The New Light of Myanmar 31-08-2009

Established 1914

Volume XVII, Number 137 12th Waxing of Tawthalin 1371 ME Monday, 31 August, 2009

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic sys-tem

* Development of the economy inviting participation interms of technical know-how and investments fromsources inside the country and abroad

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entire nation* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and preser-

vation and safeguarding of cultural heritage andnational 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 tranquil-lity, 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

Prime Minister General Thein Seinfelicitates Malaysian counterpartNAY PYI TAW, 31 Aug — On the occasion of the 52nd Anniversary of the Independence Day

of Malaysia, which falls on 31 August 2009, His Excellency General Thein Sein, Prime Ministerof the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Dato’ Sri Hj MohdNajib bin Tun Hj Abdul Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe sendsfelicitations to Malaysia

NAY PYI TAW, 31 Aug—On the occasion of the 52nd Anniversary of the IndependenceDay of Malaysia, which falls on 31 August 2009, His Excellency Senior General Than Shwe,Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has senta message of felicitations to His Majesty Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Ibni Al-MarhumSultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah, Yang di-Pertuan XIII of Malaysia.—MNA

Government recognizes cooperation for development of Kokang RegionLaw violation in Kokang Region concerns only four persons including U Phon Kya Shin

Artless members of Kokang armed group who complied with the command allowed to enter legal fold in safetyGovernment of the Union of Myanmar issues Announcement No (1/2009)

NAY PYI TAW, 30 Aug—The Government of the Union of Myanmar today issued Announcement No (1/2009) dated 30 August 2009. The translation of theannouncement is as follows:-

Government of the Union of MyanmarAnnouncement No (1/2009)

11th Waxing of Tawthalin 1371 ME(30 August 2009)

1. Shan State (North) Special Region (1) Kokang Group returned to the legal fold on 21 March 1989. Since then, it has been working together with the governmentfor restoration of peace and stability and regional development. As a result, Kokang Region has developed far more than that in the past and the people are much pleasedwith it. The government recognizes the group’s cooperation with it.2. However, four leaders of Special Region (1) U Phon Kya Shin, U Phon Kya Phu, U Phon Tar Shwin and U Phon Tarli violated the laws promulgated by thegovernment. They have been summoned since 8 August 2009 for coordination to figure out the issue in accordance with the law. Nevertheless, they fled KokangRegion instead of addressing the issue.3. In addition, there was no progress in addressing the issue through coordination in which Kokang troops loyal to U Phon Kya Shin on 27 August 2009 capturedand took the members of the Myanmar Police Force who were discharging duties at Yanlonkeng in Myanmar-China border gate. Accordingly, arrangements weremade to save the captured policemen. In that regard, Kokang troops opened fire at the security forces of the State. So, the security forces had to launch counter attacksfor their security and that of the captured members. The skirmishes ceased on 29 August 2009.4. Now, peace has been restored, and tasks for restoration of regional peace, stability and development have returned to normal. The provisional leadingcommittee formed by Special Region (1) Kokang Group is cooperating and undertaking the tasks under the leadership of the government.5. The law violation in Kokang Region does not concern any other person except the four persons. The government understands well that the artless troops whohad to open fire did not violate the law because they had to just follow the orders. The government hereby announces that those artless Kokang troops who followed theorders are allowed to enter the legal fold in safety, and they are therefore to contact Kokang Region provisional leading committee in Laukkai to return to the legal fold.

By order,

Government of the Union of Myanmar

MPF exposes and seizes illegally-run arms and ammunition factory inKokang Region of Shan State (North) Special Region (1)

U Phon Kya Shin, other responsible persons, unwilling to meet officialsto settle the issue flee Kokang region

They are urged to seize opportunity to address the issue in accord with lawKokang Region Provisional Leading Committee issues announcement

NAY PYI TAW, 30 Aug — Kokang Region Provisional Leading Committee of Shan State (North) Special Region (1) issued an announcement dated 30 August2009. The translation of the announcement is as follows:- (See page 8)

(Sd) Thant Shin ColonelSecretary

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 31 August, 2009

Monday, 31 August, 2009 * 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 DesirePERSPECTIVES

Partake iodized salt daily to

prevent avoidable iodine

deficiencyGood health somehow enhances cognitive

growth of human beings. So, every citizen should

keep themselves fit with long life expectancy.

The Ministry of Health is now stepping

up public health care with the aim of ensuring

better longevity of the people and preventing

and controlling diseases. In order to achieve

the lofty aim, it has launched the integrated

drive of disease control measures, treatment,

rehabilitation, sanitation and health education.

The Ministry of Health is mobilizing the

public in nutritional development week

activities since the first week of August. The

combined efforts cover giving Vitamin A tablets

to children, iron tablets to pregnant women,

immunization, school health care, and

nutritional development work.

In the fourth week of the month, the

ministry put into action the movements for

wiping out the outbreaks of the diseases caused

by iodine deficiency. Iodine deficiency had a

negative impact on the public health standard.

Many kinds of seafood contain iodine, but it

alone is not enough to satisfy the iodine

requirements of man. So, the people,

irrespective of region and age are required to

partake iodized salt.

If a pregnant woman suffers from iodine

deficiency, she may have miscarriage, give a

premature birth, or give birth to mentally and

physically-handicapped baby. And if a child

suffers from iodine deficiency, he may be smaller

than normal, face less cognitive development

and suffer from goiter.

As a result of the Ministry of Health’s

endeavour to make iodized salt more common

to the people, more than 90 per cent of the

people consume iodized salt. Every citizen will

be healthy with high intellectual power if the

Department of Health and related regional

organizations raise public awareness about

consequences of iodine deficiency and the people

keep a balanced diet of seafood, fruit and

vegetables and cereals.

Foreign Affairs Minister

felicitates Malaysian

counterpartNAY PYI TAW, 31 Aug — On the occasion of the

52nd Anniversary of the Independence Day of

Malaysia, which falls on 31 August 2009, His

Excellency U Nyan Win, Minister for Foreign Affairs

of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of

felicitations to His Excellency Datuk Anifah Aman,

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia.

MNA

Ambassador U Aung Thein

presents credentials to

Crown Prince of ThailandNAY PYI TAW, 31 Aug — U Aung Thein,

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of

the Union of Myanmar to the Kingdom of Thailand,

presented his Credentials to His Royal Highness

Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, His Royal

Highness Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Thailand,

on the behalf of the King of the Kingdom of Thailand

on 5 August 2009, in Bangkok.—MNA

Commander meets local people in KengtungNAY PYI TAW, 30 Aug—Chairman of Shan

State (East) Peace and Development Council

Commander of Triangle Region Command Maj-

Gen Kyaw Phyo met with local people at the

Naungkan village in Kengtung Township and

presented stationery and publications to them on

22 Aug morning.

Next, the Commander inspected the Post Basic

Education Primary School in Naungkan village.

He also visited the Naungkan Pre-Primary School

and gave clothing and cash assistance.

Afterwards, the Commander viewed the free

medical treatment being provided to the local

people and fulfilled the requirement.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 30

Aug—Myanmar War

Veterans Organization

erected a billboard

MWVO erects billboard for conference 2009

marking the conference for

2009 near the Bawgathiri

highway station in Nay Pyi

Taw Pyinmana on 28 Aug

morning. It was attended

by Chairman of War

Veterans Supervisory

Committee of Nay Pyi

Taw Command Lt-Col Ye

Nyunt, chairman of

Township WVO Lt-Col

Thein Swe (Retd) and

members of committee,

members of WVO, social

organizations, local

people of Kyauk Chek and

Kinpontan villages.

At the auspicious

time, the Chairman of

WVSC of Nay Pyi Taw

Command pressed the

button to unveil the

billboard.

MNA

Talks on Business Management held

YANGON, 30 Aug—

Talk on International

Level Business

Management was held at

Traders Hotel on Sule

Pagoda Road here on 29

August, with an opening

speech by CEO of Smart

Resources, Singapore

Education Consultancy

Services U Nay Lin

Phyo.

On the occasion,

Principal Consultant of

Myanmar Management

Consulting Saya U Aye

Kyaw gave talks on

Management Career,

Deputy Manager of

Kaplan Singapore Mr

Ethan Wong on the

teaching method on

American Management

Education System and

the subjects for

Myanmar students.

Afterwards, they

answered the queries on

the subjects raised by

those present.—NLM

Chairman of WVSC of Nay Pyi Taw Command Lt-Col Ye Nyunt unveils Myanmar War Veterans

Organization billboard for conference 2009.—MNA

CEO of Smart Resources, Singapore

Education Consultancy Services U Nay Lin

Phyo gives opening speech.—NLM

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 31 August, 2009 3

India defence drive attractsglobal suppliers

Suicide attack kills two civilians,wounds 21 in S Afghanistan

KABUL, 30 Aug — A suicide bomber blew himselfup in Zabul province, south of Afghanistan, Saturday,killing two civilians and wounding 21 others, a localofficial said. “The incident occurred at 11:00 am(0630 GMT)when soldiers of international troops were on patrolin Shahjoi district, leaving two innocent civilians deadand 21 others wounded,” AbdulQayum, district chiefof Shahjoi told Xinhua. Qayum added that the suicide bomber strappedexplosive device in his body and exploded in the bazaarof Shahjoi when the foreign troops were on routinepatrol. However, he did not say if there were anycasualties on the foreign troops.—Xinhua

Suicide bomber kills 14 in IraqBAGHDAD, 30 Aug — A suicide bomber on Satur-

day killed 14 people, including nine police officers,and wounded another 19 north of Baghdad, Iraq’sInterior Ministry said.

