Established 1914 Volume XVI, Number 15 11th …burmalibrary.org/docs4/NLM2008-05-01.pdfBuilding donated by Yaw Sayadaw to Education Department in Kanywa of Gangaw on 24 April. Next,

HONOURING THE WORKERS DAY

Established 1914

Volume XVI, Number 15 11th Waning of Oo Tagu 1370 ME Thursday, 1 May, 2008

To approve the State Constitution is a nationalduty of the entire people today. Let us all cast“Yes” vote in the national interest.

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms

of technical know-how and investments from sources insidethe country and abroad

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives

Ariyasaccana dassanam, to discern the noble-truths; this is the way to auspiciousness

Lt-Gen Myint Swe inspects the main sub-power station in the industrial zone in Hmawby Township. — MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe meets with officialsand entrepreneurs from Myaungdaga

Foundry Industrial Zone ProjectYANGON, 30

April —Lt-Gen MyintSwe of the Ministry ofDefence together withChairman of Yangon Di-vision Peace and Devel-opment Council Com-mander of Yangon Com-mand Maj-Gen Hla HtayWin and Minister forElectric Power No 2 Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myintmet with officials fromIndustrial Zone Projectand entrepreneurs at themanagement office ofMyaungdaga Foundry In-dustrial Zone in HmawbyTownship yesterday.

U Aung Win,Director General of

Department of HumanSettlement and HousingDevelopment, reported

on implementation ofthe project in the zone,Minis ter Maj-Gen

Khin Maung Myinton measu res t aken

(See page 8)

Senior General Than Shwe sends Workers Day MessageTake part in the tasks for approval of draft constitution

of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar

Esteemed Workers, On the Workers Day which falls on 1 May, Ihonour all blue collar and white collar workers to beable to make progress in production and services andwish you health and happiness.

NAY PYI TAW, 1 May—The following is the translation of the Workers Day message sent by Chairman of the State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Senior General Than Shwe.

It is obviously seen that there has been peace andstability and progress in the country due to the correctleadership of the State Peace and Development Coun-cil and united efforts of the entire people includingworkers.

The government has established factories, work-shops, industrial zones and industrial regions formodernization and development of the State. Pro-duction and services and trade sectors have become

(See page 8)

INSIDE

No place for saboteurs in new nation tobe built in accord with new constitution

MAUNG DE DOHPAGE 7

The constitution is going to be approved. Like thedevils that are afraid of voices of reciting Kammava, sothey are now trying to disrupt the processes for theapproval of the constitution. However, if the entirenational people cast ‘Yes’ vote in the referendum, therewill be no places for the evil saboteurs to live.

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 1 May, 2008

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 DesireThursday, 1 May, 2008

Boost production fordevelopment of industrialsector

Today, 1 May 2008, is the Workers Day.It is a tradition that Myanmar workers activelyparticipated in anti-imperialists andindependence struggle. Now workers andpeasants hand in hand with the national peopleare making endeavours for building a newdemocratic nation.

Efforts are being made for boostingproduction of industrial products in theindustrial sector which plays a pivotal role indevelopment of the nation and for raising thenational economic life.

Nowadays the government is building newfactories including those producing importsubstitute products. There are prospects ofincreased industrial production as thegovernment is establishing industrial zones andindustrial regions.

With the development of the industrialsector, a great number of modern factories andworkshops have been established in industrialregions. A large number of job opportunitiesare on the increase for local people with theintroduction of new technology on production.

The government is building a peacefulmodern developed discipline-flourishingdemocratic nation with the strength of thepeople laying emphasis on improvement ofsocio-economic life and security of the people’slives.

The entire Myanmar workers possessingthe traditions of anti-imperialist spirit andnationalistic spirit in the successive periodsstand tall as the united national force and theywill have to continue to discharge the duties ofboosting production of the products fordevelopment of the industrial sector.

Weather condition delaysgas pipe repair work

YANGON, 30 April—The electricity supply toYangon is decreasing as the repair work of the gaspipe lines which transport natural gas from off shoreto four gas-fired power plants has not yet completeddue to weather conditions.

Yangon Division Electric Power Supply Boardhas already announced that those four pipe lineswould be repaired from 27 to 29 April. The repairwork has not yet completed in time due to weatherconditions.

The pipe lines are under repair by YangonDivision Electric Power Supply Board and effortsare being made to supply power to Yangonsufficiently.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan cordially converses with local peoplefrom six villages in Gangaw Township. — MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan meeting with local people from 18 villages in Gangaw Township.— MNA

Commander and Secretariat Member meetlocal people in Gangaw

Constitution people will approve soon fully guarantees peace and stability

NAY PYI TAW, 30April—Member of thePanel of the Patrons of theUnion Solidarity andDevelopment AssociationChairman of SagaingDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of North-West Command Brig-GenMyint Soe and SecretariatMember of the USDAMinister for InformationBrig-Gen Kyaw Hsanattended a ceremony tohand over Tipitaka GonyiBuilding donated by YawSayadaw to EducationDepartment in Kanywa ofGangaw on 24 April.

Next, the commander

and the minister attendeda ceremony to meet withthe local people held atthe pandal in front ofKanywa Basic EducationHigh School. It wasattended by the localpeople from 18 villagestotaling over 4,500.

On behalf of the localpeople, officials concernedreported on regionaldevelopment tasks to thecommander and theminister. After hearing thereports, the commanderand the minister madearrangements to fulfill therequirements and madespeeches on the occasion.

Afterwards, the

Secretariat Memberpresented K 300,000 forthe prevention against theerosion and presentedregional developmentitems, household andpersonal goods to the localpeople, exercise books forthe students andpublications for the librarythrough officialsconcerned.

Next, he arrived atSasana Pala Monastery inGangaw Township andpaid homage to SayadawSasanadhaja Dhama-cariya Bhaddanta Sumanaand donated alms to theSayadaw. Afterwards, heattended a ceremony to

meet with the local peopleheld at the monastery. Itwas attended by the localpeople from 17 villagesnumbering over 3,300.

On behalf of the localpeople, officialsconcerned reported onregional developmenttasks to the minister. Afterhearing the reports, theminister madearrangements to fulfill therequirements and made aspeech on the occasion.

Afterwards, theSecretariat Memberpresented K 400,000, forChaungkauk villageBEPS, developmentitems, household andpersonal goods for thelocal people, exercisebooks for the students andpublications for the librarythrough officialsconcerned.

Next, the SecretariatMember attended aceremony to meet with thelocal people held at thepandal in front ofHanthawady villageBEMS (Branch). It wasattended by the localpeople from villagestotaling over 3,000.

On behalf of the localpeople, officials con-cerned reported on

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Civilians flee with their belongings from Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on 27April, 2008. Fighting between Islamist rebels and Somali troops killed 10

people in Mogadishu, and the insurgents took control of the provincial townof Jowhar, residents and officials said on Sunday. In a second weekend ofclashes in Somalia’s lawless capital, insurgents attacked the Villa Baidoa

military base in the south of the city, sparking machine-gun fire and mortarexchanges.—INTERNET

Obama’s lead over Clintonin nat’l poll shrinks to zero

WASHINGTON, 30 April— US DemocraticPresidential candidateBarack Obama's lead in thenational poll has shrunk tozero after his rival, HillaryRodham Clinton, won thePennsylvania primary on22 April, said a pollreleased on Monday.

According to the Galluppoll conducted on 24 to 26April, Illinois SenatorObama and New YorkSenator Clinton are now

dead even at 47 per centamong 1,240 Democraticand Democratic-leaningvoters.

It was the second surveythat has been made afterClinton's win on Tuesdayin Pennsylvania withnearly 10 percentage pointslead over Obama.

These results "suggestthat Democratic voters are— for the moment at least— divided right down themiddle as to which

candidate they most wantto represent their party inNovember's generalelection", the poll says.

The polling body alsofound in the latest surveyconducted among nationalregistered voters from 22to 26 April that Clintonmaintains her advantageover Republican pre-sumptive presidentialcandidate, Arizona SenatorJohn McCain, in thegeneral election pre-ferences at 47 per cent to44 per cent. Obama andMcCain are tied at 45 percent each, it added.

MNA/Xinhua

A man cries as he looks at the dead body of hisneighbours buried in the ruins of a house hit in a

US air strike in Baghdad Sadr City. Several peoplewere believed killed in two US air strikes in the

Baghdad bastion of Shiite radical leader Moqtadaal-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia, an AFP

photographer and witnesses said.—INTERNET

US airline saysHeathrow is “worst

in Europe” LONDON, 30 April — A senior American Airlines

executive said on Tuesday that London's Heathrowwas the worst airport used by the company in Europe.

Don Langford, head of customer services Europefor the airline, said its base at Terminal 3 had sufferedfrom a lack of investment and was "a bit of a dump".

"I would have to say that Heathrow is in many waysthe worst of all the airports that my company flies to inEurope," he told the BBC.

The damning verdict comes a month after theopening of Heathrow's new Terminal 5 buildingdescended into chaos, with hundreds of flights cancelledand baggage lost.

No comment was immediately obtainable fromHeathrow's operator, BAA. — MNA/Reuters

Qingdao-Jinan Railway reopens after fatal accident

US military deaths in Iraq at 4,058BAGHDAD, 29 April—As of Tuesday, 29 April,

2008, at least 4,058 members of the US military havedied since the beginning of the Iraq war in March2003, according to an Associated Press count. Thefigure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,306died as a result of hostile action, according to themilitary’s numbers.

The AP count is one more than the DefenceDepartment’s tally, last updated Tuesday at 10 amEDT.

