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12th Waxing of Nadaw 1369 ME Friday, 21 December, 2007Volume XV, Number 249

Established 1914

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

* Stability of the State, communitypeace and tranquillity, prevalenceof law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participationin terms of technical know-how and investmentsfrom sources inside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must bekept in the hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and moralityof the entire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and in-tegrity and preservation and safe-guarding of cultural heritage andnational character

* Uplift of dynamism of patrioticspirit

* Uplift of health, fitness and educa-tion standards of the entire nation

Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives

Senior General Than Shwepays homage to

Maha Arnt Htoo Kantha Pagoda

NAY PYI TAW, 20

Dec — Chairman of

the State Peace and

Development Council

Commander-in-Chief

of Defence Services

Senior General Than

Shwe accompanied by

Chairman of Manda-

lay Division PDC

Commander of Cen-

tral Command Brig-

Gen Tin Ngwe and of-

ficials visited Maha

Arnt Htoo Kantha Pa-

goda in PyinOoLwin

Township on 18 De-

cember evening and

paid homage to Maha

Arnt Htoo Kantha

Buddha Image.

The Senior Gen-

eral donated cash to

the funds of the pa-

goda through the

chairman to the Pa-

goda Board of Trus-

tees.

Later, the Senior

General viewed prize

winning works in the

photo contest 2007 to

mark Tazaungdine

Festival of the pa-

goda.

MNA

Chairman of State Peace and Development Council

Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General

Than Shwe pays homage to Maha Arnt Htoo Kantha Buddha

Image in PyinOoLwin Township. — MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 21 December, 2007

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

People’s DesireFriday, 21 December, 2007

Improve science and technologysector to build modern Tatmadaw

“I urge you to participate with energy andvigour in the development of the Science andTechnology of the Tatmadaw and the building ofa modern Tatmadaw, ensure that you becomethe new generation of leaders who will defend theTwelve Traditions of the Tatmadaw, even withyour lives, and join in the activities for the build-ing of a modern developed nation.”

This is an excerpt from the speech given tojunior engineer leaders by Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Senior General Than Shweat the graduation parade of the 10th Intake ofDefence Services Technological Academy at theparade ground of the DSTA in PyinOoLwin on19 December.

Today, advancement in the science and tech-nology has gained a dominant position over anyother sector. And military science and technolo-gies are advancing day after day. Therefore,Defence Services engineers, who will have toparticipate in the building of a modernTatmadaw, are to work hard to improve theirqualifications and to be able to keep abreast ofglobal advancements.

Now, steps are being taken for building astrong and modern Tatmadaw capable of pro-tecting the motherland. The Defence ServicesTechnological Academy is one of the educationalinstitutions that produce human resources forstrengthening the Tatmadaw. Successful com-pletion of the graduation parade of the 10thIntake of Defence Services Technological Acad-emy is a contribution towards the drive.

The new graduates, engineering resources,will have to shoulder national defence duties,training duties and public welfare services, whileplaying a key role in the building of a modernTatmadaw. Moreover, they will have to studyconstantly the subjects on military science andtechnology that are advancing.

It is believed that the Defence Services juniorengineer leaders will protect and safeguard thenation at risk to their lives, while trying their bestto become reliable citizens in accordance withgood morale and fine traditions of the Tatmadaw.

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Dec — The State Peaceand Development Council has confirmed the fol-lowing persons as heads of service organizationsshown against each on expiry of the one-year proba-tionary period.

Name Appointment(a) U Aung Myo Myint Managing Director

Myanma Motion Pic- ture Enterprise Ministry of Information

(b) U Zaw Htay Director-General� H i g h e r � E d u c a t i o n Department (Lower Myanmar) Ministry of Education

(c) U Tin Myint Director-General Attorney-General’s Office

The State Peace and Development Councilhas appointed Deputy Director-General U Hoke Kyiof Hydropower Administration Department underMinistry of Electric Power No 1 as Director-Generalof the same department on probation from the datehe assumes charge of his duties. — MNA

MYANMAR GAZETTE

YANGON, 20 Dec— CEC Member of theUnion Solidarity and De-velopment Association(Yangon Division In-Charge) Mayor Brig-GenAung Thein Lin and wifeDr Daw Khin Hsan Nweand officials concernedvisited NgwekyaryanPariyatti Sarthintaik inSouth Okkalapa Town-ship this morning.

They paid hom-age to Presiding NayakaSayadaw of theSarthintaik State SanghaMaha Nayaka CommitteeVice-Chairman SayadawAgga Maha PanditaBhaddanta Revata.

The CEC mem-ber and wife supplicatedon upgrading of the en-trance road to the monas-tery. Next, they presentedfive bags of rice and onetin of edible oil donatedby Yangon DivisionUSDA to the Sayadaw. AtNo 2 Basic EducationHigh School in YankinTownship, they attendedthe closing ceremony ofRed Cross course in con-junction with the uniformpresentation ceremony.

Completion cer-tificates were presented tothe trainees by Adviser toMyanmar Red Cross So-

Mayor pays homage to PresidingSayadaw of Ngwekyaryan

Pariyatti Sarthintaikciety Dr Daw Khin HsanNwe and outstandingawards by Executive Di-rector U Khin Maung Hlaof MRCS.

Red Cross uni-forms worth K 500,000were handed to officialsby the CEC member andwife. Leader Daw MoeSwe Aung of School RedCross Brigade spokewords of thanks. — MNA

YANGON, 20 Dec —A ceremony to join theSky Team Alliance of the China Southern Airlines

China Southern Airlines Co opens Yangon branchCompany of the People’s Republic of China and openYangon branch office was held at Traders Hotel, here,on 18 December.

China Southern Airlines launched theGuangzhou-Yangon direct flight in July for ensuringcooperation in tourism and economic sectors betweenMyanmar and the PRC.

Boeing airplanes of China Southern Air-lines run its flights to Paris, New York, Tokyo,Nairobi, Panama, Seoul, Moscow and Beijing citiesin addition to Yangon-Guangzhou flight, carryingpassengers and freight. The airlines set a programmeto sell air tickets at a discount up to 31 March 2008.

Air tickets are available at No 370, on the firstfloor of the Grand Mee Ya Hta Residences, near KaungKaung Restaurant, Bogyoke Aung San Street, Tel: 01-256355, extension: 3555/3666, fax: 01-250016.

MNA

Mayor Brig-GenAung Thein Lin andwife Dr Daw KhinHsan Nwe donateprovisions to the

Sayadaw ofNgwekyaryan

PariyattiSarthintaik.—YCDC

A responsible person speaks at joiningceremony of China Southern Airlines

Company at Sky Team Alliance at Traders Hotel.—MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 21 December, 2007 3

I N T E R N A T I O N A L N E W S

Japan test-fires ballisticmissile off Hawaii

TOKYO, 19 Dec—Japan successfullyintercepted a mock ballistic missile offHawaii in a test-fire shortly after localtime Monday noon. Japanese DefenceMinistry officials said Tuesday.

The test of the Standard Missile-3

which was launched by a JapaneseMaritime Self-Defence Force (MSDF)destroyer in the Pacific Ocean, was thefirtst by a country other than the UnitedStates.

With the help of the US Navy whichlaunched a mid-range ballistic missilefrom its military base in the Pacific, theAegis-equipped Kongou of the MSDFseveral hundred kilometres awaydetected it and tired an SM-3 to interceptin it at an altitude of more than 100kilometres at around 7:12 am Japan timeMonday.

Kyodo News quoted experts as sayingthat the success marks an importantprogress in Japan’s construction of itsmissile shield. They also expressedconcern over the breaking up of militarybalance in the region.—MNA/Xinhua

Japan successfully shoots down aballistic missile in space high above thePacific on 18 Dec, 2007. – INTERNET

Poland seeks to pull troopsfrom Iraq by October 2008

Blackwater probed forshooting “NY Times” dog

BAGHDAD, 19 Dec—The US Embassy in Iraq isinvestigating another deadly shooting incidentinvolving its Blackwater bodyguards — this time ofthe New York Times’s dog. Staff at the newspaper’s Baghdad bureau saidBlackwater bodyguards shot Hentish dead last weekbefore a visit by a US diplomat to the Times compound. Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said the doghad attacked one of Blackwater’s bomb-sniffer dogswhile a security team was sweeping the compound forexplosives.—MNA/Xinhua

Malaysia hopes to attract 100,000foreign students by 2010

At least 19 killed inMexico truck accidentMEXICO CITY, 19 Dec—A dump truck packed

with coffee pickers skidded off a road in the Mexicanstate of Puebla and plunged into a shallow ravine,killing at least 19 people, a Red Cross official said onMonday.

The truck was carrying between 80 and 85 peopleto coffee plantations on the mountains of Puebla whenthe driver lost control on a curve and fell about 15 feet(5 metres) into the ravine.

