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* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development of other sectors of theeconomy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented eco-nomic system

* Development of the economy inviting partici-pation in terms of technical know-how andinvestments from sources inside the countryand abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economymust be kept in the hands of the State and thenational peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

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

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

tution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

YANGON, 25 June — The Fifth Meeting of Sixth 47-member State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committeewill be held on 10 and 11 July. The Religious Affairs Department has invited the Sayadaws of the Committeeto arrive at Kaba Aye Hill in Yangon on 6 July to attend the meeting. — MNA

Fifth Meeting of Sixth 47-member StateSangha Maha Nayaka Committee on 10-11 July

YANGON, 25 June —Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence in-spected repair of jettiesalong Yangon River,smooth and speedy flowof commodities from thedelta region to Yangon andother regions and runningof vessels in the river asusual, this afternoon.

Together with Chair-man of Yangon DivisionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofYangon Command Brig-Gen Win Myint and offi-cials, Lt-Gen Myint Sweheard reports on damagesof jetties at Yangon Riverdue to the storm, repair-ing of the jetties by engi-neers of Myanma PortAuthority, repaired sixjetties, removal of twodamaged jetties and sal-vage of 73 vessels thatsank or were grounded inYangon and Bago riverspresented by Managing

Lt-Gen Myint Swe looks intocompletion in repairing jetties,

running of vessels along Yangon RiverDirector U Thein Htay ofMPA at Myanmar MannGeneral Trading Co Ltdat Central Sanpya FishMarket in KyimyindineTownship.

Chairman U Ti Toe ofthe company and fish bro-kers of the market reportedon trawlers at work, dailyarrival of 150,000 tons offresh water fish from thedelta region and freshwater fish, lobsters andvarious sizes of prawnsfrom storm-hit Labuttaand Bogale.

After hearing the re-ports on the works, Lt-Gen Myint Swe instructedofficials to repair the re-maining ravaged jetties forensuring speedy flow ofcommodities and fulfilledthe requirements.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe,the commander and partyinspected preparations forre-installation of the jettyat No. 5 Wharf of MPA in

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence inspects repair of jetty in Kyimyindine Township.—MNA

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Kyimyindine Township,progress in repair of thejetty at No. 3 Wharf, ar-rival of trawlers carryingfresh water fish from thedelta region, completionof the jetty at the market inKyimyindine Township,transport of rice and com-modities from the deltaregion to Yangon by boat,erection of a new 120-foot-long jetty at WardanPort and completion ofNo. 1 Hledan Jetty.

The Myanma PortAuthority is repairing theravaged jetties sunk inYangon River promptly.At present, the jetty ofKyimyindine Market,Wardan No. 6 Jetty,Hledan No. 1 and No. 2jetties, Dalla jetty andMinye Kyawthu Jettyhave been repaired. Ef-forts are being made fortimely completion ofthe remaining jetties.

MNA

U PYAY KYAWPAGES 6+7

The people have paved the way to the Myanmardemocracy. The most democratic way is to respectand fulfil the wishes of the majority of the people.Therefore, no one should disregard the people’sdesire. Their opposing and disrupting the people’sdesire means designating themselves to be the com-mon enemy of the people.

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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, 26 June, 2008

The people in the world are facing a lotof social problems related with illicittrafficking, drug abusers and drug traffickers.

Abuse of stimulant tablets in variousforms is spreading among the youthworldwide and the danger of narcotic drugsstill threatens the world greatly. Educativetalks and discussions regarding disadvantagesand danger of the narcotic drugs are to beheld widely as the spread of stimulant tabletsamong the youths is very delicate.

They abuse stimulant tablets becausethey think that they can work more with freshmind and less sleep. Those who work day andnight without sleep and those who think thatthey can sing and act well give a try at narcoticdrugs. That is why they begin to abuse thedrugs.

The symptoms of those who abusestimulant tablets include thinking highly ofthemselves, talking too much, impatience andharsh behaviour. If they suddenly stop theabuse of drugs, they feel depressed and theyeven commit suicide.

It is known that in some big countriesthe majority of stimulant tablet-users oftenbecome mad and commit serious crimes.Major crimes among the educated youths arerelated with the abuse of the stimulant tablets.

In Myanmar, Narcotic Drugs andPsychotropic Substances Law has beenpromulgated. Severe actions are being takenagainst the abusers and traffickers. Anti-narcotic drugs activities will be a successthrough the participation of the entire peoplehand in hand with the government in crackingdown the danger of the stimulant tablets.

Prevent danger of narcoticdrugs and stimulant tablets

NAY PYI TAW, 26 June—The Chairman of theState Peace and Development Council of the Unionof Myanmar has appointed U Phae Thann Oo,Director-General of the Political Department,Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as AmbassadorExtraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Union ofMyanmar to the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.

MNA

U Phae Thann Ooappointed as Ambassador

to BangladeshNAY PYI TAW, 26 June—The Chairman of the

State Peace and Development Council of the Unionof Myanmar has appointed U Nyan Lynn,Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary ofthe Union of Myanmar to the People’s Republic ofBangladesh, as Ambassador Extraordinary andPlenipotentiary of the Union of Myanmar to theRepublic of Indonesia. —MNA

U Nyan Lynn appointedas Ambassador to

Indonesia

NAY PYI TAW, 25 June—A ceremony towelcome the junior officers of the Budget Departmentunder the Ministry of Finance and Revenue was heldat the ministry here yesterday. Minister for Financeand Revenue Maj-Gen Hla Tun delivered an address.

It was attended by Governor of the CentralBank of Myanmar U Than Nyein, Director-GeneralU Saw Maung Hla of the Budget Department andofficials of the departments and enterprises under theministry.

New officers assigned duties to Budget Department

At the ceremony, the managing directors andthe directors-general delivered welcoming speeches.

Minister Maj-Gen Hla Tun urged new officersto make efforts for implementing the tasks of thedepartment and to try hard to understand rules andregulations of the department and to observe codes ofconduct of the service personnel.

After the ceremony, the minister greeted newjunior officers.

MNA

YANGON, 25 June — The Olympic Day Run2008 and the centennial movements of hockey sportsin Olympic Games was held at Artificial Hockey Turfon Theinbyu Road, here, on 21 and 22 June.

On 21 June morning, two under-16 hockeyteams held a tune-up match, and the yellow team beatthe blue team 3-1.

As part of realizing the aim entitled “WorldHockey Youth Challenge 2008” adopted by theInternational Hockey Federation, the student youthfrom basic education schools participated in the basictechnique contests.

On 22 June, Vice-President of Myanmar HockeyFederation U Maung Maung presented prize to theyellow hockey team; executives of the federation,prizes to the winners in the basic technique contests;and Vice-President U Kyaw Kyaw Hlaing, prize toMaung Hein Si Aung who stood first in the basictechnique contests. — MNA

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Minister Maj-Gen Hla Tun delivers an address at a ceremony to welcome junior officers ofBudget Department. — F&R

U Kyaw Kyaw Hlaing awards a winner of“Live the Dream” competition of World

Hockey Youth Challenge 2008.MHF

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$2 billion in US aid toPakistan questioned

Dollar millionairestop 10m

NEW YORK, 25 June—The number of dollarmillionaires around the world increased by 6% lastyear, defying the impact of the credit crunch, with thefastest growth in the emerging economies of India,China and Brazil.

There are now 10.1 million people worth more than$1m (£508,000) excluding the value of their mainhomes, according to the latest World Wealth Reportfrom Merrill Lynch and the consultancy Capgemini.

Developed economies in Europe and North Americacontinued to create millionaires, though the rate ofgrowth slowed significantly from 2006 as the creditcrunch and inflationary pressures caused the worldeconomy to falter.

Internet

Prince Walid bin Talal al-Saud, the world’s 19th-richest person, with his jetand cabin crew.—INTERNET

Blast in Afghanistankills NATO soldierKABUL, 25 June—

NATO said Wednesdaythat an explosion killedone of its soldiers on apatrol in southernAfghanistan, the latest ina string of deadly attackson foreign troops.

The blast happenedTuesday in Nahri Sarrajdistrict of Helmandprovince, an alliancestatement said. It didn’tprovide the soldier’snationality or any otherdetails.

Fighting betweenTaliban-led militants andsecurity forces is surging,damping hopes that thesix-year, multibillion-dollar effort to stabilizethe country will succeedany time soon.—Internet

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL’SMESSAGE ON THE

INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINSTDRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT

TRAFFICKING(26 June 2008)

YANGON, 26 June—The following is the messagefrom Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of theUnited Nations, on the International Day AgainstDrug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

Ten years ago, in response to the seriousness ofthe world drug problem, Member States of the UnitedNations convened a Special Session of the GeneralAssembly, where they committed themselves to avigorous plan of action to reduce both the supply anddemand for drugs.

Today, drugs continue to destroy lives, generatecrime and threaten sustainable development. But wealso have a better understanding of how to confront drugabuse and trafficking. Policymakers can draw on agrowing body of evidence about drug dependence anddrug-use trends.

International cooperation and technical assistanceare improving law enforcement capabilities. Increaseddevelopment assistance is helping to reduce poverty andthe sale of illicit crops by giving farmers sustainablealternatives. A stronger focus on prevention and treatmentis putting health at the centre of drug-control strategiesand helping to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS. And thereis a growing consensus, both within communities andamong states, that drug control is a shared responsibilityin which we all play a part.

We still have much work to do to reduce ourvulnerability to drugs. States with weak criminal justicesystems and limited law enforcement capabilities needassistance to reduce illicit drug trafficking, whichspreads crime, corruption and instability, and whichultimately endangers the successful realization of theMillennium Development Goals.

