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Volume XIX, Number 211 8th Waning of Tazaungmon 1373 ME Friday, 18 November, 2011

Our Three MainNational Causes

* Non-disintegration of the

Union

* Non-disintegration of National

Solidarity

* Perpetuation of SovereigntyNAY PYI TAW, 17 Nov—Sacred Buddha toothrelic conveyed from the People’s Republic of China tothe Republic of the Union of Myanmar for the fourthtime being kept in front of Maha Manimaya GotamaBuddha Patima Yadana jade Buddha image in theeastward of the cave of Nay Pyi Taw UppatasantiPagoda was thronged for the 12th day with pilgrimpeople and members of the Sangha from the morningto the evening.

Deputy Speaker of Amyotha Hluttaw U MyaNyein, wife Daw Myint Myint Thein and family paidhomage to the sacred Buddha tooth relic at 6 pm today.

They donated K 100,000 to the funds of thesacred Buddha tooth relic to members of the financialsubcommittee who gave back certificate of honour tothem. They left the pagoda at 6.30 pm.

Pilgrims and members of the Sangha fromvarious regions of the nation paid homage to the sacredtooth relic and made donations.

A pilgrim team led by members of the Sanghaof Hsenwi of Shan State (North) and Vietnamesepilgrim team led by Sangha Le Thanh Nhan and NunLe Thi Ngoc Hiep paid obeisance to the sacred toothrelic and made donations.

The chairman of the financial subcommitteeand members accepted K 460,000 by families ofMagway Region government, K 400,000 by U Thein

Deputy Speaker of AmyothaHluttaw and wife pay homageto sacred Buddha tooth relickept at Uppatasanti Pagoda

Swe-Daw Khin Mar Oo family under the patronage ofmother Daw Hla, K 285,000 by pilgrim team of Hsenwiof Shan State (North), US$ 250 by Vietnamese pilgrim

team, K 230,500 by alms offering group of MyanmaHotels and Tourism Services, K 200,000 by Chairmanof Union Civil Services Board U Kyaw Thu-Daw Le LeKyi and family, K 100,000 each by U Kyaw Myint-

NAY PYI TAW, 17Nov—Than Than Nweand Shwe Zin Lat ofMyanmar clinched thegold in women’s rowingLW 2X event inongoing XXVI SEAGames in Indonesia inwhich Thailand securedsecond and Vietnamthird. Aung Ngein, HlaHla San and Yaw SeinYa won gold in wom-en’s archery compoundevent and Malaysiasliver and Thailandbronze.

Myanmar wins two moregold and other medals in

XXVI SEA Games

Amyotha Hluttaw Deputy Speaker U Mya Nyein and wife pay homage to the sacredBuddha tooth relic.—MNA

Daw Khin Nwe Nwe family, Col Aung Nyein (Retd)-Daw San San Lwin family in memory of late parents ofboth sides, Maung Myat Min-Ma Phu Pwint Thwe

(See page 8)

In men’s rowingM2 event, Saw Williamand Myint San scoredfor the second place asthe gold went to Vietnamand bronze to Malaysia.Archers Thin Thin

Gold medalists Aung Ngein, Hla Hla San andYaw Sein Ya.—MNA

Khaing, San Yu Htweand Thazin Aungsecured third place inteam recurve event andIndonesia first and Vi-etnam second.

(See page 8)

Union A&I Minister receives foreign guests

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Yangon Region Chief Minister attends opening ofVietnam Trade Fair in Myanmar

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PERSPECTIVESFriday, 18 November, 2011

The winter approaches as the monsoonhas waved goodbye. People are to step up firepreventive measures in such cold and dryseason more than ever. Alongside kitchen fireand forest fire, electric short circuit becomesan issue with developing urbanization.

The motto alerting the public the dangerof fire says, “Conquer the fire by prevention.”Negligent manners in using fire will not beforgiven.

Negligence is a major cause in themost of fire outbreaks. The unattendedbehaviours in dealing with electric devices andkitchen are the bottomline of the outbreak offire.

All the family members are to shareresponsibility to ensure their home safe fromnegligence fire. Switching off the electricitysupply to your house when going outside willalso rule out the possibility of fire.

All the people are struggling everydayfor a comfortable living, with the attitude ofbuilding wealth of the family. It is incumbentupon all individuals to protect property andassets accumulated over the whole life, State-owned industries and buildings and culturalheritages against fire.

Sticking to the continuous fire alerts ofthe media, each and every citizen is to speedup fire preventive activities.

Exercise constantvigilance against fire

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Nov—President of theRepublic of the Union of Myanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerce and Industry U Win Aungand CEC member Daw Wah Wah Tun left here on 15November for Indonesia to attend ASEAN Summitand 2011 ASEAN Business and Investment Summit tobe held in Bali from 16 to 18 November.

RUMFCCI Vice-Presidents U Aung Lwin, UThaung Tin and U Tun Aung, General Secretary DrMyo Thet and personnel saw them off at YangonInternational Airport.— MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Nov—Union Minister forAgriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlaing receivedAmbassador of the Republic of Korea Mr Kim Hae-yong at his office, here, yesterday afternoon.

They discussed cooperation in development ofagriculture sector, mutual cooperation in cultivationsector and exchange of technologies.

Likewise, the Union Minister received Vice-President Mr Wang Bo and party of CAMC EngineeringCo at his office this morning.

They focused on implementation of irrigation

Union A&I Minister receives foreign guests

system in Yenwe irrigated area, reclamation of modernfarmlands, profit sharing in implementing the investmentprojects and raising double of income and higherlifestyle of rural people.

This noon, the Union Minister received Ministerand Coordinator of SIDA’s Myanmar Assistance MrBengt Ekmam of Bangkok-based Swedish Embassy,Counsellor Mr Jorgen Schonning and Stockholm Schoolof Economic Dr Anders Engvall. They discussedcooperation in rural life standard development andearning more income with SIDA.—MNA

Union Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlaing receives Vice-President

Mr Wang Bo of CAMC Engineering Co.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17Nov—Deputy Minister forConstruction U Soe Tintinspected construction siteof Ayeyawady Bridge(Nyaungdon) on 15November.

The deputy ministerinspected completedapproach road on Yangon

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Nov—Union Minister for Financeand Revenue U Hla Tun held a discussion on taxadministration and economic matter, and investmentmatters with Chief Supervisor Ms Feng Huimin and

Union F&R Minister receives Chinese guests

Dy Construction Minister visits AyeyawadyBridge (Nyaungdon) Project

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Nov—Shan State ChiefMinister’s trophy inter-district men’s footballtournament (open) State kicked off on 15 November atKanbawza sports ground in Taunggyi, with an addressby Shan State Chief Minister U Sao Aung Myat.

The State chief minister and personnel viewedthe first match of the tournament between Danu teamand Monghsat team.

The final will be held on 30 November and 13teams are participating in the tournament.—MNA

side, arrangements foropening ceremony of thebridge, finishing touchesof main bridge, andearthworks of the

approach road on Patheinside.

At the briefing hallof the construction site,the deputy minister met

engineers-in-charge, thedeputy superintendingengineer (road survey)and the chief engineer.

MNA

RUMFCCI Presidentleaves for Indonesia

Shan State Chief Minister’strophy inter-district men’sfootball tournament (open)

2011 held

Firefighters putting out fire blazing atapartment No. 42 on 122nd Street, Yedwingon

Ward, Mingala Taungnyunt Township ofYangon Region at 3.50 pm on 16 November.

MNA

YANGON, 17 Nov—Work coordination meetingon holding inter-school sports competition for 2011-2012 academic year took place at No. 1 Basic EducationDepartment (Head Office) on Natmauk Street, here,on 12 November.

Deputy Minister for Education U Aye Kyumade a speech on the occasion.

Officials reported on sports events and conditionof playgrounds and stadiums.—MNA

Work coord meeting onholding inter-school sports

competition held

party of State Administration of Taxation of the People’sRepublic of China at his office, here, this morning.

Also present at the discussion was DeputyMinister U Win Than and officials.—MNA

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ISLAMABAD, 17 Nov—At least three suicidebombers and two policeofficials were killed in ablast in Pakistan’s port cityof Karachi Wednesdaynight, a media report said.

The blast blew up awhite colour car near Saltn Pepper village restaurantat Sea View beach of thecity, the Dawn reported.

One policeman wasalso injured in theincident.

The suicide bombers,who were riding a whiteSuzuki Bolan, blew

Security forces cordon off the blast site in southern Pakistani port City ofKarachi, on 16 Nov, 2011. At least three suicide bombers and two

policemen were killed in a suicide blast that took place Wednesday nighthere, reported local Urdu TV channel Express.—XINHUA

SYDNEY, 17 Nov—Four people have beenarrested after police seized firearms and dismantleda large clandestine drug laboratory in southwestSydney, Australia during an operation targeting“mafia-style” organized-crime groups, the NewSouth Wales (NSW) Police Force said on Thursday.

Detectives attached to Strike Force Wonoonalocated the drugs factory and drums of chemicalsbelieved to be used in the manufacture of methylamphetamine after raiding a property in Cobbity insouthwest Sydney on Wednesday morning, policesaid.

Police also seized quantities of methylamphetamine and cannabis, as well as more than

KABUL, 17 Nov—At least three rockets wereheard whistling to the venue of Afghanistan’s ongoingLoya Jirga and explosions followed at around 8 am(0330 GMT) on Thursday morning, injuring at leastone person, witnesses near the site told Xinhua.

The four-day Loya Jirga or traditional grandassembly of tribal elders, lawmakers and governmentfunctionaries opened Wednesday to discuss theproposed strategic partnership with the US and Afghangovernment-initiated peace talks with Talebanmilitants.

One civilian sustained injuries in one of the blast,a police official said, adding investigation is underway.

Xinhua

MEXICO CITY, 17 Nov— Authorities in northernMexico are looking for two distribution employees ofa national newspaper who were reported missingearlier this week. The daily newspaper El Financierosays the two men were traveling in the northern stateof Zacatecas, and last reported they were beingfollowed by “two patrol cars.”

A statement from the Zacatecas state governmentWednesday says federal and local police are searchingfor the two men. It notes that criminals in Mexicosometimes use fake patrol cars for highway robberiesand other crimes. Mexican media organizations andjournalists have come under a rising number ofattacks in recent years as drug cartels have confrontedgovernment forces.—Internet

LONDON, 17 Nov—A British soldier died froman explosion in southern Afghanistan, the BritishMinistry of Defence has said.

The soldier was serving with the 1st BattalionThe Yorkshire Regiment as a part of CombinedForce Nahr-e Saraj North when he was killed byan improvised explosive device (IED), Xinhuareported Thursday.

The British government has plans to withdrawits combat troops from Afghanistan by 2015.

Internet

Five killed in Pakistan suicide blast

Four arrested in police operation targeting“mafia-style” organized crime in Australia

An Afghan policeman keeps watch at the site ofa car bomb explosion in Qarabagh District,

north of Kabul on 15 Nov, 2011. Five membersof a family were wounded in the attack,

according to a Ministry of InteriorAffairs Press statement.

