To approve the State Constitution is a national duty of...

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

Established 1914

Volume XVI, Number 5 1st Waning of Oo Tagu 1370 ME Monday, 21 April, 2008

Matapitu upatthanam, to serve thy parents; this is the way to auspiciousness

To approve the State Constitution is a nationalduty of the entire people today. Let us all cast“Yes” vote in the national interest.

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INSIDE

Towards the futureState of loyalists and

men of integrity

A RETIRED CIVIL SERVANT PAGE 9

* Development of agriculture as the base andall-round development of other sectors ofthe economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-orientedeconomic system

* Development of the economy inviting par-ticipation in terms of technical know-howand investments from sources inside thecountry and abroad

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrityand 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

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed na-

tion in accord with the new State Consti-tution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 20April—A ceremony toopen the InternationalYear of Sanitation (2008)was held in conjunctionwith the ceremony tomark the Sanitation andPersonal Hygiene Activi-ties Week at the meetinghall of ChanayethazanTownship Union Solidar-ity and Development As-sociation’s Office inMandalay on 29 March

Mandalay observes InternationalYear of Sanitation (2008)

with an address by Chair-man of Mandalay Divi-sion Peace and Develop-ment Council Com-mander of Central Com-mand Brig-Gen TinNgwe.

This was followed bythe ceremony to donatesanitation items by well-wishers for townships inMandalay Division. AndDr Daw Khin Thida, wifeof the commander, ac-

cepted the donations.After the ceremony,

the commander and wifeviewed posters on sanita-tion and personal hygieneactivities at the booth ofthe Sanitation and Per-sonal Hygiene ActivitiesWeek.

The environmentalsanitation coverage inMyanmar was 46 percent in 1997 and 83 percent in 2007. The utili-

zation of fly-proof la-trines in Mandalay Divi-sion was 86 per cent in2006 and 87.4 per centin 2007. Local authori-ties in cooperation withvarious social organiza-tions and well-wisherssank small and large 24tube-wells at a cost of K60.353 million in Man-dalay Division for drink-ing purposes.

Hailing ceremonies

to open the InternationalYear of Sanitation (2008)and to mark Sanitationand Personal HygieneActivities Week, WorldVision donated 100 ac-

cessories for fly-prooflatrines while PSI donated100 water guards and MSIand Care Myanmar, 100litter bins.

MNA

Commander Brig-Gen Tin Ngwe views paintings and posters of Sanitation and PersonalHygiene Activities Week at opening of International Year of Sanitation (2008).—MNA

The world has recognized that Myanmars have loyalty and integrity.Such characteristics come from Myanmar’s having patriotism, cherishingindependence, wanting perpetual sovereignty and loathing for being afollower of the colonialists and a puppet government.

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 April, 2008

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

People’s DesireMonday, 21 April, 2008

Exploite existing infrastructures forenhancement of socio-economic lifeof the people

The government has placed emphasison peace and stability and prevalence of lawand order in the country. It has beenimplementing the projects in every sectornationwide. Moreover, the government isbuilding a great number of infrastructures intransport, education, health, agriculture andcommunication sectors for the regions thatlagged behind in development in the past.

Now development has been broughtabout throughout the country and the peopleare enjoying peace and stability, prevalenceof law and order and development.

There has been peace and stability andprevalence of law and order in Mon State.Through concerted efforts for regionaldevelopment, local people in the region willsurely achieve improvement in their socio-economic life.

Transport and communication hasbecome easier for the people in the region asthe government built Thanlwin Bridge(Mawlamyine). The government isundertaking programmes for developmentof human resources while buildinginfrastructures on education.

The government fulfils the basicrequirements for development of all regionsin the country. Socio-economic life of thepeople will improve with the practicalexploitation of existing infrastructures.

YANGON, 20 April — The opening of Sky HomeLanguage Centre (Yangon Branch) of Tokyo WestInternational Education Academy was held inconjunction with organizing educative talks on salientpoints for those who are learning Japanese language atTraders Hotel on 5 April.

The principal of Nishi Tokyo Language Schooland Japanese faculty members attended the ceremonyand held talks. Sky Home Language Centre is beingkept open on the tenth floor of Sandar MyaingCondominium in front of Hledan Market in KamaryutTownship. Apart from Japanese, English and Chinesecan be learned. Sky Home Language Centre will jointhe learners to be eligible for Nishi Tokyo JapaneseLanguage School.

Sky Home Language Centre opens

NAY PYI TAW, 21 April— CEC Member of theUnion Solidarity andDevelopment AssociationMinister for Mines Brig-Gen Ohn Myint arrived atthe office of TownshipUSDA in Kyaikto in MonState on 13 April.

Upon arrival at theoffice, the CEC Membermet with townselders andtownship executives andheld discussions onregional developmenttasks.

At Kinmonsakhanvillage Basic EducationHigh School, the CECMember met with localpeople and village USDAmembers, paid homage toKyaikhtiyoe Pagoda andmade cash donations.

The following day theCEC Member enjoyedThingyan dance of thestudents and presentedcash awards. He alsodonated cash and kind tothe aged of Thaton Homefor the Aged.

The next day the CECMember viewed ThingyanYein in Kyaikmayaw, paidhomage to HsutaungpyaePagoda and made cashdonations in Kyaikmayaw.

Next, the CECMember paid homage toSayadaw BhaddantaJotika and offeredprovisions to the Sayadaw.

CEC Member supervises regional developmenttasks in Mon State

After that he viewed thefeast given in charity forall comers in Kyaik-mayaw. Afterwards, hewatched Thingyan Yeinof Kadonti village andpresented cash awards tothe Yein trupes.

Later, the CECMember paid homage to

Winseintawya monasterypresiding Sayadaw MahaSaddhamajotikadhajaBhaddanta Kesara anddonated cash for BuddhaImage. He also paidrespects to the presidingSayadaw of Peinnetaikmonastery andGyonegyonekyatawya

monastery presidingSayadaw Agga MahaGanthavacaka PanditaBhaddanta Ketevana,donated alms to theSayadaws , presented cashdonations for Sarthintaiksand visited Mudon townKangyi pagoda inMudon— MNA

All courses will be open starting from 22 April.Only fifteen learners will be limited for one classroom. International experienced teachers will superviseJapanese and English language courses.

If any one is not satisfied with the teaching methods,the language centre guarantes to refund the fee. Thosewho want MA, MBA and ME Biz may contact thelanguage centre.

There is a special program for those who want tolearn both Japanese and English, and foreigners whowant to learn Myanmar. Those who want home tuitionmay contact the language centre.

For further information, contact the languagecentre (Ph-535144 and 095048520), Email: [email protected],www.tokyo-west.com.—MNA

Sky Home Language Centre opens coursesbeginning 22 April.—MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 April, 2008 3

PRAGUE, 19 April —Around 2,000 people tookpart in the protest againstthe planned stationing ofa US radar base on Czechsoil in Misov near the Brdymilitary grounds wherethe base is to be built, localmedia reported onSaturday.

People arrived inMisov in some 20 busesand hundreds of cars inthe rainy day. The pro-testers, carrying bannersand flags, then marchedabout one kilometer to theborder of the militarygrounds in a forest.

The organizer, Com-

Tourists watch aperformance of

traditional wedding inSuzhou City, eastChina’s Jiangsu

Province, on 19 April,2008. A traditional

wedding show was puton in Suzhou to presenttourists the culture and

folk-custom of theancient water town.

XINHUA

KABUL, 20 April — TheAfghan government plansto investigate whether theUnited States useddepleted uranium duringits invasion of Afghanistanin 2001 and if it might belinked to malformed

MOGADISHU, 20 April—Eighting betweenSomali insurgents andEthiopian forces killedeight people in Mogadishuon Saturday, includingtwo Ethiopian soldiers,

BUJUMBURA, 20 April— Burundi’s army battledrebels for a third dayrunning on Saturday, inclashes that have killed20 fighters and sixsoldiers, a military spo-kesman said.

In some of the worstfighting in months, mili-tary helicopters weredeployed to the outskirtsof the capital

Bujumbura on Fridayagainst the rebel Forcesfor National Liberation(FNL), spokesman Col-onel Adolphe Manir-akiza said.

“We have been obligedto use strong means,because the FNL plannedto attack different armybases,” he said, addingthat the situation was nowcalm.

The latest violence

ABU DHABI, 20 April — Pakistan’s ambassador toAfghanistan, who went missing in February, said in avideo tape aired on Al Arabia satellite channel onSaturday that he was being held by the Taliban.

Tariq Azizuddin, Pakistan’s missing ambassador tothe war-torn Afghanistan, also asked Pakistanigovernment to meet Taliban’s demands to secure therelease of him and his driver and bodyguard who werekidnapped with him in February.

“We were on our way to Afghanistan in our officialcar on 11 Feb when we were kidnapped in the region ofKhyber ... by the Mujahedeen of the Taliban,” he said.

Azizuddin appeared in the video tape with two mensitting next to him and three gunmen standing in thebackground.

The Pakistani diplomat, who has health problemsincluding high blood pressure and heart pains, said inthe video tape that he was being held with his driver andbodyguard.

MNA/Xinhua

KABUL, 20 April —Armed militants attackedtwo trucks supplyinglogistic items to the US-led Coalition forces inAfghanistan’s easternKhost province, a localofficial said Saturday.