As we mark the 60th anniversary of the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights, I remind all MemberStates of their responsibility to fully respect the rightsof prisoners who are drug dependent or are in custodyfor drug-related crimes, especially their rights to lifeand a fair trial. I also call on Member States to ensurethat people who are struggling with drug addiction begiven equal access to health and social services. Noone should be stigmatized or discriminated againstbecause of their dependence on drugs.

The combined efforts over the past decade havegreatly enhanced our understanding of the drugproblem worldwide and strengthened our capacityand resolve to reduce the damage done by drugs toindividuals, their loved ones, to communities andstates. On this International Day Against Drug Abuse,let us each shoulder our responsibility to prevent andreduce the damage that drugs do, and thereby buildinga healthier and safer world.—UNIC

Hundreds of fires sparkedby rare lightning storm

SAN FRANCISCO, 25 June — In less than a day, anelectrical storm unleashed nearly 8,000 lightning strikesthat set more than 800 wildfires across NorthernCalifornia — a rare example of “dry lightning” thatbrought little or no rain but plenty of sparks to thestate’s parched forests and grasslands.

The weekend storm was unusual not only because itgenerated so many lightning strikes over a largegeographical area, but also because it struck so early inthe season and moved in from the Pacific Ocean. Suchstorms usually don’t arrive until late July or Augustand typically form southeast of California.

“You’re looking at a pattern that’s climatologicallyrare. We typically don’t see this happen at this time ofsummer,” said John Juskie, a science officer with theNational Weather Service in Sacramento. “To see8,000, that’s way up there on the scale.”—Internet

WASHINGTON, 25June—The United Stateshas paid more than $5billion to reimbursePakistan for counter-terrorism expenses thathave often been ex-aggerated, if notfabricated, according to agovernment auditreleased Tuesday thatblasts the Pentagon forpoor management of theprogram.

The report concludedthat the Pentagon could

not properly account foras much as $2 billion inpayments to Pakistan overa three-year period from2004 to 2007.—Internet

Tropical storm hits China’s SE coastSHANGHAI, 25 June—

Tropical storm Fengshenlashed southern China onWednesday with heavyrains and strong winds,bringing new misery to aregion already struggling torecover from this month’sdeadly floods.

Fengshen, whichkilled hundreds in thePhilippines as a typhoon,

made landfall Wednesdaymorning with winds of upto 51 miles per hour in theeconomic zone ofShenzhen, whosemeteorological stationforecast heavy rains of upto nearly 8 inchesWednesday and Thursday,the official Xinhua NewsAgency reported.

Internet

Firefighters watch a wildfire burn in Big Sur,Calif, in Monterey County, on 24 June.

INTERNET

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INTERNET

Architect hopes newskyscraper keeps us spinning

NEW YORK, 25 June— An Italian architect said heis poised to start construction on a new skyscraper inDubai that will be “the world’s first building inmotion,” an 80-story tower with revolving floors thatgive it an ever-shifting shape. The spinning floors,hung like rings around an immobile cement core,would offer residents a constantly changing view ofthe Persian Gulf and the city’s futuristic skyline.

A few penthouse villas would spin on commandusing a voice-activated computer. The motion of therest of the building would be choreographed in patternsthat could be altered over time.

Speaking at a news conference in New York onTuesday, the building’s designer, David Fisher,declared that his tower will revolutionize the wayskyscrapers are made — a claim that might strikesome as excessively bold.—Internet

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A Chinese soldier stands guard near a surface-to-air missile launcher near theOlympic Sports Centre Stadium in Beijing on 24 June, 2008. Missile

launchers have been placed just 300 metres (984 feet) from the venue whichwill host soccer and modern pentathlon at the Olympic Games, which open in

Beijing on 8 August.—INTERNET

SINGAPORE, 25 June —Singapore’s Prime Mini-ster said on Tuesday thatwater security may be asource of conflicts, whilelaunching an institute inthe city-state to researchAsia’s water problems.

Lee Hsien Loong toldwater industry players atthe start of a one-weekwater summit in Singaporethat the provision of safeand cheap water wasbecoming harder becausecities were growing bigger

S’pore PM says watersecurity can spark conflicts

and global warming washaving an effect.

The Asian Develop-ment Bank said inNovember that develop-ing countries in Asia couldface an unprecedentedwater crisis within adecade due to a misman-agement of resources.

“More and more citiesand countries see accessto water as a securityconcern and a potentialtrigger of conflict,” Leesaid.

Lee blamed the waterscarcity on a lack of soundwater management pra-ctices and called for moreresearch and innovationin the sector.

The Institute of WaterPolicy (IWP) was launch-ed at the opening of thewater summit, and willreceive 7.5 million Singa-pore dollars (5.5 millionUS dollars) in fundingover the next five yearsfrom the government.

MNA/Reuters

ISTANBUL, 25 June — Thirteen Turkish soldierswere injured in an explosion that ripped through amilitary vehicle in southern Turkey on Monday, thestate-run Anatolian news agency reported.

The vehicle was on patrol during a change of guardduty at an artillery unit in the Islahiye District ofGaziantep Province, near the Syrian border, when theblast occurred.

Deputy Gaziantep Governor Mehmet Okur toldAnatolian four soldiers were seriously hurt.

The cause of the explosion was not immediatelyclear. The Turkish military is frequently targeted insoutheast Turkey by explosives planted by separatistKurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerillas. But theGaziantep Province is outside the usual conflict zone.

MNA/Reuters

BANGKOK, 25 June— Ten people were woundedwhen insurgents blasted a market in Thailand’s southernprovince of Yala on Tuesday morning.

The bomb was hidden in a motorcyle parked in themarket, which localted near a rail station in Yala’sMuang district, according to local newspaper BangkokPost’s website. Seven villagers and three soldiers wereinjured from the blast. they were rushed to Yalaprovincial hospital.

MNA/Xinhua

Thirteen Turkish soldiershurt in explosion

Ten wounded in bombing inviolence-plagued Thai South

JAKARTA, 25 June— Aglobal toxic trade watch-dog, the Basel Action Net-work, has again called onthe United States to ratifythe international toxictreaty and stop illegaltrafficking of hazardouselectronic waste, anIndonesian daily said

Bali conference calls US to ratify toxic treatyTuesday. The statementwas made at the openingof the international con-ference on the BaselConvention’s Control ofTransboundary Move-ment of Hazardous Wa-stes and their Disposal inthe Indonesian resortisland of Bali Monday.

“Until the UnitedStates changes its positionwithin the Basel Con-vention and decides to jointhe rest of the globalcommunity in prohibiting

the unscrupulous andenvironmentally damag-ing export of hazardouswastes to developing co-untries, it would be muchbetter for the earth and itsinhabitants to keep theUnited States out of theBasel Convention enti-rely,” the Basel Networksaid in a statement asquoted by The JakartaPost. Delegations of theUnited States attended themeeting as observers.

MNA/Xinhua

BOGOTA, 25 June— Atleast 10 people of the samefamily were killed earlyTuesday in northeasternColombia as their housecollapsed in a landslidetriggered by heavy rains,local authorities said.

Giovanni Ortiz, Mayorof the municipality ofAcari, expressed his regret

Landslide kills ten family members in Colombia

HillaryClinton notto seek V-P

postWASHINGTON, 25 June

—Former US Democraticpresidential candidateHillary Rodham Clintonruled out the possibilityon Tuesday that she wouldseek the vice presidentialpost in a Barack Obamaadministration.

“I am not seeking anyother position,” the NewYork senator said duringher first public appearancesince she suspended hercampaign on 7 June.

“You know, it is notsomething that I thinkabout.

This is totally SenatorObama’s decision andthat’s the way it shouldbe,” she told reporters atthe Senate.

However, it is a USpolitical tradition forpotential VP candidates todeny their intentions toseek the position but mostof them would not refusethe nomination.

MNA/Xinhua

over the death of themembers of the family thatmoved to the house afterbeing displaced byviolence in Colombiayears ago.

Ortiz said staff of thenational disaster officewould fly to the affectedregion to evaluate thedamage and to aid the

villagers due to the badconditions of roads linkingto the region.

From January to 11June, the rains in Colombiahave left 83 dead, 171injured, 11 missing, andsome 336,000 homeless,according to the nationaldisaster office.

MNA/Xinhua

Medics transport an injured soldier to the hospital in Gaziantep on 23 June,2008. Thirteen Turkish soldiers were injured in an explosion that rippedthrough a military vehicle in southern Turkey on Monday, the state-run

Anatolian news agency reported. The vehicle was on patrol during a change ofguard duty at an artillery unit in the Islahiye district of Gaziantep province,

near the Syrian border, when the blast occurred.—INTERNET

People holding umbrellas walk pass a fallen tree in south China’s Hong Kongon 25 June, 2008. Hong Kong was affected by heavy rain as the Typhoon

Fengshen headed towards the southern Chinese city. The Hong KongObservatory issued the No 8 Northeast Gale or Storm Signal on Tuesday and

red warning on Wednesday.—Internet

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Alaysa Caranoo holds a photo of her brother, whowas on board the capsized ferry MV Princess ofStars, while waiting with relatives for the latest

information outside the office of Sulpicio Lines inthe port area of Manila on 23 June, 2008.

INTERNET

Samsung TV sales ranks topin European market in Q1

SEOUL, 25 June—SouthKorea’s electronics com-pany Samsung Electronicsout beat its globalcompetitors in terms oftelevision units sold inEurope, a market researchagency DisplaySearchsaid Monday.

