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* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round developmentof 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 thecountry and abroad

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural her-itage and national character

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

ards of the entire nation

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

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

tion* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 4 June— Vice-Chairman of theState Peace and Development Council Deputy Com-mander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Maung Aye,accompanied by Chairman of National Disaster Pre-paredness Central Committee Prime Minister Gen-eral Thein Sein, Vice-Chairman of the NDPCCSecretary-1 of the SPDC Lt-Gen Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo, SPDC members Lt-Gen Aung Htweand Lt-Gen Tin Aye, Commander-in-Chief (Navy)Vice-Admiral Soe Thein, Commander-in-Chief (Air)Lt-Gen Myat Hein, Lt-Gen Myint Hlaing and Lt-GenYe Myint of the Ministry of Defence, Adjutant-General Maj-Gen Thura Myint Aung, Chairman ofAyeyawady Division PDC Commander of South-West Command Brig-Gen Kyaw Swe, NDPCC

(See page 8)

Aim to be set for gaining greater progress inreconstruction of storm-hit regions

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye tours relief campsin Ngapudaw, Hainggyikyun, Pyinsalu, Labutta

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye inspects fishing equipment to be distributed to fishermen at the

3rd-mile relief camp in Ngapudaw Township. — MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye views providing medical care to storm survivors by Japanese relief team in Labutta Township. — MNA

Storm victims are our ownpeople and the governmentwill fulfil their requirementfor rehabilitation tasks.

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

People’s DesireThursday, 5 June, 2008

Our environment of all living things issurrounded by atmosphere, water, land, trees,mountains and natural resources includinghuman beings.

Nowadays, global warming is generatingclimate changes. There are storms, floods,drought, heat waves in various parts of theworld. There occur dense fog and dry soil dueto the climate change. They are causing damagesto the environment.

Every nation in the world is giving priorityto environmental conservation. Every year theWorld Environmental Day is observed on 5June and nations of the world hold educativetalks on environmental conservation andprevention of danger caused by damage toenvironment.

Experts say that 90 per cent of the globalwarming is caused by human beings. Beginning1990 the world has become warmer and 2008 isthe hottest year according to the worldtemperature records.

Increase of the greenhouse effect is one ofthe reasons that make the world warm.Therefore, increase in the greenhouse gas mustbe reduced in order to lower the volume ofcarbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Regardingthe reduction of production of carbon dioxide,tasks such as lesser use of fuel-powered vehicles,production of bio-fuel and conservation andprotection of forests that can absorb carbon areto be implemented.

In Myanmar the National Commissionfor Environmental Affairs was formed and thecommission undertakes measures on cultivationof trees and conservation of forests andbiodiversity, wildlife and flowers. Pollution ofair, water, ground and forest depletion causedamage to the environment.

All the people hand in hand with thegovernment need to participate inenvironmental conservation tasks for longerexistence of all living things.

Conserve environment forlonger existence of allliving things

YANGON, 4 June — AN-12 flight carrying 16.34tons of medicines, life boat-used engines, stretchers andtarpaulins donated by Malteser International, two AN-12 flights and two IL-76 flights carrying 83.49 tons ofplastic rolls and mosquito nets donated by Thailand-based WFP, two C-130 flights carrying 20.28 tons ofdrinking water, blankets, milk powder, towels, bulbs,foodstuff, medicines, clothes and rice donated byBuddhist University in Thailand, 8M-332 flight carrying

Relief aids from abroad arrive at YangonInternational Airport

2.79 tons of 70 bags of rice and packages of clothesdonated by Baiyoke Hotel Group, three C-130 flightscarrying 12.79 tons of plastic mats, plastic rolls andmosquito coils donated by the USA, IL-76 flight carrying35.69 tons of tarpaulins and medicines donated by Indiaarrived at Yangon International Airport today.

Relief supplies donated from abroad havebeen sent to storm-hit regions by helicopter, car andship. — MNA

YANGON, 4 June—Kyunnantha Ashin Nandasiri,Missionary Sayadaw in France, and wellwisherspresented the relief aids to the victims of Swedawgon,Phayalaesu and Makyeekan villages in Pyapon andPoshangyi village in Dedaye on 31 May.

The donors contributed rice, onion, salt, noodle,medicine, drinking water, dry fish, zinc sheets, robes,clothes and cash to the victims in the townships.—MNA

Sayadaw in France,donates relief aid to victims

YANGON, 4 June —The executive committeeof Myanmar GoldEntrepreneurs Associa-

tion held its meeting No4/ 07-08 at the office ofthe MGEA of UMFCCITower in LanmadawTownship here yesterday.

U Thu Taw, thechairman of MGEA, gavea speech at the meeting.And secretary U KyawWin read out the minutesof the executivecommittee meeting andsought approval for it.Later, Vice-chairman ofMGEA U Kyaw Myintexplained matters relatedto current gold price,contribution of fund forthe 5th annual generalmeeting (2007) andgeneral matters.

The goldentrepreneurs and gold

Gold entrepreneurs holdmeeting No 4/ 07-08

merchants in YangonDivision donated K 10million to storm victimsthrough Yangon DivisionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil, K 12 millionthrough Thidagu DhammaBeikman and rice,drinking water, clothesand foodstuff worth K 15million for storm victimsin Maubin, Kyaiklat,Pyapon townships.Likewise, Mandalay

division gold entre-preneurs donated K 12.5million to storm victimsthrough Mandalay CityDevelopment Committee;gold entrepreneurs inMagway Divisionfoodstuff, relief suppliesand cash worth K 1million and goldentrepreneurs inTaunggyi Township K1.5 million to stormvictims.—MNA

Relief aids from India arrive at Yangon International Airport. — MNA

Meeting No 4/07-08 of Myanmar Gold Entrepreneurs Association in

progress. — UMFCCI

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Obama, first US African-Americanpresidential nominee

Parts of Indonesian capitalswamped by tidal wave

JAKARTA, 4 June—A 2.2-metre (7-feet) high tidalwave inundated parts of Jakarta overnight as the citygovernment and citizens tried to hold the water backwith emergency embankments, a government officialsaid on Wednesday.

The height of the water was far greater than earlierpredictions. The World Bank, which has beenmonitoring flooding and tidal waves in Jakarta, warnedlast week of a 1.2 metre tidal surge in parts of the city.

Authorities in the capital, home to more than 10million people, had been bracing for high tides withsand bags and wire netting filled with stones.

The tidal wave swamped areas near the coast for afew hours, leaving hundreds of people stranded in theirhomes, but the main highway leading to the airport wasnot affected.

Jakarta is often flooded in the rainy season and it canalso be inundated by high tides in areas near the coastand in low-lying districts.

Flooding caused by heavy rains also frequently cutsoff a stretch of the airport highway, leading to massivetraffic jams and flight delays.—Internet

A car collides into cyclists participating in a race in Mexico’s northern bordercity of Matamoros, recently. At least one person was killed and 14 injured

when a driver slammed into a bicycle race. —INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 4 June—US senatorBarack Obama clinched theDemocratic presidential nominationTuesday night, becoming the firstAfrican-American presidentialnominee of a major US party.

Barack Obama is a first-term senatorfrom Illinois.

Previously, he served in the Illinoisstate legislature and worked as a civilrights attorney.

Obama has proposed legislation thatwould create a new employmenteligibility system for companies toverify if their employees are legal

residents.Obama, whose father is from Kenya,

is considered by experts to be the firstAfrican-American candidate with areasonable chance of winning thepresidency.

Obama was born 4 Aug, 1961, inHawaii and has lived in many places,including Indonesia.

Obama attended Columbia Universityin New York and earned a law degree atHarvard University in Massachusetts.He and his wife, Michelle, have twodaughters.

Internet

View of the damaged main street in Jungingen,southern Germany, following a thunder storm, on3 June, 2008. Heavy rainfall hit the village and thesurrounding area, three people were killed during

the thunder storm. —INTERNET

S Korea launches latesthigh-tech submarine

SEOUL, 4 June —South Korea on Wednesday launchedthe third and latest of its 214-class submarines to becommissioned by the end of next year, bringing thetotal number of submersibles in the country to 12,Yonhap news agency reported.

The latest submarine, named “Ahn Jung-geun” afterthe late independence fighter under Japan’s colonialrule of Korea in the early 20th century, was officiallylaunched in a ceremony at the dockyard of HyundaiHeavy Industries in the southeastern city of Ulsan.

The ceremony was attended by some 100 Hyundaiand military officials, including Gen Kim Tae-young,chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Navy Chiefof Staff Adm Jung Ok-keun. The 1,800-ton submarinewill be commissioned and deployed late next year,along with two other 214-class submarines that werelaunched in 2006 and 2007, Navy officials said.

“Our 214-class submarines are the latest of their kindwith no match among existing diesel submarines,” theNavy said. “They will operate as the main axis of ourfuture maritime force in succession to 209-classsubmarines.”—Internet

Brazilian Minister of Tourism Marta Suplicy enjoysthe dancing of famous local cartoon character Monicain Brasilia, capital of Brazil, on 3 June, 2008. BrazilianTourism Ministry decided on Tuesday to nominatethe popular cartoon figure Monica family as therepresentative of the country's tourism. —XINHUA

Thai southern bomb attackkills one, injuring four

BANGKOK, 4 June—A bomb planted under amotorcycle was triggered Tuesday night in Thailand'ssouthernmost province of Yala, fatally injured a womanand wounded another four, local news network TheNation said on Wednesday. The explosion occurred atabout 9:10 pm (1410 GMT) on Tuesday in front ofYala’s Muang Municipality in Muang district.

Police quoted eyewitnesses as saying that they sawtwo men parking the motorcycle and running awayand the explosion occurred less than one minute afterthat.

Police said five people were injured during the blastand one of them, an official of the municipality, diedlater at the Yala Hospital.—Internet

McCain welcomes Obama withfresh criticism

Australian soldier injured inAfghanistan fire

CANBERRA, 4 June— An Australian soldier inAfghanistan was seriously hurt while trying to extinguisha vehicle fire, Australian defence spokesperson BrigadierAndrew Nikolic said here on Wednesday.

The injured soldier received immediate medicalassistance at the incident site near the Australian base atTarin Kowt in Oruzgan Province on Tuesday.—Internet

NEW ORLEANS, 4 June—Republican John McCainwelcomed DemocratBarack Obama to the fallcampaign for the WhiteHouse on Tuesday with ablistering attack on hisjudgment and a charge thathe “voted to deny funds tothe soldiers who have donea brilliant and brave job”in Iraq.

“Americans ought to beconcerned about thejudgment of a presidentialcandidate who says he’sready to talk, in personand without conditions,with tyrants from Havanato Pyongyang, but hasn’ttravelled to Iraq to meetwith General (David)Petraeus, and see for

himself the progress hethreatens to reverse,”McCain said as his rivalwrapped up the Demo-cratic nomination.

McCain cast Obama, afirst-term Illinois senator,as lacking the experienceand discretion to be awartime commander inchief, and he argued theDemocrat’s calls for atroop withdrawal fromIraq would imperil theUnited States.

The Arizona senatormocked Obama’s promiseof change for a countryweary of the status quo,uttering the word“change” no fewer than33 times.

Internet

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MOSUL (Iraq), 4 June — A suicide bomber killed atleast five policemen and four civilians in the northernIraqi city of Mosul on Monday, police said.

They said the bomber blew himself up while drivinga car towards the provincial police headquarters in thecentre of the city, 390 kilometres (240 miles) north ofBaghdad. Two children were among the dead.

At least 46 people were wounded, including eightpolicemen.

The US military says violence in Iraq is at a four-year low following crackdowns by US and Iraqi forceson Shi’ite militias in southern Basra and Baghdad andon al-Qaeda in Mosul, its last major urban stronghold.

