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* Development of agriculture as the base andall-round development of other sectors ofthe economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-orientedeconomic system

* Development of the economy inviting par-ticipation in terms of technical know-howand investments from sources inside thecountry and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economymust be kept in the hands of the State and thenational peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrityand preservation and safeguarding ofcultural heritage and national charac-ter

* 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 na-

tion in accord with the new State Consti-tution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectivesSenior General Than Shwe sendsfelicitations to Ukrainian President

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Aug—Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His ExcellencyMr Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine, on the occasion of the Independence Day of Ukraine,which falls on 24 August 2009.—MNA

Prime Minister felicitates Ukrainian counterpartNAY PYI TAW, 24 Aug—General Thein Sein, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar, has sent

a message of felicitations to Her Excellency Ms Yuliya Tymoshenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine, onthe occasion of the Independence Day of Ukraine, which falls on 24 August 2009.—MNA

It is necessary for local peoplethemselves to work hard for theirown economic improvement and

successful agricultural undertakingsPrime Minister inspects agricultural undertakings,

supply of irrigation water in Mandalay Division

NAY PYI TAW, 23 Aug — Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein left Nay Pyi Taw at 3 pm on 21 August bycar and arrived at Pyawbwe in Yamethin District,Mandalay Division, at 4.30 pm. He was accompaniedby Lt-Gen Tha Aye of the Ministry of Defence, Ministerfor Cooperatives Maj-Gen Tin Htut, Minister forElectric Power No. 1 Col Zaw Min, Minister for

Electric Power No. 2 Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint,Minister for Communications, Posts and TelegraphsBrig-Gen Thein Zaw, Minister for Health Dr KyawMyint, Minister for Education Dr Chan Nyein, Ministerfor Religious Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maung,deputy ministers, the director-general of theGovernment Office and departmental heads.

Accompanied by Chairman of Mandalay DivisionPeace and Development Council Commander of CentralCommand Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe and departmentalofficials, the Prime Minister and party visited the farm offarmer U Myint Oo in the filed No 233 of Twin Villagein Phayangahsu region of Pyawbwe Township

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Prime Minister General Thein Sein views pumping out of tube-well in Shinmein Village of NyaungU Township. — MNA

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Monday, 24 August, 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

Create more and moreinspired literary works

YANGON, 23 Aug—Chairman of Yangon CityDevelopment Committee Mayor Brig-Gen Aung TheinLin this morning visited Thudammar Road nearChaukgwe junction in North Okkalapa Township wherehe inspected the undertakings for smooth transportationcarried out by Engineering Department (Roads andBridges) of YCDC.

Next, the mayor looked into maintenance tasksof roads at junction of Parami road and Kaba-Aye roadin Yankin Township, Ayeyawun road near Myanandajunction in Thakayta Township, Bayintnaung road infront of Bayintnaung spare parts and machinery campin Mayangon Township and along Hline River roadfrom the junction of Bayintnaung road and HlaingRiver road to Aungzeya bridge. He then attended to theneeds.

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NAY PYI TAW, 24 Aug—U Nyan Win, Ministerfor Foreign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar, hassent a message of felicitations to His Excellency MrVolodymyr Khandogiy, Acting Minister for ForeignAffairs of Ukraine, on the occasion of theIndependence Day of Ukraine which falls on 24August 2009.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 23 Aug—Chairman ofMyanmar Olympic Committee Minister for SportsBrig-Gen Thura Aye Myint attended the openingceremony of Inter-University/College swimmingcontest held at Yadanabon swimming pool inAungmyaythazan Township, Mandalay Division on22 August morning.

Director-General Dr Soe Win of HigherEducation Department (Upper Myanmar In-charge)extended greetings and inaugurated the contest takenpart by 57 participants from Mandalay University,Yadanabon University, Taunggyi University,University of Foreign Languages (Mandalay) andMandalay Education College.

Next, the minister met with over 1500 locals offive villages at Nyaungpintha Village in ChaungUTownship and presented sports gear and exercise booksto the villages, publications to library, and cash forconstruction of school buildings in ChaungmanarVillage and Pauktaw Village.—MNA

Today, literature is embodied deeply inthe social life of human beings as the nationalcause and culture. Myanmars have beensafeguarding and promoting own literatureand cultural heritage in the course of thenation’s history.

From time immemorial, Myanmar hasstood tall with own literature, culture,customs, traditions and national characterin the global community due to its literaturethat came into being in parallel with itshistory.

The people equip themselves with asense of correct concept and etiquette as aresult of sustained efforts patriotic peopleincluding literati have been makingthroughout the successive periods in thenational interest.

Indeed, the role literati play is like thelifeblood of the nation and the people.Literati form part of the national force thatwork hard for uplifting the national cultureand enabling the motherland to stand tallwith fine national character in theinternational family.

Myanmar managed to regainindependence and sovereignty, driving inunison the colonialists out of the soil of thenation due to the inspiring literary worksnational literati had created to rekindlepatriotic spirit of the people in theindependence struggles.

Literati are, therefore, duty-bound tohelp broaden the horizons of the people,boost public morale and create more andmore inspired literary works on nation-building endeavours for improvement ofMyanmar literature and achievement ofnational goals.

NAY PYI TAW, 23 Aug—Shan State (East) organizeda monsoon paddy saplings transplanting competition atMongphone Village-tract in Tachilek Township on 16August.

Chairman of Shan State (East) Peace andDevelopment Council Commander of Triangle RegionCommand Maj-Gen Kyaw Phyo delivered an openingaddress and watched the competition.

The commander and officials awarded the prize-winning teams.

After the contest, the commander inspected artificialchemicals and pesticides on display, and gaveinstructions on agricultural work.

Next, the commander inspected the repairing of theroad in Sethmu Ward and the new surgical ward of theTownship People’s Hospital and presented stationeryto the Youths Development Centre.

MNA

Paddy transplanting contestheld in Shan State (East)

Sports Minister attendsInter-University /College

swimming contest

Foreign Minister sendsfelicitations to Ukrainian

counterpart

Fire kills three, injuressix in Hlegu

YANGON, 23 Aug—A fire broke out in HleguTownship, here, at 7.05 pm yesterday due to theexplosion of a boiler at the Myanmar Distillery, leavingthree dead and six injured.

The raging fire was under control at 00.15 hoursand put out at 3 am today.

Officials concerned, over 200 firefighters, 47 fireengines and 10 supervisory vehicles rushed to thescene and extinguished the fire.

An investigation is being made into the case.MNA

SCIENCE DAILY, 22 Aug— Despite their popularityin the science fiction genre, there is much to belearned about black holes, the mysterious regionsin space once thought to be absent of light. In a

New way to reproduce ablack hole?

Illustration of a binary black hole system.

paper published in the August 20 issue of PhysicalReview Letters, Dartmouth researchers propose a newway of creating a reproduction black hole in thelaboratory on a much-tinier scale than their celestialcounterparts.

The new method to create a tiny quantum sizedblack hole would allow researchers to better understandwhat physicist Stephen Hawking proposed more than35 years ago: black holes are not totally void ofactivity; they emit photons, which is now known asHawking radiation.

"Hawking famously showed that black holes radiateenergy according to a thermal spectrum," said PaulNation, an author on the paper and a graduate studentat Dartmouth. "His calculations relied on assumptionsabout the physics of ultra-high energies and quantumgravity. Because we can't yet take measurementsfrom real black holes, we need a way to recreate thisphenomenon in the lab in order to study it, to validateit."

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

intimidated* Do not be bolstered whenever flat-

tered* Do not be softened whenever appeased

Yangon Mayor inspectsmaintenance of roads

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Explosion kills four Afghanpolice in north

KABUL, 23 Aug— An explosion carried out byTaleban militants in Baghlan Province in the northof Afghanistan on Saturday left four policemen deadand two others injured, a local official said.

“Anti-government militants organized a roadsidebomb in Baghlan-e-Markazi area this morning leav-ing four police dead and injured two others. All thedead bodies and injured men have been taken tohospital,” director of hospital in the area KhalilNarmgoi told Xinhua.

Meantime, Taleban purported spokesmanZabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for theattack and in talks with media from undisclosedlocation via telephone said seven police were killedin blast.—Xinhua

Three Iraqi soldiers killed inattacks in Iraq

BAGHDAD, 23 Aug — Three Iraqi soldiers werekilled and seven people were wounded in separateattacks in Baghdad and Diyala Province on Satur-day, a police source said.

In Baghdad, unknown gunmen in their car openedfire in early morning on Iraqi soldiers manning acheckpoint in Baghdad’s northern district ofAdhamiyah, killing two soldiers and woundinganother, the source told Xinhua on condition ofanonymity.

