The New Light of Myanmar 11-09-2009

Established 1914

Volume XVII, Number 148 8th Waning of Tawthalin 1371 ME Friday, 11 September, 2009

Metta is one of higher Dhammas,belonging to the Ten Perfections (parami).

Genuine metta means, without anyexception, purity, peace, tranquillity,unity and harmony.

Genuine metta, in essence,indiscriminately harbours affection andbenevolence for another.

Genuine metta is a feeling of blissfulpleasantness in full bloom.

Genuine Metta

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-rounddevelopment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participa-tion in terms of technical know-how and invest-ments from sources inside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must bekept in the hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and pres-ervation and safeguarding of cultural heritageand national character

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

of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace and tran-quillity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Sept—Lt-Gen Tha Aye of theMinistry of Defence accompanied by Chairman ofSagaing Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of North-West Command Maj-Gen MyintSoe and officials viewed condition of Kalay-Tamu road

Lt-Gen Tha Aye on tour ofKalay Township, Tamu District

section in a motorcade on 6 September, inspectedrubber farm in Razagyo village-tract of Kalay Townshipand the growing of rubber plants and mixed-cropsamong the plants at Kalay-Tamu-Pyaungboke junction.

(See page 9)

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Sept—Lt-Gen Khin Zaw of theMinistry of Defence, accompanied by Chairman ofTaninthayi Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of Coastal Region Command Maj-GenKhin Zaw Oo and officials, visited rubber farm in

Lt-Gen Khin Zaw inspects regionaldevelopment undertakings in Kawthoung

Chaungsalin Village of Kawthoung Townshipyesterday. After hearing the reports on thriving150-acre KDML-106 paddy strain presented by officials,Lt-Gen Khin Zaw gave necessary instructions. (See page 7)

An inspiring visit to Laukkai,a stable, peaceful town

Byline: Tin Htwe (MNA)I abruptly left Nay Pyi Taw to make a journeyon duty in the evening of 5 September, and I thereforehad to spend the whole night, taking the bus. When Iset out, it was cool in Nay Pyi Taw due to rain cloudsover the sky. However, I was fairly dripping withsweat under the sunshine on arrival at Mandalay thenext morning.

On the morning of 6 September, I leftMandalay by car along Mandalay-PyinOoLwinRoad. Just after the car drove for 21 miles, I wasgreeted by a cold weather. Beyond Hsipaw, theroad goes uphill, but it is a fine transport facility.So, the car made a good headway. While en routebetween Nawnghkio and Kyaukme, I got awestruckat the breathtaking scenery of mountain ranges

covered with lush and green forests and mountainranges along with famous Gok-hteik Viaduct foundadding to natural beauty.

While I was on sightseeing around Lashio on 7September, I noticed that the town had developedsignificantly if compared with that in my previousvisit. I even had to take care in crossing the streets inthe city centre which were coping with constant flowsof traffic.

There, automobiles and motorcycles were drivingat high speed owing to the fineness of internal roads, soit was somehow pleasant for me to view the night scenes.

(See page 8)

Laukkai remains

hustle and bustle

with activities as

evidenced by

internal roads

coping with

constant flows of

traffic.

Photo: KHIN MAUNG

WIN-SHWE INNTHA

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Friday, 11 September, 2009

PERSPECTIVES

Remain united forever toachieve national goal

At the heart of ensuring sovereignty of theState lies Union Spirit. It is, therefore, required ofevery citizen, whatever region he lives in theUnion, to have a strong sense of Union Spirit.

In the course of the Myanmar history, thepeople remained cohesive and harmonious in thefight against a variety of alien threats, and themotherland stands tall as a sovereign nation inthe international community.

All the national brethren are under anational duty to guard the nation, upholding OurThree Main National Causes namely non-disintegration of the Union, non-disintegration ofnational solidarity and perpetuation ofsovereignty.

The government is in pursuance of the 12objectives it has laid down to transform the mothercountry into a peaceful, modern and developedone. It has the Project for Progress of BorderAreas and National Races, the Project forDevelopment of Twenty-four Regions and theRural Development Project on the go with theaim of bridging the development gap between oneregion and another and equitable development ofall parts of the Union.

Now, the entire people are in a position toenjoy the fruits of the hard work the governmenthas been exerting to improve all the infrastructuressuch as economic, transport, education and healthacross the nation in order to expedite the threelong-term projects. That greatly impressiveachievement is mainly due to the fact that thegovernment, the people and the Tatmadaw workhard in harmony in carrying out nation-buildingtasks.

So, each and every citizen has to oppose allforms of subversive acts and join hands with thegovernment to achieve the national goal of buildinga modern, developed democratic nation withflourishing discipline.

* 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

Photo shows Myanmar Book Centre.—MNA

Bronze wares unearthed by Myaukleexcavation research team.—MNA

Bronze arms and wares excavated by Myaukleexcavation research team.—MNA

Parts of textile andsmall spears.

MNA

Commander attends coordmeeting of Division PDCNAY PYI TAW, 10 Sept—Bago Division Peace and

Development Council held the coordination meetingat its office in Pyay on 31 August morning.

Chairman of Bago Division PDC Commander ofSouthern Command Maj-Gen Hla Min delivered anaddress. Officials reported on their respectivesectors.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Sept—Chairman of AyeyawadyDivision Peace and Development Council Commanderof South-West Command Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe on 2September met servicemen and family members at thehall of the local battalion in Myaungmya.

MNA

Commander meetsservicemen, family members

NAY PYI TAW, 10Sept—A field trip groupcomprising six officers andservice personnel fromDepartment of Archeology,National Museum andLibrary Department(North) Mandalay andHistorical ResearchDepartment conducted

Evidences of bronze and iron ages discovered in Myaukleexcavation research work

YANGON, 10 Sept—Myanmar Book Centrehas been dealing in bookindustry since 1996 andin response to demand of

Myanmar Book Centre opens Discount Cornercustomers DiscountCorner was opened atMyanmar Book Centre onMerchant Street since 15September.

In addition to regularitems of the bookshop,literature for children, bookson management and self-development, biographies,bestseller fictions, Art &Science, Cook Books, andreference will be sold at fairprice. About 10,000 bookswill be on sale first and newtitles will be introduced later.

Discount Corner ofMyanmar Book Centre(Merchant Street Branch)No. 561-567, Room.3,MAC Tower (1), at thecorner of Merchant Streetand Maha BandohlaGarden Street, KyauktadaTownship here opensdaily from 9 am to 6 pm.

MNA

excavation research workin Myaukle village,Mahlaing township,Mandalay Division from 10June to 9 July.

Some foreign expertsconsidered thatMyanmar’s cultures didnot develop in a normalway and that went on fromstone age to iron age.Therefore, Nyaungkan(bronze age) regionexcavation in BudalinTownship in 1998 filledthe blank of bronze ageculture in Myanmarhistory.

Myaukle excavationresearch group discovered22 human skeletons and44 bronze wares exclusiveof 34 bronze spearsincluding one spear withpart of textile, 8 collectionsof copper wire, one bronzebracelet and one bronzebell in addition to four ironwares including three ironarms and an iron dagger,153 colourful jewel beads,small earth pots, earthcups, cylinder shape earthcups and bones of animals.

These findingsshowed that a humansociety in bronze and ironperiods existed for a longtime in this region. Earthwares make it evident thatthere was the humansociety in late bronze ageespecially in iron ageflourishing period becausethe evidences were verysimilar to those buried atthe regions such asYwahtin, Htonbo,Myohla, Ywakongyi,Myaryawai, Uhmin,

Hnawkan andKokkokhahla in iron age.

Therefore, theseevidences discoveredfrom Myaukle excavationmanaged to remove

opinions of foreignexperts. There had beengradual and normaldevelopment in Myanmarcultures.

MNA

Tobacco Kills

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US to transfer fighter jet technologyto Brazil for purchase deal

Chavez visits Russia to discussarms, energy deals

The Aeromexico aircraft that was hijacked sits iddle on the tarmac ofMexico City’s airport.—INTERNET

KIRKUK, 10 Sept — Acar bomb killed eightmembers of a singlefamily on Wednesday inKirkuk, the city at theheart of a bitter feudbetween Iraq’s Arabs andminority Kurds.

The blast occurrednear the home of an Arableader of one of the pro-government local militiaknown as ‘Awakening’councils, in the easternpart of the city, police said.

JERUSALEM , 10 Sept — Israel says it is pushing aheadwith delayed plans to build almost 500 more homes forJewish settlers in Jerusalem. The project is for the PisgatZeev settlement in annexed East Jerusalem, captured byIsrael in the 1967 war. The announcement comes twodays after Israel said it would build 450 new homes forsettlers in the West Bank.

The US has urged Israel to stop all settlement ofoccupied Palestinian land as part of efforts to re-startpeace talks in the Middle East. The Palestinianleadership says any future agreement to freeze newbuilding in settlements is now worthless.

