1st Waxing of Nadaw 1369 ME Monday, 10 December, 2007 Volume XV, Number 238 Established 1914 Emergence of the State Constitution is the duty of all citizens of Myanmar Naing-Ngan. * Stability of the State, community peace and tranquillity, prevalence of law and order * National reconsolidation * Emergence of a new enduring State Constitution * Building of a new modern developed nation in accord with the new State Constitution * Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development of other sectors of the economy as well * Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system * Development of the economy inviting participation in terms of technical know-how and investments from sources inside the country and abroad * The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in the hands of the State and the national peoples * Uplift of the morale and morality of the entire nation * Uplift of national prestige and integ- rity and preservation and safeguard- ing of cultural heritage and national character * Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit * Uplift of health, fitness and education standards of the entire nation Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives NAY PYI TAW, 9 Dec — The State Peace and Development Council Chairman’s Cup Golf Tourna- ment 2007 took place at the City Golf Course in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning. At 6.40 am, Vice-Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Deputy Commander-in- Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Maung Aye arrived at the City Golf Course. He was welcomed by SPDC mem- ber General Thura Shwe Mann of the Ministry of Defence, Prime Minister General Thein Sein, Secre- tary-1 of the SPDC Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, SPDC members, Chairman of the Organiz- ing Leading Committee of Tournament Minister for Vice-Senior General Maung Aye takes part in State Peace and Development Council Chairman’s Cup Golf Tournament 2007 Industry-1 U Aung Thaung. Vice-Senior General Maung Aye took part in the golf tournament. The golf tournament was attended by Secre- tary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo and SPDC members, the Commander-in-Chief (Navy), the Commander-in-Chief (Air), senior military officers of the Ministry of Defence, the ministers, the Chief Justice, the Attorney-General, the Auditor-General, the deputy ministers, members of the Nay Pyi Taw Development Committee, departmental heads, members of the Or- ganizing Leading Committee and golfers from 36 teams representing the Prime Minister’s Office and ministries. Before the opening ceremony, the golfers took the designated places. Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Chairman of the Organizing Leading Com- mittee Minister U Aung Thaung and Chairman of Nay Pyi Taw Development Committee Mayor Minister for Progress of Border Areas and National Races and Development Affairs Col Thein Nyunt opened the tournament by firing Tracer balls. Next, the first round of the tournament com- menced. (See page 8) Ministry of Defence secures champions in team handicap and scratch events Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo poses a documentary photo together with golfers of Ministry of Defence.—MNA Vice-Senior General Maung Aye participates in State Peace and Development Council Chairman’s Cup Golf Tournament 2007. MNA 10-12-07 NL 8/2/18, 12:57 PM 1
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1st Waxing of Nadaw 1369 ME Monday, 10 December, 2007Volume XV, Number 238
Established 1914
Emergence of the State Constitution is the duty of all citizens of Myanmar Naing-Ngan.
* 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
* 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
Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives
NAY PYI TAW, 9 Dec — The State Peace andDevelopment Council Chairman’s Cup Golf Tourna-ment 2007 took place at the City Golf Course in NayPyi Taw yesterday morning.
At 6.40 am, Vice-Chairman of the State Peaceand Development Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief(Army) Vice-Senior General Maung Aye arrived at theCity Golf Course. He was welcomed by SPDC mem-ber General Thura Shwe Mann of the Ministry ofDefence, Prime Minister General Thein Sein, Secre-tary-1 of the SPDC Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo, SPDC members, Chairman of the Organiz-ing Leading Committee of Tournament Minister for
Vice-Senior General Maung Aye takes part inState Peace and Development Council
Chairman’s Cup Golf Tournament 2007
Industry-1 U Aung Thaung.Vice-Senior General Maung Aye took part in
the golf tournament.The golf tournament was attended by Secre-
tary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo andSPDC members, the Commander-in-Chief (Navy), theCommander-in-Chief (Air), senior military officers ofthe Ministry of Defence, the ministers, the Chief Justice,the Attorney-General, the Auditor-General, the deputyministers, members of the Nay Pyi Taw DevelopmentCommittee, departmental heads, members of the Or-ganizing Leading Committee and golfers from 36 teamsrepresenting the Prime Minister’s Office and ministries.
Before the opening ceremony, the golfers took
the designated places.Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung
Myint Oo, Chairman of the Organizing Leading Com-mittee Minister U Aung Thaung and Chairman of NayPyi Taw Development Committee Mayor Minister forProgress of Border Areas and National Races andDevelopment Affairs Col Thein Nyunt opened thetournament by firing Tracer balls.
Next, the first round of the tournament com-menced.
(See page 8)
Ministry of Defence secures championsin team handicap and scratch events
Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo poses a documentary photo together withgolfers of Ministry of Defence.—MNA
Vice-Senior General Maung Aye participatesin State Peace and Development CouncilChairman’s Cup Golf Tournament 2007.
MNA
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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 10 December, 2007
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 DesireMonday, 10 December, 2007
Ancient cultural heritagepromotes tourismindustry
Myanmar is a nation of natural beautywith mountains and forests and it is rich innatural resources and it has also plenty ofancient cultural heritage. National races aresincere, friendly and hospitable. These arethe basic foundations for development oftourism industry.
The majority of the tourists visit Baganwhere a lot of ancient arts and crafts exist.Myanma ancient cultural heritage is concen-trated in Bagan region. Ancient structureshave been renovated according to their origi-nal style. It is an interesting place for manytourists.
Inlay Lake in Shan State (South), land-scapes of Pindaya region, islands along thecoasts, coral reefs, rare animals of biodiversityfrom underwater and production of tradi-tional handicraft of national people attracttourists.
Tourists can gain knowledge about thenew year festivals of national races, regionalfestivals and cultural dances. Arrangementshave been made for tourists who like to studythe life of villages along the Ayeyawady Riverby boat. Package tours are organized by touroperators.
The government is laying emphasis ondevelopment of tourism as it has become apopular industry in the world.
It is believed that utilization of naturalresources and promotion of eco-tourism willcontribute towards development of the tour-ism industry.
MPMEEA to hold AnnualMeeting
YANGON, 9 Dec — The Annual Meeting ofMyanmar Pharmaceuticals and Medical Equip-ment Entrepreneurs’ Association will be held atMyanmar Medical Association on Theinbyu Streetin Mingala Taungnyunt Township at 1 pm on 19December.
Invitation letters have already been sent tomembers of the association. — MNA
All this needs to be known* Do not be frightened whenever
intimidated* Do not be bolstered whenever flat-
tered* Do not be softened whenever appeased
Maj-Gen Tha Aye inspectsconstruction of Myeik Myothit
NAY PYI TAW, 9 Dec—Maj-Gen Tha Aye of theMinistry of Defence, accompanied by Chairman ofTaninthayi Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of Coastal Region Command Maj-GenKhin Zaw Oo and departmental officials , on 3 Decem-ber paid homage to the Buddha Image of LaykyunhsimeePagoda in Myeik, Taninthayi Division.
After making cash donations to the pagoda,Maj-Gen Tha Aye and party attended a ceremony tooffer provisions to monasteries in Myeik held at theBuddha Sasana Beikman of the pagoda.
Afterwards, Maj-Gen Tha Aye and party metwith departmental personnel, social organizations,townselders and entrepreneurs at Paleyadana Hall inMyeik.
Secretary of Taninthayi Division PDC U ThanWin reported on work carried out for development ofeducation, health and agriculture and livestock breed-ing sectors and implementation of the five rural de-velopment tasks, and the commander gave a supple-mentary report.
Next, Maj-Gen Tha Aye, the commander and
party looked into the development of Myeik.On arrival at Taingyanaung Hall of Myeik sta-
tion, Maj-Gen Tha Aye met servicemen and theirfamilies, and urged them to fully engage in farmingtasks of the station and regional development tasks incooperation with departments concerned.
At the Technological University (Myeik) con-struction project site, Maj-Gen Tha Aye and partyheard reports on the salient points of the project andgave instructions on timely completion of the tasks.
Next, they proceeded to Myeik Myothit devel-oping project where they heard a report on work beingcarried and future tasks.
After inspecting the jetty built by Pho LapyaeCo, handling of loads and upgrading of the approachroad to Myeik Myothit, Maj-Gen Tha Aye and partypaid homage to Maha Thiddhizaya Pagoda and lookedinto greening tasks in the precinct of the pagoda.
Later, they paid obeisance to Presiding Sayadawof Sandayon Sankyaung Monastery BhaddantaÇandobhasa and made cash donations.
MNA
NAY PYI TAW, 9 Dec—Minister for TransportMaj-Gen Thein Swe metwith Ambassador of theDemocratic People’s Re-public of Korea to theUnion of Myanmar MrKim Sok Chol and partyat his office here on 7December afternoon.
They discussed opera-tion in flights programmebetween the two countries,increase of tourist arrivalsto Myanmar, maritime co-operation, promotion ofbilateral economic coop-eration and participationof Korean companies inconstruction sector inMyanmar.
Transport Minister receives DPRK Ambassador
Also present at the callwere heads of departmentand officials.
