the new light of myanmar 19-10-2009

Established 1914

Volume XVII, Number 186 2nd Waxing of Tazaungmon 1371 ME Monday, 19 October, 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

True patriotism* It is very important for everyone of the nation

regardless of the place he lives to have strongUnion Spirit.

* Only Union Spirit is the true patriotism all thenationalities will have to safeguard.

Prime Minister General Thein Seinto attend 15th ASEAN Summit and

Related SummitsNAY PYI TAW, 19 Oct—At the invitation of H.E. Mr Abhisit Veijajiva, Prime

Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, General Thein Sein, Prime Minister of theGovernment of the Union of Myanmar will be attending the 15th ASEAN Summit andRelated Summits scheduled to be held in Hua Hin, Thailand in the near future.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct —The opening of the 17th

Myanmar Traditional Cultural Performing ArtsCompetitions took place at Nay Pyi Taw City Hall thismorning, with an address by Patron for Organizing thecompetitions Secretary-1 of the State Peace andDevelopment Council General Thiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo.

Also present on the occasion were senior militaryofficers, members of the panel of patrons for organizingthe competitions, Chairman of the Leading Committeefor organizing the competitions Commander of NayPyi Taw Command Maj-Gen Wai Lwin, ministers,deputy ministers, members of the Leading Committee,chairmen and members of the work committees and

Myanmar traditional performing arts, cultural heritage bearwitness to high national prestige and integrity of the nationThe nation will face culture deterioration, if

social affair is not paid serious attention17th Myanmar Traditional Cultural Performing Arts Competitions commence

Secretary-1 of SPDC General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo addresses opening of 17th Myanmar Traditional Cultural Performing ArtsCompetitions.—MNA

subcommittees, and ambassadors and their wives,diplomats, heads of office, members of socialorganizations, members of the panel of judges (central),maestros, managers of cultural troupes and candidatesfrom states and divisions, students from the universitiesof culture, and guests.

The first session was held in front of the city hall at8.30 am. Members of the panel of patrons for organizingthe competitions, the chairman and members of theLeading Committee, the work committee andsubcommittees, managers and participants from 14states and divisions, and distinguished guests fromKachin, Kayah and Chin states took position at thedesignated places.

U Hla Win, Daw Lein Maung Pan and Daw MyaKye Mon from the Myanma Radio and Televisionacted as MCs.

The chairman of the Leading Committee presenteda report on prearrangements for the competitions,saying that the competitions are aimed at ensuringperpetuation of the Union of Myanmar, and furthercementing friendly relations among national races. So,the Leading Committee and subcommittees have madeall possible measures for the convenience and comfortof the contenders from the states and divisions.

The levels of the contestants are six levels, thesame as previous year. Altogether 1853 competitors

(See page 8)

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 19 October, 2009

Monday, 19 October, 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

Today, the government is working hard toprovide better community health care with asense of national duty for the good health andfitness of the entire people. Apart from givinghealth education talks, the government is pursu-ing health care plans to improve the life expect-ancy of the people and control and prevent out-breaks of common diseases.

In the process, maternal and child health careis one of the main priorities in Myanmar. In orderto meet the target, the government is educatingthe people on a broad scale through community-based health care week movements which de-serve careful attention from every mother andfamily member.

Only with antenatal care during and after thepregnancy can a pregnant woman give birth to ababy without difficulty and both the mother andthe baby be in good health.

A pregnant woman should take medical check-up at least four times, medicines and vaccinationbefore giving birth to a baby. Moreover, they shouldhave a health diet and pay attention to personalhygiene under the advice of the medical staff.

Pregnant women must avoid fatigue workand liquor and narcotic drugs strictly. Everypregnant woman and their family members shouldhave enough knowledge of symptoms of preg-nancy-related health problems.

A pregnant woman dies every minute in theworld, especially in the confinement. Some othercauses are hemorrhage, pregnant poisoning, dif-ficult birth, bacteria infection and abortion.

Every pregnant woman can give birth to ahealthy baby if they give births to babies withmedical staff, doctors and midwives, and takehealth care, other family members take care ofthem, and people of their own wards or villagestransfer heavily pregnant women to health carecentres in time.

Take effective prenatal careduring and after pregnancy

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct— Minister for Construc-tion Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint inspected the main-tenance Minbu-Minhla road, construction ofAyeyawady Bridge that will link the eastern bank andthe western bank of the Ayeyawady River, earth work,bole piling and construction of approach road and

Minister inspects construction of Ayeyawady Bridge (Malun)

other construction tasks on the eastern bank ofAyeyawady River on 16 October.

Ayeyawady Bridge (Malun) is a rail-cum-roadone linking Minhla Township in Thayet District andPahtanago village in Magway District.

MNA

Labour Minister meets Philippine AmbassadorNAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct—

Minister for Labour U AungKyi received Ambassadorof the Republic of the Phil-ippines Ms Maria HellenM Barber at the ministryhere on 15 October. Alsopresent at the call wereDeputy Minister Brig-GenTin Tun Aung and offi-cials. The two sides helddiscussion about prospectsof co-operation in devel-opment of overseas job op-portunities and profi-ciency courses for labour-ers.—MNA

Novice class cricket tournament 2009 continues

UMFCCI meets Sudanese Deputy Foreign Minister

YANGON, 18 Oct—In-ter Basic Education Schoolsnovice class cricket tour-nament 2009 organized byMyanmar Cricket Federa-tion continued today atplaygrounds of No.4 BEHSin Ahlon Township and of

YANGON, 18 Oct—President of Union ofMyanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerceand Industry U WinMyint together with Vice-President U Zaw Min Winand U Aung Lwin, Gen-eral Secretary Dr MaungMaung Lay, Joint-Secre-taries U Myint Soe, Dr

No.1 BEHS in LanmadawTownship here.

In the first semi-finalof the women’s event,No.3 BEHS of MingalarTaungnyunt Townshipwon over No.6 BEMS ofMingaladon Township by

(8) Wicket and secured aseat for final. In the men’sthird quarter final match,No.6 BEMS ofMingaladon Townshipbeat No.4 BEHS of AhlonTownship by (3) wicket.

MNA

Myo Thet and Dr PwintSan, and CEC membersU Tun Aung and U TinMyint, and officials re-ceived a Sudanese delega-tion led by Deputy Min-ister for Foreign AffairsMr Ali Ahmed Kertil atthe UMFCCI office hereon 10 October.

The meeting was fo-

cused on promoting bilat-eral trade and investmentbetween the two countries,economic cooperation be-tween private entrepre-neurs, participation ofMyanmar entrepreneurs inthe trade fair to be held inSudan and obtaining eco-nomic information.

MNA

MinisterMaj-Gen

KhinMaungMyint

inspectsconstruc-

tion ofAyeyawady

Bridge(Malun).

MNA

Minister

U Aung Kyi

receives

Philippine

Ambassa-

dor Ms

Maria

Hellen M.

Barber.

MNA

Mingaladon BEMS (6) team vying with Ahlon BEHS (4) team.—MCF

President of UMFCCI meeting with Sudanese Deputy Foreign MinisterMr Ali Ahmed Kertil.—UMFCCI

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 19 October, 2009 3

India forces US army planeto land in Mumbai

Iraqi men inspect a bridge destroyed in a truck bomb attack in Ramadi, 115kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, on 17 Oct, 2009. A suicide

bomber driving an explosives-laden truck destroyed a key bridge on Saturdayon a highway used by the departing US military.—INTERNET

Samoa tsunamis obliterate some coral, spare others

Gangsters shot down policechopper in Rio, 12 killed

RIO DE JANEIRO, 18 Oct — A police helicopter wasshot down here on Saturday during a drug traffickersshoot-out, which claimed two police officers and 10suspected gangsters, said the police.

The helicopter was perforated by a bullet which endedup in the pilot’s leg while flying over the “Hill of Mon-keys”, a slum in the northern part of the city, where policetook on a gun battle between rival gangs over territory,said Major Oderlei Santos from the military police.

The chopper burst into flames after being landedon a football pitch. Two police officers died and fourother crew members were wounded including the pi-lot, one of them burned seriously, Duarte said.

Ten suspected traffickers were killed while thosegangsters shooting in the slum. Eight buses were seton fire in slums in northern zone by suspected drugtraffickers to distract the police forces, said JoseBeltrame, Rio’s state security secretary. —Xinhua

Roadside bomb-ing wounds

eight police inE Afghanistan

KHOST (Afghanistan),18 Oct — Eight AfghanNational Police (ANP)were wounded on Satur-day as their van hit aroadside bomb in PaktiaProvince of eastern Af-ghanistan on Saturday,police said. “The incident occurredat around 10 am localtime (05.30 GMT) inIbrahim Khil area nearthe capital city Gardezwhen an ANP unit was onroutine patrol by their ve-hicle,” deputy to provin-cial police chief GhulamDastgir Rustamyar toldXinhua. Three of the eightwounded are in criticalsituation, he added.

Xinhua

NEW DELHI, 18 Oct — India on Sun-day forced a US army plane, carrying 205passengers including marine commandos,to land at Mumbai airport for violating In-dian airspace, aviation sources said.

“The aircraft, a plane chartered by theUS army and carrying 205 people includ-ing its crew and a number of marine com-mandos, was travelling from Fujairah inthe United Arab Emirates to Utapao inThailand. It has been grounded at theMumbai airport because its ‘call sign’ wasnot registered. It was asked to immediatelyland while flying over the Indian airspacearound at 08:00 am (02:30 GMT),” thesources said.

