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13th Waning of Thadingyut 1368 ME Thursday, 19 October, 2006Volume XIV, Number 186

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

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Existing hospitals, dispensaries upgraded,new ones opened in the entire nation to

provide better public health care servicesto the people

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct— Chairman of the WorkCommittee for Develop-ment of Border Areas andNational Races PrimeMinister General Soe Win,accompanied by memberof the State Peace and De-velopment Council Lt-Gen Ye Myint, Chairmanof Kachin State Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of NorthernCommand Maj-Gen OhnMyint, the ministers, thedeputy ministers and de-partmental heads, flew toNagmon from Khaung-lanphu on 15 October af-

ternoon, and inspected thecamp of Khakaborazi Na-tional Park.

They viewed fruitsand fossils of animals dis-played at the camp.

At the City Hall, thePrime Minister met withdepartmental personnel,members of social or-ganizations and localpeople, and heard reportson development of thetownship, progress ofeducation, health andtransport sectors pre-sented by Chairman ofthe Township PDC UKyaw Kyaw. The Prime

Minister gave instructionson turning out educatedyouth, extension of paddycultivation and emphasisto be placed on nationalunity.

Next, Prime MinisterGeneral Soe Win andparty presented gifts forthe township to officials.

In Pannandin ofNagmon Township, theymet local people atNamtamai Hall.

Prime Minister Gen-eral Soe Win heard re-ports on education, health,transport, economic,hydel power and TV

Arrangements are to be made for carrying

out cultivation tasks to increase income by

utilizing land resources.

transmission matters andattended to the needs.He instructed officials topriority to be given tobetter transport amongPannandin region,Nagmon and Putao Town-ships.

General Soe Win, Lt-Gen Ye Myint, Com-mander Maj-Gen OhnMyint and the ministers

presented gifts for thetownships, clothes, medi-cines and uniforms formembers of the UnionSolidarity and Develop-ment Association to offi-cials.

After the meeting,they inspected develop-ment of Pannandin, andnext, they flew back toPutao.

While in Putao, thePrime Minister and partyinspected progress of thehotel construction projectof Shwe Lat Co Ltd inMulashide Village. Man-ager U Thaung Po of theproject reported onmatters concerning theconstruction project.Minister for Hotels and

(See page 8)

Prime Minister General Soe Win delivers an address at the meeting with departmental officials and townselders in Nagmon. — MNA

Prime Minister General Soe Win inspectsdevelopment tasks in townships of Putao District

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 19 October, 2006

Thursday, 19 October, 2006

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 Desire

Maintain favourableenvironment of development

The government of Myanmar is workingfor the development of various regions and theentire Union in the interests of all the nationalpeoples living in it. As political, economic, edu-cation, health and transport infrastructures havebeen built, each region has begun enjoying thefruits of development.

Due to the lack of peace and stability,Kachin State was left behind other regions invarious ways. But as peace and stability has beenprevailing in the entire state and transport hasimproved, national races living there now expe-rience peace and development first-hand.

As the government has been building eco-nomic and social infrastructures all over theUnion by laying down development plans, uni-versities, colleges, technological colleges and hos-pitals have emerged in Myitkyina, Bhamo andin Mohnyin in Kachin State. The main hall ofGovernment Technological College (Myitkyina)of the Ministry of Science and Technology wasinaugurated on 17 October. This will enable theyouth in the region to pursue advanced techno-logical education.

Nowadays, the government is building apeaceful, modern, developed and discipline-flourishing democracy and there has been fa-vourable environment on all fronts. With thepurpose of maintaining the favourable condi-tions, highly-educated youths are being turnedout.

To raise the educational standard of theyouth, the government is fulfilling all the neces-sary requirements such as buildings and teach-ing aids. We believe that, if teachers and stu-dents, on their part, try to the best of theirabilities, there will emerge good and able citi-zens who can shape a stable and promisingfuture of the nation.

Greenery Golden Land,Shwe Naing NganJournals appear

YANGON, 18 Oct — Volume 3, No 10 ofGreenery Golden Land Journal appeared today.

The journal takes in a wide range of featuresby the well-known writers, local and foreign newssuch as current political and social ones, conse-quences of the development of science and technol-ogy and the time when the phrase “Ace in the Hole”was coined.

Those wishing to send manuscripts and newsto the journal can dial Ph 382070 of Printing andPublishing Enterprise on Theinbyu Road in Yangon.

Likewise, Volume 5, No 11 of Shwe NaingNgan Journal came out today. The journal embracesa variety of articles and local news, and every aspectof development across the nation.

Every one can send articles on developmentof agriculture, livestock breeding, industries, health,education and science and technology in their town-ships to Printing and Publishing Enterprise onTheinbyu Road in Botahtaung Township.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct — Chairman of Shan StatePeace and Development Council Commander of East-ern Command Brig-Gen Thaung Aye inspected thriv-ing paddy plantations along both sides of Taunggyi-Yaksawk Road on 14 October morning.

In Yaksawk, the commander oversaw functionsof Tatgyi Hydel Power Plant. In the afternoon, thecommander inspected tasks of No 1 Zawgyi HydelPower Plant and No 2 Zawgyi Hydel Power Plant.

The commander viewed maintenance and sup-ply of power of the power plants and water facilities ofZawgyi Dam.

No 1 Zawgyi Hydel Power Plant was installedwith three 6-megawatt generators and No 2 Zawgyi

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct — Latter Day SaintCharities (LDSC) and Social Welfare DevelopmentAssociation held a ceremony to donate 250 wheelchairs to the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief andResettlement at the ministry, here, yesterday.

First, Country Director Mr Kelvyn Cullimoreof LDSC explained the purpose of the donation.

After receiving the donations, Minister forSWRR Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe presented cer-tificates of honour to the wellwishers.

Next, the minister handed over 41 wheel chairsto the Directorate of Resettlements of the Ministry ofDefence.

Deputy Director of Resettlements Col HtayNaing accepted the donations and presented certifi-cates of honour.

Afterwards, the minister expressed words ofthanks.

MNA

YANGON, 18 Oct — A ceremony to honourKammathanaçaria of Mahasi International Buddha Mis-sionary Ashin Tejinda, Presiding Sayadaw of DhammaGonyaung Monastery in Karya Ward, MingaladonTownship, will be held at Aungmyebon Monastery inPyawbon Village, Ayadaw Township, Sagaing Divi-sion, on 12 November.

MNA

Hydel Power Plant, with two 6-megawatt generators.No 2 Zawgyi Hydel Power Plant is supplying

power to Yaksawk Township and Bahtoo Station, andZawgyi Dam is also irrigating Meiktila and Kyaukseregions for agricultural purpose. — MNA

SWRR Minister accepts 250 wheel chairs

YANGON,18 Oct—Myanmar will host theThird World RankingAsian Circuit Archery

Myanmar to host Asian, SEA archery championships

Championship and theSecond South East AsianArchery Championship tobe held from 1 to 7 No-

vember.Myanmar, China

(Taipei), Hong Kong, In-donesia, Malaysia, Singa-

pore, Thailand, the Phil-ippines and Kazakhstanwill participate in the thirdworld ranking competi-tions.

A total of 96 medalswill be awarded to win-ners in the third worldranking Asian circuit ar-chery championship and48 medals in the secondSEA archery champion-ship. — NLM

Commander inspectspower supply facilities in

Yaksawk Township

Ceremony to honourDhamma Gonyaung

Sayadaw

Donateblood

Female

archers

being in

intensive

training.

NLM

Minister Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe acceptswheel chairs from Mr Kelvyn Cullimore.

SWD

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 19 October, 2006 3

Tut\kun\N˙s\S tiu;®mHc\.ÂkPakistan greets new UN chief ISLAMABAD, 17 Oct— Pakistan’s

President Pervez Musharraf and PrimeMinister Shaukat Aziz have felicitatedBan Ki-Moon of South Korea on hiselection as the new Secretary General ofthe United Nations.

“Our unanimous election is atestament to your leadership,statesmanship and political anddiplomatic acumen,” Musharraf said inhis message.

He expressed his confidence thatunder his leadership the role of theUnited Nations in maintaininginternational peace and security wouldbe strengthened.

In his message, Aziz said that BanKi-Moon election was a clearrecognition of his long and rich

experience in multilateral diplomacy,wisdom and vision to lead the UnitedNations in a time of both profoundchallenges and opportunities.

“I have every confidence that youwould fulfill the exacting demands ofthis high office with every success,” hesaid.

Aziz said, “I look forward to workingwith you in advancing the commonagenda of UN reform, including increating greater coherence in the UNsystem, to help attune this organizationto the demands of our times.”

He said that internal reformundoubtedly remained crucial to theability of the United Nations to acquititself of the trust placed in it by thepeoples of the world.—MNA/Xinhua

Gulf war hostages demand inquiry intoBritish spy claims

Two metro trainscollide in Rome

One train rammed into the backof another at the Rome station

Strong quake offPapua New Guinea CANBERRA, 17 Oct— A strong undersea earthquake

off the Papua New Guinea island of New Britain onTuesday sparked a warning of a possible local tsunami,but emergency officials said there had been no reportsof damage or casualties.

The 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck at 11:25 amlocal time (0125 GMT), about 229 kilometres (142miles) southwest of the island capital Rabaul, said theUnited States Geological Survey (USGS).

The depth was recorded at 58 kilometres (36 miles)below sea level.