According to Dis-playSearch, SamsungElectronics accounted for31 percent of all televisionunits, including liquid-crystal display (LCD) andcathode-ray tube (CRT)types, sold in the Europeanmarket in the first quarterof 2008. Samsung’s

domestic rival LGElectronics Inc rankedsecond and Royal PhilipsElectronics NV of theNetherlands rank third,with 13.4 per cent and 12.7per cent, respectively,DisplaySearch said,adding that television salesin Europe accounted for21.5 per cent of alltelevision units sold in theworld.

During the same period,Samsung accounted for 30per cent of all LCDtelevision sales, followedby Royal Philips and Sonywith 15.7 per cent and 13.8

per cent, respectively, saidDisplaySearch.

Meanwhile, Samsung’ssales for plasma-displayprojection (PDP) rankedsecond, accounting for27.5 per cent of all PDPunits sold in Europe,following behind JapaneseMatsushita Electric In-dustrial Co with a 39.7-per-cent share in the firstquarter, according toDisplaySearch. —Xinhua

Fiji says Australia, NZ interference prompted talks pullout

Death toll in apartment firein E Canada rises to five

OTTAWA, 25 June—Two children that were injuredin a devastating fire in eastern Canada’s Newfoundlandand Labrador Province have died, raising the totaldeath toll to five, police said on Monday.

The children, who had been airlifted to a hospital inprovincial capital St John’s, died Sunday night as aresult of injuries they sustained early Sunday in a firein the town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay.

The fire, which had also killed two adults and ateenager, ripped through an apartment where ninepeople, including five children between the ages offive and 13, had been sleeping, town Mayor LeoAbbass told reporters.—Xinhua

WELLINGTON, 25 June —Fiji’s interim governmentsaid Monday that it hassuspended talks with thePacific Island Forum JointWorking Group on Fijibecause of what it sees as alack of support by Australiaand New Zealand, RadioNew Zealand Internationalreported.

Australia and NewZealand interferencecontinued to hamperefforts to move Fijiforward, it said. Fiji Mini-stry of Information’s actingdeputy secretary, MajorNeumi Leweni, said Fiji'sinterim Prime MinisterCommodore FrankBainimarama felt that the

talks should be suspendedbecause little progressis made. He added thattravel bans imposed byAustralia and New Zealandwere preventing the

involvement of manyqualified, skilled andwilling non-militaryindividuals who want tocontribute to rebuildingFiji.—Xinhua

All items from Xinhua News Agency

Cambodia marksInt’l anti-drug day PHNOM PENH, 25 June—Cambodian authorities

burned about 200 kilos of drugs here on Monday in aceremony to mark the International Day against DrugAbuse and Illicit Trafficking, which falls on 26 June.

Lou Ramin, secretary general for Cambodia’s anti-drug authority, told reporters that they destroyed over200 kilos of drugs at the ceremony, which is worthmillions of US dollars. Cambodian Deputy PrimeMinister and Interior Minister Sar Kheng and othergovernment officials set fire on a pile of confiscateddrugs during the ceremony.

Drugs affected young Cambodians and the country,too, is facing serious drug issues, Sar Kheng said at theceremony, adding that methamphetamine and crazydrug were among the most commonly used narcotics inCambodia.

Cambodia had deeply committed to fights againstthe production, trafficking and the use of drugs, hesaid, adding that their main goal was to transformcommunities to be clean without drugs.—Xinhua

Illegal alien wins Koreanwork injury compensation

SEOUL, 25 June—A South Korean court grantedworkplace accident compensation to an illegal migrantworker for the first time ever on Monday, overturninga lower court’s ruling that rejected his request forcoverage of medical treatment.

Zhang Shuai, a 22-year-old Chinese, became unableto talk or hear after he accidentally fell from a buildingduring an attempt to escape government inspectors in2006. His left arm and leg were also paralyzed, SouthKorean news agency Yonhap reported.

Zhang entered Korea on a student visa in 2005 andtook language courses at a university in Gyeongju,South Gyeongsang Province. But a year later, heillegally started working at an electronics manufacturerin a nearby city.

The Busan High Court had overturned the lowercourt’s verdict.

“The plaintiff’s escape attempt was to avoid manydisadvantages that he would receive after the inspectionbut, in a way, it is also true that his employers forcedhim to escape so as to continue their operations becausethey were not able to find local workers despite itsrepeated recruitment advertisements,” Judge Kim Shinsaid.—Xinhua

Vehicles wait at the toll station of Hymettus ring road as a fire burns MountHymettus near Athens. Firefighters battled a major fire Wednesday on Mount

Hymettus on the outskirts of Athens that burned through one of the Greekcapital’s last forests but posed no threat to homes. —Internet

Iraqi civilians inspect damaged cars after a car bomb blast in Karradaneighborhood, central Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, June 25, 2007. Three

civilians died from the blast and 7 other wounded, the police said.INTERNET

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The English word “democracy” is derived fromGreek word “Demo-Karatos”. The word “Demo”means the public and the word “Karatos”,implementation of the policies and programmes laiddown by the majority of the people in the interests ofthe majority of the people (security, peace, fulfillmentof basic needs, national economic growth, and highliving standard of the people). So, it says “Democracyof the people, for the people, by the people”.

Looking back to the origin of the worlddemocracy, democracy was given birth by “Demo-Kratos” that was exercised initially in three citystates namely Athens (Greece), Rome (today Italy)and Sparta over 2600 years (BC 600) ago. At thattime, the population of Athens was about 300,000.Of them, about 100,000 were slaves and they weredeprived of democracy rights. The remaining 50,000people were businessmen from other countries (todaysuch people are called those holding FRC), so theywere not entitled to participate in the proceedingsof Demo-Kratos, either.

Of about 150,000 natives of Athens city state,women did not have the rights to take part inthe Demo-Kratos proceedings. Only men agedover 20 were bestowed with the rights to takepart in Demo-Kratos process. Men aged above20 totaled about 40,000 and not everyone couldattend the convention (ten times a year). So, itwas designated with concession that the meetingwas valid if 6000 men were present. A resolutioncould be passed with the votes of more than 3000(just over half of the attendees) of over 6000attendees. A decision could be made with thevotes of just over 3000 citizens in Athens statecity, whose population stood at 300,000,amounting to the system under which one percent of the total people could make decisions.

At that time, the majority of the world peoplewere slaves who were under the rule of landlordmonarchs, so other political and administrativesystems were tried (for instance, the administrativepattern of those who became monarchs throughrivalry and ministers). However, it was found in the

Let’s march forward along the pathto democracy paved by the people

end that none of the systems could not bring long-term interests to the people. Therefore, Demo-Kratosor direct democracy was practised. According to thatsystem, the convention had to pass resolutions onState’s security, defence, revenue and judicial affairs.In the world, direct democracy won the support ofthe people because the people had the rights to makeself-determination to shape their future (the rights ofthe people to make decisions freely in their interests).

The exercise of the direct democracy causeda gap of benefits to wealthy persons doing tradewith seagoing vessels, merchants who became rich,purchasing, storing and distributing localagricultural produce for profits, and the poor.Later, the direct democracy faded away due tothe vying for benefits.

England saw industrial capitalism as a result ofthe industrial revolution. Factories were mushrooming,so raw materials, fuel, markets and cheap labour werein demand. At the same time, monarchs levied taxesover the capitalists and oppressed them, culminatingin the bourgeois revolution in England. Eventually, tothe liking of the capitalists, parliamentary bodies wereestablished and representatives-elect to the parliamenthad the rights to exercise legislative, executive andjudicial powers. Similar events took place in Europe.England parliament was made up of MPs fromrespective constituencies, whereas more than 500 MPsto the House of Lords were directly appointed by theQueen.

English (British) people called theirparliamentary system, parliamentary democracysystem. Direct democracy was no longer available.The country was heavily populous and each citizen,irrespective of man or woman, having attained 18years of age was vested with the rights to participatein the proceedings. So, they called it indirect(representing) democracy, rather than directdemocracy. That was reasonable. However, Britishcapitalists showed great covetousness by unjustlyoccupying and colonizing small countries to get rawmaterials, cheap labour and markets. The Britishdemocracy parliament passed a resolution to enslave

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many other countries that made up 77 per cent ofthe surface of the Earth. So, westerners said thatdemocracy was the rights to occupy freely othercountries for greater wealth. Colonialists’ democracybecame absolutely abhorrent to the globalcommunity.

World countries came to lay down democracypatterns (branches) in accordance with theconditions of the nation concerned. So, thereemerged many forms of democracy such ascapitalist democracy, socialist democracy, newdemocracy, and guide democracy. In Myanmar,today, the entire people have accepted thegenuine (as aspired by the majority of the peoplein the interests of the majority) and discipline-flourishing (rule of the order) free from anarchy,dictatorship, and harming stability of the Statefor coming to power. Myanmar people haverealized that only discipline-flourishingdemocracy will it be possible to put the nationalinterests in the fore and create a prosperousfuture of the entire people.

Myanmar will become a golden land soon if thepeople work hard in alliance in the nation that is blessedwith fertile soil and rich natural resources. Despitedisruptions created by internal and external saboteurs,internal peace has been regained and the nation isenjoying development in various sectors. There mightbe no policy better than this national policy and nodemocracy better than this freedom. So, it has cometo the public knowledge that this democracy is theonly means that guarantees peace and prosperity. Thus,it is reasonable that Myanmar people aspire to genuineand discipline-flourishing democracy.

