Volume XIX, Number 332 11th Waning of Taboung 1373 ME Sunday, 18 March, 2012

Established 1914

Our Three MainNational Causes

* Non-disintegration ofthe Union

* Non-disintegration ofNational Solidarity

* Perpetuation ofSovereignty

NAY PYI TAW, 17 March—Vice-President of theRepublic of the Union of Myanmar Thiha Thura U Tin AungMyint Oo this afternoon made an inspection tour of prepa-rations for hosting the XXVII SEA Games 2013.

On arrival at the briefing hall of Athletes VillageConstruction Project in Nay Pyi Taw, the Vice-President waswelcomed by Union Minister for Home Affairs Lt-Gen KoKo, Union Minister at the President Office U Thein Nyunt,Union Minister for Finance and Revenue U Hla Tun, UnionMinister for Science and Technology U Aye Myint, UnionMinister for Commerce U Win Myint, Union Minister forHotels and Tourism and for Sports U Tint Hsan, DeputyMinister for Information U Soe Win, Member of Nay Pyi

Vice-President Thiha Thura U Tin Aung Myint Oo inspectspreparations for hosting XXVII SEA Games 2013

Taw Council U Kan Chun, Chief of Myanmar Police ForcePolice Maj-Gen Kyaw Kyaw Tun and departmental heads.

Member of Nay Pyi Taw Council U Kan Chunreported on construction of 100 buildings at Athletes Vil-lage for accommodation of about 7000 athletes and progressof works.

Chairman of Max Myanmar Co U Zaw Zaw andDirector of Military Engineers Maj-Gen Nyan Tun submit-ted reports on progress in construction of Zabuthiri ModernStadium and Zeyathiri Modern Stadium, construction ofbuildings for indoor venues and related buildings, andprogress of swimming pool.

Union Minister at the President Office U Thein

Nyunt and Union Minister for Hotels and Tourism and forSports U Tint Hsan gave supplementary reports on prepara-tions for hosting the SEA Games.

They also presented reports on the plans to seekrecognition for Zabuthiri and Zeyathiri modern stadiumsfrom FIFA, World Track & Field Federation and AsianFootball Confederation.

After hearing the reports, the Vice-President in-structed them to complete construction of the buildings inearly 2013 meeting set standards and quality, test the sportsbuildings by holding local sports competitions andrepair them if necessary, systematically spend money on

(See page 8)

Vice-Presidentof the Republicof the Union ofMyanmar Thiha

Thura U TinAung Myint Oo

inspects con-struction of

Zabuthiri Mod-ern Stadium.

MNA

YANGON, 17 March—Myanmar LibrariesFoundation donated cash and books to rural librar-ies in townships of Yangon South District, takingplace at Shin Saw Pu Hall in Thanlyin yesterdaymorning.

Deputy Commissioner U Sai Thaw Win ofYangon South District made a speech.

Chairman of Myanmar Libraries Founda-tion U Maung Maung explained the purpose ofbooks donation and presented K 14 million for 30

MLF donates cash, books to village librariesfrom Yangon South District

NAY PYI TAW, 17 March—The 49th Myanma Gems Emporium,organized by Myanma Gems Empo-rium Organizing Central Committee,continued for the ninth day at ManiYadana Jade Hall, here, today.

Local and foreign gem mer-chants checked jade lots displayedon the respective areas for salesthrough competitive bidding system.

Sales of Gems Emporiumcontinue for ninth day

village libraries from Thanlyin, Kyauktan, Thongwa,Kayan, Twantay, Kungyangon townships and TadarSub-Township administrators.

Vice-Chairman-2 of Myanmar Writers andJournalists Association Executive Committee mem-ber of Myanmar Libraries Foundation U Chit Naing(Chit Naing-Psychology) handed over 7500 booksand publications to the Deputy Commissioner andexplained advantages of the literary.

MNA

Today, a total of 24 lots ofjade were sold through competitivebidding system. Sales of jade lotswill continue up to 18 March.

Patron of the Central Com-mittee Union Minister for Mines UThein Htaik in the afternoon viewedsales of jade lots through competi-tive bidding system at Mani YadanaJade Hall.—MNA

Technologicaluniversitiesand colleges

produce moreengineers,computer

technicians inBago Region

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ASEAN ConnectivityCoordinating Committee

(ACCC)-National CoordinatorsMeeting and related meetings

held

Union Health Ministerreceives guests from

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PERSPECTIVES

Conserve forests forgreening and economy

Forests are not only a decisive factor forliving beings to survive but also an incrediblesource of income for a nation. Thriving forestplantations which were once a common sightacross the nation are now becoming rare for avariety of reasons.

It has long been established that forestsgenerate weather while scientists are of theview that deforestation often result in climatechange which spurs soil degradation, fleshfloods, desertification.

As the Arid Zone Greening Department setits sights on establishment of forest plantations,13 arid districts of the country have now seena vast stretch of forest plantations which largelyconstitute teak and other valuable hardwood.

It is undoubtedly necessary for the countryto establish forest plantations since teak andother Myanmar hardwood are still a magnetfor foreign companies.

Reforestation calls for a package ofmeasures which could be driven by skills,knowledge and better management. But themain drawback to such measures is illegallogging that is rife in some far-flung regionswhich are of difficult access.

The streamlining of forest conservationmust be widely introduced with the handling ofdeforestation high on the agenda as the countryis festooned with extremely fertile soil andfavourable weather patterns. However, thegovernment alone is still not capable enough togo without help from the people.

Keeping it in mind the entire people are todo everything possible to reduce deforestationas it has proved completely embarrassing tothe nation and represents a threat toenvironmental conservation.

Sunday, 18 March, 2012

NAY PYI TAW, 17 March—DeputyMinister for National Planning andEconomic Development Dr Kan Zawattended ASEAN ConnectivityCoordinating Committee-NationalCoordinators Meeting and related meetingsheld at the ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta,Indonesia yesterday. The deputy ministeralso attended the ASEAN ConnectivityCoordinating Committee and JapanMeeting the same day.

The ASEAN ConnectivityCoordinating Committee-ASEAN NationalCoordinators Meeting deliberated oncollaboration among the ASEAN NationalCoordinators, ASEAN ConnectivityCoordinating Committee and the ASEANSectoral Bodies in implementing the masterplan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC)and its priority projects, which was adoptedby the ASEAN leaders at the 17th ASEANSummit held in Hanoi, Vietnam in October,2010. The meeting also discussed amongothers, on coordination with dialoguepartners, development partners,international and regional institutions andresource mobilization for the

Union Health Minister receives guestsfrom ICRC, 3 DF

NAY PYI TAW, 17March—Union Minister forHealth Dr Pe Thet Khinreceived Mr GeorgesPaclisanu of the ICRC andparty and Final EvaluationTeam Leader Dr Greet

Peersman of 3DF and partyat his office separately on14 March.

The Union Ministerand the ICRC team held talkson programmes to trainskilled workers and provide

modern equipment andinputs for artificial limbsproduction in Myanmar,and proficiency trainingcourses at home and abroadfrom docs and skilledworkers.

The 3DF team and theUnion Minister discussedplans for3MDG works afterthe final evaluation works tobe carried out for three weeksas the projected campaignsagainst three major diseasesconducted with the fundprovided by 3DF hascompleted.

MNA

ASEAN Connectivity Coordinating Committee (ACCC)-National Coordinators Meeting and related meetings held

Deputy Minister Dr Kan Zaw attends ASEAN ConnectivityCoordinating Committee-National Coordinators Meeting.—MNA

implementation of the master plan.The deputy minister briefed the

meeting on the national projects andactivities as well as initiatives toenhance capacity building andcollaboration among the relevantministries pertaining to the

implementation of the master planon ASEAN Connectivity. The deputyminister was accompanied byofficials from the permanent missionof the Republic of the Union ofMyanmar to ASEAN. He arrived backhere today.—MNA

YANGON, 17 March—A seminar and workshop on“measurement standards in Myanmar” jointly organizedby National Institute of Metrology (Thailand), JapanInternational Coordination Agency and the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers ofCommerce and Industry, with the assistance of MyanmaScience and Technology Research Department under theMinistry of Science and Technology took place for thesecond time from 14 to 16 March.

Vice President of the UMFCCI U Zaw Min Win, DeputyDirector-General U Win Khaing Moe of Myanma Scienceand Technology Research Department and JICA ResidentRepresentative Mr Masahiko Tanaka spoke at the openingof the workshop which was attended by 130 trainees.

MNA

Measurement standards inMyanmar workshop held Vice-Chairman-2 of Myanmar

Writers and JournalistsAssociation ExecutiveCommittee member of

Myanmar Libraries FoundationU Chit Naing (Chit Naing-Psychology) presents 7500books and publications to

Deputy Commissioner U SaiThaw Win of Yangon South

District.(News on page 1)

MNAFrom electoral democracy to liberaldemocracy at Kyaw Win’s talks

YANGON, 17 March—Jointly organized by MyanmarFisheries Federation and Myanmar Prawn EntrepreneursAssociation and sponsored by Ayeyawady Peanut Oil,writer Kyaw Win will give talks under the topic of “fromelectoral democracy to liberal democracy” at the MyanmarFisheries Federation in Bayintnaung Street, West Gyogon,Insein Township here at 2 pm on 24 march. Anyone interestedmay attend the talks.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17March—Union Ministerfor Transport U Nyan TunAung met local peoplefrom 55 villages in Natogyi

Union Transport Minister pays respectsto 1555 older persons in Natogyi

Township from 11 to 14March and explainededucation, health,economic sectors and ruraldevelopment and poverty

alleviation.During his tour, the

Union minister paidrespects to 1555 olderpersons from villages and

eight wards of Natogyi.At Alekyaung

Pariyatti Monastery inNatogyi, he met 29 studentswho will sit for matricu-lation examination andpresented cash assistancefor them.

MNA

YANGON, 17 March—Under the arrangements of the Sports and Physical EducationDepartment under the Ministry of Sports, Myanmar Tennis Federation organized the2012 Myanmar CP Open Tennis Tournament with the sponsorship of Myanmar CPLivestock Co Ltd at Theinbyu Tennis Court in Mingala Taungnyunt Township, here,this morning.

General Secretary of Myanmar Olympic Committee Director-General of Sportsand Physical Education Department U Thaung Htaik, President of Myanmar TennisFederation U Aung Maw Thein and Adviser to Myanmar CP Livestock Co Ltd U SoeLwin cut the ribbon to open the tournament. In the debut, a total of 25 matches wereheld. The tournament continues at 8.30 am daily.—MNA

2012 MyanmarCP Open

TennisTournament

kicks off

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ABOARD AIRFORCE ONE,17 March—US PresidentBarack Obama and hisAfghan counterpart HamidKarzai on Friday reaffirmedthat US troops would leaveAfghanistan by the end of2014, despite calls for anearlier withdrawal.

The two leaders spokeby phone Friday andreaffirmed they werecommitted to the agreedtimetable “in which Afghanforces would complete theprocess of transition andhave full responsibility forsecurity across the countryby the end of 2014,” the WhiteHouse said in a statement.

Karzai, in Thursday talks

Picture taken on 15 March, 2012 shows Blue Ridgewarship on the waters in Hong Kong, south China. TheUSS Blue Ridge, flagship for the Commander of the US

Navy’s 7th Fleet, started Thursday its six-day port visit toHong Kong.—XINHUA

No early US troop exit from Kabul

CHICAGO, 17 March— A US soldier who allegedly shotand killed 16 civilians in Afghanistan arrived at a US militaryprison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, late Friday after a flightfrom Kuwait, US media reported.

The soldier, identified Friday as US Army Staff SergeantRobert Bales, had served three combat tours in Iraq, and wason his first deployment to Afghanistan.

Bales allegedly left his base in the southern province ofKandahar before sunrise Sunday, entered an Afghan villageand opened fire, killing men, women and children. The incidenthas plunged US-Afghan relations into the deepest crisis sincethe 2001 US-led invasion.

The US military has not officially released the soldier’sname, nor charged him with a crime yet.

Bales is expected to be held at Fort Leavenworth as armyinvestigators seek to learn more about the tragic events.

Internet

Alleged Afghanistan‘shooter’ arrives in US

Anar Gul gestures to the body of her grandchild, whowas allegedly killed by a US service member in Panjwai,Kandahar Province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on 11March, 2012. Afghan President Hamid Karzai says a USservice member has killed more than a dozen people in a

shooting including nine children and three women.INTERNET

JERUSALEM, 17 March—Israeli forces and those ofIslamic Jihad fired rockets ateach other after a cease-firewas declared between the twosides, officials said.

The cease-fire betweenIsrael and the Islamic Jihad,negotiated by Egypt, went intoeffect 1 am Tuesday followingfour days of rocket attacks onsouthern Israel, the PalestinianMa’an News Agency reported.