REUTERS

British soldier killed inAfghanistan blast

Rockets explode near AfghanLoya Jirga venue, one injured

Two newspaper employeesreported missing in Mexico

Investigators work at the site where thehelicopter carriying Mexican Interior Minister

Francisco Blake Mora crashed, in Chalco,Mexico, on 16 Nov, 2011. Blake Mora was

killed in a helicopter crash on Friday along withother seven officials.—XINHUA Lebanese army

soldiers stand guard atthe scene where a

bomb exploded in thepub of the Queen

Elissa Hotel, in thesouthern port city of

Tyre, on 16 Nov, 2011.A senior Lebanese

security official said abomb exploded at the

hotel frequented byUN staffers in thecountry’s south,

causing damage butnot casualties.

INTERNET

themselves up after theywere stopped for routinesearch by the police, saidSindh Home MinisterManzoor Wasan.

Meanwhile, securityhas been beefed up in thearea amid fear of furtherterrorist attacks after theblast, the minister saidwhile announcing Rs 2million as compensationfor next of kin of thekilled policemen and Rs

500,000 for thewounded.

The Sindh ChiefMinister, Qaim Ali Shah,described the incident as“a cowardly act ofterrorism” foiled by thepolice with greatcourage.

The police found asuicidal vest and aKalashnikov from the siteof blast, he said.

Internet

20,000 AU dollars (20,100 US dollars) in cash anda replica firearm.

Two men, aged 41 and 51, and a 42-year-oldwoman were arrested at home in Cobbity onWednesday, and a 62-year-old man was arrested inthe Sydney suburb of Cecil Hills on the same day.

They have been charged with participating in acriminal group and firearms offenses.

Police also raided properties in the Sydneysuburbs of Cecil Hills and Leichhardt and in theSouthern Tablelands town of Parkesbourne.

Police alleged all four of those arrested are partof a Mafia- style crime group. They are due toappear in court on Thursday.—Xinhua

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Doctors urge UK government to ban smoking in cars

Britain should introduce a ban on all smokingin cars to protect people from second-handsmoke, a leading doctors’ union says. The

British Medical Association urged thegovernment to take a “bold and courageous

step” and extend current laws to include a banon smoking in private vehicles.—INTERNET

LONDON, 17 Nov—Britain should introduce aban on all smoking in cars to protect people fromsecond-hand smoke, a leading doctors’ union saidWednesday.

The British Medical Association (BMA) urgedthe government to take a “bold and courageousstep” and extend current laws to include a ban onsmoking in private vehicles.

Britain banned smoking in public places suchas pubs and restaurants in 2007 but has avoidedlegislating for private areas.

“The UK made a huge step forward in the fightagainst tobacco by banning smoking in all enclosedpublic places, but more can still be done,” saidVivienne Nathanson, the BMA’s director ofprofessional activities.

“We are calling on UK governments to take thebold and courageous step of banning smoking inprivate vehicles. The evidence for extending thesmoke-free legislation is compelling.”

Children and elderly people are the worstaffected, especially because they are often unableto refuse to take a journey in a smoky car, the BMAsaid.

It cited research as showing that levels ofdangerous toxins in cars can be 23 times higherthan in a typical smoky bar.

Around 4,000 adults and 23 children die eachyear as a result of second-hand smoke in Britain,the BMA said.

The British parliament is due on 25 Novemberto debate a bill calling for a smoking ban in privatevehicles when children are present.

Prime Minister David Cameron, a formersmoker, has said he supports the smoking ban inpublic places but is “nervous about going into whatpeople do inside a vehicle.”

British smokers’ lobby group Forest said theevidence that smoking in cars is harmful to otherpassengers is “weak”.—Internet

Health

Singapore’s NODX down16.2% in October

SINGAPORE, 17 Nov—Singapore’s exports fell inOctober by more than expected. Non-oil domesticexports (NODX) declined 16.2 percent from a yearearlier, said International Enterprise Singapore.That’s almost twice the size of the 7.8 percentdecline economists had forecast.

The trade promotion agency said exports ofelectronic products dropped 31 per cent in Octoberfrom a year earlier, while non-electronic exportsfell 6.7 percent. Exports to the US plunged 51percent. They dropped by 31 percent to bothEurope and Hong Kong. NODX to China in Octoberrose by 3.1 percent, on-year.—Internet

Containers at a port.—INTERNET

Business

US study shows exercise better than stents forPAD patients

WASHINGTON, 17Nov—Supervised ex-ercise was shown to bemore effective thanstenting or medicationfor improved walkingability in patients withperipheral artery disease(PAD), according to aUS study reportedWednesday at the 2011American HeartAssociation ScientificSessions meeting.

The research groupreported that of 111patients studied in therandomized trial, themost effective treatmentproved to be supervisedexercise based on theresults of a treadmill testtaken at baseline andagain at six months.Patients who were in thesupervised exercisegroup improved by amean of 4.6 minutes in

the treadmill test, whilethe group who receivedstents improved by amean of 2.5 minutes.However, researchersfound that self-reportedquality of lifemeasurements proved tobe higher in the groupthat received stents, eventhough their ability towalk did not improve asgreatly as the group thatreceived supervisedexercise rehabilitation.

PAD is a conditionin which plaque buildsup in the arteries and

affects blood flow,especially to the legs. Itis estimated thatbetween 10 and 12million people sufferfrom PAD in the UnitedStates. One symptom ofPAD is known asclaudication, a painfulcramping of the legmuscles that limits thepatient’s ability to walk.It affects nearly 2 millionpeople who suffer fromPAD, and results in asedentary lifestyle andpoor quality of life.

Internet

US industrial output reboundsin October

China stockindex futuresopen mixedThursday

BEIJING, 17 Nov—China’s stock indexfutures opened mixed onThursday with thecontract for settlementin November, the mostactively traded, down 7points to 2,670 points.

The contract forsettlement in Decemberopened 0.8 points lowerat 2,682 points while thecontract for settlementin March 2012 openedat 2,699.6 points, down5.4 points. The contractfor settlement in June2012 opened 3.8 pointshigher at 2,723.4 points.

The stock-indexcontracts, agreements tobuy or sell the Hushen300 Index at a presentvalue on an agreed date,are designed to allowinvestors to bet on andprofit from both gainsand declines in themarket. The indexfutures were launched atthe China FinancialFutures Exchange(CFFEX) and startedtrading from 16 April,2010. The CFFEX hasset the base value for allthe four contracts at3,399 points.—Xinhua

A worker builds engines on the assembly line atFord’s Chicago Assembly plant in Chicago,

Illinois.INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 17 Nov—US industries crankedup production in October after a mild contractionthe previous month, boosted by a strong reboundin mining, the central bank said on Wednesday.

October industrial production rose 0.7 percentfrom September, the Federal Reserve said, widelytopping analysts’ forecasts.

But the Fed sharply lowered the Septemberreading to a 0.1 percent decline from its initialestimate of a 0.2 percent increase.

The October expansion was led by a 2.3 percentjump in the mining sector, rebounding from a halfpercentage point fall in September.

Manufacturing output rose 0.5 percent, thefifth straight month of gains, while utilitiesproduction fell for the third month running, by 0.1percent.

Overall industrial output was 3.9 percent higherthan in October 2010.—Internet

Four patients test positive for hepatitis COTTAWA, 17 Nov—At least four ex-patients of a Canadian doctor accused of

failing to follow infection prevention protocol have tested positive for hepatitisC, a law firm says. The Merchant Law Group has filed a class-action suit againstDr Christiane Farazli on behalf of two former patients, the Canadian BroadcastingCorp reported Wednesday. Nicholas Robinson, a lawyer with the firm, said allfour are current or former residents of Ottawa who were treated at Farazli’s clinicin the City.

Ottawa Public Health sent letters to patients treated at Farazli’s clinicbetween 2002 and June 2011 after starting an investigation into her procedures.In a memo to the city council and the Ottawa board of health, Dr Isra Levy saidat least 3,400 former patients, about half of those who received letters, havealready been tested.—Internet

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Computer with info on 4Mpatients stolen in Calif

SACRAMENTO, 17 Nov— A Northern Californiaphysicians network says a computer stolen lastmonth contains personal information on more than4 million patients dating back to 1995.

The Sacramento Bee reports (http://bit.ly/tCIZmK ) the database includes the names,addresses, email addresses, birthdates, telephonenumbers and insurance information of 3.3 millionSutter Medical Foundation patients.

Information on another 943,000 patients alsoincludes medical record numbers, dates of servicesand a description of medical diagnoses andprocedures.

Officials at the Sacramento-based not-for-profitnetwork say the data did not include patient financialrecords, Social Security numbers, health planidentification numbers or medical records.

Affected patients are being notified by mail iftheir information was compromised.

Sutter says it’s speeding up efforts to encrypt allits computers, but the stolen desktop computer’sdata was not encrypted.—Internet

Florida to protect four shark speciesFORT LAUDERDALE, 17

Nov— Florida wildlifeofficials say they’re aboutto outlaw the killing oftiger sharks and threekinds of hammerheadsthat prowl the state’swaters.

The new rule, to bevoted on by the FloridaFish and Wildlife Con-servation Commission,would add four newspecies — tiger sharks aswell as scalloped, smoothand great hammerheads— to 23 sharks alreadyprotected from harvest inFlorida waters, whichextend three miles off theAtlantic coast and ninemiles off the Gulf coast,

File photo of aTiger Shark in theBahamas. Floridawill soon outlaw

the killing of TigerSharks along with

three kinds ofHammerheads.

INTERNET

the South Florida SunSentinel reportedTuesday.

Catch-and-releasefishing would still beallowed.

Shark experts andenvironmentalists havelauded the Floridaproposal, noting popu-lations of all four specieshave declined by morethan half in recentdecades.

The hope, they say, isFlorida’s action, the firstin the nation, will clearthe way for extendingprotections in both federaland international waters.

“It’s a big step butwe’re going to need the

Chatter in China: Multinationals turn to WeiboSHANGHAI, 17 Nov—

What do the InternationalMonetary Fund, LouisVuitton and Unileverhave in common?

They are the amonga clutch of Westernsinstitutions to join Weibo,China’s most popularmicroblogging platformoperated by Sina Corp,which has quicklybecome the place to be topromote, lobby and winover a large, importantaudience.

Twitter, Facebook,YouTube and othersocial media platformspopular abroad areblocked in China by agovernment worried thatunfettered Internet accesscould undermineCommunist Party rule.

The logo of Sina Corp’s Chinese microblogwebsite “Weibo” is seen on a screen in this

photo illustration taken in Beijing on 13September, 2011.—INTERNET

But with more than250 million mostlyeducated and white collarusers, Sina’s homegrownWeibo is similar to Twitterin that it allows users topost 140 character“tweets” and gatherfollowers, is becoming amajor influence in

Chinese society. Weibowas launched in late2009. “Sina Weibo isbecoming the nationalwatercooler of China,”said Sam Fleming,founder of Shanghai-based social mediaconsultancy, CIC.