Though the aircraft had normal clear-ance from India’s Director General of Civil

Aviation, it didn’t have Air OperationsRouting clearance mandatory for planescarrying troops or military cargo, thesources said.

Meanwhile, Indian Defence Ministrysources said that the Indian Air Force hasbeen asked to look into the matter.

“The Air Force has been asked to probethe airspace violation by the US armyplane. The marine commandos on boardthe plane may also be questioned ifneeded,” the sources said. In fact, this isthe second Indian airspace violation by aUS.aircraft in four months. In June 2009,an AN-132 cargo plane carrying arms forUS forces in Afghanistan was also forcedto land in Mumbai under similar circum-stances.—Xinhua

Philippine plane crash inManila suburb kills four

This 4 Oct, 2009 photo shows a large chunk of coralthat was ripped up from the reef and washed ashore infront the village of Leone in American Samoa. Scien-tists surveying American Samoa’s coral reefs say Sept.29’s tsunami obliterated some corals and damaged oth-ers to the point that they may not recover.—INTERNET

HONOLULU, 18 Oct —Scientists surveyingAmerican Samoa’s coralreefs say on 29 Sept tsu-nami obliterated some cor-als and damaged others tothe point that they may notrecover.

Researchers say moreassessments will be neededto get a full sense of howthe disaster affected coral inthe US territory. But in atleast one area, the damagewas so severe, and the af-fected area already in suchbad shape before the tsuna-mis, that the coral maynever return.

There’s an additionalthreat the surviving coralmay suffer secondary dam-age weeks after the tsuna-mis if waves drag heavydebris from people’s wave-wrecked homes — like re-frigerators, tin roofs andother objects — across thereefs. Mounds of house-

hold goods dislodged bythe giant waves are still sit-ting in the water off tsu-nami-torn villages.

Corals, which are colo-nies formed by small, frag-ile animals called polyps,provide vital habitats forfish, sea slugs, shrimp, seaworms and many other ma-rine species that find foodand take shelter among the

reefs. This makes measuringthe extent of the tsunami-in-flicted damage important forunderstanding the disaster’seffect on the broader envi-ronment. Tsunamis gener-ated by an 8.3-magnitudeearthquake killed at least 32people in American Samoa.About 150 were killed innearby Samoa and Tonga.—Internet

Police inspect the remains of one of their crime-fighting helicopters lying in a soccer field after it

was shot down when trying to intervene in a battlebetween two opposing drug gangs, in a Rio de

Janerio slumon on 17 October, 2009.—XINHUA

MANILA, 18 Oct — Apropeller-driven plane ona test flight crashed andburst into flames in a sub-urb of the Philippinecapital on Saturday, kill-ing at least four peopleonboard, airport officialssaid.

The DC-3 planescraped the roofs of 14houses in Las Pinas citybefore it crashed into anabandoned warehouse,but no one was immedi-ately reported injured onthe ground, police said.Local residents said two

houses close to the ware-house caught fire. Thecharred remains of fourpeople have been recov-ered at the site, Manilaairport security managerAngel Atutubo said.

The plane departedManila airport for PuertoPrincesa city in Palawanprovince southwest of Ma-nila around noon, but thepilot turned the plane backminutes later asking forpermission for an emer-gency landing, Atutubosaid. The plane owned byVictoria Air Inc was on atest flight, Manila airportoperations managerOctavio Lina said. Thecompany could not bereached for comment.

The flight manifestshowed seven people onboard, including the pilot,but crash investigatorscould not immediatelyconfirm that number ofpeople was on the plane,Atutubo said. Hours afterfirefighters put out the firecaused by the crash, onlyfour bodies had beenfound, he said.—Xinhua

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British economy shows signsof recovery, but difficulties remain

FAA probe of American Airlinesmay widen

ThyssenKrupp to slash upto 20,000 more jobs

BERLIN, 18 Oct—German steelmaker ThyssenKruppwill cut up to 20,000 more jobs in the next fiscal yearafter already eliminating 12,000 positions due to thefinancial crisis, a report said on Saturday.

“Through disinvestments and restructuring, thecompany’s personnel will in the next fiscal year bereduced again by 15,000 to 20,000 positions,”ThyssenKrupp chief Ekkehard Schulz told the dailyFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Most of the cuts will come from the sale of somebranches of the group. But between 2,000 and 2,500jobs will also be eliminated from its administration inGermany and abroad, Schulz said.

ThyssenKrupp cut 12,000 jobs in Germany, France,Britain and Romania in the 2008-2009 fiscal yearwhich ended in September.—Internet

Biggest economies try againto strike climate deal

Fury in Frankfurt at Google’sglobal library project

FRANKFURT, 18 Oct—“Garbage” and “hysterical propaganda” wasone angry reaction at the world’s biggest book fair this year whenGoogle, the world’s biggest Internet information service, defended plansto turn millions of books into electronic literature available online.

The row erupted at the 61st international Frankfurt Book Fair, a ma-jor annual literary event.

A literature professor from Germany’s Heidelberg University re-sponded sharply to a massive project by US online giant Google, asupplier of vast amounts of information of all kinds on the Internet, togive the world access to books otherwise hard or impossible to obtain.

Describing Google’s claims as “just a whole garbage of hystericalpropaganda,” Professor Roland Reuss warned of a threat to traditionalpublishing, saying at a forum on the issue: “You revolutionise the mar-ket but the cost is that the producers of goods in this market will bedemolished.”—Internet

Hot air balloons floatduring the Interna-

tional Balloon FestivalMexico in La ComarcaLagunera, Coahuila on17 Oct, 2009.—XINHUA

American Airlines MD-80 aircrafts sit on the tarmac at Chicago’s O’HareInternational Airport 9 April, 2008.—INTERNET

Google wants to make e-books available to all devices with webbrowsers, from mobile phones to desk-top computers, challeng-ing Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader which forces buyers to buy

books through the company.—INTERNET

China’spremium incomerise 8.1% in first

three quarters BEIJING, 18 Oct—Chi-

na’s premium income inthe first nine months rose8.1 percent from a yearearlier to 858.03 billionyuan (125.63 billion USdollars), according to WuDingfu, China InsuranceRegulatory CommissionChairman.

In the first three quar-ters, the country’s prop-erty insurance premiumincome rose 21.4 percentyear on year to 223.39 bil-lion yuan. The life insur-ance premium incomegrew 4.1 percent year onyear to 634.64 billionyuan.

By the end of Septem-ber, total assets of the na-tion’s insurers stood at 3.8trillion yuan, an increaseof 18.9 percent comparedwith that at the beginningof the year.

Profits of insurers dur-ing the January-Septem-ber period was 39.19 bil-lion yuan, representing anincrease of 45.77 billionyuan over the same periodlast year.—Xinhua

LONDON, 18 Oct—TheBritish economy hasshown signs of recovery,and it is expected to getover the recession withinthe year but the reboundwill be slow and weak.

Official figuresshowed last week thatthe number of joblesspeople in Britain hasfallen for the first timesince the spring of last

year — an unexpectedevidence of labour marketresilience in the worst re-cession in decades.

The Office of NationalStatistics said that 2.469million people were out ofwork and seeking a jobbetween June and Augustthis year, slightly downfrom the period of May toJuly. This was the first fallin its quarterly unemploy-

ment rate since March-May period of 2008.

House price rose by0.7 percent in Septemberfrom the previous month,boosted by rising values atthe top end of the market.It was the fourth consecu-tive month of increase,indicating that the hous-ing market is getting backon the right track.

Xinhua

CHICAGO, 18 Oct—AMR Corp’s AmericanAirlines operated jets laterfound to have substandardrepairs, and federal regu-lators are probing allega-tions that at least one planewas considered unsafe tofly at normal cruise alti-tude, the Wall Street Jour-nal reported on Saturday.

The newspaper, citingpeople familiar with thematter, said the latestmoves by the FederalAviation Administrationindicate the agency is ex-panding its probe into sus-pected structural prob-lems with rear bulkheadson some of American’sfleet of MD-80 jets, thenewspaper said.

FAA inspectors are pur-

suing allegations by pilotsthat one of those MD-80swas believed to be in suchpoor condition that it wasferried without passen-gers from Dallas to thecarrier’s Tulsa, Oklahomamaintenance base at unu-sually low altitudes toavoid the stress of pressu-rizing the fuselage duringthe trip, the newspapersaid.—Internet

LONDON, 18 Oct—Rep-resentatives of the world’s17 biggest and most pol-luting nations gather onSunday to search for abreakthrough on financingefforts to contain climate

change and reduce gasemissions causing globalwarming. Pressure hasbeen mounting for theUnited States to finalize itsposition before a decisiveDecember conference inDenmark meant to cap twoyears of negotiations on aglobal climate changetreaty.

“With only 50 moredays to go before the finaltalks at Copenhagen, we

have to up our game. Brit-ain is determined to throweverything at this becausethe stakes are so high,”British Environment Min-ister Ed Miliband said in astatement released on Sun-day. Earlier Miliband hadsaid it was “important thatthe US makes as muchprogress as possible” atthe two-day meeting ofthe Major EconomiesForum.—Internet

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All items from Xinhua News Agency

A visitor watches the paper-cutting artwork of double happiness by ZhangZhuquan, a folk artist of paper-cutting of Tujia ethnic group, at the exhibi-

tion of Zhang Zhuquan personal paper-cutting artwork, where some 60variously-designed double happiness paper-cutting and paper-carving

artworks were on display at the Guiyang Art Gallery, in Guiyang, southwestChina’s Guizhou Province, on 17 Oct, 2009.—XINHUA

Tunisia eyes solar power to trimenergy consumption

TUNIS, 17 Oct— Tuni-sia, which imports mostof its petroleum needs,targets to develop solarpower capacity in orderto diversify reliance ontraditional sources ofelectricity generation,official TAP news agency reported on Sat-urday.

