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Volume XVI, Number 63 2nd Waning of Nayon 1370 ME Friday, 20 June, 2008

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PAGE 7 KYAW MIN LU (SHWEPYITHA)

YANGON, 19 June —Departments concerned,social organizations,Tatmadaw families andwellwishers of districtsand townships in theKachin State are continu-ously making cash andkind donations to stormvictims. Regiments andunits under control ofNorthern Command do-nated K 3,920,000 for sec-ond time; timber produc-tion entrepreneurs and sawmill entrepreneurs K77,500,000; departmentalpersonnel in Kachin StateK 1,870,000 andwellwishers in districtsand townships K11,929,330. Therefore,

Kachin State donates cash,kind to storm victims

they have donated K95,219,330 for third timeto the rehabilitation andreconstruction subcom-mittee here today.

So far, the subcom-mittee has accepted cashand kind worthK1,797,348,940.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 19 June — Storm ‘Nargis’ had destroyed and damaged anumber of basic education schools in Ayeyawady Division. Though most of theschools have been reopened in the school year, several others remain to beopened.

It is because some rural people have migrated to other suitable villages astheirs were destroyed in the storm and that a few schools were self-reliant onesof the villages which were difficult of access due to numerous creeks and streamsin delta region.

It is targeted to reopen the remaining schools by the end of June by upgradingthem according to condition and places of villages to be rebuilt.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 19 June— Member of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Lt-Gen KyawWin of the Ministry ofDefence, together withChairman of Shan State(East) PDC Commanderof Triangle Region Com-mand Maj-Gen MinAung Hlaing and depart-mental officials, attendedthe rainy season treeplanting ceremony inKengtung on 17 Junemorning.

The head of ShanState (East) Forest Depart-ment reported on distri-bution of 250,000 saplingsin 2007-08 and 36,608saplings in 2008-09,

Lt-Gen Kyaw Win attends rainy seasontree planting ceremony in Kengtung

growing of trees on thecampus of KengtungTechnological Universityand the purpose of hold-ing the tree planting cer-emony.

Lt-Gen Kyaw Winpresented saplings tomembers of social organi-zations and departmentalpersonnel. Next, Lt-GenKyaw Win, the com-

mander and party plantedsaplings and viewed par-ticipation of the local peo-ple in the tree plantingceremony.

(See page 6)

Lt-Gen Kyaw Win plants a tree at rainy season tree planting ceremonyin Kengtung. —MNA

NLD is just a destructive force that constantly destabilizes the nation.

It was very foolish of the NLD leader to lay down the policy of economic

sanctions against the mother country. NLD is a sort of organization that

has tried to get the nation and the people into troubles.

Let’s nurture the sapling of democracy

Remaining schools in AyeyawadyDiv to reopen at end of June

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

* Proper evolution of the market-orientedeconomic system

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrityand preservation and safeguarding ofcultural heritage and national charac-ter

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

standards of the entire nation

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed na-

tion in accord with the new State Consti-tution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

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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, 20 June, 2008

The government has given special attentionto promotion of the national education on thebasis of the fact that education has become themajor factor for development of other sectorstogether with changes in the science andtechnology in the global community.

Only with high educational qualifications,high reasoning power and vast knowledge, will itbe possible for a people to serve effectively theinterests of the motherland. With this end in view,the government is systematically implementingthe national education promotion plans it has laiddown for ensuring a prosperous future of thenation.

In its effort to promote the nationaleducation, the government is building educationalinfrastructures, introducing modern teachingmethods and creating good educationalatmosphere. At the same time, the government, inpursuance of the drive for building a moderndeveloped nation, is nurturing the youth forproduction of human resources in thetechnological fields to enable the nation to catchup with the science and technologies.

The youth therefore have to constantly learnfor development of the good educationalatmosphere in the science and technologies at theinternational level and emergence of a constantlearning society.

Teachers on their part are to train andnurture the students to see that the latter becomeoutstanding in their studies, equip themselveswith nationalistic spirit and patriotic spirit andrespect and admire the Myanmar social values.

If teachers in the technological fields carryout their educational duties with national outlookin sharpening the abilities of the youth, a brighterfuture of the Union can be shaped with the strengthof reliable younger generations.

The nation will see a growing number of all-round developed youths if teachers not only teachbut also drill and discipline the students, who willtake over the State duties in future.

For emergence of growingnumber of reliable youths

ASEAN Children’s HappyDrawings launched

YANGON, 19 June —Under the HappyDrawings projects jointlyorganized by Myanmarand Singapore, theSingapore Ministry ofForeign Affairs hascommissioned Mr PeterZhuo, a Singaporean artist,to visit six schools in eachASEAN country. InMyanmar, he visited twoschools—Basic Edu-cation High School No.1,Dagon Township andBasic Education High

School No. 2, LathaTownship—today.

At each of the aboveschools, Mr Zhuoconducted a 40-minutedrawing session to inspirethe children to draw.

The children wereinvited to draw, completeand return the artworks toMr Zhuo on the same daywho will take them toSingapore. The bestdrawings will be chosenand published as a bookentitled “What makes Me

Happy — An ASEANChildren’s Album”. Thebook will be completed byJuly 2008 and launchedduring the 41st ASEANRegional Forum meetingsin Singapore.

The SingaporeMinistry of ForeignAffairs may also hold anexhibition of the bestdrawings during thesemeetings, together with avideo showing theASEAN school visits.

NLM

Sayadaw Bhaddanta Nandasiriand disciples donate supplies to

storm victims second timeYANGON, 19 June —

Under the aegis ofmissionary to FranceKyunnatha SayadawAshin Nandasiri, TawwinFamily Co Ltd and laypersons of the Sayadawdirectly donated suppliesworth K 7 millionincluding bags of rice,gram, various foodstuff,clothes, medicines andtoys worth K 5 millionand cash K 2 million to thetownship hospital,monasteries and stormvictims of 200 householdsat Kangon Village inBogale Township on 15June.

Sayadaw BhaddantaNandasiri will leave forFrance to pay a missionaryvisit on 15 August. Beforedeparture for France, well-wishers may contact theSayadaw for missionarytask and for makingdonations to the storm

victims, Tel: 098601447,095020984, 099927989and 01-548917. — NLM

MYANMAR GAZETTENAY PYI TAW, 19 June — The State Peace and

Development Council has appointed the followingpersons as heads of service organizations shownagainst each on probation from the date they assumecharge of their duties.

Name Appointment(a) U Soe Aung Director-General

Deputy Director-General Energy PlanningEnergy Planning DepartmentDepartment Ministry of EnergyMinistry of Energy

(b) U San Lwin (2) Director-GeneralDeputy Director-General Planning and StatisticsArid Zone Greening DepartmentDepartment Ministry of ForestryMinistry of Forestry

MNA

Paddy strainsfor Labutta

YANGON, 19 June—Myanma AgricultureService left Labutta jettyon 17 June to distribute1400 baskets of paddystrains to Amat village and1000 baskets of paddystrains to Alekyaw village,it is leant.—MNA

Schools reopened in MawlamyinegyunYANGON, 19 June —

Schools in Mawla-myinegyun Township re-opened nearly cent percent for 2008-2009 school

year.There are 282 high,

middle and primaryschools in the township.At present, almost all the

schools have opened toteach the students, andschool textbooks havebeen distributed to theschools in time.—MNA

Missionary toFrance Kyunnatha

Sayadaw AshinNandasiri seen

together with bags of rice he has

donated to stormsurvivors in Kangon

Village in BogaleTownship. — MNA

School children painting during Mr Zhuo’sdrawing session in Yangon. — NLM

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Iran says ready to negotiateon nuclear incentives

KAMPALA, 19 June—Iran said on Thursday itwas ready to negotiateover a new package ofeconomic incentives putforward by major powersseeking to persuadeTehran to curb its nuclearwork.

Iranian Foreign Mini-ster Manouchehr Mottakitold a news conference inthe Ugandan capitalKampala that the six —the United States, Russia,China, Britain, France andGermany —should alsotake a serious look atTehran’s own proposals.

“We have informed

them of our readiness tonegotiate. The packagegiven by the P5+1countries is currentlyunder consideration andat the appropriate timeTeheran will give itsreactions,” Mottaki said.

“We also have what wecall the Iranian packagewhich we have sent to theP5+1 countries and wehope they consider it aswe consider theirs,” addedMottaki, who was inUganda for a meeting ofthe Organisation of theIslamic Conference.

The EU's top diplomat,Javier Solana, presented

Tehran on Saturday witha new package of eco-nomic benefits designedto persuade it to curb itsnuclear work and said Iranshould stop uraniumenrichment during ne-gotiations to implementthe offer.

The package is a revisedversion of one rejected byIran in 2006. Westernpowers, which whosuspect Iran of using itscivilian nuclear programas cover to build an atomicbomb, have told Iran itwill face more sanctionsif it spurns the offer.

Internet

SEATTLE, 19 June—Doctors havesuccessfully rid a patient of advancedskin cancer by treating him with clonesof his own immune cells.

