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* 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 inside thecountry 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 the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural her-itage and national character

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

ards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace andtranquillity, prevalence of law and order

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

tion* 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, 12 Dec — The State Peaceand Development Council Chairman’s TrophyGolf Tourney 2010 took place at City Golf Courseand Yepyar Golf Course here on 11 and 12

State Peace and Development CouncilChairman’s Trophy Golf Tourney 2010 held

December. A total of 35 teams from central officesand ministries took part in the tournament.

Vice-Chairman of the State Peace and De-velopment Council Deputy Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army)Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, SPDC memberThura U Shwe Mann, Prime Minister U Thein Sein,SPDC member U Tin Aye, senior military officersof the Ministry of Defence, the commander of NayPyi Taw Command, ministers and deputy ministersalso participated in the tourney at City Golf Course.

The opening ceremony of the State Peaceand Development Council Chairman’s Trophy GolfTourney 2010 was held at City Golf Course at 6 amyesterday attended by Prime Minister U Thein Sein,senior military officers of the Ministry of Defence,the commander of Nay Pyi Taw Command, minis-ters, the auditor-general, the chairman of Civil ServiceSelection and Training Board, deputy ministers,

first round of the tourney at City Golf Course andYepyar Golf Course alternatively. The second roundwas held at the same venues at 6 am today and all theevents concluded this evening.

The prize-presentation ceremony took placeat City Golf Course at 6 pm today and PrimeMinister U Thein Sein awarded the winning teams.It was also attended by senior military officers of theMinistry of Defence, the commander of Nay PyiTaw Command, ministers, deputy ministers anddepartmental heads.

First, Minister U Aung Thaung explained

the purpose of holding the tournament.On behalf of State Peace and Development

Council Chairman Senior General Than Shwe, thePrime Minister presented the trophies to the leader ofthe Ministry of Defence, which stood first in inter-club event (handicap) and in inter-club event(scratch).

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Vice-Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-

in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye participates in State Peace andDevelopment Council Chairman’s Trophy

Golf Tourney 2010.—MNA

Member of the State Peace and Develop-ment Council Thura U Shwe Mann inaction at State Peace and Development

Council Chairman’s Trophy Golf Tourney2010.—MNA

Prime Minister U Thein Sein tees offtracer ball to open State Peace and

Development Council Chairman’s TrophyGolf Tourney 2010.—MNA

members of Nay Pyi Taw Development Committee,departmental heads and members of the committeefor organizing the tourney.

First, golfers from the participating teamstook their positions at the designated places. ThePrime Minister teed off the tracer ball to open thetournament.

Next, Chairman of the committee for organ-izing the tourney Minister for Industry-1 U AungThaung teed off the tracer ball to open the tourney.

The golfers from 35 teams participated in the

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Monday, 13 December, 2010

PERSPECTIVES* 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 Desire

The government is striving fordevelopment of all sectors based on agriculture.Aim has been set to rise cultivation and productionin the agriculture sector.

Emphasis is being placed on availabilityof sufficient water, which is essential foragriculture. So far, over 200 dams and sluicegates have been built across the nation. Over 300river water pumping stations and over 8,000 tube-wells have been supplying water to the areaswhere dams cannot be built. As such, there areover 2 million acres of farmlands in the entirenation.

Moreover, fallow and virgin lands arebeing reclaimed. Over 11 million acres of virginand fallow lands out of 26 million have beenreclaimed to the cultivable ones. Due to favourableweather and fertile soil, farmers can successfullycultivate paddy, wheat, maize, cereal crops,sesame, groundnut, sunflower, cotton, jute andsugarcane in addition to industrial crops andbeans and pulses.

The farmers apply modern agriculturaltechnology for increasing per-acre yield of paddyand other marketable crops. Double croppingand mixed-cropping patterns benefit the growers.By using quality strains of various crops, thefarmers are trying to export larger volume ofhigh-quality crops to the foreign market.

At present, the country has over 57 millionacres of arable lands. Over 16 million acres ofmonsoon paddy and over 3 million acres ofsummer paddy produce over 1566 million basketsof paddy yearly. The larger volume of greengram, pigeon pea and mung bean are beingexported to the foreign market. Myanmar standstop in growing beans and pulses in the SoutheastAsian region.

As the State is providing modernagricultural technology and other necessaryassistance for the agricultural sector, strenuousefforts are to be made for building soundagricultural foundations to be able to shape anindustrialized nation.

Raise State economy throughagriculture sector

NAY PYI TAW, 12 Dec — Chairman of RakhineState Peace and Development Council Commander ofWestern Command Brig-Gen Soe Thein, accompaniedby officials, visited Minbya-Myebon motor roadconstruction project on 6 December.

He heard report on progress in construction ofthe road submitted by an official and left necessaryinstructions.

The commander also visited in Kyaukkhok,Taungshinpyin and Khamaungdaw villages in MinbyaTownship and Wetgaung and Gaungbyu villages in

Western Command Commander inspects regionaldevelopment tasks in Minbya, Myebon Tsps

Myebon Township. He met local people, gaveinstructions for regional development and gave awayassistances.

He attended the ceremony to present seedlingsof winter crops in Myebon Township. The commanderand officials presented seedlings to local farmers andcordially greeted them.

At Myebon Township PDC Office, thecommander met with departmental officials and gaveinstructions for regional development.

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YANGON, 12 Dec— Minister for Agricultureand Irrigation U Htay Oo received JapaneseAmbassador to Myanmar Mr Takashi Saito who wasaccompanied by Mr Kazuya Endo of Southeast AsianDepartment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs inJapan, at Irrigation Department in Yankin here on 10December.

Both sides discussed boosting agricultural

A&I Minister receives Japanese Ambassador,Switzerland NGO

production, human resources development, andJapan-Myanmar friendship and cooperation.

Similarly, the minister received CounsellorMs Veronique Lorenzo from Livelihood and FoodSecurity Trust Fund (LIFT Fund), a Switzerland-based non-government organization, at thedepartment in the evening, focusing on promotion ofagricultural production.—MNA

YANGON, 12 Dec—Joint General Secretary DrMyo Thet of the Union of Myanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI)met Mr Prajuab Supinee, Minister-Counsellor(Commercial) of Thai Embassy at UMFCCI Officeon 7 December.

At the call, they discussed matters to provideassistances by UMFCCI for holding Thai-madeproducts show to be held at UMFCCI Office Towerfrom 16 to 19 December and to promote bilateraltrade.

Interested Myanmar companies that importThai-made products may take part in the show andcontact UMFCCI Exhibition Department (ph-214344and 214349) and Office of Thai Minister-Counsellor(Commercial) (ph-558566).

MNA

UMFCCI official meets Thai Minister-Counsellor (Commercial)

Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Htay Oo receives Japanese Ambassador Mr TakashiSaito and Mr Kazuya Endo of Southeast Asian Department under Ministry of Foreign Affairs

of Japan.—MNA

Joint GeneralSecretary DrMyo Thet of

UMFCCImeets

Minister-Counsellor

(Commercial)of Thai

EmbassyMr Prajuab

Supinee.MNA

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Car bomb kills seven, woundsdozens in Iraq’s Ramadi

FALLUJA (IRAQ), 12 Dec—Asuicide car bomber killed at leastseven people and woundeddozens near governmentbuildings in the mainly SunniIraqi city of Ramadi on Sundayas political leaders movedtoward forming a newgovernment.

Some officials said up to 13people were killed and as manyas 57 wounded in the blast inwestern Anbar Province, once a

stronghold of the al-Qaedamilitant group.

Last December, twin suicideblasts killed at least 24 andwounded more than 100 justoutside the provincialgovernment headquarters inRamadi.

The governor of AnbarProvince was critically woundedin one of the attacks, butsurvived.

MNA/Reuters

A woman injured in a roadside bomb blast is brought to ahospital in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan recently.

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Attack kills six foreign troopsin Afghanistan

KABUL, 12 Dec—An insurgent attack in southern Afghanistankilled six foreign troops on Sunday, the NATO-led force said, daysbefore Washington is due to complete a review of its war strategy.

On 29 Nov, six NATO troops were shot dead by a man wearing anAfghan border police uniform during a training exercise in the east, theworst apparent “rogue” shooting in more than a year.

A total of 521 foreign troops were killed in 2009 and more than2,260 have died since the beginning of the war. June was the bloodiestmonth for foreign forces in Afghanistan, with 103 deaths.

MNA/Reuters

Sandstorms, high waves close 10Egyptian ports

ISMAILIA, 12 Dec — Egypt closed ten of its ports on the Red Seaand the Mediterranean on Saturday because of sandstorms and highwaves, maritime officials said.

Eight of the closed ports — Port Tawfik, Adabiya, Zayteya,Sukhna, Ataka, Safaga, Hurghada and Nuweiba — lie on the RedSea. Alexandria and Dekheila lie on the Mediterranean.

Officials at the Red Sea Ports Authority said the ports “willreopen as soon as the weather improves”. —MNA/Reuters

An Iraqi man grieves at a funeral fortwo slain Christian brothers in

Mosul, 225 miles north of Baghdad,Iraq recently. Gunmen shot and

killed the two brothers on Monday ina northern Iraqi city in the latest in a

spate of attacks targeting thereligious minority, Iraqi police said.

A lawmaker called on Iraq’sgovernment on Tuesday to betterprotect its dwindling Christian

community and lambasted othernations that have offered asylum tofleeing Christians as meddling in

Iraq’s problems.—INTERNET

ISLAMABAD, 12 Dec — Pakistani securityforces killed 11 suspected Taleban militantsin South Waziristan tribal region and Swatvalley, official sources and local media saidon Friday. Fighting between security forcesand Taleban militants was reported in SouthWaziristan with army killing four militants,including a commander, they said.

The army had declared victory earlier thisyear months after thousands of troops launchedmajor ground and air offensive against theTaleban militants in South Waziristan. Thearmy this week started repatriation ofthousands of people who fled fighting in theregion. Local TV channels reported thatclashes erupted at Sararogha area of SouthWaziristan Thursday night, killing Taleban

Pakistani forces kill 11 militants innorthwest

commander Asmatullah and three othermilitants.

Official sources said that four soldierswere injured in the fighting. Talebanspokesman Azam Tariq claimed that armedmilitants attacked soldiers who were escortingdisplaced persons. He also claimed that themilitants inflicted losses on the forces andabducted three soldiers. Some 400,000 peoplewere displaced from South Waziristan and thearmy has started repatriation and 100 familieshave been repatriated so far. Taleban hadwarned the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)not to return homes as they would launchattacks on the security forces which couldharm them.

