18-mile) bridge and does notinclude the cost ofbuilding and operatingcross-border facilities andconnecting roads, the Postreported.

MNA/Reuters

Germany’s SPD denies party head will go

Food poisoningclaims 258 lives in

China in 2007BEIJING, 10 March—

Food poisoning claimed258 lives in China lastyear, up 31.6 per cent year-on-year, the Ministry ofHealth said here onWednesday.

In total, 506 foodpoisoning cases werereported last year, down26.5 per cent from theprevious year. Theyinvolved 13,280 people.

There were 11 foodpoisoning incidentsinvolving 100 people ormore, down 15 per centyear-on-year, according tothe ministry.

Most of the fatal foodpoisoning incidents werecaused by toxic seafood,meat and produce,accounting for 37 per centof the cases and 64 percent of the deaths.

Toxic mushrooms werethe top killer. The 88 casesreported left 113 peopledead and 526 peopleaffected, the figuresshowed.—MNA/Xinhua

BERLIN, 10 March—Germany’s Social Demo-crats (SPD) deniedsuggestions on Saturdaythat party leader Kurt Beckwould resign over aninternal debate on whetherto cooperate with a far-left party that has surgedin recent state elections.

The SPD, which rulesin an uneasy coalition withChancellor Angela Mer-kel’s Conservative Chri-stian Democrats (CDU),

has long been divided overhow to deal with the Leftparty, a group of formerCommunists and formerSPD members.

But the internal debatereached a crisis point onFriday, when state SPDleader Andrea Ypsilantisaid she did not haveenough backing inside herown party to form aminority government inHesse using votes fromthe Left party.

Beck had givenYpsilanti a green light tocooperate with the Leftparty despite oppositionfrom more centrist partymembers.

“Will Beck fall?” Bilddaily said in a bannerheadline on its frontpage,adding SPD officials werepondering whether toreinstall former party chiefFranz Muentefering to thetop post.

MNA/Reuters

New Spanish PM faceseconomic headache

MADRID, 11 March— One of the first tasks ofnewly re-elected Prime Minister Jose Luis RodriguezZapatero will be to inject life into Spain’s falteringeconomy to prevent a crisis of confidence turning intosomething worse.

The governing Socialist Party won Sunday’sparliamentary election, without an absolute majority,after a bitter campaign where the faltering economytook a central role.

MNA/Reuters

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China foils attack onpassenger plane

Education in world lacks18 million teachers

NASA visitors gather near Space ShuttleEndeavour at Kennedy Space Centre, Fla, on 10March, 2008. Endeavour will launch on Tuesdaymorning with a crew of seven and deliver Japan’sKibo laboratory and Canada’s two-armed robotic

system to the International Space Station.INTERNET

BEIJING, 10 March —China on Friday foiled aplanned attack on apassenger plane taking offfrom Urumqi, capital ofthe northwestern XinjiangUygur AutonomousRegion, an official saidhere on Sunday.

The China SouthernAirlines aircraft tookoff at 10:35, and landedin Lanzhou, capital ofneighbouring GansuProvince, at 12:40 Friday,before reaching itsdestination Beijing,because “some peoplewere attempting to createan air disaster,” saidNur Bekri, chairmanof the Xinjiang regionalgovernment, on the side-lines of the ongoingParliament session.

The attackers werestopped in time by the air

police, and all thepassengers and crewmembers on board aresafe, he told reportersafter a panel discussionat the ongoing session ofthe National People’sCongress (NPC). Theplane arrived in BeijingSaturday morning.

An official with theairliner told Xinhua ina telephone interviewthat he cannot confirmwhether the incident wasa terror attack, “it’s up tothe police department toverify”.

The crew and air policereported the incident tothe control tower, andlanded in Lanzhou underthe instruction of thetower, said the aviationofficial on condition ofanonymity.

