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Volume XIX, Number 195 7th Waxing of Tazaungmon 1373 ME Wednesday, 2 November, 2011

Our Three MainNational Causes

* Non-disintegration of the

Union

* Non-disintegration of National

Solidarity

* Perpetuation of Sovereignty

Vice-President Thiha Thura U Tin Aung Myint Ooreceives Special Adviser to UNSG andUnder-Secretary-General and party

NAY PYI TAW, 1Nov—Vice-Presidentof the Republic of theUnion of MyanmarThiha Thura U TinAung Myint Ooreceived a delegationled by Special Adviserto the Secretary-General of the UnitedNations and Under-Secretary-General Mr.Vijay Nambiar at thehall of the President

Office, here, at 4 pmtoday.

Also present at thecall together with Vice-President Thiha ThuraU Tin Aung Myint Oowere Union Ministerfor Foreign Affairs UWunna Maung Lwinand departmental heads.

The Special Adviserto the UNSG and Under-Secretary-General andparty were accompaniedby UN ResidentRepresentative andHumanitarian Coordi-nator Mr RameshShrestha and seniorofficers.

They had a cordialdiscussion oncooperation betweenMyanmar and theUnited Nations.

MNA

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Khamenjoys entertainment of Chinese disabled

people’s performing art troupe

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Nov—With the purpose ofperforming entertainments in the Republic of theUnion of Myanmar under the China-Myanmarfriendly relationship and cultural exchangeprogramme, the Chinese disabled people’sperforming art troupe of the People’s Republicof China arrived in Yangon on 30 October andthen in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.

The Chinese troupe comprises artistes withhearing and visual impairments, and the majorityof the t roupe is youths . I t has overhundred members, and it has been formed for25 years.

The My Dream Chinese disabled artist troupewas formed in the year 2000, and it hasperformed over 1500 entertainments in Chinaand over 60 countries.

UNESCO designated the troupe as theUNESCO Artist for Peace.

Vice-President of the Republic of the Unionof Myanmar Dr Sai Mauk Kham enjoyed theperformance of the My Dream Chinese disabledpeople’s performing art troupe at Auditorium ofMyanma Radio and Television in Tatkon of NayPyi Taw Council Area at 6 pm today.

Also present on the occasion were Unionministers, deputy ministers, Pyithu Hluttaw andAmyotha Hluttaw representatives, departmentalheads of the Ministry of Information and theMinistry of Culture, Ambassador of the People’sRepublic of China to the Republic of the Unionof Myanmar Mr. Li Junhua and officials of theChinese embassy, departmental personnel ofministries and guests.

Acting Union Minister for Information and forCulture Union Minister for Border Affairs and forMyanma Industrial Development Lt-Gen TheinHtay extended greetings.

Next, Chinese Ambassador Mr. Li Junhuaextended greetings.

Afterwards, Vice-President Dr Sai MaukKham and party enjoyed entertainments of theMy Dream Chinese troupe.

The Vice-President presented a flower basketto the Chinese troupe.

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Vice-President Thiha Thura U Tin Aung

Myint Oo cordially greets Special Adviser to

the UNSG and Under-Secretary-General

Mr. Vijay Nambiar.—MNA

Vice-President Dr

Sai Mauk Kham

presents a flower

basket to members of

disabled artistes’

troupe from the

People’s Republic of

China.

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PERSPECTIVESWednesday, 2 November, 2011

Guarantee dwellersquality housing

Reforms are tangible in Myanmar.Confidence in new history of the country soars.Market economy is taking shape. Newurbanization has formed. Thanks to economicdevelopment, citizens are earning higherincomes. Population grows. Housing increasesto equal growing world population.

Contractors consider costs andcustomers in constructing towering buildings.Customers think about price and endurance.Entrepreneurs help contractors and customersto be in harmony. Looking forward the futureof the State, advanced housing estates arebeing developed which meet standards ofdeveloped countries. Low-cost high-risebuildings are being constructed as well.

Quality and sustainability are keys toassessment of every building. Tenants indilapidated apartments were exposed todangers in the years before 2000. Apart fromquality, resistance against earthquake, stormand other natural disasters is needed. Demandsfor focusing on sustainability of urban buildingshave begun to rise. Quality of buildings isimportant for dwellers as well as in marketingthe buildings.

Building Quality Law is being draftedand will be enacted in 2013. The law will ensurehigh-class buildings.

Reducing cost to attract customers withlow price should not harm the quality ofbuildings. Contractors should maintain thestandard despite lower profits. Customers innature prefer low price. Though, the reducedquality should not cause dangers to residents.

Price and quality are intertwined. Todevelop low-cost housings, low-cost landshould be chosen. Pan Hlaing Golf CourseHousing, Mingaladon Garden City and FMIPadethabin City Housing are good examplesfor low-cost and reasonable-standard housings.

All in all, development of the State comestogether with urbanization. The BuildingQuality Law which will be enacted soon willease concerns of building quality.

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Nov—Speaker of PyidaungsuHluttaw U Khin Aung Myint received a delegation ledby Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of theUnited Nations and Under-Secretary-General Mr.Vijay Nambiar at the hall of Amyotha Hluttaw atHluttaw Building, here, at 3 pm today.

At the call, their discussions focused ondevelopments of Myanmar, legislative tasks of theHluttaw, accomplishment of the Hluttaw on wishes ofthe people, process of strengthening national unity,

Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw U Khin AungMyint receives Special Adviser to UNSG and

Under-Secretary-General and party

talks on internal peace and release of prisoners, andcooperation of Myanmar with the UN and ASEANcountries in international issues.

Also present at the call were Deputy Speaker ofPyidaungsu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw U MyaNyein, secretaries and members of Amyotha Hluttawcommittees, Hluttaw representatives including thosefrom political parties and national races and officials ofthe Hluttaw Office.

MNA

Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw U Khin Aung Myint receives Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and Under-Secretary-General Mr. Vijay Nambiar and party.—MNA

Cash assistance provided to thosetemporarily moved to Bhamo District

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Nov—Kachin State Minister forSocial Affairs Daw Bauk Ja on 27 October metdepartmental officials at Bhamo District GeneralAdministration Department and gave instructions onassistance, accomodation, health and education tasksfor those who temporarily arrived there due to presentconflict.

The minister shared K 650,000 for assistancetasks at relief camps in Bhamo, Momauk, Shwegu andMansi townships, the Kachin State education officer K500,000 for 666 students, Kachin State Relief andResettlement Department relief aids containing sixitems to 621 households that moved to Bhamo District.

On 28 October morning, the minister met thosewho moved there due to present conflict at Momaukand Bhamo and presented cash assistance to them. Inthe afternoon, she gave cash assistance to patients atBhamo General Hospital.—MNA

Leader of Peace Making Group of UnionGovernment U Aung Thaung receives

Special Adviser to the Secretary-General ofthe United Nations and Under-Secretary-

General Mr. Vijay Nambiar and party.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Nov—Special Adviser to theSecretary-General of the United Nations and Under-Secretary-General Mr Vijay Nambiar and party

Special Adviser meets PeaceMaking Group

currently in Myanmar met the Peace Making Group ofthe Union Government at Thingaha Hotel, here, at 2 pmtoday.

U Aung Thaung, leader of the Peace Making

Group of the Union Government and four membersattended the meeting. They discussed the developmentissues in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 1Nov—With thesponsorship of Mon StateForest Department, theprize-presentation cere-mony of Essay, Painting,

Winners awarded in competitions to markInternational Year of Forests

Cartoon and PhotoCompetitions in com-memoration of theInternational Year ofForests 2011 was held atNo. 6 Basic Education

High School inMawlamyine on 21October.

Mon StateMinister for Forestry andMines U Win Maw Oo

and Mon State ForestDepartment Director UChit Paul madeaddresses.

Next, Mon StateHluttaw Speaker U KyinPe and the State Ministerpresented prizes to theprize-winning students.

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Indian PresidentPratibha Patil paysfloral tribute to late

Prime Minister IndiraGandhi at her

memorial in ShaktiSthal, New Delhi, on31 Oct, 2011. India

Monday paid tributesto the nation’s first

woman PrimeMinister, Indira

Gandhi, who servedfor three consecutiveterms from 1966 to1977, and a fourth

term from 1980 till herassassination on 31

Oct, 1984 bybodyguards.—XINHUA

Iran demands apology from USTEHERAN, 1 Nov—Iran has demanded an official

apology from the US over a recent accusation thatsaid Teheran plotted to kill the Saudi Arabianenvoy to Washington, Press TV reported Monday.

In a recent letter to the US government, Teheraninsisted that Washington must publicly apologiseto the Iranian government and its citizens for thefalse accusations that violated international norms.

On 11 Oct, the US Justice Department accusedIran of plotting to assassinate Saudi Arabia’sAmbassador to Washington Adel al-Jubeir, with helpfrom a suspected member of a Mexican drug cartel.Iran also demanded compensation for “material andmoral damages” caused by the US anti-Iran campaign.The letter was handed over to the Swiss Embassy inTeheran, which represents US interests in Iran, sinceTeheran and Washington severed diplomatic relationsin 1980.—Internet

Russia denies deterioration in ties with USMOSCOW, 1 Nov—Relations between Russia and the US have not worsened,

an aide to the Russian President said Monday. “Claims about deterioration of Russia-US relations are being imposed by those who do not see the real results of huge workdone and who are not interested in the real improvement of the relations,” SergeiPrikhodko was quoted as saying by Xinhua.

He said the claims could be seen as an attempt to misguide both the Russianand US public and divert attention from their joint work in countering commonchallenges and sustaining strategic stability. He said Russian President DmitryMedvedev and his US counterpart Barack Obama would meet on the sidelinesof the upcoming Group of 20 summit in Cannes, France.—Internet

Afghan people gatherat the site of Saturday’ssuicide car bomber in

Kabul, Afghanistan, on30 Oct, 2011. ATaleban suicide

bomber rammed avehicle loaded withexplosives into an

armored NATO bus ona busy thoroughfare in

Kabul.—INTERNET

An Afghan policemankeeps watch after asuicide bomb attack

near a building used bythe Office of the United

Nations HighCommissioner for

Refugees (UNHCR) inKandahar on 31

October, 2011. ThreeAfghans including a

police officer were killedin a suicide attack in thesouthern Afghan City of

Kandahar early onMonday, the interior

ministry said, two daysafter a deadly bombing

in the capital.—REUTERS

Civilian killed by Australian soldiers in S AfghanistanCANBERRA, 1 Nov— Australian soldiers shot

and killed a civilian in southern Afghanistan,Australian Defence Force (ADF) confirmed onMonday.

In a statement, ADF said Australians soldierson Saturday opened fired after the Afghan manfailed to follow directions to stop while he wasriding a motorbike in Tarin Kot, Uruzgan Province.

The incident happened as Australian soldierswere securing a site for a meeting of the provincial

reconstruction team.The ADF said it takes all reasonable steps to

ensure its operations do not put the lives of civiliansin jeopardy.

The victim was a local aged in his twentiesnamed Hayatullah, who ran a phone card stall, andthere are some reports that the killing has drawnanger from some residents in Tarin Kot.

