the new light of myanmar 27-08-2009

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Volume XVII, Number 133 8th Waxing of Tawthalin 1371 ME Thursday, 27 August, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-rounddevelopment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participation interms of technical know-how and investments fromsources inside the country and abroad

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integ-rity and preservation and safeguard-ing of cultural heritage and nationalcharacter

* 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

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Bago with variety of local productsgaining development momentum

Article: Reporter Singu Soe Win; Photos: Reporter Yan Naing Win (Hlaing) & Bago Township Development Affairs Committee

Sittway 3.03 inches

Maungtaw 2.56 inches

Bhamo 1.77 inches

Kalay 1.65 inches

Haka 1.49 inches

Taunggyi 1.42 inches

Kyauktaw 1.42 inches

Mawlaik 1.37 inches

Kyaukpyu 1.37 inches

Ngathaingchaung 1.37 inches

Noteworthy amount ofrainfall

Maps of Antarctic topography with restorationsfor removal of the load of modern ice only (left),

and additionally for erosion, sedimentation,thermal contraction, and horizontal plate motion

in geologically active regions (right). Modelscorrecting only for ice load have been used in allsimulations of ice growth to date, but significantchanges result from additionally correcting for

other geologic processes.

Scientists propose Antarcticlocation for ‘missing’ ice sheet

SCIENCE DAILY, 26Aug—New research byscientists at UC Santa Barbara indicates a possibleAntarctic location for ice that seemed to be missingat a key point in climate history 34 million yearsago.

The research, which has importantimplications for climate change, is described in apaper published today in Geophysical ResearchLetters, a journal of the American GeophysicalUnion.

“Using data from prior geological studies, wehave constructed a model for the topography ofWest Antarctic bedrock at the time of the start ofthe global climate transition from warm‘greenhouse’ earth to the current cool 'icehouse'earth some 34 million years ago,” explainedDouglas S. Wilson, first author and an associateresearch geophysicist with UCSB’s Department ofEarth Science and Marine Science Institute.

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Our media crewfrom the Myanma AlinDaily recently visitedBago, the metropolis ofBago Division. Fine andclean pavements, TownHall, Clock Towergreeted us as we enteredthe town.

We went straight tothe office of the TownshipDevelopment AffairsCommittee. Executiveofficer of TownshipDevelopment AffairsCommittee DeputyDirector U Tun Myaingtogether with AssistantDirector Daw MyintMyint Aye, AssistantEngineer U Lay Lwin anddepartmental personnelexplained what wewanted to know.

(See page 7) The magnificent Clock Tower, pride of Bago, seen standing at the town centre.

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 27 August, 2009

Thursday, 27 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

Train and nurture highly

qualified human resourcesThe government has been building a large

number of educational infrastructures

throughout the nation for the people to be able

to pursue both basic and higher educations.

Today, being the Knowledge Age, people

have to rely mainly on technology in such sectors

of society as production, education, health, etc.

At such a time, the new generation

students are to try their utmost in their studies

of education and technology so that they can be

the good sons and daughters capable of serving

the interest of the State and the people.

The main forces that would serve the

national interest to the best of their ability for

perpetuation of the nation are highly qualified

human resources. Therefore, they are to strive

to be well-versed in advanced technology while

trying to become outstanding new generations.

In training and nurturing highly qualified

human resources, efforts are being made to

open self-reliant libraries in villages for the

people including those from rural regions to

keep pace with changes and developments and

to cultivate the reading habit in order to be able

to widen their scope of knowledge.

Such being the case, the new generation

youths are to work hard to become outstanding

and well-informed ones on whom the State

can rely at a time when all-out efforts are

being made for successful realization of the

goals of the national education promotion

programmes.

Commander Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe presents championship shield to

winning team.—MNA

Dr Daw San San Aye gives health educative

talks at school health week ceremony held

at No.1 Basic Education High School in

Aungmyaythazan Township of Mandalay

Division on 15 August.—NLM

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Aug—Chairman of Shan State

(East) Peace and Development Council Commander

of Triangle Region Command Maj-Gen Kyaw Phyo

on 18 August inspected maintenance of Kengtung-

Lwemwe motor road.

On 19 August, the commander presented stationery,

school uniforms and sweaters to the trainees at the

Border Areas National Race Youth Development

School in Lwemwe.

Development undertakings in Lwemwe inspectedThe commander visited Lwemwe MRTV Re-

transmission station, tea plantations of farmer U Shauk

Ti and tea nursery of Lwemwe station.

At Lwemwe Basic Education High School, the

commander met with teachers.

On 20 August, the commander met servicemen

and family members at the hall of the local battalion in

Lwemwe station.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 26

Aug—The prize

presentation for the South-

West Command

Commander’s Shield

Shooting Tournament was

held at the parade ground

of the local training depot

in Ingapu Township on 15

August morning.

Chairman of

Ayeyawady Division

Peace and Development

Council Commander of

South-West Command

Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe

presented championship

shields and cash awards to

the respective winning

teams.—MNA

Prizes awarded for Commander’s Shield Shooting Tournament

Arms and drugs seized in Tachilek, six including twoThai nationals are under arrest

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Aug—

Members of Tachilek

special anti-drug squad of

Shan State (East) raided a

residence in Wanli village

of Haungleik village-tract in

Tachilek Township on 24

afternoon to search for illegal

drugs and found Sai Win

Naing (a) Ah Pin, Ah Yao,

Ah Bao (a) Than Oo and Ma

Ah Shin there.

They seized one long

barrel gun with MADSEN

brand, one STEYR M 9-41

pistol with No. 058768, 108

9-mm lugar bullets, 964,000

stimulant tablets, 21 kilos of

heroin, 102 blocks of heroin

weighing 35.7 kilos from

TOYOTA LUCIDA brand

Town Ace with licence plate

2B/ 9394 parked in the garage

of the house together with

five motorbikes and two

vehicles.

Following the

confession of Sai Win Naing

(a) Ah Pin, 1,962,000

stimulant tablets, two blocks

of heroin weighing 700

grams, and 10 kilograms of

ICE were also seized from

the residence No. 212 in

Wanlong village of

Haungleik village-tract.

The special anti-drug

squad managed to seize 24

grams of ICE, 11 grams of

Khatkhu, two vehicles and

one motorbike from the

dwelling of Ai Kwat (a) Nyi

Kwat, No. 136 in Tawkaw

Apyin village in Haungleik

village-tract on 24 August.

Following some further

investigations, the anti-drug

squad came to know that a

Thai couple lodging at

Shweyegan Hotel had

offered to buy drugs at a

price of 40 baht per tablet.

Then, they arrested Nai

Ancha (a) Semo, male, 28,

son of U Naing Senh,

No.123, Ward-4, Chinshan

Township, Chinshan District

and Ah Zhou, female,

41,daughter of U Shaung Pu,

No (727/9), Sanma Kaw

Wan village, Pan Town,

Chiang Mai District of

Thailand who were lodging

at Room No.6 of Shwe

Yegan Hotel yesterday and

actions is being taken to

expose more accomplices.

MNA

Talk “US Dollar, IMF and GlobalFinancial Crisis” on 29 Aug

YANGON, 26 Aug—

Under the arrangements

by the Myanmar Fishery

Federation and the

Myanmar Prawn

E n t r e p r e n e u r s ’

Association and with the

sponsorship of Han Sein

Thant Engineering &

Trading, Economist Dr U

Myint will give a talk “US

Dollar, IMF and Global

Financial Crisis” at the

federation on

Bayintnaung Road in

Insein Township at 2 pm

on 29 August. Anyone

interested may listen to

the talk.

MNA

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

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 27 August, 2009 3

2009 deadliest year for foreigntroops in Afghanistan

KABUL, 26 Aug—The number of foreign soldierskilled in Afghanistan this year surpassed that for allof 2008 on Tuesday with the deaths of four US militarypersonnel in a bomb blast in the country’s south.

The soldiers operating under NATO’s InternationalSecurity Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed by animprovised bomb, the Taleban’s weapon of choice, insouthern Afghanistan, the alliance force said.

The latest casualties bring to 63 the number offoreign soldiers who have died in Afghanistan thismonth and to 295 the death toll since January, makingthis the deadliest year for foreign troops since their2001 arrival.

“Four International Security Assistance Force servicemembers were killed today as a result of an improvisedexplosive device (IED) detonation that occurred insouthern Afghanistan,” the force said in a statement. Itsaid only that the soldiers were killed in southernAfghanistan, without giving the exact location.Southern Afghanistan comprises four provinces that area major theatre for an increasingly bloody insurgency.

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KANDAHAR, 26 Aug—A cluster of vehicle bombsdetonated simultaneously on Tuesday in the Taleban’sspiritual homeland near a foreign-owned constructioncompany that had recently taken over a contract to builda road through an militants-held area. At least 41 peoplewere killed, all civilians, officials said. The thunderingexplosion occurred just after nightfall in a district thatincludes UN facilities and an Afghan intelligence office.The force of the blast shattered windows around thecity and sent flames shooting into the sky.—Internet

Canada says notto contribute

troops toAfghanistan

OTTAWA, 26 Aug—Canada will not contri-bute troops to Afghanistanafter the scheduleddeadline of early 2011 andNATO should press othermember countries to sendmore soldiers, DefenceMinister Peter MacKaysaid on Tuesday.

There has been no anydirect pressure from theUS government yet forCanada to extend itscombat mission beyond2011 but even if it reallyhappens Canada will sayno, the minister said at apress conference inQuebec.

“I think there’s acontinued call to NATOallies for them tocontribute more,” Mac-Kay said.

