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New Light of MyanmarVolume XXII, Number 125 14thWaning of Wagaung 1376 ME Sunday, 24 August, 2014
MYANMARS OLDEST ENGLISH DAILY
President U Thein Sein
felicitates Ukrainian
counterpart, PMNAYPYITAW, 24 Aug U Thein Sein, President
of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, has sent
messages of felicitations to His Excellency Mr. Petro
Poroshenko, President of Ukraine and His Excellency
Mr. Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine, on
the occasion of the Independence Day of Ukraine which
falls on 24 August 2014.MNA
NAYPYITAW, 23 Aug
A respect-paying cere-
mony for the village elders
aged 75 and over in nearby
villages of Latpadaung-
taung copper mining pro-
ject was held at a hall of
Latpaduang Taunggya Pa-
goda on Friday, attended
by Union Minister at Pres-
Respects paid to Latpadaungtaung village elders
ident Ofce U Hla Tun to-
gether with Union Minister
for Religious Affairs U Soe
Win and Sagaing Region
Chief Minister U Tha Aye
and ofcials.
In his greetings, the
Union minister, who is
also the chairman of the
Committee for Implemen-
NAYPYITAW, 23 Aug
Health condition of the
suspected patient who is
receiving medical treat-ment at Waibargi Hospital
in Yangon has improved
on Saturday, becoming bet-
ter than yesterday while his
four close contacts are in
good health, said the Min-
istry of Health.
According to the min-
istry, the male patient had
normal body tempera-
ture and blood pressure at
120/80 millimeters of mer-
cury (mm Hg) and he was
able to walk and normally
ate food on Saturday morn-
Suspected patients health
gets improved
tation of Investigation
Commissions Report on
Latpadaungtaung Copper
Mine Project explained
the purpose of holding the
ceremony, saying that the
committee was taking re-
sponsibility for the good
of local people, promising
all-round development of
Latpadaungtaung region.
During the ceremony,
ofcials presented medi-
cines and gifts to 662 vil-
lage elders aged 75 and
over from 49 villages near
Latpadaungtaung, Sabe-
itaung and Kyaysintaung
copper mining project.
MNA
Union Minister U Hla Tun cordially greets village elders at respect-paying ceremony in
Latpadaungtaung region.MNA
ing. The man has not expe-
rienced any bleeding symp-
toms since he was admitted
to the hospital on Tuesday,it added.
The male patient who
arrived in the country by air
on Tuesday is being given
appropriate treatments at
the hospital in accord with
the instructions of consult-
ants as he was diagnosed
with a severe and compli-
cated malaria with mixed
infection of Plasmodium
falciparum and Plasmodi-
um vivax by lab tests on
Wednesday.
MNA
YANGON, 23 Aug
Myanmar holds the
Hassanal Bolkiah Tro-
phy 2014 champion after
beating Vietnam 4-3 on
Saturday night at the Na-
tional Stadium in Brunei
Darussalam.
Myo Ko Tun from
Myanmar opened the
scoring in the 17thminute
to lead Vietnam 1-0 but
Phan Van Long from Vi-
etnam leveled the scores
1-1 in the 38th minute.
In the second half,
Vietnams Ho Tuan Tai
kicked the ball into the net
in the 48thminute, giving
Vietnam a 2-1 lead.
Myanmar answered
back with two consecu-
tive goals of Myo Ko Tun
and Maung Maung Soe in
the 58th and 60th minute,
securing a 3-2 lead over
Vietnam.
Striker Cong Phuong
from Vietnam scored in
the 71st minute to draw
Myanmar holdsHassanal Bolkiah
Trophy3-3. But in the 82nd min-
ute, Myanmars Aung Thu
scored the winning goal to
grab the trophy for Myan-
mar.
Myanmar claimed as
the winner for the rst time
in this tournament.
Myanmar is also the
only unbeaten team in the
group stage of the event.
NLM
Myanmar celebrate
victory after beating
its counterpart
Vietnam inHassanal
Bolkiah Trophy 2014
championship fnal
match.VFF
Myanmar
Myo Ko Tun 17', 58'
Maung Maung Soe 60'
Aung Thu 82'
Vietnam
Phan Van Long 38'
Ho Tuan Tai 48'
Cong Phuong 71'
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New Light of MyanmarSunday, 24 August, 2014
NATIONAL
2
Workshop on health care for sub-urban population held in YangonByKhaing Thanda Lwin
YANGON, 22 Aug A
workshop on health care
for the sub-urban popula-
tion aimed at identifying
and tackling health-relat-
ed challenges was held
on Thursday in Yangon,
organized by the Peoples
Health Foundation (PHF)
and with support from
the Three Millennium
Development Goal Fund
(3MDG).
In his speech at the
workshop, Billy Stewart,
Board Chair of the Three
Millennium Development
Goal Fund (3MDG), said,
It is essential to build
health care systems that
can adapt to the challenges
of rapid urbanization.
The 3MDG Fund
reducing child mortality
and improving maternal
health as well as combating
HIV, tuberculosis and ma-
lariaprepares to provide
nancing for health inter-
vention for needy people in
the region including refur-
bishment of existing public
health centres, added Bil-
ly Stewart.
According to a 2012
survey in Yangon, Twan-
tay township has the high-
est abortion rate among
sub-urban townships in
Yangon while South Da-
gon Township tops the
chart of crude birth death
rate, Dr Than Sein, Pres-
ident of Peoples Health
Foundation (PHF), said at
the workshop in Yangon.
The meeting also fo-
cused on reviewing roles
and responsibilities of each
stakeholder in governance
and provision of health
care of the sub-urban pop-
ulation.
Dr Than Sein also dis-
cussed the current situation
and challenges in the health
sector, strengthening health
systems, public health
management and role and
responsibility of stakehold-
ers as well as strategic in-
terventions.
During the workshop,
experts from different de-
partments and agencies
also made recommendation
on policy options to im-
prove health care.NLM
A participant from Yangon City Development Committee discusses
improving health of people in sub-urban areas.KHAINGTHANDALWIN
Skilled
workers of
electronic
engineering
ofce in
Mingaladon
township
replace old
power lines
to prevent
threats of
electricity.
KHINZAW
(MINGALA)
YANGON, 22 Aug In
a bid to prevent potential
threats of electricity, oldpower lines were replaced
with insulated wires in
Paukkon of Mingaladon
township, Yangon Region,
on Saturday.
According to an of-
cial, the replacement of
worn power lines, a project
YANGON, 23 Aug
Myanmar and Japanese stu-
dents on Friday participat-
ed in a Cultural Exchange
Programme at Sangyoung
BEHS No (1) in Yangon,
Myanmar, Japanese students build cultural bridge
Two Japanese students dance for a Myanmar song together with Myanmar students during
Myanmar-Japan High School Students Exchange Programme.NLM
Paukkon people appreciate
replacement of worn power lines
performing traditional danc-
es and music to build a cul-
tural bridge between the two
countries and bring about
better understanding of the
two cultures.
The ceremony took
place, with Headmistress Dr
Sandar Mya Nyein and Ms.
Noniko Endo, ofcial from
Japanese International Co-
operation Centre, extending
greetings. During the cer-
emony, Japanese students
demonstrated ceremonies
and traditional Japanese
dances and music.
Sangyoung Township IPRD
supervised by the town-
ships electronic engineer-
ing ofce, will preventpower waste and enable lo-
cal people to use electricity
to its full potential.
A person who lives
in the area expressed his
delight on behalf of the
townspeople.
Khin Zaw (Mingala)
A group photo of Myanmar Women Entrepreneurs
Association (MWEA) with Mi Kyi Kyi Han who won
two-year Japanese Development Scholarship leaves
for Japan on Saturday via Yangon International
Airport to attend MBA (Economics).MNA
H.E Dr. Ito Sumardi,
Ambassador of Indonesia
to Myanmar, and his
wife welcome U Thant
Kyaw, Deputy Union
Minister for Foreign
Affairs of Myanmar at
69th Independence Day of
Indonesia on 22 August.
MNA
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New Light of Myanmar Sunday, 24 August, 2014 3
L OC A L NEW S
Nay Pyi Taw
Mandalay
Yangon
TODAYS
MYANMAR
NEWSSITES
MANDALAY, 23 Aug
A ceremony to form Upper
Myanmar Journalists Asso-
ciation was held at Oriental
SINGU, 23 Aug
Mandalay Region Minis-
ter for Transport U Kyaw
Hsan provided foodstuff
to ood victims from Sib-
inkyun Village of Hinthapo
Village-tract in Singu
Township of Mandalay Re-
gion on 21 August.
The Mandalay Re-
gion Government provid-
ed K50,000 to each ood
victim household. The re-
gion government plans to
prevent landslides in the
region and will demand
funds for prevention of
bank erosion, said the
minister.
As of 13 August, 47
houses of 75 have been
THATON, 23 Aug A
ceremony to commission
the rural health branch
Upper Myanmar Journalists Association
established in Mandalay
House in Mandalay on 20
August.
In his address, Man-
dalay Region Minister for
Finance and Information
Dr Myint Kyu said he wel-
comed the formation of
media organizations. The
media pillar should abide
by the prescribed ethics
and present correct news
as well as rebut the wrong
information.