In just two months, scans showed thatthe 52-year-old man’s tumours, whichhad spread to his lungs, were gone.

Doctors cure skin cancerpatient

The astonishing outcome is the firstsolid evidence that the experimentalTcell treatment works.

But the US scientists are quick topoint out that the breakthrough involvedjust one patient.

Further trials will be needed to provethat the results were no fluke, theystressed. Advanced malignantmelanoma, the most dangerous form ofskin cancer, is notoriously difficult totreat once it starts to spread.

The US team, led by Dr Cassian Yee,from the Fred Hutchinson CancerResearch Centre in Seattle, pioneered anew therapy based on infection-fighting“helper” CD4 T-cells from the patient’sown immune system.

The findings were publishedyesterday in the New England Journalof Medicine.—Internet

Treatment uses cloned immune cells

Shell shuts down Nigerian oil field after attack US helicopter engines stolen en route to Pakistan port

Floods force 70,000from China quake zoneSANSHUI, (China), 19 June—China has evacuated

more than 70,000 people near the epicentre of lastmonth’s devastating earthquake to avoid furthercasualties from landslides and other disasters duringthe country’s deadly annual flood season.

Rain and floods, concentrated in China’s heavilyindustrialised south, have killed at least 176 peopleand left 52 missing, as authorities struggle to sheltermillions made homeless by the 7.9 magnitude quakethat struck southwest Sichuan Province on 12 May.

Authorities in Aba prefecture had moved 72,000people living in “highly dangerous terrain” inWenchuan county, the epicentre of the quake, to saferareas ahead of downpours on Wednesday night, Xinhuanews agency reported on Thursday.

“The three-day mass relocation concluded at 8 pm,just two hours before heavy rain hit the county,”Xinhua quoted local disaster prevention authorities assaying. Since the earthquake struck, killing more than69,000 people, Wenchuan county alone hadexperienced nearly 5,000 “secondary geologicaldisasters”, including hundreds of major landslides andmudslides.—Internet

Gunmen kill officialin Mexican border city

CIUDAD JUAREZ,(Mexico), 19 June— Gun-men have killed the policeadministrative director inthe violent Mexicanborder city of CiudadJuarez, the latest high-profile killing in Mexico’sdrug war, police said onWednesday.

About 460 people havebeen killed in CiudadJuarez this year— thegreatest concentration ofdrug killings in thecountry. Guzman's druggangs from northwesternSinaloa state are battlingthe local Juarez cartel forcontrol of smugglingroutes to the United States.Ciudad Juarez is acrossthe border from El Paso,Texas. —Internet

LAGOS,( Nigeria),19June—Royal Dutch Shellsays it has shut downproduction at a Nigerianoil field that producesabout 200,000 barrels perday after a militant attack.

A Nigerian militantleader says his grouplaunched a rare attackagainst one of thecompany’s offshore oilinstallations, more than 65miles from land.

The fighters said theyweren’t able to enter acomputer control roomthat they had hoped todestroy to cripple pro-duction. The militantleader spoke on conditionof anonymity to avoidpunishment by authorities.The account could not beimmediately verified.

A spokesman for RoyalDutch Shell PLC con-firmed an attack, butgave no details. Thespokesman, Olav Ljosne,said production had beenstopped from the field.

Internet

Residents row boats along a flooded street at a residential area in Fengkaitown in Deqing county, Guangdong Province on 18 June, 2008.—INTERNET

KABUL, 19 June— FourUS helicopter enginesworth more than $13million have been stolenwhile they were beingtrucked from Afghanistanto a port in Pakistan to beshipped home, the USmilitary said.

Most supplies for the USmilitary in landlockedAfghanistan, including

fuel, are transportedthrough Pakistan, andmilitants in both Pakistanand Afghanistan have beenstepping up attacks onshipments.

A US military spokes-man said the engines werebeing transported by aPakistani trucking com-pany when they wentmissing some time in the

month before 10 April.It was not known if the

shipment went missing onthe Afghan side of theborder or in Pakistan,Sergeant Mark Swart saidon Thursday. “We don’thave the information onexactly where itdisappeared. We just knowthat it did not get to theport,” he said.—Internet

Norway arrests woman for carrying cocaine in wigOSLO, 19 June — A British woman’s

bulging wig did not fool Customs agentsin Norway who realized she wasn’t justhaving a bad hair day. The wig wasconcealing 2.2 pounds of cocaine gluedto her head and Customs agents detainedher on suspicion of cocaine smuggling,authorities said Wednesday.

The 32-year-old suspect, whose namewas withheld, arrived late Sunday atVaernes airport near the city of Trondheim

on a flight from Copenhagen, Denmark,the Customs service said.

“The agent thought she had a great dealof hair and suspected that she was wearinga wig,” the agency said. “The wig wasexamined and the agents found a bag ofcocaine.” Norway’s largest newspaper,Verdens Gang, said the cocaine was gluedso firmly to the woman's real hair thatpolice brought her to the local hospital tohave it removed.—Internet

An offshore

oil platform

owned by

Shell oil

company in

the Niger

Delta.

INTERNET

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A Palestinian boyclimbs on a destroyedsection of the Gazan

border fence separatingEgypt and the southernGaza Strip at Rafah onon 18 June. A fragiletruce between Israeland the PalestinianIslamist movement

Hamas came into forcein the Gaza Strip on

Thursday amidscepticism over howlong the Egyptian-

brokered deal wouldhold.—INTERNET

Israeli police and bomb experts inspect the site where a rocket fired by Gazamilitants landed in the Israeli port city of Ashkelon earlier this week. A trucebetween Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas came into force in the

Gaza Strip at dawn on 19 June amid Israeli warnings of military action if theEgyptian-brokered deal fails.—INTERNET

KATHMANDU, 19 June— A helicopter crash in Nepalearlier this year that killed 10 people, including fourUnited Nations’ arms monitors, was believed to havebeen caused by human error, a government investigationsaid on Tuesday.

Three Nepalis working for the United Nations andthree crew were also killed when the helicopter wentdown in bad weather about 65 kilometres (40 miles)east of Kathmandu in March.

The helicopter was used by UN officials monitoringa landmark peace deal between Nepal’s previous go-vernment and Maoist former rebels.—MNA/Reuters

DHAKA, 19 June — Bangladeshi Customs officialsseized huge quantity of mobile phone sets and othermobile instruments worth about 10 million taka (about142,000 US dollars) at Zia International Airport hereearly Tuesday.

The airport police said some passengers travellingfrom Hong Kong abandoned four bags on their landingat the airport. The bags contained 1,000 mobile phonesets, 1,177 digital music players, 8, 140 memory cardsand 197 mobile batteries.

The value of the seized valuables was estimated ataround 10 million taka, a customs official said.

The police said the passengers fled away from theairport after sensing the presence of the Customsofficials. — MNA/Xinhua

ISLAMABAD, 19 June —Pakistan’s disgraced topnuclear scientist denied onTuesday that he was thesource of sophisticatedwarhead designs found onthe computers of Swisssmugglers.

A nuclear watchdog’sreport that the designswere found on the smug-glers’ computers has

LOS ANGELES, 19 June– Deteriorating levels ofservice by airline staff has pushed overall satisfactionwith US carriers to the lowest level in three years, anew study showed.

Alaska, Continental and JetBlue airlines scoredhighest in customer satisfaction, according to the studyreleased on Tuesday.

For a fourth consecutive year, JetBlue Airwaysranks highest overall, and also tops the low-cost carriersegment for a third consecutive year, according to theJ D Power and Associates’ 2008 North America AirlineSatisfaction Study. —MNA/Xinhua

LONDON, 19 June — A thief stole a computer fromthe local office of a British Cabinet minister in a break-in, an aide said on Tuesday.

An aide at the Manchester constituency office forHazel Blears, the Cabinet secretary for the Departmentof Communities and Local Government, said thecomputer was the only item taken in the weekendburglary.

“The window was smashed. Just the computer wastaken,” she said.

Like all members of Parliament, British Cabinetministers maintain offices in the constituencies thatelect them to the House of Commons. A spokeswomanfor the Communities Department was not immediatelyavailable for comment.— MNA/Reuters

SEOUL, 19 June —South Korea ended an-other round of ministerialtalks with the UnitedStates Tuesday without abreakthrough on resumingimports of US beef, butthe two sides agreed tomeet again, officials said.

After a two-hourmeeting with US TradeRepresentative (USTR)Susan Schwab at her officein Washington, SouthKorean Trade Minister KimJong-hoon said, “We willmeet again tomorrow,”

S Korea, US end beefmeeting without results

without elaborating on themeeting, the third of its kindsince Friday.

Kim told reporters justbefore the talks that “I willtry to address the people’sconcerns (over beefsafety),” adding the US sidehas made “several pro-posals” and that “We’vebeen engaged in working-level talks to make theproposals effective ones.”

He would not predicthow long the talks withSchwab would last.

Informed sources said

the trade ministers weretrying to resolve differ-ences over ways toendorse voluntary effortsby the US beef industry tolabel beef packages withthe age of slaughteredcattle to prevent shipmentsof beef from cattle over 30months old, which are saidto be more susceptible tomad cow disease.

