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

Established 1914

Volume XV, Number 348 8th Waning of Tabaung 1369 ME Saturday, 29 March, 2008

* 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 nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round develop-ment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participation in termsof technical know-how and investments from sources insidethe country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

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

standards of the entire nation

Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives

Senior General Than ShweChairman of the State Peace and Development Council

Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services(From address delivered at the 63rd Anniversary Armed Forces Day Parade)

The life under colonialism, when we had to call foreigners “Thakhin”and respond “Phaya” to them, was a life so unbelievably bitter that it could notbe understood just by the telling of the tale — one had to actually endure it toappreciate its bitterness. After bearing this unbearable situation for over a longhundred years the people, with their patriotic pride of origin rising in theirblood, regained their independence only after sacrificing a great deal of theirblood, sweat and lives. Therefore, I would like to urge you to seriously value,protect and preserve our Independence and Sovereignty.

Seriously value Independence and Sovereignty

YANGON, 28 March — As a gesture of honour-ing the 63rd Anniversary Armed Forces Day, aceremony to open Phyo Cetana Free Eye SpecialistClinic, jointly set up by Yangon Division Union Soli-darity and Development Association and Yangon CityDevelopment Committee, was held at the clinic at thecorner of Kyaikwaing Pagoda Road and Insein Roadin Mayangon Township yesterday morning.

CEC member of USDA U Aung Thein Lin(Yangon Division in-charge) explained the purpose ofopening the clinic and providing of free health careservices to eye patients.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Ministry of De-fence, CEC member U Aung Thein Lin and officialsaccepted K 92,794,000 including an eye operatingmicroscope donated by 20 wellwishers and presentedcertificates of honour to them.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe, CEC member U AungThein Lin and party enquired after eye patients receiv-ing medical treatment.

At the clinic, eye specialists from Eye Spe-cialist Hospital, North Okkalapa General Hospital andInsein General Hospital led by eye specialist ProfessorDr U Ko Ko Thant provided eye care services to 317patients on 26 March. Yesterday, eye care serviceswere given to 150 patients and eye surgical operationon 73 eye patients.

The clinic will provide eye check-up to eye

Phyo Cetana Free Eye Specialist Clinic opened

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence views providing of eye care service to patientsat Phyo Cetana Free Eye Specialist Clinic. —MNA

patients twice a week free of charge and free surgicaloperation on eye patients once a week. In addition, theclinic is ready to perform minor surgical cases.

Yangon Division USDA and YCDC havejointly opened 18 Phyo Cetana Free Clinics and pro-

vided free health care services to over 230,000 people.Similarly, the Funeral Service Association of

Yangon Division USDA gives free funeral services tothe needy people using 16 hearses.

MNA

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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 DesireSaturday, 29 March, 2008

Tatmadaw in service ofsafeguarding lives andproperty of people

The Tatmadaw was born out of thepeople along with the Independence struggle.Joining hands with the people it had to sacrificea lot of lives, blood and sweat to regainIndependence. Therefore, every citizen isrequired to safeguard independence andsovereignty in all seriousness.

The entire national people are to be fullyequipped with Union Spirit and national politicalawareness wherever they reside.

Since assumption of the Stateresponsibilities the Tatmadaw has furtherstrengthened national solidarity, thereby securingthe participation of national race armed groupsthat had exchanged arms for peace in nation-building endeavours. And now, peace and stabilityhas prevailed throughout the nation.

As harmonious development has beenbrought about in urban and rural regionsincluding border areas local people are nowenjoying the fruits of peace and stability as well asdevelopment.

Nowadays, the Tatmadaw is making all-out efforts for the emergence of a new democraticnation as aspired by the people. In this regard,work is well under way for approval of the draftConstitution, the fourth step of the seven-stepRoad Map, in compliance with the wishes of thepeople.

Arrangements have been made forholding the multiparty democracy general electionin 2010 in line with the new Constitution.

This is the tasks being carried out bythe Tatmadaw in order to hand over the Statepower to the people. Making efforts by theTatmadaw in the process of transition todemocracy amounts to shouldering the historictasks of the nation.

All in all, we firmly believe that theTatmadaw will be able to discharge the nationaldefence duty while striving for becoming a modernand capable one in accord with the fine traditionof constantly safeguarding the lives and propertyof the people.

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YANGON, 28March — The TrainingCourse No 3/27 of BorderAreas and National RacesTechnical School underthe Education andTraining Departmentconcluded at its school inLaukkai on 17 March.

Brig-Gen WinMaung of the local stationdelivered an address, andDeputy Director-General UWin Aung explained factsabout the training course.

Next, Brig-GenWin Maung and DeputyDirector-General U WinAung viewed the practicaltasks of the trainees.

Altogether 30trainees —10 at theelectrical welding subject,10 at the constructionsubject and 10 at themechanics subject —�attended the 24-weektraining course. During thetraining period, thegovernment bore the costof reception andaccommodation of thetrainees and equipment forthe practical tasks.

The DeputyD i r e c - t o r - G e n e r a l

YANGON, 28March — Director-General Dr Myo Myint ofDepartment for Promotionand Propagation of theSasana under the Ministryof Religious Affairs paidhomage to supervisorSayadaws at thePahtamabyan religiousexamination centre at No1 Basic Education HighSchool in BahanTownship this noon.

The director-general supplicated on thereligious affairs. He alsovisited the monks whowere sitting for theexaminations peacefully.

Beginning 24March, a total of 400

D-G of DPPS visits Pahtamabyan exam centre

members of the Sanghaand nuns are sitting for thePahtamabyan religiousexaminations in BahanTownship.

�MNA

Training Course concludes atBorder Areas and National Races

Technical School in Laukkaiinspected the buildings inthe compound of thetraining school andinstallation of teachingequipment. He also visitedthe Border Areasand National RacesDevelopment TrainingSchool in Kunlong.

MNA

Journalists cover news of 63rd AnniversaryArmed Forces Day Parade

Innocent civilian loses left footNAY PYI TAW, 28 March—A man lost his left foot

as he treaded on a mine planted by insurgents atYaychaung in Papun Township, Kayin State, at about4.45 pm on 19 March.

At that time, Kawkaman, 38, son of U Be Tu, ofWard 1, Papun Township, was on his way from Papunto Pwe Village to buy some cardamom seeds andpepper.

Now, he is receiving medical treatment andassistance. Officials and local people are workingtogether to expose the perpetrators.—MNA

Director-General Dr Myo Myint pays homageto monks who are sitting for Pahtamabyan

religious exam.—MNA

Local and foreign journalists attending the63rd Anniversary Armed Forces Day Parade

at Nay Pyi Taw Parade Groundon 27 March.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 28March — Correspondentsfrom foreign newsagencies in Yangon andeditorial staff from localjournals and magazines

covered the news aboutthe 63rd AnniversaryArmed Forces Day Paradeyesterday.

There were 16correspondents from the

Foreign CorrespondentsClub and 26 chief editors,editorial staff andreporters from localjournals and magazines,totalling 42.—MNA

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A picture shows the Dragon Blood tree on the virtually untouched YemeniIsland of Socotra, a site of global importance for biodiversity conservation,

located in the northwestern Indian Ocean, some 350km south of the ArabianPeninsula.—INTERNET

Clinton takes hit in newpoll on White House race

WASHINGTON, 28 March—US Democratic Pre-sidential candidate HillaryClinton’s positive ratinghas dropped to a new lowof 37 per cent in an NBC/Wall Street Journal pollreleased on Wednesday.

According to the poll,the New York Senator’spositive rating slid 8percentage points in twoweeks and she had anegative rating of 48 percent in a week where sheadmitted making a mistakein claiming she had comeunder sniper fire during a1996 trip to Bosnia.Clinton’s Democraticrival, Illinois SenatorBarack Obama, also saw aslight dip in his positiverating, to 49 per cent from51 per cent, the poll found.

The survey was takenafter Obama gave a speechlast week on race inAmerica and rejectedracially charged remarksby his pastor in Chicagoof two decades, ReverentJeremiah Wright.

NBC said 32 per centof respondents saidObama “sufficientlyaddressed the issue” and26 per cent said he neededto say more about theWright controversy.

MNA/Xinhua

Two police killed byTaleban rocket attack

KABUL, 28 March—A poppy eradication policecompound on Wednesday morning was attacked byTaleban militants, leaving two police dead and anotherinjured in southern Afghan province of Helmand, anofficial said on Thursday.

Mohammad Hussein Andiwal, the provincial policechief, told Xinhua that Taleban insurgents fired five rocketson a poppy eradication police compound in Marja Districtof Helmand. Meanwhile, Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, the purportedspokesman of Taleban, claimed responsibility forthe rocket attack on police compound.— MNA/Xinhua

Five Taleban militants killedin clash in Afghanistan

KABUL, 28 March—Five Taleban insurgents werekilled in Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan Province onWednesday, according to provincial police chiefJuma Gul Humat.