Patron of the associa-
tion U Sein Win Aung and
chairman U Htay Aung
gave speeches.
The association wasformed by founder of the
Mandalay Daily U Sein
Win Aung (Sein Win
Aung-Mandalay), who is
former Ambassador and
former Mandalay City
Mayor, together with
Chairman U Htay Aung
of former chief reporter of
the Mandalay Daily. The
executive committee of the
association released a ve-
point statement.
Min Htet Aung
(Mandalay Sub-printing
House)
Foodstuffs provided to ood victims in Singu Tsp
moved to the safe plac-
es due to landslides. The
Township Administrator
and ofcials of the Relief
and Resettlement Depart-
ment gave necessary sup-
plies to the ood victims.
Min Htet Aung (Man-
dalay Sub-printing House)
Thaton Township opens building of rural
health branchinto service was held in
Donwun Village of Thaton
Township in Mon State so
as to give health care ser-
vices to over 6,000 people
from four villages.
On 22 August, Mon
State Minister for Social
Association Dr Hla Oo and
ofcials formally opened
the health unit.
Managing Director U
Nay Myo Aung of Shwe
Nay Yaung Construction
Company handed over
documents related to the
building to ofcials of the
Health Department.
The Ministry of Health
funded K60 million for
construction of the build-
ing for rural health branch
in 2012-13 scal year.
There are 29 health
branches in Thaton Town-
ship. Of them, Donwun
Village health branch will
be benecial to over 6,000
people from Donwun, Yay-
wai, Kamasai and Zayatk-
yun village.
Thet Oo (Thaton)
Myeik Township
to get modern highway
bus terminal
MYEIK, 23 Aug My-
eik Public Corporation Ltd
has completed land prepa-
rations for construction of
an international level high-
way bus terminal in Myeik
of Taninthayi Region.
A ceremony to sign
the contract for construc-
tion of the bus terminal
and all-round development
project was held at Mya
See Sein Hotel in Myeik
on 20 August.
Chairman of the cor-
poration U Hla Than said
that project will be im-
plemented on 46.40 acres
of land beside the road to
the industrial zone in south
Myeik village-tract within
three years.
Managing Director of
Erawati Projects-Projects
Manarement Ltd U Thaw
Zin explained the drawing
of a master plan and de-
sign for the project.
Managing Director
U Soe Win and Manag-
ing Director U Thaw Zin
signed a contract.
The highway bus ter-
minal will comprise the
highway bus compound,
brokerage, warehouse,
fuel station, residential
buildings, supermarket,
grocery and market.
Khaing Htoo
(Myeik District
IPRD)
Thaton
Myeik
Singu
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REGIONAL
4
Female members of a Philippine peacekeeping force bound for Liberia stand at
attention during a send-off ceremony at the military headquarters in Manila on 28January, 2009. REUTERS
MANILA, 23 Aug The Philippines on Sat-urday ordered 115 troopsto return home from
peace-keeping operationsin Liberia, spurred by aworsening Ebola epidem-ic in West Africa that has
killed almost 1,500 people.The Philippines has
about 800 to 1,000 soldiersand police ofcers servingunder the United Nations
ag in conict and disas-ter-stricken areas, includ-ing Haiti, Sudan, East Ti-
mor, Cote dIvoire and theKorean peninsula.
Philippines recalls peacekeepers
from Liberia over Ebola threat
The president is get-ting worried over the Ebolaoutbreak in Liberia and hasordered all 115 Filipino
troops to return home assoon as possible, a seniordefence ofcial told Reu-
ters.
The Philippine con-tingent would cut short itstour of duty, added the of-cial, who declined to benamed because he was not
authorised to speak to themedia.
The Philippines hasbeen sending soldiers to
Liberia since 2003. A
Philippine seaman is be-ing monitored in Togo forsigns of the disease butauthorities say the country
is still Ebola-free, despitedozens of workers return-ing from Liberia.
Another 331 Philip-
pine troops deployed inthe Golan Heights will re-turn home in October aftercompleting a tour of duty,defence ministry spokes-
man Peter Paul Galvezsaid.
Amidst the volatile
security environment inthe Middle East and West
African region, the Philip-pines prioritises the safetyand security of its troops,
but remains committed tothe peace keeping missionsof the Union Nations, hesaid in a statement.
The Philippines hasbeen sending a battal-ion-size contingent to theGolan Heights since 2009.
In March 2013, Syrian re-bels briey held 21 Phil-ippine peacekeepers andkidnapped four more twomonths later. All Philip-
pine peacekeepers havebeen freed.
Peacekeepers havebeen caught in the middle
of ghting between Syri-
an troops and rebels in thearea of separation, whichhad been largely quiet fornearly 40 years.
Israel captured theGolan heights from Syriain the 1967 Six-Day war,and the countries techni-
cally remain at war. Syriantroops are not allowed inan area of separation under
a 1973 ceasere formal-ized in 1974.
The United NationsDisengagement Obser-vation Force (UNDOF),which has been monitor-
ing the ceasere, has about
1,000 peacekeepers and ci-vilian staff from India, Ne-
pal, Ireland, Fiji, Moldova,Morocco and the Philip-pines.Reuters
BANGKOK, 23 Aug
Thai junta leader GeneralPrayuth Chan-ocha, in anaddress to the nation a dayafter he was elected prime
minister by a legislature hehand-picked, asked Thaisnot to dwell on the dramat-ic coup he led in May.
There is no point
saying whether a coup isgood or whether it is bad,Prayuth said in his Fridaynight speech.
I have never said thatall my actions are corrector incorrect. I take respon-sibility for my actions. Oth-
ers must take responsibility
for theirs, he added with-out elaborating.
In a rambling, 90-min-ute speech Prayuth, who is
also Thailands army chief,touched on a number of
Thai junta leader tells
nation to move on
from coup
topics ranging from Thai-
lands illegal ivory trade topractices of human trafck-ing in the shing industry.
Prayuth did not men-
tion his appointment asprime minister.
His election, whichstill needs to be endorsedby Thailands king, adds
a veneer of legitimacy toa military council, formal-ly known as the NationalCouncil for Peace and Or-
der (NCPO), that has ruledunchallenged since it tookcontrol.
It comes at a time
when Thailands economy,
which narrowly avoided atechnical recession in thesecond quarter this year, isstruggling to get back on its
feet after months of some-times violent street demon-strations.
The military staged
a coup on 22 May aftermonths of turbulence pit-ting protesters, includingthe urban elite and southernThais, against supporters of
ousted Prime Minister Yin-gluck Shinawatra.
Prayuth has outlined ayear-long roadmap includ-
ing the appointment of a
council to oversee nationalreforms, an interim govern-ment and elections in late2015.
Reuters
Prime Minister PrayuthChan-ocha
TOKYO, 23 Aug TheDefence Ministry plans to
use space more effectivelyto detect early signs of bal-listic missile launches byNorth Korea and bolsterits defence capabilities, a
draft of Japans new spacepolicy showed on Friday.
In the basic policyto be formally adoptedby the end of August, the
ministry hopes to promoteempirical research withthe Japan Aerospace Ex-ploration Agency. It willalso consider setting up
a special force for spacesurveillance within theSelf-Defence Forces, and
developing smaller satel-
lites that can be lifted offeasily, according to thedraft.
Currently, Japan has
four information-gatheringsatellites.
The Defence Minis-
try plans to load its infra-red sensors onto JAXAsnew satellite to conduct
research and improve itscapabilities to analyze sat-ellite images, according tothe draft policy.
Prime Minister ShinzoAbe is trying to rework thecountrys defence postureas North Korea has repeat-
edly deed internation-
al pressure and launchedmissiles and other projec-tiles. Japan is also vigilantagainst Chinas possiblemilitarization of space.
Japan and the Unit-ed States are set to revisetheir defence cooperationguidelines by the end of
the year, with bilateralcooperation in space ex-pected to be one of the keyitems.
So far, Japan has ena-bled JAXA to do researchfor the countrys defence
since the law concerningthe agency was revised,and aimed for greater use
of space under the latestdefence programme guide-lines.
The ministry and
JAXA have been conduct-ing joint research sinceApril last year.
The draft states it isextremely important to
use space to prepare forvarious contingencies, in-cluding ballistic missiles.It goes on to say there ex-
ist grave threats to stableuse of space, citing fac-tors such as an increase inspace debris, and moves to
develop weapons to shootdown satellites.
The ministry craftedthe rst basic policy in2009 after Japan enacted
the Basic Space Law in2008.
Kyodo News
Japan eyes effective use of
space to detect missilesNEWDELHI, 23 Aug India Saturday inducted itsrst home-made stealth an-ti-submarine warship INSKamortainto its navy.
Indian Defence Min-ister Arun Jaitley com-missioned the warship at
the naval dockyard in the
India launches maiden stealth
anti-submarine warship
Some 300 stu-
dents from 84
countries and
regions attend an
opening ceremo-
ny for a Japan
TENT event in
Kanazawa, Ishi-
kawa Prefecture,
central Japan,
on 20 Aug, 2014.
The weeklong
event till 26 Aug
is designed to
allow the students
to experience
local culture andtraditions.
