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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003 1
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Vice-Senior General Maung Aye gives instructions to local authorities from Hinthada District, departmental personnel, social organization members andlocal people in City Hall in Hinthada.— MNA
YANGON, 1 Aug — Vice-Chairman of the State Peace and
Development Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of
Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Sen-
ior General Maung Aye, accompanied by Secretary-2 of the
State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Soe Win,
members of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-
Gen Khin Maung Than, Adjutant-General Lt-Gen Thein
Sein and Quartermaster-General Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin
Aung Myint Oo, Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Vice-Admi-
ral Kyi Min and Commander-in-Chief (Air) Maj-Gen Myat
Hein, Chairman of Ayeyawady Division Peace and Devel-
opment Council Commander of South-West Command
Maj-Gen Htay Oo, ministers, deputy ministers, the director-
general of the State Peace and Development Council Office
and departmental heads, left Maubin and arrived in
Myaungmya at 12 noon on 29 July.
They were welcomed there by Command Staff Colonel
Col Tint Swe of South-West Command, Chairman of
Myaungmya District Peace and Development Council Lt-
Col Tint Aye and officials.
At Sasana Beikman in Myaungmya, Vice-Senior Gen-
eral Maung Aye and party attended the ceremony to donate
rice to Pariyatti Monasteries in Myaungmya.
Also present were Sayadaw Agga Maha Pandita
Bhaddanta Dhammapiya of Zeya Meidani Monastery and
Vice-Senior General Maung Aye attends rice offering ceremonies inMyaungmya, Pathein and Hinthada
members of the Sangha, local authorities and religious
associations members.
Secretary of Township Sangha Nayaka Committee Maha
Ganthavaçaka Pandita Bhaddanta Panñasiha administered
the Five Precepts.
Next, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye offered eight
requisites and provisions to the Township Secretary Sayadaw.
The Secretary-2 and party donated eight requisites and
provisions to the Sayadaws. At 1 pm, Vice-Senior General
Maung Aye and party met with local authorities of
Myaungmya District, Myaungmya, Wakema, Einme,
Mawlamyinegyun and Labutta townships, departmental
personnel, members of social organizations and entrepre-
neurs.
District Chairman Lt-Col Tin Aye reported on organiza-
tional set-up of the district, implementation of economic
aims of the district and undertakings of the district in
agriculture, livestock breeding and development sectors.
Minister for National Planning and Economic Develop-
ment U Soe Tha reported on short-term plans laid down for
development of the State, efforts made for exceeding the
target in implementing the plans and the role of Ayeyawady
Division in carrying out development tasks for the economic
sector.
Next, Secretary-2 Lt-Gen Soe Win spoke on the occa-
sion. He said that 10 years ago, the people of Ayeyawady
Division faced difficulties in travelling from one place to
another due to barriers posed by rivers and creeks. There
were only over 400 miles of roads in Ayeyawady Division
in 1988. As the Tatmadaw government has built bridges and
roads, at present, Ayeyawady Division gained better trans-
port. As a result of developing transportation, Myaungmya
District has achieved greater progress. It is necessary to
accelerate development momentum.
Afterwards, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye delivered
an address. He said that due to insurgency in the past,
Myaungmya District lacked peace and stability. Nowa-
days, as a result of prevalence of peace and stability,
Myaungmya region has achieved good opportunities. It can
be said that greater success has been achieved due to
harmonious cooperation of the Government, the Tatmadaw
and the people. Efforts are to be made for gaining more
development with momentum. Next, he cordially greeted
those present.
After the meeting, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and
party paid homage to Shwe Buddho Pagoda in Myaungmya.
Next, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye signed in the
visitors’ book and presented cash donations to the pagoda
board of trustees.
Progress in construction of Government Technological College in Pathein.— MNA
(See page 7)
PerspectivesFrom regional
to nationaldevelopment
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PERSPECTIVESSaturday, 2 August, 2003
Due to the border trade with a neigh-bouring country and its potential for agricul-ture and livestock breeding development, Kalayregion in Sagaing Division promises furthergrowth. And as it is contiguous to Chin State,it can contribute a lot to the economy, educa-tion and health sectors of the state.
Member of the State Peace and Develop-ment Council Lt-Gen Thura Shwe Mann, Sec-retary-2 Lt-Gen Soe Win and member of theState Peace and Development Council Lt-GenYe Myint on 25 July met with division-levelofficials, the chairman of Kalay District Peaceand Development Council and members, dis-trict- and township-level officials, members ofsocial organizations and townselders. Speakingat the meeting, Lt-Gen Thura Shwe Mann saidthat Chairman of the State Peace and Develop-ment Council Commander-in-Chief of DefenceServices Senior General Than Shwe visitedKalay recently and that, during his visit, theHead of State had development measures forKalay region taken. As Kalay region is gainingmomentum in its development, it can becomefurther developed if the Government, the peo-ple and service personnel work in concert.
Because of agricultural plans, cultivatedacreage has increased in Kalay region. Not onlythat, Kalay Industrial Zone is now producingjeeps, which are widely used in Kalay regionas well as in various regions of Chin State. LikeKalay region, various regions in other statesand divisions, under the leadership of the State,are striving for their own development on self-reliance basis and meeting with considerablesuccess. The more peaceful and stable the Unionis, the more attention can be given to develop-ment tasks. Now, even the border regions aredeveloping remarkably.
Respective regional authorities, servicepersonnel, members of various organizationsand local people have to work all out for thedevelopment of their respective regions, fordevelopment of each and every region will leadto national development.
The Government has been making con-stant efforts for the emergence of a peaceful,modern and developed nation, which calls forthe active participation and cooperation of theGovernment, service personnel and the entirepeople. And we should not be complacent withthe achievements we have already gained butmust move on till we attain our national goal.
From regional to nationaldevelopment
Do not be frightenedwhenever intimidated
Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan addresses annual prize presentation ceremony and providing ofassistance to retired personnel and students of staff.— NLM
YANGON, 1 Aug—
The News and Periodicals
Enterprise of the Ministry
of Information held the an-
nual prize presentation cer-
emony in conjunction with
the ceremony to provide
cash assistance to retired
personnel and students of
staff, at the meeting hall of
the New Light of Myanmar
Daily on Strand road at 5
pm today, with an address
by Minister for Information
Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan.
Also present were
Deputy Ministers U Thein
Sein and Brig-Gen Aung
Thein, directors-general and
managing directors of de-
partments and enterprises
under the ministry, direc-
tors, chief editors, officials,
the patron and the president
of Myanmar Foreign Cor-
respondents Club, guests
and prize winners.
Master of ceremo-
nies Director (Admin) U
Soe Win read out the
agenda of the ceremony.
First, Minister Brig-Gen
Kyaw Hsan delivered an
address. He said that today
is an auspicious day because
the ceremony is to present
prizes to winners in the
state-level competitions,
outstanding staff and those
who did not take leave the
whole year, retired service
personnel and outstanding
students of staff.
The News and Peri-
odicals Enterprise has dis-
charged duties assigned
conscientiously, and the ra-
tio of income and expendi-
ture was more fair in 2003-
Minister for Information attends annual prize presentationceremony of NPE
2004 than previous year.
The enterprise is able to
carry out its task in accord
with the guidance of the
Head of State — to increase
production while taking
thrifty measures. The dailies
of the enterprise are improv-
ing both in form and es-
sence.
He said that strenu-
ous efforts are to be made
for achieving more success.
All service personnel are to
place emphasis on perform-
ance of duty conscien-
tiously, measures to be
taken in cooperation, tasks
to be carried out with four
outlooks and consideration
and practice of frugality.
In conclusion, he
urged all personnel to har-
moniously to try to realize
the aims of the enterprise
with new strength.
Next, Managing Di-
rector U Tin Kha of NPE
reported on the purpose of
the ceremony.
Afterwards, Minister
Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan pre-
sented cash assistance to 11
honorary title recipient per-
sonnel through Managing
Director U Tin Kha and
prizes to 11 divisions of the
enterprise through Director
(News) U Hla Tun; Direc-
tor (Admin) U Soe Win and
chief editors.
Next, Deputy Minis-
ter U Thein Sein presented
prizes and cash assistance
to 15 winners in the state-
level competitions, three
columnists, two outstanding
trainees in the training
courses and 174 retired per-
Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan presentshonorary prizes to winners through Managing Director
U Tin Kha of NPE.— NLM
Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan presentsprize for earning foreign exchange to Chief Editor
U Maung Maung Aye of New Light of Myanmar Daily. NLM
YANGON, 1 Aug — A combined team comprising
members of local intelligence unit, Kale Special Anti-
drug Squad and local police force, acting on information,
searched a jeep with number plates (Za/1040) on its way
from Kale to Chin State at the 8-mile check-point in Kale
on 5 July. The team arrested passenger Ma Ket Htway
together with 144.961 grams of heroin covered by ground-
nut in the polythene bag.
Action is being taken against Ma Ket Htway,
daughter of U La Hu of Monta Village in Kale under
Sections 15/19 (A) of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances Law by Kale Police Station. — MNA
144.961 grams of heroinseized
sonnel through officials.
Deputy Minister Brig-Gen
Aung Thein and Managing
Director U Tin Kha also
presented prizes to the win-
ners through officials.
Today’s ceremony
Deputy Minister U Thein Sein presents prizses foroutstanding staff of NPE to an official.— MNA
YANGON, 1 Aug—
Hailing the Intenational Lit-
eracy Day, which falls on 8
August 2003, the Informa-
tion Work Committee of the
Leading Committee for Or-
ganizing International Lit-
eracy Day and Ceremony to
mark international literacy
decade today announced to
hold the article contest.
The word account of
the article must be between
3,000 and 5,000 with title
“to Myanmar constant learn-
ing society”. The work must
be written on one page only.
Entries invited to articlecontest to mark International
Literacy DayThe entries which must be
own creation and attached
with two copies, brief biog-
raphy of the competitor and
two licence-size photos, are
to be sent to the prize selec-
tion committee, Myanmar
Education Research Bureau,
No 426, Pyay Road,
Kamayut Township, Univer-
sity Post Office, not later
than 22 August 2003 (Fri-
day).
Handsome prizes
will be presented to the
winners.
MNA
of NPE is for the first time
not only to provide cash
assistance to retired person-
nel and students of staff but
also to give away prizes to
winners and students.
MNA
THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003 3
BAGHDAD , 1 Aug— Al Qaeda is probably among “terrorist” groups operating against American forces in Iraqthe US commander in the country said Thursday.
US Commander says Qaeda probably working inIraq, attacks more sophisticated and more deadly
Attacks on his troops are getting
more sophisticated and more deadly,
Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez told a news
conference in Baghdad, with “profes-
sionals” clearly involved. But US forces
were learning from their reverses.
Sanchez said this week that Iraq
was becoming a “terrorist magnet” for
anti-American groups. Asked if Osama
bin Laden s al Qaeda network of radi-
cal Islamists was among those present,
he replied: “They probably are operat-
ing in Iraq.”
He also named Ansar al Islam,
which formerly had a base in the moun-
tainous Kurdish-controlled zone of
northern Iraq, and said he thought “other
extremist groups” were active too.
“There are foreign fighters that have
come into this country,” he said. “And
some Islamic fundamentalists also.”
Suggestions that ousted dictator
Saddam Hussein might be cooperating
with al Qaeda were floated among pos-
sible grounds for the US-led invasion,
although evidence is lacking and bin
Laden was a fierce critic of Saddam’s
secular regime.
Sanchez said an increasing sophis-
tication in attacks on his forces had
contributed to greater casualties of
late — 19 soldiers have been killed in
the past two weeks alone, out of 52 in
three months since Washington de-
clared major combat over.
“The fighting goes on,” Sanchez
said of the three months that has now
passed since 1 May, when President
Bush made that declaration.
“We’re fighting a low-intensity
conflict that is multifaceted,” he added,
listing disparate groups including
“criminals,” Saddam loyalists and
“radicals” among US foes.
Internet
Commander says troopsin Iraq powerlessagainst bombs
RAMADI , 1 Aug —The US military commander ofIraq’s biggest province said Thursday American troopswere virtually powerless to stop escalating booby-trapand bomb attacks on their convoys.
“Frankly there is little that we can do as far as force
protection,” said Col David Teeples, commander of the 3rd
Armored Cavalry Regiment in al-Anbar province, home to
some of Iraq’s most restive and anti-American cities.
Over the past two weeks, his forces have witnessed an
escalation in attacks by improvised explosive devices —
TNT, plastic explosive and propane cylinders hooked to
electrical wires triggered by remote control devices.
US troops have responded by stepping up highway pa-
trols in an effort to stop the bloodshed.
“Any piles of sand, bags, garbage, tires, anything that
may be close to the road is going to be taken very cau-
tiously,” Teeples told Reuters in an interview in his com-
mand center in one of Saddam Hussein former palaces on
the edge of Ramadi.
“It is going to be cleared with a bulldozer or there will be
action by the convoy against those that may be close enough
to command detonate that.”
Guerrilla attacks have killed 52 US troops since President
Bush declared major combat over on May 1. A number of the
attacks have taken place in al-Anbar province.
US military officials have blamed the violence on former
Baath party members and guerrillas loyal to Saddam, who was
toppled by a US-led invasion on 9 April. Teeples said about 25
hardcore Baath party officials in the towns of Ramadi, Falluja
and Habbaniya were financing attacks. —InternetAn Iraqi works on the Iraq-Turkey pipeline. The coalition revealed that the pipeline willhave a capacity of between 200,000 and 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) when it reopens
within a few days. — INTERNET
Thailand’s34 provinces
face floodthreat
Cao Chunsun (R) helps his wife Yan Zhuoxiu wearoxygen mask in their camp near a construction site of theQinghai-Tibet Railway located 5,000 meters above sealevel. The couple both from Lhasa, capital of southwest
China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, arrived at the TangraMountain in 2001 for the railway construction. Cao is a
technician and Yan an expert on frozen earth. Theysupport each other and their love is praised by manyother workers working on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
This photo is undated. — XINHUA
Iraq’s main oil pipeline to Turkey toopen within a few days
BANGHDAD , 1 Aug — Iraq main pipeline from Kirkuk north to Turkey, wrecked ina post-war sabotage attack, will reopen within a few days, a coalition official revealed,correcting an earlier statement it would not open before October.
dustry sources on saboteurs,
in a crippling blow to US
plans to pay for Iraq’s recon-
struction with oil revenues.
A string of sabotage at-
tacks, carried out by Saddam
Hussein loyalists or criminal
gangs, have hobbled the US-
led coalition’s ability to ex-
port oil. The US-led admin-
istration is banking on 3.4
billion dollars in oil sales to
pay for half of this year’s
six-billion-dollar budget and
is setting up an Iraqi security
force to guard oil sites.
