the new light of myanmar 25-12-2009

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Volume XVII, Number 253 10th Waxing of Pyatho 1371 ME Friday, 25 December, 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

National unity is the most essential requirementfor perpetuation of sovereignty of the State

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Dec—The following is the full text of the speech delivered by Senior General Than Shwe, Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, at theGraduation Parade of the 11th Intake of Defence Services Medical Academy today.

Senior General Than Shwe delivers an address at the Graduationparade of 11th Intake of Defence Services Medical Academy.—MNA

It is an honour for a Tatmadawman to

sacrifice his life for the country in the

fight against an enemy. However, it is an

undesirable loss for the country and the

Tatmadaw if a Tatmadawman lost his life

due to diseases.

Comrades,Today is the graduation

day of the 11th Intake of theDefence Services MedicalAcademy. As you will soonhave to discharge the dutiesof national defence and theduty of the Defence Serv-

ices Medical Corps, I wouldlike to give necessary guid-ance solemnly to all of you.Comrades,

As you have success-fully completed the mili-tary and medical studies atthe Academy, you will

have to provide health careservices to theTatmadawmen and theirfamily members in the regi-ments you are posted to.By nature of work, ourTatmadawmen are alwaysfacing the brunt of severe

weather, disease from dif-ferent regions and injuriescaused by various reasons.In addition, you will haveto perform your duties inthe far-flung remote areaswhere there would be nei-ther communications normedical health care serv-ices. Therefore, when youperform the duty of healthcare services for theTatmadawmen and their

families, apart from pro-viding medical treatment,it is necessary for you toundertake extensive edu-cational activities to pro-mote public awareness sothat they could live withhealth knowledge and con-sciousness. If each andevery Tatmadawman willbecome smart enough tolive with health knowledgeand consciousness in line

with the motto “Preven-tion is better than cure”,losses caused by diseasescould be prevented. It is anhonour for a Tatma-dawman to sacrifice his lifefor the country in the fightagainst an enemy. How-ever, it is an undesirableloss for the country and theTatmadaw if aTatmadawman lost his

(See page 7)

True patriotism means not to harbournarrow-minded nationalism

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Friday, 25 December, 2009

PERSPECTIVES

Upgrade rural gravel roadsto all-weather ones

The government has been improvinginfrastructures for development of rural areas,home to the majority of the people. As part of thedrive, it is seeking sources for adequate supply ofirrigation water because agricultural farming isthe main business of rural regions. Thanks to thedams, sluice gates, and clusters of dams and lakes,farmers are enjoying economic development,growing monsoon and summer paddy along withmany other crops through double-cropping andmultiple-cropping patterns.

In addition, the government has beenconstructing a large number of bridges over riversand creeks for ensuring smooth transport for theconvenience of the regions concerned. Now, ruralpeople are benefiting from inter-village roads,and roads linking urban and rural areas, andenjoying swift flow of local goods to other regions.

Aung Mingalar-Thayetsein gravel road inKyaukdaga Township was put into commission on21 December, as a result of the efforts jointly madeby Kyaukdaga Township and Pyu TownshipDevelopment Affairs Committees in Bago Division.So, local people in 51 villages of nine village-tractsin Tawkywe-in and Kanyutkwin regions in thetownships have easy access to smooth transport.

In the meantime, local people and well-wishersare making generous donations to help achieveongoing projects for rural development. Now,many villages have got affiliated basic educationhigh schools, new school buildings, and self-reliantvillage libraries, thus providing better learningopportunities for the youth and broadening thehorizons of the people in rural areas.

Due to new station hospitals, health centresand rural dispensaries, better heath care isprovided to respective villages and surroundingvillages. In some regions there are a large numberof model villages that reflect regional developmentin the economic, education, health and transportsectors.

The socio-economic life of rural people is nowimproving increasingly owing to the projects thegovernment, local administrative bodies, socialorganizations and well-wishers have beenimplementing with goodwill and in collaborationfor rural development.

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

People’s Desire

NAY PYI TAW, 24Dec—Minister for EnergyBrig-Gen Lun Thireceived AdministratorMr Zhang Guabao ofNational EnergyAdministration, Vice-Chairman of ChinaNational PetroleumCompany (CNPC) MrLiao Yong Yuan and partyfrom the People’sRepublic of China at theministry here on 20December. Theydiscussed matters toenhance bilateralcooperation in energysector.—MNA

Energy Minister receives Chinese guests

YANGON, 24 Dec—Myanmar Pharmaceuticals& Medical EquipmentEntrepreneurs’ Associationheld the 8th Annual General

MPMEEA holds annual general meeting

Meeting at UMFCCIOffice Tower on Min YeKyaw Swa Road inLanmadaw Township on22 December.

Chairman of theassociation Dr Win Sithuand President of UMFCCIU Win Myint spoke on theoccasion. Secretary U Zaw

Moe Khaing submitted theannual report and financialstatement for 2008-2009and sought the approval ofthe meeting.

Director U Than AungKyaw of Directorate ofTrade announced the 13-member CEC list for 2009-2010 including Dr WinSithu as Chairman, UThant Zin as Vice-Chairman, U Zaw MoeKhaing as Secretary andDr Thin Nwe Win as Joint-Secretary and 20executives.

The meeting endedwith concluding remarksby the chairman.

MNA

YANGON, 24 Dec—For those who are studying theASEAN Free Trade Agreements (AFTA), Dr DawThet Thet Khaing of Myanmar Women Entrepreneurs’Association will give talks on OrganizationalArchitecture for Tomorrows’ Challenges at Room-1009 on the 10th floor of Yuzana Tower at the corner ofKaba Aye Pagoda Road and Shwegondine Road inBahan Township from 1 pm to 3 pm on 26 December.

Those wishing to attend the talks may dial 556183or 095157032.

MNA

Talks on OrganizationalArchitecture for Tomorrows’

Challenges on 26 DecNAY PYI TAW, 24 Dec—Apart from

three-year and five-year governmenttreasury bonds in circulation, theCentral Bank of Myanmar, on behalfof the government, will publish two-year government treasury bonds on 1January 2010. Bonds can be freelybought in groups or individually.

The interest rate for two-yeargovernment treasury bonds is 10.5percent; three-year governmenttreasure bonds, 11.00 percent; and five-year government treasure bonds, 11.5percent.

Two-year government treasury bonds tobe in circulation

Interests are issued biannually: on15 March, and 15 September. Bondscan be handed over or sold.

Government treasure bonds areavailable at Myanma Economic BankHead Office (Nay Pyi Taw) in BanksZone on Myat Pan Thazin Street in NayPyi Taw; Myanma Loan CertificatesTrading Co Ltd at 21/25 on Sule PagodaRoad; and Myanmar Economic BankSaving Bank (Branch) Nos (1), (2), (3)and (4) in Yangon; and MyanmaEconomic Bank Branch Nos (1), (2)and (3) in Mandalay.—MNA

Secretary U Zaw Moe Khaing of Myanmar Pharmaceuticals &Medical Equipment Entrepreneurs’ Association reads out the annual

report and financial statement for 2008-2009.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi receives Administrator Mr Zhang Guabao ofNational Energy Administration and Vice-Chairman of China National

Petroleum Company (CNPC) Mr Liao Yong Yuan of PRC.—MNA

Hninsi HnitthitConcert on

8-10 JanNAY PYI TAW, 24 Dec

— Directed by DirectorMaung Myo Min (YinTwin Phyit) and performedby film and music stars,Hninsi Hnitthit Concertwill be staged at NationalTheatre on MyomaKyaung Road in DagonTownship, Yangon, from8 to 10 January 2010 inorder to raise fund ofMyanmar Anti-NarcoticAssociation (Central).

MNA

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Two missing

US-made fighter

jet engines,

worth 29 milliondollars, have

been traced to

Argentina,

police said on

Thursday. INTERNET

Suicide bomber kills four inPakistan’s Peshawar

British soldier killedin Afghanistan

explosionLONDON, 24 Dec – A

British soldier has beenkilled by an explosion insouthern Afghanistan, thethird to die in the regionin three days, the Minis-try of Defence said onWednesday. The soldierfrom The Parachute Regi-ment was killed on Tues-day “as a result of a sus-pected improvised explo-sive device (IED)” whileon foot patrol south ofSangin in Helmand Prov-ince, the ministry said ina statement.

He was the third Britishsoldier to be killed in south-ern Afghanistan since Sun-day, and brings the deathtoll since the US-led inva-sion in October 2001 to243, with 106 killed sincethe beginning of this year.Prime Minister GordonBrown’s government re-cently announced a 150-million-pound (240-mil-lion-dollar, 168-million-euro) programme to com-bat the threat of IEDs,which cause the vast ma-jority of British troopdeaths.— Internet

At least two killed inexplosion in northern Iraq MOSUL, 24 Dec — At least two people were killed

and five injured on Wednesday in a powerful explo-sion near a church in central Mosul, the capital of north-ern Iraq’s Nineveh Province, a police source said.Theblast took place in the morning near a church in the al-Sa’ah neighbourhood in central the city, the source toldXinhua on condition of anonymity.

The police could not immediately say whether thepowerful blast was caused by a car bomb or a roadsidebomb, the source said. Eight day ago, Mosul was thescene for a twin bombing, carried out by a booby-trapped cart and followed by a roadside bomb explo-sions near another church in the city, killing five peo-ple and wounding 40 others. — Xinhua

PESHAWAR, 24 Dec —A suicide bomber strucknear an army and policecheckpoint in Pakistan’snorthwestern Peshawarcity on Thursday, killingat least four people andwounding about 10 more,officials said. The blaststruck Peshawar’s busyMall Road, home to gov-ernment offices, banksand private companies, inan army cantonment area.