MNA/Reuters

ULAN BATOR, 4 June — The death toll from a heavysnowstorm that swept across seven provinces inMongolia since last Monday rose to 52, authoritiessaid Monday.

Fourteen children were among the dead and morethan 130 yurts were blown down, said the MongolianGeneral Authority for Emergency Management(GAEM).

It added that more than 200,000 livestock werefrozen to death and another 200,000 went astray in thesnowstorm. The snowstorm has also caused damage topower supply and communication systems in theaffected areas.

MNA/Xinhua

PATNA (India), 4 June — Maoist insurgents blew uprailway tracks and three government buildings in easternIndia on Monday, police said.

A section of track was damaged in Bihar state,derailing a train and disrupting the eastern rail network,a senior police officer said.

“We have dispatched forces to provide security topeople and the railway workers who are restoring thedamaged lines,” Vinay Kumar, a senior police officersaid from Jamui District, where the incident took place.No one was injured, he added.

Officials said on Monday that in another district,Maoist rebels used powerful explosives to blow upthree government buildings.—MNA/Reuters

BEIJING, 4 June—Chinese military expertshave warned of an expand-ing arms race in outerspace as Beijing and otherrival powers seek tocounter US ambitions todominate the heavens.

The United States andother Western nationshave criticized China’sefforts to build a presencein space, especially a testin January 2007 when it

NEW DELHI, 4 June—International forces inAfghanistan have mis-managed the fight againstthe Taleban, leading to arise in violence, and nowrisk losing people’sgoodwill, PresidentHamid Karzai told anIndian news channel.

Karzai has oftencriticized the Westernconduct of the war inAfghanistan, sayingcivilian casualties muststop.

WASHINGTON, 4 June—The United States has beensecretly detaining terro-rism suspects aboard float-ing “prison ships”, a Bri-tish legal charity chargedon Monday, but the Pen-tagon described the reportas inaccurate.

The charity Reprieve,citing sources includingUS military officials, par-liamentary bodies andformer prisoners, said itbelieved the US Govern-ment had operated as many

Karzai says Western forcesbungled war on Taleban

In turn, the president,who wants to stand for re-election next year, is oftencriticized at home forbeing overly influenced bythe United States andBritain.

In an interview to beaired on Indian televisionon Monday, he saidforeign troops had failedto go after “the sanctuariesof the terrorists” whichAfghan officials say existover the border inPakistan.

Karzai did not directlymention Pakistan but theAfghan Government hassaid that the West shouldhave done more to crackdown on Taleban and al-Qaeda bases in Pakistan.

“It was serious neglectof that, in spite of ourwarning,” he told CNBCTV 18, adding that otherformer members of theTaleban who had give uparms were unfairly hunteddown within Afghanterritory.—MNA/Reuters

Suicide bomber kills ninein Iraqi city of Mosul

Indian Maoist rebels destroyrailway tracks, buildings

Death toll reaches 52 in heavysnowstorm in Mongolia

US detains terror suspects on shipsas 17 shipboard prisons,particularly in the IndianOcean region.

“Prisoners have beeninterrogated under tor-tuous conditions beforebeing rendered to other,often undisclosed loca-tions,” Reprieve said,adding that it would issuea detailed report later thisyear.

Department of Defencespokesman JD Gordoncalled the report “inaccu-rate and misleading”.

“We do not operatedetention facilities onboard Navy ships.

DoD detention facili-ties are in Iraq, Afghanis-tan and Guantanamo,” hesaid.

The United States hasdenied torturing terrorismsuspects, but a JusticeDepartment report lastmonth cited FBI agents aswarning that some CIAquestioning techniqueswere “borderline tor-ture”.—MNA/Reuters

China experts warn of expanding spacearms race

shot down one of its ownaged satellites.

But in a book issuedby the state-run ChinaArms Control and Disar-mament Association, twoPeople’s Liberation Armyexperts said Washing-ton’s bid for enduringsecurity domination inouter space was pressingBeijing and other powersinto competition, evenconfrontation.

“Strategic confront-ation in outer space isdifficult to avoid. Thedevelopment of outerspace forces shows signsthat a space arms race toseize the commandingheights is emerging,”wrote Wu Tianfu of theSecond Artillery CorpsCommand College.

The Corps controlsChina’s nuclear arsenal.

MNA/Reuters

South Korean protesters clash with riot police as they protest against US beefimports recently. President Lee Myung-Bak has announced that South Koreawill not accept imports of US beef from cattle more than 30 months old as he

negotiates his biggest test yet since taking office 100 days ago. —INTERNET

Police officials carry a man from a flooded home after Tropical Storm Arthurpassed nearby in Pucte, Mexico,on 2 June, 2008. Tropical Storm Arthur

weakened to a tropical depression after soaking the Yucatan Peninsula overthe weekend.—INTERNET

Hundreds of zebra statues are placed at a shrine in Bangkok on 4 June,2008. Many Thais believe that the zebra is the favourite animal of the deity

that resides in the shrine.—INTERNET

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13 killed in bus accidentin Venezuela

CARACAS, 4 June— Thirteen people were killedand 14 others injured Sunday in a serious busaccident in middle Venezuela, said the localpolice. The accident occurred in the state ofAnzoategui, when a long-distance passenger busdeparting from the state of Guarico rolled over andcaught fire after suddenly losing control.

A total of 13 passengers were killed at the sceneof the accident. All the injured people werehospitalized, said the police.

Investigation of the causes of the accident isunderway.

15 killed in bus accident in BoliviaLima, 4 June—At least 15 people were killed, 15

others injured and three went missing on Sundayafter a bus fell off a cliff in western Bolivia, saidreports reaching here from La Paz, Bolivia’sadministrative capital.The accident took place inthe vicinity of the town of Villa Barrientos in theregion of Los Yungas, when the passenger busheading to La Paz lost control and fell off a 200-metre deep cliff.

The highway police and firefighting divisionhave sent rescue teams to help the bus accidentvictims. Investigation of the causes of the accidentis underway.

Xinhua

Two road accidents kill16, injure 14 in Egypt

Jiangnan shipyard makes wayfor Shanghai Expo 2010

BEIJING, 4 June —China's oldest shipbuilder,the Jiangnan ShipyardCorp, completed the moveto a new home on Tuesdayto make room for WorldExpo 2010.

The shipbuilder, asubsidiary of China StateShipbuilding Corp (CSSC),moved from its HuangpuRiver site in Shanghai to

Changxing Island on themouth of the Yangtze River,which is set to become theworld’s largest shipyard.Work on the 16-billion-yuan (2.3 billion US dollars)new shipyard started in2005.

It's the first phase of theChangxing base and has aproduction capacity of 4.5million deadweight tons

(DWT), with a 3.8-kilometres coastline, fourdocks and three productionlines. Work on the secondphase, with a 3.5-million-DWT capacity, is to start in2009 and finish in about2012, CSSC chief econo-mist Guo Xiwen toldXinhua.

Construction of theChangxing base was amajor step in China’s goalof becoming a leadingworld shipbuilder, saidCSSC general managerChen Xiaojin. — Xinhua

OAS annual conference opensin Colombia

IAEA team to be allowed to visit Syria on N-reactorVIENNA, 4 June— The

UN atomic watchdog saidMonday that Syria willallow its inspectors toprobe an alleged secretnuclear reactor in thecountry.

“It has now been agreedthat an agency team willvisit Syria during theperiod 22-24 of June. Ilook forward to Syria’s fullcooperation in thismatter,” chief of the

International AtomicEnergy Agency (IAEA)Mohamed ElBaradei tolda meeting of the agency’s35-nation board of gov-ernors.

The IAEA cheif alsoexpressed regret thatinformation concerningthe installation was notprovided to the body intime for it to establish thefacts.

The alleged reactor sitewas destroyed in an Israeliair raid last September.

Xinhua

BOGOTA, 4 June— The2008 conference of theOrganization of Ameri-cans States (OAS) kickedoff Sunday in theColombian city ofMedellin.

OAS Secretary-GeneralJose Miguel Insulza andColombian PresidentAlvaro Uribe inauguratedthe opening ceremony,which was attended byofficials and repre-sentatives from 94countries and some inter-national organizations.

During the three-daymeeting, 34 members ofthe bloc are expected todiscuss such issues asreinforcing democracy,improving the com-

petitiveness of the youngpeople, fending off theglobal food crisis andcracking down onterrorism and drug-traf-ficking.—Xinhua

An Egyptian man watches photos at the photo exhibition of Ernesto CheGuevara held at Gallery Toot in Doqqi of Cairo, capital of Egypt, on 2 June,2008. This exhibition was sponsored by the Embassy of Cuba with an aim of

marking Guevara’s 80th birthday, which falls on 14 June this year. —XINHUA

A Panasonic’sEVOLTA Robot is

pictured in a handoutphoto released by

Panasonic on 2 June,2008. The 17-cm robotpowered by a pair of

AA batteries climbed a530-m rope climb toscale a cliff at theGrand Canyon in

under seven hours on23 May, 2008

Panasonic said.XINHUA

A man jumps onto acushion in a drillin Chenzhou, centralChina’s Hunan Pro-vince, on 3 June, 2008.

XINHUA

HFMD undercontrol in China’s

quake zone BEIJING, 4 June —The

few hand-foot-mouthdisease (HFMD) casesthat occurred recently inChina’s quake-hit areashave been brought undercontrol, according to MaoQun’an spokesman of theMinistry of Health.

“The Ministry of Healthhas required that HFMDcases must be reportedsince 2 May this year,”said Mao. “Any HFMDcase in the quake-hit areaswill be reported im-mediately through oursystem.” Some reliefworkers had experiencedrashes as a result of poorpersonal sanitary con-ditions. “However, thingswill improve, as weimmediately delivered thenecessary medicine tothem,” he said.—Xinhua

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

CAIRO, 4 June—Two separate road accidentson Sunday left 16 dead and 14 others wounded inEgypt, the official MENA news agency reported.

A collision of three vehicles in Beni Suefgovernorate, some 120 kilometres south of thecapital of Cairo, killed 12 people and injured 12others seriously, Beni Suef security chief SamirAwad was quoted as saying.

Meanwhile, four people were killed and twoothers injured when three trucks and two carscollided on Sunday in Beheira governorate, some130 kilometres northwest of Cairo.

Xinhua

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Moneyin dam in Namtu Township, ShanState (North) commissioned

NAY PYI TAW, 4 June— An opening ceremonyof Moneyin dam was heldat the dam near Moneyinvillage in Namtu Townshipof Kyaukme District, ShanState (North) on 31 May,attended by Chairman ofShan State (North) Peaceand Development CouncilCommander of North-EastCommand Maj-Gen AungThan Htut, DeputyCommander Brig-Gen HlaMyint, Director-General UKhin Zaw of IrrigationDepartment and officials,senior military officersof the command,departmental officials,members of the UnionSolidarity and Deve-lopment Association,national race groups,traditional cultural troupesand local people.

Commander Maj-GenAung Than Htut deliveredan address at the ceremony.In his address, thecommander urged the localfarmers to strive fordevelopment of agricultureworks with the use of water

from dams and reservoirsin the region. Moneyin damwill supply drinking water,generate hydro power andwill irrigate farmlands, headded. He also stressed theneed for durability of thedam.

Next, the director-general explained purposeof opening of the dam anda member of township

USDA spoke words ofthanks.

Commander Maj-GenAung Than Htut pressedthe button to unveil thestone inscription of the damand the commander andthe director-generalsprinkled scented wateron it.

Next, the commanderand the director-general

opened the dam.After the ceremony,

the commander and partyviewed the entertainmentsof cultural troupes andpresented cash awards tothem. They also lookedinto conduit, controltower and spillway of thedam.

At the briefing hall ofthe project, officials

reported on facts related tothe project, progress of theproject and irrigationsystem of the dam to thecommander and party.

