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Volume XVIII, Number 322 5 th Waxing of Tabaung 1372 ME Wednesday, 9 March, 2011

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round develop-ment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms of technical know-how and investments from sources inside thecountry and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural her-itage 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 Constitu-tion

* Building of a new modern developed nation inaccord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 8 March Chairman of the StatePeace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe visitedthe 48th Myanma Gems Emporium this morning.

On his arrival at Jade Garden near Nay PyiTaw Mani Yadana Jade Hall at 9.30 am where the 48thMyanma Gems Emporium will be held, the Senior

General was welcomed by Vice-Chairman of the StatePeace and Development Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, Member of the State Peace and Development Council Thura UShwe Mann, Prime Minister U Thein Sein, Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council ThihaThura U Tin Aung Myint Oo, Member of the StatePeace and Development Council U Tin Aye, GeneralMin Aung Hlaing of the Ministry of Defence, membersof the Panel of Patrons of Central Committee forOrganizing the 48th Myanma Gems Emporium Com-

Senior General Than Shwe visits 48 th

Myanma Gems Emporium

mander of Nay Pyi Taw Command Brig-Gen MaungMaung Aye and Minister for Mines U Ohn Myint,ministers, deputy ministers, vice-chairmen of thecentral committee, the secretary and central committeemembers, officials of subcommittees, Patron of Myanmar Gems Entrepreneurs Association U AungKo Win, Chairman U Tay Za and executives.

The Senior General viewed uncut jades deco-rated with flowery plants and water fountains in theJade Garden near the Mani Yadana Jade Hall in amotorcade.

While the Senior General from the first floorof the Mani Yadana Jade Hall oversaw the preparationfor the emporium on the ground floor, Patron of thecentral committee Mines Minister U Ohn Myint gavean account of the emporium.

Next, the Senior General observed high-gradejade lots on display on the first floor of the ManiYadana Jade Hall.

The Senior General and party heard a reporton Myanma Gems Emporiums, successful holding of the Mid-year Myanma Gems Emporium 2010 in NayPyi Taw and construction of Myanma Gems Museum,Jade Garden and Mani Yadana Jade Hall withaudiovisual aidso.

After inspecting jade lots on display near the

Mani Yadana Jade Hall from the first floor, the SeniorGeneral left necessary instructions.Next, the Senior General left the Mani Yadana

Jade Hall at 10.20 am.Altogether 16939 jade lots, 206 gems lots

and 255 pearl lots will be on sale at the 48th MyanmaGems Emporium from 10 to 22 March at Nay Pyi TawMani Yadana Jade Hall.

Over 5000 gem merchants from 20 nationshave been invited and about 4000 gems merchantsfrom 10 nations are expected to visit the emporium.

MNA

Chairman of State Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe inspects high-grade jadelots at Mani Yadana Jade Hall. MNA

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Wednesday, 9 March, 2011

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

Peoples Desire

In the interest of peopleRegular sessions of Hluttaws have been

convened at Hluttaw Building in Nay Pyi Tawsince 31 January.

Having mandate to exercise the legislativepower, a hluttaw is an organization that canshape the future of the people. The government,the highest body of executive power, and judicialbodies are responsible for implementing theresolutions passed at the hluttaws.

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw is a legislative bodyformed with Pyithu Hluttaw representativesand Amyotha Hluttaw representatives. Now,the President has been elected to rule the nation.

The President has formed the Union government,the Union Supreme Court, the judicature, theConstitutional Tribunal, the Union ElectionCommission and other Union level organs.

Now, Hluttaws are in session, and theUnion government is going to assume dischargeof its duties. A hluttaw under the main task tomake laws will soon carry out legislative duties.

Hluttaw representatives will have therights to put forward questions about what ishappening in their regions, cases and bills togoverning bodies and Union level organizationsat hluttaw sessions in accordance with theprocedures. The queries should be answeredwith the concept that they ask questions in theinterests of the Union and the people.

In raising queries and replying, andsubmitting cases and bills, Hluttawrepresentatives have to discharge their dutiesand exercise powers and rights in a systematicway. Therefore, they are duty-bound to workclosely without any personality cult,dogmatism and racism to shape the future of the nation.

The Oasis Hotel commissioned into service

Education minister

inspects exam centres

Minister for Education Dr Chan Nyein inspects students sitting for matriculation exam 2011. MNA

NAY PYI TAW , 8March Minister forEducation Dr Chan Nyeininspected undertakingsfor convenience of examinees, office works

and students sitting forexam at exam centres inNo.1 Basic EducationHigh School in Lewe

Township, Nay Pyi TawDistrict, this morning.There, he met with healthstaff providing health careto the students and spokewords of thanks.

Later on, theminister looked into YeniBEHS and Myohla BEHSexam centers in Yedashe

Township, Bago Region.After that, the

minister urged theofficials to carry outworks systematically inline with exam

procedures, and met withhealth staff and ruleenforcement com-mittee. MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 8 March The opening ceremonyof The Oasis Hotel washeld today in front of thehotel in Nay Pyi Taw HotelZone. It was attended byministers, departmentalheads, officials and guests.

Minister for Progressof Border Areas andNational Races and

Development AffairsNay Pyi Taw Mayor UThein Nyunt, Ministerfor Hotels and TourismU Soe Naing andChairman of Palm TreeCo Ltd U Win Aungformally opened theOasis Hotel.

Next, Minister UThein Nyunt unveiled

the signboard of ChineseRestaurant.

The ministers,departmental heads andguests viewed round thehotel.

The hotel with 38rooms 22 Suite Roomand 16 Deluxe Roomwas built on the area of 24 acres. MNA

Ministers U Thein Nyunt and U Soe Naing and Palm Tree Co Ltd Chairman U Win Aungformally open Oasis Hotel. MNA

Photo shows theOasis Hotel.

MNA

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Taleban killed, 14 detained inAfghanistans Helmand Province

LASHKAR GAH , 8March Afghan andNATO-led forces duringnight raid operationskilled three Talebanmilitants and detained 14others in HelmandProvince, some 555 kmsouth of capital city of Kabul, spokesman forprovincial administrationsaid Tuesday.

Special operation

units of Afghan army andinternational forcesduring two separateoperations eliminatedthree militants anddetained 14 others inMusa Qala District onMonday night, DaudAhmadi told Xinhua .

He said a Talebanlocal commandernamely Zarif Sijad, whohas been responsible for

initiating ImprovisedExplosive Device (IED)attacks against securityforces, was among thedetainees.

The aim of theoperations was tocapture members of amilitant network anddisturb their subversiveactivities in Musa QalaDistrict,he empha-sized. Xinhua

Five killed inmilitary

helicoptercollision in

ColombiaBOGOTA , 8 March

Five people were killed,including a Mexicanofficer, on Monday dueto the collision of twomilitary helicopters in arural area of theColombian departmentof Tolima, officialsources said.

In the crash of twoUH-1H helicopters fromthe Helicopters Schoolof the Air Force of

Colombia (FAC), wereinjured four people,including anotherMexican official. Theincident occurred in arural area of themunicipality of Melgar,at about 90 km fromBogota.

The Air Force hasmoved an inspectioncommission to the scene,with the aim toinvestigate, said anofficial statement.

Xinhua

A police officer inspects the damage followingthree near-simultaneous car bombings in the

northern Iraqi City of Kirkuk. The attacks, whichkilled at least eight people, have been blamed onSunni militant group Ansar Al-Islam. INTERNET

Japan slams former US consul general for derogatoryremarks

TOKYO , 8 March Japans Okinawa prefecturalassembly on Tuesday unanimously decided to seekan official apology from a former US consul generalfor derogatory comments he made about the peopleof Okinawa.

The assembly also agreed that the remarks madeby Kevin Maher, who heads the Japanese affairsoffice at the US State Department, should be officiallyrescinded, local media reported.

According to Japanese officials, during a StateDepartment lecture in the US aimed at collegestudents, Maher referred to the people of Okinawa asbeing masters of manipulation and extortion.

Other allegations are that Maher called the peopleof Okinawa, Japans southernmost prefecture, lazyand deceptive, drawing the ire of Japans senior

ministers.Defence Minister Toshimi Kitazawa said at a

news conference that Mahers comments make anabsolute mockery of the people of Okinawa.