“Four people werekilled and more than 10injured. Apparently it wasa suicide attack,”

Sahibzada MohammadAnis, the top administra-tive official for Peshawar,told AFP. Bashir AhmedBilour, a senior ministerin the provincial govern-ment, confirmed the deathtoll and said the blast wascaused by a suicidebomber, although it wasnot clear if the attackerwas on foot or in a car.

“I can see smoke andinjured people lying onthe ground,” witnessShahid Khan, who worksfor a local advertisingagency, told AFP by tel-

ephone. The attack cametwo days after a teenagesuicide bomber attacked aPakistan journalists’ clubin Peshawar, killing threepeople in an unprec-edented assault on themedia.— Internet

Map of Pakistanlocating Peshawar. Asuicide bomber struck

near an army andpolice checkpoint in

Pakistan’s northwest-ern Peshawar city onThursday.— INTERNET

A government workershows villagers the way toa truck after they wereevacuated from theirshanties near the MayonVolcano in Guinobatantown, Albay Province,south of Manila on 24Dec, 2009. The Philip-pines’ most active vol-cano shot higher ash col-umns and rumbledlouder on Wednesday asauthorities warned of apotential hazardouseruption in MountMayon anytime. INTERNET

Roadside bomb kills two civilians,wounds three in S Afghanistan

Bicycle bomb kills threeAfghan civilians

KABUL, 24 Dec— An explosive device planted on abicycle was detonated in Helmand Province south ofAfghanistan, killing three civilians and wounding fiveothers on Wednesday, a local official said. “The gruesome incident occurred in a bazaar inNadali District this morning,” spokesman for provin-cial administration Daud Ahmadi said. “As a result,three innocent civilians were killed and five others,including four civilians and one Afghan soldier, sus-tained injuries.” He put the attack on enemies of peace, a term usedagainst Taleban militants. But the outfit has yet to makecomment. — Xinhua Five killed, would-be suicide bomber

captured in BaghdadBAGHDAD, 24 Dec —

Four policemen and a ci-vilian was killed and threepeople wounded in sepa-rate attacks, while Iraqisecurity forces arrested awould-be suicide bomberin Baghdad, Iraqi securityforces said on Wednesday.

Four policemen wereshot when gunmen at-tacked their checkpoint inAbu Ghraib area, west ofBaghdad, a local policesource told Xinhua oncondition of anonymity.

In Baghdad, a bomb at-tached to a minibus carry-ing passengers detonatedin the neighbourhood ofKadhmiyah in northernthe capital, killing a pas-senger and woundingthree others, a policesource told Xinhua.

In separate incident,Iraqi security forcessearched a suspectedhouse in Baghdad’s west-ern district of Jami’a andarrested a would-be sui-cide bomber, seizing three

explosive-belts and 24bags of chemical sub-stances which can be usedin homemade bombs,Qassim Atta, spokesmanof Baghdad operationscommand, said in a state-ment. Intelligence reportssaid that the suspect waspreparing to carry out sui-cide attack on civiliansand Iraqi security forcesin the neighbourhood,Atta added.

Xinhua

KABUL, 24 Dec— Two civilians werekilled and three others injured as theircar run over a roadside bomb plantedby Taleban militants in Kandahar Prov-ince of southern Afghanistan onWednesday, said a statement of InteriorMinistry “The terrorist incident oc-curred today in Takhta Pul District,” thestatement added.

“As a result, two civilians were killedand three others got wounded.” Thestatement blamed the enemies of Af-ghanistan, a term used against Taleban

militants, for carrying out the blast.It is the second bombing in the res-

tive southern region on Wednesday.A previous attack which rocked

Nadali District in Helmand Provinceclaimed the lives of three civilians andwounded five others including an Afghansoldier.

Taleban militants, who fight Afghan,NATO and US troops, often plant mineson roads and highways to target securityforces. But such attacks often claim thelives of innocent Afghans.— Xinhua

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A plough works to keep the road open. A seven-year-old boy was stopped bypolice in northern Germany while trying to plough snow with a front loader

he borrowed from his parents’ business, authorities said.—INTERNET

A high-speed train stops at the high-speed railway maintenance base in Wuhan,capital of central China’s Hubei Province, on 22 Dec, 2009. This base is one

of the four high-speed train maintenance bases in China. — XINHUA

SAN FRANCISCO, 24Dec — It seems that someof the worst-case sce-narios, predicted earlier in2009 for the informationtechnology (IT) industry,might have unexpectedhappy endings as the yeardraws to a close.

Research firm Gartnerpainted a gloomy picturein March, forecasting glo-bal personal computer(PC) shipments willplunge 11.9 percent in the

STOCKHOLM, 24 Dec — Ford is close to selling itsVolvo unit to China’s Geely Group and expects a finaldeal early next year, the US auto giant said in a state-ment. “Ford Motor Company confirmed today that allsubstantive commercial terms relating to the poten-tial sale of Volvo Car Corporation have been settledbetween Ford and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group,”the statement said.

Ford said that work on financing and governmentapprovals remains to be completed, adding that it ex-pects the deal to close “in the second quarter 2010.”“The perspective sale would ensure Volvo has the re-sources, including the capital investment, necessaryto further strengthen the business and build its globalfranchise,” Ford said. Ford’s statement did not revealthe amount of Geely’s offer.—Xinhua

BEIJING, 24 Dec —Britain has overtakenFrance and Italy in thenumber of cheeses itmanufactures. Accordingto Juliet Harbutt, a globalauthority on cheese whoorganizes the BritishCheese Awards, about 700varieties now boast a“Made in Britain” label.This is 100 more varietiesthan France produces, andtwice as many as Italy.

Britain’s cheese-mak-ing renaissance began 20years ago when many ofthe nation’s 200 special-ist cheese companiesstarted operations.

The big reduction, 15years ago, in the powersof the Milk MarketingBoard, which had boughtup most milk from pro-ducers, and the introduc-tion of European Unionmilk quotas in the 1980s,both proved the spur fordairy farmers to look forother ways of using theircore product.

Xinhua

NEW YORK, 24 Dec —The dollar pulled backagainst major currencieson Wednesday amid somedisappointing US eco-nomic reports. US newhome sales tumbled 11.3percent in November to a355,000-unit seasonallyadjusted annual rate, thelowest since April, the

MADRID, 24 Dec —Spain’s Telefonica said onWednesday its 02 unit hadbought Jajah, a providerof Internet-based phoneservice with headquartersin the US and Israel, for145 million euros (207million dollars).

The all cash deal issubject to approval bySpain’s antitrust authori-ties, the former state mo-nopoly said in a state-ment. Like Skype, Jajahallows its users to makefree calls among its usersover the Internet or very

Partial view of the building housing the Spanishtelecom company Telefonica taken in downtown

Madrid.Telefonica said on Wednesday its 02 unit hadbought Jajah, a provider of Internet-based phone

service with headquarters in the US and Israel, for145 million euros (207 million dollars). — INTERNET

Spain’s Telefonica buys Internet phoneprovider Jajahcheap calls to a fixed-lineor mobile number.

The company, whichhas 25 million clientsworldwide, had report-edly sparked interest fromMicrosoft and Cisco. Itwas founded in 2005 byAustrian entrepreneursRoman Scharf and DanielMattes.

“The acquisition ofJajah broadens the scopeof our communicationsoffering and opens up newcapabilities in the voicecommunication space,”the chief executive ofTelefonica Europe, Mat-thew Key, said in thestatement.

Internet

IT industry hits bottom in 2009but upward route still unclear

year from 2008, a drop itsaid would be the sharp-est for the industry in his-tory and would dwarf theprevious record declinereached in 2001 duringthe dot-com bust.

In the followingmonths, Gartner madeseveral adjustments to thepredictions with opti-mism increasing eachtime. In most recent up-dates issued in Novem-ber, the firm said it now

expect worldwide PCshipments to climb 2.8percent year-on-year in2009 and will achievedouble-digit growth in thecoming year.

The increasing de-mand for PCs is seen as akey indicator that theoverall IT market has bot-tomed out and may beembarking on the road torecovery.—Xinhua

Ford close to selling Volvounit to China’s Geely

JAKARTA, 24 Dec — The exports of cocoa fromIndonesia is predicted to keep steady this year andnext year, compared to that of at last year which stoodat 350,000 tons, Indonesian Cocoa Association saidon Thursday. Chairman of Indonesian Cocoa Asso-ciation Halim Razak said that Indonesia has attemptedto boost the quality of the commodity to raise its addedvalue.

By conducting fermentation programme, the chair-man said that it could give added value as much as150 to 200 US dollars per ton. He said that currently,the Indonesia’s cocoa quality is still lower than theproducts from Ghana.—Internet

US dollar falls against major currenciesCommerce Departmentreported. The estimatesfor sales in August, Sep-tember and October wererevised down.

A plausible explana-tion for the drop is pay-back for the first-timehomebuyer’s tax credit,which has been set to ex-pire on 30 Nov. But thebig decline is unexpectedand disappointing as itshowed that demand for

new homes is still notstrong enough to supportexpansion plans of home-builders. US consumerspending rose 0.5 percentin November, accordingto another governmentreport. After inflation, theincrease was 0.2 percent.Personal income was up0.4 percent in November,with an increase of 0.3percent in wage and sal-ary income.—Xinhua

BritainoutnumbersFrance with

cheese

Indonesia’s cocoa export predicted flat

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Chile gives priority to tradewith ASEAN countries

SANTIAGO, 24 Dec—Chile held a business seminaron Wednesday to strengthen its trade ties with the coun-tries of the Association of South East Asian Nations(ASEAN).

