The New Light of Myanmar 10-03-2010

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Volume XVII, Number 328 11th Waning of Taboung 1371 ME Wednesday, 10 March, 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

Government, people and Tatmadaw have to harmoniously strive withadded momentum for regional peace and stability and progress

Myanmar citizens must be for Myanmar andnot be a stooge of any alien

Bird’s eye view of Namhsan in Kyaukme District inShan State (North).

MNA

Prime Minister

General Thein Sein

visits 50-bed

People’s Hospital in

Namhsan in

northern Shan

State.

MNA

Four supplementary pages carrying thePolitical Parties Registration Law issued under theLaw No. 2/2010 of the State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil of the Union of Myanmar are inserted intoday’s The New Light of Myanmar daily.

Political Parties RegistrationLaw in supplement

NAY PYI TAW, 9March—Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein leftNay Pyi Taw yesterdaymorning and arrived inLashio of Shan State(North) later in themorning.

Accompanied byChairman of Shan State(North) Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of North-

East Command Maj-GenAung Than Htut, thePrime Minister and partyproceeded to Namhsan ofKyaukme District.

At NamhsanPeople’s Hospital (50-bed),the Prime Minister metdepartmental personnel andmembers of socialorganizations of Namhsanafter comforting thepatients.

Speaking on theoccasion, the PrimeMinister said that theywere there to inspectsecurity, peace andstability and developmentof Shan State (North) andfulfil the requirements.Namhsan was a town withpoor transport in the past.Therefore, the governmentmanaged to ensureemergence of all-weatherNamhsan-Hsipaw Road,Namhsan-Kyaukme Roadand Namhsan-MantungRoad. Likewise, the 50-bed People’s Hospital isconstructed for upliftingthe health standard ofthe local people, whileefforts are being made for

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Wednesday, 10 March 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

Environmentalconservation — a must

Today, deforestation is rampant aroundthe world causing the greenhouse effect,followed by other natural disasters such assoil erosion, desertification, and swollen riversand creeks.

So, the international community has toget to the center of the global issue, seekingall possible means, establishing forestsextensively, beefing up afforestation indeserts, and growing trees and plants in partlydeforested areas.

Myanmar conserves aquatic andterrestrial sources and woodlandssystematically by designating forest reserves,protected forests and sanctuaries in line withthe Forestry Law. The Ministry of Forestryand related ministries have been establishingwatershed areas, sanctuaries and special teakplantations in regions concerned.

Teak plantations are being nurtured alongBago Yoma mountain range for regionalgreening and regeneration of natural forests.In the forest reserves in Bago Division areplantations of such species of hardwood treesas Hsithabye, ironwood, Pyinma, and gumkino apart from teak. Regional greeningprojects have proved effective in the 13 ariddistricts.

Forests and trees encourage regionalgreening and temperate climate patterns andprovide forest products. Here, conservationof forests and ecosystem is at the centre of theglobal process. In addition, wastes fromindustries, mining, and chemical industriesare to be disposed in a systematic way sincethey are hazardous to aquatic animals.

Pollution of air, water and ground, anddeforestation leads to environmentaldeterioration. Therefore, the people have toconstantly participate in programmesinclusive of setting up plantations extensivelythe government has been implementing forenvironmental conservation.

U Ohn Thwin presents hisCredentials to Maldives

PresidentNAY PYI TAW, 10 March—U Ohn Thwin,

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary ofthe Union of Myanmar to the Republic of Maldives,presented his Credentials to His Excellency Mr.Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Republic ofMaldives, on 7 February 2010, in Male.—MNA

13,742.39 acres of poppy fieldsdestroyed in 2009-2010

NAY PYI TAW, 9 March—Up to 27 February 2010during the poppy cultivation season in 2009-2010, atotal of 13,390.09 acres of poppy were destroyed inStates and Divisions.

From 28 February to 6 March, a total of 352.3more acres of poppy plantations were destroyed inStates and Divisions. Therefore, total acres of destroyedpoppy plantation amounted to 13,742.39 acres. Amongthem, 35 acres of poppy were destroyed in Tangyan,Kutkai and Namkham townships in Shan State (North),253.75 acres in Phekhon, Hsihsang and Pinlaungtownships of Shan State (South) and 63.55 acres inMongphyat, Mongton, Mongping and Monghsattownships in Shan State (East).—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9March—The 19th

graduation ceremony ofUniversity forDevelopment of NationalRaces was held at theconvocation hall of theuniversity on 5 March.

Chairman of CivilService Selection andTraining Board U KyawThu and Rector U ZawMin Thein conferredcertificates on thetrainees.

The ceremony ended

19th graduation ceremonyof UDNR held

after making speech byCSSTB Chairman UKyaw Thu.

The chairman thencordially greeted thetrainees.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 March—Vice-Chairman ofUniversity Council of University for Development ofNational Races, Chairman of Central SelectionCommittee and Chairman of Civil Service Selectionand Training Board U Kyaw Thu attended UniversityCouncil Meeting (1/2010) of UDNR held at theuniversity on 4 March.

Academic affairs were discussed at the meeting.The ceremony then concluded with concluding remarkof the chairman.—MNA

Tetlan GK bookcomes out

YANGON, 9 March—The notes for generalknowledge compiled by Captain Hla Shwe (Retd) wasin circulation recently.

The book carries notes in detail on generalknowledge for the cadets for military officer courses,SIP course and officers of government organizationsand students.

The notes are divided into 11 sectors containingover 6,000 items of facts. The book was published byChi Tay Than Literary House at Pale-3 Ward ofMingaladon Township.—MNA

CSSTB Chairman

U Kyaw Thu confers

certificates on a

trainee.

MNA

Cover of the book "Tetlan (1)" featuringnotes of general knowledge.—MNA

Work coord meeting of UDNR heldNAY PYI TAW, 9 March—Work coordination

meeting on tasks of University for Development ofNational Races by State/Division Peace andDevelopment Council representatives took place atthe university on 4 March.

Vice-Chairman of the University Council of theUDNR Chairman of Central Selection CommitteeChairman of Civil Services Selection and TrainingBoard U Kyaw Thu made a speech. They passed theresolutions.—MNA

University Council Meeting(1/2010) held

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Daily temperature in Singaporecould rise by 4 degrees Celsius

by 2100SINGAPORE, 9 March—Singapore last month expe-

rienced the driest month in 140 years, and a new cli-mate study projects that the city state’s average dailytemperature could jump by more than four degreesCelsius by 2100.

According to Channel News Asia reports on Mon-day night, the new climate study, which was commis-sioned by Singapore’s National Environment Agency(NEA), projects that the temperature in the countrycould rise by between 2.7 to 4.2 degrees Celsius fromthe current average of 26.8 degrees Celsius. And thesea level around the city state could increase by 24 to65 centimetres by 2100.—Xinhua

Gun battle erupts in Afghan Khostcity, troops kill 2 militants

Israelis, Palestinians to beginindirect talks

Colo rock slide rains boulders onbridge, highway

Iraqis inspect the damage at the site of an explosion in Baghdadrecently.— INTERNET

US droneattacks kill five

in northwestPakistan

ISLAMABAD, 9March—Suspected USdrone on Monday nightfired five missiles at ahouse near Miranshah,the headquarters of NorthWaziristan tribal agencyin northwest Pakistan,killing at least five per-sons and wounding fourothers, local TV channelsreported.

The reports said thatfive missiles were firedhitting a house in MalayKhan Serai area. So far itis not clear as to what wasthe possible target of theattack of the spy plane,nor are the total casual-ties certain.

Xinhua

In this on 8 March, 2010 photo released by the Colorado Department ofTransportation, a portion of a 17-mile stretch of Interstate 70, which has beenclosed after a rock slide, is shown in Glenwood Springs, Colo. The slide struckaround midnight Sunday near the Hanging Lake Tunnel in Glenwood Can-yon, a deep and narrow chasm about 110 miles west of Denver, the Colorado

Department of Transportation said.—INTERNET

Funding cuts could lead toHIV ‘nightmare’

JOHANNESBURG, 9 March—Cuts in donor fundingcould cause an HIV “nightmare,” the United Nations’AIDS agency chief warned on Monday.

Michel Sidibe appealed to government and privatedonors to keep investing in the Global Fund to FightAIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an internationalfinancing institution. He said that cuts in donationswill decrease the availability of free or subsidized life-saving drugs to African patients.

An estimated 94 percent of patients on anti-retroviral treatment in Africa count on external donorfunds to provide their medications, Sidibe said.

“If we stop now, if we reduce the financing, thepeople who are on treatment today ... we will trans-form their hope for universal access into a universalnightmare, because they will start dying,” Sidibe toldThe Associated Press on Monday.—Internet

A newborn baby girl born to an HIV-positivemother in Paarl near Cape Town. Within five

years, the world could shield all newborns fromHIV, while making strides in reducing deaths frommalaria and tuberculosis, the Global Fund to fight

the three diseases has said.—INTERNET

JERUSALEM, 9 March—Israel and the Palestiniansagreed to begin indirect,American-brokered talks,the US Mideast envoyannounced on Monday —ending a 14-month dead-lock in peacemaking andrepresenting the Obamaadministration’s first sub-stantive diplomaticachievement here.

The announcement,however, came just hoursafter Israel enraged Pales-tinians by announcingnew West Bank settle-ment construction on thesame day US Vice Presi-dent Joseph Biden landedin the region to promotenegotiations.

Israel’s decision tobuild 112 new housing

units on lands Palestiniansclaim for a future statehighlighted the tough roadahead for those seekingpeace in the region.

