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Senior General Than Shwe acceptscredentials of Ambassador-Head of

Delegation of CECNAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—Mr

David Lipman, newly-accreditedAmbassador-Head of Delegationof the Commission of the Euro-pean Communities to the Unionof Myanmar, presented his cre-dentials to Senior General

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—Ms Sirpa Maenpaa, newly-ac-credited Ambassador of theRepublic of Finland to the Un-ion of Myanmar, presentedher credentials to Senior Gen-eral Than Shwe, Chairman of

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

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

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Senior General Than Shweaccepts credentials ofFinnish Ambassador

Than Shwe, Chairman of theState Peace and DevelopmentCouncil of the Union ofMyanmar, at BayintnaungYeiktha, here at 10:00 am today.

Also present on the occa-sion were Secretary-1 of the

State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil General Thiha ThuraTin Aung Myint Oo, Ministerfor Foreign Affairs U NyanWin and Director-General UKyaw Kyaw of the ProtocolDepartment.—MNA

the State Peace and Develop-ment Council of the Union ofMyanmar, at BayintnaungYeiktha, here at 10:30 am to-day.

Also present on the oc-casion were Secretary-1 of the

State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil General Thiha ThuraTin Aung Myint Oo, Ministerfor Foreign Affairs U NyanWin and Director-General UKyaw Kyaw of the ProtocolDepartment.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe accepts credentials ofnewly-accredited Ambassador-Head of Delegation of

the Commission of the European CommunitiesMr David Lipman.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe receives newly-accredited

Finnish Ambassador Ms Sirpa Maenpaa.MNA

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IPRD officials to inform the public theachievements the nation is enjoying

Thursday, 3 December, 2009

PERSPECTIVES

Fight AIDS collectively and treat AIDSpatients kindly

AIDS is the disease that is spreading all over the world today. It hasclaimed millions of lives and affected the social and economic life of thepeople. Therefore, the world nations are raising the momentum of theirfight against the disease.

Although anti-HIV/AIDS campaigns are being carried out carefullyand systematically all over the world, the lives of women and children arein grave danger posed by the pandemic. AIDS is the main cause for thedeath of women of child-bearing age.

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—Township-level educativetalks on treatment ofmiscarriage and the openingceremony of multipliercourse for primary healthstaff were held at the meetinghall of Thaton DistrictPeople’s Hospital, ThatonTownship, Thaton Districton 28 November.

Afterwards, DistrictPDC Chairman U SoeNaing made an openingspeech. Dr Myint Myint

Educative talks on treatmentof miscarriage held

Than of Maternal and ChildUnit of the HealthDepartment discussedmatters on review of currentdevelopment and follow-up processes and Dr SweSwe Win of District HealthDepartment, on treatmentfor miscarriage. And roundtable discussions aboutmiscarriage treat-mentsfollowed.

A total 60 health staffattended the two-daycourse.—MNA

Myanmar regards AIDS as a disease that is very likely to endangerpublic health and is fighting it as a national movement. In 1989, Anti-AIDS Central Committee was formed and its work programmes wereimplemented. Beginning 2000, prevention of HIV virus transmission frommother to child was initiated.

As a project for fighting AIDS and venereal disease, educative talksand accurate diagnosis and effective treatment are being given on a widerscale. Moreover, systematic measures are being taken in 325 townships toensure safe blood transfusion.

Myanmar is accelerating the momentum of its fight against AIDS incooperation with WHO and other UN organizations. It is learnt that HIVvirus transmission rate in the nation has been reduced to 0.61 per cent in2009 from 0.94 per cent in 2000.

AIDS affects not only the health of people but also their social andeconomic development. Therefore, it is necessary for the entire people totake an active part in anti-AIDS measures and, at the same time, to treatthe AIDS patients kindly without any discrimination and stigma.

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—Minister for InformationBrig-Gen Kyaw Hsan saidthat officials ofInformation and PublicRelations Departmentshave to make a thoroughstudy of the State’s seven-step Road Map thegovernment isimplementing hand inhand with the people,progress, and objectiveconditions of the nation,and to inform the publicthese achievements; andthat they are to establishmore self-reliant villagelibraries meeting the fivestandards in order toinculcate the people with agood habit of reading thatis a fundamental require-ment for improving thesocio-economic life of theentire people. He

underpinned the need forofficials concerned to keepin touch with theimprovement and welfareof the staff in order thatthey will become skilledmedia persons reliable forthe national interest.

The Minister wasspeaking to heads of state/division, district andtownship Information andPublic Relations Depart-ments in Mandalay andSagaing Divisions andShan State (North) inZeebingyi, PyinOoLwinTownship this afternoon.

On 30 Novembermorning, the minister wenton his tour to inspect thetasks to make sure thatevery village in Myanmarhas a library and all thelibraries enjoy sustainableprogress. Upon arrival atPyinnya Dazaung Libraryin Mwetone Village, PaleTownship, MonywaDistrict, Sagaing Division,he inspected condition ofthe library, furniture, thebook keeping system,arrangements for purchaseof new periodicals andsustainable development of

the library, and cordiallygreeted rural dwellersreading inside the building.

The minister urgedrural people to stick to thegood habit of reading to

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan meets IPRD staff of Mandalay and Sagaing Divisions and Shan State (North).—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan greets locals reading at PyinnyaDazaung Library.—MNA

be able to keep in touchwith the advancements ineducation, technology andother sectors worldwide.He said local authorities,well-wishers, IPRD staff

and local residents are towork together for thelibrary to last long withsustainable progress. Next,he cordially conversedwith locals.—MNA

Information Minister inspects Pyinnya DazaungLibrary in Mwetone Village, Pale Township

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Invasion of US and allies kills,injures Iraqi people

BAGHDAD, 2 Dec— There has been daily casualties in Iraq since the US andits allies have invaded the country.

Casualties of Iraqi peopleThe total number of casualties as from the day they invaded the country to

2 December reached 699475 and the total number of serious injured peoplereached 1262193, according to the news on the Internet.

No. Subject Number1. Death toll of Iraqi people 6994752. The total number of seriously injured people 1262193

Internet

Casualties of Afghan people in invasion ofNATO troops led by US

KABUL, 2 Dec—The NATO troops led by the US have invaded Afghanistanand they are there for a long time.

A number of Afghan people are killed and injured due to invasion of theNATO troops led by the US.

Casualties of Afghan peopleAccording to the Internet news, a total of 32369 Afghan people were killed

and 38064 injured seriously as from the day when the NATO troops led by theUS invaded Afghanistan to 2 December.

No. Subject Number1. Number of Afghan people killed 323692. Seriously injured Afghan people 38064

Internet

A man

smokes

opium in the

outskirts of

Kabul,

Afghanistan,

on 30 Nov,

2009.

INTERNET

Rocket attack inE Afghanistan

wounds onecivilian

KABUL, 2 Dec—Arocket fired by militantshit a residential area inGorbaz district of KhostProvince in east Afghani-stan, police said on Mon-day.

“The rocket fired byrebels hit a residentialarea on Sunday nightinjuring one civilian,”Bismillah Hashimithe police chief ofGorbaz district toldXinhua.

He also added that amosque was damaged inthe attack.

Taleban militants havestepped up their attacksmostly in the shape of sui-cide, roadside bombingand firing rockets todestabilize security anddefame government.

Xinhua

Roadside bomb woundsAfghan soldier

KABUL, 2 Dec—A roadside bomb targeted a mili-tary vehicle in Khost Province east of Afghanistan onMonday injuring a soldier, acting police chief of theprovince Yaqub Khan said.

“The blast occurred in Wargha village outside Khostcity the capital Khost Province this morning wound-ing one soldier of Afghan National Army (ANA), Khantold Xinhua.

He blamed the enemies of peace, a reference usedagainst Taleban militants for the attack, saying the en-emies by carrying out such subversive activities wantto disrupt peace in the province.—Xinhua

One insurgent killed,two police injured inclash in Afghanistan

KABUL, 2 Dec—One Taleban militant was killedand another injured as they came in contact withpolice in Baghlan Province north of Afghanistan, po-lice spokesman Ahmad Jawed Basharat said onWednesday.

“Taleban rebels attacked a police patrol in DushiDistrict onTuesday night and police returned fire kill-ing an insurgent and injuring another,” Basharat toldXinhua.

Two police constables sustained injuries in thefirefight, he added.

Taleban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar in a mes-sage last Wednesday called on his loyalists to speedup attacks against government interests andNATO-led troops based in Afghanistan.

