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Vol. II, No. 196, 6thWaning Day of Thadingyut 1377 ME Tuesday, 3 November, 2015

ANALYSISANALYSIS

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ANALYSIS

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Buddhist monk, emergency

specialist win World Peace Award

Beware of

self-defamation

Vice-Senior General Soe Win

attends selection for military corps

Zaw Min Latt (MNA)

THE STORM IS OVERMyanmar shermen return home from IndiaMORE than 150 shermen were

repatriated from India on Mon-

day as their prison sentences for

illegally entering Indias territori-

al waters expired.Myanmar ofcials brought

back 158 shermen, the rst

batch of a total of 243 shermen,

from Indias Port Blair by charter

ight.

Authorities provided them

with cash and gifts at the Yangon

International Airport.

The remaining 85 shermen

will be brought back to Myanmar

on Tuesday.

Out of 158, 137 are from

Ayeyawady Region, 20 are from

Rakhine State and one is from

Taninthayi Region.

They were detained by the

Indian navy while they weredrifting in Indian territorial wa-

ters.

They illegally entered Indi-

an waters when they were hit by

storms. The engines of their sh-

ing boats broke down, and they

drifted into Indian territory.

At the Yangon International

Airport, Deputy Minister for So-

cial Welfare, Relief and Reset-

tlement Daw Su Su Hlaing and

other ofcials welcomed the sh-

ermen and assisted them in their

return home. Myanmar shermen return home on a ight from India. PHOTO: ZAWMINLATT(MNA)

More than 10,500 observers to monitor 8 November electionMORE than 10,500 foreign and

local observers will monitor the

upcoming 8 November election.

The Union Election Commis-

sion has issued accreditation cards

to 470 diplomats from 32 interna-

tional embassies, 465 staff from six

international election observation

bodies, 183 staff from nine interna-

tional organisations that are assist-

ing in electoral processes and 9,406

staff of local observation organisa-

tions, according to a statement re-

leased by the UEC on Monday.

More than 290 media person-

nel from 45 foreign media organi-

sations will cover the election, ac-

cording to the UEC.

In its statement, the UEC

urged the observers to abide by the

UEC Code of Conduct drafted for

observers and the existing laws of

Myanmar in order to avoid bias.

The UECis committed to

holding the upcoming election

with transparency and democratic

principles, the Monday statement

said. The government requested

diplomats and foreign election ob-

servers to refrain from activities

that could be construed as being bi-

ased or that may negatively impact

the countrys ability to hold free

and fair elections.

At a meeting with diplomats

and election observers held in Nay

Pyi Taw about two weeks ahead

of the 8 November election, Un-

ion Minister for Foreign Affairs U

Wunna Maung Lwin said the dip-

lomatic community has an obliga-

tion to abide by the Union Election

Commissions Code of Conduct.

He said it also has an obligation

to adhere to the 1961 Vienna Con-

vention on Diplomatic Relations

and called for the cooperation and

support of the diplomatic commu-

nity for holding a general election

that is peaceful, credible and trans-

parent.

UEC chairman U Tin Aye

called on ministries today to coop-

erate in providing observers with

hospitality and convenience servic-

es and to announce the results of

the election on time.

The UECs media centre and

the Ministry of Information are

currently working together to an-

nounce the results of the election

on the election day.

A total of 6,065 candidates

will compete for the seats in parlia-

ment. Male candidates make up the

86.8 percent of the total, with 5,274

women making up the rest, accord-

ing to statistics from the UEC.

The UEC will not hold elec-

tions in ve of the countrys 330

townships due to security con-

cerns.GNLM

Ethnicminorities,women,migrants,

disabledpersons atrisk of vote

rejection

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IP rights seminar focuses on infringements and judicial matters

MANY people, including stu-

dents, migrants and even return-

ing ofcers, are in a position to

lose their voting rights in the 8

November election, said U Chan

Nyein Aung, President-cum-CEO

of Charity-Oriented Myanmar

(COM).

To promote inclusiveness of

electoral process, COM, a Yan-

gon-based civil service organi-

sation, conducted a study from 1

September to 10 October this year

and published its ndings in a re-

port yesterday.

The study is mainly focused

on four groupsethnic minori-

ties, women, migrants and people

with disabilities.

With the technical assis-

tance of Democracy Reporting

International (DRI), a total of 31

well-trained long-term observ-

ers from the organisation carried

out the study in 28 townships in

11 regions, including Rakhine

and Kachin states and the Naga

Self-Administered Zone.

According to the survey in

the targeted areas, some town-

ships see very few voter education

activities, while some townships

have none at all,said U Chan

Nyein Aung.

The study points out that

there is no voter education target-

ing ethnic [minority] groups, he

added.

There may be many reject

votes in the upcoming election

due to the weakness of voter edu-

cation programmes, said U Aung

Htike Min, external consultant for

the COM.

Few ethnic minority individ-

uals or women are members of

township sub-election commis-

sions, and there are no members

with disabilities, the report says.

The targeted group faced

problems such as errors in voter

lists, language barriers, lack of

information and security, lack of

access to sub-commission ofces

and remote locations of sub-com-

mission ofces.

Migrant workers in industri-

al zones face the most problems,

said U Aung Htike Min.

The COM will announce its

preliminary election observation

report on 11 November and the

nal report in December, with

plans to monitor at over 450 poll-

ing stations in 48 townships and

employing around 900 observers

on the election day.

Ethnic minorities, women,

migrants, disabled persons

at risk of vote rejectionVotes may be rejected in the upcoming election due to the weak-

ness of voter education programmes.

Khaing Thanda Lwin

THE National Seminar on Intel-

lectual Property Rights for Judg-

es and Prosecutors, jointly organ-

ised by the Ministry of Science

and Technology and EU-ASE-

AN Project on the Protection

of Intellectual Property Rights

(ESCP III), took place in Nay Pyi

Taw yesterday.

Deputy Minister for Science

and Technology Dr Aung Kyaw

Myat urged the participants to

openly discuss infringements of in-

tellectual property rights and judi-

cial matters. Professor Dr Alexan-

der Von Muehlendahl of Munich,

Germany, discussed intellectual

property rights infringements and

judicial rules and regulations.

The seminar was attended

by the director-general of the

Atomic Energy Department, of-

cials of the Supreme Court of

the Union and the ofce of Attor-

ney-General of the Union, legal

experts, departmental ofcials

and members of various associ-

ations.Myanmar News Agency

Chairman of State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee Sayadaw Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa and Dr Khin Shweaccept World Peace Awards. PHOTO: KOKOSOENYUNT

Participants poses for documentary photo at National Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights for Judges and Prosecutors. PHOTO: MNA

U Chan Nyein Aung, President-cum-CEO of Charity-Oriented Myanmar and party meet media. PHOTO: KTL

BUSHES and drains were

cleared around the yard of

the 100-bed Tatkon Town-

ship Hospital on 31 October.

The corridors, walls and win-

dows of the hospital were also

cleaned by volunteers, includ-

ing members of nearby military

units, members of the police

force, civil service personnel,

and NGO staff.Tatkon station commander

Brig-Gen Tin Maung Hlaing,

Nay Pyi Taw Council member

and Tatkon Township adminis-

trator U Myint Shwe, local of-

cials and town elders greeted

the over 600 volunteers who

participated in the cleaning ac-

tivities.Tin Soe Lwin (IPRD)

Bushes cleared

around TatkonHospital

A Buddhist monk and a layper-

son won the World Peace Award,

selected by the World Peace

Awarding Council, at a ceremo-

ny held at Karaweik Palace Hotel

in Yangon on 1 November.

Joint-founder of the coun-

cil and leader of the assessment

committee Dr Han Min Su and

Abbot Dr Moktak of the Repub-

lic of Korea made speeches at the

ceremony.

The Korean Sayadaw of-

fered the World Peace Award

to Bhamo Sayadaw Abhidha-

ja Maharattha Guru Abhidhaja

Aggamaha Saddhammajotika

Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa,

Chairman of State Sangha Maha

Nayaka Committee, while Dr

Han Min Su presented the award

to Agga Maha Thirithudhamma

Manijotadhara Wunna Kyawh-

tin Dr Khin Shwe, the chair-

man of the Rescue and Helping

Committee in the Myanmar par-

liament.

Four persons from Myan-

mar, South Korea and Japan won

World Peace Awards in 2015.

The World Peace Awarding

Council was established by US

president John F. Kennedy in

1961.Yan Naing

Buddhist monk,

emergency specialist

win World Peace Award

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DEPUTY Minister for Environ-

mental Conservation and Forest-ry Dr Thet Thet Zin attended the

13thASEAN Ministerial Meeting

on the Environment and relat-

ed meetings in Hanoi, Vietnam,

from 28 to 30 October.

The meeting was launched

with an address by Vietnamese

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

The deputy minister in her

address said that Myanmar gov-

ernment is drawing policy andwork procedures for the reduc-

tion of climate change, and it

hopes for further cooperation

with ASEAN countries and dia-

logue partner countries in envi-

ronmental conservation.