“There were trucksfull of food and other items

Afghans to probe whetherUS used depleted uranium

babies born afterwards.Parts of Afghanistan,

particularly the mount-ainous region of Tora Borain the east — the suspectedhideout of al Qaeda chiefOsama bin Laden — cameunder heavy US bombing

in late 2001 when theTaliban regime wasousted.

Depleted uranium is aheavy metal used in someweapons that can piercearmour. It has small levelsof radioactivity associatedwith it.

Cases of malformedbabies delivered in theheavily bombed Afghanareas have come to light,Faizullah Kakar, Afghandeputy public healthminister for technicalaffairs said on Saturday,citing an unnamed USexpert.

Kakar told Reuters theAfghan governmentplanned to investigate thematter.

MNA/Xinhua

Burundi death toll risesto 26 in three-day battle

started on Thursday nightwhen FNL rebels firedmortar bombs at govern-ment positions in Bujum-bura, drawing return firefrom the military.

MNA/Xinhua

Heavy clashes inSomali capital kill

eight-residentsresidents and witnessessaid.

Insurgents opposed tothe interim government’sEthiopian allies openedfire on Ethiopian troopspatrolling the capital’smain livestock market,drawing retaliatory fire.

“As the fightingbecame heavier, theEthiopian troops fired tankshells ... killing a younggirl and seriously injuringher two sisters,” residentHussein Elmi told Reutersby phone. —MNA/Xinhua

Some 2,000 people protest against USradar base in Czech Misov

munists party (KSCM)from west Bohemia andCentral Bohemia regionalbranch, originally plannedto march to the exact placewhere the radar is to be

built, but the militarybanned it, saying the lawdoes not allow for politicaldemonstrations onmilitary grounds.

Xinhua

US military base-bound trucks attacked,two drivers wounded in Afghanistan

moving towards Coalitionbase in Khost when therebels by exploding a mineon the road and openingfire injured both thedrivers,” Abdul WaliZadran the district chief

of Ozai told Xinhua. He also added that

the incident occurred inUzai district on Khost-Gardez highway Fridaylate afternoon.

MNA/Xinhua

Pakistan’s missing ambassadorto Afghanistan held by Taliban

A boy looks at the remains of a burnt vehicle after an air strike in Baghdad’s SadrCity on 20 April, 2008. Residents said one child was killed and four civilians

wounded during the air strike on Saturday night in Sadr City.—INTERNET

Palestinians gather around the wreckage of a carfollowing an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the

southern Gaza Strip. Three Palestinians were killedand 13 Israeli soldiers wounded on Saturday when

Hamas militants, including suicide bombers,stormed a Gaza Strip border crossing with

explosives-laden vehicles.—INTERNET

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Rainstorm hits central China province,affecting 200,000

Nine Finnish killed, over 30injured in bus crash in Spain

MADRID, 19 April — Nine Finnish tourists werekilled and over 30 others injured when the bus theywere traveling in crashed near Spain’s southern coastalresort town of Benalmadena Saturday, Spanishemergency services said.

The accident occurred at around 8:00 pm localtime (1800 GMT) when another vehicle trying toovertake the bus rammed into its side and shoved it offthe highway, causing it to capsize.

Shortly after the accident, Spanish emergencyofficials set up a makeshift hospital at the site of theaccident to provide first aid to the victims, who werethen transferred to nearby hospitals. —Xinhua

At least 15 die,35 injured in

Ecuador’snightclub fireQUITO, 19 April — A

fire ignited by fireworksswept through a crowdedQuito nightclub Saturday,leaving at least 15 peopledead and 35 others injured,local media reported.

The nightclub is locatedjust 500 meters from themain commercial centerin the southern area of thecapital.

Rescue workerscontinued to search forbodies, while inspectorswere investigatingwhether proper securitymeasures had been inplace, the reports said.

Xinhua

Continuous rainstormhas been slamminga prefecture in the

central HubeiProvince since Friday

and affected morethan 200,000 people.

But no casualties havebeen reported,

a local civil affairsdepartment

spokesman said onSaturday.XINHUA

Policemen stand by a crashed bus near Spain’s southern coastal resort townof Benalmadena on 19 April, 2008. The bus carrying Finnish tourists crashed

leaving eight passengers dead, including a 7-year-old girl, Spanish policesaid. —XINHUA

US, Iraqi troops build concrete wallsin Baghdad’s Sadr City

Hamas vows more attackson Israel

Two US soldiers killed in bombattacks north of Baghdad

WUHAN, 19 April —Continuous rainstormhas been slamming aprefecture in the centralHubei province sinceFriday and affected morethan 200,000 people. Butno casualties have beenreported, a local civilaffairs departmentspokesman said Saturday. The rainstorm, theworst in 21 years inEnshi Tujia and MiaoAutonomous Prefecture,has flattened 126 houses,destroyed crops on 17,700hectares and forced theevacuation of 107 localresidents, the spokesmansaid. The disaster caused adirect economic loss of18.14 million yuan (2.6million US dollars), he

added. Mountain torrents alsoflooded Sanhe village inLongfengba Town in theprefecture. In villager He Xiaobin’s

house, the water wasalmost 50 centimetersdeep. "We have been busydraining the water for quitea long time," he said.

Xinhua

GAZA, 19 April — Aspokesman for IslamicHamas movement’sarmed wing, al-QassamBrigades, vowed onSaturday to carry out morearmed attacks againstIsrael “until breaking theIsraeli blockade imposedon the Gaza Strip.”

Abu O’baida told anews conference in Gazathat the armed attacks onKerem Shalom crossingearlier Saturday “is thebeginning of more attacksto break more than tenmonths of Israeliblockadeimposed on the Gaza

Strip.” “The attack on Kerem

Shalom is the beginningof breaking the siege,”Abu O'baida said, addingthat Hamas “is notinterested in targetingGaza crossings, and thetargets will be always theIsraeli soldiers.”

Three Hamas militantswere killed and 13 Israelisoldiers wounded onSaturday during an armedattack carried out byHamas militants on thecrossing between southernGaza Strip and Israel.

MNA/Xinhua

BAGHDAD, 19 April —The US military said onSaturday that two of itssoldiers were killed northof Baghdad, while itwarned of potential suicidebomb attacks in the capital.

A soldier assigned toMulti-National Division-Baghdad was killed whenhis vehicle was hit by aroadside bomb at about13:45 pm (1045 GMT) onFriday during a combatpatrol in an area locatedjust north of Baghdad, amilitary statement said.

Also on Friday, asecond soldier assigned to

Multi-National Division-North was killed when abooby-trapped car went offnear his patrol in Salahudinprovince, another state-ment said. The latest deathsbring the number of USsoldiers killed in Iraq toabout 4,038 since the Iraqwar broke out in 2003,according to media countbased on Pentagon figures.

The attacks came asthe US military warned thatnumerous of al-Qaidamilitants entered Baghdadplanning to carry outsuicide bomb attacks in thecapital.—MNA/Xinhua

BAGHDAD, 19 April —US and Iraqi troops arebuilding concrete wallsthrough Baghdad’s Shiitebastion of Sadr City in anattempt to prevent militiasfrom firing mortars androckets on the Green Zone,an Interior Ministry sourcesaid on Saturday.

Hundreds of barriersof concrete blocks, someup to three meters high,are being erected toconstruct walls along the

main streets of thesprawling neighborhoodof Sadr City in order tocontrol access in and outof the divided areas, thesource told Xinhua oncondition of anonymity.

The US military andIraqi security forces hopedthat constructing the wallsin the Sadr City that begunfew days ago will dividethe sprawling strongholdof Mahdi Army militiawhich will effectively cut

off the militiamen's abilityto move freely, the sourcesaid.

The walls will lead tobring the Sadr City underthe control of the Iraqisecurity forces and UStroops, and that will alsohamper mortar and rocketattacks on the heavilyfortified Green Zone,which houses the USembassy and the Iraqigovernment offices, hesaid.—MNA/Xinhua

Fireworks are

released at the grand

opening ceremony of

the world's largest

observation wheel also

known as the

Singapore Flyer on 15

April, 2008, in

Singapore.

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E C O N O M I C N E W S

LONDON, 19 April—The head of the WorldTrade Organisation,Pascal Lamy, called onthe World Bank andInternational MonetaryFund to take action to helptackle rising food pricesin an interview Saturday.

The surging price ofbasic foods like rice,wheat and corn in some of

TEHERAN, 19 April—Iranian PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejadsaid that oil is priced toolow at US$115 a barrel,adding that the commodity“should find its realvalue”, the state-run

BEIJING, 20 April —General Motors Corp willsell its first gas-electrichybrid cars in China inJuly, introducing a modelcreated in part by GM’sShanghai design center,the company said yester-day.

The Buick LaCrossewill be the second hybridto enter the Chinese auto-mobile market followingToyota Motor Corp’sPrius in early 2006.

The LaCrosse will be

SEOUL, 20 April —South Korea’s tradebalances with China, theUnited States and Japanworsened in the first threemonths of this year due toa slowing US economyand Seoul’s high depen-dency on Japanese parts,a report by the KoreaCustoms Service said on

A model stands next toa Buick Riviera at theAuto China 2008 auto

show in Beijingon 19 April, 2008.

INTERNET

A model parades an outfit during a fashion showin Jakarta on the sideline of Indonesia National

Textile Exhibition 2008.—INTERNET

ACCRA, 20 April—World Investment Forum,sponsored by the UN-CTAD, announces itscurtain-up in Ghana’s capitalAccra on Saturday with anagenda on the opportunitiesand challenges facing theworld in the future ininvestment and develop-ment. In the four-day me-eting, three interactionsessions will be held inthe Conference Centres of

WTO head wants WorldBank, IMF to refocus on

food supplythe world’s poorestcountries has triggeredriots in Haiti anddemonstrations in someAfrican countries.

