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

Volume XIV, Number 71 2nd Waxing of Waso 1368 ME Monday, 26 June, 2006

Established 1914

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Establishment of Yuzana Palm OilPlant contributes towards satisfyingedible oil requirements of the StateSecretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein attends opening of

Yuzana Palm Oil Refinery and Dry Fractionation Plant

YANGON, 25 June —Secretary-1 of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Lt-Gen TheinSein attended the cer-emony to commissionYuzana Palm Oil Refin-ery and Dry FractionationPlant of Yuzana Co Ltdon Shukhintha CircularRoad in Shukhintha Wardin Thakayta Township thismorning.

Also present on theoccasion were Lt-GenMyint Swe of the Minis-try of Defence, the minis-ters, departmental heads,chairmen of Yangon EastDistrict and TownshipPeace and DevelopmentCouncils, the chairmanand employees of YuzanaCo Ltd, members of so-cial organizations, entre-preneurs and guests.

First, Minister for Ag-riculture and Irrigation Maj-

Gen Htay Oo, YangonMayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin and Chairman ofYuzana Co Ltd Agga Maha

Thiri ThudhammaManijotadhara U HtayMyint formally opened theplant. Lt-Gen Myint Swe

of the Ministry of Defenceunveiled the signboard ofthe plant.

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen

Thein Sein unveiled theplaque of the plant. Next,the Secretary-1 and partytogether with the chair-

man of Yuzana Co Ltdsprinkled scented water onthe plaque.

(See page 8)

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein unveils bronze plaque of Yuzana Palm Oil Refinery and Dry Fractionation Plant. — MNA

Newly opened Yuzana Palm Oil Refinery and Dry Fractionation Plant in Shukhintha Ward in Thakayta Township. — MNA

2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 26 June, 2006

Monday, 26 June, 2006

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

People’s Desire

Narcotic drug issue came to Myanmartogether with imperialism that intruded thecountry. After regaining the independence,successive governments made efforts for eradi-cation of narcotic drugs. Nowadays, the government has been im-plementing the projects on eradication of nar-cotic drugs, improvement of quality of life ofthe national races and development of borderareas and total eradication of cultivation ofopium. The government is undertaking the borderareas and national races development taskswith greater momentum. As transport, eco-nomic and social sectors have now developed,national race organizations and local peopleare participating in anti-narcotic drug activi-ties with the aim of totally eradicating cultiva-tion of opium. The government is rendering assistance tocultivation of opium substitute crops, livestockbreeding and economic undertakings fulfillingrequirements on rice and other provisions.Farmers in border areas have given up opiumcultivation willingly and they entrusted drypoppy bulbs and opium seeds to local authori-ties. These opium bulbs and seeds were de-stroyed 13 times. At the same time, the government has beenlaunching anti-narcotic drugs issue. Altogether77,640 drug cases were exposed in cooperationwith departmental officials and the people from1988 to March 2006. The value of the seizednarcotic drugs was US $ 20,432 million. 26 June is the International Day AgainstDrug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. On thatday, the seized narcotic drugs were destroyedand educative talks on disadvantages of nar-cotic drugs were held and prizes are givenannually to winners of novel, article, poem,song, cartoon, painting, poster, computergraphics, poster and photo contests in com-memoration of International Day Against DrugAbuse and Illicit Trafficking. It is necessary for the media to inform thepeople of disadvantages of narcotic drugs andpsychotrophic substances widely. All the na-tional people are urged to take part in the anti-narcotic drug drive hand in hand with the gov-ernment.

Public cooperation in fightagainst narcotic drugs

YANGON, 24 June — Minister for Agricultureand Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo and officials wentto Ngathayauk Dam Project in NyaungU District,Mandalay Division on 18 June.

The minister inspected the spillway, main dam,outlet conduit and feeder canal.

The dam that will benefit social and economicstatus of the region is 7,550 feet long and 64 feethigh.

The minister later inspected Ngathayauk Wa-

A&I Minister inspects Ngathayauk Dam Project

ter Pumping Project and discussed matters on pro-duction of more paddy, supply of water, using ofquality strains and modern farming methods withofficials of NyaungU District.

The minister and party viewed cotton planta-tions at the area of Latpanchepaw Water PumpingProject.

The minister went to 10 acres of physic nutplantations in NyaungU Township.

MNA

YANGON, 25 June— A two-storey build-ing of Basic EducationHigh School (Branch)was opened inChaunggale-TheingonVillage in PantanawTownship yesterdaymorning.

It was attended byCEC member of the Un-ion Solidarity and Devel-opment Association Min-ister for Progress of Bor-der Areas and NationalRaces and DevelopmentAffairs Col Thein Nyunt,Director-General of No 1Basic Education Depart-ment Brig-Gen KyawThu, officials and localpeople. Minister ColThein Nyunt and wifeDaw Kyin Khaing pre-sented one set of com-puter, school uniformsand exercise books toHeadmaster U KhaingHlaing.

At the Post-Pri-mary School in KanyinThonhsint Village ofKyaunggon Township,the CEC member metwith secretaries and ex-

NAY PYI TAW, 24 June — Minister for Indus-try-1 U Aung Thaung received General Manager MrWu Min and party of China National General Engi-neering Corporation at his office in Nay Pyi Taw on22 June evening.

They discussed implementation of Glass Fac-tory Project in the Kyaukse Factories Region inMandalay Division.

MNA

Minister for Industry-1receives Chinese guests

CEC member supervisesdevelopment tasks inAyeyawady Division

ecutives of Division, Dis-trict and TownshipUSDAs and local people.

The minister at-tended the ceremony toput the Nyaunggon-Chaungphya-Thayetgongravel road into servicein Einme Township.

Development Af-fairs Department hasspent K 44.33 million onconstruction of the road.Thanks to construction

of the road, 14,733 localpeople from 32 villagesof seven village-tractshave easy access toEinme-Dhaka Road.

While in Einme,the CEC member met

with secretaries andexecutives of division,district and townshipUSDAs and local peopleat Einme BEHS, and at-tended to the needs.

MNA

Minister for PBANRDA Col Thein Nyunt attends opening ofNyaunggon-Chaungphya-Thayetgon gravel road in Einme

Township. — PBANRDA

Dr Than Sein-Dr Daw Mya Than and familyof 48, 1st Lane, Mingaladon Township, re-cently donated K 225,000 to Joint-Treasurer

U Maung Maung Gyi of Hninzigon Home forthe Aged Administrative Board. — H

Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo inspects irrigation facilities atNgathayauk Dam in NyaungU. — A&I

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Visitors look at replicas of the ancient Chinese terracotta army sculpturesdisplayed at the Schlachthof gallery in Bad Kissingen, Germany on 23 June,2006. The original sculptures, dating 210-209 BC, were found by the farmers inChina in March 1974 near the Mount Li, the place of the necropolis and tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang.—INTERNET

Race-goers arrive for the start of the Ladies' DayRoyal Ascot race meeting in Berkshire, southern

England, on 22 June, 2006.— INTERNET

Anti-war and anti-US protesters chant slogans at a rally in Seoul on 24 June, 2006,demanding the withdrawal of US and South Korean troops from Iraq.—INTERNET

A deadly week for US forces in IraqWASHINGTON, 24 June—A look at 16 deaths of American troops reported by

the US military in the past week in Iraq:• Tuesday: The US military recovers the brutalized bodies of two missing

soldiers not far from where they were kidnapped four days earlier in the volatileSunni triangle south of Baghdad. Four Marines are killed in separate attacks inAnbar province west of the capital.

• Wednesday: A soldier dies south of the capital, and another Marine is killedin Anbar Province.

• Thursday: A Marine is killed in Anbar Province and a soldier dies elsewherein a non-combat incident.

• Friday: Three soldiers of the Multi-National Division in Baghdad are killedby roadside bombs in separate attacks. Another soldier from the same divisiondies in a non-combat incident.

• Saturday: A bomb kills two US soldiers on a foot patrol south ofBaghdad.—Internet

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UN Rights boss slams abuses in war on terrorismGENEVA, 24 June — UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, taking aim at the

US-led war on terrorism, reminded all states on Friday of their duty to ban torture and give all securitydetainees a fair trial.

In a speech to theUnited Nations HumanRights Council, Arbouralso voiced concern at thealleged existence of secretdetention centres, sayingthey facilitate abusivetreatment.

Her remarks —clearly aimed at theUnited States and itsallies in their “war onterror” launched afterthe11 September attacksthat killed nearly 3,000people in 2001 — drew aquick reply from the USobserver delegation.

"It is vital that at alltimes governmentsanchor in law their

response to terrorism,”Arbour told the 47-member state body aheadof the UN’s InternationalDay in Support of Victimsof Torture, being observednext Monday.

International humanrights and humanitarianlaw imposed a series of

constraints on all states“with no exception”, saidArbour, a lawyer whoformerly served as UNwar crimes prosecutor anda Canadian SupremeCourt judge.

“These include theabsolute ban on tortureand the right to a fair trial,”

she said. The United States is

holding some 460 securitydetainees at GuantanamoBay in Cuba on suspicionof belonging to al-Qaedaor the Taleban. Most havebeen held for yearswithout charges.

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Chinese, Tanzanian PMs vow tostrengthen bilateral cooperation DAR-ES-SALAAM, 24 June — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his Tanzanian

counterpart Edward Lowassa vowed to strengthen bilateral cooperation invarious areas during their talks here on Friday.

A Samsung employee shows the new Ultra edition6.9mm mobile phone at the CommunicAsia 2006exhibition in Singapore recently. SamsungElectronics has drawn a rosy picture about itsperformance in the second half of this year, sending its stock up by 1.62 percent.—INTERNET

Wen said that theChinese side will focus onagriculture, irrigation andinfrastructure develop-ment in its economic andtechnological cooperationwith Tanzania, so as to meetthe needs of the Tanzanianside. The Chinese Govern-ment will also encourageChinese companies toinvest more in Tanzania andcarry out various kinds ofcooperation with Tanzaniancompanies, including jointventures, said the ChinesePremier during his official

visit to the east Africancountry.

