Volume XX, Number 174 11th Waning of Tawthalin 1374 ME Thursday, 11 October, 2012

Central Census Commission meets, census to be taken in four stepsNAY PYI TAW, 10 Oct—

The Ministry forImmigration andPopulation will act as thefocal ministry of nationwidecensus compilation projectin 2014, Patron of CentralCensus Commission Vice-President Dr Sai MaukKham said at thecommission meeting No (3/2012) at the ministry herethis afternoon.

He said the censuswould be taken in four steps:preparation, datacompilation, preparingstatistics, and assessmentand review. He went on to

say that only thecooperation of the focalministry with otherministries, relatedorganizations and civilsocieties would helpaccomplish the last threesteps although the ministryalone could complete thepreparation tasks.

The meeting was alsoattended by the chairman,vice-chairmen, secretary andmembers of the commission,the chairman, secretary andmembers of central censuscommittee, Union ministers,chairman of Hluttaw SocialDevelopment Committee,

deputy ministers,departmental heads, UNFPAresident representatives andofficials.

Vice-President Dr SaiMauk Kham said thenationwide censuscompilation in Myanmarwas carried out twice in 1973and 1983. The need ofexperiences, funds, staff andequipments was challengingin the census compilation in30 years after the lastcompilation, he predicted.

The preparation startedsince May, 2011, had beencompleted in 16 months, hesaid. Questionnaires andcensus laws should beprepared to becommensurate with thecurrent age in compilingcensus in 2014 andsupervisory committeesmight be formed, he said.

(See page 8)

Census would be taken infour steps: preparation, datacompilation, preparing statistics,and assessment and review.

ISLAMBAD, 10 Oct—Local authorities in Pakistanare taking emergencymeasures to protect residentsfrom a water-borne, brain-eating amoeba that has killed10 people in the last fivemonths in the Karachi area, adoctor with the World HealthOrganization’s Disease EarlyWarning System in Pakistansaid Tuesday.

Shakeel Malik toldKyodo News that the victims,ranging in age between 4 and45, died from a diseasetriggered by swimming orother activities that causedthem to nasally inhalepolluted water containingthe single-celledmicroscopic creatures of the

Pakistan local authorities fightbrain-eating parasite

species Naegleria fowleri.Malik said that after

being inhaled through thenostrils, the amoebaimmediately attacks thebrain, causing a quick death.

Simply drinking waterhas not been demonstrated asa source of infection,according to the WHO.

The latest deathoccurred last week.

The health departmentof Sindh Province hasdirected the Karachi WaterBoard to increasechlorination of water.Similarly, the residents havebeen advised to use boiled orchlorinated water and cleanseoverhead and undergroundwater tanks.—Kyodo News

YANGON, 10 Oct—Myanmar FootballFederation hosts Suzuki Cup2012 AFF Championshipqualifier in Yangon from 5 to13 October. Digicel will give3000 complementary jerseysto the spectators who earlybought tickets for theremaining matches.Myanmar is standing secondat the standings after Timor

3000 complementary jerseysfor spectators

YANGON, 10 Oct—Administrator’s office ofMahlwagon Htaykywe(A) Ward and Ward Maternaland Child WelfareAssociation give freehealth care services to

Free health careprovided to the aged

older persons everySaturday.

On 6 October, DawThaung Mya of YangonRegion Maternal andChild Welfare SupervisoryCommittee and party,members of districtand township MCWAsdonted medicines andfoodstuffs to 88 olderpersons who were undermedical treatment at theadministrator’s office.

Dr May Marlar ofCentral MMCWA andChairperson of YangonRegion MCWSC DawAye Aye Kyi and partyinspected the delivery roomof Tamway TownshipMCWA.—Myanma Alin

BAGO, 10 Oct—Aceremony to honour membersof Bago Region Red CrossSociety who will participatein the public welfare taskswas held at Ye Yeiktha of

Red Cross members boundfor Rakhine State honoured

Leste with two wins on sixpoints by winning a 1-0victory over Brunei and a 2-1 win over Timor Teste withone match in hand. Myanmarwill play against Cambodiaon 11 October and Laos on13 October.

The spectators not needto show IDs in buying ticketsfor the matches.

Kyemon

Bago Region on yesterdaymorning. Chairman of BagoRegion Red CrossSupervisory CommitteeHead of Township HealthDepartment Dr Nay Myo Ohn

and Commander of BagoRegion Red Cross BrigadeCommander of RegionPolice Force Police Col MyaWin made speeches.

Dr Nay Myo Ohnpresented K 300,000provided by Bago RegionGovernment and Police ColMya Win K 200,000 byBago Region Police Forceto Red Cross Staff OfficerGrade I Daw Ni Ni Moe.

Myanma Alin

Patron of

Central

Census

Commission

Vice-

President

Dr Sai

Mauk

Kham

makes a

speech at

the

commission

meeting

No (3/

2012).

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NATO Secretary General Anders FoghRasmussen (2nd L, front) addresses theNATO Defence Ministers Meeting at its

headquarters in Brussels, captial ofBelgium, on 9 Oct, 2012.

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SpaceX rocket glitch putssatellite in wrong orbit

Government warned that investors could pullplug on green energy

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from SpaceLaunch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral

Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Floridain this 7 Oct, 2012. A prototype satellite was

sent into the wrong orbit because of aproblem. PAGE 4

The cruise liner Queen Mary 2 passes the Burbo Bank off-shorewind farm as it heads to Liverpool, northern England on 15

September, 2011.PAGE 10

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NATIONAL

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Oct—The Ministry of BorderAffairs and Kelab Putera 1Malaysia, a humanitariansocial organization fromMalaysia have undertakenrehabilitation tasks incoordination for twocommunities in RakhineState regardless of race andreligion. On 30 September,humanitarian aids—132tons of potable water, 9 tonsof tinned food, 18 tons ofbiscuits, 275 tons of kitchenutensils and toiletries, threetons of medicines and relatedmaterials, one ton of clothes,50 tons of 5-kg rice bags, 10tons of 2-kg sugar packages,totaling 498 tons arrived inYangon, which were thentransported to Rakhine Stateand arrived in Sittway on 8October.

Deputy Minister forBorder Affairs Maj-Gen ZawWin together with 46-member group of KelabPutera 1 Malaysia led bySangha Raja of MalaysiaVen Datuk Kirinde

Kelab Putera 1 Malaysia makesfield trip to Rakhine State

Dhammaratene Thero,Malaysian Ambassador toMyanmar Dr Ahmad FaisalMuhamad and Chairman ofKelab Putera 1 Malaysia MrDatuk Abdul Azeez AbdulRahim arrived in Sittwayfrom Yangon.

In the evening seveninvited Sayadaws fromMyanmar side led by Abbotof Pathein Monastery fromPathein Baddhanta Panditaand five monks fromMalaysian side led by VenDatuk Kirinde Dhammara-tene Thero met at MahaWaiyan Sasana Beikman inthe precinct of Lawka NandaPagoda. The Deputy HomeAffairs Minister, MalaysianAmbassador Dr AhmadFaisal Muhamad, Chairmanof Kelab Putera 1 MalaysiaMr Datuk Abdul AzeezAbdul Rahim.

A ceremony to provideaids to families in reliefcamps by Kelab Putera 1Malaysia was held at themeeting hall in RakhineState Hluttaw on 8 October.

The chair of Kelab Putera 1Malaysia said the group wasto provide humanitarianassistances and the peoplewith various faiths are livingin peace in Malaysia whichis adopting 1 MalaysiaPolicy. The chair also saidthe donations were boundfor all the victims of differentreligions and races.

The Malaysianambassador said the groupthat visited Rakhine Statewas formed with themembers of differentreligions and they woulddisseminate their optimisticviews on what theywitnessed in the area. Theambassador vowed forcooperation in long-termprojects for socio-economicdevelopment in RakhineState.

The deputy minister forBorder Affairs said theUnion government and thestate government hadplanned to build 1584make-shift tents and 770 (45ft x 34 ft) 10-room tents and

278 tents have been built.More tents would beconstructed. Humanitarianaids in health, education andsanitation would beprovided. The mostimportant to reconcile thetwo communities which

engaged in conflicts is trust.He tipped the mission forsuccess in reconciliation ofthese two groups.

Kelab Putera 1Malaysia viewed roundSittway and visitedYenwesu temporary relief

camp, Shwe Zedi reliefcamp, Mingan temporaryrelief camp, Thakkebyintemporary relief camp,Bawdupa temporary reliefcamp and Ohndawgyitemporary relief camp wherethey provided aids.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Oct — In his speech at a coordinationmeeting on drawing up budgets for Union levelorganizations and the ministries for 2013-14 held at theauditorium of the Ministry of Finance and Revenue thismorning, Deputy Minister Dr Lin Aung stressed the needfor drawing budget in accord with financial rules andregulations, underscoring that the main aim of the ministryis to issue fair and accurate statistics and figures that showsnational development.

For ensuring right and accurate State budget, moreefforts are needed in collecting and examining figures notonly by the Budget Department but also by all ministries.

MNA

Coord meeting ondrawing up budgets held

YANGON, 10 Oct— A Myanmar RiceMill and Farming Machinery Fair-2012 willkick off at Myanmar Convention Centre(MCC) on Mindhamma Road in Yangonfrom 5 to 7 December.

The Ministry of Commerce conductsthe fair with the help of departmentalofficials and organization members. It waslearnt that the fair’s purpose intends torenew Myanmar’s rice in the internationalmarket, to double Myanmar’s riceproduction and farm value-added products,to create job opportunities and to generatemore earnings ensuring development of

Myanmar Rice Mill and Farming MachineryFair-2012 5-7 Dec

rice mills in Myanmar and industrialdevelopment in rural areas.

Those interested companies may contactthe Myanma Agricultural Produce TradingGeneral Manager Technological Branch (2),the International Trade Promoting (branch)of the Directorate of Trade under the Ministryof Commerce, the Myanmar Rice DealersFederation and Myanmar Rice IndustryAssociation and the exhibition departmentof the Republic of the Union of MyanmarFederation of Chambers of Commerce andIndustry, not later than 7 November.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Oct—Managing Director U Thein Sweof Myanma Railways under theMinistry of Rail Transportationdealt with along Yangon circularrailroad as well as the condition ofrailroad section between

MyanmarRailways dealswith railroad

sections

Toegyaungkalay Station andYangon Station by train on 8October.

He stressed the needs to notonly beautify works among railwaystations but maintain railroadsections.

He then met the upgradingcircular railroad committeesupervised by the general manager(Lower Myanmar) at the meetinghall of Yangon Station and fulfilledthe needs.

MNA

Governor of Central Bank ofMyanmar Chairman of

Myanmar Banks Association UThan Nyein speaking at 143th

meeting of executive committeeof Banks SupervisoryCommittee and MBA.

(News reported).—MNA

As of18

October

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Myanma Alin, the Mirror, the New Light of Myanmar papers arepublished in colour daily

In Nay Pyi Taw and Mandalay

Myanma Alin and the Mirror papers will be published in colour atevery other week

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Publication of all newspapers in colour willbe in mid-December.

There will be no change in prices. Agents are requested not to rise

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WORLDUS

UNGA

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (2nd L, front) addresses the NATO Defence Ministers

Meeting at its headquarters in Brussels, capital of Belgium, on 9 Oct, 2012. — Xinhua

Vice presidential debate could be a tale of two RyansSt PeterSburg, (Florida),

10 Oct — Republican Congressman Paul Ryan is a changed man. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s running mate made a name for himself as a bold fiscal crusader, willing to make big, unpopular cuts to entitlements to get US finances in order. But since Romney tapped him in August to join his campaign, the vice presidential candidate has become more prudent, avoiding detailed discussion of his budget plan and earning the nickname “mini-Mitt” for displaying a cautious streak like his boss.

For Vice President Joe Biden, a major question heading into his debate with Ryan in Kentucky on Thursday is “a choice of which Ryan we’re going to see,” a Biden adviser said. Instead of promoting his own budget plan, which includes caps on future Medicare spending, Ryan is talking up Romney’s

more voter-friendly version, which has no spending limits, at campaign events. “The vice president has been studying up on (Ryan’s) real positions and is prepared to call him out on his actual positions,” said the adviser, who warned that “maybe there will be some dishonesty,” from the Republican.

The stakes are high for Biden, who is charged with righting a listing ship after President Barack Obama’s disastrous first debate against Romney in Denver last week, which lost him the momentum in polls ahead of the 6 November election.

Democrats have targeted Ryan’s budget, a severe series of spending cuts, as proof that he would hurt seniors and the middle class. One top Republican strategist said the best way for Biden to battle his opponent is to tease out the “wonky” Ryan, the congressman who loves

mind-numbing fiscal details. “If I was prepping against Ryan, I would be looking for issues that Romney and Ryan disagree on and try and pull out Ryan the wonk, as opposed to Ryan the running mate,” the strategist said.

That would turn off television viewers not used to detailed policy arguments, and could give Biden a chance to paint the Republican team as holding different positions

on Medicare. The Romney campaign has worked overtime to emphasize that House Budget Committee chairman Ryan has fallen in line with the presidential candidate on fiscal issues. “You have to remember this is a Romney-Ryan ticket, and there’s one presidential candidate, there’s one person at the top of the ticket,” Romney spokesman Kevin Madden told reporters on Tuesday.

Reuters

Vice President Joe Biden (R) speaking in Charlotte, North Carolina on 6 Sept, 2012, and Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan, speaking in Tampa,

Florida, on 29 Aug, 2012, are shown in thiscombination photo.— ReuteRs

IMF seminars, speeches with monetary policymakers

Tokyo, 10 Oct — The following are highlights of International Monetary Fund seminars and speeches on Wednesday featuring global monetary policymakers.