Reuters

Water lake found in Jupiter moonAUSTIN, 17 Nov—US researchers

say a body of liquid water the volumeof the North American Great Lakes islocked inside the icy shell of Jupiter’smoon Europa.

Scientists at the University of Texasat Austin say that could be a significantfinding in the search for life beyond

Earth, as the water could represent apotential habitat for life and many moresuch lakes might exist throughout theshallow regions of Europa’s shell.

The newly discovered lake iscovered by floating ice shelves thatseem to be collapsing, providing amechanism for transferring nutrientsand energy between the surface and avast ocean already inferred to existbelow the thick ice shell, increasingthe potential for life, they said.

“One opinion in the scientificcommunity has been, ‘If the ice shell isthick, that’s bad for biology — that itmight mean the surface isn’tcommunicating with the underlyingocean,’” Britney Schmidt of theuniversity’s Institute for Geophysicssaid in a UT release Wednesday.

“Now we see evidence that eventhough the ice shell is thick, it can mixvigorously,” she said. “That couldmake Europa and its ocean morehabitable.”—Internet

An artists conception of a lakeunder Europa’s ice layer. Credit:Britney Schmidt/Dead Pixel VFX/

Univ of Texas at Austin.—INTERNET

Google sells digital music in iTuneschallenge

LOS ANGELES, 17Nov—Google hasopened a digital musicstore in a direct challengeto Apple’s iTunes andAmazon’s online shop.

“Today we arehappy to announce youcan buy millions ofsongs right fromAndroid Market,”Google productmanager Paul Joyce saidat a Press event in LosAngeles.

The Internet searchgiant synched the musicstore to its Google Music

Google signed threeof the four majorrecord labels —

Universal, EMI, andSony Music — withthe holdout being

Warner Music, hometo Madonna and other

artists.—INTERNET

service, which came outof test mode onWednesday to becomeavailable free of chargeto US residents.

Digital songs can bepurchased online at theAndroid Market usingcomputer Webbrowsers, and Googlesaid the service will berolled out to Android-powered smartphonesand tablet computers incoming days.

Google signed threeof the four major recordlabels — Universal, EMI,

and Sony Music — withthe holdout beingWarner Music, home toMadonna and otherartists.—Internet

Secret of frogs’ jumpingprowess revealed

PROVIDENCE, 17 Nov—The ability of frogs toleap several times farther than their physiologywould seem to allow lies in their tendons, not intheir muscles, US researchers say.

Using high-speed X-ray photography, animalscientists at Brown University discovered frogs’tendons stretch as they ready their leaps and thenrecoil much like a spring.

“Muscles alone couldn’t produce jumps thatgood,” Henry Astley, who studies the biomechanicsof frog jumping, said in a Brown releaseWednesday.

Even though as much as a quarter of a frog’smass is in its legs, it would be physically incapableof jumping as far without the tendons’ services, hesaid. “In order to get truly exceptional jumpingperformance, you need some sort of elasticstructure,” Astley said.—Internet

Science

Tech

ScienceTech

Techfederal government tostep up and do their partas well,” said NeilHammerschlag, aprofessor and shark expertat the University ofMiami.

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Ban Ki-moon urges world to learn lessons from Thaimega flooding

Cambodian dancers perform a blessing dance during the openingceremony of the meeting of the Association of Khmer-Chinese in

Cambodia, at Koh Pich theater in Phnom Penh, Capital of Cambodia, on15 Nov, 2011. —XINHUA

Singapore to take tougher measures todeal with youth gangs

SINGAPORE, 17 Nov— Singapore is expected to introduce tougher measuresto tackle youth gangs, local media reported on Thursday.

Gangs that try to recruit impressionable youngsters could face tougherpenalties. Owners of popular youth hangouts such as computer gamingcentres may have to take action to avoid the problem occurring on theirdoorstep, said the recommendations made by a work group reviewing thelegislation.

Youth attracted to gangs may require a different approach as they joinlargely for the company and to feel a sense of belonging, said Minister of Statefor Home Affairs Masagos Zulkifli, who is the head of the working group setup to look into ways of dealing with the problem following two high-profileattacks last year.

Nineteen-year-old student Darren Ng Wei Jie was hacked to death with achopper after members of a gang accused him of staring. Barely two weekslater, seven people were injured when a group of teenagers attacked them withknives and parangs.

Local media said that the situation in Singapore is well under control andthe two incidents were isolated.—Xinhua

Villagers weave cloth for traditional costumes ofDong ethnic group in Liping County of

southwest China’s Guizhou Province, on 11Nov, 2011. It takes great effort to make Dong

costumes, which are treasured as familyheirloom and cultural heritage. —XINHUA

Ban Ki-moon urges world to learn lessons from Thaimega flooding

BANGKOK, 17 Nov— UN Secretary General BanKi-moon said on Wednesday that lessons shouldbe learned from the flood in Thailand and urgedworld leaders to address climate change withoutdelay.

“I have emphasized the importance of learninglessons from this mega flooding,” Ban said at ajoint Press conference with Thailand ‘s PrimeMinister Yingluck Shinawatra. With preparednessin disaster risk reduction, the government can savea lot of lives and properties.

The worst flood in decades has been plaguingThailand since July, killing at least 564 people.

Ban asked international community to address

the climate change “with the strongest possiblepolitical leadership and organizing necessary fund.”

Ban asked member states to deliver 30 billionUS dollars by the end of 2012 to help the developingcountries adapt and mitigate the impact of climatechange, which was pledged by world leaders inCopenhagen in 2009. He also urged for clearguidelines and framework to deliver a hundredbillion dollars of fund by 2020.

“A hundred billion dollars may be a bigchallenge. But even under economic crisis, I believewe can do it. I am urging world leaders to addressthe problem with a sense of urgency, we don’t anytime to waste,” Ban said.—Xinhua

Small trainingplane loses contact

in IndonesiaJAKARTA, 17 Nov— A small

training plane with three people onboard is missing in Java island ofIndonesia on Wednesday, a rescuersaid here.

The Cessna 172 plane operatedby Nusa Flying International Schooldeparting from HalimPerdanakusuma airforce base inJakarta should arrive in Cirebontown of West Java at 08:35 amJakarta time. However, the planehas not reached the destination yet,rescuer at Jakarta Search and RescueOffice named only Purnono toldXinhua over phone.

Searching for the planesuspected to fall in West Javaterritory is underway, he said,adding a helicopter is prepared tohelp the searching.

The people on board comprisedthe pilot and two students of theschool, he said.

Small plane accident has beenrampant recently in Indonesia,including an accident in Papuawhich killed several people.

Xinhua

Resembling an elongated limousine,the Superbus if fully powered byelectricity, and was constructed withlight carbon fibre materials to makeit more energy efficient. The Superbushas a 530bhp carbon fibre shell, andis similar in length and width to apublic bus. It can carry up to 23passengers, and is 15 metres longwith 8 doors on each side. TheSuperbus managed to achieve a speedof 250Km/h on a special “speedtrack”. —INTERNET

Chinese women rescued from den of vicein Angola

BEIJING, 17 Nov—Police from China andAngola have jointlybusted a criminal gangthat abducted Chinesewomen and forced theminto prostitution inAngola, China’s Ministryof Public Security saidon Wednesday.

Police rescued 19Chinese women during acrackdown on 25 Oct, inwhich 11 suspects werearrested in Angola andfive were caught inChina, according to astatement on the

Hunter mistakes woman for mooseST JOHN’S, 17 Nov— A man hunting

moose in Newfoundland is facingnumerous charges after mistakenlyshooting a woman sitting by a campfire,police said.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Policedidn’t identify the hunter or the victim,but said criminal and misdemeanorweapons charges had been filed againstthe shooter.

The bullet hit the 68-year-old

File photo of a female moose.INTERNET

woman’s right shoulder and exitedthrough her back, the CanadianBroadcasting Corp reported Tuesday.

She has had two surgeries and maylose the use of her right arm, doctorssaid.

The woman was with her husbandand two other family members preparinga campfire on an outing in centralNewfoundland near Lewisporte whenshe was shot, police said.—Internet

ministry’s website. Allsuspects are Chinesecitizens. The femalevictims were sent back toChina on 4 Nov and the11 suspects on 13 Nov,said the statement.

The case came intofocus last April, when awoman surnamed Zhanginformed Tonghua policeauthority in NortheastChina’s Jilin Provincethat her sister and someother Chinese youngwomen had beenabducted to Angola, andforced to provide sexual

service.Zhang told the police

that on 16 April her sisterwas hired to work as anattendant in a hotel inAngola on a salary of6,000 yuan ($945) permonth.

Xu Juan, whorecruited her, offered topay for tickets and visaworth $5,000 in advance.The candidates weresupposed to pay it backafter they earned themoney, according to anews release by theministry.—Xinhua

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The Chinese Navy “Peace Ark” hospital ship departsfrom Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 15

Nov, 2011. The Chinese Navy “Peace Ark” hospitalship is heading for Costa Rica to continue the

humanitarian medical services after concluding itsseven-day mission in Trinidad and Tobago. —XINHUA

Indonesia prepares to anticipate flood,landslide

Australianeconomy

grows in linewith trendSYDNEY, 17 Nov—

The Australian economyis growing at an annualpace close to the projectedlong-term trend, accor-ding to a survey releasedon Wednesday by West-pac Banking Corporationand the Melbourne Ins-titute.

The annualizedgrowth rate of the WestpacMelbourne InstituteLeading Index, whichindicates the likely pace ofeconomic activity three tonine months into the future,was 3.3 percent inSeptember, basically in linewith its long term trend of3.2 percent, Westpac said.

Westpac chief econo-mist Bill Evans said thegrowth rate in the Indexslowed from the 4.5percent in August and wasclose to its long term trend.

“It appears that theboost to above trendgrowth we saw in Julyand August has nowfaded and the “aroundtrend” story which hasbeen generally the casesince the beginning of2011 is nowappropriate,” he said ina statement onWednesday.

Evans said recentofficial nationalaccounts data hadimposed a degree ofvolatility on the index.

Xinhua

JAKARTA, 17 Nov— Indonesia is making preparations to anticipate naturaldisasters of flood and landslide due to ongoing rainy season, an official saidhere on Wednesday.

Head of Data, Information and Public Relation Centre at the NationalAgency for Disaster Management (BNPB) Sutopo Purwo Nugroho toldreporters that his office coordinates with related ministries and institutions onpreparedness of the natural disasters.

“We have composed contingency plans and coordinated action plans toanticipate the threats,” said Nugroho.

He added that BNPB has sent equipments and logistics to 33 provincesand 265 regencies/cities, preparing quick response units that could bemobilized at anytime as well as preparing 116 billion rupiah (about 12.8 USmillion dollars).