Israel broke the truceWednesday when it flewwarplanes that shellednorthern and southern GazaStrip. Palestinians respondedby firing four rockets at

A Palestinian protesterhurls a stone at Israeli

soldiers during a protestnear Ramallah, against theconfiscation of Palestinian

land to build the Jewishsettlement.—INTERNET

Rockets fly after Jihad-Israelcease-fire

MOSCOW, 17 March—Conditions in Iraq haven’tworsened since US combattroops left the country inDecember, Russian DeputyForeign Minister MikhailBogdanov said Friday.

Bogdanov said there areproblems but security forcesare doing a better job ofdealing with them,” RIANovosti reported.

“Iraqi law enforcementstructures have improvedand are fighting terrorism and

Russia: Iraqi securityforces improving

criminals,” he said. “Weconsider that the governmentwill be in control of thesituation in the country,which will allow Iraqiresidents to get back tonormal life.”

Russia is available tohelp develop policyconcerning regional issuesand problems, he said.

Iraq is preparing to hostthe Arab League Summit atthe end of March.

Bogdanov called thesummit “a symbolic eventthat will confirm the return ofIraq to the family of Arabnations and restore its activerole in internationalrelations.”

Internet

with US Defence SecretaryLeon Panetta, had insistedinternational forces shouldleave Afghan villages andbe “relocated in their bases”and that Afghanistan isready to take responsibilityfor security.

Karzai gave no timelineother than saying NATOshould hand over to Afghanforces in 2013.

In Friday’s phone call,Obama agreed to resolveKarzai’s concerns over nightraids as the two leaders said

they would discusscomplaints about NATOtroops in villages.

White House spokesmanJay Carney said theydiscussed “Karzai’s recentreiteration of his long standingconcerns regarding night raidsand house searches andrecommitted to concludeongoing negotiations on amemorandum ofunderstanding to resolvethose concerns.”

“They also agreed tofurther discuss concerns

voiced by President Karzaiabout the presence of foreigntroops in villages,” Carneysaid, briefing reportersaboard Air Force One asObama flew to Chicago.

Obama called Karzai justafter midnight ostensibly to“congratulate” the Afghanleader on the birth of hisdaughter.—Internet

Jiayang mini steam engine train runs in QianweiCounty, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on 14

March, 2012. Built in 1958, Jiayang mini steamengine train with a narrow rail gauge, used to be acoal transportation. Later, added some passengerscarriages, it became the major transportation for

local villagers living in and around themountainous Bajiaogou town and Shixi town. Asthe steam trains disappear in the world, more andmore tourists from home and abroad came here to

visit the mini steam engine train.XINHUA

Wreckage of a motorcycle is seen on the ground at thescene of a bomb explosion in Kandahar south of Kabul,

Afghanistan, on 14 March, 2012. A delegationinvestigating Sunday’s shooting killing civilians in

Panjwai, Kandahar by a US soldier was meeting in thesouthern city of Kandahar on Wednesday when a bombhidden in a motorcycle exploded about 600 yards away.

INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 17 March—Terror mastermind Osama binLaden ordered his al-Qaeda network to organize special cellsin Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of USPresident Barack Obama and Gen David Petraeus, whocommanded the US forces in Afghanistan at the time, USreports said Friday.

The Washington Post quoted administration officials assaying the plot was discovered in documents taken from binLaden’s compound by US forces on 2 May, the night he waskilled. They also said the plot was never a serious threat.

The man bin Laden picked to carry out the attacks wasPakistani terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri. A month after bin Laden’sdeath, Kashmiri was killed in a US drone attack.

However, the Post said the plot “was probably bluster,”since al-Qaeda apparently lacked the weapons to shoot downUS aircraft, and US analysts don’t see evidence that theseplots have materialized.

Xinhua

KADUNA, 17 March— Ten people were killed and fiveothers severely injured in three overnight attacks by gunmenin north west Nigeria’s Kaduna State.

A witness, Sunday Amos, who claimed to have escapeddeath by the whiskers told Xinhua late on Friday that thesuspected gunmen numbering 20 raided three villages inChikun local government area.

He said a Christian cleric identified as InnocentChukwuemeka Mari, in charge of the Assemblies of GodChurch, was among those killed in the attacks that lasted tillthe early hours of Friday. The gunmen also razed the churchbuilding before moving on to another village.

According to the witness, the attackers shotindiscriminately at the villagers and at the same time set manyhouses in the villages on fire as residents fled.

“The five injured persons during the raid had since beenadmitted at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital,Zaria, for treatment,” he added.

State police spokesperson Aminu Lawan confirmed theincident to Xinhua, saying he was still awaiting details of theincident. “We have deployed our officers in the troubledarea,” he said.—Xinhua

Ten killed, five injured innorthern Nigeria overnight

attacks

southern Israel. No group hasclaimed responsibility for anyof the attacks.

The leader of the IslamicJihad, Ahmad al-Mudallal, saidhis group is committed to acease-fire with Israel, but theywould retaliate for attacks onGaza, The Jerusalem Postreported.

“We don’t trust theoccupation but we trust oursteadfastness and resistance.We cannot be quiet duringany aggression on thePalestinian people,” Mudallalsaid, adding, “The resistanceis ready to respond to anyIsraeli attacks.”—Internet

Bin Laden plotted to killObama before his death

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SAN FRANCISCO, 17 March—The makers of anInstagram photo-sharing application wildly popular onApple gadgets are tailoring a version for smartphonespowered by Android software.

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom provided aglimpse of the Android “app” to technology trend-settersat a South By Southwest Interactive conference thatwraps up on Tuesday in the Texas capitol of Austin.

The application tuned to Apple’s iPhones, iPads, andiPod touch devices has been downloaded more than 27million times since the first version of Instagram wasreleased in late 2010 by the San Francisco startup, accordingto Systrom.

The free mini-programme lets people give classiclooks to square photos using “filters” and then share themat Twitter, Facebook or other social networks. Applecrowned Instagram its app-of-the-year for 2011. A versionof Instagram for Android would bolster the positions ofsmartphones and tablets powered by Google-backedoperating software as they compete with Apple in the hotmobile market. It would also let the Mountain View,California-based Internet titan weave Instagram photo-sharing into its Google+ social network.—Internet

iPhone hit Instagram headsto Android smartphones

Participants visit the Android stand of the MobileWorld Congress in Barcelona in February 2012.

INTERNET

Built by Liquid Robotics, the PacX Wave Gliders aretaking part in a project to gather data about the compositionand quality of seawater.

The first leg of their transoceanic swim from SanFrancisco to Hawaii took four months and they are expectedto cover 9,000 nautical miles by their journey’s end.

They were launched in San Francisco harbour on 17Nov, 2011. The robots consist of a floating upper part,shaped like a surfboard, connected by a cable to a lowerassemble that has fins and a keel. They have no fuel orengine, instead converting energy from the movement ofocean waves into forward motion.

Solar panels installed on the upper surface of thepower sensors that take readings every 10 minutes of thesurrounding seawater.

“I have no doubt new ocean discoveries, insights,and applications will emerge from the PacX data set,”Edward Lu, chief of innovative applications at LiquidRobotics, told the BBC.

After a short stopover in Hawaii, the robots will splitup, with two going on to Japan and two to Australia,crossing the equator.—Internet

Robots in record-distance ocean swim

PacXWave

Gliders.

HONOLULU,17 March—Four wave-p o w e r e drobots have seta record bys w i m m i n gmore than 3,200nautical milesacross thePacific Ocean,their US-basedd e v e l o p e rsaid.

Egypt finds suggestancient royal funeral

This rare example of a royal statue made of wood mayrepresent the female pharaoh Hatshepsut.—INTERNET

TORONTO, 17 March—A find in Egypt of a woodenstatue of a king, a chapeland animal mummiessuggests ritual activityassociated with the greatEgyptian gods, researcherssay.

Archaeologists fromthe University of Torontosaid the items and evidenceof a monumental buildingwere found in Abydos,Egypt in June and July 2011.

The wooden statuemay represent the femaleking Hatshepsut, oftenportrayed as male in stonebecause the Egyptianpharaoh was understood tobe son of the god Amon-Re,and Hatshepsut was knownto dress as a man for the

role, a university release saidMonday.

But this statue has asmaller waist and delicatejawline, acknowledging theseaspects of her femininephysique, the researcherssaid. It is thought to be froma ceremonial procession inwhich wooden statues of theroyal ancestors and of godswere carried by priests fromthe temple of Osiris to a royaltomb.

Egyptians from all levelsof society built chapels andmonuments along theprocessional route to ensuretheir eternal participation inthe festival and theiridentification with Osiris, theresearchers said, but buildingtoo close to the route was

prohibited by the state andinfringement carried the threatof the death penalty.

The proximity of theuncovered offering chapel tothe procession routesuggests it was that of an eliteperson and has been dated1990 to 1650 BC, they said.

“The offering chapelproves that people —probably elites — were ableto build monuments right next

to the processional route inthe Middle Kingdom, andthat at least one such chapelwas allowed to stand in thisincreasingly densely built-up area and continued toreceive offerings even 800years after its initialconstruction,” Mary-AnnPouls Wegner of Toronto’sDepartment of Near andMiddle Eastern Civili-zations said.—Internet

SAN FRANCISCO, 17 March—Dropbox, the US onlinedata storage service, says it has launched a major redesign,simplifying file management tasks and adding a new videoand photo viewer.

A new user interface includes an “action bar” that letsusers sort files by name, date, size and type, Mashablereported Friday.

Click on a file brings new additional options, allowingusers to download, delete, rename, move or copy a file fromthe action bar.

A new viewer lets users view video and photo contentin full-screen mode, but photos and videos now also have

Dropbox adds new fileand image features

Dropbox now includes improved image viewing.

Shuttles play musical chairs in Florida

Oldest animal with askeleton found

RIVERSIDE, 17 March—Paleontologists say they’vediscovered fossils of theoldest animal with a skeleton,between 560 million and 550years old, in South Australia.

The age of Coronacollinaacula places it in a time knownas the Ediacaran Period,named after the Ediacara Hillsof South Australia, rangingfrom 630-542 million years ago,before the explosion of lifeand diversification oforganisms that took place onEarth in the followingCambrian period from 542million to 488 million yearsago, they said.

CAPE CANAVERAL, 17 March—NASA says two of its retired space shuttles areswapping places at Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre as part of ongoing preparations todisplay them in museums.

Shuttles Discovery and Atlantis will swap places, with Atlantis moving from theVehicle Assembly Building to Orbiter Processing Facility-1, passing Discovery along theway, Florida Today reported Friday.

Discovery’s exit from a shuttle-processing hangar will be its last before a ferry flightto Washington’s Dulles International Airport, planned for 17 April, for display at theNational Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Centre next to the airport.

Atlantis will be the last orbiter to leave the Kennedy Space Centre, making a shortjourney down the road to the Visitor Complex in November. Endeavour, currently inresidence at Orbiter Processing Facility-2, is expected to be ferried to Los Angeles inSeptember for display at the city’s California Science Centre.—Internet

NASA’s space shuttle “Atlantis” is towed into OrbiterProcessing Facility 2 following completion of the spaceshuttle’s final mission at the Kennedy Space Center on 21July, 2011. Atlantis will be powered down and “safed”prior to being put on display at the Kennedy Space CenterVisitor Complex. Atlantis completed her 33rd and theshuttle programme’s 135th and final mission with apredawn landing. Atlantis flew to the International SpaceStation on mission STS 135 and provided equipment andsupplies for the next year.—INTERNET

thumbnails, which makes them easier to preview, Dropboxsaid.

The redesign is a first step in a complete overhaul ofthe service, Dropbox said, with more changes and newfeatures coming in the “next few months.”—Internet

“Up until theCambrian, it wasunderstood that animalswere soft bodied and hadno hard parts,” MaryDroser, a geology professorat the University ofCalifornia, Riverside, wholed the team making thediscovery, said.

“But we now have anorganism with individualskeletal body parts thatappears before theCambrian.

It is therefore the oldestanimal with hard parts, andit has a number of them —they would have beenstructural supports —essentially holding it up.This is a major innovationfor animals.”

Apart from its hardparts, it is constructed inthe same way that Cambriansponges were constructed,she said in a universityrelease Friday.

“It therefore providesa link between the two timeintervals,” Droser said.

Internet

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Judge tentatively approvesHonda settlement

SAN DIEGO, 17March—A San Diegojudge has finalized hisapproval of a settlementagreement that would giveowners of Honda Civichybrids up to $200 cashover claims that fueleconomy was inflated.

Superior Court JudgeTimothy Taylor listened tonearly two hours ofarguments Friday beforeissuing the final ruling.

