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Volume XVII, Number 49 12th Waxing of Nayon 1371 ME Thursday, 4 June, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round develop-ment of other sectors of the economy as well

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

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

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 3June—Chairman of theState Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander-in-Chief ofDefence Services SeniorGeneral Than Shwewelcomed back PrimeMinister General TheinSein at Nay Pyi TawAirport at 4.45 pm todayon the Prime Minister’sreturn from the Republicof Korea after attendingthe ASEAN-KoreaCommemorative Summitand Related Summits ofBilateral Summit and the

Senior General Than Shwe welcomes back Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein on the PM’s return from ROK

ASEAN-ROK CEOSummit held in Jeju Islandof the Republic of Koreaat the invitation of ROKPresident Mr. Lee Myung-bak.

Together with theSenior General, whowelcomed back the PrimeMinister, were Vice-Chairman of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil DeputyCommander-in-Chief ofDefence ServicesCommander-in-Chief(Army) Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye,

member of the State Peaceand Development CouncilGeneral Thura ShweMann of the Ministry ofDefence, Secretary-1 ofthe State Peace andDevelopment CouncilGeneral Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo, SPDCmember Lt-Gen Tin Ayeof the Ministry of Defence,Commander-in-Chief(Navy) Rear-AdmiralNyan Tun, Commander-in-Chief (Air) Lt-GenMyat Hein, Adjutant-General Lt-Gen ThuraMyint Aung, Commander

of Nay Pyi Taw CommandMaj-Gen Wai Lwin,Minister for TransportMaj-Gen Thein Swe,Minister for InformationBrig-Gen Kyaw Hsan, thedirector-general of theSPDC Office anddepartmental heads,Charge d’Affaires ai of theembassy of the Republicof Korea Mr Chung In-

Gyun and officials.Members of the

delegation—Minister forForeign Affairs U NyanWin, Minister for NationalPlanning and EconomicDevelopment U Soe Tha,the director-general of theGovernment Office anddepartmental heads—alsoarrived back on the sameflight.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe welcomes back Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein on his return from the Republic of Korea

after attending the ASEAN-Korea Commemorative Summit andRelated Summits of Bilateral Summit and the ASEAN-ROK CEO

Summit held in Jeju Island, the Republic of Korea.MNA

Senior General Than Shwe greets PrimeMinister General Thein Sein on his returnfrom the Republic of Korea after attending

the ASEAN-Korea CommemorativeSummit and Related Summits of Bilateral

Summit and the ASEAN-ROK CEOSummit held in Jeju Island, the Republic

of Korea.MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 4 June, 2009

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

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

Good transport means smooth flow ofgoods and increased trade between regionswithin the country. At the same time, it canalso raise the social and economic status ofthe people.

This being so, the government hasbeen building new roads, railroads andbridges wherever necessary like a network.As a result, transport in every state anddivision has become smooth and secure andthere has been a parallel development in thepolitical, economic and social sectors.

The Swa Chaung bridge built inYedashe Township in Bago Division wasopened on 29 May. The bridge is on theYangon-Toungoo-Mandalay UnionHighway. It is a reinforced concrete bridge270 feet long and can bear a vehicle weighingup to 60 tons.

The Swa Chaung bridge is one of 226bridges 180 feet and above long built byPublic Works under the Ministry ofConstruction and it has become the 18thmajor bridge in Bago Division. With theopening of this new bridge, transportation ofraw materials to and finished products fromfactories and workshops in Thagaraindustrial region in Yedashe Township willbecome quicker and easier.

Bago Division is one of the majorregions for the development of nationaleconomy. Paddy, sugar cane, edible oil cropsand various kinds of beans and pulses growvery well in Yedashe Township. Therefore,the Swa Chaung bridge will contribute a lotto transportation of agricultural produce andtheir trade.

As the government has built new roadsand bridges not only in the plains but alsoover mountain ranges and across rivers andcreeks, regional products trade has developedand education, health, social and economicstatus of the people in the region improved.

Build new roads and bridges forhigher socio-economic status

President Daw Khin Saw Hnin of MMCWAmakes a speech at educative talks on prevention

against New Influenza (A/H1N1).—MNA

Educative talks on prevention againstA/H1N1 held

NAY PYI TAW, 3 June—Myanmar Maternaland Child Welfare Association organized an educativetalk on prevention against New Influenza (A/H1N1) atthe office of the association in Nay Pyi Taw LeweTownship, Nay Pyi Taw District, with an address byPresident of MMCWA Daw Khin Saw Hnin.

Also present were vice president of the

association Daw Aye Aye and central executives,Director Dr Soe Lwin Nyein and deputy director DrThan Htein Win of Health Department, chairpersonsand members of Maternal and Child WelfareAssociations from Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana Townshipand Nay Pyi Taw Lewe Township.

President of MMCWA Daw Khin Saw Hninspoke on the occasion. Next, Director Dr Soe LwinNyein of Health Department gave talks on spread of A/H1N1 virus, how the virus can transmit, symptoms andprevention methods of the disease and other relatedknowledge on the disease.—MNA

Good opportunity for CDMA450 MHz phone users

YANGON, 3J u n e — M o b i l e m a t eTelecommunicat ionsCo.,Ltd, which has beenmanufacturing GSM,CDMA, TDMA Hand-sets and accessories, isnow selling Korea-madeAxesstel Fixed Wirelessphone which has bestpowerful CDMA 450MHz network.

The Company isnow selling Curitel andUbiquam brand handphones.

Curitel brandphone is very popular athome and markets abroadand it has four types ofcolor designs. Inaddition, Ubiquam brandphone users may chooseeither black or silvercolour design.

CDMA 450MHz type phones suchas Axesstel, Curitel andUbiquam are verypowerful and can be usedat any places covered byCDMA 450 MHznetwork.

The adventagesof these phones are lightand robust.

The phones areavailable at wholesaleand retail centres minutesMobilemate Distribution(Yangon/Mandalay) ofthe company with one-year guarantee. Thecustomers may buy thephones at telephoneshops in varioustownships across thecountry.

As a specialpromotion programme,

every customer whobuys a Curitels brandhandset at MobilemateDistribution (Yangon/Mandalay) and retailshops-Nokia Store (1),Nokia Store (2) andMobile Corner shopswill get one curi telbattery.

These phonesare convenient for FEC-50 CDMA 450 MHzprepaid card users asthey can be used up tolast centres minutes of thetime allowed.

MNA

Reading forSelf-

Improvementon 6 June

YANGON, 3 June—Under the arrangements ofMyanmar FisheryFederation and MyanmarPrawn Entrepreneurs As-sociation and sponsored byZartiman Fish and Prawnbreeding enterprise, talkson Reading for Self-Improvement by writer PeMyint will be held atThirianawa hall of MFFon Bayintnaung road inInsein Township here at 2pm on 6 June (Saturday).Interested persons mayattend the talks.—MNA

Forestry Ministry tocelebrate World

Environment DayNAY PYI TAW, 3 June — Under the guidance

of the Head of State, Ministry of Forestry willorganize World Environment Day on 5 June.

To mark the World Environment Day whichfalls on 5 June, tree planting ceremonies will beconducted in states and divisions. Ministry ofForestry will conduct a ceremony to plant trees, toaward winners of article and essay contests whichwere held to mark the day at the ministry on 5 June.Meanwhile, the ministry will stage booths and readout 10 papers on environmental conservation.

MNA

All this needs to be known* Do not be frightened whenever

intimidated* Do not be bolstered whenever flattered* Do not be softened whenever appeased

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Bomb kills NATO soldierin Afghanistan

KABUL, 3 June—A bomb planted by militants haskilled a foreign soldier serving with NATO in south-ern Afghanistan, the deadliest battlefield in the waragainst Taleban militants, the alliance said Wednes-day. The International Security Assistance on Forcereleased a brief statement that did not give the na-tionality of the soldier killed on Tuesday. Most ofthe troops in the south are Americans, British or Ca-nadians.

“An International Security Assistance Force sol-dier was killed as a result of an improvised explo-sive device strike by militants in southern Afghani-stan yesterday,” the statement said.

There has been a spate of deadly attacks againstthe mostly Western ISAF in recent days.—Internet

US soldier killed inBaghdad bomb attack

BAGHDAD, 3 June— An American soldier waskilled by a roadside bomb explosion near his patrolin Baghdad on Tuesday, the US military said.

A military statement said the Multi-National Di-vision - Baghdad soldier died of wounds sustainedin the blast of an improvised explosive device (IED)in eastern part of the capital.

The statement gave no further details, but said theincident is under investigation.

About 4,308 US soldiers have been killed in Iraqsince the outbreak of Iraq war in March 2003, ac-cording to media count based on figures from thePentagon.—Internet

New US Afghan strategy willcost billions, take years

US deaths rise inAfghanistan from last year

KABUL, 3 June—US deaths in Afghanistan have risento 65 so far this year, up from 36 over the first fivemonths of 2008 — though US and coalition troops havealso killed hundreds more militants, an Associated Presstally shows. As newly arriving Marines enter the vio-lent Afghan south — the spiritual home of the Talebanand the country’s major drug-producing region — themilitary said on Tuesday that US deaths will likely in-crease even further this summer.