At issue is how toeffectively enforce thevoluntary export ban byUS beef processors.

MNA/Xinhua

Human error suspected inNepal UN chopper crash

Bangladeshi Customs seizesmobile sets, instruments

Pakistan’s Khan denies assource of weapon design

spurred fears in the UnitedStates and elsewhere thatatomic secrets may bequickly spreading.

The Institute forScience and InternationalSecurity (ISIS) said in areport released this weekthat Swiss investigatorshad found the encrypteddesigns in 2004 on thecomputers of three Swisssmugglers associated withAbul Qadeer Khan, whoheaded work on Paki-stan’s nuclear program-me. —MNA/Reuters

Customer satisfaction with USairlines declines

Computer stolen from UKCabinet minister’s office

Photo shows therestroom in the

National AquaticsCenter in Beijing,capital of China. It

was built inaccordance with a

water-saving designconcept, a giganticgreen architectural

wonder.XINHUA

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Dancers perform during the closure of the first China Xinjiang InternationalFolk Dance Festival in Urumqi, capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur

Autonomous Region, on 18 June, 2008. —XINHUA

Iran urges oil exportingstates not to use US dollar TEHERAN, 19 June—

Iranian President Mah-moud Ahmadinejad onTuesday urged world oilexporting countries to findways to switch their oilrevenues from the USdollar to alternativecurrencies, the officialIRNA news agencyreported.

Ahmadinejad made theremarks in his speech atthe 29th Meeting of theCouncil of Ministers of

OPEC Fund for Inter-national Developmentwhich is underway inIsfahan, central Iran.

This was one ofsuggestions made by theIranian president to over-come the existing chall-enges facing thedeveloping countries,IRNA reported.

“Today, the experts ininternational economy andthe analysts of the oilmarket all agree that the

economic crisis in the UStogether with the fall in thevalue of dollar haveespecially affected thedevelopment of the poorand developing countries,”Ahmadinejad was quotedas saying.

The Iranian Presidentadded that the currentsituation had adverse effecton the oil exportingcountries economy.

Xinhua

Lee Myung-bak warns offalse information on InternetSEOUL, 19 June—South Korean President Lee

Myung-bak said Tuesday that the spread of “false andincorrect” information through the Internet and spamemail is threatening the people’s rational thinking andmutual trust.

Lee made the remarks in an address at the openingof the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of theInternet Economy in Seoul, Yonhap news agencyreported Tuesday.

Lee’s fledgling administration has been beleagueredby a spate of unconfirmed cyberspace rumoursassociating mad cow disease with the consumption ofAmerican beef. Lee has been mired in political turmoil,with his public approval ratings plunging below 20 percent, as thousands of opponents of his government'sdecision in mid-April to lift a ban on US beef importshave held daily candlelight protest rallies for nearly 40days, demanding a renegotiation of the beef deal.

Xinhua

Air Canada to cut jobsOTTAWA, 19 June—Air

Canada, Canada’s biggestcarrier, announced Tues-day it will cut 2,000 jobsand reduce capacity toovercome the difficultiescaused by high fuel prices.

Most of the job cuts areexpected to take effect 1November and will bespread across the country.Overall capacity will becut by 7 per cent in the lastthree months of this year

and the first quarter of2009.

Air Canada said fuel isits single biggest expense,accounting for more than30 per cent of its operatingexpenses. With fuel pricesmore than having doubledlast year, the companyexpects its total fuelcharge to be one billionCanadian dollars (onebillion US dollars) higherthis year than last year.

“Air Canada, like mostglobal airlines, needs toadapt its business andreduce flying that hasbecome unprofitable in thecurrent fuel environment.If fuel prices remain atcurrent levels, we cananticipate further capacityreductions,” said MontieBrewer, Air Canada’spresident and CEOBrewer said in a release.

Xinhua

Strikers take 36policemen

hostagein southern Peru

LIMA, 19 June—At least36 policemen were takenhostage on Monday inPeru’s southern provinceof Moquegua, where sincelast week residents havebeen protesting the unfairdistribution of miners’benefits, the NationalPolice of Peru (PNP) said.

Police fired tear gas todisperse the crowds, butwere beaten back andsurrounded by about20,000 protesters.

“The situation inMoquegua is out ofcontrol. We have to askthe police to retreat for awhile,” said General CesarJordan.

According to RadioProgrammes of Peru,Jordan was wounded andalso held as a hostage.

The protesters blockedaccess roads to TacnaProvince, demanding afair distribution of miners’benefits from copperdeposits.

Xinhua

At least 12 abducted in S Philippines MANILA, 19 June— At

least 12 teachers andstudents were abducted inthe southern Philippines byunidentified armed men,who stormed a localelementary school earlymorning Tuesday, localmedia reported.

The incident occurredshortly before 7 am local

time Tuesday (2300 GMTMonday) in Village SanRoque in the country’ssouthern province of Lanaodel Norte as the teachersand students were pre-paring for their classes, on-line news network In-quirer.net reported, citinga local military officer.Colonel Edwin Respicio,

commander of the Philip-pine Army’s 32nd InfantryBattalion, said that most ofthose taken away werefemale. “Male pupils wereleft behind as the armedmen fled with the victimson foot,” he said. Respiciosaid the military hasmounted a search andrescue operation.—Xinhua

Air Canadapassengerswait in line

to checkbaggage at

PearsonInternational

Airport inToronto, on

17 June,2008.

XINHUA

All items from Xinhua News Agency

A file photo showes

artisan miners stand at

the entrance to a gold

mine in early May in

Peru.—INTERNET

22 schools badly damagedin Japan’s quake-hit areas

TOKYO, 19 June — The June 14 strong earthquakehas badly damaged 22 of the 146 public elementaryand junior high schools in Iwate and Miyagi, KyodoNews reported on Wednesday, citing data jointlycompiled by local governments and the news agency.

In Iwate Prefecture, buildings of 14 public schoolssuffered collapses of ceilings and walls and in MiyagiPrefecture the quake inflicted similar damage oneight schools.

Had the disaster taken place on a normal weekdaywhen the classrooms are filled with pupils, thecasualties might have been much heavier, said thereport.

Education Ministry officials attributed thestructural damage to the aging of the school buildings,and detailed investigation will be conducted by theeducation ministry and local governments to pinpointthe causes. — Xinhua

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(from page 1)At the physic nut farm of Triangle Region

Command, they inspected nurturing of 70,000 physicnut saplings.

At the briefing hall of Wammai HighlandIntegrated Farm of the command, Lt-Col Aye Linreported on thriving 100 acres of physic nut plantations.The commander gave a supplementary report.

Later, Lt-Gen Kyaw Win, the commander andparty looked into thriving physic nut plantations.

MNA

Lt-Gen Kyaw Win attendsrainy season…

Storm-hit villages getpower tillers

LABUTTA, 19 June — AgriculturalMechanization Department has distributed powertillers to storm-hit villages in Labutta Township,Ayeyawady Division.

So far, 1,780 power tillers have been distributedto the villages. —MNA

Donors at home andabroad donate cash to

storm survivorsYANGON, 19 June — Donors at home and abroad

have donated cash to storm survivors through theFinancial Sub-committee and today’s donation reachedK 101,138,530, US $ 10,550 and 5,165 euros.

Chairman of the Financial Sub-committeeDeputy Minister for Finance and Revenue Col HlaThein Swe accepted the donation at the branch ofCentral Bank of Myanmar in Yankin Township.

MNA

A&I Minister receivesSingaporean Ambassador

YANGON, 19 June — Minister for Agricultureand Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo received SingaporeanAmbassador Mr Robert Chua Hian Kong at theIrrigation Department, here, on 17 June.

Mr Robert Chua Hian Kong is also an ASEANrepresentative to the Tripartite Core Group of MyanmarASEAN and the UN.

The meeting covered factors to provide suppliesfrom Singapore to the agricultural works to regeneratethe agricultural sector in storm-hit villages.

MNA

YANGON, 19 June—The 8th Asian-EuropeanFinance Ministers’ Meeting was held at InternationalConvention Centre on 15 and 16 June in Republic ofKorea and Myanmar delegation led by Minister forFinance and Revenue Maj-Gen Hla Tun attended themeeting.

Also present at the meeting were delegates to 43Asian-European countries, officials from AsiaDevelopment Bank, European Central Bank, EUCommission, IMF and guests.

The opening ceremony of the 8th Asian-European Finance Ministerial Meeting was held atTamna Hall of International Convention Centre on16 June.

Minister for Tactics and Finance Mr Man SooKang made an opening speech on the occasion.

President of Republic of Korea Mr Lee MyungBak made an introductory speech on the occasion. Hesaid that he expressed condolence on the losses anddamages due to the natural disasters in Myanmar andChina.

The meeting focused on prospects of global and

Myanmar delegation arrives back after attendingAsian-European Finance Ministers’ Meeting

regional economy and development of financialmatters. Next, the ministers exchanged views oncrucial matters.

On 15 June, the deputy ministers discussedimportant matters for the cooperation of the governmentand private sector while the ministers held talks onmaintenance of climate change and matters on marketoriented economy.