Xinhua

Former US soldier apologises forVietnam massacre

Two women look at photographs showing massacre scenes as they tour theMy Lai massacre museum in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Ngaiin 2008. After more than 40 years, the former US army officer found guilty oforganizing mass killings in the Vietnamese community of My Lai during the

war has made a public apology.—INTERNET

Houses aretheatened by a

fire that broke outin the village ofKaletzi, north of

Athens. Hundredsof firefighters

battled wildfiresin Greece andPortugal on

Saturday, withscores of homesunder threat on

the rural outskirtsof Athens.INTERNET

Five killed in violence in Somali capital

CIA’s abuses detailed in secret reportLOS ANGELES, 23 Aug— The CIA staged a mock execution and brandished weap-

ons, including a gun and a power drill, during interrogation sessions with detaineesthe agency was desperate to persuade to talk, it was reported on Saturday.

The CIA’s abuses were detailed in a long-secret internal CIA report expectedto be released Monday, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The prisoner confronted with the gun and power drill was identified by currentand former US government officials as Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, the alleged plot-ter of the attack on the US destroyer Cole, said the paper.

Nashiri was also one of three prisoners who was subjected to the simulateddrowning interrogation method known as waterboarding.—Xinhua

Somali governmentsoldiers clash with

militants in the capitalMogadishu, on 22 Aug,

2009.—INTERNET

Greek forest firerages near Athens,

damages homesATHENS, 23 Aug — A

large wildfire raged out ofcontrol on the outskirts ofAthens on Saturday,burning several homes andthousands of acres of forest.

Greek authoritiesdeclared a state ofemergency after the fire,which broke out late Fridayin the village ofGrammatiko, about 40 km(25 miles) northeast of theGreek capital, spread toneighboring villages andthreatened Athens’ northernsuburbs.

Greek Prime MinisterCostas Karamanlis chaireda meeting at the fire fighters’operations centre in Athensand opposition partypoliticians rushed to theaffected areas to offersupport.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 23 Aug — After morethan 40 years, the former US armyofficer found guilty of organizing masskillings in the Vietnamese communityof My Lai during the war has made apublic apology.

“There is not a day that goes by thatI do not feel remorse for whathappened that day in My Lai,” formerlieutenant William Calley toldmembers of the Kiwanis Club ofGreater Columbus, Georgia. “I feelremorse for the Vietnamese who werekilled, for their families, for theAmerican soldiers involved and theirfamilies. I am very sorry.”

Calley spoke on Wednesday, butdue to a restricted audience his

remarks did not become known until now.The killings that occurred on 16 March,

1968 in the South Vietnamese hamlet ofMy Lai prompted widespread outragearound the world. They are also creditedwith advancing the end of the Vietnam Warbecause they significantly undermined USpublic support for the war effort.

The massacre began when men ofCharlie Company under the command ofLieutenant Calley opened fire on civiliansduring a “search and destroy” mission inMy Lai and neighbouring villages.

The targets of the killings were mainlyold men, women and children — allunarmed — as most younger males of thecommunity were working in the fields.

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MOGADISHU, 23 Aug — Militantsattacked a government checkpoint inSomalia’s capital on Saturday,sparking a gunbattle that killed atleast five people on the first day ofthe Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Militants seeking to overthrowSomalia’s Western-backedgovernment have been threateningto increase attacks during Ramadan,a monthlong period of prayer,reflection and sunrise-to-sunsetfasts.

A minibus driver, Iidle Haasan,said he saw five corpses lying in theroad after Saturday’s attack. Theroad where the attack started is thesupply route for African Unionpeacekeepers.

“Early in the morning Islamist

militias attacked our base,” SomaliDefense Minister Yusuf MohamedSiad told Associated Press TelevisionNews.

Somalia has been ravaged byviolence and anarchy since warlordsoverthrew dictator Mohamed SiadBarre in 1991, then turned on eachother. The al-Shabab militants group,which has foreign fighters in its ranks,operates openly in the capital and seeksto overthrow the government andimpose a strict form of Islam inSomalia.

Saturday’s violence follows a weekin which more than 60 people werekilled across the country as militantsand government forces try to hold ontotheir territory.

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Kenya woos Chinese investments ininfrastructure, energy sectors

Indian government to import food itemsto plug drought-triggered shortage

A doctor checks patients at the National Institute ofRespiratory Diseases in Mexico City. Marketsaround the globe have started to celebrate the firstsigns of economic recovery, but experts have warnedthat a possible resurgent swine flu could still take atoll of productivity and financial systems.—INTERNET

Children crouch undertheir desks during anearthquake drill at aTokyo elementary schoolin 2008. Around 20percent of the world’s mostpowerful earth-quakesstrike Japan. Themegacity of Tokyo inparticular sits on theintersection of threecontinental plates — theEurasian, Pacific andPhilippine Sea plates. INTERNET

Turkey to see declining exports in 2009ISTANBUL, 23 Aug — The global economic crisis will likely continue to take a

toll on Turkish economy and exportation this year despite some positive signals,according to Daily News here on Saturday.

The warning was issued by the Turkish Confederation of Employers’ Unions(TISK) in its report submitted to the Economic Coordination Board (EKK) on eco-nomic developments.

The report said that exports to Germany, Turkey’s top importer for the period be-tween January and June, declined 34.7 percent to 4.51 billion US dollars, compared tothe same period last year. Exports to France, Italy and Britain followed with 2.76billion, 2.67 billion and 2.39 billion US dollars respectively, according to the report.The growth forecasts concerning Turkey’s most significant trade partners reveal thatexport performance will continue to sour this year, the report warned.—Xinhua

This 2008 file picture shows a grandmother and her grandchild preparing ameal together. Italian parents whose own parents look after their children

while they are at work and help round the house save 50 billion euros a year,a study by the Milan Chamber of Commerce has said.—INTERNET

NAIROBI, 23 Aug —The Kenyan governmenton Saturday called formore Chinese investmentespecially in the areas ofinfrastructure and energy.

Vice PresidentKalonzo Musyoka saidKenya is positioning it-self to benefit from the 5billion US dollars whichthe Chinese governmentis investing in Africathrough the China-Africadevelopment Fund.

Musyoka noted thatthe partnership between

the Kenyan and Chinesegovernments in the HighGrand Falls power gen-eration project along Athiand Tana basins wouldinject additional 200 MWto the national electricitygrid.

He said when theproject is completed itwould not only boostelectricity power capaci-ty, but also provideenough water for irriga-tion besides environmen-tal conservation.

“We need this project

to revolutionize our foodproduction from over-dependence on rain fedfarming to irrigation. Wecan overcome the peren-nial famine situation andensure constant food se-curity,” he said in a state-ment.

The statement cameafter he received ChiefExecutive Officer of theChina-Africa Develop-ment Bank Chi Jianxin,who paid him courtesycall.

Xinhua

Swine flu looms over global economic recovery

WASHINGTON, 23 Aug — Markets around the globehave started to celebrate the first signs of economicrecovery, but experts have warned that a possibleresurgent swine flu could still take a toll of productivityand financial systems.

First reported four months ago, the new A(H1N1)influenza virus spread by June into a global pandemicwith some 1,800 deaths and now affects more than 170countries, according to the World Health Organization.

Though the number of cases reported to WHO hastopped 182,000, the United Nations health watchdogcautions the real number is higher because countriesare no longer required to test and report individual cases.

Health officials are gearing up for a resurgence incases as the northern hemisphere enters winter. So farswine flu infections generally have been relatively mild,with typical flu symptoms that last about a week.

However, the pandemic virus could mutate into amore deadly form. Officials are projecting a shortfallin vaccines being rushed to market in hopes of wardingoff a potential global health disaster.

Faced with the unpredictable nature of flu viruses,economists say it is difficult to assess the impact ofswine flu on the delicate global economic recoverytaking shape amid the worst world recession sinceWorld War II.

“As the severity of A(H1N1) is so far not severe,we would not expect the magnitude of the shock to theeconomy to be large relative to GDP (gross domesticproduct),” said Simonetta Nardin, a spokeswoman atthe International Monetary Fund.—Internet

NEW DELHI, 23 Aug — With the pro-duction of food grains and agriculturalcommodities set to fall because ofdrought, Indian government will importthose items that will be in short supply tomeet the demand, and a top governmentofficial told the media on Saturday.

“Decision is already there that which-ever commodity will be in short supply,to maintain demand-supply mechanism,we shall go for imports,” FinanceMinister Pranab Mukherjee said.

He said that there is already ashort supply of pulses and edible

oil in the market.Mukherjee, however, said that the gov-

ernment will not announce the timing ofthe import to ensure that prices are notjacked up artificially by the internationalplayers.

“The moment news is spread that In-dia is going for big import, the marketprices are jacked up,” he said.

On the impact of drought, the FinanceMinister said that “it does not affect onlyproduction, it has an overall cascadingimpact. Scanty rainfall will affect rechargeof ground water.”—Xinhua

More efforts urgedto combat drought

BEIJING, 23 Aug—China’s anti-drought authorityhas demanded more efforts to fight drought in thenorth, and warned possible drought in the south asaffected regions continued to experience high tem-peratures and less rainfall.

A long-lingering drought in China was threaten-ing 133 million mu (8.67 million hectares) ofcrops, the office of State Flood Control and DroughtRelief Headquarters has said.

