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

Volume XII, Number 113 7th Waning of Second Waso 1366 ME Saturday, 7 August, 2004

PM General Khin Nyuntto pay working visits toSRV, LPDR, CambodiaYANGON, 7 Aug — At the invitation of

Mr Phan Van Khai, Prime Minister of theSocialist Republic of Vietnam, MrBounnhang Vorachith, Prime Minister ofthe Lao People’s Democratic Republic andSamdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of theKingdom of Cambodia, Prime Minister ofthe Union of Myanmar General KhinNyunt will pay working visits to the So-cialist Republic of Vietnam, the Lao Peo-ple’s Democratic Republic and the Kingdomof Cambodia in the near future. — MNA

Government exerting efforts toensure equitable development of

States/Divisions and improvement ofliving standard of national people

Prime Minister inspects regional developmentprojects, meets departmental personnel

YANGON, 6 Aug—PrimeMinister General KhinNyunt, together with mem-ber of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Lt-Gen Ye Myint of the Minis-try of Defence, Chairman of

opment Council Com-mander of North-WestCommand Maj-Gen ThaAye, ministers, the chairmanof the Civil Service Selec-tion and Training Board, theChief of Staff (Navy),

left Pauk by helicopter andarrived at Pakokku on 4 Au-gust afternoon. They werewelcomed there by ActingCommander of No 101 LIDCol Thein Tan, senior mili-tary officers, local authori-

construction project. Rectorof the university U SoeMyint reported on academican administrative matters;Managing Director of EdenGroup Co Ltd U ChitKhaing on progress of work

Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt inspects completion of the main building at Pakokku Airport on 4-8-2004.— MNA

Precious gems mined from Phakant gemland. They will be kept at MyanmaGems Museum. (News on page 16) — MNA

ArticleA historical milestoneleading the nation to a

new age — 6(0)

INSIDEPerspectives

Equitable rural areadevelopment through

concerted efforts(Page 2)

Mandalay Division Peaceand Development CouncilCommander of CentralCommand Maj-Gen YeMyint, Chairman of SagaingDivision Peace and Devel-

deputy ministers, the chair-man of Magway DivisionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil, officials of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil and departments,

ties, service personnel,townselders and social or-ganizations.

The Prime Minister andparty proceeded to PakokkuUniversity main building

and needs. The Prime Min-ister attended to the require-ments and gave instructionson meeting the set standardand timely completion of theproject.

The Prime Minister helda meeting with the rector,deans and faculty membersand fulfilled the require-ments. He inspected workprogress.

The Prime Minister metlocal authorities, departmen-tal officials, local senior citi-zens and members of socialorganizations. Pakokku Dis-trict PDC Chairman Lt-ColHtay Oo reported on culti-vation of the ten major cropsand monsoon and summerpaddy and output in the re-gion, conditions of food suf-ficiency, growing of beansand pulses and edible oilcrops, education and healthsectors and requirements.The Prime Minister pre-sented a TV, VCD, compu-ter and accessories each to

Nos 1, 2, 3 and 4 BasicEducation High Schools.

The Prime Minister at-tended to the needs for re-gional development and edu-cation and health fields, say-ing that the tour was aimedat fulfilling the requirementsand rendering assistance forprogress of the regions onthe western bank ofAyeyawady River as well as

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Two gem stones of primequality handed over to State

Established 1914

In Magway Division, a total of 26dams have been constructed, nineunder construction and 11 to be built.And 46 water pumping stations havebeen built, one in the process and sixto be constructed.

With regard to the transport field,Pakokku Airport project will be com-pleted soon.

On completion of the project,jumbo jets can use the facility.

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Saturday, 7 August, 2004

PERSPECTIVES

Equitable rural area developmentthrough concerted efforts

In the past, Sagaing, Mandalay andMagway Divisions located in the arid zone ofMyanamr faced scarcity of water, forest deg-radation and difficulty in cultivation.

Nowadays, the 13-District GreeningProject is being implemented in accord withthe guidance of the Head of State, and thanksto the project, the regions become green. Es-tablishment of reserved forests and conserva-tion of protected public forests will help changethe climate in the region.

Greening tasks in the arid zone will surelycontribute towards agricultural development.

Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt, on5 August, met with township-level departmen-tal personnel, townselders and members of so-cial organizations at the hall of Yesagyo Town-ship Peace and Development Council inMagway Division.

On the occasion, the Prime Ministerheard reports presented by officials concerned.After fulfilling the requirements in education,health, agriculture, livestock breeding and ru-ral development tasks, he said that he has beenvisiting the township and providing assistanceto it time and again since the start of thePakhangyi-Pakhannge region developmentproject, that thanks to a number of waterpumping stations, regional agriculture is de-veloping significantly and that but agricultureshould be extended with the aim of ensuringfood sufficiency of the region.

For boosting per acre yield and ensuringfood sufficiency in the region, Myanma Agri-culture Service is to develop a high-yield paddystrain that suits to the dry region and to leadfarmers for agricultural progress. Edible oilcrops and beans and pulses grow well in theregion which is designated as an oil bowl of thenation, and thus efforts are to be made to cul-tivate the crops with might and main. The Min-istry of Livestock and Fisheries is also to pro-vide assistance including setting up of modelfarms for the region to conduct livestock breed-ing business that suits to its climate and geo-graphical conditions.

As urban areas are gaining progress withgreater momentum, rural development tasksare to be carried out with integrated efforts ofvolunteer organizations and departments un-der the leadership of the Government.

To achieve progress in the whole town-ship, township level officials are urged to tourright down to the grassroots levels and provideassistance for the development of villages lyingin the far corners of the region.

World Breastfeeding Week(1st to 7th August 2004)

Exclusive Breastfeeding: the Gold Standard

Safe, Sound, Sustainable

Ministry of Health

Knot the Closest Tiethrough Breast-Feeding

* All expectant and new mothers Be proud to breast-feed your babies and toddlers Because it's believed to the way-best To ensure their life-long health.* Some scientists said breast-fed kids Get more insulin from their mothers' milk With a lesser chance to get "diabetes" Or any other related disease.* A new born baby is an addition to the family For mothers to bring it up properly Childhood molding is utterly necessary Through a lasting relationship Gained from breast-feeding.* Holding the baby in both arms Cuddled and being fed in her bosom With its secured and warm feelings running high A mother creates the closest tie with her beloved child.* For the babies growing on breast-feeding Those precious moments have a special meaning Forever to cherish and treasure Full of tender love, fondling and pleasures.* A period of nine months, a little less or more Many favourite things a pregnant mother has to forgo For the tiny one inside, Looking after herself with great care Daily praying for the arrival Of a baby proper and well.* To the pregnancy-care and sacrifice willingly made Add a new extension she can take; To breast-feed and get the advantage Of a mother-child relationship so great.

Aye Aye

POEM:

Beach football matches held YANGON, 6 Aug — The beach football tournament forsix delta regions of Toe River for the Dedaye TownshipPeace and Development Council Chairman's trophy washeld at Toe village on 1 August. Local authorities, per-sonnel of social organizations and students were presenton the occasion. Hsu Club team and Tamar Takaw teamplayed 2-2 draw. The local populace were interested inthe beach football tournament which never took placethere. — MNA

K 10m donated to relief offlood victims in Kachin State

YANGON, 6 Aug — U Kyan Paw (Mingalar SawandiCo Ltd) of 44, Bayintnaung Road, Thingangyun Town-ship, donated K 10 million for relief of flood victims inKachin State to Minister for Social Welfare, Relief andResettlement Maj-Gen Sein Htwa at the Ministry of SWRRin Mayangon Township this morning.

Also present on the occasion were Deputy Minis-ter Brig-Gen Kyaw Myint, Officer on Special Duty Brig-Gen Thura Sein Thaung, departmental heads and offi-cials. Wellwisher U Kyan Paw explained the purpose ofthe donations and presented donations to the Minister.Next, the Minister gave a certificate of honour to thewellwisher. — MNA

Kayah State gets TVretransmission stationYANGON, 6 Aug — Under the arrangement of TV

transmission programme, construction of the TVretransmission station was completed in Ywathit, KayahState, on 3-8-2004. After holding the opening ceremonyon Wednesday morning, the TV retransmission stationcommenced its functions on broadcasting of TV Myanmarprogrammes through wave 7 and 10 watt. — MNA

Deputy Foreign Minister signsBook of Condolences for late

Philippine Senate President and FMYANGON, 6 Aug — Deputy Minister for Foreign

Affairs U Khin Maung Win signed the Book of Condo-lences at the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippinesin Bahan Township at 2.30 pm today, in memory of thelate Mr Arturo M Tolentino, Former President of thePhilippine Senate and Minister of Foreign Affairs of theRepublic of the Philippines. — MNA

Cash donated to primary school YANGON, 6 Aug — Wellwisher U Kyaw Naing ofDihline Foodstuff Industry of Hlinethaya Township heredonated K 100,000 for providing stipends and cash assist-ance to students of Thekkegyaung village basic educationprimary School in Dedaye Township on 30 July.

Townbship Peace and Development CouncilChairman U Htain Lin accepted the cash donation.

MNA

Wellwisher U Kyan Paw of Mingalar Sawandi Cohands over cash donation of K 10 million to

Minister Maj-Gen Sein Htwa. — MNA

Deputy Minister U Khin Maung Win signs thebook of condolences. — MNA

Rice Year poster contest to be held YANGON, 6 Aug — The Internaional Rice Year Observ-ance Work Committee will organize the Rice Year postercontest with the theme “Rice is Life”. The contest is di-vided into five categories namely the age 6-9 group, theage 9-12 group, the age 13-16 group, the age 16-20 groupand the age 20 and above group. The first to fourth groupsare to draw the poster at a designated place within 4 hoursand the fifth group can draw at home and submit theirworks not later than 24 August. Entry forms can be ob-tained at Myanmar Traditional Artists & Artesans Asso-ciation (Central) at eastern wing of Bogyoke Market, here.

The poster size for the first to fourth groups mustbe 15 inches by 20 inches and that of the fifth group is 20inches by 30 inches. handsome prizes will be given.

MNA

The opening ceremony of the beach footballtournament for six delta regions of Toe River for

the Dedaye Township Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Chairman's trophy in progress. — MNA

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

People’s Desire

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US chopper shot down in IraqNAJAF (Iraq), 5 Aug—Eight people were killed and a US helicopter was shot

down as US troops battled Shiite Muslim militiamen in Iraq, while a suicidebombing and shoot-out outside a police station left another nine people dead.

US helicopters circled above Najaf cemetery, while heavy gunfire and mortar roundsboomed across the Shiite holy city.

The clashes continued into the late afternoon after a brief lull following the downingof a helicopter attached to the 11th Marine Expeditionary unit.

“A UH-1 marine helicopter was shot down at about 11.45 am (0745 GMT),” amilitary spokesman said. The two crew members were recovered alive, although theextent of their injuries was not immediately known, he added.—Internet

Majority of Poles oppose Iraqpolicy, says poll

WARSAW (Poland), 5 Aug— A new opinion poll out Thursday puts public opposi-tion to Poland’s military presence in Iraq at 73 percent.

The poll, conducted by the Public Opin-ion Research Centre among a representa-tive sample of 920 adults in the second weekof July, suggested 67 percent of Polesfavored an immediate withdrawal of thecountry’s 2,400 troops.

Opposition to the war in Iraq has hard-ened since the last such poll in June whenopposition to the war was 7 percentagepoints lower.

The Polish government has been one of

Washington’s staunchest allies in the mili-tary campaign in Iraq.

Public opinion, however, has consist-ently been at variance with governmentpolicy. Most opinion polls have shown pub-lic opposition to the war at between 60percent and 80 percent since the invasion ofIraq last year.

The government says it will not with-draw its forces until the job is done.

Internet

921 US troops killed since beginning ofmilitary operations in Iraq last yearBAGHDAD , 5 Aug—As of Thursday, 5 August, 921 US service members have died

since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to theDefence Department. Of those, 684 died as a result of hostile action and 237 died ofnon-hostile causes.

