the new light of myanmar 18-01-2010

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Volume XVII, Number 277 4th Waxing of Tabodwe 1371 ME Monday, 18 January, 2010

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development of other sectors of the economyas well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented eco-nomic system

* Development of the economy inviting participa-tion in terms of technical know-how and invest-ments from sources inside the country andabroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy mustbe kept in the hands of the State and the nationalpeoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the en-tire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural her-itage and national character

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

ards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace and tran-quillity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

Local farmers reaping the benefits of Bawbin DamByline: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

Local farmers are on brink of higher incomes owing to Bawbin Dam.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye of Ministry ofDefence oversees development of

Tanai, Phakant townshipsNAY PYI TAW, 17 Jan — Lt-Gen Tha Aye of the

Ministry of Defence, accompanied by Kachin State Peaceand Development Council Chairman Northern Com-mand Commander Maj-Gen Soe Win and departmentalofficials, inspected the durability of Tanai Bridge in TanaiTownship, Myitkyina District, Kachin State, on 14 Janu-ary morning. He called for carrying out maintenancetasks of the bridge and viewed the documentary photos onbridge construction.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye visited the post office, telegraphoffice and digital auto exchange in Tanai and met withofficers and other ranks and their families at the localbattalion.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Tha Aye inspected construc-tion of Aung Moe San model village, five miles from thesouth to Tanai, reclamation of land in Nankhamyan fieldfor summer paddy cultivation, digging of canal and flowof water, reclamation of land for crop cultivation of TanaiTownship Yuzana multi-purpose agriculture and live-

stock project and growing of tapioca and other crops.Next, Lt-Gen Tha Aye met local people and

members of social organizations at Shaduzut village inPhakant Township, Mohnyin District. There he inspectedprogress in construction of the model village and greetedthe local people.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye oversaw tasks of Phakant Town-ship Yuzana multi-purpose agriculture and livestockproject, building of factories and staff quarters, landreclamation and production of natural fertilizers. He nextattended a summer paddy cultivation ceremony of campNo. 1 and spread paddy strains into the filed.

Later, Lt-Gen Tha Aye met local people at Donbanvillage, Phakant Township, encouraged the local womentaking a tailoring course at the village domestic trainingschool and cordially met the local people of Lawa village.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye met with officers and other ranksand their families of the local battalion at MogaungStation and presented gifts to them.—MNA

Local farmers ofZigon and Gyobingauktownships in Bago Di-vision now have higherincome as they can grow

summer paddy in addi-tion to monsoon paddyevery year.

The local farmerscan do so due to Bawbin

Dam. Making better useof water from Bawbindam, local farmers have

been able to practice dou-ble and triple-croppingpatterns.

Bawbin Dam is lo-cated betweenGyobingauk Township

and Zigon Township.Construction of Bawbindam began in 1999-2000 and was com-pleted in 2003-2004.

Staff Officer UThan Hla of ConstructionGroup No. 2 of IrrigationDepartment said,“Bawbin dam is formedwith a main dam and asupporting dam. Themain dam is namedBawbin. 1 and the sup-porting dam Bawbin. 2.Bawbin. 2 has strongwater inflow and Bawbin.1 has enough water stor-age capacity. The dambenefits 30,000 acres offarmlands.”

The earthen typefacility is built by dam-ming Bawbin creek, 14miles east of ZigonTownship. The maindam is 910 feet in lengthand the supporting damis 1,590 feet in length.

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PERSPECTIVES

Encourage innovations forfactories to run at full ca-pacity

* 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

With the concept that at the heart of thedrive for national development lies the indus-trial sector, the government is taking all neces-sary measures for ensuring proportionate devel-opment between the State-owned and the pri-vate-owned industries.

Thagara Industrial Region, established aspart of the goal, manufactures bulldozers andexcavators to contribute towards constructionprojects.

Today, heavy machinery is in high de-mand due to a great number of constructionprojects, and so the government is building aheavy machinery factory in Thagara IndustrialRegion to meet the demand.

The factory produces bulldozers, excava-tors and cranes. It is also gearing up to producemedium bulldozers and compactors. It can pro-duce 100 bulldozers and 100 excavators, alongwith sizeable number of three-ton cranes a year.

All the units of the heavy machinery thefactory has produced are in full operation atwork. Bulldozers produced in Heavy MachineryFactory (Thagara) are cheaper, but strongerthan existing ones in construction sites.

The 150-horsepower excavator weighing22 tones is effective because it can excavate onecubic meter of earth at one go. Excavators areproduced under quality control.

So far, the government has founded 18industrial zones for industrial development. Asa result, the number of State-owned factorieshas increased from 624 to 768, and that of pri-vate-owned factories, from 3500 to 118,000 be-tween 1988 and now.

Industrial zones are, indeed, a driving forcefor transforming the nation into an industrializedone. It is, therefore, required to encourage inno-vations and hard work to make sure that thefactories can run at full capacity and boost pro-duction of marketable quality products.

PBANRDA discusses road construction tasks

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Jan – Minister for Progress ofBorder Areas and National Races and DevelopmentAffairs Col Thein Nyunt addressed work coordina-tion meeting on construction of inter-district roads atthe ministry, here, on 15 January.

After hearing reports on work progress andfollow-up tasks for 2009-10 fiscal year, the ministerassigned duties.

District-to-district road No (1) that links Man-dalay and Yangon Divisions is 400 miles and onefurlong long, and 194 miles long tarred road and

gravel road have been constructed on it so far.Works are underway on construction of 146

miles and four furlongs long tarred road and 110 milesand six furlongs long gravel road along 507 miles andfour furlongs long district-to-district road No (2) thatlinks Mandalay Division and Mon State.

Arrangements are being made to build 65 milesand two furlongs long gravel road on 339 miles andseven furlong longs district-to-district road No (3) thatlinks Kachin State and Sagaing Division during 2009-10 fiscal year.— MNA

Minister Col Thein Nyunt addresses work coordination meeting on construction of inter-district roads.—MNA

Meeting on e-Banking transformation

NAY PYI TAW, 17Jan—The 116th meetingof the Banks SupervisoryCommittee under the

Ministry of Finance andRevenue and the execu-tive committee ofMyanmar Banks Associa-

tion was held at the minis-try here today.

Minister for Financeand Revenue Maj-Gen Hla

Tun called for transforma-tion to e-Banking Systemand heard reports on bank-ing services.—MNA

New TOA MandarinDuck paint on the market

YANGON, 17 Jan—TOA paint (Thailand)Co Ltd and GreenlineMyanmar Group Co Ltdintroduced new prod-ucts, Mandarin Duckpaint and Alkali Resist-ing Primer, at ChatriumHotel here this morning.Officials from two com-panies extended greet-ings.

Mr. Wuttipong ofTOA paint (Thailand) CoLtd explained about Man-darin Duck water colour,

Minister Maj-Gen Hla Tun addresses 116th meeting of the Banks Supervisory Committee andexecutive committee of Myanmar Banks Association.—MNA

TOA Decorative Paint,TOA Wood Coating,TOA Special Paints andHeavy Guard and TOAConstruction Chemical.

TOA MandarinDuck paint can promisehigh quality and luckydraw programme is addedto each can of paint.

Those who want toorder the products maycontact No. (65),Konzaydan Road,Pabedan Township,Yangon (Ph: 384119 and

246194) and No (310), 80th

Street between 20th and21st streets Aung-myethazan Township,Mandalay (Ph: 02-64858and 09-8617140).

MNA

TOA Mandarin Duckpaint and AlkaliResisting Primerbeing introduced.

MNA

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Russia, US should ratify STARTtreaty simultaneously, Medvedev says

Airstrike kills four Taleban militants,wounds two in E Afghanistan

KHOST, 17 Jan — Airstrikes against Taleban militantsleft four militants dead and two others injured in east Af-ghanistan’s Paktika Province on Saturday, said a provincialadministration spokesman.

“A group of militants were busy planting roadside bombsin Urgon District this morning to target Afghan and foreignforces when war planes of international troops pounded thesite, killing four rebels on the spot,” Mukhlis Afghan, thespokesman, told Xinhua. Two more militants, who wereinjured, were also detained by the Afghan forces, he said.

Troops also seized a few assault rifles and explosive de-vices in the area, he added.

Taleban outfits have yet to make comments.Eastern and southern parts of the militancy-hit country

have been the scene of Taleban-led insurgency over the pastcouple of years.

Parts of the 37,000 additional US and NATO troops an-nounced by US President Barak Obama and allied coun-tries are expected to be deployed in eastern and southernregions to combat Taleban-led militancy there.—Xinhua

A resident inspects aburnt vehicle after a

bomb attack in Bagh-dad recently. A stickybomb attached to a

vehicle wounded threepassengers who work in

the office of an Iraqiparliamentarian, inAbu Nawas Street in

central Baghdad, policesaid.—INTERNET

People gather arounda destroyed police

vehicle after a blast inGhazni on 13 Jan,2010. A roadside

bomb hit an Afghanpolice vehicle, killing

one officer andwounding six of his

colleagues onWednesday in Ghazniprovince, southwest ofKabul, officials said.

INTERNET

US soldier dies in AfghanistanKABUL, 17 Jan — An American soldier has died in

Afghanistan after being wounded while fighting Taleban-led militants, NATO said on Sunday.

In a brief statement, NATO’s International SecurityAssistance Force (ISAF) said the soldier had died onSaturday in eastern Afghanistan, an increasingly volatiletheatre of the war against the anti-government militants.

“An ISAF service member from the United Statesdied of wounds yesterday as a result of an engagementwith militants in eastern Afghanistan,” it said.

It gave no other details. Around 113,000 internationalservice men and women are deployed to Afghanistanunder US and NATO command for the fight against themilitants, now in its ninth year. Another 40,000 troopsare being sent to the country and are due to arrive byAugust, military officials have said

Internet

Iraq captures suspectedsenior leader of al-Qaeda

BAGHDAD, 17 Jan — Iraqi security forces have cap-tured one of the top leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq net-work, a military spokesman said on Saturday.