Xinhua

A policeman searches avehicle at a checkpoint on

al-Sa’adoun street inBaghdad recently. Iraq’spresident formally asked

the Prime Minister onThursday to form a newgovernment, giving him

30 days to choose acabinet from among

Iraq’s fractious Shi’ite,Kurdish and Sunnipolitical factions.

INTERNET

Federal police look at the burning car of suspectedhitmen in El Alcalde in the outskirts of Apatzingan

on 9 Dec, 2010.INTERNET

Drug shootout mars religious festivalin Mexico

GUADALAJARA, 12 Dec — Suspected drug cartelgunmen attacked each other during annual religiouscelebrations in a small Mexican town, killing 11people and wounding 22 others, local authorities saidon Saturday.

The rival gangs shot machine guns into the packed

central square of Tecalitlan late Friday night andwreaked havoc on the festival in honour of the Virginof Guadalupe, one of Mexico’s most cherishednational and religious symbols.

“During the celebration, a group of subjectsarrived in several vehicles to attack another group inthe town plaza, sparking a battle,” a statement fromthe attorney general’s office in the central state ofJalisco said. The gunmen also lobbed a grenade intothe crowd.

The shootout sparked panic in the town, withpeople afraid to leave their houses and cancelingplans to visit family on what is usually a festiveholiday across the country, local radio reported.

Mexico’s spiraling war against powerful drugcartels escalated this week when security forces killedone of the leaders of the cult-like drug cartel LaFamilia based in Michoacan, which borders the stateof Jalisco. Tecalitlan is close to Apatzingan, wherethe worst violence flared in clashes to track down thedrug lord.

MNA/Reuters

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LONDON, 12 Dec—WikiLeakssaid on Friday it had no links to cyberattacks on global companies seen asenemies of the website and neithersupported nor condemned the onlinecampaign.

A statement on its website quotedWikileaks spokesman Krist innHrafnsson as saying the attacks were“a reflection of public opinion on theactions of the targets.”

The loosely organized campaignto avenge WikiLeaks against thosewho have obstructed its operations,calling itself Operation Payback, hasalready temporarily brought down thewebsites of Visa and MasterCard, and

WikiLeaks says has no linkto cyber attacks

of the Swedish Government.WikiLeaks noted the attacks weresimilar to those it had received since itbegan publishing the first of 250,000US leaked US embassy cables on 28November.

“These denial of service attacksare believed to have originated froman Internet gathering known asAnonymous. This group is notaffiliated with Wikileaks. There hasbeen no contact between any Wikileaksstaffer and anyone at Anonymous,”the statement said.

“WikiLeaks has not received anyprior notice of any of Anonymous’actions.”— MNA/Reuters

NASA view of the Sun.

After billions of years

the Sun finally has an

owner — a woman

from Spain’s soggy

region of Galicia said

Friday she had

registered the star at a

local notary public as

being her property.

INTERNET

ST PETERSBURG, 12 Dec—Unusually cold weatherlast winter killed Florida’s endangered manatees at arecord rate, a report said on Friday.

During 2010, a record 699 manatees have died inFlorida, according to the Florida Fish and WildlifeConservation Commission’s Research Institute. Ofthose, 244 were attributed to cold weather and manyof the 271 undetermined deaths were also likelycaused by weather. In most years, the leading cause ofmanatee deaths is from collisions with power boats.The latest surveys estimate there are only about 5,000of the chubby marine mammals left in Florida waters.The previous record of 429 manatee deaths was set in2009 but only 56 of those were caused by coldweather.

Manatees are protected under the EndangeredSpecies Act and the state of Florida has enacted lawsto require slower motor boat speeds in some waters toprevent manatee accidents. Manatees require warm,shallow water to survive. They often swim nearpower plants in the winter for warmth.

MNA/Reuters

NEW YORK, 12 Dec—Pfizer Inc is voluntarilyrecalling its drug to treat a life-threatening lungcondition and will end studies of the pill after it waslinked to potentially deadly liver toxicity.

The European Medicines Agency on Friday saidthe modest-selling drug, used to treat pulmonary arterialhypertension, was withdrawn due to “new informationon two cases of fatal liver injury.”

Pfizer spokesman Curtis Allen said the drug,called Thelin, which is not sold in the United States,

Unusually cold weatherkilling Florida’s manatees

Pfizer recalls lung drug after two deaths Russian Bolshoi Theatreballet dancers perform in

Moscow 2008. Fourperformances of the

Bolshoi Ballet are to bebeamed live from Moscow

to 300 cinema screensaround the world as partof a tie-up with French

movie house giantGaumont-Pathe, the firm

said on Friday.—INTERNET

was being recalled in Europe, Canada and Australiaafter being linked to a new liver problem “that occursrarely and unpredictably in patients.”

“The decision was based on a review of emergingsafety information and post-marketing reporting,” saidAllen, referring to reports by doctors that haveprescribed it. About 1,100 patients have taken Thelinsince it was launched in Europe in 2006 and in Australiaand Canada the following year.

MNA/Reuters

A rescuer and a rescue dog walk at the scene of an earthquake drill inBucharest, capital of Romania, on 10 Dec, 2010.

XINHUA

CAIRO, 12 Dec—Egypt’s Foreign Ministersaid on Saturdayinformation released bythe WikiLeaks websiteshowed there was nocontradiction betweenEgyptian officials’ publicand private statements,the state news agencyreported.

Leaked US diploma-tic cables show Egypt tobe anxious about Iran’sinfluence over itsHezbollah and Hamas

FM says Leaks show strength of Egyptianpositions

proxies and groups likeEgypt’s Muslim Brother-hood. One said Egypt hadlobbied for a delay in thereferendum for SouthSudan’s independence.

“All the US diploma-tic cables leaked on theWikileaks site and thattalk about Egypt provethat what Egyptianofficials say in closedmeetings is what they sayin public,” MENA newsagency quoted AhmedAboul Gheit as saying at

a joint news conferencewith his Australiancounterpart.

“This shows thestrength of Egypt’sposition,” he added.“These leaks are the tip ofthe iceberg, therefore it’stoo early to comment onthem not necessarilyeverything we read istrue.”

The government hadpreviously made nocomment on WikiLeaks.

MNA/ReutersWASHINGTON, 12Dec—The United Stateshas suspended a US-based aid organizationfrom receiving newdevelop-ment contractsas it investigates reportsof fraud and othermisconduct in develop-ment projects in Pakistan,the US Agency forInternational Develop-ment said.

The Office ofInspector General at theUS Agency for Internatio-nal Development has saidin a report to Congressthat USAID terminated a150-million-US-dollardevelopment agreementin Pakistan after evidenceof procurement fraud hadbeen uncovered.

In a statement on itswebsite on Wednesday,USAID said it hadsuspended the Academyfor Educational Develop-ment during an inspectorgeneral investigation.

MNA/Reuters

US suspendsaid group in

Pakistanfraud probe

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SAN ANTONIO, 12Dec— New drugcombinations are helpingwomen with early breastcancer. Using two drugsthat more precisely targettumors doubled thenumber of women whosecancer disappearedcompared to those whohad only one of the drugs,doctors reported onFriday. However,another study added tothe controversy overAvastin for breast cancer.

Most women whoreceived the drug for afew months beforesurgery fared no betterthan those who did not, itfound.

The studies werepresented Friday at theSan Antonio BreastCancer Symposium. The

BUENOS AIRES, 12Dec—A damaged cruiseship reached Argen-tina’s southern most portearly Friday with its 88American passengersand 77 crew memberssafe after a large wavebroke its bridge windowand cut off i tscommunications andradar. The Clelia II wasto stay four days inAntarctica but had to sailback to its scheduled portof Ushuaia after only twodays because of theincident on Tuesday,

Damaged Antarctic cruise ship inArgentine port

Greek-owned cruise ship ‘Clelia II’ is seen docked after arriving at the port ofthe town of Ushuaia, in Tierra de Fuego, Argentina, on 9 Dec, 2010. Theship, operated by New York-based Travel Dynamics International, was

blasted by a huge wave during a storm on Tuesday in the Drake Passagebetween Cape Horn and Antarctica. The 88 passengers were unharmed.

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Drug combo helps womenwith early breast cancer

JAKARTA, 12 Dec—Fossils of a giant stork havebeen discovered on a far-flung Indonesian island thathas been home to many extreme-sized creatures fromtiny human-like “hobbits” and dwarf elephants to theworld’s largest-known rats and lizards.

Authors Hanneke Meijer and Rokus Due wrote inthe December issue of the Zoological Journal of theLinnean Society that leg bones from the maraboustork, which lived 20,000 to 50,000 years ago, indicateit stood around 6 feet (180 centimetres) tall and weighedup to 35 pounds (16 kilograms). It appears to have beenprimarily land-based, they wrote. The bones werefound during excavations of the Liang Bua cave in thewest of the island of Flores at a depth of around 15 feet(4.7 metres).

Flores, located on Indonesia’s eastern edge, hasnever been connected to another island or mainland,shaping evolution of historic wildlife, with many small-sized warm blooded animals growing larger thanelsewhere on the planet, and big-sized mammalsbecoming more diminutive, said Colin Groves, aprofessor at Australian National University who wasnot related to the study, citing the so-called “islandrule” in biology.

With no mammalian carnivores, birds and reptiles

In this undatedsketch by Ingevan Noortwijkand released byJohn Wiley &

Sons, a six-foot(180

centimetres)-tall giant storkstands next to a

dwarf Homofloresiensis thathad lived on theremote island of

Flores inIndonesia.INTERNET

Giant stork once roamedIndonesian island

CAPE CANAVERAL, 12Dec—Stay tuned fornature’s comingattraction. Early nextweek, the Geminidmeteor shower will makeits annual appearance,just in time for Christmas.Astronomers consider itthe best meteor showerof the year, with morethan 100 meteorsstreaking through thenight sky every hour. Thepeak of the meteor showerwill occur early Tuesday,between midnight andsunrise local time. The

Nature’s coming attraction: Geminidmeteor shower

In this pictureprovided by Wally

Pacholka of AstroPicscom, a Geminid

fireball explodes overthe Mojave Desert in

the Jojave Desert,Calif on 13 Dec, 2009.

INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 12 Dec— The rare, ribbon-shapedsea creature was far fromhome when it washedashore in Malibu this week.Darrell Rae was on aSunday morning stroll onMalibu Colony beachwhen he spotted the 12-foot-long silvery fish witha brilliant red mane andscarlet dorsal finfloundering in the water afew dozen feet from theshore.

“I grew up on thebeaches and I had neverseen or even heard ofanything like it,” he said.

