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Volume XIX, Number 175 1st Waning of Thadingyut 1373 ME Thursday, 13 October, 2011

Our Three MainNational Causes

* Non-disintegration of the

Union

* Non-disintegration of National

Solidarity

* Perpetuation of Sovereignty

NAY PYI TAW, 12 Oct—Fullmoon Day ofThadingyut is a day of religious significance forMyanmar people. Up to date, lighting Festival onFullmoon Day of Thadingyut is held annually dedi-cated to paying homage to the Lord Buddha in remem-brance of descending from Tavatimsa celestial beings

Abhidhamma Day observed acrossthe nation on a grand scale

abode to Sankassa Nagara of the human beings abodeafter administering Abhidhamma discourse atTavatimsa for three months.

This year’s Lighting Festival on Fullmoon Dayof Thadingyut 1373 ME was held across the nation ona grand scale. (See page 8)

NAY PYI TAW, 12 Oct—President of theRepublic of the Union of Myanmar U Thein Sein andwife Daw Khin Khin Win, accompanied by a Myanmargoodwill delegation, left here by special aircraft ofMyanmar Airways International at 9 am today topay a goodwill visit to the Republic of India at theinvitation of President of the Republic of India MrsPratibha Devisingh Patil.

The goodwill delegation led by President UThein Sein was seen off at Nay Pyi Taw Airport byVice-President Thiha Thura U Tin Aung Myint Ooand wife Daw Khin Saw Hnin, Vice-President DrSai Mauk Kham and wife Daw Nan Shwe Hmon,Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services General

President U Thein Sein, wife Daw Khin Khin Winleave for Republic of India on goodwill visit

Min Aung Hlaing and wife, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Lt-Gen Soe Win andwife, Union ministers and their wives, the com-mander of Nay Pyi Taw Command, deputy minis-ters, the Chief of Myanmar Police Force and de-partmental heads, and officials of the Embassy ofthe Republic of India to the Republic of the Union ofMyanmar.

President U Thein Sein was accompaniedby Union Minister for Border Affairs and forMyanma Industrial Development Lt-Gen Thein Htay,Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Wunna MaungLwin and wife, Union Minister for Agriculture andIrrigation U Myint Hlaing, Union Minister for

Religious Affairs Thura U Myint Maung, UnionMinister for Industry-1 and for Industry-2 U SoeThein, Union Minister for Electric Power No. 1 UZaw Min, Union Minister for National Planning andEconomic Development and for Livestock andFisheries U Tin Naing Thein, Union Minister forTransport U Nyan Tun Aung, Union Minister forEnergy U Than Htay, Union Minister for Scienceand Technology U Aye Myint, Union Minister forCommerce U Win Myint, Lt-Gen Hla Htay Win ofthe Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Army),Deputy Minister for Health Dr Win Myint and seniordepartmental officials.

MNA

President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin Khin Win being seen off at Nay Pyi Taw Airport byVice-President Thiha Thura U Tin Aung Myint Oo and wife, Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham and wife, Commander-in-Chief of Defence

Services General Min Aung Hlaing and wife, and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Lt-Gen Soe Win and wife.—MNA

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PERSPECTIVESThursday, 13 October, 2011

Disseminate agriculturalknowledge

In Myanmar, the majority of thepopulation is farmers residing in rural areas,most of whom are engaged in agriculture andmeat and fish production industry. Rural regionproduct development and economicdevelopment play a major role in economicgrowth of the nation.

As the nation’s economy is based onagriculture, agricultural development of ruralregions, increased income of rural folks andpoverty reduction have become top priorities.

Agriculturalists and farmers will have towork in tandem for improvement of socio-economy of rural folks, poverty alleviationand agricultural development. Agriculturalistson their part will have to make furtherresearches on high yielding strains of rice aswell as other crops beneficial to farmers interm of income.

But mere distribution of high yieldingstrains will not work and technician staff willhave to widely disseminate cultivation methodsto the workplace of farmers enabling them toapply agricultural methods skillfully.

Nowadays, modern mechanized farmereducative farms have emerged along withvegetable and fruit nurseries, standing as avaluable resource for farmers. Agriculturalistsand farmers are to make collaborative effortsfor wide dissemination and application ofcultivation methods contributing to agriculturaldevelopment.

Third leg of KENBO JuniorGolf Championship on 20 Oct

YANGON, 12 Oct—The third leg of KENBOJunior Golf Championship of Han Golf Masters JuniorGolf Series, mainly sponsored by Han Golf MastersPte Ltd and Aung Kan Bo Trading Co Ltd andorganized by Myanmar Golf Federation, will be held atMyanmar Golf Club (9th-Mile), here, on 20 October.

The championship will be categorized as the 8-12 aged, the 13-15 aged, the 16-18 aged and the 19-21aged events.

The championship will be held in line with the StAndrews golf rules and regional rules.

Those wishing to take part in the championshipare to enlist together with copy of citizenship scrutinycard or household registration at Myanmar GolfTraining Range at the corner of Okkala and AirportRoads in Mayangon Township, dialing 09-73130474and 651374 and MGC, not later than 1 pm on18 October.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 12Oct—The managers,contestants and membersof the panel of judges ofregions and states whowill take part in the 18th

Myanmar TraditionalCultural Performing ArtsCompetitions to be heldin Nay Pyi Taw for thefifth time arrived in NayPyi Taw by car and traintoday.

This morning,members of the panel ofjudges, managers andcontestants of TaninthayiRegion arrived here bycar. This afternoon,members of panel ofjudges, managers,contestants, observersand members of thecentral panel of judgesof Ayeyawady andSagaing Regions, Chinand Kachin States arriedby train and YangonRegion, Mon and

Managers, contestants, panel of judges ofregions and states for Performing Arts

Competitions arrive in Nay Pyi Taw

Rakhine States,arrived bytrain and members ofpanel of judges, managersand contestants ofMagway Region arrivedhere by car.

They were wel-comed by Chairman ofthe Reception andAccommodation Sub-committee Police ColTun Ohn and members,Deputy Director U AungKhin of Nay Pyi TawCouncil Area GeneralAdministration Depart-ment, PobbathiriTownship AdministratorU Tint Kyaw Lwin andofficials and accommo-dated at the hostels.

The remainingmembers of the panel ofjudges, managers andcontestants from regionsand states will arrive hereby train and cartomorrow.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 12 Oct—Union Minister forLabour and for Social Welfare, Relief and ResettlementU Aung Kyi received Special Envoy of the UNSecretary-General Ms Margareta Wahlstrom ofUnited Nations International Strategy for DisasterReduction (UNISDR) Office and party at the ministry,here, at 3.30 pm today.

They exchanged views on undertaking of

Union Labour & SWRR Minister receivesUNSG’s Special Envoy of UNISDR

international disaster risk reduction of the ministry incooperation with international organizations, povertyalleviation and preventive measures against naturaldisasters, progress of Myanmar in political, economicand social affairs.

Also present at the call were Deputy Ministerfor Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement U PhoneSwe and officials.—MNA

YANGON, 12Oct—President of theRepublic of the Union ofMyanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerceand Industry U Win Aung

RUMFCCI President meets Chinese guests

met Vice-Chairman ofChina Council for thePromotion ofInternational Trade(CCPIT) Mr DongSonggen and party at the

federation office, here, on10 October.

They focused onpromotion of economicrelations between Chinaand Myanmar, holding of

GMS Business Summit inMyanmar in December,assistance of CCPIT inGMS-BF tasks and

opening of RUMFCCIbranch in Kunming ofYunnan Province.

MNA

Managers, contestants and members of panel of judges of Sagaing

Region to participate in Performing Arts Competitions arrive at

Nay Pyi Taw Railway Station by train.—MNA

Managers, contestants and members ofpanel of judges of Chin State toparticipate in Performing Arts

Competitions arrive at Nay Pyi TawRailway Station by train.—MNA

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BAGHDAD, 12 Oct—At least 14 people werekilled and 59 woundedin car bomb attacks inBaghdad on Wednes-day morning, anInterior Ministry sourcetold Xinhua.

“Our latest reportssaid that a total of 14people were killed and59 wounded by theattacks on three ofBaghdad police

At least 14 killed, 59 wounded in Baghdadbomb attacks

Firefighters wash the site of a car bomb attackthat targeted a police patrol in the southernIlaam District of Baghdad on 12 Oct, 2011.

INTERNET

A soldier and policemen inspect the site of abomb attack at a police station in Baghdad’sHurriya District on 12 Oct, 2011. Two suicide

car bombers and a car bomb hit police inseparate Districts of the Iraqi capital Baghdadon Wednesday, killing at least 14 people andwounding around 60, interior ministry and

police sources said.—INTERNET

KABUL, 12 Oct—A total of 118 militants havebeen killed in Afghan and NATO-led Coalitionforces operations over the past 18 days, aspokesman for Afghan Defence Ministry said onWednesday.

“Some 118 militants have been killed, 30 injuredand 930 more suspected insurgents have beendetained during the joint and independent operationscarried out by Afghan National Army (ANA) andCoalition forces over the past 18 days,” GeneralZahir Azimi told reporters in a joint Press conferencewith the spokesman of NATO-led InternationalSecurity Assistance Force (ISAF) Brigadier GeneralCarsten Jacobson.

Azimi also said some 31 ANA personnel werekilled and 134 others were injured over the sameperiod.

Internet

MAIDAN SHAR, 12 Oct— Threecivilians lost their lives in WardakProvince with Maidan Shar as its capital35 km west of capital City KabulMonday night, an official said Tuesday.

“A mine planted by Talebanmilitants in Kashmirian villageouts ide Maidan Shar went offMonday night killing three innocentc ivi l ians including a woman,”spokesman for p rov inc ia ladministration Shahidullah Shahid

ISLAMABAD, 12 Oct—Suspected Talebanmilitants Tuesday firedrockets at a jirga orcouncil of elders in aPakistani tribal regionwhen the governor ofnorthwestern KhyberPakhtoonkhwa Provi-nce was scheduled to

118 militants killed in 18 daysin Afghan, NATO forces

operations

Rockets attack injures sixat Pakistani governor’smeeting

deliver speech at thegathering, officials said.Governor BarristerMasood Kausarremained unhurt in theattack at Orakzai tribalregion and six peoplewere injured, they said.One injured wasregistered critical.