The delegates discussed the

draft of the ASEAN Joint State-

ment on Climate Change, to be

submitted to the UN Confer-

ence of Parties (COP 21) in Par-is, France. They also discussed

terms of references for the ASE-

AN Institute for Green Economy,

established in Myanmar, and

ASEAN Guidelines on Peatland

Fire Management.

On 30 October, the dele-

gates visited Tieng Anh national

park.MNA

A Myanmar scout delegationled by Myanmar Scout Com-mittee Chairman Dr Tin Nyoleft for the Republic of Korea

to attend the 25th Asia PacicRegional Scout Conference on

Monday.They were seen off at Yan-

gon International Airport by

members of the committee and

families of the scouts.The delegation will discuss

Myanmars bid for recognitionas a member of the World Or-

ganisation of the Scout Move-ment and tasks being carried

out by the committee and futuretasks at the conference, whichwill be held from 3 to 8 Novem-

ber.Ko Latt (MNA)

A radio message to be delivered by U Thein Sein, President of

the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, will be broadcast through

radio programmes on both 3 and 4 November.

Myanmar Radio, Mandalay FM, Pyinsawady FM, Shwe FM,

Cherry FM, Padamya FM, FM Bagan, Thazin Radio and Yangon

City FM will broadcast the message at 7 am, 11 am, 6 pm and 8pm respectively.Myanmar News Agency

President U Thein Seinsradio message on air

Deputy Minister attends 13thASEAN

Ministerial Meeting on Environment

Scout delegation leaves for

Republic of Korea

Hotel service courses

conclude in Nay Pyi TawUNION Minister for Hotels and

Tourism U Htay Aun ggave aspeech at the conclusion of ho-tel service courses, conductedby the Nay Pyi Taw Hotel ZoneEntrepreneurs Association, in

the Dekkhinathiri Hotel Zoneyesterday.

He urged the trainees to

continue their education on ho-

tel services using the internet.U Ohn Kyaw, vice chair-

man of the association, present-ed completion certicates totrainees.

The union minister greetedthe trainees.Myanmar News

Agency

THE Public Health Department

under the Ministry of Health held

a work coordination meeting for

the 2016-17 scal year in NayPyi Taw on Monday.

Deputy Minister for Health

Dr Daw Thein Thein Htay made

an opening speech at the meeting.

The director-general of the

department and other ofcialsdiscussed nancial and manage-

ment issues at the meeting.

The deputy minister urged

ofcials at the meeting to provide

public healthcare services effec-

tively and to make most bene-cial use of health spending.My-

anmar News Agency

Public Health Department holds coordination meeting

Myanmar Scout Committee Chairman Dr Tin Nyo and party seen atthe airport before departure for Republic of Korea. PHOTO: KOLATT

Deputy Minister Dr Thet Thet Zin and attendees pose for documentary photo at 13 thASEAN Ministerial Meetingon the Environment and related meetings. PHOTO: MNA

Vice-Senior General Soe Win meets cadet at selection of military corps at DSTA. PHOTO: MYAWADY

DEPUTY Commander-in-Chief of

Defence Services and Command-er-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior

General Soe Win attended the se-

lection process for the 18th intake

of the Defence Services Techno-

logical Academy on Monday.

Also present were Maj-GenTun Tun Naung of the ofce of

the Commander-in-Chief (Army)

and senior ofcers from the Cen-

tral Command. The vice-senior

general enjoyed lunch with the

cadets and inspected them.The vice-senior general con-

tinued observing the selection for

the military corps in the after-

noon.Myawady

Vice-Senior General Soe Win

attends selection for military corps

MYANMAR and the EuropeanUnion committed to strength-

ening cooperation on climatechange in a workshop in Nay PyiTaw on Monday.

At the workshop, ofcialsfrom the Ministry of Environmen-tal Conservation and Forestry,other key line ministries and theEU, civil society representatives,the private sector participants,

and other development partners

discussed the draft National Cli-mate Change Strategy and ActionPlan in Myanmar.

The National ClimateChange Strategy and Action Plan

is supported by the Myanmar Cli-

mate Change Alliance, a agshipprogramme of the Governmentof Myanmar to increase the insti-tutional and technical capacitiesto address climate change. The

4-year EU-funded programmeis being jointly implemented byUnited Nations Human Settle-ments Programme (UN-Habitat)and the United Nations Envi-

ronment Programme (UNEP)

to raise the awareness aroundclimate change and making suregovernment policies, plans and

activities take climate change intoconsideration.GNLM

Myanmar, EU to jointly

combat climate change

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with reporters following his first one-on-one meeting with SouthKorean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul, on 2 November 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

Japan, China able

to boost momentum

of improving ties

via summitSEOUL Japanese PrimeMinister Shinzo Abe said Mon-

day he was able to strengthen themomentum of improving rela-tions with China thorough hisfirst meeting with Premier Li Ke-

qiang.I believe that we were able

to enhance the improving trend ofJapan-China relations in line with

the principle of mutually benefi-cial relationship based on com-mon strategic interests, Abe toldreporters in Seoul a day after themeeting with Li.

With regard to various out-standing issues, we frankly dis-cussed and, of course, I said whatI had to say, Abe said, when

asked if Chinas rapid is-land-building activities in theSouth China Sea were on theiragenda.

His meeting with Li took

BANGKOK Thai soldierswarned the daughter of an assas-

sinated dissident commander onMonday not to do anything to

disturb the country after shestaged a symbolic protest in sup-port of ousted former Prime Min-

ister Yingluck Shinawatra.The army seized power in a

coup in 2014, toppling Yin-glucks government in another

convulsion in a decade of con-frontation between the establish-ment and Yinglucks brother, for-mer telecoms tycoon and oustedpopulist premier Thaksin Shina-

watra.The military government has

banned gatherings and put con-trols on the media while Thaksin

remains abroad to avoid a graftconviction he says was politically

motivated and Yingluck faces herown corruption charges that shetoo denies.

Khattiyah Sawasdipol,

daughter of a prominentpro-Thaksin military command-er, posted a picture of herself onSunday wearing a red shirt, thecolour Thaksin and his supporters

adopted to set themselves apartfrom the yellow of their royalist,pro-military establishment rivals.She also posted comments criti-

cal of junta leader Prime MinisterPrayuth Chan-ocha, promptingthe warning.

They wanted to meet meover comments I posted and told

me not to do anything to disturbthe country, Khattiyah told Reu-ters.

I said I am a politician, and

if I see something wrong, I needto speak.

Junta spokesman ColonelWinthai Suvaree declined tocomment. A sniper shot dead

Khattiyahs father, Major-Gener-al Khattiya Sawasdipol, on aBangkok street while he wasoverseeing a protest by Thaksins

supporters against the thenpro-establishment government inMay, 2010. No one has beencharged with his killing.

Thaksin has been keeping a

low profile, and has told his sup-porters to bide their time, sincelast years coup but on Sunday healso posted a picture of himself

wearing red.I, like the red shirts, want to

see the return of justice and de-mocracy, Thaksin said on Insta-

gram.Whoever wants to win the

heart of red-shirted people can do

it easily. You dont have to use agun ... Just use a kind heart, hesaid. Any call by Thaksin to hisdisgruntled supporters to con-

front the military would ramp uptension at a time the country isapprehensive about the health ofailing of King Bhumibol Adu-lyadej.

There is no sign Thaksin hasany intention of doing that but themilitary is wary, an analyst said.

Thaksins message hit a

chord of the reality which is therehas been no attempt to address

the grievances of the red shirtmovement since the coup, saidSunai Phasuk, researcher at Hu-

man Rights Watch.Reuters

UN body rules Anwars detention in Malaysia is arbitrary

I am a politician, and if I see somethingwrong, I need to speak.

Khattiyah SawasdipolDaughter of assassinated dissident commander

place after they attended a trilat-eral summit with South Korean

President Park Geun-hye, duringwhich the three countries, for thefirst time in more than threeyears, confirmed together their

commitment to boosting cooper-ation for regional stability andprosperity.

Abe said he cannot disclosedetails of what he discussed with

Li, citing an agreement betweenJapan and China.

But he said, Also with Ja-pan-China relations, I believe it is

important to say each side thinksit necessary.Before Abes arrival in the

South Korean capital, Japanese

government officials said thatamong other issues Abe wouldtell Li that Chinas ongoing mas-sive reclamation projects in thedisputed sea are unilateral at-

tempts to change the status quo,and would urge Beijing to respectfreedom of navigation and inter-national rules.

To challenge Chinas contin-uation with the projects in defi-ance of regional opposition, theUSNavy recently sent a guid-ed-missile destroyer to an area

close to one of Beijings man-made islands in the Spratly archi-pelago. Following the dispatch ofthe warship, there has been grow-

ing tension between China andthe United States, Japans fore-most security ally.