Tenders were first issued for the Pisgat Zeev projectin 2008, but it was put on ice when the authoritiesrejected bids from developers as too low. The land lieson Jerusalem’s north-east boundary close to Palestiniancommunities and Israel’s separation barrier. —Internet

The settlement lies near the barrier dividing Israelis andPalestinians.—INTERNET

RIO DE JANEIRO, 10 Sept — The USadministration has agreed to transferthe F-18 Super Hornet fighter jets’technology to Brazil if the Braziliangovernment chooses to purchase USjets.

The US embassy in Brazil made theannouncement on Wednesday, two daysafter the Brazilian government said it isin negotiations with France for thepurchase of 36 fighter jets to renovatethe Brazilian fleet. The main argumentfor choosing the French planes was theFrench government agrees to transferthe jet’s technology.

According to the US embassy, the

US government thinks that Brazil hasnot yet finished its talks with France,and that the US proposal is competitive,so the Brazilian government mightchange its mind. Washington also agreesto let some of the jets be built in Brazilif its jets are chosen.

The US F-18 Super Hornet fighterjet is now competing with French Rafalejet and Sweden’s Gripen jet. Accordingto the Brazilian government, thenegotiations with France are veryadvanced, but it may still change itsmind.The jets may cost four billion USdollars.

Xinhua

Residents gather around the wreckage of a vehicle at the site of a car bombattack in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, on 9 Sept, 2009.

INTERNET

KABUL,10 Sept—British commandosfreed a New York Times reporter onearly Wednesday from Taleban captiveswho kidnapped him over the weekendin northern Afghanistan, but one of thecommandos and a Times translator werekilled in the rescue, officials said.

Reporter Stephen Farrell was takenhostage along with his translator in thenorthern province of Kunduz on Saturday.German commanders had ordered USjets to drop bombs on two hijacked fueltankers, causing a number of civiliancasualties, and reporters traveled to thearea to cover the story.—Internet

MOSCOW, 10 Sept —Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chavez praisedRussian leader VladimirPutin on Wednesday forstanding up to the UnitedStates, kicking off a visitto Moscow that theKremlin said will focus onmajor energy and militaryagreements.

Cooperation between

Russia, the world’s No 2oil exporter, and OPECmember Venezuela hasbeen dismissed by theUnited States as mostly talkbut is watched with concernby Colombia, which hasstormy ties with its LatinAmerican neighbour.Chavez began his visit witha 2-1/2 hour speech toMoscow students in which

he berated the United Statesfor seeking to control theworld with a “terrorist”empire.

“The United Stateswants to dominate theentire world... The empireof the Yanks will fall thiscentury and I am not talkingabout the end of the centurybut in the next decades,”

Internet

MEXICO CITY, 10Sept—A Bolivian reli-gious fanatic briefly hi-jacked a jetliner from thebeach resort of Cancun asit landed in Mexico Cityon Wednesday, policesaid. All passengers andthe crew were releasedunharmed. The Bible-car-rying hijacker used a juicecan he said was a bombto hold the 103 passengersand crew on the tarmacfor more than an hour.

Masked police

Fanatic hijacked Mexican plane after ‘revelation’stormed the aircraft withguns drawn and escortedseveral handcuffed menaway without firing a shot.Police later said there wasonly one hijacker, and theother men aboard weredetained because the sus-pect had told a flight at-tendant he had three ac-complices. The otherswere quickly released.Jose Flores, 44, later toldpolice his three compan-ions were “the Father, theSon, and the Holy Ghost.”

Flores hijacked Aero-mexico Flight 576 after adivine revelation, accord-ing to Public Safety Sec-retary Genaro GarciaLuna. Flores said Wednes-day’s date — 9-9-09 — isthe satanic number 666turned upside down.Flores, speaking to report-ers after he was detained,said he took control of theaircraft with “a juice can... with some little lights Iattached.”

Internet

Israel reinstates settlement planTwo die in Afghan raidto free seized reporter

Bomb kills at least eight in Iraq’sdisputed Kirkuk

Major-General JamalTaher Bakr, Kirkuk’spolice chief, said adisplaced family fromIraq’s Diyala provincefurther south had beentaking refugee in the housewhen it was hit.

The blast reduced torubble at least onebuilding, from whichpolice and local residentspulled bodies after theblast. As distraughtresidents looked on, they

wrapped corpses in bedsheets or mats and putthem on the back of a pick-up truck. Police andhospital sources said atleast two people werewounded in the attack inKirkuk, Iraq’s northern oilhub, which lies 250 km(155 miles) north ofBaghdad.

At least one womanand a child were amongthe dead, they said.

Internet

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The new Apple iPod Nano with video camera feature is shown in this publicityphoto released to Reuters on 9 Sept, 2009.— XINHUA

DUBAI, 10 Sept — Thefirst urban train network inthe Gulf is due to open onWednesday in Dubai.

The Dubai Metro willeventually become theworld’s longest driverlesstrain system with morethan 70km (43 miles) oftrack.

It cost almost twice theoriginal estimate andopens at a time whenDubai is suffering from

The Dubai Metro aims to become the world’s longest driverless train system.—INTERNET

First Gulf Metro systemto open

economic troubles due tothe global recession.Themetro’s challenge will beto persuade car drivers toget on board. The trainsystem was conceivedwhen traffic on the eight-lane Sheikh Zayed High-way, along which much ofits track now runs, wasbumper to bumper, mor-ning and evening.

It was planned whenthe economy was boom-

ing and the populationburgeoning. But, theopening of the first sta-tions along 52km (32miles) of the track comeswhen many of Dubai’scongestion problemshave already been solvedby the global economiccrisis. With fewer touristsvisiting and more migrantworkers leaving, there isalready less traffic on theroads. —Internet

BEIJING , 10 Sept — China has announced plans tobuild 42 new high-speed railway lines over the nextthree years. In a breakthrough, China has developedtrains that can run on both high-speed and normal lines,said railway official Zhang Shuguang.

A 500km/h train will be tested by the end of nextyear, Mr Zhang said. China will have added 13,000kmof high-speed lines by 2012, shortening journey timesconsiderably for the expected seven billion annual pas-sengers.

Journey times from the capital Beijing to most pro-vincial capitals will be as short as seven hours, saidMr Zhang, the Chief Engineer of the Chinese Acad-emy of Railway Sciences.He revealed the plans at ascience and technology conference in the city ofChongqing. —Internet

China is investing billions of dollars into its rail network.—INTERNET

SEOUL, 10 Sept—South Korea and the Eu-ropean Union (EU) willinitial their bilateral freetrade agreement (FTA) inOctober as the both sidescompleted legal reviewsof the deal this week, theMinistry of Foreign Af-fairs and Trade said onThursday.

The two sides “agreedto initial the pact nextmonth,” Lee Hye-min,deputy trade minister toldmedia, without giving fur-ther details, only sayingthat “the date and the

BEIJING, 10 Sept —China’s crude steel outputwill probably hit anotherrecord high of around51.65 million tonnes forAugust, statistics from theChina Iron and Steel As-sociation (CISA) show.

The CISA estimatedthe August daily output at1.67 million tonnes.

China posted a recordcrude steel production thisJuly, producing 50.68 mil-lion tonnes, with a dailyoutput of 1.64 milliontonnes, according to fig-ures from the NationalBureau of Statistics.

CISA data shows 71 ofChina’s large-scale steelproducers yielded 39.43million tonnes of crudesteel in August, up 1.97percent compared to July;and daily production was1.27 million tonnes.

Xinhua

TOKYO, 10 Sept — Japan’s core private-sector ma-chinery orders in July plunged 9.8 percent month-on-month to 664.7 billion yen (7.23 billion US dollars)on a seasonally adjusted basis, hitting the lowest levelsince record began in April 1987, the cabinet officesaid on Thursday. The decline of the orders, whichexclude those for ships and from electric utilities, wasattributed to weak demand from manufacturers.

Orders from manufacturers dived 20.4 percent to223.7 billion yen (2.43 billion dollars), marking thefirst decline in three months. The statistics of the ma-chinery orders, widely regarded as a key indicator ofcorporate capital spending about six months ahead,were produced on the basis of orders received by Ja-pan’s 280 major machinery makers. — Xinhua

China unveils high-speedrailways

Japan’s machinery orders hitrecord lower in July

MADRID, 10 Sept —With the financial crisisstill battering Spain, it isbecoming harder to starta new company in thecountry, studies publishedon Wednesday by theWorld Bank and theWorld Economic Forumshow. The country hasslipped down 11 places to62nd in the Doing Busi-ness league table, says aWorld Bank study, whichaims to show the ease or

New businesses find life harder in crisis-hit Spaindifficulty of conductingbusiness in 183 differentcountries.

This is not the onlystudy which has high-lighted the loss of com-petitiveness that the coun-try is currently sufferingin the economic crisis.Spain has also fallen fourplaces, from 29th to 33rd,in the Global competitive-ness Report, which hasbeen published by theWorld Economic Forum.

This study looks at theeconomic fortunes of 134countries, and the UnitedArab Emirates, China, theCzech Republic and Bru-nei have all moved aheadof Spain.

Very few EU countries— Cyprus, Slovenia, Por-tugal, Malta and Slovakia— are in a worse situationthan Spain. The GlobalCompetitiveness Reportuses 110 different indica-tors to reach its conclu-sions.