In implementing national development projectsdemocratically, the people have to respect theprovisions of the State constitution. Theconstitution prescribes the rules and regulations tobe followed by those who, on behalf of the people,will exercise the sovereign power (legislative,executive and judicial powers) that belongs to theentire people.

Legal experts (54 members of the Commissionfor Drafting State Constitution) have drawn the Stateconstitution (draft) (2008) of the Union of Myanmarbased on the principles of the State constitutionthat more than 1000 representatives to the NationalConvention laid down, taking time and holdingdiscussions. The 45-member Commission forHolding the Referendum held referendum togetherwith members of the sub-commissions at states anddivisions, districts, townships, wards and village-tract levels, polling station officers and members ofpolling stations on 10 and 24 May 2008. The peopleshowed their trust in the fair and free voting system of

(See page 7)

In implementing national development projectsdemocratically, the people have to respect the provisionsof the State constitution. The constitution prescribes therules and regulations to be followed by those who, onbehalf of the people, will exercise the sovereign power(legislative, executive and judicial powers) that belongsto the entire people.

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Let’s march forward along the pathto democracy paved by the people

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(from page 6)

the referendum and understood well that Myanmar’sdemocracy could be introduced only after the new

constitution is approved. So, 92.48 per cent of theeligible voters cast ‘yes’ vote for the constitution.

So, it can be deduced that the entire people areeager to exercise the genuine and discipline-

flourishing democracy as soon as possible.During the periods while the National

Convention was in session, the State constitutionwas being drafted and the referendum was taking

place, internal and external destructive elementswere trying to disrupt the progress, ignoring the

image and desire of the people. On 24 May, theentire people approved the State constitution,

overcoming the destructive elements. The percentageof 92.48 is the record both locally and globally.

The people have paved the way to theMyanmar democracy. The most democratic wayis to respect and fulfil the wishes of the majorityof the people. Therefore, no one should disregardthe people’s desire. Their opposing and disruptingthe people’s desire means designating themselvesto be the common enemy of the people.

Supporting the Me-tha-yaw-hta announcement

written under the domination of the insurgents whohave violated the law and betrayed the State means

being disloyal to the State and violating the law.Those who were elected in the 1990 elections failed

to draw the State constitution. The results of the27-5-1990 election have passed more than 18 years.

The mandate the people gave them at that time hasexpired since 1994. They should not have nostalgia

for the results. They should seek the people’s desirein the 2010 multi-party democracy general election.

Only then, will they have a chance to become ademocracy government. They cannot get the

people’s mandate by relying on the colonialists’media and creating riots. They will have to exercise

the democratic ways prescribed in the Stateconstitution if they want to be proud of being pro-

democracy activists.After Myanmar regained independence in 1948,

the ruling AFPFL government was incapable ofintroducing democracy to the nation. It was shouting

slogans designed to ensure its rule for as long as 40years, and committing inhuman acts. In

consequence, the nation saw the multi-colouredinsurgency. The people suffered the evilconsequence of the insurgency for more than 40

years. The people disliked the parliamentarydemocracy designed to prolong the rule of the

AFPFL government. That was why they showedwholehearted support for the Socialist democracy

in the Burma Socialist Programme Party period.

(Altogether 90.19 per cent of the eligible voters cast

‘yes’ vote for the State constitution based on MyanmaWay to socialism). Nevertheless, in practice the

Socialist Economy did not improve the livingconditions of the people either. In 1988, the nation

saw the political unrest that took place at theinstigation of aboveground and underground internal

and external destructive elements. Those who gavepriority to the coming to power of the anarchists

demanded the multi-party democracy.The 1988 unrest turned anarchic and in

consequence, the Union was on the verge of collapseand loss of independence. So, the Tatmadaw had to

take over State’s duties, and it allowed the people toform political parties, soon after that. Those who

unanimously opposed the ruling Burma SocialistProgramme Party and demanded the multi-party

democracy with one voice in 1988 formed 235 parties.Although they claimed democracy with one voice, they

split into 235 parties, thereby showing the improperdemocracy that was given birth by the 1988 unrest.

When the 1990 election took place, the numberof 235 parties was reduced to 93 parties. Theparties that did not win any seat in the electionbecame defunct. Now, the number of legal politicalparties was only 10.

In the US, Republican Party and Democratic Party

are only two major ones. There are some small parties,but they are not well-known. In Britain, only two

parties—Labour Party and Conservative Party are well-known and Liberal Party does not meet the level of

standing for election. Political parties, policies andfactions were too many that they were not capable of

introducing democracy correctly. They focused oncoming to power and ignored the public interests. It

was very horrible to learn and witness that they engagedin the armed conflicts and vied each other for power.

They were so power-craving that they regardedother parties, and parties with different policies as

enemies, and committed slaughters (for example,nine-victim murder in Minhla, six-victim murder in

Ngazun, massacres in Myeik Sitaung-aing village andHsinswe village in Pakokku, and bloodshed

committed by Ywet Sit drug trafficking insurgentgroup). If they claimed themselves to be public party

or democracy party although they are committing

such crimes, their policy will be in contrary to thatof the people.

According to the trend of party politics, every

party has been established with the aim of servingthe interests of the people in an honest way. They

should consider that the winning party has to forma government. The other parties have to support all

community welfare services of the winning partyand extend a helping hand. And they will have to

point out the mistakes of the winning party in ademocratic way, give positive advice and make

suggestions, and oppose if necessary. However, thesupporting and opposing the acts of the ruling party

should not be aimed at seeking the self-interestsand coming to power of the party concerned. Only

such multi-party system is a genuine multi-partysystem and can win the support and satisfaction of

the people. They will not be in a position to exercisedemocracy as long as they fail to respect these

points.It is a tradition that people form political

parties, they canvass for votes by presenting theirpolicies and programmes, the people cast vote toelect representatives, and steps are taken to handover power to the winning party. If a partyconsiders that things will go well only if the partycomes to power, and it does improper acts,coming to power is first priority, whereas publicinterests, second priority. The State constitutionthat has been approved by the people manifestsprinciples with which democracy can be practisedcorrectly. Today’s people have gained a lot ofknowledge and are mature. It is an opportunetime to try to play a leading role on behalf of thepeople, without attempting to seize power.

Focusing on coming to power does not meandemocracy, and interference of colonialist countries

is not democracy, either. So, I would say Myanmardemocracy is serving the public interests in

accordance with the law and the wishes of themajority of the people. Playwright Bernard Shaw

once said, “Democracy is not the election by theignorants for the corrupted few”. So, they should

have noticed that as he ironically said genuinedemocracy is not the one by the ignorants.

Translation: MS

According to the trend of party politics, every party hasbeen established with the aim of serving the interests of thepeople in an honest way. They should consider that the winningparty has to form a government. The other parties have tosupport all community welfare services of the winning partyand extend a helping hand.

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NAY PYI TAW, 25 June —�As agesture of hailing the MyanmarWomen’s Day which falls on 3 July, abillboard was erected nearThabyaegon round-about here today.

On the occasion, CEC member ofMyanmar Women’s Affairs FederationDaw Nilar Thaw cut the ribbon to openthe ceremony. Next, Daw Swe SweOo, wife of the Commander of Nay PyiTaw Command, unveiled the billboard.

Chairpersons and members ofWAOs of Nay Pyi Taw PyinmanaDistrict, Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana, NayPyi Taw Lewe and Nay Pyi TawTatkon townships participated in theceremony attended by altogether 300members.—MNA

Billboard to hailMyanmar Women’s Day

set up in Nay Pyi Taw

Billboard to markMyanmar Women’s Dayput up in Kamayut Tsp

YANGON, 25 June —A billboard tomark Myanmar Women’s Day whichfalls on 3 July was erected at HledanJunction at the corner of Pyay Road andUniversity Avenue in KamayutTownship yesterday.

Present were Daw Kyin Myaing,wife of the Commander of YangonCommand, and party, members ofKamayut, Mayangon and HlineTownship Women’s AffairsOrganizations, social organizations anddepartmental officials numbering 600.

Daw Kyin Myaing formallyunveiled the signboard to markMyanmar Women’s Day.—MNA

Cash donated in hailingMyanmar Women’s Day

YANGON, 25 June—Aceremony to donate cashto Myanmar Women’sAffairs Federation hailingthe Myanmar Women’sDay was held at themeeting hall of MyanmarWomen’s AffairsFederation this morning.

It was attended byPresident of MyanmarWomen’s Affairs

Federation Daw KhinKhin Win, Vice-PresidentDaw Khin Thet Htay andCEC members andwellwishers.

The donation to theMyanmar Women’sAffairs Federation byministries andwellwishers includingYangon CityDevelopment Committee,Union Solidarity and

Development Associationand Myanmar Maternaland Child WelfareAssociation was K 14.65million. The donationswere accepted byPresident Daw Khin KhinWin and Vice-PresidentDaw Khin Thet Htay.

Next, Daw Khin KhinWin spoke words ofthanks.

MNA

Daw Kyin Myaing, wife of commander of Yangon Command, unveils billboard to mark Myanmar Women’s Day. — MNA

President of MWAF Daw Khin Khin Win accepts cash donated bywellwishers to hail Myanmar Women’s Day. — MNA

Daw Swe Swe Oo, wife of commander of Nay Pyi Taw Command, unveils billboard to mark Myanmar Women’s Day. — MNA

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YANGON, 25 June —Head of InformationDepartment Daw Kyi KyiWin of MyanmarWomen’s AffairsFederation, RegionalOrganizer (Kachin State)Daw Wai Wai and partythis morning donatedschool equipment, rice,edible oil and cash tostorm-hit schools inHlinethaya Township andWithakha Nunnery inDagon Myothit (Seikkan)Township.