China claims sovereigntyover most of the South China

Sea, one of the worlds busiestshipping lanes. It has repeatedlysaid disputes with smaller Asianclaimants, including the Philip-

pines and Vietnam, should bedealt by the parties themselves,urging outsiders, including Japanand the United States, to stayout.Kyodo News

KUALA LUMPUR The United Nations HumanRights Council has ruled that Ma-laysian opposition leader Anwar

Ibrahim is being detained arbitrar-ily and called for his immediaterelease, according to informationreleased by his family on Mon-

day.Anwars case was brought to

the attention of the Human RightsCouncils Working Group on Ar-bitrary Detention, which deliber-

ated on the matter in September.The deprivation of liberty of

Mr Ibrahim is arbitrary, read tothe opinion adopted by the work-

ing group. Taking into accountall the circumstances of the case,the working group considers thatthe adequate remedy would be to

release Mr Ibrahim immediatelyand ensure that his political rightsthat were removed based on hisarbitrary detention be reinstated.

The working group arrived at

its findings based solely on com-munications from Anwars legalteam, as the Malaysian govern-ment chose not to respond, de-

spite a request for informationfrom the UN body.

Anwar, 68, is currently serv-ing a five-year jail term after the

Federal Court, the countrys high-est court, in February upheld aconviction and five-year jail termmeted out by the lower court for asexual offence involving his for-

mer male aide, Saiful BukhariAzlan.

He also lost his last chancefor freedom when his petition for

a royal pardon was rejected inMarch.

This is his second time in jail.In 1999, the former deputy prime

minister was slapped with chargesof corruption and sodomy andsentenced to a total of 15 years in

jail after being found guilty onboth counts.Kyodo News

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SEOUL Japanese PrimeMinister Shinzo Abe told SouthKoreas president on Monday

he wanted cooperation betweenthe two countries and the Unit-ed States in maintaining an open

and peaceful South China Sea, aJapanese government spokesmansaid.

Abe has in the past beencritical of Chinas assertiveness

in the South China Sea, throughwhich much of Japan and SouthKoreas trade and energy sup-

plies pass.He said Japan would like to

cooperate with South Korea and

the United States at various oc-casions to preserve the open, freeand peaceful sea, Deputy ChiefCabinet Secretary Koichi Hagiu-da told reporters after Abe held

talks with President Park Ge-un-hye of South Korea in Seoul.

Hagiuda did not elaborate, buton Friday, Japanese Defence Min-ister Gen Nakatani reiterated that

Tokyo had no plan to take part inUS-led freedom of navigation pa-trols in the South China Sea.

A US warship sailed within

12 nautical miles of one of Chinasman-made islands in the area lastTuesday in the most signicant USchallenge yet to territorial limits

China claims around the Spratlyarchipelago.

The voyage triggered an an-gry rebuke from China and a warn-

ing that a minor incident in thearea, one of the worlds busiest sealanes, could spark war if the Unit-

ed States did not stop what it calledprovocative acts.

China claims most of the en-

ergy-rich South China Sea. ThePhilippines, Vietnam, Malaysia,Taiwan and Brunei have overlap-ping claims. Japan has long beenmired in a territorial dispute with

China over a group of tiny, unin-habited islands in the East ChinaSea.

Abe told Park the situationin the South China Sea was a

common cause of concern for in-ternational society, Hagiuda toldreporters.

Asked about the remarks,

Chinese Foreign Ministryspokeswoman Hua Chunyingsaid that recently some peoplehad expressed concerns about

the South China Sea, but she didnot know why they were worriedas there were no problems withfreedom of navigation.Reuters

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with South Kore-an President Park Geun-hye before bilateral summit at the PresidentialBlue House in Seoul, South Korea, on 2 November 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

Japans Abe says wants US, South Korea

cooperation over South China Sea

TOKYO Irans vicepresident said Monday his coun-

try has begun implementing anaccord struck with major powersthat will see Tehran curbing itsnuclear activities.

We have started the prelimi-nary work which includes reduc-ing the number of centrifuges, AliAkbar Salehi, who is also headof Irans Atomic Energy Organ-

isation, said in an interview withKyodo News in Tokyo at the res-idence of the Iranian ambassadorto Japan.

Salehi said he was detailing

for the rst time Irans implemen-tation of the deal reached in July,referring to steps such as reducingthe number of centrifuges at the

Natanz and Fordow plants whichwas by the order of the presi-dent of Iran. For the whole dealto be implemented, though, hesaid it will still take some time.

Under the historic agreementbetween Iran and six major pow-ers the United States, Britain,China, France, Germany and Rus-

sia economic sanctions will belifted in stages in return for Iranagreeing to long-term reductionsin its nuclear programme.

Based on the Joint Com-prehensive Plan of Action, Iranpledged to curb activities such asuranium enrichment and reduceits centrifuges.

Regarding the redesigningand conversion of the Arak heavywater reactor to a light water reac-tor, Salehi said, We will not start

right away with the process asthere are still a number of stag-es that will have to take place.

The plan of action states that

the redesigned and rebuilt reactorin Arak, western Iran, will not

produce weapon-grade plutoni-um and will be used for medicalpurposes. The plan, according tothe US State Department, is for

Iran to slash its number of cen-trifuges from 19,000 to about6,000. Iran has been accused ofnuclear weapons developmentbut it has claimed that its nucle-

ar programme is for peacefulpurposes. As the July accord hasdiplomatically resolved the issueof Tehrans nuclear developmentprogram after more than a decade

of negotiations and the agreementwas ofcially adopted 1 October,international attention is now fo-cused on whether Iran will stick

to its promises. Salehi, who is inJapan to attend events such as thePugwash Conference on Scienceand World Affairs being held inNagasaki, said when he speaks at

the conference on Wednesday, heplans to share Irans experiencein dealing with the nuclear issueand stress how engagement is a

better approach than confronta-tion.Kyodo News

Iran has begun implementing

nuclear accord

KATHMANDU Nepali

police cleared protesters from akey checkpoint on the border withIndia on Monday in an attemptto end a border blockade that has

badly damaged Nepali relationswith the countrys big southernneighbour.

Nepal has faced an acute fuelcrisis for more than a month since

protesters in the lowland south, an-gered that a new constitution failsto reect their interests, preventedsupply trucks from entering from

India. Many in Nepal see Indias

hand in the protests, althoughNew Delhi denies any role. Withthe Himalayan nation of 28 mil-lion still recovering from its worst

earthquake on record, the govern-ment has turned to China for assis-tance.

Police cleared protesters whowere staging a sit-in on a friend-

ship bridge across the border thatis on the main supply route to thecapital Kathmandu.

No one was hurt in the in-

cident although ve people werearrested, Chetab Raj Ghimire, achief district ofcial, told Reuters.

A police ofcial said that 219empty trucks had been cleared to

return to India but that none hadentered the country from the Indi-an side of the border.

The protesters had gone intothe town of Birgunj where they

were burning tyres. We have reda few tear gas shells and mildlybaton charged the protesters, the

police ofcial said.Reuters

Nepali police clear protesters from India border post

SYDNEY Australiaspro-republic Prime MinisterMalcolm Turnbull on Mondayscrapped knights and dames from

the nations honours system, lessthan a year after a furore sparked

by the award of a knighthood toPrince Philip, Queen Elizabethshusband.

Former Prime Minister TonyAbbott, a staunch monarchist, rein-troduced the antiquated honours in2014, provoking criticism that he

was out of touch with public senti-ment. Abbott was ousted by Turn-bull in a party coup in September.

The politically disastrous

decision to give Prince Philip thenations highest honour, Knight ofthe Order of Australia, on Austral-ia Day, has been cited as the begin-ning of the end for Abbott.

The decision by Turnbull,a former head of the national re-

publican movement, to scrap thehonours may be interpreted as a

signal of his willingness to revisitthe thorny question of Australias

relationship with the monarchy.Knights and dames are titles

that are really anachronistic, out ofdate and not appropriate in 2015,

Turnbull told reporters.Opposition Greens Party

leader Senator Richard Di Natalewelcomed the decision, even as heused it to mock the government.

It says something aboutthe standard of leadership in thiscountry that installing knights anddames was one of the most sig-

nicant acts of our former primeminister, and undoing that folly isso far one of the most signicantacts of our new one, he said in a

statement.Others who received the hon-

ours were governors general Quen-tin Bryce and Peter Cosgrove,former air chief marshal Angus

Houston and New South Walesstate governor Marie Bashir, which

Turnbull has said they will retain.Queen Elizabeth is Australias

largely ceremonial head of state,but has the power to approve the

abolition of parliament, which lasthappened in the controversial 1975toppling of Gough Whitlams gov-ernment.

