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Volume XVII, Number 211 12th Waning of Tazaungmon 1371 ME Friday, 13 November, 2009

* 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 Shwe and wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaing leave for Sri Lanka

Senior GeneralThan Shwe and wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaing

being seen off byVice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and wifeDaw Mya Mya San.

MNA

Senior General Than Shwe shakes hands with Vice-Senior General Maung Aye beforedeparture for Sri Lanka.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 12Nov—Chairman of theState Peace andDevelopment Council ofthe Union of MyanmarSenior General Than Shweand wife Daw KyaingKyaing left here by specialflight at 9.30 am today topay a goodwill visit to theSocialist DemocraticRepublic of Sri Lanka atthe invitation of Presidentof Socialist DemocraticRepublic of Sri Lanka MrMahinda Rajapaksa.

The Senior General

and wife were seen off atNay Pyi Taw Airport byVice-Chairman of the State

Peace and DevelopmentCouncil DeputyCommander-in-Chief of

Defence ServicesCommander-in-Chief(Army) Vice-Senior

General Maung Aye andwife Daw Mya Mya San,Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein and wife DawKhin Khin Win, Daw KyiKyi Ohn, wife of Memberof the SPDC Lt-Gen TinAye, Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Vice-Admiral Nyan Tun, seniormilitary officers of theMinistry of Defence andtheir wives, theCommander of Nay PyiTaw Command and wife,Minister for TransportMaj-Gen Thein Swe,Minister for InformationBrig-Gen Kyaw Hsan,departmental heads andCharge d’ Affaires ai ofthe Sri Lankan EmbassyMr Indika Premadasa.

Senior General ThanShwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing wereaccompanied by Member

of the SPDC General ThuraShwe Mann and wife DawKhin Lay Thet, Secretary-1 of the SPDC GeneralThiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo and wife DawKhin Saw Hnin, SPDCmember Lt-Gen Tin Aye,Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence andwife, Chairman ofMandalay Division Peaceand Development CouncilCommander of CentralCommand Maj-Gen TinNgwe and wife, Ministerfor Foreign Affairs U NyanWin, Minister forCommerce Brig-Gen TinNaing Thein, Minister forHealth Dr Kyaw Myint,Minister for ReligiousAffairs Brig-Gen ThuraMyint Maung, DeputyMinister for Health DrPaing Soe and depart-mental heads.—MNA

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Friday, 13 November, 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

Myanmar is home to various nationalraces and, as they have been living togethersince time immemorial, deep-rooted unity andamity have developed among them.

There was a time when national races ofMyanmar mistrusted one another and someregions lacked peace and stability due to racialand regional bias. All these were the result ofthe colonialist policy of divide and rule.

Nowadays, the government of Myanmaris doing what should be done in the present,reviewing the past and pondering on the futureat the same time. It reconsolidated nationalunity for prevalence of peace and stability allover the Union. As it offered genuine peaceovertures and extended warm welcome toarmed groups of national races, they returnedto the legal fold. The regions where these groupscame to settle are developing overnight as spe-cial regions. They are now enjoying the fruits ofpeace and stability.

As arrangements had been made for thearmed groups of national races who had re-turned to the legal fold to be formed as BorderGuard Force, ceremonies to form the armedgroup of Kachin State Special Region 1 (NDAK)as Border Guard Force were simultaneouslyheld at Gangwin, Lupi and Sinkyaing in KachinState on 8 November. Similar ceremonies wereheld at Pantain and Sutpaing in Kayah StateSpecial Region 2 (Ka-La-La-Ta).

Like members of the Tatmadaw, those ofthe Border Guard Force are entitled to pay,rations and uniforms provided by the State.The successful formation of Border GuardForce that will uphold “Our Three Main Na-tional Causes” has been a shot in the arm forregional peace and development.

The formation of armed groups of na-tional races who have returned to the legal foldas Border Guard Force is a welcome news fornational race leaders and people of respectiveregions as they will be able to hold arms inaccordance with the law, work for eternal peacein the border areas and defend the State.

Work for eternal peace in theborder areas and defend the State

YANGON, 12 Nov—Organized by the Union ofMyanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce andIndustry (UMFCCI), the monthly subject-wise talks(3/Nov/2009) will be held on 1st floor of UMFCCIOffice Tower on Minyekyawswa Street in LanmadawTownship here on 13 November. Chairman Dr HoongUi-Suk of Incoaching Co of the Republic of Korea willgive talks on Leadership for Successful Business inMyanmar translation.

Presidents, executives and members from UMFCCIand its brother associations and interested persons mayattend the talk.

MNA

2nd U-18 Asian Men’s Hockey Tournament continuesYANGON, 12 Nov—

The 2nd U-18 AsianMen’s Hockey Tourna-ment continued for thesecond day at TheinbyuArtificial Hockey Turf,here, today.

In the first match, Sin-gapore routed China(Taipei) 3-0. Pakistantrounced Sri Lanka 11-0in the second match.

Pakistan secures thefifth position in the worldhockey standing table.

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NAY PYI TAW, 12 Nov—The State Peace andDevelopment Council has confirmed the appoint-ment of the following persons as heads of serviceorganizations shown against each on expiry of theone-year probationary period.

Name Appointment(a) U San Shwe Tha Director-General

Central InlandFreight-handlingCommittee OfficeMinistry of Labour

(b) U Yu Lwin Aung ChairmanSocial Security BoardMinistry of Labour

The State Peace and Development Council hasappointed Professor/Head of Department Profes-sor Dr. Daw Marlar Myint of Pharmacology De-partment of University of Pharmacy (Yangon) ofthe Medical Science Department under the Minis-try of Health as Rector of the same university onprobation from the date she assumes charge of herduties.

MNA

MYANMAR GAZETTE

NAY PYI TAW, 12Nov—Minister for Con-struction Maj-Gen KhinMaung Myint on 9 No-vember morning met withstaff at the District Engi-neer’s Office of PublicWorks in Bhamo.

He looked into main-tenance of Bhamo-Myitkyina road and plac-ing of gravel along theroad.

At Bala Min Htin Hallin Myitkyina, the minis-ter met with staff of Dis-trict and Township Pub-lic Works and road,

Diplomatic relations establishedbetween Union of Myanmar and

Kingdom of Bahrain

Maintenance of Bhamo-Myitkyina Road inspected

bridge, building and air-port special groups. At the

meeting, he gave instruc-tions on construction

tasks and attended to theneeds.—MNA

Talks on Leadership forSuccessful Business on 13 Nov

Match

between

Singapore

and China

(Taipei) in

progress.

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Minister Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint inspects placing of gravel alongBhamo-Myitkyina road.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 13 Nov —The Union of Myanmarand the Kingdom of Bahrain, desirous of establishingfriendly relations and mutually beneficial coopera-tion on the basis of the principles of the Charter of theUnited Nations and norms of International Law inaccordance with the Vienna Conventions on Diplo-matic Relations and on Consular Relations, decided toestablish diplomatic relations between the two coun-tries at Ambassadorial level with effect from 10November 2009. The Joint Communique on the agree-ment to establish diplomatic relations between theUnion of Myanmar and the Kingdom of Bahrain wassigned by the Permanent Representative of the Unionof Myanmar to the United Nations and the PermanentRepresentative of the Kingdom of Bahrain to theUnited Nations in New York on 10 November.

Myanmar has been making efforts to expanddiplomatic relations with countries all over the worldand the Kingdom of Bahrain has become the 100thcountry with which Myanmar has established diplo-matic relations.—MNA

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APEC warned to fight protectionism

Lack of health care killed 2,266US veterans last year

Missing US soldierfound, search for

the other continuesKABUL, 12 Nov—

American forces havefound one of the two sol-diers who went missing inAfghanistan a week ago, apress release of the US mili-tary said on Wednesday.

“One of the two missingUS soldiers was found by amilitary dive team yester-day in Western Afghani-stan,” the press releaseadded. However, it did notsay if he was alive.

It added that the Afghanand international forcescontinued to search for theother missing soldier.

Two US soldiers wentmissing in Balamirghab dis-trict of northwest Badghisprovince on 4 Novemberwhile attempting to recouplogistic items from a riverdropped by helicopter.

Xinhua

China Shipping containers are stacked on a cargo boat at the Port of Miami inFlorida. While the dollar is humbled and the US economy wounded, a con-sumer-led American recovery would revive vast export markets for Asian

nations.—INTERNET

A man shows snow produced with the Israeli-madeSnow Maker (background) at the Austrian ski

resort of St-Leonhard im Pitztal, in October 2009.The 2.5 million-euro (3.7 million-dollar) invest-

ment in the machine allowed Pitztal to increase itsski area threefold in time for the start of the sea-

son, and several World Cup ski teams invited to testthe snow were impressed.—INTERNET

One killed, two injured in roadsidebomb explosion in Afghanistan

An endangered Amur tiger, roams in his cage atthe Wild Animals Rehabilitation Center in

Sikhote-Alin a mountain range in the Russian FarEast. Russia’s government and environmental

organizations say they will launch a major inter-national campaign to protect the

endangered Amur tiger and begin in creasing its population.—INTERNET

SINGAPORE, 12 Nov —Asia-Pacific economiesled by the United Statesand China opened annualtalks on Wednesday withcalls to fight protection-ism or risk reversing theregion’s “fragile” eco-nomic rebound.

Singapore ForeignMinister George Yeo said“resisting protectionism”was the topmost concern,as foreign and trade min-isters from the 21-mem-ber Asia-Pacific Eco-nomic Cooperation(APEC) group met in ad-vance of a weekend sum-mit here.

“It is a slippery slopeand if we are not careful,before we know it, all ofus will be in a much moredire situation,” he saidbefore convening thetalks with US Secretary ofState Hillary Clinton andother Pacific Rim del-egates.

Asked if the ministersbelieved the world’sworst economic crisissince the 1930s was at anend, Yeo told reporters:“The consensus is that it

is by no means over.“The upturn that we

now have is a respite... thesituation is still fragile andwe should address the rootcauses of the problem.”