KYODONEWS
southern state of AndhraPradeshs port city ofVishakapatnam.
INS Kamorta will
serve this country effective-ly for a very long time. Inrecent months, amongst thevarious initiatives that the
government has undertaken
is indigenous manufactur-ing of our defence deploy-ment, the minister said.
The warship, which is rstin a series of four planned
corvettes, can carry short-range missiles and an inte-gral anti- submarine war-fare helicopter.Xinhua
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WORLD
Obama may seek new funds to battle Islamic StateWASHINGTON, 23 Aug
President Barack Oba-ma could ask the US Con-gress in coming weeks to
approve new funds for air-strikes against Islamic Statetargets, according to a con-gressional aide, followingthe militants beheading of
an American journalist andactivities in Iraq.
A Senate Democrat-ic aide on Friday said the
Obama administrationcould detail by early tomid-September the amountof additional money itwants for the military op-
erations, although the aidedid not estimate the sizeof the possible funding re-quest.
The administration hasindicated it does not wantto put combat troops intothe region, although it hassaid it is evaluating all op-
tions on how to deal withSyria.
The request wouldcome as some inuential
members of Congress call
The wreckage of a car belonging to Islamic State militants lies along a road after it
was targeted by a US air strike at Mosul Dam, northern Iraq on 21 Aug, 2014.REUTERS
on Obama to step up U.S.military pressure againstIslamic State ghters. OnThursday, Republican Sen-
ator John McCain of Ari-zona called for a signicant
increase in air strikes, in-cluding bombing missionsagainst targets in Syria.
Youve got to dra-matically increase theair strikes. And those airstrikes have to be devoted
to Syria as well, McCaintoldReutersin a telephoneinterview.
Democratic SenatorBill Nelson of Florida, a
senior member of the Sen-ate Armed Services Com-mittee, earlier this weeksaid, We have to continueto take the ght to ISIS, not
only in Iraq but in Syria aswell.
The Senate aide, whoasked not to be identied,
said additional funding formilitary operations overIraq and Syria is likely tobe one of a few unrelated
spending matters Congress
could debate in September,after returning from a ve-week summer recess.
One year ago, Con-gress returned from itslong summer recess hav-
ing to deal with a requestby Obama for the backingof US air strikes against
Syrian President Basharal-Assads forces. The re-quest came after the United
States alleged that Assadhad used chemical weap-ons against civilians.
That effort sputteredfollowing British oppo-sition to air strikes and a
deep lack of support amongUS politicians.
General MartinDempsey, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, told aPentagon news conferenceon Thursday that the Penta-gon would examine wheth-er additional funds were
needed for operations inIraq in the new scal yearthat begins on 1 October.
I think were ne forscal year 14 and well
have to continue to gatherthe data and see what it doesto us in 15, Dempsey toldreporters.
Aides to Senate Major-ity Leader Harry Reid andHouse Speaker John Boeh-ner were not immediately
available for comment.Don Stewart, a spokes-
man for Senate Republicanleader Mitch McConnell,
said on Friday: The ad-ministration still hasnt putforward a plan for deal-ing with the wider threatposed by the Islamic State.
Reuters
US Deputy Defence Secretary Robert Work (far L) holds talks with Japanese SeniorVice Defence Minister Ryota Takeda (far R) at the ministry in Tokyo on 22 Aug,
2014.KYODONEWS
US deputy defence chief hails progress
on Okinawa base relocation
European powers oat idea of
Gaza monitoring mechanismUNITED NATIONS, 23
Aug Britain, France and
Germany have oated the
idea of creating a monitor-
ing and verication mecha-
nism for any future cease-
re between Israel and the
Palestinians in the Gaza
Strip to prevent future con-
icts, a senior British dip-
lomat said on Friday.
The proposal was con-
tained in an outline for a
possible draft resolution
prepared by the three Eu-
ropean powers. UN Secu-
rity Council diplomats said
on condition of anonymity
that the trio is discussing
the proposal with several
of the 15 council mem-
bers, including the United
States and Jordan, as well
as non-council members
Israel and Egypt.
The European 3
countries have been dis-
cussing with other mem-
bers of the Council ele-
ments for a resolution,
Britains UN Ambassador
Mark Lyall Grant, council
president this month, told
reporters.
We hope that the
council will come together
around a single draft reso-
lution that can be adopted
quickly, he said. That is
what were working on.
Israel launched its lat-
est offensive against Gaza
on 8 July to halt missile sal-
voes by Hamas militants,
who have been angered by
a crackdown on its support-
ers in the occupied West
Bank and suffering eco-
nomic hardship because of
an Israeli-Egyptian block-
ade of Gaza.
Reuters
TOKYO, 23 Aug US
Deputy Defence Secre-tary Robert Work said on
Friday there are signs oftangible progress towardrealizing the long-stalled
relocation of a key US base
in Okinawa Prefecture afterJapan started a seabed sur-
vey despite local protests.This is a major ac-complishment that opens
the way for us to make
substantial progress in re-alignment of US forces on
Okinawa, Work told re-porters after meeting withJapanese Senior Vice De-
fense Minister Ryota Take-da in Tokyo.
Takeda said bothcountries reafrmed their
commitment to the relo-
cation plan for the US Ma-rine Corps Futenma AirStation. To ease the burden
on Okinawa of hosting thebulk of US military fa-cilities and training, thetwo defense ofcials alsoreafrmed plans to move
some training exercises byMV-22 Ospreys out of thesouthwestern prefecture.
The Defence Ministry
is now conducting a drill-ing survey at the relocationsite off the coast of Henokoafter Okinawa Gov. Hiro-kazu Nakaima approved alandll project for building
the replacement facilitythere in December.Kyodo News
First trucks from aid convoy to Ukraine cross back into RussiaDONETSK - IZVAR INO
BORDER CROSSING, 23 Aug The rst trucks from aRussian aid convoy started
crossing back into Russiaon Saturday after ignitinga storm of anger in West-ern capitals a day earlier by
driving into Ukraine with-out the permission of thegovernment in Kiev.
The return of the trucks
may help ease the tensionto some extent in time forthe arrival of GermanysChancellor Angela Merkel
in the Ukrainian capital lat-er on Saturday for talks onhow to end the crisis overUkraine.
Western leaders hadjoined Kiev in calling theRussian convoy about220 white-painted trucks
loaded with tinned food andbottle water an illegalincursion onto Ukrainessoil, and demanded that
they be withdrawn as soonas possible.
A Reuters journalistat the Donetsk-Izvarino
border crossing, where theconvoy rolled into Ukraineon Friday, said about 10trucks had passed back into
Russia and more could beseen in the distance arriv-ing at the crossing.
Russian state televi-
sion had earlier broadcastfootage of some of thetrucks being unloaded ata distribution depot in the
city of Luhansk, easternUkraine. The city is heldby separatist rebels whoare encircled by Ukrain-
Trucks of a Russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid
for Ukraine drive onto the territory of a Russia-Ukraineborder crossing point Donetsk in Russias Rostov
Region, on 22 August, 2014.REUTERS
ian government forces,and has been cut off frompower and water suppliesfor weeks. International aid
agencies have warned of ahumanitarian crisis.
NATO said it had ev-idence that Russian troopshad been ring artillery
at Kievs forces insideUkraine - fuelling Westernallegations that the Krem-lin is behind the conict
in an effort undermine theWestern-leaning leadershipin Kiev.Reuters
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WORLD
6
Ferguson march muted, police ofcer
disciplined over videoFERGUSON, 23 Aug
Protests in Ferguson,
Missouri, were muted fora third straight eveningon Friday as the National
Guard began withdrawingfrom the St Louis suburbracked by racial turmoilafter a white police of-cer shot dead an unarmedblack teenager.
Hundreds of protest-ers marched in the hotsummer night near the siteof the 9 August slaying
of 18-year-old MichaelBrown, chanting Handsup, dont shoot, whilepolice vehicles observedthe demonstration, without
intervening. Clergy volun-teers wearing bright orangeT-shirts discouraged pro-testers who wanted to defy
police orders to keep mov-ing, while live singing and
drums boomed out from aat-bed truck.
At St Mark Family
Church, a hub for protestorganizers, activists andresidents met to pray andwork on plans to improvethe predominantly Afri-can American communi-
ty of 21,000 in the wakeof unrest that has focusedinternational attention onoften-troubled US race re-
lations.Despite a notable
easing of tensions in re-cent days police madeonly a handful of arrests
on Wednesday and Thurs-day authorities bracedfor a possible are-up ofcivil disturbances ahead of
Browns funeral, which isplanned for Monday.
