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Established 1914

14th Waning of First Waso 1369 ME Friday, 13 July, 2007Volume XV, Number 88

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

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development of other sectors of theeconomy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented eco-nomic system

* Development of the economy inviting partici-pation in terms of technical know-how andinvestments from sources inside the countryand 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 integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

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

ards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace andtranquillity, prevalence of law and order

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

tution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 13 July— Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peaceand Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations toHis Excellency Mr Filip Vujannovic, President of the Republic of Montenegro, on theoccasion of the National Day of the Republic of Montenegro which falls on 13 July 2007.

MNA

Senior General Than Shwesends message of felicitations

to Montenegro

NAY PYI TAW, 12 July— Member of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Lt-Gen KhinMaung Than of the Min-istry of Defence, accom-panied by Chairman ofBago Division PDC Com-mander of Southern Com-mand Maj-Gen Ko Ko andVice-Chairman Col SeinMyint, Col Maung MaungAye of Inma Station anddepartmental officials,viewed running of small-scale hydropower genera-tor in Bogyikon Villageof Thayawady Districtyesterday.

In meeting with localpeople, Lt-Gen KhinMaung Than gave instruc-tions on participation oflocal people in construc-tion of self-relianthydropower generators intheir respective areas.

The two 3-kilowattgenerators at BogyikonVillage can supply elec-tricity to 300 fluorescentlamps. At present, the gen-erator supplies power to80 fluorescent lamps andone TV.

In Thayawady, Lt-Gen

Bago Division to put 3m acres of landunder monsoon paddy, 1.6m acres underpea, 400,000 acres under summer paddyand 500,000 acres under edible oil crops

Khin Maung Than metdepartmental personnel,social organization mem-bers and local people atSaya San Hall.

Chairman of Thaya-wady District PDC UKyaw Khaing Soe re-ported on progress of thedistrict. The commandergave a supplementary re-port.

After hearing the re-ports, Lt-Gen Khin MaungThan stressed the need togrow 10 major crops in-cluding monsoon and

summer paddy inThayawady District forexceeding the target. Of-ficials are to supervisecultivation of monsoonpaddy, pulses and beansand summer paddy on thedesignated areas to meetthe target acreage. It isnecessary to organize lo-cal farmers to extend10,000 acres of rubber inThayawady District andto provide necessary as-sistance and agriculturaltechnologies to them.

(See page 8)

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Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than of Ministry of Defence visits monsoon paddy transplanting ceremony for 2007-2008 in Letpadan Township. — MNA

Bay of BengalInitiative for

Multi-Sectoral Tech-

nical andEconomic

Cooperation(BIMSTEC)

The first Summit held inBangkok in July 2004 changedthe body's name to Bay of Ben-gal Initiative for Multi-SectoralTechnical and Economic Coop-eration (BIMSTEC).

ECONOMIC DEPARTMENT

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND

ECONOMIC DEPARTMENT

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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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, 13 July, 2007

The government is providing necessaryassistance for national entrepreneurs andencouraging export services through the ex-ercise of the export and import policy toachieve one of the economic objectives —Proper evolution of the market-oriented eco-nomic system.

It is also giving encouragement for exten-sive reclamation of vacant and fallow landsand cultivation of the 10 major crops includ-ing paddy, along with edible oil crops, peren-nial crops, new crops and other suitable cropsthroughout the nation. National entrepre-neurs, farmers and livestock breeders areengaged in growing marketable crops, rais-ing farm animals and producing marine prod-ucts through mutual interests system.

The nation can enjoy economic develop-ment only when it is able to boost productionof goods. National entrepreneurs with in-vestments should have to make investmentsextensively not only in service and trade sec-tors but also in the manufacturing sector.

In the process, national entrepreneursare to engage systematically in the enter-prises that can bring benefits not only toindividuals and groups but also to the State.

Furthermore, they are to work hard so asto speed up export of goods and earn moreforeign exchanges and to spread their wingsin manufacturing import-substitute goodsfor helping the nation reduce its reliance onimported goods and stand on its feet.

Therefore, making use of the assistanceof the government effectively, national entre-preneurs should make harmonious efforts toboost production and export of goods, manu-facture import-substitute items, minimize lossand wastage and practise thrifty for greatnational economic development.

Boost commodity productionfor national economic growth

Under the patronage of U Kyi Myint, his familydonated K 100,000 to Hninzigon Home for theAged to mark 70th birthday of Daw Khin Hla ofBaho Road, Hledan, Kamayut Township,Yangon, recently. Lt-Col Kyaw Shein (Retd),Chairman of the executive committee of the

Home accepts the donation. —H

Joint Secretary of MFPTMA leaves for SingaporeYANGON, 12 July —

Joint Secretary ofMyanmar Forest Products

and Timber MerchantsAssociation Dr Myo Thettoday left here for Singa-

pore to attend the workcommittee meeting of15th ASEAN Furniture In-dustries Council to be heldin Singapore from 13 to15 July.

The joint secretary wasseen off at Yangon Inter-national Airport by Gen-eral Secretary U Nay TunMin and Executive U MinThaw Kaung and respon-sible personnel. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 12 July — The State Peace andDevelopment Council has confirmed the followingpersons as heads of service organizations shownagainst each on expiry of the one-year probationaryperiod.Name Appointment(a) Dr Myint Thein Rector

University of VeterinaryScienceMinistry of Livestock andFisheries

(b) U Thein Lwin Managing DirectorMyanma PetrochemicalEnterpriseMinistry of Energy

(c) U Tun Lwin Director-GeneralDepartment of Meteoro-logy and Hydrology Ministry of Transport

The State Peace and Development Councilhas appointed Deputy Director-General U Than Tunof Department of Consular and Legal Affairs underthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director-Generalof the same department on probation from the date heassumes charge of his duties. — MNA

MYANMAR GAZETTE

NAY PYI TAW, 11July — Under the pa-tronage of Minister forProgress of Border Ar-eas and National Racesand Development Af-fairs Col Thein Nyuntand wife Daw KyinKhaing, the 14th WasoRobes Offering Cer-emony of the ministrywas held at the meetinghall of the ministry,here, this morning.

The ceremonywas attended by mem-bers of the Sangha led byPresiding NayakaSayadaw Agga MahaPandita Agga MahaGanthavacaka PanditaBhaddanta Visara ofZaygon Monastery, Min-ister Col Thein Nyuntand wife Daw Kyin

PBANRDA holds WasoRobes Offering Ceremony

Khaing and familymembers of the staff.

First, the con-gregation received theFive Precepts from theSayadaw and membersof the Sangha recitedparittas. Next, the min-ister and wife, depart-mental heads andwellwishers offeredWaso robes and provi-sions to the Sayadawand members of theSangha. Later, thosepresent shared the mer-its gained.

After that, thecongregation offered‘soon’ to the members ofthe Sangha.

MNA

BEIJING, 12 July —Chinese scientists have de-veloped a “Wing-In-Ground” (WIG) aircraftwhich can fly long dis-tances just a few feet abovethe sea surface, state me-dia said on Wednesday.

The plane can fly aslow as half a metre (1 foot 7inches) off the surface, hit-ting speeds of up to 300kilometres (180 miles) perhour and can carry up to fourtons on takeoff.

MNA/Reuters

China developswater-

skimming plane

Minister Col Thein

Nyunt and wife offer

Waso Robe to a

Sayadaw.

MNA

Dr Myo Thet, JointSecretary of

MFPTMA, beingseen off by officials atYangon International

Airport. — UMFCCI

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Iran starts new probe overdetained Iranian-Americans

TEHERAN, 11 July—Iran’s judicial authoritieshave launched investi-gations based on freshevidence in the cases oftwo Iranian-Americansdetained on spyingcharges, a judiciary spokes-man said on Tuesday.

Haleh Esfandiari, aMiddle East expert atthe US-based WoodrowWilson InternationalCentre for Scholars, andAli Tajbakhsh, urbanplanning consultant with

George Soros’ Open So-ciety Institute are beingheld on security charges.

Two other Iranian-Americans are accused ofthe same charges. One ofthem has been freed onbail but is banned fromleaving the country.

“We have receivedfresh evidence about(Esfandiari and Taj-bakhsh’s charges ... freshinvestigations have startedbased on this evidence,”judiciary spokesman

Alireza Jamshidi told aweekly news conference.

The United States hascalled for the release ofthe Iranian-Americans,denying any involvementby them in spyingactivities.

Iran, which does notrecognize dual natio-nalities, accuses Washin-gton of using intellectualsto carry out a “softor velvet revolution”to topple the Islamicstate.

Jamshidi said lastmonth that the cases ofthe four “were in the finalstages and results of theinvestigations will beannounced in the next oneto two weeks.”

MNA/Reuters

Suicide bomber killsfour people in

N IraqMOSUL, 12 July — A suicide bomber stormed

a wedding ceremony in a town near the northernIraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, killing four peopleand wounding five others, local police source said.

”A suicide bomber wearing an explosive-belt blew himself up in a wedding party inside ahouse in the town of Tal Afar, 70 km west ofMosul,” Staff Brigadier Ibrahim al-Jubouri, chiefpolice of the town told Xinhua by telephone.

The attack targeted the house of a brotherof an Iraqi police officer in the town, killing fourpeople and wounding five others, most of them incritical condition, al-Jubouri said.

In a separate incident, a car bomb detonatedin the Bab Sinjar neighbourhood in western Mosul,local police source said.

The attack targeted a passing police patrolin the neighbourhood, wounding two policemenand four civilians, the source added.

Mosul is the capital of the Iraqi Ninevehprovince, some 400 km north of Baghdad.

Xinhua

US Army misses recruittarget, Marines beat goal

Car bombing at militarypost kills up to 10 soldiers

ALGIERS, 11 July— Asuicide bomber blew up arefrigerated truck alleg-edly packed with up to aton of explosives inside a

military encampmentsoutheast of the Algeriancapital, killing 10 soldiersand wounding up to 35,a security official said.

