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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR ( Thursday, 7 Jan 1999)
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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR ( Thursday, 7 Jan 1999)
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(1) Safeguard stability and peace; maintain discipline Raise output of food
and oil crops, enhance economic progress
(2) State Peace and Development Council Chairman Senior General Than Shwe
accepts credentials of Ambassador of Republic of South Africa
(3) Myanmar Intranet and Data Communication technology presented
(4) National Workshop on Community Based Drug Demand Reduction lessons from
Projects on Reducing Illicit Drug Use in the Highlands of East-Asia
(5) Deputy Minister meets Armada Ltd Managing Director
(6) Independence Day quiz
(7) Kanbalu Township NLD dissolved
(8) More NLD members resign
(9) Announcement No 1425
(10) Announcement No 1426
(11) Bodh Gaya pilgrims leave for Calcutta
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(1) Safeguard stability and peace; maintain discipline Raise output of food
and oil crops, enhance economic progress
YANGON, 6 Jan-Union Solidarity and Development Association Special Refresher
Course No
4, Executives' Advanced Management Course No 3, International Relations Course
No 2 and
Executives' Management Course No 16 ended with a closing session in Pyidaungsu
Hall of Central
Public Relations Unit in Hmawby, Yangon Division, at 9 am today addressed by
Patron of USDA
Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of
Defence Services
Senior General Than Shwe.
Present on the occasion were member of the Panel of Patrons of USDA Vice-
Chairman of the
State Peace and Development Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Defence
Services
Commander-in-Chief (Army) General Maung Aye, Secretary-1 of the State Peace
and
Development Council Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt, Secretary-2 Lt-Gen Tin Oo, Secretary-3
Lt-Gen Win
Myint and members, Deputy Prime Ministers Vice-Admiral Maung Maung Khin, Lt-
Gen Tin Tun
and Lt-Gen Tin Hla, the ministers, the Chief Justice, the Attorney-General,
the Auditor-General, the
Chairman of Civil Service Selection and Training Board, other members of the
Psne1 Of Patrons of
USDA, members of Central Executive Committee of USDA, the deputy ministers,
senior military
officers, directors-general and managing directors of departments and
enterprises, guests, Course
In-charge of the training Lt-Col Myo Myint, course supervisors and trainees.
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(2) State Peace and Development Council Chairman Senior General Than Shwe
accepts credentials of Ambassador of Republic of South Africa
YANGON, 6 Jan-Mr Johann Gerhardus Janse Van Rensburg, newly accredited
Ambassador
of the Republic of South Africa to the Union of Myanmar, presented his
credentials to Senior
General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the
Union of
Myanmar at Dagon Yeiktha of the Ministry of Defence at 11.30 ,am today.
Present on the occasion were Secretary-1 of the State Peace and
Development Council Lt-Gen
Khin Nyunt, Minister for Foreign Affairs U Win Aung and Director-General of
Protocol Department
Thura U Aung Htet.
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(3) Myanmar Intranet and Data Communication technology presented
YANGON, 6 Jan- Data Services Co Ltd, a member of Eagle Group of Companies,
presented
a demonstration on Myanmar Intranet and Data Communication technology at the
Overseas
Communications Station, Myanma Posts and Telecommunications, Mayangon
Township, this
evening.
Present on the occasion were Secretary-2 of the State Peace and
Development Council Lt-Gen
Tin Oo, Member of the State Peace and Development Council Chairman of Yangon
Division Peace
and Development Council Commander Maj-Gen Khin Maung Than, Minister for Home
Affairs Col
Tin Hlaing, Minister for Communications, Posts and Telegraphs Brig-Gen Win
Tin, Minister for
Science and Technology U Thaung, Ministers at the Prime Minister's Office
Brig-Gen Lun Maung
and Lt-Gen Tin Ngwe, senior military officers of the Ministry of Defence,
Deputy Minister for
Transport U Pe Than, Deputy Minister for Education Dr Than Nyung, officials of
the State Peace
and Development Council Office and departmental heads concerned, officials and
guests.
Making a speech on the occasion, Minister Brig-Gen Win Tin said Internet,
which is widely used
in the world, is being installed in Myanmar and can be used in the near
future.
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(4) National Workshop on Community Based Drug Demand Reduction lessons from
Projects on Reducing Illicit Drug Use in the Highlands of East-Asia
YANGON, 6 Jan-National Workshop on Community Based Drug Demand Reduction
Lessons
from Projects on Reducing Illicit Drug Use in the Highlands of East-Asia
jointly sponsored by
Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control and the United Nations Drug Control
Programme
(UNDCP) under the MoU signed by six countries on
the project on drug control in the sub-region opened at Hotel Equatorial on
Alanpyaphaya Road this
morning.
Secretary of CCDAC Director-General of Myamnar Police Force Police Maj-Gen
Soe Win,
Resident Representative of UNDCP Mr Richard Dickins and Adviser on Reducing
Illicit Drug Use
Mr Wayne Bazant made speeches.