Xinhua

US troops kill gunman in fightingin Diyala

An Iraqi woman grievesover her son’s coffin as his

body is collected from ahospital morgue in Baquba.

November was the leastbloody month in Iraq sincethe 2003 US-led invasion,despite grim predictions ofa rise in violence ahead of

elections next year.INTERNET

File photo shows Iraqis walking past destroyed cars after a massive bombattack in front of the Foreign Ministry in Baghdad, Iraq.—INTERNET

An Iraqi man stands

close to upturned tables

and chairs outside a

restaurant following

twin blasts in the

southern city of

Karbala, 110 kilometres

(69 miles) south of the

capital Baghdad, on 25

November.—INTERNET

BAQUBA, 2 Dec—UStroops killed a gunmanand wounded three othersin clashes early onWednesday in a predomi-nantly Kurdish town inthe volatile Diyala Prov-ince northeast of Bagh-dad, a provincial policesource said.

The predawn incidenttook place in the town ofSadiyah, some 130 kmnortheast of Baghdad,when US soldiers whowere carrying out a secu-rity operation clashedwith gunmen guardingtheir own homes in theeastern part of the town,

the source told Xinhua oncondition of anonymity.

The clashes apparentlyerupted mistakenly whenseveral gunmen openedfire on US soldiers in thedark, the source said.

“The gunmen thoughtthe soldiers approachingtheir homes were mili-tants,” he said.

The US soldiers tradedfire with the gunmen be-fore they called in a heli-copter gunship which

bombed a house and to-tally destroyed it, thesource added.

The incident also re-sulted in the wounding ofa US soldier, he said,without telling whetherthere were casualtiesamong civilians.

The source did notgive further details aboutthe incident as the UStroops sealed off thescene.

Xinhua

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BEIJING, 2 Dec—Chinasaid on Tuesday that moredialogue, not sanctions, isneeded to resolve the is-sue of Iran’s nuclear pro-grammes.

Iran announced onSunday that it plans tobuild 10 more uraniumenrichment facilities. Thatbrought quick condemna-tion from officials in Eu-rope and the US, whichhas been pressing Chinato take a stronger stand on

Photo taken on 30 Nov, 2009 shows the Jiuquan wind power base in north-west China’s Gansu Province. Jiuquan wind power base is the first 10 millionkilowatts of wind power base construction project in China. The whole con-struction has gone well since the first phase project started on 8 August in2009. The installed capacity of wind power is estimated to break 2 million

kilowatts this year.—XINHUA

Dancers perform in the Song and Dance Pageant on Affection with the Home-land of Yao Ethnic Group, in the Grand Theatre of Hezhou City, southwestChina’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on 1 Dec, 2009. —XINHUA

NAIROBI, 2 Dec—International naval forces willnever be able to completely secure the vast area ofocean where Somali pirates are hijacking ships off EastAfrica, the commander of the EU Naval Force’s coun-ter-piracy efforts said on Tuesday.

In the latest attack, pirates captured the Greek-flaggedtanker Maran Centaurus on Sunday while it was carry-ing 275,000 metric tons of crude oil, the ship’s ownerssaid. That is equivalent to about 2 million barrels of oilworth roughly $150 million, said Ben Cahill, head ofthe Petroleum Risk Manager service at PFC Energy.

The naval commander said the Maran Centauruswas travelling east of an area that the EU Naval Forceadvises tankers to steer clear of, so that it wouldn’tnecessarily have expected to have been attacked. Pi-rates now hold 11 ships and 264 crew members off thecoast of Somalia, said Rear Adm Peter Hudson.

Internet

In this image made available by NATO in London, on 30 Nov, 2009, Portu-guese Naval Marines from the frigate ‘Alvares Cabral’, guard a group of

Somali pirates, during a joint operation with Seychelles and EU forces in theSomali Basin, off the Seychelles, on 29 Nov, 2009.—INTERNET

More talk, not sanctions,needed on Iran

the issue.A China Foreign Min-

istry spokesman told aregular news conferenceon Tuesday that sanctions“are not the goal” of newUN pressure on Iran.

“We should properlyresolve this issue throughdialogue,” spokesmanQin Gang said. “All par-ties should step up diplo-matic efforts.”

The UN’s nuclearagency on Friday passed

a resolution demandingthat Iran halt all enrich-ment activities — a de-mand from the US, Rus-sia, China and three otherpowers.

The support of Chinaand Russia was key, asMoscow and Beijing havetraditionally either pre-vented new UN SecurityCouncil sanctions on Iranfor its nuclear activities orwatered down their po-tency.

InternetSea too large to stop all pirateattacks

BRUSSELS, 2 Dec—President Barack Obamais asking European mem-bers of NATO to contri-bute up to 10,000 addi-tional troops to the inter-national force in Afghani-stan, officials with themilitary alliance said onTuesday.

A diplomat from a Eu-ropean nation said the

ISLAMABAD, 2 Dec—Atleast one people waskilled as a suicide bombertargeting the PakistaniNavy headquarters hereblew himself up onWednesday at the en-trance of the naval com-plex when challenged,police said.

Inspector General ofIslamabad Bin Yameensaid that it was a suicideattack and the suicidebomber blew himself upat around 13:30 pm localtime (0830 GMT) in sec-tor E-8 of Islamabad.

Police also said fourother people were seri-ously injured in the blast.The injured have beenshifted to PIMS hospitalfor treatment.

Eyewitnesses said thesuicide bomber was ateenager wearing bluejacket.—Xinhua

MANILA, 2 Dec— Coast Guard rescued 519 peopleon board a passenger ship at dawn of Wednesday as itran a ground after being hit by a passing cargo vesselin central Philippines.

“M/V Wonderful Star was hit on her port side ataround 10 pm on Tuesday local time (1400 GMT). Itmissed the course and ran aground at the shallow por-tion of Cebu channel near a major oil depot,” the coun-try’s Coast Guard authorities said in a report.—Xinhua

GENEVA, 2 Dec—Theweak to moderate El Ninoweather system in thetropical Pacific Oceanhas strengthened consid-erably and could createdroughts and floodsaround the world untilMay, a UN agency said onWednesday.

The phenomenon ofwarmer surface tempera-tures in the central andeastern Pacific Ocean canaffect monsoons and hur-ricanes, causing droughtsin some places and floods

Obama asks up to 10,000 European troopstroop figure was includedin an official NATO docu-ment compiled on the ba-sis of information re-ceived from Washingtonbefore Obama’s plannedannouncement later onTuesday of new US troopdeployments.

Paris was being askedto provide 1,500 troops,said the official, who

asked not to be identifiedbecause of the sensitivityof the matter. Apart from30,000 additional troopsObama is expected tosend to Afghanistan, theFrench total would be thesingle largest new contri-bution to the expandedNATO-led force, the offi-cial said.

Internet

Suicide bombinghits Pakistani Navy

headquarters,one killed

Over 500 passengers rescuedafter ships collide

in Philippines

El Nino likely to last until Mayin others, said RupaKumar Kolli of the WorldMeteorological Organiza-tion.

He said it was difficultto predict specific impactsin different regions, be-cause El Nino is not theonly factor that deter-mines weather even if itis one of the most domi-nant.

More accurate re-gional forecasts are pro-vided by national weatherservices that take El Ninointo account, Kolli said,

but he noted that El Ninohas been associated withweaker monsoons in Asia.

The current El Ninostarted in June and be-came moderate by Sep-tember, with sea surfacetemperatures about 1 de-gree Celsius (1.8 Fahren-heit) above normal in theeastern and central Pa-cific, he said.

“During October, al-most all indicators of ElNino became noticeablystronger,” Kolli said.

Internet

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He Guoqiang (front), a member of the Standing Committee of the CommunistParty of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau and also secretary

of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of CPC, inspects theDongfeng Motor Company in Shiyan city of central China’s Hubei Province

on 30 Nov, 2009. — XINHUA

A zookeeper cleans the ambience for Niuniu, anoryx gazella born at the veterinary hospital in the

Zoo of Jinan, east China’s Shandong Province, on1 Dec, 2009. The cub oryx gazella suffered aninjury of broken front legs upon its birth on 29

July, 2009 and has received intensive caretakingby local veterinarians. It has come to convales-cence now and get on a normal life. — XINHUA

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

Jinan International Airport is seen in the fog inJinan, capital of north China’s Shandong

Province, on 2 Dec, 2009. Heavy fog envelopedthe city on Wednesday morning.—XINHUA

China, Japan should team up ontackling global financial crisis

Some 90 world leaders to attendCopenhagen climate change

summit, UN chief saysUNITED NATIONS, 2 Dec — United Nations Secre-

tary-General Ban Ki-moon said here on Tuesday thatat least 90 presidents and prime ministers will be com-ing to Copenhagen for the UN conference on climatechange beginning on 7 Dec.

