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Volume XX, Number 32 2nd Waxing of Nayon 1374 ME Tuesday, 22 May, 2012

Our Three MainNational Causes

* Non-disintegration ofthe Union

* Non-disintegration ofNational Solidarity

* Perpetuation ofSovereignty

NAY PYI TAW, 21 May—Theconsecration ceremony of bronze BuddhaImage and golden throne donated byPresident U Thein Sein and wife Daw KhinKhin Win was held at Shwe Moat HtawPagoda in Pathein of Ayeyawady Regionyesterday morning.

The ceremony was attended by UnionMinister at the President OfficeU Thein Nyunt, Ayeyawady Region ChiefMinister U Thein Aung, Deputy Minister forCooperatives U Than Tun, AyeyawadyRegion ministers, region level departmentalpersonnel, members of the Pagoda Board ofTrustees, members of social and religiousorganizations, townselders and local people.

Ovadaçariya Sayadaws of the Pagodaconsecrated the Buddha Image.

The congregation received the FivePrecepts from members of Sangha and sharedmerits gained.

The Union Minister, the Region chiefminister and guests offered meals to membersof Sangha.

Union Minister U Thein Nyunt, ChiefMinister U Thein Aung, DeputyCooperatives Minister U Than Tun, DeputyHealth Minister Dr Win Myint and officialsattended opening of 16-bedded stationhospital in Wetchaung village in KyaunggonTownship.

Deputy Minister Dr Win Myint, RegionSocial Affairs Minister U San Maung, retiredAttorney-General U Aye Maung andChairman of Max Myanmar Company UZaw Zaw formally opened the hospital.

The chief minister unveiled the stoneinscription and sprinkled it with scentedwater.

Consecration ceremony of bronze BuddhaConsecration ceremony of bronze BuddhaImage and golden throne heldImage and golden throne held

NAY PYI TAW, 21May—Union Minister forElectric Power No.2 U KhinMaung Soe visited Stateelectrical engineer office inKengtung, Shan State (East)

EP-2 Minister inspects diesel-firedpower station in Kengtung

Union Minister for Electric Power No.2 U Khin Maung Soe inspects500-KVA diesel-fired power station in Kengtung.—MNA

Consecration ceremony of bronze Buddha Image and golden throne donated by President U Thein Seinand wife Daw Khin Khin Win in progress at Shwe Moat Htaw Maha Pagoda in Pathein of

Ayeyawady Region.—MNA

The Union Minister, the Region chiefminister, Deputy Minister Dr Win Myintand the retired attorney-general addressedthe ceremony to hand over the hospital.

U Zaw Zaw donated K 430 millionfor construction of the hospitalthrough Region Social Affairs Minister USan Maung who also accepted donations ofwellwishers.

The chairman of Max Myanmar Cohanded over documents related to thehospital to the deputy health minister.

A local spoke words of thanks.The Union Minister, the chief minister

and officials viewed round the hospitalcapable of providing medical treatment toover 81387 villagers from five village-tractsin Kyonpyaw Township.

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on 18 May. The UnionMinister heard the reportson distribution of electricity,reduction of unit losses,safety measures and staffaffairs.

After that, theUnion Minister inspectedsub-power station (33/11 KV)and 500-KVA Diesel-firedpower station and fulfilledthe needs.—MNA

Noteworthy amounts of rainfall(21-5-2012)

Kyiekkhame (2.48) inchesManaung (2.20) inchesThaton (2.13) inchesGwa (1.89) inchesPyinOoLwin (1.48) inchesMaubin (1.38) inchesAn (1.30) inchesHeho (1.10) inchesLoikaw (1.06) inches

Significant DayTemperatures(21-5-2012)

Chauk (45°C)Kalay (45°C)Monywa (40°C)Myingyan (45°C)NyaungU (45°C)Pakokku (45°C)

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PERSPECTIVES

Help civil servants sayno to bribery

Tuesday, 22 May, 2012

The country is now marching towards abetter future with the steady transformationof economic, political and social sectors. Andnecessary amendments to the relevant lawsand regulations are being made, and economicand investment policies and investment lawsare under review to be compatible with othercountries.

At a time when direct foreign investmentsare being invited, it is necessary for all the civilservants to help the country prove its integrityto the international community.

Looking at from the point of view of thecountry going through a transition, it seemsinevitable that we still have to cope with theissue of corruption, which is one of the majorsetbacks to the democratization process,although the new administration does nottolerate the dishonest behaviour.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the peoplehave long been fed up with corruption andbribery cases, all of which wreck thecompetitiveness of businesses and industriesat the expense of the country’s interest.

Corruption not only adds unnecessarycosts at the expense of consumers but alsoinstills the negative mentality, especially amongthe youth, that corruption is acceptable. Evenin the light of recent corruption scandals, itseems some departmental officials still cannotrefuse a bribe.

The country will never be reformedunless the corruption issue is seriously tackledand those found guilty are properly heldresponsible for their actions. The countrywould not face serious financial problem ifthere is no corruption and irregularities deeplyentrenched in some government departments.

It is imperative that the newadministration proves the validity of everycase that is brought to public attention. If aninvestigation pinpoints any culprit, he or shemust be punished as an example. In this context,the need for a review of the judicial systembecomes apparent. We can no longer allowcorrupt civil servants to get away with theirselfish actions.

NAY PYI TAW, 21 May—Union Minister for MinesU Thein Htaik attended China-ASEAN Mining CooperationForum and Promotion Exhibition 2012 at NanningInternational Convention and Exhibition Centre inNanning of Guangxi Province, the People’s Republic ofChina on 11 May.

The forum was attended by the Guangxi Provincegovernor, the deputy minister of Land and Resources ofChina and related high-ranking officials from 10 ASEANcountries.

The Union Minister suggested promotion ofcooperation between China and ASEAN nations for furtherdevelopment in mining and production and explainedmatters related to management and investment potentialsin mining sectors of Myanmar.

The Union Minister and party met Guangxi ProvinceGovernor Mr Ma Biao at Nanning International Conventionand Exhibition Center and Deputy Land Resources Ministerof China Mr Wang Min at Liyuan Resort separately anddiscussed matters of mutual interest in mining sector of the

Union Mines Minister attends China-ASEAN MiningCooperation Forum and Promotion Exhibition

two countries. The Union Minister and party also visitedmining exhibition, machinery exhibition, jewelleryexhibition and special vehicle exhibition.

The Union Minister and party observed finishedjade products at Jade Art Work showroom of Gendale Plazein Beijing on 13 May and called on Vice-President MrZhanf Keli of China Non-Ferrous Metal Mining Group CoLtd and Vice-President Mr Geng Zhiyuan of Myanmar-China Association on 14 May.

In meeting with General Secretary Mr Chen Lu Pingof CPC Jieyang Committee and Chairman of GemsMerchants Association Mr Xai Yihai in Jieyang on 15 May,the Union Minister discussed matters related to finishedjade products development and sales promotion of gemsemporium.

On 16 May, the Union Minister and party visitedHong Kong Gems Polishing Training School in HongKong. They discussed sales promotion of gems emporiumwith personnel of district administration organ of HongKong on 17 May and arrived back here on 18 May.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20May—Chinese culturaltroupe staged Myanmar-China friendshipentertainment show atNational theatre on 18 May,enjoyed by Mandalay RegionChief Minister U Ye Myintand wife.

Among thespectators were members ofregional organizations, andtheir wives, Mandalay-basedConsul- General Mr Yu Borenand wife, Indian Consul-General Dr Madan Mihan

Chinese cultural troupestages entertainment show

in Mandalay

YANGON, 21 May—Republic of the Union of MyanmarFederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry Vice-Presidents U Aung Lwin and U Tun Aung and CEC receivedMr You Jianhua of China NGO Network for InternationalExchange and party of the People’s Republic of China atthe Federation on 16 May.

They cordially discussed signing Memorandum ofUnderstanding with the Federation.

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UMFCCI, Chinese guestsdiscuss signing of MoU

Books for rural librariesin Pyawbwe

NAY PYI TAW, 21 May—The donors have beencontributing to various kind of journal to self-reliantlibraries so as to broaden the knowledge of the villagers.

So, a family of U Tin Aung Swe & Daw Khin MoeMoe (Shweleikpyar Robe) donated 236 issues of journalsto the self-reliant libraries opened in the villages ofPyawbwe Township through Township Staff Officer UPhone Naing of the Township Information and PublicRelations Department. Next he spoke words of thanks.

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YANGON, 21 May – Aceremony to celebrate the1486th Anniversary ofProphet Day was held atYuzana Garden Hotel hereyesterday evening. Presenton the occasion were UnionMinister for ReligiousAffairs Thura U MyintMaung, Yangon RegionChief Minister U Myint Swe,region ministers, officials ofthe Ministry of ReligiousAffairs. Chairman of theCentral Committee forcelebrating the 1486thAnniversary of Prophet Day

1486th Anniversary ofProphet Day marked

Under the age is of late U Tin Maung,Daw Tein Thein and family at No.15 (A)

Myayadana street in Yankin Township, Yangondonated K 1 million to Jivitadhana Sangha

Hospital through Chairman of Board ofAdministration U Maung Maung.—MNA

Union Minister for Mines U Thein Htaik speaks at China-ASEAN Mining Cooperation Forum andPromotion Exhibition 2012 at Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Nanning

of Guangxi Province in PRC.—MNA

Sethi, and enthusiasts.The entertainment

featured single singing,playing of Chinesetraditional musicalinstruments, Beijing opera,circus, magic, ballet and duetsinging.

The region chiefminister and the ChineseConsul-General after theshow presented bouquets tothe cultural troupe andposed for documentaryphoto.

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Haji Major Tin Maung (Retd)delivered an openingspeech. Next, UnionMinister Thura U MyintMaung spoke on theoccasion.