“The clash took place when Taleban insurgentsattacked a convoy of trucks supplying logistic items tointernational troops based in the province,” he said.

“The convoy was moving towards Khas UruzganDistrict when came under Taleban attack and policeaccompanying the convoy returned fire killing fiveinsurgents on the spot,” Humat told Xinhua.

MNA/Xinhua

An artist’s rendition of the Moon Rover which will carry capsules containinga portion of cremated remains of persons in a payload to the surface of theMoon by Celestis, Inc as soon as 2009 are shown in this undated publicity

photograph provided by one of the companies that will provide transportationto the moon.—INTERNET

Chavez blames US invasion of Iraq for soaring oil prices

Indonesia to builddefence school JAKARTA, 28 March—

The Indonesian Govern-ment has announced a planto establish a world-classpostgraduate school ofdefence aimed at up-grading military officers’scientific knowledge,local Press said Thursday.

President Susilo Bam-bang Yudhoyono hasinstructed EducationMinister Bambang Sudi-byo and Military ChiefGeneral Djoko Santoso toimplement the plan. ThePresident’s dream is to havea world-class school issuinga master’s degree in defense,the English newspaper TheJakarta Post reported.

MNA/Xinhua

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

RIO DE JANEIRO, 28 March— Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chavez said onThursday that the USinvasion of Iraq is partly toblame for rising oil prices.

Oil producing countriesare not to be held re-sponsible for the surge inoil prices, but the UnitedStates is “partially toblame” for it, Chavez tolda Press conference during

a visit to Recife in north-eastern Brazil.

During this visit, Chavezmet his Brazilian coun-terpart Luiz Inacio Lula daSilva and the two cou-ntries’ state-owned oil andgas companies, Petrobrasand PDVSA, signed acooperation agreement.

Chavez said as a memberof the Organization ofPetroleum-Exporting

Countries (OPEC), Vene-zuela favours the fixing-price system that hasworked well for threeyears, but the US invasionof Iraq has broughtinstability to the market.

MNA/Xinhua

Iran to hold run-off Parliament votes on 25 April TEHERAN, 28 March—Iran will hold

run-off votes on 25 April forparliamentary seats not decided in a firstelection round earlier this month, Iranianmedia said on Wednesday, but theoutcome will not threaten a conservativemajority. More than 200 of Parliament’s290 seats were decided in the first roundand the Interior Ministry said over 70 percent of those went to conservatives, whocall themselves “principlist” for theirloyalty to the Islamic Republic’s ideals.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad maynot get an easy ride even though he sharesthe “principlist” tag because the camp isbroad and includes political rivals who

may use Parliament as a springboard fornext year’s presidential race.

Some conservatives have also joinedthe President’s staunchest critics,reformists, in questioning Ahmadinejad'seconomic management, blamed fordouble-digit inflation.

The Guardian Council, a supervisorybody of clerics and jurists, said run-offswould take place on Friday, 25 April, theofficial IRNA news agency reported.

IRNA did not spell out how many seatswould go to a second round but said theywould take place in 43 constituencies,which can have more than one seat ineach.— MNA/Reuters

Saada Abdel Al, center holds her two children Rahma,4, left and Fouad, 8 months along with a photo of herslain husband Mohammed Fouad, 27 who is claimedby his family to have been shot and killed by anAmerican cargo ship passing the Suez Canal, at thefamily house in the city of Suez, Egypt, on 25 March, 2008.—INTERNET

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Iraqi children try to salvage goods from a burned shop at Jamila marketfollowing clashes between Mahdi Army fighters and Iraqi and US forces in

Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, on 26 March, 2008.—INTERNET

A newly-discoveredprehistoric marinecrocodile, given thescientific name of

Guarinisuchus munizi,in an undated image.

The crocodile, estimatedto have lived some 62

million years ago, is oneof only two animal

groups that survived themassive extinction of

dinosaurs some 65million years ago.

INTERNET

Hot air balloons fly

during the celebrations

of “Sri Lanka Balloon

Festival 2008” at

Tissamaharama, in

Hambantota, about

238 kilometres (148

miles) south of

Colombo on 26 March,

2008.—INTERNET

RIO DE JANEIRO, 27March — A plane carryingtwo Brazilian ministerscrash-landed at an airportin northeastern BrazilWednesday. No one wasinjured in the incident. TheBrazilian Air Force planesuffered a technicalproblem just after take-off at Guararapes Airportin Recife, capital city ofPernambuco State.

The plane, bound forBrasilia, the country’s

JAKARTA, 27 March —Indonesia and Thailandwill step up cooperationto end conflict in southernThailand, leaders of thetwo countries said here onWednesday at a joint Pressconference after meetingat the State Palace.

“On the issue of thesouthern border of Thai-land, I thank PresidentSusilo Yudhoyono forIndonesia’s kind under-standing as well as strong

DAMASCUS, 27 March— Egypt plans to send ajunior minister to theupcoming Arab summitin Damascus, effectivelysnubbing a meeting whichis usually attended byheads of state, officialsand media said on Wed-nesday.

An Egyptian ForeignMinistry spokesman inDamascus said Ministerof State for Legal andAssembly Affairs MoufidShehab would representEgypt at the meeting.

MOSCOW, 27 March —NATO forces sent jets toescort two Russian long-range Air Force bomberspatrolling neutral skiesnear Alaska on Wednes-day, Russian news agen-cies quoted the DefenceMinistry as saying.

Russia’s military hasresumed its Cold Warpractice of flying regularpatrols far beyond itsborders, and in the last yearhas also sent turbo-propTu-95s over US naval air-

Russia bombers get NATOescort near Alaska

craft carriers and the Pacificisland of Guam.

Accompanied by two Il-78 refuelling tankers, thetwo Tu-95 Bear bombersflew for 15 hours over theArctic and Pacific oceans,Interfax news agencyquoted Russian Air Forcespokesman AlexanderDrobyshevsky as saying.

“In the course of the airpatrol, long-range aviationaircraft were escorted byNATO jets in the region ofAlaska,” said Drobyshev-

sky.Originally designed to

drop nuclear bombs, theTu-95, Russia’s equiva-lent of the US Air Force’sB-52, is a Cold War iconrefitted for surveillanceand maritime patrols.

Russia, in the eighthyear of an economic boomdriven by high global oilprices, has raised militaryfunding after years ofneglect following thecollapse of the SovietUnion. —MNA/Reuters

Egypt snubs Arab summit, tension highIn Cairo, an official

said Foreign MinisterAhmed Aboul Gheitwould not attend.

Tension is running highahead of the 29-30 Marchsummit over a politicalcrisis in Lebanon that hasprevented rival partiesfrom electing a new pre-sident. Egypt says Syriahad not done enough toresolve the Lebanesecrisis.

Egypt is the secondmajor Arab country whichis planning to send a low-

level representative to thesummit in Damascus,expected to discuss linge-ring problems in Iraq,Lebanon and the fate of anArab peace initiative withIsrael. Analysts say Syriais facing diplomaticisolation by Saudi Arabiaand Egypt for its alliancewith non-Arab Iran in aregional jockeying forpower against the UnitedStates.—MNA/Reuters

Plane carrying Brazilianministers crash-lands

federal capital, was forcedto return. Geddel VieiraLima, Brazilian Ministerof National Integrationand CommunicationsMinister Helio Costa wereon board.

As it was landing, theLearjet 35’s left-handundercarriage failed tolower, forcing the plane’sunderside to touch theground. — MNA/Xinhua

Indonesia, Thailand to step up coopto end conflictcooperation and support,”Thai Prime MinisterSamak Sundaravej said.

Samak said that hiscountry expected Indo-nesia could help settle thecrisis and IndonesianPresident Susilo BambangYudhoyono expressedIndonesia’s availabilityfor it.

Thailand has indicatedthat the country wanted tosettle the crisis throughnegotiation and dialogue,and thought Indonesia hasthe potential to help solvethe issue, IndonesianForeign Minister HassanWirajuda told reportersafter the Press conference.

MNA/Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO, 28March — A fossil of a newmarine crocodile speciesfound in Brazil shows thereptiles survived theextinction of dinosaurs 65million years ago, rese-archers said on Wednes-day. Brazilian paleonto-logists said the discoveryof the fossil of Guarini-suchus munizi, dubbedSea Warrior, also engend-ered a new theory on themigration of prehistoriccrocodiles from Africa toSouth and then NorthAmerica.

The 62-million-year-old fossil, described in the

Brazil finds prehistoric “SeaWarrior” crocodileLondon-based Proceed-ings of Royal Society Bresearch journal, is part ofthe Dyrosauridae group,which replaced mosas-

aurs, or serpentine mar-ine lizards, as the domi-nant marine predators inthe Paleocene epoch.

