the new light of myanmar 23-10-2009

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Volume XVII, Number 190 6th Waxing of Tazaungmon 1371 ME Friday, 23 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

NAY PYI TAW, 22 Oct—Chairman of the StatePeace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General ThanShwe saw off Prime Minister General Thein Sein,who left here by special aircraft to attend the 15thASEAN Summit and Related Summits to be held inHua Hin of Thailand at the invitation of PrimeMinister Mr. Abhisit Vejajiva of Thailand, at NayPyi Taw Airport at 10.35 am today.

Also present at the airport to see off the PrimeMinister were Vice-Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Deputy Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army)Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, Secretary-1 of theState Peace and Development Council General ThihaThura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Member of the StatePeace and Development Council Lt-Gen Tin Aye,Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Vice-Admiral NyanTun, Commander-in-Chief (Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein,Lt-Gen Ye Myint of the Ministry of Defence,Commander of Nay Pyi Taw Command Maj-GenWai Lwin, Minister for Transport Maj-Gen TheinSwe, Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan,departmental heads, Ambassador of Thailand toMyanmar H.E. Mr Bansarn Bunnag, Military AttachéCol Ekachai Harnpoonvittaya and officials.

The Prime Minister was accompanied byMinister for Foreign Affairs U Nyan Win anddepartmental heads.

Senior General Than Shwe sees offPrime Minister General Thein Sein

on PM’s departure for ThailandMembers of the Myanmar delegation—

Minister for National Planning and EconomicDevelopment U Soe Tha and Minister for Culture

Maj-Gen Khin Aung Myint—left here for Thailandin advance yesterday.

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NAY PYI TAW, 22 Oct—Chairman of the StatePeace and Development Council Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Senior General Than Shwewelcomed back Secretary-1 General Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo who arrived back by special flight fromthe People’s Republic of China at Nay Pyi Taw airport

Senior General Than Shwe welcomes back Secretary-1General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo on his return from PRC

at 10 a.m today. At the invitation of the Government ofthe People’s Republic of China the Secretary-1 attendedthe 6th China-ASEAN Expo and the 6th China-ASEANBusiness and Investment Summit.

Together with Senior General Than Shwe at theairport were Vice-Chairman of the SPDC Deputy

Commander-in-Chief of Defence ServicesCommander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye, Prime Minister General Thein Sein,Member of the SPDC Lt-Gen Tin Aye,Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Vice-Admiral Nyan Tun,

(See page 7)

Senior General Than Shwe sees off Prime Minister General Thein Sein on his departure toattend the 15th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits in Hua Hin of Thailand,

at Nay Pyi Taw Airport.—MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 23 October, 2009

Friday, 23 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

As agricultural industry is the base of therural economy, measures are being taken to be ableto supply water sufficiently for agriculture. Clus-ters of dams and sluice gates have been built region-wise and therefore cultivation of summer andmonsoon paddy as well as multiple and mixed cropshas been thriving.

In addition, as education, health and eco-nomic requirements of the rural people are beingfulfilled, rural areas are developing in parallel withurban areas. More and more basic education schoolbuildings, rural affiliated high schools and self-reliance village libraries have also been built. As aresult, rural youth have better opportunity to seekeducation and broaden the scope of their knowl-edge.

Bridges and inter-village roads are beingconstructed to improve transport development re-gion-wise, to enable rural people to travel from oneplace to another easily and to facilitate trading. Anew gravel road linking Sangyikon andWayarchaung villages in Pathein Township inAyeyawady Division was opened recently. An in-ter-village road linking Bontha, Boatkone and Pyinsivillages in Natogyi Township in Mandalay Divisionwas also opened on 13 October.

New buildings of Dawngankha Basic Educa-tion Middle School in Dimawhso Township in KayahState and of No (2) Basic Education Primary Schoolin Thameintheye model village in Waw Townshipin Bago Division were opened recently. These arepart of the government’s efforts to improve theeducation standard of rural areas.

As the government, regional authorities, so-cial organizations and individual well-wishers havebeen working hard in concert and donating moneyand materials needed for rural development tasks,social and economic standards of rural people arebecoming higher and higher.

Work hard in concert forhigher social and economicstandards of rural people

Foreign Affairs Dy Minister arrives back from RussiaNAY PYI TAW, 22

Oct—The Myanmar del-egation led by U MaungMyint, Deputy Ministerfor Foreign Affairs, ar-rived back here by air thismorning from Moscowafter attending the FourthRound of Consultation

fairs of the Union ofMyanmar and the Rus-sian Federation held atthe Ministry of ForeignAffairs of the RussianFederation in Moscow on19 October 2009.

At the meeting,Deputy Minister UMaung Myint cordiallydiscussed with the Rus-sian delegation led by

between the Ministries ofForeign Affairs of theUnion of Myanmar andthe Russian Federationheld in Moscow.

While in Moscow, theMyanmar delegation ledby Deputy Minister UMaung Myint attendedthe Fourth Round of Con-sultation between theMinistries of Foreign Af-

H.E Mr. Alexey N.Borodavkin, DeputyMinister of Foreign Af-fairs of the Russian Fed-eration on the matters ofbilateral relations and co-operation betweenMyanmar and Russia andalso exchanged views onmatters relating to re-gional and internationalissues.—MNA

Minister forPBANRDACol TheinNyunt in-

spects clean-ing of the

waterfall andconstructionof recreation

centre inKoegwayVillage.PBANRDA

President U Than Oo of Myanmar Arts and Science Academy speakingat the research paper-reading session.—�EDUCATION

Director Daw Wai Thit Lwin of TMW Enterprise Ltd gives introductoryspeech at introduction to bathroom equipment and tiles of INAX.—MNA

YANGON, 21 Oct—The opening ofninth Paper reading session of MyanmarArts and Science Academy was held atYangon University this morning. Chair-man U Than Oo of Myanmar Arts andScience Academy made an opening

Paper reading of Myanmar Arts and Science Academy opens

YANGON, 22 Oct— Aceremony to display bath-room equipment and tileswas held in conjunctionwith the 4th anniversary ofINAX at INAX Show-room of TMW Complex atNo. 56 on Kaba Aye Pa-goda Road, here, yesterdayevening.

Bathroom equipment and tiles of INAX introduced

It was attended by ar-chitects of Myanmar Archi-tects Association, entrepre-neurs, engineers, INAXJapan Branch Director MrMorita and Manager MrSakai. Director Daw WaiThit Lwin of TMW Enter-prise Ltd gave an introduc-tory speech. Mr Morita and

Mr Sakai of INAX Japanbranch extended greetings.

To mark the openingceremony of INAX Show-room Renew, various de-signs of bathroom and toi-let equipments and tiles areput on sale at the specialprice at the showroom.

MNA

speech and President U Thein Oo ofMyanmar Computer Federation readthe paper on Education in InformationAge and Digital Economy. Research-ers from universities will read out theresearch papers.—MNA

Minister inspects No 2 district-to-district roadin Mandalay Div

NAY PYI TAW, 22Oct—Minister forProgress of Border Ar-eas and National Racesand Development Af-fairs Col Thein Nyunt in-spected paving gravel onKoekway-PaunglongChaung-road section ofNo 2 district-to-districtroad being implementedby Mandalay DivisionDevelopment AffairsDepartment this morn-ing.

At Koekway brief-ing hall, Director of theDivision DAD U MinMin Zaw presented re-ports to the minister onprogress of road worksand tasks to be carriedout. After hearing the

reports, the ministergave necessary instruc-tions.

Upon arrival at thewaterfall in Koekway vil-lage, the minister gave in-structions on upgradingtasks for the waterfall. On

arrival at the hot springnear Taungkya village inPanlong township, engi-neers presented reports tothe minister on arrange-ments to be made for up-grading the hot spring.After hearing the reports,

the minister gave neces-sary instructions.

The Mandalay Divi-sion DAD has alreadytarred 20 miles of roadand built 25 woodenbridges so far.

MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 23 October, 2009 3

On 20 Oct , 2009,storm watchers runfrom the deck at ahotel on Medano

Beach as a large waveovertakes their perch

as Hurricane Rickapproaches Cabo San

Lucas, a populartourist resort at the

Southern tip of BajaCalifornia, Mexico.

INTERNET

Global pirate attacks on the increase

Hijacking thwarted on flightto Cairo

CAIRO, 22 Oct — Security guards thwarted an at-tempted hijacking on Wednesday on an EgyptAir flightfrom Istanbul to Cairo by overpowering a man whothreatened crew members with a knife, a security of-ficial for the airline said.

A Sudanese man used a plastic knife from the in-flightmeal to threaten flight attendants after the plane left Turk-ish airspace and demanded that the flight be diverted toJerusalem, the official said. Guards on the flight wereable to detain the man and no one was hurt, he said. Theflight landed safely at Cairo airport. The man was ar-rested and was being questioned by state security, theofficial said. The Boeing aircraft was carrying 87 pas-sengers, a Cairo police official said. He identified thesuspect as Mohammed Hamad Nourain, 26, and said heused a passport with a phony name to board the flight.

The man told flight attendants he wanted to “liber-ate Jerusalem,” the police official said. Both officialsspoke on condition of anonymity because they werenot authorized to provide the information to journal-ists.—Internet

Six hostages taken in Parissupermarket siege

PARIS, 22 Oct — Six supermarket employees weretaken hostage by armed robbers in a store near Paristoday, sparking a police siege, before being releasedunharmed as their captors were detained. Some 200police deployed around the LIDL discount store in anindustrial zone in Sevran north of Paris after it wasattacked as the cashiers were setting up for the day.