Factors contributing tothe rise include theincreasing demand forbiofuels, since certaincrops are used to makethem, and the rising costof oil and transportation.

“Medium and long-term, developed countriescan use their power inplaces like the WorldBank, the IMF...to makesure that these big donorsrefocus part of the aid theygive to developingcountries to improvingsupply in agriculture,”Lamy said in a radiointerview. —Internet

World Investment Forum inaugurates to addressopportunities, challenges in investment

Accra, covering topics onprospect for global foreigndirect investment (FDI)and news business opport-unities, the global valuechain and special sessioon the emerging FDIdestination of Africa.

“The forum is a newmodel of interaction tohelp investment pro-motion officials andpolicymakers face chall-enges and provides an

occasion to discuss andadvise in different pro-spective, and opport-unities and challenges toface in the future in invest-ment and development,”Dr Supachai Panitch-pakdi, director general ofthe United NationsConference on Trade andDevelopment (UNC-TAD), said in the openingceremony of the forum.

MNA/Xinhua

Iran says oil at US$115 a barrel is too lowbroadcasting websitereported Saturday.

“Oil at US$115 a barrelin today’s market is adeceiving figure, oil is astrategic commodity andshould find its real value,”Ahmadinejad was quoted

as saying.On Friday, New

York’s main oil, lightsweet crude for deliveryin May, surged US$1.83higher to a record close ofUS$116.69 a barrel. It hadearlier hit an intra-day all-time peak of US$117.

Iranian Oil MinisterGholam Hossein Nozarion Wednesday rejectedcalls from crude oilconsuming countries forthe OPEC cartel to act tolower oil prices that havereached record highs.

Internet

GM unveils gas-electric modelunveiled today at theBeijing Auto Show, GMmanagers said.

They added it will bepriced under 300,000 yuan(US$43,000) -comparableto the Prius.

“We don’t expect tosee a very high volume ofsales of this car in Chinain a short period of time,”Joseph Liu, GM China’svice president for sales,told reporters.

“But we bring thistechnology to help China

support sustainablegrowth and bring con-sumers in that direction.”

The car was developedwith contributions fromGM’s Pan Asia TechnicalAutomotive Center inShanghai, said MaryannCombs, the center’s pre-sident.

Hybrids improve fuelefficiency and cutemissions by generatingextra power from thebrakes as a vehicle tops.But they also cost morebecause they require bothgasoline and electricmotors.

GM says the LaCrossewill be the first hybridmade in China.

Internet

S Korea’s trade balances with major tradepartners worsen in Q1

Sunday. South Korea’strade surplus with Chinadropped 1.7 percent year-on-year to 4.1 billion USdollars in the January-March period, said thereport.

The country’s tradesurplus with the UnitedStates was 1.74 billion USdollars in the period, down

34.1 percent from the sameperiod last year, it said.

South Korea’s ship-ments to the US dropped2.8 percent year-on-yearto 11.07 billion US dollarsin the three-month period,while imports rose 6.6percent to 9.34 billion USdollars.

Internet

A man talks on the phone inside a Buenos Aires’ airport hall filled withsmoke, on 19 April, 2008. A thick cloud of smoke covered Buenos Aires for afifth day on Saturday, the fallout of field burning that has forced the closure

of highways, flight delays and traffic congestion.—INTERNET

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Chinese President greets Putinas Russian ruling party chief BEIJING, 19 April —

Chinese President HuJintao has sent a congra-tulatory message toRussia’s outgoing Pre-sident Vladimir Putin forhis election as chairmanof the ruling United Russiaparty.

In his letter, Hu saidhe believed under theleadership of Putin, theUnited Russia party willplay a bigger role in thelofty cause of achievingprosperity in Russia.

The Communist

Party of China (CPC) hasmaintained close friendlyties of cooperation withthe United Russia party.The exchanges betweenthe two parties streng-thened mutual under-standing and trust andenriched the meaning ofstrategic partnershipbetween China and Russiaover the past years, Husaid.

“The CPC is willingto further consolidate anddeepen the friendly ties ofcooperation with the

United Russia party andto boost China-Russiarelations for deep and all-round development on thebasis of independence,complete equality, mutualrespect and noninter-ference in each other’sinternal affairs,” Hu said.

Putin was electedchairman of the UnitedRussia in the party’scongress Tuesday, whichwon a majority in the StateDuma, the lower house ofparliament, in December’selections.—Xinhua

Heavy fighting breaks out inIraq’s Basra

S Korea confirms 25th outbreak of H5N1 strain of bird flu

Palestinian ambulances to halt due to fuel crisis

BASRA,19 April —Heavy fighting erupted inthe southern city of Basraon Saturday when IraqiArmy troops swept aShiite militia stronghold,a local police source andwitnesses said.

Hundreds of Iraqisoldiers backed bycoalition aircraft enteredthe neighborhood ofHaiyyania in westernpart of Basra early in themorning and clashedwith Mahdi Army

militiamen loyal toradical Shiite clericMuqtada al-Sadr, thesource told Xinhua oncondition of anonymity.

The Iraqi Army attackcame after the MahdiArmy militia pounded thetroops positions withmortar rounds androckets on Friday night,the source said. Heavygunfire resonated inthe neighborhood aspowerful explosionscould be heard at dawn,

which was the heaviestsince Prime Minister Nurial-Maliki supervised amajor crack down onSadr’s followers in lateMarch, he said.

Hours after theclashes, the Iraqi troopsmoved in the centerof neighborhood andchased some wantedmilitiamen, the sourcesaid, adding that noinformation about cas-ualties was available.

Xinhua

Raging forest fires in northChina still spreading

GAZA, 19 April —Palestinian healthministry’s ambulanceswill stop working in GazaStrip later on Saturdaydue to lack of fuel, anofficial said.

“At 6:00 pm, no am-bulance vehicle will beable to move and theywill completely come toa halt,” said Mu’awiaHassanein of theministry’s emergencydepartment.

“After checking withgas stations, it was sure

they have had no singleliter of benzene,” he toldreporters.

Israel graduallyreduced fuel shipmentsinto Gaza since Hamasseized control of the arealast June. In recentmonths, Gaza petroldistributors rejected toreceive fuel supplies after

Israel applied morereductions to theshipments.

Israel also closedNahal Oz fuel crossinglast week followingPalestinian militantsattack on the spot wheretwo workers at an Israeligas utility were killed.

Xinhua

BEIJING, 19 April —Forest fires which startedin north China's InnerMongolia AutonomousRegion on Wednesdaywere still spreading dueto high temperature andstrong wind in the region,the State Headquarters forForest Fire Control saidon Saturday.

About 5,173 peoplehave been deployed tofight forest fires raging infour spots in the GreaterHinggan Mountains areas,according to the localforest fire preventionheadquarters.

However, blazes inthese four locations werestill spreading by 7 pm onFriday, as local tem-perature in Wuerqihanreached 30 Celsius

degrees in the afternoonalong with gusts of 90kilometers per hour.

The state headquartershad asked to put out thefire with the help of man-made facilities despitethe unfavorable weatherconditions.Deputy com-mander-in-chief Lei Jiafuof the State Headquarters

for Forest Fire Control hasheaded for the site to bettermanage the fire-fightingefforts there.

The region’s forestryadministration said thefires were caused by theremains of other blazes forcreating firebreaks. Strongwinds led to their re-ignition.—Xinhua

All items from Xinhua News Agency

SEOUL, 19 April — TheSouth Korean governmentconfirmed Saturday a newoutbreak of H5N1 strainof bird flu, which becomesthe 25th confirmed casesof the deadly epidemic inthe country since lateMarch.

According to theMinistry for Food,

Agriculture, Forestry andFisheries, the new case ofbird flu was reported onThursday on a chickenfarm in Jeongeup, NorthJeolla province, and hasbeen tested positive forthe H5N1 virus. The farmis located 4 km away fromthe area where an outbreakof bird flu was confirmed

earlier this month. The ministry said it

plans to limit themovement of poultry,people and cars to a 10-km radius of the area,while seeking to cull andbury 525,000 chickens andducks raised within threekilometers of the affectedfarm.—Xinhua

Delhi state Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit flags off the Magic IndiaDiscovery Tour in the backdrop of the India Gate memorial in New Delhi,

India, on 20 April, 2008. Two Ferrari 612 Scaglietti are scheduled to cover aroute stretching more than 11,000 kilometres (6,875 miles) on a journey

across India that began in Mumbai on 25 Feb, and is scheduled to end on 8May . — INTERNET

A visitor walks past a Chery model B240 in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, on 18April, 2008. Chery, known as China’s biggest independent automotive

brand, will be directly involved in the manufacturing, assembly anddistribution of Chery vehicle along Alado in Malaysia.—INTERNET

Biologist Tatiana Teran, right, holds a one-month-old Ferruginous Pygmy-owl, Glaucidiumbrasilianum, at the National Zoo in Managua, on18 April, 2008. The owl was brought to the zoo

after its nest fell from a rotten branch at aconstruction site.—INTERNET

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The ceremony to unveil bronze plaque ofJivitadana Sangha Hospital (Mandalay) in

progress.

