THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR (Sunday, 24 Jan 1999)

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR (Sunday, 24 Jan 1999)
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(1)   More national entrepreneurs needed to strive for success
          in farming and set up agro-based industries
(2)   Secretary-1 receives national race leaders of Kachin State
        Special Region(1)     
(3)   Secretary-1 attends dinner in honour of delegates
        to 45th Conference of MMA
(4)   NLD members collude with expatriate insurgent PDF,
         spread anti-government pamphlets to incite riots
(5)   Bogalay Township NLD members resign
(6)   Maubin Township NLD members resign
(7)   Workshop of MNMC held
(8)   S'pore, Myanmar neuro surgeons perform surgeries
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(1)   More national entrepreneurs needed to strive for success
          in farming and set up agro-based industries

YANGON, 23 Jan-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 Lt-Gen Tin Oo, Deputy
Prime Minister Vice-Admiral Maung Maung Khin and the ministers and senior
military officers, yesterday afternoon flew by helicopter to Sankinkyun in
Nyaungdon Township .
   

At the briefing hall of virgin and fellow lands reclamation project of SI
Industrial Agricultural Co Ltd, the Senior General and party heard a report on
reclamation of new cultivable land of one million acres in Ayeyawady Division
under the arrangement of the Government vacant, fallow and virgin wetlands,
granting of land reclamation work permit for 30,000 acres in Nyaungdon and
Danubyu Townships to SI   Ltd and arrangements for better communications
between Sankin-kyun and adjoining areas by member of the State Peace and
Development Council Chairman of Ayeyawady Division Peace and Development
Council Commander of South-West Command Maj Gen Thura Shwe Mann.
   

Managing Director of SI Industrial Agricultural Co Ltd Dr Mya Thida reported
on field study of vacant and fallow land in Sankinkyun by the company,
reclamation of land and contract farming with farmers and completion of
cultivation. Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Ohn Myint gave a
supplementary report.Senior General Than Shwe gave necessary
instructions.Next, the Senior General unveiled the signboard of virgin and
fellow lands reclamation project of SI industrial Agricultural Co l td and
performed the ritual goldenland and silver showers.
   

The Senior General and party inspected the reclamation of land in Sankinkyun
and met local farmers.Of the vacant, fallow and virgin lands, SI Ltd will  
reclaim cultivable lands up to 30,000 acres in 2001-2002. This year the
company will reclaim 7,500 acres and put 4,500 acres  under paddy, beans and
pulses and oil crops.
   

The Senior General and party flew on to Pathein where they were welcomed by
Deputy Commander of South west Command Col Tint Swe and officials.This
morning, the Senior General and party proceeded to Myaungmya by helicopter.
They inspected Myaungmya Suspension Bridge and toured the town.
  

  Later at the hall of Myaungmya Jute Mill, the Senior General heard a report
on cultivation of jute, purchase of jute and production of gunny bags and jute
cloth by Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Nyunt Tin.Myaungmya
District Peace and Development Council Chairman Lt-Col Tin aye reported on
yield of monsoon paddy in the district, on-fifth cultivation of summer paddy
acreage in the whole country and cultivation of oil crops and kitchen crops,
Commander Thura Shwe Mann on arrangements for improvement of regions flooded
by sea water into cultivable lands and Minister for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi on
providing fuel oil needed in summer paddy cultivation.

    Senior General Than Shwe gave necessary guidance. Afterwards, the Senior
General and party flew to wetlands in Mogok Deedoke (South) in Pantanaw
Township. At the briefing hall of Yuzana Agriculture Group, they heard a
report on land reclamation project of national entrepreneurs in Ayeyawady
Division by Commander Maj -Gen Thura Shwe Mann. Minister Maj-Gen Nyunt Tin
then reported on the ministry's assistance to land reclamation project.