The British military has reported 176 deaths; Italy,33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11;Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four;Latvia, three; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand,Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary,Kazakhstan, South Korea, one death each.—Internet

Moderate quake hits northern California

ZHOUCUN (Shandong),30 April—The Qingdao-Jinan Railway reopenedto traffic early on Tuesday,after more than 20 hoursof interruption caused bya train collision that killed70 people and injuredmore than 400 on Monday.

At 2:16 am, a cargotrain weighing 1,185metric tons rolled over therestored section of the

railway in Zibo City ofeast China’s ShandongProvince, followed bypassenger train T196 fromQingdao to Beijing at 2:41am. Thousands of pas-sengers were stranded atrailway stations in Jinan,Qingdao and otherdestinations following thepre-dawn collision andderailments on Monday,but most were transferred

to long-distance buses.“So far, the accident site

has been cleaned up andthe stranded passengersevacuated,” said WangJun, head of the StateAdministration of WorkSafety. “All the injuredhave been hospitalizedand the dead have beentransferred to local funeralhomes.”

MNA/Xinhua

SAN FRANCISCO, 30April— A moderateearthquake struck near thecoastal city of Eureka inNorthern California onTuesday but there wereno immediate reports ofdamage.

The magnitude 5.2quake occurred at 8:03 pm(0303 GMT on Wednes-day) 35 miles east ofEureka and was felt acrossthe region from the PacificOcean to near the Oregonborder, the US Geological

Survey reported on itswebsite.

Nearly an hour later, thedispatch officer for theEureka Police Departmentsaid she had not receivedany reports of damage.

Internet

Militiamen ambush drives back USpatrol in Sadr City

BAGHDAD, 30 April— Dozens of fighters ambusheda US patrol in Baghdad’s main Shiite militia strongholdTuesday, firing rocket-propelled grenades and machinegun bursts as the American push into Sadr Cityincreasingly faces pockets of close urban combat.

US forces struck back with 200-pound guidedrockets that devastated at least three buildings in thedensely packed district that serves as the Baghdadbase for the powerful Mahdi Army militia.—Internet

Workers remove theremains of a small

plane that crashed intoa house in the town of

Catia La Mar, innorthern Venezuela, on28 April, 2008. XINHUA

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

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Two-year-old Ali Hussein is pulled from the rubble of his family’s home inthe Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on 29 April, 2008. The

child, who later died in hospital, was in one of four homes allegedly destroyedby US missiles. —INTERNET

GAZA, 29 April — In spite of the efforts to reacha ceasefire in the Gaza Strip between Israel and thePalestinians, several Israeli Army tanks and armouredvehicles stormed central Gaza town of Deir el-Ballahon Sunday.

Palestinian security sources and witnesses said thatthe Israeli Army Forces stormed the eastern Area ofthe town amid intensive gunfire, while bulldozersrazed trees and leveled the ground of some farms in thearea. AL-Qassam Brigades, Islamic Hamas armedwing, said in a leaflet that its militants attacked theIsraeli Army forces in Deir el-Ballah with RBG missilesand mortar shells. —MNA/Xinhua

BAGHDAD, 29 April — A suicide car bomb strucka police patrol in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, killinga policeman and wounding three others, an InteriorMinistry source said.

A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-ladencar into a police patrol near an intersection nearBaghdad’s al-Shaab Stadium, damaging two policevehicles, killing a policeman and wounding threeothers aboard, the source told Xinhua on condition ofanonymity. US and Iraqi security forces sealed offthe area as ambulances rushed to evacuate casualties,the source said.

Earlier in the day, a ministry source said that tworoadside bomb detonated in a quick succession near anIraqi Army foot-patrol in the 14th Ramadan Street inMansour District, killing an officer and wounding fourof his soldiers, along with two civilians. —MNA/Xinhua

KIEV, 29 April — A Ukrainian helicopter crashedonto an offshore drilling platform in the Black Sea onMonday, killing all 20 people on board, anEmergencies Ministry spokesman said.

Nineteen people were killed on impact and oneinitially survived, but he later died from his injuries,the ministry said. No one on the platform was injured.

The platform, on the West coast off the Crimea, isoperated by state energy firm Naftogaz, which alsoowned the helicopter. “An Mi-8 helicopter with 20people on board clipped the Tavrida platform with itstail rotor,” Naftogaz spokesman Ilya Savin said, inexplaining how the crash happened. —MNA/Reuters

PRAGUE, 29 April —Members of Greenpeaceoccupied on Monday thesite in the Brdy militarydistrict southwest of thecapital of Prague, where aUS missile Defence radarbase is to be installed, theCzech news agency CTKreported.

Some 20 people haveput up tents to protestagainst the planned build-ing of the radar base, some90 kilometres southwest ofPrague.

Ukrainian helicopter crashes inBlack Sea, 20 dead

Suicide car bomb kills policemanin Baghdad

Israeli Army storms centralGaza, detains nine in W Bank

Greenpeace occupies USradar site on Czech soil

Greenpeace mount-aineers climbed trees at thesite to fix up a giant banner.

The military districthead Martin Brezovsky set2:00 pm local time as adeadline for the activists toleave the site.

“We won’t meet thedeadline,” Greenpeace’sJan Freidinger said.

Defence Ministryspokesman Andrej Cirteksaid the protesters havecommitted an unlawful act.

“The Defence Ministry

has nothing againstpolitical meetings if heldoutside the militarydistrict,” said Cirtek.

Greenpeace anti-radarcampaign head MartinKloubek said he does notknow how long the activistswill stay on the plannedradar site, situated near theMisov Village.

The protest is notviolent, the participantshave not chained them-selves to trees, Kloubeksaid. — MNA/Xinhua

A base jumper is seen launching himself from a tower in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. Australian police cruising Sydney’s city centre early Wednesday

morning were startled when a parachutist floated to earth and landed in frontof their patrol car. —INTERNET

LONDON,30 April — Prince William, second in line to the British throne, paid asecret visit to Afghanistan to meet British troops there, his office said on Wednesday.

A spokesman said the 25-year-old Prince, who was recently awarded his RoyalAir Force wings after a training course, flew a military transport plane for part ofthe journey to Kandahar.

He spent three hours with British service personnel at the airfield beforereturning to Britain, the spokesman said.

Permission for the confidential trip on Monday had been given by his grandmother,Queen Elizabeth, and his father, Prince Charles.

MNA/Reuters

Blast kills 15Afghans,

wounds 25 KABUL, 30 April — At

least 15 Afghans werekilled and 25 wounded onTuesday in an explosion ineastern Afghanistan, closeto the border with Pakistan,a spokesman for NATO-led forces said.

"Initial reports are that15 local nationals werekilled and another 25 werewounded in an explosionin Nangarhar Province," thespokesman for NATO'sInternational SecurityAssistance Force (ISAF)said. Residents in thedistrict, south of the city ofJalalabad, said Afghanforces and civilians wereamong the dead, which theysaid could total as many as31.

One resident, reachedby phone from Kabul, saidthe dead included 11members of the Afghansecurity forces and twochildren.

It was not immediatelyclear what caused theexplosion but suicidebombers have carried outattacks in the area in thepast. — MNA/Reuters

A police officer patrols

Tuesday, April 29,

2008, in Suffolk, Va.

Three tornadoes

smashed houses, piled

cars on each other and

injured more than 200

people Monday.

INTERNET

Britain’s Prince William onsecret Afghan trip

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Sales of Mazda 6

sedans rose 47

percent in the first

quarter from a year

earlier to 17,589.

XINHUA

Indian actor and Bollywood leading man Shah

Rukh Khan, right, poses next to his life-size wax

model displayed at Paris’ Grevin Museum, on 28

April, 2008. Khan, 43, has acted in more than 50

movies. He is also a film producer and television

host.—INTERNET

LONDON, 29 April —Oil prices have hit a freshhigh just below 120 USdollars a barrel after astrike at a British refinerydisrupted production fromthe North Sea.

Light crude on the USmarket hit a high of 119.93US dollars a barrel beforeedging down to 119.40 USdollars on Monday. The

KHARTOUM, 29 April— The Sudanese Govern-ment and two Chinesecompanies on Sundaysigned a contract ofheightening the RussairesDam on the Blue NileRiver at the cost of 396million dollars.

Sudanese PresidentOmer Al-Bashir and anumber of Cabinet mini-sters and high-rankingofficials attended thesigning ceremony held atthe Friendship Hall, aswell as representatives of

HANOI, 29 April — Vietnamese firms have won abid to sell 102,000 tons of rice to the Philippines,according to local newspaper Vietnam Economic Timeson Monday.

The 25-per-cent broken rice priced at 1,200 USdollars per ton, the highest-ever price, will be deliveredfrom now to June, the paper quoted the Vietnam FoodAssociation as reporting.

Vietnamese businesses have signed contracts ofshipping abroad 2.4 million tons of rice with deliveryslated for this year, of which nearly 1.4 million tonsworth 566 million dollars have been handed over tocustomers. —MNA/Xinhua

Contract signed to heightenRussaires Dam

the two Chinese com-panies — the SinahydroCorporation and theChina InternationalWater and Electric Cor-poration.

Addressing the cere-mony, Sudanese Ministerof Irrigation and WaterResources Kamal AliMohammed said theheightening of theRussaires Dam comes inimplementation of theNational ComprehensiveStrategy and the Nile WaterAgreement signed by

Sudan and Egypt in 1959. He said the height-

ening of the RussairesDam is the second phaseaimed to increase thestored water from threebillion to 7.3 billion cubicmetres and increase theelectricity power genera-tion by 50 per cent, addingthat the heightening ofRussaires Dam will doublethe electricity generationof the Sennar Dam andwill boost the capability ofthe Merowe Dam on theNile River.—MNA/Xinhua

British oil refinery strike pushes high oil priceprevious record mark of119.90 US dollars a barrelwas achieved on Friday.