Wen said over the pastdecades, China andTanzania have enjoyed afriendly and cooperativerelationship, which isbased on mutual respect,equality and win-winprinciples.

He pledged to cut tariffon some Tanzanian exportsto China, adding that hiscountry would try its bestto help with Tanzania’ssocial and economicdevelopment, by providing

assistance on personneltraining, medical andeducational infrastructuredevelopment.

While hailing Wen’svisit as an important eventin deepening friendship andcooperation between thetwo countries, Lowassathanked the ChineseGovernment for providingassistance to Tanzania inareas of agriculturalmodernization, irrigationworks, infrastructurebuilding and popularizationof education, which arethe current challenges forthe country.

MNA/Xinhua

LAGUNA BEACH, 25June — The driver wassober. The bird thatcrashed through thewindshield of his carmight have been flyingunder the influence.

A California brownpelican probably wasintoxicated by a naturallyoccurring toxin found inalgae blooms when she hitthe car on the Pacific CoastHighway in OrangeCounty Thursday, wildlifeofficials said.

The driver was startled,but not hurt. The pelicanneeded surgery for abroken foot, and also hada gash on its pouch.

“She’s hanging inthere,” said Lisa Birkle,assistant wildlife directorat the Wetlands andWildlife Care Center inHuntington Beach.

Though toxicologytests take several weeks,the odd bird behaviourwas likely the result ofpoisoning from domoicacid, which has been foundin the ocean in the area,Birkle said.

Pelicans have excellenteyesight and are unlikelyto fly into cars when sober,

Birkle said.The center has received

16 calls of strange birdbehaviour in the pastweek, and was holdingthree other birds founddisoriented and wanderingthrough yards and streets.

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German citizen testifies in probe into alleged CIA abduction BERLIN, 24 June — A German citizen, who was allegedly kidnapped by the US Central Intelligence

Agency (CIA), testified before Parliament on Thursday in a probe aimed to determine the role of Germanofficials in the case.

China urges Iran torespond to nuclear offer

BEIJING, 24 June — China urged Iran on Thursday to respond to aninternational offer of incentives aimed at defusing a dispute over its nuclearprogrammes.

Kuwait reap record oil profitfor 2005-06

Indian village heads tofight human trafficking

Bomb kills ten in village whereUS killed Zarqawi

BAGHDAD, 24 June — A bomb killed at least 10 people outside a mosque onFriday in the same village where al-Qaeda in Iraq's leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in a US airstrike two weeks ago, police and the InteriorMinistry said.

The bomb was left in a bag outside a Sunni mosque in the village of Hibhib,near Baquba, 65 kilometres (40 miles) north of Baghdad. Zarqawi, a Sunnimilitant, was killed in the US air raid on 7 June.

MNA/Reuters

2,521 US soldiers killed in Iraq

Teheran said onWednesday it wouldrespond by the end ofAugust to the package butsome diplomats haveexpressed fears that duringthe time before it responds,Iran could move closer to

mastering the ability toenrich nuclear fuel — akey to building atomicweapons.

“China hopes Iran canactively respond to theefforts of the internationalcommunity,” ForeignMinistry spokeswomanJiang Yu told a newsconference.

“The early resumptionof talks is the aspirationof the international

community.” Iran insists on the right

to produce its own nuclearfuel, which it says is forgenerating electricity. Butif it rejects the package ofincentives and penaltiesproposed by Germany andpermanent members of theUN Security Council, thepowers could movetoward stronger measuressuch as sanctions.

MNA/Reuters

The Lebanon-bornKhaled el-Masri said hewas detained on31 January, 2003, on theSerbian-Macedonianborder on suspicion ofterrorist activities and wastaken by the CIA and heldfor five months in adetention centre inAfghanistan, where he wasforced to endure abusiveinterrogation.

The 42-year-oldGerman said he was onlyreleased after the CIArealized they had the wrongman.

Germany's Parliamentopened an investigation to

see how much and whenGerman officials knewabout the el-Masri case andwhether German intelli-gence played any role inel-Masri's detention.

Germany’s foreignintelligence service, theBND, said one of its agentsfirst knew about theabduction and reported itto German authorities inearly 2004, earlier than theGerman authoritiespreviously stated.

Former Telekomdirector for MacedoniaWolf-Dieter M allegedlyheard about the kidnappingof el-Masri and informed

the German Embassy inSkopje in January 2004.

But until recently therewas no evidence thatGerman intelligenceauthorities were involvedin or had inside knowledge

of the affair, said MartinHofmann, one of the stateprosecutors examining thecase. Recent develop-ments could “shed a newlight on the situation”, headded.—MNA/Xinhua

Inmates listen to a daily educational remark before supper at a drugrehabilitation clinic in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu

Province on 23 June, 2006.—INTERNET

Students watch the activity of Mount Merapi volcano in Pakem village,Sleman in the Central Java Province on 24 June, 2006. —INTERNET

A visitor views a piece of Olympic sculpture artwork“a race between tortoise and rabbit” at WangfujingStreet in Beijing on 22 June, 2006. Nearly 300 piecesof excellent works for the 2008 Olympics were on

display here.—INTERNET

KUWAIT CITY, 24 June— The state-ownedKuwait PetroleumCorporation (KPC)

announced on Friday thatit reaped a record 2.316billion Kuwaiti dinars(7.87 billion US dollars)in total net profit for thepast fiscal year 2005-2006.

Kuwait EnergyMinister and KPCChairman Sheikh AhmadFahad Al- Ahmad Al-Sabah said in a statementthat the profit of KPC in2005-2006, which ended on31 March, was the largestsince the establishment ofthe corporation.

Comparing to theprevious fiscal year, theoperational profits of theKPC in 2005-2006registered an increase of544 million dinars(1,849.6 million dollars),said Sheikh Ahmad.

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NEW DELHI, 24 June— Village heads acrossimpoverished rural Indiawill be asked to help fighthuman trafficking bykeeping a register ofpeople who leave in searchof work.

The United NationsDevelopment Project(UNDP) is also askingvillage chiefs to watch outfor traffickers who lurevillagers with promises ofwell-paid jobs but forcethem into the sex trade.

“For the first time, weare going to fighttrafficking at the source,”Mona Mishra, who headsUNDP's HIV andtrafficking project in India,told Reuters late onThursday.

“Beating the traffickersrequires a day-to-day,m i n u t e - t o - m i n u t esurveillance that only thecommunity itself can do.”

With the help of 40NGOs, the UNDP willwork with 15,000 village

councils — or panchayats— in 11 states over thenext 10 months, theagency said.

MNA/Reuters

WASHINGTON, 24 June—As ofSaturday, 24 June, 2006, at least 2,521members of the US military have diedsince the beginning of the Iraq war inMarch 2003, according to an AssociatedPress count. The figure includes sevenmilitary civilians. At least 1,983 died asa result of hostile action, according tothe military’s numbers.

The AP count is 10 higher than the

Defence Department's tally, last updatedFriday at 10 am EDT.

The British military has reported 113deaths; Italy, 32; Ukraine, 18; Poland,17; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Slovakia,Denmark three; El Salvador, Estonia,Netherlands, Thailand, two each; andAustralia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia,Romania, one death each.

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A photographer works with a model as the sun setsover the Pacific Ocean off of Wailua, Hawaii, onthe island of Maui, on 22 June, 2006. —INTERNET

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The Sears Tower (R) is seen with the Dan RyanExpressway in the foreground, in Chicago on 23June, 2006. Seven people were arrested in Miamion 22 June, 2006 for having discussed attacks onthe landmark Sears Tower in Chicago.—INTERNET

An FA 18 Hornet hooks up a boom as itreceives a mid-air refueling from a KC 10Tanker of US Airforce 2nd Air Refuelling

Squadron, based in Andersen Air Force Basein Guam, during the 'Valiant Shield 06'exercises in the Pacific Ocean, off Guam

coast, on 23 June, 2006. —INTERNET

Malaysia, Sri Lanka agree to boost trade ties KUALA LUMPUR, 24 June — Malaysia and Sri Landa have agreed to enhance

their trade ties, said a Press statement released on Friday by the MalaysianForeign Ministry.

Malaysia and SriLanka both were satisfiedwith their increasing tradeand agreed to work towardsstrengthening it by tappingopportunities both inbilateral and regionalframework, said theMalaysia-Sri Lanka jointPress statement.

The two countries alsoagreed to further enhancecooperation in investmentpromotional activities fortheir mutual benefit.

“Malaysian investorswere invited to invest inhigh sea fishing andaquaculture and portdevelopment,” said thestatement, released at theend of Malaysian ForeignMinister Syed HamidAlbar’s visit to SriLanka.

Syed Hamid arrived inSri Lanka on Wednesdayto attend the inauguralsession of the Malaysia-Sri Lanka JointCommission Meeting,which discussed variousissues of mutual interest

to both sides andacknowledged the satis-factory development ofrelations between the twocountries.

As one of the results ofSyed Hamid’s trip to SriLanka, Malaysia signed adocument with Sri Lankato help the South Asiancountry to build anexpressway linking capital

Colombo and ancient cityKandy.

The two countriesalso agreed to boost theirtourism cooperationwhile praising theircooperation in airservices, particularly inthe “open skies arrange-ments”, which had beenagreed upon recently.

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Indonesia, Singapore joinforces for special economic

zones JAKARTA, 24 June—

Indonesia and Singaporeare moving closer to theestablishment of specialeconomic zones bycombining the strengthsof the two countries,Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla saidFriday.

The economic zones,located in Indonesia’sBatam and Bintan islandswhich are only 20kilometres fromSingapore, will combine

the advantages of eachcountry for mutualbenefits, he told reportersat his office here.

“Indonesia has itsown advantages, and sodoes Singapore. Wewill combine them,” hesaid.