Organized by the state-run trade promotion organiza-tion, ProChile, and the Chamber of Commerce for AsiaPacific, the seminar aimed to have access to updated in-formation about ASEAN countries and to discuss thebenefits, challenges and opportunities for Chilean export-ers and importers. Rodrigo Contreras, representative ofthe Economic International Affairs Direction, said thatChile has set its target on ASEAN countries, mainly Vi-etnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

“We have entered the vast Asian markets and wehave had trade agreements with China, South Korea,Japan and India, so currently our priority is given totrade negotiations with ASEAN countries,” Contrerassaid. He said the “ASEAN countries represent big tradepotential for Chile.” Currently the trade exchange be-tween Chile and ASEAN countries has surpassed 2billion US dollars, Contreras added. Diplomats ofMalaysia, Thailand and Vietnam attended the semi-nar.—Xinhua

Russia likely to buy foreign helicopter carrier

Syria, Turkeymove towards

closer cooperationDAMASCUS, 24 Dec—

Syria and Turkey onWednesday signed 50agreements and memoran-dum of understanding(MoU) and a work pro-gramme for joint coopera-tion, as leaders of the twocountries met and vowedto further enhance bilateralrelations.

“The Syrian-Turkish re-lations have developedover the past few years,however we still have along way to go,” SyrianPresident Bashar al-Assadsaid at a joint Press con-ference with visiting Turk-ish Prime Minister RecepTayyip Erdogan. “Thefruits of our deep relationscould be seen in all fields,which became a realitythat anyone couldn’t ig-nore,” said Assad.

Xinhua

Climate change putsecosystems on run

WASHINGTON, 24 Dec—Global warming is causingclimate belts to shift toward the poles and to higherelevations, to keep pace with which, the average eco-system will need to shift about a quarter mile eachyear, said a new study led by scientists at the CarnegieInstitution. For some habitats, such as low-lying ar-eas, climate belts are moving even faster, putting manyspecies in jeopardy, especially where human develop-ment has blocked migration paths, said the report inthe 24 Dec issue of journal Nature.

“Expressed as velocities, climate-change projectionsconnect directly to survival prospects for plants andanimals. These are the conditions that will set the stage,whether species move or cope in place,” said studyco-author Chris Field, director of the Carnegie Insti-tution’s Department of Global Ecology.

The research team, which included researchers fromthe Carnegie Institution, Stanford University, the Cali-fornia Academy of Sciences, and the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, combined data on current climateand temperature gradients worldwide with climatemodel projections for the next century to calculate the“temperature velocity” for different regions of theworld.—Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 24 Dec—A new study in the journalInfection Control and Hospital Epidemiology reportsa surge in drug resistant strains of Acinetobacter, adangerous type of bacteria that is becoming increas-ingly common in US hospitals. This study is beingposted online on Wednesday and will appear in thejournal’s February print edition.

Acinetobacter infections attack patients in hospitalintensive care units and others and have recentlyplagued soldiers returning home from the war in Iraq.These infections often appear as severe pneumoniasor bloodstream infections, and require strong drugs tobe treated, when they can be stopped at all.—Xinhua

MOSCOW, 24 Dec—Russia’s purchase of a for-eign helicopter carrier ishighly likely, DefenceMinister Anatoly Serd-yukov told the dailyRosiiskaya Gazeta in aninterview. “We are nowanalyzing the terms onwhich it may be deliveredto us. But I think thechances are very high,”Serdyukov said in theinterview to be publishedon Thursday.

Negotiations on the

purchase of the Frenchhelicopter carrier Mistralare progressing “wellenough,” he said, addingthat talks on the acquisi-tion of a similar vessel areunderway with othercountries. Serdyukov alsosaid Russia may buy someelements of the Frenchmilitary hardware.

“We are interestedonly in certain specific el-ements. For instance,communication and con-trol systems,” he said.

The Defence Ministersaid Russia’s military re-form will continue overthe next few years. “Ac-cording to the presidentialdecree, the troops will bereduced to 1 million by2016,” said Serdyukov.Hesaid another major task isthe rearmament of thearmed forces. “We expectthe share of modern hard-ware and weapons to reachone third by 2012 and thenrise to 70-100 percent by2020,” he said.—Xinhua

A visitor watchesa Chinese inkpainting work

during the exhibi-tion “Spotlight on

Chinese InkPainting: Inter-

national ArtExhibition in

India” at HotelTaj Mahal in NewDelhi, capital ofIndia, on 23 Dec,2009.— XINHUA

Dollsheads

and bodyparts aredisplayedin draw-ers at the

DollHospitalin Lisbon

on 17Dec,2009.

XINHUA

All Items from XinhuaNews Agency

New studyshows rise

in drugresistance

of dangerousinfection inUS hospitals

This photo released by Anthony M. Tortorielloshows Faith a two-legged dog walking down Michi-

gan Ave to the wonderment of the humanpedestrians.—INTERNET

Poland to increasetroops in Afghanistan

KABUL, 24 Dec— Poland would boost its militarypresence in Afghanistan within the framework of theNATO-led International Security Assistance Force(ISAF), a statement issued by Afghanistan’s Presiden-tial Palace said on Wednesday.

The statement was released at the conclusion ofthe meeting between the visiting Polish Defence Min-ister Bogdan Klich and Afghan President HamidKarzai.

“Defence Minister Bogdan Klich called on Presi-dent Karzai at his palace on Wednesday and said thatPoland would increase its troops within NATO frame-work to up to 2,600 by April 2010,” said thestatement.Some 2,000 Polish troops are currently sta-tioned in Afghanistan under NATO command to helpstabilize security in the war-ravaged country.

Karzai, according to the statement, called for Klichto facilitate Afghan youth study in Poland in bothmilitary and civilian fields. The Polish defence min-ister arrived in Afghanistan Tuesday to pay a visit toPolish troops, which were stationed in the centralGhazni Province.

Xinhua

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Motorists passing by the strickencat, named Timothy, did not bother tostop, thinking it had been injured.

But one couple driving along thebusy road in Minnesota decided toinvestigate and pulled over.

It was only then they realized itspaws had been cruelly glued to thetarmac.

Rosey Quinn, from Second ChanceRescue, told KSFY.com: “It’s a mouthdropper because you are just like areyou kidding me? But they did it.”

She added the rescue service hadnever seen anything like it before.

Timothy is now recovering frominjuries he suffered when he wasremoved from the road.

Clowns take part in an annualpilgrimage outside at the Basilica ofGuadalupe in Mexico City . About600 clowns took part in the annual

event to thank the Virgin ofGuadalupe for helping them find

work through the year, according tolocal media.

“Dead” woman, 73,

revived after 30 minutesA 73-year-old woman was revived

half an hour after her heart stoppedbeating during an electrocardiogram testin Changsha, Hunan Province.

A coronary heart patient, the woman’sheart stopped beating unexpectedlyduring a physical examination, accordingto doctors.

Doctors said it was rare for a personto come back to life after 30 minutes.

“Usually, if a person cannot berevived within six minutes, they die,” adoctor said.

Giant Pyramid UFO ‘Hovers Over Moscow’

Giant Pyramid UFO ‘Hovers OverMoscow’

A mysterious ‘UFO’ seen in the skyover Moscow has sparked speculationthat the city has been visited by an alienspacecraft.

The fuzzy grey shape was apparentlycaptured on film in at least two separatevideos - one filmed during the daytimeand another at night - which became anonline sensation.

But sceptics suggested there wouldbe thousands of videos, rather than justtwo, if the object really had remained inthe skies for hours.

Russian police have not commentedon the alleged sightings.

The reports of the pyramid comejust days after a Russian missile launchset off a spate of UFO sightings inNorway.

The dramatic light spiral seen overthe north of the country promptedtheories that it was caused by a meteor,

the Northern Lights or even aliens.However, HYPERLINK “http://

uk.news.yahoo.com/fc/russia.html”Russia later revealed that its test-firingof a new intercontinental missile hadended in failure - at the same time asobservers witnessed the early morninglight show.

“Superman” lifts car off6-year-old girl to save her

A US man is hailed as “Superman”after lifting a car off a 6-year-old girl,according to media reports on Monday.

The girl escaped with minor injuriesafter she and neighbour Nick Harris saidshe was pinned under the vehicle.

Harris lives in the neighbour of Ashlynin Ottawa, Kansas. The 5-foot-7 (1.74m), 185-pound (83.9 kg) man said hedoesn’t know how he managed to lift theMercury sedan off the child. He triedlater to lift other cars and couldn’t.

Harris was dropping off his daughter atschool when he saw a driver backing hercar out of a driveway and over the child.

”I didn’t even think. I ran over there asfast as I could, grabbed the rear end of thecar and lifted and pushed as hard as I couldto get the tyre off the child,” Harris said.

There were no witnesses to confirmwhat happened.

Police said they don’t have anythingto dispute it and it appeared Ashlyn wasn’tpinned under the car long enough to beseriously hurt.

MANILA, 24 Dec—A ferry collided with a fishingboat off the Philippines on Thursday killing three peo-ple and leaving about two dozen missing, an officialsaid.

Rescue boats picked up nearly 50 people from theferry as it began to sink following the collision, CoastGuard spokesman Commander Armand Balilo said.

“Our search teams have found three bodies, butwe continue to search for two dozen still missing,”he told reporters.

The weather was clear at the time of the accidentand officials said they would investigate what causedthe collision.

Ferries are an important mode of transport in thePhilippines, an archipelago of more than 7,100 islands.But, accidents are common because if overcrowding,poor maintenance and tropical storms.