Papua New Guinea emergency authorities said theywere still checking with villages along the coast, butthere were no immediate reports of a tsunami or quakedamage. In July 1998, two undersea quakes measuring7.0 created three tsunamis that killed at least 2,100people near the town of Aitape on Papua New Guinea’snorth coast.—MNA/Reuters

LONDON, 17 Oct— Airline passengers taken hostagein Kuwait during the 1990 Iraqi invasion demanded aninquiry on Monday into allegations that the BritishGovernment let them land in order to smuggle spiesinto the emirate.

Iraqi soldiers seized the British Airways’ Boeing747 when it landed in Kuwait on 2 August, 1990, theday of the invasion. The plane had been carrying morethan 300 people and many of them were held forseveral months and used as human shields againstallied bombing of strategic Iraqi sites.

Member of Parliament Norman Baker said he would

ask Prime Minister Tony Blair to order a public inquiryafter freelance journalist Steven Davis said he had newevidence the aircraft was carrying spies that Britishintelligence wanted to get into the emirate to report onIraqi troop movements.

“The new evidence ... shows that the government ofthe day allowed the flight to land knowing that Iraq hadinvaded Kuwait and therefore knowing the passengersand crew would be endangered,” Baker told a newsconference, flanked by some passengers and crewmembers of flight 149. “We’re here to say please let’sget some truth about what happened,” said Paul Dieppe,a professor of medicine who was on the flight.

Jennifer Chappell, 12 years old at the time, saidbeing taken hostage had ended her childhood and lefther with 16 years of psychological problems. “I’mgetting my life back on track but 16 years is a long timeto have nightmares,” she said.— MNA/Reuters

LONDON, 17 Oct—Oneperson was killed and 110injured, five of themseriously, when two metrotrains collided during themorning rush hour in theItalian capital, Rome.

The crash, on metro lineA, took place at PiazzaVittorio Emanuele IIstation. Passengers saidthe incident occurredwhen one train arriving atthe station smashed intothe back of another.

There have been reportsthat the moving train hadpassed a red light. Itsdriver, who was injured,has told police he has nomemory of the event.

The crash is the firstfatal accident ever to hitthe Italian metro system.

The crash happened at0937 (0737 GMT), onestop away from themainline train terminus in

Rome.One train was stopped

at the station platform tolet passengers get off whenthe second train crashedinto it from the back,leaving its front carriageconcertinaed, passengerssaid. “I saw the train infront and it seemed asthough it was getting closerand closer to us and nothingwas happening,” FabianoDe Santis, a lawyer, toldItalian television.

“I realized there wasgoing to be an impact andso I managed to moveforward in the carriage andI saw the train cametowards me. It was a verystrong impact.”

The passenger who diedwas a 30-year-old woman,officials said. Five of theinjured people are inintensive care in hospital.

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A man works at a construction site in Beijing on 17 Oct, 2006. China’s effortsto curb runaway expansion in some industries are starting to pay off, but

fixed-asset investment growth remains too rapid, the country’ top economicplanning official said in remarks published on Monday. —INTERNET

A model walks the runway in the ArthurMendonca show, part of Toronto Fashion Week in

Toronto on 17 Oct, 2006. —INTERNET

The Victory Column in the German capital isilluminated with coloured lights in Berlin on 17

Oct, 2006 during the ‘Festival of Lights’. Aroundthirty famous monuments and buildings areilluminated until 29 Oct, 2006.—INTERNET

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WARSAW, 17 Oct—Poland’s President LechKaczynski has reappointedChairman of the Self-defence Party AndrzejLepper as Deputy PM andMinister of Agriculture, thePresidential Chancelleryannounced on Monday.

The President hopedthe appointment would put

BOAO, 17 Oct— TheChinese Mainland andChina (Taipei) opened aforum Tuesday to boostagricultural cooperationand promote peace anddevelopment across theTaiwan Straits.

The forum, held inBoao in the southernmostisland province ofHainan, will present a“bright outlook” forcross-strait agriculturaldevelopment and com-mon prosperity, saidChen Yunlin, director ofthe China (Taipei) WorkOffice of the CommunistParty of China (CPC)Central Committee.

CANBERRA, 17 Oct— Ascientist who spent 23years studying bees andhelped develop automatedspace craft for use on Marshas won Australia’s topscience prize.

Mandyam Srinivasan,a professor of biologicalscience at the AustralianNational University, hasspent his career examininghow insects and beesmove, combining hisinterests in biology andengineering.

PHNOM PENH, 17 Oct—The visiting Chief ofGeneral Staff of theChinese People’s Libera-tion Army, Liang Guan-glie, attended an inaugu-ration ceremony of a clinicbuilding for the Cam-bodian Army’s GeneralHospital here on Monday.

Cambodian DeputyPrime Minister and Co-Minister of Defence TeaBanh also attended theceremony.

“China and Cambodiaare friendly neighbours.We enjoy mutual supportand understanding, treateach other at an equalfooting, and have carriedout much cooperation inthe political, economicand military fields.

MNA/Xinhua

US soldiers killed in bombattack in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, 17 Oct— An American soldier waskilled when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Baghdad,the military said in a statement on Monday.

“A Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldier waskilled at approximately 10:45 pm (1945 GMT) onSunday when the vehicle he was riding in was struckby an improvised-explosive device north of Baghdad,”the statement said.

Earlier, two US Marines were killed Sunday due to“enemy action” while operating in al-Anbar Province,according to the US military.

MNA/Xinhua

Andrzej Lepper reappointed asPolish Deputy PM

an end to the politicalcrisis spanning the pastfew weeks and lead to aharmonious governingcoalition, State Secretaryof the Presidential Chan-cellery Maciej Lopinskitold reporters.

The Polish right-winggoverning party, Lawsand Justice (PiS), formedthe majority coalitiongovernment with Self-defence and the Leagueof Polish Families (LPR)in May. In September, theSelf-defence Party headedby Lepper had a severedisagreement with the PiSover the draft budget for2007 and the deploymentof Polish soldiers inAfghanistan. The row

prompted President Kac-zynski to dismiss Lepperfrom the position ofDeputy PM and Ministerof Agriculture on 22September.

After Lepper’s dismi-ssal, the Polish Cabinetstepped again into aminority government, andsubsequent negotiationsover a coalition betweenPiS and Polish PeasantParty failed to makeprogress. Currently, PiS,Self-defence and LPRbetween them occupy 230seats of the total 460 in theLower House of Parlia-ment, just one short of therequirement for a majoritygovernment.

MNA/Xinhua

Cross-strait agricultural cooperation forum opens

Biologist wins Australia’s top science prizeHis discoveries on how

bees use visual clues toregulate flight speed andcontrol landings has led tonew robotic technologyand the development ofautomatic systems forhelicopters and microrobotic aircraft for use inspace exploration.

“Designs for robots areoften expensive andcomplex. A bee can takeoff, find targets, flythrough tunnels, navigatehome, and land without

any of that complexity,”Prime Minister JohnHoward said, announcingSrinivasan’s award onMonday.

As winner of the PrimeMinister’s Science Prize,Srinivasan receives a goldmedal and 300,000Australian dollars (225,-000 US dolllars). He saidhe now planned a series ofexperiments to find out ifbees could feel emotions,as well as further aviationresearch.—MNA/Reuters

“The Mainland andChina (Taipei) have madeconcerted efforts over thepast two decades to keepexpanding cooperation inthe agricultural sector,”Chen told the forum thatopened at 9:00 am Tues-day.

He said such coope-ration has started to benefitboth sides of the straitsbut still has immensepotentials for furtherexpansion.

MNA/Xinhua

Shaolin martial arts practitioners perform during a grand ceremony to greetguests from home and abroad to the second World Traditional Wushu(martial arts) Championships (WTWUC) near the Shaolin Temple in

Dengfeng City, central China’s Henan Province on 17 Oct, 2006.—XINHUA

An antibomb robot detects a simulated explosive during a demonstration inBeijing, on 14 Oct, 2006. The Robot Teaching and Research Seminar of

Chinese Colleges and Universities was held on Saturday to discuss the presentsituation and future of teaching and research on robot techniques.—XINHUA

Construction works go on Etisalat new toweron 17 Oct, 2006 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

INTERNET

Chinese-aidedCambodianmily clinic

opens

Chen Yunlin (R), director of the China (Taipei)WorkOffice of the Communist Party of China (CPC) CentralCommittee, shakes hands with Lin Fong-cheng, vicepresident of Chinese Kuomintang (KMT).—INTERNET

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Hun Sen assures Chinese officialof strengthened cooperation

PHNOM PENH, 17 Oct— Prime MinisterHun Sen here on Monday expressed hisappreciation to China for the generoushelp and aid it has extended to the kingdomfor its economic construction and socialdevelopment in the past years, whilemeeting Liang Guanglie, visiting Chiefof General Staff of the Chinese People’sLiberation Army.

As Cambodia and China enjoy closeand friendly ties, both leaders exchangevisits frequently and cooperation invarious fields is carried out well, he said.

Cambodia will strengthen itscooperation with China in the future, hesaid. Meanwhile, Cambodia sticks tothe One China policy and opposes anyactivity that advocates Taiwan

independence, he added. Liang said that the current Chinese-

Cambodian ties develop well and thatthe two sides have maintained frequenttop-level contacts. The cooperation andexchange in various fields keep onexpanding and the economic and tradecooperation bears fruits, he said.

In addition, the military ties as animportant part of the bilateral ties havealso grown smoothly in recent years, headded. Liang also extended thanks to theCambodian Government for itsadherence to the One China policy,opposes Taiwan independence clearlyand consistently supports the peacefulunification of China.