MNA/Xinhua

JAKARTA, 10 March —An official of theUNESCO has said herethat education in theworld is still lacking 18million teachers tocomplete the nine-yearbasic education.

This shortage will beone of subjects ofdiscussion at the meetingof Education Ministersfrom nine countries withthe biggest population inthe world, E-9, inIndonesia’s Bali Provincefrom 10 to 12 March,2008.

“Some 40 per centof 18 million teachersare required by theE-9 countries alone”,Antara news agencyMonday quoted CarolinePontefract, UNESCOChief Section ForTeachers as saying.

The E-9 groupsBangladesh, Brazil,China, Egypt, India,Indonesia, Mexico,Nigeria and Pakistan.

The additional 18million primary schoolteachers were to meetthe “Educat ion ForAll” target to eradicatei l l i teracy by 2015,Carol ine sa id onSunday.

“Focus of the meetingis not only on meetingthe additional numberof teachers, but alsoimproving the quality ofthe teachers, “ Carolinesaid, adding that themeeting will alsounderline the impor-tance of stepping upeducation and training ofteachers apart of edu-cational reforms.

MNA/Xinhua

Kids of parents of Alzheimer’sface its high risk

The ApoE gene is involved inmaking a substance in the body that

helps carry cholesterol in thebloodstream and the gene seems to

influence the age of onset ofAlzheimer’s.—INTERNET

BEIJING, 11 March — If both parentshave Alzheimer’s disease, their children

face an increased risk of developing thecondition, U S researchers were quotedas saying by media reports Tuesday.

Their study focused on 111 families inwhich both parents were diagnosed withAlzheimer’s disease and assessed the riskfor developing it among the offspring.

The parents had 297 children who livedinto adulthood. Of the 98 men and womenwho were at least 70 years old, 41 of them— about 42 percent — developedAlzheimer’s disease, researchers at theUniversity of Washington in Seattlefound. That’s greater than the percentagein the general population in that age group,Dr Thomas Bird, one of the researchers,said. In the general population, risk forthe disease begins to rise at about age 65,with the number of people developing thedisease doubling every five years beyondthat, experts said. —Internet

An Afghan Houndwaits for judging atthe Crufts dog show

in Birmingham,central England on 9March 2008. Cruftswas founded in 1891

by entrepreneurCharles Cruft and

has long beenestablished as one ofthe world’s greatest

dog shows.INTERNET

Cuba, EU favour dialogue toimproving relationship

HAVANA, 10 March —Constructive dialogue isthe best way tonormalize Cuba-EUrelations and both sideswould l ike to seerelations improve, thetwo sides said in a jointstatement on Sunday.

“The EuropeanCommission accepts theposition that the measuresadopted by the Union in2003 are the mainobstacle to establishing apolitical dialogue andshould be eliminated,” thestatement added.

The statement sums upthe results of a three-dayvisit that began Friday by

Louis Michel, the EU’scommissioner for hu-manitarian assistance anddevelopment.

Michel, who arrived inCuba on Thursday, metwith top Cuban officialsincluding ForeignMinister Felipe PerezRoque, Vice-President ofthe Council of StateCarlos Lage, President ofthe National Assembly of

People’s Power RicardoAlarcon, ForeignInvestment andCooperation MinisterMarta Lomas and chiefof the Civil Defence StaffRamon Pardo Guerra, andheld talks coveringpolitics, human rights,trade, economics, scienceand culture, according tothe statement.

MNA/Xinhua

High winds batter northwest France, man drownedRENNES (France), 11

March— A man drownedoff northwest Franceovernight when his boatcapsized in high winds anda cargo vessel was blownaground on France’sAtlantic Coast, Frenchofficials said on Monday.

A storm that swept infrom the Atlantic batterednorthwest France andsouthern areas of Britain,bringing down trees and

power lines and poundingcoastal defences.

French maritimeauthorities said a 26-year-old man fell into the waterwhen his small boat washit by a large wave late onSunday in the small portof Relecq-Kerhuon, nearBrest in the far west ofBrittany.