The ruling providesbetween $100 and $200 —plus rebates — to owners

Heather Peters speaks incourt on 16 March,

2012, in San Diego. Ajudge tentatively

approved a settlement togive owners of Honda

Civic hybrids up to $200cash over claims that thecars’ fuel economy was

inflated.—INTERNET

of about 200,000 vehicles from model years 2003 to 2009.It also would award plaintiff attorneys more than $8million.—Internet

Greg Packer shows his new iPad bought in theApple store on the Fifth Avenue of Manhattan, New

York City, the United States on 16 March, 2012.Apple’s new iPad, featuring a faster processor, a

sharper high-resolution display, as well as a modelcapable of next-generation 4G Long Term

Evolution high-speed service with Wi-Fi, started theselling in the United States on Friday.

XINHUA

VANCOUVER, 17March—A new study byresearchers at theUniversity of BC says theuse of antibiotics mayincrease the incidence ofasthma in young children.

The study found thattwo widely-used antibioticsalter the bacterial eco-system in the intestines ofmice, and that in turn canresult not only in more casesof asthma, but more severecases as well. The re-searchers say the sameantibiotics— streptomycinand vancomycin — didn’tlead to more asthma in adultmice, indicating that earlylife is a critical period forestablishing a healthyimmune system.

The report’s author,microbiologist Brett Finlay,says the use of antibioticsand modern sanitationmethods are hindering thedevelopment of intestinalbacteria that may be criticalto an effective immunesystem. He says asthmacases have not increasedsignificantly in developingcountries where antibioticsaren’t used as much, thus

New study links antibiotics use toasthma in children

Shelley MaKay looks overher inhalers at her apartmenton 13 March, 2006 inToronto, Ont.—INTERNET

allowing the normaldevelopment of intestinalbacteria. Asthma casesaround the world areincreasing about 50 per centevery decade, mostly amongchildren in industrializedcountries, and the AsthmaSociety of Canada says about12 per cent of children inCanada suffer from thecondition.—Internet

GENEVA, 17 March—TheUnited Nations Children’sFund (UNICEF) warnedFriday that there is little timeleft to stave off a disasterfacing more than one millionchildren aged below five inthe Sahel region of Africa asthe dry, “lean” seasonbegins.

The agency is expectingmore than one millionchildren suffering fromsevere and acute

UNICEF calls for urgent aidto children in Sahel region

malnutrition to enterfeeding centers over thenext six months at best,while more extremeconditions could see thenumber rise to around 1.5million.

So far the agency hasreceived 24 million USdollars against anemergency appeal of 119million US dollars for 2012.The fund can only supportan aid until the end of Junewhile the “lean” seasonwill last at least untilAugust, according toUNICEF.

The crisis has beencaused by poor rainfall andfailed harvests affecting anestimated 10 million peoplein areas of Chad, BurkinaFaso, Mauritania, Mali,Niger, northern Nigeria,northern Cameroon andparts of the north in Senegal

Meanwhile, theconflict in Mali has alsoincreased demand foremergency assistanceboth inside the country andin neighboring countriesthat have receivedrefugees.—Xinhua

A Pakistani health worker gives anti-polio vaccine to achild on the last day of a three-day anti-polio campaignin Lahore, eastern Pakistan on 14 March, 2012. A total

of 198 polio cases had been reported in 2011 throughoutthe country, Pakistan Pediatric Association said.

XINHUA

JAKARTA, 17 March—An eight-year-old Indonesianboy who smokes more than a pack of cigarettes a day willundergo a month of therapy to kick his four-year habit, a childwelfare official said Friday.

Indonesia’s Child Protection Commission chairmanWhile infants shouldnever sleep on their stomach,tummy time while an infant isawake and being watched isimportant for baby’sdevelopment, the AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics says.The academy mentionsthese suggestions to make“tummy time” fun for baby:* With baby on his tummy,place a favorite toy just alittle bit out of reach toencourage him to stretchfor it.* Surround baby with acircle of toys to encouragestrengthening muscles byreaching in differentdirections.* Once baby is old enough,place baby belly-down onyour chest so he will pickup his head to look at yourface.* Encourage other youngchildren to play with babyduring tummy time, as longas you carefully supervisethem together.—Internet

Health Tip:Make ‘tummy

time’ fun

Indonesian eight-year-old tokick smoking habit

Stubbed out cigarettes lay inan ashtray. An eight-year-old Indonesian boy whosmokes more than a pack ofcigarettes a day will undergoa month of therapy to kickhis four-year habit, a childwelfare official has said.

INTERNET

Arist Merdeka Sirait said the boy, Ilham, whosmokes around 25 cigarettes a day, needed“emergency help” as his addiction hadreached “alert level”, affecting his behaviour.

“You can see a dramatic change ofbehaviour when he doesn’t have a cigarettefor a while. He becomes emotionally aggressiveand uncontrollable. He acts like he’s possessedby evil spirits,” Sirait told AFP.

The boy’s father Agan Umar said hisson would become enraged and “smash glass windows or whatever’s around” if he is notconstantly given cigarettes.

“I hope the therapy works so my son can go back to school and live a normal life likethe other kids,” Umar said.

The boy will leave his village in Sukabumi in western Java on Monday to start receivingintensive specialist care in the capital Jakarta, Sirait said.

“We’ll give him a medical check-up to examine the impact his smoking has had on hishealth, and he’ll be given psycho-social therapy to divert his attention from smoking toplaying,” he said. Indonesia has the world’s highest percentage of young smokers,according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report from 2006, which found more than37 percent of high school and university students smoked.

The report found 25 percent of children between the age of three and 15 had triedsmoking. A two-year-old boy on Sumatra island kicked the habit with a similar treatment aftera video emerged in 2010 of the overweight toddler drawing heavily on a cigarette. His parentsadmitted he smoked 40 cigarettes a day. Smoking rates have risen six-fold in Indonesia overthe last 40 years, with 89 million Indonesians in a population of 240 million smoking today,WHO data shows.—Internet

Singapore shares close lowerdespite positive US dataSINGAPORE, 17 March—Singapore shares ended 0.5

percent lower on Friday as investors shrugged offpositive news of better-than-expected US data thatshowed improving labor market conditions.

“we believe Singapore market is also a good hedgefor higher oil prices as the market is scattered with Oil andGas, Energy and commodity representatives which tendto benefit from higher oil prices,” DBS Group Researchsaid. The benchmark Straits Times Index dropped 15.16points to close at 3.010.68. Trading volume was 1.36billion shares worth 1.48 billion Singapore dollars (1.17billion US dollars). Advancers outnumbered decliners250 to 159, while 398 stocks finished unchanged.

Among the top actives, shipbuilder Yangzijianggained 1.8 percent to close at 1.39 Singapore dollars.Bank of America Merrill Lynch raised the target price ofSingapore-listed shipbuilder to 2.12 Singapore dollarsfrom 2.08 Singapore dollars, and maintained “Buy” rating,citing a potential rise in orders for large containershiporders from mid-2012. It said the company could see itsfirst rig building contract wins in the second half of theyear, helped by support from the Chinese government.

Boustead Singapore rose 1.1 percent to close at 88Singapore cents. It has recently secured about 35 millionSingapore dollars in contracts from the oil and gasindustries globally. This brings order book backlog to345 million Singapore dollars.

JES International jumped 16.7 percent to close at 21Singapore cents after reporting that its full-year net profitsurged 208.4 percent on-year to 202.9 million ChineseYuan (32.1 million US dollars).—Xinhua

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NAY PYI TAW, 17 March—Pa-O National Organization CEC member U Khun Min Kyaw presented party’s policy, stance and work programmes through radio and TV today.The translation of his presentation is as follows:-

Esteemed people,I am U Khun Min Kyaw, CEC member of Pa-O

National Organization (PNO). I will make my presentationabout the PNO’s participation in the by-election to beheld on 1 April. Pa-O is one of more than 100 nationalraces residing in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.History says that Pa-O represents Kayin tribe of TibetMyanmar descendants. At present, more than one millionPa-O nationals are living in Shan State, Kayah State,Mon State, Kayin State and Bago Region. Not only didPa-O nationals take part in independence struggles butalso Pa-O national leader U Phyu gave his signature inthe world-famous Panglong Agreement.

In 1948 Myanmar regained her independence fromthe British colonialists. The independent Union ofMyanmar prescribed in its constitution that it would

practise parliamentary democracy. Democracy comes froman ancient Greek word. Demo means people and Kratosmeans power. Democracy is the most valuable politicalconcept in the modern world. The right of a grown-upcitizen to elect rulers by casting a vote is the basis ofdemocracy. According to democratic practices, everycitizen with right qualifications has the right to vote andrun for election.

A free and fair election is the key to democracy. Themore the taste of democracy a nation can enjoy, the morefreedom the people living in that country will have. In thethree parliamentary democracy elections – the first in 1952,the second in 1956 and the third in 1960 – the then UnionPa-O National Organization won seven parliamentary seats.

Our Pa-O National Organization ran for the 2010 multi-party democracy general election with the objectives ofensuring non-disintegration of the Union, non-disintegration of national solidarity and flourishing ofdemocracy. Our party won 10 seats – one seat in AmyothaHluttaw, three seats in Pyithu Hluttaw and six seats in theState Hluttaw. In the forthcoming by-election to be held on1 April, our party will compete at the Pyithu Hluttaw levelrepresenting Kalaw Township of Shan State with a view toensuring non-disintegration of the Union, non-disintegration of national solidarity, democracy cause andeternal peace.

From March 1989 to 6 April 1997 in the times of theState Law and Order Restoration Council and State Peace

Pa-O National Organizationpresents its policy, stance and work programmes

and Development Council(Tatmadaw) government,peace was achieved afterreaching ceasefireagreement with 18 nationalethnic armed groups with67382 members and 53838weapons. The root cause ofcivil wars is politicalinstability. In order toachieve genuine internalpeace, it is necessary todiscuss and solve major political problems. Only whenarmed conflicts cease, will all the people enjoy peace.Peace can create human resources, promote education,give the people lots of rights. National development liesat the core of peace. Bamar, Shan, Danu, Pa-O, Intha,Taungyo and Palaung nationals in Kalaw Townshiphave been living in amity and unity since ancient timeswith their cherished literatures, traditions and customs.With those national people working in concert forregional development, Kalaw Township is progressing.This is why I would like to urge the people to vote forKalaw Township Pyithu Hluttaw candidate U KhunThan Maung from our party so that we can achievedemocracy and genuine eternal peace.

May all the voters of Kalaw Township be healthyand happy and have their prayers answered.

A Shaolin Kongfu master (L) teaches participants to practise basic skills at StanfordUniversity in California, the United States, on 9 March, 2012. About 130 participants

have learned Shaolin Kongfu since the course was offered at Stanford University inJanuary 2011.—XINHUA

A Fiat 508 S MM car made in 1934 is shown on the exhibition “theOrigins of Myth” during the preview for journalist held in the EnzoFerrari Home Museum in Modena, Italy, on 9 March, 2012. Aftermaking its preview for journalist on Friday, the museum and the

exhibition would be officially open to the public on 10 March. Themuseum complex is built on the basis of the old house where Enzo

Ferrari was born in 1898.—XINHUA

Chinese national killed, two others injuredby home-invasion burglars in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG, 17March —One Chineseyouth was killed and twoothers were injured inJohannesburg as burglarsbroke into their house twodays ago, South AfricaChinese Community andPolice Co-op Centre(SACCPC) confirmed withXinhua on Saturdayevening.

Wu Yinjian, a staffmember with the center toldXinhua that the incident

happened on Thursdayevening when several armedrobbers broke into the emptyresidence of seven Chinesenationals in Bedfordviewarea. The Chinese, who wentback after dinner andbumped into the robbers,were tied up and forced tohand over their cash.

Some of them weresavagely beaten by therobbers with the iron rods.Three of them were injured,according to Wu, and one

died in a nearby hospital thenext morning due to a fatalbrain injury.

The robbers escapedafter take away over 100,000rands (about 20,000 USdollars), a TV set andcomputers.

The two injured arecurrently in stableconditions after receivingmedical treatment in thehospital, said Wu. SouthAfrican police are probinginto the incident.—Xinhua

Political advisor suggestsdeepened reforms to

attract overseas ChineseBEIJING, 17 March—Following are some quotes

on deepened reforms to attract overseas Chinesefrom political advisor Ma Jianguo, also vicechairman of Jiangsu Provincial Committee of ChinaZhi Gong Party, at the ongoing annual session ofthe Chinese People’s Political ConsultativeConference National Committee on Sunday:

— A total of 50 million overseas Chinese serveas China’s unique advantage and importantresources.

— We shall issue special identity documentsfor overseas Chinese to provide them the sameconvenience concerning children education,medical service, home purchases and entrance-exit procedures as domestic citizens to facilitateoverseas Chinese returning to the motherland tolive and start businesses.—Xinhua

ISLAMABAD, 17 March —At least 15 suspected militantswere killed when two unmanned US drones hit them in theSouth Waziristan Agency, officials have said.

In the first strike, which took place in Uthgalai villageof Barmal Tehsil, a drone fired four missiles at a vehicle.