Singapore, he said,has the capital ,marketing system,networking technologyand other commercialadvantages, whileIndonesia offers landand workers.

The economic zonesare special, in terms offiscal, banking andtaxation system, he said.

MNA/Xinhua

Two USsoldiers

killed in IraqBAGHDAD, 24 June

— A US Marinewas killed in combataction in Iraq’s west-ern Anbar Province,while another USsoldier died of non-combat incident, theUS military said onFriday.

The Marine, as-signed to the 1st Brigade,1st Armoured Divi-sion, was killed onWednesday as a resultof “enemy action” inAnbar Province, ac-cording to a US militarystatement.

Another soldier,assigned to the Multi-National DivisionBaghdad, died due tonon-combat incidentWednesday, the militarysaid, without givingdetails.—MNA/Xinhua

Two Vietnamese-American people sentencedfor drug trafficking

HANOI, 24 June — TwoVietnamese-Americanpeople received a 20-yearimprisonment sentenceeach for the charge oftrafficking 3,800 lab-madedrug pills, local newspaperYoung People reportedFriday.

The People’s Court of

southern Ho Chi Minh Cityon Thursday passed thesentences on the people whobought the drug abroad andthen resold in Vietnam.

Besides the two persons,four local people in the drugtrafficking ring, which wasdetected last August, weregiven jail terms of 8-15

years for the same charge.The number of drug

addicts in Vietnam surged56.8 per cent to 158,428 in2005 from 101,036 in 2000,a recent national conferencewas told. The country hastargeted to become a drug-free country by 2015.

MNA/Xinhua

Getty Museum agrees to return contested itemsROME, 25 June—The J

Paul Getty Museum says ithas reached a tentativeagreement with the Italianculture ministry to return anunspecified number ofcontested objects to Italy.

“The Italian Govern-ment will receive from theGetty a number of verysignificant objects, includingseveral masterpieces,” astatement from the museumsaid. “In return, as a sign offruitful dialogue andcollaboration among theparties, Italy will provideloans of objects ofcomparable visual beautyand historical importance.”

The Californianmuseum’s directors havesince Monday been involvedin negotiations with Italian

cultural officials over thereturn of objects allegedlystolen from Italy.

The museum has notsaid how many objects willbe returned, but the LosAngeles Times reported onTuesday up to 21 objectswere listed, including amarble statue of twomythical griffins, a 2,600-year-old cup and a statue ofApollo.

The institution says its“tentative agreement” withItaly is aimed at far more

than the return of art works.The statement said “the

parties expect to conclude afinal agreement, which willinclude mutual collabora-tion, research and theexchange of importantantiquities, in the earlysummer.” The GettyMuseum, the only US artmuseum dedicated to the artand culture of ancient Italyand Greece, declared inSeptember it did notknowingly purchase anystolen items.—Internet


Fentanyl-heroin cocktail killshundreds of addicts

B EIJING, 19 June— Fentanyl-laced heroin has killed hundreds of addicts inDetroit, Chicago and Philadelphia recently, according to local police in USSunday.

Indian Army personnel sit beside seized arms andammunition in a camp in Kalaroos, 140 km (87

miles) north of Srinagar, on 24 June, 2006. Handgrenades, rifle grenades and a large quantity ofother arms and ammunition were recovered bytroops during a search of a separatist militant

hideout in Kalaroos, an Indian armystatement said. —INTERNET

Children play near a burnt car on Haifa street, one day after US soldiers andIraqi troops clashed with gunmen, in Baghdad, on 24 June, 2006. —INTERNET

Panamanian children wave flags as they welcome Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chavez in the colonial downtown of Panama City, at the start of

Chavez’s two-day visit to Panama, on 22 June, 2006. —INTERNET

Millions of Indians at risk from mercury poisoning NEW DELHI, 24 June— Millions of people are at risk from the unregulated

use of mercury in India, which has become the world's biggest consumer afterChina, an environmental group said on Friday.

UNSC recommends UN membershipfor Montenegro

UNITED NATIONS, 24 June— The UN Security Council recommended onThursday the General Assembly admit Montenegro as the 192nd memberof the United Nations.

China conducts research onside-effects of contraceptives

Hepatitis E infects thousandsannually in Kathmandu

KATHMANDU, 24 June— The Hepatitis E, alsoidentified by the name Jaundice, infects some 10,000to 20,000 persons in the Nepali capital KathmanduValley during summer and rainy season every year, anexpert said here Saturday.

“Majority of those infected by this disease compriseyouths between the age group of 16 to 35 years,”Santosh Man Shrestha, president of Liver Foundationof Nepal (LFN), a Non-Government Organization,said in a Press conference.

The pregnant women were extremely vulnerable tothe Hepatitis E virus, which put both the mother andunborn child’s lives in peril, Shrestha noted, adding,“The women bearing child for the first time are evenmore susceptible to the disease.”

About 2 per cent of the population in the valleysuffers from some form of liver ailment throughout theyear and the disease is spread by the use of contaminatedwater.

“Water pipes supplying drinking water in the valleyare old, leaky and remain empty for a long time,leading to water contamination,” Shrestha said.

The improvement in the quality of drinking watercould largely prevent liver infection, he added.

MNA/Xinhua

The Council passed apresidential statementunanimously at a formalmeeting presided over byDanish Foreign MinisterPer Stig Moeller, whosecountry holds the Councilpresidency for June.

“The Security Councilhas decided to recommendto the General Assemblythat the Republic ofMontenegro be admitted asa member of the UnitedNations,” the statementsaid.

“The Council notes withgreat satisfaction theRepublic of Montenegro

solemn commitment touphold the purposes andprinciples of the Charter ofthe United Nations and tofulfil all the obligationscontained therein,” it added.

The Council discussedMontenegro’s request for aUN seat Wednesday andreferred the matter to itsCommittee on the Ad-mission of New Members.

The Security Council’srecommendation onMontenegro’s applicationwill be forwarded to theGeneral Assembly foraction.

Montenegro's request for

admission came in a letterto UN Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan from itspresident, Filip Vujanovic.

Montenegro voted in a21 May referendum to endan 88-year partnership withSerbia, completing thebreakup of the formerYugoslavia. Serbia in-herited the UN seat left bythe union it formed withMontenegro.

The latest country to gainmembership in the UnitedNations was East Timor,which became the 191stUN member in September2002.— MNA/Xinhua

Fentanyl is a powerfulsynthetic drug, a pre-scription painkiller. It is80 to 100 times morepowerful than morphineand can kill humans insmall doses. “Fetanyl canbe up to 50 times strongerthan heroin,” saidColumbus Police SgtSteve Overholser.“The drug can be lethaljust on its own, andmatching it with heroinmakes it even deadlier,”

said Mansfield police SgtMike Bammann.According to Chicagopolice, a West Side gangmember has been arrested.The police said the arrestwill hopefully lead themto the main supplier of the

deadly heroin cocktail.Fentanyl-laced heroinhas now also appearedincentral Ohio where, overthe last month, three casesof heroin with fentanylhave been found.

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BEIJING, 24 June— Theworld's most populousnation is building a

national network tomonitor and preventpossibly harmful side-effects of contraceptives.

About 100 monitoringstations are expected tobe operating across Chinaby 2010, Xinhua learnedat a national populationand family planningscience and technologyconference on Thursday.

The government hadinitiated monitoring andevaluation research oncontraceptive medicinesand instruments over thepast five years in Anhuiand Sichuan provinces andthe two municipalities ofShanghai and Chongqing.

The pilot programmeis expected to see amonitoring station in eachof 10 counties of 10different provinces by2007.

Research had shownthat contraceptive medi-cines possibly contributedto cardiovascular diseases,while some people usinghypodermic medicationreported headaches.

Researchers would alsovisit contraceptive usersthrough the familyplanning network thatcovers almost every villagein China to gather moresamples.—MNA/Xinhua

Researchers say Indiais emerging as a hotspotfor trade and unregulatedinternal distribution of thetoxic metal, which hasbeen outlawed in manydeveloped nationsbecause of its effects onhumans and animals.Mercury, sometimescalled quicksilver, isfound mainly mined in

Europe.The heavy, silvery-

white liquid metal is highlytoxic, and exposure candamage the brain, nervoussystem and developingfoetuses.

“We carried out a seriesof studies looking atvarious aspects of (the)mercury trade, usage anddisposal in India and the

findings are seriouslyworrying,” PrashantPastore of the Delhi-basedToxics Link told Reuters.

“We believe millionsare at risk from poisoningand we need to regulateand monitor the use ofmercury in India, just asother countries havedone.”

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Bluntly, I should take no heed of an unimportantcase and there is no need to write an article about that.However, I have to write this article in case unlesssomebody points out that, the failure will exacerbatethe situation and the persons concerned will becomemore daring to commit wrong verbal actions. So, Ihave to remind them about their wrong actions so thatthey can pick up a correct conception in this regard.

I was taken aback by the contents of a pamphletof the central women’s committee of a political partythat said it had set up an objective to improve the well-being of the people by ruling Myanmar.

I was also shocked by the description carried bythat pamphlet that says “The Myanmar Women’sDay is the birthday of General Secretary of theNational League for Democracy Daw Aung San SuuKyi”. Indeed, the statement is rather extreme andbased on personality cult.

According to the statement, they meant that theday they have chosen must be designated as theMyanmar Women’s Day. So, it can be deduced fromthe statement that they have assumed that the NLD isrepresented by the entire Myanmar women. If openlyto say, just as I read the statement, I noticed that all theNLD members wanted to launch indirectly the one-party system and individualism policy.

Many persons with such extreme ideas areincluded in the political party and that tarnishes thedignity of the people of Myanmar.

In this regard, there may be a question “How dothey bring dishonour to the people?”