His body was foundearly on Monday. Asecond man who was in

the vessel was rescued byfriends in another boatnearby.

The Dutch-registeredcargo ship Artemis wasblown onto a beach at theAtlantic coastal resort ofLes Sables d’Olonne andan attempt would be madeto refloat it later onMonday, they said, addingthere was no danger to theenvironment.

MNA/Reuters

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S P O R T S

Pete Sampras of the US serves to RogerFederer of Switzerland during the firstset of their exhibition match at NewYork’s Madison Square Garden, on 10March, 2008. Federer beat former No. 1Sampras 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6).—XINHUA

Denver Nuggets forward Eduardo Najera (21),of Mexico, battles for a rebound over San Antonio

Spurs forward Matt Bonner (15) and teammateguard JR Smith (1) during the second quarterof their NBA basketball game in San Antonio,

on 10 March, 2008.—INTERNET

United assistant Queirozapologizes for Taylor remarkLONDON, 11 March — Manchester United’s assistant

manager Carlos Queiroz has apologized to Birming-ham City defender Martin Taylor for comments hemade on Saturday.

Queiroz was angered by the treatment of CristianoRonaldo during United’s FA Cup defeat by Port-smouth and said referees were not doing anything tostop “the Taylors of this game” using rough treatmentto stop the flair players.

Taylor was sent off for the tackle that broke Arsenalstriker Eduardo da Silva’s leg last month.

The Portuguese could still find himself in troublewith the FA, however, after other remarks aboutreferee Martin Atkinson, including calling him a“robber”.

“I am deeply sorry if my comments, made whenemotions were running high after the Portsmouthgame, were misconstrued,” Queiroz told United’swebsite (www.manutd.com) on Monday.

“Everyone at Manchester United knows that MartinTaylor is not that type of player. All I sought to say wasthat in the modern game, because of its speed, we needto have more vigilance on mistimed tackles. I apolo-gise for any upset my remarks may have caused.”

MNA/Reuters

Brazilian referee suspendedfor miscounting yellow cardsRIO DE JANEIRO, 11 March — A Brazilian referee was

given a 15-day suspension on Monday for failing tosend off a player despite showing him two yellowcards.

The incident occurred in the Paulista championshipon Sunday when referee Jose Henrique de Carvalhotwice booked Guaratingueta midfielder Magal in thefirst half of the 2-0 defeat by Corinthians.

“He (Carvalho) made some serious mistakes,”Marcos Maurinho, head of the Paulista federation’srefereeing committee, told Jovem Pan radio.

“There was a procedural error when he wrote downhe had given a card for the number five (Jackson)instead of number eight (Magal). He maintained thedecision even after being told by the fourth official.”

Carvalho, who sent off Corinthians player Bovioin the first half, acknowledged the mistake in atelevision interview after the game and apologized tosupporters.

MNA/Reuters

StrugglingParma sack

coach Di CarloMILAN, 11 March —

Domenico Di Carlo hasbeen sacked as coach ofParma, the Serie A strug-glers said on Monday.

Parma suffered their12th league defeat of theseason on Sunday whenthey lost 2-1 at home toSampdoria.

The 1995 and 1999UEFA Cup winners arefourth-from-bottom andlevel on 25 points withEmpoli, who occupy thefirst of three relegationplaces.

“Parma announce thatDomenico Di Carlohas today been relievedof his role as first teamcoach,” a statement saidon the club’s website(www.fcparma.it).

Di Carlo was appointedin June after ClaudioRanieri quit and joinedJuventus having keptParma up at the end of lastseason. — MNA/Reuters

Stuttgart resigned to losingtop striker Gomez

BERLIN, 11 March — VfB Stuttgart striker MarioGomez is in such good form that the Bundesliga clubhave given up hope of keeping him for the remainingfour years of his contract.