Rare serpentine oarfishappears on Malibu shore

according to passengers.It was a very slow

trip in heavy weather,said passenger DenisSmyth, a 68-year-oldUS Navy veteran fromRockville Point, NewYork. “I am an ex-Navyperson, so I was used toit, but it was very rough.There were a lot of dayswhen people were toosick to eat,” he said byte lephone f romUshuaia.

Smyth said a largewave broke loose a arailing that smashedthrough the window ofthe bridge. Water thenpoured in, short-circuiting thecommunications and

radar.“About five or six

fell and several had blackeyes and bruises,” Smythsaid. “When the shiplurched, several peoplewent flying across thelounge.” At anotherpoint, a half-dozenpeople fell off their chairsduring a wildlife lecture,but no one was seriouslyinjured, he said. TheClelia II declared anemergency on Tuesdaywhen it was northeast ofthe South ShetlandIslands and about 500miles (845 kilometres)from Ushuaia, theArgentine Navy said in astatement.

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show will be best in theNorthern Hemisphere,easily visible with thenaked eye.

The Geminids areactually rocky celestialleftovers. EveryDecember, Earth passesthrough this stream ofdebris from 3200Phaethon, once believedto be an asteroid and nowconsidered an extinct oriceless comet. Themeteors, or shootingstars, can appearanywhere, but alwaysseem to fall from the

Gemini constellation,thus their name. Meteorsoccur when bits ofparticles enter theatmosphere and burn up,resembling incomingfireballs.—Internet

“I knew it had to besomething that came fromfar away and deep in theocean.” When Raereturned with his camera,the creature had washedashore, dead. Half a dozenpeople were gawking at thelong, thin leviathan,wondering if it might besome kind of eel. But thefirst to correctly identifythe serpentine creature wasan 8-year-old boy whorecognized it from schooland strode up beside theadults to inform them: It’san oarfish.

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good news study was thefirst test of Herceptin andTykerb together forearly-stage disease.

They aim at a proteincalled HER-2 that isoverproduced in aboutone-fourth of all breastcancers. Herceptinblocks the protein on thecell’s surface; Tykerbdoes it inside the cell.

Dr Jose Baselga,associate director of theMassachusetts GeneralHospital Cancer Centre,led a study when hepreviously worked inBarcelona, Spain, thattested these drugs aloneand in combination in455 patients who alsowere given thechemotherapy drugpaclitaxel.

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faced less competition for food, accounting for someof their massive size. Even today, rats more than 16inches (40 centimetres) from head to body can befound on Flores. It is also home to Komodo dragons,the largest lizards on earth, which grow to be up to 10feet (3 metres) long, weighing up to 150 pounds (70kilograms).

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SAN FRANCISCO, 12Dec— Oracle wants tomake SAP’s $1.3 billionpenalty for s teal ingintellectual propertyeven bigger. On Friday,Oracle asked a judge toadd $211.7 million ininterest to the $1.3billion fine that a federaljury levied against SAPlast month. The judgestill needs to formallyimpose the fine. Thereis a possibility she couldreduce i t . SAP canappeal. Oracle, based inRedwood Shores, andSAP are two of theworld’s biggest busi-ness software makers.Their three-week trialexposed a remarkableexample of corporateespionage.

G e r m a n y - b a s e dSAP admitted asubsidiary mined thecontents of password-protected Oraclewebsites, downloadingsoftware and customersupport documents tohelp steal Oraclecustomers. SAP saysOracle shouldn’t get anymore money beyond thefine. Oracle declinedcomment.

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Oracle seeksto add to$1.3B fine

against SAP

Visitors tour at China International Green Industry Expo 2010 (CIGIE) inBeijing, Capital of China, on 24 Nov, 2010. The 4-day expo opened on

Wednesday, with the participation of more than 200 enterprises from 25countries and regions. The expo will serve as a platform for domestic and

overseas enterprises to exchange information, and display the latestachievements in areas including energy saving, emission reduction and

circular economy, etc.—XINHUA

A woman withcholera receives

treatment in a clinicset up by the

International RedCross in Port-au-Prince recently.

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SAN FRANCISCO, 12 Dec—US Attorney General Eric Holder on Fridaystrongly defended undercover sting tactics like those used last month tocapture an Oregon man charged with trying to plant a fake bomb at a holidayfestival.

“These types of operations have proven to be an essential law enforcementtool in uncovering and preventing potential terror attacks,” Holder told theannual dinner of San Francisco Bay Area community group Muslim Advocates,according to a prepared text of his remarks. The comments came in a speechbroadly focused on a call for better relations between Muslims and lawenforcement and a promise to prosecute hate crimes.—MNA/Reuters

US Attorney General defendsanti-terrorism stings

BA G H D A D, 12 Dec—Anti-American Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Friday for the closureof bars and liquor shops in Iraqfollowing a renewed campaign byauthorities in Baghdad to shut downnightclubs and shops selling alcohol.

Hundreds of Sadr’s followersrallied in the Husseiniya District ofnorthern Baghdad, heeding his call totake to the streets after Friday prayersin support of a ban. Many carriedSadr’s photograph and held up bannerswhich read “We call for the immediateclosure of all nightclubs and bars”.

“Stand against those who want todisseminate corruption, intoxication,and addiction (to alcohol), to make

Iraq’s Sadr calls for ban on bars,nightclubs

LOS ANGELES, 12Dec—A Pennsylvaniacouple wanted in theslaying of a man who wascut into pieces andstashed in a backpack andunder a bed in adowntown Los Angeleshotel room was arrestedon Friday, authoritiessaid. A fugitive task forcearrested Edward GarciaJr, 36, and Melissa HopeGarcia, 25, who also goesby the name of MelissaTurner, around 3:45 pm,said Matt Brown, asupervisor with the USMarshals Service.

They had beenstaying in an abandonedoffice building inHollywood and wereliving in squalidconditions, surroundedby trash, human waste andsyringes. Both appeared

Couple wanted indismemberment killing

arrested

HARTFORD, 12 Dec—Connecticut AttorneyGeneral RichardBlumenthal on Fridaydemanded that Googleprovide access to data thecompany said itaccidentally collectedfrom public Wi-Finetworks. The Democra-tic US senator-elect saidhe and the stateConsumer ProtectionDepartment issued a“civil investigativedemand,” which is like asubpoena, that saysGoogle must provideaccess to the data by 17Dec or face being takento court.

In May, Googleannounced that it had

Conn AG demands access to datagrabbed by Google

inadvertently collectedfragments of people’sonline activities fromunsecured Wi-Fi net-works in more than 30countries while takingphotographs for its StreetView mapping service.Google’s disclosureprompted investigationsaround the globe.Blumenthal and officialsin nearly 40 other stateshave been seeking toreview the information tosee if Google improperlyaccessed e-mails,passwords and otherprivate data.

“Verifying Google’sdata snare is crucial toassessing a penalty andassuring no repeat,”Blumenthal said in astatement. “Consumersand businesses expectand deserve a fullexplanation, as well asmeasures shielding themfrom future spying.”

The companyapologized again in astatement Friday, sayingit never wanted theinformation and hasn’tused it in any products orservices.

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to have sores on theirfaces caused by drug useand Melissa Garcia hadrecently cut her hair andput red streaks in it,authorities said. “Theywere asleep when wekicked the door in,”Brown said. “They werecoherent but they lookedlike they were on thedownside of a drugbinge.”

The Garcias havebeen charged with murderand the specialcircumstances of torturein the Thanksgivingkilling of Herbert TracyWhite, 49, of LosAngeles. A maid foundhis dismembered bodystuffed in a backpack andunder a bed in theContinental Hotel in theseedy downtown SkidRow area.—Internet

Iraq drif t towards ignorance,corruption, lewdness, to make oursociety rot like the West.”

Authorities last year ordered theclosure of all Baghdad nightclubs andshops selling alcohol because ofconcern that the venues wereundermining morals.

The provincial council hasrenewed its efforts to close clubs andliquor shops.

Mainly Muslim Iraq is aconservative society, where manywomen cover their hair and bodiesand most men and women eschewalcohol, which is proscribed underIslamic law.

MNA/Reuters

PUTRAJAYA, 12 Dec—Malaysia is mulling overthe possibility of signing a free trade agreement(FTA) with South Korea after witnessing the successof the ASEAN-South Korea FTA. Malaysian PrimeMinister Najib Razak made the remarks in Malaysia’sfederal administration center here on Friday. Alsopresent was the visiting South Korean President LeeMyung-bak.

Najib, also Malaysian finance minister, said thatMalaysia was determined to expand its bilateral tradewith South Korea, which saw a 34 percent jump thisyear from the same period last year. Malaysia’s two-way trade with South Korea amounted to 36.75 billionringgit (about 11.85 billion U.S. dollars) last year.The amount is expected to exceed 16 billion USdollars this year.

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Malaysia may sign free tradepact with S Korea

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California ‘bomb factory’ goes upin smoke

LOS ANGELES, 12 Dec—A house in California containing a “bomb factory”of explosives went up in smoke on Thursday in an operation controlled by fireservices, who said it was the safest way to destroy it.

Occasional blasts could be heard as flames leapt high into the air, after abomb-arson team ignited the building in Escondido, some 30 miles (45 km)north of San Diego in southern California.

Serbian George Djura Jakubec, 54, who lived in the house for about fouryears, pleaded not guilty Monday to eight charges including making andpossessing destructive devices, as well as robbing three banks.

Deputy District Attorney Terri Perez said Jakubec had turned his homeinto a “bomb factory,” which he described in court as “the largest quantity ofthese types of homemade explosives (ever found) at one place in the UnitedStates.”

A stretch of nearby freeway was closed and nearby residents wereevacuated ahead of the controlled blaze.

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Flames engulf the rented home of George JuraJakubec after it was set ablaze by officials in

Escondido, California on Thursday. Jakubec, 54,who lived in the house for about four years,pleaded not guilty Monday to eight charges

including making and possessing destructivedevices, as well as robbing three banks.

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Newbornbaby stolen

from Germanclinic found

BERLIN, 12 Dec —Anewborn baby girl wasstolen from a hospital onthe outskirts of Frankfurton Thursday but wasfound several hours laterand two suspects havebeen arrested, police said.

The baby was bornin the clinic earlyThursday morning, butaround noon a womancame into the mother’sroom pretending to be anurse and taking the girlaway, police said in astatement. Police laun-ched a major searchoperation around theHoechst hospital, andseveral hours later theywere tipped off to searcha nearby home, whereofficers found two 28-year-old women with thebaby, police said.