About 58.28 million mu of crops are seriouslyaffected by the drought. A total of 4.61 millionpeople and 4.05 million heads of livestock faceddifficulty in accessing to drinking water, as of mid-day of Friday, according to the headquarters onSaturday.

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Israel wants to restart peace talksfrom beginning

RAMALLAH, 23 Aug—Chief Palestinian negotia-tor on Saturday said Israelwants to restart stalledpeace talks with the Pales-tinians from the beginninginstead of resuming themfrom the last point theyleft.

“The Israeli govern-ment rejects to restart thefinal-status talks from thelast point they stopped at,”said Saeb Erekat, head ofnegotiation department ofthe Palestinian Liberation

Organization (PLO).He also said the Israeli

government, led by hawk-ish Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu, re-buffs the US-backed RoadMap peace plan, espe-cially the first phase of itwhich calls on both sidesto take a series of stepspaving the way for fruit-ful negotiations.

Meanwhile, Erekat said“The PLO seeks peacein accordance with theinternational legitimacy

and law.”The continuation of

Jewish settlement in theWest Bank — in violationof the Road Map — pre-vented the Israeli-Palestin-ian negotiations frommaking any progress.

The Palestinian Na-tional Authority (PNA) in-sists that Israel shouldfreeze all settlement activi-ties on the occupied Pal-estinian lands and endorsethe two-state solution.

Xinhua

S Korea’s rocket moved to launch pad

A helicopter carrying four Chinese naval soldiers from the Zhoushan missilefrigate of the Chinese escort flotilla flies to protect merchant vessel

“Weiyuan” from pirates in the Aden Gulf, on 21 Aug, 2009.—XINHUA

Box girders of the East Loop Railway are being installed at the work site ofWanquanhe Bridge in Qionghai City of south China’s Hainan Province, on 22Aug , 2009. A total of 122 box girders needed to be installed on the 3974-meter-

long Wanquanhe Bridge, a section of the East Loop Railway of HainanProvince, which was started in Sept. of 2007 and planned to be ` completed in

late 2010.—XINHUA

Colombian police detainsrebel who kidnaps,

kills Americans

SEOUL, 23 Aug— SKorea’s first space rocketwas moved to its launchpad for its blastoff ar-ranged for 26 Aug, thestate-run aerospace insti-tute said on Sunday.

According to KoreaAerospace Research Insti-tute (KARI), responsiblefor the launch, the rocketmade it to the launch pad,located at the Naro SpaceCenter in the southern partof the nation.

The rocket will be setup by 3:50 pm (0650GMT) and later be con-nected with all mechani-

cal and electrical cables by09:00 pm (1200 GMT) forthorough check-ups, theKARI said.

The Korea SpaceLaunch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1), South Korea’s first sat-ellite-carrying rocket, willbe fired on Tuesdayaround 05:00 pm (0800GMT), if there are no lastminute problems with theweather or the systems.

KARI said that if thereare no last minute prob-lems with the weather or

launch systems, thecountry’s first satellite-carrying rocket will blastoff on Tuesday around5:00 pm.

South Korea has earliernotified of the blastoff toboth the InternationalCivil Aviation Organiza-tion and the InternationalMaritime Organization,with reserving a “launchwindow” until Wednes-day in case of contingen-cies.

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All items from Xinhua News Agency

Bodies of seven more missing seamanin ship fire found

Russia’s new type of communication satellite isdisplayed in the Moscow International Air Show(MAKS) in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia,

on 22 Aug, 2009.—XINHUA

BOGOTA, 23 Aug —Colombian police havedetained a rebel accusedof kidnapping and killingUS citizens, authoritiessaid on Saturday.

Jose Armando CadenaCabrera, alias “Bronco,”was arrested during anoperation in the capitallaunched by the police onFriday, said Luis Gabriel

Ramirez, commander ofthe Criminal InvestigationOffice of the National Po-lice. Cadena was a mem-ber of the RevolutionaryArmed Forces of Colom-bia (FARC), Colombia’slargest anti-governmentgroup.

He was accused of kid-napping three Americansand killing another Ameri-can and a member of theColombian military, saidthe police.A plane carryingfour US nationals and amember of the Colombianmilitary had an accident inwoodland in southern Co-lombia in February 2003.The rebels seized them andsubsequently killed UScitizen Thomas Jannis andColombian Luis AlcidesCruz, in which Cadena al-legedly participated.

Xinhua

Canada’s oldest ethnicChinese building designated

as national historic siteBARKERVILLE, 23 Aug—The Chee Kung Tong

Building, the oldest surviving ethnic Chinese buildingin Canada, was officially recognized as a Canadiannational historic site in a plaque-unveiling ceremonyon Saturday.

The simple two-storey building is located inBarkerville, a gold rush town in the western provinceof British Columbia. It was built in the mid-1870s byChee Kung Tong, a secret fraternal society, as a socialgathering place for Chinese laborers, who came to theBritish Columbia during the 19th century to seekfortune by mining or working on railroadconstruction.—Xinhua

Bolivian immigrants dance during the folk artfestival in Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, on 22

Aug, 2009. The annual folk art festival wasopened on Saturday. — XINHUA

KUALA LUMPUR, 23Aug—Bodies of sevenmore Chinese seamenwho went missing aftertheir oil tanker collidedwith a bulk carrier offMalaysian coast in Ma-lacca Straits have beenfound, said an official ofthe Chinese Embassy toMalaysia on Saturday.

The official said the bod-ies were found at around9:30 p.m. local time andhad all been taken backto the land. Their identityneeds further confirma-tion, the official added.

A naphtha-transport-ing tanker owned by aTaipei company collidedwith a bulk carrier 18

Aug night near PortDickson in the MalaccaStraits and caught fire inseconds.

Sixteen of the 25 Chi-nese seamen on board thetanker escaped in lifeboats and nine otherswent missing. Bodies oftwo victims were foundFriday.—Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

Germany's Transport Ministry haslaunched a 115-million-euro ($163

million) programme to promote"electro-mobility" in eight regions

of the country. The idea is to test andmarket vehicles that run on

electricity. This man was doing hisown testing on an electric scooter inDresden, one of the areas where the

project is taking place.

These window-cleaners on a nearbybuilding have a marvellous view ofthe Berlin Central Railway Station.

The steel and glass building wasopened in 2006 to provide a new

central station for the capital. Sixtracks cross above ground from Eastto West and eight tracks cross below

ground from North to South,making it the largest multi-storey

station in Europe.

Fire engineers of the Stone Age

Return to sender: two Austrians rescued from mailboxAustrian authorities aren’t about to give these pranks their stamp of approval.Frustrated officials say rescuers have been deployed twice this week to break

open large mailboxes after two children locked themselves inside in separateincidents.

Firefighters in the westernmost province of Vorarlberg say the latest incidentoccurred in the village of Schwarzach, where an 8-year-old boy climbed inside amailbox and couldn’t get out.

Postal officials weren’t able to find the key, so rescuers used welding torchesand bolt cutters to open the box and free the child. He was uninjured.

Authorities say an almost identical incident happened in nearby Feldkirch,where a 4-year-old boy locked himself inside a mailbox.

An unheated piece of silcrete stone,left, is contrasted with an ancientstone tool that was shaped from

silcrete. The stone changed color andtexture after being heated and

chipped into an implement. Newanalyses of such artifacts suggest the

technology of using heat to maketools was being used in Africa at least

72,000 years ago.

People in southern Africa 72,000 yearsago heated stones in preparation fortoolmaking.

Stone Age toolmakers didn’t needmotivational speakers to get fired up atwork. People living on the southern tip ofAfrica 72,000 years ago decided on theirown to heat stones with carefully controlledfires in order to make the rock moresuitable for tool manufacturing, a newstudy finds.

Coastal residents of southern Africamay even have heated stones as a first stepin toolmaking as early as 164,000 yearsago, say Kyle Brown, an anthropologygraduate student at the University of CapeTown, South Africa, and his colleagues.

Until now, evidence of heat treatmentextended back no further than about 25,000years ago in Europe, Brown’s team notesin the 14 Aug Science.

Ill man jailed for yawningfreed after 3 weeks

An Illinois judge has freed a manwho had been in jail for three weeksafter letting loose a loud yawn during asentencing hearing. Thirty-three-year-old Clifton Williams of Richton Parkwas found in contempt of court andjailed on 23 July after yawning in WillCounty Judge Daniel Rozak’s court.He could have been jailed for sixmonths.

Williams was in court for his cousin’ssentencing on a drug charge. Aprosecutor in court at the time describedthe offending yawn as “loud andboisterous.”

As Williams stood before the benchin shackles, the judge gave him a shortlecture. He told Williams he wasn’t incustody for simply yawning but formaking a sound “that was offensive tothe court.”

