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Volume XVII, Number 171 1st Waning of Thadingyut 1371 ME Sunday, 4 October, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round devel-opment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms

of technical know-how and investments from sources insidethe country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept inthe hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education

standards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peaceand tranquillity, prevalence of law andorder

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Con-

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

YANGON, 3 Oct—Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence this morning attended the ceremonyto open the extended parlour of the east lift nearShwedagon Pagoda, here.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe and officials formally opened

Lt-Gen Myint Swe attends opening of extendedbuilding of eastern lift of Shwedagon Pagoda

the extended building.They viewed the road from the lift to the pagoda.Lt-Gen Myint Swe, Commander Maj-Gen Win

Myint and officials sprinkled scented water on theplaque of the building.

After visiting the extended building, Lt-GenMyint Swe inspected all-round renovation tasks at thecorridor to the lift and around the eastern stairways andthe lift.

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NAY PYI TAW, 3 Oct—Today is Fullmoon Dayof Thadingyut (Abhidhamma Day). During the threemonths of Buddhist Lent, Lord Buddha administeredAbhidhamma discourses to Brahma and celestial beingsincluding the celestial being who was His mother in theprevious life, at Tavatimsa Abode. After delivering theAbhidhamma discourses on Fullmoon Day ofThadingyut, the Lord Buddha descended from theTavatimsa Abode to Sankassa Nagara.

The Buddhists in Myanmar yearly held thelighting festival on Fullmoon Day of Thadingyutdedicated to paying homage to the Lord Buddha.

The first Abhidhamma Day was observed atNay Pyi Taw Uppatasanti Pagoda this morning.Commander of Nay Pyi Taw Command Maj-Gen WaiLwin, Minister for Religious Affairs Brig-Gen ThuraMyint Maung, Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Thura AungKo, departmental heads and staff received the NinePrecepts from Presiding Nayaka of Ngwetaung TawyaMonastery of Nay Pyi Taw Tatkon Agga Maha PanditaBhaddanta Pannasiri.

The commander, the minister and the deputyminister donated alms to the Sayadaws. Religiousassociations recited religious verses at UppatasantiPagoda. In the evening, 9,000 oil lights were offered tothe pagoda.

Similar ceremonies were held at DatusayaDatpaungsu Pagoda in Nay Pyi Taw BawgatheikdiWard, ancient Phaya Koehsu Pagoda in YanaungWard 2 of Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana, Lawka Marazein,Koekhangyi and Lawka Yanhnein pagodas in Nay PyiTaw Pyinmana, other pagodas and stupas in Nay PyiTaw Lewe and Nay Pyi Taw Tatkon.

Pavarana ceremony was held at ShwehinthaMonastery in Ngansat Village of Nay Pyi TawUttarasiri. Wellwishers donated alms to over 70members of the Sangha.

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Abhidhamma Day observed at famous pagodas,stupas, religious edifices across the country

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Sunday, 4 October, 2009 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

With the climate change across the world,many people are facing natural disasters.Moreover, the world is facing many otherproblems such as food crisis, energy security,proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,terrorist attacks and pandemic diseases.

Global nations will have to makecooperative efforts to overcome these problemsand challenges. Although many contries, largeand small, are facing the financial and economiccrisis, the small developing countries have beenthe hardest hit. So the developed countries shouldincrease their overseas development aids to thedeveloping countries.

Some powerful nations have been resortingto economic sanctions to influence the politicaland economic systems of the developingcountries. Sanctions pose a barrier to theeconomic and social development of the peopleof those countries. They can not only adverselyaffect people from different backgrounds butalso make a form of violence.

Sanctions are being employed to pressureMyanmar politically. Myanmar is a countrythat practises a market economy. It has foodsecurity. Considerable progress has been madesocio-economic conditions thanks to thecombined efforts of the government and thepeople.

Myanmar is now in democratic transition.The new constitution has been approved. Multi-party general elections will be held next year anda new government will be formed by holding aHluttaw in accord with the constitution.

Peace and stability of the State andsuccessful holding of elections in a democraticway are requirements of Myanmar’sdemocratization. With the active participationof the national people, a new democratic nationwill emerge based on justice, freedom andequality prescribed in the constitution.

Look forward to a newnation based on justice,freedom and equality

YANGON, 3 Oct—NetInfo TechnologicalYANGON, 3 Oct—

Organized by HumanResources DevelopmentWork Committee of theUnion of Myanmar

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Oct— Minister for ForeignAffairs U Nyan Win, afterattending the 64th sessionof the United NationsGeneral Assembly in NewYork from 17 to 29September 2009 asDeputy Chairman of theMyanmar Delegation,arrived back via Bangkokby air on 1 October 2009.

While in New York,Minister U Nyan Wincalled on Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-Generalof the United Nations on18 September at the latter’soffice. He then attendedthe United NationsSummit on ClimateChange on 22 September,the General Debate at thePlenary Session of theGeneral Assembly heldfrom 23 to 28 Septemberand the 33rd annualmeeting of the ForeignMinisters of the Group of77 and China. Minister UNyan Win attended theLuncheon hosted by UNSecretary General inhonour of the heads ofdelegation on 23September.

While attending theGeneral Assembly in NewYork, Minister U NyanWin met bilaterally with

FM arrives back after attending 64th session of theUnited Nations General Assembly

Mr. Yang Jiechi, Ministerfor Foreign Affairs of thePeople’s Republic ofChina at the WorldorfAstoria Hotel in theevening of 23 September.He also held discussionswith Ms RadhikaCoomaraswamy, UnderSecretary-General andSpecial Representive ofthe UNSG for Childrenand Armed Conflict, MrJohn Holmes, UnderSecretary-General forHumanitarian Affairs andMr Ibrahim Gambari,Special Adviser to theSecretary General on 24

September. On 27September the Ministeralso held bilateraldiscussions with Mr HorNamhong, Deputy PrimeMinister and Minister forForeign Affairs ofCambodia. While in theUSA, the Minister visitedWashington DC, on 18-19 September to inspectthe Myanmar Embassyand met with the Charged’ Affairs ai, the MilitaryAttaché and the staff ofthe Embassy. While inWashington D.C, theMinister met with USSenator Mr Jim Webb at

his residential office andthe team of US-ASEANBusiness Council led bythe Council’s Presidentat the Residence of theMyanmar Head ofMission on 19September.

On 24 September theMinister met with theMyanmar PermanentRepresentatives andAmbassadors, members ofthe Myanmar Delegationattending the GeneralAssembly in New York andgave necessaryinstructions.

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Office Management Course No (1) and IntellectualProperty Course DL-101 No (7) opened

Federation of Chambersof Commerce andIndustry, the OfficeManagement Course No.(1) and Intellectual

Property Course DL-101No (7) were opened atthe UMFCCI OfficeTower in LanmadawTownship here on 27

September with openingaddresses by President ofUMFCCI U Win Myintand Chairman of HumanResources DevelopmentWork Committee Dr MyoThet.

The three-monthOffice ManagementCourse No (1) and theone-and-half monthIntellectual PropertyCourse DL-101 No (7)are being attended by 50trainees each.

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Minister

for Foreign

Affairs

U Nyan

Win meets

with UN

Secretary-

General

Mr. Ban

Ki-moon at

UN Head-

quarters.

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Computer Networking with Cisco BasicCourse to be opened

Training School will openCisco Basic Coursesupplying CCNACertificate, NetworkingCertificate being usedthrough the world widespread, to improveMyanma ICT on 6October.

The purpose of thecourse is to enable thestudents to knowNetworking Basic

Concept clearly and to getjobs abroad.

The course will lastsix weeks and it will beconducted every Tuesdayand Wednesday.

Those interested maycontact Room-1,Building-2, MyanmarInfo-Tech, HlineTownship, Yangon(Ph: 507045 and 652248).

MNA

Openingof

trainingcourses

inprogress

atUMFCCIOfficeTower.

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Russian FM says cautiously optimisticon Iran nuclear talks

Spain’s General Jaime Dominguez Buj points to a map showing the IndianOcean area where the Spanish tuna fishing boat “Alakrana” was hijacked,

during a news conference in Madrid on 2 Oct, 2009. Somali pirates hijackedthe boat, the regional government of the Basque Country and a pirate

spokesman said on Friday.—INTERNET

Members of Afghanfire brigade try to extin-guish an oil tanker seton fire by Taleban mili-tants in Kunduz, Af-ghanistan, on 2 Oct,2009. Two interna-tional troops — oneAmerican and one Brit-ish — were killed inseparate clashes in Af-ghanistan following amonth that witnessed adrop in deaths amongthe international force,military officials saidon Friday.—INTERNET

Residents clean the rubble of a collapsed building in the Sumatran city ofPadang, Indonesia, on 2 Oct, 2009. — XINHUA

Somali pirates seize Spanish fishing vessel

MOSCOW, 3 Oct —Russian Foreign MinisterSergei Lavrov on Fridayexpressed cautiously op-timism about the results ofGeneva talks on Iran’s nu-clear programme, Russiannews agencies reported.

“The results inspirecautious optimism,”Lavrov said during a visitto Georgia’s breakawayregion of Abkhazia.

“Now the most impor-tant thing is to make surethese agreements are fullyand timely implemented,”he was quoted as saying

by Interfax.The foreign minister

also said the next round oftalks would be held laterthis month.

Iran’s chief nuclear ne-gotiator Saeed Jalili onThursday held talks withtop envoys from theUnited States, Russia,China, Britain, France andGermany.