Both were arrested asthey could not explainwhy the baby was withthem, police said. Anurse from the hospitaland a midwife lateridentified the missinggirl , German newsagency DAPD reported.The 20-year-old motherhad given the baby awayas she thought the womanwas taking the 3.2kilogram (7 pound)newborn to a medicalexam.

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Men fined over “indecent”fashion show makeup

KHARTOUM, 12Dec—A Sudanese courtconvicted seven men ofindecency on Wednes-day after police accusedthem of wearing makeupduring a fashion show inKhartoum, their lawyersaid. The men, amateurmodels at the “SudaneseNext Top Model FashionShow” in June, werearrested by the publicorder police, a bodyknown for its crackdo-wns on perceivedindecent dress anddrinking in the Muslimnorth, one defendant toldReuters.

All seven were foundguilty on Wednesday andeach fined 200 Sudanesepounds ($80), as was awoman who faced thesame charge for applyingthe makeup, said lawyerNabil Adib. “The courtthought that they were

Sudanese models presenting wedding dresses at thefirst mixed-gender fashion show in Khartoum in

June 2010. A Sudanese court on Wednesdayconvicted eight models who took part in that

fashion show with “indecency” and ordered themto pay a fine but spared them a flogging sentence.

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indecently dressed. Thejudge thought thatwearing makeup could beoffensive for men andallowing a woman to putmakeup on men wasagainst the law,” saidAdib.

The lawyer said hehad argued in court thatmen, including religiouspreachers, regularly woremakeup for appearanceson Sudan’s statetelevision station. Thedefendants could havefaced a maximumpunishment of 40 lashesand imprisonment, saidAdib. Sudanese UNofficial Lubna Husseinwas briefly jailed forwearing trousers inpublic after being foundguilty for the sameoffence in 2009, a casethat drew internationalcriticism.

Reuters

Twenty-seven strains of bacteria have formed adestructive blob of icicle-like “rusticles” that areslowly eating the historic wreckage of the RMSTitanic steamship. Canadian researchers told

OurAmazingPlanet that the rusticles maycompletely destroy the remains of the ship within15 years. Using DNA technology, the scientistsdiscovered a new strain of bacteria among the

rusticles. They named the life-forms Halomonastitanicae.INTERNET

China’s Bona film group issues IPO onNASDAQ

NEW YORK, 12 Dec — China’sBona film group, Ltd, issued its initialpublic offerings (IPO) on NASDAQon Thursday, raising approximately100 million US dollars. RobertGreifeld, CEO of NASDAQ, said inthe opening bell ceremony that Bonais the first Chinese film company toget listed on NASDAQ, and it hasmade truly remarkable progress bydistributing 139 films, including 29internationally, since its foundingseven years ago.

Dong Yu, the founder and CEO ofBona, said that thanks to the rapiddevelopment of China’s economy,culture and film industry, Bona hasthe opportunity to stand at a newstarting point in history by enteringthe NASDAQ market. “The filmindustry is an industry full of dreams,”Dong told Xinhua, “Since Bona’sfounding, we keep focusing on filmmaking, and will keep on investing,

filming and releasing more goodfilms.”

The world’s output of films isabout 5,000 annually. Among them,500 are produced by the Chinese filmindustry, according to Dong. “TheChinese film industry is in a rapiddeveloping period, we are confidentthat we will rake in over 10 billionyuan in box office revenue in Chinathis year.” “The NASDAQ stockmarket provides us with aninternational platform.” Dong said.“We look forward to enhancingcooperation with international filmmakers in the future, as well aspromoting the convergence of theChinese and US film market.”

Bona Film Group Limited is thelargest privately owned filmdistributor in China, with an integratedbusiness model encompassing filmdistribution, production, exhibitionand talent representation. —Xinhua

Germany, France “set example”to euro zone on taxes

FREIBURG, 12 Dec — Germany and France pledgedon Friday to start harmonising their taxes as an exampleto Europe of how to avoid future crises, while ruling outjoint euro zone bonds or topping up the current crisisfund. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and FrenchPresident Nicolas Sarkozy said after a brief summit inFreiburg on the German border with France that theyboth must set examples for the currency bloc via closerfiscal harmony.

“We have agreed to the convergence of Germanand French tax policies and I thank the Germanchancellor for this opening.

It is very important to be able to say to our partners,we are in the euro zone, we must converge to defend theeuro,” Sarkozy told a joint news conference withMerkel. “We should set an example on questions ofcompetitiveness, how far we can go beyond purebudget policy,” said Merkel.

The leaders of the two euro zone giants bothrejected a proposal for joint euro zone bonds,championed by Luxembourg Prime Minister andEurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker with Italiansupport.—MNA/Reuters

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(from page 1)Next, SPDC

member U Tin Ayepresented prizes to theMinistry of Progress ofBorder Areas andNational Races andDevelopment Affairsand the Ministry ofHome Affairs, whichstood second and thirdrespectively in inter-clubevent (handicapped).

Next, Lt-GenThura Myint Aung of theMinistry of Defence pre-sented prizes to the Min-istry of Progress of Bor-der Areas and NationalRaces and DevelopmentAffairs and the Ministryof Transport, whichstood second and thirdrespectively in inter-clubevent (scratch).

Minister U AungThaung awarded prizesto the best loser awardwinning teams in the in-ter-club events (handi-capped & scratch); Min-ister for Progress of Bor-der Areas and NationalRaces and DevelopmentAffairs U Thein Nyuntto most birdie, most par,longest drive and nearestpin award winners; Lt-Gen Ko Ko of the Minis-try of Defence to first,second and third prizewinners in individualevent (handicapped);Maj-Gen Hla Min of theMinistry of Defence tofirst, second and thirdprize winners in indi-vidual event (scratch);

State Peace andDevelopment Council …

Maj-Gen Thet Naing Winof the Ministry of De-fence and the ministersto the best daily scorers;Nay Pyi Taw CommandCommander Brig-GenMaung Maung Aye tothose who stood fourthto thirteenth in individualevent (handicapped); andSports Minister Thura UAye Myint to those whostood fourteenth to twen-tieth in individual event(handicapped).

In the inter-clubevent (handicapped), theMinistry of Defencestood first with 657strokes, the Ministry ofProgress of Border Areasand National Races andDevelopment Affairssecond with 686 strokes,and the Ministry of HomeAffairs third with 698strokes.

In the inter-clubevent (scratch), the Min-istry of Defence stoodfirst with 822 strokes, theMinistry of Progress ofBorder Areas and Na-tional Races and Devel-opment Affairs secondwith 833 strokes, and theMinistry of Transportthird with 859 strokes.

In individualevent (handicapped),Capt Aung Min Thant ofthe Ministry of Defencestood first with 158strokes, Capt Moe KyawHtein of the Ministry ofDefence second with 125strokes, and U Saw MyintTun of the Ministry of

Progress of Border Areasand National Races andDevelopment Affairsthird with 161 strokes.

In individualevent (scratch), CaptAung Min Thant of theMinistry of Defencestood first with 158strokes, Maj Khin MaungLatt of the Ministry ofDefence second with 160strokes, and U Win Sweof the Ministry ofProgress of Border Areasand National Races and

Development Affairsthird with 161 strokes.

The best loseraward in inter-club(handicapped) went tothe Ministry ofEducation and the bestloser award in inter-club(scratch) went to theMinistry of Health.

U Myo Lwin Ooof the Ministry ofTransport and CaptainMoe Kyaw Htein of theMinistry of Defence wonMost Birdie Awards,Major Khin Maung Lattof the Ministry ofDefence Most ParAward, U Zaw Min Htutof the Ministry ofLivestock and Fisheries,U Tun Thant of theMinistry of Sports,Captain Aung Min Thantof the Ministry ofDefence, U Kyi Tun ofthe Ministry ofAgriculture andIrrigation, U Myo LwinOo of the Ministry ofTransport and U MyintNaing Oo of the Ministryof Finance and RevenueLongest Drive Award, USoe Kyi of the Ministryof Social Welfare, Reliefand Resettlement, U YeMyint Aung of the

Prime Minister U Thein Sein presents trophy to leader of DefenceMinistry team that stood first in the inter-club events (handicap) of

SPDC Chairman’s Trophy Golf Tourney 2010.—MNA

SPDC Member U Tin Aye in action at StatePeace and Development Council Chairman’s

Trophy Golf Tourney 2010.—MNA

Ministry of Defence team seen with trophies in inter-club handicap event and inter-club scratchevent of State Peace and Development Council Chairman’s Trophy Golf Tourney 2010.—MNA

Ministry of ForeignAffairs, U Soe Yi of theMinistry of Industry-1, UThant Shin of the PrimeMinister 's Office, UNaing Win Latt of theMinistry of Progress ofBorder Areas andNational Races andDevelopment Affairs, U

YANGON, 12 Dec—A ceremony to openschool libraries devel-opment and reading-habit motivating festi-val, organized by Infor-mation and Public Rela-tions Department of theMinistry of Information,No. 3 Basic Education

School libraries development andreading-habit motivating festival celebrated

Department, MyanmarWriters and JournalistsAssociation and VillageLibrary Foundat ion,was held at No. 1 BasicEducation High Schoolin Dagon Myothi t(North) Township hereon 9 December.

Director-General of

IPRD U Ye Htut, Direc-tor-General of No. 3BED U Aye Kyu andChairman of MWJA UTin Hlaing (LedwinthaSaw Chit) opened the li-brary.

The educative talksto mark opening cer-emony were held at Nos.

1, 3 and 4 BEHSs.Essay contest at

middle and high schoollevels will be held at No.3 BEHS on 12 Decem-ber ; poem-reci t ingcontest and high schoollevel extempore contest,at No. 1 BEHS on 15December and prizepresentation and closingceremony will be heldat No. 1 BEHS on 20December.

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Aung Maung of theMinistry of Commerceand U Myint Thein of theMinistry of CooperativesNearest Pin Award.

After the cer-emony, prize winningteams posed for docu-mentary photos.

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YANGON, 12 Dec —Myanmar sportscontingent led by DeputyLeader Lt-Col Kyaw Soeof the Ministry of Defenceof Myanmar SportsFederation for the Disabledyesterday left here forGuangzhou of China toparticipate in the 10th AsianGames for DisabledPersons to be held from 12to 20 December.

They were seen off byofficials from SportsMinistry and thefederation.

