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Vice-Senior General Maung Ayereceives Indian military attachesYANGON, 3 Dec— Vice-Chairman

of the State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Deputy Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye this morning receivedMilitary Attaché of India to MyanmarColonel Shakti Gurung who had com-pleted his tour of duty and his succes-

sor Colonel Chopra Jasvinder Singh atZeyarthiri Beikman on Konmyintthahere.

Also present were General KhinNyunt, Military Adviser to the SPDCchairman, Commander-in-Chief (Navy)Vice-Admiral Kyi Min and Com-mander-in-Chief (Air) Maj-Gen MyatHein. —MNA

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Secretary-1 addresses concluding of Special Refresher Course for TeachersYANGON, 3 Dec— Vice-Chairman of Myanmar Educa-

tion Committee Secretary-1 of State Peace and Develop-ment Council Lt-Gen Soe Win delivered an address at theconcluding of the Special Refresher Course No 20 forBasic Education Teachers held at Yadana Hall of CentralInstitute of Civil Service (Upper Myanmar) in PyinOoLwinTownship, Mandalay Division, yesterday morning.

Also present on the occasion were Minister for Coop-eratives Maj-Gen Htay Oo, Minister for Energy Brig-GenLun Thi, Minister for Education U Than Aung, DeputyMinister for Industry-2 Lt-Col Khin Maung Kyaw, DeputyMinister for Mines U Myint Thein, Deputy Minister forProgress of Border Areas and National Races and Devel-opment Affairs Brig-Gen Than Tun, Deputy Minister forTransport Col Nyan Tun Aung, Deputy Minister for HealthDr Mya Oo, Civil Service Selection and Training Boardmember U Hla Myint Oo, Deputy Chief Justice U KhinMaung Latt of Supreme Court (Mandalay), Central Com-mand Deputy Commander Brig-Gen Nay Win and seniormilitary officers, officials from the SPDC Office, depart-mental heads, the rector of CICS (Upper Myanmar), thepro-rector, heads of departments, coaches and trainee teach-ers.

Myanmar Education Committee Vice-Chairman Sec-retary-1 Lt-Gen Soe Win delivered an address on the

occasion. He said at a time when human resources neces-sary for better future of the country are being nurtured theroles of the teachers at basic education schools are ofprime importance. So, the special refresher courses forteachers have been opened for the teachers to be moreskillful in their subjects and to be able to teach the stu-dents more effectively.

To have the skills in a short period, it is needed to usemodern teaching/learning aids so that the objectives ofinstallation the aids will be realized. While performingthe duties of teaching, teachers are needed to bring outthe effectiveness of all-round education in respectiveschools widely.

The whole world today is developing with momentumdue to rapid development of communication technologies.At such a time, efforts are to be made carefully withfarsightedness in the interests of the country. Nowadays,it can be seen that some big nations with technologicaladvancement are taking advantage of their superiority intechnology to influence the developing nations ideologi-cally and culturally through communication technolo-gies. At this situation, the developing countries like theUnion of Myanmar are to try not to be influenced by thebig power nations but to stand firmly and prosperouslywith own national policies, he highlighted.

Emergence of highly-qualified new generation youthsbecomes a major national need. So, the State has beenmaking earnest efforts for the country to be able to keepabreast of the other nations and to stand tall in the inter-national community. In making endeavours to ensure all-round development of the State, the high standard ofknowledge and education of the citizens are pivotal. So,the educational goals in knowledge age are to be imple-mented not only in schools but also in human society.They include literacy for all, promotion of national edu-cation standard, an opportunity of constant learning re-gardless of age and building of a modern developed na-tion, he elaborated.

The MEC Vice-Chairman quoted Senior General ThanShwe as saying that it is needed to strive for promotion ofknowledge and education for the national interests to befirm. To be able to encounter this situation it is needed tomake efforts for promoting the national education standard.

In implementing national education promotion pro-grammes, emphasis is placed on mental development withthe aim of promoting the students’ creativity to be well-versed in every field, to be the ones with high morale whorespect and abide by the law, discipline and social ethics,who value traditional customs and social value and to be

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Educational goals in knowledge age are to be implemented not only inschools but also in human society

Vice-Chairman of the State Peace and De-velopment Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye greets Indian Military AttachéColonel Chopra Jasvinder Singh. — MNA

Vice-Chairman of the State Peace and

Development Council Deputy Com-

mander-in-Chief of Defence Services

Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-

Senior General Maung Aye receives

Indian Military Attaches. — MNA

Emergence of highly-qualified new generation youths becomes amajor national need

World AIDS Daycommemorative debate held

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Thursday, 4 December, 2003

PERSPECTIVES

It goes without saying that higher educa-tional standard of people plays a pivotal role inour drive for bringing about the all-round de-velopment of the Union. Strengthening the na-tional forces through education will determinethe future of a nation. In other words, develop-ment and perpetual existence of a nation and itspeople depend on educational standard of thatnation. Therefore, the Government has placed aspecial emphasis on the successful implementa-tion of national education promotion pro-grammes and projects.

Education begins in the classroom but itdoes not end there. Education should never be“finished” so long as we live. It is not only in theclassroom that education can be had. We canand should continue our education as long as welive. Therefore, the Government is taking all thenecessary measures so that all the citizens canpursue basic education and learn constantly.

Basic education schools are the most im-portant stage where education promotion pro-grammes should be carried out. Education pro-motion programmes at the basic education levelinvolve enhancement of students’ enterprise andeffective teaching methods. Not only that, theyshould be taught to be able to lead a moral lifeand abide by the law and social ethics. Theyshould also be trained to become youths withstrong patriotic spirit and Union Spirit.

Successful implementation of educationpromotion programmes calls for close coopera-tion among teachers, students and parents. Outof them, the teachers play the most importantrole as they have to constantly deal with thestudents.

The closing ceremony of the Special Re-fresher Course No 54 for basic education teach-ers was held at the Central Institute of CivilService (Phaunggyi) on 2 December and it wasattended by Vice-Chairman of Myanmar Edu-cation Committee Secretary-2 of the State Peaceand Development Council Lt-Gen Thein Sein.

In his address at the ceremony, the Secre-tary-2 said that teachers should nurture theirstudents to become intellectuals and intelligent-sia who possess high calibre, wide knowledgeand correct outlook on life. We would like tourge the teachers serving at basic educationschools to bear in mind the exhortation of theSecretary-2 and apply their energies to the taskof brightening the future of their students.

For brighter future of students

YANGON, 3 Dec —Member of the State Peaceand Development CouncilLt-Gen Ye Myint of theMinistry of Defence metwith departmental officialsat the guest house of thePublic Works in Matupi on30 November, evening.

Present also on theoccasion were Chairman ofSagaing Division Peace andDevelopment Council andCommander of North-WestCommand Maj-Gen ThaAye, Minister for Health DrKyaw Myint, Chairman of

Development activities inspected in Matupi, MindatChin State Peace and De-velopment Council Col TinHla, Col Hsan Aung ofMatupi Station, local au-thorities and departmentalofficials.

On the occasion, Lt-Gen Ye Myint gave instruc-tions on successful imple-mentation of the tasks forhealth, education, commu-nication, construction, hydelpower projects, water sup-ply, and training centres fordevelopment of youths.

Next, departmentalofficials reported on meas-

ures to be taken for accom-plishment of the tasks. Maj-Gen Tha Aye and Col TinHla also presented reportson arrangements for render-ing assistance in respectivesectors.

After hearing the re-ports, Lt-Gen Ye Myintgave instructions on harmo-nious cooperation betweenservice personnel and thepublic for regional develop-ment.

On 1 December, Lt-Gen Ye Myint and party in-spected read upgrading un-

dertakings along Matupi-Mindat road and left therefor the farm of MyanmaAgricultural Service ninemiles from Mindat. There,Lt-Gen Ye Myint was con-ducted round the farm byofficials.

At the farm, 500baskets of tea seeds that willcover 200 acres of tea plan-tation have been nursed andthey will be distributed todepartments and tea grow-ers in this coming rainyseason.

MNA

YANGON, 3 Dec — The Ministry of Health andMyanmar Maternal andChild Welfare Associationorganized a debate to markWorld AIDS Day at the as-sociation at the corner ofThanthumar and ParamiRoads in South OkkalapaTownship this morning.

Present on the occa-

World AIDS Day commemorative debate heldsion were Deputy Ministerfor Health Dr Mya Oo,MMCWA President Dr DawKhin Win Shwe, honorarypatrons Daw Khin ThanNwe, Daw Khin Lay Thet,Daw Than Than Nwe andDaw Khin Khin Win, Vice-Chairpersons Dr Kyi Soe andDr Daw Tin Lin Myint, resi-dent representatives of UN

agencies, Yangon DivisionMCWA Supervisory Com-mittee Patron Daw Khin ThetHtay and officials.

The MMCWA presi-dent and the deputy ministerdelivered speeches. Next, theguests viewed the photos ofAIDS control activities car-ried out by the MMCWA.

After the debate, the

MMCWA president pre-sented the first prize toSangyoung TownshipMCWA and the second toMingaladon TownshipMCWA; and Vice-ChairmanDr Kyi Soe, the third prizesto Thanlyin TownshipMCWA and Dagon Myothit(South) Township MCWA.

MNA

Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Soe Win cordially greets training teachers at theconcluding ceremony of the No 20 special refresher course for basic education teachers at the Central Institute of

Civil Service (Upper Myanmar). (News page -1 ) — MNA

Lt-Gen Ye Myint of the Ministry of Defence inspects the farm of the Myanma Agriculture Service in Mindat. — MNA

YANGON, 3 Dec —Premier league Soccer Tour-nament 2003-2004 organ-ized by Myanmar FootballFederation continued atAung San Stadium this af-ternoon. Yangon City De-

Premier League Soccer Tournamentcontinues

velopment Committee Teamand Defence Service (Army)Team- A played 2-2 draw.Man of the match award wentto Aung Chan Min of De-fence Service (Army) Team-A. —MNA

Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare AssociationPresident Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe makes an addressat the ceremony to mark the World AIDS Day jointly

conducted by Ministry of Health and Myanmar Maternaland Child Welfare Association. — MNA


MADRID , 3 Dec — A group of 58 Spanish troops returned to their countryTuesday from a four-month mission in Iraq, saying their last days in Iraq were“very hard” as seven Spanish intelligence agents were killed in an ambush lastSaturday.

The soldiers, including five women, were deployed in the Iraqi city ofDiwaniya for logistic support. They described their mission in Iraq as difficult butpositive when arriving at the Zaragoza Air Base by an Air Europa airliner.

They said their last days in Iraq were very difficult, particularly after the bloodyattack on Italian police agents on November 12 in Nasiriya, southern Iraq, andSaturday’s ambush that killed seven Spanish intelligence agents in central Iraq.

The death of the agents of the National Intelligence Centre caused concernamong the Spanish troops deployed in Iraq, Corporal Maria Garvin told reporters.

Other members of the military contingent, part of the logistic support unit, saidthe Iraqi area where the international Plus Ultra Brigade is deployed was generallycalm. Seven Spanish intelligence officers were killed and one was wounded in anIraqi guerillas ambush on Saturday in an area between Baghdad and Hilla, a city 100kilometre south of the capital city.

