The New Light of Myanmar 10-02-2010

Established 1914

Volume XVII, Number 300 12th Waning of Tabodwe 1371 ME Wednesday, 10 February, 2010

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round devel-opment of other sectors of the economy as well

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

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

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept inthe hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

The entire people have to work hard together

The State Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar hasbeen approved with the support of the great majority of the people. The entirepeople have to work hard together in doing their bit in building a peaceful,modern and developed nation in conformity with the new constitution.

Senior General Than ShweChairman of the State Peace and Development Council

Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services(From the message sent on the occasion of the 62nd Anniversary Union Day)

Better Transport for Rakhine StateNAY PYI TAW, 9 Feb—Accompanied by Chair-

man of Ayeyawady Division Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander of South-West Command Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe, Chairman of Rakhine State Peace andDevelopment Council Commander of Western Com-

mand Maj-Gen Thaung Aye and departmental officials,Lt-Gen Ko Ko of the Ministry of Defence heard reportson maintenance of Ngathainggyaung-Gwa-Thandwe-Taungup Road and future tasks presented by officials atBayda Hall at the border of Ayeyawady Division and

Rakhine State on 3 February afternoon.The commanders gave supplementary reports.

Lt-Gen Ko Ko gave instructions on timely comple-tion of the task.

(See page 10)

Hailing the 63rd Anniversary Union Day

Rakhine State enjoying fruit of development, peace and stabilityArticle & Photos: Reporter Singu Soe Win

Min Creek Bridge linking Taungup and Thandwe for ensuring better transportation of local people in Rakhine State. (See pages 6+7)

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Artist : May Moe Thu

Title : Emotion 1

Size : 30in x 48in

Medium : A/C

Wednesday, 10 February, 2010

PERSPECTIVES

Prevent against avianinfluenza

Avian flu usually is a disease infected toanimals with wings. The disease occurs mostcommon among, birds, chickens and ducks.We should be aware that it can also betransmitted to human beings.

If poultry are infected with bird flu, theybecome lethargic, and layers can suffer a declinein laying eggs. Symptoms of severe flu includedifficult breathing, tears-dropping and runnynose, inflammation of head and face, bleedingof legs and joints and rash, and death rate canincrease sharply.

Receiving information about suspiciousbird flu deaths in a poultry farm in MayangonTownship, Yangon, where over 2,000 broilersare bred, Livestock and Veterinary Departmentvisited the farm and took surveillance measures.The animal disease screening lab confirmedthat severe avian flu was detected in the deadchickens of the farm and sent information aboutit to UNFAO, World Animal HealthOrganization and other related organizations.

Control measures are being taken againstthe remaining poultry, eggs and feedstuff of thefarm and those of nearby farms. Publiccooperation is necessary to stop the spread ofbird flu in the country.

If we fail to systematically control andprevent the flu, it can be transmitted directly tohumans. Particularly, it is wise to avoid exposureto infected poultry and equipment and farmsinfected with the virus.

Overall, we are to try to prevent againstavian flu by taking precautionary measuressuch as using insecticide in poultry farms forbio-security, washing hands with soap aftertouching chicken meat and eggs and makingsure that dealers keep personal hygiene.

* 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

Hsipaw Bridge developedby Asia World

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Feb—Chairman of Shan State(North) Peace and Development CouncilCommander of North-East Command Maj-GenAung Than Htut and Minister for ConstructionMaj-Gen Khin Maung Myint yesterday heardreports on construction of Hsipaw Bridge beingundertaken by Asia World Co on Mandalay-PyinOoLwin-Lashio Road presented by theengineer-in-charge of Asia World Co.

At Pontoon Bridge, they viewed the passing oftrucks with loads and maintenance of the bridge.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Feb—Minister for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi received Exploration and ProductionDirector Mr. Jean-Marie Guillermou of Total E&PMyanmar and party at his office here this evening.

They held discussions on cooperation in energysector.

Present also were Deputy Minister Brig-GenThan Htay, departmental heads and officials.

MNA

Myanmar, Total E&PMyanmar to cooperate in

energy sector

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Feb—Deputy Minister for ForeignAffairs U Maung Myintattended the 3rd Round ofMyanmar-Egypt BilateralConsultations on 2 and 3February in Cairo, and theFirst Myanmar-SudanBilateral Consultations from5 to 7 February in Khartoum,the Republic of the Sudan.

On 2 February, thedeputy minister and party

Myanmar promotes relations with Egypt, Sudan

together with AssistantForeign Minister for AsianAffairs Ahmed Fatahllah ofEgypt attended the 3rd

Round of Myanmar-EgyptBilateral Consultations atthe hall of the Ministry ofForeign Affairs of Egypt inCairo.

They discussed furtherstrengthening the existingfriendly relations as well aspromotion of bilateral

cooperation between thetwo countries in trade andinvestment, culture,education, technicalcooperation and tourism.They exchanged views onenhancing cooperation inregional and internationalforum including the UnitedNations and the Non-Aligned Movement.

On 3 February, DeputyMinister U Maung Myint

Myanmar delegation attending 3rd Round of Myanmar-Egypt Bilateral Consultations.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi receiving Director Mr. Jean-Marie Guillermou of Total E&PMyanmar.—MNA

met with Minister forTourism of Egypt Mr.Mohamed Zoheir Garranahat his office and discussedpossibilities of bilateralcooperation in the tourismindustry.

On 4 February, theMyanmar delegation left forKhartoum of Sudan to attendthe 1st Myanmar-SudanBilateral Consultations.

MNA

Three ladies to express emotionYA N G O N ,

9 Feb —Three femaleartists — MayMoe Thu,Sandy andKyu Kyu —from Yangonwill expresstheir feelingsat Emotion2010 Art Ex-hibition to beorganized at Lawka NatArt Gallery on PansodanStreet from 10 to 14 Feb-ruary. Time for the exhi-bition will be fixed from9 am to 4 pm on thesedays.—NLM

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Vehicles wait in a traffic jam in New Delhi. India’scar sales rose more than 32 percent year on year in

January as demand was boosted by cheap loansand an economic recovery, an industry group said

on Tuesday.—INTERNET

A stockpile of snow brought in by helicopter waits to be spread at the site on theCypress Mountain where the Freestyle Skiing and Snowboarding Winter Olym-pic events will be held, north of Vancouver, on 6 February. Winter Olympic hostcity Vancouver saw its warmest January on record, marked by a lack of snow and daffodils in bloom just days before the start of the Games.—INTERNET

Military death toll in Afghan warpasses Falklands

Police constable kills onecolleague; explosion claimstwo lives in W Afghanistan

KABUL, 9 Feb — A police constable opened firekilling one of his colleagues and wounding four oth-ers in Afghanistan’s western Herat Province while ex-plosion claimed the lives of two civilians there, offi-cials said on Monday.

In the first incident, according to police spokes-man in west Afghanistan Abdul Rauf Ahmadi, a po-lice constable opened fire on his colleagues on Sun-day night killing one police constable and injuringfour others.

Ahmadi also added that the culprit after openingfire and killing a police constable run away but onthe way his car rammed into a tree and badly injured.

In another incident, an explosion rocked a bazaarin Shindand District on Sunday and wounding twobrothers, governor of Shindand District LalMohammad Omarzai told Xinhua.—Xinhua

Photo taken on 7Feb, 2010 shows a

refugee in BagrameDistrict, north ofKabul, Afghani-

stan. Thousands ofrefugees fromKapisa lived in

Bagrame District toavoid conflictsbetween NATOarmy, Afghan

National Army andTaleban mili-

tants.— XINHUA

Initial design for China’s first three inlandnuclear power stations completed

Internationalexpress train

derails near SofiaSOFIA, 9 Feb — Three

carriages of the interna-tional express train “Bul-garia Express” from Mos-cow to Sofia derailed atthe Kourilo station, some12 kilometres north of So-fia, on Monday morning,the Bulgarian State Rail-ways (BSR) said.

Nobody was hurt in theincident and all passen-gers have been transferredto another train, the BSRsaid. It remains unclearwhat caused the train carsto go off the tracks. Inves-tigation is underway.

The train had eightpassenger carriages: fourBulgarian carriages with30 passengers and fourRussian with 19 passen-gers.—Xinhua

Quake shakes southernMexico, felt in capital

OAXACA, 9 Feb — A magnitude 5.7-earthquakeshook southern Mexico near the Oaxaca coast onMonday, setting off evacuation alarms and swayingbuildings as far away as Mexico City.

The quake was centered 35 miles (55 kilometres)north of the fishing and resort town of Puerto Angel,according to the US Geological Survey’s EarthquakeHazards Programme.

It struck at 6:47 pm local time and was felt 280miles (455 kilometres) away in Mexico City.

Oaxaca state’s civil protection agency said it hadreceived no reports of damage or injury.

“Here in Puerto Angel is was pretty quick. Therewasn’t enough time to go out into the street,” saidFlorencia Peliconi, manager of the seaside Hotel VillaSerena Florencia.

She saw no damage to buildings. “It was more noise(than shaking). Like a truck was coming,” she said.

Internet

Two soft drinks per weekraises pancreatic cancer risk

BEIJING, 9 Feb — US researchers have found peo-ple who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks aweek have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer,media reports said on Tuesday quoting findings inCancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

Researchers tracked 60,524 participants in the Sin-gapore Chinese Health Study over 14 years. Over thattime, 140 of the volunteers developed pancreatic can-cer. Those who drank two or more soft drinks a weekhad an increased risk — or nearly twice the risk — ofpancreatic cancer compared to individuals consum-ing little or no sugar-sweetened beverages.

To be exact, the risk is 87 percent higher, even af-ter accounting for factors like age, obesity, diabetesand cigarette smoking.