“But there are manycountries in line beforeCanada that should beapproached before theywould come knockingon our door, I wouldsuggest to you.”—Xinhua

An unidentified wounded man is treated at a hospitalafter five car bombs detonated simultaneously inAfghanistan’s largest southern city of Kandahar, on25 Aug, 2009. The explosion killed tens of peopledestroying a construction company office anddamaging dozens of nearby buildings.—INTERNET

An Iraqi traffic policemanprepares to tow a damagedcar after a bomb attack inBaghdad on 25 Aug, 2009.A bomb attached to a car

wounded a municipalofficial, along with three

of his bodyguards, inBaghdad’s central

Karrada district, policesaid. —INTERNET

People look at thedestruction left in the

wake of five car bombsthat detonated

simultaneously inKandahar, southernAfghanistan, on 25

Aug, 2009. —INTERNET

Car bombblasts in

Afghanistankill at

least 41

Clash leaves three militants, army officerdead in central Afghanistan

KABUL, 26 Aug—Clash between Talebanmilitants and an Afghanarmy officer have leftfour persons including theofficer and three rebelsdead in Wardak Provinceof central Afghanistan, apress release of Afghan

Defence Ministry said onWednesday.

“Taleban rebels onTuesday attacked anarmy officer CaptainLutfullah in WardakProvince and the officerresisted, as a result theofficer and three

militants were killed,”the press release added.

Taleban militantshave intensified theiractivities against govern-ment interests particularlysecurity forces todestabilize peace in thecountry.—Xinhua

NATO Invasion of US and allies kills,injures Iraqi people

BAGHDAD, 26 Aug— There has been daily casualties in Iraq since the US andits allies have invaded the country.

Casualties of Iraqi peopleThe death toll of Iraqi people as from the day they invaded the country to 26

Aug has risen to 698,430 and the total number of serious injured people reached1,258,756, according to the news on the internet.

No. Subject Number1. Death toll of Iraqi people 698,4302. The total number of seriously injured people 1,258,756

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Casualties of Afghan people in invasion ofNATO troops led by US

KABUL, 26 Aug—The NATO troops led by the US have invaded Afghanistanand they are there for a long time.

A number of Afghan people are killed and injured due to invasion of theNATO troops led by the US.

Casualties of Afghan peopleAccording to the Internet news, a total of 31670 Afghan people were killed

and 37,274 injured seriously as from the day when the NATO troops led by theUS invaded Afghanistan to 26 Aug.

No. Subject Number1. Number of Afghan people killed 31,6702. Seriously injured Afghan people 37,274

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A wounded man leaves the scene of a massiveexplosion outside the foreign ministry in central

Baghdad recently. —INTERNET

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SINGAPORE, 26 Aug—Chinese Vice PremierWang Qishan leftSingapore for China afterwinding up his four-dayofficial visit to the citystate on Wednesday.

During his stay here,Wang co-chaired the 6thChina-Singapore JointCouncil Meeting forBilateral Cooperation, the11th China-SingaporeJoint Steering CouncilMeeting for the SuzhouIndustrial Park and the 2nd

China-Singapore JointSteering Council Meeting

Volador de Papantla, or flyers of Papantla, perform in front Mexico City’sMuseum of Anthropology on 25 August, 2009. The ritualistic dance is a

pre-Colombian tradition from Veracruz which involves five men, representingthe five elements, climbing on top of a tall pole, then four of them jumping

headfirst from the pole while attached to a wound-up rope which thenunwinds as they spin towards the ground.—XINHUA

Guy Laliberte (L), Canadian billionaire owner of Cirque du Soleil and BarbaraBarrett, his back-up crew member, sit in an altitude chamber as they prepare for

exercises during a training session in the International Space Station (ISS) atthe Star City space centre outside Moscow, on 17 August, 2009.—XINHUA

Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishanconcludes visit to Singapore

for the Tianjin Eco-Citywith his Singaporecounterpart Wong KanSeng.

They also witnessedthe signing of Memor-andums of Under-standing (MoUs) relatedto educational cooper-ation and science andtechnology, and a Proto-col to the tax treaty bet-ween the two countries.

Apart from co-chairing the meetings,Wang also called onSingapore leaders suchas President S RNathan,

Prime Minister Lee HsienLoong, Senior MinisterGoh Chok Tong andMinister Mentor Lee KuanYew.

During their meetings,both sides reaffirmed theclose ties between the twocountries and discussedhow bilateral cooperationcould be further enhanced.They also exchangedviews on the regional andglobal economy, and thechallenges in theaftermath of the globalfinancial crisis.

Xinhua

KUALA LUMPUR, 26 Aug—Simplicity, safety andquality are now the goals of global investors formaking their investment, according to a latest studyby a United States asset management organization.

Investors or clients were looking for simplicity thatwas defined by transparency and liquidity of theinvestment’s strategies being used, said Kirk West,Managing Director for Asia and Japan of PrincipalGlobal Investors (Singapore) Ltd, here on Tuesday.

Kirk West said that clients were also keen on safeinvestments that would provide capital protection andquality investments that was defined by consistent riskadjusted return.—Xinhua

JAKARTA, 26 Aug—Malaysia agreed onIndonesia’s three ofseveral requests to im-prove working standardof the country’s “infor-mal labours” who work

NEW YORK, 26 Aug—A small plane crashlanded at a northern NewJersey mall parking lotaround noon on Tuesday,local reports said.

A spokesperson forRockaway TownsquareMall in Rockaway, NJconfirmed that a single-engine Cessna planemade an emergencylanding in the shoppingcentre’s parking lotaround 12 pm, just severalmeters from mall’s JCPenny store, according toNew York’s TV channelPIX News.

The plane’s pilotmanaged to walk awaywithout any seriousinjuries, officials said.The condition of his onlypassenger is still un-known.

Xinhua

DHAKA, 26 Aug—Six persons, including threechildren, drowned and three others were still missingas a boat capsized in northeastern Bangladesh’sHabiganj district, about 163km from capital Dhaka,on Tuesday night.

Police and local officials said a small boat carrying16 passengers sank when it was caught in a storm lateon Tuesday night. Seven people managed to swimashore.

They said the local people recovered four bodieson Tuesday night and two more bodies early onWednesday morning.

They said the rescue operation is still going on tosearch for the three missing persons.—Xinhua

Small planecrash lands

in New Jersey

Malaysia agrees on Indonesia’s requests toimprove labours’ working standard

there, the business dailyBisnis Indonesia quoted aminister as saying onWednesday.

Informal labour refersto little professionalskilled-workers like

household maid as well asconstruction and planta-tion worker, among others.

The three points arethat Malaysian govern-ment provides one day-off for the informalworkers, agrees on certain‘salary scale’ and lets theworkers to hold theirpassports by themselves.

Xinhua

Six persons drown, threemissing as boat capsizes

in northeastern Bangladesh

Global investors look forsimple, safe investment

TEHERAN, 26 Aug—Iran’s Parliament SpeakerAli Larijani said on Tuesdaythat the US administrationhas taken double-standardstance on terrorism, thesemi-official Fars newsagency reported.

Referring to the UnitedStates’ approach to theanti-Iran “terror group,”the Mojahedeen KhalqOrganization (MKO),Larijani said that “It was

Iran condemns US double standards on terrorismobvious to us that the US(on one hand) has beenusing the group as a tool...and (on the other hand)Americans said that theyhave nothing to do withMKO because it is aterrorist organization.”

“A recent report aboutthe US policy on the MKO,released by a researchcentre affiliated to the USDefence Ministry, declaredthat Washington has not

treated the group as aterrorist organization... it isa political scandal forWashington,” Larijani wasquoted as saying. TheMojahedeen, a self-claimedMarxist and Islamicmovement, was founded in1965 in opposition to theshah of Iran and hassubsequently fought to oustthe Islamic regime whichtook power in the 1979revolution.—Xinhua

An investigator looks at a plane that crash-landed in a parking lot at the RockawayTownsquare Mall in Rockaway Township, N.J., Tuesday, on 26, August, 2009. Thesmall plane made an emergency landing in the mall, slightly injuring the instructorand student inside but apparently hurting no one on the ground.—INTERNET

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Vietnam, Mexico vow to boosttrade, tourism cooperation

HANOI, 26 Aug—Thedirector for the Asia-Pacific and the MiddleEast of Mexican TradePromotion and Invest-ment Agency SalomonSacal said that Mexicoalways facilitates co-operation with Vietnam,especially in trade andtourism, the localnewspaper Vietnam Eco-nomic Times reported onWednesday.

Salomon Sacal madethe statement at a seminaron Vietnam-Mexicotourism and trade held bythe Mexican embassy in

Hanoi on Tuesday withparticipation of Viet-namese and Mexicanrelevant agencies andministries. The seminaraims to provide Viet-namese businesses withinformation on potentialcooperation in tourismand trade with Mexico,said the newspaper.

Statistics showed thatVietnam exports goodsto Mexico includingfootwear, electric pro-ducts, garment, seafood,pepper, rubber and coffee.The country importsmainly cotton materials,

chemical products, plasticproducts, fertilizers, andsteel.

However, a majority oftrade deals was conductedvia the third party.This hinders businessperformance of bothVietnamese and Mexicantraders, said Sacal.

Sacal said thatMexican businesses areeyeing cooperation withVietnam partners inthe food processing,garment and textile,and automobile spareparts.

Xinhua

Some 90 learners follow the teacher’s gesture as the first batch of employees oflocal tourist spots and travel agencies in Suzhou take up their two-day study ofthe basic hand language, in a bid to better serve the hear-impaired tourists, in Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, on 25 Aug, 2009.—XINHUA

US budget deficit projected to explode over next decade

Air China shares rise onhalf-year profits boost

BEIJING, 26 Aug—Shares of Air China Ltd closedhigher on Wednesday morning after the companyreported more than doubled first-half-year profit froma year earlier late Tuesday.

Air China ended 6.25 percent higher to 7.65 yuanin the Wednesday morning session on the ShanghaiStock Exchange.

