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Volume XVI, Number 193 14th Waning of Thadingyut 1370 ME Tuesday, 28 October, 2008

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round develop-ment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms

of technical know-how and investments from sources insidethe country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education

standards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peaceand tranquillity, prevalence of law andorder

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Con-

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 27 Oct – Chairman of the StatePeace and Development Council Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe re-ceived the visiting Chinese delegation led by DeputyChief of General Staff General Zhang Li of ChinesePeople’s Liberation Army at Bayintnaung Yeiktha,here, at 1 p.m today.

Present at the call together with the SeniorGeneral were Vice-Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Deputy Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army)Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, Member of the StatePeace and Development Council General Thura ShweMann of the Ministry of Defence, Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Rear-Admiral Nyan Tun, Commander-in-Chief (Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein, Military AffairsSecurity Chief Lt-Gen Ye Myint, Vice-Chief of ArmedForces Training Maj-Gen Zaw Win and Deputy Min-ister for Foreign Affairs U Maung Myint. Togetherwith Deputy Chief of General Staff General Zhang Liand delegation members were Ambassador of thePeople’s Republic of China to Myanmar Mr Guan Muand Military Attache’ Senior Colonel Fan Lianfeng.

MNA

Senior General Than Shwe receivesPLA Deputy Chief of General Staff

Senior

General

Than Shwe

cordially

greets

Deputy

Chief of

General

Staff

General

Zhang Li of

People’s

Liberation

Army.

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Senior General Than Shwe receives the visiting Chinese delegation led by Deputy Chief of General Staff General Zhang Li ofChinese People’s Liberation Army.—MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 28 October, 2008

Tuesday, 28 October, 2008

Qualified new generation human resourcesare reliable forces in building a peaceful andprosperous society. Teachers play an importantrole in producing human resources capable ofovercoming the challenges of Knowledge Age tobe faced in the 21st Century.

The government is building educationinfrastructures and modern networks in order tocreate an equal opportunity for pursuingeducation among urban and rural regions. Insetting up better education environment, effortsare to be made for building of more schools,producing of more teachers and equipping themwith teaching skills.

The 30-year long-term national educationpromotion programme has been laid down and isbeing implemented, while striving for all-rounddevelopment of the nation. In that regard,extensive reforms are being initiated in theeducation sector in line with the requirements ofthe State.

The education sector is taking steps forfulfillment of intellectual and technologicalrequirements and development of arts andscience. It is also nurturing and training theyouths to be literally well-versed and morallyupright and equipped with nationalistic spirit.

Today, efforts are being made for theemergence of a modern and developed nation. Atsuch a time, the nation needs to be strong infinance, technology and infrastructures plusstrong morale of the people.

Therefore, it is incumbent upon each andevery teacher to constantly nurture and train thestudents to be morally upright and they willbecome qualified intellectuals and technocrats.Only then, will efforts for development of theState and the people be fruitful.

Strive for students to becomequalified intellectuals andtechnocrats

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

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

NAY PYI TAW, 27 Oct—Talks on community-based protection project against HIV infection frommother to child and instructor course were conductedat Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Associationin Nay Pyi Taw Lewe Township today.

MMCWA, Health Department and UNICEForganized the course. It was attended by President ofMMCWA Daw Khin Saw Hnin, the vice-president,central executive committee members, chairpersonsof project State/Division MCW SupervisoryCommittees, secretaries, joint-secretaries andchairpersons of project township MCWAs.

Anti-mother-to-child HIVinfection knowledge shared

MMCWA President Daw Khin Saw Hnin madean opening address and provided cash and assistance tochairpersons of project township MCWSCs, andconcluded the first session.

In the second session, Dr Htin Aung of HIV/STD project, Dr Daw Ohnma Aung of UNICEF,Secretary of MMCWA Dr Daw Wai Wai Tha, Joint-Secretary-1 Dr Daw May Marla, Dr Daw Khin ThanNwe of PMCT gave educative talks and replied to thequeries raised by those present.

A total of 40 trainees are attending the courseand it will last till 31 October.—MNA

YANGON, 26 Oct —A team of Women’sChapter of MyanmarMedical Associationvisited Phayagyi ModelVillage in TwantayTownship to providemedical health care this

Villages of Twantay Tsp enjoy freemedical treatment

morning.The medical team

comprised Patron Dr DawKhin Hsan Nwe andspecialists. They gavemedical treatment to 773patients including 72children of Phayagyi

Model Village and nearbyvillages and donatedmedicines. Members ofdistrict and township socialorganizations and staff ofhealth departments alsoparticipated in the healthcare services. — MNA

Man arrested formaking phone threat

YANGON, 27 Oct— A man contacted the officeof the Pabedan Township Peace and DevelopmentCouncil at 6.20 p.m on 24 October and made a phonethreat using abusive words that he would blow up theoffices of the Township PDC, Union Solidarity andDevelopment Association and Police Station.

Immediately after the news was receivedmembers of Yangon West District Police Station andthe Pabedan Police Station launched an investigationinto the incident. With the help of information providedby the people they managed to arrest Yar Sin (a) TinMyint, 41, son of U Dhawut, of No. 124, 30th Street,Ward 7, Pabedan Township at 9.10 p.m.

Upon interrogation, Yar Sin (a) Tin Myintconfessed to making the phone threat.

Action is being taken against him under Section294/505 (B)/506 by the Pabedan Police Station.—MNA

YANGON, 27 Oct—Deputy Director Generalof Education andTraining Departmentunder the Ministry forProgress of Border Areasand national Races andDevelopment Affairs UWin Aung, on 23October, attended theclosing ceremony ofbasic mechanic course,basic welding course andbasic civil engineeringcourse No.4 held atBorder Areas NationalRaces Youth IndustrialTraining School ofPanhsan.

Altogether 35 traineesattended the courses andthey were presentedcompletion certificates.

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National racesyouth getindustrial

skills

MMCWA President Daw Khin Saw Hnin speaks at the opening ceremony of talks on community-based protection project against HIV infection from mother to child and instructor course.—MNA

Lady doctors of Women’s Chapter of MyanmarMedical Association render health care services

in villages of Twantay Township.—YCDC

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 3

Survivors leave a

military helicopter at

Sayoun Airport in

southeastern Yemen on

26 Oct, 2008. About 100

people are dead or

missing in Yemen after

severe flooding caused

by torrential rain

affected large areas of

the country in the past

few days.—INTERNET

Police say eight Afghan roadcompany staff killed in strikesKABUL, 27 Oct—Eight Afghan employees of a pri-

vate road construction company were killed in inter-national air strikes aimed at insurgents in central Af-ghanistan at the weekend, police said on Monday.

The US-led coalition in Afghanistan said it wasinvestigating the claims, which surfaced on Sundaywhen local media reports said up to 23 guards of aprivate road construction company were killed in thestrikes in Ghazni. Ghazni police chief MohammadZaman told on Monday that eight people had died inthe action in the Qarabagh area. —Internet

Car bomb kills two inPakistani city of QuettaQUETTA, 27 Oct — Pakistani police say a car

bomb has exploded in the western city of Quetta,killing two people.

Senior police official Rehmatullah Niazi says thebomb exploded on Monday in a parking lot neargovernment offices and the Iranian consulate. Hesays a rickshaw driver and another person died andten others were injured.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.Quetta is the capital of a region that has seen a low-level insurgency for greater autonomy. It is also ahub for Taliban militants fighting in neighbouringAfghanistan.—Internet

Afghan official sayssuicide bomber kills US soldierKABUL, 27 Oct—A suicide bomber wearing a po-

lice uniform blew himself up inside a police station innorthern Afghanistan on Monday, killing an Ameri-can soldier and wounding six other people, Afghanofficials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility.

The bomber entered a police station in Pul-e-Khumri, the capital of Baghlan province, while Af-ghan officials were meeting with US troops advis-ing a police training program, provincial policechief Gen. Abdul Rahman Sayed Kheil said. Theblast killed an American soldier and wounded twoothers, Kheil said. Four Afghan security officerswere also wounded in the blast.

Mujahid said the bomber’s name was Abdul Hadand that he was from Baghlan Province. Militantsin Afghanistan have in the past disguised themselvesin police or army uniforms when attacking Afghanand foreign troops.—Internet

‘US helicopter raid’ inside Syria, eight people including four children killed

Map locates Abu Kamal, Syria,where US military launched rare

attack on fighter network. XINHUA

An image grab from the official Syrian television showingblood stains on a water pipe in the aftermath of what the Syrianmedia said was a US military attack on a building in the village

of Al-Sukkiraya, near the Syria-Iraq border.—XINHUA

Damascus, 27 Oct— USmilitary helicopters launched anextremely rare attack Sunday onSyrian territory close to the borderwith Iraq, killing eight peopleincluding four children in a strikethe government in Damascuscondemned as “seriousaggression.”

The official Syrian newsagency Sana said the raid tookplace in the Abu Kamal borderarea, in eastern Syria.

It said that American soldierson four helicopters had stormed abuilding under construction on

Sunday night. Syria has summonedthe US and Iraqi envoys inDamascus to protest at the raid.

“Syria condemns this aggressiveact and holds American forcesresponsible for this aggression andall of its repercussions,” agovernment official said.

If confirmed, the raid would bethe first known attack by US forcesinside Syrian territory.—Internet

US drone kills up to20 militants

PESHAWAR (Pakistan), 27 Oct — A US dronefired missiles on Monday into a Pakistani region onthe Afghan border that is a stronghold of a PakistaniTaliban leader, killing up to 20 militants, intelligenceofficials said.