Takehiko Nakao, Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs

“There is a lot of focus on the European case and the fiscal cliff in the United States but Japan is in a sense a frontrunner in the fiscal problem because we had slow growth for 20 years. The lesson from Europe is that if there is a reversal in the market the effect can be damaging for the economy and even fiscal sustainability.”

Ignazio Visco, European Central Bank Governing Council Member and Bank of Italy Governor

“First, credibility. A risk we are seeing now of the collapse in the euro is only due to credibility of exercise. Without that, the euro area has much lower public debt than the United States and Japan.”

Janet Yellen, US Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman “Low short-term interest rates are essential to stimulate

recovery in the US economy and bringing down unemployment. We do have weakness in the US economy and expectations that this will continue for some time, which justifies the Fed’s asset purchases and is a factor that keeps long-term interest rates low.

“Eventually, we do expect the US economy to recover and that monetary policy will be normalized ... One concern I have is that interest rate risk may exist in bank balance sheets and that bank profits could be at risk if rates rise suddenly.”

Charistian Noyer, European Central Bank Policymaker and Bank of France Governor

“The project of a banking union is so important in the euro zone because if we want to break the link between sovereign (risk) and the banks, we need to transform the banking system into a euro-zone banking system. “We of course need a unified banking system ... we need to have the capacity to step in without the involvement of individual member states.”

David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

“It’s important that Europe as a whole ... that there be regional efforts to support the recapitalization of banks. “Monetary policy and other efforts to support euro-zone growth are important so that necessary fiscal adjustments are made.”— Reuters

Top China delegate pulls out of IMF meet amid islands rowtokyo, 10 Oct — The

International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that China’s central bank governor will not lead the Chinese delegation at the IMF’s semi-annual meeting this week, in what appeared to be a snub to host Japan. Zhou Xiaochuan’s failure to attend the meeting follows a deterioration in relations between China and

Japan over their competing claims to sovereignty of some islands in the East China Sea.

The row has been marked by violent protests and calls for boycotts of Japanese products in China. Japanese car makers, including Toyota Motor, later reported a tumble in auto sales in the world’s biggest car market. “We were informed two days ago that Governor Zhou’s schedule might require him to cancel his lecture in Tokyo,” an IMF spokeswoman said. “It has now been confirmed that his deputy Yi Gang will represent him.” Zhou had been set to deliver what amounted to a closing

keynote lecture on Sunday. A Japanese government official said Zhou’s absence would be “regrettable”.

The IMF comments confirm a report on Tuesday by Chinese state news agency Xinhua that China’s delegation will not be led by its most senior finance officials. According to Chinese protocol, only the most senior officials usually lead such trips. China’s delegation will be led by Yi Gang, vice head of the People’s Bank of China, and Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao, Xinhua said.

The disputed group of islands, called Senkaku in

Japan and Diaoyu in China, are located near rich fishing grounds and potentially huge oil and gas reserves. Taiwan also asserts its sovereignty over the uninhabited islets.

Japan is scheduled to host the IMF and World Bank annual meetings for the first time in nearly half a century. About 20,000 people are expected to attend the event, making it one of the world’s largest international conferences. “If he (Zhou) is not coming, it is regrettable that a representative of the Chinese authorities does not participate in this important international meeting in Tokyo. —ReutersChina’s Central Bank

Governor Zhou Xiaochuan listens to a question at a

news conference during the ongoing National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s parliament, in Beijing on

12 March, 2012.—ReuteRs

China

China calls for unified standards on combating terrorism

united nationS, 10 Oct — Unified standards should be upheld in combating international terrorism, China’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Wang Min said here on Tuesday. Wang’s remarks came as he addressed the 67th session of the UN General Assembly on the theme of “Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism.” He noted that double standards must be rejected in the effort to combat terrorism. “Adopting inconsistent positions on the basis of one’s own interest will serve only to shield or connive with terrorism, defeating the purpose of counter-terrorism and undermining international cooperation in that regard.”

Wang said that the symptoms and the root causes of terrorism should be addressed simultaneously. “Measures to combat terrorism should focus on promoting development, eliminating polarization and social injustice, and appropriately resolving regional conflicts,” he said. “Relying solely on military and law enforcement measures may very well prove to be counter-productive.” In addition, the UN should play a leading role in strengthening international cooperation on counter-terrorism, Wang said.

“China supports the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy which serves as the guidelines for the international cooperation on counter-terrorism,” he said.The Chinese UN envoy pointed out that the international community should further advocate dialogue and exchange among various civilizations, religions and ethnicities with the aim to promote mutual respect, understanding and tolerance. Furthermore, counter-terrorism activities must comply with the UN Charter and the international law, respect the sovereignty of individual states, their independence and territorial integrity, Wang said.—Reuters

NATO makes plans to back Turkey over Syria spillover

HaciPaSa, (Turkey), 10 Oct — NATO said it had drawn up plans to defend Turkey if necessary should the war in Syria spill over their border again as dozens of people were killed across the Arab nation on Tuesday. Fighting between Syrian rebels and government forces could be heard from this

Turkish border town following on from several days of clashes in the past week. One Syrian villager said a rebel push on the town of Azmarin was expected soon.

In Damascus, rebel suicide bombers struck at an Air Force Intelligence compound used as an interrogation centre —

the latest attack to bring the conflict close to President Bashar al-Assad’s power base. “Assad...is only able to stand up with crutches,” Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told a meeting of his ruling AK Party. “He will be finished when the crutches fall away.” Erdogan, reacting to six consecutive days when shells fired from Syrian soil have landed on Turkish territory, has warned Ankara will not shrink from war if forced to act.

But his government has also stressed it would be reluctant to mount any big operation on Syrian soil and then only with international support. It was not clear whether the shells hitting Turkish territory were aimed to strike there or were due to Syrian troops overshooting as they attacked rebels to their north.—Reuters

A Turkish armoured personnel carrier drives out of a military border post on the Turkish-Syrian border near the

village of Hacipasa in Hatay Province, southern Turkey on 9 Oct, 2012.— ReuteRs

Middle East

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Thursday, 11 October, 20124

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA,10 Oct — A prototypecommunications satelliteflying as a secondary payloadaboard a Space ExplorationTechnologies Falcon 9rocket was sent into the wrongorbit because of a problemduring launch on Sundayevening, officials said onTuesday.

One of the nine Merlinengines powering the Falcon9 rocket shut down early,though the other engines

SpaceX rocket glitch puts satellite in wrong orbit

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from SpaceLaunch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air ForceStation in Cape Canaveral, Florida in this 7 Oct, 2012,

file photo. A prototype communications satellite flying asa secondary payload aboard a Space Exploration

Technologies Falcon 9 rocket was sent into the wrongorbit because of a problem during launch on Sunday

evening, officials said on 9 Oct, 2012. —REUTERS

burned longer to make up forthe loss of thrust, saving theprimary mission of deliveringa Dragon cargo capsule to theInternational Space Stationfor NASA.

The rocket blasted off at8:35 pm EDT Sunday (0035GMT Monday) from CapeCanaveral Air Force Stationin Florida, restoring a USsupply line to the $100 billionorbital outpost, a project of15 nations, following the endof the shuttle programme last

year.The Dragon freighter is

due to arrive at the spacestation, which flies about 250miles above Earth, onWednesday.

Space ExplorationTechnologies said its rocket,which was created byInternet entrepreneur ElonMusk and his team at SpaceX,as the company is known,could lose two engines andstill make its intended orbit.

“Like the Saturn 5(moon rocket) and modernairliners, Falcon 9 isdesigned to handle anengine-out situation and stillcomplete its mission. Noother rocket currently flyinghas this ability,” privatelyowned SpaceX said in astatement.

But that flexibilitydidn’t help satellitecommunications providerOrbcomm, which owneda prototype OG2 comm-unications satellite flyingaboard the Falcon 9.

The satellite wasdeposited in a lower-than-intended orbit, Orbcommsaid in a statement.

The company declinedto release details, butJonathan’s Space Report, awebsite that tracks space

launches, says Orbcommexpected its satellite to beplaced into an elliptical orbitwith a low point of 217 milesand a high point of 466 milesfrom Earth. That would laterbecome a circular orbit at 466miles from Earth.

Instead, it ended up in anorbit that ranges from 126miles to 200 miles.Orbcommsaid an analysis has begun todetermine if the satellite canuse its onboard propulsionsystem to boost its orbit.

“Orbcomm will not beable to get to its operational750 x 750 kilometre orbit,but there’s a chance they’llget a few month’s of systemtests out of it,” concludesJonathan McDowell,a Harvard Universityastrophysicist who publishesthe Space Report.Thecompany still plans to launch17 more OG2 satellites ontwo Falcon 9 rockets in 2013and 2014.

Those spacecraft will beprimary payloads anddelivered directly intotheir operational orbits,Orbcomm said. SpaceXdeclined to release financialdetails of its contract withOrbcomm, and Orbcomm didnot respond to requests forcomment.—Reuters

BRUSSELS, 10 Oct—Apple Inc’s antitrust case withthe European Union over e-book publishing couldbe settled in a couple ofmonths, European Com-petition CommissionerJoaquin Almunia said onTuesday. Almunia, the EU’santitrust chief, said hehoped to resolve soon aninvestigation into Apple andfour publishers over dealssetting e-book prices.

“Hopefully in thecoming couple of months,we will reach a settlement,”Almunia told a BritishChamber of Commerceconference.The EuropeanCoission is now market-testing an offer by Apple andthe publishers in a bid to endthe EU probe. The four areCBS Corp’s (CBS N)Simon & Schuster, NewsCorp (NWSA O) unitHarperCollins, French groupLagardere SCA’s (LAGA PA)Hachette Livre, andVerlagsgruppe Georg vonHoltzbrinck, which ownsMacmillan in Germany.Afifth publisher, Pearson’s(PSON L) Penguin, was alsocharged in the investigation,but is not participating in the

EU antitrust chief hopes to settleApple case soon

Customers gatheroutside an Apple storebefore the release of

iPhone 5 in Munich early21 Sept, 2012. —REUTERS

settlement with thecommission, which began itsinquiry last December.

“For a period of twoyears, the four publishers willnot restrict, limit or impede e-book retailers’ ability toset, alter or reduce retail pricesfor e-books and/orto offer discounts orpromotions,” the EuropeanCommission said in itsOfficial Journal, detailing theoffer under consideration.HarperCollins, Simon &Schuster and Hachettereached a settlement with theUS government in April withsimilar proposals. Accordingto analysts at UBS, e-booksaccount for about 30 percentof the US book market and 20percent of sales in Britain,but are still negligibleelsewhere.—Reuters

China rejects US accusations againsttelecoms firms

SAN FRANCISCO, 10 Oct —Facebook Inc has proposed arevised $20 millionsettlement in a class actionlawsuit accusing it ofviolating the rights of usersthrough its “SponsoredStories” advertising featureafter a US judge rejected anearlier accord.

The new settlementagreement, filed Saturday inUS District Court in SanFrancisco, drops provisionssetting aside up to $10million for plaintiffs lawyers’fees and allows users to applyfor a cash payment of up to$10 each.

US District JudgeRichard Seeborg rejected aninitial settlement proposal on17 August after ques-tioningwhy the agreement providedno cash for Facebookusers.The initial agreementprovided no money to classmembers and instead setaside $10 million to be givento charities involved inInternet privacy issues.

The new agreement,which is also subject toSeeborg’s approval, allowsfor some of the funds to go tocharity, but only if there isany left after users’ claims,attorneys fees and otherexpenses are met.But given

Facebook pitches new $20 million‘Sponsored Stories’ settlement

A senior citizen student stares at a computer screenduring a class to teach seniors how to use Facebook ata branch of the New York Public Library in New York

on 13 Aug, 2012. —REUTERS

BEIJING, 10 Oct— Chinarejected on Tuesday as“groundless” US accusationsthat two top Chinese telecomsequipment makers posed asecurity risk. The US Houseof Representatives’Intelligence Committeeurged American companieson Monday to stop doingbusiness with HuaweiTechnologies Co Ltd andZTE Corp. Warning thatChina could use equipmentmade by the companies tospy on certain communi-cations and threaten vitalsystems through compu-terized links.

“This report by therelevant committee of the USCongress, based onsubjective suspicions, nosolid foundation and on thegrounds of national security,has made groundlessaccusations against China,”

ZTE company logos are seen at an internationalsoftware and information services exhibition in

Nanjing, Jiangsu Province on 6 Sept, 2012.— REUTERS

the size of the class, thecharities might still get somecash. The agreement providesthat, if it is not economicallyfeasible to pay all the users acut, the court may designatethe entire fund as going to thecharities.

The proposed settle-ment covers nearly 125million people, courtdocuments show. The $20million equates to less than 2cents per class member.

“We believe the revisedsettlement is fair, reasonable,and adequate and responds tothe issues raised previouslyby the court,” Andrew Noyes,a Facebook spokesman, saidon Monday.Richard Arnes, a

lawyer for the plaintiffs, didnot immediately respond toa request for comment.

Filed in 2011, thelawsuit alleged that thesocial networking site’s“Sponsored Stories” featureviolated California law bypublicizing users’ “likes” ofadvertisers without anycompensation or a way toopt-out.As part of bothsettlement proposals,Facebook also agreed to giveusers more control over howtheir names and likenessesare used.

Facebook’s revisedagreement also providesnew terms on targetingchildren.—Reuters

Shen Danyang, a spokesmanfor China’s CommerceMinistry, said in a statementon the ministry’s website.

The US recommen-dation would excludeChinese businesses fromcarrying out their normaloperations in the United Statesand participating in faircompetition, Shen said.

“The Chinese sideexpresses its serious concern

and strong opposition,” hesaid.