The ADF is promising to cooperate withinvestigations into the shooting.—Xinhua

Pak denies spying on German forces inAfghanistan

TOKYO, 1 Nov— Pakistani officials have rejected a German newspaper reportthat suggested that the country’s secret service spied on German security forcesin Afghanistan. Without citing its sources, Bild am Sonntag had reported thatGermany’s BND foreign intelligence agency warned its interior ministry thatPakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had spied on 180 German policeofficers deployed in Afghanistan to train locals.

A Pakistani foreign ministry official, however, described the report as“ridiculous” and “useless”, the Dawn reports. Pakistan military spokesmanMajor-General Athar Abbas said the report was not worth commenting on.

According to the interior ministry, the BND suspected a German email hadbeen intercepted but could not give confirmation. The ministry added it wasnot aware of any comprehensive interception of German police data, the papersaid. Bild am Sonntag had earlier said private telephone calls, messages to theministry, military mission orders and lists of police officer names had beenintercepted.—Internet

Baghdad’s security spokesman Major GeneralQassim al-Moussawi (C) and army soldiersinspect weapons and explosive materials,

confiscated after raiding a weapon cache, inwestern Baghdad recently. One suspectedmilitant was arrested during an army raid,

Moussawi said.—REUTERS

Dates set for US general election debatesWASHINGTON, 1 Nov— While the

Republican presidential nomination isfar from settled, the dates and sites fordebates between the Republicannominee and President Barack Obamahave been announced.

Frank J Fahrenkopf, Jr, andMichael D McCurry, co-chairmen of

the non-partisan, non-profit Commissionon Presidential Debates (CPD) onMonday announced sites and dates forthree presidential and one vicepresidential debates during the 2012general election. The first presidentialdebate will be held on 3 Oct at theUniversity of Denver, Denver, Colorado.

It will be followed by a vice presidentialdebate on 11 Oct at the Centre College,Danville, Kentucky.

The second and third presidentialdebates are scheduled on 16 Oct at theHofstra University, Hempstead, NewYork, and 22 Oct at the Lynn University,Boca Raton, Florida, respectively.

Following the announcement, Obama’scampaign manager Jim Messinareleased a statement. “The Presidentlooks forward to next year’s debates,”the statement said. “Once theRepublicans have selected theircandidate, we will work through thedetails with their campaign and theCommission on Presidential Debates.”

Xinhua

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In this 28 Sept, 2010 file photo, smokelesstobacco products, including Ariva, are displayedin Richmond, Va. Tobacco maker Star Scientific

Inc says it has developed a moist smokelesstobacco with lower levels of cancer-causing

chemicals than any other tobacco product nowon the market. Star Scientific says the“modified-risk” label that the FDA is

developing belongs on the new Stonewall Moist-BDL because it contains 90 percent to 99

percent less tobacco-specific carcinogens thanother smokeless tobacco products.—INTERNET

Mysterious role of renin in hypertension unlockedSYDNEY, 1 Nov—A Sydney medical scientist

has finally uncovered a secret central to the causeof high blood pressure after a 40-year long hunt.

Professor Brian Morris and his SydneyUniversity team have found hitherto mysteriousrole of the enzyme renin in triggering the condition.

The research is the first of its kind to use humankidneys. It opens the way for more targeted drugs,which could transform treatment of high bloodpressure, a very strong risk factor for heart attackand stroke.

Morris, one of Australia’s leading geneticscientists, first began studying renin as a youngstudent in the early 1970s.

Now another young scientist, his PhD student,Brazilian Francine Marques, has performed thelaboratory work, under his supervision, whichhelped clinch these new findings that may haveinternational significance.

While renin was thought to play a significantrole in high blood pressure, how it worked toachieve this was something that had eludedresearchers for many years, Professor Morris noted.

His team identified the decisive role of twomicro-RNAs - novel genetic material that has adestabilising effect on the production of renin fromits gene.

Their research showed that in hypertensivekidneys the renin gene was six times more activewhile the micro-RNAs were six times less so.

‘“That is the key. These two micro-RNAs arevery much lower in hypertensive people. So if youlose those, the renin goes up, thus raising bloodpressure,” the Sydney Morning Herald quotedMorris as saying.

“This is a totally new concept … tremendouslyexciting. No one has ever found anything like thisto do with rennin,” he added.

The discovery of the role of the two micro-RNAs could lead to the development ofhypertension drugs, which could be designed to“knock down renin expression at its source.”

The study has been published in the onlineversion of Hypertension, the journal of the AmericanHeart Association.

Internet

Dollar soars after Japan’s interventionNEW YORK, 1 Nov—The dollar soared on Monday after Japan’s latest

intervention.The Bank of Japan sold yen and bought dollars during Tokyo trading

Monday to stop the yen from rising. The yen has risen 7 percent against thedollar since the beginning of this year, hitting a post-World War II high,which hurt Japan’s important industry of export and triggered the new roundof intervention.

The dollar jumped to the three-month high of 78.05 Japanese yen lateMonday from 75.75 yen late Friday. And lingering European debt worrieskept pressuring the euro as the newly-reached debt deal lacked details andItaly’s yield of 10- year bond rose above 6 percent.—Xinhua

Foreign exchange dealers work at a dealing room inTokyo, Japan, on 31 Oct, 2011.—XINHUA

Salespersons sell beef in a grocery in Buenos Aires,Argentina, 31 Oct, 2011. Owing to the surging rises

of beef price in the country, the per capitaconsumption of beef is only 53 kilograms a year, the

lowest level in Argentina in 52 years. —XINHUA

In this photo taken on 12 Oct,2011, an employee poses forphotographs with a pack of

Beneforte super broccoli at abranch of Marks & Spencer in

London. The new variety was bredto contain two to three times the

normal amount of glucoraphanin, anutrient believed to help ward off

heart disease.—INTERNET

Yoga may help ease chronic back painBEIJING, 1 Nov— Yoga might help

people reduce chronic back pain,according to a new British studycarried by the Annals of InternalMedicine.

The study, conducted in Britain,followed 313 adults with nonspecificchronic back pain.

It found that three months ofweekly yoga classes can ease backpain more than the usual course ofcare. Even a year later, patients withsuch pain who had participated inyoga classes reported less pain thanthose who hadn’t.

US federalgovernment to

borrow 305billion dollars

in currentquarter

Oil edges down on stronger dollarNEW YORK, 1 Nov— US oil price edged down on

Monday as the dollar strengthened after Japan’s latestintervention. The dollar rose more than 3 percent to itsthree-month high against the yen Monday after Japan’snew round of intervention. And the euro dropped sharplyagainst the dollar. The dollar index, tracking the greenback’sperformance against a basket of currencies, rose about 1.5percent. Stronger dollar pressured the dollar-denominatedcrude oil.

MF Global Holdings, a futures broker, filed for Chapter11 bankruptcy protection, triggering caution across themarkets. Traders trimmed positions. And the trading volumeswere low, with US WTI about 70 percent below its 30-dayaverage and Brent nearly 50 percent below its 30-dayaverage. Crude analysts predicted markets would see lowvolume through the week as the European debt worriescontinued and investors awaited the Federal Reserve’s newdirection in monetary policy.—Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 1 Nov—The US TreasuryDepartment announcedon Monday that it expectsto borrow 305 billiondollars in the October toDecember 2011 quarter.

This borrowingestimate is 21 billiondollars higher thanpreviously announced inJuly 2011, said thedepartment in astatement.

During the Januaryto March 2012 quarter,the US federalgovernment is estimatedto issue 541 billiondollars in net marketabledebt.

The Treasury alsosaid that during the Julyto September 2011quarter, it issued 286billion dollars in netmarketable debt.

Due to the financialcrisis and economicrecession, borrowings ofthe US government haveincreased dramaticallyover the past three years.

The US federalbudget deficit hit almost1.3 trillion dollars in fiscalyear 2011 ending inSeptember, 50 billiondollars more than in theprevious year.

Xinhua

“Even for patients who still hadpain, they showed an improvement inbeing able to perform their normaldaily activities,” said study researcherDavid Torgerson, of the University ofYork. Yoga has long been studied asa treatment for back pain because ofits combined focus on stretching,strengthening and relaxing.

But further studies are needed toexplore how yoga or stretching canease more severe back pain, or helppatients who have other healthproblems besides their back pain.

Xinhua

US stocks endrobust October on

down notesNEW YORK, 1 Nov— US

stocks ended a robust Octoberon down notes, taking away abig chunk of the monthlygains, as renewed concernsover the European debt crisisspurred sell-offs on Monday.

The blue-chip Dow fellmore than 2.2 percent at theclose. The broader S&Pdeclined nearly 2.5 percent andthe tech-heavy Nasdaqdropped nearly 2 percent.

Xinhua

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Science

China successfully launches unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8

BEIJING, 1 Nov—China has successfullylaunched its unmannedspacecraft Shenzhou-8for the country’s firstspace docking. It marksa major step towards thenation’s ultimate goal ofbuilding a permanentspace station by around20-20.

It’s a breathtakingcountdown to anothermilestone on China’sspace journey.Shenzhou-8 blasts off,high into the sky.

It’s carried by amodified model of theLong March CZ-2Frocket.

Escape tower, rocketbooster and fairing aresequentially separated.

Back on the ground,space engineers aretracking the spacecraftto check whethereverything is working asexpected.

The staff declare allsystems normal, theinterfaces of different

A modified model of the Long March CZ-2Frocket carrying the unmanned spacecraft

Shenzhou-8 blasts off from the launch pad atthe Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in

northwest China’s Gansu Province, on 1 Nov,2011.—XINHUA

Beijing, Shenzhou-8 hasentered the targetedorbit. I declare the launcha success.”

The spacecraft is dueto dock with China’s firstspace lab moduleTiangong-1 within twodays.

They will separateafter flying together for12 days but are set tocarry out a seconddocking later on.

The successfulcompletion of themission will make Chinathe third nation in theworld to master thedocking technology afterthe US and Russia,paving the way for thenation to place a spacestation in orbit around2020. But morechallenges remain aheadfor China as it strives torealize its dream of amanned space station.

Shenzhou 9 andShenzhou 10 areawaiting take-off to workwith the space labTiangong-1 on futuremissions.—Xinhua

LONDON, 1 Nov—Dutch scientists have come upwith a self mending plastic, dubbed ‘Supra B’ thatheals itself when broken, without the help of glue.

With the development of this new material,children’s broken toys could be easily put backtogether even after the most destructive play session,they say.

The material- supramolecular polymer, whichis being developed by chemical companyAkzoNobel in conjunction with scientists at theEindhoven University of Technology in theNetherlands, can repair itself simply by holding thetwo pieces together.

“We are working on polymers that are able toheal themselves,” the Telegraph quoted GrahamArmstrong, corporate director of research,development and innovation at AkzoNobel, as

Soon, ‘supra’ plastic that heals itself when broken or cut

E-books get heavier as you download more textLONDON, 1 Nov—E-

books get heavierwhenever users down-load a new text, a newstudy has suggested.