Also underlining thedifficulties are sharp divi-sions between Palestinianmoderates and militantsas well as a hardline Is-raeli government opposedto many concessions seenas necessary for peace.

George Mitchell, theUS envoy who is visitingthe region, said in a state-ment that he hoped the in-direct talks “will lead todirect negotiations assoon as possible.” And inwhat might have been areaction to the latest Is-raeli move, he appealed tothe two sides not do toanything that could jeop-ardize the talks.

Internet

KABUL, 9 March— Af-ghan security forces killedTaleban attackers inKhost city, the capital ofKhost Province in eastAfghanistan on Mondayafternoon after around

two hours of fire ex-change with them andbring the situation undercontrol, provincial policechief Mohammad Yaqubsaid.

“The security forces

eliminated two terroristsand now the situation isunder control,” Yaqubtold Xinhua.

There were no casual-ties on civilians, hestressed.

Meantime, AmirBadshah, the director ofHealth Department inKhost city, told Xinhuathat four policemensustained injuries in thegun battle had been takento hospital.

Earlier police in Khostcity said that a militanthurled two hand grenadesin a square in Khostcity and another blewhimself up.—Xinhua

DENVER, 9 March—Arock slide punched gapingholes in a bridge and lefthuge boulders on Interstate70, closing a 17-milestretch in western Coloradoand prompting Gov. BillRitter to declare a disasteremergency on Monday.

The slide struckaround midnight Sundaynear Hanging Lake Tun-nel in Glenwood Canyon,

a deep, narrow chasmabout 110 miles west ofDenver, the Colorado De-partment of Transporta-tion said.

No injuries or damageto vehicles were reported.All lanes were closedfrom Glenwood Springseast to the town ofDotsero. Up to 25,000 ve-hicles a day travel thatsection of the major east-

west artery, departmentspokeswoman StaceyStegman said.

Because of the ruggedterrain, the shortest detouradds about 200 milesaround the mountainousFlat Tops WildernessArea. Adding to the traf-fic mess, US 50 wasclosed over Monarch Passdue to adverse conditions.

Internet

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A lot of the port of Rio de Janiero is packed with vehicles and containers in2008. Brazil said on Monday it would raise tariffs on 591 million dollars worthof US products in the latest twist in its showdown over US cotton subsidies it

has blasted as unfair.—INTERNET

The Nano EV of the Indian carmaker Tata is displayed on 3 March duringthe Geneva International Motor Show at Palexpo. —INTERNET

A model poses next to Sony Corp’s new 3D Braviatelevisions during an unveiling in Tokyo on 9 March,2010. Sony Corp will launch 3D televisions in June,

entering an increasingly crowded market that is bettingthe revolutionary TV will become the next hot product

in the electronics industry. —INTERNET

BRASILIA, 9 March—Brazil’s Foreign TradeChamber (Camex) said onMonday that the applica-tion of trade sanctions onproducts from the UnitedStates would not causeshortages in the Brazilianmarket.

The list of the USproducts, which will besubject to punitive importtariffs, was published byBrazil’s Official Journalon Monday, includingshampoos, perfumes,cars, freezers, stoves, po-tatoes, cotton, beautycreams, methanol and pa-racetamol.

In August 2009, theWorld Trade Organizationauthorized Brazil to retali- FRANKFURT, 9 March— German auto and truck

maker Daimler has sold its stake in Tata Motors ofIndia and will go it alone in the rapidly growing truckmarket, a source close to the matter said on Monday.

“Tata Motors and Daimler have a relationship thatgoes back over 50 years but now the German com-pany is exiting its stake as it is now solo in India,”Dow Jones Newswires reported, quoting a banker in-volved in the deal who asked not to be named.

The banker said Daimler received less than 290 mil-lion euros (397 million dollars) for its stake, which onDecember 31 amounted to 4.71 percent of Tata’s shares.

A Daimler spokesman contacted by AFP declinedto “comment on these rumours.”—Internet

TOKYO, 9 March—Sony Corp said it willlaunch 3D televisions inJapan in June, entering anincreasingly crowdedfield of competition forwhat many see as the nexthot product in the elec-tronics industry.

Sony said it would be-

Brazil says trade sanctions on USproducts not to cause market shortage

ate against the UnitedStates to offset the dam-age caused to Brazilianproducers due to U.S. cot-ton subsidies.

Camex executive sec-retary Lytha Spindola saidthe products included inthe list would be importedat a higher price, but notto the point of preventingthe purchase.

“The consumer willmanage to keep on buy-ing despite prices rising.But if taxes were too high,it would come to a pointthat trade is blocked,” hesaid.

Camex, an agency af-

filiated to the ForeignMinistry, avoided includ-ing intermediate productsin the list, which couldbring problems to Brazil’sindustry because of lackof supply.

According to the list,increases in import taxes,which vary between 22percent and 100 percent,would become effective30 days after its release.During this period therewould be negotiations be-tween Brazil and theUnited States that mightresult in suspension of thesanctions.

Xinhua

ISTANBUL, 9 March—The Turkish Airlines andUS Boeing company havefinalized an order for 20Next-Generation 737airplanes, according to astatement by Boeing onTuesday.

The order, valued at1.6 billion US dollars atcurrent list prices, in-cludes 10 737-800s and 10737-900ER airplanes.

Turkish Airlines cur-rently operates a fleet of66 Boeing airplanes, in-cluding 58 Next-Genera-tion 737s.

The Boeing 737-800 isthe backbone of the Turk-ish Airlines fleet andproves its value on a dailybasis offering unmatchedlevels of efficiency andreliability.—Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 9 March— Exports of US manu-factured goods supportedmore than 6.8 million jobsin 2008, according to areport released by the USDepartment of Commerceon Monday.

Two of every nine jobsin the manufacturing sec-tor are tied to exports.These 6.8 million jobsrepresented 5.9 percent of

Sony to start selling 3D TVs in Japan in Junegin selling 3D TVs in Ja-pan on 10 June. The elec-tronics and entertainmentconglomerate expects amodel with a 46-inchscreen to sell for 350,000yen ($3,875) and a 40-inch model to sell for290,000 yen.

The sci-fi blockbuster

“Avatar” and other recenttitles have sparked mas-sive interest in 3D mov-ies, and electronics mak-ers are now rushing to getflat panel TVs with three-dimensional visual effectsto the market.

Panasonic Corp hasannounced plans tolaunch its 3D TVs in theUnited States on Wednes-day, and cooperate withtop US electronics retailerBest Buy Co in promot-ing them.—Internet

Turkey orders20 Boeing 737

airplanes

Daimler sells Tata Motors stake

Data show manufacturing exports supportand sustain American jobs

total private sector em-ployment in the UnitedStates, or roughly one outof every 17 private sectorjobs.

“I’m encouraged bythe results of this reportand understand the chal-lenges that our manufac-turing sector faces,” saidNicole Y Lamb-Hale, as-sistant secretary formanufacturing and serv-

ices within the Interna-tional Trade Administra-tion.

“Implementing theNational Export Initiativewill strengthen our abilityto support US companiesthat are expanding salesinto new markets,” hesaid. “The importance ofexporting in sustainingand creating jobs cannotbe overstated.”—Xinhua

EU to remove antidumping duties onS Korean polyester fiber products

SEOUL, 9 March—The European Union (EU) willremove its anti-dumping duties against South Koreanpolyester fiber products next week, South Korea’strade ministry said on Monday.

The removal of antidumping duties of up to 10percent on polyester fiber products from South Ko-rean companies is set to begin on 18 March, the min-istry said, which have been in place since 1993.

The announcement comes following relentlesscalls by South Korean companies of polyester fiber tolift the EU’s antidumping tariffs on its products, whichhas reached 1.3 billion US dollars in exports to theEU countries in 2009, according to the ministry.

Xinhua

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G20 countries need to remainvigilant against protectionism

US Airways fined for violation of priceadvertising rules

WASHINGTON, 9 March —The US Department ofTransportation (DOT) on Monday assessed a 40,000-dollar civil penalty against US Airways for violatingrules that require airline price advertisements to dis-close the full price consumers must pay for Air trans-portation.

“When consumers shop for air travel, they have aright to know how much they will have to pay,” saidUS Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in a state-ment. “We will continue to ensure that airlines com-ply with our price advertising rules.”

The Department’s Aviation Enforcement Officefound that when consumers searched the carrier’swebsite for one-way flights sorted by schedule, USAirways provided a set of fares that did not includeadditional applicable taxes and fees, or any notice onthat page that these additional charges would be re-quired.

Xinhua

Peruvian gov’t to launch strategic planto boost development

LIMA, 9 March—The Peruvian government willlaunch a National Strategic Development Plan nextweek, the National Centre for Strategic Planning an-nounced on Monday.

The plan is designed to reduce poverty and rates ofmaternal and infant mortality, eradicate child malnu-trition, and let the population have access to educa-tion, medicare and housing, according to the centre.

The program aims to reduce poverty from 36 per-cent to 13 percent, and increase per capita income from4,417 to 7,900 US dollars over the next 11 years, thecentre said. —Xinhua

GENEVA, 9 March—The Group of 20(G20) major economies need to remainvigilant against protectionism despite thefact that they have thus far managed toavoid a significant intensification of tradeor investment restriction, the World TradeOrganization (WTO) said on Monday.

“Unemployment rates are expected toremain high throughout 2010. Coupledwith uncertainties about when, and howstrongly, sustained global economicgrowth will resume, this points to theneed for G20 governments to remainvigilant in opposing protectionism,” theWTO said in a latest report.