US drones have carried out more than a dozensuch missile attacks on militant targets on thePakistani side of its border with Afghanistan sincethe beginning of September, killing dozens ofpeople.

US forces in Afghanistan, frustrated over growingcross-border attacks from the Pakistani side of theborder, have stepped up their attacks into Pakistanwith missile strikes and a commando raid since thebeginning of September.

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Residents gather at

the site of a roadside

bomb attack in

Baghdad on 27 Oct,

2008. The attack

killed three civilians

and wounded seven

others, police said.

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BEIJING, 27 Oct—Thelatest test found that Chi-nese baby formula milkand other milk powderproducts met the newtemporary restrictions onmelamine, the country’stop quality control agencysaid on Sunday.

It was the eleventh teston the industrial chemicalfollowing the tainted babyformula scandal that

Chinese theatrical performers perfom opera Turandot in Cairo Opera House,downtown Cairo, capital of Egypt on 26 Oct, 2008. The scene shows the prince

of Tartary finally marries Princees Turandot, in the world famous operaTuradot which was staged in Cairo Opera House. —XINHUA

China says latest-tested baby formulamilk and other milk powder safe

killed at least three infantsand sickened more than50,000 others, accordingto the General Adminis-tration of Quality Super-vision, Inspection andQuarantine (AQSIQ).

The latest test covered101 batches of baby for-mula milk powder from13 brands in seven majorcities nationwide, and 46batches of other milk

powder products from 18brands in nine cities, theagency said.

At present, 1,208batches of baby formulafrom 69 brands and 1,630batches of other milkpowder from 170 brandsproduced after 14 Septwere tested and all werein line with the limit, itadded.

Melamine, often usedin the manufacturing ofplastics, was added tosub-standard or dilutedmilk to make the proteinlevels appear higher.

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JERUSALEM, 27 Oct—Israeli Prime Minister-des-ignate Tzipi Livni, alsoruling Kadima chair-woman, announced onSunday that she failed toform a coalition and calledfor early general elections.

Livni, also Israel’s for-eign minister, made theannouncement at a pressconference held at thepresident’s residence inJerusalem, where she ar-rived at 5 pm (1500GMT) to meet with IsraeliPresident Shimon Peres.

“I know that time willnot contribute to advanc-ing the coalition negotia-tions and that time cannotcreate a solution, butrather only prolong theuncertainty, and that is thebasis for my decision,”Livni said. “The public issick of politicking.

Grooms and brides release ballons in front of the Water Cube Aquatics Centrein Beijing, capital of China, on 26 Oct, 2008. About 208 pairs of couples took

part in the group wedding held for Beijing Police Bureau’s officers whosewedding were postponed due to their security work for the 2008 Beijing

Olympic Games. —XINHUA

Israel’s Livni calls for early general election

Israeli Prime Minis-ter-designate TzipiLivni. —XINHUA

OTTAWA, 27 Oct—Two young people were killedand two others injured in a restaurant shooting in thewestern Canadian city of Calgary Sunday, reportsreaching here said.

Police said they received the report of a gunfireat the Chinese food restaurant shortly before 4 amlocal time (1000GMT), and found one woman andone man, both in their 20s, dead inside the restau-rant, when they arrived. Two other men, also in their20s, were suffering from gunshot wounds. A fifthperson at the table was not injured. —Xinhua

Two killed, two injured in restaurantshooting in Canada

BRASILIA, 27 Oct—Gilberto Kassab, incumbentmayor of Sao Paulo, themost populated city in Bra-zil and South America, wasre-elected on Sunday in thesecond round of the coun-try’s municipal election.

According to the Elec-toral Superior Tribunal,the second round electionbegan on Sunday at 8 amlocal time (1100GMT)and ended at 5 pm localtime (2000GMT).

Kassab, 48, from theDemocrat Party (DEM),won 61 percent of the

Sao Paulo’s mayor re-electedin Brazil in runoff

votes against the 39 per-cent of Marta Suplicyfrom the Brazilian Demo-crat Social Party (PSDB),to continue to govern thecity with a population of11 million.

During the first roundof election on 5 Oct,Kassab won 33 percent ofthe votes, while Suplicyclosely followed with 32percent.

Kassab was supportedby the current Governorof Sao Paulo state, JoseSerra from the PSDB,who is considered the

presidential candidate ofthe political allianceformed by the DEM andthe PSDB for the generalelections in 2010.

With Sunday’s victory,the mayor of Sao Paulocould be decisive for theDEM, a conservative po-litical force in Brazil, todeclare its support forSerra as a presidentialcandidate.

Kassab will manage abudget of some 13 billionUS dollars in 2009, al-most 20 percent morefrom 2008. —Xinhua

ISLAMABAD, 27 Oct —At least 10 security menwere killed in a suicide blast in Pakistan’s tribalregion late Sunday night, local newspapers TheNation reported on Monday.

A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden caragainst the Nakai check post wall when 10 out of 15Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel were havingdinner in Mohmand tribal agency, said the report.

Xinhua

Suicide blast kills at least 10 securitymen in Pakistan’s tribal area

If I thought that timecould bring a solution, Iwould have tried.”

There are others whoare willing to pay anyprice, “but I am not will-ing to sell the state and itscitizens only to becomethe prime minister,” Livnisaid, referring to reportssuggesting that opposi-tion leader and LikudChairman BenjaminNetanyahu had vowed tocomply with the ultra-Or-thodox Shas Party’s de-mands if he is electedprime minister. —Xinhua

UN says rebels fire rockets atpeacekeepers in Congo

GOMA, 27 Oct—The United Nations says rebels havefired rockets at two vehicles carrying peacekeepersduring heavy fighting in Congo.

UN spokesman Col Samba Tall says some soldierswere slightly injured and both vehicles were damagedin the attack on Sunday. Tall says the soldiers had beenpatrolling the area to protect displaced people whowere headed toward the peacekeepers’ base inKalengara. That is a few miles away from the eastCongo army base seized by rebels early Sunday, caus-ing thousands to flee. Tall did not give the nationali-ties of the soldiers involved, but the area is patrolledby Indian troops. Tall says fighting is continuing at alow level.—Xinhua

US military deathsin Iraq war at 4,188

WASHINGTON, 27 Oct—As of Sunday, 26 Oct,2008, at least 4,188 members of the US military havedied in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003.

The figure includes eight military civilians killed inaction. At least 3,387 military personnel died as a resultof hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.The British military has reported 176 deaths; Italy, 33;Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Den-mark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latviaand Georgia, three each; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailandand Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary,Kazakhstan and South Korea, one death each.—Xinhua

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World’s longest tunnelaquarium opens in Thailand

BANGKOK, 27 Oct—Theworld’s longest tunnelaquarium, located inChiang Mai in the north ofThailand, opened onSunday.

The Chiang Mai Zoo’saquarium, set on a 10-rai(1.6 hectares) plot of land,is made up of freshwaterand ocean sections. It is133 metres long and 66.5metres wide. Theaquarium, being built by

the Zoological ParkOrganization (ZPO),features the world’slongest tunnel aquariumwhich houses about 8,000aquatic animals of 250different species.

Thai Prime MinisterSomchai Wongsawatpresided over the openingof the Chiang Mai Zoo’saquarium. Somchaivisited the northernprovince of Chiang Mai

after he returned homefrom Beijing, where heattended the Asia-EuropeMeeting.

The new 600-million-baht aquarium is expectedto boost tourism in ChiangMai, which is expected tobe the venue of theASEAN (the Associationof Southeast AsianNations) Summit to beheld in December.

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Highly-educated people join homelessrank due to economic downturn

LOS ANGELES, 27 Oct—As the economic down-turn worsened, lawyers,business owners, pre-medstudents and other highly-educated people havejoined the homeless rankin the Los Angeles area, itwas reported on Sunday.

The Los AngelesBurbank Temporary AidCentre has experienced a66-percent increase inrequests for assistance inthe last 18 months, the

Daily News reported.About half of those

seeking help are middle-class people experiencinghomelessness for the firsttime, said Barbara Howell,the centre’s executivedirector.

Andy Bales, presidentof the Los Angeles UnionRescue Mission, said hewas also seeing pro-fessionals and othermiddle-class peoplecoming into the missionwho are experiencinghomelessness for the first

time, including formermission donors.

Experts estimate that inLos Angeles only 12percent of the homelessfind shelter each night,while the rest sleep onstreets or in vehicles, parksand abandoned buildings—a practice that hasbecome increasinglydangerous as attackson the homeless havenearly tripled in the lastdecade nationwide, thepaper said.

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A man uses stepping stones to cross a floodedstreet in central Baghdad, Iraq, after a heavy

rainfall, on 26 Oct, 2008.—INTERNET

MOSCOW, 27 Oct—Ukraine and the Inter-national Monetary Fund(IMF) have agreed onterms of a loan aimed tomaintain economicstability in the countryamid the global financialturmoil, according toreports reaching here.

“Ukraine reached anagreement with the IMFmission on aspects of theeconomic program,which, provided it isapproved by the IMFBoard of Governors, willallow Kiev to receive anIMF loan,” Interfax quo-ted the Ukrainian FinanceMinistry as saying.

The IMF loan willdepend on “a number ofeconomic policy mea-sures aimed at adjustingthe balance of paymentsgiven the changedsituation on international

22,000 Bangladeshi womenattacked by breast cancer annually

DHAKA, 27 Oct—About 22,000 women in Bangladeshare being attacked by breast cancer annually and 70percent of them die due to lack of treatment, experts saidhere on Sunday. The physicians, who participated in aweeklong programme, said every woman should examineher breast once a month from the 20 years of age.