Xinhua

LONDON, 9 Feb — London vowed tostand firm in Afghanistan after the deathtoll passed the number killed in the 1982Falklands War — amid warnings of anew surge in casualties as a new offen-sive is launched.

The politically symbolic figure waspassed as Prime Minister GordonBrown battles to persuade a scepticalpublic that the Afghan conflict is worth-while, months ahead of an election heis tipped to lose.

Deaths of three soldiers over twodays took the British toll in Afghani-stan since 2001 to 256, one more thanthe number killed in the Falklands.

On Monday a bomb disposal expertwas killed by a blast as he cleared a pathin southern Helmand Province.

“It is my sad duty to inform you that asoldier from 36 Engineer Regiment... waskilled by an explosion this morning inNad-e-Ali District,” said military spokes-man Lieutenant Colonel DavidWakefield. Two soldiers, from the RoyalScots Borderers, 1st Battalion The RoyalRegiment of Scotland, were killed by anexplosion in Sangin in Helmand Provinceon Sunday.

“They were on a foot patrol bringingsecurity to local people... when the ex-plosion caught them,” said a spokesman.The news is a new blow to Brown, whorecently pledged 500 extra troops andhosted a London conference on Afghani-stan, but is struggling to avoid defeat tothe main opposition Conservatives inelections due by June.—Internet

BEIJING, 9 Feb — China’s State Nu-clear Power Technology Corp (SNPTC)had completed the initial design for thecountry’s first three inland nuclearpower stations, the China Daily reportedon Tuesday. Responsible for the devel-opment of third-generation nuclearpower technology in China, SNPTC saidit has finished its preliminary safetyanalysis report on the Taohuajiang plant,

one of the three projects.The three projects, namely

Taohuajiang in Hunan Province,Xianning in Hubei province and Pengzein Jiangxi province, will use AP1000, athird-generation technology developedby US-based Westinghouse. Future in-land nuclear projects in China wouldalso use the technology, said the news-paper.—Xinhua

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SAN JOSE, 9 Feb—China and Costa Ricaheld their sixth round oftalks on the Free TradeAgreement (FTA) here onMonday.

During the three-daymeeting, the two sideswill mainly discuss issuessuch as market access, therule of origin, and intel-lectual property rights.

“We have agreed inmore than 90 percent ofissues we talked in lastfive round of negotia-

OECD jobless remains at8.8% in December 2009

PARIS, 9 Feb— The unemployment rate for theOrganization of Economic Cooperation and Devel-opment (OECD) area remained at 8.8 percent in De-cember 2009, the same with last month, but 1.8 per-centage points higher from a year earlier, OECD saidon Monday.

In the euro area, the jobless rate rose to 10.0 percentin the last month of 2009, 1.8 percentage points higherthan last year. In Japan, the rate declined to 5.1 percent,0.1 percentage point less from November 2009, but 0.8percentage higher than last year.—Xinhua

China, Costa Rica hold6th round of FTA talks

tions. I think it is a sub-stantial progress,” saidCosta Rican ExternalCommerce MinisterMarco Vinicio Ruiz at thebeginning of the talks.

Chinese Vice Com-merce Minister YiXiaozhun said at the ne-gotiations that the twoeconomies are comple-mentary and have greatpotential for further eco-nomic and trade coopera-tion. According to him, bi-lateral trade between the

two nations reached 2.89billion US dollars and3.18 billion dollars in2008 and 2009, respec-tively.

Bilateral trade hasbeen growing fast sincethe two nations estab-lished diplomatic rela-tions in June 2007. CostaRica is now one of Chi-na’s important trade part-ners in Central Americawhile China is the secondlargest trade partner ofCosta Rica.—Xinhua

KADUNA, 9 Feb— Thegovernment of Nigeriaannounced plans to moveforward with a hydroelec-tric dam project in thecentral state of Kaduna,local officials said.

Namadi Sambo, thegovernor of Kaduna, saidthe federal governmentapproved a plan to builda major hydroelectricproject in his state, Niger-ia’s Next newspaper re-ports.

BEIJING, 9 Feb—Google plans to makeGmail more social by al-lowing users to exchangestatus updates withfriends and share Webcontent links, features thatmoves its popular e-mailservice into more directcompetition withFacebook and Twitter,media reports said onTuesday.

Gmail users will gaina module that displays sta-tus updates from selectedGoogle contacts, a formof interaction popularizedby Facebook andMySpace and also em-braced by Yahoo.

US aircraftcarrier visits

MalaysiaKUALA LUMPUR, 9

Feb—The nuclear-pow-ered USS Nimitz aircraftcarrier has arrived in Ma-laysia for a four-day visit.

The United States air-craft carrier is paying aregular visit to the coun-try for bilateral exchanges,an American official saidhere on Monday.

The aircraft carrier ar-rived in Port Klang lastSunday and will leave onThursday. Local newspa-pers said that the Nimitzcame to Malaysia for mili-tary exchanges with theMalaysian air and Navyforces.–Xinhua

Google’s Gmail to challenge Facebook, TwitterThese status updates

will eventually includecontent shared by one’sGoogle contacts throughother Google properties,such as YouTube andPicasa.

Google is also ex-pected to create strong tiesbetween Gmail and itsYouTube video site andPicasa photo gallery serv-ice.

It plans to unveil thechanges to Gmail thisweek.

This simple tweak toGmail will let Googlemimic the status updatesthat have driven much ofFacebook and Twitter’s

success, as people returnto the services again andagain to check out whattheir friends and co-work-ers are doing.

Facebook’s walled-offform of social computingis seen as one of the fewforces that threatensGoogle’s online advertis-ing empire.

In response to thatthreat, Google has spentthe past few years addingsocial features to encour-age social interactionamong users of its ser-vices. After GoogleSearch, Gmail is one ofGoogle’s most popularproducts.—Xinhua

Nigeria plans new hydroelectric damHe added the project

was intended originally asa water-supply facility,but plans for electricitygeneration were addedlater to the project.

The plans emerged asmilitant activity andunderfunding drag on oiland gas productivity inNigeria. Sanusi Barkindo,the managing director ofthe Nigerian National Pe-troleum Corp, said thegovernment was to blame

for the declines because ofbudget shortfalls.

In January OdeinAjumogobia, the NigerianMinister of State for Pe-troleum resources, said ina rare showing of culpa-bility that there was a na-tional shortage of petro-leum products.

Internet

A Palestinian pottery worker shapes clay to make an earthenware pots at histraditional mill in Jaba village, southern the West Bank city of Jenin

on 7 Feb, 2010. —XINHUA

Six female members of the Chinese medical team pose for a group photobefore leaving at the international airport in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti,on 8 Feb, 2010. The Chinese medical team Monday left Port-au-Prince for

home after winding up a two-week emergency aid and epidemic controlmission in the quake-stricken Caribbean country. —INTERNET

French primary energy consumptionfalls by 5 percent in 2009

PARIS, 9 Feb—The French consumption of primaryenergy decreased 5 percent in 2009, mainly due toeconomic recession, the General Commission for Sus-tainable Development said on Monday in an economicreport. The report said France has consumed 251 mil-lion tons of oil equivalent (Mtoe) last year, as adjustedfor climate, and the energy production also fell by 7percent compared to 2008, standing at 114 Mtoe.

Economic regression sharply brought down the in-dustrial consumption, but increased household con-sumption of electricity and fuels partially offset thetrend, the commission pointed out in its report.

Xinhua

Supply trucks wait inline after a road closuredue to rain and snow in

Chaman, located inPakistan’s Balochistan

province along theAfghanistan border on

8 February, 2010.INTERNET

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China and Japan to boost bilateral relations

Iran unveils home-built flightsimulator for Boeing 737

China delivers 25 tons of medical aid to Haiti Russia extends loan toSri Lanka for arms purchasesMOSCOW, 9 Feb—Russia and Sri Lanka have signed

a loan to buy Russian military equipment, RIA Novostinews agency cited the Russian Deputy Finance Min-ister as saying on Monday.

The 300-million-US-dollar loan has a term of tenyears, Deputy Finance Minister Dmitry Pankin toldthe news agency. The finance deal came as RussianPresident Dmitry Medvedev held talks with his SriLankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Kremlin.

The deal will cover not only purchases but also ex-tensive repairs of Russian arms previously supplied toSri Lanka, RIA Novosti reported.—Xinhua

Euro 2012 on track, insistco-hosts

BEIJING, 9 Feb—Joint Euro 2012 hosts Poland andUkraine on Sunday brushed aside concerns about theirreadiness for Europe’s top football tournament, as thequalifying draw marked their first real-time test.

“It’s three years since UEFA awarded the hosting ofthe 2012 European football championships to Polandand Ukraine,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

“These three years have been a period of hard workin both countries,” Tusk told an audience of top offi-cials from the continent’s football governing body andits 53 national associations assembled for the draw.

“Euro 2012 infrastructure is being constructed, includ-ing stadia, airports, motorways and hotels,” the ardentfootball fan and Sunday league player insisted.—Xinhua

BEIJING, 9 Feb—Chinasays the country’s growthis an opportunity for thedevelopment of the worldand provides room fordeepening Sino-Japaneserelations.

Brainstorming futureties of east Asia’s superpowerhouses. Delegatesfrom the China-JapanFriendship 21st CenturyCommittee are gatheringin Beijing for a three-daydiscussion on how to fur-ther bilateral ties.

Tang Jiaxuan, Chief

Delegate of Chinese Del-egation, said, “Both sidesshould seize the currentopportunity to enlarge posi-tive factors in developingbilateral ties while offset-ting negative ones. Enhanc-ing a mutually-beneficiarystrategic relations andpushing for more achieve-ments in bilateral ties arethe common goal for bothof the two countries.”