Tunisia expects toachieve 40 projects dur-ing 2010 to 2016 as itwants to be less depend-ent on oil and gas with29 schemes to be fi-nanced by private sector,said the report without

giving accurate figure onthe value.

The projects wouldhelp the north Africancountry to cut energyconsumption by 22 per-cent in 2016 saving 660tonnes of oil per year, itadded.

Tunisia energy im-ports stood at 4.913 bil-lion Tunisian dinars(3.862 billion US dollars)in the previous year, up64 percent from a yearearlier.

The power demand inTunisia grows 7 percentper year on fast growing

economy which was at5.1 percent last year, ac-cording to official data.

Tunisia eyes to de-velop renewable energyenough to be a world in-dustrial and energetic hubproducing and exportingnotably solar power.

With the aim, thecountry has set in 2008 afour-year national planaiming at improving pro-duction of renewable en-ergy which forecasted tosatisfy 4 percent of powerdemand in 2011.(1 USD= 1.272 Tunisian dinar)

Xinhua

Jordan, Syria to signcooperation agreements

A visitor views clayfigures in a special

clay figure exhibitionin Wuxi City, eastChina’s Jiangsu

Province, on 17 Oct,2009.A one-month-

long special clayfigure exhibition

opened on Saturdaywith over 400 clay

figure works made bymore than 80 mastercraftsmen on show.

XINHUA

Contaminated drinking water posesserious health hazard in Nepali capital

Haiming, a folk craftsman from east China’sZhejiang Province, draws a picture by an electric

iron on the 3rd China Folk Craftsman Festival heldin Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang

Province,on 16 Oct, 2009.—XINHUA

Russia’s cargo spaceshipdocks with space stationMOSCOW, 18 Oct—The Progress M-03M, Rus-

sia’s third modified cargo craft, docked with the In-ternational Space Station (ISS) early Sunday morn-ing, the Mission Control Centre outside Moscow an-nounced.

The cargo spacecraft, launched from the Baikonurspace centre in Kazakhstan early on Thursday morn-ing, delivers some 2.5 tons of supplies, includingfood, water, fuel, equipment, and parcels from fami-lies, for the crew members on board the ISS.

Xinhua

AMMAN, 18 Oct —Jor-dan and Syria are sched-uled to sign several agree-ments to boost coopera-tion in different fieldsduring the joint Jorda-nian-Syrian committeemeetings to start on Sun-day, the state-run PetraNews Agency reported onSaturday.

Agreements will coverfields of energy, planning,education, culture, hold-ing exhibitions, amongothers, Muntaser Oqla,secretary general of Jor-dan’s Ministry of Indus-try and Trade was quotedby Petra as saying.

The series of meetingswill be headed by Jor-dan’s Prime MinisterNader Dahabi and hisSyrian counterpartMohammad Etri.

The meetings were pri-marily scheduled to takeplace in September butwere later postponed af-ter an agreement betweenthe two countries.

During the meetings,officials from both coun-tries will explore pros-pects of bolstering coop-eration in economic sec-tors and increasing bilat-eral trade.

Jordan’s revenues fromexports to Syria declinedby 12 percent during thefirst seven months of 2009compared to the same pe-riod in 2008, according tothe Central Bank of Jor-dan (CBJ).

Xinhua

KATHMANDU, 18 Oct— Unsafe drinking watercould potentially cause aserious health hazard forresidents in the Nepalicapital Kathmandu Val-ley, experts warned.

According to Sun-day’s The HimalayanTimes daily, low-incomepeople who rely on thesupplied water and have

no means to afford bot-tled mineral water, are themajor ones to suffer.

The drinking watercurrently supplied by theKathmandu UpatyakaKhanepani Limited(KUKL) has been re-ported to be tainted withdangerous levels ofchemicals, viruses and

bacteria, the newspaperreported.

What is even moreworrisome is the fact thatthe drinking waterpipesrun parallel to the leakingsewerage pipes, resultingin the possible fusion oftwo pipes contaminatingthe drinking water, thenewspaper said.—Xinhua

S Korean ship goesmissing, with five crews

on boardSEOUL, 18 Oct—A South Korean waste disposal ship

with 5 crew members on board went missing earlier onSunday in the East Sea, the South Korea’s Yonhap NewsAgency quoted the Coast Guard as saying.

The 118-ton ship, which departed its home port inPohang, southeastern coast of the country on Mondayfor collecting disposed fishing nets in the area, issueda distress call around 1:37 am on Sunday when it washeading to Ulleung Island to take shelter due to abomi-nable weather conditions, Yonhap said.

Xinhua

S Korea callsback TataDaewootrucks

SEOUL, 18 Oct—TheSouth Korean govern-ment on Sunday orderedTata Daewoo Commer-cial Vehicle Co to callback around 3,000 trucksfor problems in the steer-ing column.

The action will affecta total of 3,276 trucksof 19t, 19.5t and 25tmade from 16 August,2004 to the end of 2007,the Ministry of Land,Transport and MaritimeAffairs said in a state-ment. The ministry saidthat problems were dis-covered in the auxiliarypart of the steering sys-tem, noting that the aux-iliary system functionsfor less than three min-utes, failing to meet mini-mum safety requirementsset for such large com-mercial trucks.

Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

This undated photo providedby Lumiere Technology inParis shows a fingerprint ona painting that art experts be-lieve they have identified asa new Leonardo da Vinci.Peter Paul Biro, a Montreal-based forensic art expert,that a fingerprint on whatwas presumed to be a 19th-century German painting ofa young woman has con-vinced art experts that it’s actually a da Vinci.

Mona Lisa has somethingnew to smile about.A portraitof a young woman thought tobe created by a 19th centuryGerman artist and sold twoyears ago for about $19,000is now being attributed by artexperts to Leonardo da Vinciand valued at more than $150million.

The unsigned chalk, inkand pencil drawing, known as“La Bella Principessa,” wasmatched to Leonardo via atechnique more suited to acrime lab than an art studio —a fingerprint and palm printfound on the 13-inch-by-10-inch work.Peter Paul Biro, aMontreal-based forensic artexpert, said the print of an in-dex or middle finger matcheda fingerprint found onLeonardo’s “St. Jerome” inthe Vatican.

Technical, stylistic andmaterial composition evi-dence — including carbondating — had art experts be-lieving as early as last yearthat they had found anotherwork by the creator of the

Leonardo da Vinci fingerprint reveals$150 million artwork

“Mona Lisa.”The discoveryof the fingerprint has themconvinced the work was byLeonardo, whose myth andmystery has already put himin such best-sellers as “TheDa Vinci Code” and “TheLost Symbol.”

An artist performs with fire in a citypark in Bishkek.

Canadian trucker fined forsmoking on the job

A Canadian truck driver has been fined for smoking in hisvehicle because it is considered his workplace, a policespokeswoman said on Friday.

A police officer saw the 48-year-old trucker driving ona highway in southwestern Ontario with a cigarette in hismouth on Wednesday, and gave him a C$305 ($290)ticket.

The Smoke-Free Ontario Act, adopted in 2006, prohibitssmoking in an enclosed workplace or enclosed public area,and that extends to work vehicles, said Constable ShawnaCoulter of the Ontario Provincial Police in Essex County.

Early flier was less bird than dinosaurFlorida State

University scien-tists say they be-lieve the prehistoricreptilian birdarchaeopteryx wasless like modern-day birds than pre-viously thought.

New micro-scopic images ofthe cells and bloodvessels in the bonesof the earlier flier,which lived in Eu-rope during theJurassic Period 150million years ago,reveal it grewslowly like dino-saurs, not quicklylike living birds.

The absence of

rapid bone growthmeans quick-growing bones arenot necessary forflight, the study,led bypa leob io log i s tGregory M Erick-son, determined.

“Living birdsmature veryquickly,” Ericksonsaid. “That’s whywe rarely see babybirds among flocksof invariably iden-tical-size pigeons.Slow-growing ani-mals such asa r c h a e o p t e r y xwould look foreignto contemporarybird-watchers.”

The study ispublished in the 9Oct issue of thejournal PLoS One.Erickson’s co-au-thors are biologistBrian D Inouye ofFlorida State, andresearchers fromGermany andChina. Erickson isan associate profes-sor in FloridaState’s Departmentof Biological Sci-ence and a researchassociate at theAmerican Mu-seum of NaturalHistory.

Hurricane Rick builds to Category five off Mexico

This image provided byNOAA shows Hurri-cane Rick taken at 11pm EDT Saturday 17Oct, 2009. —INTERNET

MEXICO CITY, 18Oct—Hurricane Rickgrew Saturday into thestrongest storm in theeastern North Pacific

Ocean in more than a dec-ade.

The ‘extremely dan-gerous’ Category 5 hurri-cane had sustained windsof 180 mph (285 kph), theUS National HurricaneCenter in Miami reported,though it said Rick waslikely to lose some of thatpunch before hitting land.

The hurricane wasprojected to stay well offthe Mexican coast for sev-eral days before bendingeast over cooler waters andhitting the Baja CaliforniaPeninsula as a Category 1or Category 2 hurricanesometime Wednesday.

Authorities in the re-

sort city of Acapulcoclosed the port to smallcraft after Rick kicked upheavy waves and gusts ofwind.