It also called on G20 governments “todevise and announce publicly as soon aspossible exit strategies from any trade re-

strictions or other measures with trade re-strictive or distorting effects that were takenin response to economic conditions lastyear, so as to undercut protectionist pres-sures in favor of making these measurespermanent.” The report, prepared jointlywith the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) andthe United Nations Conference on Tradeand Development (UNCTAD), was aimedat assessing the G20 countries’ trade andinvestment measures since last September.

It noted that some G20 members hadcontinued to implement new trade re-strictive policies, in apparent contradic-tion to their pledges made at their sum-mit meetings in London and Pittsburghlast year.—Xinhua

A woman walks pastdebris in front of a

destroyed house in thevillage of Okcular. Apowerful pre-dawnearthquake buried

sleeping villagers inremote eastern Turkey,

claiming at least 51 livesand leaving dozens

injured, officials said.XINHUA

A deicing truck worksfor a flight at the

Beijing Capital Interna-tional Airport in

Beijing, capital ofChina, on 8 March,

2010. The urban areaof Beijing had received4.2 millimeters of snowon Monday.—XINHUA

UN boosts efforts to tackle foodinsecurity in Chad

A man fixesthe tyre

chains forhis car

during aheavy snow

stormwhich hitsBarcelona,

Spain,on 8

March,2010.

XINHUA

UNITED NATIONS, 9March— United Nationsagencies are ramping upefforts to assist around 2million Chadians whowill require food aid thisyear because of poor rain-fall and lean harvests, theworld body said on Mon-day. Martin Nesirky, theUN spokesman, told anews briefing that an as-sessment by the govern-ment of Chad and its part-ners showed that around

2 million Chadians willrequire food assistanceduring 2010.

“The World Food Pro-gramme has put in place aprogram of assistance toprovide 47,000 tonnes offood for 750,000 peopleaffected by drought in re-gions across the country,”he said. “ Meanwhile, theFood and Agriculture Or-ganization (FAO) and thegovernment have put in aplace a project to distrib-

ute 615 tonnes of cattlefood, and a project to dis-tribute seeds for 33,000vulnerable households isplanned.”

The FAO reported inNovember last year thatChad was one of 31 coun-tries worldwide that arefacing critical food insecu-rity due to a number of fac-tors including prolongeddrought, ongoing highfood prices and conflict.

Xinhua

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Ecuador, Iran agreeto build three

hydroelectric centresQUITO, 9 March—Ecua-

dor and Iran agreed tobuild three hydroelectriccenters in Ecuador, the Ec-uadorian Presidency’s of-fice said on Monday.

During an official visitof Ecuadorian Vice Presi-dent Lenin Moreno to Iranover the last weekend, therepresentatives of bothcountries decided to con-struct three hydroelectriccenters in Ecuador by us-ing Iranian technology,with a hydroelectric gen-eration capacity of morethan 100 megawatts.

Acknowledging thatboth countries are geo-graphically far apart, thePresidency’s office saidthat there should neverthe-less be more visits be-tween the two countries toenhance bilateral coopera-tion in trade, investment,tourism, society, cultureand sports.”—Xinhua

30 provinces on alert as badweather hits Spain

MADRID, 9 March— A heavy snowfall hit Barcelonaon Monday as 30 provinces were put on alert ahead ofanother bout of wind rain and snow. Snow fell at sealevel in Barcelona as the Autonomous Community ofCatalonia bore the brunt of the bad weather with over60 roads affected. Further south snow was falling at400 meters altitude in Valencia region and the main mo-torway north out of Madrid towards Burgos, the N1,was also closed because of the weather. In the far southof Spain, the region of Andalusia was placed on yellowalert because of high winds and waves in coastal re-gions, while it was raining heavily in the Provinces ofGranada, Almeria and Cadiz.—Xinhua

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A visitor looks at a piece of the origi-nal manuscript of Albert Einstein’slandmark “General Theory of Rela-tivity” exhibited at The Israel Acad-emy of Sciences and Humanities inJerusalem on 7 March, 2010. Einsteinwrote the 46-page manuscript in Ger-man in 1916 and donated to the He-brew University of Jerusalem in 1925.The exhibit coincides with Einstein’s

birthday on 14 March.

The complete original manuscriptof Albert Einstein’s epoch-makingtheory of relativity were exhibited forthe first time on Sunday in Israel.

The 46-page manuscript of theTheory of General Relativity, whichwas donated by Einstein to HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem in 1925, wereon its first public display at the IsraeliAcademy of Sciences and Humanities.

The exhibition, part of the eventscelebrating the science academy’s 50thanniversary, will be on until the end ofMarch.

The Theory of General Relativity,

The 19th-century synagogue ofMaimonides in Cairo’s ancient Jewishquarter reopened on Sunday after anearly two-year restoration by Egyptianauthorities, participants at the openingtold AFP.

They said some 150 people attendedthe opening, including Yitzhak Levanonand Margaret Scobey, the ambassadorsof Israel and the United States respec-tively.

About a dozen rabbis from Israel andabroad also were at the ceremony.

“When I first set foot here only fiveyears ago, the synagogue was in ruinsand its roof opened to the sky”, saidRabbi Andrew Baker of the AmericanJewish Committee (AJC).

Baker praised Egyptian authoritiesfor recognising that Jewish religioussites are also an integral part of Egyp-tian heritage and Egyptian culture, andfor leading the restoration project, theAJC said in a statement.

Egyptian officials were absent fromthe ceremony, and Culture MinisterFaruq Hosni explained that was becauseon Sunday’s opening was a purely reli-gious ceremony.

Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s antiquitieschief, said that a more formal openingon 14 March would be attended by

Egyptians restore the prayer hall ofthe Moses Ben Maimon synagogue

in the el-Gamaliya area in oldCairo in 2009. The 19th-century

synagogue of Maimonides inCairo’s ancient Jewish quarter

reopened on Sunday after a nearlytwo-year restoration by Egyptian

authorities, participants at theopening told AFP.

Cairo reopens restored 19th century synagogueEgyptian officials.

Egypt is happy to tout its Pharaonicantiquities, but authorities remain morediscrete when it comes to restorationof ancient Jewish sites.

Einstein’s relativity manuscript debuts in Israelwhich was published by Einstein in1915, led to a revolutionary understand-ing of the structure and development ofthe universe. As the central principle ofmodern physics, Einstein’s groundbreaking masterpiece made historiccontributions not only to physics re-search, but also to technological devel-opment, creating basis for many scien-tific experiments as well as commoninstruments like the global positioningsystem.

Einstein, often regarded as the fatherof modern physics, is among the mostinfluential and best-known intellectualsin the world.

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Girls stand in line during the opening ceremony of a training camp inHangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, on 8 March, 2010.Nearly 300 girls from across China began a 2-month trainning session on

Monday in Hangzhou and Shanghai in preparation for their work ashostesses during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.—XINHUA

GENEVA, 9 March—Subsistence farmers indeveloping nations are atrisk because farmlandequivalent to the totalamount available inFrance has been negoti-ated away to foreign in-vestors since 2006, a UNexpert said on Monday.

“I am extremelydoubtful and worried tosee these transactions in-volving very large areasof land, which willthreaten these people’sability to continue” sub-sistence farming, saidOlivier De Schutter, UN

CORVALLIS, 9 March— US researchers suggest agood night’s sleep may help fight deterioration due toaging. Researchers at the Oregon State University inCorvallis linked poorer health and earlier deaths to theabsence of a key gene controlling the biological clockregulating the sleep cycle.

The fruit fly study, published in the journal Aging,found the flies without the gene lived just about aslong as normal flies — unless they were subjected tostress.

When the researchers exposed the flies to a mildmetabolic stress for 24 hours, they found no change inyoung flies, but middle-age and older flies showed sig-nificant damage beginning to occur.

“We’re beginning to identify some of the underly-ing mechanisms that may help explain why organismsage,” Natraj Krishnan said in a statement.

“This study suggests that young individuals maybe able to handle certain stresses, but the same insultsat an older age cause genetic damage and appear tolead to health problems and earlier death. And it’slinked to biological clocks.”—Internet

Eurotunnel turns profit despite crisis, firePARIS, 9 March—Eurotunnel turned in a slight profit

last year despite the effects of the global economiccrisis and a fire within the link that connects Britainand France, it said on Tuesday.

The group made a profit of 1.4 million euros (1.9million dollars) in 2009 — far lower than the 34 mil-lion euros it made a year earlier.

The effects of a major fire in September 2008, in-cluding compensation payments, helped dent resultsduring 2009, the company reported earlier. The firebroke out as a freight train passed through the tunnel,causing serious damage to the line. Full services wereonly restored in February 2009.—Internet

WOOSTER, 9 March—US agriculture researchers saygeraniums might hold the key to controlling Japanesebeetles, which feed on nearly 300 plant species.

Scientists with the US Department of Agriculture’sAgricultural Research Service say the beetle (Popilliajaponica) costs the ornamental plant industry $450million each year in damage.

Although the beetle feeds well on a wide variety ofplants — including ornamentals, soybean, corn, fruitsand vegetables — within 30 minutes of consuminggeranium petals, the beetle becomes paralyzed, rollsover on its back and remains there for several hours.

Internet

Huge land deals threaten poor country farmersspecial rapporteur on theright to food.

In a report, De Schuttercited estimates of “be-tween 15 million to 20million hectares [37 mil-lion to 49 million acres]that had been subject totransactions or negotia-tions involving foreigninvestors since 2006”.