APEC was founded in1989 with the goals ofpromoting free trade andinvestment. Its member-ship stretches from im-poverished Papua NewGuinea to the UnitedStates and includes thefast-emerging heavy-weight China.—Internet

Russia launches programmeto save tigers worldwide

MOSCOW, 12 Nov — Vladimir Putin has made head-lines by championing the endangered Siberian tiger— posing with a cuddly cub and placing a trackingcollar on a full-grown female in the wilds of his coun-try’s Far East. Now Russia is helping plan an ambi-tious programme it hopes can double the global tigerpopulation by 2022.

Russia hopes to hold a “tiger summit” in the Far Eastcity of Vladivostok in September to coordinate multi-national efforts to protect the Amur tiger, its habitatsand increasingly scarce food sources, representativesof Russia’s Natural Resources Ministry, the World Bankand the World Wildlife Fund said on Wednesday.

“We decided that this time we should do somethingserious in order to preserve tigers on our planet,” saidIgor Chestin, director of the Russian branch of theWorld Wildlife Fund. “The situation is catastrophic.”

The meeting would be hosted by Putin, Russia’spowerful prime minister, and include leaders of coun-tries such as India and China, according to Chestinand Deputy Natural Resources Minister IgorMaidanov.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 12 Nov— The number of US vet-erans who died in 2008because they lackedhealth insurance was 14times higher than the USmilitary death toll in Af-ghanistan that year, ac-cording to a new study.

The analysis producedby two Harvard medicalresearchers estimates that2,266 US military veteransunder the age of 65 died in2008 because they lackedhealth coverage and hadreduced access to medicalcare. That figure is morethan 14 times higher thanthe 155 US troop deathsin Afghanistan in 2008,the study says.

Released as the UnitedStates commemoratesfallen soldiers on VeteransDay, the study warns thateven health care provided

by the Veterans HealthAdministration (VA)leaves many veteranswithout coverage.

The analysis uses cen-sus data to isolate thenumber of US veteranswho lack both privatehealth coverage and careoffered by the VA.

“That’s a group that’sabout 1.5 million people,”said David Himmelstein,an associate professor ofmedicine at HarvardMedical School and co-founder of Physicians fora National Health Pro-gramme who co-authoredthe study.—Internet

KABUL, 12 Nov— A roadside bomb planted byTaleban militants in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduzprovince exploded, killing one person and injuring twoothers on Wednesday, provincial governor MohammadOmar said.

“The gruesome incident occurred in Khanabaddistrict this morning when a bomb planted by enemiesstruck the car of Syed Rahman killing him on the spotand wounding two of his colleagues,” Omar toldXinhua. They are all civilians, he added.

Meantime, Taleban purported spokesmanZabihullah Mujahid in talks with media via telephonefrom an undisclosed location claimed responsibilityfor the bombing explosion, adding that SyedRahmanworked for the government. Militants often target thoseserve for government particularly security bodies andthe NATO-led peacekeeping force stationed in thepost-Taleban Afghanistan.—Xinhua

Five Swedish soldiers injuredin Afghanistan

STOCKHOLM, 12 Nov — Five Swedish soldiers wereinjured in an explosion that also claimed the life of alocal foreign language interpreter, the Swedish ArmedForces said in a statement on Wednesday.

While on patrol at 10 am Swedish time on Wednes-day, the Swedish soldiers hit a roadside improvised ex-plosive device west of Mazar-e-Sharif, where Swedishtroops in Afghanistan are stationed, said the statement.

Those injured in the incident were taken to a fieldhospital located at Camp Marmal, home of Interna-tional Security Assistance Force (ISAF) RegionalCommand for the north of Afghanistan, according tothe Swedish military.—Xinhua

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People ski in October 2009 at the Austrian ski resort of St-Leonhard imPitztal. An Israeli engineering firm has come up with a machine capable of

generating snow in all weathers.—INTERNET

SACRAMENTO, 12Nov—In Arizona, thebudget has grown sogloomy that lawmakersare considering mortgag-ing Capitol buildings. InMichigan, state officialsdealing with the nation’shighest unemploymentrate are slashing spendingon schools and healthcare.

ADDIS ABABA, 12 Nov— Estimates for Africa’s eco-nomic growth in 2009 have declined to less than twopercent, based on data to October, according to ex-perts from the African Development Bank (ADB) andthe UN on Wednesday.

“The global economic and financial crisis hit thecontinent at a time Africa had about 5 to 6 percentgrowth rate. Till May this year we were expectinggrowth to be around 2.3 percent but now, as of Octo-ber, we reviewed this figure to less than two percentfor the continent as a whole for 2009,” Abdul Kamara,an expert from the ADB said.

“We can look forward for 2010 to the crisis reced-ing but the continent’s recovery is going to be basedon the recovery of the developed world,” he told apress conference in the Ethiopian capital. “More thanever, the continent is aware of the need for a diversifi-cation of our economies to make African countriesless vulnerable to crisis,” he said.—Internet

BEIJING, 12 Nov—China said on Wednesdaythat massive governmentspending was paying offas a new wave of datashowed the world’s third-largest economy contin-ued to strengthen, follow-ing the worst global cri-sis in decades.

Industrial productionand retail sales picked uppace in October, whiledemand for Chinese ex-

Construction cranes at a building site in Cape Town. According to expertsfrom the African Development Bank (ADB) and the UN said that estimates

for Africa’s economic growth in 2009 have declined to less than two percent,based on data to October.—INTERNET

10 states face loomingbudget disasters

Drastic financial rem-edies are no longer limitedto California, where a his-toric budget crisis earlierthis year grew so bad thatstate agencies issuedIOUs to pay bills.

A study released onWednesday warned that atleast nine other big statesare also barreling towardeconomic disaster, raising

the likelihood of highertaxes, more governmentlayoffs and deep cuts inservices.

The report by the PewCenter on the States foundthat Arizona, Florida, Il-linois, Michigan, Nevada,New Jersey, Oregon,Rhode Island and Wiscon-sin are also at grave risk,although Wisconsin offi-cials disputed the find-ings. Double-digit budgetgaps, rising unemploy-ment, high foreclosurerates and built-in budgetconstraints are the keyreasons.

Internet

VIENNA, 12 Nov—World oil demand in 2009was expected to fall 1.63percent year-on-year to84.31 million barrels perday (bpd), the Organiza-tion of the Petroleum Ex-porting Countries (OPEC)said in its latest monthlyreport released onWednesday.

However, the worldeconomic recovery wouldpush world oil demand toincrease 0.9 percent to85.07 bpd next year, ac-cording to the report.

The report estimatedthat the world economywould grow 2.9 percent in2010 after a contraction of1.1 percent this year, withmost of the growth com-ing from emerging Asianeconomies includingChina and India.

Xinhua

Chinese workers assemble vehicles at a productionline in an auto factory in Hefei, 2008. China saidthat massive government spending was paying offas a new wave of data showed the world’s third-

largest economy continued to strengthen, followingthe worst global crisis in decades.—INTERNET

World oildemand to fall

1.63%in 2009

NEW YORK, 12 Nov—Motorola Inc (MOT.N) isin the early stages of look-ing into a potential sale ofits $4.5 billion televisionset-top box and networkequipment business, twosources said on Wednes-day.

Motorola is in the earlystages of seeking buyersfor the unit, whose suitorsinclude private equityfirms and other communi-cations equipment mak-ers, said one source famil-iar with the situation.

SAN FRANCISCO, 12 Nov—Hewlett-Packard Co (HP)on Wednesday announced that it has agreed to buy3Com Corp, a leading provider of networking solu-tions, for about 2.7 billion US dollars.

The world’s largest personal computer vendor saidit will pay 7.90 dollars a share in cash for 3Com in adeal that analysts believe will intensify HP’s compe-tition with Cisco Systems Inc, the world’s biggest net-working equipment maker.

“Companies are looking for ways to break free fromthe business limitations imposed by a networking para-digm that has been dominated by a single vendor,”Dave Donatelli, executive vice president and generalmanager of HP’s enterprise servers and networking,said in a statement. By acquiring 3Com, HP is bring-ing “disruptive change to the networking industry,”he added.

Africa’s 2009 growth seenat less than 2%

China’s output, retail sales gather pace in Octoberports improved, officialdata showed, putting thegovernment’s growth tar-get of eight percent wellwithin reach for 2009.

“Based on the Octoberdata, we have more reasonto believe that the founda-

tion for and confidence inachieving the full-yeargrowth target have furtherstrengthened,” ShengLaiyun, spokesman for theNational Bureau of Statis-tics, told a news confer-ence.—Internet

Motorola eyes $4.5 billion home/networks unit saleMotorola may decide

to keep the unit in the end,said the source, who wasnot authorized to speakwith the media.

JP Morgan Chase &Co and Goldman SachsGroup Inc are advisingMotorola on the possiblesale, the source said.

JP Morgan andGoldman Sachs declinedto comment.

Motorola, which hasbeen losing market sharein its cellphone businessfor years, declined to

comment, but said it wasstill focused on its previ-ously stated plan to sepa-rate its handset businessfrom the rest of the com-pany.

Analysts said therecould be a lot of interestin the home and networksunit, particularly becauseMotorola has a strongmarket share in the set-topbox segment, where it isbigger than Scientific At-lanta, owned by CiscoSystems Inc (CSCO.O).

Internet

HP to buy 3Com for $2.7 b

Xinhua

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UNICEF chief brings world attentionto child, maternal undernutrition

Moderate quake hitsNorth Sumatra, Indonesia

JAKARTA, 12 Nov—An earthquake with a magni-tude of 5.0 struck North Sumatra Province at West-ern parts of Indonesia on Thursday, the Meteorol-ogy and Geophysics Agency said.

The quake occurred at 11:06 am Jakarta time (0406GMT) with the epicenter at 55 km northeast ofTanahmasa of the province and at a depth of 10 km,the agency said.—Xinhua

Moderate quake rocks PhilippinesHONG KONG, 12 Nov—An earthquake measuring

5.5 on the Richter scale hit an island of Philippinesat 21:52 Hong Kong time (1352 GMT), accordingto a bulletin released by the Hong Kong Observa-tory late Wednesday.

The epicenter was initially determined to be inMindoro, Philippines, at 9.3 degrees north latitudeand 125.6 east longitude, some 60 km south-south-east of Surigao.—Xinhua

UNITED NATIONS, 12Nov—The head of theUnited Nations Chil-dren’s Fund (UNICEF)said on Wednesday that anew report from her or-ganization provides latestdetails and data on childand maternal undernutri-tion, adding that the solu-tion is entirely possible.