Nugroho said that Indonesia has 172 regencies and cities with high riskof flood and 118 with middle risk of the disaster. “Meanwhile, 154 regenciesand cities in the country hold high risk of landslide and 149 others of middlerisk,” said Nugroho.—Xinhua

US Postal Service reportsbig loss on shrinking mail

volumesWASHINGTON, 17 Nov—The US Postal Service

(USPS) on Tuesday posted a net loss of 5.1 billionUS dollars for the 2011 fiscal year that ended onSept. 30 as mail volumes continued to drop.

The year-end loss would have been about 10.6billion dollars had it not been approved by Congressto postpone a 5.5-billion-dollar payment for futureretirees’ health benefits into fiscal 2012, said chieffinancial officer Joe Corbett.

The total mail volume declined by 3 billionpieces, or 1.7 percent, from 2010, mainly because ofthe recession and the increasing use of electroniccommunications, the USPS said.

It added that mail volumes have dropped morethan 20 percent in the last five years, and the USPShas been in challenging fiscal situation for severalyears. The USPS may run out of cash to operate bynext September and will default on the benefitspayment later this month, said Corbett, noting thatthe loss last year was 8.5 billion dollars, including abenefits payment.

“To return to profitability we must reduce ourannual costs by 20 billion dollars by the end of2015,” said Patrick Donahoe, Postmaster Generaland CEO, adding that aggressive cost-cutting actionswould be probable. The USPS, a self-supportinggovernment enterprise, is the only delivery servicethat reaches every address in the nation, including150 million residences, businesses and post officeboxes.—Xinhua

A view of the “door ofno return” in Ouidah.

The “door of noreturn” refers to amonument which

marks the place nearthe Djegbadji oceanfront which was thelast place seen by

many African slavesbefore they were made

to leave for othercontinents.—INTERNET

Oil spill exercise held in Hong KongHONG KONG, 17 Nov—Hong Kong emergency

response groups took to the land, sea and sky onTuesday, to test the city’s response to combat apossible large-scale oil spill.

Although Hong Kong rarely encounters suchdisasters, authorities said they must always beprepared.

There was plenty of action on a beach on HongKong’s outlying Lamma Island, as an anti-oil

Vehicles are parked at the flooded Don Muangairport in Bangkok. At least 562 people havebeen killed across the country in Thailand’s

worst floods in half a century.—INTERNET

pollution exercise, code-named Oilex 2011, wentinto full damage-control mode.

Headed by Hong Kong’s Marine Department,the exercise simulated the response to a mock oilspill from a beached product tanker.

The scenario was that 5,200 tonnes of leakingfuel oil posed a threat to the cooling water systemof the main power station on Lamma Island, whichsupplies energy to Hong Kong.

Oil combat teams practised setting up a ring offloating barrier booms around the tanker to preventthe mock oil spill from spreading to the beach, apopular leisure spot.

Tuesday’s drill simulates a second-tier oil spill,and these measures aim not only to protect humans,but also animals, as we are near the nesting groundsof Hong Kong’s endangered Green Turtles.

The exercise is part of the government’s annualMaritime Oil Spill Response Plan.

Five government departments and four localoil companies took part.—Internet

Vietnam to build space centre by 2018HANOI, 17 Nov—Vietnam will build a space centre by 2018 for which it

will spend over $600 million. Under the plan, the Vietnam Space Centre,covering an area of nine hectares at Hoa Lac High-tech Park in Hanoi, willspecialise in researching and producing small satellites to be used in domesticweather forecast, geodesy, exploration, radio- television broadcast and rescue,Xinhua reported. The project will be implemented by the Vietnam Academyof Science and Technology (VAST) with design and construction supportfrom Japan, said Doan Minh Chung, director of the Space TechnologyInstitute (STI). Once the project is over, Vietnam will own the most advancedspace science and technology research and training centre in Southeast Asia.

The country is expected to reduce 10 percent of damages caused bynatural disasters and is able to design and produce small satellites for the earthobservance. Vietnam and Japan have potential for long-term cooperation inremote sensing and application and develop-ment of small satellites, saidJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Director Tetsuo Tanaka duringSTI’s 5th anniversary celebrations.—Internet

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(from page 1)family under the patronage of both side parents andGeneral Manager U Kyaw Kyaw-Daw Khin Khin Htayand family of Myanma Economic Bank, K 300,000 byManaging Director U San Thaung of Myanma EconomicBank-Daw Thida Lwin and family, K 230,000 by Lt-Col Zaw Min Tun-Daw Thin Thin Aung of No. 122Infantry Regiment and families of Hlwegyi Village, onegold bracelet and two pairs of gold earplugs worthabout K 722,000 by U Kyaw Myint-Daw Khin NweNwe family of Ottarathiri Township in memory of latedaughter Ei Shwe Sin, one gold ring worth about K402,000 by U Myo Win-Daw Nu Nu family of Nay PyiTaw Shwelawaing Co, two gold rings, two pieces ofpearl and 11 pieces of precious stones worth about K233,500 by Daw Myint Myint and family of PyisanaungVillage in Zeyathiri Township, one gold chain and fourpieces of jade stone worth about K 208,000 by DrKyaw Soe-Daw Hsan Hsan and family of Building 147at Khayay Avenue, above K 100,000 each by 66wellwishers and gold, silver and jewellery ornamentsby 66 wellwishers.

Yesterday evening and night, U Htay Oo-DawNi Ni Win and U Ye Tun Win-Daw Nilar Lin familydonated K 500,000 each, Defence Services PersonnelAmyotha Hluttaw representatives K 335,600, U Shwe-

Deputy Speaker ofAmyotha Hluttaw…

Daw Mya and family of Taunggyi K 200,000, pilgrimsof Thiri Zeya Nunnery of Kangyi Pariyatti Monastery ofNyaungshwe K 105,500 and Maj-Gen Saw Hla (Rtd)-Daw Cho Cho Maw and family K 108,000, DeputyMinister for Finance and Revenue U Win Than-Daw YiYi Win and family one gold chain and one gold ringdecorated with 18 pieces of diamond worth about K 2.4million in memory of U Than Pe-Daw Mya Yi and UMin Kyi-Daw Yin Kyi, Daw Win Kyi Myint and familyfive gold buttons decorated six pieces of ruby worth

about K 500,000 in memory of two parents, CaptainTin Maung (Rtd)-Daw Myint Myint San and family onepair of gold earplug worth about K 300,000 in memoryof son Maung Aung Kaung Khant.

Donations from evening of 16th November to6 pm today amounted to K 29,453,531, US$ 365, Thaibaht 62, Philippines peso 20, Indian rupee 2100, S$ 20,112 items of gold, silver and jewellery worth about K10,219,500.

MNA

Members of the Sangha and people paying obeisance to sacred Buddha tooth relic.—MNA

YANGON, 17Nov—The Vietnam TradeFair in Myanmar 2011 wasopened at Myanmar Con-vention Centre (MCC) onMindhamma Road inMayangon Township thismorning.

Chief Minister ofYangon Region U MyintSwe, Deputy Minister forAgriculture and IrrigationU Ohn Than, YangonMayor Yangon Region

Yangon Region Chief Minister attends openingof Vietnam Trade Fair in Myanmar

Minister for DevelopmentAffairs U Hla Myint, Di-rector-General of Directo-rate of Trade U KhinMaung Lay, Vice Ministerof Vietnam Mr NguyenThanh Bien, VietnameseAmbassador Mr ChuCong Phung, AVIMChairman Mr Tran BrieHoi and Vietnam TradePromotion Department Di-rector-General Mr DoFhang Hai formallyopened the fair.

Vietnamese com-panies and 45 entrepre-neurs open 82 boothswhere electronics, medi-cines, foodstuffs, commu-

nication and health de-vices, construction mate-rials and automobiles arebeing displayed from 17to 20 November.

At Yangon Inter-national Airport, theRegion Chief Minister in-spected the hall wheresacred Buddha tooth relicwill be kept temporarilycompletion of fivebuildings for membersof the Sangha andguests, rehearsal of con-veying sacred Buddhatooth relic round MahaPasana Cave on Kaba AyeHill and preparations atthe cave.—MNA

Chief Minister of Yangon Region U Myint

Swe and party open Vietnam Trade Fair

in Myanmar 2011.—MNA

Myanmar wins two moregold and other medals…

(from page 1)In men’s team

recurve, archers Nay MyoAung, Zaw Win Htaik andAung Myo Thu won thebronze after Malaysia and

Thailand. Ye Min Swe,Aung Cheint Baw andMyat Zaw Tun stood atthe third place in men’sarchery compound event.In men’s (-55 Kilo) Judo

event, Kub Jin Bao ofMyanmar won the bronzeand the same was scoredby Segull in women’s (-45 Kilo) Judo event.

Than Hlaing,Aung Thu Tun and EiThet Mon secured thirdplace in dressage event inwhich Indonesia won gold

and Thailand silver. On17 November, Myanmarsports contingent won twogold, one silver and threebronze medals. From 11to date, Myanmar has wonthree gold, 13 silver and19 bronze, totaling 35medals.

MNA

Bronze medalists Nay Myo Aung, Zaw WinHtaik and Aung Myo Thu in men’s team recurve

event.—MNA

Bronze medalists Ye Min Swe, Aung Cheint Baw and Myat Zaw Tun in men’s compound event.—MNA

Silver medalists Saw William and Myint San inmen’s double rowing M2 event.

MNA

Gold medalists Than Than Nwe, Shwe ZinLat in women’s double rowing LW 2X

event.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 17Nov—Union Attorney-General Dr Tun Shinreceived Ambassador ofthe Republic of Koreato Myanmar Mr KimHae-yong at the Officeof Union Attorney-

Union Attorney-Generalreceives ROKAmbassador

General.Also present at the

call were Director-General of UnionAttorney-General OfficeU Myint Win, directorsand officials.

MNA

Evidences on both BronzeAge, Iron Age discovered

NAY PYI TAW, 17Nov—Under theleadership of the Ministryof Hotels and Tourism,the 28th Greater MekongSub-region Meeting ofTourism Working Groupand related meetings willbe held at BaganNanmyint Building inBagan from 27 to 29November.

The meetings areheld twice a year in GMSmember countriesalphabetically, and thisyear is Myanmar’s turnto host the 28th workinggroup meeting.

The 28th GMS

28th GMS Meeting of Tourism WorkingGroup 27-29 Nov

Meeting of TourismWorking Group will beorganized in conjunctionwith the joint workcommittee meeting forlong-term developmentprojects of tourismindustry, the tourismindustry long-termdevelopment meeting,the GMS Tourism Show,the Bagan Night Marketand the entertainments ofcultural exchange amongGMS member countries.Moreover, the Ministryof Hotels and Tourismwill stage the photo showthat won prizes in thephoto contest of the

ministry.Ceremonies will take

place at Bagan NanmyintBuilding and around BuPagoda. The meetingswill be attended byofficials of TourismMinistries of GMSmember countries,representatives ofMekong tourismcoordination office,ADB and Pacific-AsiaTourism Board, tourismcolumnists, resourcepersons and guests,totalling over 70 andofficials of local tourismagencies.