MNA/Xinhua

Mexican fuel tanker Quetzalcoatl (R) is seen after the blast at Pemex’sPajarito terminal in the city of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico on17 Oct, 2006.

INTERNET

Russian company to build firstIndonesian nuclear power plant JAKARTA, 17 Oct—Russian electricity company

Raoues is slated to build Indonesia’s first nuclearpower plant, a local newspaper reported on Monday.

The facility will be located in Gorontalo Province,Sulawesi Island, in order to meet long-term demandfor electricity there and in nearby provinces, reportedThe Jakarta Post.

Gorontalo Governor Fadel Muhamad has statedthat the new plant is expected to start operating by theend of 2007. He also claimed Gorontalo will beregistered as the first province in Indonesia to enjoynuclear electricity.

The nuclear plant would be designed to have agenerating capacity of 90 megawatts, which would besold to state-owned electricity company PT PerusahaanListrik Negara (PLN) at a price one-third lower thanthat of conventional electricity.

A cooperation agreement will reportedly be signedby Fadel and Raoues representatives in Russia. “TheRussian side has prepared everything. It is now waitingfor Gorontalo Province’s response,” Farino Sariowan,a Raoues project developer in Indonesia, was quoted assaying.— MNA/Xinhua

Ashley Priess of the US competes on the balancebeam during the women’s team qualifications atthe Artistic Gymnastics World Championships inAarhus, Denmark on 16 Oct, 2006.—INTERNET

Residents with their pet dog go through a floodedstreet in Suphanburi Province, north of Bangkok,

on 17 Oct, 2006.—INTERNET

WWF discovers 30 newrainforest orchids in PNG GENEVA, 17 Oct—

Thirty new species of orchidpreviously unknown to theworld have been discoveredby WWF scientists in PapuaNew Guinea (PNG), the

Switzerland-based con-servation group said onMonday. The exciting newdiscoveries are located atthe Kikori Region surr-ounding Lake Kutubu,internationally recognizedfor its biological imp-ortance, the World WildlifeFund said.

“Around 70 species oforchid that used to exist inthe forests of neighbouringIndonesia have becomeextinct because of illegallogging,” said WWF forestecologist Olo Gebia. “Sothese recent discoveries areespecially good news.”

The findings mark theculmination of a long-termWWF study of the specieswithin the Kikori Region.

MNA/Xinhua

Sylvester Stallone looks on as Bruce Willis receivesa star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los

Angeles on 16 Oct, 2006.—INTERNET

Floods claim morethan 70 lives

BANGKOK, 17 Oct—The official flood deathtoll across the countrystood at 73 as of Tuesday,according the DisasterPrevention and MitigationDepartment, as moredeaths are being reportedin many provinces.

In Phitsanulok, thedeath toll from floodingreached nine on Tuesdaywhen a man was founddead in the water earlymorning. Floodwaters inthree Prachin Buri districtsincluding the provincialseat have risen.

A three-year-old boywho drowned on Tuesdaybrought the provincialdeath toll from flood inthe province to 13.

In Sing Buri, floodsituations in six districts

are still in crisis. Localresidents in the provincialtown have moved intotemporary shelters whilefarmlands have beeninundated.

In the northeasternprovince of NakhonRatchasima, about100,000 persons in 23districts have beenaffected by the floods.Initial damages wereestimated at more thanBt200 million.

However, rainfallfrom tropical stormXangsane earlier thismonth helped increase thewater level in Korat’sreservoirs. Despite theabundance of water now,a severe drought is ex-pected here next year.

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Grandpa: Come on Maung Ka Lu. I was expectingyou.

Maung Ka Lu: I would also like to see you, grandpa.Grandpa: What’s the matter?Lu: The US tabled the move to put Myanmar on the

agenda of the UN Security Council so thatexpatriates, axe-handles, internal destructiveelements would be pleased. I read in thenewspaper that the US employed variousmethods such as offering monetary and economicassistance or pulling pressure to get the ‘yes’votes and I would like to ask you and listen toyour comments.

Grandpa: It is only a hegemonic tactics of the USthat wants to establish political, economic andmilitary influence after interfering ininternational affairs. Two permanent membersof the UNSC who have the veto power and Qatardid not support the move. They said the movewas the violation of Article 24 of the UN Charter.They also criticized and blamed the US for itsact saying that Myanmar does not pose a threatto security of any neighbouring countries orthose in the region. Myanmar is one of the 148issues accepted by the UNSC. Putting on theagenda does not mean taking action againstMyanmar. The US itself repeatedly violated theUN Charter and invaded numerous countries. Itwas found that as a plaintiff the US organizedthe UN to take action against the country. TheUS did not pay much regard to the UN but it usedthe UN if she wanted.

Lu: Wasn’t action taken against the US for violatingthe UN Charter and committing acts ofaggression?

Grandpa: Whenever the UN tried to take actionagainst the US or its allies or its cohort country,it rejected the move using the veto. The USpresident now in office is a Republican. In themedia the Republican Party is known as theextremist rightist or neo-conservative (Neo-con)or dogmatists. When a Republican presidenttook office, the US invaded two or three nationsof the world without giving any sound reason.When a moderate president of the DemocraticParty took office, he invaded at least one nation.

Lu: When Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy) andTojo (Japan), the three fascist nations, occupiedcountries colonized by the imperialists duringthe Second World War, the US led the anti-fascist movement. In the post-war period, theUS opposed socialist countries led by the SovietUnion, shouting for the establishment of freeworld. In the Soviet Union, socialism waspractised and only one party took power.Regarding this, the US said it was againstdemocracy. The US said that socialism(Communism) made the people poor. Later,Democratic President Jimmy Carter used theterm human rights to attack the Soviet Union,wasn’t it?

Grandpa: Yes, of course. After the collapse of theSoviet Union and eight socialist countries in

“Is that so Maung Ka Lu?” “It is more than that.”

Maung Ka Lu

eastern Europe, the US changed its target to oil-rich Islamic nations, especially Arab countries,shouting anti-terrorism. It is the US that targetedthose nations branding them extremists, Islamicfundamentalists and Muslim militants.

Lu: Yes, Grandpa. They talked loud.Grandpa: If they are under the influence of evil

words, deeds and thought, without observingpolitical ethics they will say whatever they wish.We, the Buddhists, have no such practices.

Lu: Our country is not a Communist, nor an Islamicfundamentalist country. She does not acceptfascism and launched anti-fascist movement inthe 1940s. We are building a peaceful nationdepending on natural resources and geographicalconditions, practising independent and activeforeign policy in international relations. Whydoes the US provoke our country where Buddhismhas been flourishing?

Grandpa: You must understand it as you have alreadyread articles and news in the newspapers. Underneo-colonialism, the US policy, which is puttingself-interest in the fore, exercising hegemony todominate the world, the US has already giventrouble to fascist bloc, communist-socialist blocand Islamic countries. It has now set its target atnon-aligned nations and developing countrieswhich are striving for development. Altogether118 countries that are exercising a policy of non-alignment have become consolidated. TenASEAN nations that were targeted to be organizedunder SEATO have become united. The US wouldnot like to accept it.

Lu: In developing countries including Myanmar thereare nations that practise socialism such as Cuba,Yugoslav, those that practise nationalism,Christian nations, Islamic nations and Buddhistnations, aren’t there grandpa?

Grandpa: Of course. The US has put non-alignedsocialist nations into the cold war along with theSoviet Union. It attacked Islamic nations accusingthem of harbouring terrorists led by Osmar binLadin and attacked Buddhist nations accusingthem of lacking democracy, human rights andfreedom of religion. In Myanmar, there arechurches thousands of, there are tens of thousandsof mosques and there are over a thousand ofHindu temples. The people profess religions oftheir choice. Although they are different inreligions, they are living together peacefully underthe teachings of their religions. There is no roomfor those like the West bloc which want to createpolitical, racial and religious conflicts.

Lu: As the word “human rights” is constantly beingused by the US and colonialist group it has becomea cliché. According to publications in their countriesand responses of the international community thereis no country worse than the US and Europeannations in breaching human rights. As apartheidand racial discrimination have been widespread inthose nations the UN has to launch a campaign forwarding off racial discrimination there.

Grandpa: Right. In the time of US President Jimmy

Carter, socialist-communist nations practisedsingle party, single policy system and there wasno alternative. Citing the system the breachingof human rights the US widely used the term“human rights” in the cold war with the SovietUnion. Nowadays, the US and its allies areattacking other countries accusing them ofinfringing human rights. At every meeting onthe UN human rights, the majority of countriescondemned and documented that the countrieswhich constantly infringed the human rightsdeclaration adopted by the UN were none otherthan the US and Britain. At present, the US isaccusing its targeted countries of breachinghuman rights.

Lu: Preserving fine tradition, culture, national prestigeand integrity, Myanmar people are dealing withone another on friendly terms according to thereligious teachings. They are making integratedefforts sharing common views and outlook. It islikely that human rights and democratic practicehave been deeply rooted in Myanmar society.

Grandpa: Maung Kalu, you have understood it well.Very well. In Myanmar, people are dealing withone another out of loving-kindness andcompassion. There is no racial discriminationand apartheid. The people are making well-coordinated efforts in every social matter. Thepractice of Myanmar democracy is old as theState and the people. It is a national characterthat Myanmar people are serving commoninterest based on common wishes. But we are yetto term the practice as democracy.

