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Volume XVII, Number 221 7th Waxing of Nadaw 1371 ME Monday, 23 November, 2009

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

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

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Triple Lake Waterfalls: grand scenic beauty inNay Pyi Taw Water Fountain Garden

Article: Maung Maung Myint Swe; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

Beautiful scene of Triple Lake Waterfalls seen in Nay Pyi Taw Water Fountain Garden.As soon as we en-

tered the Nay Pyi TawWater Fountain Garden,the lush and beautifulscenes refreshed ourminds.

The visitors took re-laxation by enjoying vari-ous designs of waterfountains with the greengrass, blossoming flowersand beautiful flowery

plants.The Nay Pyi Taw

Water Fountain Gardenattracts those who arrivein Nay Pyi Taw. The wa-ter fountain has a 180 feet

long and five feet widesteel cable suspensionbridge decorated with newand bright colourfulpaints.

We, the news team of

the Myanma Alin Daily,had an opportunity to visitthe Triple Lake Waterfallsrecently-opened in thecompound of Nay Pyi TawWater Fountain Garden.

From the bird's eye view,we saw some visitorsswimming in the lake.The triple lake wasconstructed to store clean

(See page 7)

Pyaingchaung Dam contributing to development of KyauktawArticle: Tin Mar Win and Aye Thanda Thein; Photo: Aung Than (Mingala Taungnyunt)

Pyaingchaung Dam situated in Kyauktaw Township of Rakhine State. (See page 7)

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Monday, 23 November, 2009 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

Build network of railroads forsocio-economic improvementof local people

The government is making all-out effortsfor bringing about equitable developmentthroughout the nation. To realize the target,the Ministry of Rail Transportation is carryingout tasks such as renovation and upgrading ofrailroads and building new ones for ensuringbetter transport and regional development.

A ceremony to open the 27 miles longPakokku-Kyunchaung railroad section on theKyangin-Pakokku railroad, an integral partfor development of the regions on the westbank of Ayeyawady river, was held at PakokkuStation, Pakokku Township on 20 November.

The 320 miles long Kyangin-Pakokkurailroad—the 110 miles long Kyangin-Thayetsection, the 100 miles long Thayet-Pwintbyusection and the 110 miles long Pwintbyu-Pakokku section—are being constructed. Andthe 35 miles long Kanma-Thayet section of theKyangin-Thayet section was opened on 17October 2009. With this, people can easilytravel from Kyangin to Thayet by railway.

On completion of the Kyangin-Pakokkurailroad, one can travel to Myitkyina viaPathein-Kyangin, Pakokku, Monywa andShwebo roads with the use of Pathein-Kyanginrailroad and Pakokku-Kalay railroad.Moreover, people will be able to travel toAyeyawady, Bago, Magway and SagaingDivisions as well as regions of Chin and KachinStates.

We firmly believe that the emergence ofa network of railroads the length and breadthof the nation will contribute a great deal todevelopment of social, economic, health andeducation sectors of local people.

NAY PYI TAW, 22 Nov—Chairman of Shan State(East) Peace and Development Council Commanderof Triangle Region Command Maj-Gen Kyaw Phyoinspected Kengtung-Mongkhat-Inkolon motor roadon 16 November morning. He also visited studentswho are studying their lessons at Inkolon Village BasicEducation Primary School. He presented books andfoodstuff to them.

Commander inspects Kengtung-Mongkhat-Inkolon road,Inkolon Village BEPS

Afterwards, the commander met local people inLoipantaung Village on Inkolon-Loipantaung roadand presented medical equipment, foodstuff, clothes,sports gear and cash assistance. The commander alsoviewed free medical treatment provided to local people.

He presented foodstuff and cash assistance to thelocal people in Inkolon Village.

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NAY PYI TAW, 22Nov—Minister forForestry Brig-Gen TheinAung on 16 Novemberinspected thriving 1500acres of teak plantation ofprivate enterpreneurs inMyitkyina Township andcommercial teakplantations in Nantkhwinforest reserve of Mogaung

Forestry Minister on inspection tour of Kachin StateTownship.

In Hopin, the ministervisited Local Trade andSawmill Division, aprivate sawmill, Myotharaft jetty in Myitkyinatimber extraction region.At Indawgyi sanctuary,Staff Officer U Sein Tunreported on conservationof Indawgyi forest reserve.

The minister viewedNantsiaung raft jetty,ironwood and teakplantations in IndawTownship.

At the office of theAssistant GeneralManager of Katha Westtimber extraction region,the minister met with staffunder the Ministry of

Forestry and gaveinstructions.

In the evening, theminister heard reports ontasks of timber extractionand construction of roadspresented by officials atShweli Mabein timberextraction region andKatha West timberextraction region.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 22Nov— Director-GeneralU Myint Tun of FireServices Departmentunder the Ministry ofSocial Welfare, Reliefand Resettlementpresented a set of a Hondabrand fire engine to

Fire Services DepartmentDirector-General inspects fire

brigades in Thayawady District

Auxiliary Fire Brigade ofNgapyugale Village inThayawady District,Bago Division (West),through officials on 20November.

Afterwards, thedirector-general presenteduniforms and cashassistance for auxiliaryfire brigades of Yekyi andKyonlaha Villages. Heinspected fire engines,maintenance of machines,training of fire brigademembers, and viewed firedrills of the auxiliary firebrigade.

MNA

MSEA to hold AGM

Pakistan claims first prize in Second U-18Asian Men’s Hockey Tournament

Tournament, organizedby Myanmar HockeyFederation, took place atTheinbyu Artificial TurfHockey Pitch today.

Korea made an

emphatic victory over Japanwith 4-1 in the third placedevent. Pakistan claimed thefirst prize with a decisivewin over Malaysia 4-3 inthe final event.

YANGON, 22 Nov—Under the aegis of theMinistry of Sports, thefinal and third placematches of the 2nd U-18Asian Men's Hockey

After competitions,President of Asian HockeyFederation Sultan of PerakState HRH Sultan AzlanShan of Malaysia presentedthe first prize to Pakistan,President of MHF Col HtinZaw Win, second prize toMalaysia and Vice-President of MHF U KyawKyaw Hlaing, third prize toKorea. Champion Pakistanpicked up a ticket for WorldYouth Games to be held inSingapore in 2010.—NLM

YANGON, 22 Nov—The Myanmar ShrimpEntrepreneurs Association will hold its third annualgeneral meeting at Thiri Annawa Hall of MyanmarFisheries Federation on Bayintnaung Road in InseinTownship here on 29 November. Members of MSEAare invited to attend the meeting whether they receivethe invitation card or not.—MNA

MinisterBrig-Gen

TheinAung

inspectsNantsiaung

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President ofAsian

HockeyFederationSultan of

Perak StateHRH SultanAzlan Shanpresents first

prize toPakistani

team.—NLM

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Chinese rescuers are seen making their way into a mine near Hegang City innortheast China’s Heilongjiang Province, on 21 November, where an

explosion killed at least 87 workers.—INTERNET

A band performs at Sodre concert theater in Montevideo, Uruguay on 20 Nov,2009. After 38 years of rebuilding and maintaining, the Sodre concert theaterthat was ruined by fire will open to public. With the latest advanced acoustic

equipments, the biggest theater of Sodre has over 2,000 seats.—XINHUA

Obama’s job approval below50 percent

Rocket hits outside luxury hotel in Afghan capital

An Afghan police officer rushes to the scene wherea rocket hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel in

Kabul, Afghanistan, on 21 Nov, 2009.—INTERNET

PRINCETON, 22 Nov — BarackObama’s job approval rating has dippedbelow 50 percent for the first time sincehe was inaugurated as US president, apoll released on Friday said.

The Gallup Organization said Obamaranks fourth among post-war presidentsin the speed in which they sank to mi-nority approval after Gerald Ford, BillClinton and Ronald Reagan, who, likeObama, was in his 10th month. All re-covered and Clinton and Reagan wenton to win second terms.

The most recent Gallup poll foundthat 49 percent of the US public approve

of the way Obama is doing his job. Mostof the decline in Obama’s popularitycame during the summer, Gallup said,fueled by the long and contentious de-bate on healthcare and the continuedeconomic slump.

Recent daily tracking polls haveshown his approval rating at rightaround 50 percent.

Gallup surveyed 1,533 people bytelephone between 17 Nov and 19 Novas part of its daily tracking.

The poll has a margin of error of 4percent either way.

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1000 people evacuated after Colombiavolcano erupts

KABUL, 22 Nov — Arocket hit outside theluxury Serena Hotel inAfghanistan’s capital lateSaturday, wounding twopeople, the Interior Min-istry said.

The heavily guardedSerena regularly housesvisiting diplomats, offi-cials and internationalworkers. It has been thetarget of attacks before,most recently in late Oc-tober when a rocketslammed into a courtyard.

In Saturday’s attack, arocket hit low on the out-side of a compound wallthat rings the hotel, justbehind a guardhouse, ac-

A view of the Galeras volcano in 2005. A thousandpeople were evacuated and traffic was stoppedafter the Galeras volcano erupted in southernColombia without causing casualties, officials

said on Saturday.—INTERNET

BOGOTA, 22 Nov — Athousand people wereevacuated and traffic wasstopped after the Galerasvolcano erupted in south-ern Colombia withoutcausing casualties, offi-cials said on Saturday.