The urging by the UScongressional committeecomes at a very sensitive timefor US-China relations,ahead of the US presidentialand congressional electionsand a transition of power to anew leadership in China. Ithas raised fears of retaliationby China.

Reuters

NEW YORK, 10 Oct—Samsung Electronics Co said onWednesday it will become the first TV manufacturer tobring music streaming service Spotify to Internet—connected television sets, with the launch of a newapplication later this year.

Privately held Spotify offers on-demand access to alibrary of more than 18 million songs, and will be availablefor TV in Europe as a result of this partnership, Samsungsaid.— Reuters

Samsung cuts deal for Spotify on itsTV sets in Europe

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BUSINESS & HEALTH

NEW YORK, 10 Oct—Private equity firm BainCapital LLC is planning aninitial public offering forBright Horizons Family

Exclusive: Bain plans IPO for BrightHorizons

JPMorgan declined tocomment.

Founded in 1986, BrightHorizons provides employer-sponsored child care andearly education programmes,and manages child carecenters for companies,hospitals, universities andgovernment agencies.

The Watertown, Massa-chusetts-based company,which has operations inNorth America, Europe andIndia, also offers collegecounseling and other servicesfor working families.

In 2011, First LadyMichelle Obama praisedBright Horizons and its rolein society, saying in a jointstatement with the companythat “child care facilities andhome-based providers can bea real building block for anentire generation of healthykids.”

The private equityindustry’s investmentpractices have come underintense scrutiny during theUS presidential elections.

Reuters

More evidence flu shot is safe for theegg-allergic: study

A cigarette pack warningunveiled by the

European Health andConsumer Protection

Commissioner in 2004.REUTERS

A child reacts as he receives the H1N1 swine fluvaccine in a nasal spray at Dodge Park Elementary

School in Landover, Maryland, 9 Oct, 2009.— REUTERS

LONDON, 10 Oct—Scientists have successfullytested a portable device toprepare lungs for transplant,potentially boosting thenumber of organs availableand reducing the risk theoperation will fail.

The Organ Care System,which has been tested on 12patients in Germany andSpain, allows donor lungs tobe prepared and preservedfor transplant at bodytemperature, keeping themin better condition than theusual practice of coolingthem down, according toresults of a study publishedin the Lancet.

Gregor Warnecke at theHanover Medical School inGermany told Reuters the

Portable device points to better lungtransplants

Traders work on the floor of the New York StockExchange at the opening of the trading session in

New York 5 Oct, 2012. —REUTERS

device could significantlyincrease the number of lungsavailable for transplant.

Around 330 lungtransplants are performedeach year in Germany, forinstance, but at the same timethere are almost 1,200 livertransplants, which means inexcess of 800 lungs that, fora variety of reasons, are notused.

“This is the potentialthat we intend to look out forin future using the OCS,”Warnecke said. “Even if wedo not believe that all these800 donors per year inGermany really could beused as lung donors,certainly a significantproportion could beharvested, connected to the

OCS, and evaluated forpotential transplantibility.”

Donor lungs are usuallyflushed, and preserved atcold temperatures beforethey are transplanted.Cooling reduces decom-position of lung tissue butcan degrade the organ inother ways and makes for alonger transplant operation.

The process ofnormothermic perfusion—where donor lungs are keptaround normal bodytemperature and flushedwith a mixture of anti-rejection drugs, vitaminsand hormones—keeps theorgans in better conditionand can actually improvetheir quality.

ReutersSolutions, a child care andearly education provider ittook private for $1.3 billionin 2008, according to threepeople familiar with thematter.

Bain, co-founded by USpresidential candidate MittRomney, has selectedunderwriters to handle a

proposed stock offering ofBright Horizons that couldcome later this year, thepeople said on Tuesday.

Goldman Sachs Group

(GS) and JPMorgan Chase(JPM) are among theunderwriters of the IPO, oneof the people said.

They asked not to benamed because the matter isnot public. Bain, BrightHorizons and GoldmanSachs were not immediatelyavailable for comment.

MONTREAL, 10 Oct—With flu season approaching,a Canadian study offers morereassurance that childrenwith egg allergies can besafely vaccinated against the

virus.Because the flu vaccine

is grown in chicken eggs,there have traditionally beenconcerns about the safety offlu shots for people with eggallergies, most of whom areyoung children. But today’svaccine has only tiny tracesof egg protein, and studieshave been showing thatchildren with egg allergiescan be vaccinated withoutany serious reaction.

The researchers, whosefindings appeared in TheJournal of Allergy andClinical Immunology,followed 367 egg-allergicpeople, mostly children, whogot the flu shot over five years.Almost one-third of them hada history of anaphylaxis aftereating eggs—that is, seriousallergy symptoms such astrouble breathing or a drop inblood pressure. None of thepatients, however, had aserious reaction to the fluvaccine, and only 13 of the

367 had mild “allergy-like”symptoms, such as itchy skinor hives, within a day of beingvaccinated.

“The risk of anaphylaxisappears sufficiently low for

patients with egg allergy tobe vaccinated like all otherindividuals, without req-uiring administration by anallergist,” wrote leadresearcher Anne Des Roches,of Hopital Sainte-Justine inMontreal, and colleagues.

Des Roches and hercolleagues also reviewed 26past studies that involvedclose to 4,000 egg-allergicpeople who got the flu shot.None of those patientsdeveloped a serious allergicreaction.

About 1.5 percent of USchildren have an egg allergy,according to the AmericanCollege of Allergy, Asthmaand Immunology. It’sthought that many of themhave never gotten the flu shotover worries about an allergicreaction. “I think parents ofchildren with egg allergyshould be reassured about thesafety of the influenzavaccine for their child, andunderstand that the benefits

are likely to outweigh anyrisks,” said Lynda Schneider,director of the allergyprogramme at BostonChildren’s Hospital, in anemail.—Reuters

Chinese investment in US create more than10,000 American jobs: study

Gold priceopens lowerin HongKong

NEW YORK, 10 Oct —Increasing Chineseinvestment in the UnitedStates has created more than10,000 jobs for Americans,according to a study reportreleased by the Asia Societyon Tuesday.

The report, AnAmerican Open Door?Maximizing the Benefits ofChinese Direct Investment,says that Chinese directinvestment in the UnitedStates is now more thandoubling annually, hittingover five billion US dollarsin 2010 alone.

The report is the resultof a study undertaken by theAsia Society and theKissinger Institute on China

HONG KONG, 10 Oct —The gold price in HongKong went down 110 HKdollars to open at 16,330HK dollars per tael onWednesday, according tothe Chinese Gold and SilverExchange Society.

The price is equivalentto 1,768.05 US dollars atroy ounce, down 11.91 USdollars at the latestexchange rate of 1 USdollar against 7.753 HKdollars.

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and the United States in May2011, allegedly “the mostcomprehensive study todate” of its kind.

“Chinese directinvestment in the UnitedStates is soaring, both invalue and number of deals.Businesses from China haveestablished operations andcreated jobs in at least 35 ofthe 50 US states and acrossdozens of industries in bothmanufacturing andservices,” says the report.

“And this is just thebeginning. If China followsthe pattern of other emergingnations, more than 1 trilliondollars in direct Chineseinvestment will flowworldwide by 2020, a

significant share of whichwill be destined foradvanced markets such asthe United States,” the reportcontinues.

The authors of the report,Daniel H Rosen and ThiloHanemann of The RhodiumGroup, however, warn thatpolitical interferencethreatens to divert legitimateand potentially beneficialinvestment deals, despitewhat they called “an overalleffective US screening policyfor inward investment.”

The US government hasrepeatedly blocked majorChinese investments on thegrounds of nationalsecurity.

Xinhua

Wall Street falls in tech-led sell-off, Alcoa up lateNEW YORK,10 Oct—US

stocks fell on Tuesday, ledby losses in technology afterbrokerage downgrades ofIntel and other major com-panies as worries increasedabout thirdquarter USearnings.

Shares of Intel, theworld’s largest semicon-ductor maker, lost 2.7 percentto $21.90 after negativereports by at least twobrokerages. Robert W. Baird& Co cut its price target onthe stock to $26 from $32,citing weak demand fornotebooks.

The news triggered

selling of large-cap techno-logy shares, includingOracle and Apple. Microsoftshares lost 1.7 percent to$29.28 and ranked as thebiggest drag on both theNasdaq and the S&P 500.

“It’s a good bet thatcompanies aren’t signifi-cantly expanding their techprojects at this point,” saidKim Forrest, senior equityresearch analyst at Fort PittCapital Group in Pittsburgh.Analysts expect quarterlyearnings for S&P 500companies to decline about2.3 percent from the year-ago period, according to

Thomson Reuters data.At the close, the S&P

500 was 7.9 percent below itsall-time closing high of1,565.15, reached five yearsago on this date.

The Dow Jonesindustrial average fell110.12 points, or 0.81percent, to 13,473.53 at theclose. The S&P 500 lost14.40 points, or 0.99 percent,to 1,441.48. The NasdaqComposite dropped 47.33points, or 1.52 percent, toclose at 3,065.02.

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US sues Wells Fargo in mortgage fraud case USWASHINGTON, 10 Oct —

The US government filed acivil mortgage fraud lawsuiton Tuesday against WellsFargo & Co, the latest legalvolley against big banks fortheir lending during thehousing boom.The com-plaint, brought by the USAttorney in Manhattan, seeksdamages and civil penaltiesfrom Wells Fargo for morethan 10 years of allegedmisconduct related togovernment-insured FederalHousing Administrationloans.The lawsuit alleges theFHA paid hundreds ofmillions of dollars oninsurance claims onthousands of defaultedmortgages as a result of falsecertifications by Wells Fargo,

A Wells Fargo sign is seenoutside a banking branch

in New York in this 13July, 2012, file photo.

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the fourth-biggest US bankas measured by assets.

“As the complaintalleges, yet another majorbank has engaged in alongstanding and recklesstrifecta of deficient training,deficient underwriting anddeficient disclosure, all whilerelying on the convenientbackstop of governmentinsurance,” said ManhattanUS Attorney Preet Bharara.Wells, the largest USmortgage lender, denied theallegations and said in astatement it believes it actedin good faith and incompliance with FHA andUS Department of Housingand Urban Developmentrules. The bank said many ofthe allegations have been

previously addressed withHUD and added that its FHAdelinquency rates have been

possible violations of lawsand regulations relating tomortgage originationpractices, including FHAloans.— Reuters

as low as half the industryaverage.

In a regulatory filing inAugust, the bank said it wasbeing investigated for

EADS, BAE fight lengtheningodds to save merger

PARIS, 10 Oct — EADS and BAE Systems are bracing forone last effort to breathe life into a troubled $45 billionaerospace merger as doubts grow over German backing forthe deal. The European companies have until 1600 GMTlater on Wednesday to declare their intentions and eitherscrap their merger or ask UK regulators for more time orfinalize their plans to create the world’s largest aerospace andarms group. “We will keep going until 5 (o’clock pm Londontime),” a person involved in the negotiations said.

Several sources close to the negotiations said GermanChancellor Angela Merkel had opposed the proposal tocombine Airbus passenger airplanes with UK defensecontractor BAE.”Merkel is against the deal but has not givenreasons,” a source involved in the negotiations said. Aspokesman for the German government declined comment.The setback scuppered plans for a statement before Europe’sstock markets open in which the groups had been expectedto report progress and ask for time to complete the deal.Brinkmanship is common in European negotiations andFranco-German-led EADS was itself only created after talksabout its structure actually collapsed only to be resurrectedweeks later.— Reuters

Europe

A BAE Systems sign is seen outside the company’sWarton site near Preston, northern England, in this file

picture taken on 1 Oct, 2009.—REUTERS

Battered India insurers need more thanforeign fundsIndia

quarters of the sector, has losta combined $4 billion in thepast decade and was batteredby a 2010 clampdown on thesale of lucrative equity-linkedproducts. Life insurancecompanies say a revival willdepend on faster approval fornew products and regulatorychanges to allow banks tosell products of more thanone insurer to cut distributioncosts.— Reuters

An employee of the lifeinsurance company ICICI

Prudential speaks on aphone in the company’soffice, in Mumbai on 19

June, 2007.REUTERS

MUMBAI/HONG KONG, 10Oct — India’s proposal toallow more foreigninvestment in its $41 billioninsurance business providesa lifeline for an industrystarved of capital andsqueezed by regulation—but it may not pass parliament

and it may not be enough.India’s insurance businesswas full of promise when itwas thrown open tocompetition in 2000, but hasinstead been brought to itsknees by losses, regulatorychange, uncertainty and asharp slowdown in economicgrowth. Many firms are fedup and looking for the exit.

“What is required is somestability in the regulatoryregime, for companies toreally focus on business ratherthan deal with the onslaughtof regulatory change,” saidRajesh Sud, CEO of Max Life,owned by Max India andJapan’s MS&AD InsuranceGroup. Last week, thegovernment sought to removea key barrier to bringing inmuch-needed capital by

proposing to raise the cap onforeign ownership ofinsurance firms to 49 percentfrom 26 percent. But themeasure, part of a series ofsweeping economic reforms,requires parliamentaryapproval, which will not beeasy given that the rulingcoalition is technically in aminority and other recentreforms have inflamedpopulist opposition.

Workers at former statemonopoly Life InsuranceCorp of India, which has a 70percent market share andabout 1.3 million agents —as many as those employedby the 23 private sector firms— have held street protestsagainst the proposal.The lifeinsurance industry, whichmakes up about three-

Taleban shoot Pakistani schoolgirlcampaigning for peacePakistan

ambition to be a doctor. “Myfriend came to me and said,‘for God’s sake, answer mehonestly, is our school goingto be attacked by theTaleban?’,” Yousufzai, then11, wrote in a blog publishedby the BBC.