MNA
Maj-Gen Tha Aye of Ministry of Defence inspects Myeik Myothit Jetty in Myeik.—MNA
Minister Maj-Gen Thein Swe receives
Mr Kim Sok Chol, Ambassador of Demo-
cratic People’s Republic of Korea.—MNA
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I N T E R N A T I O N A L N E W S
A sand sculpture of artist’s depictions of Jesus,Mary and Joseph is seen during an annual sandsculpture event in the northeast Italian town of
Jesolo on 8 Dec, 2007.—INTERNET
A visitor looks at
original works of
Rembrandt’s
drypoints in
Hangzhou, capital of
east China’s Zhejiang
Province, on 7 Dec,
2007.—XINHUA
This photo, published by eastday.com on 8 Dec,shows a Chow Chow pulling a vehicle with its little
master on board along a street in Tianjin’sHongqiao district.—INTERNET
Russian FM rejects US callfor further sanctions
against Iran
US State Dept InspectorGeneral quits over
Blackwater incident WASHINGTON, 9 Dec — US State Department
Inspector General Howard Krongard, who came underfire for allegedly hampering an investigation of securityfirm Blackwater, announced his resignation on Friday.
State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegossaid Krongard told co-workers in his department thathe was leaving. Gallegos did not give any details suchas the date of Krongard’s last day at work.
However, McClatchy News reports that it obtainedan e-mail from Krongard to his staff in which Krongardsays he plans to leave by 15 January.
Blackwater, which provides security in Iraq forState Department officials and US diplomats, becamethe subject of federal and Congressional investigationsafter some of its guards fired on civilians in a Baghdadintersection on 16 September killing 17 Iraqis.
MNA/Xinhua
Britain to take three Guantanamo detainees
21 DPRK sailors rescued on slantingcargo ship off E China
Many British teachers knowtoo little about poetry
BRUSSELS, 8 Dec —Russian Foreign MinisterSergey Lavrov dismisseda call by US Secretary ofState Condoleezza Ricefor further UN sanctionson Iran concerning itsambitious nuclear pro-gramme.
“It fully confirms theinformation that we have:that there is no militaryelement in their nuclearprogramme,” Lavrov toldreporters after talking withRice on the sidelines ofa NATO ministerialmeeting.
But Lavrov, who cameto Brussels for a NATO-Russia Council meeting,expressed his strong hopethat “these negotiationswith Iran will continue”.
Lavrov said earlier thathis country has noevidence that Iran had everhad a secret nuclearweapons programme inviolation of international
treaty obligations. In meeting Lavrov,
Rice aimed at persuadingRussia to support newsanctions on Iran, despitethat a US intelligencereport released recentlyfound Iran actuallystopped atomic weaponsprogramme in 2003.
NATO foreign ministers
agreed that adopt a two-trackapproach in dealing withIran, who refuses to halturanium enrichment as itinsists the programme is forcivilian use.
The United States ispushing for a newsanctions resolution in theUN Security Council.
MNA/Xinhua
WASHINGTON, 9 Dec —Three Guantanamo in-mates who are Britishresidents will be releasedunder an agreementbetween Britain and theUnited States, their lawyersaid on Friday.
Jamil El Banna ofJordan, Omar Deghayes ofLibya and AbdenourSameur of Algeria areexpected to be returned toBritain shortly and are notexpected remain in custodythere, said Zachary
Katznelson, a lawyer withthe British organizationReprieve that representsthe three men.
He was not able to saywhen the release wouldhappen.
MNA/Reuters
JINAN, 9 Dec — Twenty-one sailors from theDemocratic People’sRepublic of Korea (DPRK)were rescued by Chinesevessels after their cargoship slanted due to waterentering its cabins off the
coast of east China'sShandong Province.
The DPRK ship, ZoMing 3, leaned Fridayafternoon at the sea about20 nautical miles north ofWeihai port after seawaterentered two cargo cabins,
according to the WeihaiMaritime Bureau.
The bureau said itreceived a directive fromthe China Maritime Searchand Rescue Centre around4:50 pm saying the DPRKvessel was leaning sharplyand in danger of sinkingand rescue operationshould be immediatelylaunched.—MNA/Xinhua
LONDON, 8 Dec — Many teachers do not know enough about poetry, leavingtheir pupils with only limited experience of classic poems and verses from othercultures, school inspectorate Ofsted said on Friday.
Government-led initiatives to raise standards of basic literacy have meantlittle detailed attention has been given to teaching poetry, itadded in a report. Inspectors said the problem was most noticeable in primaryschools, but that provision for poetry was at least satisfactory in all 86 schoolsthey visited and good or very good in two thirds of them.In the primary schoolsinspected, the same poems were chosen repeatedly, including The Highwayman”by Alfred Noyes, “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll and “The Owl and thePussycat” by Edward Lear.
“Too few of these poems are genuinely challenging or connect with thedirect experience of primary pupils,” the report said.—MNA/Reuters
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4 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 10 December, 2007
Indonesia threatens to imposeretroactive acts against EU ban
China to launch first environmentmonitoring satellite
Landslide hits village alongMekong River in Cambodia
Arsonist admits settingdeadly N Chinakaraoke bar fire
JAKARTA, 8 Dec —Indonesia has threatenedto impose retroactive actsagainst the EuropeanUnions (EU) ban on thecountry’s airlines to enterthe group’s territoryshould the InternationalCivil Aviation Organiza-tion (ICAO) agree withthe EU ban and otherpeaceful solutions fail,spokesman of theTransport MinistryBambang Erfan said hereFriday.The spokesmansaid that Indonesia wouldsoon question the stanceof the United Nationsaviation organizationICAO on the EUrestriction on Indonesia’s51 airliners, includingGaruda, since June afterthe rampant air accidentsin the country that killedhundreds of lives.
Erfan said that shouldthe ICAO supports the EUban, the banned countrycould impose a retroactive
action. “If the ICAO agrees
and other solution fails,we also can impose a ban.(but) That is the lastoption,” he told Xinhua.
However, thespokesman said thatIndonesia would putpriority on dialogue andother peaceful settlementson the dispute on the
BEIJING, 8 Dec— Chinais to launch its firstsatellite to monitor theenvironment in the firsthalf of next year, the StateEnvironmental ProtectionAdministration (SEPA)said on Friday.
The satellite will beused to monitor theenvironment and reporton natural disasters, saidWu Xiaoqing, the SEPAdeputy director, at a Pressconference.
“Our capability tomanage the environmentand forecast naturaldisasters will improveconsiderably with theoperation of the satellite,”Wu said.
So far, China has setup more than 2,000stations on the ground to
monitor the air, rivers andlakes, and the overallecosystem. But the groundnetwork still can not meetthe demand of timely anddynamic monitoring on
the fast-changing environ-ment, Wu said.
Wu did not elaborateon the details of how thesatellite will operate.
MNA/Xinhua
PHNOM PENH, 8 Dec —A riverbank of about morethan 4,900 square metrescollapsed into the MekongRiver in Meanchey Districton Thursday, local mediareported on Friday.
According to expertswho measured up the scaleof the disaster, thelandslide took away 74metres wide and 71 metreslong of the embankment in
Niroth commune’s KohNorea Village along withfour houses, reportedCambodian-languagenewspaper the Kampu-chea Thmey, adding thatthere were no humancasualties.
Local authorities havebeen dismantling anumber of houses at riskof tumbling into the river,moving house owners and
their household belong-ings to safety ground.
Villagers have at-tributed the landslide tothe dredging of sand by acompany working forSokimex to fill up a lake,another Cambodian-language newspaper theRasmei Kampucheareported. Too much sandhas been dredged, theyclaimed.. — MNA/Xinhua
SHIJIAZHUANG, 8 DecPolice have arrested anarsonist for a karaoke barfire last month in northChina’s Hebei Provincethat killed 11, the localgovernment said on Friday.
Jiang Dayong, a waiterat the Gedu Karaoke bar,admitted to setting the baron fire at around 4 am on 14 November to
retaliate for frequentscoldings by the bar staff,the Chengde Countygovernment said.
The 19-year-old said hehad been scolded at 1 amon 14 November for somereason. Thinking he hadbeen scolded too manytimes before, he decidedto take revenge.
He said he got somegasoline from a motorbikeparked inside the bar andput it into a plastic bottle.He then poured the gasonto the bar floor andignited it. The blaze killeda karaoke bar worker and10 waitresses sleeping in anearby foot massage housein the same building.
Tian Yumin, the l egalrepresentative of the bar,and its operator, WangYing, were also arrested.The Chengde governmentsaid families of the victimshad been compensated onaverage 200,000 yuan(26,666 US dollars) each.