Earlier officials hadstated that one personwas killed but later theycorrected theirstatement. State andprivate TV channels hasalso reported one death.

The governor wasnot at the meeting andwas at another meetingwhen rockets werefired.

Xinhua

LONDON, 12 Oct—The number of peopleunemployed in Britain jumped to 2.57 million inthe three months to August, the highest amountsince 1994, official data showed on Wednesday.

Britain’s unemployment rate shot up to 8.1 percentduring the quarter, the highest level for 15 years, theOffice for National Statistics said in a statement. “Theunemployment rate for the three months to August2011 was 8.1 percent of the economically activepopulation, up 0.4 (percent) on the quarter. The lasttime the unemployment rate was higher was in thethree months to July 1996,” the ONS said.

“The total number of unemployed peopleincreased by 114,000 over the quarter — the largestquarterly increase since the three months to July 2009— to reach 2.57 million. “The number of unemployedpeople has not been higher since the three months toOctober 1994,” the ONS added.

Internet

British unemployment hits17-year high

Roadside bomb kills three Afghancivilians

Afghan boys collectwater from a publicwater well in Kabul,

Afghanistan, on11 Oct, 2011.—INTERNET

Baghdad, 11 Oct, 2011:A landmine explosion on Monday insouthern Iraq and attacks on

security forces in Baghdadkilled 19 people. In southernIraq, near Basra, six soldiers

were killed as they tried toclear land mines. Later in the

day, an improvised bombexploded near security forcesin western Baghdad, killing

13 people, including 3 securityofficers who were responding

to an earlier explosion. Nogroup claimed responsibility

for the attack, but it appearedsimilar to others carried out by

Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.INTERNET

stations, “ the sourcesaid on condition ofanonymity.

The first attackoccurred at about 8:20am (0520 GMT) whena suicide bomber drovehis explosives-laden carinto the entrance of al-Elwiyah police stationin Baghdad’s centralDistrict of Karrada,killing four policemenand a civilian, the

source said.The second attack

occurred almostsimultaneously when asuicide bomberrammed his explosive-laden car into thecheckpoint of anotherpolice station inBaghdad’s northwest-ern district of al-Hurriyah, killing threepolicemen and threecivilians, the sourceadded.

Meanwhile, thethird attack took placewhen a booby-trappedcar parked outside a

police station explodedin Baghdad’s southerndistrict of Eilam, killingthree people, he said.

A total of 59 people,including policemen,were wounded by thethree attacks, he added.

Violence has beenincreased in the Iraqicities as the Iraqisecurity forces arepreparing to take overcontrol of securityalone after the proposeddeparture of US troopsby the end of the year.

Xinhua

told Xinhua.Taleban militants who fight Afghan

and NATO-led troops and oftenorganize roadside bombing to targetsecurity forces have yet to makecomment.

Civilians often bear the brunt ofwar in the war-torn Afghanistan. Fivemore civilians lost their lives as aroadside bomb struck a vehicle ineastern Kunar Province on Monday.

Xinhua

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Germany’s economywill likely slow laterthis year due to theimpact of the eurozonedebt drama, Berlinsaid Tuesday, in astark warning that thecrisis is hitting evenEurope’s strongesteconomy.INTERNET

Mushroom compound boosts cancer drugWASHINGTON, 12 Oct—A compound from a wild,

poisonous mushroom growing in the southwesternChina’s forests, imparts greater punch to a cancer-busting drug, new research shows.

The compound, verticillin A, sensitizes cancercells to TRAIL, a drug, causing cancer cells to self-destruct, said Kebin Liu, cancer immunologist atthe Georgia Health Sciences University CancerCentre and study co-author.

The compound pre-empts cancer cells fromdeveloping resistance to TRAIL (tumor necrosisfactor-related apoptosis inducing ligand), reports

the journal Cancer Research.Drug resistance, intrinsic or acquired, is a major

problem for cancer patients, accounting for morethan 90 percent of treatment failures. “If we canmake drugs work again, more people will survive,”Liu said, according to a Georgia Health statement.

“It looks as though most cancer cells havefound a way to become resistant and evade itsaction,” said Wendy Bollag, cell physiologist andLiu’s counterpart in the study. Tenacious cancercells are also naturally resistant to cell suicide,which is how TRAIL works.—Internet

Vitamin E supplement puts men at high riskfor prostate cancer

WASHINGTON, 12 Oct— Men who take a dailyvitamin E supplementface an increased risk ofprostate cancer, a newstudy has warned.

The finding comesfrom a reportsummarizing the latestresults of the Seleniumand Vitamin E CancerPrevention Trial(SELECT).

SELECT began in2001 to test earlierresearch suggestingselenium and vitamin Esupplements may reducethe risk of developing

US researchers warnedTuesday of an alarminglink between vitamin Esupplements and a 17

percent increased risk ofprostate cancer,

describing the findingsas an “important public

health concern.”INTERNET

certain cancers.Some vitamin

supplements containingenhanced levels ofselenium and vitamin Ewere marketed toconsumers during thistime period with claimsof reducing cancer risk.

Researchers trackedmore than 35,000 menat locations across theUnited States, Canada,and Puerto Rico whotook daily doses throughthe Fall of 2008. Themen were divided intofour groups: vitamin Eand Selenium; vitamin E

alone; selenium alone;and placebo. The grouptaking vitamin E was theonly group shown tohave a statisticallysignificant increased riskof prostate cancer.

Internet

Industry grouplowers Brazil’s2011 growth

forecast to 3.4%BRASILIA, 12 Oct—

The Brazilian NationalIndustry Confederation(CNI) on Tuesday reviseddown its forecast forBrazil’s economicgrowth this year to 3.4percent from 3.8 percentdue to the effects of theworld economic crisis.

According to theCNI, Brazil’s industrysector will also sufferfrom the ongoing debtcrisis in the United Statesand Europe. It said thatwith growth rate of 3.4percent, Brazil’s GDP for2011 will have anexpansion less than halfof what the countryregistered in 2010 whenthe economy grew 7.4percent.

Earlier on Tuesday,Brazil’s Finance Ministrysaid the government isre-evaluating its growthforecast of between 3.5percent and 4 percent for2011.—Xinhua

In this on 10 Oct, 2011 photo, thebox for a Sephora Collection Pink

Eyelash Curler is displayed inPhiladelphia. Advocates are asking

whether breast cancer awareness haslost its focus, and become moreabout marketing than women’s

health. Pinkwashing, a word coinedby activists, is a practice being

described as when a company ororganization does a pink breast

cancer promotion, but at the sametime sells and profits from pink-

theme products.—INTERNET

Chocolate consumption lowersstroke risk in females

BEIJING, 12 Oct—For women, chocolateconsumption needs tobe high, which canlower stroke risk,researchers from the

Karolinska Institute,Sweden, reported in theJournal of theAmerican College ofCardiology.

The consumption ofchocolate has beendemonstrated to reducediastolic and systolicblood pressure inrandomized, short-termtrials. Chocolate hasalso been shown toimprove endothelialand platelet function,and to improve insulinresistance.

Susanna LarssonPhD and the teamconducted the researchon the SwedishMammography Coho-

rt’s 33,372 adult femalesaged from 49 to 83 yearswithout history of stroke,coronary heart disease,stroke, or diabetes.

They found thosewho ate at least twochocolate bars eachweek appeared to have a20 percent lower risk ofstroke, compared tothose of the same ageand weight who rarely ornever ate chocolate.

But, they found, itwas only those in thehighest quartile ofchocolate consumptionwho had a significantdrop in stroke risk.

Xinhua

Health

Health

Health

Business

UNSG’s Message onInternational Disaster Risk

Reduction Day13 October 2011

S Korean banks’ householdlending growth slows inSeptember

SEOUL, 12 Oct— South Korean banks’ lendingto households grew at a slower pace in Septemberthan a month before due to a reduction in creditloans, the central bank said Wednesday.

Household loans extended by local banksreached 448.7 trillion won (382.65 billion USdollars) as of the end of September, up 0.6 trillionwon from a month earlier, the Bank of Korea(BOK) said in a statement.

The September growth was smaller than a 2.5trillion won on- month increase tallied in August.The slower growth came after household borrowerspaid off their credit loans with bonuses for Chuseokholiday that fell on the mid-September.—Xinhua

Business

Each time disaster strikes, nature is oftenblamed. Rarely do we think about human actionsthat increase risk and turn danger into catastrophe.

Vulnerability to disaster is growing fasterthan resilience. Over the past year, we have seendevastating floods, earthquakes, tsunamis anddroughts.

Nuclear safety and the threat of multipletechnological hazards add even greater urgency.

The good news is that some countries haveshown how to reduce risk from floods andcyclones. Investments in early warning andother measures are paying dividends.

Yet the economic burden of technologicaldisasters continues to grow. Making the case forinvestment in risk reduction can be an uphillstruggle. Yet much can be gained from spendingwisely rather than spending more.

This year’s observance of the InternationalDay for Disaster Reduction recognizes the vitalrole of children and young people.

In Nepal and elsewhere, schoolchildren aretaught the basics of home and building safety.

Risk reduction and climate change adaptationactivities involving children in Cuba are nowbeing emulated in other parts of the world.

Most recently, more than 600 African, Asianand Latin American young boys and girlsdeveloped a Children’s Charter to reduce disasterrisk.

The message is clear: Disaster risk reductionshould be an everyday concern for everybody.

Let us all invest today for a safer tomorrow.UNIC/Yangon

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US supercomputer gaining speedCALIFORNIA , 12 Oct—Cray Inc said

it has sealed a deal to overhaul the USDepartment of Energy’s “Jaguar”supercomputer, making it faster thanany other machine on the planet.

The supercomputer at the DOEOak Ridge National Laboratory will berenamed “Titan” after it is beefed upwith speedy, powerful chips fromCalifornia companies NVIDIA andAdvanced Micro Devices.

“All areas of science can benefitfrom this substantial increase incomputing power, opening the doorsfor new discoveries that so far havebeen out of reach,” said associate labdirector for computing Jeff Nichols.