MNA

Union Minister for Finance and Revenue U Hla Tun holdingdiscussion with French Ambassador to Myanmar Thierry Mathu, leader

of EU delegation to Thailand Mr David Ramon Lipman and EUmember countries ambassadors residing in Bangkok of Thailand, at the

ministry in Nay Pyi Taw on 16 November.(News reported)—MNA

International Space Station gets 3 new tenantsEarth next week.

The 39-year-oldShkaplerov and 42-year-oldIvanishin are making theirfirst flights into space.Burbank, 50, who will takeover command of the spacestation, is a veteran of 12-day shuttle missions in 2000and 2006. The three menare to remain aboard thespace station until

March.Officials at Russia’sMission Control outsideMoscow and thecosmonauts’ familiesradioed congratulations tothe crew. The mission’slaunch had been delayedfor two months because ofthe crash of an unmanned

Progress cargo ship inAugust. That failed launchraised doubts about futuremissions to the station,because the rocket thecrashed ship used had thesame upper stage as thebooster rockets carryingSoyuz ships into orbit. Thedelay cut the crew numbersto three. Another launchnext month will take the

The Soyuz TMA-22 rocket is seen at the Soyuzlaunch pad during a snow storm the morning ofthe launch of Expedition 29 to the InternationalSpace Station at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in

Kazakhstan, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. TheRussian spacecraft carrying an American andtwo Russians blasted off Monday in a faultless

launch.

Moscow,17 Nov — TheInternational Space Stationgot three new crewmembersWednesday, temporarilydoubling in crew size withthe arrival of a RussianSoyuz capsule.The SoyuzTMA-22 delivered NASAastronaut Dan Burbank andRussians Anton Shkaplerovand Anatoly Ivanishin, whoblasted off from Kazakhstan

on Monday. They movedonto the station about twohours after their capsulesuccessfully docked. Thethree newcomers weregreeted with hugs andhandshakes from AmericanMichael Fossum, RussianSergey Volkov and JapaneseSatoshi Furukawa who havebeen at the station sinceJune and are due to return to

station back to its normalsix-person crew. WilliamGerstenmaier, NASA’sassociate administrator forspace operations, said in atelevised news briefingshortly after the dockingthat “the Russian team didthe tremendous job ofgetting the launch and thedocking ready.”

Internet

Fossilized skeletons from the Bronze and Iron

Age found in Gyogon Village, Pyawbwe

Township of Yamethin District.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Nov— A r c h a e o l o g i s t sdiscovered evidences onthe Bronze Age and theIron Age in PyawbweTownship, MandalayDivision, recently.

The team comprisingarchaeologists of theMinistry of Culture andarchaeologists led by Dr.Jean Pierre Pautreau ofNational Centre forScientific Research (CNRS)of France found humanskeletons, 20 colourfulbeads, one iron weapon,four bronze packs, earthen

objects and three humanremains believed to becovered with lime andburied when they hadunearthed the field No. 92about one miles south ofKyogon Village as from 2November.

The research on theBronze Age and the IronAge in Myanmar havebeen launched on 1998in Nyaungkan in BudalinTownship, SagaingRegion, and theexcavation have beencarried out in Monhtoo inBudalin Township,

Hanlin in WetletTownship, Innde inTaungtha Township,Myaukle, MyinOoHleand Hnawkan inMahlaing Township,Kokokhar and Bulugonin Wundwin Township,Ywahtingon, U-min inPayagyi Village-tract,Htantabin in HtayangarVillage-tract andHtonbon in DahatgonVillage-tract in PyawbweTownship, Nyaunggonin Kanni Village-tract andHmyar-Yaywai inThaegyigon Village-tract

in Meiktila Township,Pyaisongon in NyaungbinVillage-tract in KumeTownship, Myohla inYamethin Township andKanthitgon andYwagongyi in BwaegyaVillage-tract in ThaziTownship.

During theexcavation in 19 areaswithin 10 years,evidences for the BronzeAge and the Iron Agewere found and thefindings are valuable forMyanmar culture andhistory.—MNA

Harvesting ceremony held at high-yield monsoon paddy plantation inNankyar Village, Nankyar Village-tract, MraukU of Rakhine State

on 6 November.—Township IPRD

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Armed soldiers patrol the Nusa Dua beach front area in Indonesia’sholiday island of Bali ahead of the ASEAN Leaders’ Summit.—INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 17Nov—A 21-year-old mandescribed as having ahatred for Washingtonand President BarackObama has been arrestedin connection with witha White House shootingincident, the US SecretService announced.

Oscar RamiroOrtega- Hernandez, whowas detained by Pennsy-lvania State PoliceWednesday, was alle-gedly involved in ashooting Friday nightthat may be responsible

White House shooting suspect arrested

Bhutan donates butterflies to JapanTOKYO, 17 Nov—

Bhutan has donated toJapan 2 rare swallowtailbutterflies native to theHimalayan country.

The male and femaleLudlow’s Bhutan Swa-llowtails were given bya delegation accom-panying Bhutan’s king,who is visiting Japan.

The delegation gave

the specimens to theButterfly Society ofJapan at the stateguesthouse in Tokyo onTuesday.

One such butterflywas spotted in Augustfor the first time in nearly80 years in a valley inBhutan’s eastern moun-tainous region by a jointresearch team of the

society and the country’sgovernment.

The swallowtail is thesize of an adult’s palm,and has wings with darkred markings and threetails. Imports and exportsof the butterfly withoutpermission is banned bythe Convention onInternational Trade inEndangered Species.

Alsarah, a member of the hip-hop troupe FEW Collective, performs during aconcert organized by the US embassy in Islamabad on 14 Nov, 2011. The group’s

10-day trip is the latest by a number of musical acts sponsored by the StateDepartment as part of its American Festival of the Arts, a cultural programme

designed to promote exchanges between the people of the two countries.—REUTERS

Tuesday’s donation wasrealized after Bhutanconducted export andother procedures.

The University ofTokyo Museum’s Assis-tant Professor MasayaYago, who received thespecimens, said they willenable researchers tofurther study theevolution of animals inthe Himalaya Moun-tains.—Internet

US Congress approves bill tohelp veterans seek jobs

5.7-magnitudequake hits offthe coast of

EcuadorWASHINGTON, 17

Nov—An earthquakemeasuring 5.7 on theRichter scale jolted offthe coast of Ecuador onWednesday, the USGeological Survey said.

The epicentre, witha depth of 29.80 km,was initially determinedto be at 1.7778 degreessouth latitude and81.5507 degrees westlongitude.

Xinhua

Crew members found alive aboardmissing Russian ship

Kuznetsov” from ahelicopter and eva-cuated the crewmembers after the vesselran aground in the WhiteSea, the ministry’s pressservice stated.

In a statement, theship’s owner companysaid the ship had beenstranded by a storm inthe White Sea and forcedto stop all its engines.

Internet

MOSCOW, 17 Nov—All 11 crew membersaboard a Russian shipthat went missing in theWhite Sea were foundalive and rescued,Xinhua reported.

On Tuesday, theEmergency SituationsMinistry confirmed thatthe Captain Kuznetsov,en route from StPetersburg to the ArcticSea port city of

Arkhangelsk, wentmissing in the White Seawithout sending anySOS signals.

The Transport Min-istry Wednesday in astatement said that thecrew members aboardthe Russian ship —Captain Kuznetsov —have been safelyrescued.

Rescuers landed onthe deck of the “Captain

for two bullets found atthe White HouseTuesday, the SecretService said.

One bullet hit awindow and wasstopped by bulletproofglass, and another wasfound on the WhiteHouse exterior, theSecret Service chargedwith protecting the firstfamily said.

Ortega-Hernandez isto appear in federal courtin Pittsburgh at 2 pmThursday, according tothe Justice Department.

Ortega-Hernandez,originally from Idaho,was being questioned byfederal authorities, acc-ording to Lt Brad Shieldsof the PennsylvaniaState Police. Ortega-Hern-andez wasarrested under a US ParkPolice warrant issuedSunday in Washington“based on a shooting thatoccurred at the WhiteHouse on 11November,” Shields wasquoted as saying byCNN.

Internet

Objectives of the 91st

AnniversaryNational Day

* To uplift national prestige andintegrity and to strengthenUnion Spirit

* To promote national education * To ensure perpetuity of

independence and sovereigntyof the State

* To build a modern anddeveloped new nation

WASHINGTON, 17 Nov—US House of Repres-entatives passed a legis-lation on Wednesdaythat would help veteransget jobs.

The measure clearedthe lower chamber by aunanimous vote of 422 to0. Since it had been

approved by the Senatelast week, it now onlyawaits President BarackObama’s signature tobecome law.

It is so far the onlypiece of Obama’s Amer-ican Jobs Act to clearCongress. The bill wouldoffer tax credits of up to5,600 US dollars tocompanies that hireveterans who have beenunemployed for morethan six months.

The maximum am-ount of tax credits wouldbe elevated to 9,600dollars if companieshire long-unemployeddisabled veterans.

It would also expandedu-cation and job trainingbenefits for veterans.

The White Househailed the legislation’spassage.

Xinhua

Bhutan Glory butterfly(Bhutanitis lidderdalei)

INTERNET

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Magnets can help stroke patients speak

Acclaimed as the “City of Water,” “City ofBridges” and “Queen of the Adriatic,” Venice isone of the most beautiful and romantic places on

the planet. The city stretches across 117 smallislands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the

Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy.—INTERNET

Bees at Ngee Ann Poly injure 38 peopleSINGAPORE, 17 Nov—

A group of Ngee AnnPolytechnic staff andstudent were stung bybees at the school’ssports complex.

All of the injuredwho have been sincebeen discharged fromhospital. The SingaporeCivil Defence Force(SCDF) said it receiveda call about the incidentaround 8.30am, whilestudents were playingsoccer, netball andvolleyball.

British taxis to have spy cameras

Newly discovered tape after John F Kennedyassassination on sale for 500k dollars

Visitors and exhibitors talk in front of a watershow during Watec Israel 2011, in Tel Aviv, on

15 Nov, 2011.—XINHUA

An Indian stuntman rides a motorcycle in frontof the crowd at an attraction known as the “Well

of Death” at the Sonepur Fair, in Sonepur,Bihar, near Patna, India, on 15 Nov, 2011. The

fair, which is held annually, was originally acattle and animal market where traders bought

and sold livestock on the holy river Ganges.INTERNET

hospital.The PDV can be

used as a mass-casualtydecontamination facility,ambulance and as atransport vehicle.

Sixteen of thecasualties were taken toAlexandra Hospital andanother 21 to NationalUniversity Hospital. Theschool said the field wascordoned off, and sportsactivities were cancelledor moved.

A pest controlcompany later got rid ofthe bee hive.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 17Nov—A new tape whichcaptures the moments onAir Force One just afterPresident John FKennedy’s assassinationhas been discovered andis on sale for half a milliondollars.

According to reports,the two-hour tapeincludes more than 30minutes of additionalmaterial beyond what theofficial version in thegovernment archivesrecords. The new tape,housed in its originalpackaging, is one of

many items on sale fromArmy Gen Chester “Ted”Clifton Jr’s estate andfeatures recordings ofcalls between Air ForceOne, the White House,Andrews Air Force Baseand the plane flyingKennedy Press secretaryPierre Salinger and sixCabinet members whenthe president wasassassinated in 1963.