MNA/Xinhua
A private security officer patrols outside the food court of the Westroads Mallnear the Von Maur Department Store in Omaha, Neb on 8 Dec, 2007. Eightpeople were killed and five wounded in a shooting attack before the gunman, Robert Hawkins, took his own life Wednesday inside the store.—INTERNET
In this 10 October, 2006 file photo, a black spiny-tailed iguana suns itself next to a canal in Miami,
Florida.—INTERNET
Thousands of troops and volunteers, such as these, struggled Sunday to cleara thick layer of pungent crude oil off South Korea’s stricken southwest coast
after the country’s worst ever oil spill.—INTERNET
Vivica Fox reaches pleadeal for drunken drivingLOS ANGELES, 9 Dec — Actress Vivica A Fox
pleaded no contest on Friday to drunken driving andmust serve three years probation and complete analcohol education programme, an official said.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorneysaid Fox, who has competed on TV’s “DancingWith the Stars” and acted in films such as “Kill Bill:Vol. 1,” changed her plea from not guilty afterreaching an agreement with prosecutors.
A lawyer for Fox, 43, entered the new plea to onecount of driving with a blood alcohol level of .08 orabove, said spokesman Frank Mateljan.
A no contest plea is the legal equivalent ofpleading guilty under California law.
Judge Stephen Pfahler also ordered the actress topay nearly 1,200 US dollars in fines and fees.
MNA/Reuters
aviation. On 28 November at its
meeting in Brussels, theEuropean Commissionrefused to lift its ban on51 Indonesian airlines,including Garuda carrier.But it lifted its ban onPakistan InternationalAirlines (PIA) and on BlueWing Airlines of Surinam.
MNA/Xinhua
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E C O N O M I C N E W S
The file photo shows the building of the People’s Bank of China inBeijing.�China will raise the reserve requirement ratio by one percentagepoint for commercial banks in an effort to cool the booming economy, the
central bank announced on 8 Dec, 2007. —XINHUA
Los Angeles police and a firefighter view thescene after a chartered tour bus with 41 people
aboard, enroute to a taping of the ‘Dr Phil’television show, crashed into a tree at a
Hollywood church on 5 Dec, 2007 inLos Angeles. —INTERNET
Sculptures are displayed at the 5th ContemporarySculpture Exhibition in Teheran’s museum ofcontemporary arts on 8 Dec, 2007.—INTERNET
Vietnam Airlines buys five more planes HANOI, 8 Dec—
National flag carrierVietnam Airlines hassigned a contract withFrench aircraft makerATR to purchase five newATR72-500s, which willbe delivered in late 2009,according to localnewspaper Youth onFriday.
After receiving the fiveplanes, Vietnam Airlines,starting to operate ATRplanes on short-haulflights in 1992 andcurrently having sevenATR72-200s and threeATR72-500s, will have thebiggest ATR-72 fleet in theregion.
Vietnam Airlines,currently operating 46aircraft of different kinds,plans to have a total fleetof 86 by 2015 and 110 by2020.
share of over 80 per cent,joint-stock PacificAirlines, and Vietnam AirServices Company, anaffiliate of VietnamAirlines.
Vietnam’s air industryserved nearly 7.9 milliondomestic and foreignpassengers in the first 11
months of this year,posting a year-on-yearrise of 15.7 per cent.Meanwhile, the industrytransported 119,700tons of cargoes, up 4 percent, according to thecountry's GeneralStatistics Office.
MNA/Xinhua
Qatar, Indonesia to set up$1b joint venture
Bangladesh to sign on avoiding doubletaxation with Switzerland
DHAKA, 8 Dec —Bangladesh and Swit-zerland will sign anagreement on avoidanceof double taxation nextweek to bolster bilateraltrade, commerce andinvestment, local news-paper The FinancialExpress reported onFriday.
A source of the ExportPromotion Bureau (EPB)was quoted as sayingthe measure will helpBangladesh attract moreforeign direct investmentfrom Switzerland.
Besides, the source
said, such agreement withany country, especiallywith any EU country, willbenefit the exporters toa large extent.
He said Bangladeshexported various productsincluding knit and wovengarment, agro-processedand frozen foods worth31.24 million US dollarsto Switzerland in the last
fiscal 2006-07 (from July2006 to June 2007).
The foreign ministryofficials said Bangladeshhas already signed agree-ment on avoidance ofdouble taxation with nineEU countries, includingBelgium, Denmark,Germany, Italy, theNetherlands and Poland.
MNA/Xinhua
India cancels $600mchopper deal with EADS
NEW DELHI, 8 Dec — India has cancelled a 600-million-US-dollar deal to buy 197 military helicoptersfrom EADS and may offer the contract to other bid-ders, newspapers said on Friday.
Besides being a setback for EADS, the maker of theAirbus family of commercial jets, the deal's collapsewill also further delay India's plans to replace itsageing helicopter fleet by at least two years, newspaperssaid. India will issue a fresh tender next year, aDefence Ministry source told the Hindustan Times.
EADS' India office said it was not commenting onthe Defence Ministry’s decision. — MNA/Reuters
Chinese commodity fairopens in Chile
SANTIAGO, 9 Dec — Athree-day Chinese com-modity fair was openedin Chile’s capital onThursday in a bid topromote bilateral trade.
With over 60 com-panies in the automo-bile, telecommunication,machinery, constructionmaterials and garment
industries participating,the ExpoChina 2007 fairis expected to have 100million US dollars in tradevolume.
Cai Jiaxiang, deputydirector of China Shipper'sAssociation, said at theopening ceremony thathe hoped the fair wouldserve as a link betweencompanies from Chinaand Chile and help
promote bilateraleconomic and tradecooperation.
China has become thesecond largest tradepartner for Chile, which isthe third largest tradepartner in Latin Americafor China. A free tradeagreement between thetwo countries took effectin 2006.
MNA/Xinhua
JAKARTA, 9 Dec— TheIndonesian Governmentand Qatar’s InvestmentAuthority (QAI) haveagreed to establish a jointventure to finance anumber of infrastructureprojects in Indonesia,according to a reportSaturday.
QAI will own 85 percent stake of the jointventure, which will haveinitial capital of about onebillion US dollars. TheIndonesian Government,through the FinanceMinistry, will own theremaining 15 per cent,reported local newspaper
The Jakarta Post. Qatar, a member of
the Organization ofPetroleum ExportingCountries, owns theworld’s biggest gas field,and channels surplusesfrom energy sales to theQIA.
MNA/Xinhua
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6 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 10 December, 2007
Police say US mall shooter hidassault rifle in sweatshirt
Hu Jintao calls on boostingSino-Japanese ties
Moderate quake jolts Indonesia resortisland of Bali
NYC changes subwaymanagement for better service
Static blamed for gas stationblast in N China
BEIJING, 8 Dec —Chinese President HuJintao on Friday calledfor the expansion and de-epening of cooperationwith Japan and boostingof bilateral relations to anew level.
“The two sidesshould maintain friendlyexchange at variouslevels, expand anddeepen pragmatic co-operation, settle wellbilateral disputes throughdialogue and equalconsultation and con-tinue to expand themutual benefit betweenthe two nations in aneffort to boost bilateralrelations to a new level”,Hu said.
Hu made his remarksin his meeting with IchiroOzawa, president of theDemocratic Party ofJapan (DPJ) at the GreatHall of the People indowntown Beijing.
He highlighted therecent growth momen-tum of bilateral relations,saying that the develop-ment of bilateralrelations yielding fromthe joint efforts from thetwo sides was of greatvalue.
Hu added that thenext year is the 30th anni-versary of the signingof the peace andfriendship agreementbetween China andJapan, which is a highlyimportant year for thedevelopment of thebilateral relations.
Ozawa, who heads a450-member Japanesedelegation, said thatJapanese people highlyappreciate China’s com-mitment to the Japan-
China relations, expres-sing his hope to seize theopportunity to boostmutual understanding andtrust between the twopeoples.
The booming of astrong relationshipbetween Japan and Chinanot only serves the twonations, but is also vitalto the stability andprosperity of Asia and theworld at large, Ozawa toldHu.
MNA/Xinhua
NEW YORK, 8 Dec —New York City Transit saidon Thursday that it ismaking major changes tosubway management in abid to provide strap-hangers with a smootherride, NY1 news channelreported. After theoverhaul, each subway linewill be a separate entitywith a manager overseeingit, the report said.
The managers will beresponsible for alloperations of their line,including tracks, trainsand stations, it said.
Each line will competewith others and be ratedon service, cleanlinessand other measures, itadded. New York’scomplex subway systemwas one of the first inAmerica.— MNA/Xinhua
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) shakes hands with his Indiancounterpart Manmohan Singh before their meeting in New Delhi on 8, Dec,
2007. Sen is on a four-day state visit to India. —INTERNET
TIANJIN, 8 Dec —Static electricity isthought to have triggereda blast at a Tianjin oilsupply depot that injuredfour people on Thursday,investigators said onFriday.
Officials with the
municipal work safetywatchdog said theirinit ial investigationcited static as the causeof several fires whichbroke out when twotrucks were pumping outdiesel from a supplytank at the privately-
owned gas depot aroundnoon.
The two truck caughtfire immediately and astrong shockwave sentthe huge tank flyingabout 100 metres fromits pad.
Fortunately, a ChinaNational PetroleumCorporation (PetroChina)gas station and two oilhouses adjacent to the sitewere not affected.