Similarly, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edanosaid the comments were wholly unacceptable anddisrespectful, not just to the people of Okinawa, butto all Japanese people.

The Okinawa prefectural assembly launched anofficial protest against the US State Department andMaher personally, claiming: The statementstrampled on the feelings of the Okinawa people,ridiculing and insulting them. It is absolutelyunforgivable. We strongly demand a retractionand an apology to the people of Okinawa, theassembly demanded. Xinhua

Car bombing kills 20 in Pakistans eastISLAMABAD , 8

March A car bomboutside a gas station inPakistans third largestcity killed 20 andwounded more than 100people on Tuesday,underscoring the reachof al-Qaeda and Talebanmilitants in the US-allied

nation. The blast badlydamaged the station andan office of Pakistansstate-run airline in

A view of devastation caused by a bomb blast

in Faisalabad, Pakistan on 8 March, 2011. A

car bomb outside a gas station killed many

people and wounded more than 100.

INTERNET

eastern Faisalabad City,though the initial targetwas not immediatelyclear. The district in theimportant industrial cityis home to commercial,police and governmentbuildings.

Islamist militantsseeking to overthrow the

government havebombed hundreds of police, army, commercialand civilian targets in

Pakistan over the pastthree years. Most havebeen in the northwestclose to the Afghan borderwhere the militants are attheir strongest.

Tuesdays bombingapparently causedsecondary explosions atthe fuel station, adding

to the destruction,Faisalabad police chief Aftab Cheema said.

Internet

Residents and policemen inspectthe site of a bomb

attack inMuqdadiya, 80 km(50 miles) northeastof Baghdad. A car

bomb exploded at acar showroom inthe Iraqi Town of Muqdadiya killingat least 13 people

and wounding 33others, securitysources said.

INTERNET

Man arrested over Stockholm bombingLONDON , 8 March A 30-year-old man was arrested in Glasgow, a city of

southwest Scotland, in connection with a suicide bombing in Sweden in lastDecember, British police said on Tuesday.

Police arrested the foreign national under the Terrorism Act on Tuesdaymorning as part of an intelligence-led operation in the city. TaimourAbdulwahab, the Stockholm suicide bomber, injured two people in blasts ina busy shopping street. The detained suspect posed no direct threat toScotland, police said. Xinhua

18 killed in clashes between rival gangs inNE Mexico

MEXICO CITY, 8 March Eighteen people were killed in armed clashesbetween rival gangs in northeastern Mexico on Monday, local media reported.

The violence occurred in central Abasolo, the Tamaulipas state, whichborders the US State of Texas. Drug trafficking violence is constant inTamaulipas as the regions two competing drug groups, the Zetas and the Gulf cartels, have been battling for control of smuggling routes into the US marketand local markets. Earlier this year, in Padilla, another town of Tamaulipas, 18people were killed in fighting in February. Xinhua

A girl, who was injured in a bomb explosionin Nowshera, is brought to the Lady Reading

hospital for treatment in Peshawar on 4March, 2011. A bomb exploded in a mosque

in the northwestern Pakistani town of Nowshera on Friday, killing at least ninepeople and wounding over 30, police and

hospital officials said.INTERNET

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Watching risky behaviorincreases risks

REGENSBURG , 8March A review of 25years of research findspeople exposed throughthe media to riskybehaviors such asunprotected sex are atgreater risk, USresearchers say. Leadauthor Peter Fischer, apsychology professor atthe University of Regensburg in Germany,said video games thatglorify risk were morelikely to promptdangerous behavior thanpassive exposure, suchas watching films orlistening to music.

Fischer and col-leagues examined USand European studiesconducted from 1983 to2009 involving morethan 80,000 participantsages 16-24, althoughsome samples includedolder and youngerparticipants. It appears

Clean air, less carbon has health benefitsCHICAGO , 8 March A US researcher says legislation reducing

air pollution such as carbon pollution has immediate healthbenefits.

Dr Dean E Schraufnagel, president of the American ThoracicSociety and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago,is speaking out against a bill introduced by Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla, and Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich, to prohibit the USEnvironmental Protection Agency from issuing rules on carbonpollution and other greenhouse gases.

The Clean Air Act is one of the best public health successstories of the past four decades and has saved thousands of American lives, Schraufnagel said in a statement.

In 2010 alone, the air quality improvements under the CleanAir Act will prevent 160,000 premature deaths, 130,000 heartattacks, 1.7 million asthma attacks and 3.2 million missed schooldays, Schraufnagel said. Internet

Diet to prevent cancer, AlzheimersBIRMINGHAM , 8 March An epigenetic

eating regimen uses specific food compoundsto prevent cancer or Alzheimers disease,University of Alabama at Birminghamresearchers said.

Study co-author Trygve Tollefsbol saidepigenetics research worldwide, includingnumerous studies conducted at the Universityof Alabama, have identified specific foodcompounds found in food such as broccoliand cabbage inhibit negative epigeneticeffects that can help reverse or help preventcancers and other aging-related diseases.

Your mother always told you to eat

from our meta-analysisthat risk-glorifying mediahas potentially graveconsequences, such asinnumerable incidencesof fatalities, injuries andhigh economic costs in abroad variety of risk-taking domains, such assubstance abuse, recklessdriving, gambling andrisky sexual behavior,Fischer said in astatement. Internet

A doctor treats an obese patient at ahospital in Shanghai in 2004. Chinesemen and women on the verge of what is

considered overweight amongCauscasians actually showed the lowest

risk of death when compared to their own cultural counterparts, said a study

on Monday. INTERNET

your vegetables, and she was right,Tollefsbol said in a statement. But now webetter understand why she was right compounds in many of these foods suppressgene aberrations that over time cause fataldiseases. The epigenetics diet includes suchfoods as soybeans, cauliflower, broccoli,cabbage, green tea, fava beans, kale, grapesand the spice turmeric, Tollefsbol said.

The epigenetics diet can be adoptedeasily, because the concentrations of thecompounds needed for a positive effect arereadily achievable, lead author Syed Meeransaid. Internet

S Koreas imports of US beef rise 81.5% in firsttwo months of 2011

SEOUL , 8 March South Koreasimports of US beef rose drastically81.5 percent to reach 20,340 tons inthe first two months of this year, largelydue to the countrys severest outbreakof foot-and-mouth disease that hasdevastated its livestock industry,industry data showed on Tuesday.

According to the data from the USMeat Export Federation, South Korea

A trader monitors pricemovements at

the HongKong StockExchange.

TokyosNikkei was up

and HongKongs Hang

Seng haveclimbed inearly trade.

INTERNET

China targets 3.5%cut in energy, carbon

intensity in 2011BEIJING , 8 March China aims to

reduce energy consumption per unitof GDP by 3.5 percent in 2011 fromthe level a year ago, an official withthe countrys top planner said onTuesday.

Carbon dioxide emission is alsoset to be slashed by 3.5 percent, saidLi Pumin, spokesman of the National

Development and ReformCommission (NDRC), which is incharge of energy-saving work.

Emissions of major pollutantsincluding sulfur dioxide and (COD)chemical oxygen demand will fall 1.5percent, Li told an online interview.

Chinese government vowed tomake its economy greener in theforthcoming five years after briskeconomic growth at the cost of heavypollution and resource use proved tobe unsustainable. According to thedraft 12 th Five-year Plan (2011-2015)for Chinas economic and socialdevelopment, the nation aims to

reduce energy consumption per unitof GDP by 16 percent in the five yearsto 2015. Carbon dioxide emissionwill drop by 17 percent. Xinhua

Japans key economic gauge up for 3 rd

straight month in JanTOKYO , 8 March Japans key economic gauge was upgraded for

January, marking the third straight month of gains, the government said in areport on Monday. According to the Cabinet Office, the coincident compositeindex (CI), which reflects current business conditions, increased a preliminary2.5 points in January from a month earlier to 106.2, against the base of 100in 2005. Januarys reading marks the highest level since August 2006, theCabinet Office said, adding that however, economists were not surprised asthe figure was in line with median market expectations.