“The truck ended up upside down. It squashed thepeople,” Red Cross coordinator Baldomero Azua toldReuters. Road accidents are common on Mexico’snarrow, poorly paved interstate roads.

MNA/Reuters

KUALA LUMPUR, 19Dec—The MalaysianGovernment has set atarget to attract 100,000foreign students to study inMalaysia by 2010, aneducation official saidhere on Tuesday. Thetarget was in line withMalaysia’s NationalHigher Education Strat-egic Plan which formu-lates a vision to makeMalaysia the regional hubof excellence in education,said Malaysian HigherEducation MinisterMustapa Mohamed.

The presence of foreignstudents would not onlyhelp bring foreignexchange into Malaysiabut also would add theinternational dimension tocampuses of Malaysia’s

institutions of higherlearning, he said in aspeech delivered to a localuniversity conference.

Currently, there were

WARSAW, 19 Dec—Poland’s new governmentasked the President onTuesday to approve plansunder which the country’s900 troops in Iraq wouldpull out by October nextyear.

Prime Minister DonaldTusk has clashed with

conservative PresidentLech Kaczynski, who hasopposed a troopwithdrawal so soon.

The request for a finalextension of Poland’smilitary mission in Iraquntil the end of October2008 was presented as acompromise. It comes asother US allies such asBritain and Australia arealso scaling back theirpresence.

Tusk, who defeated thePresident’s twin brother,former prime ministerJaroslaw Kaczynski, inOctober elections,pledged in his inauguraladdress last month towithdraw Polish soldiersfrom Iraq next year.

MNA/Reuters

Cambodian UN Ambassadorcondemns UN envoy

PHNOM PENH, 20 Dec—Cambodian Ambassador tothe United Nations Sia Kosal on Wednesday condemnedthe current UN human rights envoy to Cambodia YashGhai, accusing him of “having rude and arrogantbehaviours” to the Cambodian people and government.

Yash Ghai looked down upon the Cambodianpeople and government by his comments in public,Kosal said in an official letter delivered to UNSecretary General Ban Kim-moon, Yash Ghai saidCambodia was not ruled by law, Kosal said in theletter, adding that Ghai’s words are equaledCambodia with an anarchic and pre-history country.

Yash Ghai also urged the Cambodian people torebel against the Cambodian Government which waselected in democratic process, he said. Cambodia isvery upset for Ghai’s words and behaviours which areunacceptable, Kosal said in the letter.

Although Cambodia did not need an UN specialenvoy on human rights, the government has alwaysexpressed the goodwill to accept the UN special envoyfor improving human rights conditions in this country.Kosal said, addingthat now the Cambodian Governmentis considering whether the UN special envoy is stillnecessary.—MNA/Xinhua

Massage may help ease pain,anxiety after surgery

LOS ANGELES, 20 Dec — A 20-minute evening back massage may helprelieve pain and reduce anxiety following major surgery when given inaddition to pain medications, according to a new study.

Many patients stillexperience pain follow-ing major surgery despitethe availability of pain-relieving medications,said the study publishedin the December issue ofArchives of Surgery.

But massage mayhelp to relieve the anxietythat synergizes with paineffectively. It could alsogenerate mood-boostingendorphins or create acompeting sensation thatblocks pain, according tothe study.

A team of USresearchers from theDepartment of VeteransAffairs and VA Ann ArborHealthcare Systemconducted a randomizedcontrolled trial involving605 veterans (average age64) undergoing majorsurgery (chest orabdominal operations)between 2003 and 2005.

Patients were askeddaily to rate the intensityand unpleasantness oftheir pain, plus their levelof anxiety, on scales of

one to 10. Compared with the

control group, patients inthe massage groupexperienced short-termdecreases in painintensity and anxiety,according to the study.

The effectiveness ofmassage in reducing boththe intensity andunpleasantness of painsuggests that it may actthrough more than onemechanism, said thestudy.

MNA/Xinhua

about 52,000 foreignstudents studying in thecountry, according to theHigher Education Minis-try.— MNA/Xinhua

Insurgents kill at least 22 people in Iraq in a series of bomb attacks, including asuicide attack that kills 16 people in a cafe near the restive city of Baquba. INTERNET

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LOS ANGELES, 18 Dec— US researchers havesuccessfully tested themethod of mixing awoman’s stem cells withher body fat to partly-regenerate breasts afterpartial masectomies, it wasannounced on Sunday.

Researchers from the

NAIROBI, 18 Dec —Somali pirates have hi-jacked an Italian cargo shipoff the coastal waters ofthe Horn of Africa region,a regional maritime officialsaid here Monday.

Andrew Mwangura,the coordinator of theSeafarers AssistanceProgramme (SAP), saidthe vessel which wassailing from Italy toKenya’s port city of Mom-

PHNOM PENH, 18 Dec— Cambodia andThailand on Mondaysigned a single visaagreement which allowsforeign tourists from athird country to visit thetwo countries with a singlevisa.

This agreement will

GENEVA, 18 Dec —The World Trade Organi-zation (WTO) launchedan investigation onMonday into Washing-ton’s multi-billion-dollarfarm subsidies that Braziland Canada say breakinternational tradingrules.

The Canadian com-plaint called for a WTOassessment of US sub-sidies and domestic sup-port for corn and otheragricultural products,

Cambodia,Thailand signsingle visa agreement

promote more foreigntourists to visit bothcountries and make iteasier to get the visa forthem, Hor Nam Hong,Cambodian Deputy PrimeMinister and Minister ofForeign Affairs andInternational Cooper-ation, told reporters after

US researchers regeneratelost breast tissue

Cytori Therapeutics com-pany in San Diego an-nounced the results of astudy on 21 women inJapan, who underwentpartial breast removalsand, at the same time, hadsome of their stem cellsand body fat removed,according to a company

report.A year later,

regenerated tissue andbody fat was used asdoctors re-engineered thelost breast tissue.

The company toldcancer researchers meet-ing in San Antonio,Southern California thatnone of the 21 womenhave shown signs ofcancer spreading or anytissue rejection for a yearafter their lumpectomies.

In a statement, Cytorisaid it isolated those stemcells with its CelutionSystem using tissuetaken from the womenduring their canceroperations. Because thewomen were injectedwith stem cells from theirown bodies, there wereno issues with tissuerejection.

MNA/Xinhua

WTO launches investigation ofUS farm support

while the Brazilian requestchallenged broad USdomestic support.

A single panel was setup by the WTO’s DisputeSettlement Body to assessthe two countries’ con-cerns.

While the WTO’s 151members agree that someforms of farm support areacceptable to help securefood supplies, preservethe countryside and givefarmers stability, inter-national trade rules limit

the type and size ofassistance states can give.

Subsidies are believedto skew trade by allowingproducers to sell theirgoods more cheaply thanproducers in competingcountries.

The nature of US farmsupport is a major point ofcontention in the WTO’ssix-year-old Doha Roundnegotiations on scalingback barriers to globaltrade.

MNA/Reuters

Somali pirates hijack Italian cargo ship

An excavation in Thailand’s Northeast has

discovered fossils of various dinosaurs, among

them those of allosaurus, the biggest-sized

carnivorous dinosaur species that have been

found in Thailand.

INTERNET

basa was attacked insouthern Somalia earlyMonday.

“An Italian cargo shiphas been attacked bySomali pirates. Detailsof the crew and theirnationalities have notbeen established,”Mwangura told Xinhuaby telephone.

The hijack comesbarely a week after the pi-rates freed a Japanese che-

mical tanker and its crewmembers.

The 12,000 dead-weight-ton tanker, theGolden Nori, was sailingfrom Singapore to Israelwith a cargo of chemicalswhen it was attacked bypirates at the end ofOctober.

The InternationalMaritime Board haswarned of an alarmingincrease in piracy inSomali waters and hasurged ships to avoid thearea.

MNA/Xinhua

signing the agreementwith his Thai counterpartNitya Pibulsonggram.

The two kingdoms willbecome one destinationfor foreign tourists, hesaid, adding that theagreement will take effectas soon as possible.

MNA/Xinhua

Vietnam’s immigration officers�conduct a rehearsal on combating potentialbird flu outbreaks among people at the Noi Bai International Airport in

Hanoi capital, on 18 Dec, 2007.—INTERNET

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news briefing after talks withGreek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis in Moscow’s Kremlin on 18 Dec,2007. Greece wants to double imports of Russian gas after 2016 when a new

link will be built to supply fuel from Siberia to Europe’s south, RussianPresident Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.—INTERNET

BEIJING, 19 Dec—Chinese Foreign Min-istry Spokesman QinGang said here on Tues-day that China hopesJapan’s actions, includ-ing its latest missile test,are beneficial for re-gional peace and trust.

