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Volume XIV, Number 50 10th Waxing of Nayon 1368 ME Monday, 5 June, 2006 Established 1914 Emergence of the State Constitution is the duty of all citizens of Myanmar Naing-Ngan. * Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development of other sectors of 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 * 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 Four economic objectives Four social objectives Four political objectives YANGON, 4 June — Member of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Maung Bo of the Ministry of Defence, accompanied by Chairman of Taninthayi Division Peace and Development Council Commander of Coastal Region Command Brig-Gen Khin Zaw Oo, inspected Kyweku Dock of King Star Enterprise in Kyweku Village in Myeik Township yesterday. Director U Hlaing Thura reported on construc- tion of the dock and operating of its functions. Lt-Gen Maung Bo gave necessary instructions. He heard reports on matters related to saw mills and lathe industries presented by entrepreneurs of Myeik, Myeik Myothit being built for resettlement of its increasing population and developing industries Lt-Gen Maung Bo inspects construction of Myeik Myothit and GTC, functions of Kyweku Dock and instructed them to make efforts for manufacturing small-scale agricultural equipment. Next, Lt-Gen Maung Bo inspected repairing and building of trawlers at the dock. About 300 employees are working at the dock. A total of 18 trawlers weighing 200 tons each can be docked. On arrival at the construction site of Myeik Myothit Project near Kyweku-Kyaukpya Bridge, Sec- retary of the Division PDC Lt-Col Myo Nyunt re- ported on construction of the new town, Acting Direc- tor of Development Affairs Committee U Kyi Than on drawing of the town plan of Myeik Myothit, and other officials on construction of roads and bridges, waterway administration and water supply tasks. Furthermore, officials also submitted reports on resettlement and fund raising tasks. The commander briefed Lt-Gen Maung Bo on implementation of the construction project. In his speech, Lt-Gen Maung Bo said that Myeik Myothit is being built for resettlement of the increasing population of Myeik and developing industries. He stressed the need to speed up construction tasks. It is necessary to resettle factories to the industrial zone in the new town. All are to try timely completion of construc- tion tasks, water supply and beautifying the port. (See page 8) I N S I D E PAGE 2 PAGE 7 YIN YIN LAY Lt-Gen Maung Bo inspects construction of Government Technologial College in Myeik Myothit.—MNA As there are dams in the arid zone, farmers can undertake their farming work with the use of irrigated water and participate in greening project and the activities to combat desertification. Moreover, rural water supply project contributes towards the greening project and it prevents desertification. There are many other countries affected by desertification. These included countries in Central Asia such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. Desertification is also an important environmental concern in Mongolia, China, India and Pakistan. PERSPECTIVES ARTICLES

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Volume XIV, Number 50 10th Waxing of Nayon 1368 ME Monday, 5 June, 2006

Established 1914

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

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

YANGON, 4 June — Member of the State Peaceand Development Council Lt-Gen Maung Bo of theMinistry of Defence, accompanied by Chairman ofTaninthayi Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of Coastal Region Command Brig-GenKhin Zaw Oo, inspected Kyweku Dock of King StarEnterprise in Kyweku Village in Myeik Townshipyesterday.

Director U Hlaing Thura reported on construc-tion of the dock and operating of its functions.

Lt-Gen Maung Bo gave necessary instructions.He heard reports on matters related to saw mills andlathe industries presented by entrepreneurs of Myeik,

Myeik Myothit being built for resettlement of itsincreasing population and developing industriesLt-Gen Maung Bo inspects construction of Myeik Myothit

and GTC, functions of Kyweku Dock

and instructed them to make efforts for manufacturingsmall-scale agricultural equipment.

Next, Lt-Gen Maung Bo inspected repairingand building of trawlers at the dock.

About 300 employees are working at the dock. Atotal of 18 trawlers weighing 200 tons each can be docked.

On arrival at the construction site of MyeikMyothit Project near Kyweku-Kyaukpya Bridge, Sec-retary of the Division PDC Lt-Col Myo Nyunt re-ported on construction of the new town, Acting Direc-tor of Development Affairs Committee U Kyi Thanon drawing of the town plan of Myeik Myothit, andother officials on construction of roads and bridges,

waterway administration and water supply tasks.Furthermore, officials also submitted reports on

resettlement and fund raising tasks.The commander briefed Lt-Gen Maung Bo on

implementation of the construction project.In his speech, Lt-Gen Maung Bo said that Myeik

Myothit is being built for resettlement of the increasingpopulation of Myeik and developing industries. Hestressed the need to speed up construction tasks. It isnecessary to resettle factories to the industrial zone in thenew town. All are to try timely completion of construc-tion tasks, water supply and beautifying the port.

(See page 8)

I N S I D E

PAGE 2 PAGE 7 YIN YIN LAY

Lt-Gen Maung Bo inspects construction of Government Technologial College in Myeik Myothit.—MNA

As there are dams in the aridzone, farmers can undertake their farming workwith the use of irrigated water and participatein greening project and the activities to combatdesertification. Moreover, rural water supplyproject contributes towards the greening projectand it prevents desertification.

There are many other countriesaffected by desertification. These included countriesin Central Asia such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,Kyrgystan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.Desertification is also an important environmentalconcern in Mongolia, China, India and Pakistan.

PERSPECTIVES ARTICLES

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Monday, 5 June, 2006

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

People’s Desire

All living beings in the world live on natu-ral environment such as land, water, moun-tains, rivers, lakes, seas and oceans. Thereforeit is important to conserve the environmentproperly. Deserts have become wider in all the re-gions of the world due to the weather changes.This causes economic, social and environmen-tal worries in most countries. The United Nations Environment Pro-gramme has launched a plan to prevent againstsoil erosion due to drought starting since 1991.The UN Convention to Combat Desertificationagreed to lay down an action to combatdesertification in 1997. Arid zone in Asia is 1.7 billion hectares,ranging from the coast of the MediterraneanSea to the coasts of the Pacific Ocean. Desertsin China, India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistanhave gradually become wider and wider. There is rapid erosion of mountains inNepal and forest depletion occurs. The major-ity of the people are facing desertification anddrought. That is why Asian countries are mak-ing concerted efforts for prevention ofdesertification. Central part of Myanmar is in the dry zone.All the regions except the arid zone get heavyrains from May to the end of October. Annualrainfall of coastal regions, delta and northernparts of Myanmar is 5,000 millilitres. However,the annual rainfall of the central parts ofMyanmar is less than 600 millilitres. There-fore, the arid zone became considerably hotterand drier. In order to prevent against desertificationin the arid zone, 13-district greening projectand rural water supply project have been im-plemented and clusters of dams built. Barrenhills and plains have changed into green for-ests owing to the 13-district greening project. As there are dams in the arid zone, farm-ers can undertake their farming work with theuse of irrigated water and participate ingreening project and the activities to combatdesertification. Moreover, rural water supplyproject contributes towards the greeningproject and it prevents desertification. Thus, it is vitally important to conserveenvironment for the existence of all living be-ings.

Conserve environment forexistence of living beings

Commander meetsUDNR-bound studentsNAY PYI TAW, 4 June — Chairman of Shan

State Peace and Development Council Commanderof Eastern Command Brig-Gen Thaung Aye met withShan nationals from Shan State (South), who willattend the BEd four-year course No 41 at Universityfor Development of National Races, at the office ofShan State PDC in Taunggyi on 28 May afternoon.

In meeting with the nationals totalling 29, thecommander urged them to try their best in attendingthe BEd course and presented them with exercisebooks, stationery and cash assistance.

Also present on the occasion were Deputy Com-mander Brig-Gen Win Myint, state level departmen-tal officials, Shan State Education Officer U AungSwe and officials. — MNA

Service personnel urgedto carry out ruraldevelopment tasks

NAY PYI TAW, 4 June — Chairman of SagaingDivision Peace and Development Council Com-mander of North-West Command Maj-Gen Tha Ayecalled on departmental personnel to successfullycarry out five rural development tasks in coopera-tion with local people at the work coordination meet-ing of Sagaing Division PDC held in the town hallof Monywa on 28 and 29 May.

He was briefed there by local authorities anddepartmental officials on arrangements for under-taking sector-wise projects. In response to the re-ports, the commander called for successful imple-mentation of the projects. — MNA

YANGON, 4 June —CEC member Daw HtweHtwe Nyunt of MyanmarMaternal and Child Wel-fare Association (Central)and other CEC membersattended a ceremony todonate stationery andcash to the fund ofMyanmar Nyunt Monas-tic Education School atthe school in ThakaytaTownship, on 2 Junemorning.

They took the FivePrecepts from SayadawAgga Maha SaddhammaJotikadhaja Agga MahaGanthavaçaka Pandita ofthe monastery. They of-fered provisions toSayadaws.

CEC member DawHtwe Htwe Nyunt andparty donated K 100,000to the trust-fund of theschool. Secretary Dr DawWai Wai Tha supplicatedon donation. Next, theyprovided school station-ery to students.

A similar cer-emony was also held atShwekyin Monastic Edu-cation School inKungyangon Village,Thanlyin Township.MMCWA donated K100,000 to the trust-fundand Yangon Division Ma-ternal and Child WelfareSupervisory CommitteeJoint-Secretary Dr DawNweni Ohn and responsi-ble persons presentedschool stationery to

MMCWA (Central) providesstationery, cash, medicines

students.CEC member Daw

Htwe Htwe Nyunt andparty attended the healthcare services and cash as-sistance donation cer-emony at ThanlyinTownship Hospital. DrDaw Nweni Ohn ex-plained the purpose oforganizing the ceremony.Yangon South DistrictMCWSC ChairpersonDaw Khin Mya Mu pre-sented membership appli-cations to CEC membersof MMCWA.

CEC member DawHtwe Htwe Nyunt andparty presented K100,000 for the hospitalto Head of District HealthDepartment Dr MyintZaw. Yangon DivisionMCWSC member DawKhin Thet Myaing pro-

vided cash assistance forclaft lip and palate pa-tients. They also gavevitamin and ferrous sul-phate tablets for pregnantwomen.

In the afternoon,Daw Htwe Htwe Nyuntand members, SecretaryDr Daw Wai Wai Thaand Yangon DivisionMCWSC ChairpersonDaw Mar Mar Wai pro-ceeded to Thebyu Villagein Hmawby Township,and presented K 300,000

donated by MMCWAfor the Village Post-Pri-mary School to Headmis-tress Daw Khin Mu. CECmembers Daw NilarThaw and Daw KhinThan Win and Chairper-son Daw Mar Mar Waialso presented medicinesand school stationery toHead of TownshipHealth Department DrDaw Khin Khin Yi andstudents. The headmis-tress spoke words ofthanks. — MNA

All this needs to be known

* Do not be frightened whenever

intimidated

* Do not be bolstered whenever flattered

* Do not be softened whenever appeased

CEC member Daw Htwe Htwe Nyunt presents K 300,000 to ThebyuVillage Post-Primary School of Hmawby Township donated by

MMCWA through Headmistress Daw Khin Mu. — MNA

CASH DONATED: U Min Maung-DawNgwe Shin and family of 13 (A), Daw HlaPan Street, Ward 2, Mayangon Township,recently donated K 150,000 to Hninzigon

Home for the Aged. Joint-Treasurer UMaung Maung Gyi of the Home Adminis-trative Board accepts the donations. — H

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Indonesian men carry donated supplies past the ruins of their village inKerten, in the Bantul District, south of the earthquake-hit Indonesia city of

Yogyakarta, on 3 June , 2006. —INTERNET

A boy and his mother view a specimen of embryo during a corpse scientificexhibition held at the Suzhou International Conference Center in Suzhou

on 2 June,2006.—INTERNET

Actor Pierce Brosnan (R) and wife Keely ShayeSmith arrive for the international launch event to

unveil the new image of Dom Perignon RoseVintage 1996 by designer Karl Lagerfeld, in

Beverly Hills, California, on 2 June,2006. —INTERNET

Cuba says US denied visa to UN AIDS delegate

UNITED NATIONS, 3 June — Cuba complained on Friday that the UnitedStates denied a visa to the head of its delegation to a UN AIDS conference, buta US spokesman said he applied too late.