Xinhua

China’s crudesteel output tohit record high

in August

S Korea, EU to initial free trade deal next monthvenue will be decidedlater”.

The two sides haveheld two rounds of legalreviews on the agreementconcluded earlier July.The deal is expected to gointo effect in July nextyear, according to the of-ficial. Officially launchedin May 2007, negotiationsfor the South Korea-EUfree trade deal were con-cluded on 13 July betweenSouth Korean PresidentLee Myung-bak andSwedish Prime MinisterFredrik Reinfeldt.

The deal is expectedto boost bilateral trade be-tween South Korean andEU countries as much as20 percent, local thinktank Korea Institute forInternational EconomicPolicy (KIEP) said. Underthe agreement, the twosides will eliminate orphase out tariffs on 96percent of EU goods and99 percent of South Ko-rean goods within threeyears, and abolish tariffson most industrial goodswithin five years.

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Terrified fish takeslast gasp as

kingfisher snapsup its supper

BEIJING, 10 Sept — If fishcould speak, this little fellowwould no doubt be saying hisprayers (between gulps).Clamped in the beak of a king-fisher, he has only moments tolive before a final journey downthe predator’s throat. This wasthe climax of a thrilling se-quence of action captured oncamera by wildlife photographerIlia Shalamaev.

Xinhua

OPEC maintains oil output quota

Wu Bangguo (2nd L), chairman of the Standing Committee of China’sNational People’s Congress, meets with chairmen of the US-China

Inter-parliamentary Exchange Group, the US-China Working Group as wellas other groups under the US recently.— XINHUA

VIENNA, 10 Sept —TheOrganization of Petro-leum Exporting Countries(OPEC) agreed here onThursday to maintain itsproduction quota for thetime being. “Since themarket remains oversup-plied and given thedownside risks associatedwith extremely fragile re-covery, (OPEC) onceagain agreed to leave cur-rent production levels un-changed for the time be-ing,” OPEC said in astatement after a generalmeeting among its 12members.

The cartel’s current oilproduction quotas total24.85 million barrels aday for its 11 membersexcluding Iraq. It was thethird time for OPEC tokeep the oil productionlevel unchanged this year,OPEC Secretary GeneralAbdalla Salem El-Badrisaid. He added that thiswas in the best interest ofthe consumer, the pro-ducer, the market and theglobal economy.

The OPEC ConferencePresident for 2009,Angolan Minister of Pe-troleum Jose Maria

Botelho de Vasconcelos,also commented on thedecision by saying that theworld economy wasslowly recovering, andthat the current oil priceswere “on a good level.”Crude oil futures have re-cently been hoveringaround 70 US dollars abarrel. Over the past 14months, international oilprices have experiencedan unprecedented range offluctuation. In early July2008, they reached arecord price of 140 USdollars a barrel.

Xinhua

Many European electronics web sites mislead consumers

Chinese Premier pledges mutualinvestment with Latvia

DALIAN, 10 Sept — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao saidon Thursday that China is willing to enhance coop-eration with Latvia on trade and investment to bringabout tangible benefits to the two countries.

Wen made the remarks while meeting Latvian Presi-dent Valdis Zatlers, who is in northwestern China’s portcity Dalian to attend the the Annual Meeting of the NewChampions 2009, also known as the Summer Davos.Wen is to address the opening ceremony of the meet-ing, to be hosted by the Davos-based World EconomicForum, later Thursday. “Your presence shows that youattach importance to the forum, and also demonstratesyour goodwill and confidence towards China,” saidWen. The three-day forum has attracted some 1,400participants from 86 countries and regions to discusstopics about the theme of “Relaunching Growth” amidglobal economic downturn.— Xinhua

Singapore sees spikein diarrhea cases

SINGAPORE, 10 Sept—Singapore has seen a50 percent increase in diarrhea cases at localpolyclinics in the past week, local media re-ported on Thursday. The country’s 18 poly-clinics, which are government-owned clin-ics, treated 2,990 patients for acute diarrhealast week, or about 50 percent more than theweekly average of 2,072 cases, local news-paper the Straits Times reported. When poly-clinics see more than 2,668 cases a week, itis considered an epidemic. The last time suchan outbreak happened was two years ago.Doctors who have seen many more cases thanusual in the last two weeks, said it appears tobe highly contagious. The Ministry of Healthhas been unable to account for the larger-than-usual number of victims. — Xinhua

Spain sets five-year target for Afghan withdrawalMADRID, 10 Sept — Spanish Defence Minister Carme Chacon said on Wednesday

that she hoped the country would be able to withdraw its troops from Afghanistanwithin five years. The remarks followed Spain’s recent announcement that it wouldsend another 220 soldiers to the Central Asian country to help in the continuedstruggle against the Taleban. The reinforcement will be ratified by the Spanish par-liament on Friday despite criticism from the opposition Popular Party. Speaking onCadena Ser radio, Chacon also tried to put a time limit on the deployment. “We needto fix times and a horizon to say that we will have achieved our objective in less thanfive years.” “That timescale seems reasonable to Spain,” said the minister, whostressed the peacekeeping mission of the Spanish troops in Afghanistan.—Xinhua

BRUSSELS, 10 Sept—More than half of the websites in Europe that sellelectronic products mis-lead online consumers, aEuropean Union officialsaid on Wednesday. Con-sumer CommissionerMeglena Kuneva said thatan investigation of 369web sites selling elec-tronic goods in 26 EUcountries and Norway andIceland indicated con-sumers were being badlymisled.

The electronic goods

market is worth about 7billion euros (10.14 bil-lion US dollar) in Europe.About 25 percent of Eu-rope’s online consumersbuy electronic productssuch as cameras and mo-bile phones. Fifty-fivepercent of the web sitesinvestigated providedmisleading informationabout consumer rights,total cost of the product,and incomplete contactdetails, she said.

The investigationshowed that 66 percent of

the problematic websitesdid not provide key infor-mation or misled consum-ers. For instance, Kunevasaid, consumers were notinformed of their right toreturn goods within sevendays without a reason.Thesecond most commonproblem was misleadingor incomplete informationabout the total cost of thetransaction. That problemwas found on 45 percentof the problematic websites, the investigationfound.—Xinhua

Visitors taste Chinese food during the 113th Budapest International Expo inBudapest, capital of Hungary, on 9 Sept, 2009. The 113th Budapest Interna-tional Expo opened here on Wednesday and will end on 13 Sept. — XINHUA

The fish appears to beterrified as it takes its final

breath trapped in the beak ofthe kingfisher.

XINHUA

Iraq, Syria agree to stop media campaigns,speed up returning ambassadors

CAIRO, 10 Sept — Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said on Wednes-day that he reached an agreement with his Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari tostop media campaigns between Syria and Iraq, speed up returning ambassadorsand form security committees.

Al-Moallem told a joint Press conference with Arab League (AL) SecretaryGeneral Amr Moussa in Arab League headquarters that he reached this agreementduring a quadrilateral meeting included Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari,Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Moussa.—Xinhua

All items from Xinhua News Agency

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NEWS ALBUM

A two-year-old myna bird named Xiziraised in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Provincecan not only mimic human voices,sing songs and recite poems, but alsohas a bad human habit – smoking.“Hi buddy, give me a cigarette,” Xizisays if he sees someone smoking. AXuzhou veterinarian cautioned thatit’s bad for the bird’s health, andsmoking might affect its vocal cords.

This 18 June, 2009 photo Providedby Cornell University shows a nine-spotted ladybug in a lab at Cornell

in Ithaca, NY. A year after theylaunched a nationwide search fordwindling native ladybugs, NewYork researchers are breeding

colonies of them from insects foundby citizen scientists in Oregon and

Colorado. Of particular interest arethe nine-spotted, two-spotted andtransverse ladybugs, three native

species that have declineddramatically in the last decade.

Half jewel heist take stolen from thieves?

Great white sharks tagged for first time off Mass

This image provided by the MassachusetsState Division of Marine Fisheries showsa great white shark swimming in the waters near Cape Cod Mass.

One of the men involved in the biggestjewelry robbery in British history has takenoff with half the haul, gang sources say.

The Mirror, citing sources in the Lon-don underworld, reports the fugitive, nick-named “Tim Slim but Dim,” has to stayclear of the police and the man who or-ganized the holdup at Graff Diamonds infashionable Mayfair. He was described asa 52-year-old with ties to Russianmobsters. Two men held up Graff, mak-ing off with more than 40 million pounds($65 million) in jewelry. The loot was intwo bags, and the Mirror’s sources said

“Tim” has one of them.“The gang have been betrayed by one

of their own and the gang leader is furi-ous,” a source said. “He has told his crewto find this traitor at all costs. They thinkthe guy is bound to be hiding abroad andfear he is biding his time to try to move onthe jewelry and make millions.”

The sources said the mastermind of thecrime is angry because the Russian mobexpects a cut and because he collectswatches and had his eye on a diamond-encrusted Bulgari watch valued at close to$2 million.

Massachusetts officials are using high-tech tags to track the movements of twogreat white sharks near Cape Cod — thefirst time the fearsome fish have ever beentagged in the Atlantic Ocean.

The electronic tag uses satellite tech-nology to record the travels of the sharks,allowing scientists to better understandtheir migratory patterns.