Two attackers threatened staff with a pistol and atear gas canister demanding the keys to the store safe,before taking five women and a man hostage, deputystate prosecutor Solange Moracchini said.Some 200riot police, gendarmes, plain-clothes officers and hos-tage-negotiation experts, backed by a helicopter, de-ployed at the scene where they negotiated the releaseof the hostages during a three-hour siege.

Paris management of the German supermarketchain confirmed none of its employees had beenhurt.”All the hostages have been freed. They were notharmed, they are being cared for by the police offic-ers who negotiated with the hostage-takers,’’ saidMichel Lemble, LIDL France’s head of human re-sources.—Internet

Iraqi medics rush wounded journalist MohammedAbdallah Zadeh into a hospital in Kirkuk. A series

of attacks in the northern Iraqi cities of Kirkuk andMosul and the confessionally mixed area south ofBaghdad killed nine people on Wednesday, includ-ing a child and a cameraman, police and medics

said.— INTERNET

Remains of a car usedin a bomb attack near

Falluja, 50 km (32miles) west of Baghdadon 20 Oct, 2009. A car

bomb killed four peopleincluding two policemen

and wounded ninecivilians in a town

outside of Falluja, 50km (32 miles) west ofBaghdad, police said.

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Taser maker issues heartwarning

WASHINGTON, 22 Oct—The first nine monthsof this year has seen morepirate attacks than all oflast year. And more thanhalf of those attacks werecarried out by suspectedSomali pirates, an inter-national maritime watch-

dog group said onWednesday.

“The increased activ-ity in Somalia is the ma-jor reason for the spike,”said Cyrus Mody, man-ager of the InternationalMaritime Bureau, whichmonitors shipping crimes.

From 1 January until 30September, pirates world-wide mounted 306 at-tacks, compared with 293in all of 2008, the Bureausaid.

Of the incidents thisyear, Somali pirates ac-counted for 54 percent:they launched 168 at-tacks. Most of them tookplace off the east coast ofSomalia and in the Gulf ofAden, a major shippingroute between Yemen andSomalia.

They successfully hi-jacked 32 vessels and took533 hostages. Eight oth-ers were wounded, fourmore killed and one ismissing, the Bureau said.Somali pirates are stillholding four ships for ran-som with 80 crew mem-bers as hostages.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 22 Oct —The US manufacturer of theTaser stun gun has advisedpolice not to aim the weap-ons at the chests of suspectsafter admitting heart riskconcerns for the firsttime.Taser Internationalstressed that suffering an“adverse cardiac event” af-ter being zapped was “ex-tremely unlikely,” but agroups say hundreds of peo-ple have been killed by theelectroshock weapons.

The Arizona-basedcompany has issued newguidelines saying it has“lowered the recom-mended point of aim fromcenter of mass to lower-center of mass for frontshots”.“When possible,avoiding chest shots withECDs (Electronic ControlDevices) avoids the con-troversy about whetherECDs do or do not affectthe human heart,” it ex-plained.

“Researchers haveconcluded that a close dis-tance between the ECDdart and the heart is theprimary factor in deter-

mining whether an ECDwill affect the heart. Therisk is judged to be ex-tremely low in field use,”it said.

Tasers, which pack a50,000-volt punch thatcan paralyze targets fromup to 10 metres (30 feet)away, are used by severalpolice forces around theworld, including Aus-tralia, the UK, Canada,France, Israel, and theUnited States.—Internet

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, 22Oct—Pakistani helicop-ter gunships attackedTaleban bases near the Af-ghan border on Wednes-day as authorities orderededucational institutionsclosed amid fears of re-taliatory militant strikes.

Pakistani forceslaunched an offensive towrest control of the law-less South Waziristan re-

Pakistan hits Taleban asschools ordered shut

gion on Saturday aftermilitants rocked the coun-try with a string of bomband suicide attacks, kill-ing more than 150 people.

A day after six peoplewere killed in two suicidebomb attacks at anIslamabad university, au-thorities ordered schoolsand colleges closed, un-settling stock investors,with the main index end-ing 3.36 percent lower at9,247.78.—MNA/Reuters

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SHANGHAI, 22 Oct —China’s economy ex-panded a blistering 8.9percent in the third quar-ter, fueled by lavish gov-ernment stimulus spend-ing that has helped thenation spearhead recoveryfrom the global recession.

Growth in the world’sthird-largest economy ac-celerated from 7.9 per-cent in the second quar-ter and for the first ninemonths of the year was7.7 percent, the NationalStatistics Bureau said on

Construction workers labour at the top of a building in Shanghai, China.China’s economy charged ahead in the third quarter, expanding by 8.9 per-

cent thanks to lavish stimulus spending that sparked a boom in construction,share prices and consumer spending.—INTERNET

China’s growth acceleratesto 8.9 percent in 3Q

Thursday. Officials havesaid they expect theeconomy to at least reachthe annual growth targetof 8 percent. China hascountered the globaldownturn with a 4 trillionyuan ($586 billion)stimulus plan involvingmassive spending on in-frastructure such as railand roads to pump up thedomestic economy as ex-ports slumped.

Investment in facto-ries, construction andother fixed assets rose by

one third in January-Sep-tember to a record 15.5trillion yuan ($2.27tri l l ion).“Investmentplayed an important andpositive role in maintain-ing relatively fast growthand reversing theslowdown,” said Statis-tics Bureau spokesmanLi Xiaochao. Mean-while, domestic con-sumption such as con-sumer spending contrib-uted nearly a third of thegrowth in economic ac-tivity, he said.—Internet

CHICAGO , 22 Oct — Aircraft maker Boeing hasblamed a third-quarter net loss of $1.6bn (£974m) onrising production costs and poor market conditions.The latest results reflect charges incurred to modifyBoeing’s 787 Dreamliner and the new updated ver-sion of its 747 jumbo jet.

The steeper-than-anticipated loss has led the com-pany to cut its profit forecast for 2009. Shares in thefirm fell 2.4% to $50.64 after the figures were an-nounced. The loss compares with a profit of $695mmade in the same period a year earlier.

In August, Boeing said it would take a charge of$2.5bn because the first three test Dreamliners wereundergoing so much modification that they had nocommercial market value.The company then added a$1bn charge for higher costs and lower demand thanit expected for the 747-8.

Boeing also said that it would postpone the firstflight of the freighter version of the 747-8 to 2010.Reacting to the news, some analysts are calling forthe company to take drastic action. —Internet

LONDON , 22 Oct — Profits at online auction gianteBay have fallen by 29% as it continued to struggle amidthe weak economy.

It made $350m (£211m) in the third quarter from $492min the same period a year earlier as customers showed re-luctance to spend.

But the firm’s overall sales rose 6% to $2.4bn as morepeople used its PayPal division to pay for things online.

Shares fell 5% in after-hours trading as it forecast thefourth quarter would continue to be tough. Revenue frominternet communications service Skype, rose by 29%.Earlier this year eBay agreed to sell the business for about$2bn though will keep a 35% stake.—Internet

Boeing said late

engineering designs

caused disruption.

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Design changes causeBoeing loss

eBay had said earlier this year that it planned to

spin off Skype.—INTERNET

STOCKHOLM, 22 Oct —Wireless equipmentmaker LM Ericsson AB’sprofits dropped 71.5 per-cent in the third quarter asthe global financial crisishit demand for networkequipment, the Swedishcompany said onThursday.The world’sleading supplier ofbroadband networks saidnet profit in the July-Sep-tember period was 810million kronor ($117.6million), down from 2.84billion in the same threemonths last year.

Sales fell by 5.6 per-cent to 46.4 billion kronor,from 49.2 billion in thethird quarter of 2008.Theresults were lower thananalysts had forecast in aSIX Estimates poll citedby financial newspaper

S Korea’s Samsung Electro-Mechanicsreport quadrupled net earnings in 3QSEOUL, 22 Oct — South Korea’s Samsung Electro-

Mechanics Co said on Thursday its third-quarter earn-ings more than quadrupled from a year ago thanks torising demand and cost-cutting efforts.

During the July-September period, Samsung’s netprofit topped 123 billion won, or 104 million US dol-lars, sharply hiking from 26.4 billion won, or 22.4million US dollars, the company said in a regulatoryfiling.

Total sales also marked a 30 percent leap, hitting1.55 trillion won (1.31 billion US dollars) during thecited period.The company’s operating income soaredto 207 billion won (175.57 million US dollars) as well,posting a three-fold increase. — Xinhua

SEOUL, 22 Oct—TheSouth Korean govern-ment on Thursday an-nounced its state-run Ko-rea National Oil Corp(KNOC) has boughtCanada’s Harvest Energy.

According to the Min-istry of Knowledge Eco-nomy, the 3.95 billion US

S Korea’s state-run corporationbuys Canadian energy company

dollars’ worth of mergerand acquisition deal hassuccessfully completedrecently.

The Harvest Energy,one of Canada’s largest oilproducer and refiner, cur-rently has a capacity of53,400 barrels of crudeand gas per day. With thelatest purchase project, thetotal volume of oil and gasthat can be produced fromfields controlled by SouthKorean companies couldrise from current 188,000barrels per day to 241,400barrels, the ministry said.

South Korea is one ofthe largest oil-consumersin the world, and it almostrelies on foreign imports.It has put forward an over-seas resources develop-ment plan aiming toachieve self-sufficiency— ownership of naturalresources by South Ko-rean companies — to alevel of 30 percent by2016. —Xinhua

eBay profits continueto fall

Ericsson profits drop 71.5 percent in 3rd quarterDagens Industri. Stock-holm-based Ericsson,which has previouslyseen only limited effectsof the global recession,said the network market isnow being hurt by the cri-sis.

The downturn in in-vestments has coincidedwith a drop in GSM sales,as telecommunication op-erators shift from voicetelephony to mobilebroadband, Ericsson said.