MNA/Reuters

Car bomb in Afghanmarket kills eight

KABUL, 27 March — A car bomb exploded in amarket in the southern Afghan province of Helmandon Wednesday killing at least eight people andwounding 17, police said.

Taleban insurgents have vowed to intensifyattacks on Afghan and foreign troops country-wide, launch a wave of suicide bombings andattack supply lines from Pakistan this year in theircampaign to overthrow the pro-Western AfghanGovernment.

MNA/Reuters

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All Items from Xinhua News Agency

BEIJING, 27 March —China’s economy wouldmoderate but remainrobust in 2008 with agrowth rate of 10.7 per-cent, providing a cushionagainst the expected inter-national downturn, accor-ding to a forecast issuedby the United Nationscommission here onThursday.

“Investment continuesto be the main driver of

Greek children holding a torch of the 2008 Beijing Olympics pose forphotographers in Giannitsa, Greece on 27 March, 2008. The Olympic flame

travelled for the fourth day in Greece after it was lit in the site of ancientOlympia. —XINHUA

The new ‘Pantech duo’global smart device

which runs onMicrosoft Corp’s

mobile phone operatingsystem is displayed in itsvarious dual-keyboard

configurations asAT&T, Microsoft andPantech announce thenew crossover mobile

phone availability at anAT&T retail store inNew York.—XINHUA

RIO DE JANEIRO, 28 March — Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chavez said Wednesday that Brazil’s economycould surpass that of the United States if the lattercontinues its slowdown.

Chavez told reporters that he does not want theUnited States to suffer a recession, but if its economycontinues to slow down, “Brazil’s economy, currentlythe biggest in Latin America, could become the biggestin the continent,” he said upon his arrival to Brazil’sRecife where he will meet with Brazilian PresidentLuiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Xinhua

SINGAPORE, 27 March — Singapore Airlines (SIA)said on Wednesday that it had grounded a secondAirbus A380 aircraft on Monday night and switchedSydney-bound passengers to smaller planes becauseof a fuel pump problem.

Singapore Air spokesman Stephen Forshaw said ina statement that the problem with the fuel pump wassimilar to the problem that grounded another A380 inFebruary. “The cause has been traced to the prematurefailure of a new fuel pump provided by Airbus,” hesaid. —Xinhua

PHNOM PENH, 28 March— Cambodia will halt riceexport for two months in order to help bring down thespiraling price of the staple food, said Prime MinisterHun Sen on Wednesday.

It is a temporary measure, but aims to ensure foodsecurity, he said while attending a road constructionceremony in northwestern city of Pailin.

Cambodia has enough rice to satisfy the marketdemand and the people do not have to fear any shortage,national television station TVK quoted the PrimeMinister as saying. —Xinhua

BEIJING, 27 March—Hainan Airlines, China’sfourth biggest carrier, saidTuesday its net profitalmost quadrupled lastyear, buoyed by a boom-ing domestic industry andthe stronger Chinese cur-rency.

Net income reached651.4 million yuan (91.7million US dollars) or 0.18yuan per share, up from166.8 million yuan or 0.06yuan in 2006, the Haikou-based airline said in a

BRUSSELS, 28 March —The eurozone economy isfacing stronger headwindsfrom financial turmoil, aUS slowdown and surgingoil prices, the EuropeanCommission said onWednesday, while maint-aining its previous fore-cast.

“The euro-area economycontinues to face strongheadwinds, includingpersistent uncertaintiesabout the duration and the

Eurozone economy facesstronger headwinds

ultimate cost of thefinancial turmoil, aweakening US economyand surging commodityprices,” said EU Econo-mic and Monetary Com-missioner Joaquin Almu-nia.

“In spite of its soundeconomic fundamentalsthe euro area is starting tofeel the pinch,” he added.

Figures showed euro-zone economic growthdecelerated from 2.6 per

cent year-on-year in thethird quarter of 2007 to2.2 per cent in the fourthquarter, which owedmuch to a weakening ofprivate consumption onthe back of surging con-sumer prices.

According to thecommission’s interimforecast of February, eco-nomic growth in the eurozone was expected to slowdown to 1.8 per cent for2008. —Xinhua

Cambodia to halt rice exportfor two months

SIA grounds second “A380”for fuel pump problem

China’s economy expected to grow10.7% in 2008

growth, remaining resili-ent despite governmentcooling measures and withsupport from low real in-terest rates,” said a reportreleased by the UN Eco-nomic and Social Com-mission for Asia and thePacific (UNESCAP).

“A slowdown in ex-ports and the country’sefforts to cool the econo-my are the main reasonsfor the moderation,” it said.

Chavez says Brazil’s economycould surpass that of US

China’s Hainan Airlines almostquadruples profit in 2007

statement to the ShanghaiStock Exchange.

Operating revenue rose6.1 per cent from a yearearlier to 13.6 billion yuanlast year, it said.

The airline reaped 11.3billion yuan from pass-enger transport last year,after carrying 14.5 millionpassengers, up 0.7 per cent.

Xinhua

����Other factors expectedto underpin China’s growthinclude domestic demand,increasing spending powerof rural consumers andrising consumptionthrough higher govern-ment spending on socialwelfare. �Official statisticsshow China’s grossdomestic product growthaccelerated to 11.4 percentin 2007, the fastest for 13years. —Xinhua

Leonid Stadnyk (R) of Ukraine, named as theworld’s tallest man by the Guinness World

Records, gets into a car as Ukraine’s PresidentViktor Yushchenko watches in Kiev

on 24 March, 2008. —XINHUA

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Airport in UAE capital toopen new terminal in AprilABU DHABI, 28 March—

A new terminal at the air-port of Abu Dhabi, capitalof the oil-rich United ArabEmirates (UAE), will bepartly opened by the end ofApril, local newspaperGulf News reported onWednesday.

The Terminal-3 at AbuDhabi International Air-port, which costs onebillion dirhams (272.48million US dollars), is

aimed to accommodate thegrowth of Etihad Airways,UAE’s national carrier.

When completed thissummer, the new terminalwill have a capacity tohandle up to five millionpassengers a year. The1982-built Abu DhabiInternational Airport canhandle eight millionpassengers a year with itsexisting two terminals.

Terminal-3 is part of

the airport’s 6.8-billion-dollar upgrading pro-gramme, which includestwo passenger terminals,a second runway, a newair traffic control complexand a new cargo terminal.

Terminal-4 will beopened in 2010, while therunway and air trafficcontrol complex will be-come operational in 2008and the cargo terminal in2010.—MNA/Xinhua

XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, California, announced on 26 March, 2008 inBeverly Hills, that its two-seater Lynx suborbital spaceship, shown in thisundated publicity photograph, will carry people or payloads into space to

experience weightlessness and see the Earth below. —XINHUA

Scottish company discoverstwo gas fields in BangladeshDHAKA, 28 March —

The Scottish companyCairn Energy hasdiscovered gas atMagnama and Hatiya inthe Bay of Bengal inBangladesh, officials heresaid Thursday.

The company informedthe state-owned companyPetrobangla this week thatit has discovered gas at thestructures near thesoutheastern port city ofChittagong and has soughtpermission to conduct

appraisal to find out thesize of the discovery.

Cairn has alreadysubmitted an appraisalprogramme to conductfurther exploration in a bidto confirm the quantity ofthe discovery and howmuch of it can be extractedcommercially, Petro-bangla Director MuktadirAli said.

He said a Petrobanglacommittee comprisingtechnical and financialexperts held meeting on

Thursday to review Cairn'sappraisal programme andwould sit with the companyto discuss its action plan.

MNA/Xinhua

A pupil receives measlesvaccination in GaoshengExperimental Elementary

School in Suining,southwest China’s

Sichuan Province, on 26March, 2008. —XINHUA

Oil hits $106 as US fuelsupplies fall

NEW YORK, 27 March—Oil climbed over 106 USdollars a barrel on Wednes-day after a US Governmentreport showed larger-than-expected drops in fuelstocks and declining fuelproduction in the world’stop oil consumer.

US crude oil futures hita session high of 106.20US dollars and settled at105.90 US dollars a barrel,a 4.68-US-dollar gain for

the day. London Brentadded 3.39 US dollars,settling at 103.99 USdollars. Crude oil hit itsrecord high of 111.80 USdollars on 17 March.

“Today’s numbers are anice bullish surprise andcome on a day when theother commodities arepicking up as well,” saidMike Zarembski, analyst atoptionsXpress in Chicago.

MNA/Reuters

Survey shows severe schoolviolence exists in Austria

VIENNA, 28 March—An online survey resultpublished on Wednesday by the Austrian AssociationNeustart, showed that the school violence in Austriawas quite severe.

A total of 5,454 teachers, 4,509 parents and 864students in Austria participated in the survey.