“During the morningassembly we were told not towear colourful clothes as theTaleban would object.” Thearmy launched an offensiveand retook control of Swatlater that year, and Yousufzailater received the country’shighest civilian award. Shewas also nominated forinternational awards for childactivists. Since then, she hasreceived numerous threats.On Tuesday, gunmen arrivedat her school and asked forher by name, witnesses toldpolice. Yousufzai was shotwhen she came out of classand went to a bus.Talebanspokesman EhsanullahEhsan said his group wasbehind the shooting. “Shewas pro-West, she wasspeaking against Talebanand she was calling PresidentObama her ideal leader,”Ehsan said by telephone froman undisclosed location.

Reuters

Hospital staff assist Malala Yousufzai, a 14-year-oldschoolgirl who was wounded in a gun attack, at SaiduSharif Teaching Hospital in the Swat Valley region in

northwest Pakistan on 9 Oct, 2012. — REUTERS

PESHAWAR, 10 Oct —Taleban gunmen in Pakistanshot and seriously woundedon Tuesday a 14-year-oldschoolgirl who rose to famefor speaking out against themilitants, authorities said.Malala Yousufzai was shotin the head and neck whengunmen fired on her schoolbus in the Swat valley,northwest of the capital,Islamabad. Two other girlswere also wounded, policesaid. Yousufzai becamefamous for speaking outagainst the Pakistani Taleban

at a time when even thegovernment seemed to beappeasing the hardlineIslamists. The governmentagreed to a ceasefire with theTaleban in Swat in early 2009,effectively recognizinginsurgent control of the valleywhose lakes and mountainshad long been a touristattraction. The Taleban setup courts, executed residentsand closed girls’ schools,including the one thatYousufzai attended. Adocumentary team filmed herweeping as she explained her

Mexico

Mexican Navy kills drug baron, but bodytaken by armed men

MEXICO CITY, 10 Oct —The Mexican Navy has killedone of the most wanted drugcartel leaders in a clash innorthern Mexico’s Coahuilastate, but his body was latertaken from a funeral house,Mexican authorities said onTuesday.

The body, according toMexican authorities,corresponds to HeribertoLazcano, alias “El Lazca”,head of the Los Zetas Cartel.It was in a funeral home wherehe had been tested beforeforensic identification.

Early on Monday, agroup of armed men raidedthe funeral home and tookthe corpse, the Coahuilastate’s attorney generalHomero Ramos said Tuesday.The Mexican Navy, whichconducted the operationagainst Los Zetas leader, said

fingerprints and photographshad been used to identify thebody as Lazcano’s before itwas lost. In a message to Press,Ramos said Lazcano andanother man were killed onSunday in the ballpark of thetown of Progreso, as a resultof a clash between them andthe marine.

Several hours earlier,Mexican Navy hadconfirmed that one of the twocriminals killed inconfrontation in Coahuila isLazcano, the founding leaderof the criminal organization“Los Zetas”.

In a statement, the Navyreported that “after performinga search on the fingerprintdatabase of fingerprints of thethumb, index and middletaken from the right hand ofone of the criminals killed”, itis confirmed that the

fingerprints belong toHeriberto Lazcano.

The Navy said theanalysis of photographicimages of criminal shot showthat the facial features matchthose of Lazcano.Meanwhile, MexicanPresident Felipe Calderon onTuesday also confirmed thatLazcano was killed becausehe resisted the authorityduring a military operation.At the opening of a prison incentral Mexican city ofGuanajuato, Calderonexpressed his appreciation tothe Navy because theavailable information hasshown “clearly” that Lazcanowas “killed while resistingthe authority as a result of anoperation” conducted in thetown of Progreso, innortheastern Mexico.

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Two girls walk on the piano-style stairs at the WulinPlaza in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s ZhejiangProvince, on 9 Oct, 2012. The stairs are able to makerelevant sounds when people foot on the “key” of its

steps. — XINHUA

Indian drug firm PiramalHealth set to unveil patented

drug in EuropeKOLKATA, 10 Oct — After

10 years of trials, Indian drugcompany, Piramal Healthcareis ready to roll out its firstpatented product in Europenext month, a company officialsaid on Wednesday. Havingsold its generic drugsbusiness to Abott, Piramal isnow focused on discoveringproducts with a patent of atleast 10 to 15 years, said SwatiPiramal, Vice-Chairperson.

The company hasaround 20 molecules underdevelopment; the first onecrossed the finish line in Aprilwhen it bagged the Europeandrug regulator’s nod. “We arehopeful of launching in Indiain the next few months,” saidSwati Piramal.

This orthopaedic pro-duct is used to regenerate

damaged cartilage in the kneejoint. The substance isinjected into the hole in thecartilage; this aids stem cellsfrom the bone to grow andclose the hole in a few months.Previously, the cartilage hadto be cut off, grown outsidein a petri dish and then putback into the joint. Theproduct has been developedin Piramal’s labs in Montrealand Toronto. It will beproduced in Piramal’sfacilities in Canada. (Piramalhas an API facility in Torontoand bio- orthopaedic unit inMontreal.)

Piramal will market theproduct in 22 countries inEurope. The 23rd countrywill be India, followed byCanada, Australia, SouthKorea and Brazil.—Xinhua

Bolivia unveils winners ofChinese satellite scholarshipprogramme

LA PAZ , 10 Oct — BoliviaTuesday announced thewinners of a Chinesescholarship programmewhich trains Bolivian expertsfor operating the TupacKatari satellite, slated forlaunching at the end of 2013.The 64 experts, including sixwomen, were screenedcarefully to ensure eligibilityfor the scholarship, BolivianSpace Agency (BSA) DirectorIvan Zambrana said. “Thewinners have been chosenthrough a transparent and fairprocess. They are world-classBolivian professionals,” saidZambrana. The one-yeartraining programme, whichkicks off at the end ofOctober, includes control ofsatellite operations fromground stations, project

design and satellite systems,and teleport for datanetworks. The Tupac Katarisatellite, named after an 18thcentury indigenous hero whofought Bolivia’s Spanishcolonizers, will helpfacilitate the country’sintegration into the world,said Bolivian President EvoMorales during thepresentation ceremony.

The BSA signed a dealwith the China Great WallIndustrial Cooperation, asubsidiary of the ChinaAerospace Science andTechnology Corporation, inDecember 2010, to launchBolivia’s first com-munications satellite into theorbit by the end of 2013 or thebeginning of 2014.

Xinhua

California gas prices stabilize, seen headingdownward

LOS ANGELES , 10 Oct —California’s record-high gasprices held steady on Tuesdayand were expected to begindropping later in the week, buta rise in wholesale pricessuggested the decline couldbe more moderate than marketanalysts had previouslyanticipated. The average priceof a gallon of regular gas in thestate was up three-tenths of acent on Tuesday to $4.671,

which marked the lowest one-day increase since pricesbegan to spike at the beginningof last week, said MarieMontgomery Nordhues,spokeswoman for theAutomobile Club of SouthernCalifornia. Nevertheless,prices remained higher than $5a gallon at many gas stationsin the state. “The consensusseems to be they’re probablypeaking and hopefully will be

heading in the other directionreal soon,” Nordhues said.Retail prices surged by morethan 50 cents a gallon lastweek and wholesale pricesrose by almost a dollar a gallonafter a series of refinerymishaps pinched supplies.Trading market sources said apossible “short squeeze” thatcame about when a big refinerwas forced to buy fuel on thespot market may also havebeen a factor.

The price spike endedafter California Governor JerryBrown on Sunday orderedthat service stations beallowed to begin stockingcheaper and more plentiful“winter-blend” fuel threeweeks ahead of schedule.Wholesale prices dropped by60 cents a gallon Monday andanalysts said a sharp fall inretail prices would followwithin about a week barringfurther market disruptions.

ReutersGas prices are displayed at a Chevron gas station in Los

Angeles, California on 9 Oct, 2012.— REUTERS

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A man walks past a Huawei company logo outside theentrance of a Huawei office in Wuhan, Hubei Province

on 9 Oct, 2012. — XINHUA

Huawei faces exclusion from planned Canadagovernment network

OTTAWA 10 Oct — TheCanadian government hintedstrongly on Tuesday it wouldexclude Chinese telecomequipment giant HuaweiTechnologies Co Ltd fromhelping to build a securegovernment communicationsnetwork because of possiblesecurity risks.

Ottawa has invoked anational security exceptionto allow it to discriminate,without violating inter-national trade obligations,against companies it deemsto be too risky to be involvedin putting together thenetwork for carryinggovernment phone calls,emails and data centerservices.

“The government’sgoing to be choosingcarefully in the constructionof this network, and it hasinvoked the national securityexception for the building ofthis network,” AndrewMacDougall, spokesman forConservative Prime MinisterStephen Harper, told a newsconference.” I’ll leave it toyou if you think ... Huaweishould be a part of a Canadiangovernment securitysystem,” MacDougall said.

Mac-Dougall wasspeaking in reaction to areport on Monday from theUS House of Represen-tatives’ Intelli-genceCommittee, which urged USfirms to stop doing businesswith Huawei and anotherChinese company, ZTE Corp.

It warned that Chinacould use their networkequipment for cyber-espionage.CBC television

reported that the committeechairman, Rep. Mike Rogers,is also urging Canadiancompanies not to do businesswith Huawei.Huawei has athriving business in Canada.

It won a contract in 2008to build telecommunicationsnetworks for domesticoperators Telus Corp and BCEInc’s Bell Canada, and it haseven received a C$6.5 million($6.6 million) grant from theProvince of Ontario towards

security exception for thegovernment network, Canadahas not gone as far asAustralia, which has barredHuawei from taking part incontracts to build thegovernment’s $38 billionnational broadband network.

Bradley suggested theAustralian decision wastaken for otherreasons.”Australia has madepretty clear direction thatthey are trying to cozy up to

CANADA

Latin America leads hunger reduction over pasttwo decades

SANTIAGO, 10 Oct— The Latin America and Caribbean region has made the biggestprogress in the world in hunger reduction over the past 20 years, according to a report releasedon Tuesday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In Latin America, betterwages and more public spendings have helped to alleviate hunger, though the region has oneof the worst income disparities in the world, said the report entitled “the State of FoodInsecurity in the World 2012.”

Hunger affected 14.6 percent of the population in the region from 1990 to 1992, or 65 millionpeople, while in the 2010-2012 period, hunger affected only 8.3 percent of the population, or49 million people, according to the report. The figure is an important step toward fulfilling theWorld Food Summit’s goals and the first of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) oferadicating extreme poverty and hunger, the report said. The region registered economicgrowth above that of the developed countries during the recent economic crisis, allowing itto reduce hunger, though at a slower rate than in the past, it said.

“The Latin American countries, more than any other regions, reduced both proportionand the number of people affected by malnutrition over that period,” the report said, whilenoting that the reduction rate has slowed down from an annual rate of 1.9 percent in the 2002-2005 period to 0.9 percent in the 2006-2009 period.—Xinhua

LATIN AMERICA

a C$67 million investment byHuawei in research anddevelopment.”The nationalsecurity exception onlyapplies to foreign companies,”said Huawei TechnologiesCanada Co Ltd spokesmanScott Bradley.”

Huawei is fullyincorporated in Canada, andoperates as a subsidiaryCanadian company. Thisalone effectively enables usto bid on any potentialprocurement oppor-tunities.”In invoking the

the United States right now interms of their traderelationship,” he said, addingthat Australia has also agreedto have 2,500 US troopsstationed there.

David Skillicorn, Internetsecurity expert at Queen’sUniversity in Kingston,Ontario, said he supports theUS recommendation not todeal with Huawei and saidOttawa should revisit itsdecision to let it operate inCanada.

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Following political developments thatoverwhelm the world and the people of thecountry itself, Myanmar is pursuing economicdevelopment with four policies in the secondtier of the reform strategy announced by thePresident about four months ago.

The four guiding principles for MyanmarComprehensive Development Vision targetagricultural development, equitable economicdevelopment among regions and states,inclusive growth and statistical developmentas the country is seeking for high growth rate.

The government has been establishing moreand more regional industrial zones in eachcorner of the country to provide locals withjob opportunities and ensure balanceddevelopment. But some economists argue thatthe quest for balanced economic growth wouldhave adverse effect on rapidity of thedevelopment, saying it would escalate povertyrather than catalyzing distribution of wealth.

They come up with the two-polar approachfor economic development of the resource richeconomy, with Yangon and Mandalay aseconomic centres, and then distributing thedevelopment to various peripheries. Theseeconomists argue that forced inclusive growthis costly in the country like Myanmar withpoor transport infrastructures.

But, establishment of Kyaukpyu, Thilawaand Dawei Special Economic Zones could beseen as separate case of taking geographicaladvantages rather than forced balancedgrowth.

Another thing we need to consider ininitiating economic reforms of our country,apart from economic theories, is the socialimpact on citizens of all races. Myanmar ishome to more than 100 ethnic races dispersingin all parts of the country. The ethnic races innaturally unfavourable areas are being caughtin the poverty trap. The economicdevelopment need to profit these nationalbrethren significantly and help them out. Ifthere is a trade-off between balanced andrapid growth, we need to seek a balance initself.

Development dilemma

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Union Labour Minister meets ITUCGeneral Secretary

Humanitarian aids handedover in Rakhine State

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Oct—One of Malaysian socialorganizations, Kelab Putura1 Malaysia, handed overhumanitarian aids for localsto the Rakhine Stategovernment, at the meeting

State and work activities ofthe state, he acceptedfoodstuff, clothes andcosmetics and medicineshanded over by an official ofKelab Putura 1 Malaysiasocial organizations. TheChief Minister and thedonors viewed progress ofreconstruction of houses at

Is our

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(w)holesome?