Minister Maj-Gen Hla Tun discussed relief andrehabilitation tasks for the storm-hit regions, possiblelosses and damages as a result of the weather changesand preparations for prevention against the naturaldisasters.

Next, Minister Maj-Gen Hla Tun attended dinnershosted by Republic of Korea on 15 and 16 June.Myanmar delegation led by Maj-Gen Hla Tun arrivedback in Nay Pyi Taw by air today.

Vice-Governor of Central Bank of Myanmar UMaung Maung Win and Director Daw Ohnmar Seinwho accompanied the minister arrived back on thesame flight.

MNA

Deputy Minister Col Hla Thein Swe acceptsUS $ 10,000 donated by Indonesia-ChinaEconomic Social & Cultural Cooperation

(AICESCC).—F & R

Maung Myanmar-6 Ship being loaded with construction materials to be transported to storm-hitareas.—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Hla Tun at Asian-European Finance Ministers’ Meeting in Republic ofKorea. — F & R

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Let’s nurture the sapling of democracy

The seven-step Road Map or Democracy Road Maphas completed its four steps making much headway. Inother words, it is marching towards the fifth step withmomentum. In the fourth step, the entire people wereable to successfully hold the National Convention, thewide and subtle work programme. In the nationalreferendum also, the constitution was approved by theentire people. We should recognize that they are indeedhistorical records as well as national victories for theState and the people.

All the national people want democracy. Since 1988when the single party system broke down, the peoplehave wanted democracy and market economy. That waswhy the existing government abolished the single partysystem and is heading for the multi-party democracy. Italso abolished socialist economic system and startedpractising market economy. To practise democracy, aconstitution is needed. Without a constitution, democracycannot be shaped. We can say that public approval of thenew constitution has opened the way to shapingdemocracy speedily. This is the true wish of the peopleand we should understand that.

There may be a question on my explanationsmentioned above. I would like to make a review of theacts of a party that is in total opposition of our seven-stepRoad Map. It has been known to all that NLD issuedspecial announcement No. 14 on 18 June 2008. At thesame time, groups of so-called veteran politicians,dancing to the tune of their master, issued theirdeclarations. As they are NLD followers, theirannouncements are not different from the NLD’s.

It was NLD that constantly opposed the existinggovernment and issued countless announcements. Ithas never been positive about everything thegovernment does. It always tried to exaggerate evena small weak point the government happened tomake. That party is always treating the rulinggovernment as an enemy taking advantage of thelatter’s kind patience and understanding.

Saying about NLD it seems it is endless. But I willsay it in brief. NLD criticized the National Conventionsaying it was a sham. And it created as if the basicprinciples and detailed basic principles laid down by theNC were only rubbish to be disposed of. Similarly, whenthe time came to hold the national referendum for theapproval of the constitution, NLD accused that thereferendum would not be fair and free and the peopleshould cast ‘no’ vote as the constitution was unilaterallydrawn by the military government.

However, today’s people know the fact. They areable to distinguish between right and wrong. They willaccept what is right but refuse what is wrong. Why didthe people accept the Tatmadaw government? Well, letme recount.

Since its assumption of State duties, the Tatmadawgovernment tried to ensure peace and stability of theState, built all-round development infrastructures acrossthe nation including border areas, constructed roads,bridges, dams, reservoirs, schools, hospitals and marketsto improve the socio-economy of the people. Varioussectors such as political, economic, social, educationand health affairs have improved more than ever.Moreover, with a view to ensuring the perpetuation ofthe Union, the government built national reconsolidation.These are the great victories of the Tatmadaw governmentand objective conditions.

Needless to say that everyone should know howhard the government tried to build nationalreconsolidation and ensure peace and stability andprosperity of the State and how much risk it had to take.Despite the opposition of internal axe-handles andpressure and economic sanctions of some foreign nations,the State hand in hand with the people and the Tatmadaw

Kyaw Min Lu (Shwepyitha)overcome all difficulties with might and main. We allpeople have understood that the fruitful results of todaycame not because of normal goodwill, unity and effort.

Therefore, realizing the genuine goodwill of theTatmadaw government, the people throughout the nationincluding rural and urban regions approved the constitutionin the national referendum. When nearly cent-per-cent ofthe people gave a green light to the constitution, NLDshockingly issued announcement No. 13 recently. Asbefore, it said that the referendum was not fair, that therewere force and power abuse, that authorities broke rulesof the referendum and the people were forced to cast ‘yes’vote, that the true wish of the people could not beexpressed and that thus, NLD opposed the constitution. Itmade groundless accusations. It seems that NLD tried toguard against the lightning with a toddy palm. It is alsolikely that the announcements of the groups of so-calledveteran politicians were the copies of the NLD’sannouncement demanding tripartite talks. Although theannouncement opposed the existing government, theNLD’s attempt amounts to insulting the people as theywere to make a final decision.

Without authentic support of the people, it wasimpossible to gain that percentage and results even ifcrooked and deceitful acts were made and authoritymisused. The people voted for the constitution not becauseof fear, ignorance or deception. Today’s people areknowledgeable enough, so such ways and means wouldnot work. In reality, the people are capable ofdistinguishing between right and wrong and betweengood and bad. So, they cast ‘yes’ vote, standing by the fairside. I would like to make a positive suggestion on behalfof the people that NLD accept the true facts and prevailingsituations and stop issuing announcements that cantarnish the image of the people. I would also like to callon the party to respect the desire of the people.

Again, it has issued its announcement No. 14. Theintroduction of the announcement is about the stormNargis. As usual, the announcement features repeateddemands, saying that the constitution (2008) is absolutelyunacceptable to NLD; and that so, it is required to holdtalks for reconciliation with political parties, ethnics, anddemocracy forces. It also calls for holding a hluttawsession as soon as possible according to the 1990 electionresults. It is very disappointing. Moreover, it derogatorilysays that the people are now poverty-stricken with a lowliving standard; and that inflation rate is very high and theprices of consumer goods are going up sharply.

It is easy to make accusations such as the people areimpoverished with a low living standard, and inflationrate is getting high. I would like to ask what NLD hasdone to deal with those situations and if it hascooperated with the government in nationaldevelopment tasks in the interests of the nation andthe people. What we people have realized is that NLDis just a destructive force that constantly destabilizesthe nation. It was very foolish of the NLD leader to laydown the policy of economic sanctions against themother country. NLD is a sort of organization that hastried to get the nation and the people into troubles. Itis common knowledge that the nation has been able toovercome the sanctions and showed resilience withself-reliant efforts in the natural disasters.

After the approval of the State constitution, boththose who support and those who oppose the governmentwill be vested with the rights to set up political parties, toorganize the people, to canvass for votes, and to stand forelection in accord with the law. These rights represent agiant step for the drive for introducing democracy inaccordance with the people’s desire. Soon, the peoplewill enjoy the rights to form political parties, to canvassfor votes, to take organizing measures and to stand forelection in accordance with the relevant laws. The parties

will stand for election in the multi-party democracygeneral elections due to be held in 2010. After beingelected by the votes cast by the people, a candidate willbecome a representative to a hluttaw (parliament). Then,representatives will be vested with the rights to holddiscussions about the State’s political, economic andsocial affairs at the hluttaw. So, these rights are nowwithin the reach of the people.

If one ignores those opportunities and sticks towrong ways, one will miss those unique opportunities.If one clings on to the demands for implementationof the 1990 election results, tripartite talks, andestablishment of a parallel government, one’s effortswill never bring fruitful results to any of the people.They may pose a great threat to the entire people bymisfortune. Here, I want to warn those who always givelip services only and talk big that there are severalsayings such as “Talking a lot, some words may discloseinnate nature of the speaker”, “A bad singer sings likesquawking” and “One suffers because of one’s ownboastfulness”.

I would like to hold some discussions about the1990 election results. In the run-up to the 1990 election,political parties were mushrooming. The number ofpolitical parties stood at 235, and that implied that thepeople were not mature enough in the party politicswithout any political experiences. How could the peopleknow at that time that if the number of political partieswas that high in a small area and a low population of thenation, democracy to be introduced by the parties wouldbring many consequences and few fruitful results?

At that time, 93 of the parties stood for election. Ofthe 93 parties, NLD won the majority of the seats in themulti-party democracy general election. However, thenumber of the seats it had won was not as many as thatto represent the people. At that time, the nation’spopulation was 42 million, over 20 million of whichwere eligible to enjoy the rights to vote. NLD won thevotes of over seven million voters, accounting for onlyone-third of the voters. The National Unity Party (NUP)won nearly three million votes, accounting for one-fifthof the voters. Frankly speaking, any parties includingNLD did not win the public support or the support ofabove 50 per cent of the voters. NLD won seven in every20 voters. So, it was clear that it did not represent half thenumber of the total voters. In other words, any partiesdid not win the mandate of the people. However, it wasvery brazen of NLD to claim itself to have won themandate of the people.

NLD and NUP won the support of nearly half thetotal number of the voters, but there was a great gap ofseats between the two parties. There was not a great gapof public support between the two parties, howeverNLD won many more seats due to the election system.

