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9th Waxing of Tawthalin 1369 ME Thursday, 20 September, 2007Volume XV, Number 157

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

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-rounddevelopment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 19 Sept— Minister for ElectricPower No 1 Col Zaw Mintogether with Director-Gen-eral U Aung Koe Shwe ofHydropower Implementa-tion Department went on aninspection tour of Kun-chaung hydropower projectbeing implemented in PyuTownship by ConstructionGroup No 3 yesterday.

Accompanied byProject Director U MawTha Htwe and officials, theminister inspected earthwork to build the power

Construction tasks of Kunchaunghydropower project supervised

(See page 8) Minister Col Zaw Min inspects construction tasks of Kunchaung Hydropower Project.— E P - 1

Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areas

One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Yangon and neighbouring areas

One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Mandalay and neighbouring areas

Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Weather Forecast for (20-9-2007)

NAY PYI TAW, 19 Sept— CEC Member of theUnion Solidarity and De-velopment AssociationMinister for Livestock andFisheries Brig-Gen Maung

CEC Member looks into poultryfarms, tea, rubber plantations

Maung Thein went on aninspection tour of the poul-try farm of Livestock,Feedstuff and Dairy En-terprise Zeebingyi ofPyinOoLwin Township on15 September.

At the briefing hall,Poultry Farm Manager DrHtay Zaw Oo and GeneralManager Dr Pyae Sonebriefed the minister onbreeding tasks. After hear-ing the reports, the minis-ter gave instructions onarrangements to be madefor meeting the targets ofthe production and empha-sis to be placed on micro-organism security.

Upon arrival at thepoultry farm inChemyitpin village ofNawngkhio Township

of Shan State (North), con-cerning the reports pre-sented by Dr Myint Swe,the minister gave instruc-tions on striving for grow-ing numbers of laying rateand focusing on preven-tive measures against birdflu. In connection withthe reports presented byDeputy General ManagerU Myo Thet Shwe, theminister gave instructionson immediate measures tobe taken for establishmentof the poultry farms. Next,the minister looked intoprogress of the poultryfarms.

Afterwards, the minis-ter inspected tea plantationof Seinlanmyay CompanyLimited in KyaukmeTownship of Shan State

According to the (06.30) hr MST observations today, the water level ofAyeyawady River at Sagaing (1161) cm is exceeded (11) cm above its dangerlevel. It may fall below its danger levels (1150) cm during the next (48) hourscommencing noon today.

According to the (06.30) hr MST observation today, the water levels ofAyeyawady River at Minbu (1733) cm and Magway (1720) cm are exceeded (33)cm at Minbu and (20) cm at Magway above their respective danger levels. Thewater levels may remain above the danger levels of Minbu and Magway (1700)cm during the next (48) hours commencing noon today.

According to the (0630) hr MST observation today, the water level ofAyeyawady River at Hinthada (1365) cm is exceeded (33) cm above its dangerlevel. It may remain above its danger level (1342) cm during the next (72) hourscommencing noon today.

Flood Bulletin(Issued at 12.30 hr MST on 19-9-2007)

(North), a 300-acre tea plan-tation project of Sein-wuthmon Company Lim-ited in Lashio and a 4000-acre rubber plantationproject of Bala Min HtinCompany, USDA (Central)Lunge Arman Rubber Cul-tivation Service andSeinwuthmon Companyand gave instructions ongrowing of tea that can earnmore income than rubber.

At 5000-acre highlandreclamation project ofLashio Township USDA,the minister urged projectmanager U Khin MaungMyint to grow rubber andpigeon pea. Next, the min-ister inspected pig farm andFeedstuff Factory inNapha village of Lashio.

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 20 September, 2007

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

People’s DesireThursday, 20 September, 2007

Work hard in concert fordevelopment of industrial zones

The government is taking steps such asestablishment of industrial areas and indus-trial zones and extensive construction of fac-tories and plants for industrial developmentthat lies at the centre of national develop-ment.

Of the industrial zones in various re-gions, Taunggyi Ayethaya Industrial Zone,Mandalay Industrial Zone and Monywa In-dustrial Zone have built modern foundryplants and forging shops with the assistanceof the government. The development of theindustries that produce ironware makes adominant contribution towards the develop-ment of other private industries.

Now, the foundry plants in some indus-trial zones have begun production of qualityproducts. Iron is now in high demand owingto an increase in the number of industries.

Myaungdagar Steel Industrial Zone isnow under construction in Hmawby Town-ship, Yangon Division, to manufacture iron-ware. Getting sufficient electricity, the 1000-acre zone is easily accessible. Lands havebeen allocated to the industrialists and con-struction work is under way.

Officials of the industrial zone and in-dustrialists have to make earnest efforts inconcert to ensure rapid development of thesteel industrial zone, operation of the facto-ries and plants ahead of schedule, and pro-duction of import-substitute items.

Industrial areas and industrial zonesacross the nation manufacture a wide rangeof machines, foodstuff and consumer goods.So, those responsible are to work hard toachieve high quality of the products andoperation of the factories at full capacity soas to meet local demands.

YANGON, 19 Sept —General Secretary ofMyanmar Olympic Com-mittee Director-General UThaung Htaik of Sports andPhysical Education De-partment gave necessaryinstructions to MyanmarMen’s Volleyball Teamled by Myanmar Volley-ball Federation Vice-Presi-dent U Thein Win at thehall of Aung San Stadium,here, this morning.

As part of prepa-rations for competing inthe XXIV SEA Games,the Myanmar volleyballteam will undergo train-ing together with theSichuan Province Volley-ball Team of the People’sRepublic of China and willplay friendly matches on

D-G of SPED meets Myanmar Volleyball Team

21, 24, 26 and 27 Septem-ber.

The volleyball teamcomprised Ye Min Aung,Kyaw Soe Aung, Kyaw

Swa Win, Kyaw Shwe, SaiNyi Lay, Win Tun Oo, YeYint Tun, Myat KyawTun, Zaw Lin Oo, SawHein Thu, Kyaw Kyaw

Htwe and San ShweMaung under coaches UMyo Myint and U Nyi NyiLwin.

NLM

YANGON, 19 Sept —Health Department of the

Training on air quality monitoring opensMinistry of Health andWorld Health Organiza-

tion jointly organized theair quality monitoring

course at the Health De-partment (branch) inAhlon Township yester-day. Also present on theoccasion were officials ofHealth Department andWHO and guests.

Director Dr Soe Tintof the Health Department(branch) delivered anopening address. The tasksof air quality monitoringwill be measured in Janu-ary 2008 aiming at help-ing health.

A total of 40 traineesare attending the three-week course. — NLM

Chairman of

Myanmar Olympic

Committee Minister

for Sports Brig-Gen

Thura Aye Myint

presents K 1 million

to Myanmar

Taekwondo Federa-

tion through Presi-

dent U Htay Myint.

(News reported)

MTF

Myanmar Volleyball Team seen at Aung San Stadium.— NLM

U Han Zaw and wife Daw Thwin Thwin AyeHmi of Yinmar Myaing 2nd Street in Ward 23,

Thuwunna recently donated K 100,000 toHninzigon Home for the Aged to mark the

36th anniversary of their wedding. Member ofExecutive Committee U Chit Myaing

accepting the donation.— HDirector Dr Soe Tint speaks at opening of training on air quality

monitoring course.—NLM

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Sun Qin (2nd L, Front), chief of the China Atomic Energy Authority, and TangGuoqiang (1st L, Front), China’s permanent representative to the UnitedNations and other international organizations in Vienna, attend the 51st annualregular session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy

Agency (IAEA), in Vienna, Austria, on 17 Sept, 2007. —XINHUA

Large areas in Israel haveexcessive ozone levels in 2006JERUSALEM, 18 Sept—

Israel’s Ministry forEnvironmental Protectionannounced that largeareas in the country hadexcessive ozone levels in2006, local daily Ha’aretzreported on Monday.

According to the report,the area most heavilyaffected was Gush Etzion,a group of Israelisettlements in the WestBank, south of Jerusalem.The ministry found the

bloc was contaminatedwith excessive ozonelevels for 260 days in2006.

Other Israeli cities, suchlike Jerusalem, Tel Aviv,Be’er Sheva, Modi’in andCarmiel, also showedexcessive levels from 45days to 140 days.

Ozone, when found atground level and not inthe upper atmosphere, candamage the respiratorysystem and the heart.

The World HealthOrganization states thatpeople should not beexposed to more than 100micrograms of ozone percubic metre of air for morethan eight hours. Higherconcentrations were foundin all the area and citieslisted above, said thereport.

Low-level ozone, orground-level ozone, is notemitted directly byengines or factories. It isformed when sunlightcauses hydrocarbons andnitrogen oxides in the airto react, and then usuallydrifts with the wind.

Ha’aretz said in Israel,low-level ozone finds itsway to the interior of thecountry. This is why areaslike Gush Etzion werefound to have higher levelsof ozone than moreindustrialized areas in thecoastal plain.

MNA/Xinhua

Suicide bomber kills eightin southern Afghanistan

KANDAHAR (Afghanistan), 18 Sept— A suicidebomber blew himself up inside a local governmentcompound in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killingfour policemen and four civilians and wounding seven,the district chief said.

He said the attack took place in the Naadali Districtof Helmand Province, which has seen some of theworst violence between the resurgent Taleban on oneside and Afghan and foreign troops on the other. Thecompound houses both the local government andpolice headquarters. “The suicide bomber entered thecompound dressed in civilian clothes and blew himselfup when he got close to the police,” Naadali Districtchief Mahboob Khan told Reuters.