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(2)   Secretary-1 receives national race leaders of Kachin State Special
Region(1)

YANGON, 23 Jan-Chairman of Work Committee for Development of Border Areas and
National Races Secretary-1 of the State Peace and .Development Council Lt-Gen
Khin Nyunt received national race leader of Kachin State Special Region (1) U
Za Khun Ting Ring and members U Nyein Aye, U Zaw Hlaing and U Saung Ting at
Tatmadaw Guest House on Inya Road at 4 pm today.
   

Also present on the occasion were Minister for Education U Than Aung, Minister
for Home Affairs Col Tin Hlaing, Minister for Mines Brig-Gen Ohn Myint, Deputy
Minister for Commerce Commodore Myo Tint, Deputy Minister for Finance
and?Revenue Brig-Gen Than Tun, Deputy Minister for Construction Brig-Gen Thura
Aye Myint, Deputy Minister for Progress of Border Areas and National Races and
Development Affairs U Kyaw Tin, Deputy Minitster for Forestry Brig-Gen Soe
Myint, Director-General of the State Peace and Development Council Office Lt-
Col Pe Nyein, heads of department and officials.
   

They discussed education, transport agriculture mining, wood based industry
and regional development.
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(3)   Secretary-1 attends dinner in honour of delegates
        to 45th Conference of MMA


YANGON, 23 -.A dinner in honour of the delegates to 4Sth Conference of Myanmar
Medical Association was hosted at MMA building on Theinbyu Road at 7 pm today,
attended by Chairman of National Health Committee Secretary-1 of the State
Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt.

    Also present at the dinner were Minister at the State'Peace and
Developments Council Chairmen's Office Brig -Gen Abel, Minister for Home
Affairs Col Tin Hlaing, Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement
Brig-Gen Pyi Sone, Minister for Science and Technology U Thaung, Minister for
Health Maj-Gen Ket Sein, Minister at the Prime Minister's Office Lt-Gen Tin
Ngwe, Deputy Minister for Health Dr Mya Oo official of the State' Peace and
Development Council Office, directors-general and rectors, medical research,
medical superintendents, professors and guests, officials of international
organizations, officials of social organizations, Myanmar doctors resident
abroad, Chairman of MMA (Central) Dr Myo Myint, executives and members.
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(4)   NLD members collude with expatriate insurgent PDF,
         spread anti-government pamphlets to incite riots

YANGON, 23 Jan - The authorities concerned have exposed the case of the
antigovernment elements who dropped and distributed instigative pamphlets in
the toilets of the Institute of Medicine 2, on buses and at bus stops, in
public parks in various ways during November and December 1998.

    Khin Soe, an organizer of PDF expatriate group and incharge of Yay
Township (South), was apprehended together with the instigative pamphlets and
propaganda leaflets on 22-12-98, and the NLD members in the country, who
distributed the instigative pamphlets in collusion with the PDF members to
disrupt stability of the State and community peace and tranquillity, were also
exposed and apprehended.

    It is learned that the so called PDF meaning People's Defence Force
(Burma), was formed as headquarters at Thai border area in 1990 and exists as
the expatriate insurgent group to carry out antigovernment activities under
the pretext of democracy; the chairman of the PDF is expatriate insurgent U
Sein Mya's nephew Kyaw Htet and the secretary is a man called Shwe Thway, and
the group is collaborating with KNU insurgents; PDF secretary Shwe Thway gave
training on political defiance ways, sabotage and propaganda spreading ways to
organizers Zaw Win, Khin Soe and Win Kywe of Yay and assigned them to recruit
new members in the country and exert control from behind in subversive
activities to incite riotous upheavals.