Moneyin dam is 211th

dam of the State and thethird one for the Shan State(North). It is situated onNamsum creek nearMoneyin village in NamtuTownship. The dam is

1700 feet in length and 100feet in height. The storagecapacity of the dam is28420 acre-feet. The damis earth embankment type.The government has spentK 1690 million onconstruction of the dam toirrigate 2600 farmlands inthe township the wholeyear.

MNA

DMS teams participate inhealth care services

NAY PYI TAW, 4June—The State iscarrying outrehabilitation andreconstruction tasks inthe storm-hit regions.

Special medicalteam-1 from Directorateof Medical Services ofthe Ministry of Defencecarried out spraying ofpesticide, pesticideblowing, check onsample of drinking water

and sanitation tasks inYadanadipa sportsground, 3rd mile and 5thmile camps yesterday.

In Htinponseikvillage, special medicalteam-1 together withBelgium medical teamcarried out prevention ofdiseases and medicaltreatment.

Similarly, the specialmedical team togetherwith Indian and Thai

medical teams, and themedical team of theMinistry of Healthundertook health careservices in Bogale andMyaungmya.

The special medicalteams continued to carryout health care servicesin cooperation withofficials in Kungyangon,Kawhmu, Dedaye,Ngapudaw and Haing-gyigyun.—MNA

YANGON, 4 June—Amedical team com-prising dentists ofInternational College ofDentists , Myanmardentists and dentists ofDirectorate of provideddental care to storm

Survivors in Maubin receive dental caresurvivors in Maubin,Ayeyawaday Division,on 31 May.

The team comprises22 dentists and seven staffand gave dental treatmentto 144 survivors atPeople’s Hospital in

Maubin.The team also donated

100 blankets and K300,000 to the hospital anddistributed relief food andclothes to survivors atrelief camps.

MNA

Donors contribute relief aid to storm victimsYANGON, 4 June—

Wellwishers donated reliefsupplies to victims at theFire Services Department inMayangon Township today.

Mother TeresaChildren’s Foundation(MTCF), World Children’sFund, Medical MissionI n t e r n a t i o n a l ( M M I )presented Yuan 120,000worth of bed sheets, candle,soap and slippers to thevictims in the storm-hitareas.

Similarly, Miss DrThanyaluk Pitisettakarn andSolex International(Thailand) Co Ltd alsocontributed 16,000 tins ofcanned fish worth K 7.2

million to the victims in thestorm-affected regions.

Director U Myint Theinand officials of the Social

Welfare Departmentaccepted the donations andspoke words of thanks.

MNA

A view of Moneyin dam in Namtu Township.—MNA

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Guess who’ll be Euro champYANGON, 4 June —

Euro 2008 FootballChampionship will beheld in Australia andSwitzerland from 7 to 29June 2008. Football fansnot only on the planet butalso in Myanmar can’twait to see the event. Tomake it more alive, T-Home electronic sales

centre, one of the branchesof TMW, plans to hold amatch.

T-Home has made anarrangement for thefootball enthusiasts toforecast the championteam. T-Home will presentone 29'’ Super Slim TVfor the first prize, two 21'’Super Slim TV for the

second, three 21'’ Pure FlatTV for the third, one WaterCooler for the fourth andthree DVD for the fifth tothe winners.

Detail programmeswill be stated in journals.So do the names of thewinners after holding theceremony to pick them.

MNA

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Myanmar has regained independence for more than60 years and four months. The people of an independentnation have sovereign power, which is of threebranches—legislative, executive and judicial powers.Under the sovereign power, the people have the rights todraw and promulgate freely the laws to be able to lead apeaceful life and improve their living conditions,exploiting own natural resources.

The people have the rights to exercise theadministrative mechanism designed to ensure security,peace and prosperity of the Myanmar society or therights to elect best governments. Opposing, disruptingand disturbing these laws mean opposing, disruptingand disturbing the entire people. The three sovereignpowers also prescribe the rights (jurisdiction) to handdown punitive sentences to such violators. The threesovereign powers are termed people’s sovereign poweror independence.

If a country is occupied and its natural resources areexploited and taken away in an unfair way, the people ofthe country will fall under alien subjugation. Then, thepeople no longer own lands and farms or sovereignpower. It is because the colonialists have taken thesovereign power (independence) of the people by force.So, the people of every colony risked life and limb tohelp their motherland regain independence. They areopposed to any patterns of colonialism. Myanmar is oneof those countries.

In Myanmar that regained independence in 1948,the 1947 constitution known as the State constitutionwas formulated in haste before independence wasregained. In consequence, there was a section of secessionfrom the Union, and the Union was on the verge ofcollapse in early March 1962. So, that constitutionbecame defunct 14 years after its birth.

Myanmar was without a constitution for 12 yearsfrom 1962 to 1974. The nation drew and practisedanother constitution based on Socialism in 1974. Thesecond constitution met its end after it had come intoforce for 14 years due to the 1988 unrest.

The nation again has been without a constitutionsince then. In 1992, the government held talks withrepresentatives of various parties to write an enduringconstitution that can guarantee perpetual existence ofthe Union, home to more than 100 national races, takinglessons from the defects and loopholes of the previoustwo constitutions. Under the agreement reached amongthe parties including NLD, the National Convention washeld in 1993 and principles were laid down.

About 100 NLD representatives attended theNational Convention held from 1993 to 1995 andparticipated in laying down fundamental principles anddetailed basic principles. The National Convention wasadjourned in 1996 and it was resumed in 2004. Afteradopting all the fundamental principles and detailedprinciples, the convention was over on 3 September2007. The Commission for Drafting the StateConstitution made up of 54 members compiled the StateConstitution (draft) from 3 December 2007 to 19 February2008.

A constitution (draft) is approved by parliaments. In

The people have opened thedemocracy door to Myanmar (1)

Tekkatho Myat Thusome countries, it is approved by authorities. Someconstitutions are approved by the vote of the peoplethrough a referendum, but the number of such constitutionsis very few. Myanmar has seen two referendums forapproval of the State constitutions in 1973 and in 2008.

A constitution prescribes who, on behalf of thepeople, will exercise the sovereign powers, how they willhave to be exercised, and which ways and disciplines willhave to be exerted in the process. It also stipulates thefundamental rights and duties of the citizens. People’srepresentatives (members of the parliament) have topractise the sovereign powers on behalf of the people inthe framework of the State constitution. The people haveto entrust them with powers to exercise legislative,executive and judicial powers through the Stateconstitution. That is why a constitution is defined anagreement (to bestow powers to exercise sovereignpowers) reached between the people and the government(authorities exercising sovereign powers on behalf of thepeople).

The 45-member Commission for Holding theReferendum was set up for approval of the Stateconstitution (draft) (2008) through a referendum, whichis the most democratic way. Sub-commissions at state/division, district, township and ward levels were formedacross the Union. The sub-commissions consisted ofthousands of members. In each sub-commission, amongthe members were scholars, experts and those who wereheld in high esteem by the people.

Hundreds of thousands of polling station officersand members took responsibilities throughout the country.Initially, the 10th May was designated to hold thereferendum in all the 325 townships of the nation, andarrangements were made thoroughly. However, a severestorm Nargis hit Ayeyawady, Yangon and Bago divisionsand Kayin and Mon states on 2 and 3 May. The regionswere thus announced the natural disaster-hit areas.

The survey conducted in the aftermath of the stormshowed that the storm brought heavy death toll anddestruction to only seven townships in AyeyawadyDivision and 40 townships in Yangon Division. Therefore,Bago Division and Kayin and Mon states were removedfrom the list of the disaster-affected areas.

On 6 May, the Commission for Holding theReferendum issued Announcement 8/2008 which said thatthe referendum to take place in the seven townships inAyeyawady Division and 40 townships in Yangon Divisionwas postponed to 24 May. On 10 May, the referendum forapproval of the State constitution (draft) was held in 278townships including five townships in Yangon Divisionand 19 in Ayeyawady Division. It was also held in seventownships in Ayeyawady Division and 40 in YangonDivision, totaling 47 on 24 May.

It can be said that a referendum lays down principlesthat designate who will have to exercise the sovereignpower on behalf of the people and the processes to do so.The representatives (MPs) the people have elected byvoting in the elections shall carry out tasks in accordancewith the State constitution. They shall not do as theyplease in the processes. So, a constitution has to be drawnfirst so that there have been firm principles the people

approve. In many countries, big and small, the peopledo not approve the constitution concerned. Thereferendum is an occasion when people cast vote forapproval of the State constitution and thus it is the mostdemocratic way.

Myanmar is among a few countries where the Stateconstitution is approved through a referendum. So, theCommission for Holding the Referendum organizedthe referendum with all seriousness in May 2008 inorder that all the citizens aged above 18 years (exceptmembers of the Sangha, those who are serving theirprison terms, and those with unsound mind) enjoyedthe rights to vote.

In that regard, the Commission at the central levelsupervised the processes to ensure that the referendumwas held in line with the referendum laws and rules andit was a free and fair one.

The commission also took measures for ensuringthat all the citizens who had attained the age of 18 yearson 10 May to be in the list of voters. It turned thespotlights on the upcoming referendum in advancethrough TV plays and discussions, songs, and articles.It distributed copies of books on the State constitution(draft) on 9 April for public knowledge. It madearrangements for polling station officers and membersto study referendum laws, rules and work guidelinesand conducted courses for them. At the courses andmeetings, commission members repeatedly urged theattendees to make sure that the referendum would beheld in conformity with the law and rules, and everycitizen aged above 18 years would enjoy the right tovote, and the referendum would be a free and fair one.

Arrangements were made to set up polling stationsin the places that were easily accessible for the voters ofwards and villages, lay polling boxes in the sites thatwere easily visible even from outside the polling stations,thoroughly cover the polling booths in order that thevoters could express their desire freely.

At 6 o’clock in the morning, the polling stationofficer invited five people who arrived at the station andopened the boxes for their witness. He also turned theboxes upside down and shook the boxes in the presenceof the people outside the polling stations. The purposewas to prove that the referendum was free from anydishonest acts that have taken place in the world and inMyanmar, for example some organizers put ‘yes’ ballotpapers into the boxes in advance. (The book “To EnsureFree and Fair Multi-party Democracy Election” bymember of the previous multi-party democracy generalelection Saya Che states dishonest acts of rigging in thepast with profound evidences.) Taking lessons from thepast events in the parliamentary democracy time,systematic arrangements were made to enable the votersto express their desire (as they wanted to vote ‘yes’ or‘no’).

Polling hours was from 6 am to 4 pm and the periodwas 10 hours or 600 minutes. It would not be convenientfor the voters if only two persons—one for checkingvoters list and another for issuing ballot papers—wereassigned duties for a polling station for 1000 voters. So,many more persons were assigned duties. In the process,volunteers and NGO members had distributed inadvance slips stating voters list and names of voters inorder that the voters could know and find their serialnumbers in the list in a short time. Thus, voters were ina position to draw the ballot papers in a short time andcast vote according to their desire.

(To be continued)Translation: MS

Opposing, disrupting and disturbing lawsmean opposing, disrupting and disturbing theentire people.

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Aim to be set for gaininggreater progress in…

(from page 1)member ministers, the di-rector-general of the Gov-ernment Office, depart-mental heads, flew toOttwin Village ofNgapudaw Townshipfrom Pathein by helicop-ter yesterday morning.

First, they vieweddamages of Ottwin Vil-lage and its surroundingareas and reconstructiontasks by helicopter.

They, accompaniedby Commodore MyoMyint Than of the localstation and officials to-gether with those of ShweThanlwin Co and AryonUCo inspected the relief

Ottwin, Phonedawpyaeand Thechaung villagesand explained the arrange-ments to be made by thegovernment for rebuild-ing the storm-hit regionsand enabling the victimsto resume their liveli-hoods. In his instructions,he urged them to remainunited and amicable whilestaying at the relief camp.

Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye and partyflew to Hainggyikyun ofNgapudaw Township andviewed progress in reha-bilitation of Hainggyikyunby car.

At the hall of thelocal station, Commodore

camp in the village.At the relief camp,

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye greeted thestorm victims from

Myo Myint Than reportedon damages in Ngaputawand Hainggyikyun town-ships hit by the storm, re-construction and require-

ments.After hearing the

reports, Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye stressedthe need to set the aim for

gaining the greaterprogress in reconstructionof the storm-hit regions.Arrangements are beingmade to keep the reliefcamps clean and tidy andit is necessary to organizethe victims to always fol-low the above practices.He pointed out that theplans are to be imple-mented to carry out culti-vation tasks without de-creasing the original sownacreage through the agri-cultural mechanizationmethod, and it is neces-sary to provide equipmentand boats for the fisheryindustry.

He said that prior-ity is to be given to upliftof the living standard andeconomic sector. In addi-tion, officials are to ex-plain the aim of the Stateto those who are workingat the grassroots-level.

Vice-Senior Gen-

eral Maung Aye and partyproceeded to Pyinsalu byhelicopter. They inspectedopening of departmentaloffices accommodated intents and greeted the serv-ice personnel.

After hearing re-ports on condition ofPyinsalu by CommanderBrig-Gen Kyaw Swe,Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye gave neces-sary instructions.

Next, they lookedinto storm victims accom-modated in tents. He askedabout living conditions ofstorm victims in the reliefcamp, their business andhealth matters and com-forted them.

Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye said thatstorm victims are ourown people and the gov-ernment will fulfill theirrequirements for reha-bilitation tasks and rais-

ing their living stand-ards.

Next, Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye andparty went to 3rd-mile re-lief camp in LabuttaTownship.

Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye and partytogether with Minister forCooperatives Maj-GenTin Htut who is makingclose supervision in reha-bilitation tasks of thetownship and officialscomforted the storm vic-tims.

Next, they greetedJapanese medical teamand observed givingmedical treatments tostorm victims. They alsogreeted specialists, doc-tors and nurses of 300-bed Teaching Hospital inMandalay.

Medical teams ofMyanmar Medical Asso-ciation (Central) and Di-rectorate of Medical Serv-ices of the Ministry ofDefence are giving healthcare to storm victims at3rd-mile relief camp.

Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye and partyinspected equipment forstorm victims to be usedin fisheries arranged byMyanmar Fisheries Fed-eration entrepreneurs un-der the arrangement of theMinistry of Livestock andFisheries.

Next, they pro-ceeded to Labutta. Afterhearing reports on lossesand damage in Labuttacaused by the storm,

(See page 9)

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye comforts storm victims at the 3rd mile relief camp in Labutta.MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye comforts a storm victim receivingtreatment at People’s Hospital in Labutta. — MNA

Vice-Senior

GeneralMaung

Aye briefsstorm

survivorson ar-range-

ments forrehabili-

tationtasks inPyinsalu.

MNA

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State puts on record effortsand contributions of…

(from page 16)The people from

other States and Divisionsare making cash and kinddonations to the storm-hitregions of Ayeyawady andYangon Divisions withsympathy, national spiritand Union Spirit. There-fore, the State put on recordof the efforts and contribu-tions of the wellwisher, peo-ple, members of the RedCross Society, entrepre-neurs and social organiza-tions to the relief tasks.

He added that in re-constructing the storm-hitregions, it is necessary torender assistance tochange the conventionalmethod to the agriculturalmechanization that is one

(from page 8)rehabilitation works in the township, contributions ofMax Myanamr Co, Ayar Shwe Wah Co, Zaykaba Coand Wah Wah Win Co in rehabilitation works, progressof repair of schools, hospitals, clinics, religious build-ings and departmental buildings, arrangements beingmade for cultivation of monsoon paddy and require-ments by Minister for Cooperatives Maj-Gen Tin Htut,Vice-Senior General Maung Aye gave instructions onrehabilitation tasks.

Afterwards, they looked into progress of reha-bilitation tasks in Labutta in a motorcade.

They also inspected completion of repair worksof the township hospital.

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and partygreeted health staff of the hospital and specialists andnurses of 300-bed Mandalay Teaching Hospital andcomforted the patients.

Next, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and partyleft Labutta for Pathein by helicopter. — MNA

Aim to be set for gaininggreater progress in…

of the aims of the State inthe agricultural sector. Hestressed the need to growthe crops on the full sownacreage and to make theplans for increasing theper-acre yield in the fer-tile areas. He said thatHead of State Senior Gen-eral Than Shwe had givenguidance that the arrange-ments are to be made forensuring sufficiency ofthe staple food such asfood, edible oil and saltin the respective regionsand for ensuring someregions to become thebasic food producing re-gions of the State. As theall-round arrangementshad been made for thelong term in accord with

the guidance, the regionthat is facing the emer-gency condition can over-come the anxiety.

Concerning theagriculture sector, thenumber of acres of rain-fedpaddy and irrigation water-fed paddy reached 19.99million in the country lastyear including 4.95 millionacres in Ayeyawady Divi-sion. A total of 0.18 millionacres in Ayeyawady Divi-sion was destroyed by thestorm. The number of de-stroyed acres in AyeyawadyDivision is equivalent to0.009 per cent of the culti-vation acreage of the coun-try and 0.036 per cent of thecultivation acreage of theAyeyawady Division.

However, if the gov-ernment fulfils the require-ment and local people in the

division make efforts forgrowing paddy, the acreagein Ayeyawady will reachnearly the previous level.

Therefore, there is noneed to worry about food inAyeyawady Division andefforts should focus on pro-viding power tillers, ferti-lizer, fuel, motorized boatsand fishing nets for reha-bilitation of the storm-hitareas.

Afterwards, Vice-Senior General Maung Ayecordially greeted responsi-ble personnel of UMFCCI,Myanmar Rice Millers’ As-sociation, Myanmar RiceDealers’ Association,Myanmar Fishery Federa-tion and businessmen.

After the meeting,Chairman of National Dis-aster Preparedness PrimeMinister General Thein Seinheld a meeting with offi-cials concerned and dis-cussed matters related to re-habilitation and develop-ment tasks in Ngapudaw andLabutta Townships.

Chairman ofNDPCC Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein said theVice-Chairman of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil and party visitedstorm-affected areas inAyeyawady Division be-ginning 1 June for provid-ing assistance for the stormvictims.

The NDPCC andten subcommittees fulfilledthe requirements of thestorm victims effectivelyand speedily, he said.

He said the gov-ernment successfully car-ried out relief, health careservices and rehabilitationworks in damaged areas incooperation with the peo-ple, the Tatmadaw, socialorganizations and nationalentrepreneurs.

Endeavours are tobe made for more develop-ment of the storm-hit re-gions than before and im-provement of living stand-ard of the storm victims inaccord with the guidelinesof Head of State SeniorGeneral Than Shwe andVice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye.

He said it can beseen that the storm victimsare farmers, those engagedin fisheries, salt-makers andthose engaged in generaltrading.

As the cultivationseason sets in, arrange-ments are to be made forproviding the farmers withpower tillers, paddy seedsand fuel effectively andspeedily.

Similarly, necessaryassistance is to be providedto the persons who areworking for making saltand marine to be able to

regenerate their businessesregularly. It is necessary tocarefully collect facts andfigures in fulfilling reliefsupplies to the storm-vic-tims.

Next, Vice-Chair-man of the National Disas-ter Preparedness CentralCommittee Secretarty-1 ofthe SPDC Lt-Gen ThihaThura Tin Aung Myint Oobriefed the Prime Minsteron reconstruction tasks ofNgapudaw and LabuttaTownships.

Afterwards, Vice-Admiral Soe Thein briefedon conditions of regions,accommodation, food, ag-ricultural services, breedingtasks and assistance for re-generation of businesses ofthe storm victims inNgapudaw Township andso did Minister for Coop-eratives Maj-Gen Tin Htutin Labutta Township.

Next, CommanderBrig-Gen Kyaw Swe andministers concerned briefedon ministry-wise measuresand the Secretary-1 gave asupplementary report.

After hearing the re-ports, the Prime Ministergave necessary instructionson tasks to be carried outand fulfillment of thestrength of staff to run op-erational functions and themeeting ended in theevening.—MNA

If the government fulfils the requirement andlocal people in the division make efforts for growingpaddy, the acreage in Ayeyawady Division will reachnearly the previous level.

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye consoles storm victims in Ottwin reliefcamp in Ottwin and Phonetawpyae villages. —MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye consoles storm victims inPyinsalu.—MNA

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Microsoft executive hints change of “Live” brand

A Balinese farmer weighs rice during a harvest in Jati Luwih, Bali, Indonesiaon Tuesday, 3 June, 2008. Indonesian government recently revised its 2008budget, increasing the amount it will spend on food subsidies by 2.7 trillion

rupiah, or about US$290 million. Total government spending on fuel,electricity and food subsidies this year will total US$20 billion. —INTERNET

A woman walks past a vegetable stall at a market in Hanoi on 2 June, 2008.Vietnam’s annual inflation accelerated to 25.2 percent in May from 21.4

percent in April, its seventh consecutive double-digit reading and one of thehighest in Asia. —INTERNET

Strong winds of thetropical stormArthur hit theChetumal Bay,

Quinta Roo, on 1June, 2008.

INTERNET

APEC trade ministers endmeeting in Peru

LIMA, 4 June — Tradeministers from the Asia-Pacific EconomyCooperation (APEC)forum Sunday endedtheir 14th meeting inPeru's southern city ofArequipaon with a draftDeclaration on DohaAgenda for Development.

The two-day meetingdiscussed how to containthe hiking prices triggeredby the recent food crisis aswell as the ways to pushforward the stalled DohaRound of global tradetalks. In the declarationsigned after the plenary

session, the ministersagreed that the DohaRound negotiations withinthe framework of theWorld Trade Organization(WTO) would serve asan important tool toovercome the current foodcrisis. The document willbe presented to the APECsummit in Lima inNovember.

Peruvian TradeMinister Mercedes Araozsaid that the draftdocument aimed to give apolitical boost to thenegotiations in the WTOto bring down trade

barriers. He added that once the

agricultural issues of theDoha Round talks aresolved, it will encourageagricultural investmentsand expansion of newprojects to improve theproductive quality of theagricultural sector.

The WTO negotiationsare meant to lower tradebarriers around the worldand allow free tradeamong different countries.

Representatives fromthe bloc's 21 membersattended the meeting.

MNA/Xinhua

Indonesia, Japan start EPAimplementation

JAKARTA, 4 June —Indonesia and Japan haveeffectively started bilateraleconomic cooperationunder the EconomicPartnership Agreement(EPA) framework after theweekend’s exchange ofdiplomatic notes to markthe cooperation, local Presssaid on Monday.

The start of the EPAwill be marked further bya deployment of athousand Indonesiannurses and housekeepersto help look after theelderly in Japan, reportedEnglish-language The

Jakarta Post, citingForeign Ministry officials.

Signed by PresidentSusilo Bambang Yud-hoyono and Japan’sformer prime ministerShinzo Abe on 20August, 2007 in Jakarta,the EPA is a compre-hensive economic

agreement invo-lving cooperationin several economic sec-tors.

Development in trade,energy, mining andintellectual property rightsare just among the keyissues arranged in theEPA. —MNA/Xinhua

BEIJING, 4 June— Asenior Microsoft exe-cutive Tuesday hinted apossible change of thecompany’s “Live” brandfor search and onlineservices, according tomedia reports.

Microsoft’s marketingteam is working on fixingthe company’s searchimage to gain on GoogleInc, said Kevin Johnson,president of Microsoft’splatforms and services

division. When asked if he

meant Microsoft wants to“change” its image insearch instead of fix it,Johnson replied, “Fixmeans fix. If that meanschange, we’ll change.”