Then, NLD became arrogant and consideredwrongly. It is nearly two decades NLD has cried outanti-government slogans such as “defy all orders as aduty”, mottos designed to incite riots such as “the bravenever die”, given ultimatum of “which way thegovernment will choose—dialogue or utter devastation”,dissuaded foreign tourists from visiting Myanmar,demanded international community for economicsanctions against Myanmar at the expense of the nationand the people, and exercised the policy of confrontation,utter devastation, and sanctions against the nation in allsectors. It has become crystal clear whether the policyNLD practices is right or wrong. What have NLD and itsfollowers become now? What have they done in theinterests of the nation and the people? Now, NLD hasrealized what the people’s attitude towards it is, becauseeven bystanders have understood well about that.

(To be continued)Translation: TS + MS

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YANGON, 19 June—Group-1 comprisingmembers of Kayin State,Rakhine State, Shan State(East) and AyeyawadyDivision USDAs aretaking part inreconstruction tasks basedat Hlinephone village inLabutta Township.

Group-2 comprisingmembers of Chin State,Sagaing, Ayeyawady andYangon Division USDAsare also participating inreconstruction tasks basedat Pyinsalu village in thetownship.

The group-2 carriedout construction of twofive-unit latrines, newdrinking water lakes andremoval of fallen trees in

USDA members perform reconstructiontasks in Ayeyawady Division

the wards starting from 13June.

Similarly, Group-3consisting members ofKachin State, Magway,Yangon and AyeyawadyDivision USDAs aregiving helping hands inreconstruction tasks based

at Hsincheya village inthe township.

The group performedrepair of lakes in Hsincheya,Kinkan and Dhana villagesand Thabyaekon village-tract, sanitation, spraying ofinsecticide and removal ofdebris starting from 15 June.

A medical teamaccompanying the groupgave medical treatment tothe patients and thechildren under five daily.

Likewise, Group-4comprising members ofMon State and Shan State(North), Bago Division(East) and AyeyawadyDivision USDAs arehelping in reconstructiontasks based on Saluseikvillage in the township.

The group built abridge for Saluseik villageat drinking water lake andcarried out sanitation,removal of debris near thelake and in the village,repair of desks for villageBasic Education MiddleSchool, spraying of

insecticide and broad-casting lime powderstarting from 13 June. Amedical team accom-panied the group andprovided health care in thevillage.

Group-5 consistingmembers of Taninthayi

Division and Bago (West)Division and Shan State(South) and AyeyawadyDivision USDAs areparticipating inreconstruction tasks basedat Kyeinchaung village inBogale Township. Thegroup carried out layingof brick on the village

road, sanitation,distribution of reliefsupplies, repair of housesand removal of fallen treesstarting from 12 June.

Similarly, Group 6comprising members ofKayah State andMandalay, Yangon andAyeyawady Division

USDAs are taking part inreconstruction tasks basedon Setsan village in thetownship.

The group performedrepair of lake, removal ofdebris and spraying ofinsecticide in the villagestarting from 14 June.

MNA

USDA members of Group-3 volunteer for cleaning a lake in Hsincheya Village in LabuttaTownship. — MNA

USDA members of Group-2 provide medical care to storm survivors inPyinsalu, Labutta Township. — MNA

USDA members of Group-6 carry out sanitation tasks in Setsan Villagein Bogale Township.—MNA

USDA members of Group-5 reconstruct homes in Kyeinchaung Villagein Bogale Township.—MNA

USDA members of Group-4 fumigate at Saluseik Village in LabuttaTownship. — MNA

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Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence inspects removal of trees in South Okkalapa Township. — MNA

Mr Kirill Babaev of Altimo Foundation presents medicines andequipment worth US$ 30,000 to Deputy Minister Dr Mya Oo.—HEALTH

Traditional medicine practitioners provide health care to storm survivors on a floating hospitalin Ngapudaw Township. — MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe inspects clean-up work in Yangon City

YANGON, 19 June — Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence, accompanied by Chairman ofYangon Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of Yangon Command Maj-Gen Hla HtayWin and officials inspected clean-up of fallen treesand rubbish in the State and private owned compounds,here this morning.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe and party inspected removalof fallen trees by members of Tatmadaw of No. 11 LIDin front of International Business Centre on PyayRoad and gave instruction to the officials.

Next, they proceeded to Myoma Sports Groundon U Wisara Road and viewed clean-up work in thesports ground where the rubbish had piled up.

After that, Lt-Gen Myint Swe and partyinspected growing of fallen trees and removal ofwithered trees in a State-owned compound onShwedagon Pagoda Road.

At Yangon Zoological Gardens, Lt-Gen MyintSwe heard reports on damages to the gardens, repair ofbrick walls and lamp-posts, water supply andreconstruction of buildings and called for health care of

animals in the gardens.Lt-Gen Myint Swe and party later inspected the

gardens around.At Maternal and Children Hospital of South-

Okkalapa Township, Lt-Gen Myint Swe called forfull-time supply of power to the hospital. He inspectedremoval of fallen trees and rubbish in the compoundand along Myitta Road carried out by members ofTatmadaw of Indaing Station and personnel of YCDCand left instructions there.

MNA

Altimo Foundation ofRussia donates medicine,

hospital equipmentYANGON, 19 June —

The Altimo Foundationof Russia donatedmedicine and hospitalequipment to be used athealth care services instorm-hit Yangon andAyeyawady Divisions atYangon People’sHospital today.

After an introductoryspeech of RussianAmbassador Dr MikhailMgeladze, Senior VicePresident Mr Kirill

Babaev of AltimoFoundation explained thepurpose of donation.

Later, Senior VicePresident Mr Kirill Babaevand Senior Advisor toCEO Mr Dmirty Andreevhanded over the medicineand hospital equipment toDeputy Minister forHealth Dr Mya Oo whoexpressed words of thanksafterwards. The donationwas worth of US $ 30,000.

NLM

Relief supplies of WFP arriveYANGON, 19 June —

Countries through the worlddonate supplies to storm-

hit regions. Relief suppliesweighing 46.05 tonsdonated by Thai-based

WFP arrived at YangonInternational Airport, here,today. — MNA

Traditional medicine practitionersgive treatment

YANGON, 19 June —Under the arrangement ofthe Ministry of Health andwith the supervision ofTraditional MedicineDepartment, a mobiletraditional medicinepractitioners team in thefloating hospital Tet Nay

Win Tun on 14 Juneprovided health careservices to 1,919 stormvictims at Wetkon,Hsakhat, Kongyi,Aukpyun, Thingangonand Taunggale villages ofNgapudaw Townshipwith the use of traditional

medicine and 501 patientswith the use of westernmedicine.

They gave treatmentto 1,159 patients from 20villages of NgapudawTownship from 10 to 15June.

MNA

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Changing scene of Pyinsalu in Labutta TownshipArticle: Myo Nyunt (Kyemon)Photos: Htay Aung (Kyemon)

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Pathein

relief

camp.

Pyinsalu People’s Hospital of Ayeyawady Division seen after beingrepaired.

Relief supplies being unloaded from a ship at the jetty in Pyinsalu.

Pyinsalu is a townincluded in LabuttaTownship of Myaung-mya District, Aye-yawady Division, and itis located next to the sea.We heard that Pyinsaluwas damaged in thecyclonic storm on 2 May.To cover the news onrelief and rehabilitationtasks being undertakenby the government, thepeople and theTatmadaw joining handswith the global countries,International Non-Governmental Organi-zations, NGOs and

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national entrepreneurs,we, the media group, madea trip in a ship carryingrelief supplies provided byMax Myanmar Companyon 9 June.

At about 11 am, wearrived at Pyinsalu.Together with ManagingDirector U Zaw Zaw ofMax Myanmar Company,we looked intoreconstruction tasks,providing of health careservices at Pyinsalu reliefcamp, requirements of therelief camp, preparationsfor reconstruction of basiceducation schools, repair

of monasteries andconditions of the town.

At the jetty, we sawthat various goods forrelief and rehabilitationtasks were being unloadedfrom the vessel. Thesegoods were various kindsof foodstuffs, equipmentand rolls of tarpaulinsdonated by well-wishersat home and from abroadand a lot of relief goodsincluding blankets andaluminum pots donated byMax Myanmar Company.We also witnessed theequipment to be used in

purifying water.On arrival at the place

where the tarpaulin tentswere erected in rows, wemade interviews withstorm victims.

First, we made aninterview with U TunThein, Daw Hla Yi andson Maung Thein Htwewho arrived back from therelief camp inMyaungmya. They saidthat they are working infishery sector. On 25 May,they arrived back inPyinsalu fromMyaungmya relief campof their own accord, they

said. They added that therelief camp provided themwith many relief itemsincluding rice, edible oil,various kinds offoodstuffs, blankets andmosquito nets. Theauthorities transportedthem together with therelief aid fromMyaungmya to Labutta bycar and then to Pyinsaluby boat, they said.