“We’re doing everything we can to ensure the deathsoccur on the militants’ side, but there is a potential therewill be an increase in US deaths,” said Col Greg Julian,the top US military spokesman in Afghanistan.—Internet

Soldiers leave Iraqi cities for sweltering tentsCAME CARVER, 3 June— The US military is expanding some rural bases and build-

ing others to house thousands of troops displaced by a June deadline to withdrawfrom Iraq’s major cities. With continual power outages pushing temperatures wellabove 100 degrees, that can’t come soon enough for some soldiers living in swelter-ing tents at Camp Carver in the small town of Madain, about 15 miles southeast ofthe capital. “Can’t wait,” said Spc. Oscar Garza, 20, of Port Lavaca, Texas, as hecarted his bed frame to newly constructed plywood houses with air conditionerselsewhere on the US base. The Americans have already closed or handed over 60urban bases since the beginning of the year, with more than 50 others tentativelyscheduled to be closed or returned to Iraqi control by the end of June, said Lt ColBrian Maka, a military spokesman.—Internet

A woman walks beside a damaged vehicle at thesite of a bomb attack in Baghdad’s Shula district

recently.—INTERNET

Two terroristsdetained in NE

AfghanistanKABUL, 3 June—Per-

sonnel of Afghan law en-forcing agencies arrestedtwo persons on charge ofhaving link with terrornetwork in northeasternAfghan province ofBadakhshan, an officialsaid onTuesday.

“The terrorists namelyMawlawi Nasir andNeman have been cap-tured from Baharak dis-trict and are under inves-tigation in the provincialcapital Faizabad,” deputyto National Security Di-rectorate in the provinceFazal Rahman toldXinhua.

Both the men are Af-ghans and materials foundfrom their possessionproved their link withanti-government mili-tants, he further said.

Internet

Hameed Yusuf, em-ployee of al-IraqiyahTV channel lies in ahospital bed after hewas wounded in an

attack on his TV crew,in Baghdad, on 1 June,2009. Yusuf and threeother crew members

were wounded when abomb planted beneaththeir car exploded on

Sunday in a Sunnineighbourhood of

Azamiyah in Baghdad.INTERNET

A merchant pushes acart away from thescene after a bomb

exploded at a marketin the Dora neigh-

bourhood of Baghdad,on 1 June, 2009.

INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 3 June—President BarackObama’s choice to takecharge of the war in Af-ghanistan on Tuesdaycalled “significantgrowth” of the Afghanarmy and national policethe key to his strategy, butthe annual cost of build-ing and maintaining theexisting Afghan force ismore than four timeslarger than the entireAfghan economy.

Army Lt-Gen StanleyMcChrystal’s testimonyto the Senate Armed Serv-ices Committee , which isconsidering his nomina-tion to lead US and NATO

troops in Afghanistan,suggested that the USstrategy in Afghanistan islikely to cost Americantaxpayers and NATOmember nations billionsof dollars for many years.

The Afghan NationalArmy is now 86,000strong, and the nationalpolice have 81,000 mem-bers. The US military hassaid it wants to expand theArmy to 134,000 and thepolice to 82,000 by theend of 2011. McChrystalsaid he plans to boostthose figures, but said hewon’t know by how muchuntil he’s in Afghanistan.

However, maintaining

and building the securityforces to the current 2011goals is estimated to costroughly $4 billion a year,while Afghanistan’seconomy generates only$800 million a year. SenLindsey Graham, R- SC,told McChrystal onTuesday that the USwould have to foot the billfor years.

“We are building anarmy they will never beable to afford,” a seniorUS military official toldMcClatchy . The officialspoke on the condition ofanonymity because hewasn’t authorized to talkto reporters.—Internet

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CARACAS, 3 June—President Hugo Chavezon Tuesday alleged thatUS intelligence agencieswere behind a purportedassassination plot thatprevented him from visi-ting El Salvador.

Chavez had planned toattend the inauguration ofleftist President MauricioFunes in the CentralAmerican nation on Mon-day, but said he canceledhis trip due to the allegedplot.

“I don’t doubt that theintelligence organizations

A giant panda eats watermelons at the Jinan Zooin Jinan, capital city of east China’s Shandong

Province, on 1 June, 2009, as a heat wave reach-ing 35 degrees Celsius hits the city.

XINHUA

A displaced Somaliwoman prepares a mealin a makeshift shelter in

a camp for InternallyDisplaced People on the

outskirts ofMogadishu.—INTERNET

WUHAN, 3 June—Nine people were killed and nineothers injured on Tuesday in a bus-train collision incentral China’s Hubei Province, the local railway au-thority said.

The accident happened at around 6:18 pm when anunregistered mini-van collided with a train headingfrom Yichang City for Wuchang City on the ChangjingRailway, according to the railway administration ofWuhan, the provincial capital.

Nine people in the mini-van died at the site, thenine injured, including four badly wounded, have beensent to a local hospital.

No one onboard the train was injured. No other de-tails are available at this time. An initial investigationshowed that the mini-van was trying to pass a pedes-trian intersection that is off-limits to vehicles when itcrashed with the train. Railway officers and police wererushing to the site for further investigation.—Internet

The wreckage of the

minitruck lies on the

roadside after a crash

with a train near

Tianmen, central

China’s Hubei Prov-

ince, on 2 June, 2009.

XINHUA

Chavez accuses CIAof backing plot to kill him

of the United States are be-hind this,” Chavez said, ac-cusing them of plottingwith Cuban militant LuisPosada Carriles to murderhim.

He said Venezuelanintelligence services have“very precise informa-tion” that they were plan-ning to launch rockets atthe Cubana de Aviacionplane he was going totravel in.

Officials at the USEmbassy in Caracascouldn’t immediately bereached for comment. The

US State Department hasdenied similar accusationsby Chavez in the past.

Venezuela has askedthe US to extraditePosada, a former CIA op-erative and opponent offormer Cuban presidentFidel Castro who is ac-cused of plotting the 1976bombing of a Cubanplane off Barbados thatkilled 73 people on board.The 81-year-old Posada isaccused of plotting thebombing while living inVenezuela but denies in-volvement.—Internet

NEW HAVEN, 3 June—A Yale University studysuggests most polluted ordamaged ecosystems canrecover within a lifetimeif there’s a public commit-ment to the restoration.

Yale School of Forestryand Environmental Stud-

CINCINNATI, 3 June—Officials in Cincinnatihave revealed plans to al-low drivers of all-electricvehicles to park for free —a program that will benefitat least eight locals.

The parking pro-gramme, part of the GreenCincinnati Initiative, be-gan on Monday and willallow electric vehicles dis-playing city-issued stick-ers to park without chargenext to city parking metersand in four downtownparking garages, TheCincinnati Enquirer re-ported.

City officials said aninformal survey of resi-dents found eight all-elec-tric vehicles in the city.There may be a few un-known others toolingaround town, as well.

Councilman DavidCrowley, who spear-headed the effort to adoptthe programme, said itsends an important mes-sage.—Internet

Nine killed, nine injured in bus-traincollision in central China

LONDON, 3 June—Ryanair, Europe’s largestlow fare airline, hasemerged as Europe’s big-gest airline in terms ofpassenger numbers andmarket capitalization

MILWAUKEE, 3 June—HJ Heinz Co plans toboost marketing and limitprice discounting in fiscal2010 as it looks to keepselling its ketchup andsauces to consumers whohave been trading down toless-expensive store

Polluted ecosystems can recoveries researchers looked at240 independent studiesand found forest ecosys-tems recovered in 42 yearson average, while oceanbottoms recovered in lessthan 10 years.

Researchers said eco-systems undergoing mul-tiple, interacting distur-bances recovered in 56years, while those af-fected by invasive spe-cies, mining, oil spills ortrawling recovered in aslittle as five years.

The scientists said

most ecosystems tooklonger to recover fromhuman-induced distur-bances than from naturalevents, such as hurricanes.

“The damages to theseecosystems are pretty se-rious,” said ProfessorOswald Schmitz, co-au-thor of the meta-analysiswith postdoctoral studentHolly Jones. “But the mes-sage is that if societieschoose to become sustain-able, ecosystems will re-cover. It isn’t hopeless.”

Internet

Electric carspark free inCincinnati

Low fare Ryanair soars to Europe’s biggestairline amid financial storm

thanks to a growingnumber of price-sensitivecustomers amid the globalfinancial crisis.

Having overtaken ma-jor rivals like Air France,British Airways andLufthansa, the Irish airlineis expected to continue its“robust performance” aseconomic prospect re-mains uncertain.

Ryanair announced onTuesday a net profit of 105million euros (some 149million USdollars) overthe last financial year.

Ryanair’s CEO, Michael

O’Leary, said the airlinehas overtaken Air France,British Airways andLufthansa in passengernumbers and marketcapitalization and be-come Europe’s largestairline.

“Ryanair’s continuedfare cuts and trafficgrowth has seen us over-take Lufthansa’s trafficfigures in March 2009 tofinally become Europe’slargest airline by bothtraffic and market capi-talization,” said O’Leary.

Internet

Heinz 4Q profit falls 10 percentbrands.

The Pittsburgh-basedfood maker said consum-ers this winter switched toprivate-label store brandsabruptly as they sought tostretch their food budgetsamid the recession. Butnow they’re retreating a

bit, Chief Executive BillJohnson said, and thecompany will focus oninnovations — such asdifferent types of packag-ing — and marketing tomake sure its brands keepselling.

Internet

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Hu holds telephoneconversation with Obama

BEIJING, 3 June—Chinese President Hu Jintao held a telephone conversationwith his US counterpart Barack Obama on Wednesday morning.

Hu said China-US ties are developing smoothly. Both countries have conductedfrequent exchanges at various levels, strengthened cooperation in all fields andare carefully implementing the broad consensus reached at the summit held inLondon on 1 April.