The more the external elements, who are anxiousto interfere in the internal affairs and exploit thesituations of the nation, know that the NLD is, in fact,formed with the extreme members who persist onwhat they want to gain, to tell and to be withoutweighing up cause and effect, the more they willflatter and abet such extreme members. Besides, withsuch external elements’ knowledge of low intellectualpower of the members who are anxious to ruleMyanmar, that will automatically attract the alienpeople’s oppression of Myanmar national people.

That is the major point that disgraces themotherland.

The pamphlet also says that the 19th of June, thebirthday of the leader of the political party, has beencelebrated on a grand scale as the Myanmar Women’sDay for seven times.

Let it be. It has been ten years since the governmentof Myanmar established the Myanmar NationalCommittee for Women’s Affairs as a non-governmental organization on 3 July 1996 to enhancethe rights of Myanmar women in various sectors.

And it has been eight years since the 3rd of Julywas designated as the Myanmar Women’s Day.

In doing so, the government did not take intoconsideration the birthdays of any particular personand any commemorative date. So, what is the mostsuitable in that regard is that the date on which theMyanmar National Committee for Women’s Affairsthat represents the entire mass of Myanmar womenfolkwas conceived is designated as the MyanmarWomen’s Day.

In the pamphlet, it is also said that in response tothe designation, a late rector remarked that the NLDwoman leader who abhors violence like the nationalleader of India Mahattama Gandhi is like Mahattama

Does she really take after Mahattama Gandhi?Maung De Doe

Gandhi.I would like to ask the NLD central women’s

committee if she purports to be like Mahattama Gandhi.The name of that rector is stated in the pamphlet.

But, I do not reveal his name because I do not want tosee his dignity tarnished. And does the central women’scommittee know why we should be considerate towardsthe dignity of a person?

May I explain that point short and to the point.In which points can this NLD leader be compared

with Gandhi? Gandhi is the one who was able to bringabout a reconciliation with leaders of different racesand ideologies, who was able to solve the problems ofracial and religious affairs, who strove for his countryto be free from the British colonial rule, who was notawarded any gains but reprimanded by the British,who always wore his home-made dhoti.

However, this woman is just the one who attemptedto disrupt the official designation of Myanmar Women'sDay and who created slanders on her own countryaffairs by saying that there is disunity within. So shecannot be any way like Gandhi. In addition, in thepropaganda pamphlet they mentioned that there didexist many women leaders in countries such as Pakistan,the Philippines, Bangladesh, India and Indonesia. InMyanmar also there were women leaders like BaddaNu Wadi of Tagaung, Malar Sandi of Srikestra, Pantraprincess of Beikthano, Hanthawady Shin Saw Pu,Phwa Saw of Bagan Period, Ruzi Ya Pa Ba princess ofInnwa Period, Nanmadaw Me Nu of Konboung Period,consort of King Hsinbyushi, consort of King SakkyaDeivi and Su Phaya Latt. Besides, the pamphlet saysmany famous, heroic women emerged in the countryafter the above-mentioned periods. They are Pin KhinKhin, Monywa Khin Lay Gyi and wife of Bagan BoCho as well as Chin nationals like Lamkyaing, KwaiWan Twenan, Wonnin, Onhe Nayan Kyaing and DinNyan. Many more famous women are also described inthe pamphlet. These are all common knowledge andthey cannot be concealed by anyone.

But, did those famous leaders from Asia andMyanmar famous leaders try with egoism to designatetheir birthdays as an auspicious day representing themass of women? It was found that even the mostinfluential and powerful Myanmar women from theperiod of feudalism didn't show such egocentric spirit.Their ladies-in-waiting did not do any acts either toflatter them to be famous. Even generous Shin Saw Pudid not try to be remembered by posterity. Only aftercenturies had passed, Shin Saw Pu Road had to bedesignated as a remembrance.

There is also a lop-sided statement found in thepropaganda pamphlet. It said that there are those who

are trying to play down and tarnish the sector ofwomen who dared to sacrifice for their country andthe people. In fact, those from NLD Women WorkCommittee who wrote their one-sided statements inthe pamphlet should know facts that have alreadygone down in the annals of history can no way bediscarded. It is sure that one who sticks to one's owninterest cannot be the one who has positive attitude.

The statement is also devoid of rejoicing at thesuccess and prosperity of others. It seems to promotesan individual. In fact, it holds no water.

At the end of the statement, there included apoem, entitled, permanent flower, which says certainperson remains in the hearts of all. It continues to saythat the person is the rose as well as the garland ofjasmine that is fragrant forever.

The poem likens the person to a hawk, an eagleand a kite. It also compares the person to ruby,diamond and gems; it says that the person is thefuture, the permanence, and the principal. It wishesthe freedom of all the political prisoners includingthe person.

True, it is readable.But please answer a question. Could the person

build the nation alone? Of course, without relying onthe external assistance. If the foreign assistance is tobe sought, they should compose a poem referring tosuch nations which are confronted with hardshipsand sufferings due to their reliance on foreignassistance.

A review of the NLD statement will show that itis totally devoid of the basic requirements of Myanmarwomen. It draws the conclusion expresing theirdemands. Here, the protest note of the MyanmarWomen’s Affairs Federation, released on 7 April2005 may be recalled.

According to the protest note, the MWAF, onbehalf of the mass of Myanmar women who constitutemore than half of the population of the country,strongly protested the unjust accusations andresolutions and sanctions imposed devoid ofsympathy and with intent to put political pressure onthe nation. The NLD statement, on its part, is not ina position to stand by the mass of Myanmar women.In fact, the statement of the NLD central women’sgroup is a narrow-minded one representing no one.It has been documented in history.

As they say those who try to erase history will bepunished severely by history itself eventually, thewords will apply to anyone guilty. Keep your words,NLD central women’s group.

Translation: MS, ST, AK**************

According to the protest note, the MWAF, on behalf of themass of Myanmar women who constitute more than half ofthe population of the country, strongly protested the unjustaccusations and resolutions and sanctions imposed devoid ofsympathy and with intent to put political pressure on thenation. The NLD statement, on its part, is not in a position tostand by the mass of Myanmar women. In fact, the statementof the NLD central women’s group is a narrow-minded onerepresenting no one. It has been documented in history.


Establishment of Yuzana Palm …(from page 1)The Secretary-1

and party inspected palmoil and raw materials.Responsible persons con-ducted them round the

mill.At the hall, Chair-

man of Yuzana Co LtdU Htay Myint reportedon construction of plant.

Next, Secretary-1Lt-Gen Thein Sein deliv-ered an address. He saidthat establishment othe plant contributes to-wards satisfying the ed-

ible oil requirements ofthe State. He was verypleased to know thatYuzana Edible Oil Groupgrows oil palm and nowcan produce edible oil.

The country needs about300,000 tons of edible oilyearly but it producesonly 200,000 tons. Thatis why edible oil is im-

ported annually forfulfillment of local con-sumption. There have been nofavourable conditions sofar for extended cultiva-

tion of groundnut andsesamum. The compa-nies including YuzanaCo grow 500,000 acresof oil palm in TaninthayiDivision under the guid-

ance of the Head ofState. The oil mill can pro-duce 200 tons a day. De-spite a great deal of in-vestment in the plant, heurged the officials con-cerned to give priority tothe welfare of consum-ers and to follow theguidelines by the Headof State— full operationof the factory, reductionof production cost andthrifty.

Next, U HtayMyint presented palm oilproduced by the mill todepartments through of-ficials. He presented giftsto Secretary-1 Lt-GenThein Sein, Lt-GenMyint Swe, the ministersand the Mayor.

After the cer-emony, the Secretary-1signed the guests book.

The Secretary-1and party viewedpumping of crude palmoil from the ship to thetank at Yuzana Jetty,the power controlroom, manufacturing of

containers and otherunits.

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein, Lt-Gen

Myint Swe and the min-isters grew oil palmplants in commemora-tion of the opening cer-emony.

Next, they viewedprocess of growing physicnut plants and extractionof physic nut oil. Theyalso planted physic nutsaplings in the compoundof the plant.

Yuzana Palm OilPlant is built on 24 acresof land. Near the plant, a

jetty where a vesselloaded with 3,000 tons ofoil can berth was built.The plant can refine 300

of shortening, stearim,baking fat, vegetable fatand butter oil daily and20 tons of oil for making

tons of crude palm oildaily and can manufac-ture 200 tons of ediblepalm oil daily.

Furthermore, theplant can produce 80 tons

soap. In addition, theplant can manufacturegroundnut oil, soya-beanoil and vegetable oil ofinternational set stand-ards. — MNA

The companies including

Yuzana Co grow 500,000 acres of oil

palm in Taninthayi Division under

the guidance of the Head of State.

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein sprinkles scented water on the stoneplaque of Yuzana Palm Oil Plant. — MNA

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein views extration of physic nut oil.MNA

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein visits Yuzana PalmOil Plant. — MNA

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein plants aphysic nut sapling. — MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence unveils signboard of Yuzana Palm Oil Plant. — MNA


YANGON, 25 June— Secretary-1 of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Lt-Gen TheinSein attended theceremony to cultivatephysic nut saplings alongShukhintha CircularRoad in Shukhintha Wardof Thakayta Townshipthis afternoon.

Also present on theoccasion were Lt-GenMyint Swe of theMinistry of Defence, theministers, departmentalheads, local authorities,members of socialorganizations and localpeople.

First, the Chairmanof the Township PDC

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein attends growing ofphysic nut plants in Yangon East District

District PDC at Ward 64in Dagon Myothit (South)Township.

Chairman of theDistrict Peace andDevelopment Council Lt-Col Maung Maung Sheinreported on cent per centcultivation of physic nutsaplings.

In his instructions,Secretary-1 Lt-Gen TheinSein said that as the planis being implemented tocultivate physic nut plantsin the entire nation,departmental officials,local people and membersof social organizations areto grow the plant formeeting the target.

Next, Secretary-1

reported on growing ofphysic nut plants in thetownship.

Lt-Gen Thein Seinpresented physic nutsaplings to socialorganizations andtownselders.