However theincrease in weight doesnot make a significantdifference, as each newbook is just as heavy as asingle molecule of DNA.

Thus, filling a 4GBKindle to its storage limitwould increase its weightby a billionth of abillionth of a gram.

Prof John Kubia-

towicz a computerscientist at the Universityof California, Berkeley,explained in the New YorkTimes that storing newdata involves holdingelectrons in a fixed placein the device’s memory,the Telegraph reported.

Although the elec-trons are already presentbut keeping them stillrather than allowing themto float around takes upextra energy – about abillionth of a microjouleper bit of data. E-books.—INTERNET

Apple’s iPhone 4S has battery trouble

BEIJING, 1 Nov—Hundreds of people arereporting on socialnetworks that the iPhone4S is running out ofpower far sooner thanexpected and muchquicker than Applepromised, according toMercury News reportsTuesday.

Some users arecomplaining that evenwith minimal use, thedevice can’t make itthrough a workdaywithout needing to berecharged.

Apple says thatiPhone 4S ownersshould get up to 8 hoursof talk time and up to 6hours of time surfing the

Web when connected to3G networks and up to200 hours of standbytime.

So far, Apple hasn’tcommented publicly onthe problem andcompany representa-tives didn’t respond torequests for comment.

But Apple engineershave quietly contactedsome users who havecomplained about theproblem, according toThe Guardian report lastFriday.

However, theproblem doesn’t affectall iPhone 4S usersworldwide.

Tim Bajarin, aprincipal analyst atCreative Strategies, a

tech research firm andconsultancy, said hiscompany has beentesting out three or fouriPhone 4Ss, but hadn’tbeen able to duplicatethe problem.

Battery problemsaside, the iPhone 4S hasbeen a big hit so far.

Apple sold 4 millionunits in the first weekendwhen the new gadgetwas on sale, setting arecord not only forApple, but for anyphone.—Xinhua

saying.“They use supramolecular chemistry, which

exploits some of the lessons we have learned fromthe way proteins bind together in biology. It meanswe can have solids that genuinely can heal.”

The scientists have also claimed that the newplastic could be used in car chassis to evade theneed for costly repair work after an accident.

The material takes advantage of hydrogenbonding that gives water its viscosity and surfacetension.

In Supra B, the scientists have quadrupled thenumber of hydrogen bonds between the smallplastic, or polymer, molecules to make it as strongas other forms of plastic, but does not entail achemical reaction to join them together.

Internet

Tech

Science

Tech

Asteroid may yield cluesabout Earth’s formation

LONDON, 1 Nov—A half-km wide asteroid whichstreaks past the Earth next week could provideclues about how the planet was formed.

The space rock, which is known as “2005YU55” and is as big as an aircraft carrier, will passearth within 320,000 km on 8 Nov.

The asteroid, in orbit around the Sun, has notbeen this close to the Earth in 200 years and willcome closer to the planet than any other asteroid ofits size in the past 35 years, the Telegraph reports.

The last time a similarly large rock passed by atsuch a short distance was in 1976, but it wentlargely unnoticed because everybody— theNational Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) of the US included—failed to notice it.

Now, astronomers who missed that event willhave another chance of a close encounter as thegigantic object whizzes by the earth next Tuesday.

It will not be visible to the naked eye butamateur astronomers stand a good chance ofcatching a glimpse of it provided they have atelescope at least six inches in diametre.

NASA scientists, who have officially classifiedthe asteroid as a “near-earth object”, will use a radartelescope to analyse exactly what it is made of andget a better idea where it comes from.

A spokesman said: “We hope to obtain imagesthat should reveal a wealth of detail about theasteroid’s surface features, shape, dimensions andother physical properties.”—Internet

According to thescientists, E-readers canalso become slightlyheavier in summers,because they take upmore energy from theirexposure to sunlight.

Internet

Science

systems are wellcoordinated, and allfacilities are sound.

Vice Premier ZhangDejiang and Vicechairman of the CentralMilitary Commission XuCaihou were on hand atthe launch centre towitness the excitingmoment.

When Shenzhou-8entered its intendedorbit, cheers of

celebration burst out atthe mission control.

It was relief as wellas elation in the air as thechief commanderdeclared the launch asuccess.

Chang Wanquan,Chief Commander ofChina Manned SpaceEngineering Project,said, “ According to theAerospace commandand Control Centre in

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6 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 2 November, 2011

Vice-President

Thiha Thura

U Tin Aung Myint

Oo receives Special

Adviser to the

UNSG and Under-

Secretary-General

Mr. Vijay Nambiar.

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MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Nov — Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw Thura UShwe Mann received Norwegian Minister of the Environment andInternational Development Mr Erik Solheim and party at theHluttaw Building here today.

At the meeting, they exchanged views on environmentalconservation in Myanmar and measures being taken by the Hluttawfor meeting expectations of the people and cooperation with inter-national organizations in international affairs.

Also present at the call were Vice-Speaker of Pyithu HluttawU Nanda Kyaw Swa and chairman and secretaries of the commit-tees for Hlutaw affairs.

MNA

Pyithu Hluttaw Speakerreceives Norwegian

Minister

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Nov—A representative team from the InternationalMonetary Fund visited Myanmar from 19 October to 1 November.

A statement issued by the team after conclusion of its mission is asfollows:-

Statement at the Conclusion of the Article VIIIMission to Myanmar

The following statement was issued today in Nay Pyi Taw, after theconclusion of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) Article VIII mission to

Statement at the Conclusion of theArticle VIII Mission to Myanmar

Press ReleaseFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENovember 1, 2011

Myanmar:“A team from the Monetary and Capital Markets, Legal, and Asia and

Pacific Departments of the IMF has visited Myanmar during October 19-November 1, 2011, at the request of the Central Bank of Myanmar to discussits plans to unify the exchange rate regime and lift restrictions on currentinternational payments and transfers with the intention of accepting Myanmar’sobligations under Article VIII, Sections 2 (a), 3 and 4 of the IMF’s Articlesof Agreement. IMF members accepting the obligations of Article VIIIundertake to refrain from imposing exchange restrictions on the making ofpayments and transfers for current international transactions or from engagingin discriminatory currency arrangements or multiple currency practiceswithout IMF approval.

“The team met with government officials, banks, and public andprivate sector representatives to conduct an initial diagnostic assessment ofthe legal framework and actual market practices governing the exchange ratesystem of Myanmar and, in particular, the existing exchange restrictions andmultiple currency practices. The mission team would like to thank theircounterparts for their cooperation and productive engagement.

“The team will continue its work from the IMF Headquarters incooperation with Myanmar authorities as they formulate their policiestowards accepting the obligations of Article VIII. The team expects to visitMyanmar again for a follow up mission in early in 2012.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Oct—TheMeeting No (1/2011) of VehicleImport Supervisory Committee washeld at the Ministry of Commercehere this afternoon, with the addressby Chairman of the Committee UnionMinister for Commerce U Win Myint.

The meeting focused onissuing permits for opening Used CarSale Centre and Vehicle Importpermits.

Members of the committee

Vehicle Import Supervisory Committee meetsdeputy ministers, directors-general,and officials of Industrial DevelopmentCommittee, and Nay Pyi Taw, Yangonand Mandalay City DevelopmentCommittee also attended the meeting.

For enquiry and makingcomplaints, one may contact theMinistry of Commerce (Ph: 067-408002, 067-408216, 067-408232,067-408316) and the Ministry of RailTransportation (Ph: 067-405034).

MNAChairman of Vehicle Import Supervisory Committee Union Minister for

Commerce U Win Myint addresses the meeting.—MNA

Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann receives Norwegian Minister ofEnvironment and International Development Mr Erik Solheim—MNA

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Vice-President Dr Sai MaukKham enjoys…

(from page 1)Next, the Vice-

President and partyposed for documentaryphoto together withmembers of the

Chinese troupe.The Chinese

disabled people’sperforming art troupehas a plan to performentertainment as My

Dream Charity Showat the National Theatrein Yangon on 3 and 4November. Theproceeds from the showwill go to charity forunits for the disabledin Myanmar.

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NAY PYI TAW, 1Nov—Chairman of theUnion ElectionCommission U Tin Ayereceived Special Adviserto the Secretary-Generalof the United Nations

Special Adviser to UNSG andUnder-Secretary-General and partycalls on Union Election Commission

and Under-Secretary-General Mr. VijayNambiar and party at thecommission office, here,at 5 pm today.

Also present at thecall were members of

the Union ElectionCommission. Theycordially discussedmatters related toelection and politicalparties.

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Union A & I Ministerreceives Vietnamese guests

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Nov—President and CEO MrCao Hoaiduong ofPetroVietnam Oil andGas Group and ChairmanMr Nguyen Duc Thanthof PetroVietnamFertilizer and ChemicalsCorporation, accom-panied by VietnameseAmbassador to MyanmarMr Chu Cong Phung,paid a call on UnionMinister for Agricultureand Irrigation U Myint

Hlaing at his office herethis morning.

The Union Ministerand Vietnamese guestsdiscussed cooperation inagricultural sector of thetwo nations, importationof fertilizer from Vietnamand matters related toagricultural develop-ment.

Also present at thecall were Deputy MinisterU Ohn Than andofficials.—MNA

NA Y PYI TAW, 1 Nov —Tatmadawmen have volunteeredto clean up homes and roads, tocarry out road works to removedebris in the flood-hit villges inPakokku District.

Joining hands with localvillagers, the Tatmadawmenfrom Pakokku, Yesagyo,Monywa, Meiktila, Kyauk-padaung, Magway stations alsosank tube-wells, dredging drains,

Rehabilitation continues in flood-hitareas in Pakokku District

provided medical treatment tovillagers.

Besides, the Tatmadawmenfrom Pakokku and Monywastations volunteered to constructfive houses where flood-hitfamilies in Ward-3, Pakokkuwould be resettled and toconstruct 18 tents, and so far atotal of 299 tents have been setup.

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Union Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlaing receives a delegationled by Vietnamese Ambassador to Myanmar Mr Chu Cong Phung.—MNA

Chairman of UEC

U Tin Aye receives

Special Adviser to

UNSG and Under-

Secretary-General

Mr. Vijay

Nambiar.

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Photo shows a scene of entertainment of My Dream Chinesedisabled people’s performing art troupe.—MNA

Vice-President Dr Sai MaukKham enjoys

entertainment ofMy Dream

Chinese disabledpeople’s

performing arttroupe.

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 2 November, 2011

U Hla Myint Oo

of Pyinmana

Constituency

asking question.

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Deputy

Minister

for Elec-

tric Power

No. 2 U

Aung

Than Oo

replies to

queries.

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(from page 16)approved by Pyidaungsu Hluttaw to the Constitu-tional Tribunal of the Union for vetting is a proposal.Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Rule 60 states those eligible forsubmitting proposals and Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Rule61 suggests the procedures for submitting proposals.The proposal is not accorded with Law and Rules asno representative made it.

