THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR
( Monday,  17 April  2000)

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  1. Senior General Than Shwe inspects construction of Yangon- Kyaukpyu Highway
  2. Secretary-1 cleanses Seinbudaw and Hngetmyatnadaw of Naungdawgyi Pagoda
  3. MEC Chairman inspects construction project of YTU
  4. Staff of Ministry of Transport pay respects to the aged
  5. Myanmar New Year Day observed
  6. Soon offering ceremony held at Pyithu Hluttaw building
  7. Maha Thingyan Festival concludes in Mandalay
  8. Paying Respects paid to the aged, fish freed on New Year Day
  9. Families of Livestock and Fisheries donations to Hninzigon Home for the Aged
  10. Members of Myanmar Haji delegation honoured
  11. Officials leave for Hanoi
  12. Destructionists out for demolition to panic public during Maha Thingyan Water Festival exposed
  13. 45 Pyay NLD members resign of own accord
  14. WEATHER
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(1)  Senior General Than Shwe inspects construction of Yangon- Kyaukpyu Highway

YANGON, 16 April- Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe inspected construction of Yangon-Kyaukpyu Highway, the site for Minkyaung Creek Bridge on Yangon-Kyaukpyu Highway and Ma-ei Creek Bridge Project this morning.  The Senior General then gave guidance and inspected maps and the scale model of Yangon-Kyaukpyu Highway.  Yangon-Kyaukpyu Highway, 117 miles and six furlongs long, stretches from Taungup to Ma-ei-Pyinwhan and then to Kyaukpyu-Ramree Highway (near Sane-Khonmin Pagoda). A road directly linking Ma-ei and An and Yangon- Kyaukpyu Highway are being built by Public Works at the same time.

After inspecting the site for Minkyaung Creek Bridge and construction of Yangon-Kyaukpyu High- way, Senior General Than Shwe and party left for Ma-ei Creek Bridge Project in Taungup Township by helicopter.The Senior General then gave guidance and inspected Bore Pile Analizer which is used in piling work, construction of No 4 pile and progress of working  building the bridge.  Ma-ei Creek Bridge lies on Taungup-Ma-ei-Tattaung-An Road linking Taungup and An Townships and it stands at the centre of transport among Taungup, An, Ramree and Kyaukpyu Townships. The length of Ma-ei Bridge is 940 feet and its width 30 feet, and it can bear 60 ton loads.

Minister for Health Maj-Gen Ket Sein inspected the hospital (25-bed) in Taungup Township.Minister Maj-Gen Ket Sein also inspected Ma-ei rural health care centre.
Yesterday afternoon, Secretary-2 of the State Peace and Development Council Chief of Bureau of Special Operations Chief of Staff (Army) Lt-Gen Tin Oo, together with Commander Maj-Gen Aung Htwe, met Tatmadaw members and families at the hall of regional battalion in Thandwe.

Secretary-General of the Union Solidarity and Development Association U Than Aung and CEC members Col Thein Nyunt and U Thaung met secretaries of District and Township USDAs, EC members and organizers at the office of Thandwe District USDA.

(2)Secretary-1 cleanses Seinbudaw and Hngetmyatnadaw of Naungdawgyi Pagoda

YANGON, 16 April -A ceremony to cleanese  Seinbudaw and Hngetmyatnadaw of Naungdawgyi Pagoda and to fix jewellery at the Seinbudaw and Hngetmyatnadaw was held this morning at the upper terrace of Shwedagon Pagoda and at Naungdawgyi Pagoda respectively attended by Patron of  Leading Committee for All-round Perpetual Renovation of the Shwedagon Pagoda Secretary-l of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt.

(3)MEC Chairman inspects construction project of YTU

YANGON, 16 April -Chairman of Myanmar Education Committee Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt, accompanied by officials of the State Peace and Development Council Office, arrived at the construction site of Yangon Technological University at 4pm today.  Officials of Public Works reported to the Secretary-1 on the construction project, allotment of buildings and progress of work of the project. Then, Pro-Rector of YTU Dr Kyaw Win reported to the Secretary-l on academic and administrative matters.

Deputy Ministers U Hlaing Win and U Myo Nyunt presented supplementary reports. Secretary-l Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt attended to their needs. Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt and party inspected completion on construction of buildings, laboratory rooms and workshops and left there in the evening.