The British military has reported 61deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Poland,seven; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four;Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; and Den-mark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary,Latvia and the Netherlands have reportedone death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when PresidentBush declared that major combat opera-tions in Iraq had ended, 783 US soldiers

have died — 575 as a result of hostile actionand 208 of non-hostile causes, according tothe Defence Department on Thursday.

The latest deaths reported by US Cen-tral Command:

_ A 13th Corps Support Command sol-dier was killed and five were wounded inBalad when their convoy was attackedThursday with a rocket-propelled grenadeand small arms fire near Najaf. —Internet

Turkish truck driver killed inattack in Iraq

BAGHDAD , 5 Aug—Gunmen in Iraq have stopped a convoy of trucks and killed aTurkish truck driver who was unable to recite prayers, a report said today.

Gunmen stopped the convoy in northernIraq, about 70 kilometres from the borderwith Turkey on Monday and killed truckerOsman Alisan, CNN-Turk television said.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry could notconfirm the report, but the Anatolia newsagency said Mr Alisan’s employers hadnotified the trucker’s family of his death andwere making arrangements to bring his bodyback to Turkey.

The father-of-three, who had taken thejob to pay debts, was returning to Turkeyafter delivering fuel to US forces in Iraq, thereport said.

Since then, Turkey’s truckers associa-tion has said it was halting deliveries to USforces in Iraq in hopes of freeing Turkskidnapped in Iraq after the release of a videothat showed militants shooting and killingTurkish contractor Murat Yuce.

Yesterday, the Jordanian militant Abu

Musab al-Zarqawi’s Tawhid and Jihad groupresponsible for Mr Yuce’s execution-styleslaying said in a statement that it has decidedto release two kidnapped Turkish truck driv-ers, Abdurrahman Demir and Sait Unurlu.

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul later con-firmed that the two had been freed.

But a Foreign Ministry official, speakingon condition of anonymity, said at least twoother Turks are still missing in Iraq - believedto have been kidnapped.

They include translator Aytullah Gezmenwho is believed to have been kidnapped alongwith Mr Yuce, and truck driver Tevfik Alkanwho has been missing for almost a month.CNN-Turk said another Turkish truck driver,Selahattin Turan, had been missing for abouta week and was also believed to have beenkidnapped. The Foreign Ministry official couldnot confirm that report.

Internet

Wen made the remarks inhis meeting with Ted Stevens,President pro tempore of theUnited States Senate. Wensaid that three conclusionscould be drawn from the his-tory of the Sino-US relations:

First, harmonious co-ex-istence between China andthe United States brings ben-efits to both, while confron-tation harms both.

Second, China and theUnited State share commoninterests and must

cooperate.Third, the mainte-nance of the sound Sino-USrelations is conducive to thepeace, stability and develop-ment of the entire world.

The healthy and stablegrowth of Sino-US relationsconforms to the fundamentalinterests of the two countriesand their people, Wen said.

Wen said that so long asboth sides handle bilateralrelations with a strategic andlong-term view, respect eachother, seek common ground,

leave differences aside andmaintain dialogue and ex-changes, the two countriescan co-exist peacefully andcooperate in a wide range ofareas.

Wen briefed the guestson China’s economic situa-tion. The development ofChina is a major contributionto global peace and prosper-ity and also creates condi-tions for the expansion ofSino- US economic relations,he said. — MNA/Xinhua

Every country and people has rightto make own decision

CAIRO , 5 Aug— Former UN Secretary-General Butros Butros-Ghali on Wednes-day called for establishing a multi-polar world system for the sake of peace andstability.

“China, together withIndia and the EuropeanUnion, should play biggerroles in international affairs,Ghali told Xinhua in anexclusive interview in Cairo.

“Under the circum-stances of globalization, anyattempt to impose the men-tality of a mono-polar worldsystem will do harm to thewhole world. On the con-trary, the international rela-tions could be able to movetoward the right direction,”said Ghali, who served assecretary-general of the

United Nations from 1992 to1996. “Every single countryand people has the right tomake its own decision,” saidGhali. As for the US-pro-posed Greater Middle EastInitiative, Ghali said thathe has been opposed to it.

“This plan, involvingAfghanistan, Iran and Tur-key, will weaken the solida-rity of the Arab world, andmarginalize the Palestinianissue. It will also deal a heavyblow to all the efforts topromote cooperation be-tween the Arab world and

the European Union, “ hesaid.

The United States un-veiled a reform plan in Feb-ruary to promote democracyin an area stretching fromMorocco in the west toAfghanistan and Pakistan inthe east. But the initiativewas widely criticized inthe Arab world as a foreignintrusion.

“Any reform should becarried out from inside, notfrom outside, “ Ghalistressed.

MNA/Xinhua

An Iraqi police officer stands guard near wreckage of police vehicles destroyed in a carbomb attack which targeted a police station in the town of Mahawil, south of Baghdad,on 5 Aug, 2004. Guerillas detonated a car bomb and sprayed gunfire at a police stationin a town south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding 24 in

the latest attack on Iraq’s fledgling security forces. — INTERNET

An American tank stands by as the crew allow time for an ambulance to pick up a Mahdiarmy injured man and another casualty from the fighting between Al-Sadr’s men and US troops in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Sadr City, Iraq, on 5 Aug, 2004.

INTERNET

Wen Jiabao says sound Sino-USties conducive to world peace

BEIJING , 5 Aug — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said here Wednesday that thesound growth of Sino-US ties is conducive to world peace, stability and development.

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NAJAF , 5 Aug—At least 17 people were killed and a US helicopter was shot down in the fiercest fighting betweenmultinational troops and Shiite Muslim militiamen in Iraq since a truce was brokered in June.

Multinational troops, Shiite militiabattle in southern Iraq

Clashes persisted through-out the day, and officials re-ported more than 100 peoplewounded in the Shiite southand the Baghdad slum strong-hold of radical militia leaderMoqtada Sadr.

By late night, US jetswere still intermittently shell-ing militia positions in thecemetery in Najaf, butground fighting had ceasedin the Shiite holy city, saidan AFP correspondent. Ear-lier, planes were heard roar-ing over the capital.

A helicopter attached tothe 11th Marine Expedition-ary unit was forced down inthe Najaf region in the morn-ing, a US military spokes-

man in Baghdad said, add-ing that the crew was recov-ered alive.

The incident took placejust hours after the fightingfirst started overnight be-tween Iraqi police and Sadr’sMehdi Army militia.

Near Najaf, a US soldierwas killed and five werewounded when their convoywas attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and gun-fire. The soldiers had beenredeployed to the area fromnorth of Baghdad, the mili-tary said.

The death brought tomore than 680 the number ofUS troops killed in action inIraq since the 2003 US-led

invasion, based on Pentagonstatistics.

Najaf’s general hospital,attacked by rockets in themorning — killing a doctorand seriously wounding fourother staff members — saidnine people died in the fight-ing and another 34 were ad-mitted with injuries.

In Baghdad’s Sadr City,five people were killed and58 wounded in fighting be-tween US forces and theMehdi Army, the health min-istry said.

On Saturday, US-ledmultinational forces arrestedSheikh Mithal al-Hasnawi,Sadr’s representative inKarbala, another Shiite holy

city south of Baghdad.It was the US arrest of

one of Sadr’s key deputiesthat helped to trigger the fire-brand cleric’s first standoffwith the coalition in thespring.

Further north, in Mahawil,at least nine people were killedand more than 20 woundedwhen gunmen opened fire anda suicide bomber blew up aminibus outside an Iraqi po-lice station, police and an inte-rior ministry spokesman said.

The attack came just overa week after 70 people werekilled in a massive suicide blastoutside a police station inBaquba, north of Baghdad.

Internet

TORONTO, 6 Aug—Former US President Bill Clintonsaid the Bush administration had damaged the US anti-terror campaign by toppling Saddam Hussein in Iraq —which he branded Washington’s “number five” securitythreat.

Clinton, in Canada to promote his memoirs, said in atelevision interview that the Iraq war had drained vitalresources from the US battle against al-Qaeda.

He rapped his successors in the White House for notpouring enough men and funds into the battle to catchOsama bin Laden , and al-Qaeda and Taliban holdouts alongthe Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

“Why did we put our number one security threat in thehands of the Pakistanis with us playing the supporting roleand put all our military resources into Iraq which was I thinkat best our number five security threat?” Clinton said in aninterview with CBC television.

“How did we get to the point where we have 130,000troops in Iraq and 15,000 in Afghanistan?” — Internet

Clinton raps Bush over Iraq:‘number five’ security threat

K UALA LUMPUR, 5 Aug — Malaysia will not sendtroops to Iraq for now, Prime Minister Abdullah AhmadBadawi said on Wednesday.

“It is better for us to wait for a while and to see how thesituation is,” he told a news conference.

“At the moment, we are not sending and we are consid-ering the proposal put forward by the Saudi Foreign Minis-ter,” said Abdullah, who also heads the 57-nation Organiza-tion of the Islamic Conference.

Saudi Arabia proposed last month that Arab and Islamictroops replace US and allied forces trying to restore peace inwar-torn Iraq.

The Arab League has said Arab troops should not go toIraq while the country remains under de facto foreignoccupation and without a clear UN mandate.

Violence has left thousands dead since invading forcestoppled President Saddam Hussein last year. Guerillas regu-larly attack foreign forces, Iraqi police and the oil industry.

MNA/Reuters

S Korean Govturges people

not to travel toIraq

SINGAPORE, 5 Aug— Singapore, an important hub port in Asia, is testing a newelectronic system to identify, monitor and track smaller vessels to keep port safe fromterrorist attacks.

This was revealed by Sin-gapore’s Transport MinisterYeo Cheow Tong while ad-dressing an internationalmaritime and port securityconference here on Wednes-

day.Yeo said that Singa-

pore’s Maritime and PortAuthority (MPA) is now test-ing a low-cost system foridentifying smaller vessels

not covered by the Interna-tional Ship and Port FacilitySecurity (ISPS) code, whichhas been put into practicesince July 1, this year.

MNA/Xinhua

Singapore tests vessel-identifying system formaritime security

One of al-Sadr’s men fights with US troops in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Sadr City,Iraq, on 5 Aug, 2004. — INTERNET

BASRA, 5 Aug—Militiamen loyal to Shiite Muslim radical leader Moqtada Sadrdeclared holy war against British forces based in Iraq’s main southern city of Basraafter four of their comrades were arrested.

Three Mehdi Army militiaman werelater killed during a 15-minute gunfightwith British troops on Al-Gama bridge innorthern Basra, said Sheikh Saad al-Basri,Sadr’s representative in the overwhelm-ingly Shiite city.

The area is a bastion of Sadr support inthe city.

Three other militiamen were woundedin the exchange and two British land roversdamaged, Basri said.

“We will wage jihad (holy war) and waragainst the foreign troops, not against po-lice and Iraqi forces,” he vowed earlier.

“However, if they (the Iraqi personnel)fight on the side of the occupiers, we willstrike them harshly.”

Basri accused British forces of arrestingfour Sadr supporters in order to “create inBasra, the state of crisis that exists in Najaf”.

A British military spokesman in Basracould not confirm the Mehdi casualties butsaid troops had been attacked on three sepa-rate occasions with small arms fire, causingno multinational casualties or damage toequipment.

The army did confirm four militia mem-

bers had been arrested Wednesday as part ofa “routine security check and are being heldto assist with inquiries”.

An AFP photographer saw British troopsdeployed in armoured vehicles and tanksaround Sadr’s main offices and elsewhere inthe city.

Police chief General Mohammed Kazemal-Ali said officials at Sadr’s office hadrejected his attempts to defuse the tensionthrough negotiations. In Amara, north ofBasra, a number of mortar rounds were firedat a British position in the city, but therewere no casualties, a British spokeswomansaid.

Basra deputy governor Salam Audeh,who represents Sadr on a provincial council,accused foreign troops of reneging on a Junetruce that ended Sadr’s uprising earlier thisyear.

The British military also confirmed thattwo projectiles were fired at a multinationalbase camp in Sibah, south of Basra on theKuwaiti border. One hit the camp and theother fell short.