During the talks, Jalilipromised that Tehranwould soon open itsnewly-disclosed uranium-enrichment facility nearQom to UN inspectors,

according to EU foreignpolicy chief JavierSolana, who coordinatedthe talks.

The meeting in Ge-neva came shortly afternews of the second Ira-nian uranium enrichmentsite had led to calls forharsher sanctions againstTehran. Western powerssuspect Iran of attemptingto build nuclear weapons,but Tehran says its nu-clear programme is aimedat generating nuclear en-ergy for civilian pur-poses. —Internet

Wall Street pulls back asunemployment rate hits 9.8%

NEW YORK, 3 Oct — Wall Street pulled back onFriday, as the US September unemployment rate hitthe highest level since June 1983 and payrolls had nowdropped for 21 consecutive months.

The US Labour Department posted that US employ-ers cut a deeper-than-expected 263,000 jobs in Sep-tember, lifting the unemployment rate to 9.8 percent.The report fueled fears the weak labour market couldundermine economic recovery.

Meanwhile, US factories orders fell 0.8 percent inAugust, worse than economists’ expectation, reportedthe Commerce Department on Friday. The decline fol-lowed a 1.4-percent July increase. Economist had ex-pected that the demand for manufactured goods mightgrow 0.7 percent in August.

Analysts said that factories will remain under pres-sure because of weak consumer spending as Ameri-can households deal with the rising unemployment.

Xinhua

NAIROBI, 3 Oct — So-mali pirates have hijackeda Spanish fishing boat inthe dangerous waters ofthe Indian Ocean after amonth of a lull of activityalong the coast of theHorn of Africa nation, aregional maritime officialconfirmed on Friday.

Andrew Mwangura,the East Africa Coordina-tor of Seafarers Assist-ance Program (SAP), saidthe 100-meter MSAlakrana was seized earlyon Friday by armed gun-

men with 36 crew mem-bers on board.

“The crew is com-posed of 16 Spanish,eight Indonesians, fourGhanaians, three Senega-lese, two from IvoryCoast, two from Mada-gascar and one from Sey-chelles,” Mwangura toldXinhua by telephone fromMombasa.

The Alakrana was hi-jacked in internationalwaters at about 600 kmoff the Somali coast, andwas being taken towardsthe Horn of Africa coun-try.

The Alakrana man-aged to escape fromwould-be hijackers earlylast month off the coastalSomalia.—Xinhua

Trapped Indonesian quake victim sendstext message

PADANG (INDONESIA), 3 Oct — An earthquake survivor trapped in a collapsedhotel in western Indonesia sent a text message saying he and some others werealive, triggering a frantic rescue operation, but hopes faded on Saturday as snifferdogs failed to detect life.

Padang’s police chief said voices and claps were heard from survivors buried inthe Ambacang Hotel since Wednesday’s 7.6-magnitude quake, which killed at least715 people. He said one survivor — who had been staying in Room 338 — sent atext message to relatives on Friday, saying he and some others were still alive.

“We estimate there are still eight people trapped alive under Ambacang Hotel,”Col Boy Rafli Amar told reporters. “We are still trying hard to evacuate them.” Aftermore than six hours of searching, Amar said, “so far rescuers have foundnothing.”—Internet

Three more US banks closed, nearly 100 for yearWASHINGTON, 3Oct —

Three US banks failed onFriday, bringing the totalto 98 this year, asregulators continue toshutter financialinstitutions that areoverwhelmed by badloans and liquidityproblems.

The Federal DepositInsurance Corp said thatWarren Bank in Michiganwas closed, withHuntington National

Bank of Ohio taking overits deposits. It had 538million US dollars inassets and 501 millionUS dollars in deposits.

Jennings State Bankin Minnesota was also shutdown, with Central Bankin that state assuming itsdeposits. It had 56.3million US dollars inassets and 52.4 million USdollars in deposits.

The third bank closedby bank regulators was

Southern ColoradoNational Bank, withLegacy Bank in the statetaking over its deposits. Ithad 39.5 million USdollars in assets and 31.9million US dollars indeposits.

All the branches of theinstitutions will open onSaturday under their newowners and customers cancontinue to use checks,automated tellers anddebit cards to access theirfunds.—Internet

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Global chip sales keep sequentialgrowth for sixth straight month

EU mulls carbon tax tofight climate change

GOTHENBURG, 3 Oct—European Union (EU) financeministers on Friday discussed the idea of introducinga carbon tax across the 27-nation bloc as a way to helpfight climate change.

“Today, there were few reactions, but all the reac-tions were positive,” Laszlo Kovacs, EU Commis-sioner for Taxation and Customs Union, told report-ers after presenting the idea to EU finance ministersat an informal meeting in the Swedish port city ofGothenburg.

Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg, whosecountry holds the EU rotating presidency, said therehad been a constructive exchange of views and thatthe European Commission was encouraged to make aformal proposal, possibly next year.

He said a number of ministers welcomed the ideaof introducing a carbon tax to reduce greenhouse gasemissions from sectors outside the EU EmissionTrading Scheme.

The EU currently runs the world’s largest Emis-sion Trading Scheme, which imposes emission capson certain EU industries, including power generatorsand some heavy industrial plants, and requires themto buy extra permit if they want to emit more.

Xinhua

New energy, renewable energy take9% in China’s energy structure

Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (L) and 1st Officer JeffreySkiles go through their pre-flight routine before leaving forNorth Carolina at LaGuardia Airport in New York on 1 Oct,2009. Sullenberger was the pilot who brought a crippled US

Airways jet to a textbook emergency landing on New York City’sHudson River, after the Airbus A320 was struck by birds,

blowing out the engines of the plane, moments after take-offfrom New York’s LaGuardia airport in January.—XINHUA

A boat is aground beside a street on 1 Oct, 2009 in Pago Pago, AmericanSamoa after a tsunami struck the island on 29 Sept, 2009 and carried it awayfrom the harbour. The tsunami also caused structural damage to buildings

and deposited mounds of debris.—INTERNET

Cambodian people carry aid that they receivedfrom the Cambodian Red Cross as they walk

through floodwaters brought by Typhoon Ketsanain Kampong Thom Province. Quake-trapped

corpses rotted in Indonesia, the first storm deathsemerged from Laos and the Philippines coweredbefore a “super typhoon” as nature offered norespite Friday to disaster-hit Asia.—INTERNET

Oil retreats on risingunemployment rate NEW YORK, 3 Oct—Crude prices

dropped on Friday as investors were wor-ried about the recovery strength amid ris-ing unemployment rate in the United States.

Light, sweet crude for November de-livery lost 87 cents to settle at 69.95 dol-lars a barrel on the New York MercantileExchange, ending the week with a 6 per-cent jump for the contract. Oil dropped asmuch as 2.3 percent during the session af-ter the Labour Department said US unem-ployment in September rose to 9.8 percent,the highest rate since June 1983.

However, the losses were tempered lateras jobs data pushed down the dollar againstmajor currencies. A weaker dollar tends toboost commodities priced in the US cur-rency as they become cheaper for holdersof other currencies.—Xinhua

Mega rail network brought on track asnew landmark in Gulf

KUWAIT CITY, 3 Oct—Oil-rich Gulf Arab states have brought on track an eye-catching project, this time not amazing skyscrapers, but a mega railway networkthat would enhance economic integrity in the world’s largest oil exporting region.

The long-awaited rail network linking the six members of the Gulf Coopera-tion Council (GCC) was approved at a leaders’ summit in 2004 and is expected tokick off construction in 2010 or 2011.

Initial studies of the project was finalized and approved by GCC leaders, thebloc’s Assistant Secretary General Mohammed Obaid Al-Mazroui told Kuwait’sstate news agency KUNA on Tuesday.

Xinhua

SAN FRANCISCO, 3Oct—Thanks to steady re-covery of consumerspending, global semicon-ductor sales climbed 5percent in August fromthe previous month, rep-resenting the sixth con-secutive month of sequen-tial growth, a leading UStade group reported onFriday.

Worldwide sales of

semiconductors in Augustrose to 19.1 billion USdollars, compared withJuly sales of 18.2 billiondollars, according to lat-est statistics released bythe Semiconductor Indus-try Association (SIA),which is based in SanJose, California.

Sales in the monthwere up sequentially in allgeographic regions, SIA

said. “Continuing recov-ery of consumer spendingled the sixth-consecutivemonth of sequentialgrowth in semiconductorsales,” George Scalise,president of SIA, said ina statement.

“Various incentiveprograms for energy-effi-cient products, rangingfrom automobiles tohome appliances, havebolstered demand forsemiconductors, whichdeliver critical enablingtechnology for reducingenergy consumption,” headded.

Though global chipsales in August were 16.1percent lower than in thesame period a year earlier,SIA said it saw signs thatthe year-on-year rate ofdecline is slowing.

Xinhua

BEIJING, 3 Oct—Newenergy and renewable en-ergy took nine percent inChina’s energy structure in2008, while coal took 69percent and oil and natu-ral gas 22 percent, accord-ing to the National Bureauof Statistics of China.

China’s new energy andrenewable energy haveboomed in recent years in-cluding hydropower, nu-clear power, wind powerand solar power.

The country’s installed

capacity of hydropowertopped 170 million kwin 2008, the biggest inthe world. Hydropowerpercentage in overall en-ergy structure soared fromone percent in 1949 to 7.4percent in 2008.