During Monday’s talks,Japanese Prime MinisterYukio Hatoyama Chinaexplains China’s peaceful

development. China spokehighly of Prime MinisterYukio Hatayama’s govern-ment in their efforts to de-velop bilateral relations.Both sides agree that thedirections of policies con-cerning bilateral ties thatthe two countries areadopting are basically thesame. Delegates from thetwo countries say this isconducive to improvingpolitical trust and pushingfoward an all-round devel-opment of bilateral ties.

Xinhua

A worker assembles a mini car at an assembling line in Harbin Hafei Auto-mobile Industry Group Co LTD (Hafei), northeast China’s Heilongjiang

Province, on 18 Jan, 2010. Hafei put out and sold 245,000 cars in 2009, 30%more than the previous year.—XINHUA

TEHERAN, 9 Feb—Iran’sPresident MahmoudAhmadinejad on Mondayunveiled the flight simula-tor for Boeing 737 whichhas been produced by Ira-nian experts for the firsttime in the country, the of-ficial IRNA news agencyreported. Ahmadinejad at-tended the 2nd NationalFestival on Innovationsand Prosperity of the Is-lamic Revolution which isaimed at publicly introduc-ing one thousand new and

innovative projects de-signed and developed byIranian experts and scien-tists.

Referring to the coun-try’s scientific achieve-ments, he said that “Theenemy doesn’t want Iranto be equipped with sci-ence...( but) the enemy isnot able to break Iran’sprogress,” he was quotedas saying by the satellitePress TV without furtherelaboration.

The festival was held

to mark the anniversaryof the Islamic Revolutionvictory in Iran in 1979.To mark the occasion,Iran has launched anumber of civil and mili-tary projects and inaugu-rated some others. OnMonday, Iran’s firsthome-built twin-enginesingle-person Faez (Vic-tor) aircraft was unveiledin the presence of De-fence Minister BrigadierGeneral Ahmad Vahidi,IRNA said—Xinhua

Carnival goers dressed in a costume walk past onlookers at San Marco squarein Venice, Italy on 7 Feb, 2010, during the annual Venice Carnival. —XINHUA

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 9 Feb—The government of the Peo-ple ‘s Republic of China onMonday delivered 25 tonsof medical aid to quake-stricken Haiti, which in-cluded multiple types of epi-demic prevention medicine.

Wang Shuping, head ofthe China Trade Develop-ment Office in Haitiancapital Port-au-Prince, for-mally delivered the aid toHaitian authorities, which

thanked China for show-ing solidarity with the 1.1million Haitian people lefthomeless by the 12 Janearthquake. The magni-tude-7.3 tremor has killedmore than 200,000 people,according to Haitian gov-ernment statistics.

Wang said that this wasthe third shipment ofmedical aid from China toHaiti, with the previoustwo arriving on 17 Jan 26

and, respectively. To datethe Chinese governmenthas delivered aid worth atotal of 4.4 million dollars.

Monday’s shipment in-cluded medicine needed tofight infectious diseases,as well tablets, rehydrationliquids, gauze and medicalalcohol. The shipmentconsists of 1,790 boxeswith a total volume ofsome 120 cubic metres.

Xinhua

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

24 killed astractor trolleyfalls into ditch

in IndiaNEW DELHI, 9 Feb—

Twenty-four people diedin an accident on Mondayin the northern Indianstate of Uttar Pradeshwhen a tractor-trolleyskidded off a road and fellinto a deep, water- filledditch, said the Indo-AsianNews Service on Tuesday.

The dead were 15 chil-dren and nine women whodied at Pisawan town inSitapur District, around80 km from state capitalLucknow, said the reportquoting police sources.

Eight others, includingthe driver of the tractor-trolley, were seriously in-jured in the accident andwere being treated in hos-pital, said the report.

The riders on the tractortrolley were relatives whowere returning from afamily function.—Xinhua

This undated photo shows a bull with its horns set on fire prepares to chargeat a spectator during the El Novillo de Bombas festival in Mira,

north of Quito.—XINHUA

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1. Arable land acre 860937 1289002 428065 2. Dam (large/small) number 2 59 57 3. River water pumping station number - 4 4 4. Protected public forest sq/mile - 1833.94 1833.94 5. Railroad mile - 11.46 11.46 6. Over 180-foot bridge number 19 47 28 7. Post office office 12 82 70 8. Telegraphic office office 18 27 9 9. Telephone office office 16 45 2910. Microwave station station 7 16 911. Hydrpower plant plant - 3 3 underway12. Basic education school school 2391 2710 31913. University/college number 1 2 114. Technological university/college number - 1 115. University of computer studies number - 1 1

No. Subject Unit 1988 2009 Progress Remarks

Development of Rakhine State in the time of Tatmadaw Government

As a significantcharacteristic, Union na-tional races Kachin,Kayah, Kayin, Chin,Bamar, Mon, Rakhine,Shan and minorities havebeen residing in amityand unity in the Union ofMyanmar. They havelived in the Unionthrough thick and thinsince time immemorial.

In consequenceof the Divide-and-Rulepolicy practiced by thecolonialists, doubts oc-curred among the na-tional races and the con-solidated national unitydisintegrated. There-fore, some regions of thenation were lackedpeace and stability. Dueto misunderstandingamong the nationalbrethren, unity and am-ity weakened.

Due to naturalbarriers such as rivers,creeks and seas, relation-ship among the nationalraces was cold. As em-phasis could not beplaced on undertaking ofdevelopment tasks in theabsence of peace and sta-bility, the border regionshad lagged behind indevelopment.

At present, thewhole Union has devel-oped, as the govern-ment, the people and theTatmadaw adopted the

future plans and are join-ing hands in implement-ing the current plans byreviewing the pastevents.

In this regard,many roads and bridgeswere built as a networkfor ensuring better trans-portation across the na-tion. It is known to allthat infrastructures suchas economic, education,health and social sectorsare being built to fulfillthe requirements of thelocal people.

Nowadays, thedreams of the peoplehave come true thatriver crossing bridges,Union Highways, newairports and new portsare under constructionwith a view to enablingthe national people tohave easy access toother regions.

All the nationalraces are enjoying fruits ofpeace and stability. At thesame time, the people ofDanyawady RakhineState, located along thewest coast of the nation,are also enjoying fruit ofpeace, stability and devel-opment.

Rakhine Stateshares border with ChinState in the north,Magway and Bago divi-sions in the east,Ayeyawady Division

and the Bay of Bengal inthe south, the Bay of Ben-gal in the west and Bang-ladesh in the northwest.

Having the signifi-cant geographical condi-tions, Rakhine State is con-stituted with four districtsand 20 townships. The statehas an area of 14,200.08square miles or 9,088,053acres including 360 mileslong coastal area.

Sittway District isformed with Sittway,Yathedaung, Ponnagyun,Kyauktaw, MraukU,Minbya, Pauktaw andMyebon townships wherea population of 1,522,040of 221,127 households re-side.

Maungtaw Districtis formed with Maungtaw,Buthidaung and Taungpyo-

ties in a short period.Rakhine State has

over 200 inches of rainfallannually. In the agriculturesector, Rakhine State has16,86,267 acres of forest re-serves and protected publicforests, 3,532,299 acres ofwild forests and 2,300,041acres of uncultivable landswith abundant hills, riversand creeks. At present, thestate extended arable landsfor development of agricul-ture task.

The State Peaceand Development Coun-cil has built bridges in56,633 acres of Wunphaikmangrove forest, forestreserves and swamp ar-eas.

In accord with themotto: “To meet nationalbrethren, let us build roadsand bridges”,36 bridges ofover 180 feet long havebeen constructed in the stateby spending K 280,309.43million and US$ 7.27 mil-lion. Moreover, reconstruc-

tion and maintenancetasks were carried out forsome bridges built before1988.

The Ministry ofTransport started placingof four-inch thick asphaltconcrete on the runway,the taxiway and the apronof Sittway Airport on 11December 2008 and thenew runway was openedon 20 May 2009.

F-27 (Fokker), F-28 (Jet), ATR 42 and ATR72 of Myanma Airwaysand sometimes charteredflights safely land at andtake off from Sittway Air-port. It is an airport wherey-8 aircraft can land andtake off.

In the SecondWorld War, Sittway Air-port was built for the mili-tary purpose. In 1960, the6000 feet long and 150feet wide asphalt concreterunway was constructedat the airport.

(See page 7)

Kyaukpyu Education College turning out efficient education staff forenhancement of education sector in Rakhine State.

Technological University (Sittway) built in Rakhine State to enablelocal youths to pursue modern technology.

letwe townships which arehome to 724,491 people of96,825 households.

Kyaukpyu, Yanbye,Manaung and An town-ships are included inKyaukpyu District and atotal of 560,349 peoplefrom 84461 households areliving in the region.

Thandwe District isconstituted with Thandwe,Taungup, Gwa, Maei andKyeintali townships, and atotal of 376,450 peoplefrom 61,741 households areresiding in the district.Rakhine State is home to3,183,331 people of464,154 households.

In the time ofTatmadaw Government,all-round progress can beseen in Rakhine State. Asa result of giving priorityto development undertak-ings with peace and sta-bility, better transporta-tion reflects smooth trav-elling of the people andspeedy flow of commodi-

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No. Subject Location Remark

Projects to be implemented for development of Rakhine State

1. AgricultureTharichaung Dam Project

2. TransportConstructing over-180-footThayupepadon suspension bridge

3. RailroadSittway-An-Minbu

4. Offshore oil and natural gasShwe (1) (A-1)Shwephyu (A-3)Mya natural gas deposit

5. Electric Power(a) Ongoing projects(1) Anchaung hydropower Project(2) Thahtaychaung hydropowe project(b) Projects to be implemented(1) Saidin hydropower project(2) Laymyochaung hydropower plant

Kyauktaw Township

An Township

Rakhine State

near Sittway Townshipnear Kyaukpyu Townshipnear Kyaukpyu Township

An TownshipThandwe Township

Buthidaung TownshipMraukU Township

3000 acres of benefited area

22.72-mile Kwantaung-Yoetayok railroad section

(from page 6)In 2001-2002-

2003, the runway of theairport was tarmacked, andthe 120 feet by 60 feetairport building was ex-tended to the 200 feet by60 feet facility.

