The New Light of Myanmar 18-09-2009

Established 1914

Volume XVII, Number 155 15th Waning of Tawthalin 1371 ME Friday, 18 September, 2009

You have only karma as mother,So it's said in the human world.But efforts and wisdom should be its associate;Only then would undertakings be brought tosuccess,So the noblest of humans the Buddha said.

Admonition byTheelone Mahathera

YANGON, 17 Sept—Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence attended the launch of a shootingfor “Kyalzin Mawgun” in honour of Tatmadaw atChatrium Hotel in Tamway Township here this morningand made an address. The chairman of MyanmarMotion Picture Asiayon extended greetings.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe attends launch ofshooting for “Kyalzin Mawgun”

Next, Director Bagyi Soe Moe gave accounts ofthe film and introduced artistes who will act for thefilm to Lt-Gen Myint Swe.

After the ceremony, Lt-Gen Myint Swe andCommander Maj-Gen Win Myint cordially greetedthe artistes.— MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Sept—The State Peace and Development Council is making efforts for theemergence of a peaceful, modern discipline-flourishing democratic nation upholding Our ThreeMain National Causes. The SPDC has already adopted the seven-step Road Map and is makingharmonious efforts joining hands with the people in order to successfully realize it.

In building a new nation, the government sentenced those who violated the existing laws toprison terms in accord with the law to ensure stability and prevalence of law and order. However,plans are being made for those serving prison terms to turn them into citizens to be able to participatein building a new nation.

The government terminated the prison terms of 7,114 prisoners for their good conduct anddiscipline in consideration of their families, and released them from the respective jails on 17September 2009 to enable them to serve the interests of the regions, their own and the State afterrealizing the government’s compassion and goodwill.—MNA

7,114 prisoners granted amnesty

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development of other sectors of theeconomy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented eco-nomic system

* Development of the economy inviting partici-pation in terms of technical know-how andinvestments from sources inside the countryand abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economymust be kept in the hands of the State and thenational 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 stand-

ards of the entire nation

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

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

tution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence delivers an address at the ceremony to start shootingfor “Kyalzin Mawgun” film.—MNA

INSIDE

Pages 8+9

To serve as a land bridge

WAI HMU

According to the constitution, there shall be a single Tatmadaw inthe nation. All the armed forces are to stand in accordance with theconstitution. If standing in rivalry that is against the constitution,doing illegal livelihoods, poppy farming, production of narcoticdrugs and illegal import and export of goods are rife, that will greatlyharm the interest of the whole country and the people.

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 18 September, 2009

Friday, 18 September, 2009

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

Beautify urban, rural areas

with a sense of dutyKeeping urban and rural areas clean

and beautiful is good for the health of each ofthe citizens. Now, responsible organizationsare beautifying the regions concerned toestablish an environment that possesses allthe characteristics of urban area.

In the process, roads are being upgradedfor smooth transport in commercially busycities with heavy populations. Some roadshave got raised shoulders, and drainage ditchesare being expanded wherever necessary toprevent overflow of drains on both sides ofroads in the rainy season.

Moreover, many projects are in progressfor regional greening, more parks and lakesare being set up to add to the beauty of theenvironment, and new public recreation placesare being established. The plan also coversrenovation of archaeological buildings withoutsacrificing their original styles, and paintingand maintaining them.

Township development affairscommittees are collaborating with thedepartments concerned in making urban areasfree from rubbish, supplying potable water,improving drainage system, and maintainingroads and their platforms. Simultaneously,health staff are organizing local people to keeptheir wards, rural villages, houses, streets,schools and markets clean and implementingdisease control projects.

Therefore, the people on their part areto maintain trees and landscaping plants, andcarry out sanitation work regularly in thesurrounding areas of their houses, streets,schools and markets. And they have to avoidundisciplined acts such as throwing awayrubbish and wasted materials into drains andon roads, throwing garbage from movingvehicles and spitting betel spittle onto roads.

Myanmar will be a clean, beautifulsociety, if the entire people take part with asense of discipline and duty in the tasks forgreening the environment, improving drainagesystem and disease prevention measures.

Officials of MMPE donates books to Mr Gao Hua of Cultural

Counsellor Office of the PRC.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Sept—Nay Pyi Taw Traffic

Rules Enforcement Supervisory Committee held a

meeting at the meeting hall of Nay Pyi Taw Command

here on 11 September with an address by Patron of the

Nay Pyi Taw Traffic Rules Enforcement Supervisory Committee meets

YANGON, 17 Sept —A

ceremony to donate

subject-wise books to the

Oriental Studies De-

partment under Foreign

Languages College of

Beijing University of the

People’s Republic of

China by the departments

and enterprises under the

Ministry of Information

was held at the Office of

the Cultural Counsellor of

the PRC on Khayebin

Road in Dagon Township

here this afternoon.

Officials of Myanma

Motion Picture Enterprise

presented 272 books – 10

from MMPE, 12 from

Myanmar Motion Picture

Asiayon, 106 from Sarpay

MOI donates books to Oriental Studies Department of Beijing University

Beikman, 99 from Press

Scrutinity and Re-

gistration Division and 45

from Myanmar Writers

and Journalists

Association — to Mr. Gao

Hua of the Office of the

Cultural Counsellor of the

PRC.—MNA

YANGON, 16 Sept—The Fisheries Department of

Mon State discussed rules for offshore boats at

Zeephyuthoung village in Ye Township on 27 August.

Present at the discussions were aquaculturists,

fishermen and marine trawler operators. Head of

Mon State Fisheries Department U Soe Myint made

clarifications on rules for offshore fishing boats in

going fishing at sea and on their way back shore.

Next, Head of Ye Township Fisheries Department

U Win Kyi and Chairman of Asin village Peace and

Development Council U Maung Myint explained

future tasks and rules for aquaculturists to follow.

Afterwards, U Soe Myint gave necessary

instructions and further explained tasks to be carried

Rules for offshore fishing boats discussedout for enabling Zeephyuthoung fishing inspection

camp to be check point.

On 29 August, U Win Kyi met with fishermen in

Ywathaywa village and gave talks on aquaculture

conservation and keeping away from catching fish

and prawns.—MNA

superviory committee Nay Pyi Taw Command

Commander Maj-Gen Wai Lwin.

The Commander heard reports on undergoing

tasks and made concluding remarks.—MNA

YANGON, 16 Sept —

National Literary Award

Winner writer Manoktha

Kyaw Win will give talks

on “Customs of National

UMTA to hold talks on 19 Sept

Races and Tourism Indus-

try” at 2 p.m at Asia Plaza

Hotel here on 19 Septem-

ber. Those wishing to at-

tend the talks may contact

Union of Myanmar Trav-

els Association, Ph

559672, 559673 and

545707. — MNA

Trainees of UMFCCI, brother associations, and universities and

colleges pose for photo with trainers at opening of Intellectual Property

for Business course.—UMFCCI

Inter State/DivisionWomen (Open)

Football Tournamentcontinues

NAY PYI TAW, 17

Sept—The first semifinal

of the 14th Inter State/

Division Women (Open)

Football Tournament

took place in

Mawlamyine today. The

match between Yangon

Division and Bago

Division teams ended

6-0.—MNA

YANGON, 17 Sept—The opening ceremony oftraining programme onIntellectual Property forBusiness, organized by theUnion of MyanmarFederation of Chambersof Commerce andIndustry (UMFCCI) andAssociation for TechnicalScholarship (AOTS), washeld at Traders Hotel onSule Pagoda Road, here,on 14 September.

At the ceremony,UMFCCI Vice-PresidentU Win Aung andrepresentative from

Training programme on IntellectualProperty for Business launched

AOTS Mr Kenichiro Aigoextended greetings.

The 44 trainees fromUMFCCI and brotherassociations, otherorganizations, membercompanies, University ofMandalay, YangonInstitute of Economics,University of Yangon(East), Dagon Universityand Cooperative DegreeColleges, attended thecourse.

The one month JODCOn-Job Training (OJT)will be conducted after the15-day course.—MNA

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Gunmen kill 10 at Mexico drugtreatment center

Israel condemns UN’s Gaza report

Map locates CiudadJuarez, Mexico, whereat least 10 people were

killed at a drugtreatment center.

INTERNET

CIUDAD JUAREZ, 17 Sept— Gunmen burst into adrug treatment center in thenorthern Mexican bordercity of Ciudad Juarez andshot to death 10 people, thesecond such mass killingthis month. Investigatorssaid the attack was part ofa turf battle between theJuarez and Sinaloa cartelsin the city, which has seenthe worst of Mexico’s druggang violence.

Gangs use some drugtreatment centers to hidetheir members from rivals,Chihuahua state AttorneyGeneral Patricia Rodriguez

US troops killedin Afghanistan

KABUL, 17 Sept —Three US servicemenhave been killed by aroadside bomb in south-ern Afghanistan, a NATOspokesman has said. Thespokesman said that thedeaths occurred on Tues-day. He did not releaseany other details.

The latest deaths comeas the Taleban intensifiesits attacks against coalitionforces in the south throughroadside bombs and am-bushes. The number ofdeaths among Americantroops in Afghanistan thismonth has now risen to 22.

Internet

Cuba says US should liftembargo unconditionally

HAVANA, 17 Sept —Cuba will not make any politicalor policy concessions to improve relations with the US— no matter how small, Foreign Minister BrunoRodriguez said on Wednesday, snubbing Washington’ssuggestions that some reforms could lead to better ties.He told a news conference that the United States mustlift its 47-year-old trade embargo without waiting foranything in return.

Rodriguez said US trade sanctions have cost the is-land $96 billion in economic damage since they took theircurrent form in February 1962 as part of the Trading withthe Enemy Act.“The policy is unilateral and should belifted unilaterally,” Rodriguez said. He called PresidentObama “well-intentioned and intelligent” and said thathis administration has adopted a “modern, less aggres-sive” stance toward the island.