At Hlinethaya BasicEducation Primary SchoolNo. 17, they donated K

Head of Information Department ofMWAF and members donate cash,

stationery to storm-hit schools, nunnery100,000 to the schoolthrough TownshipEducation Officer U ThanTin and HeadmistressDaw Naw Kyin Kaw.

They presentedschool stationery tostudents throughrepresentatives.

The head of theinformation departmentand party presented K100,000 to HlinethayaBEPS No. 41 throughAssistant TownshipEducation Officer U MyatWai and HeadmistressDaw Nyunt Nyunt Winand school stationery to

students. At WithakhaNunnery, the InformationDepartment of MWAFdonated K 150,000 and100 dozens of exercisebooks and Head ofInformation DepartmentDaw Kyi Kyi Win andfamily, one bag of rice andseven viss of edible oil toPresiding NunSaddhamma JotikadhajaDaw Kissaratheri and NunDaw Jeyanandi.

The InformationDepartment of MWAFdonated K 350,000, 300dozens of exercise booksand stationery. — MNA

Malaysian medicalteam arrives

YANGON, 25 June — A Malaysian medicalteam comprising 25 members arrived at YangonInternational Airport here this afternoon.—MNA

YANGON, 25 June –Discipline EnforcementDepartment and theWorking Group for LegalAffairs under Myanmar

YANGON, 25 June —�Winners of the color photocompetitions organized by Myanmar Women’s AffairsFederation to hail Myanmar Women’s Day wasannounced today.

Myint Thein (Physics), Aung Kyaw Tun(Patheingyi) and Ko Ko Soe Nyunt (The New Light ofMyanmar) won the first, second and third prizesrespectively. Kun Cho Tha Hlaing (Thilawamyay),Sai Khan Lin (Hawk Eyes), U Yin Min Thant (NewAsia), Saw Aung Min (New Asia), Ko Oo (ImageHunter), U Soe Lwin and Aung Htay Hlaing(Adventure) won consolation prizes.

A presentation ceremony will be held inconjunction with the celebration to mark the MyanmarWomen’s Day on 3 July.

Award winners are to contact the MyanmarWomen’s Affairs Federation at No 132, ThanlwinRoad, Bahan Township, Ph 01-501773 and thecommittee for organizing the colour photo competitionsat No 228, Theinbyu Road, Botahtaung Township, Ph01-371342, not later than 29 June. — MNA

Winners of MyanmarWomen’s Day photo

competitions announced

MWAF conducts educative talks on legal affairsWomen’s AffairsFederation jointlyconducted the educativetalks on legal affairs atInstitute of MarineTechnology here today.

It was attended byVice-President ofMyanmar Women’sAffairs Federation DawKhin Thet Htay, Head ofDiscipline EnforcementDepartment Daw MyaTheingi, Head ofInternational RelationsDepartment Daw MyintMyint Soe, Head ofAdminisration Depart-ment Dr Daw Khin HsanNwe, Head of OrganizingDepartment Dr DawNyunt Nyunt Oo, Head

of Finance DepartmentDaw Aye Aye, Head ofInformation DepartmentDaw Kyi Kyi Win, Leaderof Social and CulturalGroup Dr Daw SandarAung, CEC member DawKhin Mi Mi, secretariatmembers of MWAF,Patron of Yangon DivisionWomen’s AffairsOrganization Daw KyinMyaing, legal experts andofficials concerned.

Legal experts ofMWAF gave talks on legalaffairs and the talks endedwith concluding remarksby Head of the DisciplineEnforcement DepartmentDaw Mya Theingi.

MNA

YANGON, 25 June—The Third Meeting ofASEAN-HTF for cyclonevictims was held atBallroom of Sedona Hotelon Kaba Aye PagodaRoad, here, this morning.

It was attended bySecretary-General ofASEAN Chairman ofASEAN-HTF Dr SurinPitsuwan and members,

Third Meeting of ASEAN-HTF heldUnder Secretary-Generalof UN ExecutiveSecretary of Asia-PacificEconomic and SocialCommission Ms NoeleenHeyzen, members ofASEAN-HTF, membersof Tripartite CentralCommittee, officials oftask force, foreigndiplomats to Myanmar,officials of UN

organizations, Inter-national NGOs, the WorldBank, the ADB anddepartmental officials.

Secretary-General ofASEAN and Chairman ofASEAN-HTF Dr SurinPitsuwan presided over themeeting and madespeeches on the occasion.

Next, Chairman ofTripartite Central Com-

mittee Deputy Minister forForeign Affairs U KyawThu read out the report oftripartite centralcommittee. Afterwards,member of tripartitecentral committee Dr PujiPujiono presented thereport of the PONJA in theaftermath of cyclonicstorm.

Those present gavesuggestion on the reportsand discussed exhortationand results of workshopsof medic teams andASEAN on relief,rehabilitation andreconstruction.

Next, the meeting ofASEAN-HTF continued.After the meeting, theSecretary-General ofASEAN, the UnderSecretary-General of UN,the Deputy Minister forForeign Affairs andmembers posed for adocumentary photo.

MNA

Daw Kyi Kyi Win and Daw Wai Wai donate K 150,000 and exercisebooks to Nun Daw Kissaratheri and Nun Daw Jeyanandi.—MNA

Third meeting of ASEAN-HTF in progress at Sedona Hotel inYangon.—MNA

Daw Mya Theingi, Head of the Discipline Enforcement Department, delivers an address at talkson legal affairs to hail Myanmar Women’s Day.—TRANSPORT

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More relief supplies arrive at Ygn Int’l AirportYANGON, 25 June—

The internationalcommunity has beendonating relief supplies toregions severely hit by the

storm. Relief suppliesweighing 50.46 tonsdonated by Thai basedWFP and relief aidsweighing 16.65 tons

donated by MalaysiaMedical Team arrived atYangon InternationalAirport today.

MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe inspects clearing of debris, dredging ofdrains for beautifying of downtown Yangon

Lt-Gen Myint Swe inspects removal of fallen trees from the compound of Pyidaungsu Avenue in Dagon Township. — MNA

YANGON, 25 June —Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defenceoversaw clearing of debris,dredging of drains,conditions of Tamway tax-free market andconstruction of the newschool building by YangonDivision USDA yesterdaymorning.

At PyidaungsuYeiktha compound onPyidaungsu Yeiktha Road

in Dagon Township, Lt-Gen Myint Swe viewedclearing of fallen trees andre-growing of trees beingundertaken byTatmadawmen.

Lt-Gen Myint Swealso inspected greeningtasks along ShwedagonPagoda Road and the ringroad of Kandawgyi Lake.He also looked intoremoval of fallen treesbeing carried out along

Upper Pazundaung Roadin Mingala TaungnyuntTownship byTatmadawmen with theuse of heavy machinery.

At No. 4 Sawn TimberShop on UpperPazundaung Road, heinspected dredging of the1000 feet long drain beingundertaken by YangonCity DevelopmentCommittee. Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin and

party reported oncompletion of work andfuture plan.

In Gadohseik Ward inMingala TaungnyuntTownship, Lt-Gen MyintSwe viewed dredging of the5,000 feet long drain andleft necessary instructions.In Tamway Township, heinspected clearing of debrisin Aungmingala Creekbeing carried out byTatmadawmen.

After inspectingTamway Tax-free Market,he instructed officials tosupervise selling andbuying at the market inaccord with the aims of thetax-free markets.

On Bayintnaung 12thStreet in Yangonthit Wardof ThingangyunTownship, Lt-Gen MyintSwe looked intoconstruction of a two-storey steel structure

measuring 160 feet by 30feet and a buildingmeasuring 80 feet by 30feet donated by USDA atNo 7 Basic Education Post-Primary School.

In Ward B ofThingangyun Township,Lt-Gen Myint Sweinspected participation ofUSDA members intarmacking of MingalaRoad measuring 1150 feetby 12 feet. — MNA

Writer Taung Twin Bo Thein donatesbooks to USDA

YANGON, 25 June—Aceremony to donate thebooks of U Bo Thein(Writer Taung Twin BoThein), National Con-vention delegate fromShan State (East), to theUnion Solidarity andDevelopment Associationwas held at the meetinghall of USDA(Headquarters) on new

University Avenue inBahan township, here,yesterday morning.

USDA Secretary-General U Htay Oo gave aspeech on the occasion.Afterwards, donor U BoThein ( writer Taung TwinBo Thein) explained thepurpose of the donation.

Later, USDA Secre-tary-General U Htay Oo

accepted 300 copies of thebook entitled the NationalConvention, Sights andScenes of NyaunghnapinCamp 2004-2006 donatedby writer Taung Twin BoThein and presentedcertificate of honour.

It is his 20th book andpublished in Englishversion worth K 1.5million.—MNA

USDA Secretary-General U Htay Oo accepts copies of the book entitled“The National Convention, Sights and Scenes of Nyaunghnapin Camp

2004-2006” presented by U Bo Thein. — MNA

Industry-1 Minister inspects factoryprojects in Mandalay Division

NAY PYI TAW, 25 June—�Minister for Industry-1 U Aung Thaunginspected the textilefactory project in MyitthaTownship yesterday.

During the tour, theminister inspected theconstruction of buildingsand goodsheds of thefactory.