Competition lacking amongprivate health insurers

WHO seeks flu vaccine donationsfor poorer nations

An unemployed and uninsured woman waits to gettickets for a free health clinic in Inglewood,California. Obama would like to win someRepublican support for his bid to cut health carecosts, expand access and rein in insurance giants,in line with his vow to drain the partisan bile from

Washington.—INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 23 Aug— One of the mostwidely acceptedarguments against agovernment medical planfor the middle class is thatit would quashcompetition — just whatprivate insurers seem tobe doing themselves inmany parts of the US.

Several studies showthat in lots of places, oneor two companiesdominate the market.Critics say monopolisticconditions drive uppremiums paid byemployers andindividuals.

For Democrats, theanswer is a public planthat would compete withprivate insurers.Republicans see that as agovernment power grab.President Barack Obamalooks to be trapped in themiddle of an argumentthat could sink his effortto overhaul the healthcare system.

Even lawmakersopposed to a government

plan have problems withthe growing clout of thebig private companies.

“There is a seriousproblem with the lackof competition amonginsurers,” said Repu-blican Sen Olym-pia Snowe of Maine,one of the highest-coststates. “The impact onthe consumer issignificant.”

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Californian pilot dies atBritish air show

LONDON, 23 Aug — A leading US stunt pilot waskilled on Saturday when her light aircraft crashed atan aerobatic show in central England.

Vicki Cruse, 40, from Santa Paula, Calif, died inan accident during the World AerobaticChampionships at Britain’s Silverstone motor racingcircuit.

Cruse, who was president of the InternationalAerobatics Club, is a former member of the USnational aerobatics team and was the first woman toqualify to race in her class at the Reno NationalChampionship Air Races.

Team manager Norm DeWitt said Cruse had beencarrying out a qualifying flight when she lost controlof her aircraft.

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BEIJING, 23 Aug —The World HealthOrganization’s flu chiefurged drug makers onSaturday to donate swineflu vaccines to the world’spoorest countries, whichare more vulnerable inthe fight against thepandemic.

Dr Keiji Fukuda saidthe agency is workinghard to lobby the world’srich nations and fluvaccine makers fordonations.

“It is clear that thepoorest countries ingeneral are just the most

vulnerable to any numberof diseases, and so it is abig concern,” Fukuda saidon the sidelines of asymposium of healthofficials and expertsin Beijing. “We’recontinually hoping thatmore of the companieswill step up and agree todonate more of thevaccine.”

WHO says the swineflu virus — also known as

H1N1 — has killedalmost 1,800 peopleworldwide as of 13 Aug.

For the moment, swineflu is generally mild andmost people recoverwithout needingtreatment. But it couldhave a more devastatingimpact in countries wherepopulations are alsofighting AIDS, malaria,tuberculosis and otherdiseases.—Internet

Nigeria rebel group to resumeattacks, ends talks

YENAGOA, 23 Aug — Nigeria’s main rebel groupsaid on Saturday it would resume attacks againstAfrica’s biggest energy industry next month,overshadowing the surrender of hundreds of arms byrebels in a federal amnesty programme.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the NigerDelta (MEND), responsible for attacks that havewrought havoc on the OPEC member’s oil operations,said it would resume its campaign of violence on 15September.

Internet

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Article & Photos: Aung Than (Mingala Taungnyunt)

Kanbalu: Land of Development and Prosperity

Construction of the Out-patient Ward of Kanbalu Township 100-bed Hospital in progress.

Education has flour-ished throughout the na-tion together with the im-provement of the healthsector every citizen isenjoying. We have seenwith our own eyes thatnot only urban but ruralareas are enjoying re-markable developmentwherever we tour.

We, Myanma Alinnews crew, visitedKanbalu in Shwebo Dis-trict of Sagaing Divisionrecently. Despite the factthat the town is a smallone, it is making progressin education and healthsectors. Kanbalu waslively with students as we

arrived there duringschool hours. Kanbalu isa township which set edu-cation as top priority andis comprised of 273 vil-lages from 86 village-tracts.

There are four BasicEducation High Schools,three BEHSs (Branch),two affiliated BEHSswhere 102 high schoolteachers are teaching2,923 high school stu-dents. A total of 30,424middle school students arelearning at six Basic Edu-cation Middle Schools, 38BEMSs (Branch), 20 af-filiated BEMSs staffedwith 967 middle school

teachers whereas 34 Ba-sic Education Post-Pri-mary Schools, 170BEPSs, 23 BEPSs(Branch) and 22 affiliatedBEPSs in every villageand the township are pro-viding education to47,031 basic educationprimary students with theservice of 1,430 basic edu-cation teachers. Theteacher-student ratiostands at 1:32.

It is honourable that643 students of KanbaluTownship passed ma-triculation examination of2008-2009 academicyear, 49 of whom got dis-tinctions including four

and five-distinction-win-ners.

That the educa-tional funds of the town-ship have been raised upto K 100 million and sti-pends are granted to medi-cal students of Kanbaluand Kyunhla Townshipsevery year significantlyreflect the encouragementand emphasis upon edu-cation of the township.

The sign of theprogress in education sec-tor of Kanbalu Townshipis that the emergence ofnew No. 2 Basic Educa-tion High School on 1 Juneof 2009 which cost over K

300 million funded bygrant of Education De-partment and regional de-velopment funds oftownselders plus cash do-nated by wellwishers.

When looked at thehealth sector of the town-ship, the township can beseen well equipped withone Township Hospital,two station hospitals, fiverural healthcare centres,37 affiliated ruralhealthcare centres, oneMaternal and ChildHealthcare Departmentand one traditional medi-cal clinic which are pro-viding healthcare service

for Kanbalu Townshipand its village-tracts.

At present, HtooTrading Company is con-structing 100-bed Peo-ple’s Hospital at the cor-ner of Tabinshwehti Streetand Myoshaung Streetmaking a donation to thetownship and it is learntthat the works will be com-pleted at the end of De-cember, 2009. The hospi-tal is comprised of six

w a r d s — o u t - p a t i e n tward, ward, medicalward, OG ward, childrenward and surgical ward.

Kanbalu Hospital,Zigon Station Hospital,Malei Station Hospitalhave their own medicalfunds and it is learnt thatover K 22.7 million fundhave been saved inKanbalu Hospital alone.Anti-venom injectionsare also kept ready in ru-ral healthcare centres forfarmers of the villages.

In spite of Kanbalubeing in the arid region,the township has wit-nessed unprecedented de-

velopment like othertownships due to moder-ate rainfall and irrigationwater which resulted inincreased production ofpaddy, edible oil cropsand other crops in addi-tion to efforts ofTatmadaw Governmentfor promotion of educa-tion and health sectors.

Translation: TKKMyanma Alin

21.8.2009

The scatch of Kanbalu Township 100-bed Hospital .

The construction site of a new building of Kanbalu Township 100-bedHospital.

Photo shows new No. 2 Basic Education High School.

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It is necessary for local people themselves…(from page 1)

and inspected cultivationof Thukhayin paddystrains with the use ofwater from an artesianwell. Next, the PrimeMinister cordially greetedthe local people, enquiredabout regional rainfall,rate of crop per acre yieldand income and wateravailability for cultivationpurposes and encouragedthem to work hard foreconomic improvement.

Then, he inspectedflow of water from theartesian well of tube wellPB-001 (A) sunk by theWater ResourcesUtilization Department ofthe Ministry ofAgriculture andIrrigation. Lt-Gen ThaAye, Commander Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe andofficials reported on plansto sink 50 tube wells forboosting cultivation ofcrops and greening ofPhayangahsu region andsupply of water fromalready-sunk wells.

The PrimeMinister inspectedPyawbwe-Phayangahsuroad, inter-district road

No 2 and Thazi-Shwenyaung road sectionand paving of gravel onThazi-Nyaungyan roadand left necessaryinstructions. After lookinground in Thazi of MeiktilaDistrict, the Prime

Minister visited thethriving 8.50 acre-plantation of Ngwechi-6long staple cotton owned

by farmer U Myint Aungin Apyauk Village fieldNo 1820.

Then, the PrimeMinister met with the localfarmers and urged them tostrive for their socio-economic development

making use of resourcessuch as water supply andeducation, health, roadand communication

infrastructures built by thegovernment. Next, heinspected cultivation ofmonsoon paddy at the2.35-acre modelplantation in Kongtaungvillage field No 1819 inThazi Township andpresented gifts to the localfarmers.

Yesterday mor-ning, the Prime Ministerand party left Meiktila andarrived at the monsoonpaddy plantation of farmerU Aung Thein in the fieldNo 280/2607 in Legyivillage-tract in MahlaingTownship. There, thePrime Minister met thelocal farmers andinstructed them to extendagricultural undertakingsand to use modernintegrated farming systemand bio-gas for thedevelopment of the

village.After viewing

collective cultivation ofpaddy at the plantation atthe entrance to Mahlaing,

he inspected thrivingplantations of paddy andseasonal crops alongM e i k t i l a - M a h l a i n g -Taungtha road.