“Titan will be used for a variety ofimportant research projects, includingthe development of more commercially

Chemistry Israeli scientist

Daniel Shechtman looks

through a microscope in the

Technion Institute of

Technology in the northern port

city of Haifa. Shechtman is

famous for Chemistry for the

secret of quasicrystals, an

atomic mosaic whose discovery

overturned theories about

solids.—INTERNET

viable biofuels, cleaner burningengines, safer nuclear energy and moreefficient solar power.”

NVIDIA specializes in GPU(graphics processing unit) chips usedto enable seamless, rich graphics andsmooth action in videogames byprocessing myriad tasks simultaneouslythrough parallel computing.

Rival company AMD will providepowerful chips that process data insequence as is standard in home orwork computers. “Oak Ridge’sdecision to base Titan on Tesla GPUsunderscores the growing belief thatGPU-based heterogeneous computingis the best approach to reach exascalecomputing levels within the nextdecade,” said NVIDIA chief technologyofficer Steve Scott.—Internet

Kawada Industries’ humanoid robot Hiro

pours water into a cup as Tokyo Institute of

Technology associate professor Osamu

Hasegawa watches, at his laboratory in

Yokohama, suburban Tokyo. Hasegawa has

developed a system that allows robots to look

around their environment and do research on

the Internet, enabling them to “think” how

best to solve a problem.—INTERNET

Comets may be major source of

water on earth

BEIJING, 12 Oct—Scientists found a cometwith the same chemicalcomposition as theEarth’s oceans,suggesting that cometsmight water the Earthoriginally, according toReuters.

Prior to the newfindings publishedonline in the journalNature last week,scientists believed thatcomets, which areessentially dirtysnowballs made of rock,gas and water ice,smashed into the earlyEarth and then water wasformed.

Endeavour’s final trip

plannedBEIJING, 12 Oct— NASA has officially transferred

the ownership of the retired space shuttle Endeavourto the California Science Centre on Tuesday.

However, the centre will receive the shuttle inthe latter half of 2012.

After arriving at LAX and spending a week ina hangar, the shuttle will be prepared for a 14- or 15-hour journey to its new home at the Exposition Parkmuseum next to USC.

The city of Los Angeles will witness 180,000pounds of metal, which measures 122 feet long andhas a wingspan of 78 feet, driving through itsstreets with top speed about 1 mph.

Finding a clear path for it will be a gargantuantask. Organizers are working out the route thespacecraft will take next year from LAX to its newhome.

Already, workers have taken images of atentative route and fed them into a computer model,simulating how the shuttle would move across thecity.

Xinhua

Photo taken on 10

Oct, 2011 shows a

celadon bowl

unearthed in Jishui

County, east

China’s Jiangxi

Province. Six

ancient tombs of

China’s Sui and

Tang Dynasties with

1400 years’ history

have been excavated

in Jishui County and

over 50 pieces of

cultural relics have

been unearthed

since mid-August.

XINHUA

But they calculatedthat only 10 percent, butnot all, of the water in theEarth’s oceansoriginated from comets.The ratio of heavyhydrogen, or deuterium,to regular hydrogen wastoo high in the comets,according to The Timereport.

In this research, PaulHartogh of Germany’sMax Planck Institute forSolar System Researchand his colleagues,studied a different cometcalled Hartley 2, whichoriginated from theKuiper Belt lying about30 to 50 times farther

from the Sun than theEarth.

But the previouscomets studied comefrom the Oort Cloud,some 5,000 times fartheraway, according toReuters. Hartogh said theComet Hartley 2 had thesame deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio as theocean water.

“It means it is nottrue anymore that amaximum of 10 percentof water could havecome from comets.Now, in principle, all thewater could have comefrom comets,” saidHartogh.—Xinhua

Massive stars could be behind cosmic fog of

early universeWASHINGTON, 12 Oct— High energy light from

massive stars could have been responsible for theopaque and dense fog between galaxies in the earlyuniverse, new observational evidence shows.

Astronomers believed that early star-forminggalaxies could have provided enough of the rightkind of radiation to evaporate the fog, or turn theneutral hydrogen intergalactic medium into thecharged hydrogen plasma that remains today. Butthey couldn’t figure out how that radiation couldescape a galaxy. Until now.

Jordan Zastrow, a Ph D astronomy student, andSally Oey, a U-M astronomy professor, observedand imaged the relatively nearby NGC 5253, a dwarfstarburst galaxy in the southern constellationCentaurus.

The researchers used special filters to see whereand how the galaxy’s extreme ultraviolet radiation,or UV light, was interacting with nearby gas. Theyfound that the UV light is, indeed, evaporating gas inthe interstellar medium. And it is doing so along anarrow cone emanating from the galaxy.

“We are not directly seeing the ultraviolet light.We are seeing its signature in the gas around thegalaxy,” Zastrow said.

In starburst galaxies, a superwind from thesemassive stars can clear a passageway through the gasin the galaxy, allowing the radiation to escape, theresearchers said.

The shape of the cone they observed could helpexplain why similar processes in other galaxies havebeen difficult to detect.—Internet

Sony recalls 1.6 million LCD TVs worldwideTOKYO, 12 Oct—Sony Corp says it

is recalling 1.6 million LCDtelevisions globally because of a defectthat can trigger overheating, smoke

and melting parts.Sony says has received 11 such

reports in Japan, though none involvedinjuries or damage beyond the TVs.

The models subject to the recall inJapan are the Bravia KDL-40X5000,KDL-40X5050, KDL-40W5000,KDL-40V5000 and KDL-40V3000.

The defective part — an invertertransformer used for LCD backlights

— is also used in models soldoverseas. But Sony says it has notreceived reports of similar problems.

The company will release localrecall information for customers ineach affected market.—Internet

A general view of the Zynga

Mafia Wars 2 office at the

Zynga headquarters in San

Francisco, California October

11, 2011. Social games

company Zynga is betting an

entirely new slate of games

based on bingo, casinos and

hidden objects will draw in

fresh players as rivals circle its

dominant position in games on

Facebook.—INTERNET

Tech

Science Science

Science

Tech

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US Senator John McCain (C) speaks to a

reporter outside the Senate floor after voting

President Barak Obama’s America Jobs Act

on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, capital of

the United States, on 11 Oct, 2011. The US

Senate on Tuesday defeated Obama’s jobs

plan in a procedural vote as Republicans and

some Democrats objected stimulus spending

and a tax surcharge on the rich.

XINHUA

ISTANBUL, 12 Oct—One person was killedTuesday by an explosionin an apartment inTurkey’s largest city ofIstanbul, the semi-officialAnatolia news agencyreported.

The explosionoccurred Tuesdaymorning in an apartmentin Istanbul’s Bahcelievlersuburb. It killed the soleoccupant of the apartmentand injured a woman in

MADRID, 12 Oct—Spanish lawmakerGaspar Llamazares,spokesman for theUnited Left coalition,plans to sue the USFederal Bureau ofInvestigation (FBI) forusing his image to createan updated wantedposter for the late Osamabin Laden.

The photomontagerepresenting bin Ladenwas distributed in 2010and published on the FBIweb site, which laterremoved it at thepolitician’s request.

Llamazares, whoreceived a letter ofapology from FBIrepresentatives at the USEmbassy in Spainshortly after the incident,

ROME, 12 Oct—TheItalian ship seized onMonday by a group ofSomali pirates in the Gulfof Aden was freed onTuesday in a blitz actioncarried out by a NATOtask force, according to aForeign Ministrystatement.

The operation forcedthe 11 armed pirates onboard to surrender,liberating the 23 crewmembers, seven of whomare Italian, of theMontecristo ship.

The pirates have beenarrested by NATO taskforce operating in the anti-piracy operation dubbedOcean Shield mission,and all crew members arein good health condi-

LAGOS, 12 Oct—The International MaritimeBureau (IMB) Tuesday said pirates have hijackeda tanker off the Nigerian coast.

The tanker carrying products was attacked lateSaturday and the vessel and crew were taken to anunknown location, the IMB said, reported Xinhua.

The IMB said on its website that “piratesboarded and hijacked a product tanker driftingwhilst awaiting orders” in a location around 90nautical miles south of Lagos.

The tanker was “sailed to an unknown location”,it said.

It was the second hijacking of tankers in theregion within two weeks. On 2 Oct, pirates armedwith automatic weapons boarded a chemical tankeroff Benin before stealing cash.

Xinhua

LONDON, 12 Oct— British Cabinet SecretaryGus O’Donnell on Tuesday announced hisretirement after serving over thirty years in publicaffairs.

O’Donnell, 59, Head of the British Civil Serviceunder current practice, would leave his post at theend of the year after 32 years of public service,including six years as Cabinet Secretary and threeyears as Permanent Secretary to the Treasury.

In recognition of his distinguished service topublic life, Prime Minister David Cameron hasnominated Gus O’Donnell for a life peerage.

The current Permanent Secretary at No 10Jeremy Heywood will replace Gus O’Donnell asCabinet Secretary.—Internet

Visitors tour the 2011 China (Shanghai) International MusicalInstruments Exhibition held in Shanghai, east China, on 11 Oct, 2011.

More than 1400 exhibitors from 29 countries and regions attend the four-day exhibition, which kicked off here Tuesday.—XINHUA

Visitors view paintings at the first Biennial ofFarmers’ Painting Exhibition in northeastChina’s Heilongjiang Province, on 12 Oct,

2011. More than 240 paintings chosen from 400art works submitted were on display.—XINHUA

A man rows a boat as cars submerge in theflood water in Ayutthaya Province, central

Thailand, on 11 Oct, 2011.—INTERNET

Spaniard to sue FBI for using hisimage in Osama poster

One killed by apartment explosion in Turkey’sIstanbul

disposal unit are carryingout investigations todetermine the cause ofthe explosion.—Xinhua

British cabinet secretary toretire

NATO task force frees Italianship seized by pirates

Pirates hijack tanker offNigerian coast

an adjoining apartment,Anatolia said.

The injured womanwas taken to a hospitalfor treatment and isreported to be in a stablecondition.

The two adjoiningapartments werecompletely destroyedand cars in the vicinityalso incurred damage.

Teams from thenatural gas distributioncompany and bomb

said Tuesday that thebureau “has notcorrected the situation atall” but only offered “atiny apology”.