Neither caused any casualties, it said.Internet

Shiite militia declares waron British troops in Iraq

Al-Sadr’s men fight with US troops in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Sadr City, Iraq,on 5 Aug, 2004. — INTERNET

SEOUL, 5 Aug— TheSouth Korean Governmenton Wednesday urged its citi-zens again not to travel toIraq or other regions deemeddangerous as Seoul planneddispatch of additional troopsto northern Iraq.

In an unusual joint Pressconference that gave a sense ofurgency, Foreign Minister BanKi-moon and Defence Minis-ter Yoon Kwang-ung warnedthat “a second and a third trag-edy” can happen, referring tothe death of a South Koreanhostage in June.

MNA/Xinhua

Malaysia says notsending troops to Iraq

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Britain, US face new allegationsof prisoner abuses

LONDON, 5 Aug— Britain and the United States are facing fresh allegations ofprisoner abuses at Guantanamo Bay after three former British detainees claimed thatthey were repeatedly abused during their detention at the US naval base in Cuba, theGuardian newspaper reported Wednesday.

Details of the experiences of RhuhelAhmed, Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal weredisclosed by the paper on Wednesday andwould be formally released in the UnitedStates later in the day.

The allegations have been contained ina new dossier detailing repeated beatingsand humiliation suffered by the three de-tainees who were captured in Afghanistan,then held at Guantanamo Bay for two years,before being released in March withoutcharge. Ahmed claimed in the 115-pagedossier that shortly after his capture in No-vember 2001, a British SAS special forcessoldier interrogated him for three hourswhile an American colleague pointed a gunat him and threatened to shoot him.

The three men also alleged that theywere repeatedly beaten, shackled in painfulpositions during interrogations and sub-jected to sleep deprivation.

In an echo of the abuse scandal at AbuGhraib Jail in Baghdad which shamed the

US Government, the three Britons said theywere photographed naked and subjected toanal searches unnecessarily, after beingshackled for hours.

The three also alleged complicity by Brit-ain in their treatment, challenging the claimby the British Foreign Office that none of theBritish detainees alleged mistreatment toBritish officials who visited them atGuantanamo, or following their release.

Iqbal said a British Embassy officialtook down a two-page list of alleged abuses,while the two others say they made theircomplaints orally. Nine Britons were im-prisoned in Guantanamo without charge oraccess to a lawyer. Ahmed, Rasul and Iqbalwere among five released detainees in March,who were questioned on arrival in Britainbefore being released.

The British Government is still in discus-sions with Washington over the detention offour other Britons at the US base.

MNA/Xinhua

Iraq urges migrants abroadto wait to return

BAGHDAD , 5 Aug— Tens of thousands of Iraqis living abroad are keen to returnhome but are being urged to stay where they are for up to two years, until the securitysituation improves and they can be properly received.

Iraq’s Minister of Displacement andMigration, who recently returned from atour of European countries, the United Statesand Canada — where most Iraqi migrantslive — said she had asked foreign govern-ments to help in urging Iraqis to wait.

“We asked the countries to cooperatewith us and not force the Iraqis to leavebecause right now we don’t have the capa-bility to receive those immigrants,” the min-ister, Pascale Warda, told a news conferenceon Wednesday.

“Many, many would like to come backvery soon, but because of our situation,because of the lack of security, we are call-ing on them ... to wait a little bit, maybe somemonths, maybe one year, hopefully not morethan two years,” she said.

An estimated four million Iraqis liveabroad, the bulk of them in Europe andNorth America, although there are also size-able populations in Iran, Jordan, Syria andTurkey.

Since Saddam Hussein’s fall, with the

country racked by crime and insecurity andas guerillas keep up a near 16-month insur-gency against US and Iraqi forces, therehave been anecdotal reports of thousands ofIraqis fleeing the country.

In particular, doctors, scientists and otherprofessionals are reported to have left afterbeing targeted by criminals in robberies orkidnappings, provoking a brain drain.

The minister said many of those reportswere overblown and said that while manyIraqis were applying for passports, it wasoften just to visit relatives abroad, not toemigrate wholesale.

“Not that many people have left, not thatbig a number,” she said. “Because of thesecurity situation some are trying to do that...but it’s really not that big a number.”

Instead, the bigger problem was plan-ning for the return of those living abroad, anissue that affects the labour, finance, educa-tion and human rights ministries as well asimmigration.

MNA/Reuters

Iraq to conduct general censusBAGHDAD , 5 Aug — The Iraqi Ministry of Planning and Developing Cooperation

has allocated 60 million US dollars to achieve the general census in the country, whichwould be conducted within two months, local newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reportedTuesday.

Three Iranian banks allowed toopen branches in Iraq

TEHERAN, 5 Aug — Iraq’s Central Bank has authorized three Iranian banks toopen branches in the war-ravaged country, the English-language Iran Daily reportedTuesday.

A source in the ministry was quoted assaying that for the purpose, a higher com-mittee would be formed which represents anumber of ministries, the municipality ofBaghdad and the consultative council.

It will also include a member represent-ing the region of Kurdistan, with an opera-tion room headed by the Central Departmentof Census, the source added.

The source said that the committee of

preparing and updating the maps relating tothe administrative units have finished thework assigned to it.

An experimental census would be car-ried out in a number of regions to point outthe problems and obstacles that could facethe general census to be able to treat them.

The census would include all the Iraqigovernorates, in addition to the Iraqisliving abroad. — MNA/Xinhua

The daily, citing visitingIraqi Deputy Foreign Minis-ter Hamed Al-Bayati, saidthat the Iranian banks wouldbe allowed to operate in Iraqafter depositing a certain sumwith the provisional govern-ment.

Meanwhile, Al-Bayatiexpressed his hope thatmore Iranian banks wouldbe authorized to openbranches in his country, thedaily said.

Teheran was one of thefirst governments to an-

nounce its readiness to par-ticipate in Iraq’s reconstruc-tion, Al-Bayati told thedaily, adding that many Ira-nian companies are now ac-tively doing reconstructionwork in his country.

MNA/Xinhua

Zarqawi group releases twoTurkish hostages

DUBAI , 5 Aug— A militant group linked to al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawihas released two Turkish drivers it was holding hostage in Iraq because theircompanies agreed to stop working there, Al Jazeera television said on Wednesday.

“Due to the Turkish firm’s decision tostop sending supplies to US forces in Iraq,the Tawhid and Jihad Group has decided tofree the two Turkish hostages,” said avideotaped statement from the group broad-cast on the Arabic-language channel.

On Sunday, the haulage firmsKahramanli and Oztur, which employ hos-tages Abdulrahman Demir and Said Unurlu,said they were prepared to suspend opera-tions in Iraq to secure their release.

Tawhid and Jihad had threatened to be-head the two men if its demands were notmet. Militants in Iraq have waged a cam-paign of kidnappings aimed at driving outcompanies and troops supporting US forcesand the new Iraqi interim administration.

Scores of hostages have been kidnappedby armed groups in Iraq. Some have beenfreed but nine, including at least one Turk,have been killed by Tawhid and Jihad andother groups. — MNA/Reuters

Chinese hybrid rice takes root in EcuadorCHANGSHA , 5 Aug—Chinese hybrid rice has taken root half a world away in

Ecuador, where the high-yield, top quality rice has been well received by local farmersand grain processors.

“It has won the hearts ofmany farmers and triggereda fever for Chinese hybridrice among leading

Ecuadorean food proces-sors,” said Xu Jingbo, a hy-brid rice expert sent to Ecua-dor by Yahua Seeds Holding

Co based in the central ChinaProvince of Hunan.

Xu, also an official withthe provincial agriculturaldepartment, headed an eight-member expert panel tothe equatorial country threeyears ago to carry out fieldtests under a Sino-Ecua-dorean cooperation pro-gramme designed to promotehybrid rice growing there.The Yahua company andits Ecuadorean partnerReybanpac have beenchosen to implement theprogramme.

The trial has been so suc-cessful that Xu estimates to-tal acreage of the hybrid ricein Ecuador will top 660 hec-tares this year.

“We have developedEcuador’s first hybrid ricebrand, the Mirey, based onthree high-yield, top qualityrice strains from China,” saidXu. “It has been applaudedby local consumers”.

Meanwhile, Ecuador hasordered 40 tons of hybridrice seeds from China overthe past three years.

MNA/Xinhua

British troops secure the main avenue leading to Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr’s officein Basra, southern Iraq, on 5 Aug, 2004.

INTERNET

Gunmen allied to radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtadaal-Sadr deploy during skirmishes with British troops in the southern Iraq city of Basra on 5 Aug, 2004. — INTERNET


An Iraqi man gestures toward battle damage in the city of Najaf in Iraq,on 3 August, 2004.

Iraqis look at a damaged car in the city of Najaf, Iraq, on 3 Aug, 2004.

Car bombing in Mosul, Iraq, killed at least two people and injured about60 on 1 August, 2004.

Iraqis push parked vehicle away from the site of two car bombs thatexploded in Baghdad on 1 August, 2004.

US Army soldiers and Iraqis gather at the scene of car bombing inMosul, Iraq, on 1 August, 2004.

Iraqis crowd the area after an explosion in the parking lot in theBaghdad suburb of Al Doura on 1 August, 2004.

Images of Iraq

Pool of blood seen at a checkpoint on the northern road heading to thecity of Baquba, northeast Baghdad, where a suicide car bomb exploded

on 3 August, 2004.

An Iraqi man looks at a damaged bus in the city of Najaf in southernIraq, on 3 August, 2004.


Infrastructures built for human resource development

New school building of Tachilek Basic Education Middle School in Shan State (East). — (KYEMON)

Sabaibyu building of Thayettan Basic Education Post Primary School inMadaya Township, Mandalay Division. — MNA

New school building of Basic Education Primary School No.7 in Ward 168, Dagon Myothit Seikkan Township, Yangon Division.—MNA

The three-storey school building of No.2 Basic Education High School in Wakema, Ayeyawady Division. — MNA

Thanks to the combined efforts of the government and the people,Mongkai in Shan State gets new school building for its Basic Education

High School. — MNA


(from page 1)meeting departmental officials. On his way, he dropped intoYesagyo and Pauk townships in the morning to supportregional development tasks especially to attend to the needsfor raising the education and health sectors in the rural areas.

Head of State Senior General Than Shwe designatedPakokku as the capital of the region on the western bankof Ayeyawady River and gave guidance on upgradingPakokku to a city possessing characteristics of a city.Accordingly, high-ranking officials have to make inspectiontours of Pakokku and its environs occasionally with regardto the development undertakings.

As a result, Pakokku District has been facilitatedwith 50-bed, 25-bed and 16-bed hospitals and stationhospitals including the 200-bed hospital numbering 15. Withrespect to the education sphere, a splendid university is inthe process of being built in Pakokku and so are PakokkuGovernment Computer College and Pakokku GovernmentTechnological College. Pakokku is a region in which cottonthrives, so the government is implementing Pakokku TextilePlant Project and it will be opened soon. Regarding theagricultural sector, it has built dams and water pumping

Government exerting effortsto ensure equitable …

stations, and more irrigation facility projects are beingimplemented in the region. In Magway Division, a total of26 dams have been constructed, nine under constructionand 11 to be built. And 46 water pumping stations havebeen built, one in the process and six to be constructed.With regard to the transport field, Pakokku Airport Projectwill be completed soon, and on completion jumbo jets canuse the facility. In its drive to ensure parallel progress ofMagway Division and Chin State, the government has beentaking measures for better transport of these two regions.With a view to upgrading the roads linking Pakokku andChin State to all-weather facilities, the government isimplementing Pakokku-Mindat-Matupi-Yayzwa-Haka road.Kyaukhtu Airport has been put into commission recentlyso as to expand the scope of the air transport of Chin State.The government’s systematic measures and vigorous effortsmean ensuring equitable development of States andDivisions of the Union and proportionate improvement ofthe living standard of national races living in these regions.Especially, it has placed great emphasis on building of roads,bridges, airports, universities, colleges, school buildings,hospitals, health care centres, dams, reservoirs and waterpumping stations in all parts of the nation with a view toensuring better transport, boosting contacts and relationsbetween the regions in States and Divisions, uplifting theeducational and health standards of the nation andstrengthening the national economy. With the concept thatonly when all the national races living in States and

Divisions enjoy equitable development, will there flourishUnion Spirit and the spirit of national solidarity amongthem, the government has been paying attention to regionaldevelopment projects. The entire people are therefore to beconvinced of this concept and to perform their duties withzest and zeal for ensuring perpetual existence of the Unionand strong economy of the nation, while living unitedly inaccordance with the national policies of the government.