Internet

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Hu, Obama hold telephone discussionsBEIJING, 22 Oct —Chi-

nese President Hu Jintaoand his US counterpart,Barack Obama, ex-changed views on bilateralties and climate changeduring a phone conversa-tion on Wednesday morn-ing. Obama expressed ap-preciation over China’scontribution to the successof the G20 Pittsburgh sum-mit in September, sayingthat he looked forward tovisiting China in Novem-ber and discussing with Huissues of mutual concern.

Looking forward to ex-changing views on their

bilateral relations and im-portant regional and inter-national issues withObama, Hu said, “Chinais ready to work with theUS side to ensure a suc-cessful visit by PresidentObama and further pro-mote the positive, coop-erative and comprehen-sive relationship betweenthe two countries.” On cli-mate change, Hu said theCopenhagen Conferenceto be held in Decemberwould be an importantmeeting of the interna-tional community in ef-forts to tackle climate

change.It conforms to the inter-

ests of all parties con-cerned, including Chinaand the United States, tostrive for a wide consen-sus and a successful Co-penhagen Conference onthe basis of the UNFramework Conventionon Climate Change andthe Kyoto Protocol, underthe principle of “commonbut differentiated respon-sibilities” among devel-oped and developingcountries, and in line withthe Bali Roadmap, Husaid. —Xinhua

People walk throughTokyo’s Ginza shopping

district in August.Japan’s heavy relianceon foreign markets to

drive its economicgrowth left it highly

vulnerable to the recentglobal recession.

INTERNET

A group of Chinesemartial arts fanspractise during amorning exercise

session at the Temple ofHeaven parkin Beijing.

China has over 140million people over theage of 60.—INTERNET

Vietnam to hold internationalagriculture exhibition 2009

HANOI, 22 Oct—An international agriculture exhibi-tion, Agro Viet 2009, will be held in Vietnamese capitalcity of Hanoi from 12 to 16 Nov, according to the or-ganizer on Thursday. The exhibition is held by the TradePromotion Center for Agriculture under VietnameseMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The exhibition will draw participation of over 220domestic and foreign companies. It will showcasemodern agriculture machinery, tools, and equipment,latest technology on seed and plant production, high-quality agricultural products and agricultural materi-als, according to a report posted on the center’s website.

The exhibition will serve as an opportunity for agri-cultural businesses seek more cooperation and invest-ment. It is also a chance for Vietnam to introduce andpromote its agricultural products, said the report.

Xinhua

Strong earthquakejolts Panama, no

casualties reportedPANAMA CITY, 22 Oct

— An earthquake measur-ing 6.1 on the Richterscale rocked south ofPanama on Wednesday,said the US GeologicalSurvey (USGS) on itswebsite. No casualties ordamage were reported.

The quake at 9:51 pmlocal time Wednesday oc-curred near the border ofPanama and Costa Ricawith the epicenter beinglocated 179 km south of thecity of David at the PacificOcean and at a depth of 10km, it said.—Xinhua

Russia holds int’l symposiumon China’s development,

China-Russia tiesMOSCOW, 22 Oct—Russia opened an international

symposium on Wednesday to mark its six-decade re-lations with China and celebrate the 60th anniversaryof the founding of new China, with participants speak-ing highly of China-Russia relations.

The three-day international symposium focused onthe theme of the experience and lessons of China’sdevelopment and China-Russia relations. MikhailTitarenko, president of the Russia-China FriendshipAssociation, said at the opening ceremony that thedevelopment course of China exemplified how an im-poverished, underdeveloped country could transforminto a major global power.

He is also the director of the Far East Research In-stitute and Research Council on Problems of Com-plex Study of Contemporary China. The Russia-Chinarelations have also undergone extraordinary twists andturns over the past 60 years, he said. — Xinhua

Urbanization means better rural areas, too

A model is prepared backstage prior to showing off fashions by Mexico’sdesigner Louis Verdad at the Mercedez Benz Fashion show in Mexico City,

on 21 Oct, 2009.—INTERNET

All items from Xinhua News Agency

BEIJING, 22 Oct —China is undergo-ing unprecedented urbanization, whichhas sharpened social contradictions.To make the country’s urbanizationsustainable, we have to developmodern agriculture, says an article inChangjiang Times.

The latest McKinsey & Companystudy shows about 1 billion peoplewill be living in the country’s urbanareas by 2025, and more than 200 cit-ies will have a population of 1 million

or more. Urbanization, in essence, isthe expansion of urban areas resultingfrom the migration of the agriculturalpopulation. Yet the process is morecomplex than that.

The increasing expansion of bigcities has sharpened social contradic-tions by widening people’s interests,which are related to money andpower. Today’s China fits this modelwell.

Xinhua

KABUL, 22 Oct — Po-lice during an operation inBaghlan Province, northof Afghanistan detained11 militants, provincialpolice chief MohammadKabir Andarabi said onThursday.

“The operation waslaunched on Wednesdayin some villages of

Baghlan-e-Markazi dis-trict during which 11 mer-cenaries including twogroup commandersMullah Zaman andMullah Nasir were madecaptive,” Andarabi toldXinhua.

He further added thatthe villages of Kokchinarand Mangala hadbeen

Afghan police capture 11 Talebanfighters in North

cleaned up of militants.Militants have fled the

area, the official stressed.However, Andarabi didnot say if there were anycasualties on the troops.

Taleban militants, whohave intensified their as-saults since the beginningof this year, have yet tomake comment.—Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUMThe growing population of the

United States will one day make the pu-rification of toilet water for use as drink-ing water a necessity, experts say.

Dozens of experts gathered duringthe past week at the Water Environ-ment Federation conference inOrlando, Fla, said purifyingwastewater will eventually be neededto meet a growing demand amid dwin-

Purification of toilet water expecteddling water supplies, the Orlando(Fla) Sentinel said.

The conference, held 10-14 Oct atthe Orange County ConventionCenter, attracted 20,000 profession-als in the water field and featured awide assortment of valves, pumps,chemicals injectors, meters and otherhardware for treating and transport-ing sewage, the newspaper said.

Swiss police said an Italian man seta record for traffic violations in theircountry by racking up 15 moving viola-tions in the space of 11 minutes.

Police in St Gallen said the 47-year-old’s spree of road violations beganwhen he drove past police while speed-ing 100 mph in a 60 mph zone duringthe weekend, the Daily Mail reported onMonday.

Officers said the ensuing offenses in-clude driving too close to other cars,driving too close to the curb, weavingacross the white dividing line, failing tostop for police sirens, barreling throughred lights, speeding through a construc-tion zone and driving on a hard shoul-der of a roadway.

Just like any other little girls, 8-year-old Josie Romero loves wearing skirtsand playing with dolls.

Eight-year-old boy has “sex change”

Josie Romero of Arizona, the UnitedStates.

She was born into a boy’s body inArizona, US, but now her sex has beenlegally changed and, with the help ofdrugs and surgery, she will grow up tobe a woman.

She used to wrap up her army fig-ures and rock them like a baby when shewas a toddler, and she only wore col-ours like orange which were nearest togirly pink. When she started to talk, shealways said “I’m a girl.” Wheneversomeone called her a boy, she wouldcorrect them. At the age of four, she in-sisted: “No, I really am a girl.”

The little girl’s favourite game wasto wrap her mother’s scarf around herwaist to make a skirt, according to themother. By the time she reached six,Josie had been diagnosed as transgenderand was beginning her transition to be-coming a female.

Elvis’ hair leaves thebuilding

A pile of hair believed snipped fromElvis Presley when he joined the USArmy in 1958 sold for $18,300 (11,200pounds) on Sunday, according to a Chi-cago auction house.

The King’s hair was one of up to 200items of Elvis memorabilia collected bythe late Gary Pepper, who was the presi-dent of the Tankers Fan Club set up forElvis fans.

Wild birds fly above Huangshui Riverin Xining, capital of northwest

China’s Qinghai Province. As localenvironment improves and water

area enlarges, more and more wildbirds can be seen in the suburbs

of Xining.

Germany’s beaches are being pre-pared for the winter season. In the

resort town of Ahlbeck on the BalticSea, horse carriage drivers are

bringing in the traditional Germanbeach chairs on 4 October.

All summer long, the roofed wickerchairs line the country’s

northern beaches.

Driver gets 15 citationsin 11 minutes

LOS ANGELES, 22 Oct— Fossils from the small-est dinosaur found inNorth America, a fleet-footed species only 71cmlong and weighing lessthan a rabbit, have goneon public display for thefirst time at a Los Ange-les museum.

The bones were dis-covered in western Colo-rado in the late 1970s but Fruitadens haagarorum survived for around 100

million years. “That’s a very long time,” museumdirector Luis Chiappe said.—INTERENT

HOUSTON, 22 Oct —US Southwest Airlines, theworld’s largest airline by annual number of passen-gers, said on Wednesday it would test a “Green Plane”that could save more than 10 US million dollars a yearin fuel costs and reduce emissions.

The modified Boeing 737-700 has environmentallyfriendly products sprinkled throughout the cabin andelsewhere, ranging from the carpet to seat covers tolife vest pouches, according to the company’s web site.

The most interesting items to be tested include In-terface FLOR carpet, which allows the replacementof individual pieces rather than the whole carpet andis 100 percent recyclable; twice as durable seat cov-ers, lighter leather seats; and a lighter life vest pouchthat provides more under-seat room.

“Southwest is committed to continuing to lead theindustry in emissions reductions through fuel effi-ciency,” said Gary Kelly, Southwest’s chairman, presi-dent and CEO.

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MEXICO CITY, 22 Oct— Experts from the Na-tional Autonomous Univer-sity of Mexico (UNAM)have created the first net-work of radio-telescopesin Latin America to pro-mote the research of theactivities of the sun, themoon and the planets.