The tapes featurediscussion about whichhospital Kennedy’s bodywould go to for autopsyand whether first ladyJackie Kennedy would

go to the location as well.The in-flight recor-

dings also detailed thearrangements for ambu-lances and limousinesbefore the plane wasscheduled to land.

While a privatecollector can purchasethe Clifton tape for its500,000 dollars askingprice, the recording willalso be digitized andgiven to the NationalArchives and John FKennedy Library forpublic access, the Politicoreported.

Internet

Ambulances andtwo speciallydesignedPersonal Decontamina-

tion Vehicles (PDVs)were used to send theinjured, 12 at a time, to

LONDON, 17 Nov—Taxis in the famousBritish university townof Oxford will now befitted with spy camerasto record images ofpassengers. A total of652 taxis licensed in thecity are to be fitted withCCTV cameras, theDaily Express said.

The city council said

the move was inresponse to an increasein complaints againstboth cab drivers andpassengers.

The complaintsinclude over-charging,sexual assaults andattacks on drivers.

“This is anincredible invasion ofprivacy. Oxford city

council has thrown civilliberties out of thewindow,” said NickPickles, director of civilliberties group BigBrother Watch.

A council spokes-woman said: “Oxfordcity council considersthe risk of intrusion isacceptable compared tothe public safety

benefits. In any event,the level of privacy in alicensed vehicle is farlower than that in one’sown car.”

All taxis must havethe equipment installedfrom April next year.

Oxford, which liesabout 80 km north-westof London, has apopulation of around165,000.

Internet

SYDNEY, 17 Nov—Stimulating the brain withmagnets is likely toimprove the languageskills of stroke survivors.

Researchers led byCaroline Barwood fromthe University ofQueensland’s School ofHealth and RehabilitationSciences found markedimprovement in thelanguage skills of strokepatients after theyunderwent TranscranialMagnetic Stimulation(TMS).

TMS is a non-invasive method thatseeks to target brainactivity to facilitate thereorganisation of brainregions with the purposeto alter languagebehaviours, reports TheEuropean Journal ofNeurology.

The treatmentinvolves placing a coilon the participant’s headwhich uses electromag-netic induction to induceweak electric currentsthrough a changing

magnetic field, accordingto a university statement.

A group of patientsthat experienced strokesbetween one and sixyears prior to the studywere recruited forparticipation and treatedat the university’s Centrefor Neurogenic Commu-nication DisordersResearch.

“Eighty percent ofpatients treated with TMSshowed improvementsin language skills, mostnotably in expressive

language, which includesnaming, repetition anddiscourse. No languageimprovements were seenfor those treated withplacebo TMS,” Barwoodsaid.

The researcher saidchanges in patients’language scores weremeasured on standar-dised speech pathologytests. “The researchstrongly demonstratesthat TMS may be a veryuseful and safe treatmentmethod,” she added.

Internet

China to build first TaiChi theme park

developed originally inancient China whichemphasises a simple andnatural life. It is usuallypracticed for self-defenceand health benefits.

According to anadministrative official,the office of WudangMountains and US com-pany Landmark Enter-tainment will cooperateto set up the Tai Chitheme park in the centralHubei Province, Xinhuareported.

The administrativeoffice of Wudang Moun-tains and LandmarkEntertainment Groupplan to ink investmentagreements in earlyDecember in Beijing.

Tony Christopher,CEO of Landmark Enter-tainment Group, the UScompany, said over $100million will be investedon the theme park.

Open-air performa-nces will also be staged onwaters beside the themepark, Christopher said,adding that the perfor-mances are planned to beguided by Hollywooddirectors.—Internet

BEIJING, 17 Nov—China will build a themepark showcasing thetraditional martial art formof Tai Chi in WudangMountains area, legen-dary home of the maritalart and a Unesco WorldHeritage Site renownedas a centre of Taoism.

Tai Chi is a type ofChinese martial artclosely connected withTaoism, a religion

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV HOANG ANH 09 VOY NO (13)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV HOANGANH 09 VOY NO (13) are hereby notified that thevessel has arrived on 17.11.2011 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of B.S.W-1 where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subjectto the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Daynow declared as the third day after final dischargeof cargo from the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admittedafter the Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: G LINK EXPRESS LOGISTICSS’PORE PTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

Tourists visit a cave at Baligou Scenic Area of TaihangMountain, central China’s Henan Province. Water-falls, brooks and ponds constitute picturesque scener-ies in this region, attracting a lot of visitors.—XINHUA

Shrimp has ‘silk-spinning skills’

The animal’s “specialistsecretory legs” produce

the sticky, fibrousmaterial.— INTERNET

The shrimp builds ashelter from sand grains

and other material. INTERNET

LONDON, 17 Nov — Atiny underwater creaturespins silk in order to bindtogether its sand grainhouse, researchers havediscovered. The shrimp,Crassicorophium bonellii,produces fibres that com-bine barnacle cement bi-ology with spider silk pro-duction techniques. The

resulting “gossamerthreads” are sticky andsalt-water resistant. TheOxford team says this is anew example of “nature’sway of engineering ahighly functional mate-rial”. Their discovery ispublished in the journalNaturwissenschaften.

One of the authors ofthe study, Prof FritzVollrath from the Univer-sity of Oxford, explainedthat the shrimp releasedthe material through ductson its legs. “It uses thefibres to tie together bitsand bobs to make itshouse,” Prof Vollrath ex-plained to BBC. “It usesgrains of sand, pieces of

vegetation, algae, even itsown faeces.” Although itwas already understoodthat the creature produceda sticky substance fromits legs, the scientists dis-covered that it spins thissubstance into a silk, inmuch the same way thatspiders do — pulling itthrough a duct to make afunctional thread.

InternetEstonianuniversity creates

“Smart Glass”TALLINN, 17 Nov—Sci-

entists from Estonia’s Uni-versity of Tartu have cre-ated a glass surface thatcan be rendered opaque inan electric field, allowingit to be used as windowshades, local media re-ported on Monday. Thesecret of the creation lies ina special spray-on gel,which after encounteringthe glass surface forms a 5to 10 micrometer coat, thecountry’s ETV reported.

Upon encountering anelectric field, the gelchanges its optical proper-ties at a flick of switch. Sofar, the gel has been appliedto small square pieces ofglass, which have passedall laboratory tests.Estonian scientists are now,however, trying to figureout how to apply the sametechnology on larger sur-face. According to IlmarKink, head of theNanotechnology Devel-opment Center at the uni-versity, one option is todevelop a special spraybooth, which would applythe gel in an even coat.

The glass can be usedin office buildings andshopping malls.

Internet

Man buys a mini-van... and finds$500,000 of cocaine in the door panels

San Jose psychologistCharles Preston pur-chased a used Town

and Country that camewith $500,000 worth ofcocaine stuffed in thewindow panels andbehind the wheels.

INTERNET

SAN JOSE, 17 Nov — ACalifornia man wasstunned to see what a pre-vious owner of hisminivan apparently leftbehind: $500,000 worthof cocaine jammed in thedoor panels. San Jose psy-chologist Charles Prestonbought the 2008 Townand Country in May 2010for a mere $14,000 fromThrifty Car Sales in SantaClara.

Mr Preston said he no-ticed the driver’s side win-dow wouldn’t go downall the way, but he figuredhe would live with itbecause the minivan hada good air conditioningsystem. He discoveredthe giant stash of cocaine15 months later when hebrought the car to a

mechanic to get the brakeschecked. Police arrived tothe shop immediately andfound 14 packages of co-caine hidden in the doors.

After impounding thecar, they found five morepackages behind thewheels. Mr Preston saidhe initially had no ideawhat the white ‘snow’ hid-den in the frame was,though those who heardthe news were quick todole out advice.

Internet

UK trees’ fruit ripening ‘18days earlier’

The exact cause forwhy the fruiting seasonhas advanced so much

remains unknown.INTERNET

LONDON, 17 Nov —Britain’s native trees areproducing ripe fruit, onaverage, 18 days earlierthan a decade ago, prob-ably as a result of climaticshifts, a study reveals. Itshows that acorns are rip-ening 13 days earlier, whilerowan berries are ready toeat nearly a month earlier.Experts warn that one con-sequence could be thatanimals’ food reserveswould become depletedearlier in the winter. Thefindings were publishedby Nature’s Calendar, adata collection network co-ordinated by the Wood-land Trust.

“Some of the changesare really quite big andquite surprising,” ex-plained Tim Sparks, thetrust’s nature adviser. “Thiscaused me to go back andlook at the data again tomake sure it was validbecause even I did notbelieve it initially.” Prof

Sparks said Nature’sCalendar, formerly knownas the UK Phenology Net-work, was established in1998 to collect spring-timeinformation. “But the gapin data was in the autumnSo, since about 2000, thescheme has also been col-lecting data on things suchas fruit ripening dates, leafcolour change and falldates, and the last birdsseen,” he told BBC News.

Internet

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Tender documents are available at the following address.Any queries can be done between (9:30) AM and (4:30)PM before tender closing date.

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Is oral contraceptive pillfuelling prostate cancer?

The Pill becamepublicly available in

the 1960s and remainsa popular choice of

contraceptive. INTERNET

TORONTO, 17 Nov —Scientists say research isneeded to ascertain iforal contraceptive pill usecould be fuelling risingprostate cancer rates.

Canadian investiga-tors told the BMJ thatthey have found a possi-ble link.

But experts stress thisis not proof that onecauses the other and itmight be a fluke finding.

The researchers be-lieve oestrogen by-prod-ucts excreted in the urineof pill-users may havecontaminated the foodchain and drinkingwater.

The hormone isknown to feed the growthof certain cancers. Thelatest investigationlooked at data from 2007for individual nationsand continents world-wide to see if there wasany link.

The researchers founda significant associationbetween contraceptivepill use in the populationas a whole with both thenumber of new cases of,and deaths from, pros-tate cancer.

Internet

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N e w s A l b u m

Harry Potter’ seriesdirector David

Yates

LOS ANGELES, 17 Nov—Actor Colin Firth has beenapproached to play the role of a villain in the remakeof Park Chan-wook’s South Korean revenge classic,“Oldboy”.

After playing a British king in “The King’s Speech”,Firth has been offered to play Adrian, who is thenemesis of Josh Brolin’s lead character.

According to Twitchfilm.com, the role waspreviously offered to Christian Bale. “Oldboy” tellsthe story of a recently paroled middle-aged man, whospent 15 years in prison without any fault. He thenseeks revenge on those who conspired against him.

The original version of the movie was released in2003 and won the Grand Prize Jury Award at the 2004Cannes Film Festival, reports aceshowbiz.com. Theremake is being directed by Spike Lee.

Internet

NEW YORK, 17 Nov—Kim Kardashian has hiredthe acting coach NicoleKidman thanked whenaccepting her Best ActressOscar, to help nail her rolein the upcoming TylerPerry film ‘The MarriageCounselor.’