The leading composite index, which measures the state of the economythree months ahead, stood at 101.9 in January, rising from a reading of 101in the previous month, but missing forecasts for a reading of 102.3. Meanwhile,the lagging CI, which reflects economic conditions three months ago, fell to87.8 in the recording period from 88.8 logged a month earlier, marking thefirst contraction in two months.

The Cabinet Office upgraded its assessment on Japans economy for thefirst time in fifteen months, saying that the index showed that while Japanseconomy is pausing, and it is also showing signs of improvement.

Xinhua

imported 11,209 tons of beef from theUnited States in the first two monthsof last year. This years imports of USbeef in the first two months so faraccount for one-fifth of the total importvolume in 2010, which stood at1,001,816 tons. South Koreas importsof US beef last year posted a 94 percentincrease compared with the yearbefore.

The continuing growth in SouthKoreas imports of US beef comes as thecountry has been in the grip of the worstoutbreak of foot-and-mouth disease thatstarted in last November. Xinhua

Women check maize crops on a smallscale farm in Zimbabwe in February

2011. The UNs Food and AgricultureOrganisation (FAO) called for gender

equality in agriculture on Monday inorder to increase farm production and reduce the worlds hungry by at least

100 million. INTERNET

Silkworms are seen feeding onmulberry leaves at an exhibition in

Bangalore in 2001. Taiwanesescientists say they have discovered that a protein created by silkworms

in the production of silk can beused to manufacture a component

that will make e-books moreefficient. INTERNET

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BEIJING, 8 March A new study showsthat adolescents with eating problems arevery likely to have at least one psychiatriccomorbidity, according to MedPageToday news Monday.

Scientists with the National Institute of Mental Health in the United States launchedthe National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationAdolescent Supplement, a face-to-facesurvey of 10,123 adolescents aged 13 to 18years in the continental United States.

They examined the prevalence of fivetypes of eating problems - - anorexia nervosa,bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder,sub-threshold anorexia and sub-threshold binge eating disorder, and theninvestigated the psychological state of thesubjects.

The results came out that most surveyparticipants who reported an eating problem

BOGOTA , 8 March At least 23 oil workers werekidnapped on Monday by suspected guerrillas of theRevolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) inthe jungles of Vichada in southeast of the country, thecompany of the workers said on Monday.

The workers had been assigned seismic tasks forsearching for hydrocarbons in the jungle region wherethere is a strong FARC presence, Tomas Rueda, aspokesman of oil exploration company Talisman, toldRCN radio station.

They (FARC) have just kidnapped 23 people whoare employed by a contractor of ours, said Rueda.

He said it is too early to give details about the

NEW YORK, 8 March Gold and silver futures roseMonday as troubles in Libya continued to shakecommodity markets.

Gold prices on the Comex division of the New YorkMercantile Exchange added $4.80 to a record $1,433, asgold rises in sympathy with oil, an inflation bellwether.April contract oil added 55 cents to $104.97, remaininghigh despite assurances that global production capacitycan overcome the supply disruption while Libya is inchaos.

The dollar index was flat, rising 0.09 percent Monday.The euro fell to $1.397 from Fridays $1.3986, while

the dollar fell against the yen to 82.22 yen from 82.32 yen.The British pound fell 0.73 cents to $1.6196 while the

Canadian dollar fell 0.08 cents to 97.25 cents.The US dollar fell to 7.7867 Hong Kong dollars from7.7868 HKD. The Australian dollar fell to $1.0112 from$1.0138.

In India, the dollar rose to 44.97 rupees from 44.904rupees. Against the South Korean won, the dollar fell to1,116.35 won from 1,117.82 won. Internet

Teens eating problems likely lead topsychiatric disorders

Women presents Cheongsam during an activity marking the InternationalWomens Day in east Chinas Shanghai Municipality, on 7 March, 2011.

Women from different sectors of the society in Shanghai, includingfemale artists, entrepreneurs and diplomatic personnel participated in the

Cheongsam Show. X INHUA

Colombias FARC kidnaps 23 oil workersperpetrators, but police sources confirmed to RCN thatthe front 16 of the FARC operates in the area and arelikely the kidnappers.

Police also indicated that 80 percent of the 23hostages are natives of the region who work for acontractor that provides services to Talisman.

Meanwhile, governor of Vichada, Juan Carlos Avila,confirmed that an unidentified armed group got into theoil camp and took an uncounted number of people.

Avila said that the abduction was in a secluded andjungle area of the municipality of Cumaribo, which isonly accessible by helicopters.

Xinhua

Children play with foam sprays during Carnivalcelebrations in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, on 7 March, 2011. X INHUA

Gold futures rises modestly

The 106-year-old Miao ethnic group

woman Guan Houmei(L1) assists her

offspring in preparinga dinner for the family

union in RongshuiCounty, south Chinas

Guangxi ZhuangAutonomous Region,

on 7 March, 2011.XINHUA

Animal foot found in shoe in Canada

A man carries cooked meat during aDarouhui Festival, a kind of temple fair, inJiange County, southwest Chinas SichuanProvince, on 7 March, 2011. Darouhui is atraditional folk festival which enjoys over 800 years history. Local people have the

custom of feeding pigs. During the DarouhuiFestival, people will get together to share

dishes made of hog meat. Darouhui Festivalusually celebrate twice a year, three days

each time. X INHUA

VANCOUVER , 8 March A running shoe holding the severed foot from anunidentified animal was found washed ashore in British Columbia, Canadianauthorities say. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl Annie Linteau said a womanout for a walk found the shoe and foot floating in Vancouvers Powell RiverSaturday, Postmedia News reported.

Like seven previous feet washed ashore in British Columbia, it was inside arunning shoe but upon examination Sunday night, the Coroners Service declared

the foot was not human. In all, 10 feet have been found on Washington and BritishColumbia since August 2007, the last one being December in Tacoma, Wash.Tacoma police said the size 6 Ozark Trail brand hiking boot probably belonged toa young person or small adult, Postmedia said. Internet

BEIJING , 8 March Air China Ltd announcedTuesday it would buy five B747-8 airplanes fromBoeing Company in a bid to further expand its fleetsize.

The value of the deal is estimated to reach 1.54billion US dollars, but actual prices might beadjusted, Air China said in a statement filed withthe Shanghai Stock Exchange Tuesday.

The planes are scheduled to be delivered in2014 and 2015.

The statement said the company would seekthe help of bank loans in buying the planes, adding

the deal would not cause a major impact on thecompanys financial status.As of the end of 2010, Air Chinas fleet capacity

stood at 19.741 billion tonne kilometres. Thestatement said the new planes are expected toexpand the its fleet size by another 1.3 billion tonnekilometers. Xinhua

Air China to buy 5 Boeingplanes

also reported at least one psychiatric disorder.The rates of teens reporting a psychiatric

disorder were 55.2 percent for anorexia, 88percent for bulimia, 83.5 percent for thosewith binge eating, 79.8 percent for thosewith sub-threshold anorexia, and 70.1percent for those with sub-threshold bingeeating. Scientists found that teens reportingbulimia had a higher risk of suicidal inclinationthan those with other problems.

Kathleen Merikangas, one of theresearchers, said that teens were reluctant toreceive treatment for eating problems, thoughmost of them appeared to be willing to seekhelp for psychiatric disorders.

She noted that it is not possible yet todraw definite conclusions about the temporalrelationships between eating disorders andcomorbid conditions due to the cross-sectiondesign of the study. Xinhua

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Chairman of State

Peace and Develop-

ment Council Com-

mander-in-Chief of

Defence Services

Senior General

Than Shwe inspects

high-grade jade lots

on display at Mani

Yadana Jade Hall.

(News on page 1)

MNA

Chairman of State

Peace and Develop-

ment Council

Commander-in-

Chief of Defence

Services Senior

General Than

Shwe inspects high-grade jade lots on

display at Mani

Yadana Jade Hall.

(News on page 1)

MNA

NAY PYI TAW , 8 March Minister for Industry-2 U Soe Thein inspected hostels for officers inBawgathedi ward and staff quarter, perennial crops,

shade trees, seasonal plants and flowery plants in

Industry-2 Minister inspects staff quarters in Nay Pyi TawDannathedi and Wunnathedi wards in ZabuthiriTownship, Nay Pyi Taw District this morning.