Acapulco’s CivilProtection Departmenthad warned that rainsfrom the outer bands ofthe storm could causelandslides and floodingin the resort city, but nosuch effects were re-ported.

At 11 pm EDT Sat-urday (0300 GMT Sun-day), the storm’s centrewas located about 295miles (475 kilometres)southwest of Manzanillo,Mexico.—Internet

Philippines braces for another typhoonMANILA, 18 Oct—

Philippine authorities onSunday put rescue teamson standby and stock-piled emergency suppliesas the country braced forTyphoon Lupit followingin the wake of two stormswhich left more than 800people dead.

The governmentweather service said theouter bands of the latest

cyclone, packing windsof up to 160 kilometres(100 miles) an hour,could start to affect thenorth of the main islandof Luzon on Wednesday.

The eye of the storm,now less than a thousandkilometres from Luzon’seast coast, could clip theregion later in the week,it said.

Local governments

in the expected path ofthe typhoon were or-dered to step up prepa-rations “like pre-posi-tioning of SAR (searchand rescue) assets andrelief goods and to con-duct preemptive evacu-ation” if necessary, theNational Disaster Coor-dinating Council said inits latest advisory.

Internet

Six Indian fire fighters killed in another Diwali tragedyNEW DELHI, 18 Oct—

Six fire fighters werekilled when fighting ablaze in a multi-storiesbuilding in the city ofThane north of Mumbaion Sunday morning, re-ported the Indo-AsianNews Service.

The fire fighters suf-focated to death due totoxic fumes while being

trapped in a lift engulfedwith smoke in a 14-storeybuilding, after they suc-cessfully doused off fireon the terrace of the build-ing, said the report quot-ing Thane Chief Fire Of-ficer Vijay Vaidya as say-ing.

It was the second firecall from the same build-ing in less than four hours

as people were burstingcrackers to celebrate thefestival of lights orDiwali. This is the secondmajor tragedy from theDiwali in India after32people were killed in theexplosion of a fire crackershop in the southern stateof Tamil Nadu at midnightFriday.—Internet

Output value of China’s plasticproducts industry rises 9.5% in

first eight months HOHHOT, 18 Oct—Chi-na’s plastic products in-dustry posted a 9.5 per-cent year-on-year rise inoutput value to reach677.6 billion yuan (99.2billion US dollars) in thefirst eight months, ac-cording to figures fromthe China PlasticsProcessing Industry As-sociation. The figure was re-vealed at a national plas-tic industry forum held onSaturday in Baotou city,northern Inner MongoliaAutonomous Region. Liao Zhengpin, chair-man of the association,

told the forum that Chi-na’s plastic industry real-ized stable growth thisyear, in despite of the im-pact of the global finan-cial crisis. In the first eightmonths, profits of the na-tion’s plastic products in-dustry was 28.2 billionyuan, representing an in-crease of 16.34 percentfrom the same period lastyear, said Liao. Output volume duringthe January-August pe-riod rose 7.36 percentfrom the same period lastyear to 27.82 milliontonnes.—Internet

1 suspectedrobber killed in

Philippineshopping mall

shootoutMANILA, 18 Oct—At

least one suspected robberwas killed in a broad day-light shootout with policeinside a popular shoppingmall in the financial dis-trict of the Philippinecapital Sunday noon.

Local TV news net-work ABS-CBN reportedthat security forces of theGreenbelt 5 ShoppingMall encountered sixheavily-armed men inblack uniforms who alleg-edly robbed a high-endwatch store on Sundaymorning in the sprawlingmall.—Internet

Saxony’s State Opera is gettingready for a world premiere of “UT-

OP.er,” a work inspired by 16th

century English statesman ThomasMore’s “Utopia.” The musical is

being staged in the high-voltage lab,built in 1925, at Dresden’s Technical

University.

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YANGON, 18 Oct—Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence attended the second section ofannual general meeting of Myanmar Computer Fed-eration, Myanmar Computer Professionals Associa-tion, Myanmar Computer Entrepreneurs Associationand Myanmar Computer Industry Association held atthe meeting hall of Myanmar Info-tech in Hline Town-ship, here, this morning.

Also present at the meeting were Chairman ofYangon Division Peace and Development Council Com-mander of Yangon Command Maj-Gen Win Myint,Chairman of e-National Task Force Council Ministerfor Communications, Posts and Telegraphs Brig-GenThein Zaw, Deputy Minister Maj-Gen Thein Tun, mem-bers of Myanmar Computer Development Council ande-National Task Force Council, officials concerned,ambassadors and charge d’ affaires a.i. of foreign em-bassies, CEC members of the federation, associationsand states’ and divisions’ associations and guests.

The minister made an opening speech. Chair-

Lt-Gen Myint Swe attends AGM of MCF, MCPA, MCEA and MCIA

man of the MCF explained facts about the activitiesundertaken by the associations.

Next, Lt-Gen Myint Swe, the commander andthe minister presented certificates to those winning in

IT Professional Examination Council (ITCEP) Exam.Afterwards, the minister viewed the booths at

ICT Exhibition 2009 at Tatmadaw Convention Hall onU Wizara Road.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct—Lt-Gen Tha Aye of theMinistry of Defence, accompanied by officials con-cerned, inspected conditions of Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Taungnyo-Taungdwingyi road on 15 October.

They were welcomed by Chairman of MagwayDivision Peace and Development Council Col PhoneMaw Shwe and personnel at mile post 41/0. Lt-GenTha Aye inspected roadworks and teak plantationsalong the road and of the villages.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye heard reports on completedwork and future tasks presented by Road Construction

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct—Lt-Gen Min AungHlaing of the Ministry of Defence together with Chair-man of Shan State Peace and Development CouncilCommander of Eastern Command Maj-Gen Yar Pyae,Chairman of Kayah State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Brig-Gen Win Myint and departmental offi-cials, met with township-level departmental person-nel, members of social organizations at Taw WinThazin Hall in Pruhso of Kayah State on 15 Octoberand presented exercise books, sports equipment andfoodstuff for students and locals.

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing and party then metwith military officers, rank and file and their familymembers at local battalion in Ngwetaung Station ofDimawhso Township and presented gifts to them.

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing also met with KayahState engineers group of Public Works at Loikawstation and gave instructions on regular maintenance

Lt-Gen Tha Aye of the Ministry of Defence inspects progressof Taungdwingyi and Aunglan townships in Magway Div

Project Special Group-5 and stressed the needs. Lt-Gen Tha Aye then viewed collective broadcasting offertilizers at monsoon paddy field of Gonbin village,Pindai village-tract, Taungdwingyi Township. Lt-GenTha Aye cordially greeted farmers and fulfilled therequirements.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Tha Aye inspectedTaungdwingyi-Satthwar-Byandi road section of inter-district road No.1, bridges, concrete culverts, monsoonpaddy fields along the road, inter-village roads inAunglan Township, culverts and bridges along the

road, and Ngwechi-6 long staple cotton plantationcollectively grown by local farmers at Yebaw village.

On 16 October, Lt-Gen Tha Aye together withChairman of Mandalay Division Peace and Develop-ment Council Commander of Central Command Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe, Chairman of Magway Division PDCCol Phone Maw Shwe and officials concerned, visited50-bed People’s Hospital of Aunglan Township inThayet District. Lt-Gen Tha Aye and party comfortedpatients and contributed cash to the funds of thehospital.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Tha Aye visited AunglanTownship fire station and viewed fire drill. Lt-Gen ThaAye gave necessary instructions and presented gifts tothe station.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye then inspected developmentof Aunglan Township, conditions of Aunglan-Kobin-Sinbaungwe road, monsoon paddy fields along theroad and visited 25-bed People’s Hospital ofSinbaungwe.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye also inspected Sinbaungwe-Thatyargauk-Michaungye road section and site prepa-ration for construction of Ayeyawady Bridge (Malun)to be built in Pahtanago bank of Magway.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye later viewed development ofMinhla and met with townselders. Lt-Gen Tha Ayeinspected Minhla-Minbu road section and Ngwechi-6long staple cotton plantation of Peikthin village inMinbu.

MNA

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing meets departmental personnel,local people and Tatmadaw members

of roads.On 16 October, Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing

went to Defence Services General Hospital of Loikawstation and provided patients with cash assistance andfoodstuff. Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing also visitedLoikaw railway station.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing andparty visited Shwe Pan Thu interior decorating tilesfactory in Loikaw. Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing attendeda meeting at Kayah State PDC office and gave instruc-tions on development and increased productivity ofthe region.

Later, Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing observeddisplay of traditional cultural customs at Culture Mu-seum and library of the Ministry of Culture and in-spected construction site of new building in Universityof Computer Studies of the Ministry of Science andTechnology.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw addresses annual general meeting of MCF, MCPA, MCEA andMCIA.—MNA

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing of Ministry of De-fence presenting gifts to local.—MNA

Lt-Gen Tha Aye of Ministry of Defence inspects Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Taungnyo-Taungdwingyi Road Section.—MNA

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competitions.In his address at the

second session, theSecretary-1 said that thisyear, the competitions arein their 17th anniversary,which are held annuallywith the aim of preservingand relaying to youngergenerations fine culturaltraditions and performingarts, which enhance theimage of the Myanmarnational races in the courseof the nation’s history,raising the cultural statusof the nation and the

Myanmar Traditional performing arts, cultural heritage…

social status of Myanmarnational races, bringingabout new generationscapable of handing downand preserving delicateMyanmar performing arts,and having established acultural society for thefuture of Myanmarsociety.