“The target of the attack was fighters of CommanderMaulvi Nazir. Eight suspected militants were killed in theattack,” The Express Tribune quoted an intelligenceofficial, as saying.

Sources added that two top militant commanders ofthe Mullah Nazir Group – identified as Ameer HamzaTojikhel and Shamsullah – were among the dead. Bothwere believed to be key members of the group. The bodieswere shifted to the Angoor Adda area.

Mullah Nazir, who is allied with Hafiz Gul Bahadur,a powerful militant commander in the neigh-bouringNorth Waziristan Agency, sends fighters into Afghanistanto attack US and NATO troops.

Internet

At least 15 suspected militants killed inUS drone attack in South Waziristan

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Technological universities and colleges produce moreengineers, computer technicians in Bago Region

(Translation: AKK)

Archive: Maung Nyein Aye

* An education policy has been adopted for development of Regions and States andthe whole Union as well as human resources development.

* Efforts are being made for improvement of quality and quantity of youths in BagoRegion.

* Extended opening of higher learning institutions in Bago Region was aimed atenabling youths in the region to continue pursue their studies within their reach.The project covers two arts and science universities, one degree college and twoeducation colleges.

* Moreover, each technological university and university of computer studies andtechnical high school were opened in Pyay and Toungoo, which are strategicallylocated, for producing more engineers and computer technicians.

Gunman robs doctors mid-surgery atVenezuelan hospital

CARACAS, 17 March —A man robbed asurgeon and his staff at gunpoint during aprocedure being performed in the operatingtheater of a hospital in the central Venezuelancity of Maracay, making off with watches, cellphones and money, an official said.

The robber, pretending to be a patient,broke into the operating theater Thursday atRed Cross headquarters in Aragua, the headof the institution in that state, Juan MarioGualano, said.

“He (the robber) suddenly took out agun, burst into the operating room anddemanded the submission of the medical staffdoing surgery on a patient,” Gualano said,

describing the incident as “a really crazything”.

The assailant grabbed cell phones,watches and cash from the operating theaterstaff, who never interrupted the surgery.

“The patient is in stable condition, butimagine the crisis it put our medical personnelin, having to continue operating while beingassaulted,” the official said.

Gualano added that, according topatients’ accounts, the individual talked onthe phone with another person just beforepulling out his gun, with which he alsothreatened patients in the ward and theirrelatives in the waiting room.—Internet

Chinese national killed, two others injuredby home-invasion burglars in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG, 17 March —OneChinese youth was killed and two otherswere injured in Johannesburg as burglarsbroke into their house two days ago, SouthAfrica Chinese Community and Police Co-op Centre (SACCPC) confirmed with Xinhuaon Saturday evening.

Wu Yinjian, a staff member with thecenter told Xinhua that the incidenthappened on Thursday evening whenseveral armed robbers broke into the emptyresidence of seven Chinese nationals inBedfordview area.

The Chinese, who went back after dinnerand bumped into the robbers, were tied up

and forced to hand over their cash.Some of them were savagely beaten by

the robbers with the iron rods. Three ofthem were injured, according to Wu, andone died in a nearby hospital the nextmorning due to a fatal brain injury.

The robbers escaped after take awayover 100,000 rands (about 20,000 US dollars),a TV set and computers.

The two injured are currently in stableconditions after receiving medical treatmentin the hospital, said Wu.

South African police are probing intothe incident.

Xinhua

Toungoo Technological University enables localyouths to pursue higher education.

Institute of Education in Toungoo, Bago Regionturns out local youths for education sector.

Pyay Technological University advances localyouths' technological knowledge.

Bago Degree College Main Building produces experts.

Pyay University Main Building brings higher education to local youths.

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(from page 1)construction tasks, check the buildingswhether they meet set standards or not,constitute one inspection team fromconstruction groups, another teamfrom Ministry of Science and Technologyand the Office of Auditor-Generalof the Union and the next one fromintellectuals to be able to inspect the stand-ards and expenditure in construction worksand submit the reports on inspection, andinstructed construction groups to system-

Vice-President ThihaThura U Tin AungMyint Oo inspectspreparations for…

Lodgings for sport atheletes under construction at Sports Village Project in Nay Pyi Taw.—MNA

Vice-President

Thiha Thura U

Tin Aung Myint

Oo inspects

construction of

Zabuthiri

Stadium.

MNA

Progress in construction of Zabuthiri Stadium inNay Pyi Taw.—MNA

YANGON, 17March— Union Minister forLabour and for Social Wel-fare, Relief and ResettlementU Aung Kyi attended the firstmeeting of the Conferenceof the Parties (COP 1) to theASEAN Agreement onDisaster Management andEmergence Response-AADMER held in Jakarta,the Republic of Indonesia,on 15 March.

The meeting was at-tended by ASEAN Secretary-General Dr Surin Pitsuwanand disaster management

Myanmar delegation attends first meeting of Conferenceof the Parties to ASEAN Agreement on Disaster

Management and Emergence Response in Indonesiaministers and deputy minis-ters from 10 ASEAN coun-tries and Coordinating Min-ister for People’s Welfare ofIndonesia Mr AgungLaksono chaired the meet-ing.

Participants dis-cussed the setting of rulesand regulations on the meet-ing, laying down offinancial rules on ASEANdisaster management andemergency rescue funds andfinancial matters for ASEANCoordinating Center for Hu-manitarian Assistance on

Disaster Management-AHACenter.

Union Minister UAung Kyi also spoke on theoccasion. Next, the UnionMinister together with thedelegates visited AHAcenter situated on the 17th

floor of BNPP building.The Union

Minister met IndonesianMinister for Manpower andTransmigration MrMuhaimin Iskandar. Hebriefed on promoting of de-mocracy in the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar and

both sides exchanged viewson matters related to labourorganizations and migrantworkers.

Director-General USoe Aung of the Reliefand Resettlement Depart-ment, who accompaniedthe Union Minister, attendedthe 19th ASEAN DisasterManagement Committee’smeeting on 13 to 14 March.

The UnionMinister and delegationmembers arrived back inMyanmar yesterday evening.

MNA

YANGON, 17 March—Deputy Minister for EducationU Ba Shwe attended the second meeting on JDS Project2012-2013 at the hall of Yangon University of ForeignLanguages, here, yesterday afternoon.

Minister-Counsellor Mr Ichiro Maruyama of theJapanese Embassy explained matters related to JDS Project.Those present took part in the discussions.—MNA

Second meetingon JDS Project2012-2013 held

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

intimidated* Do not be bolstered whenever flattered* Do not be softened whenever appeased

atically follow the remarks fromfindings of the inspectionteams.

Next, the Vice-Presidentand party looked into progressof buildings for athletes atSports Village.

After the XXVII SEAGames, the Sports Village willbe used as staff quarters.

At the briefing hall of theZabuthiri Modern Stadium,the Vice-President heardreports on progress of thestadium, preparations forholding the sports competi-tions and construction of

30,000-spectator-capacitystadium presented by Chairmanof Max Myanmar Co Ltd U ZawZaw.

After giving necessary in-structions, the Vice-Presidentinspected construction tasks atthe stadium.

Next, the Vice-Presidentand party viewed roundprogress of Zabuthiri IndoorVenue Project.

Later, they viewed con-struction of international stand-ard Zabuthiri Swimming PoolProject.

MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 17 March—Union Minister for Agri-culture and Irrigation U Myint Hlaing met with PyithuHluttaw representatives from Sagaing, Kawlin, Indaw,Ayadaw, Myaung and Lahe Townships of Sagaing Region,those of Kyonpyaw Township of Ayeyawady Region, thoseof Waw Township of Bago Region, those of Kanma, Salin,Gangaw, Htilin, Pauk and Natmauk townships of MagwayRegion, those of Singu and Singaing townships of Manda-lay Region, those of Dimawhso and Pruhso townships ofKayah State, those of Papun and Myawady townships ofKayin State and Pauktaw Township of Rakhine State led byPyithu Hluttaw representative U Saw Hla Tun of ChaungUTownship Constituency of Sagaing Region, and farmers ledby U Thaung Htaik of ChaungU Township of SagaingRegion, who made a trip to observe thriving Palethwe

Pyithu Hluttaw representatives, farmers observethriving Palethwe hybrid paddy plantations

hybrid paddy plantations in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area, atthe briefing hall of 369-acre Palethwe hybrid paddy planta-tion near Ayinlo Village of Pyinmana Township this morn-ing.

The Union Minister explained good agricultural pat-terns being applied by farmes, entrepreneurs and agricultur-ists from the paddy transplanting to harvest period, post-harvesting technology, operating of rice mills for doublingthe incomes of farmers.

Deputy Minister U Khin Zaw discussed that devel-opment of agricultural tasks cannot be brought about throughtraditional farming system. It is necessary to apply goodagricultural patterns for modernizing the agricultural system,he said.

The Union Minister and the deputy minister pre-

sented seven kilos of Palethwe hybrid paddy seeds per acreto farmers.

The excursion group members viewed thriving 95-day-old paddy plantations. Staff members and local farmersexplained prospects for production of over 200 baskets ofpaddy per acre due to thriving equal and quality ears ofpaddy.

The excursion group members viewed thriving 45-day-old Palethwe hybrid paddy plantation on 288 acres ofadvanced farmlands in Aungchantha Village of ZabuthiriTownship. They also looked into cultivation of vegetableplantation on vacant lands beside the farmlands, constric-tion of production roads, feeder canals and drains, broad-casting of fertilizer at four species of Palethwe hybrid paddyplantations in Tegyigon Village of Zabuthiri Township.They also viewed Palethwe hybrid paddy plantations ofVietnam and China species on 500 acres of farmer educativefarmlands in Pobbathiri Township, cultivation of vegetableplantations on vacant areas beside the farmlands, sorting ofpaddy seeds and packaging works.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 March—Kayin State Chief Minis-ter U Zaw Min on 9 March viewed nurturing of varioussaplings at the temporary nursery in Ward 3 of Papun, rubberfarm of U Sai Ohn Naing in Model Village on west bank ofPapun and seasonal crop plantations and rubber farm of USein Win Nyunt.

On 10 March, he sowed the seeds at the nursery ofPapun Township Forest Department.

In the afternoon, he met local people, departmentalpersonnel, social organizations and townselders at the hallof Papun District General Administration Department andpresented aids to officials for education, health, transport,agriculture and regional development.

After inspecting Yunsalin Creek Bridge, he lookedinto basic education schools, rural healthcentre, wooden bridge and construction of Papun-Kamamoung road section on 11 March.

MNA

Kayin State ChiefMinister looks into

development tasks inPapun District

YANGON, 17 March—Organized by MyanmarWriters and Journalists As-sociation, the Seventh ThutaShwesone Literary AwardPresenting Ceremony ofSwesone Media Group washeld at Traders Hotel, here,this morning.

Managing DirectorDaw Khin Moe Moe ofSwesone Media Group ex-plained the purpose ofawarding the prizes. Mem-ber of the Literary AwardSelection Committee Chair-man of Swesone MediaGroup Dr Tin Tun Oo ex-plained matters related toselected works.

Yangon Region Min-ister for Development Af-fairs U Hla Myint presentedThuta Swesone Life-timeAchievement LiteraryAward to Daw Yi Yi Hla

Thuta Swesone Literary Awardpresented to winners for seventh time

(Yuwady Khin Oo); YangonRegion Minister for Financeand Revenue Daw San SanNwe gave Thuta SwesoneLiterary Award (Arts genre)to Dr Kyaw Sein for hiswork; Managing Director UAung Myo Myint ofMyanma Motion Picture En-terprise Thuta Swesone Lit-erary Award (Belle-lettergenre) to Sein Myo Myint;Director-General U Ye Htutof Information and PublicRelations Department ThutaSwesone Literary Award(Political Genre) to MaungWun Tha, Managing Direc-tor U Ye Tint of Printingand Publishing EnterpriseThuta Swesone LiteraryAward (Biography Genre)to Naing Zaw, Chairman ofMyanmar Writers and Jour-nalists Association U TinHlaing (Ledwintha Saw

Chit) Thuta Swesone Liter-ary Award (Social Eco-nomic Genre) to Daw ThiriKhin on behalf of herhusband Hein Latt, Chair-man of Swesone MediaGroup Dr Tin Tun Oo ThutaSwesone Literary Award(Applied Science Genre) toU Kyaw Thu, and ManagingDirector Dr Khin Moe Moeof Swesone Media GroupThuta Swesone LiteraryAward (Knowledge ScienceGenre) to Win Kyaw.

The Chairman andthe Managing Director ofSwesone Media presentedgifts to U Ko Ko (Ko-Uni-versity) on behalf of theaward selection committee.