Lu: There are different types of democracy in theworld. They are capitalist democracy, socialistdemocracy, guided democracy, directdemocracy, representative democracy,parliamentary democracy, new democracy,Westminster democracy, democracy based ondouble standards of the US, etc.

Grandpa: The word ‘democracy’ comes from Greek.Democracy has come into being from Greekword “demokratos”. Demo means public whilekratos means affairs. In ancient time there werepeople who had been subject to enslavementunder feudalism. In Rome city state, Athens citystate and Sparta city state, the people gatheredand decided for fair and equal treatment ofenslaved people. Later, the English adopted theword “demokratos” as democracy. At that time,direct democracy was most suitable for peopleas people were able to decide their affairs basedon common wishes. But, owing to differentsocial standards and with the passage of timedirect democracy had been on the wane andfinally disappeared.

Lu: And then?Grandpa: As capitalist industry developed in Europe,

bourgeois grabbed power of feudalist kings asthe former were oppressed by the latter. InEngland Cromwell’s parliament rose againstKing Charles I. The king gave in eventually and

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(from page 6)had to form two parliaments. To rule the coun-try members of the House of Lords were ap-pointed by the king and members of the Houseof Commons were appointed through the vot-ing of the people. Most of the members of theHouse of Commons were capitalists. That waswhy the capitalists-dominated parliamentarydemocracy. Capitalists became more and moreaffluent as they invaded global countries byusing military power and exploited the latter’sresources. Thus, capitalist parliamentary de-mocracy paved the way for occupying andenslaving the global nations.

Lu: Oh, here again, capitalists (colonialists) aremeddling in the internal affairs of other coun-tries under the pretext of democracy.

Grandpa: Yes, they colonized three quarters of theearth and hegemonized those countries by sup-pressing their rights of freedom, democracyand human rights. Today they are shouting fordemocracy again. Almost all of the 200 coupsthat took place in the world were orchestratedby the US. And governments were toppledwhenever they were disapproved by the US.But its method of toppling governments nolonger works. For example, there are some

“Is that so Maung Ka Lu?…

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Oct — Member of the StatePeace and Development Council Lt-Gen Maung Boof the Ministry of Defence, Chairman of TaninthayiDivision Peace and Development Council Com-mander of Coastal Region Command Brig-Gen KhinZaw Oo, Deputy Minister for Construction Brig-GenMyint Thein and officials of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Office and departments pre-sented offertories to Chairman of Bokpyin TownshipSangha Nayaka Committee Presiding NayakaBhaddanta Indacakka of Dhammawizaya PariyattiSarthintaik on 13 October. The congregations received the Five Preceptsfrom the Sayadaw. The commander, the deputy minister and offi-cials presented offertories to members of the Sangha. Lt-Gen Maung Bo donated K 300,000 for Ya-zamuni Pagoda to Chairman of Pagoda Board ofTrustees U In Paw. The commander presented K

Government making arrangements for ensuring bettertransport in land-locked Bokpyin region

200,000, Chairman of Kawthaung District Peace andDevelopment Council Lt-Col Tin Soe K 100,000 and USaw Jet and Daw Khin Soe K 200,000 to the Chairmanof Pagoda Board of Trustees. The Chairman Sayadaw of Bokpyin TownshipSangha Nayaka Committee delivered a sermon, fol-lowed by sharing of merits. Lt-Gen Maung Bo and party met schoolheads andteachers at Basic Education High School in Bokpyin.Township Education Officer Daw Hla Than reportedon academic matters. Lt-Gen Maung Bo said the gov-ernment made arrangements for ensuring better trans-port in land-locked Bokpyin region. He urged the teach-ers to nurture the students to become qualified ones. Lt-Gen Maung Bo presented K 600,000 to TEODaw Hla Than to buy desks for primary schools. Fish-eries entrepreneur U Saw Jet and Daw Khin Soe do-nated K 500,000 for construction of new building ofBokpyin BEHS to Headmaster U Myint Swe.

Lt-Gen Maung Bo and party met officials con-cerned and discussed regional development. Chairman of Township Peace and DevelopmentCouncil U Thein Win reported on agricultural data ofthe township, cultivation of crops and efforts for re-gional development. In his address, Lt-Gen Maung Bo said the govern-ment is making endeavours to achieve equitable devel-opment of the regions. Priority must be given to thecultivation of paddy as there is insufficiency of rice.Cultivation acreage has to be extended, he added. He called for implementation of development taskshand in hand with local authorities and local people. Lt-Gen Maung Bo and party visited People’s Hos-pital (50-bed) and had a chat with patients undergoingtreatment at the hospital. Lt-Gen Maung Bo also metTatmadawmen and their families at Bokpyin StationHall.

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countries including ours that they cannot materi-alize. Once our nation was about to disintegratedue to instigation of the colonialists, and theTatmadaw had to assume State duties with a senseof national duty. So, they are hostile to us for notaccepting the influence of the West.

Lu: At a time when fake democracy, the trap of thecolonialists, is being imported into the worldnations in order to put them under the influence ofthe US, our country has to be trying to ensurepeace and stability and development while alsotrying to ensure non-disintegration of the Union.As a result, internal peace has been achieved in 16years and the State has been witnessing signifi-cant progress.

Grandpa: That is why the seven-step Road Map of theState is being implemented to shape a genuine anddiscipline-flourishing democratic nation. Theongoing National Convention with the participa-tion of over 1000 delegates from all over thecountry has made much headway in laying downbasic principles and detailed basic principles forthe emergence of a constitution. A new constitu-tion will be drawn in accord with those basicprinciples and detailed basic principles. The con-stitution will be approved by holding a referen-dum. Elections will take place, Hluttaws and anew government with the Head of State will beformed. In this way the ultimate goal of buildinga peaceful, modern and developed democratic

nation will be achieved. Is there anything else?Lu: No, that’s enough for Myanmar people. But for

the US that wants to influence our countryeconomically, politically and militarily, it wishesto disrupt the National Convention, get rid ofour national forces and install a puppet govern-ment made up of their lackeys and nationaltraitors. Therefore, it is always finding faultwith our country and even the UN has decidedthat it is time for Myanmar affairs to put underdiscussion.

Grandpa: Um, destructionists will be destruction-ists. We hold constructive attitude and willcontinue to carry out nation-building tasks inorder to ensure peace and stability and develop-ment of the State. Being aware of the fact thatthere are neo-colonialists behind the expatriateaxe-handles, the people will never give them achance to commit their brazen acts. Myanmarpeople are therefore thumbing their nose at theUS and its allies for using expatriates, fugitivesand national traitors.

Lu: The colonialists who are meddling in the affairsof other countries to create clouds of war and awhirl of trouble in the world will come to a badend soon.

Grandpa: Is that so Maung Kalu?Lu: It is more than that.

(Translation: NY+TS+ST)Kyemon: 18-10-2006

Lt-Gen Maung Bo inspects medical store of 50-bed Hospital in Bokpyin. — MNA

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Existing hospitals, dispensaries …(from page 1)

Tourism Maj-Gen SoeNaing gave a supplemen-tary report.

Next, the Prime Min-ister and party looked intoconstruction of bungalowsand the main lodge of thehotel.

On 16 October morn-ing, the Prime Ministerand party attended the cer-emony to open the newpatient ward of Putao Dis-trict Hospital (100-bed).Head of the District HealthDepartment Dr Thin Lwinreported that the hospital(25-bed) was upgraded toa 50-bed facility in 1981.Due to the increase ofpopulation, the hospitalwas upgraded again to the100-bed hospital in 1998.

At present, the district hos-pital has been equippedwith advanced facilities.The newly-opened wardis a reinforced concretebuilding measuring 162feet by 40 feet.

Afterwards, Com-mander Maj-Gen OhnMyint and Deputy Minis-ter for Health Dr Mya Ooformally opened the newpatient ward, and the

Prime Minister formallyunveiled the signboard.

The commanderhanded over K 8 milliondonated by Kachin StatePDC and Northern Com-mand for Putao DistrictHospital, K 3 million forMulashide Station Hospi-tal, K 2 million forMachanbaw TownshipHospital, K 2 million forSumprabum TownshipHospital, K 1.5 million forNagmon Township Hos-pital, K 1.5 million forKhaunglanphu TownshipHospital, K 1.5 million forPannandin Hospital, K 1million for HtarandamStation Hospital ofMachanbaw Township,totalling K 20.5 million toHead of the District Health

Prime Minister General Soe Win gives presents to an official inSumprabum. — MNA

Prime Minister General Soe Win views sample of fruits and plantsgrown in Putao region. — MNA

Prime Minister General Soe Win inspects hotel construction project at Mulashide Village. — MNA

Prime Minister General Soe Win gives presents to an official inNagmon.—MNA

Department Dr ThinLwin.

In his address, PrimeMinister General Soe Winsaid that the Governmentis upgrading old hospitalsin the entire nation similarto Putao District Hospitaland opening new hospi-tals with a view to ensur-ing uplift of providingbetter health care servicesto the people. The Gov-

ernment have laid downplans and is placing em-phasis on enhancement ofthe whole socio-eco-nomic life of the peopleincluding the health careservices. These tasks willnot stop in the future forserving the interest of thepeople. Likewise, the peo-ple are to strive for upliftof their living standard.Under the leadership ofthe Government, the peo-ple are to make efforts inharmony for developmentof the nation with theUnion Spirit.

Next, the Prime Min-ister and party viewed thenew patient ward andother units of the hospi-tal.