He said it was equal tothe total area of farmlandin France and a fifth of allagricultural land in theEuropean Union.

Most of the dealingsinvolved leases or the saleof land in sub-SaharanAfrica, Asia, LatinAmerica and eastern Eu-rope.—Internet

Sleep may be fountain of youth

Geraniums may control Japanese beetles

A Chinese Imperial white jade sealinscribed with Taishang Huangdifrom a period of Qianlong, QingDynasty, is displayed during an

auction preview in Hong Kong on 9March, 2010. The seal, which will beauction on 8 April, 2010, is expected

to fetch more than US$6,410,000,according Sotheby’s auction house.

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People visit the Volkswagen pavilion at the Belgrade Car Show in Belgrade,Serbia, on 8 March, 2010. The car show, opening on Monday, hosted 180

foreign and 190 domestic car manufacturers. Some 47 new car models and 38motorbikes are exhibited.—XINHUA

A costume of late Greek actress and Minister of Culture Melina Mercouri isseen at an art exhibition in Athens, capital of Greece, on 8 March, 2010. The

exhibition “Melina-Education-Culture” was inaugurated on the InternationalWomen’s Day and will run to 8 April.—XINHUA

WASHINGTON, 9 March— The US government onMonday announced selec-tions for the award of ap-proximately 40 milliondollars in total to twoteams led by Westing-house Electric Co andGeneral Atomics for con-ceptual design and plan-ning work for the NextGeneration Nuclear Plant(NGNP).

The results of thiswork will help the admin-istration determinewhether to proceed withdetailed efforts toward

US announces 40 million dollars todevelop Next Generation Nuclear Plant

construction and demon-stration of the NGNP, saidthe US Energy Depart-ment in a statement.

If successful, theNGNP DemonstrationProject will demonstratehigh-temperature gas-cooled reactor technologythat will be capable ofproducing electricity aswell as process heat forindustrial applicationsand will be configured forlow technical and safetyrisk with highly reliableoperations.

Final cost-shared

awards are subject to thenegotiation of acceptableterms and conditions.

“This investment re-flects President Obama’scommitment to buildingthe next generation of nu-clear reactors that willcreate thousands of jobsand supply the clean en-ergy to power oureconomy, “ said US Sec-retary of Energy StevenChu.—Xinhua

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 9 March—One of two Baptist mis-sionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti wasreleased and flew to Miami on Monday, but the USgroup’s leader remained in custody.

Charisa Coulter, 24, was taken from her jail cell tothe airport by US Embassy staff more than a monthafter she and nine other Americans were arrested fortrying to take 33 children out of Haiti after the earth-quake.

Coulter, wearing a red tank top and sunglasses, de-clined comment as she quickly got into an SUV thattook her to the Haitian airport, where she caught aflight back to the United States.—Internet

BEIJING, 9 March —Shanghai’s economyovertaking Hong Konghas been one of the mostdiscussed topics duringChina’s ongoing NPC andCPPCC sessions.

Figures show, in 2009,Shanghai’s GDP was up8.2 percent. While HongKong actually suffered a2.7 percent decline.

Earlier, the Chinesemainland’s financial hubalso said it has surpassedthe SAR in terms of porthandling capacity andstock market value.

Analysts say, competi-tion does exist betweenthe two cities. But coop-eration is still seen as theirtop priority. DonaldTsang, Hong Kong SAR’schief executive, also saidin Beijing while attendingthe annual two sessions,that the most importantthing for Hong Kong andShanghai now is to lookjointly for growth oppor-tunities.—Internet

SEOUL, 9 March—South Korea’s SamsungHeavy Industries Co saidon Tuesday it reached acontract with RoyalDutch Shell Plc to build afloating liquefied naturalgas (LNG) facility.

The company, in itsregulatory filing, said ithas won the contract fromEurope’s largest oil com-pany, without revealingthe exact amount.

While SamsungHeavy said it will publi-cize the value on 1 April,local industry sources es-

NANJING, 9 March—China Eastern will start tooperate a direct flightfrom east China’s Nanj-ing, capital city of JiangsuProvince, to Singapore on20 March.

The direct flight, to be

DUBAI, 9 March—Hopes of progress this week onDubai World’s (DBWLD.UL) $26 billion debt restruc-turing lifted stocks and eased fears of default, but po-tential divisions emerged among creditors to the state-owned conglomerate.

Dubai World could put its plan to major creditors,which include HSBC (HSBA.L) and Standard Char-tered (STAN.L), in London this week but was beingdelayed by efforts to value the assets of its Nakheelunit, builder of Dubai’s palm-shaped islands, bankerssaid.—Internet

Haiti frees US missionary;group leader still held

Dubai World deal hope liftsmarkets, divides creditors

China Eastern to operate direct flight from Nanjing to Singaporeundertaken by an airbusA319, No MU771, willfly on every Monday,Thursday and on Satur-day. The flight will takeoff on 10:00 am fromNanjing Lukou Interna-tional Airport and arrive atSingapore at 3:50 pm lo-cal time. The flight will fly

back from Singapore on5:05 pm and arrive atNanjing at 11:00 pm. Thenew route is expected tofurther enhance businessand culture cooperationbetween China’s Jiangsuand Singapore, a spokes-man from China Easternsaid.—Xinhua

Shanghai economyovertakingHong Kong

Samsung Heavy inks floating LNG facilitydeal with Royal Dutch Shell

timated the value to bearound 4 billion US dol-lars, local media YonhapNews Agency said.

In July last year, theshipbuilder signed anagreement with the Euro-pean company to constructLNG facilities for up to 15years, to which the recentcontract is subordinate.The July agreement statedSamsung Heavy, togetherwith a French provider, de-sign, construct and installmultiple floating LNG fa-cilities.

During the contract

period, Royal Dutch Shellis expected to requestaround 10 floating pro-duction storage andoffloading (FPSO) facil-ity orders at a total valueof 50 billion US dollars,Samsung Heavy has beensaying.

In a separate filing,Samsung Heavy said italso has received ordersto build nine tankers andan offshore facility wortha combined 750 millionUS dollars from Europeand Southeast Asia.

Xinhua

Photo taken on 7 March, 2010 shows the illuminated African joint pavilionat Shanghai Expo park during the light debugging, in Shanghai, east China.

XINHUA

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Myanmar citizens must be forMyanmar and ...

(from page 1)enhancement ofeducation standard,supply of electricity andimprovement oftelecommunication.

The PrimeMinister stressed theneed to effectively makeuse of sound foundationsfor promotion of socio-economic standard of thelocal people. TheGovernment, the peopleand the Tatmadaw are tojoin hands to safeguardthe developmentinfrastructures fordurability.

In carrying outdevelopment ofNamhsan Townsahip, heurged the administrativebodies and the localpeople to cooperate inundertaking five rural

He explained that all thenational people residingin the Union are to forgethe Union Spirit. Inconclusion, the PrimeMinister highlighted thatMyanmar citizens must befor Myanmar and aMyanmar must not be astooge of any alien nationor a Myanmar in disguise.

Minister forAgriculture and IrrigationMaj-Gen Htay Ooreported on assistance tobe provided foragriculture tasks.

Next, the PrimeMinister presented clothesand medicines totownselders.

After inspectingthe development ofNamhsan and Zayangyivillage in a motorcade, thePrime Minister and party

development tasks with aview to improving therural regions. He notedthat health staff are tomake field trips to thegrassroots level todisseminate healthknowledge aboutprevention againstcommon diseases to therural people so as to upliftthe public healthstandard.

It is necessary tointegrate agriculture andlivestock breedingbusiness for economicdevelopment, he said.All-out efforts are to bemade for carrying outlivestock breeding workson a commercial scale.

flew to Mongton inKyaukme District wherethey were welcomed byCol Maung Maung Hsanof the local station,departmental officials andlocal people.

In meeting withdepartmental officials,members of socialorganizations and localpeople at Shweli hall ofBEHS in Mongton,Minister for Constructionand Electric Power No. 2Maj-Gen Khin MaungMyint reported to thePrime Minister onarrangements being madefor supply of electricity inShan State (North)including Mongton and

tasks for upgradingMongton-Namtu andMongton- Namhsan roads

into all-weather facilities.The Prime

Minister made an addressand presented clothes andmedicines to townselders.

At townshipPeople’s Hospital, thePrime Minister met themedical superintendent,doctors and nurses andattended to the needs.

On his arrival atNamtu in KyaukmeDistrict, the PrimeMinister met departmentalofficials, members ofsocial organizations andlocal people at No (1)Guest House of WinMyintmoh IndustriesCo.,Ltd in Namtu.

After hearing a

report on food sufficiencyin the region throughhighland farming andassistances to be providedfor highland farmingpresented by MinisterMaj-Gen Htay Oo, thePrime Minister presentedclothes and medicines totownselders.

(See page 9)

Namhsan was a town with poor transport in thepast. Therefore, the government managed to ensureemergence of all-weather Namhsan-Hsipaw Road,Namhsan-Kyaukme Road and Namhsan-Mantung Road.Likewise, the 50-bed People’s Hospital is constructed foruplifting the health standard of the local people, whileefforts are being made for enhancement of educationstandard, supply of electricity and improvement oftelecommunication.

Aerial view of Namtu in Kyaukme District.—MNA

New Namhsan 50-bed Hospital.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein presents clothes and medicines to townselders inNamhsan.—MNA

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Prime Minister General Thein Sein delivers address in meeting with departmental officials, members of social organizations andlocal people in Namtu.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 March—At a

ceremony to honour the women’s

football team of the Ministry of

Transport that secured champion in the

9th Inter-Ministry Women’s Football

Tournament, Managing Director U Soe

YANGON, 9 March — Deputy

Minister for Construction U Tint Swe

inspected construction of road linking

No (5) Road and Dalla-Twantay Road

here yesterday.