The Prime Ministerand party proceeded toKyaukka Taunggonvillage in TaungthaTownship in MyingyanDistrict where they werewelcomed by DeputyMinister for Electric PowerNo. 1 U Myo Myint,Deputy Attorney-GeneralU Myint Naing,departmental officials andthe local people. The PrimeMinister met withchairmen of VillagePDCs, townselders and thepeople of the villages inTaungtha Township andgave instructions onefforts for regionaldevelopment, for earningmore income, for seeking

means to get waterresources and for usingbio-fuel to provideelectricity. The PrimeMinister gave away gifts

to the local people andinstructed responsiblepersons to provideirrigation water bypumping from WelaungDam and Thametku canels.

The Prime Ministerand party visited WelaungStation Hospital and theywere welcomed there byHead of TaungthaTownship HealthDepartment Dr Tin MaungOo, officials and localpeople.

The Prime Ministerencouraged the specialistteam led by DeputyDirector-General Dr KyeeMyint of the HealthDepartment making fieldtrips to provide medicaltreatment.

The Prime Ministercordially greeted the localpeople and

(See page 9)

Prime Minister General Thein Sein inspecting construction of Thazi-Nyaungyan gravel road.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein views farmer U Myint Oo’s plantations cultivated with the use of water fromartesian well in Phayangahsu region of Pyawbwe Township.—MNA

Farmer U Tun Tun’s sunflower plantation seen in Popa Village-tract,Kyaukpadaung Township.—MNA

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It is necessary for local people themselves…(from page 8)

presented medicines forthe hospital to the medicalsuperintendent. Next, thePrime Minister and partypresented spectacles to eyepatients free of charge.

In the afternoon, thePrime Minister and partyvisited the sunflowerplantation of farmer U TunTun in Popa Village-tractin KyaukpadaungTownship, met with thelocal people of Popa,Kanlwin Myauk, Indaw,Siyinsu and Kanthayavillages, enquired aboutagricultural undertakingsand annual rainfall andpresented gifts. Then, heinspected the tube-well inGyanhlee village inNyaungU Township andcarrying of water by thelocal people and leftnecessary instructions.

The tube-well wassunk under the technologycooperation for rural watersupply project of dryregion jointly im-plemented by the Ministryof Progress of BorderAreas and National Racesand Development Affairsand JICA of Japan. It

provides 10000 gallons ofwater a day.

Afterwards, thePrime Minister and party

went to Phonedaw villagein Taungzin village-tractin NyaungU Townshipand inspected use of waterby local people from thevillage tube-well andrepair of Kanma Lake andgreeted the local people.

The PrimeMinster and partyproceeded to ShinmeinVillage and inspectedcarrying of water from thevillage tube-well. Forsupplying of water to

NyaungU Township, 225tube wells have been sunkin 218 villages and wateris being provided to the

local people.The Prime

Minister and party visitedthe 2.8-acre paddyplantation in the field No1565 of Kanpauk villagein Phwasaw village-tractthrough Mya Lake at thefoot of Tuyin Hill. There,they inspected cultivationof paddy with the use ofwater from Lawka Nandariverwater pumpingproject and instructed thelocal people to boost

paddy cultivation bytaking an example ofthriving paddy plantationsin the regions where paddy

did not grow well and toeffectively use the riverwater pumping projectundertaken by the State

by spending a lot ofmoney.

At the briefinghall of the project, thedirector-general of theWater Resources

Utilization Departmentand officials reported onprogress in completion ofthe project and supply of

irrigation water. Lt-GenTha Aye and thecommander gavesupplementary reports.

The PrimeMinister gave necessary

instructions and thepumping of water of theproject.

(See page 10)

The State will render all necessary

assistance not only for water supply but also

for education, health and transport sectors.

The farmers on their part are to work hard for

their own businesses.

Prime Minister General Thein Sein looks into local people who are carrying water at tube-well in Gyanhlee Village of NyaungU Township. — MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein inspects dredging of Kanma Lake in NyaungU Township. — MNA

Prime Minister

General Thein Sein

inspects thriving

Ngwechi 6 long

staple cotton farm in

Thazi Township.

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(from page 9)Lawka Nandar

project is to benefit morethan 10000 acres of land.

In meeting with thelocal people of Pyawbwe,Mahlaing, Taungtha,Kyaukpadaung andNyaungU townships, thePrime Minister said theState is giving priority tosupply of irrigation water,transformation offarmlands from crop lands,and per acre high yield. Thesuccess of agriculturalbusiness depends ongeographical conditionsand hard work and

It is necessary for local people themselves…perseverance of growers.While the lower regions arehaving rainfalls more thannecessary, the arid regionshave to face difficulty astheir regions do not haveenough rainwater. This iswhy arrangements arebeing made to undertakedam, river-water pumpingand underground watertapping projects forcultivation purposes. Moretube-wells are being sunknot only for drinking waterbut also for irrigation water.Farmers on their part are towork hard by making useof the facilities built by the

government. It is necessaryfor the local peoplethemselves to work hard fortheir own economicimprovement andsuccessful agriculturalundertakings. It is alsorequired to choose and growcrops that can thrivedepending on geographicalconditions. The State willrender all necessaryassistance not only for watersupply but also foreducation, health andtransport. The farmers ontheir part are to work hardfor their own businesses.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 23Aug—Chairman ofSagaing Division Peaceand Development CouncilCommander of North-West Command Maj-GenMyint Soe together withMinister for Science andTechnology U Thaung andDeputy Minister forTransport Col Nyan TunAung attended the SagaingDivision War VeteransOrganization Preliminary

Earthquake ReportNAY PYI TAW, 23 Aug—A moderate earthquake

of intensity 5.6 Richter Scale with its epicenter outsideMyanmar (Indonesia) about 1200 miles of Kaba-Ayeseismological observatory was recorded at 13 hr 54min 28 sec MST today, said Hydrology andMeteorology Department.—MNA

YANGON, 23 Aug—The Ministry of Educationheld final swimmingevents of universities,colleges and educationcolleges in conjunctionwith the prize presentationceremony at YangonUniversity's SwimmingPool this morning.

Inter-Univers i ty /C o l l e g e / E d u c a t i o nCollege Swimmingcompetitions of HigherEducation Department(Lower Myanmar) of theministry were held from21 August to date.

The swimmingcompetitions included100-M freestyle, 50-Mbreaststroke, 50-Mbutterfly and 50-Mbackstroke in the men'sevents and 50-M freestyle,50-M breaststroke, 50-Mbutterfly and 50-Mbackstroke in the women'sevents. A total of 122 malestudents and 70 femaleone took part in thecompetitions.

Prime Minister General Thein Sein gives spectacles to patients with eyecomplaints at Welaung Station Hospital in Taungtha Township.—MNA

(from page 16)A (H1N1), and the testsaid A (H1N1) virusfound, bringing the totalfigure of A (H1N1)-infected people to 25.

The 99 passengers onthe same flight and 131airport staff are now undersurveillance in theirhomes.

Number of A (H1N1)-hit people…A 21-year-old female

A (H1N1) patient wasdischarged from WaibagiHospital today as she hadmade a full recovery fromthe disease. So, the processof keeping in homequarantine of her four familymembers who came intocontact with here was over.

So far, Myanmar has

seen 25 A (H1N1) cases,and 21 patients haverecovered from thedisease. The remainingfour are still underintensive care.

And the NationalHealth Laboratory hasscreened 187 A (H1N1)suspects, and confirmed25 cases.—MNA

Ministry of Education holdsswimming competitions

Directors-general,rectors, pro-rectors,President of MyanmarSwimming Federation DrKhin Shwe, Secretary ofMSF Deputy Director ofSports and PhysicalEducation Department UKyaw Oo and officials,guests, teachers andstudents enjoyedswimming events.

After the final events,officials presented prizesto winning swimmers.Next, Director-General UBo Win of EducationPlanning and TrainingDepartment presentedcommemorative items toPresident of MSF Dr KhinShwe and Director-General U Zaw Htay ofHigher Education

Department (Lower),certificates of honour toofficials of MSF.

Ma Nyein NyeinKyaw Thaung (DagonUniversity) won the bestswimming prize with fourgold medals and MaungLin Htet Aung(Mawlamyine EducationCollege) with one gold andone silver. DagonUniversity secured thechampionship shield withfive gold, one silver andtwo bronze medals scoring48 points.

Similar competitionsfor Upper Myanmar wereheld at YatanabonSwimming Pool at thesame time on the sameday.

MNA

Sagaing Division War Veterans Organizationpreliminary conference (2009) held

NAY PYI TAW, 23Aug—Chairman of BagoDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of Southern

Conference (2009) at thecity hall in Monywa on 17August.

Next, the commander,the minister and thedeputy minister cordiallygreeted members of theWar VeteransOrganization.