Beginning 1 De-cember 2006, asphalt con-crete was placed on the6000 feet by 150 feet run-way, the 525 feet by 75feet taxiway and the 575feet by 300 feet apron.Moreover, the five inchesby five inches concreteposts were erected forfencing the 18,300 feetlong barbed wires at theairport.

As Sittway Airporthas been renovated in allaspects, the local peoplecan rely on aviation all theyear round.

No one expectedthe emergence of railroadsconsidering the largenumber of natural barrierslocated in the state. Now,their dreams have cometrue one after another.

For gaining devel-opment momentum in theUnion to ensure equitabledevelopment of all the re-gions, the State Peace andDevelopment Councilbuilt railroads. On 19 May2009, an 11.46 miles longrailroad from Sittway(Pyidawtha) station toYegyanbyin station (Tech-nological University) wasput into service.

The train runs fourtimes a day from 7.30 am

to 5 pm by stopping overat Pyidawtha Station,Sittway Station, ZawpujaStation, Yegyanbyin Sta-tion, Sittway Universityhalt station, Dahpaing haltstation and Mezali halt sta-tion. The fare for the pas-senger is K 100 per headfor the whole trip. Atpresent, the local people,students and faculty mem-bers of Sittway Univer-sity and TechnologicalUniversity (Sittway) areenjoying fruits of railtransportation. Moreover,the local people can carrythe commodities by sav-ing money. Especially,two locomotives and twopassenger coaches trans-port about 1,000 passen-gers every Sunday andtwo locomotives and onecoach from Mondays toSaturdays.

In accord with theguidance of the Head ofState, 257-mile Minbu-Sittway railroad with 28-mile Minbu-Padan sec-tion, 54-mile Padan-Ansection, 76-mile An-Minbya section, 16-mileMinbya-MraukU section,23-mile MraukU-Kyauktaw section, 34-mile Kyauktaw-Ponnagyun section and26-mile Ponnagyun-Sittway section, is beingconstructed. Amongthem, the plan is underway to construct 99-mileSittway-Minbya section,76-mile Minbya-An sec-tion and 82-mile An-

Minbu railroad section tocomplete on schedule. Atpresent, the 11.46-mileSittway-Yegyanbyin sec-tion on Sittway-Minbyarailroad has been com-pleted.

To inaugurate the22.72-mile railroad fromKwantaung Station ofPonnagyun Townshipbeyond Min CreekBridge to YoetayokModel Vil lage ofPonnagyun Township,workers and staff ofMyanma Railway areconstructing the stationsand yards, placing railtracks and carrying outearthworks with the useof heavy machinery.

Along the Sittway-Kyauktaw section, it is nec-essary to build six over-180-foot-long bridgesnamely 300-foot NayikanCreek Bridge, 452-footKyauktan Creek Bridge,2003-foot Min CreekBridge, 440-foot Kin CreekBridge, 420-foot YoeCreek Bridge and 360-fotPikauk Creek Bridge.Moreover, the plans areunder way to construct six40-160 feet long bridgesand 174 under-40-foot longbridges. The State builtroads and bridges as a net-work in the hilly, forestriverside areas of RakhineState.

Thanks to con-struction of 13 block sta-tions and 11 halt stations,the local people can eas-ily travel to Minbu. In ashort period, the peoplecan visit the regions onthe east and the westbanks of AyeyawadyRiver by train at fair fare.

Nowadays, theGovernment is striving forall-round development ofthe nation by upholdingthe national policy: Non-disintegration of the Un-ion, Non-disintegration ofnational solidarity andPerpetuation of sover-eignty.

In line with the

State’s seven-step RoadMap, all-out efforts arebeing made for build-ing a modern and de-veloped democratic na-tion that all the peoplelong for.

It is importantto maintain peace andstability, unity anddevelopment in allStates and Divisionsof the Union. Thus,the entire nationalpeople are to harmo-niously safeguard thenation for perpetualexistence of unity anddevelopment by forg-ing the Union Spirit.Translation: TTA

Photo shows Yegyanbyin Railway Station on Sittway (Pyidawtha)-Yegyanbyin station (Technological University) railroad.

Salin Bridge in Salin Township of Minbu District linking southernand northern Myanmar and Rakhine State.

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Poem

Union Spirit* Unity in times of emergency

Blood thicker than waterEver with amity the national racesUnited ever, divided neverShowing the strong Myanmar spiritStrength reinvigorated in PanglongSo noble is the Union Spirit

* Sacrificing lots of blood, sweat, livesRestoring independence andsovereigntyThey in unityWinning victory everBrethren of Myanmar familyIn harmony they enhance strengthSo noble is the Union Spirit

* Unity in entire MyanmarEnsuring peace and tranquilityProgress for all regionsMines, agriculture, education andhealthDevelopment in trade and social sectorsStates, divisions, and even borderareas enjoyBeautiful like a variety of flowersSo noble is the Union Spirit

* Anywhere in Union they are livingPeople born in the UnionIn mind they must keepWith firm trust and beliefStrong and noble will of nationalitiesAnd the consolidated strengthSo noble is the Union Spirit

(Hailing the 63rd Anniversary Union Day)Phoe Yan Naing (Kyaukkyi)

The Union of Myanmar is a state where variousnational races make their home together through thickand thin with nationalistic spirit (Union Spirit).

With an area of 261,228 square miles, Myanmarstretches for more than 1300 miles from north tosouth, and for more than 600 miles from east to west.Over 100 national races inclusive of Kachin, Kayah,Kayin, Chin, Bamar, Mon, Rakhine and Shan live inthe Union. They live in different regions in highlandsand plains the length and breadth of the nation, butthey share the strong sense of Union Spirit.

In the course of the history of Myanmar, nationalbrethren have upheld consolidated national unity whichis certainly the national prestige to be proud of forthem. Only after building consolidated national unitycould King Anawrahta unify the whole country intothe First Myanmar Empire (Bagan Dynasty), KingBayintnaung, the Second Myanmar Empire (ToungooDynasty), and King Alaungphaya, the Third MyanmarEmpire (Konbaung Dynasty).

Consolidated national unity is the driving forcebehind why Myanmar had stood tall as a sovereignindependent nation with own monarchs in theinternational community for thousands of years.

However, the colonialists annexed Myanmarlate in the 19th century. Casting covetous eyes to richnatural resources of the nation, they exercised twoadministrative patterns: one for hilly regions andanother for mainland, to undermine the national unityin its plot to prolong their colonial rule.

There is strong evidence in the Myanmar historythat all national races engaged in cohesion in anti-aggressive wars launched by the colonialists in 1824,1852, and 1885, and in the independence struggleslaunched from 1885 until 1948 for national liberation,

flourishing of the Sasana and regaining independenceby Young Men’s Buddhist Association (YMBA),General Council of Burmese Associations (GCBA),Our Burmese Association, Anti-Fascist People’sLiberation Front, Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League(AFPFL), Thirty Comrades, Burma IndependenceArmy, Burma Defence Army, and Myanmar Tatmadaw.

When they had no other choices except to grantindependence, the colonialists said that they wouldgrant independence to the mainland, exclusive ofhighlands. Despite the wedge constantly driven amongnational races by the colonialists, highlanders whowere under deception of the colonialist in the endagreed to regain independence together with themainland in recognition of genuine goodwill of Stateleaders. It was at 10 am on 12 February 1947 when therepresentatives of the national races signed an agreementfor consolidated unity between highlands and plains tobuild the sovereign independent Union of Myanmarafter throwing off the yoke of colonialism. So, theycould reach the Panglong Agreement or the resolutionfor national unity. The consolidated national unity andUnion Spirit conceived the Union Day on 12 February1947.

In relation to national reconsolidation, Head ofState Senior General Than Shwe in his address to theGolden Jubilee Armed Forces Day Parade said:—

“We will have great difficulty in ensuringstability, community peace and development of thenation if the political forces of our country aredivided. Due to disunity among the political forces,our country lagged far behind other countries indevelopment. We have known well that if suchconflicts persist, the conditions of our country willgo from bad to worse. Therefore, the Tatmadaw isunder a duty to build national reconsolidation.”

The Tatmadaw was confident that it was neededto draw an enduring constitution that could guaranteeperpetuation of the Union in the democratization processin compliance with the aspiration of the people, and inthe process, only with national reconsolidation, wouldit be possible to formulate an enduring constitution. Asa result of the combined efforts made by the Tatmadawand the people, the State Constitution (2008) of theUnion of Myanmar has now been approved to achievethe national goal of building a peaceful, modern anddeveloped discipline-flourishing democratic nation.

Practising the policy “Non-disintegration of theUnion, Non-disintegration of national solidarity, andPerpetuation of sovereignty”, the government has builttrust with national race armed groups, thus achievingremarkable success in restoring stability, peace and therule of law and boosting development in border areas.In addition, the government is taking measuressystematically to transform the national race peacegroups into legally-armed border guard forces to improveState stability and peace.