According to the survey, 32 per cent teachers and 27per cent students confronted with school violence atleast once every week. Poverty, overloaded pressuredue to high expectations, combined with the fear ofexcessive high standards were the main reasons foraggressive behaviours of the students. Drug abuse alsoplayed an important role on this issue, experts added.The abuse of alcohol or synthetic drugs stimulated thepotential aggression for fights.—MNA/Xinhua

Eight killed in Indiantemple stampede

BHOPAL (India), 28 March— At least eight peoplewere trampled to death and 10 seriously injured in astampede at a Hindu temple in central India, officialssaid. The stampede happened late on Wednesday,when thousands of villagers were making their way toa temple during an annual fair in remote KarilaVillage, about 260 kilometres (160 miles) from Bhopal,the capital of Madhya Pradesh State.

“It was simply an accident as people who attemptedto enter the temple by climbing over a railing fell,”Geeta Mishra, a senior government official, said onThursday. Authorities sealed the temple gates andwere investigating the stampede.— MNA/Reuters

A man surfs theInternet in Beijing.

The Chinesegovernment will clamp

down on mappingwebsites, state media

reported on Thursday.INTERNET

Man charged as Iraqi agentover US Congress trip

WASHINGTON, 28 March— An Iraqi-American whohelped organize a con-troversial US congres-sional trip to Baghdad in2002 was charged onWednesday with workingfor ousted Iraqi presidentSaddam Hussein's govern-ment, which paid for thevisit, the Justice Departmentsaid. The indictment againstMuthanna al-Hanooti saidIraq's foreign intelligenceservice funneled 34,000 USdollars through the Islamiccharity Life for Relief andDevelopment to paydelegation expenses.

It said al-Hanooti had

been a lobbyist and public-relations coordinator forthe charity, based inSouthfield, Michigan.

The indictment did notname the three lawmakerswho took the trip inSeptember-October 2002,less than six months beforethe US-led invasion to oustSaddam.—MNA/Reuters

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Honouring 63rd AnniversaryArmed Forces Day

Progress of Border Areas and

National Races Sector in the time

of Tatmadaw Government

Sr. Subject 1988 2007 Progress

1. Earth road miles - 3492/2 3492/2

2. Gravel road miles - 1047/4 1047/4

3. Tarred-road miles - 131/3 131/3

4. Small/big/suspension bridge - 78 78

5. Small bridge - 1017 1017

6. Suspension bridge - 46 46

7. Hospital - 80 80

8. Dispensary - 102 102

9. Rural health centre - 38 38

10. Rural health branch - 87 87

11. Primary/Middle/High School - 855/90/92 855/90/92

12. Agricultural office - 31 31

13. Agricultural camp - 118 118

14. Dam - 51 51

15. Canal - 5 5

16. Tractor Station - 11 11

17. Reserve forest - 11 11

18. Nursery - 14 14

19. Breeding Farm - 19 19

20. Veterinary Office - 40 40

21. Generator - 265 265

22. TV relay station 5 111 106

23. Post Office - 52 52

24. Telephone Station - 87 87

Nationalities Youth Resource Development Degree College (Yangon).

An aerial view of Thanlwin Bridge (Hpa-an) built in Hpa-anTownship of Kayin State.

Border Areas National Races Youth Training School built inKengtung of Shan State (East).

A microwave station seen in Haka Townshipof Chin State.

PyaingchaungDam built in

KyauktawTownship of

Rakhine State toirrigate 10,000

acres of farmland.

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Only when theTatmadaw is strong, will

the nation be strong

HAILING THE 63rd ANNIVERSARY ARMED FORCES DAY:

Indivisible are the Tatmadaw and the peopleSi Thu Aung

Each nation has ownarmed forces. The dutyof the armed forces is tosafeguard sovereigntyand territorial integrityof own motherland.

Although safe-guarding own land is themain duty of the armedforces, it cannot becarried out by the armedforces alone. Only whenthe nation is to besafeguarded by thenational brethren and theTatmadaw in unity, canany danger that mightbefall the country bewarded off.

In reality, nationaldefence is the duty of allthe citizens. At presentday, there are variousthreats to a nation. For

saved it at risk of theirlives. The people alsorendered all necessaryassistance to theTatmadaw.

The Tatmadaw andthe people were inoneness and united in thefight against the fascists,in the chaotic period ofpost-independence, inthe period of thenationalist Chineseinvasion and in theperiod of internal armedinsurgency. With thestrong support of thepeople, the Tatmadawwas able to put an end tothe internal armed in-surgency. Nationalreconsolidation was builtand peace restored.

members of the house.With the strong fence,anyone including a thief orrobber as well as stray dogscannot enter the houseeasily. If the fence isdilapidated, then the housecan easily be broken in bythieves and the like.Therefore, it is necessaryfor all the family membersto maintain and repair theirfence to be firm and strong.Despite the fence beingfirm and strong, there willbe danger if one of thefamily members who is indisagreement allows theenemy to enter the housethrough the trap door.

Looking to theexamples of theinternational community,even the very strongenemies could be crushedwhen the armed forces andthe people of a nation wereunited. For instance, thepeople of Vietnam side byside with Vietcong troopswere able to drive out theinvaders of a superpower.

However, anation fell undersubjugation when itsarmed forces were notstrong. There were alsoincidents that a nation waseasily invaded by othersand the armed forces brokeup when national unitywas weakened. The clearexamples can be found in

Tatmadaw with historicfine traditions

* All along historyPowerful was the nationAnd tall it stood Tatmadaw

* Throughout successive erasSacrificing lives, blood its membersSafeguards nation the Tatmadaw

* Removed all restrictionAnd colonialism yokeFreed it nation from subjugation

* Valuable independenceFragrance so sweetSafeguards the Tatmadaw

* Ready for any emergencyDuty historic for nationWell it performs always

* Makes nation prevailWith peace and unityBlooming flowers everywhere

* Its long march all alongMatures TatamadawWith faith and efficiency

* They dare sacrificeEven lives for countryO nation’s good sons

* Golden era it establishesFor nation to gain modernizationAnd peace, prosperity

* Till 63rd anniversaryUnited always and never waversIs the Tatmadaw

* Its noble prideAdded with fine traditionsTatmadaw the people’s strengthLives forever strongFor years in thousandWish we make for it

(Honouring the 63rd Anniversary ArmedForces Day)

Maung Maung Moe Aung(Translation)

Poem

example, the sovereigntyof a nation can bethreatened; there might bean attempt to forciblyoccupy a part of a nationso that a dependent nationcan emerge seceding fromthe main one; there mightbe an attempt to weakenthe culture, tradition,custom and nationalcharacter of a nation; andthere might be an attemptto dominate a nation byemploying various meansand ways to break up itsnational consolidation.

If we liken a nation toa house compound, theTatmadaw is like a fence.The fence will not be setup by anyone from outsideat all. But it has to be builtonly by the family

Iraq and Afghanistan.There are no strong armedforces in those countriesand they have onlyfollower troops ofinvaders. There are nomodern high-tech fighteraircraft, warships,artillery, tanks andmissiles. There are noairforce and navy and thearmy does not haveenough heavy weapons.The war victors have nofaith in them (Iraq &Afghanistan) just allowingthem to be armed withsmall weapons in order toincite infighting amongtheir own national people.Lackey troops are sent tohot spots first so that theywill die if necessary.Those local troops on theirpart have no fighting skillsas they are salariedsoldiers who are good-for-nothings in battles. Howcan such troops safeguardtheir nation? Iraq coulddo nothing when theTurkish troops invaded thenation and raided the Kurdrebel camps in the northof Iraq. Likewise, thegovernment’s adminis-trative machinery cannotstill reach all parts ofAfghanistan except somecities and a few southernplains.

The above-mentionedexamples show that in thenations with disintegrationof national consolidation,the armed forces aredivided and theirsovereignty and territorialintegrity cannot beeffectively protected.

In Myanmar, theTatmadaw was born of thepeople during the nationalindependence struggles.March 27, the ArmedForces Day, reflects theday when the Tatmadawside by side with thepeople rose against thefascists. The Tatmadaw isthe people and vice versa.So, indivisible are theTatmadaw and the people.Whenever any dangerbefell the nation, theTatmadaw and the people

Tatmadaw was also builtinto a modern, strongand capable one. Aspeace and stability hasprevailed in the nation,Tatmadawmen havebeen able to undertakethe nation-building tasksand serve the interestsof the people.

The state constitutionhas been drawn with theprinciples that can ensurethe Tatmadaw and thepeople to be always inoneness and it will beapproved soon. All in all,so long as the Tatmadawand the people are unitedthrough thick and thin,any danger can bethwarted.