China is willing to make joint efforts with the United States to expand mutualexchanges, deepen cooperation, and move forward bilateral ties continuously, headded.

Obama expressed his satisfaction with the development of the US-China rela-tions, saying both sides have recently conducted fruitful high-level exchanges.

The United States would like to boost coordination and cooperation with Chinaon a broad range of major issues, and further push forward bilateral ties.

The two leaders also exchanged their views on the situation on the Korean Pe-ninsula. —Xinhua

Dancers spring up in a brilliant art show during the 3rd Three KingdomsCultural Week, in the Xudu Capital Park, in Xuchang City, central China’s

Henan Province, on 1 June, 2009.—XINHUA

A man reads the front pages of Brazilian newspapers reporting on the AirFrance passenger jet which disappeared ,on 1 June over the Atlantic while

en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, at a newsstand in Rio de Janeiro.XINHUA

Debris confirms crash of Air France jetRIO DE JANEIRO, 3 June—Brazil Tuesday confirmed the debris found earlier on

the open Atlantic Ocean belonged to Air France Flight 447, solidifying the crash ofthe jet that went missing early on Monday.

The three-mile (five kilometres) path of wreckage found in the Atlantic Oceanbelonged to the Air France jet carrying 228 people that was believed to have crashedinto the sea, Brazilian Defence Minister Nelson Jobim said on Tuesday.

The debris were found about 400 miles from Brazil’s Fernando de Noronhaarchipelago, near the Sao Pedro and Sao Paulo Islands. Pieces of white debrisscattered over five kilometres, which, according to the minister, showed that theplane indeed fell at that site.

There is still no way to determine whether the plane blew up, and there is also nonews of survivors, said Jobim.

The objects found at the sea will be taken to the Fernando de Noronha archi-pelago on a Brazilian naval ship, said Jobim. The minister added that Brazil will bein charge of the recovery of the plane parts, while France will carry out the inves-tigations. Brazilian Navy ships are not expected to arrive in the area until Wednes-day morning. Three mercantile ships, which were close to the area, have reachedthe crash site. The final passengers’ list of the plane will be released on Wednesdayby Air France, Jobim said. But it will not be complete, he said, as some of thenames will be held upon the requests of families and relatives.—Xinhua

Microsoft Windows 7 to go onsale in October

SAN FRANCISCO, 3 June—Microsoft Corp on Tues-day confirmed that Windows 7, the next version of itsoperating system, will hit stores on 22 October, in timefor the holiday shopping season, US media has re-ported. The new software will replace the current Win-dows Vista operating system, which has been the tar-get of much criticism and negative press. Microsoftsaid it plans to offer a guarantee programme that wouldoffer a free upgrade to Windows 7 for people who pur-chase computers installed with Windows Vista closeto the launching date of 22 Oct, The Seattle Timesnewspaper reported on its website.—Xinhua

Los Angeles to ban smokingin all public parks

LOS ANGELES, 3 June—The Los Angeles County pro-posed on Tuesday that smoking be banned in all of the144 public parks in the county’s 88 satellite cities. Anordinance prohibiting smoking at all county parks willbe drafted by the end of summer for approval, the Boardof Supervisors said. The proposal also called for desig-nated smoking areas at lease-operated facilities, includ-ing the county’s 19 golf courses. Supervisor ZevYaroslavsky, who asked that the ordinance be drafted,said he regretted that something was not done sooner sothat Angelenos could “enjoy the parks in the mostcrowded period smoke-free.”—Xinhua

Red Bull products taken offshelves in HK

HONG KONG, 3 June—A Hong Kong SAR govern-ment official on Tuesday advised the retailers take offRed Bull products from the shelves as a precaution.

Noting that the major retailer chains had alreadytaken off Red Bull products from the shelves, the com-missioner for narcotics of the Government Sally Wongadvised the retailers to follow suit as a precaution sincesome of the Red Bull samples were found to containthe dangerous drug.

It was also suggested that they consider returningthe products to their suppliers and the retailers werereceptive to the advice.—Xinhua

All items from Xinhua News Agency

Ford faces risks in bid for biggermarket share

DETROIT, 3 June—Ford Motor Company could grab a larger share of the USmarket now that the other two top automakers General Motors Corp and ChryslerLLC have sought bankruptcy protection. But there are risks.

Ford’s top-to-bottom transformation that started years before the severe crisishit the world’s auto industry in 2008 enabled it to hold its own.

The nearly 106-year-old auto company mortgaged all its assets, including thefamous blue oval brand, for billions of dollars in loans by the end of 2006.Ford chief executive Alan Mulally said the money would give Ford “a cushionto protect against a recession or other unexpected events.”—Xinhua

The Blue Impulseaerobatics team ofJapan’s Air Self-

Defense Forceperforms over

Yokohama, KanagawaPrefecture, Japan, 2

June, 2009. Theaerobatics show was

put on to celebrate the150th port-opening

anniversary ofYokohama.—XINHUA

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Contestants in the 40th annual KineticGrand Championship race theirpeople-powered kinetic sculpture,“The Red Rocket”, across the beachin Manila, California. The champion-ship is a three-day 42 -mile bicycle raceover land, sand, mud and water from Arcata to Ferndale.

A whale performs a tail slap on thesurface of the waters off the shore of

Argentina’s Valdez peninsula.The whales come regularly at this

time each year to breed and calve inthis marine reserve.

Visitors look at a watch-shapedsculpture composed of counterfeit

watches during the CounterfeitComparison Exhibition 2009

organized by the Korea CustomsService (KCS) at a convention centre

in Seoul. About 60 local andinternational brands participated in

the counterfeit comparisonexhibition which gave consumersinformation on how to distinguish

between original goods andcounterfeits, KCS said.

Pink dolphin a standout in La shipping channel

Clerk surprises burly robberarmed with big stick

A burly would-be robber wearing aneatly buttoned shirt, shorts and tennisshoes, and armed with a large stickspiked with nails, got a surprise whenhe swung the stick at a Tacoma gasstation clerk and demanded money.

Police said the clerk was hit in thehand but responded by punching therobber in the face. At which point, policespokesman Mark Fulghum said therobber dropped his stick and fled with abloody nose.

Detectives have releasedsurveillance images of the man soughtin the incident.

What’s pink, has red eyes and leapsaround a Louisiana shipping channellong enough for you to believe youreyes? A rare albino bottlenose dolphin.Bottlenose dolphins are common in thelower Calcasieu Ship Channel, feedingin the deep water and riding on top ofboats’ waves. And when the pink onejumps amid four dark gray dolphins, it'seasy to spot.

The albino is just the 14th reportedworldwide, and the third in the Gulf ofMexico, according to biologist DagmarFertl of Plano, Texas.

It was first reported by WesleyLockard of Rayville, La, as a smallcalf in June 2007. Lockard, 26, said heand family members were fishing when

they were stunned by the sight.“Something comes up and you say,‘Wow! Did I just ...?’ Then he comes upagain and you say, ‘Yeah! I just saw apink dolphin!’ ” he said.

Man convicted afterboasting of crime

on MySpaceA man who confessed to robbing a

South Carolina bank in a messageposted on MySpace has pleaded guilty.Federal prosecutors said on Thursdaythat 27-year-old Joseph Northingtonof Roanoke, Va, will be sentenced laterfor using a firearm during a crime ofviolence.

Authorities said Northington robbeda bank in North Augusta of almost$4,000 in January while visiting afriend, who called investigators afterseeing surveillance pictures ofNorthington.

Prosecutors said before his arrest,Northington posted a message to hisMySpace account reading: “On tharun for robbin a bank Love all ofyall.”

Northington faces seven years to lifein prison. His attorney did not return aphone call.

Northington’s MySpace page is stillup, his status listed as “wanted.”

Shoppers in central Melbourne. Australia has unveiled figures showingsurprise economic growth of 0.4 percent, defying widespread expectations of a

technical recession thanks largely to a leap in exports.—INTERNETHAVANA, 3 June —

With the resumption ofdiplomatic relations withEl Salvador on Monday,Cuba now has restoredformal ties with all LatinAmerican countries.

El Salvador’s movefollowed the restorationof diplomatic ties be-tween Cuba and CostaRica in March this year.

The historical agree-ment on the re-establish-ment of relations wassigned in Salvador, capi-tal of El Salvador, bySalvadorean ForeignMinister Hugo Martinez

Anti-pirate task force disarms 10 pirates

Fidel Castro rejects conditionsfor dialogue with US

HAVVANA,3 June –Former Cuban leader Fi-del Castro on Tuesday re-jected the conditionsplaced by US Secretary ofState Hillary Clinton for apossible "open dialogue"between Washington andHavana.

In an article entitled"The Clapping and the Si-lence", published by Cu-ban media on Tuesday,Castro described Clinton's

announcement on thepossible resumption of bi-lateral talks on migrationand direct mail service as"rude and far from beingdiplomatic".

Clinton said in El Sal-vador while attending ameeting of the Organiza-tion of American Statesthat Washington wouldhave an "open dialogue"(with Cuba) as soon asthere were "changes of

human rights and move-ments towards democ-racy" in the Caribbeancountry.

Castro said he won-dered whether it was nec-essary for the UnitedStates to throw the "hu-miliating" threat. "Whatare the democracy and thehuman rights that theUnited States defends?"Castro asked.

MNA/Xinhua

DUBAI, 3 June— Theinternational anti-piratetask force patrolling theGulf of Aden intercepted10 suspected pirates anddisarmed them on Tues-day, said a US Navystatement.

