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( Tuesday, 8 February 2000)
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- Senior General Than Shwe inspects construction of Ayeyawady Bridge (Magway)
- Construction of An Airfield, An-Padan-Minbu road section inspected
- Secretary-1 meets Union Day delegates
- Secretary-1 inspects booths of 53rd Anniversary Union Day Exhibition
- Myanma Shipyards to add new 12,000-ton capacity dock
- Secretary-1 Lt Gen Khin Nyunt attends Meeting No 2/2000 of MNOC
- Minister inspects factories in Magway, Sagaing Divisions
- 80 kilos of Ephedrine powder seized in Mandalay
- 55 Kamala Village-tract NLD members resign of own accord
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(1) Senior General Than Shwe inspects construction of Ayeyawady Bridge (Magway)YANGON, 7 Feb - Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe, accompanied by Secretary-2 of the State Peace and Development Council, Secretary-3, members of the State Peace and Development Council Commander-in- Chief (Navy) Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief (Air), Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Admiral , Chairman of Mandalay Division Peace and Development Council Commander of Central Command , the ministers, Chairman of Magway Division Peace and Development Council and officials, paid obeisance to historic Shinpin Sekkeinde Pagoda in Minbu Township this morning.
Senior General Than Shwe viewed alluvia plantation in Ayeyawady River from the pagoda.
The Senior General presented donation to the members of the Pagoda Board of Trustees.
The Senior General and party went to the site of Ayeyawady Bridge (Magway) and inspected bore piling.
Deputy Minister for Construction Brig-Gen Myint Thein reported on the site chosen , designating the site, preparations for the project and bore piling.
Superintending Engineer (Project) U Han Zaw reported on the project, Minister for Construction Maj- Gen Saw Tun and Chairman Brig-Gen Thein Zaw gave supplementary reports.
Senior General Than Shwe then gave guidance on work and inspected scale model of the bridge and sample of earth.
Ayeyawady Bridge (Magway) is under construction between Mingala Street in Magway and Phayakoehsugon in Htaukshabin Village in Minbu Township.
The bridge is 8,989 feet long and 28 feet wide with two six-foot pedestrian lanes. Lower part of the bridge will be built with reinforced concrete and upper part with steel beams. The bridge can bear 60-ton loads.
The Senior General was briefed on agriculture in Mandalay and Magway Divisions at Mann oilfield combined office of Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise.
Commander Maj-Gen Ye Myint reported to the Senior General on the area of Mandalay Division, total sown acreage, land use, rain fall, inflow of water into the dams, irrigation capacity, cultivation of monsoon and summer paddy, cotton, beans and pulses, edible oil crops, maize and kitchen crops, reclamation of vacant and fallow lands, efforts to boost paddy yield, paddy purchase and alluvial land cultivation.
In giving guidance, the Senior General stressed the need to make plans to cultivate paddy on all suitable land to the full to ensure rice sufficiency in the Division.
Col Thein Zaw reported on rainfall in Magway Division, sown acreage, land under crops, existing dams and lakes and plans to extend more irrigation facilities, land reclamation and cultivation of ten private companies which had been granted to conduct agriculture in the Division, seasonal cultivation on bank of rivers and streams, efforts to successfully implement tasks, efforts to put land under monsoon paddy, summer paddy, cotton, beans and pulses, kitchen crops and other crops as targeted and paddy and cotton purchase.
Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Nyunt Tin explained efforts being made to boost paddy produce in Mandalay and Magway Divisions, significant success being achieved in putting land under beans and pulses and edible oil crops, cotton cultivation and purchase, implementation of sugarcane farming to supply enough raw materials to sugar mills in the two Divisions and regional greening undertakings.
The Senior General gave guidance on boosting per acre yields of crops cultivated in the regions and extending sown acreage and irrigated acreage.
(2) Construction of An Airfield, An-Padan-Minbu road section inspected
YANGON, 7 Feb - Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe inspected construction of An Airfield yesterday morning.
Chairman of Rakhine State Peace and Development Council Commander of Western Command Maj- Gen Aung Htwe, Minister for Construction Maj-Gen Saw Tun and officials reported on progress of work. The Senior General then gave guidance.
The Senior General and party attended a ceremony to donate provisions to monasteries in An Township the ceremony was held at Tooth Relic Dhamma Beikman on Dhamma Rekkhita Hill.
Congregation received the Five Precepts from Presiding Sayadaw Saddhammajotikadhaja Bhaddanta Varalankara of Yangon Aungyamye Pariyatti Sarthintaik.
Senior General Than Shwe donated provisions and other offertories to Sayadaw Bhaddanta Varalankara.
Secretary of Township Sangha Nayaka Committee MyoU Kyaung Sayadaw Bhaddanta Pannadika delivered a sermon.
The Senior General supplicated on religious affairs and met those present.
The Senior General and party left An by car at 9.20. The Senior General and party inspected An-Padan-Minbu section of Yangon-Sittway Highway.
At 10.50 am, the Senior General and party arrived at Kyetyaysan Camp in An Township.
The Senior General and party went to Minbu Township and arrived there at 2.15 pm. They were welcomed at Mann Oilfield Yeiktha by Minister for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi, Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Thein Aung and officials.
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(3) Secretary-1 meets Union Day delegates
YANGON, 7 Feb - Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt met with delegates to the Union Day celebrations at National Indoor Stadium-1 in Thingangyun Township this afternoon.