Award winnerMaung Wun Tha, Sein MyoMyint and Dr Yi Yi Hla(Yuwady Khin Oo) spokewords of thanks.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 March—Multimedia Web ContentDevelopment Course and Network and System Administra-tion Course (Level 2) were concluded at the Telecommuni-cations and Postal Training Centre of Myanma Posts andTelecommunications on 16 March morning. Union Ministerfor Communications, Posts and Telegraphs U Thein Tunspoke on the occasion and presented certificates to the

Training courses of MPT conclude

trainees.Also present on the occasion were Deputy Minister

U Tint Lwin and deparemntal heads. A total of 76 servicepersonnel from various ministries did the four-week courses.Since 24 April 2006, the centre has conducted 26 courses,turning out 4421 trainees.

MNA

UMFCCI President and partyleave for Japan

YANGON, 17 March—President of the Republic ofthe Union of MyanmarFederation of Chambers ofCommerce and Industry UWin Aung, Central Execu-tive Committee members DrAung Thein and Dr Tha Tun

Oo, executives U Ye MyatThu, U Moe Myint Kyawand U Kyi Min left here byair on 12 March evening toattend the meeting with offi-cials of the Japanese Gov-ernment, scholars and entre-preneurs to be held in Tokyo

of Japan.They were seen off at

Yangon International Air-port by General Secretary ofUMFCCI Dr Myo Thet, JointGeneral Secretary U MoeKyaw and officials.

Myanma Alin

Union Minister for Communications, Posts and Telegraphs U Thein Tun speaks at theconcluding of Multimedia Web Content Development Course and Network and System Administra-

tion Course (Level 2).—MNA

SagaingRegionChief

MinisterU Tha

Aye andwife DawWai Waicomfortcleft lip

andpalate

patients atMonywaPeople’sHospital

on 14March.(News

reported)MNA

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Today, the entire global community sees the term‘internationalism’ as an integral part of internationalrelations. Actually, internationalism means the belief thatcountries should work together in a friendly way. With thisend in view, regional, sub-regional and internationalorganizations such as ASEAN, EU and African Union haveemerged across the globe to work together for peace anddevelopment of global society. For expanding itsinternational or external relations, ASEAN has been tryingto develop friendly relations and mutually beneficialdialogue, cooperation and partnerships with all countriesas well as sub-regional, regional and internationalorganizations and institutions. In forging friendly relationswith all countries, ASEAN has also been focusing on itsrelations with India, which is not only an emergingeconomy but also a country with advancing science andtechnology. Indeed, India is the immediate neighbourhoodof ASEAN. Both share land and maritime borders withMyanmar, Indonesia and Thailand, all of which are ASEANmember countries. Therefore, we cannot deny the fact thatASEAN-India cooperation is vitally important. With twodecades of ASEAN-India cooperation, it has coveredeconomic, political and security and developmentcooperation dimensions with a number of mechanismsestablished to promote dialogue and cooperation in theseareas. In recent years, multilateral cooperation sectorssuch as science and technology, transport, media,infrastructure and small and medium enterprises havegained momentum. Recently, we, a media group of theInformation Ministry of the Republic of the Union ofMyanmar, together with journalists from ASEAN countriesincluding a representative from ASEAN Secretariat, hadthe opportunity to pay a visit to India to take part in theASEAN-India media familiarization programme, whichwas held in conjunction with Delhi Dialogue IV in NewDelhi last month at the invitation of Indian ExternalAffairs Ministry.

Recognizing the need for greater engagement, anannual international conference (Delhi Dialogue) hasbeen held since 2009 with the active support of India’sMinistry of External Affairs. The theme for Delhi DialogueIV which was held on 13-14 February 2012 is ‘India andASEAN: Partners for Peace, Progress and Stability’, andthe event was categorized into four thematic sessionswhich addressed economic cooperation, regional security,non-traditional security threats and networks of knowledgeand science. The inaugural session of the dialogue meetingwas held at Shahjehan Hall of Hotel Taj Palace in NewDelhi with an opening remark by Director General MrSudhir T Devare of Indian Council of World Affairs andkeynote addresses by Foreign Affairs Ministers from Indiaand ASEAN countries, including Dr Myo Myint, DeputyMinister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Unionof Myanmar.

The first session highlighted the discussion of issuesof economic integration including mechanisms for sectoralcooperation, interlinking of the two regions in a commonproduction and services network, and dispute settlementmechanism. The second session highlighted issues ofnontraditional security (NTS) threats and challenges whichfrom climate change, water security, food security,terrorism, piracy, pandemics, cyber security and so on. Atthis session, Daw Yin Yin Myint, Director of Institute ofSecurity and International Studies in Yangon, discussedoutbreaks of natural disasters in Myanmar and efforts forrescue and rehabilitation work. The third sessions examinedthe evolving security architecture in Asia Pacific region,and the last session explored the level of exchanges ofknowledge and cooperation in scientific endeavoursbetween India and ASEAN countries. The valedictorysession was graced by the attendance of Dr APJ AbdulKalam, Former President of India, who also delivered hisvaledictory address.

According to the ASEAN-India media familiarizationprogramme, we, ASEAN journalists, paid courtesy calls onIndian External Affairs Minister and Deputy Chairman ofIndian Planning Commission and visits to Taj Mahal and

Two decades of ASEAN-India cooperation Article: ST (NLM)

Agra Fort in Agra, New Delhi, and Indian Institute ofScience, Supercomputer Education and Research Center,Infosys, Biocon, India Space and Research Organization(ISRO) and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) in Bangalore,which is an industrial city of India.

Taj Mahal, one of the world’s wonders, is the biggesttourist attraction in India and Agra Fort itself is historicallyimpressive. While we were on visit to the facilities ofBangalore, most of which are restricted areas, we witnessedthe rapidly advancing science and technology of India.

On arrival at the Indian Institute of Science, which ismore than 100 years old, we found it with old but impressivebuildings. The institute is the first example of a publicprivate partnership in this country. In the briefing room, welearnt from a liaison officer that the institute’s departmentsranging from Biochemistry to Aerospace Engineering haveserved to nucleate research and development in both thepublic and private sectors. Many of India’s mostdistinguished scientists have been associated with theinstitute as students or faculty. Now, it offers a variety ofMaster’s degree programmes in Engineering, an integratedPhD (Post-BSc) programme in Sciences and PhDprogrammes in a wide spectrum of disciplines in scienceand engineering attracting local and foreign students. Inaddition, the library and computational facilities at theinstitute are amongst the best in India.

Then, we proceeded to the Supercomputer Educationand Research Centre (SERC) under the institute. The centreprovides the state-of-the-art computing environment, whichcan compare well with the top computing centres anywherein the world. The Computer Centre, established in 1970,became SERC in 1990 engaging in research programmes(PhD and MSc) and course programme (MTech inComputational Science). It conducts three major researchstreams: Computer Systems, Computational Science andbioinformatics.

On 16-2-2012, we paid a study visit to Infosys, an ITcompany of India. Its offerings span business and technologyconsulting, application services, systems integration,product engineering, custom software development,maintenance, re-engineering, independent testing andvalidation services, IT infrastructure services and businessprocess outsourcing. Infosys has 64 offices and 68development centres in US, India, China, Australia, Japan,Middle East, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland,Netherlands, Poland, Canada and many other countrieswith 145,088 employees in total.

In the afternoon, we visited Biocon, an integratedhealthcare company, delivering innovativebiopharmaceutical solutions. Biocon is renowned forproducing affordable therapies for insulin dependentdiabetes and cancer vaccines. It is also pursuing a path ofbreakthrough innovation through phase III human clinicaltrials to develop the world’s first oral insulin. According tothe chairman of the company at the question & answer

session, we learnt that the market of Biocon products isdeveloping not only in Africa but also in Asia and ASEANregions.

In the afternoon, we visited Indian Space ResearchOrganization to study Indian space activities which startedduring early 1960s. India has nine communicationsatellites operating for television broadcast,telecommunications and meteorological applications;remote sensing satellites for management of naturalresources. Besides, India has its current and futureprogrammes to build and launch more satellites.

On 17-2-2012, we visited Hindustan AeronauticsLimited (HAL) and Airbus Assembly, Helicopter Assemblyand Aeronautical Museum under it. Today, HAL has 19Production Units and 10 Research & Design Centres in 8locations in India. It has manufactured over 3658 aircraft/helicopters, 4178 engines, upgraded 272 aircraft andoverhauled over 9643 aircraft and 29775 engines.

Our study tour of Indian facilities in Bangalore hasmade us witness its rapid advances in science andtechnology as well as developed our willingness tocooperate with India in the area.

During the tour, questions the Indian journalistsraised interestingly also included Myanmar’s currentpolitical situations and activities, the stances of theMyanmar people and the new government’s achievements.

In my opinion, all the journalists on a study visit toIndia were found to have keen interest in India blessedwith many interesting places and its advancing scienceand technology. They seem to have a desire to make astudy visit not only to India but also other ASEAN’spartner countries. They want ASEAN to become a strongand reliable organization standing together with powerfulnations among the global community.

All the journalists are optimistic about Myanmar andthey seem to have recognized Myanmar’s changes andreforms. They are well-experienced in international issuesand I have found that ASEAN nations are easy to deal withby just looking at their benevolent attitude towards theirassociation. India on its side also accepts and recognizesASEAN for its important role in multilateral cooperationwith big nations, especially with China and India.

Overall, this ASEAN-India media cooperation hasallowed us to facilitate the possible establishment of anenduring and understandable communication network inthe ASEAN media field. We, Myanmar representatives,have had our opportunities to learn Indian’s economicand technological development plus its traditionalculture and regional knowledge. Moreover, through theASEAN-India media familiarization programme, we havebeen able to strengthen the amity, understanding andknowledge among the ASEAN nations and between Indiaand ASEAN.

May these 20 years of ASEAN-India cooperationcontinue to last forever!

Delhi Dialogue IV in progress in New Delhi, India, with the participation of ASEAN ForeignAffairs Ministers.

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Talks on boosting production of paddy given

YANGON, 17 March—Theeducative talks on thrivingPalethwe hybrid paddy strainwas held on 12 acres offarmland owned by farmer UKyaw Htay for production ofover 200 baskets of paddyper acre in Hsatgale Villageof Htantabin Township inYangon Region on 11 March.

The paddy wascultivated on the farmlandthrough good agriculturepattern.

Head of YangonRegion MyanmaAgriculture Department UTin Aung Win, DeputyHead of the department UThein Lwin, Township

Administrator U Ngwe Doeand Township Manager ofMyanma AgricultureDepartment U Sann Lwingave talks on goodagriculture pattern,boosting production ofpaddy and cultivation ofquality paddy strains.

Myanma Alin

DISTRICTNEWS

Assistance provided to studentsat matriculation examination

MAWLAMYINEGYUN, 17M a r c h — H l i n e p h o n eVillage Basic EducationHigh School was designatedas new examination centrefor 2012 matriculationexamination in Mawla-myinegyun Township.

On 12 March morning,Mawlamyinegyun Town-

ship Administrator U HtayMaung and TownshipMatriculation Pass RateRaising Committee membersvisited the school.

They viewed thestudents sitting for theexamination and attendedthe needs.

After that, the

Township Administratorand party inspected thehostels where students ofmatriculation students fromAle Yegyaw Village sittingfor the examination atHlinephone Exam Centrestayed and fulfilled therequirements.

Myanma Alin

Stake driven for construction of village library

MAUBIN, 17 March—Aceremony to drive stake forconstruction of the villagelibrary was held in BotesuVillage of Shwetaunghmaw

Village-tract in MaubinTownship of AyeyawadyRegion on 2 March morning.

The library will be builtwith contribution of the State

and wellwishers.Staff Officer Daw Yin

Swe Win of Maubin DistrictInformation and PublicRelations Department, Headof Township IPRD Daw TinTin Hlaing, Deputy Head ofTownship GeneralAdministration DepartmentU Naing Lin Tun and VillageAdministrator U Khin Windrove stakes.

Later, they met membersof the library committee andtownselders and discussedprogramme for constructionof the library.

District IPRD

Fire breaks out in Ward 4 of SouthOkkalapa

YANGON, 17 March—Afire broke out at a house onThuta 1st Street in Ward 4 ofSouth Okkalapa Townshipin Yangon Region.

Starting from the wireshock upstairs of the house, atotal of 14 houses were burntin the incident. The burningstarted at 6.15 pm.

Fire brigade members

KAWKAREIK, 17 March—A HiAce Super Custom drivenby Kyaw Soe, 23 of Wingyi Mosque quarters of Ward 3 inKawkareik hit Ma May Lwin Oo (a) Mi Lon, 23 and hisdaughter Ma May Kyel Zin Lin, 4, of Bogyoke Road inWard 2 of Kawkareik in Kayin State who were cycling at10 am on 12 March near Directorate of Road Administrationon Bayintnaung Road.

The car bumped a Swedaw (Bauhinia acuminate) treebeside the road again due to out of control.