They said every woman must examine her breastonce a year by physicians and women above 40 yearsshould go for mammography test of their breastannually. The experts also stressed the importance ofproper food, exercise, breast feeding, accurate dose ofbirth control pills and avoidance of hormone in helpingresist breast cancer.—Internet

Price plunge aids jumpin California home sales

BEIJING, 27 Oct—Single-family home sales inCalifornia almost doubled in September, rising abovean annual rate of 500,000 for the first time in more thantwo years, as a plunge in prices boosted buying, thestate’s Realtors group said Sunday.

The number of existing single-family detachedhomes sold in California last month was 502,190 on anannualized basis, up 97 percent from 255,340 a yearearlier, the California Association of Realtors said.

The last time the number of houses sold in a singlemonth was more than 500,000 on a seasonally adjusted,annualized basis was in April 2006, when 516,965sold.

Home sales in the most populous United States statewere helped by plummeting prices, according toBloomberg News.

The median price was 316,480 US dollars inSeptember, a 41 percent drop from a year earlier, theRealtors said.

The increase also “owes as much to market weaknessa year ago,” when the availability of mortgages began toplunge, said William E Brown, president of the CaliforniaAssociation of Realtors.

“We expect the market to register significant year-to-year percentage gains in the coming months as currentsales are compared against extremely low numbers thatprevailed during the fourth quarter of last year,”he said.—Internet

Emirates on schedule to gettwo more Airbus A380s

BEIJING, 27 Oct—Dubai airline Emirates said�Sundayit remains on schedule to get two more Airbus A380sby the end of the year following the delayed deliveryof its second of the double-decker planes.

An Emirates representative said the airline stillexpects to receive a plane each in November andDecember. Another of the “superjumbo” planes isexpected by the end of March 2009, the representativesaid. Deliveries of the A380 have been slowed bytechnical setbacks, communication failures and othercostly delays dating back to 2005. The delays haveforced customers to retool their schedules and balancesheet projections at a time when the airline industryhas come under pressure from rapidly rising fuelcosts and a slumping global economy.—Internet

A general view shows the opening ceremony of the 6th National Peasants’ Games at a stadium in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, on 26 Oct, 2008.—INTERNET

Ukraine, IMF agree inprinciple on loan

markets,” said theministry.

Prime Minister YuliaTimoshenko has expectedfor an IMF loan varyingfrom 3 billion US dollarsand 14 billion dollars tostabilize the country’sfinancial system.

Internet

NAIROBI ,27 Oct — Somalia’s government signed acease-fire agreement with some opposition figuresSunday, meeting an opposition demand by giving adate for the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces backing theinterim administration.

More then 10,000 people have been killed and 1million displaced in fighting since early last year, pittingPresident Abdullahi Yusuf’s government and alliedEthiopian forces against Islamist rebels — mainly the alShabaab militia, listed by Washington as a terroristgroup. Islamist insurgents have stepped up their attackson government and Ethiopian targets in recent months,vowing not to relent until Addis Ababa withdraws itssoldiers from Somalia.

“Effective 26 October 2008, cease-fire observancehas been announced. It will become effective 5 November2008 ... starting 21 November 2008, the Ethiopiantroops will relocate from areas of the cities of Beledweynand Mogadishu,” the agreement said.—Internet

Somali foes sign ceasefire dealin Djibouti

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NEWSALBUM

Actors give traditional acrobaticsperformance during a tea promotionactivity held in Guiyang, southwestChina’s Guizhou Province. More than100 tea factories and traders from 38counties in Guizhou Province exhibitedtheir tea products here Friday.

High energy beams aboost for tumor

treatmentsChinese nuclear physicists have

developed a medical treatment fordestroying malignant tumors more than2.1 cm below the skin surface throughthe use of heavy ion beams.

Zhan Wenlong, the country’s leadingnuclear physicist, said the researchcarried further an earlier accomplishmentmade by the same scientists in January.

It also used heavy ion beams to treattumors 2.1 cm or less below the bodysurface.

Compared with light ion beams, suchas gamma rays and X-rays used intraditional radiotherapies, heavy ionbeams are considered the most effective,so far, in accurately moderating theamount of radiation and minimizing thedamage done to healthy cells, said thescientist.

A Long March-4B rocket carryingsatellites coded as the 03 Group of theShijian-6 serial research satellitesblasts off from the launch pad at theTaiyuan Satellite Launch Center,north China’s Shanxi Province. Chinasuccessfully launched two satelliteswith a Long March-4B carrier rocketearly Saturday morning.

People stand on a tower used to take inheat from a solar field of mirrors forlarge scale solar thermal power plants atthe Rotem Industrial Complex outside ofthe town of Dimona, southern Israel.Designers are using the Israeli solararray to test new technology for plantsthey plan to build in California for PacificGas and Electric Company. The newtechnology uses fields of flat mirrors tofocus the sun’s rays on a water boiler.Water turns to steam, which powers aturbine and produces electricity. Arelative of California Gov ArnoldSchwarzenegger and one of his formercabinet secretaries are part of a privateinvestment group that could reap awindfall if government regulatorsapprove a similar project in the easternMojave Desert, Calif.

LONDON, 27 Oct—Apurple tomato geneticallyengineered to containnutrients more commonlyseen in dark berries helpedprevent cancer in mice,British researchers said onSunday.

The finding, publishedin the journal NatureBiotechnology, bolsters

Scientists develop cancerfighting tomato

Tomatoes ofdifferent colours

are seen in abowl in

Medford,Massachusetts.

INTERNET

the idea that plants can begenetically modified tomake people healthier.

Cancer-prone mice fedthe modified fruit livedsignificantly longer thananimals fed a standard dietwith and without regulartomatoes, Cathie Martinand colleagues at thegovernment-funded John

Innes Centre in Britainreported. “The effect wasmuch bigger than we hadexpected,” said Martin, aplant biologist.

The study focused onanthocyanins, a type ofantioxidant found in ber-ries such as blackberriesand blackcurrants that havebeen shown to lower riskof cancer, heart disease andsome neurological disea-ses.

While an easy healthboost, many people do noteat enough of these fruits,the researchers said.

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Greater Snow geese fly at the Cap Tourmente Wildlife area at St-Joachim, on26 Oct, 2008. According to Environment Canada, at the beginning of the last

century there was about 3,000 Greater Snow geese left and the populationwas on the verge on extinction.—INTERNET

BEIJING, 27 Oct —China and Vietnam, whichfought a brief but bloodyborder war in 1979, haveagreed to find a solution toa land territorial dispute thisyear, the two sides said in ajoint statement in Beijing.

They also agreed to finda “basic and lasting”solution to a festeringmaritime territorial dispute.

The two countries

BEIJING, 27 Oct— China’s Ministryof Agriculture said on Sunday the countrywas expecting a good late rice harvest.

An official with the ministry said theoutput in the southern regions was set toexceed that of last year. He attributed theincrease to elevated subsidies to farmers.

He said in the beginning of this year,the country raised the subsidies forfarmers who planted the late rice from 8yuan per mu to 15 yuan. This hadencouraged more farmers to plant thesecond rice.

Meanwhile, the ministry hadorganized experts to help farmers solvetechnical problems and answer theirquestions. —Internet

KUNMING, 27 Oct— Six died and 24were injured after a bus ran off anexpressway and fell down onto a riversidein southwest China's Yunnan Province,local traffic police said on Sunday.

The bus with 30 aboard hit guardrailsand ran off the expressway in Dali BaiAutonomous Prefecture at around 3:35am Sunday, Dali’s traffic police said.

Five people died on the spot. Onedied in hospital. All the injured, includingone seriously, have been sent to hospital.

The cause of the accident was beinginvestigated.

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China and Vietnam seek land border solutiondispute sovereignty overthe Spratly Islands, astring of rocky outcropsin the South China Seasuspected of containinglarge oil and gas depositsand also claimed byTaiwan, Brunei, Malaysiaand the Philippines.

They also agreed toconsult on finding “a properarea and way of makingjoint exploration,” the

statement said, accordingto Xinhua news agency.

“The two countries willcoordinate more closelyto solve the remainingproblems, so as to ensurethey complete demar-cation and erecting landmarkers along the wholeborderline by year end,”Xinhua quoted the jointstatement as saying.

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China expects goodrice harvest

Six dead, 24 injuredin China bus

accident

British burglar says‘sorry’ with flowers

A repentant robber in England senthis elderly victim a bouquet of flowersto apologize for frightening her, policesaid Friday. A 91-year-old womanreceived the flowers and a note afterconfronting a burglar in her home around4 am on 9 Oct, police said.

The card explained that the burglarthought the property in Halifax, about200 miles north of London, was emptyand apologized for breaking in.

Police said the woman was “veryshaken” by the confrontation.

Texas bank robbery suspectflees in black limo

Economic times may not be that toughfor a suspected bank robber in the Dallasarea. Irving police said the on-the-lamsuspect used a limousine as his getawayvehicle.

Police said a Comerica Bank branchwas held up Friday, then the suspectjumped into the passenger side of a blacklimo, which sped away.

Police spokesman David Tull saidthe man escaped with an undisclosedamount of money.

The limo was also being sought.

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Voices of Labutta dwellers aboutrestoration of their businesses

Article by Maung Maung Htwe

(from page 16)U Kyaw Soe of

Kyaukhmaw modelvillage said, “I have 12acres of paddy fields andI use Manawthukha,Hsinthwelat and Hnankarstrains of paddy. Ireceived a draughtbuffalo, 10 baskets ofpaddy seeds andfertilizers from thegovernment, so I havebeen able to restore mybusiness. The stormcaused a little soildepletion, but I appliedthe knowledge ofadvanced agriculturalmethods I had gainedfrom the course thegovernment hadconducted, so I did wellwith my farming. I amsure this season per acreyield of my paddy fieldsof Manawthukha andHsinthwelat strains willbe nearly 80 baskets. Ihave no problems of foodbecause we have beenprovided with reliefsupplies including rice,edible oil and beans andpulses. At the end of thismonth, I will harvest fiveacres of my paddy fieldsand I will grow greengram and sunflower onthe land.”