Cuba’s Public Health Minister JoseRamon Balaguer Cabrera did not receivea visa, while four other members of theCuban delegation were allowed into theUnited States to attend the conference.

The three-day conference, due to endon Friday, was convened to plot globalstrategy for battling AIDS.

“Once again, the United States is inblatant violation of its obligations underthe Host Country Agreement,” the Cubanmission to the United Nations said in astatement.

A spokesman for the US Mission tothe United Nations said Balaguer appliedfor his visa two working days before the

start of the conference. “His applicationwas never denied. It is still beingprocessed,” Richard Grenell said. Thefour others received visas because theyapplied in due time, he said.

The United States, as host countryfor the United Nations, is obliged to givevisas to foreign officials for official UNbusiness.

But diplomatic disputes occasionallyoccur between Washington and Havanaover official Cuban activities inside USterritory. The United States brokediplomatic ties with Communist-ruledCuba in 1961 and later imposed economicsanctions.— MNA/Reuters

US military death tollrises to 2,476

WASHINGTON, 3 June — As of Saturday, 3 June,2006, at least 2,476 members of the US militaryhave died since the beginning of the Iraq war inMarch 2003, according to an Associated Presscount. The figure includes seven military civilians.At least 1,953 died as a result of hostile action,according to the military’s numbers.

The AP count is one higher than the DefenceDepartment's tally, last updated Friday at 10 amEDT.

The British military has reported 113 deaths;Italy, 31; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 17; Bulgaria, 13;Spain, 11; Slovakia, Denmark three; El Salvador,Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand, two each; andAustralia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Romania,one death each.—Internet

British police conducted an anti-terrorist raid in east London on 2 June, 2006.INTERNET

Baby boom shows Australiansdo it for their country

CANBERRA, 3 June — Australia is in the grip of a baby boom, figures showedon Friday, after the government urged couples to do their patriotic duty and“have one for your country”.

Australia recorded261,400 births in 2005, thehighest number since 1992,the Australian Bureau ofStatistics said, pushing thenational population up toalmost 20.5 million.

The baby boom cameafter Treasurer PeterCostello urged Australiancouples two years ago to

have more children, sayingthey should have “one formum, one for dad and onefor the country”. “It was alight-hearted way ofmaking a serious point, andI am delighted that at leastsome families have beentaking up the challenge,”Costello said on Friday.

The government has

identified Australia’s lowfertility rate and ageingpopulation as a key issue.

A government study haswarned that the number ofpeople aged 65 or older isset to double by 2042 andthe number aged 85 or morewould quadruple, while thenumber of working-ageAustralians will remainstable. Costello has urgedAustralians to have morechildren, and for olderpeople to remain in theworkforce beyond the usualretirement age of 65, tocounter what he says isAustralia’s demographicdestiny. In 2004, Costellointroduced a A$3,000(1,200 pound) baby bonus,which is paid to the parentsof each new-born child,which will rise to A$4,000from July this year andA$5,000 from July 2008.

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Venezuelasupports proposalto sell oil in euros

CARACAS, 3 June —Venezuela has backed aproposal to sell oil in eurosinstead of US dollars,Energy and Mines MinisterRafael Ramirez said onThursday.

In an interview with statetelevision, Ramirez said“Iran has an initiative thatwe support. They are goingto start to do oil transactionsin euros”.

The remarks cameahead of a meeting of theOrganization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries(OPEC) in Venezuela’scapital on the same day.

Ramirez, who is also thepresident of the state oilcompany PDVSA, said “Ifa market in euros is created,with the euro as a reference,we could send our suppliesso they are sold under this(currency).”

Responding to Ramirez'remarks, Edmund Daukoru,president of OPEC, saidsome member countries hadraised the possibility butadded that they had notformally tabled theproposal to the bloc.

MNA/Xinhua

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sk\mOs∑m\;Aa; eKt\ek¥a\lWa;sk\mOs∑m\;Aa; eKt\ek¥a\lWa;Malaysian PM welcomes USreadiness to join talks with Iran

KUALA LUMPUR, 3 June — Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah AhmadBadawi Friday welcomed the United States’ readiness to join multilateralnegotiations with Iran over the nuclear issue, saying that it would be a reliefto the world.

Reporter returns paintinglooted in World War II

US soldier gets hard labour for Abu Ghraib abuse FORT MEADE (Maryland), 3 June — A US Army dog handler was demoted and sentenced to 90 days

of hard labour on Friday for using his dog to assault a prisoner at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq.

Badawi said that hewelcomed the statementissued by US Secretary ofState Condoleeza Ricein Washington on Wed-nesday, noting that itshowed a change in the US’stand. This was a goodmove, which means force

is no longer the primaryoption, Badawi was quotedas saying by Malaysia’snational news agencyBernama.

A negotiation should bethe approach to resolve theissue and it was importantfor Iran and the US to meet

at the negotiating tableconsidering they had ahistory of enmity, he tolda Press conference atCyberjaya, a cyber townnear here.

It was reported that Ricesaid in Washington onWednesday that the US wasready to join France,Germany and Britain in thenegotiation with Iran, if Iranstops uranium enrichmentand nuclear materialrecycling activities.

MNA/Xinhua

Sergeant SantosCardona, 32, of Fullerton,California, the 11th USsoldier convicted forabusing Abu Ghraibdetainees, also will haveto forfeit 7,200 US dol-lars in pay, an Armyspokeswoman said. He

will not be confinedduring the term of hardlabour but will bedemoted to specialist.

A US military court-martial panel of fourofficers and three enlistedpersonnel convictedCardona on Thursday of

two counts that couldhave led to 3-1/2 yearsin prison — failing tohandle his dog properlyand using the unmuzzledBelgian shepherd tothreaten a detainee witha force “likely to producedeath or grievous bodily

harm”. He was cleared on

seven other counts,including accusations ofletting his dog bite aprisoner and of conspiringwith another dog handlerto frighten inmates intodefecating and urinatingon themselves.

Cardona’s defenceattorneys had sought toportray him as a victimof unclear orders andan ambiguous chain ofcommand that silentlycondoned using dogs toterrorize Iraqi prisonersin hopes of get t ingmore intelligence out ofthem.

Cardona’s case aroseafter the 2004 release ofphotographs of Armypersonnel at Abu Ghraibletting snarling dogsintimidate prisoners andforcing the inmates intohumiliating poses.

MNA/Reuters

LONDON, 3 June — A small 16th-Century Florentine painting looted froma German museum during World WarII and given to a reporter as a “weddinggift” in 1952 has been returned to itsrightful owner.

The portrait of Eleonora of Toledoby Alessandro Allori has been handedback to Berlin’s Gemaeldegalerie afterveteran BBC foreign correspondentCharles Wheeler asked the Commissionfor Looted Art in Europe (CLAE) tofind out where it belonged.

“He had been carrying it aroundwith him for years and was very fondwith it but had no idea how important itwas,” Anne Webber, Co-chair of the

Commission, told Reuters. “It was given to him as a wedding

gift by a farmer he knew who told himhe had got it from a Russian soldier inexchange for two sacks of potatoes tomake vodka,” she said. “He wasn’tmarried at the time but it made nodifference to the farmer.”

The non-profit CLAE specialisesreturning Nazi-looted art and artefactsto their original owners.

Webber contacted galleries inGermany with a description of the oil-on-wood painting that measures 12centimetres (4.72 inches) by 16centimetre on the chance it might ringa bell. — MNA/Reuters

The Italian Freccie Tricolori acrobatic squad performs over the VittorianoUnknown Soldier Monument in the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic in Rome on 2 June, 2006.—INTERNET

A robot designed by Tokyo institute of industrialscience showed its ability of painting on 2 June,2006 in Tokyo, capital of Japan.—INTERNET

A protester chants slogans at an anti-US rally opposing a plannednegotiation for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and South

Korea, in Seoul on 3 June, 2006. —INTERNET

UK police search for chemical bombLONDON, 3 June —British anti-terrorist officers searched a house and two

workplaces on Saturday for evidence of a possible chemical bomb plot as twosuspects detained by police denied any links with terrorism.

The search followed apolice raid on a home inthe east of the capital a dayearlier in which one of thesuspects, a 23-year-oldman, was shot in theshoulder and wounded.

Police said they hadacted on intelligence thatsuggested the house mayhave been used to makebombs or chemicalweapons.

They have said nothingsuspicious was found in an initial search and

acknowledged intelligencemay have been wrong.

Police also carried outfurther “small searches” atthe workplaces of the twomen detained in the raidthat involved more than250 officers, some dressedin chemical suits.

A police source toldReuters officers werelooking for “some form ofviable chemical device” inthe house.

“A device that wouldhave a fatal effect on

someone standing nearbyboth from the explosionand from the chemical itcontained,” the source said,adding that the devicebeing sought was a typeof conventional bombsurrounded by toxicmaterial. If no bomb wasfound, it was possible thedevice had been moved,someone else was hiding it,that it had never been builtor that the intelligence hadbeen incorrect, the sourcesaid.—Internet

Death toll in Turkeymine blast rises to 17

ANKARA, 3 June — The death toll in a coal mineexplosion in Dursunbey town of the western provinceof Balikesir rose to 17, Energy and Natural ResourcesMinister Hilmi Guler said on Friday.

"There were 57 people in the coal mine. 35 of themwere rescued, while five of them were wounded.Unfortunately 17 people lost their lives," Guler said atthe site, 475 kilometres south of Istanbul.

A full investigation into the accident would becarried out, he added.

MNA/Xinhua

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AIDS toll may reach 100 million in AfricaJOHANNESBURG, 3 June — It began quietly, when a statistical anomaly pointed

to a mysterious syndrome that attacked the immune systems of gay men inCalifornia. No one imagined 25 years ago that AIDS would become thedeadliest epidemic in history.

Japanese girls plant rice seedlings on a roof gardenof a high-rise building at Tokyo’s Roppongi Hillscomplex during a rice planting event on 3 June, 2006. —INTERNET

A police officer stands guard outside the Durham Region headquarters nearToronto on 2 June, 2006. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Fridaythat it arrested a number of individuals in the Toronto area for “terrorism-related offenses.”—INTERNET

A rescuer works at a site of landslide, caused by continuous heavy rain, next toa dormitory near Fuzhou University, east China's Fujian Province on 1 June,2006. About 200 people were evacuated immediately from the spot, China Daily reported. —INTERNET

China, Africa summit to strengthen relationsBEIJING, 3 June — The China-Africa summit to be held in China in November will strengthen the

growing China-Africa relationship, said visiting Deputy Foreign Minister of South Africa Aziz Pahad onFriday.

