PLEASE CLICK TO ENLAREG THE IMAGEThe mayor, Brigadier General Aung Thein Linn, some government officials and family members of the country's late leaders all attended the 61st anniversary event.But invitations to foreign embassies were cancelled by the foreign affairs ministry without reason, the diplomats confirmed.Suu Kyi was only two-years-old when she lost her father. Burma got its independence a year later in January 1948.Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of the last 18 years under house arrest and has currently been detained since 2003.About 300 NLD members gathered in front of party headquarters on Saturday morning, saluting the spot where the leaders were gunned down.Amid tight security and with armed police trucks present, the gathering was peaceful with no shouting or marching as has been known in previous years.But the NLD reiterated its call for the immediate and unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners.Earlier this month 14 Suu Kyi supporters were charged for protesting against the extension of her house arrest.Burma has been ruled by the military since 1962. The NLD won a landslide victory in 1990 elections but the junta never allowed them to take office.
July 20 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has started implementation of five key highway projects in cyclone-hard-hit Ayeyawaddy delta region as part of its prevention program against natural disaster in the region, the local Biweekly Eleven reported on Sunday in this week's issue.The five highways respectively stretch as Maubin-Mawgyun, Mawgyun-Pinzalu, Laputta-Pinzalu, Bogalay-Katonkani and Laputta-Teikzun.These roads, which will be built as concrete ones within three years, will have facilities to resist storm and tide, the report said, adding that some of these roads will be built a height of 6-9 meters near villages to create shelter for villagers in case of natural disaster onslaught.During a recent cyclone storm in early May, communications and road transport in the hardest-hit Ayeyawaddy delta region and villages near the sea were severely disrupted, creating much difficulties for carrying out relief work.Meanwhile, Myanmar will also build and renovate 37 embankments in the cyclone-hit areas in a bid to prevent from flood in the future, according to earlier local report.Due to the storm, over one million acres (405,000 hectares) of farmland in Mon state were flooded and killed more than 200,000 cows and cattle killed.The United Nations has set up an emergency telecommunication center (ETC) in Yangon to help for quick communication access in disaster relief and restoration works.Myanmar is now entering into a second phase of resettlement and reconstruction after its first phase of rescue and relief was claimed to have finished up to a certain extent.Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis hit five divisions and states on May 2 and 3. Myanmar estimated the damages and losses caused by the storm at 10.67 billion U.S. dollars with 5.5 million people affected. The storm killed 84,537 people and left 53,836 missing and 19,359 injured, according to the latest official death toll.
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