The explosion occurred when a bomb-loadedmini-van was driven into a police station anddetonated in al-Sharqat, Salaheddin province, CNNreported. Twenty shops and dozens of cars weredamaged.

Last week, more than 100 people were killed andhundreds more wounded when two massive truckbombs were driven into the foreign and financeministry buildings in Baghdad.

Suicide attacks have escalated since US combatforces handed security control of cities and town to Iraqiforces two months ago, CNN reported.—Internet

NEW DELHI, 30 Aug —India’s drive to protectitself after last year’sMumbai attacks isattracting interest fromsome of the world’s biggestcompanies who seeopportunities in the pushfor improved homelandsecurity.

The government, aftershunning the private sectorfor decades, is embracingit as an ally in the quest fornew security strategies andtechnologies following theMumbai bloodbath on lastNovember that left 166people dead.

“Indian companiesright now don’t have thecapability, but they are ac-quiring it through overseasjoint ventures as the oppor-tunity is huge in the home-land security domain,” saysAmit Singh from the Con-federation of Indian Indus-try.

“Public sector enter-prises cannot meet this de-mand.”

India plans to spend 30billion dollars on militarycontracts by 2014, whilejunior defence ministerPallam Raju announcedlast week a separate 10

billion dollars homelandsecurity upgrade to becompleted before 2016.

“There are significantopportunities for theprivate industry to partnerin the homeland securityand sub-conventionalwarfare space,” Raju tolda military meeting earlierthis month.

India began opening upits defence industry to theprivate sector in 2001 andallowed foreign firms toown 26 percent of localventures, although a surfeitof red tape put off manycompanies.—Internet

An Iraqi youth looks into a shop after one of its walls collapsed following a car bombin al-Sharqat, 100 kms north of the city of Tikrit. A spate of attacks across Iraq onSaturday killed 19 people, including a local politician and a child, and injured dozens, making it the country’s deadliest day since Ramadan began.—INTERNET

Brit teen arrested in hugecocaine bust at Peru airport

Firefighters work at thesite of a forest fire inCordoba Province, cen-tral Argentina, on 29Aug, 2009. The forestfire that broke out inCordoba has burnt45,000 hectares of farm-land and forest andcaused one people dead.Hundreds of local resi-dents were evacuat-edform the area, accord-ing to the local government.—XINHUA

A bag of seized freebasecocaine. Peruvian

customs officials onSaturday arrested aBritish teenager at-tempting to board a

flight to London withsome 29 kilograms (64pounds) of cocaine in

her suitcase, policesaid.—INTERNET

TEHERAN, 30 Aug — Iran welcomed on Saturday as “positive” the UN atomicwatchdog’s latest report on its nuclear programme, but vowed to continue enrichinguranium.

“Fortunately the current IAEA report has been more positive than the earlierones due to the new approach of the Islamic republic,” the head of Iran’s nuclearenergy organisation Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted by state television’s news websiteas saying.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday in a study obtained byAFP that Iran has slowed production of enriched uranium and agreed to tightermonitoring of its enrichment plant.

Teheran has also granted UN inspectors access to a research reactor long out ofbounds, the restricted report revealed.

Enriched uranium can be used to make nuclear fuel, but can also become thefissile material for an atomic bomb.—Internet

Iranwelcomes‘positive’

IAEAnuclearreport

LIMA, 30 Aug — Pe-ruvian customs officialson Saturday arrested aBritish teenager attempt-ing to board a flight toLondon with some 29 ki-lograms (64 pounds) ofcocaine in her suitcase,police said.

At a street value of100 dollars per gram, thehaul was worth almostthree million dollars.

The 18-year-oldwoman, Salea Kathun,was detained alongside ayoung Canadian, KatiaCarrilho, who was alsoallegedly holding around3.5 kilograms (7.7pounds) of cocaine, afterthe two were detected bydrug-sniffing dogs atLima’s international air-port, police said.

Under Peruvian lawoffenders can expect atleast six years in jail un-der drug traffickingcharges.

Peru is the world’ssecond-largest producerof cocaine, after Colom-bia.

Internet

NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan KABUL, 30 Aug — A soldier of the NATO-led Interna-tional Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed in themilitancy-hit south Afghanistan, a press release of the alli-ance said on Sunday. “An International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) ser-vice member was killed on Saturday as a result an Impro-vised Explosive Device (IED) detonation that occurred insouthern Afghanistan,” the press release said. However, it did not say the exact place of the incident orthe nationality of the victim. “We mourn the loss of a professional ISAF service mem-ber who sacrificed his life to help secure Afghans living inthe south,” said Brigadier-General Eric Tremblay, ISAFSpokesperson in the press release. The incident coincided with the visit of British PrimeMinister Gordon Brown to the restive Helmand Provinceon Saturday. Troops from The United States, Canada, Holland, Brit-ain and Australia have been stationed in the southern re-gion to stabilize security there.—Xinhua

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FDIC seizesMaryland

bankTOWSON, 30 Aug—A

Maryland bank founded in1903 has been seized bythe Federal Deposit Insur-ance Corp, which arrangedto have another institutiontake over its operations.

Bradford Bank ofTowson had been unableto find a buyer, The Balti-more Sun reported.M&T Bank, now one ofMaryland’s largest lend-ers, agreed to purchaseBradford’s assets from theFDIC.

FDIC officials enteredBradford’s headquarterson Friday. “People need tobe calm. They don’t needto change anything,” saidGlenn A Watler, an FDICombudsman.

Watler said Bradford’snine branches, most ofthem in Baltimore County,would be open for busi-ness on Saturday and nextweek and depositors couldcontinue to get access totheir money.—Internet

German unemploymentto stay under 4 mln

BERLIN, 30 Aug—German LabourMinister Olaf Scholz expects unemploy-ment to keep rising in the comingmonths but believes it will stay belowfour million, according to a magazineinterview to be published on Monday.

“The economic collapse will of courselead to a jump in unemployment in thecoming months,” the Social Democratminister told Der Spiegel magazine.

“But this year we will stay under thefour million mark.”

The number of people out of work inGermany edged higher to just under 3.5million in July, according to official data,and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2percent.

A state scheme subsidising firms tocut working hours has thus far preventeda flood of jobless claims but experts havewarned that a steady trickle in recentmonths could soon become a deluge.

Internet

British firm opens oil fieldin India

BARMER, 30 Aug—Britain’s Cairn Energy on Sat-urday began pumping crude from a vast oilfield in theIndian desert state of Rajasthan that is set to increasethe country’s crude output by 20 percent.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a cer-emony inaugurating the field that Cairn’s successshowed global investors that “India has a good cli-mate for foreign investment.”

“I invite investors from around the world to comeand invest in India,” he said from the western TharDesert, site of the Cairn development.

“The government will give all its support,” he prom-ised.

Cairn’s field, the country’s largest onland field andthe biggest find in over two decades, will increaseIndia’s oil output by 20 percent once it hits its initialpeak production target of 175,000 barrels a day in 2011.

India, which imports at least 70 percent of its oilneeds, has been frantically racing to find new energysources to fuel its fast-growing economy.

Cairn, which has spent two billion dollars so far ondeveloping the field, plans to invest up to 1.3 billiondollars more to increase production.

Cairn bought out the field in 2002 from Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, which had concluded it containedno major reserves. Two years later, Edinburgh-basedCairn struck oil.

LNG boom to make Australia‘Middle East of gas’

A tourist walks past a liquified naturalgas (LNG) storage tank at the

Woodside-operated North West ShelfGas Venture near Karratha in West-

ern Australia.—INTERNET

An employee works on cars on the assembly line at the Mercedes-Benz plantin the southern German city of Sindelfingen in July. European business and

consumer confidence firmed in August for a fifth month running, an EUsurvey showed on Friday, adding to a recent string of encouraging news for

Europe’s struggling economies.—INTERNET

A Cairn employee pictured in Rajasthan, India. Britain’s Cairn Energy hasbegun pumping crude from a vast oilfield in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan

that is set to increase the country’s crude output by 20 percent.—INTERNET

GM China, China’s FAW launchjoint venture

MELBOURNE, 30 Aug—Australia ispoised to become “the Middle East ofgas” as Asia’s rapidly growing econo-mies queue up to buy its vast reservesin liquid form, according to analysts.

The government last week approvedthe massive Gorgon liquefied natural gas(LNG) project off Western Australia,which Prime Minister Kevin Rudd saidwould cost 50 billion dollars (41 billionUS) to build and would generate 6,000jobs.

The joint venture by Chevron, Shelland ExxonMobil is already underpinnedby supply contracts with China and Indiaworth more than 60 billion US dollars,and more customers are likely to sign upbefore it begins operating in 2014.

Gorgon is just one of a clutch of LNGprojects planned in the next decade thatanalysts say will pump tens of billionsof dollars into the economy and see Aus-tralia challenge Qatar as the world’smajor gas exporter.

Hailing Gorgon’s 41 billion US supplycontract with PetroChina on this month— the largest trade deal in Australian his-tory — the government said LNG wasan important part of the country’s futureprosperity.—Internet

Internet

SHANGHAI, 30 Aug—Ge-neral Motors China andstate-owned automakerFAW Group Corp launcheda 2 billion yuan ($293 mil-lion) joint venture on Sun-day to make light-dutytrucks and vans, initially forthe fast-growing Chinesemarket.

GM said the joint venturewill use two existing facto-ries affiliated with FAW andhave a capacity of over100,000 vehicles. That isexpected to double by theend of 2010, GM China

Group President KevinWale told reporters in a con-ference call. Plans call forbuilding a new assemblyplant in Harbin, he said.