China reported 8.85million kw of nuclearpower installed capacityin use. The country nowhas three nuclear powerstations: Qinshan inZhejiang Provinces,Dayawan in Guangdong

Province and Tianwan inJiangsu Province.

Wind power installedcapacity topped 12.21 mil-lion kw, ranking the fourthin the world.

China’s solar powersector also made re-markable progresses. Thesector produced morethan 6,000 tonnes ofpolycrystalline silicon (akey material in producingsolar power) and 2 millionkw of solar photovoltaiccells in 2008. —Xinhua

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Flood kills more than 70 in southernIndia, trains halted

NEW DELHI, 3 Oct —At least 71 people have died in flooding caused by torren-tial rain in the southern Indian state of Karnataka by Friday as authorities weredispatching rescue teams to help people marooned in the water, said state disastermanagement office in the state capital Bangalore.

Meanwhile, landslides and water logging triggered by torrential rain forces astoppage of at least four trains in the southern states of Goa and Karnataka onFriday, said railway officials. The majority of deaths were in the districts of Bijapur,Gulbarga, Raichur, Koppal, Bagalkot and Bellary, where thousands of houseswere washed away by flood, said officials of the office.

A Hindu pilgrim center of Mantralaya was submerged by water from the swol-len Tungabhadra river in Raichur district, 450 km from Bangalore, said the offi-cials at the center.—Xinhua

Singapore sends humanitarian reliefassistance to Indonesia

A kid visits the Progressive Jiangsu — Grand Exposition of Achievements inCelebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic

of China, at the Nanjing International Expo Center, in Nanjing City, eastChina’s Jiangsu Province, on 2Oct, 2009. —XINHUA

All items from Xinhua News Agency

Local artisan Cheng Lihui (C) introduces his just-completed super inkslab knownas Great Peace and Prosperity of China, which is 1.2-m-long, 0.7-m-wide,0.15-m-high and 60-kg-weight, and took nearly 2 years’ efforts to finish, inHuangshan City, east China’s Anhui Province, on 30 Sept, 2009.—XINHUA

SINGAPORE, 3 Oct —Singapore dispatched onFriday evening a 42-manrescue contingent to sup-port Indonesia’s rescueand recovery efforts afterthe recent earthquake.

According to Singa-pore’s Ministry of ForeignAffairs, the rescue contin-gent, which comprises ex-perienced officers fromSingapore Civil Defence

Force’s elite Disaster As-sistance and Rescue Team(DART), will assist the In-donesians in their searchand rescue operations inthe aftermath of the earth-quake that struck WestSumatra on Wednesday.

The Singapore govern-ment will also contribute50,000 US dollars worthof emergency relief sup-plies, including temporary

shelters, blankets, medi-cines and electric genera-tors.

Singapore Prime Minis-ter Lee Hsien Loong onFriday evening also madea telephone call to Indone-sian President SusiloBambang Yudhoyono. Leeconveyed his sympathiesfor the victims of the earth-quake.

Xinhua

Floods strike Italian town,state of emergency declared

ROME, 3 Oct— The Italian government declared astate of emergency on Friday after flash floods andmudslides hit the southern town of Messina in Sicilyleaving at least 20 dead and 35 missing, local mediareported.

The storm, starting on Thursday night, lasted tillFriday morning flooding the entire area. The rainsdumped 230 cm of water in less than an hour knock-ing down houses in the city’s districts and nearbytowns.

Officials said there are more than 450 homelesspeople. Dozens were left waiting on their roofs to berescued. Mudslides have cut off access to some of thehardest-hit areas forcing rescuers to get there on foot.

The first evacuees were loaded onto boats andflown out in helicopters as workers struggled to clearthe roads, filled with debris and mud.—Xinhua

US reports 443 flu-related deaths,6,092 hospitalizations in past week

HOUSTON, 3 Oct—TheUS federal Centers forDisease Control and Pre-vention (CDC) on Fridayreported that 443 peoplehad died of influenza andpneumonia-associatedcomplications in the pastweek, bringing the deathtoll to 1,379 since the be-

ginning of September.Meanwhile, according

to the latest statistics re-leased by the CDC, 6,092people across the countryhave been admitted lastweek to hospitals result-ing from all types orsubtypes of influenza, notjust those from the

A/H1N1 influenza virus,bringing the total numberto 16,174.

Last Friday, the CDCreported 572 influenzaand pneumonia-relateddeaths and 10,082hospitalizations for theprevious week.

Xinhua

People look at an overflowing dam in Dindi, in Andhra Pradesh state, India, on 1 Oct, 2009. — XINHUA

Freed Palestinian prisoner, herchild warmly received in GazaEREZ CROSSING, 3

Oct—Fatima al-Zeg, the42-year-old prisoner, whowas freed from an Israelijail, together with 18 col-leagues from the WestBank, arrived in theHamas-ruled Gaza Stripwith her two-year-oldchild Yousef on Friday.

Dozens of Palestiniansreceived al-Zeg and herchild, who was born dur-ing her captivity, at Erezborder crossing at thenorthern tip of the GazaStrip.

The mother and thechild were warmly re-ceived by her mother, hus-band Mohamed and herother three children whohaven’t seen her since shewas arrested in May 2007.

Amid a mixed feelingof tears and happiness, al-Zeg, the Islamic Jihad(Holy War) movement’smember, hugged her fam-ily members and said “al-Hamdolillah (thank God)”while dozens of recipientsshouted “Allah Akbar(God is great).”—Xinhua

Damage by Typhoon Ketsana to Philippineagriculture rises to $115 million

MANILA, 3 Oct—ThePhilippine agriculture sec-tor incurred 5.4 billionpesos (about 115 millionUS dollars) worth oflosses as tropical depres-sion “Ondoy” (interna-tional code name:“Ketsana”) flooded keyfarm areas in Luzon,northern Philippines, alatest report said on Sat-urday.

This is almost double

than the initial estimatedlosses of 3.6 billionpesos (about 76 millionUS dollars) which Philip-pine agriculture officialsreported on Thursday.

But in its latest reportissued on Saturday, thePhilippine department ofagriculture said that therice sector posted the big-gest amount of damage at4.2 billion pesos (about 90million US dollars). An

estimated 243, 898 tons ofpalay (paddy rice) weredamaged. This is equiva-lent to 3.76 percent of thetarget 6.5 million tonspalay harvest for thefourth quarter.

The typhoon sub-merged 168,065 hectaresof rice lands. The agricul-ture department expectsthat standing crops in142,473 hectares will beable to recover.—Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

Staff at the Kunst Palast Museum inDuesseldorf are busy putting the

finishing touches to a majorexhibition of the work of the Danishartist Per Kirkeby. The exhibition,

which starts on Saturday andcontinues until on 10 Jan next year,

will show more than 250 works,including, sculptures, drawings,films and paintings (such as this“Flight from Egypt” of 1996), as

well as some of the many books he’swritten. Per Kirkeby, who was bornin 1938, is regarded as one of themost important living artists. He

studied geology, and his interest innature is reflected in many

of his works.

Two women playing a version of thepopular board game Ludo, specially

designed for the blind. The gamecan be seen at an exhibition at the

Berlin Museum for Communication,focusing on the life and work ofFrenchman Louis Braille who

invented the system of writing forthe blind that bears his name.

The exhibition runs.

A British fast-food restaurant ishailing its signature dish, the SuperScooby, as the country’s largest andmost fattening burger.

Officials with the Jolly Dryer res-taurant in Bristol, England, said the2,645-calorie burger includes four 1/4-pound beef patties, eight strips of ba-con, eight cheese slices, 12 onion rings,three sauces and a generous serving oflettuce, Sky News reported on Monday.

Nick Lomvardos, 42, owner of the

A 92-year-old New Hampshire womansaid she jumped out of a plane at 13,000feet to “just try something different for achange.”

Jane Bockstruck of Swanzey said shedoes not know exactly what inspired herto go skydiving on 19 Sept at Jumptownin Orange, Mass, but she was determinedto follow through after making the plan,The Keene (NH) Sentinel reported onMonday.

“I must have read it someplace and allof a sudden, ‘I’m going to go skydiving.’So I did,” Bockstruck said. “I’ve done somany things in life, I figured I’d just trysomething different for a change.”

3.3 pound burger has 2,645 caloriesrestaurant, said the 3.3 pound sandwichhas yet to leave a customer hungry.

“None of our customers have everbeen disappointed by the Super Scooby,”he said. “We have never heard of a big-ger one being served up anywhere elseand we are challenging any big eaters tocome along and finish one.

If you can manage that then we’ll giveyou a free can of Diet Coke.

I have never tried eating one myselfbut I’d struggle to finish one half the size.”

Woman, 92, executes

‘flawless’ skydive

Archaeologists say they have un-veiled what they believe to be remainsof the “dining room” of the Romanemperor Nero, part of his palatial resi-dence built in the first century.

Lead archaeologist FrancoiseVilledieu says her team discovered partof a circular room, which experts be-lieve rotated day and night to imitatethe Earth’s movement and impressguests.

Villedieu told journalists on Tues-day that the room on the ancient Pala-tine Hill was supported by a pillar witha diameter of 4 metres (more than 13feet).

Nero’s dining room unveiledin Rome

An unidentified man looks down ina recently unearthed brick structure

incorporating a 4-meter diameterpillar, seen in the background,discovered during maintenanceworks in the Roman Forum, in

Rome.

Lone llama rescued aftermonth on Pikes Peak

COLORADO SPRINGS (COLO), 3 Oct— A lone llamawandering near the summit of Pikes Peak for a monthhas been captured and is heading to a new home.