Of course,teacher.

Hla Htut Oo

Central Census Commission meets…(from page 1)

The Vice-Presidentcontinued to say that therelated works might becompleted with the strengthof organizations and thepeople and the completecensus released in the firsthalf of 2015. The centralcommission meeting wasaimed at reviewing andpreparing for challenges.

Chairman of the CentralCensus Commission UnionMinister U Khin Yi reportedon progress of sector-wiseworks in compiling

population and housingcensus, census compilationin 1973 and 1983, de factodata compilation, recruitingand training accountantsand auditors, dates forcompilation of census, pilotcensus compilation in 2013,needs and supports of thegovernment departments.

Secretary of thecommission Director-General of PopulationDepartment U Myint Kyaingreported on formation ofcommittees, futureprogrammes and needs.

UNFPA ResidentRepresentative MrMohamed Abdel Ahadpresented matters related totechnical assistaces byUNFPA.

Members of the CentralCensus Commissionparticipated in discussions.

The Vice-Presidentattended to the needs andcalled for completion ofworks on schedule.

The Vice-President andparty viewed demonstrationof GIS mapping and raisedquestions which wereanswered by the Unionminister and officials.—MNA

Patron of Central Census Commission Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham viewingGIS system.—MNA

UNFPA ResidentRepresentative Mr

Mohamed Abdel Ahadmakes clarification.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Oct —Union Minister for LabourU Maung Myint met GeneralSecretary of InternationalTrade Union ConfederationMs. Sharan Burrow andmembers Mr. Jeffery Vogtand Ms. Alison Tate at themeeting hall of MountPleasant Hotel hereyesterday morning.

They held discussionson encouraging goodpractices for formation oflabour organizations andemployers associations inMyanmar in line with thelaws, for ensuring rights toprotect the interest ofworkers and for creatingstability in industrialrelations and opening ofITUC Office (Branch) inMyanmar.

MNA

hall of the government officeon 8 October morning.

After Rakhine StateChief MinisterU Hla Maung Tin haddelivered a speech citingthat greening of the Rakhine

the temporary relief campnear Sittway Airport, andprovided victims at the reliefcamp of ShwezediMonastery and Minganrelief camp with assistancethereafter.

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care services for Chin State gear upNAY PYI TAW, 10 Oct —

Union Minister at PresidentOffice U Hla Tun, UnionMinister for Livestock andFisheries U Ohn Myint andUnion Minister for HealthDr Pe Thet Khin and ChinState Chief Minister U HongNgai inspected patient ward,operation theatre, X-rayroom, labour room and childward at 200-bed People’sHospital in Falam, ChinState on 8 October.

In the evening, Unionministers U Hla Tun and UOhn Myint met withbreeders from HakaTownship and gaveinstructions on requirementsfor development oflivestock breeding sector.

The following day, theUnion ministers visitedTraining School forDevelopment ofNationalities Youth ofBorder Region in Haka,inspected the chosen sitefor construction of two-storey building foroperation theater and laborroom at Haka People’sHospital, and attended thecoordination meeting ondevelopment of livestockand fisheries, health andeducation sectors of ChinState and rural region

development tasks.In his speech, Union

Minister U Ohn Myintpointed out development ofagriculture and livestockbreeding sector forachieving povertyalleviation and generatingin per capita income,underscoring use ofscientific methods inmythum breeding andinvestment and market sharefor development of breedingsector. He called on breedersto strive for establishment ofmeat-processing factoriesfor export.

In his address, UnionMinister Dr Pe Thet Khinsaid plans were underwayto open specialist units in100-bed and 50-bedhospitals. He called forensuring healthy lifestyleto be free from non-communicable diseases thatare very common today.Distribution of fivevaccines includinghepatitis-B vaccine wouldbe carried out soon. Morehealth staff were appointedacross the nation includingfur-flung areas, he added.

Next, Breeder U YamKyone reported oncollaborative effortsbetween the Union

government and stategovernment fordevelopment of livestockbreeding sector. U Robin ofThantlang Constituency No(2), on matters to be carriedout by the government fordevelopment of livestockand fisheries, education,health and transportationsectors.

Then, Union MinisterU Hla Tun said that he wouldlike to see Chin State moredeveloped. Only whenpeace and economic growth,will a certain region bedeveloped. Peace willprevail across the nation asall-out efforts are being madefor eternal peace. He saidthat experts who candisseminate scientific

methods to breeders hadbeen brought. It is requiredto extend the cultivation ofelephant yam and mulberryapart from tea. Tourism willbe allowed in the region soon.He called on localbusinessmen to makenecessary arrangements fortourism sector. He stressedthe need for goodwill to beput on ensuring sustainable

development of Chin Statetill posterity by local peopleincluding Chin Stategovernment.

Also present at thecoordination meeting werestate ministers, Hluttawrepresentatives, depart-mental heads and officials,townselders and localbreeders.

Next, the Union

ministers inspected teaplantation and mythum farmof Falam TownshipAgriculture Department onHaka-Falam road andcordially greeted locals.

Then, the Unionministers looked into Haka-Falam road section anddevelopment of villagesalong the road.

MNA

YANGON, 10 Oct — A ceremony to mark the 5th

anniversary of microfinance services of Central CooperativeUnion Limited was held at Saya San Plaza here this morningwith an address by Chairman of Central Cooperative UnionLimited U Khin Maung Aye.

The chairman and officials presented prizes tocooperative societies and branches that are dealing withmonetary matters in Yangon, Ayeyawady, Sagaing, Bago,Magway and Mandalay Regions and Shan State, townshipcooperative department which gave a helping hand in ruraldevelopment and poverty alleviation tasks and cooperativesocieties who are dealing with agricultural production.

Professor Dr Aung Tun Thet, Retired Professor Daw YiYi Myint, the chairman and advisor U Tun Hlaing gavetalks on microfinance services.—MNA

Microfinance services ofCentral Cooperative Union

marks 5th Anniversary

News in Brief

Fertilizer broadcast in paddy fieldUnion Minister for Commerce U Win Myint viewed

broadcasting of fertilizer at five-acre farmland of Ayeyaminpaddy strain in Ngatan Village of Taze Township on 7October and donated anti-snake venom to the local people.

Outstanding students honouredin Hpa-an

A ceremony to honour outstanding students whopassed the matriculation examination 2012 with flyingcolours was held at Zwegabin Hall in Hpa-an of KayinState on 30 September. Chief Minister of the state U ZawMin and officials presented prizes to distinction winningstudents.

Cooperatives College (Thanlyin)to be upgraded

Cooperative Degree College (Thanlyin) will beopened as University of Cooperative in November, saidUnion Minister for Cooperatives U Kyaw Hsan in themeeting with departmental personnel, faculty membersand staff at the hall of the university in Thanlyin on 8October morning.

Inter-Ministry Men’s VolleyballTournament commences

Union Minister for Sports U Tint Hsan attendedopening of Nay Pyi Taw Inter-Ministry Men’s VolleyballTournament at Paunglaung Gymnasium on 9 October.Altogether 28 volleyball teams are participating in thetournament.

Illegal goods and animalproducts seized in Tamu

TAMU, 10 Oct—Anexpress driven by U ThanWin Ko, son of U WinMyint that will leave Tamufor Monywa at 8 am on 4October was searched byin-charge of custom squadU Nyan Thein at Tamuborder trade station inTamu District.

They seized six kindsof unregistered medicinesmade in India in 2425bottles and 22 pieces ofivory weighing 22.27 viss,eight bags of pangolinweighing 68 viss, 3.9 vissof bones assumed as boneof tiger worth K33,858,260.

Action is taken againstdriver Than Win under thelaw.

Myanma Alin

CASH DONATED:Daw Yin Yin Kyi andfamily of Kaba Aye

Pagoda Road inYankin Township inmemory of late Col

Soe Myint Windonated K 200,000 toHninzigon Home for

the Aged recently.Vice-Chairman ofexecutive board UAung Than acceptsthe donation.—NLM

14 October, 2012 (Sunday)

School Environment Day

The duty of all basic education schools

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Government warned that investors couldpull plug on green energy

LONDON, 10 Oct —Agroup of seven multinationalcompanies has told theBritish government that theycould halt their investmentin the UK green energy sectorif state support for renewableenergy wanes.

Britain is the world’sbiggest offshore wind marketin terms of capacity and hasattracted interest from globalplayers in the sector. Butrecent disputes within thecoalition government oversupport for the sector hascaused them concern aboutthe risk of a political U-turnagainst green energy.

The seven big investors,including wind turbineproducers Vestas andGamesa, told the Secretary ofState for Energy in a letterseen by Reuters that theycould take their moneyelsewhere if they feel that the

Visitors look at photos at an exhibition of World Press Photo 2012 in southChina’s Hong Kong, on 8 Oct, 2012. The exhibition, as part of the 2012 Hong

Kong International Photo Festival, will be held here from 7 to 21 October. WorldPress Photo (WPP) is one of the world’s most prestigious Press photo contests. The

167 award-winning journalistic images of World Press Photo 2012 will beexhibited in about 100 countries and regions including Hong Kong. —XINHUA

The cruise liner Queen Mary 2 passes the Burbo Bank off-shore wind farm as itheads to Liverpool, northern England on 15 Sept, 2011. —REUTERS

risk of the governmentturning its back on renewableenergy is too great.“Historically the UK hasbenefited from being knownas a country with low politicalrisk for energy sectorinvestments.

Undermining thatreputation would havedamaging consequences forthe scale of futureinvestments in the UK energysector,” the companies saidin the letter, a copy of whichwas also sent to PrimeMinister David Cameron andfinance minister GeorgeOsborne.

The group, which alsoincludes Alstom, Doosan,Areva, Siemens andMitsubishi Power SystemsEurope, said that suchinvestments depended on astable policy frameworkbecause large-scale energy

projects take a long time tobuild.

Osborne on Mondaygave a boost to Britain’s shalegas industry by offering hopeof tax relief on such wells, amove that environmentalgroups say goes against thegovernment’s promise to bethe greenest ever. Windturbine manufacturers GEEnergy and Vestas havealready backtracked onsetting up productionfacilities in Britain, showingthat appetite for UK-basedmanufacturing was lowerthan the governmentexpected.

Britain has one ofEurope’s most ambitiouswind power developmenttargets, with a projectedannual capacity growth rateof 13 percent until 2020,requiring huge investmentfor new plants.—Reuters

Afghan conflict getting worse for civilianKABUL, 10 Oct — The

Afghan conflicts continueto getting worse forcivilians, who often are thevictims of the protracted war,and the trend is worrying,the International Com-mittee of the Red Cross(ICRC) announced onMonday. “Since I arrivedhere in 2006, local armedgroups have proliferated,civilians have been caughtnot just one but multiplefront lines, and it is becomeincreasingly difficult forordinary Afghans to obtainhealth care,” Reto Stocker,the ICRC’s outgoing Headof Delegation inAfghanistan, told reportershere. He noted that in

700 kg of opium seized inS Afghanistan

LASHKAR GAH, (Afghanistan), 10 Oct— Afghan NationalPolice (ANP) seized about 700 kg of opium in the country’ssouthern Province of Helmand on Sunday, the provincialpolice chief said on Monday. “Based on tips, the ANPforces launched an operation and seized 700 kg of opiumin Khanshin District and detained three suspected menbesides confiscating three vehicles and a motorcycle,”police chief, Abdul Nabi Ilham, told reporters in a Pressbriefing here.

The offenders were intended to ship the opium to theareas near the border with Pakistan, he said.

Notorious for growing poppy and militancy, theHelmand Province, 555 km south of Afghan capital ofKabul, has been regarded as Taleban hotbed in the militancy-hit country. The country produces about 90 percent of theworld’s opium, the raw element for making heroin.

According to officials, more than 6,400 tons of opiumwere produced in Afghanistan last year.—Xinhua

Three Afghan drug smugglers are handcuffed next totheir drugs after being captured by Afghan policemen

in Helmand Province, south Afghanistan on 8 Oct,2012. Afghan National Police (ANP) seized about

700kg of opium in the country’s southern Province ofHelmand on Sunday, the provincial police chief said on

Monday. —XINHUA

Russia intervenes to stabilize food prices

Argentina slams Britain’s maneuvers offdisputed islets

PUNTA DEL ESTE(Uruguay), 10 Oct —Argentine Defence MinisterArturo Puricelli on Mondaydenounced British militarymaneuvers near the disputedMalvinas Islands, called theFalklands by the British.

Addressing fellowministers attending the 10thConference of DefenceMinisters of the Americas,being held in Punta del Este,Uruguay, Puricelli warnedthat British “military

MOSCOW, 10 Oct —Russia decided to takeintervention measures in thedomestic grain market tostabilize surging food prices,Deputy Prime MinisterArkady Dvorkovich said onMonday.

During a governmentmeeting with Prime MinisterDmitry Medvedev, Dvor-kovich said 110,000 tons ofgrain would be sold weeklyin a number of Russianregions.

The first batch of grainwould be sold on 23 Octoberin Siberia, the Urals and theFar East region, with the price10-15 percent lower thanmarket prices, Dvorkovichsaid.

The fourth grade grainwould be sold at 7,200 rubles(232 US dollars) per ton andthe third grade at 7,600 rubles(245 dollars), he added.

The government vowedto reach two goals withintervention measures: toprevent a sharp price rise fordomestic consumers, toweaken export incentives soas to regain balance of supplyand demand in the grain

addition to the armedconflict, civilian sufferingis also increased by otherfactors. “Hardship arisingfrom the economic situation,or from severe weather ornatural disaster, has becomemore widespread, and hopefor the future has beensteadily declining,”

However, he said thatdespite these challenges,there has also been someprogress. “Compared withprevious decades, the plightof civilians is being madeknown more forcefully bythe media and civil society.”