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WYTHEVILLE, 24 Dec – A daylong standoff at asmall-town Virginia post office ended peacefully withthree hostages being released and a suspect who cameout of the building in a wheelchair in custody, policesaid late Wednesday.Warren Taylor of Sullivan County,Tenn., is being questioned and authorities do not yethave a motive, state police Sgt Michael Conroy said.The hostages and suspect left the building in Wythevilleafter authorities ordered the man to surrender.

The standoff began at about 2:30 pm when shots werefired at the one-storey brick post office in the mountaintown in western Virginia. No one was injured, and rela-tives of two of the hostages said they were able to talkto their loved ones by phone. It ended about 8 1/2 hourslater without the dozens of SWAT members armed withautomatic weapons having to fire a shot. “We’re justgrateful it ended peacefully,” Conroy said. “This is justthe best outcome we could hope for.”—Internet

SYDNEY, 24 Dec—An Australian mother wascharged on Wednesday with leaving her little boylocked inside her vehicle in extremely hot conditionswhile she went shopping. The woman, who has ad-mitted making a “stupid mistake”, was charged withleaving a child unsupervised in a motor vehicle.

The 18-month-old was rescued by shopkeeperswho used a hammer to smash their way into a four-wheel drive in the car park of a shopping centre atMcGraths Hill in northwest Sydney. The tempera-ture inside the vehicle was estimated to be more than60 degrees Celsius. The boy’s 34-year-old mother, whohas five children, had been contacted by caseworkersinvestigating the matter, authorities said. — Xinhua

KABUL, 24 Dec—“I have little hope to return homesafe and sound in the evening,” the nine-year-old RahmatKhan said. Selling shopping bags in a dusty bazaar alongKabul river to support his five-member family, Khan saidthat he and his elder brother both earn between 150Afghanis (3 US dollars) to 250 Afghanis (5 US dollars)daily. His elder brother washes cars in the afternoon andattends school in the morning.

Revealing his ordeal, the child said that his fatherwas a shopkeeper and one day last year when he wasgoing to his shop, suddenly a suicide bomber targetedforeign troops in Hodkhil area killing several personsincluding his father. “My father was martyred in thesuicide attack and since then I cannot attend schoolregularly,” the minor Khan, a student of grade threelamented.—Internet

One of rela-tives reacts asthey wait fornews of theirloved ones at

the PhilippineCoast Guardheadquarters

in Manila,Philippines on

24 Dec, 2009.INTERNET

Three dead, dozens missing in Philippineferry collision

Australian mother charged forlocking baby in 60-degree Celsius car

Continued militancy makesfuture bleak for Afghans

A suspect in

a wheelchair

surrenders

to a police

robot after

holding

hostages at a

post office in

Wytheville,

Va, on 23

Dec, 2009.

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Daylong Va post office standoffends peacefully

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National unity is the most essential…(from page 1 )

life due to diseases.Therefore, you mustrender health care serv-

munication and trans-portation are difficult. Iwould like to urge youto treat such family

are those who do not hesi-tate to sacrifice their livesfor the country and theTatmadaw if necessary.

render health care serv-ices of the Tatmadawmenand members of theirfamilies who have been

carrying out the supply-ing duties in the base. Inwhatever region or situa-tion you are posted, youneed to render your serv-ices with goodwill and

kindness according to themotto: "Goodwill andKindness take harm away".The services of the mem-bers of the Medical Corpslike you play an importantrole for the Tatmadaw, asthe combating warriorswill be able to fully per-form their national defenceduties only when they arein good health and fitnessand high morale.Comrades,

There have been ad-vancements in medicalscience and military re-lated science with thechanges of eras and sys-tems. Nuclear, chemicaland biological weaponshave been produced bycombination of medicaland military sciences.There were times whenthose weapons were used

(See page 8)

ices to Tatmadawmenwho are performing na-tional defence duties inaccordance with the aimof the Defence ServicesMedical Corps "SoundHealth and Fitness forCombat Capability" sothat all the Tatmadawmencould fulfill their dutiesin good health withoutany trouble of diseases.Beside, our family mem-bers must also take partin rendering necessarysupport together with theTatmadawmen in the re-mote regions where com-

members as your ownclose relatives and pro-vide health care servicesto them.Comrades,

You are medical pro-fessional as well as mem-bers of the Tatmadawmenshouldering the duties ofnational defence. OurTatmadaw has alwayspaid respect to its loyaltyto the State and the peo-ple, as it is steadfastlyupholding the “FourOaths” of its commit-ments.

The Tatmadawmen

Those fine and noble tra-ditions of our Tatmadawmust be upheld and main-tained at risk of your lives.As the main responsibil-ity of Tatmadaw is safe-guarding of the countryand national security, youmust also perform yourduty of defending thecountry playing whateverrole you are in. You haveto perform the duties ofproviding medical serv-ices hand-in-hand with thecombatant Tatmadawmenin the frontline. Likewise,you will also have to

Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe meets with two outstanding cadets andtheir parents.—MNA

Commander-in-Chief of Defence ServicesSenior General Than Shwe awards cadetPhone Zaw Khaing who won Best Cadet

Award.—MNA

Commander-in-Chief of Defence ServicesSenior General Than Shwe awards cadetPhone Zaw Khaing who won Award for

Excellent performance in Training.—MNA

Commander-in-Chief of Defence ServicesSenior General Than Shwe awards cadet

Wunna Taing Kyaw who won Award for Ex-cellent performance in Studies.—MNA

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National unity is the most essential…(from page 7)

in some regions althoughthe international commu-nity is making efforts tocontrol and restrict thoseweapons, as the attacks withsuch kinds of dangerousweapons could have seri-ous consequences causingsocial sufferings for con-secutive generations ofmankind. As you are mem-bers of Tatmadaw andmedical professions, youare required to seek waysand means in advance toprevent the dangerousconsequences of these nu-clear, chemical and bio-logical weapons. Onlythen will you be able toprotect the members ofthe Armed Forces effec-tively in the face of suchdangers. Therefore, apartfrom your studies at theAcademy, you have to pur-sue further studies on a sus-tainable basis not only ofthe ever progressing medi-cal science but also other

related military science andtactics. I wish to urge you toapply your profession withinnovative and creative ef-forts in the interest of thecountry and the Tatmadawthrough exchange ofknowledge and experiencesgained in your practical lifeamong yourselves.Comrades,

Being Tatmadawmenperforming duties of na-tional defence, we shouldalways undergo training toget ourselves ever ready forcombat in accordance withthe motto of "ThreeForevers". You have beentrained to acquire the mili-tary education by the Acad-emy up to the level of aPlatoon Commander. Youwill also have the opportu-nity to study further ad-vanced military educationoccasionally at the militarytraining institutes. Whilepracticing continuouslymilitary profession, youneed to keep pursuing stud-

ies in ever changing mili-tary tactic so that you willbe able to lead your troopsin the battle fields in time ofneed. Moreover, only when

you keep on practicing yourmedical knowledge learntfrom the Academy, will yoube able to carry out healthcare activities effectively.

Being Tatmadawmen andmedical doctors, you needto be not only military lead-ers with full of physicalprowess and combat capa-

bility but also medical doc-tors with mental prowessand kind heart to help oth-ers. I wish to urge you totrain and build up your-

selves in order to becomegood leaders imbued withboth physical and mentalprowess.Comrades,

As the Tatmadaw wasborn out of the peoples, we

always uphold the interestof the people. During thecourse of the history, wehave made our utmost en-deavours to carry out thepublic welfare activities.Our members of medicalcorps sacrificed their owninterest and rendered as-sistance to the people inthe areas affected by theCyclone Nargis in earlyMay 2008. TheTatmadaw has proved itsgoodwill intention ren-dering help with warmth,goodwill and loving kind-ness to the people livingin the far-flung remoteareas lacking in commu-nication and transporta-tion facilities. The collec-tive efforts of the State,people and the Tatmadawhas successfully overcomethe ensuing epidemics that

could arise in the areasstruck by natural disasters.In that regard, contribu-tions of the Members ofthe Medical Corps deservecommendation and havebeen put on record withhigh esteem and honour.As all of you are to beassigned at different re-gions of the country, youhave to look after the healthand wellbeing of the localpeople to the best of yourability. Since majority ofthe people of our countrylive in the rural areas,the Government has laiddown five programmesfor Rural Areas Devel-opment with a view toemergence of the new,modern developed nationand is striving to achievethe objective of makingevery one free from cur-able diseases fully enjoya long life. Therefore,

while lending your handsin implementing the Na-tional Health Plan laiddown by the State, youhave to continue to partici-pate in the public welfareactivities in line with thefine tradition of theTatmadaw.Comrades,

Being physicians andmembers of the Tatmadaw,all of you are also youngleaders of the Tatmadaw.Therefore, you are requiredto equip yourselves with theleadership qualities. What-ever tasks assigned to youmust be fulfilled togetherwith the members underyour charge by exerting cor-rect leadership. Good lead-ership means having firmbelief in yourselves,capabilities, and possessing

(See page 9)

Distinguished guests seen at Graduation Parade of 11th Intake of DSMA.—MNA

Distinguished guests seen at Graduation Parade of 11th Intake of DSMA.—MNA

Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe taking salute of cadet battalion.—MNA

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National unity is the most essential…

Senior General Than Shwe addresses …

(from page 8)the ability to build themembers under your lead-ership to have good mo-rale, discipline, full capa-bilities, unity, and the abil-ity to lead them to worktogether under your man-agement.

Moreover, as you aregoing to lead and super-vise the members of themedical corps, you haveto be excelled in your re-spective professions inorder to earn admiration,trust and reliance from themembers of the corps.