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law Chapter (6) Sections(42), (44) and (45) prescribes that Pyidaungsu Hluttawhas legislative power and the Hluttaw Speaker shallsend these bills to the President in accord withPyidaungsu Hluttaw Rules (106). Duties of the Con-stitutional Tribunal of the Union are mentioned inSection (322) of the Constitution. They are alsoprescribed in Constitutional Tribunal of the UnionLaw Chapter (3) Section (12). The Tribunal has rightsonly to assess laws prescribed by Pyidaungsu Hluttawin accord with Tribunal Rule (3) Sub-Rule (b) andRule (3) Sub-Rule (h). So, the decision of PyidaungsuHluttaw Speaker to send bills to Constitutional Tribunalof the Union for vetting is not accorded with Law andRules of the Tribunal.

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw discharges duties to carryout legislation. The Constitutional Tribunal of theUnion assumes duties of judiciary prescribed in Chap-ter (6) of the Constitution. It means PyidaungsuHluttaw Speaker included the Tribunal’s judicial sectorto legislation. If the bills are doubted whether they areaccorded with the Constitution, the cases will besubmitted only to Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and discussedthere. When the arguments arise after enacting as law,the judgment of the Tribunal should be acquired.Eligible persons to submit laws to the Tribunal arestated in Sections (325) and (326) of the Constitution.

The Hluttaw Rights Committee of Pyithu Hluttawconcluded that the decision should be objected andcancelled as it is not accorded with the Constitution orother Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law and Rules concerned.

The proposal was made to seek approval of theHluttaw through the Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw, hesaid.

U Ba Shein of Kyaukpyu Constituency, U TheinNyunt of Thingangyun Constituency, Daw Dwe Bu ofN’Jangyang Constituency, U Thaung of MawlaikConstituency, U Thein Swe of An Constituency, UAung Mya Thein of Nyaungdon Constituency andDaw Nan Wah Nu of Kunhing Constituency discussedthat the matter should be systematic submitted asproposal and there should be seconded, suggested anddiscussed. So, it is legally incorrect. And the proposalto object and reverse decision in Agenda 13 ofPyidaungsu Hluttaw on that day is intensely seconded.

As there is no one against the proposal whileseeking approval of the Hluttaw, the proposal wasapproved.

In response to discussions, the Pyithu HluttawSpeaker said democratic practices are being adoptedin Hluttaw. Although the decision in PyidaungsuHluttaw damages the reputation of Hluttaw, the sub-mission of proposal and discussions now are assumedto restore the reputation of the State and Hluttaw.

U Sai Tun Aye of the Mongkai constituencyasked whether there was a plan to sell CDMA orGSM mobile phones in Mongkai and townships in itsenviron.

Deputy Minister for Communications, Posts andTelegraphs U Tint Lwin replied that there were a dialexchange system comprising 200 telephone lines and199 telephones had been installed in Mongkai. Fortrunk calls, the exchange station used a facsimile

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telephone and an office phone at the General Admin-istration Department there after connecting Panglongauto telephone and MPT satellite Terminal telephonestations through Yinkwetaung Microwave Station.

Those telephones were used depending on powersupply, and if necessary, they could be used aroundthe clock. Besides, private MPT SatelliteTerminalphones had been installed in Mongkai. It was expectedthat CDMA-450 MHz telephones could be used inMongkai in December as equipment for CDMA-400450-MHz telephone lines would be transported at theend of October and transmission would be carried outin November, the deputy minister said.

Similarly, two representatives asked two ques-tions related to environment and Union Minister forEnvironmental Conservation and Forestry U WinTun.

U Aye Myint of Insein Constituency asked

whether research groups closely supervised somefactories of environmental unfriendly industrialzones to treat the wastewater as the wastewaterfrom the factories were composed with chemicals.

The Union Minister replied that Industrial Coor-dination and Inspection Department of the Ministryof Industry-1 carried out regular inspections of fac-tories and workshops in region and states and alsosigned agreement with them to obey rules forenvironmental conservation. An envirionmentalconservation group led by the head of the researchand development department under the Ministry ofIndustry-2 had also carried out inspections of thefactories and workshops occasionally. MyanmarInvestment Commission had allowed factories andworkshops after Environmental Impact Accessment(EIA) and Social Impact Access (SIA).

The sub-committee for development of industrialzones of the Industrial Development Committee hadcoordinated with chief ministers of the regions andstates and had supervised planting trees, sewagetreatment and decreasing environmental pollution.Myanmar Industrial Products Manufacturers Associa-tion had conducted courses for workers of the factoriesand workshops. Under the directive of the UnionGovernment, the supervisory committee comprising21 members from different ministries had planned tocarry out measures for systematic treatment of wastematerials and water from factories and workshops.Not to pollute the river water, standardization of thewaste water was included in the bill of theEnvironmental Law and after the law was enacted,measures would be carried out effectively.

U Win Swe of Nyaungshwe Constituency askeda question about the management of entrance fees toInlay Region and whether the collected fees can bemainly used for conservation of Inlay Lake.

The Union Minister replied that the Ministry ofEnvironmental Conservation and Forestry is preserv-ing Inlay Lake Wildlife Sanctuary as natural regionand Forest Department collects no fees from local andforeign visitors to the region except the admission feescollected under state arrangement.

Using entrance fees in conserving and sustaining

Inlay Lake is concerned with the state administrativeorgan concerned. The Ministry of EnvironmentalConservation and Forestry, in cooperation with inter-national government departments, UN agencies, andnon-governmental organizations is increasingly un-dertaking Inlay Lake conservation works, seekingtechnical and financial assistance for conservationworks in addition to allotted funds of the State andadopting national-level conservation plans.

Deputy Minister for Electric Power No.2 U AungThan Oo replied to six questions raised by five Hluttawrepresentatives.

U Lwin Oo of Thanlyin Constituency askedwhether there is a plan to resume electricity supplyto Wabalaukthauk Village in Kawhmu Township aswooden lamp-posts in the village were damagedsince 1995 and whether there is plan to supplyelectricity to 43 village-tracts in eight townships inYangon (south) District under rural electricity sup-ply programme.

The deputy minister said that in 1992, the Statestarted to supply electricity to the village in 1992,constructing 10 KV transformer and 9.5 miles long 11KV power line from its fund letting the villagers buildlamp-posts on their own. During the storm in 25-4-2002, 197 out of 247 lamp-posts were damaged and theministry had kept the power lines as the village couldnot build new lamp-posts in place of damaged ones.

Yangon City Electricity Supply Board is under-taking extension and renovation works according tothe list of priorities based on the granted fund and thesame will be applied on the case of resumption ofelectricity supply to the village.

Regarding the second question, the deputy minis-ter said that currently 22 villages in Yangon (South)District are on the list of rural electricity supplyagenda. Yangon City Electricity Supply Board, inextending power coverage, is supplying electricity torural villages based on the annual allotted fund. If avillage wishes to use electricity prior to the prioritizedelectricity supply plans of the ministry, it can set up aself-reliant village electricity supply committee underthe agreement of the villagers and apply to the ministrythrough respective township electrical offices.

The Ministry of Electric Power No (2) is allowingvillages bid for electricity in line with rules andregulations and also rendering technical assistance.

U Thein Yi of Htantabin Constituency askedwhether there is a plan to supply electricity to 10-village tract including Lamu Village in HtantabinTownship in Yangon Region under village electricitysupply programme.

The deputy minister said that about 10 miles of33 KIV power lines, one 33/0.4 KV 100 KVA trans-former, two 160 KVA transformers, three 200 KVAtransformers and three 315 KVA transformers, totaling

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(from page 16)The proposal submitted by U Nay Win Tun of

Shan State Constituency No. 9 was amended as theproposal to allow establishment of mining develop-ment foundation in line with existing laws. Then thewishes of the representatives were gathered throughstanding system. As over 40 members of representa-tives have stood, the proposal was approved.

In seeking approval for the bill, member ofthe Amyotha Hluttaw Bill Committee U Mahn AungTin Myint explained scrutiny of the Bill Committee onthe report concerning the Vacant, Fallow and VirginLands Management Bill, and the Hluttaw soughtparagraph-wise approval.

The Hluttaw approved amendments of theAmyotha Hluttaw Bill Committee on paragraphs 2(b), 2 (f) and 2 (h) in Chapter I, paragraph 3 in ChapterII, paragraph 6 (c) in Chapter III, paragraphs 10 (a) and11 in Chapter IV, paragraphs 16 (b) and 16 (e) inChapter VI, paragraphs 17, 18, 19 and 22 (c) inChapter VII, paragraph 25 in Chapter VIII and para-graph 30 in Chapter X. As there was no objectionagainst the proposal “From paragraphs 1 to 34 of thebill shall be part of the bill” and the proposal “the titleof the bill shall be part of the bill”, the proposals wereapproved.

With regard to the Pyithu Hluttaw Bill, U PaulHlyan Lwin of Chin State Constituency No. 9 dis-

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(from page 8)nine transformers and low-volt power lines such as400-volt and 230-volt power lines will be needed tosupply electricity from 33 KV Hlinethaya-Nyaungdonpower grid to Parut, Lamu, Sandayaw, Yeso, Mangay,Mashwe-u, and Pandaing villages, and from 33 KVHlinethaya-Shwelinpan (West University) to Deikkonand Hteinhnabin villages.

The Yangon Electricity Supply Board,depending on the annual allotted fund, carrying outvillage electricity supply works in expanding powersupply system. If a village wishes to use electricity priorto the prioritized electricity supply plans of the ministry,it can set up a self-reliant village electricity supplycommittee under the agreement of the villagers andapply to the ministry through respective townshipelectrical engineer’s offices.

U Thaung of Mawlaik Constituency asked ifthe government could provide a 150 KVA dieselengine for power supply in Mawlaik, the deputyminister said that electricity is currently supplied to 609users in Mawlaik of Sagaing Region about 2.30 hrs aday with one 608 KVA Skoda generator, one 300 KVA

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Camming generator, one 5 KVA Nissan generator andone 25 KVA Nibban generator, using 1250 gallons ofdiesel monthly.

Htamanthi-Phaungpyin-Mawlaik-Kalewa-Monywa power grids have been proposed in connec-tion with Htamanthi and Mawlaik hydropower projectsand on completion of those projects, national grid cansupply electricity to Mawlaik. It is being arranged toprovide one 500 KVA diesel generator to Mawlaikwithin 2011-2012 fiscal year before the launch of thoseprojects.

U Nyan Swe Win of Kyaukkyi Constituencyasked if there is a plan to supply electricity from thenational grid to Mone Sub-township in KyaukkyiTownship of Bago Region. The deputy minister saidthat electricity is currently supplied to 263 users abouttwo hours a day in Mone Sub-township with one 100KVA Skoda generator and one 36 KVA Skoda generator.

To supply electricity to the sub-township fromthe national grid through 33/11 KV (5) MVA powerstation in Pyu, it will be needed to construct 19 miles of11 KVA power lines, three 11/0.4 KV 315 KVAtransformers and 3.18 miles of 40-volt power lines. TheMinistry of Electric Power No (2) will arrange for thisdepending on the budget of priority, said the deputyminister.