The project of TextileFactory (Myittha) hasbeen implemented byTianjin UniversalMachinery Import &Export Co Ltd of People’sRepublic of China. Uponcompletion, the factory isexpected to produce 5.472

million pounds of textileper year. Similarly, textilefactories in Paleik,Shwedaung, Pwintbyu,Pakokku, Salingyi andSagaing supply altogether42 million pounds oftextile per year.

Afterwards, theminister went to PyawbweTownship and inspectedthe salt making projectunder MyanmarPharmaceutical Industriesnear Sartaung Village inthe township. Salt has beenmade by drying under-ground water inMandalay, Sagaing andMagway.

During his tour ofinspection, the ministeralso went to PyawbweTextile Factory Project inPyawbwe and inspectedcultivation andconstruction of buildingsin the compound thefactory and machinery tobe equipped at the factory.The project beingimplemented by TianjinUniversal MachineryImport & Export Co Ltdwill be completed soon.Upon completion, thefactory is expected toproduce 5.472 millionpounds of textile per year.

MNA

Service charge to be paid for e-D-form to MEB Branch-5NAY PYI TAW, 25

June—The Immigrationand National RegistrationDepartment has allowedthose who will have to payfor service charge K 200to apply e-D-form bydepositing into the currentaccount No (CH-063329)

of Myanma EconomicBank-1 through nearbybanks.

As of 1 July, thosewho apply for e-D-formare to deposit servicecharge into account NoMD-000086 of MEB-5through nearby banks

stating that the deposit isfor the service charge toapply for e-D-Form.Those who have alreadypaid for the charge buthave not gone abroad donot need to reapply it,INRD announced.

MNA

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Maj-Gen Maung Oo, Minister for Home Affairs and Chairmanof the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control sends message

NAY PYI TAW, 26 June — The following is the message from Maj-Gen Maung Oo, Minister for HomeAffairs and Chairman of the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control, commemorating the InternationalDay Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking today.

As today is the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, the countries all overthe world are commemorating International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Likewise,States and Divisions of Myanmar will be holding the similar ceremonies with common objectives.

The UNODC chose the motto “No individual, family or community is safe where illicit drugs takecontrol” for 2008.

The theme of the motto was chosen to raise awareness that if the families in any society use thenarcotic drugs, the danger of the drugs will destroy life safety and push the drug addicts into the miseries.The abuse of narcotic drugs will invite grave dangers and HIV/AIDS and other diseases, and the drug addictyouths will lose their goals. As such, the entire people are to harmoniously participate in the tasks to guardagainst the danger of narcotic drugs that is menacing not only the lives of the youth but also the human society.

The successive governments in Myanmar made utmost efforts in their attempts to solve the problemof narcotic drugs with own strength. A 15-year narcotic drug eradication plan was laid down, andimplementation of it commenced in 1999-2000. At present, the plan reached the fourth year of the secondfive-year plan. During the above period, the aims of the plan were successfully realized. In addition, theDangers of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Eradication Organizations were formed in States/Divisions/Districts and Townships on 2 January 2007 and they are carrying out the narcotic drugs eradicationtasks with added momentum. The State/Division/District and Township Organizations are also to disseminateeducative knowledge and give medical treatment to the drugs addicts to be free from abuse of drugs foreverin their respective regions.

In an attempt to create drug-free communities, the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control(CCDAC) organized the work group for livestock breeding, the work group for cultivation of opium-substitute crops, the work group for providing medical care, the work group for rehabilitation, the work groupfor dissemination of knowledge among students and the work group for dissemination of awareness amongthe people and have implemented projects for ensuring drug free communities.

Educative talks on drug conducted by teachers, participation of students in literary, music, painting,cartoon and poster competitions have helped educate students not to use drugs.

As part of efforts for drug elimination, the Health Department under the Ministry of Health set up 26treatment centres and 40 treatment clinics. Seven rehabilitation centers were set up in states and divisionsby the Social Welfare Department. Under the supervision of the CCDAC, three drug rehabilitation centresnamely Shwepyitha, Shwepyiaye and Shwepyithit have provided medical care to drug addicts and helpedtheir rehabilitation.

Thanks to the drug elimination efforts, opium cultivation has dramatically decreased from 140,000hectares to 27,700 hectares in a decade ending 2007 and won praise from the world.

According to the statistics collected in states and divisions, the number of drug addicts has decreasedfrom 61,455 in 2005 to 54,709 in January, 2008.

Thanks to the cooperative efforts of the law enforcement organizations such as the Tatmadaw,Myanmar Police Force and the Customs Department of Myanmar and drug control teams in neighboringThailand and China, anti-drug activities were met with success. As Myanmar could sign Memorandaof Understandings (MoUs) with regional countries and sub-regional countries, transnational drugdealers were arrested in Myanmar and it was a remarkable achievement of the drug control efforts ofthe country.

Hence, the people are to continue to make efforts for ensuring drug-free communities in accordancewith the motto of the United Nations for 2008 “No individual, family or community is safe where illicit drugstake control”.— MNA

* Hazardous drugsPerilous to human race

* Affecting mind in harmful waySo dreadful are they

* Trying narcoticsBrings ill health

* Addiction to themEnds with death

* Say no to themThey the drugs of death

* Addiction to drugs neverEver see them asThe flower of Death

Pyinnya Thu (Trs)

The Flower of DeathPOEMOpium cultivation dramatically decreased

from 140,000 hectares to 27,700 hectaresin a decade ending 2007, won global praise

Minister Maj-Gen Aung Mininspects reconstruction tasks

in Dedaye TspNAY PYI TAW, 25 June—Minister for Rail

Transportation Maj-Gen Aung Min who is closelysupervising rehabilitation tasks in Dedaye Townshiplooked into learning of students in temporary tents inSakyin village on 22 June.

The Minister inspected repair to embankmentbetween Toe village and Sakyin village with the use ofmachinery and gave instructions on early completionof the works and timely completion of Tamakawembankment.Upon completion, it can prevent over20000 acres of farmlands from seawater.

Next, he went to Toe village and chose theplace where permanent building will be built andcalled for early completion of works. Next, the Ministerencouraged the specialists from Yangon who arerendering medical treatment to storm survivors of thevillage.

Afterwards, he paid homage to the Sayadawof Thitsa Aungmyay monastery of Sakyin village anddonated construction materials and cash for rebuildingof the monastery. The Minister inspected renovationof Myoma market and Dhammayon in Dedaye villageand attended to the needs.—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Aung Min inspects

reconstruction of embankment to prevent

seawater in Dedaye Township.

RAIL TRANSPORTATION

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV MCP ROTTERDAM VOY NO ( -)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV MCPROTTERDAM VOY NO (-) are hereby notified thatthe vessel will be arriving on 26.6.2008 and cargowill be discharged into the premises of A.W.P.Twhere it will lie at the consignee’s risk and expensesand subject to the byelaws and conditions of the Portof 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

AGENT FOR: M/S INTERASIA LINESPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

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Ecopetrol closes oilpipeline after

guerilla attacksBOGOTA, 25 June— The

Colombian PetroleumCompany (Ecopetrol)suspended Monday the oilflow in the border regionswith Venezuela, afterguerillas attacked thecountry’s most importantCano Limon-Covenas oilpipeline.

The pipeline wasdamaged by two explosiveattacks by the Revo-lutionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC) inArauca Province andSantander ProvinceSaturday and Sunday,Ecopetrol told reporters.

“The pipeline wastransporting 96,000 barrelsof oil per day from theeast to the west of thecountry,” an Ecopetrolspokesperson said.

Statistics showed theline had been damagedmore than 1,000 times inthe past 20 years. It wasattacked two months agonear Tibu, which causedan oil spill and cut the watersupply to Santanderinhabitants for many days.

FARC planted bombs inenergy towers and oilpipelines to obstruct thegovernment’s securitypolicies and extortresources from multi-nationals, said Eco-petrol.—MNA/Xinhua

Farmers angry as Australiaends wheat monopoly

CANBERRA, 25 June — Angry wheat farmers disruptedAustralia’s Parliament on Monday, jeering and callingout from public galleries as the government passedlaws to allow permanent competition for wheatmarketing and exports.

The new laws, to start from 1 July, allow ongoingcompetition to market Australia’s wheat crop, endingthe monopoly single desk marketing arrangementpreviously held by AWB Ltd. “The passing of the billgives growers certainty for the current wheat crop,which will be harvested from October,” AgricultureMinister Tony Burke said.

The new laws created division among farmersand the conservative side of Australian politics,with many farmers and the rural-based NationalParty wanting to retain the single desk, saying themonopoly helped maximize prices for Australianwheat.

The Australian Government has forecast a winterwheat crop of 23.68 million tons for 2008/09, an 80-per-cent increase on the drought-hit 13.04 million tonsin 2007/08.

MNA/Reuters

Police arrest 75 for smugglingpeople into EU

AMSTERDAM, 25 June—Police across Europe havebroken up an Iraqi-runnetwork that smuggledillegal immigrants into thecontinent for fees of up to12,000 euros (18,630 USdollars) per person,European officials said onMonday.

“This was one ofthe largest coordinatedactions against peoplesmugglers ever, in-volving more than 1,300police officers,” Europoland Eurojust, the con-tinent’s Hague-basedpolice and prosecutionagencies, said in a jointstatement.

They said police hadarrested 75 people in joint

investigations in Belgium,France, Germany, Greece,Ireland, Norway, theNetherlands, Sweden andBritain.

“All suspects are said tobe involved in the

clandestine smuggling ofa large number of illegalimmigrants into andwithin the EuropeanUnion,” Europol andEurojust said.