Region ChiefMinister U Myint Swepresented a gift of honour toU Htay Naing of MyanmaRailways, who risked savingan old woman and hergrandchild from being runover by a train on 10 April.Then the ceremony came toan end.

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NATO to hand combat role to Afghans asit seeks way out of war

CHICAGO, 21 May—NATO will hand over the leadrole in combat operations toAfghan forces across thecountry by mid-2013, allianceleaders said on Sunday as theycharted a path out of a war thathas lost public support andstrained budgets in Westernnations.

A NATO summit inChicago on Monday willformally endorse a US-backedstrategy for a gradual exit fromAfghanistan, a move aimed atholding together an allied forcescrambling to cope withFrance’s decision to withdrawits troops early.

US President Barack Obama (front, 3rd R) and Secretary General of NATO AndersFogh Rasmussen (front, 2nd R) point out a feature as leaders pose for a family photo at

the NATO Summit in Chicago on 20 May, 2012.—REUTERS

Fed by dry brush, wildfires persist inSouthwest

PHOENIX, 21 May—An Arizona wildfirewhipped up by winds and dry conditionsthreatened to trigger more evacuations onSunday, just as firefighters were nearly donebattling the biggest of four blazes in the state.

Fires in Arizona, New Mexico andColorado have forced the evacuation ofseveral small towns and torched more than 65square miles (168 square km) of forest, brushand grass in the US Southwest.

The Arizona blazes were the first majorwildfires in the state this year after a record2011 fire season in which nearly 2,000 firesconsumed more than 1,500 square miles (3,900square km), according to the NationalInteragency Fire Centre.

The so-called Gladiator Fire was thegreatest concern for firefighters on Sunday.After getting a respite from winds onSaturday, they faced a combination of dryvegetation and higher winds on Sunday andthe days ahead.

“We’re expecting more extreme firebehavior today. The fuel is dry and conditionsare dangerous,” said Michelle Fidler, aspokeswoman for the departments fighting

Firefighters prepare to use a helicopter tosurvey the Gladiator Fire in Cleator,Arizona on 17 May, 2012.—REUTERS

Two killed, 18 wounded inBeirut clashes

BEIRUT, 21 May—Two people were killed and 18 werewounded in overnight clashes in Beirut, Lebanon’s NationalNews Agency said on Monday, the latest bloodshed fuelledby tensions over the uprising in neighbouring Syria.

Fighters firing rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns clashed for most of the night in the Tariq al-Jadidehdistrict of the Lebanese Capital.—Reuters

Residents walk near a damaged car after clashesbetween Sunni Muslim Future supporters and a pro-

Syrian group in Tariq al-Jadideh District area in Beiruton 21 May, 2012.—REUTERS

the fire.More evacuations were possible, she

said. The Gladiator fire, named after an oldmine in the area, destroyed four structuresand forced about 350 residents of the oldmining town of Crown King to leave theirhomes earlier in the week. It also prompted theevacuation of three tiny and remote Arizonacommunities on Friday.

The fire, which was 10 percent contained,has burned more than 20 square miles (51square km).—Reuters

Greek leftist brings message to Europe: “Let’s talk”ATHENS, 21 May—The charismatic Greek leftist who could determine the fate of the euro begins a tour

of European capitals on Monday carrying a single message: it’s time to talk.In an interview on the eve of his first visit abroad since his surprise rise in a 6 May election, Alexis Tsipras

veered occasionally into the combative rhetoric that has seduced disaffected Greek youth and alarmedBrussels and Berlin.

But he also stressed repeatedly that he wants negotiations to keep Greece in the euro. He said he waslooking to forge ties with likeminded European figures, including new French President Francois Hollande,who want to soften austerity policies by finding new ways to encourage growth.

“The first reason we are taking this trip is because we want the governments of these important EuropeanUnion countries, France and Germany, to see what we stand for: what is being transmitted in Europe aboutus is not what we represent and want,” Tsipras told Reuters at the office of his SYRIZA party.

He will not be meeting government officials, but will see fellow leftists in France and Germany, including

Head of Greece’s Left Coalition party Alexis Tsipras (C),accompanied by party officials, leaves from the

Presidential palace following a meeting with politicalleaders and the Greek President in Athens on 15 May,

2012.— REUTERS

Two killed, five injuredin Iraq’s violence

BAGHDAD, 21 May — Two people werekilled and five others wounded in separatebomb attacks in central Iraq on Sunday, thepolice said.

In Iraq’s northern central province ofSalahudin, a civilian was killed when a stickybomb attached to his car detonated in al-Qadisiyah District in northern the provincialcapital City of Tikrit, a source from theprovincial operations command told Xinhuaon condition of anonymity.

In a separate incident, a roadside bombwent off near a police vehicle in the samedistrict, injuring two policemen, the sourcesaid.

Salahudin Province is a Sunni-dominatedprovince. Its capital City of Tikrit, some 170 kmnorth of Baghdad, is the hometown of theformer President Saddam Hussein.

Near Baghdad, a civilian was killed andthree others wounded when a roadside bombripped through Tarmiyah area, some 30 kmnorth of the Iraqi Capital, a local policeanonymously told Xinhua.

Sporadic attacks are still common in theIraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease inviolence since its peak in 2006 and 2007 whenthe country was engulfed in sectarian killings.

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former French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon and Klaus Ernst and GregorGysi of Germany’s The Left. He will holdnews conferences in both capitals to get hismessage to a wider audience.

“We are not at all an anti-Europeanforce. We are fighting to save social cohesionin Europe. We are maybe the most pro-European force in Europe, because itsdominant powers will lead the union intoinstability and the euro zone to collapse ifthey insist on austerity,” he said.

While he repeated his assertion that theterms of a 130 billion bailout agreement Greecesigned with international lenders in Marchare now a “dead letter”, he said that if hecomes to power he will seek a new policy mixto keep Greece in the euro.

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President Barack Obamaand NATO partners want toshow their war-weary votersthe end is in sight in a conflictthat has dragged on for morethan a decade while at thesame time trying to reassureAfghans that they will not beabandoned.

“There will be no rush forthe exits,” NATO Secretary-General Anders FoghRasmussen said as the summitgot under way. He sought toput up a show of unity even asFrance’s new PresidentFrancois Hollande vowed tostick by his pledge to withdrawFrench troops by year’s end,

two years earlier than thealliance timetable.

NATO’s plan is to shiftfull responsibility to Afghanforces for security across thecountry by the middle of nextyear and then withdraw mostof the alliance’s 130,000 combattroops by the end of 2014,Rasmussen said.

While foreign forces willcontinue to fight the Talebanand other militants asnecessary—and it may be verynecessary—the new missionfor US and NATO troops willassume a new focus onadvising and supportingAfghan soldiers.—Reuters

Putin todominate new

Russiangovernment

MOSCOW, 21 May—Russian President VladimirPutin will unveil a governmentdominated by loyalists onMonday, leaving PrimeMinister Dmitry Medvedevlimited scope to pursue hisreform agenda andentrenching the Kremlin’s gripover the economy’scommanding heights.

Medvedev, 46, namedpremier after Putin returned tothe Kremlin on 7 May, haspledged to launch pro-growthpolicies and a privatisationdrive to wean Russia’s $1.7billion economy off itsdependence on oil. But, even

Russia’s PresidentVladimir Putin.—REUTERSthough the partners in Russia’sruling ‘tandem’ announcedthey would switch jobs as longago as last September, thelengthy and secretive processof forming a government hasraised concerns that it will beriven by factional conflict.

Medvedev, speaking at aGroup of Eight summit at theweekend where leadersdiscussed how to contain theeuro zone’s debt crisis,rebutted the skeptics.

“The government will besubstantially renewed—that’s why forming it has takenlonger than in the past,” hesaid at Camp David, USPresident Barack Obama’sretreat outside Washington.“We have a plan of action ...that was tested in the firstphase of the crisis,” Medve-dev told reporters. “If needed,we can put it into effect—inthat sense all our guns areloaded.”—Reuters

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Science & Technology Science & Technology Science & TechnologyNASA chooses rocket for Orion launches

CAPE CANAVERAL, 21May—NASA says it willmodify an existing and provenDelta IV rocket second stageto launch an Orion spacecrafton an unmanned test flight in2017.

A manned flight to lunarorbit is planned for four yearsafter that, the agency said.

The Boeing upper stageis “the only means available

Artist’s impression ofOrion capsule with crew.

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to support the immediate in-space propulsion needs” forthe excursions, NASA said ina statement.

An internal study of in-space propulsion systemsavailable in the United States,Europe and Japan determinedthe Delta IV upper stage “isthe only known in-space stagerequiring relatively minormodifications” to meet mission

requirements as well as thelaunch schedule, NASA said.

The Delta IV secondstage is powered by a singlePratt & Whitney RL-10B2engine fueled by liquidhydrogen and liquid oxygen.

Both Orion missions willbe launched from complex 39Bat Kennedy Space Centre onearly versions of NASA’s newheavy-lift Space Launch

System, Florida Todayreported.—Internet

EDAY, (Scotland), 21May —An undersea turbineusing tidal power to generateelectricity performedsuccessfully in initial testsoff the coast of Scotland, aprivate energy company said.

The 100-foot-high, 1-megawatt turbine, loweredinto position during winterstorms off the Orkney Islands,is powering homes andbusinesses on the island ofEday, officials with ScottishPower Renewables said.

The test is part of a planto create a 10-megawatt tidalpower array in the Sound ofIslay, they said.

Undersea turbine powersScottish island

The test, which began inDecember, is part of a largerproject for the Islay projectthat intends to install moreturbines “as early as feasible”between 2013 and 2015, theenergy company said.