Over the years, the ICRChas been able to raise itsconcerns more directly andcandidly with the various

parties of the conflict. Theparties have shown a greaterwillingness to listen to themand to follow certainrecommendations they havemade concerning theconduct of hostilities anddetention-related matters.That cannot be said aboutevery war zone in the worldtoday, he noted.

A total of 1,145 Afghancivilians were killed and1,954 injured in conflicts inthe first six months of 2012,according to a UN reportreleased in capital Kabul on8 Aug. Nearly half of thecivilian deaths were causedby the Improvised ExplosiveDevice (IED) attacks andsuicide bombings.—Xinhua

market, Dvorkovich said.Medvedev announced thedecision on commodityintervention last week andurged the government to sellgrain from the perviousharvest reserves interventionfund, the Kremlin Pressservice reported.

Admitting Russianfarmers failed to reach theestimated harvest this yeardue to drought in summer,Medvedev said “additionalsupply of grain” was neededto balance the situation inseveral regions.

Local experts estimatethe drought would costRussia’s agriculturalbusiness some 33 billionrubles (1 billion dollars) thisyear.

Though the governmentpreviously lowered its grainexport forecast, experts saidthe bad weather was unlikelyto trigger an export embargosimilar to that of 2010, asgrain output and reserveswere enough to offset thedamage. Russian GrainUnion President ArkadyZlochevsky said in Augustthat food prices in the country

might rise 5 percent to 10percent this autumn due tosurging grain prices.

Russia lowered itsharvest forecast this year from80-85 million tons to no morethan 75 million tons.

The harvest couldexceed 70 million tons thisyear, as a total of 68 milliontons have already beensecured,Dvorkovich said.

Xinhua

exercises will begin thatinclude the use of missiles,despite the prohibition of notjust Argentine maritimespace, but the Americancontinent’s.”

Puricelli said heregretted the military moves,especially as membercountries of the conferencehave “agreed to continuedeveloping measures topromote trust and security asa means to contribute tosafeguarding the peace.”

Last week, Argentinalodged a formal complaintwith the British governmentagainst the military exercises,and the British responded bysaying they were “routineexercises.”

Due to a lack ofconsensus, the Malvinasissue was not included in themain agenda of theconference at the resort ofPunta del Este, 140 kilometreseast of the capitalMontevideo.—Xinhua

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India testfires Mars mission

engine

New Delhi, 10 Oct— India has testfired its Mars mission engine for the first time, local media reported on Tuesday.

The Mars mission engine, known as the liquid apogee motor (LAM), was fired for about 670 seconds at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre at Mahendra Giri in southern state of Tamil Nadu on Monday, The Times of India newspaper quoted an ISRO official as saying.”

The test was successful and will go on for about 45 days,” the state-owned ISRO’s chief spokesperson Devi Prasad Karnik said.

LAM plays a key role in orbit-raising manoeuvres. The current mission profile of the mission envisages the orbiter operating in the Earth-bound orbit six times as its altitude is raised, before it sets off on its 300-day journey to Mars, the newspaper said. India’s Mars mission is scheduled for the end of October or beginning of November next year.

Xinhua

Chinese Internet choked by “fake broadband” providers

BeijiNg , 10 Oct — Increasing numbers of internet users in China shelling out for faster broadband are complaining that they’re not getting what they paid for. Over half of Chinese Internet users are hindered by “fake broadband”, or slower download speed than advertised by internet providers.

According to a 2012 report by Data Centre of China Internet, a professional Internet survey organization and data platform, most users signed up for 2 and 4 megabyte bandwidth services (256kb/s and 512kb/s) in fact only clock at 142.2kb/s and 232.7kb/s respectively.

The root of the “fake broadband” phenomenon is the existing telecom oligopoly in China, which ultimately needs to be broken up in order to make progress, said the Beijing News. Increasing numbers of internet users in China shelling out for faster broadband are complaining that they’re not getting what they paid for. Over half of Chinese Internet users are hindered by “fake broadband”, or slower download speed than advertised by internet providers.

According to a 2012 report by Data Centre of China Internet, a professional Internet survey organization and data platform, most users signed up for 2 and 4 megabyte bandwidth services (256kb/s and 512kb/s) in fact only clock at 142.2kb/s and 232.7kb/s respectively.—Xinhua

An amphibious vehicle from the US Marines crosses a river during

the RP-US Amphibious Landing Exercise

(PHIBLEX) 2013 in Crow Valley in Tarlac, the Philippines, on 9 Oct, 2012. The RP-US PHIBLEX 2013 aims to enhance the

interoperability of the participating forces on

humanitarian assistance and disaster response

capability. Xinhua

Boeing on course to achieve 787 production targetNagoya, 10 Oct — Boeing Co is on course to achieve

a difficult production target for its fuel-efficient 787 Dreamliner jets, an executive said on Wednesday, after the company fell behind its initial delivery schedule due to development delays. “We made mistakes along the way. We are currently on path to achieve 10” a month, Jeffrey Luckey, vice president in charge supply management for the 787, said on the sidelines of the Japan Aerospace Inter-national Exhibition in Nagoya.

Boeing now makes three and a half of the new carbon-composite jets a month. It plans to raise output to five a month by the end of the year and then to 10 a month by the end of 2013. The company now has 325 suppliers build-ing parts for the 787 in 5,000 factories worldwide, Luckey said. Japanese companies including Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd are building the wings and other sections of Boeing’s latest passenger jet equal to more than a third of the plane. It is the first time the US company has asked foreign firms to build the wings for one of its jets.

Final assembly of the Dreamliner is done in the United States at Boeing plants in South Carolina and Washington. Japan's All Nippon Airways was the launch customer for the 787, having so far ordered 66 jets, which it has put at the center of its fleet planning.— Reuters

The Boeing logo is seen on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane in Long Beach, California on 14 March,

2012.— ReuteRs

Cost of solar power can now match conventional electricity in Singapore

SiNgapore, 10 Oct— The cost of installing and maintaining solar panels in Singapore is now on a par with that of using conventional electricity, a milestone known as grid parity, local media reported on Wednesday. Scholars said this means that an alternative form of energy could become viable without subsidies, which Singapore does not provide, the Straits Times reported.Singapore’s electricity tariffs are among the highest in the region, helping it achieve grid parity earlier than other countries, said Thomas Reindl, director of solar energy systems at the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore.

The cost of solar panels has been falling in recent years. In the past year or so, the cost of installed solar power in Singapore has roughly halved from 4 Singapore dollars (3.2 U.S. dollars) per watt to 2 Singapore dollars (1.6 US dollars) per watt.Installed solar capacity here has gone up to match, from 361.9 kilowatt peak, a measure of power output, at the end of 2008 to 5, 546 kwp at the end of last year, most of it non-residential.—Reuters

Six buried in tunnel collapse in S China

NaNNiNg, 10 Oct — Six people were killed, one was injured and one escaped in an expressway tunnel collapse early Wednesday in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Reg ion , sources with the rescue command centre said.

Photo taken with a mobile phone on 10 Oct, 2012

shows rescuers working at the accident site after an expressway tunnel

collapsed at the section of Najia Township in Debao County, along

the expressway between Baise City and Jingxi County in southwest

China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Xinhua

The accident occurred around 4 am at the section of Najia Township, Debao County, along the expressway between Baise City and Jingxi County, which was under construction.

A total of seven people were working within the tunnel when the accident occurred. One escaped and six others were buried, including five who died and one who was injured, said Xie Deqiang, Communist Party chief of Debao County.The injured has been sent to a nearby hospital, according to the sources. An investigation into the cause of the accident is under way.

Xinhua

New Zealand, Chinese scientists look to improve grain yields with seed development

welliNgtoN, 10 Oct — New Zealand and Chinese scientists have begun a joint study into how to improve seeds so that farmers can produce more and bigger grains to help feed the world’s growing population. University of Canterbury Professor Paula Jameson and senior research fellow Dr Jiancheng Song, of Yantai University, in east China’s Shandong Province, had

Rescuers attempt to stop a man from committing suicide on a bridge in Wuhan, Hubei Province, on 8 Oct, 2012. The man was rescued after he climbed onto the top of a bridge, attempting to jump off, over the Yangtze River

and threatened his own life if his economic dispute could not be resolved.

ReuteRs

published a paper finding the wheat genes that could be prime targets for increasing grain size and grain number, said a statement from the University of Canterbury on Tuesday.

“The beauty of wheat is that there are so many different varieties in the world. Now we have worked out what genes are important for changing hormone levels to increase grain size and number, we

can use traditional breeding techniques to find the varieties of wheat that already have this feature,” Jameson said in the statement. Both Canterbury and Shandong had similar temperate climates, which would allow the wheat work to continue in China, where wheat was a main food crop and it was easier to obtain research funding for the work, she said.

Research would also

continue at the University of Canterbury because the research group had been applying the knowledge to seed production. New Zealand was the eighth biggest exporter of vegetable seeds in the world, and the New Zealand seed industry was primarily based in the Canterbury region with exports of about 150 million NZ dollars (123.18 million US dollars) a year.

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV TU SON VOY NO (-)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV TU SON VOYNO (-) are hereby notified that the vessel will bearriving on 11.10.2012 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of S.P.W (4) where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S RK SHIPPING & TRADINGPTE LTD.

Phone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV CLIPPER NEWARK VOY NO (991)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV CLIPPERNEWARK VOY NO (991) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 10.10.2012 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S CLIPPER PROJECTSSHIPPING LTD

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

BUSINESS & ADVERTISEMENT

Governor of the Bank ofEngland Mervyn Kingspeaks at a business

conference in London on26 July, 2012.— REUTERS

LONDON, 10 Oct —Monetary policy cannot propup Britain’s economyforever, and export-drivengrowth will be hard to achieveat a time when much of therest of the world is pursuingthe same strategy, BoEGovernor Mervyn King saidon Tuesday.The Bank hasbought almost 375 billionpounds ($600 billion) ofgovernment bonds to supportthe UK economy after theworst financial crisis sincethe 1930s, and King said therewas no immediate barrier tostop it doing more.

But ultimatelypolicymakers could not be

BoE’s King says must face up tomonetary policy’s limits UK

In the past, King has saidBritain’s economy faces aslow readjustment to a moreexport-oriented economy -even if loose monetary policycan ease some of the pain —and on Tuesday he said thiswas made harder by the factthat other countries weretrying to do the same. Kingtravels to the InternationalMonetary Fund’s annualmeeting in Tokyo onWednesday, and he said thathe wanted to bring up theissue of global imbalancesbetween countries with tradesurpluses and deficits whenhe was there.

Reuters

“entirely sanguine” aboutusing loose monetary tobring forward economicdemand indefinitely, Kingsaid in a question and answersession after a speech at theLondon School ofEconomics.”There is notechnical limit on the assetpurchases ... (but) I think thereis a deeper question aboutwhether there are limits towhat monetary policy as suchcan do.”King added that theimmediate consequence ofthis for Bank policy was notclear, and most economistsexpect the central bank toapprove more stimulus atNovember’s meeting.

US meningitis deaths rise, prompting call fortighter drug rulesUS

NASHVILLE, 10 Oct— A rare US outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to steroidinjections has claimed four more lives with Florida the latest state to report at least onedeath linked to the illness in a widening health scare, authorities said on Tuesday. TheCenters for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that two more people had died frommeningitis in Tennessee, and one more in Michigan after receiving steroidinjections.Officials in Florida meanwhile said late Tuesday that a 70-year-old man diedin July as a result of the same outbreak, the first in that state, bringing the number of deathsnationwide to 12.

The widening outbreak has alarmed US health officials and focused attention onregulation of pharmaceutical compounding companies such as the one that produced thedrugs, the New England Compounding Centre Inc in Framingham, Massachusetts. Someleading Democratic members of Congress proposed tighter regulation on compoundingcompanies on Tuesday. In Michigan and Tennessee, the two states hit hardest by theoutbreak, family and friends mourned the loss of victims.— Reuters

A security guard looks outfrom the front doors of

pharmaceuticalcompounding company

New EnglandCompounding Centre

(NECC), a producer of thesteroid

methylprednisoloneacetate, in Framingham,Massachusetts on 8 Oct,

2012.— REUTERS

Shares fall, dollar rises, amid earnings gloomSINGAPORE, 10 Oct —

Asian shares fell onWednesday, with Japan’sstocks sliding more than 1.5percent to a two-month low,and the safe-haven dollarfirmed on concerns that thecorporate results season willreveal weaker earnings in theface of flagging globaleconomic growth.Equitymarkets have been rallyingsince hitting their 2012 lowin early June, with action frommajor central banks tosupport fragile economiesgiving a renewed lift lastmonth, but caution has set inas the third quarter resultsseason begins.

“History is not on theside of those who expect themarket to continue to prosperonce the earnings cycle hasturned,” said John Higgins,senior markets economist atCapital Economics, in a note.

Asia

Traders work at their desks at Frankfurt’s stockexchange on 8 Aug, 2011.— REUTERS

the Australian dollar wereunder pressure, while theretreat from riskier assetsboosted safe-haven govern-ment debt, with Japanesegovernment bonds (JGB)following US Treasurieshigher. Japan’s Nikkei shareaverage fell 1.9 percent, whileMSCI’s broadest index ofAsia Pacific shares outsideJapan fell 0.5 percent.