Police in Fergusoncame under sharp criti-cism, especially in the rst
several days of demonstra-tions, for arresting dozensof protesters and usingheavy-handed tactics andmilitary gear widely seenas provoking more anger
and violence by protesters.In the latest
embarrassment for locallaw enforcement, an ofcer
from the St Louis CountyPolice Department wasremoved from active dutyon Friday after a videosurfaced in which he
boasted of being a killer.Ofcer Dan Page,
a 35-year-veteran of thepolice force and a US
A member of the National Guard stands guard at a staging area inside a shoppingcentre parking lot in Ferguson, Missouri on 21 Aug, 2014. REUTERS
UN nuclear inquiry on Iran seen
making slow headway diplomats
military veteran, wasrelieved of patrol duties and
placed in an administrativeposition pending an internalinvestigation, a policedepartment spokesman
said.In the video, Page is
seen addressing a St Louischapter of the Oath Keepers,a conservative group offormer servicemen, saying,
Im also a killer. Ivekilled a lot, and if I need
to Ill kill a whole bunchmore. If you dont want toget killed, dont show up infront of me. Reuters
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director
General Yukiya Amano talks to the media as he arrivesat Viennas airport on 18 Aug, 2014. REUTERS
VIENNA, 23 Aug The UN nuclear watch-dog appears to have madeonly limited progress so far
in getting Iran to answerquestions about its suspect-ed atomic bomb research,diplomatic sources said onFriday, three days before a
deadline for cooperation.Under an accord
reached by the UN agencyand Iran in November in an
attempt to revive the long-stalled investigation, Tehe-ran agreed in May to carryout ve specic steps by 25
August to help allay inter-national concerns.
They include provid-ing information about twoissues for example, al-
leged explosives experi-mentation that are partof the inquiry by the In-ternational Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) into whatit calls the possible mili-tary dimensions of Iransnuclear programme, whichTeheran says is peaceful.
The diplomatic sourc-es said Iran and the IAEAmay have begun discussingthe two topics, but they did
not believe Teheran hadprovided the requested in-formation or explanationsyet.
They said there was
still time for Iran to imple-ment the measures, notingthat it had occasionallywaited until the last minute
to make concessions in thepast.
But slow-paced coop-eration would tend to rein-
force Western impressions
that Iran is reluctant to givethe IAEA the informationand access to sites and peo-
ple that it says it needs forits investigation.
There was no imme-diate comment from theIAEA or Iran.
Iran denies the nu-clear programme has any
military objectives, but ithas promised since Has-san Rouhani, a pragmatist,was elected Iranian presi-
dent in mid-2013 to workwith the IAEA to clarify itsconcerns. Western ofcialssay it is central for Iran to
address the suspicions forthe chances of a success-ful outcome of the paralleltalks on a diplomatic set-tlement between Iran and
the United States, France,Germany, Britain, Chinaand Russia.
With major gaps re-
maining over what will bepermitted in Irans urani-um-enrichment programme activity which can haveboth civilian and military
uses those negotiationson ending the decade-olddispute were extended last
month until 24 November.IAEA Director Gener-
al Yukiya Amano said after
he held talks in Teheranon Sunday that implemen-
tation of the ve steps hadbegun and that he expectedprogress to be made overthe coming week, but he
did not give details.Speaking after talks
with Rouhani and othersenior ofcials, he said hehad received a rm com-
mitment by Iran to coop-erate with the long-runninginvestigation. He also said
he hoped for an agreementsoon on future steps byIran. Amanos trip to Te-heran was an apparent at-tempt to push for progress,
after diplomatic sourcesin July said that the IAEAwas concerned about Iranslack of engagement withthe probe. After years of
what the West saw as Ira-nian stonewalling, Iran asa rst step in May gave theIAEA information it had
requested about Teheransreasons for developing ex-ploding bridge wire deto-nators, which can be used
to set off atomic explosivedevices. Iran says they arefor civilian use.Reuters
India minister stirs anger by
making light of Delhi rape case
Indias new Finance and Defence Minister ArunJaitley speaks during a news conference in Srinagar
on 15 June, 2014. REUTERS
NEW DELHI, 23 Aug Indian Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley faced criticismon Friday for making lightof the gang rape of a Del-hi woman in 2012 and her
subsequent death by sayingit was a small incident thathad cost India billions ofdollars in tourism.
Jaitley, who is also
defence minister and a keylieutenant of Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi, deniedhe was trying to lessen the
magnitude of the crimewhich shook the countryand turned the spotlight onwomens safety.
I am sensitive to
these issues myself, noquestion of trivialisingany incident, he said af-ter his comments sparked
outrage including from thevictims mother, who saidpoliticians had a tendencyto forget. Five men and ateenager lured the 23-year-
old physiotherapist and amale friend into an unli-censed bus and repeatedlyraped and tortured her. She
later died of her injuries,provoking an outpouring ofanger and soul-searchingabout the place of womenin Indian society.
Four men have beensentenced to death while afth suspect committed su-icide. The teenager was re-
manded to a judicial reformcentre. While laws relatingto assault on women havesince been toughened, thecrime also exposed social
attitudes in a country wherethe victim has often endedup being found responsible.
Jaitley, addressing aconference of state tourismministers, said improvinglaw and order was neces-sary to help bring visitors
to India. One small inci-dent of rape in Delhi adver-tised world over is enoughto cost us billions of dollars
in terms of global tourism,he said.
The assault and sev-eral similar attacks in Del-hi and around the country
have helped reinforce theimage of India as unsafe forwomen visitors. Reuters
Brunei, Indonesia hold inaugural Joint Defence
Cooperation Committee meetingBANDARSERIBEGAWAN,
23 Aug Brunei and In-donesia have held the inau-
gural Joint Defence Coop-eration Committee (JDCC)meeting at the BolkiahGarrison, according to a re-
port posted on Saturday onthe website of the DefenceMinistry.
The meeting was co-chaired by the Permanent
Secretary (Defence Policyand Development), Colonel(Rtd) Pg Dato Paduka Haji
Azmansham bin Pg HajiMohamad, Ministry of De-fence, Brunei Darussalam
and Defence Secretary Gen-eral of Indonesia LeftenanJenderal Ediwan Probowo.The two sides discussed bi-
lateral defence and militarycooperation, including pro-gress and activities underthe BRUNESIA- High Lev-el Committee, such as joint
operations and exercises, aswell as training and educa-tion. They were also briefed
on the upcoming event onthe ADMM-Plus EWG MS/CT FTX and the Technical
Workshop on EstablishingA Direct CommunicationsLink in the ASEAN De-fence Ministers Meeting
Process.The meeting marked a
signicant milestone in thestrong bilateral relationshipbetween the two ministries
and further enhanced co-operation between the twoarmed forces.Xinhua
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Gaza gunmen execute collaborators;mortar kills Israeli boy
Hamas militants grab Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel, beforeexecuting them in Gaza City on 22 Aug, 2014. REUTERS
Arab states, Israel set to clash
at UN nuclear meeting
The ag of the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) ies in front of its headquarters in Vienna
on 28 Nov, 2013. REUTERS
VIENNA, 23 Aug As
war rages in Gaza, Arabstates will likely try toheighten diplomatic pres-sure on Israel over its as-sumed nuclear arsenal at
next months annual meet-ing of the UN nuclear agen-cys 160 member states,diplomats said on Friday.
An Arab initiative tosingle out the Jewish statefor criticism was defeat-ed in voting last year. But
Western diplomats opposed
to the Arab move said theunresolved Gaza conictmay inuence any waver-ing countries at this years
debate, although there wasno direct link between theissues.
It is all about getting
out the undecided vote.And it will be all about Is-rael widely and not aboutthe actual nuclear issue,one Vienna-based diplomat
said. I would expect on-going conict to lead many(Arabs and any others criti-cal of Israel) to want to lash
out in any forum availa-
ble. Israel and Palestinianmilitants who dominate
Gaza have been ghting for
most of the past six weeks.
Over 2,000 Palestinianshave been killed to 67 onthe Israeli side, and Israelishelling has destroyed wideareas of the small enclave.
An Arab resolution onwhat it calls Israeli Nucle-ar Capabilities would benon-binding even if it were
to be approved by the 22-26September General Confer-ence of the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency
(IAEA).
However, lobbying byboth sides underlines itssymbolic signicance aswell as deep divisions.
Israel is believed topossess the Middle Eastsonly nuclear arsenal, draw-ing frequent condemnation
by Arab countries and Iranwhich say it threatens re-gional peace and security.
US and Israeli ofcials who see Irans atomic
activity as the main prolif-eration threat have saida nuclear arms-free zonein the Middle East cannot
become a reality until there
is broad Arab-Israeli peaceand Tehran curbs its pro-gramme.Reuters
UN says Syria death toll tops 190,000, rights envoy raps world powers
A general view shows damaged buildings in Mleiha,which lies on the edge of the eastern Ghouta region
near Damascus airport on 15 August,2014.REUTERS
GENEVA, 23 Aug More than 191,000 people
were killed in the rst threeyears of Syrias civil war, aUN report said on Friday,and the world bodys hu-man rights envoy rebuked
leading powers for failingto halt what she branded awholly avoidable humancatastrophe.
UN High Commission-er for Human Rights NaviPillay said war crimes werestill being committed withtotal impunity on all sides
in the conict, which be-gan with initially peacefulprotests against PresidentBashar al-Assads rule in
March 2011.It is a real indictment
of the age we live in that notonly has this been allowedto continue so long, with
no end in sight, but is alsonow impacting horrendous-
ly on hundreds of thousandsof other people across theborder in northern Iraq, and
the violence has also spilledover into Lebanon, saidPillay.