Departmental officials at all levels on their part arealso to be well convinced of the concept and to makecombined endeavours and coordinate for ensuring bettermentof respective regions, raising the living standard of localpeople, and accomplishment of the policies and plansadopted by the State, while enlisting the participation andstrength of respective social organizations and localresidents. After the meeting, the Prime Minister cordiallygreeted those present.

On arrival at Pakokku Government TechnologicalCollege, the General and party were welcomed by theprincipal, faculty members and students. Chairman of theMyanmar Education Committee Prime Minister GeneralKhin Nyunt heard a report by Minister for Science andTechnology U Thaung on extension of the building andchoosing the site for the construction project. The PrimeMinister fulfilled the needs.

The Prime Minister and party headed for Pakokkurunway project, where they were welcomed by Director-General of the Civil Aviation Department U Win Maung

and officials. The Prime Minister inspected progress inconstructing the main building of Pakokku Airport and therunway and left necessary instructions.

Next, they went to Pakokku Textile Plant Project ofMyanma Textile Industries under the Ministry of Industry-1. They looked into work progress and installation ofweaving machines. The minister and officials conductedthe Prime Minister round the project site. On the morningof 4 August at Bagan Guest House, the Prime Ministeraccepted two ancient Buddha images donated by wellwishers(U Aung Than Myint)-Daw Thein Thein and family of No78/79, Ponnyet Street, Min Hti Yin Ward, Bagan. The twobronze images were cast in the early Bagan Period (11 AD)and Konbaung Period. The ancient cultural artefacts are ofgreat historical value, and in order not to smuggled out ofthe country the wellwishers made a decision to donate themto the State. — MNA

Bagan period style ancient bronze Buddha image castin Konbaung period.— MNA

Ancient Pañçaloha Buddha image cast in the 11th ADof early Bagan period.—MNA

PM General Khin Nyunt reveres the two ancient Buddha images donated bywellwishers (U Aung Than Myint)-Daw Thein Thein and family.— MNA

Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt accepts two ancient Buddha imagesdonated by wellwisher Daw Thein Thein.—˚MNA

Construction of the main building at Pakokku Airport in progress.— MNA Construction of Pakokku Textile Factory nearing completion.— MNA

Head of State Senior GeneralThan Shwe designated Pakokku as thecapital of the region on the westernbank of Ayeyawady River and gaveguidance on upgrading Pakokku to acity possessing characteristics of a city.


YANGON, 6 Aug —Member of the State Peaceand Development CouncilLt-Gen Khin Maung Thanof the Ministry of Defence,accompanied by Chairmanof Ayeyawady DivisionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofSouth-West Command Maj-Gen Soe Naing and party,attended the openingceremony of extended two-storey building at BasicEducation High School No2 in Pyapon Townshipyesterday morning.

The commanderformally opened the two-storey building. Lt-GenKhin Maung Than unveiledthe stone plaque. Head-mistress Daw Yin YinThein handed over docu-ments related to the buildingto Director (Academic)U Tun Kyi of No 1Department of BasicEducation.

Lt-Gen Khin MaungThan presented a computerfor the multimedia class-rooms and K 300,000 to thefunds of the school throughthe headmistress. Next, thecommander presented a TVand school stationery to theheadmistress. Afterwards,the commander presentedK 100,000 to KyaiklatTownship Band.

Speaking on theoccasion, Lt-Gen KhinMaung Than said that the

government laid downhuman resource develop-ment plans to build apeaceful, modern anddeveloped nation. Arrange-ments are being made foruplift of rural healthstandard which is one of thefive rural develop-menttasks. In addition, thegovernment carries outtasks to open and upgradebasic education schools incooperation with well-wishers and appoint moreteachers at the schools.Universities and hospitalshave been opened in24 development regions.In Ayeyawady Division,students in Pathein, Hin-thada and Maubin getopportunities to pursuehigher education atuniversities in their

respective regions.It is necessary to

maintain the school buildingopened today for itsdurability. Teachers are tonurture their pupils tobecome intellectuals andintelligentsia on whom theState can rely. And, thestudents also are to try theirbest in studying theirlessons.

The new schoolbuilding, 110 feet long and30 feet wide, was built acost of K 22 million. Next,Lt-Gen Khin Maung Thanattended the ceremony tooffer Waso robes and ‘soon’to 53 monasteries of Bogaleand its surrounding areas atthe Township DhammayonSasana Beikman. First, thecongregation received theFive Precepts from Bogale

Township Sangha NayakaCommittee ZeyamedaniMonastery Sayadaw AggaMaha Saddhamma Jotika-dhaja Bhaddanta Ñana-vamsa. Lt-Gen Khin MaungThan, the commander andofficials presented Wasorobes to the Sayadaws.Member of the State CentralWorking Committee of theSangha MyaseinyaungMonastery Sayadaw Bhad-danta Samvara delivered asermon.

At the meeting hallof Bogale Township Peaceand Development Council,

Lt-Gen Khin MaungThan met departmentalofficials, social organiz-ation members and localpeople.

Lt-Gen Khin MaungThan said that peace andstability and prevalence oflaw and order, strengtheningof economy anddevelopment of humanresource play an importantrole in building a peaceful,modern and developednation. At present, peaceand stability can be restored,and the governmentis making arrangements

for strengthening economyand development of humanresource.

In addition todevelopment of urban areas,five rural development tasksare being carried out foruplift of living standard ofrural people. The people arealso to participate inperforming the tasks laiddown by the State. In theagricultural sector, suitablecrops for the regionincluding summer andmonsoon paddy out of 10main corps are to be put onextended areas. And,fisheries and poultryfarming are to be extended.Departmental personnel andlocal authorities shouldserve interest of the people.

Afterwards, Lt-GenKhin Maung Than pre-sented K 200,000 fordevelop-ment of BogaleTownship and the com-mander, school stationery toofficials.

They inspectedthriving monsoon paddy inBogale, Pyapon, Kyaiklat,Maubin and Nyaungdontownships by boat andarrived back here in theevening. — MNA

Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than tours Pyapon TownshipPyapon Basic Education High School No 2 gets new school building

Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than presented a computer formultimedia classrooms and K 300,000 to school fund tothe headmistress. The new two-storey school building, 110feet long and 30 feet wide, was built a cost of K 22 million.

The opening ceremony of the new school building of Pyapon Township Basic Education High School No 2 in progress. — MNA

Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than formally unveils the stone inscription of the new school building of Pyapon BEHS-2. — MNA

Agri, livestock breeding tasks inspectedYANGON, 6 Aug — Yangon Division Peace and Development Council Chairman

and Yangon Command Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe, accompanied by Brig-GenKyaw Thu of Phugyi Station, No 1 Military Region Commander Col Tun Kyi, YangonDivision PDC Secretary Lt-Col Myint Kyi, departmental officials and local authorities,inspected agricultural and livestock breeding tasks and regional development measuresin Taikkyi Township, Yangon North District, this morning.

Maj-Gen Myint Swe attended a ceremony to release fingerlings into paddy fieldsbelonging to farmer U Pu Than of Kyunchaung village in the township. On the occasion,Maj-Gen Myint Swe, Brig-Gen Kyaw Thu and officials distributed fingerlings to bereleased into paddy fields to local farmers. Next, they put fingerlings into paddy fields.They also viewed the activities to release 35,000 fingerlings of various species into 70-acre paddy field. Later, the commander and party inspected thriving paddy fields alongYangon-Pyay Highway by car.

In Aphyauk, the commander and party looked into the condition of embankmentsalong the Ayeyawady River. They also inspected measures being taken to prevent theoverflowing of water near Kyway Bagan Creek village, Taikkyi Township. Commanderof Taikkyi Station Brig-Gen Htein Win reported on concerted efforts made by membersof the local battalions and local people to lay sandbags for construction of embankmentbetween Chaunggyi and Kyway Bagan Creek villages.

After hearing the reports, Maj-Gen Myint Swe gave instructions and fulfilled therequirements. — MNA

Preventing loss of State, privateproperty in waterway accidentsYANGON, 6 Aug — With a view to preventing loss of the State and private

property in accidents of water craft which crash into bridges in rivers, a coordinationmeeting was held at the meeting hall of the Ministry of Transport on Merchant Streethere this afternoon. The meeting was attended by Minister for Transport Maj-Gen HlaMyint Swe, Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen Thein Aung, Minister for Rail TransportationMaj-Gen Aung Min, Deputy Minister for Construction Brig-Gen Myint Thein, DeputyMinister for Transport U Pe Than and officials of various departments such as PublicWorks, Myanma Timber Enterprise, Marine Administration Department, Myanma PortAuthority, Inland Water Transport and Directorate of Water resources and Improvemntof River System First, Minister Maj-Gen Hla Myint Swe gave a speech. Next, DeputyMinister for Transport U Pe Than reported on changing of waterways at river crossingbridges, survey of waterways and prevention of bank erosions near the bridges. Ministerfor Rail Transportation Maj-Gen Aung Min explained conditions of bridges built byMyanma Railways. Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen Thein Aung discussed drift of bamboorafts in rivers and inspection of bamboo rafts at check points before passing throughunder the bridges.

Deputy Minister for Construction Brig-Gen Myint Thein reported on inspectionof durability of bridges and coordination for safely running of water craft. Next, DeputyMinister U Pe Than and officials took part in the discussions. — MNA


A historical milestone leadingthe nation to a new age — 6

* Use daylight as the main source of light* Use the least possible amount of elec-

tricity only if there is not enoughnatural light

* Use the least possible amount of elec-tricity required in production andservice enterprises

* Preventing waste of electricity benefitsthe user and others

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

Efficient use of electricity

* Do not be frightened whenever

intimidated

* Do not be bolstered whenever flattered

* Do not be softened whenever appeased

Aung Moe San

All this needs to be known

* Saving one gallon of fuel per car permonth will save the nation one US dollar

* Thus, a total of 455,822 cars in Myanmarcan save US$ 5.5 million in a year

* The amount, US $ 5.5 million, can builda major bridge across Ayeyawady River

Efficient use of fuel

For Myanmar, which is in the process of transitioninto a democratic state, there should not be permanentenemy nor permanent friend. But she needs to carefullyand rightly differentiate between friend and foe. Only thenwill she be able to set up a democratic state with the leastrisk.

The enemies of a developing nation engaged in theestablishment of a democratic state are: the persons whowish to set up a socialist economy after abolishing themarket economy; the sanctions that halt and destroy theprocess of establishing a multi-party democratic state; theinstigation to break up the national consolidation; thedaredevil acts to leapfrog to democracy goal without layingdown different stages (ultra rightists’ dream to establishdemocracy); and the ways and means opposing the systemof implementing a democratization programme that is inaccord with the social situation of a developing nation.

On the other hand, extending support andencouragement which are free from personal attachement,ideological prejudice and bias, for a nation in accord withthe time and situation and its the economy, politics,democratization task and modernization and progress, isthe form of friendship for developing nations.

Nowadays, Myanmar is in progress in implementingthe seven-point policy programme in her democratizationtask. The nation will set up a democracy system in accordwith the policy programme without fail. Holding of theNational Convention, which is the base of the policyprogramme, is under way in the nation, and the delegatesare discussing the laying down of basic principles for theemergence of a constitution.