With the aim of scaling up the progress of borderareas that lagged behind other regions in developmentbecause of lack of stability and peace for over 40 years,the Tatmadaw government has been pursuing thefollowing objectives:—

(1) to ensure progress of the national races in borderareas who have stood stresses and strains of theinternal armed strife that came into beingfollowing independence,

(2) to carry out tasks with the policy “Non-disintegration of the Union, Non-disintegrationof national solidarity, and Perpetuation ofsovereignty” for progress of the national racesin border areas that lagged behind other regionsin development,

(3) to eradicate poppy production in the regionsthat used to grow poppy in the time of BurmaCommunist Party (BCP) by encouraging localfarmers to grow alternative crops in place ofpoppy.In order to expedite the tasks for progress of

border areas and national races, the government formedthe Ministry for Progress of Border Areas and NationalRaces on 24 September 1992. Then, it was reconstitutedinto the Ministry for Progress of Border Areas andNational Races and Development Affairs on 30 January1994.

Then, the state promulgated many laws forprogress of border areas and national races, and hasbeen implementing the following objectives.

(1) To improve the economic, social, and transportsectors of the national races in border areas in (See page 9)


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* For all national races to uphold thenational policy—non-disintegrationof the Union, non-disintegration ofnational solidarity, and perpetuationof sovereignty

* To boost the sense of Union Spirit ofthe national people

* To defend and safeguard the Unionwith consolidated unity of all na-tional races against dangers posed todisrupt State stability and develop-ment by internal and externalsubversives

* For all national races to work harderto build a modern, developed, disci-pline-flourishing democratic nationin line with the State Constitutionapproved with the great majority ofthe ballot

* For all national races to make con-certed efforts for successful accom-plishment of the seven-step RoadMap

63rd Anniversary Union Day Objectives

Travelling in the same boat

Each and everybody must rowin unison whether he is

at the bow or at the stern sothat all will speedily arrive at

the destination safe andsound.

Trouble awaitsif there are persons onboard who would like

to bore holes in the hulljust because they arenot given the place of

the helmsman.

And we will getnowhere so long as allare rowing to different

directions.

Aung Kyaw Phyo

(from page 8)accordance with the policy “Non-disintegrationof the Union, Non-disintegration of nationalsolidarity, and Perpetuation of sovereignty”.

(2) To encourage national races to develop theirculture, literature, customs and traditions.

(3) To cement amicable relations between onenational race and another.

(4) To eliminate poppy farming by establishingbusinesses.

(5) To ensure security, the rule of law, andcommunity peace in border areas.In order to achieve those objectives, the

government improved economic infrastructuralbuildings in the transport, construction and energysectors to fulfil urgent and long-term requirements ofnational races, and to boost the social, economic andadministrative systems, and social infrastructuralbuildings in the education, health and public relationssectors. It also implemented systematically theeconomic enterprises such as agricultural farming,livestock farming, forestry and mining.

As to the drive for elimination of narcotic drugs,many campaigns are underway as a national duty withown human and natural resources under the leadershipof the government in order to eradicate the poppyfarming that persisted in border areas for over 100years as the evil legacy left by the colonialists. In thatregard, the government has been implementing theproject since 1999-2000 fiscal year to generatealternative ways for former local poppy farmers toearn money. Now, the international community hasrecognized the drastic fall in poppy farming andproduction in border areas.

Furthermore, the government has been applyingthe three tactics namely supply elimination, lawenforcement, and demand elimination in combinationin order that not only border areas but also the wholenation will be free from narcotic drugs by 2014.Simultaneously, it is pursuing the 15-year DrugElimination Plan in cooperation with UN agencies,international organizations, and non-governmentalorganizations for border areas to be free from narcoticdrugs. As a result, there has been a significant fall in

poppy farming and drug production, and some of theregions have been declared poppy-free zones.

Such fruitful results are largely due to the activeparticipation of the people with Union Spirit in the tasksthe government is carrying out for elimination of narcoticdrugs.

So, it can be deduced from the past events andobjective conditions of the nation that Union Spirit isnecessary for ensuring Our Three Main National Causesand national development.

In fact, Union Spirit covers the spirit of doingcorrect acts of courage with national outlook, no jealousy,the sense of cherishing and safeguarding motherland,own race, religion, literature, culture, customs andtraditions, family spirit among national races, the fervourof mutual help and national unity, remaining united intimes of emergency, and opposing decadent alien culture.

With respect to Union Spirit, in his address to themeeting with officials from the Ministry of HomeAffairs, the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief andResettlement, the Civil Service Selection and TrainingBoard, and the Central Institute of Civil Service (UpperMyanmar) in PyinOoLwin on 16 December 2006,Chairman of the State Peace and Development CouncilSenior General Than Shwe said that the spirit hemeant was Union Spirit that inspired the people tohave great love of own race and Union; that everycitizen had to not only love their country and racebut also safeguard the Union; that in addition, thepeople had to equip themselves with the spirit ofmaking sacrifices apart from patriotism and UnionSpirit; that with Union Spirit, a citizen was ready tosacrifice his life and property in the interest of thenation; and that patriotism could be kept alive onlyif combined with sacrificing spirit.

Regarding the important role of Union Spirit,Chairman of the SPDC Comamnder-in-Chief of DefenceServices Senior General Than Shwe gave guidance at themeeting with the trainees of B.Ed Course No (37) of theUniversity for Development of National Races, sayingthat the trainees were to further rekindle the sense ofUnion Spirit of the people; and that only with strongsense of Union Spirit of the people would it be possiblefor the Union to last perpetually. And in his message to

mark the 59th Anniversary Union Day, the SeniorGeneral gave guidance that stability, peace, prosperity,development and perpetuity of the Union ofMyanmar completely rested on national unity andnational people’s dynamism of patriotic spirit.

Today, certain powers are driving a wedgeamong national races to break up national unity andrevive armed conflicts with the intention of boostingtheir political domination over the Union of Myanmar.They are also imposing economic sanctions againstthe nation and interfering in the internal affairs in thepolitical area to disrupt the economic growth rate ofthe nation. Accordingly, the people should be wellaware of such evil acts. All the people armed withpatriotic spirit have to do their bit with Union Spiritand the spirit of national unity in the drive for buildinga new, modern and developed nation.

Besides, the entire people have to maintain theunprecedented national solidarity, adhering to UnionSpirit in order that the Union of Myanmar will be ableto stand tall in the global family. The government, thepeople and the Tatmadaw are to work hard in harmonywith consolidated national unity for accomplishmentof the projects the nation has been implementing tokeep abreast of other countries.

In conclusion, I would like to exhort the entirepeople to see to the objectives of the 63rd AnniversaryUnion Day regarding them as Panglong resolution toshape the nation into a modern, developed land, whilearming themselves with a stronger sense of patriotismand Union Spirit.

Translation: MS


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(from page 1)Together with Com-

mander Maj-Gen ThaungAye, Lt-Gen Ko Ko in-spected construction ofthe retaining walls alongNgathainggyaung-GwaRoad and thrivingironwood plantations.

On 4 February, Lt-Gen Ko Ko met service-men and family membersat the hall of Gwa Stationand presented gifts tothem.

In meeting with local

people at AungmingalaHall in Gwa, L t -Gen Ko Ko and the com-mander presented corru-gated iron sheets, cement,exercise books and peri-odicals to them.

On his tour, Lt-GenKo Ko viewed the site forconstruction of the ap-proach road to the jetty of

Gwa and maintenanceworks. At KyeintaliBridge, an official re-ported on extension of theapproach road toKyeintali Bridge.

After meeting withlocal people at the officeof Kyeintali General Ad-ministration Department,he cordially conversedwith servicemen and fam-ily members at the hall ofthe local station.

MNA

YANGON, 9 Feb — Officials ofMyanmar Writers and Journalists As-sociation accepted 300,000 donated byPublisher U Zaw Min Aye (Moe-hsam-pan) of Messenger Journal and K

Gifts for MWJA400,000 by Publisher Kai Zar (a) U NyiNyi Win (Thidadaewi Services Co. Ltd)of Princess Magazine on 4 and 8 Febru-ary.

MNA

Lt-Gen MyintSwe of Ministryof Defence andwife Daw Khin

Thet Htay beingwelcomed by

Ambassador ofthe People’sRepublic of

China toMyanmar Mr YeDabo and wife at

the ChineseTraditional

Spring Festival2010 on 9

February.—MNA

Lt-Gen Ko Ko of Ministry of Defence lookinginto progress in construction of retaining walls

along Ngathainggyaung-Gwa Road.MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9Feb—Minister for Elec-tric Power No. 1 Col ZawMin received Vice-Presi-dent Mdm Zhang Xiaoluand party of China PowerInvestment Corporation

EP-1 Minister receivesVice-President of CPIC

(CPIC) of the People’s Re-public of China at the min-istry yesterday evening.

Also present at thecall were departmentalheads and officials.

MNA

YANGON, 9 Feb—Champion ConstructionMaterials Co Ltd, (Mem-ber of Naing Group), winsthe most beautiful show-room award at the Hous-ing & Building-2010 atthe Tatmadaw Conven-tion Hall on U WisaraRoad, here, from 5 to 8February.

Manaing DirectorU Thet Lwin Shwe ofIEMS presented theprize of honour to DeputyGeneral Manager DawMu Mu Hsan.

Myanmar New

Champion Construction wins most beautifulshowroom award at Housing & Building-2010

General Design of NaingGroup created the boothof Champion.

Champion Con-struction Materials Co Ltdintroduced new championproducts to the visitors andsold Malaysia-madeWhite Horse tiles, Singa-pore-made toilet & basin,tap ware, steel securitydoors & stainless steeldoors elevator, Thai-madesteel tank, ABS & PVCdoors at 17-36 percent dis-count.

Champion prod-ucts are available at Show-

room-1, No. 2 SagawaHousing, Mogaung Roadin Yankin Township, Tel:400563, 400564 and400565, Showroom-2,No. 408, Theinbyu Road,Tel: 200290, MandalayBranch, No. 33 on 78thstreet between 34th and35th streets inChanayethazan Town-ship, Tel: 02-33488 and095042583 and Nay PyiTaw Branch at 1/68,Bo Tauk Htein Road,Mingala Ward, Nay PyiTaw Pyinmana, Tel: 067-21454.—MNA

Managing Direc-tor U Thet LwinShwe of IEMS

presents prize ofhonour to DeputyGeneral Manager

Daw Mu MuHsan for securing

most beautifulshowroom awardat the Housing &Building-2010.