Spain deploys 1,300 troops in south and central Iraq.—MNA/Xinhua

Spanish mily contingentreturns home from Iraq

mission

UNITED NATIONS , 3 Dec—UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has˚gathered a groupof 17 countries˚to form˚an advisory body that some participants believe could helpshape Iraq’s future.

The group, which held its first meeting on Monday, brings together Iraq’s neighbours andSecurity Council members. Several envoys said members of the US-appointed Iraqi Govern-ing Council would probably be invited to the next meeting, although no date had been set.

Annan told the meeting, attended by 17 ambassadors, that he would soon place a reportbefore the Security Council on what the UN could do in Iraq.

He added that the UN planned to nominate an interim chief representative for Iraqshortly and a special representative early next year.

“We urged that the Secretary General appoint a special representative or an actingspecial representative as soon as possible,” US Ambassador John Negroponte told reportersafter the meeting. “The Iraqi Governing Council... (has also) asked that a special representa-tive be named as soon as possible.” he said.

Syria’s UN ambassador, Faysal Miqdad, said the meeting was “a step in the rightdirection.” “Certain ideas were raised but frankly speaking this is the first time for such ameeting,” he added. Annan is said to be toying with the idea of stationing political staff inCyprus or Jordan until security conditions improve in Iraq. In the interim, a chief envoywould commute to the Iraqi capital.—Internet

Teheran protests to USover Iranian killed in Iraq

TEHERAN, 3 Dec — Iran has sent an official protest tothe United States over the killing of an Iranian byAmerican troops during a fierce firefight in Iraq onSunday, the official IRNA news agency said here.

US troops said they killed 54 guerillas in a battle to fightoff coordinated ambushes on armoured convoys carryinglarge quantities of banknotes in the tense Iraqi town ofSamarra.

Police said eight civilians were among the dead, includ-ing an Iranian pilgrim.

“Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Swiss ambas-sador to Teheran on Monday to voice its strong protest overthe killing of an Iranian by American forces,” the agencysaid.

Switzerland has looked after US interests in Iran sinceWashington cut ties with Teheran shortly after the 1979Islamic revolution.

The Foreign Ministry called on Washington to investi-gate the Samarra incident and offer compensation to thedead Iranian’s family.

MNA/Reuters

Annan forms advisory group on Iraq

BEIJING , 3 Dec—China’s economy is expected to grow8.5 per cent this year, said Ma Kai, minister in charge of theState Development and Reform Commission (SDRC), here.

Ma said at a national work meeting on development andreform that gross domestic product (GDP) was to top 11trillion yuan (1.3 trillion US dollars) this year. The economyshowed a good momentum that had been long expected overthe past few years.

Noting that China improved economic efficiency whilemaintaining a rapid growth, he predicted that profits ofindustrial enterprises would grow 40 per cent to 50 per centthis year.

Ma said that as the economy grew bigger in size, theeconomic structure also improved. He said high-tech indus-tries contributed some 23.7 per cent to the growth of indus-trial output in China this year.

He said that as government policy continued to show itseffect on stimulating economic growth, the economy hadbecome more and more dependent on its own forces to grow.

According to SDRC figures, the total investment infixed assets was to top 5.3 trillion yuan this year, 23 percent more than last year. The majority of the investmentwas financed by corporate funds or bank loans, instead ofgovernment investment. The investment by collective andindividual persons also saw a faster growth rate than lastyear.

Ma said the country had steadily pushed forward variousreforms and opened wider to the outside world. Accordingto the SDRC’s estimate, China’s exports would reach 820billion US dollars this year, increasing more than 30 per centover last year. — MNA/Xinhua

US troops have been met with fierce resistance in Iraq on 2 Dec, 2003.INTERNT

Chinese economy togrow 8.5% this year

Number of Philippine Internet usersgrows sharply in 2003

JAKARTA, 3 Dec— Thegovernment may hold backits target to issue some 376million US dollars’ worthTreasury bonds (T-bonds) bythe end of this year if it con-siders unnecessary to do so,Finance Minister said here.

The 376 million US dol-lars T-bonds are part of the1.3 billion US dollars T-bonds the government hasplanned to issue in 2003.

“It will depend on themarket situation. There willbe no problem if we cannotreach the target,” Boedionowas quoted by the nationalnews agency Antara as say-ing.

He said the 376 millionUS dollars T-bonds were aceiling target for this yearend so that if it was notreached it would not poseany problem.—MNA/Xinhua

Indonesian Govtmay not fulfil its

target T-bondissuance

MANILA , 3 Dec— The number of Internet subscribers in the Philippines grew131 per cent in 2003 to about 1.85 million from 800,000 last year, the NationalTelecommunications Commission (NTC) reported.

The NTC did not give the factors behind the increase but said the number of digitalsubscriber line (DSL) service subscribers had hit 16,165 as of the third quarter of 2003,according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer on-line news service here.

Dominant telecom carrier Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co controlled 80 percent of the local market, the NTC said.

The commission also noted that the increase in the Internet subscribers was quite“significant” compared to the previous years since 2000.—MNA/Xinhua

�� US soldierkilled by

bomb neartense Iraqi

town BAGHDAD, 3 Dec — An

American soldier was killedwhen a roadside bomb ex-ploded near his convoy southof the tense Iraqi town ofSamarra on Tuesday, the USmilitary said.

A spokeswoman said aconvoy from the US 4thInfantry Division was thetarget of the attack south ofthe town, where Americantroops say they killed 54Iraqis in a bloody streetbattle at the weekend.

“A 4th ID convoy wasattacked south of Samarra.One soldier died of his inju-ries,” the spokeswoman said.

Samarra lies about 60miles north of Baghdad.

MNA/Reuters

US Army soldiers patrol the streets of a small village near the southern Iraqi town of

Nasiriyah, on Monday, 1 Dec, 2003. US forces repulsed two coordinated attacks by

armed men in Samarra on Sunday.—INTERNET


Samarra clash toll still a mysterySAMARRA , 3 Dec—The US military has vowed to continue aggressive tactics after saying it killed 54 Iraqis following

an ambush, but commanders admitted they had no proof to back up their claims.The only corpses at Samarra’s hospi-

tal were those of civilians, including twoelderly Iranian visitors and a child.

A top military commander acknow-ledged on Monday that the toll was basedentirely on estimates gleaned from troopdebriefings and that US soldiers had notrecovered a single body from the scene ofSunday’s clashes.

Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt es-timated the number of dead in Samarra at54, along with 22 wounded, saying theywere all resistance fighters. He also saidone person was detained.

He admitted that the one resistancefighter now confirmed in custody was asharp reduction on the 11 claimed cap-tured by the commanding colonel inSamarra earlier.

“Some of those earlier reports mighthave been a bit off,” Kimmitt said.

“Are you asking me to produce(them)?” asked Colonel FredrickRudesheim, who heads the 3rd CombatBrigades that was involved in theclashes, when questioned by reportersabout the absence of any fighters’ bodiesat Samarra’s single hospital or on thecity’s streets.

Sergeant Nicholas Mullen, who firedrounds from an Abrams tank, offered yet

another explanation for the army’s in-ability to locate the corpses. “We don’tstick around,” he said.

Challenged about what happened tothe bodies of the 54 said to have beenkilled, Kimmitt said: “I would suspectthat the enemy would have carried themaway and brought them back to wheretheir initial base was.”

Asked about reports from seniorpolice and hospital officials in the townof only eight civilians killed and dozensmore wounded, the US general insisted:“We have no such reports whether frommedical authorities or police.”

But a medic at Samarra hospitalsaid the bodies of “eight civilians in-cluding a woman and a child” werereceived at the hospital.

Hospital director Abd Tawfiq said“more than 60 people wounded by gun-fire and shrapnel from US rounds arebeing treated at the hospital”.

And ambulance driver Abd al-Munaim Muhammad said he had notferried any fighters wounded or killedand wearing the black Fidayin outfitwhich US soldiers claimed their assail-ants wore.

“If I had seen bodies, I would havepicked them up. It’s not like the Ameri-

cans would have done it,” he said. “If the death toll had reached thatannounced by the Americans, the at-mosphere in Samarra would be quitedifferent,” he added.

It was not immediately clearwhether the figure included two Ira-nian visitors said to have been killed intheir bus.

Iranian Foreign Minister KamalKharazi condemned what he calledthe “blind attacks” by US forces.

“America is responsible for thekilling of the Iranian national inSamarra. It must account for thiscrime,” he said.

Teheran’s foreign ministry onTuesday summoned the Swiss ambas-sador to Iran, who acts as the head ofthe US interest section office there, toprotest against the deaths, reported astate news agency.

Iran demanded that Washington“clarify the circumstances leading tothe incident,” and announce the resultof its own investigation and providecompensation. The bloodshedprompted members of Samarra’s tribalcouncil to demand an immediate USpullout from the area.

Internet

BEIJING, 3 Dec — Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Yi saidhere Tuesday that her country will further enhance medicalaid to developing nations and improve health cooperationwith them.

In 1963, China sent its first medical team abroad toAlgeria, when it was amid its hard struggle to tackle its ownfinancial and economic problems.

After more than 20 years of economic reform, Chinahas improved its economy greatly. “But our friendship withdeveloping nations and sense of international responsibilitywon’t change,” said Wu at a commemoration to mark the40th anniversary of its overseas medical programme.

Wu asked Chinese health and financial departments toattach great importance to the work with their foreignmedical aid service and further improve relevant policies toensure the smooth operation of the programme.

Gao Qiang, executive Vice-Minister of Health, saidthat China has sent over 18,000 medical staff for overseasaid programmes during the past four decades, covering 65countries and regions in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europeand Oceania.

“Six hundred and thirteen Chinese medical staff havebeen awarded honours by the countries they worked in and45 members laid down their lives at their posts,” Gao said.

MNA/Xinhua

China to enhance medicalaid to developing nations

South Korean protesters shout slogans in Seoul during arally mourning the death of two workers shot by gunmen

in Iraq, on 2 December, 2003.INTERNET

US Army soldiers of the 489th Civil Affairs drive in a convoy nearthe Iraqi town of Nasiriyah, Iraq, on Monday, 1 December, 2003.

INTERNET

Macao boasts best healthstatus in Asia

MACAO, 3 Dec — “The health situation in Macao isthe best in Asia,” said Linda Milan, an official from theWorld Health Organization (WHO), who is on her in-spection tour in China’s Macao Special AdministrativeRegion (SAR) Tuesday.

The director of Building Healthy Communities andPopulations of the WHO West Pacific Region just con-cluded her two-day visit in Macao on the condition of thecity’s public health and the health system’s epidemic controlability.

“Macao’s quick restructuring of hospitals’ facilities andservices in reaction to the control of severe acute respiratorysyndrome (SARS) is highly commendable. The MacaoSAR government is able to address other similar challengesin the future,” said Milan, who was contributing her exper-tise to Macao’s preparatory bidding for WHO-entitled“Healthy City” on her inspection.

Macao has got ready for the bidding at the suggestion ofShigeru Omi, the WHO Western Pacific Regional director.He suggested Macao apply for the “Healthy City” appraisalduring his trip to Macao on July 30.