“Such high-level attendance is a game-changer,”Ban said in an address to the Women’s InternationalForum at the UN Headquarters in New York, addinghe is optimistic about the upcoming crucial UN con-ference in the Danish capital.

He said in recent weeks, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan,Norway, Russia, the European Union and the Repub-lic of Korea have all stepped forward with new, spe-cific proposals for cutting carbon emissions, Ban said.

The United States and China have agreed to worktogether and have announced their emission reductiontargets, he added.—Xinhua

Satellite debris missesInt’l Space Station

BEIJING, 2 Dec — A tiny piece of a defunct Russiansatellite zipped by the International Space Station onTuesday, but was far enough away that outpost’s two-man crew did not have to strap into their lifeboat towait out the close shave, according to media reportson Wednesday.

The debris — a small piece of a Cosmos satelliteless than four inches (10 cm) wide — zoomed by thestation at 1:19 pm EST (1819 GMT) and came lessthan a mile (1 km) of the outpost at its closest point.

“Updates showed that it would not come closeenough to the space station to require any change inthe processes onboard or require precautionary meas-ures,” said NASA spokesperson Kylie Clem.

NASA detected the object too late to move the spacestation clear of the incoming space trash by firing itsthrusters. The space station is currently staffed by twoastronauts, American commander Jeff Williams andRussian flight engineer Maxim Suraev.

The rest of the current ISS crew, known as Expedition21, returned to Earth early on Tuesday. The crew landedtheir Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft on the steppes ofKazakhstan at 2:15 am EST. NASA said all three return-ing crew members were in good condition.—Xinhua

BEIJING, 2 Dec — VicePresident Xi Jinping saidon Wednesday that Chinaand Japan should makeconcerted efforts to copewith the global financialcrisis.

“As major economiesin Asia and the world,China and Japan shouldwork closely togetherand properly deal with

the international finan-cial crisis so as to con-tribute to world eco-nomic and financial sta-bility,” Xi told a delega-tion of Japan’s Associa-tion for the Promotion ofInternational Trade(JAPIT).

Yohei Kono, whoserved as speaker of theJapanese House of Rep-resentatives from No-vember 2003 to Augustthis year, is leading adelegation of about 70on a four-day visit inChina.

Calling JAPIT Japan’smajor economic organiza-tion with regard to China,

Xi said the Japanese busi-ness community had con-tributed to boosting thesound and steady growthof bilateral trade ties.

Japan ranked as thethird biggest partner ofChina, after the EuropeanUnion and the UnitedStates, with bilateral tradevolume from October toNovember this yearstanding at 162.22 billionUS dollars.

Xi called for bothcountries to work to lay asolid foundation forChina-Japan strategicmutually-beneficial rela-tions.

Xinhua

Large number of newborns infectedwith HIV in Dominican RepublicHAVANA, 2 Dec — A to-

tal of 1,200 children areborn to HIV positive moth-ers every year in the Do-minican Republic, 11 per-cent of whom are born withHIV/AIDS, according toofficial figures released onTuesday in Santo Domingo.

Gustavo Rojas Lara, di-rector of the PresidentialCouncil on AIDS(COPRESIDA), said everychild born with HIV repre-sented a failure for the Do-minican medical system,doctors and the society.

According to the officialfigures, 1,300 Dominicanchildren are now livingwith HIV, due to the lackof follow-up care to moth-ers and the prevention ofmother-to-child transmis-sion during delivery.

Twelve care units andnine counselling centres forpeople infected with thedeadly virus were openedon Tuesday to mark theWorld AIDS Day that fallson 1 Dec annually.

Xinhua

SINGAPORE, 2 Dec—Singapore and South Ko-rea on Wednesday signeda Memorandum of Un-derstanding MoU on de-fence cooperation.

According to a state-ment by Singapore’s Min-istry of Defence, the MoUis the first bilateral de-fence agreement to besigned at the ministeriallevel. It seeks tostrengthen bilateral de-fence relations betweenSingapore and South Ko-rea by formalizing exist-ing defence interactionssuch as policy dialogues,exchanges of visits bydefence officials andcross-attendance ofcourses and seminars be-tween the defence estab-lishments of both coun-tries.—Xinhua

Singapore,

S Korea sign MoU

on defence co-op

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NEWS ALBUM

A spectator decorated himself

watches the race of the Yokohama

International Women’s Marathon in

Yokohama, near Tokyo.

Elephants performing at the Frenchcircus Pinder in 2005. The head of

Cirque Pinder called on Monday forclowns, lion-tamers and other staff to

be publicly vaccinated against swine fluunder the big tops where they perform.

People walk on a platform on theflooded Piazza San Marco (St Mark’s

square) in Venice. Much of the historicItalian city of Venice, including St

Mark’s Square, was underwater Mon-day following a meteorological

exepression combined with natural tidewaters, officials said.

US researchers say they’ve deter-mined when people eat might be justas vital to their health as what theyeat.

Scientists at the Salk Institute forBiological Studies say experiments withmice revealed the daily waxing and wan-ing of genes in the liver is mostly con-trolled by food intake and not by thebody’s circadian clock, as conventionalwisdom had it.

“If feeding time determines the ac-

When you eat as important as what you eattivity of a large number of genes com-pletely independent of the circadianclock, when you eat and fast each daywill have a huge impact on your metabo-lism,” said Assistant ProfessorSatchidananda Panda, who led the re-search.

“Our study represents a seminal shiftin how we think about circadian cycles,”Panda added.

“The circadian clock is no longerthe sole driver of rhythms in gene func-tion, instead the phase and amplitudeof rhythmic gene function in the liveris determined by feeding and fastingperiods — the more defined they are,the more robust the oscillations be-come.”

Historians have sounded the alarm after 23,600 registeredcultural sites apparently “disappeared” in three years.

The sites were largely erased because of development -swept aside by construction work and infrastructure projectsincluding reservoir and road projects — says a national sur-vey carried out by the State Administration of Cultural Her-itage (SACH), the country’s top relics protection authority.

SACH has been working on the inventory since 2007 andhopes to have a full list of China’s historical sites - includingancient tombs, temples and architecture - by 2011.

As of the end of October, 776,200 historical sites had beensurveyed and added to the list, said Shan Jixiang, director ofSACH. The number of surveyed sites bettered the total in2007 by 550,300.

23,600 cultural sites “disappeared” in three yearsPrincess Ferial, the daughter of Egypt’s last King, was

buried in a Cairo mosque after a low-key funeral attendedby her relatives.

The princess died in a Geneva hospital on Sunday after along battle with stomach cancer.

Born in 1938 in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria,Princess Ferial was the daughter of King Farouk who ruledEgypt from 1936 until the 1952 revolution.

Her half-brother Ahmed Fouad, King Farouk’s only sur-viving child, attended the funeral in the Rifai mosque, wheremembers of the royal family are buried.

The princess was the King’s eldest child from his firstwife Farida.

She lived in Switzerland until her death.

Egyptian princess buried in Cairo

HANOI, 2 Dec—Re-mains believed to be thoseof four American service-men killed during the Vi-etnam War were loadedon a plane on Tuesday andflown back to the UnitedStates for identification.

US honour guards car-ried the four Americanflag-draped aluminumcases holding the remainsonto the US militarytransport plane at Noi BaiInternational Airport inHanoi. The remains wereheaded to a lab in Hawaiifor forensic testing.

One set of remains was

HANOI, 2 Dec—Viet-nam, the world’s second-biggest rice exporter, saidon Wednesday it needshelp to safeguard theworld’s food supply fromthe consequences of glo-bal warming.

“The rice bowl of Vi-etnam will be severely af-fected” without action,Nguyen Khac Hieu,deputy director general ofthe government’s climate

A farmer harvests rice near Hanoi. Vietnam, theworld’s second-biggest rice exporter, has said itneeds help to safeguard the world’s food supply

from the consequences of global warming.INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 2 Dec—Hours before President BarackObama announced his decision on Tuesday to send moretroops to Afghanistan, activists from labour and anti-war organizations gathered in front of the Federal Build-ing in Los Angeles to oppose his war strategy.