Al-Qaida’s NorthAfrican affiliate claimedresponsibility for the truckattack on Wednesday,saying the truck carriedmore than a ton ofexplosives, the Al-JazeeraTV network reported,quoting a recorded mes-sage from an allegedspokesman for the ex-tremist group.

The truck drove into thesmall post on the edge ofLakhdaria, some 80kilometres (50 miles) fromAlgiers, as the doorsopened in the morning forarriving personnel, thesecurity official said. Hewas not authorized todiscuss the bombing andspoke on condition ofanonymity.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 11 July—The US Army, strained bythe war in Iraq, fell nearly1,400 recruits short in June,the Pentagon said onTuesday, marking thesecond straight month themilitary’s largest branchmissed its target for newsoldiers.

The active-duty Armyrecruited 7,031 soldiers inJune, missing its goal of8,400. That followed ashortfall in May, when theArmy signed up 5,101recruits, below its goal of5,500. Other active-dutybranches of the US military

met or exceeded goals,according to Pentagondata.

For example, theMarine Corps, which toohas been strained bydeployments to Iraq andAfghanistan, recruited4,113 new Marines, ex-ceeding its goal of 3,742for June. Of the reserveforces, all except the AirNational Guard met orexceeded monthly recrui-ting targets, the DefenceDepartment said.

Defence officials,speaking on Mondayahead of the release of theJune figures, called theArmy’s shortfall trou-bling. June is typically astrong recruiting month,given the timing of highschool graduation in theUnited States. Pentagon

polling data has shownparental support forrecruitment has declined.

If the downward trendcontinues at current rates,the Army could miss itsannual target of 80,000new soldiers for thecurrent fiscal year, ending30 September.

The Army last missedannual recruiting goals infiscal years 2005 and1999. — MNA/Reuters

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) shakes hands with NavinchandraRamgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius, at the Great Hall of the People in

Beijing, on 11 July, 2007.—XINHUA

This hand out from Colegio de la FronteraSur(CFS) shows a man holding a 20kg (41lbs)

white mushroom at a coffee farm of Chiapas state,Mexico, near the border with Guatemala, where it

was discovered.—XINHUA

A soldier carries anelderly woman in the floodwater in Chizhou city, eastChina’s Anhui Province,on 10 July, 2007. The citywitnessed heavy rainfallrecently, which caused

over 30 villages andtownships flooded, sixpeople dead and two

others missing.—XINHUA

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BEIJING,12 July—TheUS Food and DrugAdministration (FDA)Wednesday concludedthat tomatoes do not reallyhelp prevent cancer afterits review of all knownlycopene studies.

“(The) review found noevidence that tomatoesreduced the risk of lung,colorectal, breast, cervicalor endometrial cancer.However, there was verylimited evidence forassociations betweentomato consumption andreduced risk of prostate,ovarian, gastric andpancreatic cancers.”

“Very limited andpreliminary scientificresearch suggests thateating one-half to one cupof tomatoes and/or tomatosauce a week may reducethe risk of prostate cancer.

(The) FDA concludesthat there is little scientificevidence supporting this

KOLKATA (India), 11July — Hundreds ofthousands of peopleremained stranded withlittle food and water for a

WASHINGTON, 11 July— Opposition to the Iraqwar has climbed to arecord high and PresidentGeorge W Bush’s ap-proval rating dropped to anew low amid growingdissent from members ofhis own Republican Partyover his war strategy,according to a newUSAToday/Gallup poll.

Bush’s approval drop-ped to 29 per cent in thepoll taken Friday throughSunday, down from 33 percent in early June, USAToday reported onTuesday.

Poll shows US opposition toIraq war hits new high

One in five Americanssaid the increase in USforces in Iraq this year hasmade the situation therebetter while half said it hasmade no difference, thenewspaper said.

More than seven in 10Americans favour with-drawing nearly all UStroops from Iraq by April,the newspaper said.

More than half, 55 percent, said Congress shouldwait to hear an assessmentfrom General David Pet-raeus before developingnew Iraq policy, the reportsaid.

Petraeus, the com-mander of US forces inIraq, is due to deliver hisfindings in September, but40 per cent of those polledsaid Congress should actnow, the paper said.

Sixty-two per cent ofthose polled said theUnited States made amistake in sending troopsto Iraq, marking the firsttime that number hastopped 60 per cent in thissurvey, USA Today said.

The poll also showedsupport for Bush slippingamong Republicans whogave him a 68-per-cent

rating, down from anaverage 92 per cent in hisfirst term and 82 per centearlier in his second, USAToday said.

According to thereport, nearly four in 10Republicans cited theimmigration debate,which ended in defeat forBush’s overhaul proposal,as the reason for losingconfidence in him.

The poll of 1,014adults, taken Fridaythrough Sunday has anerror margin of plus orminus three percentagepoint. — MNA/Reuters

Sailboats set out atXinghaiwan Harbour

in Dalian, a coastal cityin northeast China’s

Liaoning Province, on11 July, 2007.

XINHUA

Singaporean Deputy Prime Minister Wong KanSeng (rear 5th R) and Chinese Vice Premier Wu

Yi (rear 4th L) attend the ceremony of signingmemorandums of understanding during the

Meeting of the 4th Singapore-China Joint Councilfor Bilateral Cooperation in Singapore on 11 July,

2007. —XINHUA

FDA: tomatoes do not helpprevent cancer

claim.”The review, which

appears in Tuesday’s issueof the Journal of theNational Cancer Institute,refutes numerous studieswhich have pointed to alink between eatinglycopene, the antioxidantthat gives tomatoes theirred color, and a reducedrisk of certain cancers.

Internet

The US Food and DrugAdministration (FDA)

on Wednesdayconcluded that tomatoesdo not really help preventcancer after its review of

all known lycopenestudies.—INTERNET

BAGHDAD, 11 July— Abig mortar and rocketattack on Baghdad’sheavily fortified GreenZone compound onTuesday killed two Iraqisand a Filipino and wound-ed 25 other people, Iraqipolice said.

Police said some 30mortars and rockets werefired at the compound,which houses the IraqiGovernment along withthe US and British embas-sies.

It was one of the biggestbarrages against the zonesince the US-led invasionin 2003.

A US embassy spokes-man said he was not awareof anyone getting killed,adding there had beenaround a dozen explosionsinside the zone, whichcovers a large area ofcentral Baghdad and isbounded on one side bythe Tigris River.

Hundreds of thousands strandedin India floods

seventh day in easternIndia, while heavy rainscontinued to pour in thewest sparking moreflooding, officials said onTuesday.

At least 187 peoplehave died and sevenmillion have been affectedby flooding caused by theannual June-Septembermonsoon rains acrosseastern, western andsouthern parts of thecountry.

The rains, which havecaused rivers and damsto overflow, swampingtowns and villages, havekilled around 770 peopleacross India, Pakistan,

Bangladesh and Afghani-stan.

In India, hundreds offlooded villages in theeastern state of WestBengal remained cut off,with some residentsstranded in trees and onrooftops with onlycoconuts to eat.

“It was distressing tosee so many peopleperched on rooftops andcrying for help,” saidRamesh Kumar Das, adefence official, who ishelping the Indian AirForce distribute food tomarooned villagers fromhelicopters.

MNA/Reuters

Iraqi police say Green Zonemortar barrage kills three

Reuters reporters sawsmoke rising in the vicinityof the US Embassy justafter the strike.

Police said many of thewounded were Iraqis.Contractors of numerousnationalities work insidethe compound, oftenemployed by securitycompanies.

MNA/Reuters

A dancer from

Peru’s Jallmay

Dance Company

waits for the

starts of the

‘Ciudad de

Burgos’ festival

in Burgos,

northern Spain,

on 11 July.

INTERNET

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

S Korea, EU exchange tariffoffers ahead of FTA talks

SEOUL, 11 July—SouthKorea and the EuropeanUnion (EU) have ex-changed proposals ontariffs in preparation forthe second round ofnegotiations for free tradeagreement (FTA), SouthKorea’s Yonhap newsagency said on Tuesday.

In the proposal, South

Korea asked the EU toexempt rice and about 150agricultural and fisheriesgoods, out of 1,452 suchitems, from the agreement,Yonhap quoted an officialof the Ministry of ForeignAffairs and Trade assaying.

South Korea and the EUheld their first round of

FTA talks in Seoul in May.They agreed to have thesecond FTA negotiationsfrom 16 to 20 July inBrussels.

In the first round of FTAtalks, the two sides agreedto eliminate tariffs on 95per cent of bilateral trade.South Korea’s averagetariff is 11.2 per cent, farhigher than the EU’s 4.2per cent. The EU is SouthKorea’s second-largesttrading partner afterChina. The trade volumebetween South Korea andthe EU totalled 79.4 billionUS dollars in 2006.

MNA/Xinhua

ASEAN Elenex targets toincrease 20% in sale

KUALA LUMPUR, 11July—ASEAN Elenex,the 7th Power Generation,Transmission and Elec-

trical Engineering Ex-hibition to be held from18 to 21 July in Malaysia,is expected to generate a20-per-cent increase insales to 800 million ring-git (235.29 million USdollars).

About 600 companiesfrom 40 countries willattend the event, theorganizer said in astatement on Tuesday.

The exhibition at theKuala Lumpur Conven-tion Centre has attractednational pavilions fromChina, India, Singapore,South Korea and theUnited Kingdom.

About 12,000 tradevisitors are scheduled to

network and pursuebusiness opportunitiesduring ASEAN Elenex.

The event is heldconcurrently with thebiennial ASEAN Indus-trial Automation Exhi-bition (IA) 2007 at thesame venue, the nationalnews agency Bernama re-ported.