Internet
“The pipeline will open
within the next few days,”
the official said about the
fuel line going from oil-rich
Kirkuk north to the Dohuk
province and then on to the
Turkish Mediterranean ter-
minal of Ceyhan. “It will
have a capacity of between
200,000 and 300,000 bar-
rels per day (bpd),” the offi-
cial said Thursday.
The official had earlier
said the pipeline was down at
least until mid-October after
it was severely damaged in a
June 12 blast blamed by in-
BA NGKOK , 1 Aug—Some 34 provinces in Thai-land were at risk of floodcaused by rains, local Presson Thursday quotedAgriculture Ministry assaying.
The 34 provinces, includ-
ing Thailand’s most north-
ern and southern provinces,
had such experiences beforeand would be told to brace
for more as the rain season
continued, said Agriculture
Minister Sora-at
Kinprathum. In such a situa-
tion, the Agriculture Minis-try was drawing up flood-
prevention plans.
According to the plan,
the Royal Irrigation Depart-
ment will closely monitor
weather conditions and wa-ter management, while mo-
bile pumps, helicopters and
planes would be in hand in
case of emergencies.
Besides, the Agriculture
Ministry decided to distrib-ute cash to people affected
by the likely flood instead
of sending them farming
equipment as before. Sora-
at believed this was the most
efficient way to relieve thevictims of floods, for the
purchase and transport of
farming equipment would
consume a lot of time.
MNA/Xinhua
Blair says would relishmore time in office
LONDON, 1 Aug —Britain’s Tony Blair, battling theworst political crisis of his premiership, said on Wednes-day his enthusiasm for office remained strong but heaccepted he needed to rebuild public trust in the wake ofthe Iraq war.
“There’s a big job of work
still to do and my appetite to do
it is still undiminished,” Blair
said when asked if he would
stay on for a full third term if his
Labour Party were re-
elected.“But who the country
elects is ultimately a matter
for the country,” Blair added.
Polls show that public
trust in Blair and his gov-
ernment has plunged fol-
lowing the Iraq conflict and
after the apparent suicide of
a scientist caught up in a
row over the reasons for
going to war. “I accept there
is an issue that we have to
confront,” Blair told his fi-
nal news conference ahead
of a summer break when
asked about sliding levels
of trust.
Blair, 50, will go down in
history on Saturday when his
administration becomes the
longest Labour Government
ever.But the milestone has
coincided with calls, some
from Labour members, for
Blair’s resignation over the
justification of the Iraq con-
flict following the failure to
unearth any weapons of mass
destruction — the primary
Anglo-American motive for
war. — MNA/Reuters
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Chavez warns US not to meddlein his country’s affairs
CARACAS, 1 Aug — Venezuela’s Presi-
dent Hugo Chavez on Wednesday warned
the United States not to meddle in his coun-
try’s affairs following comments by a US
official about a possible referendum on his
rule.
“I have to remind the US one more time
that they have no right to express their opin-
ion... we are an independent country not a
colony of North America,” the President
told thousands of cheering supporters during
a street rally.
Chavez, who survived a coup in 2002
and later outlasted a two-month opposition
strike, now faces a campaign for a recall
referendum from foes who accuse him of
dictatorial rule in the world’s No 5 oil ex-
porter. The outspoken ex-Army paratrooper
elected in 1998 has often riled Washington
with his fierce populist, anti-capitalist rheto-
ric and close ties with states such as Commu-
nist Cuba.
His comments followed remarks made
by State Department spokesman Richard
Boucher urging the government and opposi-
tion to respect an accord they signed in May
on the possible referendum on Chavez’ rule.
MNA/Reuters
4 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003
The photo taken on 29 July, 2003 shows the Dome of the Zhaoling Mausoleum undercomprehensive renovation together with Fuling Mausoleum and the Palace Museum of
the Qing Dynasty in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province. Therenovation projects of these three ancient building complexes, aimed at bidding for theWorld Cultural Heritage, cost a total of 300 million yuan (US$36 million). — XINHUA
Iraq attacks kill two moreUS soldiers
BAGHDAD , 1 Aug—A US soldier was killed Thursday when his armored personnelcarrier ran over a land mine on the dangerous road from central Baghdad to the city’sairport, the military reported.
The mine exploded be-
neath a M113 armored per-
sonnel carrier, killing the
soldier and wounding three
others.
It was the second death
reported by the military
Thursday, a soldier was
killed in a small-arms fire
attack northeast of Bagh-
dad late Wednesday night.
Two others were wounded.
The U.S. Central Command
said the soldiers were from
the 4th Infantry Division.
In Baghdad, Iraqi wit-
nesses reported another
attack on two US trucks
carrying unexploded ord-
nance to Baghdad Interna-
tional Airport for destruc-
tion. The witnesses said a
rocket-propelled grenade
was fired on one truck and
the ordnance exploded. A
US armored vehicle could
be seen burning on the road.
Ali Khamid said he saw
two US soldiers taken away
by helicopter and two oth-
ers, faces covered as if dead,
loaded into an ambulance.
The military said it had no
information on the inci-
dent.
The latest confirmed
deaths brought to 51 the
number of US troops
killed in hostile action
since May 1, when
President Bush declared an
end to major combat in
Iraq. In all, 166 Ameri-
cans have been killed in
combat in Iraq, 18 more
than died in the 1991 Gulf
War.
Internet
ALEXANDRIA (Virginia), 1 Aug—Investigators havedug up more than 20,000 pages of classified documentsfrom the government’s National Reconnaissance Officethat convicted spy Brian Regan buried in state parks inVirginia and Maryland, officials said on Wednesday.
Investigators also recovered five CD-ROMS and five
videotapes buried by Regan, a former US Air Force intelli-
gence analyst who used to work at the government recon-
naissance agency that runs the nation’s spy satellites.
“We are confident that every last page has been recov-
ered,” US Attorney Paul McNulty told a news conference.
“None (of the material) ever made it to foreign hands.”
Regan was sentenced in March to life in prison after
being convicted of attempting spying for Iraq and China,
and illegally gathering defence information.
He agreed to cooperate with investigators, and went
with them to three of the sites in Maryland to help find the
buried documents, the officials said. Investigators recov-
ered all the documents from March through June.
McNulty said Regan removed the documents from the
National Reconnaissance Office and buried them in 19
secret locations. Regan told investigators where he also
buried two containers with codes giving the locations of the
documents. Regan admitted he took the documents as part
of a unsuccessful plot to sell them for millions of dollars to
Iraq, China, Libya and Iran, McNulty said.
The documents, which were classified top-secret or
higher, involved satellites, early warning systems and weap-
ons of mass destruction, he said.
McNulty said Regan, who was arrested nearly two years
ago as he was about to board a plane for Switzerland, had
been prevented from carrying out what “may have been one
of the largest espionage schemes of all time”.
If Iraq under Saddam Hussein had obtained the mate-
rial, it “would have been an extraordinary threat to us”,
McNulty said. — MNA/Reuters
US digs up classifieddocuments buried by spy
RAMADI, 1 Aug—US
forces in charge of one of
Iraq’s most restive regions
have told tribal elders they
will offer a reward of $500
(310 pounds) to any Iraqis
who hand in shoulder-fired
anti-aircraft missiles.
At the first meeting of
the governing council of
Anbar province, a swathe of
western Iraq that includes
the tense towns of Ramadi
and Falluja, Colonel David
Teeples of the 3rd Armored
Cavalry Regiment asked for
cooperation in ending guer-
rilla attacks on US forces in
the region.
Ramadi and Falluja are
hotspots in the “Sunni trian-
gle” north and west of Bagh-
dad, where many locals
openly back deposed leader
Saddam Hussein and U.S.
forces often come under at-
tack.
Army spokesman Cap-
tain Michael Calvert said
troops had found three mis-
siles that had fallen to earth
after being fired at US
aircraft in two separate
attacks. —Internet
Iraqisoffered $500forshoulder-firedmissiles
WHO official says SARS maycome again, but in different genre
MACAO , 1 Aug — Although severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) infectionfrom human to human has been interrupted globally, the virus is by no meanseradicated. It may come again in winter, but present in a different genre, warned thevisiting World Health Organization (WHO) official, Shigeru Omi, in Macao Wednes-day.
“This particular disease may not come,
but new diseases present similar symptoms
on human beings like SARS may turn up,”
said the WHO Western Pacific Regional
director, who arrived in Macao Special Ad-
ministrative Region (SAR) Monday on a
three-day inspection visit at the invitation of
the SAR government on the review work of
SARS control.
Omi called on the whole international
community to stay vigilant against SARS.
“But there is no need to be panic. If a new
SARS disease came, the experiences gained
would ensure a response better than what we
did before,” he said.
Omi is the fourth WHO expert to visit
Macao this year, which is a member of the
WHO’s West-Pacific Region. He highly
praised the Macao SAR’s effective contain-
ment of the disease, which broke out in
Macao’s neighbouring regions of Guangdong
and Hong Kong in April.
MNA/Xinhua
British Airways reports record loss,bemoans war, SARS and strike
LONDON, 1 Aug—British Airways unveiled a record loss for the first quarter of thefiscal year, saying that with the war in Iraq and the SARS virus it had endured “themost testing period in aviation history.”
BA’s pre-tax loss for the
three months ending June 30
was 45 million pounds (63
million euros, 73 million dol-
lars), against a pre-tax profit
of 65 million pounds for the
same quarter last year.
Adding to the gloom was
a hefty bill for this month’s
strike by BA check-in staff at
Heathrow airport, which chief
executive Rod Eddington an-
nounced would cost the air-
line around 30 to 40 million
pounds. The wildcat strike
stranded tens of thousands of
angry passengers in London,
and the threat of further walk-
outs was only ended late on
Wednesday night after a deal
was reached with trade un-
ions representing Heathrow
staff. Uncertainty about
whether there would be more
strike action had hit bookings
and would reduce future rev-
enue, BA added. “Clearly the
disruptions at Heathrow two
weekends ago were terrible
for customers, terrible for our
staff and terrible for our busi-
ness,” Eddington said later on
BBC radio.—Internet
Thai government passes alcoholadvertisements ban
BANGKOK,1 Aug—Thai
Cabinet passed a bill to ban
advertisements for alcoholic
and energy drinks on TV
and radio between 5 am and
10 pm in an attempt to curb
road accidents, the Nationnewspaper reported
Wednesday.
The advertisement ban
will begin on October 1, but
advertisements where con-
tracts on air time have al-
ready been signed will be
given until January 1 next
year before the ban is en-
forced.
Between 10 pm and 5
am broadcasts of alcohol
advertisements are allowed
only when the content is
considered beneficial to so-
ciety and they are accompa-
nied by subtitles and logos.
After January 1, the ban
will be applied to all broad-
casts of local sports events.
However, live broadcasts of
professional sports like Thai
boxing and league football,
as well as overseas events
where alcoholic and energy
drinks are featured, will be
exempt.
Sita Divari, the govern-
ment spokesman, also re-
vealed that it was the Prime
Minister who urged the
Cabinet to extend the ban to
include energy drinks.
The new restrictions re-
flect a hardening of attitudes
towards alcohol, which has
been blamed for causing
thousands of deaths each
year on our roads and high-
ways. According to the fig-
ures of the British MedicalJournal, Thailand has the
highest rate of road fatali-
ties in the world at 40 deaths
for every 100,000 people,
or 2.9 people dying an hour.
Drink-driving motorcy-
clists who fail to wear crash
helmets, and motorists who
drive without safebelts, are
most reasons causing death
in traffic accidents.
MNA/Xinhua
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US Army troops of the 1st Armoured Division guard the scene as an armouredpersonnel carrier burns after insurgent attacked the troops in Baghdad, Iraq, killing
two soldiers and injuring two others on 31 July, 2003.— INTERNET
THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003 5
German art collector and photographer Gunter Sachs passes by “Marylin Monroe” byAndy Warhol at the ‘Museum for Art and Trade’ in Hamburg, northern Germany,
on 31 July, 2003. Photographs by Germany’s playboy legend of the fifties and sixtiesand art pieces he has collected are on display until 21 September.—INTERNET
Rebuilding Iraq may cost up to$100 billion, Bremer says
WASHINGTON , 1 Aug— Iraq US administrator said on Thursday that rebuilding thecountry could require anywhere from $50 billion to $100 billion of outside money overthe next couple of years.
Paul Bremer, in an interview with
CNBC’s “Capital Report,” said for at least
the next few years “we’re going to have to
spend a lot more money than we’re going to
get revenues even once we get oil produc-
tion back to prewar levels.”
Bremer said he did not know what the
total cost of getting the country up and
running again was, but said: “It’s probably
well above $50 billion, $60 billion, maybe
$100 billion. It’s a lot of money.”
United Nations sanctions that had stifled
Iraq’s economy for 13 years were lifted in
May, when the United States and Britain
also won broad powers to run Iraq and sell
its oil until a new government is estab-
lished. Iraq has the world’s second largest
oil reserves after Saudi Arabia.
Bremer said that eventually he hoped the
Iraq would be able to fund itself through oil
revenues but “they’ve got a real problem in
the next few years.”
Earlier this week, US senators from both
parties criticized the Bush administration
for not spelling out the costs of rebuilding
Iraq.
In testimony to Congress, Deputy De-
fence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and White
House Budget Director Joshua Bolten said
they could not estimate costs because they
said the situation in Iraq was too fluid.
Bolten did say “for the next couple of
months” he predicted costs of maintaining
US troops there at about $4 billion per
month.
Internet
US admits killingcivilians in Baghdad raid
BAGHDAD, 1 Aug— Four days after US troops killed
several passers-by in Baghdad during the hunt for Saddam
Hussein, the US commander in Iraq admitted Thursday that
innocent people had died, but stopped short of accepting
blame.
“On the issue of the innocent civilians that were killed and
injured in that raid, we established some...traffic control
points to isolate the area that we were operating in,” Lt. Gen.
Ricardo Sanchez told a news conference in answer to ques-
tions about the bloody raid.
Angry neighbours accused the Task Force 20 special unit
hunting Saddam’s inner circle of failing to block all the side
roads leading to a house they were raiding Sunday in Bagh-
dad’s upscale Mansour neighborhood. When a car strayed
into the fire zone, soldiers blasted it with machineguns. US
soldiers and medical staff at a nearby hospital told Reuters
five men, including a teen-ager, were killed.