(Translation: ST)

Our Three MainNational Causes

Modernizingand

developingthe nation

Kaung Htet

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Winners in Mily Codes of Conductcontest awarded

Village-to-village gravel roadinaugurated in Nay Pyi Taw

PyinmanaNAY PYI TAW, 28 March — CEC member of

the Union Solidarity and Development AssociationMinister for Transport Maj-Gen Thein Swe paidhomage to Sayadaw Bhaddanta Tejaniya and membersof the Sangha at Sasana Hitakari Zigon West Monasteryin Zigon Village of Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana Townshipyesterday.

Next, the CEC member attended the openingceremony of Yisar village-to-village gravel road inZigon Village.

Construction Committee member U Tin Winreported on the purpose of construction.

Member of Zigon Village Peace andDevelopment Council U Htay Hlaing presented giftsto employees of Thawda Win Co that providednecessary assistance for the road construction. A localspoke words of thanks.

Executive of the Township USDA U KyawThet Oo and Village USDA Organizer U Hla Myintformally opened the road.

After the ceremony, the CEC member cordiallyconversed with the local people.

The village-to-village gravel road measuring15,000 feet by 15 feet links Shansulay and Zigonvillages.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 28 March — Commander ofNay Pyi Taw Command Maj-Gen Wai Lwin yesterdayattended a ceremony to present prizes to the winners inthe military codes of conduct contest to honour the63rd Anniversary of Armed Forces Day at the commandheadquarters.

After the opening speech, the commander

presented certificates of honour and cash awards tothose who stood first in the contest at different levels.

There were 12 officers and 36 Tamadawmen fromfour stations and three officers and nine Tamadawmenfrom the Ministry of Defence who had sat for themilitary codes of conduct, totaling 60.

MNA

YANGON, 27March — In honour of the63rd Anniversary ArmedForces Day, a ceremonyto honour members ofPabedan Township WarVeterans Organization,who are over 75, to presentprizes to outstandingstudents and to providecash assistance for thedisabled members ofTownship WVO was heldat WVO office in Pabedan

Prizes, cash assistance presentedto WVO members

Township this morning.Township WVO

Chairman Major TunMyint (Retd), Chairmanof Township PDC UKyaw Myint Hlaing andSecretary of TownshipUSDA U Aung Naingmade speeches on theoccasion.

The chairman ofTownship WVO presentedcash assistance to over 75aged members and the

disabled members ofTownship WVO. Vice-chairman Major Aung TinOo (Retd) gave prizes tothe outstanding WVOmembers and Lt-Cmdr HlaTun (Retd) prizes to theoutstanding students, theMyanmar Selected athleteand the staff.

Next, an agedmember of WVOexpressed his thanks.

MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Wai Lwin addresses prize-presentation ceremony of military codes ofconduct contest to mark the 63rd Anniversary Armed Forces Day.—MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Hla Htay Win and wife being welcomed byBangladeshi Ambassador Major General Abu Roshde Rokonuddawala

at the reception to mark the National and Independence Day of thePeople’s Republic of Bangladesh on 28 March.—MNA

Chairman of Township WVO Major Tun Myint (Retd) addresses aceremony to honour over 75 aged members of WVO.—MNA

Nibban GroupChairman U Thein

Kyi extends greetingsat a ceremony

to honour salesagents.—MNA

YANGON, 28March — Nibban Electric& Electronic of NibbanGroup organized aceremony to honour thesale agents at TradersHotel, here, yesterdayevening.

Chairman ofNibban Group U TheinKyi extended greetingsand spoke wordsof thanks. ManagingDirector Dr Aung Theinof Nibban Electric &Electronic explainedquality and use of newproducts includingNibban Digital Antennaand Nibban All Plus 3

Nibban Group honours sale agentsAntenna and presentedgifts to those who soldthe most in 2007.

Nibban Electric& Electronic was certifiedISO 9001:2000 anddistributes Nibban TVAntenna & Booster, ServoStabilizer, Fully AutoInverter, Smart AVR,AVR & Safeguard, Auto& Manual Voltage

Regulator, Electric Fan,Rice Cooker, DVD Player,Baho Inverter, VoltageRegulator andRechargeable Battery.The 36-year old companyhas won customersatisfaction.—MNA

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Sadr followers resist crackdown in Basra Brazil, Venezuela agreefood and defence, not oil

Two USsoldiers killed

in IraqBAGHDAD, 28 March —

Two American soldierswere killed in two attacksin Baghdad on Wednes-day, the US military saidon Thursday.

A soldier assigned toMulti-National Division-Baghdad died of fatalwounds sustained from asmall-arms fire attack onhis combat patrol in theIraqi capital at aroundmidnight (2135 GMT), aUS military said.

Another soldierassigned to the same unitwas killed by “hostile fire”at about 4:30 pm (1330GMT) in the eastern Bagh-dad, another statementsaid.

The latest deaths bringthe number of US soldiersthat have been killed inIraq to about 4,003 sincethe Iraq war broke out in2003, according to mediacount based on Pentagonfigures.

MNA/Xinhua

At least six killed in attack onPakistan ambulance

PARACHINAR (Pakistan), 28 March — Suspectedmilitants attacked an ambulance in a Pakistani tribalregion on the Afghan border on Thursday killing atleast six people, including two paramilitary soldiers,a government official said.

The ambulance was taking people to a health meetingwhen it was attacked with a rocket-propelled grenadein the Kurram tribal region, residents of the area said.

"Six people, including two paramilitary soldierswho were travelling in the ambulance have been killedand two wounded in the attack," said Zaheer-ul-Islam,the region's top political administrator.

MNA/Reuters

Canada’s top court hearsGuantanamo terrorism case

Drug use in men unaltered by partners’ pregnancy

Russian rocket sendsGermany spy satellite

into orbitMOSCOW, 28 March — A Russian rocket sent a

Germany spy satellite into orbit on Thursday night,ITAR-TASS news agency reported.

The Russian carrier rocket Kosmos-3M lifted offfrom the Plesetsk space centre in the north of Europeanpart of Russia at 20:15 Moscow Time (1715 GMT),carrying into orbit the Germany spy satellite SAR-Lupe-4.

Lieutenant-Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin, aspokesman for Russia's Space Troops said the satelliteis expected to get to the designated orbit at 20:43Moscow Time.

MNA/Xinhua

Demonstrators chant slogans during a protest in Baghdad's Sadr City on 27March, 2008.—INTERNET

BASRA (Iraq), 28 March— Explosions could beheard every 10 or 15minutes in Basra,epicentre of an IraqiGovernment crackdownon followers of Shi'itecleric Moqtada al-Sadr, onThursday.

Authorities imposedcurfews across southernIraq in an effort to halt thespread of violence afterthe largest militaryoffensive carried out by

Iraqi forces without majorbacking from US orBritish combat units.

More than 100 peoplehave been killed andhundreds wounded inclashes which havedivided Iraq's majorityShiite community andwrecked a ceasefiredeclared last year by Sadr.

Residents of Basra,Iraq's second largest cityand main oil centre, havedescribed the fighting as

the worst since the USinvasion in 2003. Clasheshave spread to thesouthern cities of Kut,Hilla, Diwaniya, Amaraand Kerbala, as well asShi'ite neighbourhoods ofBaghdad.

Hundreds of Sadrfollowers were gatheringin Baghdad neighbour-hoods for demonstrationsto demand the resignationof Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. — MNA/Reuters

RECIFE, BRAZIL, 28March — The presidentsof Brazil and Venezuelasigned farm and industryaccords on Wednesday andagreed to form a regionaldefence council but failedto reach final agreementon a key oil project.

Brazil's President LuizInacio Lula da Silva andhis Venezuelan counter-part, Hugo Chavez, met inthe northeastern city ofRecife and reiterated theirintention to build a joint

four billion US dollars oilrefinery there. But theycould not reach a definitiveagreement.

Both leaders alreadyvisited the site in Recife threetimes and repeatedlycelebrated the project beingdiscussed since 2003.Brazil's state-controlled oilgiant Petrobras beganconstruction last year butcannot agree with the Vene-zuelan state oil companyPDVSA on commercialterms.— MNA/Reuters

OTTAWA, 28 March —Lawyers for Canadianterrorism suspect OmarKhadr argued onWednesday thatCanadian investigatorshad violated his rights byinterviewing him atGuantanamo Bay after hiscapture by US forces inAfghanistan.

The Supreme Courtof Canada is examiningthe narrow question ofwhether Canada mustprovide Khadr any

information relevant tohim, but Wednesday'shearing broadened toconsider whether thewhole US process at itsGuantanamo Bay prisonviolated human rights.

The United Statesaccuses Khadr ofthrowing a grenade thatkilled one Americansoldier and woundedanother during a firefightat an al-Qaeda compoundin Afghanistan in 2002.Khadr, 15 at the time andnow 21, was shot twice inthe back.

MNA/Reuters

NEW YORK, 28 March — Youngwomen who smoke cigarettes, usemarijuana or binge drink will oftenstop doing so while they arepregnant, but a partner's pregnancyhas no effect on young men's pot useor binge drinking pattern, a newstudy shows.