They continued to saythat on arrival at Pyinsalu,they reported to Pyinsalurelief camp. They saidofficials set up a tent at a

without giving up in life.And, he said that he willtake part in theconstruction tasks in thenative region as much ashe can.

We think that as ayoung man, he is keen totake part in the collectiveefforts for regionaldevelopment. Beforedeparture from Pyinsalu,we wished him successin shaping his future.

Translation: TTAMyanma Alin:

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site of their choice. Inaddition, bottles ofpurified drinking waterwere given to them, they

said. They added thatservicemen of theDirectorate of MedicalService of the Ministry ofDefence and staff of theHealth Departmentprovided medical check-up to them. They

explained that they werepleased with receivingmuch assistance on theirarrival at the native region,and they pledged to takepart in reconstruction ofPyinsalu as much as theycan.

We made anotherinterview at another tent.In the interview, U SoeNaing of the tent said thathe came back from therelief camp in Pathein.After the storm, hereceived medicaltreatment at PatheinHospital. Afterwards, he

went back to his nativeplace of his own wishafter recovery. As afisherman, he willcontinue his work. Hepledged that he will tryhis best for achievingmore and more success

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A radiologist studies an image from a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)scanner at the Ambroise Pare hospital in Marseille, southern France. USscientists have developed a way to add colour to medical scans known asMRIs, potentially enhancing the information and sensitivity the images

provide, they said on 19 June, 2008.—INTERNET

Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy’s “Flower Rock 2.0” are displayed at theInternational Tokyo Toy Show in Tokyo on 19 June, 2008. The product,

which changes its LED colours and dances to music and surrounding sounds,will go on sale in Japan late October for 5,800 yen.—INTERNET

Tourists hold turtles before releasing them to the sea at the Kuta beach inDenpasar on the island resort of Bali.—INTERNET

UNITED NATIONS, 19June — The UN SecurityCouncil on Monday strong-ly condemned the recentattacks carried out byChadian rebel groups.

“The Security Councilcondemns in the strongestterms the attacks con-ducted by Chadian armedgroups since 11 June,2008,” the 15-memberbody said in a presidentialstatement adopted unani-mously.

The Council “condemnsall attempts at destabili-

UNSC condemns attacksby Chadian rebel groups

zation by force, andreiterates its commitmentto the sovereignty, unity,territorial integrity andpolitical independence ofChad,” the statement said.

The Council demandedthat the “armed groupscease violence immedi-ately”, it said.

The Council alsoexpressed “deep concernat the direct threat theactivity of armed groupspose for the safety of thecivilian population and theconduct of humanitarian

operations, and urges allparties to comply fullywith their obligationsunder international hu-manitarian law”.

“The Security Councilstands ready to considerappropriate measuresagainst those groups andindividuals who consti-tute a threat to the stabilityof the region or violateinternational humani-tarian law,” it added.

MNA/Xinhua

CANBERRA, 19 June— Australia’s Prime MinisterKevin Rudd faces the biggest test of his six-monthLabour government with a battle this week to get keybudget measures past a hostile Upper House controlledby rival conservatives.

Rudd, a bookish former diplomat who in Septemberended nearly 12 years of conservative rule, has promiseda 21.7-billion-Australian-dollar (20.4-billion-US-dollar) surplus to recast Labour as responsible economicmanagers in the minds of still-wary voters.

But his opponents, who control the Upper HouseSenate for another fortnight before election changesshift power to a potpourri of green and family-valuessenators, are set on delaying key measures by sendingthem to a review committee.

“The Liberal Party is a clear threat to interest rates.In the Senate, we have a real fight against the Liberalsto ensure that our budget is carried,” Rudd’stroubleshooter, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard,told Labour lawmakers on Tuesday.

The conservatives are promising to block budgetlaws which increase sales taxes on luxury cars, expectedto bring in 555 million Australian dollars over fouryears, and a new tax on previously exempt gascondensate which has angered big resource companies.

MNA/Reuters

BANGKOK, 19 June — Thailand’s Public WarehouseOrganization (PWO) and the Bank for Agriculture andAgricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) will establish morerice mortgage centres countrywide to facilitate farmers,the state-run Thai News Agency reported on Monday.

Senior officials of the PWO on Monday metYanyong Puangraj, director-general of Internal TradeDepartment, to assess the government-sponsored rice-pledging programme, which began nationwide Sundayaiming to shore up falling paddy prices and containingprotests by farmers.

However, only six centres were established in atotal of five provinces and only 60 farmers mortgagedrice amounting 1,000 tons in the program on Sunday.Therefore, the government plans to open more centresto meet the expectation of buying several million tonsof paddy rice from farmers, the report said.

MNA/Xinhua

BEIJING, 19 June —China’s digital cable tele-vision population dou-bled in 2007, as savvydomestic consumersembraced more forms of“new media,” accordingto a report by the coun-try’s media watchdog.

Domestic digital cableTV subscribers reached26.86 million in 2007,double that of theprevious year, accordingto the State Admini-stration of Radio, Filmand Television (SARFT)report. It attributed thegrowth to the govern-ment’s plan to digitalizethe country’s TV indu-stry.

To date, 53 Chinesecities had establisheddigital cable TV systems.

MNA/Xinhua

MALABO, 19 June—Equatorial Guinea’s stateprosecutor asked a courton Tuesday to sentenceBritish mercenary SimonMann to nearly 32 yearsin prison for his role in afailed 2004 coup.

On the first day ofMann’s trial in Malabo,the case presented by theWest African state’spublic prosecutor Jose OloObono also named MarkThatcher, son of formerBritish prime ministerMargaret Thatcher, as oneof the organizers of theabortive plot to topplePresident Teodoro ObiangNguema Mbasogo.

Mann, an Eton-edu-cated former specialforces officer, wasarrested in Zimbabwe in2004 with 70 mercenariesen route to EquatorialGuinea. He was extradited

Thailand to open more ricemortgage centres

Rudd faces Upper Housebudget battle

Eq Guinea seeks 32 yrs jail for UK mercenaryfrom Zimbabwe toMalabo earlier this year.

He said in a TVinterview broadcast inBritain in March that heplotted to oust Obiang. Heis charged with crimes

against the head of state,crimes against the govern-ment and crimes againstthe peace and independ-ence of the EquatorialGuinean state.

MNA/Reuters

China’s digitalcable TV

subscribers top26 mln by 2007

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Centre for Human Resource DevelopmentYangon University of Foreign Languages

Notice1. The Centre for Human Resource Development (Yangon

University of Foreign Languages) in collaboration withTOPA 21st Century Language School, Tokyo, Japan willopen the Japanese Language Course (Advanced Level)No.3-(a) Instructors: Native Speaker Instructors from TOPA 21st

Century Language School.(b) Type and Duration of Course: Part-time Course, 10

weeks, 30 hours(c) Commencement of Course: 1 July, 2008(d) Course Hours: 15:30-17:00 hours (Every Tuesday and

Thursday)(e) Education qualification : Matriculation passed(f) Applicants must also have already passed the Japanese

Language qualifying exam grade (2) or have a similar qualification.2. Enquiry can be done at the Human Resource Develop-

ment Centre (YUFL) during office hours.Ph- 514371 (Ext-202)


Invitation for Application toAttend Foreign Language Courses

The Centre for Human Resource Development (YangonUniversity of Foreign Languages) will open evening courseson Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Thai,French (Translation and Interpretation) and Russian (Trans-lation and Interpretation).Commencing date of course : 30-6-2008Commencing date for submissionof applications : 23-6-2008Closing date for applications : 30-6-2008

(For Englishlanguage the day onwhich the targetednumber of applicantsis reached)

Application to be submitted to : Yangon Universityof Foreign Languages

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Notice1. The Centre for Human Resource Development

(Yangon University of Foreign Languages) in collabo-ration with TOPA, 21st Century Language School,Tokyo, Japan will open the Japanese Language Spe-cial Basic Course No.37(a) Course instructors: Teachers from TOPA 21st

Century Language School, Tokyo, Japan(b) Duration of full-time Course :10 weeks, 200 hours(c) Commencement of Course: 1 July, 2008(d) Education qualification: Matriculation passed2. For further information, please contact the Centre

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Tender forms and documents are available at theMechanical Engineering Department, Seik KanTownship, Myanma Port Authority, Starting from24-6-2008 during office hours. (Closing date & Time23-7-2008 & 14:00hrs)

For further details, please contact telephone number01-296880, 01-295176 and 01-297649.

Deputy General Manager (Mechanical)Myanma Port Authority

450 kilos ofheroin seized

in Netherlands BRUSSELS, 19 June—

The Dutch authoritieshave seized more than 450kilos of heroin, one of thelargest drug haulsintercepted in WesternEurope, the Dutch PublicProsecution Service (OM)said on Monday.

The drug, which washidden in large batteriesfrom Turkey, has anestimated street value of11.5 million euros, the OMsaid on its website. Dutch,German and Romanianauthorities were involvedin the investigation.

Two suspects werearrested last Wednesdaywhen the drug wasintercepted in the Dutchcity of Tilburg. The twomen, aged 38 and 39, comefrom the cities ofEindhoven and Almere,the OM said.