After that, thecommander inspectedprogress of Kyweyejunction roundabout andtar making of the

Commander attends prize presentationfor football tournament

Command Maj-Gen HlaMin attended the final matchof the Southern CommandCommander’s Shieldfootball tourney at the sports

ground of the commandheadquarters in Ketumati on17 July. After the match, hepresented prizes to thewinning teams.—MNA

Parasites persuade immune cells to invite them in for dinnerSCIENCE DAILY, 23 Aug—The para-

sites that cause leishmaniasis use aquirky trick to convince the immunesystem to effectively invite them intocells for dinner, according to a newstudy published today in PLoS Patho-gens. The researchers, from Imperial

College London, say their findings im-prove understanding of the way Leish-mania parasites establish an infectionand could aid the search for a vaccineagainst this neglected tropical disease.

Leishmania parasites are transmittedby sand flies. After the parasites infect asand fly, they make a sticky gel so thatwhen the fly bites a human, it regurgitatesthis gel into the body. Today's research,which was funded by the WellcomeTrust, shows that the gel persuadesimmune cells known as macrophages tofeed the parasites, rather than killingthem.

Leishmaniasis is an infection causedby Leishmania parasites that affectsaround 12 million people per year,mainly in tropical and sub-tropicalcountries. Symptoms include disfiguringand painful skin ulcers and in severecases the infection can also spread to theinternal organs.—Internet

Leishmania parasites enter thebodies of humans and other ani-

mals through sand fly bites.

roundabout.Moreover, the

commander attendedweekly work coordinationmeeting between SagaingDivision PDC anddepartments concerned inMonywa. The officialsreported the progress oftheir tasks.

Later, thecommander delivered aconcluding remarks.

MNA

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People walk on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Empty terrace tables at Parisiancafes. Fewer sunbathers scattered along Italian and Spanish beaches: The

global economic crisis has cast a dark cloud over Europe’s top touristdestinations.—INTERNET

Membersof a

midgettroupeact theshadow

play “theRed

Boy” inBeijing,

capital ofChina,on 22Aug,2009.

INTERNET

Alternative medicine practitionersoffer tips to prevent HIN1

BANGALORE, 23 Aug—With the increase in numberof swine flu cases across the country, propagators ofalternative drugs have claimed the ancient Indianmedicine system can build the human immune powerto combat the H1N1 virus.

Dr Salma Banu, Assistant Professor at theGovernment Unani Medical College, said drops of U-viral, a concoction made of thymol, menthol andcamphor (mixed in equal proportion) could be put ona handkerchief or tissue paper and inhaled frequentlyby people including children.

Demonstrating the concoction in the presence ofKarnataka Minister for Health B Sreeramulu, Banusaid this could be an alternative to those who arehealthy and do not want to wear a mask whiletravelling or interacting with crowds. Three dropscould be taken internally by putting them on betelleaves and eaten twice a day for five days, she said.

Another Unani decoction to boost the immunity isboiling in 100 milliletre water three gms of neem,giloe, chirayata (swertia) and half gram of siya mirch(black pepper) and one gram of sont (dry ginger). Thewater has to be boiled till it reduces to 60milliletre andconsumed in morning on empty stomach for a week.

Ayurvedic powders — triphala, trikatu, madhuyastiand amruta — in equal quantity, one teaspoon withwarm water followed by a glass water, twice a day afterfood will help to boost immunity and reduce high fever,Dr R Shylaja Kumari, Assistant Professor, Departmentof Panchakarma, said.—MNA/PTI

Helicopter crash in Italy’sDolomites kills four

ROME, 23 Aug—A helicopter belonging to amedical emergency service crashed into a mountainnear the ski resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo in the northof Italy on Saturday killing all four people on board,the fire service at Belluno said.

The spokesman said the helicopter appeared tohave hit a cable, adding weather conditions in the areawere bad.—MNA/Reuters

Beijing grants 311 foreigners permanentresidence status

Egyptian fishing boats returnedhome with eight captured pirates

CAIRO, 23 Aug—Two Egyptian fishing boatsreturned home with 34 fishermen and eight capturedpirates on board on Sunday, after having been seizedby Somali pirates for five months.

The two boats, Momtaz 1 and Samra were welcomedby thousands of chanting and singing Egyptian peoplewho gathered in the coastal city of Suez.

These Egyptian fishermen escaped on August 13without paying the one-million-dollar ransom. Theymanaged to free themselves and their ships and arrestedeight of their captors.

“The pirates treated us badly during the five monthsas they fed us with rotten rice and hot water,” local NileTV quoted one of the fishermen as saying.

“We managed to get some of their guns while theywere sleeping, and freed our boats in a 15-minutebattle,” he added.

The eight Somali pirates caught by the Egyptianfishermen will be tried in Egypt according to theInternational Law.—Internet

In this August 2009 handout photograph providedby The Denver Zoo, emperor tamarin monkey

twins Lara and Lucy look on from their home inthe zoo’s nursery. The twins are being cared for by

zookeepers after they were orphaned on 30 Julywhen their mother died from cancer, three weeks

after giving birth to the pair.—INTERNET

Soccer City, the site of the 2010 World Cup inSouth Africa.—INTERNET

QINGDAO (Shandong), 23 Aug—TheChina Alcoholic Drinks IndustryAssociation said on Sunday the countryis hopefully to become the world’slargest beer producer for the eighthstraight year this year with theproduction of 20.5 million tonnesforthe first half.

The association’s director WangYancai made the remarks at the ongoingQingdao International Beer Festival inQingdao, east China’s ShandongProvince.

Wang said the country’s breweriesmade 20.5 million tonnes of beer for thefirst six months, up 6 percent from thecorresponding period last year.

China has been making 40 million

tonnes of beer annually in recent years,compared with 24 million tons by theworld’s second largest producer, theUnited States, and 12 million tons byGermany that has a long history of beerproduction.

China became the world’s largestbeer producer in 2002. It has 251 beercompanies and 550 breweries, whoseproducts are mainly for domesticconsumption.

The market potential of beer wasshown at the ongoing QingdaoInternational Beer Festival, a famousannual event held in the coastal cityQingdao since 1991, with 250,000visitors drinking 68tons on 15 Aug, thefirst day of the festival.— Internet

China likely to be world’s largest beerproducer for eighth straight year

BEIJING, 23 Aug—Beijing has granted 311foreigners permanentresidence status sinceChina adopted a policyakin to the “green card” inthe United States in 2004,police said on Sunday.

The Beijingmunicipal public securitybureau has accepted 371applications for

permanent residencestatus over the past fiveyears, of which 311 havebeen approved, saidXu Jie, an officer in theexit-entry managementdivision of the bureau.

Among the 311, 39were granted the status forworking in the country,37 for making outstandingcontribution, 123 for

family re-union and therest 112 were expatriates.

Famous scientists,scholars, athletes, artistsand other talents, as wellas investors, are eligibleto apply for the permanentresidence status.

Spouses of Chinesecitizens or foreigners whohave been grantedpermanent residencestatus can apply for thestatus after having beenmarried and resided inChina for over five yearswith no less than ninemonths in China eachyear.—Internet

Southwestmonsoon

vigorous inW IndiaPUNA, 23 Aug—The

southwest monsoon hasbeen vigorous inMarathwada in west Indiaand active in north-eastern states like Assamand Meghalaya and Sub-Himalayan West Bengaland Sikkim, the Metoffice said on Saturday.

It has been subduedover west Uttar Pradesh,Uttarakhand, HimachalPradesh, Jammu andKashmir, Rajasthan, westMadhya Pradesh andGujarat state.—MNA/PTI

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Latinas, Asians leadMiss Universe poll

An Inuk woman eats seal meat laid out on a table during a community eventin Iqaluit, Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic on 22 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

Daniel Guirolaperforms to attract

customers to arestaurant in El

Salvador’s touristictown of Ataco, on 22

Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

A woman walk past a

bullet riddled police

vehicle after a

shooting in Tijuana,

Mexico, on 22 Aug,

2009. Four Tijuana

police vehicles were

shot early Saturday

leaving at least one

officer injured and

one suspect

arrested.—INTERNET

NASSAU, 23 Aug—Beau-ties from Latin Americaand Asia emerged as thecrowd’s favorites as thequest for the next MissUniverse neared.

An online poll spon-sored by contest officialsfavored Miss IndonesiaZivanna Letisha Siregar,followed by Miss Brazil

Larissa Costa and MissGuatemala LourdesFigueroa, on the eve ofshowdown among 15Miss Universe finalists.

Observers cast tens ofthousands of anonymousvotes by Internet. LatinAmerican contestantsheld 11 of the 15 top slotsin the informal poll.Reigning Miss UniverseDayana Mendoza hailsfrom Caracas, Venezuela.

Contest officials closeda comment section of theonline poll because morethan 50,000 submissionswere recorded in the firstcouple of days.”It was justso excessive,” said CarlAlthoff, a spokesman forthe pageant. “We weren’table to monitor them.”

Internet

Miss CanadaMariana Valente

India, Nepal sign new treaty to boost trade NEW DELHI, 23 Aug—

India and Nepal signed atrade treaty on Saturday toallow Nepali goods duty-free access to India andagreed to bolster securityalong their border tothwart militant attacks,

officials said.India will allow Nepal

to use the southern port ofVishakhapatnam for for-eign trade, Indian officialssaid. Trade between thetwo neighbours stood at1.9 billion US dollars and

they hope it will morethan double in a few yeartime. India is Nepal’s solefuel supplier and is theHimalayan nations mainforeign investor.