A contingent led byCol Htay Naing of theMinistry of Defence hadalready left here forGuangzhou on 8December.—MNA

Myanmar contingent leaves for Guangzhou to partake inAsian Games for Disabled Persons

Staff of Forest Department donate hospitalequipment to Nay Pyi Taw General Hospital

YANGON, 12 Dec—Special sale of New Mobile,which is annually held in December, will take placeat its show room at No. 271/273 on Bo Aung KyawStreet in Kyauktada Township, here, from 15 to 19December. Singapore-imported GSM handsets,CDMA (450) MHz and 800 MHz handsets and fixedphones are available at reduced prices with three-month guarantees. During the sale, New mobile willoffer services for those who want to apply for CDMA450 MHz and 800 MHz in Yangon and Mandalay.For more information, dial 01-386594 and095091282.—MNA

Special sale at New Mobile

NAY PYI YAW, 12Dec—The Director-General of ForestDepartment and staffdonated hospitalequipment to Nay PyiTaw General Hospital(1000-bed) and fedrefreshments to patientsfor the 100th time thismorning.

On behalf of thed i r e c t o r - g e n e r a l ,Deputy Director-General Dr Nyi NyiKyaw explained thepurpose of donations.

The deputy director-general and officersdonated one steelcabinet and two 10-litreoxygen cylinders and

two Nebulizers worthover K 700,000 toMedical SuperintendentDr Daw Phyu Phyu andofficials who presentedcertificates of honour tothem.

Later, patients wereserved withrefreshments.

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Minister U Aung Thaung tees off tracer ballto open State Peace and Development Council

Chairman’s Trophy Golf Tourney.(News on page 1)—MNA

Deputy Leader Lt-Col Kyaw Soe of the Ministry of Defence of MSF for theDisabled seen with members at the Yangon International Airport before

depature for China.—MNA

Harvesting monsoon paddy carried out for ensuring correctproduction of monsoon paddy at the plot of paddy of Farmer UMaung Ko in Hnakpyaw Taw Ward in Pintaya Township on 24

November morning.—MNA

Construction at No 2 road section to link Upper Myanmar andAyeyawady Region in progress.—MNA

YCDC starts construction of No. 2 road section tolink Upper Myanmar and Ayeyawady Region

YANGON, 12 Dec—With the aim ofensuring smooth transport and swiftflow of commodities, the EngineeringDepartment (Road/Bridge) under theYangon City Development Committeehas launched construction of No. 2 roadsection that will be a main road to linkUpper Myanmar and AyeyawadyRegion. No. 2 road section, which issix-lane concrete facility, starts fromBotahtaung Market Road in BotahtaungTownship to Maso Bridge on 2nd Streetin Dagon Myothit (South) Township,along Ayeyawun Road in DawbonTownship, Shukhintha Ringroad inThakayta Township, Bago River Roadand Maungmagan Kanthaya Road inDagon Myothit (Seikkan) Township

through Maha Bandoola Bridge.Construction of the highway

commenced on 23 November. Concretewill be placed on 25 feet wide road areawith the use of Gomaco concrete pavermachines. As the road will withstand 60-ton loads, containers, trucks and otherheavy machinery can drive on it. YCDCis repaving No. 2 road section with 11inches thick on the present asphalt surfacefor ensuring better facility, according toan official of Engineering Department(Road/Bridge).

On completion, Upper Myanmar willhave easier access to Ayeyawady Region,and the road will contribute a great deal tosmoother and speedier flow ofcommodities.—MNA

(a) All the national people to constantly join hands for ensuring the perpetuity of independenceand sovereignty of the State

(b) All the national people to collectively strive for non-disintegration of the Union andnon-disintegration of national solidarity

(c) All the national people to work in concert for building a modern, developed and discipline-flourishing democratic new nation as the multiparty democracy general elections have beenheld successfully

(d) All the national people to make collaborative efforts with the Union Spirit and the patrioticspirit for further strengthening the already achieved stability and peace, security, prevalenceof law and order, unity, development and democratization process with momentum

(e) All the national people to have greater awareness in warding off all destructive acts todisintegrate the Union and the national unity as the perpetuity of the Union plays a crucialrole in building the Union of Myanmar

Objectives of 63rd Anniversary Independence Day

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A visit to hill station...

Photo shows a part of motor road at the entrance to Falam.

Residences of Chin national races seen on Chin hills.

(from page 16)on the greeningmountain ranges. Atthe hilly areas, wewitnessed terraceplantations of paddy,onion, maize andvegetables. Along thedownhill road, we sawtrucks with the loads ofvegetables, passengerbuses and motorbikes.Passenger buses leftHaka and Falam inearly morning forKalay. Localpassengers took 12hours for 120 mileslong road betweenKalay and Haka.

During our visit,

we saw villages of Chinnational races along theroad that rounds the hill.The houses are builtwith corrugated ironsheets and t imbers.Flowery plants wereblossoming in front oftheir residences.

Terrace plantationswere located behindtheir houses. Bunches ofmaize were hung in frontof their houses. Somepeople workedpounding of paddy withthe use of woodenmotor. They alsopounded maize. Welearned that Chinnationals cook maize

with meat as main mealscalled Saburi. Therefore,they store maize as foodand strain forcultivation.

We saw pieces offuel-wood under thehouses. As Chin State isvery cold in December,they stored fuel-wood toset fire for warmingthemselves with the useof fuel-wood. As ChinState is located at analtitude of over 5000 feet,the local people suffer -6degree centigrade in thecold season.

Thaingngin, Lom-ban, Lompee, Lomranand Ranthalo villagesare located along the

Falam Township islocated at an altitude of5200 feet. The townshipis constituted with fourwards and 158 villagesin 80 vil lage-tracts.Falam has one 200-beddistrict people’s hospitaland Basic EducationHigh Schools. Being adistrict area, Falam isfaci l i tated withgovernment offices suchas telephones,communication station,post office, telegraphicoffice and police station.

As Falam is a hillstation, neat and tidyresidences and officesare built around the hillsides and along the ringroad of hi l ly area.Scenic beauty of urbanarea can be seen in thebackground of lush andgreen mountain ranges.In fact, Falam bringsprestige of beautifulscenes to Chin State.

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Myanma Alin:10-12-2010

road stretching fromKalay to Falam. Lombanhas one Basic EducationHigh School. RanthaloVil lage has beenestabl ished asagricultural modelvillage. Some villagesare being supplied withelectricity. ThaingnginVillage is located at thejunction.

The vi l lage hasaccess to Falam, Hakaand Kalay. We lef tThingngin for Falam inthe evening.

Minister for ReligiousAffairs Thura U MyintMaung — both supplicatedreligious affairs — receivedFive Percepts fromChairman Sayadaw of

NAY PYI TAW, 12Dec— Under theleadership of Chairmanof Sports Plus EducationLeading CommitteeDeputy Minister forEducation U Aung MyoMin, the Myanmaruniversities sportscontingent headed by

Yangon Command Commander attends opening ofTipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Exam

NAY PYI TAW, 12 Dec— Chairman of YangonRegion Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen TunThan supplicated religiousaffairs at the opening of63rd TipitakadharaTipitakakovida SelectionExamination at VizayaMingala Dhamma Thabinon Thiri Mingala Kaba AyeHill in Yangon thismorning.

The congregation ledby the commander and

Tipitaka SelectionOvadaçariya GroupAbbot of PaukmyineMonastery in Mandalay.

The commander, theminister and the director-

general of ReligiousAffairs Departmentaccepted cash donationfor holding theexamination from well-wishers. Executive

Member Sayadaw ofState Sangha MahaNayaka Group Abbot ofChaukhtetkyi PhayakyiMonastery gave sermonto the audiences who then

shared merits. Thewellwishers donatedoffertories to Sanghamembers after theceremony.

MNA

Myanmar universities sports contingentleave for Thailand

Rector in-charge ofDagon University UHsan left Yangon by airthis morning to take partin the 15th ASEANUniversities Games to beheld in Chiangmai ofThailand from 13 to 23December.The Myanmar sports

contingent will competein the football,volleyball, SepakTakraw, tennis, tabletennis, golf, swimmingand track & field eventout of 17 sports events inthe games.

The sports con-tingent comprised 66members— 20 membersof management board,coaches and inter-national referees and 46athletes of universitiesand colleges.—MNA

Commander Brig-Gen Tun Than andMinister for Religious Affairs Thura U MyintMaung attend opening of 63rd TipitakadharaTipitakakovida Selection Examination.—MNA

Myanmar Universities Sports Contigent seenat Yangon International Airport before

departure for Thailand.MNA

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Women dressed in Christmas costume take part ina parade held in San Francisco recently. Hundredsof local residents Saturday took part in the annual

Santa Claus parade held inSan Francisco.—XINHUA

A pile of bricks at a builders merchants. A German DIY enthusiastaccidentally walled himself into his own basement and only managed to

escape by drilling his way through to his neighbours, police said.INTERNET

Double happiness for worldeconomy in China trade data

BEIJING, 12 Dec—China’s importsand exports were much stronger thanexpected in November, robust numbersthat could clear the way for the centralbank to raise interest rates as soon as thisweekend.

The data on Friday offered a double-hit of good news for the global economy:a reminder that Chinese demand was stillgrowing apace and an indication that theUS economy was picking up steam.

“The import figures reflect continuedstrong domestic demand, which is not toosurprising, especially as the governmenthas been taking measures to increaseimports to reduce the trade surplus,” saidJian Chang, an economist with Barclays

Capital in Hong Kong. Imports rose 37.7 percent from a

year earlier, easily topping forecasts of a24.2 percent increase.”It shows the USeconomy is recovering well,” said WangHan, an economist at CEBM in Shanghai.“The central bank will raise reserverequirements this weekend and theninterest rates next week.”

The volume of imports and exportsboth set monthly records, the customsauthority said in a statement. That leftChina with a trade surplus of 22.9 billionUS dollars in November, the seventhstraight month in which it has been in thehefty 17 billion US dollars-29 billion USdollars range.—MNA/Reuters

German police arrest twosuspected Sikh militantsBERLIN, 12 Dec—German police have arrested two

men suspected of being Sikh militants belonging to agroup that is fighting to create a Sikh homeland,prosecutors said on Thursday.

They say the men, arrested in the western states ofHesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, were part of themilitant Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) that wants tocreate a Sikh homeland out of parts of India andPakistan. “They are accused of having joined the KZFby 2009 at the latest and been in contact with itsleadership abroad to help procure weapons,” Germany’sPublic Prosecutor General at the Federal Court ofJustice in Karlsruhe said in a statement.

The two, described as 35-year old Sukhpreet Sand 41-year old Jagtar S M, are Indian nationals andhave been charged with violations of firearms laws and“membership in a foreign terrorist organization”.Prosecutors say they had acquired two semi-automaticfirearms and forged identity documents, and had soughtto obtain more arms to help the KZF in its attacks onIndian targets and authorities.