Chairman of theVillage Peace andDevelopment Council UNe Lin said, “Our villagehas 220 houses and apopulation of 1117. Ofthem, 320 are farmers andthey grow paddy in 5006acres. The governmentand local and foreignorganizations haveprovided farmers withdraught cattle, power-tillers, paddy seeds,fertilizers, agriculturalsubsidies, and farmimplements such asmattocks and choppinghoes.

“They have beenprovided with allnecessary relief suppliesto fulfil their basic needsfor the period of theseason.”

U Ohn of ShansuVillage said, “I have afarmland with an area of10 acres. I grow Pawhsanand Manawthukha paddystrains. I have received abank loan, two bags offertilizer, pesticides, sixbaskets of paddy seeds, aLeya-16 Brand power-tiller and fuel at the rate ofsix gallons an acre.

“I have got reliefsupplies including a bagof rice and five viss ofedible oil for three times.After this paddy season, Ithink I will grow green

gram, bokate andsunflower. I raise threepigs and some chicken.Now, I have been able tolive a normal life.”

Ko Kyaw Win Tin ofMya Khaing Village said,“The government hasprovided us with fishingboats and engines torestore our fishing. Ourfamily has nine members.We have been stillprovided with rice, edibleoil and gram. So, I amnow doing well with mybusiness. Mostly I catchphawtcheik prawns and Isell them to the purchase

centre in Labutta, and Iearn 7000 to 8000 kyats atime.”

U Myint Oo ofThanatphet Village-tractsaid, “There are fourmembers in my family.Since the pre-season, thegovernment has providedus with relief supplies, soeverything is okay in mybusiness. Last week, I gota bag of rice, some edibleoil, and gram. We havealso got fishing boats andengines. Some merchantscollect the prawns we

catch. Every day, I catchprawns when the tide ebbs.So, I earn a regularincome. In the past,whenever we went todowntown Labutta by boatwith my family, I had torow till we reached thedestination, so we did notgo there frequently. Now,

we have got a motorizedboat, so we can go thereeasily.”

U Khway Lay of MyaKhaing Village said, “In afew days after the storm,we had real hard times.

But then the governmentprovided us with reliefsupplies such as food,medicines and clothes.Fishermen were providedwith fishing boats,engines and fishing netsand farmers wereprovided with allnecessary supplies suchas paddy seeds andpower-tillers. So, now wehave all returned tonormal and restored ourbusinesses.”

Those were thevoices some local peopleof Labutta expressed tous in recognition of thegood-will and reliefsupplies the government,and internal andinternational organi-zations have provided forthem. However, somepessimists are makingcomments as thoughstorm victims are goingthrough hard times. I amsure their exaggerationsbased on their negativeattitude will dwindleaway soon.

Translation: MSKyemon: 22-10-2008

U Ohn (farmer) ofShansu Village,

Labutta.

U Khway Lay(fisherman) of Mya

Khaing Village,Labutta.

U Kyaw Soe (farmer)of Kyaukhmaw model

village, Labutta.

U Ne Lin, Chairmanof Kyaukhmaw model

village Peace andDevelopment Council.

A rice mill in operation.

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Special Refresher Course No. 32 for basic education teachers concludesGovernment strengthens international political, economic and diplomatic relations

It is necessary for theteachers to teach the studentsEnglish, international re-lations, political science andlaw on international economicorganizations.

NAY PYI TAW, 27Oct—National races fromKachin, Kayah and Chinstates who studiedthe 16th MyanmarTraditional CulturalPerforming ArtsCompetitions, and judges(central), judges of State/Division, managers andcontestants today visitedaround Nay Pyi Taw.

First, they visitedMyanma Radio and

Contestants of 16th Performing ArtsCompetition visit Nay Pyi Taw

Television of the Ministryof Information where theywere welcomed byDirector-General U KhinMaung Htay and officials.After studying thebroadcasting pro-grammes, they visitedaround the MRTV.

Next, they went toZoological Gardens (NayPyi Taw) of the Ministryof Forestry and enjoyedanimals show.

In the evening, theyvisited staff quarter andNay Pyi Taw MyomaMarket, scenic beauty ofNay Pyi Taw by car.

Later, they visitedNga Lite recreationcentre and Nga Lite Damof the Ministry ofAgriculture andIrrigation and they wentto Nay Pyi Taw FountainGardens.

MNA

National races of Kachin State, Kayah State and Chin State, judges, managers and contestants visit Zoological Gardens (Nay Pyi Taw).—MNA

Minister for Education Dr Chan Nyein, on behalf of the Secretary-1 of the SPDC, delivers an address at the closingceremony of Special Refresher Course No. 32 for basic education teachers.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 27Oct—Special refreshercourse No. 32 for basiceducation teachersconcluded at Yadana Hallof Central Institute of CivilService (Upper Myanmar)in PyinOoLwin ofMandalay Divisionyesterday.

On behalf ofChairman of MyanmarEducation CommitteeSecretary-1 of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Lt-Gen ThihaThura Tin Aung MyintOo, Minister forEducation Dr Chan Nyeinmade a concluding speechon the occasion, sayingthat the Government haslaid down systematicplans and is implementingthem for the developmentof education systems withlofty aims. In the drive forpromotion of educationsystems of the State, theeducation plays a vital rolein the development of allsectors. In accordancewith the lofty aims,today’s youth are to benurtured through themight of education tobecome good citizens ofthe State equipped with

good morale andqualifications suitable forfuture prospects of thecountry.

He said requirementson technology,architectural design andmodern machinery havebecome greater andgreater as roads andbridges are beingconstructed for nationaldevelopment. Moreover,modern managementtechniques, computernetwork system andexpertise are necessary formanagement, economicand services sectors, hesaid.

He said moretechnology is needed forreduction of globalwarming and forconservation of en-vironment and develop-ment in conformity withthe international situation.

He said thegovernment promotespolitical, economic anddiplomatic relations withinternational com-munities. It is necessaryfor the teachers to teachthe students English,international relations,political science and lawon international economicorganizations, he added.

In basic educationsector, students are to betrained to gain bettereducation foundations sothat they can continue topursue their education inhigher education sector.Only when the teacherstrain the pupils to possessbetter character andmorale will they becomeintellectuals and in-

telligentsia who can servethe interest of the nation,he added.

He spoke at length onteaching of children withcare, implementing ruraldevelopment tasks laiddown by the Head of Stateand making efforts fornarrowing the gapbetween urban and ruralregions.

Next, the ministerpresented prizes to

outstanding trainees andgreeted the trainees.

The course wasattended by 1,305 teachersfrom basic educationschools from upperMyanmar.

Present on theoccasion were Minister forCooperatives Maj-GenTin Htut, deputy ministers,the deputy chief justice(Upper Myanmar),members of Civil Service

Selection and TrainingBoard, the chairman ofMandalay CityDevelopment Committeemayor, heads ofdepartments, the rector ofCICS (Upper Myanmar),pro-rectors, departmentalofficials at division level,heads of department ofCICS (Upper Myanmar),lecturers, demonstratorsand trainees.

MNA

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YANGON, 27 Oct —An educative talk jointlyorganized by Admini-stration and InformationDepartments and Socialand Cultural WorkingGroup of MyanmarWomen’s AffairsFederation was given atNo. 48 Basic EducationPost-Primary School inShwepaukkan Myothitthis morning.

Paediatrician Dr DawKhin Mar Aye,

YANGON, 27 Oct— Atthe invitation of member ofthe State Peace andDevelopment CouncilGeneral Thura Shwe Mannof the Ministry of Defence,a Chinese delegation led byGeneral Zhang Li, Deputy

NAY PYI TAW, 27Oct—Minister forIndustry-2 Vice-AdmiralSoe Thein, on 25 October,inspected Electric andElectronic factory (SouthDagon) where theresponsible persons of thefactory reported onproduction of home-usedmetres.

Metre boxesproduced there are

YANGON, 27 Oct—Aungbarlay LotteryDivision of the InternalRevenues Department ofthe Ministry of Financeand Revenue will start tosell the 240thAungbarlay Lotterytickets as of December 1of 2008. A ticket for the240th Aungbarlay lotteryto be opened January 1

YANGON, 27 Oct —Dr Tin Win, Pro-rector ofMeiktila Institute ofEconomics, will give talkson Motivation and JobDesign at MyanmarFishery Federation in

NAY PYI TAW, 27Oct—Minister forEducation Dr Chan Nyeinon 25 October visited No.1 Basic Education HighSchool in Nay Pyi Taw .

The ministerviewed school

Chinese delegation arrives YangonChief of General Staff ofPeople’s Liberation Armyof the People’s Republic ofChina arrived here thismorning by special flight.Commander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen WinMyint, senior military

officers, Chinese Am-bassador to the Union ofMyanmar Mr. Guan Mu,Military Attache SeniorColonel Fan Lianseng andofficials welcomed them atYangon InternationalAirport.—MNA

Factories of Industry-2 inspectedmanufactured applyinghigh technology and theproduction capacity of thefactory is 1600 boxes perday, exceeding the localdemand, 0.4 million piecesper year.