The relationship wouldcover political, economic,cultural and people-to-people contacts, said Pahad.

He said China’s newAfrica policy, the visit byChinese President Hu Jintaoto Africa in April and thecoming visit by ChinesePremier Wen Jiabao toAfrica had brought adynamism to relations.

Pahad said the purposeof his visit was toconsolidate relationsbetween South Africa andChina.Next year would bethe 10th anniversary ofSouth Africa-Chinadiplomatic relations, whichhad helped economicrelations between SouthAfrica and China growconsiderably, Pahad said.

He said South Africaninvestment in China washigher than China’sinvestment in South Africa,and South Africa hopedto see greater directinvestment from China inSouth Africa.

The two sides had beenworking very closely onthe African agenda and alsocooperated closely in the

issues like the UN reform,the Iran issue, and the NorthKorean issue, Pahad said.

“China has made amajor offer to help us trainpeople in South Africa,” hesaid.

“We will want to seegreater involvement ofChina in Africa. We wantto see China playing a muchmore positive and activerole in helping us developthe African continent,” saidPahad. — MNA/Xinhua

Study shows dark soya saucehealthier than red wine

SINGAPORE, 3 June — Dark soya sauce, widely used in East Asia, may proveto be more effective than red wine and Vitamin C in combating human celldamage, researchers in Singapore said.

Since 5 June, 1981,HIV, the virus that causesAIDS, has killed morethan 25 million people,

infected 40 million othersand left a legacy ofunspeakable loss, hard-ship, fear and despair.

Its spread was hastenedby ignorance, prejudice,denial and the freedomsof the sexual revolution.Along the way fromoddity to pandemic, AIDSchanged the way peoplelive and love.

Slowed but unchecked,the epidemic’s relentlessmarch has establishedfootholds in the world’smost populous countries.Advances in medicineand prevention thathave made the diseasemanageable in thedeveloped world haven’treach the rest.

In the worst case, sub-Saharan Africa, it hasbeen devastating. And the

next 25 years of AIDSpromise to be deadlierthan the first.

AIDS could kill 31million people in Indiaand 18 million in Chinaby 2025, according toprojections by UNpopulation researchers.By then in Africa, whereAIDS likely began andwhere the virus haswrought the mostdevastation, researcherssaid the toll could reach100 million.

“It is the worst anddeadliest epidemic thathumankind has everexperienced,” MarkStirling, the director ofEast and Southern Africafor UNAIDS, said in aninterview.

More effective medi-cines, better access totreatment and improvedprevention in the last fewyears have started to lowerthe grim projections. Buteven if new infectionsstopped immediately, ad-ditional African deathsalone would exceed 40million, Stirling said.

“We will be grapplingwith AIDS for the next 10,20, 30, 50 years,” he said.

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Scientists found thatthe sauce — derived fromfermented soya beans —contains antioxidantproperties about 10 timesmore effective than redwine and 150 times morepotent than Vitamin CSingapore’s Strait Timesreported on Saturday.

Antioxidants — foundin red wine, fruits andvegetables — counter theeffects of free radicals,unstable atoms whichattack human cells andtissues.

Free radicals havebeen linked to the agingprocess as well as arange of ai lmentsincluding Parkinson’sdisease, cancer andheart disease.

The National Uni-versity of Singapore studyalso found that the sauceimproved blood flow byas much as 50 per cent inthe hours after con-sumption.

“There’s a preven-tative aspect, showing thatit may potentially slowdown the rate ofcardiovascular and

neurodegenerative dis-eases,” research teamleader Professor BarryHalliwell said.

But he cautionedagainst taking large

amounts of dark soyasauce because of its highsalt content, which couldlead to high bloodpressure.

MNA/Reuters

Malaysia trade up 8.6% in April KUALA LUMPUR, 3 June — Malaysia recorded a trade

value of 85.36 billion ringgit (23.07 billion US dollars)in April this year, up 8.6 per cent compared with thesame month last year, according to statistics releasedby Malaysian Ministry of International Trade andIndustry on Friday.

The exports in April amounted to 46.30 billionringgit (12.51 billion US dollars) in value, up 6.3 percent year-on-year, while the imports posted 39.09billion ringgit (10.56 billion US dollars), up 11.4 percent, the ministry said. A trade surplus of 7.21 billionringgit (1.95 billion US dollars) was recorded in themonth this year, making it the 102nd consecutivemonth to record a trade surplus in the country sinceNovember 1997.—MNA/Xinhua

US, ex-nuclear scientist in spy probe reach deal WASHINGTON, 3 June

— A former nuclearscientist once suspected ofspying will get 1,645,000US dollars in a settlement

reached on Friday of hislawsuit accusing USGovernment officials ofdisclosing personal in-formation about him and

the probe. As part of asettlement filed in federalcourt, the US Governmentagreed to pay the scientist,Wen Ho Lee, 895,000 USdollars to cover his legalfees and costs “in full andcomplete satisfaction of allclaims in this action”.

In addition to the moneypaid by the government, thenews organizations of fivereporters who had been heldin contempt for refusing todisclose their sources forstories about Lee agreed topay him 750,000 USdollars, Lee's lawyer said.

Both Lee and thegovernment said thesettlement agreementshould not be viewed as anadmission by the USGovernment that theallegations asserted by Leewere true.

Lee was suspected of

spying for China while heworked for the Los AlamosNational Laboratory inNew Mexico. Lee was firedin 1999. The government’scase against him latercollapsed, and Leeeventually pleaded guiltyto one lesser charge.

MNA/Reuters

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China’s Zheng Jie (L)/ Yan Zi cheer themselves during a second round matchof the women’s doubles against Argentina’s Maria-Emilia Salerni andVenezuela’s Maria Vento-Kabchi at the French Open tennis tournament at theRoland Garros stadium in Paris, on 2 June, 2006. China won 2-0.—INTERNET

Nineteenth-century plaster casts of classical Greek and Roman sculptures,photographed on 13 April, 2006 in Austin, Texas, are part of the Blanton

Museum of Art’s 17,000-piece permanent collection. —INTERNET

Cuban, Indonesian Presidentsto hold talks

JAKARTA, 3 June —Indonesian PresidentSusilo Bambang Yudho-yono and Cuban PresidentFidel Castro would have abilateral meeting on thesideline of the Non-Aligned MovementSummit in Havana inSeptember, visiting CubanForeign Minister FelipePerez Roque said hereFriday.

“We are sure thatPresident Fidel Castro willhave a meeting withPresident Yudhoyono inHavana, and they willdiscuss about internationalsituation, NAM (Non-Aligned Movement) andbilateral relations,” saidFelipe.

The Foreign Minister

also delivered an officialinvitation from Castro toSusilo regarding thesummit.

Indonesian Presi-dential spokesman DinoPati Djalal said here onFriday that Susilo wouldcall his Cuban counterparton Friday afternoon aboutthe plan. The seniorofficial meeting in Havanawill take place from 11 to16 September. It will befollowed by ministerialmeeting and the meetingattended by heads ofstates, according to theminister.

He said that thesummit would approvefour main documents,including politicaldeclaration that would

update the framework ofNAM in currentinternational situation,South-South cooperation,Plan of Action that Cubawill materialize during itscurrent presidency of threeyears as well as themethodology andorganization of NAM.

In addition, the summitwould approve finaldocument in connectionwith regional andinternational affairs, saidFelipe. — MNA/Xinhua

Italian PM reiterates resolve on withdrawing from Iraq ROME, 3 June —

Italian Prime MinisterRomano Prodi reiteratedon Friday that Italy’sdecision to withdraw from

Iraq have already beenmade, no matter whetherBritain agreed with it ornot.

The point now was tofind the most effectiveway to implement thedecision, Prodi toldreporters after he met withthe visiting British PrimeMinister Tony Blair.

Defence ministers ofthe two countries wouldlater work out the detailson the manner and timingof Italy’s withdrawal,since Italy’s troops in Iraqwere under Britain’scommand, Prodi said.

At the same time,Prodi stressed theimportance of security inIraq.

Under the governmentof Silvio Berlusconi,

Prodi’s predecessor, Italysent some 3,000 troops toIraq during the US-led warin 2003 to help withsecurity and reconstru-ction.

Italy had already begunwithdrawing forces fromthe war-ravaged country

as Berlusconi prepared forhis re-election.

Following a timetableworked out underBerlusconi, Italy’smilitary number will becut down to 1,600 thismonth.

MNA/Xinhua

Millions of Chineseaffected by drought,59 killed by floods

BEIJING, 3 June —Million of Chinese havebeen affected by droughtin North China this yearand 59 people have beenkilled by floods in thesouthern regions.

The lasting drought inNorth China has resultedin a shortage of drinkingwater for 9.49 millionpeople, said E Jingping,secretary-general of theState Flood Control andDrought ReliefHeadquarters and alsoVice-Minister of WaterResources.

The drought hasaffected 12.1 millionhectares of farmlandmainly in the northern andnortheastern areas.

The drinking watershortage has also affected8.7 million livestock, theofficial said.

In late April when thedrought was most serious,it threatened supplies ofdrinking water to morethan 14 million Chineseand affected 16.3 millionhectares of farmland. Iteased in the middle of Mayafter rain fell across China,except in the northern andnortheastern areas.

Meanwhile, the nationhas been stricken by floodsmainly in southern partsthat have claimed 59 livesand affected 19 millionpeople so far this year, EJingping said.

MNA/Xinhua

Two killed, 41 injured in road mishapin western Nepal

KATHMANDU, 3 June— At least two personsdied and 41 others injuredon Friday in a roadaccident in westernNepal, chief of DistrictTraffic Police Office(DTPO) confirmedSaturday.

“At least two persondied on the spot and 41

others injured when apassenger bus they weretravelling in met with anaccident at Lamdandaarea of Palpa District,some 300 kilometreswest of Kathmandu,”DTPO chief KamalGurung said in a Pressstatement.

The injured were

undergoing treatment atthe local Palpa MissionHospital at Tansen Cityof the district.

The bus overturnedwhen the driver lostcontrol of the bus becauseof high speed, accordingto the statement.

The bus was headingtowards from Tansen City

of the district to ButawalCity of neighbouringRupandehi District, thestatement noted.

The driver of the bushas been absconded, thestatement added.

MNA/Xinhua

Forest fire quenched in N-E ChinaJAGDAQI (Heilongjiang

Province), 3 June — Theforest fire that raged for11 days at the KanduheForest Farm in northeastChina’s HeilongjiangProvince has beenextinguished, the localfire fighting headquartersconfirmed on early Fridaymorning.

The headquarterssaid at around 5:00 amon Friday, the fire, whichoccurred on 22 May and

resurged on 24 May atthe farm in the southernpart of the GreaterHinggan Mountains,was put out. Efforts arecontinuing to quenchburning ashes, theheadquarters added.

Lightning strikeswere ascertained as thecause of the fire, anddry, windy weathercontributed to i tsspreading.