MNA/Xinhua
A Culture Ministry employee carries a ladderbeside a caryatid, at the new Acropolis Museum,in central Athens, on 8 Dec, 2007. Engineers on
Saturday moved the ancient statue from theAcropolis to the museum. —INTERNET
BALI (Indonesia), 8Dec — An earthquakemeasuring 5.4 on theRichter Scale jolted onFriday Indonesia’s resortisland of Bali, where a two-week UN climate changeconference was currentlygoing on.
There were no im-
mediate reports of damageor injuries. The tremor,which could be felt in Bali,was centred 150 milessouthwest of the island. Itstruck around six milesbeneath the ocean floor,according to the USGeological Survey.
The quake was not
strong enough to triggera tsunami warning.Indonesia, the world’slargest archipelago, is proneto seismic upheavals due toits location on the so-calledPacific “Ring of Fire”, anarc of volcanos and faultlines encircling the PacificBasin. — MNA/Xinhua
People dressed as SantaClaus stand in front ofan upside-down houseduring a convention in
Szymbark, close toGdansk in northern
Poland, on 6 Dec, 2007.INTERNET
OMAHA, 8 Dec — A19-year-old schooldropout who shot andkilled eight people andhimself at a Nebraskashopping mall smuggleda stolen assault rifle intothe building wrapped in asweatshirt and opened firewithout warning when he
got out of a third-floorelevator, police said onThursday.
Robert Hawkins lefttext and voice messageswith friends and familybefore Wednesday’sbloodbath. “He hadapparently been ex-periencing some mental
health problems, idea-tions of suicide,” OmahaPolice Chief ThomasWarren told a briefing.
His victims ranged inage from 24 to 66. Theyincluded two malecustomers and anotherman and four women whowere employees of theVon Maur departmentstore where most of thecarnage occurred.
Warren said the tapesseem to show thatHawkins had the gunwrapped in a hoodedsweatshirt.
MNA/Reuters
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and 39,304 domestic fowls poultry to Kokang region,
Wa region, Shan region and Paloung region in Shan
State (North), Mawpha region and PaO region in Shan
State (East), Kayah State, Kachin State and Mon State.
The Livestock Breeding and Veterinary
Department vaccinated cattle against the infectious
diseases in border areas where poppy thrived in the
past. The department gave vaccines to 460,909 cattle,
124,174 pigs and 1,489,630 poultry from 1999-2000
to 2006-2007 spending K 12.039 million.
The poppy substitute livestock breeding
committee put 2.13 million fingerlings worth K 2.13
million into rivers, creeks and lakes in Phekhon,
Hsihseng and Laukkai regions in 2000-2001, 1.36
million fingerlings worth K 1.36 million in Moneko,
Tamonye, Laukkai, Monesi, Phekhon and Hsihseng
regions in 2002-2003, 0.58 million fingerlings worth
K 0.58 million in Kaungkha, Lashio, Kunlon, Laukkai,
Homein, Phekhon, Moebye, and Naungtaw regions,
Shan State (North) in 2002-2003, 0.39 million
fingerlings worth K 0.78 million in Hsihseng, Phekhon,
Mongyan, Mongkai, Moebye, Tanyan, Homein and
Nayein regions in 2003-2004, 1.246 million fingerlings
worth K 0.26 million in Kunlon, Loilen, Monei,
The government is making all-out effortsto get rid of poppy cultivation, the evil legacyof colonialists. Regarding this, it is providingnational races who were engaged in poppycultivation for various reasons in the pastwith agriculture and livestock breedingundertakings in order to improve their livingstandards.
Kaungkha, Laukkai, Kutkai, Mongpauk, Moneko
and Naungtaw regions, Shan State (North) in 2004-
2005, 1.468 million fingerlings worth K 4.32 million
in Laukkai, Lashio, Tanyan and Kunlong regions in
2005-2006, 0.75 million fingerlings worth K 0.325
million in Monei, Nayein, Hsihseng, Manmaw,
Tanyan, Kunlong, Lashio, Loikaw, Wanpan,
Kaungkha and Homein regions, Shan State (South)
in 2006-2007. To ensure pollination, boosting the
crop yield and producing honey, the committee kept
2075 beehives in Laukkai, Tamonye, Kutkai, Lashio,
Shwepyi Aye, Hsihseng, Dhashi, Waingmaw and
Muse regions from 1999-2000 to 2006-2007 to boost
the crop yield in 3,368 acres. It also conducted
apiculture courses for 1,070 trainees.
In the meantime, the Ministry of Livestock
and Fisheries distributed poultry, pigs and cattle
worth K 102 million for improvement of the socio-
economic life of national races in border areas.The
ministry also carried out tasks for higher living
standards of national races, prevention and control of
animal diseases, setting up of model farms, putting
fingerlings into rivers, creeks and lakes, distribution
of quality animals, keeping beehives and conducting
apiculture courses, spending K 1,658 million.
Thanks to relentless efforts of the CCDAC
and the ministry, the number of buffalo has increased
to 36,220 in 2007 from 15212 in 2000, that of cattle
to 24,669 from 20,792, that of pig to 58,245 from
24,940 and that of poultry to 173,128 from 53,300 in
Laukkai, Kongyan, Mongmaw, Panwaing and
Panhsan regions.
The government is making all-out efforts to
get rid of poppy cultivation, the evil legacy of
colonialists. Regarding this, it is providing national
races who were engaged in poppy cultivation for
various reasons in the past with agriculture and
livestock breeding undertakings in order to improve
their living standards.
At a time when efforts are being made for the
emergence of a modern and developed nation the
poppy substitute livestock breeding undertakings
being implemented by the CCDAC and the poppy
substitute livestock breeding committee are surely
something to be proud of.
Translation: TS
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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 10 December, 2007
(from page 1)This morning, the
tournament continued forthe second round at thesame venue.
Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye, SPDCmembers and ministerstook part in the tournament.
After the secondround, the prize presenta-tion ceremony followed.
At the City GolfCourse, the Secretary-1
Vice-Senior General Maung Aye…
awarded prizes to respec-tive winning teams.
Also present on theoccasion were SPDC mem-bers, senior military offic-ers, the commander of NayPyi Taw Command, minis-ters, the Chief Justice, theAttorney-General, the Au-ditor-General, the Chair-man of Civil Service Selec-tion and Training Board,deputy ministers, depart-mental heads and golfers.
Before the cer-emony, Myanma Athanmodern band presentedvarious songs.
Chairman of theLeading Committee Min-ister for Industry-1 U AungThaung explained the pur-
pose of holding the tourna-ment.
On behalf ofChairman of the State Peaceand Development CouncilSenior General Than Shwe,Secretary-1 Lt-Gen ThihaThura Tin Aung Myint Ooawarded SPDC Chairman’sCup to the leader of theMinistry of Defence teamthat stood first in the team(handicap) event and theteam (scratch) event.
Lt-Gen Maung Boof the Ministry of Defencepresented first, second andthird prizes to Ministry ofDefence team, Ministry ofHome Affairs team andMinistry of PBANRDAteam in the team (scratch)event.
Next, Lt-Gen YeMyint of the Ministry ofDefence presented the thirdprize to Ministry of HomeAffairs team, second prizeto Ministry of PBANRDAteam and first prize to Min-istry of Defence in team(scratch) event.
Chairman of Lead-ing Committee Minister forIndustry-1 U Aung Thaungpresented best loser awards
in the team (scratch) andteam (handicap), mostbirdie, most par, longestdrive and nearest pin to therespective winning teamsand winners.
Lt-Gen Kyaw Winof the Ministry of Defencepresented those who stoodfirst, second and third inteam (handicap) event. Lt-Gen Aung Htwe of the Min-istry of Defence presentedthose who stood first, sec-
ond and third in team(scratch). Lt-Gen Ye Myintand Maj-Gen Thura MyintAung of the Ministry ofDefence, Minister Maj-GenHtay Oo, Minister U SoeTha and Minister Maj-GenTin Htut presented prizesto best scores award win-ning teams. Commander ofNay Pyi Taw CommandMaj-Gen Wai Lwin pre-sented prizes to those whostood from 4th to 20th.
After the cer-emony, the Secretary- 1 andparty together with the golf-ers of the Ministry of De-fence posed for a documen-tary photo.
In the team (handi-cap) event, Ministry of De-
fence stood first on 520strokes, Ministry of HomeAffairs second on 543 andMinistry of PBANRDAthird on 546.
In the team(scratch) event, Ministry ofDefence secured the firstprize on 657 strokes, Min-istry of PBANRDA the sec-ond prize on 667 and Min-istry of Home Affairs thethird prize on 681.
In the singles(handicap) event, CaptainTin Shwe of the Ministry ofDefence won the first prizeon 124 strokes, U Ye Winof the Ministry of Informa-tion, the second prize on125 and Captain Khant NayThway of the Ministry ofDefence, the third prize on127.
In the single(scratch) event, Captain TinShwe of the Ministry ofDefence secured the firstprize on 161 strokes, U YeWin of the Ministry of In-formation, the second prizeon 161 and U Ban Kyum ofthe Ministry of PBANRDAthe third prize on 161.
Captain Khant
Nay Thway, U MaungMaung Oo of the Ministryof PBANRDA, U Zaw Minof the Ministry of Trans-port, U Win Ko of Ministryof Mines and Thura UMyint Oo of the Ministryof Industry-1 grabbed themost par awards.