Kardashian, 31, hasturned to Susan Batson,who has worked withOscar winners JulietteBinoche, Jamie Foxx and

LONDON, 17 Nov—Comedian Russell Brandis all set to star and producethe forthcoming comedyfilm “The President StoleMy Girlfriend”.

The 36-year-old whowill play a “sexy hippie”in the movie that has beenwritten by Matt Portenoyand produced by WarnerBros. “In this movie, thepresident steals the

NEW YORK, 17 Nov—‘Harry Potter’ series director David Yates is workingto develop a feature film version of the TV series ‘Doctor Who’.

The 47-yeay-old filmmaker has collaborated with the BBC to develop afeature film version of its cult sci-fi television series in the hopes of turning it intoa big-screen franchise.

“We’re looking at writers now. We’re going to spend two to three years toget it right,” the New York Post quoted Yates as telling Variety magazine.

“It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena.”The director also said that his ‘Dr Who’ would not stick to the continuity of

the TV version. “The notion of the time-travelling Time Lord is such a strongone, because you can express story and drama in any dimension or time.”

“Television writers Russell T Davies and then Steven Moffat have done theirown transformations, which were fantastic, but we have to put that aside andstart from scratch,” he added.—Internet

NEW YORK, 17 Nov—Actress Cameron Diazand singer Sean Combsaren’t dating rather theyare working together ona film project, says herrepresentative.

Rumours of theirbudding romance startedafter they were spotteddining together a numberof times in recent weeks.However, Diaz’sspokesperson has set therecord straight.

“(They) are longtimefriends and have beenseen together recentlybecause they aredeveloping a filmproject. They had lunch...

A Newfoundland,Canada, great-great-grandmother who justturned 106 said she hassubsisted on unhealthyfoods and “good times.”

Margaret EllenMoores of Rushoon, whocelebrated her birthdayduring the weekend, saidGod must want her toremain on Earth for awhile longer, the

New York Lottery officials said Friday’s luckydate — 11/11/11 — produced a spike in lotteryticket sales.

Officials said ticket sales have sharplyincreased. Carolyn Hapeman, spokeswoman forthe New York Lottery, said the Win4 drawing capssales on number combinations at $5 million andthe 1-1-1-1 combination sold out a week prior toFriday’s drawing, CNNMoney reported Friday.

David Just, associate professor of economicsat Cornell University, said it is not unusual to seeticket sales increase for dates seen to have a specialmeaning.

“There are a large number of people who sit onthe sidelines and wait to jump in when they see abig jackpot or for dates like this,” Just said. “Youmight see a 5 percent to 10 percent bump (insales).”

Just said a similar spike was seen 7 July, 2007— 7/7/07.

Authorities in Florida said they are seeking the cattle rustlers responsiblefor heisting 10 head of cattle from Wellington and Loxahatchee.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said six of the cattle were rustledfrom the corner of 50th Street South and 120th Avenue South in Wellingtonbetween 30 Sept and 4 Oct, and the other four vanished from Loxahatcheebetween 10 and 24 Oct, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Friday.

Investigators said they are seeking two men seen driving in a black FordF-150 with an enclosed aluminum trailer bearing a Navy Seals license plate.

Kim Kardashian hires Nicole Kidman’sacting coach

Colin Firth in ‘Oldboy’remake?

Russell Brand to produce ‘The President Stole...’

Cameron Diaz, Sean Combsworking on movie project

‘Harry Potter’ director David Yates workingon ‘Dr Who’ movie

Actor Colin Firth

Kim Kardashian

Jennifer Connelly as wellas Tom Cruise andJennifer Lopez.

The reality TV stardecided to hire Batson tohelp her play her part inher new movie, as shestruggles with heremotions in the wake offiling for divorce from ex-

hubby Kris Humphries.“Kim had been

confident about the movie,but with recent events shehas been worried that thestress of her real life wouldshow through,” the NewYork Post quoted a sourceas telling Life and Stylemagazine.—Internet

Comedian RussellBrand

girlfriend of a sexy hippie- me, obviously. It wasinspired by the night Inaively invited Warnerspresident Jeff Robinov fordinner,” hollywood-reporter.com quotedBrand as saying.

The actor will next beseen in musical “Rock ofAges” alongwith TomCruise and Mary J Blige.

Internet

Actress Cameron Diaz

with a producer who isalso involved in theproject. (They) are notromantically involved,”nypost.com quotedDiaz’s representative assaying.—Internet

Woman, 106,‘loves her pizza’

Florida police seek cattle rustlers

Friday’s 11/11/11 datecauses lottery sales spike

her retirement has kept hergoing.

“Good times I guess,when I got old. I didn’thave them when I was

Canadian BroadcastingCorp reported Monday.

“He put me here, Isuppose, and that was it. Ihad to stay till I went,”Moores, whose only dailymedication is Tylenol, toldrevelers at her party.

Moores, who has 14grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and threegreat-great-grandchildren,said having lots of fun after

young,” she said. “(I) gotso fond of them, I couldn’tlet them go.”

Mary Cheeseman,Moores’ daughter, saidher mother refuses to stickto a healthy diet.

“She loves her sweets.She never drank water inher life,” Cheeseman said.“(She loves) her salt beef,the same old-time mealsas ever she had … Sheloves her pizza and Frenchfries now. So it’s not herdiet is it?”

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Real Madrid’s Iker Casillas ‘very happy’to become Spain’s most capped player

Jenkinson still stunned by Gunners move

Neymar: Barcelona players are like aliens &their football is from another planet

Bruce reveals Wickham relief

Steve Bruce

Jenkinson joined the Gunners fromCharlton in the summer

Real Madrid’sIker Casillas

LONDON, 17 Nov—Carl Jenkinsonhas revealed he is still pinching himselfthat he is an Arsenal player. LifelongGunners fan Jenkinson could hardlyhave enjoyed a more meteoric rise inthe past 12 months, having gone frommaking his senior debut in non-leaguefootball to playing at the EmiratesStadium, Old Trafford, StamfordBridge, and in the Champions League.

The 19-year-old, who was starringon loan for Blue Square Bet Premierside Eastbourne this time last year,joined Arsenal from League One sideCharlton Athletic during the summer.

“Sometimes, I just have to take astep back and really appreciate where

I am,” Jenkinson said. “From me tocome to where I was to playing in thePremier League is obviously a bigachievement for me.—Internet

Gerrard: Reds ideal for Downing

Santos striker Neymar

MADRID, 17 Nov—Spain international goal-keeper Iker Casillas is de-lighted to have becomehis country’s most cappedplayer following his ap-pearance against CostaRica on Tuesday.

The internationalfriendly in San Jose thatended in a 2-2 draw wasCasillas’ 127th for La FuriaRoja, allowing him tosurpass former Barcelonaand Athletic Bilbaocustodian Andoni

Zubizarreta, who wascapped by Spain 126 timesfrom 1985 until 1998.

The Real Madrid shot-stopper made his debut forSpain in a 1-1 draw againstSweden on June 3, 2000and won Euro 2008 inAustria and Switzerlandand the 2010 World Cupin South Africa, captain-ing the Iberian nation onboth occasions.

“When I started outplaying as a kid I neverthought I would reach suchfigures but now that I have,I’m obviously veryhappy,” said the 30-year-old on Uefa.com.

“Every time I join up

with the national team I doso as if it were my last. Theonly thing I have clear inmy mind is that it has beena real pleasure to play forSpain for the past 11years.”—Internet

Heskey enjoying utility role

Stewart Downing

Italy is on the path to greatness forEuro 2012, says Cesare Prandelli

LONDON, 17 Nov—Steve Bruce has con-firmed Sunderland’sConnor Wickham shouldbe back in action beforethe end of the year.

The Black Cats initiallysuspected Wickham hadruptured his cruciate kneeligament when he wasstretchered off within thefirst five minutes in the1-0 defeat at ManchesterUnited 10 days ago.

Bruce says subsequentscans showed the £8mstriker had only suffered

damage to the ligament atthe back of his knee andfaces four to six weeksout.

The Sunderland man-ager has revealed it maytake Wickham a coupleof weeks more to regainmatch fitness but he isgrateful the injury is farless severe than a season-ending cruciate blow.

“Thankfully, it won’trule him out for the seasonwhich was our initial fearand that is a big relief,”Bruce told the club’s offi-cial website.”If you tearyour cruciate or medialligament, you are gener-ally out for at least sixmonths.”We believe thereis damage to a ligament atthe back of the knee andwe hope that it will repairwithin four to sixweeks.”—Internet

S P O R T S

LONDON, 17 Nov—Steven Gerrard thinksStewart Downing has theperfect stage at Liverpoolon which to become asuperb player.

The Reds winger wasone of the standout play-ers in England’s 1-0friendly win over Swedenon Tuesday night, andGerrard is confidentDowning will grow intohis role at Anfield andprove himself to be worth

every penny of the £20mKenny Dalglish paid forhim.

The Reds skipper said:“I think the move wasperfect for him at this pointof his career. He was thestar at Middlesbrough andI think he moved up toVilla and proved he couldbe one of the best playersin the league. I think at theage he’s at it was perfectfor him to sign for us.”

He added: “I felt hewas a player we neededand that we were a club heneeded to be at.”He nowhas a platform here toprove over the next fiveor six years that he’s oneof the best players in theleague. He can really naildown that left-side roleand make it his own.”

Internet

The striker is making every momentcount in the tail-end of his careerTiger Woods of the US

ROME, 17 Nov—Italycoach Cesare Prandellibelieves his players havethe potential to establishthemselves as a legendaryside at Euro 2012.

Despite a 1-0 interna-tional friendly loss to Uru-guay on Tuesday night inRome, the coach has con-fidence his team are mov-ing swiftly in the right di-rection.

“We are just a stepaway from becoming areal team. A great team,”the coach told ANSA. “Iliked our reaction [againstUruguay], both on thefield and in the lockerroom. Instead of runningoff home after the match,the players stayed behindand discussed why we hadlost.”

After a poor WorldCup 2010 under MarcelloLippi, Prandelli is expect-ing his mix of youth and

experience to flourish.“Italy is like a club and

can still improve,”Prandelli said. “Perhapswe’ve forgotten where westarted from in the sum-mer of 2010, but at Euro2012 we want to fight itout with everyone.”

Internet

Woods to open 2012 inAbu Dhabi, not Torrey PinesABU DHABI, 17 Nov—

Tiger Woods won’t bestarting his 2012 seasonat Torrey Pines. Instead ofhis traditional PGA Tourstart in San Diego, Woodshas agreed to play in atournament in Abu Dhabi.

The former top-rankedgolfer will play in the Jan.26-29 Abud Dhabi HSBCChampionship along withcurrent No. 1 Luke Donaldand defending championMartin Kaymer, AbuDhabi organizers saidWednesday.