“It is the right time for Macao to showcase its image asa healthy and safe tourist city,” he said when referring to theSAR’s effective containment of SARS, which broke out inMacao’s neighbouring regions of Guangdong and HongKong in the first half of this year. Macao only recorded oneimported case.

MNA/Xinhua

COLOMBO, 3 Dec — SriLankan President ChandrikaKumaratunga on Mondaycalled for collective effortsby all sectors of thesociety to contribute to theprevention of the deadlyAIDS.

“Prevention efforts re-quire a collective approach,we cannot be complacent.The health sector alone can-not be left to handle thiscatastrophe,” Kumaratungasaid in a message to markthe World AIDS Day.

“Other ministries and de-partments, covering finance,education, transportation,the police force, and the mili-tary, as well as NGOs, theprivate sector, and civil so-ciety organizations shouldcontribute,” she stressed.

MNA/Xinhua

NEW DELHI, 3 Dec—India and China can playa significant role in theeconomic developmentof eastern hemisphere,especially through bilat-eral cooperation in theareas of IT, textiles,agri food processing,infrastructure andautomobiles, a seniorgovernment official saidhere.

“India and China,who are both membersof WTO, worked veryclosely on several issuesduring the CancunMinisterial meet.

MNA/PTI

India,Chinato play

significant rolein East Asiadevelopment

A US spokesman said on Sunday that theAmerican forces had killed 46 attackers,wounded 18 and caught eight in what he saidthe largest attack targeting US troops in thearea.The US military raised the death toll to54 on Monday without elaborating.

However, Qatar-based al-Jazeera TVchannel quoted witnesses and medicalsources as saying that only eight peoplewere known killed and two of them wereIranian pilgrimages.

Showing two Iranian passports, the wit-nesses said the two were killed by US firewhen they were on board a bus driving inSamarra, 100 kilometres north of Baghdad,on Sunday afternoon.

The footage also showed the scene in a

local hospital in which many wounded peo-ple, including a teenager, were receivingtreatment.

The witnesses said the US soldiers firedrandomly and used all weapons they coulduse during the clashes with alleged guerillas.

Late on Sunday, US Lieutenant ColonelWilliam MacDonald from the 4th InfantryDivision told reporters in Tikrit that two USlogistic convoys were ambushed simulta-neously with homemade bombs, mortars,rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns.The guerillas shot from rooftops andalleyways and the US forces returned firefrom numerous locations, destroying threehouses used by the attackers, saidMacDonald— MNA/Xinhua

BAGHDAD , 3 Dec — Residents in Iraq’s northern city of Samarra said here the USmilitary was falsely reporting the firefighting the day before and exaggerating thecasualties.

Iraqis deny US account of biggest attack

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Sri LankanPresident calls forcollective efforts to

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IRAQ UNDER US OCCUPATION

A resident in the town of Samarra, 125 kms north of Baghdad, shows bulletsand a mortar shell piece that hit his home during a US Army attack

on 1 December.—INTERNET

A child walks out through a bullet-riddled entrance hit during a US Army attack in

the town of Samaraa. The US military upped its death toll from intense clashes with

guerillas in the Iraqi town of Samarra to 54 amid reports by Iraqi doctors that eight

civilians were killed by US fire in the exchanges.

INTERNET

Iraqi men argue with a British coalition soldier in the centre of Basra, southernIraq, on 1 December 2003.—INTERNET

A US Army soldier secures the area as soldiers remove the body of a 4thInfantry Division soldier that died in an ambush outside the Iraqi town of

Samarra, north of Baghdad, on Tuesday, 2 December, 2003.—INTERNET

Two US soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the 173 Airborne Brigade takeposition next a group of Iraqi youths during a raid in Hawijah,

45 kilometres (nearly 30 miles) west of Iraq's northern oil centre of Kirkuk.INTERNET

Residents in the town of Samarra inspect the shooting site, following a US Armyattack on 1 December. At least one US soldier was killed when two almost

simultaneous bomb attacks hit convoys near the Iraqi town of Samarra.INTERNET


Iranian policeseize 5 tons

of drugs TEHERAN, 3 Dec— Ira-

nian anti-drug police haveseized about five tons of va-rious kinds of illegal drugsthroughout the country inrecent operations, the offi-cial IRNA news agency re-ported here.

Police have seized over3,600 kilos of narcotics andarrested 45 drug smugglersand 31 distributors inHormuzgan, Kerman,Khorassan, Teheran, Qom,Yazd and Sistan-Baluchistanprovinces, the report said.

In addition, some 1,346kilos of various drugs wereseized in eastern Iran duringtwo separate operations, ac-cording to the IRNA report.

Iran sits at the crossroadsof a major drug traffickingroute originating mainlyfrom Afghanistan and link-ing markets in the PersianGulf states, Central Asia,West Europe and other re-gions.

More than 3,000 Iraniananti-drug policemen havelost their lives in clashes withdrug traffickers during thepast over 20 years.

MNA/Xinhua

US soldiers stand guard near an arrested Iraqi man during a massive raid in Hawijah,near Iraq’s northern oil centre of Kirkuk recently.—INTERNET

US Airforce airmen of the 824th Security Forces Squadron patrol the area around theziggurat of the ancient Babylonian city of Ur, near the US Air base of Tallil, in the

southern Iraq ,on 2 Dec, 2003.—INTERNET

Annan organizes group ofMideast nations on Iraq

Vietnam urged to improvebusiness environment

HANOI, 3 Dec— Over 300 foreign andlocal delegates gathered here at the 13thVietnam Business Forum on Monday, dis-cussing measures to improve business envi-ronment in the country.

At the one-day forum, delegates notedthat it is high time Vietnam passed a newInvestment Law, which applies to both do-mestic and foreign investors, to create a fairplaying field for businesses.

Also to create a more equal competitiveenvironment, the participants suggested thatthe country should pass a competition lawsoon. They also raised concerns regardingchanges in the taxation regime, includingthe proposed Ordinance on Personal In-come Tax.

“Under the draft, the taxable incomelevel will increase to 258 US dollars fromthe current 193 dollars,” Deputy Minister ofFinance Truong Chi Trung said, adding thatthe revised ordinance could take effect fromJanuary 2004.

Along with investment and finance is-sues, delegates proposed that the govern-ment make legal documents more effectiveand transparent by actively consulting thepublic and business community before issu-ing them.

The forum is organized by the Interna-tional Finance Corporation in collaborationwith the Ministry of Planning and Invest-ment and the World Bank.

MNA/Xinhua

UNITED NATIONS, 3 Dec— Iraq’s neighbours, including Iran, and Security Councilmembers, including the United States, came together in a new grouping somedelegates hope will develop into an international conference on Iraq’s future.

Iraq since the August 19 disaster. Severalenvoys said members of the US-appointedIraqi Governing Council would probably beinvited to the next meeting, although no datehas been set.

Annan is weighing whether to place po-litical staff in Cyprus or in Jordan until secu-rity conditions improve. In the interim, achief envoy would commute to the Iraqicapital.

“We certainly urged that the Secretary-General appoint a special representative oran acting special representative as soon aspossible,” US Ambassador John Negropontetold reporters after the meeting.

“And that is also, as you know, the IraqiGoverning Council. asked that a special rep-resentative be named as soon as possible.” hesaid.

Syria’s UN ambassador, Fayssal Mekdadtold reporters the meeting was “a step in theright direction”.

“Certain ideas were raised but franklyspeaking this is the first time for such ameeting,” he said.

MNA/Reuters

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annanformed the group of 17 countries as anadvisory body that met for the first time onMonday and several nations hoped it wouldbe able to take meaningful action in thefuture, participants said.

France, Russia and Germany haveurged an international conference on Iraqbut the United States so far is cool to theidea.

Annan told the 17 ambassadors hewould present the Security Council with areport within a week on a role the UnitedNations could play in Iraq, the diplomatsreported.

He also said he would name an interimchief representative for Iraq shortly and anew special representative early in the newyear to replace Sergio Vieira de Mello,killed in the attack against UN headquar-ters in Baghdad on August 19 that cost 22lives.

The Council has been split since the USinvasion of Iraq, with key members want-ing the world body to play a larger role.Annan has hesitated to send staff back to

US soldier shot deadwest of Baghdad

Drug traffickersarrested at Nepali airport

KATHMANDU, 3 Dec —Police at the Tribuvan Interna-tional Airport in Nepali capital Kathmandu Monday ar-rested two persons with 43.28 kilos hashish, an airportofficial said here.

“The two men are alleged to be involved in traffickingdrugs to Japan,” said Bimala Thapa, superintendent of theairport police office.

“Another man, suspected accomplice of the two ar-rested, is still at large,” Thapa said.

In this year alone, the Illegal Drugs Law EnforcementUnit of Nepal arrested 74 Nepali citizens and 13 foreignersin connection with drug trafficking, she noted, adding thatthe police confiscated over 374 kilos of hashish and 16 kilosof heroin at the same time. — MNA/Xinhua

Chinese Minister incharge of the State Develop-ment and Reform Commis-sion (SDRC) Ma Kai said ata national work meeting heldhere that the SDRC had al-ready passed the draft re-form plan to the State Coun-cil for approval.

Ma said under the reformplan, most non-governmentinvestment projects would nolonger require governmentapproval. Investors are al-lowed to make their owndecision and have only tonotify the government aboutthe projects for records.

For large-scale, non-gov-ernment-funded investmentprojects and those in theareas restricted for privateinvestment, they have to passgovernment assessment onlyin terms of national security,rational utilization of re-sources, environmental pro-tection, optimizing economicstructure, safeguarding pub-lic interest and anti-mo-nopoly requirements, Masaid.

Ma said the SDRC wasdrafting complementaryrules and regulations for thereform plan so as to pave theway for implementation next

year. The rules in the pipe-line included regulations onassessment of corporate in-vestment projects and regu-lations on management ofinvestment by the centralgovernment.

Ma said the SDRC andits local branches would con-tinue to sort out the projectsrequiring government ap-proval next year. For thosethat no long require approval,the government would de-velop new ways to monitorthe investment activities.

He said China would alsoaccelerate the reform of themanagement of corporatebond issuance next year. Hesaid the regulations on themanagement of corporatebonds would come into forceas soon as possible, whileother relevant regulationswere also being drafted

Ma said the governmentwould abolish the practice ofapproving issuance of cor-porate bonds and instead,such issuance would onlyneed to be registered withrelevant authorities. Thescope of the use of corporatebond money would also beexpanded and the varietiesof corporate bonds be in-

creased, he said. The gov-ernment would adopted astricter but simplified pro-cess of examining issuanceapplications, he said.

According to theSDRC’s estimate, China’sinvestment in fixed assets isto increase 23 per cent thisyear. In the first three quar-ters of the year, collective andindividual investment grewat a rate 9.6 percentage pointsfaster in the same period oflast year.

China to reform investment system next year BEIJING , 3 Dec— China is to carry out a reform of its regulatory system of

investment next year, a major step taken to build a complete market system.

BAGHDAD, 3 Dec— AnAmerican soldier was killedwest of the Iraqi capital Bagh-dad on Monday after his pa-trol came under attack fromguerillas, the US militarysaid.

In a statement, it said the

soldier was wounded bysmall arms fire near the townof Habbaniya on Mondaymorning and died of hiswounds later. The town is ahotbed of anti-American sen-timent. Three Iraqis were cap-tured during the clash and

were being questioned, thestatement said.