Ann M Veneman, theexecutive director ofUNICEF, made the state-ment at a teleconferenceto launch the newUNICEF nutrition report,

titled “Tracking Progresson Child and MaternalNutrition.”

“The report itself isbased on the latest avail-able data and reveals thatabout 195 million chil-dren under the age of fivein the developing worldare chronically under-nourished,” Venemansaid.

“The report highlights24 countries which ac-count for 80 percent of theglobal burden of undernu-trition,” she said. “It pro-

vides detailed informationon nutritional indicatorsfor each of these 24 coun-tries.”

The new 119-page reportprovides the most recenthealth and nutrition data,improved programme strat-egies and progressachieved to reduce the glo-bal burden of child andmaternal undernutrition. Italso provides informationthat demonstrates how im-proving child nutrition isentirely feasible.

Xinhua

A man chooses books at a bookstore in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 11 Nov, 2009. InSao Paulo or other Brazilian cities, bookstores are one of the most popular

places for citizens in their leisure times.—XINHUA

New Zealand becomes contenderfor world heritage site

Air pollution at alarming level in IndonesiaAir France ground staff work near the newly-arrivedAirbus A380 double-deck passenger jet at Orly airport outside Paris on 11 Nov, 2009. —XINHUA

UAE denies reports on Somali pirates’ abduction of vesselABU DHABI, 12 Nov—The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has denied media re-

ports saying Somali pirates have hijacked a UAE-flagged ship, the state-run newsagency WAM reported on Wednesday.

The reports by some media about the abduction “are deviating from the truth,”Mohammed Sultan Al Suwaidi, director of the Foreign Ministry’s Arab AffairsDepartment, was quoted as saying.

He said the vessel, owned by a Somali trader, was carrying foodstuff whenleaving the northeast port of Ajman, adding that it was flying the Panamanianflag. Earlier this week, Western media reported that Somali pirates have seized aUAE-flagged cargo ship loaded with weapons bound for the Horn of Africanation in contravention of a UN arms embargo.—Xinhua

WELLINGTON, 12 Nov—New Zealand has success-fully taken the first step ingetting South Island’sTekapo-Aoraki night skydeclared a World Heritagereserve site.

New Zealand’s bid wasone of five to be acceptedat a meeting of the United

Nations Educational, Cul-tural and Scientific Or-ganization (UNESCO) inthe Canary Islands onWednesday, Radio NewZealand reported onThursday.

Austria, Spain, Chileand Hawaii are also on thelist to go forward for final

approval at the UNESCOworld heritage meeting inRio de Janeiro, Brazil nextyear. Only the New Zea-land and Austrian loca-tions have been recog-nized as “mixed sites” —acknowledging not onlytheir pristine night sky butalso their surroundinglandscape and the oppor-tunities for astro-tourism.

The New Zealandformer cabinet ministerMargaret Austin told theconference the area aroundTekapo, in South Island’sMacKenzie District, haspristine, dark unpollutedskies with one of the mostaccessible observatories inthe world.

Austin said she wasoverwhelmed New Zea-land’s bid was approvedwithout exception andhoped the bid could be ap-proved within two years.

Xinhua

This photo taken on 11 Nov, 2009 shows the scene of the landslide in Nilgirisdistrict of Tamil Nadu, southern state of India. The massive landslide tookplace here on Wednesday has killed 43 people and left nearly 100 others

wounded. —XINHUA

JAKARTA, 12 Nov—Ac-tivists have warned that airpollution in Indonesian cit-ies has reached alarminglevels, a local media re-ported here on Wednesday.

They said that the casewas mainly caused bypoor transportation man-agement.

A group of activists andgovernment officials fromthe State Ministry for theEnvironment and theTransportation Ministryestablished a Forum forIndonesian Clean Air aspart of its mission to pushfor sustainable transporta-tion management to mini-mize air pollution.

“The air quality has fre-quently been dangerouslyunhealthy. The country

needs extra efforts to cleanthe air through sustainabletransport management,”Ahmad Safruddin, whoinitiated the forum quotedby the Jakarta Post as say-ing. He said that poor qual-ity of fuels, gas emissionsand poor law enforcementwere exacerbating thecountry’s transport systemproblems.

Ahmad added that all airpollutant parameters ex-

ceeded tolerable limits setby environmental authori-ties. Motor vehicles are amajor source of air pollut-ants in Indonesia’s majorcities.

Deputy assistant forpollution emissions con-trol at the State Ministryfor the Environment, AdePalguna, concurred andsaid air pollution in big cit-ies had reached criticallevels. —Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

A 55-year-old woman in centralChina marched 10 kilometers every dayfor seven months to lose weight andsave the life of her son.

Chen Yurong walked more than2,000 km in total after being told her31-year-old son, Ye Haibin, needed aliver transplant — but her liver was notsuitable because it had accumulated toomuch fat, doctors told her in February.

In an effort to get her liver intoshape, Chen marched along a dyke nearher home in Jiang’an District, HubeiProvince, everyday. She also went ona diet, only eating rice and vegetables.She eventually lost 8 kg.

On 19 Oct, doctors said her liver hadreached the standard for the transplant.

In a 14-hour operation at the TongjiHospital under Huazhong University ofScience and Technology in Wuhan, the

This US Fish & Wildlifephoto shows a brown

pelican at the EvergladesNational Park in Florida.

Nearly 40 years after it waspushed to the edge of

extinction by pesticide use,habitat loss and hunting,

the brown pelican wasWednesday taken off the

endangered species list, USofficials said.

Chinese mother marches to save son’s lifeprovincial capital, on Tuesday, Chengave part of her liver to her son.

Chen had decided in Decemberlast year to donate her liver to her son,who for 18 years had suffered Wilson’sdisease, a genetic disorder caused by ac-cumulation of excessive amounts ofcopper in the body that can lead to liverdegeneration.

“The operation went smoothly,” saidsurgeon Chen Xiaoping, an organ trans-plant expert. “We left part of Ye’s liver,which will function together with thetransplanted part.

“Theoretically speaking, Ye’s lifecan be prolonged for a long time,” hesaid. “She is a great mother.”

Chen and her son are both describedas in a stable condition in hospital. Thehospital decided to waive all its fees forthe operation.

An 18th century bronze sculpture ispictured in Paris, ahead of the

second Yves Saint-Laurent-PierreBerge collection auction at

Christie’s. A billiard table, severalgiant chandeliers, and even pots and

pans; items from Yves SaintLaurent’s private country hideaway

have gone on show ahead of thesecond installment of this year’s

record-smashing YSL-Pierre Berge“sale of the century”.

Man fined for 911 callover missing

McDonald’s OJ A 20-year-old man who called 911

to get his fast-food order straightenedout has been told to pay a $300 fine.

Washington County, Ore, sheriff’sdeputies said Raibin Raof Osman calledthe emergency line to complain that aMcDonald’s in Aloha had left out a boxof orange juice from his drive-throughorder. A restaurant employee later called911 to report that Osman and others whowere with him were blocking the lane,knocking on restaurant windows andintimidating employees.

Graffiti artist left workincomplete

Police in Florida say a graffiti artistwho apparently ran out of paint midwaythrough a spray-painted creation left anote to potential critics to explain theunfinished work.

Palm Bay police Officer Dan Fishersays the artist painted the words “ran outof purple” on the white concrete wall.The note was next to an incompletebright purple piece that read “Solo.”

Fisher says the artist would likelyface a criminal mischief charge if he orshe is apprehended. The damage wasestimated at about $200.

A dish made in the QingDynasty (1644-1911) isseen during the preview

of 2009 HuachenAutumn Auction inBeijing, capital of

China, on 10 Nov, 2009.The auction of Chinesepaintings and calligra-phy, Chinese ceramics,

jade carvings and worksof art, Chinese oil

paintings and sculp-tures, photographs willkick off on 17 Nov, witha magnificent jewelry

selling during theexhibition.

XINHUA

SINGAPORE, 12 Nov—Singapore Airlines (SIA)suffered its secondstraight quarterly loss, thefirst time since the com-pany was listed in 1985,local newspaper StraitsTimes reported onWednesday.

However, the 159 mil-lion Singapore dollars(111.196 million US dol-lars) loss for the threemonths ending on Sept.30 was way better thanthe almost doubled 307million Singapore dollars(214.69 million US dol-lars) loss it racked up inthe first quarter.

The year-on-year fig-ures are far grimmer, withthe 159 million Singaporedollars (111.19 millionUS dollars) loss com-pared to a profit of 324million Singapore dollars(226.57 million US dol-lars) a year earlier.

Xinhua

NIJMEGEN,12 Nov—People who want to improvetheir second-language listening should watch a moviewith subtitles in the same language the charactersspeak, Dutch researcher say.

Holger Mitterer of the Max Planck Institute forPsycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, andcolleagues say subtitles in one’s native language —the default in some European countries — may becounter-productive to learning to understand foreignspeech.

The researchers show listeners can tune in to anunfamiliar regional accent in a foreign language. Dutchstudents showed improvements in their ability to rec-ognise Scottish or Australian English after only 25minutes of exposure to video material. English subti-tling during exposure enhanced this learning effect,but Dutch subtitling reduced it.—Internet

JERUSALEM, 12 Nov—Israel displayed for the firsttime on Wednesday a collection of rare coins charredand burned from the Roman destruction of the JewishTemple nearly 2,000 years ago.

About 70 coins were found in an excavation at thefoot of a key Jerusalem holy site. They give a rareglimpse into the period of the Jewish revolt that even-tually led to the destruction of the Second Jewish Tem-ple in AD 70, said Hava Katz, curator of the exhibi-tion.

The Jews rebelled against the Roman Empire andtook over Jerusalem in AD 66. After laying siege toJerusalem, the Romans breached the city walls andwiped out the rebellion, demolishing the Jewish Tem-ple, the holiest site in Judaism.—Internet

BOSTON, 12 Nov—Mu-sic can help ease recoveryfrom a cardiac procedure,heart attack or stroke, re-lieve stress and maybelower blood pressure a bit,a US newsletter says.