NAY PYI TAW, 9 March—Ministerfor Foreign Affairs U Nyan Winreceived a delegation led by Mr HuZhengyue, Assistant Minister ofForeign Affairs of the People’sRepublic of China and party at theMinistry here today.

The two sides discussed mattersconcerning strengthening of bilateralrelations and mutually beneficial

YANGON, 9 March—Vice-Chairman

U Sein Win Hlaing of Myanmar Rice

Industry Association received General

Managers Mr Shigemasa Miki and Mr

Shigeharu Kato of Toyota Tsusho

Corporation (Food & Produce

Department) and representative to

Myanmar Mr Keiichi Kisara of Toyota

Tsusho Corporation at UMFCCI

Tower on Min Ye Kyaw Swa road here

Minister U Nyan Win receives Chinese delegation led by Mr HuZhengyue, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PRC.—MNA

MRIA Vice-Chairman U Sein Win Hlaing meets General Managers

Mr Shigemasa Miki and Mr Shigeharu Kato of Toyota Tsusho

Cooperation (Food & Produce Department).—MNA

Victorious women’s team of Transport

Ministry honouredTint of Inland Water Transport and wife

presented K 2.6 million award to the

football team.

The ceremony was held at the hall

of Ahlon Shipyard of IWT, here,

yesterday.—MNA

Myanmar, China to deepen cooperationcooperation between Myanmar andChina.

Also present on the occasion wereDirector-General U Kyaw Kyaw ofProtocol Department, Director-GeneralU Kyaw Tin of Political Department andofficials. The Chinese Assistant Ministerwas accompanied by ChineseAmbassador to Myanmar Mr Ye Dabo.

MNA

MRIA receives officials of Toyota

Tsusho Cooperationyesterday.

The two sides discussed mutual

cooperation in agriculture sector,

exchange of technology and cooperation

in paddy sector.

Also present at the call were General

Secretary U Ye Min Aung, Joint-

Secretaries U Myo Thura Aye and U

Aung Zaw Oo.

MNA

Road construction in Yangon inspectedHe also viewed the maintenance of

Pan Hline Bridge and inspected steel

girders to be used in construction of

road network in Ayeyawady Division at

Asia World jetty.—MNA

(from page 8)Next, the Prime Minister left Namtu and

arrived back Lashio in the evening.In meeting with department departmental

officials, members of social organizations and localpeople in Mantung and Namtu Townships, the PrimeMinister stressed the need for making continuousefforts to ensure the rule of law in Mantung and Namtuafter restoring security and peace and stability.Regional development undertakings can be carriedout only if there is peace and stability.

Myanmar citizens must be forMyanmar and ...

The government on its part has been layingdown and implementing projects for the developmentof rural and border areas for harmonious progress ofthe whole country.

It has already established a transport networkthe foundation for progress. At the same time it isopening more and more basic education schools andinstitutions of higher learning. It also is opening onearts and science university, one university of computerstudies and one technological university in each of the24 development regions.

In order to uplift the health sector, it is extendingthe number of hospitals and dispensaries and upgradingthe existing ones providing doctors and other health

staff all health facilities.The nationalities of the Union should foster

Union Spirit which is the true patriotism. Parents andteachers should cooperatively strive for all school agechildren to attend classes till completion of theireducation. The Prime Minister spoke of the need toprovide effective health care for the people to enjoydisease-free life and longevity, to implement the five-year five-acre highland farm and five-acre tea farmproject for farmers to enjoy economic prosperity tillposterity. The government, the people and theTatmadaw will have to harmoniously strive withadded momentum for regional peace and stability andprogress.—MNA

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 10 March 2010

NAY PYI TAW, 9 March — Shweli (3) Damproject will be implemented in Momeik Township ofShan State (North). Minister for Electric Power No 1Col Zaw Min, accompanied by Deputy Minister UMyo Myint and officials, on 7 March visited theproject site to be implemented by the ministry.

On arrival at the briefing hall of the dam project,the minister heard reports submitted by officials of theproject. Director U Nay Myo Win of No (2)Construction reported the minister on maintenance ofTwinnge-Momeik road section, construction ofapproach road to the dam, road maintenance inKyauktaung village, situations of briges on MandalayWapyutaung-Momeik road and the road linkingMomeik and the dam, sites chosen for construction ofhydropower plant project, implementation ofhydropower projects on Shweli River, and facts aboutthe dam project. Director (Geology) U Kyaw Nyeinsubmitted report on geological situation of the project,feasibility tests and future plans. The deputy ministerand director-general presented supplementary reports.The minister gave necessary instructions.

The minister inspected the dam project fromthe view deck on left bank of the dam project.—MNA

Shweli (3) Dam to be implemented in Shan State

NAY P YI TAW, 9March— The graduationceremony of University forDevelopment of NationalRaces for JAT course No.19 took place inconjunction with duty-assigning ceremony for thetrainees of four-year B.Ed

Duty assigned to trainees of BEd coursecourse No. 41 at theconvocation hall of theuniversity on 5 March.

Pro Rector U HtayLwin of the university readout the minutes related tothe JAT course No. 19.

Rector U Zaw MinThein presented

completion certificates to13 trainees and membersof state and division Peaceand Development Council,appointments to graduates.

The ceremoniescame to an end withconcluding remark of therector.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 March—Adinner for the 19th graduation ofUniversity for Development of NationalRaces took place at the university on 4March. Vice-Chairman of the University

Graduation dinner of UDNR heldCouncil of UDNR Chairman of CentralManagement Committee Chairman ofCivil Services Selection and TrainingBoard U Kyaw Thu cordially greetedtrainees and hosted a dinner.—MNA

YANGON, 9March—A pressconference on organizingthe Air Bagan MyanmarOpen 2010, jointlyorganized by MyanmarPFGA and Asian Tour andsponsored by Air BaganLtd, was held at SedonaHotel, here, on 6 March.

Myanmar hostedthe Asian Tour from 1996to 2005 organized byRothmans Pall Mall CoLtd. After a five-year

Great chance for golf professionals

break, the tour willresume thanks toMyanmar entrepreneursthis year. Air Bagan willcost US$ 260,000, IBTCUS$ 150,000 and Elite-Tech US$ 100,000 for thetour to be held at PunHlaing Golf Resort from8 to 11 April 2010.

Winner will bagUS$ 50,000, and hold-in-one scorer will beawarded US$ 20,000 bySun Far Travels & Tours.

A total of 120golfers from over 30countries and 20Myanmar professionalsand four selectedMyanmar players willtake part in it.

It will be a GrandPrix in Myanmar for thefirst time.

Co-sponsors willbe Elite-Tech, SedonaHotel (Yangon) and PunHlaing Golf Resort.

NLM

NAY P YI TAW 9 March—TheUnion Election Commission Law, thePolitical Parties Registration Law, thePyithu Hluttaw Election Law, theAmyotha Hluttaw Election Law andthe Region or State Hluttaw ElectionLaw issued by the State Peace andDevelopment Council dated 8 March

Newly enacted laws inserted as supplements indailies, posted on notice board of Union Election

Commission Office, sent to States, Divisions2010 are inserted as supplementarypages in the dailies. For publicknowledge and study, the laws areposted on the notice board of the UnionElections Commission Office, andthese laws have been sent to respectiveStates and Divisions.

MNA

Standards and Norms for Myanmar forestsNAY PYI TAW, 9 March—As part

of efforts to conserve the Myanmarforests, the Ministry of Forestryorganized a workshop on Standards andNorms at the hall of the ForestDepartment, here, this morning.

Deputy Director-General U KyawTun of Planning and StatisticsDepartment read the paper on GeneralPerspective of Criteria & Indicators forSustainable Forest Management and

Chairman of the Myanmar ForestryEndorsement Committee U Shwe Kyaw,the paper on Standards and Norms formanagement of Myanmar forests forlong-term existence and Director U SeinTun of Forest Department, the paper onC&I for SFM implementation.

A total of 75 representativesattended the workshop. Resource personswill submit 10 papers at the workshopthat will last up to 11 March.— MNA

YANGON, 9 March—AMyanmar delegation started theirobservation tour of India here yesterday.

The delegation, which touredIndia at the invitation of Indo MyanmarChamber of Commerce and Industries,includes Vice-Chairman U Thein TunPe, U Htin Aung Khine and CEC

Myanmars fly to India for IT Conferencemember U Min Swe Hline of MyanmarComputer Professionals Association.MCPA is a brother association of Unionof Myanmar Federation of Chambers ofCommerce and Industry. They willparticipate in IT Conference andINDIASOFT 2010 Exhibition in theirstay in India.—MNA

Minister for Electric Power No. 1 Col Zaw Min views progress of Shweli (3) Dam Project.MNA

The press conference of Air Bagan Myanmar Open 2010 inprogress.—NLM

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(from page 16)percent of the roadsare tarred ones. Thenumber of houses, ho-tels, and stores has in-creased.

The township hasgained developmentmomentums in suchsectors as education,health and communi-cation. In an interviewwith Chairman ofShwedaung TownshipPeace and Develop-

ment Council U MyintLwin, he explained toMyanma Alin Daily. "The township isformed with three wardsand 297 villages. It has25-bed hospital and twostation hospitals. “Local people cannow use GSM and autoexchange telephones. Ineducation sector, thereare two Basic EducationHigh Schools, four

BEHS (branch) and twoaffiliated BEHSs. Passrate of matriculationexam in 2008-2009 aca-demic year is 34.48 per-cent."