According to theorganizer, interest in IA2007 has been high due toMalaysia’s current posi-tion as Asia's leadingsource of machine-buil-ding and systems inte-gration expertise, espe-cially for the electronicsmanufacturing sector.

MNA/Xinhua

China appreciatesSwitzerland’s recognition

BEIJING, 11 July—Chinese Vice -Premier HuiLiangyu expressed his appreciation on Monday ofSwitzerland’s recognition of China’s full marketeconomy status.

“I appreciate the Swiss Government’s recognitionof our full market economy status, and I believe thatdecision will create a better environment and a broaderspace for bilateral economic and trade cooperation,”Hui told visiting Swiss Federal Councillor DorisLeuthard. Leuthard, who is also head of the FederalDepartment of Economic Affairs, held talks with herChinese counterpart Bo Xilai on Sunday and, on behalfof the Swiss Government, announced that Switzerlandofficially recognized China’s full market economystatus. Hui said Switzerland is an important economicpartner for China and that Swiss products are veryfamous in China.

He pointed out that China is the largest source ofimports and the second largest export market forSwitzerland, and he hoped firms from the two countrieswould strengthen cooperation in areas such as high-tech, resource utilization and environmentalprotection.— MNA/Xinhua

Vietnam’s automobilesales surge in 1st half

HANOI, 11 July— Automobile joint ventures inVietnam posted total sales of 28,528 vehicles in thefirst half of this year, up 79 per cent over the sameperiod last year, according to a local industrialassociation on Tuesday.

In June alone, the country’s automobile sales stoodat 6,083 units, increasing 62 per cent over last June,said the Vietnam Automobile ManufacturersAssociation.

Last month, Toyota Vietnam kept on holding thebiggest local market share, with 1,774 units sold,followed by local bus and truck maker Truong Haiwith 956 vehicles, and Vinaxuki with 608.

Automobile joint ventures in Vietnam, soleproducers of cars and main makers of other kindsof automobiles in the country, sold 39,876 vehiclesin 2006, down from 40,853 in 2005, said theassociation.

Last year, Vietnam with a population of over 83million housed 13 automobile joint ventures with totalregistered capital of nearly 700 million US dollars andcombined annual capacity of 173,000 units.

MNA/Xinhua

Indonesia, Singapore torenegotiate defence agreement

JAKARTA, 11 July—Indonesia and Singaporehave agreed to discussseveral contentious arti-cles in the DefenceCooperation Agreement(DCA) that hamper theimplementation, a seniorofficial said here Monday.

“The heads of the twogovernments agreed tocontinue with the negoti-ations,” Indonesian De-fence Minister JuwonoSudarsono was quoted bythe national Antara newsagency as saying.

The negotiating teamswill be led by the foreignministers, he said.

The DCA, which grantsSingapore the right toconduct military exercisesin the Indonesian terri-tories, was signed on 27April along with the ex-

tradition treaty. But Indonesia has

expressed objection toseveral proposals fromSingapore, including arequest for the right to holdthe exercises 15 times amonth.—MNA/Xinhua

A total of 73 oil paintings by 12 young painters from Shenzhen are on displayat an exhibition in the National Art Museum of China in Beijing until

17 July, 2007.—INTERNET

A model wears a creation by Indian fashiondesigner Neeta Lulla during the Alta Roma

Fashion week in Rome on 10 July, 2007. —XINHUA

Fresh fromtaking a

billion-dollarhit for flawed

Xbox 360video gameconsoles,

Microsoft hasunveiled a

line-up of newtitles and a

deal todistribute

Disney moviesonline.

INTERNET

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UNITED NATIONS, 11July— UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonhighlighted on Wednes-day the significance ofmen’s care for maternalhealth and their supportfor women’s sexual andreproductive healthrights.

“As partners formaternal health, men cansave lives,” Ban said in amessage marking thisyear’s World PopulationDay.

In case of immediatemedical care, the supportof an informed husband,

TIKRIT (Iraq), 11 July — Nine Iraqi soldiers onMonday were killed and 21 others injured in a roadsidebomb followed by gunfire attacks near the town of Balad,some 80 kilometres north of Baghdad, local police andmedics said.

“Gunmen blew up a roadside bomb near an IraqiArmy convoy and then opened fire with their machine-guns and small arms fire on the convoy,” local policesource told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Qasim Abbud, director of Balad Hospital, said theyhave received nine bodies and 21 injured soldiers. Theconvoy encountered the attack on its way from Tikrit, 170kilometres north of Baghdad, to the capital, said thepolice source, adding that several military vehicles of theconvoy were damaged by the attack. — MNA/Xinhua

BANGKOK, 11 July—Five soldiers were wound-ed when insurgents deto-nated a roadside bomb inThailand’s southernprovince of Pattani onTuesday, local mediareported.

The soldiers wereambushed when they werepatrolling on a pick-up inMayo District shortlybefore noon, the BangkokPost said on its website.

Police said the bomb,hidden near a trash can,was detonated when theywere passing by. Thevehicle was partly damag-ed. Five soldiers wereinjured during the blastand were rushed to MayoDistrict hospital.

Thailand’s threesouthernmost provinces— Pattani, Narathiwat and

BEIJING, 11 July—China, Australia and NewZealand will hold theirfirst-ever joint maritimedrill in September nearAustralia.

The news came out ofthe talks between ChineseDefence Minister CaoGangchuan and Australiancounterpart Brendan Nel-son on Monday.

Nelson said Chinesevessels would visit Austra-lia in September and holda “search-and-rescue

China, Australia, New Zealand tohold first joint maritime drill

exercise” with Australiaand New Zealand.

That will be good to“build trust and increasefriendship”, he said.

Cao lauded the drill,China’s first multilateralmaritime drill, as “a stepto show the expansion ofour substantive militarycooperation”.

China has conductedbilateral search-and-rescue drills withcountries includingBritain, France, Pakistan,India, Australia, Thailandand the United Statessince 2003. Nelson is hereon his first visit to Chinasince he assumed the postin January 2006.

His visit comes justdays after Australia issued

a defence policy paperthat said “the pace andscope of (China’s)military modernization ...could create misunder-standings and instabilityin the region”.

The Chinese ForeignMinistry last weekbrushed aside Australia’sconcerns over China’smilitary development,saying the country wasfirmly on the path ofpeaceful development.

Yet, neither Cao norNelson directly touchedupon the defence policypaper in their 90-minutetalks. Instead they bothhailed the good momen-tum of China-Australiamilitary ties.

MNA/Xinhua

Nine Iraqi soldiers killedin bomb attack

UN chief highlights men’s life-saving role in supportingmaternal health

who often makes deci-sions about familyplanning and the use ofhousehold resources,improves pregnancy andchildbirth outcomes andcan mean the differencebetween life and death incases of complications,Ban said.

More than half a

Soldiers wounded in Thaisouthern blast

Yala have been troubledwith insurgency-relatedviolence which hasclaimed more than 2,300lives since it resumed inearly 2004.

MNA/Xinhua

The Beastie Boys perform during a concert at the 41st Montreux JazzFestival on 9 July, 2007. —XINHUA

million women die eachyear during pregnancy andchildbirth, 99 percent ofthem in developingcountries.

Many more sufferserious complications thatcan have a severe impacton the quality of life forwomen and their families,he noted.

However, “almost allof this death and sufferingis preventable,” the UNchief said.

Despite the progressin terms of reducingmaternal death rates inseveral countries over thepast decade, much moreneeds to be done toachieve the MillenniumDevelopment Goal ofimproving maternalhealth around the worldby 2015, he said.

“Partnering with menis an important strategyfor advancing reprodu-ctive health and rights,”

A policeman inspects the site where three

Chinese workers were killed by unidentified

gunmen in the outskirts of the northern city of

Peshawar on 8 July , 2007. — XINHUA

Ban stressed.“Genderequality, another Millen-nium Development Goal,is most likely to beachieved when menrecognize that the lives ofmen and women areinterdependent and thatthe empowerment ofwomen benefits every-one,” he said.

Internet

UN Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon

North Carolina State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow (L) wipes away tearsas she accepts the Jimmy V award from actress Ashley Judd (C) and women’sbasketball coach Pat Summitt (R) at the “2007 ESPY Awards” in Hollywood

on 11 July, 2007. —INTERNET

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Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technicaland Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)

Economic DepartmentInternational Organizations and Economic DepartmentMinistry of Foreign Affairs

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-SectoralTechnical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) hasreached its tenth anniversary in June this year.

Widely known as BIMSTEC, the regional organiza-tion is a sound result of the integration of Thailand’sLook West policy and India's Look East policy. Thai-land adopted the Look West policy with the aim ofextending economic and trade ties with its westernneighbours — South Asian countries. Likewise, coun-tries of the Indian Sub Continent laid down the LookEast policy to establish close economic relations withSoutheast Asian nations after witnessing the latter'seconomic growth.

BIMSTEC is formed with countries touching theBay of Bengal or relying on the said sea for trade, withthe objective of promoting multi-sectoral cooperationfor economic and social progress of the region. Its sevenmembers are: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar,Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand. BIMSTEC was formedin June 1997 and it had six sectors of cooperation in1999. In 2006, the number of sectors was increased to 13.

With an idea of forming an economic cooperationgroup comprising Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, SriLanka and Thailand in the Bay of Bengal region, Thai-land initiated talks with India on the matter. As Myanmarhad not joined the body yet then, the ministerial meetinghosted by Thailand in Bangkok on 6 June 1997 formedthe Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand EconomicCooperation (BIST-EC).

As India aimed at forming the body with the partici-pation of Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka andThailand, it approached Myanmar and invited her toattend the ministerial meeting. As Myanmar wished towait and see the situation, she attended it as an observer.