After that, the minister met with staff and

their families and left necessary instructions. MNA

NAY PYI TAW , 8 March A ceremony to donateK 0.3 million worth of medical equipment forcancer patients to Radiological Department of Mandalay General Hospital, took place at the officeof medical superintendent on 3 March.

Medical superintendent Dr U Maung Winaccepted the equipment donated by U Yin Win Maungand wife Daw Khin Pyone Yu and family, and presentedcertificate of honour to the family. MNA

MGH gets medical equipment forcancer patients

Minister U Soe Thein inspects staff quarters and hostels in Nay Pyi Taw . MNA

NAY PYI TAW , 8 March Minister for Agri-culture and Irrigation U Htay Oo received

Ambassador of Israel to Myanmar Mr. Yaron Mayerat his office here this afternoon.During the meeting, they cordially discussed

matters on cooperation in the agriculture sector andhuman resource development. Senior Advisor toItochu Corporation Mr. Toshiyuki Takano calledon Minister U Htay Oo at his office yesterday.

MNA

A & I Minister receives IsraeliAmbassador, Japanese guest

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Junction Centre Nay Pyi Tawsextended building inaugurated

NAY PYI TAW, 8 March An extended building

of Junction Centre NayPyi Taw was inauguratedtoday.

Minister forCommerce U Tin NaingThein, Minister forInformation U Kyaw Hsanand Managing Director of Junction Centre U AungZaw Naing formallyopened the building andMinister for Progress of Border Areas andNational Races andDevelopment Affairs UThein Nyunt unveiled thesignboard of the building.The three-storey building

is built on 40,000 squarefeet, comprising 47 shops.

European, Chinese,Thai and Myanmarrestaurants and bakery andcaf shops are located onthe first floor, luxury &premium fashion, silkwear, shoes & bags,glasses & watches,jewellery, perfume,cosmetic and fashionaccessories are availableon the second floor andfashion shops, wedding &photo studio, spa, phone/ IT accessories and gamecentres are established onthe third floor.

MNA

Minister U Thein Nyunt unveils signboard of

extended building of Junction Centre

Nay Pyi Taw. MNA

Ministers U Tin Naing Thein, U Kyaw Hsanand Managing Director U Aung Zaw Naingopen extended building of Junction Centre

Nay Pyi Taw. MNA

Junction Centre Nay Pyi Taw on Yazathingaha Road in front of Nay Pyi Taw Hotel Zone. MNA

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YANGON , 8March Press confer-ence on Level-3 Diplomain Performing Arts con-ferred by City of Sunder-land College of England,was held at Central Hotelin Bogyoke Street, here,

Level-3 Diploma in PerformingArts introduced

on 1 March. It is the first-ever course in Myanmarand will start on 24 March.Those who have abovebasic education highschool level are eligibleto attend the nine-monthcourse. For more infor-

mation, contact Shwe SaeEntertainment, No.37,Room-202, AungThabyae road, MingalaTaungnyunt Township,Yangon and dial Ph-0973132927 and0973132928. MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 8March Minister forEnergy U Lun Thi metwith oilfields generalmanagers at the Manoilfield in MinbuTownship, MagwayRegion on 6 March.

At the meeting,the minister discussedonshore and offshore oiland gas exploration,success of offshore oilfields, improvement of onshore gas and oil

drilling, exploration andproduction, success of

Energy Minister meets Man oilfieldgeneral managers

joint venture with overseacompanies, ongoingdevelopment tasks andfuture tasks.

After that, theminister inspected new oilwell No.797 inHtauksharbin oilfield andurged officials to producemore oil and to minimizethe losses. Then, heviewed test-burning of natural gas. That new oilwell produces about onemillion cubic feet of

natural gas a day.Afterwards, the

minister inspected No.1Thankantan in Man oilfield. There, he lookedinto refining of crude oiland gas at No.443 oil wellby deepening it. Officialsreported to the ministeron production of more oilfrom present-operatingfour oil wells with SingleMulti Jet Operationsystem by penetrating intosand layer laterally. TheNo.443 oil well nowproduces 14 barrels of oil

and 0.2 million cubic feetof gas daily. MNA

ILBC will conduct

regular summer

courses from 18

March to 27 May. All

the courses will be

conducted at ILBC

branches in Nay Pyi

Taw, Mandalay,

Myitkyina, Taunggyi,

Taungoo, Lashioand Myeik.

MNA

Ministers, deputy ministers and guests at the stalls in Junction Centre. (News on page 8) MNA

Press conference on Level-3 Diploma in Performing Arts to beconferred by City of Sunderland College in progress. MNA

YAUNGNI U LIBRARY OPENED : Secretary of Hlegu Township Peace and Development Council Daw A Mi Zaw, head of township Informationand Public Relations Department Daw Su Su Hline and village head

U Myint Oo formally opened YaungniU library in Wayonsoon Villagein Hlegu Township, Yangon on 7 March.

T OWNSHIP IPRD

Shape your kids future at ILBCYANGON , 8 March

This year, ILBC plans torun its summer coursesfrom 18 March to 27 May.

Courses coverproficiency of Englishand Myanmarlanguages, drawing,painting, music andsport. The courses areparticularly designed toimprove childrensskills in subjects,curiosity and reasoning

power and enhancecognitive development.

Pretests will be heldfor novice trainees in orderthat they can join suitableclasses.

ILBC Pre-School willbe opened from 1 Marchto 31 May for kids aged 3to 5. School hours is from8 am to 11 am, and from12 noon to 3 pm. Courseswill be openedsimultaneously at the

branches of ILBC in NayPyi Taw, Yangon,Mandalay, Myitkyina,Taunggyi, Toungoo,Lashio and Myeik.

For more on courses,contact ILBC at No. 34on Laydauntkan Street,in Tamway Township,Yangon (Ph: 542982,545720), (Fax 01-541040) or [email protected].

MNA

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Myanmar jade with best quality in the world

Dr Ye Myint Swe, Director-General of Geological Survey and Minerals Exploration

Department.Two foreign merchants examining a jade lot at

2010 Mid-year Myanma Gems Emporium.

Jewellery made of Myanmar jade.

Foreign merchants examining Myanmar jade lots at 2010 Mid-year Myanma Gems

Emporium.

of jade in the rock werebroken and washed awaytogether with other typesof stones by currents of water. Then, it formed assecondary deposits.

According tosome geologists, based onglaucophane scist, albiteor nepheline stones weretransformed by high pres-sure into Jadeite jade.

Jade can form onlyat collision zone of PlateConvergent boundary of the two huge layers of theEarth. So, todays geolo-gists call serpentintite rock,collisional rock.

Jadeite jade is

(from page 16)Jade, unlike

other precious stonessuch as diamond, sap-phire and emerald, is notfound as single mineralcrystal. When we look ata facet of a cut jade stonewith the use of a micro-scope, we can find thatjade is just a type of rock.Therefore, some jadestones are very huge.

Formation of Jadeite jade is Na A1 Si2O6. Its density is 3.33,and its hardness is 7.

High qualityJadeite jade is peculiar toMyanmar due to geologi-cal process. Jade canform only at convergentplate boundaries.

About 200 mil-lion years ago, the Earthwas as the form of Pangaea. Myanmar is

situated at convergentboundaries where IndianPlate and Eurasia Platecollided against each other.According to thegeological research, jadeformed at the place wherethe large layers of the Earthcollided hard against eachother. Due to extreme sidepressure, jade moves upgradually to the surface of the Earth.

Serpentintite rockinfiltrated into it by Jadeitejade stones came undermetamorphism (high pres-sure). Serpentintite rockslate Cretaceous - EarlyEocene is estimatedaround 65 million years.Due to the collision be-tween the two huge layersof the Earth, inner partscame out at very high speedto emerge as mountainranges. Later, heavy layers

found at small amount inGuatemala, California of the US, Japan and Russia.However, the jade foundin those countries is not asgood as MyanmarsJadeite jade in size andquality.