The locals were takento shelters in Pasto, thecapital of Narino depart-ment on the border withEcuador, after authoritiesput the volcano — themost active in Colombia— on red alert to signalan imminent or ongoingeruption.

Some 9,000 peoplelive in the vicinity of thevolcano, which erupted at8:37 pm Friday (0137GMT Saturday), will beforced to leave theirhomes and seek refuge intemporary accommoda-tions if the alert is pro-longed, the Colombia In-stitute of Geology andMining (Ingeominas)

said.Narino Government

Secretary Fabio Trujillo,whose office coordinatesvolcano prevention,evacuation and relief ef-forts, told local radio thattraffic restrictions wouldbe imposed on the high-

way linking Pashto —920 kilometers (570miles) — to localitiesclose to Galeras.Theeruption caused ashfall inPashto and surroundingvillages, according to lo-cal media.

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cording to an AssociatedPress reporter who sawthe impact spot. Rubblesurrounded the area, butthere was no large crater.

Dozens of police and

army officers worked tosecure the site.

There was no immedi-ate claim of responsibil-ity.

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Roadside bombings kill twoAfghan children

KABUL, 22 Nov — Continued militancy claimed thelives of two innocent Afghan children in a single onFriday in Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday.

A 13-year-old child was killed and a bridge wasdamaged as explosive materials went off in Afghani-stan’s southern Kandahar Province, the birthplace ofTaleban militants on Friday, said a statement of Inte-rior Ministry on Saturday.

“Terrorists, in an inhuman and un-Islamic act, de-ceived a child to blow up a bridge in Kandahar by plant-ing an anti-tank mine and suddenly it exploded killingthe innocent child on the spot,” the statement added.

In another incident, a roadside bomb planted bymilitants went off along Takhar-Kunduz highway lateFriday, and as a result, a child was killed, police chiefof Takhar province Ziauhddin Mahmodi told Xinhua.

Two more civilians sustained injuries in the blast,he further said. Taleban militants who have intensi-fied their guerrilla-like activities since early this yearhave not made comment. —Xinhua

JAKARTA, 22 Nov—Indonesian HealthMinistry on Sundayevening reported 243people had been rescuedafter Dumai Express 10ferry sank in waters offRiau province ofIndonesia, head of crisiscenter of the ministryRustam Pakaya said here.

Over 50 people werestill missing, and therescuers have found 15dead bodies out of about300 people on board theferry.

Earlier, rescuersdecided Sunday evening totemporarily stop searchingfor the missing people,coordinator of the rescuemission Yasin Kosasihsaid.

Kosasih, who is alsopolice chief at theprovince, said that themission will resume onMonday.

“We stop searching forthem now because it isdifficult to search in thedarkness. Besides, thewave is more than threemeters high now and thewind is very strong,” he

told Xinhua from arescuing boat along withother boats heading to thenearest town of TanjungBalai Karimun to bringback the bodies they havefound.—Xinhua

15 dead, over 50 missing, 243 rescued afterferry sinks in Indonesia

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Mediterranean states shouldcooperate to tackle unemployment

China’s food industry expected to expand16.7% year on year

Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castroto Venezuela

CARACAS, 22 Nov—Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez isinviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during thecoming months.

Chavez read aloud a letter to the 83-year-old former Cuban leaderduring a televised speech on Saturday night, saying “Venezuelaawaits you.” Chavez proposed that Castro visit at some pointbetween now and April, during a congress of his socialist party.

The 83-year-old Castro has not been seen in public sinceundergoing a series of emergency intestinal surgeries in July 2006.He handed the Cuban presidency to his brother Raul but hascontinued writing essays published by state media.

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Central America demands billionsin climate damages

Poland to sell Ireland 15million euro carbon credits

Beauty contestants sport the garish folk garbs of various ethnic groupsduring the preliminary round to the 21st Miss Model of the World Overall

Final, at the China Folk Culture Village in Shenzhen, south China’sGuangdong Province, on 20 Nov, 2009.—XINHUA

A Bulgarian womanchecks food prices

displayed on a storewindow in Sofia.

The European Unionmay have inched out

of its sharpestrecession since theglobal slump of the

1930s, but greenshoots are not

emerging uniformlyacross the 27-nation

bloc’s eastern memberstates.

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View of a damaged national road in the outskirts ofTegucigalpa, Honduras, in 2008. Central American

nations will demand 105 billion dollars fromindustrialized countries for damages caused by

global warming, the region’s representatives saidon Friday.—INTERNET

TUNIS, 22 Nov—Mediterranean statesshould energize theircooperation to eliminateunemployment, expertssaid on Saturday.

“I think countries inthe region must shareexpertise to find thebest way to counterunemployment,” saidTaib Hadri, an expert atTunisian StrategicStudies Institute.

Representatives ofresearch and strategicstudies organizationsfrom Mediterranean

countries are attendinga two-day meeting, withlabour market, illegalmigration and regionalintegration top on itsagenda.

“We need a commonfuture vision for theMediterranean. Co-operation between theNorth and the South isnecessary. We need toimprove economicpartnership, boost tradeexchange and upgradedevelopment,” addedTaib Hadri.

Cecile Jolly, an

expert from Medi-terranean WorldEconomic ProspectInstitute, stressed theneed to put theemployment issue at thetop of Mediterraneanstates’ agenda as a moveto create enough jobs.

“Employment filemust be included in thepriorities of the North-South cooperation inorder to identify thebest way to reduce thejobless rate,” Jolly said.

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BEIJING, 22 Nov—Output value of China’sfood industry is expectedto grow 16.7 percent yearon year, according toChina National FoodIndustry Association(CNFIA).

Liu Zhi, CNFIAexecutive vice chairman,told the Seventh ChinaFood Safety AnnualMeeting held here onSaturday, that outputvalue of the country’sfood industry wasexpected to top 4.9trillion yuan (717 billionUS dollars) this year.

In the first fivemonths of this year,output of the country’sfood industry was 1.82trillion yuan, an increaseof 14.6 percent over thesame period last year.

China’s food industrygrows fast these years,while food safetysituation is continuingimproved, said XiangYuzhang, chief inspectorof GeneralAdministration ofQuality Supervision,Inspection andQuarantine.

According to Xiang,

the country’s food safetywatch dogs at all levelslaunched inspections to 1million food producersthis year, registered andinvestigated 70,000cases.

Rate of qualifiedfood products was 98.5percent in the first half ofthis year, according to thecountry’s food safetyinspection departmentsnationwide, said Xiang.

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GUATEMALA CITY, 22 Nov—CentralAmerican nations will demand 105billion dollars from industrializedcountries for damages caused byglobal warming, the region’srepresentatives said on Friday.

Central American environmentministers gathered in Guatemala todiscuss the so-called “ecological debt”owed to them and to set out a common

position ahead of climate talks inCopenhagen next month.

Guatemalan environment ministerLuis Ferrate said the 105-billion-dollarprice tag was “an estimate” of thedamage done by climate change across16 sectors in Belize, Costa Rica,Dominican Republic, El Salvador,Guatemala, Honduras and Panama.

Ferrate minister said the region“had never faced” so much drought,aridity, flooding, and precarious foodsecurity.

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WARSAW, 22 Nov—Poland is to sell 15million euros’ (22million dollars) worth ofcarbon credits to Ireland,the Polish environmentminister said onSaturday.

Maciej Nowicki saidhe expected anagreement for sellingunused carbon dioxideemission rights toIreland to be signed inthe next week or two.

On 9 NovemberPoland signed a deal tosell carbon credits worth

25 million euros toSpain.

Polish Prime MinisterDonald Tusk said theSpanish deal would helpfund his country’s driveto reduce greenhouse gasemissions and improvee n v i r o n m e n t a lprotection. The coal-richeast European countrycurrently depends onfossil fuels for 94 percentof its electricity, based oninfrastructure datinglargely from thecommunist era.

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Iranian soldiers assault Yemenifishermen in Gulf of Aden

SANAA, 22 Nov— Iranian soldiers on Saturday assaulted a group of Yemenifishermen off the southern coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, Yemen's coastguard said. After receiving the distress signal sent by the Yemeni fishermen,Yemeni naval forces dispatched two vessels to the area where the assault tookplace, the coast guard said in a statement posted on the Interior Ministry's website. “The Iranian soldiers assaulted us and searched our fishing boats from top tobottom,” the fishermen were quoted as saying. An investigation was still under way, said the statement. The incident came as Yemen has recently stepped up accusations that non-governmental Iranian Shiite groups are backing Shiite rebels in their fights withgovernment troops in Yemen's Saada Province.—Xinhua

American aircraft forced landing causesinjuries in Mali

China, French Polynesia pledge toboost cooperation

A woman views photos on display during a photo exhibition showcasingachievements of the People's Republic of China since its founding 60 years

ago at the Confucious Institute of Moscow State University in Moscow,capital of Russia, on 21 Nov, 2009.—XINHUA

PAPEETE, 22 Nov— China's top politicaladvisor, Jia Qinglin, met with Presidentof French Polynesia Oscar Temaru hereon Saturday and they pledged closercooperation. During the meeting, Jia, chairman ofthe National Committee of the ChinesePeople's Political ConsultativeConference (CPPCC), hailed the longfriendly exchanges and cooperationbetween the two sides. Jia said French Polynesia is known asthe “Pearl of the South Pacific” and has along history of friendly contacts withChina. In as early as the 19th century, there

were Chinese settling on Tahiti, the mostfamous island among the Polynesianislands, who integrated themselves intothe local society and actively participatedin local economic development. Theyhave served as a bridge linking thefriendly and cooperative ties betweenFrench Polynesia and China, Jia said. Both sides have seen more frequentexchanges and enhanced cooperation inthe fields of economy, culture and tourismsince the Chinese Consulate in FrenchPolynesia opened in 2007 and the Chinesegovernment granted the islands the statusof designated tourist destination last year,Jia added.—Xinhua

Patients of the Eduardo Bernabe Ordaz Psychiatric Hospital perform in aplay titled “El Caballero de Paris” on the street in Old Havana on 20 Nov,

2009.—XINHUA

NOUAKCHOTT, 22 Nov—An American aircraft fromMauritania had a forcedlanding in northern Mali,causing injuries, securitysources disclosed inNouakchott.