The suicide attack came after Taleban insurgentsvowed to launch massive operations across the countryduring the holy month of Ramadan.

A Taleban spokesman said 15 to 20 policemen hadbeen killed in the attack.

Elsewhere, a foot patrol by troops from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force came underattack on Friday in a mountainous area 40 kilometres(25 miles) east of Kabul, an ISAF spokesman said.

MNA/Reuters

Venice to ban rice at weddings tokeep pigeons away

VENICE, 18 Sept—Throwing rice at newly-weds will soon be bannedin Venice as the city stepsup its fight against pigeonssoiling its squares andchipping away at monu-ments.

The mayor of the canal

city is preparing a measureto stop pigeons banquetingoutside the central Palaz-zo Cavalli, where civilweddings are celebrated,municipal police chiefMarco Agostini said onMonday. “Throwing riceat the bride and groom

brings hordes of pigeonswho then wait around untilthe next ceremony. Thesituation has becomeunbearable,” Agostini toldReuters.

Another measure in thepipeline is a ban on thesale of grain to feed thepigeons in St Mark’sSquare, the only place inthe city where it is stillallowed. But the 18licenced sellers do notwant to go and animalrights activists have alsoexpressed concern.

“The square is not a hen-house and you can’t havepigeon’s droppings allover the place,” Agostinisaid. “The square iswashed and cleaned upweekly but it’s notenough.” Droppings areonly part of the problem.

MNA/Reuters

Saudi Arabia says signs $8.84bUK Eurofighter deal

RIYADH, 18 Sept—SaudiArabia said on Monday ithad signed an agreementwith the British Govern-ment to buy 72 EurofighterTyphoon jets from BAESystems for 4.43 billionpounds (8.84 billion USdollars).

“A contract was signedbetween the two govern-ments to buy the plane onTuesday, Shaaban 29 (11

September) at a cost of4,430 million poundssterling,” a statement onofficial news agency SPAsaid, attributed to a De-fence Ministry official.

A deal including the jetsas well as weapons andlong-term maintenance ofthe aircraft is expected toraise its value to 20 billionpounds, analysts say.

Saudi Arabia will pay

the same price per jet asthose sold to Britain, thestatement said.

It cited a preliminaryagreement in December2005 in which Britainpledged to transfer techno-logy and investment to theSaudi defence industry, aswell as to train Saudipilots. It gave no moredetails.

MNA/Reuters

Chinese and Spanish navies line after conductingjoint military exercise in the Atlantic Ocean near

Spain’s southern port city of Cadiz, on 18 Sept, 2007.XINHUA

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QINGDAO, 18 Sept— Amissile destroyer of theChinese Navy and afrigate of the British Navyheld a joint rescueexercise in the sea areaoff Qingdao City in eastChina on Sunday.

The Chinese destroyerQingdao and the Britishfrigate HMS Monmouthcarried out drills on com-munications, manoeu-vring, and offshorerescue.

During the exercise,a helicopter from theBritish frigate rescued an“injured sailor” from awrecked vessel to theHMS Monmouth with itswinch, while a helicopterfrom Qingdao sent cablesand technicians to thewrecked ship. Over 500

ABU DHABI, 18 Sept— A scientific researchbody of the United ArabEmirates (UAE) an-nounced on Sunday thatit will launch thecountry’s first satelliteDubaiSat-1 in 2008.

The EmiratesInstitution for Advanc-ed Science andTechnology (EIAST),established by the Du-bai government, un-veiled the timetableof the execution ofDubaiSat-1 project at aPress conference held inDubai on Sunday, a Pressrelease by the institutionsaid.

According to theEIAST, DubaiSat-1 aimsto position the UAEamong the advancednations in the world inscience and technologydevelopment through theapplication of global bestpractices and coopera-tion with the world’s

KATHMANDU, 18 Sept— The “Power Summit2007” is being held inNepali capital Kathmanduto encourage foreigninvestment in hydropowerprojects from Monday.

Over 200 people fromaround the world are

TOKYO, 19 Sept— Theworld’s oldest mancelebrated his 112thbirthday with two bashes

BEIJING, 19 Sept— Lightning strikes have claimed659 lives in China, said head of China MeteorologicalAdministration (CMA) Zheng Guoguang at aconference here Tuesday.

According to the CMA, lightning had claimed 403lives by 27 July and killed 109 in August. In the first 18days of September, 147 people died of lighteningstrikes. Due to global warming, the number of strongtyphoons is increasing and more areas are vulnerableto the attack to typhoons, he said.

According to the official, China’s temperatureaveraged 21.6 degrees Celsius in August, the secondhighest in years since 1951. The Qinghai Province innorthwest China experienced the hottest summer in56 years.

To fight lightning strikes, the China Association forScience and Technology and the CMA jointly launcheda programme this month to raise people’s awarenesson threats caused by bad weather.

MNA/Xinhua

An aerial view of Baghdad is seen through a window, on 16 Sept, 2006. A carbomb outside the Health Ministry in central Baghdad killed seven people and

wounded 23 on Tuesday, police said. —INTERNET

Tian Congming (R), president of the Xinhua News Agency talks with visitingSouth African Minister in Presidency Essop Pahad in Beijing, China,

on 17 Sept, 2007. —XINHUA

The photo showsa Piano-shaped building in Huainan city, An’hui Province,China, on 18 Sept, 2007.The building is like a piano, and its stairs is in violin

shape. —XINHUA

“Power Summit 2007”starts in Kathmandu

expected to attend theconference, includingregional and foreignmultinationals companies,are taking part in the sum-mit.

According to a leadingwebsite, eKantipur.com,the objective of the con-ference is to create afavourable environmentfor foreign investment inhydropower projects andto reduce power outage.

Various governmentand non-government

organizations from India,Australia and Norway areattending the summit.

The summit organi-zed jointly by IndianGovernment’s energybroker company PowerTrading Corporations,representative of Ne-palese banks, NepalBankers Association,and Nepal’s inde-pendent energy pro-ducing organization willcontinue till Tuesday.

MNA/Xinhua

Lightning strikes kill 659in China

Chinese, British warshipshold joint rescue drill

in east ChinaChinese and British Navyofficers and soldiersparticipated in theoffshore exercise, whichlasted more than threehours.

MNA/Xinhua

UAE to launch firstsatellite in 2008

World’s oldest Japanese man turns 112,wants to live forever

at his home in southernJapan on Tuesday, thendeclared that he wants tolive forever.

Tomoji Tanabe heldhis first celebration onreceiving 100,000 yen(870 US dollars) andflowers from the localmayor, and the secondwhen he was joined laterby his children.

“I want to live forever.I don’t want to die,”Tanabe was quoted assaying by Kyodo Newsagency.

Tanabe, recognized bythe Guinness Book ofWorld Records as theoldest living male in June2006, is “extremelyhealthy”, said an official

at his hometown ofMiyakonojo, about 900kilometres (560 miles)southwest of Tokyo on theisland of Kyushu.

Tanabe, whose mealsmainly consist of vege-tables, said the key tolongevity was not drinkingalcohol.

Instead, he drinks milkevery day and takes walkson his own in the areaaround his house, wherehe lives with his son.

The Japanese areamong the world’slongest-lived people, withthe number of those aged100 or older expected toreach a record of more than32,000 by the end of themonth.— MNA/Reuters

leading experts in thefield. — MNA/Xinhua

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OSAKA (Japan), 18 Sept— A three-day conventiongathering more than 3,000global ethnic Chineseentrepreneurs concludedin Osaka on Monday.

The Chinese entre-

LUSAKA, 18 Sept — China and Zambia on Mondayinked the contract for the construction of a 40,000-capacity stadium donated by the Chinese Governmentin Lusaka.

Head of the Chinese architecture delegation ZhangZijun signed on behalf of his team and the ChineseGovernment while Permanent Secretary of ZambianWorks and Supply Ministry Bizwayo Nkunika signedon behalf of the Zambian Government.

Speaking after the signing ceremony, ChineseAmbassador to Zambia Li Qiangmin said the projectis a real testimony of the friendship between the twocountries and the two peoples, adding that Zambia isone of the biggest beneficiary countries enjoyingChinese donations.

Li reiterated his government’s support to Zambia’sdevelopment programmes and urged more cooperationbetween China and Zambia.

“It’s just one step of the long march,” Li said, “weneed more understandings”.

MNA/Xinhua

BEIJING, 18 Sept —Brisk exports, stronginvestment and buoyantconsumption will liftChina’s economic growthto 11.2 per cent this year,up from an earlier estimateof 10 per cent, with theinflation rate breaking4 per cent, says an AsianDevelopment Bank(ADB) report releasedhere on Monday.

“The faster thanexpected growth momen-tum built up this year isexpected to carry into2008,” said Zhuang Jian,senior economist ofADB’s China ResidentMission, at a news con-ference.

China’s GDP growth to hit11.2%, CPI to top 4% in 2007

The new ADB reportalso forecasts that China’sGDP growth in 2008 willreach 10.8 per cent,revising from the 9.8 percent in an ADB reportpublished in March.

Zhuang said China’seconomy grew at a faster-than-expected 11.5 percent in the first half of2007, which is the highestrate since 1994.

According to Zhuang,China’s fast economicgrowth was led byindustry, especially insuch sectors as steel,electricity, chemicals, andoil processing.