Major General Qassim Atta, spokesman of the Op-erations Command, told a televised Press conferencethat the Iraqi security forces captured Ali Hussein al-Azzawi, a senior leader of al-Qaeda groups across Iraq.

Azzawi, an ex-pilot of Iraqi Airways, was alleg-edly responsible for several high-profile attacks, in-cluding deadly suicide bombing against UN buildingin 2003.—Xinhua

NATO soldier killedin Afghanistan

KABUL, 17 Jan — A sol-dier of NATO-led Interna-tional Security AssistanceForce (ISAF) was killed inthe militancy-hit Afghani-stan on Saturday, a Press re-lease of the alliance said.

“An ISAF servicemember was killed today inan IED (Improvised Explo-sive Device) strike insouthern Afghanistan,” thePress release said.

However, it did not dis-close the exact place of theincident.

January has proveddeadly to the NATO-ledtroops in Afghanistan,which have lost around twodozen service members inthe militancy-plagued landso far this month.

MNA/Xinhua

Journalist killed, soldiersdeployed to Tijuana

MEXICO CITY, 17 Jan —The bloody and brokencorpse of a radio journalistknown for his broadcastson drug trafficking wasfound on Saturday on ahighway a few miles (kilo-metres) from the city wherehe was kidnapped, pros-ecutors said.

Linea Directa radio sta-tion reporter Jose Luis

Romero was forced at gun-point out of a Los Mochisrestaurant on 30 Dec. A fewhours later, gunmen killedthe chief police investiga-tor in the northern Mexicanstate of Sinaloa who hadstarted investigating thekidnapping.

Sinaloa assistant stateprosecutor Rolando BonLopez said Romero’s bodywas found shoved into ablack bag with his handsbound and broken, two bul-lets in his head and anotherin his shoulder.

Lopez said he believed,based on the condition of thecorpse, that Romero waskilled soon after he was kid-napped. Sinaloa is home tosome of Mexico’s mostpowerful cartels.—Internet

A woman with childrenwalk near a military

checkpoint in Tijuana,Mexico, on 16 Jan,

2010.INTERNET

MOSCOW, 17 Jan —Russia and the UnitedStates should ratify thenew strategic arms reduc-tion treaty (START) si-multaneously, PresidentDmitry Medvedev said onSaturday.

“I consider it ex-tremely important. Wemust synchronize the rati-fication procedures forthe relevant documents,”the Interfax news agencyquoted Medvedev as tell-ing parliamentary leaders.

“We cannot allow asituation which once hap-pened during the Sovietperiod when the Soviet

Union ratified these docu-ments and the US didnot,” he said. “I think thisis something our Ameri-can partners should knowabout.”

The president alsospoke positively of thecurrent negotiations be-tween the two countries.

“Negotiations willcontinue,” he said. “Theyare tough, but in generalwe have agreed on manypoints with the Ameri-cans. We have taken quiteserious steps forward andhave brought our posi-tions closer together to aconsiderable extent.”

Russia and the UnitedStates have exerted in-tense efforts trying toclinch a deal on a replace-ment document to theSTART-1 that expired 6Dec, 2009.

The talks are expectedto resume in the secondhalf of this month, For-eign Minister SergeiLavrov earlier said earlier.

The START-1, signedin 1991 between the So-viet Union and the UnitedStates, obliged both sidesto reduce the number oftheir nuclear warheads to6,000 and delivery vehi-cles to 1,600.—Xinhua

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TCL starts to build $3.6 b 8.5G LCDproduction line

Home trading in Beijing plummetsin first two weeks of 2010

Baoshan Steel reportsprofit loss in 2009

SHANGHAI, 17 Jan—Net profit in Baoshan Iron &Steel Co, China’s biggest steel marker, declined 11 per-cent year-on-year to 5.75 billion yuan (842 million USdollars) in 2009. Its total revenue stood at 148.3 billionyuan last year, down 25.95 percent from a year earlier,said the Shanghai-based company in an annual busi-ness report filed to the Shanghai Stock Exchange onSaturday, without giving reasons for the losses.

China’s steel product prices underwent frequentfluctuations last year, against the backdrop that theworld economic recession reduced steel demand bothat home and abroad.—Xinhua

A man takes a photo with a mobile phone at an exhibition in Santiago, Chile.Wrong-footed by rocketing consumer demand, Asian technology suppliers arescrambling to expand capacity before inventories run dry of everything from

smart phones to flat-panel screens.—INTERNET

Syria open to foreignbanking investors

DAMASCUS, 17 Jan—Syria is offering foreign inves-tors a majority stake in its private banks as the coun-try pushes ahead with efforts to boost economic re-forms and move away from its socialist legacy.

The move also comes as Syria steadily sheds itsimage as a radical in the political arena, with ties warm-ing up with former foes such as the United States,France and Saudi Arabia.

Central bank governor Adib Mayala told AFP onWednesday that under a 4 January banking law themaximum capital stake for foreign investors was be-ing raised to 60 percent from the current 49 percent.

“It is an important measure which will boost thecapacity of Syrian banks,” Mayala said.

Private banks were authorised in Syria under a lawpassed in 2001 — a year after President Bashar al-Assad replaced his late father Hafez al-Assad at thehead of the country — but with Syrian nationals hold-ing the majority stakes.—Internet

Cranes at a construction site in Berlin.According to a weekly the German governmentwill raise its growth rate forecast for 2010 from

1.2 percent to 1.5 percent in its annual economicreport.—INTERNET

Customers wait as a teller counts money at a bankin Damascus. Syria is offering foreign investors amajority stake in its private banks as the countrypushes ahead with efforts to boost economic reformsand move away from its socialist legacy.—INTERNET

BEIJING, 17 Jan—Prop-erty trading in Beijing inthe first two weeks of thisyear slumped, following astring of governmentmoves to curb soaring realestate prices.

Beijing property trans-action management au-thority said on its websiteon Friday that sales of fu-ture delivery residentialapartments during 1 Jan to13 Jan were down 63.9percent month on monthto 3,031 units, comparedwith 8,397 units in thefirst half of December.

Those for second-handhomes also plunged 73.3percent to 4,800 units, ac-cording to data from thewebsite.

The relatively smalltransaction volume waslargely due to a strongwait-and-see mood fromthe buyers, in response tothe government’s effortsto deflate property bub-bles, said Gao Shan, vice

general manager of theBeijing-based Compre-hensive Real Estate Serv-ice Corporation.

The central govern-ment has taken a series ofmeasures, including trim-ming loans, intensifyingland supply and marketmonitoring, and endingtax rebates on propertytransaction, to preventhome prices from furthersoaring since the previousmonth.—Xinhua

SHENZHEN, 17 Jan—China’s top appliancemaker TCL on Saturdaystarted building a 8.5-gen-eration LCD productionline in the southern city ofShenzhen to meet the ris-ing demand for flat-screenTVs.

The plant, in whichTCL and Shenchao Tech-nology Investment Com-pany each hold a 50 per-cent stake, involves an in-vestment of 24.5 billion

yuan (3.6 billion US dol-lars). It covers an area of600,000 square meters.

The fund includes 10billion yuan from TCLand Shenchao, bank loansand also investment fromdomestic TV makers andoverseas LCD panel pro-

ducers, the two investorssaid.

The plant has a full ca-pacity of 14 million LCDpanels per year with an es-timated output value of16.9 billion yuan (2.48billion US dollars).

Xinhua

German government warns against usingMS Explorer

BERLIN, 17 Jan—The German government has warned web users to find analternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security. The warning from theFederal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft admitted IE wasthe weak link in recent attacks on Google’s systems. Microsoft rejected the warn-ing, saying that the risk to users was low and that the browsers’ increased securitysetting would prevent any serious risk.

However, German authorities say that even this would not make IE fully safe. Tho-mas Baumgaertner, a spokesman for Microsoft in Germany, said that while they wereaware of the warning, they did not agree with it, saying that the attacks on Googlewere by “highly motivated people with a very specific agenda”. “These were notattacks against general users or consumers,” said Mr Baumgaertner. “There is no threatto the general user, consequently we do not support this warning,” he added.—Internet

Chinese rescue team found body of topUN official in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 17Jan—Hedi Annabi, chiefof United Nations (UN)in Haiti was found deadamong debris in thequake-destroyed UNheadquarters in Haitiancapital Port-au-Prince,Chinese rescuers announ-ced on Saturday.

Xinhua reporterswitnessed Annabi's bodybeing recuperated byChinese rescue team at2:22 pm local time. Hewas believed to be in ameeting with a high-

ranking delegation fromChina when the quaketook place. So far nosurvivors were found atthe scene.

Annabi was Tunisiannational. "All the personalproperty of Annabi thatwere found in the rubblewill be sealed and handedover to UN officials, saidHuang Jianfa, leader ofthe Chinese rescue team.

Chinese and Brazi-llian international rescueteams were workingtogether in the rubble tolook for Annabi. Therescuers put his body ontoa stretcher, than 4 Chinesepeacekeeping policementook the body to the UNofficers and officiallytransferred the body tothem.

MNA/Xinhua

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Chinese FM calls for enhancedcooperation, common development

between Asia, Latin America

Nepal marks 12th NationalEarthquake Safety Day

KATHMANDU, 17 Jan—Nepali people observed the12th National Earthquake Safety Day (NESD) acrossthe country on Saturday.

The NESD is observed with the slogan “Let’s re-duce the earthquake risk, enhance the safety of com-munity, and build safer schools, hospitals and houses.”

In Lalitpur, 2.8 km east of Kathmandu, some peo-ple used an elephant with a red carpet and some modelbuildings on its back to raise people’s awareness onthe day and share knowledge and information aboutsafety measures. NESD has been observed in Nepalon 16 Jan every year since 1999 which coincides withthe 65th anniversary of the last deadly earthquakewhich rocked Nepal in 1934 and claimed the lives of8,500 people.—Xinhua

Photo taken on Jan. 16, 2010 shows the effulgent illumination in trial opera-tion to the China Pavilion and Sunshine Valley of 2010 Shanghai WorldExpo, in Shanghai, east China. The overall exhibition installation will be

finished in late March and the organization of Shanghai Expo goes very wellto meet the upcoming 100 days countdown of Shanghai Expo. Since five

permanent buildings and about one hundred other pavilions are ready, theoverall exhibition installation has already started. —XINHUA

TOKYO, 17 Jan—Chi-nese Foreign MinisterYang Jiechi on Saturdayurged Asian and LatinAmerican countries topromote bi-regional co-operation and seek com-mon development.