“The performance of thefirst HS1000 device has givenus great confidence so far,”SPR Chief Executive KeithAnderson said in a companyrelease on Thursday. “Eng-ineers were able install thedevice during atrociousweather conditions, and it hasbeen operating to a very highstandard ever since.”

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Merging tech companies could deepen digitaldivide

abandoning obsoletetechnology and embracingtechnology that is faster,better, cheaper and moreconvenient,” he said. “Butthe risk is that we may becreating a digital divide —not necessarily a dividebetween the rich and poor,but between the informationrich and information poor.”

Rural customers couldreplace land line telephoneswith cellular phones, forexample, but most cell phonecompanies charge a fee foreach minute of use — metering— while most fees for landlines are unmetered and arepaid through a fixed monthlycharge, he said.

Frieden said there aredoubts cellular service willprove to be as dependable aslandlines.

“Cell phone companieshave these colourful maps that

A shoppers talks on hercell phone as she looksfor deals at a Best Buystore on 25 November,

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of new communicationtechnologies such as cellular

show how well they coverareas,” Frieden said. “Butthere are lots of places —including places in ruralPennsylvania, West Virginiaand New York — that do nothave cell phone service, oroffer limited services notsuitable for broadband,Internet access.”

“There are other forms ofcompetition now,” Friedenacknowledges, “but thesealternatives are not fair oradequate everywhere.”

InternetUNIVERSITY PARK, 21

May—As communicationcompanies merge telephone,television and Internetservices, some customersmay be left on the wrong sideof the digital divide, a USresearcher says.

Telephone companiesare asking governmentregulators to free them of theirtraditional role as a publicutility, citing the availability

phones and fiber optic cablethat make copper-basedtelephone land lines obsolete.

However, not all thesealternatives are as affordableand as ubiquitous as copperlandlines, a problem that couldleave many rural residentsunderserved, Penn Statetelecommunication research-er Rob Frieden says.

“Moving away fromcopper lines is an example of

Whales can ‘turn down’ their hearingHONOLULU, 21 May—Whales can

“adjust” their super-sensitive hearing, usedto hunt and navigate, and can turn it downwhen they anticipate loud noises, USresearchers say.

Scientists at the University of Hawaiiconducted a study using a trained false killerwhale, or marine dolphin, named Kina.

Paul Nachtigall and a colleague,Alexander Supin from the Russian Academyof Sciences, said they suspected Kina mighthave the ability “to control the level of herhearing.”

They placed sensors contained withinsoft latex suction cups on Kina’s body tomeasure the electrical activity in Kina’s brainas it responded to sound as she hunted.

The researchers monitored the whale’sbrain while they played a “neutral tone,” aninnocuous beep, then followed that with a 5-

Sensors attached to suction cups onKina’s body took measurements of her

brain activity.—INTERNET

System can help the blind navigate indoorsRENO, 21 May—A low-

cost indoor navigation systemfor the blind based on human-computer interaction can runon a standard smartphone, USengineers say.

Computer scienceengineering researchers at theUniversity of Nevada, Reno,presented their accessiblenavigation system calledNavatar at two nationalconferences in the last two

weeks, the university reportedin a release on Friday.

The system uses digital2-D architectural maps that arealready available for manybuildings and uses low-costsensors such as accelero-meters and compassesavailable in most smartphonesto allow users with visualimpairments to navigateindoor environments.

“Existing indoor naviga-

tion systems typically requirethe use of expensive and heavysensors, or equipping roomsand hallways with radio-frequency tags that can bedetected by a handheld readerand which are used todetermine the user’s location,”Kostas Bekris of the univer-sity’s Robotics Research Labsaid.

“This has often made theimplementation of suchsystems prohibitively expen-sive, with few systems havingbeen deployed.”

Navatar locates andtracks the user inside thebuilding, finds the mostsuitable path based on theuser’s special needs and givesstep-by-step instructions tothe destination, Bekris said.

“Nevertheless, thesmartphone’s sensors, whichare used to calculate howmany steps the user hasexecuted and her orientation,tend to pick up false signals,”researcher Eelke Folmer said.

“To synchronize thelocation, our system com-bines probabilistic algorithmsand the natural capabilities ofpeople with visual impair-ments to detect landmarks intheir environment throughtouch, such as corridorintersections, doors, stairsand elevators.

“This is a very cool mix ofdisciplines, using the user asa sensor combined withsophisticated localizationalgorithms from the field ofrobotics,” Folmer said.

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Dora Uchel, a university student, demonstrates theindoor navigation system for the visually impaired. She

was one of several visually impaired students andcommunity members who helped test the low-costaccessible system that operates with a standard

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second pulse of 170 decibels, equivalent tothe loudness of a rifle shot.

Over time, they said, Kina learned thisneutral tone was a warning signal and turneddown her hearing sensitivity when she heardit, so the sensors recorded a smaller signalfrom the subsequent loud noises.

Marine mammals such as dolphins, spermwhales and killer whales that use echolocationfor hunting may have evolved this rapidlyadjustable hearing to protect themselves fromtheir own clicks and buzzes, Nachtigall said.

“They sounds they produce are veryloud — they can be over 230-decibel pulses,and then must listen immediately for veryquiet echoes,” he told the BBC.

“Her whole head is an ear. There are manypaths for sound to travel up to her actualears,” he said.—Internet

BOULDER, 21 May—Earth’s ecosystems are still capable of soaking up more carbon as greenhouse gasesaccumulate in the atmosphere, a US study finds.

Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say the research contradictsseveral recent studies that suggested the world’s natural “carbon sinks” have reached or passed their capacity,and in fact total capacity has increased roughly in line with rising emissions, ScienceNews.org reported.

“The sinks have been more than able to keep up with emissions,” Pieter Tans, an atmospheric scientistat NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo, said. Measurements of the greenhouse gascarbon dioxide show levels are rising steadily, from 316 parts per million in 1959 to 392 parts per million today.

Forests can sequester carbon dioxide through photosynthesis, while oceans take it up proportionally aslevels rise in the air, researchers said. Researchers monitored 42 marine sites where carbon dioxide levels havebeen measured for decades to analyze how much CO2 was in the atmosphere above each of these sites over time.

“Less carbon dioxide has remained in the atmosphere, relative to the amount of fossil fuel emissions, todaycompared to 50 years ago,” Tans said. Exactly how the sinks are keeping up is unclear, researchers said.

One possibility is that forests are regrowing in parts of the world more than scientists had thought, orthe oceans may be taking up significantly more carbon than had been estimated, they said.—Internet

Earth’s carbon sinks keeping up with CO2

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Antibiotics prevent UTIs better than probioticsNEW YORK, 21 May—

Antibiotics are still better thanprobiotics at preventingurinary tract infections, but atleast “good bacteria” don’tadd to a person’s antibioticresistance, a new studyconcludes. Recurring UTIs arecommon among some womenand low-dose antibiotics aresometimes used to preventthem. The worry is thatoveruse of the drugs alsoreduces their effectiveness bymaking disease-causingbacteria like E coli resistant.

“This is an increasingworldwide problem, resultinginto less and less treatmentoptions for (severe) bacterialinfections in all countries ofthe world,” Dr SuzanneGeerlings, from the AcademicMedical Centre at theUniversity of Amsterdam inThe Netherlands and one ofthe new study’s authors, wrotein an email to Reuters Health.

three months among womentaking the probiotics.

Based on the women’surine and feces samples,however, resistance to a rangeof antibiotics seemed toincrease within the first monthin the antibiotic group.

Before the study, about20 percent to 40 percent of E.coli in samples from all thewomen’s bodies were resistantto co-trimoxazole.

At the 12-month mark,between 80 percent and 95percent of the bacteria wereresistant in the women takingthe antibiotic.

Rates of resistant E coliwere slightly lower at 12 monthsin women taking the probioticsthan when the study began.

Similar changes inantibiotic resistance were seenfor a range of other antibiotics,including ciprofloxacin andgentamicin, among bothgroups of women — which theresearchers speculate might bebecause the same mechanismin certain bacteria allows themto resist several different drugs.

The absence of increasedresistance among womentaking the probiotics meansthat “lactobacilli may be anacceptable alternative forprevention of UTIs, especiallyin women who dislike takingantibiotics,” the researcherswrote in the Archives of InternalMedicine. The study, however,had several limitations.

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Geerlings and hercolleagues recruited 252women between January 2005and September 2007 for a trialto compare the use ofantibiotics and probiotics toprevent UTIs.

The participants, wholived in communities surroun-ding the medical centre, wereall postmenopausal — a timewhen vulnerability to UTIsincreases because ofhormonal changes, accordingto the researchers.

All the participantsreported having had at leastthree UTIs in the year beforethe trial began, and the averagenumber was seven.

The women wereseparated into two groups ofabout the same size. One grouptook a single dose of theantibiotic co-trimoxazole(Bactrim, Septra and others)every day for twelve months,while the other group took two

capsules containingLactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 and Lactobacillus reuteri RC-14, both types of beneficialbacteria, daily.

All the participants alsotook placebo pills so thepatients and the peopledispensing the pills wouldn’tknow who received whichtreatment — to minimize anyinfluence on the study’sresults. The researchers thentracked how many UTIsoccurred in each group ofwomen over a year. They alsocollected vaginal swabs andsamples of the women’s urineand feces every month to testfor the presence of goodbacteria and infection-causingbacteria like E coli.

In addition, women took amonthly survey asking aboutsymptoms of UTIs, side effects,other infections and antibioticuse. Overall, the antibiotics wereslightly better at keeping UTIsat bay. About 69 percent of thewomen in the group taking theantibiotic had one or more UTIswithin the year. On average,the antibiotic group had 2.9UTIs per woman.