In a statement onCadena SER radio, thelawmaker recalled thathis photo was used notonly to recreate alikeness of bin Laden,but also of Atiyah AbdAl-Rahman, whom theCIA killed in August.

Osama was slain inMay in the city ofAbbottabad, Pakistan,during an operation byUS Navy SEALs.

Llamazares notedthat the two people

represented in the photosmade with parts of thelawmaker’s face “havebeen killed”.

United Left sourceshave said that since 2010the politician hascontacted several US lawfirms to file suit againstthe FBI.

In fact the case wasaccepted by one lawoffice, but a few monthslater the US attorneysrefused to proceed withthe suit without eversaying why.

Llamazares hasfound a Spanishattorney’s office to takeover the case.—Internet

tions, Foreign Ministrysaid. The Italiangovernment is satisfiedwith the “brilliantoperation and thesuccessful cooperationbetween differentinstitutional actors”, andalso happy with the factthe owner of the ship andcrew members’ familiesfinally end theirnightmare, the statementsaid.

The Montecristo,heading from the SuezCanal towards Vietnamon Monday, wascaptured some 620 kmoff the Somali coast whenit had just been escortedthere by another Japaneseboat into the Gulf ofAden.—Internet

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Nay Pyi Taw decorated with illuminationon Fullmoon Day of Thadingyut

NAY PYI TAW, 12 Oct—As today,Fullmoon Day of Thadingyut (theAbhidhamma Day), is the public holiday,white elephants Bhaddawady andNandawady hosted more visitors, fromneighbourhood or from around thecountry, at their shed in the compoundof Uppatasanti Pagoda.

Staff families and local peoplepicnicked Nay Pyi Taw FountainGarden. The beauty spot decorated withbreathtaking floral landscape andfountains was packed with holiday-

goers especially in the evening.Nay Pyi Taw was illuminated with

colourful Lights. Office buildings, NayPyi Taw City Hall, Nay Pyi Taw PostOffice, Gems Museum, MyomaKyarpan Market, Thabyegon Market,Nay Pyi Taw Junction Centre,Thabyegon Roundabout, KyarpanRoundabout, Padonma KyarpanRoundabout and staff quarterscelebrated Thadingyut Lighting Festivalwith lamplights and strings of decorativelights in various colours.—MNA

Photo taken on 6 Oct, 2011 shows the rebuilt playground ofa primary school in Yushu, northwest China’s QinghaiProvince. Total investment in 1,394 reconstruction projectsin earthquake-stricken Yushu added up to 14 billion yuanby the end of September, said government sources in charge of the reconstruction.—XINHUA

P

Uppatasanti

Pagoda

packed

with

pilgrims

and

devotees on

evening of

Fullmoon

Day of

Thadingyut.

MNA

Thadingyut

illuminations at

ministries, Nay Pyi

Taw City Hall, Nay

Pyi Taw Post Office,

Gems Museum,

markets, roundabouts

and staff quarters on

evening of Fullmoon

Day of Thadingyut .

MNA

Families in Britain to pay ‘death tax’?LONDON, 12 Oct—Families in Britain may have to

pay a ‘death tax’ of 170 pounds before laying theirloved ones to rest.

Meant to improve the quality and accuracy ofdeath statistics and medical certificates of all non-coroner referred deaths, the government proposalswould see relatives having to pay out the sum beforethey can bury their loved ones, the Daily Mail reported.

The government proposals for debate in theCommons this week would hit families with aminimum charge to check the cause of death when arelative passes away. The tax would be used to helpclarify cause of death and in the long run would allowdoctors to plot trends in illnesses.

The new scheme would be applied to around490,000 deaths every year, affecting more than 1,000families a day, and would hit families with a minimumcharge to check the cause of death.—Internet

Photo taken on 10 Oct, 2011 showsa set of colourful lanterns by theSonghua River in Jilin, northeastChina’s Jilin Province. This set oflanterns measuring 20.489 meters

high and 180 meters wide isapproved to be the highest

colourful lantern in the world byGuinness World Records

adjudicator.—XINHUA

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(from page 1)The third Abhid-

hamma Day was observedin conjunction with 20th

Maha Pathana Recitationceremony at the cave ofNay Pyi Taw UppatasantiPagoda this morning.Patron of the Board ofTrustees of the PagodaUnion Minister at Presi-dent Office Chairman ofNay Pyi Taw Council UThein Nyunt and congre-gation received the NinePrecepts from StateOvadacariya SayadawPresiding Sayadaw ofMaha Visutarama ZaykonMonastery in PyinmanaTownship AbhidhajaMaha Rattha GuruBhaddanta Kavisara whodelivered a sermon to markAbhidhamma Day.

Next, the UnionMinister and party offeredalms to members of theSangha and shared themerits gained. Religious

associations recited reli-gious verses from morn-ing to night at the pagodaand offered 9000 lights tothe pagoda in the evening.

Similar ceremonieswere held at DatusayaDatpaungsu Pagodaand Maha Muni BuddhaImage in ZabuthiriTownship in Nay Pyi Taw,Ancient Paya KoesuPagoda, Lawka Marazein,Koekhangyi and LawkaYanhnein Pagodas inPyinmana Township, otherpagodas andreligious buildings in Lewe and Tatkon in NayPyi Taw.

The 92nd Hna-kyeikshitsu PagodaFestival will be held atHnakyeikshitsu Monas-tery on Bogyoke Street inPyinmana tomorrow.

Lighting Festival andthe Abhidhamma Dayceremonies were held atShwedagon Pagoda yes-

Religious associa-tions of ministries,

regiments andunits and town-

ships reciteDesana of the

Buddha atUppatasanti Pa-

goda on FullmoonDay of

Thadingyut.MNA

Pagoda, Shwephone-pwint pagoda, AbhayaLabha Muni BuddhaImage on MindhammaHill, Melamu, Ngahtetgyi,Chaukhtetgyi, Koehtetgyi,

Mogaung, Kyaikkhauk,K y a i k h m a w w u n ,Okkalapa, Zinamanaung,MyoU, Kyaikkaloh andKyaikkale Pagodaswhere devotees and pil-

grims performed meritori-ous deeds and practicedmeditation.

Devotees from fourcorners of Mandalay madedonations such as offer-

ing meals, water, flower,fruits, oil lights and can-dles at Kuthodaw,Sandamuni and KyauktawPagodas on MandalayHill. Besides,

S h w e k y i m y i n ,Aungtawmu, NannmyotSutaungpyae andSwetawmyat Pagodaswere packed with pilgrimsreceiving Five or Nineprecepts, listening ser-mons, and practising in-sight meditation.

Likewise, ceremo-nies to markAbhidhamma Day wereheld at pagodas, stupasand religious edificesthe length and breadthof the nation and lightsdedicated to payinghomage to the Lord Bud-dha were illuminated atmonasteries, resi-dences, offices andreligious buildings inthe evening.—MNA

Abhidhamma Day in progress at Thiri Mingala Kaba Aye Pagoda on Fullmoon Day ofThadingyut.—MNA

Pilgrimsseen atKyaik-

hmawwunYayle

Pagoda inKyauktan

onFullmoon

Day ofThadin-

gyut.MNA

terday and today. Ceremo-nies to offer flowers,light, water, fruitsand other offertorieswere held togetherwith the recitation of reli-

gious verses, servingrefreshement andfree medication at SulePagoda, BotahtaungKyaikdaeup Pagoda,Thiri Mingala Kaba

Aye Pagoda, MahaWizaya Pagoda, AparazitaHsandawshin Kyaikwinepagoda, Sacred ToothRelic Pagoda (Yangon),Kyaikkasan Hsandawshin

Flag of victory handed over to Mon State performing arts troupeNAY PYI TAW, 12

Oct—The entertainmentsof the artistes of Mon Statewho will take part in the18th Myanmar TraditionalCultural Performing ArtsCompetitions 2011 werestaged at Mon State Hall

on 9 October evening.It was attended by

Chief Minister of MonState U Ohn Myint, StateMinisters, departmental of-ficials and public.

On 10 October, theChief Minister gave an

address at the ceremonyto present the flag of vic-tory to the artistes repre-senting Mon State. He pre-sented the flag and cashassistant to the leader ofthe artistes group.

MNA

Coord meeting for holding Tazaungdaing festival held

NAY PYI TAW, 12Oct—Taunggyi EducationCollege held seventhteaching skill diplomaconferring ceremonyyesterday, with an addressby Chief Minister of Shan

State U Sao Aung Myat.Principal of the

college Daw Nan PhyuPhaung conferreddiplomas on graduatingteachers.

The Shan State

chief minister also ad-dressed the work coordi-nation meeting for organ-izing TaunggyiTazaungdaing Festival atthe town hall of Taunggyi.

MNA

Abhidhamma Dayobserved...

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Patron of Uppatasanti Pagoda Board of Trustees Union Minister U Thein Nyunt and wife donate offertories to a

Sayadaw.(News on page 1)—MNA

Pilgrims

pay

homage

to Shwe-

dagon

Pagoda

on

Fullmoon

Day of

Thadin-

gyut.

(News on

page 1)

MNA

Pilgrims pay homage to

Mahamuni Buddha Image

on Fullmoon Day of

Thadingyut

(Abhidhamma Day).

(News on page 1)—MNA

Activities Across the Nation onFullmoon Day of Thadingyut

(Abhidhamma Day)

Elephant Festival, symbol…(from page 16)

with dancing elephants and floating sounds ofenchanting music.

On Fullmoon Day of Thadingyut, Kyaukseresidents climb up Mt. Shwethalyaung, bringingalms, candles, gilded robes, gold elephant toys tothe accompaniment of active beat of music. Whenthe pilgrims reach the top, they rotateShwethalyaung Pagoda clockwise three timesand offer elephant toys and alms to the LordBuddha.

It is learnt that in the reign of KingAnawrahta, the King ordered village heads toorganize alms donation to the Lord Buddha andTabaung festival on every Fullmoon Day ofThadingyut. The origin of elephant donation issaid to be prayers of King Anawrahta who wishedBagan residents to share merits gained with himand white elephants which carried tooth relics ofBuddha to Bagan by offering white elephants tothe Lord Buddha. Since then, elephant donationhas been held along with alms donation inThadingyut.