Internet
Bush sees “realthreat” of new terror
attempts WASHINGTON, 1 Aug —
US President George W
Bush said on Wednesday
there was a “real threat” of
al-Qaeda attempts to attack
the United States, possibly
through airline hijackings,
but he was confident they
would be thwarted.
“The threat is a real threat.
... We don’t know when,
where, what,” Bush said at a
news conference when asked
about new government warn-
ings of possible al-Qaeda
attacks.
“We have got some data
that indicates that they would
like to use flights, interna-
tional flights for example,”
he said. “I’m confident we
will thwart the attempts.”
In an action disclosed on
Tuesday, the Homeland Se-
curity Department last week
warned the airline industry
that al-Qaeda was planning
new suicide hijackings and
bombings in the United
States or abroad.
The United States blames
Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda
network for the September
11, 2001, hijacked plane at-
tacks on the United States.
MNA/Reuters
Bush defends “AIDS”funding, renews $15b
pledge WASHINGTON , 1 Aug— President George W Bush said
on Wednesday he would fully fund his five-year,15-billion-US-dollar plan to combat AIDS, brushingaside questions about his commitment to the initiative.
Activists expressed outrage earlier this month after the
Republican-led House of Representatives moved legisla-
tion backing Bush’s request for two billion US dollars next
year — One billion US dollars less in AIDS funding than
had been expected.
“We sent up something less than three billion because
we didn’t think the programme could ramp up fast enough
to absorb that amount of money early,” said Bush, who
touted the AIDS initiative during his recent visit to Africa.
Bush said distribution systems for AIDS drugs had to be
in place before the money was sent out, and that suggestions
he was backing away from his 15 billion US dollars
commitment were “simply not true”. — MNA/Reuters
MalaysianMinister urgesban on “Bruce
Almighty” KUALA LUMPUR, 1 Aug—
A Malaysian Government
minister has called on Islamic
authorities to ban Hollywood
actor Jim Carrey’s latest film
“Bruce Almighty”, newspa-
pers reported on Tuesday.
In the comedy, Carrey
plays the role of a television
reporter who is given the
power of God for a week.
“It’s not appropriate to
show the film in this coun-
try,” Abdul Hamid Zainal, a
Minister in the Prime Minis-
ter’s Department, was quoted
as saying.
The minister said censors
should refer the film to the
Islamic Affairs Department
to decide whether it should
be screened. Just over half of
Malaysia’s 24 million peo-
ple are Muslim.
“We cannot equate our-
selves with God — even as a
joke,” Abdul Hamid said.
MNA/Reuters
Over 15,000Nepalis killedby tobaccoevery year
KATHMANDU, 1 Aug—
More than 15,000 Nepali
people die of diseases
caused by tobacco consump-
tion every year, according
to fragmented studies re-
leased by a study centre un-
der the Nepali Health Min-
istry on Wednesday.
About 60 per cent of
Nepali people are smokers,
and the consumption of ciga-
rettes and tobacco products
has increased by 1,200 fold
in the last 15 years in the
country, said Shanta Lall
Mulmi, executive director
of the Resource Centre for
Primary Health Care, pre-
senting the working paper.
At present, there are
three cigarettes and 35 to-
bacco related industries in
Nepal, which produce over
6.6 billion sticks of ciga-
rettes and 6,000 tons of to-
bacco every year, Mulmi
said.
MNA/Xinhua
Iraqi POWs cannot be compensated from fundWASHINGTON , 1 Aug—A federal judge on Wednesday sidad with the US Government and said seized Iraqi assets
could not be used to compensate 17 Americans held as prisoners of war during the 1991 Gulf War.US District judge Richard Roberts
agreed with government lawyers who
argued that with the ouster of Saddam
Hussein, the law that would have al-
lowed the prisoners to dip into frozen
Iraqi assets for their compensation no
longer applied.
Earlier this months Roberts awarded
653 million US dollars in compensatory
damages and 306 million US dollars in
punitive damages to 17 prisoners of war
and their families who sused Saddam,
the Iraq Government and the Iraqi intel-
ligence service for pain and suffering.
compensation for victims of state spon-
sored terrorism.
“The (government’s) position that
POWs are unable to recover any portion
of their judgment as requested, despite
their sacrifice in the service of their
country, seems extreme,” Roberts wrote
in his ruling.
But he noted that the move by Con-
gress and Bush in May took place before
the court awarded the prisoners their
compensation so he had to side with the
governmnet.
MNA/Reuters
Iraq never responded to the lawsuit
filed in April 2002.
Attorneys for the prisoners wanted
their client to be paid from blocked Iraqi
assets held by the US Government. But
Justice Department officials said the
funds were to be used to rebuild Iraq.
In addition, the Justice Department
said President George W Bush in May
made “inapplicable any provision of
law that applies to countries that have
supported terrorism.
The law under which the prisoners
were awarded the money allows for
CIA finds latest tape “highlylikely” Saddam
WASHINGTON, 1 Aug—The CIA technical analysis of an
audio tape aired this week has found that it was “highly likely”
the voice of Saddam Hussein, a CIA official said on
Wednesday. “We’ve determined it is highly likely to be him,”
the official told Reuters.On the audio tape, aired by Dubai-based Al Arabiya
television on Tuesday, the ousted Iraqi leader said his sons
Uday and Qusay, who were killed by US forces last week, died
as martyrs and vowed America would be defeated.
MNA/Reuters
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US Army troops from the 4th brigade, 1st field artillery 1st AD, inspect the damagecaused by an unidentified remote controlled bomb injuring two soldiers,
on 31 July, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq.—INTERNET
6 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003
Iraqi police officers look at an AK-47 rifle, confiscated from an unidentified man, sittingleft, from his car at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq on 31 July , 2003. The United Statesis training police, and there are now about 17,000 officers, plus at least 1,000 traffic
police, 1,000 customs inspectors and 1,000 guards at facilities, said Bernard Kerik, theformer New York City police commissioner in charge of rebuilding Iraq’s internal
security. — INTERNET
Kodak technician Dan Merola inspects boxes of KodakRoyal Gold film coming off a packaging line in Rochester,NY in an undated handout photo. Eastman Kodak Co said on31 July, 2003, it is shifting its 35mm film-finishing opera-tions to Mexico and China and eliminating as many as 900jobs. While the photography company will keep making35mm film at its hometown manufacturing hub, it will moveproduction lines that slit the consumer film into rolls and package them in signature yellow boxes. — INTERNET
India helpsNepal build
medicalcentre
KATHMANDU, 1 Aug—
The Indian Government has
agreed to provide a grant as-
sistance of about 10.5 million
US dollars for the construc-
tion of a medical centre in
Nepal, according to a Press
release issued by the Indian
Embassy here Wednesday.
The 200-bed emergency
and trauma treatment centre
will be set up in the south of the
existing National Academy of
Medical Sciences at the Bir
Hospital in Kathmandu.
“The proposed centre
will be housed in an eight
storied building with two base-
ments, containing state-of-the-
art equipment and other facili-
ties including five major op-
eration theatres, in order to
provide the best possible
trauma medical care services
to the patients,” the Press
release said.
Indian assistance has
been playing a crucial role in
the development of the Bir
Hospital, the Press release
added.—MNA/Xinhua
US military convoyattacked near Kabul
KABUL, 1 Aug — Two
civil affairs vehicles of US
forces were under attack by
remote control bombs on
Thursday near the Afghan
capital, a US military Press
release said. The two-car con-
voy was about 26 kilometers
southwest of Kabul on the
way to a school project when
it was hit by the improvised
explosive devices at around
10 am local time, said the Press
release issued by the US-led
coalition forces in Afghani-
stan. Three separate explosive
devices apparently activated
by remote control struck both
vehicles, it said, adding that
one vehicle was disabled in
the attack but no personnel
were wounded.
MNA/Xinhua
Iraq arms searchersbrief US Senate
Committee WASHINGTON , 1 Aug — US-led experts have not
found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but haveuncovered documents pointing to a programme to de-velop such weapons, US officials said, as the two menleading the hunt on Thursday briefed senators on theirefforts.
Former UN weapons
inspector David Kay and
Army Major General Keith
Dayton were testifying at
closed-door hearings of the
Senate Armed Services
Committee and the Senate
Intelligence Committee. Kay
was sent by the CIA to Iraq
as a special adviser to de-
velop a strategy for finding
alleged weapons of mass de-
struction. Dayton, director of
operations for the Pentagon’s
Defence Intelligence
Agency, heads the Iraq Sur-
vey Group searching for evi-
dence of chemical, biologi-
cal and nuclear weapons in
Iraq. US officials, speaking
on condition of anonymity,
said Kay and Dayton had not
come up with a “smoking
gun” in the search for such
weapons even after investi-
gators spoke with key Iraqi
scientists, but have found
evidence of weapons pro-
grammes.
The United States went
to war in March saying Iraq
posed an imminent threat be-
cause it possessed large
amounts of weapons of mass
destruction. No such weap-
ons have been found since
the government of Saddam
Hussein was toppled in April.
A defence official said
members of the Iraq Survey
Group “have come across in-
formation of a variety of
types — through interroga-
tion of people, conversations
with people, (and) docu-
ments that have been recov-
ered that clearly point to a
WMD programme.” “One
document will lead us to
someplace else, or name peo-
ple. Then we’ll try to go find
those people,” the official
said. Some of the informa-
tion from some of the lower-
level Iraqis “has proved very
fruitful — not led us to any
buried ‘smoking gun,’ so to
speak, but certainly has given
a lot of insight into how they
moved things around and
when they did”, the official
added. — MNA/Reuters
As Iraq attacks deadlier,US must weigh risks
TIKRIT , 1 Aug — It calls to mind a wagon train rumbling through hostile territory;armed men riding shotgun up top squint into an angry sun, seeing a potential enemyin every approaching figure, behind every patch of scrub.
The US Army machine-
gunners swivelling their
sights onto passing cars on
Iraq’s busy Highway 1
through Saddam Hussein’s
Sunni heartlands north of
Baghdad have reason to be
nervous.
Three months into an
edgy sort of peace declared
by their President on May 1,
51 American soldiers have
been killed, their slow-mov-
ing convoys and isolated
guardposts making soft tar-
gets for shadowy enemies
able to strike at will with vast
stocks of secreted Iraqi mili-
tary hardware and homemade
bombs.
Some strategic reflec-
tion ought — and appears
— to be under way as it is
getting harder for the troops;
a third of the deaths have
come in the last two weeks
alone. And there could be
worse, much worse to come,
security analysts say.
MNA/Reuters
At a national conference
on economic performance of
the oil and petrochemical
sectors Wednesday, indus-
try leaders said the sectors
generated 880.1 billion yuan
(107.3 billion US dollars)
during the first half of the
year, up 31.3 per cent, while
industrial added value to-
talled 274.8 billion yuan (335
billion US dollars), up 36.6
per cent.
The sectors also recorded
848.7 billion yuan (103.5 US
dollars) in sales, up 33.2 per
cent. Tan Zhuzhou, president
of the China Association of
Oil and Petro-chemical Indus-
tries, said the performance of
the sectors could be charac-
terized as high growth, high
returns in general and de-
creasing losses for firms in
the red.
Despite the improved
performance, the loss-mak-
ing firms in the two sectors
registered 7.23 billion yuan
(881 million US dollars) in
operating losses, down by
17.4 per cent year on year.
MNA/Xinhua
China’s oil, petrochemical sectorssee record mid-year profits
BEIJING , 1 Aug — China’s oil and petrochemical sectors reported 92 per centgrowth in their mid-year profits year on year to 89.7 billion yuan (10.9 billion USdollars), a record high.
Iraqi scientistsdeny existence ofWMD programmesWASHINGTON , 1 Aug — Despite vigorous efforts, the
US Government has been unsuccessful so far in solicit-ing evidence from key senior Iraqi scientists to supportits prewar claims that ousted Iraqi president SaddamHussein was pursuing a programme to develop weap-ons of mass destruction (WMD), the Washington Postreported Thursday.
High-tech toolsused by US forces
to hunt SaddamLOS ANGELES, 1 Aug — US forces has intensified their
hunt for Saddam Hussein as more high-tech tools arebeing used in Iraq, the USA Today reported Wednesday.
The report said US forces are searching with satellites
that record suspicious changes on the Iraqi terrain, spy
aircraft that scour hiding spots with thermal scans and
unmanned drones that feed live video to military headquar-
ters in Iraq.
The radar in Apache helicopters, originally designed to
target moving tanks, has been reconfigured to track cars and
detect unusual traffic patterns, said Ted Martin, the 4th
Infantry Division’s operations officer.
“The systems, the people and the training we have here
aren’t designed to hunt one human being,” Martin said. “But
everything we have can be applied to tracking down this key
leader.”
When the Army receives a report of a suspicious meet-
ing, it will deploy unmanned planes and send in helicopters,
Martin said. If the lead looks promising, infantry troops
backed by Bradley fighting vehicles can be dispatched.
MNA/Xinhua
When interviewed un-
der the direction of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency,
four senior Iraqi scientists
and more than a dozen at
lower levels have denied that
Saddam had reconstituted
his nuclear weapons pro-
gramme or developed and
hidden chemical or biologi-
cal weapons since the United
Nations inspectors left in
1998, the report said.
Some scientists have
been arrested and held for
months, others have made
deals in return for informa-
tion and at least one has
agreed to be interviewed out-
side Iraq, the report added.
Several key Iraqi offi-
cials questioned the signifi-
cance of evidence cited by
the Bush Administration to
suggest that Saddam was
stepping up efforts to develop
new WMD programmes.
MNA/Xinhua
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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003 7
Vice-Senior General Maung Aye…and of enhancing their livingstandard.
Concerted and collectiveefforts will have to be madeby themselves for develop-ment of own region and ownnation. The strength of thenation lies within. As long asthe State, the people and theTatmadaw are making ef-forts, the national objectiveswill be realized sooner, hestressed.
He said that educatedpersons and highly-qualifiedhuman resources are of para-mount importance in build-ing a nation. Thus, it is in-cumbent upon the universi-ties and colleges opened inthe region to produce highlyqualified intellectuals andintelligentsia.
The people themselveswill have to make efforts fordevelopment and moderni-zation of own nation whichlagged behind in develop-ment for various reasons.Weighing advantages anddisadvantages or construc-tive activities and destruc-tive acts, earnest efforts areto be made for regional andnational development, hesaid.
Next, Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye greetedthose present. After the meet-ing, Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and party in-spected Pathein by car.
On 30 July morning,Vice-Senior General MaungAye and party attended theprovisions donation cer-emony for the PariyattiSarthintaiks held at theSasana Beikman in Pathein.