Regarding the question of U Hla Myint Oo of

Pyinmana Constituency about arrangements for sup-ply of electricity to hilly regions in the east of PyinmanaTownship, the deputy minister replied that electricity isto be supplied to the hilly regions in the east ofPyinmana Township from ongoing Upper PaunglaungHydropower Project and Nancho Hydropower Projectand 230 KV power grid and power stations are neededto send electricity generated by those projects to thenational grid. It will be needed to construct 60 miles of33 KV power lines to Pogon Village of HteinbinVillage-tract, one 33/11 KV (2) MVA power station inPogon Village, 30 miles of 11 KV power lines from thepower station to Ywagyi, and 10 miles of 11 KV powerlines to Leinli to supply 20-mile radius of PogonVillage. The Ministry of Electric Power No (1) will takeresponsibility of constructing hydropower plants andthe Ministry of Electric Power No (2) power stations.

According to current conditions, supply ofelectricity to villages in other hilly regions, that are outof the reach of the national grid through solar powersystem, bio-gas power plant and diesel generator shouldbe arranged by the region or state concerned and theMinistry of Electric Power No (2) will provide technicalassistance if necessary.

The meeting came to an end at 3.30 pm and the45th day session continues at 10 am on 3 November.

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cussed that he would like to amend paragraph12 (f) in Chapter IV. The Amyotha Hluttaw BillCommittee decided to re-hear the discussion on theamendment. The Hluttaw approved paragraph-wisefor the Region or State Hluttaw Bill sent by thePyithu Hluttaw with amendment.

The amendments of the Amyotha HluttawBill Committee—paragraph 2 (k) in Chapter I, para-graphs 9 (e) and 9 (f) in Chapter IV, paragraph 21 inChapter VI, paragraphs 28, 42 and 49 in Chapter VII,paragraphs 78, 79 and 80 in Chapter XIV—wereapproved. The Hluttaw decided that the AmyothaHluttaw is to re-hear the discussion of paragraph 12 (f)in Chapter IV.

The Amyotha Hluttaw was informed that thePyithu Hluttaw sent the Bill Amending the PoliticalParties Registration Law without amendment, and

such bill was approved at the Amyotha Hluttaw on 18October.

Dr Aye Maung of Rakhine State ConstituencyNo. 1 sought the permission to submit the Bill Amend-ing the Law on Salary, Allowance and Regalia ofRegion or State Level Persons to the Hluttaw. TheHluttaw announced that the submission of 23 AmyothaHluttaw representatives including Dr Aye Maung tocompare and define some sections of the constitutionand section 4 (c) and section 5 of the Salary, Allowanceand Regalia of Region or State Level Persons will besent to the Constitutional Tribunal of the State. Thus,submission for the bill will be decided after seeking thedecision of the Constitutional Tribunal of the State.

Today’s session of the Amyotha Hluttawended at 12.50 pm and the 44th day session continuesat 1 pm tomorrow.—MNA

U Zon Hle

Htan of Chin

State Constitu-

ency No. 2

participates in

discussions.

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U Khet Htein Nan

of Kachin State

Constituency

No. 1 participates

in discussions.

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NAY PYI TAW, 1 Nov—The first daysecond regular session of first Shan StateHluttaw was held at the meeting hall of theState Hluttaw yesterday morning, attendedby Shan State Chief Minister U Sao AungMyat, Shan State Hluttaw Speaker U SaiLon Hsai and 138 Hluttaw representatives.

At the first day session, approvalwas sought for compilation of the 2011-2012 estimated financial account and the2012-2013 budget, recompilation of thefifth short-term five year plan, assignmentfor implementation of the eight tasks forrural development and poverty alleviation,ten questions were asked, three newproposals were submitted.

Second regular session of first Shan State Hluttaw heldThe second day session of the first

Shan State Hluttaw continued at 10 am today,attended by the Shan State Chief Minister,the Shan State Hluttaw Speaker and 139Hluttaw representatives. At the today’ssession, 20 questions raised were replied bythe Shan State ministers, one of three proposalssubmitted yesterday was decided to not beapproved, two proposals were withdrawnand one new proposal was submitted.

The today’s session came to an endat 1.15pm.—MNA

Second regular session of first ShanState Hluttaw in progress.—MNA

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Pigeons fly in the fog-enveloped sky in Beijing,Capital of China, on 31 Oct, 2011. Heavy fog

continues to shroud the city as influenced by thechanging of seasons.—XINHUA

Falling telecom mastcrashes two to deathin southwest Ghana

TAKORADI, 1 Nov—Two workers of a telecomsengineering company were killed here on Mondaywhen an obsolete mast they were dismantling felldown, crashing them to death.

The deceased, Paul Opare, 30, and SolomonBabbey, 31, who were employees of IPF MastConstruction Company Ltd, were in the companyof six other colleagues when the incident tookplace at Mpohor, 90 km north of the Western port Cityof Takoradi, 218 km west of the Capital Accra.

Speaking to Xinhua, Kwesimintsim District PoliceCommander DSP Ayamga Aklogo Yakubu saidthe company had been contracted by MobileTelecoms Network (MTN), Ghana’s largest mobiletelephone company to erect a mast for them.

“But upon reaching the location, the companyrealized there was an obsolete mast on site, so thetwo were asked to climb and dismantle it,” Yakubusaid.

“Paul Opare died instantly but Solomon Gabbywas later confirmed dead at the EffiakwesimintimRegional Hospital where he was rushed to,” headded.

He said the two corpses had been deposited atthe hospital at Efiakwesimintim, suburb ofTakoradi, while police had started investigations.

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Dense fog shrouds east China, rain to hitcentral and western regions

5.5-magnitude quake hitsSichuan-Gansu border region,

ChinaBEIJING, 1 Nov—An earthquake measuring 5.5

on the Richter scale jolted Sichuan-Gansu borderregion, China at 2011-11- 1 05:58:16 Beijing Timeon Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said.

The epicentre, with a depth of 16.10 km, wasinitially determined to be at 32.5593 degrees northlatitude and 105.3239 degrees east longitude.

People attend the inaugural ceremony of theVoluntary Lugu Lake Patrol at Ninglang,

southwest China’s Yunnan Province, on 30 Oct,2011. The government of Yunnan said it willinvest 256.6 million yuan (40.36 million US

dollars) to improve the environment around theLugu Lake, a major sightseeing spot in Yunnanknown for its marvelous landscape and unique

matriarchal system.—XINHUA

6.0-magnitude quake hits NWChina’s Xinjiang

BEIJING, 1 Nov—An earthquake measuring 6.0on the Richter scale jolted Kazak AutonomousPrefecture of Ili, northwest China’s Xinjiang UygurAutonomous Region at 8:21 am Tuesday BeijingTime, according to the China Earthquake NetworksCentre.

The epicentre, with a depth of 10 km, wasmonitored at about 43.6 degrees north latitude and82.4 degrees east longitude, the centre said in astatement.—Xinhua 10,000 held at British

borders in six years

Thai flood death toll reaches 384,two missing

A man walks in floodwaters in Bangkok, Capital of Thailand, on 31 Oct,2011. So far, about 1,200 households in 13 districts in north, west and

east of Bangkok have been affected by flood that entered the capital midOctober, according to Disaster Prevention and Mitigation report on

Monday.—XINHUA

A pavilion is seencovered with snow in

Urumqi, capital ofnorthwest China’s

Xinjiang UygurAutonomous Region,on 30 Oct, 2011. Thecity saw its first snowof this winter here on

Sunday.XINHUA

LONDON, 1 Nov—Over 10,000 criminals,including rapists and murderers, have been arrestedat Britain’s border points since 2005, according toa government report.

Immigration Minister Damien Green said anaverage of 52 arrests were made each week atairports and ports, thanks to the system ofcomputerised screening of passengers titled “e-Borders”, the Daily Express reported.

In six years, 62 murderers, 200 sex offendersand 454 drugs traffickers have been arrested. Hugeamounts of heroin and cocaine have been seized.

In 2011, 11 murderers, 22 rapists and 316violent criminals have been held.

The e-Borders system screens over 90 percentof all flights into the country from outside theEuropean Union. Compulsory exit checks will beintroduced by 2015.—Internet

BANGKOK, 1 Nov—A total of 384 people were confirmed dead and twopeople were missing in the floods that have inundated the upper part of thecountry for almost three months, the Disaster Prevention and MitigationDepartment reported on Tuesday.

Three more people were confirmed dead on Monday in central provinceof Chainat.

Central Province of Nakhon Sawan has the higest death toll of 59 people,following by central Province of Phichit, of which 50 people killed by flood.

Flash floods were caused by the heavy monsoon “Nock-Ten” andoverflow from several dams in upper part of the country since mid July.

On Saturday, floods still prevail in 26 of 77 provinces and are affectingabout 2.1 people from 720,000 housefolds. The flood have affected about 3 millionhouseholds and about 9. 9 million people in 63 of 77 provinces since on 25 July.About 73 main highways in 15 provinces are flooded and cannot be passed and 18north-bound train routes were cancelled.—Xinhua

BEIJING, 1 Nov— Thickfog continued to blanketChina’s eastern regions onTuesday morning, theNational MeteorologicalCentre said, warning ofincreased traffic safetyrisks.

The country’s topmeteorological authority

issued a blue alertTuesday morning, thelowest in a four-scale alertsystem, urging people infog-affected areas to beaware of the air qualitywhich will be worsenedby the fog.

Fog and haze willdecrease visibility to within

1,000 metres in some partsof Beijing, Liaoning, Hebei,Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui,Zhejiang and Jiangxi, andas low as 500 metres insome areas, the centresaid.

Moderate rainfall isexpected to hit centraland eastern China overnext three days, withsome areas accumu-lating up to 60 mm ofprecipitation, accordingto the centre.

Snow is in anti-cipation for Wednesdayand Thursday inwestern and part ofnortheastern regions, thecentre added.

The fog will disperseas rains move in, thecentre said.

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Cyber attacks reach disturbing levels inBritain

LONDON, 1 Nov—Hacker attacks on Britishgovernment websites haverocketed to “disturbing”levels, a top official hassaid.

Iain Lobham, directorof the country’s biggestintelligence agency, theGovernment Communi-cations Headquarters(GCHQ), said govern-ment computers contaiing

sensitive data as well asdefence, technology andengineering firms’ designswere among targets, TheSun reported.

GCHQ is one of thethree British intelligenceagencies — the othersbeing the Security Service(also known as MI5) andthe Secret IntelligenceService (also known asMI6).

Lobham said therewas “one significant (butunsuccessful) attempt tobreak into the ForeignOffice” computers.

“We are witnessingthe development of a globalcriminal market place —a parallel black economywhere cyber dollars aretraded in exchange forBritish citizens’ credit carddetails,” he said.

Cyber crime costsBritain 27 billion pounds(around USD 43 billion) ayear.—Internet

Drone aircraft that can stayin air for four days set for

maiden flightLONDON, 1 Nov—A

revolutionary droneaircraft that can stay inthe air for four days at65,000 feet is set to makeits maiden flight in a fewdays.