Australias sometimesstrained relationship with the Brit-

ish crown came to a head in a 1999national referendum, when almost55 percent of Australians voted

against breaking with the monar-chy, defeating Turnbulls republi-cans. A poll this year for the Aus-tralian National University showed

that public support for a republichas fallen further since the referen-dum, while the royals popularityhas risen. But Turnbulls move

into the leadership has buoyedthe hopes of republicans eager torevisit the issue in a fresh referen-dum, despite his ranking of the fal-tering economy, not the monarchy,

as his governments top priority.Prince Charles and his wife

Camilla are expected to receivea warm welcome when they visit

Australia and New Zealand nextweek.Reuters

Australia PM scraps knighthood honours,

shows republican colours

Irans vice president Ali AkbarSalehi. PHOTO: REUTERS

Japan would liketo cooperate withSouth Korea andthe United States atvarious occasionsto preserve theopen, free and

peaceful sea.Shinzo Abe

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6 WORLD 3 November 2015

ISTANBUL Turkish

President Tayyip Erdogan saidon Monday the nation had votedfor stability in a parliamentaryelection that saw the AK Party hefounded win almost 50 percent of

the vote, and said the worldshould respect the result.

The Islamist-rooted AKP

swept to an unexpected landslidevictory on Sunday, returningTurkey to single-party rule in anoutcome that will boost Erdo-gans power but may deepen so-

cial divisions.The national will manifest-

ed itself on 1 November in favourof stability, Erdogan said incomments to reporters after pray-

ing at a mosque in Istanbul.Lets be as one, be brothers

and all be Turkey together.But in characteristically pug-

nacious form, he also attackedthe global media and its criticismof him.

Is this your understanding

of democracy? he said. Now aparty with some 50 percent inTurkey has attained power... Thisshould be respected by the wholeworld, but I have not seen such

maturity.The AKP took just shy of 50

percent of the votes on Sunday,

initial results showed, comforta-bly enough to control about 316of the 550 seats in parliament anda far higher margin of victorythan even party insiders had ex-

pected. Erdogan said earlier theoutcome was also a message toKurdish insurgents in the restivesoutheast that violence could notcoexist with democracy.

Security forces have beenbattling militants of the Kurdis-tan Workers Party (PKK) in thecountrys predominantly Kurdish

southeast in a renewed surge inviolence since a ceasefire col-lapsed in July.Reuters

Erdogan says Turks voted for stability, world must respect result

Women wave flags outside the AK Party headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, on 1 November 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

Bush relaunches campaign

with e-book, tourWASHINGTON Battered

by weeks of negative headlines,

Republican Jeb Bush launches

a campaign reboot on Monday

with a Jeb Can Fix It tour and

release of an e-book that reveals

a more personal side to a 2016

candidate who has struggled on

the public stage.Bushs dismal performance

at a debate of Republican presi-

dential candidates last week

in Colorado was an added bur-

den to a candidate once consid-

ered the favourite for the nomi-

nation and now suffering

drooping poll numbers and

fund-raising.

In Tampa on Monday,

Bush hopes to begin a political

comeback. He will give a

speech presenting himself as a

problem-solving politician who

carried out conservative re-

forms as Floridas governor

from 1999 to 2007.A campaign aide said the

speech will be a rejection of

the competing pessimisms

created in the (President Ba-

rack) Obama era in favour of

leadership that solves prob-

lems.

He will take the message to

South Carolina and then on a

three-day bus tour of New

Hampshire.

The tour coincides with the

release of a 730-page e-book,entitled Reply All. It is a

compilation of many of the

email exchanges he had with

Floridians during his time as

governor.

The emails cover

everything from his drive for

tax cuts and education reform in

Florida to dealing with hurri-

canes.

Beyond the work issues,

there was plenty of the comical,

such as when a 9-year-old girl

wrote to tell him she did not like

her piano lessons because my

teacher smells of dead alliga-

tors. She wanted to know ifJeb and brother George had tak-

en piano while growing up.

Yes, I had piano lessons,

Bush emailed her. It was tough

and I didnt enjoy it. In fact, I

wasnt that good at it. But you

know what? It gave me disci-

pline which helped me as an

adult.

Another writer wanted to

know how the bilingual Bush

became so fluent in Spanish.

I learned Spanish by mar-rying a Mexican girl, by living

in Venezuela and by taking

Spanish courses in school. The

first two were the most impor-

tant, Bush replied.

Bush makes clear in a 2006

exchange with a reporter his

support for comprehensive im-

migration reform, an issue that

has roiled the Republican race

this year as billionaire Donald

Trump has pledged to build a

wall along the US-Mexican

border and deport 11 million il-

legal immigrants.

Bush said a more secure

border is needed but the notionthat we would felonize folks

that have been here and that are

contributing to our progress is

just plain wrong.Reuters

ATHENS Four refugeesdrowned and another six weremissing off the Greek island ofFarmakonisi after their boat sank,

the Greek coastguard said on Mon-day.

Four people were rescued, thecoastguard said in a statement. Thevessel the migrants were travelling

on sank in an unknown location

north of the island, it said.Eleven people, including six

infants, drowned on Sunday whentheir boat capsized off the island ofSamos, trapping them in the cabin.

The toll from drowning

among thousands of refugees mak-ing the short but dangerous cross-ing from Turkey to Greeces outly-ing eastern islands has risen inrecent weeks from the onset of

colder weather. There were near-

gale force winds blowing in theAegean at the weekend.Reuters

Four refugees drown, sixmissing off Greece-coastguard

A Syrian refugee rests after arriving with other refugees and migrantsaboard the passenger ferry Eleftherios Venizelos from the island of Les-bos at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece.PHOTO: REUTERS

PARIS Six suspected members

of the Basque separatist group

ETA go on trial in France on Mon-

day over the killing of a policeman

in a shootout in the eastern suburbs

of Paris in March 2010, a judiciary

source said.Sergeant Jean-Serge Nerin

was killed when shooting broke

out between police and ETA mem-

bers after the armed group tried to

steal cars from a used car store and

locked up the salesman.

It was the last killing attribut-

ed to ETA before it called a unilat-

eral ceasefire in 2011 and pledgedto turn in its weapons.

Investigators believe up to

nine activists were involved in the

incident, but only six were identi-

fied. One was arrested at the scene,

the others managed to escape but

were arrested between May 2010

and July 2015.

Only two, Xavier GoyenexeaIrragori and Mikel Kabikoitz Car-

rera Sarobe, have been charged

with the policemans murder. The

others are charged with various

crimes, including weapons theft

and kidnapping. The trial is ex-

pected to continue until 11 Decem-

ber. ETA was formed in the late

1950s during the dictatorship ofFrancisco Franco and aimed at es-

tablishing an independent Basque

state in northern Spain and south-

ern France. The group killed more

than 800 people over several dec-

ades, according to the Spanish

government. ETA has been se-

verely weakened in recent years

after hundreds of its members werearrested and some of its weapons

seized.Reuters

Six suspected members of Basque group ETA go on trial in France

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ST PETERSBURG The rstbodies from a plane crash inEgypt in which all 224 passen-gers, most of them Russians,died over the weekend arrived inSt Petersburg early on Mondaymorning aboard a Russian gov-ernment plane.

The crashed Airbus A321plane, operated by Russian air-line Kogalymavia, was carryingholidaymakers from the Red Sea

resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to StPetersburg when it crashed in

the Sinai Peninsula on Saturdaymorning.

Russian ofcials have saidthe plane likely broke up in mid-air but have stressed that it is tooearly to draw conclusions from

First bodies

delivered to

Russia after Egypt

plane crash

Russian emergency ministry ofcers wait to unload the bodies of victims of a Russian airliner, which crashedin Egypts Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, at Pulkovo airport in St Petersburg, Russia, on 2 November 2015.PHOTO: REUTERS

this. President Vladimir Putin de-clared Sunday a national day ofmourning.

Russian news agencies re-ported that a rst Il-76 Emer-gency Situations Ministry planeew into St Petersburgs Pulkovo

Airport a little before 6 a.m. localtime, carrying 144 bodies.

The ministry said the nextplane carrying bodies wouldleave Cairo on Monday evening

for St Petersburg. On arrival,the rst bodies were loaded onto

stretchers and carried into a largewhite lorry waiting on the run-way at Pulkovo Airport.

A Reuters photographer thensaw the white lorry leaving theairport, escorted by police cars. It

was heading for a St Petersburgmorgue, where the bodies were to

be identied. The identicationprocess was meant to start around

11 a.m. local time.At Pulkovo Airport on Sun-

day, grieving Russians piledowers high in memory of their

dead compatriots. Mourners inMoscow arranged candles to

spell out 7K-9268, the number ofthe ight that crashed.

Russia and other former Sovi-et republics have poor air safety re-cords, notably on domestic ights.Some accidents have been blamed

on the use of ageing aircraft, but in-dustry experts point to other prob-

lems, such as poor crew trainingand lax government controls.

St Petersburg authoritieshave decided that ofcial mourn-ing events will last until Tuesdayin Russias second city.Reuters

CAIRO Al Qaeda leaderAyman al-Zawahri called on

Muslim supporters to band to-gether to confront the threat

from the West and Russia inSyria and Iraq, the latest re-cording suggesting greater unity

between al Qaeda and IslamicState.