In successive periods,our forefathers have beenable to firmly stand by andpreserve the ever-changing cultural normsbased on fundamentalMyanmar ways of

thinking, reviewing themto find out whether theyare in conformity with thenational interest or not.Therefore, traditionalMyanmar performing artsand cultural heritage bearwitness to high nationalprestige and integrity ofthe nation throughoutsuccessive periods. AndMyanmar and its peoplehave stood firmly withhigh national characterand social status in theinternational community.

All national brethrenof the Union are thereforeunder a national duty tomake sustained efforts,preserving and promotingsuch invaluable culturalheritage, to enable themotherland to continue tostand tall as a developednation with own nationalcharacters in the globalfamily.

Head of State SeniorGeneral Than Shwe oncegave guidance, saying, “Amodern, developed nationmay not be a peacefulnation. The nation willface culture deterioration,if social affair is not paidserious attention. So, it isalso required to preserveand promote finetraditions, nationalprestige and integrity forpeace and stability of theState.” In compliance withthe guidance, thegovernment is trying to

and the nation and thepeople will be on the vergeof extinction. In particular,only with patriotic fervourof admiring andpreserving own nationalculture, will it be possiblefor the people to safeguardthe nation against diversealien lifestyles andcultures that areparticularly designed tolure artless peopleespecially youngsters.

Therefore, it isrequired of artistes tofurther exert the literary,arts and cultural might inreawakening the people’smoral conduct such asnationalistic sentiment,the sense of preservingnational culture, nationalunity spirit, and UnionSpirit.

depicts the duties ofchildren who deserve thegood inheritance of theirparents as well aspractising fine ancestraltraditions, doing gooddeeds to realize the causeand effect of Karma andavoiding misdeeds for thewell-being for the presentand future existences.

The Temiya dramachosen for the Kwet Seikcontest (first class)features the would-beBuddha Prince Temi'sefforts to attainNikkhamma virtue and hismanly qualities of notbeing frightenedwhenever intimidated andnot being flatteredwhenever appeased.Sasotthtisena Sambuladrama for the Kwet Seik

basic concepts ofadministrative, judicialand legislative sectors aswell as strategies on Statedefence.

With the ancestorshaving maintained thelineage, literature andSasana with nationalstrength and outlook byfollowing such teachingsand concepts, our nationhas been able to stand tallamong the internationalcommunity as the Unionof Myanmar, home tovarious national races. Itis necessary to uphold thispoint constantly. It is thehistorical duty of all thenational people to handdown our own culture andnational character thathave existed for thousands

(See page 9)

Minister for Culture Maj-Gen Khin Aung Myint formally opens 17th

Myanmar Traditional Cultural Performing Arts Competitions. — MNA

CommanderMaj-GenWai Lwinreports on

arrangementsfor holding

17th

MyanmarTraditionalCultural

PerformingArts

Competitions. MNA

(from page 1)from the states anddivisions and subject-wisecompetitors totaling 2445,and handsome prizes willbe presented to thewinners.

Vice-Chairman of theLeading CommitteeMinister for Culture Maj-Gen Khin Aung Myintformally opened the

people.The competitions

have been organizedyearly for nearly a coupleof decades, and more andmore competitions areprescribed subject-wiseyear by year, thusgenerating a variety ofbenefits such as furthermaintaining thecharacteristics and high

inculcate the people witha stronger sense ofnationalistic spirit in orderthat the national cultureand characters will notcome under thepenetration of varieties ofalien culture.

Today, alien cultureis variously penetratingdeep into the nationalculture with the use ofsuperior IT, Internet andmedia. If taken forgranted, nationalcharacter will be harmed

The Uggasena dramachosen for this year'stheatrical contesthighlights the importanceof a profession, use ofcourage, hard work andperseverance at all agesand seeking knowledgeand Dhamma in one's liferather than indulging inexcessive pleasures. It isan educative drama.

Similarly, EikanipatIllisa included in 550jatakas chosen formarionette drama contest

contest (second class)depicts the duties ofmarried women to followthe example of morallygood women.

Studying thecharacteristics of theMyanmar performing artscompetitions, it can befound that the Myanamrsociety with its ownmonarchs in successiveeras has accepted theTeachings of the Buddha,fine traditions and customsand guidelines of theDhamma and had highliving standards and the

Secretary-1 GeneralThiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo

enjoys performanceof artistes during

opening ceremony of17th Myanmar

Traditional CulturalPerforming Arts

Competitions. MNA

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(from page 8)of years to the posterity by making sure that they do notdwindle away in our time.

The participants are to compete in Myanmar tradi-tional cultural performing arts competitions that re-flect the very essence of the national character thatflourished in successive eras to safeguard and maintainthe Myanmar literature, culture and arts among thenational people and Myanmar's endeavours for build-

ing a peaceful, modern and developed democraticnation. Moreover, they are to see that Myanmar artisticworks are presented to the world.

In conclusion, the Secretary-1 urged those fromthe arts field to imbue the young generations withqualities of Myanmar's fine traditions, dignity andhigh culture through the might of literature, culture andarts; to get the people to be equipped with patriotism,the spirit of national unity and Union Spirit through

Myanamr traditional cultural performing arts compe-titions; and to participate in and encourage the compe-titions till success in conformity with the rules andregulations.

Next, the artistes presented a programme of thesong composed by Bogale Tint Aung to mark thecompetitions.

After the ceremony, Secretary-1 General ThihaThura Tin Aung Myint Oo cordially greeted theattendees.—MNA

Myanmar Traditional performing arts, cultural…

Nay Pyi Taw Command Commander enjoys entertainments of 17th

Myanmar Traditional Cultural Performing Arts Competitions

NAY PYI TAW, 18

Oct — The 17th Myanmar

Traditional Cultural Per-

forming Arts Competi-

tions were held at the

designated places here

today.

Among the audi-

ence were Chairman of

the Leading Committee

for Organizing the 17th

Myanmar Traditional

Cultural Performing Arts

Competitions Com-

mander of Nay Pyi Taw

Command Maj-Gen Wai

Lwin, Vice-Chairman

Minister for Culture Maj-

Gen Khin Aung Myint,

Minister for Agriculture

and Irrigation Maj-Gen

Htay Oo, Minister for

Hotels and Tourism Maj-

Gen Soe Naing, Deputy

Commander of Nay Pyi

Taw Command Brig-Gen

Min Zaw, ambassadors

and wives from foreign

embassies, diplomats,

heads of department,

members of the commit-

tee and subcommittees,

members of panel of

judges (central), mem-

bers of panel of judges

from states and divisions

and those who love

Myanmar traditional arts.

Leader of panel of

judges Daw Tin Tin Mya

and party organized the

competition of five con-

testants in basic educa-

tion level (aged 15-20)

boy’s classical song con-

test and 13 contestants in

the amateur level (second

class) women’s classical

song contest at the audi-

torium of the University

of Agriculture.

Leader of panel of

judges U Sein Mardin

and party supervised the

presentations of eight

contestants in amateur

level (first class) wom-

en’s dancing contest and

seven contestants in the

amateur level (first class)

men’s dancing contest at

the convocation hall of

the University of Veteri-

nary Science.

At No. 7 Transit

Center, Chairman of the

Panel of Judges U Maung

Maung Gyi and party su-

pervised the participation

of 10 contestants in the

amateur level (first class)

men’s and women’s song

composing contest, 14

contests in the profes-

sional level (second

class) men’s and wom-

en’s song composing

contest and 10 contests in

the higher education level

song composing contest.

At the lecture hall

of the University of Ag-

riculture, leader of panel

of judges U Aung Kein


participation of 5 contest-

ants in the basic educa-

tion level (aged between

5 and 10) boys’ harp

contest, 4 contestants in

the higher education level

men’s harp contest, 6

contestants in the higher

education level women’s

harp contest and 6 con-

testants in the amateur

level (second class)

women’s harp contest.

At Forest Re-

search Division, leader

of panel of judges U Ni

Ni and party supervised

the participation of 5

contestants in the ama-

teur level (first class)

men’s piano contest, 4

contestants in the higher

education level men’s

piano contest and 3 con-

testants in the higher

education level women’s

piano contest.

At the hall of Ag-

ricultural Research De-

partment, leader of

panel of judges U Sein

Ba Maw and party su-

pervised the participa-

tion of 7 contestants in

the amateur level (first

class) men’s Dohbat

contest and 5 contest-

ants in the higher edu-

cation level.

At the hall of Ag-

ricultural Research De-

partment, leader of panel

of judges U Sein Sa Tin


participation of 5 troupes

in the higher education

level men’s orchestra

troupe contest and 4

troupes in the basic edu-

cation level (aged be-

tween 15 – 20).

MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Wai Lwin and Minister Maj-Gen Khin AungMyint enjoy 17th Myanmar Traditional Cultural Performing Arts Com-

petitions. — MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Khin Aung Myint enjoys “Thakaung Yadana” Drama of the troupe representing Mon State during17th Myanmar Traditional Cultural Performing Arts Competitions. — MNA

Contestants from states and divisions participate in song composingcontest. — MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 18 Oct—A Myanmar Delegationheaded by H.E. U NyanWin, Minister for ForeignAffairs of the Union ofMyanmar, arrived backfrom the DemocraticSocialist Republic of SriLanka in the morning of17 October 2009 afterattending the 8th AsiaCooperation Dialogue(ACD) MinisterialMeeting held in Colombofrom 14 to 16 October2009.