“Money for jobs, not war,” many protestors chanted.John Parker, coordinator of the International Ac-

tion Centre, said that by sending 30,000 additionaltroops to Afghanistan, the US would pay an additional40 billion dollars a year, which should instead be spentto create more jobs for Americans.—Xinhua

HOUSTON, 2 Dec—A soldier at the US Fort HoodArmy base, accused of going absent without leave af-ter making threatening comments, was detained onTuesday, Dallas police said.

Police officers arrested the 21-year-old private inDallas, Texas, at the direction of military authoritiesand are holding him for military police. After a friendof the solider reported the soldier’s alleged commentsto authorities, Fort Hood officials contacted Dallaspolice, police spokesman Andy Harvey said.

“They were very concerned about it, and from whatI understand, they were, might have been, very threat-ening in nature, and so I’m sure with what happenedthere recently, they were very sensitive to that,”Harvey said. An unloaded shotgun was found in thesoldier’s vehicle, according to police.

The matter is under investigation by Army person-nel, said Chad Carroll, a spokeswoman for the 1stCalvary Division headquarters at Fort Hood.—Xinhua

Global warming threatens food supplychange agency, told re-porters before key globalclimate talks next week inCopenhagen.

“It’s not only for Viet-nam’s sake but also for theworld’s food safety,” saidHieu, calling for help toenable the country to adapt.

He will be part of Vi-etnam’s delegation at the7-18 December confer-ence tasked with framinga new deal for tacklingglobal warming and itsimpact beyond 2012,when existing commit-ments under the KyotoProtocol expire.

Vietnam is planning

for a one-metre (3.3 feet)rise in sea levels by 2100,which would inundateabout 31,000 square kilo-metres (12,400 squaremiles) of land — an areaabout the size of Belgium— unless dykes and dra-inage systems are streng-thened, says a United Na-tions discussion paper onclimate change in Viet-nam, presented at a meet-ing on Wednesday.

“The inundation threatis greatest in the MekongDelta,” the country’s mainrice production and exportarea, the paper said.

Internet

US soldier arrested aftermaking threats

Suspected US troop remains sent homefrom Vietnamrecovered by joint exca-vation teams in the north-ern province of Ninh Binhover the past month. Theother three — one fromnorthern Lang Son Pro-vince and the others fromthe Central Highlands,were handed over by Vi-etnamese citizens, saidRon Ward, spokesman forthe US Joint POW/MIAAccounting Commanddetachment in Hanoi.

Ward said all four setsof remains are believed tobelong to American serv-icemen who died in planecrashes.

“The relationship wecurrently enjoy betweenthe United States and Vi-etnam was originally builtusing the MIA issue as abridge,” he said. “Now, ofcourse, we have a verydynamic relationship, butthe MIA issue continuesto be a very important partof our bilateral relation-ship.”—Internet

Antiwar activists inLos Angeles oppose

Afghanistan troop increase

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The 62nd Sacred Tipitakadhara TipitakakovidaSelection Examination in the year 2010

Ba Sein (Religious Affairs)It is known that the Union of Myanmar has been

a predominantly Theravada Buddhist nation in theworld for nearly one thousand years, and over (90) percent of nation’s population has taken faith in TheravadaBuddhism since then. Furthermore, the Union ofMyanmar has been recognized as a permanent higherlearning centre of genuine Theravada Buddhism notonly in the Buddhist world but also throughout theworld. According to historical records of Buddhism,the Fifth and Sixth Great Buddhist Councils (Synods)were successfully convened in the Union of Myanmarwith a view to purification, perpetuation andpropagation of the Buddha Sasana (the Buddha’steachings) all over the world. The Sixth Great BuddhistCouncil, which was attended and participated byMaha Theras from Five Theravada Buddhist Nations,Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Myanmar,was successfully held in the Union of Myanmar in1954.

In order to carefully preserve genuine TheravadaBuddhism, a great number of Buddhist MonasticInstitutions and Learning Centres of BuddhistScriptures have been established in the Union ofMyanmar for years. For the time being, the twoPariyatti Sasana Universities, one in Yangon andanother in Mandalay have been so far established topromote and propagate the Theravada Buddhismthroughout the world. At present, Buddhist monkstudents are attending these two universities, and ifthey have got through the prescribed examinationsheld by these Universities, they will be conferredTakkasila Dhammacariya Degree (Bachelor of Arts)in Buddhism and Tekkasila Maha DhammacariyaDegree (Master of Arts) in Buddhism respectively.And now, the International Theravada BuddhistMissionary University, the very first one in theBuddhist world has been also already established inthe Union of Myanmar in order to propagate, promoteand flourish genuine Theravada Buddhism throughoutthe world, and to share the knowledge of Buddhismboth in theory and practice with the peoples of the

world to promote their happiness and moral well-being.

According to the Pariyatti (learning canonicalTexts) Education System of the Union of Myanmar,there are seven kinds of religious examinationsincluding the Sacred Tipitakadhara TipitakakovidaSelection Examination yearly held by the Ministry ofReligious Affairs of the Government of the Union ofMyanmar. The seven kinds of religious examinationsare as follows:—

(1) Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida SelectionExamination

(2) Dhammacariya Examination(3) Pathamagyi Examination(4) Pathamalat Examination(5) Pathamange Examination(6) Abhidhamma/Visudhimagga Examination

(only for Laymen and Nuns)(7) Five Nikaya ExaminationOut of these seven kinds of religious examinations,

the Sacred Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida SelectionExamination has been separately held by the Ministryof Religious Affairs of the Government of the Unionof Myanmar since fifty-nine years ago. Buddhist monkcandidates who wish to appear for this SacredTipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinationmust have passed at least the Pathamagyi Examination.In fact, the Sacred Tipitakadhara TipitakakovidaSelection Examination is quite different from otherreligious examinations because the candidates have totake (33) days to sit for this examination. They have totake both oral examination consists of Pali Texts of8026 pages of Tipitaka canons and the writtenexamination consists of Pali Texts, Athakatha(Commentaries) and Tika (Sub-Commentaries) of9934 pages of Tipitaka canons respectively. Only thecandidates who have got through both oral and writtenexaminations will be presented the Title ofTipitakadhara Tipitakakovida (the Title of ReligiousHeroes). Up to now, only nine outstanding membersof Sangha (Bhikkhus) were presented the Title of

Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida within over 59 years’duration of the Sacred Tipitakadhara TipitakakovidaSelection Examination.

It is learnt that many members of Sanghathroughout the country appeared for the SacredTipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinationfrom year to year. However, most of them were notsuccessful. In fact, the Sacred TipitakadharaTipitakakovida Selection Examination is the mostdifficult of the religious examinations which areyearly held in the Union of Myanmar. Such SacredTipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinationcan be held only in the Union of Myanmar which hascarefully preserved the genuine Theravada Buddhismfor nearly one thousand years. It is learnt that suchexamination cannot be held in other TheravadaBuddhist nations.

Members of Sangha, multifarious Buddhist peopleand Government of the State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil of the Union of Myanmar, hand in hand, arestriving to propagate and flourish the genuineTheravada Buddhism not only in homeland but alsoabroad. We all Buddhists know that the Sasana is ofthe three kinds, viz (1) Pariyatti Sasana (Learning theBuddha’s teaching), (2) Patipatti Sasana (Practicalapplication of the Buddha’s teaching) and (3)Pativedha Sasana (Realization of the Buddha’steaching). Out of them, the Pariyatti Sasana is themost important one which mainly leads to thepurification, perpetuation and propagation of theBuddha Sasana (the noble teachings of the Buddha).The aims and objectives of holding the SacredTipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinationare to preserve, promote and flourish the genuineTheravada Buddhism all over the world.