Japan on Mondaysuccessfully tested a US-built missile system offthe coast of Hawaii.

China hopes Japan’s actionsbeneficial for regional peace

It has been designedto track and destroymissiles, according to theJapanese Defence Minis-try.

“We noticed Japanhas reiterated on manyoccasions that it pursuesthe road of peacefuldevelopment,” Qin toldreporters.

“The Chinese sidehopes that the actions of

Japan are favourable forregional peace andstability, and conducivefor mutual trust amongthe countries in theregion,” he said.

He declined tocomment on reports thatthe US-Japan jointmissile effort was aimedat China-developedmedium-range missiles.

MNA/Xinhua

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

Western familymembers shop for

China-made toys at ashopping centre in

central Beijingrecently.—INTERNET

Stars from China andS Korea attend the

ceremony of Star Awards2007 in Beijing on

17 Dec, 2007.—INTERNET

MONTEVIDEO, 19 Dec— The 34th summit of theCommon Market of theSouth (Mercosur) wasopened here Monday,focused on the imbalanceof economic develop-mentamong its member coun-tries. Paraguay and Uru-guay, two smaller econo-mies, applied for bilateraltrade deals outsideMercosur without losingfull membership status.

The meeting will alsostrive for the elimination

PARIS, 19 Dec —French Finance MinisterChristine Lagarde saidMonday that effortsshould be made to estab-lish an equilibrium on theexchange rates betweenthe euro and other majorcurrencies.

Lagarde said that majoreconomies should work toestablish a balancedexchange rate systemcovering the euro, thedollar, the RMB and theyen.

The minister also

SHANGHAI, 19 Dec — Shanghai unveiled itsmascot for the 2010 World Expo on Tuesdayevening, 865 days before the six-month eventkicks off.

The mascot, named Haibao, literally means“treasure of the world”.

The blue smiling cartoon figure has curly hairand is in the shape of Chinese character REN, orhuman beings.

It was presented during a televised ceremony atthe Shanghai Grand Stage in front of an audienceof more than 9,000.

“Haibao is a jolly, confident and cute kid,” saidShao Longtu, 62, CEO of the Jiumuchuanshengadvertising company and head of the mascot designteam. “Using a human being as a mascot reflects thespirit of human-orientation, while the colour bluestands for water, sea, the Earth, life, dreams, thefuture and technology.”

The mascot was selected from among 26,655entries from 21 countries and regions.

The expo, which runs from 1 May to 31 October,2010, is expected to draw 70 million visitors, or anaverage of 400,000 daily. — MNA/Xinhua

LHASA, 19 Dec—Tibet’s architectural icon,the Potala Palace hasreceived more than onemillion tourists so far thisyear, a 56-per-centincrease year-on-year, alocal official said onTuesday.

“Potala Palace hastaken measures to im-proves its receptioncapability so as to meetthe needs of visitors fromhome and abroad.” saidJiang Yang, director ofTibetan Culture Burean ata tourism promotionmeeting held in Lhasa,

Mercosur summit to focuson economic imbalance

of double taxation througha common external tariffarrangement.

On Tuesday, CristinaFernandez, who becameArgentina’s president lastMonday, would take overthe rotating Mercosurpresidency from herUruguayan counterpartTabare Vazquez.

Argentina and Uru-guay are arguing over apaper mill on the Uru-guayan bank of the Uru-guay River, which marks

the border between thetwo nations.

Activists in Argentinasaid that the mill hascaused pollution in theriver, which violated abilateral treaty.

Mercosur, founded in1991 to promote regionaleconomic integration inLatin America, now hasfour full members —Argentina, Brazil, Para-guay and Uruguay, and afew associated members.

MNA/Xinhua

Potala Palace receives overone mln tourists

capital fo the autonomousregion.

Jiang added Tibet hadbuilt more restaurants neartourist hot spots to cater tovistors. In order to protectthe cultural relics PotalaPalace allows no morethan 2,300 visitos per day.

Starting in January, thepalace will sell tickets for200 yuan (27.4 US dollars)in the peak summer seasonand 100 yuan in the winterlow season, respectively.

Tourism is the mainindustry in Tibet. The region received 2.5million tourists last year

and reaped 2.77 billionyuan in total tourismearnings. This accountedfor 9.6 per cent of theregion’s gross domesticproduct.

This year, Tibetexpected to receive arecord-high 4.02 milliontourists, with the region’stourism revenues estimatedto hit 4.8 billion yuan.

Tibet now has 88 star-level hotels that accom-modate nearly 50,000guests. It also has 56 travelagencies.

MNA/Xinhua

Shanghai World Expomascot unveiled

French urges for equilibrium oneuro exchange rates

proposed to includecurrencies of the MiddleEast countries in thesystem since they areunder-evaluated given theeconomic strength of theregion.

Lagarde said she is gladthat Germany maintains asimilar view with Francethat the strong euro hasalready become an ob-stacle for export growthin Europe.

The French Govern-ment has been com-plaining that the euro’s

continuous appreciationagainst the dollar harmsits economy, especially itsexport and competitive-ness of its enterprises.

According to officialstatistics, France re-gistered a record-highforeign trade deficit of29.2 billion euros in 2006,and a higher record isexpected in 2007, with theaccumulated trade deficitbetween November 2006and October 2007 stand-ing at 35.2 billion euros.

MNA/Xinhua

HANOI, 20 Dec —Vietnam has launched itsfirst container manu-facturing plant in northernHai Duong province,which is the secondbiggest of its kind inSoutheast Asia, localnewspaper Vietnam Newsreported on Wednesday.

Vinashin-TGC Con-tainer Company, a jointventure between Viet-nam’s biggest ship-builder, Vietnam Ship-building Industry Group(Vinashin), and ToongGoen of China’s Taiwan,inaugurated Tuesday theplant with annual capacityof 45,000 TEUs (20-footequivalent unit). Totalinvestment for the facilityis 30 million US dollars.Up to 80 per cent of thejoint venture’s containerswill be exported.

Vinashin will help the

Vietnam opens first containerfactory

joint venture raise itsannual container pro-duction capacity to200,000 TEUs by 2010with the construction ofmore plants in Vietnam’scentral and southernregions.

Demand for shippingcontainers in Vietnam

annually increases byaround 50 per cent, whilethe total cost for containertransport reaches onebillion a year, the news-paper said. Most contractsfor container transport inVietnam are won byforeign shipping com-panies. — MNA/Xinhua

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Chinese workers assembles a car at a factory in

Wuhau, Anhui Province recently. —XINHUA

BEIJING, 19 Dec—China announced onTuesday the setting up ofa national oil reservecentre, the top economicplanning agency con-firmed.

China started a statestrategic oil reserve baseprogramme in 2004 as away to offset oil supplyrisks and reduce theimpact of fluctuatingenergy prices worldwide

SAN JOSE, 19 Dec— Costa Rica anti-drug policeseized more than a ton of cocaine and arrested sixsuspected smugglers in two joint operations, CostaRica’s Public Security Ministry said Monday.

In the first operation, police officers stopped aCosta Rican fishing vessel when patrolling theinternational waters facing Guatemala’s Pacific coast.

They found 800 kilos of cocaine in the boat andarrested its 54-year-old Costa Rican captain and threecrew members. —MNA/Xinhua

ABU DHABI, 19 Dec—Dana Gas of the UnitedArab Emirates (UAE), thelargest private-sectornatural gas company inthe Middle East, discov-ered a new gas well in itsconcessions in Egypt,local newspaper KhaleejTimes reported Tuesday.

The discovery, thesecond of its kind thisyear, was made at theDabayaa-2 delineationwell in Dana Gas’ WestManzala Exploration

HYDERABAD (Paki-stan), 19 Dec — APakistani express trainpacked with holidaytravellers came off therails on Wednes-day andat least 15 people werekilled and about 100 hurt,an ambulance ser-viceofficial said.

The Karachi Expresstrain was on its way fromthe southern city toLahore when most of itscarriages came off therails near the town ofMehrabpur, officialssaid.

“We’ve counted 15bodies and dozens areinjured, at least 100,” saidsenior ambulance serviceofficial Faisal Edhi.

“Some people are stilltrapped so the numbersmay rise,” he said.

A railway officialsaid 12 of the train’s 16car-riages had come off

KAMPALA, 19 Dec —Uganda’s Health Ministryhas said the deadly Ebolaepidemic that has so farkilled 35 people in thewestern district of Bundi-

China sets up oil reservecentre

on China’s domesticmarket of refined oil.

With the approval ofthe Chinese Government,the cenrte was officiallylaunched on Tuesday, saidthe National Developmentand Reform Commission,which oversees a wide-range of social and econo-mic affairs, includingenergy.