The sharks were spotted on Saturdayby scientists investigating sightings offMonomoy Island in Chatham. Officialssay a harpooner tagged them with helpfrom a state shark expert.

Sharks are common in Cape watersduring summer, though great white sharksare relatively rare around New England.

State officials have warned areaswimmers to be on the lookout forsharks this weekend, and state environ-mental police are patrolling the area asa precaution.

Six-month-old Sanne Timmerman lieson the leaf of a giant water lily (Victo-ria Amazonica) at Diergaarde Blijdorp,also known as Rotterdam Zoo, Neth-erlands. The zoo organized the eventfor parents to take pictures of their chil-dren on the leaves which can grow upto 3 metres (10 feet) in diametre andcan easily support a weight of 15kilogramms or 33 pounds.

JOHANNESBURG , 10Sept — A South Africaninformation technologycompany on Wednesdayproved it was faster forthem to transmit datawith a carrier pigeon thanto send it using Telkom ,the country’s leadinginternet service provider.

Internet speed andconnectivity in Africa’s

BUCHAREST, 10 Sept —The Romanian Aeronau-tics and Cosmonautics As-sociation (ARCA) an-nounced on Wednesdaythat it will launch in Oc-tober the country’s first

BALTIMORE, 10 Sept —Astronomers are celebrat-ing the release of remark-able new images from theHubble Space Telescope(HST). They prove themission carried out by as-tronauts in May to ser-vice the observatory wasan outstanding success.

The latest pictures in-clude trademark Hubblevisions — from collidinggalaxies to dying stars.

NASA says the orbit-ing telescope, regarded asone of the most importantscientific tools ever built,should keep working un-til at least 2014.

Superb vistas from reborn Hubble

6.5 magnitude earthquake hitsNew Zealand’s White Island

WELLINGTON, 10 Sept — An earthquake measur-ing 6.5 on the Richter scale struck north-east of WhiteIsland in New Zealand North Island’s Bay of Plentyon Wednesday night, the GNS Science said.

The quake was centered 680 km north-east ofWhite Island at a depth of 420 km, the New ZealandInstitute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences reported.It struck at 10:32 pm local time on Wednesday andmay have been lightly felt in parts of the North Island.The quake caused no causalities or damages.— Xinhua

Hubble is expected to keep working until at least 2014.—INTERNET

The Atlantis shuttlemission in May was thefifth and final Hubblemakeover.

The US space agencyand its international part-ners plan now to concen-trate their efforts on pre-paring a bigger and morecapable observatoryknown as the James WebbSpace Telescope (JWST).

Wednesday’s releaseof pictures was the usualtour de force that astrono-mers have come to expectfollowing a Hubble ser-vicing.

It included dazzlingpictures of galaxies

headed for a pile-up, a starthrowing off its outer lay-ers, dense clouds of gasand dust, and a new pin-sharp look at the planetJupiter.—Internet

Romania to launch its first space rocket in Octoberspace rocket, in what isthe final rehearsal for a 30million dollar astronauticcontest for landing a pri-vately built spacecraft onthe moon, initiated by theGoogle corporation.

The rocket dubbedHelen will be launchedfrom a Black Sea platformand is a three-stage spacerocket capable of reachingthe outer space in subor-bital flight, ARCA presi-dent Dumitru Popescutold a Press conference.

During the Google Lu-nar X Prize Contest, it willreach the moon in threedays, and during the BlackSea drill it is expected to

reach cosmic space in twohours.

Navy watercraft willtake to Black Sea highwaters the launch set con-sisting of rocket Helenand the balloon that is tocarry it to the upper at-mosphere.

The equipment will beunloaded from the shipsonto the sea platform,where the balloon will beinflated and the rocketstages fueled with an eco-logical mix of hydrogenperoxide in a 70 percentconcentration. The entireset has a launch weight ofover 2,000 kilogramms.

Xinhua

Pigeon transfers data faster thanSouth Africa’s TelkomPigeon

largest economy are poorbecause of a bandwidthshortage. It is also expen-sive.

Local news agencySAPA reported the 11-month-old pigeon, Win-ston, took one hour andeight minutes to fly the80 km (50 miles) fromUnlimited IT’s officesnear Pietermaritzburg to

the coastal city of Durbanwith a data card wasstrapped to his leg.

Including down-load-ing, the transfer took twohours, six minutes and 57seconds — the time ittook for only four percentof the data to be trans-ferred using a Telkomline.

Internet

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(from page 1)At Toetet Aung breeding farm, officials

explained undertakings to Lt-Gen Khin Zaw wholooked into the arrangements.

Next, Lt-Gen Khin Zaw inspected thearrangements for greening and keeping the town clean,

Lt-Gen Khin Zaw inspectsregional development…

development tasks and greening of Bayintnaung land.At Myoma bridge of Kawthoung, officials

reported matters on building the retaining walls to Lt-Gen Khin Zaw.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Khin Zaw and party oversawthe repairing of Pulontonton bridge.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Sept—The Eastern CommandCommander’s Shield Boxing Championship was openedat Shan State Gymnasium in Taunggyi on 4 Septembermorning.

Chairman of Shan State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander of Eastern Command Maj-Gen YarPyae delivered an opening address. Next, the commanderwatched the first-day matches.—MNA

Commander’s Shield BoxingChampionship commences

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Sept—Minister forCommunications, Posts and Telegraphs Brig-GenThein Zaw and Minister for Livestock and FisheriesBrig-Gen Maung Maung Thein attended the openingceremony of new digital auto-exchange in Tanai,Kachin State on 7 September. Minister Brig-GenThein Zaw and Col Tin Maung Win of Tanai stationopened the digital auto-exchange.

Next, the ministers met with departmentalofficials, townselders and members of socialorganization at Hugaung Hall in Tanai and presentedprizes to outstanding students.

Afterwards, they looked into Tanai bridge andTanai hotel constructed by Sea Sun Star company andmet local people in Kinsarar ward.—MNA

Tanai gets new digitalauto-exchange

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Sept—Minister for ConstructionMaj-Gen Khin Maung Myint met with staff ofengineering offices of Chinshwehaw Township PublicWorks of Shan State (North), Laukkai District PublicWorks and Kongyan Township Public Works on 6September and called for better performance.—MNA

Construction Ministermeets with staff

Applied E-mail, Internet,Searching Website Application

Course concludes

YANGON, 10 Sept—Applied E-mail, Internet andSearching Website Application Course conducted byEducational Affairs Committee of Myanmar CustomsBrokers Association was concluded at the UMFCCI inLanmadaw Township here this morning.

Chairman U Myo Thant of MCBA and Chairmanof EAC U Nyi Nyi Aung delivered addresses andexecutives presented completion certificates to thetrainees. The course was opened with the aim ofhelping customs agents to be familiar with formalcustoms clearance system of ASEAN nations when itcomes into practice in Myanmar —Customs Clearanceof imported items before the arrival of cargo and keepabreast of international shipping industry. The four-week course was attended by 40 trainees.—MNA

YANGON, 10 Sept—A ceremony to donatesports gear for disabled

WAY donates sports gear atKyaikwaing school for the disabled

youths took palce atSchool for the Disabledunder the Social Welfare

Department onKyaikwaing pagoda roadin Mayangon Township

here this afternoon.Chairman of Women forASEAN in Yangon(WAY) Mrs YupadeeBunnag and partypresented sport gear toPrincipal Daw Yi MarTin and then theheadmistress spoke wordsof thanks and presentedcertificate of honour.

MNA

Lt-Gen Khin Zaw inspects repairing of Pulontonton bridge in Kawthoung.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw and Col Tin Maung Win of Tanai Station open new digitalauto-exchange in Tanai.—CPT

MChairman U Myo Thant of Myanmar Cus-toms Brokers Association presents completion

certificate to a trainee.—UMFCCI

Chairman of WAYMrs Yupadee

Bunnag and partydonating sports gear

to school for thedisabled.—MNA

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(from page 1)I got up early on 8

September morning as Iwould have to go on anexcursion to Laukkai.Despite the rainy season,Lashio was shrouded inmist in the morning as asign of the run-up to thecold season. I feltfortunate to enjoy thedawn view of Lashio onthe threshold todevelopment due tostability and peace.

At daybreak, theteam comprisingambassadors, militaryattaches and diplomatsof foreign embassies inYangon, members of theMyanmar ForeignCorrespondents Club,chief editors andreporters from localjournals, anddepartmental officialssaid goodbye to Lashio.

After we left

An inspiring visit to Laukkai, a stable, peaceful townByline: Tin Htwe (MNA)

Mini-markets and personal goods shops are re-opened in Laukkai. Photo: Khin Maung Win-Shwe Inntha

Local inhabitants are returning to their native town Laukkai inKokang Region, Shan State (North), following the restoration of

stability and peace. —MNA

Youngsters are in a class as stability and peace have returned tonormal in Kokang Region, Shan State (North). —MNA

Lashio, we first passedthrough Hsenwi, 32 milesfrom Lashio. The lake inthe entrance to Hsenwiwas found colonized bylotus flowers, thus addingto the beauty of the hillytown. Between Hsenwiand Kunlon is a mountain,and the section sometimessees landslides in the rainyseason. I noticed that themountain road had beenexpanded. Many units ofheavy machinery were atwork to ensure regularstream of traffic aspreparedness measuresagainst possiblelandslides.