    It is exposed that Zaw Win is an executive of Yay Township NLD, and in
collusion with Yay Township NLD's ward/village organizers Khin Soe and Win
Kywe, distributed copies of Khit Pyaing Journal, instigative pamphlets,
propaganda leaflets, and anti-government propaganda cassettes to NLD members;
in July 1998, they stuck and hung instigative pamphlets in various parts of
Yay to cause panic among residents of Yay; they wrote and sent concocted
stories to Khit Pyaing Journal, RFA broadcasting station and fake Myanma Alin
newspaper published by the expatriates; in July 1998, Palaw Township NLD party
organizer U Than Nwe, youth organizer Thitsa and representative elect U Kyi
Shwe's son Nyein Chan instigated basic education students to take to the
streets and hold riotous protests in Palaw Township, and they also distributed
instigative pamphlets in Myeik, Dawei and Kawthoung.

    It is learnt that Khin Soe often brought and distributed in Yangon various
instigative leaflets sent to him by PDF; in so doing, he himself distributed
them at the bus-stops and on buses and asked his associate NLD members to do
the same; NLD in collusion with the expatriate terrorists' PDF group
distributed instigative leaflets to disrupt stability and peace of the State
and was also engaged in subversive acts after making contacts with expatriate
terrorists: Khin Maung Kyi member of Mon State NLD EC and Vice-Chairman of Yay
Township NLD went to Thai border area and made contacts with PDF secretary
Shwe Thway and group.

    It is learnt that effective legal action will be taken against PDF members
and NLD members who had violated the laws to panic the public and disrupt
peace and stability of the State making contacts and colluding with expatriate
terrorist organization outside the country.

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(5)   Bogalay Township NLD members resign

YANGON, 23 Jan-Seventy-one members resigned from the National League for
Democracy of Bogalay Township, Ayeyawady Division, on 22 December 1998.
    Seventy-one members of Bogalay Township NLD, Ayeyawady Division, of their
own volition, tendered their resignations by sending letters of resignation to
Bogalay Township Multiparty Democracy General Election Commission Office and
the party concerned on 22 December as they no longer wished to participate in
party politics of NLD.

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(6)   Maubin Township NLD members resign

YANGON, 23 Jan-One hundred and thirty-three members resigned from the National
League for Democracy of Maubin Township, Ayeyawady Division, on 11 January.
    One hundred and thirty-three members of Maubin Township NLD, Ayeyawady
Division, of their own volition, tendered their resignations by sending
letters of resignation to Maubin Township Multiparty Democracy General
Election Commission Office and the party concerned on 11 January as they no
longer wished to participate in party politics of NLD.

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(7)   Workshop of MNMC held

YANGON, 23 Jan-The Workshop on Implementation of Continuing Nursing Education
Activities sponsored by Myanmar Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ministry of
Health was held at the meeting hall of MNMC on Bogyoke Museum Street in Bahan
Township this morming.

    Director (Nursing) of Health Department Chairperson of MNMC Daw Khin May
Win presided over it and Assistant Lecturer Daw Nyunt Night Toe acted as
master of ceremonies.

    Professor U Maung Maung, professor U Min Tha Shein, professor Daw Lorna
and Lecturer U Min Boe Nyein briefed on the aims of the workshop and officials
of Yangon General Hospital, Psychiatric Hospital and Yangon Division Health
Department discussed matters relating to the workshop. The workshop will
continue tomorrow.

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(8)   S'pore, Myanmar neuro surgeons perform surgeries

YANGON, 23 Jan- Neuro surgeon Dr Prem Pilloy of Mount Elizabeth Hospital of
Singapore performed neurological surgeries at Defence Services General
Hospital this morning in cooperation with neuro surgeons of DSGH led by
Professor Col Than Sein, Professor Dr Saw Simon Tha and Dr Myint Thein of
Yangon General Hospital, pediatrician Maj. Do Kay Hi Tun of Defense Services
Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital and specialists and Head of Anaesthetic
Department of DSGH Lt-Col Maung Maung Myint and specialists.

    Director of Medical Services Brig-Gen Mya Thein Han and, Commandant of
DSGH Col Tin Thein Lwin observed the surgeries and attended to the needs.

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