Gomez, the Bundesliga’s player of the year lastseason, took his tally for the current campaign to 14league goals after scoring a hat-trick in Saturday's 6-3win over Werder Bremen.

“It’s unrealistic to think that Mario will stay to theend of his contract in 2012,” Stuttgart sporting directorHorst Heldt was quoted as saying by German media onMonday. — MNA/Reuters

Ghanaian player injuredin racist attack in Serbia

BELGRADE, 11 March — A Ghanaian player on trialwith Serbian First Division club Borac Cacak sufferedminor injuries when he was attacked by fans shoutingracist insults after a league match on Saturday, Bel-grade media reported.

Solomon Opaku was confronted by 10 attackers,daily Sport said on Monday. Six people were arrested,of whom four have been charged with ethnic and racialoffences, the newspaper said.

“I was on my way back to the hotel with two friendswhen I felt a thumping blow to the back of my head,”the 20-year-old told the newspaper. — MNA/Reuters

Blatter says artificial pitches possibleat World Cup

Manucho off the mark as Panathinaikos stay clear

Spaniard Camacho quits as Benfica coachLISBON, 11 March — Spaniard Jose Antonio Camacho has

resigned as Benfica coach, the Lisbon club's president Luis FilipeVieira said on Sunday.

Camacho’s assistant Fernando Chalana will take charge of theteam for the UEFA Cup last-16 second leg game against Getafe onWednesday, Benfica said on their website (slbenfica.pt). Benficalost the first leg at home 2-1.

They were held to a 2-2 draw by bottom-of-the-table Uniao Leiriaon Sunday, a result which left them 14 points behind PortuguesePremier League leaders Porto with eight games remaining thisseason. “I think it is best (my resignation) for the team,” the formerSpanish national coach told a news conference. “I hope that theplayers improve with another coach.”

Camacho, who led Benfica to second place in the standings in aprevious spell in Lisbon in 2004, was appointed coach in Augustafter Fernando Santos was sacked.

The Spaniard made his name as a hard-tackling defender for RealMadrid and Spain in the 1970s and 80s.

He was assistant to Real first-team coaches John Toshack andAlfredo Di Stefano in the early 1990s before steering both RayoVallecano and Espanyol to promotion to the top flight.

MNA/Reuters

GLENEAGLES (Scotland), 11 March —Artificial pitches could be used in the2010 World Cup in South Africa, FIFApresident Sepp Blatter said.

Speaking to reporters after a meetingof FIFA’s International Football Asso-ciation Board in Scotland on Saturday,Blatter said artificial pitches might benecessary because the tournament wasnot being staged in the South Africansummer.

“If there are any problems with pitchesbecause we play when it is not summer

time in South Africa, it will not affect thestadia in Port Elizabeth, Cape Town orDurban because they are at sea level,” hesaid.

“But perhaps up in the mountains, ifthere are any problems then it is apossibility that some matches could beplayed on artificial turf. This is not onlya point to make headlines, it is the truth.

“Football on artificial turf is thefuture. More and more. The only oppo-nents are people who have never playedon it.” — MNA/Reuters

ATHENS, 11 March —Angola striker Manuchoscored his first goal forPanathinaikos on Sundayas the league leaders beatLarissa 2-0 to keep clearat the top of the GreekSuper League.

Manucho, who joinedon loan from ManchesterUnited after the AfricaNations Cup in January,opened his accountwhen he converted a61st minute NikosSpyropoulos cross with aleft-foot volley.

Larissa had been re-duced to 10 men whenGeorgos Galitsios wassent off for a second yel-low card just beforehalftime and four minutesfrom time DimitrisSalpigidis got his head ona floated freekick fromAndreas Ivanschitz tomake it 2-0.

With six matches re-maining, Panathinaikos,in their centenary year,have 56 points, oneahead of Olympiakoswhile third-placed AEK

Athens have 52. Both of the other chal-

lengers for the title keptup their chase with winson Sunday.