As for the probiotic group,about 79 percent had a UTIwithin the year, with an averageof 3.3 UTIs per woman.

The women taking theantibiotic also seemed to gotwice as long without a UTI —six months, compared with

A labourer operates the engine of a locally built canoe,which contains a plastic drum used in siphoning crude

oil for illegal refinery, along the Diebu creek in Nigeria’sBayelsa state on 15 May, 2012. Nigeria is Africa’s

largest crude oil exporter but its production capacity hasbeen slashed by thieves drilling into pipelines passing

through winding creeks and waterways in the vast delta.The underground industry is thought to be worthhundreds of millions of dollars a year. —REUTERS

Health Tip: Tame yourfood cravings

Students have a nutrition break mid-morning consistingof milk, juice, an orange and either mini sausage roll orVegetarian Italian bagel at Belmont High School in LosAngeles, California on 18 May, 2009. High school kids

in California, a state that limits the junk food sold invending machines, eat fewer calories in school than kidsin states without such regulations, according to a new

study.—REUTERS

Overseas companies targetChina’s ageing populationBEIJING, 21 May—China, which has one of the world’s

largest elderly population, has attracted more and moreoverseas companies in selling products and services for theaged, China Daily reported. Martin Cook, chairman of aBritish company selling products for the elderly and disabled,said: “It (China) is a massive, massive market.”

In the 1990s, Cook outsourced his manufacturing toChina and imported the products into Europe. In April, he setup an office in Shanghai to sell products in China.

Cook said the most popular product his company sells inChina was a plastic ramp system made in Denmark, whichcosts 300 yuan (USD 47).

Terada Daisuke, from a leading service provider in Japan,said his group will share “Japanese professional nursingskills” in China by providing services in design and operationof nursing homes. More than 185 million Chinese were 60 orolder by the end of 2011, according to the ministry of civilaffairs. Lu Ying, director of social welfare and charities underthe ministry of civil affairs, said the government alone cannever meet the needs of the rapidly ageing population.

“The increase in the elderly population has helped tocreate new business opportunities,” Lu said. Lu estimatedthat old-age support services have a potential market value ofmore than 450 billion yuan (over USD 70 billion).—Internet

Monitors show the valueof the Facebook, Inc stock

at the closing bell at theNASDAQ Marketsite inNew York, on 18 May,2012. In late trading,

Facebook shares were onlya few cents above the

company’s initial publicoffering price of $38, afteropening 11 percent higher,rapidly heading south totouch their initial priceand then rebounding by

several dollars.REUTERS

Fitness may reduce hypertension riskCOLUMBIA, 21 May—

People who have a parentwith high blood pressure canreduce their risk ofhypertension with moderateexercise, US researchers say.

Lead author Robin PShook, a doctoral candidatein the Arnold School ofPublic Health at theUniversity of South Carolinain Columbia, said the studytracked a group of 6,278predominantly Caucasian

adults ages 20-80 for anaverage 4.7 years. Thirty-three percent of participantsreported a parent hadhypertension.

When the study began,all participants were healthy,did not have hypertensionand achieved an exercise testscore of at least 85 percent oftheir age-predicted maximalheart rate. During the study,1,545 participants developedhypertension.

The study, published inthe journal Hypertension,found high levels of fitnesswere associated with a 42percent lower risk ofdeveloping hypertension, andmoderate levels of fitness witha 26 percent lower risk.

People with both a lowlevel of fitness and a parentwith hypertension had a 70percent higher risk fordeveloping hypertension,compared with highly fit

Luara Crystal, 5,who suffers from

brittle bonedisease, lifts aweight next toher physical

therapist duringa session at theAssociation for

the Aid ofDisabled

Children in SaoPaulo, on 19March, 2012.

REUTERS

people with no parentalhistory, Shook said.

“The results of this studysend a very practical message,which is that even a veryrealistic, moderate amount ofexercise — which we defineas brisk walking for 150minutes per week — canprovide a huge health benefit,particularly to peoplepredisposed to hypertensionbecause of their familyhistory,” Shook said in astatement.

Internet

Food cravings can pull you off course when you’retrying to diet and eat in a healthful way.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics offers thesesuggestions to help you curb food cravings:

* Cravings often are short-lived. Try to wait at least 20minutes before you act on a craving.

* Opt for a healthier alternative to what you crave.Choose fat-free chips instead of potato chips, or bakean apple for a sweet treat.

* Buy your favourite treats in single-serving sizes. Forexample, buy a single cookie, rather than a whole box.

* Have regularly scheduled snack times and enjoy ahealthy snack that you’ve already stocked.

* Indulge in a social treat — rather than food — bycalling a friend.

* Keep a log of your cravings. Record what you weredoing when you craved, how long you felt the cravingand how you handled it.—Internet

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Monmyat Cooperatives Ltd provides cashassistance to member fire victims

Specialists give educative talks on health inShwepyitha

Sein Gay Har provides care tounhealthy aged in Seesar home

YANGON, 21 May—To mark Mothers’ Day, SeinGay Har family donated meals and provided care to theaged in Seesar home for the unhealthy aged together withMar Mar Noodle, Ahamattaya (foodstuff) and HappyChicken Shop, at the home in Dagon Myothit (South) on13 May. Last year, Sein Gay Har had undertaken naturalenvironment conservation, social works, health andeducation works and social welfare. In addition, Sein GayHar also planted more than 1000 teaks in Hlawga Park,donated cash to schools, made collective blood donationin National Blood Bank, provided assistance for childeducation. They will carry out social works.—Kyemon

Photo Kyemon page 3 (21-5-2012)

Farm, Forest and Agriculture Courseopens in Yesagyo

Educative talks on establishingrural house and environmental

conservation held

K 200 lotterytickets available

in MandalayMANDALAY, 21 May—

K 200 lottery tickets areavailable at InternalRevenue Department inChanayethazan Townshipon 84th Street in Mandalay.Other lottery shops sell forK 250 per ticket.

Kyemon

Physical Education Science(Mandalay) selects trainees

MANDALAY, 21 May—Selection of trainees for 22sport courses to be conducted by Sports and PhysicalEducation Department of the Ministry of Sports and PhysicalEducation Science (Mandalay), was held in Magway Regionand Shan State in 15 May, in Sagaing Region on 16 Mayand Mandalay Region and Chin State on 17 May.

Principal of Physical Education Science(Mandalay) Director U Thein Tun Latt, training and educationincharge, incharge coaches and coaches selected 213 out of344 contestants from Regions and States.—Kyemon

YANGON, 21 May—Amedical team led byMedical Superintendent ofInsein Hospital Dr Aung Sangave educative talks onhealth, at ShwepyithaTownship People’s Hospitalin Shwepyitha Township inYangon North District, on19 May.

The medical teamcomprising specialists and50 members is giving freemedical treatment to 465local people in cooperationwith Township Admini-strator U Aung Moe Oo,

head of Township HealthDepartment Dr Mi MiKhaing and health staff, ward

administrators and socialorganizations.

Myanma Alin

MYINMU, 21 May—Aceremony to provide cashassistance to member firevictims in Kyansittha wardby Monmyat Micro CreditCooperatives Ltd tookplace at Cooperatives Ltdin Myinmu Township on 6May. At the ceremony, theSagaing Region Ministerfor Planning andCommerce delivered aspeech. After that, deputydirector of Cooperatives ofSagaing Region Daw TinYi explained tasks beingcarr ied out for ruraldevelopment and povertyalleviation. Chairman ofMonmyat Cooperatives

Ltd U Shwe Mann alsoexplained the objectivesand works andundertakings for socio-economic development.

Afterwards, the RegionMinister and head of RegionCooperatives donated K150,000 per to firevictims.—Myanma Alin

TRAFFIC RULESKNOWLEDGE

DESSEMINATED:Under the leadership of

Bago Region TrafficRules Enforcement

Committee, reduction oftraffic accidents was held

in the region.On 14 May, Commanderof Kyaukdaga Township

Police Force PoliceCaptain Thein Win and

members distributepamphlets on traffic rules

to road users.TOWNSHIP POLICE FORCE

YESAGYO, 21 May—Opening of Farm, Forest andAgriculture Course (16/2012), jointly conducted byAgriculture Department ofthe Ministry of Agricultureand Irrigation and OISCAInternational, was held attraining school inPakhangyi village, YesagyoTownship in PakokkuDistrict on 17 May.

At the ceremony,Pakokku District

Administrator U KhinMaung Yi, Second secretaryMr Hideki Wata fromJapanese Embassy andprincipal Mr Keisuke Fujiidelivered openingspeeches. After that, head ofPakokku DistrictAgriculture Departmentexplained facts about thecourse. It was also attendedby district leveldepartmental heads,officials from Japanese

Embassy, YesagyoTownship Administrator UKhaing Tun anddepartmental heads, courseinstructors and trainees.

Kyemon

THAYAWADY, 20 May—Educative talks on

establishing rural house,growing hardwood,establishing teak plantationand environmentalconservation, took place onBasic Education MiddleSchool in Hlelangu villagein Thayawady Township on16 May.

Head U Win Tan ofTownship Forest Depart-ment and staff gaveeducative talks. ForestDepartment of ThayawadyTownship will grow 15000teak sapl ings, 63000hardwood sapl ings,12,000 sapl ings forvillage-own plantationsand 40,000 saplings fordistribution in the comingrainy season.

Forest Department

YANGON, 21 May—Myanmar FootballFederation held meeting of MNL Committeeand Club Owners at Executive Room inSedona Hotel on 19 May. At the ceremony,President of MFF U Zaw Zaw delivered aspeech. Afterwards, club owners and officialspresented difficulties and necessities. TheMFF President and officials discussed thereports.