The ministercalled for better qualityproducts, regular supplyof raw materials, increasedproduction capacity andmeeting the demand of

Ministry of Industry -2.The minister then

cordially greeted theskilled workers of thefactory and proceeded toNo. 1 AutomobileFactory (Yangon) inwhich he looked intoproduction process andgave instructions onimproving quality ofTE-21 trucks.

MNA

Talks on Motivation & Job Design on 1 NovInsein Township on 1November.

The talks werejointly organized byMyanmar FisheryFederation and MyanmarPrawn Entrepreneur

Association with theassistance of Han SeinThant Engineering &Trading.

Any one may attendthe talks at 2 p.m on 1November. — MNA

Educative talks givenophthalmologist Dr DawNilar Thein and dentalsurgeon Dr Daw TheintTheint Than Wai of MyanmarWomen’s Affairs Federationprovided health care servicesto the schoolchildren.

Head of Admini-stration Department ofMWAF Dr Daw KhinHsan Nwe, leader ofprotection of women andrehabilitation workinggroup Daw Tin Tin Nwe,leader of social and cultural

working group Daw SandaAung gave talks onpersonal hygiene. Secretaryof Information Departmentof MWAF Daw Than ThanWin and Dr Daw Kyi KyiAung gave talks on ITdevelopment and youthsector.

Dr Daw Khin HsanNwe and officials presented50 dozens of exercise books,trash bins, rubbish bags andbooks to headmaster U TinLatt.—MNA

School environment sanitationactivities in Nay Pyi Taw

200 kyat lottery tickets available asof December 1

of 2009 will be sold at200 kyat instead of 100kyat.

The tickets including30 lottery alphabets willbe published. Thewinning lottery list willinclude one lucky drawlot worth K 100 million,one lot worth K 50million, three lots worthK 30 million each, five

lots worth K 20 millioneach, 17 lots worth K 10million each, 493 lotsworth K one million each,three lots worth K500,000 each, 173 lotsworth K 300,000 each,1593 lots worth K200,000 each and 15704lots worth K 100,000each, totaling 17,993 lots.

MNA

environment sanitationactivities in buildings,classrooms, toilets carriedout by the students and theirteachers. He also inspectedthe access to the school,park, playgrounds andstorage of drinking water.

According to theeducation plan, Ministryof Education designatedthe last week of Octoberas the SchoolEnvironment SanitationDay.

MNA

Commander Brig-Gen Win Myint welcomes General Zhang Li, DeputyChief of General Staff of PLA and delegation. —MNA

Members of Administration and Information Departments and Socialand Cultural Working Group of MWAF providing health

care to students.—YCDC

Minister Dr Chan Nyein inspects school environment sanitationactivities at No. 1 BEHS in Nay Pyi Taw. — EDUCATION

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Hydropower, bridge construction projects in An inspected

NAY PYI TAW, 27 Oct –Maj-Gen Khin Zaw of theMinistry of Defencetogether with Chairman ofRakhine State Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of WesternCommand Maj-GenThaung Aye and officialsvisited An Creek

Hydropower Project beingconstructed by theHydropower Imple-mentation Department, 3.5miles north-east of An on22 October morning andinspected constructiontasks.

Next, they proceededto Thayu (Pabadon) bridge

construction being imple-mented by the specialbridge construction groupof Public Works near MilePost 91/2 on Yangon-Swittway road andinspected constructionwork. Then, Maj-Gen KhinZaw and party vieweddevelopment of An.

Later, they lookedinto signal lights installedat the runway of AnAirport and constructionof a new hospital buildingof No. 2 Military Hospital(300-bed) beingundertaken by OriginalGroup Co.

MNA

YANGON, 27 Oct—Work Committee forPromotion of InformationTechnology of Union ofMyanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerceand Industry hasorganized the talk (11/07-09) with the assistance ofThapyaymin EmploymentAgency Co Ltd. The talkwill be held at the buildingof UMFCCI Tower onMinye Kyaw Swa Road

Talks on global financialcrisis on 1 Nov

in Lanmadaw townshiphere on 1 November.

Dr Maung MaungThein, general manager ofMyanma Insurance ofMinistry of Finance andRevenue will give talksunder the topic of “GlobalFinancial Crisis andDown of World’s No. 1Insurance Company”.Those interested in thesubject are invited toattend the talks.—MNA

YANGON, 27 Oct —Ministry of Educationorganized a ceremony topay respects to teachers atNo. 2 Basic EducationHigh School in

Education Ministry organizes respect payingSangyoung Township on25 October, to mark WorldTeachers’ Day.

Chairman of theOrganizing the 5th RespectPaying to teachers

Director-General U KyawThu of the No 1 BasicEducation Departmentread out a report onholding the ceremony.

Next, directors-

general, retired directors-general and officials gavepresents and paid respectsto old teachers. The retiredofficials spoke words ofthanks.—MNA

Installation of powerlines inspected

YANGON, 27 Oct—Minister for Electric PowerNo. 2 Maj-Gen KhinMaung Myint visitedMyaungdaga main sub-power station in HmawbyTownship yesterday.

The minister inspectedinstallation of 230 KV twinbundle single circuit powerlines between Kamanat(Bago) and Myaungdaga,distribution of Shwedaung-Myaungdaga 230 KVpower grid and supply ofpower betweenMyaungdaga and Hlawga.

The minister inspectedbus bar in switch yard inMyaungdaga main sub-power station andconnection of power line of

Shwedaung, Myaungdagaand Hlawga anddistribution of power withthe use of five 33 KV outputfeeders.

Project ManagerSuperintending Engineer USaw Win Maung reportedon construction of 186towers between Kamanat(Bago) and Myaungdaga,construction of 272 towersbetween Kamanat (Bago)and Thanlwin andconstruction of 36 towersbetween Thakayta andThanlyin.

The minister gaveinstructions on systematicarrangement, worksitesafety and completion ofthe project in time.—MNA

Maj-Gen Khin Zaw inspects An creek hydropower project.—MNA

Education Ministry organizes ceremony to pay respects to teachers at No. 2 BEHS inSangyoung. — EDUCATION

Minister for Electric Power No. 2 Maj-GenKhin Maung Myint looks into installation of

power lines between Kamanat (Bago) andMyaungdaga.—MNA

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Stockbrokers react as they monitor share prices during the morning tradingseason in a securities company in Jakarta on 27 Oct, 2008.—INTERNET

Pakistani and Afghan delegations attend the Tribal Elders Jirga meeting inIslamabad on 27 Oct, 2008. —INTERNET

Chinese, Russian officials pledgeto push forward energy coop

Australian govt maycut migration intake

CANBERRA, 27 Oct — The Australian ImmigrationMinister Chris Evans said on Sunday the governmentwould consider calls for a reduction in immigration tocope with slowing economic growth when it receivedthe mid-year economic data.

He said Australia already was seeing increasedinterest in migration to Australia from countries likeBritain which were experiencing economic downturn.

Evans said the government would also consult withindustry before deciding whether or not to alter thisyear’s migration programme.

“The programme was designed in the light of theforecasts for this year - strong economic growth, highinflation and a real skills crisis,” he told the NineNetwork.

“If those parametres are changing, the governmentwill take a sober look at those issues and make adecision when we have got proper information,” hesaid.

Evans said it was easy to call for a migrationreduction but it was important to consider migrantsactually had a positive impact on the economy.

“What we know is most migrants have better joboutcomes than Australians locally. We know that theyconsume, they buy property and they’re a net positiveto the budget,” he said.

MNA/Xinhu

Family drug cartel leader arrestedin Tijuana, Mexico

MEXICO CITY, 27 Oct —The head of a major familydrug-dealing cartel in Tijuana, a city bordering theUnited States which is plagued by rampant gangviolence, has been arrested, police said Sunday.

Eduardo Arellano Felix, nicknamed “the Doctor”,was arrested in an operation Saturday night, saidspokesmen of the National Defence Ministry(Sedena) and Federal Public Security (SSPF). Thepolice exchanged fire with the gangsters beforegetting into the house where he had been hiding,they said.

With Eduardo’s detention, “the generation of the(Arellano) brothers who formed that criminal structurehas been dismantled,” SSPF Vice Minister FacundoRosas told a Press conference. �

Eduardo Arellano was fully identified for his burntscars in both arms and chest, Rosas said.

MNA/Xinhua

Highway accident kills five in PeruLIMA, 27 Oct — Five people died and 32 were injured on Sunday after a bus

turned over in Apurimac region in central Peru, said National Police of Peru (PNP).The accident, which occurred on Sunday early morning on the Puquio-Chalhuanca

road in Pampamarca District, might have been caused by speeding or bad roadconditions, according to a preliminary inquiry. One of the casualties was a Germantourist, identified as Ruth Corsean, while the rest remained unknown.

The injured were taken to the local hospital. — MNA/Xinhua

Cambodia, Vietnamto finish demarcatingland border by end

of 2012PHNOM PENH, 27 Oct —

Cambodia and Vietnamhas agreed to completedemarcating their landborder by the end of 2012,English-Khmer languagenewspaper the CambodiaDaily on Monday quotedan official as saying.

The decision was madewhile Ho Xuan Son,undersecretary of theVietnamese ForeignAffairs Ministry anddirector of the country'sborder committee, metwith Cambodian DeputyPrime Minister andCabinet Minister Sok Anhere on Thursday, PhaySiphan, spokesman ofthe Cambodian Councilof Ministers, told thepaper.

MNA/Xinhua

MOSCOW, 27 Oct — Senior Chineseand Russian officials pledged to pushforward the two countries’ energycooperation during a high-level energynegotiators’ meeting here on Sunday.