Myanmar began to make preparations to join theBIMSTEC in June 1997. In accord with the procedures,the country presented a proposal to the body throughThailand that was taking the alternate chairmanship toenter the body in early July 1997. Without any objection,all the four founding member nations accepted Myanmar'sproposal. Myanmar started to attend the monthly meet-ing of the Bangkok-based BIST-EC Task Force at thesecond meeting held on 25 August 1997.

For the first time, Myanmar delegation led by theDeputy Minister of Foreign Affairs took part in theBIST-EC special ministerial meeting and the seniorofficials meeting held for four days from 19 to 22December 1997. The special ministerial meeting held on22 December, officially welcomed Myanmar andchanged the body's name from BIST-EC to Bangladesh-India-Myanmar-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Coop-eration (BIMST-EC) with the proclamation signed bydeputy foreign ministers of the five member countries.Later, Bhutan and Nepal joined the body.

The first Summit held in Bangkok in July 2004changed the body's name to Bay of Bengal Initiative forMulti-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation(BIMSTEC). The two acronyms "BIMST-EC" and"BIMSTEC" are the same in pronunciation but totallydifferent in meaning.

The BIMSTEC is organizing two senior officialsmeetings and one ministerial meeting annually and aSummit every two years to lay down future work pro-grammes and to implement them through coordination.

The regional body is holding its Task Force meeting

Sectors (1999-2005) Lead/Chairman Country(1) Trade and Investment/Sub-sector Bangladesh(2) Technology/Sub-sector India(3) Energy/Sub-sector India(4) Transportation & Communication/

Sub-sector Myanmar(5) Tourism/Sub-sector Sri Lanka(6) Fisheries/Sub-sector ThailandSectors expanded in 2006 Lead / Chairman Country(7) Poverty Alleviation/Sub-sector Nepal(8) Agriculture/Sub-sector Myanmar(9) Cultural Cooperation/Sub-sector Bhutan(10)Counter-Terrorism and Transnational

Crime/Sub-sector India(11)Environment and Disaster Management/

Sub-sector India(12)Public Health/Sub-sector Thailand(13)People-to-People Contact/Sub-sector Thailand

monthly in Bangkok at which every Lead Country presentssector-wise cooperation activities and the participantsdiscuss other matters including the sponsoring of aBIMSTEC film festival, the issuance of BIMSTEC busi-ness travellers card, the cooperation with Asian Develop-ment Bank, the establishment of main BIMSTEC websiteand setting up of the BIMSTEC Secretariat.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs can serve as acoordinator for other ministries to present their develop-ments, work programmes, stance and opinions to theTask Force meeting.

MOFA also serves as the central liaison department,and Myanmar is the Lead Country in energy and agricul-ture sectoral cooperation.

The first BIMSTEC Summit was hosted by Thailandin Bangkok on 31 July 2004. The regional body is not ableto sponsor its second Summit till now, although theplanned date was in 2006. At present, it is planning tohold the Summit in New Delhi in the early 2008.

Member countries take BIMSTEC chairmanship fora year in rotation in alphabetical order. The countryholding the chairmanship is responsible for hosting seniorofficials’ meetings, ministerial meetings and summits,and taking a leadership role in discussions aboutBIMSTEC affairs. At present, India is holding the

chairmanship. After theSecond Summit to be heldin New Delhi, Myanmarwill have to take over thechairmanship.

The Foreign AffairsMinister has to lead thedelegation of the countryconcerned to attendministerial meetingsaccompanied by high-ranking officials of relevantministries as members. The9th Ministerial Meeting

took place in India in August 2006.The 2nd BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting held in

1998 passed a resolution to propose BIMSTEC sectors ofcooperation into six and share the duty of the leadingcountry sector-wise. The Eighth Ministerial Meetingheld in Dhaka in December 2005 laid down seven moresectors, so the number of the chapters reached 13. Thesectors and leading countries are as follows:

BIMSTEC consists of certain ASEAN countriesand members of SAARC-South Asia Association forRegional Cooperation. So, BIMSTEC serves as abridge to link the two regional organizations. Indiaenjoying rapid economic growth and Thailandenjoying economic growth are playing a leading rolein the BIMSTEC. So, the organization will contributetowards sector-wise economic cooperation in the region.

Under the political encouragement given by Headsof State/Government of the member countries,cooperation meetings are being held to cooperate at thedepartmental level. However, the plan has not been ableto mobilize the active participation of private sector andcommercial sector that can make significant contributiontowards economic growth and trade development. Andit is still needed to build infrastructures to link transportand communication among the members of smoothtransport of commodities and people.

BIMSTEC has come into existence for 10 yearsonly. Some salient works of the BIMSTEC areendorsement of Framework Agreement on BIMST-ECFree Trade Area, designating 2004-2005 as VisitBIMSTEC Year, establishment of BIMSTEC Chambersof Commerce and Industry, holding the first BIMSTECyouth football tournament in Phuket, forming of Central

Department on BIMSTEC activities in Bangkok, andimplementing bio-gas project in Kokke village,Myingyan Township, Myanmar. There have still beenlimitations on cooperation of the member countries dueto the difference on national development, areas, cultureand historical backgrounds. However, if small membersare able to apply the strong points of globalization inhuman resource development with the use oftechnological advancement, they will be able to catch upwith big countries in the international economic sphere.Therefore, Myanmar joined the BIMSTEC soon afterbecoming a member of ASEAN—and this may be seenas the right step.

The BIMSTEC is located in a strategic area. Themembers with economic growth and technologicaladvancement are in a position to provide assistanceto other members. Members can expand theirmarkets with the use of their economic growth.Intellectuals and intelligentsia from relateddepartments and private organizations are urged towork hard together for the development of respectivesectors so that the BIMSTEC can help members toenjoy greater economic growth and practise themarket economic system.

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(from page 1)The government has created good infrastruc-

tures for development of the nation. Developmenttasks for rural areas reflect improvement of the State.As a result, it is necessary to strive for undertaking fiverural development tasks. Despite ensuring sufficiencyof rice, meat and fish and vegetables, the country stillneeds edible oil sufficiency. He stressed the need toextend cultivation of edible oil crops in the nation forproducing edible oil at home instead of importing theitems into the country.

He added that Thayawady District is to imple-

Bago Division to put 3m acres ofland under monsoon paddy, …

ment to grow edible oil crops on 110,000 acres of landincluding 70,000 acres. This year, Bago Division is toput three million acres of land under monsoon paddy,1.6 million acres under pea, 400,000 acres under sum-mer paddy and 500,000 acres under edible oil crops.Likewise, efforts are to be made for planting of 500,000acres of physic nut in three years to extract bio-diesel.For prevention against overflow of water in ThayawadyDistrict, preparations are to be made for maintenance ofthe embankments on eastern bank of Ayeyawady River.Departmental personnel are to join hands with thepeople in undertaking regional development.

They attended the collective monsoon paddycultivation ceremony of Letpadan Township for 2007-08 in Kyayni Village.

Chairman of Letpadan Township PDC U ChitThein reported on cultivation of monsoon paddy in thetownship. Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than viewed paddytransplanting in the field.

Letpadan Township has so far put 55,858acres of land under monsoon paddy against the targetof 115,000 acres in 2007-08, and the plan is under wayto grow paddy on the remaining acres of land thismonth.

At the local battalion in Minhla Township, Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than met with servicemen andfamilies. He instructed them to join hands with localpeople in undertaking five rural development taskswhile serving the defence duty of the State.

Afterwards, they proceeded to Pyay. — MNA

YANGON, 11 July — The delegation led byForeign Minister of Sri Lanka Mr Rohitha Bogollagamareturned home by air this evening.

They were seen off at the Yangon InternationalAirport by Deputy Director-General U Soe Win of theProtocol Department and officials of the Ministry ofForeign Affairs, Sri Lankan Ambassador to the Unionof Myanmar Mr Samarasekera and embassy staff.

MNA

Sri Lankan delegationconcludes visit

NAY PYI TAW, 11 July—Special Envoy of thePrime Minister of theUnion of MyanmarDeputy Minister forForeign Affairs U MaungMyint and delegationmembers today arrivedback after paying goodwillvisits to Brazil, Peru,Cuba, Panama andVenezuela from 25 Juneto 9 July.

On 25 June, DeputyMinister for ForeignAffairs U Maung Myintmet with the DeputyMinister Level Secretary-General Mr SamuelPinheiro Guimaraes Netoand Sub-SecretaryGeneral (Political) MrJose Antonia GarciaRevilla of the Ministry ofForeign Affairs of Brazilseparately in Brasilia.

The goodwilldelegation arrived Peru on27 June, and Special EnvoyU Maung Myint held talkswith Under Secretary-General Mr Jose AntoniaGarcia Revilla of theInternational Organi-zations and United NationsDepartment at the Ministryof Foreign Affairs of Peru.

They arrived atHavana in Cuba on 29 June

Special Envoy Deputy Foreign Ministerwinds up five-nation tour

and attended the workingdinner hosted by ViceMinister for ForeignAffairs of Cuba MrAbelardo MorenoFernandez in the evening.

While in Cuba, thedeputy minister met withDeputy Minister forTourism Ms Maria ElenaLoepz Reyes on 1 July andHeads of Department ofthe Ministries led by ViceMinister for ForeignAffairs Mr AbelardoMoreno Fernendez in theevening.

On 3 July, DeputyMinister U Maung Myintcalled on Deputy ForeignMinister Mr Recardo

Duran and held talks withAdviser to the ForeignMinister Dr Mr NeelCastro at the ministry inPanama.

Myanmar Delegationarrived Venezuela on 5July. The deputy ministercalled on Deputy Ministerfor Foreign Affairs MrVladimir Villeges ofVenezuela on 6 July andalso met with therepresentatives of variousministries led by theDeputy Foreign Minster ofVenezuela. The deputyminister also called onMinister for ForeignAffairs Mr NicalarsMaduro Moros.