The MyanmarDelegation headed by theMinister for ForeignAffairs arrived atColombo at 0030 hrs on14 October 2009. TheMinister attended thedinner hosted by theMinister of ForeignAffairs of the SocialistDemocratic Republic ofSri Lanka at 2030 hrs on14 October 2009 at MountLavinia Hotel.

The 8th AsiaCooperation Dialogue(ACD) MinisterialMeeting was held at 1030

Foreign Minister back home after attending 8th ACD Ministerial Meetinghrs on 15 October 2009 atthe BandaranaikeMemorial InternationalConference Hall(BMICH) in Colombo.The meeting was attendedby the Foreign Ministers,Deputy Foreign Ministers,and Senior Officials from(31) ACD membercountries.

At the opening sessionof the Ministerial Meeting,the Minister of ForeignAffairs of DemocraticSocialist Republic of SriLanka as Chair of ACDMinisterial Meeting, theMinister of ForeignAffairs of Thailand asACD Coordinator, theHead of the Delegation ofKazakhstan as formerACD Chair, and thePresident of theDemocratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka,delivered speeches. At theend of the inaugurationsession, a groupphotograph together withthe President of theDemocratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka and

the heads of delegationwas taken. At theMinisterial retreat, globaleconomic recovery anddevelopment prospects forAsia, future direction ofACD, daunting challengesincluding climate change,threat of internationalterrorism faced werebroadly discussed. TheMinisters also consideredand adopted the ACDColombo Declaration.The Minister for ForeignAffairs together with otherheads of delegations paida courtesy on H.E.Mahinda Rajapaksa,President of theDemocratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka, at1915 hrs on 15 October2009 at Temple Trees andattended the receptionhosted by the President inhonour of Heads ofDelegation to the ACDministerial Meeting atTemple Trees.

Senior OfficialsMeeting for the Prime andCo-Prime Movers of the8th ACD Ministerial

Meeting was held on 14October 2009 before theACD Ministerial Meeting.At the Senior OfficialsMeeting, report of ACDcoordinating group consistof Sri Lanka as the currentchair, Kazakhstan as theprevious chair, Iran as theincoming chair, Thailandas the ACD coordinator,wide-ranging issuesincluding global economicrecovery and developmentprospects for Asia,

mechanism forinstitutionalization of thesectors of trade, tourismand transport, futuredirection of the High LevelStudy Group (HLSG),draft ACD ColomboDeclaration wasdiscussed.

H.E. U Nyan Win,Minister for ForeignAffairs of the Union ofMyanmar, met with H.E.Dr. Dipu Moni, ForeignMinister of the People’s

Republic of Bangladesh,at 1715 hrs on 15 October2009 and discussed mattersrelating to friendship andcooperation between thetwo countries.

Two members of thedelegation whoaccompanied the Ministeralso arrived back from theDemocratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka inthe morning of 17 October2009 by air.

MNA

Minister U Nyan Win poses for documentry photo with attendees at8th ACD Ministerial Meeting.—FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Participants and supervisors from states and divisions enjoy 17thTraditional Cultural Performing Arts Competitions.

(News on page 9)—MNA

Maung Aung Ko and party from Mandalay Division participates inhigher education level men’s orchestra troupe competition.

(News on page 9)—MNA

Ma Wut Yi Htet from Kayin Statecompeting in higher educationlevel women’s song composing

contest. (News on page 9)—MNAU Kyaw Kyaw and party from Ayeyawady Division competing in amateur

level (first class) men’s Dohbat contest. (News on page 9)—MNA

Ma Shwe Zin Moe from MagwayDivision competes in amateur

level women’s dancing contest.(News on page 9)—MNA

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Myogyi Multipurpose Dam Project inYwangan Township, Shan State (South)

Byline & Photos : Khin Maung Than (Sethmu)

YANGON, 17 Oct —Organized by MyanmarGolf Federation andMyanmar PGA and spon-sored by Air Bagan Ltd,the third round of AirBagan Open Golf Cham-pionship continued atBagan Resort Golf Clubin NyaungU Townshipthis morning as the sec-ond round of MyanmarGolf Tour 2009-2010.

In professional golf-ers event, Soe KyawNaing (Srixon) led the

Air Bagan Open Golf Championship continuesevent with 206 strokes forthree days. Min Naing(Srixon) stood secondwith 209 strokes and ZawZaw Lat, third with 211strokes.

In men’s amateurevent, Bo Bo (MyanmaSelection) led the eventwith 204 strokes for threedays, followed by YanMyo Aye with 213strokes and Linn The with215 strokes.

Air Bagan is themain sponsor of the tour-

nament and co-sponsorsare International Bever-ages Trading Co Ltd(IBTC), KBZ Bank Ltd,Hotel Yangon, KM GolfCenter, Han Golf MasterPte Ltd, Myanmar ThihaTrading Co Ltd, Bay ofBengal Resort (BOB),(INAX, T-Home), CEPSALubricants, ACCEL Inter-national Co Ltd (Cannon),Imperial Jade PurifiedDrinking Water, LifelineCo Ltd, GP Watch.

MNA

(from page 16)and Staff Officer (Canal)U Tun Tun Win aboutthe project.

The purpose of thedam is to store the waterfrom Kengkham Damunder construction inYaksawk Township,Shan State, and from thecatchment areas betweenZawgyi Dam andMyogyi Dam. On com-pletion, the dam will beable to provide 700,000acre feet to Zawgyi Irri-gation System area and445,605 acre feet forgreening Meiktila Plain.The size of work for con-struction of the main damis very huge, so thegroundwork is scheduledto be completed by 2010.

The construction ofall diversion tunnels hasbeen completed since the

end of October 2008. Theconstruction of the spill-way was launched in De-cember 2007 and is dueto be completed by 2010-2011. Myogyi Diversion

was put into commissionon 29 August.

Earthen type MyogyiDam is 246 feet long and258 feet high. The irriga-tion facility is being con-

structed by damming theZawgyi River, with theembankment linkingKyeekan Mountain withShwemyintha Mountain.

Construction tasks

the irrigated area ofZawgyi Dam can be putcrops such as cotton(high-yield strain), chilli,pigeon pea, sesame, greengram, and mung bean. Inaddition, paddy can becultivated in the stream-

for Myogyi Dam are mul-tifarious and massive. Oncompletion of the dam,30,000 more irrigableacres in Meiktila Plainand more arable lands in

fed lands in the irrigatedarea. Therefore, it is safeto say that the wholeMeiktila Plain will be lushand green with agricul-tural farms soon.

Translation: MSKyemon: 15-10-2009

Some units of heavy machinery at work site to construct a spillway.

The inner part of the diversion tunnel underconstruction.

Groundwork is carried out with tipper lorries.

Bo Bo tees off during the third day of Air Bagan Open Golf Cham-pionship. — MGF

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KHARTOUM,18 Oct—Three pea-cekeepers were wounded, two of themseriously, when their vehicle cameunder fire in the Darfur region ofwestern Sudan on Saturday, officialsof the UN-African Union peace missionsaid.

The four-wheel-drive with fiveNigerian policemen on board cameunder fire near Zalingei, in westernDarfur, a senior official said, askingnot to be named.

“Three of the policemen werewounded, two of them seriously. Theywere evacuated by helicopter to Nyalahospital and are now in stablecondition,” the source said.

Kemal Saiki, communications chiefof the joint United Nations AfricanUnion Mission in Darfur (UNAMID),confirmed three members of the policeforce who carry arms were wounded,

Three peacekeepers wounded inDarfur shooting

A model of the OperaGarnier made of

chocolate is displayedduring the Salon duChocolat (Chocolate

Salon) in Paris, capitalof France, on 17 Oct,

2009. —XINHUA

WASHINGTON, 18 Oct — The US government iswithout doubt facing great challenges, among whichthe debt dilemma is the biggest test.

The 1.42 trillion dollars federal budget imbalanceof the fiscal year ending on 30 Sept announced onFriday is a so-called better-than-expected result. Thefigure, which tripled last year’s record, deserves closeattention.

As a proportion of the economy, the deficit accountsfor about 10 percent, the highest it has been since theWorld War II. Earlier this year, the government hadprojected the ratio might reach about 12 percent.

For fiscal year 2009, the government collected 2.1trillion dollars in revenues, a 16.6 percent drop from2008, while government spending last year jumped to3.52 trillion dollars, up 18.2 percent over 2008.

Xinhua

US debt dilemma,no better solution?

KATJAMDI, 18 Oct — Dispite the government claimthat all-out efforts are being made to contain theA/H1N1 flu in Nepal, the virus seems to be spreadingrapidly across the country, according to Saturday’sThe Kathmandu Post. Earlier, there were 44 confirmedcases of A/H1N1 flu, all of whom had either travelledabroad or contacted with foreigners.

“But now three cases have been confirmed, andthe patients had neither a history of travel nor contactwith confirmed patients,” said Dr Jitendra ManShrestha, Deputy Coordinator at Avian InfluenzaControl Project, under the Ministry of Health.

The ministry has directed all major hospitals inthe country to treat the flu patients.

According to Health Ministry secretary Dr. SudhaSharma, the World Health Organization has agreed toprovide vaccines for medics involved in treatment inthe first stage to boost their morale and encouragethem.—MNA/Xinhua

Confirmed with A/H1N1flu in Nepal

but without giving their nationality.The police were escorting a

UNAMID garbage truck when it cameunder attack by unknown gunmen, whomade off with the four-wheel-drive.

“We don’t know yet if it was acarjacking or a direct attack” onUNAMID, said Saiki, adding theincident was being investigated.

Two civilian employees ofUNAMID were kidnapped in lateAugust in the same area of Zalingei andare still in the hands of their abductors,who the Sudanese authorities havebranded as criminals.