Earlier reports said

the fire has ravaged50,000 hectares ofwoods in the GreaterHinggan Mountains,home to China’s largestvirgin forest and animportant lumberproduction base.

Earlier reports alsosaid approximately11,000 armed policemenand forest workers weremobilized to fight thefire.

MNA/Xinhua

Ugandan soldiers sort through weapons after a gun-burning ceremony in theindustrial city of Jinja, 100 km (60 miles) east of the capital Kampala, on 1 June,2006. Some 220 tones of weapons collected from robbers and rebels were

destroyed on Thursday, army officials said. —INTERNET

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Don’t Desert Drylands!Yin Yin Lay

Don’t Desert

Drylands! is the theme

of this year’s World

Environment Day. The

theme provokes several

questions. Where are

those drylands? Why are

they so called? Who are

those people that desert

or abandon drylands and

why? What will happen

when the drylands are

deserted?

Land is a precious

natural resource. That,

we all know very well.

What we are not well

aware is that land is finite,

non-renewable, fragile

and susceptible to human

actions and pressures.

About one-third of the

Earth’s surface is land

and the rest is water. The

total land area on this

planet measures 140

million squre kilometers.

Depending on the

geographical situation,

there are different types

of land ranging from

wetland to arid deserts.

Drylands occupy

41 per cent of the Earth’s

land area. They are

characterized by low

rainfall, high rates of

evaporation, fragile

soils, sparse vegetation

and harsh climate.

Drylands are found in

all regions including

Asia, Africa, Australia,

Europe, North America

and South America.

More than 110 countries

have drylands. Some 70

per cent of the drylands

used for agriculture

around the world are

already degraded. This

is almost about 30 per

cent of the total land area

of the world.

Deforestation, drought,

o v e r c u l t i v a t i o n ,

overgrazing, poor land

management, wind and

Yet, there are still many

people, millions indeed

who have been forced to

leave their land and

migrate because of

desertification, drought

and famine. It is said that

the ultimate response to

desertification has been

migration.

During the 1970s

and 1980s, a devastating

drought affected the Sahel

in Africa. Desertification

after intensive

i n t e r g o v e r n - m e n t a l

negotiations, the United

Nations Convention to

Combat Desertification

(UNCCD) was adopted in

Paris in 1994 and became

effective in 1996. This

year marks the 10th

anniversary year of the

UNCCD, and the United

Nations General

Assembly declared 2006

as the International Year

of Deserts and

Desertification.

Myanmar acceded

to the UNCCD in January

1997 and became a party

to the Convention in April

1997. Myanmar has the

total land area of 676,553

square kilometers of

which 10 per cent can be

classified as drylands.

These drylands are found

in the central part of

Myanmar comprising

Mandalay, Magway and

Lower Sagaing Divisions.

These areas receive an

average rainfall of about

30 inches a year, as

monsoon becomes weak

when it reaches central

Myanmar after pouring

heavy rains on the

Rakhine Yoma. National

water erosion affect

drylands resulting in

gradual decline of land

productivity. The process

of land degradation is

known as desertification.

More than two

billion people live in

drylands. Of these about

one billion people living

in the rual areas of the

drylands are economi-

cally dependent on

agriclture and are most

affected by land

degradation and

desertification. Their land

faces the constant risk of

losing its productivity and

becoming degraded to the

point where it can no

longer sustain them.

Many thousands of

years ago, people

wandered from place to

place, looking for

favourable environmental

conditions. When food

and water became scarce

in relation to growing

numbers of people, they

searched for better

environment. In those

days, movement of people

was a common

phenomenon in every

continent. Nowadays,

every country has taken

its share of land on this

planet. Movement of

people from country to

country is no longer easy.

and drought brought about

an alarming drop in

agricultural production in

the Sahel. Over 200,000

people and millions of

their animals died in the

Sahalian famine of 1968-

1974. Desertification has

affected many countries

in Africa including

Ethiopia,Somalia, Sudan,

Mali and Burkina Faso. In

Mali and Burkina Faso,

one-sixth of the population

has been uprooted as a

result of desertification.

Many people from these

two countries moved to

Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire.

There are many

other countries affected by

desertification. These

include countries in

Central Asia such as

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,

Kyrgystan, Turkmenistan

and Tajikistan.

Desertification is also an

important environmental

concern in Mongolia,

China, India and Pakistan.

Since the 1972

United Nations

Conference on Human

Environment, the

international community

has become aware of the

serious impact that

desertification is having

on the productive

ecosystems especially in

the poorest regions of the

world. The United Nations

Conference on Environ-

ment and Development

(UNCED) held in 1992,

also highlighted deser-

tification as a social

problem with a marked

political dimension. Thus,

effort to contain land

degradation in drylands

began in 1994 with the

launching of the 3-year

Dry Zone Greening

Project for the 9 critical

districts in Mandalay,

Magway and Sagaing

Divisions. As the Project

proved to be effective and

successful in promoting

the economic, social and

environmental con-

ditions in the Dry Zone,

the government

established the Dry Zone

Greening Department in

1997 to continue the

greening programmes. In

cooperation with the Dry

Zone Greening Depart-

ment, the international

organizations such as

Japan International

Cooperation Agency-

JICA; Korea Interna-

tional Cooperation

Agency—KOICA are

also undertaking

greening programmes in

the Dry Zone.

Local Community

and wellwishers are also

making contribution in

cash and in kind for

greening drylands in

Myanmar.

*******

Myanmar acceded to the UNCCD in

January 1997 and became a party to the

Convention in April 1997. Myanmar has

the total land area of 676553 square

kilometers of which 10 per cent can be

classified as drylands.

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(from page 1)Next, they viewed round Myeik Myothit

by car.They proceeded to Government Technological

College Project site in Myeik Myothit. Engineer UThein Tun of Civil Tech Co Ltd reported on progressof the three-storey main building and future tasks.

Myeik GTC is located near Myeik-Dawei Roadin Kabin Village. About 3,000 students can join thecollege for studying technology.

At Yan Taing Aung Hall of Coastal RegionCommand Headquarters, Lt-Gen Maung Bo met withofficers, other ranks and family members of MyeikStation. He explained progress of the State and gaveinstructions on undertaking of agriculture and live-stock breeding and participation in regional develop-ment.

Lt-Gen Maung Bo and party spent the night inMyeik. — MNA

Myeik Myothit being built …

NAY PYI TAW, 4June — At the invitationof the President ofVietnam Union ofFriendship Organization(VUFO),Union Solidarityand DevelopmentAssociation Secretary-General U Htay Oo andparty arrived back hereby air from Vietnam thismorning after a goodwillvisit.

The delegationwas welcomed back atNay Pyi Taw Airport byUSDA CEC membersU Maung Maung Theinand U Thein Swe, headsof department ofMinistry of Agricultureand Irrigation and

NAY PYI TAW, 4June — A ceremony tomark the World No-Tobacco Day of ShanState (South) was held atthe city hall in Taunggyion 31 May morning.

Chairman of Shan

YANGON, 4 June —Minister for ElectricPower No (2) Maj-GenKhin Maung Myint,accompanied by ColKhin Maung Soe ofYangon City ElectricPower Supply Board,inspected Sein PanMyaing Sub-PowerStation and MayangonTownship Sub-PowerStation in MayangonTownship on 2 June.

At Kanaung Hallof Hlinethaya IndustrialZone-1, the minister metwith members of theindustrial zonesupervisory committeeand entrepreneurs.

The minister saidthat the Ministry ofElectric Power No (2) isperforming tasks ofsupplying power. Theministry is distributingelectricity to industrial

NAY PYI TAW, 4June — The World No-Tobacco Day of ShanState (East) was observedat the Town Hall inKengtung on 31 Maymorning.

Chairman of ShanState (East) Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of TriangleRegion CommandMaj-Gen Min AungHlaing delivered anaddress. Dr Sai NawNgin of Shan State (East)Health Department readout the message sent bythe Minister for Health.

The commanderand officials presentedprizes to winners in the

USDA Secretary-General backfrom Vietnam

officials.Delegation mem-

bers — Dr Aung Gyi, UKyaw Yi, Dr Hla Sein

and U Nyunt Win ofUSDA —also arrivedback on the same flight.

MNA

Sub-Power Stations inspected inMayangon, Hlinethaya Townships

zones on schedule forboosting production ofthe nation.

Col Khin MaungSoe of the YCEPSB andofficials reported oninstallation of new powerlines, power supply task,supply of electricity toindustrial zones andfunctions of sub-powerstations.

Next, the ministerinspected HlinethayaSub-Power StationNo 1. At Kanaung Hallin Shwelinpan IndustrialZone, the minister saidthat the ministry willcooperate with officialsconcerned by usingvarious ways forsupplying full capacity ofelectricity to industrialzones.

Officials reportedon construction of thepower grid, and

installation of 500 kvapower line from Meiktilato Bago.

After hearing thereports, Minister Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myintattended to the needs ofentrepreneurs. —MNA

Shan State (South) observesWorld No-Tobacco Day

World No-TobaccoDay observed in Shan

State (East)

Lt-Gen Maung Bo of Ministry of Defence meets officers, other ranks and family members of

Myeik Station at Yan Taing Aung Hall of Coastal Region Command Headquarters. — MNA

USDA Secretary-General U Htay Oo

being welcomed backat Nay Pyi TawAirport. — MNA

Minister for Electric Power No (2) Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint

gives instructions to industrial zone supervisory committee members

and entrepreneurs at Hlinethaya Industrial Zone-1. — MNA

essay contest to mark theWorld No-Tobacco Day.

After the cere-mony, the commanderand those present viewedprize winning poster andessays and documentaryphotos on activities ofprevention againsttobacco danger in thestate.

Next, the com-mander attended theceremony to put up thesignboard of tobacco freecentre at KengtungBEHS No 1 organized byShan State (East)Maternal and ChildWelfare SupervisoryCommittee.

MNA

State Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of EasternCommand Brig-GenThaung Aye gave aspeech. He explaineddangers of tobacco tothose present.

Head of Shan StateHealth Department Dr SaiKham Hlaing read out themessage sent by theMinister for Health.

Also present on theoccasion were staffofficers of the commandheadquarters, depart-mental officials, membersof social organizations andstaff.

MNA

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Lt-Gen Myint Swe attends opening …(from page 16)

including 127 novices arestudying.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Myint Swe and thecommander inspected

construction ofShukhintha Tax-free Mar-ket at the corner of

Yamonna andMyintawtha Roads inWard 3 of ThakaytaTownship.

Lt-Gen Myint Swegave instructions ontimely completion of con-struction tasks, sales offresh vegetables and meatand fish with correctweight at reasonable price,and carrying out of sanita-tion.

Yangon City De-velopment Committee isundertaking constructiontasks for opening the mar-ket on 10 June. On com-pletion, people fromThakayta and DawbonTownships will purchasegoods at the market con-veniently. — MNA

Coord meeting ofMon State Peace and

Development Council heldNAY PYI TAW, 4 June — Mon State Peace and

Development Council held the coordination meetingat its office in Mawlamyine on 30 May morning.

First, Chairman of Mon State Peace and Devel-opment Council Commander of South-East CommandBrig-Gen Thet Naing Win delivered an address. Dis-trict and township authorities and departmental offi-cials reported on their respective sectors.