MNA/Xinhua

Turkey seizes 41 kilos of heroin atborder with Bulgaria

ANKARA, 19 June—Turkish customs police seized 41kilos of heroin at Turkey’s border with Bulgaria onMonday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.The police found the drugs stashed in a car when it triedto pass the Kapikule border gate in northwestern provinceof Edirne to Bulgaria, said the report.

The heroin hid under the tank of the car was foundby the help of a sniffer dog, it said, adding that theBulgarian driver was arrested for questioning.

MNA/Xinhua

Zimbabweans awaitrepatriation from S Africa

Qatar eyes law toprotect rights of maidsDUBAI, 19 June—

Qatar’s advisory councilhas approved a draft lawthat seeks to protect therights of migrant domesticworkers and improve theirworking conditions, anewspaper reported onTuesday.

The 26-article law willnow go to Qatar’s rulerSheikh Hamad bin Khalifaal-Thani for finalapproval, the Gulf Timesdaily reported after anAdvisory Council meetingon Monday. The councilis like a parliament but

cannot legislate. Women from South

Asian countries, includingSri Lanka, Indonesia andthe Philippines work asmaids and nannies forfamilies across the Gulfregion.

Under the draft law inQatar, domestic workerswould be able to takedisputes to a newdepartment set up in theMinistry of Labour andSocial Affairs.

Employers would haveto pay all expenses relatedto recruiting maids,including visa fees,without deducting theexpenses from theemployee’s salary,according to the draft law.

Employers face im-prisonment and fines ofup to 10,000 Qatar riyals(2,747 US dollars) forviolating the law, the papersaid.

Asian workers fill allsorts of low-paid con-struction, domestic, retail,manufacturing and agri-cultural jobs across theworld’s biggest oil-exporting region.

MNA/Reuters

HARARE, 19 June — Atleast 2,200 Zimbabweansaffected by anti-migrantviolence in South Africalast month are awaitingState assistance to returnhome, a senior Govern-ment official has said.

Secretary for ForeignAffairs Joey Bimha saidthe government wouldcontinue assisting Zim-babweans affected by thexenophobic attacks untilall citizens who requirehelp have returned home,The Herald reported onTuesday.

In a statement onMonday, Bimha said thegovernment has so farassisted 575 citizens underthe first phase of therepatriation programme,which started early thismonth. “Government willalso continue to providesuch assistance until all

our nationals who needassistance are repatriatedback home. Presently, it isestimated that in CapeTown and Durban, thereare at least 2,200 peopleawaiting voluntaryrepatriation.”

MNA/Xinhua

Two Czechs die in planecrash

PRAGUE, 19 June—A small ultra-light plane crashednear the Czech village of Krasno, west of the country,claiming the lives of its two-man crew, local emergencyservice spokesman Lukas Hutta said on Tuesday.

Two men, aged 52 and 54, perished in the cockpit,the Czech news agency CTK quoted Hutta as saying.

The plane collapsed a few tens of metres from therunway into deep grass. The fall and fire entirelydestroyed it, he added.

The plane flew over the airport and suddenly crashedto the ground and started burning, eye-witnesses said.

“The witnesses called in the police. The patrol triedto extinguish the fire, but the plane burnt down. Thefire was only put up by firemen,” local policespokeswoman Andrea Kavova said.—MNA/Xinhua

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A file photo shows a worker makes Zongzi (rice dumplings), a traditionalChinese dish made from rice wrapped in bamboo leaves, at a market in

Yiliang County of Kunming, Yunnan Province.—INTERNET

A Christie’s specialist holds a life jacket from the Titanic next to the model ofthe ship at Christie’s auction house in New York on 18 June, 2008. The

unused life jacket from the doomed Titanic ship will go under the hammerlater this month in New York, Christie’s auction house. —INTERNET

World better equipped tofight flu pandemic

UNITED NATIONS, 19June — World readinessfor an influenza pandemichas improved after an“extraordinary globalresponse” to the bird fluthreat of recent years, thetop UN official dealingwith the disease said onTuesday.

But David Nabarro, theworld body's influenzacoordinator, said the riskof a pandemic remained,should the bird flu virus

mutate into a form that iseasily transmitted betweenhumans.

The highly pathogenicH5N1 avian influenzastrain has caused the deathor destruction of anestimated 300 millionbirds since it resurfaced inAsia in 2003. While H5N1rarely infects people, ithas killed 241 out of 383infected in 15 countries.

Worldwide concernabout the disease mounted

in 2005 as cases werefound in Europe, theMiddle East and Africa.

Nabarro told a UNnews conference that“there has been anextraordinary globalresponse to ... the spreadof the virus ... that hasmeant that now thecontinuous transmissionof this virus is onlyoccurring in four, perhapsfive countries”.

MNA/Reuters

Militants release Philippinejournalists

Red wine’s resveratrol may help battle obesity WASHINGTON, 19 June

— Resveratrol, a com-pound present in grapesand red wine, reduces thenumber of fat cells andmay one day be used totreat or prevent obesity,

according to a new studypublished Monday at theannual meeting of USEndocrine Society.

Past research has foundthat resveratrol protectedlaboratory mice that were

fed a high-calorie dietfrom the health problemsof obesity, by mimickingthe effects of calorierestriction. Researchers atthe University of Ulm inGermany wanted to knowif resveratrol could mimicthe effects of calorierestriction in human fatcells by changing their sizeor function.

The German team useda strain of human fat cellprecursors, called preadi-pocytes. In the body, thesecells develop into maturefat cells, according to thestudy’s lead authorPamela Fischer-Poso-vszky.

In the cell-based study,they found that resveratrolinhibited the pre-fat cellsfrom increasing andprevented them fromconverting into mature fatcells. Also, resveratrolhindered fat storage.

MNA/Xinhua

Shanghai reports first child death of HFMD SHANGHAI,19 June —

Shanghai Health Bureauon Tuesday confirmed thecity's first child death ofhand-foot-mouth disease(HFMD).

The two-year-old boywas sent to the ShanghaiPublic Health ClinicCentre for treatment onthe evening of 14 May,where he was diagnosedas having HFMD.

Emergency treatmentfailed and he died a fewhours later, according tothe bureau.

The child, a native innorth China’s HenanProvince, lived with hisfamily in Songjiang

District of Shanghai, saida bureau statement.

Medical experts werestill studying the case.

Shanghai reported10,340 HFMD cases in thefirst five months. The cityis not on the HealthMinistry's list of theregions worst hit by theepidemic.

The ministry reportedearlier last week that therewere more than 176,000HFMD cases reportednationwide last month.Daily reported casesdeclined from 11,501 atthe peak on 14 May to3,922 on 5 June.

Central Anhui

Province, which firstreported the outbreak ofHFMD, had 10,700 casesin May including fourdeaths. — MNA/Xinhua

MANILA, 19 June — Islamic militants released twoPhilippine journalists and their guide after holdingthem for more than a week on a remote southern island,police and the journalists’ employer said on Wednesday.Those released by the Abu Sayyaf group were Ces Drilon— one of the country’s best known television journalists— cameraman Jimmy Encarnacion and a professor,Octavio Dinampo, who was acting as their guide whenthey were abducted on 8 June.

Another cameraman, Angelo Valderama, who waskidnapped with the group, was released last week.“Ces, Jimmy, and Angelo are finally all free,” ABS-CBN, the Philippines’ largest TV network, said in astatement.“We cannot wait to bring them home.”

MNA/Reuters

CANBERRA, 19 June— Australia said on Tuesday ithad approved the first locally made vaccine to protecthumans from future bird flu, giving the nod to Panvaxmanufactured by CSL.

“The vaccine, Panvax, protects humans against theH5N1 influenza virus, which has been responsible foroutbreaks of bird flu in Asia, the Middle East, Europeand Africa,” Health Minister Nicola Roxon said in astatement.

Experts fear the H5N1 virus, which has led to theslaughter of many poultry populations worldwide,could mutate into a form easily spread among peopleand spark a pandemic. The virus has killed 241 peoplein a dozen countries since 2003.

Roxon said Panvax would provide Australianswith safe, effective coverage against being infected bya human strain of avian influenza, and was developedwith government backing.

Three randomised, double-blind clinical studieswere conducted to assess the safety of the vaccine inadults aged 18-64, and older adults aged 65 years andover, she said.

MNA/Reuters

Wham-O intern Li-Hsuan Lu hula hoops inEmeryville, Calif, on 18 June, 2008.The hula

hoop marks its 50th anniversary this week.INTERNET

Australia approveslocal-made bird flu

vaccine

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S P O R T S

(19 June 2008)(Quarterfinal)

Germany 3 - 2 Portugal

Davenport pulls out of East-bourne with knee injury

LONDON, 19 June — Former Wimbledon championLindsay Davenport withdrew from the EastbourneInternational on Tuesday with a knee injury.

The injury would have raised doubts about herparticipation in Wimbledon, which begins on Mon-day, as she has now not played competitively sinceApril.

The 31-year-old American, who won Wimbledonin 1999 and Eastbourne in 2001, also withdrew fromthe French Open because of personal reasons.