The 62nd Sacred TipitakadharaTipitakakovida Selection Examination in

the year 2010We all Buddhists throughout the country are

very pleased and honoured to learn that the 62nd

Sacred Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida SelectionExamination will be held at Mahapasana Cave (GreatCave) in the precinct of the Siri Mangala Kaba AyePagoda, Yangon, Myanmar, and it will take (33)days starting from 13 December 2009. Altogether220 entitled candidates of members of sangha whohave been enrolled throughout the Union of Myanmarwill sit for the Sacred Tipitakadhara TipitakakovidaSelection Examination of year 2010. Lodging andmessing (four kinds of requisites) for candidateswill be provided by the Ministry of ReligiousAffairs, other donors and well-wishers throughout(33) days. It is further learnt that devotees, well-wishers and other people are cordially invited tovisit the Mahapasana Cave (examination centre)for paying profound respect to the members ofSangha who are sitting for the 62nd SacredTipitakadhara Tipitakakovida SelectionExamination of year 2010.#

Many members of Sangha throughout the country appearedfor the Sacred Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida SelectionExamination from year to year. However, most of them werenot successful. In fact, the Sacred TipitakadharaTipitakakovida Selection Examinations is the most difficult ofthe religious examinations which are yearly held in the Unionof Myanmar. Such Sacred Tipitakadhara TipitakakovidaSelection Examination can be held only in the Union ofMyanmar which has carefully preserved the genuineTheravada Buddhism for nearly one thousand years.

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 3 December, 2009

Coord meeting of Sports Ministry heldNAY PYI TAW, 2

Dec—The work coordi-nation meeting of theMinistry of Sports washeld at the ministry hereyesterday. It was attendedby Minister for SportsBrig-Gen Thura Aye

Myint.It was also attended

by Director-General UThaung Htaik of Sportsand Physical EducationDepartment, directors,heads of departments andothers.

In his address, theminister called forselecting the athletes,nurturing the newgeneration youths,holding sportscompetitions constantlyto turn out qualified

athletes, striving to securevictory in XXV SEAGames to be held inVientiane of Laos, puttingattempts to recruitoutstanding athletes bycollecting at ground leveland having disciplines soas to be good athletes.

Next, the director-general called on sportsofficers to holdcompetitions, to selectnew youths and tomaintain sports groundand gymnasiums.

The deputy director-general (Minister Office)and directors discussedon submission presentedby the principals of Sportsand Physical EducationInstitutes (Yangon andMandalay) and sportsofficers.—MNA

EP-2 Minister receivesChinese guests

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—Minister for ElectricPower No. (2) Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint receivedChairman of Northern International (Holding) Co LtdMr Sun Jian Rong and party of the People's Republic ofChina at the hall of the ministry here yesterday morning.

They discussed matters on enhancingcooperation in future grid and power plant projects tobe implemented by the ministry.—MNA

Senior

General

Than Shwe

accepts

credentials

of newly-

accredited

Austrian

Ambas-

sador

Dr

Johannes

Peterlik.

(News on

page 16)

MNA

Senior

General

Than Shwe

accepts

credentials

of newly-

accredited

Finnish

Ambas-

sador Ms

Sirpa

Maenpaa.

(News on

page 1)

MNA

Senior General Than Shwe receives newly-accredited Ambassador-Head of Delegation of Commission of European Communities Mr David

Lipman. (News on page 1)—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint addresses coord meeting.—MNA

Basic English SpeakingCourse opened

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—Ministry of Hotels andTourism opened the No. 3/2009 Basic English SpeakingCourse at the ministry here this morning and theopening ceremony was attended by Minister for Hotelsand Tourism Maj-Gen Soe Naing.

A total of 31 trainees who — 25 from Ministryof Hotels and Tourism and 6 from Hotel Zone areattending the 8-week course.—MNA

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M-CCM members meet tofight three major diseases

NA Y PY I TA W, 2 Dec—Minister forAgriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Ooreceived Resident Representative of United NationsDevelopment Programme Mr Bishow B Parajuli atthe Irrigation Department in Yankin Township,

A&I Minister receives resident representative of UNDP

Yangon this morning. They discussed matters onboosting production in the agricultural sector.

The meeting was also attended by officials ofthe ministry.

MNA

YANGON, 2 Dec—Theprize presentation ofParkroyal Youth ArtAward 2009 titled“Myanma Beauty andScenic Sights” paintingcontest was held atParkroyal Hotel, here, on27 November. The judges,responsible persons ofParkroyal Yangon, NAFA

Prize presenting ceremony of ParkroyalYouth Art Award 2009 held

and RV Centre Yangon,guests and journalistsattended the ceremony.

General Manager MrTeddy Chia of ParkroyalYangon made an openingspeech, and responsiblepersons presented first,second, third and honoraryprizes to the winners.

Mr S Chandrasekaran

of Nanyan Academy ofFine Art of Singapore actedas chief judge together withjudges Myanmar artists USonny Nyein, U Tin Win,U Sein Myo Myint and UKyaw Thaung. This year’spainting contest wassponsored by the Academyand RV CentreInternational.—MNA

PBANRDA Ministry holds coord meeting

Minister Col Thein Nyunt addresses coordination meeting.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—The 6th Myanmar CountryCoordination Mechanism(M-CCM) Meeting forcombating three majordiseases (AIDS, TB andMalaria) was held at themeeting hall of theMinistry of Health hereyesterday noon.

Chairman of M-CCMMinister for Health DrKyaw Myint delivered anopening speech at themeeting.

It was also attendedby Deputy Ministers forHealth Dr Mya Oo and DrPaing Soe, directors-general, deputy directors-general, M-CCMmembers, projectmanagers of three diseasescontrol projects, officials,resident representatives ofUN Agencies, socialorganizations at home andabroad and responsiblepersons.

Deputy Director-General Dr Saw Lwin readout the decisions of the 5th

M-CCM Meeting andsought the approval. Theattendees discussed thereports on the decision ofGlobal Fund related to theassisting fund to Myanmar.

Next, the projectmanagers explained theprojects for combating

AIDS, TB and Malaria andresponded the queriesraised by M-CCMmembers.

Responsible Personsfrom Save the Children andUnited Nations Office forProject Services (UNOPS)who may take part as FundAdministration Represen-tatives in assisting fund byGlobal Fund explained therelated matters and theattendees discussed them.

The meeting came toan end with the closingremarks by Chairman ofM-CCM Minister DrKyaw Myint.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 2Dec—The Ministry forProgress of Border Areasand National Races andDevelopment Affairs held

National Races andDevelopment Affairs ColThein Nyunt delivered anaddress.

Deputy Minister for

Progress of Border Areasand National Races andDevelopment Affairs ColTin Ngwe also gave aspeech.

Heads of departmentunder the ministrypresented reports.

Deputy directors-general of theDevelopment AffairsDepartment assessed thereports.

The minister gaveconcluding remarks.

Between 1988 and theend of November 2009,the total length of urbanand rural roads leaped

from 5,936 miles and twofurlongs to 41,031 milesand seven furlongs.

And up to 30November 2009, threearid zones got 8,042 ruralwater supply facilities,and other states anddivisions, 14,979, totaling23,012.

Up to the end of2008-2009 financialyear, the DevelopmentAffairs Department built323 miles and fivefurlongs of gravel roads,184 miles and onefurlong of tarred roads,and 783 bridges,conduits and culverts inInter-District Road (1);160 miles and sixfurlongs of gravel roadsand 738 bridges,conduits and culverts inInter-District Road (2);and it is now building 28miles of earth roads and50 miles of gravel roadsin Inter-District Road(3).—MNA

General Manager Mr Teddy Chia of Parkroyal Yangon extendsgreetings at prize presentation ceremony.

MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Htay Oo receives Resident Representative of United Nations DevelopmentProgramme Mr Bishow B Parajuli.—MNA

Minister Dr Kyaw Myint addresses 6th M-CCM meeting.—MNA

a coordination meeting atits assembly hall here on30 November.

Minister for Progressof Border Areas and

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 3 December, 2009

Prime Minister General TheinSein meets Vietnamese

Vice-Minister of NationalDefence

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—General Thein Sein, PrimeMinister of the Union ofMyanmar, met Vice-Minister ofNational Defence LieutenantGeneral Nguyen Chi Vinh ofthe Socialist Republic ofVietnam at the GovernmentOffice here this morning.

Construction Dy Minister inspects Pyay-Paukkhaung-Toungoo Road

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—DeputyMinister for Construction Brig-GenMyint Thein inspected upgrading of thePyay-Paukkhaung-Toungoo Road on 28November, extending the hilly road andshoulder, and tarring by Pyay DistrictSpecial Group (Road)-7 and SpecialGroup (Building)-3 on 29 Novemberand construction of new roads betweenmile post No. 105/6 and No. 107/3, and

between mile post No. 102/0 and No.102/5 on 30 November.

Pyay-Paukkhaung-Toungoo roadsection is being undertaken by nineDistrict Special Groups for smoothtransportation.—MNA

* 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 Desire

Present at the call togetherwith Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein were DeputyMinister for Defence Maj-GenAye Myint, Deputy Ministerfor Foreign Affairs U MaungMyint, Deputy Minister forNational Planning andEconomic Development Col

Prime Minister General Thein Sein shakes

hands with Vietnamese Vice-Minister of

National Defence Lieutenant General

Nguyen Chi Vinh.

MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein receives Vietnamese Vice-Minister of National

Defence Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh.—MNA

Deputy Minister Brig-Gen MyintThein inspects Pyay-Paukkhaung-

Toungoo Road.—CONSTRUCTION

Thurein Zaw and departmentalheads.

The visiting vice-ministerwas accompanied byVietnamese Ambassador toMyanmar Mr Chu Cong Phungand Military Attaché SeniorColonel Nguyen Van Vui andofficials.—MNA

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GM sales fall 2.2 percent in November

A view

of the

General

Motors

headquar-

ters at the

Renais-

sance

Centre in

Detroit, on

25 Aug,

2009.

INTERNET

DETROIT, 2 Dec—Gen-eral Motors Co (GM.UL)posted a 2.2 percent dropin US sales in Novemberfrom a year earlier,weighed down by brandsit plans to divest or close,and said it would raiseproduction in NorthAmerica by about 75 per-cent in the first quarter.

Sales totalled 151,427vehicles in November,down from 154,877 a yearearlier, GM said.

Sales in the Chevrolet,Cadillac, GMC and Buick

brands that GM is retain-ing rose 5.6 percent to139,672, while sales in itsother brands fell 47.9 per-cent to 11,755, it said.Sales in the four corebrands accounted for 94percent of retail sales.

The results were notadjusted for two fewerselling days in Novembercompared with the year-ago period.

GM said it planned tobuild 650,000 cars andtrucks in the first quarterof 2010 in North America,

up 75 percent from thesame period in 2009 whenthe automaker was in a fi-nancial crisis and slippingtoward a reorganization inbankruptcy.

The automaker, whichemerged from a govern-ment-funded bankruptcyin July, said the US autoindustry’s annualizedsales for the month ofNovember were expectedto be about 11.1 millionvehicles including me-dium and heavy dutytrucks.—Internet

Geely taps China banks to back$1.8 billion Volvo deal

A worker at theDaimler AG plantassembles C-class

Mercedes-Benz carsin Sindelfingen.

German luxury carmaker Daimler saidon Wednesday thatit will manufactureits popular C Classautomobiles at a

US plant inTuscaloosa,Alabama.INTERNET

Italian unemployment reaches itshighest peak since 2004

ROME, 2 Dec—Italianunemployment rate roseto 8 percent in October,reaching its highest peaksince November 2004,according to data releasedon Tuesday by nationalstatistics office Istat.

According to Istat, thetotal number of joblesspeople in the country isover 2 million.

In one year, since Octo-ber 2008, more than

284,000 jobs were lost.Youth unemployment hasreached 26.9 percent.

Recent economic dataissued by Italy’s center-right government hasshowed that the country israpidly recovering fromthe global downturn. Pro-ductivity levels have risenbut unemployment re-mains one of those long-standing negative indica-tors.

In order to tackle thesituation, the governmenthas extended unemploy-ment benefits and socialincentives to many fami-lies.

Prime Minister SilvioBerlusconi in recentweeks has repeatedly ex-pressed optimism on theeconomy’s state.

“This is much betterthan the European aver-age,” said Italian Eco-nomic Development Min-ister Claudio Scajolacommenting Istat’s report.

Internet

Mexico City’s Zocalo plaza’s buildings are lit inred as part of World AIDS Day celebrations in

Mexico City, on 1 Dec, 2009.—INTERNETHONG KONG, 2 Dec —

Geely, the Chinesecarmaker picked as the pre-ferred bidder for Ford Mo-tor’s (F.N) Volvo unit, isseeking at least $1 billionin loans from Chinesebanks to finance its $1.8billion bid, sources said onTuesday. Home-grownGeely, which means“lucky” in Chinese, is hun-gry for modern and inno-vative technologies fromthe Swedish brand to up-grade its car lineup and tapthe auto market in China,

the world’s biggest.At least three major

Chinese banks includingBank of China (3988.HK)(601988.SS), China Con-struction Bank (0939.HK)(601939.SS) and Export-Import Bank of China hadagreed to extend loans toZhejiang Geely HoldingGroup, said the bankingsources briefed on the plan.

“Money is not a prob-lem for Geely,” said asource. “They definitelyhave strong support fromChinese banks and there

are a number of private eq-uity funds queuing up toinvest in Geely.”

The sources asked notto be identified as they werenot authorized to speak tothe media.

Export-Import Bank ofChina is a policy lenderwholly owned by the Chi-nese government and di-rectly led by the cabinet.Bank of China is China’stop foreign exchangelender. China ConstructionBank is the country’s No1property lender.—Internet

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL’S

MESSAGE ON THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF

PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

3 DECEMBER 2009

UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNITES

The theme of this year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities is“making the Millennium Development Goals disability-inclusive”. As weprepare for next September’s MDG summit, we must ensure that our efforts areall-inclusive and improve living standards and quality of life for everyone. Weare all vulnerable to disability, temporary or permanent, especially as we growolder. In most countries, at least 1 person in 10 is disabled by physical, mentalor sensory impairment. A quarter of the global population is directly affected bydisability, as caregivers or family members. Persons with disabilities encountermany disadvantages. They are often among the poorest and most excludedmembers of society. Yet they routinely show tremendous resilience, and achievegreat heights in all spheres of human endeavour. Experience shows that whenpersons with disabilities are empowered to participate and lead the process ofdevelopment, the entire community opens up. Their involvement createsopportunities for everyone with or without a disability. The message for theMillennium Development Goals is clear: putting persons with disabilities andtheir communities at the heart of our efforts is a proven way to advance thedevelopment agenda.

The United Nations advocates for universal human rights and development forall as fundamental goals and as essential foundations for peace, security andprosperity. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons withDisabilities, which entered into force in 2008, is one of our most important toolsto advance this cause. We must continue to work for its implementation and itsuniversality. On this International Day, let us pledge to break down the barriers toparticipation and access which persons with disabilities face in their daily lives.Let us empower them as an indispensable means for achieving the MillenniumDevelopment Goals and development for all.—UNIC

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Government of the Union of MyanmarMinistry of Health

Department of Medical ScienceInviting application for Refresher Courses

1. Refresher courses leading to obtaining SAMA forMedical graduates and THAKHA for dental gradu-ates (1/2010) will be conducted at the Universities ofmedicine and Universities of Dental Medicine inJanuary, 2010.

2. Those who have completed the internship beforeDecember, 2008 and have not had SAMA orTHAKHA are eligible to apply.

Note: Those in government service at present neednot apply.

3. Closing date -22.12.20094. Place for application- University one has graduated.5. Enquiries can be directed to Department of Medical

Science, Nay Pyi Taw and respective Universities.Department of Medical Science

One dead, two woundedin Mexico City

Starbucks shootout

Police stand guard

outside a Starbucks

coffee shop in Mexico

City on 1 Dec, 2009.

INTERNET

MEXICO CITY, 2 Dec—Three gunmen inside aStarbucks in Mexico Cityon Tuesday shot and killeda man identified in localnews reports as a formerpolice chief, and woundedtwo other people, authori-ties said.

“At around 11:30 am(1730 GMT) there was ashootout in a Starbucks...resulting in one mankilled, another manwounded and a womanalso wounded,” an officialwith the city’s AttorneyGeneral’s Office said.

The dead man was iden-tified simply as EdgarBayardo del Villar, withPublic Security officialstelling AFP there was noevidence to substantiatenews reports he was aformer police chief.

But local media saidBayardo had been sackedas Mexico City police

chief for allegedly takingbribes from a drug cartel.He then went into a wit-ness protection pro-gramme and lately workedwith authorities in uncov-ering corrupt governmentofficials. According to theReforma daily, Bayardowas living in the UnitedStates under the protectionof the US Drug Enforce-ment Administration, butreturned to Mexico City inMarch and was placed un-der heavy military escortto testify in a drug traffick-ing trial.—Internet

Italian police saythey broke up

major mob clanROME, 2 Dec— Italian

police have broken up amajor Mafia clan, arresting74 people and seizing busi-nesses, land, race horsesand a London-based onlinebetting company, officialssaid on Tuesday. Localpoliticians and business-men in the southern Italiancity of Bari were amongthose implicated as part ofa three-year operation,called “Domino,” for col-laborating with the Parisiclan, police said.—Internet

The best time to planta tree was 20 years ago.Second best time is now.