The treaty was signedduring a visit to India’scapital New Delhi by Ne-pal’ new Prime MinisterMadhav Kumar Nepal.

The moderate Commu-nist leader was chosen byNepal’s Parliament asPrime Minister in May,three weeks after Maoistleader Prachanda re-signed.

The two countries alsoagreed to boost securityalong a 1,750 kilometres(1,000 miles) border,which security officialssay is being used by mili-tants to enter India viaNepali territory.

MNA/Reuters

Japanese drug traffickersarrested in Istanbul

ISTANBUL, 23 Aug—Istanbul police forcescracked down a Japaneseorganized crimesyndicate, or yakuza,operating in Istanbul, localdaily Today’s Zamanreported here today.

The report said thatthe police launched fiveoperations last monthagainst criminalorganizations attemptingto establish drug tradeamong Iran, Turkey andJapan. Eight Iranian andfour Japanese drugsmugglers were arrested,according to the report.

Anti-smuggling andOrganized Crime Bureau

officials got informationthat the Japanese gangswere trying to smuggledmethamphetamine theyhave bought from Iran toJapan. The police were ableto trace the route of the drugsmugglers. The Iranian andJapanese drug smugglerswere closely monitored,and the police launchedtheir operation when thedrugs were brought toIstanbul from Iran.

In the first threeoperations, serveralJapanese and Iranian drugsmugglers were caughtwith a total of 350,000methamphetamine tablets.

MNA/Xinhua

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Death toll in Nigeriancholera outbreak hits 52

KANO, 23 Aug—A cholera outbreak in northernNigeria has killed 13 more people, taking the deathtoll to 52, the health commissioner said on Saturday.

“We recorded more cases of cholera outbreak inthe state in the last five days,” Zainab Baba Kwancitold AFP of the outbreak in Adamawa state.

“In Demsa, we have recorded nine deaths while 120people are hospitalised. In Fufure, we recorded fourdeaths and 18 hospitalised.”

On Tuesday, 39 people were reported killed by thedisease in Maiha, according to local governmentofficial Yahaya Hamman-Julde.

He said “scores of people” had been hospitalisedas a result of the disease, stressing that an ongoingstrike by medical workers in the state was hamperingefforts to assist the sick.

Julde could not pinpoint the cause of the outbreak,but recalled that a similar one in June killed 20 peoplein the area.Cholera is an intestinal infection that causesserious diarrhoea and vomiting leading to dehydration.With a short incubation period, it can be fatal if nottreated in time.—Internet

Works and Engineering crews clean up aroads on the Southshore from debris andseaweed that was left from the waves afterHurricane Bill passed some 150 miles offBermuda on 22 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

A map of Nigeria locating Adamawa state in thenortheast of the country. A cholera outbreak inthe state has killed 13 more people, taking the

death toll to 52, the health commissioner said onSaturday.—INTERNET

HAMILTON, 23 Aug— Hurricane Bill,weaker but still a large storm, headednortheast toward Canada’s Atlanticregions on Saturday, buffeting the NewEngland coast of the United States as itpassed with heavy swells, surf and rain.

The US National Hurricane Centerearlier downgraded Bill to a Category 1storm packing top winds of 85 miles perhour (140 km per hour). Category 1storms are the mildest on the five-stepSaffir-Simpson intensity scale but are stillpotentially threatening.

The track forecast for Bill, the firsthurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season,

Hong Kong reports 299 new cases ofA/H1N1 flu

HONG KONG, 23 Aug — Hong Kong confirmed 299 cases of A/H1N1 flu in the24 hours to 02:30 pm on Saturday, with the total number of infections reaching8,834 in the city, medical authorities said. A spokesman from the Centre of Health Protection said the new cases involve143 males and 156 females, aged between six months and 71 years old. Meanwhile, the city’s Hospital Authority said currently 72 confirmed patientsare staying in public hospitals for treatment. Among them, 58 are in stable condi-tion, four in serious and ten in critical condition. —Xinhua

Over 300 new A/H1N1 flu casesconfirmed in Europe

STOCKHOLM, 23 Aug— A European health agency said Saturday that 311 newA/H1N1 flu cases were reported in European countries within the last 24 hours.

Of the new cases, 279 were confirmed in Italy, 26 in Switzerland, five inSlovakia and one in Slovenia, the European Center for Disease Prevention andControl (ECDC) said in its daily situation report.

The cumulative number of confirmed cases of the A/H1N1 flu virus in the EU(European Union) and EFTA (European Free Trade Association) countries in-creased to 42,099, with 13,740 cases in Germany, 12,957 in Britain, 1,987 inPortugal, 1,538 in Spain and 1,473 in Netherlands, the ECDC said.

The total number of fatal cases rose to 80, with one new fatal case from Spain,the ECDC added. The ECDC publishes a daily situation report about the H1N1flu cases in the EU and EFTA countries based on official information from thesecountries.— Xinhua

Report says African populationreaches one billion

DAR ES SALAAM, 23Aug— Africa’s popula-tion has reached 1 billionas the continent’s popu-lation is growing byabout 24 million a year,

according to a latest re-port from a nonprofit or-ganization.

This was announced bythe report published bythe Washington-based the

Population Reference Bu-reau jointly with the USgovernment aid agencyUSAID, which expectsAfrican population todouble to nearly 2 billionby 2050. Although popu-lation growth has slowedin North African countriessuch as Egypt and Tuni-sia, on average women insub-Saharan Africa havemore children thanwomen elsewhere, the lo-cal daily the Guardian onSaturday quoted the re-port as saying.

“While globally theaverage woman has 2.6children, in sub-SaharanAfrica she has 5.3 chil-dren (which is down from6.7 children in around1950), the world’s high-est,” the report said.

Internet

Over 10 tons of rancidchicken meats destroyed

PHNOM PENH, 23 Aug— Over 10 tons of rancidchicken meats were confiscated and destroyed byCambodian provincial police, DAP News reportedin its website on Saturday.

The crackdown was led by Mork Pichrith, PatrolDepartment general director, and the Pursat PoliceCommissioner on Friday after checks revealed thechickens were inedible. These chicken meats destinedfor sale in capital Phnom Penh were burned and bur-ied by Pursat provincial police authorities on Friday.

The total amount of rancid chicken meats were1,048 kg and were exported from Thailand. “Thosewho exported these banned products, according torelevant laws, will be fined five million to 10 mil-lion riel (about 2,268 US dollars),” Mork Pichrithsaid.

It was crackdown by the police and we have pre-pared related documents for the court,” he confirmed.He also warned those involved to stop this businessand called for all Cambodians to carefully check theirfood before buying.

Xinhua

Weaker Hurricane Bill moves towardseastern Canada

would take it on a northward path off theNew England coast over Saturday night,moving over or near Nova Scotia inCanada on Sunday, the Miami-based NHCsaid. Bill was expected to slowly weakenin the next 24 hours as it moved over coolerwaters and encountered increasing verticalwind shear which would reduce itsintensity, it said.—Internet

Chinese herders walk on a dried-up reservoir inGulang, northern China’s Gansu Province inJuly. The worst drought to hit parts of north

China in six decades has left nearly five millionpeople short of water, while officials warn ofanother dry spell further south, state media

reported on Sunday.—INTERNET

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Dementieva to meet Sharapovain Toronto WTA final

TORONTO, 23 Aug—Elena Dementieva avenged atough Wimbledon defeat with a straight-sets victoryover second-seeded Serena Williams to reach thefinal of the two million-dollar WTA hardcourt tourna-ment here.

Fourth-seeded Dementieva defeated Williams 7-6(7/2), 6-1 will face Russian compatriot MariaSharapova in Sunday’s final.—Internet

Russia’s MariaSharapova celebratesher victory in the semi

final match againstcompatriot Alisa

Kleybanova at theRogers Cup at theRexall Centre inToronto, Ontario,

Canada. Sharapovawon 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.

INTERNET

Fergie expects 100-goalRooney to get even better

Wenger sweatsover Fabregas’s fitness

Arsenal’s Spanish mid-fielder Cesc Fabregas

(L) gets away fromPortsmouth’s South

African player AaronMokoena (R) during thePremier League footballmatch between Arsenaland Portsmouth at The

Emirates stadium inLondon. Arsenal won

4-1.—INTERNET

Celtic’s Mowbray turnsthoughts to Arsenal

GLASGOW, 23 Aug—Celtic manager Tony Mowbraysays he has already settled on the side that will faceArsenal on Wednesday as he watched the Hoops warmup for their crucial Champions League tie with a 5-2thrashing of St Johnstone. The win, which sends theOld Firm giants top of the Scottish Premier League,came four days after they lost the first leg of their play-off match against Arsene Wenger’s side 2-0 in Glasgow.