Director-GeneralDr Ye Myint Swe of theGeological Survey and

Minerals Exploration De-partment under the Minis-try of Mines said,Myanmars jade is of bestquality and our countryproduces quality jadelarger than any othercountry. So, Myanmar is

in a position to hold thewhole international jademarket. Chinese constituteone-fifth of the worldpopulation. So, if Myanmar jade has a foot-hold in Chinese market, itis marketable on a com-mercial scale. The strongpoint of Myanmar jade isthat it has better quality

than the jade of any othercountry.He presented a

doctoral thesis on geol-ogy at Yangon Univer-sity in 2004. He was sentto attend courses on min-erals exploration andscientific studies in Aus-tralia, Japan, and the US.From 2007 to 2010, heserved as Professor (Di-rector) of the Post-Gradu-ate Applied Geology De-

partment of YangonUniversity.(See page 11)

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Y ANGON , 8M a r c h D i r e c t o r -General of Training,Research and ForeignLanguages Departmentof the Ministry of Foreign Affairs DawYin Yin Myint signedCondolence Bookopened at the Embassyof Nepal, No.16Natmauk Yeiktha inTamway Township at3.30 pm today for thedemise of HisExcellency Mr. KrishnaPrasad Bhattarai ,Former President of Nepali Congress partyand Former PrimeMinister of Nepal on 4March 2011. MNA

D-G of Training, Research &Foreign Languages Department

signs Condolence Book

Director-General of Training, Research

and ForeignLanguages

Department of theMinistry of ForeignAffairs Daw Yin Yin

Myint signsCondolence Book

for demise of Former Prime

Minister of NepalMr. Krishna Prasad

Bhattarai. MNA

YANGON , 8 March A total of 107 fires brokeout across the country in February. They are stove fires,83 fires due to recklessness, 15 accidental fires, fiveelectric shocks, two arsons and two forest fires.

The fires destroyed 592 houses, left 2343people homeless, killed four and injured six. It is foundthat the fire outbreaks due to negligence accounted for

77.57 percent of the total outbreaks.According to analysis, Mandalay Region

experienced most of the fire outbreaks, followed byYangon Region and Sagaing Region. Out of 23 firesthat occurred in Mandalay Region, 16 were due tonegligence, including stove fires, accounting for 36.45percent of the nations total outbreaks.

Fire Services Department is taking firepreventive measures in collaboration with townshippeace and development councils, general administrativedepartments and other related departments by advisingdevelopment affairs committees to take precautionarymeasures at markets and high buildings, educating thepeople about fire prevention through media and givingeducative talks in townships, wards and villages andcarrying out fire drills. However, fires still break out due

to the public reluctance to follow the instructions. Now,fire preventive measures are being carried out invillages in an extensive way as the dry season is settingin. MNA

107 fires occur inFebruary

YANGON , 8 March STI Education,

Myanmar agent of universities and institutesAustralia, American, Canada, England andSingapore, is providing services for further study.

It is providing consultancy services for

STI providing internationaleducation services

building education career in foreign countries,choosing subject and career destinations.

Those interested may contact the STIEducation at No. 377, upper Shwebontha Street,

Pabedan Township and at Campus (4), Room (7),Myanmar Info-Tech, Hline Township (Ph: 507048and 507151).

MNA

(from page 10)The CentralCommittee forOrganizing MyanmarGems Emporiums of theMinistry of Mines of theRepublic of the Unionof Myanmar has beenholding Myanmar gemsemporiums since 1964.Up to 2010 Mid-YearMyanmar Gems Empo-rium, it had organizedemporiums for 47 times.

Of the foreign

Myanmar jade with

best qualitygems merchants attend-ing Myanma Gems Em-poriums, Chinese makesup the majority. They pur-chase gems especiallyjade. Chinese merchantshave been importingMyanmars Jadeite jadesince 18th Century. Chi-nese people consider jadeas the prime stone.

According toChinese tradition, a personwearing jade is consid-ered to be generous,

brave, upright, humble,intellectual, danger-free,and prosperous. They calljade as stone of heavens.China sees no Jadeite jade,but nephrite jade.

The 2010 Mid-Year Myanma Gems Em-porium was held atManiyadana Jade Hallnear the Myanma GemsMuseum in Nay Pyi Tawfrom 17 to 29 November,drawing the attention from6750 foreign merchantswho bought 7784 lots of jade. It was the first empo-rium held in Nay Pyi Taw,but foreign merchantsspent more money thanthat in previous empori-

A Chinese gem merchant examines Myanmar jade.

Myanmar jade displayed at 2010 Mid-Year MyanmaGems Emporium.

ums to purchase jade.The majority of

Myanmar jade is from

secondary deposits. So,Myanmar should scale upgeological exploration to

discover more jade de-posits.

Translation: MS

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BANG SAOTONG VOY NO (136)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV BANGSAOTONG VOY NO (136) are hereby notified thatthe vessel will be arriving on 9.3.2011 and cargo willbe discharged into the premises of M.I.P where it will

lie at the consignees risk and expenses and subject tothe byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8

am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Daynow declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo from the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admittedafter the Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S WONGSAMUT OCEANSHIPPING CO, LTD

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

Moodys downgrade tipsGreece closer to brink

Two men ride their bicycles in front of Bank of Greece in

central Athens on 7 March, 2011.

INTERNET

Space shuttle Discovery heads home to retirement

In a frame grab made from NASA TV, spaceshuttle Discovery leaves the International Space

Station for the last time on 7 March,2011. I NTERNET

Googles Android hassurged past Blackberry

maker Research inMotion to become theleading smartphone

platform in the United States, market tracking

firm comScore said on Monday.

INTERNET

Android tops BlackBerryin US: comScoreWASHINGTON , 8 March Googles Android has

surged past Blackberry maker Research in Motion tobecome the leading smartphone platform in the UnitedStates, market tracking firm comScore said onMonday.

Googles Android operating system captured thetop spot in the United States for the first time with a31.2 percent smartphone market share for the threemonths ending in January, comScore said.

RIM was next with a 30.4 percent market share,followed by Apple with 24.7 percent, Microsoft with8.0 percent and Palm with 3.2 percent.

According to comScore, 234 million Americansowned mobile devices at the end of January and 65.8million owned smartphones. Internet

CAPE CANAVERAL , 8March Its decades-longmission accomplished,space shuttle Discoveryheaded home to retirementafter undocking from theInternational Space Stationon Monday for the lasttime.

The worlds most-flownspaceship got a dramatic

send-off by Star Treksoriginal Capt Kirk.

Space, the final fron-tier, actor WilliamShatner proclaimed in aprerecorded tribute.These have been the voy-ages of the space shuttleDiscovery . Her 30-yearmission: to seek out newscience, to build new out-

posts, to bring nations to-gether on the final frontier,to boldly go and do whatno spacecraft has donebefore.

On the final leg of itsfinal journey due to cul-minate with a Wednesdaytouchdown Discoveryperformed a victory laparound the space stationimmediately afterundocking. The shuttleand station crews beameddown pictures of each oth-ers vessel, with the bluecloud-specked planet 220miles below as the stun-ning backdrop. Internet

ATHENS , 8 MarchMoodys slashed Greecescredit rating by threenotches on Monday due toan increased default risk,raising the specter that thedistressed euro zone sov-ereign may have to restruc-ture its debt, perhaps before2013.

The move increasedpressure on euro zone lead-ers to ease repayment termson bailout loans to Athens,just as Germany and itsallies seem to have turnedtheir backs on more radicalsteps to help it reduce its

debt through bondpurchases or buy-backs.

Moodys InvestorsService downgradedGreek debt to B1 from Ba1

lower than Egypt and said it may cut further,drawing an indignant pro-test from the Greek Fi-nance Ministry.

The likelihood of adefault or distressed ex-change has risen since itslast downgrade of theGreek government debtrating in June 2010,Moodys said in a state-ment. Internet

Google Maps now helps users beat traffic jams

A street light turns green in New York. INTERNET

WASHINGTON , 8March Google up-graded its popularGoogle Maps on Mon-day to suggest faster

routes to drivers based onreal-time traffic condi-tions.

Google Maps Naviga-tion, released in beta, ortest mode, shows variousroutes along with esti-mated travel times anduses red, green and yel-low colour-coding toshow how traffic is mov-ing at any given time.