Myanmar goodwilldelegation left Caracas,Venezuela, for Myanmaron 9 July. Members of thedelegation Director-General U Phae Than Ooof the Department ofPolitical Affairs of theMinistry of ForeignAffairs, Deputy DirectorU Kyaw Zaw of theDirectorate of Investmentand Company Admi-nistration of the Ministryof National Planning andEconomic Developmentand Assistant Director UKyaw Thi Wa of theMinistry of Foreign Affairsalso arrived back on thesame flight.—MNA

NLD members fed upwith selfish acts of

party’s leaders

YANGON, 11 July — A total of 11members—U Ya Thaung of Wa Taw Ma village,U Khin Maung, Daw Sein Shwe, U Tat Pwa, DawThein Lwin, U Nyunt Lwin, U Thein Win, UMyint Swe, Daw Thein Aye, Daw Kywe and U PoNya of Kaing Village of Ayadaw TownshipNational League for Democracy of SagaingDivision resigned from NLD of their own accordon 19 June.

They sent their resignation letters to NLDheadquarters and local authorities concerned.

They said in the letters sent to SagaingDivision Multi-party Democracy General ElectionSub-commission, that they became fed up withthe selfish acts of party’s leaders and they nolonger wished to be members of NLD owing to theacts detrimental to the State and the people.Therefore, they resigned from the party of theirown volition.

MNA

DeputyMinister for

ForeignAffairs

U MaungMyintshakes

hands withForeign

Minister ofVenezuela

MrNicalarsMaduroMoros.

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Minister Brig-Gen

Lun Thi receives

Ambassador of India

to Myanmar Mr

Bhaskar Kumar Mitra

in Nay Pyi Taw on 11

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YANGON, 12 July— Wellwishers donatedmedicines worth K107,000 to MyanmarMaternal and ChildWelfare Associationtoday.

The donationceremony was held at theassociation here and AggaMaha Thiri ThudhammaTheingi Daw MyintMyint Yi and daughter DrThin Nwe Win of RoyalRuby Co Ltd donatedmedicines to be used inhealth care services of theassociation. President ofMMCWA Daw KhinKhin Win accepted the

Wellwisher donates medicines to MMCWA

donation and presentedcertificate of honour tothe wellwishers.

MNA

YANGON, 12 July —Vice-President ofMyanmar Maternal and Child Welfare AssociationDaw Aye Aye and Secretary Dr Daw Wai Wai Thawent to the delivery unit of Shwedaung TownshipMaternal and Child Welfare Association in Shwedaungon 10 July and donated cash to the unit.

During the tour, they also visited the day-carenursery of the township MCWA.

They also went to the General Hospital in Pyayand donated over K 2 million to the funds for givingtreatment to 48 cleft lip and palate patients.

Afterwards, Daw Aye Aye and party proceededto Thiri Khittara Home for the Aged in Pyay anddonated cash and kind to the home for the aged.

On behalf of the association, Vice-Presidentof MMCWA Daw Aye Aye also donated rice bags andstationery to Dhammaw Daya Monastic EducationSchool in Pyay.

They held educative talks at Swetaw SanpyaVillage in Padaung Township yesterday and acceptedapplications for membership of MMCWA. Next,Specialists gave talks on health at the talks. — MNA

MMCWA carrys out social welfare tasks in Shwedaung, Pyay

NAY PYI TAW, 12 July— Under the arrangementof Myanmar Women’sAffairs Federation,educative talks and round-table discussions wereconducted in three villagesin Taungtha Township,Myingyan District, on 6and 7 July separately.

The talks were held atKyaukka, Titmaittha andThigon villages inTaungtha Township.Women from the villagesgathered at the talks andparticipated in the

discussions related towomen’s affairs.

Head of theOrganizing DepartmentDr Daw Khin Hsan Nwebriefed on MWAF andresponsible personnel ofMyingyan DistrictWomen’s AffairsOrganization gave talks onmatters related toprevention againsttrafficking in persons andculture. Those present alsodiscussed matters relatedto trafficking in personsand culture in groups.

After the talks, DawKhin Hsan Nwe and partypresented uniforms ofMWAF, periodicals andgifts to those present.

They also donated K500,000 to ZiwitadanaAssociation in TitmaitthaVillage and K 500,000 tothe funds for themaintenance of sinkingtube-well in ThigonVillage. At the talks, theyalso accepted applicationsof villagers formembership of MWAF.

MNA

MWAF educates women in three villagesin Taungtha Township

Minister visits Yeywa HydroPower Project

NAY PYI TAW, 12 July —Minister for ElectricPower No 1 Col Zaw Min went to Yeywa Hydro PowerProject located at 31 miles south-east of Mandalay on6 July and inspected construction work of the project.

Yeywa Hydro Power Project is being implementedon Myitnge River near Yeyaman Village byConstruction-2 of Hydropower Projects ImplementationDepartment under the Ministry of Electric Power No 1.

At the briefing hall, officials concerned reported tothe minister on progress of the project, tasks beingundertaken and future tasks for the 2007-2008 fiscalyear and condition of machinery.

After hearing reports, Minister Col Zaw Min urgedofficials concerned to make efforts for timelycompletion of work, to cooperate with departmentsconcerned and to carry out preventive measures againstnatural disasters in the rainy season. He also called forwork site safety and stockpiling of materials to be usedin construction works in the open season.

Afterwards,the minister and party went to theconstruction site and inspected construction of theseparation wall, concrete dam and intake structure. Healso inspected construction of the power supply stationand other works.

Over 37 per cent of the work of the project has beencompleted. Generators of the project will have a totalcapacity of 790-megawatt and the project is expectedto produce about 3,550 million kwh annually. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 13 July— U Nyan Win,Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Union ofMyanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to HisExcellency Mr Milan Rocen, Minister of ForeignAffairs of the Republic of Montenegro, on theoccasion of the National Day of the Republic ofMontenegro which falls on 13 July 2007. — MNA

Foreign Minister sendsfelicitations to Montenegro

NC delegates from ChinState, Sagaing Div arrive

YANGON, 12 July — The National Conventiondelegates from Chin State and Sagaing Division arrivedhere by air to attend the National Convention thisevening.

They were welcomed at the Yangon InternationalAirport by Chairman of Organizing, Invitation andAccommodation Subcommittee Col Htein Lin andofficials. They were accommodated at the NyaunghnapinCamp in Hmawby Township, Yangon Division. — MNA

Agga Maha Thiri Thudhamma Theingi DawMyint Myint Yi and Dr Thin Nwe Win donatemedicine to MMCWA through President of

MMCWA Daw Khin Khin Win. — MNA

Dr Daw Khin Hsan Nwe briefs on Myanmar Women’s AffairsFederation at Thigon Village in Taungtha Township. — MNA

Delegates to the National Convention from Chin State and Sagaing

Division arrive at Yangon International Airport. — MNA

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YANGON, 12 July— Deputy Minister for ForeignAffairs U Maung Myint signed the Book ofCondolences at the Embassy of the Republic of India,at No 545-547, Merchant Street at 10.30 am today,opened for the demise of Mr Chandra Shekhar, formerPrime Minister of the Republic of India, who passedaway on 8 July 2007.—MNA

Deputy Foreign Minister signs Bookof Condolences for demise of Former

Indian Prime Minister

First round of First Inter-MinistryFootball Tournament continues

NAY PYI TAW, 12 July— Ministry of DefenceTeam beat Ministry ofReligious Affairs Team 4-1 in the first round of theFirst Nay Pyi Taw Inter-Ministry FootballTournament atPaunglaung SportsGround in Pyinmanatoday.

Likewise, Ministryof Sports Teamtrounced Ministry ofSocial Welfare, Reliefand Resettlement Team6-1 a t PaunglaungSports Ground in theafternoon.

Attorney-General’sOffice Team was defeatedby Ministry of Health

Team 2-0 at the sportsground in LeweTownship.

Among the spectatorswere Chairman ofMyanmar OlympicCommittee Minister forSports Brig-Gen ThuraAye Myint and wife,Minister for ReligiousAffairs Brig-Gen Thura

Cash donated to funds for missionary task

YANGON, 12 July — Aceremony to donatereligious books and tapesof Sayadaw U Wizaya ofBagayataik, BeikmanYadana Monastery inAmarapura Township,

Mandalay Division washeld at the DhammaThabin hall of SeikkanDhammaryon inBotahtaung Pagoda thisevening.

Wellwishers Daw

Khin Mya Lwin and sonKo Moe Kyaw Naing andfamily from New York,USA donated K 1 millionto the funds for missionarytask of Sayadaw UWizaya. — H

NAY PYI TAW, 12 July— Minister forImmigration andPopulation Maj-GenMaung Maung Swe metResident RepresentativeMr Daniel B Baker ofUnited Nations Fund for

I&P Minister receives UNFPA ResidentRepresentative

Population Activities atthe minister’s office, here,this morning.

Present also at the callwere Deputy MinisterBrig-Gen Win Sein,Director-General UMaung Maung Than of

Immigration and NationalRegistration Department,Director-General U TinYi of PopulationDepartment, Head ofOffice U Than Naing Tunand officials.

MNA

Wellwishers

donate K 1

million to

funds for

missionary

work

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an official.

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Minister Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe receives Resident Representativeof UNFPA Mr Daniel B Baker. — MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint watches football match of Ministry of Social Welfare,

Relief and Resettlement Team and Ministry of Sports Team. — MNA

Deputy Foreign Minister U Maung Myintsigns the Book of Condolences for demise ofFormer Indian Prime Minister Mr Chandra

Shekhar. — MNA

Myint Maung, DeputyMinister for SocialWelfare, Relief andResettlement Brig-GenKyaw Myint, DeputyMinister for Health DrPaing Soe, DeputyMinister for ReligiousAffairs Brig-Gen ThuraAung Ko, Deputy

Attorney-Generals UMyint Naing and U TunTun Oo, departmentalofficials and governmentemployees.