Pillay, in a statement
issued a week before leav-ing ofce, added: The kill-ers, destroyers and torturersin Syria have been empow-
ered and emboldened by theinternational paralysis.
It is essential govern-ments take serious measures
to halt the ghting and deterthe crimes, and above allstop fuelling this monumen-tal, and wholly avoidable,human catastrophe through
the provision of arms andother military supplies.
The report by her Ge-
neva ofce was based ondata from four rebel groups
and the Syrian government.They were cross-checked
to eliminate duplicates andinaccuracies, includingnon-violent deaths or al-leged victims later found tobe alive. It said the number
of men, women and chil-dren killed in the conict asof 30 April, 2014, totalled
at least 191,369. Of them,some 62,000 both ci-
vilians and combatants were killed in the past yearalone, Pillays spokesmanRupert Colville said.
The gure is more thantwice the number of deathsdocumented a year ago andis probably still an under-es-
timate, Pillay said.Colville told a news
brieng in Geneva thataround 5,000 to 6,000 peo-ple were being killed on a
monthly basis.Men and boys account
for the bulk of the deaths butnearly 18,000 women and
more than 2,000 childrenunder the age of nine arealso among those killed, hesaid. Assads government
supplied just one set of g-ures on killings to the Unit-ed Nations in March 2012,Colville said. We considertheir information important
because its a little bit of adifferent perspective andpossibly different groups ofpeople that they focus on,
he said, adding they werealmost exclusively mili-tary or police.
All groups involved in
the ghting including
the government, the army,police, Islamist militants
and other opposition groups have committed killings,Colville said.
The UN report said ithad excluded from its anal-ysis an additional 51,953killings that were reported
but lacked required infor-mation of full name, dateand location of death.
A further signicantnumber may not have beenreported by any of the vesources, it added.
The highest number ofdocumented killings were
recorded in Rural Damas-cus province, Aleppo andHoms. Pillay repeated herlongstanding call on world
powers on the UN SecurityCouncil to refer alleged warcrimes and crimes againsthumanity committed by all
sides in Syrias conict to
the International CriminalCourt (ICC).Reuters
GAZA / JERUSALEM, 23Aug Hamas-led gunmenin Gaza executed 18 Pales-tinians accused of collabo-
rating with Israel on Friday,accelerating a crackdownon suspected informers afterIsraeli forces tracked down
and killed three senior Ha-mas commanders.
Israeli Prime Minis-ter Benjamin Netanyahuthreatened to escalate the
ght against Hamas, vow-ing the group would paya heavy price after a four-year-old Israeli boy was
killed by a mortar attackfrom Gaza, the rst Israelichild to die in the six-week
conict. Shortly after his re-
marks, Palestinian ofcialssaid Israel had attened ahouse in a Gaza City airstrike, wounding at least 40people.
With protesters fromrocket-hit southern Israeli
communities gathered out-side his residence in Jerusa-
lem after the boys killing,Netanyahu was under pres-sure to take tougher steps toend the rocket re.
Israels military
spokesman said anotherground war was possible ifnecessary to stop the rocket
re.Earlier in Gaza,
masked militants dressed inblack executed seven sus-pected collaborators, shoot-ing the hooded and bound
victims in a busy squareoutside a mosque after Fri-
day prayers.Television footage
showed a crowd of young
boys gathered where theexecutions took place mo-ments afterwards, bloodstill running on the street
and bullet casings scatteredaround. Those deaths fol-lowed the killing of 11 al-leged informers at an aban-
doned police station outsideGaza City, marking thethird time this month thatHamas-led operatives haveexecuted people suspected
of providing intelligence toIsrael.
Al Majd, a websitelinked to Hamass internal
security service, said theresistance a term for allPalestinian militant groups had begun an opera-
tion dubbed strangling thenecks to clamp down onanyone collaborating withIsrael.
Over the years, Israel
has established a network of
contacts in the Palestinianterritories, using a combina-tion of pressure and sweet-eners to entice Palestinians
to divulge intelligence.They provided the en-
emy with information about
the whereabouts of ght-
ers, tunnels of resistance,bombs, houses of ghtersand places of rockets, reada conviction letter post-ed near those killed at the
mosque and signed ThePalestinian Resistance, aterm for the Hamas-led ex-ecutioners.
The occupation bom-barded these areas, killing anumber of ghters ... There-fore, the ruling of revolu-
tionary justice was handedupon him, it said.
The Hamas crackdownon suspected collaboratorsfollows the killing of three
of Hamass most senior mil-
itary commanders in an Is-raeli air strike on Thursday,an attack that required pre-cise on-the-ground intelli-
gence on their whereabouts.After the executions, a
statement obtained by Reu-ters from the Palestinian
Resistance said a numberof other collaborators hadsurrendered to the author-ities. Human rights groupsdenounced the killings.
Sarah Leah Whitson, Mid-dle East director at HumanRights Watch, called it ahorrendous abuse.
Raji al-Surani, chair-man of the PalestinianCentre for Human Rights,demanded the Palestinian
Authority and other armedfactions intervene to stopthese extra-judicial execu-tions, no matter what thereasons and motives are.
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best teacher for him. Through fairly negative
sense, lessons seem to be quite bitter for us.
The Oxford Dictionary simplies that an ex-
perience, especially an unpleasant one, that
somebody can learn from so that it does not hap-
pen again in the future. From this point, we want
to learn by experiences, not by lessons, if possible.
However, both lessons and experiences are
like day and night in our life. We cannot avoid
both. Those who cannot stand rm among bad
consequences will experience their end in failure.
Lessons are nothing to be ashamed of. But we can
avoid doing shameless behaviours.
Normally, we hope ways to enjoy greater
happiness, create more leisure time, or increase
our level of success. It will be more sensible to say
we can take lessons from bad results. The benets
of a negative life lesson are more subtle.
Lessons are quite bitter but are positive if
we apply what we learn. Lesson or experience
with negative or positive result is a personal de-
velopment treasure in life. But just to manage
them with optimistic approaches.
ByAung Khin
Bitter lessons should
be handled with positiveapproach
Life is not too long for human beings.
Good and bad deeds we have encoun-
tered in many occasions. We are cheered
for good results, while frequently slammed for
bad outcomes. An experience of ones own is the
In answer to Sayar (U) Maung
Hlaings articles, Aspira-tions for Future, Pre-school
booksA Prerequisite For Chil-
drens Literature and the writing
of U Nyunt Maung (Advocate), I
would like to join them in their
contributions. Though not being
an educational specialist, I gained
a vast knowledge on the language
skills of the youngsters ranging
from primary school level to
graduate level through the experi-
ence of teaching English. Our
country now abounds with thou-
sands of graduates as well as high
school students who are trying to
follow higher education. Undeni-
ably, all these students, apartfrom ambitious affordable ones,
possess average level in language
skill in English that is the only
compulsory foreign language in
our schools. It is not an exaggera-
tion in such a claim that language
skills of the many are found to be
poorly bad. Among them, we
must admit that remarkably smart
boys and girls are eagerly learn-
ing English and reading a lot of
English books. Admittedly, they
are praiseworthy children, but I
would not like to claim that they
are prodigies. They were blessed
with excellent families who can
bolster their condence for theirambitions. They were given the
best education that money can
buy. They are learning at over-
seas - educational - institution -
linked elite private schools and
getting state - of - the - art learn-
ing systems. They learnt to use a
computer since their childhood
days and they grasped very good
language skills through studying
under the guidance of native
speakers. Here, I would like you
to know that the student of that
kind, ipso facto, cannot be as-
sumed to be the best of all. Gen-
erally, we must admit that they
are better at language competen-cy compared to most of ours. We
even darent think of sending our
An Advice for Beginner-readers As to What and How to Read Englishchildren to learn at these schools.
Why? It will cost us at least 2.5
lakh kyats per month with trans-
portation charges excluded, for agrade ve student to be sent to a
third-class private school. I had
ever heard that parents must pay
100 lakh kyats or so, for an aca-
demic year if they decide to send
their child at the most famous
school. Only a few percentage of
the populace can manage to do
so. For ordinary people, such a
school campus seems to be a for-
bidden area. Then, will we have
to give up our aims and desires?
No, no! There used to emerge and
are appearing outstanding stu-
dents out of poverty-stricken
families and bourgeois ones.
I have been teaching Englishto various kinds of students for
over a decade. Having assessed
their language skills, sometimes I
felt elated at their excellent re-
sults. Generally speaking, many
are in an unsatisfactory state.
They include graduates and many
a university student. Some may
disbelieve my saying. If so, I
would like them to go into web-
site and take a glance at face-
book comments. They seem to
neglect the importance of the arti-
cles, a, an, the, and determiners.
They pay no attention to, or rath-
er know little about grammar.