The Phantom Eye,made by Boeing’ssecretive Phantom Worksdivision, is powered byhydrogen and is designedto carry out surveillanceand reconnaissancemissions while remainingat high altitude.

It will produce onlywater as a by-product.

Its inaugural flight willtake place at Edwards AirForce Base in Californiaand is expected to lastbetween four and eighthours.

“Phantom Eye is the

Ships to carry armed guards off SomaliaLONDON, 1 Nov—To

protect against pirateattacks, British merchantships sailing near Somalia’scoast will be allowed tocarry armed guards, PrimeMinister David Cameronsaid.

“The fact that a bunchof pirates in Somalia aremanaging to hold to ransomthe rest of the world andour trading system, I think,

Tourists listen to WA Mozart’s work at his housein Salzburg, Austria, on 27 Oct, 2011.

XINHUA

Father Vijay and mother Anita look at theirbaby girl, Nargis, at a Health Centre in

Mall, Uttar Pradesh, India, on 31 Oct, 2011.India Monday welcomed the world’ s firstsymbolic “seven billionth” citizen, namedNargis, born to a family in the northernstate of Uttar Pradesh. A UN report said

that the world’s 7 billionth baby is expectedto be born in the country’s most populousstate, Uttar Pradesh, on Monday. But the

number is only symbolic.XINHUA

British official lauds relationswith UAE

ABU DHABI, 1 Nov—A top British official, whois on a visit to Abu Dhabi,has lauded the relationshipBritain shares with theUnited Arab Emirates(UAE).

Alistair Burt, ministerfor the Middle East andNorth Africa, Sundaydelivered a lecture on the

Photo taken on 29 Oct, 2011 shows the Kangding Airport in KangdingCounty, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China’sSichuan Province. At an altitude of 4,280 metres above sea level, the

Kangding Airport is the world’s second highest airport after the BangdaAirport in Tibet’s Chamdo Prefecture.—XINHUA

is a complete insult, and sothe rest of the world needsto come together withmuch more vigor,”Cameron said on a BBCprogramme.

The British broad-caster said 49 of theworld’s 53 hijackings lastyear occurred off the coastof Somalia.

As many as 200vessels under the British

merchant navy flagregularly sail close toSomalia.

The Home Office saidit hoped to begin acceptingshipping companylicensing requests within amonth, Financial Timesreported.

The Times saidcompanies with British-registered ships have hadto deal with complicatedlegal and financialimplications of carryingarmed guards and firing

on suspected attackers.Cameron called the

hijacking and ransomingof ships around the Hornof Africa a “complete stainon our world.”

Officials stressedfirearms should be usedonly in “exceptionalcircumstances” and thoselicensed to carry armedguards would face“stringent checks” to makesure weapons were beingused properly.

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Arab revolutions.He stressed on the

UAE-Britain relations,citing that there werearound 100,000 Britishcitizens in the Gulf region.

The minister saidpoverty and unemploy-ment were the main factorsbehind the Arabrevolutions.—Internet

Bangladeshis jailed in Dubai for human traffickingDUBAI, 1 Nov—Five

Bangladeshi nationalshave been sentenced tofive years each in jail oncharges of humantrafficking, a media reportsaid Monday.

Prosecutors said themen conspired with a

travel agent inBangladesh and flew in a21-year-old woman towork in Dubai. But theyforced her intoprostitution, the GulfNews reported.

A Dubai courtconvicted the five men of

forming a humantrafficking group andselling the woman. Theywill be deported toBangladesh after servingtheir terms.

The prosecutors saidthe woman was severelybeaten by her captors and

confined to a flat for fourdays because she resistedtheir attempts.

The men later sold herto an undercoverpoliceman, who told themhe planned to make herwork as a prostitute.

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first of its kind and couldopen up a whole newmarket in collecting dataand communications,” theDaily Mail quoted DarrylDavis, president of BoeingPhantom Works, assaying.

“It is a perfect exampleof turning an idea into areality. It defines our rapidprototyping efforts and willdemonstrate the art-of-the-possible when itcomes to persistentintelligence, surveillanceand reconnaissance.

“The capabilitiesinherent in Phantom Eye’sdesign will offer game-changing opportunities forour military, civil andcommercial customers,”Davis added.

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The Chinese research vessel and icebreaker XueLong, or “Snow Dragon,” arrives in the

northern port of Tianjin on 31 Oct, 2011. XueLong will leave the port on 3 Nov for a six-

month Antarctic expedition, the vessel’s 28thvoyage since 1984.

XINHUA

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV WEST SCENT VOY NO (11022)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV WEST SCENTVOY NO (11022) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 2.11.2011 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and 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 T.S LINESPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV DIBENA WIN VOY NO (146)Consignees of cargo carried on MV DIBENA WIN

VOY NO (146) are hereby notified that the vessel hasarrived on 2.11.2011 and cargo will be discharged intothe premises of S.P.W(3) 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 PHULSAWAT SHIPPINGCO LTD

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

Designers inspired by the past

Models present creations for the NE TIGERCouture 2012 collection with the theme “Tang

Dynasty” on catwalk during China Fashion Weekfor Spring/ Summer 2012 in Beijing.—XINHUA

Boeing lease space shuttle hangar

Fossil feast for ‘zombie worms’

Boeing isto buildspace-craft in

thehangar

thathoused

the spaceshuttle

inFlorida.

INTERNET

NEW YORK , 1 Nov —Boeing is to announceplans to lease the hangerthat housed the space shut-tles to build similar craftsthat will bring people andcargo to space. GovernorRick Scott’s office andPresident BarackObama’s administrationconfirmed plans for theannouncement betweenSpace Florida, the state’sspace agency, and Boeing.

The deal will create

140 jobs over the next 18months and 550 jobs by2015 in an area that haslost jobs as the space shut-tle programme was retiredearlier this year.

The reusable spacecapsules will be able tobring up to seven peopleinto space. Currently, theUnited States does nothave a way to transportpeople or cargo to the In-ternational Space Station.

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Shepherds drive flocks through cityMADRID, 1 Nov — Spanish shepherds have led flocks of

sheep through the streets of Madrid in defence of ancientgrazing, migration and droving rights threatened by urbansprawl and man-made frontiers. Jesus Garzon, president of ashepherds council established in 1273, said 5,000 sheep and 60cattle crossed the city on Sunday to exercise the right to drovingroutes that existed before Madrid grew from a rural hamlet tothe capital city it is today.

Following an age-old tradition, a chief herdsman paid 25maravedis — coins first minted in the 11th century — to use thecrossing, Mr Garzon said. Shepherds have a right to use 78,000miles of paths for seasonal livestock migrations from coolhighland pastures in summer to warmer grazing in winter. Themovement is called transhumance and in Spain it involvesaround a million animals, mostly sheep and cattle.

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Hundreds of sheep are driven along Alcalastreet during an annual parade in Madrid.

INTERNET

BEIJING, 1 Nov —Haute couture mixing tra-ditional Chinese touchesand styles from more than1,000 years ago withWestern designs openedChina Fashion Week, asthe world’s fastest-grow-ing market for luxuryproducts catches the eyesof more designers.

Models showed off awide range of long gownsin bright colors, some fea-turing traditional Chineseembroidery and replicasof attire from the TangDynasty (AD 618-907),from NE TIGER, China’soldest luxury brand.”Thehaute couture industry inChina is developing vig-orously without any signs

of slowing down. This isabove my expectation,”said Zhang Zhifeng, whofounded the brand 19 yearsago.

“I thought my hautecouture would live onlywith a small group of peo-ple, but now it is expand-ing very quickly. Consum-ers have become increas-ingly fond of Chinese tra-ditional culture.” Zhangsaid he wanted the Spring/Summer 2012 collection“Tang, Jing” to highlightTang culture for the 500-strong audience at theshow on Wednesday, thestart of the 10-day Fash-ion Week, which NE TI-GER has opened for thelast decade.— Xinhua

LONDON, 1 Nov —Traces of bone-eating“zombie worms” havebeen found in a three-mil-lion-year-old fossil fromItaly, say researchers.Osedax worms feed onwhale skeletons on theseabed using root-like tis-sues to bore into and dis-solve the bones. Scientistsfrom the Natural HistoryMuseum in London iden-tified telltale borings inthe fossil using a scanner.

The discovery suggeststhe worms were muchmore widespread through-out prehistoric oceans thanthought. The findings oflead scientist NicholasHiggs and colleagues arepublished in the journalHistorical Biology. Theonly other evidence ofOsedax worms in the fos-sil record was found offthe coast of Washingtonstate, US, last year.

Mr Higgs was investi-gating Osedax worms forhis PhD studies and madecontact with staff at theUniversity of Florence’sMuseum of Natural His-tory in Italy. —Internet

Wine snob ghost ‘haunting pub’BIRMINGHAM, 1 Nov —

A “wine snob” ghost islurking in the cellar of apub making its feelingsknown about the housewine, it has been claimed.The ghost, named Corkyby regulars at the CourtOak pub in Harborne, Bir-mingham, apparently hasvery strong opinions aboutthe wine list. The pub, partof the Sizzling chain, isbuilt on the site of a 17thcentury hanging ground,

sparking speculation thatCorky may be the ghost ofsomeone who died thereyears ago.

Pub manager AnneTyler said the ghost hadgiven its opinion about thewine on offer every Hal-loween for the last fewyears. She said smashedbottles of red and whitehouse wine were discov-ered in the cellar until theselection was upgraded.

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Floods kill 58 in south Vietnam’sMekong delta

HANOI, 1 Nov—Vietnam’s Mekong deltaprovinces have beenflooded, causing at least58 deaths and about 1.5trillion Vietnamese dong(71.4 million US dollars)in loss as of Monday,according to the Ministryof Agriculture and RuralDevelopment (MARD).

The transport sectorsuffered the most withover 930 kilometres ofroads damaged and 823bridges broken; followedby the agricultural sector

with rice fields and cropssubmerged, and over1,500 kilometres of dykesand irrigation worksbroken. Accordingly, as ofMonday, floods drownedat least two lives in CaiLay District of Tien GiangProvince, flooded over5,000 houses, hundreds ofhectares of fish ponds andcrops, and destroyedhundreds of kilometres ofdykes.—MNA/Xinhua

Scientists are just beginningto understand bone-eating

“zombie worms”. —INTERNET

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Two arrested in pizza wararson

Two managers at a Lake City, Fla, Domino’sPizza restaurant were charged with arson afterallegedly torching a Papa John’s Pizza location,police said.

Lake City police arrested Domino’s managerSean Everett Davidson, 23, Thursday for the 20Oct fire, the Ocala (Fla) Star-Banner reported.The second manager, Bryan David Sullivan, 22,was arrested Friday after being questioned bypolice.

Police allege the two confessed to the crimeand their motive was that their Domino’s locationwould receive more business if the Papa John’sPizza restaurant was put out of business.

The fire was discovered early on 20 Oct,police said. By the time it was brought undercontrol, the establishment had been gutted.

During an interview with police, the suspectsallegedly told police they made an ignition deviceby using a clock, a 9-volt battery, a golf-ball-sizeamount of gunpowder and a plastic bag.