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South Africa expandsAIDS treatment for

babies, mothersPRETORIA, 2 Dec — South African President Jacob

Zuma on Tuesday unveiled a dramatic expansion intreatment for pregnant women and babies with HIV,sealing a turnaround in the AIDS fight in the world’sworst-affected country.

Zuma said that all babies with HIV will receivetreatment at public facilities from next April, whilewomen will receive care earlier in their pregnanciesin a bid to prevent transmission to newborns.

He also announced that he was preparing to take aHIV test himself, and urged the public to do the same.

His speech cemented a sharp break with past poli-cies, when the previous government of Thabo Mbekiquestioned the link between HIV and AIDS and pro-moted garlic and beetroot instead of medication.

“This decision will contribute significantly towardsthe reduction of infant mortality over time,” Zuma saidin a nationally televised speech to mark World AIDSDay. An estimated 5.7 million of South Africa’s 48million people have HIV, including 280,000 children,according to the UN AIDS agency.—Internet

Lung cancer proteinsmay be drug targets

BOSTON, 2 Dec— US scientists say they’ve identifiedproteins that allow them to distinguish between cancerand normal cells with 97 percent accuracy.

Researchers from Boston University School ofMedicine and the Boston University BiomedicalEngineering Department said in addition they’vedeveloped a computational strategy to identify keybiological pathways that are active in cancer and“dormant” in normal cells.

The scientists said their findings will ultimatelylead to the development of drugs specifically aimed toinhibit such cancer proteins.

Much of the cellular machinery involved with suchbiological processes is controlled by a command controland communication system called signal transduction,which is mainly controlled by a process calledphosphorylation. When a protein is phosphorylated iteither becomes active or repressed depending on itsspecial function.

Internet

Climate change may be direfor Nigeria

Small faults may reduce largequake risks

The picture taken on 1 Dec, 2009 shows a damaged van at the traffic accidentsite in Mulan County, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. At least six

people have been confirmed dead after a mini-bus collided with the van in theprovince, local officials said Tuesday. The accident happened on Hazhao Road

in Liuhe Township, Mulan County, at about 7:40 am. —XINHUA

DR Congo reports ten studentsdie of unknown disease

KINSHASA, 2 Dec — Tenstudents at MaikazoInstitute in Tshopo districtin Kisangani, the main townin Oriental province of theDemocratic Republic ofCongo (DRC), died in oneweek from an unknowndisease, with meningitis-like symptoms, the Congo-lese radio reported onTuesday.

The last case of deathcame on Tuesdaymorning at the Mangobogeneral hospital, wherethree of these studentshad been admitted sinceSaturday, when nineothers died a few hoursafter they had been takento the hospital, Dr. CecileEdambulu, chief medicaldoctor in Tshopo zone,told the radio.

“The children hadsymptoms of headache,fever and convulsions.Upon arrival at the healthcenter, they died.

The symptoms thatthey showed made usthink they were sufferingfrom meningitis,”Edambulu explained.According to hospitalsources, similar caseswere identified inMakiso and Mangobodistricts in theneighborhood ofTshopo. The childrenhad been taken toMangobo and Kisanganihospitals, they reported.

Xinhua

People walk strug-gling for space betweenpublic transport buses

and trucks at theburstling Oshodi busstop in Lagos in 2006.The impacts of climate

change on Nigeriacould be dire for the

economy and ecology,Environment MinisterJohn Odey has warned

in Abuja.INTERNET

Harper’s first visit to Chinato thaw ties

ABUJA, 2 Dec— Theimpacts of climatechange on Nigeria couldbe dire for the economyand ecology, and thiscould lead to civil unrest,Environment MinisterJohn Odey warned onTuesday in Abuja.

Although climatechange is a global issue,“Nigeria is one of thecountries that would bemost impacted... becauseof its size, population,rain-fed agriculture andvariable climatic zones,”Odey told a public forum.

“The impacts on oursociety and the economywill be huge and cross-cutting,” Odey said at the

forum to brief journalistson the reports of a gov-ernment panel on climatechange.

Droughts, desert en-croachment, floods, ero-sion and storms are likelyto increase in frequencyand intensity, he said.

Other possible effectsof climate change in Ni-geria are changes in rain-fall patterns that couldimpact on food produc-tion, aggravation of soiland coastal erosion, saidOdey.

“The consequences ofthese impacts can be direand will invariably resultin population movements,climate change refugees,

with resultant civil unrestwith attendant securityimplications,” he stated.

Nigeria has a popula-tion of about 150 million,the highest in Africa.

Internet

BEIJING, 2 Dec — Canadian PrimeMinister Stephen Harper begins a four-day visit to China on Wednesday forwhat Chinese analysts are describingas a fence-mending trip to repair tiesdamaged by Ottawa.

China-Canada relations have souredover a series of disagreements, espe-cially since Harper’s Conservativegovernment took office nearly fouryears ago with a harder line on Chi-na’s human rights record.

The trip, Harper’s first to China, ap-pears aimed at overcoming negativesentiment on both sides. Harper is tomeet with both President Hu Jintao andPremier Wen Jiabao for discussions onstrengthening trade and overall ties.

Chinese commentators have por-trayed the trip as an act of contrition byHarper, who angered Beijing in 2006when Canada granted the exiled Tibetanspiritual leader the Dalai Lamahonourary citizenship. —Internet

GRANADA, 2 Dec —Spanish scientists saythey’ve found smallertectonic faults close tolarger faults in the Baeticmountain range canreduce the risk of majorearthquakes.

The researchersstudying recent, activedeformations in the Baeticmountains, located insouthern and easternSpain, say they haveshown the activity ofsmaller tectonic

structures close to largerfaults in the IberianPeninsula partially offsetsthe risk of earthquakes.

“There are large faultsin the eastern part of theBaetic mountain range,which are active andoccasionally causemoderate, low magnitudeearthquakes,” saidAntonio Pedrera, leadauthor of the study and aresearcher at theUniversity of Granada.

“Although we can’t

exclude the possibilitythat these direction faultscould cause earthquakesof greater magnitude, wehave shown that theformation of smalltectonic structures helpsto partially relax theenergy associated with theconvergence of plates, andreduces seismic activityin these larger faults,”Pedrera said.

The research waspublished recently in theJournal of QuaternaryScience.—Internet

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S P O R T SVilla prove too much for Pompey

Ireland World Cup hopesfinally snuffed out

CAPE TOWN, 2 Dec—Any slim hopes Ireland stillharboured of competing at the 2010 World Cup werefinally snuffed out on Tuesday with FIFA saying therewas no way they would take part as a 33rd team.

In a desperate last ditch bid to salvage a place in thisweek’s draw, the Irish FA approached FIFA several daysago and asked to be admitted as a 33rd team with an-other side, possibly Costa Rica, being added as a 34th.FIFA president Sepp Blatter revealed this week that itwould be put to an extraordinary meeting of world’sfootball’s governing body here on Wednesday.

But FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke madeclear there was no way that Ireland would be playing.

“We have to be clear that Ireland will not be in-vited to play at the 2010 World Cup,” he said at apress conference here ahead of the draw on Friday.

“There was a request made by the Irish FA whenwe met them in Zurich a few days ago.

“They asked the question but the FIFA presidentwas very clear in saying it was impossible because ifwe did so then way not Costa Rica and others.”

“We told them that because they were making aspecial request that we would bring it to the attentionof the FIFA executive committee members and it iswhat we will do tomorrow.

Internet

Manchester United’sDarron Gibson, right,reacts after scoring hissecond goal againstTottenham during theirEnglish League Cupsoccer match at OldTrafford Stadium, Man-chester, England, on 1Dec, 2009.—INTERNET

Man United, Aston Villa intoLeague Cup semifinals

LONDON, 2 Dec—Defending champion ManchesterUnited advanced to the League Cup semifinals Tues-day by beating Tottenham 2-0, while Aston Villa won4-2 over Portsmouth.

Man United midfielder Darron Gibson struck twicein the first half in a rematch of last season’s final thatwas won by United in a penalty shootout.

Anderson was the creator of the 17th-minute open-ing goal, surging forward before cutting inside to laythe ball into the path of Gibson, whose low shot creptinto the corner of the goal. The second came at theend of a flowing move started by Park Ji-sung andcontinued by Dimitar Berbatov, who picked outWelbeck and played a one-two with Gibson. TheNorthern Ireland midfielder struck high into the netfrom the edge of the area.—Internet

Aston Villa’s midfielderStewart Downing.