Reuters

The euro slipped, with a risein Spanish bond yields asMadrid keeps marketsguessing over whether it willrequest an internationalbailout and violent protestsgreeting German ChancellorAngela Merkel on a visit toGreece underlining how farthe region’s debt crisis is fromresolution. Growth-sensitivecommodities such as oil andcopper and currencies like

Hunger, malnutrition down 40 pct in Brazil:FAO

RIO DE JANEIRO, 10 Oct — The number of Brazilians suffering from hunger ormalnutrition fell 40.4 percent in the past two decades, said a report released on Tuesdayby UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).According to the report, the share of theBrazilian population suffering from hunger or malnutrition has decreased from 14.9percent in 1990-92 to 6.9 percent in 2010-12, totalling now 13 million out of the entirepopulation of 196 million.

FAO attributed the significant decrease to Brazil’s social programmes, including thewealth transfer programme Bolsa Familia, which provides poor families with a monthlystipend, with both a fixed part and a variable part subject to adjustment when families havemore children. The report praised the programme especially as it puts money directly intothe hands of the women to empower them and raise their status within the house.

It added that Bolsa Familia “increased the labour participation of women by 16percent.”FAO also lauded efforts to reduce malnutrition in Belo Horizonte,Brazil’s thirdlargest city, where government programmes managed to reduce child mortality by 60percent and “substantially influenced Brazil’s national Zero Hunger Policy, using onlyaround 2 percent of the city’s annual budget.”

According to FAO, Latin America and the Caribbean in general registered progressin reducing hunger and malnutrition. The number of hungry or undernourished people inthe region fell from 65 million in 1990-92 to 49 million in 2010-12.— Xinhua

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ENTERTAINMENT

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Rihanna, Nicki Minaj lead American Music Awards nominationselectronic dance music, theAmerican Music Awardsintroduced a new categoryin that genre, with DavidGuetta, Calvin Harris andSkrillex competing for thetrophy.

Last year’s big winners,Adele and Taylor Swift, whoboth scored three awardseach, received onenomination each this year.Swift scored a nod for femalecountry artist alongsideCarrie Underwood andMiranda Lambert, whileAdele was nominated in thefavorite adult contemporaryartist category alongsideKelly Clarkson and Train.

The closely-watchednew artist category will be abattle between R&B singer JCole, indie-pop ban fun.,Australian singer-songwriterGotye, Canadian pop singerCarly Rae Jepson and OneDirection.

The AMA winners aredetermined by fans throughonline voting, which startson Tuesday.

The American MusicAwards will be celebrating

Rihanna

Nicki Minaj

for the American MusicAwards with fourapiece on Tuesday,edging out stiffcompetition from popsensations Justin Bieberand One Direction.

Rihanna, 24, wasnominated in the top

rockers Maroon 5 andCanadian rapper Drake.

She also won nods forfemale soul/R&B artist andalbum for “Talk That Talk,”and will battle Minaj, 29, inthe female pop/rock artistcategory.

Minaj scored two nodsfor her album “Pink Friday:Roman Reloaded” in boththe pop/rock and rap/hip hopcategories this year, as wellas a nomination for favoriterap artist, alongside Drakeand American newcomerTyga.

Minaj has been makingheadlines after joining the“American Idol” judgingpanel, where she was caughtfeuding on camera with fellowjudge Mariah Carey in earlyaudition rounds.

“Boyfriend” singerBieber, 18, landed threenominations this year, tyingwith British boy band OneDirection, Maroon 5, Drakeand R&B star Usher.

Following in thefootsteps of the GrammyAwards earlier this year,which hosted a tribute to

its 40th anniversary this yearand the ceremony andperformance show will bebroadcast live from LosAngeles on 18 November.

Pop star and “The Voice”

judge Christina Aguilera,who announced thenominees on Tuesday, wasthe first performer to beannounced for the live show.

Reuters

LOS ANGELES, 10 Oct—R&B star Rihanna and rapperNicki Minaj led nominations

category—artist of the year— where she will competewith Bieber, Katy Perry, pop-

Daniel Craig was grumpy before filming James BondOlympic act

LONDON, 10 Oct—Actor Daniel Craig says he was feeling grumpy on the day he filmeda James Bond sketch with Queen Elizabeth II for the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Craig, 44, said he used a day off from shooting new 007 movie Skyfall to film thesequence and as a result he was not on top form, reported Daily Star.

“She was fun, incredibly game. We had a short space of time and I was a bit grumpyas it was my day off and suddenly I am at the Palace with theQueen at her private chamber.

“And she improvises a little bit. She was supposed tobe sitting at the desk and she asked if she could write, so

she pretended to write,” he said.The actor was filmed in character visiting

Buckingham Palace to meet with the royal beforeclimbing into a helicopter together and appearing

to parachute into London’s OlympicStadium during the sportingextravaganza in July.

Daniel Craig was filmedin character visiting

Buckingham Palace tomeet with the royal beforeclimbing into a helicopter

together.—REUTERS

Robert Pattinson finds girlshard to understand

LOS ANGELES, 10 Oct—The British actor — who is believedto have reconciled with Kristen Stewart following heradmission she cheated on him — thinks it would be mucheasier to be a parent to a son rather than a daughter as malesare so less complicated.

Asked if he would prefer to have a son or daughter, hesaid: “I think that I’d have a better understanding with a boy.Girls are hard to understand. The instruction manual thatcomes with them is 800 pages long and written in Chinese!“And if you know how to read it, you realise that you’re stillmissing 32 more chapters that are essential and you have toimprovise. Whereas with a boy, it’s easy. Sports, TV, a videogame, some Coke and he’s happy.”

While Robert is thankful to have landed the role ofvampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight Saga movie series, hehates how much of his freedom he has had to give up andclaims he won’t worry if he has no more film success. He toldFrance’s Star Club magazine: “In the end, this role helped meimprove my everyday life and my lifestyle. On the otherhand, I lost what I cherished the most: my freedom. Some toldme that it’s the price for success. I’m sorry to disagree but Ifeel like it’s a price too high to pay.

“It’s strange, I felt like releasing a big ‘phew’ of relief[now filming is over] but at the same time I felt sad. For now,I know that I’m successful. Will it last? I have no idea, but iftomorrow I encounter movie failures, I won’t cry about it.”

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Meet Brad Pitt, the “super cool, super chill” guyLOS ANGELES, 10 Oct—Although the Hollywood

hunk is engaged to actress Angelina Jolie andcommands up to $20 million a movie, his KillingThem Softly co-star Scoot McNairy insists Brad isjust a normal guy.

you got to understand, you got a 20-million-dollar actor in the car. Don’t ever do that again.’I was like, ‘I got this, I got this. I’m from Texas.’“Brad was loving it.” It was recently revealeddown to earth Brad became obsessed by cleaning

He told E! News: “He’s a guy’s guy. Whenyou look up in the dictionary the word guy, yousee a picture of Brad. He’s just super cool, superchill, super normal and super down-to-earth.”

Scott revealed he was castigated byexecutives on the set of the movie when hedrove a stunt car he and Brad were in at highspeed but Brad wasn’t fazed by the incident.The Argo actor explained: “I peeled out withBrad in it. They were like, ‘Hey, Scoot,

while he was in UK with his fiancee Angelinaand their six kids as she filmed her latestmovie Maleficent. A source said: “Brad hasalways been an attentive father, but recentlyhe’s becoming more domesticated, too. “Thecouple have a lot of help around the home, butBrad’s started getting quite into sorting out

the washing and doing theironing himself.”

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SPORTSNadal holds out slim hope for return this

seasonNEW YORK, 10 Oct—

Rafa Nadal has no timelinefor his return to competitivetennis but on Tuesday theworld number four did notcompletely rule out thepossibility of returning frominjury in time for next month’sDavis Cup and ATP WorldTour finals.

Nadal has not playedsince suffering a shocksecond-round Wimbledondefeat to Czech Lukas Rosolin June and has yet to returnto the practise court, but the26-year-old Spaniard left thedoor open for a comebackbefore the end of the season.

He conceded, however,that the chances of appearing

Tennis

Rafa Nadal

at the ATP World Tour finalin 26 days or helping Spainagainst the Czech Republic inthe Nov. 16-18 Davis Cup finalwere remote.

“Impossible, no. Butdifficult, yes,” Nadal saidduring a conference call topromote his participation inan exhibition match againstJuan Martin del Potro inMarch.

“I want to go day-by-day, I go every day to thegym, the swimming pool tocontinue with my recovery. Iam trying not to think thatfar.” The winner of 11 grandslam titles, including a recordseven French Opens, Nadalmissed the London Olympics

and US Open as he fights toundo some of the damageinflicted on his fragile kneesfrom years of competing onhard courts.

Nadal spends his daysin the gym, swimming andundergoing therapytreatments but, while heacknowledged feeling someimprovements, he is not readyto hit the practise court.

“It has been very, verytough for me because I feelthat my knee didn’t improvein the right way ... but the lastcouple of weeks theimprovement in my knee issomething that I can reallyfeel,” said Nadal. “That helpsme to keep working hard doing

Tsonga to warm up for Australian Open at Hopman Cup

every day what I have do.“I am working to try to

comeback to practise on thetennis court in a not verylong period of time.”

Progress has beenfrustratingly slow but Nadalmaintained he is not going torush his return.

Reuters

Liverpool to pay Addicksextra if Shelvey makes

England debutLONDON, 10 Oct—Charlton could be set for a welcome

cash boost if Jonjo Shelvey makes his full England debut laterthis week. The former Addicks youngster joined Liverpool in2010 for an initial up front fee of £1.7m, although there wereseveral add ons to that deal, including an additional paymentshould the midfielder go on to represent his country at fullinternational level. Shelvey burst on to the scene with Charltonwhen he was selected for the first team at the age of just 16years and 19 days in 2008.

He was still only 18 when he was sold to Liverpool by PhilParkinson but having already represented England at U16,U17 and U19 level by the time of his departure, it is no surprisethe terms of his transfer factored in any possible future U21and full England honours.

Now the Championship side are on the brink of gettingtheir hands on more of Liverpool’s money after Roy Hodgsoncalled up Shelvey for the World Cup qualifiers against SanMarino and Poland, giving Charlton supporters an extraadded interest for this particular international break. —Reuters

Jonjo Shelvey

McIlroy and Woods lose on firstday of World Golf Final

BELEK, Turkey, 10 Oct— World number one RoryMcIlroy and 14-times major winner Tiger Woods slumpedto opening-day defeats at the inaugural World Golf Final inTurkey on Tuesday. Northern Irishman McIlroy was beaten

World number one Rory McIlroy and 14-times majorwinner Tiger Woods .

by American Matt Kuchar inthe invitational eight-manmatchplay event while GroupOne rival Woods lost to 2011US Masters champion CharlSchwartzel of South Africa.

In Group Two,England’s Lee Westwooddefeated US Open winnerWebb Simpson andEnglishman Justin Rose beatAmerican Hunter Mahan.

The two top in eachgroup go through to thesemi-finals of the $5.3 milliontournament. —Reuters

Golf

Palace man hails star tracked by Arsenal &Spurs as Championship’s best

LONDON, 10 Oct—CrystalPalace defender DamienDelaney believes Eaglesteam-mate Wilfried Zaha isthe best player in theChampionship.

19-year-old winger Zahahas been in unstoppable formfor Dougie Freedman’s sidethis season, netting four goalsin their last two games.

The England Under-21international’s eye-catchingperformances have seen himlinked with Premier League

Crystal

Palace’s

Wilfried

Zaha

(left) in

action

against

Burnley.

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the weekend — hailed thestarlet as the hottest propertyin the division.

When asked if Zaha wasthe best in the Championship,the centre back said: “At themoment, yes, withoutquestion.”

As well as his explosivetalent, Delaney has beenimpressed by theyoungster’s attitude and workrate. “He’s a good lad, he’sgot a good head on hisshoulders and what I like most

pressure and he’s backhelping out the right back.

“And that’s a rare thingto have. Sometimes playerswho are that talented will juststand on the half way line andwait to be given the ball.

“But credit to him he’sgot a great work rate and Ithink he can go as far as hewants in the game. I think he’sthat special.”—Reuters

Yorkshire beat Uva Next by 5 wickets in CLT20 qualifierJOHANNESBURG, 10 Oct— Yorkshire produced a clinically

all-round performance to defeat Uva Next by five wickets inthe Champions League Twenty20’s opening qualifying matchhere on Tuesday.

Chasing 151 for victory, English side Yorkshire completedthe task with three balls to spare at the New WanderersStadium. David Miller (39 not out) and Adil Rashid (36 not out)were the top scorers for the winners.

Opener Phil Jaques gave the chase right impetus after theearly departure of skipper Andre Gale and Joe Root.

But after racing his way to 32 off 21 balls, Jaques offereda return catch to Dilshan Munaweera.

Miller, who came back after retiring hurt, along withRashid, then finished the job for Yorkshire, giving them hopeof qualifying for the main tournament that kicks off onSaturday. Miller struck four fours and a six during his 29-ballknock while Rashid found the fence two times and cleared itonce during his 30-ball innings.

Opting to bat, a disciplined bowling effort earlier helpedYorkshire restrict Uva Next to 150 for seven.

MUMBAI, 10 Oct— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will makehis Hopman Cup debut inPerth at the end of the yearin what organisers boast willbe the strongest ever fieldassembled for the mixedinternational tournament.

The Frenchman, whoreached the Australian Openfinal in 2008, will join worldnumber two Novak Djokovic,Venus Williams and AnaIvanovic for the tournamentat the new Perth Arena from29 December to 5 January.

“It’s really good

because I will arrive reallyearly to Australia (and) I willbe able to play three matchesto prepare for the AustralianOpen,” the world number six,who will partner MathildeJohansson, said in a releasefrom the organizers.

“I heard that they built anew arena similar to RodLaver Arena, so it’s going tobe just perfect for me to play,it’s going to be fun.”

The Serbian pair ofDjokovic and Ivanovic are

the top seeds, ahead of theUS team comprising multiplegrand slam winner Williamsand John Isner.