In the incident, the bicycle was destroyed. May LwinOo broken her left hand and was injured at her forehead,and May Kyel Zin Lin suffered from broken left hand andinjuries at head. The injured persons were sent as in-patientto Kawkareik District People’s Hospital.—Myanma Alin

Truck bumps pedestrian onYangon-Mandalay HighwayWUNDWIN, 17 March—While crossing from the right

side to the left side, odd job worker Ko Htay Oo, 37, ofYwashay Village in Wundwin Township of MeiktilaDistrict was bumped by a truck near mile post No. 368/0on Yangon-Mandalay Highway in the area of ShwedaungPolice Station in Wundwin Township on 1 March afternoon.

The truck run away after bumping him.The injured was sent as in-patient to Wundwin

Township People’s Hospital.—Myanma Alin

Two people injured in bumpingbicycle by car

and local people put out thefire with the use of over 40fine engines, managementvehicles and supportingvehicles. They controlled theburning at 6.45 pm and diedout it at 7.20 pm.

There was no casualty inthe fire. Fire victims are beingaccommodated at the reliefcamp.—Myanma Alin

Chairman ofMRIA receives

JapanesebusinessmenYANGON, 17 March—

General Manager Mr HiroshiMochizuki and party ofAgricultural ProductDepartment of MarubeniCorporation of Japan met thechairman, the generalsecretary and CEC membersof Myanmar Rice IndustryAssociation at its office onMinye Kyawswa Road inLanmadaw Township on 14March morning.

their discussionsfocused on fertilizer inputs,agro-based industries,modern storage, processing,milling and exporting ofpaddy, investment at portsand purchase of Myanmarrice.—Myanma Alin

Revenue management computerization courseconcludes in Monywa

MONYWA, 17 March—The revenuemanagement computerization system e-RTScourse concluded at the hall of the SagaingRegion Internal Revenue Department inMonywa on 13 March afternoon.

Head of Sagaing Region InternalRevenue Department U Nyi Nyi Htin Paw

spoke on the occasion and presented the firstprize to Deputy Head of Department DawMar Mar Thin, the second prize to StaffOfficer Daw Thida Moe and the third prize toDeputy Head of Department Daw Yi Yi Mar.

Altogether 22 trainees attended thetraining course.—Township IRD

Action to be taken against disciplineoffending vehicles

YANGON, 17 March—TheYangon City DevelopmentCommittee will form thedisciplinary enforcementteams to take action againstthe undisciplined vehiclesin the municipal area ofYCDC.

Deterrent action will betaken against the overagevehicles installed withtemporary number plates, the

vehicles without numberplates and other disciplineoffending vehicles.

Three vehicledisciplinary enforcementteams will supervise thevehicles. If the vehicles donot accept inspection of theteams and run away, whiteBSA motorcycles will beused for arresting them.

In realizing their

assignments, the teams willtake action against theoffenders by banning thelicences.

Myanma Alin

TAKE FIRE PREVENTIVEMEASURES

Crime reduction talks given inShwegyin

SHWEGYIN, 16 March—An educative talk on crimereduction was held at Yadana Hall of Basic Education HighSchool in Shwegyin of Bago Region on 3 March morning.

At first, Commander of Township Police Force PoliceCaptain Khin Maung Win gave talks on crime reduction.

Next, Police Inspector Maung Maung Win of BagoRegion Anti-Human Trafficking Special Squad, PoliceInspector Kyaw Swe Oo of Special Anti-Drug Squad andSub-Police Inspector Aung Naing of Traffic Police Forcegave talks on their respective sectors.

Later, they distributed pamphlets to the attendees.Township IPRD

CHILDREN HONOURED: Children frompre-primary school of Social Welfare

Department performed entertainment ofdancing for 2011-2012 in Mingala Theikdi

Ward of Zabuthiri Township in Nay Pyi TawCouncil Area. On 17 March, Assistant DirectorDaw Khin Nwe of Nay Pyi Taw Social WelfareDepartment presents flower basket for children

through an official.—MNA

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Two bus parks to be built to accommodatenew buses

Primary school students in Lommel form a circle around a heart drawn with chalk,during a minute of silence for victims of the on 13 March bus crash near the town of

Sierre in southern Switzerland . —INTERNET

Alert as Western Australiabraces for cyclone

SYDNEY, 17 March—Atropical cyclone bearing downon Western Australiaintensified on Saturday,placing the region on high alertas the storm threatened tobring destructive gale-forcewinds.

Severe tropical cycloneLua, upgraded to a Category 4storm — five is the highest —is moving steadily towards thecoast and is expected to makelandfall on Saturday afternoon.

“There is a threat to livesand homes. You are in dangerand need to act immediately,”Western Australianemergency officials said in awarning to residents in thesparsely populated Pilbararegion.

The small communities ofPardoo and Wallal are believedto be in the line of the cyclone

SINGAPORE, 17 March—Two additionalbus parks - one in the east and the other inWoodlands - will be built to accommodate the

and residents of those areashave been warned to seekshelter immediately.

“Destructive winds to 160kilometres (100 miles) per hourare possible between PortHedland and Bidyadangaextending to the inland easternPilbara later in the day,” theBureau of Meteorology saidin a warning.

“Very destructive windsup to 230 kilometres per hourare forecast near the cyclonecentre.”

Commercial flights intothe area have been cancelledand the main highway closed,while the Port Hedland porthas been shut down.

Western Australia’sPilbara region is an importantresources hub, with major ironore and gas facilities.

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Model Heidi Klum performs during the UNICEFPlaylist With The A-List at El Rey Theatre, in

Los Angeles, California.—INTERNET

High numbers of Saudi women smoking

300 people evacuated after oil warehouse fire

Passengers boarding buses.—INTERNET

Fire-fighters work in the accident siteafter a warehouse for cooking oil caught

fire in Ningbo City, east China’sZhejiang Province, on 17 March, 2012.No casualties occurred in the fire. The

cause of the fire and the economic lossesit incurred were not immediately known.

XINHUA

incoming fleet of some 800 new buses toSingapore.

The government will bear thedevelopment and land costs for the depots,and lease them to transport operators at anominal fee.

The tender for the Woodlands bus depotwill close in April 2012.

It is expected to be completed before theend of the year and can accommodate some200 to 300 buses.

The Land Transport Authority (LTA)will call for a tender for the other depot in theeast within the next one to two months. TheLTA said details for the second bus park arestill being finalised.

Internet

Laptop withphotos of slain

daughtertaken

DONCASTER, 17 March—A man in the north of Englandhas issued a plea for the returnof a stolen laptop loaded withpictures of his 13-year-olddaughter, who was fatallystabbed.

South Yorkshire policesaid the computer wasremoved from AnthonyKearney’s home inEdenthorpe sometimeThursday morning, The Sunreported.

Casey Kearney wasstabbed in the stomach in aDoncaster park last monthas she headed for a meetingwith friends. Hannah Bonser,26, has been charged withher murder.

“Photos and videoshold all the preciousmemories of my beautifuldaughter and I desperatelywant these back,” Kearneysaid in a statement.

“Photographs hold anincredible sentimental valueto anyone — but thesepictures even more so as Iwill never be able to take anymore of Casey.”

Internet

HANGHZOU, 17 March—Fire-fighters inan east China City evacuated more than 320people from their homes in the wee hoursSaturday, after a warehouse for cooking oilcaught fire.

About 152 fire-fighters joined the fireextinguishing after the warehouse whichbelongs to China’s popular soybean oilproducer Jinlongyu, in Ningbo City, ZhejiangProvince, caught fire. They evacuated thepeople from a school, a hotel and a staffdormitory adjacent to the warehouseimmediately after they arrived at the fire scene.The huge blaze was brought under control at2:40 am. The fire department said the warehousekeeps stocks of cooking oil and rice. Nocasualties occurred in the fire. The cause of thefire and the economic losses it incurred werenot immediately known.—Xinhua

NAJRAN, 17 March—Saudi Arabia was found tohave the second most femalesmokers in the Arab Gulfregion, prompting an anti-smoking campaign at auniversity, officials said.

The campaign — called“lead it” — kicked offThursday at NajranUniversity with a speech from

Abdul Rahman al-Shamrani,the chairman of the Waaie(“enlightened”) society,bikyamasr.com reported.

“If there are 8 millionsmokers in the Kingdom, eachconsuming one pack at aboutSR5 [$1.33] a day, then theKingdom annually spendsover SR14 billion [$3.73million] on cigarettes,” al-

Shamrani said.A number of government

and private establishmentsare participating in the week-long campaign, includinghealth affairs, the drug-combat police, the universityhospital, the faculty ofdentistry and the boy scouts,bikyamasr.com said.

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Saudi Arabia was found tohave the second most

female smokers in the ArabGulf region, prompting ananti-smoking campaign ata university, officials said.

INTERNET

Parents redecorate hospital rooms in lateson’s memory

On the day he died, many ofthem added Elmo to theiravatars, and have continuedshowing support to theHamiltons throughout theirgrieving process.

“We didn’t realize howpowerful that medium was,”said Peter, wearing an Elmo T-shirt under a black blazer onFriday. “The love… that wasdemonstrated over Twitter isphenomenal. To this day westill get messages fromstrangers saying, ‘We’re therefor you. What can we do foryou?’”

Shortly after Zack’sdeath, his parents beganharnessing their existingnetwork and newfoundcommunity to raise money forthe hospital. Their goal was toturn the drab room where theyspent so much time into acolourful haven fit for a youngchild.—Internet

Zach Hamilton is seen in this undated photo.—INTERNET

TORONTO, 17 March—The parents of a Toronto-areachild who died a year ago areworking to ensure his memorylives on at the hospital wherehe spent his final days.

Three-year-old ZackHamilton died after battlingseveral health problemsrelated to a congenital heartdefect. His parents Heatherand Peter spent a lot of timewith him in a particular roomat York Central Hospital,

where he would often watchthe TV show “Elmo’s World.”

“He couldn’t speak, butwhen he wanted to watch hisfavourite show he would humthe Elmo song,” Heather toldCTV’s Canada AM on Friday,adding, “York CentralHospital… took such goodcare of him.”

While Zack was in thehospital, Heather beganreaching out to a communityof other mothers on Twitter.

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NEW YORK, 17 March—Actor David Strathairn is to co-star with Jessica Chastain in the Broadway production of“The Heiress” this fall, producers said Thursday.

The play by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz is beingdirected by Moises Kaufman.

Strathairn is best known for his work in the film “GoodNight, and Good Luck” and in HBO’s “Temple Grandin.”

This production of “The Heiress” comes 17 years afterthe celebrated play was last seen on Broadway. The play isbased on the classic Henry James novel “Washington Square,”which was adapted for the screen in 1949 as “The Heiress” —winning four Academy Awards, including a Best ActressOscar for Olivia de Havilland.

Internet

Strathairn to star in ‘Heiress’ on B’way

Actor David Strathairnarrives for the world

premiere of “Howl” at the2010 Sundance Film

Festival on 21 January,2010 in Park City, Utah.

INTERNET

CANNES, 17 March—Theanimated adventure“Madagascar 3: Europe’sMost Wanted” will have itsworld premiere at France’sCannes Film Festival in May,The Hollywood Reportersaid.

LONDON, 17 March —Oscar winning actress JuliaRoberts has revealed that hertwo children will not be seeingher new movie “MirrorMirror”.

The actress plays the evilQueen in the film which is a re-telling of the fairytale SnowWhite but Roberts feel thather kids are a little young tosee the movie, reportsfemalefirst.co.uk

“I think they are too

Roberts’ kids won’t see ‘Mirror Mirror’

Oscar winning actressJulia Roberts

young considering the part t“We have a pretty rigidviewing feeling in our house.We’re more book people in

our house,” the actress toldPeople. “Those nice, cosy,very short hours before bed,we just really spend togetheras a family talking and sharingthe day and reading books,and really, before you knowit, it’s time for bed.

“Part of it is there’s justnot time for that. We wouldprefer something different inthat time,” she added.

Mirror Mirror is releasing6 April.—Internet

‘Madagascar 3' to premiere atCannes

CENTENNIAL, 17 March—The 1992 romantic thriller“The Bodyguard,” starringKevin Costner and the lateWhitney Houston, is headedback to 400 US theaters,screening organizers said.

The one-night event isto take place at selecttheaters 28 March in honourof the film’s 20th anniversary.Tickets are available atparticipating theater boxoffices and online atwww.FathomEvents.com.

“When originally

The funeral program isheld by a mourner outsideof The New Hope BaptistChurch after the Funeral

of Whitney Houston inNewark, New Jersey on

18 Feb, 2012.INTERNET

‘Bodyguard’ returning totheaters

released, the story andunforgettable songs of ‘TheBodyguard,’ captured thehearts of audienceseverywhere,” ShellyMaxwell, executive vicepresident of NCM FathomEvents, said in a statementWednesday. “Through thisspecial anniversarypresentation, fans will be ableto come together for onenight and see it once more onthe big screen.”