Next, Secretary-1Lt-Gen Thein Sein, Lt-GenMyint Swe and theministers planted physicnut saplings. They viewedparticipation of socialorganization members andtownselders in growingphysic nut saplings.

Afterwards, theSecretary-1 and partyproceeded to the 100-acrephysic nut farm beingnurtured by Yangon East

Lt-Gen Thein Sein and Lt-Gen Myint Swe plantedphysic nut saplings in the

farm and viewed thethriving saplings.

Yangon East

District has performed103.07 per cent of growingphysic nut plants. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 25June — A coordinationmeeting on extendedcultivation of kitchencrops was held at themeeting hall of theMinistry of Commercein Nay Pyi Taw on 23June. Present on theoccasion were Minister

Coord meeting on extended cultivationof kitchen crops held

for Commerce Brig-GenTin Naing Thein,Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Aung Tun andofficials of the ministry,entrepreneurs fromYangon, Mandalay andMagway Divisions andlocal onion growers.

First, the minister

made a speech. Theminister held discussionswith those present onstability of onion priceand extended cultivationof onion. DeputyMinister Brig-Gen AungTun took part in thediscussions.

MNA

YANGON, 25 June— Accompanied byofficials of MyanmaRailways, DeputyMinister for RailTransportation Thura UThaung Lwin arrived atDanyingon station on 24June and inspecteddistribution of vegetable

Greens trains entering Yangon fromPyay, Mandalay railroad sections

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein attends physic nut plant growing ceremony of Dagon Myothit (South) Township.— MNA

Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thein Sein presents physic nut saplings to socialorganization members and local people in Thakayta Township. — MNA

Deputy Minister Thura U Thaung Lwin meets vegetables growers atDanyingon Station. — RAILWAYS

Minister for Commerce Brig-Gen Tin Naing Thein speaking atthe meeting with kitchen crops growers. — COMMERCE

carried by No 76 downtrain running on Pyay -Yangon railroad section.

Next, DeputyMinister Thura UThaung Lwin met withvegetable growers fromstates and divisions,greengrocers and sellersand fulfilled their

requirements.Afterwards, the

Deputy Minister andofficials inspected greensand groceries carried byNo 914 down trainfrom Mandalay-Yangonrailroad section and metwith merchants.

MNA


NAY PYI TAW, 25June — A workshop onteaching traffic rules washeld at No 1 BasicEducation High School in

Workshop on teaching traffic rules held in Nay Pyi Taw

Pyinmana yesterdaymorning.

Commander ofNay Pyi Taw CommandBrig-Gen Wai Lwin

delivered an address.Also present on theoccasion weredepartmental heads and350 teachers from 11

Countries around the world will be commemo-rating the International Day Against Drug Abuse andIllicit Drug Trafficking today. Based on the matchingaims and objectives, I am convinced that similar com-memorative events are also being held all throughoutthe States and Divisions of the Country.

The theme proclaimed by the United NationsOffice on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) this year forcountries around the world to deal with the crisis ofdrugs they all are being faced with is “Drugs are notchild’s play”.

The spirit of this message is never to try outdrugs as it can have disastrous consequences on theinterconnected web of individual’s education, health,economic and social well being. It is not intendedonly for young people but for people of all ages asdrugs, once addicted to it, can drag a person alongthe stream of peril.

In his message to the International Day AgainstDrug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking in 2005, theUN Secretary General highlighted that there are al-most 200 million individuals who are abusing illicitdrugs. To try out modern drugs with fancy and inter-esting names like CRACK, POP, JUNK, CRYSTAL,METH and DISCO BISCUITS that has different ad-dictive powers, is nothing but acquiring a fast ticketto shorten our lives. That is the reason why he hasurged individuals to steadfastly refuse to be caughtin the vortex of drugs through the lessons learnt fromthose who were dragged under.

All throughout different Governments era,Myanmar has strived to combat the menace of illicitdrugs using its own resources. We have launched a15-year narcotic drugs eradication program since

Through joint enforcements measures of Tatmadaw, Myanmar Police Force andrelevant Government Departments, 10249.85 acres of poppy destroyed during2005-2006 cultivation season that is 409.54 acres more than 2004-2005 season

1999-2000 and the first five-year phase was a success.The fact that there is an annual decline in both poppycultivated areas and in narcotic drugs production asreported by the joint surveys on illicit crops cultiva-tion undertaken between Myanmar and the UnitedStates and Myanmar and UNODC is a particular proofof our successes.

On the demand reduction side as well, variousworking groups on drug dependency treatment, on re-habilitation and on mass educational campaigns, con-stituted under the Central Committtee for Drug AbuseControl are implementing relevant programmes. Withan emphasis on youth-to be void of drugs — we areorganizing group discussions against the use of drugsat schools together with teacher and Myanmar AntiNarcotic Association complemented by delivering edu-cational talks. As part of our strategy to eliminate il-licit drug use, we have been encouraging students toactively participate in literary , music, painting, car-toon and poster competitions held on 26 June annu-ally, the International Day Against Drug Abuse andIllicit Drug Trafficking.

By the same token, 26 major drug dependencytreatment centers and 40 minor treatment units havebeen established under the direct supervison of theDepartment of Health. In those townships where suchcenters or units cannot be established yet, respectiveTownship Health Departments are providing treatmentfacilities. Those who completed treatment can take partin the rehabilitation programmes provided at 6 Statesand Divisional level rehabilitation camps managed bythe Department of Social Welfare. The Central Com-mittee for Drug Abuse itself is running two youth re-habilitation centers namely “Shwe Pyi Thar” and

“Shwe Pyi Aye” where both dependency treatmentand rehabilitation programmes are available. Theseare part of our undertakings to eliminate illicit druguse in Myanmar.

The survey conducted in 2003 at States andDivisional levels indicate that there are a total of68,230 durg addicts and compared with a total of58,134 addicts resulting from surveys conducted inJanuary 2006, we find that number of drug addictsdecreased by more than ten thousand within this threeyear period.

Through the joint enforcements measures ofthe Tatmadaw, Myanmar Police Force and relevantGovernment Departments, we managed to destroy10249.85 acres of poppy during 2005—2006 culti-vation season that is 409.54 acres more than 2004-2005 season. This is due to the increased capabilitiesof our enforcement teams as well as the enhancedcooperation received from international organizationsand neighboring countries. This also contributed to-wards taking legal actions against those who com-mitted drug related crimes transnationally and arebeing brought back to be tried here in Myanmar.

Accordingly, I would like to caution our citi-zens, in compliance with 2006 theme “Drugs are notchild’s play”, never to treat the problems of drugslightly and to take it seriously. Nobody should trythem out, regardless of age and other factors, as itcan have disastrous consequences on the intercon-nected web of individual’s education, health, eco-nomic and social well being. Let me again urge youall to join hands with the Government in eradicatingthe use of illicit drugs.

MNA

schools in Nay Pyi Taw.The commander

presented 360 illustratedbooks and 60 teacherguidebooks to respectiveTownship EducationOfficers.

Next, thecommander handed over15 helmets donated byKo Min Naing ofRainbow Cycle PartsShop on BayintnaungRoad to Chairman of theTraffic Rules Enforce-ment SupervisoryCommittee Col KhinMaung Tu.

MNA

Yangon, 26 June— The following is the message from the Chairman of the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control and the Minister for Home AffairsMajor-General Maung Oo on the commemorative occasion of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking which falls today.

Daewoo Int’l CorporationChairman calls on Minister

for MinesYANGON, 25 June — Minister for Mines Brig-

Gen Ohn Myint received Chairman of DaewooInternational Corporation Mr Tae-Yong Lee and partyat Myanmar Convention Centre on Mindhamma Road,Mayangon Township, yesterday afternoon.

Also present at the call were directors-generaland managing directors of departments and enterprisesunder the Ministry. — MNA

Daewoo Int’l CorporationChairman calls on CPT

MinisterNAY PYI TAW, 25 June — Minister for

Communications, Posts and Telegraphs Brig-GenThein Zaw received Chairman of Daewoo InternationalCorporation Mr Tae-Yong Lee and party at his officein Nay Pyi Taw on 23 June afternoon, and they discussedcommunication matters.

Also present at the call were officials fromMyanma Posts and Telecommunications. — MNA

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YANGON, 26 June— The following is the message from Mr Kofi A Annan, Secretary-General of theUnited Nations, on the commemorative occasion of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and IllicitDrug Trafficking which falls today:

Taking drugs or not is about making choices informed choices. Yet too many people in the world arebadly informed about the potentially devastating effects of drugs. That is why we need to work for bettereducation and greater awareness to prevent drug abuse. We need more consistent leadership fromGovernments. We need better examples from role models whose drug use damages more people than justthemselves.

We need spread the understanding that drugs are illegal because they are a problem; not a problembecause they are illegal. Drugs cause health and mental problems. When addictive, they can spell misery forusers and those close to them. When taken intravenously , they can spread deadly disease —— especiallyHIV/AIDS. When they wreak their devastation, they no boundaries of income, race, occupation orgeography.

Our efforts must focus especially on young people- through outreach, peer-to- peer networks, andusing opportunities such as sport to keep young people active, healthy, and confident. That also meansengaging and encouraging parents and teacher to play their part in full.

Our efforts also require working to reduce supply-through law enforcement, and through working withthe producing countries to give farmers sustainable alternatives to growing illicit crops. In this way, we muststrive to tackle poverty and drug supply at the same time.

This International Day Against Drug Abuse is a reminder to all of us to play our part. The UnitedNations is here to assist you in fight. Let us arm people with the information they need to say no todrugs.— UNIC

THE UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL’SMESSAGE ON THE INTERNATIONAL DAY

AGAINST DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT TRAFFICKING

Dry day inspection teams checkedYANGON, 25 June — Chairman of Dry Day

Supervisory Committee Yangon Station CommanderBrig-Gen Myint Soe, Vice-Chairman Col Win Naungof Mingaladon Station, Secretary Yangon DivisionPolice Force Police Col Hla Min, Commander ofYangon Division Wireless and Traffic Police ForcePolice Lt-Col Aung Naing and committee members

checked the dry day inspection teams which weredischarging duties at the main points of Yangon.