In Johnson’s opinion,having multiple identitiesfor the same onlineservices such as MSNHotmail and Windows

Live Hotmail or WindowsLive Messenger and MSNMessenger is confusingfor the users.

In addition, Johnsonexplained that a brand“fix” is needed as Micro-soft decided to drop its bidto acquire Yahoo for 42.3billion US dollars andimprove its Live Searchengine.

Internet

Coca Cola, Lufthansa slappednotices by Indian Govt

MUMBAI, 4 June—The IndianGovernment has slapped demandnotices amounting to about 180 millionUS dolars on nine companies, includingsoft drinks major Coca Cola India,German airline Lufthansa and Era InfraEngineering for evading service tax.

The Anti Evasion Wing of theCommissionerate of Service Tax slappeddemand notices Monday on soft drinksmajor Coca Cola India and German airlineLufthansa for service tax evasion, totallingaround 35 million US dollars.

Besides Coke and Lufthansa, the wing

also issued notices to seven othercompanies, including a tax demand for83 million US dollars on constructioncompany Era Infra Engineering Ltd.

Coca Cola was issued a 20 million USdollars demand notice on non-payment ofservice tax on the “out of pocket expenses,”the service tax commissionerate said.Outof pocked expenses include expenses overand above the contract amount, which isnot inclusive of reimbursements for manand machinery supplied during providingconsultancy or other services.

MNA/Xinhua

New method to track evenremoved fingerprints

LONDON, 4 June— British forensic scientists havedeveloped a method that could be used to trackfingerprints even after the print itself has been removed,the science news website of AlphaGalileo reported onMonday.

The method of taking fingerprints from a crimescene, developed by forensic scientists at the ForensicResearch Center at the University of Leicester and theNorthamptonshire Police’s scientific support unit,enables scientists to “visualize fingerprints” even afterthe print itself has been removed, the report said.

The scientists conducted a study into the wayfingerprints can corrode metal surfaces. The techniquecan enhance a fingerprint that has been deposited on asmall calibre metal cartridge case before it is fired.

MNA/Xinhua

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Nine die in soccer stadium tragedy MONROVIA, 4 June— Nine people died of heat

suffocation before Liberia’s match against Gambia onMonday, according to an AFP report.

“They all suffered from heat suffocation,”Dominic Worlu, the chief mortician at Monrovia’sJFK government hospital, was quoted by AFP assaying.

More than 50,000 people crammed into a stadiumbuilt for 35,000 spectators, he told AFP.

On Monday football’s governing body FIFA saidit is investigating the tragic incidents before the WorldCup qualifier match. — MNA/Xinhua

Lorries, taxis block Paris motorwayin fuel protest

US lawyer charged inSingapore for insulting judge

Bomb explosion kills deputydean of Iraqi college

MOSUL (Iraq), 4 June— A bomb explosion killed adeputy dean of a college in Mosul University in northernIraq on Monday, a local police source said.

Professor Faris Younis, deputy dean for scientificaffairs in the college of agriculture, was killed when anexplosive charge planted in his car detonated in theafternoon, the source told Xinhua on condition ofanonymity.

The blast took place while Younis was leaving homefrom his college in northern the city, some 400 kilometresnorth of Baghdad, the source said.

A guard of the college was also wounded by the blast,he said, adding that an investigation on the incident isunder way.

Hundreds of high-profile academics and professionalshave either been killed or kidnapped by militiamen acrossIraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.— MNA/Xinhua

13.2 kilos of heroin seized in Austria VIENNA, 4 June — Austrian police have seized

13.2 kilos of heroin in the southern city of Villach, theAustrian News Agency reported Tuesday.

Police found the drugs in a car Sunday when itpassed a railway station aboard a car train from theTurkish city of Istanbul to Hamburg, Germany, HelmutJamnig, a spokesman for the Klagenfurt DistrictAttorney Office, was quoted as saying. The driver ofthe car, a 30-year-old Turk, was arrested, Jamnig said.

MNA/Xinhua

SINGAPORE, 4 June—A US lawyer wascharged in a Singaporecourt on Monday forallegedly insulting ajudge in an email and onhis website, courtdocuments showed.

Gopalan Nair, whoruns a law firm inCalifornia and waspreviously a Singapore

citizen, was arrested lastFriday and charged onMonday for “threatening,abusing or insulting apublic servant” in anemail he circulated andposted on his blog,s i n g a p o r e d i s s i d e n t .blogspot.com, officialdocuments showed.

Nair was notsentenced and will be

held in custody for 7 dayspending further investi-gations, his lawyer ChiaTi Lik said.

Under this charge,Nair faces a maximum fineof 5,000 Singapore dollars(3,671 US dollars) or ajail term of one year if heis found guilty.

“He is feeling okay,but he is worried about hisjob situation in the US,”Chia told reporters.

Nair was in Singaporelast week to attend a 3-dayhearing presided over byJudge Belinda Ang.

The hearing was todetermine defamationdamages to be paid by theleader of an oppositionparty to the city-state’sPrime Minister Lee HsienLoong and his father,former prime minister LeeKuan Yew.

MNA/Reuters

Military personnel standguard at the scene of abomb explosion by arailway track inColombo on 4 June,2008. At least 18 peoplewere injured in a blastby a railway track in theSri Lankan capital onWednesday, the militarysaid. —XINHUA

Workers pull a canvas cover to protect the glacier ice on top of Germany’shighest mountain Zugspitze near the southern Bavarian resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, on 4 June, 2008. To keep ski-lift sections safe for the winterseasons, the glacier ice is protected from melting from June to September.

INTERNET

PARIS, 4 June—Dozens of lorries andtaxis travelling at asnail’s pace blocked amajor motorway leadinginto Paris on Tuesday ina protest against highfuel prices.

The slow-movingconvoy set off at around 7.00am (0500 GMT), just as therush hour traffic was pickingup, and swiftly snarled amajor route leading to theLa Defense businessdistrict, highway authorities

said. In a separate protest

against the rising cost ofdiesel, hundreds of far-mers used their tractors toblock access to the largestfuel depot servingFrance’s second cityLyon.

French fishermen,truckers and farmers havestaged countless protestsover the past month toforce the government tohelp their businessesovercome high prices atthe petrol pump.

Protests have alsospread to other Europeancountries including Spain,Italy, Belgium andPortugal.

France has floated theidea of a Europe-wide capon sales tax levied on fuelbut other European Unionstates have given the ideaa lukewarm response.

MNA/Reuters

Bird flu hits one more Vietnamese locality

“Alma” causes over $30m ofdamage in Costa Rica

HANOI, 4 June— Birdflu has recently hitVietnam’s southern KienGiang Province, raisingthe total number oflocalities currentlyaffected by the disease tofive, according to local

newspaper VietnamAgriculture on Monday.

Specimens from1,000 ill chickens raisedby a household in TanHiep District weretested positive to birdflu virus strain H5N1,

the paper quoted head of theprovincial veterinary bureauDinh Cong Than as saying.

Now, bird flu is hittingthe two central provinces ofHa Tinh and Nghe An, andthe two southern provincesof Tra Vinh and Kien Giang,and southern Can Tho City,according to the country’sDepartment of AnimalHealth.

Bird flu outbreaks inVietnam, starting in De-cember 2003, have killedand led to the forced cullingof dozens of millions offowls in the country.

MNA/Xinhua

SAN JOSE, 4 June —Tropical storm “Alma”has caused damage worthover 30 million US dollarsin Costa Rica, authoritiessaid Monday.

This preliminary

figure does not includelosses in the agriculturesector, the NationalCommission for Emer-gencies (CNE) wasquoted as stat ingby the local daily

“La Nacion”. Tropical storm

“Alma”, which hit CostaRica on Thursday,caused widespread damage in 372communities anddirectly affected some19,000 people, the CNEsaid. Some communitiesare still isolated, andwithout electricity anddrinking water.

A total of 22 ruralaqueducts, 100 bridgesand 117 highway sec-tions were damaged inthe gale.

CNE presidentDaniel Gallardo said thedistricts of PerezZeledon and Parritawere the hardest hitand they are still onmaximum emergencyalert.

MNA/Xinhua

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 5 June, 2008

MINISTRY OF RAIL TRANSPORTATIONROAD TRANSPORT, YANGON DIVISION

INVITATION TO TENDER

TENDER NO.001/ME/2008-2009 1. Sealed tenders from eligible suppliers are invited for the supply of followingReconditioned Engine Ass’y & Rear Axle Ass’y. Prices to be quoted in MyanmarKyats-

(a) Reconditioned HINO HO 7C/HO7D (56) Sets NISS AN FE 6 Engine Ass’y With Gear Box Ass’y(b) Reconditioned HINO/NISSAN/FUSO Rear Axle Ass’y (35) Sets (14 ton). Gear Ratio (6.00:1 to 6.83:1)

2. (a) Tender Documents are available at the office of Procurement & StoresDepartment. Road Transport, No.375/ Bogyoke Aung San Street, YangonMyanmar Commencing on the 5- 6- 2008.(b) Tender will be closed on 18-6-2008 at (16:00) Hours(The Road Transport Reserves the right to reject any or all Tenders)

3. Detailed information will be available at the office of the Procurement & StoresDepartment. Phone No. 01-660851

ROAD TRANSPORT

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA TEGAP VOY NO (TGA-383)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA TEGAPVOY NO (TGA-383) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 5.6.2008 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up to Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

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United Arab of Emirates(UAE) has granted 500,000tons of wheat to Syria,aiming to helping Syriansto cope with the rise ofwheat prices on globalmarket, the Emirates NewsAgency (WAM) reportedTuesday. The report saidthe grant, which made byUAE President SheikhKhalifa bin Zayed AlNahyan, is a token of the“strong brotherly ties andsolidarity” between thepeoples of the twocountries.

The wheat will bebought from the inter-national markets and willbe directly shipped toSyria, it said.

During a meetingbetween the UAE Presi-dent and visiting SyrianPresident Bashar Al-Assadheld on Tuesday, theydiscussed cooperation invarious areas and exploredjoint Arab action after therecent Arab Summit inDamascus, the report said.

Al-Assad arrived in theGulf country on Monday,starting a three-dayofficial visit to the UAEas part of his tour that willtake him also to Kuwait.

A WAM editorialdescribed his visit to UAEas it “will substantially boostthe decades-long relationsbetween UAE and Syria, andwill strengthen the jointefforts by the leaders of bothcountries for restoring Arabsolidarity and pushingforward the joint Arabwork.” — MNA/Xinhua

Detainee exchange hailed betweenHizbollah, Israel

IEA head urges “revolution” to fight oil crisis

BEIRUT, 4 June—Ger-man Foreign MinisterFrank-Walter Steinmeiersaid he was pleased withthe “first step” in theexchange of detaineesbetween Israel andHizbollah.

His remarks were madein a Press conferencefollowing his meetingwith Lebanese PrimeMinister Fouad Seniora inBeirut Sunday.

“We are pleased that thisexchange operation is afirst step to a positivedynamic in secret talksaimed at achieving thefinal exchange operation,”Steinmeier said.

Earlier, the InternationalCommittee of the RedCross in Jerusalem con-firmed that its repre-sentatives had received abox containing theremains of Israeli soldiersat the Rosh Hanikra bordercrossing between Israeland Lebanon.

Regarding the Lebanesedomestic file, Stein-meier hailed the Dohaaccord, which helped endthe standoff betweenLebanon’s ruling coalitionand the Hizbollah-led opposition, as “animportant step to resolveconflict in Leba-non”, stressing on the

importance of “securityand stability away fromthe use of arms andviolence”.

He revealed thatLebanese PresidentMichel Suleiman con-veyed to him that dialoguewill start on all issues afterthe new government isformed.