Yang made the appealat the ongoing foreignministers’ meeting of theForum for East Asia-Latin America Coopera-tion (FEALAC).

Yang is in Japan forthe Forum for East Asia-

Latin America Coopera-tion (FEALAC).

As the world contin-ues to be undergoingcomplicated and pro-found changes, it is ofgreat significance thatcountries from both re-gions have an in-depthexchange of views on is-sues of common concernand discuss importantmatters for future coop-eration and development,said Yang in a keynotespeech.

To achieve the goal ofcommon development,the Chinese foreignminister said that Asiaand Latin America needto enhance cooperationto expedite the recoveryand growth of the worldeconomy.

And the two regionsalso need to facilitate co-ordination in a joint effortto encourage environ-ment-friendly and sus-tainable development, hesaid.—Xinhua

Rescue continues asinternational community

mobilized to help quake-hit Haiti

A volunteer treats an injured at a hospital inPort-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, on 16 Jan, 2010.The hospital is full of the earthquake patients with

insufficient medical care. —XINHUA

Cypriot President startsofficial visit in Greece

A vessel travels through sea ice diffcultly to leaveLaizhou Port of Laizhou City, east China’sShandong Province, on 15 Jan, 2010. The worstsea ice in 30 years appeared from early Januaryalong the coastline of the Bohai Sea and the YellowSea as cold fronts pushed temperature to minus 10degrees Celsius and below. By now over 40% of thesea surface of Bohai Sea has iced up.—XINHUA

Shanghai Expo to exhibit Haitiancapital before and after quake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 17Jan—Rescue efforts con-tinued in Haiti on Satur-day as the internationalcommunity has been mo-bilized to provide thedevastated island na-tion’s earthquake survi-vors with medical assist-ance and other humani-tarian aid.

In the first three daysafter the magnitude-7.3earthquake struck onTuesday, aid workersspared no efforts to findany signs of life. Anumber of people havebeen saved from the rub-ble of Haiti’s capital citybut in most cases, morebodies were pulled out of

the rubbles.As of early Friday, the

Chilean search and rescueteam rescued 23 peoplefrom the Montana Hotel.

Juan Gabriel Valdes,chief of the Chilean aidcommission, said that res-cue efforts would con-tinue as long as there washope of finding morepeople alive.

Meanwhile, thebody of a Chinese peace-keeping police officer wasfound among the ruins ofthe collapsed building ofthe UN Stabilization Mis-sion in Haiti, Chinesesearch and rescue teamleader Huang Jianfa saidhere early Saturday.

The rescue team wasdoing everything possibleto speed up the search forseven other Chinese offic-ers who remained miss-ing.

Xinhua

ATHENS, 17 Jan—Cypriot President DimitriChristofias started an of-ficial visit to Greece onSaturday.

Christofias was re-ceived by his Greek coun-terpart Karolos Papouliasat the Athens PresidentialMansion.

Christofias, who isalso the leader of theGreek Cypriot commu-nity, briefed Papoulias onhis talks last week withTurkish Cypriot leaderMehmet Ali Talat with theaim of solving theCyprusissue.

During his four-dayvisit, Christofias willhave consultations withGreek political leadershipand seek support to

his position.Christofias invited

Papoulias to visit Cyprusas soon as possible.

On Sunday, accompa-nied by Greek Prime Min-ister George Papandreou,he will visit the fire-stricken region of Ilia inPeloponnese.

Cyprus supported fi-nancially the reconstruc-tion of a whole villagenamed Artemida after thefatal, catastrophic fires of2007,which burnt downeven the area around theancient Stadium at Olym-pia, the birthplace of theOlympic Games.

Christofias will windup his visit in Athens onTuesday morning.

Xinhua

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

SHANGHAI,17 Jan—Shanghai World Expo co-ordinators are consider-ing a plan to exhibit thechanged landscape ofHaitian capital Port-au-Prince before and after

the earthquake, to make astronger presence of thecountry to the world.

“We plan to present theviews of the quake-devas-tated capital before andafter the earthquake in theHaitian Hall to call formore attention and sup-ports from the interna-tional community for itsreconstruction,” said HeLihua, an exhibition offi-cial “We have made ini-tial agreement withCourtney Rattray, deputyrepresentative of the Car-ibbean countries to theExpo, and we are solicit-ing opinions from theHaiti authorities,” He

said.“No answer has come

yet,” He added.—Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

12 wounded in Philippinesbus ambush

ZAMBOANGA, 17 Jan—Gunmen ambushed a bus inthe southern Philippines, wounding 12 people in a sus-pected extortion attempt, the military said on Sunday.

The vehicle was attacked late Saturday on its regu-lar route to the city of Pagadian, said the regional mili-tary chief, Lieutenant-General Benjamin Dolorfino.

The driver, who was one of 12 people wounded,was listed in serious condition at a hospital in nearbyIpil town, the general told reporters.

The army dispatched a unit of infantry to seek atleast two suspects who were armed with an assaultrifle and a shotgun, he added. Dolorfino described thegunmen as “suspected extortionists”.—Internet

Abu Dhabi arrests French passenger forbomb joke on plane

China launches third orbiterfor indigenous global satellite

navigation system

An orbiter is launched by a Long-March-3IIIcarrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch

Centre in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on17 Jan, 2010. It was the third orbiter that China

has launched for its independent satellite naviga-tion and positioning network, also known as

Beidou, or Compass system.—XINHUA

11 militants killedin S Afghanistan

KABUL, 17 Jan—Afghan and the NATO-led Inter-national Security Assistance Force (ISAF) eliminated11 militants in Helmand Province south of Afghani-stan on Friday night, a Press release of the alliancesaid Saturday.

“The ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces)partnered with ISAF forces to conduct an overnightoperation in Sistanay village, Nad Ali district, HelmandProvince,” the Press release added.

“The initial assessment of damage resulted in 11militants killed,” it stressed.

There are no initial reports of damage to buildingsor infrastructure.

No innocent Afghan civilians were hurt in theseoperations.

Taleban militants have yet to make comment.Xinhua

Istanbul becomes one ofEurope’s Capitals of Culture

Spectacular fireworks displays andcultural performances will mark thelaunch of Istanbul’s year as one of threeEuropean Capitals of Culture. Theprestigious title gives cities the oppor-tunity and funding to showcase andenrich their cultural life. For Turkey,which is struggling to fulfil itslongstanding aim of becoming a mem-ber of the European Union, the title hasparticular significance. But Istanbul’scelebration is not without its problems.

Istanbul competed fiercely with theUkrainian capital Kiev to win this ti-tle, the last time it will be offered to anon-EU member. The two other win-ners were Pecs in Hungary and Essenin Germany. With its rich heritage ofRoman, Byzantine and Ottoman his-tory and its pulsating contemporaryurban life, Istanbul is already recog-nized as one of the world’s great cul-tural capitals.

Construction workers preparefor the opening ceremony of

‘Istanbul 2010’.

British artist Jason de Caires Taylorworks on a sculpture called “TheMan on Fire” underwater in thisundated handout in the Mexican

resort of Cancun. At the bottom of itsturquoise waters and playing with thereflections of the sun at sea, a seriesof sculptures were immersed in theMexican resort of Cancun in what

aspires to be a huge underwatermuseum that harmonizes with the

beauty of its coral reefs.

Zero-carbon pavilion gets power fromfood scraps

A pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010 will become China’sfirst public building to have zero-carbon emissions, ChinaNational Radio reported.

The building complex will be powered by solar, wind andwater energy. Food scraps also will be used to produce elec-tricity through decomposition.

The complex, built by environmentally friendly materi-als, will house a lecture hall, a restaurant, an exhibition halland six model rooms.

An artist’s rendition of the zero-carbon emissionbuilding complex

Scots ‘drink 46 bottles of vodka’Adults in Scotland are drinking the

equivalent of 46 bottles of vodka eachin a year, a study has suggested. The re-search was based on industry sales dataanalysed by NHS Health Scotland. Itsaid sales for the year to September 2009averaged 12.2 litres of pure alcohol perperson over the age of 18. The Scottishgovernment said the figure, which hadremained static since 2005, was theequivalent of 537 pints or 130 bottles ofwine per person. The new figures comeas the Scottish government pushes for aminimum price for alcohol to tackle thecountry’s drink-related problems.

In total, 50.5 million litres of pure al-cohol were sold in Scotland last year,enough for every drinker over the age of18 to exceed the weekly consumptionguidelines. People in Scotland drank 25%more alcohol per head of population thanindividuals in England and Wales, thefigures suggested.

Portland high-rise to get250-foot-tall trellises

They haven’t figured out yet how toget the pruning done, but architects andfederal officials plan one of the world’smost extensive vertical gardens indowntown Portland — what amountsto a series of 250-foot-tall trellises de-signed to shade the west side of an 18-story office building.

It is not a new idea to use greeneryvertically as “living architecture,” run-ning plants up the sides of a building tokeep it cool.

But even in a city with a reputationfor rainfed greenery as well as for greenarchitecture, the wall of the EdithGreen-Wendell Wyatt Federal Buildingwould stand out.

The architects’ plans call for sevenvertical “vegetated fins” to jut at acuteangles. The fins would be the metalframework for planters and the green-ery sprouting from them.

XICHANG, 17 Jan—China successfullylaunched an orbiter intospace from the XichangSatellite Launch Centre insouthwestern SichuanProvince at about 0:12 amBeijing Time on Sunday.

It was the third orbiterthat China has launchedfor its independent satellitenavigation and positioningnetwork, also known asBeidou, or Compass sys-tem. The new satellite wasboosted by a Long-March-3III carrier rocket into ageostationary orbit.