That is to say, they cannot distin-guish countable nouns from un-
countable ones, transitive verbs
from verbs intransitive and the
use of passive forms and inected
forms of words. Believe it or not,
I nd such mistakes very often:
will went, was stood, he beat me
because his anger, and so on. For
what did they make such mis-
takes? By seeing Future Perfect
Tense in the sentence, She will
have done homework by now,
they seemed to think that modal
verbs can be used together with
simple past tense verbs. It ap-
peared that little was known
about the difference betweenconjunctions and prepositions. I
asked them whether they had
ever read other books such as sto-
ries and newspapers written in
English. Unlike our childhood
days, there are nowadays manyreadable books and bilingual
reading material for beginners
available around them. Not un-
like us, todays youths as well
want to know English. The dif-
ference, however, is that nearly
all of us used to spend our leisure
hours reading those days pa-
persthe WPD or the Guardian
Dailies whereas the present days
youths prefer subscribing to a
newsgroup to reading both My-
anmar and English newspapers.
For us who dwelt in a small town,
it was less than available for us to
get old books and back issues in
English. Thus, we had clung onto our old habit of reading news-
papers up to now.
I myself had ever conceived
a thought that our country was
facing a dying breed of language
experts like our late famous g-
ures and it was impossible to ll
this shortage. Now we must get
rid of that opinion. From news
writings and articles written by
our young prolic writers, report-
ers and newsmen from news-
rooms, we came to know that
they are vying for the top posts. It
is a heartening thing for us so far
as it goes, but we need more and
more youths like them who knowEnglish, so as not to lag behind
the advanced world. First of all,
we must make them know that
we can get all things we want to
know through newspapers. From
the side of our newspapers too,
necessary arrangements should
be made for our youngsters to be-
come interested in their papers by
including a special readable col-
umn for beginner readers like
Easy Listening Program of the
VOA, if possible. I dare say they
will surely learn to love reading
papers once reliable ones hop
into their hands inasmuch as a
mosaic of news itemssports,technology, culture, education,
art, economics, politics, war af-
fairs and etc. reach before their
eyes at the same time. For saying
so, I do not mean that we no
longer need to use Net.I ever heard a noteworthy
saying of a language expert that if
we teach todays students as we
taught yesterdays, we steal their
tomorrow. I accept that idea to
some extent. Getting used to our
deep-rooted conventional meth-
ods and approaches to the study
of the language, I may be named
the one who cherishes the centu-
ry-old method, the Grammar
Translation Method, which is
detested by some linguists. As for
me, I rmly believe that we must
accept any ideas, advices and
methods to make our language
skills improve. Based on my nd-ings about teaching English to
students of different levels
from LEP [= Limited English
Procient] students to Mediocre
or Advanced learners, let me dis-
close my personal attitude, opin-
ion and advice, such as they are,
toward the subject.
Why is the gap that great be-
tween their language competence
levels? To my mind, children of
the First Minority group have to
read many English books under
the guidance of hardworking
teachers. For fear of losing their
well-paid jobs, they themselves
are trying their best to improvetheir abilities. Schools provide
uniformly reading material for
students to read and make them
recount of what they have read,
every week or fortnightly. Except
for Myanmar subject, all others
are taught in English, hence get-
ting accustomed to the language
and the possession of language
prociency. I asked one student
of that kind to read a booklet by
Lu Hsun, titled Wild Grass. He
is now studying in grade four of
the above-said No.1 school.
Wonderfully enough, he could
retell about nearly half of the
contents out of 23 short stories inthe booklet just prior to the end of
one lecture time. Knowingly
what his response will be, I asked
him whether he knew all the
words in the pieces he read. He
replied, No. He gave me briefaccounts. He said that he did not
understand the stories verbatim.
According to the context, he
came to know the words roughly.
The same book was given to a
student who recently passed his
BEHS exam with 4Ds2marks
short of 25 scores in total. You
can guess the result. As expected,
he could retell me about two sto-
ries only, albeit reluctantly and
vaguely. Not being in the habit of
reading a good or interesting read
apart from school subject books,
he tried to nd out the meanings
of unknown words while reading.
For that he read at a snails pace.I am not blaming him for his slow
reading speed. And I did not
mean that all who passed from
State High Schools would be the
same like him. There were and
are some who remarkably excel
in English. We need to collec-
tively nd out the solution.
Most of the children in
schools generally develop the
habit of memorizing texts of all
subjects, without trying to know
the essence of the subject. As a
result, those students can do noth-
ing if they are assigned to write a
paragraph or an essay ad lib. As
known by all, todays childrenare trying to score high marks to
be admitted to their favorite insti-
tutes under the present need-blind
education system. So I would like
them to commit all the texts to
memory, having acquired all the
grammatical knowledge. Then
what s[he] is required to read for
the exam can be said to be equiv-
alent to several books of medi-
um-sized volume. The worst
thing is that most of the primary
assistant teachers are very strict
with the accuracy of the words so
much so that they never allow
their students to interchangeably
use even the Myanmar verb -ending particles (onf? \).
(to be continued)
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NATIONAL
YANGON, 23 Aug The
Ministry of Labour, Em-
ployment and Social Securi-
ty has urged the South Ko-
rean embassy to bring back
the owner of Master Sports
Factory, who returned to
South Korea after closing
his factory on the western
outskirts of Yangon in Junewithout paying outstanding
salaries and compensation
to more than 750 Myanmar
workers.
Ofcials said the Yan-
gon Region Labour Tribu-
nal Board has ordered the
factory owner to pay the sal-
ary for June and to compen-
sate the workers according
YANGON, 22 Aug Chi-
na Union Pay International
(UPI), in cooperation with
Myanmars Cooperative
Bank (CB), will introduce
EASi Travel Union Pay card
for the rst time in Myanmar
starting on Sept. 1 to facil-
itate Myanmar citizens in
domestic and international
payment, a bank ofcial saidhere Friday.
The EASi TRAVEL
Union Pay Card issued in
Myanmar is deposited with
Myanmar Kyats and can be
used in and outside China,
U Kyaw Lynn, executive
vice chairman and CEO of
the CB, told a press brieng.
Accepted by over 140 coun-
tries and regions, the China
Undertakings for border region
development discussed
China Union Pay International
card to be introduced
in Myanmar next monthUPI card is being issued in
more than 30 countries in-
cluding Myanmar.
In December 2012,
China UPI and the CB
signed an agreement to open
ATM business in Myan-
mar. In May 2013, the UPI
also signed agreement with
Myanmar Payment Union
(MPU) for payment at ATMand points-of-sale (POS) of
its member banks.
At present, there has
been 800 ATMs and 3,000
POS across Myanmar. My-
anmar introduced Master
Card as the rst international
electronic payment card in
November 2012, followed
by Visa card in December in
the same year.Xinhua
NAY PYI TAW, 23
Aug Union Minister for
Border Affairs Lt-Gen Thet
Naing Win held a coordi-
nation meeting with lead-
ing bodies of self-adminis-
tered zones and regions on
Friday in Nay Pyi Taw.
During the meeting,
the Union minister re-
viewed border region de-
velopment works being
undertaken by the ministry
in the self-administered
zones and regions. After
hearing reports of the coor-
dinating teams, respective
committees and leading
bodies of self-administered
zones and regions, he held
talks with the chairmen of
the leading bodies and the
ministrys ofcials. Then
the Union minister coordi-
nated matters related to fol-
low-up tasks and ndings
of the committees.
MNA
Coordination meeting held to undertake for border region
development plans.MNA
Shwe Yaung Hnin Si Cancer Foundation givesmessage that a healthy diet can stave off cancer.
PHOTO: KHINGTHANDALWIN
South Korean embassy urged to summon fugitive
Korean factory owner to settle labour issuesto labour laws.
The revenue ofcer
of the Factories and Gener-
al Labour Law Inspection
Department sent a letter to
the South Korean embassy
today and urged the em-
bassy to bring back factory
owner Mr Jeong Hae Un to
settle the issue, said U Win
Shein, the Director-General
of the Factories and GeneralLabour Law Inspection De-
partment under the ministry.
The revenue ofcer
sent the notice from the
Yangon Region Labour Tri-
bunal Board to the factorys
former export and import
manager and also the repre-
sentative of the owner of the
factory on Wednesday. Ac-
cording to the notice, the tri-
bunal made the decision that
the factory owner must pay
the salary for June to 757
workers as well as compen-
sation stipulated by labour
laws for closing the factory
without giving prior notice.
As the representative of
the factory owner denied to
accept the notice, the ofcer
has asked the Korean em-bassy to summon the man,
authorities said.
The ofce has also
sent the notice to other
governmental departments
concerned with settling the
issue, according to the FGL-
LID.
The Ministry led
a lawsuit against Master
Sports Factory on July 25 as
it failed to pay the salaries
for June and compensation
to the workers after closing
the facility on June 26, fail-
ing to comply with the regu-
lations of the law.
Regarding the closure
of the factory, which opened
a year ago in the Hlinethaya
Industrial Zone, Master
Sports Myanmar Co Ltdissued an announcement at
the beginning of July, say-
ing the factory was experi-
encing nancial problems
due to the production of
low-quality products which
were not marketable, add-
ing that agreements with
potential buyers had to be
revoked.NLM
ByAye Min Soe
ByKhaing Thanda Lwin
NAY PYITAW, 23 Aug
Myanmar will host the
46 ASEAN Economic Min-
isters Meeting and its side-
lines from 23 to 28 August
here.