Strong profitability,buoyant sales and still-low

lending rates also droveinvestment during theperiod.

The ADB report saidinvestment administeredby local governmentsgrew by 28.1 per cent inthe first six months, nearlydoubling the equivalentcentral government rate.

China’s inflationbarometer—the Con-sumer Price Index (CPI)is estimated to hit 4.2 percent this year and 3.8 percent in 2008 as againstthe previous forecasts of1.8 per cent and 2.2per cent respectively,according to the ADBreport.

MNA/Xinhua

China, Zambia seal dealon stadium project

World Chinese entrepreneursconvention concludes in Osaka

preneurs came “forfriendship, for coopera-tion, for peace and fordevelopment”, said SunXiaohua, vice-presidentof Chambers of the All-China Federation ofIndustry and Commerceat the closing ceremonyof the 9th ChineseEntrepreneurs Conven-tion, noting that the con-vention was a success.

“The convention isnot only a get-together ofthe ethnic Chinesebusiness persons, but alsoan important opportunityto exchange and minglewith the Japanese eco-nomic circle,” said XuYou-sheng, vice-ministerof the Office of OverseasChinese Affairs of theState Council.

Together with Japan-ese business personagesand scholars, Chineseentrepreneurs, famedscholars and culturalfigures from differentcountries discussed a wide

range of topics includingoverseas Chinese econo-my and the Japaneseeconomy, modern Asiaand the ethnic Chinese,city development andlifestyle in Asia, disasterprevention and corporateactivities and others.

During the con-vention, senior officials oforganizing committees ofBeijing 2008 Olympicsand World Expo 2010Shanghai also launchedpresentations in Kobe, toattract more attention forthe two global events inChina.

Exhibitions on Chinesehistory and culture,concerts, seminars werelaunched during theconvention. In NankinMachi, Kobe’s ChinaTown, traditional Chineselion and dragon danceswere performed inspecially decoratedstreets, attracting manyvisitors.

MNA/Xinhua

AMD to sell 3-core desktop computerchip before April

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner sits outside the Boeing assembly plant in Everett,Washington. Boeing Co said on 18, Sept 2007, that China will require 3,400

new airplanes worth about $340 billion over the next 20 years, raising itsforecast for the country’s booming aviation arena.—INTERNET

Toyota Motor Corp President Katsuaki Watanabe speaks during a newsconference unveiling its new fully redesigned “Land Cruiser” in Tokyo

on 18 Sept, 2007. —INTERNET

The stone-made mooncakes are showed at GuanYuan Jewellery Store in Beijing, on 17 Sept, 2007.The mooncakesare made of Shoushan Stone by

Chinese artist Shu yue.—XINHUA

BEIJING, 18 Sept —AMD on Monday an-nounced it will sell beforeApril a three-core versionof its quad-core Phenomdesktop processor.

Otherwise identical inevery respect to the quad-core version, with 512KBof level 2 cache per coreand 3MB of shared level 3cache, the new processoris yet to be named. AMDis also yet to reveal pricingor power and performancedetails. “It will fit between

dual- and quad-cores, butnot exactly in the middle,”said Giuseppe Amato,AMD’s European tech-nical director for salesand marketing. AMDsaid shipments of quad-core processors onlyrepresented 2 percent ofall desktop computershipments for the threemonths ended 30 June,suggesting there’s a placefor triple-core. “We be-lieve that triple core is theright product at the right

time to serve a broadswatch of market,” saidBob Brewer, AMD’s cor-porate vice president andgeneral manager of thedesktop division. The newprocessor was primarilyintended for consumerdesktops and that it wouldwork in all existing quad-core-compatible mother-boards without modifi-cation, Amato said,addingit will be availablein the first quarter of 2008.

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Olmert says open to talkswith Syria

Malaysia’s AirAsia X ready forChina, Australia

Road accident kills 11,injures 12 in N-W China

China’s top political advisor Jia Qinglin (L) meets with Japan’s HokkaidoGovernor Harumi Takahashi (C) and Sapporo City Mayor Fumio

Ueda(R),in Sapporo, Japan, on 16 Sept, 2007.—INTERNET

A 35-metre-wide and 50-metre-long huge Olympicflag has been finished by Zhang Dagong, a

volunteer from Beijing, in Shandong’s Weifang on15 Sept. It is the largest of its kind in the world and

will apply for the listing of Guinness WorldRecords.—INTERNET

JERUSALEM, 18 Sept —Israeli Prime MinisterEhud Olmert said onMonday he respectedSyrian President Ba-shar al-Assad and wasprepared to holdpeace talks with him,following reports of anIsraeli air raid on Syriathis month.

Israel has refused tocomment on what USofficials and diplomaticsources have described innews reports as a raidinside Syria that may havetargeted weapons headedfor Hizbollah guerillas in

Lebanon or a suspectednuclear site.

Syria said it couldretaliate for the 6 Sep-tember violation of itsterritory and has deniedreports that Damascusmay have received NorthKorean nuclear aid. NorthKorea has also denied anysuch cooperation.

“Like I said in thepast, we want to makepeace with anyone whois willing to make peacewith us,” Olmert told agroup of reporters inJerusalem when askedabout Syria. “We are

willing to enter negotia-tions with Syria with nopreconditions,” Olmertsaid in his first publiccomments since theincident. “We havemuch respect for theSyrian leader and theSyrian policy. They haveinternal problems butthis is no reason not toenter into dialogue withthem.”

A spokesperson forOlmert played down thecomments, saying theywere similar to what hehas said repeatedly in thepast. — MNA/Reuters

EU court upholdsantitrust decision against

Microsoft

Typhoon Wipha landsin east China

WENZHOU (Zhejiang), 19 Sept — Typhoon Wiphapacking winds of 45 metres per second landed inCangnan County, Wenzhou of east China’s ZhejiangProvince at 2:30 am Wednesday.

More than 2 million people in east China havebeen relocated before the landfall of Wipha, whichmight be the most destructive typhoon in a decade.

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YINCHUAN, 18 Sept —Eleven people died and12 others were injuredwhen a truck collidedhead-on into a tractorin northwest China’sNingxia Hui AutonomousRegion, police said onMonday.

The accident occurredat around 7:20 am onSunday in the Hanjiao-shui Township, Zhong-ning County, ZhongweiCity, killing five in-stantly, a spokesman forthe county police said.

Six others died on theirway to hospital.

Twelve people wereinjured in the accidentand are being treated at ahospital in TongxinCounty, Wuzhong City.

“The injured peopleare all stable now,”sa id Ma Dengha i ,head of the Tongxinhospital.

Initial investigationsshow the truck veeredinto the lane of theoncoming tractor.

MNA/Xinhua

LUXEMBOURG, 18 Sept— The European Union(EU)’s second-highestcourt on Monday essen-tially upheld an antitrustdecision against Micro-soft by the EuropeanCommission (EC) in2004, keeping the recordfine of millions of eurosin place.

Dressed in their formalblack robes, the 13 judgesof the Grand Chamber ofthe European Court of

First Instance (CFI) wereall present.

It only took thepresiding judge BoVesterdorf less than fourminutes to read out themain passages of the 248-page written verdict,bringing the nearlydecade-old case to a newclimax.

“The court considersthat the Commission wascorrect to conclude thatthe work group serveroperating systems ofMicrosoft’s competitorsmust be able to inter-operate with Windowsdomain architecture onan equal footing withWindows operating sys-tems if they are to becapable of being marketedviably,” the court said inits verdict.— MNA/Xinhua

KUALA LUMPUR, 18 Sept— Malaysia’s first long-haul budget carrier,AirAsia X, will startflights to China andAustralia with the arrivalof its first Airbus A330,local media reported onTuesday.

The plane, which is ona six-year lease, toucheddown at the low-costcarrier terminal in Sepang,near the capital of KualaLumpur, on Sunday fromthe United States.

AirAsia X chiefexecutive officer AzranOsman Rani said theinaugural flight wouldprobably be in the middleof next month.

The landing rights forboth destinations had beenobtained, but AirAsia was

still waiting for the finalair operating certificatefrom the Department ofCivil Aviation, Azransaid. Its first destinationwill depend on whichcountry gets the final

paperwork done first. The flight schedule has

yet to be released, butAzran said the planewould alternate betweenChina and Australia.

MNA/Xinhua

Super typhoon Wipha sweeps across Fuding city,Fujian Province, southeast China, on 19 Sept,

2007. Wipha was downgraded to a severe typhoonon Tuesday evening with wind speed at its centrereduced from 198 km per hour at 4 pm to 180 at 8

pm, according to the Fujian meteorologicalbureau. —INTERNET

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UNITED NATIONS, 19 Sept — The 62nd session of the United Nations GeneralAssembly opened here Tuesday amid calls for multilateral solutions to globalchallenges.

A model displays an outfit by Spanish designerAgatha Ruiz de la Prada during the Spring/Sum-

mer 2007-08 Pasarela Cibeles fashion show inMadrid on 17 Sept, 2007.—INTERNET

OJ Simpson (second L) is escorted from Las Vegas Metropolitan Policeoffices as he is taken to the Clark County Detention Centre in Las Vegas,

Nevada, on 16 Sept, 2007. Former football star Simpson, who was acquittedin 1995 of murdering his ex-wife, has been arrested in connection with an

alleged armed robbery last week in a hotel room in Las Vegas, police said onSunday. — INTERNET

UNGA opens with calls formultilateral action

Srgjan Kerim, presidentof the General Assembly,said climate change, financ-ing for development andachieving the MillenniumDevelopment Goals, coun-tering terrorism, and reformsaimed at improving themanagement, effectivenessand coherence of the worldbody are among the toppriorities during the session.