China is a key growthmarket for GM, which is ex-panding here despite its dif-ficulties in the US market.

“Light trucks and vanshave a significant role inChina and other parts of theworld,” Wale said. “Addingtrucks rounds out our ve-hicle portfolio in China. It’sreally a key focus for futuregrowth.”

The 50-50 joint venture,based in the northeasternChinese city of Changchun,where FAW is also based,will make FAW-brandedvehicles for the Chinesemarket, GM said in a state-ment. The venture mightmake GM-branded vehiclesfor export later, but the fo-cus for now is on meetingdemand in China, Walesaid.—Internet

CLEVELAND, 30 Aug—Goodyear Tire & RubberCo and the United Steel-workers of Americareached a tentative na-tional contract agreementon Saturday night.

The union and companysaid the agreement wasreached about three hoursbefore a midnight Satur-day deadline neared for theexpiration of the old

contract, which had beenextended twice.

Rank-and-file memberswill be briefed on the dealand take a ratification vote.

Wayne Ranick, aspokesman with the unionheadquarters in Pittsburgh,said the deal was for fouryears.

The talks, which beganin June with the nationalrecession as a backdrop,

covered about 10,300Steelworkers at sevenGoodyear plants in the US.

The Steelworkers hadmade job security their toppriority in talks coveringworkers in Akron, Ohio;Buffalo, NY; Danville, Va;Fayetteville, NC;Gadsden, Ala; Topeka,Kan, and Union City,Tenn.

Internet

Goodyear, Steelworkers reach deal on contract

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All items from Xinhua News Agency

Large solar power programmestarts in central China

UN peacekeeping force in Lebanonhails peaceful mandate since 2006

BEIRUT, 30 Aug—United Nations InterimForces in Lebanon(UNIFIL) said on Satur-day the past three yearshave been “the most peace-ful” in UNIFIL’s operation,despite a recent suspectedHezbollah’s arms stock-piles in the south of theArab country.

UNIFIL’s deputyspokesperson AndreaTenenti told reporters at theforce’ headquarters inNaqoura that south Leba-non remains calm in gen-eral and that UN peace-keepers are fully coordinat-ing with the Lebanesearmy, adding that UNIFIL

has good relations with lo-cals.

He denied any attemptsto increase or lower thenumber of peacekeepersserving with the mission ina later period. The UNIFILtroops in Lebanon havebeen re-enforced by 5,000peacekeepers after the warbetween Hezbollah and Is-rael in July 2006. There arecurrently 12,000 peace-keepers deployed in southLebanon.

Regarding UNIFIL’srelations with Lebanon,Hezbollah and Israel,Tenenti said UNIFIL hasthe full commitment of allthese parties to fulfill its

mission and “this was reit-erated during theUN Security Council’smeeting on Thursday.”

The UN Security Coun-cil on Thursday extendedthe mandate of the UNIFILfor one year withoutamending its jurisdictionsin Resolution 1884 whichwas drafted by France andendorsed by all 15 memberstates.

The Resolution 1884 ex-tends UNIFIL’s man-date,which expires at the end ofthis month, till 31 August,2010, but does not intro-duce amend-ments to thepeacekeeping force’s pow-ers.—Xinhua

A worker welds the last box girder for the Chuanyang River Bridge, a “VIPbridge” for the 2010 World Expo, in east China’s Shanghai Municipality on

29 Aug, 2009. Crossing the Chuanyang River, the bridge joined its twosections after four months’ construction on Saturday and would serve as a

way leading the VIPs directly to the Shanghai Expo Park through VIPthoroughfare.—XINHUA

WUHAN, 30 Aug—Construction of a largesolar power project withan investment of 450million US dollars waslaunched on Saturday inWuhan, capital of HubeiProvince in centralChina.

The 500-megawattproject is a joint ventureof Greenway Solar-Tech (China) Co Ltdand Evergreen SolarInc of the UnitedStates, according toDing Kongxian, chiefexecutive officer ofGreenway Solar-Tech.

The project is sche-duled to go into pro-duction in three yearswith an annual productvalue of 1 billion USdollars to turn out

products related to solarpower industry.

Nasdaq-listed Ever-green Solar manufacturesand markets solar powerproducts, includingsolar cells, panels andsystems. It finalized itsagreement with Green-way Solar-Tech and thegovernment of WuhanCity on 30 July.

Xinhua

Technicians observe the growth of umbilical cordblood stem cells at the base for national stem cell

industry and product in Tianjin, north China,on 29Aug, 2009. Attended by 12 stem cell transplantcenters of China, a national wide multi-center

clinic research for umbilical cord blood stem celltransplant started here on Saturday. Tianjin now

has the largest umbilical cord blood stem cellstorage in the world. —XINHUA

Dutch actors perform

lion dance, a form of

traditional dance in

Chinese culture,

during the 8th Chinese

Culture Festival in

Rotterdam, the

Netherlands, on 29

Aug, 2009. The 8th

Chinese Culture

Festival kicked off

here on Saturday.

XINHUA

Sri Lanka police swoopson roadside bombs

COLOMBO, 30 Aug—Sri Lankan Police have recov-ered a dozen of claymore mines or the road sidebombs.

Police spokesman senior deputy inspector generalNimal Mediwaka said on Sunday the bombs werefound on Saturday in the northern districts of Mannarand Vavuniya.

Mediwaka said the police’s Terrorism InvestigationDivision had made the discovery of the 12 bombs inMannar’s Silawatura area while another, 50 kg bomb,was found in Vavuniya along with C4 explosives andother equipment.—Xinhua

Strong blast rocks westernGaza, no injuries reported

GAZA, 30 Aug— Ahuge blast was heard atmidnight on Saturday inwestern Gaza City whichcould be a bomb attacknear a Hamas securitycompound in the area,residents said.

Witnesses said that abomb exploded outside aHamas securitycompound in westernGaza, known as thedepartment of securityand protection.

Gaza emergency chief

Mo’aweya Hassanein toldXinhua that ambulancesand rescue teams rushedto the area to check ifthere are any fatalities.

Security sources inGaza said that explosivesexperts also discoveredthree bombs placed nearsecurity compoundbelonging to Hamassecurity forces, and theyhad dismantled thebombs.There are noimmediate reports of anycasualties.— Xinhua

Plastic bag limits save China 3 mln tons ofoil per year

BEIJING, 30 Aug—China’s limits on the useof plastic bags cut crudeoil consumption by threemillion tons per year,according to the NationalDevelopment and ReformCommission (NDRC).

Since 1 June, 2008,all Chinese retailers,including supermarkets,department stores andgroceries, no longerprovided free plasticshopping bags. In addition,China banned ultra-thinplastic bags, or thosethinner than 0.025millimetres.

China is trying to cut

the use of plastic bags in abid to reduce energyconsumption and pollutingemissions.

The plastic bag limitscould save about 2.4 millionto 3.0 million tons of crudeoil every year and cut 7.6million to 9.6 million tonsof carbon dioxideemissions every year, theNDRC said.—Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

A violin on display. An absent-minded musician left his 18th

century violin in the back of a NewYork taxi but was soon reunited with

the instrument thanks to satellitetechnology, newspapers reported.

Finding violin is sweet music to forgetful musician

A mink which was released from abreeding facility in Germany. A town

in northern Greece is battling aninvasion by thousands of mink setloose from two fur farms over theweekend by suspected activists, the

local mayor said.

An absent-minded musician left his18th century violin in the back of a NewYork taxi but was soon reunited withthe instrument thanks to satellite tech-nology, newspapers reported .

South Korean-born virtuoso Hahn-Bin forgot the 600,000-dollar violin,made by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda,in a yellow cab on his way back to Man-hattan from a concert the New York Postand other dailies said.

It was only after the exhausted fid-dler had taken a shower in hisChinatown apartment that he realizedwhat had happened.

The city’s taxi authorities, however,had no trouble tracking down the taxi:all yellow cabs are fitted with GPS track-ers and the vehicle was found to be atcabbie Dalbir Singh’s home in New Jer-sey.

“Losing an instrument is a greatestfear, even more than making a mistakeon stage,” Hahn-Bin was quoted as say-ing.

Suspicious FedEx package contains live snakesPolice said a suspicious package at a shipping store turned out to be a box

of live boa constrictors. Fairfield Township police said they were called af-ter FedEx Office employees saw two pillowcases moving when they got cu-rious and opened the parcel at a store about 20 miles north of Cincinnati.

Officer Justen McDade said he looked in one pillowcase, saw a snake andquickly tied the pillowcase closed. A reptile rescue group was contacted andtook custody of the snakes.

A local man was listed on the shipping label, and the package was ad-dressed to a man in Phoenix, Ariz. He’s been told he may not get the snakes.

McDade said authorities are trying to verify if the sender had a license forshipping snakes. No charges have been filed.

British waste shipmentssent back from Brazil

A ship laden with containers suspectedof containing toxic waste illegally exportedto Brazil arrived back in Britain.

Brazilian health authorities say the ship-ment, supposedly recyclable waste, was infact full of condoms, syringes and humanwaste. The material was found by Brazil-ian officials in three of the country’s portsover the past few months.

Britain’s Environment Agency said 71of the 89 containers have arrived atFelixstowe docks in Suffolk, with the restexpected from next Tuesday.

“From what they have told us, they con-tain household waste and things like sy-ringes, condoms,” said an Agency spokes-man.

“Chouchou,” a star dog in Chongqing,Southwest China, is practicing walkingwith two legs. The dog often goes outfor a walk by two legs with his master.

Liverpool ferry terminalugliest building

A new ferry terminal in Liverpoolhas won the Carbuncle Cup for thisyear’s ugliest building in Britain.