The group aims to deliver weapons and counterfeitmoney to the Indian state of Punjab via networks ofmembers in Europe, police say. The European Unionconsiders it a terrorist organization.—MNA/Reuters

Full sequence confirms Haiticholera came from Asia

WASHINGTON, 12 Dec—Detailed genetic testsconfirm that the cholera strain that has killed more than2,000 people in Haiti came from south Asia and mostclosely resembles a strain circulating in Bangladesh,US researchers reported on Thursday.

While they cannot trace who or what preciselycarried the cholera to Haiti, the team at HarvardMedical School and Pacific Biosciences of CaliforniaInc say their findings show extra measures may beneeded to help prevent the spread of cholera from onedisaster area to another — a contentious issue becausemany Haitians have blamed the outbreak on Nepalesetroops sent to help them as part of a United Nationsmission.

Aid workers from more than 10,000 organizationsall over the world have poured into Haiti to help aftera devastating January earthquake, which levelled muchof the capital and killed 250,000 people.

Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine,Harvard’s Dr John Mekalanos and colleagues said theyalso confirmed that Haiti’s cholera strain carries amutation associated with causing more severe disease.

“Our genome data puts the Haiti strain in thegroup that is the worst of the worst,” Mekalanos said.

MNA/Reuters

In this image provided by the New Orleans Museum of Art/John d’Addario,visitors view ‘Woman in an Armchair,’ by Pablo Picasso, from ‘Great

Collectors / Great Donors: The Making of the New Orleans Museum ofArt, 1910-2010,’ an exhibit celebrating the museum’s 100th anniversary in

New Orleans.INTERNET

NEW YORK, 12 Dec—John du Pont,a wealthy heir to his family’s chemicalsfortune, died on Thursday in aPennsylvania prison where he wasserving a sentence for the 1996shooting death of Olympic championUS wrestler David Schultz.

Du Pont was one of the richestmurder defendants in US history at thetime of his conviction. Du Pont, 72,died of natural causes at the LaurelHighlands state prison, about 70 miles(1103 kilometres) from Pittsburgh,said Sue Bensinger, a spokeswomanfor the Pennsylvania Department ofCorrections. He had served 13 yearsof his 13- to 30-year sentence, shesaid.

He was a great-great-grandson of

Du Pont heir convicted of murder dies inUS prison

EI du Pont, who in 1802 founded thechemical firm that bears his name andcreated one of America’s largestfamily fortunes. At the time of his1997 trial, John du Pont’s personalwealth was estimated at up to 250million US dollars.

Witnesses at his trial said du Pontshot Schultz, who lived at a wrestlingtraining facility on the du Pont estate,three times with a handgun. Theshooting was followed by a 48-hourpolice standoff before du Pont’scapture.

Du Pont was found guilty butmentally ill in connection withSchultz’s death. During the trial, hisattorney said du Pont suffered fromdelusions.—MNA/Reuters

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Tale of two sisters points to changing Gypsy world

In this 25 Nov, 2010 picture. NarcisaTranca, 22, holds one of her childrenin Udupu, Romania. Among Gypsies,or Roma, marrying young is a tradi-tion born of the need to survive in an

environment where young womenwere fair game for non-Roma men.

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UDUPU, 12 Dec — Halfway throughanother 12-hour day, Narcisa Trancascrubs the floor, one eye on her infant sonand her thoughts on the tasks ahead —cleaning, cooking, feeding the pigs andchickens. Forced to abandon big dreamsand marry at 15, this has been her life for

the past seven years — locked in a joy-less union she has come to accept.

On the outskirts of Bucharest, theteeming capital to the west of this drabvillage, younger sister Claudia takes abreak from her English homework. She’sin her last year of high-school andpreparing for college, where she plansto study languages. Asked about mar-riage, the straight A-student giggles,shrugs, and says: “There’s time.”

Though separated by only four yearsand a two-hour drive, Narcisa, 22 andClaudia, 18, are worlds apart. But theirlives represent more than a tale of twogifted sisters going separate ways. Theyare Gypsies — and their story reflectscreeping change within Europe’s down-trodden minority. They offer a glimmerof hope that coming generations may beallowed to choose education instead ofearly marriage, empowering them toescape squalor on the fringes of society.

“I was wrong,” says Marcel Tranca,when asked about his decision to forcehis daughter Narcisa into marriage. Look-ing at Claudia, he adds: “But I learnedfrom that mistake.” Among Gypsies, orRoma, marrying young is a tradition bornof the need to survive in an environmentwhere young women were fair game fornon-Roma men. Romanian Roma, in par-ticular, turned to early marriage during500 years of slavery that ended only inthe 19th century. —Internet

Fingernail swabstaken of beau in

NY bathtub deathNEW YORK, 12 Dec—

Investigators on Fridaywere taking fingernailswabs from the boyfriendof a fashion designerfound dead in a bathtub ata posh hotel in the hopesof finding evidence thatmay help them determinehow she died.

Police obtained asearch warrant that alsoallowed them to take pho-tos of Nicholas Brooks,the 24-year-old son of“You Light Up My Life”songwriter JosephBrooks.

He has been with po-lice since his girlfriend,Sylvie Cachay, was dis-covered around 3 amThursday at the SohoHouse hotel. Police werelooking for any possiblesigns of struggle ortrauma, said chief NYPDspokesman Paul Browne.Nicholas Brooks has notbeen charged with a crimeand remains cooperativewith investigators.

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Russia’s Putin raps US overleaked cables

MOSCOW, 12 Dec —Prime Minister VladimirPutin attacked the UnitedStates on Thursday oversecret US diplomaticcables released byWikiLeaks, saying theWest had no right topreach to Russia aboutdemocracy.When askedabout cables which casthim as Russia’s “alpha-dog” ruler, Putin asked:“Do you think theAmerican diplomaticservice is a crystal cleansource of information?Do you think so?”

He then criticizedthe West over the arrest

of WikiLeaks founderJulian Assange, whoturned himself in toauthorities in Britainthis week after a warrantby a Swedish prosecutorwho wants to questionhim about sexualmisconduct accusations.

“If it is full demo-cracy, then why havethey hidden Mr Assangein prison? That’s what,democracy?” Putin said,in the strongest Russiancriticism of the affair.“So, you know, as theysay in the countryside,some people’s cows canmoo, but yours should

keep quiet. So I wouldlike to shoot the puckback at our Americancolleagues,” Putin saidat a briefing with hisFrench counterpartFrancois Fillon.

The phrase is acolloquial term which isa Russian equivalent of“the pot call ing thekettle black”. Leaked UScables cast Putin as aruler who allows an eliteof corrupt officials andcrooked spies to siphonoff cash from theworld’s biggest energyproducer.

MNA/Reuters

Sri Lankan child missing in 2004Tsunami found

COLOMBO, 12 Dec— An infant missing after theDecember 2004 South Asian Tsunami tragedy has nowbeen traced, officials said on Thursday.

Anoma Dissanayake, the chairman of National ChildProtection Authority (NCPA) said the child now six yearsold was found in a house at Wellampitiya, a north Colombosuburb.

MNA/Xinhua

MP says Iran not to discuss N-issuesin Istanbul talks

TEHERAN,12 Dec — Asenior Iranian lawmakersaid Teheran will notdiscuss its “inalienable”nuclear rights with thefive UN Security Councilpermanent members plusGermany (G5+1) in thenext round of talks inIstanbul, local satellitePress TV reported onThursday.

Chairman of IranianParliament’s NationalSecurity and ForeignPolicy CommissionAlaeddin Boroujerdi saidon Wednesday that “Iranis not supposed tonegotiate its nuclearrights defined under theNPT (Nuclear Non-Prolifer-ation Treaty)with the G5+1” in

Istanbul, according to thereport.

Under the NPT, Iranwas entitled to usepeaceful nucleartechnology, he said,adding that those countriesthat seek to impede Iran’saccess to such technology,in fact, violate the treaty,the report said.

MNA/Reuters

File photo showsKeith Urban

performing a freeconcert for

winners of acontest conducted

by his website,aboard an Amtrak

train travelingfrom Philadelphia

to New York.Urban is trying tomake his fans andhis family happythis summer. Themulti-platinumcountry star is

hitting the road 16June on a 44-cityarena tour in the

US with a schedulethat gives him timeto be with his wife,

actress NicoleKidman, and their

2-year-olddaughter, Sunday

Rose.INTERNET

Bolivia rejects

Uribe’s

accusations

about nuclear

programme

LA PAZ, 12 Dec—The Bolivian Government on Thursday rejected accusationsby former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe that Bolivia and Venezuela were in anuclear arms race.

“Uribe’s words are ridiculous and out of context,” Bolivian Defence MinisterRuben Saavedra said, rejecting Uribe’s accusations. He said that “Bolivia does nothave the time nor the money to be in a nuclear arms race.” “We reject those statementsaimed at affecting the image of Bolivia and Venezuela,” Saavedra added. Saavedralamented that former presidents like Uribe are trying to harm Bolivia with declarationsthat are not only out of place, but also far from the truth. Saavedra said that Uribe “useshis imagination too much, and we do not know what objective he has in mind, forsaying such lies.”—MNA/Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 12Dec—Veteran USdiplomat RichardHolbrooke, the US specialrepresentative forAfghanistan and Pakistan,felt ill at the StateDepartment and went tothe hospital, the StateDepartment said on Friday.

State Departmentspokesman PJ Crowleysaid Holbrooke, 69, beganto feel unwell while on thedepartment’s seventhfloor, which is where USSecretary of State HillaryClinton’s office is located,but he declined to providefurther details.

“He felt ill,” Crowleytold reporters. “He is atthe hospital now. He’sbeing evaluated. He washere this morning and

US envoy Holbrooke feels ill, goes to hospitalbeyond that, I’ll wait untilwe have moreinformation.” Within daysof taking office in January2009, US PresidentBarack Obama namedHolbrooke, best knownfor brokering the Daytonpeace accords that endedthe war in Bosnia, as hisspecial representative toAfghanistan and Pakistan.

Holbrooke, who hasworked as an executive inthe financial sector whennot at the State Department,was said to be a candidatefor secretary of state beforethe job went to Clinton.

With a meteoriccareer that included stintsin Vietnam as well asserving as the top USdiplomat for East Asia, forEurope and at the United

Nations, Holbrooke’s mostnotable achievement wasbringing all sides in theBosnia conflict to thenegotiating table at an airbase in Dayton, Ohio. Theresulting 1995 Daytonaccords ended the conflict.