“More than everbefore, global challengesdemand multilateralsolutions,” Kerim said inhis opening remarks. “TheUnited Nations is theappropriate multilateralforum to take action. This iswhy the revitalization of thisGeneral Assembly deservesour highest attention.”

A number of high-level events will be heldon the sidelines of thecurrent session of thegeneral assembly on suchissues as climate change,Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur,

and the Middle East. “The General

Assembly must take theinitiative and strengthen itscentral position in themultilateral system,” Kerimsaid. “We must forge alasting consensus — aglobal alliance for action— by bringing togethermember states, the privatesector, nongovernmentalorganizations and civilsociety.”

He said by workingtogether, the internationalcommunity can alsohelp overcome theunderlying misunder-standing between culturesand religions that is “atthe core of many of today’sproblems”.

Kerim called forcourage and “bold com-promises” to address themany challenges facingthe world.

“If we want the UnitedNations to play its full role,

we will have to do moreand do it more effectively— both operationally at thecountry level, andmanagement at head-quarters,” he said.

Earlier Tuesday, UNSecretary-General BanKi-moon also expressedhope at a Press conferencethat world leadersattending the sessionwould “bring with them arenewed interest inmultilateral resolution tochallenges facing theworld”.

MNA/Xinhua

World Vision sendsaids to quake-hit

Bengkulu, Indonesia JAKARTA, 19 Sept — World Vision Indonesia has

sent 2,000 packages of non-food relief aid to quake-hitBengkulu Province in Sumatra Island, the manager ofthe organization Jimmy Nadapdap said in a Pressrelease here Tuesday.

The manager said that the aid packages includedsarongs, blankets and sleeping mats.

“We expect the goods to arrive in BengkuluTuesday afternoon and we hope to be able to start ourdistribution on Wednesday,” he said.

Fadli Usman, one of the World Vision staffconducting assessments in Bengkulu, said that a numberof villages in the province were among the hardest-hitby the quake last week.

“Some villages here have still not received anysupport yet because they are located so far away fromthe main road,” Fadli said.

The National Development Planning Agency saidon Sunday the number of houses and other propertiesdamaged in Bengkulu and West Sumatra provincesreached over 15,000.

However, reports from the fields were much moresevere. Bengkulu Governor Agusrin M Najamuddinestimated on Sunday that the total number of housesdestroyed or damaged had now reached almost 30,000in Bengkulu alone, according to the organization.

Twenty-three people were killed in a powerfulearthquake of 7.9 Richter Scale last week in BengkuluProvince of Sumatra Island.

MNA/Xinhua

Four US soldiers killedin Iraq on Tuesday

BAGHDAD, 19 Sept — Four US soldiers were killedand at least three others injured in an explosion and avehicle accident in Iraq on Tuesday, the US militarysaid.

According to the latest statement of the military,three American soldiers were killed and three moreinjured in an explosion in Iraq’s Diyala Provincenortheast of Baghdad on Tuesday.

The incident occurred when the Task ForceLightning soldiers triggered an explosion near theirpatrol, the military said in the statement, withoutgiving details on the type of explosion.

Diyala Province, which stretches from the easternedges of Baghdad to the Iranian border, has long beenthe hotbed of insurgency and sectarian violence sincethe US-led invasion in 2003.

Meanwhile, another Task Force Lightning soldieralso died Tuesday in a vehicle accident in the northernNinevah Province, according to the military.

The latest death brings the number of US soldierswho have been killed in Iraq to at least 3,785 since theoutbreak of the Iraqi war in 2003, according to mediacount based on Pentagon figures. — MNA/Xinhua

LOS ANGELES, 19 Sept — The US Dole Food Co said on Monday that it has issued an internationalrecall of bagged salad after a sample taken from a store in Canada tested positive for E coli.

US company recalls tainted salad

The voluntary recallapplies to all packages ofDole’s Hearts Delightsalad mix sold in theUnited States and Canadawith a “best if used by”date of 19 September,2007, and a productioncode of “ A24924A” or“A24924B”, Dole said.

The product was soldin Ontario, Quebec and theMaritime Provinces inCanada and in Illinois,Indiana, Maine, Michigan,Mississippi, New York,Ohio, Pennsylvania andTennessee starting around

8 September, said MartyOrdman, a Dole spokes-man.

The product may havebeen available in other USstates wholesalers distri-buted to, Ordman said.

There have been noreports of illness, accordingto the company officials.

“Our overridingconcern is for consumersafety,” said Eric Schwartz,president of the Dole FreshVegetable division, in astatement. He said thecompany was workingwith US and Canadian

health agencies, as well asthose in various states.

The romaine, greenleaf and butter lettucehearts that went into theblend were grown inCalifornia, Colorado andOhio, then processed atDole’s plant in Springfield,Ohio on 6 September,according to Ordman.

Eighty-eight cases —or 528 bags — weredistributed in Canada and755 cases containing4,530 bags in the UnitedStates, he said.

The company’s movecame a day after theCanadian Food InspectionAgency warned consu-mers not to eat HeartsDelight.

There have been aseries of food-taintedcases in the United Statesthis year. Last year, an Ecoli outbreak traced tobagged baby spinach wasblamed for the deaths ofthree people and forsickening hundreds moreacross the country.

MNA/Xinhua

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(from page 1)station and progress in digging the tunnel. Next, theminister looked into progress in digging the approachtunnel No 1 and power intake channel. Afterwards,Project Director U Maw Tha Htwe and Assistant Direc-tor U Toe Lwin briefed the minister on work procedures.

After hearing the reports, the minister oversawinstallation of steel pipelines, concrete laying tasks,earth work of the main embankment, building of powerintake structure and approach bridge to the power intakestructure.

After inspecting the construction tasks of thecontrol tower and spillway, the minister instructed offi-cials concerned to make efforts to accomplish the con-struction tasks of the project earlier as targeted, con-stantly monitor preventive measures against naturaldisasters, assign duties for carrying out the project taskswidely, gear up the tasks in open season, stockpileconstruction materials in advance, handle machinerywith care, minimize wastage and loss and take measuresfor occupational safety.

A 57.7 per cent of Kunchaung hydropowerproject has been finished so far and upon completion,the project will generate 60 megawatts. — MNA

Construction tasks ofKunchaung hydropowerproject supervised…

(from page 1)After that Commander of North-East Command

Maj-Gen Aung Than Htut and Minister Brig-Gen MaungMaung Thein looked into the pasteurland for producingfeedstuff, milch cow farm and poultry farm in the inte-grated farm of the command and fulfilled the require-ments on 16 September.

Next, the minister and party paid homage toMaha Yan Aung Myin Monastery Presiding SayadawAgga Maha Pandita Bhaddanta Vilasa. On 17 September,the minister met with service personnel of departmentsunder the ministry at the meeting hall of LivestockBreeding and Veterinary Department in PyigyidagunTownship of Mandalay Division and gave instructions onfuture tasks to be carried out for the development of meatand fish sector and then visited feedstuff factory of U TinMyint. — MNA

CEC Member looks into …

YANGON, 19 Sept — Yangon Division Peaceand Development Council and Myanmar FootballFederation donated football equipment to basiceducation schools in Yangon Division and presentedcash a ward to Champion Myanmar Women’s footballTeam at BEHS No 2 in Dagon Township this afternoon.

Chairman of Yangon Division PDCCommander of Yangon Command Maj-Gen Hla HtayWin and President of Myanmar Football Federation UZaw Zaw handed five home-made footballs, one foreign-

Sports equipment provided for basiceducation schools in Yangon Division

made football and one home-made volleyball ball eachto 1,784 basic education schools through officials.

Leading Patron of Yangon Division Women’sSports Committee Daw Mar Mar Wai presented K 2.5million to Champion Myanmar Women’s FootballTeam through Manager Daw Myat Myat Oo.

On the occasion, Yangon Division PDCdonated 8,920 home-made footballs and 1,784 home-made volleyball balls, and MFF President U Zaw Zaw,271 foreign-made footballs. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Sept — The meeting of LeadingCommittee for Organizing National ImmunizationDays 2007 was held at the meeting hall of the Ministryof Health this morning, attended by Minister for HealthDr Kyaw Myint, Deputy Ministers Dr Mya Oo and DrPaing Soe, members of the leading committee anddepartmental officials.

First, Minister Dr Kyaw Myint made an openingspeech on the occasion, saying that the leadingcommittee will have to distribute vaccines and supplies,educative aids and medical items across the nation intime; radio and television programmes are to be airedon organizing matters and announcements are to beissued to the public in a synchronized way; MotionPicture, Thabin and Music Asiayons are to be engagedin the immunization activities and subcommittees areto raise funds widely.

Next, departmental officials under the ministryand leading committee members discussed proceduresto be followed on the days of national immunization2007 and the minister made concluding remarks.

MNA

Leading Committee forOrganizing NationalImmunization Days

2007 meetsYANGON, 19 Sept — The Microbiology Society

of Myanmar Medical Association will conduct theSymposium on Food-borne Disease and Food Safetyat Auditorium-A of the association on Theinbyu Road,here from 9 am to 12 noon on 22 September.