The British frigateHMS Portland inter-cepted two skiffs filledwith 10 men armed withassault rifles and rocketpropelled grenades and

boarded them with RoyalMarines.

“Having preventedthis group of pirates fromreaching their merchanttraffic prey, Portland de-stroyed one of the skiffsand confiscated all theirweapons,” said the state-ment.

The suspected pirateswere not detained, how-ever, due to the lack ofevidence linking them to

a specific criminal act onthe high seas, the state-ment added, though itnoted the boats containedextra barrels of fuel,grappling hooks and am-munition.

The Gulf of Aden isone of the world’s mostimportant shipping lanes,crossed by 20,000 shipsa year, and a prime targetfor Somali pirates.

Internet

Last Latin American nation resumes diplomatic ties with Cuba

and Cuban Vice ForeignMinister AlejandroGonzalez, in the presenceof El Salvador’s newpresident Mauricio Funes.

“This is an event thatleads El Salvador to reachthe level of the times andto surpass its historicaldebts with Cuba... a stepthat should have beentaken long ago. At no timeshould the ties with Cubabe interrupted,” Martinezsaid.

Cuban Vice Presidentof the Council of StateEsteban Lazo said theevent was a victory of the

people that had been ableto “surpass pressures andthreats to make a choicewith mind and heart.”

With the restoration ofties with Cuba, Funes,who was sworn in as ElSalvador’s president onMonday, fulfilled a prom-ise during his campaignto renew ties with theCaribbean island nation.

El Salvador severedties with Cuba in 1961when the United Statespressed countries in theregion to cut ties with theisland.

Internet

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Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Ministry of Defence views growing of plants during rainy season tree planting ceremony of Yangon South District heldby the approach road to Dagon Bridge in Thanlyin Township.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 June—Minister forIndustry-2 Vice-Admiral Soe Thein, on2 June, visited Heavy TruckManufacturing Factory Project(Magway) in Magway IndustrialRegion.

At the briefing hall, personnelconcerned reported on progress of steelstructure works of Heavy Truck

NAY PYI TAW, 3 June—Chairman ofAyeyawady Division Peace andDevelopment Council Commander of

NAY PYI TAW, 3 June—Hsandawshin Hsutaungpyae DanokPagoda in Danok Model Village of DallaTownship was renovated, and theceremony to enshrine religious objectsinto the upper reliquary and hoistSeinbudaw (diamond orb) andHngetmyatnadaw (pennant-shape vane)was held at the pagoda on 7 May.

On 30 May afternoon, the pagodacollapsed while the renovation tasks ofthe pagoda were being carried out afterhoisting the diamond orb and pennant-shape vane atop the pagoda.

The pagoda is 189 feet and nineinches high plus 32 feet high umbrellaand 244 feet in circumference. At 3.04pm, the pagoda above the bell-shapestructure collapsed on the northernprayer hall. Due to the collapse, a crackappeared at the remaining part of thepagoda under the bell-shape structure,and the structure of the pagoda remained50 feet high.

NAY PYI TAW, 3 June — Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence, accompanied by Chairman ofYangon Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of Yangon Command Brig-Gen Win Myint,arrived at Kayan sluice gate near old Chaungwa Village,Thanlyin Township, this morning.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe heard the reports on enduranceand maintanence of the sluice gate and storage of cleanwater presented by the Deputy Director of Construction-6 of Irrigation Department and successful cultivation ofsummer paddy with the use of water from the sluice gateby Chairman of Thanlyin Township PDC.

After hearing the reports, Lt-Gen Myint Sweinstructed officials to carry out maintenance of the

Lt-Gen Myint Swe inspects Kayan Sluice Gate, attendsYangon South District rainy season tree growing ceremony

sluice gate and its durability and to effectively use theirrigated water in growing summer paddy.

Next, they viewed the situation of endurance andmaintenance of the sluice gate.

At the rainy season tree planting ceremony 2009held near mile post No 4/2 by the approach road toDagon bridge, Lt-Gen Myint Swe and party heardreports on growing of tree in the townships and futuretasks submitted by Assistant Director of YangonSouth District Forest Department. Lt-Gen Myint Swe,the commander and officials presented the saplings todepartmental officials and local people.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe grew a Gangaw (Mesua ferrea)sapling and the commander, a star-flower sapling.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Myint Swe looked intoploughing of farmlands along both sides of the road forgrowing monsoon paddy.

At the brifeing hall of construction project of thelinking Dagon bridge to Thilawa Industrial Zone, heviewed maintenance of the road, completion of drainsalong the road.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe heard reports on progress ofthe tarred road linking Dagon bridge and ThilawaIndustrial Zone presented by of the SuperintendingEngineer of Yagon Division Public Works.

After hearing the reports, Lt-Gen Myint Swe calledfor maintaining the road for its durability and growingwind breakers on both sides.—MNA

Industry-2 Minister visitsMagway Industrial Region

Upgrading of Yangon-Pathein Road in progress

Danok Pagoda collapses in DanokModel Village of Dalla Township

Among the Tatmadawmen and thepeople who participated in therenovation tasks, two persons died inthe incident and 26 Tatmadawmen andeight people were injured. The injuredpersons were not serious and they arereceiving medical treatments at therespective hospitals.

A technician team was formed andthey inspected the collapse of thepagoda. The preliminary report of thetechnicians mentioned that as effortswere made to maintain the originalstyle of the pagoda there became theunexpected over-loads on the mainstructure, and then the pagoda collapsed.Efforts were made to quickly renovatethe pagoda for its completion beforethe rainy season due to the wishes of thewellwishers. Therefore, the structureof pagoda collapsed due to poor qualityof the renovation task at some parts ofthe pagoda.

MNA

South-West Command Maj-Gen KyawSwe inspected upgrading of Yangon-Pathein Road on 26 May morning.—MNA

Manufacturing Factory and engineeringworks of Transmission Plant &Components Parts Production Factory.The minister called for timely completionof construction works according to setstandard.

The minister then looked roundthe progress of the industrial region.

MNA

YANGON, 3 June—Under thearrangement of Yangon West DistrictPeace and Development Council, atree planting ceremony tocommemorate World EnvironmentDay 2009 was held in the compoundof Hninzigon Home for the Aged onGabaAye Pagoda road in BahanTownship here this morning.

At the ceremony, Chairman ofYangon West District PDC and

Tree growing ceremony heldin Bahan

members, Chairman of Bahan TownshipPDC and members, social organizationsin Bahan Township, Chairman ofHninzigon Home for the Aged andexecutive members, and staff and theirfamilies grew plants at designated places.

Altogether 21 kinds ofvegetables and 1100 kinds of shady treeswere grown with the assistance of ForestDepartment.

MNA

Tobacco Kills

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Prime Minister General Thein Sein, Korean President Mr Lee Myung-bak and heads of State/Government from ASEAN countries pose for docu-mentary photo before ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein taking part in ASEAN-Republic ofKorea Commemorative Summit.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein receives Thai Foreign AffairsMinister Mr Kasit Piromya at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok of

Thailand.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein being welcomed by President ofROK Mr Lee Myung-bak at ASEAN-Republic of

Korea Commemorative Summit.—MNA

(from page 16)Cambodia Samdech HunSen, Indonesian Prime Min-ister Dr Susilo BambangYudhoyono, Prime Minis-ter of the Lao People’sDemocratic Republic MrBouasone Bouphavanh,Malaysian Prime MinisterDato’ Seri Mohamed NajibBin Tun Haji Abdul Razak,President of the Republic

Myanmar gladly recognizesimprovement in political …

of the Philippines MadameGloria Macapagal Arroyo,Prime Minister of Singa-pore Mr Lee Hsien Loong,Thai Prime Minister MrAbbhisit Vejjajiva, Viet-namese Prime Minister MrNguyen Tan Dung andASEAN Secretary-GeneralDr Surin Pitsuwan, Minis-ter for Foreign Affairs UNyan Win, Minister for

National Planning and Eco-nomic Development U SoeTha, and senior officials ofthe ROK and ASEANcountries.

Upon arrival atICC, the Heads of State/Government of ASEANcountries were welcomedby Korean President Mr.Lee Myung-bak.

Before thesummit, the Heads of State/Government of ROK andASEAN countries posed for

documentary photos.Alternate Chair-

man Korean President Mr.Lee Myung-bak made anintroductory speech.

The Thai PrimeMinister and the Malaysian

and future goal.Regarding the

ASEAN-ROK cooperationand the future goal, PrimeMinister General TheinSein said that ASEAN-Re-public of Korea relations

round cooperation.He urged ROK to

provide assistance forASEAN cooperation in-cluding Ayeyawady-Chaopra-Mekong Eco-nomic Cooperation Strat-

Prime Minister deliveredaddresses.

The Heads ofState/Government of ROKand ASEAN countries ex-changed views on ASEAN-Republic of Korea relations

had shifted from sector-wise relations to dialoguepartner since 1989; thatthe relations improved to acertain degree by signingthe 2004 joint-statement onfriendly relations for all-

egy. Myanmar gladly rec-ognized the improvementin political and security co-operation betweenASEAN and the Republicof Korea.

(See page 11)

The whole region will gain benefits from thesupport by the Republic of Korea for peace, free-dom, neutralization and establishment of nuclear-free zone of Southeast Asia.

The trade volume between ASEAN andROK increased to 90 billion US dollars in 2008from 46 billion US dollars in 2004. And Myanmarexpects the trade volume will reach 150 billionUS dollars by 2015.