On 31 May, the meeting continued. Departmen-tal officials submitted reports on departmental tasks.Secretary of Mon State PDC Lt-Col Soe Myint Aunggave a supplementary report.

After fulfilling the requirements, the commandergave the concluding remarks. — MNA

YANGON, 4 June —A ceremony to drivestakes for construction ofMyanmar Football Acad-emy was held in the SportsComplex in Chanmya-thazi Township this morn-ing.

Chairman of Man-dalay Division Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of CentralCommand Maj-Gen Khin

Stakes driven for construction of MyanmarFootball Academy

Zaw, Chairman ofMyanmar Olympic Com-mittee Minister for SportsBrig-Gen Thura AyeMyint, Chairman of Man-dalay City DevelopmentCommittee Mayor Brig-Gen Phone Zaw Han,President of MyanmarFootball Federation U ZawZaw and officials attendedthe ceremony.

The commander,

the minister, the mayorand the MFF Presidentdrove stakes at the desig-nated places.

MFF President UZaw Zaw reported on con-struction of the footballacademy.

The building ofMyanmar Football Acad-emy will be constructedwith the contribution ofFederation International

Football Association(FIFA) near Sports andPhysical Education Insti-tute in Mandalay.

With the cash as-sistance of FIFA, the MFFsuccessfully implementedthe Goal Project Part I in2002. As part of the GoalProject Part II, MFF willconstruct the buildings ofMyanmar Football Acad-emy with one 3-storey re-inforced concrete build-ing, two training pitchesand two football grounds.Beginning November2007, 120 talented youthplayers between aged 11and 18 will be folded intothe training camp. — MNA

Myanmar delegation leaves forChina to attend International

Trade Fair 2006YANGON, 4 June — A Myanmar delegation led

by Deputy Minister for Commerce Brig-Gen AungTun left Nay Pyi Taw by air for the People’s Republicof China to attend the International Trade Fair-2006 tobe held in Kunming, Yunnan, from 5 to 8 June.

Included in the delegation are General ManagerU Toe Aung Myint of Myanma Agriculture Serviceand Assistant Director U Han Win Naing of Directo-rate of Trade. — MNAWork coord meeting on boosting

production of oil and gas heldNAY PYI TAW, 4

June — A work coordmeeting on boostingproduction of oil and gasin 2006-2007 fiscal yearof Myanmar Oil and GasEnterprise under theMinistry of Energy washeld at the ministry in NayPyi Taw, with an addressby Minister for EnergyBrig-Gen Lun Thi on 3June.

Now world fuelprices are going up andsteps are to be taken forboosting production of oiland gas and there must bemore exploration, said theminister. Preparations for

the new wells are to bemade. Necessaryassistance will be renderedto drill new test-wellsthrough HorizontalDrilling method. Inaddition, officialsconcerned are to go all outto minimize loss andwastage, he added.

Later, DeputyMinister Brig-Gen ThanHtay and officials madedetailed discussion.

The meeting endedwith the concludingremarks by the minister.

It was also attendedby directors-general andmanaging directors of

departments andenterprises, managers andofficials concerned.

MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence presents school stationery tostudents of Natmauk Monastic Education School. — MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence inspects construction of buildings at ShukhinthaTax-free Market. —MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defencepours water on a physic nut sapling to mark

opening of Yuzana Beikman. — MNA

Minister for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi

speaking at coordination meeting of Myanma

Oil and Gas Enterprise. — ENERGY

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YANGON, 4 June —As the rainy season treeplanting ceremony,Chairman of YangonDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Brig-GenHla Htay Win and wifeDaw Mar MarWai attended a ceremonyto grow physic nut plantsin Yangon University(Hline Campus) in HlineTownship this morning.

First, thecommander delivered anaddress.

The commander,wife and officialspresented physic nutsaplings to departmental

Yangon University (Hline Campus) holdstree planting ceremony

personnel and members ofsocial organizations.

They viewed

participation ofdepartmental personnel andmembers of social

organizations in growingphysic nut saplings.

MNA

YANGON, 4 June —CEC member of UnionSolidarity and Deve-lopment AssociationDeputy Minister forReligious Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Aung Ko, Brig-Gen Than Tun Aung ofSittway Station andofficials attended acollective ordinationceremony at KhaymaMandaing Monastery on

Deputy Minister visitsRakhine State

YANGON, 4 June —A robbery case involvingmurder of the victim inEast Myothit Ward, InseinTownship on 25 May wasexposed within 24 hours.

Maung AhkaPaing, son of U MyintCho, of No 180/B, PadaukStreet, East MyothitWard, Insein Townshipfiled a complaint to InseinTownship Police Stationthat he found his motherDaw Tin Htwe dead withstab wounds in the diningroom upstairs of the houseon his return from BayintNaung Market at about 7pm on 25 May. And hesaid he found that some K10 million plus jewelleryworth 3.5 million in a boxwent missing.

Upon investi-gation, a blood-stainedblue Jean pants, a vest

Murderer-cum-robberarrested within 24 hours

with Gyothein cherootbrand and a brown slingbag were seized in a drain100 yards from the sceneof the incident .

Murderer MaungKyaw (a) Aung Kyaw, 20,son of U Win Myint wasarrested at Thonze creekjetty in Taungpanswevillage, Thonze Townshipat 3 pm on 26 May.

Making aconfession, the culprit saidthat he worked for Muditatea shop belonging to KoAhka Paing, son of DawTin Htwe.

About a month ago,he was fired by Daw TinHtwe due to his badcharacter.

He took a strongdislike to Daw Tin Htwesince then, and decided tomurder and rob her of herpossessions.

At 10 am on 25May, he arrived at herhouse and asked for a job.At the time, his knifehidden on his waistdropped on the floor. Onseeing that, Daw Tin Htweshouted “robber, robber”and he stabbed her manytimes till she was dead.And he took cash andjewellery out of a box andmade off with them.

Three kinds of goldornaments bought with thecash robbed by the culpritand about K 800,000 wererecovered.

Measures are beingtaken to recover theremaining cash andjewellery.

The arrest of themurderer withing 24 hourscan be attributed to theactive participation of thepublic. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 June—Chairman of MandalayDivision Peace and Development Council Commanderof Central Command Maj-Gen Khin Zaw and officialswent to No-1 BEHS in Chanmyathazan Township andinspected the learning of the students and schoolbuilding on 1 June.

The commander also inspected No-4 BEHS,No-8 BEHS,No-11BEHS and No-15 BEHS inAungmyethazan Township and fulfiled therequirements.—MNA

Commander inspectsschools in Mandalay

Nay Pyi Taw, 4 June — Minister for CooperativesMaj-Gen Tin Htut accompanied by officials inspectedvarious kinds of fish bred at Kaytumati Fish and ChickenBreeding Cooperative Society Limited at TaungooTownship, Bago Division yesterday. The minister heardreports and attended to the needs.

The minister and party also inspected LungeAhman Agricultural Produce Cooperative Society atNyaunghnapin village in Pyu Township and stressedthe need for extended growing, using advancedtechnology and technique, boosting agriculturalproduction.

Minister Maj-Gen Tin Htut met with servicepersonnel and members of cooperative societies inBago Division and urged them to seek ways and meanssuitable for market economy and earn more income forthe State in line with rules and regulations. — MNA

Cooperative societies inBago Division under

close supervision

Donations invited to openclinic monastic school atPantapwinttaung Tawya

YANGON, 4 June — Under the auspices ofPantapwinttaung Tawya Presiding Nayaka SayadawSaddhamma Jotikadhaja Bhaddanta Paññajotia, aceremony to open the clinic and monastic educationschool for members of the Sangha, nuns and laypersons and students from first to tenth standard will beopened at the precinct of Pantapwinttaung Tawya inTaikkyi Township on 6 June.

Those wishing to donate medicines, schooluniforms, stationary and cash to the funds may contactPantapwinttaung Tawya Weiyawutsa Group, Tel: 055-20259. — MNA

pagoda.The USDA CEC

member also attended anopening ceremony of newoffice building of PaletwaTownship USDA. Later,he met with members ofUSDA at Township PDCoffice and presented a setof computer, clothes,sports gear and exercisebooks to them.

The deputy

Commander Brig-Gen Hla Htay Win and wife Daw Mar Mar Wai growphysic nut plants in rainy season tree planting ceremony of Yangon

University (Hline Campus). — MNA

Winners seen with prizes at the prize presentation ceremony of

ASEAN Radio Quiz at Myanma Radio and Television.

(News Reports) — MNA

28 May.The deputy

minister and officialsoffered alms to themembers of Sangha andshared merits gained later.

The deputyminister and party,accompanied by Brig-GenYa Pyay of KyauktawStation visited Maha MuniBuddha Image anddonated cash to the

minister donated cash andkind to the BasicEducation High School inthe township. He went tothe People’s Hospital ofPaletwa in the afternoon,donated K 100,000 to thehospital and comforted thepatients.

The deputyminister also visited TheChurch of the Province ofMyanmar (Anglican). Helater attended a collectivenovitiation ceremony atTheravata BuddhistMissionary BahoMonastery in Paletwa on30 May.

On 1 June, thedeputy minister met withmembers of KyauktawTownship USDA.—MNA

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A policeman stands guard beside a car from which a Russian Embassyemployee was killed and four others kidnapped by gunmen in Baghdad

on 3 June, 2006. — INTERNET

An actor dressed as a clown stares at giantbubbles during a ‘Soap Bubble Day’

in Moscow, on 3 June, 2006. — INTERNET

Indonesia calls for stability of S-E Asian security JAKARTA, 4 June — The stability of Southeast Asian security does not

merely depend on military approach but on prospective economic growth andprosperity as well, Indonesian Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono said hereon Friday.

LUXEMBOURG, 4 June — The European Union’sborder agency pledged 2.1 million euros (2.7 mil-lion dollars) on Friday to help Spain and Malta stopthousands of African illegal immigrants seeking toreach the wealthy 25-nation bloc.

BAGHDAD, 4 June —An official at Russia’sEmbassy in Baghdad saidon Saturday one diplo-mat had been killed andfour embassy employeeskidnapped, Russia’sInterfax news agency re-ported.

“We confirm that onediplomat died and four

Europe’s “Space Station lab” arrives in Florida

LONDON, 4 June — Britain’s Armed Forces are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit soldiersbecause of the “Mom factor” — the fear that sons and daughters will be killed in Iraq if they join theArmy, a senior British general said on Saturday.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Major-General Andrew Ritchie, who retired as commandantof Sandhurst in April, said that the involvement of theArmy in an unpopular war and the danger on the streetsof Basra and Baghdad are undermining confidence.

“It is having an effect on recruiting,” he said.“There is a mom factor. Moms find Iraq deeply un-popular — they are concerned that their youngsterswill be exposed to real risk and danger. That worriesthem. And moms are hugely influential in boys andgirls joining the Army.”

Although the British Defence Ministry insists thatit is on course to meet 85 per cent of its recruitmentneeds for 2005-2006, the shortfall last year rose bymore than 300 per cent. That means more than 2,000vacancies.

Opinion polls have consistently shown that oppo-

CAPE CANAVERAL

(Florida), 4 June — NASAwelcomed Europe’s Inter-national Space Stationlaboratory Columbus tothe shuttle launch site inFlorida on Friday, hopingits stay in a hangar filledwith gear awaiting ridesto space will not be long.