It will join another twoalready in orbits to form anetwork which will even-tually have a total of 35 sat-ellites, capable of providingglobal navigation service tousers around the worldaround 2020.

According to plan, theBeidou system will providenavigation, time signal andshort message services inAsian and Pacificregionaround 2012.

The COMPASS systemwill provide both open andauthorized services, ac-cording to China’s satellitenavigation project centre.

The open service will befree of charge for the sys-tem’s users within servicearea with a resolution of 10meters for positioning, anaccuracy of 10 nanosecondfor time signal and an ac-curacy of 0.2 metre per sec-ond for speed measure-ment.— MNA/Xinhua

PARIS, 17 Jan—A sen-ior French air passengerwas arrested on Saturdayin Abu Dhahi due toone sensitive letter“bomb” he joked onboard, his brother MichelLioret told Frenchmedia. French ForeignMinistry confirmed thecase later.

Jean-Louis Lioret, 66,ruined his journey on an

Etihad airliner fromParis to Bangkok whenthe plane was about toleave the stopover AbuDhaihi.

As he was helping aneighbour to keep a packeton an empty seat besideshe, Lioret blurted out “Ihope it’s not a bomb.” Thejoke was overheard by thestew and triggered securityalert at once.

Immediately, he wastaken off the plane andfinally put into AbuDhahi central prison.Michel Lioret said whatthe packet contained wasonly some cigarettes.

French Foreign Minis-try confirmed the arrestand said it would contactwith the authority of AbuDhahi on the case.

MNA/Xinhua

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NAY PYI TAW, 17Jan—Minister forInformation Brig-GenKyaw Hsan on 12 Januaryafternoon inspectedbinding of schooltextbooks, operating ofbinding machines, sheetfed press, machinery ofprinting presses,maintenance of machines,quality of school textbooks,storage of paper rolls andtextbooks at UpperMyanmar GovernmentPress (Mandalay) ofPrinting and PublishingEnterprise under theMinistry of Information inAungpinle Ward ofChanmyathazi Township,Mandalay Division.

The press managerand officials conducted theminister around the press.

The minister lookedinto growing of shade trees,Seintalon mango plantationand other crops in the

Efforts to be made for ensuring durability and development ofself-reliant village libraries meeting five-point set standards

Minister inspects Upper Myanmar Government Press (Mandalay), Mandalay Division IPRD

compound of the press, firepreventive measures andmaintenance of pressbuildings and gaveinstructions on productionof quality products byminimizing loss andwastage, systematickeeping of raw materialsand finished goods, and

carrying out staff welfaretasks through the concertedefforts of the press managerand all staff to successfullyundertake tasks of thepress.

At 2:30 pm, theminister proceeded toMandalay DivisionInformation and Public

Relations Department inWard D of PyigyidagunTownship and viewed thewall magazine, display ofdocumentary photos,keeping of books atKnowledge Bank Libraryand practising of bookborrowing system. Next,he met with staff of the

Division, District andTownship IPRDs.

Deputy Director UKyaw Than Tun ofMandalay Division IPRD,district and township levelofficials reported oncarrying out of durabilityand development of self-reliant village libraries in

Mandalay Division andinformation task.

Later, the ministergave instructions on effortsto be made for ensuringdurability anddevelopment of self-reliantvillage libraries meetingfive-point set standards.

MNA

Local farmers reaping…(from page 1)

The dam suppliesirrigation water for2500 acres of farmlandin Zigon Township togrow summer paddy.The dam is the largestfacilitator to cultivationof Gyobingauk Town-ship. We also inter-viewed some farmers.

Farmer U TinNgwe of Meikaukbinvillage, Zigon Town-

am growing beans withwater of Bawbin dam af-ter monsoon harvest.After that, I shall growfour acres of summerpaddy.”

Thus, local farm-ers are reaping the ben-efits of Bawbin dam, oneof the irrigation facili-ties constructed by theState.

Translation : TKKMyanma Alin(17-1-2010)

*****

“I grow summerpaddy with water ofBawbin dam after

green gram harvest.”Farmer U AyeBawbin village,

Zigon Township.

ship said he could growboth monsoon paddy andsummer paddy due toBawbin dam; that hewould grow 20 acres ofsummer paddy this yearwith water of Bawbindam; that as for wholeMeikaukbin village, ithad planned to put 1,700acres of land under sum-mer paddy.

Farmer U Aye ofBawbin village said, “I

“Thanks to Bawbin dam, we can growsummer paddy every year.”

Farmer U Tin NgweMeikaukbin village, Zigon Township.

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan inspects Government Press (Mandalay).—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan inspects Mandalay Division IPRD office.—MNA

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Lt-Gen Tha Aye of

the Ministry of

Defence inspects

Yuzana multi-

purpose agriculture

and livestock

project No. (2) in

Tanai Township.

(News on page 1)

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Jan—A Myanmar delegationled by Minister for Foreign Affairs U Nyan Winattended the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat, theThird Meeting of the ASEAN Political Security Com-munity (APSC) Council and the Special Meeting of theASEAN Coordinating Council (ACC) held in DaNang, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 13 to 14January.

At the joint arrangement made by Thailand and theLao People’s Democratic Republic for familiarization onthe plan of ASEAN Connectivity, Minister U Nyan Wintogether with the other participating ASEAN ForeignMinisters left Bangkok, Thailand for Savannaket, LaoPDR by special aircraft on 12 January and proceeded toDa Nang by car. ASEAN Foreign Ministers had theopportunity to study East-West Corridor along the roadtrip. They arrived at Da Nang in the evening of 13 January.

Minister U Nyan Win attended the InformalWorking Dinner of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers inthe evening of 13 January at Furama Resort Hotel. Atthe Informal Working Dinner, the Foreign Ministersexchanged views on regional and international issues,the results of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summitand the work progress of the Tripartite Core Group forPost-Nargis Recovery. Minister U Nyan Win briefedhis counterparts on the developments in Myanmar atthe Informal Working Dinner.

In the morning of 14 January, the ministerattended the Third Meeting of APSC Council andexchanged views on the report of the ASEAN Secre-tary General on the developments in sectoral bodiesunder the APSC Council and the Communication Planof the APSC Council.

The Minister also attended the Special Meetingof the ACC. At the meeting the ASEAN ForeignMinisters discussed and adopted the draft Terms ofReference (TOR) for the ASEAN Connectivity HighLevel Task Force (HLTF). The Meeting also agreed toassign HLTF to draw up a draft Master Plan forASEAN Connectivity for submission to the 17thASEAN Summit for approval.

Foreign Affairs Minister attends ASEANmeetings in Vietnam, proceeds to Japan to

attend 4th Foreign Ministers’ MeetingThe minister also participated in the ASEAN

Foreign Ministers’ Retreat and exchanged views onmatters relating to ASEAN Community Building andExternal Relations. He attended the lunch hosted inhonour of the Foreign Minister by Mr Tran Van Minh,Chairman of the People’s Committee of Da Nang Cityat the Furama Resort Hotel.

During the ASEAN meeting, Minister U NyanWin also met with the Foreign Minister of IndonesiaH.E. R M Marty Muliana Natalegawa in the afternoonof 14 January and held discussions on the bilateralrelations between Indonesia and Myanmar.

After attending the ASEAN meetings, MinisterU Nyan Win left Da Nang, the Socialist Republic ofVietnam on 15 January and proceeded to Tokyo, Japanto participate in the 4th Foreign Ministers’ Meeting ofthe Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation(FEALAC).—MNA

YANGON, 17 Jan—IEMS Company Limited isplanning to hold Housing & Building 2010 exhibi-tion at Tatmadaw Convention Centre from 5 to 8February.

The companies to participate in the exhibitionare TMW Enterprise, Sanyo, Champion Construc-tion Material, Pyae Sone Win Naing Co Ltd, Re-gency, Asia Metal Co Ltd, Naing Construction, ShineConstruction, Aurora Group Construction, Opal Con-struction, TWJS Co Ltd (Hometex), Sea Master,Nippon Paint, Golden Hook Co Ltd, Universal Furni-ture, Coffer Manufacturing, PW & GG JV Co Ltd,Asterism International, Sinpauk Construction, D&DCo Ltd, 133, Aluminium Empire, Ever Seiko, ThreeFriend Trading, GSR Stainless Steel, ALLWAYSHardware Mart, SP Group, and Tharaphee.

For more information, dial 09-4831628.MNA

Housing & Building2010 exhibition from

5 to 8 Feb

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

intimidated* Do not be bolstered whenever flat-

tered* Do not be softened whenever appeased

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Jan—Global TechnologyCo Ltd introduced KYOCERA brand digitalmultifunction photocopier at Park Royal Hotel inYangon on 15 January.

Kyocera photocopiers are of two models,TASKalfa 180 and TASKalfa 220. As the drumunit of these models are long life drum, up to150,000 sheets of paper can be copied and oneKyocera toner can print as many as 15,000 sheets.

The company also provides after sale serv-

KYOCERA digital multifunction copier introduced

ice—one year warranty for all of its products.Kyocera brand photocopiers are made through Ja-pan technology and is a well-known brand in Eu-rope and Asia. The contact address of the companyis Global Net (Global Technology Co Ltd) RoomNo.1 Building No.7, Myanmar Infotech, HlineTownship, Yangon, Ph:01-652232, 652324, 507054,521288, 521289, 521290 and No. Pa /47, PweyoneStreet, Myoma Market, Nay Pyi Taw, Ph: 067-421548.—MNA

Director U Min Swe Hlaing of Global Technology Co Ltd introduces Kyocera branddigital multifunction copiers.—MNA

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Hsipaw which is well worth a visit

The compound of Hsipaw Township Development Affairs Committee isdecorated with flower beds and landscaping plants.

(from page 16)Having expired,

the old girder suspensionspanning the Dokh-tawady River can copewith only under 30-tonvehicles. On completion,Hsipaw Bridge will be569 feet long with a 28-foot-wide motorway andtwo three-foot-wide pe-destrian walkways on it.It has a 200-feet-long ap-proach road.