“During this conference... weexchanged views and reached consensuson strengthening bilateral cooperationin oil and gas, nuclear energy andelectricity,” said Chinese Vice PremierWang Qishan, commenting on the talkswith his Russian counterpart Igor Sechin.

Wang suggested that the China-Russiaenergy cooperation cover all sectorsincluding oil and gas, nuclear energyand electricity, be market-oriented and

based on the principle of benefiting bothsides.

Hailing the booming Chinese-Russianpolitical and economic ties, Wang saidthe two countries’ energy negotiationmechanism will help expand and deepenthe long-term and steady energycooperation.

Sechin, for his part, said the energynegotiation mechanism promotedbilateral energy cooperation to a newlevel as related government agenciesand enterprises have done a lot tostimulate cooperation since the firstenergy negotiators' meeting.

MNA/Xinhua

G-7 express concernover yen’s rise in

emergency statement TOKYO, 27 Oct— The

Group of Seven majoreconomies said in a jointemergency statementMonday that they wereconcerned about the sharprise of yen against the USdollars and other majorcurrencies in the world.

“We are concerned aboutthe recent excessivevolatility in the exchangerate of the yen and its possibleadverse implications foreconomic and financialstability,” the G-7 said in astatement issued by Japan.

MNA/Xinhua

A file photo shows children watch heavy equipment clear a swath of primary andsecondary forest some 120 km east of Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo. Thecountry is throwing its all into the mining sector to vanquish poverty but the environmental and social risks are high. — INTERNET

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA TEGAP VOY NO (409)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA TEGAPVOY NO (409) are hereby notified that the vessel hasarrived on 27.10.08 and cargo will be discharged intothe premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at the consign-ee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws andconditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up 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 ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256919/256916/256912

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA TABAH VOY NO (TBH-253)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA TABAHVOY NO (TBH-253) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 28.10.08 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES PTE LTD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV XIANG DA VOY NO (8009)Consignees of cargo carried on MV XIANG DA

VOY NO (8009) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 28.10.08 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S CHINA SHIPPING(MALAYSIA) AGENCY SDN BHD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

MYANMAR IVANHOE COPPER COMPANY LIMITED(TENDER NOTICE)TENDER. IFB No. 23/ Overseas/2008Supply of General, Tyre, Pump (20) lots are invited form Overseas Suppliers by CIF.Yangon Basis, Euro or Singapore $ Currency, by LC Term.CLOSING DATE will be on 11 November 2008 12 noon.Tender documents are available at the following addresses:70 (I) Bo Chein Street, Pyay Road, Hlaing Township, Yangon, MyanmarTel: (95) 1 514194 to 7; Fax: (95) 1 514208; Email: [email protected]: Tel: (95) 71 22225/6; Fax: (95) 71 22522; Email: [email protected] are to be reached the above offices on or before the closing date.Queries can be done between 10am to 4pm at Supply Department; Tel: (95) 71 22225/6;Email: [email protected] before the Tender Closing Date.

Oil falls to $63 as investors eyefalling demand

SINGAPORE, 27 Oct—Oil prices fell to 17-month lowsat $63 a barrel Monday in Asia as investors weighedFriday’s OPEC output cut against growing evidenceof a severe global economic slowdown that would un-dermine crude demand.

Light, sweet crude for December delivery fell 32cents to $63.83 a barrel in electronic trading on theNew York Mercantile Exchange by midday in Singa-pore.

Investors brushed off a 1.5 million barrel-a-day cutannounced by the Organization of Petroleum Export-ing Countries on Friday, focusing instead on fallingcrude demand as economies across the globe reel fromthe impact of a credit crisis.

On Friday, oil fell $3.69 to settle at $64.15. Priceshave plunged 57 percent from a record $147.27 on 11July.

Oil investors have also been eyeing stock marketsto gauge sentiment on global economic health. MostAsian stock indexes fell Monday, led by Hong Kong,South Korea and Australia. Japanese shares reboundedslightly after plummeting last week.—Internet

Study finds AIDS treatmentshould start sooner

WASHINGTON, 27 Oct—People who have the AIDSvirus should start drug treatments sooner than currentguidelines recommend, suggests a large new studythat could change the care of hundreds of thousandsof Americans.

The study found that delaying treatment until a pa-tient’s immune system is badly damaged nearly dou-bles the risk of dying in the next few years comparedto patients whose treatment started earlier.

Doctors have thought it would be better to sparepatients the side effects of AIDS drugs as long as pos-sible.

The study was reported Sunday at an infectious dis-eases conference in Washington.

Powerful drug combinations available since themid-1990s have transformed HIV infection into amanageable chronic condition rather than the deathsentence it once was. But they can cause heart andcholesterol problems, diarrhea, nausea and other sideeffects. They also must be taken faithfully or resist-ance develops and the drugs stop working.

Internet

World’s heaviest manmarries in Mexico

MONTERREY, 27 Oct— The world’s heaviest man hastied the knot.

Manuel Uribe, who hasn’t left his bed in six years,married his longtime girlfriend Claudia Solis Sundayin northern Mexico.

Wearing a white silk shirt with a sheet wrappedaround his legs, Uribe smiled as Solis, 38, walkeddown a flight of stairs wearing a strapless ivory dress,a tiara and hot-pink lipstick.

He later broke into tears as a notary declared thecouple husband and wife in a civil ceremony attendedby more than 400 guests. For the traditional first danceas newlyweds, Uribe and Solis held hands and swayedto a romantic ballad.—Internet

Manuel ‘Meme’ Uribe, 43, gives a thump up whilebeing driven in a forklift to the dance hall where

he and Claudia Solis will get married inMonterrey, Mexico, on 26 Oct, 2008.

INTERNET

Heart device maker recalls implantPLEASANTON, 27 Oct—

A medical device com-pany has ordered the re-call of certain batches ofa small mechanical heartpump, saying five peoplehave died while using thedevice. Thoratec Corpurged patients to havetheir implants checked af-ter confirming 27 reportsof cases in which wearand fatigue to an electri-cal wire required the de-vices to be replaced, thecompany said in a state-ment on Friday.

The reports occurredover five years of clinicalexperience with 1,972implants, the companysaid. In five cases, the de-vice could not be replacedand the patients died.

The recall affects de-vices with catalog num-bers 1355 and 102139,which have been distrib-uted to 153 hospitals anddistributors throughoutthe United States andother countries since thebeginning of clinical stud-ies in November 2003.

A Thoratec spokes-woman did not immedi-ately respond to a callseeking additional com-ment Sunday.

The HeartMate IIpump was approved inApril as a temporary treat-ment for patients awaitingheart transplants, but ana-lysts had said the largermarket for the product isin “destination therapy,”or patients with end-stageheart failure who are tooill for a transplant.

Internet

A farmer takes his

horse and cart to a

traditional blessing

of animals cer-

emony to mark

World Food Day in

the village of

Gharghur in central

Malta on 26 Oct,

2008.

INTERNET

Drive withcare

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Study shows humans made fire790,000 years ago

Can smoke and mirrors ease globalwarming?

JERUSALEM, 27 Oct —A new study shows thathumans had the ability tomake fire nearly 790,000years ago, a skill thathelped them migrate fromAfrica to Europe.Byanalyzing flints at anarchaeological site on thebank of the river Jordan,researchers at Israel’sHebrew Universitydiscovered that earlycivilizations had learned

to light fires, a turningpoint that allowed them toventure into unknownlands.

A previous study of thesite published in 2004showed that man had beenable to control fire — forexample transferring itby means of burningbranches — in that earlytime period. But re-searchers now say thatancient man could actually

start fire, rather thanrelying on naturalphenomena such aslightning.

The new study, pub-lished in a recent editionof Quaternary ScienceReviews, mapped 12archaeological layers atGesher Benot Yaaqov innorthern Israel.While theydid not find remnants ofancient matches orlighters, Alperson-Afilsaid the patterns of burnedflint found in the sameplace throughout 12civilizations was evidenceof fire-making ability,though the methods usedwere unclear.—Internet

Splinters of ice peel off from oneof the sides of the Perito Moreno

glacier in a process of a unexpectedrupture during the southern

hemisphere’s winter months, nearthe city of El Calafate in the

Patagonian province of Santa Cruz,southern Argentina. —INTERNET

OSLO, 27 Oct — Backers of extremetechnologies to curb global warmingadvocate dumping iron dust into the

seas or placing smoke and mirrors in thesky to dim the sun.

But, even though they are seen bysome as cheap fixes for climate changewhen many nations are worried abouteconomic recession, such “geo-engineering”

proposals have to overcome widecriticism that they are fanciful and couldhave unforeseen side effects.

“We are at the boundaries, treadingin areas that we are not normally dealingwith,” said Rene Coenen, head of theOffice for the London Convention, aninternational organisation that regulatesdumping at sea.

The London Convention, part of theInternational Maritime Organisation, willreview ocean fertilization at a meetingthis week.

Internet

One man’s garbage becomes another’spower plant

Colombian hostage escapes with rebel jailer

Former hostageOscar Tulio Lizcano

uses a cell phone afterarriving at a military

base in Cali, Colombia,on 26 Oct , 2008.

INTERNET

A photographer stands next to a new lunar rovervehicle that US space agency NASA is testing in

Black Point, Arizona, on 24 Oct, 2008. The SmallPressurized Rover Concept vehicle is designed to

carry two astronauts without space suits, sitting ina pressurized compartment, when NASA returns

to lunar exploration by 2020.—INTERNET

BOGOTA, 27 Oct — A62-year-old lawmaker heldcaptive eight years byleftist rebels walked tofreedom in a westernColombia jungle onSunday along with theyoung guerrilla comm-ander who had been hisjailer. President AlvaroUribe said the rebel and hisgirlfriend would berewarded with asylum inFrance.