MNA/Reuters

Pet poisoning cases on rise in Canada OTTAWA, 25 June—

Canada has seen increasingcases of pet poisoning inrecent years, which happenmostly in parks in big cities,local media reportedTuesday.

At least eight dogs havefallen victim to thepoisoning of anti-freeze ata park in Toronto over theweekend, two of them died,

the Toronto Star reported. The anti-freeze was

found in a water dispenserin High Park at the city’swest end. The dogsdeveloped symptomsincluding dizziness,lethargy and frequenturination after drinking thepoison.

Toronto police havesuggested the poisoning

could be related to a debateover whether dog ownersshould be allowed to lettheir pets off-leash in themassive park.

The city has seen dogpoisoning sprees in at leasttwo parks in recent years.Pet poisonings have alsobeen reported in other citiesas Calgary and Regina.

MNA/Xinhua

Canada reports new caseof mad cow disease

Collapsed fences are seenin Hong Kong on 25June, 2008. Tropical

storm Fengshen broughtheavy rains and strongwinds to Hong KongWednesday, shutting

down the city’s financialmarkets, schools and

courts.—INTERNET

OTTAWA, 25 June—Canada has reported a newcase of mad cow disease,the 13th in the country, theCanadian Food InspectionAgency (CFIA) anno-unced on Monday. Thedisease was discovered ina cow that died on a farmin the western province ofBritish Columbia, said DrGeorge Luterbach, a

senior veterinarian withCFIA.

The agency said theinfection was detected aspart of its ongoingsurveillance programmefor mad cow disease, orbovine spongiform en-cephalopathy (BSE). Nopart of the infected cowhas entered the human oranimal food chain.

Since 2003, 13 cases ofmad cow disease have beenfound in Canada, including10 in Alberta and 3 in BritishColumbia.—MNA/Xinhua

48 survive inPhilippinessea mishap

MANILA, 25 June—ThePhilippine Coast Guardsaid Tuesday the situationof 115 people of the 862on board of a capsizedferry have been known.Forty-eight survived and67 have been killed.

Beside them, theconditions of theremaining passengers andcrew are still unknown andare considered missing,said Coast Guardspokesman ArmandBalilo in a Press briefing.

On its way from Manilato Cebu, the 23,800-tonM/V Princess of the Starssank off the Philippines’central province ofRamblon at the height ofTyphoon Fengshen whichlashed the archipelagofrom east to west over theweekend.—MNA/Xinhua

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US scientist urges carbon taxto help climate

Philippine ferry survivor swamfor his life

Charcoal, rain sustainquake-trapped pig for 36 days

WSHINGTON, 25 June —The US scientist who 20years ago first told Congressthat the Earth’s climate waswarming said on Mondaythat urgent action wasneeded to cut greenhousegases and proposed a tax oncarbon emissions. JamesHansen, the director ofNASA’s Goddard Institutefor Space Studies, said at acongressional briefing thata carbon tax would be the

most efficient way to cutglobal warming emissionsand encourage non-fossilenergy sources.

“We have to level withthe public that there has tobe a price on carbonemissions,” Hansen said.“That is the only way weare going to begin to movetoward a carbon freeeconomy.”

Hansen said urgentaction was needed to cut

carbon dioxide emissionsthat are warming the globeand are already causingarctic ice to melt. He saidworld leaders had only oneor two years to act beforethe Earth reaches a “tippingpoint” with majorconsequences to the globalclimate and speciessurvival.

“We have reached anemergency situation,” Han-sen said.—MNA/Reuters

A youth jumps over a bonfire during the traditional San Juan (Saint John)night on a beach in the southern Spanish city of Malaga.—INTERNET

Staff members disinfect a giant panda upon its arrival at the Fuzhou GiantPanda Protection and Research Center in Fuzhou, Fujian province 24 June,2008. Ten giant pandas from a breeding base in southwest China’s Sichuan

Province were evacuated on Tuesday to avoid threats from possiblegeological disasters after the May 12 earthquake, Xinhua News Agency

reported. Picture taken on 24 June, 2008.—INTERNET

Brian Bain, of Culver, Ore, gets thrown from his horse during the saddlebronco riding competition at the Reno Rodeo at the Reno Livestock Events

Center in Reno, Nev, on 24 June, 2008.—INTERNET

SIBUYAN ISLAND

(Philippines), 25 June—Jessie Buot swam for fivehours through heaving seasand lashing rain to stayalive. “I tried to be bravebecause I knew if I hadsuccumbed to my fears, Iwould have died,” the 24-year old farm worker toldReuters on Monday.

Buot did not think twiceabout jumping off the MVPrincess of Stars when itstarted to capsize with over800 people on boardduring a typhoon 3 km (2miles) off Sibuyan Island

in the central Philippineson Saturday afternoon. “Iheld on to my lifevest verytight so I wouldn’t lose itand I did not try to swimwith others because I wasafraid they might cling tome and we might alldrown,” he told Reuters.

His determination paidoff. Buot is one of only 33people so far known tohave survived the ferry’ssinking, which could beone of the worst shippingdisasters in the Philippinesin over 20 years. Despitehis terrifying experience,

Buot, who works on amango farm in the centralPhilippines, said he wouldhave to brave ferry travelagain.

MNA/Reuters

Tanzanian population growthstands at 2.9% per year

DAR-ES-SALAAM, 25June — A senior govern-ment official has warnedTanzanians that thecountry’s current popu-lation growth rate wasworrisomely high.

Deputy TanzanianFinance and EconomyMinister Omar Mzee toldlawmakers in Dodomaduring a parliamentarysession over the weekendthat the country neededpractical measures tonormalize the currentpopulation growth rate.

The current growth rateof 2.9 per cent wasdescribed as a seriouschallenge against thecountry’s economic growthin that competition for fewresources available, and itwould be high if the trendwould go on unchecked.

Monday’s edition of thelocal English broadsheetThe Guardian quoted agovernment estimate thathad projected the country’spopulation as to reach 65million by 2020.

MNA/Xinhua

BEIJING, 25 June— A330-pound hog survived36 days in the ruins ofits sty, destroyed by lastmonths’s Sichuan Pro-vince earthquake, bychewing down charcoaland drinking rainwater,local media reported.

The no-longer-big-pigin Pengzhou City wasdown to one-third of itsweight, making it almostunrecognizable. “It isdidn’t look like a pig at allwhen it was saved,” awitness said. “It was as thinas a goat!”.

The pig ate charcoal,which although contains nonutrition, is also non-toxicand filling. The charcoalhad been stored on thesecond story of itscollapsed shelter.

A curator from theJianchuan Museum boughtthe pig for 3,008 yuan (430

US dollars) and promisedto care for it until it diednaturally. He named thepig Zhu Jianqiang (PigStrong), tacked on anickname: 36-day piggy.

MNA/Xinhua

Insurgent attacks in Afghanistanincreases 40% in 2008

WASHINGTON, 25June— The number ofinsurgent attacks fromJanuary to May this yearhas increased 40 per centcompared to the sameperiod of last year, a USmilitary general said onTuesday. Army Major

General Jeffrey JSchloesser, commander aUS anti- terrorism taskforce and part of theNATO coalition in theeastern Afghanistan, toldreporters through aPentagon satellite-carriednews conference that

fights between Taleban-led insurgents and foreignand Afghanistan Govern-ment forces have riseneach year since 2002 andthere have been nearly2,000 people killed ininsurgency-related vio-lence so far in 2008.

Since the start ofApril, a total of 40 deathsamong uniformed andcivilian foreign coalitionmembers in the east parthave been recorded, thecausalities at the same rateas last year, he said.

Schloesser attributedthe increase partly to moreenemy attacks and morecoalition forces going intothe troubled areas.

Although the co-alition forces is makingprogress in training theAfghan local forces andproviding help to theAfghan government,Schloesser conceded thathe is nowhere near able tosay “we’ve reachedirreversible momentum.”

MNA/Xinhua

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S P O R T S

NEUSTIFT, 25 June — Spain are not worried aboutwearing yellow shirts versus Russia in the Euro 2008semi-finals despite it being considered an unluckycolour in the country. Spain are nominally the ‘away’team in Thursday’s match in Vienna and are obliged towear their second strip which has been switched fromtraditional white to golden yellow.

The change for the match is necessary to avoid acolour clash because Russia, like Spain, wear redshirts.

“As far as I’m concerned it’s fine, I’m used toplaying in yellow,” said midfielder Marcos Sennawhose club Villarreal play in an all-yellow strip.

Spain team mate Xavi said he was also unconcernedabout the colour change. —MNA/Reuters

KIEV, 25 June — Ukraine has broken off talks withthe Taiwanese firm renovating the stadium due to hostthe final of Euro 2012 days before a visit by UEFAPresident Michel Platini, the Sports Ministry said onTuesday.

Delays in renovating the Kiev stadium have beena critical issue as Ukraine fights off Platini’s com-plaints made in January that preparations have beentoo slow and rumours abound that Ukraine and jointhosts Poland could losing the right to stage the compe-tition.

News media said Deputy Sports Minister RostyslavKarandeyev told reporters negotiations had endedwith the Archasia Design Group because of difficul-ties about the company’s legal status in Ukraine.

In an e-mailed response, Archasia President EricHsu said “the decision it (the ministry) made is ground-less”, and that documents about the company’s statushad not been requested in April, when the companywon the tender, nor in May.

Kiev’s 84,000-capacity Olympic Stadium, built inthe 1920s, is one of four stadiums in Ukraine to be usedin the tournament.