But Rodriguez shrugged off the White House’s Aprildecision to lift restrictions on Cuban-Americans who wantto visit or send money to relatives in this country, sayingthose changes simply undid a tightening of the embargoimposed by President George W Bush.”Obama was apresident elected on a platform of change. Where are thechanges in the blockade against Cuba?” Rodriguez asked.Cuban officials have for decades characterized Ameri-can trade sanctions as a blockade. —Internet

fore midnight Tuesday atthe Anexo de Vida centerin Mexico’s most violentcity. Two people were seri-ously wounded.

Most of the victims arebelieved to have been re-covering addicts staying atthe facility.”Why? Whythem?” said Pilar Macias,weeping after she identi-fied the body of herbrother, Juan CarlosMacias, 39. “He was re-covering, he wanted to getback on the right track andthey didn’t let him, theydidn’t give him a chance.”“This is going to kill mymother,” Macias said.“She’s very sick and thisis going to kill her.”Maciassaid the mother had en-couraged her son to enterthe facility for treatment ofhis cocaine addiction threemonths ago.—Internet

said. She did not name sus-pects or say which cartelmay have been behind themassacre. Police say ninemen and one woman werekilled in the attack just be-

JERUSALEM, 17 Sept —Israel has strongly criticiseda UN human rights reportinto alleged war crimes dur-ing the Gaza conflict.Thereport said both the Israeliarmy and Palestinian mili-tants committed war crimes

and possible crimes againsthumanity during fighting inJanuary.

The report “was flawedfrom A-to-Z”, the UN panelwas “biased” and some ofits findings “ludicrous”, saidIsraeli government spokes-man Mark Regev. The re-port called for fresh warcrimes inquiries under inter-national scrutiny.

It said Israel’s“Operation Cast Lead”,launched in response tomilitant rocket fire, used dis-proportionate firepoweragainst the densely popu-lated Gaza Strip and disre-garded the likelihood of ci-vilian deaths.The militantgroup Hamas criticisedparts of the report allegingit fired rockets at Israel with-out distinguishing betweenmilitary targets and thecivilian population.

InternetThe report accuses Israel of failing to protect civilian targets in Gaza.—INTERNET

KABUL, 17 Sept—Apowerful suicidebombing hit Afghancapital Kabul Thursday,killing at least 16 peopleincluding six Italiansoldiers and injuringover 50 others, mostlycivilians.

It was a suicide carbomb as the driver blewit up on the road linkingU.S. embassy andNATO’s headquarters toKabul airport causing thefatalities.

Several carsincluding two armored

Suicide attack kills 16, woundsover 52 in Afghan capital

A woman is comforted at the site of a blast in Kabul on 17 September, 2009. Asuicide car bomb hit an Italian military convoy on a road between the U.S. embassyand the main airport in the centre of Kabul on Thursday, killing at least sixteenpeople and wounding dozens, Afghan and Italian officials said.—INTERNET

personnel carriers of theItalian troops servingwithin the framework ofNATO-led InternationalSecurity AssistanceForce (ISAF) were seencrippled at the site of theblast.

Mohammad ZahirAzimi, spokesman ofDefence Ministry, saidthe blast left at least 10civilians dead and some52 others wounded.

Meantime, ItalianDefence Ministry,according to mediareport, confirmed that

the suicide attacktargeting Italian troopsdestroyed two armouredvehicles and killed sixsoldiers aboard.

Taliban spokesmanZabiullah Mujahid laterclaimed responsibility ofthe incident.

This attack inAfghan capital came justin the wake of thepreliminary full result ofpresidential electionswas announced onWednesday in the post-Taliban country.

Internet

No quick decision on troopsto Afghan

WASHINGTON, 17 Sept—President Barack Obama saidon Wednesday there will be no quick decision on whetherto send more US troops into the widening war in Afghani-stan, saying “my determination is to get this right.”

The president’s comments came one day after Adm. MikeMullen, his top military adviser as chairman of the JointChiefs of Staff, endorsed an increase in US forces as likelynecessary to battle a deepening insurgency. The US andNATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen StanleyMcChrystal, also has delivered a grim assessment of thewar and is expected to follow up soon with a request forthousands of additional troops. “I’m going to take a verydeliberate process in making those decisions,” said Obama,taking questions from reporters as he sat in the Oval Officewith visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. “Andso I just want to be absolutely clear, because there’s been alot of discussion in the press about this: There is no immedi-ate decision pending on resources.”—Internet

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A new Volkswagen UP! car at the VW car manufacturing plant in Slovakia inJune. Sales of new cars in Europe rose over the summer thanks mainly to

incentive schemes in countries in the EU, according to industry data.—INTERNET

The Apple iPod Nano, top, and the Microsoft ZuneHD are shown in San Francisco,

on 16 Sept, 2009.—INTERNET

An expert of Colom-bia’s Bank of the

Republic Gold Mu-seum (Banco de la

Republica Museo delOro) arranges exhibitswith a staff member ofthe Shanghai Museum

in Shanghai, eastChina, on 16 Sept,2009. — XINHUA

NEW YORK, 17 Sept —A weak US labour marketled to bigger bank write-downs of credit card debtin August as a record-highjobless rate left consum-ers struggling to pay theirbills. Charge-offs, or thewritedown of uncollect-ible debt by banks, in-creased 81 basis points to10.62 percent in August,after a 31 basis points de-cline to 9.81 percent inJuly. On the retail front,

Credit card losses climbwith jobless rate in August

credit card write-downsincreased 49 basis pointsto 9.99 percent in August,according to JPMorganSecurities.

Citibank posted thebiggest credit card lossesin August, with charge-offs climbing to 12.14percent from July’s 10.03percent, it said. On a posi-tive note, however,American Express, Capi-tal One and National Cityposted lower charge-offrates in August with de-clines of 44 basis points,20 basis points and 24

basis points, respectively,versus the prior month.

Losses in securitiesbacked by credit cardsgenerally track increasesin the unemployment rate.The jobless rate hit a 26-year high at 9.7 percent inAugust. JPMorgan ex-pects to see further creditcard ABS deteriorationgiven the still weakeninglabor market and projectscharge-offs will reach an11 to 12 percent range asunemployment climbsabove 10 percent in2010.—Internet

NEW YORK, 17 Sept —One of about 32 copies ofa rare Revolutionary War-era Bible will be auc-tioned on Thursday inManhattan for an ex-pected $40,000 or more,the owner said.

Mel Meadows ofSpotsylvania, Va, ownstwo copies of “the Bibleof the Revolution.” Anti-quarians say there are per-haps 10 in private hands,The Washington Post re-ported.

The Bibles were

BEIJING, 17 Sept — Visitors to the 2010 ShanghaiWorld Expo will receive a maximum of 1 billion yuan(146.43 million US dollars) liability insurance in asingle accident at the Expo site from the People’s In-surance Company of China.

An official of the country’s major insurer and aglobal partner of the event revealed the amount onWednesday as construction began on its Expo pavil-ion. The insurance would cover injuries site visitorssuffered when the Expo organizer or participants werenegligent, Shen Huili, deputy director of the 2010Expo Office of the insurer, was quoted as saying byon Thursday’s Shanghai Daily.—Xinhua

BEIJING, 17 Sept —China is expected to lead theglobal aviation recovery thanks to its dynamic domes-tic air travel, senior executives from Boeing said onWednesday.

The country will require 3,770 new airplanes val-ued at 400 billion US dollars over the next 20 yearsand will remain the world’s largest commercialairplane market outside the United States, said RandyTinseth, Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ vice-presidentfor marketing.

“China is the world’s most dynamic market for com-mercial airplanes. The strong domestic air travel growthin the country during the first half of this year gives usconfidence that the world aviation industry is begin-ning to recover,” said Tinseth, after issuing the annuallong-term China market outlook in Beijing.

WASHINGTON, 17 Sept— The number of newlylaid-off workers seekingunemployment benefitslikely rose last week, evi-dence that jobs remainscarce.Wall Street econo-mists forecast that first-time claims for unem-ployment insurance roseto a seasonally-adjusted555,000 last week from550,000 the previousweek, according to a sur-vey by Thomson Reuters.The number of people re-

MOUNTAIN VIEW, 17Sept — Google Inc is giv-ing 2 million books in itsdigital library a chance tobe reincarnated as paper-backs. As part of a dealannounced on Thursday,Google is opening up partof its index to the makerof a high-speed publish-ing machine that can

Insurer unveils site coveragefor World Expo 2010

China may lead globalaviation recovery

Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacksmanufacture a paperback-bound book of about 300pages in under five min-utes. The new service isan acknowledgment bythe Internet search leaderthat not everyone wantstheir books served up ona computer or an elec-tronic reader like thosemade by Amazon.com Inc

and Sony Inc.The “Espresso Book

Machine” has beenaround for several yearsalready, but it figures tobecome a hotter commod-ity now that it has accessto so many books scannedfrom some of the world’slargest libraries.

Internet

Collector to sell two early

Colonial booksprinted by Robert Aitkenat the request of Congressin 1782 because the Brit-ish embargoed the import-ing of Bibles. This was nota violation of separationof church and state sincethe Constitution had yet tobe written. Aitken printed10,000 copies but the warended the next year andBibles were again im-ported, the Post said.

Meadows is also sell-ing his copy of the BayPsalm Book, a circa 1682edition of the first bookprinted in BritishAmerica. —Internet

First-time jobless claims expected to risemaining on the joblessbenefit rolls also is ex-pected to increaseslightly, to 6.1 millionfrom 6.09 million.

The Labour Depart-ment report scheduled forThursday comes even asthe Federal Reserve saidWednesday that produc-tion by the nation’s facto-ries, mines and utilitiesincreased for the secondstraight month in August,the latest sign theeconomy is recovering.

Inflation, meanwhile, re-mains essentially nonex-istent, as prices rose onlymodestly last month.

Still, the economyisn’t improving fastenough to spur greaterhiring. Jobless benefitclaims have trendeddown since topping670,000 in early April,but remain far above the325,000 per week associ-ated with a healthyeconomy.

Internet

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Public still in the dark overbrain death

A boy opens his eyes for the first time after asuccessful cornea transplant in Xingtai, Hebei

Province.— XINHUA

BEIJING, 17 Sept— Thepublic should be bettereducated on the definitionof brain death in a bid toease the nation’s shortageof organ donors, said ChenZhonghua, a professor atTongji Medical College inWuhan, Hubei Province.The Ministry of Health re-leased guidelines for theclinical procedures andpractice surrounding braindead patients in 2003 butthe public still remainslargely unaware, he said.