Tracy Ducharme and Mike Shealy, both of BlackForest, Colo., trekked up the 14,110-foot mountainFriday to find the little white beast of burden.

They took two llamas with them, hoping Homer’sherd instincts would lure him to them. The two splitup and Ducharme spotted the llama, which boundedafter her llama, Dancer. She then slipped a rope aroundhis neck. “I dubbed him ‘Homer’ because of his littleodyssey,” she said, referring to the classic Greek novel“Odyssey” by the poet Homer.

Ducharme said the llama might lose its ears to frost-bite, but is otherwise fine.

“He’s going home,” said Ducharme, adding thatshe doesn’t expect to have any trouble finding him apermanent home.—Internet

Russian Soyuz docks with Space Station

Kidney failure need not bardonation

WINSTON-SALEM, NC, 3 Oct — Kidneys recovered fromdeceased donors with acute renal failure appear to workjust as well when transplanted as other kidneys, US re-searchers found. The study, published in Surgery, foundas long as the donor kidneys were still producing urineand did not have evidence of scarring they could be suc-cessfully transplanted.

“While kidneys from deceased donors with acute re-nal failure have been considered unusable in the past, ourstudy shows they can work quite well,” study senior in-vestigator Dr Robert Stratta of Wake Forest Baptist Medi-cal Center in Winston-Salem, NC, said in a statement.

Stratta and colleagues transplanted 25 kidneys from17 deceased donors with acute renal failure. Unlike chronickidney failure, acute renal failure may result from revers-ible causes such as trauma, medication, or dehydrationand these kidneys appeared to restore to a healthy condi-tion when transplanted.—Internet

In this 20 Sept, 2009 photo provided by SouthwestLlama Rescue a llama walks near the cog railwaytracks near the summit of Pike’s Peak near Colo-rado Springs, Colo. Southwest Llama Rescue is

coordinating efforts to capture the llama before itfalls prey to mountain lions, coyotes or the coming

winter.—INTERNET

MOSCOW, 3 Oct — A space craft car-rying an astronaut, a cosmonaut and Ca-nadian billionaire Guy Laliberte dockedFriday with the International Space Sta-tion, officials said.

The Soyuz TMA-16, whichlaunched f rom the Baikonurspaceport Wednesday, carried Rus-sian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev,NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williamsand Laliberte, who paid an estimated$35 million to the Russian govern-ment to fly as a space tourist, ITAR-TASS reported on Friday.

Williams and Surayev are relieving

Commander Gennady Padalka and flightengineer Michael Barratt, who are sched-uled to return to Earth on 10 Oct withLaliberte.

Laliberte, 50, the owner of Cirque duSoleil, the Montreal-based acrobatic andcircus acts entertainment empire, is to usehis trip to promote access to clean wateron Earth.

A two-hour Webcast on 9 Oct is tospotlight Laliberte, his One Drop Foun-dation and celebrities in 14 cities, includ-ing the rock group U2 and former USVice President Al Gore.

Internet

Climate change threatens survival of mountain birdsVIENNA, 3 Oct — The experts of bird

protection warned that global warminghad been increasingly posing a threatto the living environment of the alpinebirds.

A professional meeting on bird pro-tection is currently held in Portschach,Austria, by an international organizationfor bird protection “Bird Life” in coop-eration with the German “OrnithologistsAssociation.”

Participating experts pointed out thatglobal warming had been making thealpine vegetation changed, the livingspace of snow finch and other moun-

tain birds had been squeezed, accordingto the report released by “Bird Life” onFriday.

There is another survey on the SwissAlps region, which also showed thatsince 1990, the number of crooningspigots of snow chicken had at leastbeen decreased by one third. The heatrate mountain cock in Switzerland alsodropped by 45 percent from 1971to2001.

In addition, many of the survival in-dicators for black grouse, in particular thedistribution range, are also in decline.

Xinhua

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Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence formally opens extended parlour at east lift ofShwedagon Pagoda. (News on page 1)

MNA

Increasing supply of portable water in YangonByline & photos: Reporter Than Swe (Pabedan)

Yangon City Devel-opment Committee dailysupplies about 95 milliongallons of portable waterfrom Gyobyu, Phugyi andHlawgar lakes and its tube-wells to city centre and itssuburbs and newly-estab-lished towns.

In compliance withthe guidance on seekingmore and more water

Filtering tanks of the water supply station in Dagon Myothit (South)Township.

The laying of reinforced concrete pipe is in progress to supply portablewater to Hlinethaya Township.

Collector tanks, filtering tanks and storingtanks are under construction in the secondstep of Yangon City Water Supply Project

(Nga Moe Yeik).

sources for supply of ad-equate water to the grow-ing population, YCDClaunched the first step ofYangon City Water Sup-ply Project (Nga MoeYeik) in April 2004. Theproject has supplied 45million gallons of portablewater a day since 25 De-cember 2005.

The committee is nowimplementing the secondstep of the project. Thesecond step has not beencompleted yet, but Head

of the Engineering Depart-ment (Water and Sanita-tion) Dr Tun Than Tun,Deputy Head Engineer USein Win, and Head Engi-neer U Myo Thein, underthe instructions of MayorBrig-Gen Aung Thein Lin,opened Water SupplyProject (1) on 5 November2008, and Water SupplyProject (2) on 8 April 2009

in Dagon Myothit (South)Township.

Getting rid of the ironsediment in the water fromthe two water supply sta-tions, the committee sup-plies two million gallonsof portable water to thetownship.

In like manner, it hassunk tube-wells in somedowntown areas and somesuburban townships andadds the potable water intothe present water pipelines.

Now, the committee

is taking all possible waysand means to ensure sup-ply of adequate portablewater. In this context, theEngineering Department issinking radial collectorwells in the staff quarter ofDevelopment Affairs Po-lice Force at the corner ofHanthawady Road andBaho Road in KamayutTownship.

Upon completion, theradial collector wells willbe able to supply one mil-lion more gallons of pota-ble water to Kamayut,Sangyong andKyimyindine townships aday.

The second step ofYangon City Water Sup-ply Project (Nga MoeYeik) is due to be com-pleted at the end of 2010.

Project Manager AssistantHead of Yangon City Wa-ter Supply Project (NgaMoe Yeik) said that theywere making finishingtouches to collector tanks,filtering tanks and storingtanks. After the second stepis completed, Yangon CityWater Supply Project (NgaMoe Yeik) will be able tosupply 90 million gallonsof water daily.

Manager of the com-mittee’s Reinforced Con-crete Pipe Factory, as wellas Assistant Head EngineerU Khin Maung Phu saidthat the factory produced10-inch, 16-inch, 24-inchand 36-inch diameter con-crete pipes at three shifts inPhawtkan Ward, InseinTownship.

Moreover, the com-mittee is implementing theWater Supply Project(Thebyu) in Thebyu Vil-lage, Htantabin Township,

Yangon Division, to addpotable water toHlinethaya Township.

In the project area,the committee has builtone 100,000-gallon col-lector tank and one powerstation, installed one ca-ble line, and sunk six 10-inch diameter tube-wells.In the very near future,the committee will com-plete building one collec-tor tank, one tank to re-move iron sediment, andwaterworks.

The laying of con-crete pipes in the 4.9-miledistance between theproject and HlinethayaTownship has completedby 80 per cent, so far.

So, the Water SupplyProject (Thebyu) will soonbe able to supply potablewater to Hlinethaya Town-ship in next November.

Translation: MSKyemon: 26-9-2009

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(from page 1)Offices of departments and ministries, Nay Pyi TawCity Hall, junctions and roundabouts, Nay Pyi TawMyoma Market and staff quarters were illuminatedin the evening.

In Yangon, Abhidhamma Day was observedat Shwedagon Pagoda this morning. At the similarceremony of Sule Pagoda, religious associationsrecited Pathana verses and offered 5,000 lights.

Similarly, ceremonies to mark theAbhidhamma Day and Pavarana ceremonies wereorganized at Botahtaung Kyaikdae-up Pagoda, ThiriMingala Kaba Aye Pagoda, ShwephonepwintPagoda, Lawka Chantha Abhaya Labha MuniBuddha Image on Mindhama Hill in InseinTownship, Sacred Tooth Relic Pagoda (Yangon),Kyaikwaing Pagoda.

Today, Melamu, Ngahtetgyi, Chaukhtetgyi,Mogaung, Kyaukkhauk, Kyaikkaloh and Kyaikkalepagodas were packed with devotees and pilgrims.

MNA

Abhidhamma Dayobserved at famous

pagodas, stupas, religiousedifices across the country

YANGON, 3 Oct—Myanmar Medical Associationwill organize the 14th Seminar on the subjects ofmedicine at Traders Hotel, here, from 8 to 10 October.Specialists from subjects concerned may attend theseminar.

The seminar covers research paper readingsession, Symposiums, Clinical Sessions, ClinicoPathological Conference (CPC). Those wishing toattend the seminar may register through their respectivegroups.—MNA

MMA to organizeseminar 8-10 October

9000 lights offering ceremony of Tooth Relic Pagoda held YANGON, 3 Oct—The third 9000 lights offeringceremony of Varadattha Datucatiya Tooth RelicPagoda was held at Dhammapala Hillock in MayangonTownship here this evening.