Organisers faced a series of problems with thestadium, including a half-built adjacent shopping cen-tre which violated crowd control norms. At the urgingof President Viktor Yushchenko, a deal was struck totear down parts of the centre.

Archasia’s Hsu said UEFA had asked the govern-ment to provide a project outline and site survey of thestadium but that neither had been produced, delayingfurther work.

Karandeyev said a jury assessing competing projectswould meet this week to find a replacement firm andpresent the new proposal to a UEFA executive boardmeeting in Vienna.— MNA/Reuters

VIENNA, 25 June – Russia might as well not bothershowing up for their Euro 2008 semi-final againstSpain if they play anything like they did in their groupstage hammering by the Spanish, coach Guus Hiddinksaid on Tuesday.

The Dutchman, who has found a way of pluggingthe holes in the defence that leaked so badly in that firstmatch and coaxed the team into playing a stylishattacking game, vowed there would be no repeat ofthat 4-1 drubbing on Thursday.

“If we play as we did before we don’t even have tostart this game. We may as well hand over our walletsto Spain,” he told reporters after a training session inVienna.

“We have tried, of course, to improve. The team haslearnt a lot in a very short time. We hope to continuethat.”

He said it would be a test of his inexperiencedplayers whether they could continue riding on themomentum they had built up with their stunning winsover Sweden and Netherlands.

“That’s always the question if the team with not asmuch experience can continue,” he said.

“It’s always the advantage of more experiencedteams like Spain, they are used to playing toughmatches every four or five days.” Midfielder IvanSaenko, who did not train on Monday with an ankleinjury, had an individual workout on Tuesday andHiddink said he still did not know whether he would befit for the match. “He’s still got a little bit of a problembut we will see tomorrow if he can participate,” thecoach said. —MNA/Reuters

Spain not worried about“unlucky” yellow strip

Rafael Nadal

of Spain

returns the

ball to

Andreas

Beck of

Germany

during their

match at the

Wimbledon

tennis cham-

pionships in

London on

24 June,

2008.—

INTERNET

TENERO (Switzerland), 25 June — Torsten Fringshas recovered sufficiently from a fractured rib andcould return to the Germany team to face Turkey inWednesday’s Euro 2008 semifinal, coach JoachimLoew said on Monday.

“I’m fortunate to be able to say that all 23 playerstrained today and are fit,” Loew said at a newsconference.

“Torsten trained completely normally, but with aprotective bandage. He said he had no major prob-lems. He will have to live with a nagging pain but asthings stand he could play, yes.” —MNA/Reuters

Well-wishers wave flags as they welcome theOlympic torch relay in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province

on 25 June, 2008.—INTERNET

Frings fit for Germany’sgame against Turkey

Ukraine breaks with firmfor Euro 2012 stadium

Russia will not roll overfor Spain again, says Guus

MariaSharapovaof Russiareturns abackhand

toStephanieForetz ofFrance in

the openinground onday two ofthe 2008

WimbledonChampion-

ships.Sharapovawon 6-1,

6-4.INTERNET

(25 June 2008)SEMI-FINAL

Germany 3 - 2 Turkey

Turkey’s Ugur Boral, center, scores the openinggoal past Germany’s Jens Lehmann, left, duringthe semifinal match between Germany and Turkeyin Basel, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 25, 2008,at the Euro 2008 European Soccer Championshipsin Austria and Switzerland. Right is Germany’sArne Friedrich.—INTERNET

Germany’s Bastian Schweinsteiger, partiallyvisible, third from left, scores his side’s openinggoal past Turkey’s goalie Rustu Recber during

the semifinal match between Germany andTurkey in Basel, Switzerland, Wednesday, June

25, 2008, at the Euro 2008 European SoccerChampionships in Austria and Switzerland.

INTERNET

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in� Chin and Kayah States, lower Sagaing Division,rain or thundershowers have been isolated in Mandalay andMagway Divisions, scattered in Rakhine State, Bago andYangon Divisions, fairly widespread in Kachin, Shan andMon States, upper Sagaing and Ayeyawady Divisions andwidespread in the remaining States and Divisions with lo-cally heavyfall in Kachin State, isolated heavyfalls in Yangonand Taninthayi Divisions. The noteworthy amounts ofrainfalls recorded were Co Co Island (5.75) inches, Myeik(4.73) inches, Putao and Bhamo (3.62) inches each,Machanbaw (2.40) inches and Dawei (1.73) inches.

Maximum temperature on 24-6-2008 was 91ºF. Mini-mum temperature on 25-6-2008 was 73ºF. Relative hu-midity at (09:30) hours MST on 25-6-2008 was 82%.Total sunshine hours on 24-6-2008 was (7.2) hour (approx).

Rainfall on 25-6-2008 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, ( Nil)at Kaba-Aye and ( 0.08) inch at Central Yangon. Totalrainfall since 1-1-2008 was (38.07)inches at Mingaladon,(47.32) inches at Kaba-Aye and (58.11) inches at CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye)was (6) mph from Southwest at (16:30) hours MST on24-6-2008.

Bay inference: Monsoon is generally strong in theAndaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 26-6-2008: Weatherwill be partly cloudy in Kayah State, lower Sagaing andMagway Divisions, rain or thundershowers will be iso-lated to scattered in Kachin, Chin and Shan States, upperSagaing, Mandalay, Bago, Ayeyawady and Yangon Divi-sions, and fairly widespread to widespread in the remain-ing areas. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Moderate to rough seas are likelyoff and along Myanmar Coasts. Surface wind speed mayreach (35-40) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Moderate to strongmonsoon.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 26-6-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degreeof certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for 26-6-2008: One or two rain or thundershowers with sunnyperiod. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for26-6-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (60%).

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Sumi Jasim, right, cries for his lost friend, next a destroyed house, after a USforces air strike, 15 kilometres (10 miles) north of Tikrit, 130 kilometres (80

miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, on 25 June, 2008. Sixmembers of a family including four children were killed early Wednesday

when a US jet destroyed their house the police said.—INTERNET

6 dead in Kentucky plant shooting

Atlantis Plastics Plant.

Pakistan, Indiahold anti-terrorism

meeting ISLAMABAD, 25 June

— Pakistan and India onTuesday started their thirdmeeting of Joint Anti-Terrorism Mechanism(JATM) in Islamabad todiscuss counter-terrorismmeasures and exchange.

The Pakistan dele-gation is led by MasoodKhalid, additionalsecretary of the ForeignMinistry while the Indiandelegation is headed byVivek Katju, AdditionalSecretary Ministry ofExternal Affairs. TheJATM was set up afterPrime Minister Manmo-han Singh and PakistaniPresident Pervez Mu-sharraf met on September16, 2006, on the sidelinesof the Non-AlignedMovement Summit inHavana.

The first meeting ofthe mechanism was heldlast March and the secondmeeting was held in NewDelhi last October.

MNA/Xinhua

HENDERSON, 25June— An employee gotinto an argument with asupervisor at a westernKentucky plastics plantearly Wednesday, thenshot and killed five peoplebefore killing himself,police and a companyofficial said.

The shooting hap-pened around midnight atAtlantis Plastics in thisOhio River town of about28,000 people.

The employee beganfighting with a supervisorand was escorted from thebuilding, company CEOBud Philbrook said.

As he was leaving,he took out a gun, shot thesupervisor, then chargedback into a break room andshot several employees.

Then, he returned tothe floor and shot anotheremployee before killinghimself, Philbrook said.

At least one otherperson was injured, policesaid. The wounded victimwas taken to St Mary’s

Hospital and MedicalCenter in Evansville, Ind.,spokeswoman CherylDauble said. That personwas undergoingtreatment, she said, butdeclined to release furtherinfor-mation.

The names of theshooter and the victimswere not released, and itwas not clear if thesupervisor was among thedead.

The Atlanta-basedcompany has 1,300employees worldwide,and about 150 inHenderson, whereworkers make parts forrefrigerators and plasticsiding for homes.

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� 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 that may tarnishthe image of the nation and its people.

� Certain internal and external anti-government elements, self-centred persons andunscrupulous elements are now seeking their self-interests by sending to the foreign newsagencies stories about relief and rehabilitation work they have made up and shot on video.

� Storm victims are hereby warned to remain vigilant with nationalistic spirit against thedeceptions of the self-centred persons and unscrupulous elements.

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Anyone may dial the following phone numbers of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and

Resettlement if he witnesses or knows that the cash assistance and relief supplies donated from

abroad and at home to the storm victims are kept for self-interest, traded, used for particular persons

and organizations, or misappropriated for other purposes.

Head of Office Ph: 067 404021 and 067 404022

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Witness may inform about misappropriation ofinternal and international relief funds and supplies

Homes for storm survivors seen in Kadonkani Village in PyaponTownship. President of CB Bank U Khin Maung Aye funded

construction of the homes for the storm survivors.—MNA

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J u n e — P e r s o n al

goods are available

Goods available at Win Thuzarshop in Labutta

at Win Thuzar shop

u n d e r M i n i s t r y o f

Industry-1 at Myoma

M a r k e t i n L a b u t t a

Township.

MNA

YANGON, 25 June

— Myanmar Red Cross

Society is now distributing

relief supplies to storm-

hit regions. Members of

M a w l a m y i n e g y u n

MRCS distributes relief suppliesin Mawlamyinegyun Tsp

Township Red Cross

Brigade donated kitchen

utensils, personal goods

and foodstuffs to 122

households and six

orphans in Ywalechaung

Village in Mawla-

myinegyun Township and

two sheets of tarpaulins to

Village Basic Education

Primary School.

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