The network aimed topromote the scientific re-search and facilitate theintercommunication be-tween radio-telescopes,the UNAM, one of themajor universities in LatinAmerica, said in a state-

TOKYO, 22 Oct — AJapanese man who spent17 years in jail for themurder of a four-year-oldgirl has now pleaded notguilty in a retrial of hiscase.

Toshikazu Sugaya, 63,was released earlier thisyear after fresh DNA testsshowed that evidencefound at the murder scenedid not match his DNA.

He was sentenced tolife in jail after saying dur-ing a police interrogationthat he committed thecrime.

He later retracted thisstatement, saying it wasmade under duress.

Appearing at theUtsunomiya DistrictCourt on Wednesday, MrSugaya said he had noth-ing to do with the 1990murder.

He then asked the courtwhy he had been made tosuffer 17-and-a-half yearsin jail for a crime he didnot commit.

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Fruitadens haagarorum ‘smaller than rabbit’only recently identifiedand named Fruitadenshaagarorum by an inter-national team of scien-tists. The fossils representthe skulls, vertebrae, armsand legs of four individualdinosaurs and are housedat the Natural HistoryMuseum of Los AngelesCounty, which put themon display on Tuesday.

“We’re really testing

the limits of body sizeamong dinosaurs,” LuisChiappe, director of themuseum’s Dinosaur Insti-tute, said.“Here’s an ani-mal that is estimated tohave weighed about twopounds (0.91kg) when itwas full grown, so this isa really tiny dinosaur.” Itis the smallest known di-nosaur from NorthAmerica and one of thesmallest dinosaurs ever.”

InternetUS Southwest Airlines to testGreen Plane Mexico university creates first network of

telescopes in Latin Americanment on Wednesday.

UNAM General Di-rector of Science Divul-gation Jose de la Herransaid in the statement thatthe university wants moreradio-telescopes form dif-ferent parts of the coun-try to join the network andto encourage the study ofthe radio astronomyamong Mexican young-sters.

De la Herran said inthe event like sun storms,the intercommunicationbetween local and globalradio-telescopes is neces-

sary to determining thesun’s radio emissions.

“The radio-telescopesstudy objects in the skyand the astrophysics phe-nomena, measuring theemission of electromag-netic radiation in the re-gion of the spectrum’s ra-dio,” de la Herran said.

De la Herran addedthat a minimum networkset uses one antenna, oneradio receptor and onecomputer with a softwareto translate the graphicsignals.

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(from page 1)Commander-in-Chief (Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein, Lt-Gen Ye Myint of the Ministry of Defence, Commanderof Nay Pyi Taw Command Maj-Gen Wai Lwin,Minister for Transport Maj-Gen Thein Swe, Ministerfor Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan, departmentalheads, Chinese Charge d’ Affaires to Myanmar MrWang Zongying, and officials.

Myanmar delegation led by Secretary-1 GeneralThiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo comprising Ministerfor Foreign Affairs U Nyan Win, Minister forCommerce Brig-Gen Tin Naing Thein, Chairman ofYangon City Development Committee Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin and heads of department alsoarrived back.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwewelcomes back Secretary-1…

Senior General Than Shwe welcomes backSecretary-1 General Thiha Thura Tin Aung

Myint Oo at Nay Pyi Taw Airport.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 22Oct—The ceremony toopen Phayagon dambuilt by Irrigation De-partment was held atMingala pandal near thedam this morning. Thedam is situated nearPhayagon Village,Taunggyi Township,Shan State (South).

The ceremony wasattended by Chairman ofShan State Peace and De-velopment Council Com-mander of Eastern Com-mand Maj-Gen Ya Pyae,Deputy Minister for Ag-riculture and Irrigation UOhn Myint, officials of

Lt-Gen Tha Aye and wife Daw Wai Wai Khine enjoy “Thakaung Yadana” drama of Mandalay Division.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 22 Oct—The second eventof the fourth day of “Thakaung Yadana” DramaContest of the 17th Myanmar Traditional Cul-tural Performing Arts Competitions took place

Lt-Gen Tha Aye and party enjoy “Thakaung Yadana” Drama Contestat the convocation hall of the University of Vet-erinary Science in Nay Pyi Taw Yezin at 9 pmyesterday.

Among the audience were Lt-Gen Tha Aye of

the Ministry of Defence and wife Daw Wai WaiKhine, Minister for Hotels and Tourism Maj-GenSoe Naing, Minister for Mines Brig-Gen Ohn Myint,Deputy Minister for National Planning and Eco-nomic Development Col Thurein Zaw, Deputy At-torney-General U Tun Tun Oo and wife, member ofCivil Service Selection and Training Board U SoeOo, departmental heads, officials of the work com-mittee and subcommittees, members of the panel ofjudges (central) and those from States and Divi-sions.

Under the management of Academy MyodawMaung Yin Aung, script writer and drama directorgold medalist Chit Sayar, leading actor Soe MoeAung, leading actress Su Nanda Kyaw and support-ing artistes performed entertainment to the accom-paniment of pianist U Win Pe, leader of musiciansAcademy Sein Mutta and orchestra of U Bo Naingand party.

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Commander attends opening of 227th Phayagon dam in Shan State (South)

Phayagon dam in Taunggyi Township, Shan State (South).MNA

the Irrigation Depart-ment, departmentalheads, township chair-man and district andtownship level officials,and members of socialorganizations.

The commanderand deputy minister madethe opening speeches.

Next, on behalf oflocals, a local spokewords of thanks to theSPDC for construction ofthe dam.

The commanderlater unveiled the inscrip-tion and sprinkled scentedwater on it together withthe deputy minister.

Afterwards, thecommander and thedeputy minister openedthe dam by cutting the rib-bon and posed for docu-mentary photo with offi-cials and locals. They laterlooked around the dam.

The newly-com-pleted Phayagon dam is227th dam for the coun-try. It can store 686-acrefeet water at the highestlevel. It is 42 feet highand 900 feet long. Thedam can irrigate 200 acresof farmlands and also sup-ply drinking water toPhayagon Nyomi Vil-lage.—MNA

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Bilateral cooperation deepened in various sectors due toreciprocal State visits of leaders of two countries, growing

friendship, cooperation of two peoples (Secretary-1 General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo)

China will always support Myanmar's nation-building tasks carried out innational interest with massive support of Myanmar people

(Chinese Vice-Premier H.E Mr. Li Keqiang)

NAY PYI TAW, 22Oct—Secretary-1 of theState Peace andDevelopment CouncilGeneral Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo of theUnion of Myanmarconferred with ChineseVice-Premier H.E. Mr LiKeqiang, Member of theStanding Committee of the

Politburo of CommunistParty of the People’sRepublic of China, at theInternational ConferenceCentre in Nanning ofGuangxi ZhuangAutonomous Region at4.30 pm on 19 October.

Present together withthe Secretary-1 wereMinister for ForeignAffairs U Nyan Win,Minister for NationalPlanning and EconomicDevelopment U Soe Tha,Minister for CommerceBrig-Gen Tin Naing Thein,Myanmar Ambassador to

the PRC U Thein Lwin,Director-General of theSPDC Office Col KyawKyaw Win and heads ofdepartment, and ChineseMinister of Commerce H.E.Mr Chen De Ming, DeputyMinister of Foreign AffairsH.E. Mr Mu Dawei, DeputyMinister for CommerceH.E. Mr Gao Hucheng,

Chairman of People’sCongress StandingCommittee of GuangxiZhuang AutonomousRegion and Secretary ofChinese Communist Partyof Guangxi ZhuangCommittee Mr GuoShengkun, Governor ofGuangxi ZhuangAutonomous Region MrMa Biao and officials weretogether with the ChineseVice-Premier.

Secretary-1 GeneralThiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo in his speech saidthat Myanmar, an ASEAN

member country, takesgreat pride in the fact thatdespite being in tightschedule of national duties,Chinese leaders includingH.E Mr. Li Keqiang heldthe 6th China-ASEANExpo, and the 6th China-ASEAN Business andInvestment Summit on agrand scale and invited

Myanmar to the expo andsummit.

He said that heconveyed the greetings ofMyanmar leaders Chairmanof SPDC Senior GeneralThan Shwe, Vice-ChairmanVice-Senior General MaungAye, SPDC memberGeneral Thura Shwe Mann,and Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein to Chineseleaders including H.E Mr.Li Keqiang.

Myanmar and Chinahave established friendlyrelations for many years,and the diplomatic ties

between the two countrieswill be in its 60th

anniversary next year.The 6th China-ASEAN

Expo, and the 6th China-ASEAN Business andInvestment Summit arepragmatic approach to boostChina-ASEAN cooperationin the economic andcommercial fields.

He said that he wasvery pleased as theMyanmar delegation led byhim had an opportunity topay a visit to GuangxiZhuang AutonomousRegion, and he believed thatthe visit will improve thebilateral friendship andcooperation.

The bilateralcooperation has deepenedin various sectors due toreciprocal State visits ofleaders of the two countriesand growing friendship andcooperation of the twopeoples.

It is heartening to note

that in particular, thebilateral cooperation in theagricultural, hydropower,industrial, mining, oil andgas sectors andfundamental buildingindustry have beensuccessful. The twocountries are required tojointly fulfil therequirements for soonestcompletion of currentprojects in the said sectors.

The two countries willwork hard together tocomplete the projects underdiscussion as soon aspossible.

The two neighbours arecontributing towards eachother in the internationalpolitical sphere with mutualunderstanding.

Next, the Secretary-1presented Myanmar’spolitical development, andsaid that the two countrieshave to strengthen bilateralfriendly relations andcooperation in varioussectors.