Lashio is 85 milesfrom Kunlon and the roadbetween the two townsgoes uphill and downhillin many sections. Thehighland crop plantationsalong the road and thecreek between twomountains blended

together, like a paintingfull of natural beauty.

The team stoppedfor a while in Kunlon, andthen proceeded toChinshwehaw atMyanmar-China bordercheckpoint in LaukkaiDistrict. Team membersenjoyed the scene ofChinshwehaw from the caron the way to Laukkai.

Laukkai is 117miles and seven furlongsfrom Lashio, and about 25miles from Chinshwehaw.Along the road werethriving rubber and cornplantations.

Upon arrival atdowntown Laukkai, I wasamazed as well asdelighted to see studentswith uniforms on their wayto school. I thought thatLaukkai would besomewhat quiet anddesserted resulting fromthe recent incident. The

objective conditionsproved my speculationtotally wrong.

A press conferenceon the recent incident thathad occurred in Laukkai,Kokang Region, tookplace at the BaishengHotel in Laukkai, andmembers of the excursionteam attended it.

After the pressconference, we observedseized arms andammunition, poppy seeds,

drugs were seized; andKokang headquarters(residence of Phon KyaPhu) in Si-aw Ward.

On a car trip aroundLaukkai, we witnessedthat hotels, restaurants,mini-markets, personalgoods shops andelectronics shops werefunctioning as usual, andlocal people were in actionand a large number of carsand motorcycles were onthe road as if nothing had

conditions of Laukkaipresented by MyanmaRadio and Television anddaily newspapers were thesame as the first-handexperiences I gained onmy visit. The regionremained stable andpeaceful with itsadministrative machineryfunctioning.

After thesuccessful completion ofthe tour programme, wehad to leave Laukkai but

precursor chemicals andstimulant tablets at thearsenal near Myanmar-China border inYanlongkeng, Laukkai;Kokang No (2) custody,in which some MyanmarPolice Force memberswere held hostage andbrutally killed; thenarcotic drugs processingbuilding in TarsinkengVillage where narcotic

happened to them.Laukkai, a border

town, is in the process ofurbanization with finebuildings, residences,roads, factories andworkshops. Seasonal cropswere grown at the foot ofmountains and in plateaus.The whole region wasfound pleasant and greenwith natural vegetation.

The objective

I was not content withenjoying thepicturesque hilly town.Surely, it will be greatlythrilling if I am againfavoured with a chanceto pay a visit to thelovely border townwhich is on the pathtowards fullurbanization.

*****Translation: MS

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YANGON, 10 Sept—CCNA networkingcertificate course will betaught for learners atNetInfo centre.

Matriculated-passstudents, students from the

(from page 1)Lt-Gen Tha Aye

looked into monsoonpaddy plantations anddevelopments of thevillages on both sides ofKalay-Tamu Road, thebroadcasting of fertilizerat the monsoon paddymodel farmlands andplantations and samplepaddy strains.

Next, he oversawrubber plantation inPantha village and thegrowing of mixed-cropsamong the rubber plants.

At the meeting hallof the Border Trade

Lt-Gen Tha Ayeon tour ofKalay …

Department in Tamu, Lt-Gen Tha Aye met withdepartmental officials andviewed development ofTamu in a motorcade.

Later, Lt-Gen Tha

Aye visited Nann PhalonMarket in Tamu andcomforted the patients atKhampat StationHospital.

Afterwards, Lt-

Gen Tha Aye looked intoprogress of Kongyaw andTanngyaw dams ofYazagyo Multi-purposeDam Project and already-built Nayrinzaya bridge.

On 7 September,Lt-Gen Tha Aye, thecommander and officialsinspected self-reliantTahan New Market atTahan Ward in Kalay and

presented gifts to familymembers in meeting withservicemen and theirfamilies at the hall of localstation.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 10Sept—Minister forEnergy Brig-Gen Lun Thion 7 September inspectedthe chosen place toconstruct offshore gaspipeline centre in Daw

Offshore gas pipeline centre inspected

Basic education schools in Laukkai,Kongyan, Hopang townships inspectedYANGON, 10 Sept—

Director-General U AyeLwin of No. 2 BasicEducation Departmentinspected basic educationschools in Laukkai,Kongyan and Hopangtownships of Shan State(North) from 3 to 9September.

The director-generalinspected ChinshwehawBasic Education HighSchool of LaukkaiTownship, ParsinkyawBasic Education Post-Primary School, LaukkaiBEHS No. 1, BEHS No.2, Kyuman BEPS, No. 1Tattwin BEPS, Si-aw

BEPS, YanlonkyaingBEPS, MukwakyaingBEPS, Narli BEPS,Shaukkai BEPS andTarshan BEPS on 4 and 5September. He also visitedTarshwehtan BEHS andKongyan BEHS on 6September, ShwewaBEPS, Kaungkaw Post-Primary School, ChushweBEPS, Pankauk BEMS,Hantkhushe BEPS,Panmaw BEPS, PanlonBEHS (Branch), KunlongBEHS and Holi BEMS inHopang and Kunlongtownships on 8 and 9September.

The director-general

Nyein village in AhmarTownship, PyaponDistrict in AyeyawadyDivision. He then met withlocal people at Ahmar andDaw Nyein village.

At the meeting hall of

Pyapon District Peace andDevelopment Counciloffice, the minister alsomet with departmentalofficials and focused onmatters related to offshoregas pipeline tasks.—MNA

provided necessaryassistance for the schools.

During his visit, thedirector-general presentedcash assistance forteachers and educationalstaff of Laukkai, Kongyanand Hopang townshipsand exercise books andstationery to students.

MNA

Military Code of Conduct contest held

NAY PYI TAW, 10Sept—The Ministry ofDefence organized thesecond military code ofconduct contest at itsKyansittha Hall here this

YANGON, 10 Sept—The TV Guide Vol I,No.10 published by NovelLight Express (Ph:391186) will come out

TV Guide Vol I, No. 10 in circulation

morning.Camp Commandant

Maj-Gen Hla Aung Theinof the Ministry of Defencevisited the contestantsthere. Altogether 208

candidates—51 at officerlevel, 58 at warrantofficer level, 67 atcorporal level and 32 atprivate level contendedfor the prizes.—MNA

tommorow.The TV Guide costs

K 500 per copy andavailable at bookstalls,City Mart, Supermarkets

and MRTV Showrooms.Door to door service isbeing given to those whowant to buy the bookmonthly. —MNA

CCNA Computer Networkingcourse on 13 September

University of ComputerStudies and University ofTechnology, members ofMCPA, IDCS & IADstudents and interestedpersons may attend thecourse.

The three-month-course will be launchedon 13 September andlectured on every Sunday.Only 20 trainees will bepermitted to the course.

Those interestedpersons may contactNetInfo center, Room-1 inBuilding-2 of MyanmarInfo-Tech Building in HlineTownship, Yangon (Tel:507045, 652248).—MNA

Camp Commandant Maj-Gen Hla Aung Thein views military code ofconduct contest.—MNA

Lt-Gen Tha Aye of Ministry of Defence inspects Yazagyo multi-purpose dam project.—MNA

Director-General UAye Lwin lookinginto Parsin Kyaw

post primary schoolin LaukkaiTownship.

MNA

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H & T Minister supervisesdevelopment tasks

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Sept—Member of NaturalDisaster Preparedness Central Committee Ministerfor Hotels and Tourism Maj-Gen Soe Naing on 6September met teachers of Basic Education PostPrimary School in Chunagwa Village of Ama, PyaponTownship and inspected construction of new schoolbuilding.

The minister met community elders, teachers, andhealth staff of Chaungwa, Deidalu, Phonegyithoung,Kalateik, Bawdhima, Shweleigyin, Ngathtatoung,Tapon, Wachung and Phoethugyaung villages andprovided local people with clothing, foodstuffs, andtraditional medicines.

Afterwards, the minister inspected thriving paddyfields, repair of rafts and fishing industry along theriver and viewed students learning at BEPPS of thevillage.—MNA

Minister meets Chinese guestsNAY PYI TAW, 10Sept—Minister forElectric Power No.1 ColZaw Min receivedGeneral Manager Mr LiGuanghua of CPI YunnanInternational PowerInvestment Co Ltd andparty of PRC at theministry here yesterdayevening.

Also present at the callwere Deputy Minister UMyo Myint, departmentalheads, officials of theministry, Deputy GeneralManager Mr Xu Shubioand personnel of CPIYunnan InternationalPower Investment CoLtd.—MNA

YANGON, 10 Sept—Annual meeting of HtooGyi Association (Yangon) took place at MyanmaTimber Enterprise Dhammayon, Bahan Township hereon 6 September. Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen TheinAung and Vice Chairman U Myo Thant of theassociation delivered speeches.

Next, officials read out financial papers andpaid respects to the aged. The minister awardedoutstanding persons.