The cenrte, the admini-strative body of the

country’s national oilreserve system, takes theresponsibility of buildingand making use of thecountry’s strategic oilreserves, the commissionsaid in a statement.

The commission saidthe centre will also keepan eye on the movementof demand and supply ofboth domestic and inter-national oil markets.

MNA/Xinhua

Pakistani train derails, 15 dead,many hurt

KHULNA (Bangladesh),19 Dec— A female tiger inBangladesh wandered outof a mangrove forest onTuesday and was sur-rounded by villagers andkilled, officials said.

Four people wereinjured in the confrontationwith the Royal Bengaltiger, an endangeredspecies. Villagers attackedit with weapons as a womanshouted for help in panic

Bangladeshis kill tiger, elephantskill four

when she spotted theanimal stalking near herhome, officials said.

“The tigress mighthave strayed into thevillage in search offood,” said Sundarbansmangrove forest officialAmalendra Shaha.

In a separate incident,four people were killed,25 others were injuredand at least 25 bamboo-made houses were

damaged when a herd ofelephants strayed into avillage near a forest in theCox’s Bazar District, 400kilometres (250 miles)southeast of Dhaka.

With these newvictims, at least ninepeople have been killedby wild elephants insoutheastern forest regionsover the last month, forestofficials said.

MNA/Reuters

UAE gas company discoversnew gas well in Egypt

Concession in the NileDelta, according to thereport.

The company’s subsi-diary, Centurion Petro-leum Corporation, drilledthe well to a total depth ofapproximately 3,000metres and encounteredgas bearing zones in boththe Upper and Lower AbuMadi formations.

The Lower Abu Madiformation was tested andfound to flow at a gas rateof over 10 million cubicfeet per day, and 240 bar-rels per day of conden-sate.

The gathering pipe linefrom Dabayaa-2 is underconstruction now, and thewell is expected to beoperational before the endof December.

In August, Dana Gasannounced a gas andcondensate discovery fromthe Dabayaa-1 explorationwell in its West ManzalaExploration Concession.

Dana Gas is currentlythe sixth largest natural gasproducer in Egypt that hasdoubled its total gasreserves in the last fiveyears to over 70 trillioncubic feet. — MNA/Xinhua

Ebola epidemic in Uganda gettingcontained

bugyo is getting con-tained, a release issuedhere on Monday has said.

“The ministry assuresthe general public that theepidemic is gettingcontained,” said thehealth ministry releasegiving an update of theEbola situation in thecountry. Since theoutbreak was confirmedin late November, a totalof 124 people weresuspected of beinginfected, among which 35

died as of Monday.The cumulative total of

patients discharged is 34while those still admittedin hospital are 12, accord-ing to the release.

“The public is urged tobe compassionate andprovide care and support topersons that have beendischarged.

These people are notinfectious and thereforeshould not be discrimi-nated against,” the releasesaid. — MNA/Xinhua

Costa Rica seizes one tonof cocaine

the rails but district policechief Abdul Hadi Bullowho was at the scene saidhe could see 14 derailedcarriages, some in a fieldbeside the track.

Bullo said he hadcalled for cutting equip-

ment to reach peopletrapped in the wreckage.The cause of the crash,about 400 kilometresnorth of the city ofKarachi, was not known,railway officials said.

MNA/Reuters

A model poses with Nintendo’s new family video-game console Wii and it’scontroller during a press conferenc in Tokyo.—INTERNET

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The Inland Water Transport was IrrawaddyFlotilla Co Ltd at birth in 1865. It was nationalizedinto the Inland Water Transport Organization on 1June 1948. It was renamed Water TransportCorporation on 1 March 1972, and Inland WaterTransport on 1 April 1989.

It is pursuing its mottoes — safety; service;image; transportation in commercially navigablewaterways such as Ayeyawady and Chindwin rivers,Delta Region, Kalatan, Laymyo and May Yu rivers inRakhine State, and Thanlwin, Gyaing and Attayanrivers in Kayin State; spreading its wings for transportfacilitation; and transport of goods bound for projectsites, those produced by governmental organizations,import and export goods, goods manufactured byState-owned factories, cooperative goods and private-owned goods in accordance with the economicobjectives of the State.

To achieve the Ministry’s motto “Improvenational economic development through watertransport”, the Inland Water Transport yearlytransports 24.7 million passengers and 4.3 milliontons of goods with the use of 514 vessels in thecommercially navigable waterways of 7943 miles intotal. In addition, it provides services in the watertransport sector to raise the income of the nation.

The IWT has six dockyards: Dalla dockyard,Ahlon dockyard, Sittway dockyard, Yadanabondockyard (Mandalay), and Chindwin dockyard (underconstruction). Each dockyard can careen 46 vesselsat one time. And the maximum capacity of eachdockyard is 1400 tons.

Due to its compliance of the guidance of theHead of State and following strictly the closesupervision of the Ministry of Transport, the IWT ismaking progress.

The IWT implements the functions on the basicof the following policies.- to utilize at full capacity of and improve the

transport forces in building a modern anddeveloped nation with strong economy,

- to contribute effectively towards productionin the other economic sectors and social

Inland Water Transportin public interest

requirements, and to fulfil requirements of thetransport sector,

- to help ensure facilitation of inland andoverseas transport and to contribute towardsprojects for development of national races andtourism industry,

- to utilize and protect waterways fully,- to prevent the air space and waters from

being polluted and to meet internationalprovisions on environmental conservation indeveloping aviation and water transport sectors,

- to develop human resources, and to nurtureand produce experts capable of keeping abreastof technological changes,

- to follow laws, acts, bylaws, provisions andprocedures enacted by internationalorganizations,

- to be part of the drive for improving inlandand overseas transport and aviation and shapingthe State’s transport sector into multimodeltransport,

- to make preparations for building transportnetwork locally, regionally and globally.

The IWT transports passengers and goods at fairfares. The fare rates are three to five times cheapterthan private vessels. The majority of the people relyon the inland water transport up to now. The peoplecan enjoy safety in taking State-owned vehicles dueto supervisions at different levels. It gives priority tocustomer satisfaction. There are broad relations withinthe Ministry and with other ministries. A vessel cancarry more passengers and goods than a motor vehicleor an aeroplane. Automobiles can be transportedacross the waterways with the use of Z-crafts.

The Inland Water Transport is achieving successthanks to its hard work in the interests of the people.

Translation: MSKyemon: 20-12-2007

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Maung Tin Hlaing(Hotels and Tourism)

12th Myanmar-

Thailand meeting

on narcotic drugs

control in progress

in Nay Pyi Taw on

17-12-2007.—MNA

(News reported)

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YANGON, 20 Dec — The workshop onDissemination of Public Awareness Brochure onAcid Deposition, jointly organized and sponsored bythe Acid Deposition and Oxidant Research Center(ADORC), Nigata Prefectural EnvironmentConservation Corporation (NPECC) and Departmentof Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH), Myanmar,was opened at the meeting hall of the DMH, here, thismorning.

The workshop would focus on the assistance inpromoting public awareness on acid depositionproblems through dissemination of brochure inMyanmar.

It would also discuss progress on the joint projectfor compiling the brochure on acid deposition control,environmental education, exchange information andpublic awareness.

The workshop was chaired by Director-Generalof DMH U Tun Lwin and attended by three expertsfrom Japan ADORC and 70 participants from thedepartments concerned.

MNA

Workshop on DPABCDheld

YANGON, 20 Dec—Film director Zinyaw MaungMaung has completed the shooting of the plots forthe documentary film ‘Majjhima Alin’ in Mandalayand its surrounding areas.

The film is designed to promote and propagateTheravada Buddhism.

He shot Kathina robe-offering ceremony inPathein Township, Mandalay moat, and scenicbeauties of Mandalay Hill. Then, he shot manypagodas, stupas and monasteries in Sagaing. On 18December, he shot a day’s activities of the monksof Maha Gandayon Monastery in Mandalay.

He said, “The abbot asked his assistants to helpme shoot the film. All the monks in the monasterygave help to me. So, I could shoot all the religiousactivities of the monks without any difficulties”.

The plots of flourishing Buddhism in Thailandand Cambodia have been shot for one year. It willtake six more months to complete the entire film.Some more plots will also have to be shot in otherneighbouring countries. Zinyaw Maung Maungand his two friends sponsor the film.

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Plots for Maha GandhayonMonastery for the film

‘Majjhima Alin’ completed

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Senior General Than Shwepays homage to Maha Arnt

Htoo Kantha Pagoda

NAY PYI TAW, 20Dec—The dinner tohonour the graduates ofthe 10th Intake of DefenceServices TechnologicalAcademy was held at theparade ground of theDSTA in PyinOoLwin,Mandalay Divisionyesterday, attended byChairman of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander-in-Chief of Defence ServicesSenior General ThanShwe.