In London, Brent cruderose 72 cents to 117.06US dollars a barrel onMonday. BP (BritishPetroleum) shut down akey North Sea pipelineafter staff walked out ofthe Grangemouth refineryin Scotland in a two-day

strike over pensions. The BP-run pipeline

from the Forties oil fieldsin the North Sea relies onsteam and electricity fromthe Ineos refinery atGrangemouth. Providinga third of British oil output,the closure of the Fortiespipeline has raised fearsabout supply shortages.

MNA/Xinhua

Vietnam wins rice tenderin Philippines

Putin, Greek PM to sign SouthStream pipeline deal

MOSCOW, 29 April—Greece and Russia willsign a deal to cooperateon building a major gaspipeline, South Stream,when President VladimirPutin meets Greek PrimeMinister Costas Kara-manlis this week, aKremlin source said.

The source said Kara-manlis will meet outgoingpresident Putin and hissuccessor Dmitry Med-vedev, who will be swornin on 7 May, when he visitsRussia on 29-30 April.

Development MinisterChristos Folias said earlierthis month Greece hasagreed to join the Kremlin-backed pipeline project,further boosting energyties with Russia.

The pipeline, which willbe jointly built by Russian

gas export monopolyGazprom and Italy’senergy group ENI, willeventually transport 30billion cubic metres (bcm)of Russian gas a year toEurope.

Greece will become atransit state on thesouthern leg of thepipeline which will pump

gas to Italy. The project, which

aims to link Gazprom’sSiberian gas fields withEurope and is seen as acompetitor to the EU andUS-backed Nabuccopipeline, will cost around10 billion euros (15.66billion US dollars) .

MNA/Reuters

ECONOMIC NEWS

US-based COs mostly positiveabout China prospects

BEIJING, 29 April—Themajority of US-basedcompanies are positiveabout business prospectsin China, with 89 per centcharacterizing their five-year outlook as optimisticor cautiously optimistic,according to a surveyreleased here on Mondayby the American Chamberof Commerce.

The findings of the2008 Business Climate

Survey revealed that UScompanies remainedbullish in China as aninvestment destination,with many planning toexpand.

However, despite thepositive outlook andimproved operating mar-gins, competitive forcesand rising costs areincreasingly affectingthese companies, accord-ing to the survey.

While China’s con-tinued growth is playingan important role ininvestment decisions andexpansion throughoutthe country, the rapidgrowth of the domesticeconomy has also createda fiercely competitivebusiness environmentthat is driving significantcost increases, accordingto the survey.

MNA/Xinhua

People sit in front of the stock index board in Chongqing Municipality,southwest China, on April 30, 2008. China’s benchmark Shanghai Composite

Index on the Shanghai Stock Exchange closed at 3693.11 points onWednesday, up 4.82 percent from the previous close and the ShenzhenComponent Index on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange closed at 13504.89

points, up 4.84 percent from the previous close. —XINHUA

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A celebration was held in Luwan Gymnasium in Shanghai on 29 April, 2008,marking the 100-day countdown of the 29th Olympic Games. Shanghai willhost the Olympic torch relay next month and 12 soccer matches in August.—

XINHUA

Pascal Boisson (R), a French passenger injured in the train collision,receives a bunch of flowers presented by a Chinese nurse at Zibo

Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Zibo, east China’s ShandongProvince, on 29 April, 2008.—XINHUA

A soldier

participates in a

civil defence

exercise to

guard civilians

against terror

attacks by

chemical gas

spraying and

blasting at a

subway station

in Seoul on

29 April, 2008.

XINHUA

Sri lanka, Iran sign six agreementsCOLOMBO, 30 April—

The visiting Iranian Presi-dent Mahmoud Ahmadi-nejad and Sri LankanPresident witnessed thesigning of six agreementsbetween the two countriesMonday night and vowedto push the relations to a newlevel. Officials from the SriLankan Presidential Secre-tariat said Tuesday thatamong the major agreementswere the Financial As-sistance for the Expansionof the Sapugaskanda Oil

Refinery and the Uma Oyaproject, Iran’s DevelopmentAssistance to Sri Lanka,and the Establishment ofPolitical ConsultationMechanism.

Addressing journalistsafter bilateral talks and theagreements signing cere-mony, Ahmadinejad point-ed out that comprehensivecooperation between thetwo countries would providesecurity for both.

“We are seeking justiceand fair play in the world.

Sri Lanka and Iran haveagreed to cooperate in allspheres for the mutualbenefit of each other,” saidthe Iranian President. Hesaid there had been aconstructive dialogue for thebetterment and economicprosperity of the twocountries whose cooperationhas been increasing, andhas the capacity to increasefurther. President Rajapaksathanked his Iranian coun-terpart for the economicaid.—Xinhua

Hamas denies plot againstEgypt’s nat’l security

All items from Xinhua News Agency

China, Surinam agree onfurthering mily cooperation

BEIJING, 29 April —China and Surinam agreedto step up military co-operation during the talksbetween the defenceministers of the twocountries here onMonday.

“China values its tieswith Surinam as well asthat between the twomilitaries,” said Chinese

Defence Minister LiangGuanglie.

Liang, who is also statecouncillor, applauded therecent growth in relationsbetween the two nations,saying that China willexplore with Surinam newfields and new approachesto step up the ties betweenthe Armed Forces.

Visiting Surinamese

Defence Minister IvanFernald said the coopera-tion between Surinam andChina bears strategicsignificance and Surinamwill join with Chinato continue to expand thefriendly cooperationbetween the two armies infields such as militarypersonnel training.

Xinhua

Hizbollah militants briefly detainFrenchman in Beirut

BEIRUT,29 April — AFrenchman said on Sundaythat he had been brieflydetained on Saturday bymilitants of Hizbollah inBeirut.

Karim Pakzad, a Frenchdelegate to a SocialistInternational Meeting inBeirut, told a news confere-nce here that he was stoppedand questioned by armed

men who “spoke on behalfof Hizbollah” while he wastaking a picture of a“beautiful mosque” at theairport road Saturday.

He said they questionedhim for five hours beforefreeing him, adding that“this kind of behaviour cannot be accepted in Lebanonor anywhere else.”

Lebanese Progressive

Socialist Party leader WalidJumblat, who hosted thepress conference, said thereshould be only one authorityin Lebanon which has theright to interrogate people.

The airport road, whichlies in southern Beirut, is astronghold of Hizbollah,whose arms are acontroversial issue in thecountry. — Xinhua

Chinese soldiers leave forUN peace mission in LiberiaBEIJING, 29 April — A 283-member team of

Chinese soldiers left here on Monday for an eight-month UN peacekeeping operation in Liberia.

They formed the second batch of the seventhpeacekeeping team that China has sent to the Africancountry. The first batch of 275 soldiers departed on18 April. The seventh team, 558 in total, is comprisedof 240 transportation troops, 275 engineers and 43medical staff, according to the Ministry of Defence.The engineering troops will build roads and bridges,and maintain airports and water and power facilitiesin Liberia.The transportation staff will be in chargeof troop transport and logistics, while the medicalunit will care for the sick and wounded and conductepidemic prevention work.—Xinhua

GAZA, 29 April —� Islamic Hamasmovement on Sunday denied plottingany operation threatening Egypt’snational security.

“The Egyptian national securityand the Arab security are both red linesthat Hamas can not cross,” saidMohammed Nasser, a member ofHamas politburo.

Nasser’s remarks were madefollowing reports that Egyptianauthorities arrested two members ofthe Muslim Brotherhood oppositionparty, who, with Hamas, planned toprepare an unmanned aircraft.

The reports did not clarify what

the aircraft was designated to be usedfor. Nasser said the Palestinianfactions “carry out resistance workswithout harming Egypt’s nationalsecurity”.

He also said that such reports weremotivated by holding “hostile to thePalestinians, the Egyptians and theArabs”.

The reports come as Egypt mediatesbetween Hamas and Israel to broker aceasefire in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.Hamas has handed over its position toEgypt, and is waiting for response fromthe Israelis.

Xinhua

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* We remain ever united whoever triesto divide usAnd will cast “Yes” vote

Towards the new nation Will ratify Constitution.

Maung De Doh: Hi, Bagyi Toe and Uncle Myo.Come and take a seat. Where do you come from?

Bagyi Toe: We are at the old age. So, we took a walktogether and held discussions in the morning.And we happened to drop in on you. You arediscussing and writing articles about theconstitution. We have to find someone to chatbecause people by nature want to speak a lotwhen they are old.

Maung De Doh: Yes, it is a pleasure for me to chatwith patriotic and well-experienced elderlypersons who participated in Anti-FascistResistance like Bagyi Toe and knowledgeablepensioners like Uncle Myo.

Bagyi Toe: Well, I noticed some of the persons whotook a walk in the morning listened to the radiofor some news. Some news stories said that somepersons are trying to disrupt the referendum inwhich the draft constitution will be approved.Then, I wonder what politics is. When I wasyoung, I used to do politics. In the Japaneseperiod, I was just a teenager. I joined Asia Youths’Asiayon to participate in the movements. Theywere underground movements for Anti-FascistResistance. When Bogyoke and patriots launchedthe Anti-Fascist Resistance, I joined the resistancetroops. But I didn’t want any titles and medals formy performances. So, I didn’t apply for titles andmedals. I took part in the movements because itwas the concern of the entire people, not becauseI wanted titles and medals.