The November issueof the Harvard Heart Let-ter says researchers havefound that listening tomusic can lower bloodpressure, slow the heartrate and lessen anxiety inpeople hospitalized forheart ailments.

“Music can ease pain

Movie subtitles improveforeign speech

SingaporeAirlines

incurs secondquarterly

straight loss

Israel displays coins fromancient Jewish revolt

Music good for the heart, relieves stressand distress after car-diac surgery and in oth-erwise healthy people,music can lower bloodpressure and easestress,” the newslettersays.

“Music therapy ismost commonly usedfor people undergoing acardiac procedure andfor those recoveringfrom a heart attack orlearning to cope withheart failure or anothercardiovascular condi-tion, like angina or heart

failure. For them, music

therapy can alleviatestress, provide a pleas-ant coping strategy, andimpart a feeling of con-trol.”

The American MusicTherapy Associationrecommends a do-it-yourself music therapyoption — find somemusic that makes youfeel good, then sit andlisten to it for 20 min-utes or so.

Internet

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 13 November, 2009 7

Executive Director U Tin Oo of IBTC tees offto open the golf tourney.—NLM

Members of Myanmar Women Entrepreneurs' Association seen atYangon International Airport before their departure for Malaysia toparticipate in Korean Best Products Show & Business Match-making

2009.—MNA

Surgical

operation

on patient

whose

wrist was

cut off in

progress.

MNA

Minister for Electric Power.1 Col Zaw Min inspects Yeywa Dam con-

struction project.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 12Nov—Minister for Elec-tric Power No. 1 Col ZawMin on 9 November heardreports on completion ofthe diversion tunnel, theentrance and exit to thetunnel, RCC main em-bankment, spillway andpower intake structure, in-stallation of steel pipeline,construction of powerplant, water outlet channeland sub-power station and

Electric Power No. 1 Minister looksinto progress of Yeywa Dam project

arrangements for storageof water at Yeywa Dampresented by Director UNay Myo Win at the con-struction site of YeywaDam Project near Ye-Yaman Village, 31 milessoutheast from Mandalay.

Director-General UMyint Zaw gave a supple-mentary report.

The minister inspectedpreparations for installationof Diversion Tunnel No. 2

Gate upstream of the damand supply of water fromthe diversion tunnel No. 1.

Afterwards, the min-ister looked into progressin building the spillwaybridge linking left andright embankments andmain embankment andother tasks.

Later, the ministerviewed construction of theswitch yard and the wateroutlet channel.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 12 Nov— A severed hand andarm of a patient werejoined successfully after 4-hour operation at MagwayTeaching Hospital inMagway.

Maung Min Thu, 21,of Kanthalay Village inMagway Township, cut offhis left arm at wrist whenhe cut firewood on 16 No-vember, and was rushed tothe hospital around 2 pmon that day.

He was very exhaustedwith low blood pressurewhen he arrived at the hos-pital. To save his life, hismother and relatives askeddoctors at the hospital toamputate his left arm asthey assumed that his left

Hand and arm joined successfullyafter cut off at wrist

hand and arm could not bejoined under operation forthe fingers and the palmwere blue with cold whenhe arrived at the hospital.

After reaching agree-ment with the patient andhis mother to join the lefthand and arm in an opera-tion, Dr. Soe Win, an or-thopaedic surgeon, andDaw Yi Yi Toe, an anaes-thetist, prepared for thesurgical operation. Beforethe operation, his left handwas disinfected, coveredwith bandage, placed in aplastic bag and coveredwith ice.

During the first day ofthe surgical operation tojoin his left arm and handperformed by the five-

member medical team in-cluding two special ortho-paedic surgeons, his tem-perature and heart beatturned normal without fe-ver, and blood flows on hishand.

Six days after the op-eration, the medical teamalso performed an opera-tion on him on 23 Octoberto join tendon at his leftwrist to be able to stretchand bend his fingers.

His left hand has im-proved and he can movehis fingers now.

Medical Superintend-ent Dr. Than Oo, ortho-paedic surgeons, assistantdoctors, nurses and staff ofthe hospital also assistedthe operations.— MNA

IBTC Open Golf Championships(Mandalay) kicks off

YANGON, 12 Nov—Organized by MyanmarGolf Federation and spon-sored by InternationalBeverages Trading CoLtd, IBTC Golf Champi-onships (Mandalay), thefourth leg of MyanmarGolf Tour 2009-2010 wasopened at YedaguntaungGolf Club in Mandalaythis morn ing, attended byChairman of Mandalay

City Development Com-mittee Mayor Brig-GenPhone Zaw Han, DeputyCommander of CentralCommand Brig-Gen ThanTun Aung, guests and re-sponsible persons.

Deputy Commanderof Central CommandBrig-Gen Than TunAung, Secretary ofMCDC U Maung Pu, VicePresident of MGF U Aung

Kyi, Vice President ofMyanmar PGA U Ko KoLay and Executive Direc-tor U TIn Oo of Interna-tional Berevages TradingCo Ltd teed off to open thetournament.

After the first roundYan Aung Latt took thelead in Professional Golf-ers level while Aung Win(Myanmar selectedgolfer) stood first in themen’s amateur level.

The main sponsor ofthe tourney is InternationalBeverages Trading Co Ltd(IBTC), and co-sponsorsare Air Bagan Ltd, KBZLtd, Hotel Yangon, KMGolf Centre, HAN GolfMasters Pte Ltd, MyanmarThiha Trading Co Ltd, Bayof Bengal Resort (BOB),(INAX, T-Home), CEPSALubricants, ACCEL Inter-national Co Ltd (Canon),Imperial Jade PurifiedDrinking Water, LifelineCo Ltd, GP Watch andYedaguntaung GolfClub.—NLM

YANGON, 12 Nov— Members ofMyanmar Women Entrepreneurs’ As-sociation Daw Kyi Kyi Htay, DawKhaing Thanda Tun, Daw Htay HtayMyint and Daw Hlaing Thwe Thwe Tunleft here by air on 10 November toattend the Korean Best Products Show

Members of MWEA leave for Malaysia

& Business Match-making 2009 to beheld in Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia on 12November.

They were seen off at Yangon Inter-national Airport by Vice-ChairpersonDaw Thet Yi and Joint Secretary DawKhin Lay of the association.— MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 12Nov—A coordinationmeeting of oil palmcompanies in TaninthayiDivision was held at thehall of Division Peace andDevelopment Council on4 November afternoon.

Chairman ofTaninthayi Division PDC

Oil palm entrepreneurs hold meetingCommander of CoastalRegion Command Maj-Gen Khin Zaw Oo deliveredan address. Officialsreported on undertaking oftasks. After attending to theneeds, the commander gave

the concluding remarks.It was also attended

by division, district andtownship level officialsand oil palm cultivationentrepreneurs.

MNA

YANGON, 12 Nov—Organized by MyanmarComputer ProfessionalAssociation (MCPA),Vice-President RaifulAhad from OracleCorporation Developmentwill give talks on GoodPractices in Software

Talks on Good Practices in SoftwareDevelopment on 13 Nov

Development of OracleCorporation, a worldfamous software Co atMyanmar Info-Tech,Room No. 205 in HlineTownship here on 13November.

Those working insoftware development

field, students trying to besoftware engineers,members of MCPA andinterested persons attend thetalks free of charge. Formore details, contact theoffice of MCPA, WardNo.4, Room No. 4 (ph-652276).—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 12Nov—Minister for MinesBrig-Gen Ohn Myintreceived Ambassador ofRussian Federation toMyanmar Mr Mikhail M

Mines Minister receives Russian AmbassadorMGELADZE andChairman Mr Siman VPovarenkin and party ofGeo Pro Mining Ltd ofRussian Federation at theministry here on 9

YANGON, 12 Nov—Fires broke out 36 timesin the country in Octoberleaving 32 personshomeless.

Among them, 18 firesstarted in the kitchen, 15times due to short-circuitand one due to natural fire,

October saw 36 firesone due to lightning andone due to arson, and 10homes were destroyed bythe fire.

Fire broke out most inMandalay Divisionfollowed by YangonDivision and SagaingDivision and Shan State.

The loss of property dueto fire in Kayin State is themost, followed by YangonDivision and Kachin State.

Out of 13 fireoutbreaks in MandalayDivision, seven were dueto negligence includingkitchen fires.—MNA

A & I Minister meets localpeople in Hinthada Tsp

NAY PYI TAW, 12 Nov — Minister for Agricultureand Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo met with localpeople and farmers in Hinthada Township on 6November.

At the separate meetings with people from 22wards in Hinthada Township and from 11 villages,the minister fulfilled the requirements for regionaldevelopment and inspected the basic educationmiddle school in Sitgon Village.

MNA

YANGON, 12 Nov—The sports team of ShweMin Tha Foundation(Myanmar) has planned totake part in the 21stMyanmar Sports Meetsfor the Disabled to be or-ganized by MyanmarSports Federation for theDisabled.

Altogether 32 disa-bled athletes of the sports

Shwe Min Tha Foundation sports team tocompete in Sports Meets for Disabled

team of Shwe Min ThaFoundation will competein swimming, badminton,tennis, chess and track &field events. They are un-dergoing training at AungSan Stadium, NationalSwimming Pool and re-spective sports grounds inYangon.

Those wishing to do-nate cash and sports gear

may contact Shwe MinTha Foundation(Myanmar) office atNo.797, Room 104-B ofMyanma Ahla Tower-2 atthe corner of BogyokeAung San Street andWardan Street inLanmadaw Township,Tel: 01-215935, 222923,229087, 095103725 and09-5042621.—MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Win Myint views harvesting monsoon paddy in Hlegu Township, YangonNorth District. (News reported)—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Htay Oo meets withlocal people of Hinthada at No. 1

BEHS.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 12Nov—Chairman ofMandalay Division Peaceand Development CouncilCommander of CentralCommand Maj-Gen TinNgwe attended theceremony to hand overdesks to No. 18 BasicEducation High Schoolmade by the Central

Desks donated to BEHS in MandalayCommand on 6November.

Also present weremilitary officers, thedirector-general of No. 2Basic EducationDepartment, commandantsof regiment and unit, incharge officers, teachers,students and their parents,guests and officials.

The commandermade a speech andpresented desks.

The ceremony cameto an end with words ofthanks of the director-general.