The Government has dutifully invited the delegatesof all the political parties, national races and the peoplefrom all walks of life, and other persons who should beinvited to take part in the Convention to enable the entirenation to unitedly build a democratic state in accord withthe policy programme, that conforms to the way of life ofthe people. It keeps the door open to the organizationsthat have not reached the road to national consolidationand democracy yet. Those organizations too shouldreconsider instead of dreaming to copy the western typeof democracy, to march on the old and backward way ofgiving priority more to an individual than the ideology, toadopt hero worshipping and to revenge.

The people have been suffering from the ill effectsof economic sanctions and confrontations for 15 years. Ifone really stands for the people, he must protect the nationfrom economic sanctions that hurt the people. All the

Myanmarsar Professor U Aye Maung wrote anarticle on culture in the National Culture Magazinepublished in 1962. The following is a brief account of thearticle:

“The genuine culture is the essence and jewel ofhuman beings. Culture is rooted in geographical conditions,social system, mode of dress, arts, religion, literature andthoughts. A fine culture is based on patriotism. A culturethat is devoid of national spirit or opposed to it is not agenuine culture of the people. Accepting such a cultureamounts to ignoring and insulting one’s own nation andpeople”.

The definition of the word “culture” is very wide.It is connected with the human way of life and socialstyle. In short, religion, administration, customs and artsare inclusive in culture. Hence, the essence of humanbeings is the genuine culture of mankind.

Since the assumption of the State duties, theTatmadaw Government has been developing the nation inall aspects not with words but with deeds. It has laiddown the four political objectives, the four economicobjectives and the four social objectives, which are inconformity with our way of life, and is implementingthem practically. It has abolished the centralized socialisteconomy and political system and introduced the marketeconomy and multi-party democracy. It held a multi-partydemocracy general election. It has been convening theNational Convention, with the participation of the delegatesfrom all walks of life and all the national races, to drawa constitution. The task to draw a constitution and builda democratic nation faced a delay on account ofconfrontation and opposition, based on the method ofcreating conflicts. However, the Government has been ableto bring unprecedented progress to the country.

It has also restored the national consolidation verywell. The work of permitting the armed groups thatreturned to the legal fold to take part in regionaldevelopment endeavours leads to the emergence of aUnion, where equality and freedom flourish. Thanks tothe market economy, people all over the country canconduct their businesses freely. And the transportdevelopment and infrastructural projects that reache theremote border areas have helped cement Union Spirit andthe spirit of national solidarity.

In this regard, the seven-point policy programmehas laid down and is being implemented for the emergenceof a democratic nation. No one should doubt about theemergence of a democratic nation. No one needs to argueabout the matter nor makes a debate on it. Because theseven-point policy programme is a historical milestonedirecting the nation to the entrance of a new age.

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(Kyemon + Myanma Alin: 6-8-2004)*****

2004-2005 Academic Year

School Health Week(9th to 13th August 2004)

At All Basic Education Schools

Ministry of Education

The enemies of a developingnation engaged in the establishmentof a democratic state are: the personswho wish to set up a socialist economyafter abolishing the market economy;the sanctions that halt and destroythe process of establishing a multi-party democratic state; the instigationto break up the nationalconsolidation; the daredevil acts toleapfrog to democracy goal withoutlaying down different stages (ultrarightists’ dream to establishdemocracy); and the ways and meansopposing the system of implementinga democratization programme that isin accord with the social situation ofa developing nation.

Extending support andencouragement which are free frompersonal attachement, ideologicalprejudice and bias, for a nation inaccord with the time and situationand its the economy, politics,democratization task andmodernization and progress, is theform of friendship for developingnations.

ASEAN Food Festival

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the nation against all attempts to break up the nationalsolidarity. We all must be united, so that dissension maynot occur at all.

In addition, with patriotism, we all need to joinhands to ward off pressures and interferences to put ournation under the influence of some foreign powers,especially, we will have to collectively take part inimplementing the seven-point policy programme, whilediscarding the practice of confrontations and theintransigent attitude.

If one is not dutiful in performing these nationaltasks he cannot free himself from the dream of copyingthe western style of democracy. The western style ofdemocracy cannot agree to Myanmar way of life. Inaddition to the differences in economic, political andhistorical sectors, the issue of culture also poses a barrier.


Deputy Minister for Energy Brig-Gen Than Htaybeing reported on production of oil and natural

gas in Yenangyoung oil field. — ENERGY

MWAF President Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe inspects water supply worksat Indagaw model village in Bago Township. — MNA

NCCC Chairman State Peace and Development Council Secretary-2 Lt-Gen Thein Sein delivers an address at the co-ordination meeting. — MNA

YANGON, 6 Aug — The coordination meeting No 20/2004 of the NationalConvention Convening Commission, the National Convention Convening WorkCommittee and the National Convention Convening Management Committee was heldat the meeting hall of NCCC in Kyaikkasan Grounds, here, this afternoon, with anaddress by Chairman of NCCC Secretary-2 of the State Peace and Development CouncilLt-Gen Thein Sein. Also present were Vice-Chairman of NCCC Minister for ElectricPower Maj-Gen Tin Htut, Secretary Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan andCommission members, NCCWC Secretary U Thaung Nyunt and members, Chairman ofNCCMC Auditor-General Maj-Gen Lun Maung and Management Committee members.

Joint-Secretary-2 of the NCCC Director-General U Myint Thein of the PyithuHluttaw Office acted as master of ceremonies. First, Chairman of NCCC Secretary-2 ofthe State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Thein Sein delivered an address,saying that the National Convention was adjourned on 9 July 2004 after completing oneof its portions. And then, the National Convention Convening Work Committee continuesto carry out the remaining tasks. As the Panel of Patrons of the National Conventionstrives to lay down basic principles after coordinating and combining proposals submittedby eight delegates groups to the National Convention, the Work Committee is to provideassistance to the Panel of Patrons if necessary.

Next, he said that the National Convention Convening Commission must compilea report as a record concerning performance of the National Convention up to till 9 July2004. At the same time, it is necessary to look into requirements to extend buildings for

the National Convention and to extend and repair them in a short time. He stressed theneed to keep list of materials used during the period of the National Convention andmake frequent inspections. He urged all to keep systematic accounts and data whichcost in the National Convention and the audit group is to check the accounts and datain accord with the financial rules and regulations. In conclusion, he said the NCCC, theNCCWC and the NCCMC are to coordinate tasks of the National Convention in thefuture like today’s meeting.

Next, NCCC Secretary Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan reportedon compilation of the report concerning the National Convention held from 17 May to9 July 2004, records of the NC delegates and progress in repairing buildings atNyaunghnapin Camp in Hmawby Township. Afterwards, Secretary of NCCC U ThaungNyunt presented reports on tasks related to proposals submitted eight delegate groups,and NCCMC Chairman Auditor-General Maj-Gen Lun Maung on systematic maintenanceof materials at the Nyaunghnapin Camp, assistance being provided to NC delegateswarded at the hospital and keeping of cash donations for the National Convention. Afterhearing the reports, Lt-Gen Thein Sein gave the concluding remarks. — MNA

Co-ord meeting between National Convention ConveningCommission, Work Committee, Management Committee held

Oil fields in Magway Division inspectedYANGON, 6 Aug—

Deputy Minister for EnergyBrig-Gen Than Htayinspected Mann andHtauksharbin oil fields inMinbu Township, MagwayDivision, on 31 August. Hemet officials of MyanmaOil and Gas Enterprise andMPRL, FEL Co jointlyengaged in oil exploration,and discussed matters onextended exploration of oiland gas.

At Yenangyoung OilField, the deputy ministeralso met officials theMOGE and the Gold PetrolCo jointly engaged in theoil exploration. The deputyminister dealt with extendedproduction of oil and gas,and inspected Oil Well No3230. He looked into No 1Fertilizer Factory (Sale)under the MyanmaPetrochemical Enterpriseand left instructions onrepairing of the oil refineryand fulfilled requirements.

On 1 August, thedeputy minister helddiscussions with officials ofChauk Oil Field and localauthorities on extendedexploration of oil,minimizing loss and

wastage and securitymeasures. Next, the deputyminister made inspectiontours of Sabei andThagyitaung oil fields andmet the general managersand officials. He discussedoil exploration tasks andinspected drilling work. Healso inspected seismicworks near Gyobyan villagein Pakokku Township.Afterwards, he went toLetpanto and Kyauk-khwetoil field and inspecteddrilling of new wells.

On 2 August, the

deputy minister inspectedseismic group 2 nearKaingdaw village inMyaing Township. Then, heheaded for Thankantan andinspected storage of oil andleft necessary instructions.

During his inspec-tion tour, the deputyminister dealt withincreased production of oiland gas, minimizing lossand wastage, measures fordrilling of new oil wells,and timely completion ofthe projects and attended tothe needs. — MNA

MMCWA President on tourYANGON, 6 Aug— President of Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association

Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe accompanied by Vice-Presidents of MMCWA Dr Kyi Soe andDr Tin Lin Myint, Central Executive Committee members and officials arrived thismorning at Indagaw model village in Bago Township, Bago Division and Hlegu Townshipin Yangon Division to inspect the tasks of the MNCWA and attend to the needs.

On arrival at Indagaw model village, they were welcomed by patron of BagoDivision supervisory committee of the MMCWA Daw Sao Nwon Khon Hsam andofficials, district and township MCWA memebrs and health staff. The MMCWA presidentand party cordially greeted the speakers of the talks on adolescent reproductive healthin rural health department in Indagaw model village. They looked round health educativeposters in rural health department in the village and documentary photos on activitiesof the village MCWA at a reading room. The president met with members of the villageMCWA.Chairperson of the village association explained activities. Dr Daw Khin WinShwe gave a speech. She also presented stationery and medicines for the village.

In Hlegu, she inspected a delivery room, and observed photos showing the healthcare and educational activities of the MMCWA. She then met with pregnant women andmothers and presented medicine for them. At the Township MCWA, she met with themembers and discussed the association’s functions. Dr Daw Tin Lin Myint, CECmembers, Patron of Yangon MCWA Supervisory Committee Daw Khin Thet Htay andothers were also present. The chairperson of the township association explainedaccomplishments, future programmes, the function of the association-owned deliveryroom and requirements. After looking into the requirements, Dr Daw Khin Win Shwemade a speech. She also presented medicines for the delivery room. After the meeting,she cordially conversed with the audiences and left for Yangon in evening.—MNA

The National Convention was adjourned on 9 July2004 after completing one of the its portions. As the Panelof Patrons of the National Convention strives to lay downbasic principles after coordinating and combiningproposals submitted by eight delegates groups to theNational Convention, the Work Committee is to provideassistance to the Panel of Patrons if necessary.

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Thai Govt to revive poultry industryhit by bird flu

WB offers Vietnam emergency creditto support anti-bird flu activities

HP showcases Linuxnotebook computerLOS ANGELES, 5 Aug — Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday

showcased a new notebook personal computer that comespreloaded with Linux operating system, instead of Win-dows operating system.

At the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Fran-cisco, HP touted its Compaq nx5000 business notebook PCas the world’s first pre-installed Linux notebook PC from amajor hardware vendor.

HP said the notebook PC, powered by Intel’s Centrinomobile chips, will give mobile professionals the flexibilityof Novell’s SUSE Linux and come equipped withOpenOffice, CD-R/RW support, DVD and media player,wireless and Bluetooth connectivity.— MNA/Xinhua

Primeraintroduces

home CD printerLOS ANGELES, 5 Aug —

Primera Technology onTuesday introduced a com-pact desktop printer thatprints directly onto CD-Rsand DVD-Rs with water-proof thermal transfer ink.

Primera Technology, amanufacturer of CD andDVD disc duplication andprinting equipment, said Sig-nature Z1 CD/DVD printeris targeted at home and of-fice markets.

The company said its Sig-nature Z1 prints each of fourquadrants of the disc by spin-ning it and then applying inkin each area, distinguishingthe printer from other inex-pensive thermal transfer discprinters that can print only asingle line at a time on discs.

Primera priced SignatureZ1 at 139.95 US dollars andreplacement ribbons at 19.95US dollars. The companysaid if the customer onlywants to print the top andbottom area of the disc, print-ing cost per disc is just 10cents.