Since US PresidentGeorge W Bush declared anend to major hostilies in Iraqon May 1, 188 US soldiershave been killed in combat.

MNA/Reuters

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* Saving one gallon of fuel per car per monthwill 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 build amajor bridge across Ayeyawady River

Efficient use of fuel

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

Efficient use of electricity* Use daylight as the main source of light

* Use the least possible amount of electricityonly if there is not enough natural light

* Use the least possible amount of electricityrequired in production and service enter-prises

* Preventing waste of electricity benefits theuser and others

* Oppose those relying on externalelements, acting as stooges, holdingnegative views

* Oppose those trying to jeopardizestability of the State and progress ofthe nation

* Oppose foreign nations interfering ininternal affairs of the State

* Crush all internal and externaldestructive elements as the commonenemy

People’s Desire

* Do not be frightened

whenever intimidated

* Do not be bolstered

whenever flattered

* Do not be softened

whenever appeased

All this needs tobe known

The study of world history shows that nations and

civilizations emerged along the rivers. The ancient

Egypt civilization originated in the Nile Basin. So, it

would not be wrong to say that Egypt is the gift of the

Nile. Moreover, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization

also began in the basin of Tigris and Euphrates , Rome

and its civilization at the Tiber, the Indian civilization

at the Indus basin and the Chinese civilization at the

Yellow River. The basins are fertile and water is easily

available there and so they are very suitable for agri-

culture. Because of agriculture, trade developed. And

the rivers created waterways for transportation of peo-

ple and cargoes. Thus, villages, towns and nations came

into existence and civilizations flourished.

We owe our gratitude to the Ayeyawady for the ex-

istence of our nation and civilization. Tagaung, Bagan,

Sagaing, Inwa, Mandalay and Pyay are situated along

it. The history of Myanmar and the Ayeyawady are

inseparable. The first Myanmar was founded at Bagan

on the bank of the Ayeyawady. Myanmar civilization

began there and Buddhism started flourishing in

Myanmar from there.

On 11 November, 2003, the Chao Phraya River

and the Mekong River joined the Ayeyawady near

Bagan, metaphorically speaking. Ayeyawady-Chao

Phraya-Mekong Agreement on Economic Cooperation

Strategy was reached. We thank the Ayeyawady and

Bagan for this unprecedented event.

The Chao Phraya River is situated in Thailand and the

history of Thailand and its civilization developed along

this river. Skothai , Ayutthaya and Bangkok emerged along

it. The Mekong River flows through Laos and Cambodia.

The social, economic and cultural sectors of these two

nations are flourishing along this river.

The Chao Phraya River represents Thailand, The

Mekong Laos and Cambodia. The prime ministers of

these nations on 11 November arrived at Bagan, the

Archaeological Zone of Myanmar to attend the Cam-

bodia-Laos-Myanmar-Thailand Summit Meeting on

Economic Cooperation Strategy.

Prime Minister of Myanmar General Khin Nyunt

presided over the meeting and all the prime ministers

from the four nations approved the Bagan Declaration.

Moreover, five future work programmes were also ap-

proved. Included in these work programmes are (a) trade

and investment, (b) agricultural and industrial coopera-

tion, (c) transport linkages and (d) tourism cooperation

and (e) human resource development.

I would like to explain the benefits to be gaind

from the four-nation economic cooperation. Only then

will the people of Myanmar realize how it can contrib-

ute towards their social and economic life.

First of all, I would like to present some of possi-

ble results. Thailand will make more investments in

our country. To facilitate trade and tourism at the bor-

der, one-stop service will be opened. Not only that,

surveys will be carried out to establish retail and whole-

sale centres. Moreover, account trade will be imple-

mented.

As the first phase of the sister city project, meas-

ures will be taken for increased relations between

Yangon and Bangkok, Mandalay and Chiang Mai,

Tachilek and Maesai, and Myawady and Maesot after

designating them as sister cities. Moreover, plans are

also under way to transport and sell products to

Myawady after turning it into an industrial zone. For

that project, Thailand will render financial assistance

and extend loans.

As for the agricultural and industrial cooperation,

efforts will be made to implement the Contract Farm-

ing Method with added momentum. There will also be

an exchange of technologies and the conducting of

courses in the agricultural and forestry sector.

In the energy sector, ways and means will be sought

We honour you, Mighty Ayeyawady!U Maung Maung Soe Tint (Rtd. Ambassador)

to enhance businesses, small and medium, through the

promotion of cooperation. For these industries and joint-

venture enterprises, common funds will be set up. Ar-

rangements will be made to set up agricultural produce

trading businesses at border areas and to establish spe-

cial economic zones in Myawady and Maesot and in-

dustrial zones in Hpa-an and Mawlamyine. The

Thanlwin river hydel power project will be implemented

along with other gas-powered electricity generation

projects at Maesot, Myawady, Hpa-an, Thaton and

Yangon.

As for the transport sector, a second Tachilek-

Maesai friendship bridge as well as a Maesot-Myawady-

Hpa-an-Thaton motor road will also be constructed

speedily. Furthermore, arrangements will be made to

improve the Myawady-Kawkareik-Mudon-Mawlamyine

road along with Phaya Thonsu-Thanpyuzayat-

Mawlamyine road.

In the tourism cooperation sector, arrangements are

also made for 'Four countries, one destination joint tours'

and 'Two countries, one destination joint tours' together

with 'Caravan tours' and 'Cross country tours'. Meas-

ures will also be taken to run joint tourism industries

including marine tourism at promising places in both

countries. For tourism industries, plans have been drawn

up to provide easy access to entry visas, enabling tour-

ism entrepreneurs of Myanmar to participate in the

tourism promotion programme in Thailand. Moreover,

plans will also be made to promote the aviation sectors

of both countries. Thailand receives nearly 11 million

tourists annually earning US$ 7.5 billion from this

business.

In the human resource development sector, there

include the conducting of courses on the five projects

mentioned in the future work programme, the presen-

tation of prizes by Thailand, the providing of training

to journalists and government employees, and the con-

ducting of joint researches on businesses such as com-

mercial tourism and practical cooperation.

People residing in border areas will enjoy the fruits

of progress as priority will be given to border area de-

velopment. With the economic boost, these regions will

undergo prosperity with the prevalence of stability and

peace leading to the end of armed insurgencies and

enabling Myanmar to enjoy the economic growth prom-

ising a higher living standard of its people. As a result,

investment and export will be on the increase. So will

the number of factories. It means that there will emerge

job opportunities enough for the public with the pros-

pect of increased income and higher living standard.

What's more, there will be better transport systems and

further economic cooperation with neighbouring coun-

tries. As a result, the four countries will become the

ones without boundary.

There are prospects of shifting agriculture and manu-

facturing works to suitable sites, thanks to friendly coop-

eration based on mutual benefit between the countries. It

means that businesses will be conducted at the places

where there is sufficient labour, instead of bringing in

the labour from another country. This programme will

promise regional economic development and put an end

to social problems springing from working in foreign

nations.

I wrote an article “Strategic Myanmar”, which ap-

peared in the Kyemon issued on 2-7-2002, reflecting

how strategic and important Myanmar is in Asia. To

express my belief that Myanmar would become a mod-

ern and developed nation soon, I also wrote an article

“My gift of belief for Myanmar”, which appeared in

the Myanmar Times issued on 24-10-2003. The two

articles have everything in common with the Bagan

Declaration. Therefore, I am in high spirit at the thought

that my dreams will come true soon.

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Secretary-1of the StatePeace andDevelop-

mentCouncil Lt-

Gen SoeWin

presents amodel

hostel bestaward to

hostel No 1through atrainee.

MNA

Cooperative products exhibition andmarket festival

YANGON, 3 Dec — Theleading committee for organ-izing the cooperative prod-ucts exhibition and marketfestival 2004 of the Ministryof Cooperatives held a meet-ing at the hall of the ministryon Bogyoke Aung San Streetthis afternoon, attended byPatron of the leading com-mittee Minister for Coopera-

tives Maj-Gen Htay Oo.Present on the occasion

were directors-general, themanaging director and offi-cials of the departments andenterprise under the minis-try and members of the lead-ing committee and subcom-mittees. On the occasion, theminister made a speech onmeasures for successful

holding of the exhibition andthe festival to be held at theCooperative CommercialCentre (Saya San Plaza) from13 to 19 January 2004.

The chairman of the lead-ing committee and officialsreported on arrangements forholding the festival. The min-ister made closing remarks.

MNA

Tailoring course concludesYANGON, 3 Dec — A cer-

emony to conclude the tai-loring course No 1/2003,opened by the Central Or-ganizing Committee forMyanmar War Veterans Or-ganization at No 1 War Vet-erans Model Village, tookplace at the basis educationhigh school in the villagethis morning.

Secretary of COC andMinister for Religious Af-fairs Brig-Gen Thura MyintMaung spoke on the occa-

sion and presented coursecompletion certificates totrainees. Next, Commanderof Yangon Command Maj-Gen Myint Swe presentedawards to the trainees whostood first, second and thirdat the course.

Director of Resettlementof the Ministry of DefenceMaj-Gen Aung Thein alsopresented gifts to two courseinstructors. After the cer-emony, the commander andparty viewed round the

clothes made by trainees. Atotal of 49 trainees attendedthe course, which lasted 12weeks. Later, the com-mander, the minister and partyattended a road opening cer-emony at the same village.On the occasion, the chair-man of supervisory commit-tee for Thanmyanthu bus linesand a local authority formallyopened Hsinphyushin road.The road is 2,700 feet longand 12 feet wide and is builtof gravel. — MNA

Significant achievements making…(from page 16)

the tasks for uplift of moraleof the disabled in the worldwho deserve sympathy, pro-motion of their dignity andenjoyment of equal socialrights in the social develop-ment sector. The government is alsomaking efforts for all citi-zens to enjoy social happi-ness equally with peace ofmind and for the disabled tofully enjoy the fruitful re-sults of national developmentlike average people, he said.Therefore the plans were laiddown and are being imple-mented to raise the quality oflife of all citizens, to fullyenjoy the fundamental so-cial rights and to possessqualifications of the healthycitizens with high educationstandard, morale and moral-ity, he added. In implementation of so-cial development activities,the Ministry of Social Wel-fare, Relief and Resettlementis taking charge of social lifedevelopment of children andelderly people including thedisabled who need socialassistance with the coopera-tion of volunteer social or-ganizations and internationalsocial organizations, he said. He said the government iscarrying out the tasks for thedisabled to stand in societywith dignity, and to uplifttheir morale, adding that it isalso undertaking the tasksnot to become discarded peo-ple through the rehabilita-tion tasks including treat-ment. He said the government isimplementing the rehabili-tation programmes that in-clude formal education, vo-cational education, socialrelation and employment byopening schools for the blind,the deaf and the handicappedpeople. Similarly, the gov-ernment has been renderingassistance to the schools forthe blind and deaf establishedby social organizations. Gov-ernment departments in co-operation with social organi-zations are actively takingpart in rehabilitation pro-grammes including educa-tion and necessary training,he stressed. He said the governmentestablished Myanmar Disa-bled Sports Federation. The

federation, a member of in-ternational disabled sportscommittee, participated indisabled sports meets andwon gold medals. Signifi-cant achievements have beenmade in the rehabilitationprogrammes due to the en-couragement of the govern-ment, cooperation of volun-teer social organizations andthe people and efforts of thedisabled themselves, he said.It is heartening to note thatthe disabled are actively tak-ing part in the tasks that con-tribute towards the progressof their life and Myanmarsociety and the interest ofthe State, he added. With the success of theprogrammes, arrangementsfor training and nurturing thedisabled can be made withgreater momentum, upgrad-ing the training school-basedrehabilitation system to com-munity-based rehabilitationone with the participation ofthe people and the disabled. At such a time, he urgedthe officials concerned topromote the life of the disa-bled and continue to raisethe momentum of achieve-ment for standing tall in so-ciety as humans with dignityand of great value and takingpart in national developmenttasks together with other citi-zens in the respective roles. In conclusion, he urgedall the people to provide as-sistance to the disabled withhumanitarian spirit for par-ticipating in society and helpthem take part in nation-building tasks with theirstrength in building a mod-ern developed nation. He alsourged the disabled to makeefforts to raise their standardand employ their outstand-ing qualifications withoutabandoning themselves tofate.