Afterwards, thecommander and officialsviewed the donateddesks.—MNA

November.Also present on the

occasion weredepartmental heads of theministry.

MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Ohn Myint receives Russian Ambassador MrMikhail M MGELADZE and Chairman Mr Siman V Povarenkin and

party of Geo Pro Mining Ltd.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 12Nov—Lt-Gen Tha Aye ofthe Ministry of Defenceattended a ceremony topresent prizes to outstand-ing students, townshipswinning best pass ratesand subject teachers for2009 held at the town hallof Monywa in SagaingDivision on 8 Novemberafternoon.

Next, Lt-Gen Tha Ayeattended a ceremony topresent an ambulance andmedical equipment toMonywa People’s Hospi-tal and made a speech onthe occasion. Present onthe occasion were Chair-man of Sagaing DivisionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander of

Lt-Gen Tha Aye attends ceremony toaward prizes to outstanding students

Aye on fulfillment of edu-cation requirements forensuring high pass rate andso did the division educa-tion officer.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye andthe commander presentedprizes to outstanding stu-dents, townships winninghigh pass rate and subjectteachers and so did de-partmental officials.

Next, Lt-Gen Tha Ayeat the medical equipmentpresentation ceremonygave instructions on ap-plication of modern medi-cal equipment and medi-cal treatment to be pro-vided for local people withgoodwill.

Afterwards, familiesof the wellwisher pre-

NAY PYI TAW, 12 Nov—Minister for Labour UAung Kyi went on an inspection tour of the clinic of theSocial Security Board Office Branch-2 in ThingangyunTownship, here, on 9 November and gave instructionson speedy measures for enjoying rights of social secu-rity of the workers.

Next , the minister inspected progress in func-tioning at Labour Department and Labour Office in No5 region (Ahlon, Kyimyindine and Sangyoung Town-ships) and he gave encouragement to those who ap-plied for the job at the offices.—MNA

Minister supervisesvarious functions of SSB

and Labour Offices

YANGON, 12 Nov—Organized byMyanmar Engineering Society,Arbaphee foreign employment agencyopened a welding course for traineeswho are willing to work as welders inJapan at its training school on 9 Novem-ber.

A total of 65 trainees are attend-ing the course for the eighth time. Presentat the opening of the course were Chair-man of MES U Han Zaw, Joint-GeneralSecretary U Myint Pe, CEC member UThan Tun Aung, Manager Daw Hlaing

Arbaphee foreign employmenttraining school opens welding course

Mi Mi (Course), Managing Director ofthe employment agency U Sein Pe andPrincipal U Aung Naing Thu.

Chairman U Han Zaw and Man-aging Director U Sein Pe made speecheson the occasion. Next, Joint-GeneralSecretary U Myint Pe and Principal UAung Naing Thu explained salient pointsof opening the course to the trainees.

The course lasts five weeks andJapan will choose the trainees. The se-lected trainees will have an opportunityto work in Japan for three years.—MNA

YANGON, 12 Nov— The First BasicEducation Level Inter-State/Division U-16 Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tour-nament, organized by Myanmar Basket-ball Federation under the supervision ofthe Ministry of Education and the Min-istry of Sports, continued at Aung SanGymnasium today.

Among the spectators were Chair-man of the Organizing Committee Di-rector-General U Aye Kyu of the No. 3Basic Education Department, executivesof MBF and officials.

In the men’s event, Yangon Divi-sion won over Sagaing Division 61-55;

U-16 Men’s and Women’s BasketballTournament continues

North-West CommandMaj-Gen Myint Soe, Min-ister for Sports Brig-GenThura Aye Myint, depart-mental officials at divi-sion, district and town-ship levels, members ofsocial organizations,teachers, outstanding stu-dents and guests.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye saidat the ceremony that thegovernment has been im-plementing the second 5-year short term plan inaccord with the objectivesof the project of fourth 5-year short term since2006-2007. Teachers areto discharge duties in fullswing.

Next, the commanderreported to Lt-Gen Tha

sented related documentson the ambulance to Lt-Gen Tha Aye. Lt-Gen ThaAye then handed the medi-cal equipment to the medi-cal superintendent ofMonywa Hospital and thecommander, the medicalequipment to the medicalsuperintendent ofMyinmu Hospital.

Later, Lt-Gen ThaAye inspected Monywa-Sagaing road section andMandalay-Nay Pyi Tawroad section and arrivedin Nay Pyi Taw in theevening.—MNA

Talks on Analysis of Richnesson 14 November

YANGON, 12 Nov— With the spon-sorship of Sinma Furniture Co, Zin YuCho Co and Sein Yadana Wuthmon Co,the Union of Myanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerce and Industrywill organize an educative talk at its firstfloor on Minye Kyawswa Road in

Lanmadaw Township on 14 Novemberafternoon.

Writer Kaung Hsu Wai will givetalks on Analysis of Richness.

Chairmen, executives and mem-bers of brother associations of theUMFCCI may attend the talks.— MNA

and Shan State (North) thrashed Man-dalay Division 80-63.

In the women’s event, MandalayDivision beat Yangon Division 62-33;and Sagaing Division routed Shan State(South) 45-28.

Tomorrow morning, Sagaing Divi-sion will play against Kachin State in themen’s event and Mandalay Division willcompete with Kachin State in the wom-en’s event. Moreover, Shan State (North)will meet with Ayeyawady Division inthe men’s event and Shan State (South)will play against Ayeyawady Divisionin the women’s event.— MNA

Minister U Aung Kyi chatting with jobhunters at Labour Office in No 5 region.

MNA

Managing

Director U

Sein Pe

makes

speech to

the train-

ees at the

opening of

the

course.

MNAYangon

Divisionplays

againstMandalayDivision

in 1stBasic

EducationLevel ISD

U-16Men’s andWomen’sBasketballTourney.

MNA

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 13 November, 2009

Today’s vehicles and motorways in Myanmar (9)Article: Kayan Soe Myint; Photos: Road Administration Department

A two-axle automobile with safety norms.

A truck with aluminium body and three axles which is designed for safety.

A truck designed to carry particular goods prescribed by the producers.

(from page 16)holding capacity of atruck depends not onlyon the length and spacebut also on other me-chanical strengths of thetruck. Overloading atruck with goods by en-larging its body, placinggoods with their edgesfar off the permitted sites,and failure to fastengoods cause traffic jamstriggered by accidents,damage to the vehicles(having broken leaf-springs, frames, axles andtyres). Furthermore,roads and bridges are nolonger serviceable beforetheir expected terms.Reconstruction of Ve-hicles

The Vehicle Inspec-tion Division under theRoad Administration De-partment givespermissions to owners toreconstruct their trucksin line with the law, by-law, procedures and di-rectives unless the proc-ess can cause trafficsafety and damage toroads. Regarding main-tenance of vehicles, re-placing major engineparts and reconstructionof vehicles are restrictedwith orders and notifica-tions. However, ownersare still violating the re-strictions variously inreconstructing their lor-ries with the intention ofoverloading the lorrieswith loads. The VehicleInspection Division un-der the Road Adminis-tration Departmentstandardizes the types oftrucks based on the con-ditions of the roads in thenation, and the law andbylaw internationally is-

sued for types and capaci-ties of vehicles.

Reconstructing atruck and increasing thenumber of axles can boostholding capacity, but hurt-ing the mobility of thetruck and reducing the re-sistance of the roads andbridges. The length, width

and height of each type oftrucks are prescribed inaccordance with theASEAN standards. A re-constructed truck has alonger, wider and higherframe, so it gets somewhatdifficult for the truck topass by other vehiclescoming towards it, and tomove in bends, and harmthe vehicles and road us-ers. A lengthened truck hasto take more space to turn,and it can hit other vehi-cles at bends. And a truckwith a higher frame canraise its CG, can overturnat bends, and may hit othervehicles loaded withgoods.Facts about trucks inVehicle Law, and bylaw

General provisionsmanifested in Section (5),Chapter (2) of 1964 Vehi-cle Law and Para (8) (a)and (b), Chapter (2) of1989 Vehicle Law say that

the owner is responsiblefor maintaining his vehi-cle, and he has to maintainhis vehicle in line with theprinciples.

Section (6), Chapter(2) of 1964 Vehicle Law,and sub-para (a) (6) of para(16) of Chapter (2) andpara (24) of Chapter (3) of

1989 Vehicle Law say thatan owner is not allowed tohave his vehicle registeredif he does not maintain orhe reconstructs his vehi-cle without seeking ap-proval.

In 1989 Vehicle Law,Chapter (3) stipulates in-

stallation of equipment ina vehicle; para (26) (d),need to install reflectionchips; and sub-para (k),prescription to installsmall lights to make itsheight and width notice-able at night apart fromother lights, and to installsmall lights around thebody if it is longer than 24feet (7.31 meters).

Para (31) (a) and (b) ofChapter (3) of 1989 Vehi-cle Law prescribes the needof trucks, articulated trucksand trawlers to state netweight, maximum weightof loads, and total weighton their right side.

Para (102) (a) and (b)of Chapter (6) of 1989Vehicle Law says that themaximum number of pas-

sengers (or) maximumweight of goods in a taxiare to be according to thedescriptions fixed by theCentral Registration Di-vision; and that a truckshall not be overloadedwith passengers or goods.Para (138) (b) says if an

overloaded truck is ex-posed according to bylaw(133) by an inspector, theowner or the person re-sponsible for the vehiclehas to unload extra goodsand watch them on hisown. If a supervisor car-ries out the process, theowner or the person re-sponsible for the vehiclehas to stand the cost.

Besides, para (165)(a) states that goods are tobe fastened systematicallyand firmly. Sub-para (b)says that a heavy truckshall not be higher than3.66 meters (12 feet) andfor a light truck, shall notbe higher than 3.05 me-ters (10 feet). And sub-para (c) states maximumedges of goods from the

gains by overloading isnothing if compared withdamage to the truck andthe roads. Owners do sowith the intention of ob-taining greater profits, re-ducing the number ofruns, and saving fuel,maintenance charges andtime. However, in thepragmatic world, that ismore risky, and roads andbridges are no longerserviceable before theirterms.