Directed by MickJackson, the movie stars

Costner as a former SecretService Agent-turned-bodyguard hired to protectHouston’s pop singercharacter from a stalker.

Warner Bros. also willrelease “The Bodyguard 20thAnniversary Edition Blu-ray” 27 March.

Internet

American actor ChrisRock attends the premiereof “Madagascar - Escape

2 Africa” at Empire,Leicester Square in

London on 23 Nov, 2008.INTERNET

screening is expected soon,the entertainment industrytrade newspaper saidThursday.

“Madagascar 3,” whichhits US theaters June 8, takesits cartoon cast of New Yorkzoo animals to Monte Carlo,London, Rome and the SwissAlps.

Internet

The Paramount andDreamWorks Animation filmis the first major studio featureto be scheduled as part of theCannes lineup. An officialannouncement about the

LONDON, 17 March—Actress and singer JenniferLopez has blamed an internethacker for spreading rumourssuggesting she is to wed hernew dancer boyfriend.

Gossips spread when apost on Roberto Cavalli’sTwitter.com page suggestedLopez had asked the fashiondesigner to make a wedding

Lopez blames weddingrumours on hacker

Singer Marc Anthony andhis wife, actress and singerJennifer Lopez .—INTERNET

dress for her upcomingmarriage to Casper Smart.

The message read,“Today, Jennifer Lopez. Callme (sic)... She ask me. To createa special dress. For her nextwedding! Which colour... Doyou advise me?” However,Lopez confirmed the weddingrumour is not true.

“Here’s the truth now:Roberto Cavalli’s Twitteraccount was hacked. Therumour is not true,” she wroteon the website.—Internet

NEW ORLEANS, 17 March—British comedian RussellBrand turned himself in to New Orleans police after hearinga warrant was issued for his arrest, officials said Thursday.

TMZ said the “Arthur” star and ex-husband of singerKaty Perry is accused of grabbing a paparazzo’s cellphoneand throwing it through the window of a law firm Monday.

The photographer got his phone back and Brand agreedto pay for the window, but the warrant was still issued for hisarrest. The celebrity news Web site said Brand was releasedon $5,000 bond Thursday.

Internet

British actor/comedian RussellBrand attends the

premiere of “Arthur”at Cineworld, O2

Arena in London on19 April, 2011.

INTERNET

Russell Brand arrested inNew Orleans

A California kingsnakewas in a New York state ofmind when it came out of aman’s Staten Islandapartment toilet, scaring him,he said, half to death.

“I turned the light on at6:30 am and went to openthe vanity when I thought Isaw something move in thetoilet,” Allen Shepard saidabout his Tuesdayencounter with the reptile.

Calif snake found in NY toilet“The snake was getting

on the top of the rim, ready tostrike.” He slammed the liddown and ran to grab somespray toilet cleaner with whichto do battle. No go. Time forreinforcements, Shepardcalled his building super,Karen Genco, WCBS-TV,New York, reportedWednesday.

“I didn’t believe him atfirst, I thought he was joking,

but it was for real,” Gencosaid. “It was like a scene outof a cartoon, it was hysterical.”

Genco then calledplumber Kenneth Rosenthal,WPIX-TV, New York,reported.

“All I saw was the tail ofthe snake, then I kept pullingout more and more and moreand before I knew it, I had 4feet of snake,” Rosenthalsaid.

“So I was wrestling withthis thing to get him out inone piece and finally Ihooked him. I got him andthrew him into a thermos andthat was the end of him.”

Well, not the end: Thenon-venomous constrictorwas taken to a sanctuary inManhattan.

The speculation is thesnake, probably someone’spet, escaped and entered intothe plumbing.

Police in Utah said an 8-year-old boy who crashed hisparents’ car into a tree told officers he was taking his 5-year-old sister to the store. Ogden police Lt Danielle Croyle saidthe boy and his sister climbed into the car and drove offaround 2 am Thursday and a police officer noticed the carcrashed into a tree a short time later, The Salt Lake Tribunereported on Thursday.

The children, who were not injured, were still inside thevehicle. The boy told police he had taken his parents’ carbecause his sister needed to go to the store. Police said thechildren’s parents were asleep and did not know the kids hadleft. No criminal charges are expected, police said.

Boy, 8, takes sister for latenight drive

 

Thai taxi driver returns$410,000 in gold to owner

Thai taxis and buses are parked near the RoyalPalace in Bangkok. Thai police said a taxi driver hasreturned 8.2 kilograms (18 pounds) of gold ornaments

worth around $410,000 to their owner who had leftthem in his car three days ago.—INTERNET

A Thai taxi driver Friday returned 8.2 kilograms (18pounds) of gold ornaments worth around $410,000 to theirowner who had left them in his car three days ago, policesaid.

Bangkok cabbie Saksri Ketsrikaew, 56, said he spenttwo days driving around Bangkok searching for the ownerbecause he had no contact number.

He said he contacted community radio after helearned gold shop owner Eakerat Kanokwattana, 60, hadfiled a complaint with police and the story of the missinggold hit local headlines. But police were not convincedhe had a heart of gold. “His excuse doesn’t make senseif he intended to return the gold to its owner as he knewwhere they got off,” case officer Lieutenant ColonelUdom Sukprasert told AFP.

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Federer and Nadal to meetin last four

Roger Federer ofSwitzerland

INDIAN WELLS, 17M a r c h — T h r e e - t i m e schampion Roger Federer andtwice winner Rafa Nadal wontheir quarter-final matches atthe Indian Wells ATPtournament on Friday to setup an enticing last fourshowdown.

Federer booked his placein the semi-finals with aruthless 6-3 6-2 victory overbig-serving Juan Martin DelPotro of Argentina beforeNadal fought back to beatDavid Nalbandian, also ofArgentina 4-6 7-5 6-4.

Saturday’s other semi-final will pit Serbian worldnumber one Novak Djokovicagainst 11th-seeded American

John Isner, both playershaving advanced onThursday. Second seedNadal was delighted to scrapethrough, having saved twobreak points in a gripping 10th

game of the third set beforesealing victory with aforehand drop shot to end anabsorbing baseline rally.

Nadal will face Federerfor a 28th time in Saturday’ssemi-finals, but it will be theirfirst ever meeting at IndianWells.—Reuters

Two time formerchampion Rafael Nadal

Anelka scores in China league debutBEIJING, 17 March—

French striker Nicolas Anelkascored in his highly-anticipated debut in theChinese Super League Fridaybut was powerless to preventnew club Shanghai Shenhualosing 3-2 to fierce rivalsBeijing Guoan.

The former Arsenal andChelsea striker equalized forShenhua to make it 2-2 with asimple tap midway throughthe second half after adefensive lapse from Beijing— raising hopes of a victoryin a match dubbed the “ChinaDerby”.

The capital side hadgone two goals ahead thanksto efforts from Piao Chengand Portuguese midfielderManu.

Australian striker Joel

French International player Nicolas Anelka (2nd left)from the Shanghai Shenhua club is surrounded by

opponents during Shanghai Shenhua’s 2-3 league matchloss against Beijing Guo’an at the Workers Stadium in

Beijing.—INTERNET

Griffiths started the Shenhuacomeback, showing nerves ofsteel to make it 2-1 from thepenalty spot in his first game

for the club since signing fromGuoan in January.

Former Shanghai wingerMao Jianqing ended the

hopes of his old club however,scoring the late winner forBeijing, in what was his firstmatch for Guoan.

Last Saturday Anelkahad disappointed supportersafter missing Shenhua’sopening Chinese SuperLeague fixture againstregional rivals Jiangsu Saintydue to injury.

The Frenchman hadbeen rated as doubtful aheadof the clash at the 68,000capacity Workers’ Stadiumin Beijing, but was deemed fitenough to come out for hisnew side.

He saluted the 150-strongaway support who respondedwith a rapturous cheer andchanted their new hero’sname.

Internet

Milan could reach ChampionsLeague final if they beat Barca,

says coachROME, 17 March—AC

Milan head coachMassimiliano Allegri said hisside’s route to the final couldbe easier if they beatBarcelona in the quarterfinals.

The Rossoneri werehanded the most difficult ofopponents on Fridaymorning’s draw for thequarterfinals. The winners willplay Benfica or Chelsea in thesemis. “Let’s look at the

AC Milan midfielderGennaro Gattuso could

make a return to action onSaturday after being

included in the squad forthe away match against

Parma.—INTERNET

positives, if we get past themthen we’ll have a good chanceof reaching the final,” Allegriwas quoted as saying.

“Little changes really andwe’ve already faced them.They are the strongest teamin the world, but we have tobelieve. Milan will give theirbest.” The two teams met inthe group stage this term withthe Nou Camp encounterending 2-2, while Barcelonatriumphed 3-2 at San Siro.

“We’ll have to attackthem and be more focused.The two previous gamesagainst them have helped usto grow.

“We were gooddefensively in Spain, whilewe did well in the return tooeven if we lost. I hope to haveall of my injured players backbefore we face Barcelona,”Allegri added.—Internet

INDIAN WELLS, 17March—It would be a replayof the 2012 Aussie Openfinal, as former World No 1Maria Sharapova of Russiawill take on current WorldNo 1 Victoria Azarenka ofBelarus in the final of 2012BNP Paribas Open.Sharapova was leading witha set when her opponent AnaIvanovic retired due to a backinjury in the second semi-final match on Fridayevening.

What expected as agruelling tussle, turned outas a bitter memory for theformer World No 1 AnaIvanovic, who played so wellthroughout the week to reachthe semi-final of the 2012 BNPParibas Open, but failed tocontinue in that manner – asan ill-timed injury shatteredher dreams.

In the second semi-finalmatch on Friday, MariaSharapova of Russia wasleading with a set and thescore was 6-4 0-1, when heropponent Ana Ivanovic ofSerbia retired due to a backinjury. Ivanovic did avail themedical time-out just beforethe final game of the first set,

Sharapova meets Azarenkain Indian Wells Final

but that did not work out andfinally the Serbian left the courtwith tears. Finally, the contestended in 1 hour and 12 minutes,as the Russian mustered 66%points on her first serve andhammered 15 winners.Ivanovic played some terrifictennis early on in the first set,but then her intensity droppedand it kept on plunging due topain and then she decided toretire.

Azarenka beats Kerber toreach the final in Indian Wells

Earlier in the first semi-final match, World No 1Victoria Azarenka of Belarusended the dream-run ofAngelique Kerber ofGermany at Indian Wells, asshe beat the German instraight sets with a 6-4 6-3scoreline and reached the finalof the 2012 BNP ParibasOpen.—Internet

INDIAN WELLS, 17March—World No 1Victoria Azarenka of Belarusended the dream-run ofAngelique Kerber ofGermany on Friday night atIndian Wells, as she beat theGerman in straight sets witha 6-4 6-3 scoreline andreached the final of the 2012BNP Paribas Open.

Enjoying a dream run in2012 season, World No 1

Victoria Azarenka of Belarusended the dream-run ofAngelique Kerber ofGermany on Friday night atIndian Wells.

Azarenka earned astraight sets 6-4 6-3 victoryover the German and reachedthe final of the 2012 BNPParibas Open.

With this victory, the

Belarusian extended herwinning streak to 22 matches.

Azarenka took 1 hourand 28 minutes to beatAngelique Kerber. The top-seed earned 73% points onher first serve with the helpof 25 winners and much hadbeen contributed byKerber’s 28 unforced errors.

In the end, Azarenkaconverted 6 out of 9 break-points to surge through.

The World No 1 claimedthe first set in 48 minutes.After losing a game on herserve early on, the top-seeded geared up and optedfor a perfect counter-attack.

Azarenka mustered 76%points on her first serve withthe help of 15 winners andconverted 2 out of 4 break-points.

The Belarusian wasduly benefited from Kerber’s11 unforced errors – in thefirst set.

Both contendersexchanged breaks early onin the second-set, but thenthe World No 1 earned thedecisive ones in the seventhand ninth games – to win thisencounter.

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JUPITER, 17 March—Tiger Woods returned topractice Friday and declaredhimself ready to play nextweek.

Woods said in a storyon his website that his leftAchilles tendon felt goodand that he would play in thetwo-day Tavistock Cupexhibition that startsMonday, and then theArnold Palmer Invitational atBay Hill.

Woods withdrew fromthe Cadillac Championship onSunday after 11 holes with

Woods to play next week in 2 eventswhat he described as tightnessin his Achilles tendon.

He said he didn’t want torisk further damage. One daylater, he said doctors told himit was only a mild strain.

It was the left Achillesthat caused him to miss twomajors last year.

Woods has won Bay Hillsix times. It will be his finaltournament before theMasters begins on 5 April.

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KINGSTON, 17 March—Olympic champion Usain Boltwill officially make his seasondebut at the JamaicaInternational InvitationalMeet on 5 May, announcedthe tournament organizers.

The IAAF worldchallenge-level meeting willbe held in the national stadiumin Kingston. “It is always agreat privilege to run in frontof my home fans,” Boltresponded on his website.