As far as I am concerned, politics is a verynoble term. Actually, politics is an affair that iscarried in the national interest. I understand so. Ifsomething is done in the national interest, it isnational politics. However, nowadays, the term‘politics’ is wrongly defined a lot. I would say, ifsome groups try for power, saying that they willserve the national interest only after they havecome to power, it is called power politics. If theydeceive the people that the nation will have aprosperous future only after their party has cometo power, and they give priority to their self-interest rather than to the public interest whenthey come to power, it is called party politics.And if they use violence, claiming that the nationwill develop only after the ruling government isremoved through violence, it is called violentpolitics. Indeed, they are seeking self-interests indisguise of national interests. So, as BritishGeneral Lord Mountbatten once said that politicsbecame a haven for waifs and strays. How stupidit was to blast some automobiles of ordinarypeople with the intention of creating public panicfor disrupting the referendum. What is the use ofdoing so for the owners, human society and the

No place for saboteurs in new nation to bebuilt in accord with new constitution

Maung De Doh

State? That is just violence, not politics.Uncle Myo: Yes, Bagyi Toe. In reality, the constitution

is not just for any particular person, organization,party, or group. Frankly speaking, it is not just forTatmadaw government or NLD, either. It is nationalpolitics that concerns the whole nation and entirepeople. The constitution doesn’t concern policiesand political concepts. A constitution is necessaryfor all countries, Socialist, Communist, imperialist,kingdom or feudal. A constitution can be calledsocial contract that prescribes the responsibilities,authority and rights of the people and thegovernment.

If someone puts me a question, is a constitutionessential, I must reply that it is not. But, in the timesof emergency, the people are helpless, and are atthe mercy of the ruling government. If there is aconstitution, every citizen with grievances maysubmit a complaint to the Supreme Court. Thepeople can recall the representative under the rightof recall if they no longer like him. If they assumethat the President or members of the governingbody are incompetent in discharge of duties andcommit corruptions, they can remove them byimpeaching them through the hluttaw concerned.In short, State power can be derived from thepublic, the ultimate owner of State power, onlywhen there is a constitution.

Maung De Doh: I wonder why saboteurs are nothappy with the drive for the approval of theconstitution for entrusting State power to the people.

Uncle Myo: In my opinion, it is because there will beno places for them in the new State. I’m sure thenew constitution is not beneficial to them. So, theydislike it, and they will continue to try to disruptthe process for the approval of the constitution.

As you Ko De Doh once said, the constitutionis a nutrient for a country. In a family, some of thefamily members like very much the meals themother cooks, some like the meals fairly, andsome dislike them. Perceptive children will havethe meals even if they don’t like them much.Negligent ones might turn violent and shout at thedinning table. In the end, they might overturn thetable. Then, their acts cannot bring any benefits tothem and they have intention that others cannothave meals.

Maung De Doh: The new constitution carries a checksand balances system. And there will be Tatmadawmember representatives who will safeguardnational security. So, saboteurs who want to breakup the nation and the lackeys groups of thecolonialists will not be in a position to come topower and do at will even if they come to power.I think therefore they are committing destructiveactivities in order that there cannot be a new

constitution.Bagyi Toe: I think in the process of holding the

referendum, the people will understand morethan ever who are constructive forces and whoare destructive forces. I have witnessed that theTatmadaw government has devoted itself tonation-building tasks at undprecedented levels.In the past, the people of our village in Anyaregion had to spend the whole night to fetch apot of drinking water in handscooped wells inthe dry creek. The villagers could take bath onlyonce or twice a week. They had to feed greenwatermelon to cattle. Now, the people are leadingan easy life due to the tube-wells of theunderground water tapping stations. Now, theydon’t need to be worried about food becausenow they can grow paddy with the use ofirrigation water. Recently, I went to my nativevillage to attend the ceremony to initiate 101children into novices, the situations of the villagewere unlike in the past. Almost all the householdshave a TV and a motor cycle. Unlike in the past,the people no longer need to wait the wholenight to take a Z-craft to cross the river. The newbridge is a magnificent facility. They are tangibleproofs.

The constitution is part of the nation-buildingdrive. I notice the government is taking measuressystematically in this regard. To regain power,the people just need to go to the polling booth andcast ‘yes’ vote.

I have heard of saboteurs many times in mylife. They are committing various forms ofdestructive acts such as blasting trains,kidnapping, collection of distortion money,murder, instigation of riots in rural areas, murderswhen the government’s administrativemechanism is no longer effective, if they are notin a position to commit any acts, they dissuadethe monks from sitting for oral examinations,creation of public panic among the nationalpeople, inventing rumours, spreading slanderousnews stories, detonation of bombs among thepeople, misleading of the people into consideringthat the nation will be in ruin soon. They arecommitting subversive acts, and criticizing thepeople who serve in the national interest.

Now, the constitution is going to be approved.Like the devils that are afraid of voices of recitingKammava, so they are now trying to disrupt theprocesses for the approval of the constitution.However, if the entire national people cast ‘Yes’vote in the referendum, there will be no places forthe evil saboteurs to live.

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(from page 1)for power supply, entrepreneurs on requirements andCommander Maj-Gen Hla Htay Win on arrangements forfulfilling the needs.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe urged the entrepreneurs toimplement the projects in unity as soon as possible withthe assistance of the departments concerned.

He inspected the main sub-power station in theIndustrial Zone and was conducted round the station byMinister Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint and officials.

At the briefing hall, Minister Maj-Gen KhinMaung Myint reported on installation of three 100-MVAtransformers, connection of power lines in the switchyard and installation of 230-KV power grid linkingMyaungdaga main sub-power station and Kamanat(Bago). Lt-Gen Myint Swe gave necessary instructions.

On completion of the projects in MyaungdagaFoundry Industrial Zone, there will be more powersupply for the people in Yangon.—MNA

(from page 1)greater and wider owing to the improvement ofvarious production sectors such as agriculture, meatand fish, forestry, mining and energy.

Now there are unprecedented job opportuni-ties in the country. The government is laying downplans to provide qualified human resources for thoseopportunities in the regions.

The government has been making arrange-ments for the blue and white collar workers to pro-vide welfare and worksite safety and to enjoy deserv-edly their opportunities and rights as there are a lot ofjob opportunities.

At a time when the achievements have beenmade in political, economic and social aspects due tothe active cooperation of the national people underthe leadership of the government, I urge the entireworkers to continue to participate in the tasks for

Lt-Gen Myint Swe meets…

Senior General Than Shwe sends Workers Day Message…realization of the targets of the economic plans of theState.

As is known to all, the State Peace and Devel-opment Council has laid down the seven-step RoadMap for emergence of a peaceful modern developeddiscipline-flourishing democratic nation and is imple-menting them.

In accord with the seven-step Road Map, theNational Convention was held. Over one thousanddelegates of national races and all walks of life repre-senting the entire people took part in the discussions atthe National Convention. After successful holding ofthe National Convention the draft constitution in con-formity with the new nation was drawn in accord withthe fundamental principles and detailed basic princi-ples laid down by the National Convention. The ap-proval of the draft constitution will be sought throughreferendum this May.

I would like to urge the mass of the workersto take part in the tasks whatever role they are in forapproval of the draft constitution of the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar drawn in accord with thefundamental principles and detailed basic principleslaid down by the National Convention attended bydelegates of the workers.

I urge all blue collar and white collar workersin all seriousness to actively take part in the tasks forbuilding a peaceful modern developed discipline-flour-ishing democratic nation together with the entire people- for raising the national economic life and

development of production and services sec-tors

- for approval of the draft constitution of theRepublic of the Union of Mynamar and suc-cess of the referendum

- for success of the seven-step Road Map.MNA

Commander and Secretariat…(from page 2)

regional developmenttasks to the minister. Af-ter hearing the reports, theminister made arrange-ments to fulfill the require-ments and made a speechon the occasion.

Afterwards, the Sec-retariat Member pre-sented K 200,000 forHanthawady BEMS(Branch), K 100,000 forKoatka village station,development items,household and personalgoods for the local peo-ple, exercise books for thestudents and publicationsfor the library.

In his meetings withthe local people, he saidthat the Government isbuilding infrastructureswith added momentum forall-round development ofthe country, especiallyplacing emphasis on edu-cation, health and trans-port sectors. The Govern-

ment is implementingdams, embankments, riverwater pumping stationsand underground tappingwater projects. In addition,it is focusing on imple-mentation of five rural de-velopment tasks. Peaceand stability play an im-portant role in ensuringsustainable development.The people in some worldnations are encounteringtroubles daily becausethere is no peace and sta-bility. As regards, the peo-ple are to value peace andstability that is basic forthe development.It is re-quired of the people toweigh the prevailing situ-ations of the nation in or-der not to be caught in theinstigation of internal andexternal destructive ele-ments. The State Consti-tution all the entire peoplewill approve soon fullyguarantees peace and sta-bility for the people. Based

on the prevailing condi-tions of the country, theconstitution has beendrawn the most suitablefor the people. He urgedthose who are patriotic andfavour development,peace and stability to goto the polling booth andcast vote for the referen-dum.

After the meetings, theSecretariat Member cor-dially greeted the local peo-ple. Upon arrival at theconstruction site of Gov-ernment TechnologicalUniversity of the Ministryof Science and Technol-ogy in Gangaw, officialsconcerned reported onprogress in building theuniversity to the SecretariatMember. After hearing thereports, he gave instruc-tions on utilization of thequality construction mate-rials and inspected the con-struction works.

MNA

YANGON, 30 April— The ceremonies to setup billboards, to hail theReferendum for approval

Billboards set up in Yangon North District to hail Referendum

of the draft State Constitu-tion of the Republic of theUnion of Myanmar, wereheld at the designatedplaces in four townships,Yangon North District.

Departmental per-sonnel, townselders, mem-bers of social organizationsand local people erected thebillboards saying “Let us allwho are equipped with ar-dent patriotism, who cher-ish genuine independence,

who aspire perpetuation ofsovereignty, who loathe for-eign interference and ma-nipulation, and who opposepuppet government withstrings of colonialists, vote“Yes” for ratification of theConstitution.” in front of theHlegu Township People’sHospital in Hlegu , “To ap-prove the State Constitutionis a national duty of the en-tire people today. Let us allcast “Yes” vote in the na-

tional interest.” in front ofMyoma market in HmawbyTownship, “Democracycannot be achieved by anar-chism or violence, but byConstitution.” at the junc-tion of Yangon-Pyay andPhayalay Roads and “ Let’sapprove Constitution toshape our future by our-selves.” in front of HtantabinTownship Peace and Devel-opment Council Office.