It was also attended by Director-General

Meeting of MNL Committee andClub Owners held

DISTRICT NEWS

U Thaung Htaik of Sports and PhysicalEducation Department from the Ministry ofSports, club owners and officials, media andMFF branch incharges.—Zaw Min Aung

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NAY PYI TAW, 21 May—Chief Minister of SagaingRegion U Tha Aye, Region ministers and Region leveldepartmental heads attended opening of Shwe TawwinHospital in Dawnachan ward in Monywa on 19 May.

Managing Director of the hospital Dr San MyintAung explained purpose of opening the hospital.

Region Social Affairs Minister Dr Myint Thein,Medical Superintendent of Monywa Hospital Dr Than Htut,Chairman of Shwe Tawwin Healthcare Company Dr MyanLin formally opened the hospital.

The Region Chief Minister unveiled the inscriptionand sprinkled water on it. He also attended the merit-sharingceremony for donation of a monastery building atDhammavinaya Dhammayon in Shwe Taung Oo TipatakaDhammapala Maha Vihaya Monastery. The Region ChiefMinister and officials paid respect to Sayadaw Dr Nyaññisaraof Sitagu Buddha University in Sagaing and supplicated onreligious affairs.—MNA

Sagaing Region Chief Ministerattends opening ceremonies ofhospital, monastery building

Union Hotels and Tourism Minister meetshoteliers of small, medium licensed hotels

YANGON, 21 May— Together with the Director-General and officials concerned of the Hotels and TourismServices, Myanmar Hoteliers Association Chairman U YanWin and members, Union Minister for Hotels and TourismU Tint Hsan yesterday noon held a meeting with the hoteliersof the licensed medium and small hotels existing at the centreof Yangon.

Afterwards, the Union Minister got to May ShanHotel where he looked around the reception, bedrooms andrestaurants. He went on to Garden Guest House at the cornerof 32nd Street and Maha Bandoola Street, and Okinawa GuestHouse in the 32nd Street (Lower Block).

It was known that Myanma Hotels and TourismServices has been providing those interested especiallynational races and foreign investors in making investmentsin that field since it found that there should be enough hotelsin Yangon, Mandalay, Bagan and Inlay for hotelaccommodations to tourists.

It is Yangon where there are about 190 hotels,motels and inns, which can serve a total of 8000 bedrooms.

Besides, there are a total of 140 hotels with reasonable pricesin downtown Yangon and its suburbs, which about 1500bedrooms can be supplied.

At the meeting with the hoteliers of Yangon HotelZone at Panda Hotel in Lanmadaw Township, the UnionMinister said that the country now sees about 1500 touristsdaily. Among them, about 1000 get hotel services. It wouldbe much better than before only if the hotels under threestars contribute to the needs though there are about 8000hotel bedrooms in Yangon.

He then urged those to be all eyes for doing theirwork to keep the tourism industry increase in rate.—MNA

Chief Justice of Yangon Region HighCourt receives Vice-President of Yunnan

Provincial Supreme People’s CourtYANGON, 21 May—

At the invitation of U WinSwe, Chief Justice of YangonRegion High Court, adelegation led by Mr WangShuliang, Vice-President ofthe Yunnan ProvincialSupreme People’s Court

currently in Myanmar paid acall on the Chief Justice ofYangon Region High Courtand justices at region chiefjustice hall this morning.

They discussedjudicial affairs and also studiedcriminal cases.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 21 May—Deputy Minister forConstruction U Soe Tint on 14 May morning met with staffat the office of Public Works Main Workshop (North) inMandalay Region, and stressed the need for those presentto upgrade and innovate machinery as they are imperativein construction works, to ensure systematic application ofmachines, vehicles and machinery and to discharge dutiesin unity in accordance with the set rules and regulations.

In the afternoon, the deputy minister proceeded toSagain toll gate, Thigon toll gate (Meiktila), Thabyengumini-toll gate, Pyinsi mini-toll gate, Kankaung mini-toll gateand Thigon mini-toll gate and left necessary instructions.

MNA

Toll gates along Yangon-Mandalay Highway

(Nay Pyi Taw-Mandalaysection) inspected

NAY PYI TAW, 21May—Deputy Minister forHotels and Tourism UHtay Aung met DirectorMr Charles Bremridge of JhonSwire InvestmentGroup of Singapore andGeneral Manager MrGeorge Richard Horsington ofSwire Pacific OffshoreOperations Pte., Ltd, at his officethis afternoon. At the meeting,they had a cordial discussionon investments in construction

Dy H & T Minister receives JhonSwire Investment Group Director

of hotels in Myanmar andaviation and sea transport byJhon Swire Investment Groupof Singapore.

The Deputy Ministerdiscussed procedures andregulations relating to foreigninvestment hotel industry inMyanmar and flights scheduleto Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon andMandalay that would benefittourism industry andarrangement for cruise liners.

MNAPlease read

“ C o m p r e h e n s i v eStrategic CooperativePartnership’’ instead of“multilateral strategicpartnership’’ in the lastsentence of the thirdparagraph appeared inthis daily issued on 15,May 2012. Error isregretted.—Ed

Correction

NAY PYI TAW, 21May—A goodwilldelegation led byCommandant of NationalDefence Studies Institute(NDSI) of the Royal ThaiArmed Forces HeadquartersGeneral PadetgamJansaewoke arrived in Yangonby air this morning.

The delegation waswelcomed at YangonInternational Airport by

Commandant of NDSI of RoyalThai Armed Forces Headquarters

arrivesCommandant of DefenceServices Medical AcademyBrig-Gen Thit Lin Ohn,Commandant of DefenceServices Institute of Nursingand Paramedical Science Brig-Gen Zaw Myint and seniormilitary officers, Thai militaryattaché to Myanmar andofficials.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 21May — Course instructorsand trainees from MalaysiaArmed Forces DefenceCollege (MAFDC) CourseNo. 32/2012 led by

Trainees from Malaysia Armed Forces DefenceCollege (MAFDC) Course No. 32/2012 arrive

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Union Minister for Hotels and Tourism U Tint Hsan addresses the hoteliers of the licensed mediumand small hotels existing at the centre of Yangon.—MNA

Deputy Minister for Construction U Soe Tintinspects Toll Gate on Yangon-Mandalay

Highway.—MNA

Commandant of MAFDCFirst Admiral Aris Adi Tanbin Abdullah arrived hereby air this afternoon. Theywere welcomed at Nay PyiTaw International Airport

by Col Than Htaik of NayPyi Taw Command, seniormilitary officers andMalaysian military attachéto Myanmar.

MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 21 May—Wife of Thai ambassador toMyanmar Mrs Thepayasuda Suvanajata paid a call onPresident of Myanmar Maternal and Child WelfareAssociation Dr Mon Mon Aung and CEC members, atMMCWA Office in Dekkhinathiri Township here on 18May.

At the call, MMCWA Secretary Daw Tha Zin Nweexplained objectives, formation, duties, development andcare of mothers and children.

After that, the President presented gifts to the guest.Mrs Thepayasuda Suvanajata signed in visitors’ book.Afterwards, she viewed documentary photos of MMCWA’sactivities and Myttasanyay clinic.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 21May—The health sector ofthe country is steadilyincreasing although itcannot compare with that ofdeveloping countries. In thepast, the lifespan of man is55 years and that of womanis 65 years. With theintroduction of healthcareservices such as ensuringavailability of potablewater, use of fly-prooflatrines, vaccination,nutrition and laying downhealth plans, the lifespan ofman has increased to 65years while that of womanto 68 years. Much more stillhave to be done in thatregard when compared withcountries in the region. Intaking reforms, it is requiredto have the strengthscapable of bringing aboutreforms, said UnionMinister for Health Dr PeThet Khin at the ceremonyto give guidance on bonemarrow transplant held atthe meeting hall of NationalBlood Centre here on 18

Ceremony to give guidance on bone marrow transplant held

May morning.At the ceremony,

Professor Dr Rai Mraclarified on the formationof Bone Marrow TransplantCentre, background historyof efforts for bone marrowtransplant, and DirectorProfessor Dr Nay Winreported on formation ofBone Marrow Transplant

Centre and efforts beingmade for bone marrowtransplant.

Next, the UnionMinister enquired after BabyCho Cho Win, one ofconjoined twins of U KhinWin-Daw Cho Cho Win, ofKyinpinsan Village inPaukkhaung Township whowas at the new-born intensive

care unit of Yangon GeneralHospital and attended to theneeds.

Afterwards, theUnion Minister proceededto Yankin Children’sHospital and inspectedmanagement of child ward,fulfillment of medicalequipment and medicalwards.—MNA

MMCWA President receivesThai ambassador’s wife

YANGON, 21 May—Under the patronage ofMyanmar OlympicCommittee and Sports andPhysical EducationDepartment, tournamentorganization course for table

Tournament organizationcourse for table tennis (2012)

concludesNAY PYI TAW, 21

May—Seven uniformedmembers of KIA armed groupintercepted two six-wheeltrucks steered by ThaungHtway and Aung Naing enroute from Muse to Lashioon Muse-Lashio UnionHighway near a pine forestbetween Nantpaw bridge andNantoun village in MuseTownship with gunfire at10.20 pm on 19 May.

They distorted K80,000 from the first driverand let four drivers andassistances run away beforethey blew up the trucks,

KIA armed group blows up two trucks

throwing two grenades ontodriver’s seat of each vehicle.

Despite no casualty,the fronts of vehicles withLicense plate numbers 8I/7876 and 8I/7880 were

Union Minister for Health Dr Pe Thet Khin inspects Yankin Children’sHospital.—MNA

President of MyanmarMaternal and ChildWelfare AssociationDr Mon Mon Aung

presents Wife of Thaiambassador toMyanmar MrsThepayasuda

Suvanajata a gift.MNA

tennis (2012), co-organizedby Myanmar Table TennisFederation and InternationalTable Tennis Federation, wasconcluded at the Union Hallof Kyaikkasan SportsGround in TamwayTownship, Yangon Region,this afternoon.

