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ARCHIVES	Saturday, 3 February 2007	THE MYANMAR TIMES

Nay Pyi Taw, 2 Feb — Member of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Ye Myint of the Ministry of Defence, together with Deputy Commander of North-West Command Brig-Gen Tin Maung Ohn, viewed greening tasks on either side of Monywa-Sagaing Road and Myinmu bypass yesterday.

Accompanied by Chairman of Mandalay Division PDC Commander of Central Command Maj-Gen Khin Zaw and official, Lt-Gen Ye Myint and party inspected construction of Ohgyi Roundabout in Sagaing.

The construction of the roundabout has been completed by 75 per cent. They looked into construction of the earth approach road to Ayeyawady Bridge (Yadanabon) on Sagaing bank. The whole construction work of the approach road has been completed by 60 per cent.

Lt-Gen Ye Myint and party inspected progress of construction tasks at the main structure of the bridge.

Afterwards, they viewed construction of the roundabout on the approach road on Mandalay bank.

At the briefing hall, Lt-Gen Ye Myint heard reports on 89 per cent completion of the approach road on Mandalay bank, progress of the main bridge and tarmacking of 3,300 feet section on the approach road presented by Deputy Superintending Engineer U Htay Myint. Likewise, Superintending Engineer in-charge U Hsan Win reported on remaining tasks to be carried out on Sagaing bank.

Construction of the main bridge has been completed by 94 per cent, and the construction of the whole bridge, 78.6 per cent.

Myanmar Info-Tech in cooperation with Myanmar Computer Federation could make brilliant efforts for carrying out of IT development activities during five years

Yangon, 2 Feb — Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Ministry of Defence attended the 5th annual general meeting of Myanmar Info-Tech Corporation Ltd at its hall in Hline University Campus in Hline Township here this morning.

Chairman of e-National Task Force Minister for Communications, Posts and Telegraphs Brig-Gen Thein Zaw delivered an opening address. He said that IT is the driving force behind the development of the nation’s economic, social and other sectors. Digital devide causes social-economic gap. While the Government is striving to narrow the gap, an organization of ICT entrepreneurs such as Myanmar Info-Tech is serving the interest of people of all walks of life by applying information and communication technology.

For turning out ICT human resources, computer colleges were upgraded to the universities in 2007. Myanmar Computer Federation and associations are opening ICT training courses. Countries have changed their base for development from natural resources to human resources. The nation will achieve greater success only if it can develop itself from the level of relying on natural resources to the stage of depending on human resources.

In line with the guidance of the Head of State, ICT parks were established in Yangon and Mandalay by computer scientists with the assistance of the government. Now, Yadananbon Myothit Project is being implemented near PyinOoLwin. It will be an IT town, whose area will be thousands of acres .

e-Procurement, IDIS, RDIS, Data Center and Public Access Centre of Myanma Info-Tech Corporation Ltd can contribute not only to development of ICT sector but also to economic, social and education sectors of the nation. In addition, the corporation is developing the Rural Development Information System (RDIS) for undertaking rural development tasks. During the five-year period, the corporation in cooperation with Myanmar Computer Federation could make brilliant efforts for carrying out IT development activities.

Later, the minister praised leaders of the Myanmar Info-Tech, technicians, BOD members and officials together with share-holders for their contributions to improvement of the ICT sector of the nation.

Chairman of the corporation U Thein Oo extended greetings and explained progress of the corporation.

Next, the 5th annual general meeting of the corporation followed, and Chairman of the corporation U Thein Oo presided over the meeting. Managing Director U Aung Zaw Myint read the reports of BOD. Responsible persons replied to the queries raised by share-holders. Next, the financial statement for 2005-06 fiscal year and the auditing report were submitted to the meeting. Afterwards, the meeting approved assignment of duties to the auditing team and selection of new members of the Board of Directors.

Also present at the meeting were Chairman of Yangon Division Peace and Development Council Commander of Yangon Command Maj-Gen Hla Htay Win, Vice-Chairman of e-National task Force Member of Civil Service Selection and Training Board U Aung Myint, the responsible persons of Myanmar Computer Federation and guests.

Former NLD members form Wunthanu NLD (Union of Myanmar) in the interest of race, language, religion Will counter NLD’s perpetration with negative view to undermine national interest NLD’s days are numbered as it is relying so much on aliens and discarding democracy Wunthanu NLD (Union of Myanmar) sends letter expressing its stance to NLD (Central)

Nay Pyi Taw, 2 Feb — Wunthanu NLD (Union of Myanmar) sent a letter expressing its stance to the headquarters of National League for Democracy (NLD) on 31 January.