Now, with a place in the lucrative group stages ofthe competition at stake, Mowbray knows his sideneed to score at least twice at the Emirates Stadium ifthey are to have any hope of going through.—Internet

Celtic’s manager,Tony Mowbray watches teamplay Arsenal during an UEFAChampions League, play-off

round, first-leg football matchat Celtic Park, Glasgow,Scotland, on 18 August.

INTERNET

Adebayor repays Citywith another victory strike

Manchester City’sTogolese striker

Emmanuel Adebayor

Pato, Ronaldinho inspireMilan to opening win

AC Milan’s Patoof Brazil

Bayern humbled by Mainz,Leverkusen rout Freiburg

Mainz’s Austrianmidfielder AndreasIvanschitz (L) and

Mainz’ Burkinan strikerAristide Bance celebrate

scoring their secondgoal during the Germanfirst division Bundesliga

football match FSVMainz 05 vs FC BayernMunich in the western

German city ofMainz.—INTERNET

Nistelrooy, Diarra set to returnfor Real

Ruud van Nistelrooy

BERLIN, 23 Aug—Bayern Munich werehumbled 2-1 by promotedminnows Mainz in theBundesliga on Saturdaywhile the Bavarians’ rivalsBayer Leverkusen routedFreiburg 5-0 to lead thetable. Bayern’s new coachLouis van Gaal is stillwaiting for his firstBundesliga win since tak-ing charge in July as hisside were outplayed byMainz. Van Gaal left unfitmidfielder Franck Riberyout of his squad, but theFrenchman is expected tobe given game time fornext Saturday’s clash withchampions Wolfsburgwith Bayern badly needingtheir playmaker back.

Internet

ROME, 23 Aug—Brazil-ians Pato and Ronaldinhoproved there is life afterKaka as they inspired ACMilan to a 2-1 victory atSiena in coach Leonardo’s

opening Serie A match incharge of the Italian giantson Saturday.

Pato scored a brace butit was his Brazilian com-patriot Ronaldinho whocreated both goals to helpcountryman Leonardo be-gin his reign with a winand instantly ease the painfelt by Kaka’s switch toReal Madrid. The teenagePato paid tribute to hisstrike partner.—Internet

WIGAN, 23 Aug—Sir AlexFerguson believes WayneRooney will score “manymore” for ManchesterUnited after he joined aselect band of players to net100 goals for the club.Rooney reached the mile-stone after opening thescoring during his side’s 5-0victory at Wigan onSaturday.

The England striker endedthe match with two goals asUnited’s season explodedinto life after a low key start,which included a surprise1-0 defeat at newly-promotedBurnley.—Internet

Manchester United’sEnglish forwardWayne Rooney

controls the ballduring the English

Premier Leaguefootball matchbetween Wigan

Athletic andManchester United at

the DW Stadium inWigan. Manchesterwon 5-0.—INTERNET

Federer beats Murray to reachCincinnati ATP final

CINCINNATI, 23 Aug—World number one RogerFederer snapped a four-match losing streak againstsecond-ranked Andy Murray to book his berth in theCincinnati Masters final. Federer downed Murray6-2, 7-6 (10/8), his first victory against the Scot sincehis triumph in last year’s US Open final.

Since then, Murray had bested the Swiss superstarfour times, including twice this year.

In the final, Federer will face fourth-seeded SerbNovak Djokovic who swept past Spain’s Rafael Nadal6-1, 6-4 in the other semi-final.—Internet

LONDON, 23 Aug—CescFabregas is a major doubtfor Arsenal’s ChampionsLeague clash with Celticafter the midfielder wasforced out of the 4-1 winover Portsmouth with ahamstring injury.

Fabregas played just 45minutes of Saturday’svictory that was kick-started by two goals fromAbou Diaby and wrappedup with second half strikesfrom William Gallas andAaron Ramsey.

And Gunners managerArsene Wenger admittedafter the game that hiscaptain had only a slightchance of appearing in thisweek’s European play-off

second leg and could beout for up to threeweeks.—Internet

MANCHESTER, 23 Aug—Emmanuel Adebayor re-paid another slice of hishuge transfer fee as theManchester City striker’sgoal clinched a 1-0 vic-tory over Wolverhamptonon Saturday.City bossMark Hughes raised eye-brows when he paid 25million pounds to signAdebayor from Arsenal inthe close-season, but theTogo international hasmade an impressive startwith his new club.

He marked his debutwith the opening goal inlast weekend’s victory atBlackburn and smashedin his second of the cam-paign to kill off last sea-son’s Championship win-

ners at Eastlands.Hughesis still keen to sign Eng-land defender JoleonLescott from Everton tobolster his back-four, butCity are certain to produceplenty of goals judging bythe contributions ofAdebayor, Robinho andCarlos Tevez, who madehis first start following hisswitch from ManchesterUnited.

Internet

MADRID, 23 Aug—Ruud van Nistelrooy andMahamadou Diarra bothreturn from severalmonths out injured to jointhe Real Madrid squad forMonday’s Bernabeu Tro-phy match againstRosenborg, the Spanishclub said.

Van Nistelrooy, boughtfrom Manchester Unitedin 2006, has been out ofaction since last Novem-ber, when he underwentan operation on his right

knee.The Dutch strikerhas scored 45 league goalsfor Real, four of them lastseason before being in-jured, and was the topscorer in the league for2006-07 with 25 goals in37 matches.—Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudy inMagway Division, rain or thundershowers have beenisolated in Kayah State and Mandalay Division, scatteredin Kayin State, fairly widespread in Kachin, Shan and ChinStates, lower Sagaing and Bago Divisions, and widespreadin the remaining States and Divisions with isolatedheavyfalls in Rakhine State, upper Sagaing and TaninthayiDivisions. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded wereNay Pyi Taw (Yezin) (0.39) inch, Kawthoung (6.85) inches,Maungtaw (5.82) inches, Kalaywa (4.18) inches, Mawlaik(2.71) inches, Homalin (2.44) inches, Namhsam (2.28)inches, Kyauktaw (2.20) inches, Sittway(2.05) inches andKanbalu (1.26) inches.

Maximum temperature on 22-8-2009 was 91°F.Minimum temperature on 23-8-2009 was 72°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 23-8-2009 was 85%. TotalSun shine hours on 22-8-2009 was (2.4) hours approx.

Rainfall on 23-8-2009 was Tr at Mingaladon, (0.04)inchat Kaba-Aye and (0.12) inch at Central Yangon. Total rainfallsince 1-1-2009 was (81.30) inches at Mingaladon, (93.07 )inches at Kaba-Aye and (93.82) inches at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mphfrom Southwest at (03:30) hours MST on 23-8-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is weak to moderate in theAndaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 24th August 2009: Rainor thundershowers will be isolated to scattered in KayahState, lower Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway Divisions,fairly widespread in Shan and Kayin States, Bago, Yangonand Ayeyawady Divisions and widespread in the remainingareas. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Seas will be slight to moderate inMyanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Moderate monsoon.Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for

24-8-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for24-8-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for24-8-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (60%).

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Burnley 1 - 0 EvertonFulham 0 - 2 Chelsea

West Ham United 1-2Tottenham Hotspur

Junior Stanislas of West Ham United getstackled by Vedran Corluka of Tottenham

Hotspur.—INTERNET

LONDON, 23 Aug—Tottenham Hotspur made itthree wins from their first three matches with victoryat Upton Park.

The Hammers were leading through CarltonCole’s spectacular volley but the England striker’sbackpass then set up Jermain Defoe to level againsthis former club.

Another mistake led to Aaron Lennon’s winner,with Jonathan Spector slipping at the vital momentand the winger taking full advantage to rifle into thebottom corner.—Internet

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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 among thepeople

■ RFA, DVB - generating public outrage■ 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

NAY PYI TAW, 23Aug—Ministry of Healthin cooperation with localauthorities and social or-ganizations conductedfree medical treatment topatients with eye and den-tal complaints ofTaungtha Township,Mandalay Division atWelaung station hospital

Health Ministry provides free medicaltreatment in Taungtha Township

on 22 August.The Prime Minister

and party viewed and en-couraged the free medicaltreatment on 22 Augustmorning.

The free medicaltreatment team, compris-ing division health officer,three eye specialists andfour dental specialists, led

by the deputy director-general of Health Depart-ment gave medical care to528 eye patients fromTaungtha Township andprovided glasses for 50patients free. They thenarranged medical schemefor 50 patients with eyecomplaints and 110 den-tal patients.—MNA

Number of A (H1N1)-hit people touches 25One more patient released from hospitalNAY PYI TAW, 23

Aug—The AirportHealth Centre transferreda 58-year-old womanwith flu-like symptoms

to Waibagi Hospital yes-terday.

She arrived back byFlight No. MH-740 fromMalaysia the same day.

Her blood samplewas thus sent to the Na-tional Health Laboratoryto test for New Influenza

(See page 10)

Prime Minister General Thein Sein views free medical service being provided to local people of Taungtha Township at Welaung Station Hospital.—MNA

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