Lt-Col KhinMaung Kyaw of the Minis-try of Industry-2 and U YeWin of the Ministry of In-
Minister Maj-Gen Tin Htut gives the bestscore award to an outstanding golfer.
MNA
Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo tees off TracerBall in State Peace and Development Council Chairman’s Cup Golf
Tournament 2007.—�MNA
Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo presents SPDCChairman’s Cup to Ministry of Defence Team.—MNA
Lt-Gen Ye Myint of Ministry of Defence gives first prize to Ministry ofDefence Team.—MNA
Lt-Gen Maung Bo of Ministry of Defence presents first prize toMinistry of Defence Team.—MNA
Zaw Min of Ministry ofTransport, U Kyi Tun ofMinistry of Agriculture andIrrigation and U Zaw Minof Ministry of Transportwon the longest driveawards.
Likewise, U TheinTun Win of the Ministry ofIndustry-2, U Than Oo ofthe Ministry of Forestry, UThein Han of the Ministryof Industry-1 and U Myo
formation bagged the mostbirdie awards.
U Hla Myo of thePrime Minister’s Office, U
Naing Aung of the Minis-try of PBANRDA securedthe nearest pin awards.
MNA
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(from page 16)Managing Director U Than Win of Mann
Myanmar Construction reported on progress of buildingsix-storey Plaza and 25-storey reinforced concreteCondominium with two Towers attached and work tobe undertaken to Lt-Gen Ye Myint.
Next, Lt-Gen Ye Myint inspected constructionof the condominium on the top floor of the plaza, thesales of shops on the ground floor of the plaza, auto-exchange room and air-conditioning machine room onthe first floor of the plaza and attended to the needs.
MNA
Lt-Gen Ye Myint looks intoAyeyawady Bridge…
YANGON, 9 Dec — Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence andparty inspected main-tenance of channels, watersupply tasks and storagecapacity in Lagunpyin dam,progress of NgamoeyeikWater Pumping Projectand supplying water tosome farmlands in HleguTownship this morning andcalled for timelycompletion of the projecttasks for the developmentof agricultural sector.
At the briefing hall,Director U Kyaw Thein(Yangon) of IrrigationDepartment briefed Lt-GenMyint Swe on landpreparation for main canaland tributorcies and watersupply building andsupplying water to summerpaddy fields in 2007-2008.
After hearing thereports, Lt-Gen Myint Swegave instructions onsupplying water to growsummer paddy this year andinspected earth works withthe use of heavy machinery.Next, Lt-Gen Myint Sweand party looked intoaccomplishment tasks of
Lt-Gen Myint Swe inspects waterstorage capacity in Lagunpyin dam,Ngamoeyeik Water Pumping Project
the main canal, 60 per centcompletion of the tributory,supplying water to summerpaddy fields and sanitationtasks for tributories andcalled for cultivation ofsummer paddy as early as
possible and supplyingwater to grow winter crops.
Upon arrival atLagunpyin dam, officialsconcerned briefed Lt-GenMyint Swe and Com-mander Maj-Gen Hla HtayWin on tasks for supplyingwater to the farmlands.
Afterwards, thecommander gave asupplementary report.
Regarding the reports,Lt-Gen Myint Swe urgedofficials concerned tosupply water to grow
240,000 acres of summerpaddy as early as possible.Next, Lt-Gen Myint Sweand party inspectedsupplying water tofarmlands, control towerand storage capacity.
On arrival atNgamoeyeik River Water
Pumping Project, DeputyDirector U Htay Lwin ofWater ResourcesUtilization Department(Yangon) and Project In-Charge U Mya Than briefedLt-Gen Myint Swe and
party on project data,accomplishment of thetasks, progress in buildingwater supply building,supplying water to 1500acres of farmlands andCommander Maj-Gen HlaHtay Win gave asupplementary report.
After that Lt-GenMyint Swe and partylooked into installation ofpipelines, erecting ofpylons and controlpannel. Upon completion,the project will benefit8000 acres of summerpaddy. So far, forty-per
cent of the whole projecthas been completed.Eight 30-inch diameterpipelines will be installedat the project and plansare under way to cultivate1,500 acres of summerpaddy in this year.
MNA
Myanmar secures three moresilver, four more bronze
YANGON, 9 Dec —�Myanmar SportsContingent bagged three silver medals and fourbronze medals in the XXIV SEA Games today.
Pa Pa won one silver medal in the women’smarathon, Aung Ko Min one silver medal in themen’s singles sculls and Shwe Sin Latt one silvermedal in the women’s lightweight singles sculls.
Saw Marla Nwe secured one bronze medalin the 20 km women’s walk race, Kyu Kyu Thin onebronze medal in the 46-kilo women’s boxing contest,Hninn Ei Swe, one bronze medal in the 50-kilowomen’s boxing contest and Hninn Moe Moe Naingone bronze medal in the 54 kilo women’s boxingcontest. —MNA
First Nay Pyi Taw Inter-Ministry Men’sVolleyball Tournament continues
Minister Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maung meets Myanmar Hajj pilgrims at Central Hotel.—MNA
Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence visits Ngamoeyeik water pumping project in Hlegu Township.—MNA
YANGON, 9 Dec — Minister for Religious AffairsBrig-Gen Thura Myint Maung met with MyanmarHajj pilgrim, before their departure for Macca of SaudiArabia, at Central Hotel on Bogyoke Aung San Street,here this evening.
They will be sent to Macca under the supervisionof the Religious Affairs Department with the permissionof the State Peace and Development Council.
Speaking on the occasion, the minister said thatthe government is providing necessary assistance toBuddhist, Christian, Islam and Hinduism religiouscommunities. This year, the government has sent 325Hajj pilgrims to Macca. Hence, the Myanmar Hajjpilgrims are to safeguard the prestige of individuals,the religion and the State. Especially, they are to give
Religious Affairs Minister meets Myanmar Hajj pilgrimspriority to the religious affairs only. The pilgrims areto stay away from activities of participation in politicaland economic affairs violating the existing laws, by-laws and rules and regulations prescribed by the State.
Next, Saudi Arabian Ambassador Mr Turi NajialAli made a speech. Director-General Dr Myo Myint ofDepartment for Promotion and Propagation of theSasana spoke words of thanks. Leader of the MyanmarHajj pilgrims team Haji U Sai Yu Sein reported on theirpilgrimage matters.
Assistant Director U Win Myint of CustomsDepartment explained rules and regulations forMyanmar Hajj pilgrims.
After the ceremony, those present were servedwith dinner. —MNA
NAY PYI TAW, 9 Dec — The First Nay Pyi TawInter-Ministry Men’s Volleyball Tournament 2007continued at the designated places, here, today.
In the competitions, Ministry of Electric PowerNo 2 trounced Ministry of Culture 3-0; Nay Pyi TawDevelopment Committee hammered Ministry ofForeign Affairs 3-0; Ministry of Home Affairs beatMinistry of Labour 3-0; and Ministry of Industry-2edged out Ministry of Health 3-0. —MNA
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Lavrov warns US missileplan to jeopardize
NATO-Russia dialogueBRUSSELS, 9 Dec — It
would be difficult forRussia to continuedialogue with NATO ifWashington deployed amissile defence system inEurope in accordance withits own plans, RussianForeign Minister SergeiLavrov said here Friday.
“If a missile defencesystem in Europe istailored only to the UnitedStates' unilateral plans, itwill be hard for us to con-tinue the Russia-NATOdialogue,” Lavrov toldreporters after a NATO-Russia Council meeting.
“I absolutely do notthink that this strengthens
our political stability,” headded, saying that it wouldjeopardize Russia-NATOcooperation in missiledefence.
The US wants todeploy a radar in the CzechRepublic and a missiledefense base in Poland.
US Secretary of StateCondoleezza Rice told aPress conference after themeeting of the NATO-Russia Council that theUnited States has reaffirm-ed its determination toseek to iron out differenceswith Russia over themissile plans “in aconstructive way”.
MNA/Xinhua
Nigeria, Cameroon meetat UN on land handover
French film wins Grand prize ofCairo Int’l Film Festival
UNITED NATIONS, 9 Dec— Nigerian and Came-roonian officials discuss-ed on Friday Nigeria'shandover to Cameroon ofBakassi, a peninsula withoffshore oil deposits, asUN officials played downrecent problems betweenthe two states.
The officials, membersof a follow-up committeemonitoring a 2006 agree-ment on the handover,held what the UnitedNations called a regularmeeting, chaired by UNmediator Kieran Prender-gast, and later met UNSecretary-General Ban
Ki-moon. Nigeria’s for-mer president, OlusegunObasanjo, agreed in June2006 to cede Bakassi toCameroon in line with a2002 ruling by theInternational Court ofJustice. The neighbourshad argued about Bakassifor decades and comeclose to war over it.