Dr U Kyaw Lin, Dr Daw Khin Myat Nwe,Professor Daw May Kyi Aung, Associate Professor UWin Myat Aye and Dr U Zaw Than Tun will give talkson Food-borne Disease and Food Safety.

All interested persons may attend thesymposium. —MNA

Symposium on Food-borne

Disease and Food Safety

22 September

Minister Dr Kyaw Myint speaks at the

meeting of Leading Committee for

Organizing National Immunization Days

2007. — MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Hla Htay Win delivers an address at a ceremony to present sportsequipment to basic education schools in Yangon Division.—MNA

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Nutrition Week marked in Nay Pyi Taw

NAY PYI TAW, 19 Sept— The activities to markNutrition Week andnutritious food cookingcontest were launched atPeople’s Hospital (25-Bed) in Nay Pyi Taw LeweTownship today, attendedby Commander of Nay PyiTaw Command Maj-GenWai Lwin and wife DawSwe Swe Oo.

First, the commanderand wife viewed the boothsof wall magazine andmedicines and they gavevitamin A tablets andnutritious food to thepregnant mothers andchildren.

They also viewed the

performances of theparticipants in the cookingcontest.

At the prize presen-tation, the commanderdelivered an address andHead of Township HealthDepartment Dr Soe SoeNaing explained activitiesof nutrition week.

Chairperson ofTownship Maternal andChild WelfareAssociation Daw ThanThan Sein accepted 250membership applicationsof villages in Nay Pyi TawLewe Township.

Afterwards, Daw SweSwe Oo presented first,second and third prizes to

the outstanding teams inthe contest.

After the prize pre-sentation, the commanderand wife inspected thepharmaceuticals shop,wards, medicine store andx-ray unit and providedcash to patients.—MNA

YANGON, 19 Sept —The Nationalities AffairsWorking Group ofMyanmar Women’sAffairs Federationorganized the educativetalks at the CentralTraining School ofEducation and TrainingDepartment of theMinistry of Progress ofBorder Areas and NationalRaces and DevelopmentAffairs in Ward 51 of

MWAF holds educative talksDagon Myothit (North)Township on 17September.

It was attended by 193trainees of the AdvancedVocational Course No 16,the Wicker Works CourseNo 4 and the ClericalCourses No 48, No 49 andNo 50 and staff families.

Wife of the Ministerfor PBANRDA Leader ofthe Working Group DawKyin Khaing made a

speech.Prof Daw Mya Mya

Yin, member of StateService Personnel andIntellectuals andIntelligentsia Group, gavetalks on women andmental health, and PoliceCaptain Daw Ohnma YinMie of Anti-HumanTrafficking Special Squadof MPF, on preventionagainst human smugglingand trafficking. — MNA

Paper-reading session onenergy slated on 22 Sept

YANGON, 19 Sept—Organized by the Energyand Renewable EnergyCommittee of MyanmarEngineering Society, thePaper-reading session onEnergy and RenewableEnergy (02/2007) will beheld at Seminar Room onthe ground floor on

Universities (HlineCampus), HlineTownship, from 9 am tonoon on 22 September.

At the paper-readingsession, resource personU Tun Aung Naing ofKKS Engineering Co Ltdwill read the paper on TheGuide of Choosing Best

Suitable RE and EnergySecurity and ManagingDirector U Tin Win of SanEngineering Co Ltd on BioEnergy and SmallHydropower Utilization inIntegrated Farming. Theinterested persons mayattend the session at thevenue. —MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Wai Lwin and wife DawSwe Swe Oo view nutritious food made by the

participants in nutritious food cookingcontest.— MNA

Police Captain Daw Ohnma Yin Mie gives talks on prevention againsthuman smuggling and trafficking.—MNA

Driving rain causes floods inPyigyidagun Township

YANGON, 19 Sept—Itrained heavily inMandalay and itssurrounding areas inMandalay Division on 15and 16 September,

causing flash floods insome wards ofPyigyidagun Townshipwhile the Parantaw Creekwas raging.

The depth of the

floods in the wardsreached from one foot toone and a half feet. Now,some flooded householdshave been evacuated tosafe places.—MNA

ASEAN Customs CapabilityDevelopment Working Group meetsYANGON, 19 Sept—

The second meeting ofASEAN CustomsCapability DevelopmentWorking Group

sponsored by the CustomsDepartment of theMinistry of Finance andRevenue was opened atSummit ParkView Hotelhere yesterday morning.

It was attended byDirector-General of CD USan Thaung and officials,representatives fromASEAN Secretariat andASEAN nations, guestsand others.

Director-General USan Thaung made a speech

on the occasion, and theopening ceremony ended.

Next, Director-General U San Thaung hada documentary takentogether with repre-sentatives from ASEANSecretariat and ASEANnations.

This was followed bythe second session of themeeting.

The meeting conti-nued today.

MNA

Director-General U San Thaung speaks at2nd meeting of ASEAN Customs

Capability Development Working Group.MNA

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A man passes in front of a logo for “Dubai Cares”, a charity campaign,during a news conference presented by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al

Maktoum, ruler and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, in Mina AlSalam, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on 19 Sept, 2007. —INTERNET

The ‘Tribute in Lights’ shines on the skyline of lower Manhattan as the sixthanniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center is observed in New

York, on 11 Sept, 2007. The plaintiffs in more than a third of the remainingsuits filed by relatives of 11 September victims seeking compensation from

airlines and their security contractors have agreed to settle a week before thefirst case was to be heard in court. — INTERNET

A model wears a creation from the JavierLarrainzar Spring/Summer 2008 collection duringthe Cibeles Madrid International Fashion Week,Madrid, on Tuesday, 18 Sept, 2007. — INTERNET

TEHERAN, 19 Sept — Iran on Monday condemned French Foreign MinisterBernard Kouchner’s warning that the world should brace for a possible warover the Iranian crisis, the official IRNA news agency reported.

GENEVA, 19 Sept — Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan said on Monday that hewould officially launch a new forum on 17 October aimed to tackle climate change and natural disasters.

Annan to launch forum to tackle climate change

One major task of theGlobal HumanitarianForum will be to look atways of helping thecommunities around theworld that are mostvulnerable to the effects ofclimate change, Annan,who himself will be thepresident of the Geneva-based organization, toldreporters in Geneva.

“Environmental change

and natural disastersalready displace morepeople than armed con-flict,” said the former UNsecretary-general, whostepped down at the end oflast year.

“We need to do moreto address the needs of themost vulnerable people andcommunities,” he added.

Annan explained thathis forum, which is based

on an initiative put forwardby the Swiss ForeignMinistry, would have adifferent philosophy fromother similar organizations.

The Global Humani-tarian Forum aims toboost dialogue betweenall parties involved inhumanitarian aid, actingas a catalyst, and buildbridges between areasthat otherwise had little

contact. “We want to bring

together people from thecivil society, governments,the academic world andmilitary authorities,”Annan said.

He believed humani-tarian aid was often toosegmented, and one of theforum’s goals would be tohelp improve the system.

MNAXinhua

Teheran condemns French FM’sremarks over possible Iran war

“Kouchner’s claimsare not only in contradictionwith EU’s macro policieson the Islamic Republic ofIran but are also aimed atquestioning credibility andcompetency of the Inter-national Atomic EnergyAgency,” Foreign Ministryspokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said.

Hosseini added thatusing “convulsive words”is contrary to thehistorical, cultural andcivilizational dignity andposition of France.

“Alignment of suchwords with the futilestrategies of the USofficials indicates theinfluence of others’unrealistic insinuationsand false information andit would not serve interestsof France,” Hosseini said.

In an interview on theFrench television station

LCI late on Sunday,Kouchner said: “We mustprepare for the worst ...(and) the worst is war.”

The United States hasbeen seeking to imposetougher sanctions on Iranthrough the UN SecurityCouncil on the groundsthat Teheran is develop-ing a nuclear weaponprogramme under theguise of a civilian-use

programme. Iran has insisted that

its nuclear programme isfor peaceful purposes andvoiced hope for talks todefuse the nuclear stand-off.

The United States hasnever ruled out militaryaction against Iraniantargets for Teheran’ssuspicious nuclear pro-grammes. — MNAXinhua

LONDON, 19 Sept —People are the cause ofmost breaches in bankingsecurity, a report shows.

Employees andcustomers are the keysources of securitybreaches, according to asurvey of financial servicescompanies by business

Report says humans main causeof financial security breaches

advisory firm Deloitte. Around 91 per cent

of those questioned saidthey are concerned aboutrisks to security arisingfrom within their orga-nizations.

Almost a third ofrespondents said they hadsuffered security breaches

by employees, eitherthrough misconduct orerror.

Some 65 per cent ofsenior information tech-nology executives at manyof the top 100 global fi-nancial services organiza-tions also reported externalsecurity breaches.

The survey found thatcustomers are the cause ofbreaches in security dueto poor awareness andfailing to have anti-virusprotection on their com-puters.

Many problemscentre on viruses andworms, e-mail attacks,such as spam, and attacksfocused directly on thecustomer, such as identitytheft, Deloitte said.

But, despitefinancial services firmsbeing aware of a risingthreat to security, lessthan two thirds have aninformation securitystrategy in place.

MNA/Reuters

New FMD cases suspectedin south England

LONDON, 19 Sept — All the sheep on a farm insouthern England will be slaughtered after blood testssuggested they had contracted foot and mouth disease,the British Agriculture Ministry said on Monday.