Also present on the oc-casion were StateOvadacariya Sayadaws andmember Sayadaws of State
(from page 1)Afterwards, they left for
Pathein by helicopter. Theywere welcomed there byMinister for ConstructionMaj-Gen Saw Tun, DeputyCommander Brig-Gen TintSwe and officials.
At the city hall in Pathein,they met with local authori-ties, departmental personnel,social organizations and lo-cal people. First, the com-mander reported on GDP ofAyeyawady Division, culti-vation of monsoon and sum-mer paddy, breeding of fish,fresh water and sea prawn,breeding of river catfishthrough cage system, culti-vation of main crops in 2003-2004, boosting cultivation ofcrops, planting of pepper,coffee, Thitseint (Bellaricmyrobalan) and teak and useof natural fertilizers.
Next, Minister U SoeTha reported on implemen-tation of short-term eco-nomic projects, economicdevelopment of AyeyawadyDivision and its contributionto development of the State’seconomy.
Afterwards, Secretary-2Lt-Gen Soe Win made aspeech. He said that progresshas been made in the nationdue to combined efforts ofdepartmental personnel andthe people under the leader-ship of the State. All thepeople are to value the fruit-ful results of progress madein the nation on self-reliantbasis and safeguard them fortheir durability.
Since the people are long-ing for peace and progress inthe region, it is incumbentupon the regional adminis-trative bodies and servicepersonnel to make strenuous
efforts for bringing aboutpeace and progress in theregion.
To be able to serve theinterests of the people in theregion, the regional admin-istrative bodies are to makeinitiatives and cooperate withthe departments concerned.Accordingly, the regionaladministrative bodies are tostrive together with the peo-ple for regional and nationaldevelopment.
Next, Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye made aspeech. He said thatAyeyawady Division is oneof the divisions on which theState has to depend economi-cally. Efforts will have to bemade for extended agricul-tural and livestock breedingundertakings in anticipationof growing population al-though there is food suffi-ciency for existing popula-tion of the State.
Tremendous efforts arebeing made to meet the tar-get of producing 1,200 mil-lion baskets of paddy in2003-2004 to ensure ricesufficiency for at least 100million population. Farmersare making concerted effortsfor extended cultivation ofpaddy since the new policyof paddy trading was intro-duced. To this end, it is ex-pected to meet the target ofpaddy production, he pointedout.
The government has beenmaking systematic efforts forensuring water supply for ag-ricultural purpose and bettertransport in the region as wellas for uplift of standard ofeducation and health. Thegovernment has been doingwith the aim of ensuring foodsufficiency for the posterity
Vice-Senior General Maung Aye presents cash donations for Shwe Buddho Pagoda inMyaungmya to members of the Board of Trustees.— MNA
Sangha.Next, Chairman of
Ayeyawady Division SanghaNayaka Committee(Shwekyin) MaunghtaungKyaungtaik Sayadaw AggaMaha Pandita BhaddantaMahosadha Pandita deliv-ered a sermon, followed bysharing of merits gained.
The ceremony ended withthe three time recitation ofBuddha Sasanam CiramTitthatu.
Afterwards, Vice-Senior General Maung Ayeand party arrived at PatheinUniversity. They were wel-comed there by Deputy Di-rector-General of the HigherEducation Department(Lower Myanmar) U SeinWin, Rector U Cho and Pro-Rector U Tun Thein. Vice-Senior General Maung Ayeand party cordially greetedthe professors and associateprofessors.
They proceeded to theGovernment Computer Col-lege in Pathein and left nec-essary instructions.
They inspected progressin construction of Govern-ment Technological Collegein Pathein. Principal DawYee Yee Myint reported onthe conducting of courses andstudy of the students at thecollege; and Managing Di-rector of Arkar Oo Co Ltd UMyo Aung, on constructionof the building and workprogress. Minister for Sci-ence and Technology UThaung gave a supplemen-tary report. Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye gave instruc-tions.
Next, Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye and partyheaded for Hinthada, where
they were welcomed byDeputy Commander ofSouth-West Command Brig-Gen Tint Swe, Col Than TunAung of Ingapu Station andofficials.
Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and party at-tended the offering of rice tothe Sayadaws and monaster-ies in Hinthada held at theprayer hall of Hinthada MahaAtula SakkyaramsiHsehtatkyi Pagoda.
The ceremony wasgraced by the presence ofOvadacariya Sayadaws ofthe State Central WorkingCommittee of the Sangha andmember Sayadaws of Town-ship Sangha Nayaka Com-mittee. Also present weredepartmental officials, andmembers of social and reli-gious organizations.
Maha Dwara NikayaSasanabaing Agga MahaPandita Abhidhaja AggaMaha Saddhamma JotikaHinthada Mahitayon Mon-astery Presiding SayadawBhaddanta Indriyasabha ad-ministered the Five Precepts.
Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye presented eightrequisites, rice, edible oil andoffertories to the Sayadaw.The Secretary-2 and partyoffered eight requisites andprovisions to the Sayadaws.
The Sayadaw delivereda sermon, followed by shar-ing of merits gained.
After the ceremony,Vice-Senior General MaungAye inspected the site cho-sen for construction ofHinthada District SasanaBeikman and the scale modelof the building and gave nec-essary instructions.
(See page 9)
Central Working Commit-tee of the Sangha, the Town-ship Sangha NayakaSayadaws, division, districtand township level depart-mental officials, members ofsocial organizations and Wutassociations and others.
The congregation re-ceived the Five Precepts fromChairman of AyeyawadyDivision Sagha NayakaCommittee (Wailuwun) Pre-siding Sayadaw ofWailuwun Kyaungtaik AggaMaha Pandita BhaddantaNagavamsa.
Next, Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye presentedoffertories and eight requi-sites to State OvadacariyaAgga Maha Pandita KabaAye Kyaung SayadawBhaddanta Sirindara. After-wards, Secretary-2 Lt-GenSoe Win and party presentedoffertories and eight requi-sites to members of the
Vice-Senior General Maung Aye inspects the site for construction of Sasana Beikman in Hinthada District.— MNA
Vice-Senior General Maung Aye gives instructions at Government Technological College in Pathein .— MNA
8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003
Japan had two interesting news in addition to the
international major news items — the meetings of the
heads of governments and states of the respective coun-
tries to discuss the re-building of Iraq after the end of US-
Iraq War as requested by the leaders of the two powers,
and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), with no
remedy to cure and prevent it in sight.
One was about a group of people who wore the
white uniform. They rode white cars, and parked their
cars in rows along the roads in Japan. They used white
cloth in fencing the row of cars and tying the trunks of the
nearby trees. When the cars were parked at the place for
long, the mayors of the respective towns had to issue
orders to remove the vehicles. When the mayor of a town
issued the order, they move to another town in their long
convoy of cars. The moving convoy was constantly fol-
lowed by a group of journalists. The news about the con-
voy’s whereabouts were featured in the dailies and broad-
cast on radio and TV everyday. That group of men and
women in white cloth was a religious association launch-
ing the activity in accord with their belief.
Another news was about a seal. The sea animal
emerged in the Tama River, which was called the
Tamakawa. The seal was named Tamakyan. It was like a
festival as there were a lot of people watching the sea
creature and the journalists covering the event. Tamakyan’s
travel from one river to another river was an interesting
news in Japan. Soon its right eyebrow was hooked up to
a fish-hook that was attached to a string. Strangely, a fish-
hook that was left in a watercourse was hooked up to it.
It had become an interesting news, and the Save Tamakyan
Committee began to discuss whether to release the mam-
mal from the hook or not. As it was in the Saitama Pre-
fecture, the commissioner himself had to discuss the mat-
ter from a broadcasting programme. Fortunately, Tamakyan
was released from the hook automatically. Thus, the busy
Japanese people did not continue to bother with the crea-
ture.
Concerning the SARS, the infested countries were
coloured red on the map. I was amazed and happy to
know that Myanmar was left as a single patch of SARS-
free country in the region. SARS was regarded as the first
global major infectious disease of the 21st Century. But
my country was able to overcome the dreadful disease.
Wars broke out in the world one after another, and
when a war ended the people were being killed and
wounded by the live mines the war had left behind. While
the peoples from certain countries were suffering from
the global disaster, Myanmar was free from them. I had
listened to a programme about the Japanese people living
in Myanmar. The programme was broadcast by Radio
Tokyo. On the programme, a Japanese woman said. “If
we review our stay in Myanmar, we feel that we are a
very lucky people. As we are living in Myanmar, we have
become to realize that loving kindness is more important
than the valuables and property.” I didn’t hear any one of
them say that there was no democracy and human rights
in Myanmar. I assume that they had not faced any kind of
restriction while enjoying their normal life in Myanmar.
I have been living in Japan, which has democracy and
human rights, for a number of years. Unfortunately, the
people in Japan including me have to face one kind of
natural disaster or another every year.
Japan has been in the economic downturn since
long. Very often, we were hearing about the suicides of
the owners of the big companies which had to be dis-
solved. Atami on the Izu peninsular, where I was living,
was once a famous major town always crowded with local
visitors. But the number of visitors to the town is decreas-
ing at present, followed by the closure of hotels one after
another. Under any system or policy, the most important
requirement for a country is food, clothing and shelter.
Do you have real amity?
The Buddhist teachings say that we are not free from
sufferings, and one thing that is sure is that no individual
can choose his own sufferings.
Atami is the gateway to Izu peninsular. On the
beach of Atami is a couple of bronze statues of a man
wearing the Japanese traditional costume in posture of
kicking a woman in kimono dress lying on the ground.
The statues represent a well-known story in Japan.
The story was like this: Once there were two lov-
ers — Omiya and Kanichi. One day a rich man saw the
beautiful Omiya and fell in love with her. Omiya left
Kanichi when the rich man proposed her by promissing a
large amount of valuables. But soon the rich men lost his
fortune and became poor as he didn’t work hard, rose up
from bed late in the morning, and bathed and drank in the
morning,
Japanese rise up early in the morning. The major-
ity of the Japanese do not seem to have enough sleep.
Thus, most of the passengers on trains were sleeping while
travelling. Mostly, Japanese used trains for travelling from
one place to another whether it was a short trip or a long
one. And all the passengers whenever they got a seat,
started to sleep. But they always woke up at the right
station. Some even sleep while standing on train.
Japanese usually take a bath in hot water and take
alcohol in the evening, and that is one of their traditions.
They hardly bathe and take alcohol in the morning. And
alcohol is an essential thing on special occasions and in
cooking meals. It is also a culture of Japan.
Now let us continue the story. The rich man be-
came poor as he discarded the Japanese tradition. But
Kanichi on the other hand worked hard as he felt hurt for
Omiya had left him as she was blinded by the valuables
(daiyamondo ni me ga kurande). He became rich. At that
time, Omiya came to him and apologized for her wrong-
doing. But Kanichi kicked her, telling her that she had
known her fault at then; and that beforehand, she was
blinded by the glittering of the valuables that she could
not even see him.
Some said that it was a true story of Atami. It tells
us the fact that those who try hard will succeed. And the
words “daiyamondo ni me ga kurande” are used in criti-
cizing a person who loves valuables too much. However,
not all the women are like Omiya. There are women like
Mother Teresa in many places of the world. In our coun-
try also there has been a large number of women serving
the national interest since ancient times to this date.
Myanmar women are also taking part actively in the bodies
to prevent violence against women and taking care of
mothers and babies.
In Myanmar, it is quite easy to differentiate be-
tween those who are working for the national interest and
those who are working for self-interest. One should con-
sider whether he should commit such deeds that will push
the nation under others’ domain. Serious thoughts are re-
quired to find the answer to the problem without holding
personal views.
Saddam Hussein was gone, but the suffering of his
country and people have become a common knowledge.
Fortunately, our King Thibaw got time to travel from
Mandalay Palace to Gowein jetty.
But now the situation is not as the same as in the
past. If any mishap comes, it is sure that the people will
be the victims. We would not dare to accept democracy
and human rights if we would have to find them like
bomb and bullet shells in the ashes. I would like to re-
quest the daredevils who have courage to do so to have
consideration for the youths who are the nation’s future
hope. And I would like to urge them to have real love for
the youths and people, and to prove their amity with deeds.
(Translation: TMT)Myanma Alin 19-7-2003
Dr Mya Mya Win
* Oppose those relying on external elements,acting as stooges, holding negative views
* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stabilityof the State and progress of the nation
* Oppose foreign nations interfering ininternal affairs of the State
* Crush all internal and external destructiveelements as the common enemy
People’s Desire
There are about 500,000 householdsusing electricity in Yangon. Thus, saving afour-foot fluorescent lamp every day by eachhousehold amounts to saving power that isequal to the capacity a 20-megawatt powerstation can supply.
Efficient use of electricity* Use daylight as the main source of light* Use the least possible amount of electricity
only if there is not enough natural light* Use the least possible amount of electricity
required in production and service enter-prises
* Preventing waste of electricity benefits theuser and others
* Saving one gallon of fuel per car per month
will save the nation one US dollar
* Thus, a total of 455,822 cars in Myanmar
can save US$ 5.5 million in a year
* The amount, US $ 5.5 million, can build a
major bridge across Ayeyawady River
Efficient use of fuel
Do not be bolsteredwhenever flattered.
Journalism trainees visit farmily ZoneYANGON, 1 Aug — The
trainees of Journalism
Course No 1/2003 organized
by the News and Periodicals
Enterprise under the Minis-
try of Information led by
Manager U Nyunt Hlaing
this morning visited the Veg-
etable Cultivation and Live-
stock Breeding Special Zone
(Nyaung-hnapin) being un-
dertaken by Yangon Divi-
sion Peace and Development
Council in Hmawby Town-
ship, Yangon North District.
They were welcomed
there by Deputy Commis-
sioner of Yangon North Dis-
trict General Administration
Department U Thein Naing
and officials. At the Hmawby
Hsan Hall, Deputy Commis-
sioner U Thein Naing and
Manager of Hmawby Town-
ship Myanma Agriculture
Service U Thein Lwin
briefed the trainees on meas-
ures being taken at the spe-
cial zone. Next, the trainees
observed crops plantations
and raising of poultry there.
The trainees also viewed
vegetable plantations grown
with the use of green house
system being undertaken by
the Myanma Agriculture
Service under the Ministry
of Agriculture and Irrigation.
Project Manager U Mya Win
explained facts about the
agricultural project to the
trainees and conducted them
round the project site. Next,
the leader of the trainees
spoke words of thanks.
MNA
YANGON, 1 Aug —
The concluding ceremony
of junior engineer-2 civil
personal course No 3 was
held at the central training
school (Thuwunna) of the
Ministry of Construction this
morning.