The Beijing-based airline said in a Hong Kongstock exchange statement late Tuesday that its profitin the first half of 2009 was 2.93 billion yuan (428million US dollars), up 151 percent from a year earlier.The carrier attributed the fast growth to fuel hedginggains which helped offset weaker demand oninternational routes and lower fuel costs which fell42.5 percent from a year earlier.—Xinhua

Asia’s development progressweighed down by crisis

MANILA, 26 Aug—Asia and Pacific economies arestruggling to achieve Millennium Development Goals(MDG), such as hunger, reduction in maternalmortality rates and access to sanitation as the regionis feeling the pinch of global economic downturn, theAsian Development Bank (ADB) said on Wednesday. “With the recent global downturn, which has led tolarge declines in exports, production, and aggregatedemand, regional growth will continue to be undersevere downward pressure,” said Jong-Wha Lee, ADBChief Economist. “Slower growth in the short-termwill make progress in achieving the MillenniumDevelopment Goals difficult for many countries inAsia and the Pacific.”

Xinhua

Russia says first phase of ESPOpipeline to be completed by yearend MOSCOW, 26 Aug— The construction of the EastSiberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline keeps to theschedule, with its first phase to be completed by theend of this year, the president of Russian oil pipelinemonopoly Transneft said on Tuesday. “I believe that the first phase of the ESPO pipelinewill be concluded by the end of this year, and then theconstruction of the second phase will start immediately,”Itar-Tass quoted Nikolai Tokarev as saying at a meetingwith Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. A total of 2,700 km of the first stage of the pipelinehas been laid and equipment is being mounted atpumping stations and the Kozmino seaport, Tokarevsaid, adding that the second stage’s blueprints will beready by November.—Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 26 Aug—The White House said onTuesday the federalgovernment could face acumulative deficit of 9.05trillion US dollars from2010-2019.

The figure, released bythe White House budgetoffice, is 2 trillion dollarsmore than the estimatesmade by the Obamaadministration in May.

Nearly at the same time,the Congressional BudgetOffice projected in a reporta cumulative 7 trillion USdollars of deficit from2010-2019, a figureroughly 2 trillion less thanthe White House one.

The Congressionalreport said the deficit thisyear will total 1.6 trilliondollars. The White Housefigures also showed that

the public debt is projectedto double by 2019 andreach a size that counts foras much as three quartersof the entire US economy.

Meanwhile, the pro-jections predicted that USunemployment couldspike to as high as 10percent this year althoughthe average is expected tobe 9.3 percent in 2009.

Xinhua

Actresses fromnortheast

China’s JilinProvinceperformduring a

singing anddancing

performanceof the Koreanethnic groupin Beijing,

China, on 25Aug, 2009.

XINHUA

Israel becomes first developedeconomy to up interest rates

JERUSALEM, 26 Aug—Israel was one of the world’s firsteconomies to cut interest rates when the world financialcrisis reared its head last year, and on Monday it becamethe first developed nation to subsequently increaseits lending rate. The Bank of Israel announced a 0.25percent rise of its overnight lending rate, to 0.75 percent,or as Israeli biggest-selling daily newspaper YediotAharonot put it, “a 50 percent rise in its interest rate.” The effects of this increase will not be that strongin actual terms, suggested Gad Lior, the seniormacroeconomics correspondent of Yediot Aharonot.However, it will likely have a major ripple effectaround the world.—Xinhua

Workers rush to set up theiron tower for the power

transmission in an emergentrepair drilling to the 110

kilowatts power transmissionline, organized by the

Lianyungang City’s PowerSupply Company, in a bid to

check up its staff’semergency-dealing and

normalcy-restoring capabilityto ensure the safe and orderlyelectricity supply of the whole

city, in Lianyungang, eastChina’s Jiangsu Province,on 25 Aug, 2009.—XINHUA

All items from Xinhua News Agency

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NEWS ALBUM

A woman customer shows her own stylechocolates for the coming Chinese

Valentine’s Day at a handicraftchocolate shop in downtown

Hangzhou, east China’s ZhejiangProvince, on 18 August, 2009. Thesefashionable women will welcome the

Chinese Valentine’s Day on August 26,2009 with their individual style

chocolates for their lovers.

A federal official says the world’sonly naturally migrating whoopingcranes died at about twice theirnormal rate last year and will likelysee an overall drop in numbers thisyear.

Tom Stehn, who overseeswhooping crane conservation effortsfor the US Fish and Wildlife Service,says 21 percent of a flock ofwhooping cranes that migratesbetween northern Canada and theAransas National Wildlife Refuge inTexas each year died off last year.

In this on 15 Jan, 2006 file photo, awhooping crane eats a crab at theAransas National Wildlife Refuge,

near Rockport, Texas. More than 20percent of the world’s only naturallymigrating flock of whooping craneswere lost and are presumed to havedied from April 2008 to April 2009,

according to the US Fish andWildlife Service.

Death rate spikes among migrating whooping cranesTypically about 10 percent of the

flock dies off.Stehn says including new births, this

year’s flock is expected to drop byabout 20 birds from last year’s 270when counted in the fall. The whoopingcrane numbered just 15 in 1941 butnow numbers 539 and is considered asuccess story by conservationists.

Postgraduate volunteers who are to set out on their obligation as assistingtutors wave their banners during the setting-off ceremony in Guiyang,

southwest China’s Guizhou Province, on 25 Aug, 2009.—XINHUA

TOKYO, 26 Aug—Japan’s Toyota MotorCorp, seeking to recoverfrom its first year in the red,plans to slash its globalproduction capacity by upto 10 percent to cope withweak sales, reports said onWednesday.

Toyota will cut itsoutput capacity by onemillion vehicles from thecurrent level of 10 mil-lion, the Nikkei businessdaily said, while publicbroadcaster NHK repor-ted that the reductionwould amount to 700,000vehicles. SYDNEY, 26 Aug—Australia on Wednesday

approved a massive energy project that will supplynatural gas worth tens of billions of dollars to Chinaand India, giving new impetus to its resources boom.

Environment Minister Peter Garrett imposed 28conditions to protect wildlife but said he saw no reasonto block the Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) plantoff Western Australia, allowing it to clear the finalregulatory hurdle. The project is a joint venture byChevron, Shell and ExxonMobil, which has signed arecord 41 billion US dollar contract with Chinese giantPetroChina and another worth 21 billion dollars withIndia’s Petronet.

“I’ve considered it very carefully, I don’t believethat there will be unacceptable (environmental) impactsand, as a consequence of that, I have made my decisiontoday,” Garrett told reporters. He said the conditionsincluded measures to protect endangered turtles andother species on nearby Barrow Island and to minimisenoise and light emissions.—Internet

VIENNA, 26 Aug—Austrian police have admittedthat car theft has increased significantly in recentmonths, especially in Vienna, according to a reportby Austrian Television (ORF) on Tuesday.

In the first seven months of this year, the numberof stolen cars increased by 71.6 percent compared tothe same period last year, while that for mini-busesand trucks increased by 49.5 percent, ORF reported.

During the period, a total of 3237 vehicles werestolen in Austria, an average of 15 units every day. InVienna, 1718 cars were reported missing, 717 morethan the same time last year. Thieves also took 151trucks and 828 motorcycles, up 50 and 43 respectively,the report said.

Xinhua

JAKARTA, 26 Aug—Indonesian police has arresteda man suspected of collecting funds from overseas tofinance suicide bombings at two luxurious hotels inJakarta on 17 July, which killed seven people includingthe two bombers and injured more than 55 others,police spokesman Nanan Soekarna said here onWednesday.

The spokesman said that the arrest was made hoursafter the police announced Muhammad Jibril aliasMuhamad Ricky Ardhan alias Abu Jibril as suspectof the explosions on Tuesday.

The 30-year-old man was captured in Pamulangtown of Jakarta by the police anti-terror squad, he said.

Xinhua

Indonesian police capture suspectof hotel bombings

Auto theft surges in Austria

Toyota to slash world production capacityA Toyota spokes-

woman confirmed thecompany plans to sus-pend from early 2010until late 2011 a line at itsTakaoka plant in Aichiprefecture that canproduce 220,000 vehiclesa year, but said no othercuts had been decided.

Toyota will reduce itscapacity by shuttingdown a US joint venturewith General Motors Co

and by halting someproduction lines atfactories in Britain andJapan, the reports said.

Toyota will soonannounce a decision toshut down the Californiajoint venture, New UnitedMotor Manufacturing Inc(NUMMI), which pro-duces cars such as theCorolla compact and theTacoma pick-up truck,they said.—Internet

Australia approves China,India gas project

To those of us who find itimpossible to balance a teaspoon on asaucer, Bill Dan is a man of awe-inspiring skill. Somehow and for somereason, he balances rock upon rockupon rock in a gravity-defying displayof virtuosity.

Watch as he carefully places thetiniest point of one rock on the roundestsurface of another. Bill works on theshores of San Francisco, where anoccasional seagull threatens theequilibrium of his creations.

But balancing rocks isn’t restrictedto the water ’s edge of northernCalifornia — it’s a worldwide pheno-menon, with new practitioners joiningthe ranks every day. If you’re inspiredto try a little stone stacking yourself,Bill offers this helpful advice, “Try toplace a bigger rock at the bottom.”

The balancing art ofBill Dan

Bill Dan’s rock balancing works

The first full face transplantpatient in Spain has been sopleased by his new appearancethat he smiled, according to mediareports.

The 43-year-old patient maygo home in about a week, saidtransplant specialist surgeonPedro Cavadas at La Fe hospitalin the eastern city of Valencia.

He is supposed to eat andspeak intelligibly again after morethan a decade of not being ableto, but he was so happy when hesaw himself in a mirror that hesmiled.

Hospital officials noted thatthe patient is continuing to makegood progress.