The winners were announced byBuilding Design, a Web site forarchitects. The runners-up were bothuniversity buildings, the Make’sAmenity Building at the University ofNottingham and the Queen MargaretUniversity campus in Lothian, Scotland.

The Pier Head Ferry Terminal, whichincorporates a Beatles museum, wonbecause the judges regarded it as a bloton its site, a waterfront designated aUNESCO World Heritage Site with atrio of early 20th-century buildingsnicknamed The Three Graces.

Police investigate multiple killings in US mobile home

European agency eyes Russian spacecraftMOSCOW, 30 Aug — Europe may buy a Soyuz

spacecraft to try to ensure at least one European astro-naut heads to space each year, officials say.

Simonetta Di Pippo, director of human spaceflightfor the European Space Agency, told the BBC theagency has asked Moscow if it could increase produc-tion of Soyuz spacecrafts from four to five a year. Thatcould enable the ESA, possibly in a partnership withthe Canadians, to purchase one, Di Pippo said.

Once the US shuttle fleet retires in 2010 or 2011,Soyuz may be the only way to reach the InternationalSpace Station, at least for the short-term, the BBC said.

Di Pippo said ESA officials had discussed Soyuzwith the Russians at the recent International Aviationand Space Salon, MAKS 2009.

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The house at New Hope Mobile Home Park in Brunswick, Ga where sevenpeople were found slain on Saturday morning is surrounded with police tapeon 29 Aug, 2009. Seven people were found slain and two critically injuredSaturday at a mobile home located on a historic plantation in southeastern

Georgia, police said.—INTERNET

Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush tobe released early

BAGHDAD, 30 Aug — An Iraqi journalist imprisonedfor hurling his shoes at former President George W Bushwill be released next month after his sentence wasreduced for good behavior, his lawyer said on Saturday.

Muntadhar al-Zeidi’s act of protest during Bush’slast visit to Iraq as president turned the 30-year-oldreporter into a folk hero across the Arab world, as hiscase became a rallying point for critics who resentedthe 2003 US invasion and occupation.

“Al-Zeidi’s shoes were a suitable farewell forBush’s deeds in Iraq,” Sunni lawmaker Dhafir al-Anisaid in welcoming the early release. “Al-Zeidi’s actexpressed the real will and feelings of the Iraqi people.His anger against Bush was the result of the sufferingof his countrymen.”—Internet

EU signs trade pact withsoutheast African nations

BRUSSELS, 30 Aug — The European Union signed atemporary trade pact on Saturday with Mauritius,Seychelles, Zimbabwe and Madagascar calling fortariffs on European goods to be removed over the next15 years.

The four countries in southeast Africa have had fullaccess to the EU consumer market — the world’sbiggest — since the start of 2008 for most goods. Tradebarriers for rice and sugar, however, are being removedgradually.

The new deal excludes trade on agriculturalproducts such as milk, meat, vegetables, textiles,footwear and clothing.

Zambia and Comoros have indicated they will signthe EU pact at a later date, the EU said.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 30 Aug — Police areinvestigating a murder case in whichseven people were dead and two otherswere seriously injured on Saturdaymorning in a mobile home in GlynnCounty, in the southeastern part of theUS state of Georgia. The county’s police chief MattDoering told a televised newsconference that police officersresponding to a 911 call of multipledeaths found the victims shortly after 8am eastern US time (1200 GMT). However, Doering didn’t providemuch detailed information about theincident, only saying that a homicideinvestigation is underway. The two wounded people foundinside the home were given immediate

assistance, while the victims includedseniors and young children. Doering declined to say whether therewas a suspect in the slayings. Officers have tentatively identifiedsome of the victims in the afternoon andare in the process of removing some ofthe bodies, Doering said. A medical examiner from the GeorgiaCrime Lab was on the way to beginworking on a determination of the causesof the deaths, he said. Doering characterized the slayings aslikely the largest single homicide in thecounty’s history. TV footages show the mobile homelooks dirty from the outside with wastelittering on the nearby ground.

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NAY PYI TAW, 30Aug— The Myanmar del-egation led by Director-General U Min Lwin ofConsular and Legal Af-fairs Department of theMinistry of Foreign Af-fairs arrived back inYangon yesterday by airafter attending the 24th

Session of the Commis-sion on the Limits of the

Myanmar delegation attends 24th

Session of the Commission on theLimits of the Continental Shelf

NAY PYI TAW, 30Aug—Chairman of KayinState Peace and Develop-ment Council Brig-GenZaw Min attended a cer-emony to concludemonsoon paddy slough-ing and scatter fertilizercollectively held nearMyainggalay model vil-lage in Hpa-an, deliveringan address on the occa-sion yesterday.

Next, Brig-Gen ZawMin inspected sanitationtasks carried out in linewith the characteristics ofthe town for proper flow

Monsoon paddy ploughing concludedsand fertilizer scattered collectively

NAY PYI TAW, 30Aug—Preliminary Con-ference 2009 ofTaninthayi Division WarVeterans OrganizationSupervisory Committee ofMyanmar War VeteransOrganization took placeat Taiyanaung hall inMyeik this morning. Pa-tron of Taninthayi Divi-sion WVO Chairman ofTaninthayi Division Peaceand Development Coun-cil Commander of CoastalRegion Command Maj-Gen Khin Zaw Oo andmember of Central Organ-

Preliminary Conference 2009 of TaninthayiDivision WVO Supervisory Committee held

of drainage. Afterwards,he attended ceremonies toput fingerlings into themodel paddy field nearTayokehla village, growpepper plants and putfingerlings into paddyfields near Shwetaw vil-lage along both sides ofHpa-an-Zarthabyin roadand viewed progress incarrying out integratedfarming tasks at the fieldof peasant U Saw Tun Nayin Shwetaw village

On 3 August, Brig-Gen Zaw Min looked intoprogress in building Dali

bridge in Kya-in-Seikkyi.Next, Brig-Gen Zaw Minattended the ceremony ofnutrition week activities atthe meeting hall of KayinState Health Departmenton 6 August and then pre-sented iron tablet and vita-min A tablets to pregnantwomen and breastfeedingmothers and fed childrenanti-worm tablets.

On 7 August, Brig-GenZaw Min oversaw Yayboatdam project near Htilon vil-lage in Hlaingbwe town-ship and left necessary in-structions.—MNA

izing Committee ofMyanmar War VeteransOrganization Minister forLivestock and FisheriesBrig-Gen Maung MaungThein made speeches onthe occasion.

The Patron ofTaninthayi DivisionWVO and the member ofCentral Organizing Com-mittee of MWVO pre-sented uniforms and cashassistance to theTaninthayi DivisionWVO Supervisory Com-mittee. Fisheries Entrepre-neurs of Taninthayi Divi-

sion gave cash assistanceand a well-wisher spon-sored a programme to givefree medical checks-up toand eyeglasses to thosewith eye complaints.

Then, the conferencehas approved five futureplans.

After that, Prelimi-nary Conference 2009 ofTaninthayi DivisionWVO Supervisory Com-mittee came to an end withthe concluding remarks bythe Chairman of the con-ference.

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NAY PYI TAW, 30 Aug—Chairman of ShanState (North) Peace and Development Council Com-mander of North-East Command Maj-Gen Aung ThanHtut attended the billboard erecting ceremony to holdthe Myanmar War Veterans Organization Conference2009 in front of the City Hall in Lashio on 20 Augustmorning. He pressed the button to unveil the billboard.

After that, the Commander attended the pre-liminary conference-2009 of Shan State (North) WarVeterans Organization Supervisory Committee at theCity Hall and made a speech on the occasion. Andthen, he presented cash awards to outstanding warveterans and children of War Veterans Organiza-tion.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 30 Aug– A paper reading sessionon ‘Our Three Main Na-tional Causes’ organizedby the Ministry of Culturewas held at the ministryhere this morning.

Chairman ofMyanmar Historical Com-

Culture Ministry holds paper reading session

mission Minister for Cul-ture Maj-Gen Khin AungMyint, Vice-Chairman(2) Dr Toe Hla, SecretaryDr Kyaw Win and mem-bers U Kyaw, Dr DawMyint Kyi, directors-gen-eral, deputy directors-general, rectors, pro-rec-

tors and enthusiasts at-tended the paper readingsession.

Vice-Chairman-2 DrToe Hla of the commisionmade a speech. Director-General Dr Ba Maung ofHistorical Research De-partment explained the

Billboard hailing MWVOConference 2009 put up

purpose of paper-readingsession. The ministermade an opening speechand resource persons readout their respective papers.Then, the minister made adiscussion over the papersand the reading sessionended.— MNA

Continental Shelf held atthe United Nations Head-quarters, New York from24 to 27 August 2009.

The Myanmar delega-tion comprised repre-sentatives from the minis-tries concerned.

The Myanmar delega-tion made presentationsregarding Myanmar’ssubmission on the estab-

lishment of the outer lim-its of the continental shelfbeyond 200 nautical milesfrom the baselines fromwhich the breadth of theterritorial sea of Myanmaris measured to the Com-mission on the Limits ofthe Continental Shelf atthe 24th Session on 24August 2009.

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Member of Myanmar Historical Commission Dr Daw Myint Kyi reads paper at the paperreading session on ‘Our Three Main National Causes’.—MNAMAGAZINES DONATED: Librarian Daw

Nu Nu, on behalf of Union of MyanmarFederation of Chambers of Commerce andIndustry, donated 3,700 copies of Business

Magazine worth K 2.96 million monthlypublished by UMFCCI to Information and

Public Relations Department on 26 August.Director (Production) U Aye Kywe of IPRDaccepted donation and presents certificate of

honour to wellwisher.— UMFCCI

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NAY PYI TAW, 30Aug—A ceremony toopen Myogyi diversionweir near Taungtaw vil-lage in Kyaukse township,Mandalay division, builtby Construction Group-7of Irrigation Departmentof the Ministry of Agri-culture and Irrigation, wasopened at the pandal nearthe diversion weir yester-day.