The letter said that the NLD (Central) had been committing blunders and heading to the wrong way to the degree of having no ability to serve its own interest let alone serving the national interest; that it had been relying extremely on the West and disregarding its original policies and democracy fundamental principles, while ignoring the opinions of NLD members inside the nation.

It continued to say that instead of keeping in the fore the national cause, the NLD had been pushing the entire nation to become an imperialist slave and colonialist minion; and that the NLD’s frequent meetings and constant contacts with diplomats of the Western nations and sending of its members to the various courses run by the missions of those nations stood witness to the fact.

It also stated that NLD’s days were numbered, declaring to oppose and crush the perpetrators trying to undermine the national interest. The following is a translation of the full context of the letter.

The chairman/the general-secretary
National League for Democracy (Central)
Shwegondine Road, Bahan Township,
Yangon
Date: 27 January 2007

Reference: (1) News announcement for the people issued by Wunthanu NLD (Union of Myanmar) on Independence Day (2007)

(2) The declaration of the stance of Wunthanu NLD (Union of Myanmar) concerning the objection of the draft resolution to the UNSC with double veto

1. Wunthanu NLD (Union of Myanmar) issued a news announcement for the public on this year’s Independence Day. We had joined the NLD to materialize basic human rights and democracy in the interest of the race, language and the religion.

2. The NLD (Central) has never paid any heed to the opinions of the NLD members inside the nation. Instead of organizing its central committee members, central steering committee members, central working committee members, people’s representatives, state/division organizers, township organizers and ward/village organizers, the NLD (Central) has been relying too much on foreign nations, especially the West. It has also disregarded its adopted fundamental democracy principles. Hence, the party is on the wrong road, and it cannot even serve its own interest let alone serving the national interests. Instead of placing in the fore the national cause, the NLD party has been trying to make the nation an alien slave and follower; it has been relying on the Western nations; it has lost its original political belief; it has been extending close contacts with diplomats of Western nations; it has been sending its members to various courses conducted by the missions of the West. Those are the significant evidences of the NLD’s stance. Its act of filing a complaint against Myanmar to the UNSC, with the support of its foreign masters, to give trouble to her people could harm the interest of the race, religion and nation.

3. Former NLD members, who have resigned from the party, formed the Wunthanu NLD (Union of Myanmar) to serve the interest of the race, language and religion. The Wunthanu NLD (Union of Myanmar) will decisively counter NLD’s continuous act of upholding negative views and harming the national interest and deviating from the original objectives.

4. As NLD will not be able to exist any longer in the entire nation including in the wards of Mandalay Division, the public support for the stance of the Wunthanu NLD has been increasing.

5. Wunthanu NLD is ready to cooperate with any person or organization in the interest of the nation. Together with the people, it will oppose and crush those who are attempting to undermine the national interest.

In sync with internal political movements, expatriate insurgents plotting to commit atrocities People urged to cooperate with authorities concerned in taking security measures

Nay Pyi Taw, 2 Feb — In collusion with some neo-colonialist nations plotting to install a puppet government in Myanmar, alien-reliant national traitors are resorting to various ways to reinvent slanderous accusations against the country.

These days, news reports are being issued stating that in sync with internal political movements, expatriate insurgents are sending operatives to the country in order to incite public unrest and riots and commit atrocities.

It was leant that ABSDF recently sent seven bombers to Yangon. The secret plan was that a group comprising Lay Lay Than with ABSDF's Kywegyi as leader (a) Ma Cho and Than Than Win (Thingangyun) with ABSDF’s Kywegyi as leader would send explosives to Yangon through Phayalay and Kyauktan bus terminals on the bank of Thaungyin river in Myawady with the help of Wai Moe who was frequently in and out of Myawady and his two associates. Their next plan was to contact Ohn Chit of ABSDF and commit destructive acts in league with a group of ‘88’ generation students.

Therefore, the people are urged to cooperate with authorities concerned in taking security measures in order to wipe out such subversive acts.

Industrial entrepreneurs to participate in tasks to gear up industrial sector Lt-Gen Ye Myint inspects progress of Bawditahtaung Dam, Monywa Industrial Zone

Nay Pyi Taw, 1 Feb — Member of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Ye Myint of the Ministry of Defence and Chairman of Sagaing Division PDC Com-mander of North-West Command Maj-Gen Tha Aye on 31 January inspected progress in construction of Bawdi-tahtaung Dam at the foot of the hill on which Bawditahtaung Standing Buddha Statue is kept.

Bawditahtaung Dam is an earthen embankment to supply water for greening of the religious precinct, ensuring sufficient supply of drinking water for local people and irrigating 100 acres of farmland.

The embankment will be 75 feet high and 670 feet long. Construc-tion of the dam started in 2006-07 and it will be completed in 2007-08.