In this way, you cansuccessfully fulfill all theassigned duties harmoni-ously with the team spirit.Comrades,

As you are to be as-signed at different regionsof the country, you haveto build up the nationalunity while performingyour duties to look afterthe health and wellbeingof the national brethren.National unity is the mostessential requirement forthe perpetuation of thesovereignty of the Statewhich is resided by overone hundred nationalraces. Although we havedifferent faiths and tradi-tions, all the nationalitiesare the citizens of the Un-ion of Myanmar with thesame characteristics suchas kindness, helpfulness,patience, bravery, and pa-triotism. True patriotism

means not to harbournarrow-minded nation-alism, but to have thetrue patriotic spirit de-sirous of working to-gether for the perpetua-tion, progress and pros-perity of the Union.While extending help inthe health and welfare ac-tivities of the nationalbrethren, you must organ-ize the people so that sucha true patriotism or un-ion spirit be flourishedamong the national races.Comrades,

I would like to con-clude by urging you- - To exert efforts to

become reliable phy-sicians of theTatmadaw in line with

the motto of the De-fence Services Medi-cal Academy “Cou-rageous Physicians,

the ConqueringWarriors”.

- To try to become goodleaders equipped withthree designated ca-pacities while uphold-ing the "Our ThreeMain NationalCauses", and to un-dergo training and get

yourselves ever readyfor the national de-fence.

- To build national unityby serving the inter-ests of the local peopleat any regions of yourassignment.

MNA

(from page 16)Brig-Gen Than Soe, Maj-Gen Maung Maung Ohn,Col Hla Myint, Maj-GenThan Aung, Maj-GenNgwe Thein, Maj-GenNyan Tun, Maj-Gen ThanHtay, Maj-Gen Sein Lin,Maj-Gen Aye Myint andMaj-Gen Hlaing Myint,senior military officers ofthe Ministry of Defence,Yangon Mayor Brig-GenAung Thein Lin, deputyministers, Commandant ofDefence Services Medi-cal Academy Brig-GenTun Nay Lin, senior mili-tary officers of the localstation, parents and rela-tives of the cadet andguests.

On the occasion,Commander-in-Chief ofDefence Services SeniorGeneral Than Shwe tookthe salute of the cadet com-

panies.Next, the Com-

mander-in-Chief of De-fence Services inspectedthe cadet companies.

Afterwards, the cadetcompanies marched pastthe Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services.

Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Sen-ior General Than Shwepresented the Best CadetAward and the ExcellentAward in Training to Ca-det Phone Zaw Khaing andExcellent Award in Stud-ies to Cadet Wunna TaingKyaw.

Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Sen-ior General Than Shwedelivered an address onthe occasion.

After taking the sa-lute of the cadet compa-nies, the Commander-in-

Chief of Defence Servicesleft the parade ground.

After the graduationparade, Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services

Senior General ThanShwe met two outstand-ing cadets and their par-ents at the hall of the mainlecture hall of the DSMAand spoke words of hon-our to them.—MNA

Distinguished guests at Graduation Parade of 11th Intake of DSMA.—MNA

Dignitaries at Graduation Parade of 11th Intake of DSMA.—MNA

Dignitaries at Graduation Parade of 11th Intake of DSMA.—MNA

True patriotism means

not to harbour narrow-

minded nationalism, but

to have the true patriotic

spirit desirous of work-

ing together for the per-

petuation, progress and

prosperity of the Union.

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YANGON, 24 Dec—The “Yazarlin medicaluniversity scholarship”organized by U AyeKyaw-Daw Aye AyeMyint (Yazarlin family)granted eight medicalstudents attending theUniversity of Medicinefor 2009-2010 academicyear.

Those winningscholarship are MaungSoe Htet Oo (first year,University of Medicine-2, Yangon), MaungThurein Kyaw (first year,University of Medicine,Magway), Maung Sai

Yazarlin medical universityscholarship winners announced

Sithu Myo Aung (firstyear, University ofMedicine, Magway),Maung Ye Yint Thu (firstyear, University ofMedicine, Magway), MaKhant Mon Tint (firstyear, University ofMedicine, Mandalay),Ma Cho Mar Wai (firstyear, University ofMedicine, Magway), MaMyat Thet Htar Khin(first year, University ofMedicine, Magway) andMa Thet Hnin Htet (firstyear, University ofMedicine, Magway),each of them will get K

50,000 starting from2009-2010 academicyear and plan is arrangedto annually providescholarship until theirgraduations for thosewho abide by Yazarlinfamily’s rules.

Scholarship winningstudents with theirrelated documents maycontact Yazarlin family,No. 50, Kanyeiktha-3Street, Finger Lake, FMICity, HlinethayaTownship, (Ph: 682632,687617 and 09-5131260).

MNA

Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing attendgraduation dinner of 11th Intake of DSMA

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Dec—The graduation dinnerin honour of the graduate officers of the 11th Intake ofDefence Services Medical Academy was held at theassembly hall of the convocation hall of DSMA inYangon at 6 pm today, attended by Chairman of theState Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General ThanShwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing.

Also present on the occasion were SPDC MemberGeneral Thura Shwe Mann, SPDC Secretary-1Quartermaster-General General Thiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo, SPDC Member Lt-Gen Tin Aye of theMinistry of Defence, Commander-in-Chief (Navy)Vice- Admiral Nyan Tun, Commander-in-Chief (Air)Lt-Gen Myat Hein, senior military officers from theMinistry of Defence, the commander of YangonCommand, ministers, senior military officers, theYangon mayor, deputy ministers, departmental heads,senior military officers from Mingaladon Station, thecommandant of the DSMA and advisers, professors/heads of department, deans, faculty members, graduateofficers and their parents and relatives.

After the dinner, artistes from Myawady MusicTroupe and the Myanmar Music Association presenteddances and songs to the accompaniment of the MyawadyBand; and Myawady Anyeint troupe, non-dramaticperformances at the convocation hall.—MNA

Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of DefenceServices Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing attend graduation dinner

in honour of the graduate officers of the 11th Intake of Defence Services MedicalAcademy.—MNA

General Banking Services Course openedYANGON, 24 Dec—

Minister for Finance andRevenue Maj-Gen Hla Tundelivered an address at theopening of GeneralBanking Services CourseNo. 15, conducted by theBanks SupervisoryCommittee, at the hall ofMyanmar BanksAssociation, here, thisafternoon.

Next, the minister

cordially greeted thetrainees and instructors ofthe course.

Also present on theoccasion were Governorof Central Bank ofMyanmar U Than Nyein,directors-general andmanaging directors ofdepartments andenterprises under theministry and officials.

A total of 43 trainees

from State-owned andprivate-run banks areattending the 10-weekcourse. They will have theopportunity to studyeconomic subjectsconcerning bankingservices, laws, rules andregulations on bankingservices and monetaryaffairs and generalknowledge on internationalbanking services.—MNA

Minister for Electric Power No.1 Col Zaw Min receives PresidentMr Lu Qi Zhou of China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) and

party.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 24Dec—Minister forElectric Power No.1 ColZaw Min receivedPresident Mr Lu Qi Zhouof China PowerInvestment Corporation

EP No.1 Minister receives President ofChina Power Investment Corporation (CPI)

(CPI) of the People’sRepublic of China andparty at the meeting hallof the ministry here on 20December.

The two sidesdiscussed the matters on

cooperation andinvestment in Maykha-Malikha BasinHydropower project andAyeyawady ConfluenceHydropower Project.

MNA

YANGON, 24 Dec—The get-together of oldstudents who attended theInstitute of Medicine-1(Yangon) in 1972-1980will be held in conjunctionwith the ceremony to offermeals to members of theSangha in memory of late

Get-together of old medical students of IM-1 on 9 Janfaculty members andfriends at KyarguDhamma Beikman onShwedagon Pagoda Roadin Dagon Township at9:30 am on 9 January2010.

Those wishing tomake donations may

contact Dr Naing Win(095127477), Dr WinMyat Aye (095004548),Dr Khin Thiri (09512732)and Dr Thawda Myint(095136584). The oldstudents were invited toattend the get-togetherwithout fail.—MNA

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Filipino troops try to keep volcanoevacuees safe

Over 10 suspected Taleban militantskilled, wounded in N Afghanistan BAGHLAN, 24 Dec — In a joint operation carried

out by Afghan National Army (ANA) and police innorthern Baghlan province, over 10 Taleban militantswere killed and wounded, Provincial governorMohammad Akbar Barikzai said on Wednesday.

“ANA and Afghan National Police killed andwounded more than 10 suspected Taleban militants ina cleanup operation conducted in Baghlan-e-MarkaziDistrict on Tuesday,” Barikzai told reporters at a Pressconference. A local Taleban commander MullahZulmai was among the injured militants, he added.

He did not give the exact figure of Taleban causali-ties, but admitted four police officers were also killedin the firefight.Moreover, at the same Press briefing,Mohammad Kabir Andarabi, police chief of Baghlan,confirmed that some civilians were also hurt in theoperation, but did not give more details. Baghlan, arelatively peaceful province until early this year, hasbeen the scene of Taleban-led insurgency over the pastseveral months. — Xinhua

Venice flooded as Italy’s bad weather continuesROME, 24 Dec – An unusually high tide flooded most of Venice early Wednes-

day, forcing tourists and residents to wade through knee-high waters or take toimprovised, elevated boardwalks set up in St Mark’s Square and other landmarks.

The waters came in before dawn and reached a peak of 56.6 inches (144 centi-metres) above average sea level. City authorities said that put around 60 percentof Venice’s streets and piazzas under water. Wednesday’s level was still far fromlast year’s record 63 inches (160 centimeters), Venice’s worst flooding in morethan two decades.