As many as 300 peoplewere declared brain deadby medics last year. Onlyorgans from 70 of themwere used to help thoseawaiting transplants, offi-cial statistics show. Minis-try rules define death intwo ways: cardiac death,when the heart stops beat-ing, and brain death, whenthe brain-stem shows noreflexes and the patient hasno ability to breath un-aided.

“Many people in China

recognize only the former,mainly because they don’tknow about brain death,”said Chen. The key to wid-ening the implementationof China’s brain deathrules lies in raising publicawareness, he said, addingthat a website jointlylaunched by the collegeand society to attract do-nors for the nation’s newpost-death transplant net-work has already signedup 15,000 willing candi-dates.—Xinhua

Bolivia seizes 19 tons of cocaine LA PAZ, 17 Sept—Bolivian President Evo Morales said on

Wednesday that Bolivia has seized a total of 19 tons of cocaine sofar this year, more than the 11 tons for all of 2005. “Also, in the firstnine months of 2009, Bolivia eradicated 5,000 hectares of coca (co-caine’s raw ingredient) without shooting a single bullet,” Moralestold a press conference in Quemado Palace in La Paz. The coun-try’s anti-drug forces also discovered mega-factories of cocaine hy-drochloride with sophisticated equipment, Morales said. Moralesstressed that Bolivia has achieved success in combating drug traf-ficking without cooperation of the United States. Bolivia plannedto buy planes with radars to detect aircraft with drug, but “the UnitedStates was against those buys,” Morales added. — Xinhua

Bomb blast killscivilian, woundsin E AfghanistanKABUL, 17 Sept—A

bomb ripped through ashop in Khost Provinceeast of Afghanistan claim-ing the life of one personand wounded two others,all of them civilians,spokesman of provincialadministration KuchiNasiri said on Thursday.

“The blast took placeinside a shop on Wednes-day in Nadir Shahkot dis-trict left one innocent ci-vilian dead and injuredtwo others,” Nasiri toldXinhua.—Xinhua

China Internet VideoAnti-Piracy Alliance established

BEIJING, 17 Sept—More than 100 Chinese Internetvideo companies and rights holders have establishedthe China Internet Video Anti-Piracy Alliance inBeijing.The group announced on Wednesday that ithad begun collecting evidence against more than one-thousand suspected violators in China. These includeonline video companies such Youku, Tudou, andXunlei.

The alliance said it would begin to file lawsuitsagainst over 500 companies including Pepsi and Coca-Cola, both of which are accused of having placed ad-vertising in unlicensed Youku videos. A lawyer for thegroup said suits would be filed over the coming year,with the alliance seeking compensation of 50-millionto 100-million yuan from Youku.—Xinhua

China donates laptops, stationery to Egyptian hospital

Costa Rica, China to join forces in scientific research

CAIRO, 17 Sept—TheChinese Embassy in Cairoand the Chinese CultureCenter donated laptops,school bags, stationery andtoys on Wednesday toChildren Cancer HospitalEgypt (CCHE 57357).

Wu Jingya, the wife ofthe Chinese Ambassadorto Egypt, submitted the do-nations to the informationtechnology department ofthe hospital on behalf ofthe two Chinese institu-tions and took a touraround the hospital to talkwith children patients and

gave them gifts and toys.Inaugurated in July 2007with an initial cost of 300million Egyptian pounds(54.35 million US dollars),CCHE 57357 is the larg-est children’s cancer hos-pital in the world.”Wethank China for these do-nations and the laptopswill be used to develop themedical services,” saidKhaled el-Nori, the headof the operating and qual-ity department of the hos-pital. “We hope that thevisit of the Chinese delega-tion will not be the last

one,” Khaled added.For her part, Wu ex-

pressed her pleasure of vis-iting the hospital. “Thehospital is an excellent ex-ample of humanitarianismand I wish that it will bebetter and better,” she said,adding that “We will helpthe hospital in variousways in the future.” Thedonation is part of the“Ramadan Charity”, ayearly event held by theChinese Embassy inCairo.(1 US dollar = 5.52Egyptian pounds)

Xinhua

Wu Jingya (L), the wife of the Chinese Ambassador to Egypt, offers aschoolbag to a patient of Children Cancer Hospital Egypt in Cairo, Egypt, on

16 Sept, 2009.—XINHUA

All items from Xinhua News Agency

SAN JOSE, 17 Sept—Costa Rica and China willsign a statement of under-standing on Thursday topromote joint scientificresearch and exchanges,officials said. The agree-ment will be signed by theCosta Rican National In-stitute of Biodiversity(INBio) and the Chinese

Academy of Sciences(CAS) under last year’sScience and TechnologyCooperation Agreementbetween the two countries.

The new deal came af-ter delegations of bothcountries paid high-levelvisits and held extendedconversations, officialssaid. A high-level delega-

tion from Shanghai Insti-tutes for BiologicalSciences and the ShanghaiInstitute of MateriaMedica, both part of theCAS, visited Costa Rica in2008. This was followedby a visit by Costa Ricanexperts to China at the be-ginning of 2009.

Xinhua

Visitors areattracted by asteel sculpture

during the 2009Shanghai

InternationalSteel SculptureArt Festival at

BaoshanDistrict in

Shanghai, eastChina, on 16Sept, 2009.

XINHUA

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NEWS ALBUM

Nine couples got married with a viewof Munich’s skyline on Wednesday.They wanted to be able to say theirwedding took place on 9 Sept, 2009.

The town of Stadtroda in Thuringia,eastern Germany, has put on its annual“Straw Festival” in a local field for theseventh time. In Germany andthroughout the EU 112 is the numberto dial to report an emergency.

Visitors attend an exhibit at what’sbilled as the world’s biggest pumpkinand squash show at Ludwigsburg insouthern Gemany. Among the stories

portrayed are “Gulliver’s Travels”and “Cinderella.” More than 450

types of squash and pumpkins are ondisplay there until 11 November.

Malaysian centenarian wants 23rd marriageMek Wok Kundor, a 107-year-old

Malaysian was in search for her 23rdmarriage when she felt insecure withher current husband, a local dailyreported .

The Star said Mek, better known asTok Wook, was afraid that her husbandmight leave her to marry anotheryounger woman here.

The centenarian married Mohd NoorChe Musa, 37, in 2005. The marriagedrew massive public attention owing tothe large age gap between the couple.

Many people were skeptical abouttheir marriage but Tok Wook revealed

her happiness to the media sometimeafter their marriage.

Mohd Noor, a drug addict, iscurrently undergoing a drugrehabilitation programme here, leavingTok Wook alone at Kuala Berang in thestate of Terengganu.

The Star quoted Tok Wook as sayingthat she would visit her husband if herneighbours were willing to give her adrive here. She said although feelinginsecure, she would wait for him withoutthinking of another marriage if hereciprocated, adding that she was lonelywithout him.

Fake cop arrested after stoppingLa Mayor

Police say a manimpersonating an officer witha flashing red light in his carhas been arrested after hepulled over the wrong driver— the mayor of Shreveport,La. Police think the suspectwas using the in-dash light tomaneuver through traffic onMonday night in north-westLouisiana.

Mayor Cedric Gloversays he pulled over whenthe drove behind him, butthe fake officer then sped

away. Glover says he followedthe car and called police.

Daniel Niederhelman, 21,of Shreve-port has beencharged with false personationof a peace officer. Policeseized the light and a handgunfrom Niederhel-man’s holster.

Authorities say Nieder-helman works for a privatesecurity company, but wasn’tauthorized to use the light.Booking records did not listan attorney for Niederhel-man.

Ala boy fakes kidnapping to hidebad grades

An 11-year-old boy gets high marks in storytelling afterstaging a hoax to cover up his bad grades. Police said the boyfaked his kidnapping on Friday to avoid bringing home a badreport card, saying that a man with a pistol snatched him afterhe left Ed White Middle School. The boy said the man forcedhim into a “beat-up car” and threatened to kill him.

The student said he escaped by jumping out of the car butwasn’t able to grab his bookbag, which contained the reportcard.

He ran to his grandparents’ house and later confessed tolying. His grandfather called police to apologize.

Sgt Mark Roberts said police were suspicious that the boywas able to “escape” with his band instrument, but not hisbookbag.

Roberts said the boy faces no charges at this time.

DALLAS, 17 Sept —Egyptian twins oncejoined at the head returnedto Texas this week forcheckups, and weretreated to a pizza party onWednesday with thedoctor who brought themto the United States to beseparated.

Now 8, Ahmed andMohamed Ibrahim strodedown hallways andgobbled up pizza and icecream, wearing matchinggray T-shirts over yellowlong-sleeved shirts. Theyare both enrolled inschool, enjoy watchingtelevision and playing on

JAKARTA, 17 Sept —The Asia Africa Found-ation said at least 15countries will attend theAsian-African ChildrenArt and Culture Festivalscheduled for 14-15 Decin Jakarta, the private

LONDON, 17 Sept — Scientists say they are a stepcloser to curing colour blindness using gene therapy.AUS team were able to restore full colour vision to adultmonkeys born without the ability to distinguishbetween the colours red and green.

Nature journal describes the technique used by theresearchers at the University of Washington. Althoughmore studies are needed, the same treatment may workfor humans who are colour blind, experts believe.Untilnow scientists had not thought it was possible tomanipulate the adult brain in this way.

It was considered that adding new sensoryinformation, such as the visual receptors necessary forperfect colour vision, could only be done in the earliestyears of life when the brain is at its most malleable or“plastic”. But Professor Jay Neitz and his team wereable to introduce therapeutic genes into the light-sens-ing cells at the back of the eye of adult male squirrelmonkeys.—Internet

Twin brothers Mohamed Ibrahim, right, andAhmed Ibrahim touch heads during an interviewin Dallas, Texas, on 16 Sept , 2009.—INTERNET

Once-conjoined twins return to Dallasfor checkups

HOBART, 17 Sept — A cat named Clyde wasreunited with his owner on Wednesday after amysterious three-year odyssey in which the long-haired Himalayan strayed 2,400 miles into theAustralian Outback.