Part of the patient’s face waslost more than 10 years ago dueto radiotherapy to treat a tumor.He received a new face from a 35-year-old man who had died in atraffic accident. The operationwas conducted at the hospital.

There have been four facetransplant operations in France,two in the United States and onein China, said media reports.

Spain’s 1st full facetransplant patient

smiles

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(from page 1)“Bago Township

Development AffairsCommittee of BagoDivision is underMinistry for Progress ofBorder Areas andNational Races andDevelopment Affairs.We are working hard forall-round developmentof the town, with the aimof building Bago as thetown of glory of thedivision. Production ofbio-fertilizer fromrubbish and wastages isalready on the way tosuccess,” explainedExecutive Officer U TunMyaing showing uspamphlets and photos onbio-fertilizer productionprocess.

The committeetargeted to collect K738.4 million as taxesduring 2009-2010 fiscalyear, and the total amountcollected was K 755.931million, 102.4 percentperformance against thetarget. Thus, theTownship DevelopmentAffairs Committee couldexceed the target.

A total of 10 marketsrun under the supervisionof Bago TownshipDevelopment AffairsCommittee, five of whichare urban markets and therest are rural ones. Bago

Bago with variety of local productsgaining development momentum

Article: Reporter Singu Soe Win; Photos: Reporter Yan Naing Win (Hlaing) & Bago Township Development Affairs Committee

Building of Bago-Taungthusu village rural laterite road in progress.

Executive Officer U Tun Myaing of Bago Township Development Affairs Committee andpersonnel supervising upgrading of Bayintnaung Road into tarred one.

Myoma Market, being thecentral market of Bago, isselling gold jewellery,clothing, cosmetics,various kinds of consumergoods, and farmingequipment, and also a largevariety of goods just aboutfrom meat and fish to goldjewellery are available atother markets whereasKonthaya sebesten treeleaves market is the solesupplier of sebesten treeleaves.

Pineapple jam ofKyauktan and Htongyivillages, preserved freshwater fish of Bago, driedbanded snakehead ofPyinpongyi, ediblesucculent tuber ofPachyrhizus angulatusand watermelon ofPhayagyi market,cauliflower, waterconvolvulus and othervegetables of Montaingvillage are known to bepopular local products ofBago. There are aconsiderable number offish paste dealers’ in Kalivillage, outskirts of Bagoon Yangon-MandalayHighway.

As wide variety offish such as Labeo rohita,Mastacembelus armatus,Wallago attu, Anabastestudineus, Mystusvittatus, Barbus spp are inabundance in the

surroundings of Bago thatabout 250 tons of fish canbe produced a day inmonsoon season. Variouskinds of meat and fish suchas beef, pork, mutton,chicken, duck and driedfish are sold in the marketwith separate banana andcoconut brokers’ salecentres. There are 457shops in Phayagyi market,73 in Pyinpongyi market,32 in Intagaw market, 36in Htongyi market, and124 in Kyauktan market,

totaling 722 shops in thewhole town.

The TownshipDevelopment AffairsCommittee is constantlyundertaking tasks forbeautifying and keepingthe township clean underthe 16 directives of theTownship DevelopmentAffairs Committee. TheTownship DevelopmentAffairs Committee hadplanned to upgrade 24urban roads into tarredones and build one lateriteroad during 2009-2010fiscal year, out of which12 roads have been tarredand one laterite road built.

With respect torural roads, seven lateriteroads and one concreteroad were planned to bebuilt and now three lateriteroads and one concreteroad had been built. Oneurban bridge had beenconstructed andpreparations forconstruction of two ruralbridges are under way.

Bago TownshipDevelopment AffairsCommittee is buildingBago to become the townof glory of the division.After 1998, 87 tarred

roads, two gravel roads,92 laterite roads and 293earth roads have been builtas core roads up to now,with a view toimprovement of socio-economic status of locals.

Along the bothsides of Phaya Street,Thanatbin Street,Shinsawpu Street,Y a n g o n - M a n d a l a yHighway (From 77thDivision to Kyauk-twingon), Miyahtagon, atthe front of Kyunthayarcar park lie 42,800 feetlong clean and pavements.

A total of 220 shopsin markets of Bagoborrowed loans amountingto K 364.2 million fromDevelop-ment AffairsBank Limited mortgagingtheir shops in order toexpand their businesses andare now said to be doingwell. The TownshipDevelopment AffairsCommittee is supervisingdaily on cleanliness of allmarkets and no fly and nobad smell in places wheremeat and fish are sold.

In order to supplymore water to rural areas,the Township Develop-ment Affairs Committee

is carrying out tasks fordigging of two-inchdiameter shallow wellsand installing of manualpumps in 35 villages,sinking of two-inchtube-wells, installing ofmanual pumps,constructing ofreservoir in Oak-pho-kin-chaung and Kwe-tan-shae village,sinking of four-inchtube-wells, installing ofcompressors andconstructing offacilities for supply ofwater in Bawnatgyivillage. Thus, ruralfolks can enjoy muchmore clean water soon.

As 12 four-inchdiameter wells, 23 two-inchdiameter wells, 140 two-inch diameter shallowwells, 21 1.5 inch diametershallow wells have beensunk for supply of water torural areas, the efforts ofBago Development Com-mittee in the time ofTatmadaw Govern-ment ishonour for thedevelopment.

*****Translation: TKK

Myanma Alin:24-8-2009

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Information Minister receives Charge d’Affaires ai of Chinese EmbassyNAY PYI TAW, 26 Aug—Minister for Informa-

tion Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan received Cultural Counsel-lor Charge d’Affaires ai of the Chinese Embassy MrGao Hua at the Ministry of Information, here, yester-day afternoon.

Also present at the call were Director-General UKhin Maung Htay of Myanma Radio and Television,Director-General U Ye Htut of Information and PublicRelations Department, Managing Director U AungNyein of Printing and Publishing Enterprise, Manag-ing Director U Soe Win of News and Periodicals

NAY PYI TAW, 26Aug—Minister for For-estry Brig-Gen TheinAung and Chairman ofKayah State Peace andDevelopment CouncilBrig-Gen Win Myintmade speeches at theopening ceremony of newschool building ofNanmekhon Basic Educa-tion High School inDimawhso Township on23 August and donatedexercise books. After that,the school headmasterspoke words of thanks andresponsible personsopened the new schoolbuilding.

Afterwards, the min-ister, the chairman andresponsible personslooked round it. The newschool building is 90 feetlong and 30 feet wide andbuilt at a cost of K13,400,000.

Forestry Minister on inspectiontour of Kayah State

NAY PYI TAW, 26Aug—The preliminaryconference (2009) ofMagway Division WarVeterans OrganizationSupervisory Committee

YANGON, 26 Aug—Bagan publishing housedonated 593 books ofknowledge and literaturehaving price of K 600,000to self-reliant libraries of

YANGON, 26 Aug—The Director-General ofFire Services Departmentof the Ministry of SocialWelfare, Relief and Re-settlement inspected firestations in Thayawady,Letpadan and Minhlatownships in Bago Divi-sion (West) yesterday.

YANGON, 26 Aug—Organized by REGENTEducation, talks on edu-cation will be held atKonbaung TagaungHall of Traders Hotel

After that, the minis-ter, the chairman and re-sponsible persons askedafter patients atNanmekhon Station Hos-pital and provided cashassistance to them. Andthey donated oxygen ma-chine and medical fund tothe station hospital.

The minister and thechairman delivered ad-dresses at the opening cer-emony of new schoolbuilding of OK villageBEPS in DimawhsoTownship.

After that, State Edu-cation Officer accepteddocuments related to theschool building. The chair-man and donors donatedexercise books and head-mistress spoke words ofthanks. After that, the min-ister donated cash to buychairs and television.

The minister and the

chairman looked round theschool. The new schoolbuilding is 60-foot-longand 30-foot-wide and builtat a cost of K 10,400,000.

In the afternoon, theminister and the chairmanmet local people ofPhayabyu village inDimawhso Township.They inspected newschool building ofPhayabyu village BEPSand fulfilled the needs.

On 24 August, theminister and the chairmanmet with local people atPadarnyay village BEPSin Loikaw Township.

After that, the minis-ter and the chairman lookedinto University of Compu-ter Studies (Loikaw),Nambawwan (Shan)BEPS and BEPS inYaynikan village inLoikaw Township.

MNA

Fire stations inspected in Bago(West) and Yangon Divs

At Taikkyi andHmawby townships, helooked into fire enginesand their maintenanceand drills of firemen.Next, he presented lightfire engines, fire hosesand uniforms for auxil-iary fire brigade mem-bers of Thaikwa-chaung

village in Letpadantownship, of Sitkwin,L e t p a n k y a w ,Seinkantlant andThayettabin villages inMinhla township, andcash donations, exercisebooks, stationery anduniforms for schools.

MNA

REGENT to hold talks on education

on Sule Pagoda Road at5 pm on 29 August (Sat-urday).

Mr Jeremy Histon ofCurtin Singapore and MrScott Spragg of Curtin

Sydney will give talks oncourses and academicmatters.

Any interested per-son may attend the talks.

NLM

Magway Div WVOSC holdspreliminary conference

took place at City Hall ofMagway on 19 August.

Chairman of MagwayDivision Peace and De-velopment Council ColPhone Maw Shwe gave

an introductory speech,and presented cash awardsto outstanding students ofmembers of Division WarVeterans Organization.

MNA

Books donated to self-reliant librariesInformation and PublicRelations Department un-der the Ministry of Infor-mation at production di-vision (Yangon) of the In-formation and Public Re-

lations Department thismorning. Bagan is locatedin Yakin Centre on SayaSan Road, Yankin Town-ship, Yangon.