Present on the oc-casion were Chairman ofMandalay Division Peaceand Development Coun-cil Commander of Cen-

Myogyi diversion weir commissioned into service

tral Command Maj-GenTin Ngwe, Minister forAgriculture and IrrigationMaj-Gen Htay Oo, depart-mental officials, membersof social organization, lo-cal peasants and peopleand officials of the Con-struction Group-7.

The commanderand the minister madespeeches on the occasion.

Next, a local thanked theState Peace and Develop-ment Council for build-ing the diversion weir.

Afterwards, thecommander and the min-ister cordially greetedthose present, members ofsocial organizations andlocal people.

The commanderthen formally unveiled thestone plaque of the diver-sion weir.

Later, the com-mander and the ministersprinkled scented water onthe stone plaque.

After opening thediversion weir, the com-mander, the minister andthose present posed for adocumentary photo andinspected it.

At the briefing hall,the director of Construc-tion Group-7 briefed thecommander and the min-ister on progress in build-ing the diversion weir

phase by phase. The di-rector-general of Irriga-tion Department gave asupplementary report. Af-ter hearing the reports, thecommander and the min-ister gave instructions toofficials to cooperate withpeasants for boosting pro-duction.

Myogyi diversion

weir is the 225th irriga-tion project of the State. Itis of broad crest type and160 feet in width and 6.5feet in height and it canbenefit 35,500 acres offarmlands.

Upper part ofMyogyi diversion weir,there are Myogyi andKyaingkham dams

Commander Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe pressing button to unveil stone plaque ofMyogyi diversion weir.—A&I

Commander Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe and Minister

Maj-Gen Htay Oo inaugurate

Myogyi diversion weir.—A&I

Myogyi diversion weir seen in Taungtaw Village of Kyaukse Township.—A&I

MPF exposes and seizes illegally-run arms and ammunition factory inKokang region of Shan State (North) Special Region (1)…

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Shan State (North) Special Region (1)Kokang Region Provisional Leading Committee

AnnouncementDate: 30-8-2009

1. Myanmar Police Force exposed and seized an arms and ammunition factory illegally run for production and sales in Kokang region of Shan State (North) SpecialRegion (1) on 8 August 2009. In connection with the case, MPF filed a lawsuit against responsible persons U Phon Kya Shin, U Phon Kya Phu, U Phon Tar Shwinand U Phon Tarli and summoned them to settle the issue. However, there was disagreement among the leaders of Special Region (1).2. Moreover, the four responsible persons, unwilling to meet officials to settle the issue, have left Kokang region.3. The incidents broke out in Kokang region are concerned only with the above four persons. Those who are not concerned with them may join Kokang RegionProvisional Leading Committee.4. U Phon Kya Shin, U Phon Kya Phu, U Phon Tar Shwin and U Phon Tarli also have the opportunity to address the issue in accord with the law in their ownindividual interests and in the interests of their region or people. They are therefore urged to seize the opportunity.

Shan State (North) Special Region (1)Kokang Region Provisional Leading Committee

which are under con-struction as well as al-ready-built Zawgyi dam.Myogyi diversion weirwas built to help Zawgyiirrigation system supplywater within Kyauksedistrict. Besides, it willhelp carry out greeningtasks for Meiktila plain.

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Members of Myanmar Police Force shot at point-blank range byKokang troops loyal to U Phon Kya Shin.

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Some local people on their return home from the neighbouring country.—MNA

Illegal arms factoryin Kokang region…

(from page 16)loyal to U Phon KyaShin started to open fireat them. As there werecasualties, the combinedTatmadaw force had toreturn fire. At 2 pm on29 August, the combinedforce rescued 25 hos-tages including 11wounded persons. In theconfinement and someplaces 14 bodies of MPFpersonnel brutally shot

to death at point-blankrange were found.

During the rescuemission, skirmishes beganon 27 August. As troopsloyal to U Phon Kya Shinfled leaving their heavyweapons and small arms,it ended at 2 pm on29 August. ElevenTatmadaw members felland 34 were wounded and

15 MPF members fell and13 wounded in the skir-mishes. Eight bodies oftroops loyal to U PhonKya Shin were found to-gether with over 400 as-sorted heavy and smallarms that were left behindby the fleeing troops. Thecombined forces alsoseized 200 assorted weap-ons from armouries in thearea where those Kokangtroops were stationed and

over 40 new small armsand ammunition of vari-ous kinds in the surround-ing areas of the illegalarms factory.

As the Tatmadaw,MPF members andKokangs that joined handswith the Tatmadaw wereable to restore peace in theregion on 29 August, it isnow in a stable condition

and local administrativemachinery has becomenormal. Locals who ranaway to the other countrywere returning to Kokangregion.

They are being ac-cepted after proper screen-ing. Officials are also pro-viding necessary assist-ance to them.

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Minister Brig-Gen Tin Naing Thein delivers address at ceremony to give agricultural loans and

inputs to farmers.—COMMERCE

Commander, mayor attend opening of

Mya Yaunggyi library

YANGON, 30 Aug—

Chairman of Yangon

Division Peace and

Development Council

Commander of Yangon

Command Maj-Gen

Win Myint together with

Chairman of Yangon

City Development

Committee Mayor Brig-

Gen Aung Thein Lin

opened Mya Yaunggyi

library in Kyimyindine

Township this morning.

The commander then

donated cash assistance.

The well-wishers

donated cash, TV set,

Radio cassette and

publications.

Next, the commander

and the mayor viewed the

students pursuing

education at No. 1 Basic

Education High School

(branch) and inspected

preventive measures

against diarrhea and

dengue hemorrhage fever

being collectively carried

out by departmental

personnel, members of

social organizations and

locals along Thihabala

street in Aletchaung ward.

The commander and

the mayor viewed

scattering of natural

NAY PYI TAW, 30

Aug—Chairman of

Rakhine State Peace and

Development Council

Commander of Western

Command Maj-Gen

Thaung Aye inspected

Thayuchaung bailey

Commander on inspection tour of Anbridge in Zaytaung ward,

construction site of

Township sports ground,

office of Township

Internal Revenue

Department, office of

Township Livestock

Breeding and Veterinary

Department, No. 89 tractor

station of Agriculture

M e c h a n i z a t i o n

Department and

Hinywetchaung bridge in

Aukywa Village of An

Township on 22 August.

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fertilizer at farmer U Kyaw

Than’s monsoon paddy

farm and put the fingerlings

into the farm. They

symbolically planted the

sapling at No.15 Basic

Education Middle School

(branch) and viewed

feeding nutritious food,

taking care and giving talks

to students. After that, the

commander and the mayor

looked into purified water

plant in Aletchaung ward

and met local people.

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NAY PYI TAW, 30

Aug—The Inter-

U n i v e r s i t y / D e g r e e

College/College (Upper

Myanmar) Swimming

Contest for 2008-2009

were held in conjunction

Commander persents prizes to winners in

swimming contestwith the prize presentation

ceremony at Yadanabon

Swimming Pool in

A u n g m y e t h a z a n

Township, Mandalay on

23 August. Chairman of

Mandalay Division Peace

and Development Council

Commander of Central

Command Maj-Gen Tin

Ngwe watched the

matches and presented

prizes to the winners.

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Agricultural loans and inputs given to farmers

YANGON, 30 Aug— Toe Ayeya Co presented

agricultural loans and inputs to local farmers at the

office of Dedaye Township Peace and Development

Council today, attended by Minister for Commerce

Brig-Gen Tin Naing Thein.

Chairman of Toe Ayeya Co U Maung Maung Tin,

Chairman of Dedaye Township PDC U Myo Aung,

local farmer U Myo Myint and Ayeyawady Division

Manager U Myint Thein of Myanma Agriculture

Service explained disbursement of agricultural loans,

assistance of authorities, responsibilities for the farmers

and cultivation methods.

The chairman of Township Rice Millers

Association reported on milling of paddy.

The minister gave necessary instructions.

Later, the minister viewed milling of paddy at

Bama Sanpya Rice Mill in Tawtani Village of Dedaye

Township. — MNA

Executive Committee of Myanmar Motion

Picture Asiayon to be reorganized

YANGON, 30 Aug— The executive committee of Myanmar Motion Picture

Asiayon will be re-organized at No. 50, the studio of feature film (Motion Picture

Promotion) of Myanma Motion Picture Enterprise on Shwetaunggya Road. The

Asiayon has invited its members to attend the ceremony without fail.

The schedules for selection items, time and days are as follows:-

1. Play and movie background musicians group at 9 am on 3 September.

2. Mechanical group at noon on 3 September.

3. Editing group at 3 pm on 3 September.

4. Video group at 9 am on 4 September.

5. Story and play script group at noon on 4 September.

6. Film director group at 3 pm on 4 September

7. Actor and actress group at 9 am on 5 September.

8. Management, distribution and show group at 1 pm on 5 September.

9. Producers group at 9 am on 6 September.

10. Supporting actors and actresses group at 1 pm on 6 September.

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Kayin State WVOSC holds

Preliminary Conference 2009

YANGON, 30 Aug—

The Preliminary

Conference 2009 of Kayin

State War Vetarans

Organization Supervisory

Committee was held at

Zwegabin Hall in Hpa-an

of Kayin State on 27

August morning.