On 7 September, the minister attended theopening of Htanpingon BEHS (branch) in IngapuTownship. An official extended the documents relatedto the building to Township Education Officer DawKyin Htay.

The minister also opened new BawzagaingBEPS in Ingapu Township. An official then handedover the documents related to the building to townshipeducation officer. A local spoke words of thanks.

MNA

Forestry Minister attends opening of new school buildings

YANGON, 10 Sept—The launching of newbrand products ofM&GH International Ltdwas held at Sedona Hotel,here, yesterday evening.

It was attended bysale representatives, mer-

New product of M&GH introducedchants, shopkeepers andguests.

Director Lt-ColAung Min (Retd) ofM&GH International Ltdintroduced the newproduct of Red & Blueand Karaweik to the

audience.The high quality new

product is manufacturedby the factory ofinternational standard ofM&GH InternationalLtd.

MNA

YANGON, 10 Sept—Cricket coach refreshercourse for basic educationteachers, jointly organizedby Myanmar CricketFederation No.2 BasicEducation Department ofMandalay Division andMandalay Division Sportsand Physical EducationDepartment, took place atBahtoo gymnasium,Mandalay Division from 19to 23 August. It was attendedby teachers of BasicEducation Department.

Men’s and Women’snovice cricket event of interBasic Education School inMandalay Division tookplace at AungmyayMandalar cricket pitchfrom 24 to 30 August.

After the finals, officialsof MCF, Division Officer ofMandalay Division Sportsand Physical EducationDepartment DeputyDirector U Myo Myint Aung

Cricket coach refresher course for basiceducation teachers commences

and officials presented prizesto winning teams at prize

presenting ceremony.MNA

Minister Col Zaw Min receives delegation headed by General ManagerMr Li Guanghua of CPI Yunnan International Power Investment

Co Ltd.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Aung addresses annual meeting of Htoo GyiAssociation.—FORESTRY

Deputy Director U Myo Myint Aung presentschampionship shield to the winning team.—MNA

The launching ceremony to introduce new brand products of M & GHin progress.—MNA

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BAGHDAD, 10 Sept—Two roadside bombs exploded in quick succession in apopular market south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing four people and wounding29, Iraqi police said. The blasts struck the town of Mahmudiya, about 30 km (20miles) south of Baghdad, which has been largely quiet for many months.

Mahmudiya was once in the heart of the so-called “Triangle of Death,” whereradical Sunni and Shi’ite Islamist militants battled it out and settled sectarianscores in 2006 and 2007, killing hundreds of Iraqis. Violence has fallen sharply inIraq since those days, but militants are still capable of carrying out frequentbombings.—Internet

TOKYO, 10 Sept—Japan’s first-everspacecraft to fly vital supplies to theInternational Space Station is poised tomake its inaugural launch today.

The H-2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV), anew unmanned spacecraft capable ofhauling tons of food, experiments andother supplies to the space station, isslated to blast off at 1:01 p.m. EDT(1701 GMT) from Tanegashima SpaceCenter in southern Japan. It will be 2:01a.m. Local Time when Japan’s JAXAspace agency launches the spacecraft onits maiden voyage.

Japan to launch new spacefreighter today

“HTV-1 is opening up new horizonsfor JAXA’s undertaking of humanspaceflight,” said Masazumi Miyake,deputy director of JAXA’s Houstonoffice. “I like to say that JAXA is nowentering a new era.”

The new HTV spacecraft is the latestin an international fleet of cargo ships tosupport the space station, which is the$100 billion product of 16 differentcountries and the largest structure everbuilt in space. Six astronauts currentlylive aboard: two Americans, two Russians,a Belgian and a Canadian.—Internet

Earth is seen behindthe International Space

Station from SpaceShuttle Discovery asthe two spacecraftbegin their relativeseparation in this

NASA handout phototaken 8 September,2009.—INTERNET

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, 10 Sept—NASA is considering whether the spaceshuttle Discovery needs to dodge a piece of space junk before heading for ascheduled landing back on Earth.

Mission Control says the debris apparently came off the linked shuttle andinternational space station during a spacewalk Saturday. Experts do not know whatthe piece is. The shuttle is scheduled to land Thursday evening but thunderstormscould keep it in orbit an extra day or two.

If Discovery skips Florida on Thursday, NASA will consider the backuptouchdown site in California as early as Friday. Discovery spent more than a weekat the space station. Returning astronaut Timothy Kopra lived there nearly twomonths, while Buzz Lightyear logged 15 months. The doll will head to WaltDisney World after the flight.—Internet

BAGHDAD, 10 Sept —A suicide truck bomberhit a residential area of aKurdish village innorthern Iraq before dawnThursday, killing at least19 people and injuring 30others, officials said, inwhat appeared to be thelatest in a string of ethnicattacks in the region.

No one immediatelyclaimed responsibility forthe bombing, but it borethe hallmarks of al-Qaidain Iraq and other Sunniinsurgents who remainactive in Mosul andsurrounding areas.

A police officer andhealth official in Mosul

SAN DIEGO, 10 Sept—Biotechnology companyVical Inc. said Thursday its developing swine fluvaccine prompted “robust” immune responses in 100percent of animals infected with distinct strains of thevirus. Vical is developing its vaccine under anagreement with the U.S. Navy. It is currently workingthe U.S. Navy to secure funding in order to advancethe vaccine candidate to human studies.

Shares rose 29 cents, or 5.7 percent, to $5.35 inmorning trading. Earlier, shares reached $5.51, theirhighest point in more than two years.—Internet

The recent animal study results show the DNA-based vaccine prompted responses above the acceptedprotection threshold in mice and rabbits with strainsfrom recent outbreaks in California, Texas, and Mexico.

Internet

Space shuttle may need to dodgedebris on way home

Iraq market bombs kill four, wound 29

Officials say truck bomb kills at least 19, injures30 in northern Iraqi village

said the bomb went offaround 12:30 a.m. in thevillage of Wardek, about35 miles southeast of thecity — a region whereU.S. commanders havewarned that insurgentsappear to be trying tostoke an Arab-Kurdishconflict.

The blast took downa number of houses andthe casualty toll wasexpected to rise becausemany people are stillmissing in the rubble, theofficials said. Localsecurity forcesintercepted a secondsuicide truck bomber,killing the driver and

Map locating the area ofa truck bomb attack nearMosul in northern Iraqwhere at least 19 people

were killed in anexplosion.—INTERNET

Vical’s swine flu vaccine works inmice, rabbits

defusing the bomb beforeit could be detonated, theysaid.—Internet

A drawing is displayed at the opening of an exhibition of part of Leonardo Da VinciAtlantic Codex after it was unbound allowing for the first time the exposition of the

single pages, in Milan, Italy, on Thursday, 10 Sept, 2009.—INTERNET

Steve Kaslowski took the pictures during an expedition to Norway’sremote Svalbard archipelago last month.—INTERNET

Australia considers sending women into combatCANBERRA, 10 Sept—

Australian women couldserve in frontline combatunits, including specialforces, as the country’smilitary attempts to ease arecruitment crisis, thegovernment said onW e d n e s d a y . J u n i o rDefence Minister GregCombet said all sections ofthe country’s small butadvanced military shouldbe open to women,including special forcesunits currently fightingTaleban insurgents inAfghanistan.

Australian womenalready serve in front-lineroles flying helicopters andbombing aircraft, as well ason submarines and surfacewarships, but are excludedfrom front-line infantryunits and special forces

commandos. Removinggender restrictions wouldput Australia ahead of keyallies including the UnitedStates and Britain inopening combat roles to

females, and into line withseveral European coutries,including Denmark andGermany, as well as Israeland New Zealand.

MNA/Reuters

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA RUKUN VOY NO (507)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA RUKUNVOY NO (507) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 11.9.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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 ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Palm to releasecheaper sibling

of Pre smartphone

SAN FRANCISCO, 10 Sept— Palm Inc, which revi-talized its product line withthe Pre smart phone launchin June, is hoping to keepmomentum going with therelease of a lighter, cheaperhandset called the Pixi.The company said onWednesday that the Pixiwill be available during theholiday season throughSprint Nextel Corp, cur-rently the Pre’s exclusivewireless carrier.

Sunnyvale, Calif-basedPalm would not divulgethe Pixi’s price tag, butconfirmed it will be lessthan that of its big brother.Sprint shaved $50 off thePre’s price to $150 onWednesday, including tworebates and a two-yearservice contract.

Internet

New malaria‘poses

human threat’KUALA LUMPUR, 10 Sept

— An emerging new formof malaria poses a deadlythreat to humans, researchhas shown. It had beenthought the parasite Plas-modium knowlesi infectedonly monkeys. But it hasrecently been found to bewidespread in humans inMalaysia, and the lateststudy confirms that it cankill if not treated quickly.The work, by an interna-tional team, appears in thejournal Clinical InfectiousDiseases.

Although the new formof the disease has so farbeen concentrated in SouthEast Asia, the researcherswarn that tourism to theregion could soon see casesappearing in Western coun-tries too. Malaria kills morethan a million people eachyear.It is caused by malariaparasites, which are in-jected into the bloodstreamby infected mosquitoes.