The security sources saidthe plane was forced to landin an uninhabited zone dueto a technical fault, without

elaborating on its type, thedestination and the numberof people on board. Severalinjured passengers in thisaccident were assisted byMalian emergenceservices, the sources said,adding the aircraft wasseriously damaged.Malihas security and militarypatrols in its northern

region, which is underspecial attention from theUnited States due to thefear of terrorist cells. Al-Qaeda is attempting to setup bases in the area, whiletraffickers want to turn itinto an important transitpoint for drugs destined forthe European market.

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All items from Xinhua News AgencyIsrael releases five PNA

intelligence officers

Singaporeans urged to learn fromhandling economic downturn

JERUSALEM, 22 Nov—Israel released fivePalestinian NationalAuthority (PNA)intelligence officers, localnews service Ynet citedPalestinian sources asreporting on Saturday.

Israel arrested the fiveofficers near the WestBank village of Salfit onFriday morning, for thefirst time in about threeyears. According to thereport, the five officers inthe Palestinian GeneralIntelligence Service

(GIS) were released onFriday evening.

Citing Palestiniansources, the Ynet saidtalks were held betweenthe PNA and Israel in abid to secure the officers'release.

A Palestinian securitysource in Salfit said thearrests were apparentlymade due to Israelisuspicions that the GISwas carrying out aninvestigation against aman suspected ofcollaborating with Israel.

The source said heassumed this was thereason because all the fivewere part of the service'sinternal investigationsdepartment, adding thatIsrael had demanded thatthe PNA officers refrainfrom harming the suspectand that they release himfrom custody.

The Israel DefenceForces stated in responsethat it would not commenton the Palestinian reports,said Ynet. The PNA statedit suspects that the arrestsare another attempt toweaken its power in thewake of the politicaldispute with Israel overstalled peace talks.

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SINGAPORE, 22 Nov—Singapores Law MinisterK Shanmugam said onSaturday that there are threelessons for Singaporeansto learn from the way theGovernment, employersand unions handled theeconomic downturn.

According to ChannelNewsAsia reports onSaturday night, the ministersaid that the first lesson tobe learnt from the financialcrisis is the Singapore'sgovernment managed thestates finances prudentlyand in a disciplined way.

The second lesson is the

need to build on mutualtrust while the third isSingaporeans mustbe proactive whenresponding to changingcircumstances, he said.

In his opinion, a keyfactor that has helped thecountry come out of theeconomic downturn is theclose relationship betweenthe government, emplo-yers and unions. “And fora government to come inand make sure that there isequity between theemployers and employeesand working together, thisis something unique that

we have in Singapore andnever, never let that go,” headded.—Xinhua

Traditional Indiandancers prepare to

perform as followers ofHare Krishna celebratethe fortieth anniversaryof the establishment of

their first temple inLondon during a dinnerat the Troxy theatre ineast London.—XINHUA

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NEWS ALBUM

Toddler survives fallfrom three-story window

in eastern CanadaAn 18-month-old boy recovered well

after falling from the window of histhree-story home in eastern Canada re-ports reaching here said.

Police in Quebec City in the French-speaking Quebec Province said the boywas sitting on a windowsill and playingwith his brother when he fell 10 metersonto a patch of grass below, the Cana-dian Press reported.

Spokesman Jean-Sebastien Roy saidthe boy appeared to have climbed up ona bed and was playing by the windowwhen he fell.

Mexican once put up foroldest woman dies at 119

A Mexican once put forward forthe title of world’s oldest womanhas died at 119, government officialssaid .

Ana Maria Perez died of pneumo-nia Tuesday at a hospital in the Pacificstate of Colima, said Dora Yanez, anofficial with the Colima state Institutefor Attention to the Elderly.

Perez has a valid birth certificatestating she was born June 22, 1890, inwestern Michoacan state, Yanez toldThe Associated Press.

State authorities applied about threeyears ago to have Perez declared theworld’s oldest woman by the GuinnessBook of World Records, but the attemptfoundered when officials could notraise enough money for a Guinnessjudge to visit and confirm the claim,Yanez said.

Yanez said her institute first learnedabout Perez through her grand-daughter. Institute officials were visit-ing the granddaughter — then 77 — tooffer their services. They were shock-ed when the elderly woman said shehad a grandmother who could also usehelp.

A woman inspects a crocodile displayin 2001 in Mexico. The fossils of five

hitherto unknown bizarre-lookingcrocodiles which roamed the world

100 million years ago have beenunearthed in the Sahara desert, US

scientists revealed .

Skeleton of a dinosaur is pictured ondisplay at a Tokyo museum. Scientistshave discovered the first evidence thatdinosaurs roamed the South Island ofNew Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations.They are the first dinosaur footprintsfound in the country although bones,mostly vertebrae, have been discov-ered in two North Island locations.

Afghan troops detain a dozenTaleban militants

KABUL, 22 Nov — Afghan security forces have cap-tured a dozen Taleban fighters in the western NimrozProvince, provincial governor Ghulam Dastgir Azadsaid on Saturday.

“The security forces, during a cleanup operationoutside the provincial capital Zaranj late Friday, de-tained 12 rebels,” Azad told Xinhua.

A Taleban local commander Mullah Nimatullah isamong those arrested during the operation, he added.Taleban have not made any comment.

The militants in a deadly bomb attack in the neigh-bouring Farah Province on the same day on Fridayleft over a dozen people, mostly civilians, dead andover three dozen others injured.—Xinhua

Mubarak vows not to tolerate attackson Egyptians

Israeli aircraft strike tunnels,arms factories

JERUSALEM, 22 Nov — The Israeli military says itsaircraft have attacked two weapons-making factoriesand a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip.

The military says the air strikes on Sunday were inretaliation for rocket fire into southern Israel from Gazaa day earlier.

Later Saturday, Gaza’s Hamas rulers announcedthat militant factions in the territory had agreed to stopfiring rockets. The goal is to prevent Israeli retalia-tion.

Israel went to war against Gaza militants nearly ayear ago to crush rocket squads who had severely dis-rupted life in southern Israel for years. The number ofattacks has decreased dramatically.—Internet

CAIRO, 22 Nov —President Hosni Mubarakentered Egypt’s bitter soc-cer row with Algeria onSaturday, vowing in atelevised speech that at-tacks on Egyptians abroadwill not be tolerated.

Mubarak did not men-tion Algeria by name inhis previously scheduledaddress to parliament, butit was clear he was refer-ring to the fierce soccerrivalry that boiled overinto violence when thetwo Arab nations met in

two crucial World Cupqualifiers on 14 and 18Nov. Egyptian fans in-censed by media reportsof Algerian attacks afterWednesday’s match inSudan rioted in centralCairo on Thursday nightand into Friday morning.Clashing with hundreds ofpolice in an attempt toreach the Algerian Em-bassy, they threw rocksand smashed car and shopwindows.

The tension in thestreets has also reached

the diplomatic level, withEgypt bringing home itsambassador to Algeria.

“I want to say in clearwords that the dignity ofEgyptians is part of thedignity of Egypt,” a vis-ibly angry Mubarak tolda joint session of parlia-ment’s two houses.

“Egypt does not toler-ate those who hurt the dig-nity of its sons,” he said,without saying whetherhis government plannedto take punitive measuresagainst Algeria.—Internet

Man fatally stabbed overNYC subway seat

NEW YORK, 22 Nov — A subway passenger wasstabbed to death in front of horrified riders in a dis-pute with another man over a seat in the car early onSaturday morning in midtown Manhattan, police said.

The victim, who has not been identified, was pro-nounced dead at the Seventh Avenue station at West53rd Street, where the train stopped after the attack atabout 2 am. The victim, who was in his mid-30s, wasrepeatedly stabbed in the neck and face with a knife,police said. He had boarded the train at the RockefellerCenter station, police said. Gerardo Sanchez, 37, ofthe Bronx, was charged with murder and criminal pos-session of a weapon in the slaying on the northbound“D” train, police said.—Internet

Galileo’s fingers, tooth are found

In this image provided by Istituto eMuseo di Storia della Scienza di

Firenze shows a finger attributed toGalileo Galilei.