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Prime Minister General Thein Sein attendsdinner hosted by ROK President and wife

NAY PYI TAW, 3 June—Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein attended a dinner hosted by President of theRepublic of Korea Mr. Lee Myung-bak and wife at

Crystal Ballroom of the Lotte Hotel in Jeju of theRepublic of Korea at 8 pm on 1 June.

Also present at the dinner were King of Brunei

Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Muizzaddin Waddaulahof Brunei Darussalam, Prime Minister of Cambodia

(See paage 11)

Prime Minister visits Myanmar booth inJeju World Culture & Travel Expo

Prime Minister General Thein Sein enjoysdance of Bagan-era of Myanmar cultural

delegation performed in commemoration ofJeju World Culture and Travel Expo held at

Jeju World Cup Stadium in Jeju of theRepublic of Korea.—MNA

President of ROK Mr Lee Myung-bak makes speech at dinner.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 June—Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein visited Myanmar booth in Jeju WorldCulture & Travel Expo held at Jeju World Cup Stadiumin Jeju of the Republic of Korea on 1 June afternoon.

The Prime Minister, accompanied by Ministerfor National Planning and Economic Development USoe Tha, Ambassador to the Republic of Korea U MyoLwin, Director-General of Government Office ColThant Shin, departmental heads and personnel left

(See page 11)

Prime Minister General Thein Sein visitsMyanmar booth in Jeju World Culture &

Travel Expo held at Jeju World Cup Stadiumin Jeju of the Republic of Korea.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 3June—Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Seinattended the openingceremony of the ASEAN-Korea CEO Summit on thefifth floor of theInternational ConventionCentre (ICC) in Jeju of theRepublic of Korea at 2 pmon 31 May.

Also present on theoccasion were ROKPresident Mr. Lee Myung-bak, Cambodian PrimeMinister Samdech HunSen, Prime Minister of LaosMr Bouasone Bouphavanh,Thai Prime Minister MrAbbhisit Vejjajiva,Chairman of KoreaChamber of Commerce andIndustry (KCCI) Mr KyungShik Sohn, Minister forForeign Affairs U NyanWin, senior officials of theRepublic of Korea andASEAN countries.

First, Chairman ofKorea Chamber ofCommerce and Industry(KCCI) Mr Kyung ShikSohn made an openingaddress.

After that, ROKPresident Mr. Lee Myung-bak and Thai PrimeMinister Mr AbbhisitVejjajiva deliveredaddresses on the occasion.

The heads of State/Government cordiallygreeted the senior officialsand entrepreneurs of the

Prime Minister attends opening ceremony of ASEAN-Korea CEOSummit, enjoys entertainment of ASEAN-Korea Traditional Orchestra

Republic of Korea andASEAN countries.

At 3 pm, theGlobal Economic Outlookand Asia’s Role, the SessionI of the ASEAN-KoreaCEO Summit, commenced.

Cambodian PrimeMinister Samdech Hun Senand Prime Minister of theSocialist Republic ofVietnam Mr Nguyen TanDung delivered addressesat the Promotion ofEconomic & Social

Development throughTrade and Investment, theSession II of the ASEAN-Korea CEO Summit.

Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein enjoyedthe entertainment of theASEAN-Korea TraditionalOrchestra that honoured theASEAN-Korea Summit atthe Tamna Hall (A) ofInternational ConventionCentre.

Aelso present onthe occasion were ROK

President Mr. Lee Myung-bak, Cambodian PrimeMinister Samdech HunSen, Prime Minister ofLaos Mr BouasoneBouphavanh, President ofthe Philippines MadameGloria Macapagal Arroyo,Thai Prime Minister MrAbbhisit Vejjajiva, PrimeMinister of the SocialistRepublic of Vietnam MrNguyen Tan Dung,ASEAN Secretary-General Dr Surin

Pitsuwan, Minister forForeign Affairs U NyanWin, Minister for NationalPlanning and EconomicDevelopment U Soe Tha,senior officials of theRepublic of Korea andASEAN countries.

A total of 79musicians from 11countries namely, Korea,Brunei, Cambodia, Laos,Indonesia, Malaysia,Myanmar, the Philippines,Singapore, Thailand and

Vietnam performedmusical entertainmentswith the use of 52 musicalinstruments at the ASEAN-Korea TraditionalOrchestra, and it was theentertainment of the firstorchestra with a view toensuring the inter-relationsof Asian culture andpresenting the own musicalcreation styles of Asia thatis different from thewestern style.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 June—Chairman ofGuangdong New Technology Import & Export ZhuhaiCorporation (Guangdong NTC) Mr Huang Yixiangand party called on Minister for Agriculture andIrrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo at the IrrigationDepartment in Yangon on 2 June.—MNA

A & I Minister receivesChinese guests

YANGON, 3 June —Course No. 20 on pre-primary teachership of Myanmar Education ResearchBureau was concluded at the Bureau in KamayutTownship today.

Director-General of the Bureau U Ohn Myintdelivered an address and presented completion

Pre-primary teachership course concludescertificates to the trainees.

President of Myanmar Academy of Arts andScience U Than Oo, Director-General of the No. 1Basic Education Department U Kyaw Thu and Rector(Retd) of Yangon Institute of Education Dr Khin Zawawarded the outstanding trainees. —MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein enjoys entertainment of ASEAN-Korea Traditional Orchestra in honour of ASEAN-Korea Summit.—MNA

Opening ceremony of ASEAN-Korea CEO Summit in progress.—MNA

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(from page 8)He said that the whole

region will gain benefitsfrom the support by theRepublic of Korea forpeace, freedom, neutrali-zation and establishmentof nuclear-free zone ofSoutheast Asia.

He said that Myanmarwould like to express itsconstant support forpeaceful approach to thenuclear issue in KoreaPeninsular and call forcontinuing talks withinternational communityfor reduction of tension andmaintaining regionalpeace and stability.

The trade volumebetween ASEAN andROK increased to 90 bil-lion US dollars in 2008from 46 billion US dollars

Myanmar gladly recognizesimprovement in political …

in 2004. And Myanmarexpects the trade volumewill reach 150 billion USdollars by 2015. Similarly,the investment rose from1.3 billion to 6.8 billionUS dollars in the same pe-riod. Myanmar would liketo call for maintaining thedevelopment momentum.

He said that Myanmarwelcomes the agreementon ASEAN-ROK invest-ment endorsed after thesummit, and it is requiredto maintain the presentdevelopment momentumof trade and investmentvolumes.

Agreements on trade,service and investmentbetween ASEAN andROK have been signed, hesaid, calling for inking anagreement for establish-

ment of ASEAN-ROK freetrade zone accordingto the fixed periods of thetwo sides.

Myanmar thanksROK for its assistance forpromotion of ASEAN-ROK human resource de-velopment and efficiency,ASEAN+1 programmesand ASEAN+3 pro-grammes, he said.

Myanmar welcomesthe offer for promotion ofbilateral cooperation in thesectors of ROK such aseducation, technology forrural areas, substitute fuel,small and medium-scale in-dustries, communi-cationsand technology, monetaryand tourism services. AndMyanmar would like to seefurther cooperation for pro-viding technological equip-ment in the science and tech-nology sector and narrow-ing the technological gap,he said.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3June—Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein metPrime Minister of theSocialist Republic ofVietnam Mr Nguyen TanDung at Lotte Hotel inJeju, the Republic ofKorea, on 1 June.

Present at the calltogether with the PrimeMinister were Minister forForeign Affairs U NyanWin, Minister for NationalPlanning and EconomicDevelopment U Soe Tha,Myanmar Ambassador tothe Republic of Korea UMyo Lwin, Director-General of GovernmentOffice Col Thant Shin anddepartmental heads.Together with the PrimeMinister of the SocialistRepublic of Vietnam wereMinister of Industry andTrade Mr Vu Hag Hoangand the Minister at theGovernment Office andpersonnel.

Myanmar Prime Minister meets Vietnamese counterpart

They frankly dis-cussed matters on seekingmore opportunities for co-

operation incommunications, energy,agriculture, mines and IT

sectors between the twocountries, furthercementing bilateral ties,

Vietnam’s support and co-operation in implemen-tation of seven-step Road

Map and nationalreconsolidation inMyanmar.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein meets with Vietnamese Prime Minister Mr Nguyen Tan Dung. — MNA

Prime Minister visits…(from page 9)

Lotte Hotel for Jeju WorldCup Stadium at 1 pm.

On arrival at thestadium, the Prime Ministerand party were welcomedby Mr Shin Joong-Mok,president of TravelsAssociation of the Republic

of Korea, U Zaw Min Win,Vice-President of Union ofMyanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerceand Industry, generalsecretary Dr Maung MaungLay and members Dr KhinShwe and U Sein Wan.

The Prime

Minister then viewedMyanmar traditionalhandicrafts displayed atMyanmar booth andcordially greetedresponsible persons of thebooth and members ofcultural delegation.

The PrimeMinister observedinternational culture and

tourism industry related artworks displayed at the expo.

The PrimeMinister and party enjoyedKorean traditional dance,traditional dances ofASEAN countries, danceof Yama chasing deer,female dancer and dance ofBagan-era of Myanmarcultural delegation

performed incommemoration of JejuWorld Culture and TravelExpo from the grandstand.

The PrimeMinister and party thenwent back to Lotte Hotel.Jeju World Culture andTravel Expo was held from28 May to 1 June.

Myanmar culturaldelegation of Ministry ofCulture led by U Ko KoNaing participated in theperformances togetherwith cultural delegationmembers of ASEANcountries and waspresented bestperformance award.

MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein…(from page 9)

Samdech Hun Sen,Indonesian Prime MinisterDr Susilo BambangYudhoyono, PrimeMinister of the LaoPeople’s DemocraticRepublic Mr BouasoneBouphavanh, MalaysianPrime Minister Dato’ SeriMohd Najib Bin Tun HajiAbdul Razak, President ofthe Republic of thePhilippines MadameGloria Macapagal Arroyo,

Prime Minister ofSingapore Mr Lee HsienLoong, Thai PrimeMinister Mr AbbhisitVejjajiva, VietnamesePrime Minister Mr NguyenTan Dung and ASEANSecretary-General DrSurin Pitsuwan, seniorofficials of the ROK andASEAN countries,entrepreneurs and guests.

At 7.45 pm, the headsof State/Government ofASEAN countries arrived

at the dinner held at CrystalBallroom where they werewarmly welcomed byROK President Mr. LeeMyung-bak and wife.

At the dinner, ROKPresident Mr. Lee Myung-bak extended greetings.

Thai Prime MinisterMr Abbhisit Vejjajivaspoke words of thanks.

After that, the Koreantraditional dances werepresented during thedinner.—MNA

How past communities copedwith climate change

LEICESTER, 3 June— Research led by theUniversity of Leicestersuggests people today andin future generationsshould look to the past inorder to mitigate the worst

effects of climate change.The dangers of

rising sea levels, cropfailures and extremeweather were all faced byour ancestors who learntto adapt and survive in the

face of climate change.Dr Jago Cooper,

of the School ofArchaeology and AncientHistory at the Universityof Leicester, has beenstudying the archaeologyof climate change in theCaribbean as part of aLeverhulme Early CareerFellowship.—Internet

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA TAMPAN VOY NO (253)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTATAMPAN VOY NO (253) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 4.6.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

INVITATION TO TENDERTENDER NO. 3 (T) AMD-FR(2009-2010)

1. Sealed Tender are invited by Agricultural Mechani-zation Department, the Ministry of Agriculture andIrrigation for the supply of following Machines whichwill be purchased in US Dollar. Sr; No Description Quantity 1. Machinery & Equipment for Combine Harvester Production 2. Tender closing date ( 15-6-2009) (Monday) (16:00 H 3. Tender documents are available at the Factory &Research Section of Agricultural Mechanization De-partment, Bayintnaung Road, Insein Township, Yangonduring the office hours. 4. For further details please call 680959, 682046 Ext. 323.

Director General Agricultural Mechanization Department

TENDER INVITATIONMyanma Ceramic Industries, Ministry of Industry

(1), is intended to renovate the existing cement factoryof 500 ton per day Dry Process, (5 stage SP) plant fromexisting output production capacity of about 300 tonper day to obtain rated production capacity of 500 tonper day cement clinker, at Kyaukse Cement Factory,Kyaukse Township, Mandalay Division, Union ofMyanmar.

Sealed tenders are invited on semi-turnkey basisincluding machinery supply, crection, commissioning,technology transfer and supervisory services. The de-tails can be obtained from the following contact office.

-Myanma Ceramic Industries: Building No. 41, Nay Pyi Taw Union of Myanmar Tel: 067-408386, 408296 Fax: 067-408064*Tender Closing Date: 31.8.2009(Monday)

Condolences Our condolences go to the family of U Myo Thant

(Maung Hsu Shin), 78 member of the Central ExecutiveCommittee of Myanmar Writers and JournalistsAssociation, Who passed away on 2-6-2009.

Central Executive CommitteeMyanmar Writers and Journalists Association

Reducing gas emissionshas health dividend

BERKELEY, 3 June—Eliminating 10 percent of cur-rent gasoline pollutant emissions would have a sub-stantial beneficial impact on US human health, re-searchers said.

The University of California Berkeley researchersdeveloped a Life Cycle Impact Assessment to meas-ure the benefits on human health that might result froma switch to biofuels.

“While the successful deployment of biofuels re-quires research to overcome technical barriers, thereare other barriers that can often impose constraintsmore challenging than those related to technical fea-sibility, including constraints imposed by health risks,”researcher Thomas McKone said in a statement. “Justthink, if we had done a life cycle impact assessmenton the human health effects of gasoline years ago wemight not be in the situation we’re facing today.”

Assessments of the life cycle impacts of emissionsfrom gasoline-run motors in the United States on acounty-by-county basis show that the heaviest dam-age — darkest coloring — is concentrated in urbanareas, especially Los Angeles, New York and Chi-cago. Large urban regions also suffered dispropor-tionate health damage as a result of benzene emis-sions at service stations and during the transportingby truck of gasoline to service stations, the research-ers said.

The findings are being presented at the at the 31stSymposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemi-cals in San Francisco. —Internet

Obesity, diabetes fuelheart failure risk

NICE, 3 June—The twin epidemics of obesity andtype 2 diabetes will fuel an explosion in heart failure,researchers in Scotland suggest.

John McMurray, professor of cardiology at the West-ern Infirmary in Glasgow, Scotland, said about one-third of patients with heart failure have evidence ofdiabetes, and for them the outlook is very serious andeffective treatment is “very difficult.”

McMurray emphasizes obesity is not just associatedwith an increased risk of heart attack, but also, andespecially, with an increased risk of heart failure.

“Obesity is at least as great a risk factor for heartfailure as it is for heart attack or stroke,” McMurraysays in a statement. “Obesity more than doubles therisk.”

The pathways by which obesity plays such a role inheart failure are not yet fully understood, but have beenshown to have an indirect effect through hypertension,heart attack or diabetes — and a direct effect on theheart muscle itself, McMurray says.

The finding was presented at the Heart Failure Con-gress in Nice, France. —Internet

Folic acid offers moreprotection than thoughtWASHINGTON, 3 June— Baby-protecting folic acid

is getting renewed attention: Not only does it fightspina bifida and some related abnormalities, new re-search shows it also may prevent premature birth andheart defects.

Now pregnancy specialists are asking if it’s timefor the government to boost the amount being addedto certain foods to help ensure mothers-to-be getenough. But for older adults, there may be a downside to the nutrient: Extra-high levels late in life justmight pose a cancer risk. “Folate is assuming the roleof a chameleon, if you will,” says Dr Joel Mason ofTufts University’s nutrition research center, who isresearching that possible risk.

Folic acid is an artificial version of folate, a B vita-min found in leafy green vegetables, citrus fruit anddried beans. Everyone needs regular folate becauseit’s important for healthy cell growth yet the bodydoesn’t store up enough of it.—Internet

TV interferes with infants’language development

SEATTLE, 3 June—Television reduces verbal inter-action between parents and infants, which could de-lay children’s language development, says a US studythat challenges claims that certain infant-targetedDVDs actually benefit youngsters.

The researchers studied 329 children, aged 2 monthsto 48 months, and found that for each additional hourof television exposure, there was a decrease of 770words (7 percent) heard from an adult by the children.The study also found that the more hours spent watch-ing television, the fewer vocalizations infants madewhen adults talked to them. “Some of these reductionsare likely due to children being left alone in front of thetelevision screen, but others likely reflect situations inwhich adults, though present, are distracted by the screenand not interacting with their infant in a discernablemanner,” wrote Dr Dimitri A Christakis, of Seattle Chil-dren’s Hospital, and colleagues.—Internet

A Komatsu shovel fills at a mine in Canada. Komatsu,Japan’s top maker of construction machinery, hassaid it plans to start assembling diesel-electric hybrid excavators in China this year.—INTERNET

Singapore confirms 9thInfluenza A/H1N1 case

SINGAPORE, 3 June—Singapore has confirmed its 9thcase of Influenza A/H1N1, the country’s Health Min-istry said on Wednesday.

The patient is a 19-year-old Singaporean femalestudying in the United States who returned for the sum-mer holidays. She arrived in Singapore from New Yorkvia Tokyo on All Nippon Airways NH901 on 28 May.She developed symptoms in the morning of 1 Juneand was sent to local hospital on the same day. Labo-ratory results confirmed her infection on 2 June.

The ministry said that no flight passengers needed tobe quarantined as the case only developed onset of symp-toms more than 24 hours after disembarkation, hence shewas assessed to be non-infectious during the flight. Sofar, all the nine cases in Singapore are imported and havea travel history. The Health Ministry said that there iscurrently no evidence of community spread, adding thatit is monitoring the situation closely and will update thepublic on any new developments. —Internet

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Elderly hearing, vocalproblems linked

PHOENIX, 3 June—Astudy of 248 participantswith a median age of 82.4found 11 percent werehard of hearing and hadvocal problems, USresearchers found.

Researchers at DukeUniversity Medical Cen-ter in Durham, NC, saidhearing and vocalproblems go hand-in-hand among the elderlymore frequently thanpreviously thought.

“It’s important torealize these disabilitiesoften occur concurrently,”Dr Seth Cohen, anotolaryngologist at theDuke Voice Care Center,

said in a statement. “Andwhen they do, they canincrease the likelihood ofdepression and socialisolation.”

Nearly half of peopleage 65 and older havesome degree of hearingloss, a published reportsaid, and about one-thirdof elderly adults havevocal problems includingdysphonia — known ashoarseness. Taken apart,the disabilities have beenlinked in the elderly toincreased depression,anxiety and socialisolation.

“When people havetrouble hearing, they

strain their voices to hearthemselves,” Cohen said.“Likewise, people maystrain their voices if theircommunication partnerscan’t hear.”

Because there iseffective treatment forboth hearing loss anddysphonia, it’s importantthat people with onedisability be evaluated forthe other, Cohen said.