Project Engineer UMyint Wai said, “Welaunched this project on 1May 2008. This is the first

The approach structure and pillars under construction at Hsipaw BridgeProject.

bridge constructed withbored pile system in north-ern Shan State. The diffi-culty we are facing is thatparts are often broken off thebits of the drilling machines,and bits fall off the machines.”

Before the bridgeproject is completed, thepontoon bridge built byAsia World Co Ltd is cop-ing with about 120 vehiclesa day.

Hsipaw Townshipoccupies a strategic loca-tion in northern Shan State,and sees several UnionHighways including Man-

dalay-Lashio-Muse High-way. The swiftDokhtawady River flowsthrough Hsipaw from northto south.

The township has asown acreage of 102,240. Itgrows monsoon and sum-mer paddy. Of the ninemajor crops, it growssugarcane, green gram, pi-geon pea, groundnut,sesame, sunflower andcorn. It has recently run trialplots of coffee and tea.

It is a habitat of vari-ous species of wild animals.It breeds buffalo, cow,

chicken, duck, pig, sheepand goat, and has miningblocks and coal blocks un-der No (3) Mining Enter-prise, 15 bus lines, 568 autotelephones, 439 GSMphones, 350 manual phones,and 10 IP Star phones. Whenit has CDMA phone line, itwill have access to smoothcommunications.

In the education sec-tor, it has four basic educa-tion high schools, two highschool branches, three mid-dle schools, six middleschool branches, two affili-ated middle schools, 112primary schools, and 19post-primary schools.

As to the health sec-tor, it has one 100-bed peo-ple’s hospital, two 16-bedpeople’s hospitals, threerural health centres, 14 subrural health centres, fourspecial region health cen-tres, one traditional medi-cine hospital, one TB con-trol centre, one malaria con-trol centre, and one leprosycontrol centre.

On our way back,we dropped in the paddyfield of U Saw Naing ofSanpheik Village-tract inHsipaw Township. He runs155 acres of fields ofHsinshweli strain paddy. Inthe township, the per acre

yield of Hsinshweli strainpaddy is 250 baskets, onaverage.

Hsipaw TownshipDevelopment AffairsCommittee is trying itsbest to urbanize the town-ship.

It was at dusk andthe clouds over the skywere glowing with re-flected light. Greenishpaddy plants were sway-ing in the breeze. On thewhole, Hsipaw is wellworth a visit for me due toits signs of dramaticprogress.

Translation: MSKyemon: 16-1-2010

Mon State holds School Family DayNAY PYI TAW, 17

Jan – Mon State heldSchool Family Day in con-junction with prize pres-entation ceremony at Ba-sic Education High School

No (6) in Mawlamyine on3 January, attended byChairman of Mon StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofSouth-East Command

Maj-Gen Thet Naing Win.The commander

spoke on the occasion andpresented prizes to out-standing students.

On 4 January, thecommander attended the62nd Anniversary Inde-pendence Day which ob-served at MawyawadyPark in Mawlamyine.

Next, the com-mander presented prizesto winners of essay andpoem contests to markIndependence Day.

MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Thet Naing Winawards a winner of

essay and poemcontests to mark

Independence Day.MNA

PC and electronics on sale by installmentsNAY PYI TAW, 17 Jan —

T.Z World Companyopened computer and elec-tronics sale centre at No.15on Min Nanda Road,Dawbon Township,Yangon Division on 4January.Japan madebranded computer, refrig-erator, washing machine,air-conditioner, TV, bicy-cle, EVD, speaker and fancan be purchased there by

installments.To purchase by

installments, customersneed national scrutinizingcard (copy), census (copy),original recommendationletter of the ward PDC, scru-tinizing card (copy) of guar-antor and his or her dupli-cate census. The 50 per centof the total price have to bepaid cash down after pur-chase and 25 percent after

thirty days and finalinstallments after sixty days.

T.Z World also hasopened two branches, oneat the front of MyaGandamar market, ThamaiJunction, Yangon-InseinRoad, another atNyaunglebin (Shwekyin-Madauk) Junction and it ismaking arrangements toopen branches in Nay PyiTaw Pyinmana.—MNA

T.Z World Computer and Electronics Sale Center on Min Nanda Roadin Dawbon Township.—MNA

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(Continued from yesterday)Ubhatovibhangadhara

1. Seat No. 72, Ashin Vepulla, aged 29, 10 vasa,East Tawya Ngahtetgyi Monastery, Bahan Town-ship, Yangon Division

2. Seat No. 74, Ashin Pañinda (Monywa), aged 29,vasa 9, Tipitaka Nikaya Monastery, MomeikHill, Mingun, Sagaing Township, Sagaing Divi-sion

3. Seat No.76, Ashin Ñanadhaja, aged 29, 9 vasa,Tipitaka Nikaya Monastery, Momeik Hill,Mingun, Sagaing Township, Sagaing Division

4. Seat No.77, Ashin Kossala, aged 29, 9 vasa,Sunlungu Vipassana Monastery, ThingangyunTownship, Yangon Division

5. Seat No.78, Ashin Sopakalankara, aged 28, 8vasa, Tipitaka Nikaya Monastery, Momeik Hill,Mingun, Sagaing Township, Sagaing Division

6. Seat No.79, Ashin Nimala, aged 28, 8 vasa,Tipitaka Nikaya Monastery, Momeik Hill,Mingun, Sagaing Township, Sagaing Division

7. Seat No.81, Ashin Indariya, aged 27, 7 vasa,Tipitaka Maha Gandawin Nikaya Monastery,Dagon Myothit (East) Township, Yangon Divi-sion

8. Seat No.85, Ashin Kundalalankara, aged 26, 6vasa, Thamanaykyaw Pariyatti Monastery, Bago,Bago Division

9. Seat No.86, Ashin Aggasila, aged 26, 6 vasa,Tipitaka Nikaya Monastery, Momeik Hill,Mingun, Sagaing Township, Sagaing Division

10. Seat No.87, Ashin Paññananda, aged 25, 6 vasa,Win Neinmitayon Monastery, Bago, Bago Divi-sion

11. Seat No.88, Ashin Saddhinsariyalankara, aged25, 6 vasa, Tipitaka Maha Gandayon Monastery,Mayangon Township, Yangon Division

12. Seat No.89, Ashin Sirinda, aged 25, 5 vasa,Tipitaka Maha Gandawin Nikaya Monastery,Dagon Myothit (East) Township, Yangon Divi-sion

13. Seat No.90, Ashin Kundala (Ayadaw), aged 25,5 vasa, Tipitaka Nikaya Monastery, Momeik

Results of Tipitakadhara Selection Examination announced

Hill, Mingun, Sagaing Township, Sagaing Divi-sion (Credit)

14. Seat No.90, Ashin Kovidalankara, aged 25, 4vasa, Tipitaka Maha Gandayon Monastery,Mayangon Township, Yangon Division

15. Seat No.92, Ashin Sumangala, aged 24, 4 vasa,Ywama Pariyatti Monastery, Insein Township,Yangon Division

16. Seat No.93, Ashin Paññanandalankara, aged 24,4 vasa, Tipitaka Nikaya Monastery, MomeikHill, Mingun, Sagaing Township, Sagaing Divi-sion

17. Seat No.94, Ashin Vijjanandalankara, aged 23, 4vasa, Tipitaka Maha Gandawin Nikaya Monas-tery, Dagon Myothit (East) Township, YangonDivision

18. Seat No.95, Ashin Çandima, aged 23, 4 vasa,Eindriyayama Shwegu Monastery,Aungmyethazan Township, Mandalay Divi-sion

19. Seat No.97, Ashin Vijayañana, aged 20, 1 vasa,Tipitaka Maha Gandawin Nikaya Monastery,Dagon Myothit (East) Township, Yangon Divi-sion

20. Seat No.99, Ashin Sajjana, aged 33, 13 vasa,Yadanabon Monastery, Maha WithokdayonTaikthit, Mahaaungmyay Township, MandalayDivision

21. Seat No.100, Ashin Suçitta, aged 30, 11 vasa,Tipitaka Nikaya Monastery, Momeik Hill,Mingun, Sagaing Township, Sagaing Division

22. Seat No.101, Ashin Pandita, aged 29, 9 vasa,ShwetaungU Tipitaka Dhammapala Monastery,Monywa, Sagaing Division

23. Seat No.104, Ashin Paññananda, aged 28, 8vasa, Tipitaka Maha Gandawin Nikaya Monas-tery, Dagon Myothit (East) Township, YangonDivision

24. Seat No.105, Ashin Çakkinda, aged 27, 8 vasa,ShwetaungU Tipitaka Dhammapala Monastery,Monywa, Sagaing Division

25. Seat No.110, Ashin Sunanda, aged 27, 7 vasa,Tipitaka Nikaya Monastery, Momeik Hill,

Mingun, Sagaing Township, Sagaing Divi-sion

26. Seat No.113, Ashin Ankura, aged 25, 6 vasa,Tipitaka Nikaya Monastery, Momeik Hill,Mingun, Sagaing Township, Sagaing Divi-sion

27 Seat No.115, Ashin Tejasami, aged 26, 6 vasa,Sasana Alinyaung Monastery, Dawbon Town-ship, Yangon Division

28. Seat No.117, Ashin Pamokkha, aged 25, 5 vasa,Sasana Alinyaung Monastery, Dawbon Town-ship, Yangon Division

29. Seat No.120, Ashin Nandaçara, aged 23, 4 vasa,Tipitaka Maha Gandawin Nikaya Monastery,Dagon Myothit (East) Township, Yangon Divi-sion

30. Seat No.122, Ashin Paññananda, aged 24, 4vasa, Nikaya Monastery, Dagon Myothit (South)Township, Yangon Division

31. Seat No.123, Ashin Silaçaralankara, aged 24, 3vasa, Tipitaka Maha Gandayon Monastery,Mayangon Township, Yangon Division

32. Seat No.125, Ashin Vimalalankara, aged 24, 2vasa, Tipitaka Maha Gandayon Monastery,Mayangon Township, Yangon Division