The tide receded during the day but the city said that more flooding is expectedin coming days. Northern Italy has been hit by snowstorms and cold temperaturesthat have shut down airports, idled trains and wreaked havoc on traffic in Milanand other cities. Venetians are largely used to the “acqua alta” (high water) phe-nomenon, which occurs when strong winds from the south contribute to raise thesea level in the lagoon city.— Internet

Soldiers, distribute riceand canned goods to chil-dren evacuees at anevacuation centre inLegazpi city, Albay Prov-ince, about 500 kilome-tres southeast of Manila,Philippines on 22 Dec,2009. —INTERNET

BlackBerry users beset bysecond outage in a week

TORONTO, 24 Dec – When Corey Marshall’sBlackBerry mysteriously stopped sending and receiv-ing messages, he realized all too clearly just how muchhe depends on the device: He had no way of contact-ing his friends because he never bothers to exchangephone numbers with anyone anymore.

“A lot of the times if I meet someone and I see theyhave a BlackBerry, I don’t even want their number orcare. I just want their BBM,” or their BlackBerry in-stant-messaging ID, said the 23-year-old tanning-salonmanager and student. “I didn’t even have my boss’number. I only contact him through BB.” He added: “Igo to sleep with it in my hands. It’s the first thing I dowhen I wake up in the middle of the night. It’s the firstthing I do when I wake up in the morning.”—Internet

LEGAZPI, 24 Dec —Police and soldiers donnedSanta hats and red clownnoses and belted out songsin crammed evacuationcenters in hopes of keeping47,000 displaced residentsfrom sneaking back to theirhomes on the slopes of alava-spilling volcano.

Despite the risk of animminent explosive erup-tion of the 8,070-foot(2,460-meter) Mayon,which has been oozing lavaand blasting ash for a week,some residents weary oftemporary shelters are con-spiring to go back to theirabandoned villages for tra-

ditional Christmas Evefamily gatherings. Otherswant to retrieve their live-stock or harvest crops.

“We are not used tospending Christmas in theevacuation center,” saidRamon Ayala, 48, whosehome lies within a five-mile (eight-kilometer) zonearound Mayon that authori-ties emptied last weekwhen the volcano startedrumbling.

“We and many othersplan to spend ChristmasEve in our homes,” Ayalasaid. Authorities are deter-mined to make sure it doesnot happen.

“I have set a very highbar, which is zero casualty,”said Gov Joey Salceda ofAlbay province in the cen-tral Philippines. “If there’sa lull and you step back intothe danger zone, you’ll im-mediately be escortedout.”Mayon volcano haserupted nearly 40 timesover 400 years, sendingpeople packing for monthsat a time. But never has ithappened during the mostimportant event in the Phil-ippine calendar — Christ-mas time, which is associ-ated with family, food,friends and songs.

Internet

Iran tounveil new

satellitein February

TEHERAN, 24 Dec —Iran’s Defence MinisterAhmad Vahidi said onWednesday that theIslamic Republic willunveil its new nationalsatellite early February,the Press TV reported.

“The new generationof Iran’s national satellitecalled Toloo (Dawn)will be unveiled in theTen-Day Dawn (celebra-tions),” Vahidi was quotedas saying.

The Ten-Day Dawn,which extends from 1 Febto 11 Feb, marks the vic-tory of the Islamic Revo-lution in Iran in February1979.

The satellite has beendesigned and built by Ira-nian scientists and expertsat Iran’s ElectronicsIndustries Co (Sa-Iran),Vahidiadded.—Xinhua

Four arrested for murderingmarine’s family in Mexico

Research in Motion (RIM) has apologized to usersof its popular BlackBerry smartphone in the

Americas after they were hit by an outage in emailservice overnight, the second in less than a week

for some customers.—INTERNET

Tourists carry lug-gage past a mooredboat during a period

of flooding in thecanal city of Venice

on 23 Dec, 2009. Overhalf of the old town

was submerged underwaters peaking at 143

cm above sea level.INTERNET

MEXICO CITY, 24 Dec— Authorities in the east-ern province of Tabascohave arrested four sus-pects on charges of kill-ing four relatives of a ma-rine who died in a highprofile drug bust lastweek, the state’s attorneyRafael Gonzalez Lastratold media on Wednesday.

Lastra said thatsoldiers arrested twogunmen late on Tues-dayfollowing searchesof a hotel inTabasco’s capital Villa-hermosa. The gunmenkilled four members ofMelquisidic AnguloCordova’s family and in-jured two more on Mon-day night, apparently inrevenge for the marine’sparticipation in a raid lastWednesday that killedMexico’s third mostwanted man, ArturoBeltran Leyva, he said.

He told media that theZetas, the armed wing ofdrug trafficking organiza-tion the Gulf Cartel, hadbeen responsible for kill-ing the family, describingit as a “bloody event.”Lastra also said therecould be more arrestssoon.— Xinhua

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA RAJA VOY NO (913)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA RAJAVOY NO (913) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 25.12.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

US court orders treasurereturned to Spain

MADRID, 24 Dec—A Florida court has ruled that UStreasure hunting firm, Odyssey Marine ExplorationInc., must return a priceless trove recovered from a19th century ship to Spain, Spain’s Culture Ministrysaid on Wednesday.

“Judge Steven Merryday of the US district court ofTampa reaffirmed Spain’s rights over the shipwreckof the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes and all the ob-jects which were illegally taken from it by Odyssey,”it said in a statement. In May 2007 the Tampa-basedOdyssey announced it had found half a million silvercoins and hundreds of gold objects from a ship theycode-named the “Black Swan,” which went down in1804, in the Atlantic Ocean off the Strait of Gibraltar.

Internet

The Odyssey Explorer, aship belonging to USdeep-sea explorer firmOdyssey is led into theport of Algeciras in 2007.A Florida court has ruledthat US treasure huntingfirm, Odyssey MarineExploration Inc., mustreturn a priceless troverecovered from a19th century ship toSpain, Spain’s CultureMinistry said on Wednesday.— INTERNET

S Korea to voluntarilyregister 20% emissionscut by end of January

SEOUL, 24 Dec—South Korea said on Thursday itplans to register its goal of voluntarily reducing green-house gas emissions by 20 percent from the projectedemission level in 2020 compared to 2005 by the endof January. The announcement by the Ministry of KnowledgeEconomy in a meeting with financial and research in-stitutions came after the United Nations climate talksheld in Copenhagen, Denmark last week, where thecountry showed its commitment to voluntary emis-sion cuts. Under the Kyoto Protocol, a climate regime that theCopenhagen summit aimed to replace, South Korea,part of non-Annex I countries, has no binding emis-sion cut targets. The ministry said South Korea is likely to retain itsstatus as a country with no obligation of compulsoryemission under the Copenhagen Accord, according tolocal media. — Xinhua

Three tigersescape from circus

in southwesternMexico

MORELIA, 24 Dec—Au-thorities say three tigersescaped from a circuscaravan in southwesternMexico. The Civil Protec-tion agency says one ofthe tigers was quicklycaught. But the other twoescaped into a mountain-ous area about 30 kilome-tres (19 miles) fromMorelia, capital of thePacific coast state ofMichoacan.

The tigers escaped onWednesday when theircage burst open while thecaravan of the CircoAquilar Hermanos drovealong a highway. Policeand circus employees aresearching for the twomissing tigers.

Mexico has a problemwith dangerous animalsescaping from their care-takers. Tigers, an ele-phant, a lion, buffalo andcamels have escapedaround the country overthe past year, with someof the animals attackingpeople before beingcaught.—Internet

Man jailed for eating rare tiger

Venezuela, Belarus set up commissionto evaluate cooperation

CARACAS, 24 Dec—Venezuela and Belarus onWednesday set up an extraordinary commission toevaluate the development of their strategic alliance andcooperation agreements in various areas. The commis-sion, among other issues, would evaluate the coop-eration between the two nations in the fields of en-ergy, industry, food, science, technology, house build-ing and military technology. Venezuelan Vice President Ramon Carrizalez saidthe commission would help develop the strategic alli-ance and boost their cooperation, adding that the twocountries have attached great importance to their ties.In September, Venezuela and Belarus signed 14 coop-eration agreements and reviewed 70 others on defence,agriculture and environment preservation. — Xinhua

Bolivian presidentin emergencyplane landing

LA PAZ, 24 Dec—Aplane carrying BolivianPresident Evo Moaraleshad to make an emer-gency landing onWednesday because of afailure in its hydraulic sys-tem, but no one washarmed, a spokesman said.Presidential spokesmanIvan Canelas said Moraleswas flying from La Paz tothe southern city of Sucre,but had to stop inCochabamba in centralBolivia. “It was only asmall scare. The Presidentwas not worried oralarmed because it is notthe first time it has hap-pened,” Canelas said.

He said the presidentialjet has had to make twoother emergency landingsbecause of what he calledsmall faults. The planeis a little more than 30 yearsold, and Bolivian officialshave negotiated thepurchase a new jet fromthe Russian airplane makerAntonov for $30 million aspart of a loan from Russia’sgovernment.—Internet

Stranded passengers of Spanish airline Air Cometlounge around in Madrid’s Barajas Airport afterthe airline’s flights were cancelled and its licence

was suspended on 23 Dec, 2009.— XINHUA

The World Heritage certificates confering ceremonyis held in Beijing, capital of China, on 23 Dec ,

2009. Representatives of the five sites in China thathave been inscribed on the UNESCO World Herit-

age List, which is Mount Wutai, the unique residen-tial architecture of Fujian Province calling Tulou,

Sanqing Mountain, the Diaolou (watchtower house)of Kaiping and South China Karst, are conferedwith certificates by UNESCO’s World Heritage

Committee here on Wednesday. — XINHUA

BEIJING, 24 Dec—A man who killedand ate what may have been the last wildIndochinese tiger in China was sentencedto 12 years in jail, local media reportedon Tuesday. Kang Wannian, a villagerfrom Mengla, Yunnan Province, met thetiger in February while gathering fresh-water clams in a nature reserve near Chi-na’s border with Laos. He claimed to havekilled it in self-defence.