The sheep are on a farm inside the protection zonewest of London set up last week when a new outbreakof the disease was discovered and hundreds of pigs andcattle were culled.

“Initial blood tests on clinically healthy sheep ona farm within the Protection Zone suggest exposure toFMD (foot and mouth disease),” the Department forEnvironment, Food and Rural Affairs said in a statementon its website.

“These animals were identified as part of thesurveillance work that is being carried out in the area.All animals on the premises are being slaughtered onsuspicion. Further laboratory tests are ongoing,” itsaid.

MNA/Reuters

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LIMA, 19 Sept —Dozens of people living ina Peruvian town near LakeTiticaca reported vomitingand headaches after theywent to look at a craterapparently left by ameteorite that crasheddown over the weekend,health officials said onTuesday.

After hearing a loudnoise, people went to seewhat had happened and

Peruvians get sick from apparentmeteorite crater

LOS ANGELES,19 Sept— Traffic congestion inthe United States hascontinued to worsen,creating a 78-billion-dollarannual drain on the USeconomy, according to areport released on Tuesday.

Because of thecongestion, Americanslose 4.2 billion hours andwaste 2.9 billion gallons offuel annually, said the 2007Urban Mobility Report bythe Texas TransportationInstitute (TTI).

“Congestion is a farmore complex problemthan is apparent at firstglance,” said Tim Lomax,a research engineer at TTIand a co-author of thereport, which is based ondata from 2005.

“The better the datawe use to define theproblem, the moresuccessful we will be inaddressing its rootcauses,” Lomax said.

The report also foundthat motorists in twoCalifornia counties-Los

US traffic congestioncontinues to worsen

Angeles and Orangecounties —face worse rush-hour traffic congestion thanthose in 13 other “largeurban areas” of the country.

“Large urban areas”refer to those withpopulations greater thanthree million.

The report said theLos Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana area had thelargest “travel time index”— a comparison of traveltime during peak trafficconditions versus traveltime during “free flow”conditions.

The report found thatcongestion causes theaverage motorist in theregion to spend an extra 72hours a year on the road,wasting an average of 57gallons of gas. The nationalaverage was 38 hours and26 gallons in a year. TheChicago area had thesecond-highest travel timeindex, followed by SanFrancisco/Oakland, NewYork/Newark and Miami.

MNA/Xinhua

found a crater 65-feet (20-metre) wide and 22-feet(seven-metre) deep onan uninhabited plateau nearCarancas in thePunoregion.

Experts from Peru’sGeophysical Institute areon their way to the area800 miles (1,300 kilo-metres) south of Lima toverify whether it was ameteorite.

“We’ve examined

about 100 people who gotnear to the meteorite craterwho have vomiting andheadaches because ofgasses coming out ofthere,” Jorge Lopez, healthdirector in Puno, toldReuters. “People arescared,” he said. Lopezsaid people went to the siteafter hearing a crash thatthey thought might be anairplane.

MNA/Reuters

Car bomb strikes east BeirutBEIRUT, 19 Sept — A car bomb has exploded in a predominantly Christian

area of Sin el-Fil in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, killing at least five people,according to a security source.

Antoine Ghanem, amember of parliament withthe Phalange party, isthought to have been killedin the blast on Wednesday.

“The explosion tookplace in the Sin el-Fil areanear the Metropolitanhotel,” a security sourcesaid.

Zeina Khodr, AlJazeera’s correspondent inLebanon, said: “We arenot sure who was targeted,whether or not it was apolitician - but it comes ata time of heighteningpolitical tensions.”

“We do know it was abig explosion. We have notseen any explosion inLebanon since 14 June,when a member of parlia-ment was assassinated inBeirut.” She said Ghanemwas believed to have beentravelling to a meeting inthe district.

Nayla Moawad, theLebanese minister of socialaffairs, told Al Jazeera: “Itis clearly an attempt todiminish the number ofmembers of parliamentfrom the majority and ofthe March 14 Forces.

“It proves that thereis a mainstream, led byIran and Syria, againstLebanese sovereignty.

“It is the end of anydialogue. We will notdialogue with murderersand we will dialogue onthe blood of our martyrs.”

The bomb attackcomes amid continueddifferences between theparliamentary majority

ahead of presidentialelections, which are dueto begin on 25 September.

Television footage

showed several cars on fireand bodies being carriedaway from the scene.

Internet

BAGHDAD, 19 Sept — Iraq will review the status of all security companiesworking in the country after a shooting incident involving guards from the USfirm Blackwater, a government statement said on Tuesday.

Iraq to review all securityfirms after shooting

It also said the Cabinetsupported an InteriorMinistry decision to“halt the licence” forBlackwater, which pro-vides security to the USEmbassy and itsdiplomats, and launch animmediate investigationinto the shooting.

“Cabinet affirmed...the need to review the

situation of foreign andlocal security companiesworking in Iraq, inaccordance with Iraqilaws,” Ali al-Dabbaghsaid in a statement afteran Iraqi Governmentmeeting.

“This came afterthe flagrant assault con-ducted by members ofthe American security

company Blackwateragainst Iraqi citizens,”Dabbagh said.

US Secretary of StateCondoleezza Rice tele-phoned Iraq’s PrimeMinister Nuri al-Maliki onMonday to express regretover the death of inno-cent civilians in the inci-dent, which the StateDepartment said occurr-ed during an attack on aUS convoy. Iraq’s Inte-rior Ministry said theBlackwater contractorsopened fire at random aftermortar rounds landed nearthe convoy. It said 11people were killed in theshooting.— MNA/Reuters

Downtown Los Angeles is seen on 18 Dec, 2006. the Los Angeles metropolitanarea led the nation in traffic jams in 2005, with rush-hour drivers spending

an extra 72 hours a year on average stuck in traffic, according to a studyreleased on Tuesday. — INTERNET

A view of the crater caused by a meteorite crash in the southern Peruvian townof Carangas, near the border with Bolivia, on 16 Sept, 2007. Dozens of peopleliving in a Peruvian town near Lake Titicaca reported vomiting and headaches

after they went to look at a crater apparently left by a meteorite that crasheddown over the weekend, health officials said on Tuesday. — INTERNET

Dozy burglary suspect caughtnapping in Cyprus

NOCOSIA,19 Sept — A man who failed to open asafe during an attempted burglary in a Cyprus bankwas found asleep by a cleaning lady in the morning,police said on Monday.

The 23-year-old was caught by police after runningoff.

He had failed to get money out of a cash dispenseroutside the bank and then climbed a ladder to break inthrough a window.

“It seems the suspect tried to open up the safe and,after failing that, took an orange juice out of the fridge,sat down at a desk and fell asleep,” said a police source.

The suspect was remanded by a Nicosia court foreight days.— MNA/Reuters

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Notice1. The Centre for Human Resource Development

(Yangon University of Foreign Languages) in collabo-ration with TOPA, 21st Century Language School,Tokyo, Japan will open the Japanese Language Spe-cial Basic Course No.36 (full-time) and No.33(level 4 part-time) as follows:

(a) Course instructors: Teachers from TOPA, 21st

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Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA TERAJUVOY NO (257) are hereby notified that the vessel hasarrived on 20.9.2007 and cargo will be discharged intothe premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at the consign-ee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws andconditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

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18 Iranian tourists killed in Thai crashPHUKET (Thailand), 8 Sept—Eighteen Iranian tourists

were among 89 people killed when a Thai budgetairliner crashed on the resort island of Phuket onSunday, an Iranian diplomat said.

The dead, among 24 Iranians on a tour, includedfour children and two couples on their honeymoon,Safdar Safiee, an Iranian consular official in Thailand,told Reuters on Tuesday. The six survivors were inhospital, he said. —MNA/Reuters

Participants compete in the load-carrying raceduring the 5th Provincial Farmers’ Sports

Meeting in Dandong, northeast China’s LiaoningProvince, on 16 Sept, 2007. —XINHUA

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pvaer;®Pc\. eKt\m^P∑M>‘Pi;tui;tk\eqa Nuic\cMeta\”k; tv\eSak\AM.Smoking can harm long-term effects of

some oral surgery procedures

Astronomers discover warm south pole on Neptune

Cuban scientists find 18-20million-year-old fossils

HAVANA, 17 Sept— Cuban scientists have found aseries of fossils they believe to be between 18 and 20million years old in the central Cuban province ofSancti Spiritus, the island’s Caving Society said onMonday.

The fossils are the remains of dugongs and giantcrocodiles that lived in the area in the Miocene period,the fourth era of the Tertiary age, which began 23million years ago and ended 5 million years ago, itsaid.

The fossils were found in a cave close to the banksof the Cayajana River, 350 km east of Havana. Thescientists made the find 30 meters below the slopeeroded by the river, considered a highly valuable areaby scientists seeking fossils.

The Caribbean’s oldest fossils, including a giantsloth, giant ostriches, a shark and several dugongs,were also found by the same research group in the1970s in Domo Zaza, a paleontological site also inSancti Spiritus province. —Internet

WASHINGTON, 18 Sept—A study released Tuesdayin the September issue ofthe Journal of Perio-dontology found thatsmokers had less desirablelong term results follow-ing periodontal plasticsurgery than non-smokers.

The study followed 10smokers and 10 non-smokers for two years toevaluate the effects ofcigarette smoke on thelong term outcomes of atreatment to help softtissue reattach to the rootsurface of the teeth.

After two years, residualgum recession around thearea which received thesurgery was greater in

smokers as compared tonon-smokers.