After the deal, allseemed well untilsuspected Nigerian rebelskilled 21 Camerooniansoldiers on November 12in an unexplained raid andthe Nigerian Senate saidon November 22 the dealhad not been ratified byParliament and was thusillegal. But a UN read-outon Friday’s meeting saidUN civilian observers inthe area “continue to reportthat the parties are not onlycomplying with theagreement but workingtogether for the well-beingof the populations”.
MNA/Reuters
Study says child cancer risk highernear nuclear plants
BERLIN, 9 Dec — A German study has found that young children living nearnuclear power plants have a significantly higher risk of developing leukaemiaand other forms of cancer, a German newspaper reported on Saturday.
“Our study confirmed that in Germany a connection has been observedbetween the distance of a domicile to the nearest nuclear power plant.... and therisk of developing cancer, such as leukaemia, before the fifth birthday,”Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper quoted the report as saying. The newspaper saidthe study was done by the University of Mainz for Germany’s Federal Office forRadiation Protection (BFS). A copy of the report was not immediately available.
The researchers found that 37 children within a five-kilometre (3-mile)radius of nuclear power plants had developed leukaemia between 1980 and2003, while the statistical average during this time period was 17, the paper said.
The newspaper cited an unnamed radiation protection expert familiar withthe study who said its conclusions understated the problem. He said the datashowed there was an increased cancer risk for children living within 50kilometres of a reactor. — MNA/Reuters
Report says Iran has stoppedselling oil in US dollars
CAIRO, 9 Dec — TheGrand prize “The GoldenPyramid” of the 31st CairoInternational FilmFestival on Friday nightwent to French film“L’Ennemi Intime’(Intimate Enemy), whichbecame the biggestwinner of the night with atotal of three big prizes.
The French film,directed by Florent EmilioSiri and produced by LesFilms du Kiosqu, wasgranted the prizes for theBest Film, the BestDirector and the BestActor (Albert Dupontel)at the closing ceremonyof the festival.
The film was hailed
as a brilliantly produced,devised and directed filmof a time of war in Algeriain 1959, which signals aunique warning of thefutility of armed conflict.
The prize of the Best
Actress was sharedbetween Marina MagroSoto, who starred theMexican film “Opera” andTatiana Lutaeva ofRussian film “Full Scope”.
MNA/Xinhua
TEHRAN, 9 Dec — Iran has completelystopped selling any of its oil for USdollars, an Iranian news agency reportedon Saturday, citing the oil minister of theworld's fourth-largest crude producer.
The ISNA news agency did not give adirect quote from Oil MinisterGholamhossein Nozari. A senior oilofficial last month said “nearly all” ofIran's crude oil sales were now beingpaid for in non-US currencies.
For nearly two years, OPEC's secondbiggest producer has been reducing itsexposure to the dollar, saying the weakUS currency is eroding its purchasingpower. Iranian President MahmoudAhmadinejad, who often rails againstthe West, has called the US currency a“worthless piece of paper”.
Foes since Iran’s 1979 Islamic
revolution, Teheran and Washington arealso at odds over Teheran's disputednuclear programme as well as over policyin Iraq. “In line with the policy of sellingcrude oil in currencies other than the USdollar, currently the sale of our country’soil in US dollars has been completelyeliminated,” ISNA reported after talkingwith Nozari.
Nozari told ISNA: “In regards to thedecrease in the dollar’s value and theloss exporters of crude oil have enduredfrom this trend, the dollar is no longer areliable currency.” “This is why, at themeeting of the heads of states, Iranproposed to OPEC members that acurrency (for oil exports) would bedetermined that would be reliable andwould not cause any loss to exportercountries,” he said. — MNA/Reuters
A giant spitting cobra, measuring about 2.75 meters and carrying enoughvenom to kill at least 15 people, has been discovered in Kenya, a conservation
group said on Friday. — XINHUA
Feathery look : A woman presents a featherheaddress at a fashion show in Stavropol.—INTERNET
Children play on a replica of the historicalmonument Charminar, made from flowers, duringa flower show in the southern city of Hyderabad,
on 8 Dec, 2007.—INTERNET
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French Louis Palmer sits inside his solar taxiat the venue of the UN Climate Change
Conference 2007 in Nusa Dua, on Bali Island,on 7 Dec, 2007.— INTERNET
An oil-covered crab on a beach in Taean. A
huge clean-up operation on South Korea’s
stricken Southwest coast after the country’s
worst oil spill is set to drag on for two
months, a government minister has warned.
INTERNET
File photo shows a giant pair of inflatable jeansin the pedestrain precinct Frankfurt during apromotion campaign. Scraped, torn, creased,
frayed, stained, sprayed and mended: never willjeans, the 150-year apparel now the planet’s
most popular clothing, be as battered andbruised as the models due to hit stores in
2009.— INTERNET
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China expects technology transfermechanism under UNFCCC
Britain unveils plans fornew terrorism powers
BALI (Indonesia), 8 Dec— China has a muchhigher expectation intechnology developmentand transfer, and verymuch like to have aneffective technologytransfer mechanismunder the United NationsFramework Conventionon Climate Change(UNFCCC), said a high-ranking Chinese officialhere on Friday.
China’s technologyneed covers bothmitigation and adaptationtechnologies as China is avery diversified economyand is now in the process
of industrialization, saidSu Wei, director-generalof the Office of NationalLeading Group on ClimateChange under the NationalDevelopment and ReformCommission.
Due to the naturalendowment of resourcesand the increasingdemand of productivityfor the world market,China has an enormoustask of deploying cleanand less-carbon tech-nologies and know-howfor energy efficiency,renewable and nuclearenergy, said Su at aside event for the
ongoing United NationsClimate Change Con-ference in Bali.
For capacity building,China’s needs mainlyinclude developmentof human resources,adaptation, training andeducation, raising publicawareness, database andinformation systemdevelopment, Su toldparticipants at the side-event called “The UnitedNations and China:Connecting Institutions,Technology and Part-nerships to CombatClimate Change”.
MNA/Xinhua
Women look onsculptures as they visit
of the 5thContemporary
Sculpture exhibition inTeheran’s museum of
contemporary arts on 8Dec, 2007.— INTERNET
GEF launches account for tropical forest
LONDON, 8 Dec —Britain said on Thursdayit wanted to give policethe power to holdterrorism suspects for upto 42 days without charge,as part of compromiseproposals which stillfailed to appease manywho condemn the planson rights grounds.
Since taking over fromTony Blair in June,Prime Minister GordonBrown has said policepowers need to beextended to give themtime to carry out complexinvestigations that couldinvolve multiple plots andmany countries.
But he has had tobacktrack from initialplans to simply raise the
detention limit, in the faceof mounting oppositionnot only from politicalopponents and civil rightsgroups, but from seniorlegal figures and fromwithin his own LabourParty. Instead, the newand complicated pro-posals would allow thegovernment to usetemporary measures onlyin extreme situations,permitting detectives toquuestion suspects for amaximum of 42 days —up from the current 28.
These additionalpowers would be subjectto parliamentary approvaland would expire after twomonths.
Home Secretary JacquiSmith said the measures
were needed to address anincreasing “serious andsustained threat”.
Britain’s securityservices have said they aremonitoring thousands ofindividuals who pose arisk. This year 42 peoplehave been convicted ofterrorism offences.
But Smith said the newpowers would only beused in exceptionalcircumstances.
MNA/Reuters
BALI (Indonesia), 9 Dec— The GlobalEnvironment Facility(GEF) here on Saturdaylaunched the TropicalForest Account Initiativewhich will help safeguardforest ecosystems whilestrengthening sustainablefinancing for protectedareas and for sustainableforest management.
“The window to savethe last remainingfunctioning expanses oftropical forests, which are
responsible for the deliveryof crucial global environ-mental services, is closingfast,” said MoniqueBarbut, the chief executiveofficer (CEO) andchairperson of the world'slargest environmentalfunding body.
“GEF is teaming up withits partner agencies,governments, business andcivil society to address thischallenge head on. GEF’sinvestments are alsoexpected to encourage
more robust financing fromprivate investors lookingto build environmentally-friendly forest markets.”
GEF would fund projectsto stop deforestation in 17countries of the Amazon,Congo Basin, New Guineaand Borneo. Tropicaldeforestation is on the rise,and is now responsible forover 20 per cent of globalCO2 emissions.
Habitat loss in tropicalforests threatens 74 per centof endangered mammals,44 per cent of endangeredbirds, 57 per cent ofendangered amphibians,and 67 per cent ofendangered reptiles. Eachof the GEF-targeted areashas over eight millionhectares of wet broadleafforests, and theycollectively harbor anastonishing 54 per cent oftropical forest cover and68 per cent of tropical forestcarbon. — MNA/Xinhua
Don’tSmoke
Suicide car bomber kills 8 innorthern Iraq
BAIJI (Iraq), 9 Dec — A suicide car bomb explodedin a residential neighbourhood in northern Iraq onSaturday, a Reuters witness said. Police said at leasteight people were killed and 40 wounded.
A Reuters television cameraman said at least 11cars were destroyed and 15 houses damaged by theblast, which targeted the home of an anti-terrorismofficial in a residential area in Baiji, a northern Iraqitown with a large oil refinery.