The study was pre-sented at the AmericanLaryngological, Rhi-nological and OtologicalSociety in Phoenix.

Internet

JoanneBelle Ng (C), winner of Miss Malaysia 2009, second placed CassandraPatrick (L) and third placed Claudia Tania Sibert pose for photos, in Kuala

Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, on 30 May, 2009. Twenty-one-year oldJoanneBelle Ng will represent Malaysia at the upcoming Miss Universe 2009

pageant to be held in the Bahamas, on 23 August.—INTERNET

Obese pregnant womenshouldn’t gain weight

NEW YORK, 3 June—The Institute of Medicine haschanged its recommendation that overweight womenshould gain about 15 pounds during pregnancy, a USresearchers says.

“It is the mindset of our specialty, and our society,that we need to have round, chubby pregnant womenin order make sure they are healthy,” study leader DrYvonne S Thornton, a board-certified specialist inmaternal-fetal medicine at New York Medical College,says in a statement. “Pregnancy has become a licenseto eat. We talk about ‘eating for two,’ but it’s reallymore like eating for one and 1/20th.”

In the study, conducted at several hospitals, theresearchers followed 232 obese pregnant women, allof whom had a body mass index of 30 or greater. Halfof the women, who acted as a control group, followedconventional pre-natal nutritional guidelines — “eatto appetite.” The other half were placed on a well-balanced, nutritionally monitored programme, whichincluded a daily food diary.

The study, published in the June issue of the Journalof the National Medical Association, found the averageweight gain in the control group was 31 pounds,compared to 11 pounds in the study group. Twenty-three extremely obese patients lost weight during theirpregnancy.—Internet

British scientists map Antarcticpenguins from space

Confirmedcases of

A/H1N1 flureach to 88 in

KentuckyHOUSTON, 3 June—

Eleven new cases ofA/H1N1 flu were con-firmed on Tuesday, brin-ging the total number ofconfirmed cases ofA/H1N1 flu in the state ofKentucky to 88, healthofficials said late in the day.

On Monday the con-firmed cases in the statewere 77, according to thefigures released by the USCenters for DiseasesControl and prevention(CDC).

The hardest hit wasJefferson County, whichhas reported 45 confirmedcases, followed by ScottCounty with 12 cases, theofficials said, adding thestate probably will seemore.

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This undated handout photo showsan adult emperor penguin with a

baby at an Antarctic breedingcolony.—INTERNET

Skeleton of ancient whale found in Sweden Air pollution linked to abdominal painSTROMSTAD, 3 June — The skeleton

of a whale thought to be nearly 10,000-years-old has been found underneath amotorway in western Sweden,researchers say. Researchers fromSweden’s Gothenburg University andthe Natural History Museum in Londonare working together to conduct DNAtests on the ancient whale skeletonmeasuring between 49 and 65 feet, TheLocal said on Monday.

Gothenburg University said in astatement the skeleton was found byconstruction workers during work onthe E6 motorway in April.

The university said initial detailsabout the discovered whale skeletonindicate the remains could represent a

EDMONTON, 3 June — Abdominal pain,one of the most common reasons foremergency room visits, may be linkedto air pollution, Canadian researcherssuggest.

Dr Gilaad Kaplan of the Universityof Calgary identified more than 95,000patients discharged from emergencydepartments with non-specificabdominal pain from hospitals inEdmonton, Alberta. The study wasreplicated in more than 25,000abdominal pain patients at a hospital indowntown Montreal. Data fromEnvironment Canada’s National AirPollution Surveillance were used todetermine the hourly levels of ozone,

nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, carbonmonoxide and particulate matter ofvarying sizes. The study found nearlytwo-thirds of visits for non-specificabdominal pain were by women, and themajority of them were ages 15-24. Youngwomen were more likely to present toemergency departments in Edmontonand Montreal for non-specific abdominalpain on days when indicators of airpollution were elevated.

Kaplan and the co-authors speculatethat young women are the most affectedcohort because they are at increased riskfor functional motility disorders — themost common of which is irritable bowelsyndrome.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 3 June—Penguinpoo (guano) stains, visible from space,have helped British scientists locateemperor penguin breeding coloniesin Antarctica. Knowing their locationprovides a baseline for monitoringtheir response to environmentalchange, according to a new study

published this week in the US journalGlobal Ecology and Biogeography.

In the new study, scientists fromBritish Antarctic Survey (BAS)-describehow they used satellite images tosurvey the sea-ice around 90 percentof Antarctica’s coast to search foremperor penguin colonies.

The survey identified a total of 38. Tenof those were new. Of the previouslyknown colonies six had re-located andsix were not found.

Because emperor penguins breed onsea-ice during the Antarctic winter littleis known about their colonies. Reddishbrown patches of guano on the ice, visiblein satellite images, provide a reliable indi-cation of their location.

BAS mapping expert Peter Fretwellexplains “We can’t see actual penguinson the satellite maps because the resolu-tion isn’t good enough. But during thebreeding season the birds stay at a colonyfor eight months. The ice gets pretty dirtyand it’s the guano stains that we can see.”

Emperor penguins spend a large partof their lives at sea.

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fifth species of right whale.Currently, only four species of right

whales have been identified, the Localreported.

Zoologist Thomas Dahlgren told thenewspaper additional tests would needto be conducted on the skeleton to de-termine its official designation.

“There are previous skeleton finds inwestern Sweden which are believed tobe the Swedenborg right whale.

But to determine the species of whalebones found buried in soil iscomplicated and it is therefore not yetascertained whether the whale actuallyexisted,” he said.

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S P O R T S

Clay will inspire meat Wimbledon, says Murray

British player AndyMurray, pictured, at theFrench Open tennisquarter finals in Paris.Murray has said hewould go into Wimbledonin the form of his life de-spite his Paris defeat toChile’s FernandoGonzalez.—INTERNET

Kaka signs for Real Madrid

Brazilian playmaker Kaka

Nigerians give Domenech the blues

French national soccer team coachRaymond Domenech (L) speaks tocaptain Patrick Vieira during thefriendly football match France vsNigeria at the Geoffroy-Guichardstadium in Saint-Etienne, eastern

France.—INTERNET

City secure Barry transfer

England midfielderGareth Barry

Valverde named Villarreal coach

Ernesto Valverde is seenduring Espanyol’s Span-ish League football matchagainst Almeria atMediterraneo Stadium inAlmeria, 2008.—INTERNET

Ballack signs up for extrayear at Chelsea

Chelsea’s German foot-baller Michael Ballackholds the FA Cup as hecelebrate’s beatingEverton 2-1 in the FACup final at Wembley, innorth London, on 30May, 2009.—INTERNET

Proud Maria ready for Wimbledon lift-offPARIS, 3 June—Maria Sharapova shrugged off her devastating French Open

hangover on Wednesday and admitted she’s come a long way since the dark days

Russia’s MariaSharapova at the

French Open tennisquarter finals on 2 June

in Paris.—INTERNET

Blackburn snap up van HeerdenBLACKBURN, 3 June—Blackburn manager Sam Allardyce has voiced confidence

that Elrio van Heerden can make an impact on the Premier League after signingthe South African midfielder on a free transfer from Belgian side Club Brugge.

Van Heerden has been given a two-year contract at Ewood Park and Allardycehas great hopes for the 25-year-old, provided he can cope with the physical de-mands of English football.

“We need to build him up as he is not the biggest of lads, then I am sure he willmake an impact as the season progresses,” Allardyce said on Tuesday.

“We have signed a very talented young man. He is a great addition to the squad.He has lots of pace, lots of ability and can play wide right and left.—Internet

of injury misery which sidelined her for 10 months.The Russian golden girl slumped to one of her heavi-

est defeats at the hands of Dominika Cibulkova in theRoland Garros quarter-finals, losing 6-0, 6-2.

She also came within a point of suffering only thesecond ‘double-bagel’ of her career.

But the former world number one, whose rankingshould creep back inside the top 75 after her run tolast eight here, insists there are plenty of reasons to beoptimistic ahead of Wimbledon, which starts in underthree weeks.

“I think this is a very good starting point for me,”she said.

“I always say you’re only as good as your last tour-nament. Reflecting back on everything that I’ve beenthrough in the last year, I think I can sit here and sayI’m pretty proud of what I’ve achieved, not only inthis tournament, but in that whole time.—Internet

STETIENNE,3 June—France coachR a y m o n dD o m e n e c hsuffered an-other blow tohis authorityhere on Tues-day as Nigeriabeat France1-0 in aninternationalfriendly.

J o s e p hAkpala scored

the only goal of the game, the 22-year-old Club Bruggestriker scoring in the 32nd minute after IkechukwuUche’s shot had come off the bar and hit French goal-keeper Steve Mandanda’s heel.

The crowd reacted furiously to the goal and startedjeering and booing the French side, who had welcomedback from the international wilderness captain PatrickVieira and Chelsea’s Florent Malouda. However, neithershone with Vieira especially static in midfield on whatwas a sad 107th appearance for the former Arsenal star.

The hosts failed to rouse their supporters and it tookfully an hour for them to even summon up ‘Allez lesBleus’ (Come on the Blues) as with the exception ofFranck Ribery and Nicolas Anelka few of the other play-ers shone.—Internet

MADRID, 3 June—Brazilian playmakerKaka has signed forReal Madrid fromAC Milan in a 65-million-euro deal,Spanish radio stationCadena Ser reportedon Tuesday.