During the rst day
of coordination meeting,
ASEAN senior economic
ofcials discussed and ex-
changed views on the re-
ports to be submitted to the
council of the 28th ASEAN
Free Trade Area, the council
of 17th ASEAN Investment
Area and the 46th ASEAN
Economic Ministers Meet-
ing, as well as the agenda
and joint announcements to
Seminar on cancer awareness held in Yangon
YANGON, 23 AugAs
part of the effort to raisethe awareness of cancer in
Myanmar, the Shwe Yaung
Hnin Si Cancer Foundation
organized a health seminar
at the University of Nursing
here on Saturday, aiming
at giving people a message
that a healthy diet can stave
off cancer.
Speaking at the sem-
inar, Prof Dr U Myo Win,
member of the foundations
executive committee quot-
ed a WHO report as saying
that thirty-ve per cent of
the cancer-related deaths
are attributed to food, 30per cent to cigarettes and
tobacco, 10 per cent to vi-
ruses, and seven per cent to
sexually transmitted diseas-es.
He advised people to
balance their daily intake
of vitamin and mineral ob-
tained from wholesome
vegetables so as to maintain
health but urged them to
avoid eating junk foods and
carcinogens and aatoxins
in food.
Prof Dr Daw Yin Yin
Tun, Chairperson of the
foundation, also shared her
knowledge on biological
links between diabetes and
cancer, adding that the high
insulin level and the insu-lin-like growth factor in
people with diabetes are the
main causes of cancer.
Dr U Ye Tint Lwin,
Retired Deputy Direc-
tor-General of the Medi-cal Research Department
(Lower Myanmar), urged
people to weigh every early
morning and take moderate
exercises, such as a half-
hour walk a day to prevent
cancer-related diseases.
At the seminar, U Yan
Linn, Chairman of the My-
anmar Consumer Union,
also shared his experience
on how to choose a safe
food as a customer, urging
people to avoid drinking
puried water from plastic
bottles with prolonged ex-
posure to sunlight.Shwe Yaung Hnin Si
Cancer Foundation has
future plans to provide
training to enthusiasts for
sharing knowledge of the
awareness of breast cancer,Dr Moe Kyaw Naing, Gen-
eral-Secretary of the foun-
dation, said.
Cancer is one of the
most common non-commu-
nicable diseases (NCDs).
Scientists estimate that only
about ve percent of all
cancers have a genetic ori-
gin, meaning our nutrition
and lifestyle choices play
a major role in the ght
against cancer.
A 2012 report shows
that death rates from cancer
in men and women in My-
anmar is ranked third andfth highest in South East
Asian.NLM
Preparation made
for ASEAN high-level
economic ofcials
be discussed at the second
Regional multi-economic
cooperation meeting of the
46th ASEAN Economic
Ministers Meeting and its
sidelines.
The meeting was
chaired by Daw Than Than
Linn, senior economic of-
cial of Myanmar, with the
present of senior economic
ofcials from 10 ASEAN
countries, vice-general sec-
retary of ASEAN and 114
delegations of the bloc.
The coordination meet-
ings will continue on 24
August.
MNA
FM felicitates Ukrainian
counterpartNAYPYITAW, 24 Aug U Wunna Maung Lwin,
Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of
the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicita-
tions to His Excellency Mr. Pavlo Klimkin, Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, on the occasion of the
Independence Day of Ukraine which falls on 24 August
2014.MNA
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Most German
consumers rarely shop
at big department stores
BERLIN, 23 Aug Almost two-thirds of Ger-
mans rarely go shopping inbig department stores, saida representative survey onthe future of the Germandepartment stores on Fri-day.
According to the poll-ster YouGov, one in fourrespondents still goes regu-larly to shop at big German
department stores Kaufhofand Karstadt, while one inten respondents never does.
As the survey showed,especially young people
aged between 18 and 24years steer clear of theshopping malls in Germa-
ny, as more than 80 percentof them said they rarely ornever shop in big depart-
ment stores.Furthermore, people
aged over 55 are foundmost frequently there inGermany.
With regard to thethreatened closure of theKarstadt branches, 14 per-
cent of respondents saidthat the time of the big de-partment stores like Kar-stadt was denitely over,
while 53 percent said thatthe branches should bemaintained because theyare an important part of at-tractive downtown areas.
For the survey, You-Gov interviewed a total of1,023 consumers in Ger-
many from 19 August to21 August.
Xinhua
Mammography false alarms linked with later tumour riskNEWYORK,23 Aug
Women whose screeningmammograms produce falsealarms have a heightened
risk of being diagnosed withbreast cancer years later, but
the reason remains mysteri-ous, researchers say.
An increased risk ofbreast cancer among wom-en with a false positivemammogram has been re-ported before. Whats new
about this study is that theauthors tried to gure outhow much, if any, of theextra risk is simply due to
doctors missing the cancerthe rst time they investi-gated the worrisome mam-mogram ndings.
But mistakes fromdoctors missing cancersexplained only a small per-
centage of the increasedrisk, according to lead au-
thor My von Euler-Chelpin,an epidemiologist from theUniversity of Copenhagenin Denmark.
She told Reuters Healthin a telephone interview thatshe could not explain mostof the increased risk of lat-er breast cancer in women
with false-positive mam-mograms. (A mammogram
is considered false positivewhen it suggests possiblebreast cancer but additionalscreenings or a biopsy fails
to nd it.)Of more than 58,000
Danish women who hadmammography between
1991 and 2005, her studyidentied 4,743 womenwith suspicious ndingsthat were eventually de-clared negative.
By 2008, 295 of those4,743 women had been di-agnosed with breast cancer,von Euler-Chelpin and col-
leagues reported in CancerEpidemiology.
Radiologists reread theoriginal mammograms and
found that doctors had ac-tually missed the cancer in72 of the 295 women, for
a false-negative rate of 1.5percent. Even after taking
those missed cancers intoaccount, however, the re-searchers found that womenwith false-positive mammo-
grams were still 27 percentmore likely to be diagnosedwith breast cancer yearslater, compared to womenwith only negative test re-
sults.The risk was slightly
higher in women who hadsurgical biopsies that turnedout to be negative.
Von Euler-Chelpinthinks a smaller percent-age of American women
would have an elevatedrisk for breast cancer af-
ter a false-positive test be-cause the US has a higherrate of false positives thanDenmark. The risk of a
false-positive test over 10mammograms ranges from58 percent to 77 percent inthe US, while it is around16 percent in Denmark, the
study says.Dr Michael Alvarado, a
breast cancer surgeon fromthe University of California,San Francisco, agreed that
the risk of being diagnosedwith breast cancer after afalse positive mammogram
is probably lower in the USthan in Denmark.
Its hard to translatethe data to the US popula-tion because we have sucha different screening pro-
gramme, we tend to biopsyeverything, and were muchmore aggressive, he toldReuters Health. Alvaradowas not involved in the cur-
rent study.Is there some inherent
biology of the breast thatmakes it suspicious and itputs you at higher risk? I
dont think anyone knowswhat it is, he said.
Alvarado wondered if
women who get false-pos-itive mammograms should
be followed more closely bytheir doctors, or if false-pos-itive patients should bescreened differently.
Von Euler-Chelpintold Reuters Health the ex-cess rate of breast canceramong women who havehad false-positive mammo-
grams points to the needto personalize screening
programmes for women and Dr Karla Kerlikowskeagreed. Kerlikowske, fromthe University of California,
San Francisco, is develop-ing a risk calculator app to
guide women in decidinghow often to get mammo-
grams. The calculator con-siders a range of factors, in-cluding age, race, previousbreast cancer, family histo-ry and breast density. Ker-
likowske was not involvedin the current study.
Although having hada false-positive mammo-
gram is associated with awomans breast cancer risk,Kerlikowske points out thatthe actual risk of being di-
agnosed with breast cancerremains low.
The average ve-year
breast cancer risk for a50-year-old white woman
with no prior family historyof breast cancer is 1.25 per-cent, the calculator shows.It ranges from less than 1
percent, to 2.70 percent, de-pending upon breast densi-ty, for the same woman witha history of a prior breast bi-opsy, regardless of whether
the biopsy was positive ornegative.Reuters
LONDON, 23 Aug The European Union willdecide next year if legal
changes are needed to boostthe market for securitizeddebt, a sector seen as keyto injecting funds into the
economy and encouraginggrowth, an EU documentshowed on Friday.
The document is an-other indicator that concern
over the level of funding tothe EU economy, particu-larly in the agging euro
zone, has reached the high-est political level.
The Roadmap for Se-curitisation, drawn up forthe blocs nance ministersand seen by Reuters, says
the recent economic and -nancial crisis had consider-ably reduced funding to thereal economy.
The European CentralBank (ECB) is also mullingpurchases of securitiseddebt such as asset-backed
securities to help boosteuro zone growth.
Securitization, whichturns pools of loans into
interest-bearing bonds tohelp raise further funds, hasdwindled in Europe due to
A huge euro logo is pictured next to the headquarters
of the European Central Bank (ECB) before the banksmonthly news conference in Frankfurt on 7 Aug, 2014.
REUTERS
EU sets out roadmap to boost
securitized debt marketthe 2007-09 nancial crisis.
The market was tar-nished by the so-called
sub-prime crisis, whensecuritised debt based onpoor-quality US homeloans became untradable in
2007, sowing the seeds forthe ensuing global nancialcrisis.