Studies have shown thatsmoking can impair thebody’s ability to heal itselfimmediately after surgery.But this most recent studyalso showed that when apatient has periodontalplastic surgery, smokingcan damage the ability ofthat procedure to stayintact over a long periodof time.

“People who smoke andhave had some sort ofperiodontal plastic surgeryshould be aware of thenegative side effects ofsmoking. It can be costlyto have to repeat a surgerybecause the desirable

outcomes might have beenundone by smoking," saidPreston Miller, Presidentof the American Academyof Periodontology.

“Therefore, it is impor-tant patients and doctorsagree to a smoking ces-sation program prior toany periodontal surgery.This will help a patient'schance of achievingoptimal results,” saidMiller.

Internet

An employee of the Picasso Museum in Paris retouches the frame of aPicasso’s painting, on 17 Sept, 2007. They are part of the exhibition ‘Picasso

Cubiste’ that will be shown to the public from on 19 Sept, 2007 to 7 Jan,2008, at the National Picasso Museum in Paris.—INTERNET

An international team of astronomers hasdiscovered that Neptune’s south pole is muchhotter than the rest of the planet.—INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 18 Sept—An international team ofastronomers has discovered that Neptune’s south poleis much hotter than the rest of the planet, NASA’s jetpropulsion laboratory (JPL) reported Tuesday.

“The temperatures of south pole are so high thatmethane gas, which should be frozen out in the upperpart of Neptune’s atmosphere, the stratosphere, canleak out through this region,” said Glenn Orton ofNASA’s JPL.

Orton is lead author of a paper appearing in the Sept.18 issue of the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

These findings were made using the Very LargeTelescope, located in Chile, operated by the EuropeanOrganization for Astronomical Research in theSouthern Hemisphere (known as ESO).

In the paper, Orton and his colleagues report that thetemperature at Neptune’s south pole is hotter thananywhere else on the planet by about 10 Celsiusdegrees. The average temperature on Neptune is aboutminus 200 Celsius degrees.

Neptune, the farthest known planet of our solarsystem, is located about 30 times farther away from thesun than the Earth is. Only about one thousandth of thesunlight received by our planet reaches Neptune. Yet,the small amount of sunlight Neptune does receivesignificantly affects the planet’s atmosphere.

The astronomers found that these temperaturevariations are consistent with seasonal changes. ANeptunian year lasts about 165Earth years. It has beensummer in the south pole of Neptune for about 40 yearsnow, and they predict that as winter turns to summer atthe north pole, an abundance of methane would leakout of a warm north pole in about 80 years.—Internet

NASA administratordiscusses value of“space economy”

WASHINGTON, 18 Sept—NASA AdministratorMichael Griffin kicked off a lecture series honouringthe agency’s 50th anniversary with an address Mondaydescribing the critical role that space exploration playsin the global economy.

The emerging “space economy” was estimated at180 billion US dollars in 2005, according to the latestreport by the US Space Foundation. Over 60 per centof that figure came from commercial goods andservices.

“NASA opens new frontiers and creates newopportunities, and because of that (NASA) is a criticaldriver of innovation,” Griffin said. “We don’t justcreate new jobs, we create entirely new markets andpossibilities for economic growth that didn’t previouslyexist.” — MNA/Xinhua

Dayana Mendoza smiles after being crowned MissVenezuela 2007 in Caracas, recently.

INTERNET

A student at awomen’scollege in

Patna, Indiaon 14 Septholds up a

seedling thatwill be planted

on WorldOzone Day, 16Sept, to protest

globalwarming andsupport the

theme of“greening our

earth.”INTERNET

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S P O R T S

AC Milan’s Kaka (R) challenges Luis Felipe ofBenfica during their Champions League first

round first leg Group D soccer match at San Sirostadium in Milan on 18 Sept, 2007.—INTERNET

Milan start defence with 2-1 win over Benfica

Real Madrid’s Raul Gonzalez (R) is substituted byArjen Robben during their Champions League

Group C soccer match against Werder Bremen atSantiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on 18 Sept,

2007.—INTERNET

Belarus’ tennis player Max Mirnyi returns the ballduring a training session in Lima, on 18 Sept,2007. Peru will face Belarus for the Davis Cupworld group play offs next 21 Sept.—INTERNET

Chinese team playerstrain in Wuhan. Chinaare desperate to defeat

New Zealand onWednesday to move

into the women’sWorld Cup quarter-

finals, and avoidbecoming the first host

nation ever to bebooted from the first-

round.—INTERNET

Van Nistelrooy, Raul give Real win over Werder

Rodriguez, Cisse hand Marseille 2-0win over Besiktas

Two quickgoals help

Shakhtar seeoff Celtic

DONETSK (Ukraine), 19Sept — Shakhtar Donetskstruck twice in the firsteight minutes to record a2-0 victory over Celtic intheir Champions LeagueGroup D opener on Tues-day. Brazilian strikerBrandao opened the scor-ing for the Ukrainians inthe sixth minute, beatingkeeper Artur Boruc with arising shot from the edgeof the box after Celtic’sdefence gave the ball away.

Italy forward CristianoLucarelli added a secondwith a diving header twominutes later following apin-point cross fromRazvan Rat.

Shakhtar could have in-creased their goal tally inthe next 20 minutes, theunmarked Lucarelli wast-ing a good chance andBrandao having an effortdisallowed for offside.

MNA/Reuters

Pennant off as Liverpool’s 10 men hold PortoVilla’s strike gives Valenciawin over Schalke

GELSENKIRCHEN (Germany), 19 Sept — David Villastruck with one of only two chances Valencia created togive the Spanish club a 1-0 win over Schalke 04 in anuninspiring Champions League Group B opener on Tues-day. Villa beat the German defence to a long diagonalpass from Miguel, took the ball round keeper ManuelNeuer and tucked in the only goal in the 63rd minute.

Schalke had twice come close in the space of a minutein the first half through Kevin Kuranyi.

Substitute Peter Lovenkrands should have equalizedwhen he lashed over from close range at the end,otherwise there was little to excite a 54,000 full house atthe Arena AufSchalke in a game of misplaced passes,overhit crosses and niggling fouls.

“I’m delighted for the players,” Valencia coach QuiqueSanchez Flores told a news conference. “We had greatteam spirit and we looked good on the ball.”

Schalke, who failed to get past the group phase intheir two previous Champions League appearances, justmissed out on the Bundesliga title last season and afteran encouraging draw at Bayern Munich on Saturdaythey started with enthusiasm.— MNA/Reuters

MARSEILLE (France), 19Sept – Second-half goalsby Julien Rodriguez andDjibril Cisse gave Olym-pique Marseille a 2-0 winover Besiktas in theirChampions League GroupA opener on Tuesday.

Centre back Rodriguezpoked the ball home in the76th minute after a SamirNasri corner kick hit thefar post and France strikerCisse wrapped up the winin injury time to earn theLigue 1 side their first

home victory of the sea-son. Albert Emon’s sidedominated throughout andwere barely bothered by afeeble Besiktas side.

Marseille, who won theChampions League in1993, lead their group af-ter five-times championsLiverpool were held to a1-1 draw at Porto.

“We’re feeling better.The Champions League issuch an important compe-tition,” Emon told report-ers. “We put our Ligue 1

problems behind us. Thisgame is a boost for ourconfidence. The playershave been strong from thefirst to the last minute.”

MNA/Reuters

MILAN, 19 Sept — ACMilan opened the defenceof their ChampionsLeague crown with a styl-ish 2-1 win over Benficain Group D on Tuesdaythanks to first-half goalsby Andrea Pirlo andFilippo Inzaghi.

Pirlo bent a free kickinto the top corner on nineminutes and Inzaghi, whoscored both in Milan’s 2-1 win over Liverpool inlast season’s final,grabbed his 43rd in thiscompetition on 23 min-utes after a run from Kakaand Pirlo’s unselfish pass.

The goal was alsoInzaghi’s 60th in Euro-pean club football and the34-year-old formerJuventus striker is fastapproaching GerdMueller’s record of 62,with Chelsea’s Andriy

Shevchenko also on 60. Benfica scored with the

last kick of the game whensubstitute Nuno Gomesslid in to score and theLisbon club also had theirmoments earlier with tallstriker Oscar Cardozo hit-

ting the post with a header. Milan were generally

comfortable throughoutthough and could havescored several more withInzaghi missing threegood chances inside thebox.— MNA/Reuters

MADRID, 19 Sept —Real Madrid continuedtheir excellent start to theseason by beating WerderBremen 2-1 in their Cham-pions League Group Copener on Tuesday.

Raul put the home sidein front with a header after16 minutes, taking hisrecord haul in the compe-tition to 57, but the leadonly lasted a minute be-fore Werder's BoubacarSanogo levelled on a swiftbreak.

Netherlands strikerRuud van Nistelrooy set-

tled the game in Real's fa-vour 16 minutes fromtime, making up for a hostof missed chances.

Real dominatedthroughout and celebratedtheir 300th game in Eu-rope's elite competitionwith a fourth consecutivewin of the season.

It was a cagey openingin the Bernabeu with Realcontrolling possession andthe visitors looking tocounter-attack quickly.

The game opened upwhen Van Nistelrooy cutinside his man on the leftof the area, and crossedlow for Raul to stoop andhead inside the near post.

But Real were caughtflat-footed a minute laterwhen Dusko Tosic brokedown the left and crossedinto the area, for Sanogoto poke the ball past Iker

Casillas with an out-stretched boot.