At Phonkanrazi Hall

in Putao, the Prime Minis-ter and party met with lo-cal authorities, depart-mental personnel and lo-cal people.

The Prime Minis-ter heard reports onprogress of the district,education, health, agricul-ture, hydel power andwater supply tasks pre-sented by local authori-ties. Basic education

teachers reported on ap-pointment of vacantteacher posts in Putao andMachanbaw Townships.

Lt-Gen Ye Myint, the

commander, the ministersand the deputy ministersgave supplementary re-ports.

After fulfilling the re-quirements, the PrimeMinister said that vehiclesand heavy machinery willbe provided to construc-tion of the roads for bettertransport in the region.Therefore, it is necessaryto carry out construction

of the roads according toschedule. He stressed theneed to harmoniously un-dertake management, foodsufficiency, transport,

power supply and watersupply tasks. Especially,arrangements are to bemade for carrying out cul-tivation tasks to increaseincome by utilizing landresources. Service person-nel are to try hard theirtasks in their respectivesectors with goodwill. Inconclusion, the PrimeMinister urged thosepresent to seek various

ways to utilize land andwater resources of PutaoPlain.

The Prime Ministerpresented agriculturalequipment to the Chair-man of Putao TownshipPeace and DevelopmentCouncil.

Lt-Gen Ye Myint andthe commander gavemedicines and clothes toofficials.

Minister for Progressof Border Areas and Na-tional Races and Devel-opment Affairs Col TheinNyunt gave gifts andUSDA Secretariat Mem-ber Minister for Commu-nications, Posts and Tel-egraphs Brig-Gen TheinZaw, USDA uniforms toofficials.

After the meeting, thePrime Minister and partyinspected fruits, seeds andoil of Tung tree, Teinkaw,grapefruit and other fruitsand other domestic mate-rials.

At Theravada BuddhaCentral Missionary, theypaid homage and offeredalms to Maha Saddhamma

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(from page 8)Jotikadhaja BhaddantaTiloka and members of theSangha.

They viewed thrivingpaddy plantations atMatpan field of MyanmaAgriculture Service.

On arrival atSumprabum, the Generaland party inspectedconstruction of buildingsat Sumprabum BasicEducation High School.Next, they went toSumprabum TownshipHospital and inspected theX-ray room, the operationtheatre, the medicine storeand wards.

At Banru Hall, thePrime Minister met withdepartmental personneland local people, andheard reports ondevelopment of thetownship presented byChairman U Soe MyintThein of the TownshipPDC.

After attending to theneeds, the General

Existinghospitals,dispensaries …

Alternate Chairman U Tin Kha of Ministry of Information delivers an address at group meetingof delegates of State Service Personnel. — MNA

Prime Minister General Soe Win unveils signboard of the ward of Putao District Hospital 100-bed. — MNA

explained the aim of thefield trip of their team tofur-flung areas of KachinState includingSumprabum Township forfulfilling the requirementsin line with the guidanceof Head of State SeniorGeneral Than Shwe,endeavours of thegovernment, andcooperation in carryingout regional development

tasks with patriotism andthe Union Spirit.

Next, they presentedgifts to local people andUSDA members.

In the afternoon, theyarrived at M’Jangyang byhelicopter. Chairman ofTownship PDC U SawNyi Nyi Htwe briefed thePrime Minister onprogress of the township.Lt-Gen Ye Myint, the

commander, the ministerand officials presentedreports on construction ofthe roads in the region.

The General stressedthe need for servicepersonnel to cooperatewith local national racesfor regional development.Lt-Gen Ye Myint andparty gave away gifts toofficials.

Afterwards, they

inspected progress inconstruction of thecombined office, the two-storey building of BEHS(Branch) and theTownship Hospital.

On 16 Octobermorning, Lt-Gen YeMyint met withTatmadawmen and familymembers of regiments andunits of Putao Station atBandoola Hall.

On 15 Octoberevening, USDASecretariat MemberMinister Brig-Gen TheinZaw, CEC membersMinister Col Thein Nyuntand Minister Maj-GenThein Swe met withsecretaries, executives andmembers of District andTownship USDAs atPutao District USDAOffice. — MNA

(from page 16)Afterwards, Secretary of National Convention

Convening Commission Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan reported on arrangements for puttingon record the undertakings of NCCC, NCCWC, andNational Convention Covening ManagementCommittee, matters related to compiling thebiographies of delegates, tasks for documenting thehistorical records of the National Convention andmanagement for the NC.

Next, Chairman of NCCWC Chief Justice UAung Toe reported on tasks carried out by the workcommittee. Afterwards, members of the NCCC submittedsuggestions. After hearing reports, Lt-Gen Thein Seinattended to the needs and the meeting ended withconcluding remarks by Lt-Gen Thein Sein. — MNA

All are to strive for the success of…

Chairman of National Convention ConveningWork Committee Chief Justice U Aung Toe.

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Secretary of National Convention ConveningCommission Minister for Information

Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan. — MNA

YANGON, 18 Oct — The group meeting ofDelegate Group of State Service Personnel was held atthe meeting hall-7 in Nyaunghnapin Camp in HmawbyTownship this morning. U Tin Kha (Takkatho TinKha) of the Ministry of Information presided over themeeting together with U Hla Tin of the Ministry ofCommerce and Dr Daw Myat Myat Ohn Khin of theMinistry of Health.

Deputy Director U Htay Win of Work Group-9of the National Convention Convening WorkCommittee and Assistant Director U Htein Min actedas MCs.

The MC declared the start of the group meetingas 108 out of 109 delegates were in attendance,accounting for 99.08 per cent.

Later, Alternate Chairman U Tin Kha (TakkathoTin Kha) of the Ministry of Information made anopening speech.

Alternate Chairman U Hla Tin of the Ministry ofCommerce read out the clarification of the NationalConvention Convening Work Committee Chairman toseek approvals of the delegate groups, and suggestionssubmitted by the delegate groups to lay down detailed

Delegate group of State Service Personnel holds meetingbasic principles for the functions on legislation ofPyiduangsu Hluttaw, Pyithu Hluttaw, AmyothaHluttaw, and Region or State Hluttaw to be included inwriting the State Constitution, the chapter on thecitizens and fundamental rights and duties of the citizensand the role of Tatmadaw.

National Convention delegates U Than Tun ofthe Attorney-General’s office and U Maung Maung of

the Supreme Court read out the suggestions of DelegateGroup of State Service Personnel on the clarificationof the National Convention Convening WorkCommittee Chairman.

The meeting chairman approved the suggestionsof Delegate Group of State Service Personnel and gaveconcluding remarks.

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(from page 16)their songs. Moreover, six contestants took part in thebasic education level boys’ (aged 15-20) dobat contestand eight persons in the amateur level (second class)dobat contest.

At Yezin Forest Research Department, fourcontestants participated in the basic education levelboys’ (aged 15-20) mandolin contest, two girls in thebasic education level (aged 15-20) mandolin contest,nine students in the basic education level boys’ (aged10-15) mandolin contest and six in the basic educationlevel girls’ (aged 10-15) mandolin contest.

At the Convocation Hall of University of Agri-culture, three troupes participated in the higher educa-tion level (men’s) orchestra contest and five troupes inthe basic education level boys’ (aged 5-10) orchestracontest.

Contestants from States and Divisions cordiallyexchanged their views on durability of performing artswhile taking a rest under the shade of trees in the Yezinuniversities’ campus. — MNA

14th Performing Arts Competitions…

To new generations* Silvery mist, taking blue hue

At time of cold seasonMyanmar music, Myanmar festTo be made clear, significant and loftyWith that in mind, showing what is correctNot to deteriorate, song, dance, composingand playGrand competition is heldAnd while doing so the yearsHave passed ten and four.

* Initially, it all began in Pyu EraMusical festivity, glorious as it’s beenBronze statuettes that boreDistinct witness about advent in this landGreat prowess of cultureOf this we can very well be proud.

* Culture which does honour to nationArts in various formsTo sprout anew without breaking traditionLet us continue to safeguard them.

Chan Nyein Aung (Trs)(Hailing the 14th Myanmar Traditional CulturalPerforming Arts Competitions)

Vesantara Drama Contest goes onNAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct — The Vesantara Drama

Contest of the 14th Myanmar Traditional CulturalPerforming Arts Competitions continued for the thirdday at the hall of University of Veterinary Science,here, this evening.

Pantaya Myo Thu and troupe representingSagaing Division participated in the contest.

Chairman of the Leading Committee for Organ-izing the Competitions Commander of Nay Pyi TawCommand Brig-Gen Wai Lwin, ministers, deputyministers, the secretary and members of the LeadingCommittee, members of the work committee andsubcommittees, officials and guests were present atthe contest. — MNA

YANGON, 18 Oct —Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defenceinspected the display ofjade lots for Mid-YearMyanma GemsEmporium 2006 atMyanmar ConventionCentre on MindhammaRoad in MayangonTownship, here, thisafternoon.

Lt-Gen Myint Swewas welcomed at thecentre by Chairman ofYangon Division Peaceand Development CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen HlaHtay Win, Patron of theCentral Committee forOrganizing MyanmaGems Emporium Ministerfor Mines Brig-Gen OhnMyint, Yangon MayorBrig-Gen Aung Thein Lin,Deputy Commander ColKyaw Kyaw Tun, centralcommittee members andthe officials.