The Vehicle Inspec-tion Division under theRoad Administration De-partment inspects andgives permission to re-construct vehicles in linewith the vehicle law, by-law, procedure, order/di-rective, and ASEANstandards. The risks oftraffic accidents will beon the decrease if puni-tive action is taken againstthose owners who over-load their trucks on pub-lic roads.

Being an ASEANmember country,Myanmar has to abide bythe international andASEAN standards and thestandards for automobileproducers, regarding re-construction of vehicles.If so, there will fewer traf-fic accidents and less dam-age to roads and bridges.Furthermore, that willcontribute towards the Ve-hicle Inspection Divi-sion’s tasks for road safetyand durability.

(To be continued)Translation: MS

front and rear sides of thetruck.

Today, the commod-ity flow gets swifter, so itis needed to transportmore goods. In this re-gard, overloading trucksis less advantageous.

The benefit an owner

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A monk sounds a Buddhist instrument at the 4th China Xiamen International

Buddhist Items & Crafts Fair in Xiamen, a city of southeast China’s Fujian

Province, Nov. 12, 2009. More than 500 campanies from two sides of the

Straits and southeast Asia attended the fair which runs from 12 Nov to15.

INTERNET

PHNOM PENH, 12 Nov—Jackie Chan, better knownby Cambodians as Chhin Long and a famous HongKong and Hollywood film star, wishes to make a filmshowing Cambodia’s natural and cultural heritages,official news agency AKP reported on Thursday.

The intention was raised here on Wednesday byChan during a meeting with Sok An, Cambodiandeputy prime minister and minister of Councial ofMinisters, Eth Nith, official of the Council of Minis-ters, was quoted as saying.

On the occasion, Sok An expressed his support toJackie Chan’s wish and told him of the richness of thecountry’s natural and cultural heritages.

This is Jackie Chan’s third visit to Cambodia andhe will come back here again in the next six months forhis film, the official said.

Chan arrived here on Tuesday at the invitation ofthe International Peace Foundation as a speaker for the“Bridges - Dialogues towards a Culture of Peace”program, organized by the International Peace Foun-dation and the University of Cambodia.

Moreover, he was also invited to join a concert ofthe Southeast Asian Television channel along withmany other Cambodian singers.—Xinhua

ROME, 12 NOV—AnItalian inventor has com-bined faith and ingenuityto come up with a way tokeep church traditionsalive for the faithful with-out the fear of contractingswine flu — an electronicholy water dispenser.

The terracotta dis-penser, used in the north-ern town of Fornaci di

Jackie Chan wishes tomake film in Cambodia

A worshipper takes holy water from an automatic dispenser at a church inFornaci Di Briosco, around 40 km (25 miles) north of Milan

on 10 November, 2009.—INTERNET

BEIJING, 12 Nov—Richard Ramsey, 77, a 20-year Navy veteran fromNew Jersey, becameRenee Ramsey this June,according to PhiladelphiaInquirer Wednesday.

Richard may beamong the oldest peoplein the US to undergo asex-change operation.

Ramsey said she knewfrom the time she was achild that she was “differ-ent,” but she served in theNavy for 20 years as aman, and went on to marrytwice and have four chil-dren.

Xinhua

Oldest sex-change

person inUS at 77

Moscow, 12 Nov—President DmitryMedvedev on Thursdaydelivered his secondstate-of-the-nation ad-dress, with attention fo-cused on modernizationof the Russian economy.

Russia’s prestige onthe world arena cannot bedetermined by pastachievements, Medvedevsaid in his speech to theFederal Assembly, theRussian parliament. Thecountry’s oil and gasproduction facilities, nu-clear weapons, and in-dustrial and housing in-frastructure were mostly

GENEVA, 12 Nov—The situation of the dia-betes threat in developingcountries is particularlyworrying because of therapid increase of morbid-ity of the disease due tolifestyle changes and en-vironmental factors, a sen-ior World Health Organi-zation (WHO) expertsays.

Indian-born British

Ironman Manjit Singh,

59, set a record by

dragging an 8.5-tonne

bus some 21.2 metres

(69 feet six inches) —

with his hair

in London.

INTERNET

Italian invents anti-swine flu holywater dispenser

Briosco, functions like anautomatic soap dispenserin public washrooms — achurchgoer waves his orher hand under a sensorand the machine spurts outholy water.

“It has been a bit of anovelty. People initiallywere a bit shocked by thistechnological innovationbut then they welcomed it

with great enthusiasm andjoy. The members of thisparish have got used toit,” said Father PierangeloMotta. Catholics enteringand leaving churches usu-ally dip their hands intofonts full of holy water —which has been blessedby a priest — and makethe sign of the cross.

Xinhua

Russian president calls formodernization of economy

Diabetes situation particularly worryingin developing countries:

WHO expert

WASHIGTON, 12 NOV—New claims for unemploy-ment insurance fell more than expected last week,evidence the job market is slowly healing as theeconomy recovers.

Still, many analysts worry the nation could be infor a “jobless recovery” as the unemployment raterises despite some overall economic growth.

Xinhua

Jobless claims fall more thanexpected to 502K

“The problem is thatdiabetes prevalence is in-creasing very rapidly indeveloping countries ...and the rate of increase ismuch higher than whathappened in the westernworld 30 or 40 years ago,”said Dr Gojka Roglic, atechnical officer of theWHO’s Diabetes Unit, inan interview ahead of the

World Diabetes Day. More than 180 mil-

lion people worldwidehave diabetes, and thisnumber is likely to morethan double by 2030 with-out intervention, accord-ing to WHO estimates.About 80 percent of peo-ple with diabetes live inlow and middle incomecountries.—Xinhua

built in the Soviet era,he said. “All that stillhelps this country stayafloat, but it is rapidlybecoming outdated,” hesaid.

Medvedev said themodernization of theRussian economy was anissue for the country’ssurvival under currentcircumstances. “Thiscountry needs all-inclu-sive modernization inthe 21st century. Thatwould be our first mod-ernization based ondemocratic values andinstitutions,” Medvedevsaid.—Xinhua

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 13 November, 2009

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV CALMY CORAL VOY NO (36)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV CALMYCORAL VOY NO (36) are hereby notified that thevessels will be arriving on 12.11.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of S.P.W.5 where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: EASTERN-CAR LINERSINGAPORE PTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

Drugs to treat anemia in cancerpatients linked to thromboembolism

Mike Tyson arrested after LAairport scuffle

Former world heavy-weight boxing cham-

pion Mike Tyson.INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 12 Nov—Former heavyweight box-ing champion Mike Tysonwas arrested on Wednes-day after brawling with acelebrity photographer atLos Angeles InternationalAirport and injuring theman’s head, police said.

The photographer, whowas not immediatelyidentified, also was ar-rested. He suffered a cut

to his forehead and wastaken to a hospital. It wasnot known if Tyson washurt.

“There’s a lot of differ-ent versions to the story,”Los Angeles AirportPolice Sergeant JimHolcomb said. “That’s allgoing to come out later.But in this particular case,both individuals are goingto be pressing charges forbattery.”

The Los Angeles Times,citing an unnamed source,said Tyson told police thephotographer struck himin an attempt to provokehim, and the photographerclaimed Tyson punchedhim in the face and triedto take film from his cam-era.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 12 Nov—Medications frequentlygiven to cancer patients toreduce their risk of anemiaare associated with an in-creased risk of deep veinthrombosis or pulmonaryembolism, according toa new US research. Thefindings appear online onTuesday in the Journal ofthe National Cancer Insti-tute.

The anemia-reducingmedications, known aserythropoiesis-stimulat-ing agents (i.e., erythro-poietin and darbopoietin)or ESAs, stimulate redblood cell production and

areintended to reduce thenumber of blood transfu-sions required duringchemotherapy. However,concerns about the risksof deep vein thrombosisor pulmonary embolism(manifestations of ve-nous thromboembolism)and mortality exist.

“This research answersimportant questions aboutoutcomes of ESAs whenused in long-term clinicalpractice with oncology pa-tients,” said Dr Hershman,Assistant Professor ofMedicine and Epidemiol-ogy at Columbia Univer-sity Medical Center,

whose researchis dedi-cated to examining cancersurvivorship. “WhileESAs were given to reducethe need for blood trans-fusions, a substantialreduction in the use ofblood transfusions was notobserved. However, anincrease risk of deepvein thrombosis or pulmo-nary embolism wasconfirmed.” “This analysisconfirms the associationbetween ESAs andvenousthromboembolism,which was observed inprevious meta-analysis,”said Dr Hershman.

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Cars and pedestrians

pass along Broadway in

Times Square in Febru-

ary 2009 in New York

City. About 5,000

Americans a year are hit

and killed by cars while

crossing or walking

along a street, according

to a new report by US

association Transporta-

tion for America.

INTERNET

Int’l conference on disaster reductionkicks off in Nepal capital

KATHMANDU, 12 Nov— two-day international con-ference on disaster reduction-2009 has kicked off hereWednesday with the main agenda of discussion on fig-uring out various measures and steps to be taken in deal-ing disasters in Nepal, the Nepal news agency (RSS)reported on Thursday. Some 18 experts and officialsfrom Britain, South Korea, Japan, Maldives, India andBrazil are taking part in the conference organized byMinistry of Local Development, Dhankuta Municipal-ity Risk and Resilience Committee, Nepal Disaster andDevelopment Center and School of Applied Science,Northumbria University. —MNA/Xinhua

Gaddafi sends emissary totogo over sub-regional issuesLOME, 12 Nov—Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi,

who holds the African Union (AU) presidency, dis-patched an emissary to Togolese President FaureGnassingbe on Tuesday to discuss political issues inthe sub-region, national television reported.

The Togolese leader and the AU envoy held discus-sions notably on the problem of Guinea and the nextsummit of the African bloc, the report said, citingEmissary Mohammed Almadani Alazhari, the secre-tary general of the Community of Sahel-Sahara States(Cen-Sad). Guinea has plunged into deeper crisis sincethe military junta cracked down on the protest by theopposition on 28 September.

Despite the mediation by the West African blocECOWAS, the situation is stalled with the opposition’sdemand for the step-down of the junta and the latter’srefusal to back down. Both the AU and ECOWAS sus-pended Guinea following a coup by the junta in De-cember. President Gnassingbe and Alazhari also ex-changed views on Togo’s preparation for the electionscheduled for 28 February, 2010 after the expiry of firstterm of Gnassingbe, who was elected in April 2005.