The Sayadaw (Head of Department) ofInternational Theravada Buddhist MissionaryUniversity, trainees and the people lighted the 9000oil lamps to offer the Pagoda.—MNA

The third9000lights

offeringceremonyof Tooth

RelicPagoda

(Yangon)on

FullmoonDay of

Thadingyutin

progress.MNA

Magnificent night scene of Uppatasanti Pagoda in Nay Pyi Taw on Fullmoon Day ofThadingyut (Abhidhamma Day).—MNA

The First Abhidhamma Day Ceremony of Uppatasanti Pagoda in progress.—MNA

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Shwedagon Pagoda being packed with

devotees and pilgrims on Fullmoon Day of

Thadingyut (Abhidhamma Day).

MNA

Holiday-makers seen at Nay Pyi Taw WaterFountain Garden on Abhidhamma Day.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Oct—As today is theFullmoon Day ofT h a d i n g y u t(Abhidhamma Day), apublic holiday, Nay PyiTaw Zoological Gardenwas packed with holiday-makers from every part ofthe region.

Nay Pyi Taw Zoological Garden, Nay Pyi TawWater Fountain Garden packed with

holiday-makers on Fullmoon Day of Thadingyut

Similarly, Nay PyiTaw Water Fountain Gar-den was crowded with in-dividuals and in group andfamilies.

In the evening, theLighting Festival was heldat Nay Pyi Taw MyomaMarket and shops wereilluminated.—MNA

Photo shows visitors at Nay Pyi Taw Zoological Garden on Fullmoon Day of Thadingyut.—MNA

Nay Pyi Taw City Hall, roundabouts, and staff quarters being illuminated on Fullmoon Day of Thadingyut.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 3 Oct—The ceremony to mark 45thAnniversary Myanmar Police Force Day was held atAreindama Hall of MPF Headquarters, here, this morning,with an address by Minister for Home Affairs Maj-GenMaung Oo.

Also present on the occasion were Attorney-General U Aye Maung, directors-general of departmentsconcerned, Vice-Chief of MPF Police Brig-Gen ZawWin, Police Chief of Staff Police Brig-Gen Khin MaungSi, Police Adjutant-General Police Brig-Gen Soe WinMyint, Police Quartermaster-General Police Brig-GenWin Soe and members of MPF.

First, they saluted the State Flag and fallen MPFmembers.

Speaking on the occasion, Minister Maj-GenMaung Oo said that the Committee forReforming Management System of Myanmar PoliceForce was formed with 16 persons on 28 January 1994.The committee undertook the form and contentimprovement of the MPF. At the first biannual meetingfor 1995, Head of State Senior General Than Shwe gaveguidance that as the MPF is taking responsibility forensuring peace and stability of the community andprevalence of law and order, it is necessary to dischargethe respective tasks dutifully. As the people are citizens

45th Anniversary Myanmar Police Force Day observed

of the independent nation, the policemen are to protectthem in line with the laws and it should not practise therelationship of master and servant. He quoted theguidance given by the Head of State, saying that it isnecessary to equip the MPF with the correct thought,concept, form and content in line with the independentcountry; the policemen are to forge the spirit of adoringthe State and the people; and they have to dischargeduties with correct concept and belief.

The minister continued to say that being amember of ASEAN Police Forces, the MPF couldsave many victims in transnational crimes such asterrorism, illegal trafficking of narcotic drugs,money laundering, trafficking in persons, armssmuggling and other economic and computer crimes.

He noted that all the police members must bedutiful and loyal to ensuring prevalence of lawand order. Their correct efforts will uplift the prestigeof the MPF, the minister said. He stressed theneed to avoid their acts as burdens for the people.

He urged them to try hard to become theskillful police members on whom the people can relyand they have to loyal to the State and the people.

In conclusion, the minister urged the policemembers to serve the public interest, organize the

people, to ward off internal and externaldestructionists with military awareness, to observethe development of the international community andparticipate in crime prevention and to try hard tobecome well-versed police members.

The minister presented the sash and promotionbadge to Police Sgt Aung Thiha Kyaw ofDevelopment Affairs Police Force (Nay Pyi Taw)and promotion badges to other outstanding policemembers.

Vice-Chief of MPF Police Brig-Gen ZawWin awarded outstanding police members.

Police Adjutant-General Police Brig-Gen SoeWin Myint read the message of the Chief of MPF.He accepted cash donations from 47 companies andpresented certificates of honour to them. Next, hegave certificates to outstanding police members inthe police code of conduct.

The Police Chief of Staff, the Police Adjutant-General, the Police Quartermaster-General,Commander of Special Branch Police Brig-GenMyint Thein and Principal of MPF Central TrainingDepartment Police Brig-Gen Thein Tint awardedother outstanding police members.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Oct—Minister for TransportMaj-Gen Thein Swe together with Deputy MinisterCol Nyan Tun Aung and officials inspected Nay PyiTaw International Airport construction project beingimplemented by Asia World Co Ltd yesterday.

After hearing reports on progress in constructionof the airport at the briefing hall presented by officials,the minister left necessary instructions.

Next, the minister looked into land preparationfor construction of main building of the airport, progressof reinforced concrete floor and bole pile, progress in

Minister inspects Nay Pyi TawInternational Airportconstruction project

laying of concrete and beams.So far, the project has completed by 12 per

cent.—MNA

YANGON, 3 Oct—Deputy Ministerfor Health Dr Paing Soe spoke words ofencouragement to kidney donors Ma SanHti Bwa and Ma Naw Yu Yu Thi andkidney recipients Ma San Phaung Bwaand Ma Naw Phyu Phyu Thi at New

Health Deputy Minister meets kidney donors and recipientsYangon General Hospital where kidneytransplant was performed yesterday.

The deputy minister also met withLeader of Uro and Kidney Medical TeamProf U Khin Maung Htay, Uro and KidneySurgeon Professor U Toe Lwin, ProfessorU Lin Tun Tun and Associate Professor UTin Maung Thein and medicalsuperintendents and gave necessaryinstructions. Kidney recipients are in goodhealth, it is learnt.—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Thein Swe inspectsconstruction of Nay Pyi Taw International

Airport.—MNA

Deputy Minister Dr Paing Soecomforts kidney donors andkidney recipients.—HEALTH

Minister Maj-Gen Maung Oo delivers an address at ceremony to mark 45th Anniversary Myanmar Police Force Day.—MNA

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SAN FRANCISCO, 3 Oct—Electronic readers couldbe the hottest gift this holiday season as a new crop ofportable media devices begins to join iPods and othermusic players as must-have tech accessories.

The number of readers bought will be closelywatched by industry analysts in advance of the expectedemergence of multimedia tablet PCs, which Apple andothers are thought to be working on and which couldalter the competitive landscape.

Falling prices and an ever-growing library ofdigital books are driving demand for e-readers likeAmazon.com’s Kindle and Sony Corp’s Reader.

The light, thin devices now mainly appeal to booklovers, but many see them as the first iteration of a go-everywhere gadget that consumers will use to watchmovies and surf the Web, as much as scan books andnewspapers.—Internet

E-readers seen as holiday hit,presage tablet PCs

A woman shows a touch reader at theInternational Funkaustellung (IFA) consumer

electronics fair in Berlin, recently.

LONDON, 3 Oct —A new documentary seeks to unravel the mystery of whybillions of honey bees have been disappearing from hives across the United States,and concludes that the chief suspect is pesticides.

“Vanishing of the Bees,” which has a limited theatrical release in Britain fromnext week, follows the fate of a group of U.S. beekeepers hit by Colony CollapseDisorder (CCD), which first struck in 2004 and made U.S. headlines three yearslater.

Countless bees would suddenly vanish, leaving an empty hive but few bodies,and the phenomenon has variously been linked to mites, disease, geneticallymodified crops, mobile phones and, in the words of one beekeeper, “PPB,” or“piss-poor beekeeping.”

While the cause has yet to be established, the film suggests there is a link topesticides, and particularly those applied to seeds as opposed to sprayed on existingplants.—Internet

New film seeks answer to mystery of vanishing bees 11 dead inVietnam bus-truck collision

A bumble bee is seen

on a sunflower near

the London Eye wheel

in central London 4

September , 2009.

INTERNET

HANOI, 3 Oct—Eleven people died andfive were hurt in Vietnamwhen a container truckand a speeding minibuscollided head-on, policesaid today.

The crash happenedabout midday yesterdayin mountainous Lang Sonprovince which bordersChina, said Tran QuocToan, a provincial trafficpoliceman.

The minibus driver,Vu The Vinh, 29, diedalong with 10 of hispassengers, Toan said.

Vietnamese driversmake a habit of runningred lights and ignoringother traffic rules.

In 2007 the WorldHealth Organisationclassified the country’sroad toll as an“epidemic”. Vietnam lastyear recorded nearly13,000 deaths in trafficaccidents.

Internet

KABUL, 3 Oct—AnAfghan policemanconducting a jointoperation with USsoldiers opened fire onthe Americans, killingtwo of them beforefleeing, an Afghanofficial said Saturday,raising fears thatmilitants have infiltratedthe ranks of Afghanforces.

The U.S. militaryearlier said twoAmerican troops died ina firefight in Wardak onFriday, but declined toconfirm any new details.

Although Afghanforces have periodicallyturned their guns oninternational troops,training and workingjointly with Afghanpolice and soldiers onpatrols and operationsare key to the U.S.strategy of curbing thespreading Taliban-ledinsurgency.