MNA

YANGON, 9 Feb—Myanmarfaced 89 fires in January 2010: 65due to careless use, one natural fire,11 due to wire shock, 11 arsons,and one forest fire, having 130buildings and houses burnt down.

Yangon Division encoun-tered fires most, followed by

Negligence remains root causeof fire outbreaks

Ayeyawady Division and Manda-lay Division.

Surveys show that many ofthe households still fail to followstrictly the rules and regulations onfire prevention, thus causing firesincidentally owing to careless use.

MNA

Take Fire Preventive Measures

Minister for Electric Power No. 1 Col ZawMin receives Vice-President Mdm Zhang

Xiaolu and party of China Power InvestmentCorporation (CPIC).—MNA

Better Transport forRakhine…

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NEWS ALBUM

Indian forest workers watch as a res-cued tiger leaps into the river

Sundarikati on being released from acage at Sunderbans, some 150 kms

south of Kolkata. WWF-India has beenworking since 1973 to protect tigers,leading to the creation of special re-

serves and protected areas in nationalparks and wildlife sanctuaries.

The red lionfish has invaded thewaters in and around the Florida Keys,wreaking havoc on the island cluster’snative fish populations, experts say.

Marine life collector Pete Kehoesaid the primary issue regarding the ap-pearance of the lionfish species in theFlorida Keys is the creature’s voraciousappetite, The Miami Herald said onMonday.

“I think a lot of people underesti-mate what the problem can be,” Kehoesaid. “I’m amazed. They are like theperfect eating machine. They eat untilthey are about to explode.”

Since lionfish first appeared in theFlorida Keys a year ago, more than 80members of the invasive species have

A Florida graduate who lost his1989 class ring when it fell from a cruiseship 21 years ago said an Ohio womancalled to say she found the ring.

Tom Whitney of Orlando, who ac-cidentally dropped the 1989 West Or-ange High ring from a Port Canaveral-based cruise ship the year of his gradu-ation, said he received an e-mail lastMonday from a woman who said shebelieved the ring had been found, TheOrlando (Fla) Sentinel reported onMonday.

“It was just this Monday, and I got amessage from a woman who said shehas my ring,” Whitney said. The mes-sage said the ring was found by thewoman’s metal detector-wielding fatheralong Florida’s Daytona Beach.

An apple day online — or at least anInternet programmes that provides tipsfor eating more produce — may keepthe doctor away, US researchers found.

Senior author Christine Cole Johnsonof Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit foundthat when given access to an online pro-gramme about fruits and vegetables, par-ticipants increased their daily fruit andvegetable intake by more than two serv-ings.

“People already know the health ben-efits of fruits and vegetables, but theyoften don’t know how to incorporatethem into their diet,” Johnson said in astatement.

Fewer than 25 percent of US adultseat five servings of fruit and vegetables

The Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans)is venomous coral reef fish from theIndian and western Pacific oceans.

Invasive lionfish a menace in Florida Keysbeen spotted in the region.

Lad Akins, special projects managerfor the Reef Environmental EducationFoundation based in Key Largo, Fla,said it is unlikely experts will be able tocompletely eliminate the presence oflionfish from the Florida Keys.

“Control is possible in the Keys, es-pecially if we pick important areas be-cause they are utilized as tourist desti-nations or are ecologically importantbecause of the diversity of fish,” he toldthe Herald.

A hunting eagle attacks a chainedwolf during the Kyrgyz traditional

Hunters’ Festival Salburun, near thetown of Cholpon-Ata, some 250 km

(155 miles) east from the capitalBishkek on 7 February, 2010.

Online programmes boost produce consumptionper day, even though doing so reducesthe risk of chronic disease and cancer,the Centres for Disease Control and Pre-vention said.

The 12-month study recruited mem-bers of Health Alliance Plan and fourother HMOs in Seattle, Denver,Minneapolis and Atlanta, ages 21-65.

Class ring foundafter nearly

20 years

Dancers perform during a float parade of theannual carnival held in Villarrica, 180 km away

from Paraguay’s capital Asuncion, on 7Feb,2010.— XINHUA

Beijing aims at 6 bln USD materializedforeign investment in 2010

BEIJING, 9 Feb— Beijing would strive to secure 6billion US dollars of actually utilized foreign invest-ment this year, an official said on Monday.

Lu Yan, head of the Beijing Municipal Commis-sion of Commerce, said foreign investment actuallyutilized by the capital city rose 0.6 percent in 2009 to6.12 billion US dollars despite the global financial cri-sis.

He also set 5 billion US dollars as the minimumtarget for the city’s actually utilized foreign investmentin 2010.

China attracted 90.03 billion US dollars in FDI in2009 amid the global downturn, down 2.6 percent fromthat in 2008, according to the Ministry of Commercein January.–Xinhua

CHICAGO, 9 Feb—Anyone considering a di-rect-to-consumer genetictest should ensure a genet-ics professional is in-volved, US genetic coun-sellors advise.

Officials with the Na-tional Society of GeneticCounsellors say without agenetics professional orhealthcare provider testresults may be misinter-preted.

Elizabeth Kearney,president of the organiza-tion, says all genetic testscan reveal life-changinginformation, both positive 12 feared dead in Yangtze

River shipwreckSUZHOU, 9 Feb—Twelve people were feared dead

after their ship sank in the Yangtze River, China’s long-est waterway, on Monday evening, local maritime au-thorities in the eastern Jiangsu Province said.

“Pengxiang 9” registered in the northern port cityof Tianjin, sank in the Zhangjiagang section of theYangtze River at 7:25 pm, after a collision with motorvessel “Jintai 618”, a spokesman with the maritimerescue centre of Zhangjiagang City confirmed.

Fourteen people were on board “Pengxiang 9”, ofwhom only two were rescued on Monday night.

Maritime authorities imposed a traffic ban in thesection and searched for the missing through the night.But none of the missing people had been found as of9 am on Tuesday. The cause of the accident is underinvestigation.

Xinhua

OTTAWA, 9 Feb—Can-ada could save 76.4 billionCanadian dollars (about71.46 billion US dollars)between 2005 and 2020,an average of about 5 bil-lion Canadian dollars ayear in health savings, ifsome of the targets set outby the Canadian HeartHealth Strategy and Ac-tion Plan (CHHS-AP) aremet, according to a Con-ference Board of Canadareport released on Mondayat a Press conference inOttawa.

The report, The Cana-

Good heart health would lead to bigsavings for Canada

dian Heart Health Strat-egy: Risk Factors and Fu-ture Cost Implications,estimates the impact onfuture health expendituresif Canada were to meetthe targeted reductions inheart disease and strokerisk factors outlined in theCHHS-AP report, Build-ing a Heart HealthyCanada. The Heart andStroke Foundation ofCanada and the CanadianCardiovascular Societyjoined with the Confer-ence Board to release thefindings.

“By 2020, the lowerprevalence rate in risk fac-tors will contribute to a re-duction of 452,000 casesof ischemic heart diseaseand 150,000 cases of cer-ebrovascular diseases,”said Louis Theriault, au-thor of the report for theConference Board. “Thecost burden of these dis-eases will decrease sub-stantially, leading to costsavings for the health sys-tem, governments and theCanadian economy.”

Xinhua

Genetic testing should involve counsellorsand negative.

When test results in-dicate a lower risk for cer-tain conditions, somepeople will be falsely re-assured because the testmay only detect some ofthe individuals at risk.

Consumers need to beaware of these possibili-ties, Kearney says.

“Genetic testing canbe very helpful in deter-mining a person’s chanceto develop or pass on he-reditary diseases to theiroffspring.

However, the most im-portant first step is to un-derstand what can or can-not be learned from atest,” Kearney says in astatement. “DTC genetictests can deliver powerfulinformation. A trainedgenetic counsellors canhelp prepare you for whatyou might learn and bethere for you to interpretresults.

They can also help youdecide if having a genetictest is a good choice.”

Internet

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV FRIENDLY SEA VOY NO (35)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV FRIENDLYSEA VOY NO (35) are here by notified that the vesselswill be arriving on 10.2.2010 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of S.P.W where it will lie atthe consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: EASTERN-CAR LINER (SINGA-PORE) PTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENTU Maung Maung Khin & Daw Tint May

andU Hla Maung & Daw Hla Hla Win

have the honor of announcing the marriageof their childrenThet Naing Oo

A.A.S (M.L.T), B.S.(M.T). (University of Alaska Anchorage)1st. Yr.B.S. (Biomed.Lab.Diag.) (Michigan State University)

Medical TechnologistAlaska Regional Hospital, Anchorage AK, USA

andMoe Pwint Phyu (a) Juni

B.C.Sc. (Hons.),M.C.Sc. (U.C.S.Y.)on Sunday, in the afternoon, the 24th of January 2010

atYUZANA GARDEN HOTEL

Yangon, Myanmar

Romanian schools, highways closedover blizzards

Australian traveller arrestedin New Zealand over bomb jokeWELLINGTON, 9 Feb—A traveller from Sydney was

arrested in New Zealand on Tuesday after telling se-curity staff at Hamilton International Airport his bagcontained a bomb.

The man’s bags were collected by airport staff afterthey were found unattended following a trans-Tasmanflight early on Tuesday morning, Radio Newstalk-ZBreported.

When staff cautioned the man, he told them one ofhis bags contained a bomb and asked could they “nothear it ticking?”