MNA

A ceremony to erect a billboard to hail the Referendum in progress in Taikkyi. — MNA

* To ratify Constitution Let’s go to the polling booth

For ratification of ConstitutionLet’s go to polling booth to cast “Yes” vote.

* Background of nation’s historical trend* Prevailing condition

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Let’s get democracy by votingat polling booth

For flourishing of democracyRatify Constitution

(from page 16)In the evening, MMCWA President Daw

Khin Saw Hnin hosted a dinner to mark the successfulconclusion of the 18th annual general meeting ofMMCWA at the office of the association in Nay PyiTaw.

It was attended by Commander of Nay PyiTaw Command Maj-Gen Wai Lwin and wife DawSwe Swe Oo, member of National Health CommitteeMinister for Health Dr Kyaw Myint, President ofMyanmar Women’s Affairs Federation Daw KhinKhin Win and Vice-President Daw Khin Lay Myint,the president and the vice-presidents, the CEC mem-bers and central council members of MMCWA, chair-persons of State/Division MCWSCs, the secretariesand joint-secretaries, responsible persons of socialorganizations and guests.

MMCWA President Daw Khin Saw Hninspoke words of thanks.

Next, the President presented gift to Ministerfor Health Dr Kyaw Myint.

Afterwards, Minister Dr Kyaw Myint pre-sented awards to Yangon, Mandalay and Bago Divi-sion (East) MCWSCs which stood first, second and

third in implementing social activities for 2007 andconsolation prizes to Ayeyawady and TaninthayiDivisions.

MMCWA President Daw Khin Saw Hninpresented first, second and third prizes to Shan State(East), Mon State and Shan State (North) MCWSCsand consolation prizes to Kachin State and Shan State(South).

Next, Vice-President Dr Daw Tin Lin Myintpresented best paper awards to Ayeyawady Division,Shan State (East) and Magway Division MCWSCsand special prizes to Yangon and Sagaing Divisions.Vice-President Daw Aye Aye presented awards toRakhine, Chin, Kayah States and Bago Division(West).

Vice-President Daw Aye Aye also presentedcash award to artists who performed entertainmentsat the dinner.—MNA

MMCWA President Daw Khin Saw Hninpresents award to Supervisory Committee for

Shan State (North) MCWA. MNA

YANGON, 30 April – Jointly organized byYangon Division Peace and Development Council andMyanmar Fruit and Vegetables Producers and Export-ers Association, the 2nd Horticultural contest, showand seminar will be held at Myaepadethakyun, here,from 4 to 7 May.

The fruits, vegetables and flowers to be takingpart in the contest are mango, cucumber, watermelon,banana, guava, pineapple, jack fruit, papaya, aspara-gus, chilly, rose, chrysanthemum, lily, carnation,anthurium, cymbidium and orchid (foreign species).Fruit and vegetables produced from states and divi-sions, packaging process booth, agriculturalequipments, pesticide, seeds and fertilizers and educa-tive booths will be displayed at the show.

Paper reading session and seminar will beheld. Local and foreign experts and technicians willgive talks on horticulture. The talks will be held atWestern Park Royal, Kandawgyi and every one maytake part in discussion.

Those interested may contact Myanmar Fruitand Vegetables Producers and Exporters Association,Ph: 01 703754, 01 514226 and 09 5134273. — MNA

Horticultural show,contest, seminar on 4 May

NAY PYI TAW, 30 April —The 18th AnnualGeneral Meeting of Myanmar Maternal and ChildWelfare Association which was held from 28 to 30April passed three resolutions and 11 future taskstoday.

Three resolutions are :1. To follow instructions of the National Health

Committee as guidance and carry out theinstructions;

2. To disseminate knowledge among the peopleto prevent impacts of the climate change inaccordance with the slogan “Climate changeand health”, and

3. To actively carry out tasks of MMCWA,joining hands with governmental departmentsand social organizations and NGOs whichshare aims with the association.

Eleven future tasks are :1. With the aim of decreasing the mother and

child mortality rate, to provide health care topregnant women and to hand over pregnantwomen who are expected to have difficulty inlabour in time and to help pregnant womengive birth to babies by skilled persons. (Toconduct these tasks extensively in rural areasand suburbs)

2. To nurture local mid-wives and to polish theirmid-wifery skills continuously.

3. To take preventive measures against malaria,Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS andseasonal infectious diseases; to inform nearesthealth departments in case of breaking out ofinfectious diseases.

4. To take measures to disseminate knowledgeon nutrition and on preparing meals and foodin hygienic conditions among families.

5. To make efforts for improvement of healthand sanitation work in the environs and use ofsafe water and full use of fly-proof latrines.

6. For family members to take traditionalmedicine course, to provide family healthcare service with the application of traditionalmedicine and cultivate medicinal plants

7. To carry out school health activities, to createhealthy atmosphere for the children and tocarry out measures for declaration of rubbishfree schools, Aedes free schools and tobaccofree zone

8. To open more pre-primary schools fordevelopment of children, for every school-going age child to complete primary educationand to provide assistance for learning in middleand high schools

9. To upgrade education promotion programmes10. To enhance micro-credit scheme to generate

family income and to conduct vocationalcourses

11. To raise momentum of education, social andeconomic aspects and health care services bymobilizing ten-house in-charge members andto report the register of births and deaths in thewards to the nearest health care units.

MNA

18th AGM of MMCWApasses three resolutions,

11 future tasks

Minister Dr Kyaw Myint presents award toSupervisory Committee for Bago Division

(East) MCWA. MNA

18th Annual General Meetingof MMCWA…

YANGON, 30 April— A medical teamcomprising Myanmar and Japan eye specialists willgive free medical treatment to cataract patients inMandalay from 3 to 5 May.

The free medical treatment programme wasorganized by Ministry of Health and Mandalay Di-vision Union Solidarity and Development Associa-tion and will be conducted at the Eye, Ear, Nose andThroat Hospital in Mandalay.

Those wish to receive medical treatment maycontact the office of Mandalay Division USDA andthe outpatient department of the hospital.

MNA

Free eye surgeries to beperformed in Mandalay

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Director-General of Food and Agriculture Organization of the UnitedNations Jacques Diouf (L-R), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and

World Bank President Robert Zoellick attend a news conference in Bern on29 April, 2008. UN agencies and the World Bank will set up a task force onfood to deal with the unprecedented rise in global food prices.—INTERNET

National Cadet Corps (NCC) cadets perform a cultural dance during the visitof India’s Defence Minister A K Anthony to the NCC special national

integration camp in New Delhi on 29 April, 2008.—INTERNET

MOSCOW, 30 April —Russia’s president-electDmitry Medvedev said onTuesday he would travel

Medvedev to visit Chinaon first foreign trip

to China as part of his firstforeign visit following hisinauguration next month.

“As I promised ... I

will first go to Kazakhstan,a country that is close tous, and from Kazakhstan Iwill go to China. That willbe my first internationaltrip,” Medvedev said in aquest ion-and-answersession at a Russiannewspaper.

Medvedev takes overfrom Vladimir Putin asRussia’s President on 7May. Putin, who has beenPresident for eight years,says Russia’s ties withChina have never beenbetter.— MNA/Reuters

LONDON, 30 April —British Prime MinisterGordon Brown told hisallies that NATO’smission in Afghanistanwas “critically” short ofkey troops and equipment,the Daily Telegraph

British PM says NATO’s Afghan mission in troublereported on Tuesday.

Brown has repeatedlytried to persuade alliesincluding France andGermany to bear moremilitary burden inAfghanistan, but the dailysaid his efforts had largely

failed.The newspaper said

according to a “con-fidential Foreign andCommonwealth Officepaper” it obtained, therewas a catalog of problemsand weaknesses in

Western attempts tostabilize the country.

The three-page do-cument, which summa-rized the British view ofAfghanistan, was drawnup at Brown’s request tobe distributed to Westernallies.

In a list of “criticalareas to fill”, the documentsaid NATO would stillneed three infantrybattalions, more heli-copters, more aircraft andmore training teams tohelp the Afghan Army.

It also raised concernsabout the situation afterNovember this year, whenmore than 2,300 USMarines are to bewithdrawn from the south,where British forces arebased.— MNA/ Xinhua

MEXICO CITY, 30 April— An armed gangMonday robbed a securityvan at the office buildingof Mexico’s state oilcompany Pemex stealing477,000 US dollars.

Seven armed robbersattacked the security vanwhen the guards wereputting cash intoautomatic teller machinesinside the office building,Pemex said in a statement.

After a number ofgunshots, the assailantsoverwhelmed the van’screw and several passers-by before stealing some

Armed gang robssecurity van in Mexico

five million pesos(477,000 dollars).

The gang fled in agreen Ford Expeditionpick-up along MarinaNational Avenue after theraid, said the statement,adding that nobody wasinjured in the incident.

An investigationshowed that the robbershad used four old cars withlicense plates from thecentral Mexican state ofHidalgo to block roadsaround the Pemexbuilding ahead of theattack.

MNA/Xihua

MEXICO CITY, 30 April — Guatemalan police haveseized 470 kilos of cocaine at an illegal runway betweenthe northern province of Peten and the CaribbeanProvince of Izabal, official sources said.

The drugs, seized Friday, were brought into thecountry on a small airplane apparently from Colombia.It landed at the clandestine runway in the northernregion of Guatemala.