Jivitadana Sangha Hospital (Mandalay)

Mandalay Mayor Brig-Gen Phone Zaw Han accepts donation forJivitadana Sangha Hospital (Mandalay) from a wellwisher.

●Towards the new nationWill ratify Constitution.

Article: Tin Maung (Myanmar News Agency) Photos: Myanmar News Agency

(from page 16)The government es-

tablished Sangha hospi-tals in Yangon, Manda-lay, Sagaing andTaunggyi to providehealth care services tomembers of the Sanghaand nuns who are makingall-out efforts for ensur-ing purification, promo-tion and propagation ofthe Buddhism in the Un-ion of Myanmar. Moreo-ver, the government hasset up the trust funds ofthe Sangha hospitals withthe contributions ofwellwishers.

On 18 April 2008, theJivitadana Sangha Hospi-tal (Mandalay) was opened

in front of Pyigyimon Bargeon Kandawgyi Lake ringroad in Thanlyethmaw-taung Ward ofChanmyathazi Township,Mandalay.

To report matters re-lated to the JivitadanaSangha Hospital (Manda-lay), I made interviewswith responsible personsat the hospital on 18 Aprilafternoon.

In the interview, a re-sponsible person said thatduring the inspection tourof PyinOoLwin a year ago,the Head of State gave guid-ance to officials to chooseabout 40-acre land wherehealth care services can beprovided to about 200 in-

patient monks and 50 in-patient nuns in line with theVinaya rules in addition tothat of a Sangha Hospital(40-bed) in Mandalay witha view to upgrading healthstandard of the monks andnuns. Afterwards, thepresent site close toSagaing, Mandalay andAmarapura was chosen.The hospital is located on39.84 acres of land.

It was learnt that thedepartments concerned ofthe government, town-selders and wellwishersprovided necessary assist-ance for construction ofthe hospital.

The new Sangha Hos-pital was built in accordwith the characteristics ofa modern hospital such as14 medical wards andother supporting facilitiesincluding the administra-tion office, the monks’out-patient ward, the nuns’out-patient ward, five 36-bed-capacity monk patientawards, two 25-bed-ca-pacity monk wards, two36-bed-capacity nun pa-tient wards and one 25-

bed-capacity nun patientward, the operation thea-tres, the intensive careunits and the laboratories.At the same time, about250 in-patient monks and100 nuns can be separatelywarded at JivitadanaSangha General Hospital(Mandalay). Furthermore,modern hospital equip-ment has been provided tothe hospital in addition toone ambulance and threevehicles for the hospital.

Plans are underway to open the surgeryunit, the general care de-partment, the eye care de-partment, the ear, nose andthroat department, the or-thopedics and prosthesisphysiotherapy depart-ment, the child care de-partment, the mentalhealth department, thegastroentrology depart-ment, and the cardiac andneurology department atthe hospital.

Arrangements are be-ing made to offer suitablemeals to ailing membersof the Sangha and nuns inline with the Vinaya rulesin addition to the food forthe monks and nuns whoare accompanying ailingmembers of the Sanghaand nuns to assist them.

Moreover, clinicalpsychologists and otherspecialists including localretired medical professors,physicians, surgical spe-cialists and urosurgicalspecialists will providehealth care services to thepatients at the hospital.

At the specialist de-partment for patient monksand nuns, the specialistswill give eye, surgical andgeneral treatments to the

patients from 9 to 11 amon every Monday (re-marks: the orthopaedicsurgery will be provided.);orthopaedic, gynaecologi-cal, gastroen-terologicaltreatments to the patientsfrom 9 to 11 am on everyTuesday (remarks: thegeneral surgical and eyetreatment will be pro-vided); urological, ear,nose, throat, mental healthand dental treatments tothe patients from 9 to 11am on every Wednesday(remark: eye and dentalsurgical treatment will beprovided.); orthopaedic,gynaecological and dentaltreatments to the patientsfrom 9 am to 11 am onevery Thursday (remarks:urological, ear, nose, throatand dental treatment willbe provided); and ortho-paedic, gynaecological

and dental treatments tothe patients from 9 am to11 am on every Friday(remarks: surgical andurological treatments willbe provided.)

Indeed, the Head ofState realized the fact thatmembers of the Sanghado not want to undergomedical treatments to-gether with the people atthe same hospital undersingle shelter due to theprohibition in the Vinayarules. As a result, the es-tablishment and openingof Jivitadana SanghaHospital (Mandalay)built in accord with theguidance with goodwillgiven by the Head ofState is a remarkablemeritorious deed per-formed by the govern-ment.

Translation: TTA

Hospital equipment at Jivitadana SanghaHospital (Mandalay).

Patient wards at Jivitadana Sangha Hospital(Mandalay).

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U Kaung Yin, U Moe Thaw and U Win Ko of Myanmar Forest Products andTimber Merchants’ Association seen at the airport before departure for Malaysiaon Sunday. They will participate in the 7th ASEAN Skills Competition Meeetingand 1st Technical Committee Meeting to be held in Malacca, Malaysia from 21 to

25 April.— UMFCCI

YANGON, 20 April–A training course onDocumentum Software jointly organized by WinnerComputer Group and Verinon Technology Solutionsfrom Singapore will be opened in May, 2008.Documentum is an enterprise content, managementsoftware which is connected to document managementsystem, workflow management and web managementdistributed by EMC Corporation of USA. Enterprisecontent management is a technology to perform receiving,storing, maintaining and distributing content, documentwhich are related to work processes of the businesses.

Basic and Advanced Content ManagementSystem and developing EMC/Documentum contentmanagement solution will be lectured by experts of VerinonTechnology Solutions, Singapore and the examinationwill be held in Singapore.

The course will benefit IT professionals andcertificate holders will have access to job opportunities ininternational level.

Enterprise Content Management, Object typesand objects, Users and Privileges, Groups and Roles,Object Security, Workflow, Life Cycles and DQL conceptswill be lectured in basic course and Advanced DQLconcepts, Fundamentals of Documentum, FoundationClasses (DFC), Advanced DFC Programming,Fundamentals of WDK Framework and Advanced WDKFramework, in advanced course.

Those interested may contact Winner ComputerGroup. No (202), U Wizaya Road, Ph: 01 374165, 503599,703232 and 703230. —MNA

The wise outstrips the intoxicated

Not intoxicated among the intoxicated and wide-awakeamong the sleeping, the wise one outstrips them as a swifthorse outstrips a weak one.

Dhammapada-29

YANGON, 20 April—Honoraryprincipal of Myanmar Forest Productsand Timber Merchants’ Association UKaung Yin together with CEC membersU Moe Thaw and U Win Ko left forMalaysia by air this morning to attendthe 7th ASEAN Skills Competition

NAY PYI TAW, 20 April—DeputyMinister for Electric Power No -2 Brig-Gen Win Myint accompanied byofficials inspected construction of thecontrol room and Switch Yard of thesub-power station construction projectin Lashio in Shan State (North) on 15

Documentum Software Course in May

Dy Minister inspects power stationsApril.

On 16 April, the deputy ministerdiscussed construction of the project andinspected construction of Shwesayan mainsub-power station in Patheingyi Township,Mandalay Division and transformers.

MNA

MFPTMA CEC Members leave for MalaysiaMeeting and the First TechnicalCommittee Meeting to be held in Malaccaof Malaysia from 21 to 25 April.

They were seen off at YangonInternational Airport by Joint-SecretaryU Aung Naing Oo and Executive OfficerU Shein Min. —MNA

* Let’s get democracyBy voting at polling booth

Announcement onBird flu free-nation

NAY PYI TAW, 20 April — CEC member ofUnion Solidarity and Development Association Min-ister for Rail Transportation Maj-Gen Aung Min metthe members of USDA and local social organizationsin Kyaukgyi Township and Kyaukdagar Township andexplained tasks of regional development and madecash donations.

At the meeting hall of Htantabin TownshipUSDA’s Office, the minister met the members ofUSDAand social organizations in Htandabin, Taungoo, Phyu,Oaktwin and YedasheTownships and made cash do-nations for regional development tasks. — MNA

USDA CEC member ontour of Bago Division

YANGON, 20 April–Yangon Division wasstruck by an outbreak of Bird flu on 28-2-2007 and itwas able to put the disease under control on 21-4-2007. The virus spread to Bago Division (East) andMon State on 3-6-2007 and it was put under controlon 9-11-2007.

The incident of Bird flu in KengtungTownship, Shan State (East) occurred on 18-11-2007and it spread to Mongphyat Township where it wasput under control on 18-1-2008.

Bird flu that broke out in Myanmar is H5N1virus and according to laboratory test it is assessedthat the virus originates in other countries.

Veterinary surgeons of Livestock Breedingand Veterinary Department of Myanmar incooperation with experts from FAO, OIE, localauthorities, those from Myanmar Livestock BreedingFederation conducted a series of laboratory tests on19-1-2008 and confirmed that the nation was freefrom the disease.

The LBVD under the Ministry of Livestockand Fisheries on 20-4-2008 announced to OIE andFAO in accord with procedures and prescriptions that

the nation was free from Bird flu virus three monthsafter culling infected poultry and disease carriers.

Bird flu broke out in Sagaing and MandalayDivisions on 8-3-2006 as the first incident. But thenation was able to announce itself free from the viruson 4-9-2006.

Bird flu broke out in Yangon and BagoDivisions and Mon State on 28-2-2007 and in ShanState (East) on 18-11-2007. But the nation becamefree from the virus on 20-4-2008.