PORTSMOUTH, 2 Dec—Aston Villa booked theirplace in the semi-finals ofthis season’s EnglishLeague Cup with a 4-2win away to PremierLeague strugglers Port-smouth at Fratton Parkhere on Tuesday.

Villa captain StiliyanPetrov put through hisown net in the 10thminute to give Pompey,the top flight’s bottomclub, the lead.

But minutes later anyjoy home fans might havebeen feeling was curtailedwhen England strikerEmile Heskey equalisedfor Villa.

And before the half-hour mark Pompey’s Pre-mier League rivals werein front through James

Milner. Stewart Downing,the former Middles-brough wing, marked hisfirst start for Villa by seal-ing the Midlands club’swin 16 minutes from time.

Substitute NwankwoKanu pulled a goal backfor Pompey in the 87thminute but a minute fromtime Young scored Villa’sfourth.—Internet

Schweinsteiger escapesmillion euro lawsuit

Germany’s midfielderBastian Schweinsteiger

runs with the ballduring the friendly

football match GermanyVs Ivory Coast in

Gelsenkirchen, westernGermany in November.Schweinsteiger has hada claim against him fordamages worth nearly a

million euros thrownout by a court.

INTERNET

Panathinaikos goalie says he was hit by airgun pellets in derby

ATHENS, 2 Dec—Panathinaikos Athens goalie Alexandros Tzorvas Tuesday tolda Piraeus prosecutor that he was the target of air gun pellets during Sunday’sderby match at Olympiakos Piraeus.

Tzorvas, who is also the Greek national team goalkeeper, told the prosecutorthat he was hit several times and showed marks on his body and presented medi-cal reports.

He said he had informed referee Anastasios Kakos about the attacks but thatthe official did not record the incidents in his match report.

The prosecutor has requested Olympiakos to provide security camera footagein order to find the culprit.

Panathinaikos on Tuesday sent a detailed letter of protest to the Greek leagueabout the incident which also included a penknife being thrown on the pitch aswell as numerous flares.

Internet

Cagliari fined over racist chants

Serie A side Cagliarihave become the latestItalian side to be fined

for racist chants bytheir fans when theywere ordered to pay

10,000 euros.INTERNET

ROME, 2 Dec—Serie Aside Cagliari became thelatest Italian side to befined for racist chants bytheir fans on Tuesdaywhen they were orderedto pay 10,000 euros.

The club were pun-ished for ‘racially dis-criminatory chants’ madeby some of their support-ers against Juventus’Malian star MohamedSissoko last Sunday in amatch which theSardinian outfit won 2-0.

Juventus themselveswere at the centre of a rac-ism scandal last seasonwhen sections of theirsupporters racially abusedInter Milan striker Mario

Balotelli, Italian-born butwho has Ghanaian par-ents.—Internet

MUNICH, 2 Dec—Ger-many midfielder BastianSchweinsteiger has had aclaim against him fordamages worth nearly amillion euros thrown outby a court here on Tues-day. The 25-year-oldBayern Munich star, whohas won 72 caps for hiscountry and scored 19goals, was facing a claimfor 833,000 euros (1.25mUS dollars) in damagesplus interest for lost com-missions from a Germanlawyer.

The lawyer, who is alsothe manager of a playeradvisory firm, claimedthat in November 2005 afive-year contract be-tween him andSchweinsteiger to repre-sent the Germany star hadbeen verbally agreed by ahandshake.—Internet

Panathinaikos

Athens goalie

Alexandros Tzorvas.

Aussie Open chief backsSerena to keep it clean

MELBOURNE, 2 Dec—Australian Open chief CraigTiley Wednesday backed Serena Williams not to re-peat the foul-mouthed tirade that landed her with arecord fine when she defends her title in January.

Tiley described Williams as a “great champion,”despite the notorious incident which cost her a placein September’s US Open final, her most recent GrandSlam tournament.

“We’re confident there will be no repeat and we’vehad no problems with Serena,” Tiley said.

“She’s been a great champion, she’s supportive ofwhat happens with the Australian Open, she loves theAustralian Open (and) she has said this is one of herfavourite places to play.”

Williams was hit with a 175,000 dollar fine and twoyears’ probation by the International Tennis Federa-tion, meaning she could be suspended from the USOpen if she commits another major violation during aGrand Slam.

Williams was two points from defeat against KimClijsters when she was called for a foot-fault, prompt-ing the volley of abuse against a line-judge. She wasdocked another point for the tirade, forfeiting thematch.—Internet

Irish national football team players shout to Swedishreferee Martin Hansson (centre) during the World

Cup 2010 qualifying football match France VsRepublic of Ireland in November in Saint-Denis,northern Paris. Any slim hopes Ireland still har-boured of competing at the 2010 World Cup have

been finally snuffed out with FIFA saying there is noway they will take part as a 33rd team.—INTERNET

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, rain has been isolated inTaninthayi Divisions, rain has been partly cloudy in Kachinand Chin States, lower Sagaing, Mandalay and BagoDivisions and generally fair in the remaining areas. Nighttemperatures were (3°C) to (4°C) below December averagetemperatures in Shan and Chin States, lower Sagaing,Magway and Yangon Divisions, (6°C) below Decemberaverage temperatures in upper Sagaing Division and aboutDecember average temperatures in the remaining Statesand Divisions.The significant night temperatures wereLoilem (1°C), Haka (2°C), Namsan(5°C),Mindat (6°C).

Maximum temperature on 1-12-2009 was 94°F.Minimum temperature on 2-12-2009 was 59°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 2-12-2009 was 76%.Total sun shine hours on 1-12-2009 was (9.2) hoursapprox.

Rainfall on 2-12-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, atKaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (111.69) inches at Mingaladon, (122.09) inchesat Kaba-Aye and (129.41) inches at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mphfrom Southeast at (09:30) hours MST on 2-11-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 3rd December 2009:Isolated light rain are possible in Kachin and Chin States,Sagaing and Taninthayi Divisions and weather will bepartly cloudy in Shan State, Mandalay, Bago, Ayeyawadyand Yangon Divisions and generally fair in the remainingStates and Divisions Degree of certainty is (40%).

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation ofisolated light rain in the Southern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for3-12-2009: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for3-12-2009: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for3-12-2009: Partly cloudy.

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Chinese engineering academyannounces 48 new

academiciansBEIJING, 2 Dec— The

Chinese Academy ofEngineering (CAE)announced hereWednesday that 48prominent scientists havebeen elected academicians,bringing the number ofCAE academicians to 756.

CAE vice president XuRigan said, “The averageage of the newly elected is56.2, the youngest inCAE’s academicianelection history.” About66.7 percent of the newacademicians were under60, up from 45.5 percentin 2007. The oldest was 75and the youngest 41, hesaid. The new academicianswere elected from 449candidates. Twenty of the

newly elected are fromhigher learning institutions,18 from research institutes,six from factories andcompanies, and four fromadministrative departments.

A CAE academicianis the highest nationalacademic title inengineering science andtechnology and is alifelong honor. Newmembers are added everytwo years, with a quota ofno more than 60for eachelection. In addition, sixscientists were electedforeign CAE acade-micians, among whomfive were from the UnitedStates and one from theUnited Kingdom.

Xinhua

Thai school children visit a museum exhibitingpreserved bodies of AIDS victims at a Buddhisttemple Wat Prabat Nampu, in Lopburi, on the

World AIDS day,on 1 December 2009.INTERNET

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2nd Waning of Nadaw 1371 ME Thursday, 3 December, 2009

★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

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

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

■ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

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

troubles

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

and violence

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Dec—H.E Dr JohannesPeterlik, newly-accredited Ambassador of the Re-public of Austria to the Union of Myanmar pre-sented his credentials to Senior General Than Shwe,Chairman of the State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil of the Union of Myanmar, at Bayintnaung

Senior General Than Shwe acceptscredentials of Austrian Ambassador

Yeiktha, here at 11.00 am today.Present on the occasion were Secretary-1 of

the State Peace and Development Council GeneralThiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Minister forForeign Affairs U Nyan Win and Director-GeneralU Kyaw Kyaw of the Protocol Department.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the

State Peace and Development Council,

receives newly-accredited Austrian

Ambassador to the Union of Myanmar

Dr Johannes Peterlik at Bayintnaung

Yeiktha, Nay Pyi Taw.—MNA

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