Ministry of LabourTeam and Ministry ofElectric Power No 2 teamwill meet at PaunglaungSports Ground, and

Ministry of RailTransportation Team andMinistry of Agricultureand Irrigation Team at thesame ground tomorrow.Ministry of InformationTeam will play againstMinistry of Energy Teamat the sports ground inLewe tomorrow. — MNA

English Proficiency Course No 1 of USDA opensYANGON, 9 July —

An English ProficiencyCourse No 1 organized bythe Union Solidarity andDevelopment Associationbegan at the associationheadquarters on newUniversity Avenue inBahan Township thismorning.

Present on theoccasion were CECmembers of USDA,officials of USDA

There are two pointsthat a nation has its future.The first point is that thereare citizens who are makingendeavours fordevelopment of the nationwhile removing obstaclesthat undermine the interestsof the nation. Another pointis strong foundation ofeducation, knowledge andskill. The citizens witha b o v e - m e n t i o n e dqualifictions can make the

Headquarters, courseinstructors and trainees.

USDA CECMember U Aung Thein Linmade a speech on theoccasion, saying thatUSDA members aredischarging duties whiletrying to improve theirqualification. They are todo their best to successfullyimplement the objectivesand future tasks laid downyearly.

nation develop.He said English

proficiency courses arebeing conducted as Englishis a major language forinternational relations andother studies.

After the ceremony,CEC members and officialscordially greeted thetrainees.

The 12-week courseis being attended by 40trainees. — MNA

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Indonesian rescue workers carry an injured survivor at a port in Ambon on 12July , 2007. Heavy seas around Indonesia’s Ambon Island hampered searchefforts on Thursday for a missing boat after the bodies of two young children

were found along with 31 survivors, rescue officials said. — INTERNET

Ryan Gunning, 5, of Flower Mound, Texas, looks at high water on LakeTexoma in Pottsboro, Texas, on 10 July , 2007. Officials were assessing

damage from intense weekend flooding as the heaviest storms subsided acrossthe state. — INTERNET

Gloria, the first calf born to a cloned cow, Vitoria (L), is seen on agovernment farm outside Brasilia in this 4 October , 2004 file photo. Cloninganimals will not be useful on a large scale but the technology offers farmers

an important tool to increase food production and protect animals fromdisease, scientists said on Tuesday. — INTERNET

China floodtoll hits 360

BEIJING, 12 July —Floods and landslideshave killed at least 360people across China thissummer and destroyedmore than four millionhectares (15.4 millionsquare miles) of crops,Xinhua news agency saidon Wednesday.

Direct economiclosses were 24.3 billionyuan (3.21 billion USdollars), according tolatest figures from theState Flood Control andDrought Relief Headquar-ters.

“Apart from217,000 houses whollyor partially destroyed,more than 4.28 millionhectares of grain cropshave been hit, with 2.03million hectares totallydestroyed,” headquartersdeputy director ChengDianlong was quoted assaying.

MNA/Reuters

Russian police arrestUS pastor for bribery

UAE firm delivers natural gas from Qatar to Abu Dhabi

Indonesian boat missingwith dozens on board

Scientists say large scale animalcloning unlikely

Hungary, Ukraine discuss border,Customs issues

SAKHALIN, 12 July —Police on Russia’s PacificIsland of Sakhalin havedetained a US missionary onsuspicion of bribing a localofficial, prosecutors said.

Hio Sun Pak, a 65-year-old US citizen andPentecostal pastor, and hisinterpreter were held in apolice sting operation.

MNA/Reuters

JAKARTA, 12 July —A boat with about 60people on board hasdisappeared near Am-bon Island in easternIndonesia, a rescue officialsaid on Wednesday.

The boat set sail fromBuru Island on Tuesdaybut ran into bad weatherjust short of Ambon earlyon Wednesday, AbrahamLesnussa, head of therescue team in Ambon,told Reuters.

He said about 15survivors had beenrescued from watersaround Tiga Island, about12 kilometres (sevenmiles) from Ambon, part

of the Moluccas chain ofislands.

“The boat experiencedengine failure and was hitby bad weather. Themeteorology and geo-physics agency reportedthat the waves in the watersreached up to six metreshigh,” Lesnussa said.

Indonesia has about17,000 islands and ferriesand boats are a popularmeans of transport.

Sea connections arecheaper and more readilyavailable than aircraft, butsafety standards are notalways strictly enforcedand accidents occur fairlyoften. — MNA/Reuters

ABU DHABI, 12 July— Dolphin Energy ofthe United ArabEmirates (UAE)announced on Tuesdaythat it has started thedelivery of natural gasfrom its production

wells offshore Qatar toAbu Dhabi, the UAEcapital.

It is the culminationof the company’s Dol-phin Gas Project, whichinvolves the productionand processing of

natural gas from Qatar’sNorth Field andtransportation of therefined gas to the UAEand Oman, according toa Press release by thecompany.

MNA/Xinhua

LONDON, 12 July —Cloning animals will notbe useful on a large scalebut the technology of-fers farmers an importanttool to increase foodproduction and protectanimals from disease,scientists said on Tuesday.

Critics contend thatnot enough is known aboutcloning to make it safe,while advocates say it canimprove the quality ofmeat and dairy products.

Scientists at abriefing to address theintense debate said thetechnology was just thenext step in artificialbreeding and would onlyever account for a smallpart of food production.

“Cloning is nevergoing to be a large scalebreeding system,” Si-mon Best, chairman ofthe UK-based BioIndus-try Association, toldreporters. “It has niche

applications.” Cloning involves

taking cell nuclei fromadults and fusing them intoegg cells that are implantedinto a surrogate mother.

Scientists said someuses could be to cloneanimals that are lessresistant to certain diseasesor to reproduce “elite”livestock that can churn outmore milk or producehealthier offspring.

MNA/Reuters

BUDAPEST, 12 July —Hungary and Ukraine planto open new crossing pointsalong their common bor-der, the Hungarian Presi-dent said here on Tuesdayafter talks with visitingUkrainian President ViktorYushchenko.

The two nations will

also discuss the intro-duction of joint Customsclearance, the HungarianPresident Laszlo Solyomadded.

Solyom noted thatHungary had recognizedUkraine’s independencebefore the Soviet Union dis-integrated in the early 1990s

and it was the first countryto open an embassy in Kiev.

Solyom asked Yush-chenko’s support forallowing ethnic Hun-garian school-leavers totake their universityentrance examinations inthe Hungarian language.

MNA/Xinhua

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Serbia plans to join WTOby end of 2008

BELGRADE, 11 July—The World Trade Organizationhas told Serbia it can join by the end of next year andBelgrade plans a series of reforms to meet membershiprequirements, Economy Minister Mladjan Dinkic saidon Tuesday.

“Our delegation was told today that Serbia couldbecome a WTO member by the end of 2008,” Dinkictold Reuters after meeting WTO Director-GeneralPascal Lamy in Geneva.

“We have agreed a timetable of activities that needto be completed...These include regulatory changesand a revised list of goods,” he said.

Serbia must improve hygiene standards at bordercrossings where goods leave the country, strengthenfood safety regulations, lift non-Customs protectionand reduce customs protection from the current averageof 6.5 per cent. Regulatory improvements and otheractivities will be discussed at a joint working groupmeeting due in late October.

“These legal changes should be completed by mid-2008. Then, we must embark on a series of bilateraltalks with WTO member states to negotiate tradingrules for agricultural and industrial goods and services,”he said.— MNA/Reuters

US space shuttle Endeavour moves tolaunch pad for 7 August lift-off

WASHINGTON, 11 July—The US spaceshuttle Endeavour rolled out to its sea-side launch pad in Florida early Wed-nesday, in preparation for the 7 Aug

launch to the International Space Station,according to NASA website updates.

The rollout began at 8:10 pm EDTTuesday (0010 GMT Wednesday)atKennedy Space Centre in Florida. Thecrawler-transporter carrying the massiveshuttle assembly completed the 5.5-kilometre journey to the launch pad atapproximately 2:30 am EDT (0630 GMT)on Wednesday morning and was set upthere half an hour later.The mission,designated STS-118, will be NASA’ssecond shuttle mission this year, butEndeavour’s first flight in almost fiveyears, according to NASA.

The last time Endeavour was at thelaunch pad was in November 2002 on aconstruction mission to the ISS.—Internet

The space shuttle Endeavour sits onlaunch pad 39A after rolling out of theVehicle Assembly Building at KennedySpace Centre in Cape Canaveral,Florida, on 11 July, 2007.—INTERNET

UAE recalls 4,545Honda vehicles

ABU DHABI, 11 July —The United Arab Emirates(UAE) on Monday annou-nced a recall of 4,545Honda vehicles of severalmodels in the country, theofficial Emirates NewsAgency reported.

The recall issued by theUAE Ministry of Eco-nomy’s Consumer Protec-tion Department involvesmodels of Accord 05,Accord 06, Jazz 05, Civic06 and Odyssey 05,according to the report.

An official with theministry said that ownersof those Honda modelsshould report to Honda'sservice centres so thatappointments would bemade to effect therepairs.—MNA/Xinhua

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WASHINGTON, 11 July —An international team ofastronomers report thefirst conclusive discoveryof the presence of watervapour in the atmosphereof a planet beyond ourSolar System.

The findings appearin the 12 July issue ofjournal Nature.

Giovanna Tinetti,European Space Agencyfellow and colleaguesfrom around the world,used data from NASA’sSpitzer Space Telescope.

They targeted planetHD 189733b, 63 light-years away, in theconstellation Vulpecula.

The planet wasdiscovered in 2005 as itdimmed the light of itsparent star by some threepercent when transiting infront of it.

Using Spitzer, Tinettiand the team observed thestar, which is slightlyfainter than the Sun.

They watched itsstarlight dim at twoinfrared bands (3.6 and 5.8micrometres).