It was attended by
Minister for Construction
Maj-Gen Saw Tun, Deputy
Ministers U Tint Swe and
Junior engineer-2 civilpersonal course concludes
Brig-Gen Myint Thein, di-
rectors-general and manag-
ing directors of the depart-
ments and enterprises, the
principal of the training
school and course instruc-
tors.
The minister ad-
dressed the ceremony.
The course was at-
tended by 29 trainees and it
lasted 13 weeks. — MNA
THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003 9
Minister for Health Dr Kyaw Myint presentsbreastfeeding hospital prize to a winning hospital.— MNA
Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe presents breastfeeding prize to awinner.— MNA
UMFCCI PRESIDENT RECEIVES GUESTS: Union ofMyanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce andIndustry U Win Myint received Vietnamese EconomicCounsellor Mr Ta Huu Thinh and his successor Mr LeHai Chau at his office Thursday morning. The photo
shows that the Vietnamese Economic Counsellor calls onUMFCCI President U Win Myint.— MNA Opium-substitute lychee nursery in Wa region.—˚MNA
Thriving opium-substitute orange plantationin Wa region.— MNA
Thriving opium-substitute orange and mango nursery inWa region.—MNA
Thriving opium-substitute lychee nurseryin Wa region.—MNA
Vice-Senior General Maung Aye…(from page 7)
Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and party metwith local authorities, depart-mental officials, members ofsocial organizations andtownsfolk at City Hall ofHinthada. At the meeting,Chairman of District Peaceand Development CouncilLt-Col Maung Pyone re-ported on the district’s plansand aims for 2003-2004, ac-complishments, cultivationof monsoon and summerpaddy, groundnut, sesamum,pigeon pea, tapioca, corn,pepper, sugarcane, jute andvegetables, measures beingtaken for smooth transportand education sector.
Minister for NationalPlanning and Economic De-velopment U Soe Tha re-ported on improvement ofthe State’s economic sector,implementation of projects,and plans to be accomplishedby respective districts andtownships. The Secretary-2elaborated on accomplish-ments of economic, educa-tional, health and transportsectors in building up a mod-ern nation.
Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye delivered anaddress, saying that HinthadaDistrict is one of the 24 de-velopment regions andHinthada, Maubin andPathein regions have beendesignated as developmentregions in Ayeyawady Divi-sion. He said that fully utiliz-ing good foundations of edu-cation, health and transportconstructed by the govern-ment, officials concerned areto make concerted efforts forregional development. Withcomplete development ofstrategic regions, the wholeUnion will develop fully, hesaid. In conclusion, Vice-Senior General Maung Ayecalled for thorough and ef-fective implementation of
lofty development projectslaid down by the governmentfor bridging the developmentgap among the parts of thenation. Next, Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye had acordial conversation withthose present.
Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and party wentto the Government Compu-ter College in Hinthada andmet with Principal DawNyein Nyein Lwin and teach-ers. They proceeded toHinthada University, wherethey were welcomed by Di-rector-General of HigherEducation Department(Lower Myanmar) U SawLwin, Pro-Rector ofHinthada University U SoeMyint and professors.After cordially greeting thestaff, they inspected theuniversity.
They went to HinthadaGovernment TechnologicalCollege in Hinthada. Princi-pal U Thet Htoo Han reportedon establishment of the col-lege, courses being con-ducted, and strength of thestudents. Minister U Thaunggave a supplementary report.Next, Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye greeted theteachers.
Member of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Chairman of theOrganizing Committee ofMyanmar War Veterans Or-ganization (Central) Adju-tant-General Lt-Gen TheinSein, who accompaniedVice-Senior General MaungAye, together with Ministerfor Construction Maj-GenSaw Tun, and member of theorganizing committee Min-ister U Thaung, met withmembers of Division, Dis-trict and Township WVOs atthe office of AyeyawadyDivision Peace and Devel-opment Council on 29 Julyevening. — MNA
Kanyutkwin Station Hospi-tal in Pyu Township, BagoDivision; and the Phado Sta-tion Hospital in KyauktadaTownship, which were alsoregarded as breastfeedinghospitals.
Later, Ms Corroll Longand Dr Stephan Jost of theOffice of Resident Repre-sentative of the WHOawarded officials from thestation hospitals, regarded as
breastfeeding hospitals, inAyeyawady Division,Sagaing Division and BagoDivision (East).
Director-General of theHealth Department Dr WanMaung and officials alsogave away prizes to nurses,midwives and representa-tives from the townshipswhich were regarded asbreastfeeding townships.
MNA
YANGON, 1 Aug — TheMinistry of Health organizeda ceremony for recognitionof breastfeeding hospitalsand townships at the hall ofthe Institute of Nursing(Yangon) on Bogyoke AungSan Street here this morn-ing.
Minister for Health DrKyaw Myint delivered anaddress on the occasion.
Present on the occasionwere Deputy Minister forHealth Dr Mya Oo, Presi-dent of the Myanmar Mater-nal and Child Welfare Asso-ciation Dr Daw Khin WinShwe, directors-general anddeputy directors-general ofdepartments under the min-istry, rectors, directors, medi-cal superintendents, officialsfrom UN agencies and so-cial organizations, and oth-ers.
In his speech, MinisterDr Kyaw Myint said thatWorld Breastfeeding Weekhas been observed world-wide as well as in Myanmarsince 1992. This year, the12th World BreastfeedingWeek will be observed inMyanmar as of today.
From 1992, August 1 to7 has been designated as thebreastfeeding week, whichis observed worldwide withceremonies.
The Ministry of Health,under the leadership of theNational Health Committee,drew up plans systematicallyand is implementing themwith the aim of promotingnational health standard.Among them is thebreastfeeding plan, whichhas been realized since Janu-ary 2003.
Up to this year, a total of321 hospitals have been des-ignated as breastfeeding hos-pitals, and 99 townships asbreastfeeding townships.
The chosen motto forWorld Breastfeeding Weekthis year is “Breastfeedingin a globalized world - forpeace and justice”.
Mother’s milk containsantibiotics. Therefore, for hu-man beings, milk powderproduced from the animal’smilk is not as good as themother’s milk. Breastfeedinghas many fine points.
Therefore, it is necessaryfor health staff to educate thepublic, especially mothersand expectant mothers, topractise it.
The saying that goes“The hand that rocks the cra-dle rules the world” high-lights the fact that the futureof a child is in the hands ofhis mother.
Like previous years,World Breastfeeding Weekwill be observed from 1 to 7August. Today, 1 August, atotal of 17 hospitals and 19townships will be awarded.
The breastfeeding plancan not be carried out by thehealth staff alone. Successwill be achieved only whenhealth-related ministries,NGOs, and the public lendthemselves to this campaign.During the past 10 years, theministry could carry out theplan in 321 hospitals out of757. Therefore, it can be saidthat the achievement is lessthan 50 per cent.
Thus, it is incumbent onhealth officers of states anddivisions to make efforts toan extent that all the hospi-tals in their states and divi-sions will be regarded asbreastfeeding hospitals.
Moreover, the hospitalsand townships regarded asbreastfeeding hospitals andtownships are to maintaintheir already achieved sta-tus. The breastfeeding poli-cies and the 10 steps ofbreastfeeding are needed tofollow, he said.
He also expressed histhanks to the UNICEF, whichrenders assistance to makingfield tour of hospitals andtownships to inspect whetherthe breastfeeding policy waspractised there. He alsothanked the WHO for its helpin the holding ofbreastfeeding counsellingtraining workshops.
Resident Representa-tive of the UNICEF MsCorroll Long also spoke onthe occasion.
Next, the minister pre-sented awards to officialsfrom the Aphyauk StationHospital, Taikkyi Township,Yangon Division; theShwekyin Township Hospi-tal in Bago Division (East);the Nyaungphyu StationHospital in Monywa Town-ship, Sagaing Division; andthe Amyint Station Hospitalin ChaungU Township,which were regarded asbreastfeeding hospitals.
The deputy minister alsopresented awards to officialsfrom the Palaw TownshipHospital and the KyunsuTownship Hospital inTaninthayi Division, andZayatkyi Station Hospital inHtantabin Township, BagoDivision (East), which werealso regarded asbreastfeeding hospitals.
Dr Daw Khin Win Shwealso presented awards to of-ficials from the ZeyawadyStation Hospital and the
Breastfeeding hospitals and townships recognized and honoured
10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003
South Okkalapa Industrial Zone(Article & Photos— Sein Shwe Hlaing)
2-ton Truckassembled by
SouthOkkalapaIndustrial
Zone.
Okkala Jeep
of South
Okkalapa
Industrial
Zone.
South Okkalapa Industrial Zone is not
far from downtown Yangon. In 1958,
Thakayta, South Okkalapa, North Okkalapa
new townships were established and since
then, South Okkalapa Industrial ward has
been set up.
The industrial zone is located on 35
acres of land and comprises 153 factories
and workshops and five factories are under
construction. The South Okkalapa Indus-
trial Ward is upgraded to the industrial zone
on 20 July, 2001 and it is located in Yangon
East Heavy Industry Zone.
Now, Brig-Gen Pyi Sone, Minister for
Commerce, acts as In-charge of the South
Okkalapa Industrial Zone and is giving ad-
vice and providing necessary assistance for
the development of the zone.
It includes 10 factories for consumer
goods, seven ice factories, nine garment fac-
tories, 21 filigree workshops, seven plastic
and rubber factories, 41 saw mills and wood
work factories, two paper factories, 24 food-
stuff factories, seven car servicing work-
shops, and 15 warehouses.
The industrial zone has invested K 175.07
million (US$ 0.40 million) and its productiv-
ity is equivalent to K 149.23 million (US $
0.13 million). It creates 1,499 jobs. Sein
Diamond enamel paint factory produces
import-substitute paints. Moreover, saw mills
and wood work factory not only export
furniture and Myanmar handicrafts but also
sell low-cost furniture for the domestic use.
There are also filigree workshops and tin
melting plant in the zone and they are very
convenient for the entrepreneurs. Seminars
are also held aiming to develop the industrial
work. Brig-Gen Pyi Sone often goes there
and supervises the work.
He gives instructions on boosting pro-
duction of trucks for import-substitute cars.
Trucks are useful for transportation.
Therefore, trucks have been assembled
since July, 2002 and three two-ton trucks
were produced in December. Production of
OKA 01 (Okkala Jeep) launched in Decem-
ber, 2002. Later, the industry zone also turns
out OKA 03 and OKA 03 (Okkala Wagon).
The trucks were on show at Myanma
Industrial Exhibition-2003 held in Manda-
lay and endowed with best innovation prize.
Similarly, Okkala jeeps, Okkala wagon
and truck of the zone were displayed at
Myanma Auto Show-2003 and OKA 01 jeep
won the third best product prize.
Therefore, these two prizes reveal that
South Okkalapa Industrial Zone has acquired
a high level of competence in vehicle pro-
duction.
The industrial zone has assembled a total
of 21 vehicles — eight jeeps (OKA 01), five
jeeps (OKA 03), seven Okkala Wagon and
three two-ton trucks.
At preesent, the industrial zone set target
to manufacture 35 jeeps, 20 trucks and 15
wagons in 2003-2004 fiscal year.
(Translation: AMS)
Paddy-plus-fish project in people’s interest and rural developmentHla Tun (Twantay)
At the invitation of the
Fisheries Department of theMinistry of Livestock and
Fisheries, the 21-member
group made a two-day trip to
a region which was contigu-
ous to my birthplace.
The term Ayeyawady iswell-known not only in
Myanmar but also in the
world. Myanmar’s Aye-
yawady River is stated in
comparison with Yangtze
River in the People’s Re-public of China.
Our destination was
Pathein District in
Ayeyawady Division, the
region of Myanmar’s rice
bowl. In the past, people hadto rely mainly on waterway
to travel to Pathein. The 114-
mile distance took the pas-
sengers about 14 hours in the
past. But, now one has to
take only about three hoursto get to Pathein thanks to
the emergence of new roads
and bridges. If one would
like to proceed to the
Chaungtha Beach by car, he
has to travel 34 miles more.
In Myanmar, the ChaungthaBeach is the most beautiful
and pleasant one except
Ngapali Beach. About 30
miles from Pathein Ngwe
Hsaung Beach, which has
become popular this year.Our group left the News
and Periodicals Enterprise on
Theinbyu Road by car at 3.30
pm on 24 July. That day, the
weather was fine. On our
way, we passed theBayintnaung Bridge and the
recently-opened Daka
Bridge. We spent the night at
the Paradise Hotel in Pathein.
Even though it was in the
rainy season, 24 out of 28rooms were occupied by lo-
cal and foreign visitors at
that time. So, it can be said
that the occupancy rate is
high. On the morning of 25
July, we attended the cer-
emony jointly organized by
the Fisheries Department and
the Division Maternal andChild Welfare Association
Supervisory Committee,
held at the pandal in front of
the paddy fields of
Khonzinkon Village in
Kangyidaunt Township,about 11 miles from Pathein.
The implementation of
the paddy-plus-fish project
is in accordance with the
guidance of Head of State
Senior General Than Shwe.Chairman of Ayeyawady Di-
vision Peace and Develop-
ment Council Commander
of South-West Command
Maj-Gen Htay Oo addressed
the ceremony and releasedfingerlings into the paddy
fields. The commander and
wife, Deputy Commander
Brig-Gen Tint Swe and wife,
officials and members of the
Maternal and Child Welfare
Association put fingerlings
into the paddy fields. At theceremony, Head of Division
Fisheries Department U Win
Myint Maung explained the
paddy-plus-fish project.
Next, bags of fingerlings
were presented to farmers.On that day, a total of 250,000
fingerlings of diffenent spe-
cies were released into the
500 acres of paddy fields in
the townships of Kan-
gyidaunt and Pathein at therate of five hundred
fingerlings an acre. More-
over, 925,000 of fish was put
into the fields of 1,850 acres
in Pathein, Maubin, Myaung-
mya and Pyapon districts.Commander Maj-Gen
Htay Oo, after the ceremony,
cordially greeted the local
farmers and urged them to
boost the per acre yield ofpaddy, to minimize expenses
and to use traditional organic
fertilizers in cultivation in-
stead of urea fertilizers.
The highest rice-produc-
ing divisions in Myanmar areYangon, Bago and
Ayeyawady. Of them Aye-
yawady is the top of the three.
Therefore, it is known as
the rice barn of the country.
Now, the division also takesa leading role in fish and
meat sector.
It is learn that the farm-
ing method of paddy-plus-
fish was carried out first in
India 1,500 years ago.Nowadays, Thailand,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos
and Vietnam also have been
accustomed to this method.