InternetMalaria is spread by mosquitoes.

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NIH expands swine flushot tests to pregnant

womenWASHINGTON, 10 Sept—It’s time to test the new

swine flu vaccine in pregnant women. Studies ofadults and children are going so well that the Na-tional Institutes of Health announced Wednesday itis opening the research to 120 women in their sec-ond or third trimester of pregnancy.

The flu always is dangerous to pregnant women,and 6 percent of US swine flu deaths so far havebeen among pregnant women. The new swine fluvaccine is just a recipe change from the regular fluvaccine long given to pregnant women and thusshouldn’t cause new safety concerns. But the stud-ies are key to learning what dose is required forprotection.—Internet

Over 400 new A/H1N1flu cases confirmed

in EuropeSTOCKHOLM, 10 Sept—A European health agency

said Wednesday that 431 new A/H1N1 flu caseswere reported in European countries within the last24 hours.

Of the new cases, 379 were confirmed in Ger-many and 36 in Denmark while other 16 cases werereported in other five European countries, the Eu-ropean Center for Disease Prevention and Control(ECDC) said in its daily situation report.

The cumulative number of confirmed cases ofthe A/H1N1 flu virus in the EU (European Union)and EFTA (European Free Trade Association) coun-tries increased to 49,543, with 17,644 cases in Ger-many, 13,192 in Britain, 2,820 in Portugal, 2,058in Italy and 1,996 in Greece, the ECDC said.

No new fatal case was reported and the totalnumber of fatal cases is still 121, the ECDC added.

The ECDC publishes a daily situation reportabout the H1N1 flu cases in the EU and EFTA coun-tries based on official information from these coun-tries.

Xinhua

Hurricane Linda forms,Hurricane Fred weakensMIAMI, 10 Sept—Hurricane Linda has formed far out

over the Pacific while Hurricane Fred weakened to aCategory 2 storm in the Atlantic.

Earlier Wednesday, Hurricane Fred became the sec-ond major hurricane of the Atlantic season before weak-ening and remains far out at sea without threateningland.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Fred’smaximum sustained winds have weakened to near 105mph (165 kph). It’s projected five-day path will keep itover the open ocean until it loses steam.

The storm is centered about 645 miles (1,040kilometers) west of the Cape Verde Islands and movingnorthwest near 10 mph (17 kph).

Meanwhile, Hurricane Linda’s maximum sustainedwinds are near 80 mph (130 kph) but is expected toweaken Thursday night and Friday.—Internet

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite handoutimage shows Hurricane Fred located west of the Cape Verde Islands. Tropical

storm Linda, roiling in the Pacific, was upgraded to hurricane strength asFred weakened in the eastern Atlantic to a Category Two storm,

US forecasters said.—INTERNET

Heaviest rains in 80 years kill 31in Turkey

Debris of the trucks swept by flash floods are seen in Istanbul on 9 Sept,2009.—INTERNET

ISTANBUL, 10 Sept—Flash floods killed 31 peo-ple in northwest Turkey,sweeping through the cityof Istanbul, swampinghouses, turning highwaysinto fast-flowing riversand drowning sevenwomen in a minibus thatwas taking them to work.

Twenty-six died in Istan-bul, Turkey’s largest citywith 14 million inhabit-

ants, Prime MinisterTayyip Erdogan said lateon Wednesday, after twodays of the heaviest rain in80 years produced suddenflood waters which en-gulfed low-lying areas.Another five died in Saray,west of Istanbul, report-edly all from the samefamily. Nine more weremissing, Erdogan said.

In Istanbul rescue work-

ers, some on boats, put outplanks and ladders to helpdrivers, stranded in fast-flowing waters, reach thesafety of bridges and highland. Military helicoptersalso assisted bringingstranded people to safety.The worst flooding oc-curred in areas in the westof the city, on the Euro-pean side, where drainageis often poor.—Internet

Five toddlers mysteriously injuredat British nursing home

LONDON, 10 Sept — British police are interrogatingfive people after toddlers suffered unexplained brokenlimbs at a nursery.Officers were called in after threechildren aged between 12 months and two years wereinjured at the Rocking Horse Nursery in Nottingham-shire, Great Britain. The injuries reportedly include abroken leg suffered by a boy.”All the children involvedare aged between one and two years, and officers havequestioned five people in connection with the investi-gation, a Nottinghamshire Police spokesman toldSkyNews.Sources said the injuries were not the resultof sexual abuse.—Internet

Cosmic butterflycaught in the

heavensLONDON, 10 Sept — The

refurbished Hubble spacetelescope has produced thesharpest photos yet of cos-mic beauty, complete withheavenly glows. NASAyesterday unveiled the firstdeep-space photos takenby Hubble since its billiondollar repair mission ear-lier this year. That workincluded installing twonew cameras, other sci-ence instruments and re-placing broken parts.

The images of galaxiesand nebulas including ourtop picture of a cosmicbutterfly shaped nebulaare sharper than previousphotos taken of the sameplaces by Hubble beforethe upgrade.Some of thecolourful images havebrilliant glows of lightthat give them halos thatto some people can appearheavenly. Earlier thissummer, Hubble took pic-tures of Jupiter when anasteroid or comet hit it.

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JOHANNESBURG, 10 Sept — The 2010 FIFA WorldCup Organizing Committee South Africa (OC) onWednesday congratulated the England football teamon their qualification. OC CEO Dr Danny Jordaan saidEngland’s presence at next year’s World Cup wouldadd significantly to the tournament, both on and offthe pitch.

“Fabio Capello’s side has powered their way toSouth Africa 2010 and will certainly be a force to bereckoned with next year. They are playing very goodfootball and the team and will certainly come to SouthAfrica as one of the tournament’s favorites,” saidJordaan.

The English Premier League is one of the bestleagues in the world and arguably the most followedglobally. All the England players are popular in SouthAfrica and a number of them visited the country withtheir club teams and with the national team in recentyears,” he added. — Xinhua

HANOI, 10 Sept — China defeated Iran 3-0 here onWednesday in the first match of the elite 1st-8th rank-ing round of the Asian women’s volleyball champion-ship. In the first set, China quickly led the match inthe first few minutes. Iran had to change players fivetimes in an effort to improve their scores. However,this could not prevent China from winning the firstset with 25-11.

In the second set, Iran showed their efforts to coun-ter-attack China by taking two points first in the veryearly minutes. The team played better and followedChinese players closely in scoring in the followingminutes.—Xinhua

TENGZHOU, 10 Sept — Olympic champion WuJingyu easily won the women’s 49kg class taekwondogold at the 11th Chinese National Games here onWednesday.

Wu, also world champion in 2007, met few chal-lenges during the one-day preliminary, quarterfinal andsemifinal competitions. In the night’s lop-sided final,Wu outscored Hebei’s Niu Xiaoxiao with an over-whelming 7-1 victory, gifting her hometown Jiangxiprovince the first gold medal of the taekwondo eventsfrom 9 to 12 Sept.

With great explosive power and flexible body, the1.66-metre-tall Wu scored the opening three points witha brilliant axe kick to the opponent’s head, cheeringthe hundreds of spectators into chaos.

In the second round, the confident Wu launchedmore aggressive attacks and added one more point bya side kick, then could nearly seal the victory afterwinning another direct three points.— Xinhua

NEW YORK, 10 Sept —Maybe it all was a littletoo much, a little too soonfor Melanie Oudin.

The 17-year-old fromMarietta, Ga, kept erasingbig deficits and upsettingolder, taller, higher-ranked players at the USOpen, generating moreand more interest in hermagical ride.

Her gutsy play, aw-shucks approach andthose pink-and-yellowsneakers with “BE-LIEVE” on the heels car-ried Oudin all the way tothe quarterfinals at theAmerican Grand Slamtournament.—Internet

MONTEVIDEO, 10Sept— The chances oftwo-time World Cupchampions Argentina fail-ing to make the World Cupfinals for the first timesince 1970 shortened asthey were beaten 1-0 byParaguay in Asuncionwhich saw the victorsreach their eighth finals.

NEW YORK, 10 Sept —Roger Federer will playNovak Djokovic in theUS Open semi-finals onSaturday, their third con-secutive clash at FlushingMeadows after the final of2007 and the semi-finalsof last year.Top seed anddefending championFederer reached the last

LONDON, 10 Sept — Fabio Capello has insisted thata flawless qualifying campaign has earned Englandthe right to be regarded as serious contenders to liftthe World Cup next year.

A 5-1 demolition of Croatia at Wembley onWednesday underlined the extent of the transforma-tion in England’s fortunes under the Italian, with theeighth straight win in group six securing their ticketto South Africa with two games to spare.

And while the Italian coach could hardly be ac-cused of tub-thumping, he was happy to endorse asuggestion that England will enter the first World Cupin Africa with a serious shot at glory.

“Yes, why not?” he responded when the sugges-tion was put to him. “All the players in the squad arereally good.”

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BELGRADE,10 Sept — Serbia moved to within threepoints of the World Cup on Wednesday with a 1-1 drawat home to France, whose hopes of automatic qualifi-cation remain alive after a brave 10-manshowing.Captain Thierry Henry’s 50th internationalgoal earned Raymond Domenech’s side a point thatlooked unlikely when Nenad Milijas put the home sideahead from the penalty spot after France goalkeeperHugo Lloris had been sent off for a ninth-minute foulon Nikola Zigic.