The 26-foot(8-metre)-long cylindrical module isthe heart of the EuropeanSpace Agency’s contribu-

sion of flights. The agencyis preparing for its nextshuttle launch next month.

If all goes as planned,station assembly couldresume as early as Au-gust.

“This will not be aneasy task for this team,”

“One thing high on our agenda is toensure the stability of Southeast Asiansecurity through a trilateral approach,”Antara news agency quoted Juwono assaying.

The Defence Minister added the sta-bility of Southeast Asian security wouldbe discussed comprehensively at theannual Asian Security Forum in Singa-pore on 3-4 June.

He said three main aspects South-east Asian countries had to consider forthe sake of stability and security in theregion were political, socio-cultural andeconomic.

“Those three issues cannot be ig-nored because they are inseparable,”Juwono said, adding that the political,

socio-cultural and economic issues shouldbe addressed by each country in South-east Asia to achieve stability and securityin the region.

Juwono said that in the annual AsianSecurity Forum in Singapore, the mat-ters related to regional security and com-munity development in addition to Ma-lacca Strait security by the military com-mander of each participating countrywould be discussed.

Besides Juwono, Indonesian De-fence Forces (TNI) Chief MarshalDjoko Suyanto and the United StatesAsia-Pacific Military CommanderAdmiral William Fallon will attend theforum.

MNA/Xinhua

The sum will help co-ordinate the EU’s firstjoint sea patrol mission,aimed at helping Spainstop migrants from reach-ing itsCanary Islands,which have seen in thelast months a sharp rise inthe arrival of migrants.

A total of 9,467 mi-grants landed on the Ca-nary Islands by sea during

the January-May period,around twice the 4,751 thatarrived in the whole oflast year.

Preparations for theCanary Islands missionwill be finalized in twoweeks, said MichalParzyszek, a spokesmanfor European borderagency Frontex, whichwill coordinate the opera-tion.

At least 10 EU nationswill contribute to the mis-sion, said Friso RoscamAbbing, spokesman forthe EU’s security commis-sioner. They were Ger-many, Britain, Portugal,Italy, France, the Nether-lands, Slovenia, Denmark,Finland and Sweden.

“It is significant thatcountries like Britain,which is geographicallyfar from the Canary Is-lands, share Spain’s analy-sis that it is not only theirproblem but a Europeanproblem,” RoscamAbbing said.

MNA/Reuters

General says British Army difficultto recruit soldiers

sition to the war in Iraq is higher among women thanmen.

British troops’ morale had also been hit by the lackof public support for the war and by legal action againstsoldiers and officers accused of human rights abuses inIraq, the general said.

MNA/Xinhua

Nations resist new financialcommitments on AIDS

UNITED NATIONS, 4June — A major UN meet-ing on AIDS strategy onFriday fell short of con-crete financial commit-ments but recognized thegrowing spread of the dis-ease among women andtheir right to protect them-selves.

Friday’s session, thelast day of a three-daymeeting, brought togetherheads of state, prime min-isters and health officialsfrom 151 countries on howto care for 40 million in-fected people over the nextdecade.

Some 25 million peo-

ple have died of AIDSsince 1981 and 8,000 dieeach day of the disease,although the rate of newcases has slowed. Womenin Africa have surpassedmen in contracting the dis-ease.

The final declaration,many activists said, wasmore positive than theyhad predicted. Some coun-tries, including Iraq, Egyptand Pakistan, at one pointhad resisted commitmentson the rights of women orgirls.

Still, some 70 groupsamong the 800 attendingdenounced the declaration

as “pathetically weak” onfinancing and rights forgirls under 18, many ofthem in forced marriages.

“I know that none ofyou got all that you wantedin this declaration,” UNGeneral Assembly Presi-dent Jan Eliasson said inclosing the session. Buthe said thanks to the advo-cacy groups, “the draft gotstronger — not weaker”.

Although the declara-tion is non-binding, itserves as a basis for pro-grammes from govern-ments, private groups andbusiness.

MNA/Reuters

EU readies sea patrol tohelp Spain on migration

Russian Embassy claimsdiplomat killed in Iraq

(people) have been kid-napped,” Interfax re-ported the embassy offi-cial, who was not named,as saying.

Iraqi Interior Ministryand police sources said ear-lier that gunmen had killeda Russian embassy em-ployee and kidnapped fourothers.—MNA/Reuters

tion to the 100-billion-US-dollar Space Station. Con-struction of the outpost hasbeen on hold since the2003 shuttle Columbiaaccident and subsequentgrounding of the shuttlefleet for safety upgrades.

NASA wanted toresume assembly last year,but problems during thefirst post-Columbia shut-tle mission in Julyprompted another suspen-

NASA’s Space Stationprogramme manager BillGerstenmaier said duringa Columbus welcomingceremony at the KennedySpace Centre. “It is thelargest task we have everdone.”

MNA/Reuters

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India, Pakistan to boost cultural ties, but movies ban on NEW DELHI, 3 June — India and Pakistan Friday agreed to accelerate people-to-people contacts

through greater cultural exchange in diverse areas, including education, tourism and sports, but failedto achieve a breakthrough on the screening of films.

Oil climbs nearly 3% on US refinery woes NEW YORK, 3 June — Oil vaulted over 72 US dollars a barrel on Friday,

reversing a two-day slide, as problems at a handful of US refineries and thekidnapping of foreign oil workers in Nigeria renewed concern about risksto supply. Airline tax will buy medicine

for world’s poor UNITED NATIONS, 3 June — Four governments, the United Nations and the

world’s soccer federation launched a plan on Friday to use the proceeds ofa new airline ticket tax to treat people in the developing world suffering fromAIDS, malaria or tuberculosis.

British police shoot man duringanti-terrorism raid

LONDON, 3 June — British anti-terrorist police shot one man and arrestedanother during a dawn raid on a house in east London on Friday, a policestatement said.

“The two sidesunderlined the impor-tance of interaction in thefield of culture andrelated areas as a part ofefforts to expand people-to-people contacts andagreed to work on themodalities of proposalsidentified by them,” saida joint statement at the

end of two-day talks herebetween Indian CultureSecretary Badal Das andhis Pakistani counterpartJalil Abbas.

Das and Abbasdiscussed an entire gamutof issues aimed atpromoting friendly ex-changes between Indiaand Pakistan that includedproposals for cooperationin the fields of arts andculture, education,medicine, archaeology,

Fresh floodsthreaten

already-hitGuatemala

village GUATEMALA CITY, 3

June— People wereevacuated on Friday froma Guatemalan villageburied during last year’sHurricane Stan after daysof heavy rain sparkedfears of a repeat of amudslide that killed asmany as 1,400 people.

Authorities evacuatedthe lakeside village ofPanabaj and two neigh-bouring hamlets afterdays of downpours sentrivers of water crashingdown nearby mountains,Benedicto Giron ofGuatemala’s disasterprevention network said.

Many of the evacueeshad been living intemporary plastic sheltersafter their houses weredestroyed in October by adeadly slick of mud, rocksand trees that buried asmany as 1,400 people aliveand left thousandshomeless.—MNA/Reuters

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tourism, youth affairs,sports and media.

But despite the“cordial atmosphere” atthe talks, the two coun-tries failed to achieve abreakthrough on the long-standing Indian demandfor lifting a ban onscreening Bollywoodmovies in Pakistan.

India has respondedpositively to a request tohold a festival of Pakistanifilms, but the modalities

and dates are yet to beworked out. There was,however, no officialconfirmation and theproposal does not evenfind mention in the jointstatement.

The Pakistanidelegation also called onIndian Tourism MinisterAmbika Soni and dis-cussed steps to promotetourism between the twocountries.

MNA/Xinhua

The continuing standoffbetween the West and Iranover Teheran’s nuclearambitions also had themarket on edge, oil dealerssaid.

US crude oil rose 1.99US dollars, or 2.83 per cent,to 72.33 US dollars a barrel,having reached as high as72.70 US dollars. LondonBrent gained 1.64 USdollars to 71.03 US dollarsa barrel.

Five oil refineries inTexas and Delawarereported outages sinceThursday, most due to foulweather and lightningstrikes — ramping upconcerns over gasolinesupply at the start of thesummer driving season.

“At this time of the yearyou want all the refineriesrunning,” said BillO’Grady, analyst at A.G.Edwards. “The fact thatthere are these outages is abig deal.”

Valero said Friday itwas restarting normalproduction at its CorpusChristi, Texas, andDelaware City, Delaware,refineries after brief

weather-related outages.It added that repairs on itsPort Arthur, Texasrefinery, would cut intogasoline output foranother 10 days.

Refining companiesCitgo and Flint Hills alsoreported refineryproduction cuts in CorpusChristi, which wasbattered by severethunder storms onThursday.

The news helped boostUS gasoline futures 7.03cents, or more than 3 percent, to 2.1975 US dollarsa gallon.

The kidnappings ofeight workers in a raid onan oil rig off the coast ofNigeria on Friday addedto concerns, and followednews on Thursday of afurther cut to Nigerian oiloutput after a pipelineleak.—MNA/Reuters

Officials of Brazil,Chile, France, Norway,the United Nations andFIFA — the FederationInternationale de Foot-ball Association —unveiled the InternationalDrug Purchase Facility on

the sidelines of a UNconference that is dis-cussing strategies againstthe AIDS pandemic.

“This is a wonderfulday for the poor and thesick,” said UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan “Itis going to help millionsof people around theworld.”

The ticket tax is beingpushed hard by FrenchPresident Jacques Chiracand Brazilian PresidentLuiz Inacio Lula da Silva.Several other countrieshave signalled anintention to join thescheme.

French ForeignMinister PhilippeDouste-Blazy said theFrench tax, which takeseffect 1 July, is expectedto raise 300 million USdollars a year. It willrange from 1 to 40 euros(1.28 US dollars to 51.11US dollars) per ticket on

flights from France,depending on distancetravelled and class ofticket.

As the number ofparticipants grow, theamount raised “couldreach 1 billion US dollars,1.5 billion US dollars,why not?” said Douste-Blazy.

With soaring fuel costsdriving up air fares, theplan has encounteredresistance in the UnitedStates and failed to winwidespread backing inEurope.

It has also upsetairlines, which fear higherprices will drive awaypassengers.

Douste-Blazy en-couraged Washington toset up a voluntaryprogramme enablingindividuals to contributeto the new fund only ifthey chose to.

MNA/Reuters

Scotland Yard said theman had been shot afterofficers, backed by thebomb-disposal unit,carried out a raid aspart of a pre-plannedoperation under theTerrorism Act.

“During the operation,a man was shot by policeand has been taken to anearby hospital,” thestatement said. No detailsabout the shot man orwhat had provoked the

raid were given. The shooting incident

has been routinely referredto the Independent PoliceComplaints Commission,who said the shot man’sinjuries were not life-threatening.

Police said theoperation was intel-ligence-led and followedclose liaison betweensecurity services and theHealth Protection Agency,an independent body

charged with guardingagainst infectiousdiseases.

Officers said the raidwas not linked to lastJuly’s suicide bombattacks on London’stransport system whichkilled 52 commuters.