Two fingers and a tooth removedfrom Galileo Galilei’s corpse in aFlorentine basilica in the 18th centuryand given up for lost have been foundagain and will soon be put on display,an Italian museum director said Friday.

Three fingers, a vertebra and a toothwere removed from the astronomer’sbody by admirers in 1737, 95 years af-ter his death, as his corpse was beingmoved from a storage place to a monu-mental tomb — opposite that ofMichelangelo, in Santa Croce Basilicain Florence.

One of the fingers was recoveredsoon afterward and is now part of thecollection of the Museum of the His-tory of Science, in Florence. The verte-bra has been kept at the University ofPadua, where Galileo taught for years.

Hair is displayed for sale in Justino Delgado’s natural hair store inMadrid. With the economic crisis, more and more Spanish women are

selling their hair to make ends meet, delighting Delgado, who exports itfor wigs and extensions.—INTERNET

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Triple Lake Waterfalls: grand scenic beauty inNay Pyi Taw Water Fountain Garden

Article: Maung Maung Myint Swe; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

Pyaingchaung Dam contributing to development of KyauktawArticle: Tin Mar Win and Aye Thandar Thein, Photo: Aung Than (Mingala Taungnyunt)

Photo shows a building for relaxation of visitors at Nay Pyi Taw Fountain Garden.

(from page 1)The government is building a cluster of dams

and reservoirs all over the country in order to raise theliving standard of local people. As a result, not onlymonsoon paddy but also summer paddy can be grownin different parts of the states and divisions.

The Irrigation Department of the Ministry of Ag-riculture and Irrigation inaugurated Pyaingchaung dam inKyauktaw Township, Rakhine State on 30 March 2007.

With its 29,985 acres feet inflow of water,Pyaingchaung dam can store 25,025 acres feet of waterwhen filled to the brim. The embankment of the dam isof earthen type with a water surface area of 625 acres.The embankment of the dam is 116 feet high and 860feet long.

The emergence of a large number of dams andreservoirs the length and breadth of the nation hascontributed a great deal to improvement of socio-

economic status of the entire national people andregional development. Meanwhile, the increase in theagricultural production can be attributable to fullsupply of irrigation water. That is why the entirenational people are to do their bit in maintaining andsafeguarding those irrigation facilities, and only then,will they be able to make better use of them.

Translation: ZZSMyanma Alin 22-11-2009

(from page 1)water for recreation of thevisitors to be able to relaxthrough swimming.

The Triple Lake Wa-terfalls is 170 feet longand 22 feet high. A 12-foot-wide pavement wasconstructed at the foot ofthe waterfall. The waterthat falls from it drainsinto three lakes step bystep. Stone pavementswere constructed amongthe lakes.

We witnessed waterfrom the highest levellake flowed down thelower lakes. Basketballboards were built at themiddle lake for children.Moreover, we sawbenches and lawnsaround the Triple Lakesfor the holiday-makersand picnickers.

The Triple Lake Wa-terfalls was built for theresidents of Nay Pyi Taw,service personnel andvisitors to refresh their

minds by enjoying beau-tiful scenes and takingrelaxation.

A 250 feet long and40 feet high tunnel, onesix-acre-wide main lakewith the water storage ca-pacity of 15 million gal-lons and one island withthree water fountains andfive penguins were seenat the Nay Pyi Taw WaterFountain Garden. Show-ers from the waterfountains are attractivescenic beauty for theviewers.

Furthermore, we saw12 small water fountainlakes pumping water with15 shower designs. A 30feet high clock tower withtuneful sound was con-structed for the visitorsin the water fountain gar-den.

The relaxation housesand bungalows were builtfor the holiday-makersand picnickers. While vis-iting the garden, we wit-

nessed two small view-point parks and one stonegarden.

The Triple Lake Wa-terfalls is located nearthe waterfall tunnel of theNay Pyi Taw WaterFountain Garden. Wesaw the aerial view of the

recently opened TripleLake Waterfalls from thetunnel.

The lakes were con-structed like natural onesfor enabling the swimmersand visitors to enjoy thescenic beauty.

Arrangements have

been made for those wish-ing to swim in the TripleLake Waterfalls from 5.30pm to 8 pm from Mondaythrough Friday and from10 am to 12 noon on Sat-urday and Sunday.

At present, Nay PyiTaw is improving day by

day with grand beautifulscenes of the Nay PyiTaw Water Fountain Gar-den and the Triple LakeWaterfalls.

*****Translation: TTA

Myanma Alin:20-11-2009

A wide view of Triple Lake Waterfalls with greening and flowery landscaping.

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NAY PYI TAW, 22 Nov—Chairman of SagaingDivision Peace and Development Council Commanderof North-West Command Maj-Gen Myint Soe,Minister for Construction Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myintand Chairman of Magway Division PDC Col PhoneMaw Shwe on 20 November morning arrived atAyeyawady Bridge (Pakokku) construction site.

Deputy Managing Director U Kyaw Lin(Works) reported on sites the for axis of the bridge,Project Superintending Engineer U Han Soe oncondition of motor road and railroad on Letpanchepawbank and Deputy Chief Engineer U Shwe Lay oncondition of motor road and railroad on Pakokku bank.

After cordially meeting with local people, thecommander and the minister viewed the site for thebridge and the axis.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 22Nov—A Myanmardelegation led by Ministerfor Agriculture andIrrigation Maj-Gen HtayOo attended the 2nd Non-Aligned Movement FirstLadies Summit on 15November, the WorldSummit on Food Securityon 16 to 18 Novemberand the 36th Session of theFood and AgricultureOrganization Conferenceon 19 and 20 November

A&I Minister arrives back from Italy

Site for construction ofAyeyawady Bridge

(Pakokku) inspected

Commander Maj-Gen Myint Soe and Minister Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint inspects the site

chosen for construction of Ayeyawady Bridge (Pakokku).

MNA

Myanmar delegation led by Minister for Agriculture and IrrigationMaj-Gen Htay Oo attending 36th Session of FAO Conference.

AGRICULTURE

Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo meetingFAO Director-General Mr Jacques Diouf in Rome of Italy.

AGRICULTURE

in Rome of Italy.On 15 November

afternoon, the 2nd Non-Aligned Movement FirstLadies Summit wasattended by wives ofHeads of State/Government, Presidentsand Prime Ministers andministers of NAMcountries includingMyanmar.

Madame Susanne

Mubarak, wife of thePresident of Egypt,presided over thesummit. The meetingdiscussed loan assistancefor farmland utilizationand food production, andcreation of moreopportunity for womento take part in humanresources developmentsector.

On 16 Novembermorning, the WorldSummit on Food

Security took place at theFAO headquarters inRome of Italy, attendedby heads of State/Government andrepresentatives of headsof States from 152 FAOmember countries andrepresentatives ofinternational organi-zations.

FAO Director-General Mr Jacques

Diouf, Senate Speaker ofItaly Mr Renato Schifani,UN Secretary GeneralMr Ban Ki-moon andRome Mayor MrGiovanni Alemannoextended greetings.

The summitapproved the declarationof FAO Summit, andparticipants of thesummit deliveredaddresses on endeavoursfor food sufficiency,rural development for

food sufficiency, role offarmers and commercialsector related to foodsufficiency andprevention againstdamages in foodsufficiency during thefinancial crisis.

Leader of theMyanmar delegationMinister Maj-Gen HtayOo met President ofInternational Agricultural

Development Fund MrKevin Cleanver andItalian NGO AVSISecretary-General MrAlberto Piatti on 16November. The ministeralso met responsiblepersons of World FoodProgram on 17November and Ministerfor InternationalDevelopment AffairsMike Foster of the UKat the FAO Headquarters.

The Myanmardelegation attended the36th Session of the Foodand AgricultureOrganization FAOConference.

Leaders of the USA,Bangladesh, Germanyand Zimbabwe presidedover the conference.Turkish Prime MinisterMr Recep TayyipErdogan delivered anopening address.

On 18 November,Minister Maj-Gen Htay

Oo discussed cooperationin agriculture sector,construction of CycloneShelter in the Nargis hitregions and availability ofwater in tropical regionwith Director of FOCSIVBoard Mr AlbertoZamberletti atMediterraneo Hotel.

On 19 November,Minister Maj-Gen HtayOo delivered an addressat the 36th Session ofFood and AgricultureOrganization (FAO)Conference andexplained widely layingdown the policies forboosting food andagriculture production,assistance for supply ofwater for agriculturepurpose and inputs for thefarmers while Myanmaris striving for overcomingdifficulties of foodsufficiency during thefinancial crisis, raisingirrigated sown acreage toincrease food productionand endeavours forprevention against loss

and wastage in foodproduction in climatechange.

The minister also metFAO Director-General DrJacques Diouf on 19November afternoon anddiscussed progress incooperation betweenMyanmar and FAO andrequirements in collectingof farm census.

The ministerreceived SpecialDiplomat of EuropeanUnion to Myanmar MrPiero Fassino and theItalian Ambassador toMyanmar atMediterraneo Hotel on 20November.

The ministerexplained endeavours ofMyanmar on restoringpeace and stability foreconomic developmentof the nation.On 20November afternoon, theMyanmar delegation leftRome and arrived backMyanmar on 21November morning.