MNA/Reuters

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Picasso sale off after cache revealed

PARIS, 12 Dec — A Paris auctioneerhas postponed a sale of paintings by Picassothat he gave to his chauffeur after a furthercache of the artist’s works was revealed.Thursday’s sale was to have featured worksgiven to driver Maurice Bresnu.Meanwhile, police have confiscated 271pieces that electrician Pierre Le Guennecclaims Picasso gave to him. The sale wascalled off because of a bizarre twist - Mr LeGuennec is an heir to the late Mr Bresnuand stood to profit from Thursday’s plannedsale.

Last month, retired electrician Mr LeGuennec revealed he had a treasure troveof 271 pieces, including lithographs, cubistpainting, notebooks and a watercolourthought to be worth about 60m euros(£50.2m). He installed burglar alarms at anumber of the artist’s homes in France inthe three years before Picasso’s death in1973.

While Mr Le Guennec said the workswere gifts, Picasso’s family have dismissedhis explanation saying the artist would nothave given so many works away to oneperson.They have filed a legal case againstMr Le Guennec claiming “illegalpossession” of the paintings.

Police have seized the art as part oftheir investigation. Picasso’s chauffeurMaurice Bresnu, meanwhile, is well knownto art scholars. Some works from MrBresnu’s Picasso collection have alreadybeen sold at auction in the 1990s.Thursday’s sale was to have included anumber of sketches and minor Picassoworks given to Mr Bresnu.—Internet

The sale was to have included anumber of sketches and minor

Picasso works.—INTERNET

File photo shows Colombian singerShakira performs on stage at the

Hallenstadion in Zurich,Switzerland, on 17 Nov, 2010.

INTERNET

Climate draft proposes $100b financingCANCUN, 12 Dec — A

draft accord from a UNclimate conferenceFriday proposed a raft ofmodest deals, including a100-billion-US-dollar infinancing to helpdeveloping nations by2020, a temperature targetand payments to protecttropical forests.

The draft aimed tolimit global warming toless than 2 degreesCelsius (3.6 F), andwould deliver “adequateand predictable support,including financial

resources” for develop-ing countries that protecttheir forests. To become aUN decision, the draft,agreed by groups ofministers, would have tobe cleared by a conferenceof about 192 countries at afull meeting in Cancun,Mexico, Friday orSaturday. The draft movesforward a pledge thatwealthy nations made lastyear in the CopenhagenAccord of 100 billion USdollars per year infinancing, starting in 2020,for developing countries.

The money would helpdeveloping countriesmitigate emissions andadapt to the worst effectsof global warming, likeheatwaves, droughts andstronger storms. The textalso sets up a “greenclimate fund” to helpchannel some of the moneyto developing countries.The text drops a demandfrom developing countriesthat rich countries offer 1.5percent of their grossdomestic product infinancing.

MNA/Reuters

Actress Mandy Moore promotes her new movie “Tangled” at New York’sDisney Store earlier this month. The film’s makers say one of the biggest

challenges was making Princess Rapunzel’s long flowing hair seem realistic,including in 3D.

INTERNET

Woman returns1936 library book

LOS ANGELES, 12 Dec — A Californiawoman is proving it’s never too late tomake things right. Hazel Severson (95)says a friend found a library book thatMs Severson’s late husband hadborrowed in 1936.

She decided to return the book andoffer to pay the overdue fee — awhopping $2,701. Luckily the librarydidn’t charge her the fee, accepting asmall donation.—Internet

Airbus senior officialaccused for insider trading

PARIS, 12 Dec—Airbus Chief OperatingOfficer John Leahy is being investigated for alleged“insider trading” by French authorities, local mediareported on Friday. The senior Airbus officer, aUS citizen, was placed under investigation on 5November, and is suspected to have receivedprivi leged information about the f inancialprospects of Airbus, which linked with thesignificant delay of super-jumbo A380 in 2006.

The announcement of A380 delay was followedby a plunge in Airbus share prices by 26 percentin June 2006. Before the share price drop, Leahy,one of the few non- Europeans in Airbus high-level, sold 260,000 shares for 3.1 million euros(4.1 million US dollars) while exercising hisoptions in EADS, Airbus’ parent company,according to a report by French stock marketsupervisor Autorite des Marches Financiers.

When called by Xinhua for comment on thecase, Pierre Bayle, the communication directorof EADS said he couldn’t give more informationbecause he himself heard of the news but now. Ifconvicted, 60-year-old Leahy will face two yearsin prison and heavy fine proportional to his gainfrom the sale of EADS shares, local mediareported.— Xinhua

QUITO, 12 Dec—OPEC oil ministers signaled aheadof a Saturday meeting that they see no reason to changeoutput targets given current global economicsluggishness, though they expect demand for crudewill continue to grow. “What’s missing right now isequilibrium in the price of oil,” Angola’s oil minister,Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, said Friday afterarriving in this Andean capital. “I think $90 dollars (abarrel) is a comfortable price.” OPEC, which isresponsible for 35 percent of global oil production, hasnot changed its output quotas since late 2008. And lastmonth, Saudi oil minister Ali Naimi said oil between$70 and $90 per barrel was tolerable for consumers. Heechoed that sentiment upon arrival in Quito on Friday.The 50-year-old cartel has had a good year, with priceshovering in the mid-$80 range and profits up 32percent over 2009 to $750 billion, according to USEnergy Department estimates.

Oil reached a two-year high of nearly $91 onTuesday as traders gauged the dimensions of 2011demand and responded to a particularly harsh onset ofwinter in Europe.

Internet

OPEC ministers signal nooutput shifts

AMSTERDAM, 12 Dec—A young killer whalerescued in Dutch coastal waters will not be returnedto the sea, the marine park where she recuperatedsaid.

The female whale had strayed into Dutch coastalwaters in June and was rescued in a weakened state.She was taken to the marine park Dolfinarium andnamed Morgan, becoming a popular attraction forvisitors.

The Dolfinarium said a report drawn up byinternational academics indicated a successful returnto the sea would be impossible after DNA tests andphoto and sound identification efforts failed to locateher family with sufficient certainty.

“Orcas are extremely social animals that usuallystay their entire life with their birth group,” themarine park said in a statement. “Integration in herbirth group is essential for a successful return.” Themarine park said it would now examine what wasthe best solution for Morgan.

MNA/Reuters

Rescued killer whalewill not be returned

to sea

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Manchester City’ Yaya Toure, No 42, shoots andscores a goal against West Ham United during

their English Premier League.—INTERNET

Answers to yesterday’sCrosswords Puzzle

LAS VEGAS, 12 Dec—Victor Ortiz and LamontPeterson fought to a ma-jority draw Saturdaynight, with Petersoncoming back from twoknockdowns to keepalive his 140-pound titleaspirations.

Also, Joan Guzmanremained unbeaten,stopping journeymanJason Davis in the sec-ond round on theundercard of AmirKhan’s WBA 140-pound title defenceagainst Marcos Maidana

SANTA BARBARA, 12Dec—Akron advancedto the College Cup finalfor the second consecu-tive year, coming frombehind to beat Michigan2-1 on Friday night.

The third-seededZips (21-1-2) will face

Ortiz, Peterson fight to majority drawat the Mandalay BayEvents Center. Ortiz (28-2-2) knocked downPeterson against theropes twice in the thirdround and pressured hisopponent throughout,while Peterson (28-1-1)did his best workc o u n t e r p u n - c h i n gagainst Ortiz’s strength.

Internet

The Ivory Coast coach Sven GoranEriksson speaks during a press

conference.—INTERNET

LONDON, 12 Dec—Sven-GoranEriksson confirmed Thursday he hastried to bring former England captainDavid Beckham back to English foot-ball with Leicester.

Eriksson, who as England managerworked closely with Beckham,is now in charge of second-tier Leices-ter, whose ambitious Thai ownershave made it clear they are preparedto back their Swedish boss in the trans-fer market.—Internet

Eriksson reveals Beckham bid

LONDON, 12 Dec—Manchester City won 3-1 at last-place West Hamon Saturday tostrengthen its hold on aplace among the PremierLeague’s top four teams.

Yaya Toure put Cityahead in the 30th minutebefore an own-goal bygoalkeeper RobertGreen and an 80th-minute score by AdamJohnson. West Ham

Manchester City wins 3-1in Premier League

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scored with a minute left.Aston Villa beat West

Bromwich Albion 2-1and Blackpool won 1-0at Stoke. But two weeksafter a record-equaling41 goals over a PremierLeague weekend, therewere just eight in Satur-day’s first five games.

Everton drew 0-0with Wigan and Fulhamdrew 0-0 withSunderland.—Internet

Results of respective leaguesResults of respective leaguesResults of respective leaguesResults of respective leaguesResults of respective leagues

on 11 Decemberon 11 Decemberon 11 Decemberon 11 Decemberon 11 December Italy - Serie A

Palermo 3 - 1 ParmaUdinese 2 - 1 FiorentinaGenoa 0 - 1 Napoli

Spain - Laliga DivisionGetafe 1 - 0 VillarrealSevilla 1 - 3 AlmeriaAtletico Madrid 2 - 0 Deportivo La Coruna

Germany - Bundesliga I.FC Cologne 1 - 0 Eintracht FrankfurtBayern Munich 3 - 0 St. PauliHamburger SV 2 - 4 Bayer LeverkusenHoffenheim 1 - 1 NurnbergKaiserslautern 0 - 0 WolfsburgBorussia Dortmund2 - 0 Werder Bremen

France - Ligue 1Arles-Avignon 0 - 1 LilleBrest 0 - 0 MontpellierCaen 0 - 0 NiceLorient 3 - 0 LensNancy 1 - 0 SochauxValenciennes 1 - 2 Paris S.G.Auxerre 1 - 1 Marseille

BA R C E L O N A, 12Dec—Barcelona willsell advertising on itsshirts for the first timenext season af terreaching a five-year,150 mil l ion euro($200 mil l ion) dealwith the Qatar Foun-dation.

Barcelona will re-ceive 30 million euro($40 million) per sea-son from 2011-12 fromthe nonprofit organiza-tion, located in the tinygulf state where the2022 World Cup willbe played. Unlikeother top soccer clubs,

Barcelona to advertiseQatar Foundation on jerseys

Barcelona has previ-ously refused to selladvertising space to ashirt sponsor, but hasbeen putting children’scharity UNICEF on itsfront for free since2006.

Internet

American Gates leadsAustralian PGA

COOLUM, 12 Dec—American Bobby Gatesshot a 1-under 71 inwindy conditions Satur-day to maintain a one-stroke lead after the third

round of the AustralianPGA.

Gates, the New Zea-land Open winner inJanuary who earned a2011 PGA Tour cardwith a 16th-place finishon the Nationwide Tourmoney list, had a 12-under 204 total on theCoolum course.