Also Present atthe dinner were Memberof the SPDC GeneralThura Shwe Mann, SPDCmembers Lt-Gen YeMyint, Lt-Gen KyawWin, Chief of ArmedForces Training Lt-GenAung Htwe and Lt-GenTin Aye of the Ministryof Defence, Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Vice-Admiral Soe Thein,Commander-in-Chief(Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein,Lt-Gen Myint Hlaing, Lt-Gen Ye Myint and Maj-Gen Khin Zaw of the

Senior General Than Shwe attendsgraduation dinner of 10th Intake of DSTA

Ministry of Defence,Adjutant-General Maj-Gen Thura Myint Aung,Chairman of MandalayDivision PDC

Commander of CentralCommand Brig-Gen TinNgwe, the ministers,senior military officers,the deputy ministers, the

Mandalay mayor,officials of the SPDCOffice, the stationcommander and seniormilitary officers of

PyinOoLwin Station, theacting rector of DSTA,the chief instructorofficer, the commandingofficers of the cadet

battalions, professors andheads of department,faculty members, thegraduates and their parentsand relatives. —MNA

Senior General Than Shwe attends the dinner reception to mark the graduationof 10th Intake of Defence Services Technological Academy. — MNA

Senior

General

Than

Shwe

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Maha Arnt

Htoo

Kantha

Buddha

Image

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MNA

Senior General Than Shwe views winning works ofphoto competitions to mark Tazaungdine Festival of

Maha Arnt Htoo Kantha Pagoda. (News on page 1) — MNA

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Senior General Than Shweurges officials to set…

(from page 16)Minister for Industry-1 U Aung Thaung re-

ported that the pharmaceutical factory was establishedwith the aim of reducing the import of tablets, capsules,intramuscular, intravenous, syrup and powder for thepublic health and manufacturing import-substitutemedicines. As the factory will run its production proc-ess under the good manufacturing practice, quality andstandards of the medicines will be high. To providehealth care services to the people, pharmaceuticalfactories including Myanmar Pharmaceutical Factory(PyinOoLwin) were established for manufacturing themedicines, while extended tasks are being carried outat Myanmar Pharmaceutical Factory (Yangon).

U Aung Htay Kyaw, a local resident, spokewords of thanks for construction of the factory.

Next, Managing Director U Than Shwe ofMPI presented cash donation for Township USDA,Township Maternal and Child Welfare Association,PyinOoLwin General Hospital (300-bed) andAnisakhan BEHS of PyinOoLwin Township throughofficials.

PyinOoLwin Station Commander Brig-GenZeyar Aung, Managing Director U Than Shwe and

Factory Manager Dr Myint Sein formally opened thefactory.

General Thura Shwe Mann unveiled the sign-board of the factory.

Next, Senior General Than Shwe and partyviewed production process of medicines under thegood manufacturing practice.

Afterwards, Senior General Than Shwe and

party viewed herbal plants and seeds to be used inmanufacturing medicines.

At the briefing hall, Minister U Aung Thaungreported to the Senior General on implementation of

tasks and projects of pharmaceutical factories, require-ments of the projects, production and quality controltasks of Myanmar Pharmaceutical Factory(PyinOoLwin).

After hearing reports, Senior General ThanShwe said the government has been building pharma-ceutical factories to uplift the health of the people.

(See page 10)

Senior General Than Shwe inspects production process of medicinesat Myanmar Pharmaceutical Factory (PyinOoLwin). —MNA

General Thura Shwe Mann unveils signboard of Myanmar Pharmaceutical Factory (PyinOoLwin). —�MNA

PyinOoLwin Station Commander Brig-Gen Zeyar Aung, Managing Director U Than Shwe ofMPI and Factory Manager Dr Myint Sein formally open Myanmar Pharmaceutical Factory

(PyinOoLwin). —MNA

* Government building pharmaceuticalfactories to uplift the health standardsof people

* Seek ways for better distribution systemof pharmaceuticals in order that theyshall reach the hands of consummers asfast as possible

* Pharmaceutical factories are to run atfull capacity to produce effective medi-cines and to collect raw materials forproducing medicines as many as possi-ble in local

* Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigationand Ministry of Forestry to cooperate inplanting artemisia and other herbalplants

Excerpt from guidance givenby Head of State

Senior General Than Shwe

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Senior General Than Shwe urges …(from page 9)

He also called forseeking ways for better dis-tribution system of phar-maceuticals in order thatthey shall reach the handsof consummers as fast aspossible.

He also stressedthe need of pharmaceuti-cal factories to run at fullcapacity to produce po-tent medicines and for col-lection of raw materials inlocal. The senior generalalso urged Ministry of Ag-riculture and Irrigation andMinistry of Forestry to co-operate in planting artemi-sia and other herbal plants.He also called for setting a

target to export herbalplants in the future and toencourage a private sectorof herbal plantation.

Myanmar Phar-maceutical Factory(PyinOoLwin) is locatednear PyinOoLwin and hasproduced tablets and cap-sules since March, 2005.The factory has producedintravenous injection,syrup and powder sinceOctober, 2007. The fac-tory produces 2,100 mil-lion tablets and capsules,0.5 million litre of syrup,0.205 million kilo of lo-tion, 0.75 million kilo ofpowder, 50 million of vialand 10 million of intrave-

nous injection per year.Those factories

which produce medicinesin Myanmar are MyanmarPharmaceutical Factory(PyinOoLwin), MyanmarPharmaceutical Factory(Sagaing), Hepatitis-BVaccine Factory, SpecialPharmaceutical FactoryNo 1 and No 2 andMyanmar PharmaceuticalFactory (Yangon) MPF(Inyaung). Among them,MPF (PyinOoLwin) is thelargest and the most mod-ern one in Myanmar andproduces 162 kinds ofmedicines including syrupand tablets.

MNA

Stimulant tablets seized inDagon Myothit (North)

YANGON, 20 Dec — Members of YangonWest Anti-Drug Squad searched the house of forty-one-year-old Aikcar at No 127/128, KyunshwewahStreet, No 34 Ward in Dagon Myothit (North)Towship and seized 194 stimulant tablets with WYletters weighing 19.4 gram on 18 December.

Action was taken against the arrest underSection 15/19 (a) of Narcotic Drugs and PsychotropicSubstances Law by Dagon Myothit (North) PoliceStation. — MNA2nd Inter-school Cricket

Challenge Shield 2007-08 goes onYANGON, 20 Dec — The second Inter-school

Cricket Challenge Shield 2007-08 continued todayat Bahan Cricket Training Ground and LamadawBEHS No 1 Cricket Ground, attended by Presidentof MCF U Nyunt Win and executives, guests andcricket fans.

In the boys’ semifinals, Lanmadaw BEHS 1beat Kyimyindine BEHS 3 by 7 wickets and AhlonBEHS No 4 won Pabedan BEHS No 2 by 3 wickets.

In the girls’ events, Ahlon BEHS No 4 edged outBahan BEHS No 1by 8-wickets and KyimyindineBEHS 3 defeated Tamway BEHS 3 by 3 runs.

Lanmadaw BEHS 1 and Ahlon BEHS 4 willmeet in boys’ final and Ahlon BEHS 4 andKyimyindine BEHS 3 in girls’ final at Bahan CricketTraining Ground tomorrow. —MNA

Flower Arrangement Course concludes

YANGON, 20 Dec — The Flower ArrangementCourse No 1/2007 organized by Myanmar Maternaland Child Welfare Association concluded at theassociation at the corner of Thanthuma and ParamiRoads, here, this afternoon.

Vice-President of the association Dr Daw TinLin Myint, CEC members and trainees were present onthe occasion.

Leader of Economic and Social Working GroupCEC member Daw Htwe Htwe Nyunt made a speech.

The vice-president handed certificates for all

female trainees to a representative trainee and certificateof honour and gifts to instructor Daw Nay Nay Naing.

The trainees presented a flower basket to thevice-president. Later, a female trainee, on behalf of hercolleagues, expressed words of thanks. —MNA

YANOGN, 19 Dec — Thesixth annual general meetingof MyanmarPharmaceuticals andMedical EquipmentEntrepreneurs’ Associationwas held at the auditoriumof Myanmar MedicalAssociation on TheinbyuRoad, Mingalar TaungnyuntTownship, this afternoon,with addresses by Chairmanof MPMEEA Dr MaungMaung Lay and Presidentof the Union of MyanmarFederation of Chambers ofCommerce and Industry UWin Myint.

The secretary of theassociation read out thereport and annual financialstatement of the executivecommittee and sought theapproval of those present.

6th AGM of MPMEEA held

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Dec — Chairman of RakhineState Peace and Development Council Commander ofWestern Command Maj-Gen Maung Shein, Ministerfor Electric Power No 2 Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myintand wife Daw Win Win Nu attended the universityscholarship award presentation ceremony of RakhineState PDC at Danyawady Hall in Sittway yesterdaymorning.