MNA/Xinhua

BANGKOK, 5 Aug — ThaiDeputy Prime MinisterChaturon Chaisaeng has or-dered related ministries tourgently revive the country’spoultry industry hit by birdflu outbreak, local Press re-ported here on Wednesday.

At a weekly meeting ofthe national committee onbird flu eradication,Chaturon said the country’spoultry export had alreadyplunged by 62 per cent dueto the two bird flu outbreaksin the past seven months. Itis expected that poultry ex-port in Thailand will plum-met by 70 per cent for thewhole year.

To revive Thailand’spoultry industry, Chaturoninstructed the AgricultureMinistry to design new poul-

try farming methods, includ-ing introducing the evapora-tion system under whichpoultry are isolated to avoidtheir contact with wild bird.And an insurance pro-gramme will be launched bythe Commerce Ministry tohelp farmers resume poultryraising.

More than 160,000 birdshave been culled or died aftera new round of bird flu rekin-dled the country on July 6.Most poultry farms in Thai-land were heavily hit by thebird flu crisis breaking out atthe beginning of this year.

The establishment of aregional centre for bird fludiagnosis and control inBangkok will also help Thai-land to combat the diseasemore effectively, said

Chaturon.Last week, delegates from

10 countries agreed here toset up a headquarters of South-east Asia’s bird flu surveil-lance network in Bangkok.

Meanwhile, the livestockdepartment removed 11areas from Thailand’s list ofzones affected by bird flu.“We should be able todeclare our country free ofbird flu very soon,” the de-partment’s director-generalYukol Limlamthong wasquoted by newspaper TheNation as saying on Wednes-day.

He added the departmentwas tackling the outbreaks toensure the disease wouldnot dampen frozen chickenexports next year.

MNA/Xinhua

HANOI, 5 Aug — TheWorld Bank (WB) has justapproved an emergencycredit worth 5 million USdollars to Vietnam to helpit control of the avian in-fluenza epidemic.

The Vietnam Avian In-fluenza Emergency Recov-ery Project totalling 6.2 mil-lion dollars is to strengthenthe country’s disease surveil-lance and diagnostic capac-ity and poultry industry’s in-frastructure, and safeguardhuman health by improvingpublic awareness, said a

news release issued by theWB in Vietnam on Wednes-day.

“The recent epidemicclearly revealed the inad-equacy of veterinary and ex-tension services to cope withan animal health epidemic ofthis nature. The project willprovide much-needed tech-nical advice to the govern-ment on the strategy it shouldfollow to recover from thepresent crisis and for thefuture control of avian in-fluenza epidemics,” notedWB acting country director

Martin Rama.The project will benefit

poultry farmers and traderswho lost their poultry as theresult of the avian influenzaepidemic, and help protectother farmers against suchlosses in future. Funding forthe project includes theWB’s credit, 550,000 dol-lars of the food and Agricul-ture Organization in theform of technical assistanceand training, and 650,000dollars from the Vietnam-ese Government.

MNA/Xinhua

Germany, Italycall for flexiblestability pactBERLIN, 5 Aug — Ger-

many and Italy on Wednes-day called for a flexible in-terpretation of the Stabilityand Growth Pact governingdeficits of the 12 euro-zonecountries.

When appraising a coun-try’s debt and deficit, its in-vestment in future growthmust be taken into consid-eration, German FinanceMinister Hans Eichel saidafter meeting with his visit-ing Italian counterpartDomenico Siniscalco.

“Our upcoming budgetshould be more future-ori-ented,” said Eichel, addingthat more money should beput on research, innovationand education.

While affirming the ne-cessity of the pact, Eichelsaid it was up to EU minis-ters to decide how it shouldbe applied.

Besides the deficit prob-lems, Italy is also under pres-sure of huge amount of debtwhich has far exceeded theceiling of 60 per cent of GDPset by the pact.

MNA/Xinhua

S Africa’s motor sales head for 20-year highJOHANNESBURG, 5 Aug — New motor

vehicle sales in South Africa, the conti-nent’s strongest economy, were up in Julyand expected to improve to a level last seenin 1983, according to the nation’s autoindustry association.

Average vehicle sales last month, at39,206 units, were 15 per cent better thanthe 34,095 units sold in July 2003, theNational Association of Automobile Manu-facturers of South Africa (NAAMSA) saidTuesday.

“Current indications are that the newvehicle market for the full Year 2004 couldexceed 410,000, resulting in the highestlevel since 1983, and the third highestever,” NAAMSA said in a statement.

The association said the improvementcould be attributed to various factors suchas the continuing positive economic envi-

ronment, consumer and business sentiment,improved new vehicle affordability, attrac-tive incentives and new product offerings.

In the new car category, sales were up15.9 per cent on last year, and increased 2.8per cent compared to June 2004. Sales ofnew light commercial vehicles, bakkies andminibuses reached 10,680 units, which wasa 9.8 per cent increase over the 9,728 unitssold in July 2003.

The truck and bus market for the year toJuly 2004 was up 36.5 per cent in the case ofmedium commercial vehicles and 22.1 percent in the case of heavy trucks and buses,compared with last year’s figures.

NAAMSA said vehicle exports for Junealso reached 10,691 units, the highestmonthly figure since November 2003, andwere expected to continue improving in thecoming months. — MNA/Xinhua

Study showsMediterranean diet halves

risk of heart attacks ROME, 5 Aug — The Mediterranean diet halves the risk

of heart attacks, according to a new study released here onWednesday.

The four-year study of 11,000 heart patients in 170Italian hospitals was conducted by the Italian HospitalCardiologists’ Association (Anmco) along with Milan’sprestigious Mario Negri research institute.

According to Dr. Carlo Schweiger, president of Anmco’sHealth Care Foundation, the Mediterranean diet, based onfish, vegetables, fruit, olive oil and a glass of wine at meals,halves the risk of heart attacks.

The research was the first in-depth study of the impact onhealth of the widely touted Italian-style diet and its ability tocut down the risk of death from heart attacks.

MNA/Xinhua

DHS to begin biometric exit

Pilot in US-Visit programmeHOUSTON, 5 Aug — The US Department of Homeland

Security (DHS) will pilot and evaluate automated biometricexit procedures for foreign visitors to ensure that they leave onschedule. The border management system introduced at 115airports and 14 seaports earlier this year will be expanded to 11more airports and two seaports, Asa Hutchinson, undersecre-tary for border and transportation security, said here.

According to the programme titled ‘US-VISIT’, all foreignvisitors are fingerprinted and photographed when they arrive atmajor US airports and seaports. The fingerprints and photos areautomatically checked against databases to ensure that docu-ments are legitimate and the visitor’s name does not appear onterrorist or law enforcement watch lists. — MNA/PTI

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NASA names supercomputer“KC”after Indian astronaut

HOUSTON, 5 Aug — NASA has dedicated its new Altix supercomputer ‘KC’ to thememory of Indian-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla, one of the seven crew aboard thespace shuttle Columbia which disintegrated midair in February last year.

Naming the new supercomputer‘Kalpana’ follows a long tradition at NASA’sAmes Research Centre of calling its newsupercomputers after pioneers in thesupercomputer industry or individuals whohave significantly contributed to research atthe aircraft research laboratory.

“It is indeed an honour to name NASA’snew SGI Altix 3000 supercomputer afterKalpana Chawla,” said Ames Centre Direc-tor G. Scott Hubbard, adding “she was notonly a member of the NASA family, butalso a special member of our own Amesfamily. We all miss her and her many con-tributions to the agency”.

At Ames, Chawla had the challengingtask of computing the airflow surrounding ajet-supported, delta-wing aircraft during

landing. During an interview in 1995, Chawlapredicted that her exposure to a wide varietyof computer systems at Ames would be espe-cially useful to her as an astronaut.

Of the dozens of experiments success-fully conducted by the Columbia crew,Chawla’s favourite was the Israeli Mediterra-nean Dust Experiment, which involved point-ing a camera at Earth to study the effects ofdust on weather and the environment.

“Fittingly, the SGI Altix 3000supercomputer that will be named ‘Kalpana’is being used to develop substantially morecapable simulation models to better assessthe evolution and behaviour of the Earth’sclimate system,” said Ghassem Asrar,NASA’s Deputy Associate Administratorfor Earth Science.— MNA/PTI

Astronomers observe new type of cosmic explosion LONDON, 6 Aug — A new type of cosmic explosion that occurred late last year could shed light on the death of

massive stars, astronomers said on Wednesday. It was more powerful

than supernovae, explo-sions marking the death ofa huge star, but weaker thangamma-ray bursts (GRB),the mysterious and mostbrilliant blasts in the uni-verse.

“I was stunned that myobservations... showed thatthis event confirmed the ex-istence of a new class ofbursts,” said AliciaSoderberg, of the CaliforniaInstitute of Technology inPasadena, who reported the

finding in the science jour-nal Nature.

“It was like hitting thejackpot.”

Scientists had thought allgamma-ray bursts had astandard energy and the sameintrinsic brightness until thediscovery of the cosmic blastthat occurred on December3, 2003 and is known by itsdate of birth, GRB 031203.

“With this new event werealise it is not true. Thereare sub-energetic bursts thatare less luminous with fainter

emission, which means thereis a not a standard energy,”Soderberg said in an inter-view.

“Perhaps there is somesort of continuum betweenthe two explosions that wedidn’t realize before,” sheadded.

The new blast occurredabout 1.6 billion light yearsaway. A light-year is aboutsix trillion miles the distancelight travels in a year. It wasalso much closer than othergamma-ray bursts and about

a thousand times weaker. Astronomers do not

know what causes gamma-ray bursts. They are thoughtto occur when stars collapsepossibly to become a blackhole, creating a huge gravi-tational pull from whichnothing can escape.

But last month,cosmologist Stephen Hawk-ing said he believes somematerial oozes out of blackholes over billions of yearsthrough irregularities on theirsurface.— MNA/Reuters

WHO withdraws Ranbaxy’sAIDS medicines

NEW DELHI , 5 Aug—The World Health Organization has removed three AIDSmedicines manufactured by Ranbaxy from its purchase list as it found them to be “non-compliant with international standards of good clinical and laboratory practices”.

This follows a similar action by WHOlast May on two AIDS drugs manufacturedby Cipla.

A WHO Press release issued in Genevaon Wednesday said that the threeantiretrovirals will be removed from the listuntil such time as Ranbaxy can submit dataof new studies providing unequivocal evi-dence of the products bioequivalence withthe originator medicines.

WHO said it “is committed to ensuringthat the medicines it prequalifies for pro-curement in developing countries are of thehighest standard”.

The antiretrovirals in question are thetriple fixed-dose combination pill contain-ing Lamivudine, Stavudine and Nevirapinein two different strengths and a Lamivudine

plus Zidovudine tablet. While the three Ranbaxy products meet

quality specifications, proof ofbioequivalence is missing in view of non-compliance with good clinical and labora-tory practices as well as data handling re-quirements found in the contracted labora-tory, WHO said. This effectively means thatthe medicines may or may not offer the sametherapeutic benefits as the originals on whichthey are based. Ranbaxy has undertaken toresubmit the products in question to a differentlaboratory for prooof of bioequivalence.

“If and when those products and the labo-ratories are found to meet the specified re-quirements, WHO will reinstate them in its listof prequalified products,” WHO said.

MNA/PTI

Depression study suggests need forlonger drug use

WASHINGTON , 5 Aug—People with depression have an over-active brain circuit thatcan stay turned on even when they are not feeling down, US researchers reported onWednesday.

The finding suggests thatsome depressed patients re-main vulnerable all the time,and need to stay on medicationeven after they get better, theresearchers said.

Researchers at the NationalInstitute of Mental Health de-liberately induced some symp-toms of depression in patientsto image their brains usingpositron emission tomographyor PET scans.

They can do this by givingthe patients a cocktail ofaminoacids, said Dr. Alexan-der Neumeister, a researcher

now at Yale University in Con-necticut.

The correct mix lowers lev-els of the amino acid tryp-tophan. The body convertstryptophan into serotonin, theneurotransmitter — message-carrying chemical — that isboosted by many anti-depres-sants.