By putting fish into the paddy
fields, the amount of pesti-cides used in the fields will
decrease because the fish eat
the pests as their food. Fur-
ther, excretions released by
fish can fertilize soil to thrivethe paddy, and the yield of
paddy will increase from 10
to 15 percent.
Two Thai officials in-
cluded in the trip were Pro-
gramme Manager Mr SurianVichiteken and Policy and
Programme Coordinator Ms
Pouchamani Wongsanla of
South-East Asia Fishery De-
velopment Centre. They
were to stay there from 23 to26 July. In an interview with
the guests, they said the
project was very beneficial
and this farming method has
been used in Thailand for 20
years. The ceremonies ofpaddy-plus-fish project had
been held in Bago and
Ayeyawady Divisions. On
the way home I recalled the
words of Commander Maj-
Gen Htay Oo. As a result ofraising fish in the paddy field,
the farmers can earn more
incomes and their region will
develop more.
I murmured “paddy-plus-fish project in people’s in-
terests and rural develop-
ment”.
(Translation: MS+ST)
Commander Maj-Gen Htay Oo and wife Daw Ni Ni Win and officials releasefingerlings into the paddy field. — THANT ZIN TUN (Kyemon)
Commander Maj-Gen Htay Oo meets with officials of the Fisheries Department. THANT ZIN TUN (Kyemon)
THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003 11
Implementation of projects for socio-economicdevelopment of all regions in the country
The City Hall of Kengtung in Shan State (East) seen on the opening day,on 18-5-2003. — MNA
The Hlawga natural gas turbine is one of the potential plants for supply ofsufficient electric power. — PHOTO: MINISTRY OF ELECTRIC POWER
Unloading of frames weighing 7693.55 tons imported from China NationalHeavy Machinery Corporation for the construction of Thanlwin River Bridge(Mawlamyine) from MV Mawlamyine seen on 26-5- 2003. — CONSTRUCTION
The Paungtok Bridge inaugurated in MraukU Township, Rakhine State,on 20-5-2003. — MNA
Ground levelling with the use of heavy machinery for constructing conduit andcontrol tower of Ngwetha Dam which is being built in Salingyi Township, Sagaing Division. It is targeted to finish the construction of the dam by the year 2004.
Local-made cars seen at the Myanma Auto Exhibition (2003) at KyaikkasanGrounds on 9 May. — MNA
Shan State (East) General Hospital (200-bed) in Kengtung seenon 18-5-2003.—MNA
Dawei University in Dawei which was opened on 22-2-2002. — MNA
The Government has been striving for enabling the nationto keep abreast with the world’s nations in terms of development.In the process, it has laid down national development projects and
region-wise development plans and work is well under way forbringing about harmonious development in economic, healthand education sectors across the nation and narrowing the
development gap among all parts of the nation.
12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003
ARRIVAL/CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV “ BAGO” VOY NO BG746/NConsignee of cargo carried on MV “BAGO” Voy No
BG746/N are hereby notified that the vessel has arrived at
Yangon port on 2-8-2003 and will be berthing on about 3-
8-2003 and cargoes will be discharged into the premises
of Myanma Port Authority where it will lie at the consign-
ee’s risk and expenses and subject to the bye-laws and
conditions of the port of Yangon.
Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily between 8 am
to 11:30 and 12 noon to 4 pm into Claims Day now
declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo
from vessel.
No Claims against this vessel will be admitted after the
Claims Day.
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Pakistani girl leaves afterheart surgery in India
Ten drugdealers
captured inNanchangNANCHANG, 1 Aug —
Police in Nanchang, capital
city of east China’s Jiangxi
Province, have captured 10
drug dealers who allegedly
sold a total of 15,000 ecstasy
pills and four kilogrammes
of “king power”, a new kind
of drug prevalent in China.
The police said that they
discovered early this month
that a man, nicknamed Shitou
or “Stone”, and a woman,
named Liao Ying were in
control of drug supply at
some recreation centres in
the city. Further investiga-
tion showed that Yang Rufei,
a man from Guangzhou,
capital of south China’s
Guangdong Province, and
Yang Xiangbao, a man from
neighbouring Hubei Prov-
ince, supplied drugs to Shitou
and Liao.
The police caught Yang
Xiangbao and Liao at a hotel
in Nanchang on July 25, and
seized Yang Rufei at a long-
distance bus station in the
city when Yang walked out,
carrying drugs he was be-
lieved to have been intend-
ing to sell to Shitou.
MNA/Xinhua
“IT” companies form allianceto enter China’s milymarket
Palestinian boy’s organs giveIsraelis new life
JERUSALEM, 1 Aug — The
family of a Palestinian boy
killed in an accident has
helped save the lives of four
Israeli children by donating
his organs, a rare act after 34
months of conflict between
Israelis and Palestinians.
Eleven-year-old Qaher
Aoude died when he fell off
the roof of his home near
Nablus in the West Bank.
His family authorized the
donation of his organs on
Tuesday over the objections
of many of their neighbours
angered by Israeli crack-
downs on a Palestinian up-
rising for independence.
“We want Israelis and
Americans to know that
while the Israeli Army kills
Palestinians we give life to
Israeli children,” Murad
Aoude, one of Qaher’s 17
siblings, said on Wednes-
day.
Schneider Children’s
Hospital in the Israeli city of
Petah Tikva said a 13-year-
old girl suffering from cystic
fibrosis received Qaher’s
heart and lungs while her
own functioning heart was
transplanted into another
young patient.
This was the first time a
so-called “domino trans-
plant” was performed in Is-
rael, a Schneider statement
said. Although the 13-year-
old girl only needed new
lungs, it is better to have both
a heart and lungs transplanted
together.
The boy’s liver and kid-
neys were given to two other
children. The organs of sev-
eral Israelis — some of them
killed in suicide bombings
and other Palestinian attacks
— have been donated to Pal-
estinians since violence
erupted in September 2000,
but donations the other way
dropped off dramatically,
Israeli health officials said.
“When (Palestinian) or-
gans were donated it was in
secret,” said Tamar
Ashkenazi of Israel’s na-
tional transplant centre.
“This may be the first time
since it began it has been
done publicly.”
Middle East tensions
have eased since the June
launch of a US-backed
“roadmap” to Palestinian
statehood in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip by 2005,
aided by scaled-back Israeli
military operations and a
ceasefire declared by Pales-
tinian militants.
Schneider received rec-
ognition in a Vatican news-
letter this week for being “a
bridge to peace”. It was noted
for transplanting the kidney
of a suicide-bombing victim
into the body of a seven-
year-old Palestinian girl.
MNA/Reuters
BANGALORE (India), 1
Aug — A two-year-old
Pakistani girl whose success-
ful heart surgery in India has
come to symbolize efforts to
revive peace between the
nuclear-armed neighbours
left hospital on Thursday and
was on her way home.
Noor Fatima came to In-
dia on July 11 with her par-
ents on a cross-border bus
service between Lahore and
Delhi that was resumed after
an 18-month suspension.
The same bus service will
take her back home from
Delhi on Friday.
Wearing a frilly purple
frock and a huge straw hat,
Noor Fatima left the
Narayana Hrudayalaya heart
hospital in the southern city
of Bangalore, and her smil-
ing father told reporters that
doctors had found her
progress satisfactory.
“It is a message of friend-
ship,” Nadeem Sajjad said
when asked if the surgery
could help revive peace be-
tween the two nations.
“It all now depends on
what the big people (govern-
ments) think,” he added.
Noor Fatima was oper-
ated on July 15 to mend holes
in her heart, and her surgery
received wide media atten-
tion. Prayers for her recov-
ery and offers of help poured
in from friendly Indians.
The Indian government
later offered to pick up the
bills to treat 20 Pakistani
children in a gesture towards
resuming peace talks.
MNA/Reuters
BEIJING, 1 Aug — Morethan 50 of China’s largestinformation technologyfirms formed an alliance onWednesday to strengthen
their hand in the lucrativedefence market, as the Chi-nese military is reforming itspurchase system by adopt-ing the practice of govern-
ment procurement.Li Jinai, a member of the
Central Military Commis-sion and director of the Gen-eral Armament Departmentof the Chinese People’s Lib-eration Army (PLA), at-tended the ceremony to markthe launch of the coalition,dubbed “The ComputerWorld Army-SupportingAlliance on Science andTechnology”. Twelve of theprestigious firms donated ITproducts including servers,personal computers, ex-changes and routers to theArmy. Company representa-tives pledged to help train ITpersonnel for the militaryand create greater awarenessabout the industry among theforces. The establishment ofthe alliance is sponsored bythe Information Institute ofElectronics Science andTechnology under the Chi-nese Ministry of Informa-tion and the Computer WorldMedia Group.
MNA/Xinhua
State-owned hospitals in Chinato embrace market
BEIJING, 1 Aug — More
State-owned hospitals in
China are to lose their gov-
ernment support and will
have to adapt to the market
as the country’s entire health
service undergoes inevitable
reform, experts predicted.
The unexpected epi-
demic of severe acute
respiratory syndromes
(SARS) has made the cen-
tral government determined
to take unprecedented action
with regard to the country’s
public health system, accord-
ing to Thursday’s ChinaDaily.
The relevant departments
under the State Council, such
as the Ministry of Health and
the State Development and
Reform Commission, are
making investment plans
with huge budgets to improve
the country’s public health
networks, according to a
three-day national working
conference on health that
ended Wednesday in Beijing.
One of the main tasks in
the coming years will be fur-
ther development of the
health care system so that it
can better prevent and con-
trol epidemics such as SARS.
The newly added task is
expected to bring new change
to the system of providing
medical treatment, another
side of the reform campaign,
said Cai Renhua, director of
the China National Health
Economics Institute.
MNA/Xinhua
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US study says bionic earcarries meningitis risk
BOSTON, 1 Aug — Receiving a cochlear implant to restore hearing dramaticallyincreases the risk of developing bacterial meningitis, US researchers warned on Wednes-day.
The meningitis rate was 30 times higher
among 4,264 children who received the bionic
ear from 1997 to 2002 compared to the rate in
the general population, said a team led by
Jennita Reefhuis of the National Centre on
Birth Defects and Development Disabilities.
They recommended in the New EnglandJournal of Medicine, where the study was
published, that no implants be undertaken
until a child has been vaccinated against bac-
teria that can cause meningitis, a potentially
fatal inflammation of the surface of the brain.
Nearly 10,000 profoundly deaf children in
the United States have received implants, al-
lowing most of them to understand normal
speech. In all, about 30,000 children world-
wide have been given implants, as well as an
equal number of adults.
The device uses a microphone to pick up
sounds and transfers those sounds to an im-
planted receiver that, in turn, delivers electri-
cal impulses into the cochlea so they can be
relayed to the brain. The surgery and rehabili-
tation cost about 60,000 US dollars in chil-
dren.
One year ago, the US Food and Drug
Administration warned consumers that the
implants had been linked with bacterial men-
ingitis, producing 17 deaths worldwide among
91 patients who developed meningitis. As a
result, Advanced Bionics Corporation, a pri-
vately held company, withdrew two brands
that contained a “positioner” that pushed the
electrode against the wall of the cochlea, the
spiral-shaped organ that normally translates
sounds into electrical impulses the brain can
understand.
MNA/Reuters
American Ballet
Theatre dancer,
Argentine
Paloma Herrera
practices at the
Colon Theatre in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina, on 30
July, 2003.
Herrera and
Brazilian ballet
dancer Marcelo
Gomes will
perform on
31 July, 2003 at
the Colon
Theatre.
INTERNET
Workers coming out of India’s Infosys softwaredevelopment factory. Analysts say India should tap the
profitable semiconductor market.—INTERNET
US, Mexico dismantle powerful drug networkWASHINGTON , 1 Aug — US and Mexican officials announced on Thursday they had dismantled a powerful
Mexican drug network that used tunnels, planes, trucks and cars to smuggle cocaine and marijuana into the UnitedStates.
In Mexico, authorities have taken into custody four
leaders of the up-and-coming drug gang headed by Ismael
Zambada Garcia while law enforcement officers arrested
63 suspects in the United States on Thursday.
US officials also announced charges against Zambada,
who they said has links to other influential Mexican drug
traffickers, and his two top lieutenants. They said Zambada
is believed to be in Mexico, but that he has not been arrested.
The latest arrests were part of a 19-month long investi-
gation called “Operation Trifecta”, which involved more
than 240 arrests in both countries and the seizure of nearly
six tons of cocaine, almost 25,000 pounds (11,000 kilos) of
marijuana and more than eight million dollars in suspected
drug proceeds.
“Today, the United States and Mexico, working to-
gether, have achieved a significant victory against the
purveyors of illegal drugs, death and violence,” Attorney
General John Ashcroft told a news conference at the Justice
Department.
“Ismael Zambada Garcia is alleged to be the head of one
of the largest, most powerful and ruthless drug trafficking
organizations in Mexico,” he said. US officials said Zambada
has been involved in drug trafficking for about 30 years.
Ashcroft said more than 50 search warrants were re-
cently executed in breaking up the ring that used planes,
trucks and cars to transport cocaine to the US-Mexico
border. Drugs then were smuggled to locations that
included Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.
In Mexico City, Attorney General Rafael Macedo said,
“This cell was one of the main supply lines to the United
States.”
Macedo said Zambada, who has been at the helm of the
gang that formed two years ago, remains at large.
Three of those captured in Mexico — cell leader
Manuel Campas Medina, New Yorker Ismael Lugo Diaz
and David Castro — were detained in Zapopan in western
Jalisco state.
The fourth, Javier Meza Fernandez, was arrested in
Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora state and south of Nogales.
MNA/Reuters
China, Brazil to launch secondresources satellite this year
BEIJING , 1 Aug — The China National Space Admin-istration said Wednesday that the No 2 satellite devel-oped by China and Brazil has passed production checksand is ready to lift off later in the year.
The satellite will be sent into orbit by a Long March IVseries rocket together with a experimental communication
satellite developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences
(CAS). The two countries launched the first earth resources
satellite in 1999, which has served for one year and eight
months more than its planned service lifetime to send back
data widely used in China and Brazil.
Furnished with various advanced cameras, the No 2
satellite shares similar technologies with its predecessor.
Information from the satellite will be shared by China
and Brazil. In China, data sent by the satellite will be
received by stations in Beijing, Urumqi in northwest Chi-
na’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Guangzhou
in south China’s Guangdong Province.
The satellite can collect images covering all China’s
land and ocean areas to help observe changes in land
resources, measure farming land, calculate timber stocks,
forecast crop growth, survey disasters and pollution and
prospect for mineral resources. — MNA/Xinhua
China, Russia urge US to stoparms race in outer space
GENEVA, 1 Aug— China and Russia, with the United States clearly in their sights,said on Thursday “Star Wars” dangers were growing and called for a quick start totalks on a treaty to ban weapons in space.