The Secretary-2 pre-sented gifts and certificatesof honour to Sayadaw UÑeya, who establishedSeinpangon school for theblind in Kya Village,Shwebo, Sagaing Division,in 1954 and has nurtured thestudents thenceforward; USein Htwe, who won SarpayBeikman Drama Literaturethird prize in 1969,Thutapadetha (Arts) thirdprize in 1970, Belle Lettersecond prize in 1975 and

Sarpay Beikman Belle Let-ter first prize in 2002; U WinNaing of the Ministry of Ag-riculture and Irrigation whowon one gold and two silverin the 8th Sports Meet forDisabled Persons for Far Eastand South Pacific Region; UMyint Zaw who won fourgold, one silver and onebronze in the 15th SportsCompetitions for the disa-bled; and Maung AungNaing Tun (2nd Year, Law,Dagon University) who wontwo gold in the 11thMyanmar Traditional Cul-tural Performing Arts Com-petitions.

Minister for Social Wel-fare, Relief and ResettlementMaj-Gen Sein Htwa andDeputy Minister Brig-GenKyaw Myint presented giftsto outstanding students MaTheint Thu Thu Lin of train-ing school for the youth disa-bled, Maung Myo Ko Ko ofthe training school for theadult disabled, Ma PhyoPhyo Htet of school for thedeaf in Mandalay, MaungAung Lwin Oo ofKyimyindine School for theBlind, Maung Soe Nyein Tunof Sagaing School for theBlind, Maung Zin Min Htetof Eden School for the youthdisabled, Ma Aye Aye Myintof Mary Chapman’s Schoolfor the Deaf and Dumb,Maung Win Maung Than ofKhawegyan School for theBlind, Ma La Hsi Lu Gyanof Myitkyina School for theBlind, Ma Lazun Htu Lwamof the association for pro-viding assistance, MaungTun Win of PyinOoLwinSchool for the Blind, Ma AyeAye Win of Meiktila Schoolfor the Blind, Maung AungKyaw Lwin of PakokkuSchool for the Blind, Lt-Cor-poral Kyaw Kyaw Tun andSergeant Tint Naing of De-fence Services VocationalSchool and Maung Khu ofPhayaphyu Centre for theDisabled.

Officials also presented84 persons who won prizesin the 26 competitions tomark International Day ofDisabled Persons.

Afterwards, the youthdisabled entertained thosepresent with dance varietyand songs. The minister pre-sented gifts to them.

MNA

Yangon Division Peace and Development Council Chairman Commander of YangonCommand Maj-Gen Myint Swe attends the opening ceremony of the Hsinphyushin Road

at Ledaukkan model village. —MNA

Secre-tary-2 ofthe State

Peace andDevelop-

mentCouncil Lt-Gen Thein

Seinpresents aprize to anoutstanding

disabledperson.

MNA


Lt-Gen Ye Myint inspects regional development tasksYANGON, 3 Dec — Mem-

ber of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Lt-Gen Ye Myint of the Minis-try of Defence, accompaniedby Chairman of MagwayDivision Peace and Devel-opment Council Col ZawMin and officials of theSPDC office, left Kyaukhtuby car yesterday morning andarrived at Pauk at 7.45 am.

First, Lt-Gen Ye Myintmet with township level de-partmental officials at ShwePaukpin Hall. The chairmanof the Township Peace andDevelopment Council re-ported to Lt-Gen Ye Myinton sufficiency of rice in thetownship and regional de-velopment tasks. Lt-Gen YeMyint urged departmentalpersonnel to participate inregional development tasksand extended cultivation ofrice and fulfilled the require-ments.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen YeMyint and party proceededto Hsupokegon Village in thetownship and inspected thefields of pulses and beans,potatoes, onions and landpreparation works for culti-vation of summer paddy. Lt-Gen Ye Myint also inspectedthe site chosen for construc-tion of No 4 Kyaw Creekrural diversion weir on thecreek near the village.

Next, Lt-Gen Ye Myint

YANGON, 3 Dec —Gen-eral Secretary of the Unionof Myanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerce andIndustry U Sein Win Hlaing,Joint Secretary-2 Dr MaungMaung Lay and central ex-ecutives this afternoon metwith Indian delegation led

by Mr P Jayavelu Babu, VicePresident & Head-East Zoneof the Larsen & Toubro Ltd,India, at the office of thefederation. At the meeting,the two sides discussed mat-ters relating to constructionwork and cooperation intrade in Myanmar. — MNA

Lt-Gen Ye Myint of the Ministry of Defence inspects renovation of Mingaing Bridge. — MNA

and party went to PyamaVillage and inspected the sitechosen for construction ofNo 3 Kyaw Creek rural di-version weir. Lt-Gen YeMyint viewed the harvest ofmonsoon paddy and fieldsof onion and other cropsthere.

Later, Lt-Gen Ye Myintarrived at Gwegon Villageand inspected the fields to beirrigated by construction ofa diversion weir near the vil-lage. Lt-Gen Ye Myint cor-dially greeted the farmers ofthe village and viewed roundthe fields of pulses and beansand onion.

At 10.30 am, Lt-Gen YeMyint and party proceededto Zeepya Village andMingaing Village and in-

spected the maintenance of abridge in Mingaing Village.Later, Lt-Gen Ye Myint andparty inspected the site cho-sen for construction of No 1Kyaw Creek Rural Diver-sion Weir and the hospitaland the affiliated basic edu-cation high school of the vil-lage. Lt-Gen Ye Myint do-nated cash to the hospitaland the school. Lt-Gen YeMyint paid homage and pre-sented offertories to mem-bers of the Sangha led bySayadaw Bhaddanta NandaVamsa at Aungzeya PalaMonastery at the village.

In the afternoon, Lt-GenYe Myint and party left thevillage by special train andinspected the site chosen forconstruction of No 1 Kyaw

Creek rural diversion weirand Kyaw creek rail bridge.Lt-Gen Ye Myint also in-spected the Pauk-Zeepya-Pakokku railroad. On arrivalat Sathein creek, Lt-Gen YeMyint inspected the site cho-sen for construction of a di-version weir between Zeepyaand Dattaw stations. Next,Lt-Gen Ye Myint and partyarrived at Dattaw RailwayStation and inspected the sta-tion and railroad.

On arrival at Myoso Rail-way Station, Lt-Gen YeMyint was welcomed thereby Chairman of Sagaing Di-vision Peace and Develop-ment Council Commanderof North-West CommandMaj-Gen Tha Aye and offi-cials. Next, Lt-Gen Ye Myint

and party proceeded toMyaing by train and in-spected the railroad andpaddy fields, crop plantationsand sunflower fields on bothsides of the railroad.

In the evening, Lt-GenYe Myint and party met withdepartmental personnel,members of socialorgnizations and townseldersat the hall of the TownshipPeace and DevelopmentCouncil Office in Myaing.The chairman of the Town-ship Peace and DevelopmentCouncil and departmentalofficials reported to Lt-GenYe Myint and party on suffi-ciency of rice in the town-ship and tasks being carriedout by respective depart-ments.

Lt-Gen Ye Myint saidunder the guidance of theHead of State, five rural de-velopment tasks were beingimplemented simultaneouslyall over the country. Moreo-ver, the State also placedemphasis on smooth and se-cure transport for the devel-opment of respective regions.Pakokku-Pauk-Kyaukhtu-Mindat road, which was im-portant for regional devel-opment had been put intoservice, he added. Irrigationfacilities were also beingconstructed in the region, hepointed out. In conclusion,he urged those present to takenecessary measures for ex-tended cultivation of paddyand regional development.

MNA

Patron of the MyanmarBadminton Federation U

Kyi Nyunt makes anopening address at theGreat Wall National

Badminton Champion-ship.— NLM

Minister for Health Dr KyawMyint gives polio vaccine tochildren at People’s Hospi- tal in Matupi, Chin State.

(HEALTH)

Officials of the UMFCCI meet Indian guests. MNA

UMFCCI officials meet Indian guests

Great Wall National BadmintonChampionship opens

YANGON, 3 Dec — Theopening ceremony of GreatWall National BadmintonChampionship of MyanmarBadminton Federationsponsored by Great WallTraditional MedicineProduction was held atAung San Stadium thismorning.

It was attended by offi-cials of the Ministry ofSports, executives ofMyanmar Women Federa-

tion, patrons, the presidentand executives of MBF, andguests.

Patron U Kyi Nyunt ofthe federation made an open-ing speech, and first daymatches of the champion-ship commenced.

A total of nine contest-ing teams are taking part inthe championship, whichwill continue till 7 Decem-ber.

NLM

YANGON, 3 Dec — Min-ister for Health Dr KyawMyint, together with Direc-tor-General of Health De-partment Dr Wan Maung,Deputy Director-General ofMedical Research Depart-ment (Upper Myanmar) ColThan Aung and officials, in-spected hospitals in MagwayDivision and Chin State be-ginning 28 November.

The minister and party,in the morning of 28 No-vember, arrived at the hospi-tal of Pauk Township inPakokku District, MagwayDivision. They inspectedround the hospital and staffquarters and fulfilled the re-quirements. In the afternoon,the minister inspected theKyaukhtu station hospital ofSaw Township in Pakokku

District. He provided themedicines to the hospital andgave necessary instructions.In the evening, Sagaing Di-vision Peace and Develop-ment Council ChairmanNorth-West CommandCommander Maj-Gen ThaAye and the minister, in-spected the people’s hospi-tal in Mindat District andattended to the needs.

The minister and partyattended the ceremony tomark the cent per cent cover-ing of DOTS TB in the wholecountry held at the people’shospital in Matupi Townshipon 30 November morning.

The minister viewed thegiving of medical treatmentto local patients by special-ists of Haka Hospital led byHead of Chin State HealthDepartment Dr Khin Maung

Tun at Matupi TownshipPeople’s Hospital. The min-ister and party then gave po-lio vaccine to the local chil-dren at the sites where poliovaccine was being given toaged under-5 children inMatupi. Next, the ministerinspected round the MatupiTownship Hospital and pro-vided medicines and fulfilledthe requirements.