Oscar Tulio Lizcano isthe first RevolutionaryArmed Forces of Colombiahostage to gain freedomsince the 2 July rescueof former presidentialcandidate Ingrid Betan-

court and three US militarycontractors. His escape isyet another blow to LatinAmerica’s last major rebelarmy, which is battlingrecord desertions underwithering pressure fromColombia’s US-backedmilitary.

The white-beardedLizcano encountered amilitary road checkpointthree days after escapingwith the leader of the unitthat held him.He lookedhaggard in a grimy blackshirt and muddy trainingpants during Sunday’snews conference at amilitary base in the westerncity of Cali. — Internet

A methane gascollection pipe sticks out

of the 1-E landfill inKearny, NJ, seem on 6Oct, 2008.—INTERNET

KEARNY, 27 Oct —Standing atop the 400-acre1-E landfill, you get apanoramic view of theMeadowlands sportscomplex to the north andthe New York City skylineto the east. You’re alsostanding on a critical partof New Jersey’s, and thenation’s, energy future.

Decades’ worth ofhousehold trash, con-struction waste andassorted refuse buried inthe landfill are providingelectricity to thousands ofhomes.

“It’s like you’re buyingback your own garbage,but in a different form,”said Tom Marturano,director of solid waste andnatural resources for theNew Jersey MeadowlandsCommission, which ownsand operates the 1-E site.

The Kearny site isamong 21 landfills in NewJersey where methane gasproduced by decomposinggarbage is used as fuel togenerate electricity,according to the stateBoard of Public Utilities.

That is almost as manyas in the state of Texasand more than thecombined number inGeorgia, Mississippi,Louisiana, Arkansas andOklahoma.

Nationwide, the federalEnvironmental ProtectionAgency counts 455landfills that use theirmethane to generate

electricity and has targetedmore than 500 othersas potential candidatesthrough its LandfillMethane Outreach Pro-gramme.

One of New Jersey’sleading environmentalistsenvisions the state’s land-fills someday makingmore use of the sites byinstalling wind and solarpower to supplementmethane.

Internet

Security firms join Somali piracy fightNAIROBI, 27 Oct —

Blackwater Worldwideand other private securityfirms — some with areputation for being quickon the trigger in Iraq —are joining the battleagainst pirates plaguingone of the world’s mostimportant shipping lanes

off the coast of Somalia.The growing interest

among merchant fleets tohire their own firepoweris encouraged by the USNavy and representsa new and potentiallucrative market forsecurity firms scalingback operations inIraq.But some maritimeorganizations told TheAssociated Press thatarmed guards mayincrease the danger toships’ crews or thatoverzealous contractorsmight accidentally fire onfishermen.

The record in Iraq ofsecurity companies likeBlackwater, which isbeing investigated for itsrole in the fatal shootingof 17 Iraqi civilians in2007, raises concernsabout unregulated acti-vity and possible legalwrangles.Some securitycompanies — not all ofwhich let their employeescarry lethal weapons —blame trigger-happyoperators in Iraq andAfghanistan for tarnishingthe reputation of legiti-mate businesses.

Internet

Mondex, a Chihuahua, wears a pirate costumeduring a Halloween dog show for the benefit of

an animal welfare organization in Manila, on 26Oct, 2008. Mondex won the Creative Costume

award.—INTERNET

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S P O R T SEto’o and Barca back

to their best

For the entire summerSamuel Eto’o’s, seen

here, Barcelona futurewas up in the air as newcoach Pep Guardiola set

about getting rid ofunder-peforming starsand installing a newmentality within the

club.—INTERNET

Redknapp ‘couldn’t turn Tottenham down’

Tottenham Hotspur’s newmanager Harry Redknapp walks

out for the first time againstBolton Wanderers before theirPremiership football match atWhite Hart Lane.—INTERNET

Dementieva wins three-hourLuxembourg title marathonLUXEMBOURG, 27 Oct — Russia’s Olympic cham-

pion Elena Dementieva clinched the LuxembourgWTA title on Sunday but the top seed needed threehours to see off Danish fourth seed Caroline Wozniacki2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/4).

The 27-year-old, world number five eventually hadtoo much experience and power for her 18-year-oldopponent who was struggling with her fitness by theend. “I feel like I just won a Grand Slam,” Dementievasaid. “I think it was the most difficult final I’ve everplayed.—Internet

Back to best Ivanovic winsLinz title

Federer season back on coursewith Basel title hat-trick

Edwards wins at AtlantaMotor Speedway

HAMPTON, 27 Oct — Carl Edwards passed DennyHamlin on a late restart, then held on to win Sunday atAtlanta Motor Speedway to keep his championshiphopes alive.

But his seventh win of the season barely dentedJimmie Johnson’s points lead. Johnson had a roughstart to the race — earning a rare pit-road penalty thatdropped him a lap off the pace — but stormed back tofinish second with an impressive final sprint throughthe field.

A debris caution with 13 laps to go gave Johnson achance to dip onto pit road for two fresh tires, and hewas 11th when the race resumed with eight laps re-maining. Johnson then picked off the cars in front ofhim one at a time to widen his lead to 183 points overEdwards.—Internet

Referees aredisrespecting

fans, says Romachief Sensi

ROME, 27 Oct — ASRoma owner RosellaSensi took a swipe at ref-erees after her team’s un-der-performing stars fellto their fifth defeat ineight Serie A matcheswith a 3-1 loss at Udinese.

Antonio Di Natalescored the first Udinesegoal on 10 minutes fromthe penalty spot after MaxTonetto was adjudged tohave brought downAntonio Floro Flores inthe box. Television re-plays showed that Tonettocaught Floro Flores justoutside the box but mo-mentum took both playersinto the area.

Sensi also felt Romashould have had a firsthalf penalty when MirkoVucinic went down afterseemingly minimal con-tact. He was booked fordiving, although TV re-plays showed he had beencaught on the ankle.

Internet

CarlEdwardscelebrates

after winningthe Pep Boys

Auto 500NASCAR

Sprint CupSeries auto

race atAtlantaMotor

Speedway inHampton,Ga., on 26Oct, 2008.INTERMET

Russia’s Olympicchampion Elena

Dementieva

MADRID, 27 Oct — Forthe entire summer SamuelEto’o’s Barcelona futurewas up in the air as newcoach Pep Guardiola setabout getting rid of under-peforming stars and in-stalling a new mentalitywithin the club.

Tottenham Hotspurwere strongly linked withCameroon internationalEto’o but he made peacewith Guardiola and it haspaid dividends with thestriker back to his best,scoring nine goals in hisfirst eight matches.

Eto’o scored the fastestleague hat-trick in Barce-lona history with a trebleinside the first 23 minutesas Barca crushed Almeria5-0 on Saturday and theyare now second in LaLiga, a point behind lead-

Switzerland’s RogerFederer clinches his fist

after defeating hisopponent ArgentinaDavid Nalbandian inthe final match of theSwiss Indoors tennistournament in Basel.

Federer won 6-3,6-4.—INTERNET

BASEL, 27 Oct — RogerFederer completed a tro-phy hat-trick at his homeevent, the Swiss Indoors,on Sunday as he defeatedlongtime rival DavidNalbandian 6-3, 6-4.

Federer, who camealive after a slow start thisseason as he lifted a fifthstraight US Open crown,has now won two of thelast three ATP events hehas played and a fourthtrophy in all in 2008.

Federer goes into theseason-ending MastersCup in Shanghai fromNovember 9 charged withenthusiasm with his 57thcareer title secured and a

63-13 record so far this season.The Swiss stands 10-8 over Nalbandian after fac-

ing the Argentine for a decade or more dating to theirjunior days.

Federer spent just 68 minutes in earning the victoryas he competed in the fifth Basel final of his career.

His unsuccessful first two, in 2000 and 2001, havebeen followed up by victories at the last three editions.

Internet

LONDON, 27 Oct — Harry Redknappwatched Tottenham win his first game incharge, and their first Premier League matchthis season, before revealing how he wouldhave “regretted it for the rest of his life” ifhe’d turned them down.

Redknapp left his position as manager oftop-flight Portsmouth on Saturday to replaceSpanish coach Juande Ramos at White HartLane, who was sacked after the club madetheir worst start to a season.

Under Ramos, Tottenham took two pointsfrom their opening eight league games thisterm. In one match alone Redknapp surpassedthat total with goals from RomanPavlyuchenko and Darren Bent securing a2-0 win over Bolton at White Hart Lane.

Last season, Redknapp was linked with ahigh-profile move to Spurs’s fellow strugglersNewcastle before deciding to remain on thesouth coast.—Internet

Serbian tennis playerAna Ivanovic reacts aftershe defeated her oppo-nent Russian VeraZvonareva 6-2, 6-1 in thefinal of the WTA Opentournament in Linz,some 200 kilometers westof Vienna.—INTERNET

ers Valencia. Eto’o sits top of the goalscoring chartsalongside Valencia’s David Villa and after their worststart for 35 years Barca are on a roll.

The Catalan giants have won nine games in a row,six in the league, and are starting to look like the Bar-celona of a few years ago rather than the inconsistentside that failed to secure silverware for the previoustwo seasons under Frank Rijkaard.—Internet

LINZ, 27 Oct — Serbiantop seed Ana Ivanovicwon the 600,000 dollarsWTA event in Linz onSunday with an impres-sive 6-2, 6-1 demolitionof Russian second seedVera Zvonareva.