The officialsconducted Lt-Gen MyintSwe around the display

Lt-Gen Myint Swe inspects display of jade lots at MCC

of jade lots to be soldthrough tender andcompetitive biddingsystems. Later, Lt-GenMyint Swe gavenecessary instructions tothe officials.

Lt-Gen Myint Swealso went to MyanmaGems Mart on Kaba AyePagoda Road where pearland gem lots are ondisplay and inspected thepearl and gem lots.

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DAD Director-General inspectsdevelopment task in Hpa-an

YANGON, 18 Oct — Director-General U MyoMyint of Development Affairs Department under theMinistry for Progress of Border Areas and NationalRaces and Development Affairs accompanied by of-ficials inspected beautifying and water supply tasksin Hpa-an Township, Kayin State on 16 October.

At the office of Township Development Af-fairs Committee, the director-general heard reportspresented by officials and fulfilled the requirements.The director-general also inspected four water tanksthat can hold 420,000 gallons of water, Bermei waterpumping station, tarmacking of roads and dredgingof ditches. The director-general met with service per-sonnel and gave necessary instructions.

Minister receives guestsNAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct — Minister for Home

Affairs Maj-Gen Maung Oo received Mr MadanMohan Bhatnagar of International Narcotics ControlBoard-INCB at the ministry, here, today.

Also present at the call were Director-Gen-eral of Myanmar Police Force Brig-Gen Khin Yi,Head of Office U Khin Maung Thein, Head of De-partment Police Col Khan Aung of CCDAC andDeputy Head of Department Police Col Tin MaungMaung. —MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defenceinspects pearl lots being displayed at

Myanma Gems Mart.—MNA

Commander Brig-Gen Wai Lwin enjoysVesantara Drama Contest.

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A contestant taking part in basic educationlevel boys’ (aged 15-20) mandolin contest. MNA

A contestant participates in basic educationlevel girls’ (aged 5-10) dancing contest.—MNA

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Five members of YeUTownship NLD resigndue to loss of trust in

party leadersYANGON, 18 Oct — Five members of YeU

Township National League for Democracyincluding Vice-Chairman U Than Nyunt Win ofTownship Organizing Committee, U Nyunt Thaungand U Sein Hla of Tat Thit village, U Htay Aungand U Mann Tin of Si Hson village resigned fromthe NLD on 30 June of their own accord. Theysent the letters of resignation to the NLDHeadquarters and local authorities.

In their letters sent to Sagaing DivisionMultiparty Democracy General Election Sub-Commission, they said the NLD, without servingin the interests of the people, has committed actsdetrimental to the State and the people. Due todistrust of the leaders of the party, they quit theNLD. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct — Narai RegionDevelopment and Rehabilitation Group on25 September issued the declaration on itsstance over the decision to put Myanmaron the agenda of the United NationsSecurity Council.

The following is the full text of thedeclaration.The declaration of Narai RegionDevelopment and Rehabilitation Groupon condemnation of US interference inMyanmar’s internal affairs using the UN

25 September 2006It is learnt that a decision was made

on 15 September to put Myanmar on theagenda of the UN Security Councilaccusing the country of posing a threat toregional stability.

National races have lived in Myanmarunitedly since time immemorial andMyanmar has preserved its traditionalculture. It is Myanmar that observes basicprinciples of the Charter of the UN,

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct — Member of the StatePeace and Development Council Lt-Gen Khin MaungThan of the Ministry of Defence, accompanied byChairman of Bago Division Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander of Southern Command Maj-Gen Ko Ko and Vice-Chairman of Bago DivisionPDC Col Sein Myint, inspected maintenance ofNawade Bridge and flow of water in AyeyawadyRiver on 14 October morning.

In Padaung, Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than met

Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than inspectsdevelopment of Padaung Township

with departmental personnel and local people andexplained regional development. After hearing thereports on progress of the township, Lt-Gen KhinMaung Than attended to the needs and gavenecessary instructions.

While in Padaung, Lt-Gen Khin Maung Thanand Commander Maj-Gen Ko Ko attended theceremonies to open the Generator Factory (Sinde)and the Meter Factory (Sinde) of Myanma MachineTool and Electrical Industries.

Next, they met Tatmadawmen and familymembers at the hall of local battalion in PadaungStation. Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than explainedparticipation in rural development tasks, growing ofphysic nut plants and carrying out of welfare tasksfor the family members.

At Nyaunggaing Dam, Lt-Gen Khin MaungThan heard reports on salient points of the dam, andsupply of water to summer and monsoon paddyplantations presented by Deputy Director U SoeMyint of Irrigation Department.

Col Sein Myint and officials gavesupplementary reports.

Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than viewed storage ofwater, the control tower, maintenance of the damand the spillway.

Nyaunggaing Dam was built with the aims ofsupplying water to 3,000 acres of farmland andensuring contribution to development of PadaungTownship.

Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than arrived backYangon in the evening.

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NRDRG condemns and protests against theUS interference in Myanmar’s internal

affairs using the UN as a toolInternational Law and Internationalconventions and has never interfered ininternal affairs of other countries and neverinvaded other countries. As communitypeace and tranquillity prevails in Myanmar,the country does not pose threat to regionalstability.

The act of the US is contrary to basicprinciples of the UN Charter and alsoundermines the integrity of Myanmar andpeace and unity of the national races.

Hence, Narai Region Developmentand Rehabilitation Group condemns andprotests against the US interference inMyanmar’s internal affairs using the UNas a tool.

SignedU Le ChanChairman

Narai Region Development andRehabilitation Group

Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than meeting with military officers, other ranks and their families of local battalions in Padaung Station. — MNA

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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

GM sells over 100,000 cars in Middle Eastin nine months

A labourer hangs silk bean curds, a kind of food made from soybeans, at afoodstuff factory in Changzhi, northern China’s Shanxi Province

on 14 Oct, 2006. —INTERNET

Indonesian womandies of bird flu

JAKARTA, 17 Oct — A67-year-old Indonesianwoman died of bird flu afterbeing treated at a hospitalfor more than a week,marking the country’s 54thdeath from the virus, anofficial at the HealthMinistry said on Monday.

“The virus in her washighly pathogenic, veryvicious. She is the 54thcasualty out of 71 cases,”said Runizar Ruesin, thehead of the HealthMinistry’s bird flu info-rmation centre. The womanfrom the West Java city ofBandung died on Sundaynight, the official said.

Hadi Yusuf, the doctorwho treated her, toldReuters the disease alsoaffected the woman’skidneys.Tests last weekfound she had the H5N1virus. —MNA/Reuters

Malaysian Co to establish detergent JV in China

Malaysian cardiologist electedWMA President

KUWAIT CITY, 17 Oct—General Motors (GM) hassold 100,000 cars in theMiddle East region duringthe first nine months of2006, marking a 21-per-cent increase over the sameperiod last year, KuwaitNews Agency (KUNA)reported on Sunday.

Visiting GM GeneralManager Terry Johnsonrevealed the figures at aPress conference onSaturday in Kuwait, saidKUNA. Johnson wasquoted as attributing thegrowth to the Chevroletseries’ success in theregion, citing the doubledsales of Chevrolet’s SportsUtility Vehicles (SUV),Tahoe and Suburban.

According to thegeneral manager, GM’sluxury line-up, Cadillac,Hummer and Saab havealso seen a increase of 58per cent over last year’s

figure. The CadillacEscalade saw a 35-per-cent increase in regionalsales by September overthe number in 2005.

Concerning thecounties, the Saudi marketis the largest in the Middle

East, making up 58 percent of the sales in theregion. Sales in Iraqincreased threefold in2006 compared to lastyear. About 6,339 carshad been sold in Iraq inthe January-September

period. Meanwhile, 4,320 cars

have been sold in Jordan,Lebanon and Syria, makinga 28-per-cent growth inspite of the recent Israel-Hizbollah conflict.

MNA/Xinhua

KUALA LUMPUR, 17 Oct—Malaysiancardiologist N Arumugam has beenelected as president of the World MedicalAssociation (WMA), local Pressreported on Monday.

Arumugam, ex-president of theMalaysian Medical Association (MMA),was elected to the post at the WMA’sgeneral assembly in South Africarecently.

He was the first Malaysian to holdthe post. New MMA president TeohSiang Chin described the installation asa glowing international accolade for theMalaysian health service and duerecognition for all its doctors.

Arumugam has pledged to worktowards better health of all citizens,including doctors, stressing doctorsthemselves must be healthy first to keepthe population healthy.

The WMA is an internationalorganization representing physicians. Itwas founded in September 1947 in Paris.The organization was created to ensurethe independence of physicians, and towork for the highest possible standardsof ethical behaviour and care byphysicians.

Currently, it embraces about 80national medical associations of itsmembers. —MNA/Xinhua

KUALA LUMPUR, 17Oct— Malaysia’s GoldenHope Overseas Capital(GHOC) has signed ajoint-venture agreementwith two Chinesecompanies to establishGuangzhou KeylinkChemical Co Ltd insouthern China, thecompany said Monday.

GHOC, an investmentsubsidiary wholly ownedby Golden HopePlantations Berhad,signed the agreement withCognis Oleochemicals(Hong Kong) Ltd and

Lonkey Industrial Co Ltd,the company said in astatement released here.

The new companybased in GuangdongProvince will man-ufacture, distribute andsell methyl estersulphonates (MES), anoleochemical derivativeused in the production ofdetergent.

The collaboration willfurther strengthen GoldenHope's biodiesel businessby capitalizing on thepotential of MES as areplacement for linear

alkybenzene sulphonate inthe detergent industry, saidGHOC.