After delivering addresses, the commander andthe minister presented K 120,000 each from theeducational trust-fund of Rakhine State PDC to 60university students.

The commander and officials accepted cashdonation for the educational trust-fund fromwellwishers.

Afterwards, the commander and the ministerattended the launching ceremonies of paddy husk powerstations in Setyonsu Ward and Aungmingala Ward ofSittway and observed the power stations. Officialsformally opened the power stations. —MNA

Commander, minister presentscholarship awards to

university students, attendlaunching of power stations

Workers of MyanmarPharmaceutical

Factory(PyinOoLwin) at

work inmanufacturingmedicines at thefactory.—MNA

CEC Member of MMCWA Daw Htwe Htwe Nyunt delivers an address at a ceremony toconclude flower arrangement course No 1/2007. — MMCWA

Next, DeputyDirector-General ofDirectorate of Trade UMyo Oo declared thenames of nine CECmembers including thechairman and the secretaryand 19 executives for theperiod 2007-09. The

meeting came to an endwith concluding remarks

by new Chairman Dr WinSithu. —MNA

President of Myanmar Pharmaceuticals and Medical EquipmentEntrepreneurs’ Association Dr Maung Maung Lay delivers an address

at annual general meeting of the association. — MNA

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Greater Angkor, Cambodia

The capital of a Khmer state thatflourished between the ninth andfifteenth centuries, Cambodia’s

Angkor is one of the mostintensively studied sites in the

world. But it continues to inspiremore questions than answers, themost fundamental being why the

sophisticated Khmer Empirecollapsed. In 2007, research into

the mysteries of the world’s largestpreindustrial city reached a

milestone with the completion of a10-year mapping project, whichyielded clues suggesting that thesprawling metropolis may havecollapsed under self-induced

environmental pressures related tooverpopulation and deforestation.

INTERNET

Takashi Sudo, a student of Osaka Sangyo University, sits in a car powered by Panasonic’s “Oxyride”AA dry cell batteries before a Guinness World Record attempt at a vehicle test centre in Shirosatotown, northeast of Tokyo. According to the organisers, the collaboration of Panasonic and Osaka

Sangyo University has achieved the new record for the fastest car powered by dry cell batteries withthe avarage speed of 105.95 km/h (65.8 mph) for 1 km (0.6 miles), using 192 AA dry cell batteries. –

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Yang Yang, 3, kisses a Beluga Whale during a publicity photocall at theQingdao Polar Ocean World, in eastern China’s Shandong Province.

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Brokerage houses for sale1. Brokerage houses have already been built at border trade zone in Myawady.The following three firms will sell them.2. The areas and values of the brokerage houses are as follows:—

(a) Max Myanmar Company(20 ft by 50 ft) Two-storey (1) Room— K 42 million

(b) Eden Company(20 ft by 50 ft) Two-storey (1) Room— (—)(13 ft by 50 ft) Two-storey (1) Room— (—)

(c) Shwewahmyay Company(25 ft by 50 ft) Two-Storey (1) Room— K 45 million

3. Those interested may buy the above brokerage houses in accord with thefollowing rules.

(a) The buyer must be a Myanmar citizen.(b) He shall abide by the laws promulgated by the State. He shall not be

associated with an unlawful person or unlawful organization ororganizations.

(c) He shall not have violated the Narcotic Drugs and PsychotropicSubstances Law and Control of Money Laundering Law before andhave not associated with violators of the above laws.

(d) Priority shall be given to members of Local Merchants Associationsor State Chamber of Commerce and Industry or Union of MyanmarFederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry and brotherassociations.

(e) Payment may be made in installments.

4. Contact the following for further details.(a) Max Myanmar Company Ph- 095200557, 01-524016, 527797(b) Eden Company Ph- 01-500980/985(c) Shwewahmyay Company Ph- 092006206, 01-374964, 381994(d) Border Trade Department Ph- 067-408174/017

Four killed, two wounded in Thai south

FAO needs to protect poornations from food price hikes

ROME, 19 Dec—The UN Food and AgricultureOrganization (FAO) is urging governments and theinternational community to implement immediatemeasures in support of poor countries hit hard bydramatic food price increases, FAO said on Monday ina Press release. Currently 37 countries worldwide arefacing food crises due to conflict and disasters. Inaddition, food security is being adversely affected byunprecedented price hikes for basic food, driven byhistorically low food stocks, droughts and floods linkedto climate change, high oil prices and growing demandfor bio-fuels, FAO said.

High international cereal prices have already sparkedfood riots in several countries, according to FAO.

In its November issue of Food Outlook, FAO estimatedthat the total cost of imported foodstuffs for Low IncomeFood Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) in 2007 would besome 25 per cent higher than the previous year, surpassing107 million US dollars. — MNA/Xinhua

Czech, German police launch joint water patrols

YALA (Thailand), 19Dec—Four Muslims werekilled — and one of thembeheaded — and twosoldiers were woundedseriously in two attacks inThailand's rebellousMuslim-majority farsouth, police said onTuesday.

Three village securityguards and a villageheadman were ambushedand shot dead in Yala, oneof the three southernprovinces caught up innearly four years ofseparatist insurgency inwhich more than 2,100people have been killed.

“Their bodies were leftnear a pick-up truck andthe village headman wasbeheaded, with his headleft on the road,” one said.

A fifth man was shot inthe arm but escaped, theysaid. The identity of thegunmen was unknown,but police said they

presumed they weremembers of a militantgroup called RKK —Runda Kumpalan Kecil,which means Small PatrolGroup in Malay.

In a separate incident, abomb wounded twosoldiers seriously as they

stopped at a grocery storein another Yala Town,police said.

The bomb, hidden infront of the store, wasdetonated by a remotecontrol when the soldierswent in, police said.

MNA/Reuters

AirAsia to open dailyflight to Guangzhou, China

KUALA LUMPUR, 19 Dec — Malaysia’s low-costairlines AirAsia said here on Tuesday that it wouldoffer daily direct flights to Guangzhou, China,beginning 16 Jauary next year.

The budget airlines hoped that it could attract youngpeople from China’s Pearl River Delta region to visitMalaysia with its amazing low fares, according to theairlines. This would be the fourth destination openedby AirAsia to China after Shenzhen Xiamen andMacao, it said. AirAsia is offering promotional fareson its website on 19-26 December for travels from 16January to 25 October next year.—MNA/Xinhua

PRAGUE, 19 Dec—TheCzech and German policelaunched joint waterpatrols on the Labe (Elbe)River together with theCzech Interior MinisterIvan Langer and hisSaxony counterpartAlbrecht Butollo inconnection with theupcoming Schengenenlargement, the Czechnews agency CTKreported on Monday.

The ministers hoisted aflag on the joint policemotor boat called Europathat was funded by EU in

Hrensko, the CzechRepublic.

Langer said that one ofthe human freedoms —the movement ofpersons—would extendalong with the Czech

Republic’s Schengenentry on 12 December.

Both ministers pointedout that people’s safetywould improve after thelifting of checks at EUborders. — MNA/Xinhua

Five die as Paraguay light aircraft crashes BUENOS AIRES, 19 Dec—Three men and two women

died and another woman was injured when a lightaircraft on Tuesday crashed while trying to make anemergency landing after running out of fuel in Paraguay,according to news reaching here.

The plane crashed close to a road in Limpio, 6kilometres from its destination, during a flight to theSilvio Pettirossi International Airport in Paraguayancapital Asuncion.

Hugo Aquino, the airport’s director of aeronautics,said that the plane, an air taxi, had been carryingofficials from the ruling Colorado Party who weretransporting ballot papers from the party’s internalelections held on Sunday.— MNA/Xinhua

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Pakistan, WHO check ifbird flu passed by people

ISLAMABAD,19 Dec— Pakistani authorities and World Health Organization(WHO) experts were trying to determine on Tuesday whether bird flu hadpassed from human to human after the country reported its first human deathfrom the virus.

Pakistani health offi-cials confirmed at theweekend that eight peoplehad tested positive for theH5N1 bird flu virus inNorth West FrontierProvince since lateOctober, of which oneperson, who worked on apoultry farm, died.

A brother of the deadperson, who had not beentested, also died.

It was not yet clear if he

was a victim of bird flu.One hundred people

with symptoms of fluliving in the vicinity hadbeen checked but all testednegative, said a Ministryof Health spokesman.

“No linkage has beendeveloped about human-to-human transmission.We are safe but we have tobe very cautious,” said thespokesman, Orya Maq-bool Jan Abbasi.

The last human casewas reported on 23 No-vember, he said.

Health SecretaryKhushnood Akhtar Las-hari said on Monday someof the seven affectedpeople had not workedwith poultry and autho-rities were tracing whothey had been in contactwith.