A 23-year-old man wasarrested at the scene andhas been taken to a centralLondon police station forquestioning.

MNA/Reuters

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A Butoh-A-Go-Go company of Canada presents itsnew production “Working Title: Vancouver” at

Moscow International Contemporary DanceFestival in Moscow on 3 June, 2006.—INTERNET

A Koala sits in itsenclosure at Sydney’s

Taronga Park Zoorecently .—INTERNET

The discovery wasmade in the new genome-wide survey carried outby Richard Houlston ofthe Institute of CancerResearch, in Sutton, andhis colleagues, a report onthe latest website of theNew Scientist said.

These 64 DNA

variants are known as“low-penetrance alleles”because they onlyoccasionally stimulatetumour development.

To identify the genes,Houlston’s team analyzedthe DNA in blood samplescollected from 1,529people with lung cancer

and from 2,707 indi-viduals without thedisease. In total, theyinvestigated 871 genesamong the volunteers, allof whom were White.

Of the 64 genevariants the researchersfound, 11 were locatedwithin genes that encode

key parts of a biologicalpathway involving aninsulin-like growth factor.

Houlston suggestedthat scientists developingfuture treatments for lungcancer may want toconsider targeting thispathway. But he stressedthat the risk of lung cancerconferred by these geneticchanges was minutecompared to one particularlifestyle choice: smoking,the biggest risk factor forlung cancer.

Lung cancer claimsapproximately 1.2 millionlives worldwide each yearand the discovery was seenas a step towardsdeveloping tests toidentify those at high riskof developing the deadlycondition.—MNA/Xinhua

“ISS”astronautscomplete

spacewalk MOSCOW, 3 June —

The two crew members ofthe International SpaceStation (ISS) completed aspacewalk that lasted sixand a half hours, accordingto the Mission Control.

The Russian cos-monaut Pavel Vinogra-dov and the US astronautJeff Williams took onehour longer than plannedon Friday’s spacewalk.

In the first of twospacewalks scheduled forthe two crewmen sincetheir arrival at the ISS inearly April, Vinogradovand Williams repaired avent of the Elektronoxygen generation unit,replaced a camera, andretrieved materials froma completed scienceexperiment.

Vinogradov andWilliams had spent morethan two weeks collectingequipment and practisingthe procedures for theirouting.

MNA/Xinhua

Nepali famous mountaineereyes more feats

KATHMANDU, 3 June— Apa Sherpa, famedfor his record number ofMt Everest ascents, saidhis recent feat ofconquering the world’shighest peak for the 16thtime had partly to do withhis zeal to maintain hisfeat and to ensure thathis team memberssucceeded in theirclimbing mission.

Apa was quoted byFriday’s The HimalayanTimes as saying that heplans to continueclimbing as long as hishealth is fine.

“I decided to scalethe peak to make suremy team memberssuccessfully conqueredMt. Everest and also tomaintain my recordclimbs,” Apa told thenewspaper.

Since he is physicallyfit and will have been

bored staying at MtEverest Base Camp, hedecided again stay back inthe base camp, accordingto Apa.

Being a Sirdar (headmountain guide) of theAmerican expedition“Team No Limits 2006”,he did not really have togo up, he could havemonitored the team’sactivities from the BaseCamp.

On his wife’spressuring him to give upclimbing, he said, “Mywife and family membershad no idea I planned toclimb the peak this time.She came to know about itafter I broke my record.”

When he got backfrom the mountain, therewas no room for argument.

He returned to thecapital on Thursday afterhis feat on Mt Everest.

MNA/Xinhua

BEIJING, 3 June— Aman in Beijing has beenawarded nearly 1,000 USdollars in compensa-tion after being bitten bya dog — and the dog’sowner.

On November 2004,the victim, surnamed Huo,became involved in anargument with a mansurnamed Liu after his leftleg was bitten by Liu’s

dog, the Beijing Munici-pal No 2 IntermediatePeople’s Court heard onFriday.

A fight ensued inwhich Liu bit Huo’s leftcheek, leaving a two-centimetre-long rip.

Huo sued Liu lastSeptember.

Liu was ordered to payHuo 7,500 yuan (937.5 USdollars) in compensation,according to the courtjudgement.

MNA/Xinhua

Chinese meteorologists improvetyphoon forecasting services BEIJING, 3 June —

Chinese meteorologists willimplement a new systemfor typhoon forecasting inmid-June, according to theChina MeteorologicalAdministration (CMA).

Two new terms —severe typhoon and supertyphoon — will be added tothe forecast grades in a bidto reduce the casualties andlosses caused by typhoons,said Xiao Ziniu, deputyhead of the Chinese CentralMeteorological Stationunder the CMA.

“Traditionally, strongtropical storms would becalled typhoons if the windspeed exceeded 32.7 metresper second, no matter howstrong it was,” said Xiao.

In the new system,tropical storms with windspeeds from 32.7 to 41.4metres per second will beclassified as typhoons, thosewith wind speeds from 41.5to 50.9 metres per secondwill be classified as severetyphoons, and those above51 metres per second willbe called super typhoons.

“The new system will

help warn citizens proper-ly about the power of thetyphoons to help them makefull preparations,” Xiaosaid. The first typhoon thisyear, Chanchu, landed atChina on 18 May, 40 daysearlier than the average datein previous years, accordingto the CMA.

MNA/Xinhua

Scientists discover 64 gene variants linkedwith lung cancer

LONDON, 3 June — British scientists have discovered, in the largest genetic survey to date, that 64 genevariants may slightly predispose certain individuals to lung cancer.

Beijinger bitten by a manand his dog

A child plays in a giant leather shoe displayed in a store in Lianyungang, eastChina's Jiangsu Province, on 1 June, 2006. The 1.28-meter-long shoe weighing 39 kilograms was sewn by three craftsmen in half a month.—INTERNET

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England's Joe Cole (R) shoots at goal duringtheir international friendly soccer match against

Jamaica at Old Trafford, Manchester,on 3 June, 2006.—INTERNET

Crouch gets hat-trick in England goal riot MANCHESTER (England), 4 June— Striker Peter Crouch scored a hat-trick as England ran riot in a

6-0 victory over Jamaica in their final World Cup warmup on Saturday.

Switzerland's Martina Hingis plays a shot toCroatia's Ivana Lisjak during the French Open

tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Parison 3 June, 2006.—INTERNET

Spain beat Egypt, extend unbeaten run ELCHE (Spain), 4 June— An opportunist strike from Raul and a superbly struck free kick from

substitute Jose Antonio Reyes earned Spain a 2-0 win over African champions Egypt in a World Cupwarm-up match in Elche on Saturday.

Czechs beat Trinidad &Tobago 3-0 in friendly

PRAGUE, 4 June —Striker Jan Koller notched a pairof goals and Pavel Nedved added another as the CzechRepublic beat Trinidad and Tobago 3-0 on Saturday intheir final tune-up ahead of the World Cup finals.

Koller looked to have regained his form after miss-ing several months following knee surgery, a welcomesign for a Czech team depleted by injury.

The towering Borussia Dortmund striker headedhome Karel Poborsky's cross from the left side just sixminutes into the match.

Midfielder Nedved made it 2-0 in the 22nd minutewith his long drive before helping set up Koller tomake it 3-0 five minutes before halftime.

The Czechs have been hit by injuries in recentweeks, with Vladimir Smicer ruled out of the WorldCup finals due to a nagging leg injury, while Koller,striker Vratislav Lokvenc, defender Zdenek Grygeraare all coming off lengthy layoffs.—MNA/Reuters

Ashley Cole scan showsno thigh problem

MANCHESTER (England), 4 June— Englandleft back Ashley Cole needed a scan on a thighproblem on Saturday after being substituted inEngland’s 6-0 demolition of Jamaica in a pre-World Cup friendly.

Cole and fellow defender John Terry weretaken off after little more than half an hour atOld Trafford after both suffered knocks a weekbefore England open their World Cup cam-paign against Paraguay.

Cole was later given the all-clear after thescan on his thigh, the FA said.

An FA spokesman said Terry had been takenoff with a knee problem. England had startedwithout regular right back Gary Neville, whowas rested and replaced by Jamie Carragherdue to a hamstring injury.—MNA/Reuters

Annika Sorenstam of Swedendrives on the fourth hole during

second round play in theShoprite LPGA classic nearAtlantic City, New Jersey,

on 3 June, 2006. —INTERNET

Smolarek header gives Poland 1-0 win over Croatia BERLIN, 4 June— A second half header from Borussia Dortmund striker Ebi

Smolarek gave Poland a 1-0 win over Croatia in their final World Cup warm-up in Wolfsburg on Saturday.

Swiss on course after final warm-up ZURICH, 4 June— Switzerland coach Koebi Kuhn declared himself highly

satisfied with his team's progress after a demanding eight-day warm-up fortheir World Cup campaign.

Frank Lampard began the goal bonanza at OldTrafford after 11 minutes, Jamaica's Jermaine Taylorheaded into his own net and fellow defender OmarDaley was no luckier when a Crouch shot struck himand flew in the net.

Michael Owen, plagued by a foot injury since 31December, scored his first goal of the year in the 32ndminute and Crouch claimed his second of a sunlit daywith a 66th minute tap-in.

He looked to have spurned his chance of a hat-trickwhen the lanky striker hopelessly skied an 82ndminute penalty won by Owen, only to rifle in Eng-land's sixth in the 89th minute after a neat Owen pass.

The classy finish from the edge of the area madefor a perfect send-off for England, who open theirWorld Cup campaign next Saturday against Para-guay in Group B.

Sven-Goran Eriksson's last home game as Eng-land manager, with the Swede stepping down afterthe World Cup in Germany, rewarded him with thebest winning margin of his five and a half years at thehelm.

Even allowing for the modesty of the opposition,England looked more comfortable in a classic 4-4-2formation with Crouch and Owen up front, compared

to Tuesday's 3-1 win over Hungary. Midfielder Steven Gerrard had played as a second

striker and defender Jamie Carragher was used as aholding midfielder in that game, sparking a nationaldebate over England's tactics so close to the finals.

MNA/Reuters

Raul, who has been thesubject of an intense de-bate in the Spanish mediaas to whether or not hemerits a place in the side,put his side in front whenhe guided home from closerange after 14 minutes.

Spain struggled to press

home their advantageagainst their hard-workingopponents, but managed toextend their lead whenReyes sent a dipping freekick into the top cornerearly in the second half.

Luis Aragones' side,who are now unbeaten in21 games, drew 0-0 againstRussia last weekend andcomplete their World Cuppreparations against

fellow qualifiers Croatia inGeneva next Wednesday.

They begin their WorldCup campaign againstUkraine in Leipzig on June14 and then face Tunisiaand Saudi Arabia in theirremaining games in GroupH. Raul, back in the start-ing lineup at the expenceof Luis Garcia, put aheadjust before a quarter of anhour was up with a trade-

mark strike. The Real Madrid striker

steered into the empty netfrom five metres out afterEgypt keeper Essam AlHadari had spilled a20-metre drive from leftback Antonio Lopez.

It was Raul's 43rd goalin 94 games, but his firstfor either club or countrysince October last year.