The minister inspected

Hospitals inspected in Magway Division and Chin Statethe Popa rural health carecentre and 16-bed PopaSangha hospital and gavenecessary instructions yes-terday. The minister andparty inspected the out pa-tient ward, X-ray room, pa-tient wards and medicalstores of NyaungU People’sHospital this morning. Afterfulfilling the requirementsthere, the minister arrivedback here by air. — MNA


Letpan Dam Construction Project, a good investmentArticle by Kyaw Sein & photos by

Thwin Aye (Kyemon)

The government hasbeen making a prudent in-vestment on projects of wa-ter supply, the main re-quirement in the agriculturesector, the length andbreadth of the nation.Especially, seeking all pos-sible means and ways, it isbuilding irrigation facilitiesin arid zones that have tomainly rely on the rain fallfor agricultural purpose.

With a view toboosting production ofcrops and greening of the

regions, the governmentgives priority to small andmedium dam constructionprojects, which can becompleted in a short time.

Having only an av-erage annual rainfall of 27inches, Myinmu Townshipin Sagaing Division doesnot get enough water forcultivating crops. The Irri-gation Department thuscarried out a feasibility tourand constructed an earthenembankment across LetpanCreek about one mile north

of ChaungU Village inMyinmu Township for ful-filling the region’s require-ment.

A new 12-mile roadhas been built fromAlakappa Village to theLetpan Dam, resulting inbetter transport for localpeople.

The village is adja-cent to the dam and so vil-lagers have enjoyed higherincome by extended culti-vation of such crops asbeans and pulses, corn,sesamum and cotton.

In the division, sofar 14 dams have been con-structed benefiting over360,000 cultivable acres of

land. Three dams are be-ing built and on comple-tion, they can irrigatearound 5,600 acres. And 11more irrigation facilitieswill be constructed. Oncompletion, they will ben-efit over 170,000 acres ofland.

The dam has a wa-ter surface of 16 squaremiles with a 4,000-foot-long and 91-foot-highearthen embankment. Ar-rangements are being madefor cultivation of paddy innearby villages. Thanks tothe construction of thedam, the villagers nolonger suffer the problemon drinking water shortage.

We, staff ofKyemon daily interviewedsome farmers ofTawchaunggyi andTawchaungU Villages.According to farmers, it islearnt that in the past localfarmers had to totally relyon the rain in growingcrops and no crops couldbe grown in summer.

And it is expected toboost production of cropsand they will launch culti-vation of monsoon andsummer paddy. They havealso enjoyed fruitful resultsof sufficient potable water.Local people are satisfiedwith the project.

Formerly, based onthe rain fall, local farmers

carried out only single ordouble cropping.

The year in whichthe region was affected bydrought, the farmers had towork single cropping withgreat difficulties. Thanks tothe goodwill of the State,

Earth work being carried out for construction of LetpanDam in Myinmu Township, Sagaing Division.

THWIN AYE (KYEMON)

The control tower of the Letpan Dam under construction. — THWIN AYE (KYEMON)

the region will be able tolaunch double or triplecropping and to cultivatepaddy, contributing to-wards local ricesufficiency.

Translation: MS(Kyemon: 30-11-2003)

Lt-Gen Aung Htwe inspects regionaldevelopment in Panglong, Loilem and

Maukmai townshipsYANGON, 3 Dec —

Member of the State Peaceand Development CouncilLt-Gen Aung Htwe of theMinistry of Defence, ac-companied by Chairman ofShan State Peace and De-velopment Council Com-mander of Eastern Com-mand Maj-Gen KhinMaung Myint, Vice-Chiefof Armed Forces TrainingMaj-Gen Aung Kyi andofficials, arrived at the con-struction site of MahaRattha Bhitha Maggi Pa-goda in Panglong on 30 No-vember morning.

At the briefing hall,project in-charge U ChitThan Win of Asia WorldCompany and engineer in-charge U Thit Lwin re-ported on tasks being car-ried out, future plans andtheir needs.

Lt-Gen Aung Htwegave instructions on meet-ing the set standard andensuring work site safety.Later, he inspected roundthe site.

Next, member of theState Peace and Develop-ment Council Lt-Gen AungHtwe inspected the pinetrees grown by the ForestDepartment and natural pine

forest in Panglong andLoilem. He also met withofficials concerned and gaveinstructions on forest con-servation.

A total of 1,440,000pine trees have been grownon over 2,400 acres of landby Forest Department inPanglong in 1993-2003 and780,000 on over 1,300 acresin Loilem beginning 1997.In 2004-2005, over 800acres of land will be putunder pine trees.

Lt-Gen Aung Htweand party went to Maukmaiwhere they inspected roundthe Maukmai TownshipPeople’s Hospital.

Next, they arrived atthe construction site of townhall. Executive Officer UThaung Tun Zaw of thetownship development com-mittee reported on fund rais-ing for construction of thehall and work done.

Lt-Gen Aung Htwegave necessary instructionsand inspected round theconstruction site.

In the afternoon,member of the State Peaceand Development CouncilLt-Gen Aung Htwe andparty met with service per-sonnel, members of social

organizations and town-selders at the PDC office inMaukmai Township.

Lt-Gen Aung Htwegave instructions on mak-ing concerted efforts for re-gional development and ex-tension of agricultural andlivestock breeding works.

Afterwards, Lt-GenAung Htwe and party ar-rived at the new MaukmaiBasic Education HighSchool.

Headmistress DawMya Myo Lwin reported oncompletion of constructionof new school building andlearning of students.

Member of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Lt-Gen Aung Htwegave instructions on supplyof drinking water for theschool, durability of newbuilding and construction ofsports ground and fulfilledthe needs.

On arrival atHomein, Lt-Gen AungHtwe and party paidreverence and offered pro-visions to Sayadaw UPonnya and members ofthe Sangha of the monas-tery in the town and fulfilledthe requirements for themonastery. — MNA

Myanmar trounces Cambodia 6-0YANGON, 3 Dec —

After Kyaw Thuya’s open-ing goal, the Myanmar teamcontinued to dominate thematch against Cambodiathis evening in the XXIISoutheast Asia Games in

Ho Chi Minh City, Viet-nam, and scored five moregoals later.

In the early minutesof the match Cambodiateam was on the attack,threatening the Myanmar

defence and the goalkeeper,but failed to produce anygoal.

Myanmar will meetMalaysia in its last groupmatch.

NLM

Transport Minister inspects river water pumpingstations, Pakokku Airport construction

YANGON, 3 Dec—Minister for Transport Maj-Gen Hla Myint Swe, accom-panied by Deputy Director-General U Soe Myint of theDirectorate of Water Re-sources and Improvement ofRiver Systems, yesterday in-spected the pumping of riverwater at Latpanchepaw riverwater pumping station in

NyaungU District and at-tended to the needs. At thestation, officials concernedreported to the minister onarrangements for pumpingriver water in any season.

Similarly, the minis-ter saw over the Ngatha-yauk river water pumpingproject.

In the afternoon, he

went to Pakokku Airportconstruction project. At thebriefing hall, responsible of-ficials reported on progressof the construction of run-way and airport building andfuture tasks.

Afterwards, the min-ister inspected the construc-tion of airport building.

MNA

Delegates to MCDCC meeting visit MongyunYANGON, 3 Dec —

Delegates of the People’sRepublic of China toMyanmar-China Drug Con-trol Cooperation Meetingheld at the Regina Hotel inTachilek on 26 Novemberled by Deputy Secretary-General Mr Wang Qianrongof National Drug ControlCommission, accompaniedby Secretary of the CentralCommittee for Drug AbuseControl of Myanmar Direc-tor-General of MyanmarPolice Force Brig-Gen KhinYi and officials, arrived atMongyun in Shan State

(East) on 27 November andvisited the Hydel PowerPlant, rice mill and high-yield paddy fields there.

The delegation alsovisited Wan Hong BasicEducation High School andWan Hong Agriculture andLivestock Breeding Inte-grated Farm in the after-noon.

Local national raceleaders led by Wa nationalrace leader U Pauk Yu Yiof Special Region-2 wel-comed the delegation.

U Li Win briefed thedelegation on opium substi-

tute development tasks andassistance offered by theGovernment. The leader ofthe delegation and the di-rector-general of the MPFspoke words of thanks.

Afterwards, they dis-cussed matters related todrug elimination endeav-ours, future tasks and assist-ance programmes of the twocountries. Later, the delega-tion viewed the productsand feedstuff factory of thefarm and left for home viaKengtung/Mongla on 28November.

MNA


Infrastructures for the aviation sector

Mandalay International

Airport in TadaU

Township in Mandalay

Division equipped with

modern facilities.

PHOTO:MNA

While taking measures for building new airports, the old ones are being upgraded. The photo shows Tachilek Airport

which was upgraded in 1999. —PHOTOS: HTAY AUNG (KYEMON)

Magway Airport and airfield will

significantly contribute towards progress

of the transport sector of Magway

Division. The photo taken on 6 June

2003 shows the building of Magway

airport. —PHOTO:MNA

As a result of upgrading

Kawthoung Airport and

the airport building,

jet planes carrying

passengers can

now use it.—PHOTO: MNA

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to fight against“AIDS”

BEIJING, 3 Dec — Chinais marking the 16th WorldAIDS Day by mobilizing thewhole society to participatein the fight against AIDS,with Ma Xiaowei, Vice-Minister of Health, highlypraising China’s AIDS pre-vention and control work.

Speaking Monday at theawarding ceremony of the“121 joint action”, China’sAIDS donation plan, Ma saidthe government was pleasedto see the formation of ananti-AIDS force, led by thecentral government, with alllevels of governments, non-governmental organizations(NGOs) and the public asparticipants.

“The support from sci-entists and enterprises is par-ticularly significant forAIDS-related education andpublicity,” Ma said.

China has one millionHIV-carriers today, and thenumber is increasing at ahigh speed. In face of thesevere situation, Ma said theState Council had madelong-term plans on AIDSprevention and control, in-cluding more investment inHIV medicine research, andpopularizing and reducingthe cost of AIDS treatment.

Khalid Malik, UN resi-dent coordinator in China aswell as UN DevelopmentProgramme resident repre-sentative, congratulated theChinese Government, onbehalf of UN Secretary-Gen-eral Kofi Annan, on itsachievements in AIDS pre-vention and control.

Malik said the UnitedNations would intensivelycooperate with the ChineseGovernment especially inmaking AIDS-relatedlaws.—MNA/Xinhua

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Thailand chosen asexample for provision of

“AIDS” drugs to poor

Three killed,15 injured in train accident

BANGKOK, 3 Dec — TheWorld Health Organization(WHO) has selected Thai-land as a regional examplefor the provision of anti-retroviral drugs to poor peo-ple suffering from the HIVvirus, Health MinisterSudarat Keyuraphan an-nounced here.

Sudarat said that for theyear 2004 the ministry hadset aside 1.629 billion baht(40.725 million US dollars)for the provision of anti-retroviral drugs to 50,000HIV sufferers, the Thai NewsAgency reported.

Of this funding, 904 mil-lion baht (22.6 million dol-lars) came from the ThaiGovernment, and couldcover 40,000 patients, whilethe remaining money camefrom the Global Fund forAIDS, Malaria and Tuber-culosis.