MNA/Xinhua

A/H1N1 flu kills 36, infects62,800 in Chinese MainlandBEIJING, 12Nov—The A/H1N1 influenza has killed

36 and infected more than 62,800 people as of Wednes-day in the Chinese Mainland, the Health Ministry said.The Chinese Mainland reported 3,393 confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases in the 48 hours ending at 3 pm Wednes-day, the ministry said.

So far, nearly 75 percent of the patients have recov-ered. Among the 285 cases of serious conditions, 54have been cured, it said. As of Wednesday noon, nearly10.9 million Chinese people have been inoculated withthe A/H1N1 flu vaccine.

MNA/Xinhua

A policeman and volunteersassist a man, who was in-

jured by a suicide bomb blastin Charsadda, at Lady Read-ing hospital in Peshawar on

10 Nov, 2009. PakistaniTaliban militants vowed tofight a tough, protractedguerrilla war against the

army on Tuesday as a suicidecar-bomber killed up to 20

people in Charsadda, 20 km(12 miles) northeast of the

city of Peshawar, policesaid.—INTERNET

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A cameraman and photographer record imagesof fossilized bones of a new dinosaur species,

Aardonyx Celestae, from the early Jurassic period(about 200 million years old) during an

announcement of the discovery.—INTERNET

A bunch of Opinelknives ready to be sorted

at the knife manufac-turer’s factory inChambery, in the

French Savoie region inSeptember 2009. Thefamily-owned group,which was created in1890, employs around100 persons and pro-duces 3 million knivesper year.—INTERNET

Death toll of A/H1N1 flureaches 10 in Jordan

AMMAN, 12 Nov — Jordan reported two moreA/H1N1 flu deaths, bringing the country’s death tollof the influenza to ten, Jordan’s Health Ministry an-nounced on Wednesday.

One victim was a 50-year-old man who was takeninto the state-run Prince Hamzah Hospital on Nov 4,the ministry said in a statement.

Two days after, his situation deteriorated and hewas taken to the hospital’s intensive care unit, wherehe died on Tuesday, according to the ministry.

The second victim was a three-and-a-half-year oldgirl who was admitted into the King Abdullah I Hos-pital on Monday in a “very bad” condition.

The child, who suffered from cancer, died severalhours later, the ministry indicated.

As of Wednesday, the number of A/H1N1 flu casesregistered in Jordan hit 2,604 since the discovery ofthe first case in June, according to the Health Minis-try.—Xinhua

Finland’s death toll fromA/H1N1 flu rises to six

HELSINKI, 12 Nov — An 18-year old woman diedfrom A/H1N1 flu on Tuesday evening in Lahti,southern Finland, bringing the death toll of the newdisease to six in the country, Finnish media reportedon Wednesday.

The young woman had been suffering fromchronic diseases before catching the novel flu. Shewas sent to hospital with fever early on Tuesday anddied in the evening.

Finland has counted five fatal cases related toA/H1N1 flu previously, four of which were chronicpatients. A/H1N1 flu is spreading across Finland atpresent and 2,593 cases of the disease have been con-firmed in the Nordic country.

However, according to Finnish health authorities,the real number of infections with the virus could beseveral times of that.

Finland is now inoculating people belonging tothe high-risk groups, including health care person-nel, pregnant women, chronic patients under 65 andchildren aged between 6 months and 36 months.

Xinhua

Flu death rises to 12 inMongolia

ULAN BATOR, 12 Nov — The death toll from theA/H1N1 flu rose to 12 in Mongolia while the numberof infected people climbed to 955 with 737 in thecapital Ulan Bator alone, the health ministry saidon Wednesday.

Sukhbaatar Province registered its first flu case,increasing the number of infected provinces to 18,according to the Press and Information Service ofthe Ministry of Health. It meant that among the coun-try’s 21 provinces, only Bayan-Olgii, Dundgobi andGobi-Altai have not reported any flu cases, it said.

Mongolia declared a nationwide state of high dis-aster preparedness on 4 Nov in the wake of thespread of the A/H1N1 flu virus.

The health authorities have taken a series of meas-ures against the spread of the A/H1N1 virus since12 Oct, when the first A/H1N1 case was registeredin the country. The government has earmarked 6.4billion tugrik (4.5 million US dollars) to buyvaccines and anti-viral medications as well as medi-cal diagnostic equipment, and restricted cultural andsports activities.

Xinhua

H1N1 in large citiesmore of a challenge

ATLANTA, 12 Nov — H1N1 flu in Mexico City andNew York may have helped health experts understandthe challenges posed by disease response in largecities, researchers say.

David M Bell and colleagues at the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said by 2025,almost three-quarters of the world’s population willlive in cities.

“When millions of people are crowded together inhuge cities, responses to disease outbreaks that haveworked in rural areas or smaller towns may not workas well,” Bell said in a statement on Wednesday.

“Several questions emerged. For example, how doyou get many overlapping governmental agencies tocooperate? How do you get drugs and vaccines to peo-ple who travel, live in slums with no addresses, or arehomeless? How do you separate ill family membersfrom well ones in tiny one- or two-room apartments?”

US health experts will need to answer these ques-tions as the H1N1 pandemic continues, Bells said.

The findings are scheduled to be published to ap-pear in the December edition of Emerging InfectiousDiseases.

Internet

‘Optical biopsy’ for breastcancer tested

Work site wellness mayreduce absenteeism

GAINESVILLE, 12 Nov11— A US researcher istesting the accuracy of us-ing an “optical biopsy” todetermine breast cancer.Huabei Jiang, a biomedi-cal engineer at theUniversity of Florida inGainesville, has beenworking 10 years to de-velop phase-contrast dif-fuse optical tomographythat can determine whetherbreast growths are cancer-ous without needles orsurgery.

Jiang’s newest appara-tus is undergoing tests atthe Moffitt Cancer Center

in Tampa, Fla. It uses non-harmful laser light andcomputer algorithms tocreate an image of thebreast’s interior thatshows signs of cancer —such as high density ofblood vessels — not vis-ible in standard X-raymammograms.

In addition, fiber opticlights span 10 wave-lengths — colours — thatchange in predictableways when they strikecertain compounds,such as oxygenatedhemoglobin, water orlipids.—Internet

Post breast cancer treatment pain common

ATLANTA, 12 Nov —Employees participating ina large-scale, work-sitewellness programme hadreduced absenteeism, USresearchers found.

Researchers at theEmory University RollinsSchool of Public Healthstudied environmentalweight management inter-ventions implemented at12 work sites at DowChemical Co in 2006-2007. Five sites receivedintense weight manage-ment interventions, fourreceived moderate inter-ventions and three re-

ceived Dow’s standard in-dividual programmes.

For the moderate or in-tense intervention employ-ees, the average days ab-sent due to illness per yeardecreased from 3.9 days in2006 to 3.4 days in 2007.Researchers found thataverage absenteeism daysat the moderate or intensesites were 1.5 days lowerthan at the standard sitesbetween 2006-2007.

Cost savings due to re-duced absenteeism wereestimated at $414.90 peremployee per year, the re-searchers said.—Internet

COPENHAGEN, 12 Nov —Almost 50 percent ofwomen with breast cancerreported pain two to threeyears after treatment, re-searchers in Denmark said.

The study, published inthe Journal of the Ameri-can Medical Association,found younger women

who had received supple-mental radiation therapywere the more likely tohave pain.

Dr Rune Gartner of theUniversity of Copenha-gen and colleagues ques-tioned 3,754 women ages18-70 about pain after anaverage of 26 months af-ter surgery for breast can-cer and found 1,543 pa-tients reported pain in oneor more areas.

Of these, 13 percent re-ported severe pain, 39 per-cent reported moderatepain and 48 percent re-ported light pain.

Adjuvant radiationtherapy or axillary lymph

node dissection — ratherthan sentinel lymph nodedissection — were amongfactors associated with anincreased likelihood ofpain, the study also found.

“There was a signifi-cant association of age onreporting pain, whereyoung age was associatedwith higher risk, especiallyfor patients receivingbreast-conserving surgery,the risk being highest forthose women ages 18-39receiving breast-conserv-ing surgery compared withwomen ages 60-69,” thestudy authors said in astatement.

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S P O R T SPhelps second in 200m medley

at Stockholm World CupSTOCKHOLM, 12 Nov—Michael Phelps finished

second to South Africa’s Darian Townsendin in the200m medley final at the short-course World Cuphere on Wednesday.

Phelps continued to struggle to meet expectationsin the old-style suit that will be required as the onlyeligible next year.

Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals atthe 2008 Beijing Olympics, clocked 1 minute 53.93seconds, more than two seconds behind Townsendin,who won in 1:51.79.

Earlier, Phelps failed to qualify for the 100m but-terfly final after ending 11th in qualifying heats in51.06 seconds. Kaio Almeida of Brazil was fastestin 50.34.

It was the third final that Phelps missed at theevent. On Tuesday he failed to qualify for the finalsof the 100 freestyle and 100 backstroke, in which hewas disqualified for swimming too long under wa-ter.—Xinhua

LONDON COLNEY, 12 Nov— England winger JamesMilner is praying that Fabio Capello will give his un-derstudies a chance to take the spotlight before decid-ing on his squad for next year’s World Cup.

While the likes of John Terry, Frank Lampard andWayne Rooney are certain to be on the plane to SouthAfrica, Milner is one of a group of players still fight-ing for a seat on the flight.

If Theo Walcott and Steven Gerrard are fit in Mayand remain Capello’s ideal combination on the flanks,then Milner is competing with David Beckham, AaronLennon, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Ashley Young and JoeCole for the back-up places.—Internet

MELBOURNE, 12 Nov—Tiger Woods made a spec-tacular birdie-laden startto the Australian Mastersand only marred his open-ing round with a final holebogey at Kingston Heath.

The American worldnumber one on Thursdayblasted his way to a six-under 66 as he took apartthe revered sandbelt lay-out in his first Australiantournament appearance in11 years.

The 14-time majorwinner claimed sevenbirdies, offset by just onebogey, to be one stroke offthe early lead in the Aus-tralian Masters in hisquest for a 93rd tourna-ment title.

“I felt good today, I hitthe ball pretty decent,”Woods said.