Ivanovic, currentlyranked fourth in the worldafter a spell as numberone, swamped her ninth-ranked rival, at 23, threeyears her senior, neverlooking back after twobreaks sent her romping3-0 clear in the openingset.

She wrapped that oneup at the first time of ask-ing then bagged anotherbreak to all but end her ri-val’s resistance at the start of the second.

She completed the job in just 51 minutes on herfirst match point.

Ivanovic, ten days off her 21st birthday, pocketedher eighth career title and the third of 2008 - includingRoland-Garros.

After winning in Paris and taking the number oneranking, things turned sour for the Serbian pin-up as aright thumb injury forced her to miss the Beijing Ol-ympics, while dragging down her overall level - shewent out in the third round at Wimbledon to 133rd-ranked Zheng Jie of China.—Internet

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowershave been fairly widespread in Rakhine and Kayah States,Magway Division and widespread in the remaining Statesand Divisions with locally heavyfall in Yangon Division.The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were NayPyi Taw (Tatgone) (0.87) inch, Nay Pyi Taw(Thapyaygone) (0.79) inch, Nay Pyi Taw (Lewe) (0.75)inch, Nay Pyi Taw (Yezin) (0.71) inch, Yangon (Kaba-Aye) (3.82) inches, Yangon (Central) (3.58) inches,Yangon (Mingaladon) (2.44) inches, Maungtaw (2.36)inches and Sittway (1.69) inches.

Maximum temperature on 26-10-2008 was 79˚F.Minimum temperature on 27-10-2008 was 67ºF. Rela-tive humidity at (09 :30) hours MST on 27-10-2008 was100%. Total sunshine hours on 26-10-2008 was (Nil)approx.

Rainfall on 27-10-2008 was (2.44) inches atMingaladon, (3.82) inches at Kaba-Aye and (3.58) inchesat Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was(107.24) inches at Mingaladon, (118.82) inches at Kaba-Aye and (137.28) inches at Central Yangon. Maximumwind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (6) mph fromSouthwest at (12:30) hours MST on 26-10-2008.

Bay inference: Yesterday’s depression over WestCentral Bay has moved Northeast wards and Futher in-tensified into Cyclonic Storm (RASHMI) in yesterdaynight. According to the observation at (10:00) hrs MSTtoday, the Cyclonic Storm has crossed the Coast betweenIndia and Bangladesh weaken into a land depression. Itis forecast to move Northeast wards and weaken duringthe next 24 (hours). Weather is cloudy in the AndamanSea, East Central Bay, South Bay and partly cloudy else-where in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 28thOctober 2008:Rain or thudershowers will be fairly widespread to wide-spread in Kachin, Shan, Rakhine and Mon States, Bago,Yangon, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Divisions and scat-tered in the remaining States and Divisions with likeli-hood of isolated heavyfalls in Yangon and AyeyawadyDivisions. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seasare likely at time off along Myanmar Coast. Surface windspeed in squalls may reach (35) to (40) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation ofrain or thundershowers in the Lower Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 28-10-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degreeof certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for28-10-2008: Some rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 28-10-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. De-gree of certainty is (80%).

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US independent candidateclaims record-long speech

WASHINGTON, 27 Oct—An US independentpresidential candidateclaimed on Sunday that hehas created a world recordof longest campaignspeeches in a single day.

Ralph Nader, alongtime liberal consumeradvocate, said that he hasmade speech marathon ofmore than 255 minutes in21 Massachusettscommunities on Saturday,long enough to overwritethe Guinness Book forWorld Records.

The 74-year-oldcandidate was told earlierby Guinness officials that

he has to give at least 150minutes of speeches witheach lasting at least 10minutes and having anaudience of at least 10people.

“When you’re seekingjustice, as I have for somany years, it’sinvigorating, notfatiguing,” he said of hisadventure.

His spokesman toldreporters that Nader’s“Massachusetts Mara-thon” was aimed atraising awareness he isrunning for president asan independent.

MNA/Xinhua

DHAKA, 27 Oct— Bangladesh advised ports to hoistwarning signals and asked all vessels to stay in sheltersor close to shore as a tropical storm in the Bay ofBengal moved towards its coasts, officials said onSunday.

The storm has driven strong winds and rain overthe country since Friday, and could last a few moredays, the meteorological department said. Two peoplewere killed when a tree uprooted by the wind fell onthem at a village in Chandpur District 170 kilometres(106 miles) southeast of the capital Dhaka on Sunday.

The meteorological department said at 0600 GMTon Sunday, the storm was about 635 kilometres (400miles) southwest of Chittagong. It was expected tointensify and move in a north or northeasterly directionto make landfall between Barishal and Khulna byMonday afternoon. The storm was likely to sweep thecoasts with a tidal surge of up to two metres abovenormal levels, the met office said.—MNA/Reuters

Bangladesh warns of storm inBay of Bengal

A Labrador police dog is held by a policemanwhile other dogs are photographed during a dogfestival in Kathmandu on 27 Oct, 2008. Hindu

Nepalese all over the country are celebrating thisfestival by offering food and garlands to the dogs

for their obedience.—Internet

Over 2,000 flee homeafter flood in eastern

IndonesiaJAKARTA, 27 Oct—At

least 2,000 people haveescaped from floods inGorontalo province ineastern parts of Indonesia,official said here Monday.

Indonesia has beenfrequently hit by flood andlandslide due to lack offorest-covered areas,which could not holdexcessive waters duringheavy rains.

Consecutive days ofheavy rain had caused tworivers in Gorontalo city,the capital of the province,over-flowed andsubmerged the city,provincial secretary

Nurdin Mokoginta said. The flood that started

Saturday had led thepeople gradually left theirhomes for the higherplaces, he said. “Now, thetotal residence takingshelters reaches about2,000,” he told Xinhua ontelephone from theprovince.

The secretary said thatthe number was expectedto rise should the raincome again. “Many ofthem go to schoolbuildings, market andother public buildings,”said Mokoginta.

MNA/Xinhua

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NAY PYI TAW, 27 Oct—A Chinesedelegation led by Deputy Chief of Gen-eral Staff General Zhang Li of the Peo-ple’s Liberation Army of the People’sRepublic of China arrived here by spe-cial flight this morning to pay a goodwillvisit to the Union of Myanmar at theinvitation of Member of the State Peaceand Development Council General ThuraShwe Mann of the Ministry of Defence.

The visiting Chinese goodwill del-egation was welcomed by Member ofthe State Peace and Development Coun-cil General Thura Shwe Mann of theMinistry of Defence, Military AffairsSecurity Chief Lt-Gen Ye Myint, Com-

General Thura Shwe Mannwelcomes Chinese goodwill

delegationmander of Nay Pyi Taw Command Maj-Gen Wai Lwin and senior military of-ficers at the Nay Pyi Taw Airport.

Next, General Thura Shwe Mannand party cordially greeted the visitingChinese goodwill delegation members.Afterwards, Deputy Chief of GeneralStaff General Zhang Li of Chinese Peo-ple’s Liberation Army cordially greetedthe welcoming party.—MNA

Storm newsYANGON, 27 Oct—According to the observa-

tion at 10 a.m today, Cyclone Rashmi occurred inthe mid-west of Bay of Bengal moved to thenortheastward and then entered the inland of Bang-ladesh after crossing India and near the border ofBangladesh and it is expected to dissipate within 24hours while moving to northeastward.

Due to the storm, rains are likely to be wide-spread in Kachin and Chin States and upper SagaingDivision within next 24 hours.

Squalls with moderate to rough seas are likelyalong Myanmar coast and offshore areas. Surfacewind speed in squalls may reach 35 to 40 mph.

MNA

Some fishermen in the Yway River in Labutta.

Bumblebees Learn The SweetSmell Of Foraging Success

LONDON, 27 Oct—Bumblebees use flowerscent to guide their nest-mates to good foodsources, according to sci-entists from Queen Mary,University of London.

For any animal, find-ing food on its own canbe time consuming andinefficient; social animalssuch as bees reduce theseproblems by informingtheir peers of plentifulsites, and ‘recruiting’

them to the search.Honeybees use their

waggle-dance to tell nest-mates the distance and di-rection of a food source.But bumblebees can’tcommunicate geographi-cal information in this way;instead, they release a re-cruitment pheromone inthe nest to encourage theircolleagues to venture outin search of food. Butwhere should they look?

Internet

Article by Maung Maung Htwe

General Thura Shwe Mann

welcomes General Zhang Li of

People’s Liberation Army of

PRC.—MNA

Voices of Labutta dwellers aboutrestoration of their businesses

I had conducted interviews with some local farm-ers and fishermen of Labutta Township in AyeyawadyDivision from 16 to 21 October 2008 to present theirliving conditions for public information.

When asked about his business and livingconditions, U Aung Myat of Kyakhmaw modelvillage said, “I have a 26-acre land and I growHsinthwelat, Manawthukha, Pawhsanyin andHnankar strains of paddy in it. The governmenthas provided me with 25 baskets of paddy seeds,12 bags of fertilizer, a Leya-22 brand power-tiller,fuel and pesticides. I lost my draught cattle in thestorm. Now I have got a power-tiller, and it is moreconvenient for me to plough my fields with it than

with cattle. I grow more paddy this year thanprevious years, and about 95 per cent of it issuccessful. The government and local and foreignorganizations have provided me with relief sup-plies including rice, edible oil and beans and pulsesthat are adequate for me to have till the completionof the harrowing of my fields. I have not run out ofthe provisions yet. Paddy will be in season in theend of this month. Regarding the growing of paddy,there is no difference between in the past and atpresent. Kyaukhmaw Village-tract has more than40,000 acres of paddy fields, and as you see, all thepaddy fields here are thriving.”

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