The dry day inspection teams checked dry daypass, driver’s licence, wheel tax, departmental uni-forms and took actions against those who violatedtraffic rules.

MNA

Art Exhibition opensYANGON, 25 June — To mark opening of Man-

dalay Association (Yangon) Yadanabon art gallery, anart exhibition was opened at the hall of MandalayAssociation at the corner of Merchant and 30th Streetin Pabedan Township on 25 June.

First, No 4 Military Region Commander Lt-ColKhin Maung Tun, Patron U Kyaw Nyunt and Chair-man U Mya Thaung formally opened the exhibitionand viewed the paintings on display at the exhibition.

Enthusiasts may come and see the exhibitionwhich keeps open from 25 June to 8 July. A total of 264paintings are on display at the exhibition. — MNA

YANGON, 25 June — Minister for Home AffairsMaj-Gen Maung Oo arrived at Myeik yesterday.

The minister met with service personnel underthe Ministry of Home Affairs, members of socialorganizations and townselders at Pale Yadana Hall inMyeik, and explained matters related to political,economic and social progress of the State. — MNA

Minister meets servicepersonnel

YANGON, 25 June — The financial supervisorygrade-4 course and the road construction course No 5of Public Works concluded at the central training

Training courses of Public Works conclude

school (Thuwunna) this morning, with an address byMinister for Construction Maj-Gen Saw Tun.

Also present on the occasion were heads ofdepartment under the ministry, the principal of thecentral training school (Thuwunna), course instructorsand 71 trainees.— MNA

Lt-Col Khin Maung Tun formally opens ArtsExhibition. — MNA

Home Affairs Minister Maj-Gen Maung Oo delivers a speech in meeting with service personnel,townselders and social organization members. — MNA

Beautify the landminus drugs

* Drugs of any kind, any descriptionAre bound to hurt your economySo you should avoid, as since ancient timesAnd there is evidence, strongThat Myanmars since long agoHave kept to the tenets unitedlyFor it is in the national interest.

* Colonial heritage was handed downAnd Tatmadawmen and citizens alikeWith united strengthUprooted and drove them outThat’s because its in the national interest.

* Mohein, Ngayepan and Tounghteikpan to startThen on to Barkyan and MonkyutWe sacrificed our lives to banish drugs.Citizens born of the same landWith new strength and thoughtPractically get rid of drug strainsWith new thought and actionTry to rid of drug menace, get higher incomeOpen a new facade, with new capabilityWill move on with new slogan“ 2014, Free From Drugs”.

* New historic era has been openedLand beautified minus drugsPeace on the land and economically well-offRich within short time, brethren allVillage of our kin, get prosperousLike music in good rhythm.

Po Yan Naing (Kyaukkyi, Trs)

(Hailing International Day Against Drug Abuseand Illicit Trafficking 2006)

Minister Maj-Gen Saw Tun speaks at the conclusion of financial supervisory grade-4 course and theroad construction course No 5 of Public Works. — MNA


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Iranian negotiator says US wants to topple govt LONDON, 24 June —

Iran’s chief nuclearnegotiator said the UnitedStates is intent on topplingTeheran’s Government

whatever happens in talksover its nuclear plans,Britain’s Guardiannewspaper reported onFriday.

“The nuclear issue isjust a pretext. If it was notthe nuclear matter, theywould have come up withsomething else,” theGuardian quoted AliLarijani as saying. TheUnited States, whichsuspects Iran is trying tomake highly enricheduranium for nuclearweapons, says it wants adiplomatic solution buthas not ruled out militaryaction. Iran says it needsatomic technology forpower generation.

Larijani accusedWashington of relying onforce to achieve its aimsin the Middle East, andsaid US policies in Iraqand the Palestinian

territories had alsocomplicated efforts toreach a deal over Iran’snuclear ambitions.

“If they continue on thesame path, the price of oilwill skyrocket and it willstrengthen our resolve.They want to set fire to theregion,” Larijani said.“The American strategyis to use force to securetheir interests.”

The United States,Russia, China, Britain,France and Germany havepresented Iran withproposed incentives,including access toadvanced civilian nucleartechnology, aiming tocontain its nuclearprogramme.

Larijani described theoffer as a “sermon” andrejected suspension ofuranium enrichment as aprecondition for negotia-

tions, the newspapersaid.

He said Iran wouldpresent extensive anddetailed counter-pro-posals to the majorpowers’ offer, which hedescribed as ambiguous“from the beginning to theend of the package”.

President MahmoudAhmadinejad said Iranwill respond to theproposals by 22 August,but Washington is pushingfor an earlier reply.European Union foreignpolicy chief Javier Solanaexpects to meet Larijaniin the next week to explainthe proposal.

Larijani denied Iranwas planning to block oilexports through the Straitof Hormuz, the conduit fortwo fifths of all globallytraded oil.

MNA/Reuters

Venezuela open to better tieswith new Mexico Govt

PANAMA CITY, 24 June — Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chavez, a left-winger at odds withWashington, said on Friday he was willing to workto better deteriorated ties with Mexico regardlessof who wins that country’s 2 July election.

US secretly collects overseasbanking data

WASHINGTON, 24 June — Under a secret BushAdministration programne initiated weeks after the11 September attacks, US counterterrorism officials havegained access to financial records from a vast internationaldatabase, The New York Times reported on Friday. Theofficials have also examined banking transactions involvingthousands of Americans and others in the United States.

They are allowed to review records from the nervecentre of the global banking industry, a Belgian cooperativeknown as SWIFT that routes about 6 trillion US dollarsdaily between banks, brokerages, stock exchanges andother institutions, government and industrial officials werequoted as saying.

The records mostly involve wire transfers and othermethods of moving money overseas and into and out of theUnited States. Most routine financial transactions confinedto the country are not in the database, the report said.

The programme has played a hidden role in domesticand foreign terrorism investigations since 2001 and helpedin the capture of the most wanted al-Qaeda figure insoutheast Asia, the officials said.

The programme, run by the Central Intelligence Agencyand overseen by the Treasury Department, “has providedus with a unique and powerful window into the operationsof terrorist networks and is, without doubt, a legal andproper use of our authority”, Stuart Levey, an undersecretaryat the Treasury Department, told the newspaper.

MNA/Xinhua

EU disappointed by lack of progress on US visas BRUSSELS, 24 June — The European Union expressed disappointment on

Friday at a lack of progress towards US visa waivers for new EU members andcomplained of a lack of transparency in the criteria used by Washington.

A self-styled re-volutionary who callsCuba his closest ally,Chavez clashed withconservative MexicanPresident Vicente Fox latelast year in a dispute overUS free-trade deals thatended with the govern-ments withdrawing theirambassadors.

“It all depends whathappens now with the new

government. We arewaiting. Whatever the newgovernment, we arewilling to work to betterdiplomatic, trade, politicaland economic ties,”Chavez told reporters on abrief visit to Panama.

Mexican leftistpresidential candidateAndres Manuel LopezObrador has a small leadover his conservative rivalgoing into the final daysof the campaign, two pollsshowed on Friday.

Lopez Obrador, aformer Mexico Citymayor who promises tofight poverty and roll backfree-market reforms, had36 per cent support.Rightist candidate FelipeCalderon trails with34 per cent, the pollssaid.

A Lopez Obradorvictory would strengthena shift to the politicalleft across much ofLatin America in recentyears.

Chavez, a formersoldier who has become amagnet for anti-USsentiment in LatinAmerica, has openlysupported left-leaningpresidential candidates inPeru and Nicaragua. Buthe has been more cautiousin his comments aboutLopez Obrador.

MNA/Reuters

for security and otherwise,I think it is important thatthose who are currentlyexcluded from theprogramme should haveclear pro-spects andknowledge of what criteriathey would need to meet,”he said.

On Thursday, EUExternal RelationsCommissioner BenitaFerrero-Waldner said sheand Interior Commis-sioner Franco Frattini hadwritten to Washingtonwarning the EU wouldhave to take reciprocalsteps if there was noprogress on the issue.

The European Com-mission warned earlier thisyear it has the power torecommend sanctions,

such as re-quiring USdiplomats to seek visas.

The United States hasgiven no indication whenthe visa restrictions mightbe lifted.

It tightened im-migration measures afterthe 2001 attacks on UScities and says it can waivevisas only when a countryfulfils clear requirementssuch as a low rate ofcitizens who over-stay theduration of their visas.

Frattini has said hewould be satisfied if theUnited States agreed toaccelerate talks on acountry-by-country basis,saying some countries hadmade more progress thanothers.

MNA/Reuters

The United States doesnot require visas fromcitizens of 15 of the25 EU countries but thewaiver scheme does notapply to Greece or the10 new, mostly ex-Communist, memberstates, with the exceptionof Slovenia.

The EU had hoped forprogress on the issue at asummit with the UnitedStates this week in Viennabut this did not happen,EU Justice and HomeAffairs spokesman FrisoRoscam Abbing told anews briefing.

He said US criteriawere not just strict, butnot as clear as they couldbe. “While fullyrespecting their concerns


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Doctors say bird flu may have been mistaken for SARSWASHINGTON, 23 June — A Chinese man who died of pneumonia in 2003 and was at first classified as

a SARS victim might have in fact died of avian influenza, Chinese researchers reported on Wednesday.

China population to peak at1.5 bln in 2030s

BEIJING, 24 June — China’s population will peak at 1.5 billion by the mid-2030s, and its sex ratio will remain skewed at 119 boys for every 100 girls, statemedia reported on Friday.