MOC GeneralSecretary Sports andPhysical EducationDepartment DirectorGeneral U Thaung Htaikmade a concluding speechand Asia Table Tennis

Union General Secretary ofMalaysia Mr Chan FoongKeong explained the factsabout the course. Thedirector general thenpresented completioncertificates to the trainees.

MTTF President UKyaw Kyaw awardedoutstanding trainees.

MNA

damaged with two windowsbroken and windbreakersshattered. A grenade bearingwords KRL 68 embedded oniron body with 2.5 incheslength and 1.5 inches in

diameter and 5-inch woodenhandle was foundunexploded at the scene. Oneof the two destroyed vehiclehave been removed and theregular passage of vehiclesresumed earlier yesterdaymorning.—MNA

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Myanmar military delegation leaves forKunming

NAY PYI TAW, 21 May—A goodwill delegation ledby Lt-Gen Aung Than Htutof Commander-in-Chief(Army) Office left forKunming of the People’sRepublic of China by air this

morning.They were seen off at the

Yangon International Airportby Yangon CommandCommander Maj-Gen SanOo, Commander ofAyeyawady Naval Region

Command HeadquartersCommodore Maung OoLwin, military officials andthe Chinese Military Attacheto the Republic of the Unionof Myanmar.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 21 May—Union Minister forAgriculture and Irrigation UMyint Hlaing inspectedcultivation of Ngwechi-6long staple cotton in 500-acre cotton plantation inNyaungbingyisu Village inirrigation area of the left canalof Ngalaik Dam here thismorning.

Managing Director U

Union A&I Minister inspects cotton,sugarcane, paddy plantations

Zaw Tun Myint of MyanmaSugarcane Enterpriseconducted the UnionMinister around special high-yield sugarcane plantation.

The Union Ministercalled for disseminatingscientific cultivationmethods and increasingsugar production.

On arrival at PalethweBasmati hybrid paddy

plantation, Director-GeneralU Kyaw Win of AgricultureDepartment reported to himon success of 100-acre strainproduction in ShwetaungResearch Farm in Wundwin.

He also visited 100-acreplantation in Kyaku Villageunder joint venture ofShwethanlwin Company andCETC Company of China.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 21 May —Union Minister for Financeand Revenue U Hla Tunreceived Deputy President ofSumitomo Mitsui BankingCorporation of Japan MrHiroshi Minoura and party athis office at 9 am today. Theyhad a discussion on plans forcooperation in Myanmarbanking development,technical assistance,development of humanresources and cooperationbetween the banks of the twocountries.

Similarly, the UnionMinister met President ofStock Exchange of Thailand(SET) Mr CharampornJotikasthira and party at hisoffice at 4 pm today. Duringthe call, they discussed efforts

Union F&R Minister receives Japaneseand Thai guests

for emergence of trademarkets of loan certificatesand capital markets inMyanmar under cooperationbetween SET and theMinistry of Finance andRevenue so as to facilitatedevelopment of Myanmar’seconomy, providing ofnecessary technical aids andexpertise and cooperation inmutual interest.

Also present were

NAY PYI TAW, 21 May—A coordination meeting formaintenance of Ayeyawady river water system and utilizationof water way was held at Directorate of Water Resources andImprovement of River Systems this afternoon, attended byDeputy Minister for Transport U Win Shein, Adviser SanMyint (Col-Retd) of the President Office, Dr U Win Thein(Professor-Retd) of Yangon Institute of Technology,Amyotha Hluttaw Delegate U Soe Myint (Director-General-Retd) of Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement ofRiver Systems, U Hla Myint Thein (Deputy Director-General-Retd) and responsible personnel from the ministry ofTransport.

At the meeting, the Deputy Minister for Transport saidthat the committees need to form so as to implement actionplan for the effective use of Ayeyawady River andmaintenance of Ayeyawady river water system, long-and-short term plan and work implementation practically.

Afterwards, the director-general of Directorate of WaterResources and Improvement of River Systems explainedmain plan to develop Ayeyawady River and replied thequeries asked by those attendees.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 21 May—Union Minister for Scienceand Technology U AyeMyint received delegationled by President of US-ASEAN Business CouncilMs Frances A Zwenig at theministry here this afternoon.

They discussed mattersrelated to development ofcompetent human resourcesand cooperation in scienceand technology fields.

The meeting was alsoattended by Deputy Ministerfor Science and TechnologyDr Ko Ko Oo, ActingDirector-General ofAdvanced Science andTechnological DepartmentDr Aung Kyaw Myat.

MNA

Union ministerreceives

foreign guests

Coord meeting formaintenance of Ayeyawady

river water system andutilization of water way

Deputy Minister U WinShein delivers speech atthe work coordination

meeting onmaintenance of

Ayeyawady river watersystem and utilization of

water way.—MNA

Union Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlaing inspectscultivation of Ngwechi-6 long staple cotton in 500-acre cotton plantation

in Nyaungbingyisu Village.—MNA

Union Minister for Finance and Revenue U Hla Tun receives DeputyPresident of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation of Japan Mr Hiroshi

Minoura and party.—MNA

Deputy Minister U Win Than,Governor of the Central Bankof Myanmar U Than Nyeinand officials. –—MNA

A delegation led by Lt-Gen Aung Than Htut of Commander-in-Chief(Army) Office leaves for Kunming of the People’s Republic of China.

MNA

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Writers association formed inHline Township

YANGON, 21 May—A Plenary Meeting and meetingon formation of writers association were held at HlineTownship Information and Public Relations Departmenton 20 May. At the ceremony, executive committee membersof Township Writers Association were elected in thepresence of commission members including deputy headU Tun Naing. U Myat Soe (Myat Soe Hlaing) was electedas chairman; Maung Maung Tun Aung (health) as vice-chairman; Min Sat Paing as secretary;U Cho San as joint secretary; Dr Kyaw Lwin as treasurer andU Win Wai Naung, U Aung Kyaw Min, Daw Myint MyatThida Aye and Daw Ei Ei Myat as members. After that,chairman and vice-chairman were elected as conferencedelegates.—Township IPRD

DISTRICTNEWS

Thutapadaytha library opens inThongwa Township

YANGON, 20 May—Opening of Thutapadaythalibrary was held inKaingkone village inThongwa Township,Yangon South District on16 May. At the ceremony,Township Administrator UKyaw Thaung, staff officerDaw Tin Tin Htway ofTownship Information andPublic RelationsDepartment and village-tractadministrator U Tin Tunformally opened it.

After that, the Townshipadministrator deliveredspeech. And the staff officerexplained the perpetuationof library that meets fivestandards, increase innumbers of books and

publications and purpose ofopening it. Officialsaccepted 100 books andpublications donated byMyanmar LibrariesFoundation, 50 books bythe township administrator,

one radio by TownshipIPRD, 50 books andpublications by thechairperson of TownshipWomen’s AffairsOrganization, 50 books andpublications by U Aung

Kyaw Soe and Daw Nyeinfamily of ThuwunnaTownship of YangonRegion and 75 books andpublication by U Tin TunGyi family of Kaingkonevillage.—Township IPRD

Workshops on capacitybuilding of staff held in Putao

Chairman U Soe Win of Maubin Township Home forthe aged accepted K 1.5 million donated by (U Ba Wan)and wife Daw Tin Nyunt and family residing at No.172,Anawrahta street, Botahtaung Township, Yangon on 5

May.—MYANMA ALIN

YESAGYO, 21 May—Pakokku DistrictAdministrator U KhinMaung Yi inspected farmereducative farm (100-dayPalethwe hybrid paddyplantation in irrigated areaof Shwechaung electricpower pumping station inYesagyo Township inMagway Region on 17 May.He gave instructions onsystematic paddyharvesting, makingpreparations for puttingpaddy under covers andsystematic harvesting in termof model plot for prescribedyields.

Kyemon

PU T A O, 21 May—Workshops on capacitybuilding of staff inInformation and PublicRelations Department,development of self-reliantlibraries and humanresources development,was held at Putao DistrictIPRD in Kachin State on 10May. At the ceremony, StaffOfficer U Aung Kyaw Tunof District IPRD explainedpurpose of holding theworkshop and process.Staff officers from Khaung-

lanphu, Nagmon andPutao, Machanbawtownships and PannadinSub-township, participatedat the workshops. After that,Head of State IPRD U NyuntShwe reviewed thediscussions.

District IPRD

Yesagyo Township sees Palethwehybrid paddy plantation

Fire breaksout in

AmarapuraTownship

Faked eggs sold in MyitkyinaMYITKYINA, 21 May—Myitkyina of Kachin State

sees a lot of faked chicken eggs imported from border areasoon. These eggs are flowing into Mawlu, Nanseeaung andMawhant regions by Myitkyina down-trains. The fakedeggs are sold together with real ones. Local people are nowbuying cheap faked eggs.—Kyemon

Pyigyimyatshin car marketfaces nosedive

MANDALAY, 21 May— Mandalay Pyigyimyatshincar market faces nosedive soon as the government allowscitizens to import cars freely without permit from abroad.According to the brokers, the car prices are likely to fall andJapanese car companies would invest in Myanmar. Cars arein low demand as people keep watchful eyes on marketcondition.—Kyemon

EINME, 21 May—A total of 17 people sufferedfrom food poisoning at a wedding ceremony inPhokelchaung village in Einme Township on 15 May. Thevictims were sent to Myaungmya People’s Hospital.

The same day, eight others were also sufferedfrom poisonings and six others on another day. They weresent to Myaungmya Private Hospital. Among them, U KyawHtoo aged 43 is in critical condition and 38 are experiencingdizziness and vomiting. The Lukaung village administratorand police station are giving close care to them afteropening health care center.