33. Seat No.128, Ashin Jatila, aged 22, 2 vasa,Tipitaka Nikaya Monastery, Momeik Hill,Mingun, Sagaing Township, Sagaing Division

34. Seat No.129, Ashin Rajapiya, aged 20, 1 vasa,MyoU Tawya Pariyatti Monastery, Phakant,Kachin State (Credit)

35. Seat No.133, Ashin Nandobhasalankara, aged28, 8 vasa, Nikaya Monastery, Dagon Myothit(South) Township, Yangon Division

36. Seat No.138, Ashin Nandasaralankara, aged 26,6 vasa, Tipitaka Nikaya Monastery, MomeikHill, Mingun, Sagaing Township, Sagaing Di-vision

37. Seat No.140, Ashin Indaka (Thayet), aged 25, 6vasa, Nikaya Monastery, Dagon Myothit (South)Township, Yangon Division

38. Seat No.141, Ashin Dhammananda, aged 26,6 vasa, ShwetaungU Tipitaka DhammapalaMonastery, Monywa, Sagaing Division

39. Seat No.142, Ashin Kumuda, aged 25, 5 vasa,ShwetaungU Tipitaka Dhammapala Monastery,Monywa, Sagaing Division (Credit)

40. Seat No.143, Ashin Tikkhavamsalankara, aged26, 5 vasa, Nikaya Monastery, Dagon Myothit(South) Township, Yangon Division

41. Seat No.145, Ashin Nandavamsa, aged 28, 5vasa, Zawtikayon Monastery, Mawlamyine, MonState

42. Seat No.148, Ashin Indaka (Natmauk), aged 24,4 vasa, Nikaya Monastery, Dagon Myothit(South) Township, Yangon Division

43. Seat No.149, Ashin Paññajota, aged 24, 4 vasa,Shwepyitha Pariyatti Monastery, Shwepyitha,Yangon Division

44. Seat No.150, Ashin Pandita, aged 23, 4 vasa,Tipitaka Maha Gandawin Nikaya Monastery,Dagon Myothit (East) Township, Yangon Divi-sion

45. Seat No.152, Ashin Vilasa, aged 23, 4 vasa,Maha Thukhayama Monastery, MayangonTownship, Yangon Division

46. Seat No.154, Ashin Indaka, aged 23, 3 vasa,Maha Thukha Pariyatti Monastery, Insein Town-ship, Yangon Division.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Jan—Minister for Communi-cations, Posts and Telegraphs Brig-Gen Thein Zaw,on 15 January, visited wireless auto telephone unit inAhlon Township here and called personnel forspeedier communication links.

CPT Minister addresses work coord meeting

The minister heard reports on plans for instal-lation of wireless auto telephones in Mandalay andNay Pyi Taw. On 16 January, the minister addressedthe work coordination meeting at DHL nearHanthawady roundabout in Yangon.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw inspects WCDMA control room of wireless auto telephone unitin Ahlon Township.—CPT

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Antarctica goes green with launchof wind farm

China topromote low

carbon transportBEIJING, 17 Jan — Chi-

nese Vice Premier ZhangDejiang said on Fridaythat China would activelypromote low carbon trans-port and build a resource-conserving and environ-mental friendly transpor-tation system.

The transportation au-thorities should issueemission standards andmake sure the standarndswere implemented, Zhangsaid at a national meetingon transportation.

Energy-saving trans-port facilities shouldbe widely used, hesaid.

Xinhua

Vietnam earns $10.2 b fromexports to US in Jan-Nov periodHANOI, 17 Jan — Vietnam’s exports to the United

States reached 10.21 billion US dollars in the first 11months of last year, down 5.81 percent year-on-year,said the information centre of the Vietnamese Minis-try of Industry and Trade on Friday.

Last November, Vietnam pocketed 929.1 millionUS dollars from exporting goods to the UnitedStates, a decrease of 14.62 percent from the previ-ous month.

Vietnam’s export turnover to the US market in thefirst 11 months of 2009 came mostly from the exportsof garment and textile, wood and wood products, foot-wear, seafood, and crude oil, said the centre.

Garment and textile topped the Vietnam’s exportitems to the United States during the same period withthe export turnover standing at 4.51 billion US dol-lars, accounting for 44.13 percent of the total exportturnover to this market.

Export turnover of wood and wood products, thesecond largest export item to the United States, reached979.46 million US dollars, a climb of 1.91 percentover the same period of a year earlier, said the centre.

Xinhua

Nestle to use heat-treatedflour in dough

DANVILLE, 17 Jan — Nestle says its refrigeratedcookie dough may be in short supply while it revampsproduction to avoid possible salmonella and E coli con-tamination.

The company will begin using heat-treated flour toenhance the safety of the product, spokeswoman LaurieMacDonald told USA Today on Friday.

To make the switch, production of chocolate chip,oatmeal raisin, sugar and specialty doughs have beensuspended at Nestle’s Danville, Va, plant, where mostof its refrigerated cookie dough is made.

MacDonald said two samples of cookie doughfrom the Danville plant recently tested positive forE coli, which can cause severe illness. All of thedough was destroyed before it could be shipped, shesaid.

Dough production is to resume the week of 25 Jan,with tubes of the new cookie dough appearing on storeshelves in early March.

The switch in production comes eight months after72 people in 30 states were infected with E. coli afterreportedly eating Nestle cookie dough raw.

Internet

WELLINGTON, 17 Jan— A small part of Antarc-tica turned green on Sat-urday as the ice-coveredcontinent’s biggest windfarm, which can generateenough electricity topower 500 homes, wasformally switched on.

The joint New Zea-land-US project’s threehuge turbines will pro-vide 11 percent of thepower needed to run thetwo nations’ sciencebases on Antarctica’sRoss Sea coast, cuttinggreenhouse gas output,lowering fossil fuel useand reducing the risk offuel spilling in the conti-nent’s pristine environ-

ment, officials said.The $11 million wind

farm is located on Cra-ter Hill, halfway be-tween the United States’McMurdo Station andNew Zealand’s nearbyScott Base.

While the turbineshave been operating wellsince December, the for-mal turn-on ceremonytook place on Saturday,with New Zealand For-eign Minister MurrayMcCully and US Ambas-sador David Huebner of-

ficiating by video linkwith the site from NewZealand’s northern cityof Auckland.

Noting the two coun-tries share a commitmentto increasing the world’suse of renewable energyresources, McCully saidit was “fitting we haveworked so hard togetherto get this wind farm upand running in Antarc-tica, one of the world’smost pristine and fragileenvironment.

Internet

One of three new wind generation turbines underconstruction on Ross Island in Antarctica is seen

in this undated handout picture.INTERNET

KUALA LUMPUR, 17Jan— A student drownedand four others are stillmissing after a dragonboat capsized on Sundaymorning in northwesternMalaysian state ofPenang, police said.

The boat carrying18 students capsized ataround 8:00 am localtime on Sunday whenthey tried to turn theboat around af terencoun-tering strongwaves, according to thepolice. Local policeofficer Gan Kong Mengsaid the students, aged16 or 17, were training

One drowns, fourmissing as boat capsizes

in Malaysiafor a dragon boat racein waters about 500metres off the coast oneast s ide of GeorgeTown, Penang. 12students swam to shore,he added.

He said that preli-minary investigationshowed that severalstudents had not worn lifejackets. A search-and-rescue team comprisingpersonnel from varioussecurity units and theCivil Defence Depart-ment were scouring thesea for the missingstudents, he said.

MNA/ Xinhua

UK’s Conservatives widen opinion poll lead LONDON, 17 Jan —

Britain’s oppositionConservative Party haswidened its opinion polllead to 13 percentagepoints, up four points fromlast month, a ComRessurvey showed onSaturday.

The poll, to bepublished in theIndependent on Sunday,followed one by Populusearlier this week whichalso showed theConservatives holding a13 point lead over theruling Labour Party.

Support for bothLabour and the Liberal

Democrats, Britain’s thirdparty, remainedunchanged in the ComRessurvey at 29 percent and19 percent respectively,compared to 42 percent forthe Conservatives.

The number of peoplesaying they would vote fora party other than one ofthe main three fell fourpercentage points.

The projectionssuggest the Conser-vatives would secure amajority of 70 seats inParliament in an electiondue by June, ComRes said.According to the

telephone poll of 1,005

people carried out

between January 13 and

January 14, 33 percent of

respondents agreed that

Labour “has the right

ideas about how to get

Britain out of recession”,

while 59 percent

disagreed.

Some other recent

polls have pointed to a

shrinking Conservative

lead that could result in a

parliament in which no

party obtains an overall

majority, meaning

Liberal Democrat leader

Nick Clegg could hold

the balance of power.

MNA/Reuters

A view of the office building of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd on

the outskirts of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province recently.—INTERNET

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S Korea reports two more outbreaks offoot-and-mouth disease

Indian toxic toys cause asthma,reproductive problems in kids

STAFF VACANCIESThe Indonesian Embassy is seeking applicants for theProtocol and Defense Attaché Staff, with the followingrequirements:1. One (1) Protocol Staff (PS) - Minimum Basic Education High School (BEHS)

graduated; - Resident in Yangon, Union of Myanmar; - Active English, Myanmar and Indonesian languages

(male more favorable); - Automobile driving license.2. One (1) Defense Attaché Staff (DAS) - Minimum University graduated; - Active English and Indonesia languages (speaking

and writing); - Automobile driving license (more favorable).Documents to be submitted and general requirement; - Application letter to the mentioned position, CV and

Photo;- Recommendation letter of good conduct from the

authorities concerned;- Recommendation letter of good health from govern-

ment hospital;- Knowledge of computers and software applications;- Maximum 35 year old;Eligible candidates may submit applications to Indone-

sian Embassy, 100, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, DagonTownship, Yangon, Union of Myanmar (11191), notlater than January 20, 2010. Late application willnot be accepted and only qualified candidates willbe contacted.