Despite admitting he was joking, police were calledin and the man was charged with breaching AviationAct offenses. A search of his bags was conducted andno bomb was found, however a Swiss Army knife wasrecovered. —Xinhua

Intel, IBM roll out new computer network chipsSAN FRANCISCO, 9 Feb—US technol-

ogy titans IBM and Intel have rolledout powerful new computer chips de-signed for businesses continually de-manding more from networks and datacentres.

Intel introduced an Itanium processor9300 series developed under the codename “Tukwila” that it touts as deliver-ing twice the performance of prior gen-eration chips.

The 9300 series features two billiontransistors per chip and four “cores,”mini-brains that process data.

“With the Gartner Group predicting a650 percent growth in IT data over thenext five years, businesses need increas-ingly powerful and scalable enterpriseservers,” Intel said in a release.

Intel also said the chips are built toimprove the ability of computer systemsto recover from otherwise fatal errors.

IBM launched new Power7 serversbuilt to manage intensely demandingcomputing environments such as smartelectrical grids or real-time financialmarkets analysis.

Internet

BUCHAREST, 9 Feb—Heavy snow and blizzardshave forced the closure ofschools and highways anddelayed trains in Romania,police said on Monday.

Heavy snowfall hasstruck since on Saturdayevening southern and east-ern Romania, includingthe capital city of Bucha-rest. As many as 16 na-tional roads and the coun-try’s only two highwaysare still closed due to snowand blizzards, according

to the Police Info-trafficCentre.

National Railway Com-pany CFR SA on Mondayannounced train delays ofup to 60 minutes, althoughthere are no closed linesyet because of heavysnowfalls and blizzards.

As many as 37 car colli-sions have been recordedover the past 24 hours inthe capital, said BucharestPolice spokespersonChristian Ciocan, addingthat Road Brigade teams

assure entrance to and exitfrom the city by banningthe passage of heavy mo-tor vehicles, in order toavoid traffic jams.

Kindergartens and el-ementary and secondaryschools in Bucharest andeleven counties country-wide are closed on Mon-day over frosty weather,Prime Minister Emil Bocannounced on Sunday af-ter a meeting of the Emer-gency Committee.

Xinhua

UAE’s ADCOtargets 1.8 millionbpd oil output by

2017ABU DHABI, 9 Feb—

Abu Dhabi’s state-ownedoil firm ADCO is to in-vest billions of dollarsto hike onshore produc-tion by 400,000 barrelsper day to 1.8 million bpdby 2017, its generalmanager Abdel Monimal-Kindy said on Mon-day.

Initially, the Abu DhabiCompany for OnshoreOil Operations expects toinvest 5.3 billion dollarsbetween now and 2012,Kindy said at a pressconference.

Two 1.5-billion-dollarcontracts and another300-million-dollar con-tract will be “signedwithin two weeks” toexpand and develop on-shore oil fields in theemirate, the wealthiestin the seven-memberUnited Arab Emirates.

Internet

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Artificial pancreas for type onediabetes patients

Compromised family better than institutionLEIDEN, 9 Feb—The quality of care and the relationship between children and

caregivers play a key role in development for HIV-infected children, Dutch re-searchers say.

The researchers at Leiden University looked at 58 Ukrainian 4-year-old chil-dren, with and without human immunodeficiency virus. Some lived in institutionsshortly after birth while others lived with their biological families.

The study, published in Child Development, found the quality of the relation-ships between the children and their caregivers had a bigger impact on children’sphysical growth and cognitive performance than the presence of the HIV infec-tion or the quality of the physical environment. In addition, the study found forboth children with and without HIV, even compromised family care was better forthe children than institutional care.

Internet

Diarrhea deaths lead tohygiene campaign in Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, 9 Feb—The Ministry of Health haslaunched a nationwide sanitation and hygiene aware-ness campaign following a series of deaths across thecountry caused by diarrhea, local media reported onMonday.

Ly Sovann, deputy director of the ministry’s Com-municable Diseases Control Department, said that aspart of the campaign, which began on Saturday, offi-cials had been stationed on the ground in every prov-ince to treat cases of diarrhea.

He said that diarrhea is of particular concern dur-ing the dry season because people are driven to drinkunsanitary water.

“We are concerned about diarrhea this month, andfor this campaign we have scattered expert officers toall 24 provinces in Cambodia,” he was quoted by thePhnom Penh Post as saying.

A 11-year-old boy in Ratanakkiri province died af-ter a bout of diarrhea last Thursday, and another per-son died of diarrhea the following day, said Pon Pun,the chief of Lonk Khon commune in Borkeo district,where the deaths occurred.

A series of reports of diarrhea and suspected chol-era cases have recently sprung up in Prey Veng, Takeoand Kandal provinces, the newspaper reported.

Xinhua

BEIJING, 9 Feb—Re-searchers at the Universityof Cambridge have devel-oped an artificial pancreasdevice that can improveovernight blood sugar con-trol, which brings new hopefor type 1 diabetes patients,media reported on Monday.

One problem facingtype 1 diabetics ishypoglycemia; a conditionin which blood sugar dropsto dangerously low levelsafter the use of insulin.

Type 1 diabetics mustuse insulin; however, it is

difficult for patients toknow the exact dosagethey need. When too muchof insulin is used, bloodsugar drops quickly, po-tentially leading tohypoglycemia.

The artificial pancreasis a matchbox-sized moni-tor and a similar sizedpump with a tube to de-liver the insulin to thebody. The device can cal-culate the appropriateamount of insulin to de-liver based on real timeblood sugar readings.

Researchers said thestudy patients, aged 5 to18, spent twice as muchtime during the night attargeted glucose levelswhen they used the device,compared to the manualapproach.

Dr Hovorka said “Ourresults show that commer-cially-available devices,when coupled with the al-gorithm we developed, canimprove glucose control inchildren and significantlyreduce the risk of hyposovernight.”—Xinhua

2,000 hit by Papua cholera outbreak

Enzyme mayprotectfrom

inflammationSAN FRANCISCO, 9 Feb—

US researchers sayan enzyme could protectobese people againstdiabetes and heartdisease.

Scientists at theGladstone Institute ofCardiovascular Diseasein San Francisco foundovereating can causecells to fill up with di-etary fats and beginto die.

When macrophages—“eater” white bloodcells—come into clearaway the dead cells, ex-posure to large amountsof dietary, especiallysaturated, fats can causean inflammatory re-sponse where macro-phages secrete cytokines,proteins that encourageinsulin resistance andheart disease.

Xinhua

Snow removing equipment are busy at workclearing the runways after a heavy snowstorm at

Washington Reagan National Airport in Washing-ton, DC, on 7 Feb, 2010. Saturday’s snowstorm

shut down the National Airport completely.XINHUA

SYDNEY, 9 Feb—Papua New Guinea’scholera outbreak has spread to 2,000 peo-ple, a World Health Organization officialsaid on Monday as he warned that poorwater sanitation was making the diseasehard to contain.

The country’s first cholera outbreak in50 years emerged in northern Morobeprovince last July and within months hadspread along the north coast to Madangand East Sepik, WHO representativeEigil Sorensen said. “We have seen theongoing transmission in all these threeprovinces at the moment so it is gradu-ally spreading,” Sorensen told AFP.

“We have now more than 2,000 con-firmed cases of cholera.”

Sorensen said the number of deaths so

A young boy takes a shower in a streetamong traditional stilt homes near

Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.INTERNET

far remained modest at fewer than 50, butthe disease continued to spread due to poorwater supplies and as infected people, in-cluding those with no symptoms of thesickness, travelled around.—Internet

Dancers fromthe Art Troupe

of the HighSchool Affili-

ated to RenminUniversity(RDFZ) of

China performdance “YouthAmbition” inWellington

College,Crowthorne of

Berkshire,Britain, on 8Feb, 2010.

XINHUA

Snow-covered cars are seen on a street in Bucharest on 8 February, 2010.INTERNET

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S P O R T S

Swedish ace Soderling toogood for Serra

Swedish tennis playerRobin Soderling cheers

after defeating theFrench player FlorentSerra at the ABN AmroTennis Tournament inRotterdam. Soderling

won 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.INTERNET

Erik Edman

Edman homeward boundafter leaving Wigan

Cahill could miss World Cup afterblood clot

BOLTON, 9 Feb—Bolton defender Gary Cahill’s chances of go-ing to the World Cup with England have been destroyed by a bloodclot in his arm which is likely to mean he misses the rest of theseason. Cahill, 24, missed his club’s goalless draw with Fulham onSaturday after his arm swelled up on the morning of the match.

“There was no way he could play so we took him straight off tohospital,” Bolton manager Owen Coyle reported. “It turns out hehad a blood clot in his arm, so he is going to be out for a number ofmonths.”

Cahill was due to be released from hospital on Monday but thetreatment for his condition will prevent him playing for the forseeablefuture. “It is a severe blow for the boy but our main concern is hiswelfare,” Coyle added. “We have to make sure Gary is fit and well.

Internet

Bolton Wanderers Gary Cahill (right)vies with Blackburn Rovers David Dunnduring their Premier League match atThe Reebok stadium in Bolton, 2009.Cahill’s chances of going to the WorldCup with England have been destroyedby a blood clot in his arm which is likely

to mean he misses the rest of theseason.—INTERNET

Chelsea’s Germanmidfielder

Michael Ballack

Ballack hits back at Wengersniping

Terry thanks Chelsea’s fansfor backing

Chelsea’s Englishdefender John Terry

Vieira set for home debut asCity aim to revive campaign

Sunderland’sGhanaian

defender JohnMensah (right)confronts Stoke

City’s Jamai-can striker

Ricardo Fuller,on 1 February.