“I’m proud of everything about the match,” saidFrance coach Domenech.”I’m happy for the peoplewho believed in us and supported us. I still believeand it’s not over. I will congratulate my players.”Serbiawere made to play on the counter-attack by France’sgame efforts to take the lead but Radomir Antic’s mencould have taken all three points.—Internet

Italy on brink of qualificationafter Bulgaria win

TURIN,10 Sept — Defending champions Italy tooka huge step towards qualifying for next year’s WorldCup with a competent 2-0 Group Eight victory overBulgaria here on Wednesday.Italy lead Ireland by fourpoints with two games remaining and need only a drawin Dublin or a win at home to Cyprus next month toensure they top the group.

Juventus pair Fabio Grosso and Vincenzo Iaquinta,among seven team-mates who started for Italy, scoredthe goals that ended a run of four games without asingle Italian player notching a goal.Coach MarcelloLippi was understandably delighted with his team.

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World Cup Organizing Committeecongratulates England on qualification

Oudin’s magical US Openends with loss in quarters

Caroline Wozniacki,right, of Denmark,chats with Melanie

Oudin, of the UnitedStates, after

defeating Oudin in twosets in their match atthe US Open tennis

tournament inNew York,

on 9 Sept, 2009.INTERNET

Olympic champion WuJingyu dominates national

taekwondo arena

Argentine coach DiegoMaradona.

Maradona’s woes deepenafter Paraguay defeat

The defeat will inevi-tably raise further ques-tions over the steward-ship of coach DiegoMaradona — an Argen-tinian playing icon for hisinspiring them to the1986 trophy and to the1990 final — as the Ar-gentinians slipped to fifthin the table with just twomatches remaining toseal one of the two re-maining automatic quali-fying places.

However, despite hav-ing individual talents onthe pitch such as LionelMessi, Maradona also ei-ther left out of the squadentirely or deigned not toput on the benchLisandro Lopez, EstebanCambiasso and WalterSamuel to name but threeof several.—Internet

Federer to take on Djokovicin US Open semis

Roger Federer.

four for a record 22ndtime in a Grand Slam tour-nament despite a stirringlate show from RobinSoderling, winning 6-0,6-3, 6-7 (6/8), 7-6 (8/6).

F o u r t h - s e e d e dDjokovic won a dour,stamina-sapping encoun-ter with Spain’s FernandoVerdasco 7-6 (7/2), 1-6, 7-5, 6-2 to reach the semi-finals for the third con-secutive year.Federer,who is bidding to win arecord-equalling sixthstraight US Open titlehere, looked to be cruis-ing toward a comfortablestraight-sets win beforeSwede Soderling, withnothing to lose, openedhis shoulders and blastedaway with his huge fore-hand.

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China defeats Iran in Asian Women’sVolleyball Championship

France remain in World Cuphunt after draw in Serbia

Capello backs England tolight up South Africa

Frank Lampard (right) of England shoots to scorefrom the penalty spot as goalkeeper Vedran Runje

of Croatia tries to save during their Group SixFIFA World Cup 2010 qualifierat Wembley stadium.—INTERNET

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudyin Kayah State, rain or thundershowers have been isolatedin Shan State and Magway Division, scattered in Kachinand Rakhine States, lower Sagaing, Mandalay, Bago,Ayeyawady and Yangon Divisions, fairly widespread inUpper Sagaing Division and widespread in the remainingStates and Divisions with isolated heavyfall in MagwayDivision. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded werePutao (2.95) inches, Kawthoung (2.48) inches, Gangaw(2.05) inches, Khayan (1.77) inches, An (1.22) inches,Machanbaw (1.06) inches and Meikhtila (0.24) inch.

Maximum temperature on 9-9-2009 was 89°F.Minimum temperature on 10-9-2009 was 70°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 10-9-2009 was 85 %.Total sun shine hours on 9-9-2009 was (4.0) hours approx.

Rainfall on 10-9-2009 was Tr at Mingaladon, Nil atKaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (93.42) inches at Mingaladon, (104.68) inches atKaba-Aye and (110.94) inches at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mphfrom Southwest at (08:30) hours MST on 9-9-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is weak to moderate in theAndaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 11th September 2009:Rain or thundershowers will be isolated in Kayah Statelower Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway Divisions, scatteredin Shan State and Bago Division, fairly widespread inKachin, Chin and Rakhine States, Upper Sagaing,Ayeyawady and Yangon Divisions and widespread in theremaining States and Divisions. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofcontinuation of thundry conditions in the NorthernMyanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for11-9-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for11-9-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for11-9-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (60%).

WEATHERThursday, 10th September, 2009

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MILAN, 10 Sept—AC Milan have been linkedwith a move for Manchester United and Liverpooltarget David Silva.

San Siro boss Silvio Berlusconi, the Italianpresident, is understood to be looking for investorsto fund a January spending spree and has reportedlymade Valencia midfielder Silva a prime target.

The Italians would be willing to pay about£25million for the Spain international, who canplay on the wing or in a more central role.

The 23-year-old was considered by United thissummer as a potential replacement for CristianoRonaldo, while Liverpool boss Rafa Benitiezpublicly admitted his interest but was angered byleaks involving the negotiations.

Silva also interested Real Madrid, Barcelonaand Juventus in the summer, but cash-strappedValencia managed to see off suitors with their highdemands.—Internet

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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 among thepeople

■ RFA, DVB - generating public outrage■ Do not allow ourselves to be swayed■ By broadcasts designed to cause

troubles

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

and violence

Noteworthy amounts of rainfall

A common European earthworm burrowing intosoil.

Scientists use microRNAs to track evolutionary history for first timeSCIENCEDAILY, 10

Sept—The large group ofsegmented wormsknown as annelids,which includes earth-worms, leeches and bris-tle worms, evolved mil-lions of years ago andcan be found in everycorner of the world. Al-though annelids are oneof the most abundant ani-mal groups on the planet,scientists have struggledto understand how thedifferent species of thisbiologically diversegroup relate to each otherin terms of their evolu-tionary history.

Now a team of sci-entists from Yale Uni-versity and DartmouthCollege has used agroundbreaking method

to untangle some of thathistory. The researchersused a novel source ofdata—the presence andabsence of different

microRNA genes—to in-vestigate the evolution-ary relationships ofannelids.

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One more found infected with A (H1N1)Number of infected-patients reaches 35

NAY PYI TAW, 10 Sept—A 34-year old Chinese citizen who came toMyanmar from the People's Republic of China was sent to Toungoo GeneralHospital as he was found to have flu symptoms on 9 September.

After giving him a medical check-up, the National Health Laboratoryconfirmed that he was infected with New Influenza A (H1N1). He arrived atMyanmar by flight No. MU-2029 and became the thirty-fifth patient.

Eighteen persons who came into contact with the patients are being keptunder home quarantine.

Altogether 40 passengers who were on board the plane together with thepatient and 42 airport staff are also being kept under surveillance in theirrespective places.

Today, a thirty-second H1N1 child patient, aged 8, and a thirty-third youth,aged 15, were discharged from the hospital as they had fully recovered from theirillness. Home quarantine measures against those who came into contact with thepatients have been halted. There remain two patients—one at Toungoo GeneralHospital and one at Insein General Hospital—and they are being providedmedical treatment in the separate rooms and their health conditions are improvingday by day.

The National Health Laboratory has so far given lab tests to 242 flu-suspected patients and only 35 of whom were found to have infected with thevirus.—MNA

YANGON, 10 Sept—Under the ar-rangement of Myanmar Fishery Fed-eration and Myanmar Prawn Entrepre-neurs Association, with the assistanceof Irrawady groundnut oil, talks willtake place at Thiriannawa Hall of theFederation on Bayintnaung Road in

Talks on safe foods on 12 SeptemberInsein Township on 12 September at2.00 pm.

Dr Kyaw Linn of Food andDrug Administration will give talks onfoods saving from risk. So interestedpersons may attend the talks.

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Putao 2.95 inches

Kawthoung 2.48 inches

Gangaw 2.05 inches

Kayan 1.77 inches

An 1.22 inches

Machanbaw 1.06 inches

Meiktila 0.24 inch

Shrinking Bylot island glaciers tell story of climate change

Early 1990s: Lateral meltwater channels in“snout” of retreating Sermilik Glacier.

SCIENCEDAILY, 10Sept—The US Geologi-cal Survey has releasedthe results of a long-termstudy of key glaciers inwestern North America,

reporting this month thatglacial shrinkage is rapidand accelerating and a re-sult of climate change.

University of Illinoisgeologist William Shilts

spent nearly two decadesstudying glaciers on BylotIsland, an uninhabited is-land about 300 milessouthwest of Thule,Greenland. He, his stu-dents and other geologistswho followed in his foot-steps have chronicled thedecline of several BylotIsland glaciers. Photos ofthe island from the 1940sto the present offer a vividpicture of the changingglaciers and the forces thatshape their retreat.

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