*****Translation: TKK

(Kyemon: 12-10-2011)

YANGON, 12Oct—Win Zaw Tun andTin Aung Khant, selectedplayers of Myanmar

Myanmar chess players to participate in

2nd RBCS Polo Club Prajuab Cup

International Chess ContestChess Federation, willcompete in 2nd RBCSPolo Club Prajuab CupInternational Chess Con-

test to be held from 22 to24 October in Bangkokof Thailand.

The participants

will be accompanied byChairman of MCF UMaung Maung Lwin asthe team leader, Assist-ant Director U Win MaungTin of Sports and PhysicalEducation Department asthe manager and memberof Myanmar Police ForceNay Oo Kyaw Tun as thecoach.—MNA

YANGON, 12Oct—Yangon Region hascome within the reach ofthe trophy as it thrashedSagaing Region 10-0 inthe semi-final of the 16th

I n t e r - R e g i o n / S t a t e

Yangon sails throughsemi-final

YANGON, 12Oct—To mark the Inter-national White Cane Day,20th Yangon Mayor Cuprace walk of persons withimpaired vision will be heldon a grand scale on 15October.

The race will start

Traffic lanes will be closed forInternational White Cane

Day race walk

on Pyay Road beforePeople’s Park andPeople’s Square and endat City Hall via PyayRoad, Phonegyi Road andMaha Bandoola Street.The route will betemporarily closed from5 am to 8 am.—MNA

Women’s Football Tour-nament (Open) yesterdayat Padaetha SportsGround.

A y e y a w a d yRegion plays against BagoRegion at Padonma SportsGround tomorrow and thewinning team will meetYangon Region atAungsan Stadium on 16October.—MNA

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Indian industrial output grows 4.1% in AugustMUMBAI, 12 Oct—India’s index of industrial

production expanded 4.1 percent in August fromthe same period of last year, said a Press releaseissued by India’s Central Statistics Office onWednesday. The growth data is slightly lower thanaverage estimates of 5 percent by economists buthigher than the growth rate in July.

Meanwhile, the industrial growth rate in Julywas revised upward to 3.8 percent from 3.3 percenton provisional basis.

The manufacturing and electricity sector grew4.5 percent and 9. 5 percent in August year on yearwith the mining sector declining 3.4 percent partlydue to governmental bans on illegal mining.

As per use-based classification, basic goods,capital goods and intermediate goods showedgrowth of 5.4 percent, 3.9 percent and 1. 3 percent,

Participants attend the 12th African Regional Meeting of the InternationalLabour Organization in Johannesburg, on 11 Oct, 2011. The four days

conference, themed with “Empowering Africa’s People with DecentWork”, kicked off here on Tuesday.—XINHUA

Children who use e-mail lot brighter

Mexico braces for Hurricane JovaMEXICO CITY, 12

O c t — M e x i c a nemergency staff and thenavy were on“maximum alert” onTuesday, as HurricaneJova were bearing downon the country’s sevenPacific coastal states andthreatening to makelandfall in Colima.

“We want to avoidany human tragedy andwe are all workingtogether as one team withmunicipal and stateauthorities to ensure thatchildren, women and theelderly will be able tocount on any necessaryhelp,” Social Develop-ment Minister HeribertoFelix told local media.

Schools were closedacross Colima state.Nayarit state GovernorRoberto Sandovalordered students to go

SYDNEY, 12 Oct—Kids who used e-mail athome turned out to belot brighter and morepopular than their peerswho did not.

Genevieve Johnson,psychology lecturer atAustralia’s CurtinUniversity’s School ofEducation whoconducted the study,analysed responses from51 boys and 44 girls at aCanadian primaryschool.

She likened thesituation of boys whodid not use e-mail to thatof boys from an earlierera not familiar with TV.

“Think back to when

People attend a beer-drinking contest during theOktoberfest in Blumenau, Brazil, on 8 Oct,

2011. The beer festival Oktoberfest is celebratedin Blumenau, a city founded by German

immigrants in 1850. Parades, shows, folk danceperformances, contests and other events last till

on 23 Oct.—XINHUA

Russia to build first nuclear power plant inBelarus

MOSCOW, 12 Oct—Russia andBelarus have signed a contract forconstructing the first nuclear powerplant in Belarus, media reports said.

Russia’s Atomstroyexport willbuild two nuclear reactors with a totalpower capacity of 2,400 megawattsnear the town of Ostrovets in thewestern Belarussian region ofGrodno, Xinhua quoted the reports assaying.

In March, Moscow and Minsksigned a preliminary inter-governmentalagreement for cooperation in the

you were a little kid ifone of your friends didn’thave a lunch box withthe latest cartooncharacters on it - becausethey didn’t watch TV -they were almost sociallyisolated because theydidn’t know what wasgoing on,” Johnson said.“So when we say thatchildren who use theinternet under certaincircumstances are morepopular - that’s true,”said Johnson, accordingto a university statement.

The surveyed girlswere more likely thanthe boys to use e-mail athome but at school thegirls and boys reported

very similar use. Thesimilarity between boys’and girls’ e-mail usesuggested internetteaching at school maybe closing thetechnology gender gap.

“We’ve got thisimpression that theinternet, includinggames, is something bad.This is totally incon-sistent with the vastmajority of my re-search,” Johnson said.“I cannot say that everysingle online applicationis associated withpositive developmentaloutcomes - but most are,”she concluded.

Internet

respectively.The consumer durables and consumer non-

durables posted expansion of 4.6 percent and 3.7percent, respectively.

India’s industrial output growth is expected tosee more slower growth in September taking intoaccount of the weakest purchasing manager indexin September by HSBC in last 30 months.

Indian index of industrial production has seengreat volatility in more than one year’s time due tothe fluctuation of capital goods reading and itscredit came under criticism and doubt.

The continuous weak growth of industrialproduction growth could prompt Indian centralbank to refrain from another hike of interest rate inthe end of October when announcing monetarypolicy.—Xinhua

The openingceremony of the

8th NationalGames for the

Disabled is heldin Hangzhou,capital of east

China’s ZhejiangProvince, on 11

Oct, 2011.XINHUA

home and askedresidents to stay indoors.

Red alerts were alsoissued for the states ofJalisco, Guerrero,Michoacan, Durangoand Sinaloa. “Adangerous storm surgeis expected to producesignificant coastalflooding near and to theeast of where the centremakes landfall. Thesurge will be accom-panied by large anddestructive waves,” theMiami-based USNational HurricaneCentre (NHC) said.

By 4:30 local time,the Category 2 storm waslocated 140 kmsouthwest of the port cityof Manzanillo withmaximum sustainedwinds reaching 160kilometers per hour, theNHC said.

“These rains couldcause life-threateningflash floods and mudslides over mountainousterrain,” the centre said.

The hurricane’scontinuous movementsin the past weeks offboth Mexico’s Pacificand Gulf coasts havesoaked regions acrossthe country, andauthorities have alsoadvised citizens inseveral southern statesto exercise “extremecaution.” Serious flood-ing is expected to hit thesouthern states, assaturated soils are likelyto cause land-slides.Officials said thehurricane would notaffect the two-week PanAmerican games, whichkick off on 14 Oct inGuadalajara, capital cityof Jalisco state.—Xinhua

construction of the first Belarussiannuclear power plant, which is worthUSD 9.4 billion.

Local experts said the projectenvisages the construction of fourindependent safety systems, whichwill make the Ostrovets plant one ofthe safest in the world.

Several European countries,however, have protested against theproject due to safety andenvironmental concerns.

The plant is scheduled to be puton service in 2017.—Internet

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Miss Iceland 1974 led FBIto Bulger

BOSTON, 12 Oct —The tip that led the FBIto fugitive Boston mobboss Whitey Bulgercame from a former MissIceland who called fromher homeland, TheBoston Globe reported.

The newspaper saidSunday it had identifiedAnna Bjornsdottir, MissIceland 1974, as thetipster. Bjornsdottir, aformer model andactress who appeared ina number of movies and

This FBI photograph

taken in 1994 shows

one of the FBI’s most

wanted fugitives,

James “Whitey”

Bulger, who was

arrested 22 June ,

2011. —INTERNET

Bjornsdottir refusedto talk to the Globe ontwo occasions, thenewspaper said. Herhusband, HalldorGudmundsson, told thenewspaper in an e-mailhis wife did not wantpublicity. Bulger faces along list of criminalcharges in Boston andelsewhere, includingmurder. Greig is beingheld on charges ofhelping a fugitive.

Internet

A visitor views a stone during a rare stone

exhibition held in Qinglong County,

southwest China’s Guizhou Province, 10

Oct, 2011. —XINHUA

Crane collapses in China, at least

five deadBEIJING, 12 Oct— A

crane collapsed in a windpower equipmentcompany in northwestChina’s Gansu Province,killing at least fivepeople, authorities saidTuesday. In the incident

TV shows, was a part-time neighbor of Bulgerand his girlfriendCatherine Greig in SantaMonica, Calif.

Her phone call to theFBI in June, which led tothe arrest of Bulger andGreig, earnedBjornsdottir a $2 millionreward. She apparentlyrecognized a news photoafter the FBI launched apublicity drive aboutBulger, who had beenon the run since 1994.

Bridegrooms put rings on their brides in the group wedding

ceremony of 60 pairs of newlyweds in Jinan, east China’s

Shandong Province, Oct. 10, 2011. The government encourages

group wedding in order to reduce heavy expense for ceremony

which amounts to 150,000 yuan (23,190 U.S. dollars) for each

couple in Jinan, according to Jinan Wedding Ceremony

Association.—XINHUA

Five bloggersface trial in

UAEABU DHABI, 12 Oct—

Five United ArabEmirates bloggers are ontrial, accused ofundermining publicorder and opposing thegovernment, authoritiessaid.

They are chargedwith posting blog entrieson the online magazineHetta insulting UAEleaders, calling for aFederal NationalCouncil election boycottand urging demon-strations, Gulf Newsreported Monday.

Ahmad MohammadAbdullah Bin Gareeb,editor of Hetta, told thecourt the Web site hadbeen blocked sinceFebruary 2010.