Steinmeier expressedhis government’s deter-mination to supportLebanon through itsUNIFIL presence offshore the country, and thesurveillance on thenorthern Syrian Lebaneseborders.

MNA/Xinhua

LONDON, 4 June — An“energy revolution” to cutdemand is necessary tocombat the world’s thirdenergy crisis in 35 years,the head of theInternational EnergyAgency (IEA) said onMonday.

IEA Executive DirectorNobuo Tanaka said thecurrent oil price shockwas unique becausedemand has remainedrobust despite pricesclimbing to 135 US dollarsa barrel two weeks ago.

In contrast, global

Turkey’s first high-speedtrain begins test runs in June ANKARA, 4 June— The head of Turkish State

Railways ( TCDD) said on Monday that the country’sfirst high-speed train will begin test runs in June, thesemi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

“The high-speed train service would start in 2008 ifthe test runs between capital Ankara and centralAnatolian Province of Eskisehir were conductedsuccessfully,” said the report, quoting TCDD’s DirectorGeneral Suleyman Karaman. Karaman noted that theAnkara-Eskisehir line was completed, and the TCDDplanned to start the construction of Eskisehir-Istanbulline this year.— MNA/Xinhua

consumption fell after the1973 Arab oil embargoand the Iranian revolutionof 1979 as countries turnedto more energy efficienttransportation and powerplants.

“We are in a thirdenergy crisis,” he saidduring the ReutersEnergy Summit.

“Our response shouldbe an energy revolution.We have to changedramatically the demandside by efficiency and newtechnologies.”

The IEA sees anincrease in world oildemand this year asconsumption in emergingeconomies outweighs aslowdown in the UnitedStates and Europe.

MNA/Reuters

Brazil not to plant sugarcane in Amazon

BRASILIA, 4 June—Brazil has no intention of plantingsugar cane in the Amazon Region, Brazilian PresidentLuiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in Rome, Italy, onSunday, local media reported.

Non-governmental organizations have accusedBrazil recently of planning to use its territory in theAmazon Region to plant sugar cane, a move whichthey say will lead to more severe deforestation in theregion.—MNA/Xinhua

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MANILA, 4 June—High-grade, crystal-clear“ice” (methamphetaminehydrochloride) fromabroad is now being soldin the Philippine blackmarket, the chief of thePhilippine Drug Enforce-ment Agency (PDEA) saidon Monday.

It is a sign that illegaldrug syndicates havepenetrated the country’sdefences, said PDEA chiefDionisio Santiago.

“The shabu (localname of metham-phetamine hydrochloride)that is circulating in themarket right now is 98-per-cent pure,” PhilippineTV network ABS-CBNciting Santiago reported.

MNA/Xinhua

CHICAGO, 4 June — A cancer vaccine more thandoubled the survival time of people with the mostcommon and deadly type of brain tumour, USresearchers said on Monday.

The vaccine, made by Avant ImmunotherapeuticsInc and licenced by drug giant Pfizer Inc, enlists thehelp of the immune system to attack the tumour.

Researchers treated 23 patients with a type of braintumour called glioblastoma multiforme. They havelived, on average, 33 months, said Dr John Sampson ofDuke University, who presented the study at a meetingof the American Society of Clinical Oncology inChicago. “That is almost unheard of,” Sampson said inan interview.

“We have one woman who has gone on to have twobabies now,” Sampson said.

Patients given standard therapy alone lived onaverage 14 months. —MNA/Reuters

ROME, 4 June —Brazilian President LuizInacio Lula da Silva saidon Sunday he would seekto convince world leadersgathering in Rome thisweek that ethanol is not toblame for global foodinflation threateningmillions with hunger.

Brazil is the world’s

ROME, 4 June —Soaring food prices couldtrigger a global cata-strophe, with the world’spoor unable to feed theirfamilies, human rightsactivists said on Monday.

The warning came asworld leaders arrived inRome for a UN summit totackle a food crisis that ispushing 100 millionpeople into hunger,

WASHINGTON , 4 June— NASA’s Phoenix MarsLander has scooped up alittle dirt, scientists saidon Sunday, a first steptowards sampling theMartian soil for ice — andthe potential for life.

The lander then took apicture of the footprint-shaped impression itsrobotic arm scoop left onits trial run, NASA said.

“This first touch allowsus to utilize the RoboticArm accurately. We are ina good situation for theupcoming sample acqui-sition and transfer,” DavidSpencer, Phoenix’ssurface mission managerfrom NASA’s Jet

Food price “catastrophe” fearedon eve of Rome summit

provoking food protestsand could aggravateviolence in war zones.

“The current food crisisamounts to a gross vio-lation of human rightsand could fuel a globalcatastrophe, as many ofthe world’s poorest count-ries, particularly thoseforced into import de-pendency, struggle to feedtheir people,” said

Johannesburg -basedpoverty campaign groupActionAid.

“It is an outrage thatpoor people are paying fordecades of policy mistakessuch as the lack of invest-ment in agriculture andthe dismantling of supportfor smallholder farmers,”said ActionAid analystMagdalena Kropiwnicka.

MNA/Reuters

“Phoenix” lander samples Martian dirtPropulsion Laboratory inPasadena, California, saidin a statement.

Phoenix’s RoboticArm Camera also took anumber of images of whatappears to be exposed iceunder the lander.

Phoenix, whichtouched down on Mars oneweek ago on Sunday aftera 10-month, 420-million-mile (676-million-kilo-metre) journey from Earth,will bore into the ground

and study water and soilsamples to determine ifconditions were eversuitable to support life.

“What we see in theimages is in agreementwith the notion that it maybe ice, and we suspect wewill see the same thing inthe digging area,” saidUwe Keller of the MaxPlanck Institute for SolarSystem Research, Katlen-burg-Lindau, Germany.

MNA/Reuters

Brazil to defend biofuels at UN summitin Rome

largest ethanol exporterand a pioneer in sugar-cane based biofuels,making it a target of criticswho say ethanol is behindincreases in world com-modity prices.

Lula said the UNsummit on food securitywhich begins on Tuesdaywould give LatinAmerica’s biggest econo-my an opportunity to shapethe debate about biofuels— and hopefully win oversome sceptics. “Thisgathering that the (UNFood and AgricultureOrganization) is promot-ing will be a greatopportunity for Brazil,”Lula told reporters inRome ahead of the event.

“I’m convinced thatwe’re at the beginning adebate. ... It’s up to Brazil,a centre of excellence inethanol production, toprove that it’s fullypossible to make ethanoloutput compatible withthe production of food.”

UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon, who hasset up his own task forceto find answers to the foodsecurity crisis, is expectedto hold private talks withLula in Rome on Mondayahead of the 3-5 Junesummit.

The leaders of France,Spain, Japan, Argentinaand some African nationsare attending.

MNA/Reuters

Importedhigh-grade

“ice” floodingPhilippines

Vaccine doubles survivalof deadly brain cancer

India’s sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik adds the final touches to a sandsculpture of “a polar bear being crushed by a shoe” ahead of World

Environment Day on the Puri beach in the eastern state of Orissa on 3 June,2008. The event was organized by PETA to illustrate the environmental harmcaused by the leather industry, a Press release of the PETA said. —INTERNET

Contestants compete in the WE tv network’s“Bridezilla” contest in New York’s Times Square on 3June, 2008. The cable channel gave away a 25,000-US dollar prize to kick off the fifth season of their

“Bridezillas” series. —XINHUA

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide,poses for a photo on the aft flight deck of Space Shuttle Discovery during flightday two activities in this photo released by NASA on 3 June, 2008.—INTERNET

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Cannavaro injured in Italy training

Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsovareturns the ball to Belarus’Victoria Azarenka during

their fourth round match ofthe French Open tennis

tournament, on 3 June, 2008at the Roland Garros stadium

in Paris.—INTERNET

Serbian duo, Nadal raceinto semifinals

BEIJING, 4 June — When Ana Ivanovic hits anespecially good shot, she celebrates with a combina-tion leg-kick fist-pump, and she's doing it a lot at theFrench Open.

The No 2-seeded Ivanovic beat No 10 PattySchnyder 6-3, 6-2 yesterday to become the first semi-finalist at Roland Garros.

“I am really happy the way I’m playing” saidIvanovic, who has yet to lose a set in five matches. “Ijust want to keep this level.”

Fellow Serb Novak Djokovic advanced by beat-ing childhood friend Ernests Gulbis 7-5, 7-6 (3), 7-5.Djokovic reached his fifth consecutive grand slamsemifinal, joining Roger Federer, Ivan Lendl andBoris Becker as the only men to accomplish the feat inthe Open era.

In a late match, three-time champion Rafael Nadalcelebrated his 22nd birthday with a 6-1, 6-1, 6-1demolition of fellow Spaniard Nicolas Almagro toalso book a place in the semifinals.

The second seed, who extended his unbeaten runat Roland Garros since his debut in 2005 to 26 matches,will face world No. 3 Djokovic for a place in the final.

Nadal bagged the first set in 27 minutes, allowinghis 19th-seeded opponent 10 points.

Almagro then effectively threw the towel, bow-ing out when he netted an easy smash on the secondmatch point after one hour and 44 minutes.

Internet

Spain's Nicolas Almagro (L) greets compatriot RafaelNadal after their quarter-final match at the FrenchOpen tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Parison 3 June, 2008. Nadal won 6-1, 6-1, 6-1.—XINHUA

Vieira sets fitness deadlineMidfielder still hopefulof recovering in time

Patrick Vieira

Ribery gives Henry a victorious100th in final Euro warm-up

PARIS, 4 June — A first-half penalty by Franck Ribery managed notto ruin Thierry Henry's 100th international appearance and giveFrance a 1-0 win over Colombia in their final warm-up match beforeEuro 2008.

The 25-year-old Bayern Munich star slotted home the penalty afterHenry was fouled in the 23rd minute for his fourth goal in 27international appearances while coach Raymond Domenech will bedelighted that his side has not conceded a goal in their last fourmatches.

However, the lack of goals up front will cause him some worries,though, the sphinx like coach didn't seem too concerned by thatafterwards.

“Two wins and one draw, I will settle for that,” said Domenech,referring to the three warm-up matches all against South Americanopposition.

“It is not the results that are important, its the style of the perfor-mances. “I prefer three matches unbeaten than three defeats.”

Domenech admitted that he was going to have a selectorial night-mare ahead of their opening match on 9 June against Romania.

“That will give me a few sleepless nights, mind you it is somethingthat I don’t mind, better that than sleepless nights because of an injurycrisis,” added Domenech, who has a major worry over captain PatrickVieira who has a left thigh injury. —Internet

French forward Thierry Henry (R)vies with Colombian defender

Cristian Zapata during their friendlyfootball match France vs.

Colombia ahead of the Euro 2008tournament at the Stade de France

in Saint-Denis, outside Paris.France won 1-0.—INTERNET

VIENNA, 3 June — Italy cap-tain Fabio Cannavaro was takento hospital after suffering an an-kle injury in Italy’s first Euro2008 training session in Austria

on Monday. The defender collided with

Giorgio Chiellini and was carriedoff on a stretcher.

“We will have to see but it isnot nothing. It will take at least 12hours to assess the injury,” na-tional team doctor Paolo Zeppillitold reporters.

“At times there is a lot of painbut then the situation doesn’t seemso serious. The thing that we needto know is whether or not the bonehas been injured.”—MNA/Reuters

PARIS, 4 June —Franceskipper Patrick Vieira hasgiven himself until the endof the week to prove hisfitness for Euro 2008.

The International starhas been ruled out ofFrance’s opening Group Cmatch against Romania inZurich next Monday witha left thigh injury.

Vieira was expected tobe fit for France’s final twogroup games, but given hisinjury problems this sea-son it has been feared he

could miss the entire tour-nament.