H.E Mr. Li Keqiang inhis speech said that heconveyed the greetingsextended by ChinesePresident Mr. Hu Jintao andChinese Premier Mr WanJabao to Chairman of theState Peace andDevelopment Council ofthe Union of MyanmarSenior General Than Shweand Vice-Chairman Vice-Senior General Maung Ayeand Myanmar leaders.

He thanked Myanmarfor the praise forachievements China had

gained in 60 years.The two countries are

good neighbouringcountries with broad anddeep relations. Heexpressed his belief thatbilateral cooperation in thepolitical, economic andcommercial sectors will beincreasing continuously.

China respects thesovereignty of Myanmarand believed that theinternal affairs of Myanmarcan be dealt conclusivelyby the Myanmargovernment and Myanmarpeople. Being a good

neighbouring country thatvalues Myanmar’s interest,China will continue tomaintain and promotePaukphaw relationsbetween the two countries.

The two countries willalways help each other bypromoting bilateral friendlyrelations. China will alwayssupport Myanmar’s nation-building tasks being carriedout in the national interestwith massive support ofMyanmar people. Inaddition, China willcontinue to provideassistance for Myanmar’seconomic growth.

The departmentsconcerned are holdingdiscussions thoroughly toseek ways and means ofhow to contribute to theprojects Myanmar hasproposed. The ongoingprojects are to be completedas soon as possible.

China thanksMyanmar for the Myanmar

government’s encourage-ment and protection ofChinese companies inimplementing theeconomic plans jointly withMyanmar.

He concluded thatChina wants to launch theagreement of strengtheningcooperation in economicand trade between the twocountries as soon aspossible that is to be ratifiedby the Myanmargovernment and theChinese government.

The meeting ended at5.25 pm.—MNA

Secretary-1 GeneralThiha Thura TinAung Myint Oocordially greets

Vice-Premier H.EMr Li Keqiang,Member of the

Standing Committeeof the Politburo of

Communist Party ofthe PRC at theInternational

Conference Centrein Nanning of

Guangxi ZhuangAutonomous

Region.—MNA

Secretary-1 General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo holds discussion with Vice-Premier H.E Mr Li Keqiang, Member of the Standing Committee ofthe Politburo of Communist Party of the PRC at the International Conference Centre in Nanning of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region .—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 22 Oct—The drama troupe thatrepresenting Arts Ayeyawady Division took part inthe Uggasena Drama Contest of the 17th MyanmarTraditional Cultural Performing Arts Competitions atthe convocation hall of the University of VeterinaryScience in Nay Pyi Taw Yezin this evening. Amongthe audience were Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing of theMinistry of Defence and wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla,Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen HtayOo, Minister for Hotels and Tourism Maj-Gen SoeNaing and wife, Minister for Progress of Border Ar-eas and National Races and Developmment Affairs ColThein Nyunt and wife, Minister for Forestry Brig-GenThein Aung, Deputy Minister for Electric Power No.2 Brig-Gen Win Myint, Deputy Minister for Commu-nications, Posts and Telegraphs Maj-Gen Thein Tun,deparmental heads, members of the work committeeand subcommittees, members of the panel of judgesand those from States and Divisions.—MNA

Uggasena Drama Contest commences

Secretary-1 visits Myanmar booth of 6th China-ASEAN Expo

NAY PYI TAW, 22 Oct—Secretary-1 of the StatePeace and Development Council General Thiha ThuraTin Aung Myint Oo on 19 October evening visited theMyanmar booth to be displayed at the 6th China-ASEAN Expo at Nanning International Convention &Exhibition Centre in Nanning of Guangxi ZhuangAutonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China.

On arrival at the centre, the Secretary-1 andparty were welcomed by Vice-Presidents U AungLwin, U Zaw Min Win and U Tun Aye of the Union ofMyanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce andIndustry, officials and members of the organizingcommittee for the expo.

The Secretary-1 viewed the scale model ofMuse 105-Mile Myanmar-China Border Trade Zonedisplayed at the Myanmar booth on the ground floorand heard reports on arrangements for the booth pre-sented by officials of the Ministry of Commerce andUMFCCI.

The Secretary-1 and party viewed round thebooths of the PRC and ASEAN member nations.

At the Myanmar booths on the second floor,the Secretary-1 viewed industrial products, agro-based foodstuffs, agricultural produce, marine prod-ucts, finished wood products, jewellery and Myanmarhandicraft of the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism,

Fisheries Department under the Ministry of Livestocksand Fisheries, UMFCCI, Myanmar Industries Asso-ciation, Myanmar Agro-based Foodstuff Producersand Exporters Association, Myanmar Women Entre-preneurs’ Association, Myanma Timber Entrepre-neurs, Association, Myanmar Marine Products Pro-ducers and Exporters Association, Muse-NamhkamBorder Trade Association, Myanmar Paddy Produc-ers Association, UMEHL and private companies,entrepreneurs from Myaungmya, Pyay, Mandalay,Mawlamyine, Kalay, Monywa, Meiktila,Yenangyoung, Pathein, Myeik, Pyinmabin andYangon East Industrial Zones.—MNA

Myanmar booths seen at 6th China-ASEAN Expo in Nanning International Convention & Exhibition Centre in Nanning of Guangxi ZhuangAutonomous Region of the PRC.—MNA

Secretary -1 General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo views Myanmar booth at 6th China-ASEAN Expo in Nanning International Convention& Exhibition Centre in Nanning of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the PRC.—MNA

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing of Ministry of Defence and wife enjoy Uggasena Drama Contest ofAyeyawady Division drama troupe.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 22Oct— At the invitation ofthe government of thePeople’s Republic ofChina, Secretary-1 of theState Peace and Develop-ment Council of the Un-ion of Myanmar GeneralThiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo, accompaniedby Minister for ForeignAffairs of Myanmar UNyan Win, Minister forNational Planning andEconomic DevelopmentU Soe Tha, Minister forCommerce Brig-Gen TinNaing Thein, Chairman ofYangon City Develop-ment Committee MayorBrig-Gen Aung TheinLin, Director-General Col

Secretary-1 and party arrive in Nanning ofGuangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of PRC

Kyaw Kyaw Win of theState Peace and Develop-ment Council Office anddepartmental heads, lefthere by special flight at 9am on 19 October to at-tend the 6th China-ASEAN Expo and theChina-ASEAN Economic& Investment Summit tobe held in Nanning ofGuangxi Zhuang Autono-mous Region of the Peo-ple’s Republic of China,and arrived at Nanning In-ternational Airport of thePRC at 1.50 pm localstandard time.

Myanmar Ambas-sador to China U TheinLwin and Director MrTang Chong Guang of the

Foreign Affairs Office ofGuangxi Zhuang Autono-mous Region welcomedthe Secretary-1 onboardthe aircraft.

Next, member ofthe Standing Committeeof Communist Party ofGuangxi Zhuang Autono-mous Region Mr Wen KaHua and Deputy Head ofForeign Affairs Mr ZhuShu Hua welcomed theSecretary-1.

Two children pre-sented bouquet to the Sec-retary-1 and a local girl, atraditional gift.

The traditional cul-ture troupe also welcomedthe Secretary-1 with theentertainment of tradi-

tional dances.The Secretary-1

and party posed for docu-mentary photo togetherwith local traditional cul-

tural troupe members.Later, the Secre-

tary-1 and party left forLiyuan Resort.

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NAY PYI TAW, 22 Oct—Secretary-1 of the StatePeace and Development Council of the Union ofMyanmar General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Ooattended the opening ceremony of the 6th China-ASEAN Business & Investment Summit held atGuangxi People’s Great Hall in Nanning of GuangxiZhuang Autonomous Region of the People’s Republicof China at 11 a.m. on 20 October.

Present at the Summit were member of StandingCommittee of the Politburo of Communist Party ofChina Central Committee Vice Premier H.E. Mr LiKeqiang, Prime Minister of the Lao People’s Demo-cratic Republic H.E. Mr Bouasone Bouphavanh,Speaker of House of Representatives H.E. Mr ProsperoC Nograles of Philippines, Permanent Deputy PrimeMinister H.E. Mr Nguyen Sinh Hung of the SocialistRepublic of Vietnam, Minister for Foreign Affairs UNyan Win, Minister for National Planning and Eco-nomic Development U Soe Tha, Minister for Com-

Secretary-1 attends opening of 6th China-

ASEAN Business & Investment Summit

merce Brig-Gen Tin Naing Thein, Chairman of YangonCity Development Committee Mayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin, Myanmar Ambassador to China U TheinLwin, Director-General Col Kyaw Kyaw Win of SPDCOffice, departmental heads, ministers and deputy min-isters and senior officers from China and ASEANcountries, ASEAN Secretary-General Dr SurinPitsuwan, officials and guests.

At the summit, Chairman of China Council forthe Promotion of International Trade Mr Wan Jifeidelivered an opening speech.

Afterwards, Chairman of Standing Committeeof People’s Congress of Guangxi Zhuang Autono-mous Region and Secretary of CPC Guangxi Commit-tee Mr Guo Sheng Kun made a speech.

Next, Laotian Prime Minister H.E Mr BouasoneBouphavanh and Member of Standing Committee ofthe Politburo of Communist Party of China CentralCommittee Vice Premier H.E. Mr Li Keqiang madespeeches.—MNA

Secretary-1 General Thiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo attends the opening ceremony of 6thChina-ASEAN Business & Investment Summit

held at Guangxi People’s Great Hall inNanning of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous

Region, PRC.—MNA

Secretary-1 General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo being welcomedby Mr Wen Ka Hua, member of Standing Committee of CommunistParty of Guangxi of PRC at Nanning International Airport.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 22 Oct—Secretary-1 of the StatePeace and Development Council of the Union ofMyanmar General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo on19 October evening attended a dinner to mark the 6thChina-ASEAN Expo and the China-ASEAN Businessand Investment Summit hosted by the CentralGovernment of the People’s Republic of China atInternational Conference Centre of Liyuan Resort inNanning of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region ofthe People’s Republic of China.