MNA/Reuters

Kuhn's young squad,the third youngest overallat the finals, beat China4-1 on Saturday after 1-1draws last Saturday andWednesday with fellowWorld Cup contendersIvory Coast and Italy.

"I'm very happy withwhat I've seen," Kuhn toldreporters after Saturday'swin.

"Including our training

sessions we've had twoweeks of hard work and Ithink the team is absolutelywhere I want it to be andwell on course for theWorld Cup finals." Kuhnhad designed his team'swarm-up programme tomirror the demands of theWorld Cup group stagewith Ivory Coast, Italy andChina standing in for grouprivals Togo, France and

South Korea. "It was not just the op-

ponents that were impor-tant but also the nature ofthe schedule," Kuhn added.

"For the three matches,we actually gave ourselvestwo days less than we willhave at the World Cup andwe had the whole stress oftravelling to different cit-ies to give our young teamsome tournament-like ex-perience."

Playing without centraldefender PhilippeSenderos, who was restedfollowing a knock in train-ing, the Swiss looked un-easy at the back againstChina as the match gotunderway with the visitorscreating the most threaten-ing chances.

Han Peng hit the wood-work in the 25th minuteand then failed to put awaythe rebound. Ten minuteslater Xu Liang picked outLi Jinyu in the area, theShandong player turningneatly but then dragginghis shot left of the goal.

MNA/Reuters

Smolarek found space in the box tohead home a Maciej Zurawski corner inthe 54th minute after an otherwise domi-nant Croatia had struggled to createclear openings against a defensive Polishformation in the first half.

Following Saturday's loss to Colum-bia, Polish coach Pawel Janas droppedone striker in favour of a second holdingplayer in a five-man midfield, with

Smolarek and winger Jacek Krzynowekpushing up on the flanks.

The Croatians' best chance fell tomidfielder Dario Srna, who hit thecrossbar with a 30-metre free-kick in 42minutes. Ivan Bosnjak also pushed a shotjust wide of Polish keeper Artur Boruc'spost after being put clean through justafter the break.

MNA/Reuters

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WEATHER

Sunday, 4 June, 2006

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30hours MST: During the past 24 hours, weather hasbeen partly cloudy in lower Sagaing Division, rainor thundershowers have been scattered in MandalayDivision, fairly widespread in Magway andTaninthayi Divisions and widespread in the remain-ing areas with isolated heavyfalls in Rakhine State.The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded wereKyaukpyu (4.80) inches, Dawei (2.36) inches, Putaoand Bhamo (2.17) inches each and Mawlamyine(1.77) inches.

Maximum temperature on 3-6-2006 was 89°F.Minimum temperature on 4-6-2006 was 69°F. Rela-tive humidity at 09:30 hours MST on 4-6-2006 was(81%). Total sunshine hours on 3-6-2006 was (2.9)hours approx.

Rainfalls on 4-6-2006 were (0.80) inch atMingaladon, (0.19) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.19) inchat Central Yangon. Total rainfalls since 1-1-2006were (16.65) inches at Mingaladon, (21.57) inches atKaba-Aye and (22.87) inches at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was(12) mph from Southwest at (13:10) hours MST on3-6-2006.

Bay inference: Monsoon is generally strongin Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 5-6-2006:Rain or thundershowers will be widespread in Mon,Kayin and Rakhine States, Yangon, Ayeyawady andBago Divisions, fairly widespread in Chin and ShanStates, upper Sagaing Division, scattered in KayahState and Taninthayi Divison and isolated in theremaining areas with likelihood of isolated heavyfallsin Rakhine State and Ayeyawady Division. Degreeof certainty is (80%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Strongmonsoon.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbour-ing areas for 5-6-2006: Likelihood of isolated rainor thundershowers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouringareas for 5-6-2006: Some rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouringareas for 5-6-2006: Likelihood of isolated rain orthundershowers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

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U Maung Maung (Myingyan)Retired Manager, Myanma Economic Bank

(Age 82)Son of U Ahoon-Daw Daw Yee, brother of U Kyin

Sein-Daw Yin Kyi, U Hla Ngwe-(Daw Khin Khin Mya),father of Mr John Hulme-Daw Khin May Kyin (Mrs MayHulme), U Ko Ko Aye (NCEA)- Daw Khin May Aye andDr U Pye Nyein-Daw Khin May Swe and husband of DawThein Nyunt (Retd Lecturer, TTC, Yankin) No (30),Thitsar Shin Street, Ward (19), Dagon Myothit (South)expired on 3-6-2006. (Funeral at 11:00 am on 5-6-2006at Yeway Crematorium.)

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Monday, 5 JuneTune in today

8:30 am Brief news8:35 am Music:8:40 am Perspectives8:45 am Music:8:50 am National news &

Slogan9:00 am Music:9:05 am International

news9:10 am Music:1:30 pm News & Slogan1:40pm Lunch time

music9:00pm Spotlight on the

star - 6 -9:25 pm Drug news9:35 pm Golden Land

Melody9:45 pm News / Slogan10:00 pm PEL

4:00 pm 1. Martial song4:15 pm 2. Song to uphold

National Spirit4:30 pm 3. Practice in reading4:45 pm 4. Musical programme5:00 pm 5.     Aew;qc\tkquil\pvaer;Aew;qc\tkquil\pvaer;Aew;qc\tkquil\pvaer;Aew;qc\tkquil\pvaer;Aew;qc\tkquil\pvaer;

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5:50 pm11.Musical programme

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6:00 pm12.     Evening news

7:00 am 1. Recitation of parittas by

missionary sayardawU Ottamathara

7:25 am 2. To be healthy

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25. The next day’sprogramme

A lightning bolt illuminates the sky above Manhattan during anelectrical storm in New York on 1 June, 2006. — INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 4 June— Factory orders in theUnited States declined by1.8 per cent in April, thelargest drop since a 2.7-per cent fall in January,the Commerce Depart-ment reported on Friday.

The report showedthat demand for manufac-tured goods dropped by7.4 billion dollars to397.98 billion dollars inApril.

US factory orders fordurable goods, items ex-pected to last at least threeyears, declined by a sharp4.4 per cent in April, thebiggest drop since Janu-ary. Total orders for trans-portation productsdropped by 11.7 per centas the weakness inairplanes was offset some-what by a 1.7-per-cent in-crease in demand for mo-tor vehicles and parts.

Orders for nondura-ble goods increased by 1.2per cent in April follow-ing a 1.8 per cent gain inMarch.—MNA/Xinhua

US factoryorders down

in April

ADDIS ABABA, 4 June — The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate has reached 5 percent among Ethiopian women and it is still on the rise, according to agovernment report on Friday.

Ethiopia’s HIV/AIDS prevalenceamong women reaches 5%

HIV/AIDS, com-pounded with poverty,was one of the major chal-lenges for the health ofmothers and the survivalof children in Ethiopia,said the report issued bythe Ministry of Health.

“Ethiopian womenare vulnerable to HIV in-fection due to their lowsocio-economic status ontop of the biological fac-tors,” it said.

According to govern-

ment statistics, close totwo million people arecurrently living with thevirus in Ethiopia, makingit the country with thelargest HIV-infectedpopulation in the world.However, non-govern-mental organizations(NGOs) estimate thatover three million peoplelive with the virus in thecountry.

The current preva-lence rate of HIV/AIDS is

estimated at 4.4 per cent atEthiopia’s national level.

“This 5 per cent HIVprevalence among thewomen is a bad news. Itshows that there is still alot that need to be done inpreventing the spread ofHIV/AIDS amongwomen,” said the report.

MNA/Xinhua

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10th Waxing of Nayon 1368 ME Monday, 5 June, 2006

YANGON, 4 June —A ceremony to openYuzana Beikman in theprecinct of Natmauk Mon-astery on ShukhinthaRoad, Shukhintha Ward,Thakayta Township, washeld at the monastery thismorning.

Present on theoccasion were Vice-Chairman of the StateSangha Maha NayakaCommittee MahaAungmyebonsan Mon-astery SayadawAbhidhaja Maha RatthaGuru Abhidhaja AggaMaha SaddhammajotikaBhaddanta Paññin-dabhivamsa and memberSayadaws, Secretary of

Lt-Gen Myint Swe attends opening of Yuzana Beikmanat Natmauk Monastery in Thakayta Township

Nay Pyi Taw & neighbouring areasLikelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.

Degree of certainty is (60%).Yangon & neighbouring areas

Some rain or thundershowers. Degree of certaintyis (80%).

Mandalay and neighbouring areas Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (60%).

Weather Forecast for (5-6-2006)

Chairman Agga MahaThiri ThudhammaManijotadhara U HtayMyint and Managing Di-rector of Yuzana Co UWin Myint formallyopened the archway of the

Beikman.Lt-Gen Myint Swe

unveiled the stone plaque.Next, Lt-Gen Myint Sweand U Htay Myint sprin-kled scented water on it.

Yangon Division Monas-tic Education School Su-pervisory CommitteePresiding Nayaka ofNatmauk MonasteryAgga Maha SaddhammaJotikadhaja BhaddantaKusala and members ofthe Sangha, Lt-GenMyint Swe of the Minis-try of Defence, Chairmanof Yangon DivisionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofYangon Command Brig-Gen Hla Htay Win, localauthorities, departmentalofficials, wellwishersand guests.

First, CommanderBrig-Gen Hla Htay Win,wellwisher Yuzana Co

To mark the open-ing ceremony, Lt-GenMyint Swe, Brig-Gen HlaHtay Win and U HtayMyint planted physic nutsaplings.

At the ceremony to

share merits gained, Vice-Chairman Sayadaw Bhad-danta Paññindabhivamsaadministered the Five Pre-cepts, and members of theSangha recited Parittas.

Wellwisher U HtayMyint supplicated on thepurpose of the donation.

Lt-Gen Myint Sweand party offered robesand alms to the Sayadaws.

At the ceremony to

donate cash to the funds ofthe monastery, Lt-GenMyint Swe accepted K 3million donated by YuzanaCo Chairman U HtayMyint and wife; K 1 mil-

lion by U Soe Myint Aung-Daw Thida Lwin and fam-ily of Kan Lin Thu Co; K500,000 by U San Maung-Daw Yi Yi Myint of SeinPan Myaing Restaurant;and K 100,000 by U

Maung Maung Aye-DawTin Tin.

Next, Lt-GenMyint Swe and Com-mander Brig-Gen HlaHtay Win presented sta-tionery to students ofNatmauk monastic educa-tion school. Likewise, thechairman of Yuzana Copresented school uniformsto teachers.

Later, Joint-Secre-tary Myingyan SayadawAgga Maha PanditaAgga Maha SaddhammaJotikadhaja BhaddantaKitti delivered a sermon,and the congregationshared merits gained.

Today’s donationsincluding stationery anduniforms amounted to K8,538,000. At NatmaukMonastic Education Mid-dle School, 302 students

(See page 9) Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Ministry of Defence unveils the stone plaque of Yuzana Beikman at Natmauk Monastery. — MNA

U HtayMyint and

wifepresent K3 million

forNatmaukMonasticEducationSchool toLt-GenMyintSwe.MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe and wellwishers receive the Five Precepts from Vice-Chairman Sayadaw Bhaddanta Paññindabhivamsa of MahaAungmyebonsan Monastery. — MNA