The minister noted thataround 95 per cent of AIDSpatients in Thailand suffered

from poverty, and, as a re-sult, were unable to pay formedication themselves.

Stressing that Thailand’sprovision of anti-retroviraldrugs was in accordance withthe WHO’s target of provid-ing medication to aroundthree million of the 42million AIDS sufferersacross the world by 2005,she said that the WHO hadchosen Thailand as anexample to other countriesin South-East Asia for theprovision of drugs to AIDSsufferers.

The WHO had based itsdecision on the fact that Thai-land was the only country inthe region that had made anyreal progress on the issue,she said, adding that the pro-vision of anti-retroviral drugswould greatly reduce ex-penses on diseases such astuberculosis that might,otherwise, be contracted byAIDS sufferers.

MNA/Xinhua

China issues stamp to commemorateWorld “AIDS”Day

BEIJING, 3 Dec — TheState Post Bureau of Chinaissued a stamp to mark theWorld AIDS Day here.

The stamp, with the de-sign of a heart-shaped red-ribbon, symbolizes the careand support given by the so-ciety to HIV carriers andAIDS patients.

Ma Xiaowei, Vice-Min-ister of the Chinese HealthMinistry, said at the issuance

ceremony that stamps are likethe “name cards” of a nation.The new stamp shows theChinese Government’s sup-port and active participationin AIDS prevention, and thatit will play an active role inAIDS control efforts.

The commemorativestamp is worth 80 cents (about10 US cents) with a circula-tion of 9.13 million copies.

MNA/Xinhua

JAKARTA, 3 Dec — ThreeIndonesian students werekilled and 15 others injuredafter falling from the Serayuexpress train in Bandung,West Java Province on Mon-day.

All the victims, who are

hanging from the train, werestudents from a senior highschool in Tangerang, WestJava, the official newsagency Antara reported.

The seriously injuredwere taken to Hasan SadikinHospital.—MNA/Xinhua

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Scottish Woodlands worker Roddy McTavish carries a Nordman Fir on a Christmastree farm near the village of Biggar in Scotland, on 2 Dec, 2003. The farm has soldtrees to the Harrods department store in London and has clients throughout the UK,

France and Croatia.—INTERNET

GENEVA, 3 Dec — The World Health Organization (WHO) added three new genericproducts for first-line AIDS treatment to its list of medicines meeting WHO standardsof quality, safety and efficacy on Monday, the World AIDS Day.

already substantial progress in one keyarea.

“The 3 by 5 strategy recommends simpli-fied AIDS treatment regimens so that coun-tries can quickly expand access to anti-retroviral medicines,” said WHO AssistantDirector-General for Health Technology andPharmaceuticals Vladimir Lepakhin.

“These new products will help the coun-tries hardest-hit by the AIDS epidemic geteasy-to-take AIDS medicines to the peoplewho need them most urgently,” Lepakhinsaid.

MNA/Xinhua

The new products are fixed-dose tripletherapy combinations containinglamivudine, stavudine and nevirapine, theWHO said in a statement.

The introduction of these medicines in thelist of quality medicines will increase choiceand competition, thus contributing to mak-ing AIDS treatment more affordable, thestatement said.

The WHO and the Joint United NationsProgramme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), onMonday launched a “3 by 5 strategy” totreat three million people living with AIDSby 2005, and a WHO expert said there was

In a statement, the WHO regional office for the WesternPacific said the WHO warns that, without major invest-ments in prevention and care, similar annual death tolls canbe expected until the end of the decade.

The report, HIV/AIDS (human immuno deficiencyvirus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in Asiaand the Pacific Region 2003, highlights a number ofdisturbing trends, which indicate there are more thanseven million people living with HIV/AIDS in Asia andthe Pacific (of the global total of 40 million). The reportsays India has the highest number of people in Asia livingwith HIV/AIDS, an estimated 3.8 million to 4.6 millionpeople, while China accounts for about 840,000 HIVinfections.

The trends also include that high HIV infection rates

can be found in Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Thai-land, and parts of China and India, according to thereport.

In Cambodia, there is 2.6-per-cent prevalence amongthe general population, which indicates a generalized epi-demic. Cambodia still has the highest estimated HIV/AIDSprevalence rate in Asia and the Pacific.

Figures for Vietnam show HIV infection rates ofmore than 20 per cent among injecting drug users inmost provinces. Disturbingly, the high rates of HIVinfection among sex workers previously noted in thesouth of the country have now been found in the north(15 per cent of sex workers in Hanoi are estimated to beHIV-positive).

MNA/Xinhua

The UN’s World HealthOrganization (WHO) esti-mates that six million peo-ple in poor countries needthe anti-retroviral (ARV)treatment that many victimsin the rich world now takefor granted, but less than300,000 actually receive it.

“HIV/AIDS has becomethe premier disease of massdestruction,” WHO Assist-ant Director-General JackChow said at the launch ofa strategy on World AIDSDay aiming to get ARVtreatment to half of the sixmillion by the end of 2005.

“This year alone threemillion people have died ofAIDS. These are peoplewhose lives could have beensaved through provision ofARVs,” he said.

The WHO announcedlast week that 40 millionpeople around the worldwere infected with HIV, andthat the global AIDS epi-demic shows no signs ofabating. It says the aim ofthe new strategy is to en-sure that all people living

with AIDS, even in the poor-est settings, have access totreatment.

It also hopes that betteraccess to treatment will en-courage those with HIV/AIDS to come forward,something which is difficultfor many in countries wherethe stigma of having AIDSoften condemns sufferers tosocial isolation.

“Experience in Brazil andHaiti has shown that wherepeople can get treatment theyhave the courage to comeforward for testing,” Chowsaid.

“It is my desire that thethree million goal is not aceiling but a floor and thatwe start today to provideuniversal access.” UN Sec-retary-General Kofi Annansays many political leadersstill simply do not careenough to fight the disease,which has killed 28 millionpeople since it was first re-ported among homosexualmen in the United States in1981.

MNA/Reuters

A container vessel enters the Singapore port. Singapore said it would like to complete afree trade agreement with the European Union before a similar pact is reached between

the bloc and the ten-member ASEAN group.—INTERNET

Chinese Premier shakes hands with“AIDS” patients

BEIJING , 3 Dec — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Monday shook hands and hada face-to-face conversation with three AIDS patients at a hospital in Beijing, asvarious activities were launched nationwide to mark the World AIDS Day.

It was the first time that a ChinesePremier has visited AIDS patients.

Wen called on the governments at alllevels to strengthen AIDS prevention andtreatment, when paying a visit to DitanHospital, the most-advanced AIDS hos-pital in China, which has treated morethan 600 AIDS patients.

Wearing a red ribbon shown care aboutthe AIDS patients, the Premier shookhands with three patients one by one,asking them about their treatment, family

life and their kids’ education. “AIDS can be prevented and treated,”

Wen said, reminding the medical staffof providing better service for AIDSpatients.

The AIDS epidemic has become a se-vere challenge to human existence and de-velopment, and prevention and treatmentof AIDS has become a global issue onpublic health, he said.

MNA/Xinhua

Central Americahas highest“AIDS”rate

in Latin AmericaSANJOSE , 3 Dec— Belize,

Honduras, Panama and Gua-temala are four of the sixCentral American countrieswith the highest AIDS ratein Latin America, JaneArmitage, director of theWorld Bank for CentralAmerica, has said.

Armitage was quoted onMonday by local Press as say-ing that the epidemic in CentralAmerica is worsening day byday. He said in Honduras alone,at least 13,500 children becameorphans because of the disease,which is now the second majorcause of death, only after streetviolence.

Honduras has the high-est percentage of AIDScases in Central America,accounting for nearly 60 percent of the total. At least19,200 people in Hondurashave died of AIDS since 1985,and it is estimated that some27,000 children and teenag-ers will be infected with thedeadly virus by 2005.

In Costa Rica, the epidemicrate is 0.6 per cent in the adultgroup. Since 1983, 2,500 AIDScases have been reported and1,500 individuals have died ofthe disease. — MNA/Xinhua

MANILA , 3 Dec — More than half a million people in the Asia-Pacific region died of AIDS in 2003, whichmakes one death from AIDS every minute, according to a report published by the World Health Organization(WHO).

NAIROBI , 3 Dec — The United Nations unveiledplans on Monday to rush life-saving anti-retroviralAIDS drugs to three million of the world’s poor in a 5.5-billion-US-dollar emergency strategy to fight a diseasenow killing 8,000 a day.

UN plans to rush “AIDS”therapy to world’s poor

Because of illegal immigrants from Central America,such as Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, about 150new cases were reported every year.

Lorena Careaga, the leader of the non-governmentalorganization, Punto de Encuentro con la Comunidad, alsoblamed the increase on the arrival of patients from CentralAmerican countries.The state of Quintana Roo had reported1,394 cases already this year, and 405 deaths, added Careaga.

On Monday, the 16th World AIDS Day, representativesfrom Mexico and Central America met in the city of Chetumalon the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in southern Mexico.

According to the National Registry of AIDS Cases,72,000 cases had been reported, of which 14,000 were foundin the Federal District. — MNA/Xinhua

MEXICO CITY , 3 Dec— Increasing immigration insouthern Mexico has caused an increase of HIV/AIDS,Dagoberto Garcia, a health services officer in the south-eastern state of Quintana Roo, said on Monday.

Illegal immigration helps“AIDS” spread in S Mexico

WHO authorizes new medi cinesfor “AIDS” treatment

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Istanbul's Goektan Berkant, centre, charges through Turin players during the Cham-pions League group D match between Galatasaray Istanbul and Juventus Turin at the

Westphalia Stadium in Dortmund, western Germany, on 2 Dec,2003.—INTERNET

Hakan Sukur of Galatasaray Istanbul runs to score his second goal against JuventusTurin's goalkeeper Antonio Chimenti (bottom) and Edgar Davids (L), during their

Champions League Group D first phase match at the Westphalia Stadium in Dortmund,Germany, on 2 Dec, 2003. Galatasaray won the match, 2-0.—INTERNET

Ricardo Clark, of the United States, left, and IoannisMasmanidis, of Germany, challenge for the ball during aGroup F match at the World U20 Soccer Championshipat the Al Nahyan Stadium in Abu Dhabi on 2 Dec, 2003.

Germany won the game 3-1.—INTERNET

Hakan keeps Galatasarayhopes alive against Juve

DORTMUND (Germany), 3 Dec— Hakan Sukur scored twice asGalatasaray beat Juventus 2-0 in the Champions League on Tues-day, keeping alive the Turkish team's hopes of qualifying fromGroup D.

Arsenal and Southampton intoLeague Cup quarterfinals

LONDON, 3 Dec— Arsenal cruised into the quarterfinals of the English League Cupon Tuesday as a virtual reserve team thrashed a full strength WolverhamptonWanderers 5-1 at Highbury.

Valencia draw leaves dooropen for Real and Deportivo MADRID, 3 Dec— Valencia missed a chance to stretch

their lead at the top of the Primera Liga when they were heldto a 0-0 draw by a dominant Real Sociedad at the Anoeta onTuesday The leaders were in uninspired form against theBasque side who can count themselves unlucky not to haveclaimed their first win in six outings in a game theydominated from start to finish.