Laboratory tests revealed that the virusoriginates in other countries.

The LBVD urged the people not to consumepoultry and poultry products, eggs and virus vaccinesthat were smuggled into the country, not to breedindigenous chicks together with other poultry, toseparately carry out the marketing of live poultryand the processing of chicken, to increase bio-security in the breeding firms, not to sell infectedpoultry and to systematically bury the dead poultryand to inform the death of poultry to LBVD and localauthorities.

MNA

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It is certain that every Myanmar citizen of todaywants democracy and wishes for establishment ofdemocracy if they are asked.

What is democracy? Primarily, it is the in-clusiveness. Such right is the fundamental right aswell as the duty of every citizen.

On 10 May 2008, every Myanmar citizen willhave the right to vote in the national referendum inaccord with the law. Having the right to vote meansto people basically enjoy the principal right of thefundamental rights. In other words, the right to voteis to serve the primary duty out of a lot of duties.

Despite having the right to vote in the nationalreferendum, perhaps one does not go to the pollingbooth or casts ‘No’ vote, what will happen? There isan expression, Don’t postpone the work to be donetoday until tomorrow. It is sure that it may prolongthe time for both the country and the people.

The draft constitution that has to be approved bythe majority vote of the people in the nationalreferendum fully guarantees for restoration ofdemocracy for both the nation and the people.

Only when the constitution is approved, canpeople’s democratic administrative system bepracticed. The basic foundation of people’sdemocratic administrative system is the newconstitution. Only when there is infrastructure, cansuperstructures such as political, economic andeducation, health and social sectors be undertakenfully.

Every citizen is responsible for approval of theconstitution in the national referendum.

Here is a question. Why should we support theconstitution? The easiest and simplest answer is thatadministration with a constitution is more democraticthan administration without a constitution. Theconstitution provides anyone with equal rights beforethe law. It also protects anyone equally by law.

Towards the future State ofloyalists and men of integrity

A retired civil servant

The draft constitution was published nationwidefor study. One may think that there are difficult legalterms in the constitution. It is clearly written foreveryone who can read Myanmar to understand.

In the draft constitution there are preamble and 15chapters. Just read the Chapter 8 showing citizens andtheir fundamental rights and duties without readingany other chapters. Then one can be proud to be ameaningful national who enjoys rights on equal termswith others.

After reading the Chapter 8, one is urged to readthe Chapter 1 stating the fundamental principles of theState. The future State will be built in accordance withthe fundamental principles included in the Chapter 1.The Chapter 1 covers the practice of genuine discipline-flourishing multiparty democracy, the Union Systemand its formation, the practice of market-orientedeconomic system as well as independent, active andnon-aligned foreign policy.

If one studies the draft constitution, one will findthat it is the most suitable constitution, which hasvested all the citizens with cent-per-cent fundamentalrights and other rights.

It can be reviewed that criticisms levelled at the 25percent participation of representatives from militaryservice and 75 percent participation of representatives-elect in the parliament are none other than the instigationof politicians craving for power.

This is because the 25 percent participation ofmilitary servicemen, though they are not elected, isjust to handle the situation of the country throughcheck and balance on behalf of the people if defectsand loopholes occur in exercising legislative, executiveand judicial powers.

The very essence of the present constitution is thatit has been formulated to help practise a genuine multi-party democratic system with the flourishing discipline.This is the way paving for the promising future of each

and every citizen.It can also be analysed that the present constitution

will not cause any problems at all like the problemcreated by the political parties while they were vyingfor power in practising parliamentary democracy inaccord with the 1947 constitution and the problemthat occurred because of the single power-wieldingparty in practising one-party system in accord withthe 1974 constitution.

It is the undeniable fact that the three branches ofState powers, legislative, executive and judicial, arenot in the hands of Tatmadaw at all. They are in thehands of the people and they are within the nationalsovereignty. The three powers are being shared toensure check and balance.

There is no doubt about the policy of foreignaffairs. The Chapter Detailed Basic Principles of theState describes as follows:

Article 41 states the State practises independent,active and non-aligned foreign policy, aims at worldpeace, and friendly relations with nations, and upholdsthe principles of peaceful co-existence among nations.

Article 42 statesa) the State never starts aggression against any

nation;b) no foreign troops are permitted to be deployed

within the borders of the Union.No matter what those opposing say, the world

always respects and recognizes Myanmar’s foreignpolicy. The London Times (1, November 1971 issue)states in its editorial as follows:

“If there is a country from Asia that deserves towin a prize for practising non-aligned policy, thatcountry should be Myanmar. While the rival nationswere cajoling other nations into being their followerswith the use of carrots when the Cold War was at itspeak, Myanmar was able to stand firm and could notbe influenced. The country has its loyalty and integrityin spite of being poor.”

The world has recognized that Myanmars haveloyalty and integrity. Such characteristics come fromMyanmar’s having patriotism, cherishingindependence, wanting perpetual sovereignty andloathing for being a follower of the colonialists and apuppet government.

I, therefore, believe that all citizens with loyaltyand integrity will support and cast ‘yes’ vote for theapproval of the constitution in the nationalreferendum.

(Translation: NY+ST)********

The world has recognized that Myanmars have loyalty

and integrity. Such characteristics come from

Myanmar’s having patriotism, cherishing

independence, wanting perpetual sovereignty and

loathing for being a follower of the colonialists and a

puppet government.

* For flourishing of democracyRatify Constitution

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China’s first test-tube PereDavid’s deer born in Beijing

One in two Dutch opposeAfghanistan mission

AMSTERDAM, 19 April — Almost half thepopulation of the Netherlands opposes the Dutchmission in Afghanistan, according to a poll conductedafter the son of the new chief of the Dutch military waskilled there on Friday.

Dutch troops have been participating in theNATO-led operation in Afghanistan since 2006. TheDutch government decided last year to extend themission in southern Afghanistan until 2010 after aheated debate and under pressure from allies.

The survey by pollster Maurice de Hond, releasedlate on Friday, showed that 49 percent of the Dutchwere against the mission, up from 44 percent about sixmonths ago. Support for Dutch participation shrank to46 percent from 51 percent.

Forty-nine percent of the respondents wanted thegovernment to pull out its troops from Afghanistanthis summer, the poll showed.

MNA/Reuters

An emergency vehicle waits at the scene where rubblefrom earthquake damage lies strewn along a sidewalkin an old section of Louisville, Ky, on 18 April, 2008.The 5.2 magnitude earthquake, centered in southernIllinois, rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop andhomes in Cincinnati but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage.—INTERNET

This picture released by the French Army shows crew members of the Frenchluxury sailing ship Le Ponant's after being freed by pirates off the Somali coaston 11 April. Six suspected Somali pirates who commandeered a French luxuryyacht and held its 30 crew members hostage for a week are to face several charges including hijacking in France, prosecutors have said.—INTERNET

Pedestrians walk across a footbridge above a busy road as smog obscuresbuildings in the distance in Beijing, on 16 April, 2008.—INTERNET

Smoke cloud engulfs Argentine capital for 5th day

Egypt considers to upgrade diplomaticrepresentation in Iraq

Number ofdengue cases

sharply increasesin Singapore

SINGAPORE, 19 April —Singapore has so farreported 1,400 cases ofdengue disease this year,up 47.3 percent over a yearago.

Singapore's ChannelNewsAsia reports quotedthe Ministry of Health assaying on Saturday thatthere were 1,400 reportedcases of dengue betweenJanuary and 12 April thisyear.

Construction sites areblamed to be one potentialhotspot for the spread ofdengue disease.

Officers from the citystate's National Environ-ment Agency have beenconducting checks atpublic areas at the Housingand Development Board'sestates since the beginningof this year. And after that,the fight against denguedisease moves intohomes.—MNA/Xinhua

Over 2,000 Chinese, US childrenpaint for Green Olympics

BEIJING, 19 April —China's first artificiallyconceived Milu, or PereDavid's deer, has been bornin Beijing.

The male fawn was outof danger seven days afterits birth on 11 April, andwas being monitored bystaff in the BeijingNanhaizi Pere David's

Deer Park, the BeijingDaily reported onSaturday.

The deer, used to be aunique species in China,were once extinct in Chinabefore imported animalswere reintroduced in themiddle of 1980s.

On July 15 last year, astud was selected for theartificial insemination ofsix females.

About 2,000 PereDavid's deer exist acrossthe world, but all aredescended from 18

animals that lived 100years ago, the paper said.

This inbreedingcaused a low reproductionrate, a sex ratio imbalance,and high rates of difficultand abnormal births, apark spokesman wasquoted by the paper assaying.

Wild species of the rareanimal have been extinctfor over a century. Expertshad hoped that the deerwould breed once it isreturned to its wild habitat.

MNA/Xinhua

BUENOS AIRES, 19April — A thick cloud ofsmoke covered BuenosAires for a fifth day onSaturday, the fallout offield burning that hasforced the closure ofhighways, flight delays

and traffic congestion. The smoke started

to appear over theArgentine capital morethan a week ago, butvisibility deterioratedconsiderably in the cityon Friday and Saturday,

with an acrid smellpervading homes andcausing watery eyes andsore throats among cityresidents. Visibilitydowntown was barely 500yards (metres).

Emergency servicesmarshaled traffic in someareas of the city, while thecapital's domestic airportJorge Newbery divertedincoming aircraft to theinternational airportoutside Buenos Aires —where the smoke alsocaused some flightdeparture delays.