MNA

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Shanmange Dam assisting in greening Meiktila PlainArticle and Photos: Khin Maung Than (Sethmu)

Thriving pigeon pea plantations seen near Shanmange dam.

(from page 16)Kyaukpadaung road.Shanmange dam wasbuilt by dammingShanmange creek.Thanks to supplying ir-rigation water, the

croplands betweenShanmange dam andMontaing dam wereturned into the farm-lands, and now, the damis irrigating 55 acres offarmlands. After the con-

struction of Shanmangedam, Montaing dam cannow irrigate more than6880 acres of farmlands.In addition to 55 acres ofpaddy, Shanmange damsupplies irrigation water

to sesame, pigeon pea,cotton and butter bean asmixed-crops.

Shanmange dam, amodulating dam, sup-plies water to Montaingdam through Montaingcreek not only for contri-bution to durability of

Montaing dam but alsofor the greening of theregion. Moreover, thedam is also able to pre-vent the overflow ofMontaing dam.

The government con-structed the Shanmangedam by spending K

2519.83 million on thegreening of MeiktilaPlain. So the locals areenjoying the sweet fruitsof the facility and it isincumbent upon them tohelp maintain the dam.

Translation: ZZSKyemon: 20-11-2009

Water flows out from Shanmange dam.

NAY PYI TAW, 22Nov—The MyanmarOverseas SeafarerAssociation held the 6thget-together inconjnuction with theceremony to pay respectsveteran overseas seafarerswas held at Du FuRestaurant of SedonaHotel in Yangon on 14November.

MOSA holds get-togetherIt was attended by

veteran overseasseafarers, officers ofmaritime field and guests.

Chairman of MOSACaptain U Min Seinextended greetings. Theguests were served withlunch, and gifts werepresented to the veteranoverseas seafarers.

MNA

Capacity Development

Courses of JICA conclude

NAY PYI TAW, 22Nov—The CapacityDevelopment ofRepairing Ships andMetal Structure Courseand the CapacityDevelopment of Ship

Transport Col Nyan TunAung and in-charge(Myanmar Office) MrHideo Miyamoto of JICAdelivered speeches. MrHideo Miyamoto handedover teaching aids andassistance to ManagingDirector U Soe Tint ofIWT.The courses wereopened on 19 October.Japanese instructors ofJICA Project Team gavelectures to the trainees.

A total of 30

Crew of IWT VesselsCourse conducted byJICA, concluded at thehall of Ahlon Shipyardsof Inland Water Transporton 20 November.

Deputy Minister for

engineers and techniciansattended the RepairingShips and Metal StructureCourse and officers andtechnicians of IWT at theIWT Vessels Course.

JICA Project Teamprovided Radars, GPS,radio (HF), radio (VHF),Anemometer andBarometer to IWT.Moreover, teaching aidworth US$ 36,300 werehanded over to IWT vesselscourse.—MNA

Deputy Minister for Transport Col Nyan Tun Aung speaking at concluding ceremony ofCapacity Development of Repairing Ships and Metal Structure Course and the Capacity

Development of Ship Crew of IWT Vessels Course.—TRANSPORT

Mr Hideo Miyamoto of JICA Project Teamhands over teaching aids and assistance to

Managing Director U Soe Tint of IWT.TRANSPORT

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 23 November, 2009

Suicide car bomb kills threepolicemen in W Iraq

Birds rest at an artificial lake in the Qinghai-TibetPlateau Safari Park in northwest China's QinghaiProvince on 20 Nov, 2009. With an investment of

more than 100 million yuan (14.6 million USdollars), the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Safari Parkmainly displays animals living on the plateau.

INTERNET

The photo taken on 21 Nov, 2009 shows thebeauty of Mochuan Kwan-yin Cavity under the

Diaoyu Hill at Xing'an County of Guilin, a city ofsouthwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous

Region.—INTERNET

RAMADI, 22 Nov—Asuicide car bomberstruck a police patrol inIraq’s western provinceof Anbar on Sunday,killing three policemenand wounding ninepeople, a well-informedlocal police source said.

The incident tookplace around 10 am(0700 GMT) in the townof Garmah near the cityof Fallujah, some 50 kmwest of Baghdad, thesource told Xinhua oncondition of anonymity.

Among the ninewounded, six werepolicemen, the sourcesaid.

The blast left a policevehicle along with threenearby civilian carscharred and also causeddamaged to surroundingbuildings, the sourceadded.

The once volatileprovince of Anbar hasbeen relatively calm formore than two years

after Sunni tribes andanti-US insurgentgroups turned tocooperate with UStroops and Iraqi securityforces against al-Qaidain Iraq network.

Xinhua

BAGHDAD, 22 Nov—Iraqiauthorities broadcasted on Sunday avideo showing three of SaddamHussein’s Baath party membersconfessing to have planned massivetruck blasts that killed and woundedmore than 600 people in centralBaghdad last month.

Qassim Atta, spokesman ofBaghdad Operation Command, toldreporters at a press conference aired bythe official channel of Iraqia that thethree confessed their role in committingthe deadly bombings.

Former police officer, LieutenantColonel Mohammed Hassan Aiyedadmitted to plotting on 25 Oct attacksat the Justice Ministry and BaghdadProvincial Council.

“I received a call on 12 Oct fromAbdul Sattar Mahdi Najem (a seniorBaath party member in Iraq) telling methat we have orders from the partyleadership to prepare for a majorbombing in Baghdad near the provincialcouncil and the Justice ministry,” hesaid.

Xinhua

Detained Saddam Hussein loyalistsconfess Baghdad deadly bombings

ISLAMABAD, 22 Nov—In the last 24 hours, fivemilitants have been killedduring the Pakistanisecurity forces operation inthe country’s tribal area ofSouth Waziristan,according to an army pressrelease Sunday. It said thatone soldier was injured inthe operation.

Meanwhile, the

military said that in thesearch operation in Swatand Malakand of theNorth West FrontierProvince (NWFP),security forces arrestedfour militants. Four othermilitants voluntarilysurrendered to securityforces in the Swatoperation, it added.

On relief activities,the military said that14,044 cash cards havebeen issued to displacedfamilies of Waziristan.

Over 500 militantshave been killed since thePakistani security forceslaunched the operation on17 Oct in the SouthWaziristan tribal agencybordering Afghanistan.The army said that about30,000 soldiers are inplace to take on anestimated 10,000 hard-core Taliban militants inthe lawless area. About500 commandos arrived inthe region on Friday.

InternetTIANJIN, 22 Nov—

China’s anti-virusauthority on Sundaywarned computer users toguard against newmutation of worm virus,which could infectvarious documents insystem. The virus,Worm_Piloyd.B, couldinfect documents like exe,html and asp and prevent

the system from restoringthe affected documents,according to theTianjin—based NationalComputer VirusEmergency ResponseCenter.

The virus could forcethe system to downloadother viruses fromdesignated websites,according to the center.Experts suggestedcomputer users updatetheir anti-virus softwareand use the real-timecomputer virusmonitoring functionwhenever they surf theInternet.—Xinhua

Five militants killed in Pakistan’sS Waziristan operation

China anti-virus authority warn ofnew computer worm virus

An illegal miner leaves a cave after mining forgold in the mountain of Tumpang Pitu inBanyuwangi, East Java on 21 Nov, 2009.

INTERNET

Astronaut Robert L. Satcher Jr. uses a digital still camera to take a picture of thereflection in his helmet visor as he works outside the International Space Station

during Space Shuttle Atlantis’ first spacewalk of mission STS-129 as constructionand maintenance continue on the International Space Station in this photo released

by NASA and taken on 19 Nov, 2009.—INTERNET

Gunmen shoot dead intelli-gence serviceman in

S AfghanistanKABUL, 22 Nov—Unknown armed men gunned

down a service member of intelligence service inTaleban birthplace Kandahar south of Afghanistan onSunday, a private television channel reported.

"Unidentified men shot dead an employee of Na-tional Security Directorate in Kandahar city this morn-ing", Tolo television said in its news bulletin.

No one has been arrested in the incident, it added.However, it did not give more details.Although no groups or individuals have claimed

responsibility, Taleban militants fighting the Afghangovernment often target security forces and servicemembers.—Internet

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South Africa creates special‘World Cup courts’

Funeral workers risk cancerfrom formaldehyde

Two dead after shootingat Oregon intersection

A contingent from Rivers State takes part in the Opening Ceremony of the2009 Abuja Carnival Festival in Abuja, capital of Negeria, on 21 Nov, 2009.

The 2009 Abuja Carnival is held in Abuja on Saturday.—XINHUA

A workerfeeds golden

monkeys withpeanuts andgrass at the

ShennongjiaGoldenMonkey

ResearchCenter,centralChina’sHubei

Province, on20 Nov, 2009.

XINHUA

Marquez becomes third Barcelonaplayer with swine flu

MADRID, 22 Nov—Rafael Marques became the third FC Barcelona player tobe diagnosed with a case of swine flu A/H1N1 virus.

The Mexican international was forced to withdraw from the squad that traveledto Bilbao on Friday night after feeling unwell and his case was confirmed asswine flu by a communique issued by the club on Saturday.

Marquez, who missed the early part of the season with a muscle injury, is thethird Barcelona player to be diagnosed with the illness.