Shahidullah Shahid,a spokesman for theWardak provincial

Afghan policeman fires on US troops, killing two

In this photo courtesy of the Nicholas MetivierGallery and provided by the Corcoran Gallery of

Art, the photo ‘SOCAR Oil Fields #3, Baku,Azerbaijan, 2006’, by Edward Burtynsky is seen.

The exhibit, ‘Edward Burtynsky: Oil,’ opensOctober 3, 2009, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

—INTERNET

LONDON, 3 Oct —Archaeologists havediscovered a smallerprehistoric site nearBritain’s famous circle ofstanding stones atStonehenge.

Researchers havedubbed the site“Bluehenge,” after thecolor of the 27 Welshstones that were laid to

English archaeologists find newprehistoric site

governor, said thepoliceman fired on theAmericans while theywere patrolling togetherFriday night, killing two

and injuring two. Shahidsaid two of the officer’srelatives were in custodyfor questioning.

Internet

make up a path. The stoneshave disappeared but thepath of holes remains.

The new circle,unearthed over the summerby researchers fromSheffield University,represents an importantfind, researchers saidSaturday. The site is abouta mile (2 kilometers) awayfrom Stonehenge.

Bluehenge, about 80miles (130 kilometers)southwest of London, isbelieved to date back 5,000years.

Mike Parker Pearsonof Sheffield University saidhe believed the path andStonehenge itself werelinked to rituals of life anddeath.

InternetWASHINGTON, 3

Oct—As Prime MinisterManmohan Singh is allset to make anotherserious bid to clean upthe river Ganga, theWorld Bank has agreedin principal to makeavailable USD 1 billionfor the purpose.

“We are talking of along term billion dollarcommitment for thenewly created NationalGanga River BasinAuthority, a body headedby the Prime Minister,which will take up thetask of cleaning up riverGanga in a much moresystematic and seriousmanner than has been thecase so far,” Rameshsaid.

World Bank to fund USD1b for clean Ganga project

Prime MinisterSingh is scheduled tohold a meeting in NewDelhi Monday. The finaldecision in this regard isexpected to be takenwhen the World BankPresident RobertZoellick visits India inDecember.

Ramesh said inprinciple there has beenapproval that the WorldBank will support theproject.—Internet

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Brazil lifts tariffs on 3,200Ecuadorian products

Hong Kong airspaceimplements express air routes

Lots of exercise lowersbreast cancer risk

BETHESDA, 3 Oct—Vigorous exercise lowers breastcancer risk in older women, US researchers found.

The study, published in the journal BMC Cancer,found women who reported exercising more-than-moderately for seven or more hours a week were 16percent less likely to develop breast cancer than thosewho did not exercise.

However, the study which also surveyed activityat various age levels in the more than 110,000 post-menopausal women, found no link between breastcancer risk and being active at a younger age.

The women were asked to rate their level of physi-cal activity at ages 15-18, 19-29, 35-39, and in thepast 10 years.

“Our findings could help inform the mechanismsof the physical activity-breast cancer relationship,”study leader Dr Tricia Peters of the US National Can-cer Institute in Bethesda said in a statement.

“With breast cancer still claiming so many lives,all the information of potential preventive measureswe can get is vital.”—Internet

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA RUKUN VOY NO (511)Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA RUKUN

VOY NO (511) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 4.10.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV MCP VILLACH VOY NO ( )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV MCP VILLACHVOY NO ( ) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 4.10.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S INTERASIA LINESPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

QUITO, 3 Oct—Brazilhas eliminated tariffs on3,200 products importedfrom Ecuador, a measurewhich does not force Ec-uador to take any recipro-cal action, an Ecuadorianofficial said on Friday.

“The measure benefitsEcuador because it pro-motes a fairer and moredynamic trade relation-ship,” said Julio Oleas,Ecuador’s Deputy TradeMinister. “This unilaterallifting of tariffs does notoblige the nation to takesimilar measures,” headded.

Brazil lifted tariffs onfish, crustaceans,mollusks and all aquaticinvertebrates, fruits in-cluding all melons, ani-mal and vegetable fat oroil, animal or vegetablewaxes, meat, and all landvehicles including tractorsand their parts and acces-sories.

“This is a significant

step in intensifying bilat-eral relations, puttingthem on a sustainablefooting for the long termand boosting the regionalintegration process,”Oleas said.

Ecuador has a largetrade deficit with Brazil,importing 894.3 milliondollars worth of goods in2008, while exportingonly 45.2 million dollarsworth of goods.—Xinhua

Local residents make their way through floodwaters in Taytay township, Rizalprovince east of Manila, Philippines, on Saturday, 3 Oct, 2009.—INTERNET

HONG KONG, 3 Oct—The Civil Aviation De-partment of Hong KongFriday announced that thearrival routes for aircraftfrom the west and northof Hong Kong would beshortened starting from22 Oct.

After the adjustment,each flight arriving inHong Kong from the Chi-na’s mainland, SoutheastAsia or Europe via thenew routes will be able tosave up to about 210kilometers, or 14 minutesin flight time, a spokes-man for the departmentsaid.

Based on the trafficfigures recorded in thefirst quarter of 2009, it isestimated that the newroutes will enable annualsavings of more than 10million kilometers injourney, or 12,000 hoursin flight time for the ar-rival aircraft.

With an average ofabout 150 flights using thenew routes daily, about 8million passengers willbenefit annually fromthese express routes.

The new routes willenable air travelers tohave shorter flying timewhile airline operatorswill benefit from less fuelconsumption.

The departmentwould continue to, as partof its airspace improve-ment program, developand progressively applymore advanced aviationtechnologies and workclosely with airline opera-tors to further enhance theair route system in theHong Kong Flight Infor-mation Region, thespokesman said.

Xinhua

Ministry of InformationPrinting and Publishing Enterprise &Myanma Motion Picture Enterprise

Invitation to Tender1. Sealed tenders are invited for Printing andPublishing Enterprise and Myanma Motion PictureEnterprise for supply of the following—(A) Printing and Publishing Enterprise

No. Descriptions Quantity(1) Pallet Truck (3 tons) - 1 No(2) Digital Multifunction Copier - 1 No(3) Book Scanner - 1 No(4) Computer P4 - 6 Nos(5) Laserjet Printer (A3) - 2 Nos(6) Computer (Branded) P4 - 4 No(7) Document Scanner (A4) - 1 No(8) Scanner (A4) - 1 No(9) Printer (Cannon IP 1880) - 1 No

(B) Myanmar Motion Picture EnterpriseNo. Descriptions Quantity(1) Air Conditioner Split Type 2 H.P - 3 Sets(2) Dehumaidillier 1 H.P - 2 Nos(3) Television Receiver (32'’ LCD)

& Digital Video Player - 16 Sets(4) Cassette Recorder 100 W - 2 Nos(5) Computer Accessories - 2 Nos

2. Tender closing date/time will be on 16-10-2009 at16:30 hrs.

3. Tender documents are available at the below-mentioned address.

Procurement CommitteeMinistry of Information

Myanma Motion Picture EnterpriseNo.28, Kokkine Yeiktha Street, Bahan Township,

Yangon.Ph: 534574, 536029

Ministry of InformationMyanma Radio and Television

Invitation To Tender1. Sealed tenders are invited for Myanma Radio andTelevision for supply of the following—

(A) Office EquipmentNo. Descriptions Quantity(1) 400V (400 A) Main Circuit

Control Breaker - 6 Nos(2) 14'' TV Colour Receiver - 30 Nos(3) 6'' TV Colour Monitor - 2 Nos(4) 3 Meter TVRO Solid Type - 10 Nos(5) DVD Player (Blueray) - 5 Nos(6) Camera Access: (Battery Pack) - 12 Nos(7) Wireless Mic - 10 Nos(8) Vacuum Tube Cleaner - 10 Nos(9) Fax Machine - 10 Nos

(10) Duplo Printer - 2 Nos

(B) Machine EquipmentNo. Descriptions Quantity(1) ENG Camera XD Cam

1⁄2'' 3 CCD Coluor Video Camerawith Accessories ( 9 Items ) - 10 Sets

(2) VCR EquipmentXD Cam HD Recorder with HD drive& Blue Ray Disk - 3 Sets

(3) Non-Linear Editing EquipmentNon-Linear Editing workstationwith 17'' LCD & 20'' Monitor - 2 Sets

(4) Test EquipmentSD-SDI portable video test generatormonitoring & analyzer - 1 No

2. Tender closing date/ time will be on 16-10-2009 at 16:30hrs.

3. Tender documents are available at the below-mentionedaddress.

Ministry of InformationProcurement Committee

Myanma Motion Picture EnterpriseNo. 28, Kokkine Yeiktha Street,

Bahan Township, Yangon.Ph: 534574, 536029

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Cholesterol necessaryfor brain development

Obese women more likely tohave babies with heart defects

People take boats forsightseeing and relaxa-tion at a scenic spot ofSlender West Lake in

Yangzhou, east China’sJiangsu Province, on 2Oct, 2009, the 2nd day

of the National Dayholiday. —XINHUA

STOCKHOLM, 3 Oct—Cholesterol is necessaryfor the formation of braincells, according to a re-cent study by the Swed-ish medical universityKarolinska Institute.

Professor Ernest Are-nas who led the study saidexperiment in mice showsthat the formation ofdopamine-producingneurons during brain de-velopment is dependenton the activation of aspecific receptor in thebrain by an oxidised formof cholesterol calledoxysterol, said a press re-lease from Karolinska in-stitute.