Olympiakos found ittough work againstrelegation strugglersVeria but took the pointsthanks to a seventh-minute goal fromChristos Patsatzoglou.

AEK had a more com-fortable ride with a 4-1win against OFI Creteaided by two own goals.

MNA/Reuters

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WEATHER

R 489 Published by the News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar. Edited and printed at The New Light of Myanmar Press,No 22/30 Strand Road at 43rd Street, Yangon. Cable Newlight, PO Box No. 43, Telephones: Editors 392308, Manager 392226, Circulation 392304, Advertisement 392223,Accounts 392224, Administration 392225, Production/Press 392369

Tuesday, 11 March, 2008

Summary of observations recorded at 9:30

hours MST: During the past 24 hours, weather has

been partly cloudy in the whole country. Day tempera-

tures were (4ºC) below March average temperatures in

Bago Division and about March average temperatures

in the remaining States and Divisions. The significant

day temperature was Chauk (38ºC).

Maximum temperature on 10-3-2008 was 97ºF.

Minimum temperature on 11-3-2008 was 69ºF. Rela-

tive humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 11-3-2008

was 83%. Total sunshine hours on 10-3-2008 was

(8.4) hours approx.

Rainfall on 11-3-2008 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,

Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since

1-1-2008 was (0.67) inch at Mingaladon, (0.47 ) inch

at Kaba-Aye and (0.35) inch at Central Yangon.

Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was

(4) mph from North at (16:30) hours MST on

10-3-2008.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in the

Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 12-3-2008: Like-

lihood of isolated rain or thundershowers in Kachin,

Shan, Chin and Rakhine States and upper Sagaing Divi-

sion, weather will be partly cloudy in the remaining

areas. Degree of certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in

Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood

of increase of day temperatures in Deltaic areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring

area for 12-3-2008: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area

for 12-3-2008: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area

for 12-3-2008: Partly cloudy.

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Magnitude 5.5 quake hits Chile,no damage reported

SANTIAGO, 11 March — A 5.5 magnitudeearthquake shook northern Chile on Monday, but therewere no immediate reports of injuries or damages.

The epicentre of the quake was 94 miles (152kilometres) southeast of Copiapo at a depth of 53.6 miles(86 kilometres), the US Geological Survey said. Copiapo,about 500 miles (800 kilometres) north of Santiago, isthe capital of a province of the same name.

“There have been no reports of personal or materialdamages,” Chile’s National Emergency Office said in astatement.

Chile is the world’s biggest copper producer andmost of its mines are in its northern region. Howevernone of the major copper mines are located in theimmediate vicinity of Copiapo. — MNA/Reuters

Promising cancer drug may endanger child’s bonesWASHINGTON, 11 March — A compound that looked promising for treating

a brain tumour found mostly in children may damage growing bone — possiblymaking it too dangerous to use in young patients, researchers reported onMonday.

SEOUL, 11 March —The man intended to be thefirst South Korean in spacehas been grounded forviolating security protocoland will be replaced by afemale biotechnologyengineer, the ScienceMinistry said on Monday.

Ko San, 31, wasdropped from the top pickfor the April 2008 flight ona Russian Soyuz spacecraftand is now the backup forthe mission after he

removed sensitive trainingmaterial from a Russiancentre, the ministry said.

“The Russians em-phasized the importance ofabiding by the rules, as evensmall mistakes can bringabout grave consequencesin space,” an offical told anews conference, addingKo appeared to have madeinnocent mistakes.

Ko, a technologyresearcher and a bronzemedal winner in a 2004national amateur boxingcontest, is being replacedby Yi So-yeon, 29, who isfinishing her doctorate.

Yi will serve as apayload specialist with twoRussian cosmonauts for aseven or eight-day missionto the International SpaceStation, the ministry said.The two were selected froma list of more than 36,000candidates.