Chairman of Mon

State Peace and

Development Council

Commander of South-

East Command Maj-Gen

Thet Naing Win delivered

a speech.

Officials submitted

the report to the

preliminary conference.

Chairman of the

Kayin State War Vetarans

Organization Supervisory

Committee Lt-Col Than

Oo accepted cash

donations for organizing

the preliminary

conference and presented

certificates of honour to

the wellwishers.

Also present on the

occasion were member

of Myanmar War

Veterans Organization

Central Organizing

Committee Minister for

Religious Affairs Brig-

Gen Thura Myint

Maung, Patron of Kayin

State WVOSC

Chairman of Kayin State

PDC Brig-Gen Zaw Min

and departmental

officials, members of

social organizations and

representatives of War

Vetarans Organizations

from seven townships.

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YANGON, 29 Aug —

Member of National

Disaster Preparedness

Central Committee

Minister for Hotels and

Tourism Maj-Gen Soe

Naing accompanied by

officials of Pyapon

District looked round the

fisheries along Pyapon

Riverside and met with

locals at the school of

Aphaung in Achalay

Village-tract on 23

August.

Minister Maj-Gen Soe

Naing and party inspected

H&T Minister supervises regional

development tasks in Pyapon160 feet long steel bridge

and roads in Aphaung

Village of the township.

Afterwards, the

minister looked round the

situation of the stream

spanning bridge, donated

cash assistance to a

village elder.

Next, the minister

met with residents at

affiliated Basic

Education Middle

School in Phyapontaman

Village and presented

relief goods. He donated

cash assistance to

maintain the stream

spanning bridge in

Phyapontaman Village.

Next, Minister Maj-

Gen Soe Naing and party

also met with residents

at Basic Education

Primary School in Pale

Village and presented

relief goods.

Minister for Hotels

and Tourism Maj-Gen

Soe Naing called on the

departmental officials

for regional

development.

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BEIJING, 30 Aug—Beijing police freed a schoolboywho was taken hostage by a young man at a trainingschool on Sunday afternoon. A police source toldXinhua that a man armed with a knife broke in to theEnglish training school in Chaoyang District at around3 pm and took the student hostage. The teacher andother students managed to escape from the back doorand called the police.

Police seized the man amid a negotiation with himone and a half hours after the hostage incident tookplace. The boy was saved unhurt.

The hostage taker, surnamed Tang, 23, is a nativefrom Ziyang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province.

He did not ask for money but demanded a meetingwith officials from local television station, witnessessaid. Police are still investigating the case.—Xinhua

RAMALLAH, 30 Aug—An Israeli court on Sundayissued a 20-year imprisonment sentence on a securityadvisor to late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat,Palestinian sources said.

The military court of Ofar, near the West Bank,charged Fouad al-Shobaki with arms trade andfinancing “terror acts” of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades,the military wing of Fatah movement.

Israel has been chasing down brigadier general al-Shobaki since 2002 when it seized Karin A, a shipladen with weapons which Israel says was on its wayto the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).

The court also accused al-Shobaki, who denies thecharges, of transferring money to Fatah militants duringthe era of Arafat to establish an explosive lab in theWest Bank.

In 2004, Arafat agreed to keep his aide at aPalestinian-run prison as part of an international dealto overcome an Israeli blockade on the Palestinianleader’s Ramallah office.

But in the summer of 2006, Israel raided Jerichoprison and captured al-Shobaki and other wantedsenior officials.—Xinhua

DUDLEY, 30 Aug—The driver whose car allegedlystruck and killed an elderly couple while they werechanging a tire on their camping trailer is beingsummoned to Dudley District Court on next month.

Geoffrey K. Wahome, 21, of Lowell, faces twocounts of motor vehicle homicide by negligent driving,negligently driving a motor vehicle and a marked-lanes violation.

Robert G. Farner, 81, and Chloe K. Farner, 77,died of injuries suffered in the accident, about 6:40 amon 1 Aug in the northbound lane of Interstate 395 nearExit 1 in Webster, state police said.—Internet

Israel sentences former Arafataide to 20 years

Driver will be charged in crash:Elderly couple die changing tire

SAN FRANCISCO, 30 Aug—By day seven it wasover. Queuing to use a cash machine, Torrez found hehad even lost the will to Twitter. “I give up. I thoughtit would be fun to see what life was like on a differentplatform but I think I’ve seen more than enough onthis hardware,” he wrote.

“On Saturday my family was here to visit and Ifound myself reaching for the iPhone to check on arestaurant, map some directions, and to check on anorder. Given a choice between the two I just could notkeep flipping that thing open knowing there wereother perfectly good computers nearby ... I took theG1 into work today but I came home knowing what Ihad to do. I switched back to the iPhone.”

Good news for Apple. Bad news for Google.It is almost two years since Google launched

Android but so far it has disappointed. After the initialhype, Harry Wang, analyst at Parks Associates, saidhe was surprised by how slow the rise of the softwarehad been. Next month will be a big push for the systemwhen Motorola is expected to introduce new phonespowered by Android.

Internet

Google fails to squeezeinto smartphone market

A female jet fighter pilot dressed in the new flight suit prepares to board theplane at an airport in north China, on 30 Aug, 2009. The Chinese air force

held Sunday a ceremony here for the first batch of female jet fighter pilots to beequipped with new flight suits especially designed for the female.—INTERNET

JOLO (Philippines), 30 Aug—Suspected Al Qaeda-linked militants planted a bomb that exploded near anairport and an air force base on Sunday in the south-ern Philippines, wounding two soldiers, officials said.

Abu Sayyaf extremists most likely planted thebomb that exploded on late Sunday on a narrow roadin Jolo township, wounding the two troops who wereriding a scooter to a mosque, regional military chiefMaj. Gen. Benjamin Dolorfino said.

The soldiers were taken to a hospital for treat-ment to shrapnel wounds. There were no reports ofdamage to either the airport or the air force base onJolo, a predominantly Muslim island where Ameri-can troops have been deployed to provide training tolocal forces battling the militants.—Internet

Bomb injures soldiersnear Philippine airport

PandasTuantuan

andYuanyuan

werecelebratingtheir fifth

birthday insuccessionafter eight

monthsmoved from

Ya’an ofsouthwestChina’sSichuanProvince.INTERNET

Beijing police frees boyfrom hostage taker

A reveller tries to get away from a heifer after a

bull run in San Sebastian de los Reyes, outside

Madrid, on 29 August , 2009.—INTERNET

N China high school suspends classes afterA/H1N1 outbreak

ZHENGZHOU, 30Aug—The No. 3 SeniorHigh School of Xing’anCounty of central China’sHenan Province has beenrequired to suspend allclasses for one week aftereight students wereconfirmed to havecontracted the A/H1N1 fluas of Saturday.

The epidemicsituation surfaced onThursday afternoon whenthe People’s Hospital ofXin’an County recieved aA/H1N1 flu patient who

was from the school’sClass Eight and GradeTwo, sources with thecounty government said.

Subsequent morningtemperature screening andepidemiological surveystaged by the county’scenter for disease controland prevention showed 34students from the Grade

Two had a temperaturehigher than 38 degreesCelsius.

The school has 41classes and 2,768 studentsin total. All studentsrunning a fever had beenput under medicalobservation andtreatment.

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Some of around 10,000 people take part in thefilming of “The big ask again” video clip on a

beach of Oostende on 29 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

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Employeesaim for up to

5 percentstake in VW

FRANKFURT, 30 Aug—The roughly 370,000employees of Volkswagen(VOWG.DE) and Porscheare striving initiallyto acquire a stake of upto 5 percent in the auto-motive group, VW’slabour chief told aGerman newspaper.

“I don’t know howmuch we will end upwith. It certainly won’tbe 10 percent overnight,but between one andfive percent to beginwith,” SueddeutscheZeitung quoted BerndOsterloh on Saturday assaying.

It was not clear yethow the employeeswould finance thepurchase of their stake,the paper said.

Volkswagen —Europe’s biggestcarmaker — agreed to buya 42 percent stake in thesports car unit of debt-ridden Porsche SE(PSHG_p.DE) earlierthis month.

Internet

Israeli planes hit suspected Gazatunnel building

Al Qaeda names man whotried to kill Saudi prince

Kennedy laid to rest nearhis brothers

ARLINGTON, 30 Aug—Democratic lion EdwardKennedy was reunited with his slain brothers as hewas laid to rest in a Virginia cemetery while a lonebugle played Taps bringing the curtain down on apolitical dynasty.

Surrounded by his tight-knit family whichhas dominated US politics for half a century,Kennedy’s body was brought to Arlington NationalCemetery, to rest on a hillside overlooking thenation’s capital.

The late senator was being buried 100 feet (30meters) from the grave of his brother, RobertKennedy, assassinated in 1968, and close to theeternal flame marking the last resting place ofpresident John F Kennedy, shot dead in 1963.

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A Palestinian smuggler lowers himself into asmuggling tunnel on the border with Egypt andRafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on 28 Aug,2009. Three Palestinians were killed when a

smuggling tunnel running under the Gaza-Egyptborder collapsed, said Moiawa Hassanien, a

Palestinian health official.—INTERNET

Tourists walk on the newly-built walk board in Dalian, northeast China’sLiaoning Province, on 28 Aug, 2009. The walk board, with a length of about

21 kilometres, twisted along the coast in the city.—XINHUA

GAZA, 30 Aug—Israeliaircraft bombed abuilding in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip onSunday which the militarysaid had been used byPalestinians to enter atunnel and carry out cross-border attacks in Israel.