They inspected the new road linking Monyway-Kyemon Village and Bawdita-htaung religious area.

In Monywa Indus-trial Zone, Lt-Gen Ye Myint and party viewed production of power-tillers, machine parts, fire extinguishers, light trucks and Chindwin Star automobiles.

At the hall, they met with members of the Industrial Zone Ma-nagement Committee and entrepreneurs.

Responsible per-sonnel reported on efforts being made for deve-lopment of the industrial zone, pro-duction process and manufacturing of spare parts for heavy machinery of Irrigation Department.

Lt-Gen Ye Myint said and that factories of the zone are to strive for manufacturing more and more quality products. It is necessary to set the aim of producing the whole machine in one place, instead machine parts only.

Industrial entre-preneurs are to participate in tasks to gear up the industrial sector. In addition, all are to grow shady trees for greening the factories and their environs.

After inspecting construction of Pyidaung-su Road, Lt-Gen Ye Myint went back to Monywa.

Assistance to be provided for development of literary world Officials urged to perform tasks with positive attitude

Yangon, 2 Feb — Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan gave instructions on press scrutinizing and registration tasks to officials after inspecting Press Scrutiny and Registration Division of Printing and Publishing Enterprise on Wingabar Road, here, this afternoon.

At the meeting, Director of the division U Tint Swe reported on tasks of press scrutinizing, aims of the press scrutiny, difficulties in the tasks and permission of publisher registration.

In his instructions, the minister said that four points of the aim have been laid down for the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division. Such aims are: to organize the persons of the literary world for serving the interest of the State and people, to cooperate with persons of the literary world, to provide aid for development of the literary world, and to supervise tasks of the literary world in line with the policies of the State and traditional culture. He stressed the need to review strengths and weaknesses of the tasks, fairly take cautionary and punitive measures, perform the tasks with positive attitude, keep up with development of media field in today’s education age, take care of relations with media, and help media so as to follow the correct way for serving the national interest.

Energy Minister, Malaysian companies hold talks on oil, gas drilling off Rakhine, Taninthayi coasts

Yangon, 2 Feb — Minister for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi held a meeting with officials of Petronas CariGlari Myanmar Co in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 27 January and discussed cooperation in the exploration of natural gas reserve in offshore blocks in Rakhine Coast and matters related to oil and natural gas exploration off the Taninthayi Coast, Myanmar.

At the meeting, they also discussed cooperation in establishment of a factory to make natural gas produced in Rakhine Coast to LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas).

Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi and officials of Petronas CariGlari Myanmar Co drew plans for the offshore drilling for oil and gas off the Taninthayi Coast.

In the afternoon, Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi and President of Rimbunan Petrogas Co Mr Tansridatuk Tiong Hiew King held talks on signing a profit sharing contract for oil and gas exploration at Block-5 off Rakhine Coast and cooperation in offshore drilling in Myanmar.

On 23 January, Energy Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi received Mr Tan Ching Khoon, Chairman of Hatim Capital Pte Ltd, Singapore, and frankly discussed matters related to cooperation in the energy sector.

Nay Pyi Taw, 2 Feb — Newly-built Tama and Phoeni dams in Seikpyu Township, Pakokku District, Magway Division implemented by Magway Division Irrigation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation were inaugurated at a pavilion near Tama dam on 31 January.

Chairman of Magway Division Peace and Development Council Col Phone Maw Shwe and Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Ohn Myint attended the opening ceremony and formally opened the dams.

Tama dam is built on Tama creek near Tama village in Seikpyu Township. The dam is 1,600 feet long and 43 feet high. The dam can store 735 acre feet of water and will benefit 150 acres of farmland.

Next, Chairman Col Phone Maw Shwe formally unveiled the stone inscription of Phoeni dam.

Phoeni dam is built on Phoeni creek near Gwaybin village in Seikpyu Township. The dam is 1,075 feet long and 35 feet high. The dam can store 286 acre feet of water and will benefit 75 acres of farmland.

Yangon, 2 Feb—Bahan Township in Yangon Division saw a fire that broke out at about 8.55 am on 31 January when a candle lit on a facial tissue box burnt the tissue box and others in Room No (3) of Daw Khin Tha on the third floor (right) of the five-storey two-unit building on Bo Min Gaung Street in Bo Sein Hman Ward. The fire destroyed properties worth about K 100,000.

At 9.15 am the same day, a fire broke out at Kyeepwayay (South) Ward in Thingangyun Township, Yangon Division. Eight houses with a total loss of about K 1.1 million were burnt down, leaving 45 people homeless and six cows dead. In the incident, a live cigarette set the nearby mattress on fire at the house of U Aung Myat Kyaw at 364/B on Aung Thitsar Street and the fire spread to other houses.