Davenport was set to face Virginie Razzano in thefirst round in Eastbourne but the Frenchwoman insteadfaced Kaia Kanepi of Estonia, winning 6-3, 6-4.

Earlier in the day, seventh seed Nicole Vaidisovaof the Czech Republic was beaten 6-2, 6-4 by OlgaGovortsova of Belarus.

MNA/Reuters

Turkish soccer team awardedbonus

ANKARA, 19 June — Players of the Turkish nationalsoccer team will receive a bonus of 300,000 newTurkish liras (about 242,000 US dollars) after advanc-ing to the quarterfinals of the Euro 2008 soccerchampionships.

The semi-official Anatolia news agency reportedon Tuesday that Turkey will play against Croatia in thequarterfinals on Friday and the game will kick off at21:45 Turkish local time (GMT 1845).

Following Portugal, Turkey finished second in theGroup A, rallying to beat co-hosts Switzerland 2-1 andthe Czech Republic 3-2 after losing 2-0 to Portugal intheir first game. — MNA/Xinhua

INNSBRUCK , 19 June — Russia produced their bestperformance of Euro 2008 when it was most needed onWednesday, beating Sweden 2-0 to snatch secondplace in Group D to earn a quarterfinal meeting withNetherlands.

Guus Hiddink’s side had to win to progress while adraw would have been enough for the Scandinaviansto advance.

But there was only one team in it as brilliantly-worked goals by Roman Pavlyuchenko and AndreiArshavin sent Russia into the knockout phase of amajor tournament for the first time since, as the SovietUnion, they lost to the Dutch in the Euro 1988 final.

“We’re very proud of what the team have achievedin this tournament,” Hiddink told reporters. “Butthat’s not enough.

“The next goal are the Dutch (in Basel on Satur-day). Our problem is we only have two days torecuperate.

“I don’t have 20 A-players. Holland used their B-team last night (against Romania). Their A-team havehad five or six days to recover.” —MNA/Reuters

SALZBURG, 19 June — With a perfect record of threewins out of three in their group matches, Spain believethey have demonstrated the winning mentality thatwill help them overcome world champions Italy in thequarterfinals.

“Italy are going to be very difficult opponents butat this stage every team is difficult,” Spain coach LuisAragones said after his team’s 2-1 win over Greece intheir final group game.

“This side have learnt a lot. We were a young sideat the World Cup and now we know what thesecompetitions are like. I think we can carry on.

“This part is over and now we are on to the reallyimpressive bit. We hope that the sort of mentality wehave shown up until now will help us through,” headded.

Spain joined Croatia and Netherlands as the onlyteams with 100 per cent records at Euro 2008 aftertheir reserves came from a goal down to beat 2004champions Greece in Salzburg. The Greeks scoredtheir first goal of the tournament when striker AngelosHaristeas, who got the winner in the final against hostsPortugal four years ago, put them in front with a headerat the end of the first half. —MNA/Reuters

VEVEY (Switzerland), 19 June— France playmakerFranck Ribery will be out for seven to eight weeks afterspraining his left ankle and hurting his knee in the 2-0defeat by Italy at Euro 2008.

“He has a nasty ankle sprain,” France coachRaymond Domenech told a news conference onWednesday. “He’s walking on crutches, he can’t puthis foot down.” —MNA/Reuters

LAPAZ, 19 June— Bolivia ended Paraguay’s un-beaten run in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers on Wednes-day, beating the South American group leaders 4-2.

Striker Joaquin Botero scored twice to help Boliviato their first win in the group and move them offbottom spot.

Ronaldo Garcia and Marcelo Martins also scoredon a nightmare afternoon for Paraguay goalkeeperAldo Bobadilla, standing in for the injured JustoVillar.

Roque Santa Cruz and Nelson Haedo Valdez re-plied for Paraguay, who beat Brazil 2-0 three daysearlier but struggled with the high altitude at 3,600metres above sea level and a shocking pitch.

Bolivia have four points from six games in the 10-team group, one more than table-propping Peru, whileParaguay have 13.

MNA/Reuters

Red hot Russia prove toostrong for Sweden

BASEL, 19 June — Turkey goalkeeper VolkanDemirel has been banned for two matches and willmiss their Euro 2008 quarter-final against Croatia anda possible semifinal, tournament organizers UEFAsaid on Wednesday.

Volkan was red carded by Swedish referee PeterFrojdfeldt in stoppage time in Turkey’s dramatic 3-2Group A victory over Czech Republic on Sunday afterhe pushed striker Jan Koller to the ground in an off-the-ball incident.

UEFA said the Turkish soccer federation had alsobeen fined 44,000 Swiss francs (42,150 US dollars)due to the “improper conduct of supporters, playersand officials” during and after the Czech Republicmatch. Later on Wednesday UEFA said in a statement:“The Turkish soccer federation has lodged an appealagainst the ban imposed on Volkan Demirel and thefine imposed on the federation. No date has been setyet for the appeal.”

Turkey coach Fatih Terim said earlier this week that2002 World Cup keeper Rustu Recber would takeVolkan’s place against Croatia in Vienna on Friday.

Turkish transgressions included Volkan sitting onthe bench after his dismissal when he should have leftthe technical area, about 25 unaccredited people presentin the Turkey dressing room after the match and somefans trying to reach the pitch. —MNA/Reuters

Spain show winning mentalitywith comeback victory

Bolivia end Paraguay’s unbeatenrun in qualifiers

Turkey keeper Volkanbanned for two

matches

Germany’s Miroslav Klose, left, scores his side’s2nd goal past Portugal’s Ricardo,rear right, andCristiano Ronaldo during the quarterfinal match

between Portugal and Germany in Basel,Switzerland, on 19 June, 2008, at the Euro 2008European Soccer Championships in Austria and

Switzerland.—INTERNET

Ribery out for at leastseven weeks

Germany’s Michael Ballack, left, and Portugal’sDeco challenge for the ball during the quarterfi-

nal match between Portugal and Germany inBasel, Switzerland, on 19 June, 2008, at the Euro2008 European Soccer Championships in Austria

and Switzerland.—INTERNET

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudy inKayah State, lower Sagaing and Magway Divisions, rainor thundershowers have been isolated in Mandalay Divi-sion, fairly widespread in Shan and Rakhine State, Bago,Yangon and Taninthayi Divisions and widespread in theremaining areas with isolated heavyfall in Kachin, Rakhineand Kayin States, Yangon Division. The noteworthyamounts of rainfall recorded were Nay Pyi Taw (0.51)inch, Khayan (4.53) inches, Kawike (3.90) inches, Myitkyina(3.66) inches, Maungdaw (3.07) inches, Kyauktaw (2.64)inches, Thaton (2.56) inches, Bago (2.40) inches, Yangon(Kaba-Aye) (1.62) inches, Hpa-an (1.42) inches andPinlaung (1.26) inches.

Maximum temperature on 18-6-2008 was 91ºF. Mini-mum temperature on 19-6-2008 was 71ºF. Relative humid-ity at (09:30) hours MST on 19-6-2008 was 82%. Totalsunshine hours on 18-6-2008 was (2.2) hours (approx).

Rainfall on 19-6-2008 was (0.75) inch at Mingaladon,( 1.62) inches at Kaba-Aye and ( 0.16) inch at CentralYangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was (36.77) inchesat Mingaladon, (45.00) inches at Kaba-Aye and (56.30)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph from Southwest at (14:30) hoursMST on 18-6-2008.

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

Forecast valid until evening 20-6-2008: Rain willbe isolated in Kayah State, lower Sagaing and MagwayDivisions, scattered in Shan State, Mandalay andAyeyawady Divisions, fairly widespread in Rakhine State,Bago and Yangon Divisions and widespread in the re-maining areas. Degree of certainty is (80%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Strong monsoon.Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area

for 20-6-2008: One or two rain. Degree of certainty is(80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for 20-6-2008: One or two rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast forMandalay and neighbouring area for20-6-2008: One or two rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

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Make donations to the storm victims

� Everybody may make donations freely.

� Everybody may make donations to any person or any area.

However, wellwishers are urged to avoid unsystematic donations and acts that

may tarnish the image of the nation and its people.

� Certain internal and external anti-government elements, self-centred persons

and unscrupulous elements are now seeking their self-interests by sending to the

foreign news agencies stories about relief and rehabilitation work they have

made up and shot on video.

� Storm victims are hereby warned to remain vigilant with nationalistic spirit

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�Skyful liars attempting to destroy nation�BBC lying

VOA deceivingRFA setting up hostilities�Beware! Don’t be bought by those ill-wishers

Anyone may dial the following phone numbers of the Ministry ofSocial Welfare, Relief and Resettlement if he witnesses or knows thatthe cash assistance and relief supplies donated from abroad and athome to the storm victims are kept for self-interest, traded, used forparticular persons and organizations, or misappropriated for otherpurposes.

Head of Office Ph: 067 404021 and 067 404022Deputy Head of Office Ph: 09 860 1002

Witness may inform about misappropriation ofinternal and international relief funds and supplies

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