Myanma Alin

UNIFORMS PROVIDED:A ceremony to present

uniforms to staff membersof Botahtaung TownshipGeneral AdministrationDepartment was held atthe hall of the townshipdepartment on 11 May.

Township AdministratorU Thant Zaw Oo providesuniforms worth K 461,000

to the staff.GAD

Oxygen concentrator donated to KawlinTownship People’s Hospital

KAWLIN, 21 May—Aceremony to donate anoxygen concentrator worthK 480000 to KawlinTownship People’s Hospital

in Sagaing Region tookplace at the hospital on 15May. U Thein Maung (Retdschool head) Yu DairyProduct trading family

handed over it through headof Township HealthDepartment Dr MaungMaung Soe.

Myanma Alin

MYITNGE, 21 May—Afire broke out in Sauktawwavillage, AmarapuraTownship in MandalayRegion on 14 May.

The fire started from thehome of Ko Aung San Ooand destroyed one house.Two fire engines fromAmarapura Township FireBrigade and one fromMyitnge Railway rushed tothe scene.

It could be put out at1.45 pm. Myitnge PoliceStation takes action inconnection with it.

Kyemon

Food poisoning occurs inEinme Township

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 22 May, 2012 11People hold a sedan chair

decorated as an ambulancein a parade during the

Markham InternationalSedan Chair Challenge

2012 in Markham, Ontario,Canada, on 20 May, 2012.This annual event includedsome components such as

sedan chair races, a paradewith costumes and

decorations and so on.XINHUA

Alibaba buys back 20 percent stake held byYahoo for $7.1 billion

SHANGHAI, 21 May—Chinese Internet entre-preneur Jack Ma is buyingback up to half of a 40 percentstake in his Alibaba Groupfrom Yahoo Inc for $7.1 billion,in a deal that moves theChinese e-commerce leadercloser to a public listing.

Under the agreement,Yahoo will sell half of itsstake in Alibaba for at least$6.3 billion in cash and up to$800 million in new Alibabapreferred stock. The deal,announced in a jointstatement on Monday, capsyears of talks between the

two firms over Alibabareclaiming some or all of the40 percent stake that Yahoobought for about $1 billionin 2005.

A source familiar withthe deal said Yahoo built inincentives for Alibaba, whichoperates the popular Chineseonline marketplace Taobao,to hold an initial publicoffering by end-2015.

Yahoo, which has comeunder fire from shareholdersfor failing to take aggressiveaction to reverse a decline inadvertising revenue in theface of competition from

Google Inc and Facebook,will hand most of the saleproceeds to its stockholders.

“For Yahoo it’s a decentcompromise, they were nevergoing to keep all the 40 percentstake and expect to see theseguys IPO. I think they sold itoff at a pretty reasonablevaluation,” said MichaelClendenin at RedTechAdvisors in Shanghai.“Yahoo still has a lot of biggerproblems ahead of them, Imean, they are a portal sothey’re going the way of thedodo bird.”

“Credit to Jack Ma, he’sa wheeler and dealer and hegot a very good deal on thisone,” he added.

According to thestatement, Alibaba wouldbuy back half of Yahoo’sremaining stake—a 10percent holding—at the IPOprice or allow Yahoo to sellthose shares in the offeringbefore end-2015. AlibabaGroup is valued at $30-35billion.

Reuters

Employees play table tennis inside the headquartersoffice of Alibaba (China) Technology Co Ltd on theoutskirts of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in this 17

May, 2010 file photograph.—REUTERS

PHNOM PENH, 21 May—Cambodia launched the firstever life insurance here withthe official inauguration ofCambodian Life InsuranceCompany (Cambodian Life)on Monday, seen as anotherlandmark in the kingdom’sfinancial market after theopening of stock market inmid-April.

Cambodian Life is a jointventure established on 10thJanuary, 2012 by Cambodia’sMinistry of Economy andFinance and four otherpartners, namely PT Asuransifrom Indonesia, Asia Insurancefrom Hong Kong, BangkokLife Assurance and Bangkok

Cambodia launches first ever life insuranceInsurance Public fromThailand. The Ministry holds51 percent of stake in thejoint venture.

Operating throughoutthe whole country,Cambodian Life is tasked toprovide life insuranceproducts in the form of privatevoluntary for Cambodianpeople’s safety nets, which isa new mechanism going tosupplement the country’ssocial security system underthe Labour Law. As a newly-born enterprise, only threetypes of insurances are foundon the company’s product list,so far, namely mortgageinsurance, whole life

insurance and term insurance.According to the

company’s productintroduction, the MortgageInsurance has a coverageperiod of 2- 20 years on theinsured person’s outstandingloan with a minimum amountof 1,500 US dollars; theWhole Life covers the insuredup to 90 year old under thecondition of natural death,accident death and death ofdisease; while the TermInsurance provides lifecoverage for a limited periodof 3, 5 or 10 years under thecondition of natural death,accident death and death ofdisease.—Xinhua

US Army GoldenKnights parachute

team performsduring the annualUS joint servicesopen house and

air show atAndrews Air Base

outsideWashington DC,

capital of theUnited States, on

20 May, 2012.XINHUA

Government proposes exposing New Zealandairlines to foreign control

WELLINGTON, 21 May —The New Zealandgovernment is proposing toscrap foreign ownershiplimits on New Zealandairlines, Transport MinisterGerry Brownlee announcedon Monday.

However, Air NewZealand, the national carrier,would be exempt from thenew rules, said Brownlee in astatement to launch adiscussion document on NewZealand’s international airtransport policy.

Brownlee said the policyreview proposed continuingto seek inter-governmentagreements with liberalizedinvestment criteria, providedcertain criteria were met.

The review proposedremoving limits on foreignownership of New Zealandairlines, which were currentlyset at 25 percent ownershipby any one foreign airline, or35 percent by foreign airlinesin total.

“It is important to notethat changes to the ownership

of Air New Zealand are notbeing considered as part ofthis review,” Brownlee said.

New Zealand control ofAir New Zealand would “takeprecedence over any changesto general policy,” saidBrownlee, referring to thegovernment’s plan to selldown its shareholding in AirNew Zealand to 51 percent.

The document alsooutlined immediate prioritiesfor negotiating new air servicesagreements focusing on EastAsia and South America.

Successful negotiationshad already been completedthis year with Japan andChina, and were currentlyunderway with Brazil andFrench Polynesia.

“A broad range ofaviation linkages areessential to New Zealand’seconomic and social well-being,” Brownlee said.

“Over time, as newairlines enter the NewZealand market, this is likelyto lead to more services andcheaper airfares.”—Xinhua

Possible engine problem delays US rocket launchCAPE CANAVERAL, 21

May—The launch of aprivately owned Falcon 9rocket from Cape CanaveralAir Force Station was delayedon Saturday when a computerdetected a possible problemwith one of the rocket’sengines, a Space ExplorationTechnologies official said.

Preparations for thecompany’s trial cargo run tothe International SpaceStation proceeded smoothlyuntil 4:55 am EDT (0855 GMT)when an onboard computeraborted the launch.

“Liftoff ... we’ve had acutoff. Liftoff did not occur,”said NASA launchcommentator George Diller,caught off guard by thesudden, last-minute turn ofevents.

A computer monitoringthe rocket’s nine enginesdetected a climbing pressurereading in one engine’schambers and halted the

launch 0.5 seconds beforeliftoff, SpaceX presidentGwynne Shotwell toldreporters.

“Just like a pilot at theend of a runway revs theengines and looks at thegauges. We were revving theengines, we were looking atthe gauges and we decidednot to fly,” Shotwell said,adding that the problem was

unlikely to be a sensor issue.The company’s next

launch opportunity is at 3:44am EDT (0744 GMT) onTuesday.

It is trying to send theunmanned rocket, carrying aDragon cargo capsule, to theInternational Space Station,and would be the first privatecompany to do this.

Reuters

Bangladesh’s

trade

deficit

widens to

6.59 b USD

in first 3Qs

Australia’s Qantas to cut 500 jobsSYDNEY, 21 May—Australia’s largest

airline Qantas Airways announced onMonday that it will cut 500 jobs followinga review of its heavy aircraft maintenanceand engineering operations in Australia.

The airline said it would consolidateheavy maintenance work into Brisbane inQueensland and Victoria’s Avalon.

Qantas said the restructure was necessaryas there was not enough heavy maintenancework required for three separate facilities andthe introduction of new technology andmodern aircraft would lead to a further 60percent reduction in heavy maintenancerequirements over the next seven years.

As a result of the restructure, heavymaintenance on Boeing 737 aircraft will move

from its base at Tullamarine in Melbourne andbe maintained in Brisbane along with B767aircraft and Airbus A330s, the airline said. Thebase at Avalon will continue to maintainBoeing 747s.

“There will be a net reduction of 500positions as a result of the restructure,” Qantassaid in a statement on Monday. The airlinesaid 422 jobs would go from its Tullamarineand 113 positions would be axed at Avalon.

But 30 new line maintenance jobs willbe created in Melbourne and five in Sydney,Qantas said. The airline said consolidatingheavy maintenance and other engineeringinitiatives would save the company up to 100million AU dollars (98.54 million US dollars)annually.—Xinhua

DHAKA, 21 May—Bangladesh’s trade deficit swelled to 6.59billion US dollars in the first three quarters of the current fiscal yearending next month, a 13.04 percent increase from a year earlier,official statistics showed on Sunday. Statistics of the BangladeshBank showed that the country exported 17.683 billion US dollars ofgoods while it imported items worth 24.269 billion US dollars in theJuly-March period of the current fiscal year (July 2011-June 2012).