Secretary-1 attends dinner to mark 6th China-ASEAN Expo,China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit

Also present at the dinner were member of theStanding Committee of the Communist Party of ChinaCentral Committee Politburo Vice Premier H.E. Mr LiKegiang, Prime Minister of the Lao People’s DemocraticRepublic H.E. Mr Boausone Boaphavanh, Speaker ofthe Parliament of the Philippines H.E. Mr Prospero CNograles, First Deputy Prime Minister of the SocialistRepublic of Vietnam H.E. Mr Nguyen Sinh Hung,Minister for Foreign Affairs of Myanmar U Nyan Win,Minister for National Planning and Economic

Development U Soe Tha, Minister for Commerce Brig-Gen Tin Naing Thein, Myanmar Ambassador to PRC UThein Lwin, Director-General Col Kyaw Kyaw Win ofthe State Peace and Development Council Office anddepartmental heads, ministers, deputy ministers, seniorofficers and officials of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia,Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, the Philippines, theSingapore, Thailand, the Socialist Republic of Vietnamand PRC and entrepreneurs of the respective countries.

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NAY PYI TAW, 22Oct — The 17th MyanmarTraditional CulturalPerforming ArtsCompetitions continuedfor fifth day at thedesignated avenues today.

Among thespectators were Ministerfor Industry-2 Vice-Admiral Soe Thein,Minister for ElectricPower No. 2 and forConstruction Maj-GenKhin Maung Myint,Deputy Minister forIndustry-2 Lt-Col KhinMaung Kyaw, DeputyMinister for SocialWelfare, Relief andResettlement Brig-GenKyaw Myint, Deputy

17th Myanmar Traditional Cultural Performing Arts Competitions continueAttorney-General UMyint Naing, members ofCivil Service Selectionand Training Board U NyiTun and U Kyaw Aung,departmental heads,members of the leadingcommittee, chairmen,secretaries and membersof work committee andsubcommittees, membersof the paanel of judges(central) and supervisors.

In higher educationlevel women's Maha Gitasinging contest, eightcontestants took part in it.In the afternoon, 11contestants participated inbasic education level(aged 10-15) boys' MahaGita contest.

In basic educationlevel (aged 15-20)women's dancing contestthe University ofVeterinary Science, 18participants took part inthe contest. In theafternoon, 15 contestantscompeted in basiceducation level (aged 15-20) men's dancing contest.

The rehearsal forwriting contest was held atthe hall of No (7) TransitCenter in Nay Pyi Taw, andcontestants from amateurlevel (first class), amateurlevel (second class) andhigher education level tookpart in the rehearsal.

Six contestants tookpart in the basic education

level (aged 10-15) boys'harp contest held at thetheater of the University ofAgriculture. In basiceducation level (aged 10-15) girls' harp contest, fourparticipants take part. MaHein Htet competed in basiceducation level (aged 15-20) women's harp contest.

Eight contestantsparticipated in amateurlevel (second class) men'sharp contest.

In basic educationlevel (aged 10-15) boys'piano contest, eightcontestants competed init,and two contestantstook part in amateur level(first class) women'spiano contest. In amateurlevel (first class) men'sOzi contest held atAgricultural ResearchDepartment, sevengroups participated init,and six groups took part

in the basic educationlevel (aged 15-20) men'sOzi contest.

In the basiceducation level (aged 10-15) girls' orchestra(group) contest, twogroups competed in thecontest. In the afternoon,two groups took part inthe amateur level (firstclass) women's orchestra(group) contest.

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YANGON, 22 Oct — The seventhannual general meeting of MyanmarGold Entrepreneurs Association will beheld at 1 p.m. at Panda Hotel here on 24

MGEA to hold AGM on 24 OctoberOctober.

Members of the association areinvited to attend the meeting withoutfail.—MNA

YANGON, 22 Oct – Organized bythe Union of Myanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerce and Industry, themonthly talks (2/October, 2009) will beheld on the first floor of UMFCCI OfficeTower at 2 p.m. on 24 October (Saturday).

U Thein Myint Wai, Assistant

UMFCCI's monthly talks on 24 OctoberDirector of Directorate of Trade, and UKyaw Win, Director of CustomsDepartment, will give talks. Every oneincluding chairmen, executives andmembers of the affiliated associations ofthe UMFCCI and industrial zones mayattend the talks. — MNA

YANGON, 21 Oct — Jointly organ-ized by the Myanmar Fishery Federa-tion and the Myanmar Shrimp Associa-tion and sponsored by the City MartSupermarket, writer Ledwinthar Saw

Talks on success by successful spirit on 24 OctChit will gave talks on success by suc-cessful spirit at the hall of MFF onBayintnaung Road in Insein Townshipat 2 pm on 24 October. Those interestedmay attend the talks.—MNA

Minister Vice-Admiral Soe Thein watching the performance of theparticipants.—MNA

U Kyaw

Kyaw

from

Yangon

Division

in Ozi

contest.

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Ma Cherry Win from BagoDivision in Maha Gita contest.

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Maung Sai Khay Hlyan fromShan State in piano contest.

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SINAR BIMA VOY NO (044)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV SINAR BIMAVOY NO (044) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 23.10.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S SAMUDERA SHIPPINGLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV DIBENA JOY VOY NO (113)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV DIBENA JOYVOY NO (113) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 23.10.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of S.P.W 3 where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S PHULSAWAT SHIPPINGCO., LTD

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

Data from an AIDS vaccine trial in Thailand waspresented to scientists on Tuesday for the first

time, confirming the prototype as only a partialshield against HIV but still a pioneering

achievement. —INTERNET

HIV vaccine trial wassignificant

BANGKOK, 22 Oct—A review of a trial of a HIVvaccine in Thailand has concluded that it does showreal signs of a protective effect. Scientists announcedlast month that a combination of vaccines gave a31% level of protection in trials among 16,000heterosexuals aged 18-30. Doubts had been raisedabout whether the finding was significant.

But new data published at a conference in Parisindicates that, while small scale, the findings arerobust and statistically significant. However, thescientists say they do not understand what is caus-ing the effect, and it seems to offer less protectionto those most at risk. Despite these drawbacks,Colonel Nelson Michael from the US military HIVresearch programme it is still a small step in theright direction.

He said: “It’s important that people understand thatthis is a scientific advance, a scientific breakthrough.”It is not a public health breakthrough; there is not avaccine that is around the corner.

“We now, after 26 years of trying, believe that wecan go down that road with confidence that wewill be able to develop a vaccine that is globallyeffective.”

Despite their initial joy when the first results fromthe Thai trial were announced, many scientistswere concerned that the protective effect was verysmall.

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India train crash leaves 22 dead

H1N1 vaccinationsrolled out in UK

LONDON, 22 Oct—A mass H1N1 immunization pro-gramme began in the UK on Wednesday, with thecountry’s health minister urging all priority groups totake up the vaccine. Health and social care workersare among those identified in the “priority” group givenfirst access to the vaccine against the H1N1 virus, com-monly known as swine flu.

Others include pregnant women, those over 65, peo-ple with asthma, diabetes and those having cancer treat-ment, the country’s Department of Health has said.From Monday, this group will be given appointmentsto visit doctors surgeries to receive the vaccine.

The vast majority of people will be offeredGlaxoSmithKline’s Pandemrix vaccination, which iseffective after one dose but made using chicken eggs,according to the Department of Health. Those allergicto eggs will instead be offered Baxter’s Celvapan,which requires two doses three weeks apart.—Internet

MATHURA, 22 Oct—Two passenger trainshave collided near thecity of Mathura in north-ern India, killing at least22 people. One of thetrains, the Mewar Ex-press, was stopped at ared signal when the GoaExpress rammed into itfrom behind, a railwayofficial said.

Rescuers used gas cut-ters to enter the train.About 22 people were in-

jured and taken to hospi-tal. Officials say the res-cue operation is now overand all the passengershave been accounted for.The crash took place justbefore 5am local time(2330 GMT).

“The Goa Express trainrammed into the MewarExpress train from be-hind, this is the situation.A coach of the MewarExpress was damaged,whereas, there has been

damage in the pantry carof the Goa Express,” theReuters news agencyquoted railway officialRD Tripathi as saying.

“We felt a massivejolt,” Ramesh Charan, apassenger aboard theMewar Express, toldReuters.“Some peoplesleeping on upper berthsfell to the coach floor bythe impact of the colli-sion,” he said.

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Latin Americadiscusses distributionof A/H1N1 vaccines

PANAMA CITY, 22 Oct—Latin American countries,including Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela, began a se-ries of meetings on Wednesday in Panama to discussthe purchase and use of the A/H1N1 influenzavaccines.

Jose A Escamilla, representative of the Pan Ameri-can Health Organization, told Xinhua that participantswill “define the procedures and the priority groups toreceive the vaccine.”

The participants would also discuss their countries’needs and the amount of vaccines needed to meet thedemand of their people, Escamilla said. The specificamount of vaccines for all regions and nations wouldbe determined at the end of the meeting, Escamillaadded.

Xinhua

Woman dies dolphin-swimming in New ZealandPICTON, 22 Oct—A 27-

year-old Americanwoman died in waters offNew Zealand whileswimming with dolphins,police said. The woman,while on a swimming ex-cursion on Tuesday withDolphin Watch Ecotoursin the MarlboroughSounds near Picton NewZealand, went in the wa-ter mid-morning and was

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later spotted floating face-down, the Dominion Postreported.