“Oxysterol contributesto a safer and better culti-vation of dopamine-pro-

ducing cells, which is agreat advancement sinceit increases the possibilityof developing new treat-ments for Parkinson’s dis-ease,” said Arenas.

Dopamine-producingnerve cells play an impor-tant part in many brainfunctions and processes,from motor skills to re-ward systems and de-pendency. They are alsothe type of cell that diesin Parkinson’s disease,added Professor Arenas.

It is hoped that one dayit will be possible to re-place dead cells in thebrains of Parkinson’s pa-tients with transplantedcultivated dopamine-pro-ducing cells.

Xinhua

LOS ANGELES, 3 Oct—Overweight and obesewomen were about 18percent more likely thannormal weight women tohave babies with heartdefects, a new studyshows.

For severely obesewomen, the risk of hav-ing babies with heart de-fects was 30 percentgreater than normalweight women, accord-ing to the study con-

ducted by researchers atthe US Centers for Dis-ease Control and Preven-tion (CDC).

The study was basedon data of 6,440 infantswith congenital heart de-fects and 5,673 infantswithout heart defectswhose mothers took partin the National Birth De-fects Prevention Study.

The study took into ac-count several importantheart defect factors,including the mother’sage and race/ethnicity.Women with diabetesbefore they became preg-nant were excluded be-cause diabetes in themother is a strong riskfactor for infant heartdefects.

Joint pain side-effect link to menopause Mist may work for measles vaccine

Mosquito nets keyto malaria prevention

Breast milk changes during the day

PHILADELPHIA, 3 Oct—US researchers suggest abreast cancer drug side-effect — joint pain — islinked to menopause.

The side-effect ofsometimes very severejoint pain, arthralgia, wasreported by 139 womenof the 300 taking part inthe study who were tak-ing one of the drugs in agroup of aromatase in-hibitors.

Seventy-five percentof those reporting symp-toms said the pain beganwithin the first threemonths of the therapy.

“We are fortunate to-day to have many effec-tive treatments for breastcancer. Unfortunately,many of these treatmentshave troublesome and de-

bilitating side effects thatcan last for months oryears after treatment, andreally harm the quality oflife and productivity ofwomen who receivethem,” study lead authorDr Jun J Mao of the Uni-versity of PennsylvaniaSchool of Medicine inPhiladelphia said in astatement.

The study, published in

Cancer, found the jointpain was less likely inwomen who had experi-enced menopause morethan a decade before tak-ing the medication.

Women who began thedrug treatment less thanfive years after their lastmenstrual period werethree times more likely tosuffer arthralgia.

Internet

A performer leads a brown bear with flowerybasket to circle forward in a performance of the

National Circus of Russia, which stages thespecial show under invitation, in Luoyang City,

central China’s Henan Province, on 1 Oct, 2009.Local spectators enjoy a marvelous circus showduring the National Day Festival marking the

60th anniversary of the founding of the People’sRepublic of China. —XINHUA

SAN JOSE, 3 Oct— Avaccine delivery system— inhaling a mist totransmit dried vaccine —may improve safetyand decrease costs ofmeasles vaccinations, USresearchers say.

“There is a need fortechnologies that couldstabilize the measles vac-cine, as this would facili-tate mass vaccination in

developing world coun-tries where transport, stor-age, administration costsand other complexitieshave limited vaccine cov-erage by 70 percent,”study principal investiga-tor Satoshi Ohtake ofAridis Pharmaceuticals inSan Jose, Calif., says in astatement.

Ohtake’s study uses acombination of mild spraydrying process conditionsand unique stabilizers toproduce stable dry pow-

ders with excellent pres-ervation of vaccine activ-ity. When the potency ofthe dried vaccine wastested while being storedat different temperaturesover several weeklongperiods, the dry-powderedaerosol was stable for atleast eight weeks at 37degrees C, surpassing theWorld Health Organiza-tion requirement for heatstability of one week atsimilar storage condi-tions.—InternetBADAJOZ, 3 Oct—

Spanish researchers rec-ommend giving babybreast milk at the sametime of day it was ex-pressed.

The study, published inNutritional Neuroscience,confirms that the compo-sition of breast milk

changes quite markedlythroughout the day.

The study found con-tent differences in milksamples taken from 30women six to eight timesa day depending on thetime of day the samplewas taken. These differ-ences include variations

in three nucleotides —adenosine, guanosine andusine — which excite orrelax the nervous systemand influence sleep.

“You wouldn’t giveanyone a coffee at night,and the same is true ofmilk — it has day-specificingredients that stimulateactivity in the infant,and other night-time com-ponents that help the babyto rest,” lead authorCristina Sanchez of theChrononutrition Labora-tory at the University ofExtremadura in Spain saidin a statement.

Internet

OXFORD, 3 Oct—Chil-dren ages 5 and older arethe least likely to be pro-tected by insecticide-treated mosquito nets inAfrica, British researcherssaid. The nets reduce thechances of developing life-threatening malaria in Af-rica but recent researchfindings, published inBMC Public Health, showthat older children — ages5-19 — are the least wellprotected by these nets.

Study leader AbdisalanM Noor of the Universityof Oxford in Englandand a member of the Medi-cal Research Institute-Wellcome Trust ResearchProgram says there are tworeasons the older childrenneed to use the nets.

“Firstly, they representa large fraction of thepopulation in most devel-oping African communi-ties,” Noor said in a state-ment. “Secondly, whilethey may have developeda functional immune re-sponse against clinical dis-ease before their fifthbirthday, they will not havedeveloped an immunity tothe malaria parasite andcontinue to contributetransmission in the com-munity.”—Internet

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CROSSWORDS PUZZLE

Samba! Rio wins right to hostthe 2016 Olympics

Copenhagen, 3 Oct—The country’s president wasblunt. “It is,” Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said, “Brazil’stime. And the International Olympic Committee agreedwith him. Snubbing Chicago on a chilly Danishevening of high drama, the IOC sent the 2016 Olym-pics to Rio, Brazil’s bustling fun-loving but crime-rid-den city of beaches and mountains, romance and slums.

President Barack Obama’s appeal fell on deaf ears.Chicago was knocked out in the first round — in oneof the most shocking defeats ever handed down by thecommittee of former Olympians, sports administrators,royals and other VIPs. They were wowed by Rio’s en-chanting sales pitch: some 400 million sports-madpeople on a giant untapped and vibrant continent justyearning, hoping, that the Olympics finally might cometo them.—Internet

A cheerful crowd celebrates on Copacabana Beachin Rio de Janeiro. The city’s bid team led by Brazil-ian President Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva revelled

in their stunning and overwhelming victory to hostthe 2016 Olympic Games after the InternationalOlympic Committee opted to give South America

their first ever Games.—INTERNET

Sharapova beats Jankovic to win Pan Pacific Open

Maria Sharapova of Russia holds thechampion plate during the award

ceremony after the women’s singlesfinal against Jelena Jankovic of

Serbia in the Pan Pacific Open tennistournament in Tokyo.—INTERNET

14-year-old Thompson tiedfor LPGA Tour lead

Fourteen-year-oldamateur Alexis

Thompson

Real provide title test for darkhorses Sevilla

MADRID, 3 Oct—League leaders Real Madrid rollinto Sevilla on Sunday, giving the hosts the perfectchance to prove that this year’s Spanish title race won’tjust be all about Real and Barcelona.

Real have won all seven of their matches this sea-son and sit top of both the domestic league and theirChampions League group, but face a Sevilla side thathave won their last four league matches and demol-ished Rangers 4-1 on Tuesday in the ChampionsLeague.

“We are playing the all-powerful Real Madrid butthey should bear in mind that Sevilla are going well atthe moment,” warned Sevilla coach Manolo Jimenez.Jimenez and several of his players have talked upSevilla’s title chances in recent weeks and their finestarts sees them lying in third, three points behind Realand Barca.—Internet

Berbatov uses criticism to fuelUnited’s title charge

Perfectionist Wenger demandsmore from himself

LONDON, 3 Oct—Arsene Wenger admits he is neversatisified with his own performance as he tries to re-store Arsenal to the summit of English and Europeanfootball. Wenger became the longest-serving managerin Arsenal’s history on Thursday when his tenure innorth London stretched to 13 years. After winning threeleague titles and four FA Cups, the Frenchman’s reignhas already ensured he will be remembered as one ofthe greatest managers to grace the English game.

But despite building a team that went unbeatenthrough the 2003-04 league campaign, the perfection-ist in Wenger means he is never completely happy withhis work.He has had more reason than ever to ques-tion himself over the last few seasons as Arsenal’s runwithout a trophy has now reached four years.—Internet

Leonardoon brink forAC Milan’s

Atalanta tripROME, 3 Oct—After a

humiliating defeat to FCZurich in the Champi-ons League, Italian gi-ants AC Milan head intotheir trip to Atalanta onSunday with seriousquestions hanging overcoach Leonardo’s head.The seven-time Euro-pean champions sit 11thin the 20-team Serie Atable following twowins, two draws and twodefeats in their first sixmatches.

While that recordsmacks of mediocrity, itis another statistic that istruly worrying the deci-sion-makers in the corri-dors of power at the SanSiro.Milan have foundthe net only three timesand have failed to scorein four of those sixmatches.

Internet

TOKYO, 3 Oct—Crowd favourite MariaSharapova captured her first title sinceher injury lay-off by beating JelenaJankovic to win the Pan Pacific Open ten-nis tournament on Saturday.