The United Nations says up to300,000 people have died and 2.7million fled their homes since ethnicminority rebels in Darfur rose up againstthe Arab-dominated government inKhartoum in February 2003.

MNA/Xinhua

A zookeeper feedsmilk to a newbornbaby giraffe at thezoo of Duisburg on16 Oct, 2009. Themale giraffe wasborn on 3 Oct,

2009.INTERNET

China, Laos set up liaison office to fighthuman trafficking

MOHAN, 18 Oct—China and Laos have set up a liaison office for law enforcementcooperation in southwest China’s Yunnan Province to crack down on the abductionand trafficking of women and children in border areas.

The office, set up at the Mohan branch of Mengla County Public SecurityBureau, will promote the exchange of crime information, investigation andevidence collection, suspect search and victim repatriation between the twocountries, said Yuan Xiaoyin, an official with the criminal investigation departmentof the Public Security Ministry.

China has set up six similar liaison offices in Guangxi Zhuang AutonomousRegion and Yunnan Province, which border Vietnam and Cambodia.

Mengla County, which borders three provinces of northern Laos, has a 677.8kilometres boundary line, where abduction and trafficking of women and childrenhappen frequently. —MNA/Xinhua

Tai Lihua (L), head of China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe,presents a gift to Israeli President Shimon Peres before the opening of

“Experience China in Israel” cultural event formally in Tel Aviv OperaHouse, on 17 Oct, 2009.—XINHUA

KABUL, 18 Oct—Global pressure mounted on President Hamid Karzai onSunday to accept a possible runoff in Afghanistan’s disputed election as extendeddiplomacy delayed the announcement of official results from the August poll.

The row stemming from the election, marred by allegations of mass fraud, isa setback for the United States as President Barack Obama considers whether tosend more troops to Afghanistan to fight a resurgent Taleban.

In Kabul, diplomats and observers said Karzai’s supporters resisted acceptingthe findings of an inquiry by the UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commissioninto poll fraud — a key factor behind delays in the announcing the outcome.

“They are putting up resistance,” said one official familiar with the discussions.“Legally it is difficult to see on what grounds they can reject any of the findings.”

Under Afghan law, Afghanistan’s independent election commission has toaccept ECC probe findings, adjust the election tally and announce the final result.

MNA/Reuters

Diplomatic wrangling delaysAfghan vote decision

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A flock of starlings fly in the sky above Wuhan, capital of central China’sHubei Province, on 16 Oct, 2009. Tens of thousands of starlings fly over

Wuhan on Friday dusk. According to bird expert, the starlings fly to Wuhanfrom northern China and continue their journey to the south after staying in

Wuhan for a while.—XINHUA

Traditionally clad members of a Bolivian community in Argentina dance asthey participate in an event in downtown Buenos Aires on 17 Oct, 2009.—XINHUA

An Egyptian horsemantakes a jump with hishorse during the El-

Sharkia 18th Arab HorseFestival in the Egyptiantown of Belbies, 100 km

north of Cairo, on 17Oct, 2009. —XINHUA

Zimbabwe’s efforts to preventnew cholera outbreak

HARARE, 18 Oct—Workers trudge through foul-smelling mud in a trench seeping with clean drinkingwater and raw sewage in one of the Harare neighbour-hoods hardest hit by last year’s cholera epidemic.

The repair work is a race against time to patch thecity’s sewage system before the rainy season beginsin November, when health workers fear the water-borne disease could erupt again.

The three-metre (10-foot) deep trench cuts throughUsuf Austin’s driveway and runs the length of hisblock, forcing his family to leap across the hole to getinto their house.

But he’s happy for the crew to replace the leakypipes blamed for fueling the epidemic that killed morethan 4,200 people and sickened nearly 100,000.

“The sewage was coming out day in and day out,24 hours a day” when cholera first struck in August2008, he said.

“This sewage water mixes with the rain water dur-ing the rainy season,” he added.

The epidemic erupted last year as post-election vio-lence swept Zimbabwe, already crippled by a decadeof economic decline blamed on controversial reformsby autocratic President Robert Mugabe.

The country’s collapsing public infrastructureadded to chronically overburdened sewer systems andwater shortages. This in turn gave free rein to thediarrhoeal disease, which is easily preventable withclean water and proper sewage but thrives in placeswithout proper sanitation.—Internet

Device may treat high blood pressure

Olive oil compound linked to Alzheimer’s CHICAGO,18 Oct—A

compound in olive oil tar-gets and blocks toxic pro-teins that damage braincells and cause memoryloss in Alzheimer’s dis-ease victims, US re-searchers said.

The compound,oleocanthal, alters thestructures of the proteins,ADDLs, said William LKlein of NorthwesternUniversity and Paul ASBreslin of Monell Chemi-cal Senses Centre.

“Binding of ADDLs isthought to be a crucial

Industrial salt foundin food poisoning

in Shanghai SHANGHAI, 18 Oct—Shanghai authorities said on

Sunday that they found industrial salt in food that sick-ened 26 people at a local delicatessen.

One of the poisoned patients died in the PudongDistrict People’s Hospital and 10 were still receivingtreatment there. Those with light symptoms have lefthospital, according to a health department official inPudong District, on Saturday.

The patients were diagnosed with nitrite poison-ing, according to the hospital.

The people showed symptoms of nausea, vomit-ing and rapid heartbeat, after eating food at “ZhibinDelicatessen” in Pudong.

The local administration for industry and com-merce has shut down the shop, which was found tooperate without valid business license, and confiscatedmore than 26 kg of processed food and processing fa-cilities.

The administration said that they will send thefood sample for further test, and traced the sales linksthat sold the industrial salt to the food shop.

The owner of the delicatessen has been detainedby police.—Xinhua

Bootleg alcoholkills four inBangladesh DHAKA, 18 Oct—Four

people died after drinkingallegedly homebrewedtoxic alcohol in Bangla-desh’s southern Bogra dis-trict, some 197 km awayof capital city Dhaka, earlySunday morning, localpolice said. The officer-in-charge of local ShibganjPolice Station inBograABM Zahidul Isalmtold Xinhua Sunday, “Itseemed that the deceaseddrank low-cost alcohol onSaturday night together.”

They were admitted toa local clinic after fallingill from drinking the liquor,where the doctors declaredthem dead, he said, addinga general diary was filedwith the Police Station inthis connection.—Xinhua

first step in the initiationof Alzheimer’s disease,”Klein said in a statement.“Oleocanthal altersADDL structure in a waythat deters the proteinfrom binding to synapsesthat allow the nervoussystem to connect.”

ADDLs bind withinthe synapses of the brainsof Alzheimer’s patientsand are believed directlyto disrupt nerve cell func-tion, eventually leading tomemory loss, cell deathand global disruption ofbrain function, the re-

searchers said.Klein and colleagues

identified ADDLs in1998, leading to a majorshift in thinking about thecauses, progression andtreatment of Alzheimer’sdisease. ADDLs are struc-turally different from theamyloid plaques that ac-cumulate in brains ofAlzheimer’s patients.

Future studies areneeded to identify moreprecisely how oleocanthalchanges ADDL composi-tion. Such insights couldprovide discovery path-ways related to diseaseprevention and treatment,the researchers said.

The findings are pub-lished in the journal Toxi-cology and Applied Phar-macology.—Internet

ROCHESTER, 18 Oct—US researchers say animplantable device may bea cost-effective way totreat high blood pressure

and its effects. The device,called Rheos, is beingtested at the University ofRochester Medical Centrein New York on drug-re-

sistant hypertension pa-tients.

The findings, publishedin the Journal of ClinicalHypertension, are basedon data from two largepopulation-based studiesthat compare the incidenceof adverse health events —such as stroke and heartattack — for groups of in-dividuals with and withoutthe device.

The researchers alsoprojected the healthcarecosts associated with thoseevents over a patient’s life-time and concluded ifRheos continues to per-form as it has in ongoingclinical trials, the device isa cost-effective way tocontrol hypertension.

Internet

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Barcelona remains atopas Real Madrid’s Raul makes history MADRID, 18 Oct— Barcelona drew 0-0 away to Valencia on Saturday

night to remain leaders of the BBVA Primera Liga in Spain.The leagueleaders and reigning champions were on the back foot for most of thegame, but held on for a draw thanks to a fine performance from goal-keeper Victor Valdes.

Valdes made four brilliant saves to deny Valencia forwards David Silva,Juan Mata and Pablo Hernandez as the home side produced a spirited andaggressive performance. In the end Barcelona will view the result as apoint gained rather than two points dropped even if the result stopped theclub from winning its seventh game of the season.

Meanwhile Real Madrid returned to within one point of the top of thetable after beating Valladolid 4-2 in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.RealMadrid was without Cristiano Ronaldo, who aggravated an ankle injuryplaying for Portugal last weekend, while Kaka was rested after playingfor World Cup qualifying matches for Brazil.—Xinhua

Valencia’s Ever Banega (L) andBarcelona’s Toure Yaya fight

for the ball during their Spanishfirst division soccer match at the

Mestalla Stadium in Valenciaon 17 Oct, 2009.