Left back Eric Abidal and central midfielder Toure Yaya were confirmed asbeing infected with the virus one day earlier. Abidal was already sidelined with aknee injury he picked up playing for France last week. All three are doubtful forTuesday’s Champions League match at home against Inter Milan.—Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 22Nov—Morticians whouse formaldehyde toembalm bodies have ahigher risk of leukemia,researchers reportedon Friday.

They found deathsfrom one particular kindof leukemia, myeloid

leukemia, increased thelonger the workerswere involved withembalming. Their studyof more than 400 funeralworkers is the first tolook carefully at theassociation, they reportedin the Journal of theNational Cancer Institute.

“Previous studies haveshown excess mortalityfrom lymphohema-topoietic malignanciesand brain cancer inanatomists, pathologists,and funeral industryworkers, all of whom mayhave worked withformaldehyde,” LauraFreeman of the USNational Cancer Instituteand colleagues wrote.

They studied 168professionals who died ofvarious forms ofleukemia, 48 who diedof brain tumors and

compared them to 265funeral workers who diedof something else.

The people who spentmore years embalmingbodies or were otherwiseexposed to embalmingfluid were more likely tohave died from a myeloidleukemia, the researchersfound.

“In recent decades,more than 2 million USworkers are exposed toformaldehyde, includinganatomists, pathologists,and professionals who areemployed in the funeralindustry and who handlebodies or biologicalspecimens preserved withformaldehyde,” theywrote.

Their study could helpexplain a known higherrisk of death among theseprofessionals, they said.

Internet

JOHANNESBURG, 22Nov— South Africa plansto create special courtsdedicated to handlingcrimes committed duringthe World Cup, aiming tospeed up the judicialprocess, especially forcases involvingforeigners.

Government hopes thepromise of swift justicewill help stamp out crimeduring the event and easeworries of fans visitingone of the world’s mostviolent countries.

“The courts are here to

speed the process. Thereis not going to be anyleniency,” said justicedepartment spokesmanTlali Tlali.

“We’re going to dealwith all cases that have todo with the tournament,”he said.

An average of 50people die violently everyday in South Africa, while250,000 homes areburgled every year. Thejustice ministry isconcerned that the influxof 450,000 tourists willbring with it a surge

in crime.“The experience from

previous host countrieshas shown that the influxof foreign nationals inWorld Cups alsopotentially increasescriminal activities,” thejustice ministry said in astatement.

“Therefore, specialmeasures do need to beput in place in order toprocess any criminalmatters that may arisefrom big events such asthe FIFA World Cup.”

Internet

HILLSBORO, 22 Nov—A gunman fatallywounded a passenger inanother vehicle at anOregon intersection onSaturday, setting off apolice chase that endedwhen the suspect crashedand was killed by officers,authorities said.

The passenger, 56-year-old Danny K LeGore of Hillsboro, wasrushed to a local hospitalwhere he died. Police didnot immediately identifythe gunman.

Police initially calledthe violence a road rageshooting that followed atraffic altercation, butlater they backed awayfrom that report.

Hillsboro Lt HenryReimann said it stillwasn’t clear whathappened at the

intersection, and in-formation from witnesseshadn’t clarified theincident. But he said itappeared that the gunmanopened fire on the LeGore vehicle as it wasmoving, pumping at leastsix rounds from ahandgun into it.

“It appears that thisvictim had no connectionto the suspect in this case,and it appears to be arandom act of extremeviolence,” the police saidin a statement.—Internet

Sony Bravia televisions at the Consumer Electronics Trade Fair in Berlin.Sony is to launch a new online service that will allow people to downloadcontent such as music and movies to their televisions and other electronic

gadgets, a top executive has said.—INTERNET

Roadsidebomb kills fiveAfghan police

KABUL, 22 No—Fivepolice were killed as aroadside bomb planted byTaleban militants struck apolice van Sundaymorning in southAfghanistan, policeofficer General AbdulRazaq said. “The police were onroutine patrol in SpinBoldak district ofKandahar province thismorning when theirvehicle overran a mineplanted by rebels leavingfive constables dead,”Razaq told Xinhua.

Xinhua

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 23 November, 2009

GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF MYANMARMINISTRY OF FORESTRY

MYANMA TIMBER ENTERPRISE

DATED 20-11-2009

SEALED TENDER NO (STWB—02/2009-2010)MYANMA TIMBER ENTERPRISE WILL HOLD ASEALED TENDER SALE AS FOLLOWS.COMMODITY : (i) TEAK P.T.G

: (ii) TEAK LAMPARQUET: (iii) TEAK INDUSTRIAL PARQUET: (iv) TEAK SCANTLINGS &

BOARDSQUANTITY : ABOUT (128.3510) TONSDATE : 1.12.2009 (TUESDAY)TIME : (12:00) NOONPLACE : GENERAL MANAGER’S OFFICE,

WOOD BASED INDUSTRY DE-PARTMENT, MYANMA TIMBERENTERPRISE, AHLONE.

EARNEST MONEY : EURO 10000 IS REQUIRED FOROVERSEA COMPANIES.EURO 5000 IS REQUIRED FORMYANMAR COMPANIES.

PLEASE CONTACT THE GENERAL MANA-GER’S OFFICE, WOOD BASED INDUSTRY DEPART-MENT OF THE MYANMA TIMBER ENTERPRISE FORFURTHER DETAILS.

Hospital evacuated as Australianwildfires blaze

Two men blow the lusheng musical pipe to pray forgood luck and bumper harvest during the Lushengand Horse Fight Festival held in the Sports Park

in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, southwestChina’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on

21 Nov, 2009.—XINHUA

Turkey registers onemore A/H1N1 flu deathANKARA, 22 Nov— One more Turk died of A/H1N1

flu in southeastern Turkey on Saturday, bringing thetotal number of fatalities blamed on the virus to 94, ahigh-ranking official said.

Kahramanmaras Governor Niyazi Tanilir said in astatement that a woman was taken from Koksun StateHospital to Medical Faculty of Kahramanmaras SutcuImam University for treatment on Monday and diedof the novel flu.

On Thursday, the Turkish Health Ministry said in astatement that the death toll of the A/H1N1 flu epi-demic rose to 93 in Turkey with 20 more victims re-ported in the past three days.

Currently, 280 people infected with the flu weretreated in hospitals and 59 of them in intensive careunits, the ministry said.—Xinhua

Gaza militants agree tohalt rocket fire

GAZA CITY, 22 Nov — Hamas announced Satur-day evening that it has reached an agreement with othermilitant groups in Gaza to stop firing rockets at south-ern Israeli towns to prevent retaliatory attacks.

Hamas has mostly refrained from firing rocketssince January when Israel ended a three week offen-sive in Gaza aimed at stopping almost daily militantattacks.

Other Gaza militant groups have since continuedwith rocket attacks, but on a much smaller scale thanbefore.

About 1,400 Palestinians were killed, includinghundreds of civilians, in the Israeli offensive accord-ing to UN and Palestinian estimates. Thirteen Israelisalso were killed.

Hamas interior minister Fathi Hamad told report-ers Saturday evening that all militant factions had nowagreed to a cease fire.

He said the agreement was designed to prevent Is-raeli retaliation attacks and provide stability for Gazaresidents. The cease fire would make it easier for Gazaresidents to rebuild infrastructure destroyed in last win-ter’s fighting, he said.—Internet

101-yr-old Brazil architect back at workBRASILIA (Brazil), 22 Nov — Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar

Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and anintestinal tumor.

The daily newspaper O Globo reports that Niemeyer is working on a collectionof buildings in the city of Niteroi, outside of Rio de Janeiro.

Niemeyer designed much of the futuristic Brazilian capital of Brasilia and Rio’sSambadrome, home of the annual carnival parade. He also helped design the UnitedNations building in New York City.

Niemeyer was hospitalized from 23 Sept to 17 Oct. On Saturday, El Globoquoted him as saying that being hospitalized “is a very lonely thing.”

“I needed to keep busy, keep in touch with friends, maintain my rhythm oflife.”

Niemeyer’s 102nd birthday is on 15 Dec.—Internet

About 100 bushfireswere burning in easternAustralia on Sunday asa hospital was evacu-

ated and 1,000 firefight-ers battled the blazes

amid sweltering condi-tions. — INTERNET

SYDNEY, 22 Nov —About 100 bushfires wereburning in eastern Aus-tralia on Sunday as a hos-pital was evacuated and1,000 firefighters battledthe blazes amid swelter-ing conditions.

As temperaturessoared past 40 degreesCelsius (104 degreesFahrenheit), firefightersin central New SouthWales state were fightingto keep the flames withincontainment lines aroundthe townships of Rylstoneand Kandos.

Firefighters fear a re-peat of February’sfirestorm in southeasternVictoria state in which173 people were killed asfires razed homes andtrapped residents in thecountry’s worst naturaldisaster of modern times.

Rylstone Hospital hasbeen evacuated as a pre

Lynott told ABC radio.John Parnaby, incident

controller at a fire controlcentre near Kandos andRylstone, urged residentsto leave the area.

“If people’s propertiesare not prepared for theattack of fire or ember andpeople are not psycho-logically ready or physi-cally capable to gothrough a situation wherefire may impact upon theirproperty, they reallyshould be leaving to finda safer place,” he said.