INTERNET

Two Premier League starsin trouble with police

LONDON, 9 Feb—Ricardo Fuller, the Jamaica strikerwho plays for Stoke City in the English Premier League,has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a man in anightclub at the weekend, police said on Monday.

Staffordshire Police said a 21-year-old man hadsuffered minor facial injuries that did not require hos-pital treatment following an incident in a nightclub inthe Stoke area at around 0100GMT on Sunday.

Fuller, 30, has not been charged with any offence andwas bailed until next month pending the outcome of en-quiries by the police, who have appealed for witnesses.

Newcastle striker Andy Carroll, meanwhile, wascharged on Monday with assault over an incident inwhich he allegedly attacked another man in a night-club in the city in December.—Internet

Sampras loses exhibition gameto Verdasco at SAP Open

WASHINGTON, 9 Feb—Former world number onePete Sampras demonstrated that he still has some play-ing knacks in the game against a top player 12 yearshis junior in the second set of his 6-3, 7-6(2) exhibi-tion loss to Spain’s Fernando Verdasco on Monday atthe SAP Open.

Sampras received a standing ovation when the56-minute match was over.

He waved and hit three balls into the crowd beforetelling everybody he “felt a little old” out there.

Xinhua

Hull City’s StephenHunt (right) vies with

Manchester City’sAdam Johnson duringtheir Premier Leaguematch at the KC Sta-dium, Kingston uponHull, England, on 6

February. A surprise 2-1defeat away at strug-gling Hull has dentedCity manager Roberto

Mancini’s hopes ofsealing a top four

Premier League finishand a spot in next

season’s ChampionsLeague.—INTERNET

ROTTERDAM, 9 Feb—Robin Soderling shruggedoff a slow start, firing 26races as he lifted his gameto earn a 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 winover Frenchman FlorentSerra Monday and reachthe second round of theRotterdam Open.

The Swede showed nosigns of the elbow com-plaint which knocked himout of the Australian Openfirst round. But the thirdseed admitted that hecould have used a quickerstart.

“The first match of theweek is always the mostdifficult for me,” said the2009 Roland Garros final-ist. “I could have had abetter start.

“But my game got bet-ter and better. I know I canplay a lot better. I’m sat-isfied with the win but notreally with my form.”

Internet

MANCHESTER, 9 Feb—Manchester City are set tohand home debuts toPatrick Vieira and AdamJohnson as they look torevive their faltering Pre-mier League campaignagainst Bolton on Tues-day.

A surprise 2-1 defeataway at struggling Hull onSaturday has dented Citymanager RobertoMancini’s hopes of seal-ing a top four PremierLeague finish and a spotin next season’s Champi-ons League.

But City entertain rel-egation-threatened Boltonat Eastlands knowing awin will see them leapfrogTottenham and Liverpoolinto fourth spot.

Mancini is set to makechanges to his team aftersuffering the secondleague defeat since hetook over from MarkHughes in December.

InternetWIGAN, 9 Feb—Wigan

confirmed on Mondaythat they had reached anagreement with ErikEdman to cancel his con-tract in a move that freesthe Swedish defender toreturn to his first club,Helsingborg. Edman, whojoined Wigan fromRennes in January 2008,had been under contractuntil the end of the seasonbut saw little future at theclub, where he is second-choice left back behindthe highly-rated MaynorFigueroa.

The 31-year-old suf-fered a serious knee injurysoon after his arrival at theclub and has played justfour times this season,making only two PremierLeague starts. In one of

those, he was run raggedby Aaron Lennon asTottenham thrashedWigan 9-1 in November.

“We found an agree-ment to allow Erik to goback home as I believethat is what he wanted todo,” Wigan managerRoberto Martinez said.

Internet

LONDON, 9 Feb—Chel-sea’s John Terry hasthanked the club’s fans fortheir support after allega-tions about his private lifethat cost him the Englandcaptaincy.

England managerFabio Capello took a mat-

ter of minutes on Fridayto tell Terry his time ascaptain of the nationalside was at an end follow-ing the central defender’salleged affair withVanessa Perroncel, the ex-girlfriend of former Chel-sea team-mate WayneBridge.

But the 29-year-oldTerry remains the captainof Chelsea, where he hashad the unstinting backingof manager CarloAncelotti, and the ongo-ing publicity over his pri-vate life appears to havehad no adverse effect onhis on-field performances.

Internet

LONDON, 9 Feb—Michael Ballack has hitback at Arsene Wenger’ssniping at Chelsea’s per-ceived lack of flair by ac-cusing the Arsenal man-ager of sour grapes overhis side’s faltering Pre-mier League title chal-lenge. Arsenal enjoyedplenty of possession whenthe two clubs met atStamford Bridge but itwas Chelsea who ran out2-0 winners with Wengercomplaining post-matchthat “we didn’t get a dem-onstration of football”.

Ballack’s responsewas to point out that Ar-senal’s pretty football wasnot achieving the resultsthey would like.

“We knew the way Ar-

senal play,” the Germanycaptain said. “It is alwaysthe same style. If you playtactics like we did, youcan beat them. “This sea-son and the season beforethey showed they weren’table to win the league.

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Rakhine and Mon States, upper Sagaing, Bago,Yangon and Taninthayi Divisions and generally fair inthe remaining areas. Night temperatures were (3°C) to(4°C) below February average temperatures in upperSagaing, Mandalay, Magway and Bago Divisions, (5 °C)below February average temperatures in Chin and RakhineStates, (4°C) above February average temperatures in MonState, (5°C) above February average temperatures inTaninthayi Division and about February averagetemperatures in the remaining areas. The significant nighttemperatures were Loilem (-2 °C), Namhsan (-1°C), Hakaand An (1°C) each and Pinlaung (2°C).

Maximum temperature on 8 -2-2010 was 97°F.Minimum temperature on 9 -2-2010 was 62°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 9-2-2010 was 54%.Total sun shine hours on 8-2-2010 was (9.6) hours approx.

Rainfall on 9-2-2010 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010was (Tr) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and (Nil) at CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was(4) mph from West at (15:30) hours MST on 8-2-2010.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea and South Bay and generally fair eleswherein the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 10thFebruary 2010:Weather will be partly cloudy in Kachin, Rakhine and MonStates and Taninthayi Division and generally fair in theremaining States and Divisions.

State of the sea: Seas will be slight to moderate inMyanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood of slightincrease of night temperature in the upper Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for10-2-2010: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for10-2-2010: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for10-2-2010: Generally fair weather.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS, 9 Feb—A woman’s chanceof having a child with autism increase substantiallyas she ages, but the risk may be less for older dadsthan previously suggested, a new study analyzingmore than 5 million births found.

“Although fathers’ age can contribute risk, therisk is overwhelmed by maternal age,” saidUniversity of California at Davis researcher JanieShelton, the study’s lead author.

Mothers older than 40 were about 50 percentmore likely to have a child with autism than thosein their 20s the risk for fathers older than 40 was 36percent higher than for men in their 20s.

Even at that, the study suggests the risk of awoman over 40 having an autistic child was stillless than 4 in 1,000, one expert noted.

The new research suggests the father’s ageappears to make the most difference with youngmothers. Among children whose mothers wereyounger than 25, autism was twice as common whenfathers were older than 40 than when dads were intheir 20s. The findings contrast with recent researchthat suggested the father’s age played a bigger rolethan the mother’s. Researchers and other autismexperts said the new study is more convincing,partly because it’s larger. —Internet

A white tiger restsinside an enclosure atBeijing Zoo in Beijing,China, Monday, on 8Feb, 2010. There are

fewer than 50 wildtigers left in China

today, living inYunnan, Tibet, Jilinand Helongjiang.

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12th Waning of Tabodwe 1371 ME Wednesday, 10 February, 2010

★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

★ Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracy★ Riots beget riots, not democracy★ Democracy can be introduced only through constitution

People’s Desire ★ VOA, BBC-sowing hatred amongthe people

★ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

★ Do not allow ourselves to be swayedby killer broadcasts designed tocause troubles

■ We favour peace and stability■ We favour development■ We oppose unrest and violence■ Wipe out those inciting unrest

and violence

SPECIAL FEATURES TO HAIL 63RD ANNIVERSARY UNION DAY

Article Poem Cartoon

The Ministry of Transport started placing of four-inch thick asphalt concrete on the runway, the taxiwayand the apron of Sittway Airport on 11 December 2008and the new runway was opened on 20 May 2009.

Byline

Union Spirit* Unity in time of emergence

Blood thicker than waterEver with amity the national racesUnited ever, divided neverShowing the strong Myanmar spiritStrength reinvigorated in PanglongSo noble is the Union Spirit

Momentum added in preventivemeasures against A/H1N1

Eight more patientsfound with A/H1N1

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Feb—A release recently men-tioned that the virus of New Influenza A (H1N1) wasfound in eight children of the student boarding inWard 43 of Dagon Myothit (North) Township.

A field study team comprising specialists ofYangon Division Health Department examined thosewho are in contact with the patients, the houses ofpatients and those from the wards in contact with thepatients and searched new patients. They foundinfectious of fever and flu at some students of BasicEducation High School No. 4, BEMS No. 1 andBEPS No. 23 in Dagon Myothit (North) Township.

The patients are kept in quarantine. After ap-proving the laboratory results, the specialist teamconfirmed that New Influenza A (H1N1) was foundin eight more students.Two patients are undergoingtreatment at Waibagi Specialist Hospital and anothersix at North Okkalapa General Hospital. They are allin good condition.—MNA

PAGES 8+9 LA WUN EIN (INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS)

In fact, Union Spirit covers the spirit of doing correct acts ofcourage with national outlook, no jealousy, the sense of cherishing andsafeguarding motherland, own race, religion, literature, culture,customs and traditions, family spirit among national races, the fervourof mutual help and national unity, remaining united in times ofemergency, and opposing decadent alien culture.

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