The crew members abandoned the plane and fled,Guatemala’s Interior Ministry’s spokesman RicardoGarcia said, adding that the drugs allegedly belongedto Mexico’s Gulf Cartel.—�MNA/Xinhua

Guatemalan police seize470 kilos of cocaine

CARACAS, 30 April —A major power outage hitVenezuela’s capital andeight states on Tuesday,and emergency officialscalled for calm as theblackout caused trafficchaos.

Caracas’ metro trainsystem ground to a halt,traffic lights went out andmobile phone services

Venezuelan capital, 8 states hit by power cutcollapsed across thecountry.

A government officialsaid the power failure wascaused by a snapped cableand that it expectedelectricity supplies wouldbe restored within a fewhours.

“We have someelectrical failures in severalstates across the country,”

Luis Curvelo, head ofVenezuela’s emergencyservices, told televisionstation Globovision.

He called on thepopulation to remain calm.

Initial reports did notsuggest oil refineries wereaffected, although thepower was out in the oil-producing states of Falconand Zulia.—MNA/Reuters

STOCKHOLM, 30 April— Bird flu virus has beendetected on a farm inDenmark’s central Fynisland, the country’sveterinary departmentannounced Monday.

Bird flu virus detected in Denmark Some 2,000 chickens

on the farm in Stenstrupon the island will be culledTuesday to contain thespread of the disease, theDanish Veterinary andFood Administration said

in a statement . Initial checks show

that the virus detected isnot the deadly H5N1 strainthat has ravaged SoutheastAsia over the past twoyears. — MNA/Xinhua

Wild elephants kill children inBangladesh villages

COX’S BAZAR (Bang-ladesh), 30 April — Twochildren were trampledto death and a manmaimed as straying wildelephants destroyed twovillages over the last 24hours in southeasternBangladesh, officials

said on Monday.A girl was killed and

six bamboo housesflattened as elephantsravaged a village nearCox’s Bazar District town,400 kilometres (250miles) from the capitalDhaka on Monday.

A boy was killed anda man seriously injuredwhen wild elephants

strayed into anothervillage in the same districton Sunday. Five houseswere levelled by therampaging elephants.

In both the attacks, thevillagers fled their homesbut later returned withdrums and firecrackers toscare off the herds of wildelephants.

MNA/Reuters

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Images of the Day

Members of Sichuan Emei Centennial WushuTroupe perform with swords during the ChineseWushu Festival, a rendezvous of leading Chinese

martial arts factions as Shaolin, Wudang andEmei, in a folk culture village in Shenzhen,

south China’s Guangdong Province, on 29 April,2008. —XINHUA

A model displays a natural pearl and diamondnecklace as it is auctioned during a jewellery sale

by Christie’s in Dubai, on 29 April, 2008. Thenecklace was sold for the final and highest price

of the auction $1,743,400.—XINHUA

Four-year-old Peruvian Milagros Cerron (front,C) rides a tricycle with the help of Lima MayorLuis Castaneda (front, L) during her birthdayceremony at Lima’s City Hall, Lima, capital of

Peru, on 28 April, 2008. Milagros has beendubbed the ‘Little Mermaid’ because of a rare

birth defect in which her legs are joinedtogether.—XINHUA

A polar bear jumps into the water at St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, Quebec March 6, 2008.XINHUA

In this photo, released by New ZealandFisheries Department shown is a giant squid

caught in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. NewZealand scientists have begun thawing the

world’s largest squid to try to unlock some ofthe secrets of one of the ocean’s most

mysterious beasts. The 495 kilogram (1,089pound), 8-meter (26-ft.) long colossal squid wasremoved from its freezer on 28 April, 2008, andput into a tank filled with a saline solution, thefirst step of a plan that will eventually put it on

public display. —INTERNET

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

Extension of Tender Closing Date & TimeTender Closing Date & Time, 9.5.2008 (Friday)

(12:00 Noon), of Tender No. 1/MR/INDIA(ML)2008-2009 for the Supply of Spare Parts forLocomotives YDM-4 (India) which wasadvertised in the New Light of Myanmar (on4.4.2008 and 5.4.2008), the Mirror (on 5.4.2008and 6.4.2008), Myanma Alin (on 7.4.2008 and8.4.2008), is extended to 30.5.2008 Friday (12:00Noon). For further enquires, Please call 95-1-291982, 95-1-291985, 95-1-291988.

With GratitudeThe family of Daw Mya Kyi (Mrs. T.O. Brown)

would like to convey their heartfelt gratitude for allthose beloved friends who have shown their love andcompassion by their support and participation invarious ways throughout the funeral proceedings.

Family of Daw Mya Kyi

Two arrestedfor factory firein CasablancaRABAT, 29 April— The

owner and manager of amattress factory inCasablanca were detainedSunday after at least 55people were killed in afire which broke out in thefactory, Morocco’s offi-cial news agency MAPreported.

Factory owner AdilMoufareh and his sonAbdelali, the factory'smanager, have beendetained for questioning.Poor safety measures andlocked doors whichtrapped workers wereblamed for the tragedy,during which at least 55people have beenconfirmed dead and sixothers were hospitalized,local police said.

MNA/Xinhua

36 prisonerstunnel out ofBrazilian jail

BRASILIA, 29 April— Agroup of 36 prisonerstunneled their way out ofa prison in northeast BrazilSaturday morning, saidBrazilian officials.

The escape happenedat a jail in CampinaGrande, Brazil’s northeaststate of Paraiba. Theprisoners dug a six-metre-long tunnel from theprison’s courtyard to thestreet outside, which goesright between the prison'stwo sentry boxes.

Till now, only oneescaped prisoner has beenrecaptured.

Pedro Adalson, directorof the PenitentiaryAdministration of Paraibastate, called the escape a“product of negligence”.

MNA/Xinhua

Mass intestinal virus infectionkills 20 in E China

HEFEI, 29 April—A total of 20 children have diedand 1179 others fallen ill in an outbreak of a lethalintestinal virus in Fuyang City, east China's AnhuiProvince, since March.

The enterovirus 71 has sickened a total of 1,199children and kills 20 of them by Sunday night, themunicipal government of Fuyang said Monday night,quoting statistics from local hospitals and centre fordisease control.

By Sunday night, 341 children remain in hospitalfor further medical observation, of whom, 27 are saidto be in critical conditions and eight terminally ill.

Hospitals in Fuyang, in northwest Anhui, started totake in children with fever, along with blisters, ulcersin the mouth, or rashes on the hands and feet,in earlyMarch. Some of the victims were diagnosed withbrain, heart and lung damage.

All of the victims were aged below six, of whom, themajority being children under the age of two.Enterovirus 71 can cause hand, foot and mouth diseasewhich usually starts with a slight fever followed byblisters of ulcers in the mouth and on the hands andfeet.

MNA/Xinhu

Sri Lanka uncovers child trafficking racket COLOMBO, 29 April—Sri

Lankan officials arrestedthree people when theyuncovered a child-traffick-ing racket after threechildren were deported

from Singapore for havingfalse documents.

The Child ProtectionAuthority of Sri Lanka saidon Monday investigationswere under way to find thepeople behind the childsmuggling, which hadtaken place over severalmonths, adding the grouphad smuggled “a con-siderable number” ofchildren.

“We have arrested threepeople and the investi-gations are going on,” saidJagath Wellawattha,chairman of the authority.

Wellawattha said theinvestigations began whenSingapore authoritiesdeported three children, an11-year-old girl and two16-year-old boys, who hadtried to go to Britain on

forged Malaysian pass-ports. The children weretaken from Sri Lanka toMalaysia where falseMalaysian passports wereprepared for them to enterBritain via Singapore,Wellawattha said.

MNA/Reuters

Ukraine PM tells Russian PM all gas debts settled

Italy eyes minimum incomerules for immigrants

ROME, 29 April—Italy’s next government shouldcreate a minimum income requirement for immigrants,including those from other European Union countries,the man expected to be Italy’s new Foreign Ministersaid. Franco Frattini, who holds the EU’s top justiceand security post and is a longtime ally of primeminister-elect Silvio Berlusconi, said the incomerequirement would become necessary for visits ofmore than three months.

“We need a national law that establishes a minimumincome below which foreigners cannot stay in ourcountry for more than 90 days,” Frattini said in aninterview published on Monday in Il Giornalenewspaper, owned by Berlusconi’s brother.

MNA/Reuters

KIEV, 29 April—Ukraine has paid off itsdebts to Russia for its gasimports, Prime MinisterYulia Tymoshenko saidon Monday at a meetingwith her Russian counter-part Viktor Zubkov.

A row over Ukraine’sgas debts caused Russia’sexport monopoly Gaz-prom to briefly cutsupplies in early March,threatening deliveries to

European Union states.“We have sent the last

payment, which com-pletely settles the accumu-lated debt for natural gas.Right now, one can saythat Ukraine has com-pletely accounted for itsobligations,” Tymo-shenko said at a meetingwith Zubkov.

Zubkov said settling thedebts opened the door fortalks on a longer-term

supply contracts, but didnot give any details.Neither prime ministerssaid how much the debtamounted to.

The EU gets almost ofa quarter of its gas needsfrom Russia via Ukraineand watches closely anydisputes between the twocountries.—MNA/Reuters

Drive with care

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Vietnam to investigaterice speculation

Russia launches rocket withIsraeli satellite

H5 strain of bird flu virusdetected in N-E Japan

TOKYO, 29 April — Japan’s northeastern AkitaPrefecture has detected the H5 strain of the bird flu virusin several dead and dying swans in the past week, officialssaid on Monday. Japanese media report said three deadswans and one dying swan were found last Monday nearLake Towada, with the virus being detected in three ofthem. Another dead swan and two dying swans were laterfound on the shores of the lake from Wednesday toSaturday.