Six had recoveredwhile one was beingtreated, a provincial healthofficial said. Humansrarely contract H5N1,which is mainly an animaldisease. But experts fearthe strain could spark aglobal pandemic and killmillions if it mutates to aform that spreads moreeasily. — MNA/Reuters

New pipeline to increaseEurope’s energy security

MOSCOW,19 Dec —Projects to build an oilpipeline across the Balkansand a natural gas pipelineunder the Black Sea willincrease Europe’s energy

security, the RussianPresident Vladimir Putinsaid on Tuesday.

Building the SouthStream gas pipelineand the Burgas-Alexand-roupolis oil pipeline “willnot only bring tangibleeconomic dividends, butwill improve energysecurity on the Europeancontinent,” Putin wasquoted by the RIA Novostinews agency as sayingafter a meeting withvisiting Gree PrimeMinister Kostas Kara-manlis in the Kremlin.

“We believe that we

should concentrate ourefforts on advancing majorbilateral and multilateralagreements, includingthe construction of theBurgas-Alexandroupolisoil pipeline and the SouthStream gas pipeline,”he said. Russia, Bulgariaand Greece signed amemorandum on the oilpipeline in April 2005.

Once completed, thepipeline will pump 35million metric tons of oil ayear, a volume that couldeventually be increased to50 million metric tons. MNA/Xinhua

“Olga” kills 33 inDominican Republic

SANTO DOMINGO,19 Dec— Thirty-three peoplehave been killed after tropical Storm Olga rampedthrough the Dominican Republic since last Tuesday,the nation’s Emergency Operations Centre said onMonday. Another 61,605 people have beenevacuated, mostly to homes of friends or relatives.The government has also provided some temporaryshelters, said the centre.

Over 12,000 homes have been damaged and 43aqueducts, four bridges and several highways andminor roads destructed, it said.

Santiago is the worst-hit province where the stormhas devastated many of its banana fields. The PublicHealth Ministry began vaccinations in affected areaslast week as a precaution. After the rage of TropicalStorm Noel in November, an outbreak of leptospirosisclaimed 30 lives. — MNA/Xinhua

EU confirms bird controlmeasures in place in Germany

BRUSSELS,19 Dec—Following an outbreak ofbird flu in Germany, theEuropean Commissionsaid on Monday theyhave defined the risk areaand confirmed thecontrol measures already

in place in Germany. The German authori-ties informed thecommission on Saturdayof an outbreak of H5N1avian influenza in a smallholding of 11 chickensin Landkreis Oberhavel,north of Berlin.

The precautionarymeasures laid down inEuropean Union (EU)legislation are beingapplied, including theculling of the poultry onthe holding andestablishment of a 3-kilometre protectionzone and 10-kilometresurveillance zone aroundthe outbreak area, saidthe commission, theexecutive body of theEU.

MNA/Xinhua

Seven Chinesemathematicians recognizedwith Morningside awards

The awards, also knownas Chinese Fields Medal,were presented at theFourth International Con-gress of Chinese Mathe-maticians (ICCM) in thecapital of east China’sZhejiang Province.

Wang Xujia, a pro-fessor from the AustralianNational UniversityMathematics and itsApplications Centre, wonthe gold medal for his

contribution to fullynonlinear equations andHessian’s theory.

Statistician Fan Jian-qing, who creatively app-lied mathematics intostatistics, received theapplied mathematics goldmedal.

Silver medals wereawarded to Liu Chiu-chu,Ji Lizhen, Jin Shi, ChenChiun-chuan and Tian Ye.

MNA/Xinhua

Suicide bomber kills16 in Iraqi village

BAGHDAD, 19 Dec— Asuicide bomber killed 16people when he detona-ted a vest rigged withexplosives in a ShiiteMuslim village north ofBaghdad on Tuesday,police said Suicidebombers, gunmen and carbombs killed 14 otherpeople across the country. The violence coincidedwith an unannounced visitby US Secretary of StateCondoleezza Rice wholauded recent securitygains in Iraq.

The worst incident wasin the volatile DiyalaProvince when a suicidebomber targeted a coffeeshop in the al-AbbaraVillage north of the cityof Baquba, 65 kilometres(40 miles) north of

Baghdad. Twenty-eightpeople, including chil-dren who were near thesite, were wounded in theblast, police said.

Also in Baquba, asuicide car bomber tar-geting a police checkpointkilled one policeman andone civilian, and wounded15 people including threechildren, police said.

MNA/Reuters

The Canadian FoodInspection Agency has

confirmed mad cowdisease or bovine

spongiformencephalopathy (BSE)in a 13-year-old beef

cow from westernAlberta Province.

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HANGZHOU,19 Dec— Seven outstanding Chinesemathematicians were recognized with theMorningside Medal of Mathematics here onMonday.

Toshiba Corp’s laptop computers are displayed at an electronics store inTokyo. — INTERNET

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S P O R T S Romario gets 120-day doping banRIO DE JANEIRO, 20 Dec

— Former Brazil strikerRomario was banned for120 days on Tuesday fora failed dope test whichhe blamed on a hair-losstreatment.

Brazilian football'sdisciplinary tribunal sus-pended the 1994 WorldCup winner after the 41-year-old tested positivefor the banned maskingagent finasteride follow-ing a match for Vasco daGama against Palmeirasin October.

Romario, who hasplayed sporadically since

scoring what he claimedto be his 1,000th goal inMay, broke the news him-self earlier this month in anews conference. Heblamed a hair-loss prod-uct which he had been tak-ing for some time.

Two days after mak-ing the announcement,Romario was named asVasco's player-coach. Hehad intended to keep play-ing for the first few weeksof the 2008 season.

Romario was notpresent at the hearingwhere he was representedby Vasco's lawyers. Vasco

doctor Rafael Blum toldthe tribunal he was una-ware that Romario hadbeen using the medica-tion.

Finasteride was addedto the list of banned sub-stances in 2005 and hasalready claimed severalvictims.

German second divi-sion soccer playerNemanja Vucicevic ofTSV Munich 1860 wasbanned for six months andArgentine tennis playerMariano Hood for oneyear after positive tests in2005. US skeleton goldmedal hope Zach Lundwas kicked out of the 2006Winter Olympics andgiven a one-year ban bythe Court of Arbitrationfor Sport (CAS) after test-ing positive at a WorldCup event the previousyear.

Former Australia inter-national soccer player StanLazaridis last month com-pleted a one-year ban.

Romario has kept hiscareer going over the lastfew years, defying thosewho said he should hangup his boots.

Three years ago, hewas sacked by Fluminenseafter being jeered off thefield by the crowd duringthe match at the Maracana.

MNA/Reuters

Chelsea cruise pastLiverpool in League CupLONDON, 20 Dec — Holders Chelsea moved into

the semifinals of the English League Cup on Wednes-day with a 2-0 victory over Liverpool.

They will now take on Everton over two legs whilethe draw also paired north London rivals Arsenal andTottenham Hotspur in the last four for the second yearrunning.

Frank Lampard's deflected shot just before thehour mark put the hosts in front and Andriy Shevchenkosealed the win in the final minute with a powerful lowshot.

Liverpool's miserable night was capped by a redcard for Peter Crouch just after Lampard's opener, thetall striker dismissed for a two-footed lunge at Jon ObiMikel.

"That decision finished the game," Liverpool man-ager Rafael Benitez told reporters. "Crouch was kickedtwice from behind, I've seen much worse tackles in thelast few weeks." Liverpool were without captain StevenGerrard while Benitez made wholesale changes to theside that was beaten by Manchester United on Sunday.

Chances were few and far between in the first half,Lampard being denied by Liverpool keeper CharlesItandje while Lucas went close for Liverpool.

Ricardo Carvalho's mistake almost let in Crouchafter the break but Liverpool fell behind whenShevchenko chested a pass into the path of Lampardand his shot looped into the net off the leg of theunlucky Jamie Carragher. —MNA/Reuters

Hansen books debutappearance at US Masters

Immelmanfaces lengthyspell out after

surgery JOHANNESBURG, 20

Dec — World number 19Trevor Immelman facesa lengthy spell on the side-lines after having sur-gery to remove a growthon his diaphragm.

The growth was aboutthe size of a golf ball, theSunshine Tour said on itsofficial Web site(www.sunshinetour.com).

The 28-year-old SouthAfrican, who won the SunCity Challenge earlierthis month, is expected tobe out of action for be-tween four and eightweeks.

Twice former SouthAfrican Open championImmelman pulled out oflast week's tournament af-ter two holes because ofsevere pain and discom-fort across his ribcage area.He has won four times onthe European Tour andonce on the US PGA Tour.