Davidson and Sullivan told police theydismantled the ignition device later and threw itout of their car while driving away, the newspapersaid. Police had yet to recover the device forevidence.

About 100 passen-gers refused to leave agrounded charter flightin Britain for severalhours, police said. WestMidlands Police sentofficers aboard the aircraftat Birmingham Airport to“make sure it didn’t getout of hand,” a policespokesman told the BBC.

The Viking Hellascharter to Greece wassupposed to leave a weekago, but was rescheduledto Friday. Then there wassome sort of problem thatprevented the plane fromtaking off again.

Police said thepassengers refused todeplane after a four-hourdelay and remaineddefiantly in their seats foranother seven hoursbefore giving up andreturning to town by bus.Passengers said there wasno food or air-condition-ing during the sit-in.

Bracelet returned to vet after 66 years

Belarussianathlete Kirill

Shimko pulls a 42-tonne pit-run

dump truck with a55-tonne loadingcapacity duringthe celebrationsfor the Motorist

Day in Minsk, on30 October, 2011.

News Album

A World War IIsoldier from SouthCarolina got a braceletback that he lost in Italyduring the war 66 yearsago.

Jim Turck firstreceived the braceletfrom his mother, shortlyafter he joined the war in1943, The Courier,Charleston, SC, reported.

The bracelet bore hisname, James J Turck,and a serial number,along with the inscrip-tion “Love, Mother”.

Turck served as a skitrooper with the 10thMountain Division in thenorthern Apennine

Mountains of Italy in1945, where he lost thebracelet.

“I don’t rememberlosing it,” said Turck,now 87 and living onSeabrook Island.

While using a metaldetector for the first time,Bruno Bernardoni foundthe bracelet in the villageof Iola in April. It wasabout a foot under-ground.

Bernardoni saidwhen he first picked itup he said, “So muchhard work for a dogcollar,” before realizingit was a bracelet. “Irealized the importance

of that object.”The man, who does

not speak English verywell enlisted the help ofhis niece to find theowner.

“My only will was toforward the bracelet toits owner or to his familymembers,” Bernardonisaid.

Through some Inter-net research, Bernar-doni’s niece found TomHames, the 10th Moun-tain Division Foundationchairman in Colorado,and e-mailed him to tryand find Turck or hisfamily members.

Passengersstage UK

plane sit-in

Tom Cruise crashed into world’s tallestbuilding while filming Mission Impossible

Hollywood hunk TomCruise

Justin Timberlake

LONDON, 1 Nov—Justin Timberlake andGeorge Michael areplanning to worktogether for a duet,according to reports.Timberlake was in thefront row as a special

George Michael and JustinTimberlake planning duet together

James Cameron unveils firstscenes from Titanic 3D

James Cameron

LONDON, 1 Nov—James Cameron screenedthe first preview of themuch-anticipated Titanic3D, at Paramount Studios,Hollywood.

On the occasion ofscreening the 18 minutesfootage of the 1997blockbuster’s 3D version,Cameron revealed that heconsiders 3D to be an

Hunt in the spy series—admitted that whilstfilming a flight sequence2,717 feet off the groundwhile scaling the BurjKhalifa tower, hecrashed head-first intothe building, terrifyingthe crew.

“There’s this bitwhere I come flying offthe building, running

perpendicular to it, andthen launch myself offit, and there are all thesecross winds,” Contact-music quoted him assaying.

“In the shot you cansee that my feet are kindof separated because I’musing them to hold mybody away from thebuilding and then bring

WASHINGTON, 1 Nov—Hollywood hunk TomCruise has revealed thathe accidentally crashedstraight into the world’stallest building in Dubaiwhile shooting “Mission:Impossible Ghost Proto-col.”

The 49-year-oldactor — who playsAmerican agent, Ethan

enhancement even for justnormal, narrative scenes.“I firmly believe that 3Dis an enhancement evenfor just normal, narrativescenes, not necessarily theaction scenes,” Sky Newsquoted Cameron assaying.

“This is a film thatmany people have seen,obviously, sometimesmultiple times, but thereis a whole generation ofpeople who haven’t seenit in theatres.”

“I love the 3D, I thinkit’s spectacular. If I hadhad 3D cameras at thetime, if there had been3D theatres at the time, Iwould certainly have shotthe film in 3D,” he added.

The film is slated forApril 2012 release.

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my body back into thebuilding to fly.—Internet

guest as Michael openedthe UK leg of hisSymphonica tour at theRoyal Albert Hall inLondon on Saturday.

“I’ve really got tobe my best tonight—there is a very specialsinger here for the show—Justin Timberlake,”George Michael anno-unced to the audience.Afterwards they met upbackstage.

“Justin was blownaway with the perfor-mance and is keen towork with George,” theSun quoted a source assaying.—Internet

Robert De Niro to team up with JohnTravolta in ‘Killing Season’

WASHINGTON, 1 Nov—Actor-director Robert DeNiro is set to share screenspace with John Travoltafor the first time in theupcoming action movie

‘Killing Season’.De Niro will play an

American militaryveteran in the actionmovie, which sees hisalter-ego living in aremote cabin in thewoods that is visited bya European tourist(Travolta) who wants toget revenge.

The pair strike up anunlikely friendshipbefore descending intoa one-on-one battleacross the AppalachianMountains.

Avi Lerner, co-chairman of productioncompany Nu Image

which is co-producingthe film with Millennium,is “excited” to see theonscreen chemistrybetween the two stars.

“We’re excited to beco-financing and co-producing this film withCorsan, and to beworking again withRobert De Niro and JohnTravolta,” Contactmusicquoted him as saying.

“We’ve never seenthese two great actors onscreen together before,and we’re excited to seewhat comes of thecombination,” he added.

InternetActor-director Robert

De Niro

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Fit-again Djokovic asks fortime to find top form

Federer easily beats Staraceat Swiss Indoors

Davydenko beats 5th-seededSimon in Valencia

Dzeko: United still title favouritesMANCHESTER, 1 Nov — Manchester City’s Edin Dzeko insists

rivals Manchester United are favourites to win the Barclays PremierLeague. City have been made bookmakers’ favourites for the cham-pionship after opening up a five-point lead over United at the top ofthe table. Roberto Mancini’s men proved their title credentials withtheir stunning 6-1 win at United last weekend, but striker Dzekoinsists their neighbours remain the team to beat.

“My dream is to win the Premier League title,” admitted Dzeko.“After we won the FA Cup last season, this is our target. But there arestill a lot of games to play. “We’ve played 10 games and we have fivemore points than United, and for me they are still favourites for thetitle. “We’re growing up every game, but United are United. “Ninepoints ahead of Chelsea after 10 games is fantastic. Nobody expectedthat but nothing is finished. It’s not just between us and Man Utd.”

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Fresh blow for Gerrard

Steven Gerrard mayface another spell on

the sidelines

Kenny Dalglish saysGerrard has an infec-

tion in his ankleLIVERPOOL, 1 Nov —

Liverpool captain StevenGerrard could be out for amonth after needing tohave fluid drained from hisankle. Gerrard, who hasbeen on the comeback trailafter six months out with agroin problem, suffered acut on his ankle in traininglast week. He travelled tothe Midlands ahead of Sat-urday’s match with WestBromwich Albion but theinjury became infected andhe was forced to return toMerseyside.

The 31-year-oldmidfielder was photo-graphed leaving hospitalon crutches after having

the fluid drained on Sun-day and must be doubtfulfor England’s upcomingmatches with Spain andSweden, and key BarclaysPremier League encoun-ters with Chelsea and Man-chester City which follow.

Liverpool managerKenny Dalglish said afterthe win over West Brom:“Will Steven be fit for Eng-land v Spain? I haven’t gota clue. “It’s nothing to dowith any injuries before,it’s an infection. He was inour minds for the gameand it just flared up. I sup-pose it’s like having anabscess on your mouth.”

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Charlton helping Rooney control temper on pitch

Manchester Unitedgreat Bobby Charlton

Wayne Rooney

Dzeko says it is his dream to winthe Barclays Premier League

S P O R T S

LONDON, 1 Nov —Manchester United greatBobby Charlton has beenadvising Wayne Rooneyon how to curb his fierytemper on the pitch. Theburley striker will miss theentire group stage of the2012 European Champi-onship after receiving athree-game ban for kick-ing a player during Eng-land’s last qualifier againstMontenegro.

Asked if he speaks toRooney about his tempera-ment, Charlton said: “I dosometimes.” “He is veryreceptive to good advice.He’s the sort of lad wholikes to be told if he’s madea mistake,” Charlton saidat the Laureus Sport forGood summit in Londonon Monday. “He knowshe’s made a mistake,”against Montenegro. The

Hungariansoccer legendFlorian Albertdies, aged 70

BUDAPEST, 1 Nov—Hungarian soccer greatFlorian Albert died onMonday in a hospital inBudapest at the age of 70,after undergoing heart sur-gery on Friday.

During an illustriouscareer, Albert played 75times for Hungary scoring35 goals. He also scored255 times in 351 leagueappearances forFerencvaros, with whomhe won the Inter-Cities FairCup in 1965.

Albert was the attack-ing playmaker of the ex-citing Hungarian side ofthe 1960s which reachedconsecutive World Cupquarterfinals in 1962 and1966. Albert finished astop scorer in the 1962finals in Chile.

Xinhua

74-year-old Charlton, nowa director at Old Trafford,still retains the goal scor-ing records for Englandand United that Rooneywill be hoping to overhaul.

England expects to re-ceive the written reasonsfrom UEFA for Rooney’sban this week before de-ciding whether to launchan appeal. “I think he doeswhat he does sometimesand I wonder whether hethinks about it,” Charltonsaid. “He doesn’t reallythink about it, otherwisehe wouldn’t be doing it.But he learns the lessonand he’ll take the punish-ment.”— Internet

Do or die for Valencia in Champions LeagueMADRID, 1 Nov — Valencia Football Club know they can’t afford any mistakes

when they entertain German side Bayer Leverkusen in the UEFA ChampionsLeague on Tuesday night. Valencia were beaten in Germany a fortnight ago andso far have only two points to show from their first three matches in the groupstage.

With Chelsea clear leaders in their qualifying group, another defeat to the sidethat looks like their main rival for a place in the last 16 of the competition wouldleave Unai Emery’s side needing a miracle to reach the knockout phase of thetournament.—Xinhua

AC Milan’s Gianluca Zambrotta: AntonioCassano’s situation is ‘under control’

Nikolay Davydenko

VALENCIA, 1 Nov —Nikolay Davydenko beatfifth-seeded Gilles Simon6-4, 4-6, 6-3 on Mondayin the first round of theValencia Open.

Davydenko controlledthe match at the City ofArts and Sciences despitedropping the second set.

The 36th-ranked Rus-sian rallied in the decisiveset with a forehand win-ner for a break point and2-1 lead. Davydenko

saved a break pointthrough a drop shot in thesixth game before break-ing Simon for the fourthtime in the match to se-cure a second victory inseven meetings against the12th-ranked Simon.