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(4) Staff of Ministry of Transport pay respects to the aged

YANGON, 16 April-A ceremony to pay respects to the parents and grandparents, who are over 90 years, of the staff of Ministry of Transport was held at the Dhammayon of the ministry at the Mahawizaya Pagoda at 1 pm today.  Minister for Transport Maj-Gen Hla Myint Swe and wife Daw San San Myint and invited guests and family members of the staff attended the ceremony.

(5)Myanmar New Year Day observed

YANGON 16 April-A ceremony to celebrate Myanmar New Year Day was held at the Mahapasana Cave, Kaba Aye Hill at 8 am today. It was attended by over 600 trainees led by instructor of Basic Buddhism Culture, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotikadhaja Bhaddanta Pannasami (Magadi-Thazi).

(6)Soon offering ceremony held at Pyithu Hluttaw building

YANGON, 16 April-A ceremony to offer soon to members of Sangha donated by families of the State Peace and  Development Council Office and Central Offices was held at the building of Pyithu Hluttaw at 5:30 am today, Myanmar New Year Day.

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(7)Maha Thingyan Festival concludes in Mandalay

YANGON, 16 April-Myanmar Traditional Maha Thingyan Festival successfully concluded in Mandalay. A ceremony to present prizes to decorated floats, decorated pandals and prize winners in photo competition was held at Mandalay Mayor’s central Pandals yesterday evening.

Later a ceremony to close Mandalay Mayor’s central Pandal was held at the Centeral with an address by Mayour Brig-Gen Yan Thein.

(8)Paying Respects paid to the aged, fish freed on New Year Day

YANGON, 16 April-A ceremony to pay respects to aged persons of Ministry of Religious Affairs was held in conjunction with the ceremony to free fish at Wizaya Mingala Dhamma Thabin on Kaba Aye Hill in Mayangon Township this morning.
Minister U Aung Khin wife Daw Yin Yin Nyunt and officials freed birds. Then, the congregation also freed fish into Dagon Thiri Lake.

(9)Families of Livestock and Fisheries donations to Hninzigon Home for the Aged

YANGON, 16 April-The 9th donation ceremony on Myanmar New Year Day to Hninzigon Home for the  Aged by the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries took place at the home this morning.

Minister for Livestock and Fisheries Brig-Gen Maung Maung Thein explained the purpose of the do nations and presented offer to ries to members of the Sangha. Staff families of the ministry shampooed and manicured the aged there. They then offered soon to members of the Sangha.

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(10) Members of Myanmar Haji delegation honoured

YANGON, 16 April-The All Myanmar Muslim Central Board held a ceremony to honour members of Myanmar Haji delegation at Islam’s Hall on Upper Pansodan Street this morning, attended by Adviser to the State Peace and Development Council Office U Arnt Maung, on behalf of the Minister for Religious Affairs.

(11)Officials leave for Hanoi

YANGON, 16 April Member of the Central Executive Committee of Myanmar Industrialists Association U Tet Tun, who is Deputy Director of Regional Industrial Coordination and Inspection Department, Ministry of Industry-1 and Executive Committee member Dr Pwint Hsan left here by air for Hanoi this morning to attend the meeting of ASEAN SME Agency Work Committee to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, on 17 and 18 April.

(12)Destructionists out for demolition to panic public during Maha Thingyan Water Festival exposed

YANGON, 16 April - Members of Defence Services Intelligence Unit exposed and arrested demolitionists and terrorists in the border areas of Thailand and Myanmar during the period from 1 to 11 April, who were sent by a group called People's Power 21st Century  (PP-21) from Thailand formed with various terrorist gangs including a group of NLD runaway youths to panic the public during Maha Thingyan Water Festival and to perpetrate subversive activities at busy places in Yangon.
People’s Power 21st Century was formed with NLD runaways led by runaway Sein Win, insurgents of ABSDF led by Moe Thee Zun and terrorists led by member of KNU Centra1 Committee KNU insurgent Mahn Nyein Maung in Chiangmai in 1998. The main aim of that group is to instigate riots in Myanmar in 1999 and to perpetrate destructive activities which may lead to civil unrest. An NGO from Norway named Political Defiance Burma (PD Burma) provides financial assistance for PP-21. It is reported that though activities done in 1999 in accord with the aim of that group became abortive, the PP-21 office has continued to be opened in Chiangmai and Mae Sot in Thailand and to commit sabotage.