MNA/Reuters

The drug fullyeradicated medullobla-stoma tumours in mice in2004. But further testingshowed it caused perman-ent bone damage inimmature mice, TomCurran of The Children’sHospital of Philadelphiaand colleagues found.

Writing in the journalCancer Cell, they said thedrug, known by itsexperimental nameHhAntag, will need to bedeveloped with caution.

And, they said, similardrugs will need carefultesting.

HhAntag, made byCalifornia-based Genen-tech, affects a gene calledHedgehog, involved inboth normal developmentand in cancer.

It is a so-called signaltransduction inhibitor,designed to interrupt Hedg-ehog’s cancer-causingeffects.

Several such drugs arecurrently in pediatric clini-

cal trials.“While it is not clear

that the bone defects weobserved in mice would alsooccur in children, and whilesignal transductioninhibitors may still representa highly promisingapproach to treatingpediatric cancer, it may beimportant to performpreclinical testing in younganimals before movingahead to clinical trials,”Curran said in a state-ment.— MNA/Reuters

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People’s Desire� We favour stability.� We favour peace.� We oppose unrest and violence.

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� Skyful liars attempting to destroy nation� BBC lying

VOA deceivingRFA setting up hostilities

� Beware! Don’t be bought by those ill-wishers

Objectives of the 63rdAnniversary Armed Forces Day

* To work in concert with the peo-

ple in building a peaceful, mod-

ern, developed and discipline-

flourishing democratic nation

* To realize the seven-step Road

Map of the State joining hands

with the people

* Joining hands with the people and

based on Union Spirit to crush

internal and external destructive

elements sabotaging stability and

development of the State

* To build a strong, capable and

modern patriotic Tatmadaw to

safeguard Our Three Main Na-

tional Causes

NAY PYI TAW, 11March — A ceremony toprovide relief supplies andcash to fire victims washeld at PyilonechanthaDhammayon of Inbumonastery in Nay Pyi TawLewe this morning.

Chairman of Nay PyiTaw Lewe TownshipPeace and DevelopmentCouncil U Naing Tun ex-plained about the condi-tion of fire outbreak on 9March. Next, Minister forSocial Welfare, Relief andResettlement Maj-GenMaung Maung Swe andCEC Member of UnionSolidarity and Develop-ment Association Nay PyiTaw Pyinmana DistrictIn-Charge of USDA Min-ister for Transport Maj-Gen Thein Swe comfortedthe fire victims.

Chairman of Nay PyiTaw Pyinmana DistrictPDC U Khin Maung Zawpresented clothing and K10 million donated by theCommander of CentralCommand the Chairman

Relief supplies and cashprovided to fire victims

Minister Maj-Gen Thein Swe presents relief aids for fire victims of Nay Pyi Taw Lewe. — MNA

of Mandalay DivisionPDC and K 1 million do-nated by the Nay Pyi TawCommand through Chair-man of Nay Pyi TawLewe Township PDC UNaing. Tun Next, Minis-ter Maj-Gen MaungMaung Swe presented re-lief supplies to the firevictims. K 1 million, 50bags of rice and clothingwere donated by CEC

Member of USDAMinister Maj-Gen TheinSwe. Cash assistance andsupplies of the Ministryof Industry-1 were do-nated by Director-Gen-eral of Directorate of In-dustries U Thein Aung.

Wellwishers donatedcash and supplies to thefire victims. On behalf ofthe fire victims, Chairmanof No 5 Ward PDC U Min

Thu spoke words ofthanks. Next, ChairmanU Khin Maung Zaw ex-plained about the reset-tlement of the fire vic-tims.

The donationswere K 23.6 million intotal. Next, USDA CECMember Maj-Gen TheinSwe and officials com-forted the fire victims atthe relief camps.— MNA

Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area: Partly cloudy.

Yangon and neighbouring area:Partly cloudy.

Mandalay and neighbouring area:Partly cloudy.

Weather forecast for 12-3-2008

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