Under the agreement,Lonkey will hold 49 percent of equity in the jointventure company with 36per cent under GoldenHope and the remaining15 per cent under Cognis.

Golden Hope said,Guangzhou Keylink willbe responsible for building,developing and operatinga plant to be built inGuangzhou to manufactureMES.

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A newresearch

reportpublished on16 Oct, 2006

indicatedthat hairreveals

evidence of aperson’s dietand can help

doctorsdiagnose

eatingdisorders.INTERNET

Hair reveals eating disordersBEIJING, 18 Oct — A new research report published on Monday indicated that hair reveals evidence

of a person’s diet and can help doctors diagnose eating disorders, according to media reports.Researchers from Utah’s Brigham Young

University found that examining carbon and nitrogenin the proteins of hair could reveal information abouta person’s day-to-day nutrition.

Lead author Kent Hatch from the university’sDepartment of Integrative Biology said clinicians

could use this as a tool to help diagnose such disordersas anorexia or bulimia because many sufferers lied ordid not recognize their problems.

Current methods used to diagnose and monitorpatients suffering from eating disorders relied heavilyon questionnaires and interviews.

“Their self-evaluation is very impaired,” saidJennifer Tolman, clinical director at Avalon Hills, atreatment facility in Cache County, Utah of theUnited States.

“We had a girl who was five feet and 10 inchestalland weighed 98 pounds and she wasn’t even sureshe had an eating disorder, although she couldrecognize it in others,” Tolman said.

Hair grows by adding new proteins to the base ofthe strand, and pushing the strand up out of the hairfollicle. The make-up of these proteins will beinfluenced by the nutritional state of the person atthat moment. This nutritional state is in turn subtlyaffected by eating patterns associated with eatingdisorders. Because hair grows all the time, eachstrand consequently becomes a chemical diary,recording an individual’s day-by-day nutrition, theresearchers said. —Internet

US, Russian scientists discover element 118 WASHINGTON, 17 Oct — Scientists from the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in

collaboration with researchers from Dubna, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Russia,have discovered the newest superheavy element, element 118.

Hong Kong air trafficgrows in September

According to astatement released bythe national laboratoryMonday, in experimentsconducted at the JINRU400 cyclotron betweenFebruary and June 2005,the researchers observedatomic decay patterns, orchains, that establish theexistence of element 118.In these decay chains,previously observedelement 116 is produced

via the alpha decay ofelement 118.

The results are publi-shed in the October 2006edition of the journalPhysical Review C.

The experiment prod-uced three atoms ofelement 118 when cal-

cium ions bombarded acalifornium target.

The team then observedthe alpha decay fromelement 118 to element116 and then to element114. The Livermore-Dubna team had createdthe same isotope of

element 116 in earlierexperiments.

This discovery bringsthe total to five new ele-ments for the Livermore-Dubna collaboration (113,114, 115, 116 and 118).

“The decay propertiesof all the isotopes that wehave made so far paint thepicture of a large, sort offlat ‘Island of Stability’and indicate that we mayhave luck if we try to goeven heavier,” said KenMoody, Livermore’steam leader.

MNA/Xinhua

General view of The Whale Room at the American Museum of NaturalHistory, scene of the Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards in New

York on 16 Oct , 2006.—INTERNET

India’s President A P J Abdul Kalam wears atraditional Mysore Peta (turban) during his 75th

birthday celebrations in Bangalore on 15 Oct,2006.—INTERNET

Seven killed in traincollision in central Egypt CAIRO, 17 Oct — A train ploughed into a passenger

minibus in central Egypt on Monday, killing sevenpeople and injuring eight others, the official newsagency MENA reported.

The accident occurred in Osim, a small villagesome 10 kliometres south of Cairo, when the train washeading from the Mediterranean port city of Alexandriato al-Tibeen, also south of Cairo.

MNA/Xinhua

Canton fair gets new name GUANGZHOU,17 Oct — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao

announced here Sunday that the 50-year-old ChineseExport Commodities Fair will change its name to theChinese Import and Export Commodities Fair fromnext session.

The fair, also known as Canton Fair, has been abiannual event held in spring and autumn since 1957.Wen said it will take the new name in the 101 session.

The move aims to expand China’s import andpushes for the balanced development of China’s foreigntrade, said Wen. He said China will resolutelyimplement the opening-up policy and encourageChinese companies to invest abroad and also welcomeforeign companies to invest in China.

China will perfect its economic rules and lawsconcerning foreign business, continue to improve theintellectual property rights protection, and create a fairenvironment for all the companies, he said.—MNA/Xinhua HONG KONG, 17 Oct

— Passenger traffic, cargothroughput and aircraftmovements at the HongKong International Air-port all experiencedhealthy growth in Sep-tember, the AirportAuthority Hong Kong(AAHK) said onSunday.

Driven by the stronggrowth in the transferpassenger sector, totalpassenger throughput inSeptember reached 3.5million, up 6.8 per centfrom the same periodlast year, according tofigures released byAAHK.

Boosted by the busy

air traffic, aircraftmovements grew 3 percent to 23,300 over thesame month in 2005.

MNA/Xinhua

South Korean soldiers look at a pattern drawn by theSouth Korean Black Eagle military aerobatic team at

its air show during Air Power Day at the US airbase inOsan, south of Seoul, on 14 Oct, 2006. —INTERNET

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Polish soccer powerhousejoin fight against drug

WARSAW, 17 Oct— Polish Premier League power-house Wisla Krakow joined a fight against drug abusewith the local city authorities ahead their league soccermatch, the PAP news agency reported on Monday.

Local police with police dogs inspected the stadiumbefore the team's October 14 game against OdraWodzislaw. Adam Mlot, Assistant Mayor of Krakowin charge of safety affairs of the match, said on a Pressconference held Monday that, they found that 34persons had contact with drugs before the match, 5persons with drugs and 2 of them were suspected ofdrug vendition.—MNA/Xinhua

Switzerland’s Roger Federer returns the ball toChile’s Nicolas Massu during their tennis matchat the Madrid Masters Series tennis tournament

in Madrid on 17 October, 2006.—INTERNET

The Chinese team celebrate with their gold medals on the podium afterwinning the men's team final at the Gymnastics World Championships at the

NRGi Arena in Aarhus, Denmark, on 17 Oct, 2006.—INTERNET

Real Madrid’s David Beckham (R)fights for the ball with Steaua

Bucharest’s Petre Marin during theirChampions League Group E soccer

match at ‘Ghencea’ stadium inBucharest on 17 Oct, 2006. It was

Beckham’s 100th appearance in theChampions League.—INTERNET

Arsenal's Kolo Toure (L) challenges CSKA’sVagner Love during their Champions League

Group G soccer match at Lokomotiv Stadium inMoscow on 17 Oct, 2006.—INTERNET

Russia’s Abramovichdenies divorce report

MOSCOW, 17 Oct— Russian billionaire RomanAbramovich said on Monday no one in his family wasplanning to file for divorce, Russia’s Ekho Moskvyradio station reported.

Britain’s News of the World newspaper reported onSunday the wife of Chelsea soccer club ownerAbramovich had hired two divorce lawyers.

“No member of Roman Abramovich’s family ... ,including him, has gone to the courts or intends to goto the courts in connection with a family break-up,” thestation said. — MNA/Reuters

KFF calls crisis meeting to avertFIFA ban

NAIROBI, 17 Oct — Kenya’s soccer chiefs have called a crisismeeting to on Tuesday in a bid to avert a looming world soccergoverning body FIFA’s ban on the East African nation.

Kenya Football Federation (KFF) Chairman Alfred Sambu saidTuesday’s meeting would review conditions raised by the Zurich-based world soccer body ahead of the committee's meeting set to takeplace on the 18th of October.

One of the key recommendations by FIFA is that KFF de-registerKFF-PL and make the name available for clubs to use.

The Kenyan football has been torn apart by the political infightingwhich has seen the emergence of two factions fighting for control ofthe Premier League.

Bickering is also tearing apart the KFF and the national side,Harambee Stars, which used to be a symbol of unity, over the runningof the team.

Despite a warning from FIFA President Sepp Blatter for Kenya tosort out the mess by October 18 or face sanctions, both the KFF andthe Kenya Premier League Limited (KPL) are charting their owncourses.

MNA/Xinhua

Benelux to bid for 2018World Cup finals

BRUSSELS, 17 Oct— Belgium, the Netherlands andLuxembourg will formally apply in January to host the2018 World Cup finals, the man in charge of the bidtold Reuters on Monday.

Alain Courtois, a member of the Belgian Parliamentand the man in charge of delivering the project, hasreceived approval from all three associations, the gov-ernments and local authorities.

"At the moment, we are just awaiting the outcomeof the elections in the Netherlands next month, butafter that we should be in a position go ahead in the newyear," he said.

Courtois was tournament director when Belgiumand the Netherlands jointly hosted the 2000 EuropeanChampionship in 2000, the first European finals tomake a profit.— MNA/Reuters

Serie A strugglersChievo sack coach,

recall Del Neri ROME, 17 Oct— Serie

A side Chievo Veronahave sacked their coachGiuseppe Pillon and re-called Luigi Del Neri totake his place.

The decision to sackPillon came after Chievolost 1-0 to Torino on Sun-day — their fifth defeat insix league matches so farthis season.

"I'm sorry to leave but Iunderstand their deci-sion," Pillon was quotedas saying on La Gazzettadello Sport's website onMonday.

