Officials will pay the equivalent of US $1 for each chicken they kill, the head of
Jakarta's Animal Husbandry Department, Edi Sutiarto, said Tuesday. Chickens fetch between $1 and $2 on the market.
(AP)
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Shanghai Police Arrest Burma Drug Suspect
Police in China's commercial hub of Shanghai have arrested a suspect in a Burma drug ring, amid stepped-up anti-narcotics cooperation between the two neighbors, newspapers reported Tuesday. Kyi Win, also identified as Yangah Huang, was captured at his wife's home in Shanghai's Pudong district as he was sleeping on January 5, newspapers reported Tuesday. It wasn't clear why reports of the arrest had been delayed. The suspect reportedly fled on December 27 after Burmese authorities launched a crackdown on a drug gang in which he was believed to be a key lieutenant, seizing suspects, drugs, and 1 million tablets of methamphetamine, the Shanghai Daily reported. Believing he had returned to China, Burmese police requested his arrest on December 30, prompting an investigation by local police, it said.
The suspect was found with 47 pieces of opium and 130 methamphetamine tablets, it said. It didn't say whether he was being held in Shanghai or had been extradited to Burma. The impoverished Southeast Asian nation is the source of much of the heroin and other drugs that are a growing scourge among all classes of Chinese. Burmese Prime Minister Gen Soe Win pledged on a visit to China earlier this month to boost anti-drug cooperation and work with Beijing to replace opium poppy cultivation with alternative crops. Beijing is a key source of economic and diplomatic support for Burma's isolated military leadership. (AP)
Burma to Lay Gas Pipeline to New Capital
Burma will lay a 170-km pipeline to its new administrative capital Pyinmana to supply natural gas to the city, the weekly Burmese journal Flower News reported, quoting the state-run Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise. The junta started moving its ministries to Pyinmana in November last year, and the relocation process is expected to finish by next month. But it has yet to complete local infrastructure projects. Foreign diplomats in Rangoon stated in December that new embassies in Pyinmana could start construction by the end of 2007. Rangoon business sources, however, claim that Rangoon will remain the country’s commercial hub.
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