The only known wild Indochinese ti-ger in China, photographed in 2007 at the

same reserve, has not been seen sinceKang’s meal, the Yunnan-based newspa-per Life News reported earlier this month.The paper quoted the provincial ForestryBureau as saying there was no evidencethe tiger was the last one in China.

A local court sentenced Kang to 10years for killing a rare animal plus twoyears for illegal possession of firearms,the local web portal Yunnan.cn reported.Prosecutors said Kang did not need a gunto gather clams. — Internet

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An image of swan is projected on a screen created by a water fountain duringa press preview of “Odaiba water illumination” show in Tokyo 18 December2009. The 15 minutes show, which projects images on a 15 meters (49 feet)

tall and 40 meters (131 wide) water screen, will be held from December 21 toJanuary 11, 2010.—INTERNET

Pine cone tiger : The 18-metre-tall and 21-metre-wide picture of a tiger isdisplayed to celebrate theupcoming Year of the Ti-ger at the Hitachi Beachpark in Hitachinaka city,Ibaraki prefecture, north of Tokyo.—INTERNET

A worker shapes a snow sculpture prior to theHarbin International Ice and Snow Festival inHarbin, Heilongjiang Province on 18 Dec, 2009.The 26th Ice and Snow Festival will kick off onJanuary 5, 2010, local media reported.—INTERNET

Scientists create world’sfirst molecular transistorWASHINGTON, 24 Dec — A group of scientists have

succeeded in creating the first transistor made from asingle molecule. The team, which includes research-ers from Yale University and the Gwangju Institute ofScience and Technology in South Korea, will publishtheir findings in the 24 Dec issue of the journal Na-ture.

The team, including Mark Reed, professor of engi-neering and applied science at Yale, showed that abenzene molecule attached to gold contacts could be-have just like a silicon transistor. The researchers wereable to manipulate the molecule’s different energystates depending on the voltage they applied to itthrough the contacts. By manipulating the energystates, they were able to control the current passingthrough the molecule.“It’s like rolling a ball up andover a hill, where the ball represents electrical currentand the height of the hill represents the molecule’sdifferent energy states,” Reed said. — Xinhua

S Korean scientists cloningexplosive-sniffing police dog

SEOUL, 24 Dec — A group of SouthKorean veterinarians said on Thursdaythey are in the process of cloning an ex-plosive-sniffing dog, “Quinn,” who isbest known for finding the body of amissing child on Jeju Island in 2007. The Sooam Biotech Research Foun-dation, led by the disgraced stem cell re-searcher Hwang Woo-suk, said theywere successful in extracting a somaticcell from Quinn in October and an im-pregnated surrogate dog is scheduled togive birth in the first half of next year.The research institute said the Jeju Pro-vincial Police Agency made an officialrequest for the cloning of the sniffingdog, and all procedure will be free ofcharge. “Quinn is the most outstanding

sniffer dog for the Jeju police, havingperformed well in 181 missions,” aspokesman for Sooam was quoted assaying by local news agency Yonhap. Abreed of a German Shepherd dog, Quinnis credited for finding the body of a miss-ing elementary school student in Jeju is-land after 20 minutes of being dis-patched, quickly ending a search thatinvolved 30,000 police officers. The police said the dog received onlythree days of rudimentary training beforethe search, far-exceeding the pace ofnormal dogs who require four to fivemonths to grow new cognitive abilities.The foundation created the first cloneddog, Snuppy, in 2005, and has been con-sidered as the leader in the cloningfield.— Xinhua

Study shows key protein helpscontrol blood pressure

WASHINGTON, 24 Dec — University of Iowa re-searchers have shown that a protein channel helpsnerve sensors in blood vessels keep blood pressure incheck. Without the protein channel, known as ASIC2,the sensors are unable to send the brain the signals itneeds to properly control blood pressure. The finding,which was based on animal models, is important be-cause it could be used to create new treatments to pre-vent high blood pressure (hypertension).

The study results will appear in the Dec. 24 is-sue of the journal Neuron. “Sensors in your body’sblood vessels sense when your blood pressure goesup, for instance, when you get mad at someone,” saidthe study’s principal investigator Frank Abboud, di-rector of the Cardiovascular Research Center at theUniversity of Iowa.— Xinhua

Swine flu poses a threat tonew moms

LOS ANGELES, 24 Dec– Swine flu is not onlydangerous to pregnantwomen, but it’s a threat tonew mothers too, the firststudy to document thisrisk shows. An analysis ofpregnant women and newmothers who were hospi-talized with swine flu inCalifornia found thatthose who had a baby in

the previous two weekswere at higher risk of se-vere flu complications.

The swine flu threat topregnant women has beenwell-documented, andpublic health officialsurged them to get vacci-nated. Previous researchshowed expectant mothersinfected with the virus aremore likely to be hospital-ized and face a greater riskof death than the generalpopulation. The new re-port, released Wednesdayby the New England Jour-nal of Medicine, is the firstto look at the risk towomen who recently gavebirth and highlights “thecontinued high risk imme-diately after pregnancy,”the researchers wrote.

Internet

Scientists discover howbrain encodes memories at

cellular levelWASHINGTON, 24 Dec — A team of US scientists

have made a major discovery in how the brain en-codes memories, thus becoming the first to uncover acentral process in encoding memories that occurs atthe level of the synapse, where neurons connect witheach other.

The report, made by scientists at University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and published inthe 24 Dec issue of the journal Neuron, could even-tually lead to the development of new drugs to aidmemory.

“When we learn new things, when we store memo-ries, there are a number of things that have to happen,”said senior author Kenneth S Kosik at UCSB’s Neuro-science Research Institute, who is a leading researcherin the area of Alzheimer’s disease.— Xinhua

Anti-inflammatory drugs interferewith aspirin’s clotting ability

WASHINGTON, 24 Dec —A new study conducted atBen-Gurion University(BGU) in Israel reveals thatCelebrex and other anti-in-flammatory coxib medica-tions may counter the posi-tive effects of aspirin in pre-venting blood clots.

The research, publishedthis week in the U.S. jour-nal of Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sci-ences (PNAS), indicatesthat people who are takingaspirin and coxibs togetherare in fact inhibiting the as-pirin’s effectiveness in pre-venting heart attacks andstrokes.

“This finding stronglysuggests that humans whoare consuming coxibs anda low dose of aspirin si-multaneously are exposedto a greater risk of cardio-vascular events,” said Pro-fessor Gilad RimonofBGU. In the past decade,

a new group of anti-inflam-matory drugs, coxibs,which include Celebrexand Arcoxia was developedto treat arthritis as well asother pain.

Xinhua

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S P O R T S Love intends to leave Palmeiras

RIO DE JANEIRO, 24 Dec — Vagner Love’s agent,Evandro Ferreira, announced on Wednesday that hisclient no longer wishes to play for Brazilian clubPalmeiras. Ferreira cited a lack of security as the mainreason for his client’s desire to leave. Love’s lack ofsense of security came after he was attacked by threePalmeiras fans while inside of a Sao Paulo bank inNovember. Additionally, the team’s bus was attackedby an estimated crew of 25 irate fans while returningto the city of Sao Paulo in that same month.

“Ferreira called Saverio (the team’s director ofsoccer) and officially declared Love’s intention of leav-ing Palmeiras in 2010.Saverio responded by sayingthat the club demands his permanence. This is the firsttime that we have heard anything regarding the mat-ter,” described Palmeiras’s vice-president of soccer,Gilberto Cipullo.

Upon hearing the news, the club immediately re-sponded that they demand that Love fulfills his con-tract with Palmeiras that extends through May of 2010.Love is currently at Palmeiras by way of a loan fromthe Russian team, CSKA. Earlier on Wednesday, theteam expressed their own concern for the player’s se-curity and demonstrated their desire to bring him backto Russia.— Xinhua

LONDON, 24 Dec—Ar-senal and Hull City havebeen charged with failingto control their players bythe Football Association(FA) here on Wednesdayfollowing their PremierLeague match on 19 De-cember.

A fiery match at theEmirates Stadium was in-flamed further shortly be-fore half-time when Arse-nal’s Samir Nasri ap-peared to tread on the an-kle of Hull’s RichardGarcia.

Stephen Hunt thenclashed with Nasri and amass confrontation en-sued, with Gunnerskeeper Manuel Almuniarunning the length of thefield to get involved.

Djokovic to act as “Yugoslav king”in TV series

BELGRADE, 24 Dec — Serbian tennis star NovakDjokovic will act as a king in a new TV series aboutthe life of Yugoslav King Aleksandar Karadjordjevic(1888-1934), according to an announcement in Bel-grade on Wednesday.

Aleksandar Karadjordjevic was the first king ofthe Kingdom of Yugoslavia as well as the last king ofthe Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The se-ries, comprising 10 episodes, will have a budget of2,779,000 euros, while the role of King Aleksandarwill be played by Novak Djokovic and the filmingschedule begins in March 2010 and will be adaptedin line with Djokovic’s.

Novak Djokovic’s youngest brother, Djordje, willbe playing young Aleksandar Karadjordjevic. Thedirector Stojan Stojcic noted that the work on the se-ries dated back to 2005, adding that it was an impor-tant project that would help promote Serbia in theworld and that it would probably be aired in 2011.