The 22-year-old Russian, who returnedto action in May after a right shoulderinjury, won the battle between the formerworld number ones to regain the title shewon in 2005, when the Serbian seventhseed retired with an arm injury at 5-2.

“It was very tough because Jelenastarted off so strong. It was my secondfinal of the year, so I was a little bit nerv-ous,” said Sharapova.”I wanted to per-form really well. I feel like I played goodenough tennis to give her a go today andI just wanted to keep fighting out there.”

Internet

PRATTVILLE, 3 Oct—Ninth-grader AlexisThompson is trying toavoid getting to far aheadof herself in the NavistarLPGA Classic.”I’m anamateur, and I’m just go-ing to look at it and justbe like, ‘Whatever,’” saidThompson, tied for thesecond-round lead. “Be-cause I just try to comeinto these and just playwell. It’s just good com-petition for me. Best in theworld.”

Attempting to becomethe youngest winner inLPGA Tour history, the14-year-old from CoralSprings, Fla., shot a 3-un-der 69 on Friday for ashare of the lead with top-ranked Lorena Ochoa andthree others.”I mean, I cansay I’m really mature for14,” said Thompson, thesister of PGA Tour playerNicholas Thompson. “Iwould definitely say that.But, I mean, I don’t know.I just play golf every day.

I mean, I’m young. That’sthe only difference. Idon’t know, I’m prettygood for a young player.... I’m 14 and I just loveto play golf.”—Internet

MANCHESTER, 3 Oct—Dimitar Berbatov insists he haslearned plenty from even his fiercest critics since arriv-ing at Manchester United. And the Bulgarian maintainshe is satisfied as long as Sir Alex Ferguson is happy andhis team are winning trophies.

Berbatov, 28, has divided fans since making a 30.75million pounds move to Old Trafford from Tottenham13 months ago.The former Bayer Leverkusen striker,who has scored 16 goals in 53 United appearances, hasregularly been labelled lazy by both pundits and criticsduring his first year at United.—Internet

Manchester United’sDimitar Berbatov

shoots to score againstSunderland in

Manchester, northernEngland on 3 Oct,2009. —Internet

Bolton 2 - 2 Tottenham

Burnley 2 - 1 Birmingham

Hull City 2 - 1 Wigan Athletic

Man Utd 2 - 2 Sunderland

Wolves 0 - 1 Portsmouth

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudyin lower Sagaing Division, rain or thundershowers havebeen isolated in Kachin,Shan, Kayah States and UpperSagaing, scattered in Mandalay Division, fairly widespreadin Magway Division and widespread in the remaining areaswith isolated heavyfalls in Mon State, Magway, Bago andTaninthayi Division. The noteworthy amounts of rainfallrecorded were NayPyiTaw (Tatkone) (0.16) inch,NayPyiTaw(Pyinmana) (0.07) inch, Kawthoung (4.69)inches, Kyeikkhame (3.38) inches, Phyu (3.36) inches,Kyeikmaraw (2.94) inches, Sittway (2.48) inches,Mawlamyine (2.45) inches, Pathein (2.32) inches, Thaton(12.13) inches, Sinphyukyun (2.01) inches,Ngathaingchaung and Paung (1.97) inches each and Minbu(0.75) inch.

Maximum temperature on 2-10-2009 was 88°F.Minimum temperature on 3-10-2009 was 68°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 3-10-2009 was 92%.Total sun shine hours on 2-10-2009 was (2.3) hours approx.

Rainfall on 3-10-2009 was (0.40) inch at Mingaladon,(0.43) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.71) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (107.05) inches atMingaladon, (118.15) inches at Kaba-Aye and (123.58) inchesat Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph from South at (18:30) hours MST on2-10-2009.

Bay inference: According to the observations at(12:30)hrs M.S.T today, the low pressure area over the WestCentral Bay has become unimportant. Weather is cloudy inthe North Bay and monsoon is moderate in the AndamanSea and elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 4rd October 2009: Rainor thundershowers will be widespread in Mon and KayinStates, Yangon, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Division,fairly widespread in Chin, and Rakhine States, BagoDivisions, scattered in Kachin and Kayah States, UpperSagaing and Magway Divisions and isolated in theremaining areas with likelihood of isolated heavyfall inMon State and Taninthayi Division. Degree of certainty is(80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seas arelikely at times Deltaic, Gulf of Mottama, off and along Mon-Taninthayi Coast. Surface wind speed in squalls may reach(35-40) mph. Seas will be moderate elsewhere in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofthundery conditions in Deltaic areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for4-10-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for4-10-2009: One or two rain or tundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for4-10-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (60%).

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Son of Headmaster (U Ba Yin-Daw Ohn Tin)of Shwe Sitthi Village of Meiktila Township,Mandalay Division, beloved husband of DawHla Yin of No. 152 on 45th Street in Ward 10 ofBotahtaung Township, Yangon, beloved fatherof U Tin Wa (Manager, Myanma AgricultureService-Nay Pyi Taw)-Daw Nilar Soe Nyunt(Internal Revenue Department, KyimyindineTownship), U Yazar Soe Nyunt (Head of Branch-Admin, National Culture and Fine ArtsUniversity-Yangon)-Daw Htar Htar Oo, MajorHlaing Myint (Rtd) (Factory Manager ofTatmadaw Football Factory, Hmawby)-Daw KhinBagyi Soe Nyunt, Dr. Pyinnyar Soe Nyunt (Major-Rtd)-Daw Ohnmar, Ma Khin La Pyae Wun SoeNyunt, Ma Yin Padauk Soe Nyunt, Ma Nay WunNi Ni Soe Nyunt and Major Ye Yint Soe (Rtd)(Deputy Director of Ministry of Religious Affairs)-Dr. Marlar Kyaing (Yangon Eye Hospital),beloved grandfather of Ma Pan Pwint Phyu SoeNyunt (Shwe Pon), Ma Moe Pwint Phyu SoeNyunt (Ngwe Pon), Maung Zarn Lin Htet SoeNyunt (Sein Pon), Maung Sa Soe Nyunt, MaungPhone Soe Nyunt, Ma May Thawdar Soe Nyunt,Ma Thinn Thiri Soe Nyunt, Maung Ponnya SoeNyunt and Ma Myat Pan Pwint Soe Nyunt, passedaway at 10.40 am on 2-10-2009 (Friday). Thefuneral cortege will leave the mortuary of No. 2Military Hospital for Yayway Cemetery at 2 pmon 6-10-2009 (Tuesday) for entombment.

(The buses will leave the residence at 12noon and the mortuary of No. 2 Military Hospitalat 1 pm.)

Bereaved Family

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★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

★ Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracy★ Riots beget riots, not democracy★ Democracy can be introduced only through constitution

People’s Desire ■ VOA, BBC-sowing hatred amongthe people

■ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

■ Do not allow ourselves to be swayed■ By broadcasts designed to cause

troubles

■ We favour peace and stability■ We favour development■ We oppose unrest and violence■ Wipe out those inciting unrest

and violence

YANGON, 3 Oct—Minister for Labour U AungKyi, who is assigned dutiesas Relations Minister tocommunicate with DawAung San Suu Kyi, met DawAung San Suu Kyi at SeinleKantha Guesthouse herefrom 1 pm to 1.40 pm today.Daw Aung San Suu Kyiwrote a letter dated 25 Sep-tember 2009 and addressedit to Senior General ThanShwe, Chairman of the State

Relations Minister U Aung Kyimeets Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace and DevelopmentCouncil. The letter arrivedat the State Peace and De-velopment Council on 1 Oc-tober. Therefore, RelationsMinister U Aung Kyi wentto Yangon on 2 October andmet and discussed with DawAung San Suu Kyi today.

It is found that theCentral Executive Commit-tee of National League forDemocracy distributed cop-ies of the letter as a special

announcement (6/09/09)dated 28 September 2009through internal andexternal media.

MNA

Noteworthy amountsof rainfall

Nay Pyi Taw (Tatkon) 0.16 inchNay Pyi Taw (Pyinmana) 0.07 inchKawthoung 4.69 inchesKyaikkhami 3.38 inchesPyu 3.36 inchesKyaikmaraw 2.94 inchesSittway 2.48 inchesMawlamyine 2.45 inchesPathein 2.32 inchesThaton 2.13 inchesHsinbyukyun 2.01 inchesNgathainggyaung 1.97 inchesPaung 1.97 inchesMinbu 0.75 inch

Minister for Rela-tions U Aung Kyimeets with Daw

Aung San Suu Kyiat Seinle KanthaGuesthouse inYangon.—MNA

stellar factories, like pearls on a cosmic string. On 3September, Herschel aimed its telescope at a reser-voir of cold gas in the constellation of the SouthernCross near the Galactic Plane. As her telescopescanned the sky, the spacecraft's SPIRE and PACSinstruments snapped the pictures. The region is lo-cated about 60 from the Galactic Centre, thousands oflight-years from Earth.

The five original infrared wavelengths havebeen colour-coded to allow scientists to differentiateextremely cold material (red) from the surrounding,slightly warmer stuff (blue).

The images reveal structure in cold material inour Galaxy, as we have never seen it before, and evenbefore a detailed analysis, scientists have gleanedinformation on the quantity of the material, its mass,temperature, composition and whether it is collaps-ing to form new stars.—Internet

Herschel views deep-spacepearls on a cosmic stringSCIENCE DAILY, 3 Oct—Herschel has delivered

spectacular vistas of cold gas clouds lying near theplane of the Milky Way, revealing intense, unex-pected activity. The dark, cool region is dotted with

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