MNA

Minister for Information Brig-Gen KyawHsan receives Cultural Counsellor Charge

d’Affaires ai of the Chinese Embassy Mr GaoHua.—MNA

Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen Thein Aung donates cash assistance to

education fund of BEPS in Padarnyay village of Loikaw Township.

FORESTRY

Enterprise, Managing Director U Aung Myo Myint ofMyanma Motion Picture Enterprise, Head of Office U

Myint Htwe of the Ministry of Information and offi-cials.—MNA

Tobacco Kills

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NAY PYI TAW, 26Aug—A ceremony todonate medicines andmedical equipment toKyaiklat TownshipPeople’s Hospital washeld at the hall of hospitalon 22 August.

Member of NationalDisaster PreparednessCentral CommitteeMinister for Hotels and

NAY PYI TAW, 26Aug—The 8th Meeting ofManagement Committeefor Southeast AsianMinisters for EducationO r g a n i z a t i o n(SEAMEO) RegionalCentre for History andTradition was opened atMyat Tawwin Hotel,here, this morning.

Minister forEducation Dr Chan Nyeinand Mr NoorhaisamdinAbdullah of the Thailand-based SEAMEOSecretariat made

YANGON, 26 Aug—Myanmar Academy ofArts and Scienceorganized subject talk (4/2009) at Yangon Instituteof Education this morning.President U Than Oo ofthe academy made a

MAAS organizes talkopening speech.

Professor Dr Daw KyiKyi Thin of MicrobiologyDepartment of YangonUniversity of Medicine-1gave talks on points ofNew Influenza A (H1/N1)virus and those present

took part in thediscussion.

Next, PresidentU Than Oo spoke wordsof thanks and presentedgift to Professor Dr DawKyi Kyi Thin.

MNA

8th Meeting of Management Committeefor SEAMEO CHAT commences

speeches.Also present at the

meeting were membersof the managementcommittee, officials ofthe SEAMEOSecretariat, ambassadorsof Vietnam, Brunei, thePhilippines and In-donesia to Myanmar andCharges d’Affaires ai ofthe embassies, directors-general of departmentsunder the Ministry ofEducation, the directorof the SEAMEO CHATand officials.

After the first-daymeeting, the participantsto the meeting paidhomage to UpptasantiPagoda and visited thewater fountain garden,Thabyegon Roundabout,Lotus Roundabout, RazaThingaha Roundabout,Gems Museum andJunction Centre. Theyviewed progress of theHluttaw Building and theGovernment House.

The meeting con-tinues tomorrow.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 26Aug—Minister forIndustry-2 Vice-AdmiralSoe Thein inspectedproduction workshops ofPVC wire, Enamelledcopper wire, power cable,bare copper wire, copperrod, transformer,generator and machine

Medicines donated to Kyaiklat Township HospitalTourism Maj-Gen SoeNaing made a speech.

U Kyaw Swa Min ofGrand Lotus Coexplained the purpose ofdonations and presentedmedicines and medicalequipment. TownshipMedical Officer Dr DawKhin May Than acceptedthe donations and gave acertificate of honour to

the wellwisher.The minister and party

comforted the patients andpresented cash assistanceto them.

At the golden jubileehall of the township, theminister met departmentalofficials and responsiblepersons of constructioncompanies.

MNA

Industry-2 Minister inspects No.1 Machineand Machine Tools Manufacturing Factory

(Nyaungchaydauk)tools in No.1 Machine andMachine ToolsManufacturing Factory(Nyaungchaydauk) on 23August, and met withstaff.

After that, theminister urged officials toproduce the quality goodsso as to meet the market

demand, to be efficientstaff and to use machinesat full capacity.

The minister reviewedimplementations of nineobjectives for 2009-2010financial years and urgedthem to work harder thanever.

MNA

Commander attends conclusionceremony of training courses in Lashio

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Aug– Chairman of Shan State(North) Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of North-EastCommand Maj-Gen AungThan Htut delivered anaddress at the conclusionceremony of Advanced

Tailoring Course No (23/2009), Basic TailoringCourse (51/2009) andWicker Work Course No(5/2009), organized byEducation and TrainingDepartment under theMinistry for Progress ofBorder Areas and National

Races and DevelopmentAffairs, at Women’sVocational TrainingSchool in Lashio on 14August.

The commander pre-sented completion certi-ficates and viewed worksof the trainees. – MNA

Minister inspects sites chosen forconstruction of railway stations

YANGON, 26 Aug—The social group membersof Nay Pyi Taw LeweTownship Association(Yangon) will hold theprize presentationceremony for outstandingstudents of the townshipat Shwegyin Dham-

NAY PYI TAW, 26Aug—Minister for RailTransportation Maj-GenAung Min and DeputyMinister U Pe Than on 21August heard reports onmaintenance of Pyay-Paukkhaung-Toungooroad presented by officialsat the project office ofPublic Works in Ottwin

Township.At the project office

near Ywapu Village ofPaukkhaung Township,officials reported onmaintenance of the roadand progress of the region.The deputy minister gavea supplementary report.

The minister andparty looked into the site

chosen for construction ofPaukkhaung Station.

After inspecting thesite for construction ofPaungtale Station, theminister and party viewedthe level crossing of themotor road and therailroad near Shwedagastation.

MNA

Nay Pyi Taw Lewe Township Association(Yangon) to honour outstanding students

mayon, the southernstairway of ShwedagonPagoda, here, at 9 am on13 September.

At the ceremony,those present will beserved with LeweMonhinga.

All the dwellers of the

township residing inYangon have been invitedto attend the ceremony.

The list of thedistinction winningstudents is to be sent to UWin Myint, Tel:095143176 and 537761.

MNA

Minister for Industry-2 Vice-Admiral Soe Thein inspects machines ondisplay in No.1 Machine and Machine Tools Manufacturing Factory

(Nyaungchaydauk).—INDUSTRY-2

Professor Dr Daw Kyi Kyi Thin of Microbiology Department ofYangon University of Medicine-1 gives talks on A (H1N1).

EDUCATION

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(from page 16)

He said that the

university came into

being as a government

technical high school

on 30 July 1982; that it

was upgraded to a gov-

ernment technical in-

stitute on 1 December

1986; and that and it

was again upgraded to

Technological University (Monywa), asource of well-qualified engineers

Byline: Kyawt Maung Maung; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

Dr Kyi Soe, Principal of TechnologicalUniversity (Monywa).

I think after I get mydegree I will work

with the knowledge Ihave gained from the

classes in the na-tional interest. (MaZarchi Seint Seint

Thu from Kyaukse)

The higher grade Iam in, the harder I

have to try to do wellin my studies.

(Maung Aung ZayPhyo from Monywa)

a government techno-

logical college on 10 No-

vember 1999, and to a

technological university

on 20 January 2007.

T e c h n o l o g i c a l

University (Monywa)

has 757 first-year

A.G.T.I students, 670

second-year A.G.T.I stu-

dents, 671 first-year

and 49 M.E Fourth Batch

students, amounting to

2998.

We also inter-

viewed some students

there. A male student told

the Myanma Alin, “I am

Maung Aung Zay Phyo

from Monywa. I am a

second year student, spe-

cializing in B.Tech. The

higher grade I am in, the

harder I have to try to do

well in my studies.”

A female student

said, “I am Ma Zarchi Seint

Seint Thu. I specialize in

B.E. I am from Myittha

Village in Kyaukse. I think

after I get my degree I will

work with the knowledge I

have gained from the

classes in the national inter-

B.Tech students, 332 sec-

ond B.Tech students, 436

B.E students, 54 M.E Sec-

ond Batch students, 29

M.E Third Batch students

est.”

The university

conducts courses on

Civil Engineering, Elec-

trical Communications

Engineering, Electric

Power Engineering, In-

dustrial Design Engi-

neering, IT Engineer-

ing, Industrial Electron-

ics Engineering and

Textile Engineering.

So far, the univer-

sity has brought about 1292

B.Tech graduates, 889 B.E

graduates, and 5945

A.G.T.I diploma holders.

Technological University

(Monywa) stands tall, nur-

turing the students to be a

source of well-qualified en-

gineers necessary for na-

tional development, eco-

nomic growth and boost-

ing production of goods.

*****

Translation: MS

Myanma Alin:

26-8-2009

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Aug—Mandalay DivisionWar Veterans Organization Preliminary Conference2009 took place at the National Theatre inAungmyethazan Township, Mandalay, on 16 Augustmorning.

Chairman of Mandalay Division Peace and

Mandalay Division WVO holdspreliminary conference 2009

Development Council Commander of CentralCommand Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe delivered an addressand presented cash assistance to the outstanding childrenof the war veterans who passed the matriculationexamination.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Aug—Chairman of RakhineState Peace and Development Council Commander ofWestern Command Maj-Gen Thaung Aye, on 16August, met with officers and other ranks at PardalaikStation in Sagaing and donated sports gear.

Next, the commander accompanied bydepartmental personnel concerned inspected roadworks near Sin-inn-gyi village in Ponnagyun Townshipand Kyauktaw Township, and quarry in PonnagyunTownship.

The commander then attended the ceremony tocultivate monsoon paddy held in Apaukwa village ofKyauktaw Township and there he gave necessaryinstructions after hearing the reports on cultivation ofmonsoon paddy submitted by officials.

After that, the commander attended aceremony to put fingerlings into Zeechaung Dam.

The commander and party looked intointegrated paddy farms of farmer U Aung Shwe Mrain Htaikwapyin village of MraukU Township,repairing of tarred road in Tainnyo village in MraukUTownship.

At Okphokan village primary school inMraukU Township, the commander and party metlocal people and donated stationery and sports gearto them.

MNA

Western CommandCommander inspects

regional development tasks

Commander Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe delivers an address at Mandalay Division War VeteransOrganization Preliminary Conference 2009.