The overall trade deficit in the same period of last fiscal yearwas 5.826 billion US dollars when Bangladesh’s export earningand import payment stood at 16.012 billion and 21.838 billionUS dollars respectively, the bank data showed. In the first ninemonths of the current fiscal year, it showed, Bangladesh’s exportand import earnings surged 10.44 percent and 11.13 percentrespectively compared with a year earlier. The south Asiancountry’s trade deficit swelled by over 42 percent year-on-yearto 7.33 billion US dollars last fiscal year.—Xinhua

The SpaceX Falcon 9 test rocket is being prepared forlaunch from Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral AirForce Station in Florida 18 May, 2012.—REUTERS

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV HOANG ANH 05 VOY NO ( )Consignees of cargo carried on MV HOANG ANH

05 VOY NO ( ) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 21-5-2012 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of B.S.W (1) where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: SANG THAI SHIPPING CO LTDPhone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA RATU VOY NO (493)Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA RATU

VOY NO (493) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 22-5-2012 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.


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


AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA RUKUN VOY NO (637)Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA

RUKUN VOY NO (637) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 22-5-2012 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject tothe byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.


No claims against this vessel will be admittedafter the Claims Day.


AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV PAC AQUILA VOY NO (118)Consignees of cargo carried on MV PAC AQUILA

VOY NO (118) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 22-5-2012 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of M.I.T.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 PACC CONTAINER LINEPTE LTD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV ORA BHUM VOY NO (303)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV ORA BHUMVOY NO (303) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 21-5-2012 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of M.I.P 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 REGIONAL CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Annular eclipse seen across JapanTOKYO, 21 May—An

annular solar eclipse wasvisible over a wide area ofJapan on Monday morning,giving thrills to observersacross the nation.

For the first time in 932years, the rare astronomicalevent could be seen from awide area of Japan includingTokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.It was seen from KagoshimaPrefecture in the southwestto Fukushima in northeasternJapan.

An annular eclipseoccurs when the sun, moon,and Earth are exactly in line.Instead of obscuring the sun,the eclipse creates a brightring, called an annular,around the moon’ssilhouette.

In Japan, the moonbegan sliding in front of thesun from around 6 am.

At Cape Muroto inwestern Japan, a partialeclipse began at around 6:15am, and the “ring of fire” wasformed about one hour later.

The point where theannular eclipse is visiblemoved from west to east in aquick succession, fromOsaka to Nagoya to Tokyoand then Fukushima.

The eclipse was visiblein more places thananticipated because the

weather cooperated at thelast minute, despite forecastsfor cloudy skies in manyareas.

The image shows beads ofsunlight shining through

rugged valleys on the edgeof the moon.—NHK

In Shiojiri, NaganoPrefecture, central Japan,NHK cameras caught a high-definition image of Baily’sbeads — a spectacle onlyvisible during fleetingmoments of the annulareclipse. The image showsbeads of sunlight shiningthrough rugged valleys onthe edge of the moon.

Observation eventswere held on land, sea and inthe air. Some elementaryschools held viewing parties.

Astronomers say thenext time an annular eclipsecan be seen across such awide area will be 300 yearsfrom now, in 2312.—NHK

Guatemalavolcano

spits lavaand ash

GUATEMALA CITY, 21May—Guatemala’s Fuegovolcano belched burninglava and black ash into thesky early Saturday, leadingthe government to issue anairplane advisory and closesections of highway.

The volcano, about 25miles (40 kilometres)southwest of the capital,erupted about 2:45 am (0745GMT), spewing a column ofash up to 16,400 feet (5,000metres) above the crater andlaunching burning red lavanearly 1,300 feet (400 metres)high.

The national emergencycommission issued anadvisory, warning planes notto fly within a 25-mile (40kilometres) radius of thevolcano. The La Aurorainternational airport inGuatemala City remainedopen.

The commission alsoclosed two stretches ofhighway threatened by lavaflows that reached the baseof the mountain.

Guatemala’s four activevolcanoes have a history ofcausing shut downs. In 2010,an explosion at the Pacayavolcano about 25 miles (40kilometres) south ofGuatemala City coated thecity in a thick layer of blackash and rock, forcinghundreds of families toevacuate and closing theinternational airport.

Reuters

Valerie Trierweiler (C),companion of France’s

President FrancoisHollande, listens to astudent who explains

about the preparation ofa meal as she stands

next to US First LadyMichelle Obama (R) as

they visit the GaryCorner Youth Centre in

Chicago, on 20 May,2012.Michelle Obama

showed off herneighbourhood on the

South Side of Chicago tosome NATO visitors on

Sunday, taking fiveother first ladies to a

youth centre for lunchand for a musical

performance by thechildren.REUTERS

A worker steers a boat and a pontoon on the LimmatRiver during sunny spring weather in Zurich on 14

May, 2012. At background left are the church towersof the Fraumuenster and St Peter and on the right the

Grossmuenster church.REUTERS

Saudi police seize heroinMEDINA, 21 May—The

Saudi Highway Patrol inMedina seized 35 kilogra-mmes of heroin which werehidden in a truck spare tire,officials said.

Highway patrol officerspulled over a car on Fridayafter noticing suspiciousbehaviour and discoveredthe heroin while conductinga search of the vehicle, theSaudi Gazette reported.

Brig Gen Misfer al-Asadi, director of HighwayPatrol Department, told al-

Medina newspaper that theheroin was discoveredduring a traffic stop.

“The driver was on hisway to Medina to deliver thedrugs when he wasapprehended by highwaypatrol officers and referredto the Narcotics Departmentin Medina.”

Saudi Arabia still suffersfrom a serious drug traffickingproblem despite many lawenforcement drug units andhefty punishment, Arab Newssaid.—Internet

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NASHVILLE, 21 May—Bluegrass star Doug Dillardhas died of a lung infection inNashville, his family said. Hewas 75. Dillard died onWednesday, a publicist said.

LONDON, 21 May—It seems that Demi Moore is keen tobounce back to work following her painful split from AshtonKutcher and subsequent meltdown.

The 49-year-old has been cast as Elizabeth Olsen’smother in forthcoming film ‘Very Good Girls’.

It will be a big step for the Ghost actress, as she would forthe first time be stepping in front of a camera since therevelations about her estranged husband’s fidelity and herlater hospitalisation.

Moore and Olsen will be joined by teen idol DakotaFanning along with award-winning thespian Peter Saarsgaardin the new movie, the Daily Mail reported.

The film will tell the tale about two best friends who havejust graduated from high school who decide the best way tobecome adults is too lose their virginity.—Internet LOS ANGELES, 21 May —

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow issuch a fan of actor MaxGreenfield’s TV comedy“New Girl” that she has askedhim to be the first guest editorof her weekly onlinenewsletter. “This pastSeptember, I made a discoverythat has made my life a better,happier place the show ‘NewGirl’, of course! I fell in TVlove with Schmidt, played byMax Greenfield, who’s thekind of guy you lusted after atyour cousin’s Bar Mitzvah. Iasked him to edit our issuethis week. Enjoy. And thankyou, Max,” femalefirst.co.ukquoted Paltrow as saying.

The actor, who uses hisblog to list his favourite thingsand offer tips about summervacations, style and food, said:“I recently connected withGwyneth Paltrow andexplained to her how much Ilove goop. Being all thatGwyneth is, she has allowedme to write a piece for thesite.”—Internet

NEW YORK, 21 May—Singer Adam Levine says it’sannoying when audiencesmistake his confidence for abig ego.

Levine, the vocalist ofband Maroon 5, insists famehasn’t changed him.

“I’m still the same. I’mstubborn, combative,rambunctious, confident. My

LONDON, 21 May —ParisHilton and Lindsay Lohan,who have long-standingreputations as Hollywoodwild ones, recently partied ata LA home until 7 in themorning. However, there wasso much noise and ruckus inthe Hollywood Hillsresidence that the neighbourscalled the police to intervene,according to onlookers.

After the party broke up,both the actresses reportedlymade a quiet exit.

Hilton was later spottedleaving the property wearingdark sunglasses and a capalong with her friend, oil heir

HOLLYWOOD, 21 May—Colin Firth will play NoelCoward in “Mad Dogs andEnglishmen,” the producersannounced in Cannes, France.The film centres on the real-life saga of the sophisticatedBritish playwright-actor’stwo-week run at the Desert Innin Las Vegas in 1955.

The next step is to find adirector for the film, whichThe Hollywood Reporter sayshas no release date. Thenewspaper said “Mad Dogs”is being produced by BiteSizeEntertainment, a newlylaunched company led byGene Kirkwood, who oversaw“Rocky,” and Mevio CEORon Bloom.—Internet

A horse that fled from aCalifornia beach photo shootwas rescued after swimmingmore than two miles out to sea.

Santa Barbara HarborPatrol Officer Ryan Kelly saidWilliam, a 7-year-old Arabianhorse, was spooked by thewater in the evening and raninto the water from theSummerland beach, CNNreported.

A Michigan couple said their family willno longer be eating fast food after the woman’s14-year-old son found a piece of a humanfinger in his Arby’s sandwich.

Jamie Vail and Joe Wheaton said the

Israeli doctors say theywere able to safely remove atoothbrush from a woman’sstomach after she acciden-tally swallowed it.

Bat-El Panker, 24, camehome from work on 11 May,and went to brush her teeth.When she bent over the faucetwith the toothbrush in hermouth, she said it slippeddown her throat.

Panker told Ynetnewsshe tried to get it out, but tono avail. She rushed to thehospital and had an X-ray,but the doctors couldn’t seethe toothbrush, and sent her

A former Montana rancher and carpenter has made it into the Guinness Book of WorldRecords as the world’s oldest clown.

Floyd Creekmore, who still performs as Cree

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