Gates finished with a10-foot par putt aftermissing the 18th greenwith his approach.

Internet

Akron, Louisville advance tomen’s soccer final

Sun 12th Dec 2010

Bolton 2-1 Blackburn

Wolves 1-0 Birmingham

Tottanham 1-1 Chelsea

top-seeded Louisvilleon Sunday for theNCAA men’s DivisionI soccer championship.Louisville (20-0-3),trying to become thefirst unbeaten championsince Santa Clara in1989, scored in the finalminute to oust NorthCarolina 2-1 in the firstsemifinal.

Akron was unbeaten in2009 when it played Vir-ginia to a 0-0 draw in theCollege Cup final, butthe Cavaliers took thetitle by winning onpenalty kicks at Cary,NC.—Internet

Nowitzki gets 31, leads Mavsto 12th straight win

DALLAS, 12 Dec—DirkNowitzki had 31 pointsand 15 rebounds, and theDallas Mavericks ex-tended their winningstreak to 12 games with a103-97 victory over theUtah Jazz on Saturdaynight. The Mavericks ral-lied after wasting a 25-point first-half lead.DeShawn Stevensonadded a season-high 17points, going 5 of 7 from3-point range, and CaronButler had 16 points forDallas.

The Mavericks put ona long-range shootingclinic, hitting 14 of 26from beyond the arc to

prevail in a matchup ofWestern Conferenceheavyweights. Dallas-area native DeronWilliams scored 19 of his34 points in the first halfand paced the Jazz, whohad won nine of 11. PaulMillsap added 16 pointsand Ronnie Price scored14 for Utah.—Internet

Bobby Gates of theUnited States watches

his shot during thethird round of theAustralian PGAChampionship.

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Dallas Mavericks powerforward Dirk Nowitzki(41) of Germany shootsover Utah Jazz power

forward Paul.INTERNET

Louisville’s AaronHorton celebratesafter they defeatedNorth Carolina.

INTERNET

Barcelona’s Argentin-ian forward and

Ambassador of UnicefLionel Messi takes partin a children’s session.

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lightweight boxing

match on 11 Dec,

2010, in Las Vegas.

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

Local Transmission* Opening

* News* Exceptional Monywa & Excellent Resort* News* Festival of kahtain (Part-1)

* News* Monastry Yot Son Kyaung (Sa-Le)* News* Songs for You

Oversea Transmission* Opening* News* Exceptional Monywa & Excellent Resort* News

* Festival of kahtain (Part-1)* News* Monastry Yot Son Kyaung (Sa-Le)* News

* Songs for You* News* Myanmar Movies Impact

‘‘Destined Couple’’

* News* Youth & Music (Part-3)* Music Gallery* News

* Floral Lovers’ paradise(National Kandawgyi Gardens)

* News* Elegant Myanmar Dance

* Myanmar Movie ‘‘An Ugly Fate’’

7:00 am 1. Paritta By

Venerable Min GunSayadaw

7:25 am 2. To Be Healthy

Exercise 7:30 am 3. Morning News 7:40 am 4. Dhamma Puja

Song

Monday,13 December

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Programme Schedule(13-12-2010)(Monday)

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am) MSTOversea Transmission - (13-12-10 09:30 am ~

14-12-10 09:30 am) MST

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowershave been isolated in Kachin and Kayah States, fairlywidespread in Chin, Kayin and Rakhine States, Bago andUpper Sagaing Regions and widespread in the remainingStates and Regions with isolated heavy falls in Mon State,Mandalay and Magway Regions. Night temperatures were(3°C) to (4°C) above December average temperatures inKachin and Rakhine States, Lower Sagaing, Mandalay,Magway, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Regions (5°C) to(6°C) above December average temperatures in Shan andKayah States, Bago and Yangon Regions, (7°C) to (8°C)above December average temperatures in Mon State andUpper Sagaing Region and about December averagetemperatures in the remaining States and Regions. Thesignificant night temperature was Hakha (6°C). Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Nay Pyi Taw(Yezin) (1.03) inches, Kyeikkhame (3.62) inches, Mudon(2.95) inches, Nyaunglebin (2.87) inches, Yamethin (2.56)inches, Kyeikmaraw (2.43) inches, Myaungmya (2.17)inches, Kawthoung (1.97) inches, Pinlaung and Pyin OoLwin (1.93) inches each, Taungdwingyi, Shwegyin andMawlamyine (1.89) inches each, Bago (1.61) inches,Hsipaw (1.49) inches and Mandalay (1.46) inches.

Nay Pyi TawMaximum temperature on 11-12-2010 was 82°F.

Minimum temperature on 12-12-2010 was 74°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 12-12-2010 was (92%).Rainfall on 12-12-2010 was (1.03) inches .

Yangon (Kaba-Aye)Maximum temperature on 11-12-2010 was 90°F.

WEATHERSunday, 12th December, 2010

Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas Minimum temperature on 12-12-2010 was 74°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 12-12-2010 was (84%).Total sunshine hours on 11-12-2010 was (3.0) hours.

Rainfall on 12-12-2010 was at (0.16) inch atMingaladon, (0.47) inch at Kaba-Aye and CentralYangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010 was (83.19) inches atMingaladon, (97.64) inches at Kaba-Aye and (109.29)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (8) mph from Southwest at (15:30) hoursMST on 11-12-2010.

Bay Inference: Weather is partly cloudy to cloudyover the Andaman Sea and Southeast Bay and partlycloudy over elsewhere Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of the 13thDecember2010: Rain or thundershowers will be isolated in kachin,Chin and Kayah States, scattered in Rakhine State, Saging,Mandalay and Magway Regions and fairly widespread int he remaining States and Regions with likelihood ofisolated heavy falls in Mon State and Taninthayi Region.Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Strong Easterly winds with moderateto rough seas are likely at times Deltaic, Gulf of Mottama,off and along Mon-Taninthayi Coast. Surface windspeed in strong wind may reach (35) mph. Seas will bemoderate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofcontinuation of rain in the Southern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for13-12-2010: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for13-12-2010: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for13-12-2010: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

7:50 am 5. Nice & Sweet Song8:00 am 6. Health Programme8:10 am 7. Dance Of National

Races8:20 am 8. Myanmar Traditional

Cultural Performing

Arts Competition

8:30 am 9. Cute Little Dancers

8:40 am10. International News8:45 am11. Musical Programme

4:00 pm 1. Martial Song4:10 pm 2. Musical Programme

(The Radio

Myanmar Modern

Music Troupe)

4:20 pm

3. Teleplay (Industry)

4:25 pm

4. Dance Variety

4:35 pm

5. University Of

Distance Education

(TV Lectures)

-Third Year

(Myanmar)

4:45 pm

6. Song For

Upholding

National Spirit

4:50 pm

7. Musical Programme

5:05 pm

8. Myanmar language

5:30 pm

9. Myanmar Idol

6:00 pm

10. Evening News

6:15 pm

11. Weather Report

6:20 pm

12. Sing & Enjoy

7:00 pm

13. TV Drama Series

8:00 pm

14. News

15. International News

16. Weather Report

17. World’s Stars

(Part-2)

18. TV Drama Series

19. Fine Arts Square

Life expectancy slips, stroke dipsto No 4 killer

NEW YORK, 12 Dec — US life expectancy has droppedslightly by about a month after mostly inching up for manyyears, the government reported Thursday. The preliminaryreport indicates that a baby born in 2008 can expect to liveto 77.8 years if current trends continue. That’s down a bitfrom an all-time high of 77.9 years for 2007. A similar dipoccurred in 2005, and life expectancy also dropped in 1993.

The lead author of the report, Arialdi Minino, calledthe 2008 change minuscule and said it would take years ofdata to determine if that’s a trend. Life expectancy wasdown for both men and women. The gap between blacksand whites closed a little, to a 4.6-year difference in lifeexpectancy; black men for the first time topped 70 years.Overall, women continue to live longer, until about 80,compared to 75 for men.

What’s behind the slip in overall life expectancy isn’tknown. “It’s something to keep our eyes on,” said KenThorpe, a health policy professor at Emory University inAtlanta.—Internet

Korean pop sensation Rain (pictured) will sing and

dance at the closing ceremony of the Asian Games

as part of a promotion for the 2014 Incheon Asiad.

INTERNET

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Only with stability and peace will the nation developOnly with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracyRiots beget riots, not democracyDemocracy can be introduced only through constitution

VOA, BBC-sowing hatredamong the peopleRFA, DVB-generating publicoutrageDo not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles

People’s DesireWe favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

7th Waxing of Nadaw 1372 ME Monday, 13 December, 2010

NAY PYI TAW, 12 Dec— A ceremony to harvestmodel paddy plot for ensuring correct production ofmonsoon paddy in NyaungU District was held at theplot of farmer U Aung Min in Twinywa field ofShwetwin Village-tract in NyaungU Township on 27November.

The paddy plot was supplied water fromLawkananda River Water Pumping Station.

It was attended by chairmen of NyaungUDistrict and Township Peace and DevelopmentCouncils and members, the head of District PlanningDepartment, the District Manager of MyanmaAgriculture Service, the Assistant Director of WaterResources Utilization Department, heads of Districtand Township Settlement and Land RecordsDepartments, service personnel and members ofDistrict and Township Agricultural CoordinationCommittees.

Model paddy plots were classified into threelevels. After the harvest, 90/30 paddy strain plantationproduced 93.71 baskets per acre.

MNA

Significant nighttemperature(12-12-2010)

Haka (6º C)

Model monsoon paddyplot harvested inNyaungU District

Falam is a famous town in Chin hill region,northwest of Myanmar.

Falam District of Chin State is constitutedwith Haka, Tonzang, Kyikha, Thantlang andReedkhoda. Chin State is sharing border with India inthe northwest, Bangladesh in the west, Rakhine Statein the south and Magway and Sagaing Regions in theeast.

Chin State is beautiful with high and steepmountain ranges and valleys. However, we had neverbeen to Chin State before. Recently, we have an

A visit to hill station FalamArticle: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

opportunity to tour Chin State.We, the news crew of Myanma Alin, arrived

in Falam via Kalay by car. Kalay shares its borderwith Tiddim. We faced the uphill road onto Chin Hillby car from the mile post No. 8/7 at the end of the areaof Kalay. The road is an asphalt facility. Despite anarrow one, the road is two-way facility.

After one hour drive from Kalay, we sawback Kalay rounded with lush and green paddy fields.Pine, oak, sweet chestnut and other plants were seen

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Residences of local people seen in Falam with lush and green mountain ranges.

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