Links between the virus and the swans’ death are yetto be confirmed, prefectural government officials said,adding that no widespread deaths of birds or animals hadbeen reported in the region. — MNA/Xinhua

Highways closed down inArgentina due to smoke cloud

Study shows tomato dishes protect skin LONDON, 29 April —

British researchers havefound adding cookedtomatoes to the daily dietimproved the skin’s abilityto protect against harmfulUV rays, according to aBBC report on Monday.

Researchers at theuniversities of Manchesterand Newcastle foundadding five tablespoons oftomato paste to the dailydiet of 10 volunteers couldhelp ward off skin damageby providing someprotection against theeffects of UV rays.Damage caused by theserays can lead to prematureaging and even skin cancer.

In a study, the

researchers gave 10volunteers around 55grammes of standardtomato paste whichcontains high levels ofcooked tomatoes and 10grammes of olive oil daily,with a further 10 par-ticipants receiving just theolive oil.

After three months, skinsamples from the tomatogroup showed they had 33per cent more protectionagainst sunburn, theequivalent of a very lowfactor sun cream, and muchhigher levels of pro-collagen, a molecule whichgives the skin its structureand keeps its firm.

The study suggested

the antioxidant lycopene,found at its highestconcentration when thetomatoes have beencooked, was behind theapparent benefit.

“The tomato dietboosted the level ofprocollagen in the skinsignificantly.These in-creasing levels suggestpotential reversal of theskin aging process,” LesleyRhodes, a dermatologistat the University of Man-chester, was quoted assaying. — MNA/Xinhua

People purchase food at an outdoor market in New York City. A “biofuelsfrenzy” and other misguided policies have led to the global food crisis in whichprices have soared and rice consumption is outpacing production, threatening a billion people with malnutrition, experts said Tuesday.—INTERNET

A Pakistani labourerthrows a bag of

potatoes onto a truckat the market inIslamabad. UN

Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon on 29April, ordered a top

level task force to takeon the global crisis

caused by rising foodprices and urged keyproducer nations to

end export bans.INTERNET

BUENOS AIRES, 29 April— Argentine officialsSunday shut down anumber of highways dueto low visibility triggeredby farmland burning thathas been affecting a largepart of Argentina for someweeks.

To prevent accidents,officials closed differentstretches of highways 8, 9and 12 which cross theprovinces of Buenos Aires,Entre Rios and Santa Fe.

Buenos Aires Provinceand its surrounding areashave been affected byfarmland burning in thedelta zone of the ParanaRiver, which has caused adense smoke cloud,smothering cities androutes. Rosario city andthe villages of Zarate,

Baradero and San Pedroare the most affected bythe smoke cloud.

The government hasbeen unable to stop thehundreds of farmland firesdue to strong winds.

MNA/Xinhua

MOSCOW, 29 April —Russia launched a carrierrocket on Monday to sendan Israeli communicationssatellite into space, newsagencies reported.

The Russian boosterZenit-3SLB with the upper-stage rocket DM-SLB,which lifted off from theBaikonur spaceport inKazakhstan at 9 a mMoscow Time (0500GMT), has placed theIsraeli communicationssatellite AMOS-3 in theterrestrial orbit, Interfax

quoted Lieutenant-GeneralAlexei Zolotukhin, topspokesman for the RussianSpace Forces, as saying.In several hours the Israelisatellite, which weighs1,300 kilos and has aservice life of about 18years, will be placed on ageostationary orbit atan altitude of 36,000kilometers, the spokesmansaid.

The rocket had beenscheduled to orbit theIsraeli satellite on 24 April,but was postponed as the

ground equipment was notready for the launch.

The satellite, worthsome 170 million USdollars, will join theAMOS-2 satellite andreplace AMOS-1 toincrease capacity, expandcoverage and enhancedirect cross-Atlantic linksconnecting the MiddleEast to Europe and the USEast Coast, RIA Novostireported, quoting the fleet’soperator, the SpaceCommunications Ltd.

MNA/Xinhua

HANOI, 30 April —Vietnamese PrimeMinister Nguyen TanDung has requiredthe Ministry of PublicSecurity to investigatefalse rumour on riceinsufficiency and thecommodity’s specu-lation, which has causedsoaring prices in recentdays and panic buying.

Accordingly, theministry will focuson inspecting paddyand rice millers andtraders, and coordinatewith relevant agenciesto timely detect andprevent speculationof the grain, local news-paper Youth re-portedon Tuesday.

People in Vietnam’ssouthern Ho Chi MinhCity rushed to buy rice,causing rice scarcityand price hike of upto 100 per cent severaldays ago. However,rice prices and buyersin the city have sharplydecreased since Mon-day, said the paper.

The Prime Ministerhas also asked localfood traders to ensuresufficient rice suppliesand stabilize local ricemarket.

MNA/Xinhua

A small peninsula, that used to be a thick pine forest on the entrance ofMontenegro’s main resort of Budva, is being turned into a Dubai-style

skyscraper hotel, surrounded by a dozen luxury villas. ‘Experience the WildBeauty’ is Montenegro’s newest tourist slogan. — INTERNET

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S P O R T STwente beat NAC Breda 3-0in Dutch playoff semifinal

AMSTERDAM, 30 April — Twente Enschede cruisedto a 3-0 home victory over nine-man NAC Breda onTuesday in the semifinal, first leg of a playoff to decidethe second Dutch Champions League qualifier.

Defender Rob Wielaert headed home an OrlandoEngelaar free kick after 32 minutes to open the scoringbefore Breda had Patrick Mtiliga sent off for a secondbooking in the 64th minute and Ron Stam for a straightred card 13 minutes later.

Romano Denneboom doubled the lead 11 minutesfrom time and Stein Huysegems added a third instoppage time to make the second leg, in Breda onSunday, a formality.

Heerenveen host Ajax Amsterdam on Thursday inthe first leg of the other semi-final. The winner of thefinal goes forward to next season's Champions Leaguethird qualifying stage. —MNA/Reuters

Blatter hopes Spain bidto host World Cup in 2018

MADRID, 30 April — Sepp Blatter,president of soccer's governing bodyFIFA, has said it was about time Spainhosted another World Cup.

"I remember the World Cup in 1982,"Blatter was quoted as saying in Spanishmedia on Tuesday. "It broke a numberof records, the first with 24 countries, 17stadiums and 14 cities something whichhas never been repeated.

"It is time for Spain to organize an-other (World Cup)... For this reason Ihope they present their candidacy for2018."

Blatter, was speaking at a meeting forSpanish football representatives in Zu-rich. He also praised the standard of thePrimera Liga.

"No other league can match the qual-ity of the football played in Spain. It isthe only five-star league," he said.

MNA/Reuters

Inter say Ronaldinhoprice too high

Eriksson unlikely to stayat Man City

LONDON, 30 April — Sven-Goran Eriksson is un-likely still to be at Manchester City manager nextseason, his agent said on Tuesday.

British media have speculated the former Englandcoach would resign or be sacked after City's Thaiowner Thaksin Shinawatra said earlier this month hewas unhappy with the Premier League club's recentform and wanted change.

Asked whether the Swede would still be at the helmat the beginning of next season, Eriksson's agent AtholeStill told Sky Sports News: "It's looking odds against.

"If Dr Shinawatra was going to give a ringing mes-sage of support I think we would have heard it."

Eriksson, popular with fans after a respectable firstseason that included doing a rare double over cityrivals and league leaders Manchester United, said hehad met Thaksin at the weekend but declined to givedetails about their discussions.

"The chairman and I spoke at the weekend but I donot wish to comment any further," he said in a state-ment on the club's website (www.mcfc.co.uk).

MNA/Reuters

Prize money upat Wimbledon

LONDON, 30 April — Roger Federerwill earn 750,000 pounds (1.49 millionUS dollars), an increase of 7.1 per centon 2007, if he wins a sixth successiveWimbledon title in July.

The women's champion will receivethe same amount after Wimbledon broughtin equal prize money last year, the AllEngland Club's chief executive Ian Ritchietold a news conference on Tuesday.Federer, who has been struggling forform this season, and women's championVenus Williams took home 700,000pounds apiece in 2007. —MNA/Reuters

Italy coach Donadonihints at Del Piero recall

ROME, 30 April — Italy coach RobertoDonadoni has hinted he may recallin-form Juventus captain Alessandro DelPiero for Euro 2008.

The 33-year-old World Cup winnerhas not played for his country sincegiving a poor performance in a goallessEuro 2008 qualifier against Francein September.

Beijing conducted a big marathon relay to mark the 100-daycountdown of the coming Olympic Games on Wednesday.

XINHUA

Ronaldinho

Germany’s Andreas Kloeden cycles

during the prologue of the Tour de

Romandie cycling race in Geneva

on 29 April, 2008.—INTERNET

Brazil’s PauloCarvalho

celebrates afterdefeating

Colombia’sOscar NegretePadilla at the

end of a boxingqualifying fightfor the Beijing2008 Olympic

Games, inGuatemalaCity, on 29April, 2008.

INTERNET

Fernando Torres, seen here, has beenliving a dream in the Champions

League this season but the Liverpoolstriker wants one more fairytale in his

side’s semi-final second leg againstChelsea on Wednesday.—INTERNET

Nalbandian recovers to edge past Calleri in Barcelona

Wonder strike puts Scholeson brink of redemption

MANCHESTER (England), 30 April —Manchester United manager AlexFerguson said he was delighted it hadfallen to Paul Scholes to score the matchwinning goal as the Old Trafford clubbooked a place in the Champions Leaguefinal on Tuesday.