The former Arsenalmidfielder admits the nextfew days will decide if hewill be fit for the finals.

“It is nothing serious, butunfortunately it has hap-pened at a bad time - be-cause every day countsnow and the tournament isapproaching,” Vieira toldFrench television stationTF1.

“Now, what I have to dois try to recover as quicklyas possible.

“If by the end of the weekI am not training, thatwould mean I will not beparticipating in the Euros.But I am still optimistic.”

Milan-bound midfielderMathieu Flamini is onstand-by to replace Vieirain the France squad if he isforced to pull out throughinjury.

Internet

Ivanovic versus Jankovic inSerb showdown at French Open

PARIS, 4 June — It's Serb against Serb in the women’ssemi-finals at the French Open on Thursday, the firsttime that has happened, for either of the sexes, in GrandSlam history.

Second seed Ana Ivanovic will start favourite againstthird seed Jelena Jankovic.

The winner will be one match away from deliveringa first female Grand Slam title to the Balkan countryhard on the heels of compatriot Novak Dkojovic'slandmark win for the men at the Australian Open in

Mourinho arrives at Inter,Sven departs City

BEIJING, 3 June — Jose Mourinho has been ap-pointed coach of Inter Milan for the next three years,the Italian champion said Monday.

Former Chelsea and Porto boss Mourinho suc-ceeds Roberto Mancini, whose dismissal was con-firmed on Thursday, 11 days after he led the side totheir third consecutive Serie A title.

“FC Internazionale announce the arrival of JoseMourinho,” read a statement on the club’s Website(www.inter.it). “The Portuguese coach has signed athree-year contract.”—Internet

It’s Serb against Serb in the women'ssemi-finals at the French Open onThursday, the first time that has hap-pened, for either of the sexes, in GrandSlam history, as 2nd seed Ana Ivanovic(seen here on 3 June) is to face 3rdseed Jelena Jankovic.—INTERNET

January.The more

p o w e r f u lIvanovic isthe youngerat 20 and willbe biddingfor a thirdGrand Slamfinal in thepast year hav-ing lost toJustine Heninhere last yearand to MariaSharapova inthe Austral-ian Open inJanuary.

Jankovic, at 23, has yet to make a major final, but shewill be playing in her fourth Grand Slam semi-finaland she has experience and probably mental fortitudeon her side. —Internet

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7"7"7"7"7" k¨;sk\eragåm¥a; m�Ps\p∑a;eser;At∑k\ mil¬aN˙c\.k¨;sk\eragåm¥a; m�Ps\p∑a;eser;At∑k\ mil¬aN˙c\.k¨;sk\eragåm¥a; m�Ps\p∑a;eser;At∑k\ mil¬aN˙c\.k¨;sk\eragåm¥a; m�Ps\p∑a;eser;At∑k\ mil¬aN˙c\.k¨;sk\eragåm¥a; m�Ps\p∑a;eser;At∑k\ mil¬aN˙c\. AmOik\qRiuk\' Avs\AeÂk;m¥a;kiu sns\tk¥s∑n\>ps\Âkrn\'AmOik\qRiuk\' Avs\AeÂk;m¥a;kiu sns\tk¥s∑n\>ps\Âkrn\'AmOik\qRiuk\' Avs\AeÂk;m¥a;kiu sns\tk¥s∑n\>ps\Âkrn\'AmOik\qRiuk\' Avs\AeÂk;m¥a;kiu sns\tk¥s∑n\>ps\Âkrn\'AmOik\qRiuk\' Avs\AeÂk;m¥a;kiu sns\tk¥s∑n\>ps\Âkrn\'

8"8"8"8"8" TiKiuk\mOAN †ray\m�Ps\eser;At∑k\ qti‘peSac\R∑k\Âkrn\'TiKiuk\mOAN †ray\m�Ps\eser;At∑k\ qti‘peSac\R∑k\Âkrn\'TiKiuk\mOAN †ray\m�Ps\eser;At∑k\ qti‘peSac\R∑k\Âkrn\'TiKiuk\mOAN †ray\m�Ps\eser;At∑k\ qti‘peSac\R∑k\Âkrn\'TiKiuk\mOAN †ray\m�Ps\eser;At∑k\ qti‘peSac\R∑k\Âkrn\'

9"9"9"9"9" erÂk^;påk e�m∑AN †ray\et∑>ÂkMortt\q�Pc\. qti‘pÂkrn\'erÂk^;påk e�m∑AN †ray\et∑>ÂkMortt\q�Pc\. qti‘pÂkrn\'erÂk^;påk e�m∑AN †ray\et∑>ÂkMortt\q�Pc\. qti‘pÂkrn\'erÂk^;påk e�m∑AN †ray\et∑>ÂkMortt\q�Pc\. qti‘pÂkrn\'erÂk^;påk e�m∑AN †ray\et∑>ÂkMortt\q�Pc\. qti‘pÂkrn\'

10"10"10"10"10" �Kc\kiuk\mKMreAac\ qti‘penTiuc\Âkrn\'�Kc\kiuk\mKMreAac\ qti‘penTiuc\Âkrn\'�Kc\kiuk\mKMreAac\ qti‘penTiuc\Âkrn\'�Kc\kiuk\mKMreAac\ qti‘penTiuc\Âkrn\'�Kc\kiuk\mKMreAac\ qti‘penTiuc\Âkrn\'

11"11"11"11"11" ts\kiuy\erqn\>R˙c\;er; gRu‘peSac\R∑k\rn\' Asamsa;m^N˙c\.ts\kiuy\erqn\>R˙c\;er; gRu‘peSac\R∑k\rn\' Asamsa;m^N˙c\.ts\kiuy\erqn\>R˙c\;er; gRu‘peSac\R∑k\rn\' Asamsa;m^N˙c\.ts\kiuy\erqn\>R˙c\;er; gRu‘peSac\R∑k\rn\' Asamsa;m^N˙c\.ts\kiuy\erqn\>R˙c\;er; gRu‘peSac\R∑k\rn\' Asamsa;m^N˙c\. Avs\eÂk;kiuc\t∑y\�p^;tiuc\; lk\eS;Âkrn\'Avs\eÂk;kiuc\t∑y\�p^;tiuc\; lk\eS;Âkrn\'Avs\eÂk;kiuc\t∑y\�p^;tiuc\; lk\eS;Âkrn\'Avs\eÂk;kiuc\t∑y\�p^;tiuc\; lk\eS;Âkrn\'Avs\eÂk;kiuc\t∑y\�p^;tiuc\; lk\eS;Âkrn\'

12"12"12"12"12" qBaweB;AN †ray\k¥erak\�p^;qv\.AKå ASut\erac\eragå' wm\;p¥k\wm\;el¥aeragå' e�m∑Siu;kiuk\AN †ray\'qBaweB;AN †ray\k¥erak\�p^;qv\.AKå ASut\erac\eragå' wm\;p¥k\wm\;el¥aeragå' e�m∑Siu;kiuk\AN †ray\'qBaweB;AN †ray\k¥erak\�p^;qv\.AKå ASut\erac\eragå' wm\;p¥k\wm\;el¥aeragå' e�m∑Siu;kiuk\AN †ray\'qBaweB;AN †ray\k¥erak\�p^;qv\.AKå ASut\erac\eragå' wm\;p¥k\wm\;el¥aeragå' e�m∑Siu;kiuk\AN †ray\'qBaweB;AN †ray\k¥erak\�p^;qv\.AKå ASut\erac\eragå' wm\;p¥k\wm\;el¥aeragå' e�m∑Siu;kiuk\AN †ray\'

TiKiuk\mOAN †ray\Nc\. A�Ka;k¥n\;maer;�pœanam¥a; �Ps\p∑a;tt\påqv\" �Ps\p∑a;påkTiKiuk\mOAN †ray\Nc\. A�Ka;k¥n\;maer;�pœanam¥a; �Ps\p∑a;tt\påqv\" �Ps\p∑a;påkTiKiuk\mOAN †ray\Nc\. A�Ka;k¥n\;maer;�pœanam¥a; �Ps\p∑a;tt\påqv\" �Ps\p∑a;påkTiKiuk\mOAN †ray\Nc\. A�Ka;k¥n\;maer;�pœanam¥a; �Ps\p∑a;tt\påqv\" �Ps\p∑a;påkTiKiuk\mOAN †ray\Nc\. A�Ka;k¥n\;maer;�pœanam¥a; �Ps\p∑a;tt\påqv\" �Ps\p∑a;påk An;SuM;k¥n\;maer;@anqiu>An;SuM;k¥n\;maer;@anqiu>An;SuM;k¥n\;maer;@anqiu>An;SuM;k¥n\;maer;@anqiu>An;SuM;k¥n\;maer;@anqiu>

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k¥n\;maer;wn\Âk^;@ank¥n\;maer;wn\Âk^;@ank¥n\;maer;wn\Âk^;@ank¥n\;maer;wn\Âk^;@ank¥n\;maer;wn\Âk^;@an

qBaweB;AN †ray\k¥erak\eqaedqm¥a;qBaweB;AN †ray\k¥erak\eqaedqm¥a;qBaweB;AN †ray\k¥erak\eqaedqm¥a;qBaweB;AN †ray\k¥erak\eqaedqm¥a;qBaweB;AN †ray\k¥erak\eqaedqm¥a;ririririri�pv\qm¥a;At∑k\�pv\qm¥a;At∑k\�pv\qm¥a;At∑k\�pv\qm¥a;At∑k\�pv\qm¥a;At∑k\ k¥n\;maer;qtiep;NOi;eSa\K¥k¥n\;maer;qtiep;NOi;eSa\K¥k¥n\;maer;qtiep;NOi;eSa\K¥k¥n\;maer;qtiep;NOi;eSa\K¥k¥n\;maer;qtiep;NOi;eSa\K¥k\k\k\k\k\

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AN †ray\ k¥erak\ Niuc\påqv\'AN †ray\ k¥erak\ Niuc\påqv\'AN †ray\ k¥erak\ Niuc\påqv\'AN †ray\ k¥erak\ Niuc\påqv\'AN †ray\ k¥erak\ Niuc\påqv\'

***** eqak\er' quM;ermn\qmYkiueqak\er' quM;ermn\qmYkiueqak\er' quM;ermn\qmYkiueqak\er' quM;ermn\qmYkiueqak\er' quM;ermn\qmYkiu k¥ioK¥k\k¥ioK¥k\k¥ioK¥k\k¥ioK¥k\k¥ioK¥k\

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eqak\quM;rn\mqc\.hu eÂk�caTa;eqaeqak\quM;rn\mqc\.hu eÂk�caTa;eqaeqak\quM;rn\mqc\.hu eÂk�caTa;eqaeqak\quM;rn\mqc\.hu eÂk�caTa;eqaeqak\quM;rn\mqc\.hu eÂk�caTa;eqa

eqak\erqn\≥m¥a;kiu meqak\quM; qc\.på'eqak\erqn\≥m¥a;kiu meqak\quM; qc\.på'eqak\erqn\≥m¥a;kiu meqak\quM; qc\.på'eqak\erqn\≥m¥a;kiu meqak\quM; qc\.på'eqak\erqn\≥m¥a;kiu meqak\quM; qc\.på'