The Americans, Russians,Iranians, Alawites, and Hezbol-lah are coordinating their waragainst us are we not capableof stopping the ghting amongstourselves so we can directall our efforts against them?

Zawahri said in an audio record-ing released on the Internet onSunday.

It was not clear when therecording was made but ref-erences to Russian aggressionsuggest it was made after Rus-

sia, an ally of Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assad, launched airraids against opposition groups

and Islamic State in Syria on 30September.

In a recording released inSeptember, Zawahri dismissed

Islamic State and its leader AbuBakr al-Baghdadi as illegitimatebut said his followers would jointhem in ghting the Western-ledcoalition in Iraq and Syria if pos-sible. My mujahideen brothersin all places and of all groups ...we face aggression from Amer-

ica, Europe, and Russia ... soits up to us to stand together as

one from East Turkestan to Mo-rocco, Zawahri said. Islamic

State, the ultra-hardline groupthat controls large parts of Iraqand Syria, has called for a holy

war against both Russia and theUnited States in response to airstrikes on its ghters in Syria.

Any cooperation between al

Qaeda and Islamic State wouldfurther complicate efforts to sta-bilise the Middle East, wheremilitant groups have gainedinuence and escalated attacks

since the Arab uprisings of 2011toppled autocrats who had con-tained them.Reuters

Al Qaeda chief urges militant unity

against Russia in Syria

Iraq parliament bars government

from passing reforms unilaterally,

in blow to PM AbadiCAIRO Iraqs parliament vot-ed on Monday to bar the govern-ment from passing key reforms

without its approval in an effortto restrict Prime Minister Haideral-Abadi, parliamentarians said.

The chamber took the stepafter Abadi unilaterally passed

reforms in August it considered aviolation of the constitution suchas sacking the vice presidents anddeputy prime ministers and cut-ting the salaries of governmentemployees.

What we have warnedagainst in our letter to Abadi lastweek of taking unilateral reforms

now came to an end. Under thisresolution no more absolute au-thorities for the prime minister,an MP, who asked to remain

anonymous, told Reuters.Last week more than 60members of Iraqs ruling State ofLaw coalition threatened to with-draw parliamentary support for

Abadis reforms if he does not re-

spond to their demands for widerconsultation. Growing politicaltensions could undermine efforts

to tackle an economic crisis andform a united front against IslamicState militants, who pose the big-gest security threat to Iraq sincea US-led invasion that toppled

Saddam Hussein in 2003. Abadiannounced a reform campaign inAugust after protests erupted overgraft and poor water and elec-tricity services in Iraq, a leadingOPEC oil producer.

The steps are intended toscrap senior political ofces thathave become a vehicle for patron-age for some of the most powerfulpeople in Iraq and combat incom-petence which has undermined thebattle against militancy.

Some of the measures havebeen implemented, while oth-ers appear to have stalled. Iraqsthree vice presidents, whose po-sitions were to be cut, remain in

place.Reuters

Zanzibar opposition to meet army chief

over political crisisDAR ES SALAAM The main opposition leader inTanzanias semi-autonomousZanzibar archipelago will meet

the countrys army chief to dis-cuss the political situation inthe islands, amid unrest after adisputed election.

Tanzania held nationalelections on 25 October, whichincluded a vote for local author-ities in Zanzibar, traditionallya bastion of opposition to the

central government.But Zanzibars election

commission annulled the votefor the islands president, citing

gross violations. The main

opposition Civic United Front(CUF) rejected the move, say-ing it had won that poll.

Two bombs exploded min-utes apart in Zanzibar on Satur-day without causing casualties.

In a statement late on Sun-day, Tanzanian President Ja-kaya Kikwetes ofce said thepresident had ordered talksbetween CUF leaders and theChief of Defence Forces, Gen-eral Davis Mwamunyange, fol-lowing a request from the oppo-sition party.

It is unclear what opposi-

tion leaders plan to discuss with

the army chief in the meeting

scheduled for this week.Kikwete has also instructed

the countrys police chief to in-vestigate opposition complaints

against the conduct of police-men during the elections.

The presidency dismissedopposition claims that Kikwete

had refused to meet with CUFspresidential candidate in Zanzi-bar, Seif Sharrif Hamad, to dis-cuss the situation on the islands.

President Kikwete would

like to express his readiness todo whatever is in his powers toregularize the situation in Zan

-

zibar, the presidency added in

a statement.Reuters

GENEVA South Sudaneserebels have released 13 con-tractors a week after kidnappingthem and seizing the fuel bargethey were taking to a UN base in

South Sudan, the United Nationssaid.

The UN mission in theworlds youngest country said

it sent helicopters to pick up the

South Sudanese workers on Sun-day, and recovered the barge -but not the 55,000 litres of fuel itwas carrying.

This (release) was the re-sult of a week-long dialogue...with members of the oppositionat all levels, Shantal Persaud, aspokeswoman for the UN mis-sion, said on Monday.Reuters

Rebels free kidnapped workers inSouth Sudan, no sign of stolen fuel

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8 ANALYSIS 3 November 2015

Myint Win Thein

Beware of self-defamation

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P

eople often accuse each other of defama-

tion. Sometimes, they even bring their accu-

sations to the courts. However, such people

often fail to understand that they are truly at faultfor damaging their own reputations.

Ones speech, actions and attitude can dam-

age ones reputation more than anything else in

the world because people judge one another based

on these criteria. Others can hurt ones reputation

only when circumstances allow, but a person can

damage ones own reputation at any occasion. What

one says, does or thinks is rmer grounds for a poor

reputation than what others accuse that person of.

This is because what has been done cannot be un-

done.

Speech is the easiest way to express oneself.

Special care should be taken before saying any-

thing. Proofs of the importance of speech are the

transformations of public gures into clowns as a

result of their own statements.

Actions have even more damaging effects onones reputation. This may be because action affects

others more seriously. Good deeds lead to a good

reputation, while bad deeds result in a poor reputa-

tion.

Ones attitude is always reected in ones speech

and action. Indeed, it leads to wrong speech and ac-

tion. Therefore, a bad attitude seems to be the

main culprit behind self-defamation. Therefore, it

is also important to nurture a decent attitude.

It can be seen that self-defamation is the worst

obstacle in life. One needs to be careful with ones

speech, actions and attitude. Victory over oneself

is the greatest victory of all.

OPINION

About the author

Tommy Pauk is the

pesudonym of U Thein Swe,

who is B.A (English) and

(Registered Law) R.L I.

degrees holder. He has

English Teaching experience

at Yangon University English

Department and Workers

College in Yangon, and now

is working as freelance writer

and English Teacher cum

Translator/Interpreter forforeign rms.

Tommy Pauk

M

ovies, known as motion

pictures and computer

games are produced for

pastime, pleasure and entertainment.Various kinds of movies and the

electronic games are produced with

the help of modern technology. Spe-

cial effects and some backdrops are

created by computer in lm industry

as well. Nowadays, youngsters

across the world are addicted to

violent games and violent movies.

The stories of the violent movies

and games portray homicide, cruel

killings, vendetta, kidnap, act of

terrorism, sexual assaults and serial

killings and the people or charac-

ters in the stories neglect the law

enforcement blatantly. The scenes

and stories are almost horric and

violent from the beginning to endof the story. Amid the occurrences

of racial conicts and religious

conicts in some western countries

and in Middle East countries, the

violent movies escalate the conicts

rapidly. Surprisingly, the acts of cru-

elty, brutality and atrocity in some

regions in the world are identical

to the stories in the violent movies.

It seems that the terrorists horren-

dous and atrocious acts of brutality

may be connected to the content of

violent movies. The violent movies

produce negative impacts to the

viewers especially the youngsters.

The negative effects of the violent

movies are that some people donot hesitate to kill the other people

when conict or dispute arises and

do not obey the law in the society.

The violent T.V games and violent

movies also inuence the youngsters

and even the emotions of children of

under 10 year years old. Evidently,

in America, school violence is a

great panic for the parents concerned

as some school children committed

killing spree or shooting at class-

rooms, friends and teachers by using

their parents guns. These miserable

incidents frequently occur in some

states of America. It is learned that

the impact of watching violent

movies and playing violent gamesis grater in western countries than

in eastern counties.

The Impact of watching Violent Movies and playing Violent GamesThe kids and adolescents in

every society across the world prefer

to watch violent movies and to play

violent games rather than other kinds

of movies and games. This situation

is still a mystery. Why do they enjoywatching violent movies rather than

non-violent movies?