The two powers delivered their plea at a
session of the United Nations-backed Con-
ference on Disarmament just over a year after
tabling proposals for a pact, to be known as
PAROS, that have met with a cold reception
from Washington.
“Dire developments augur ill for the issue
of PAROS,” Chinese disarmament ambassa-
dor Hu Xiaodi told the 66-nation forum,
declaring that efforts were under way to
“control and occupy outer space”.
“The risk of weaponization of outer space
is mounting,” he added, in remarks that
sources close to his delegation said were
aimed at the US National Missile Defence
(NMD) system due to start up in September
next year.
US officials say NMD is purely defen-
sive and intended to protect their country
from missiles fired by “rogue states” and
terrorists. The system does not envisage
deploying weaponry in orbit round the Earth,
they say.
NMD is promoted by the administration
of President George W Bush as the successor
to the mooted programme of space-based
missile defence, dubbed “Star Wars”, cham-
pioned by then-President Ronald Reagan in
the 1980s.
The new system, which would involve
firing missiles out of the Earth’s atmosphere
from land-based sites, has been criticized by
many countries, and by some US scientists.
Russia’s Ambassador, Leonid
Skotnikov, told the Geneva disarmament
forum on Thursday that his country remained
firmly committed to banning the deploy-
ment of weapons in outer space and wanted
a moratorium while a treaty was negotiated.
“We are ready to take on such a commit-
ment immediately as long as the leading
space powers join in a moratorium,” he said.
Skotnikov also called for renewed efforts
to relaunch discussion on confidence-build-
ing measures on PAROS — Preventions of
an Arms Race in Outer Space — that have
been stalled for almost a decade.
MNA/Reuters
Asia-Africa cooperationpromotes status ofdeveloping countries
BANDUNG (Indonesia), 1
Aug — Strengthening coop-
eration between Asian and
African countries will help
promote common develop-
ment and reinforce the inter-
national status of develop-
ing countries and contribute
to the establishment of a new
international order, a
Chinese envoy has said.
“The combined area of Asia
and Africa is nearly half of the
world’s total and their people
account for more than two
thirds of the world’s popula-
tion, but their economic ag-
gregates are far from propor-
tionate to their size,” Chinese
Ambassador to Indonesia Lu
Shumin said Wednesday.
He was in the West Java
capital of Bandung to lead the
Chinese delegation in the Asian-
African Sub-Regional Organi-
zations Conference, which was
held on Tuesday and Wednes-
day.—MNA/Xinhua
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SPORTS
Real set off ticketfrenzy in Hong KongHONG KONG, 1 Aug — Thousands of soccer fans rushed to snap up tickets for an
eagerly-awaited Real Madrid match in Hong Kong when sales finally opened late onThursday.
“I am very happy,” said Yau Ka-kit, a 21-
year old student who was among the first to
buy the tickets. “I had been queuing up for
four days but it was worth it.
“I’m a little tired, now I will go home and
sleep,” said Yau, who left with bloodshot
eyes and four tickets.
He was one of about 5,000 fans who had
been standing in line for tickets to the game
against a Hong Kong XI side on August 8,
which will see David Beckham, Zinedine
Zidane and Ronaldo take to the field for
Real.
Hong Kong’s soccer stadium has a
seating capacity of about 40,000 but half
is reserved for the Hong Kong Football
Association and its affiliate clubs.
The overwhelming response prompted
organizers to bring forward the start of ticket
sales to 9 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Thursday
instead of Friday morning and tickets were
expected to be sold out within a few hours.
Regular tickets cost between 500 Hong
Kong dollars and 1,500 Hong Kong dollars
but on the black market they are being
offered at upwards of 4,000 Hong Kong
dollars (513 US dollars) apiece.
Over 100 security guards and policemen
have been on guard since early this week to
stop any trouble and queue-jumping, but
that has not quelled Hong Kong’s famous
entrepreneurial spirit.
“I’ve slipped a few of our brothers into
the queue. Send some more over,” a burly,
topless man with an elaborate tattoo stretch-
ing across his shoulder from his chest to his
back was overheard saying into his mobile
phone. Half a dozen teenage boys standing
around him nodded in agreement.
In many parts of Asia, elaborate tattoos
are often a sign of gang membership. The
Real Madrid frenzy has also seized Tokyo
and Beijing, where the Spanish club are also
due to play.
In Hong Kong, the line of people stretched
for over a mile. Huddled under makeshift
tents, many played cards or slept in the
sweltering heat.
“I simply love football, much like how
women love diamonds,” said Li Fong-yee, a
66-year-old granny. “I will buy two tickets.
If my husband can’t go to the match, I shall
bring my grandson.”
But not everyone in the queue was so
enthusiastic. “This is madness. I prefer
doing housework,” said Misi Dah, an
Indonesian domestic helper who was lining
up for her employer.
Real, whose popularity has soared in the
Far East since they signed England captain
Beckham, will play a local squad next
Friday as part of a series of pre-season
matches in Asia.
MNA/Reuters
Sposa ahead at Buick Open,Woods four shots back
GRAND BLANC (Michigan), 1 Aug — Mike Sposa,a lowly 141st on the PGA Tour money list, hit aseven-under-par 65 to snatch a one-shot lead after thefirst round of the four-million-US-dollar Buick Open onThursday.
Carl Paulson, David Sutherland, New Zealand’s Craig
Perks and Paul Gow of Australia shared second place on 66.
Shaun Micheel, Australia’s Stuart Appleby, Thomas
Levet of France, Neal Lancaster, Kent Jones, Chris DiMarco,
Garrett Willis, Heath Slocum, Hunter Mahan and Jason
Buha were all a stroke further back on 67.
US Open winner Jim Furyk and British Open champion
Ben Curtis led a group of 12 players on four-under 68 while
world number one and defending champion Tiger Woods
carded a 69.
Sposa, 34, teed off in the second group of the morning
and was out in a one-under 35 at Warwick Hills Golf and
Country Club. He then enjoyed a purple patch on the back
nine, playing holes 10 through 14 in five-under with three
birdies and an eagle.
The eagle came at the par-four 12th when he holed out
from 110 yards with a wedge.
Sposa, yet to win on the tour, said he had been encour-
aged by the run of unlikely champions in recent weeks.
Curtis won the British Open two weeks ago while Craig
Stadler and Peter Jacobsen have become the sixth and
seventh oldest players to win PGA Tour events.
Curtis, the PGA Tour rookie who is making his first start
since winning at Sandwich, began on the back nine and went
out in a three-under 33.
MNA/Reuters
Real Madrid’s players lie on the carpets for muscle training in Kunming, capital ofsouthwest China’s Yunnan Province, on 30 July, 2003. — XINHUA
Roddick sets up Washingtonrematch with Rusedski
WASHINGTON , 1 Aug — Second seed Andy Roddick used a powerful serve andpunishing groundstrokes on Wednesday to overcome an inspired display by fellowAmerican Bob Bryan to advance to the third round of the 600,000 US dollarsWashington Classic.
qualifier Julien Benneteau of
France 6-2, 6-4 while fifth-
seeded Russian Yevgeny
Kafelnikov knocked out
Sweden’s Thomas Enqvist
6-3, 2-6, 6-3. Eighth seed
Nikolay Davydenko of Rus-
sia overcame qualifier Simon
Larose of Canada 6-4, 6-3.
MNA/Reuters
Roddick blasted 12 aces
and never lost his serve dur-
ing a 7-6, 6-4 triumph over
Bryan, who alongside his
brother Mike forms the top
doubles team in the world.
Roddick, who now meets
Britain’s Greg Rusedski in a
repeat of their explosive en-
counter at Wimbledon last
month, has been the top
player in service games for
two years and showed why
against Bryan, who is ranked
129th in the world in singles.
Bryan, however, almost
matched his opponent serve-
for-serve, also hitting 12 aces
and losing his serve only once,
in the final game.
Roddick, the sixth-ranked
player in the world, came up
with the big shots when he
needed them.
Roddick defeated Rusedski
7-6, 7-6, 7-5 in the second round
at Wimbledon. The Briton left
the court fuming after an
umpire over-rule in the third
set, having earlier hurled a
foul-mouthed volley of abuse
at the official.
In other second-round ac-
tion on Wednesday, Thailand’s
third-seeded Paradorn Sricha-
phan defeated Cyril Saulnier
of France 6-4, 6-7, 6-1.
Fourth seed Fernando
Gonzalez of Chile defeated
The number two seed Kim Clijsters, of Belgium, serves toMarion Bartoli, of France, during third round action at theAcura Classic women’s tennis championships in Carlsbad,California on July 31, 2003, Clijsters won 6-1 6-1.—INTERNET
Seles hopes toreturn in timefor US Open
CARLSBAD (California), 1
Aug — Nine times Grand
Slam champion Monica
Seles, who has been out of
action since the French Open,
is unlikely to play again until
next month’s US Open.
The 29-year-old Ameri-
can, beaten by Russia’s
Nadia Petrova in the second
round at Roland Garros at
the end of May, is recover-
ing from a stress fracture in
her left foot.
“Monica Seles is con-
tinuing to work with
her trainer to find ways to
ease the pain in her foot and
will continue to do so in the
hope of being competitive
for the US Open,” a spokes-
person for her agents, IMG,
told Reuters on Thursday.
Seles has been plagued
by foot injuries in recent
years. She suffered a stress
fracture in her right foot in
2001 which kept her out for
five months.
MNA/Reuters
Juventus sell defender Moretti to ParmaROME, 1 Aug — Defender Emiliano Moretti has joined
Parma from Italian champions Juventus for 1.8 million
euros (2.04 million US dollars), the Turin club said on
Thursday. Juventus signed the defender last year, after
Moretti’s club Fiorentina went bankrupt, but loaned him to
Modena halfway through the season.
The club also said midfielder Davide Baiocco would go on
loan to Reggina, who avoided relegation from Serie A when
they beat Atalanta in a playoff last month.—MNA/Reuters
Midfielder Schreuder joins Feyenoord ROTTERDAM, 1 Aug — NAC Breda midfielder Alfred
Schreuder has signed a three-year contract with Feyenoord,
the Rotterdam club said on Thursday.
Schreuder, 30, is seen as the successor to Paul Bosvelt,
who left the club a week ago to join Manchester City.
Schreuder told the Feyenoord website: “I have had a great
time in Breda, but playing for Feyenoord completes my
career. I know that I will be one of the 25 or 30 players, but
I think that I can add something to the squad with my
experience.”
No fee was mentioned but last week Schreuder almost
signed for Austria Vienna in a 1.5-million-euro deal which
fell through. —MNA/Reuters
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Friday, 1st August, 2003
View today:Saturday, August 2
7:00 am 1. Recitation of Parittas by Missonary Sayadaw U Oattamathara7:25 am 2. To be healthy exercise7:30 am 3. Morning news7:40 am 4. Nice and sweet song7:55 am 5. Delicacies8:05 am 6. � � � � � �� �� ��� � � � � �� �� ��� � � � � �� �� ��� � � � � �� �� ��� � � � � �� �� ��8:10 am 7. � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �8:15 am 8. Musical Programme8:30 am 9. International news8:45 am 10. Grammar Made easy11:00 am 1. Martial Song
11:10 am 2. Musical programme11:30 am 3. News11:40 am 4. Gems for Children12:05 pm 5. Round-up of the Week’s
TV local News2:00 pm 6. Weekly International
Sports2:05 pm 7. � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � � ! � � "� � # � � �� � � � � � � � � � � ! � � "� � # � � �� � � � � � � � � � � ! � � "� � # � � �� � � � � � � � � � � ! � � "� � # � � �� � � � � � � � � � � ! � � "� � # � � �
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National Spirit4:25 pm 3. English for everyday use4:35 pm 4. Musical programme4:50 pm 5. � � * � � � � + � "� � � � � � � �� � * � � � � + � "� � � � � � � �� � * � � � � + � "� � � � � � � �� � * � � � � + � "� � � � � � � �� � * � � � � + � "� � � � � � � �% " � � � � � � , � � � � � � � �% " � � � � � � , � � � � � � � �% " � � � � � � , � � � � � � � �% " � � � � � � , � � � � � � � �% " � � � � � � , � � � � � � � �� � � # � � $ � � �-� � � � � � � �� � � � "� . &� � � # � � $ � � �-� � � � � � � �� � � � "� . &� � � # � � $ � � �-� � � � � � � �� � � � "� . &� � � # � � $ � � �-� � � � � � � �� � � � "� . &� � � # � � $ � � �-� � � � � � � �� � � � "� . &$ % � � � / ' &$ % � � � / ' &$ % � � � / ' &$ % � � � / ' &$ % � � � / ' &
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Tune in today:
Saturday, August 2
8.30 am Brief news8.35 am Music8.40 am Perspectives8.45 am Music8.50 am National news/
Slogan9.00 am Music9.10 am International news9.15 am Music (Sportlight on
the star) -Jem reeves
1.30 pm News/Slogan1.40 pm Music at your request
-Hello I love you .. Crystal Gayles - Keep it Togester .. Madonna
9.00 pm ASEAN Review
9:00 Signature Tune Greetings
9:02 Song of Myanmar Beauty & Scenic Sights “Myanma Panorama & Myanma Sentiment”
9:06 Macadamia(Perennical Cash Crop)
9:10 Headline News9:12 Easily Cooked Tasty
Dishes “Short-headedFish with Roasted RiceSoup”
9:15 National News9:20 The Beauty of the 1st
Defile of the RiverAyeyawady
9:25 Brave Youth Showinghis Strength & Ability
9:30 National News9:35 Myanmar Modern
Song “We’ll GreetYou in Mon Lan-guage”
9:40 Beungte: My Village9:45 National News9:50 Hninzigone, Home for
the Aged9:58 Song of Myanmar
Beauty & ScenicSights “Come andSee Myanmar”
2-8-2003˚(Saturday)Regular Programmes for
Viewers from AbroadEvening Transmission
(15:30 - 17:30)15:30 Signature Tune
Greetings15:32 Song of Myanmar
Beauty & ScenicSights “MyanmaPanorama & MyanmaSentiment”
15:36 Macadamia (PerennialCash Crop)
15:40 Headline News15:42 Easily Cooked Tasty
Dishes “Short-headedFsih with Roasted RiceSoup”
15:45 National News15:50 The Beauty of the 1st
Defile of the RiverAyeyawady
15:55 Brave Youth Showinghis Strength & Ability
16:00 National News16:05 Myanmar Modern
Song “We’ll Greet youin Mon language”
16:10 Baungte: My Village16:15 National News16:20 Hninzigone, Home for
Beauty & ScenicSights “MyanmaPanorama & MyanmaSentiment”
21:35 Macadamia (PerennialCash Crop)
21:40 Headline News21:42 Easily Cooked Tasty
Dishes “Short-headedFish with Roasted RiceSoup”
21:45 National News21:50 The Beauty of the 1st
Defile of the RiverAyeyawady
21:55 Brave Youth Showinghis Strength & Ability
22:00 National News22:05 Myanmar Modern
Song “We’ll Greet youin Mon Language”
22:10 Beungte: My Village22:15 National News22:20 Hninzigone, Home For
the Aged22:25 Myanmar Modern
Song “The ToweringFlower”
22:30 National News22:35 Myanma Traditional
Art Silversmith22:40 Myanmar Cuisine
“Peppery Monhinga”22:45 National News22:50 Myanmar Movies
Impact23:00 National News23:05 Ancient City
Mrauk-U23:10 Myanmar Modern
Song “Tear drop pearl”23:15 Weekly News High-
lights23:20 Preservation of
Myanmar Star Tortoise23:25 Song of Myanmar
Beauty & ScenicSights “Come and SeeMyanmar”
2-8-2003˚(Saturday) &3-8-2003 (Sunday)
Evening & MorningTransmission
(23:30 - 01:30)23:30 Signature Tune
Greetings23:32 Song of Myanmar
Beauty & ScenicSights “Mingalabar”
23:36 Macadamia (PerennialCash Crop)
23:40 Headline News23:42 Easily Cooked Tasty
Dishes “Short-headedFish with Roasted RiceSoup”
23:45 National News23:50 The Beauty of the 1st
Defile of the RiverAyeyawady
23:55 Brave Youth Showinghis Strength & Ability
24:00 National News00:05 Myanmar Modern
Song “We’ll GreetYou in Mon Lan-guage“
Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hoursMST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in lower Sagaing Division, rain or thundershowershas been isolated in Mandalay and Magway Divisions, scattered in Shan State and Taninthayi Division andwidespread in the remaining areas with isolted heavyfalls inRakhine State. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recordedwere Gwa (4.88)inches, Maung Daw (2.91)inches, Thaton(2.28)inches, Kyauk Taw and Sittwe (2.17)inches each.