MNA

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MONTREAL, 26 Aug—After years spent huntingfor the buried remains ofprehistoric animals, aCanadian paleontologistnow plans to manipulatechicken embryos to showhe can create a dinosaur.

Hans Larsson, theCanada Research Chair inMacro Evolution atMontreal’s McGillUniversity, said he aims todevelop dinosaur traits thatdisappeared millions ofyears ago in birds.

Larsson believes byflipping certain geneticlevers during a chickenembryo’s development, hecan reproduce the dinosauranatomy, he told AFP inan interview.

Though still in its

BEIJING, 26 Aug—China’s CNOOC Limited,the listed subsidiary ofChina National OffshoreOil Corporation (CNOOC),said Wednesday its netprofit dropped 55 percentfrom a year ago to 12.4billion yuan (1.82 billionU.S. dollars), or 0.28 yuanper share, in the first half.

The profit decline,down from 27.54 billionyuan a year earlier, was aresult of lower crude oilprices in the first half, as theglobal financial crisis led toa world recession thatcurbed demand for fuel,

HONGKONG, 26 Aug—Hong Kong has confirmed333 cases of Influenza A/H1N1 in the 24 hours to02:30 p.m. Wednesday, bringing the total numberof the cases to 10,089, Hong Kong health authoritiessaid.

The new cases involved 176 males and 157females, aged between five months and 93 yearsold, said a spokesman from the Center of HealthProtection of Hong Kong.

Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s Hospital Authoritysaid that currently, a total of 100 confirmed casesare staying in public hospitals for treatment. Amongthem, 84 cases are in stable condition, five in seriousand 11 in critical condition.—Internet

The picea schrenkiana, a kind of coniferous evergreen, is a unique species onTianshan Mountains. Its needles, or leaves, are slightly bent and its pine cones areshaped like an eclipse. It is said to have been transferred from the Qinghai-TibetanPlateau 40 million years ago and have evolved into a unique tree species in thenorthwest of China. These trees cover 90 percent of Tianshan Mountains and aremost luxuriant on Nalati Mountain along Yili Lake, where they grow up to 60 metersand are commonly more than 300-400 years old. Their roots grow deep into the soil

to absorb water, and each mature tree can store 2.5 tons of water.—INTERNET

China’s CNOOC 1H net profit falls55% on lower crude oil prices

despite a rise in oil and gasoutput, China’s biggestoffshore oil and gasproducer told the HongKong stock exchange.

The company’srevenue fell 42 percent yearon year to 40.65 billionyuan.

The oil producer saidits oil and gas output rose15.2 percent to 105.8million barrels of oilequivalent in the first sixmonths.

But its average sellingprice of crude oil was 49.35U.S. dollars a barrel in thefirst half, down 52 percent

from 102.5 U.S. dollars abarrel in the first half lastyear.

Despite the profit drop,Chairman Fu Chengyuexpressed optimism aboutthe company’s futuregrowth.

“2009 will become thecompany’s next milestonein its history of stablegrowth,” Fu said.

He expected thecompany’s net output toincrease 15 percent for thewhole year, and announcedthe beginning of 10 newproduction projects withinthe year.—Xinhua

The euro climbed back above 1.43 dollars after

news of buoyant business confidence in Germany,

Europe’s biggest economy.

INTERNET

HARARE, 26 Aug—Twelve cholera cases have beenreported at Chibuwe Clinic near Chipinge farmingtown, more than 180 miles southeast of Harare,Zimbabwe’s Health and Child Welfare Minister HenryMadzorera said on Tuesday.

The minister confirmed the outbreak, saying “Yes,there were reported cases of cholera at Chibuwe Clinicand all the patients were successfully treated anddischarged. The situation is now under control.”

Ten patients were successfully treated anddischarged while two were being held for observation.No one died of the bacterial disease, The Herald said onWednesday.—Internet

A/H1N1 flu cases increaseto 242 in Laos

Canadian scientist aims to turn chickensinto dinosaurs

Hong Kong’s confirmedA/H1N1 flu cases exceed 10,000

Zimbabwe reports freshcholera outbreak

infancy, the research couldeventually lead to hatchinglive prehistoric animals,but Larsson said there areno plans for that now, forethical and practicalreasons — a dinosaurhatchery is “too large anenterprise.”

“It’s a demonstrationof evolution,” said Larsson,who has studied birdevolution for the last 10years.

“If I can demonstrateclearly that the potentialfor dinosaur anatomicaldevelopment exists inbirds, then it again provesthat birds are directdescendants of dinosaurs.”

The research is fundedby the Natural Sciences andEngineering Research

Council of Canada, theCanada Research Chairsprogram and NationalGeographic.

The idea for theproject, Larsson said, cameabout during discussionswith renowned Americanpaleontologist JackHorner, who served astechnical advisor for theJurassic Park films.

Internet

HANOI, 26 Aug—The number of A/H1N1influenza cases in Laos has risen to 242, Lao newspaperthe Vientiane Times reported Wednesday.

Flu patients have been detected in tenmunicipalities and provinces of the country, said thenewspaper. As the flu cases continue to rise, LaoMinister of Health Ponmek Dalaloy urged allgovernment sectors to increase screening andsurveillance measures to deal with the influenza as amatter of priority, according to the newspaper.

Various ministries should have adequate plans inplace to respond to any potential outbreak of thedisease, particularly in rural areas of the country, saidPonmek.

The goals are to reduce the spread of the virus,decrease the number of infected people, avoid A/H1N1 related deaths and maintain socio-economicdevelopment, the newspaper quoted Ponmek as saying.It is also the responsibility of the general public to beconscious of the symptoms of the A/H1N1 influenzaand participate in general surveillance to prevent apossible outbreak, according to Ponmek.

Laos has reported one death of A/H1N1 influenzaso far in the country. —Xinhua

The raiser looks at thenew tooth of the wild

Asian elephant“Yongyong” at the

Xishuangbanna Asianelephant breeding base

in Dai AutonomousPrefecture of

Xishuangbanna,southwest China’s

Yunnan Province, on 3Aug, 2009. —XINHUA

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GATI MAJESTIC VOY NO ( )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV GATI MA-JESTIC VOY NO ( ) are here by notified that the vesselswill be arriving on 27.8.2009 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie atthe consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S GATI COAST TO COASTPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SINAR BIMA VOY NO (038)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV SINAR BIMAVOY NO (038) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 27.8.2009 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.




AGENT FOR: M/S SAMUDERA SHIPPINGLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV FRIENDLY SEA VOY NO (31)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV FRIENDLYSEA VOY NO (31) are here by notified that the vesselswill be arriving on 27.8.2009 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of S.P.W.5 where it will lie atthe consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: EASTERN CAR LINER (SINGA-PORE) PTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

Costa Rica delivers China-donatedbicycles, balls to poor youth

SAN JOSE, 26 Aug—The Costa Rican government on Tuesday delivered 600soccer balls and 335 bikes donated by China to poor young people in rural areas.

The delivery was part of the donation of 10,000 balls and 1,000bikes from theChinese government after agreements were reached between the two countrieslast November.

“I want my first words to thank the Chinese government for this generousdonation of bikes four our youth and soccer balls for our students,” Costa RicanPresident Oscar Arias said at the delivery ceremony.

“China is an example to follow,” Arias said. “In the last 25 years it has helped300 million people out of poverty ... It is the fastest growing economy in theworld.”

About 400 million people ride bikes in China, said Chinese Ambassador toCosta Rican Wang Xiaoyuan.—Internet

The staff of Chinese Academy of Sience observes the changes of the cave inthe Yulong Snow Mountain in Lijiang, southwest China’s Yunnan Province.

Affected by the Global warming, Yulong Snow Mountain’s glaciers aremelting at an unprecedented rate in recent 20 years. —XINHUA

At least twokilled, 15injured inColombiaexplosion

BOGOTA, 26 Aug—Atleast two people werekilled and 15 others wereinjured in an explosion insouthern Colombia’sCaqueta province,authorities said onTuesday. The explosiontook place at 16:00 localtime (2100 GMT) in thecenter of the San Vicentedel Caguan city, mediareports quoted the city’smayor Hernan CortesVillalba as saying.

Witnesses said a groupof armed men onmotorcycles attacked apatrolling police vehicle,and a man threw agrenade towards thevehicle, which explodedand hurt passers-by.

The injured had beenrushed to hospitals, andfive of them were inserious condition, thepolice said. Authoritieswere investigating theattack. —Internet

Seven killed in floods in eastern NepalKATHMANDU, 26 Aug—At least seven persons died,

one went missing due to the floods that lashed thedistrict of Jhapa in eastern Nepal last week, The RisingNepal reported on Wednesday.

According to the daily, more than 180 families havebeen displaced after the gushing floods destructedmany houses in the district, some 320 km east ofKathmandu.

The number of people displaced by floods wasrecorded at 6,265, who have been living in 50 campstemporarily. The floods also damaged 415 houses,Lekha Nath Pokharel, Assistant Chief District Officerwas quoted by the daily as saying.

Meanwhile, owing to the continuous rainfall fromthe Monday night, Nepalgunj Holiya VillageDevelopment Committee, three villages had beensubmerged, while the level of the water has increasedin Rapti River has started breaching its embankment.

Nepal Police has helped to transfer the flood hitvictims to safe places, said the report.—Internet

One killed, five injured in Mumbai building collapse Sony’s new 3G wireless e-reader tobe powered by AT&T

BEIJING, 26 Aug—AT&Twill provide wirelessservice for Sony’s newReader Daily Edition,announced by the twocompanies. Sony onTuesday launched awireless edition of itselectronic-book reader,which closes a key featuregap with Amazon’smarket-leading Kindle.