In Myanmar, school children

also like to play games on T.V or

computer or smart phone. Of the

school children, school boys are

more addicted to games than the

school girls. After doing their home-

work, Myanmar school boys play

games on any available electronic

devices at home. The parents of

Myanmar parents cannot limit the

duration of playing games as their

offspring are extremely addicted

to games. Sometimes, the children

even fail to do their homework and

the excessive game-playing doesaffect their study. Once they are

exposed to video games, they will

have passion for playing video

games. Mostly, the children play

violent games which are captivat-

ing with unusual characters and

graphics. Not only the violent

stories of the games, but also the

graphic descriptions of characters

are attractive and appealing to the

players. During summer vacation

in Myanmar, parents usually send

their children to take basic computer

course in urban areas. As soon as the

children obtain the knowledge of

how-to-operate-computer, they start

playing computer games, installedin it. Myanmar adolescents are fond

of playing games and addicted to

violent games. They play a video

game at least once per day, either

on a large console, tablet computer

or smart phone, spending about

three hours more or less. Normally,

they play at home but they like to

sit and play in video games center

or shops. While staying at home,

they hardly ever help their parents

in household chores because they

always stick to playing video games

especially violent games. Some of

the names of popular violent games

are Counter strike, Assassins,

Grand Theft Auto, Halo andMortal Kombat, etc. An exposure

to games with violent content may

turn ordinary children and adoles-

cents into violent people in the real

world. Due to inuence of violent

games, the US has the highest

homicide rate in the world. While

attending classes at school, theschool authority detains the school

childrens tablets, smart phones and

other electronic devices and returns

them to the school children when the

school is over. Laptop computer is

allowed to bring into the classrooms

for doing school lessons with it, but

the teachers have to prohibit playing

games in the classroom. Otherwise,

the school children might use these

electronic devices for playing games

and disturb the teachers who teach

in the classroom.

Most of the settings and themes

of the violent games are created in

battle elds or killing elds or traps

between two or more groups usingsophisticated weapons or normal

weapons or magical power etc. The

electronic games are created by

writers, computer specialists, artists

and graphic designers. We recognize

their innovation and their art of cre-

ation on non-violent stories, but the

violent stories they have written or

drawn can mislead to the youngsters.

The graphics of non-violent games

are rather amazing and the stories

are amusing, fantastic, appealing

and entertaining to all of us regard-

less of age. We, the elders cannot

blame and obstruct our children

to play modern games played on

T.V or on computer for enjoyment.Actually, playing these games are

enjoyable pastime for youngsters

and some adults. Nonetheless, we

shall need to educate our youngsters

on thenegative effects of playing

violent games. If they play a lot of

violent games, they would become

the aggressive persons. Even then,

the childrens minds are lled with

thoughts of aggression and violence.

As for children, parents vigilance

and teachers guidance are import-

ant to protect the potential negative

behaviors. The elders were shocked

to hear about some of the themes in

the games. Parents were worried

about the realism, target, contextand goals of the violent games.

The violent movies inuence

people of all ages indeed. They

arouse aggressive feeling and

emotion on the viewers. The violent

movies are made with horrendous

and callous scenes of homicide.

Some violent movies vividly playthe story or episode of thriller or

inhumane torture or cold blooded

murder or sexual assaults. People

like to watch violent movies because

they are captivating with unusual

stories or strange stories. Psycho-

logical studies say; Watching

violent movies really does make

people more aggressive, but only

if they have an abrasive personality

to start with. Those who watch

violent movies a lot can turn to be

aggressive and unkind persons as

their minds are inuenced by the

content of violent movies.

According to The Lord Bud-

dhas analysis, naturally a manhas two types of mindsthe mind

which takes delight in good deeds

or meritorious deeds and the mind

which is obsessed by bad deeds.

In secular world, man is usually

urged or stimulated to commit sins

or breed cruelty or act aggressive

behaviors. In the mean time, some

people watch a lot of violent movies

and their minds get obsessed with

atrocious acts, seen on the screen.

Then these people do not hesitate

to commit brutal and cruel killings

or theft or sexual assaults or mis-

deeds in real world. Moreover, the

children who watch violent movies

are prone to aggression and this canmake stronger impact to their envi-

ronment school and friends .The

adolescents, certain unwise adults

and children are victimized by the

contents, acts and the themes of the

violent movies produced especially

from the western countries.

Nobody can say that the violent

movies and games are harmless to

the viewers or players in the world.

Isnt it? Why dont governments

around the world ban all that stuff?

Respective governments should

protect their posterity from the

dangerous impact or negative ef-

fects of watching imported violent

movies and playing violent games.Otherwise, school violence, severe

crimes and inhumane acts will

overwhelm in a certain society. It

is a must to ban a variety of violent

movies and violent video games in

every society so that we can lessen

violent behavior on youth. However,

the non-violent movies must not bebanned. There is a wide range of

subjects and genres in lm produc-

tion .The feature lms or movies

such as romance, adventure, science

ction and comedy are non-violent

movies which do not do any harm

to the viewers of all ages.

Movies are made to entertain

or educate or dispense knowledge to

the people when they are at leisure.

Unfortunately, some inconsiderate

and selsh lm makers produce

such violent moves for movie lov-

ers around the world. Concerning

video games, the producers intend

to entertain the gamers with fantastic

playing methods. Despite a varietyof video games, the violent games

become popular among the players

amazingly and incredibly. Anyway,

parents must draw the guidelines

about the amount of time children

can play games at home and be

sure that other activities, such as

playing with friends, time with

family, doing homework, playing

sports etc. In order to protect the

potential youth violence, parents,

authority and guardians must pro-

vide their children with a good

balance and discipline. The youth

of today in a certain society should

be gentle, kind and brilliant so that

they would become good leaders orgood citizens in future!!!

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LOCAL NEWS 93 November 2015

SPECIAL Bridge Construction

Group No. 4 has been assigned to

the construction of a second 600-

foot bridge across Meiktila Lake

with a budget of K2 billion for

the 2015-16 scal year, accord-

ing to superintendent engineer U

Thein Aung of the Department

of Bridges under the Ministry of

Construction.

He said the construction

will start on 9 November, and a

plan has been set to complete the

bridge in February next year.

The bridge will be 600 feet

long and 24 feet wide and anked

by three-foot pedestrian walk-

ways on either side. The western

approach road will be construct-

ed by the Department of High-

ways. Both bridge and road will

be completed in March 2016,

the superintendent engineer said.

Chan Thar (Meiltila)

New Meiktila Lake bridge to open in February 2016

PHOTOGRPHERS from the

Muse District Information and

Public Relations Department in

northern Shan State were briefed

on 31 October on how to docu-

ment the 8 November election.

The meeting was attended by

IPRD Deputy Shan State Head U

Wai Lin, district and township

IPRD ofcials and photojournal-

ists.

The IPRD photographers

were instructed to document the

elections using the guidelines of

the Union Election Commission.

The civil servants were urged to

abide by legal rules and regula-

tions as well as by the media per-

sonnel guidelines set for the elec-

tions. They were also told not to

disturb the voting process while

they take photos. They were ad-

vised to prepare for their duties in

advance.Muse District IPRD

THE Sagaing Region govern-

ment allotted K378.391 million

to upgrade a two-mile road

section on the Kyunhla-Chat-

thin-Kawlin road in Kawlin

Township.

The Department of High-

ways is placing asphalt on the

18-foot-wide road section from

mile posts 35/6 to 38/6.

The department is also

building a 60-foot bailey bridge

near the Daungmyu Creek bridge

between mile posts 33/7 and 34/7

with a budget of K29.75 million,

provided by the regional govern-

ment.

Moreover, the department

also built a 40-foot earthen em-

bankment and paved a one-mile

road section with a budget of

about K200 million.

Upon completion, the up-

graded roads will create smooth

transport access for the local

people from Kyunhla, Kan-

balu and Kawlin townships.

Ko Ko Maung (Kawlin)

Department of Highways

upgrades inter-township road

Muse IPRD photographers briefed elections

AN police course for special

police for the election peri-

od concluded at the hall of the

Border Area and National Rac-

es Development School in Da-

wei, Taninthayi Region, on 31

October.

The commander of the

townships police force, Police

Major Sein Dway, said in his

address that additional police

will be assigned to carry out

security tasks at polling stations

during the election period. The

head of the Dawei Police Sta-

tion Police Captain Myo Myint

Oo announced the assignments

of the police, while the com-

mander presented a prize to out-

standing trainee Han Nyunt. A

total of 87 trainees attended the

additional police course, which

ran from 20 to 31 October.

Po Shwe Thun (Dawei)

Election police course concludes

THE Ministry of Livestock,

Fisheries and Rural Develop-

ment allocated a budget for the

2015-16 scal year for rural

development tasks in Maukmei

Township, Shan State.

Engineers from the town-

ships Department of High-

ways are repairing two 50-foot

bridges, one 35-foot bridge, one

30-foot bridge and one 20-foot

bridge on the Maukmei-Nam-

luk road.

Township Administrator

U Tin Maung Soe, who chairs

the Township Management

Committee, and other ofcials

inspected the bridge repairs and

encouraged workers to nish on

time.Sai Myo Thant (IPRD)

Bridges under repair on

inter-village road

A concrete bridge crossing Meiktila Lake for smooth transportation of local people. PHOTO: CHANTHAR

Construction of Kyunhla-Chatthin-Kawlin road in progress. PHOTO: KOKOMAUNG(KAWLIN)

Ofcials explain rules for photographers of IPRD in elections. PHOTO: MUSEDISTRICTIPRD

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TOKYO Asian stocks slid totheir lowest level in nearly threeweeks on Monday, as profit tak-ing set in after soft Chinese fac-tory surveys and US consumerspending data raised concernsover the global economic out-look.