Maximum temperature on 31-7-2003 was 31.5°C (89°F).Minimum temperature on 1-8-2003 was 20.6°C (69°F).Relative humidity at 9:30 hrs MST on 1-8-2003 was 96%.Total SunShine hours on 31-7-2003 was (4.3) hours approx.Rainfall on 1-8-2003 was 9 mm at Yangon Airport, 14 mmat Kaba-Aye and 31 mm at Central Yangon. Total rainfallsince 1-1-2003 was 1267 mm (49.88 inches) at YangonAirport, 1454 mm (57.24) inches at Kaba-Aye and 1463 mm(57.60 inches) at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed atYangon (Kaba-Aye) was 10 mph from South at (13:10) hoursMST on 31-7-2003. Bay inference: Moonsoon ismoderate in the Bay of Bengal. Forecast valid until eveningof 2-8-2003: Rain or thundershowers will be widespread inKachin, Rakhine, Mon and Kayin States, upper Sagaing,Ayeyawady, Bago and Yangon Divisions and scattered inTaninthayi Division, Chin and Shan States and isolated inthe remaining areas. Degree of certainty is (80%). State ofthe sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmar waters. Outlookfor subsequent two days: Moderade monsoon. Forecast forYangon and neighbouring area for 2-8-2003: One or tworain. Degree of certainty is (80%). Forecast for Mandalayand neighbouring area for 2-8-2003: Likelihood ofisolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of certainty is (60%).Weather Outlook For First Weekend of August 2003:During the coming weekend, rain or thundershowers will bewidespread in Yangon Divisions and isolated in MandalayDivision.
the Aged16:25 Song of Myanmar
Beauty & ScenicSights “Mingalabar”
16:30 National News16:35 Myanma Traditional
Art Silversmith16:40 Myanmar Cuisine
“Peppery Monhinga”16:45 National News16:50 Myanmar Movies Im-
pact17:00 Weekly News high-
lights17:05 Ancient City
Mrauk-U17:10 Myanmar Modern
Song “Tear drop pearl”17:15 Weekly News high-
lights17:20 Preservation of
Myanmar StarTortoise
17:25 Song of MyanmarBeauty & ScenicSights“Come and SeeMyanmar”
Evening Transmission(19:30 - 23:30)
19:30 Signature TuneGreetings
19:32 Song of MyanmarBeauty & ScenicSights “The GemsLand”
19:40 Headline News19:42 Easily Cooked Tasty
Dishes“Featherback CleanSoup with tender gourdLeaves”
19:45 National News19:50 The Source of the
River Ayeyawady19:55 Wararya’s Dance20:00 National News20:05 Inndagaw Industrial
Zone20:10 Song “Come visit My
Home”20:15 National News20:20 Pearl Culture Farm on
Domel Island20:25 Myanmar Modern
Song“Two, Together”
20:30 National News20:35 Golden Jubilee of
Myanmar Motion Pic-tures
20:40 Myanmar Cuisine“Steamed Fish”
20:45 National News20:50 The Gold and Silver
Smith of Inlay20:55 Chin Dance21:00 National News21:05 Naga Traditional
Handicrafts21:10 Myanmar Modern
Song “Dakukuku”21:15 Weekly News High-
lights21:20 Kanbawza Thardi Mu-
seum21:25 Song of Myanmar
00:10 Baungte: My Village00:15 National News00:20 Hninzigone, Home for
the Aged00:25 Song of Myanmar
Beauty & ScenicSights “Mingalabar”
00:30 National News00:35 Myanma Traditional
Art Silversmith00:40 Myanmar Cuisine
“Peppery Monhinga”00:45 National News00:50 Myanmar Movies Im-
pact01:00 Weekly News High-
lights01:05 Ancient City
Mrauk-U01:10 Myanmar Modern
Song “Tear drop pearl”01:15 Weekly News High-
lights01:20 Precervation of
Myanmar StarTortoise01:25 Song of Myanmar
Beauty & ScenicSights “Come and SeeMyanmar”
3-8-2003˚(Sunday)Morning Transmission
(03:30 - 07:30)03:30 Signature Tune
Greetings03:32 Song of Myanmar
Beauty & ScenicSights “MyanmaPanorama &Myanma Sentiment”
03:36 Mogok, The GemsLand
03:40 Headline News03:42 Easily Cooked Tasty
Dishes “FeatherbackClean Soup with ten-der gourd Leaves”
03:45 National News03:50 The Source of the
River Ayeyawady03:55 Wararya’s Dance04:00 National News04:05 Inndagaw Industrial
Zone04:10 Song “Come visit My
Home”04:15 National News04:20 Pearl Culture Farm on
Domel Island04:25 Myanmar Modern
Song“Two, Together ”
04:30 National News04:35 Golden Jubilee of
Myanmar MotionPictures
04:40 Myanmar Cuisine“Steamed Fish”
04:45 National News04:50 The Gold and Silver
Smith of Inlay04:55 Chin Dance05:00 National News05:05 Naga Traditional
Handicrafts05:10 Myanmar Modern
Song “Dakukuku”
05:15 Weekly News High-lights
05:20 Kanbawza Thardi Mu-seum
05:25 Song of MyanmarBeauty & ScenicSights “MyanmaPanorama &Myanmar Sentiment”
05:35 Macadamia (PerennialCash Crop)
05:40 Headline News05:42 Easily Cooked Tasty
Dishes “Short-headedFish with Roasted RiceSoup”
05:45 National News05:50 The Beauty of the 1st
Defile of the RiverAyeyawady
05:55 Brave Youth Showinghis Strength &Ability
06:00 National News06:05 Myanmar Modern
Song “We’ll GreetYou in MonLagunage”
06:10 Baungte: My Village
06:15 National News06:20 Hninzigone, Home for
the Aged06:25 Myanmar Modern Song
“The ToweringFlower“
06:30 National News06:35 Myanma Traditional
Art Silversmith06:40 Myanmar Cuisine
“Peppery Monhinga”06:45 National News06:50 Myanmar Movies
Impact07:00 Weekly News High-
lights07:05 Ancient City Mrauk-U07:10 Myanmar Modern Song
“Tear drop pearl”07:15 Weekly News High-
lights07:20 Preservation of
Myanmar StarTortoise
07:25 Song of MyanmarBeauty & Scenic Sights“Come and SeeMyanmar”
07:30 Close Down
-Information Highway in Spper
9.10 pm Article/Music9.20 pm Myanma Culture by
Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt
-historoc hell of Tuntay Shwe San Daw
Pagoda. (Part-II)9.30 pm Souvenirs9.45 pm News/Slogan10.00 pm Portfolio for easy
listening
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24. The next day’s programme
16 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 2 August, 2003
5th Waxing of Wakhaung, 1365 ME Saturday, 2 August, 2003
Four political objectives* Stability of the State, community peace
and tranquillity, prevalence of law andorder
* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State
Constitution* Building of a new modern developed
nation in accord with the new StateConstitution
Four economic objectives* Development of agriculture as the base
and all-round development of othersectors of the economy as well
* Proper evolution of the market-orientedeconomic system
* Development of the economy invitingparticipation in terms of technical know-how and investments from sourcesinside the country and abroad
* The initiative to shape the nationaleconomy must be kept in the hands of theState and the national peoples
Four social objectives* Uplift of the morale and morality of
the entire nation* Uplift of national prestige and integrity
and preservation and safeguarding ofcultural heritage and national character
* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education
standards of the entire nation
Lt-Gen Tin Aye and wife being welcomed by Chinese Military Attaché Senior Col Xu Shulai at thereception to mark the 76th Anniversary of People’s Liberation Army. Friday— MNA
Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe addresses coordination meeting on renovation of environs of Kandawgyi and Yangon ZoologicalGardens. —YANGON COMMAND
Vice-Chairman Sayadawarrives back from England
YANGON, 1 Aug— The Buddhist delegation led by Vice-
Chairman of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee
Abhidhaja Maha Rattha Guru Bhaddanta Panñindabhivamsa
this morning arrived back here by air from the Buddhist
missionary in England.
The Sayadaw and party were welcomed back at the
airport by directors-general, officials and disciples.
MNA
Vice-Senior General Maung Aye offers rice and edible oilto the Secretary of Myaungmya Township Sangha
Nayaka Committee. (News on page 1)— MNA
Myanmar wins gold in WorldChildr en’s Painting Contest
Development of Kandawgyi and Zoological Gardens discussed
Desana to bedelivered
5 AugYANGON, 1 Aug— Or-
ganized by the Shwedagon
Pagoda Board of Trustees,
Chaukhtetgyi TheingyiU
Monastery Sayadaw Agga
Maha Pandita Agga Maha
Ganthavaçaka Pandita
Bhaddanta Nandobhasa will
administer the precepts and
deliver the Desana at the
ancient Buddha images
Tazaung of Shwedagon Pa-
goda at 9 am on 8 Waxing of
Waso, 5 August.
MNA
YANGON, 1 Aug — Three
students of Myanmar won
one gold prize and two hon-
ourable mention prizes in
Year 2002 10th Annual
World Children’s Painting
Contest organized by Ie-No-
Hikari Association of Japan.
In the contest, Maung
Oak Ga Tin Moe of No (7)
Basic Education Middle
School of Chanayethazan
Township in Mandalay won
gold prize under the title “My
Lovely World”. Ma Su
Yadana Tun of No (1) BEHS
of Dagon Township and Ma
Yadana Suan Htet Kyaw of
No (4) BEPS of Chanaye-
thazan Township in Manda-
lay won the honourable men-
tion prizes under the titles
“Ceremony of Freeing the
animals” and “My Family”.
A total of over 38,000
pictures of the children from
58 countries including Ja-
pan participated in the con-
test.
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Farming inspected in Shan StateYANGON, 1 Aug —
Chairman of Shan State
Peace and Development
Council Commander of
Eastern Command Maj-Gen
Khin Maung Myint, accom-
panied by departmental of-
ficials and military officers
of Taunggyi regiments and
units arrived at Shan State
Livestock Breeding and
Veterinary Department in
Taunggyi on 28 July. At the
meeting hall, Head of the
department Dr Than Aye
reported on raising of 1.7
million chickens and breed-
ing of buffaloes, cows, pigs,
sheep and goats in Shan
State (South) and work be-
ing carried out by the de-
partment.
The minister urged the
officials to extend livestock
breeding. He next heard re-
ports on production of I-2
eye drops and distribution in
Shan State (South) and
Kayah State at the labora-
tory for diagnostic tests of
the department.
On 29 July morning, the
commander attended the
Taunggyi District level com-
petition of paddy-transplant-
ing skills held in Pawritha
Village in Nyaung Shwe. He
then urged the local farmers
to strive for local self-suffi-
ciency in rice.
Afterwards, Head of
Shan State Fisheries Depart-
ment U Win Oo reported on
breeding of fish in paddy
fields. The commander and
wife and officials released
50,000 fish into the rice
fields. The commander and
officials presented prizes to
the winners of the competi-
tions. The commander and
wife and officials cordially
greeted those present.
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YANGON, 1 Aug — The
Work Committee for all-
round renovation of Yangon
Zoological Gardens and
Kandawgyi’s environs held
its fifth work coordination
meeting at the agricultural
museum on
Myaypadethakyun of
Kandawgyi Park yesterday
evening. Chairman of
Yangon Division Peace and
Development Council Com-
mander of Yangon Com-
mand Maj-Gen Myint Swe
made an address on the oc-
casion.
It was also attended by
Minister for Energy Brig-
Gen Lun Thi, Deputy Min-
ister for Livestock and Fish-
eries U Aung Thein, Deputy
Minister for Hotels and
Tourism Brig-Gen Aye
Myint Kyu, Vice-Chairman
of Yangon City Develop-
ment Committee Vice-
Mayor Col Maung Pa, di-
rectors-general and manag-
ing directors of the depart-
ments and enterprises, offi-
cials of the work committee
and guests.
At the meeting, the com-
mander said that the sample
of master plan for upgrading
the environs of Kandawgyi
has been drawn.
The officials of the re-
spective zones are urged to
report the completion of the
work being implemented and
needs of the work.
Next, Minister Brig-Gen
Lun Thi and officials
reported on requirements
for all-round renovation of
the environs of Kandawgyi
and Yangon Zoological
Gardens.
The commander gave
necessary instructions and
the meeting ended.
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