YANGON, Aug. 1 (Xinhua)-- The Myanmar authorities have re-planted 32,925 shade-providing trees in the Yangon municipal area to replace those which collapsed during a severe cyclone storm in early last May, the local Biweekly Eleven News reported Friday.

    The May storm brought down over 13,000 old-aged trees and thousands of other shade-providing ones.

    Numerous such downed trees and debris then pressed and rested on houses, while some dragged down many lamp-posts with wire lines and blocked roads in the city.

    At present, almost all of downed trees and debris on the roads have been cleared and accumulated on some vacant plots in the city from where stem roots and branches have been or are being sorted out for auction.

    These stem roots of trees of 30 to 100 years of age are sold freely to both domestic and foreign entrepreneurs for use in sculpture and decoration.

    The deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal on last May 2 and 3 killed 84,537 people, leaving 53,836missing and 19,359 injured.