“That happens very fast —within five hours,” Neumeistersaid in a telephone interview.

They tested 27 people whohad been treated for depres-sion but who were currentlyfeeling healthy and taking no

medication, and comparedthem to 19 people who hadnever had depression.

About 60 per cent of theformer depression patients hadtheir symptoms come backtemporarily when their tryp-tophan was depleted,Neumeister said. PET scansshowed abnormal activity incertain brain regions known tobe associated with depressionin the front and centre of thebrain, such as the orbitofrontalcortex, the thalamus, anteriorcingulate, and ventral stria-tum.—MNA/Reuters

Solar system may beunique after all

WASHINGTON , 5 Aug—Our solar system may beunique after all, despite the discovery of at least 120other systems with planets, astronomers said on Wednes-day.

All the other solar sys-tems that have been foundhave big, gassy planets cir-cling too close to their starsto allow them to be anythinglike Earth or its fellow plan-ets, the British and US-basedresearchers said.

If that is the case, Earth-like planets will be very rare,the astronomers write in thelatest issue of the MonthlyNotices of the Royal Astro-nomical Society.

“Maybe these otherextrasolar systems... containonly the giant planets,” saidMario Livio of the SpaceTelescope Science Institutein Baltimore.

Livio and colleaguestook a close look at what isknown about the other plan-

etary systems that have beendiscovered.

“In (our) solar systemthe orbits are very circular.Most of the giant planetsobserved in extrasolar sys-tems have very ellipticalorbits,” Livio said in a tele-phone interview.

This could mean that as-tronomers have been wrongin assuming that all planetsformed in basically the sameway. Livio said most ex-perts thought that planetsformed out of dust. “Thisdust coagulates and formssmall rocks and the rockscombine and form small bod-ies and then those bodiesform things like Earth,” hesaid.

MNA/Reuters

George Lucas opens animation studio in Singapore LOS ANGELES, 5 Aug — George Lucas, creator of blockbuster films “Star Wars”

and “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” on Tuesday announced the opening of a digitalanimation studio in Singapore.

This is Lucas’ first over-seas foray by his Lucasfilmproduction company. Thestudio, named LucasfilmAnimation Singapore (LAS),will produce digital animatedcontent including films, tel-evision and game for globalaudiences.

“I’ve been a fan of Asian

animation and illustration allmy life. Asian cinema hashad a particularly big impacton a lot of my work,” Lucassaid in a statement.

“By having a base in Sin-gapore, we can create a newstyle of animation that willblend East and West — andoffer something not seen be-

fore,” Lucas added. This Sin-gapore-based team will beheaded by Gail Currey, vice-president and general man-ager of Lucasfilm Animation.Financing for LAS is a jointventure between LucasfilmLtd and Singapore’s Eco-nomic Development Board(EDB). — MNA/Xinhua

Environmentalchanges can

produceemerging viruses

WASHINGTON, 5 Aug —Environmental changes,such as replacing forests withranchland, combined withgenetic mutations, can pro-duce viruses like SARS andHIV, according to a researchfrom the University of TexasMedical Branch (UTMB).

Researchers reached thisconclusion after studyingviruses from two late-20th-Century outbreaks of Ven-ezuelan equine Encephalitis(VEE) - a deadly illness thatcan cause brain inflamma-tion in horses and humans -in Mexico and comparedthem with a similar virus thatdoes not usually infect horsesor humans.

They suggested that re-placing forests withranchland along a 805-kilo-metre-long, 32- to 80-kilo-metre-wide stretch of Mexi-co’s and Guatemala’s Pacificcoastal plains put extremeevolutionary pressure on theVEE virus strain that wasprevalent there.

MNA/PTI

An American flamingo chick, born on 16 July, 2004,peeks out from its mother’s feathers to feed at the

Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, on 20 July,2004. — INTERNET

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SPORTS

Lizarazu still consideringinternational future

PARIS, 5 Aug — France left back Bixente Lizarazu isconsidering extending his international career after talks withnew coach Raymond Domenech.

The 34-year-old Olympique Marseille defender had saidhe was considering retiring from the national side after Francesuffered a shock elimination by Greece in the quarterfinals ofthe European championship in June. “I was not going to takeany decision today.” Lizrazu, capped 97 times, was quoted assaying by daily Le Parisien. “But I had to talk to the coach. It’simportant to hear what he had to say.

“Raymond Domenech presented me his plans for thenational team and it opened up some new outlooks.

“It was a very interesting meeting but you mustn’t drawany conclusions yet.” — MNA/Reuters

Athens attracts record number of foreign volunteersATHENS, 5 Aug — The Athens Olympics have attracted the largest number of foreign volunteers

in the history of the Games, officials said on Wednesday.

Real Madrid's new defender Argentine Walter Samuel,right, passes the ball past Alicante's Yordi during a

friendly soccer match in Alicante, Spain, onThursday, 5 Aug, 2004. — INTERNET

Bixente Lizarazu of France evades a tackle during the Euro2004 quarter final soccer match between France and Greeceat the Jose Alvalade Stadium in Lisbon, Portugal, on 25June, 2004. Lizarazu, 34, announced he was retiring frominternational soccer on Thursday, 5 Aug, 2004, saying it'stime to let younger players make their mark in the nationalteam with the 2006 World Cup on the horizon. — INTERNET

Japan’s Alex dealt lucky hand before Asian Cup final

BEIJING , 5 Aug — Japan midfielder Alex, booked in his last two games, is set to playin the Asian Cup final against hosts China thanks to a controversial decision bytournament organizers.

Chinese striker Hao doubt forAsian Cup final

BEIJING, 5 Aug — Chinese striker Hao Haidong couldmiss the Asian Cup final against Japan after he sustained ahead injury in the semifinal win over Iran.

“If it is possible to play, I will play,” the 33-year-old said.“But the doctors say at this stage it is hard to tell how longit will take to heal. I will be lucky to play.”

Hao was taken off in the 29th minute of China’s match onTuesday after clashing with Iran goalkeeper EbrahimMirzapour.

His shirt stained with blood from a head wound thatrequired five stitches, Hao was taken to hospital for aprecautionary brain scan.

“Today is August 4, the final is on August 7 which is ashort recovery period,” he said. “But I feel like I will needsome luck to be fit.”

China won 4-3 on penalties after both teams finishedlevel at 1-1 following extra time. Hao set up Shao Jiayi forChina’s opening goal in the 19th minute before going offinjured.

Hao, a former bad boy of Chinese soccer, had made anastonishing recovery after damaging ankle tendons earlierin the tournament.

China coach Arie Haan rushed him back for the quarter-final against Iraq last Friday and Hao scored the openinggoal in a 3-0 win.

Hao, banned from all Asian competitions for a year afterspitting at a referee at the 1998 Asian Games, has scored37 goals in 99 internationals. — MNA/Reuters

With 44,000 selected of a total 45,000volunteers needed for the Games, or-ganizers said some 4,500 were foreignnationals.

“This is the highest percentage everrecorded in n Olympic Games,” Volun-teer Programme Director DimitrisTziras said.

He said that figure was considerablyhigher in the application stage where 36per cent of applicants were resideingabroad. Only 11 per cent of those wereGreeks living abroad.

Organizers sifted through 160,000applications, conducting more than

90,000 interviews, Tzirassaid.

Failure to secure accom-modation during the Gamesor appear for a scheduledinterview had witnessed thenumber of foreigners dropconsiderably.

Organizes of the August13.29 Games launched thevolunteer programme threeyears ago in a bid to attracthelping hands for the Gamesand create a Greek volunteerculture from scratch.

”Besides covering theneeds of the Games, we alsowanted to leave a legacy ofvolunteers in Greek society,”Tziras said. “We have suc-ceeded in this.”

Some two thirds of allAthens Games volunteers areunder 35.

Smiling and helpful vol-unteers were credited for thesuccess of the Sydney 2000Games, which were praisedas the best ever.

Volunteers from as farafield as Japan and the UnitedStates have flocked to theGreek capital for the returnof the Olympics to the site oftheir modern revival after108 years.

“What better way to spendthe summer than volunteerfor the Games in Athens,”American volunteer LopakaLuis Ulmaheilhei Purdy fromHawaii told reporters. “TheGames have a larger goal ofuniting the world.”

Tziras said organizers hadnot yet recorded any wave oflast-minute change of heartamong volunteers, with dailyvolunteer attendance around95 per cent in all Olympicvenues that are operating.

MNA/Reuters

The Brazilian-born playerwill benefit after the AsianFootball Confederation(AFC) decided not to carryover yellow cards picked upduring the knockout stage tothe final.

“The players were laugh-ing about it in training thismorning,” Japan media of-ficer Ichirota Fukushi toldReuters.

“They were wonderinghow Alex was still playing.Yellow cards are rescinded,apparently.”

The AFC confirmed theyhad changed the rules regard-ing yellow cards since thelast Asian Cup in Lebanonfour years ago.

The decision puts the AFCat odds with accepted prac-tice at competitions run by

soccer’s world governingbody FIFA, though Asianofficials claimed there wasnothing controversial aboutit.

“If it was a red card hewould be out but people donot want to see the top play-ers miss the final,” AFC di-rector of communicationsMichelle Chai said.

“The decision was takenwithin the laws of the gameand for the good of thegame.” — MNA/Reuters

Aston Villa to sign Nantesmidfielder Berson

NANTES(France), 6 Aug— Aston Villa are set to signdefensive midfielder Mathieu Berson from Nantes.

The French club said on Thursday they had reluctantlyagreed to sell the 24-year-old who had been seeking amove to the English Premier League.

"Following numerous requests from Mathieu Berson tocontinue his career in England, Nantes football club hasaccepted his departure, with regret," Nantes said in astatement. The move has still to be finalized but a fee of 2.3million euros has been agreed and Nantes said the moneywould be used to strengthen their squad.

Berson played 122 Ligue 1 matches for Nantes andscored seven goals. He won the French Cup with the clubin 2000 and the league title the following year.

MNA/Reuters

Sharapova advancesat Montreal

OTTAWA, 6 Aug—Wimbledon championMaria Sharapova got an easy win in her firstmatch at the 1.3 million US dollars Mon-treal Cup on Wednesday, beating KristinaBrandi of Puerto Rico 6-1, 6-4.

The 17-year-old Sharapova, the first Rus-sian player to win Wimbledon, was challengedbriefly in the second set but was able to quicklyrecover and put the match away with her domi-nating backhand and solid ground strokes.

Her compatriots and fourth seed ElenaDementieva and eight-seeded Nadia Petrovaboth lost the second-round matches at theevent. Dementieva became the first majorupset victim of the week, losing to Argenti-na's Gisela Dulko 6-1, 6-4. Dulko, 19, is aWTA rookie who already has pulled offseveral upsets. Petrova was also knocked outof the tournament, dropping a 6-4, 6-7, 7-5decision to fellow Russian Elena Likhovtseva.

Third-seeded Anastasia Myskina, theFrench Open champion, moved on with aneasy 6-0, 6-4 win over Arantxa Parra Santonjaof Spain. Other winners included ninth-seededPaola Suarez of Argentina, number 10 seedVera Zvonareva and Francesca Schiavone ofItaly, the 11th-seed, who all recorded straightset victories. — MNA/Reuters

Senegal’sDiata set forLyon move

LYON (France), 6 Aug —Senegal defender LamineDiata will sign a two-yearcontract with OlympiqueLyon next week, the Frenchchampions said on Thurs-day.

"He will be in Lyon at thestart of the week to undergothe usual medical and to signhis contract," Lyon said onits official website.

The 28-year-old was outof contract at Ligue 1 sideStade Rennes. Diata willbe reunited with Lyoncoach Paul Le Guen, whosigned him for Rennes in1999.

Lyon said it had beatenoff competition from sev-eral other clubs in Ligue 1and the English PremierLeague to sign the versatiledefender.