The air strike, in whichno one was hurt, tookplace in the early hoursshortly after Hamas saidunidentified Palestinianshad set off explosivedevices at two of itssecurity compounds inGaza City.

With an Egyptian-mediated truce mostlyholding since its war withIsrael early this year,Hamas has cracked downon perceived internalthreats from the rivalsecular Fatah faction andbreakaway Islamistsaligned with al Qaeda.

Hamas described the

target of the Israeli airstrike as “open ground”but witnesses said it wasa building with two roomsand a courtyard, whichwere ravaged by theattack.

An Israeli militaryspokesman said the strike

was in response to arocket fired from Gazainto Israel on Saturday,which caused no damage.There was no claim ofresponsibility for therocket attack from anyPalestinian faction.

Internet

DUBAI, 30 Aug—AlQaeda on Sunday iden-tified a militant who triedto kill Saudi Arabia’ssecurity chief on Thurs-day as Abdullah al-Asiri,a wanted suspect whoentered Saudi Arabia fromYemen.

A suicide bomberposing as a repentantmilitant blew himself upin the Jeddah office ofPrince Mohammed binNayef in the first knownattack on a member of theSaudi royal family since

al Qaeda began a violentcampaign in the world’stop oil exporter in 2003.

“The hero martyr onthe list of 85 wantedpersons Abdullah HassanTali’ al-Asiri, knownas Abul-Khair, managedto enter his palace,pass his guards and blowup a package,” said astatement on Islamistwebsites attributed tothe “Qaeda Jihad Or-ganization in the ArabPeninsula.”

Internet

Ministry of Information

News and Periodicals Enterprise

Invitation to Tender for procurement of paper, ink and

printing materials1. Sealed tenders are invited for procurement of the following paper and

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Swimming enthusiastsgo for a 1200-metre-

long sea voyage duringan international seacrossing festival at a

ferry port in Shantou,south China’s

Guangdong Province,on 29 Aug, 2009. The

international fairattracted some 1,600enthusiasts, among

whom the oldest was 78years old and the

youngest was 12 yeasold only.—XINHUA

Flames from the Station Fire are seen above the NASA’s Jet PropulsionLaboratory, in La Canada, California on 28 Aug, 2009. Thousands of

residents were evacuated from million-dollar homes in exclusive Los Angelescommunities as four wildfires burned on Friday in the mountains and coastal

areas around the city. —XINHUA

The world’s tallestmountain MountEverest is seen infront of Khumbu

Glacier, one of thelongest glaciers in the

world.—INTERNET

Japan reports two moreA/H1N1 flu-related deaths TOKYO, 30 Aug— A female cancer patient in her

60s in Kagoshima Prefecture and a 38-year-oldwoman in Hyogo Prefecture with no apparentunderlying illness died early on Saturday, becomingthe sixth and seventh deaths in Japan linked to thenew A/H1N1 influenza virus, Kyodo News reported.

The cause of death of the younger woman is notknown, but the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministrysaid that her death does not constitute a case in whicha fully healthy person died due to the infection,apparently in an attempt to brush aside publicconcern about the ongoing epidemic.

Xinhua

Number of A/H1N1 flu casesin Bangladesh rises to 194DHAKA, 30 Aug— The number of A/H1N1 flu

cases in Bangladesh rose to 194 on Saturday as 31more cases were detected, local newspaper The DailyStar reported on its website.Meanwhile, thegovernment is likely to raise its A/H1N1 flu alert toLevel 3 following the recent increase of A/H1N1flu cases across the country, the newspaper said.

The Institute of Epidemiology Disease Controland Research (IEDCR) under the country’s healthministry said 31 new A/H1N1 flu cases weredetected on Saturday.Most of the cases were mildand the infected people are receiving treatment athome. Only two of them have been admitted tohospital with little complications, the newspapersaid, quoting IEDCR sources.—Xinhua

Blackwater moves todismiss lawsuit

ALEXANDRIA, 30Aug—Lawyers forIraqis killed by Black-water employees told aUS judge Erik Prince,the company’s founder,is directly responsible.

The argument cameduring a hearing onFriday in federal court inAlexandria, Va, on amotion by Blackwater,now Xe LLC, to dismissthe lawsuits, TheWashington Postreported.

“The person res-ponsible for these deathsis Mr Prince,’’ saidSusan Burke, an attorneyfor the plaintiffs. “Hehad the intent, heprovided the weapons,

he provided the in-structions, and they weredone by his agents andthey were war crimes.’’

Judge TS Ellis IIIquestioned Burke andother lawyers onwhether it was reallypossible to infer thatPrince had an intent tokill Iraqis.

“Are you accusing MrPrince of saying, ‘I wantour boys to go out andshoot innocent civilians?’”the judge asked.

Prince, a former NavySEAL, founded the NorthCarolina-based companyand won lucrativecontracts to guard USgovernment officials inIraq.—Internet

Mutation rate in humansmeasured by direct sequencing

LONDON , 30 Aug—Aninternational research teamhas reported the first directmeasurement of thegeneral rate of geneticmutation at individualDNA letters in humans.Theteam, including 16 Chineseand British scientists,published its findings in thelatest edition of the journalCurrent Biology.

“If we say the mutationdrives human evolution asan ongoing train, now wefinally get its speedmeasured,” said Dr. XueYali, a Chinese scientistworking in the BritishWellcome Trust SangerInstitute and the first authorof the team’s research paper.The team sequenced thesame piece of DNA —10,000,000 or so letters or

‘nucleotides’ from the Ychromosome — from twomen separated by 13generations, and countedthe number of differences.Among all the nucleotides,they found only fourmutations.—Xinhua

Study shows experimental drugcuts stroke risk

BARCELONA, 30Aug—An experimentaldrug reduces the strokerisk in patients withirregular heartbeats bynearly four times,compared with thepopular drug warfarin—but possibly at a cost,according to new researchreleased on Sunday.

Patients taking thenew drug dabigatranetexilate, made byGerman pharmaceuticalBoehringer Ingelheim,also were slightly morelikely to have heart

attacks or stomach pain,according to the researchpresented at the EuropeanSociety of Cardiologymeeting in Barcelona.

Patients with irregularheartbeats are up to 17times more likely to havea stroke than healthypeople. About one-sixthof all strokes occur inpatients with irregularheartbeats who also haveother risk factors such assmoking or obesity. In theUnited States, there areabout 2 million peoplewith such a condition.

Until now most suchpatients have been givenwarfarin, which has beenaround since the 1950sand has side effectsincluding bleeding risksand requires lifestylechanges such as dietaryrestrictions.

Doctors hope the newdrug can help improvetreatment for patients,who must be monitoredcontinuously if they areput on warfarin and avoidalcohol and foods such asspinach and cranb-erries.—Internet

Melting glaciers threaten ‘Nepal tsunami’LUKLA, 30 Aug—

Over two decades, FunuruSherpa has watched thelake above his nativevillage of Dengboche inNepal’s Himalayas grow,as the glacier that feeds it

melts.The 29-year-old, who

runs a busy Internet cafefor tourists visiting theEverest region, remem-bers his grand-fathertelling him that 50 years

ago the lake did not exist.“Before, it was all

ice,” he told AFP in theeastern Himalayan townof Lukla, in the shadow ofMount Everest.

“This is proof that theglaciers in the highHimalayas are melting.And that must be becausethe temperatures havegone up.” Scientists saythe Imja Glacier aboveDengboche is retreatingby about 70 metres (230feet) a year, and themelting ice has formed ahuge lake that coulddevastate villages down-stream if it bursts.

Internet

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Fergie expects ManU to dominatePremier League rivals

LONDON, 30 Aug—Sir Alex Ferguson believes Man-chester United’s 2-1 victory over Arsenal should send awarning to his side’s Premier League title rivals.

Although United won the English league last sea-son, they struggled in their showdowns with Liverpooland Arsenal. Liverpool defeated Ferguson’s men twice,while Arsenal took four points off the champions. Withthat record in mind, Ferguson was delighted to see hisside fight back from a goal down to beat the Gunners atOld Trafford on Saturday. “When you are 1-0 down toa team of Arsenal’s class it’s an uphill task,” Fergusonsaid. “We had to dig deep but we played really well inthe second half and deserved to win.” The players knowwinning big games is important. Last season we lostfour points to Arsenal and six to Liverpool. Now we’vegot off to a better start against the bigger teams. Thatcan make a difference.”—Internet

Arsenal’s Andrei Arshavin (R) clashes withManchester United’s Antonio Valencia (L) duringtheir English Premier League football match at

Old Trafford in Manchester.—INTERNET

Real Madrid begins seasonwith narrow win

Real Madrid’s KarimBenzema (R) controls theball in front of DeportivoCoruna’s goalkeeperDaniel Aranzubia dur-ing their Spanish firstdivision soccer match atSantiago Bernabeustadium in Madrid on29 Aug, 2009. — XINHUA

Bayern wins top clash withWolfsburg

Bayern Munich’snew soccer player

Arjen Robben

Hong Kong holds torch-relayfor 2009 EAG

HONG KONG, 30 Aug—The torch relay for the 2009East Asia Games (EAG) was held here on Saturday at aceremony in the Kowloon Park with the participationof a 500-strong crowd.Veteran cyclist Wong Kam-postarted the torch-relay and 65 torch-bearers traveledacross the city and received a wild cheer from the citi-zens of Hong Kong. Hong Kong windsurfing queen LeeLai-shan, who won Hong Kong’s first Olympic goldmedal in 1996, ended the torch-relay after she arrivedat Golden Bauhinia Square in Wan Chai. Donald Tsang,chief executive of Hong Kong SAR, said the torch-re-lay marked doubly significant.—Internet