The researchers also found thatwhile many women reduced theirsubstance use during pregnancy, itquickly returned to pre-pregnancylevels after the child was born.

The findings are “troubling, andhighlight a need for preventiveintervention”, Dr Jennifer A. Bailey

and colleagues from the Universityof Washington in Seattle write.

Efforts to reduce substance useduring pregnancy focus almostexclusively on women, althoughresearch has shown that if awoman's partner continues todrink or smoke during herpregnancy, she is more likely todo so as well, and will also bemore likely to return to substanceuse after giving birth, theresearchers point out.

Studies have also linked fathers'cigarette and pot smoking to pooroutcomes for children, including

sudden infant death syndrome andchildhood cancers, according tothe report in the current issue ofthe journal Birth.

To better understand patternsof substance use duringpregnancy for fathers as well asmothers, the researchersevaluated 412 men and 396women who were 24 years oldand were participating in a long-term study of behaviour. Seventy-seven men and 131 womenreported having a child duringthe previous three years.

MNA/Reuters

A zoo employee feeds

Monika the donkey at

St Petersburg’s zoo on

24 March, 2008.

Russia’s Mariinsky

ballet has said farewell

to one of its longest-

serving artistes: a 21-

year-old female donkey

named Monika.

Internet

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A ball of twisted metal, purported to be fallen space junk, is pictured inJames Stirton's farm in southwestern Queensland is this undated handout

photograph received on 28 March, 2008.—INTERNET

A model poses for a photo next to a display ofshoes during the opening of the exhibition forthe 80th anniversary of the Italian Salvatore

Ferragamo Company in Shanghai on 28March, 2008.—INTERNET

Saudi men perform a

traditional folk dance

to inaugurate the

tourism season in

Asir on 27 March,

2008.

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Giant bottles, part of an art installation by the artistEduardo Srur, are seen on the banks of Tiete River,one of the most polluted Sao Paulo’s rivers, on 26March, 2008. The installation was set up to warnpeople of the dangers of pollution from non-biodegradable stuff like plastic bottles.—INTERNET

An African rat. Rats can learn rules and apply themto new situations, an ability which is thought to bea keystone of human thought, according to a study released on Thursday.—INTERNET

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

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA TERAJU VOY NO (TRJ-293)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA TERAJUVOY NO (TRJ-293) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 29.3.2008 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up to Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES PTE LTD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV EAGLE PRIDE VOY NO (805N)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV EAGLE PRIDEVOY NO (805N) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 29.3.2008 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up to Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S EAGLE SHIPPING CO., LTDPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

CARACAS, 27 March — Experts from Latin America,the Caribbean, Europe and Asia met here Tuesday toattend the 5th International Conference on CivilProtection and Disaster Administration.

Participants will discuss plans facing natural disasterthreats, including earthquake, in the conference.

Some 80 per cent of Venezuela’s inhabitants live inhigh earthquake risk zones located in the central northerncoast and Andean region. Delegates from manyinternational organizations, including the UN and theEuropean Commission’s Humanitarian Aid department(ECHA), also attended the conference.

In the 4th conference held in March 2007,participants discussed the issues of ecosystem changecaused by human activities. — MNA/Xinhua

Disaster Civil Protectionexperts meet in Venezuela

Home prices in US metropolitanareas fall record 10.7%

NEW YORK, 27 March—Home prices in 20 USmetropolitan areas fell in January by the most onrecord, a sign the housing recession is deepening, aprivate survey showed Tuesday.

The S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index dropped10.7 per cent from January 2007, after a 9-per-centyear-on-year decrease through December 2007. Theindex has fallen for 13 consecutive months.

Price declines will continue as foreclosures add to aglut of unsold properties, and stricter lending rulesmake it harder to get financing.

January home prices fell 2.4 per cent from a monthearlier, following a 2.1-per-cent decline the prior month,the Case-Shiller report showed.

All but one of the 20 cities in the index showed year-over-year declines in prices in January, led by drops of19.3 per cent in Las Vegas and Miami.

MNA/Xinhua

Rosa Rein, born on 24 March, 1897, celebrates her111th birthday at a home for the elderly in Lugano

Paradiso, Switzerland on 25 March, 2008. —INTERNET

Britain seals $25b air tankers deal PARIS, 27 March—

Britain is set to announcea deal to buy Airbus A330refuelling tankers after abank loan rescued plansfor the world’s largestpublic-private fundingproject, sources close tothe deal said onWednesday.

The deal is most likelyto be announced onThursday during a statevisit to Britain by FrenchPresident Nicolas Sar-kozy, although it is notofficially part of hisprogramme, and comesweeks after a deal tosupply similar jets to theUnited States.

“The financing is fully

committed,” a sourceclose to the deal said.Others said plans for abond to cover the initialfinancing phase worth twobillion US dollars or morehad been dropped due torecent market turmoil andhad been replaced with aloan.

The project is expected

to be worth at least 25billion US dollars over itslifetime.

Britain is buying theplanes under its PrivateFinance Initiative, afunding scheme morefrequently used to leasepublic services such ashospitals from the privatesector.—MNA/Reuters

Hand-Foot-Mouth Diseasecases increase in Singapore

SINGAPORE, 27 March—The number of Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease (HFMD) cases in Singapore increasedthis year, especially over the last two weeks, largelycaused by a higher circulation of Enterovirus 71, theHealth Ministry said Thursday.

A total of 3,721 cases have been reported this year,the ministry said in a statement.

EV71 is a deadly strain of the virus that is associatedwith serious complications. It is also the same strainresponsible for the outbreak of HFMD in 2000 and2001 in Singapore, said the statement.

HFMD is a common childhood disease. The infectedperson can develop fever, upper respiratory symptoms,rashes and mouth ulcers.

The infection is spread through direct contact withrespiratory droplets such as saliva or feces. Youngchildren, particularly those aged less than five years,are the most susceptible.—Internet

A Russian girl learns Chinese kungfu from Chinese coach Chen Zhonglibeside a swimming pool in Sanya, China’s southernmost city in Hainan

Province, on 25 March, 2008. —XINHUA

12 killed in Ukrainianhelicopter crash

KIEV, 28 March—Tw-elve of the 13 people onboard the Ukrainian Mi-8helicopter that crashed intothe Black Sea Thursday havebeen killed, with the lonesurvivor seriously injured,officials said. The StateBorder Service helicopterwas carrying three crewmembers and 10 passengerswhen it went down.

“One man has been foundalive, but he is in seriouscondition. The bodies of 12others were found near thecrash site in the BlackSea,” Sergei Astakhov,spokesman for the StateBorder Service, was quotedby the Interfax-Ukrainenews agency as saying.

Emergency SituationsMinistry spokesman Ihor

Krol said the helicoptercrashed some 40 minutesinto a flight from the BlackSea port of Odessa to thenearby Zmeinyi Island atabout noon

MNA/Xinhua

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Lung cancer study funded in part by tobacco money

Millions at risk in S Asia fromwarmer world

KOLKATA, 27 March—Rising seas and watershortages will displaceabout 125 million peopleliving along the coasts ofIndia and Bangladesh by theturn of the century, Green-peace said on Tuesday.

In a study on rapidlywarming South Asia, theglobal environment groupsaid climate change wouldalso trigger erratic mon-soons and break downagricultural systems in thevast and densely populatedGangetic delta.

India, whose economyhas grown by 8-9 per centannually in recent years, isone of the world’s toppolluters and contributesaround 4 per cent of globalgreenhouse gas emissionsas its consumption of fossilfuels grows.

“We cannot wait for theinevitable to happen andhope to adapt to it,” VinutaGopal, the group’s climateand energy campaigner inIndia said, releasing thereport on the ecologicallysensitive region, one of the

poorest in the world.“We need policies that

reduce the risk of destructiveclimate change, and movestowards economic deve-lopment through decar-bonisation,” Gopal said.

MNA/Reuters

“AIDS” cases could jumpin Asia by 2020

UNITED NATIONS, 27March— The number ofpeople in Asia infected withHIV could jump by almosteight million by 2020 unlessmore is done to combat thespread of the virus thatcauses AIDS, a reportpresented to the UNSecretary-General said onWednesday.

That increase could bekept to three million if a re-sponse programme is adopt-ed immediately, according tothe report from The Com-mission on AIDS in Asia.

Nearly five millionpeople are infected withHIV in Asia now, with440,000 people dyingannually, the report said.The annual death toll willrise to almost 500,000 by2020 without a scaled-upresponse, according to thereport, entitled “RedefiningAIDS in Asia - Crafting an

Effective Response”.“By implementing the

recommendations of thecommission, Asian coun-tries can avert massiveincreases in infectionsand death, prevent econo-mic losses and save mil-lions of people frompoverty,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonsaid in a statement.