“I didn’t make a lot ofputts but I had great speedand a couple of iron shotswhich were 30 to 40 feetaway.

“The crowd was greattoday. People were obvi-ously excited about ourpairing and the peoplewere extremely respectful,

Woods cards 66 in opening roundof Australian Masters

PARIS, 12 Nov—Worldnumber one RogerFederer was stunned byunseeded Frenchman

LONDON, 12 Nov—Chelsea’s Portuguese de-fender Jose Bosingwa willbe out for about threemonths after he under-went surgery on his leftknee this week, a state-ment issued by the Pre-mier League leaders onWednesday said.

The 27-year-old hasbeen out since mid-Octo-ber with the problem andis not expected back untilthe New Year.

“Chelsea FootballClub can confirm thatJose Bosingwa underwentarthroscopic surgery onhis left knee this week.His recovery time will beapproximately threemonths,” the Londonside’s statement said.

But there was betternews for the Blues, fivepoints clear of Arsenaland champions Manches-ter United at the top of thetable, in the announce-ment that their Englandleft-back Ashley Coledoes not need surgery for

Sweden’s Alshammar hits Worldmark in 50m butterfly

at Stockholm WCSTOCKHOLM, 12 Nov—Sweden’s Therese

Alshammar set a new world record timing 24.46 sec-onds for the women’s short course 50m butterfly onWednesday at the World Cup.

She broke herself the old mark of 24.75 secondson 17 Oct in Durban.—Xinhua

Hardy marks world record atStockholm swimming WC

STOCKHOLM, 12 Nov—Jessica Hardy from theUnited States broke her own world record in wom-en’s 50m breaststroke with a time of 28.96 secondsat the fourth leg of the short course World Cup hereon Wednesday.

Her former mark of 29.36 seconds was set in Mos-cow last Saturday.—Xinhua

China’s Liu sets 200m butterflyworld record at WC

STOCKHOLM, 12 Nov—China’s Liu Zige broke thewomen’s 200m butterfly world record at a WorldCup short course event here on Wednesday.

Liu clocked two minutes, 2.5 seconds to beatJapanese Yuko Nakanishi’s previous mark of 2:03.12set in Tokyo in February last year.—Xinhua

Marshall breaks 50m backstrokeworld record at WC

STOCKHOLM, 12 Nov—American Peter Marshallclocked a world record 22.73 seconds in the final ofthe men’s 50 metres backstroke at a short courseWorld Cup event here on Wednesday.

Marshall broke his previous mark of 22.75 set inDurban, South Africa, on 17 Oct.—Xinhua

Roger Federer of Switzerland leaves the court

after by defeated by Julien Benneteau of France

in the Paris Masters tennis tournament on 11

November, 2009.—XINHUA

Federer upset by Benneteau inParis Masters

Julien Benneteau 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-4 in the secondround at the Paris Masterstennis tournament onWednesday.

Federer’s exit cappeda dramatic day at theBercy arena, whereRafael Nadal saved fivematch points to beatSpanish compatriotNicolas Almagro, andformer three-time cham-pion Marat Safin bid fare-well to the tennis circuit.

Xinhua

Milner wants chance to takethe spotlight with England

England footballer James Milner.—INTERNET

Beckham’s Galaxy battle toreach MLS title match

LOS ANGELES, 12Nov—The Los AngelesGalaxy, with DavidBeckham on board andLandon Donovan onsong, battle for a berth inMajor League Soccer’schampionship match onFriday when they take on

David Beckham of theLos Angeles Galaxy.

INTERNET

Houston in the WesternConference final.

It seemed an unlikelyscenario early in the sea-son for a club thatequalled the league’sworst record in 2008, andstarted 2009 with 11draws in their first 13matches.

England star Beckhamwas at the centre of astorm as he stayed on atItalian club AC Milan fourmonths beyond his origi-nal loan period, provok-ing the ire not only ofGalaxy fans but also ofteammate Donovan - whoquestioned Beckham’scommitment to the USleague in a book.

Internet

Chelsea’s Portugueseplayer Jose Bosingwa,will be out for about

three months after heunderwent surgery on

his left knee this week, astatement issued by thePremier League leaders

on Wednesday said.INTERNET

Tiger Woods.INTERNET

they were actually polic-ing themselves, which wasgreat.” Woods justifiedhis favourite tag as hereeled off five birdies onhis homeward nine holes,including three in a row.

Watched by thousandsof fans who ringed thefairways, Woods camewithin one shot of thecourse record of 65, heldby Australians RobertAllenby and AnthonyPainter before he gave upa shot at the last holewhen he hooked his teeshot into trees and scram-bled to make a bogey.

Internet

Chelsea’s Bosingwa out forthree months

a shin injury.“Ashley Cole is suffer-

ing from an aggravationof a depressed fracture ofthe tibia, originally pickedup against Atletico Ma-drid at Stamford Bridge,”Chelsea’s statement said.“The injury will not re-quire surgery.”

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr. M.S.T.

During the past 24 hours, weather has been generally fair in

the whole country. Night temperatures were (3°C) to (4°C)

below November average temperatures in Northern Shan

State and Chin States, Lower Sagaing Division, (5°C)

below November average temperatures in Upper Sagaing

Division, (4°C) above November average temperatures in

Mon State, (5°C) above November average temperatures in

Kayah State and about November average temperatures in

the remaining States and Divisions. The significant night

temperature was Haka (4°C).

Maximum temperature on 11-11-2009 was 98°F.

Minimum temperature on 12-11-2009 was 69°F. Relative

humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 12 -11-2009 was 84%.

Total sun shine hours on 11-11-2009 was (9.8) hours approx.

Rainfall on 12-11-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,

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2009 was (111.06) inches at Mingaladon, (122.09) inches

at Kaba-Aye and (129.41) inches at Central Yangon.

Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mph

from Northeast at (09:30) hours MST on 12-11-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is cloudy in the South and

Northwest Bay and partly cloudy in the Andaman Sea and

elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 13th November 2009:

Except for light rain are likely to be isolated in Mandalay

Divisioin and weather will be generally fair in the whole

country. Degree of certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Sea will be slight in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood of slight

decrease of night temperature in the Eastern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for

13-11-2009: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for

13-11-2009: Fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for

13-11-2009: Partly cloudy.

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Bacon paintingduring an

exhibition atthe GalleriaBorghese inRome on 11November,

2009.INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 12 Nov—A new U.S. study hasshown that green tea may help reduce the risk of oralcancer, although scientists are reluctant to officiallyendorse green tea as an effective way of cancerprevention.

The study was published in the November issue ofthe Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of theAmerican Association for Cancer Research.

Researchers at the University of Texas’ AndersonCancer Center assessed clinical response of green teain oral pre-malignant lesions and found 58.8 percent ofpatients at the highest doses displayed clinical response,compared with 18.2 percent among those taking placebo.

They also observed a handful of biomarkers thatmay be important in predicting cancer development.During the study, patients were followed for 27.5months and atthe end of the study period, 15 of themdeveloped oral cancers.

Patients with mild to moderate dysplasia had alonger time to develop an oral cancer if they took greentea extract, but there was no difference in oral cancerdevelopment overall between those who took green teaand those who did not.—Xinhua

Study offers more evidence togreen tea’s anti-cancer effect

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12th Waning of Tazaungmon 1371 ME Friday, 13 November, 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

Myanmar youth beatGuam 3-2 in AFC U-19

YANGON, 12 Nov— The qualifiers of the AFCU-19 Championship 2010 continued at Zibo SportsCentre of the People’s Republic of China yesterdayafternoon.

Myanmar youth team beat Guam team 3-2.Myanmar youth team secured two wins and

three losses in five matches.— MNA

SCIENCE DAILY, 12 Nov—A study at ÖrebroUniversity in Sweden indicates that mobile phonesand other cordless telephones have a biologicaleffect on the brain. It is still too early to say if anyhealth risks are involved, but medical researcherFredrik Söderqvist recommends caution in the useof these phones, above all among children andadolescents. Few children who regularly use mobilephones use a headset often or always, even thoughthe Swedish Radiation Safety Authority recom-mends this.—Internet

Wireless phones can affect thebrain, Swedish study suggests

Mobile phones and other cordless telephoneshave a biological effect on the brain, according

to new research.

Today’s vehicles and motorways in Myanmar (9)Article: Kayan Soe Myint; Photos: Road Administration Department

It is vivid that auto-mobile producing com-panies around the worldhave turned to particulardesigns for safety ac-cording to types of serv-ices and holding capac-ity. They manifest exactitems about the automo-biles concerned in thecatalogues. For instance,some facts prescribed inthe catalogue for a truckare engine power, horse-power, length, width,height of the truck,length, width, height ofthe space, length, thick-ness and width of the

frame, the truck’s resist-ance systems (size andnumber of leaf-springs),size and number of layersof tyres, net weight of thevehicle, permitted weightof loads, and total weightof the vehicle and loads.

The Vehicle Inspec-tion Division under theRoad Administration De-partment fixes availableweights of loads fortrucks in consistencewith the principles enu-merated in the Motor Ve-hicle Law and Bylaw,procedures, restrictions,and ASEAN standards.

Owners’ Reconstructionof Vehicles

It is noticed thattrucks in foreign coun-tries are used in particu-lar types of services andthey carry particulartypes of goods with avail-able weights fixed by theautomobile producersconcerned. Moreover,there, vehicles are drivenat the speed limits fixedaccording to the types ofroads, thus resulting inless damage to vehiclesand roads.

In contrast, owners inMyanmar reconstruct

their trucks on purposeto overload goods suchas replacing original alu-minium frames withstrong iron ones, rein-forcing the lower struc-tures of the frames, rein-forcing leaf-springs insize and number, replac-ing original axles andtyres with stronger ones,and replacing bodies ofother types of vehicleswith bodies of trucks,thereby harming the bal-ances, control systemsand brake systems of thevehicles and causing fre-quently traffic accidents,collisions, and damageto roads and bridges.

Owners give reasonsthat they just intend tostrengthen their trucks,but such unsystematicreconstruction of trucksare against the standardsand norms for safety. So,the Road AdministrationDepartment never allowssuch unsystematic re-construction of trucks. In general, the goods-

(See page 10)A tipper lorry with three axles.

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