Emergency officialswere contacted while otherswimmers on the tourlifted the woman onto thetour boat. A doctor on thetrip and coast guard work-ers tried unsuccessfully torevive the woman, whosename was not reported.The woman’s mother and

husband were also onthe trip, the newspapersaid.

Dan and Amy Engel-haupt, Dolphin WatchEcotour’s directors andmarine biologists from theUnited States, had initiallyintended to hold a pressconference, but were ad-vised by police not tospeak with media aboutthe incident, the Dominion

Post said.” The Engel-haupts were well-respected operators whohad built up a good busi-ness since moving toPicton about five yearsago,” Marlborough Dis-trict Mayor AlistairSowman said. No causeof death was reported andan autopsy was scheduled,the newspaper said.

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An employee of Japan’s beverage giant Suntoryholds a bunch of their genetically modified roses ata Press conference in Tokyo. Japan’s Suntory Ltdsaid it would start selling the world’s first geneti-cally-modified blue roses next month, 20 years

after it began research to create the noveltyflowers.—INTERNET

Indian city bans kitesafter child deaths

CHENNAI , 22 Oct — Police have banned kite flyingin the southern Indian city of Chennai after two chil-dren died in accidents and several motorcyclists wereinjured by kite string coated with glass powder.

The deaths occurred when boys chasing after kitesfell from rooftops, city police commissioner TRajendran said.

In many parts of Asia where kite flying is a sport,participants use their kites to cut through rivals’ strings.Chennai temporarily banned kites in 2006 after aneight-year-old boy died when string caked in glasspowder cut into his neck, and again in 2007 after asimilar incident. —Internet

Divers recover anchor from reputedBlackbeard ship

A replica of the ship ‘Queen Anne’s Revenge’ restson a stage in Raleigh, NC in front of the scientists

and researchers who helped discover what isbelieved to be Blackbeard’s flagship in the waters

off of the North Carolina coast.—INTERNET

Man staged nearly 100 car crashes incash scam

Car crash damage isseen in this undated

handout photo.INTERENT

Pouring cold water onfashionista swimmers

TOKYO, 22 Oct – Japan’s swimmers could facelifetime bans if they dye their hair, wear an earringor have brightly decorated fingernails.Japanese offi-cials have launched a strict policy to prevent athletesturning up for competitions looking more like rockstars than swimmers.

Male and female swimmers caught sneaking intoeach others rooms at Japanese training camp, wherethe sexes have separate sleeping quarters, will alsofind themselves in hot water.” The United States andAustralia are also setting these criteria,” the JapanSwimming Federation’s executive director MasafumiIzumi told local media on Wednesday.

“We have had many recent controversies (in Ja-pan) with marijuana in sport and at universities, andthis is about swimming taking a stand on its own ini-tiative.”

The JSF’s stringent new plan has been written intoits charter following an executive board meeting onTuesday and swimmers will have to sign a letter ofoath.—Internet

Food toxin may cause liver cancerLOS ANGELES, 22 Oct —

A toxin produced by moldon grains can cause livercancer for large amount ofconsumption, researchersat the University of Califor-nia, Irvine (UCI) has said.“It’s shocking how pro-foundly these molds canaffect public health,”Sheryl Tsai, associate pro-fessor in biochemistry andpharmaceutical scienceswas quoted as saying by astudy published in the jour-nal Nature on Thursday.

It is the first time scien-tists have discovered whattriggers the toxin to form,which could lead to meth-ods of limiting its produc-

tion. Reports said about4.5 billion people in devel-oping countries are chroni-cally exposed to vastamounts of this toxin,called aflatoxin, which isoften hundreds of timeshigher than safe levels.

In some countries, thecombination of aflatoxinand hepatitis Bvirus expo-sure increases the likeli-hood of liver cancer occur-rence by 60 times, andtoxin-related cancercauses up to 10 percent ofall deaths in those nations.Tsai, graduate studentTyler Korman and under-graduate Oliver Kamari-Bidkorpeh, along with

Johns Hopkins Universityresearchers, jointly discov-ered that a protein calledPT is critical for aflatoxinto form in fungi.

Tsai said protein PT iskey to making the poison.With this knowledge, sci-entists could kill the PTwith drugs, inhibiting themold’s ability to makeaflatoxin. Aflatoxin cancolonize and contaminatenuts and grains before har-vest or during storage. TheUS Food & Drug Admin-istration considers it anunavoidable food con-taminant but sets maxi-mum allowable limits.

Xinhua

LONDON, 22 Oct –A Briton who cost the in-surance industry some1.6 million pounds by stag-ing almost 100 car crashesas part of a scam towin fraudulent payouts,was jailed for4-1/2 years on Wednesday.Mohammed Patel, 24,charged 500 pounds a timeto stage accidents whichenabled fraudsters to claiman average of 17,000pounds from their insurers.

Police said he staged atleast 92 crashes between2005 and 2008, each time

persuading the other driverto believe they were atfault. The plot was uncov-ered after workers in an of-fice block by the main A34road in Cheadle, near Man-chester, became suspiciousabout a regular number ofcrashes taking place at anearby roundabout.

AXA insurance, one ofthe firms caught up in thescam, investigated and con-tacted police. Detectivesfound that Patel deliber-ately caused crashes for hisclients by braking suddenlyso the vehicle behind couldnot avoid a collision.

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BEAUFORT, 22 Oct –An anchor from a ship-wreck thought to beBlackbeard’s flagship, theQueen Anne’s Revenge,was so unstable thatdivers in North Carolina

retrieved it Wednesdayrather than waiting untilnext year. Divers raisedthe 4.5-foot, 160-poundgrapnel, or anchor, fromthe wreck in the AtlanticOcean near Beaufort on

Wednesday and will dis-play it on Thursday at theNorth Carolina MaritimeMuseum in Beaufort. Theanchor originally had fourprongs, but now has 1 1/2Two divers put straps onthe anchor, then small liftbags that they filled withair, said Mark Wilde-Ramsing, the director ofthe Queen Anne’s Re-venge shipwreck project.When the grapnel reachedthe surface, a cranebrought it on the boat.”Itwent great,” he said. “Itwent as smooth as it couldbe.” The grapnel probablywas an anchor for asmaller boat that wouldhave been used to trans-port items between shipsor from land to ship,Wilde-Ramsing said.

Internet

Blood protein may predict heartattack but not stroke

WASHINGTON , 22 Oct — High bloodlevels of C-reactive protein (CRP) mayincrease a person’s risk for heart attackand death, but not for stroke, a newstudy has found.The study included2,240 people in New York City whowere 40 or older and stroke-free. At thestart of the study, the participants’ bloodwas checked for levels of CRP (a markerfor inflammation) and their heart attackand stroke risk factors were evaluatedby researchers.

During an average follow-up of eightyears, there were 198 strokes, 156 heart-related events and 586 deaths. Peoplewith CRP levels greater than 3 milli-grams per liter of blood were 70 per-

cent more likely to have a heart attackand 55 percent more likely to die thanthose with CRP levels of 1 milligram perliter or less, the researchers reported inthe 20 Oct print issue of Neurology.

After they took other risk factors intoaccount, the study authors concluded thatCRP levels didn’t influence strokerisk.”The role of this protein in predict-ing risk of stroke has been controversial,although prior studies have found it tobe a marker for predicting risk of heartdisease,” study author Dr MitchellElkind, of Columbia University Medi-cal Center in New York City, said in anews release from the American Acad-emy of Neurology. —Internet

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PARIS, 22 Oct —Celtic manager TonyMowbray is under pres-sure to end a sorry run ofhome results that have leftthe Glasgow giants in avirtually must-win situa-tion against EuropaLeague rivals Hamburgon Thursday.

Fulham and Evertonwill also be in action,against Roma andBenfica, respectively butwith the English PremierLeague sides sitting prettyatop their groups the pres-sure is all on Celtic.Aftertwo of their six games theScots are bottom of GroupC with a point, and athree-point deficit toRapid Vienna who heldthem 1-1 in Glasgow lasttime out.

Counting the scorelessdraw with league oppo-nents Motherwell lastweekend, the Hoops nowjust have two wins fromseven home games in allcompetitions so far thisseason. All talk of a crisishas been stifled byMowbray, and he remainsdefiant that his team havenot been playing belowpar.—Internet

SYDNEY, 22 Oct — Bel-gium’s seven-time GrandSlam winner JustineHenin confirmed shewould make her come-back from a 15-month re-tirement at Australia’sBrisbane International inJanuary.

The former worldnumber one’s return totournament tennis will pither against compatriotand fellow ex-retiree KimClijsters, who won Sep-tember’s US Open justfive weeks after ending atwo-year hiatus.

“After a 15-month ab-sence I am pleased to be-gin my second tennis ca-reer at the Brisbane Inter-national,” the 27-year-oldHenin said in a state-ment.”

It will be great to getback to playing competi-tive tennis again and withthe strong field, the samecourt surface and a simi-lar climate to Melbourne,it will be the perfect

MOSCOW , 22 Oct —Sir Alex Ferguson be-lieves Antonio Valencia ison the verge of provingthat he can be a majorplayer in ManchesterUnited’s drive for silver-ware this season.

United maintains perfectChampions League start

Antonio Valencia(right) of Manchester

United vies with AlekseiBerezutski of Russia’sCSKA Moscow during

their ChampionsLeague Group B matchin Moscow.—INTERNET

The Ecuador winger,signed for 17 millionpounds from Wigan as areplacement for CristianoRonaldo, has struggled toconvince the United faith-ful that he is up to the task.