At about 11 am the same day, a shock circuit of the live hot plate caused a fire at the house of Daw Kyi at 120/B on Padamya Street in Ward 19, Dagon Myothit (South) Township, Yangon Division, destroying four houses with a total loss of K 300,000 and leaving 18 people homeless.

Yangon, 2 Feb — Myanmar Cycling Federation gave a press conference on its 1,000-mile men’s and women’s cycling race scheduled to be held from 12 to 24 February.

At the press conference held at Aung San Stadium, Vice-President of Myanmar Cycling Federation U Thet Win and responsible persons replied to the queries raised by journalists.

During the race, Yangon-Pyay-Mandalay-Yangon route Highway will be used as the racetrack. The cyclists will start their first leg in Yangon on 12 February and will finish in Yangon on their return from Mandalay.

The cycling race is organized by MCF with the assistance of Myanmar Olympic Committee and the Ministry of Sports.

Yangon, 2 Feb —Vice-President of Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association Dr Daw Tin Lin Myint received External Monitoring Mission of World Health Organization (WHO) at MMCWA here yesterday.

Members of the mission expressed thanks to members of MMCWA for the co-operation in fighting against the Tuberculosis (TB) in states and divisions.

EMM comprises Dr Akramul Islam of BRAC Health Program of Bangladesh, Dr Sriprapa Nateniyom of Thailand, National Consultant Dr Aye Tun of JICA and Dr Daw Thanda Lwin. Also present at the call were Secretary of MMCWA Dr Daw Wai Wai Tha and executives of MMCWA.

Nay Pyi Taw, 2 Feb — A ceremony to ink a contract for purchasing electrical & mechanical equipment, hydraulic steel structures to be used at Pyu Creek Hydel Power Project between Hydel Power Implementation Department of the Ministry of Electric Power No 1 and China Gezhouba Water and Power (Group) Co Ltd (CGGC) of China was held at the Ministry of Electric Power No 1, here, on 31 January afternoon.

Director-General U Aung Koe Shwe of Hydel Power Implementa-tion Department and Chief Engineer Mr Wang Yimin of CGGC signed the contract and exchanged notes in the presence of Minister for Electric Power No 1 Col Zaw Min, Minister for Electric Power No 2 Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint, Deputy Minister for Electric Power No 1 U Myo Myint and depart-mental heads.

Pyu Creek Hydel Power Station Project is being implemented seven miles west of Pyu. The power station will be equipped with two 20 megawatt generators. The contract was signed for purchase of electrical and mechanical equipment and hydraulic steel structures for the project.

Nay Pyi Taw, 2 Feb — Myanmar delegation led by Deputy Minister for Progress of Border Areas and National Races and Development Affairs Col Tin Ngwe arrived back here from Bangkok, Thailand, today after attending the 5th ASEAN ministerial meeting on alleviation of poverty and preliminary meeting of officials of ASEAN+3.

Deputy Minister Col Tin Ngwe participated in the meetings held from 29 to 31 January along with the delegation members Director-General U Myo Myint and Director U Aye Lwin of the ministry.

The delegation was welcomed back at Nay Pyi Taw Airport by the directors-general of the departments under the ministry and officials.

Yangon, 2 Feb — The Chinese delegation led by State Council Information Department Deputy Director (Deputy Head of Department) Mr Cai Mingzhao of the People’s Republic of China left here by air this morning.

The Chinese delegation was seen off at Yangon International Airport by Director-General U Khin Maung Htay of Myanma Radio and Television, Managing Director U Soe Win of News and Periodicals Enterprise, Chief Editor U Ye Myint Pe of Myanma Alin Daily, Deputy Director (News) U Khin Maung Kyaw Din of NPE and Manager (Production) U Wai Phyo Thant.

Yangon, 2 Feb—The Union of Myanmar Economics Holding Ltd held the 22nd Gems and Jade Sales (2007) at Gems Emporium on Kaba Aye Pagoda Road here this morning.

It was attended by members of UMEHL Board of Directors, domestic and foreign merchants and others.

The inspection team opened bargain forms of gem merchants that were put in the tender box.

Director of UMEHL Col Myint Aung (Retd) made an opening speech on the occasion and the master of ceremonies read out rules and regulations of the gems and jade sales in Myanmar, Chinese and English. Next, Director of UMEHL Col Myint Aung (Retd) formally opened the gems and jade sales.

Altogether 204 gem lots were sold through bargain and auction system and 85 jade lots sold through bargain system.

Members of UMEHL Board of Directors presented gifts to merchants who offered the highest prices. The sales of jade lots continues tomorrow.