XINHUA

Stosur captures first WTAtitle at Japan Open

Campbell, Piercy shareLas Vegas lead

Scott Piercy hits a tee shoton the second hole duringthe third round of theJustin Timberlake Shri-ners Hospitals for Chil-dren Open golf tourna-ment at TPC Summerlin,on 17 Oct, 2009, in Las

Vegas.—INTERNET

Samantha Stosur holdsup the trophy during theaward ceremony at theJapan Open women’stennis tournament in

Osaka.—INTERNET

Injuries leave United withEuropean worries

MANCHESTER, 18 Oct—Manchester United have in-jury concerns over Patrice Evra and Ryan Giggs aheadof the Champions League game at CSKA Moscow onWednesday.Sir Alex Ferguson is hoping that Serbiandefender Nemanja Vidic, who missed Saturday’s 2-1Premier League win over Bolton Wanderers here atOld Trafford with an ankle injury, will be fit enoughto return in mid-week.

But he admits he has concerns over both Evra andGiggs after they sustained knocks against Bolton.It wasnot a convincing performance from United but theyreturned to the top of the table thanks to Chelsea’sloss to Aston Villa.And although Ferguson is callingfor improvements at the back - his defence have keptjust three clean sheets in nine Premier League matches- he was happy to move back to the top of the tabledespite suffering further injuries.

Internet

Wenger slamsRidgewell overWalcott injury

LONDON, 18 Oct—Arsene Wenger hasslammed Birminghamdefender Liam Ridgewellfor the tackle which leftArsenal winger TheoWalcott nursing a poten-tially serious kneeinjury.Walcott was forcedoff before half-time in theGunners’ 3-1 win overCity at the Emirates Sta-dium on Saturday follow-ing a hefty tackle fromRidgewell. The Englandinternational was left in acrumpled heap after thedefender crashed intohim, winning the ball butalso crunching into theback of his legs.

Internet

Five-goal Inter hit strideas Juve, Fiorentina stall

ROME, 18 Oct—Champions Inter Milan opened upa three-point lead at the top of Serie A on Saturdaywith a thumping 5-0 win at hapless Genoa.Inter’s joywas further boosted by the 1-1 draw between title ri-vals Juventus and Fiorentina in Turin.

Sampdoria could still join Inter on 19 points at thescudetto summit if they win at Lazio on Sunday.

But this was a day when Jose Mourinho’s Interstruck a significant blow in the title race, earning acrushing victory on one of the toughest grounds to visitand where they had already lost once this season toSampdoria.—Internet

Hamburg hold Leverkusen, Bayern go fifth

Leverkusen’s midfielder RenatoAugusto (R) and Hamburg’s defenderDennis Aogo jump for the ball duringtheir German first division Bundesligafootball match in the northern German

city of Hamburg.—INTERNET

Ancelotti promisesChelsea crackdown

OSAKA, 18 Oct –Samantha Stosur capturedher first career WTA titlewhen she defeatedFrancesca Schiavone ofItaly to win the JapanOpen women’s tennistournament on Sunday.

The Australian thirdseed, who dashedCaroline Wozniacki’s de-

fence of the title in thesemi-finals on Saturday,chalked up a 7-5, 6-1 vic-tory over the fourth seedin just 68 minutes.It washer sixth appearance in afinal, followingCincinnati this year,Seoul in 2008, Prague in2006, Gold Coast andSydney in 2005.

Stosur, 25, has previ-ously won four ITF titles,three of them in Japan in-cluding one inOsaka.Stosur, the 2008Wimbledon mixed dou-bles champion, put an endto Japanese AkikoMorigami’s last appear-ance on the tour, andeliminated 2002 cham-pion Jill Craybas of theUnited States on her wayto the final.—Internet

LAS VEGAS, 18 Oct—Chad Campbell made adouble bogey on the par-5 16th, then birdied the18th for a 4-under 67 anda share of the third-roundlead with Scott Piercy onSaturday in the JustinTimberlake ShrinersHospitals for ChildrenOpen.

Piercy — a Las Vegasnative whose wife, Sara,delivered son Jett onThursday night — had a65 to match Campbell, aformer UNLV player, at17-under 196 at TPCSummerlin.Martin Laird(67) was a stroke back,and 2007 winner GeorgeMcNeill (63), JasonBohn (65), Jeff Klauk(66) and Bob Heintz(68) followed at 15under.After eagling thepar-4 12th and addingbirdies on 13 and 15,Campbell dropped twostrokes with the doublebogey on 16.

Internet

BIRMINGHAM, 18 Oct—Carlo Ancelotti haspledged to eradicate thedreadful defending that isthreatening to increase thepressure on the Italian af-ter second successive Pre-mier League defeat awayfrom home. Saturday’s2-1 loss here to AstonVilla combined with Man-chester United’s win overBolton saw Chelsea sur-render top spot in thetable.

Defeat at Villa Parkmeant six of the eight

goals conceded by Chel-sea this season have comefrom set plays, evokingmemories of the defensiveproblems that ultimatelyended Luiz FelipeScolari’s reign atStamford Bridge.JamesCollins delivered thekiller blow with his firstgoal in four seasons toextend Aston Villa’s un-beaten home run to sixgames and heighten opti-mism that Martin O’Neillcan unsettle the estab-lished order.

But the worry lines onAncelotti’s forehead willbecome more pronouncedwith further performanceslike this, despite DidierDrogba’s seventh goal ofthe campaign giftingChelsea the advantage.

Internet

BERLIN, 18 Oct—Bundesligaleaders Bayer Leverkusen were held0-0 at second-placed Hamburg

while Bayern Munich moved upto fifth as hot-shot midfielderThomas Mueller helped seal a 2-1 winat Freiburg. The stalemate at Ham-burg’s HSH Nordbank Arenaleft the top two locked on 21 pointswith Bayer top by virtue of goaldifference.

“We came here to get points and wecould have won it at the end,” saidLeverkusen’s ex-Liverpool defenderSami Hyypia.”Maybe we could havedone more with the ball, Hamburg hadtheir chances, but from our point ofview, we defended well.”We knewHamburg would push us hard, so weare happy to take a point from here.

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudyin Chin, Kayah and Kayin States, Magway, Yangon andAyeyawady Divisions, rain or thundershowers have beenwidespread in Mon State and Taninthayi Division, fairlywidespread in Kachin State and isolated in the remainingStates and Divisions with locally heavyfalls in Mon State.The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Nay PyiTaw (Yezin) (0.40) inch, Nay Pyi Taw (Tatkon) (0.08) inch,Mudon (3.90) inches, Kyaikhkame (3.23) inches, Mohnyin(2.36) inches, Chaungzon (1.50) inches, Kawthoung (1.41)inches and Shwebo (0.15) inch.

Maximum temperature on 17-10-2009 was 94°F.Minimum temperature on 18-10-2009 was 71°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 18-10-2009 was 79%.Total sun shine hours on 17-10-2009 was (9.0) hours approx.

Rainfall on 18-10-2009 was Nil at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon each. Total rainfall since1-1-2009 was (110.83) inches at Mingaladon, (120.87)inches at Kaba-Aye and (128.15) inches at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mphfrom North at (14:30) hours MST on 17-10-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy inAndaman Sea and Southeast Bay and generally fairelsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 19th October 2009:Rain or thundershowers will be widespread in Mon Stateand Taninthayi Division, fairly widespread in Kachin State,scattered in Shan, Kayin and Rakhine States, upper Sagaing,Mandalay, Yangon, Bago and Ayeyawady Divisions andisolated in the remaining areas. Degree of certainty is (80%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: likelihood ofincrease of rain in the lower Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for19-10-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for19-10-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for19-10-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (60%).

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BEIRUT, 17 Oct—Russian Vice Foreign Ministerand Middle East envoy Alexander Sultanov arrivedhere on Saturday in an attempt to shore up support forhis country’s plan to host the Middle East peace talks,Lebanon’s state news agency reported.

Sultanov said that talks he held with LebanesePresident Michel Suleiman and Foreign Minister FawziSalloukh covered regional issues and the future of theMiddle East peace process.

“We agreed to double the efforts with the concernedparties and the international community to contributeto the resumption of talks as soon as possible,” Sultanovsaid. Sultanov was due to go on to Damascus beforereturning to Beirut. Sultanov’s visit to Lebanon came aspart of a regional tour that will also take him to Tel Aviv,Ramallah and Cairo.—Xinhua

Russian Middle East envoyin Beirut for peace talks

Relatives and friends invited for sermonRelatives and friends are humbly invited to

listen a sermon plus "soon" offering at No 1 (A),Dahlia Road, Malika Garden Housing,Thingangyun Township form 7 to 10 am on 22-10-2009 in memory of late U Tin Win Hlaing @Tu Tu @ Kevin Khin Maung Maung who passedaway on 16-10-2009. Bevered Family

Followers surround Wang Ye’s boat during thetraditional burning ceremony in the Tung-kang

fishing township of Pingtung countyon 17 October, 2009.—INTERNET

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2nd Waxing of Tazaungmon 1371 ME Monday, 19 October, 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

Ongoing MyogyiMultipurpose DamProject is intended to sup-ply adequate irrigationwater to some 30,000acres of farmlands andfurther green MeiktilaPlain with the effectiveuse of water from ZawgyiDam in Yaksawk Town-ship, Shan State (South),and from the catchmentareas between ZawgyiDam and Myogyi Dam.

Recently, I made atour of Myogyi DamProject, about one and ahalf miles from MyogyiVillage in YwanganTownship, Shan State(South). Upon arrival atthe construction site, Isaw many units of heavymachinery operating atfull capacity.

I interviewed StaffOfficer U Maw MawNaing, Staff Officer (Di-version Weir) U Win Ko,

(See page 11)

Myogyi Multipurpose Dam Project inYwangan Township, Shan State (South)

Byline & Photos : Khin Maung Than (Sethmu)

The main canal of Myogyi Dam.

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