Flagstaff firefighter Eric Brown points to an area of the Brins fire at Slide Rock StatePark in Oak Creek Canyon near Sedona, Arizona, on 22 June, 2006.—INTERNET

Renault’s Formula One world championFernando Alonso of Spain acknowledges fans as

he stands on his car after setting the fastest time inqualifying for the Canadian F1 Grand Prix at theCircuit Gilles-Villeneuve in Montreal on 24 June,

2006.—INTERNET

The Hubble Space Telescope is seen as the Space Shuttle Columbia, with acrew of seven astronauts on board approached on 3 March, 2002, to latch itsrobotic arm onto the giant telescope. The main camera on the telescope that

has revolutionized astronomy with stunning pictures of the universe hasstopped working, an instrument specialist who works with the camera said on

24 June, 2006. —INTERNET

A study has found thatChina’s population —which stood at 1.307billion in late 2005 — willbegin to gradually dropafter the mid-2030s, theChina Daily newspapersaid.

The report found thatChina’s imbalanced sexratio had “remainedstable” as measured

against a national censussix years ago, but was “stillworrying”, the ChinaDaily said. The inter-nationally recognizednormal ratio is 103 to 107of one sex to 100 of theother, the paper said, butChina’s boy-girl ratio in1990 was 111 to 100.

China familiestraditionally prefer sons —

a favouritism bolstered bythe country’s controversialone-child policy launchedin the early 1980s to curbits population growth.

The report blamedillegal foetus genderidentification and non-medical abortion for theskewed figures, but iturged the government notto change “currentpopulation policies”, thepaper said.

MNA/Reuters

Zimbabwe’s cottonproduction predicted to surge

HARARE, 24 June — Zimbabwe is expected toproduce more than 300,000 tons of cotton in 2006,which would represent a significant increase fromthe 190,000 tons produced last year, a cotton expertsaid on Thursday.

Kenya to host global meetingon health next week

NAIROBI, 24 June — Researchers, academicians andpoliticians are due to meet in Kenya next week toaddress social factors affecting health of the world’spopulation, Kenyan Health Ministry announced onThursday.

The week-long ThirdInternational Commis-sion Meeting on SocialDeterminants of Health,which opens in Nairobion Monday next week,will discuss causes of ill-health, poverty, foodsecurity, social exclusion,inappropriate housing andunsafe employmentconditions.

“The commission aimsto lever policy change by

turning existing publichealth knowledge intoactionable global andnational policy agenda,”said a statement from theMinistry of Health.

“The meeting willcompile evidence onsuccessful interventionsand formulate policies thataddress key socialdeterminants, particularlyfor low income countries,”it said. — MNA/Xinhua

The expert attributedthe big jump inproduction to good rainsas well as timely plantingand improved supply ofinputs. “The othercontributory factor is thatunlike other crops, thecotton industry is the onlyagricultural sector thathas not been affected bythe ongoing land reformprogramme,” Obert Jiri,a former official ofCottrade, said.

He said cotton wasmainly produced by small-holder farmers who are inareas where there has notbeen any resettlement. “Thefarmers produce the seed and

land is also available for themto produce cotton,” he said.

The government ofZimbabwe embarked on theland reform programme in2000 and the practice sawsome tobacco, citrus andsugar cane farms beingacquired for resettlement ofBlack people.

Production of these cropshas significantly declineddue to, among otherfactors, the disturbancesassociated with theacquisition process as wellas lack of skills and trainingamong new farmers. Cottonis one of Zimbabwe’s majorforeign currency earners.

MNA/Xinhua

Iran to halt gasolineimports, impose rationing

TEHERAN, 24 June — Iran will halt gasolineimports from 23 September. and start rationinggasoline supplies to motorists because of budgetconstraints, Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh said on Friday.

But in a confusingdevelopment, at least oneof the researchers asked thatthe letter reporting the case

be withdrawn frompublication in the NewEngland Journal ofMedicine. Editors of themedical journal said theywere trying to find out why.

The letter was availableto journalists before itswithdrawal, and describesthe case of a 24-year-oldman who died frompneumonia and respiratorydistress in November 2003.

“Because the clinicalmanifestations wereconsistent with those of thesevere acute respiratorysyndrome (SARS) andoccurred when sporadiccases of SARS weredescribed in southernChina, serum and lungtissue from the patient, as

well as fluid aspirated fromhis chest, were examinedfor SARS coronavirus,” theresearchers wrote. “Alltests were negative forSARS.”

The World HealthOrganization said it wasasking China’s Ministryof Health for clarification.

“This has been signedby eight scientists fromvery prestigious insti-tutions. It certainly addsweight to the inform-ation,” said Roy Wadia,WHO spokesman inChina.SARS first broke outin China’s southern Guang-dong Province in 2002 andspread as far afield asCanada before it wasbrought under control in

2003. It killed close to 800people out of the 8,000known to have beeninfected.

Ironically, experts at thetime assumed the then-mysterious illness makingpeople sick in China wasH5N1 avian influenza,which broke out in HongKong in 1997 and thendisappeared.

Wadia said: “It re-inforces what we haveknown for a very longtime which is that the H5N1virus has been in theenvironment of this part ofthe world for a while andit’s therefore not surprisingthat you would have thesesort of cases”.

MNA/Reuters

Parliamentarians in theOPEC producer approveda budget for the year toMarch 2007 that cut theamount to be spent ongasoline imports to 2.5billion US dollars from4 billion US dollars.

This meant President

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’spopulist government,which draws its supportfrom the poor, was facedwith an unappetizing choiceof hiking petrol prices orrationing, both potentialsources of social discontent.

MNA/Reuters


S P O R T SWORLD CUP FIXTURES

Monday, 26 June 2006Italy v Australia, 21:30 MST

Tuesday, 27 June 2006Switzerland v Ukraine, 01:30 MST

Germany's Lukas Podolski (2nd L) shoots to scoreagainst Sweden during their second round match

in Munich on 24 June, 2006. —INTERNET

Podolski double helps Germany brush Swedes aside MUNICH, 25 June— Lukas Podolski struck twice in the first 12 minutes on Saturday as hosts Germany

swept into the World Cup quarterfinals with a 2-0 win over 10-man Sweden.

Rodriguez fires Agrentina into last 8 LEIPZIG, 25 June — A brilliant goal from Argentina's Maxi Rodriguez

gave his country a 2-1 extra-time win over Mexico in the World Cup secondround on Saturday.

Mexico's Ricardo Osorio (R)challenges Argentina's RobertoAyala for the ball during theirsecond round World Cup 2006

soccer match in Leipzig on 24 June,2006.—INTERNET

Eriksson revelsin South American record BADEN BADEN (Germany), 25 June— England may

toil against South American teams but they will go intoSunday's World Cup second round match with Ecua-dor knowing they have nearly always won such gamesunder Sven-Goran Eriksson. Though England's quar-terfinal exit to Brazil at the 2002 World Cup had keeperDavid Seaman in tears, they have won their six othermatches against South Americans since Eriksson tookeffective charge in February 2001.

It has very rarely been easy, with England oftenstruggling to keep possession against sides who areconfident on the ball and give little away at the back.

Only two weeks ago, England needed an own goalby Paraguay captain Carlos Gamarra to make a 1-0winning start to their Group B campaign in Germany.

In their dummy-run for that game, England hadsnatched a 2-1 victory over Uruguay in March aftertrailing 1-0 until 15 minutes from the end. Winger JoeCole only grabbed the winner in the third minute ofstoppage time.—MNA/Reuters

Confident Swiss target quarterfinal berth

Ukraine need to find quality to progress BERLIN, 25 June— Ukraine acknowledge they need to play a better class of

football than they have shown in some group matches if they are to progressany further in the World Cup.

A soccer fanwaves a Ger-man national

flag in front ofthe Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaecht-niskirchechurch inBerlin on

24 June, 2006.The German

team wonagainst Sweden2-0 in a secondround match ofthe World Cup

2006.INTERNET

The 21-year-old strikerscored after four minuteswith a deflected drive andthen again eight minuteslater with a precise finishfrom a clever pass byMiroslav Klose as thethree-times championstook masterful control.

Germany, performingwith great power and be-lief and backed by extraor-dinary support, will meetArgentina or Mexico inthe last eight in Berlin onFriday.

Sweden were out-fought and, for spells, out-

thought. They had a mansent off and HenrikLarsson missed a second-half penalty on anafternoon they will wishto forget.

Stunned by the Ger-mans' high-tempo open-ing spell, they were re-duced to 10 men after 35minutes when central de-fender Teddy Lucic wassent off.

The luckless Lucic,who with partner OlofMellberg struggled to con-tain the movement andinterchanges of Klose andPodolski, was dismissedfor two yellow cards ineight minutes for fouls onKlose.

Sweden scrapped theirway back into the game

before the interval whenZlatan Ibrahimovic, witha low shot on the turn fromeight metres, forced anathletic low save from JensLehmann.

But the Germans, bu-oyed by their two-goalblitz, were in commandand this allowed TorstenFrings and MichaelBallack to dictate the paceand shape of their gamefrom central midfieldwhere the Swedes weremostly outnumbered.

The opening goal wasmade by Klose who won aball in the air, collected itagain and turned past twodefenders. His shot wasblocked, but Podolski fol-lowed up and thoughLucic dived to try to headclear the shot flew in.

The second came whenKlose drew three defend-ers with a diagonal runand then played a reversepass across the area forPodolski to fire in his thirdgoal of the tournament.

Apart from the goals,the German fans, heavilyoutnumbering the Swedesin a 66,000 sell-out crowdat the Allianz Arena, en-joyed a series of near-misses by their team asthey basked in warm sun-shine and the 32 degreesCelsius heat.

Rodriguez struck eight minutes intoextra time, controlling a cross-fieldpass with his chest and then hammer-ing a superb, diagonal left-foot volleypast Mexican goalkeeper OswaldoSanchez from 20 metres.

Argentina will play hosts Germanyin the quarterfinal in Berlin on Friday.