Newly-installed Real president Florentino Perezsealed the deal with AC Milan vice-president AdrianoGalliani and Bosco Leite, father and agent of the 2007world and European player of the year, Cadena Sersaid. Kaka, currently in Brazil with the national teamahead of a World Cup qualifier against Uruguay, willsign up for five years and a salary worth nine millioneuros a year, it added.

AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi had hinted at27-year-old Kaka’s departure moments before CadenaSer had claimed he was indeed moving.

“I do not know if we can keep Kaka at Milan be-cause they (Real) have offered him so much money,”Berlusconi was quoted as saying by Italian pressagency Ansa.—Internet

LONDON, 3 June—Ger-many captain MichaelBallack has signed up foran extra year at Chelsea,ensuring he will be play-ing in the Premier Leaguein the run-up to next year’sWorld Cup finals in SouthAfrica.

Ballack moved to Lon-don from Bayern Munichin 2006 and has won twoFA Cups and a LeagueCup in his time in the Brit-ish capital. The 32-year-old said: “I am very happyto be staying at Chelsea forone more year as it was al-ways my intention to playin London at least until theWorld Cup in 2010.

“We had a fantastic end to the season, winning theFA Cup, and we are all looking forward to taking thissuccess into the new season under Carlo Ancelotti, ournew manager.” A Chelsea statement added: “Michaelhas been a key member of our team for three years sowe are naturally very happy that we have agreed theextension.”—Internet

MADRID, 3 June—Villarreal on Tuesdaynamed Spain’s ErnestoValverde as coach in placeof Manuel Pellegrini, whois taking over at Real Ma-drid.

Valverde coachedOlympiakos last season,but his contract was notrenewed with the Greekclub despite leading it tothe domestic double thisyear.

Valverde, 45, has previously coached two PrimeraLiga clubs, Athletic Bilbao and Espanyol Barcelona.

Villarreal, fifth in the championship last season, areto play in the Europa League, formerly the UEFA Cup,in 2009-2010.—Internet

BIRMINGHAM, 3 June—England midfielderGareth Barry signed forManchester City fromEnglish Premier Leaguerivals Aston Villa for 12million pounds onTuesday.

The 28-year-old cameclose to joining Liverpoollast year and was ex-pected to be a target forthem again this summerespecially as they couldoffer him ChampionsLeague football whileCity failed to qualify foreither European clubcompetition.

Barry had a year left onhis contract.

City, who are owned bythe Abu Dhabi UnitedGroup, are expected to bebig players in the close

season transfer marketand manager MarkHughes is a long-standingadmirer of Barry.

The midfielder is cur-rently preparing for Eng-land’s upcoming WorldCup qualifiers againstKazakhstan and Andorraon 6 and 10 June.

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PARIS, 3 June—AndyMurray said he would gointo Wimbledon in theform of his life despite hisFrench Open quarter-finaldefeat to Chile’s FernandoGonzalez.

Murray, the third seed,lost 6-3, 3-6, 6-0, 6-4 to

the number 12-seededclaycourt specialist inwhat was his first RolandGarros last-eight tie.

The 22-year-old Scot,though, has enjoyed a fan-tastic year to date, oustingSerbia’s Novak Djokovicfrom the top three in theworld rankings followingtournament victories inDoha, Rotterdam and Mi-ami. Murray has also im-pressed on clay - reachingthe semi-finals at theMonte Carlo Masters andthe quarter-finals in Ma-drid - and feels his im-proved showing on thedirt proves that he’s be-coming a more completeplayer.—Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudy inChin and Kayah States, lower Sagaing and MagwayDivisions, rain or thundershowers have been isolated inKachin and Shan States, upper Sagaing and MandalayDivisions, fairly widespread in Rakhine State, Bago andYangon Divisions and widespread in the remaining Statesand Divisions with locally heavyfalls in Mon State andTaninthayi Division, isolated heavyfalls in Kayin State andAyeyawady Division. The noteworthy amounts of rainfallrecorded were Longlon (6.89) inches, Ye (5.51) inches,Dawei (3.70) inches, kawkareik (3.66) inches, Kyeikkame(3.39) inches, Pathein (3.23) inches and Mawlamyine (3.07)inches.

Maximum temperature on 2-6-2009 was 90°F.Minimum temperature on 3-6-2009 was 71°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 3-6-2009 was 88%. Totalsunshine hours on 2-6-2009 was (2.2) hours approx.

Rainfall on 3-6-2009 was (0.47) inch at Mingaladon,(0.08) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.67) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (16.93) inches atMingaladon, (21.06) inches at Kaba-Aye and (26.81) inchesat Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph from Southwest at (15:30) hours MSTon 2-6-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is strong in the AndamanSea and South Bay and moderate elsewhere in the Bay ofBengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 4th June 2009: Rainor thundershowers will be isolated in Kachin and KayahStates, Sagaing and Magway Divisions, scattered in Chinand Shan States, Mandalay Division, fairly widespread inYangon and Bago Divisions and widespread in the remainingStates and Divisions with likelihood of isolated heavyfallsin Mon State and Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Divisions.Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seasare likely at times off and along Myanmar Coasts. Surfacewind speed in squalls may reach (35-40) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofdecrease of rain in the northern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 4-6-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for4-6-2009: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for4-6-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

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Daw Khin Khin MyaAssistant Director (Retd) (M.P.P.E-Head Office)

78 YrsEldest daughter of (Mr. B. Burjorjee) (Daw Ma

Ma Gyi), dearest elder sister of (Mr John Decoutho), MrsMarie Decoutho (London), eldest sister of (U SeintMyint) Daw Myint Myint San (63, Kyaukmyaung Rd.,Tamwe Qr,), dearest aunt of (Ko Thet Naing), Ko ThetKhaing, Ma Sandar Myint, Johnny Robert (London), MaSoe Soe Myint, (Ma Thidar Myint), Ko Tint Naing, KoHla Min, Ko Kyaw Min, Ko Hlaing Htoo, expired on 31-5-09. The funeral procession will be held at the YewayCemetary on 4-6-09 the remains will be buried at 2 pm.The cars will leave the residence at No. 943, MahaBandoola Street, Ward 49, Dagon Myothit (North)Township, at 12.45 pm.

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GM facing difficulties inraising funds in India

NEWDELHI, 3 June—Bankrupt General Motors onTuesday said it is facing difficulties in raising funds forits under-construction engine transmission plant inIndia, involving an investment of 200 million USdollars, due to the apprehensions of financialinstitutions.

The company also said the falling sales of GeneralMotors India, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the USfirm, were mainly due to customers' perception on themonths-long uncertainty over the future of GM, whichfinally filed for bankruptcy protection in a New YorkCourt Monday.

"It hasn't been easy in India to raise the money (200million US dollars). Frankly, we have found difficultiesfrom Indian financial institutions, but we have notgiven up," GM Group Vice-President Nick Reilly toldreporters in a conference call.

"The majority of the fund remains to be raised. Itmight take us little longer, but the opening of the plantis largely on schedule. It may be delayed by a month ortwo," he added.

Reilly also said that the company's sales in the pastcouple of months have been declining in India onaccount of "customers' perceptions" in view of theuncertainty prevailing in the US market over the parentcompany's fate.—MNA/PTI

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NAY PYI TAW, 3 June—Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein attended the ASEAN-Republic of KoreaCommemorative Summit on the Third Floor of Inter-

Prime Minister attends ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit

Myanmar gladly recognizes improvement inpolitical and security cooperation between

ASEAN and Republic of Korea

national Convention Centre (ICC) in Jeju, the Repub-lic of Korea, at 5 pm on 1 June.

Also present at the summit were King of

Brunei Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah MuizzaddinWaddaulah of Brunei Darussalam, Prime Minister of

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NAY PYI TAW, 3 June —Prime Minister of theUnion of Myanmar General Thein Sein, together withMinister for Foreign Affairs U Nyan Win, Director-General of the Government Office Col Thant Shinand departmental heads, left here for the Republic ofKorea by Thai Airways on 30 May to participate inASEAN-Korea Commemorative Summit and Re-lated Summits to be held in Jeju Island of the Republicof Korea at the invitation of Mr Lee Myung-bak,President of the Republic of Korea.

They arrived at Suvarnabhumi Airport inBangkok, Thailand, at 9 pm local time on 30 May.

Foreign Minister of Thailand Mr Kasit Piromyacalled on the Prime Minister at the VIP lounge of theairport at 10 pm local time.

Also present at the call were Minister forForeign Affairs U Nyan Win, Director-General of theProtocol Department U Kyaw Kyaw and Ambassadorof Myanmar to Thailand U Aung Thein while theforeign minister of Thailand was accompanied by MrKallayana Vipattibnumpates, the director of the East-Asia Department of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Thai-land.

The Prime Minister and party left Bangkok forthe Republic of Korea at 11.30 pm and arrived atIncheon International Airport of the Republic of Koreaat 7.15 am local time on 31 May.

The Prime Minister and party, along with Min-ister for National Planning and Economic DevelopmentU Soe Tha who arrived there in advance, and Ambassa-

Prime Minister General Thein Sein arrives Jeju, ROK, to participate inASEAN-Korea Commemorative Summit and Related Summits

dor of Myanmar to the Republic of Korea U Myo Lwinleft Incheon International Airport by the special flightand arrived at Jeju Airport at 9 am local time.

The Prime Minister and party were welcomed

by Governor of Jeju Special Self-governing ProvinceMr Kim Tae-Hwan and officials, and they were con-veyed in a motorcade to Lotte Hotel in Jeju.

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Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit on Third Floor of International ConventionCentre (ICC) in Jeju, the Republic of Korea.—MNA

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Thein Seinbeing

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the Repub-lic of

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