Before today, Navi-gation would choosewhichever route was fast-

est, without taking currenttraffic conditions into ac-count, Roy Williams, asoftware engineer with theGoogle Maps team, saidin a blog post.

It would also gener-ate additional alternate di-rections, such as theshortest route or one thatuses highways instead of side roads. Internet

Skype to introduce adsWASHINGTON , 8 March Skype, the hugely popu-

lar free Internet communications service, an-nounced plans Monday to introduce advertising asit seeks to boost revenue ahead of going public.

Skype, which bypasses the standard telephonenetwork by channeling voice, video and text con-versations over the Web, said the ads will appearonly in Britain, Germany and the United States fornow.

The introduction of advertising is Skypes latestbid to increase revenue ahead of an initial publicoffering expected later this year.

The Luxembourg-based Skype, which wasfounded in 2003, announced plans in August toraise up to 100 million dollars by listing on theNasdaq stock exchange. Internet

Day-after surgery kneerehab effective

ALMERIA , 8 MarchStarting physical therapy24 hours after knee surgerycan reduce pain, improverange of joint motion and

improve muscle strength,resear-chers in Spainfound.

Researchers fromAlmeria, Malaga andGranada in Spain comparedpatients who begantreatment within 24 hoursof surgery with those whobegan 48 or 72 hours aftertheir operation in a random,controlled clinical trial. Eachgroup comprised more than150 patients ages 50-75.

The post-operative daybegan with a series of leg

exercises, breathingexercises and tips onposture, while on thesecond day walking short

distances with walking aidswas added.

Orthopedics, especi-ally knee replacementsurgery, is one area that

may lend itself toaccelerated discharge,Adelaida Castro Sanchezof the University of Almeria said in a statement.We therefore postulatedthat early rehabilitation aftertotal knee arthroplastycould accelerate thecapacity of patients for dailylife activities, and reducetheir hospital stay.

Internet

Oil is seen on the surface of the water from themassive oil spill on 9 May, 2010 in Gulf of Mexico.

Last years massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill sparked byan explosion on a BP-leased platform is no reason to

stop deep sea drilling, the groups chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg has said. INTERNET

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An elderly man rammed his car into asoutheast Melbourne restaurant, causingchaos all around and injuring 17 people. It

is believed he was probably trying to parkhis car when he blacked out.The septuagenarian driver was

attempting to park his car at the Food Starrestaurant in Frankston in the early afternoon.

We had a number of elderly patientsscattered around the scene, sitting on chairs,sitting under tables, laying under tables,

Japanese carmaker Mazda has recalled over 50,000cars in the US and 15,000 in Canada, Mexico and PuertoRico, after spiders webs were discovered in the vents.

The company, which is recalling Mazda 6 cars of the2009-2010 models, expressed its fears that a spider couldweave a web in a vent connected to the fuel tank systemand clog up the tanks ventilation, the Daily Expressreports.

Spokesman Jeremy Barnes has said that dealers hadidentified 20 cases in which spiders webs were found inthe vents. He also said that the webs were linked to yellowsac spiders, but it was unclear why they were particularlyfound in the Mazda 6 and not in other vehicles.

The recall involves vehicles with 2.5 litre engines builtfrom April 2008 to February 2010.

Owners would reportedly be notified by mid-Marchand told to take their vehicles to dealers for inspection andrepairs. Dealers will inspect and clean up the vent line andinstall a spring to prevent a spider from entering the vent line.

Oregon police say a mantheyre calling the DroopyDrawers Bandit made off with beer and cigarettes in aconvenience store burglary,but nearly lost his pants in theprocess. At one point in thetheft early Thursday morningin Salem, the mans pantsnearly fell down and revealedbright red shorts, the storesurveillance video shows.

Lt Steve Birr says thebandit apparently cut himself breaking in sinceconsiderable blood wasfound. Police responding toa burglary alarm found thata car door had apparentlybeen used to smash a hole inthe stores glass front door.The bandit was gone.

LOSANGELES , 8 MarchMarc Anthony is joiningwife Jennifer Lopez as aTV regular, but hes takingthe dramatic route.

The Grammy-winning salsa star willbecome a cast member onTNTs Hawthorne,playing police DetectiveNick Renata. He appearedas the character in twoepisodes last season.

The medical series that

stars Jada Pinkett Smith asChristina Hawthorne, ahospitals chief nursingofficer, returns for its thirdseason in June.

A staff member shows asolar energy backpack,which can charge thecellphone in outdoors,

during the 2011 BeijingGift Show in Beijing,capital of China, on 5

March, 2011. More than400 enterprises from

home and abroad tookpart in the four-day show,

which kicked off hereSaturday.

This file photo shows aBell 429 helicopter,

similar to one that wasgiven as a gift to agroom in a recent

mega-bucks Indian

wedding.

A 500-foot (152 metres) Ferris wheel, which wouldbe the tallest in the Western Hemisphere, may be builton the famed Las Vegas strip, officials said.

A developer won permission to construct the Ferriswheel as the centrepiece of an amusement park andretail centre planned for a vacant plot of land on theStrip, opposite the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino.

If built, it would be the third-tallest Ferris wheel inthe world and, at 500 feet, would be the maximumallowed by the US Federal Aviation Administration.

The site is less than half a mile (0.8 km) fromMcCarran International Airport, where more than 35million passengers land every year.

Developer Howard Bulloch got the green light forthe project from Clark County commissioners onWednesday.

The idea behind the Ferris wheel, according toBullochs attorney Ed Garcia, is to offer a very uniqueview of the Las Vegas Strip.

Bulloch has not disclosed the financial backers of the project but hopes to have it built in 18 to 24 months,Garcia said. The 541-foot (165 metre) Singapore Flyeris the tallest operating Ferris wheel in the world, followedby the 525-foot (160 metre) Star of Nanchang in China.The London Eye, on the banks of the Thames River,reaches 443 feet (135 metres).

Elderly man trying to park his car rams intorestaurant

laying with chairs on top of them, AAPquoted Paramedic Brian Chesson assaying.

According to Police sergeant MarkSims, the driver ploughed his car into therestaurant and food-serving area, hittingtables where diners were sitting.

Ambulance Victoria said 12 people,including the driver of the car, were treatedby staff at the scene. Police said anotherfive people suffered minor injuries.

Spiders webs discoveredin Mazda cars

Ore storebandit nearlylost his pants

Las Vegas strip may getcolossal Ferris wheel

Demi Lovato thanks fans in a video message

Demi Lovato. I NTERNET

NEW YORK, 8 MarchDemi Lovato says shesready to go back to workand is thanking fans for liftingher up during what she callsprobably the darkest timein my life.

The 18-year-old DisneyTV star entered a treatmentfacility last November to dealwith emotional and physicalissues. Lovato, who starredin Sonny With a Chance,had to drop out of a tour withthe Jonas Brothers and it wasrevealed that she had fought

with a backup dancer.In a cheery videoreleased on Cambio.com onMonday, Lovato told fansshes back home.

Lovato says she wasdealing with issues that teengirls face but didnt say whatthey were. In the past, shehas acknowledged cuttingherself. Lovato told fans theybrought light in her life

during her darkest hoursand without them Iprobably wouldnt be heretoday.

In the video, Lovatosaid she was ready to resumeworking. However, astatement released byDisney on Monday saidLovatos managementwould let them know whenshe is ready to return. WhileSonny was on hiatus,Disney put the rest of thecast and crew to work onSo Random, the sketch

comedy show within theSonny series. Thoseepisodes will begin airing inthe spring, Disney said.

Internet

Charlie Sheen reaches two million Twitterfollowers

LOS ANGELES , 8 March Winning,indeed. On Monday, Charlie Sheen reachedtwo million followers on Twitter lessthan one week after launching his account.

Another record shattered, the actor,45, Tweeted Monday. We gobbled thesoft target that was 2.0 mil, like a bag of atroll-house zombie chow.

Later, he added, hey Guinness, mightwanna start writing them in pencil, #checkit;youve been warned.

Last week, The Hollywood Reporter

reported that Sheen will soon be Tweetingendorsements. Lady Gaga currently hasthe most followers more than 8.6 million

followed by Justin Bieber, BritneySpears and President Barack Obama.