MSCIs broadest index of

Asia-Pacific shares outside Ja-pan fell as much as 0.7 percent,hitting its lowest level since Oct14. Tokyos Nikkei retreated2.1 percent.

European shares are ex-pected to open weaker, withspread-betters looking for Ger-manys DAX to fall 0.8 percent,Frances CAC 40 to drop 0.9percent, and FTSE to start 0.6percent down.

Mainland China marketsfell, with the main Shanghai in-dex falling 1.2 percent, hurt bythe factory survey results andthe governments crackdown onillegal futures trading.

Chinas factory activity fellfor an eighth straight month inOctober, the Caixin purchasingmanagers index (PMI) showed,fuelling fears the economy maystill be losing momentum in thefourth quarter despite a raft ofstimulus measures.

The Caixin figures fol-lowed Sundays official survey,which showed activity in Chi-nas manufacturing sector unex-pectedly contracted in Octoberfor a third straight month.

On Friday, in the UnitedStates, data showed consumerspending in September recordedits smallest gain in eight monthsas personal income barely rose,suggesting some cooling in do-mestic demand after recenthefty increases.

When the Fed says it is

still considering a rate hike inDecember, theres limited roomfor share prices to rise further,said Ayako Sera, senior marketeconomist at Sumitomo MitsuiTrust Bank.

The dollar lost 0.2 percentto 120.32 yen as the fall in To-kyo shares cooled risk appetiteand favoured the safe-havenJapanese currency.

With most central banksexcept the US Federal Reservecommitted to an easing bias, fo-cus now falls on this weeks runof US data, including the all-im-portant non-farm payrolls dueon Friday, and how they could

affect the Feds stance on hikinginterest rates.

The Fed did not hike rateslast month but caused a stir byleaving the door open for a hikein December, again highlight-ing the divergence in monetarypolicies between the Fed andother central banks such as theEuropean Central Bank and theBOJ.

US economic data bearsignificance for the DecemberFOMC decision and could drive

FRANKFURT EuropeanCommission President Jean-

Claude Juncker has proposedthat savings banks and cooper-ative banks be made exemptfrom a European guarantee forbank deposits, a Germannewspaper reported.

The proposal may help towin German approval for sucha system, which is highly con-troversial in the country be-cause it is seen as a schemeunder which money to guaran-tee German deposits could beused to rescue savers else-where.

The cooperative banksand savings banks will not betouched by the deposit guaran-tee, Frankfurter AllgemeineZeitung quoted Juncker assaying at an event in Germany.

Juncker told the paper thatit was people who did not fol-low the virtues of a social mar-ket economy who caused thefinancial crisis and coopera-tive banks and savings bankswere not to blame.

The commission intendsto set up a European guaranteefor bank deposits based on areinsurance system for nation-al schemes.

EU states are alreadyobliged to protect bank depos-

its up to 100,000 euros, butwith several credit institutionsunderperforming there areconcerns that this guaranteemay not be enough in somestates.

The reinsurance systemwill guarantee national depositprotection schemes and theCommission plans to set outdetails in a legislative propos-al before the end of the year.

The joint scheme wouldbe the third and final pillar ofthe European banking unionproject, which has resulted inthe setting up of a common su-pervisory body ]for banks and

a shared resolution mechanismfor troubled credit institu-tions.Reuters

EU proposes

savings bank

exemption from

deposit guarantee

scheme

higher FX and rate volatility inthe coming weeks, strategists atBarclays wrote.

The October FOMC state-ment was somewhat more hawk-ish than our expectations, andwith the assessment on globalrisk having been removed, we

think there is a clear attempt bythe FOMC to keep a Decemberhike on the table.

The euro extended its Fridaygains, rising 0.3 percent to$1.1038.

By far the biggest winner inthe currency market was theTurkish lira, which soared 5.6percent to 3-month high of 2.758lira per dollar after the ruling AKParty swept to an unexpectedelection victory on Sunday.

The results will return the

country to single-party rule afterfive months of political instabili-ty following an inconclusiveelection in June, but could sharp-en social divisions.

In commodities, crude oilprices slipped, unable to sustaingains made on Friday on the lat-

est decline in the US oil rig count.US output may be declining butglobal supplies of crude and re-fined oil products continue togrow, weighing down the mar-ket.

US crude was down 0.5 per-cent at $46.36 a barrel. Spot goldtouched a 4-week low of$1,134.60 an ounce, hurt by lin-gering worries of a potential ratehike by the Fed. Higher interestrates tend to diminish the appealof non-yielding bullion.Reuters

European CommissionPresident Jean-Claude Juncker.PHOTO: REUTERS

Asian shares slide as soft China surveys, US data sap risk appetite

WASHINGTON The USSupreme Court will consider onMonday whether to nip in the

bud a class action lawsuitagainst online search serviceSpokeo Inc in a case closelywatched by Silicon Valley com-panies that face similar claims.

If the court rules for Pasa-dena, California-based Spokeoand finds that a consumer law-suit cannot proceed when theplaintiff cannot show he is be-ing harmed, it could curtail arecent wave of class action cas-es against online companies.

Google Inc, Facebook Inc,eBay Inc and Yahoo Inc filedcourt papers backing Spokeo, apeople search website.

If similar cases are allowed

to proceed against other compa-nies, any user of their serviceswho alleges a legal violation

based only on a technical viola-tion of a federal statute couldpursue a multi-billion dollar

statutory damages claim despitethe lack of injury, the briefsaid.

The case gives the conserv-ative-leaning Supreme Courtanother chance to limit class ac-tion litigation as it has in a se-ries of rulings including a major2011 victory for Wal MartStores Inc.

We think this case pre-sents the opportunity ... to closethe door on non-injury class ac-tions, said Jason Matthes,Spokeos general counsel.

Facebook, Google and Ya-hoo have all faced similar law-suits over violations of different

federal laws. As many onlinecompanies have millions of us-ers, a case can quickly snowball

into a multimillion dollar classaction.

Without class action status,

a case involving an individualplaintiff presents a much small-er risk to a company.

Kate Todd, an attorneywith the US Chamber of Com-merces legal arm, called theSpokeo dispute an example ofplaintiffs lawyers pushing theboundaries of the types of cas-es that can be pursued.

In the Spokeo case, plain-tiff Thomas Robins sued in Cal-ifornia on behalf of himself anda potential class under the FairCredit Reporting Act, which re-quires consumer reportingagencies to provide correct in-formation. There is a maximum

$1,000 penalty per violation.Robins, who was unem-

ployed when he sued in 2010,

had claimed his Spokeo entryhad damaged his job-seekingprospects because it contained

inaccurate information. The en-try, for example, said Robinshas a graduate degree, which hecalled incorrect.

In todays age, consumersare increasingly concernedabout their online reputation,said Robins attorney, Jay Edel-son, whose firm specializes insuing tech companies for priva-cy violations.

The high court is currentlyconsidering two other class ac-tion cases. One involvingclaims against advertising firmCampbell-Ewald Co was ar-gued last month.

The other, concerning a

lawsuit against food producerTyson Foods Inc, will be arguedon 10 November.Reuters

Tech firms on alert as US top court takes up class action case

Businessmen look at their mobile phones in front of an electronic stockquotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan.PHOTO: REUTERS

Walking Chinese robot breaks Guinness world record

CHONGQING A quadrupedrobot in the southwestern mu-nicipality of Chongqing walkedits way on to the pages of theGuinness World Records bookon Sunday.

Xingzhe No. 1 was de-veloped by Li Qingdu, a profes-sor with the college of automa-

tion under the ChongqingUniversity of Post and Tele-communications. Starting on 24October , it took 340,000 con-tinuous steps over 54 hours cov-ering a distance of 134.03 kmand used 0.8 kwh of power.

The previous record wasset by Ranger, a quadruped ro-

bot developed by Cornell Uni-versity in America, whichwalked 65 km in 30 hours con-suming 0.5 kwh.

Li and his team began de-veloping the robot in November2014.

The first prototype wasproduced in January

We can apply the technol-ogy and processes involved to awide range of robotic devices,to make them more efficient,durable and reliable.

In the future we could be-gin to use these robots for dan-gerous or remote tasks, Lisaid.Xinhua

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Drugged up: GSK, Roche and

Sanofi to set out their stalls

LONDON Three of Europestop drugmakers GlaxoSmith-Kline, Roche and Sanofi facehealth checks this week athigh-profile presentations de-signed to show they can over-come looming market threats.

The unusual confluence ofinvestor days comes at a testingtime for the $1 trillion-a-yearglobal drugs industry, asdeal-making sweeps a sector fac-

ing mounting competitive pres-sures.Chief executives at the three

companies face different chal-lenges, but they all have a pointto prove.