“Now would be theright time to go to a neigh-bouring town.”

The weather bureauhas issued a severeweather warning for dam-aging winds, a conditionwhich could fan bushfiresbut also bring down treesand damage homes in ar-eas west of Sydney.

Internet

caution, with patients withserious conditions trans-ferred to hospitals innearby towns.

“There is no danger toany patient at the moment.This is really a proactivestep,” health departmentspokeswoman Linda

South Koreans to get Apple’siPhone this week

Three bomb blasts leave fivedead, 25 wounded in IndiaGAUHATI, 22 Nov – Three bombs exploded in In-

dia’s restive northeast on Sunday, killing five peopleand wounding more than 25, police said.Five peopledied after two blasts went off within minutes of eachother outside a police station in Nalbari town near theAssam state capital, Gauhati, a local police officialsaid.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymityas he is not authorized to speak to the media, said aboutfive minutes later a third blast occurred a few miles(kilometers) away. More than 25 people have beenwounded in the three blasts.

India’s northeast is beset by scores of conflicts.More than 10,000 people have died in separatist vio-lence over the past decade. The region is home to doz-ens of separatist groups who accuse the governmentof exploiting the area’s natural resources while doinglittle for the indigenous people. —Internet

SEOUL, 22 Nov —Apple Inc’s iPhone is com-ing to South Korea thisweek, a local carrier an-nounced on Sunday, bring-ing the iconic communica-tions device to one of theworld’s most sophisticatedmobile phone markets. KTCorp began accepting or-ders for the iPhone bothonline and in stores on Sun-day and service will start 28Nov as part of an officiallaunch, said Alice Park, aspokeswoman for thecountry’s second-largestmobile carrier.

The announcementends a long wait in SouthKorea, which has laggedbehind other countries inAsia in introducing thesleek smartphone that hasgrabbed headlines aroundthe world and solidifiedApple’s status as a pur-veyor of cutting-edgeconsumer electronics.

The South Korean

market is dominated bydomestic manufacturersSamsung Electronics Coand LG Electronics Inc,which are also big play-ers overseas. Speculationhas focused on how SouthKorean consumers,known for favouring thelocal makers, will react tothe iPhone’s introduction.

Internet

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Obesity in adolescence may increasegirls MS risk

Exercise important in teens’blood pressure control

Sommelier Masahiko Mori (left) serves the new 2009 Beaujolais Nouveau wineto visitors in the wine spa at the Hakone Yunessun spa resort facilities in

Hakone town, Kanagawa prefecture, some 100 kilometres west of Tokyo, on 19Nov, Japans craze for Beaujolais nouveau has beaten the global recession,

with tourists taking a dip Thursday in a hot mountain spring coloured red withthe fruity wine.—INTERNET

NEW YORK, 22 Nov—Regular exercise may helpkeep teenagers’ bloodpressure in check,regardless of their bodyweight, a new studysuggests.

Researchers found thatamong nearly 1,300Canadian teenagers theyfollowed for five years,declining exercise levelsover time were linked tosmall increases in bloodpressure.

Gains in body fat werealso linked to blood

pressure increases, butexcess weight did notfully account for therelationship betweenexercise and bloodpressure changes —especially in girls.

The implication, theresearchers report in theAmerican Journal ofEpidemiology, is that bothweight and exercise habitsindependently affectteenagers blood pressure.

And that means thatgetting teens off the couchmight help keep their

blood pressure underbetter control, writeKaterina Maximova andcolleagues of McGillUniversity in Montreal.

The findings are basedon 1,293 boys and girlswho were 12 to 13 yearsold at the start of the study.

The teens reported ontheir typical physicalactivity levels and hadtheir body fat and bloodpressure measured at theoutset, and thenperiodically over fiveyears.—Internet

Ukraines hot air bedevils global climate deal

This 14 Oct, 2009 photo shows water pouring from rusted cooling pipes inKonstantinovka, Ukraine. In an era of climate change and carbon trading,

Ukraine, ironically, is profiting from the smokeless smokestacks of itsindustrial shutdown.—INTERNET

KONSTANTINOVKA, 22Nov— Vladimir Gapor isa plumber by trade, butnow he’s a scavenger,prying bits of scrap steelfrom the ruins of his oldfactory and selling themfor a pittance.

For others beyond thismanufacturing graveyard,however, Ukraine’seconomic collapse hasproduced a potentialm u l t i b i l l i o n - d o l l a rbonanza. In an era ofclimate change regulation

and carbon trading,Ukraine, ironically, isprofiting from thesmokeless smokestacks ofits industrial shutdown.

How well and how longit will profit is an under-the-radar issuecomplicating negotiationsfor a worldwide climateaccord being sought at a192-nation conference inCopenhagen next month.

Gapor’s old factory,which made glass for theSoviet military and spaceprogramme, shut down inthe early 1990s after theSoviet Union disintegrated.Private wrecking crews anddesperate jobless peoplelike Gapor then turned thetown’s industries, whichonce employed 16,000workers, into heaps ofbricks.—Internet

NEW YORK, 22 Nov—A womans risk ofdeveloping multiplesclerosis (MS) during herlifetime is doubled if shewas obese at age 18, newresearch shows.

This is the first study tolink MS risk with obesity,study co-author DrKassandra L Munger ofthe Harvard School ofPublic Health in Bostontold Reuters Health in atelephone interview.

MS is a disease of thecentral nervous system. Upto half a million Americanshave MS, with about10,000 new casesdiagnosed every year.While it is not usually fatal,its a chronic unpredictabledisease with no known

cure. The symptoms,including dizziness,blurred vision, slurredspeech, sexualdysfunction,incontinence,shakiness, loss ofcoordination, andweakness, can bedebilitating when flare-upsoccur.Its not a commondisease. According toMunger, women,generally, have a 1 in 100risk of developing MSduring their lifetimecompared to the 1 in 8lifetime risk of breastcancer.

Munger and hercolleagues studied womenenrolled in the NursesHealth Study and NursesHealth Study II over a 40year period. Participants

answered questionsthroughout the study aboutweight, height, body size,smoking and exercisehabits, and diseasestatus.—Internet

Tree-eating bugs threatenMonarch butterfly in Mexico

Hackers leak e-mails, stokeclimate debate

LONDON, 22 Nov—Computer hackers have brokeninto a server at a well-respected climate change researchcentre in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mailsand documents online — stoking debate over whethersome scientists have overstated the case for man-madeclimate change.

The University of East Anglia, in eastern England,said in a statement on Saturday that the hackers hadentered the server and stolen data at its Climatic ResearchUnit, a leading global research centre on climate change.The university said police are investigating the theft ofthe information, but could not confirm if all the materialsposted online are genuine.

More than a decade of correspondence betweenleading British and US scientists is included in about1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents posted on Web sitesfollowing the security breach last week.

Some climate change skeptics and bloggers claim theinformation shows scientists have overstated the casefor global warming, and allege the documents containproof that some researchers have attempted to manipulatedata.—Internet

Monarch butterflies inthe Mexican state of

Michoacan. Themysterious Monarch

butterfly, whichmigrates en masseannually between

Canada and Mexico, isnow facing a new peril:another insect thriving

in Western Mexicanforests.—INTERNET

MORELIA, 22 Nov—Themysterious Monarchbutterfly, which migratesen masse annually betweenCanada and Mexico, isnow facing a new peril:another insect thriving inWestern Mexican forests.

Some 8,000 oyamel firtrees — the butterfliesunique mountain habitateach winter — were cutdown in July in a bid toremove beetles thatthreaten the Monarchsages-old migration.

But now another smallbeetle has since taken todevouring the savory treetrunks, furtherendangering the butterflieswinter colonies.

“We are working todetermine how many treeshave been affected,” saidHomero Gomez, presidentof El Rosario Sanctuary, apremier migrating spot forthe Monarch in the westernMexican state ofMichoacan.—Internet

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Chinese weightlifter DingJianjun retains men’s 62kg

world title GAOYANG, 22 Nov—Ding Jianjun of China claimed

his first world title in the men’s 62kg division at theworld weightlifting championships here on Saturday.

Ding, 20, won the title with combined lifts of 146kgin the snatch and 170kg in the clean and jerk to finishwith 316kg.

Irawan Eko Yuli of Indonesia took the silver on315kg, and YangFan of China lifted a total of 314kgto take the bronze.

Xinhua

Barcelonasurrenders

leagueleadership in

Bilbao MADRID, 22 Nov—FC

Barcelona retained itsunbeaten start to theseason but surrenderedthe leadership of theBBVA Primera Ligafollowing a 1-1 drawaway to Athletic clubBilbao on Saturday.

Dani Alves opened thescoring for Barcelonaearly in the second half,while Gaizka Toqueroleveled for Athletic lessthan ten minutes later.

Barcelona had drawnits last two away games,but began in Bilbao witha will to put that run to anend.

Spain internationalsmidfielders XabiHernandez and AndresIniesta were on the top oftheir game, while LeoMessi could easily havescored after taking theball past Athletic keeperGorka Iraizoz. However,he took the ball too wideand the defense was ableto recover.

Barcelona dominatedthe ball and producedseveral decent chances,with Pablo Rodriguez andXabi Hernandez bothgoing close to opening thescoring.