“I’ve played HopmanCup three times in the lastfive years and I love thecompetition there; I love theatmosphere,” three-timeAustralian Open championDjokovic said.

“I’ve reached the finalson two previous occasionsso I sincerely hope that nowthis time, with Ana, we canactually win a trophy.”

Reuters Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Soccer

Steven Patterson and Moin Ashraf picked up two wicketsapiece while there was one each for Ryan Sidebottom, AzeemRafiq and Rashid.

Thilina Kandamby top-scored for Uva with an unbeaten29 even as his other batters failed to convert the starts into bigscores. Kandambi aside, three other batsmen got to the 20s,while Andrew McDonald made 17.

For Yorkshire conditions here were pretty similar to theones they are used to at home. Cloudy skies, following rainearlier in the day, and a green pitch made it an all-too familiar

territory for the Englishside.

It prompted Galeto have a bowl andthough Yorkshirewere far from their best,they did not let Uvarun away with thegame.

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giants Arsenal, Tottenham,Liverpool and Newcastle.

And Delaney —speaking after Zaha’s bracein the 4-3 win over Burnley at

about him is that he workshard for the team,” he said.

“There was a coupletimes in the first half [againstBurnley] when we were under

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“Love On The Internet”

CANBERRA, 10 Oct — Traveling by air under a false namein Australia will be a crime in a legislative package “to ensurethat Commonwealth criminal law remains up to date andeffective”, Attorney—General Nicola Roxon introduced themeasure in parliament on Wednesday.

Organized criminals usually traveled under fictitiousnames. Roxon indicated. This bill will make it a crime to usea false identity to book a flight over the internet or to take acommercial flight.The measure expands laws against identitytheft by making it a crime to use a carriage service like theinternet or a mobile phone to obtain identity informationwith the intention of committing another offense, accordingto the introduction.— Xinhua

Travel under false name to becrime in Australia

MADRID, 10 Oct — Thecruise-ship Orchesta arrivedin the Spanish port of Valenciaon Tuesday after four cases ofbacterial meningitis had beenreported among members ofits crew.

The ship, which has2,800 passengers onboardarrived after sailing from theItalian port of Liverno. Thefour infected crew members,two of whom are said to be ina serious condition, are inhospital, while the passengersand remaining crew have allbeen prescribed antibiotics asa precautionary measure.

The company MSC,which runs the ship has assuredpassengers that there is no risk

Cruise ship with meningitisoutbreak docks in Spain

UK must cut debt or face obscurity—Cameron

A building is destroyed by Israeli tank during acombined forces combat demonstration at ShizafonArmor Corps Training Base, South Israel, on 9 Oct,

2012. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) held acombined forces demonstration showing the

capabilities of IDF ground forces, the Armored Corpsand the Combat Engineering in a battalion-led battleagainst a simulated enemy in an urban setting at the

IDF’s Shizafon Base on Tuesday. — XINHUA

People look at the remains of a Sudanese militaryplane after it crashed at the North Korodofan State

border near the capital Khartoum on 8 Oct, 2012. TheAntonov 12 transport plane, carrying personnel andequipment to the strife-torn Darfur region crashed

near Khartoum on Sunday killing 15 people onboard, the army said. — REUTERS

HAVANA , 10 Oct —Executives of three foreignbusinesses shut in 2011ostensibly for corruptpractices have been held byCuban authorities for a yearor more and still have notbeen charged with a crime,sources with knowledge ofthe cases said this week. Theirongoing legal limbo has puta behind—he—scenes strainon Cuba’s relations with theirhome countries — Canadaand Britain — where the legalprocess protects suspectsfrom lengthy incarcerationwithout charges, westerndiplomats told Reuters.

Foreign executives arrested in Cuba in 2011 await charges

Britain’s PrimeMinister David

Cameronarrives at theConservative

Party conference in Birmingham,

centralEnglandon 7 Oct,

2012.REUTERS

BIRMINGHAM , 10 Oct —Britain must cut its budgetdeficit and fix its economy orface long-term decline,Conservative Prime MinisterDavid Cameron will say onWednesday, seeking toconvince voters that hisausterity plan is the only wayf o r w a r d . C a m e r o n ’ sConservatives, who lead acoalition government withthe Lib Dems, lag a revivedLabour opposition in opinionpolls and face criticism forsteering Britain back intorecession and failing to hit

and draw clear dividing lineswith Labour.” Unless we act,unless we take difficult,painful decisions, unless weshow determination andimagination, Britain may notbe in the future what it hasbeen in the past,” Cameronwill tell the Conservatives inthe central English city ofBirmingham. “Because thetruth is this: we are in a globalrace today and that means anhour of reckoning forcountries like ours. Sink orswim. Do or decline.”

Cameron will sayLabour’s call for a slower paceof deficit reduction would“hurt the economy”. “The riskis that the people we borrowmoney from would start toquestion our ability andresolve to pay off our debts,”he will say, according toextracts of his speech releasedin advance by his office. TheInternational Monetary Fundcut its growth forecasts forBritain on Monday and said

Police closed the Havanaoffices of the Britishinvestment and trading firmCoral Capital Group Ltd lastOctober and arrested chiefexecutive Amado Fakhre, aLebanese-born Britishcitizen.A month earlierauthorities shut down one ofthe most important Westerntrading companies in Cuba,Canada—based TokmakjianGroup, after doing the samein July 2011 to anotherCanadian trading firm, Tri-Star Caribbean.Cubanauthorities say the cases,which are part of a largercrackdown on corruption on

the communist island, arebeing handled within theletter of Cuban law.

The local legal processdoes call for defendants to beinformed of why they werearrested and sets out timelimits for charges to be filed,but they can be wavedindefinitely in “exceptionalcircumstances.”

Cy Tokmakjian, head ofthe Tokmakjian Group, andSarkis Yacoubian, head ofTri-Star, were arrested andconfined to comfortablesafe houses when theirbusinesses were closed, butearlier this year both were

transferred to La Condesa, aprison for foreigners justoutside Havana.

Coral Capital’s Fakhrewas recently transferred to amilitary hospital when he fellill after months in prison.Hiscompany’s chief operatingofficer, British citizen StephenPurvis, was arrested in Apriland is in the Villa Maristaprison run by state security,sources said. A number of otherforeigners and Cubans whoworked for the companiesremain free, but cannot leavethe island because they areconsidered witnesses in thecases.—Reuters

to their health given that thoseinfected were not in contactwith passengers and addedthat nobody else has shownany symptoms of thepotentially fatal disease.”Nopassaneger and no member ofthe crew has shown andsymptoms of meningitis,” saidthe statement published byMSC.

The Orchestra is nowexpected to continue with itsitinerary, calling in at Ibiza,Tuniz, Catalia and Naples.The warning of the diseasewas raised around mid-dayon Monday, while themajority of theholidaymakers onboard werevisiting Livorno.— Xinhua

their deficit reduction targets.Labour accuse the

government of contributingto the recession by cuttingspending too fast, but thecoalition argues itsdedication to austerity haskept borrowing costs low andsaved Britain from the clawsof the Europe’s debtcrisis.Cameron will bringBritain’s political conferenceseason to a close with apersonal speech to his partythat aides say will give anhonest assessment of theeconomic challenges ahead

the coalition may have to defersome cuts if the economyweakened further, casting ashadow over a conference thatCameron had hoped to use torally his party.

Chancellor GeorgeOsborne has already beenforced to water down his plansto all but erase a record budgetdeficit by the 2015 electionbecause of a weak economy,stretching the period ofausterity to seven years fromfive years. Osborne is expectedto either have to announcedeeper cuts or further extendthe timeline of spending cutson December 5 when heupdates official economicand borrowing forecasts.Credit ratings agencies havegiven triple—A rated Britainthe benefit of the doubt so far,largely because thegovernment has stuck withstrong rhetoric on itsdetermination to cut thedeficit even if it has missed itsausterity targets.— Reuters

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SYDNEY, 10 Oct—Former heavyweight boxingchampion Mike Tyson has been granted a visa to enterAustralia for a series of motivational talks next month,organisers said on Wednesday.

“We are thrilled and are very grateful to the Australiangovernment for granting Mike Tyson a visa and allowinghim to visit Australia for the very first time” Max Markson,CEO of tour promoter Markson Sparks said in a statement.

Tyson’s speaking engagements in Australia weresupposed to include a similar visit to New Zealand, thoughhis visa was revoked by the country’s Associate ImmigrationMinister Kate Wilkinson after it had been approved.

Tyson, who served three years of a six-year U.S. jailsentence for rape, needed dispensation under New Zealandimmigration laws because of his conviction.However, a youth-related charity trust which originallybacked his visit to appear at the Auckland event, billed as“Day of the Champions”, said it no longer wanted to haveanything to do with Tyson’s visit due to his conviction.

Tyson’s promoters applied for a new visa for NewZealand after a second community group said it wouldsupport his application in exchange for him talking to at-riskyouth.

“We hope we will also receive good news aboutTyson’s visit to New Zealand and are now patiently waitingon their response,” Markson added on Wednesday.

Reuters

Tyson gets Australia visa forspeaking event: promoters

Bolt still flirting with more events

SYDNEY, 10 Oct—World’s fastest man UsainBolt is still toying with thenotion of adding the 400metres or long jump to his

said on Wednesday he couldopt to branch out at the 2016Olympic in Rio de Janeiro.

“It’s just to findsomething else now to strivetowards,” Bolt told reportersat a sponsor’s event in Tokyo.“There’s a few things I’vethought about.

“I could try anotherevent, maybe the long jumpor the 400 metres,” added Bolt,who came onto stage dancingto loud reggae music.

“There’s a few things Icould try in sports I couldwork towards, so we’ll seewhat I decide at the start ofthe season.”

The 100 and 200 metres

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Oct—Union Ministerfor Border Affairs Lt-Gen Thein Htayexchanged views on cooperation in healthassistance programme in Kachin, Kayin andRakhine States, cooperation with MyanmarRed Cross Society, providing medicines,surgical instruments, opening of health carecourses and upgrading of hospitals, withICRC delegation, at the minister’s officehere this afternoon.

After that, the Union Minister had acordial discussion with French Ambassadorto Myanmar Mr Thierry Mathou onimplementation of regional development inKachin, Rakhine (North) and Chin States,

Myanmar to cooperate with ICRC, France in health,rural development, environmental conservation and

region-wise development sectorsbasic health care service in “Wa”Self-Administrated Division, relief, resettlementand rehabilitation in Rakhine State,resettlement of displaced families fromThailand, rural development, holding ofworkshops and technical cooperation inenvironmental conservation, disastermanagement and capacity building andmore international aids for displacedfamilies.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Oct—According to the observationsat 12 hrs MST today, yesterday’s the low pressure area overNorthwest Bay and adjoining West Central Bay now liesover Northwest Bay of Bengal.

It is likely to intensify further into a depression.Under it’s influence, widespread rain or thundershowers

with isolated heavy falls are likely in Sagaing, Mandalay andMagway Regions, Chin and Rakhine States within next 48hours commencing this noon.

Occasional squalls with rough sea will be experiencedoff and along Rakhine coast. Surface wind speed in squallsmay reach 40 mph, the Meteorology and HydrologyDepartment announced.—MNA

Bay bulletin

Union Minister for Border AffairsLt-Gen Thein Htay receives ICRC

delegation.—MNA

YANGON, 10 Oct—A fire drill and talks on fire preventivemeasures was held at Mingala Mon Market of Yangon SouthDistrict Development Committees’ Markets of MarketsDepartment under Yangon City Development Committee thismorning.

Head of District Markets Department U Thant Zin Tuntalks about fire preventive measures and Adviser Ye Thura UThan Hlaing safety of danger about fire.

Head of Tamway Township Fire Services Department YeThurein Htay Win explained prevention against danger of fireand demonstrated fire fighting with the use of fireextinguishers.—Myanma Alin

Fire preventive measurestalked

MYANAUNG, 10 Oct—A ceremony to distributeemergency-used Myanmar traditional medicine kits washeld at the hall of Township General AdministrationDepartment in Myanaung on 24 September.

At first, Acting Township Administrator U Kyaw KyawOo made a speech, and Head of Township TraditionalMedicine Clinic Daw Than Than Swe explained the purposeof distributing the kits and use of potent traditional medicinetherapies.

Later, the Acting Township Administrator and thehead of Township Traditional Medicine Clinic presentedthe kits to 49 village-tracts.—Myanma Alin

Traditional medicine kitsdistributed

Inter-Ministry Men’s VolleyballTournament 2012 continues

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Oct—The 6th Nay Pyi Taw Inter-Ministry Men’s Volleyball Tournament 2012 continued forthe second day at the Paunglaung Gymnasium in Pyinmana,here, at 8 am today.

In the today’s matches, the Ministry of Construction,

the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science andTechnology, the Ministry of Finance and Revenue, theMinistry of Industry and the Supreme Court won overopponents with 3-0 result each. The Ministry of BorderAffairs, the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Sports, theMinistry of Defence, the Ministry of Information and theMinistry of Home Affairs trounced their rival teams with3-0 result each.

MNA

repertoire after retaining his100 and 200 Olympic titles.

The 26-year-old, whoalso helped defend Jamaica’s4x100 relay crown in London,

world record holder hadpreviously said he would beconcentrating on completinga ‘three-peat’ in his ownevents but appears to havehad a rethink.

Bolt said he wanted tokeep pushing himself towardsfresh challenges afterbecoming the first man toretain both the 100 and 200Olympic titles earlier this year.

“It’s a great thing toachieve the goals that youalways wanted,” he said,perched precariously on astool, wearing a yellowtracksuit and a baseball capbackwards.

Reuters

Union Labour Minister meets ITUCGeneral Secretary

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Liverpool to pay Addicks extra ifShelvey makes England debut

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