The Reader DailyEdition, with a price of 399US dollars, will be 17.78-cm wide with an aluminumbody and standard E Inkelectronic touchscreendisplay. Sony said about 30to 35 lines of text will bevisible when the device isin portrait mode. It’ll boastenough built-in memory tostore around 1,000standard e-books, withintegrated slots for optionalmemory expansion. Thewireless connection in theReader Daily Edition is

provided through AT&T’s3G mobile broadbandnetwork. The deal isAT&T’s second step intothe electronic readermarket this summer. Justlast month, the companyannounced it wouldprovide 3G access for anupcoming Plastic Logic e-reader set to debut in2010.—Internet

Australian automobile makerHolden to cut more jobs

CANBERRA, 26 Aug—Australian automobile makerHolden is expected to cut about 200 jobs, mainly fromits Melbourne headquarters, the company hasconfirmed on Wednesday.

“We’re offering voluntary packages within someof our functions, primarily office-based functions atour Port Melbourne headquarters,” companyspokesman Scott Whiffin was quoted as saying byAustralian Associated Press.

“Some of these functions have remained more orless untouched over the years as we’ve gone down toone shift out at our Elizabeth plant, as export andengineering projects have come and gone, and as ourdomestic markets have contracted.”—Internet

NEW DELHI, 26 Aug—An elderly woman waskilled and at least fiveothers were injured whenan over 70-year-oldbuilding collapsed inIndia’s financial capitalMumbai late Tuesdaynight, a senior policeofficial said.

“The accident claimedthe life of the 85-year-oldlandlady of the buildingZubeida Khambati. All

of them were trappedinside the rubble of thefour-storyed buildingwhen it collapsed inLamington Road in southMumbai. All have beenadmitted to a local hospitalwhere the landladysuccumbed to herinjuries,” the official said.

Meanwhile, residentshave blamed a shop owneron the ground floor of thebuilding for the collapse,

claiming that he wasrenovating his shop andhad illegally dug into thefoundation of the building.

“We have registered acase against the shop-owner and he will benabbed soon,” the officialsaid, adding that rescueoperations are still on tofind out if some otherpeople are being trappedinside.

Internet

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Dominican Republic confirmsthree new A/H1N1 flu deathsHAVANA, 26 Aug— Dominican health authorities

reported three new deaths of A/H1N1 influenza onTuesday, raising the death toll to eight in the country.

The eight deaths were reported in Santiago, Bani,San Cristobaland the capital city of Santo Domingo,news reports quoted Health Minister Bautista RojasGomez as saying.

With a new school term about to begin, there couldbe a second outbreak, but the health ministry wasprepared to deal with it, he said.—Xinhua

Brazil confirms eight moredeaths of A/H1N1 flu

RIO DE JANEIRO, 26 Aug— Brazilian healthauthorities confirmed eight more deaths of A/H1N1flu on Tuesday, raising the country’s death toll to 511.

So far, Sao Paulo state has registered the highestdeath toll with 179 victims, followed by southernParana state with 154 and Rio Grande do Sul with 94.

According to the World Health Organization, about20 percent of the world’s A/H1N1 flu death casesoccurred in Brazil.—Xinhua

Thailand’s death toll due toA/H1N1 virus infection rises

to 119BANGKOK, 26 Aug— Thailand’s Public Health

Ministry on Wednesday announced eight more deathsdue to the A/H1N1 influenza infection, bringing thecountry’s death toll to 119.

The trend of the A/H1N1 infection is seen not todecrease dramatically, the ministry said in a statement,the website by Bangkok Post reported.

Since the start of the outbreak, some 14,976 havebeen confirmed as the A/H1N1-infected patients, theministry’s statement said.—Xinhua

Indonesia’s flu death tollstands at six

JAKARTA, 26 Aug— A two-year-old Indonesianboy has died of swine flu, bringing the total fatalityof the H1N1 virus to six in the country, the HealthMinistry said here on Wednesday. Director Generalof Disease Control and Environmental Health of theministry Prof Dr Tjandra Yoga Aditama said that theboy died several days ago.

“He died with suffering pneumonia and laboratorytest showed he is positive of H1N1,” Yoga toldXinhua over phone.—Xinhua

A/H1N1 flu death toll climbsto 179 in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, 26 Aug— The Mexican HealthMinistry on Tuesday reported a total of 179 deathscaused by the A/H1N1 epidemic and 20,860 confirmedcases in the country since the virus’ breakout.

The ministry said in a statement that out of thedeceased, 85.5 percent showed the symptom ofcoughing, 83.3 percent of fever, 75.4 percent ofrespiratory problems, 52 percent of expectoration,and 46.6 percent of seriously worsening healthcondition. Among the victims, 49.2 percent werefemale, and 50.8 percent male. About 72 percentwere between 20 and 54 years old.

Health authorities said the A/H1N1 virus wascontinuing to exist among Mexicans, so “it isimportant to keep preventive measures.”—Xinhua

Sculptor Pablo creates

a sculpture of comic

character Mafalda in

Buenos Aires, capital

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Aug, 2009. The 80-

centimetres-high

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placed in front of the

house of Quino who

created the character

Mafaldain the 19603

XINHUA

Anti-breast cancer drug maycause severe symptoms

CANBERRA, 26 Aug —New figures released onWednesday show thatnational breast screeninghas helped reduce theproportion of women dyingfrom the breast cancer.

“It’s likely that theBreast Screen Australiaprogramme has played arole in this decreasecertainly, but there’s alsobeen a lot of improvementsin treatment for breastcancer over this time,”report co-author Alison

Budd told AustralianAssociated Press.

Dr Budd says one of theaims of the screening is tomaximize the number ofsmall cancers foundbecause early detectionleads to better treatment andimproved survival.

The report shows overthe decade to 2006, theproportion of invasivebreast cancers detected thatwere small remained above60 percent.

Xinhua

BEIJING, 26 Aug— Astudy from a researchcentre in Seattle recentlyshows a drug which isknown widely to curebreast cancer may lead toeven severer symptoms,according to news reportson Wednesday.

Introduced in 1978,tamoxifen is used toprevent recurrences ofcancer in women whohave already undergonesurgery to remove theirtumors. However, a new

research recently suggestsit raises the risk of gettinga more aggressive cancerin the healthy breast bymore than four times.

“All treatments haverisks and benefits,” saidDr Christopher Li, anassociate member of theFred Hutchinson CancerResearch Centre inSeattle. “If you considerthe full balance, for mostwomen the benefits aregoing to far outweigh therisks.”—Xinhua

VVA photographer takesphotos of a group of fish

in the Altantic nearFernando de Noronha,

an island to the northeastof Brazil, on 24 Aug,2009. The island of

Fernando de Noronha,surrounded by theAtlantic with good

quality of seawater anddifferent kinds of

beautiful fishes, attactsmany diving fans to

experience there. XINHUA

HOUSTON, 26 Aug— USscientists have decodedlove sounds made byromantic bats afterspending three yearslistening to thousands ofMexican free-tailed batrecordings to understandtheir meaning, local mediareported on Tuesday.

The findings by expertsat the University ofTexas and Texas A&M

were published thisweekin an online journalof the Public Libraryof Science, according tothe newspaper AustinAmerican-Statesman.

After three years’study, researchers deter-mined that male bats havevery distinguishablesyllables and phrases thatthey use as love songs toattract females and in

some cases, to warn othermales to stay away.

“The sounds they makeare very difficult for thehuman ear to pick up,”said lead researcherKirsten Bohn.

“They are at a very highfrequency range, but ourrecording equipmentcould track them verywell.”

Internet

Costa Rica declaresphytosanitary emergency

over rat plague SAN JOSE, 26 Aug — The Costa Rican government

has declared a phytosanitary emergency in the northand central Pacific regions of the country, where acamp rat plague known as “Sigmodon hirsutus” hasbeen raging, the Phytosanitary Service of the Statesaid on Tuesday.

The camp rats affect sugar cane, rice, corn andpineapple harvests in the region, and the Costa Ricanauthorities have issued a decree requesting thecollaboration of local farm owners in controlling theplague.

The phytosanitary service said it would take harvestsamples to determine the damage, and conductresearches to decide the population of the rats.

Luis Sanchez, chief of the agency’s Plague Vigilanceand Control Office of the Gunacaste region, said regionalorganizations and independent producers would alsojoin in the efforts to control the plague.—Internet

US scientists decode bats’ courtship songs

Breast screen in Australia helpsreduce mortality rate of cancer

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S P O R T S Football star Ronaldo needstime to adapt to Real

Real Madrid’sCristiano Ronaldo

Campbell backs County’sPremier League dream

Sneijder Inter signingimminent

Federer, Murray seeded 1-2at US Open

Roger Federer ofSwitzerland celebrates

defeating NovakDjokovic of Serbia in

the Singles Final duringday seven of the West-

ern & Southern Finan-cial Group Masters on23 August, 2009 at theLindner Family TennisCenter in Cincinnati,

Ohio.—INTERNET

Lisandro hat-trick underlines Lyon’s C1 credentialsPARIS, 26 Aug—A first-half hat-trick from new Argentinian signing Lisandro

crushed Anderlecht’s hopes of qualifying for the Champions League group stagesas Lyon showed their last 32 credentials in a 3-1 win in Belgium.

Thanks to their 5-1 victory over the Belgian side at the Gerland stadium lastweek, giving them an 8-2 aggregate result, Lyon were the most convincing teamof the five who qualified for the group stage on Tuesday.—Internet

Lyon’s Lisandro reacts as he scoresa goal during the second leg of the

match RSCA Anderlecht vsOlympique Lyon, in the first round

of the play offs for the UEFAChampions League, in Anderlecht,

Brussels. Lyon won 3-1.INTERNET

Dutch midfielderWesley Sneijder

Vidic happy at Man UtdMANCHESTER, 26 Aug—Serbian defender Nemanja

Vidic insisted Tuesday that he is not seeking a movefrom Manchester United.