“The messages werenothing more thanconstructive criticism ofofficials,” Bin Gareebsaid.

The defendantsrefused to show up for ahearing in protest againstwhat they allege is denialof their basic rights whilein custody, defencelawyers said.

Prosecutors said themen insulted the UAEleaders and urgedcitizens to revolt againstthem and follow in thefootsteps of Egypt’s 25Jan revolution.

The defendants havepleaded not guilty, and ajudge has adjourned thetrial until 23 Oct so thedefence can prepare itscase.—Internet

Nude ‘drunk’ driver

spits on cops while

being arrestedMELBOURNE, 11 Oct—A naked drunk driver,

charged with high-range drink driving, spat on thecops when he was being arrested in Darwin.

His breath-alcohol reading indicated a value of0.154 percent.

There was also a semi-clad woman passengerin his car allegedly possessing cannabis, who washanded over an infringement notice for the drugs.

“The 34-year-old man had a 27-year-old womanpassenger said to be possessing cannabis whenthey crashed in Tiwi at about 4.15am Friday,” theCourier Mail quoted the NT News as saying.

The naked man was aggressive towards policeand ambulance staff and purportedly spat on anofficer’s face. St John Ambulance deputy operationsmanager Steve van Gerwen said that people shouldbe mindful of what they wear when they go out.

“You never know when you’re going to havean accident so you should always wear cleanunderwear,” the Courier Mail quoted Gerwen assaying.—Internet

in Jiuquan City, the armof the crane broke,causing the crane tocollapse, the officialXinhua news agencyreported, quoting worksafety officials. The fiveworkers were crushed,

the report said. A sixthworker was injured buthis injuries were notbelieved to be life-threatening, the reportsaid. The cause of theincident was beinginvestigated.—Internet

Child dies in spin dryer

LONDON, 12 Oct —A three-year-old child inGermany died in a tragic accident after he climbedinto his home’s spin dryer and his twin brotherswitched the machine on.

The accident occurred at the home of the boys— Franz and Paul Bummel — in Schleswig-Holsteinstate, near Hamburg in northern Germany, the DailyMail reported.

Boys’ father Martin, 42, was upstairs at the timethe accident occurred. Their mother Natasha, 40,was at work.

Bummel discovered his son lifeless in the dryerin the basement of his home around 7 pm Friday.

A police probe has been launched.—Internet

Six missing in floods in

TurkeyISTANBUL, 12 Oct—

Six people were missingon Monday in theTurkish MediterraneanProvince of Antalyawhich was hit by floodsafter heavy rains, the

semi-official Anatolianews agency reported.

Six people werefound missing after threehouses were destroyedin Haskiziloren villagein Serik District ofAntalya Province, thereport quoted AntalyaGovernor AhmetAltiparmak as saying.The report added rescueteams have managed torescue 25 people so far.

Deputy Governor ofAntalya Turan Eren saidaccess to the region hasbeen blocked, wherethree bridges weredamaged and phoneconnections in somevillages were cut off dueto the floods.

Xinhua

Emergency response crew attend a massive drillto test their response and clean-up capacity in

case of oil spills in Quangang, southeast China’sFujian Province, on 10 Oct, 2011. A joint

exercise to test Fujian’s spill prevention andresponse in the waters of the Meizhou Bay was

held here Monday.—XINHUA

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2. Forms of opened tender and detailed information may be taken out from thefollowing address from 9:30 am to 16:00 pm daily from 10-10-2011 to 27-10-2011.3. The forms of opened tender are to be submitted in the presence of members ofthe tender committee at the Office No.7 in Nay Pyi Taw from 13:00 pm to 14:00pm on 28-10-2011. The tender application forms that were over the prescribedperiod will not be considered.

Procurement CommitteeMinistry of Information

Office No.7, Nay Pyi TawTel: 412327,412323

Antarctic lake mission targets life andclimate signs

Ocean trawlreveals

‘megavirus’LONDON, 12 Oct — The

largest virus yet discov-ered has been isolatedfrom ocean water pulledup off the coast of Chile.Called Megaviruschilensis, it is 10 to 20times witder han the aver-age virus.

It just beats the previ-ous record holder,Mimivirus, which wasfound in a water coolingtower in the UK in 1992.Scientists tell the journalPNAS that Megavirusprobably infects amoebas,single-celled organismsthat are floating free in thesea. The particle measuresabout 0.7 micrometres(thousandths of a milli-metre) in diameter.

"It is bigger than somebacteria," explained Pro-fessor Jean-MichelClaverie, from Aix-Mar-seille University, Mar-seille, France. "You don'tneed an electron micro-scope to see it; you can seeit with an ordinary lightmicroscope," he told BBCNews.

Viruses cannot copythemselves; they need toinvade a host cell if theywant to replicate.

Like Mimivirus,Megavirus has hair-likestructures, or fibrils, onthe exterior of its shell, orcapsid, that probably at-tract unsuspecting amoe-bas looking to prey onbacteria displaying simi-lar features.

Internet

Hair-like structures canbe seen of the outside ofthe Mimivirus (top) and

Megavirus (bottom)particles.— INTERNET

LONDON, 12 Oct—A pioneer-ing British expedition to samplea lake under the Antarctic icehopes to find unknown forms oflife and clues to future climateimpacts. The mission will use hotwater to melt its way through ice3km (2 miles) thick to reach LakeEllsworth, which has been iso-lated from the outside world forat least 125,000 years — maybe amillion.

The team hopes to be the first tosample a sub-glacial Antarcticlake.An engineering team leavesthe UK later this week along with70 tonnes of gear.

The project, funded to the tuneof £7m by the UK's Natural Envi-ronment Research Council, aimsto obtain samples of the lake wateritself and of sediment on the lakefloor.

Internet

Weather at

the site can be

stormy,

requiring

protection for

people and

gear.

INTERNET

Dad taking photos of daughter getsgrilled by cops, banned from mall

Chris White snapped thisphoto of his daughter,

Hazel, eating ice cream atBraehead shopping centernear Glasgow, Scotland.

INTERNET

GLASGOW, 12 Oct—A fathertaking pictures of his daughter ata shopping center near Glasgow,Scotland, says he was banned fromthe mall and threatened with hav-ing his camera phone confiscatedin the interest of preventing ter-rorism when he refused to deletethe photos. Chris White, 45, sayspolice were called last week af-ter he took photos of his 4-year-old daughter, Hazel, eating icecream at Braehead shoppingcenter, and a security guard ap-proached him and asked him todelete the pictures and thenbanned him from the mall, theDaily Record reports.

Internet

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LONDON, 12 Oct—Actress Emma Stone

WASHINGTON, 12 Oct— Hollywood actor RobertDowney, JR has revealed that he would like tobecome a director after retiring from acting.

Downey, 46, remembered co-actor Mel Gibsondismissing the idea to ever direct a movie whilethey were working on ‘Air America’ in 1990, andsoon after was taking charge behind-the–scenes.

The ‘Iron Man’ has decided to follow in thefootsteps of his co-star. “The great thing wasworking with Mel right before he went off and didHamlet and started directing. I remember him tellingsomeone on the set, ‘I would never be a director,it’s a terrible idea,’ and three years later he couldn’tnot direct,” Contactmusic quoted the actor as tellingLos Angeles Times.—Internet

ROME, 12 Oct—Penelope Cruz returnedto Rome to continuefilming the SergioCastellito movie“Venuto al Mondo” thatstarted production inSeptember on locationin Sarajevo and Croatia,Italian media said.

The Spanish actress,who was in Romeseveral weeks agoshooting the WoodyAllen film “BopDecameron”, is stayingat a hotel far from thedowntown area with herson Leo, sources closeto the actress said.

The star of “Vicky

LONDON,12 Oct—ArnoldSchwarzenegger is reportedly setto reprise his most famous role as‘The Terminator’. The 64-year-oldactor, who was recently entangled

I try to live in the moment: Emma Stone Robert Downey, JR wants to directmovies after retiring from acting

Hollywood actorRobert Downey, JR.

Actress Emma Stone

Penelope Cruz back in Rome for film shoot

Arnold Schwarzenegger toreprise ‘Terminator’ role

gone one day,”c o n t a c t m u i s c . c o mquoted her as saying.

“There’s going to beanother 22-year-oldredhead on my heels.It’s inevitable andthere’s nothing I can doabout it, so I try to livein the moment,” sheadded.

Internet

Penelope Cruz

WASHINGTON, 12Oct—Julia Roberts hasrevealed that she can’ttell her children that sheis playing the Evil Queenin the new Snow White

Julia Roberts won’t tell kids of Evil Queen rolein Snow White

ArnoldSchwarzenegger

Julia Roberts

Cristina Barcelona” doesnot eat out at restaurantsand will give no pressconferences. The onlyinvitations she accepts areto the filmmaker’s home.The movie, inspired by

the like-named novel byMargaret Mazzantini,Castellito’s wife and one

of Italy’s most popular

writers, tells the story of a

mother’s trip with her 16-

year-old son to the

Sarajevo of today, the

hometown of his father

who was killed while still

a young man during the

1992-95 Bosnian war.Co-starring with Cruz

is actor Emile Hirsch. Theproduction crew willremain in the Italian capitaluntil 26 Oct, Italian mediasaid.

Internet

in the controversy surroundingthe end of his marriage, seemsto be back on track, reports theDaily Express. Since hispolitical career ended as theCalifornian governor,Schwarzenegger has starred

in several action films and now he is all set to render themost famous role of his career as the ‘Terminator’,despite the fact that he’ll be 66 by the time it startsfilming.—Internet

movie because they arescared of the character.

The 43-year-oldactress says that her kidsare so scared of theDisney cartoon version

of the story, that theyhave nightmares.

“I haven’t likespelled it out that I’m theEvil Queen. Because Ishowed them [Disney’s]‘Snow White’ and theyhad nightmares and theycried,” Contactmusicquoted her as tellingAccess Hollywood.

Internet

The pudding, whichis made with finestBelgian chocolate,

layered withchampagne jellyand glazed withedible gold leaf,breaks the world

record with a pricetag of 22,000

pounds.

A Myanmar cat has it’s fur combed beforebeing evaluated by a judge at an international

cat beauty show in Bucharest, Romania, on2 Oct, 2011. Up to 300 cats mainly fromcountries in central and eastern Europe

entered the two day competition.