MNA/Reuters

BEIJING, 19 April —Hundreds of Chinese andUS children exchangedtheir two giant paintings

Saturday at the BeijingInternational SculpturePark, with a common themeof environmental protectiondesigned for the GreenOlympics.

The US environmentalartist Robert Wyland andChinese artist Yuan Xikuneach worked with over 1,000children from their countriesto create giant paintings ofaround 80 square meters,symbolizing the unity forthe upcoming BeijingOlympic Games.

The artwork created byWyland and the US childrendepicts three dolphinsracing through the oceans,representing the Olympicmotto—“Faster, Higher,Stronger”, said SteveCreech, programme direc-tor of the Wyland Foun-dation, non-profit organi-zation founded in 1993 byWyland.—MNA/Xinhua

CAIRO, 19 April —Egypt is considering toupgrade its diplomaticrepresentation in the war-torn country of Iraq, asenior official said onSaturday.

Mohammed Badred-din, Egypt's AssistantForeign Minister for ArabAffairs told reporters thatCairo made the con-sideration as Baghdad isexerting pressure on Arabcountries to upgrade theirdiplomatic representation

in Iraq. After a blast at the

Jordanian embassy in Iraqin August 2003 killed atleast 17 people, manyArab diplomats chose tostay away from Baghdad.

MNA/Xinhua

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Images of the Day

A young Ring-tailed Lemur jumps in itsenclosure at Rapperswil zoo, in Rapperswil,Switzerland, on 18 April, 2008.—INTERNET

American winner

Danica Patrick of

Andretti Green

Racing, right, poses

with her trophy on the

podium as second place

finisher Brazil's Helio

Castroneves of Team

Penske shows his

smaller one on the

podium after the Indy

Japan 300 auto racing

at Twin Ring Motegi

in Motegi, northeast of

Tokyo on 20 April,

2008.—INTERNET

A wax figure of Spiderman at Madamme Tussauds in London.The US film industry is gearing up for summer's blockbuster movie

season.—INTERNET

Men dressed as ancient Roman centurions parade next to the ancient Colosseumto celebrate the birth of the city of Rome, on 20 April, 2008. Legend has it thatRome was founded on 21 April, 753 BC by Romulus and his brother Remus, thetwin sons of the god of war Mars, who were suckled as infants by a she-wolf in the woods. —INTERNET

Researchers with the Geological Survey of Canada are living on the sea ice north of Ellesmere Island intwo camps like this one this week as they study the contours and composition of the ocean floor.—INTERNET

An Ariane 5 rocket ready for its second mission of 2008 at Kourou Spaceport,clearing the way for a final countdown to its liftoff on 19 April, 2008 with the StarOne C2 (for Brasilian operator Star One) and VINASAT-1 (built par LockheedMartin Commercial Space Systems for Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Corporation) telecommunications satellites.—INTERNET

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BEIJING, 18 April — Aconsultation betweenChina and Russia onstrategic stability was heldhere on Friday, accordingto the Foreign Ministry.

The two nationsexchanged views on thecurrent internationalsecurity situation, non-proliferation, hot regionalissues and multilateralarms control, a Pressrelease from the ministrysaid.

The two nationsagreed, according to thepress release, that it is ofvital importance for worldpeace and security tosafeguard global strategicstability, boost mutualtrust among nations andresolve internationaldisputes by peacefulmeans.

Support for the armscontrol process under themultilateral frameworkand settlement of issuesconcerning the non-proliferation process arealso of great significance,the press release said.

MNA/Xinhua

PARIS, 18 April —Representatives from 16major worldeconomiesand international organi-zations are meeting herefor the third time to discussenergy and climate issues,notably on the fight againstglobal warming, accord-

WASHINGTON, 18 April— US Republican presid-ential candidate JohnMcCain paid $157,231 infederal income taxes for2006 and 2007, accordingto records released onFriday that did not includethose of his wealthy wife,Cindy. McCain, 71, an Ari-zona senator, had taxableincome of $474,104 inthose two years combinedbased on his Senate salary,his book royalties, a Navypension and SocialSecurity income.

McCain paid $157,231

McCain paid $157,231 infederal taxes in 2006-07

WUHAN, 19 April —China completed its firstroad tunnel across theYangtze River onSaturday in central China'sWuhan City after more

in federal income taxes forthe two years. During theseyears he and Mrs McCaindonated $340,323 tocharitable causes, most ofit to the John and CindyMcCain Family Found-ation, which makes directcontributions to charities.

The McCain campaigndid not release the taxreturns of McCain’s wife,who inherited a multi-million-dollar Anheuser-Busch beer distributor-ship, one of the country’slargest, from her father.

MNA/Xinhua

France holds meeting on energy, climatefor major economies

ing to reports.During the two-day

meeting which begunThursday, the participantswill discuss long-termobjectives of sustainabledevelopment, technologytransfers, reduction ofgreen house gases (GES)

by the production sectors,as well as the means ofmeeting the challengesposed by climate changes.

The French statesecretary for EuropeanAffairs Jean-Pierre Jouyeturged participating coun-tries to open frank negoti-ations to reach a consensuson the issue of green houseemissions from the year2012. He also underscoredthe important role of theUnited Nations UN in thediscussions on climatechange, saying the processshould be undertakenwithin the UN framework.

MNA/Xinhua

China, Russiahold talks on

strategic stabilityin Beijing

China completes its first roadtunnel across Yangtze River

than three years ofconstruction.

The 3,609-meter, bi-directional four-lane roadtunnel connects Wuhan'stwo major parts —Wuchang, wheregovernment offices anduniversities are based, andHankou, the businesscenter.

The tunnel will allow52,000 vehicles to travelat 50 kilometers per houreach day, said YinWeizhen, Wuhan vicemayor.

"It will take only sevenminutes from Wuchang toHankou, while travelingabove the ground costs halfan hour."

The strongly permeable

tunnel can combat a floodoccurring once in 300 yearsand earthquake measuringup to six on the Richterscale, Yin said.

The two-billion yuan(286 million U.S. dollars)project began in November2004 and is expected to beopen late this year.

Wuhan, capital ofHubei Province, is one ofthe largest city in centralChina with a population ofeight million. It is the centerof five railway lines, sixexpressways, and severalhighways. The city servesas the gateway to China'shinterlands and is nick-named the "thoroughfare tonine provinces".

MNA/Xinhua

ANKARA, 19 April — Turkey’s Ministry of Energyand Natural Resources is taking advantage of thecountry’s geostrategic position by launching andparticipating in major energy projects, local newspaperZaman reported on Saturday.

“70 percent of the world’s oil and natural gas isproduced in our region,” the report quoted Minister ofEnergy and Natural Resources Hilmi Guler as saying,adding that Turkey has abundant wind energy, coalresources and hydroelectric potential which have notbeen fully exploited. “What we are doing now is usingthem efficiently,” he noted.

Guler said Turkey’s investments in wind energyhad increased for a 42 megawatts capacity, a great gainfrom the previous 17 megawatts.

Meanwhile, “Turkish government has so far investeda significant amount of money in mines and privatizedthe majority of them,” he added.

Moreover, he also noted that Turkey sits on a majorearthquake zone which brings advantages such asgeothermal energy.

“Turkey ranks second in Europe and seventh in theworld in terms of geothermal energy potential.” hesaid.

MNA/Xinhua

Two people killed, 12 injured inbomb attack in northern IraqMOSUL, 19 April— Two people were killed and 12

others injured on Saturday in a roadside bomb attacktargeted a US patrol in Mosul, capital of Iraq’s northernprovince of Nineveh,a provincial security source said.

The incident occurred after midday near a parkinglot in eastern Mosul when a roadside bomb struck a buscarrying passengers, the source told Xinhua oncondition of anonymity.

The blast targeted a US patrol but apparently missedits target and hit the bus, the source added.

Five women were among the wounded passengers.Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, has been

the hotbed of insurgency since the US-led invasionfive years ago. —MNA/Xinhua

Turkey to employ geostrategicadvantages in energy projects

The new Apple iPhone is displayed at the Apple

store in central London, recently. Mobile phone

groups O2 and Carphone Warehouse have cut

the price for the most basic version of Apple’s

iPhone in Britain by 100 pounds ($197) ahead of

the expected launch of a new model.—INTERNET

MACAO,19 April — Macao’s three sea-spanningbridges were closed by the traffic authorities Saturdayas the escalating tropical cyclone Neoguri sweptthrough the island city.

The Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau(SMG) hoisted Gale Signal No 8 at 1:30 pm Saturday,warning that the hurricane has been detected 250 kmsouthwest off Macao’s coast, and was moving at aspeed of 15 km per hour northward.

MNA/Xinhua

Macao closes bridgesamid tropical storm

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First South Korean astronautreturns to earth

Shells grown with Olympics emblemdisplayed in E China

South Korea’s first astronaut Yi So-Yeon smiles during a medical test afterreturning to Earth in a Russian space capsule in northern Kazakhstan. Yi

returned to Earth, touching down with two International Space Station crewmembers slightly off target in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan.—XINHUA

MOSCOW, 19 April —The Russian Soyuzspacecraft with SouthKorea’s first femaleastronaut Yi So-yeonaboard landed safely inthe Kazakh steppe onSaturday, according to theMission Control Center.

The spacecraft carryingYi, US astronautPeggy Whitson andRussian cosmonaut YuriMalenchenko undockedwith the InternationalSpace Station (ISS) and

started trip home earlierSaturday.