In the township,groundnut is grown bydesignating it as a spe-cial zone. Shwedaung isa township that growsedible oil crop most inBago Division (West).Groundnut grown on al-

luvial lands along theAyeyawady River isthriving. Groundnut Thecrop is grown most inNwarchangon andKyeethe village-tracts.Myanmar Alin Daily in-terviewed U Hla Myint,Township AgriculturalManager.

"The townshiphas set the target togrow 5,913 acres ofgroundnut in monsoonand 14,229 aces in coldseason. The yield is

U Myint Lwin,Chairman of

Township PDCAuto-exchange in Kyeethe village in Shwedaung Township.

Shwedaung famous town for cotton longyiByline: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

about 70 baskets peracre.

As sesame andsunflower are grown asspecial zone, the town-ship stands as edible oilcrop zone.

Shwedaung Town-ship is well-known asgroundnut special zoneas well as a townshipthat produces fabric.

*****Translation: MT

Myanma Alin(20-2-2010)

Welcome to Shwedaung.

1. To uphold Our Three Main National Causesat risk to life as the national policy

2. To work hard with national people forsuccessful completion of elections due to beheld in accordance with the new constitution

3. To crush internal and external subversiveelements through the strength andconsolidated unity of the people

4. To build a strong, patriotic modernTatmadaw capable of safeguarding thesovereignty and territorial integrity of thenation

Objectives of 65th AnniversaryArmed Forces Day

YANGON, 9 March—Chairman of Yangon Di-vision Peace and Devel-opment Council Com-mander of Yangon Com-mand Maj-Gen Win

Commander inspects transportinfrastructure and factory

NAY PYI TAW, 9March—In its news airedon 5 March, DVB saidthat a storm at a windspeed of about 120 mphwould hit Myanmar infollowing two months.

When contactedand asked about the news,the department said that itissued a public notice on 1March that “From now ontill Monday, temperaturewill rise significantly. So,cloudy skies will beformed in the afternoonand in the evening, caus-ing occasional strongwinds. While strongwinds blow, heavy rainwith hailstones are likely

DVB storm news refutedto be isoladted in some ar-eas…”; that the public no-tice did not feature anyword of “storm” or a phrase“a wind speed of about 120mph”; that in response tothe questions asked onphone by some publicmembers, it explained factsabout thunderstorms in or-der that they would be ableto take preparedness meas-ures against a potentialthunderstorm; that there issome difference between athunderstorm and a storm;and that in fact, using staffmembers of the departmentas a stepping stone, a DVBstaff member in disguiseof an ordinary citizen gave

a phone call to ask aboutthe storm news and fabri-cated a news story.

Therefore, theMyanmar News Agency,regarding the DVB’s fab-ricated news story,hereby issued an an-nouncement that the peo-ple are urged to rely onthe weather reports pre-sented in daily newspa-pers, and on radio andTV, and not to allowthemselves to be swayedby killer broadcasts benton sowing hatred amongthe people, generatingpublic outraging, andcausing troubles.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 March — Educative talks onUnited Nations Convention on Child Rights HumanTrafficking was held at town hall of Loikaw in KayahState on 5 March.

Director-General U Soe Kyi of Social WelfareDepartment, Secretary of National Committee on ChildRights, shared his knowledge on the UN convention andhuman trafficking. Director of the department U MyoHset Aung gave accounts on prevention against recruit-ment of minors for military services. Local people,departmental officials and representatives of the organi-zations in related fields attended the talks.—MNA

Loikaw hears childrights talksNAY PYI TAW, 9

March—A slight earth-quake of Magnitude 4.6Richter Scale with itsepicenter insideMyanmar about 220miles southeast of Man-dalay seismological ob-servatory was recordedat 19 hrs 32 min 40 secMST today, accordingto the Department of Me-teorology and Hydrol-ogy.—MNA

Earthquakereport

Myint, accompanied byChairman of Yangon Di-vision Traffic Rules En-forcement SupervisoryCommittee Deputy Com-mander Brig-Gen Kyaw

Kyaw Tun and officials,inspected BayintnaungBridge in HlinethayaTownship, YangonNorth District this morn-ing.

The commander alsoinspected AnawrathaStreet and the durabilityof Shwepyitha Bridge nearits tollgate.

He later went toYangon Crown Wire &Cable factory inShwepyitha Townshipand inspected productionline of the factory.

MNA

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV RATHA BHUM VOY NO (512)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV RATHA BHUMVOY NO (512) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 10.3.2010 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of M.I.P where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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: M/S REGIONAL CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Sears Towerdesigner dies ofcomplicationsCHICAGO, 9 March—

Bruce J Graham, designerof the former world’s tall-est building and the exist-ing tallest building in theUnited States, has died atthe age of 84.

Chicago-based publicrelations firm SCCGrossman said on Mon-day that the designer diedon Saturday of complica-tions associated withAlzheimer’s disease.

The 110-storey buildingin Chicago, designed byGraham and known as theSears Tower when itopened in 1974, remainedas the world’s tallest untilthe Petronas Twin Towerswere opened in 1996 inKuala Lumpur of Malay-sia.

The Chicago skyscraperwas renamed the WillisTower in 2009.

Graham also designedChicago’s 100-storeyJohn Hancock Centerbuilding.—Xinhua

11 Indian tigers killed since beginning of 2010

Kenya flash floods death toll rises to 13NAIROBI, 9 March—At

least 13 people have beenkilled by raging floodsand more than 10,000others affected, theKenya Red Cross Societysaid on Tuesday.

The Red Cross Com-munications ManagerTitus Mung’ou said atleast nine people had diedas a result of floods andlandslides while four oth-ers had been killed bylightning.

“At least 10,117 peo-ple have been affected by

floods, landslides andheavy rains across thecountry in March,”Mung’ou said in a state-ment on Tuesday.

He said those affectedincluded 2,100 inMandera, 600 in Samburuand Isiolo, 1,200 inGarbatula, 2,000 inTinderet, 3,600 in Lokori,420 in Marsabit and 197in Moyale.

In Isiolo, the localKenya Red Cross branchhad started distribution ofnon-food items to 120

households in Garfasaarea in Garbatula, saidMung’ou.

KRCS staff and volun-teers worked jointly withthe locals, Kenya police,Kenya Wildlife Service,British Army and Provin-cial Administration teamsin evacuation of affectedto safety.

Mung’ou said propertyof unknown value hadbeen destroyed Samburu,Isiolo, Nakuru and otherparts affected by floods.

Xinhua

Audi ’09 net income down 39 pct to $1.8 billionFRANKFURT,9 March—German carmaker Audi AG says its 2009 net income fell

39 percent to euro1.35 billion ($1.8 billion) as the economic downturn cut de-mand for its cars.

The Ingolstadt-based company earned euro2.2 billion in 2008.Audi said on Tuesday revenue fell 13 percent to nearly euro30 billion from

euro34.2 billion in 2008. Total vehicle production fell 9.4 percent to 932,260 carsin 2009 from just over 1 million in 2008.

Audi is a unit of Europe’s largest carmaker Volkswagen AG.—Internet

Train derails in Belgium,no injuries

BRUSSELS, 9 March —A train derailed on Tuesdaymorning in the train station of the Belgian town ofMons, 53 km southwest of Brussels, causing no inju-ries. Corinne Altasse, a spokeswoman said, “There isa train that derailed this morning in the train station ofMons, it is not serious. There were no people in thetrain.”

This accident occurred around 6 am and the trainwas empty except the driver. Only the last wagon ofthe seven-wagon train derailed.

The accident has caused traffic disruptions in thesouthern region of Belgium.

An accident expert of the Belgian Railways group(SNCB) is now at the scene to investigate.

On 15 Feb, two passenger trains crashed headon nearBrussels, killing at least 18 people and injured morethan 150 others.—Xinhua

MUMBAI, 9 March—Atleast 11 Indian tigers havedied since the beginningof this year, making theIndian tiger total figuresbelow the official figureof 1,411, the Indian news-paper the Times of Indiareported on Tuesday.

Five tigers were killedin the reserves of the re-lated states, while theother six dead in somestates’ forests, Indian En-vironment Minister

Jairam Ramesh said onMonday, the paper re-ported.

Among the 5 deaths inthe reserves, two eachwere killed because of theinfighting in the north-western state ofUttarakhand and thenortheastern state of As-sam, while the remainingone was poisoned in thecentral state of MadhyaPradesh, said Ramesh.

Last year, 66 Indian ti-

gers were killed, amongwhich 17 due to fatalhunting.

The minister said itsministry will take moresteps to protect the shrink-ing tigers in the country.

India has the largestwild tiger population inthe world. However, moreand more tigers are facingthe challenges of the ex-istence due to the naturaland artificial reasons.

Xinhua

Copies of the West Austra-lian Newspaper are seenfor sale near Perth. The

number of jobs advertisedin newspapers and onlinein Australia rose by almost

20 percent in February,according to a bank surveyreleased on Tuesday which

suggests unemploymenthas peaked.—INTERNET

Two killed in weddingshootout in east Nepal

KATHMANDU, 9 March—Two people were killed ina shootout during a wedding ceremony in east Nepal,local media reported on Tuesday.

According to local media ekantipur.com, they wereshot when an unidentified group opened fire at thewedding function they participated in Monday nightat Majhouliya village in Siraha district, some 150 kmeast of capital Kathmandu.