Los Angeles officialssaid firefightersaccused of allowingfire engines to be usedin two pornographicfilms will not facedisciplinary actions.

Councilman DennisZine said he received aletter from Chief BrianCummings explainingthe City Charter

prohibits firefighters

from being disciplined

for actions that occurred

more than two years

ago, and both alleged

incidents took place

prior to 2009, the LosAngeles Times reportedWednesday.

Zine said Tuesdayhe met with Cummingsand the investigationinto the allegations,

Police in Pennsylvania are investigating thecase of a stolen bridge, presumably dismantled tobe sold as scrap metal.

The North Beaver Township bridge, made ofcorrugated steel and valued at about $100,000,was stolen sometime between 27 Sept andWednesday, the Ellwood City (Pa) Ledger reportedThursday.

The 50-foot-long, 20-foot-wide bridge wasnear a railroad line in a wooded area not owned bythe township. Its owner’s name was not released.

Police say the thief or thieves used a cuttingtorch to take the bridge apart.

Some parents are criticizing a British school for replacing hand raising toanswer questions with thumb raising.

The Burlington Junior School in Bridlington, England, which previouslyattempted to replace hand raising with the raising of colored signs, recentlyannounced students are being encouraged to put up their thumbs instead ofraising their hands to get the teacher’s attention, The Sun reported Tuesday.

Headteacher Cheryle Adams described the policy as not a “big deal” and“something all the children have accepted.”

“These ideas help make the class environment calmer and encouragesquieter pupils to share ideas,” Adams said.

However, Dave Campleman, 44, who has two children at the school, saidhe does not agree.

“I thought it was a joke at first,” he said. “It’s daft. Kids are used to puttingtheir hands up — being told to do something different just confuses them.”

Firefighters won’t bedisciplined for porn

Bridge stolen in Pennsylvania

Students raise thumbs instead of hands

which involved Engine

263 from Firehouse 63

and Engine 41 from

Firehouse 41, will con-

tinue, but the firefighters

involved cannot bepunished.

“There’s nodiscipline they couldadminister,” Zine said.

N e w s A l b u m

tries not to get“overwhelmed”s by herHollywood success andsays she tries to live inthe moment.

“I’m very aware thatit’s a moment. If I everget overwhelmed byeverything that’shappening to me, Ithink, ‘Get over itsweetheart. It will be

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Denmark, France make Euro 2012

Sweden down Dutch to sealEuro 2012 ticket

Jaime Ayovi leads Ecuadorover US 1-0

Russia thrash Andorra, through to Euro 2012

Brazil’s Mancini facing jailfor alleged assault

Tiger Woods grateful for spotin his own tourney

Nadal plots return to top form

Marc Pujol of Andorra (C) vies for ballwith Andrey Arshavin (R) of Russiaduring their Euro 2012 Group B quali- fying football match.—INTERNET

MOSCOW, 12 Oct— Russia comfort-ably clinched their place at the Euro2012 finals with a 6-0 win over qualify-ing group B minnows Andorra here onTuesday.

"I'm proud of my team as we were thebetter team today and in the entire quali-fying campaign," Russia's manager DickAdvocaat said."It was a really impres-sive performance tonight. Now we needto prepare the best possible way for thefinals."

Alan Dzagoev netted a double, whileSergei Ignashevich, RomanPavlyuchenko, Denis Glushakov andsubstitute Diniyar Bilyaletdinov alsoscored as Advocaat's men sealed firstplace in the group with 23 points, two

more than runners up the Republic ofIreland, who beat Armenia 2-1.

Internet

Denmark's Nicklas Bendtner jubilatesafter scoring to take the score to 2-0,when Denmark met Portugal during

their Euro 2012 qualifying soccermatch.—INTERNET

Ireland’s Trapattoni happy totake chances in play-off

LONDON, 12 Oct— Denmark gainedan automatic spot at the 2012 EuropeanChampionship at the expense of Portugalon Tuesday while France needed a latepenalty kick in a 1-1 draw with Bosnia-Herzegovina to qualify.

Former champion Greece and Russiaalso clinched places at next summer'stournament in Ukraine and Poland withvictories in the final round of qualifyinggames. Sweden beat the Netherlands 3-2to advance as the runner-up with the bestrecord from the nine groups.

A 2-0 defeat in Copenhagen droppedPortugal into next month's qualificationplayoffs, along with Turkey, Ireland,Estonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatiaand Czech Republic.

Defending champion Spain and Ger-many won to finish group play withperfect records.—Internet

STOCKHOLM, 12 Oct—Sweden secured automaticqualification for the Euro2012 finals with a nervy3-2 win over Holland hereon Tuesday.

With the Dutch alreadyassured of top spot inGroup E the pressure wason Sweden to stop theOranje's unbeaten romp tonext year's championshipin Ukraine and Poland toemerge as the best of all

the other second-placedteams and so avoid theplay-offs.

Kim Kallstrom, Lyon'sleft-footed midfielder, putthe Scandinavians into a14th minute lead, defeat-ing Dutch keeper MichelVorm from a direct freekick awarded after de-fender Gregory van derWiel fouled JohanElmander.

Sweden's keeperAndreas Isaksson kept thehosts' on a level footingwhen denying Robin vanPersie as half time ap-proached.—Internet

Sweden's KimKaellstroem celebratesafter he scored a goalduring the Euro 2012Group E qualifying

football match againstNetherlands.—INTERNET

United States head coachJurgen Klinsmann talksto his team in the secondhalf of the match. INTERNET

HARRISON, 12 Oct—Jurgen Klinsmann is find-ing wins and goals hard tocome by in his first fewmonths as coach of the USsoccer team.

"It's going to taketime," goalkeeper TimHoward said after Tues-day night's 1-0 exhibitionloss to Ecuador droppedthe Americans to 1-3-1since the former Germanstar and coach replacedBob Bradley in late July."People are going to askquestions, and that's natu-ral. But it's still in the in-fant stages."

Second-half substituteJaime Ayovi beat defenderTim Ream to a cross andscored in the 79th minute,the only good chance Ec-uador had."It's a growingprocess and, obviously,also a couple of knocksthat you have to accept,"Klinsmann said.—Internet

S P O R T S

Republic of Ireland'sDamien Duff (R) andArmenia's KarlenMkrtchyan during thegroup B Euro 2012qualifing match on 11 Oct, 2011.—INTERNET

DUBLIN, 12 Oct—Re-public of Ireland managerGiovanni Trapattoni insistshis players can handle what-ever is thrown at them inthe draw for the Euro 2012play-offs.

Trapattoni's side se-cured second place inGroup B with a 2-1 winover Armenia at the AvivaStadium on Tuesday andnow they await their fate in

Thursday's draw inKrakow. The Irish are oneof eight teams, the othersbeing Turkey, Estonia,Bosnia-Herzegovina,Croatia, Montenegro, Por-tugal and the Czech Re-public, still hoping to se-cure a place at next year'sfinals in Poland and theUkraine. The first legs willtake place on either 11 or 12November, with the sec-ond legs on 15 November.

While the play-offs haveoften been unkind to Ire-land in the past, especiallytwo years ago when ThierryHenry's handball played akey role in their World Cupplay-off defeat againstFrance, Trapattoni believeshis team are capable of hold-ing their own against any oftheir potential rivals.

Internet

Brazil's Mancini (L) ischallenged by Venezue-la's Luis Seijas during aFIFA World Cup 2010qualifier at the PuebloNuevo Stadium in SanCristobal, Venezuela.

INTERNET

Tiger Woods, right, hugssportscaster Jim Hill af-ter a news conference heldto announce the field forthe Chevron World Chal-lenge golf tournament inLos Angeles.—INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 12 Oct— Tiger Woods is aw-fully happy he could an-nounce his own name inthe field of the ChevronWorld Challenge.

Woods expressedgratitude to the tourna-ment committee Tuesdayafter squeaking into theevent he hosts. His worldranking barely stayed inthe top 50 last month, justhigh enough to qualify foran exemption, and he'll beat Sherwood Country Clubin seven weeks for the fi-nal event of his so-farwinless season.

After a brutal two-yearstretch of personal turmoiland reinvention, Woodsappears eager to continuehis climb back from hislatest low. Woods hasdropped from No. 49 to

52 since clinching a spotthe Chevron field, and hefinished tied for 30th lastweek in Northern Califor-nia in the Frys.com Open,his first tournament innearly two months.

Internet

Rafael Nadal listens toa question during a

press conference at the2011 Shanghai RolexMasters tournament at

the Qizhong TennisCenter.—INTERNET

MADRID, 12 Oct—World number two RafaelNadal Tuesday targeted areturn to the form that wonhim three Grand Slams ina single season, admittinghis game had dipped sincehis stellar 2010 campaign.

The Spaniard, for manyyears locked in a battlewith Swiss great RogerFederer for tennis su-premacy, has seen hiscrown taken this year bySerbia's Novak Djokovic,who has swept all beforehim and won three Slamsof his own.

Nadal, 25, who won theFrench Open, Wimbledonand US Open back-to-back last year, said hisgame had since faltered alittle, contributing to his

losing seven of 10 finalsin 2011. "I believe Rafa2010 had something morespecial than Rafa 2011,especially in tough situa-tions," Nadal said aheadof his first match at theShanghai Masters againstcompatriot GuillermoGarcia-Lopez on Wednes-day.—Internet

BRASILIA, 12 Oct —Ajudge has requested a threeyear eight month jail termbe imposed on Brazilianfootballer Mancini for thealleged sexual assault of ayoung woman at a partyorganised by teammateRonaldinho, the Italianpress reported Tuesday.