Vidic, who made his first start of the season in Sat-urday’s 5-0 win over Wigan after recovering from in-jury, was responding to speculation that he is lookingfor a move. “I’ve never said anything about Barce-lona or Real Madrid or AC Milan - or any club,” hesaid. “I never speak about my future so I don’t knowwhy someone else does. I showed at Wigan on thepitch how happy I am at this club.

“Any fan of United only has to see how I played toknow how committed I am. I spoke with my agentabout this and what he said. I know about all the ru-mours about me but I don’t want it to have an impacton the club.—Internet

Dolphins’ deal with Williams sisters announced Former Englandinternational defender

Sol Campbell

Manchester United’sSerbian defenderNemanja Vidic

pictured during atraining session at theCarrington training

complex in Manches-ter, north-west

England, in May.INTERNET

Davydenko advances to thirdround at New Haven tennis

Russian player NikolayDavydenko during amatch in May. Top-

seeded Davydenko beatAmerican Robert

Kendrick at the PilotPen Tennis tournamentto advance to the third

round.—INTERNET

Serena, left, and Venus Williams posefor photo while displaying their MiamiDolphins jerseys after it was announcedthe tennis stars had become minority

owners of the NFL football team,during a news conference in Davie,Fla, on 25 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

DAVIE, 26 Aug—The Williams sistersstood at the edge of the Miami Dolphins’practice field, easy to spot in elegant,color-coordinated beige dresses andhigh heels that dug into the turf.

The team’s workout had ended, andit was time for introductions. Joey Por-ter, meet Serena Williams. Jason Taylor,meet Venus Williams.

The NFL and the best of women’stennis converged Tuesday when theWilliamses paid a visit to the Dolphins’complex as the latest celebrities to buya small stake in the franchise. Their dealwith owner Stephen Ross, first reportedlast week, was confirmed at a news con-ference overlooking the field.

Venus and Serena live in Palm BeachGardens, Fla, about an hour’s drive fromthe Dolphins’ stadium.—Internet

NEW HAVEN, 26 Aug—World No. 10 FernandoVerdasco steamrolledover Chile’s PaulCapdeville 6-0, 6-3 in just49 minutes in the second

round of the Pilot PenTennis tournament.

The Spaniard brokeCapdeville’s serve fivetimes from 11 opportuni-ties and surrendered justthree points on his firstserve to ease to victory inthe men’s and ladieshardcourt tournament onTuesday.

It was the pair’s firstmeeting since the 2005US Open, when Verdascoalso won in straight sets.

Top seeded RussianNikolay Davydenko alsogot through by beatingAmerican RobertKendrick 7-6 (12-10),6-3.—Internet

ROME, 26 Aug—Wesley Sneijder is on theverge of joining Inter Mi-lan, according to Italianpress reports on Tuesday.

The Dutch attackingmidfielder is surplus to re-quirements at Real Ma-drid following the big-money signings ofCristiano Ronaldo andKaka and has been linkedwith a move to the Italianchampions for severalweeks.

Inter coach JoseMourinho is known to bein the market for an at-tacking midfielder whocan play at the head of hismidfield diamond forma-

tion and now seems tohave got his man.

“The agreement be-tween Inter and Sneijderis imminent,” said LaGazzetta dello Sport on itswebsite.—Internet

MADRID, 26 Aug—RealMadrid coach ManuelPellegrini says CristianoRonaldo needs more timeto adapt to his new clubafter the Portuguesewinger failed to impress

during his side’s trounc-ing of Rosenborg onMonday in the SantiagoBernabeu Trophy.

“Cristiano Ronaldoneeds a little time to adaptto his new team’s style.Every player on the squadis working hard to be fitand play well,” he said incomments publishedTuesday on the Real Ma-drid website.

“Cristiano has experi-enced a change in styleand now lives in a differ-ent country. He needs alittle more time unlikethose who already knowLa Liga.”

Internet

NEW YORK, 26 Aug—Fifteen-time Grand Slamwinner Roger Federer andrising Scottish star AndyMurray are seeded one-two in men’s singles re-spectively for the USOpen, the United StatesTennis Association an-nounced Tuesday.

Russian Dinara Safinais the No. 1 women’s seedfor the tournament whichbegins Monday at theBillie Jean King NationalTennis Center.

Former world No. 1Rafael Nadal followsMurray as the third seedwhile Serbian NovakDjokovic and AmericanAndy Roddick round outthe top five on the men’sside of the draw.

Djokovic was the run-

ner-up to Federer in the2007 tournament whileRoddick won the 2003 USOpen for his only majortitle so far.—Internet

LONDON, 26 Aug—Former England interna-tional defender SolCampbell believes hecould play in the PremierLeague again with NottsCounty after signing afive-year deal with theLeague Two side on Tues-day, where he teams upagain with ex-England

boss Sven-Goran Eriks-son. Campbell, who has 73caps for England andplayed in three WorldCups, joins on a free trans-fer from Portsmouth.

The defender, who turns35 next month, revealed heturned down offers fromPremier League clubs tobecome part of the revo-lution at Meadow Lanewhere he joins Eriksson,Notts County’s new direc-tor of football.

“If we win promotionsit is possible that I will playin the Premier Leagueagain,” said Campbell.

Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudyin Kayin State and Taninthayi Division, rain orthundershowers have been isolate in Mon State, scatteredin Mandalay Division, fairly widespread in MagwayDivision and widespread in the remaining States andDivisions with isolated heavyfalls in Rakhine State. Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Sittway (3.03)inches, Maungtaw (2.56) inches, Bhamo (1.77) inches, Kalay(1.65) inches, Hakha (1.49)inches, Taunggyi andKyauktaw(1.24) inches each, Meikhtila, Kyaukpyu andNgathaingchaung(1.37) inches each.

Maximum temperature on 25-8-2009 was 88°F.Minimum temperature on 26-8-2009 was 68°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 26-8-2009 was 84%.Total sun shine hours on 25-8-2009 was (3.5) hours approx.

Rainfall on 26-8-2009 was (0.51)inch at Mingaladon,(0.51)inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.39) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (83.38) inches atMingaladon, (94.53) inches at Kaba-Aye and (98.54) inchesat Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (6) mph from South at (14:30) hours MSTon 25-8-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is moderate in the AndamanSea and South Bay and strong elsewhere in the Bay ofBengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 27th August 2009:Rain or thundershowers will be isolated in Mon, Kayah andKayin States, scattered in Mandalay ,Magway andTaninthayi Divisions, fairly widespread in lower Sagaing,Bago, Yangon and Ayeyawady Divisions and widespreadin the remaining areas with likelihood of isolated heavyfallin Rakhine State. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seasare likely at times Deltaic, off and along Rakhine Coast.Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (35-40) mph. Seaswill be moderate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Increase of rain inextreme Southern Myanmar ares.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for27-8-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for27-8-2009: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for27-8-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

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The naming and launching ceremony of a newhelicopter destroyer “Ise” is held at

Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI)Yokohama Shipyard in Yokohama, Japan, on

26 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

LLNL research reveals how blastwaves may cause human brain injury

even without direct head impactsSCIENCE AND DAILY, 26 Aug—New research on

the effects of blast waves could lead to an enhancedunderstanding of head injuries and improved militaryhelmet design. Using numerical hydrodynamiccomputer simulations, Lawrence Livermorescientists Willy Moss and Michael King, along withUniversity of Rochester colleague Eric Blackman,have discovered that nonlethal blasts can induceenough skull flexure to generate potentiallydamaging loads in the brain, even without directhead impact.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) results frommechanical loads in the brain, often without skullfracture, and causes complex, long-lastingsymptoms. TBI in civilians is usually caused bydirect head impacts resulting from motor vehicleand sports accidents. TBI also has emerged amongmilitary combat personnel exposed to blast waves.As modern body armor has substantially reducedsoldier fatalities from explosive attacks, the lowermortality rates have revealed the high prevalence ofTBI.—Internet

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8th Waxing of Tawthalin 1371 ME Thursday, 27 August, 2009

★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

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

People’s Desire ■ VOA, BBC - sowing hatred 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

Twenty-third A (H1N1) patientdischarged from hospital

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Aug—A 12-year-old child undergoing medical treatmentat Insein General Hospital was discharged from the hospital today as the child hadfully recovered. Surveillance measures against four family members together withthe patient were halted.

A total of 26 persons have been infected with New Influenza A (H1N1) sofar in Myanmar and 23 out of whom were discharged from the hospital becausethey had fully recovered from their illness. The remaining three patients areundergoing treaments systematically.

The National Health Laboratory gave lab tests to 192 flu-suspected persons.Only 26 were found to have been infected with the virus.—MNA

Remaining three on the mendYANGON, 26 Aug—A slight earthquake of intensity 4.7 Richter Scale with

its epicenter outside Myanmar (Andaman Sea) about 280 miles South-west ofKaba-Aye seismological observatory was recorded at 09 hr 29 min 22 sec M.S.Ttoday.—MNA

Slight earthquake joltsoutside Myanmar

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Aug—According to the 06:30 hr M.S.T observationtoday, the water level of Dokhtawady River at Myitnge is 844 cm. It may reachits danger level 870 cm during the next 48 hours.—MNA

Flood warning

Technological University (Monywa), a source of well-qualified engineersByline: Kyawt Maung Maung; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

Technological University (Monywa).

Just as we left Monywa, we were greeted byTechnological University (Monywa). For local peo-ple, such a fine university is certainly an educa-tional institution to be proud of as it serves as asource of technological professionals necessary

for national development.The campus of Technological University

(Monywa) near Thambuddhe Pagoda in Monywa,Sagaing Division, has an area of 48.209 acres.

During our trip, our news crew from the

Myanma Alin Daily conducted an interview withPrincipal of the university Dr Kyi Soe for thehistorical background and development of the edu-cational facility.

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