Ashleigh Sullivan, 19, said she had given up hopeof ever finding Clyde after he vanished when he wasabout one year old from her family home near Hobartcity in Australia’s island state of Tasmania.

“I’m positive he remembers. He’s not acting likehe’s suddenly appeared somewhere and is frantic,”Sullivan said as she tearfully held her contented cat.

A nurse found Clyde wandering at a hospital in theremote Queensland state town of Cloncurry and caredfor him for four months before taking him to a localvet as she was leaving town and could not take the catwith her.

The vet, Donna Weber, traced Clyde’s owner froman identification microchip that was imbedded underthe cat’s skin.

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the computer, theirmother said. The boyswho were born joined atthe tops of their headsnow sport headfuls ofcurly black hair. Theyalso walk easily, thoughwith a slightly awkwardgait.

“Here they are. Sittinghere now enjoying life,”Dr Kenneth Salyer said asthe boys ate. Salyer’snonprofit World Cranio-facial Foundation broughtthe then 1-year-old boysto Dallas in 2002 to beevaluated for separation.The twins were separatedthe next year during a 34-

hour surgery. Afterundergoing additionalsurgeries to reconstructtheir skulls, they returnedto Egypt in 2005. This istheir second return toDallas for checkups sincegoing home.—Internet

Stray Australian catreturns home after2,400-mile journey

15 countries expected to attend Asian-Africanchildren festival in Indonesia

news portal Bisnis comquoted an official asreporting on Thursday.The agenda is aimed tore-fertilize brotherhood inAsia-African spirit aswell as to support thenational tourism.

The foundation’ssecretary general Sujokosaid that several countrieshave been waited for theirconfirmation to join thefestival.

“We predicted that 15

to 25 countries to sendtheir delegation.

The event could be apart of Indonesiantourism campaign viachildren,” he told thepress.He also said thatseveral activities wouldbe held, namely an exhi-bition and art-cultureperformance, games,story telling of 1,000stories, and auction ofchildren artworks.

Xinhua

‘Gene cure’ for colour blindness

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MCDC plants trees for monsoonNAY PYI TAW, 17

Sept—Mandalay City De-velopment Committee or-ganized monsoon treeplanting ceremony atKandawgyi ward inChanmyathazi Township

on 11 September.Chairman of Man-

dalay Division Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of CentralCommand Maj-Gen TinNgwe and Chairman of

Mandalay City Develop-ment Committee MayorBrig-Gen Phone Zaw Hanparticipated in the cer-emony together with per-sonnel.

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Mon State observes World FirstAid Day 2009

YANGON, 17 Sept—Organized by Supervi-sory Committee for MonState Red Cross Society,a blood donation cer-emony to mark WorldFirst Aid Day 2009 washeld at Mawlamyine Gen-eral Hospital on 7 Sep-tember. Altogether 30members from 10 town-ship Red Cross Brigadesin the state took part inthe ceremony.

Chairman of the

supervisory committeeHead of Mon State HealthDepartment Dr Zaw Win,Secretary Dr Toe ToeAung, Medical Superin-tendent Dr Nyan Zaw,Acting Commander ofMon State Police ForcePolice Lt-Col KyawMyint, In-charge DrSandar Myaing of BloodBank and officials encour-aged the blood donors andprovided them with re-freshment and medicines

and presented gifts.A skill contest to

mark World First Aid Day2009 took place at thegymnasium of Basic Edu-cation High School No (1)in Mawlamyine Townshipon 6 September. Membersof 10 townships Red CrossBrigades participated inthe contest.

Next, officials pre-sented prizes to the win-ners of the contest.

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MIA member leaves for Japan for MBA courseYANGON, 17 Sept—Director U Aung Tha Hmwe

(a) U Aung Khant Min of Beat Plus Co Ltd, member ofMyanmar Industrialists’ Association, left here forHitotsubashi University in Tokyo of Japan on 14September to attend MBA course under the arrange-ment of young leader’s programme.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17Sept—Minister for Elec-tric Power No. 1 Col ZawMin received Vice-Presi-dent Mr. HuangGuangming of HuanengLancang RiverHydropower Co., Ltdfrom the People’s Repub-lic of China and party atthe ministry here on 15September.

Also present atthe call were Deputy Min-ister U Myo Myint, thedirectors-general andmanaging directors of thedepartments and enter-prises under the ministryand officials.—MNA

EP No.1 Minister receives Vice-President of HuanengLancang River Hydropower Co

A&I Minister receives Country Director ofWFP, Australian Ambassador

NAY PYI TAW, 17Sept— Minister for Ag-riculture and IrrigationMaj-Gen Htay Oo re-ceived Country Director& Representative Mr.Christorpher Kaye of

World Food Programme(WFP) at 3 pm at the min-istry here on 15 Septem-ber.

Likewise, theminister received Ambas-sador of Australia HE Ms

Michelle Su-Wen Chan at4 pm at the ministry thesame day.

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Director-General attends DAC workcoordination meeting

YANGON, 17 Sept—Director-General of De-velopment Affairs Depart-ment under the Ministryof Progress of Border Ar-eas and National Racesand Development AffairsU Myo Myint attendedwork coordination meet-ing of Thayawady Town-ship Development AffairsCommittee at theThayawady Township in

Bago Division (West) on14 September and deliv-ered an address.

Next, the director-general viewed progressin repaving No. 2 Kyaungroad being undertaken byThayawady TownshipDAC.

After that, the direc-tor-general attended thework coordination meet-ing of Pyay Township

DAC. The director-gen-eral inspected maintaenceof machinery, water sup-ply, progress in repavingPagoda road.

The director-gen-eral met with the offi-cials of Bago Division(West) DAC. After hear-ing the reports, the di-rector-general attendedto the needs.

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Minister supervises regionaldevelopment tasks in Katha

and Htigyaing Tsps

NAY PYI TAW, 17Sept—Minister for SportsBrig-Gen Thura AyeMyint met with local peo-ple in Aung Chan Tha vil-lage in Katha Township,Sagaing Division on 13September and attendedto the needs.

After attending theopening ceremony of ru-ral development camp inThabyaybin village, theminister cordially metwith local people readingat the library.

After attending theopening ceremony ofThabyaybin village BasicEducation Middle School(Branch), the minister metwith local people fromThabyaybin, Sakagon,

Margayi, Yinke andThayagon village-tracts.

During his meetingwith local people inKyaukhtongyi village, theminister presented a sat-ellite receiver to watchMRTV and MRTV-4 pro-grammes donated by theMinistry of Informationand sports gear and exer-cise books for the villagesand varieties of books forthe rural library.

The following daythe minister met with lo-cal people in Migyongaikvillage in Htigyaing town-ship and then presentedsports gear, publicationsand exercise books for theprimary school.

Next, he proceeded

to Aletaw model villageBasic Education HighSchool (Branch), and pre-sented publications forthe Pyinnyar Padetha ru-ral library and sports gearfor the school.

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Director U Aung Tha Hmwe (a) U AungKhant Min of Beat Plus Co, Ltd seen at theairport before departure for Japan.—MNA

Minister for Electric Power No. 1 Col Zaw Min receives Vice-PresidentMr. Huang Guangming of Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower

Co Ltd of the PRC.—MNA

Three one-year-old cubs playing merrily at yellow tiger cage seen atZoological Garden (Nay Pyi Taw).—MNA

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At the invitation of an institution on interna-tional relations in the People’s Republic of China,I again paid a visit to the Asian giant to read apaper. On my way in Shanghai, a friend from theinstitute took me to East Sea Bridge. The 30-kilometer bridge over the sea is linked with anisland used as a deep-sea port. He said that in itsinfancy, the bridge saw vehicles, mostly smallones; that their visits were just for sightseeing;and that then the facility constantly coped with alarge number of container trucks.

It is a very formidable task to build such a longbridge linked with a deep-sea port. It called forhard work plus high technology in order that thesea bridge would be resistant to tidal waves,strong winds and seawater. Surely, the emergenceof the impressive bridge must be largely due totenacity, perseverance, team spirit and foresightof Shanghai dwellers. In particular, such a giantbridge is the fruit of cohesive, harmonious workof over 20 million Shanghai inhabitants.

Feeling cold in a wild breeze, I happened tothink about ongoing deep-sea port projects offthe coast of our country and visualized the futureof our country to emerge as a land bridge nation.Then, I was full of hope for a prosperous futureof my country.

Being situated between Southeast Asiaand South Asia as well as between China andIndia, Myanmar occupies a strategic positionin terms of geopolitics. So, Myanmar takescare of itself in order that its internal affairswill never have adverse effects not only onitself but also on regional security and stabil-ity. Myanmar is home to over 100 national races,so it gives first priority to consolidated unityamong national brethren in the national interestaccording to the geopolitics. In order to achievethe noble aim, the government focuses on equi-table improvement of the socio-economic life ofall national brethren. As a result, Myanmar en-joys peace and all-round development at theunprecedented level. In order to improve effec-tively the socio-economic life of the entire peo-ple, it is required to combine geo-politics viewsand geo-economics views in a bid to bring wealthto the motherland. What should the people do tomeet the goal?

The strategic location of the nation will soon

To serve as a land bridge

be a good advantage for the people to help gener-ate economic growth of the nation. Myanmar’sneighbouring countries, Southeast Asian and SouthAsian countries are now eager to promote eco-nomic relations among them, using the territory ofthe Union of Myanmar as a land bridge. Land-locked provinces of China and India with remark-able economic development want to use deep-seaports of Myanmar for mutual economic benefits.So, there have emerged Kyaukpyu Deep-sea PortProject along with Kalatan River All-round De-velopment Project covering the improving ofSittway Deep-sea Port. Thailand and Myanmarare now holding talks to launch Dawei Deep-seaPort Project. India too has interest in Dawei Deep-sea Port Project. Bangladesh wants to trade withChina through Myanmar. India and China want totrade with each other, using Stillwell Road. Indiaand ASEAN countries also want to trade with eachother, using railroads and motorways in Myanmar.If hundreds or thousands of millions of peoplein the region do trade activities, constantlypassing through the Myanmar land bridge,Myanmar will gain economic benefits throughsale of its domestic products, labour and serv-ices, and the people will enjoy higher livingstandard.