The document, whichEU nance ministers will
discuss at a meeting inMilan next month, lists 19initiatives underway in Eu-
rope and globally to kick-start securitization.
The EUs executiveEuropean Commission isthe best body to coordinatework on these initiatives,
the document says.The Commission,
along with the ECB and theblocs markets, insurance
and banking watchdogs,should review progressbefore the end of 2015, itadded.
The review shouldhelp identify persistingshortcomings and shouldhelp inform any further
action where needed, in-cluding the merits of an EUharmonized framework,
the document said.The ECB and the Bank
of England have already
called for steps to boosthigh quality securitisa-tion, noting the high capitalcharges on banks who issue
securitised debt, and on in-surers who buy it, are keyimpediments to the market.
Such a segment couldbe more leniently treat-
ed from a capital chargespoint of view.
But banks are worried
about how the authoritieswill dene high quality,fearing the rest of the mar-
ket will be permanentlyshunned by investors.
A key ... step will be
to agree at EU level uponthe most appropriate cri-teria to designate soundor qualifying securitisa-
tion instruments across theboard, the document said.
These criteria could beincluded in the blocs newcapital rules for insurers,
and in new rules requiringbanks to hold a buffer ofbonds, including some debt
backed by home loans,to withstand short-termshocks, it added.Reuters
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Galileo satellites start operational
deployment phasePARIS, 23 Aug A
new pair of Galileo satel-lites, Galileo 5 and 6, hasbeen successfully deliveredinto orbit on Friday, which
marks the start of a newphase in the European sat-ellite navigation program,said the European Space
Agency (ESA) in a Pressrelease.
Galileo 5-6 satellites,which are the rst two of aseries of 22 satellites FOC
(Full operational capabil-ity) built by prime con-tractor OHB-System (Ger-many) with the payloads
being supplied by SSTL(Surrey Satellite Technolo-gy Ltd, UK), were carriedaloft on a Soyuz rocketfrom Europes Spaceport in
Kourou, French Guiana, at12:27 GMT on Friday.
All the stages of theSoyuz vehicle performed
as planned, with the Fre-
gat upper stage releasingthe satellites into their tar-get orbit close to 23,500km altitude, three hours 47
minutes after liftoff, saidthe ESA. On completion ofthe initial checks, run joint-
ly by ESA and the Frenchspace agency CNES, the
two satellites will be hand-ed over to the Galileo Con-trol Centre in Oberpfaffen-
hofen in Germany, and theGalileo in-orbit Testingfacility in Redu in Belgiumfor testing before they are
commissioned for oper-ational service in the au-tumn, explained the ESA.
Following the suc-cessful qualication of thesystem during the In-OrbitValidation (IOV) phase,achieved with four satel-
lites launched in 2011 and
2012, the Galileo satellitesare being produced andreadied for the launch padin series.
The deployment ofthe constellation will nowgather pace, with six toeight satellites launched
per year using a series ofSoyuz and Ariane launch-es from the Guiana SpaceCentre, along with nal-isation of the remaining
elements of the groundnetwork, added the ESA,saying that the next Galileolunch is scheduled for the
last quarter of 2014.Galileo is Europes
own global satellite navi-gation system, providing ahighly accurate, guaranteed
global positioning serviceunder civilian control. Itwill consist of 30 satellitesand their ground infrastruc-
ture. Xinhua
Amazon developing
own online advertising
software
A zoomed illustration image of a man looking at a
computer monitor showing the logo of Amazon is seenin Vienna on 26 Nov, 2012. REUTERS
NEWYORK, 23 Aug Amazon Inc is planning todevelop its own software
for placing advertisementsonline, The Wall Street
Journal reported, citingpeople with knowledge ofthe matter.
While the in-houseplatform is initially plannedto replace ads supplied byGoogle Inc on Amazonsown website, the new sys-
tem could challenge Goog-le and Microsoft Corpsadvertising business in thefuture, the newspaper cited
the people as saying.Amazons system
would resemble GooglesAdWords, and is planned
to make it easier for mar-
keters to reach the com-panys users, the newspa-per reported the people as
saying. The retailer is alsobuilding a tool that wouldhelp advertising agenciesbuy in bulk for thousandsof advertisers, the Journal
said, citing the people.Amazon is known as
a sleeping giant in the adindustry because it has richconsumer data but has been
tentative about using it fora lot of advertising.
The company alreadyhas an advertising service it
employs chiey on its ownwebsite.
Amazon did not imme-diately respond to requests
for comment. Reuters
Obama tech policy maven moves to Silicon Valley roleWASHINGTONDC / SAN
FRANCISCO, 23 Aug Todd
Park, President BarackObamas chief technologyofcer who played a role
in xing the awed Health-
care.gov website, is mov-ing to a new job recruitingtop Silicon Valley talentto government, a source
familiar with the situationsaid on Friday.Park, a successful tech
entrepreneur who became a
Computers reshaping global job market, for better and worse
top adviser to Obama, willmove to the West Coast at
the end of the month as partof a White House team, thesource said on condition ofanonymity because it has
not been made public.Park became a polit-
ical target last fall as Re-publican lawmakers tried
to assign blame for theglitch-ridden rollout of thewebsite, the main portal tobuy healthcare coverage
through federal exchanges.Park was heavily involved
in the effort to try to x thebugs. His move to Califor-nia signals a growing effortby the government to try to
recruit from Silicon Valley.Earlier this month, Parkhelped the White Houselure Google engineer
Mikey Dickerson to Wash-ington to take a role bol-stering the governmentscomputer systems.
In his new assignment,Park will help channel ide-
as from the tech communi-ty, the source added.
It is unclear who willreplace Park. The White
House has held discussionswith former executivesat Google, LinkedIn andTwitter about a potential
replacement, according toFortune, which rst report-ed his move on Friday.
Reuters
NEW YORK, 23 Aug Automation and in-creasingly sophisticatedcomputers have boosted
demand for both highlyeducated and low-skilledworkers around the globe,while eroding demand for
middle-skilled jobs, ac-cording to research to bepresented to global central
bankers on Friday.But only the highly ed-
ucated workers are benet-ing through higher wages,wrote MIT professor DavidAutor in the paper prepared
for a central banking con-ference in Jackson Hole,Wyoming. Middle- andlower-skilled workers are
seeing their wages decline.That is in part because
as middle-skilled jobs dryup, those workers are morelikely to seek lower-skilled
jobs, boosting the pool ofavailable labour and put-ting downward pressure
on wages. (W)hile com-puterization has stronglycontributed to employment
People use computers at a job fair in Detroit, Michigan on 1 March, 2014.
REUTERS
polarization, we would not
generally expect these em-ployment changes to cul-minate in wage polariza-tion except in tight labourmarkets, Autor wrote.
Any long-term stra-tegy to take advantage of
advances in computersshould rely heavily on in-
vestments in human capital
to produce skills that are
complemented rather thansubstituted by technology,he said.
Recounting the longhistory of laborers vilify-
ing technological advanc-es, Autor argues that most
such narratives underesti-mate the fact that comput-
ers often complement rath-
er than replace the jobs of
higher-skilled workers.People with skills that
are easily replaced by ma-chines, such as 19th-centu-ry textile workers, do lose
their jobs. In recent yearscomputer engineers have
pushed computers fartherinto territory formerly con-
sidered to be human-only,
GM opens
IT centre in
Phoenix,
Arizona
The General Motors logois seen outside its head-quarters at the Renais-
sance Center in Detroit,
Michigan in this flephotograph taken on 25Aug, 2009. REUTERS
PHOENIX, 23 Aug General Motors Co said itopened a fourth IT centre inthe United States in Phoe-
nix, Arizona as it aims toimprove performance andcut operational costs.
The automaker said itexpects to hire 1,000 em-
ployees at the centre overthe next ve years. It al-ready has about 500 em-ployees at the site.
Reuters
like driving a car.Still, computer-driven
job polarization has a natu-ral limit, Autor argues. For
some jobs, such as plumb-ers or medical technicianswho take blood samples,routine tasks are too inter-
twined with those requiringinterpersonal and other hu-man skills to be easily re-
placed.I expect that a sig-
nicant stratum of middleskill, non-college jobs com-bining specic vocationalskills with foundational
middle skills literacy,numeracy, adaptability,problem-solving and com-mon sense will persistin coming decades, Autor
wrote. Autor, who has beenstudying technology and itsimpact on jobs since beforethe dot-com bubble burst,
notes that some economistshave pointed to the weakUS labour market since the
2000s as evidence of theadverse impact of comput-erization.Reuters
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Poland keeping foot in door to euro zone membership Finance MinisterWARSAW, 23 Aug
Poland is keeping the door
open to euro zone mem-bership, but joining thecommon currency will notboost the countrys status
because it is already a sta-
ble and developed econo-my, Finance Minister Ma-teusz Szczurek was quotedon Friday as saying.
Poland, which joinedthe European Union in2004, is legally obliged to
join the euro zone at some
point. But it has not set atarget date and says it needsto see the nal shape ofnew euro zone institutions
before it takes further stepstowards adopting the com-mon currency.
In 2004 the euro zonea