The move is somewhatsurprising for Woods, tak-ing appearance money forthe European Tour eventinstead of playing whathe considers one of hisfavorite PGA Tour

courses. He’s won seventimes at Torrey Pines as apro, including his 14th andlast major at the 2008 USOpen. Woods has beenstarting his season atTorrey Pines, whenhealthy, since 2006. Hemissed the 2009 and 2010tournaments because ofinjuries.—Internet

BARCELONA, 17 Nov—Santos striker Neymar hasdescribed Barcelonaplayers as “aliens” be-cause their football is from“another planet,” as helooks forward to playingagainst them in the ClubWorld Cup next month.

The 19-year-old Bra-zilian forward was highlycomplimentary of theSpanish champions, withwhom he has been linkedwith.

Neymar recentlypenned a new deal atSantos to stop him frommoving to Spain until atleast 2014, but he will

rekindle associations withthem in December for theClub World Cup.

“Barca are from an-other world,” Neymar isquoted as saying onRecord. “They are aliens.Without doubt they arethe best team on the planet.

Internet

LONDON, 17 Nov—Emile Heskey isintent on enjoying every moment ofbeing Aston Villa’s Mr Versatility as heapproaches the end of his career.Heskeymade his reputation as a striker, but hasalso operated in wide left and centralmidfield roles for Villa this season.

The former England player, whoretired from international football afterthe 2010 World Cup, admits it does notcome easy playing out of position.

Heskey said: “It’s going well. I amplaying in a few different positions. I amreally enjoying it. I am enjoying football- that’s the key.”That’s the big thingwhen you get to my age where you’recoming towards the tail-end of your

career. I intend on enjoying every mo-ment out there because, when it’s gone,it’s gone.—Internet

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Programme Schedule(18-11-2011) (Friday)

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am)MSTOverseas Transmission - (18-11-11 09:30 am ~ 19-11-11 09:30 am) MST

Local Transmission* Opening* News* To The Land of Countless Temples* News* Products of Myanmar "Shin Ma Taung

Thanakhar"* News* Discovering Potential Business in Myanmar* Music Gallery* News* Sin Shwe Li, Magnificent Mill Amid The Hills

Oversea Transmission* Opening* News* To The Land of Countless Temples* News* Products of Myanmar "Shin Ma Taung

Thanakhar"* News* Discovering Potential Business in Myanmar* Music Gallery* News* Sin Shwe Li, Magnificent Mill Amid The Hills

* News* Youth and Fashion (Yawai Aung, Sandi

Myint Lwin)* News* A DAY IN ZALUN* Live Concert* News* Modernized Umbrellas evolved from the

Yesteryear* Atuladhipati Mahamunisacca Koe Htat

Kyee Pagoda* News* Myanmar's Beauty and Nature "Beach"* Myanmar Movie “As her real son”

Weather forecast for 18th November, 2011

7:00 am 1. Paritta by

Venerable MingunSayadaw

7:25 am 2. To Be Healthy

Exercise7:30 am 3. Morning News

7:40 am 4. Dhamma Puja Song7:50am 5.Nice & Sweet Song8:00am 6. Health Programme8:10 am 7. The Mirror Images of

the Musical Oldies8:20 am 8. Documentary8:30am 9. Musical Programme8:40am10. International News8:45am11. Teleplay (Traffic)4:00 pm 1. Martial Song4:10pm 2. Musical

Programme4:20 pm 3. Myanmar

TraditionalCulturalPerforming artsCompetitions

4:30 pm 4. Songs of National

Races4:40pm 5. Songs of Yester

Years4:50pm 6. University of

DistanceEducation(TV Lectures)- First Year (Myanmar)

5:05pm 7. Songs for

UpholdingNational Spirit

5:15pm 8. Myanmar

Language

5:35pm 9. 5th ASEAN Quiz

Competition(National Level)

6:00 pm10. Evening News6:15 pm11. Weather Report6:20 pm12. Internet Garden7:00pm13. TV Drama Series8:00 pm14. News15. International

News16. Weather Report17. Just for Laughs

(Gags Asia)18. TV Drama Series19. Song Lover20. Metta Bhavana by

Mingun Sayadaw

Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas

Sr.

No. Regions/States

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 26/79 15/59 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

2 Kayah 28/82 12/54 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

3 Kayin 35/95 21/70 Partly cloudy

4 Chin 19/66 04/39 Partly cloudy

5 Upper Sagaing 27/81 18/64 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

6 Lower Sagaing 30/86 19/66 Partly cloudy

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

8 Bago 31/88 20/68 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

9 Magway 29/84 20/68 Partly cloudy

10 Mandalay 31/88 19/66 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

11 Mon 35/95 22/72 Partly cloudy

12 Yangon 32/90 20/68 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

13 Rakhine 30/86 15/59 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

14 Southern Shan 25/77 12/54 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

15 Northern Shan 26/79 11/52 Partly cloudy

16 Eastern Shan 27/81 14/57 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

17 Ayeyawady 32/90 22/72 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 32/90 20/68 Possibility of isolated light rain or

thundershowers 40%

19 Neighbouring Yangon 32/90 20/68 Possibility of isolated light rain or

thundershowers 40%

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 31/88 19/66 Generally fair weather

Summary of

observations at 09:30

hr MST on today

During the past (24) hours, light rain or thundershowers have been isolated in Bago and Ayeyawady

Regions, Kachin and Kayah States, weather has been partly cloudy in the remaining Regions and States.

Night temperatures were (4°C) above November average temperatures in Mon State, (5°C) below

November average temperatures in Rakhine State and (3°C) below November average temperatures in

Kayah State and about November average temperatures in the remaining Regions and States.The significant

night temperature was Hakha (4°C) and Pinlaung (7°C).

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

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

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Likelihood of isolated light rain or thundershowers in the Lower Myanmar areas.

A view of a home for sale in Los Angeles on 24Feb, 2010. US Rep Barney Frank said on

Thursday he would postpone a hearing on thefuture structure of US housing finance andmortgage funding giants Fannie Mae andFreddie Mac until 23 March.—INTERNET

Mortgage applications fall in latest week

NEW YORK, 17 Nov—Applications for US homemortgages dropped lastweek, erasing the gains ofthe week before as demandfor refinancing eva-porated, an industry groupsaid on Wednesday.

The Mortgage BankersAssociation said itsseasonally adjusted indexof mortgage applicationactivity, which includesboth refinancing and homepurchase demand, dropped10.0 percent in the weekended 11 Nov.

The decline wiped outa gain of 10.3 percent theprevious week.

The MBA’s sea-sonally adjusted index ofrefinancing applicationstumbled 12.2 percent,while the gauge of loanrequests for home

purchases slipped 2.3percent.

The refinance share oftotal mortgage activitydecreased to 77.3 percentof applications from 78.6percent.

Fixed 30-yearmortgage rates averaged4.23 percent, up 1 basis

point, from 4.22 percentthe prior week.

The survey coversover 75 percent of US retailresidential mortgageapplications, according toMBA.—Internet

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Union EP-1 minister donatesUnion EP-1 minister donatessolar lamps to flood-hit villagessolar lamps to flood-hit villages

in Seikpyu Townshipin Seikpyu TownshipNAY PYI TAW, 17 Nov—Union

Minister for Electric Power No.1 U

Zaw Min yesterday afternoon

addressed the ceremony to donate

solar lamps and stationery to flood

victims in Seikpyu Township at

Domestic Industrial Training School

in the township, Magway Region.

At the ceremony, the Union

minister presented 1000 solar lamps,

stationery and school uniforms worth

K 27 million for households in 27 flood-

hit villages. A villager, on behalf of all

the victims, spoke words of thanks.

The officials concerned demonstrated

how to use of the solar lamps.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Nov—A ceremony to handover cash donated by Myanmar Libraries Foundationfor reducing poverty in rural areas by broadeninghorizons of the people was held in Talanzar villageof Falam Township on 15 November.

Assistant Director U Kyaw Hsint of Informationand Public Relations Department of Chin Statedonated K 0.5 million, the first in two installments,to village in-charge U Htan Hay.

Self-reliant library committee chairman UHaran Kyon explained plans for constructing thelibrary building.—MNA

MLF donates cash toTalanzar village for

construction of library

Union

Minister for

Electric

Power No.

1 U Zaw

Min donates

solar lamps,

stationery

and school

uniforms to

flood

victims.

MNA

YANGON, 17 Nov—For public recreation,Hlawga Park in Mingaladon Township ofYangon Region will be open from 8 am to 6 pmon 20 November (The National Day).—MNA

Hlawga Park to run an extrahour on National Day

Significant night temperature(17-11-2011)

Haka (4°C)Pinlaung (7°C)

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Nov—Group matches of XXVISEA Games wrapped up today, setting Myanmar toplay Malaysia in seminifinal.

Ten-men Vietnam returned in second half to beatLaos 3-1 and went top of Group (B). The hostIndonesia failed to equal Malaysia's first-half goal,the only oneof the game, losing first spot of Group (A)to the rivals.

Vietnam meets Group (A) runners-up Indonesiain semifinal, both of which are sheduled to play on 19November.—NLM

Myanmar meets Malaysia in SEA Games semifinal

Arshavin likely to head to ItalyLONDON, 17 Nov—According to reports, Arsenal

striker Andrey Arshavin is all set to move to Serie Aclub Fiorentina as they are preparing to make a £10million bid for him.

The Russian international has fallen from ArseneWenger’s thoughts this campaign following the arrivalof Gervinho and the return to form of Robin van Persieand Theo Walcott. A string of unimpressive cameoperformances from the bench have not done much forhis Arsenal future and is often considered as wasteful.

There is no doubt he has plenty of quality but heoften fails to show his true ability which frustrates notonly Wenger and his teammates but the fans as well.

United expect to beat Arsenal to French starlet’s signature

MANCHESTER, 17N o v — M a n c h e s t e rUnited are confident thatArsenal target PaulPogba will pen a newdeal at Old Trafford.

The 18-year-oldhas been stalling on anew deal and is refusingto sign unless he receivesassurances from Sir AlexFerguson regarding hisfuture role at the club,reports Talksport.

The versatilemidfielder’s reluctance to

Italian newspaper LaNazione has claimed thatFiorentina will make amove for the 30 year-oldwhen the transfer windowre-opens in January.

Arshavin signed forArsenal in January 2009and has scored 23 goalsfor the Gunners includinghis famous four goalperformance at Anfield.

Speaking just a shortwhile ago, Asharvinexplained, “Wenger is avery strictmanager,”revealing hisfrustrations .

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put pen to paper hasstoked Arsenal’s interest,as they feel they can lurehim with greater first teamopportunities at theEmirates Stadium.

Arsene Wenger

has previously showninterest in the midfielder,and attempted to sign himfor the Gunners from LeHavre before the RedDevils switch tookplace.—Internet

Pogba making

United sweat.

Woods to open2012 in Abu

Dhabi, not TorreyPines

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US study showsexercise better than

stents for PADpatients

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Doctors urge UKgovernment to ban

smoking in cars

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Union Attorney-General receives

ROK Ambassador

Evidences on both Bronze Age,Iron Ages discovered

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