Yangon, 15 January 2010Human Resource Committee

The combination photo taken on 15 Jan, 2010

shows the different phases of solar eclipse

observed in Yuncheng City, east China’s

Shanxi Province, — XINHUA

MINISTRY OF RAIL TRANSPORTATIONMYANMA RAILWAYS

INVITATION TO SEALED TENDERS1. Sealed Tenders are invited for supply of the following items in JapaneseYen (or) in United States Dollar (or) in Euro:- (must mention the price in FOBbasis as well as in CIF Yangon basis)

Tender No Description Qty12(T)14/MR(MC) Meter gauge (including 3 feet 20 Nos2009-2010 6 inches gauge) refurbished inservice

Air conditioned passenger coach withsoft seat. (with self power generating dieselengine in each individual passenger coachfor lighting and for air conditioning).

Closing Date/Time - 5.2.2010 (Friday) (12:00) Hours2. Tender documents are available at our office starting from 18.1.2010(Monday) during office hours and for further details, please contact: DeputyGeneral Manager, Supply Department, Myanma Railways, corner of TheinbyuStreet and Merchant Street, Botahtaung Township, Yangon. Phone: 95-1-291985,95-1-291994.

NEW DELHI, 17 Jan—The high toxic levels ofplastic toys in Indian mar-kets, even the brandedones, cause asthma, lungproblems and reproductiveproblems in children, ac-cording to a research by theCentre for Science and En-vironment (CSE) on Satur-day. In its latest study re-leased on Saturday, CSE’spollution monitoring labo-ratory found high levels ofphthalates, a chemical usedto soften plastic, in all sam-ples of toys it tested. Over45 percent of the samplesexceeded the internation-ally accepted safety limitsfor phthalates.

“We randomly pur-chased 24 toys from differ-ent parts of Delhi, espe-cially those toys that chil-dren are more likely tochew and suck. Out of the24 toys, 15 were soft andnine others hard,” saidCSE Associate DirectorChandra Bhushan.

“The sample included

major brands likeFunskool and Mattel. Inour test, we detected oneor more phthalates in alltoys,” he said.” In total, 60percent of soft toys and 20percent of hard toys ex-ceeded the safe limits.”

Phthalates are organicchemicals commonly usedas plasticizers to makeplastic supple. It helps inmaking plastic productscheap and toxic. Thechemical can damage themale reproductive system,impair lungs and affect theduration of pregnancy.Laboratory tests on mam-mals have indicated that itcan also trigger asthma, al-lergies, poor semen qual-ity, genital defects, prema-ture breast developmentand skeletal defects.

Xinhua

Greek wary of new incidentsafter terrorist bombing

ATHENS, 17 Jan—Greek authorities are guardingagainst any new violent episodes after a bomb wentoff outside Greece’s Press Ministry building in Ath-ens late Friday. The homemade bomb caused no injuries but dam-aged the Press building, nearby shops and cars. Anunidentified man reportedly made warning phone callsto Greek newspapers and television channels about20 minutes before the attack. “Democracy will not be intimidated nor terrorizedby a group of bullies,” said government spokesmanYiorgos Petalotis. Greece has adopted a firm approach to anarchistand leftist terrorist groups that have operated in thecountry for years. The country has seen a rise in domestic terroristattacks since the fatal shooting of a teenager by policein December 2008 that triggered the nation’s worstriots in decades. A similar makeshift bomb exploded near the par-liament building on 10 Jan but caused no casualties.“Conspiracy of Nuclei of Fire”, a leftist guerrilla group,claimed responsibility for the bombing.—Xinhua

SEOUL, 17 Jan—South Korea reportedon Saturday two more outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in local cattle farms,more than a week after the first outbreakin eight years, the government said. The two cattle farms, both located inPochen in Gyeonggi Province, about 45kilometers north of Seoul, are within a1-kilometre radius of the farm where thefirst outbreak was confirmed on 7 Janu-ary, South Korea’s Ministry of Food, Ag-riculture, Forestry and Fisheries said. The government decided to cull and

bury about 124 head of dairy cattle evenbefore detailed test results were received,and also plans to kill livestock within a500-metre radius of the two farms to pre-vent further spread of the highly infec-tious virus. The foot-and-mouth disease is ahighly contagious and sometimes fataldisease that can affect cloven-hoofedanimals including pigs, sheep and goats,while humans are hardly affected by thevirus.

Xinhua

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Gene map for malaria crop offershigher yield hope

Mediterranean diet protects againststomach cancer

In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, passengers wait forboarding at the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 15 Jan, 2010. People

began to evacuate from the earthquake-hit capital as air service resumed atthe airport.— INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 17Jan—Plant scientists atthe University of York inthe United Kingdomhave published the firstgenetic map of the me-dicinal herb Artemisiaannua. The map, pub-lished on Friday in jour-nal Science, is being usedto accelerate plant breed-ing of Artemisia and rap-idly develop the speciesinto a high-yielding crop.

Though preventableand treatable, malaria isa serious global health

problem, estimated to killalmost a million peopleevery year.

The most effectivedrugs for treating malariaare Artemisinin Combi-nation Therapies (ACTs).Increased funding formalaria treatments meansdemand for ACTs is ex-pected to double fromlast year ’s figures, toaround 200 million treat-ments, by 2012. How-ever, meeting this in-creased demand will be achallenge: artemisinin is

extracted from the plantArtemisia annua, butyields are low, makingproduction expensive. Inrecent years, Artemisiaproduction has been un-economic and plantingareas have declined, rais-ing fears of shortages.

Plant scientists at theDepartment of Biologyat the University of Yorkare addressing this prob-lem by using moleculartechnologies to rapidlyimprove the Artemisiacrop. —Internet

Oesophageal cancer cell errorsthreaten research

Vitamin D may reducenursing home falls

SYDNEY, 17 Jan—Falls,a leading cause of deathand disability in the eld-erly, may be reduced byvitamin D supplementa-tion in nursing homes,Australian researcherssay.

Lead researcher IanCameron of the SydneyMedical School said olderpeople living in nursingfacilities or admitted to ahospital are at higher riskfor falls than those livingat home. Hip fractures,which can be deadly, oc-cur in nursing facilities ata rate 10 times greaterthan elsewhere.

Cameron and col-leagues conducted a meta-analysis of 41 studies in-volving 25,422 older peo-ple, mostly women. Fivestudies tested the effectsof giving vitamin D topatients in nursing facili-ties, where it was found to

be an effective measurefor preventing falls, al-though researchers are notsure why.

The researchers foundmultifactorial interven-tions — which often in-corporated exercise,medication or environ-mental factors includingappropriate equipment —reduced the risk of falls inhospitals.—Internet

LONDON , 17 Jan —Dozens of cancer studiesmay be thrown into doubtby the discovery that re-searchers inadvertentlyused the wrong type ofcancer cells. The “celllines”, according to theJournal of the NationalCancer Institute, weresupplied as samples ofoesophageal cancer.

However, tests show theycontained other types oftumour, including lungand bowel. The Dutch re-searchers say this couldput major trials of drugsin doubt.

Many experimentalstudies on cancer uselaboratory-grown “cell-lines”, meaning that doz-ens of studies may rely on

cells originally taken froma single patient. Newdrugs can be tested onthese cells to see if theyhave an effect before theyare tested on real patients.The problem of “false” —or contaminated — celllines, is not a new one,and there have been callsfor scientists to take morecare verifying they havethe right sort of cells be-fore continuing with theirexperiments.— Internet

Bipolar diagnosis jumpsin young children

BOSTON, 17 Jan —Thenumber of children aged2 to 5 who have been di-agnosed with bipolar dis-order and prescribedpowerful antipsychoticdrugs has doubled overthe past decade, accord-ing to research releasedon Friday. The researchsuggests that while it isstill rare to prescribe pow-erful psychiatric drugs to2-year-olds, the practiceis becoming more fre-

quent.The data, compiled

from 2000 to 2007, andpublished in the Journalof the American Academyof Child & AdolescentPsychiatry, could informtestimony at theupcoming Boston-areamurder trials of the par-ents of 4-year-oldRebecca Riley. The girldied of an overdose ofmood-stabilizing medica-tion in 2006.—Internet

NEW YORK, 17 Jan —Eating the Mediterraneanway can help reduce yourrisk of stomach cancer, alarge study from Europeshows. “The results add tothe evidence for the role ofthe Mediterranean diet inreducing cancer risk andadd further support for theneed to continue to pro-mote the Mediterraneandiet in areas where it is dis-appearing,” Dr Carlos A.Gonzalez of the CatalanInstitute for Oncology in

Barcelona and his col-leagues say.

The traditional diets ofGreece, Italy and otherMediterranean countrieshave many health ben-efits, they point out in theAmerican Journal ofClinical Nutrition, includ-ing protection againstcancer. But there is lessinformation on how eat-ing this way might influ-ence risk of specific can-cer types. Gonzalez andhis team looked at gastric

cancer, the second-leadingcause of cancer deathworldwide.— Internet

A Renault Clio picturedin Boulogne-

Billancourt, near Paris.Renault chief Carlos

Ghosn assured FrenchPresident Nicolas

Sarkozy on Saturdaythat production of the

new Clio line would notbe entirely transferred to

Turkey as the govern-ment had feared.

INTERNET

A visitor experiencesextracting the grain fromthe imperial grain-storingcask on display inside the

Imperial GranaryMuseum of Ming Dynasty

of Nanxingcang Barn,which has been opened to

public visitors, indowntown of Beijing,on16 Jan. 2010. Affluentexhibits reenacting the

history of grainstransport through theGrand Canal and the

imperial barns storageare accessible to visitors,who can also experiencethe quern of stone mill

some 600 years ago.INTERNET

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Athletic Bilbao’s Koikili Lertxundi (R)vies with Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos(L) during a Spanish league football

match, at San Mames stadium inBilbao. Bilbao won 1-0.—INTERNET

Real Madrid crashesto defeat in Bilbao

MADRID, 17 Jan—Multi-million EuroReal Madrid crashed to a 1-0 defeat inAthletic Club Bilbao’s San Mames Sta-dium on Saturday night.

The most expensive team in the worldlost to a side that spent just two millionEuros this summer and only plays withfootballers born or raised in the Basquedistrict. Maybe for that reason Athleticenjoys a special relationship with its fans.