Rapidly advancing China badly needs hugesize of fuel for its industries. So, it has prioritizedenergy security and energy sufficiency. Eightyper cent of its imported oil comes from African

and Middle East countries by sea. So, its oiltankers have to pass through Malacca Strait. Thenarrowest part of the straight is as wide as aboutone and a half miles. So, if there is temporaryclosure of the straight due to collision of vesselsor enormous spill of oil, it has to choose a longersea route. If so, it will have to spend more ontransportation of oil and the oil prices in it will goup, in consequence. Furthermore, prices of goodswill rise and that will have a negative impact onits economic competition. Its energy security isnot secure so long as it relies on Malacca Straitfor transport of oil. If it lays an oil pipeline toYunnan Province through Kyaukpyu Deep-seaPort, it will enjoy energy security with less costdue to shorter distance. So, China plans to builda pipeline, spending billions of US dollars topurchase gas from Myanmar. Therefore,Myanmar becomes more and more important forit. And those countries want stability andpeace of Myanmar. In addition, they come toappreciate the efforts the government is mak-ing with farsightedness, industry and correctconcept, standing on its own feet to ensureState stability, peace and development. Neigh-bouring countries have come to support thegovernment that is an organization of fewwords, but achieves great success in its na-tion-building tasks.

I would like to reiterate that according to thegeopolitics, consolidated national unity is thekey to better national interest. The people areconvinced of the fact that sowing dissension anddriving a wedge among national races are de-signed to break up the national interest. In thepost-independence period, multi-coloured in-surgent groups launched their armed revoltagainst the government, resulting from lack ofvision and strategic views of political parties,and their self-centred attitude, and interferenceof some foreign countries in the internal affairs.At that time, the total area under the administra-tive machinery of the then government was

(See page 9)

Wai Hmu

Myanmar is home to over 100 national races, so it givesfirst priority to consolidated unity among national breth-ren in the national interest according to the geopolitics. Inorder to achieve the noble aim, the government focuses onequitable improvement of the socio-economic life of allnational brethren. As a result, Myanmar enjoys peace andall-round development at the unprecedented level.

Now the entire country has fully risen from the nightmareand restored stability and peace. It is very apparent to theentire national people that Myanmar took a very long journeyfull of hardships before achieving present conditions. Rem-nant armed insurgents are staying in the refugee camps in theneighbouring country. Myanmar people are therefore to bevigilant against them because they can rear their ugly headsagain before their end. Furthermore, there are many nationalrace peace groups that have returned to the legal fold, but theyhave not surrendered their arms due to various reasons.

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To serve as a land bridgeWai Hmu

(from page 8)Yangon exclusive of Insein. Most of the total areaof the country had been under the hands of themulti-coloured insurgent groups. However, nowthe entire country has fully risen from the night-mare and restored stability and peace. It is veryapparent to the entire national people thatMyanmar took a very long journey full of hard-ships before achieving present conditions. Rem-nant armed insurgents are staying in the refugeecamps in the neighbouring country. Myanmarpeople are therefore to be vigilant against thembecause they can rear their ugly heads againbefore their end. Furthermore, there are manynational race peace groups that have returned tothe legal fold, but they have not surrendered theirarms due to various reasons.

Now, the State Constitution (2008) has beenin force with the approval of 92.48 per cent of thevoters. The constitution was written unanimouslyby National Convention delegates, over 60 percent of whom were national races. According tothe constitution, there shall be a single Tatmadawin the nation. All the armed forces are to stand inaccordance with the constitution. If standing inrivalry that is against the constitution, doingillegal livelihoods, poppy farming, production ofnarcotic drugs and illegal import and export ofgoods are rife, that will greatly harm the interestof the whole country and the people. If so, theoffenders will face widespread opposition fromthe people and the government, neighbouring

countries, and the international community. So,any of the citizens has to stay away from suchlawless acts and honour the law. It is required ofthe entire people to form a human society inMyanmar all of whose members remain united inaccordance with the law. To put it another way,the Myanmar society has to practise constitution-alism.

The government has improved all the infra-structures, by constructing an endless numberof infrastructural buildings across the nation.The Tatmadaw government is pursuing its strat-egies with the sharp determination that thenation’s economy must be strong by the timewhen it hands over power to the civilian gov-ernment to be formed under the constitution.When these strategies are all realized, the Un-ion of Myanmar will become a land bridgecountry where not only local people but also a

According to the constitution, there shall be a singleTatmadaw in the nation. All the armed forces are to stand inaccordance with the constitution. If standing in rivalry thatis against the constitution, doing illegal livelihoods, poppyfarming, production of narcotic drugs and illegal import andexport of goods are rife, that will greatly harm the interest ofthe whole country and the people.

large number of people from the neighbouringcountries engage in trade activities. So, wehave to work hard together in order that theland bridge country, like East Sea Bridge, willbe well resistant to tidal waves, strong windsand bad weather. After completion, the landbridge will have substantial pillars portrayingforbearance, perseverance, cohesion, farsight-edness, correct concept and conviction, andbig heart of more than 57 million people of thenation. All those experts and political leaderswith an outlook of geo-economics have no-ticed that the land bridge is under constructionin Myanmar. Therefore, the entire people haveto do their bit in the process of constructing theland bridge to make sure that all the pillars ofthe bridge are strong.

*****Translation: MS

H&T Minister meets localpeople in Pyapon Township

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Sept—Minister for Hotels andTourism Maj-Gen Soe Naing, on 13 September, metwith townselders, teachers, health staff and local peo-ple from four villages at Gonnyintan village in PyaponTownship. Then, he presented K 1,060,000 donatedby Grand Lotus Co and responsible persons handedover clothes, medicine and foodstuff.

Afterwards, he met local people from four vil-lages at Kyontar village Basic Education High Schoolin Pyapon Township. The minister fulfilled the needsand responsible persons handed over blankets, clothesand foodstuff.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Sept—Minister for Financeand Revenue Maj-Gen Hla Tun met with staff ofPension Department at the ministry here this after-noon.

It was attended by Deputy Minister Col HlaThein Swe, Governor of Central Bank of Myanmar UThan Nyein, Director-General U Kyaw Htay of Pen-sion Department, directors-general and managing di-rectors of departments and enterprises under the min-istry, deputy director-general and staff of PensionDepartment.

The minister delivered an address and inspectedPension Department Head Office.—MNA

Minister meets staff ofPension Department

YANGON, 17 Sept—Chairman of Committee forEnsuring Prompt and Regular Freight-handling andOperating at Full Capacity Minister for TransportMaj-Gen Thein Swe on 14 September looked intoarrival of containers and tasks of the inspection teams,systematic storage of imported goods, loading of ex-port goods, checking of containers at X-ray machine atBo Aung Kyaw Jetty, loading and unloading of timberonto foreign going liners at Sule Jetty, arrival of heavy

Transport Minister looks into functions of ports

machinery and containers at Myanma Industrial PortContainer Yard.

The minister gave instructions on safety meas-ures and sanitation tasks.

At Asia World Port Terminal in Ahlon Town-ship, the minister viewed tasks of inspection teams andchecking of containers through the X-ray machine andloading of timber onto the foreign going liners.

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Minister for Transport Maj-Gen Thein Swe views loading of timber logs onto foreign goingvessel at Sule Jetty. —TRANSPORT

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(from page 16)The government,

in its bid to build a mod-ern and developed na-tion through education,is producing educatedyouths for the futurestate. Today, Techno-logical Universities, Uni-versities of ComputerStudies and Universitieshave been opened thelength and breadth of theUnion.

As a result, youthsin the regions have op-portunities to study fordegree courses at the uni-versities of their respec-tive states and divisions.

On our recent tourof Mandalay Division towrite bylines on regionaldevelopment, we,Myanma Alin news crew,visited Yandanabon Uni-versity that produces hu-man resources. We had anopportunity to visit the uni-versity with the help of UKyaw Nan Htaik, a local.

Yadanabon Uni-versity is situated atTaungthaman village inAmarapura Township,Mandalay Division. Thevillage has become a partof Mandalay thanks to

Yadanabon University: Alma mater ofintellectuals and intelligentsia

Article: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

U Than Nwe(The Rector)

“Yadanabon Univer-sity is an auspiciousground producingintellectuals andintelligentsia.”

The signboard of the entrance to Yadanabon University.

developing Mandalay. Onour way to the universityalong Taungthaman Lakering road on our motor-bikes, a light breeze blow-ing from TaungthamanLake refreshed us.

After a few min-utes’ drive, we arrived atYadanabon University.The design of the newly-built main building of theuniversity is very attrac-tive.

Along the road toYadanabon University,we witnessed ancientbuildings, pagodas andtraditional handicraftsbusinesses as Amarapurawas built before the estab-

lishment of Mandalay. AsYadanabon University ison the road toTaungthaman Lake and UPein Bridge, traffic on theroad to the university isalways heavy.

When we enteredYadanabon University, wewere greeted by a schoolbuilding with a stoneplaque in front of it, saying“the construction of theuniversity started on 12March, 2000 in accord withthe directive of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil and it was suc-cessfully opened on 7 July,2003 (9th Waxing of Waso1365 ME).”

In interviewingRector U Than Nwe aboutthe academic matters ofYadanabon University,he said, “Yadanabon Uni-versity was YadanabonCollege previously. Thegovernment upgraded thecollege to the universitylevel on 22 February,2000.

There are 19,423undergraduates learningat the university in cur-rent 2009-10 academicyear. Convocations ofthe university have been

held 12 times up to date.It has turned out 37,958arts and science gradu-ates.

A total of 26,000students from Universityof Distance Education arestudying at the university.Yadanabon Universityhas the strength of 664faculty members and 327staff. There are 26 artsand science subjects con-ducted at the university.”

“Yadanabon Uni-versity is an auspiciousground for students whospecialize in archaeologysince Amarapura Town-ship is rich in historicalsites. Moreover, it is con-

venient to do their studiesfor students majoring inzoology as TaungthamanLake is located nearby.Besides, the students havean opportunity to acquireknowledge of industrialproduction as industrialzone is situated in thetownship,” he added.