They died on the way to a hospital for treatment,ekantipur.com reported, citing the police.

Police seized a home-made pistol from the incidentsite and arrested five people in connection with theincident, ekantipur. com said.—Xinhua

Cranes are erected at theDubai Marina, 2008.

The United Arab Emir-ates economy is expectedto expand by 3.2 percentin 2010, in sharp con-

trast to an InternationalMonetary Fund forecastof 0.6-percent growth.

INTERNET

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Rescuers save a buried worker from the debris after a collapse of floor slabsat a demolition site in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, on 8

March, 2010. Three workers were killed and five others were injured in theaccident.—XINHUA

Wang Meiying (front),a farmer painter,

watches her grand-doughter painting attheir home in Shang-hai, east China, on 7

March, 2010. Themembers of a three

generation artistfamily gathered on theoccasion of the Inter-

national Women’sDay.—XINHUA

Moderate caffeine may not hurt heart

Pine bark extract may help kidneys How to preserve brain functionBOSTON, 9 March — There are ways to preserve

executive function — being able to make choices, plan,initiate action, inhibit impulses — a US newsletteradvises. The Harvard Health Letter says executivefunction can be more important to functioning inde-pendently as one gets older than retaining memory be-cause it can affect everything from walking speed toattention span to friendships and family ties.

Regular exercise can help preserve executive func-tion. Avoiding high blood pressure and getting enoughsleep each night can also help, the newsletter says.Other ways to maintain executive function include:

— Making an effort to concentrate on tasks.— Saying things aloud when making a plan be-

cause it encourages pausing and paying attention tothe task at hand.

— Creating habits. If keys and other items are al-ways in the same place, executive function is notneeded to figure out where to find them. Making sim-ple things “automatic” may help make complicatedmatters easier to handle.—Internet

Vitamin D critical to fighting infectionsCOPENHAGEN, 9 March — University of Copenhagen researchers report vitamin

D is crucial to activating immune defences to fight off serious infections in thebody.Carsten Geisler said when specialized immune cells — T cells — are ex-posed to a foreign pathogen, it extends a signalling device or “antenna” known asa vitamin D receptor, with which it searches for vitamin D.

“T cell must have vitamin D or activation of the cell will cease,” Geisler said ina statement. “If the T cells cannot find enough vitamin D in the blood, they won’teven begin to mobilize.” Identifying the role of vitamin D in the activation of Tcells has been a major breakthrough, the research team said.

“Scientists have known for a long time that vitamin D is important for calciumabsorption and the vitamin has also been implicated in diseases such as cancer andmultiple sclerosis, but what we didn’t realize is how crucial vitamin D is for actu-ally activating the immune system — which we know now,” Geisler said.

Vitamin D is produced as a natural byproduct of the skin’s exposure to sunlightand is also found in fish liver oil, eggs and fatty fish such as salmon, herring andmackerel or a dietary supplement.—Internet

Exercise helpsif weight isregained

COLUMBIA, 9 March —Many who lose weightsubsequently regain it, butUS researchers say exer-cise can maintain thehealth benefits of weightloss, such as lower bloodpressure.

Tom R Thomas, pro-fessor at the University ofMissouri in Columbia,and colleagues put over-weight men and womenon a diet and a supervisedaerobic five-day-a-weekexercise plan for 4-6months. After losingweight, participants wereseparated into two groups,one that exercised and onethat didn’t.

The non-exercisegroup experienced rapiddeterioration in weight-loss induced benefits. Theexercise group main-tained improvements inalmost all measures, in-cluding oxygen consump-tion, blood pressure andglucose.

Exercise didn’t main-tain blood cholesterol andabdominal fat loss, thestudy said.—Internet

Food allergy disorderlinked to gene

SAN FRANCISCO, 9March — US researcherssay it is unlikely moder-ate caffeine increasesheart arrhythmia risks.

Researchers at the Kai-ser Permanente Divisionof Research in Oakland,Calif., found those whoreported drinking four ormore cups of coffee dailyhad an 18 percent lowerrisk of hospitalization forheart rhythm disturbancesand those drinking one tothree cups each day had a7 percent lower risk.

“Coffee drinking is re-lated to lower risk of hos-

pitalization for rhythmproblems, but the associa-tion does not prove causeand effect, or that coffeehas a protective effect,”lead author Dr ArthurKlatsky said in a state-ment.

“However, these datamight be reassuring topeople who drink moder-ate amounts of coffee thattheir habit is not likely tocause a major rhythm dis-turbance.”

Klatsky and col-leagues looked at 130,054men and women, ages 18-90 — with the majority

age 50 and younger.About 2 percent — 3,317participants — were hos-pitalized for rhythm dis-turbances. Fourteen per-cent in the study drankless than one cup of cof-fee a day, 42 percentdrank one to three cups ofcoffee a day, 17 percentreported drinking fourcups or more each day andabout 27 percent were notcoffee drinkers.

The findings were pre-sented at a conference ofthe American Heart Asso-ciation held in San Fran-cisco.—Internet

CHIETI, 9 March — Italian research-ers say pine bark extract may help coun-teract kidney damage due to high bloodpressure.

Researchers at G D’Annunzio Uni-versity, Chieti, Italy, say treatment withPycnogenol — an anti-oxidant plant ex-tract of a French pine tree — loweredurinary proteins from an average levelof 89 milligrams per 24-hour period to39 milligrams, much closer to the 30-milligram measure at which kidneyfunction is considered sufficient.

“Kidney disease is a common prob-lem for people with hypertension and isan equally ‘silent’ threat to the body.

There are no warning signals and ineffi-cient fluid removal may further increasethe blood pressure, causing a vicious cir-cle to set in,” lead researcher Dr GianniBelcaro said in a statement. “The resultsof this study demonstrated Pycnogenol’sability not only to reduce blood pressure,but also to relieve the kidney damagecaused by chronic hypertension.”

Belcaro and colleagues gave 55 hy-pertensive patients with early signs ofimpaired kidney function anti-hyperten-sive medication Imperil but 29 patientsalso took Pycnogenol. Urine was col-lected at baseline and after six monthsof treatment.—Internet

CINCINNATI, 9 March —US medical investigatorssay they have linked a foodallergy-related disorder toa so-called master allergygene. Researchers led byDr Marc Rothenberg atCincinnati Children’sMedical Centre Hospitalreport identifying a regionof a human chromosomethat is associated witheosinophilic esophagitis,often called EoE, a re-cently recognized allergicdisease.

The scientists said peo-ple suffering EoE fre-quently have difficulty eat-ing or may be allergic toone or more foods, withsymptoms varying withage; In children a majorsymptom is vomiting,while in older children foodmight become stuck in theesophagus.

The study suggests a

suspected so-called masterallergy gene might play arole in the development ofthe rare, but debilitating,disorder.

The researchers, sup-ported by the National In-stitute of Allergy and Infec-tious Diseases and the Na-tional Institute of Diabetesand Digestive and KidneyDiseases, performed a ge-nome-wide associationanalysis in children withEoE and healthy children.The investigators identifiedchanges in genes withina region on chromosome5 that were highly associ-ated with EoE, with onegene that encodes a proteincalled thymic stromallymphopoietin found morehighly expressed in chil-dren with the conditionthan in children without thedisorder.

Internet

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S P O R T S

Liverpool’s Dutch for-ward Dirk Kuyt (R) andWigan Athletic’s Scottishdefender Gary Caldwell(L) compete for the ballduring their English Pre-mier League footballmatch at The DW Sta-dium in Wigan. Wigan��won 1-0.—INTERNET

Liverpool’s Champions Leaguehopes take a battering

Valencia’s Dutch defender HedwigesMaduro (L) vies for the ball with

Racing Santander’s midfielder SergioCanales during their Spanish leaguefootball match at Mestalla Stadium

in Valencia.—INTERNET

Valencia draw a blank against lowly Santander

Blanc ‘not favourite’ forFrance job, says French chief

Raymond Domenech

Fans key to Real comebackagainst Lyon - Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo

Rangersconfirm

takeover talksGLASGOW, 9 March—

Scottish giants Rangersconfirmed on Mondaythat majority shareholderSir David Murray has be-gun discussions with Lon-don-based property devel-oper Andrew Ellis regard-ing a takeover.

The runaway PremierLeague leaders - who are31 million pounds in debt- said discussions with “in-terested parties” are at anearly stage. An independ-ent committee of theboard, which includesIbrox legend John Greig,has been set up to considerany offers for Rangers.

Murray stepped downas chairman in August2009.—Internet

Terry tough enough to taketaunts says Lampard

Chelsea’s Captain JohnTerry (R) celebrates withChelsea’s Frank Lampardat the final whistle againstStoke City during their FACup quarter final footballmatch at Stamford Bridge

in London, on 7March.—INTERNET

Netherlands beats US 2-1 in WorldCup warmup

AMSTERDAM, 9 March—DaMarcus Beasley may have boosted hisWorld Cup chances. Jonathan Bornstein and Robbie Findlay did noth-ing to help theirs. And Stuart Holden joined the long US injured list.

The United States fell flat in Europe once again, losing to the third-ranked Netherlands 2-1 on Wednesday night in the Americans’ lastmatch before coach Bob Bradley picks his World Cup roster.

“We had some moments in the first half that were OK, but I don’tthink we put enough pressure on them,” said US midfielder LandonDonovan, who hardly touched the ball. “It took us too long in thesecond half before we made some real plays.”