AIDS is the most likelycause of death and work

days lost among 15-to-44-year-olds in Asia, thecommission said.

The commission recom-mended an annual invest-ment of 30 cents to 50 centsper capita on focusedprevention programmes.By spending one US dollarsper person, the countriescan implement a broaderapproach including treat-ment.

MNA/Reuters

Study finds key factorsbehind bird flu outbreaksWASHINGTON, 27 March

— Ducks, people and ricepaddies are the primaryforces driving outbreaks ofavian influenza in Thai-land and Vietnam, and thenumber of chickens is lesspivotal, scientists said onWednesday.

UN Food and Agricul-ture Organization expertsand others looked at threewaves of H5N1 bird flu inThailand and Vietnam in2004 and 2005.

The virus has killed 236people in 12 countries since

2003.They used computer

modeling to study howvarious factors wereinvolved in the spread ofthe virus, including thenumbers of ducks, geeseand chickens, human popu-lation size, rice cultivationand local geography.

Even though Thailandand Vietnam addressed theoutbreaks in differentways, the researchersfound that the numbers ofducks and people, and theextent of rice cultivationwere the most importantcontributing factors under-pinning the outbreaks

“This provides betterinsight on where and whenthe H5N1 risk is highest,so it’s possible to betterpinpoint where to look forthe virus or where to expectflare-up of disease and alsowhen to expect it,” JanSlingenbergh, seniorveterinary officer for theFood and AgricultureOrganization, said in atelephone interview

MNA/Reuters

The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) hasstopped all sales of Italian buffalo mozzarella cheese inSingapore following reports of unusually high levels of

toxic chemical dioxin detected in the milk used toproduce the cheese in some Italian farms.— INTERNET

BEIJING, 27 March — Thedisclosure of 3.6 million USdollars in hidden tobaccomoney behind a big studysuggesting that lung scansmight help save smokersfrom cancer has shocked theresearch community andraised fresh concern aboutindustry influence in im-portant science.

Two medical journalsthat published studies byWeill Cornell Medical Col-lege researchers in 2006are looking into tobacco

cash and other financialties that weren’t revealed.The studies reported bene-fits from lung scans, whichthe Cornell team has longtouted.

Many were stunned tolearn that a foundationCornell set up and listed inthe New England Journal of

Medicine in October 2006as a sponsor of the studyactually got 3.6 milliondollars from a parentcompany of cigarette makerLiggett Group Inc.Thetobacco source was reportedin a New York Times storyWednesday.

Xinhua

NASA science chief resignspost suddenly

WASHINGTON, 27 March — NASA’s science chiefresigned on Wednesday after just a year in the post, withthe US space agency giving no reason for his suddendeparture.

The US space agency said planetary scientist AlanStern is quitting as associate administrator for the ScienceMission Directorate.

The announcement came a day after NASA rescindeda letter sent last week to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory inCalifornia directing budget cuts in one of NASA’sleading science missions, the Mars explorationprogramme. — MNA/Reuters

File photo shows a man

walking past an AIDS

awareness billboard in

Hanoi. Asian

governments must

devote more funds to

preventing AIDS or face

the risk the disease

could kill nearly

500,000 people each

year across the

continent by 2020, a

United Nations report

says.—INTERNET

Tourist ride elephants at one of the main shrines atAngkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia in this 1

March, 2007 file photo. Destinations once deemed todangerous or remote for travelers such as Angkor

Wat are now being overrun with tourist seeking thatone last great destination.—INTERNET

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S P O R T S

Sergio Avila (L) of Mexico's Chivas fights for the ballwith Charles Catro of Colombia's Cucuta Deportivoduring their Copa Libertadores soccer match at theGeneral Santander stadium in Cucuta on 27 March,

2008.—INTERNET

University of Louisville forward Earl Clark (L) and Univer-sity of Tennessee guard Chris Lofton (R) crash to the floorwhile trying to gain possession of the ball in the second halfof their NCAA men's East Regional basketball game in Charlotte, North Carolina on 27 March, 2008.—INTERNET

Ramon Morales (L) of Mexico’s Chivas fights for theball with Charles Castro of Colombia’s Deportivo

Cucuta during their Copa Libertadores soccer match atthe General Santander stadium in Cucuta on 27 March,

2008.—INTERNET

Spain’s national team player Joan Capdevila, right,duels for the ball against Italy’s national team player

Mauro Camoranesi, during an exhibition soccer match,at the Martinez Valero stadium in Elche, Spain, on 26

March, 2008.—INTERNET

Israel beat Chile 1-0 withBenayoun goal

TEL AVIV, 28 March — Israel beat Chile 1-0 in afriendly international on Wednesday with Liverpoolmidfielder Yossi Benayoun scoring from a free kick inthe 31st minute. Both teams had their share of chancesin a fast-paced encounter but Israel's stronger defendingand some loose finishing by the Chileans allowed mostof the 24,463 spectators to go home happy.

Benayoun's free kick beat the wall and ended up inthe back of Eduardo Lobos's net. It was the Israelicaptain's 15th goal in 63 international appearances.

MNA/Reuters

McCarthy breaks South Africangoalscoring record

Romania beat Russia 3-0 in friendlyBUCHAREST, 27 March — Romania beat Russia 3-0

in a friendly on Wednesday with goals from strikersCiprian Marica, Daniel Nicuale and Marius Niculae.

Romania dominated the match against a Russianteam drawn entirely from the domestic championship,with VfB Stuttgart striker Marica opening the scoringfrom the edge of the area on the stroke of half-time.

Coach Victor Piturca took off Adrian Mutu andCristian Chivu at the break and substitute DanielNiculae made it 2-0 after 60 minutes.

Inverness forward Marius Niculae scored the thirdwith a header from Banel Nicolita's cross from theright in the 76th. — MNA/Reuters

Karagounis strikestwice as Greecebeat Portugal

DUESSELDORF (Ger-many), 27 March —Midfielder GeorgosKaragounis struck twiceto give European champi-ons Greece a 2-1 win overPortugal in a friendly onWednesday. Greece, whobeat Portugal 1-0 in theEuro 2004 final in Lis-bon, went ahead when theformer Benfica playerlashed home a stunning20-metre free kick after33 minutes.

Karagounis made it 2-0 from another 20-metrefree kick 26 minutes later.

MNA/Reuters

Poland slump tohome defeat by US

KRAKOW (Poland), 27March — Euro 2008 fi-nalists Poland slumped toa 3-0 defeat by UnitedStates in a friendly onWednesday.

The Americans tookonly 12 minutes to go infront, Carlos Bocanegranodding in a pass fromLandon Donovan. An-other header by OguchiOnyewu from a corner byDonovan made it 2-0 inthe 35th.

Mexico beat Ghana as Sanchezprepares to face music

Koller strike gives Czechsdraw in Denmark

COPENHAGEN, 27 March— A vintage strike by JanKoller earned the CzechRepublic a 1-1 draw withDenmark in a friendly onWednesday.

The towering strikersoared above ChristianPoulsen in the 42ndminute to head home aLibor Sionko cross justinside the right post, be-yond the reach of Den-mark goalkeeper ThomasSorensen.

The Czechs dominatedpossession but created fewchances, usually settlingfor speculative balls to-ward Koller in the pen-alty area.

The Danes opened thescoring through NicklasBendtner, who calmlyslotted the ball home in

the 25th minute after a one-two with debutant Tho-mas Kristensen. WilliamKvist almost won thematch for the Danes in thedying minutes, but Czechkeeper Jaromir Blazek wasthere at full stretch to stophis well-placed shot fromoutside the box.

MNA/Reuters

LONDON, 27 March —Pavel Pardo converted alate penalty to giveMexico a 2-1 friendly vic-tory over Ghana onWednesday, handing be-leaguered coach HugoSanchez a boost five daysbefore a meeting which isexpected to decide hisfuture.

The Mexican Federa-tion (FMF) is due to meeton Monday to decidewhether Sanchez, who

has been in charge for 18months, can continue inthe job.

Sanchez, widely re-garded as the finest playerMexico has produced, hasbeen under fire since theUnder-23 team, which healso coaches, failed toqualify for the OlympicGames in Beijing.

In the game played atFulham's Craven Cottage,Mexico created plenty ofchances, forward Antoniode Nigris forcing Ghanakeeper Richard Kingsoninto making a save afteronly 17 seconds, whileNery Castillo had a shotblocked on the line by JohnMensah. — MNA/Reuters

PRETORIA, 28 March —Striker Benni McCarthyscored a record-breaking30th international goal forSouth Africa as they beatParaguay 3-0 in a friendlyat the Super Stadium inAtteridgeville, near Pre-

toria, on Wednesday. The Blackburn Rovers

forward, playing in his 70thinternational, rose abovetwo defenders to headhome a cross from Sur-prise Moriri just two min-utes into the second half.