Most of universitystudents in Mandalay arepursuing education at theYadanabon University.sports and body buildingassociation was set up inthe university this year.Sports activities were or-ganized at the universityas the Commander andthe Minister for Sports

presented sports gear tothe university.

Thanks to thegoodwill of the govern-ment for emergence ofYadanabon University,there have been moreopportunities for theyouths in the region topursue higher education.As a result, the region isseeing a growing numberof educated youths in artsand science subjects whoare making impressivecontribution towards thebuilding of a modern na-tion.

*****Translation: YM

Myanma Alin: 16-9-09

Please read CentralCommittee for Preventionof Trafficking in Personsinstead of CentralCommittee for Drug AbuseControl in the news onTraining on Community-based Human TraffickingPrevention on page 10 of17-9-2009 issue of NLM.Error is regretted.—Ed

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Sept—Two bomb blastsoccurred in Hlinethaya Township at midnightyesterday, one in the compound of Komatsu hydraulicbulldozer & excavator Co, five yards from the fence,at 11.45 pm, and another in the compound of FamilyUnited Power hydraulic bulldozer & excavator Co,five yards from its fence at about midnight.

Another bomb blasts occurred near the policeoutpost on Nawade Street in Yeokkan village,Hlinethaya Township Industrial Zone-3 and outsidethe compound of Fly Man finished wood factory onMin Theikdi Kyawswa Road about 00:52 hours today.It was followed by another bomb blast outside thefence of UNICEF medical store on Mingyi MahaMingaung Street in Industrial Zone-3 of HlinethayaTownship about 01:30 hrs today.

There were also bomb blasts in North Okkalapaand Mingaladon Townships this morning, oneoccurred near a transformer at the back of John-A

Series of bomb blasts in Hlinethaya,North Okkalapa and Mingaladon townships

No causalities and injuries reportedgarment factory on Gangaw Street in ShwepaukkanIndustrial Zone in North Okkalapa Township.

Another bomb blast occurred in the compoundof Myanmar Asia Optical factory in MingaladonIndustrial Zone about 4 am and members of securityforces, acting on a tip-off, were able to seize a timebomb made of table clock packed in 6-inch long, 4-inch wide and 2-inch high cardboard about 9:20 thismorning.

The incidents caused slight damages but noinjuries were reported and personnel concerned andmembers of security forces cleared the bomb-struckplaces and are investigating to the cases.

Authorities concerned urge the public tocooperate with them by keeping a watchful eye onterrorists and destructionists who are penetrating thesociety in different disguised forms and informingthe responsible persons in time.

MNA

YANGON, 17 Sept—TV Guide Vol.1 No.11came out today. It featurespreviews of EnglishPremier League footballmatches, programmes to be

TV Guide in circulationbroadcast on Travel &Living and Discoverychannels and detailprogramme schedule of theweek.

TVGuide isavailable at bookshops, CityMarts, super markets, andMRTV-4 Showrooms at aprice of K 500 per copy.Door to Door deliveryservice will be provided formonthly subscribers at thesame price.

TVGuide publishedby Novel Light Express(Tel: 391186, 243893)comes out every Friday.—MNA

Corrigendum

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XI’AN, 17 Sept—Two suspects havebeen detained for allegedly looting 14stone sculptures of Buddha heads datingback to around 1,000 years ago from atemple in Shaanxi Province, an officialsaid Saturday.

The third suspect, who carries allthe Buddha head sculptures, is still atlarge. The items are on a national list ofcultural heritages for protection.

The three men pretended to betourists and entered Wan’an BuddhaHall in Huangling County at about5:30 p.m. Friday. They tied up andbeat the three employees of the temple,robbed them of their cash and cellphones. Then the three suspects cut

1,000 year-old Buddha head sculptureslooted from China temple

off the heads of 14 Buddha statues, allabout 9 centimeters to 15 cm tall, whichwere engraved during the NorthernSong dynasty (960-1127), andescaped, Wang Chunmei, director ofthe county’s press office, told XinhuaSaturday.

Police seized Zhang Yingjie andZhang Mingqiang at about 8 p.m. thesame day after receiving reports aboutthe looting, but the third suspect, whocarried all the Buddha heads, was still atlarge, said Wang.

Police officers have cordoned offthe temple, hunting the third suspect andquestioning the two in police custody.

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ANSBACH, Germany,17 Sept—An 18-year-oldstudent armed with an axand knives lobbedMolotov cocktails at hishigh school in southernGermany on Thursday,wounding eight pupilsand a teacher before hewas shot and arrested bypolice. The teenagerentered the CarolinumHigh School in theBavarian town ofAnsbach on Thursdaymorning and threw oneMolotov cocktail beforepolice were alerted andarrived at the scene, saidBavarian Interior

HOUSTON, 17 Sept—More and more Americansare living paycheck topaycheck, said a report of asurvey released onWednesday.

There has been noofficial definition of “livingpaycheck to paycheck”, butanalysts sum it up by theexample of checking one’sbalance the day beforepayday with an emptywallet, or without anyemergency fund.

The nationwide surveyconducted byC a r e e r B u i l d e r . c o mindicates that 61 percent USWorkers are just eking by.That’s up from 49 percentin 2008 and 43 percent in2007.

Moreover, the surveyfound that 30 percent ofworkers with salaries of100,000 dollars or morereport that they, too, livepaycheck to paycheck, upfrom 21 percent in 2008.

MNA/Xinhua

BOGOTA, 17 Sept—Colombian police agents onTuesday seized threecontainers with millions ofUS dollars in cash, whichwere en route to drugtrafficking bands inColombia. Director of theColombian police, GeneralOscar Naranjo, said that thethree containers came fromthe Mexican port of

A man takes a look at ahuge crocodile-

sculpture made out ofhundreds of pumpkinson a farm in Feldkirch-

Hartheim, southernGermany, on Wedne-sday, on 9 Sept, 2009.The pumpkin-harvest

has started and a farmerdecorates his yard withpumpkin-sculptures as

promotion for hisproducts which he

directly sells to visitors.INTERNET

Teen wounds 8 students, 1 teacher at German school

Colombia seizes containers stuffed withdrug trafficking money

Manzanillo and the US cityof Houston, Texas.

During policeoperations carried out lastweek in the ports ofBuenaventura, Colombia,and Manzanillo, Mexico,authorities of both countriesseized drug traffickingmoney worth more than33.4 million US dollars.Naranjo believed the

incident was related to aMexican-Colombian drugtrafficking ring operatingin Colombia, and that aringleader known as“Comba” was behind it.

Naranjo furtherassumed that the money waspayment for cocaine sentfrom Colombia via Mexicoto the United States.

MNA/Xinhua

Study says moreAmericans

living paycheckto paycheck

The world’s tallest man, Sultan Kosen from Turkey, poses for photographers nextto school children at an event in London, 16 September, 2009.—INTERNET

Kenyans look at a German container ship Hansa

Stavanger, which was held by Somali pirates for

four months, arrived at Kenya’s Mombasa port on

Saturday after a $2.7 million ransom was paid for

the release of its

24 crew. —INTERNET

Anti-piracy shipping

pact gets US boostWASHINGTON, 17 Sept—The United States and

other shipping nations have agreed on new guidelinesto curb rampant piracy off the Horn of Africa, theState Department said on Wednesday.

The State Department said the United States,Britain, Cyprus, Japan, Singapore and South Koreahad recently signed the “New York Declaration” onmeasures to protect against attacks, like increasinglookouts and keeping fire pumps ready to repelwould-be pirates.

“Piracy is a 17th century problem that demandsa 21st century solution,” an official release quotedsenior State Department official Andrew Shapiroas telling a Washington symposium on high-seascrime.

Shapiro said efforts were also underway to boostcooperation among naval patrols now stationed inthe region, arrange for the prosecution of suspectedpirates and to help Somalia and its neighbourssecure their own territorial waters.

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Minister JoachimHerrmann.

Police smelled smokewhen they arrived at theschool, Hermann said.They were confronted bythe ax-wielding teen, whohad thrown a secondMolotov cocktail thatapparently failed todetonate.

“Since the attackerthreatened to use hisweapons against thepolice, the officers openedfire,” Hermann said,adding that the attacker,who was not identified,was wounded and incritical condition.

Udo Dreher, the chiefpolice officer at the scene,said the18 year old wasshot five times, but wasnot in life threateningcondition.

Two teenage girls wereseriously injured by theattacker — one sufferingburns and the other headinjuries, said Dreher. It wasnot immediately clearwhether the second girl wasattacked with the ax or aknife. Authorities did notsay how the seven peoplewho suffered light injuries— six students and a teacher— had been attacked.

Internet

Tobacco kills

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GATI PRIDE VOY NO (22910)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV GATI PRIDEVOY NO (22910) are here by notified that the vesselswill be arriving on 18.9.2009 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie atthe consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S GATI COAST TO COASTPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BOHAI CHALLENGE VOY NO (21)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV BOHAI CHAL-LENGE VOY NO (21) are here by notified that thevessels will be arriving on 18.9.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of S.P.W.5 where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: EASTERN CAR LINER(SINGAPORE) PTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

Tropical Storm Martyheads north off Mexico

coastMIAMI, 17 Sept—Tropical Storm Marty is moving

again in the Pacific off Mexico’s western coast.The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Marty

had winds near 45 mph (75 kph) and began movingagain on Wednesday to the north-northwest at 3 milesper hour (6 kph). The 13th storm of the Pacific seasonis expected to continue in the same direction and speedup slightly in the next day or two.

The center of the system is located about 315 miles(505 kilometers) southwest of the southern tip of Mexi-co’s Baja California peninsula.—Internet

South African Hawks in drugs bust

IndonesianAir Force

plane crashesin Sragen,pilot dead

JAKARTA, 17 Sept—Atraining plane of Indone-sian Air Force crashed inthe town of Sragen, Cen-tral Java on Thursday,killing a crew member.The plane crashed around11 am (0400 GMT) on arice field and was totallydamaged, the detik.comreported. The trainingplane was piloted by twopilots and one of themdied.