The Secretary-1 had a cordial meeting with delegates of the Union Day.
(4) Secretary-1 inspects booths of 53rd Anniversary Union Day Exhibition
YANGON, 7 Feb - Chairman of Central Committee for Organizing the 53rd Anniversary Union Day Secretary-1 of be State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt, accompanied by Chairman of Management Committee for Organizing the 53rd Anniversary Union Day member of the State Peace and Development Council Chairman of Yangon Division Peace and Development Council.Commander, ministers, deputy ministers and officials of the State Peace and Development Council Office, arrived at Tatmadaw Convention Hall in which the 53rd Anniversary Union Day Exhibition will be staged, on U Wisara Road in Dagon Township at 4.15 p.m today.
The Secretary-1 and party were welcomed there by Chairman of the 53rd Anniversary Union Day Exhibition,. Sub-committee Deputy Minister for Information, Brig-Gen Aung Thein, Secretary Director-General of Information and Public Relations Department U Chit Naing and members and department officials.
The Secretary-1 inspected preparation for display of booths in the Tatmadaw Convention Hall, and gave necessary instructions.
Then, the Secretary-1 left the Tatmadaw Convention Hall in the evening.
(5) Myanma Shipyards to add new 12,000-ton capacity dock
YANGON, 7 Feb - Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt inspected operations of Myanma Shipyards this afternoon.
Minister Maj-Gen Hla Myint Swe and Managing Director of MS U Percy Maung Maung reported to the Secretary-1 on building and repair of ships of government bodies, private enterprises and organizations abroad and building of a new shipyard with a docking capacity up to 12,000 tons. Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt gave suggestions.
Together with officials, the Secretary-1 inspected repair of Myayadana cruise ship of Anauk Pwasaw-ywa Tourism Service, Bagan archaeological region, building of new vessel of a foreign organization and repair of yachts of round-the-world tourney to their original design.
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(6) Secretary-1 Lt Gen Khin Nyunt attends Meeting No 2/2000 of MNOC
YANGON, 7 Feb - Myanmar National Olympic Council held Meeting No 2/2000 at National Indoor Stadium-1, Thuwunna, Thingangyun Township, this morning, attended by Chairman of Myanmar National Olympic Council Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt.
Secretary of MNOC Minister for Sports Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint reported on the choosing and forming of Myanmar selected football team, training selection of the manager, coach and doctors, management affairs for the football team, international sport events in Year 2000, assistance of the football foundation, matters relating to upgrading the committee for achieving success and medical support, committee into the sport and medical support committee under the Olympic Committee, the giving of camp training to athletes, the giving of annual fees to international and regional sports federations and construction of the sports ground in Upper Myanmar.
Those present at the meeting took part in the discussions.
Then, the Secretary-1 replied to the reports.
Before the meeting began, the Secretary-1 met with the footballers selected tentatively for Myanmar selected football team.
If the footballers make all-out efforts to achieve success in the South-East Asian region and Asia, the Government will give deserving awards and honour them.
(7) Minister inspects factories in Magway, Sagaing Divisions
YANGON, 7 Feb - Minister for Industry-1 U Aung Thaung, accompanied by departmental heads, inspected Pakokku Cigarette Factory No 2 in Magway Division on 5 February. The minister and party also inspects Virginia Tobacco Factory and gave instructions on extended cultivation of Virginia plantations of the factory.
Yesterday, the minister arrived at Pakokku Dyeing and Printing Plant of Myanma Textile Industries to be opened soon, and heard reports on the factory by Managing Director Col Oo Thein Maung of MTI.
At Pakokku Textile Factory Project Office, Managing Director U Thaik Tun of Myanma General and Maintenance Industries reported on progress in construction of the road and the factory.
(8) 80 kilos of Ephedrine powder seized in Mandalay
YANGON, 7 Feb - Members of local intelligence unit while waiting on 35th Street between 84th and 85th Streets in Maha-aungmye Township on 29 January, nabbed drug traffickers U Nan(a) Nan Doe Thang, 49, son of U San Kho Hauk of Panglong Ward, Kalay Township, and Maung Myint, 38 son of U Ba Taw of Buta Myothit Ward in Kalay together with 17 packets of Ephedrine powder weighing 80 kilos.
The Ephedrine powder can be used in producing stimulant tablets.
According to their confession, authorities nabbed Thang Lyan Ha, 48, at Kyaukhninsi Inn on 27th Street between 82nd and 83rd Streets in Chanayethazan and Pa Thang, 27 at Myoma Inn on 80th Street between 25th and 26th Streets in Aungmyethazan.
Action is taken against them under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law.
(9) 55 Kamala Village-tract NLD members resign of own accord
YANGON, 7 Feb - Fifty-five members resigned from National League for Democracy of Kamala Village-tract in Labutta Township, Ayeyawady Division.
Fifty-five members of Kamala Village-tract NLD in Labutta Township, Ayeyawady Division, of their own accord, resigned by sending letters of resignation to Kamala Village-tract Multiparty Democracy General Election Sub-Commission in Labutta Township and the party concerned as they no longer wished to participate in party politics of NLD on 16 December 1999.
Minimum temperature on Feb 5-2-2000 was 15.8 °C (60°F)
Maximum temperature on Feb 6-2-2000 was 34.5°C (94°F)
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