MNA/Reuters
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UN hails China for endeavour incombating climate change
BALI (Indonesia), 8 Dec — China is doing what it can in combating climatechange as the government is very conscious of the challenges posed by climatechange impacts, said a UN official here on Friday.
Benin finds two flu outbreaks,suspects H5N1
Kenya issues alertover desert locusts
invasion
Failure to understand root causesof deforestation warned
BALI, (Indonesia), 8Dec — A new study byone of the world’s leadingforestry research instituteswarns Friday that the newpush to “reduce emissionsfrom deforestation anddegradation (REDD)” isimperiled by a routinefailure to grasp the rootcauses of deforestation.
The Centre forInternational ForestryResearch (CIFOR), aleading internationalforestry research organi-zation, said that thestudy, based on morethan a decade of in-depthresearch on the forcesdriving deforestationworldwide, found thatthere is ample opportunityto reduce carbon emis-sions if financial incen-tives will be sufficientenough to flip political andeconomic realities thatcause deforestation.
The study by
researchers at CIFORsought to link the un-derlying causes of loss of13 million hectares offorest each year to thepromise — and potentialpitfalls — of REDDschemes. The report wasreleased Friday at theUnited Nations Con-ference of the Parties(COP-13) in Bali, a resortisland of Indonesia, whereenvironment ministersfrom over 180 countriesare meeting to draw up along-term strategy for
Climate change mi-tigation has to be put in aglobal context, and it hasto be “rational and fair”in demanding any actionsrequired for mitigation,said Rajendra Pachauri,chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel onClimate Change (IPCC)in a side-event heldduring the ongoingUnited Nations ClimateChange Conference inBali.
“China is doing a greatdeal in terms of bringingabout high efficiency ofenergy use,” saidPachauri on theside-event “The UnitedNations and China: Con-necting Institutions,Technology and Par-tnerships to CombatClimate Change”.
China has made majorinvestments in hydro-projects in an importantshift to new sources ofenergy.
And China has mademajor strides in
renewable energy, saidPachauri in his address“The IPCC Findings:IPCC Fourth AssessmentReport and implicationsfor China”.
The UN official said,“China is doing what it canand probably doing muchmore and will do muchmore. But this has to bepart of a global effort wherethe principle of ‘commonbut differentiated res-
ponsibilities’ can not beforgotten.”
China published itsNational Programme toaddress climate change inJune this year, settingambitious domestic goalsincluding reducing energyconsumption per unitGDP by 20 per cent andincreasing the share ofrenewable energy to 10per cent by 2010.
MNA/Xinhua
combating globalwarming.
High on the agenda isreducing the 1.6 billiontons of carbon emissionscaused each year bydeforestation, whichamounts to one-fifth ofglobal carbon emissionsand more than thecombined total con-tributed by the world’senergy-intensive transportsectors.
MNA/Xinhua
COTONOU, 8 Dec —Benin has discovered twooutbreaks of bird fluamong poultry which itbelieves to be the deadlyH5N1 strain, the first suchcases in the West Africancountry, a senior healthofficial said on Friday.
The cases werediscovered late on Thurs-day in Adjarra, some 15kilometres (Mine miles)north of the capital Porto
Novo, and on a farm in thecommercial capitalCotonou.“We found se-veral dead birds. We wentahead with tests whichturned out to be positive,”Julien Toessi, a seniorpublic health official, toldReuters in an interview.
“We have takensamples which we havealready sent to Italy to beconfirmed but we areconvinced that these (bird)
deaths are due to the H5N1strain of bird flu,” he said.
Health Ministryofficials said severalhundred birds had beenslaughtered as a pre-cautionary measure in afive kilometres (threemiles) radius around thetwo separate locations. Allfarms within a 15-kilo-metre radius were beingdisinfected.
MNA/Reuters
NAIROBI, 8 Dec —Desert locusts haveinvaded Kenya’s aridnortheastern region,threatening maize andwheat crops, but theAgriculture Ministry saidon Friday it was wellprepared to fight the pests.
The desert locust’sdestructive power stemsfrom its gregarious naturethat allows it to move inswarms, eating whatevervegetation it finds in itspath. A ministry state-ment published in localnewspapers said thelocusts were not aggre-ssively feeding yet, butwere in their last stage ofdevelopment and laying
eggs in the moist sandysoil of the hot region.
“In view of the aboveand understanding theecology of the pest, it isimportant to note that hop-pers which are the mostdestructive stage are ex-pected to appear fromaround 10 December,”the statement quotedRomano Kiome, theministry’s permanentsecretary, as saying. “Thisstage is the focus ofcontrol.” He said the gov-ernment was preparedwith pesticides andspraying equipment andthat the attack was thefirst since 1962.
MNA/Reuters
Chinese actor Wang Lee-hom (L), director Ang Lee (C) and Chinesemainland’s actress Tang Wei pose as on the red carpet for the 44th Golden
Horse Awards in Taipei (China) on 8 Dec, 2007. —INTERNET
Space shuttle Atlantis is shown on Launch Pad39A as mission managers prepare for launch atthe Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral,
Florida on 6 Dec, 2007.—INTERNET
Malaysian defenderMohamad Aidil Zafuanexecutes a reverse kick
to clear the ball from thegoal post during a
match aganistSingapore in the firsthalf of the play of the24th Southeast Asain
Games (SEA games) inKorat.—INTERNET
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Arizona’s Jerryd Bayless, left, attempts a lay upagainst Illinois’s Mike Davis during the first half
of a basketball game on 8 Dec, 2007,in Chicago.—INTERNET
Bayern held to draw by Duisburgbut stay top
BERLIN, 9 Dec — Bayern Munich were held to a goalless draw athome to Duisburg on Saturday but still clung on to top spot in theBundesliga as rivals Werder Bremen lost a 4-3 thriller at Hanover 96.
Duisburg rarely looked like claiming a first win away to Bayern in40 years but they held out comfortably enough, even after MohamadouIdrissou was sent off for kicking keeper Oliver Kahn with 10 minutesto go. The result meant Werder would have taken over at the top witha win but Thomas Schaaf's side were outplayed in Hanover.
Werder did manage to fight back from 3-1 to level the scores earlyin the second half but Mike Hanke completed his hat-trick to clinchvictory for Hanover 13 minutes from time.
Werder's frustration was obvious as Hugo Almeida was sent off ininjury time for tangling with Szabolcs Huszti.
With one round of matches to go before the long mid-season break,Bayern lead the standings with 35 points from 16 games.
Werder are second on 33, with Hamburg third on 31 after they hadto settle for a goalless draw at home to bottom club Energie Cottbus.
MNA/Reuters
Liverpool lose unbeaten record at Reading
Palermo rise to 7th after sinking Fiorentina
Ajax go top with victory at Tilburg AMSTERDAM, 9 Dec — Ajax Amsterdam went a
point clear at the top of the Dutch league after winning3-2 at Willem II Tilburg on Saturday.
Luis Suarez set up Kennedy Bakircioglu in thesecond minute before Tilburg levelled four minuteslater through Kevin Bobson.
Suarez restored Ajax's lead from close range andKlaas Jan Huntelaar created the third for Jan Vertonghenon the stroke of halftime.
Arjan Swinkels pulled one back for Tilburg with aheader 15 minutes from time.
Ajax have 31 points from 14 matches, one more thanPSV Eindhoven who lost 4-2 at home to Roda JCKerkrade on Friday.—MNA/Reuters
Liverpool's Steven Gerrard (R) scores againstReading during their English Premier League
soccer match at the Madjeski Stadium in Reading,southern England, on 8 Dec, 2007.—INTERNET
Chelsea’s Andriy Shevchenko (L) scores past Sun-derland’s goalkeeper Darren Ward (R) during theirEnglish Premier League soccer match at Stamford
Bridge in London, on 8 Dec, 2007. —INTERNET
France’s Brahim Asloum (R) fightsArgentina’s Juan Carlos Reveco
during their WBA Light Flyweightboxing match at Le Cannet on 8 Dec,
2007.—INTERNET
Real race 7 pointsclear after win
in Bilbao MADRID, 9 Dec — Real
Madrid charged sevenpoints clear at the top ofthe Primera Liga after asecond-half strike fromRuud van Nistelrooyearned a 1-0 win at Ath-letic Bilbao on Saturday.
The Dutchman angleda powerful right-foot shotinto the far corner of thenet after 55 minutes to takehis tally for the season toseven in the league.
The victory gave BerndSchuster's side 35 pointsfrom 15 matches, sevenahead of Barcelona andVillarreal who both playon Sunday. Earlier,Ronald Koeman's Valen-cia continued their poorrun of form with a 0-0draw at Osasuna.
The Dutchman decidedto field a new-look sideafter last weekend's 3-0home defeat by Bilbao buthis tactical changes had lit-tle effect as Valencia turnedin another laboured per-formance.—MNA/Reuters
LONDON, 9 Dec — Read-ing ended Liverpool's un-beaten start to the PremierLeague season with a shock3-1 win over Rafa Benitez'steam at the Madejski Sta-dium on Saturday.
The result left fourth-placed Liverpool sevenpoints behind leaders Ar-senal while ManchesterUnited and Chelsea main-tained their title challengeswith home wins overDerby County and Sunder-land respectively.