Federer, Williams sisters amongUS Open 1st-day matches

NEW YORK, 30 Aug—Reigning US Open champi-ons Roger Federer and Serena Williams will begindefending their titles on Monday as an opening-daymatch list also had Venus Williams and Andy Roddickat night. The year’s final Grand Slam tournament com-mences on the Flushing Meadows hardcourts Mon-day with former world number one Kim Clijsters ofBelgium facing Ukraine’s Viktoriya Kutuzova in thefirst match at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Clijsters is making her first US Open appearancesince winning the 2005 women’s title, her only GrandSlam crown. She returned to the court earlier thismonth after a layoff of more than two years to start afamily. Federer, who has won the past five US Openmen’s titles and has not lost at the US Open since thefourth round in 2003, begins his quest for six in a rowagainst 18-year-old American Devin Britton in thesecond match at Ashe.—Internet

L-R: Serena Williams of the US, Roger Federer of Swit-zerland and actor Will Ferrell are seen during the ArthurAshe Kids Day at the USTA Billie Jean King National

Tennis Centre in Flushing, New York.—INTERNET

Champions Inter hand four-goalmauling to 10-man Milan

AC Milan’s coachLeonardo kicks the ballduring the Italian Serie Asoccer match against In-ter Milan at the San Sirostadium in Milan on 29Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

Lyon underpin title formPARIS, 30 Aug—Lyon

romped past Nancy 3-1 onSaturday to overtakereigning champions Bor-deaux at the top of theFrench first division.French international andformer St Etienne strikerBatefembi Gomis firedLyon into a 37th-minutelead and in-form Argen-tine striker LisandroLopez, having combinedwith Miralem Pjanic tolay on the opener, clippedhome a second five min-utes after the restart.

Lyon moved onto 10points from four games,one clear of Bordeaux,

who must travel to Mar-seille on Sunday for oneof the Girondins’ trickiestfixtures of the campaignin the cauldron of theStade Velodrome. On theday predecessor KarimBenzema made his firstleague start for Real Ma-drid Lopez, already in-strumental in taking theFrench outfit into theChampions League groupstage at the expense ofAnderlecht, showed Lyonfans he is perfectly capa-ble of filling the Francestriker’s boots with hissmartly-taken goal.

Internet

MADRID, 30 Aug—Bigspending Real Madrid be-gan the new season witha 3-2 win at home to bat-tling Deportivo la Corunaon Saturday night.

Real Madrid may havespent over 250 millioneuros on players such asKaka and CristianoRonaldo, but was made tosuffer by a team that hashardly spent a cent allsummer and which reliedon organization and team-work.

Real Madrid kickedoff with seven new facesin the side to that whichstarted last season andwith 78,000 fans packed

into the SantiagoBernabeu stadium itdidn’t take long for themto take the lead. — Xinhua

ROME, 30 Aug—Cham-pions Inter Milan claimedderby honours by ham-mering city rivals AC Mi-lan 4-0 after GennaroGattuso was sent off in thefirst half. Milan, andGattuso in particular, self-destructed in spectacularfashion during a 10-minute first half period ina match that suggests theloss of Kaka to Real Ma-drid has hit the red andblack half of the cityharder than they thought.

Thiago Motta scoredhis first goal for Inter andfellow new-recruit fromGenoa Diego Militoadded a penalty beforeBrazilian full-backMaicon’s strike had all butended the contest by halftime. Serbian DejanStankovic’s second halfrocket put the gloss on an

accomplished perform-ance as coach Leonardosuffered a miserable firstderby in charge of Milan.Leonardo claimed histeam were well in thematch until the firstgoal.—Internet

BERLIN, 30 Aug—Thanksto newcomer Arjen Robben’ssparkling two goals, recordGerman champion BayernMunich whitewashed reign-ing champion Wolfsburg 3-0to win the top clash of Ger-man Bundesliga on Saturday.German soccer powerhouseLeverkusen remains on top ofthe table after their 2-1 vic-tory over Bochum whileSchalke 04 suffered an aston-ishing 1-0 defeat againstnewly-promoted Freiburg.

Internet

Asia clashes with Europe intable tennis

BEIJING, 24 Aug—The Asia vs Europe tabletennis competition will start in Beijing on Tuesday.

The two-day event will pit the top Asian playersagainst the leading European players.

China’s Ma Long and Ma Lin, South Korea’sJoo Se Hyuk, Chinese Taipei’s Chuang Chih-yuanand Hong Kong player Cheung Yuk form the Asianteam.

The European team is comprised of Belarus’Vladimir Samsonov, Greece’s Kalinikos Kreanga,Germany’s Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Denmark’s MichaelMaze and Sweden’s Jorgen Persson.

Xinhua

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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 State and lower Sagaing Division,scattered in Mandalay and Magway Divisions, fairlywidespread in Shan and Chin States, upper Sagaing, Bagoand Taninthayi Divisions and widespread in the remainingStates and Divisions. The noteworthy amounts of rainfallrecorded were Nay Pyi Taw (Lewe) (0.51) inch, Nay Pyi Taw(0.12) inch, Pyapon (2.91) inches, PyiOolwin (2.24) inches,Katha (2.16) inches, Kawthoung(1.73) inches, Hmawbi(1.42)inches and Aunglan (1.38)inches .

Maximum temperature on 29-8-2009 was 92°F.Minimum temperature on 30-8-2009 was 69°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 30-8-2009 was 100%.Total sun shine hours on 29-8-2009 was (5.7) hours approx.

Rainfall on 30-8-2009 was (0.43)inch at Mingaladon,(0.67) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.74) inch Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (84.92) inches atMingaladon, (96.42) inches at Kaba-Aye and (99.80) inchesat Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph from Southeast at (12:30) hoursMST on 29-8-2009.

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

Forecast valid until evening of 31 August 2009: Rainor thundershowers will be isolated in lower Sagaing andMagway Divisions, scattered in Shan, Chin, Kayah Statesand Mandalay Division, fairly widespread in Kachin, Kayin,and Rakhine States, Upper Sagaing, Bago and TaninthayiDivisions and widespread in the remaining States andDivisions. Degree of certainty is (80%).

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

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

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for31-8-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for31-8-2009: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for31-8-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

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SAN FRANCISCO, 30 Aug—Microsoft is offering anopen source software development kit linking thecompany’s Bing search engine to Apple’s iPhone andMac systems, according to a Bing community blogpost on Thursday.

The SDK enables querying of Bing from withinCocoa or Cocoa Touch applications. Cocoa featuresApple’s frameworks, APIs, and runtimes for Mac OSX development. A Microsoft representative earlier thismonth had pledged that stronger linkage between Bingand the iPhone would be forthcoming shortly. “TheSDK was designed to remove the headache of manuallyhaving to parse XML or JSON in order to communicatewith the Bing API,” according to the description of theSDK on the Microsoft CodePlex Web site.

Also with the SDK, synchronous and asynchronousqueries can be performed and Bing searches made forWeb, image, video, news, and phone book results. TheSDK is available under the Microsoft Public License(MS-PL).—Internet

Microsoft offers Bing SDKfor iPhone, Mac

Aston Villa 2 - 0 FulhamEverton 2 - 1 Wigan AthleticPortsmouth 0 - 1 Manchester City

(30-8-2009)

Steven Sidwell ofAston Villa is closed

down by DicksonEtuhu of Fulham

during their EnglishPremier Leaguefootball match.

INTERNET

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12th Waxing of Tawthalin 1371 ME Monday, 31 August, 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

Myogyi diversion weir commissioned into service

Illegal arms factory in Kokang region of ShanState (North) Special Region 1 seized

With Kokang region provisional leading committee’scooperation, combined force of Tatmadaw, MPF

rescues MPF members taken hostage forcefully byKokang group of Shan State (North) Special Region 1

Kokang region regains stability,administrative machinery in normalcy

(See page 8)

NAY PYI TAW, 30 Aug—Kokang group ofShan State (North) Special Region 1 led by UPhon Kya Shin returned to the legal on 21 March1989 and joined hands with the government inimplementing regional development undertak-ings, with Laukkai as the base. At first, the groupcarried out its activities in accord with the law.Later, it was found that the group was engaged inbusinesses that were against the law.

Acting on information given by a countryacross the border, the Myanmar Police Forceexposed and seized a factory producing and sell-ing arms and ammunition illegally in Kokangregion of Shan State (North) Special Region 1 on

8 August 2009. When the MPF filed a lawsuit inconnection with the case and summoned the re-sponsible persons—U Phon Kya Shin, U PhonKya Phu, U Phon Tar Shwin and U Phon Tar Li,there arose disagreements among the leadershipof the Special Region 1. U Phon Kya Shin andparty did not clarify the matter officially to theauthorities concerned; they redeployed troops ofthe Special Region 1 of their own accord; theythemselves moved to Yanlonkyaing region at theborder; and spread rumours and news that therewould be an encounter between the governmentand their troops. Hence, the locals fled to the othercountry or interior parts of the country in panic. In

addition, Kokang forces that did not want to stayunder the leadership of U Phon Kya Shin joinedhands with the Tatmadaw.

On 27 August morning, Kokang troopsloyal to U Phon Kya Shin took 39 MPF mem-bers of Yanlonkyaing border checkpoint ashostages. Information was sent for the releaseof hostages. But they were not released. Andwhen the combined force of the Tatmadaw,with the cooperation of Kokang region provi-sional leading committee went to theYanlonkyaing border checkpoint to rescue thehostages at 4 pm on 27 August, Kokang troops

(See page 9)

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