“I can’t confirm the fateof the other one,” Sardi,the unit chief of crime andresearch of Sumber-lawang regional police,was quoted by the report.Police could not evacuatethe plane because theyhad to wait for IndonesianAir Force personnel.

Internet

Eight millionAmericans

consider suicideWASHINGTON, 17 Sept—

More than 8 millionAmericans seriously con-sider suicide each year,according to a new gov-ernment study. About32,000 suicides occur inthe United States eachyear, but a new study bythe Substance Abuse andMental Health ServicesAdministration indicatesthat many more give theidea serious thought.

The new SAMHSA re-port is based on a survey of46,190 people aged 18 andolder. In the past, the ques-tion about suicide had onlybeen asked of people whoreported major depressionbut in 2008 it was added toall questionnaires.

Other findings:• People 18 to 25 years

old were far more likely tohave seriously consideredsuicide in the previous year(6.7 percent) than those 26to 49 (3.9 percent).

• Just 2.3 percent seri-ously considered suicideamong those 50 or older.

• Among people with asubstance abuse disorder,11 percent had consideredsuicide, compared to 3 per-cent for people withoutsuch disorders.—Internet

The 8,000kg of canna-bis was thought to bedestined for the UK.

INTERNET

JOHANNESBURG, 17 Sept—Three Brit-ish men have appeared in a court in SouthAfrica in connection with what is be-lieved be the biggest drug seizure in thecountry. South Africa’s new serious andorganized crimes unit, the Hawks, seized$70m (£42m) worth of cannabis andheroin in Durban over the weekend.

The drugs, which police believe weredestined for the UK, were confiscated af-ter a tip off from British police. The Brit-ons and two South Africans have beencharged with trafficking.Two brothers —Paul and Jon Beazley—Paul Bromleyand the two, as yet unnamed, South Afri-cans will appear in court on 21 Septem-

ber. Last week, more than 150kg of heroinwas intercepted at London’s HeathrowInternational Airport after arriving on aflight from South Africa. An investiga-tion by the Serious Organized CrimeAgency (Soca) led officers to an addressin Dartford, Kent, where a further 80kgof the Class A drug was discovered.

One man was subsequently arrested -and the trail lead back to South Africa andto the coastal city of Durban where8,000kg of cannabis and 115kg of heroinwere found in a warehouse. The newlyformed Hawks said the London and Dur-ban drugs consignments are believed tobelong to the same syndicate. —Internet

Debris litters a road after Hurricane Ivan hit thearea, in Orange Beach, Ala.—INTERNET

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This image provided by the European Southern Observatory on 16 Sept ,2009 shows an artist rendition of the first rocky extrasolar planet called

Corot-7b. European astronomers confirmed the first rocky extrasolar planeton Wednesday.—INTERNET

VVFirm place to stand outsidesolar system

WASHINGTON, 17 Sept—Researchers havefinally found a placeoutside our solar systemwhere there’s a firm placeto stand — if only itweren’t so broiling hot.As scientists search theskies for life elsewhere,they have found more than300 planets outside oursolar system. But they allhave been gas balls orcan’t be proven to besolid. Now a team ofEuropean astronomers hascon-firmed the first rockyextrasolar planet.

Scientists have longfigured that if life beginson a planet, it needs a solidsurface to rest on, sofinding one elsewhere is a

big deal.”We basicallylive on a rock ourselves,”said co-discoverer ArtieHartzes, director of theThuringer observatory inGermany. “It’s as close tosomething like the Earththat we’ve found so far.It’s just a little too close toits sun.”

So close that its surfacetemperature is more than3,600 degrees Fahrenheit,too toasty to sustain life.It circles its star in just20 hours, zipping aroundat 466,000 mph. Bycomparison, Mercury, theplanet nearest our sun,completes its solar orbitin 88 days.”It’s hot,they’re calling it the lavaplanet,” Hartzes said.

This is a majordiscovery in the field oftrying to find lifeelsewhere in the universe,said outside expert AlanBoss of the CarnegieInstitution. It was the buzzof a conference on findingan Earth-like planetoutside our solar system,held in Barcelona, Spain,where the discovery waspresented Wednesdaymorning. The find is alsobeing published in thejournal Astronomy andAstrophysics.

Internet

There are more than 6,500 cases of the H1N1flu strain in India .—INTERNET

Costa Rica requests 1.8 mlnA/H1N1 flu vaccines

SAN JOSE, 17 Sept — Costa Rica requested 1.8million vaccines against the A/H1N1 flu virus toprevent infections among its people, official sourcessaid on Wednesday. According to the healthauthorities, these vaccines will be offered to somemost vulnerable group of people, like patients whohave risk factors like obesity, diabetes and smokers,as well as the health staff.

Those who have high levels of asthma amongchildren and the people above the age of 60 yearswill be part of the priority sectors to receive thevaccine. Costa Rica will buy these vaccines troughthe Pan American Health Organization, whichfacilitate the procedures to get the vaccines for thethird world countries.

Currently, Costa Rica has reported a total of1,246 cases of A/H1N1 flu, including 33 death cases.

Xinhua

Canada announces prioritygroups for A/H1N1 flu

vaccinationOTTAWA, 17 Sept — Canada on Wednesday

released the priority groups for A/H1N1 vaccination,among which include health workers. Other groupsto first get the shot are pregnant women, children andadults with chronic conditions, Dr David Butler-Jones, Canada’ s chief public health officer, said ata press conference in Ottawa.

People living in remote and isolated settings orcommunities are also expected to be given priority.Vaccinations are expected to get underway inNovember.Health Minister Leona Aglukkaqannounced 76 A/H1N1 flu deaths have been reportedin Canada as of Tuesday. —Xinhua

Indian swine flu deathstop 200

NEW DELHI , 17 Sept — The number of people to dieof swine flu in India has crossed 200, health officialssay. The new deaths have been reported from theIndian capital, Delhi, and the western Maharashtraand Gujarat states.

The number of swine flu cases in India has alsoclimbed to over 6500, officials say. They have beenreported from 28 states.Many schools in affectedcities have closed temporarily because of the outbreakof the disease.

Maharashtra state has recorded the highest numberof deaths (87) followed by Karnataka (66) and Gujarat(18), the reports say. In August, colleges and cinemasin Mumbai were temporarily closed because of fearsabout the spread of flu.The virus is thought to havekilled more than 3,000 people around the world.

Internet

US employees pushed to ‘cloud computing’

Worlds oceans warmest on record this summerWASHINGTON, 17 Sept – The world’s in hot water.

Sea-surface temperatures worldwide have been thehottest on record over the last three months, the NationalOceanic and Atmospheric Administration said onWednesday.

Ocean temperatures averaged 62.5 degreesFahrenheit in the June-August period, 1.04 degreehigher than normal for the period. And for August theworld sea-surface average was 62.4 degrees, 1.03higher than usual, also the warmest for August onrecord. The combined land and water temperatureworldwide was 61.2 degrees, third warmest on recordfor the three-month period. For August it was 58.2degrees, fourth warmest. Climate change has beenraising the planet’s average temperature steadily inrecent decades. All of the 10 hottest years on recordhave occurred since 1997.—Internet

Earthquakerocks eastern

Indonesia JAKARTA, 17 Sept — A

moderate earthquakemeasuring 5.7 on theRitcher scale jolted easternparts of Indonesia onThursday, the Meteorologyand Geophysiscs Agencyhere said.

The quake struckat 11:52 am Jakartatime (0452 GMT) withepicenter at 131 kmnortheast Ternate of Northmaluku and 41 kmunder seabed, an officialof the agency, RahmaBaharuddin told Xinhua.

Indonesia, with apopulation of over 230million, is laid on avulnerable quake-hit zone,the so called “PacificRing of Fire”, where twocontinental plates, stre-tching from Westernhemisphere to Japan, meet,causing frequent seismicand volcanic move-ments.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 17 Sept —The Obama administrationsays it is trying to nudgefederal bureaucrats into“cloud computing” —using applications onlineinstead of personalcomputers. CNN reportedthe new policy means somefederal employees will beusing online “apps” suchas YouTube, Gmail andWordPress, all of whichstore data on privateInternet servers rather thanthose paid for by thetaxpayers.

“Our policies lag behindnew trends, causingunnecessary restrictions onthe use of new technology,”Vivek Kundra, the US chiefinformation officer, said ina WhiteHouse.gov blogpost on Tuesday. “We arededicated to addressingthese barriers and toimproving the waygovernment leverages newtechnology.”A new federalapp store at apps.gov letssome US employees do

official business, but is notavailable to the public,CNN said.

The US governmentspends $75 billion peryear on data storageand other informationtechnology, a figure thenew policy is designed toreduce.Meanwhile, Google

on Tuesday announcedthe set-up of a “governmentcloud” to store publicdata on Google computerservers by 2010. A Googleblog post said the dedicatedspace will serve federal,state and local gove-rnments, CNN reported.

Internet

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S P O R T S

SEVILLE, 17 Sept –Brazilian duo Luis Fabi-ano and Renato grabbedthe goals as Sevillaopened their ChampionsLeague Group G cam-paign with a 2-0 win overRomanian rookies UnireaUrziceni on Wednesday.

Fabiano and Renato’sgoals also put the Span-iards in early control oftheir pool after rivalsStuttgart and Rangersdrew 1-1. The Romani-ans, playing in their firstChampions League cam-paign, were only pro-moted to the top flight oftheir domestic leaguethree years ago, and arecoached by former Chel-sea defender DanPetrescu. He played in the

UEFA trials 5 officials as EuropaLeague takes off

PARIS, 17 Sept — The group stage of the EuropaLeague kicks off on Thursday, with the trialling of fiveon-pitch match officials providing the biggest talkingpoint prior to the start of the tournament.In the big-gest change to the game since the introduction of theback-pass rule in 1992, two extra officials will patrolthe area behind each goal on the lookout for penaltyarea transgressions such as diving and shirt-pulling.

UEFA president Michel Platini has pioneered theidea and says it will be escalated to next season’sChampions League and the 2012 European Champi-onship if it proves effective.”One day players will giveup simulating because referees will see them,” saidthe former France international legend.