Sheen is catching up, though.Not only is he thriving on Twitter, he

is heating up other parts of the web: OnSaturday, he hosted a live webcast andattracted more than 100,000 viewers. Heshowed off a new tattoo on his left wristthat reads winning. Reuters

Charlie Sheen.INTERNET

Marc Anthony joins cast of TNTs Hawthorne

Singer Marc Anthony.INTERNET

Lopez already is onthe air as a judge on FoxsAmerican Idol. Thecouple starred together inthe film El Cantante,about the life of salsapioneer Hector Lavoe.

Anthonys other filmcredits include MartinScorseses Bringing Outthe Dead and Man onFire. Internet

NASHVILLE , 8 March Country Music Hall of Famemember Ferlin Husky is hospitalized in criticalcondition.

Huskys daughter, Alana Jackson, tells TheAssociated Press through a family spokesman that the85-year-olds condition improved Monday and hisdoctors at Hendersonville Medical Centre may soonmove him out of the critical care unit.

Tracy Pitcox, president of Huskys record label,Heart of Texas Records, says Husky has been in andout of the hospital the last few weeks following surgeryand began having trouble breathing over the weekend.Husky suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonarydisease and has a history of cardiac problems.

Husky was inducted into the Country Hall of Famelast year. He helped bring country music to the masseswith pioneering work in television. His hits includeWings of a Dove and Gone. Internet

Country Hall of Famer FerlinHusky hospitalized

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S P O R T SLampard double helpsChelsea beat Blackpool

Bayern Munich coach to leaveat end of season

FIFA lift Fernandezsuspension

Villas Bannan makes Leeds switch

Toulalan extends Lyoncontract to 2015

Birminghams Ferguson to de-cide on jab, McLeish says

NASCARs bad boys arebehaving better

New Zealands Greg Hendersonwins Paris-Nice stage

Chelseas English mid-fielder Frank Lampard celebrates after scoringthe second goal from a

penalty. I NTERNET

BLACKPOOL , 8 March A double for Frank

Lampard and a header byJohn Terry helped Chel-sea to a comfortable 3-1victory over relegation-threatened Blackpoolhere on Monday.

This could have been

a tricky encounter forCarlo Ancelottis sidebut Chelseas old guardshowed their qualities toearn three points and un-derline that the PremierLeague title race is verymuch alive.

They are nine pointsbehind leaders Manches-ter United with a game inhand.

Chelsea went into thiscontest in buoyant moodfollowing their come-back victory againstManchester United sixdays ago which ensuredthey kept in touch withthe trio of sides abovethem. Internet

Bayern Munichs Dutchhead coach Louis vanGaal looks on during theGerman first divisionBundesliga. I NTERNET

BERLIN , 8 March Bayern Munich said onMonday that coach Louisvan Gaal is to leave at theend of the season, oneyear early, after three de-

feats in a row and qualifi-cation for the ChampionsLeague on a knife-edge.

The reason for thecontract being annulled isdiffering views on theclubs strategic direction,the Bundesliga club saidin a statement.

The German giants,who are accustomed towinning, are fifth in theBundesliga and sevenpoints adrift of the secondplace that would guaran-tee Champions Leaguefootball next season.

Internet

Israel national coachLuis Fernandez

JERUSALEM , 8 March FIFA have officially liftedall restrictions against Is-rael national coach LuisFernandez who was sus-pended from all footballactivity by them lastmonth, the Israeli footballfederation announced onMonday. FIFA have of-ficially announced that allthe restrictions concerningthe Israel coach have beenlifted, a statement on thefederations website read.

Fernandez said sim-ply: Now we can allmove forward.

The 51-year-old Span-ish-born former Frenchinternational was sus-pended by world foot-balls governing body onFebruary 20 because of an outstanding judge-ment made against him in2009 relating to a debt atQatari team Al-Rayyan hehad coached in 2005.

Fernandez insisted lastweek that he had resolvedthe legal issues that hadled to his suspension.Since FIFA did not agreeto give me further time, Ihave had to fix the prob-lem to prevent a suspen-sion, Fernandez toldAFP. Internet

Nagatomos first Inter goalexcites Japan

Inter Milans YutoNagatomo (centre)

celebrates with teamatesafter scoring against

Genoa. I NTERNET

Birmingham Citys BarryFerguson (left) vies withWest Ham Uniteds Nige-rian player Victor Obinna

during a Premier Leaguematch at Upton Park inLondon, England on6 February. I NTERNET

LONDON , 8 March Birmingham boss AlexMcLeish has said it is upto key midfielder BarryFerguson to decidewhether or not to undergoan injection which couldallow him to return toaction quicker after suffer-ing a broken rib.

Ferguson sustained theinjury in a clash with Ar-senals Samir Nasri duringthe League Cup final.

In his absence Bir-mingham slumped to a3-1 home defeat againstWest Brom on Saturday,a result which saw City fallback into the PremierLeague relegation zone.

But McLeish will putno pressure on Ferguson

and allow him to make hismind up on whether to gounder the needle.

McLeish said: Barryhas had this before whenI was at Rangers in a Scot-tish Cup final.

Internet

TOKYO , 8 March Yuto Nagatomos firstSerie-A goal in Inter Mi-lans colours has beenhailed in Japan as anotherstrong showing by a BlueSamurai player after thenational sides World and

Asian Cup performances.The goal, in the 5-2

rout of Genoa, was alsothe first scored by a Japa-nese player for one of theleagues big-three sides,prompting Japanesenewspapers to run it as thetop sports story in theirevening editions on Mon-day. First goal as his ag-gression explodes, aheadline in the influentialAsahi Shimbun said.

Internet

Aston Villa midfielder Barry Bannan has

completed a loan moveto Championship side

Leeds. I NTERNET

LONDON , 8 March Aston Villa midfielderBarry Bannan has com-pleted a loan move toChampionship side Leedsuntil the end of the season.

The 21-year-old Scot-land international will gostraight into SimonGraysons squad for Tues-day nights league clash atPreston.

Grayson said: Barrys

a player weve been track-ing for a while. Circum-stances have nowchanged where Villa arein a position to let him joinus and Id like to thankthem for agreeing to themove.

Hes had the opportu-nity to go to nearly everyother team in the Champi-

onship so for him to comehere makes it all the morepleasing.

Hes used to this divi-sion and he played a majorpart in Blackpools run toget promoted last season,so he has experience andhe fits the bill perfectly forus. Interne t

Lyon midfielder Jeremy Toulalan

LYON , 8 March Lyon midfielder JeremyToulalan, whose contractwas to expire on 30 June,has extended his stay withthe French club throughuntil 2015. Everyonesbeen behind me after the

difficult times Ive beenthrough, said Toulalan.I feel very good in

this city and its goingvery well with the team,which is the best inFrance even if currentlywe have no titles. Its oneof my goals to win moreof them.

In 2015 I will be 32years old. I had thechoice: either I extendedand spend my career atLyon or I leave. I chose

to stay at Lyon and finishmy career with the club.The French Football Fed-eration (FFF) sanctionedToulalan for his role in theinfamous players strikeduring Frances blightedWorld Cup campaign,and while he has purgedhis three-match ban, hesaid his thoughts were onperforming for Lyon andnot on his continuing ab-sence from the nationteam. Interne t

AMILLY , 8 March New Zealands GregHenderson has won the

second stage of the Paris-Nice cycling race,outsprinting AustraliasMatthew Goss and Rus-sias Denis Galimzyanov.

Thomas De Gendt of Belgium still has the lead-ers yellow jersey afterattacking with just undera mile to go on Mondayand finishing in the mainpack.

Henderson held off hisrivals to win a stage for

the second straight year.He is second in the over-all standings, four sec-onds behind. Internet

Gregory Henderson, of New Zealand, celebratesas he crosses the finishline to win the second

stage of the Paris-Nicecycling race in Amilly,central France, on 7

March, 2011.INTERNET

Kyle Busch talks toreporters dropping outof the NASCAR SprintCup Series auto race.

INTERNET

LAS VEGA, 8 March Kyle Busch and TonyStewart are known fortheir racing success andexplosive tempers.