Former Roma, Interand AC Milan wingerMancini is accused of tak-ing advantage of a drunkenBrazilian woman at a partyhosted by Ronaldinho inMilan last December.Theseven-times capped playeris alleged to have offered

to escort the model home,before taking her to hisapartment where the at-tack occurred.—Internet

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Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas

Thursday,13 October

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Weather forecast for 13th October, 2011

7:00 am 1. Paritta By Venerable

Min Gun Sayadaw -

Uppatathandi Paritta

7:25 am 2. To Be Healthy

Exercise

7:30 am 3. Morning News

7:40 am 4. Dhamma Puja

Song

7:50 am 5. Nice & Sweet Song

MYANMAR INTERNATIONAL

Programme Schedule

(13-10-2011) (Thursday)

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am)MSTOverseas Transmission - (13-10-11 09:30 am ~ 14-10-11 09:30 am) MST

Local Transmission* Opening* News* Typical Traditional Dress for Ladies* News* Help others to help themselves* News* School for the Blind (Kyi Myin Dine)* News* Ministry of Construction

“Department of Human Settlement andHousing Development (D.H.S.H.D)”

Overseas Transmission* Opening* News* Typical Traditional Dress for Ladies* News* Help others to help themselves* News* School for the Blind (Kyi Myin Dine)

* News* Ministry of Construction

“Department of Human Settlement andHousing Development (D.H.S.H.D)”

* Kid’s Talent (No.4 Pre School, Ahlone)* Let’s Join the Elephant Dance* News* Myanma Traditional Wedding Ceremony* News* Music Gallery* Daily Life of a Toddy-palm Climber* News* A Highland with Peace and Charm* Myanmar Movie “Guilt Over Love”

8:00 am 6. Health Programme

8:10 am 7. Songs Of National

Races

8:15 am 8. Dance Variety

8:25 am 9. Selected Songs

for 18th Myanmar

Traditional Cultural

Performing Arts

Competitions

(2011) (Maha Gita

Classical)

(Basic Education

Level) (Men/Women)

8:40 am 10. International News

8:45 am11. Musical Programme

4:00 pm 1. Martial Song

4:10 pm 2. Cute Little Dancer

4:20 pm 3. Musical Programme

4:30 pm 4. Documentary

4:40 pm 5. University of

Distance Education

(TV Lectures)

-Second Year

(Geography)

4:55 pm 6. Songs for

Upholding National

Spirit

5:10 pm 7. Solo Favourites

5:20 pm 8. Science and

Environment

5:35 pm 9. Documentary

5:50 pm 10. Selected Songs

for 18th Myanmar

Traditional Cultural

Performing Arts

Competitions

(2011) (Modern

Song Classical)

(Higher Education

Level) (Women)

6:00 pm11. Evening News

6:15 pm12. Weather Report

6:20 pm13. Myanmar Series

6:35 pm14. Approaching

Science Discovery

World

7:00 pm15. TV Drama Series

8:00 pm16. News

17. International News

18. Weather Report

19. Documentary

20. TV Drama Series

21. TV Drama Series

India, South Africa sign MoU on electoral cooperationNEW DELHI, 12 Oct—India and

South Africa today signed aMemorandum of Understanding(MoU) to facilitate exchange ofknowledge and experience related tothe study, reform and management ofelection administration systems,promotion and implementation ofeducational research and trainingprogrammes, and mutual exchangesto enhance experience in electoralmanagement and administration.

The MoU also envisages holdingof Conferences on topics of commoninterest. The MoU was signed by theChief Election Commissioner of India,Dr S Y Quraishi, and the Chairpersonof the Electoral Commission of SouthAfrica, Dr Brigalia Bam.

Election Commissioners V SSampath and H S Brahma, diplomatsand senior officials of the ElectionCommission of India were present atthe signing ceremony.

The Chairperson of the ElectoralCommission of South Africa, Dr.Brigalia Bam, is on a visit to India forstrengthening bilateral cooperationbetween the two ElectionCommissions.

She is accompanied by her Deputy

Chief Electoral Officer MosothoMoepya. Earlier, the two ElectionCommissions held bilateraldiscussions, and explored ways ofworking jointly to promoteparticipatory democracy and bestelectoral processes in other countries,particularly in Africa, and possibilitiesof training electoral officials and otherstakeholders, at the India InternationalInstitute of Democracy and ElectionManagement of the ElectionCommission of India.—MNA/PTI

This photo provided by theAssociation of Surfing

Professionals shows Jordy Smith,of South Africa, competing in the

Quiksilver Pro France surfingcompetition in Hossegor, France,

on11 Oct 2011. —INTERNET

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow Sr. No.

Regions/States Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 36/97 23/73 Isolated rain or thundershowers 80%

2 Kayah 30/86 20/68 Isolated rain or thundershowers 80%

3 Kayin 36/97 23/73 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

4 Chin 24/75 10/50 Scattered rain or thundershowers 80%

5 Upper Sagaing 36/97 24/75 Isolated rain or thundershowers 80%

6 Lower Sagaing 36/79 26/79 Isolated rain or thundershowers 80%

7 Taninthayi 33/91 24/75 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

8 Bago 34/93 23/73 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

9 Magway 36/97 26/79 Isolated rain or thundershowers 80%

10 Mandalay 37/99 26/79 Isolated rain or thundershowers 80%

11 Mon 34/93 24/75 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

12 Yangon 35/95 24/75 Scattered rain or thundershowers 80%

13 Rakhine 33/91 22/72 Scattered rain or thundershowers 80%

14 Southern Shan 26/79 17/63 Scattered rain or thundershowers 80%

15 Northern Shan 32/90 18/64 Scattered rain or thundershowers 80%

16 Eastern Shan 33/91 20/68 Scattered rain or thundershowers 80%

17 Ayeyawady 34/93 26/79 Scattered rain or thundershowers 80%

18 Neighbouring

Nay Pyi Taw 37/99 23/73 Isolated rain or thundershowers 80%

19 Neighbouring Yangon 35/95 24/75 Isolated rain or thundershowers 80%

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 37/99 26/79 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

Summary of observations at

09:30 hr MST on today

During the past (24) hours, weather has been widespread in Taninthayi Region and Mon State, scattered in Bago Region, Kayah and Kayin States, isolated in Yangon and Ayeyawady Regions, Shan, Chin and Rakhine States and partly cloudy in the remaining Regions and States. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Kawthoung (2.20) inches, Nyaunglebin (1.81) inches, Myeik (1.53) inches and Bilin (1.26) inches.

Bay Inference Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy in the Andaman Sea and Southeast Bay and partly cloudy elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea Seas will be moderate in Myanmar waters. Outlook for sub-sequent two days

Likelihood of decrease of rain the whole Country.

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Union Environmental Conservationand Forestry Minister calls for

eco-system conservationNAY PYI TAW, 12 Oct—

Union Minister forEnvironmental Conservationand Forestry U Win Tunvisited 125-acre watershedmixed-plantations esta-blished by Dry ZonesGreening Department inSalingyi Township, MonywaDistrict on 10 October andstressed the need forsuccessful impelmentation offour main tasks of Dry ZonesGreening Department,establishment of locally-grown environmentalconservation plantations forlong term apart fromEucalyptus plantations,conservation of watershedareas of Chindwin River and

Union Minister for Environmental

Conservation and Forestry U Win Tun

visits 125-acre watershed area swamps

established by Dry Zones Greening

Department in Salingyi Township,

Monywa District.—MNA

its eco-system throughcoordinated and collaborativeefforts.

The Union Minister thenproceeded to No.75 Sawmilland No. 1 Plywood Mill underMyanma Timber Enterprise inMonywa. He inspected theproduction process of No. 5Plywood Mill yesterday andcalled for increased productionof value-added wood productsto penetrate other marketsapart from current markets ofIndia and Korea so as to beable to earn more foreigncurrencies and specialattention on staff welfare.

Union Minister U WinTun, while meeting his staffmembers at the briefing hall of

Bodhitahtaung GreeningRegion, urged them to

conserve and develop naturalforests in Kyaukka-

Elephant Festival, symbol of KyaukseElephant festival is held on 14 Waxing and

Fullmoon Day of Thadingyut in Kyaukse in MandalayRegion yearly. It is not the festival of real elephantsbut of inanimate ones made of bamboos and paper.It is the perfect combination of craftsmanship and artsof dancing. Kyaukse is the only town in Myanmar inwhich elephant festival can be seen in other wordselephant is an emblem of Kyaukse. The festival datesback over one hundred years ago and is widelyknown across Myanmar.

Kyaukse lies on the right bank of Zawgyi River.It is a famous town on Yangon-Mandalay railroad,being situated 27 miles from Mandalay and 359 milesfrom Yangon.

Two white elephants, 10 elephants adorned withsequins, 12 traditional elephants, 10 baby elephants,altogether 32 elephants amused the audience at theopening of elephant donation ceremony at the foot ofMt. Shwethalyaung in Kyaukse in 2010.

A total of 18 elephants competed in the 2010elephant-offering ceremony in Kyaukse before threereferee stands. On that day, crowded Kyaukse CentralMarket and downtown Kyaukse was alive (See page 9)

NAY PYI TAW, 12 Oct — Road TransportAdministration Department issued a notificationthat if unregistered vehicles running on the publicarea are found to be using forged certificates andnumber plates, and number plates of other vehicles,drivers will be dealt with a lawsuit and have theirvehicles impounded under Sections 21 and 28 inChapter (6) of 1964 Vehicle Act and Sections5 (1) and 5 (3) of 1947 Import & ExportSupervisory Act (Provisional).— MNA

Unregistered vehicles to beimpounded

An elephant competing in the elephant-offering ceremony.

China wins men’s team titlein gymnastics worlds

Players of China (C), Japan (L) and the United Statespose at the podium after the men’s team final at the43rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in

Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 12, 2011.—INTERNET

TOKYO, 12 Oct — China won the men’s teamgold medal of the gymnastics world championships forthe fifth time in a row Wednesday, holding off hostJapan and the United States, which took the secondand third place.

China, the 2008 Beijing Olympic champions,scored 275.161 points, outperforming Japan’s 273.093and 273.083 of the United States.

Ranking third in the qualification round, Chinaand Japan were neck-to-neck until the last rotation,when Japan’s Yusuke Tanaka and Kohei Uchimuraboth fell from the horizontal bar, while China’s ZhangChenglong and Zou Kai put on a flawless performanceon the floor.—Internet

Shwemyintin protectedreserve.—MNA

UnionLabour &

SWRRMinisterreceivesUNSG’s

Special Envoyof UNISDR

Vitamin E supplement

puts men at high risk

for prostate cancer

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Nay Pyi Taw decoratedwith illumination on

Fullmoon Day

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