Simon trails eighth-ranked American MardyFish by 720 points withonly the Paris Masters toplay before the season-ending tour finals in Lon-don. Only the top eightqualify for the 20-27 Novtournament in London.Davydenko will next faceFrench player NicolasMahut, who oustedGuillermo Garcia-Lopez7-6 (5), 6-2.— Internet

Roger Federer

BASEL, 1 Nov — RogerFederer made a winningreturn from a six-weekbreak, beating PotitoStarace of Italy 7-6 (3), 6-4 in the first round of hishometown Swiss Indoorsevent on Monday. Thefourth-ranked Federer tooktime to find the rhythm inhis ground strokes, and

saved a break point at 5-allbefore winning the first-set tiebreaker.

The 30-year-old Swissthen broke the 54th-rankedStarace’s serve in theopening game of the sec-ond. Federer last playedon 18 September in a DavisCup match on grass inAustralia where he beatBernard Tomic in four sets.After opting to rest andrecharge, Federer playedhis first match ranked out-side the top three sincewinning the 2003 Wim-bledon title as the No 5.

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Novak Djokovic

BASEL, 1 Nov — NovakDjokovic says he needstime to regain his form af-ter a season in which hewon three majors was cutshort because of back in-jury that sidelined him sixweeks.

The top-ranked Serbresumes play at the SwissIndoors with a 64-3 recordthis year. A muscle injuryforced him to retire from aDavis Cup singles semifi-nal against Juan Martin delPotro of Argentina on 18September.

“Certainly, it’s going totake me some time to getback to the right shape,”Djokovic said. The USOpen, Wimbledon andAustralian Open championfaces 50th-ranked BelgianXavier Malisse on Tues-day in Basel, the home-town tournament of 16-time Grand Slam singleswinner Roger Federer.

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MILAN, 1 Nov — ACMilan defender GianlucaZambrotta says that he hasbeen in touch with histeammate Antonio Cassanoand that the forward “seemsfine”. Cassano fell ill fol-lowing the Italian champi-ons’ return from Rome onSaturday night after their 3-2 victory over Roma in Serie

A and has been in the hos-pital since. The exact na-ture of the Italy internation-al’s problem is yet to beconfirmed by Milan, whichhas, however, dismissedsuggestions that he suffereda stroke.

The 29-year-old willmiss the Rossoneri’sChampions League Group

H clash against BATEBorisov in Minsk on Tues-day, but Zambrotta claimsthat Cassano is recoveringwell. —Internet

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Programme Schedule(2-11-2011) (Wednesday)

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am)MSTOverseas Transmission - (2-11-11 09:30 am ~ 3-11-11 09:30 am) MST

Local Transmission* Opening* News* Hot Air Balloon Festival in PyinOoLwin* Do you know about the Art of Living?* News* 6th Seacoop Cooperation Forum on ICT

Research and ICT for Development* News* Shwe Min Thar Handover Ceremony of the

Wheel Chairs for Disabled* News* In Memoriam (A Festival of Tagore Stories

on Film)

Oversea Transmission* Opening* News* Hot Air Balloon Festival in PyinOoLwin* Do you know about the Art of Living?* News* 6th Seacoop Cooperation Forum on ICT

Research and ICT for Development* News* Shwe Min Thar Handover Ceremony of the

Wheel Chairs for Disabled* News

* Music Gallery* In Memoriam (A Festival of Tagore Stories

on Film)* News* Export Item Villa Fish and Dried Fish

Products* Buddha’s Foot Print* News* ‘‘Songs for you’’ There’s no other, Happy

Rock & Roll Day, Gift from Lord* News* To overcome Economic Challenges* News* From The Union Highway to Forever

Friendship* Myanmar Movie “An Oath by Than Lwin

River”

7:00 am 1. Mitta Bhavanna by

Mingun SayadawPhayagyi

7:10 am 2. Dhamma Puja

Song7:25 am 3 To Be Healthy

Exercise7:30 am 4. Morning News

7:40 am 5. Nice & Sweet Song7:55 am 6. Health Programme8:05 7. Cultural Dances8:15 am 8. Teleplay (Health)8:25 am 9. Myanmar

Traditional CulturalPerforming ArtsCompetitions

8:40 am10. International News8:45 am11. Musical

Programme4:00 pm 1. Martial Song4:10 pm 2. Song of National

Races

4:15 pm 3. Myanmar

Traditional CulturalPerforming ArtsCompetitions

4:20 pm 4. Musical

Programme4:35 pm 5. University of

DistanceEducation(TV Lectures)-Third Year (Philosophy)

4:50 pm 6. Songs for

UpholdingNational Spirit

5:00 pm 7. Classical Song5:10 pm 8. Teleplay (Health)5:30 pm 9. “ASEAN”

Programmes

5:40 pm10.Documentary6:00 pm11. Evening News6:15 pm12. Weather Report6:20 pm13. Traditional Boxing6:35 pm14. Shwe Yin Chone

Than7:00 pm15. Myanmar Culture7:10 pm16. Wut Hmon Music

Troupe7:30 pm17. Documentary8:00 pm18. News19. InternationalNews20. Weather Report21. Korea NG Award22. TV Drama Series23. Myanmar Video

Weather forecast for 2nd November, 2011TOKYO, 1 Nov — Japanese authorities

believe radium was to blame for aradiation hotspot at a Tokyo supermarket,a local city office said on Tuesday, inanother scare for a nation still on edge

Radium ‘likely cause’ of Tokyo radiation hotspot

Tokyo skyline with Mt. Fuji in thebackground. Japanese authoritiesbelieve radium was to blame for a

radiation hotspot at a Tokyosupermarket, a local city office said, inanother scare for a nation still on edge

over Fukushima.INTERNET

over Fukushima.W o r k e r s

wearing protectivesuits and gogglesdrilled into theasphalt at one of thetwo hotspots whereinspectors last weekdetected alarminglevels of radiation —up to 10microsieverts perhour — one metre(three feet) abovethe surface of theground.

Despite public worries about howfar contamination has spread from thecrippled Fukushima atomic power plant,authorities believe radium — a substancenot released in the disaster — is likelythe cause of the hotspots, the city officesaid.

“The science and technologyministry said it is highly possible thatradium 226 is the source of radiation,”the Setagaya ward office said in astatement.

“The ministryalso said this case isnot linked to theaccident at theFukushima Daiichinuclear powerplant,” it said, addinginspectors plan tocontinue inves-tigating the hotspotsover the next twoweeks.

The radiationlevels of the hotspotsare much higher thanthe 20 millisieverts

per year government threshold that wouldprompt evacuation, though no evacuationwas required as the contamination washighly localised.

The statement gave no indication ofthe source of the radium.

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Sr.

No. Regions/States

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 31/88 17/63 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

2 Kayah 27/81 17/63 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

3 Kayin 36/97 21/70 Partly cloudy

4 Chin 20/68 01/34 Partly cloudy

5 Upper Sagaing 31/88 18/64 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

6 Lower Sagaing 32/90 20/68 Partly cloudy

7 Taninthayi 35/95 20/68 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

8 Bago 32/90 21/70 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

9 Magway 33/91 22/72 Partly cloudy

10 Mandalay 33/91 22/72 Partly cloudy

11 Mon 34/93 21/70 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

12 Yangon 33/91 22/72 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

13 Rakhine 31/88 17/63 Partly cloudy

14 Southern Shan 25/77 14/57 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

15 Northern Shan 27/81 14/57 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

16 Eastern Shan 26/79 17/63 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

17 Ayeyawady 33/91 22/72 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 35/95 20/68 Partly cloudy

19 Neighbouring Yangon 33/91 22/72 Possibility of isolated rain or

thundershowers 40%

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 33/91 22/72 Partly cloudy

Summary of

observations at

09:30 hr MST on

today

During the past (24) hours, weather has been partly cloudy in Magway Region, Kachin, Chin

and Rakhine States, rain or thunders howers have been isolated in the remaining Regions and

States.Night temperatures were (4°C) below November average temperatures in Kachin state,

(5°C) below November average temperatures in Upper Sagaing Region and Rakhine State,

(7°C) below Novermber average temperatures in Chin State and about Novermber average

temperatures in the remaining Regions and States. The significant night temperatures were

Haka(1°C) and Pinlaung (11°C). The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Pinlaung

(0.28) inch, Mogok (0.20) inch and Loikaw(0.11) inch.

Bay Inference

Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy in the Southwest Bay and partly cloudy in the Andaman Sea

and elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea Seas will be slight to moderate in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Generally fair in the whole country.

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Pyithu Hluttaw representatives arrive at Hluttaw building to attend Hluttaw session.—MNA

Amyotha Hluttaw representatives seen at Hluttaw building to attendAmyotha Hluttaw session.—MNA

Pyithu Hluttaw session continues for 44th dayOne proposal submitted and nine questions answered

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Nov—Pyithu Hluttaw sessioncontinued for 44th day at Pyithu Hluttaw Hall ofHluttaw Building here this afternoon, with the attend-ance of Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw Thura U ShweMann and 379 Pyithu Hluttaw representatives. Oneimportant proposal was submitted and discussed andnine questions were raised and answered.

At important proposal submission session,Secretary of Hluttaw Rights Committee of PyithuHluttaw in accord with Pyithu Hluttaw Rule 133 submit-ted the proposal to appeal against and overturndecision of sending bills approved or deemed to beapproved by Pyidaungsu Hluttaw to the Constitu-tional Tribunal of the Union to vet whether the billis accorded with the Constitution if doubted beforesending it to the President to sign and promulgateit as law made at Pyidaungsu Hluttaw on 28October 2011 as the decision is not accorded withthe Constitution and Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Lawand Rules. He said that seeking approval of Hluttawfor sending bills approved or deemed to be

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Discussion of one proposal continued, one bill approvedAmyotha Hluttaw session continues for 43rd day

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Nov—The 43rd-day session ofthe Amyotha Hluttaw was held at Amyotha HluttawHall of Hluttaw Building, here, at 10 am today, at-tended by Speaker of Amyotha Hluttaw U Khin AungMyint and 208 Amyotha Hluttaw representatives.

They continued discussion of one proposal andapproved one bill.

In the discussion of the proposal, U TunKyaw of Shan State Constituency No. 10, U Ye Myintof Bago Region Constituency No. 4, U Khet Htein Nanof Kachin State Constituency No. 1, U Hla Swe ofMagway Region Constituency No. 12, U Kyaw Kyawof Rakhine State Constituency No. 2 and U Zon HleHtan of Chin State Constituency No. 2 discussedmatters related to the proposal to allow establish-ment of mining development foundation. They saidthat the proposal is in conformity with the programmeson rural development and poverty alleviation beingundertaken by the State. If permission is received, thefoundation can contribute towards the development ofthe people in its bit and help improve social economiclife of the national races.

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NAY PYI TAW, 1 Nov—A moderate earth-quake of magnitude 5.5 Ritcher Scale with itsepicenter outside Myanmar (Sichuan Province,China) about 1700 miles Northwest of Mandalayseismological observatory was recorded at 04 hrs28 min 16 sec MST on 1st November 2011,according to the Department of Meteorology andHydrology.

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