Dirk Kuyt converted a penalty kick in the 40th minute afterBornstein pulled on Wesley Sneijder’s arm in the penalty area. Kuytsent his kick to the right of goalkeeper Tim Howard, who dived theother way.—Internet

Carlos Bocanegra of the UnitedStates, left , scores a goal, past

goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburgof the Netherlands, right, duringtheir international friendly soccer

match at the Arena stadium inAmsterdam, The Netherlands, on 3

March, 2010.—INTERNET

Russia’s Pavlyuchenkovalands first WTA title

Russian teenagerAnastasia

Pavlyuchenkova

MADRID, 9 March—Valenciadropped important points in the fightfor a Champions League placeafter they were held 0-0 at home bylowly Racing Santander on Monday in

their Spanish First Division match.With fourth-placed Sevilla losing,

Valencia could have opened up a six-point cushion but they were never at theirbest with a number of players missingthrough injury and suspension.

A make-shift defence struggled espe-cially against the skills of youngsterSergio Canales but they still had thechances to see off the threat from Rac-ing going forward.

The normally clinical David Villa shotstraight at the Racing keeper FabioColtorti from six-yards out and then sawanother strike come back off the post.

Racing also had their moments withCanales denied by the Valencia keeperMiguel Moya before the break and in thesecond half Santander had the better op-portunities to win the match.—Internet

LONDON, 9 March—Frank Lampard said theverbal abuse directed atJohn Terry by Stoke fansduring Chelsea’s 2-0 FACup quarter-final winwould make his club andEngland colleague all thestronger in a World Cupyear.

Terry, 29, is still beingtaunted by opposition fansfor his alleged affair withVanessa Perroncel - theex-girlfriend of his formerChelsea team-mateWayne Bridge.

The fall-out from theBritish press revelationsled Fabio Capello to stripTerry of the England cap-taincy although the Italianmanager stressed the cen-tre-back remained part ofhis plans for this year’sWorld Cup in South Af-rica. Sunday’s match atStamford Bridge sawTerry respond to the jeersby setting up the openinggoal for Lampard beforescoring the second with aheader that sent holders

Chelsea on their way to anFA Cup semi-final againstanother Premier Leagueside, Aston Villa, at Wem-bley next month.

Internet

WIGAN, 9 March—Hugo Rodallega scoredthe only goal of the gameas Wigan dented Liver-pool’s Champions Leaguehope with a 1-0 victory atthe DW Stadium here onMonday.

Fernando Torres hadalready hit the post whenRodallega made the mostof poor defending fromthe Reds to fire the hostsin front just after the halfhour.

And there was littleresponse from RafaelBenitez’s side as theyslipped to a ninth PremierLeague defeat of theseason.

They are still just onepoint off fourth place butwith nine games remain-ing, they are sixth in thetable and Tottenham andManchester City abovethem now have games in

hand. It was Wigan’s sec-ond win of 2010 and theirfirst in eight matcheswhich sees RobertoMartinez’s side move fourpoints clear of the relega-tion zone.—Internet

BORDEAUX, 9 March—French Football Federa-tion (FFF) president Jean-Pierre Escalettes says hehas never identified Bor-deaux manager LaurentBlanc as the favouriteto succeed RaymondDomenech as coach ofFrance.

In an interview appear-ing in Tuesday’s edition ofFrench regional dailySud-Ouest, Escalettessaid: “If I hadn’t said thatthe coach of the reigningFrench champions(Blanc), and a formerworld champion, wasn’ton the list of 10 or 12

names, you’d laugh in myface. “But I’ve never saidthat he was the favourite.We’re working on the pro-file of the next coach, butneither me nor my col-leagues have attempted toapproach Laurent Blanc.We have to let him finishhis season.

“The only certain thingis that the coach will beFrench.”—Internet

MADRID, 9 March—Cristiano Ronaldo be-lieves Real Madrid canovercome its 1-0 first legdefeat to Lyon and reachthe Champions Leaguequarter final on Wednes-day for the first time since2004, with some helpfrom the fans.

Lyon “are a strongteam physically, but it’sour turn to play at home,”

the Portuguese wingertold a news conference.

“I was amazed by thefans on Saturday and Imust thank them for theirsupport. I hope we see thesame kind of atmosphereon Wednesday becausethey will play a crucialrole in our success. Thestadium will be great tosee so full and the playersare ready.”

Real lost 1-0 at Lyonin their last-16 first-legmatch on 16 February,and now have it all to doon Wednesday at the San-tiago Bernabeu stadium -where this year’s Cham-pions League final will beplayed.

Internet

MONTERREY, 9 March—Rus-sian teenager AnastasiaPavlyuchenkova claimed herfirst WTA title over the week-end after battling back to winher second match of the day.

The 18-year-old needed 1hr40min to see off experiencedSlovak second seed DanielaHantuchova 1-6, 6-1, 6-0 in thefinal.

Pavlyuchenkova, the thirdseed, was earlier taken to a threesetter by Latvian AnastasijaSevastova in her semi-final which had to be played onSunday after rain washed out much of Saturday’s play.

She won 6-3, 2-6, 6-1, and then rested as the dou-bles final took place.

Hantuchova had completed her match on Saturdaybefore the rain, and she looked on her way to her fourthWTA title after racing through the first set.

Internet

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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 Kachin, Rakhine and Mon States, Yangon andTaninthayi Divisions and generally fair in the remaining

States and Divisions. Day temperatures were (3°C) to (4°C)above March average temperatures in Shan, Rakhine,Kayah and Kayin States, (5 °C) to (6°C) above Marchaverage temperatures in Kachin and Chin States, Sagaing, Mandalay, Magway and Taninthayi Divisions and aboutMarch average temperatures in the remaining States andDivisions. The significant day temperatures were Chauk(43 °C) and Minbu (42°C).

Maximum temperature on 8-3-2010 was 100°F.Minimum temperature on 9-3-2010 was 76°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 9-3-2010 was 70%.Total sun shine hours on 8-3-2010 was (8.4) hours approx.

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Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in the AndmanSea and South Bay and generally fair in the elsewhere inthe Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 10th March 2010:Likehood of isolated light rain or thundershowers in Kachinand Shan States and Taninthayi Division, weather will bepartly cloudy in Sagaing, Mandalay, Magway, Yangon,and Ayeyawady Divisions and generally fair in the

remaining States and Divisions. Degree of certainty is (60%).State of the sea: Seas will be slight to moderate in

Myanmar waters.Outlook for subsequent two days: Likehood of slight

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falls on the south ofFrance.INTERNET

Two massive earthquakes, differentscenarios

CONCEPCION, 9 March— The westernhemisphere has been hitby two deadlyearthquakes this year:the 7.3-magnitude quakein Haiti on 12 Jan andthe other measuring 8.8on the Richter scale in

readiness and level ofinfrastructure.

The Chileearthquake has so farkilled less than 500people, while theweaker Haiti quakekilled some 220,000.

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Chile on 27 Feb.But the impacts

have been vastlydifferent due to acombination ofelements, includinggeography, compa-rative wealth, disaster

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★ 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

YANGON, 9 March—Certificates ofdiploma was conferred on the trainees ofDiploma in Banking Services CoursesNo. 1 in Mandalay and No. 2 in Yangonconducted by Institute of Banking Serv-ices (Yangon) and (Mandalay), organ-

Banking services diploma conferred on traineesYANGON, 9 March—The 65th cen-

tral council meeting of Myanmar RedCross Society will take place at the meet-ing hall of Ministry of Health here on 19and 20 March.

MRCS have invited executive mem-bers of MRCS, Central Council mem-

65th meeting of MRCS on 19-20 March

ized by Myanmar Banks Association, atthe convocation hall of Yangon Univer-sity on 7 March.

Altogether 36 trainees attended thecourse No. 1 and 58 trainees at the courseNo. 2.—MNA

bers of states and divisions, state/divi-sion Red Cross Supervisory CommitteeChairmen heads of state/division HealthDepartment and Commanders of state/division Red Cross brigades state/divi-sion police force commanders to attendthe meeting.—MNA

Photo shows groundnut plantation near Kyeethe village in Shwedaung Township.

Shwedaung famous town for cotton longyiByline: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

Shwedaung, located in Bago Division (West),is a town in which Myanmar traditional See Longyihas been famous throughout the history. The town-ship grows groundnut as a special zone. It is sur-rounded by Thegon in the east, Padaung in the west,Monyo and Nattalin in the south. It is situated onYangon-Pyay road about eight miles to the south ofPyay.

In the town, there exist two famous pagodas,namely Shwenattaung and Shwemyathman.Shwenattaung pagoda is situated about four miles tosouthwest of Shwedaung. Shwedaung Township de-velopment affairs committee upgraded the four-mile-long road to pagoda into a tarred one. The road isbeneficial not only to farmers from nearby regionsbut also to pilgrims. About one furlong to Shwedaungfrom Yangon-Pyay road is Shwemyathman pagodawhich lies at the heart of Shwedaung.

In Shwedaung Township, Ngwegyi (6) cottonis thriving. So, Shwedaung textile mill creates jobsfor local people. The mill operates with over 2,000workers in day and night shifts. Shwedaung textilesare the best and most famous. Shwedaung is alsofamous for its Shwedaung longyi and Myanmar tra-ditional See longyi produced from Kyeethe village,which is about ten miles southwest of Shwedaung. In

the past, weaving of See longyi was the whole village'slivelihood. But, U Thein Myint family and other fivenow continue the business. In the time of Tatmadaw

Government, Shwedaung Township hasdeveloped significantly. In the township, 80

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