At the PP-21 office opened in a compound near Asia Highway to the north of Mae Sot in Thailand, runaway NLD youths, insurgents of ABSDF and KNU insurgents headed by Moe Thee Zun and Mahn Nyein Maung the staying together in hiding, communicating with NLD and planning to perpetrate destructive activities. Moe Thee Zun arranged to go to the United States of America to seek foreign assistance with the aim of intensifying the activities of that group. As he held a fake passport, Thai immigration arrested him at Don Muang Airport. However, PP-2I continued to carry out the scheme of committing depredation by explosives in Myanmar with every intention of making the plan of Moe Thee Zun go smooth, panicking the public during Maha Thingyan Water Festival and besmirching the image of the Government. The demolitionists to be sent to Myanmar were given thorough training and meticulous instructions at an apartment near a football ground in Mae Sot rented by PP-21.  Defence Services Intelligence Unit, getting wind of the scheme of committing depredation by explosives in Yangon during Maha Thingyan Water Festival, managed to expose that scheme in cooperation with regional security organizations and arrest Soe Thi Ha (a) Thura Kyaw Zin near Myawady, who would take charge of committing destructive acts in Yangon. Soe Thi Ha once lived at No 494, Yadanabon Street, Dagon Myothit (South), and worked  as a tuition teacher under the name of Tin Tun Naung. He left for Thailand in December 1998 to work there, got contact with the group of runaways and became a member of PP-21. He attended a political defiance course and a demolition course conducted by PP-21, and came back to Yangon. Then, he established contact with groups of NLD youths and gathered information. In December 1999, Ye Kyaw Swa, Naing Naing and Min Min (a) Kyaw Kyaw led by Soe Thi Ha entered Yangon in the beginning of Year 2000 according to the duty assigned by PP-2 I to commit depredation by explosives. They planted a time bomb near Maha Bandoola Park in front of the City Hall where festivities were bustling with people on Independence Day, 4 January. But, the security members found the time bomb and defused it. Soe Thi Ha and his group ran away to Mae Sot. While entering Myawady through Mae Sot to commit depredation by explosives in Yangon for the second time, he was arrested on I April.  According to Soe Thi Ha, it was known that demolitionists, together with explosives, would come into Myanmar. As investigations continued to be conducted, Aung Hlaing Win (a) Aung Thi Ha (a) Tar Tee was arrested in Myawady, Naing Lin Aung (a) Tun Tun (a) Saw Tun Oo, together with about two pounds of explosive powder and two electric detonators, in Kyondoe on 11 April. It is reported that they were sent by PP-21 to Yangon to perpetrate destructive activities -during Thingyan Water Festival, and that if circumstances did not permit, they had to explode a mine at a busy place in Yangon in synchronization with the anniversary of NLD to be held in May. As altogether three persons entered here individually, one Kyaw Thein (a) Maung Kyaw escaped. It is reported that previously they entered Mandalay and Mawlamyine, established contact with NLD youths and gathered information.  According to the demolitionists who have been arrested, it is known that PP-21 has not only masterminded destructive activities but also made arrangements to instigate riots at various regions at the same time by sending its members to join social and religious associations under cover, to distribute leaflets, to conduct instigative activities, to establish contact with groups of NLD youths, to gather information, to enter the circles of university and college students and to incite them to riots. For the sake of public security and stability and peace and tranquillity of the State, authorities concerned have continued to expose those suspected of committing sabotage as well as so called NLD youths communicating with and providing assistance for terrorists and demolitionists, and severe action will be taken against the demolitionists who have been arrested.

(13) 45 Pyay NLD members resign of own accord

YANGON, 14 April-Forty-five members resigned from the National League for Democracy of Pyay Township, Bago Division. Forty-four members of Pyay Township NLD, Bago Division, of their own accord, resigned by sending letters of resignation to Mingin Township Multiparty Democracy General Election Sub-commission and the party concerned on 22 October 1999 as they no longer wished to participate in party politics of NLD.

(14) WEATHER
Maximum temperature on 15-4-2000 was 38.0°C (100°F)
Minimum temperature on 16-4-2000 was 25.0°C (77°F)

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