The strike took himpast the previous recordof 29 set by Shaun Bartlett.

Moriri had opened thescoring just after the half-hour mark with a close-range volley after expertlychesting down a stingingsquare cross from overlap-ping full back TsepoMasilela. MidfielderSiphiwe Tshabalala addedthe third in the 63rd minute,chipping Paraguay goal-keeper Justo Villar from theedge of the area.

MNA/Reuters

Euro 2008 finalists Turkeyheld to draw in Belarus

MINSK, 27 March — Tuncay Sanli scored one goaland set up another to help Euro 2008 finalists Turkeydraw 2-2 with Belarus in a friendly on Wednesday.Vitali Kutuzov gave the hosts a 1-0 lead in the 34thminute before Middlesbrough striker Tuncay levelledwith a low drive from the edge of the box three minuteslater.

Vyacheslav Hleb, younger brother of Arsenalmidfielder Aleksandr Hleb, put Belarus back in frontwith a solo effort in the 64th.

MNA/Reuters

Five goal Mifsud helps Maltarout Liechtenstein

TA' QALI, 27 March —Michael Mifsud scoredfive goals to inspire Maltato a 7-1 victory over 10-man Liechtenstein in afriendly on Wednesday.

In an action-packedopening 21 minutes,Mifsud converted twopenalties either side of atap-in.

To make matters worsefor Liechtenstein they haddefender Fabio D'Elia sentoff for tripping thegoalbound Etienne

Barbara in the 21stminute.

Jamie Pace nettedMalta's fourth beforestriker Mifsud, who playsfor English Championshipside (Second Division)Coventry City, was ontarget again in the 59thand 69th minutes. De-fender Brian Said, a latesubstitute, added a sev-enth for Malta with fourminutes left.

Franz Burgmeiergrabbed a consolationgoal for Liechtenstein inthe 51st. Neither teamqualified for Euro 2008.

MNA/Reuters

MNA/Reuters

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WEATHER

R 489 Published by the News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar. Edited and printed at The New Light of Myanmar Press,No 22/30 Strand Road at 43rd Street, Yangon. Cable Newlight, PO Box No. 43, Telephones: Editors 392308, Manager 392226, Circulation 392304, Advertisement 392223,Accounts 392224, Administration 392225, Production/Press 392369

Friday, 28 March, 2008Summary of observations recorded at 9:30 hours

MST: During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowershave been scattered in Shan State, isolated in KachinState, weather has been partly cloudy in the remainingStates and Divisions. Day temperatures were (3ºC) to(4ºC) above March average temperatures in Manda-lay, Magway, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Divisionsand about March average temperatures in the remain-ing States and Divisions. The significant day tempera-tures were Chauk and Minbu (42ºC) each, Monywa,Myingyan, NyaungU and Magway (40ºC) each. Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Thipaw(0.20) inch, Putao and Lashio (0.08) inch each,Machanbaw and Kengtung (0.06) inch each.

Maximum temperature on 27-3-2008 was 98ºF.Minimum temperature on 28-3-2008 was 73ºF. Rela-tive humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 28-3-2008 was71%. Total sunshine hours on 27-3-2008 was (7.4)hours approx.

Rainfall on 28-3-2008 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since1-1-2008 was (0.67) inch at Mingaladon, (0.47 ) inchat Kaba-Aye and (0.35) inch at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was(4) mph from Southwest at (18:30) hours MST on27-3-2008.

Bay inference: According to the observations at(15:30) hrs MST today, a low pressure area has formedover Southeast Bay and adjoining East Central Bay.Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy in the AndamanSea, East central and Southeast Bay and generally fairelsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 29-3-2008: Like-lihood of isolated rain or thundershowers in Kachinand Shan States, upper Sagaing and Taninthayi Divi-sions, weather will be partly cloudy in the Chin andRakhine States, Mandalay, Magway, Bago, Yangonand Ayeyawady Divisions and generally fair in theremaining areas. Degree of certainty is (60%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihoodof slight increase of day temperatures in the CentralMyanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouringarea for 29-3-2008: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 29-3-2008: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 29-3-2008: Partly cloudy

Weather outlook for first weeken of April 2008:During the coming weekend, weather will be partlycloudy in Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon and Mandalay Divi-sions.

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21.The next day’sprogramme

Chavez hailsBrazil’s idea on

S Americandefence council

RIO DE JANEIRO, 28March— Venezuela’sPresident Hugo ChavezWednesday hailed Brazil’sproposal to create a SouthAmerican defence council,suggesting it could serveas a South Atlantic versionof NATO.

Chavez said heregarded the proposal as“extraordinary” when hearrived in Recife, the capitalcity of northeasternBrazilian state of Pernam-buco, for a meeting withhis Brazilian counterpartLuiz Inacio Lula daSilva.—MNA/Xinhua

Highway traffic accidentkills seven in Saudi Arabia RIYADH, 28 March — Seven people have been killed

and at least 30 injured in a highway traffic accidentThursday on the Riyadh-Qasim Highway between a buscarrying Bahraini plates and a fuel tanker in Saudi Arabia,the official Saudi Press Agency SPA reported.

The report said the accident led to leakage of fuel fromthe tanker and fire engulfed the tanker and the bus. Itresulted in the death of seven people and injury of 33people, four of them are in critical condition.

The traffic accident occurred on the Qasim Highwayin central Saudi Arabia, some 35 kilometres away fromthe province of Majmaah.

Local media spokesman Abdullah Alqfari said thatlocal fire fighting teams, rescue teams and ambulancesrushed to the scene to tackle the accident immediately.

MNA/Xinhua

Bulgaria seizes 38 kilos ofheroin at turkey’s border

SOFIA, 28 March — Bulgarian customs officers at theMalko Tarnovo border checkpoint with Turkey seized38 kilos of heroin Wednesday, the local Sofia NewsAgency reported Thursday.

During a routine check, officials found 40 packagesof the drug hidden in a secret compartment in a busheaded to Romania.

According to official preliminary estimates, the seizedheroin is worth more than four million euros (2.5 millionUS dollars).

The Turkish driver of the bus was arrested and aninvestigation is underway.

Bulgaria is on a key transit route for the smuggling ofdrugs from Asia and the Middle East to Western Europe.

In the last eight years, Bulgarian Customs hasconfiscated over 19.2 tons of drugs. — MNA/Xinhua

A police officer displays a fossil jawbone they found while investigating asuspicious package on a bus in the mountains of Peru, during a news conference

in Arequipa on 25 March, 2008. The fossil, initially identified by acheologistPablo de la Vera Cruz of the National University as possibly that of a triceratops,

weighs some 19 pounds (8.5 kilos) and was found in the cargo hold of aninterprovincial bus.—INTERNET

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8th Waning of Tabaung 1369 ME Saturday, 29 March, 2008

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

SPECIAL FEATURES TO HONOUR THE 63rd ANNIVERSARY ARMED FORCES DAYARTICLE

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POEM CARTOON

Indivisible are the Tatmadawand the people

Objectives of the 63rdAnniversary Armed Forces Day

* To work in concert with the peoplein building a peaceful, modern, de-veloped and discipline-flourishingdemocratic nation

* To realize the seven-step Road Mapof the State joining hands with thepeople

* Joining hands with the people andbased on Union Spirit to crush in-ternal and external destructive ele-ments sabotaging stability and de-velopment of the State

* To build a strong, capable and mod-ern patriotic Tatmadaw to safeguardOur Three Main National Causes

YANGON, 28 March — The 63rd AnniversaryArmed Forces Day Parade of Yangon Commandwas held at the parade ground of the commandyesterday morning, with an opening speech by Com-mander of Yangon Command Maj-Gen Hla HtayWin.

The parade column led by Parade CommanderLt-Col Myo Myint took the designated place.

Then, Commander Maj-Gen Hla Htay Win tookthe salute of the parade column after taking the

Commander addresses 63rdAnniversary Armed Forces Day

Parade of Yangon Commandposition on the dais in the ground.

The commander, the parade column and guestssaluted the Flag of the Union of Myanmar and thefallen soldiers. Next, the Tatmadawmen of the paradecolumn took four oaths, followed by the speech of thecommander. Afterwards, the commander presentedgifts to those who stood first in the military codes ofconduct (central level) and first, second, third andconsolation prizes to the respective parade compa-nies. — MNA

Progress of Border Areas and National RacesSector in the Time of Tatmadaw Government

Tatmadaw withhistoric finetraditions

* All along history Powerful was the nation �And tall it stood Tatmadaw* �Throughout successive eras Sacrificing lives, blood its

members �Safeguards nation the

Tatmadaw

Commander Maj-Gen Hla Htay Win delivers an address at 63rd Anniversary Armed Forces

Day Parade of Yangon Command. —MNA

The state constitution has beendrawn with the principles that can ensure theTatmadaw and the people to be