Projects on Reducing Illicit Drug Use are being implemented from 1997 to
1999 in six villages in
Muse Township in northern Shan State and Momauk Township in Kachin State.
Advisers, experts and departmental officials including project managers of
UNDCP Regional
Office in Bangkok will discuss matters relating to Community Based Drug Demand
Reduction.
Present on the occasion were officials of the Ministry of Defence, CCDAC,
Information and
Public Relations Department, Border Areas and National Races Development
Department, Health
Department Social Welfare Department Basic Education Department, Union
Solidarity and
Development Association and implementers at the project areas, and Myanmar
Anti-Narcotics
Association.
The workshop continues tomorrow.
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(5) Deputy Minister meets Armada Ltd Managing Director
Y ANGON, 6 Jan--Deputy Minister for Commerce Commodore Myo Tint met Managing
Director of Armada Ltd of Bangladesh Major General Ruhul Alam Chowdhury who
called at his
office at 2 pm today.
They discussed matters related to bilateral economic cooperation.
Present on the occasion were officials of the Ministry of Commerce.
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(6) Independence Day quiz
YANGON, 6 Jan-Forms are available:for contestants to take part in the quiz on
the 51st
Anniversary Independence Day Exhibition at K 10 per copy.
Winners will be presented K 50,000, Names of the winners will be announced
in dailies one
week after completion of the ex4ibition which began on 3 January at Tatmadaw
Convention Hall.
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(7) Kanbalu Township NLD dissolved
YANGON, 6 Jan-The Executive Committee members and all members of Kanbalu
Township
National League for Democracy, Sagaing Division, tendered their resignations
and dissolved the
Township NLD on their own volition on 27 December 1998.
Kanbalu Township NLD was first formed on 30 November 1988 with 21 EC
members. Out of
21 EC members, 17 were left. The remaining EC members of the Township NLD
resigned from the
party membership on their own volition since they no longer wished to continue
to take part in
NLD's party politics. They notified the office of Kanbalu Township Multiparty
Democracy General
Election Commission and the chairman of the party concerned On 27 December,
personnel of the
township NLD dissolved it by handing over the flag, seals and documents to the
Township
Multiparty Democracy General Election Commission.
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(8) More NLD members resign
YANGON, 6 Jan Sixty-eight members resigned from the National League for
Democracy of
Ngazun Township, Sagaing Division, on 25 December.
Sixty-eight members of Ngazun Township NLD, Sagaing Division, on their own
volition, tendered
their resignations by sending letters of resignation to Ngazun Township
Multiparty Democracy
General Election Commission Office and the party concerned on 25 December as
they no longer
wished to participate in party politics of NLD.
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(9) Announcement No 1425
Union of Myanmar
Multiparty Democracy General Election
Commission
Announcement No 1425
5dh Waning of Pyatho, 1360 ME
(6 January l999)
Subject: Permission given to Daw Hse Hse to resign as
Pyithu Hluttaw representative elected from Khamti Township Constituency in
Sagaing Division 1.
Daw Hse Hse of the National League for Democracy, Pyithu Hluttaw
representative elected at the
Multiparty Democracy General Election from Khamti Township Constituency in
Sagaing Division,
submitted of her own volition to this Commission that she be permitted to
resign because of her
health condition.
2. Upon the above-mentioned submission, this Commission hereby announces that
Daw Hse Hse
has been permitted to resign from being Hluttaw representative-elect of Khamti
Constituency
effective today under Section 11 (e) of the Pyithu Hluttaw Election Law.
By order,
Sd Aye Maung
Secretary
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(10) Announcement No 1426
Union of Myanmar
Multiparty Democracy General Election
Commission
Announcement No 1426
5th Waning of Pyatho, 1360 M E
(6 January 1999)
Subject: Permission given to U Saw Kyaw Sein to resign as Pyithu Hluttaw
representative elected
from Hlegu Township Constituency 1 in Yangon Division
1. U Saw Kyaw Sein of the National League for Democracy, Pyithu Hluttaw
representative elected
at the Multiparty Democracy General Election from Hlegu Township Constituency
1 in Yangon
Division, submitted of his own volition to this Commission that he be
permitted to resign because of
his old age and health.
2. Upon the above-mentioned submission, this Commission here by announces that
U Saw Kyaw
Sein has been permitted to resign from being Hluttaw representative-elect of
Hlegu Constituency 1
effective today under Section 11 (e) of the Pyithu Hluttaw Election Law.
By order,
Sd Aye Maung
Secretary
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(11) Bodh Gaya pilgrims leave for Calcutta
YANGON, 6 Jan A total of 183 members of Bodh Gaya Pilgrimage Groups No 13/99
to
18/99 of Bodh Gaya Pilgrimage Supervisory Committee of the Ministry of
Religious Affairs left here
for
Calcutta, India, by air this morning.
They were seen off at Yangon International Airport by Director-General of
Religious Affairs
Department U Arnt Maung and officials.
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