MNA/Reuters

Sweden’s Jonsonjoins Norwich City

LONDON, 6 Aug— Sweden midfielderMattias Jonson has joined newly-promotedPremier League team Norwich City on atwo-year deal from Danish side Brondby foran undisclosed fee.

The 30-year-old played in all Sweden'smatches at Euro 2004 and got the controver-sial late equalizer against Denmark that en-sured both teams reached the last eight atItaly's expense.

"He's an attacking player with great paceand good experience. He had an exceptionalEuro 2004 and will add quality to what we'vegot," said Norwich manager NigelWorthington.

Norwich, who won the First Divisionchampionship last season, have an option toextend Jonson's contract by another year, theEnglish club said on their web site on Thurs-day. "It's a big opportunity to show the cluband the fans what I am all about," saidJonson. "I have a great feeling right now andI'm really looking forward to joining theteam."

Jonson, who has 41 caps, can play on eitherflank or as a centre forward and takes over thenumber nine shirt from Welshman IwanRoberts who has left the club.– MNA/Reuters


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WEATHER

Friday, 6 August 2004

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hoursMST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been cloudyin lower Sagaing Division, rain have been isolated in Chinand Kayah States, scattered to widespread in the remain-ing areas with locally heavyfalls in Rakhine State andisolated heavyfalls in Mon State and Taninthayi Division.The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Dawei(8.07) inches, Maungdaw (3.46) inches and Kyautaw andYay (3.03)inches each.

Maximum temperature on 5-8-2004 was 27.4˚C (81°F).Minimum temperature on 6-8-2004 was 19.3°C (67°F).Relative humidity at 9:30 hrs MST on 6-8-2004 was 96%.Total sunshine hours on 5-8-2004 was nil. Rainfall on6-8-2004 was 34 mm (1.34 inches) at Yangon Airport,34 mm (1.34 inches) at Kaba-Aye and 22 mm (0.87 inch)at central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2004 was 1811mm (71.30 inches) at Yangon Airport and 1791 mm (70.51inches) at Kaba-Aye and 1795 mm (70.67 inches) at cen-tral Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was 15 mph from Southeast at 10:25 hours MST on5-8-2004.

Bay inference: Monsoon is strong in the AndamanSea and moderate elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 7-8-2004: Rain willbe isolated in Chin and Kayah States, Magway and SagaingDivisions, scattered in Kachin and Shan States, Mandalayand Bago Divisions and widerspread in the remainingareas with likelihood of isolated heavyfalls in Mon State.Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with rough sea are likelyattimes in the Gulf of Mottama, off and alongMon-Taninthayi Coast. Surface wind speed in squall mayreach (40) mph. Seas will be moderate eleswhere inMyanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Moderatemonsoon.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for7-8-2004: Some rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for7-8-2004: Likelihood of isolated rain. Degree of certaintyis (60%).

Weather outlook for first weekend of August 2004:During the coming weekend, rain will be widespread inYangon Division and scattered in Mandalay Division.

Saturday, August 7Tune in today:

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9.00 pm ASEAN review-News

9:10 pm Article9.20 pm Myanma culture

by Dr KhinMaung Nyunt-Waso II

9.30 pm Souvenirs-Sincerely-Always on mymind

9.45 pm News/Slogan10.00 pm PEL

7:00 am 1. Recitation of Parittas

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7-8-2004 (Saturday)(Programme Schedule)Morning Transmission

(9:00 - 10:00)

9:00 Signature TuneGreeting

9:02 Song of MyanmarBeauty & ScenicSights “Mingalabar”

9:06 Annual PilgrimsFrom the River

9:10 Headline News9:12 Easily Cooked Tasty

Dishes “ Hot andSpicy Prawn Curry”

9:15 National News9:20 Unforgettable Trip to

Ahka Village9:25 The Ogre Dance9:30 National News9:35 Central Glass Pavilion9:40 Myanmar Modern

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

9:42 Myanma CustardApple

9:45 National News9:50 Traditional Bamboo

Utensils of Myanmar9:58 Song of Myanmar

Beauty & ScenicSights “Come and SeeMyanmar”

7-8-2004 (Saturday)Evening Transmission

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

Greeting15:32 Song of Myanmar

Beauty & ScenicSights “MyanmaPanorama & Myan-ma Sentiment”


15:40Headline News15:42 Easily Cooked Tasty


15:45National News15:50 Unforgettable Trip to

Ahka Village15:55 The Ogre Dance16:00National News16:05 Central Glass Pavilion16:10 Myanmar Modern



16:15National News16:20 Traditional Bamboo

Utensils of Myanmar16:25 Song of Myanmar

Beauty & ScenicSights “Mingalabar”

16:30 National News16:35 Good Prospects For

Myanmar Coffee16:40 Thanakha, a Myanmar

Cosmetic16:45 National News16:50 Myanmar Movies Im-

pact “Dream Angel”17:00 Weekly News High-

lights17:05 King Alaung Min-

taya’s Palace Site17:10 Myanmar Modern

Song “The NightWhen We CelebrateDonyein Dance”

17:12 Lawka Nanda Sanctu-ary Garden

17:15 Weekly News High-lights

17:20 Around Bagan byPony Cart (AnandaTemple)

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

7-8-2004 (Saturday)Evening Transmission

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Greeting19:32 Song of Myanmar

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Beauty & ScenicSights “Mingalabar”

19:36 Devoutly Making Do-nations

19:40 Headline News19:42 Pan-Say Region,

Home to Kho-Hlon-Lishows

19:45National News19:50 Myanmar Elephants

from Myanma Forest19:55 Kayah Dance20:00National News20:05 Traditional Chin

House20:10 Myanmar Modern

Song “You can takeme but not my love”

20:12 Dawei Water FetchingDance

20:15 National News20:20 The Ancient City of

Myanmar (Bagan)20:25 Songs on Screen

“Young Love”20:30 National News20:35 Export Products of

Fish & Prawn20:40 Myanmar Traditional

Marionette20:45 National News20:50 Hill Resort Town

(Thandaung)20:55 Htaung Yaung Nay

(Classical Dance ofthe Royal Maids)

20:58 Myanmar TraditionalArt, Silversmith

21:00 National News21:05 Myanma Traditional

Flower Arrangements(Harp)

21:10 Songs on Screen“With a Weak Point”

21:12 Percussion of “Pan”(or) Communal Drum


21:20 Greening of the Hillsand Ranges, in orderto achieve ClimateChange (Taung TharHill) (Magway Divi-sion)

21:25 Song of Myanmar

Rainfall on 6-8-2004– 1.34 inches at Yangon Airport,– 1.34 inches at Kaba-Aye and– 0.87 inch at central Yangon. Total rainfall since1-1-2004 was 1811 mm (71.30 inches) at YangonAirport and 1791 mm (70.51 inches) at Kaba-Ayeand 1795 mm (70.67 inches) at central Yangon.

Saturday, August 7View on today:

Beauty & ScenicSights “MyanmaPanorama & Myan-ma Sentiment”


21:40Headline News21:42 Easily Cooked Tasty


21:45National News21:50 Unforgettable Trip to

Ahka Village21:55 The Ogre Dance22:00National News22:05 Central Glass Pavil-

ion22:10 Myanmar Modern



22:15National News22:20 Traditional Bamboo

Utensils of Myanmar22:25 Song on Screen

“Everlasting”22:30 National News22:35 Good Prospects For

Myanmar Coffee22:40 Thanakha, a Myan-

mar Cosmetic22:45 National News22:50 Myanmar Movies

Impact “Dream An-gel”

23:00 National News23:05 King Alaung Min-

taya’s Palace Site23:10 Myanmar Modern

Song “The NightWhen We CelebrateDonyein Dance”

23:12 Lawka Nanda Sanc-tuary Garden


23:20 Around Bagan byPony Cart (AnandaTemple)

23:25 Song of MyanmarBeauty & ScenicSights “Come andSee Myanmar”

7th Waning of Second Waso 1366 ME Saturday, 7 August, 2004

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 charac-ter

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

standards of the entire nation

Four economic objectives* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round

development of other sectors of the economy as well* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic

system* Development of the economy inviting participation in

terms 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

Four political objectives* Stability of the State, community

peace and tranquillity, prevalence oflaw and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

YANGON, 6 Aug —Prime Minister GeneralKhin Nyunt held a meetingto discuss development ofgem business in Myanmarthis afternoon at the Minis-try of Mines.

Present at the meetingwere ministers, the ChiefJustice, the Attorney-Gen-eral, the deputy minister forMines, members of theLeading Committee forDevelopment of Gem Busi-ness in Myanmar, officialsof the State Peace and De-velopment Council Officeand heads of department.

Minister for MinesBrig-Gen Ohn Myint re-ported to the meeting onState’s income from thegem enterprise, revenuesfrom the gem exhibitions,income of the 2004 specialjade and gem sales, incomeand expenditure for 2004-2005, joint-venture gemmining enterprises and en-deavours to develop thegem business of Myanmar.

Deputy Minister U

YANGON, 6 Aug — Chairman of the IndustrialDevelopment CommitteeSecretary-1 of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Lt-Gen Soe Wininspected functions of FairSun Co Ltd in ShwepyithaIndustrial Zone (3) this af-

ternoon. He was accompa-nied by Deputy Minister forIndustry-2 Lt-Col KhinMaung Kyaw, Deputy Min-ister for Science and Tech-nology Dr Chan Nyein, of-ficials of the SPDC office,No 4 Military Region Com-mander Col Yan Naing Ooand officials.

Fair Sun Co Ltd Man-aging Director Dr Pe Khinreported to the Secretary-1and party on organizationalset-up of the company,machinery installation formanufacturing of car parts,and arrangements for pro-duction of moulds and otherparts. He reported that thereare a foundry shop and amachine shop at the factoryof the company. Iron prod-ucts will be assembled withthe use of the computerizednumerical control system(CNC). And arrangementsare under way to manufac-ture the parts through thesystem of direct numericalcontrol (DNC) in additionto CNC system. He also re-ported on sample produc-tion of TE truck parts suchas cover gear shift, tool and

cutter, oil pump housingand spring bracket.

Next, the Secretary-1and party inspected mould-ing with the use of CNCmachine, installation ofmodern machinery and pro-duction of motor car partsand dust collector. Then, theSecretary-1 inspected con-struction progress of thefoundry shop.

In meeting with offi-cials, State Peace and De-velopment Council Secre-tary-1 Lt-Gen Soe Win saidthat there are good pros-pects for private industry asthe quality of iron productshas improved and moderncomputerized machines arebeing used. The State hasvalued the innovations andtechnical competence ofprivate entrepreneurs, headded. Fair Sun Co Ltd ismanufacturing 12 kinds ofparts for TE trucks. Besides,arrangements are beingmade to produce castingparts, machining parts andother motor car parts notonly for local but also forforeign markets.

MNAIndustrial Development Committee Chairman Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Soe Win inspects tasks of

Fair Sun Co Ltd in Shwepyitha Industrial Zone (3).— MNA

Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt views the rare stones of prime quality.—˚MNA

Myint Thein explained thesituation of designated plotsand reclaimed plots ingemlands, and the issuanceof jade and gem miningpermits in accord with thelaw.

Prime Minister GeneralKhin Nyunt looked into therequirements. In his discus-sions, he spoke of the needto strive to increase Staterevenues from the gembusiness, to develop thegem business of thenation in accord withthe law and to take envi-ronmental conservationmeasures.

After the meeting, thePrime Minister presentedtwo gem stones of signifi-cant quality to the Statethrough Minister Brig-GenOhn Myint. An entrepre-neur presented the two gemstones to the Prime Minis-ter. Mined from Phakantgemland in Kachin State,the two precious stones areof prime quality. The gemstone contain a moving

liquid inside it.The two gem stones

will be displayed at theMyanma Gems Museum.

MNA

Mined from Phakant gemland in Kachin State, thetwo precious stones are of prime quality. The gem stonecontain a moving liquid inside it.

The two gem stones will be displayed at the MyanmaGems Museum.

PM discusses development of gem businessTwo gem stones of prime quality handed over to State

Secretary-1 inspects functions ofFair Sun Co Ltd in Shwepyitha

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