Scholes missed United's 1999 Euro-pean Cup triumph through suspension,but Ferguson confirmed the long-serv-ing midfielder would be the first nameon his team sheet for the final in Mos-cow after he secured a 1-0 aggregate winover Barcelona. —MNA/Reuters

BARCELONA, 30 April —Third seed David Nal-bandian recovered from ashocking start to beat Ar-gentine compatriot Agus-tin Calleri 1-6, 7-6, 6-3 onTuesday and become thefirst man into the thirdround of the BarcelonaOpen.

Calleri, a semifinalisthere last year, raced through

the first set in 26 minutes.Nalbandian served poorlyand allowed his opponent,ranked 60, to take the initia-tive. Nalbandian thensquandered a 4-0 lead in thesecond set and was forcedinto a tiebreak which hewon 7-2.

He broke the Calleriserve in the first game ofthe decider and repeated the

feat in the ninth game toclinch victory. He nextmeets 14th seed StanislasWawrinka of Switzerlandor Kazakhstani lucky loserYuri Schukin. GuillermoCoria's struggle to regaintop form after injury con-tinued. He was beaten 5-7,6-4, 6-4 by RussianTeimuraz Gabashvili in thefirst round.—MNA/Reuters

MNA/Reuters

ROME, 30 April — InterMilan President MassimoMoratti said on TuesdayRonaldinho was expen-sive and the club wereunlikely to try to outbidcity rivals AC Milan tosign him from Barcelona.

"The price of

Ronaldinho is a littlehigh," Moratti told report-ers on Tuesday. "We arefollowing the affair but Idon't think we are the mostinterested. Others haveofficially said they are.There is no derby (to signhim)."

Barcelona PresidentJoan Laporta said that theplayer was worth at least40 million euros (62.30million US dollars).

AC Milan agreed per-sonal terms with the Bra-zil forward earlier thismonth but the transfer hasstalled over the Spanishclub's asking price.

MNA/Reuters

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WEATHER

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

Wednesday, 30 April, 2008Summary of observations recorded at 9:30 hours

MST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Magway Division, rain or thundershower havebeen isolated in Shan, Chin and Kayah States, lower Sagaingand Mandalay Divisions, fairly widespread in Rakhine Stateand Bago Division, widespread in the remaining areas withlocally heavyfalls in Bago and Yangon Divisions and iso-lated heavyfalls in Kayah and Mon States and AyeyawadyDivision. Day temperatures were (3ºC) to (4ºC) below Aprilaverage temperatures in Kayah State, upper Sagaing,Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Divisions, (5ºC) to (6ºC) be-low April average temperatures in Shan State, (7ºC) to(8ºC) below April average temperatures in Bago Division,(9ºC) to (10ºC) below April average temperatures in Kayinand Mon States, Yangon Division and about April averagetemperatures in the remaining States and Divisions. Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Thaton (10.08)inches, Kayan (6.34) inches, Theinzayat (6.10) inches, Hpa-an (4.21) inches, Yangon (Central) (3.74) inches, Yangon(Kaba-Aye) (3.50) inches, Hmawbi (3.43) inches, Zaungtu(3.42) inches, Bago (3.38) inches, Yangon (Mingaladon)(3.34) inches, Phyarpon (3.11) inches, Kyaukkame (2.68)inches, Mudon (2.60) inches.

Maximum temperature on 29-4-2008 was 81ºF. Mini-mum temperature on 30-4-2008 was 70ºF. Relative humid-ity at (09:30) hours MST on 30-4-2008 was 100%. Totalsunshine hours on 29-4-2008 was (Nil) approx.

Rainfall on 30-4-2008 was (3.34) inches at Mingaladon,(3.50) inches at Kaba-Aye and (3.74) inches at CentralYangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was (6.10) inches atMingaladon, (8.11) inches at Kaba-Aye and (6.34) inchesat Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (10) mph from Southwest at (16:20) hours MSTon 29-4-2008.

Bay inference: According to the observations at (10:30)hrs MST today, the severe cyclonic storm (NARGIS) overSouthwest Bay and adjoining West Central Bay has movedNortheast direction and lay centered at about (520) milesWestsouthwest of Pathein, remain stationary as a severecyclonic storm. It is forecast to move Northeast wards.Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy in the Andaman Sea andBay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 1-5-2008: Rain orthundershowers will be widespread in Rakhine, Mon andKayin States, Bago, Yangon, Ayeyawady, Taninthayi Divi-sions, fairly widespread in Chin and Shan States, upperSagaing and isolated in the remaining areas. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with rough seas are likely attimes off and along Myanmar Coast. Surface wind speed insqualls may reach (45) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation ofrain or thundershowers in lower Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 1-5-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 1-5-2008: Some rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (100%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for1-5-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of cer-tainty is (80%).

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Refresher course on preventionagainst recruitment of minors opened

“Storm News”(Issued at 19:00 hours MST on 30-4-2008)

According to the observations at (17:30) hrs MST today,the severe cyclonic storm (NARGIS) over the central Bay ofBengal is centered at about (480) miles Southwest of Pathein.During the past (6) hrs, it has not appreciable further intensifiedand moved Northeast slowly. It is forecast to moveNortheastwards slowly the next (12) hrs commenig everningtoday.

Under the influence of this storm, rain or thundershowerswill be widespread in Rakhine, Mon, Kayin and Kayah States,Ayeyawady, Yangon and Bago Divisions, scattered to fairlywidespread in Taninthayi Division and Shan State. Frequentsqualls with rough seas are likely off and along Myanmar Coasts.Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (40) to (45) mph.

YANGON, 30 April—Jointly organized by Min-istry of Social Welfare,Relief and Resettlementand UNICEF, a refreshercourse on preventionagainst recruitment of mi-nors into army (1/2008)was held at the social wel-fare school in MayangonTownship on 28 April.

In his opening ad-dress, Minister for SocialWelfare, Relief and Re-settlement Maj-Gen

Maung Maung Swe briefedon measures taken for pre-vention against recruitmentof minors into army inMyanmar.

Acting Resident Rep-resentative of UNICEF MsJuanita Vasquez also deliv-ered an address. A total of36 trainees from Ministryof Defence, Ministry ofHome Affairs and Ministryof Education are participat-ing in the 5-day course.

Next, Minister Maj-

Gen Maung Maung Swemet with employees of theSocial Welfare Depart-ment in Yangon Divisionat No 4 Pre-PrimarySchool in Ahlon Town-ship. At the meeting, theminister urged them to ac-tively participate in imple-menting tasks for successof the Seven-Step RoadMap.

Afterwards, delegateto the National Conven-tion Director-General of

the Fire Services Depart-ment U Myint Tun,Deputy Director-Generalof the Social Welfare De-partment U Aung TunKhaing, Director-Generalof the Fire Services De-partment U Zaw Win andU San Maung, a delegateto the National Conven-tion, briefed on the draftconstitution. The meetingended with concluding re-marks by the minister.

MNA

China donates $600,000 forde-mining in E Cambodia

STUNG TRENG (Cambodia), 30 April— China hasdonated 600,000 US dollars for Cambodia to clean themines and unexploded ordnances (UXO) along NationalRoad No 7 from Kratie province to Stung Treng Provincein the country’s eastern part bordering Laos, saidgovernment official here on Tuesday.

“The finance has helped the people avoid riskingtheir lives,” said Sun Chanthol, Minister of PublicWorks and Transportation, while attending theinauguration ceremony of the national road.

MNA/Xinhua

Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe delivers anaddress at the opening ceremony of educative refresher course on prevention against recruitment of

minors into army (1/2008).—MNA

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11th Waning of Oo Tagu 1370 ME Thursday, 1 May, 2008

Let us all* who are equipped with ardent patriotism,* who cherish genuine independence,* who aspire perpetuation of sovereignty,* who loathe foreign interference and manipulation, and* who oppose puppet government with strings of colonialists,

VOTE “YES” for ratification of the Constitution.

Democracy cannot beachieved by anarchism or

violence, but by Constitution.

Let’s approve Constitution toshape our future by ourselves.

Victory within reachPOEM:

— Our strong belief it isApproval of the constitutionWill be soon achieved

— Men are so satisfiedWomen are so gratifiedHeading for polling boothWith unanimous vote to approveWithin reach is victory

Zaw Min Min Oo (Trans.)

President of MMCWA Daw Khin Saw Hnin delivers concluding address at 18th Annual General Meeting of MMCWA. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 30 April—The third day sessionof the 18th annual general meeting of Myanmar Mater-nal and Child Welfare Association was held at themeeting hall of MMCWA, here, this morning and themeeting concluded successfully at noon.

It was attended by President of MMCWADaw Khin Saw Hnin, Vice-Presidents Dr Daw Tin LinMyint and Daw Aye Aye, the CEC members, membersof central council, the chairpersons, the secretaries andjoint secretaries of State/Division Maternal and ChildWelfare Supervisory Committees.

MMCWA President Daw Khin Saw Hninpresided over the meeting and Secretary Dr Daw Wai

18th Annual General Meetingof MMCWA concludes

Wai Tha acted as the master of ceremonies.Members of the Central Council made sug-

gestions and held discussions on annual reports andpapers submitted by State/Division MCWSCs.

After hearing reports on activities implementedby State/Division MCWSCs, MMCWA Vice-Presi-dent Dr Daw Tin Lin Myint made suggestions andPresident Daw Khin Saw Hnin reviewed and approvedthem. The meeting was recessed at 10.30 am.

In the afternoon session, members of centralcouncil made suggestions and held discussions onhealth, education, economic and social matters to laydown future plans.

Next, the meeting chairperson reviewed theannual reports, papers and general suggestions andgave accounts of the association’s future tasks.Those present took part in discussions on layingdown three resolutions and 11 future tasks. Thechairperson sought the approval of the meeting andapproved it.

The meeting came to an end successfully withthe concluding remarks by President Daw Khin SawHnin.

Three resolutions and 11 future were laiddown at the annual general meeting.

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