Had the planet been arocky body devoid ofatmosphere, both thesebands and a third one (8micrometres), recentlymeasured by a team atHarvard, would haveshown the same be-haviour.

LISBON, 11 July —Portugal has become theworld’s seventh oldestnation, due to a fallingbirth rate and a risingproportion of seniorcitizens, the country’sNational Statistical Agen-cy said on Wednesday.

On average, a Portu-guese woman has 1.36children during her fertileyears, down from theprevious 1.41.

In 2006, Portugal’sbirth rate was 105,351,down 4,100 from 2005,

MOSCOW, 11 July —Thieves stole a collectionof rare paintings worthmillions of dollars that anelderly Russian had beenstoring unguarded in hisempty apartment, Russiannewspapers reported onTuesday.

The 13 paintings stolenfrom retired judge KamoManukyan included worksby Frenchman Georges-Pierre Seurat, the founderof neo-impressionism,Russian seascape painterIvan Aivazovsky, andRussian expressionistAlexej Jawlenski.“This isa real nightmare. This is areal fortune stolen, youjust don’t realize howmuch all this may cost.Millions,” Sofya Chern-

This handout satellite image of the Natanz Uranium Enrichment plant inIran, taken on 11 June, 2007, shows the facility being built by Iran with a newtunnel facility (L) inside a mountain near a key nuclear complex — a possible

attempt to protect parts of its uranium enrichment programme from aerialattack, nuclear analysts said on 9 July, 2007. —XINHUA

Andrew Scott of the United States, waits in his Star

class boat for better wind conditions to race on 9

July, 2007, during the 2007 Sailing World

Championships in Cascais, outside Lisbon,

Portugal. Strong winds delayed all sailing races

throughout the day. — INTERNET

Astronomers find wateron extra-solar planet

Instead, as the planet’stenuous outer atmosphereslipped across the face ofthe star, the starlightabsorbed showed adifferent, distinctivepattern.

The atmosphereabsorbed less infraredradiation at 3.6 micro-metres than at the othertwo wavelengths.

“Water is the onlymolecule that can explainthat behaviour,” saysTinetti.

The presence of water

vapour does not necessarilymake it a good candidatein the search for planetsthat harbour life. “

“This is a far fromhabitable world,” sheadds.

Instead of a rockyworld like Earth, HD189733b is large,about1.15 times the massof Jupiter.

Located just 4.5million kilometres from itsstar, it orbits it in 2.2 days.In comparison, Earth is150 million kilometresfrom the Sun; evenMercury, the innermostplanet, is 70 millionkilometers away.

Astronomers classifysuch worlds as “hotjupiters.”—Internet

BEIJING, 12 July—Two-time Oscar winner KevinSpacey has agreed toreprise his role as arch-villain Lex Luthor in“Superman: The Man ofSteel,” media reportedWednesday.

Spacey played Luthor inlast year’s “SupermanReturns,” which saw theiconic American superheroreturn to the big-screen aftera 19 years ofabsence.

“Superman: Man ofSteel,” Bryan Singer’s

Oscar winner Spacey to reprise role in “Superman”

Kevinsequel to last summer’sblockbuster “SupermanReturns,” is due for releasein 2009. Spacey, 48, won

Oscars for his roles in “TheUsual Suspects” in 1996and “American Beauty” in2000. Spacey has two filmsslated for release this year— the holiday comedy“Fred Claus,” costarringVince Vaughn and PaulGiamatti and directed byDavid Dobkin, and “21,”based on the true story ofMIT geeks who take Vegascasinos for millions.

The drama once againteams him with Bos-worth.—Internet

Thieves steal artwork worthmillions from Moscow flat

yak, secretary of theMoscow Fine ArtsCollectors’ Club, told theIzvestia daily.

“All of these paintersare widely known ... ASeurat painting alonecosts more than 500,000US dollars.”

Manukyan returnedhome from a trip abroadto find the paintings gone,

the newspaper said. Anart collector and dealer,Manukyan supplies art-works to clients includingRussian billionaireMikhail Fridman, saidIzvestia. Police said theycould not understand whythe art collector did nothave an alarm in hisMoscow apartment.

MNA/Reuters

Statistical agency: Portugal becomesworld’s seventh oldest nation

the agency said in its latestreport.

The birth rate has beenfalling for 20 years.

If the trend continuesas it is, the nation will losea quarter of its populationby 2050, and will have anet population of 7.5million people, accordingto the report.

The birth rate dropfrom 1987 to 2006 islargely attributed towomen choosing to havechildren at older ages.

Twenty years ago the

highest number ofpregnancies was regis-tered for women between20 and 29 years old. From2005 to 2006, pregnancieswere mostly linked towomen between 30 and34.

Experts said that thelow birth rate is result-ed from women’s jobinsecurity, warningPortugal’s aging popu-lation in the long run willcause problems for thenation’s pension system.

Internet

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S P O R T SSouth Korea, Saudi Arabia

draw after power failure

LA Galaxy ready for Beckham factor

Moscow to bid for first YouthOlympics in 2010

MOSCOW, 12 July — Moscow will bid to host thefirst Youth Summer Olympics in 2010, a senior Rus-sian sports official said on Wednesday.

Alexander Polinsky, general director of Moscow'sbidding committee for the 2012 Olympics, said theRussian capital was the ideal choice to stage the youthversion of the world's greatest sporting spectacle forathletes aged 14-18.

Moscow officials scheduled a news conference onThursday at City Hall where they planned to make theannouncement.

Moscow, which hosted the boycott-affected 1980Summer Olympics, also staged the first Youth Gamesunder the patronage of the International Olympic Com-mittee (IOC) in 1998.

Last week at its session in Guatemala, the IOCapproved a plan to stage summer and winter YouthGames to try to overturn the dwindling interest ofteenagers in the Olympic movement.— MNA/Reuters

Top seeds washed out in rainy Gstaad

Iran battle back to beat Uzebekistan

JAKARTA, 12 July —South Korea and SaudiArabia battled out a 1-1draw in their openingAsian Cup Group Dmatch after the game washalted for 20 minutes dueto a power failure onWednesday.

Following a cagey firsthalf, Korea took the leadthough Choi Sung-kuk inthe 66th minute, the di-minutive winger some-

how rising high enough tonod home Oh Beom-sok'scross.

Saudi Arabia levelledwith a controversial penal-ty 10 minutes later whenMalek Mazz went down inthe box. Yasser Al Qahtanistepped up to score fromthe spot.

The game was sus-pended with five minutesremaining after the lightswent out at Gekora BungKarno Stadium, leavingthe players to wander aim-lessly around the pitch for20 minutes.

MNA/Reuters

LOS ANGELES, 12 July— The waiting is almostover for the Los AngelesGalaxy with their big-gest signing, Englandmidfielder David Beck-ham, scheduled to arrivein the world's entertain-ment capital on Thursdayafternoon.

The hype and specula-tion have escalated eversince the January an-nouncement that Beck-ham would join theGalaxy from Spanishgiants Real Madrid ona deal that will earn hima reported 250 millionUS dollars over fiveyears.

Beckham is one of theworld's most marketablesports figures and his hotlyanticipated move to Ma-jor League Soccer (MLS)has already given the em-bryonic American gamemuch-needed credibilityand plenty of buzz.

Although the formerEngland captain himselfhas never claimed he can

become the saviour of USsoccer, he is determinedto make a difference.

“I am not saying mycoming to the States isgoing to make soccer thebiggest sport in Americabecause that is going to bevery difficult to achieve,”Beckham said earlier thisyear.

“But I wouldn’t be do-ing this if I didn’t believeI could make a differenceand take soccer to a differ-ent level. This is some-thing that I believe in.”

Beckham, whose ba-sic annual salary with theGalaxy is 5.5 million USdollars, has a vested in-

terest in any escalation ofthe game in the UnitedStates.—MNA/Reuters

KUALA LUMPUR, 12 July— Substitute JavadKazemian struck in the77th minute to give Iran acome-from-behind 2-1victory over Uzbekistanin their Asian Cup GroupC match on Wednesday.

The 26-year-old res-cued a largely disappoint-ing Iran side, who strug-gled to find their rhythmagainst the combativeCentral Asians.

Uzbekistan, with mainstriker Maksim Shatskikhsuspended, took the leadon 15 minutes through anown goal by Iran defenderRahman Rezaei.

Iran levelled in the55th minute when SeyedJalal Hosseini scoredfrom a corner beforeKazemian emerged as thehero. Iran coach AmirGhalenoei said his team'ssuperior fitness was the

key. The victory put Iran in

second place in Group Cbehind China, who beathosts Malaysia 5-1 onTuesday. The top twoteams advance to the quar-terfinals.

With both teams play-ing cautiously, Uzbekistantook an unlikely lead. Cap-tain Server Djeparov sent ahigh ball forward trying tofind striker UlugbekBakaev. Rezaei, underpressure from Bakaev, triedto head back to goalkeeperHassan Rodbarian but onlysucceed in finding the backof his own net.

Iran came out moredetermined in the secondhalf and equalized aftercaptain Mehdi Mahda-vikia made his first forayupfield.

The skipper sent in atesting corner from the leftand defender Hosseinirose high to head pastUzbek goalkeeper PavelBugalo.

MNA/Reuters

GSTAAD (Switzer-land), 12 July — Rus-sian top seeds NikolayDavydenko and MikhailYouzhny both sufferedfirst-round exits onWednesday as persistentrain continued to dog theSwiss Open.

Davydenko, theworld number five, bowedout in just 12 minutes af-ter resuming his rain-in-terrupted match against20-year-old FrenchmanGael Monfils with the pairtied at 5-5 in the decidingset.

The Russian first seedhad beaten Monfils atWimbledon last Tuesday

in a third-round match alsoheld over by rain, but wasunable to repeat the feat inGstaad and was beaten3-6, 6-4, 7-5.