Xinhua

Real Madrid take uninspiringwin over Santander

MADRID, 22 Nov—A goal from Real Madrid striker GonzaloHiguain was enough to give his team all three points at home tostruggling Racing Santander on Saturday night.

Higuain maintained his place in Real Madrid ahead of RaulGonzalez, who once again had to be content with a place among theReal Madrid substitutes.

The game marked the return of former Real Madrid sportingsecretary Miguel Angel Portugal on the Racing dugout.

However, in the first half it was clear that the one training sessionPortugal had been able to hold with his players following hisappointment on Thursday had not been enough to work any majorchanges.—Xinhua

Real Madrid’s Kaka (L) fights forthe ball with Racing Santander’s

Nasief Morris during their SpanishFirst Division soccer match atSantiago Bernabeu stadium in

Madrid on 21 Nov, 2009.—XINHUA

Manchester United’smidfielder DarrenFletcher celebrates

after scoring theopening goal during

their English PremierLeague football matchagainst Everton at OldTrafford, Manchester,

north-west England. Anoutstanding goal from

Fletcher set ManchesterUnited on their way to a3-0 victory over Everton

on Saturday that keptthem within five points

of league leadersChelsea.—INTERNET

Ferguson looks ahead toNew Year duel with Chelsea

Canada’s SteveMolitor (R) lands

a punch on Argentina’sJose Saez (L) during

their JuniorFeatherweight

boxing match inOrillia Ontario

on 21 Nov, 2009.INTERNET

Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard (right)runs with the ball under pressure

from Manchester City’s Gareth Barryduring their Premier League matchat Anfield, in Liverpool. The match

ended in a 2-2 draw.—INTERNET

Benitez backs Reds to secure top four finish

Gunners given glimpse of lifewithout van Persie

Sunderland’s Darren Bent (left)celebrates his goal with captain Lorik

Cana during their Premier Leaguematch against Arsenal at the Stadium

of Light in Sunderland, north-eastEngland. Sunderland won 1-0.

INTERNET

MANCHESTER, 22Nov—Sir Alex Fergusonbelieves ManchesterUnited can take charge ofthe title race if they reachthe New Year in touchwith leaders Chelsea.

Goals from DarrenFletcher, Michael Carrickand Antonio Valenciacompleted a 3-0 victoryfor Ferguson’s side overEverton that kept themwithin five points ofCarlo Ancelotti’s side.

The United managerdeclared himself satisfiedwith his side’sperformance aftercriticising his players forfailing to make the mostof their chances in frontof goal in recent games.

And he maintainsthat if they can reducethe deficit betweenthemselves and Chelseaover the next five weeks,they can step up their titlechallenge during thesecond half of thecampaign.—Internet

LIVERPOOL, 22 Nov—Liverpoolmanager Rafael Benitez brushed asidehis team’s stuttering form to insist thatthey will finish in the top four.

The defiant Spaniard watched fromthe sidelines as Saturday’s 2-2 homedraw with Manchester City left lastseason’s Premier League runners-upwith just one win in 10 games in allcompetitions.

It would have been far worse hadsubstitute Yossi Benayoun not salvageda point with a late equaliser after goalsfrom Emmanuel Adebayor and StephenIreland threatened another dismal dayfor the Merseysiders.

But a bad day from Liverpool goteven worse as Benitez, already missingkey striker Fernando Torres and GlenJohnson through injury, saw Danishdefender Daniel Agger stretchered offwith concussion, while Dutch forwardRyan Babel damaged an ankle.

Yet Benitez is confident his side will

bounce back with a winning run oncehis walking wounded have recovered,and believes Liverpool will still seal aChampions League berth next seasondespite their poor form.

Internet

LONDON, 22 Nov—Arsenal managerArsene Wenger refused to blame theabsence of Robin van Persie as his teamfailed to score for the first time thisseason in a 1-0 defeat at Sunderland.

But the evidence of a below-parperformance suggests the loss of theDutch striker for up to six weeks becauseof an ankle injury could be a major

handicap to Arsenal’s title prospects.They are now eight points behind

Chelsea and the leaders’ visit to theEmirates Stadium on Sunday (29November) is looking like a contest theGunners cannot afford to lose.

Wenger howver glossed over thesignificance of van Persie’s absence,preferring to blame slack defendingwhen Darren Bent scored Sunderland’s71st-minute winner.

The Frenchman said: “I don’t wantto focus on an individual. It’s down tothe fact we made a big mistake at acorner. Some of our players were not attheir best and we gave a goal away inthe only situation where Sunderlandwere likely to score — from a set piece.

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowershave been scattered in Shan State, isolated in upper Sagaingand Mandalay Divisions and weather has been partlycloudy in the remaining areas. Night temperatures were(5°C) above November average temperatures in BagoDivision, (3°C) to (4°C) above November averagetemperatures in Shan and Chin States, Mandalay,Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Divisions, (5°C) belowNovember average temperatures in upper Sagaing andYangon Divisions, (3°C) below November averagetemperatures in Rakhine State and lower Sagaing Divisionand about November average temperatures in the remainingStates and Divisions. The significant night temperatureswere Haka (0°C), Loilin (7°C), Machanbaw and Mindat(8°C) each and Putao (9°C). The noteworthy amounts ofrainfall recorded were Minesat (0.24) inch and Loilin(0.20) inch.

Maximum temperature on 21-11-2009 was 94°F.Minimum temperature on 22-11-2009 was 63°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 22 -11-2009 was 57%.Total sun shine hours on 21-11-2009 was (9.6) hoursapprox.

Rainfall on 22-11-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, atKaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (111.69) inches at Mingaladon, (122.09) inchesat Kaba-Aye and (129.41) inches at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mphfrom Southeast at (16:30) hours MST on 21-11-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in the AndamanSea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 23rdNovember 2009:Likelihood of isolated rain in Shan State and TaninthayiDivision, weather will be generally fair in the remainingStates and Divisions. Degree of certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Strong easterly wind with moderateto rough sea are likely at times Deltaic, Gulf of Mottama,off and along Mon-Taninthayi Coast. Surface wind speedin the strong wind may reach (35) m.p.h. Seas will bemoderate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood of slightdecreas of night temperatures in the upper Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for23-11-2009: Fair weather .

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for23-11-2009: Fair weather

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for23-11-2009: Partly cloudy.

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Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring AreasGerman troops attackedin N Afghan provinceKUNDUZ (Afghanistan), 22 Nov—Taleban

militants attacked a patrol team of German forcesin Kunduz province north of Afghanistan onSunday, officials said.

“German troops were on routine patrol inNahr-e-Sufi area of Chardara district when Talebaninsurgents targeted them with rocket propelledgrenade at 2 pm local time but caused no loss oflife and damage,” governor of Chardara districtAbdul Wahed Omarkhil told Xinhua.

A spokesman with German troops in Kunduzprovince Mertiene also in talks with Xinhuaconfirmed the attack but stressed there were noharm to the troops. He further said that aircrafts inretaliation pounded Taleban positions and inflictedcasualties on militants.

Meantime, Zabihullah Mujahid who claimedto speak for the Taleban outfit in talks with mediavia telephone from undisclosed location claimedthat three German soldiers were killed in the attack,a claim rejected by officials in the province asgroundless.—Xinhua

Stjepan Bozic of Croatia reacts after losing a supermiddleweight WBA world championship boxingfight against Dimitri Sartison of Germany in Kiel

on 21 Nov, 2009.—INTERNET

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7th Waxing of Nadaw 1371 ME Monday, 23 November, 2009

★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

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

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

■ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

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

troubles

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

and violence

Shanmange Dam assisting in greening Meiktila PlainArticle and Photos: Khin Maung Than (Sethmu)

Meiktila District inthe upper Myanmar,Mandalay Division is inarid region and thus facesdifficulties in growingcrops in the summer dueto the lack of rainfall. Theregion gets only about 30inches of average rainfallannually. So, a dam wasconstructed in the pastnear Montaing Village,Meiktila Township bydamming Montaingcreek with the aim ofovercoming the difficul-ties and irrigating thefarmlands. But the waterstorage capacity of thedam declined gradually.

Montaing dam per-forms as a modulatingtank for Meiktila Lake.In the time of theTatmadaw government,Shanmange dam wasbuilt by ConstructionUnit-7 of Irrigation De-partment to supply waterto Meiktila Lake and con-tribute to greening ofMeiktila region.

We, Kyemon news

crew, left Nay Pyi Tawfor Meiktila by Tawwinexpress to write the articleabout Shanmange dam.We together with StaffOfficers U Myo Nyunt andU Kyaw Myint of Con-

struction Unit-7 of Irriga-tion Department went toShanmange dam throughMeiktila-Kyaukpadaungroad under the arrange-ment of Deputy DirectorU Htay Oo of Construc-

tion Unit-7 of MeiktilaTownship Irrigation De-partment.

The embankment ofMontaing dam is ofearthen type and it meas-ures 4200 feet long and

67 high with 150 squaremiles catchment area and54,580 acre feet inflowwater. It can irrigate 6880acres of farmlands. On ourarrival, we saw speedyflow of water into the

Montaing dam.After that, we pro-

ceeded to Shanmangedam situated nearShanmange Villagethrough Meiktila-

(See page 9)

Water flows into Montaing Dam.

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