But after claiming hisfirst United goal in thewin over Bolton at theweekend, Valenciacapped a fine perform-ance with a late winner inUnited’s 1-0 ChampionsLeague win over CSKAMoscow here on Wednes-day, and Ferguson wasquick to underline the im-portance of the display.

“He has been the pluspoint for the last twoweeks,” Ferguson said.“He is settling into theclub, his confidence isstronger and he has tre-mendous assets for a weeplayer - strength, balance,feet and a good crosser ofthe ball.” —Internet

Belgian tennis star Henin set forBrisbane comeback

Belgium’s worldnumber one and seven-

time Grand Slamwinner Justine

Henin.—INTERNET

preparation leading intothe Australian Open.”

Tournament directorSteve Ayles said Heninwill also be up againstSerbia’s former FrenchOpen champion, AnaIvanovic, and home fa-vourite Jelena Dokic atthe January 3-10 event.”

It will be tremendousto see Justine match upagainst her former rivaland countrywoman KimClijsters,” said Ayles.

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Tennis vet Safin ousts topseed Davydenko in MoscowMOSCOW , 22 Oct — Russian tennis icon Marat

Safin battled from a set down to advance past topseeded compatriot Nikolay Davydenko into the sec-ond round of the joint ATP and WTA tournament hereon Wednesday.Safin, 76th in the ATP rankings, won4-6, 6-4, 6-2 in a replay of 2006 final at the two-mil-lion-dollar tournament here to level his head-to-headrecord with 28-year-old Davydenko at four wins all.

“I was serving and receiving good today and man-aged to avoid basic mistakes,” Safin said.” That gaveme an opportunity to stay in the match. It seems thatNikolay (Davydenko) had not yet recovered after hiswin at Shanghai and later on I took advantage of hismistakes.”Now I have an opportunity to continue play-ing in front of my home crowd and I’ll try to go as faras I can.”

Davydenko looked confident from the start break-ing early in the opening set for a 4-2 lead after Safin,who announced his decision to retire at the end of thisseason, produced a catalogue of errors in the fifthgame.—Internet

ZURICH , 22 Oct –Gabriel Heinze deliveredMarseille’s first points ofthis Champions Leaguecampaign, the Argentinelifting the French side toa 1-0 win at FC Zurich onWednesday.

Heinze’s second halfcontribution gave DidierDeschamps’ team an out-side shot of progressingto the knockout stages,the win lifting them upinto contention at leastfor a ticket out of GroupC and into the EuropaLeague.

After defeats to AC

PARIS, 22 Oct—Bor-deaux fought back from acatastrophic start and sur-vived a nerve-wrackingsecond half to beat nine-man Bayern Munich 2-1to go top of their Champi-ons League Group A onWednesday. Bordeaux de-fender Michael Cianiopened the scoring, forBayern, with an own goalin the fifth minute beforemaking amends with anequaliser just before thehalf hour mark.

Marc Planus claimedBordeaux’s second beforethe interval, however asBayern striker Luca Toni

Pressure onCeltic as Europa

League groupstage continues

LONDON , 22 Oct —Carlo Ancelotti warnedhis Chelsea stars that onlyfirst place will do afterSalomon Kalou and FrankLampard inspired a 4-0

Heinze gives Marseille Champions Leaguehope in Zurich

Olympique Marseille’s

Gabriel Heinze.

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Milan and Real MadridHeinze could not havepicked a better time toscore with Marseillebreaking down the Zu-rich defence in the 69thminute.

It was his Argentinecompatriot Lucho’s crosswhich found the formerReal Madrid, Paris SaintGermain and ManchesterUnited defender un-marked at the far postwith his sharply angledshot zipping past Zurichkeeper Johnny Leoni andinto the far corner.

Internet

Bordeaux miss penalties but beat nine-man Bayern

Bordeaux’ defenderMarc Planus celebrates

after scoring a goalduring their ChampionsLeague football match

Bordeaux versusBayern Munich at theChaban-Delmas sta-dium in Bordeaux,southern France.

INTERNET

missed a great late chanceto equalise, the hosts wenton to spectacularly misstwo second half penalties.Bayern coach Louis vanGaal never one to holdback when displeasedgave vent to his feelings.”The defeat has really an-gered me,” said the Dutchtaskmaster, who won thetrophy with Ajax in 1995.

“After the early goalwe made too many poor

passes. We were better inthe second-half with 10men than we were in thefirst-half with 11.”Bayerncame to the ChabanDelmas stadium withoutinjured forwards ArjenRobben and FranckRibery and in the hopethat playmaker ThomasMuller could live up tohis reputation as a futureBayern star.

Internet

Chelsea’s Ancelotti has eyes only for first place

Chelsea’s Italian manager Carlo Ancelotti.

Champions League routof Atletico Madrid.Ancelotti’s side movedwithin touching distanceof a place in the last 16thanks to their clinicaldisplay against the woe-ful Spaniards at StamfordBridge on Wednesday.

But, more importantlyfor Ancelotti, the Bluesare top of Group D at thehalfway stage and hewants them to stay thereas it guarantees a homesecond leg against one of

the group runners-up inthe first knockout round.”We are in control of thegroup now.

Our aim is to arrive infirst place because it isimportant for the rest ofthe Champions League,”Ancelotti said.

“That is not certain yetand we need more points.It has not been easy with-out Didier Drogba but allthe players have donewell in this competition.”

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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 Kachin, Chin States and upper Sagaing Division,rain or thundershowers have been widespread in TaninthayiDivision, scattered in Mon and Kayin States, Mandalay,Bago and Yangon Divisons and isolated in the remainingareas. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded wereNay Pyi Taw (Lewe) (0.63)inch, Nay Pyi Taw (Pyinmana)(0.39)inch, PyinOoLwin (1.30)inches, Thandaunggyi(1.14)inches, Yamethin and Hpa-an (0.79) inch each, CocoIsland (0.63) inch, Aunglan and Gwa (0.59) inch andKyaukpadaung (0.56) inch.

Maximum temperature on 21-10-2009 was 92°F.Minimum temperature on 22-10-2009 was 70°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 22-10-2009 was 83%.Total sun shine hours on 21-10-2009 was (3.3) hours approx.

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Forecast valid until evening of 23rd October 2009:Rain or thundershower will be scattered in Mon and KayinStates, Yangon, Bago, Ayeyawady and TaninthayiDivisions, isolated in Shan, Rakhine and Kayah States,Mandalay, lower Sagaing and Magway Divisions andweather will be partly cloudy in the remaining areas. Degreeof certainty is (80%).

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Senior Captain Chatchavarl Meesawasdi, NavalRating school commander, gives a banana to along-tailed macaque on Kledkaew island, Sattahipdistrict, Chonburi Province on 21 October, 2009.Hundreds of monkeys live on the offshore islandwhich is located within the Naval training base.The Navy regularly supplies food to the monkeysafter reports that many drowned while trying to

catch fish from the sea.—INTERNET

HONG KONG, 22 Oct—The Hong Kong SpecialAdministrative Region (HKSAR) government iscommitted to developing e-learning which willenhance student learning and development, Secretaryfor Education Michael Suen said on Thursday. Suensaid the recommendations of the Working Group onTextbooks and e-Learning Resources Developmenton how the local government can encourage andsupport schools to make good use of e-learningresources will be carefully considered.

The working group has submitted a reportproposing a three-year “promoting e-learning” pilotscheme be launched in up to 30 primary andsecondary schools in the 2010-2011 school year.

It also suggests the development of the depositoryof curriculum-based learning and teaching resourcesbe expedited and strengthened at the primary andjunior secondary levels with additional resourcesfrom the 2009-10 school year.—Xinhua

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★ 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

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NAY PYI TAW, 22Oct—Secretary-1 of theState Peace andDevelopment Council ofthe Union of MyanmarGeneral Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo attendedthe opening ceremony of6th China-ASEAN Expo,held at Nanning Interna-tional Convention andExhibition Centre inNanning in GuangxiZhuang AutonomousRegion of the People’sRepublic of China at 9 amon 20 October.

Also present on theoccasion were Member ofthe Standing Committeeof the Politburo of Com-munist Party of ChinaCentral Committee VicePremier H.E. Mr LiKeqiang, Heads the State/Government of theASEAN membercountries, ministers,deputy ministers andsenior officers from thePeople’s Republic ofChina and ASEAN mem-ber countries, ASEANSecretary-General H.E.Dr Surin Pitsuwan and re-

Secretary-1 attends opening ceremony of 6th China-ASEAN Exposponsible persons, entre-preneurs of those coun-tries and correspondentsfrom international newsagencies.

On the occasion,Governor of GuangxiZhuang Autonomous Re-gion Mr Ma Biao ex-tended greetings.

Next, ASEAN Sec-retary-General H.E. DrSurin Pitsuwan andMinister of Commerceof the PRC H.E. MrChen Deming gavespeeches on the occa-sion.

Prime Minister of theLao People’s Democratic

Republic H.E. MrBouasone Bouphavanhgave an opening speech.

After that, the docu-mentary video on the pre-vious China-ASEAN Ex-positions was presented tothose present.

The Secretary-1,Heads of State/Govern-

ment of the People’s Re-public of China andASEAN member coun-tries and the ASEAN Sec-retary-General took thedesignated positions onthe stage to open the cer-emony.

Vice Premier H.E. MrLi Keqiang announced the

6th China-ASEAN Expoopen.

Afterwards, the Secre-tary-1, Heads of State/Gov-ernment of PRC andASEAN member countriesand the ASEAN Secretary-General concluded the cer-emony by throwingflowers into the air.—MNA

Secretary-1General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo attends the opening ceremony of 6th China-ASEAN Expo at NanningInternational Convention and Exhibition Centre in Nanning in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the PRC.—MNA

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