Resuming play withtwo unforced errors,Davydenko was forced todefend two break pointsbefore conceding a cru-cial break with an over-hitshot from the baseline.

Monfils then suffereda few wobbles of his own,offering Davydenko threechances to break back.

An ace and two ser-vice winners saw theFrenchman dig his wayout of trouble with twofurther aces finally com-

pleting a hard-fought win. “I felt very tight when

we stopped playing onTuesday,” said Monfilswho had squandered achance to serve out at 5-4shortly before the over-night rain break.

“But I could see myerrors so today I just triedto be more focused. Iworked a lot on my ser-vice, my returns and myreactions before the matchbecause I knew it wouldall be very quick today.”

Youzhny suffered asurprise 6-4, 6-3 loss atthe hands of Austrianworld number 65 StefanKoubek.— MNA/Reuters

Saudi Arabia’s Malek Alhawsawi (back) fights forthe ball with South Korea’s Kim Sang Sik duringtheir 2007 AFC Asian Cup Group D soccer match in Jakarta on 11 July, 2007.—INTERNET

Czech Republic's Jakub Mares (10) scores againstJapan on a penalty kick during the second half oftheir Round of 16 match at the FIFA Under-20

World Cup soccer tournament in Victoria, BritishColumbia on 11 July, 2007. —INTERNET

Uruguay's midfielder Luis Suarez (foot at left)kicks a goal past US goalkeeper Brian Perk during

their Round of 16 match at the FIFA Under-20World Cup soccer tournament in Toronto on 11

July, 2007. —INTERNET

Beijing airport gears upfor Games “challenge” BEIJING, 12 July — Beijing's main airport will

likely handle more flights than London Heathrow orParis Charles de Gaulle during the 2008 Olympics andbe "challenged" by the increased passenger numbers, astate newspaper said on Thursday.

"An average of 1,150 flights take off and land atthe airport every day now. But during the Games, thenumber will be between 1,700 and 2,000," the ChinaDaily quoted Zhang Yuehua, in charge of air trafficplans for the Games, as saying.

Even with the opening of a third runway nextMarch, that number could prove hard to handle, hesaid.

"When the daily movement reaches 1,700 or thecapital airport encounters thunderstorms that last lessthan an hour, we will launch the blue scheme, underwhich additional air routes will be opened," Zhangsaid.

When that number hits 1,900, or flights need to bediverted to Beijing from another Olympic host city —like Qingdao where the sailing will take place — non-Olympic flights will be suspended and the militaryasked to open up its airspace, he said. — MNA/Reuters

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Thursday, 12 July, 2007Summary of observations recorded at 09:30

hours MST: During the past 24 hours, weather hasbeen partly cloudy in Kayah State, lower SagaingDivision, rain have been isolated in Shan State, Man-dalay and Magway Divisions, fairly widespread inKachin and Rakhine States, upper Sagaing and YangonDivisions, and widespread in the remaining areas withisolated heavyfall in Rakhine State. The noteworthyamounts of rainfall recorded were Gwa (3.03) inches,Myeik (2.60) inches, Dawei (2.24) inches, Pathein (2.17)inches and Hkamti (1.80) inches.

Maximum temperature on 11-7-2007 was 88°F.Minimum temperature on 12-7-2007 was 75°F. Rela-tive humidity at 09:30 hours MST on 12-7-2007 was82%. Total sunshine hours on 11-7-2007 was (7.1)hours approx.

Rainfall on 12-7-2007 was (0.27) inch atMingaladon, (0.08) inch at Kaba-Aye, (0.23) inch atCentral Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2007 was(70.35) inches at Mingaladon, (74.76) inches at Kaba-Aye and (72.12) inches at Central Yangon. Maximumwind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (10) mph fromSouthwest at (19:20) hours MST on 11-7-2007.

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

Forecast valid until evening of 13-7-2007: Rainwill be isolated in Kayah State, Mandalay, Magwayand lower Sagaing Divisions, fairly widespread in ChinState, Bago and upper Sagaing Divisions and wide-spread in the remaining areas. Degree of certainty is(80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to roughseas are likely at times off and along Myanmar Coasts.Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (35-40) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: StrongMonsoon.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouringareas for 13-7-2007: Likelihood of isolated rain. De-gree of certainty is (60%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areasfor 13-7-2007: One or two rain. Degree of certainty is(80%).).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouringareas for 13-7-2007: Likelihood of isolated rain.Degree of certainty is (60%).

WEATHER

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Project leader German botanist Dominique Görlitzon the Abora III, a boat made of reeds and wood,waves during launch in New York harbour for a

trans-Atlantic crossing. Görlitz is trying to show pre-historic Atlantic crossings were possible. An 11-

strong crew of mostly German explorers set out fromNew York on Wednesday on a reed boat bound forsouthern Spain, in a historic bid to prove that Stone

Age man made similar trans-Atlantic voyages.INTERNET

US accused of insulting Serbia’s intelligenceBELGRADE, 12 July — Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica on Wednesday accused the United

States of insulting his country’s intelligence by pledging friendship while backing independence forbreakaway Kosovo province.

He vowed that noamount of declarations byWashington would makeKosovo independent andagain warned that futurerelations would suffer if theUnited States and itsEuropean Union allies backindependence for Koso-vo’s two million ethnicAlbanians.

Kostunica has madeKosovo the top policy issuefor Serbia’s two-month-old

government, althoughpolls show most Serbsare far more concernedabout jobs, wages andprosperity.

He has turned toRussia for help in blockingKosovo’s independence,and his rhetoric has be-come anti-Western.

“Kosovo will not beindependent and that factcannot be changed byAmerican officials with

their daily statementsadvocating independencefor the province,” he said ina statement given to thegovernment-backed newsagency, Tanjug.

Kostunica was res-ponding to comments byUS envoy Daniel Fried, whoon Tuesday reaffirmedAmerican friendship forSerbia while repeating thatKosovo would inevitably beindependent.

“It is particularly un-acceptable to explain thisattempted seizure of Ko-sovo as a form of honestfriendship towards Serbia,”the Serbian Premier said.

“Such an explanationis an insult to commonsense.”

Serbian ForeignMinister Vuk Jeremic onTuesday called indepen-dence for Kosovo “anindecent proposal”.

Serb forces killedbetween 7,500 and 12,000Kosovo Albanians in the1998-99 counter-insur-gency war and drove800,000 out of the countrybefore NATO intervenedwith a bombing campaign.That forced the Serbs outafter 11 weeks and usheredin United Nations rule eightyears ago. — MNA/Reuters

Suspected insurgents detained inS Thailand

BANGKOK, 12 July —Thai Army soldiers andofficials raided a village inThailand’s southernmostprovince of Narathiwat onWednesday and detained adozen suspected insurgents,local media reported.

About 200 military,police and Interior Min-istry officers raided theBluglahulume Village in themorning and the raid lastedabout five hours.

A total of 12 suspectswere detained, local newsnetwork The Nation said.The officials also sought a

0.38 revolver, a shotgun,an air gun and somefertilizers during the raid.

MNA/Xinhua

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YANGON, 12 July —Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence at-

Lt-Gen Myint Swe inspects progressin growing physic nut plants at

battalions in Bago Township

4,032 jade lots sold in Jade,Gems and Pearl Special Sales

YANGON, 12 July —So far, 4,032 jade lots havebeen sold through tenderand competitive biddingsystems in Jade, Gems andPearl Special Sales for2007 being held atMyanmar ConventionCentre on MindhammaRoad in Mayangon Town-ship.

Yesterday, a total of980 jade lots were boughtthrough tender system bylocal and foreign gemmerchants. Gem mer-chants bought 31 jade lotsthrough competitive bid-ding system today.

Chairman of YangonCity Development Com-mittee Mayor Brig-Gen

Aung Thein Lin, Vice-Mayor Col Maung Pa andofficials visited the speicalsales this morning andgreeted the gem mer-chants.

A total of 4,068 gemmerchants from home andabroad are attending thespecial sales that run till16 July.—MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Ministry of Defence and party view thriving physic nut plantation at local battalion in Thayagon Village-tract in BagoTownship. — MNA

tended the physic nutgrowing ceremonies ofbattalions in Bago Station

in Bago Township thismorning.

Accompanied by

Commander Brig-GenWin Myint of No 77 LIDand senior military offic-ers, Lt-Gen Myint Sweattended the ceremony toplant physic nut saplingsat the local battalion inThayagon Village ofIndagaw Village-tract inBago Township.

At the briefing hall,Lt-Gen Myint Swe heardreports on cultivation of381 acres of physic nut atlocal battalions against thetarget of 600 acres pre-sented by Bago StationCommander Major KyawKyaw Win.

Deputy Bago Divi-

sion Manager U TinMaung Win of MyanmaAgriculture Service pre-sented a report on cultiva-tion of physic nut in thedivision.

After hearing the re-ports, Lt-Gen Myint Swestressed the need to ex-ceed the target of physicnut plants and nurture thefarm.

He presented physicnut saplings to servicemenand family members. No77 LID Commander Brig-Gen Win Myint and offi-cials also gave physic nutsaplings to the people.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe

planted a physic nut sap-ling in commemoration ofthe ceremony.

Brig-Gen Win Myintand officials also grew thesaplings.

Next, they viewed theparticipation of service-men and family membersin cultivation of physic nutplants.

Lt-Gen Myint Sweand party inspected 104acres of thriving physicnut plantations at the localbattalion in Thayagon Vil-lage-tract in Bago Town-ship and left necessaryinstructions.

MNA

Gem merchants evaluate the value of jade lots at Jade, Gems and PearlSpecial Sales. — MNA

Weather Forecast for 13-7-2007

Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areas

Likelihood of isolated rain. Degree of certainty is (60%).

Yangon and neighbouring areas

One or two rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).).

Mandalay and neighbouring

areas

Likelihood of isolated rain. Degree of certainty is (60%).

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