Xinhua

PARIS, 24 Dec — Lyonand Marseille went intothe Christmas recess nurs-ing severe headaches af-ter collapsing to homedefeats to Montpellier andAuxerre respectively onWednesday. Multiplechampions Lyon slippedto sixth place after a 2-1loss to one of the season’ssurprise packagesMontpellier, while Mar-seille fell 2-0 to Auxerre.

Lille, who enjoyed a 4-0 goal spree at Nancy,jumped into second, on 34points, nine behind Bor-deaux who extended theirlead with a 2-1 win overToulouse in Wednesday’slate kick-off. Montpelliergo into third on 33 points,one point clear of Mar-seille and Auxerre withstruggling Lyon 13 pointsoff the top.

The dominant force ofthe past decade, Lyon

LONDON , 24 Dec —Ithas been branded “humancockfighting” by SenatorJohn McCain andbloodlust unbound by itscritics, but mixed martialarts has evolved from ‘noholds barred’ brawls tobecome one of the world’sfastest growing sports.Popularized by the Ulti-mate Fighting Champion-ship in the United States,MMA is a fusion of fightstyles that melds the stun-ning strikes of boxing andmuay thai, the sleek sub-missions of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and the devastatingpower of wrestling.

It has fought hard togain credibility, regula-

MANCHESTER, 24Dec— Manchester Citydefender Sylvinho hassaid players at Eastlandswill have to forget aboutMark Hughes’s departureas manager. Hughes wassacked on Saturday aftera 4-3 home win over Sun-derland, even though thevictory left City sixth inthe table, and at the sametime the club announcedRoberto Mancini as theirnew boss.

Many observers feltHughes had been harshlytreated but Sylvinho saideveryone at the clubshould now get behind

MADRID, 24 Dec —Spanish football authoritieshave agreed a two-year con-tract extension with coachVivente del Bosque takinghim through till 2012.

“That’s the rule withus - a two year extensionfor those who secure usqualification,” said Span-ish Football Federationpresident Angel MariaVillar referring to Spain’scomfortable qualificationfor the World Cup inSouth Africa next year.

Internet

MADRID , 24 Dec —Spain will play three in-ternational friendlies inthe weeks before theWorld Cup in South Af-rica next year and will bebased near Johannesburgduring the tournament,the nation’s football fed-eration said on Tuesday.

The European champi-ons will play twofriendlies at home, on 29May and 8 June, and oneaway on 5 June.

The squad’s opponentsfor the matches have notyet been determined.

The Spanish nationalteam will be based inPotchefstroom, a univer-sity town about 120 kilo-metres (75 miles) south-west of Johannesburgduring the 11 June-11 JulyWorld Cup. They will ar-rive in South Africa on 10June.

Internet

Senegal striker Diouf eligible toplay for Man United

LONDON, 24 Dec — Senagal striker Mame BiramDiouf will be able to play for English Premier Leaguegiants Manchester United after he got the work per-mit. United signed Diouf from Molde in July beforeloaning him back to the Norwegian club.

Diouf will be free to play in the Premier League asSenegal failed to qualify for next month’s African Cupof Nations. He scored 16 goals in 29 games for Moldethis season.—Xinhua

No festive cheer for Lyon, Marseilleas Bordeaux win

Lyon’s Argentinianforward Lisandro Lopezreacts after his team’s2-1 loss to Montpellierin French L1 football

match at Gerlandstadium in Lyon.

INTERNET

have now won just oncein their last eight leaguematches and their titlechallenge and morale ap-pears to be fading by theweek. Lyon, who are atleast into the knockoutstages of the ChampionsLeague, slipped up due tosecond half goals fromColombian striker VictorMontano and JorisMarveaux with BafetimbiGomis getting their onlycontribution.—Internet

FA charge Arsenal and Hullover brawl

Arsenal’s French player

Samir Nasri(2nd L)

confronts Hull City’s Nick

Barmby during a scuffle

in their English Premier

League football match on

19 December.

INTERNET

Referee Steve Bennetteventually restored orderand then booked bothHunt and Nasri.Arsenalwon the match 3-0.

The clubs have until13 January to respond..

Internet

Asia set for mixed martial arts“revolution”

Mixed martial artsinstructors spar witheach other during a

demonstration for themedia in Singapore on

15 Dec, 2009.INTERNET

tory backing and globalappeal by introducing acomprehensive list ofrules, stringent dopingprocedures and embark-ing on a educational cam-paign to win hearts andminds.—Internet

Sylvinho already overHughes exit

Manchester Citydefender Sylvinho.

former Inter Milan bossMancini ahead of the Ital-ian’s first game in charge,against Stoke on Satur-day. “Sometimes thesethings happen when youare talking about footballat this level and as aplayer you have to be pre-pared to adapt quickly,”Sylvinho told City’s offi-cial website.—Internet

Two more years with Spainfor Del Bosque

Spanish footballauthorities have agreed

a two-year contractextension with coachVivente del Bosque

taking him through till2012.

INTERNET

Spain to play three friendliesbefore World Cup

Spain’s Xabi Alonso(L)and David Silva during

a training session inOctober 2009 in Ma-drid. Spain will playthree international

friendlies in the weeksbefore the World Cup inSouth Africa next yearand will be based nearJohannesburg duringthe tournament, the

nation’s football federa-tion said on Tuesday.

INTERNET

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Rakhine State, upper Sagaing, Bago, TaninthayiDivisions and generally fair in the remaining areas. Nighttemperatures were (3°C) above December averagetemperatures in Rakhine and Mon States, Magway, Bagoand Taninthayi Divisions, (3°C) to (4°C) below Decemberaverage temperatures in Shan State, lower Sagaing andYangon Divisions, (5 °C) to (4°C) below December averagetemperaturs in Chin State and upper Sagaing Division andabout December average temperatures in the remainingareas. The significant night temperatures were Haka (-1°C),Loilem (0°C), Namsam (2°C), Katha (4°C), Lashio andPinlaung, Mindat and Mogok (5°C) each, Heho and PyinOo Lwin (6 °C) each.

Maximum temperature on 23-12-2009 was 93°F.Minimum temperature on 24-12-2009 was 57°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 24-12-2009 was 60%.Total sun shine hours on 23-12-2009 was (7.8) hoursapprox.

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Monks practise kungfu at the renownedShaolin Temple.—XINHUA

S Korea approve plan tobuild LCD plants in China

SEOUL , 24 Dec— The South Koreangovernment on Thursday approved a plan to buildliquid crystal display (LCD) panel manufacturinglines in China, which was submitted by two of thecountry’s largest electronics brands.

The application by Samsung Electronics andLG Display to export LCD panel technology toChina was passed by Prime Minister Chung Un-chan at the 2nd Industrial Technology SafetyCommission.

Under the agreement, the two manufacturerswill each build a 7.5th-generation and 8th-generationLCD panel plants in China, further boosting theirpresence in the rapidly emerging Chinese market.

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★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

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

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

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Senior General Than Shwe addressesgraduation parade of 11th Intake of DSMA

NAY PYI TAW, 24Dec—Commander-in-Chief of Defence Serv-ices Senior General ThanShwe delivered an addressat the graduation paradeof the 11th Intake of De-fence Services MedicalAcademy at the paradeground of the DSMA inYangon at 7:30 am today.

Also present on theoccasion were Member ofthe State Peace and De-velopment Council Gen-eral Thura Shwe Mann ofthe Ministry of Defence,Secretary-1 of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Quartermaster-General General ThihaThura Tin Aung Myint

Oo, SPDC member Lt-Gen Tin Aye of the Minis-try of Defence, Com-mander-in-Chief (Navy)Vice-Admiral Nyan Tun,Commander-in-Chief(Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein,Lt-Gen Ko Ko, Lt-GenKhin Zaw and Lt-GenMyint Swe of the Minis-try of Defence, Adjutant-

General Lt-Gen ThuraMyint Aung, DefenceServices Inspector-Gen-eral Lt-Gen Thein Htaik,Military Appointment-General Lt-Gen HsanHsint, Judge Advocate-General Lt-Gen SoeMaung, Lt-Gen MyintHlaing and Lt-Gen YeMyint of the Ministry of

Defence, Chief of ArmedForces Training Lt-GenHla Htay Win, Chief ofDefence Services Inspec-tion and Auditor-General(Army, Navy and Air) Lt-Gen Maung Shein, Com-mander of South-EastCommand Maj-Gen ThetNaing Win, Commanderof Yangon Command

Maj-Gen Win Myint,Commander of South-West Command Maj-GenKyaw Swe, Commanderof Southern CommandMaj-Gen Hla Min, Minis-ters Maj-Gen Htay Oo,Brig-Gen Tin NaingThein, U Thaung, U NyanWin, Brig-Gen OhnMyint, Maj-Gen MaungOo, Maj-Gen KhinMaung Myint, Brig-GenThein Zaw, Brig-GenMaung Maung Thein,Brig-Gen Lun Thi, Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint,Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan, Dr.Kyaw Myint, Dr. ChanNyein, Maj-Gen AungMin, Brig-Gen ThuraMyint Maung and UAung Kyi, Vice-Chiefs ofArmed Forces TrainingMaj-Gen Zaw Win andMaj-Gen Thoe Htein,Maj-Gen Thein Htay ofthe Ministry of Defence,Directors Maj-Gen MyaWin, Brig-Gen Hla Myint,Maj-Gen Kyaw Nyunt,

(See page 9)Senior General Than Shwe inspects cadet company at Graduation Parade of 11th Intake of DSMA.—MNA

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