The Soyuz capsulelanded in the Kazakhsteppe at 12:51 Moscowtime (0851GMT), 20minutes later than theplanned time and 420 kmfrom the planned landingsite, the Misson Controlsaid. Rescue and searchgroups have evacuated thecosmonauts from thecapsule.

The cosmonauts aresafe and sound, federal

space agency headAnatoly Perminov told apress conference at theMission Control.

Whitson and Malen-chenko have worked inorbit for more than 191days, while Yi, a 29-year-old biosystems engineer,arrived at the ISS on April10 together with SergeiVolkov and OlegKononenko, the ISS Ex-pedition 17 crew who willwork in orbit till nextautumn. —Internet

A pair of shells grownwith the Beijing

Olympics emblem areshown at the 6th China(International) Pearl

Festival in east China’sZhejiang Province on

18 April, 2008.INTERNET

BEIJING, 20 April — Apair of shells grown withthe Beijing Olympicsemblem made appearanceat the 6th China(International) PearlFestival held in east China’sZhejiang Province.

The shells are giftsproduced by Zhejiang-based company GracePearl, a Beijing Olympicssponsor, China NewsService reported.

Since the company

received the authorizationto produce the Olympiclicensed products twoyears ago, Grace Pearlbegan to cultivatefreshwater mussels withmolds in the shape of theBeijing Olympics emblem.

Finally, they selectedabout 10,000 shells fromamong 200,000 pieces assouvenirs for theOlympics. Freshwaterpearl farming is a uniqueindustry in China. Nearly

99 percent of freshwaterpearls in the world arecultivated in China, butaccounts for only 9 percentof global output value.

Internet

A copy of “Bathers” by 17th century French painter Georges Seurat, made ofchocolate Smarties, is seen at an exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert

Childhood Museum, in this undated handout photograph received on April 17,2008. The exhibition called “Smartie Art”, at London’s Victoria & AlbertChildhood Museum, features three chocolate paintings by Staite that copy

well-known artworks, including Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn Monroe”, Englishgraffiti artist Banksy’s “Spotless” and 17th century French painter Georges

Seurat’s “Bathers”.— XINHUA

Less TV watching time reduces risk ofbeing overweight for kids

Record $500,000 paid for27 bottles of red wine

LOS ANGELES, 19 April— Getting kids to exercisemore and cut down ontelevision watching candramatically reduce theirrisk of being overweight,according to a new study.

The American

Academy of Pediatricshas recommended thatboys take at least 11,000steps per day, girls 13,000steps per day, and totalscreen time should belimited to two hours perday. But researchers in thedepartment of kinesiologyat Iowa State Universityfound that many childrenhave failed to follow theguidelines.

The researchers gavepedometers to a group of709 children (ages 7 to12) from public ele-mentary schools in Iowaand Minnesota to wear fora week. They alsosurveyed the childrenabout their weekday andweekend television habits,which included watchingTV as well as playingvideo games.— Internet

LONDON, 19 April —While the global creditcrunch has forced manyconsumers to rein inspending, one Beijing-based billionaire hassplashed out a record$500,000 on 27 bottles ofred wine, London-basedAntique Wine Companysaid on Saturday. The anonymousChinese entrepreneurbought a mix of vintagesof Romanee Conti, aBurgundy wine andconsidered to be amongthe world’s most exclusivewith only 450 casesproduced each year. The client bought 12bottles of Romanee Conti1978, two bottles of the1961, 1966, 1996 and 2003and single bottles of the1981, 1990, 1992, 1995,1999, 2001 and 2002. “Itis the highest price that hasever been achieved for asingle lot,” ManagingDirector Stephen Williams

of the London- basedAntique Wine Companytold Reuters on Saturday. “I don’t think he hasbought this as aninvestment — he hasbought it to drink,” headded. “The fine wine

industry is completelyimmune from the globalcredit crunch.” Theclient’s biggest previouspurchase was 30,000pounds ($59,880) for acase of 1982 ChateauPetrus.—MNA/Reuters

Eurostar train reachesParis 10 hours late

PARIS, 19 April —A Eurostar train from London toParis arrived in the French capital on Saturday almost10 hours late after passengers were forced to changetrains twice during an overnight journey that normallytakes just over two hours.

“There was a whole series of technical problems andmix-ups but the situation is completely unacceptable,”Mireille Faugere, director of passenger services forFrench rail operator SNCF, told reporters waiting forthe train to arrive at the Gare du Nord in Paris. Eurostar,which carried a record 8.26 million passengers in2007, has been boosted by the opening of the renovatedSt Pancras terminal in London last year and posted a21.3 percent rise in passenger numbers in the first threemonths of the year.—MNA/Reuters

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Austria striker Hoffer extendsrapid contract

VIENNA, 18 April — Rapid Vienna have kept prom-ising Austria striker Erwin “Jimmy” Hoffer at the clubafter agreeing a two-year extension to his contract.

The league leaders, who can wrap up the title witha win over eighth-placed Altach on Sunday, said onFriday that the 21-year-old had signed a new dealrunning until June 2011.

Hoffer has attracted attention after helpingAustria reach the semi-finals of the 2007 under-20World Cup but the club said there was no get-outclause in the extended contract.—MNA/Reuters

Bolton beat Boro to climb out of bottom three

Celtic move above Rangerswith 1-0 win over Aberdeen GLASGOW, 19 April — Georgios Samaras earned

champions Celtic a 1-0 win over Aberdeen that putthem two points ahead of Rangers in the ScottishPremier League on Saturday.

The Greek striker headed home in the 56th minutefrom 10 metres following a free kick by Barry Robson.

But Celtic had to survive a first half scare whenScott Severin cracked a shot that hit both posts beforelanding in the arms of Polish keeper Artur Boruc in thefourth minute.

Celtic top the standings with 77 points from 34games while Rangers have 75 points from 31. Rangersface second division St Johnstone in their Scottish FACup semi-final on Sunday.

MNA/Reuters

Federer reaches first finalof the year in Portugal LISBON, 19 April —

World number one RogerFederer recovered fromone set down to beatuseeded German DenisGremelmayr 2-6 7-5 6-1on Saturday to reach hisfirst final of the year at theEstoril Open.

The 26-year-old Swissstruggled to counterGremelmayr’s powerfulbaseline game but pulledclear with a series of acesin the third set to face ei-ther Nikolay Davydenkoof Russia or France’sFlorent Serra in Sunday'sfinal.—MNA/Reuters

Espanyol hold Barca to boredraw at the Nou Camp

MADRID, 19 April — Barcelona failed again to putpressure on leaders Real Madrid after being held to a0-0 drawat home by city rivals Espanyol in the PrimeraLiga on Saturday. The Champions League semi-final-ists have only managed one win in their last eightleague matches and put in a toothless display in apassion-free derby with their struggling neighbours.

Barca stay second with 61 points, eight short ofReal who can extend their lead at the top to 11 with awin at fifth-placed Racing Santander on Sunday.

“When our luck changes and the ball goes in, thenthe dynamic we are in will change. We aren’t giving upon the title,” Barca coach Frank Rijkaard said.

Barcelona lacked pace and a cutting edge in theNou Camp until Rijkaard brought on Lionel Messi andAndres Iniesta for the second half.—MNA/Reuters

Zimbabwe U-20plays Lesotho inyouth tourney HARARE, 19 April —

Four years after their lastmeeting in the same com-petition, the ZimbabweUnder-20 team take onLesotho in an AfricanYouth Championshipspreliminary round quali-fier in Maseru on Sunday,according to The Heraldon Saturday.

The two sides willclash in the reverse fix-ture in two weeks' timewith the winners progress-ing to the first round wherethey meet Egypt in June.

Egypt were handed abye in the preliminaryround and the winner fromthe Egypt/Zimbabwe/Lesotho game is set to takeon either Zambia, Mauri-tius or Madagascar in thefinal qualifying round forthe championship set inRwanda next year.

MNA/Reuters

Lyon edge nearer title withcomeback victory

PARIS, 19 April — Olympique Lyon edged closer toa record seventh consecutive Ligue 1 title by fightingback from a goal down to win 2-1 at 10-man RacingStrasbourg on Saturday.

Lyon have 71 points with four matches left, sevenahead of second-placed Girondins Bordeaux, whoplay their game in hand at Toulouse on Sunday.

Colombia striker Wason Renteria put Strasbourgahead on 20 minutes before the home side had Gabonforward Eric Mouloungui sent off for a second book-ing on the stroke of halftime. Lyon stepped up a gearin the second period with headed goals from midfielderMathieu Bodmer and Italy defender Fabio Grosso.

The win was marred by a knee injury sustained byLyon and France striker Karim Benzema, who had togo off after 36 minutes.—MNA/Reuters

Arsenal’s Cesc Fabregas (L) challenges Reading’sKalifa Cisse during their English Premier Leaguesoccer match at the Emirates stadium in London

on 19 April, 2008.—INTERNET

Blackburn Rovers’ Roque SantaCruz (L) challenges Manchester

United’s Wayne Rooney for the ballduring their English Premier League

soccer match at Ewood Parkin Blackburn, northern England

on 19 April, 2008. —INTERNET

Liverpool’s Martin Skrtel (R) chal-lenges Fulham’s David Healy duringtheir English Premier League soccermatch at Craven Cottage, in London

on 19 April, 2008.—INTERNET

Man United leave it lateto earn precious point

LONDON, 19 April — Carlos Tevezpounced late to earn Manchester Uniteda 1-1 draw at Blackburn Rovers onSaturday just when it looked like thePremier League title race had been blastedwide open.