"Del Neri is an excel-lent choice. He alreadyknows the club and isprobably the right personto get the best out of theplayers." Del Neri coachedChievo between 2000 and2004, winning promotionto Serie A in his first yearin charge then guiding theclub to a fifth-place finishin their first-ever seasonin the top flight beforeleaving at the end of thatcampaign.

MNA/Reuters

Jensen scores on return as Fulham beat Charlton 2-1

Bulgaria captain back, ifStoitchkov quits

SOFIA, 17 Oct—Bulgaria captain Stilian Petrov hintedhe might come back to the team only if coach HristoStoitchkov is not in charge, Sofia News Agency re-ported on Monday.

A few days after announcing his decision to leaveBulgarian national soccer team over an apparent riftwith Stoichkov, Aston Villa's newest acquisition saidhe might rethink his move, because "I have alwaysloved playing for Bulgaria".—MNA/Xinhua

LONDON, 17 Oct— Charlton Athleticremained rooted to the bottom of thePremier League on Monday as ClausJensen made a scoring comeback after ayear's absence to help Fulham to a 2-1home win. Charlton had by far the best ofthe first half, with Dennis Rommedahlrunning riot, but failed to turn a series ofhalf-chances into goals.

They paid a heavy price when Fulhamsuddenly cut loose in an explosive threeminute spell midway through the secondperiod.

They broke the deadlock in the 65thminute when Brian McBride shot fromedge of box and scored with the aid of a

slight deflection. His strike partner Tomasz Radzinski

lashed another 20 metre swerving shotjust over the bar a minute later and mo-ments after that Jensen made it 2-0 nineminutes after coming on as a substitute.

The Danish international marked hisfirst Premiership appearance for a year bybreaking onto a long ball to stretch andpoke home the second against his formerclub. Darren Bent pulled on back in the77th minute when he reacted sharply to aloose ball to score from just inside the boxbut Charlton could not force an equalizerand so stay bottom with three points fromeight games.— MNA/Reuters

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Wednesday, 18 October, 2006Summary of observations recorded at 09:30

hours MST: During the past 24 hours, rain or thun-dershowers have been widespread in TaninthayiDivision, fairly widespread in Chin State, isolated inMandalay Division, Kachin, Shan, Kayah and MonStates and weather has been partly cloudy in theremaining States and Divisions. The noteworthyamounts of rainfall recorded were Nay Pyi Taw(0.16) inch, Myeik (1.07) inches and Ye (0.78) inch.

Maximum temperature on 17-10-2006 was98°F. Minimum temperature on 18-10-2006 was77°F. Relative humidity at 09:30 hours MST on 18-10-2006 was 82%. Total sunshine hours on 17-10-2006 was 6.5 hours approx.

Rainfalls on 18-10-2006 were (Nil) atMingaladon, Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Totalrainfalls since 1-1-2006 were 98.46 inches atMingaladon and 111.42 inches at Kaba Aye and116.61 inches at Central Yangon. Maximum windspeed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was 7 mph from Westat 15:30 hours MST on 17-10-2006.

Bay inference: Weather is generally fair inthe East Central Bay and partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea and elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 19-10-2006:Rain or thundershowers are likely to be widespreadin Taninthayi Division, scattered in Mon, Kayin,Kayah, Chin and Rakhine States, Ayeyawady, Bagoand Yangon Divisions, isolated in Kachin State andMandalay Division and weather will be partly cloudyin the remaining States and Divisions. Degree ofcertainty is 60%.

State of the Sea: Seas will be moderate inMyanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likeli-hood of rain or thundershowers in the SouthernMyanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbour-ing areas for 19-10-2006: Possibility of isolatedrain or thundershowers. Degree of certainty is 40%.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouringareas for 19-10-2006: Likelihood of isolated rain orthundershowers. Degree of certainty is 60%.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouringareas for 19-10-2006: Possibility of isolated rain orthundershowers. Degree of certainty is 40%.

WEATHER

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Customers look at a Buick FirstLand GL8 at a sales office in Beijing onWednesday, 18 Oct, 2006. General Motors Corp and its joint ventures inChina saw sales jump 36.7 per cent in the first three quarters of this year,helped by strong demand for newly introduced models such as the Buick LaCrosse and Chevrolet Lova, the company said. —INTERNET

Expert says glaciers help curb global warming JIANGZI (Tibet), 18 Oct — With the world facing an increasing threat from global warming, a Chinese

scientist said here Monday that the world’s 20 million square kilometres of glacier will help curb a rapidrise in global temperatures.

Zhang Wenjing, a lead-ing Chinese expert onglaciology, said glaciers,which are commonly re-garded as an importantsource of freshwater onearth, are also “monitors”and “adjusters” of global

temperatures. Zhang is on a month-

long scientific expeditionto the northern and south-ern slopes of the Himala-yas with scientists fromChina, India, Nepal andBhutan.

Their tasks include re-searching the impact ofglobal warming on theHimalayan glaciers,which are the world’ssecond largest glaciercluster following theArctic Pole. Zhang, who

has been studying gla-cier for decades, tried toview the dwindling ofglaciers in an “optimis-tic” way.

“To ‘some extent’, theheat absorbed during theglacier’s melting cancounteract global warm-ing,” he said.

“In other words, theworld’s 20 million squarekilometres of glacier andvast areas of ocean willnot allow the global tem-perature to increase toofast,” said Zhang, aresearch fellow with theInstitute of MountainHazards and Environ-ment with the ChineseAcademy of Science.

MNA/Xinhua

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NAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct — The Vesantara Drama Contest of the 14thMyanmar Traditional Cultural Performing Arts Competitions was in progress atUniversity of Veterinary Science in Yezin this evening and anyone may enjoythe contest free of charge.

U Wai Yan Oo and Troupe representing Mandalay Division will take partin the contest tomorrow. — MNA

Vesantara drama contest goes on

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein delivers an address at Meeting No 11/2006 of National ConventionConvening Commission. — MNA

YANGON, 18 Oct —Meeting No 11/2006 ofthe National ConventionConvening Commissionwas held at NyaunghnapinCamp in Hmawby Town-ship yesterday eveningwith an address by Chair-man of NCCC Secretary-1 of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Lt-Gen Thein Sein.

It was also attendedby Vice-Chairmen ofNCCC Chief Justice UAung Toe and Ministerfor Cooperatives Maj-GenTin Htut, Secretary ofNCCC Minister for Infor-mation Brig-Gen KyawHsan and members.

Joint Secretary-2 ofNCCC Director-Generalof Pyithu Hluttaw OfficeU Myint Thein acted asmaster of ceremonies.

In his address, Secre-tary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Seinsaid the National Conven-tion resumed on 10 Octo-ber, and now the conven-tion is on the road to suc-cess. At the plenary ses-sion of the National Con-

All are to strive for success of National Conventionin accordance with adopted procedures

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein addresses Meeting No 11/2006 of NCCC

vention, the Panel ofChairmen had already pre-sented suggestions sub-mitted by the delegategroups to lay down de-tailed basic principles forthe functions on legisla-tion of PyidaungsuHluttaw, Pyithu Hluttaw,Amyotha Hluttaw and

Region or State Hluttawto be included in the writ-ing of the State Constitu-tion, the chapter on thecitizens and fundamentalrights and duties of thecitizens and the role of theTatmadaw.

The National Con-vention Convening Work

Committee held discus-sions with members of thePanel of Chairmen of theNational Convention toseek approvals of the del-egate groups concerningthe separate suggestionsincluded in the presenta-tions. He continued to saythat the discussions are

now taking place amongthe delegate groups to beable to submit their de-sires for the separate sug-gestions.

We all are to strivefor achieving the successof the National Conven-tion in accordance withthe adopted procedures, he

said. He also called forsub-committees and offi-cials to take measures toensure smooth manage-ment including accom-modation, transportation,health care services andwelfare of the NationalConvention delegates.

(See page 9)

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct—The 14th MyanmarTraditional Cultural Per-forming Arts Competi-tions continued for thefourth day at the desig-

14th Performing Arts Competitions continue for fourth daynated places, here, thismorning.

Present at the desig-nated venues were Minis-ter for Industry-2 Maj-GenSaw Lwin, Deputy Minis-

ter for Finance and Rev-enue Col Hla Thein Swe,Deputy Minister for RailTransportation Thura UThaung Lwin, DeputyMinister for Religious

Affairs Brig-Gen ThuraAung Ko, Deputy Minis-ter for Social Welfare,Relief and ResettlementBrig-Gen Kyaw Myint,Member of Civil ServiceSelection and TrainingBoard U Nyi Tun, Secre-tary of the Leading Com-mittee for Organizing theCompetitions Col YanNaing Oo of Nay Pyi TawCommand, officials andlocal people.

At the lecture hall of

University of VeterinaryScience, 14 contestantsfrom States and Divisionstook part in the amateurlevel (first class) men’smodern song contest and13 students in the basic edu-cation level girls’ (aged 15-20) modern song contest.

At University of Ag-riculture, nine contestantsparticipated in the ama-teur level (first class)men’s classical song con-test and 14 students in the

basic education level girls’(aged 10-15) classicalsong contest.

At University of Vet-erinary Science, 22 partici-pants competed in the basiceducation level girls’ (aged5-10) dancing contest.

The song composingcontest was held at thetraining school of YezinAgricultural ResearchDepartment. The contest-ants practised composing

(See page 10)

Contestants of performing arts competitions exchange views ontraditional cultural performing arts. — MNA

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