GSKs Andrew Witty andSanofis new boss Olivier Bran-dicourt both need to demonstraterecovery potential, after recentdisappointments, while RochesSeverin Schwan must show hecan withstand future cut-pricecompetition to his groups top bi-

otech drugs. Roche probablyhas the easiest job, since weknow they have good data withnew multiple sclerosis (MS) andoncology drugs, whereas GSKand Sanofi have quite a lot toprove, Berenberg Bank analystAlistair Campbell said.

Roches three most antici-pated drugs ocrelizumab forMS, atezolizumab for cancer andACE-910 for haemophilia are

together expected to rake in an-nual sales of some $5 billion by2020, according to consensusforecasts from Thomson ReutersCortellis, which is well above ri-vals.

Roche is particularly bullishon ocrelizumab, after it succeed-ed in the hard-to-treat progres-sive form of MS and set a newbenchmark for treating relapsingdisease.

Like its Swiss rival, GSK isalso seeking to showcase its re-

search and development (R&D)prowess at its first R&D event inmore than a decade. But afterpast setbacks in clinical trials, in-vestor expectations are relativelylow.

Much of the focus is expect-ed to be on GSKs experimentalshingles vaccine Shingrix, Nuca-la for severe asthma, sirukumabfor rheumatoid arthritis and anew long-acting HIV medicine.

Beyond that, investors arekeen to get a glimpse deeper intoGSKs pipeline to see whetherthe companys R&D can deliverin the medium to long term as itseeks to offset declining sales ofthe best-selling inhaled lungtreatment Advair.

A key question is how manyof the 40 or so experimental med-icines it has said it will profile atthe event will be ready to moveinto final Phase III trials in thenext 12 months.Reuters

The GlaxoSmithKline logo is seen at the entrance of a building in Luxembourg, September 10, 2013. Picturetaken September 10, 2013.PHOTO: REUTERS

Having children might reduce

womans death risk from

several common conditionsLONDON Researchersfound that women who had giv-en birth might have a reducedrisk of death from several com-mon conditions than those whohad not, according to a study re-leased Friday by the ImperialCollege London (ICL).

The study, led by ICL re-searchers, was published in the

journal BMC Medicine. It inves-tigates the association betweenthe so-called reproductive fac-tors such as having childrenand breastfeeding and awomans risk of death.

Researchers analyzed datafrom 322,972 women across 10countries, including the UK,France, Germany and Sweden,with an average age of 50.

Each woman was followedfor an average of 12.9 years.During this period, there were14,383 deaths overall, which in-cluded 5,938 deaths from cancerand 2,404 deaths from circulato-ry system diseases, according tothe study.

The team compared a host

of reproductive factors with riskof death from several commonconditions, such as breast can-cer, stroke and heart disease.

The researchers found thatwomen who had given birth hada 20 per cent reduced risk ofdeath than those who had not. Itwas also found that there was areduced risk of death (eight percent) in women who had breast-fed compared to those who didnot. The risk of death from can-cer was lower in those that hadgiven birth compared to thosethat had not. Within this group,the risk was reduced even fur-ther in women that gave birth totwo or three children in compar-ison to those who had one child.Hormonal mechanisms mayexplain the lower risk of deaththat we observed with breast-feeding, having given birth andusing oral contraceptives, asthese factors are associated withchanges in hormone levels,said Dr Melissa Merrittfrom ICL, who led thestudy.Xinhua

Fossil unearthed in Spain

sheds light on ape evolution

WASHINGTON The well-preserved partialskull and skeleton of a gib-bon-like creature that lived

11.6 million years ago in Spainis shedding new light on theevolutionary history of modernapes.

Scientists on Thursday an-nounced the discovery in Cata-lonia of fossil remains of asmall, fruit-eating female apethat lived in a warm, wet for-ested region teeming with ani-mals including elephant rela-tives, rhinos and saber-toothedpredators.

They gave the ape, weigh-

ing 9-11 pounds (4-5 kg), thescientific name Pliobates cata-loniae and the nicknameLaia. There is no living pri-

mate like Pliobates, which ex-hibits a unique combination ofmodern ape-like features withother, more primitive ones,said paleobiologist David Albaof the Catalan Institute of Pale-ontology near Barcelona.

We can imagine a smallape, like the smallest livinggibbons, with a gibbon-like ap-pearance regarding the crani-um but with different bodyproportions: less elongatedarms and hands.Xinhua

Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs participants visitthe Nagasaki Peace Park, a memorial to the tens of thousands killed by

the atomic bombing of the Japanese city by the United States inAugust 1945, before the start of a five-day meeting.PHOTO:KYODONEWS

Intl confab of scientists begins in Nagasaki to seek nuke abolitionNAGASAKI Scientists andnuclear experts from around theworld gathered in southwesternJapan on Sunday to push for theabolition of nuclear weapons andother weapons of mass destruc-tion, with this year marking the70th anniversary of the US atom-ic bombings of Japanese cities.

Nagasaki, one of the two cit-ies devastated by an atomic bombat the end of World War II, ishosting for the first time the Pug-wash Conference on Science andWorld Affairs, which originatedfrom calls for such a meetingfrom eminent scientists such asAlbert Einstein about 60 years

ago.With the momentum toward

nuclear disarmament seen to

have suffered a setback after aUN conference on the NuclearNon-Proliferation Treaty endedin failure in May, organisershope once again to call attentionto the inhumane nature of nucleararms and encourage dialogue in aworld plagued with conflicts.

The five-day internationalconference, which is the 61st ofits kind, brings together nearly200 participants from about 40countries, including US and Rus-sian officials and the head ofIrans Atomic Energy Organiza-tion, Ali Akbar Salehi, accordingto the organisers.

On Sunday morning, partici-

pants met at the Nagasaki AtomicBomb Museum with YoshiroYamawaki, 81, an atomic bomb

survivor, to hear firsthand aboutthe horrors of nuclear weapons.

Topics to be discussed at theconference include the humani-tarian impact of nuclear weap-ons, paths toward a world free ofnuclear weapons and risks in-volved in the civilian use of nu-clear energy in light of JapansFukushima Daiichi nuclear pow-er plant disaster triggered by ahuge earthquake and tsunami inMarch 2011. A declaration willbe released on the final day of theevent. Some sessions are open tothe public, including a speech byOsamu Shimomura, who won theNobel Prize in chemistry in 2008.

He was in a city adjacent to Na-gasaki when the atomic bombwas dropped.Kyodo News

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV AMBER ALENA VOY NO ( )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV AMBER

ALENA VOY NO ( ) are hereby notied that the ves-

sel will be arriving on 2.11.2015 and cargo will be dis-

charged into the premises of M.I.P.L where it will lie

at the consignees risk and expenses and subject to the

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 Day now

declared as the third day after nal discharge of cargo

from the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admitted af-

ter the Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT

MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S CHUN AN SHIPPING PTE

LTD

Phone No: 2301186

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KUO HSIUNG VOY NO (1041W)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KUO HSI-

UNG VOY NO (1041W) are hereby notied that the

vessel will be arriving on 2.11.2015 and cargo will be

discharged into the premises of H.P.T where it will lie

at the consignees risk and expenses and subject to the

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 Day now

declared as the third day after nal discharge of cargo

from the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admitted af-

ter the Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT

MYANMA PORT AUTHORITYAGENT FOR: M/S CHINA SHIPPPING LINES

Phone No: 2301185

MIAMI A US Navysalvage team prepared onSunday to launch a remote-

ly operated submersible toconrm that wreckage dis-covered near the Bahamaswas that of the cargo shipEl Faro, lost in a hurricanelast month along with its 33

crew members.The teams mission is

to document the shipwreckand any debris eld, and

to retrieve the sunken ves-sels voyage data recorder similar to an airplanesblack box as part of aninvestigation into its loss,

according to the Nation-al Transportation SafetyBoard (NTSB).

If human remains are

encountered during thesubmersible operation theNavy will attempt to recov-er them, NTSB spokesman

Peter Knudson said.It was the worst mar-

itime accident involving aUS-ag vessel since 1983.

The cargo ships own-er, Tote Inc, has been hitwith four lawsuits ledby relatives of the crew,

alleging the ship was notseaworthy and should have

changed course to avoidHurricane Joaquin.

Tote led for protec-

tion in a federal court inFlorida on Friday, citingUS maritime law and say-

ing the ship was seawor-thy and properly mannedand that the company bearsno responsibility for itsloss.

As El Faro left port inJacksonville, Florida, enroute to Puerto Rico, thecaptain set the ship on what

appeared to be a collisioncourse with the powerfulstorm, a decision that hasbafed shipping experts.

The El Faro disap-peared on 1 October after

the captain reported losingpropulsion and taking onwater. The crew includ-ed 28 Americans and ve

Poles.It was unclear on Sun-

day what plans were inplace to recover remains of

the crew. The wreck site isat a depth of nearly 3 milesbeneath the surface, far be-yond the reach of divers,Knudson said.

A week-long searchand rescue missionlaunched by t

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