***** erqn\≥pc\�Ps\lc\.ksa; mqkçapåkerqn\≥pc\�Ps\lc\.ksa; mqkçapåkerqn\≥pc\�Ps\lc\.ksa; mqkçapåkerqn\≥pc\�Ps\lc\.ksa; mqkçapåkerqn\≥pc\�Ps\lc\.ksa; mqkçapåk

erkiuk¥ioK¥k\ �p;m eqak\på'erkiuk¥ioK¥k\ �p;m eqak\på'erkiuk¥ioK¥k\ �p;m eqak\på'erkiuk¥ioK¥k\ �p;m eqak\på'erkiuk¥ioK¥k\ �p;m eqak\på'

k¥n\;maer;wn\”k;@ank¥n\;maer;wn\”k;@ank¥n\;maer;wn\”k;@ank¥n\;maer;wn\”k;@ank¥n\;maer;wn\”k;@an

yKuraqkalqv\ wm\;el¥awm\;p¥k\eragåyKuraqkalqv\ wm\;el¥awm\;p¥k\eragåyKuraqkalqv\ wm\;el¥awm\;p¥k\eragåyKuraqkalqv\ wm\;el¥awm\;p¥k\eragåyKuraqkalqv\ wm\;el¥awm\;p¥k\eragå�Ps\p∑a;tt\qv\.AK¥in\�Ps\påqv\" mqn\≥r˙c\;eqaer�Ps\p∑a;tt\qv\.AK¥in\�Ps\påqv\" mqn\≥r˙c\;eqaer�Ps\p∑a;tt\qv\.AK¥in\�Ps\påqv\" mqn\≥r˙c\;eqaer�Ps\p∑a;tt\qv\.AK¥in\�Ps\påqv\" mqn\≥r˙c\;eqaer�Ps\p∑a;tt\qv\.AK¥in\�Ps\påqv\" mqn\≥r˙c\;eqaereqak\qMu;�Kc\;N˙c.\ mqn\≥r˙c\;eqa Asa;Aeqak\m¥a;eqak\qMu;�Kc\;N˙c.\ mqn\≥r˙c\;eqa Asa;Aeqak\m¥a;eqak\qMu;�Kc\;N˙c.\ mqn\≥r˙c\;eqa Asa;Aeqak\m¥a;eqak\qMu;�Kc\;N˙c.\ mqn\≥r˙c\;eqa Asa;Aeqak\m¥a;eqak\qMu;�Kc\;N˙c.\ mqn\≥r˙c\;eqa Asa;Aeqak\m¥a;sa;qu M;�Kc\;ti u ≥eÂkac\ . wm\;el¥awm\;p¥k\eragåm¥a;sa;qu M;�Kc\;ti u ≥eÂkac\ . wm\;el¥awm\;p¥k\eragåm¥a;sa;qu M;�Kc\;ti u ≥eÂkac\ . wm\;el¥awm\;p¥k\eragåm¥a;sa;qu M;�Kc\;ti u ≥eÂkac\ . wm\;el¥awm\;p¥k\eragåm¥a;sa;qu M;�Kc\;ti u ≥eÂkac\ . wm\;el¥awm\;p¥k\eragåm¥a;�Ps\p∑a;Niuc\påqv\"�Ps\p∑a;Niuc\påqv\"�Ps\p∑a;Niuc\påqv\"�Ps\p∑a;Niuc\påqv\"�Ps\p∑a;Niuc\påqv\"

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----- kliurc\;eS;Kp\Ta;eqaer(qiu≥) k¥oiK¥k\Ta;eqakliurc\;eS;Kp\Ta;eqaer(qiu≥) k¥oiK¥k\Ta;eqakliurc\;eS;Kp\Ta;eqaer(qiu≥) k¥oiK¥k\Ta;eqakliurc\;eS;Kp\Ta;eqaer(qiu≥) k¥oiK¥k\Ta;eqakliurc\;eS;Kp\Ta;eqaer(qiu≥) k¥oiK¥k\Ta;eqaerkiuqalYc\ eqak\qMu;Âkrn\'erkiuqalYc\ eqak\qMu;Âkrn\'erkiuqalYc\ eqak\qMu;Âkrn\'erkiuqalYc\ eqak\qMu;Âkrn\'erkiuqalYc\ eqak\qMu;Âkrn\'

----- qn\>r˙c\;lt\St\eqa p¨eN∑;qv\.Asam¥a;kiuqaqn\>r˙c\;lt\St\eqa p¨eN∑;qv\.Asam¥a;kiuqaqn\>r˙c\;lt\St\eqa p¨eN∑;qv\.Asam¥a;kiuqaqn\>r˙c\;lt\St\eqa p¨eN∑;qv\.Asam¥a;kiuqaqn\>r˙c\;lt\St\eqa p¨eN∑;qv\.Asam¥a;kiuqasa;qMu;Âkrn\'sa;qMu;Âkrn\'sa;qMu;Âkrn\'sa;qMu;Âkrn\'sa;qMu;Âkrn\'

----- yc\na;samsa;rn\N˙c\. Asam¥a;kiu yc\mna;eAac\yc\na;samsa;rn\N˙c\. Asam¥a;kiu yc\mna;eAac\yc\na;samsa;rn\N˙c\. Asam¥a;kiu yc\mna;eAac\yc\na;samsa;rn\N˙c\. Asam¥a;kiu yc\mna;eAac\yc\na;samsa;rn\N˙c\. Asam¥a;kiu yc\mna;eAac\PuM;Aup\Ta;Âkrn\'PuM;Aup\Ta;Âkrn\'PuM;Aup\Ta;Âkrn\'PuM;Aup\Ta;Âkrn\'PuM;Aup\Ta;Âkrn\'

----- kel;' l¨¨”k^;Aa;luM; qn\>r˙c\;eqakel;' l¨¨”k^;Aa;luM; qn\>r˙c\;eqakel;' l¨¨”k^;Aa;luM; qn\>r˙c\;eqakel;' l¨¨”k^;Aa;luM; qn\>r˙c\;eqakel;' l¨¨”k^;Aa;luM; qn\>r˙c\;eqayc\lMuAim\qakiu quM;s∑Âkrn\'yc\lMuAim\qakiu quM;s∑Âkrn\'yc\lMuAim\qakiu quM;s∑Âkrn\'yc\lMuAim\qakiu quM;s∑Âkrn\'yc\lMuAim\qakiu quM;s∑Âkrn\'

----- Asamsa;m^N˙c\. Avs\AeÂk;kiuc\t∑y\�p^;tiuc\; lk\kiuAsamsa;m^N˙c\. Avs\AeÂk;kiuc\t∑y\�p^;tiuc\; lk\kiuAsamsa;m^N˙c\. Avs\AeÂk;kiuc\t∑y\�p^;tiuc\; lk\kiuAsamsa;m^N˙c\. Avs\AeÂk;kiuc\t∑y\�p^;tiuc\; lk\kiuAsamsa;m^N˙c\. Avs\AeÂk;kiuc\t∑y\�p^;tiuc\; lk\kiusc\Âky\eAac\eS;eÂkaÂkrn\'sc\Âky\eAac\eS;eÂkaÂkrn\'sc\Âky\eAac\eS;eÂkaÂkrn\'sc\Âky\eAac\eS;eÂkaÂkrn\'sc\Âky\eAac\eS;eÂkaÂkrn\'

----- Avs\AeÂk;m¥a;kiu sns\tk¥ s∑n\≥ps\Âkrn\'Avs\AeÂk;m¥a;kiu sns\tk¥ s∑n\≥ps\Âkrn\'Avs\AeÂk;m¥a;kiu sns\tk¥ s∑n\≥ps\Âkrn\'Avs\AeÂk;m¥a;kiu sns\tk¥ s∑n\≥ps\Âkrn\'Avs\AeÂk;m¥a;kiu sns\tk¥ s∑n\≥ps\Âkrn\'(TMu;�Pø;�Kc\;' e�mPuM;�Kc\;'(TMu;�Pø;�Kc\;' e�mPuM;�Kc\;'(TMu;�Pø;�Kc\;' e�mPuM;�Kc\;'(TMu;�Pø;�Kc\;' e�mPuM;�Kc\;'(TMu;�Pø;�Kc\;' e�mPuM;�Kc\;' m;ROi>�Kc\;m¥a;kiu eSac\R∑k\rn\)m;ROi>�Kc\;m¥a;kiu eSac\R∑k\rn\)m;ROi>�Kc\;m¥a;kiu eSac\R∑k\rn\)m;ROi>�Kc\;m¥a;kiu eSac\R∑k\rn\)m;ROi>�Kc\;m¥a;kiu eSac\R∑k\rn\)

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k¥n\;maer;wn\Âk;@ank¥n\;maer;wn\Âk;@ank¥n\;maer;wn\Âk;@ank¥n\;maer;wn\Âk;@ank¥n\;maer;wn\Âk;@an

WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST. During the past 24 hours rain or thundershowershave been scattered in Magway Division, fairly wide-spread in Kachin and Shan States, Sagaing, Mandalay,Bago and Taninthayi Divisions and widespread in theremaining States and Divisions with isolated heavyfallin Mon State and Yangon Division. The noteworthyamounts of rainfall recorded were Yangon (Central)(4.96)inches,Kyikekhemi (4.25) inches, Yangon (Kaba-Aye) (2.99) inches, Thaton and Dawei (2.64) inches each,Pyinoolwin (2.33) inches, Bago (2.09) inches, Zaungtu(2.05) inches, Hpa-an (1.89) inches, Kengtung (1.49)inches, Tharrawady (1.41) inches, Sittwe (1.38) inches.Myingyan (1.18) inches and Aunglun ( 0.78) inch.

Maximum temperature on 3-6-2008 was 89ºF. Mini-mum temperature on 4-6-2008 was 70ºF. Relative humidi-ty at (09:30) hours MST on 4-6-2008 was 100%. Totalsunshine hours on 3-6-2008 was (1.3) hours approx.

Rainfall on 4-6-2008 was (1.49) inches at Mingaladon,(2.9 9) inches at Kaba-Aye and (4.96) inches at CentralYangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was (30 .55) inchesat Mingaladon, (37.05) inches at Kaba-Aye and (47.96)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph from Southwest at (12:30) hoursMST on 3-6-2008.

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

Forecast valid until evening of 5-6-2008: Rain orthundershowers will be scattered in Kayah State, Manda-lay, Magway, and lower Sagaing Divisions, fairly wide-spread in Kachin, Shan and Chin States and upper SagaingDivision and widespread in the remaining States andDivisions. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with mod erate to rough seaare likely at time off and aloung Myanmar Coasts Surfacewindspeed in squalls may reach (35)to (40) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Moderatemonsoon.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 5-6-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for5-6-2008: Some rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast forMandalay and neighbouring area for5 -6-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

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Make donations to the storm victims

� Everybody may make donations freely.� Everybody may make donations to any person or any area.

However, wellwishers are urged to avoid unsystematic donations and acts thatmay tarnish the image of the nation and its people.

NAY PYI TAW, 4June — Vice-Chairmanof the State Peace andDevelopment CouncilDeputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Serv-ices Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Sen-ior General Maung Ayegave instructions to offi-cials including ministersand national entrepre-neurs concerning reha-

State puts on record efforts and contributions of wellwisher people,Red Cross, entrepreneurs, social organizations to relief tasks

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye fulfils requirements ofrehabilitation in Ngapudaw, Labutta townships

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye briefs ministers and nationalentrepreneurs on rehabilitation tasks in Ngapudaw and

Labutta townships.—MNA

bilitation tasks inNgapudaw and Labuttatownships at Mya EyaHall in Pathein yester-day afternoon.

In his instructions,Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye said thatwhen storm ‘Nargis’ hitthe regions of Myanmar,the National DisasterPreparedness CentralCommittee that had al-

ready been formed com-menced to run its func-tions. Due to concertedefforts of the ministriesconcerned, the peopleand private entrepre-neurs, the relief task forthe first phase has beencompleted in a short timeand the rehabilitationtask is in progress for thesecond phase.

(See page 9)

As the all-round arrange-ments had beenmade for thelong term in ac-cord with theguidance, the re-gion that is fac-ing the emer-gency conditioncan overcomethe anxiety.

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A constitution prescribes who, on behalf of the people, will exercise the sovereign

powers, how they will have to be exercised, and which ways and disciplines will have to

be exerted in the process.

The people have opened the democracy door to Myanmar (1)

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