It is Real Madrid’s third defeat of theseason. A second minute goal from Ath-letic striker Fernando Llorente was the dif-ference between the two sides.

The big striker headed home a cornertaken by Fran Yeste that flicked off RealMadrid midfielder Lassana Diarra with thegame hardly under way. Cheered on by apacked crowd in San Mames and with anincredible atmosphere in the stands, Ath-letic went from the game from the first mo-ment and had already hit the woodworktwice through Carlos Gurpegui and GaizkaToquero before Llorente’s goal.—Xinhua

Barcelona take revenge after beatingSevilla 4-0 in Spanish soccer league MADRID, 17 Jan—Leo Messi scored twice as FC

Barcelona avenged its exit from the Copa del Rey witha 4-0 thrashing of Sevilla in the Camp Nou Stadium.

Barca had beaten Sevilla 1-0 away from home inmidweek but went out of the Cup on away goals andPep Guardiola’s men were clearly in the mood for re-venge.

They dominated the first half but thanks to the bril-liant performance of Sevilla goalkeeper Andres Palop,who had been vital in his side’s Copa del Rey triumph,the Catalan’s were unable to open the score.

It needed a stroke of luck in the second half whenEscude deflected Gerard Pique’s close range shot intohis own net to open the score, but from that momentthere was no stopping Barca.

Pedro Rodriguez added the second following amagnificent pass from Xavi Hernandez and Leo Messiscored the third from inside the penalty area with fiveminutes left.

The goal was Messi’s 100th for the club and in in-jury time he netted his 101st after a smart finish againstPalop.

The win was all the more sweeter because RealMadrid crashed toits third league defeat of the seasonin Athletic club Bilbao.—Xinhua

Sharapova vsKirilenko clashset to kick off

Australian Open MELBOURNE, 17 Jan—

An all-Russian, all-Mariaclash will kick off actionat Rod Laver Arena forthe first day of AustralianOpen 2010 on Monday,with a host of other top 10players on display on Day1 at Melbourne Park.

Fourteenth-seed MariaSharapova and compa-triot Maria Kirilenko getproceedings underwayfrom 11am at Rod LaverArena, while KimClijsters and AndyMurray will also step outfor their opening matcheson center court.

Day 1 also features anall-Chinese clash whenPeng Shuai and ZhengJie, a semifinalist at Wim-bledon 2007, fight for asecond-round spot onCourt 8.

Xinhua

Manchester United’s Bulgarian for-ward Dimitar Berbatov (R) scores theopening goal of the English PremierLeague football match betweenManchester United and Burnley at OldTrafford, Manchester.—INTERNET

United face Berbatovsurgery dilemma

MANCHESTER, 17 Jan—ManchesterUnited manager Sir Alex Ferguson willon Monday make a decision on whetherDimitar Berbatov, a scorer in the 3-0 winover Burnley, requires knee surgery.

The Bulgarian striker has been strug-gling for a number of weeks with theinjury and United had hoped he wouldbe able to play through the discomfort,but he was bothered by his knee onceagain despite going on to score inUnited’s victory at Old Trafford onSaturday.

Ferguson took him off in the closingstages and will now consider whetherhe needs an operation.

He said: “Dimitar was feeling hisknee again. We’ll look at it on Mondayand we’ll see (about surgery). He couldhave come off at half-time but he wantedto stay on again and that’s good.”

Internet

Bayern Munich defeats Hoffenheim 2-0 after winterbreak BERLIN, 17 Jan—On Friday Bundesliga record champion Bayern Munich de-

feated Hoffenheim 2-0 in front of home crowd at full house Allianz Arena andmoved from 3rd to 1st position of Bundesliga while Hoffenheim remained on 7thposition.

Record champion Munich needed some time to get into the match. It took 34minutes until Bayern opened the scoring. Defender Martin Demichelis slotted homefrom close range inside the box, German international midfielder SebastianSchweinsteiger assited with a cross from the left wing.

After interval Bayern took over control and pressed Hoffenheim into defense.With 57 minutes played Bayern striker, and German international Mario Gomezmissed the opportunity to double the lead. Only two minutes later again Gomezwasted the chance to double the lead with a weak shot from 16 meters.—Xinhua

Mancini won’t write off Robinhodespite latest flop

LIVERPOOL, 17 Jan—Roberto Mancini is adamant Robinho stillhas a future at Manchester City despite hauling off the Brazil starsoon after sending him on as a substitute in the 2-0 defeat at Everton.

Mancini has only started Robinho once in his five matches sincereplacing Mark Hughes as City manager and is clearly struggling tofind a way to motivate the under-performing former Real Madridforward.

Robinho, who cost City a club record 32 million pounds, was athis lacklustre worst after coming on as a first half replacement forRoque Santa Cruz at Goodison Park on Saturday and Mancini showedhis disgust by taking him off soon after the interval.

Mancini’s hardline stance failed to spark City into life and theylost for the first time under the former Inter Milan coach, droppingout of the Premier League’s top four in the process.

But Mancini won’t write off Robinho for good and insisted theattacking options at his disposal mean he would always be willing torotate the team at the expense of even his biggest stars.—Internet

Manchester City’s Brazilian forwardRobinho (L) talks to ManchesterCity’s Italian manager Roberto

Mancini during an earlier match.Mancini is adamant Robinho still has

a future at Manchester City despitehauling off the Brazil star soon aftersending him on as a substitute in the

2-0 defeat at Everton.INTERNET

Messi joins Barcelona 100 club as championsgo five clear

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrateswith his team mates his hundredth goalfor FC Barcelona during their Span-ish first division soccer match againstSevilla at Nou Camp stadium inBarcelona on 16 Jan, 2010.—INTERNET

thumped Sevilla 4-0 at Camp Nou to gofive points clear of Real Madrid.

Messi, 22, scored twice in the finalfive minutes to make it five goals in hislast two matches and take his career to-tal to 101, becoming the youngest playerin the club’s illustrious history to reachthe landmark.

An own goal from Julien Escude anda Pedro Rodriguez strike capped a mis-erable second half for Sevilla who paida heavy price for knocking Barcelona outof the Kings Cup in midweek.

Real had crashed to their third defeatof the season with a 1-0 loss at AthleticBilbao earlier on Saturday and Barcamade them pay for the slip-up notchingtheir first home win of 2010 to open upa five-point cushion.—Internet

MADRID, 17 Jan—Lionel Messiscored his 100th Barcelona goal on Sat-urday as the Spanish champions

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Rakhie and Mon States, upper Sagaing, Bago,Yangon, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Divisions andgenerally fair in the remaining areas. Night temperatureswere (4°C) below January average temperatures in ChinState, (3°C) to (4°C) above January average temperaturesin Nothern Shan, Rakhine and Kayah States, Mandalay,Magway, Bago, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Divisions,(5°C) to (6C) above January average temperatures inEastern Shan and Mon States and about January averagetemperatures in the remaining areas. The significant nighttemperatures were Haka (0°C) , Machanbaw (4°C) andHeho (5°C).

Maximum temperature on 16-1-2010 was 94°F.Minimum temperature on 17 -1-2010 was 63°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 17 -1-2010 was 77%.Total sun shine hours on 16 -1-2010 was (8.5) hours approx.

Rainfall on 17-1-2010 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010was (Tr) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and (Nil) at CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was(4) mph from Northeast at (10:30) hours MST on 16-1-2010.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theSouthwest Bay and generally fair in the Andaman Sea andelsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 18th January 2010:Weather will be partly cloudy in Kachin, Chin, Shan andKayah States and Taninthayi Division and generally fairin the remaining States and Divisions.

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Generally fairweather in the whole country.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for18-1-2010: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for18-1-2010:Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for18-1-2010:Partly cloudy .

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UN confirms death of Haitimission chief Annabi

UNITED NATIONS , 17Jan — The UN missionchief in Haiti, HediAnnabi, died inTuesday’s earthquakethat devastated thecountry’s capital, UNSecretary-General BanKi-moon announced onSaturday.Annabi, a Tunisian, wasbelieved to be 65. In astatement, Ban alsoconfirmed the death ofAnnabi’s deputy,Brazilian Luiz Carlos daCosta, and of the actingUN policecommissioner in Haiti,

Doug Coates of Canada.Ban gave no details ofhow the bodies had beenfound, but the worldbody said earlier thisweek that Annabi andhis aides were under therubble of the HotelChristopher, the UNheadquarters in Port-au-Prince, and could bealive or dead.

Haitian PresidentRene Preval said onWednesday that Annabihad died, but the UnitedNations said at the time itcould not confirm that.

MNA/ Reuters

Plastic food containers are among commonproducts that can contain bisphenol-A, or BPA.

INTERNET

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4th Waxing of Tabodwe 1371 ME Monday, 18 January, 2010

★ 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

Hsipaw which is well worth a visitByline & Photos: Tin Htwe (MNA)

Haka (0o C)

Machanbaw (4o C)

Heho (5o C)

A deer forages in a gully in an area burnedin the Station wildfire last year, where some

foliage has begun to grow after a storm afew weeks ago created small washouts, in LaCanada Flintridge, Calif, Saturday, on 16

Jan, 2010. Several inches of rain arepredicted from a series of storms expected to

hit California in the next several days.INTERNET

Significant night temperatures (17-1-2010)

Hsipaw is 45 miles and five furlong from Lashio,and the road is all downhill, thus taking us nearly twohours to reach our destination. The views from along thefine road were absolutely breathtaking, making me feelrefreshed.

Due to the upgraded road near Gokhteik Viaduct,it was nice to view trucks moving along the uphill roadsnaking itself among the mountains.

When asked about regional development under-takings in an interview, Chairman of Hsipaw TownshipPeace and Development Council U Khin Kyi said, “Weare now carrying out many tasks for regional develop-ment such as construction of the surgical ward of thepeople’s hospital, staff quarter, Hsipaw Bridge and fireservice station, repairs to roads, and an auto exchange inNamlan.” (See page 9)

The triangle-shaped traffic island with some lovely residences in Hsipaw.

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