Sociedad, who ran Real so close for the title last seasonbut have struggled so far this term, had two goals disal-lowed in the first half and enjoyed a host of scoringopportunities in the second, but were unable to clinch thewin they deserved. The result leaves Valencia a point clearof Real Madrid, but the champions can regain top spot ifthey beat city rivals Atletico in Wednesday's Madrid derby.

Third-placed Deportivo Coruna, who are a further pointbehind Real, could also overhaul Valencia if they win theirmatch away to Valladolid.—MNA/Reuters

Hakan grabbed the opener twominutes after the restart with a fineheader and then sealed the victorywith an injury time strike after beingput through by Hasan Sas.

The result moves Galatasarayabove Olympiakos into third place onsix points, but leaves them two pointsbehind their next opponents —second-placed Real Sociedad.

Fatih Terim's side must win thatmatch in Spain next week if they are togo through to the knock-out stage of

the competition. The match against the

Italian champions had beenpostponed by a week andswitched to Dortmund'sWestfalen Stadium by UEFAfollowing the recent terroristattacks in Istanbul.

But there was no doubtthat Galatasaray enjoyedhome advantage. The groundwas packed with Turkish sup-porters, so many that the startwas delayed for 15 minutesdue to traffic congestion.

With little at stake forJuve, coach Marcello Lippirested big names such asPavel Nedved, DavidTrezeguet and Alessandrodel Piero but, from the out-set, it was clear that the Ital-ians were keen to beatTerim's side.

Galatasaray keeper FarydMondragon was busy fromthe start and was out quick tofoil Marco di Vaio in the11th minute. Shortly after-wards, though, the Turkstested Juve keeper AntonioChimenti, playing instead ofthe rested Gianluigi Buffon,with a well-struck effort fromBerkant Goktan.

Fabrizio Miccoli, anotherJuve player given a rare start,struck the post with a 20-me-tre free-kick in the 29th minutebut it was end-to-end footballand moments later Berkanttested Chimenti again.

Juve ended the half with aspell of intense pressure. Afterdi Vaio had twice gone close,Mondragon did well to keepout a shot from Enzo Marescaand just before the break theColombian keeper pulled offan excellent double save to keepout a Miccoli strike and then diVaio's follow-in.

But two minutes into thesecond half the Turksgrabbed the lead when thelively Sabri Sarioglu burstdown the left wing and hiscross was met at the nearpost by Hakan with a smartlyangled glancing header pastChimenti. The Italian cham-pions responded positivelywith Maresca twice forcingMondragon into saves, butthe game drifted into scrappybattles in midfield as theTurks sought to keep a firmgrip on the lead.

Ten minutes from the end,Berkant missed a great chanceto secure victory with a sec-ond goal, shooting wide afterbeing put through on goal byHakan However Hakan, whofailed to impress in spells inItaly with Torino, Inter Milanand Parma, made sure therewas no chance of a comebackfrom Juve, slotting home con-fidently in injury time afterHasan put him through with asmart pass. —MNA/Reuters

Joe Cole banned and fined forWest Ham dust-up

LONDON, 3 Dec — Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole wasbanned for two matches and fined 15,000 pounds (25,780US dollars) on Tuesday after a fracas as a West Ham Unitedplayer in April.

Cole was suspended for two games, starting from De-cember 22, and fined 10,000 pounds for improper conductand using abusive and insulting language to a match officialduring West Ham's Premier League game at Bolton Wan-derers last season.

The 22-year-old, who joined Chelsea in the close seasonafter West Ham were relegated to the First Division, wasfined a further 5,000 pounds for improper conduct in a massconfrontation on the pitch, a Football Association spokes-man said. Cole, now an England regular, was also warnedabout his future conduct.—MNA/Reuters

In the night's other fourth round tie South-ampton deservedly beat local rivals Port-smouth 2-0 with two goals by England strikerJames Beattie. Arsenal, who beat South-ampton in last season's FA Cup final, ad-vanced with ease in the lesser competitiondespite resting almost all their first teamsquad.

French striker Jeremie Aliadiere got theopening goal from the edge of the box in the24th minute and Nwankwo Kanu, wholooked dangerous but wayward all night,finally found the target from close range inthe 68th.

Arsenal then turned on the style asAliadiere curled in his second three minuteslater and Sylvain Wiltord weighed in withhis first goal since August.

Alex Rae pulled one back for Wolves inthe 81st minute with a spectacular finish butArsenal had the last word as 16-year-oldSpanish forward Francesc Fabregas becamethe club's youngest-ever scorer two minutesfrom time. There was further good news formanager Arsene Wenger as midfielderPatrick Vieira came through unscathed in

his first full game since he suffered a thighinjury at the end of September.

Portsmouth's first appearance at St.Mary's Stadium — the first south coastderby for almost eight years and only the30th meeting of the two teams in almost acentury of rivalry — proved to be some-thing of a damp squib.

Last season's First Division championswere never really in the game as their moreexperienced rivals had the edge throughoutwithout creating too many clear chances.

Both teams had been in poor form in theleague in recent weeks and that was re-flected in a scrappy match.

The opening goal came in the 33rd minutewhen defender Chris Marsden clipped in alow cross from the left and Beattie darted into the six-yard box to poke the ball pastPavel Srnicek.

Portsmouth laboured without ever threat-ening an equalizer but their Dutch defenderArjan de Zeeuw was unfortunate to be sentoff for an injury time trip on Beattie thatallowed the England man to settle the matchfrom the penalty spot.—MNA/Reuters


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WEATHERWednesday, 3 December, 2003

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hoursMST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in the whole country.

Night temperatures were 8˘C below normal in RakhineState, 6°C below normal in Shan State, upper Sagaing,Mandalay and Bago Divisions, 4°C to 5°C below normalin Kachin State and Taninthayi Divisions and about nor-mal in the remaining areas.

Maximum temperature on 1-11-2003 was 34.0°C(93°F). Minimum temperature on 3-12-2003 was 16.0°C(61°F).

Relative humidity at 9:30 hrs MST on 3-12-2003 was72%. Total sunshine hours on 2-12-2003 was (8.7) hoursapprox.

Rainfall on 3-12-2003 was nil at Yangon Airport,Kaba-Aye and central Yangon. Total rainfall since1-1-2003 was 2211 mm (87.05 inches) at Yangon Air-port, 2315 mm (91.14 inches) at Kaba-Aye and 2394mm (94.25 inches) at central Yangon.

Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was18 mph from Northwest at (12:55) hours MST on1-1-2003.

Bay inference: Weather is cloudy in the South Bayand partly cloudy elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of the 4-12-2003:Except for the possibility of isolated light rain or thunder-showers in Taninthayi Division, weather will be partlycloudy in the whole country.Degree of certainty is (40%).

State of the sea: Seas will be slight to moderate inMyanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation ofdecrease of night temperatures are likely in EasternMyanmar areas.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for4-12-2003: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for4-12-2003: Generally fair weather.

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Beauty & ScenicSights “Come and SeeMyanmar”

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Dishes (Sour Soup oftender tamarind leaveswith head of fish)

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16 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 4 December, 200311th Waxing of Nadaw, 1365 ME Thursday, 4 December, 2003

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

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 sys-

tem* 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

(from page 1)the patriots fully equipped with firm nationalistic spiritand Union Spirit, he added.

Success of the education promotion programmes de-pends on the cooperation of teachers, students and parentsand the public. Only when teachers, students and parentscooperate, will the programmes achieve success as ex-pected. Teachers should take a leading part in successfulimplementation of the programmes.

He continued to say that border areas have their dis-tinct characteristics. As colonialists sowed discord amongnational brethren living together, there existed suspicionand distrust among them and armed insurgencies brokeout. Due to armed conflicts, many lives were lost andeducation, health, social, economic and transportationsectors legged behind in development. In the time ofTatmadaw government, confidence, understanding and co-operation have been built up between the government andarmed groups. Border area development projects have beenlaid down and implemented and emphasis has been placedon all-round development tasks. He urged the teachers atthe border areas to make efforts with goodwill and na-tional outlook for development of the national peoples’knowledge, for strengthening of Union Spirit, for literacy

Educational goals… of all citizens, for educating them the evil consequencesof abuse and scourge of narcotic drugs.

He also urged the teachers from other regions to nur-ture the students to equip them with knowledge, high ef-ficiency, right outlook and thoughts and to enable them torealize and choose their own future. In conclusion, hesaid in nurturing the youths who will shoulder the dutiesof the State, the teachers are to adopt the right view, aimhigh and strive for the better future of the country.

Afterwards, prizes and completion certificates werepresented to the trainee teachers. The Secretary-1 pre-sented the best trainee awards to SAT U Chit Ngwe ofHomalin BEHS in Sagaing Division and JAT Daw Ei NiNi Swe of Linmyint BEPS-116 in Magway Township,Magway Division, the awards for diligence to SchoolheadU Kan Thaung of Myintha BEMS in Homalin Township,Sagaing Division, JAT Daw Khaing Khaing of BEPS-4 inMyitkyina Township, Kachin State and JAT Daw KhinCho Han of Hkamti Township BEHS in Sagaing Divi-sion. He also presented the best hostel awards and com-pletion certificates to trainees.

The trainees then presented K 50,000 for religious,education and social affairs to the Secretary-1 who ac-cepted the donation and presented certificate of honour.

After the ceremony, the Secretary-1 greeted the traineeteachers.—MNA

Vice-Chairman of Myanmar Education CommitteeSecretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council

Lt-Gen Soe Win delivers an address at the concludingceremony of the special refresher course No-20 for basic

education teachers at the Central Institute of CivilService (Upper Myanmar). — MNA

Dignitaries attending the concluding ceremony of the special refresher course for basic education teachers at theCentral Institute of Civil Service (Upper Myanmar). — MNA

Secretary-2 of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Thein Sein views the performance of children of school for disabled person at aceremony to mark the International Day for Disabled Persons. — MNA

YANGON, 3 Dec — TheInternational Day of Disa-bled Persons was observedat a ceremony held at theInternational Business Cen-

Significant achievements made in rehabilitation programmes for the disabled due toencouragement of government, cooperation of social organizations and the public

International Day of Disabled Persons observedtre on Pyay Road here thismorning, with an address bySecretary-2 of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Lt-Gen Thein Sein.

It was also attended bythe ministers, the deputy min-isters, members of MyanmarNational Working Commit-tee for Women’s Affairs, de-

partmental heads, officials,NGOs, members of the panelof judges, wellwishers andguests.

In his address, the Secre-

tary-2 said the United Na-tions designated the 3rd ofDecember as the Interna-tional Day of Disabled Per-sons. Since then the Union

of Myanmar has been cele-brating the InternationalDays of Disabled Persons for11 years. This shows thatMyanmar has actively beenparticipating in the noblefunctions of the UN for hu-mans, he said. He said the objectives ofthe International Day ofDisabled Persons — promo-tion of understanding uponthe disabled, implementationof the practical assistanceprogrammes for the disabledand uplifting the standard oflife of the disabled based onequal rights — have emergedas good results of social de-velopment activities regard-ing the disabled in Myanmardue to the efforts with na-tional determination underthe leadership of the govern-ment. He said the government issystematically implementing

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