United beat bottom clubDerby 4-1 at Old Traffordwhere Ryan Giggs scored
his 100th league goal.Chelsea overcame Sunder-land 2-0 to extend theirunbeaten home leaguerecord to 71 matches.
Arsenal, who visit Mid-dlesbrough on Sunday,have 37 points from 15matches. United have 36from 16, Chelsea 34 from16 and Liverpool 30from 15.
Fifth-placed Port-smouth, who won 3-1 atAston Villa, are also on 30points alongside Manches-ter City, who play atTottenham Hotspur onSunday.
Mid-table Reading'svictory was their firstagainst one of the so-called'Big Four' clubs since gain-ing promotion in 2005-06.
They took the lead witha controversial 17th-minute penalty fromStephen Hunt after JamieCarragher clearly fouledIvar Ingimarsson outsidethe box.
Stephen Gerrard equal-ized for Liverpool in the28th but a goal from KevinDoyle and a fine individualeffort by James Harper inthe 67th gave Reading thepoints.— MNA/Reuters
Olympiakos join AEK Athenson top after goal spree
ATHENS, 9 Dec — Olympiakos Piraeus joined AEKAthens on top of the Greek Super League after a 4-0rout of Levadiakos on Saturday.
Olympiakos, who face Werder Bremen in their finalChampions League Group C game on Tuesday, andAEK have 24 points. The Athens club play their gamein hand at home to Apollon Kalamarias on Sunday.
PAOK Salonika defeated Veria 2-0 in the only othergame played on Saturday thanks to goals from AntonioGonzalez and Glen Salmon.— MNA/Reuters
ROME, 9 Dec —Fabrizio Miccoli andFabio Simplicio ledPalermo to a 2-0 homewin over Fiorentina tomove up to seventh inSerie A on Saturday.
Miccoli struck in the17th minute when he ranon to a defence-splittingflick from Brazilian strikepartner Amauri andchipped the ball overFiorentina keeperSebastien Frey.
Alberto Fontana didwell to keep Palermo
ahead in the 41st, pushingaway a powerful RiccardoMontolivo shot.
Fiorentina had to playthe last 20 minutes with10 men after AlessandroGamberini pulled up in-jured with all their substi-tutes already on.
Palermo pressed for-ward with the extra manand Frey produced twofine saves to keep outEdinson Cavani beforeBrazilian midfielderSimplicio dribbledpast two defenders to
slot the second goal in the81st.
Fiorentina stayed fifthwith 24 points from 15games, 10 points behindleaders Inter Milan whoentertain Torino on Sun-day.
Earlier, Lazio won 2-0at home to Catania to boostmorale ahead of Tuesday'sChampions League clashat Real Madrid.
MNA/Reuters
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WEATHER
Sunday, 9 December, 2007Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hours
MST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been gener-ally fair in the whole country. Night temperatures were(5ºC) to (6ºC) below December average temperatures inChin State and Magway Division, (3ºC)to (4ºC) belowDecember average temperatures in Rakhine State,Sagaing and Yangon Divisions and about Decemberaverage temperatures in the remaining States andDivisions. The significant night temperatures wereHakha (-4ºC). Heho and Pinlaung (4ºC)each.
Maximum temperature on 8-12-2007 was 93ºF. Mini-mum temperature on 9-12-2007 was 62ºF. Relative humid-ity at 09:30 hours MST on 9-12-2007 was 82%. Total sunshine hours on 8-12-2007 was (8.2) hours approx.
Rainfall on 9-12-2007 was (nil) at Mingaladon, Kaka-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2007 was(136.57) inches at Mingaladon, (141.38) inches at Kaba-Ayeand (144.29) inches at Central Yangon. Maximum windspeed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (7) mph from East at(15:30) hours MST on 8-12-2007.
Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea and South Bay and generally fair else-where in the Bay of Bengal.
Forecast valid until evening of 10-12-2007: Weatherwill be partly cloudy in Kachin and Mon State , Sagaingand Taninthayi Divisions and generally fair in the re-maining areas.
State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmarwaters.
Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofslight increase of night temperatures in the SouthernMyanmar areas.
Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 10-12-2007: Fair weather.
Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 10-12-2007: Generally fair weather.
Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 10-12-2007: Fair weather.
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LONDON, 9 Dec— Aman who “returned fromthe dead” after apparentlybeing lost at sea in acanoeing accident fiveyears ago was charged bypolice on Saturday withobtaining money bydeception and making afalse declaration to get apassport.
The charges comeafter a week of revelationsthat began with JohnDarwin, 57, walking into aLondon police stationclaiming amnesia andended with his wife Annetelling newspapers she had
Afghan abductors freeBangladeshi air worker
hidden him at the familyhome during the missingyears.
Anne Darw in descr-ibed how her husband hadavoided discovery by usinga small passage to anapartment in an adjoininghouse owned by the couple.
“For three years, whilevirtually everyone close tous believed John wasmissing presumed dead, hewas actually at home withme,” Anne Darwin, whorecently left Britain forcentral America, told theDaily Mirror.
MNA/Reuters
DHAKA, 9 Dec — ABangladeshi aid workerkidnapped in Afghanistannearly three months ago wasfreed by the abductors, theaid agency said on Saturday.
Noor Islam wasworking for BangladeshRural AdvancementCommittee (BRAC) whenhe was taken away in Logarprovince, south of Kabul,on September 15.
“He was freed on Fridaynight and is now underthe safe custody of theAfghanistan authority,” M.
Anwarul Haq, director ofpublic affairs andcommunications of BRACsaid in Dhaka. “He will beflown back to Bangladeshimmediately when theAfghan authority hands himover to us, after necessarymedical check up,” Anwartold Reuters.
The aid agency has beenactive in Afghanistan since2002, trying to empower thepoor with programmes inmicro-finance, education,health and agriculture.
Afghan gunmen shotdead Abdul Alim, anotherBRAC official, at a villagein Badakshan province acouple of days before theabduction of Islam.
The Bangladesh aid agencyhas offices in 24 Afghanprovinces, and employsaround 4,300 workers,including 200 Bangladeshis.
MNA/Reuters
NEW DELHI, 9 Dec – Four people, including three engineers, have diedina gas leak at a sewage tank at the Hyundai car factory in south India.
Four die in accident at Hyundai’scar plant in India
The incident took placeat Irrungatukottai nearChennai on Friday eveningwhen a sewage tank used tostore chemical waste wasbeing cleaned, local TVchannel NDTV reported onSaturday.
Hyundai Motors IndiaLtd Vice-President(Administration andHuman Resource) Gana-pathy told local news
agency Press Trustof India“This happened at theconstruction site of a watertreatment plant in oursecond unit. Out of the fourdeceased three wereengineers employed by
Thermax, which iscarrying out the constructionwork, while the other one isa civil contractor employee.”
Another person, whotook ill, has been admitted
to a private hospital inChennai and his conditionwas stated to be out ofdanger, fire service officialssaid.
Hyundai Motor Indiaon Saturday has announcedan ex-gratia payment of200,000 Indian rupees(around 5,000 US dollars)each to the deceased.
MNA /Xinhua
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1st Waxing of Nadaw 1369 ME Monday, 10 December, 2007
People’s Desire� We favour stability.� We favour peace.� We oppose unrest and violence.
� RFA, VOA and BBC airing skyful of lies� RFA, VOA and BBC saboteurs, watch your step!� The public be warned of
killers in the air waves —RFA, VOA and BBC
Universities, collegesunder Science and
Technology Ministry toopen on 24 Dec
NAY PYI TAW, 9 Dec — Myanmar Aerospaceand Engineering University, technological universi-ties, Government Technological Colleges and Gov-ernment Technical Institute under the Ministry ofScience and Technology will be opened on 24 De-cember 2007, it is learnt. —MNA
NAY PYI TAW, 9 Dec — Member of the StatePeace and Development Council Lt-Gen Ye Myint ofthe Ministry of Defence, accompanied by Chairman ofSagaing Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of North-West Command Brig-Gen MyintSoe and departmental officials, left Shwebo by car forSagaing on 6 December morning. On arrival at Sagaing,Lt-Gen Ye Myint and party together with Chairman ofMandalay Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of Central Command Brig-Gen Tin Ngwelooked into construction of Ayeyawady Bridge
Lt-Gen Ye Myint looks intoAyeyawady Bridge (Yadanabon)construction project in Mandalay
A new fish species of Microrasbora wasdiscovered in southwest China’s Yunnan
Province.—INTERNET
�Lt-Gen Ye Myint of Ministry of Defence inspects construction tasks of Ayeyawady Bridge(Yadanabon).— MNA
(Yadanabon).After hearing reports on progress of construction
works presented by Deputy Superintending Engineer UHtay Myint, Lt-Gen Ye Myint gave instructions onmeeting the set standard and building approach roads.
Next, Lt-Gen Ye Myint and party went toconstruction site of Mandalay Zaygyo Plaza and Con-dominium Tower built by Mandalay City Develop-ment Committee and Myanmar Mandalay Co Ltd inChanayethazan Township.