“This will be my first big

Bolt to make season debutat home on 5 May

meet of 2012 as I prepare todefend my titles in theOlympic Games in London inAugust,” he added.

The double worldrecords holder has alreadybeen confirmed for theGolden Spike in Ostrava,Golden Gala in Rome andBislett Games in Oslo.According to organizerDonald Quarrie, Bolt is oneof seven athletes signed onfor the ninth edition of theevent.—Xinhua

Olympic championUsain Bolt

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 18 March, 2012 15

R/489 Printed and published by the New Light of Myanmar press in Nay Pyi Taw, the News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information.

(18-3-12 09:30 am ~19-3-12 09:30 am)

MST

MYANMARINTERNATIONAL

MYANMAR TV

(18-3-2012) (Sunday)

Focus Myanmar TV Programme

7:00 am 1. Paritta By Venerable

Mingun Sayadaw7:40 am 2. Nice & Sweet Song8:20 am 3. Teleplay (Health)8:45 am 4. International News11:00 am 5. Martial Song1:30 pm 6. TV Drama Series2:30 pm 7. Documentary2:50 pm 8. Myanmar Movies4:10 pm 9. Songs Of National Races4:45 pm10. Songs For Upholding

National Spirit4:50 pm11. Beautiful “ASEAN”5:05 pm12. Songs in honour of

(67th) AnniversaryArmed Forces Day

6:20 pm13. Cartoon Series6:45 pm14. TV Drama Series7:45 pm15. How to Cast Vote

(Myanmar MotionPicture Asiayone)

8:00 pm16. News17. Talk Of the Political

Parties18. Cartoon Series19. TV Drama Series

News2012 MyanmarEnvironmentalInnovator ProgramWorkshopNewsMyanmar MoviesImpact "May KhinKa Nyar"NewsFour Countries OneDestinationNewsWhere theRhododendronBloomsNewsMI People'sCelebrities "Are theyFuture Brides?"NewsICE Wonder LandNewsHow to cast vote?Eco-Friendly Rattan& HyacinthNewsMeet PeculiarSalamandeMyanmar Movie"Love On TheInternet"

Weather forecast for 18th March, 2012Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas

Answers for Yesterday'sCrossword Puzzle

EPL Results on Saturday,17 March

Cash and kind provided to warveterans in NyaungU

NYAUNGU, 17 March—As a gesture of hailing the 67thAnniversary Armed Forces Day, a ceremony to provide cashassistance and clothes to members of NyaungU TownshipWar Veterans Organization was held at the hall of TownshipWar Veterans Organizing Committee in NyaungU on 12March morning. At first, Chairman of the Township WAOCaptain Aung Myint (Rtd) spoke on the occasion.

Region organizers of the Township WAO presented K20,000 each, one sarong and one traditional jacket each to142 members of War Veterans Organization. The assistancein total amounted to K 3,189,000.—District IPRD

According to Moe Pwint-2 Plan of Immigration andNational Registration Department, Head of TownshipINRD U Htay Win and staff issued citizenship scrutinycards to eligible local people ion Panhlaing Ward ofKyimyindine Township on 10 March.—MYANMA ALIN

Computer AcronymsPCMCIAPeople Can’t Memorize Computer Industry AcronymsISDNIt Still Does NothingAPPLEArrogance Produces Profit-Losing EntitySCSISystem Can’t See ItDOSDefective Operating SystemBASICBill’s Attempt to Seize Industry ControlIBMI Blame MicrosoftDECDo Expect CutsCD-ROMConsumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in MonthsOS/2Obsolete Soon, Too.WWWWorld Wide WaitMACINTOSHMost Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating SystemHangsPENTIUMProduces Erroneous Numbers Through IncorrectUnderstanding of MathematicsCOBOLCompletely Obsolete Business Oriented LanguageAMIGAA Merely Insignificant Game AddictionLISPLots of Infuriating & Silly ParenthesisMIPSMeaningless Indication of Processor SpeedWINDOWSWill Install Needless Data On Whole SystemGIROGarbage In Rubbish OutMICROSOFTMost Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only(for) Fools (&) Teenagers.

NLM-ner Joke

PASSED AWAYEbramim Eusoof Mayet (Anwer)@

U Mg Mg (M.D. Mayet Enterprise Ltd.)Of No. 30(H) Inya Road Kamayut Township,beloved husband of Sakina Bi Bi @ Daw May HnitSan, father of Ilyas Mayet @ U Kyi Moe (M.D,M.E.C), Yusuf Mayet @ U Kyi Toe (temporarilyin U,S,A) was called away to his heavenly homeon 12.3.2012 and buried in Yeway Soonni MuslimKabrastan on 13.3.2012.

Bereaved Family

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow Sr.

No. Regions/States

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 32/90 15/59 Likelihood of isolated rain or

thundershowers 60(%)

2 Kayah 33/91 13/55 Generally Fair Weather

3 Kayin 40/104 23/73 Likelihood of isolated rain or

thundershowers 60(%)

4 Chin 20/68 11/52 Generally Fair Weather

5 Upper Sagaing 31/88 12/54 Likelihood of isolated rain or

thundershowers 60(%)

6 Lower Sagaing 38/100 17/63 Partly cloudy

7 Taninthayi 36/97 22/72 Likelihood of isolated rain or

thundershowers 60(%)

8 Bago 38/100 20/68 Generally Fair Weather

9 Magway 40/104 19/66 Partly cloudy

10 Mandalay 35/95 18/64 Partly cloudy 60(%)

11 Mon 36/97 24/75 Likelihood of isolated rain or

thundershowers 60(%)

12 Yangon 38/100 19/66 Partly cloudy

13 Rakhine 34/93 20/68 Partly cloudy

14 Southern Shan 28/82 11/52 Partly cloudy

15 Northern Shan 31/88 08/46 Partly cloudy

16 Eastern Shan 33/91 13/55 Partly cloudy

17 Ayeyawady 36/97 20/68 Partly cloudy

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 38/100 16/61 Generally Fair Weather

19 Neighbouring Yangon 38/100 19/66 Partly cloudy

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 35/95 18/64 Partly cloudy

Summary of

observations at

09:30 hr MST on

today

During the past (24) hours, light rain or thundershowers have been isolated in Upper Sagaing Region and Kachin State, weather has been partly cloudy in Taninthayi Region and Shan State and Generally Fair in the remaining Regions and States. Day temperatures were (3°C) above March average temperatures in Rakhine and Kayin States and about March average temperatures in the remaining Regions and States.The significant day temperature were Minbu (42°C), Chauk, Pyay, Khayan and Bawlakhe (40°C) each.

Bay Inference Weather is partly cloudy in the Andaman Sea and South Bay and Generally Fair elsewhere in the

Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea Seas will be slight to moderate in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Generally Fair in the whole country.

Fulham 0-3 Swansea City

LONDON, 17 March—Swansea City moved up to eighthplace after Gylfi Sigurdsson’s double helped secure a thirdsuccessive victory for the first time this season. Sigurdssonbeat Mark Schwarzer with a diving header inside the six-yardbox after Scott Sinclair’s deft touch. The midfielder struckagain after the break with a controlled finish from WayneRoutledge’s cut-back. Joe Allen completed a comfortablevictory with an 18-yard effort after pouncing on sloppyFulham play. The third goal, which came towards the end ofa second half of almost uncontested authority, was indicativeof a strangely flat Fulham display at their customary CravenCottage stronghold. Swansea, riding high on confidencesince toppling Manchester City, became only the fourth sideto win on Fulham’s home patch this season and a fourth awaywin can now surely end any lingering doubts that PremierLeague survival has been secured.—Internet

Fulham 0 - 3 SwanseaWigan 1 - 1 West Brom

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Sunday, 18 March, 201211th Waning of Taboung 1373 ME

Donations made to hail 67Donations made to hail 67th AnniversaryAnniversaryArmed Forces Day Parade for 2012Armed Forces Day Parade for 2012

NAY PYI TAW, 17 March—A cash-donation ceremony to hailthe 67th Anniversary ArmedForces Day parade for the year of2012 took place at HsinbyushinHall of No. 7 Transit Centre hereat 3 pm today.

Present on the occasionwere Lt-Gen Hla Htay Win of theOffice of Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services, Chairmanof the committee for organizingthe Anniversary Armed ForcesDay Chief of Armed ForcesTraining Lt-Gen Yar Pyae,Chairman of the managementcommittee for organizing theAnniversary Armed Forces DayCommander of Nay Pyi TawCommand Maj-Gen MaungMaung Aye, Military paradeCommander and columncommanders, senior militaryofficers of the Office ofCommander-in-Chief of Defence

Services, well-wishers andofficials concerned.

Chief of Armed ForcesTraining presented certificates ofhonour to the donors—Rothamans of Pall Mall(Myanmar) Pte Ltd and its sistercompanies, Kanbawza BankLimited, Myawady Trading Co Ltand its brother companies, EdenCo, Max Myanmar, Asia World,Htoo Trading, Original, AyeyarShwe Wah, Golden Flower, GoldenGate Companies.

Afterwards, Shwetaung,Saunghayman, Tagaungbwar,Aung Chan Tha, MyanmarSunsilk, Myanmar Brewery andits sister companies, MyanmarEconomic Cooperation, Win Win,Kaytumadi, Myanma Beauty,ShwetaungU made their donations,and the donor companies acceptedthe certificates of honourpresented by Commander of Nay

Pyi Taw Command Maj-GenMaung Maung Aye.

Chief of Armed ForcesTraining Lt-Gen Yar Pyaeexpressed thanks.

A total of 24 wellwishersdonated K 650,000,000 to hail67th Anniversary Armed ForcesDay parade for the year of2012.

MNA

Lt-Gen Hla Htay Winof Office of

Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services

attends cash donationceremony for 67th

Anniversary ArmedForces Day Parade

2012.MNA

YANGON, 17 March—Under thearrangements of the Sports and PhysicalEducation Department under the Ministry ofSports, Myanmar Sailing Federation and No.3 Basic Education Department held theconcluding ceremony of 2012 SummerSailing Course, prize presentation and dinneron the lawns of the Yangon Boat Club ofMyanmar Sailing Federation on Inya Road,here, yesterday evening.

Vice-President of MSF Chairman ofYangon Boat Club U Myo Tin extendedgreetings. General Secretary of MyanmarSailing Federation U Thein Soe presentedcertificates to the trainees. Vice-Presidentsof the federation U Maung Win and U MyoTin awarded the outstanding trainees.

General Secretary of MyanmarOlympic Committee Director-General ofSPED U Thaung Htaik presented prizes to thewinners in the last year’s sailing contest andmember of Myanmar Olympic CommitteeSecretary of Myanmar Women’s SportsFederation Daw L Khun Yi presented prizesto school heads of Latha BEHS No. 2 andKamayut BEHS No. 2.—MNA

Summer sailingcourse concludes

Robots inrecord-distance

ocean swim

Egypt finds suggestancient royal funeral

Anelka scores in Chinaleague debut

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Bolt to makeseason debut athome on 5 May

Play is abandoned inTottenham’s FA Cup game

against Bolton after Trottersmidfielder Fabrice Muambacollapses during the match.

INTERNET

Everton, Sunderland play to draw in FA Cup Fabrice Muamba collapses duringSpurs-Bolton FA Cup tie

LONDON, 17 March—Bolton Wanderers midfielder FabriceMuamba collapsed and stopped breathing during the FA Cup fifth-round tie against Tottenham.

Medics spent 10 minutes trying to resuscitate the 23-year-old onthe field after he fell to the ground with no other players around him.

The score was 1-1 when the match was abandoned after 41 min-utes.

Medical staff gave Muamba mouth-to-mouth resuscitation andtried to revive him with a defibrillator. In total six medics were treatingthe player.

Both sets of supporterschanted Muamba's name as he wastaken off the pitch on a stretcher.ESPN, who were broadcasting thematch, reported that he was notbreathing as he was taken into thetunnel.

A Bolton spokesman said:"Fabrice Muamba has been takento hospital following his collapse.There is no further information atthis time."

The former Arsenal midfielderwas accompanied in the ambulanceby Coyle and club captain KevinDavies. — Internet

LONDON, 17 March—Tim Cahill secured an FA Cup replayfor Everton against Sunderland after the Premier League sidesdrew 1-1 in the quarter-finals on Saturday.

Phil Bardsley fired Sunderland into a 12th-minute lead atGoodison Park with a long-range strike but Cahill equalized 11minutes later.

Nikica Jelavic’s header from Leighton Baines’ cross wasgoing wide, but Cahill nodded the ball on past goalkeeperSimon Mignolet.

Everton was frustrated in its search for a winner, withMignolet denying John Heitinga and Jelavic late on.

`“The equalizer knocked us back, we lost a bit of confi-dence with it,” Sunderland manager Martin O’Neill said. “Therewas a big surge from the home crowd.—Internet

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