“For years players have cheated because the ref-erees were not of a good enough quality.—Internet

SAN DIEGO, 17 Sept —Paula Creamer is sick ofbeing sick, so it wouldmake her feel pretty goodif she can defend her titlein the Samsung WorldChampionship starting on

LIEGE, 17 Sept —Arsene Wenger expectsArsenal’s dramatic Cham-pions League fightback atStandard Liege to providehis side with a much-needed injection of confi-dence. The Gunners werefacing the unpalatableprospect of a third succes-sive defeat when goalsfrom Eliaquim Mangalaand Milan Jovanovichanded Liege a shocktwo-goal lead within thefirst five minutes at theStade Maurice Dufrasneon Wednesday.

After back to back de-feats to Manchester Unitedand then Manchester City,another loss, especiallyagainst such unheraldedopposition, would haveraised serious questions

Inter hold Barcelona in drabstalemate

MILAN, 17 Sept — Inter Milan held title-holdersBarcelona to a 0-0 draw in their Champions LeagueGroup F opener at the San Siro on Wednesday in amatch which failed to live up to pre-match hype.

The game was billed as a clash between SamuelEto’o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, both playing againstthe team they left only two months ago, but neitherthey nor talents such as Lionel Messi and Xavi couldbreak the deadlock in a turgid stalemate. Perhapsunsurprisingly for such a big match between two Eu-ropean heavyweights so early in the competition it wasa cagey affair dominated by defences.But that suitedInter boss Jose Mourinho.—Internet

LIVERPOOL, 17 Sept — Liverpool will hope to makeit four wins in a row when they visit West Ham in thePremier League on Saturday after limping to a 1-0victory against Hungarian champions Debrecen inEurope.” We’re slowly getting back to where we wantto be,” Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard said afterseeing his side struggle to victory over Debrecen intheir opening Champions League Group E tie atAnfield on Wednesday.

“It’s three wins on the spin, hopefully we can makethat four at West Ham,” added the England midfielder.

Internet

LYON, 17 Sept —Lyon celebrated openingtheir tenth successive sea-son in the ChampionsLeague with a 1-0 winover old foes Fiorentinahere on Wednesday.

The Italians, knockedout of last year’s firstround by Lyon, had toplay the entire second pe-riod with ten men afterItalian World Cup winnerAlberto Gilardino wasrightfully sent packing forelbowing Lyon midfielderJeremy Toulalan. Lyonmidfielder MiralemPjanic earned the formermultiple French champi-ons the three points when

Dynamo battle back to beat KazanKIEV, 17 Sept—Ukrainian champions Dynamo Kiev

battled back from a goal down to beat Russian titleholders Kazan 3-1 in their Champions League GroupF opener here on Wednesday.Dynamo’s goals camefrom Nigerian midfielder Ayila Yussuf, Brazilian de-fender Gerson Magrao and Ukrainian internationalOleg Gusev, while Argentinian forward AlejandroDominguez was on target for Kazan.

Dynamo take top spot in Group F after Inter Milanand defending champions Barcelona fought out a drabgoalless draw in Italy.” We played well but were tooslow in the first half and allowed Kazan to organisedefensively,” said Dynamo boss Valery Gazzayev.”Butwhen we had speed and power after the break. It waslike a hurricane.” Kazan, who were playing their firstever Champions League match, stunned the hosts withthe opening goal.—Internet

Paula Creamer.

Creamer looking for healthyrebound at Samsung

Thursday at TorreyPines.Creamer battled amystery illness most ofthe year and is still look-ing for her first win of2009. She said her energylevels are returning to nor-mal and she’s getting herdistance back.

Still, she’s a little bitwary. She got sick aftergoing to Mexico in No-vember for the LorenaOchoa Invitational. Doc-tors did test after test andshe was on medication.”They still have no ideawhat was wrong with me,which is a scary thoughtknowing that it couldcome back,” Creamersaid.She also had a thumbinjury.—Internet

Arsenal’s great escape‘just perfect’ for Wenger

Arsenal’s WilliamGallas (left) and Arse-

nal’s ThomasVermaelen celebrateafter scoring the 2-2agains Standard deLiege during theirUEFA Champions

League group H foot-ball match in Liege.

INTERNET

about Arsenal’s ability toend their four-year trophydrought. But NicklasBendtner gave Arsenal aglimmer of hope when hestruck just before half-time.—Internet

Liverpool look ahead afterChampions League scare

Liverpool’sFernando

Torres (right)congratulates

teammate DirkKuyt after

scoring againstDebrecen

during theirUEFA Champi-

ons Leaguematch at

Anfield, inLiverpool.INTERNET

Pjanic gets Lyon off to ChampionsLeague winning start

Lyon midfielderMiralem Pjanic cel-

ebrates after scoring agoal against Fiorentinaduring their European

Champions leaguefootball match at theGerland Stadium inLyon. —INTERNET

the Bosnia-Herzegovinainternational pounced inthe final quarter of anhour.—Internet

STUTTGART, 17 Sept — Algeria defender MadjidBougherra hit a superb second-half equaliser to giveRangers a point and seal a 1-1 draw against Stuttgartin the Champions League Group G match on Wednes-day.

The 26-year-old struck with less than 15 minutesremaining to give Walter Smith’s side a valuable awaypoint and deny Stuttgart boss Markus Babbel a win-ning start on his European debut as a coach.” In thesecond half, we threw away the plan and were chas-ing the game,” said a disappointed Babbel.” The firsthalf was good and we must go back to that.—Internet

Bougherra strike gives Rangerspoint in Stuttgart

Stuttgart’s defender Serdar Tasci (L) collides withRangers’ striker Kenny Miller during their UEFA

Champions League group G football match inStuttgart.—INTERNET

Sevilla salute boys from Brazil

Sevilla’s Brazilianforward Luis Fabiano

(R) celebrates scoring agoal against Unireaduring their UEFAChampions league

football match at theSanchez Pizjuan sta-

dium in Sevilla.INTERNET

Steaua Bucharest sidewhich reached the final ofthis competition in 1989and he brought all his ex-perience to bear againstthe former UEFA Cupwinners in the first half.

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* Signature Tune* Song of Myanma Beauty & Scenic Sights* Meditation Centres throughout Myanmar* Travelogue “Ngapali”* Myanma Endeavours Towards Water Resources

Management (Part-II)* Myanmar Modern Song* The Characteristic of Inthas Tradition Boat

Race* Song of Myanma Beauty & Scenic Sights

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* Signature Tune* Song of Myanma Beauty & Scenic Sights* Meditation Centres throughout Myanmar* Travelogue “Ngapali”* Myanma Endeavours Towards Water Resources

Management (Part-II)* Pleasant Pindaya* Myanmar Modern Song* The Characteristic of Inthas Tradition Boat

Race* Current Affairs “Seminar on Global Warming”* Mandalay with Arrays of Arts* Do you want a chair that’ll be comfortable?* Myanmar Modern Song* Rope Painting* Song of Myanma Beauty & Scenic Sights

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowers have beenisolated in Rakhine and Kayah States, lower Sagaing andMagway Divisions, scattered in Shan State, Upper Sagaing,Mandalay and Yangon Divisions, fairly widespread in ChinState, Bago and Taninthayi Divisions and widespread inthe remaining States and Divisions with isolated heavyfallsin lower Sagaing and Mandalay Divisions. The noteworthyamounts of rainfall recorded were Nay Pyi Taw (Lewe)(0.32) inch, Dawei and Ayadaw (2.68) inches each,Kyaikkhame and Machanbaw (2.36) inches each, Sagaing(2.28) inches, Tataroo (Aviation) (2.13) inches, Minesatand Pathein (2.01) inches each, Zaungtu (1.97) inches,Kalewa (1.88) inches, Putao (1.85) inches andTaungdwingyi (0.83) inch.

Maximum temperature on 16-9-2009 was 91°F.Minimum temperature on 17-9-2009 was 72°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 17-9-2009 was 79 %.Total sun shine hours on 16-9-2009 was (2.2) hours approx.

Rainfall on 17-9-2009 was Tr at Mingaladon, Nil atKaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (94.65) inches at Mingaladon, (104.84) inches atKaba-Aye and (111.22) inches at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (6) mphfrom South at (15:30) hours MST on 16-9-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is weak in the Andaman Seaand Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 18th September 2009:Rain or thundershowers will be widespread in Mon Stateand Taninthayi Division, fairly widespread in Kachin, Chin,Shan and Kayin States, Upper Sagaing, Yangon andAyeyawady Divisions and scattered in the remaining areas.Degree of certainty is (80%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation ofthundery conditions in the Central Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for18-9-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for18-9-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for18-9-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

WEATHERThursday, 17th September, 2009

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 10:00am) MSTEurope - (15:30pm ~ 23:30pm) MSTNorth America - (23:30pm ~ 07:30am) MST

Panda model is seen on a monitor at the NationalTaiwan University of Science and Technology(NTUST). World’s first panda robot is taking shapeat the cutting-edge lab where an ambitious group ofscientists hope to add new dimensions to the island’s

reputation as a high-tech power.—INTERNET

650,000 Bangladeshi workersgo abroad last fiscal year

DHAKA, 17 Sept—About 650,059 Bangladeshiworkers went abroad for jobs during the last fiscalyear (July 2008 -June 2009), the BangladeshiMinister for Labour and Employment, ExpatriatesWelfare and Overseas Employment KhandakarMosharraf Hossain told the Parliament Tuesday,national news agency BSS reported.

Replying to a written question of law makersfrom treasury bench in the country’s nationalParliament, the minister said the country earnedremittances amounting to 9.68 billion US dollarsduring the period.

Mosharraf said manpower exports to differentcountries like Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Kuwaithave now been squeezed due to ongoing globaleconomic recession. But, he added, manpowerexports to other countries including the UAE, Libyaand Oman, have been continuing as it was in thepast.—MNA/Xinhua

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15th Waning of Tawthalin 1371 ME Friday, 18 September, 2009

★ 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

Yadanabon University: Alma mater ofintellectuals and intelligentsia

Article: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

The entrance of Yadanabon University. (See page 10)

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