Werder’s MarkusRosenberg forced Casillasto save with his foot soonafter, but the pressurewas soon back down theother end.

Twice Van Nistelrooywas dispossessed with theball at his feet in front ofgoal, and Gonzalo Higuainshot narrowly wide, asReal linked up well withsome slick passing.

MNA/Reuters

LISBON, 19 Sept — Ten-man Liver-pool held Porto to a 1-1 draw despite ared card for winger Jermaine Pennantearly in the second half of theirChampions League Group A opener onTuesday. Porto piled on the early pres-sure and were rewarded when wingerTarik Sektioui was brought down byLiverpool keeper Pepe Reina in the areaand Argentine midfielder Lucho

Gonzalez converted the penalty aftereight minutes.

Liverpool, five-times champions butlosing finalists last season, equalizedwith a Dirk Kuyt header in the 17thminute. A long-range free kick by de-fender Steve Finnan was nodded acrossthe goal by Sami Hyypia and Dutchforward Kuyt headed in from close range.

MNA/Reuters

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WEATHER

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

Wednesday, 19 September, 2007Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hours

MST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Shan and Kayah States, rain or thundershowers havebeen isolated in Kachin and Kayin States, scattered in Sagaingand Mandalay Divisions, fairly widespread in Rakhine Stateand widespread in the remaining States and Divisions withlocally heavyfall in Tanintahyi Division and isolated heavyfallsin Mon State, lower Sagaing and Magway Divisions. Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Nay Pyi Taw(0.20) inch, Ye (6.46) inches, Longlon (6.02) inches, Dawei(4.29) inches, Myeik (2.36) inches, Monywa (2.17) inches,Minkin (2.13) inches and Magway (1.58) inches.

Maximum temperature on 18-9-2007 was 86ºF. Minimuntemperature on 19-9-2007 was 72ºF. Relative humidity at09:30 hours MST on 19-9-2007 was 100%. Total sunshinehours on 18-9-2007 was (2.9 ) hours approx.

Rainfall on 19-9-2007 was (0.39) inch at Mingaladon,(0.63) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.70) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2007 was (108.03) inches atMingaladon, (111.89) inches at Kaba-Aye and (112.16)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (6) mph from Southwest at (18:20) hoursMST on 18-9-2007.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy in theNorth Bay and monsoon is moderate to strong in the AndamanSea and elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 20-9-2007: Rain orthundershowers will be isolated in Shan and Kayah States,scattered in Kayah State, Magway, Sagaing, Mandalay Divi-sions, fairly widespread in Chin and Rakhine States andwidespread in the remaining States and Divisions with likeli-hood of isolated heavyfalls in Mon State and TaninthayiDivision. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seas arelikely at times Deltaic, Gulf of Mottama, off and along Mon-Taninthayi Coasts. Surface wind speed in squalls may reach(35) to (40) mph. Seas will be moderate elsewhere in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Strong monsoon inthe Andaman Sea and South Bay.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areasfor 20-9-2007: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areas for 20-9-2007: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree of cer-tainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areas for20-9-2007: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of cer-tainty is (80%).

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8:40 am Perspectives8:45 am Music:

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news/Solgan9:00 am Music:

-What a girlwants

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music-All I have-Picture

9:00 pm Aspects ofMyanmar(TaninthayiDivision)

9:10 pm Article9:20 pm Topics potpourri

1.NASA findshydrocarbonson Saturn’smoon Hyperion2. Study showsmodifiedmushroomsmay yieldhuman drugs

9:30 pm Songs of yourchoice-There you’ll be-If we hold ontogether

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7:30 am3. Morning news

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1. Martial song4:15 pm2. Song to uphold

National Spirit4:30 pm3. Musical programme

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19. The next day’sprogramme

School funds being spent inefficiently inrich nations

LONDON, 19 Sept — Rich nations are spending far more on education than they did 12 years ago, butinefficient use of resources is hampering efforts to improve standards, the OECD said on Tuesday.

In its annual“Education at a Glance”survey, the Organization forEconomic Cooperation andDevelopment (OECD)found that, by spendingcurrent resources moreefficiently, learning levelscould be raised by 22 percent.

“Countries arecollectively spending morethan they have ever doneon education... But theresults gained from thatinvestment are far from

maximized,” said theOECD, which represents30 indus-trialized countries.

The Paris-basedorganization reported thatjust 55 per cent of fundingprovided by the USGovernment for schoolswent to pay teachers, wellbelow OECD levels ofmore than 63 per cent.

Financing theexpansion of highereducation would be an issuefor many countries in thefuture, it said. Spending per

pupil had already begun todecline in some.

“Innovative financingand student support policiesthat mobilize extra publicand private funding will bepart of the answer and manycountries are movingsuccessfully in thisdirection...,” it said.

Between 1995 and2004, spending on edu-cation had increased by 42per cent on average inOECD countries as morepeople than ever completed

secondary and universityeducation, the OECD said.

However, it said theincrease in educationspending in that period hadfallen behind growth innational income.

The report also founduniversity graduates earnedmore money and found jobsmore easily than peoplewho did not have degreesand these advantages havegrown over recent years inmany countries.

MNA/Reuters

(From L to R) Director of Marketing of Guangzhou Asian Games OrganizingCommittee (GAGOC) Fang Daer, Secretary General of the Olympic Council of

Asia Raja Randhir Singh, Indian Olympic Association President Suresh Kalmadiand Director of Publicity Department of GAGOC Luo Jingjun, pose for a photoduring a Press conference in New Delhi, India, on 18 Sept, 2007. —INTERENT

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9th Waxing of Tawthalin 1369 ME Thursday, 20 September, 2007

Flood warning

(Issued at 12:30 hr MST on 19-9-2007)

According to the (06:30) hr MST observation today, the water level of

Ayeyawady River at Aunglan is (2492) cm. It may reach its danger level (2550)

cm during the next (48) hrs commencing noon today.

Myanma Port AuthorityWarning of hightide

The Public are hereby informed that exceptionally high Spring of from

20.3 feet to 21.7 feet high above the datum are expected to occur in Yangon River

during the period 26th September to1st October, 2007.

YANGON, 19 Sept —

Central Executive Com-

mittee Member of the Un-

ion Solidarity and Devel-

opment Association Min-

ister for Forestry Brig-Gen

Thein Aung attended the

opening of a new building

of a basic education pri-

mary school in Kyantaw,

Ingapu Township, on 17

September.

The minister and the

headmaster made

speeches. The 60-foot by

30-foot building was con-

structed at a cost of K 6.4

million under the supervi-

sion of USDA.

Minister inspects teak plantations

Minister Brig-Gen

Thein Aung made ar-

rangements to construct a

new building for a primary

school in Hlaygyi-aing in

the township. Wellwishers

donated K 1.5 million for

the building.

In the afternoon, the

minister visited teak plan-

tations in Myanaung

Township and a workshop

of Myanma Timber En-

terprise in Swa.

Yesterday, he in-

spected the production

process of No 96 saw mill

in Aunglan Township.

Noteworthy amount of rainfallrecorded on 19-9-2007

Nay Pyi Taw (0.20) inch,Ye (6.46) inches,Dawei (4.29) inches,Myeik (2.36) inches,Longlon (6.02) inches,Monywa (2.17) inches,Minkin (2.13) inches and

Magway (1.58) inches.

YANGON, 19 Sept — Members of Sagaing Township National League

for Democracy of Sagaing Division —U Set Maung, U Tin Thaung, U Thein,

U Kyi Maung and U Kaw of Byetayaw Village, U Hsaung Oo, U Win Ko, U

Kyaw Min, U Tun Tun Oo, U Win Naung, U Kyar Baw, U Thein Kyaw and U

Thant Zin of Mingun Village, Daw Nwe of Tagaung Ward, U Tin Myint and U

Mu of Nyaunggon Village and U Htay Thein of Hsinmye Village sent resigna-

tion letters to the NLD (Headquarters) and local authorities of their own accord

on 5 September.

In the resignation letter sent to Sagaing Division Multi-party Democ-

racy General Election Subcommission, they said that NLD (HQ) has no exact

political programme. Leaders of the party are disunited, concentrating on

seizing to the power. That is why they resigned from the NLD of their own

volition. — MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Aung visits teak plantations in Myanaung Township.— FORESTRY

Accompanied by of-

ficials, the minister in-

spected Kinmontaung for-

est reserve and teak plan-

tations. — MNA

NLD (HQ) has no specificpolitical programme

167 drug-related casesexposed in August

YANGON, 19 Sept — The

Tatmadaw members, Myanmar Police

Force and the Customs Department ex-

posed 167 drug-related cases in August.

They seized 107.4343 kilos of

opium in 43 cases, 0.5649 kilo of heroin

in 50 cases, 4.2 kilos of brown heroin,

1.3748 kilos of opium oil in 12 cases,

1.3346 kilos of low-grade opium in six

cases, 3.5417 kilos of marijuana in 11

cases, 114,218 stimulants tablets in 30

cases, 1.5874 kilos of opium speciosa in

six cases, 0.2515 kilo of stimulant pow-

der, 70.0075 kilos of ephedrine in one

case, 64.8 kilos of sudoephedrine in one

case, 432 liters of chemical liquid in one

case, four cases in failure to register and

two other cases.

Action was taking against 262

persons— 212 men and 50 women in

167 cases in August 2007.

MNA

17 members quitSagaing Township NLD

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