Roque Santa Cruz’s 21st minute shothad given Rovers the lead and they werehanging on grimly despite intense Unitedpressure until Tevez swooped to flick ina header with two minutes of normal timeremaining.

Defeat would have left United justtwo points above Chelsea, who they faceat Stamford Bridge next week, but thanksto Tevez they are three clear with threegames to go and still in the driving seatthanks to their superior goal difference.

MNA/Reuters

LONDON, 19 April — Bolton Wander-ers secured a priceless three points intheir bid to escape relegation on Satur-day, winning 1-0 at Middlesbrough.

Gavin McCann struck after the breakat the Riverside to take Wanderers out ofthe relegation zone, above BirminghamCity and Reading, who had earlier lost2-0 at Arsenal.

Reading could find themselves in therelegation zone on Sunday should Bir-mingham beat Aston Villa.

While Bolton earned a second con-

secutive 1-0 victory to claw themselvestowards safety, things were looking grimfor Fulham who lost 2-0 at home to abelow-strength Liverpool.

Jermaine Pennant and Peter Crouch,both of whom are unlikely to start inLiverpool's Champions League semi-fi-nal, first leg against Chelsea next week,were on target to leave Fulham five pointsfrom the safety zone with three games toplay.—MNA/Reuters

Boavista players goahead with strike

LISBON, 18 April — Boavista's play-ers have confirmed they will go on strikethis weekend after the club failed to paysalaries that are two months overdue, thehead of the players’ union told reporterson Friday. Joaquim Evangelista said theplayers will not turn out against NacionalMadeira in the Portuguese Premier Leagueon Sunday after failing in their attempts toreach agreement.

Portuguese sports daily A Bola quotedBoavista director Alvaro Braga Junior onits Web site (www.abola.pt) saying: “Un-til lunch time (Saturday) we will try tofind a solution and I hope that it is not a sadSunday for the history of Boavista andfootball”.—MNA/Reuters

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Sunday, 20 April, 2008

Summary of observations recorded at 9:30 hoursMST: During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershow-ers have been scattered in Taninthayi Division,weather has been partly cloudy in Shan, Mon and KayinStates, Yangon Division and generally fair in the re-maining States and Divisions. Day temperatures were(3ºC) to (4ºC) above April average temperatures inKayah State, Mandalay and Ayeyawady Divisions,(5ºC) to (6ºC) above April average temperatures inKachin, Shan and Chin States, Sagaing and MagwayDivisions and about April average temperatures inthe remaining areas. The significant day tempera-tures were Chauk (45ºC), Monywa, Minbu andMagway (44ºC) each, Shwebo, NyaungU, Myingyanand Aunglan (43ºC) each, NayPyiTaw, Kalewa, Man-dalay and Pyinmana (42ºC) each. The noteworthyamount of rainfall recorded was Kawthoung (1.22)inches.

Maximum temperature on 19-4-2008 was 99ºF.Minimum temperature on 20-4-2008 was 76ºF. Rela-tive humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 20-4-2008 was79%. Total sunshine hours on 19-4-2008 was (5.5)hours approx.

Rainfall on 20-4-2008 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since1-1-2008 was (1.69) inches at Mingaladon, (1.85)inches at Kaba-Aye and (0.83) inch at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was(5) mph from Southwest at (15:30) hours MST on19-4-2008.

Bay inference: Weather is generally fair in theNorth Bay and partly cloudy in the Andaman Sea andelsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 21-4-2008: Like-lihood of isolated rain or thundershowers in Kachinand northern Shan States, Taninthayi Division, weatherwill be partly cloudy in Rakhine, Mon, Kayin andKayah States, Bago, Yangon and Ayeyawady Divi-sions and generally fair in the remaining areas. De-gree of certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Seas will be slight to moderatein Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihoodof continuation of rain or thundershowers in thesouthern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouringarea for 21-4-2008: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 21-4-2008: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 21-4-2008: Generally fair weather.

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Brazil’s women thrash Ghana toqualify for the games

BEIJING, 19 April —World Cup runners-upBrazil beat Ghana 5-1 winin a playoff on Saturday toclinch the final place in theOlympic women’s soccertournament.

World Player of theYear Marta scored from a20-metre free kick in the19th minute and set upanother for Cristiane justbefore halftime. Cristianescored a second followinga headed strike by hercaptain Aline in the secondhalf.

Rosana contributedBrazil’s fifth after 74minutes and Ghana’s AnitaAmankwa put away aconsolation effort twominutes later.

Brazil, ranked fourthin the world, were forcedinto the playoff with theAfrican runners-up afterArgentina earned the SouthAmerican qualifying spot.

A crowd of 21,185spectators watched the first

match in the newly-refurbished Workers’Stadium, first built in 1959.The 62,000-seat stadiumwill stage games during theAug 8-24 Olympics,including the final of thewomen’s tournament.Hosts China, defendingchampions the US,Argentina, Canada, Japan,

Nigeria, North Korea,Germany, Norway,Sweden and New Zealandhave qualified alongsideBrazil for the tournament.

The draw for both themen’s and women’sOlympic tournaments willtake place in Beijing onSunday.

MNA/Reuters

Roma held by Livorno andlose Totti

MILAN, 19 April — AS Roma’s title hopes suffereda double blow on Saturday when they were held 1-1 athome by Livorno and lost Francesco Totti to a seriousknee injury.

Alessandro Diamanti snatched a useful point forrelegation-threatened Livorno with a late free kickafter striker Mirko Vucinic had headed Roma in front.

In Saturday’s other Serie A game, Fiorentina beatvisitors Palermo 1-0 to move seven points clear offifth-placed AC Milan and tighten their grip on thefinal Champions League qualifying spot.

Leaders Inter Milan can extend their lead oversecond-placed Roma to six points if they win at Torinoin Sunday’s late game (1830 GMT). Four games willthen remain in the title race, with Inter playing rivalsAC Milan in two weeks’s time. —MNA/Reuters

Toni double gives Bayern 2-1 Cup final victory BERLIN, 19 April — Italian Luca Toni struck twice to earn Bayern Munich a 2-1 extra-time win over

Borussia Dortmund in the German Cup final on Saturday.

Kenyan,Belorussianrunners win

BelgradeMarathonBLEGRADE, 19 April

— William Kipchumbaof Kenya won the men’srace in the 21st BelgradeMarathon on Saturday,while the women’s eventtitle went to Belorussianrunner Natalia Chatkina.

Kipchumba finishedthe race in two hours, 14minutes, three seconds.He was followed by twocompatriots JonathanKipsaina with 2:16.14and Victor Robert with2:16.47.

“I had no problemsduring the race. On the36th kilometer, I pulledaway, and I could see thatI was winning. Theweather conditions weregood,” Kipchumba saidafter the race.

MNA/Xinhua

The victory gave the Bavarians a record 14th win in thecompetition and set up a likely domestic double Toniscored his first goal in the 11th minute and Bayern wereheading for victory before Mladen Petric struck in thesecond minute of added time to level the scores and bringheroic Dortmund back from the brink at the Olympiastadion.

Bayern struggled to keep Dortmund at bay in extra-time before Italy striker Toni wrongfooted Dortmundgoalkeeper Marc Ziegler in the 103rd minute to seal thevictory with the 35th goal of his remarkable debut seasonin Germany.

Dortmund finished with 10 men after JakubBlaszczykowski received a second booking in the 108th

minute.Bayern hold a 10-point lead in the Bundesliga with

five matches to play and should go on to complete theirthird league and cup double in four seasons.

They could even make it a treble, with the first leg oftheir UEFA Cup semi-final with Zenit St Petersburg onThursday.

“I hope there are a lot more goals to come,” Toni toldreporters. “There are still two titles to win.”

Ottmar Hitzfeld’s side had beaten Dortmund 5-0 inthe Bundesliga the previous weekend and the way theystarted made a similar result look possible.

MNA/Reuters

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1st Waning of Oo Tagu 1370 ME Monday, 21 April, 2008

Let us all* who are equipped with ardent patriotism,* who cherish genuine independence,* who aspire perpetuation of sovereignty,* who loathe foreign interference and manipulation, and* who oppose puppet government with strings of colonialists,

VOTE “YES” for ratification of the Constitution.

● Democracy cannot beachieved by anarchism or

violence, but by Constitution.

● Let’s approve Constitution toshape our future by ourselves.

* To ratify ConstitutionLet’s go to the polling booth

* We remain ever unitedwhoever tries to divide usAnd will cast “Yes” vote

Jivitadana Sangha Hospital(Mandalay)

Article: Tin Maung (Myanmar News Agency) Photos: Myanmar News Agency

members of the Sanghacan obtain the merits withthe equal term of provid-ing medical treatment toLord Buddha Himself.

Hence, those wishing toprovide treatment to LordBuddha are to care the ail-

ing members of theSangha.

(See page 7)

● For ratification of Constitution Let’s go to polling booth to cast “Yes” vote.

Newly opened Jivitadana Sangha Hospital in Mandalay.

The Lord Buddha al-lowed members of theSangha to accept fourkinds of donations suchas ‘soon’, robes, monas-

teries and medicines.In addition to urging

the disciples to providemedical treatment to thesick monks, the Lord Bud-

dha Himself gave treat-ments to the ailing monks.

The Lord Buddhagave guidance that givingtreatment to the ailing

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