MNA/Reuters

Van Nistelrooy set fornew Real Madrid deal

MADRID, 20 Dec — Real Madrid striker Ruud van Nistelrooy is to receive acontract extension as a reward for his outstanding scoring record.

"We will agree a contract renewal in the next few days because that's what Ipromised him and because that's what he deserves," Real president RamonCalderon told radio station Onda Madrid.

"Players like him deserve to be rewarded for both their performance andbehaviour. He is an extraordinary player and person and it would be great if hecould end the season as top scorer together with (team mate) Raul."

MNA/Reuters

Valencia end goal drought with Zigic Cup double

LONDON, 20 Dec —Denmark's AndersHansen will make his USMasters debut in April af-ter claiming 50th positionin the end-of-year worldrankings. Hansen, whowon the PGA Champion-ship at Wentworth in May,is among 30 EuropeanTour members to earn aninvitation to the first ma-jor of the season, the toursaid on its official website(www.europeantour.com)on Wednesday.

The 37-year-old Daneis one of six EuropeanTour members set to maketheir Augusta debuts. He

will be joined by fellowcountryman SorenHansen (46th in theworld) and South AfricanRichard Sterne (44th).

Briton NickDougherty, AustralianRichard Green and Ar-gentina's Andres Romerosecured their places aftergood performances in thisseason's majors.

Dougherty finishedtied seventh in the USOpen at Oakmont whileRomero and Green fin-ished third and joint fourthrespectively in the Brit-ish Open at Carnoustie.

MNA/Reuters

MADRID, 20 Dec—Trouble-torn Valenciafound the net for the firsttime in seven games whenthey came from a goaldown to claim a 2-1 come-back win against third di-vision Real Union in thefirst leg of a King's Cuplast 32 tie on Wednesday.

Serbian striker NikolaZigic struck twice in thespace of 10 second-halfminutes to earn Valenciaonly their second winsince Ronald Koemantook charge of the side atthe start of last month.

Real Madrid scrambleda barely deserved last-gasp1-1 draw away to thirddivision Alicante aftermidfielder Javier Balboaheaded home a free kickin stoppage time to cancelout a second-half penaltyfrom Borja.

Espanyol also had tocome from a goal down toclaim a 1-1 draw at hometo Deportivo Coruna in thenight's all-first divisionclash.

Rescue specialistFerran Corominas struckthree minutes from time

to cancel out a first-halffreekick from formerEspanyol midfielderSergio.

Alicante, who play inthe regionally-basedSegunda B, gave RealMadrid several earlyscares at the Rico Perezbut were denied a lead af-ter some sharp saves fromkeeper Jerzy Dudek, whowas making his first com-petitive appearance of theseason.

Real, fielding a largelysecond-string side but onestill full of internationals,fell behind on the hourwhen Borja sent Dudekthe wrong way with hisspot-kick after Dutch de-fender Royston Drenthehad bundled Alvaro overin the area.

Bernd Schuster's sidemissed several goodchances to get back onlevel terms with Argen-tine striker Javier Saviolafluffing two close-rangeopportunities, but Balboapopped up in the areato head home in injurytime and spare Real'sblushes.

MNA/Reuters

Mexican striker Castillo joinsManchester City

LONDON, 20 Dec — Mexican striker Nery Castillohas agreed a one-year loan move to Manchester Cityfrom Shakhtar Donetsk after financing most of thedeal himself, the Premier League club said on Tues-day.

The 23-year-old, who signed for Ukrainian sideShakhtar from Greek club Olympiakos Piraeus for 15million pounds ($30.28 million) in July, will beeligible to play for City in January.

City, who are fourth in the Premier League, saidthe player had gone to "extraordinary" lengths tosecure the move. "Nery Castillo's desire to make thisdeal happen has been extraordinary," chief executiveAlistair Mackintosh said City website(www.mcfc.co.uk) on Tuesday. — MNA/Reuters

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WEATHER

Thursday, 20 December, 2007Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hours

MST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been gen-erally fair in the whole country. Night temperatureswere (3ºC) to (4ºC) below December average tempera-tures in Kachin State and Magway Division, (5ºC) to(6ºC) below December average temperatures in ChinState and upper Sagaing Division, (3ºC) to (4ºC) aboveDecember average temperatures in Shan, Kayah andKayin States, Bago Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Divi-sions and about December average temperatures inthe remaining ares. The significant night temperatureswere Haka (-1ºC) and Putao (4ºC).

Maximum temperature on 19-12-2007 was 95ºF.Minimum temperature on 20-12-2007 was 67ºF. Relativehumidity at 09:30 hours MST on 20-12-2007 was 76%.Total sunshine hours on 19-12-2007 was (8.4) hoursapprox.

Rainfall on 20-12-2007 was (nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2007 was(136.57) inches at Mingaladon, (141.38) inches at Kaba-Aye and (144.29) inches at Central Yangon. Maximumwind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph fromNorth at (13:00) hours MST on 19-12-2007.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea, South and West Central Bay and gen-erally fair elswhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 21-12-2007:Weather will be partly cloudy in Kachin, Shan,Rakhine, Mon and Kayin States and Taninthayi Di-vision and generally fair in the remaining States andDivisions.

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofslight decrease of night temperatures in the NorthernMyanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 21-12-2007: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 21-12-2007: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 21-12-2007: Generally fair weather.

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Russia to discuss USmissile shield with

Poland MOSCOW, 20 Dec —

Russia said on Tuesday itwould hold consultationswith Poland in early 2008over Washington’s plansto build a missile defenceshield in Eastern Europe.“I am happy there will bediscussions over the missiledefence shield,” SergeiYastrzhembsky, adviser toPresident Vladimir Putin,told a news conference. Hesaid the talks would be heldin Warsaw.

Washington wants tostation interceptor missilesin Poland and a radar in theCzech Republic as part of a

shield it says is designed toprotect Europe from “roguestates” such as Iran andNorth Korea.

Russia believes theshield is targeted againstits missile arsenal and posesa threat to its nationalsecurity.

Moscow has offeredWashington access to dataon missile launches from aRussian radar station and asecond radar operated byRussia in ex-SovietAzerbaijan, if Washingtondrops its missile shield plan.

But the Pentagon hasmade clear it sees theRussian radar offer as asupplement to its shield,not a substitute.

Just like many capitalsin Europe, Moscow wasrelieved in October whenDonald Tusk’s CivicPlatform oppositiondefeated Poland’sKaczynski brothers.

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UNHCR says over1,400 drowned offYemen this year

GENEVA, 20 Dec —More than 1,400 would-bemigrants, mostly Somalisand Ethiopians, havedrowned off Yemen thisyear trying to cross the Gulfof Aden on rickety boatsrun by brutal smugglers, theUN refugee agency said onTuesday.

The toll includes nearly200 people believed to havedied last weekend after onevessel capsized off the coastof Yemen and another brokeup after hitting a rock.

Desperate passengershave been beaten, pushed

overboard and doused withacid on perilous journeysduring 2007, according toaid workers who are tryingto halt further loss of life.

“This has been a tragicyear in the Gulf of Aden. Asof now we have statisticsthat more than 1,400 peoplehave died. These are the onesthat we have recorded, andthere might be more,” Astridvan Genderen Stort,spokeswoman of the UnitedNations High Commissionerfor Refugees (UNHCR), tolda news briefing.

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People’s Desire� We favour stability.� We favour peace.� We oppose unrest and violence.

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Dec — Chairman of the StatePeace and Development Council Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe at-tended the ceremony to open Myanmar Pharmaceuti-cal Factory (PyinOoLwin) of Myanma Pharmaceuti-cal Industries under the Ministry of Industry-1 inPyinOoLwin Township at 11 pm yesterday.

Also present on the occasion were Memberof the State Peace and Development Council GeneralThura Shwe Mann and party, officials of the Ministryof Industry-1, departmental personnel of MandalayDivision, PyinOoLwin District and Township, mem-bers of the Union Solidarity and Development Asso-ciation and social organizations and local people.

Speaking on the occasion, Chairman of Man-dalay Division PDC Commander of Central Com-mand Brig-Gen Tin Ngwe said that thanks to openingof the pharmaceutical factory modern medicines suchas tablet, capsule, intramuscular, intravenous, lotionand powder can be manufactured to provide healthcare services to the people. The factory will producethe high quality medicines under the good manufac-turing practice to meet the pharmaceuticals demand ofthe nation. Therefore, local people and departmentalpersonnel are to participate in the tasks for durability ofthe factory.

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Senior General Than Shwe urges officials to set a target to exportherbal plants, to encourage private sector of herbal plantationMyanmar Pharmaceutical Factory (PyinOoLwin) commissioned

Myanmar Pharmaceutical Factory (PyinOoLwin) .—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe inspects artemisia and other herbal plants to be used in producing medicines.—MNA

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