The Latin American rivals had beenlevel at 1-1 after 90 minutes, followingtwo early goals.

Mexico took the game to Argen-tina from the kickoff and shocked thefavourites by taking the lead with theirfirst chance in the sixth minute.

Pavel Pardo's free kick on the rightwas flicked on with his head by de-fender Mario Mendez and captainRafael Marquez came in unmarked onthe left behind the defence to shoot intothe roof of the net past keeper RobertoAbbondanzieri.

Argentina were level within fourminutes when Hernan Crespo was cred-ited with netting Juan RomanRiquelme's corner although televisionreplays clearly showed Mexico strikerJared Borgetti heading the ball into hisown net trying to clear.

The Mexicans, quick on the coun-ter-attack, troubled the centre of the

Argentine defence time and again.Gabriel Heinze, having a poor game,was lucky not to be sent off for bringingdown Jose Fonseca just before halftime.

Crespo could have had two goalsmidway through the first half, both timesafter being put through by superb passesinto space from Esteban Cambiasso.

MNA/Reuters

A scrappy 1-0 win overTunisia on Friday earnedthe Ukrainians a second-round match againstGroup G winners Swit-zerland, and althoughcoach Oleg Blokhin wassatisfied with the result,he was unhappy about thequality of the football.

He said his team neededto do some serious think-ing before Monday'smatch in Cologne but washopeful that Ukraine couldprogress to the quarterfi-nals.

"Chances always dielast," he told reporters.

But to get any further

they will need to do whatno other team has man-aged in the tournament sofar — score against Swit-zerland, the only side yetto concede a goal.

That job will fall tostriker Andriy She-vchenko, European Foot-baller of the Year in 2004.

Shevchenko is by farthe team's most skilful andwell known player, but

Blokhin said football wasall about the team ratherthan individuals.

"I don't ever single outone player (for praise orcriticism) — the team ei-ther wins or loses,"Blokhin said. The firstEuropean team to qualifyfor the finals, the Ukrain-ians came to Germanyviewed as the dark horses.

MNA/Reuters

HANOVER, 25 June—The self-belief of Switzer-land's young World Cupsquad has been swelled tonew levels following Fri-day's assured 2-0 win overSouth Korea.

The victory, securedwith goals from defenderPhilippe Senderos and topscorer Alex Frei, saw theSwiss finish surprise win-ners of Group G and movedKoebi Kuhn's men within

one match of equalling thecountry's best World Cupshowing.

If they can beat WorldCup debutants Ukraine inCologne on Monday, Swit-zerland will be through tothe quarterfinals for thefourth time - and for thefirst time in 52 years.

"It's certainly possiblefor this team to reach thequarter-finals," said Kuhn,whose side were unique incoming through the groupstage without conceding agoal. "We can go into thenext game with huge self-confidence, knowing thatour opponents will also betaking us seriously now."

With just three daysseparating the South Ko-rea and Ukraine encoun-ters, Switzerland will haveless time than usual to re-cuperate for their next chal-lenge.—MNA/Reuters

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Sunday, 25 June, 2006

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30hours MST: During the past 24 hours, rain or thun-dershowers have been isolated in lower Sagaing,Mandalay and Magway Divisions, fairly widespreadin Kayah State, Bago, Yangon and Ayeyawady Di-visions and widespread in the remaining areas. Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Hkamti(2.83) inches, Myeik (1.85) inches, Thandwe (1.77)inches, Yangon (Kaba-Aye) (1.45) inches, Yangon(Mingaladon) (1.37) inches, NyaungU (0.82) inch andPakokku (0.75) inch.

Maximum temperature on 24-6-2006 was 91°F.Minimum temperature on 25-6-2006 was 70°F. Rela-tive humidity at 09:30 hours MST on 25-6-2006 was(100%). Total sunshine hours on 24-6-2006 was (1.4)hours approx.

Rainfalls on 25-6-2006 were (1.37) inches atMingaladon, (1.45) inches at Kaba-Aye and (0.93)inches at Central Yangon. Total rainfalls since 1-1-2006 were (24.13) inches at Mingaladon, (32.36)inches at Kaba-Aye and (36.14) inches at CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye)was (7) mph from Southwest at (12:30) hours MSTon 24-6-2006.

Bay inference: Monsoon is weak in theAndaman Sea. East central Bay and moderate else-where in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 26-6-2006:Rain or thundershowers will be isolated in KayahState and Magway Division, scattered in lowerSagaing and Mandalay Divisions, fairly widespreadin Shan, Kayin States and Bago Division and wide-spread in the remaining areas. Degree of certainty is(80%).

State of the sea: Seas will be slight to mode-rate in Myanmar Waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Modertemonsoon.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouringareas for 26-6-2006: Likelihood of isolated rain orthundershowers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouringareas for 26-6-2006: One or two rain or thunder-showers. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouringareas for 26-6-2006: Likelihood of isolated rain orthundershowers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

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Mexico’s goalkeeper Oswaldo Sanchez is unable to stop a shot byArgentina’s Hernan Crespo, unseen, for a goal during the Argentina

vs Mexico Round of 16 World Cup soccer match at Central Stadium inLeipzig, Germany, on 24 June, 2006. — INTERNET

Head of the Meteoro-logical and Geophysicsoffice in GorontaloKisnobudi said theepicenter of the quakewas at 0.31 SouthernLatitude and 123.48Eastem Longitude, ofsome 60 km below thesea level.

The epicenter of thequake was at the TominiBay, Kisnobudi wasquoted by Antara newsagency as saying.

Twelve killed,three missingin Romanian

floodsBUCHAREST, 25 June

— Floods in northern Ro-mania had killed 12 bySunday morning and left3 missing, authorities said.

Among the eightcounties flooded, Bistrita-Nasaud was hardest hitwith eight people killed.

Torrents caused byheavy rains have isolatedeight villages in thecounty, forcing the gov-ernment to fly in reliefsupplies.

Crops in 1,200 hec-tares of farmland weredevastated, and a further448 hectares were partlydestroyed.

The authorities havesent in troops to help withevacuation and disasterrelief.

Weather forecasts saydownpours are expectedto continue in central andnorthern regions over thenext several days.

MNA/Xinhua

Earthquake rocks Gorontalo,Indonesia

JAKARTA, 25 June — A tectonic earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richterscale rocked Gorontalo province of Indonesia at 5:15 am local time on Sunday(2215 GMT Saturday).

So far, no report ofcasualty and damage weremade available, he added.

On 16 June, an earth-quake measuring 5.7 onthe Richter scale also rat-tled Gorontalo, but therewas no casualties or dam-age.

Meanwhile, a moder-ate eathquake measuring5.9 on the Richter Scalerocked Luwuk, Indone-sia’s Sulawesi Provinceearly Sunday morning, but

there was no reports ofcasualties.

Indonesia sits on thePacific “Ring of Fire”,where the meeting of con-tinental plates causes hingvolcanic and seismic ac-tivity.

An earthquake meas-uring 5.9 on the RichterScale rattled Yogyakartaand Central Java on 27May, killing more than5,800 people.

MNA/Xinhua

2nd Waxing of Waso 1368 ME Monday, 26 June, 2006

Lt-Gen Myint Swe attends opening of Kayan Creek Bridge in Kayan

WORLD CUP 2006

England 1

Ecuador 0

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* If openly to say, just as I read the statement, I noticed thatall the NLD members wanted to launch indirectly the one-party system and individualism policy.

* In designating the Myanmar Women’s Day, thegovernment did not take into consideration the birthdaysof any particular person and any commemorative date.

* A review of the NLD statement will show that it is totallydevoid of the basic requirements of Myanmar women. Itdraws the conclusion expressing their demands.

YANGON, 25 June —Some 2,325 gem mer-chants— 1,439 foreigngems merchants from 388companies of nine foreigncountries and 886 from376 local companies —visited jade, gems andpearl special sales for 2006at Myanmar ConventionCentre on MindhammaRoad in Mayangon Town-ship from 20 June up tonow.

Jade lots were soldto the local and foreignmerchants through tenderat 9 am today. A total of602 jade lots were sold ineuro. A total of 782 jadelots were sold through ten-der yesterday and today.The remaining jade lotswould be sold through ten-der.

Moreover, 356 jadelots will be sold throughcompetitive bidding up to4 July. — MNA

602 jade lots sold in euro

Jade, gems and pearl special sales continue

YANGON, 25 June — Members of YeU Town-ship National League for Democracy of SagaingDivision U Mya Sein, U Tin Swe, U Kyaw Tun, UKyaw Tin, U Chit Sein, U San Ba, U Daung Yi andU Nyo Seint of Sagaing Division, of their ownvolition, resigned from the party on 24 May 2006,members U Sein Ya, U Soe Myint, U Tin Aung andU Sein Thin on 28 May, members U Kyaw Myint andU Soe Win Naing on 29 May, members U Than andU Shwe on 30 May, U Myint Than, U Than, U TunMyaing and U Hla Ohn on 1 June, members U TunHlaing, U Thein Tan, U Khin Maung Win and UMyint Aung on 2 June, members U Nyo Win, UKaung Aye and U Kan Nyunt on 3 June, TownshipNLD Chairman U Tin Maung and Secretary U ChitHmwe on 4 June, and sent the letters of resignationto NLD headquarters and local authorities.

In their resignations sent to Sagaing DivisionMultiparty Democracy General Election Sub-Com-mission, they stated that they lost interest in the NLDand had no more belief in the party. Therefore, theyof own volition resigned from the membership of theparty.

Likewise, Vice-Chairman U Hsan and U TunWin of YeU Township NLD, Sagaing Division, hadalso resigned from the party of own volition. So far,31 persons had resigned from YeU Township NLD.

MNA

31 members of YeUTownship had no more

interest and belief in NLD

Jade, Gems and Pearl Special Sales for 2006 in progress at Myanmar Convention Centre. — MNA

Local and foreign gem merchants observe jade lots. — MNA

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