Most every problem onthe track is followed by aprofanity-laced rant, a tan-trum and, in Buschs case,a meltdown right in the car

that has at times preventedhim from making a strongfinish. Then came thesulking and scowling. If they even bothered to giveinterviews, the answerswere usually short andsnippy. It was boorishbehavior, but tolerated.Nothing was going tochange NASCARs twobiggest bad boys.

Until, that is, theychanged.

Busch and Stewartseem to have mellowedthis season. That wasnever more apparent thanSunday at Las VegasMotor Speedway. Bothhad a chance to win, andneither did. Internet

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R/489 Printed and published by the New Light of Myanmar press in Nay Pyi Taw, the News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar.

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, light rain have beenisolated in Taninthayi Region, weather has been partlycloudy in Ayeyawady and Bago Regions, Kachin, Shan andRakhine States and generally fair in the remaining Regionsand States. Day temperatures were (3C) to (4C) aboveMarch average temperatures in , Bago, Ayeyawady andTaninthayi Regions, Kachin, Northern Shan, Rakhine,Kayah and Mon States, (5C) to (6C) above March averagetemperatures in Upper Sagaing, Mandalay and MagwayRegions, Southern Shan and Chin States and about Marchaverage temperatures in the remaining Regions and States.The significant day temperatures were Chauk (42C), Minbuand Aunglan (41C) each, Monywa, Magway and Pyay(40C) each.

Nay Pyi TawMaximum temperature on 7-3-2011 was 102F.

Minimum temperature on 8-3-2011 was 70F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 8-3-2011 was (64%).Rainfall on 8-3-2011 was (Nil).

Yangon (Kaba-Aye)Maximum temperature on 7-3-2011 was 100F.

Minimum temperature on 8-3-2011 was 72F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 8-3-2011 was (77%). Total

WEATHERTuesday, 8 th March , 2011

Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas sunshine hours on 7-3-2011 was (8.2) hours (Approx).Rainfall on 8-3-2011 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-

Aye and Central Yangon each. Total rainfall since 1-1-2011 was (1.97) inches at Mingaladon , (1.89) inches atKaba-Aye and (3.82) inches at Central Yangon. Maximumwind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph fromSouthwest at (09:30) hours MST on 7-3-2011.

Bay Inference: Weather is partly cloudy to cloudyover the Andaman Sea and Southeast Bay and generally fairelsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of the 9 th March 2011:Light rain or thoundershowers are likely to be isolated inYangon, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi Regions, KachinKayin and Mon States, weather will be partly cloudy in overUpper Sagaing and Bago Regions, Rakhine State andgenerally fair in the remaining Regions and States. Degreeof certainty is (60%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood of continuations of isolated rain or thundershowers in theSouthern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for9-3-2011 : Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for9-3-2011: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 9-3-2011: Partly cloudy.

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am)MSTOversea Transmission - (9-3-11 09:30 am ~

10-3-11 09:30 am) MST

Local Transmission* Opening* News* Travelling on the Chin Mountain Ranges

* Records Album* News* Religious Examination (II)* News* Myanmar Martial Art (Bando)* News* 9th Myanmar ICT Week 2011* Motive Force Chamber Orchestra and

fund rasing EventOversea Transmission* Opening* News* Travelling on the Chin Mountain Ranges* Records Album* News* Religious Examination (II)* News* Being Young (Youth and Fashion)

(Wit Hmone Shwe Yee)* News* National Kadawgyi Garden (Pyin Oo

Lwin)* Motvie Force Chamber Orchestra and

fun raising Event* News* Myanmar Martial Art (Bando)* News* Festive Events of Twantay* Music Gallery* News* Myanmars Traditions and Culture

Novicehood in Myanmar* News

* 9th Myanmar ICT Week 2011* Myanmar Movie Night Walker

MYANMAR INTERNATIONAL

Programme Schedule(9-3-2011) (Wednesday)

7:00 am1. Paritta By Venerable

Mingun Sayadaw7:10 am2. Dhamma Puja Song7:25 am

3. To Be HealthyExercise

7:30 am4. Morning News7:40 am

5. Nice & Sweet Song7:55 am6. Health Programme8:05 am7. Cultural Dances

8:15 am8. Dance Of National

Races8:25 am

9. Teleplay (Health)8:30 am10. Songs in honour of

(66) th AnniversaryArmed Forces Day

8:40 am11. International News

8:45 am12. Musical Programme

3:45 pm1. (2012) London

Olympic (AsiaZone) First Qualifier(2 nd Leg) FootballMatch(Myanmar OlympicSelected Team VSIndia OlympicSelected Team)

5:45 pm 2. Muscial Pragramme6:00 pm

3. Evening News6:15 pm

4. Weather Report

6:20 pm5. Traditional Boxing

6:45 pm6. Shwe Yin Chone

Than7:15 pm7. Ratha Pawlin

Thayotesaung LwinPyin (CharactersContest)

7:45 pm8. Alinka Wut Yin

Music Troupe8:00 pm9. News

10. International News11. Weather Report12. Korea NG Award

13. TV Drama Series14. Myanmar Drama

An employee of Nissan Motor demonstrates how to plug in the electric

vehicle Leaf at the companysshowroom in Yokohama, suburban

Tokyo on 9 Feb. Ten Japanesecompanies have said they plan to installelectric vehicle chargers at the sites of

beverage vending machines across Japanin a cost-cutting tie-up. INTERNET

TEHERAN , 8 March Iranian Interior MinisterMostafa Mohammad-Najjar said Monday that Iranspolice have seized more than 400 tons of narcoticssince March 2010, the local satellite Press TVreported.

The drugs were seized in operations across thecountry, Mohammad-Najjar said during a ceremonyheld to destroy some 42 tons of narcotics in thecapital Teheran.

Najjar also said at least 100 tons more will alsobe destroyed by the end of March, Press TVreported.

Iran is located at the crossroad of internationaldrug smuggling from Afghanistan, the worlds topopium producer, to Europe.

Iran has hanged dozens of drug traffickers inthe first days of 2011 and vows to further pursuethe campaign against drug smugglers.

Xinhua

Iran seizes tons of drugssince March 2010

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Only with stability and peace will the nation developOnly with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracyRiots beget riots, not democracyDemocracy can be introduced only through constitution

VOA, BBC-sowing hatredamong the peopleRFA, DVB-generating publicoutrageDo not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles

Peoples Desire

We favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

5 th Waxing of Tabaung 1372 ME Wednesday, 9 March, 2011

Jade is a giftedprecious stone inMyanmar as Myanmarjade is of best quality of its kind in the world.

In fact, jadehelps put Myanmar onthe world map. Jade isthe pride of Myanmar.Myanmar is worldwidewell-known for rich de-posits of quality gemssuch as jade, ruby and

Myanmar jade with best quality in the worldArticle: Tin Htwe (MNA); Photos: Ko Htwe

sapphire.In Myanmar, jade

is produced on a largescale in Phakant andMohnyin townships inKachin State, and KhamtiTownship in Sagaing Re-gion. Jade deposits are of two types: primary depositand secondary deposit.

Primary depositlies between layers of serpentinite rock. Primary

deposits are found in manyparts of Tawhmaw Regionin Phakant Township. Sec-ondary deposits are foundaround Phakant, along theUru River, Namcheehmawregion in Mohnyin Town-ship, and Gwaygyi-Htontaung region in thewest of Mawlu.

Jade is of twokinds Jadeite jade andNephrite jade. Of them,

Jadeite jade is recognizedas jade. Myanmars Jadeitejade has higher quality andmore precious than anyother jade around the world.

Jadeite jade is of

many colours such aspink, brown, red, orange,violet, blue and black.And based on colour,

transparency, formationand flawlessness, jade isclassified into three types:imperial jade, utility jadeand commercial jade.

Of Jadeite jade

types, imperial jade whichis green, bright and trans-parent, is the most pre-cious. Some jade is com-

posed of the three types.An imperial jade stonehas green lines andblocks. A utility jade isless transparent withgreen spots and marks.

A commercial jade stonehardly has green marksand spots in it.

(See page 10)Jade lot displayed at Mid-year Myanma Gems Emporium 2010.

Foreign gem merchants observing jade lots at Mid-year MyanmaGems Emporium 2010.

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