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Volume XIX, Number 210 7th Waning of Tazaungmon 1373 ME Thursday, 17 November, 2011

True patriotism

* It is very important for every one ofthe nation regardless of the placehe lives to have strong Union Spirit.

* Only Union Spirit is the truepatriotism all the nationalities willhave to safeguard.

NAY PYI TAW, 16 Nov—Presidentof the Republic of the Union of MyanmarU Thein Sein left here by special aircraftof Myanma Airways International forIndonesia at 9 am today to attend the 19th

ASEAN Summit and related summits tobe held in Bali of the Republic of Indone-sia at the invitation of President of theRepublic of Indonesia Dr Susilo BambangYudhoyono.

The goodwill delegation led byPresident U Thein Sein was seen off atNay Pyi Taw Airport by Vice-PresidentThiha Thura U Tin Aung Myint Oo,Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham,Deputy Commander-in-Chief of DefenceServices Commander-in-Chief (Army)Lt-Gen Soe Win, Union ministers, thecommander of Nay Pyi Taw Command,deputy ministers, departmental heads,the Indonesian Ambassador and officialsof the Indonesian Embassy.

President U Thein Sein was ac-companied by Union Minister for Infor-mation and for Culture U Kyaw Hsan,Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs DrMyo Myint, Deputy Minister for HealthDr Win Myint, members of the advisorygroup to the President, member of NayPyi Taw Council U Kan Chun and de-partmental heads.

Members of the Myanmar del-egation—Union Minister for ForeignAffairs U Wunna Maung Lwin and Un-ion Minister for National Planning andEconomic Development and for Live-stock and Fisheries U Tin Naing Theinleft in advance for Indonesia.—MNA

President U Thein Sein leaves forIndonesia to attend 19th ASEAN

Summit, related summitsVice-Presidents Thiha Thura U Tin Aung Myint Oo and

Dr Sai Mauk Kham see off President U Thein Sein atNay Pyi Taw Airport on his departure for

Indonesia to attend 19th ASEAN Summit.—MNA

YANGON, 16 Nov —Myanmar Archer AungNgein won a gold inXXVI SEA Games wom-en’s individual com-pound event today,beating her rivalPhilippino archer.

Her reward was thefirst gold medal forMyanmar in the SEAGames in Indonesia. ThePhilippines won the silverand Indonesia the bronze

Archer wins first goldfor Myanmar

in the event.In the track and field

event today, Myanmar’srunner Nilar San won asilver and Indonesia thegold and Vietnam thebronze in the women’smarathon event.Myanmar’s rowers ShweZin Latt and Than ThanNwe won a silver in thewomen’s coxless pairwhile Vietnam won a goldand Singapore a bronze

for the sport in the SEAGames. Aung Ko Minbagged one bronze inrowing in the M1X eventof the 2011 South-EastAsian Games today whilethe Philippino rowerclinched one gold beatingThai rower. In the ASEANChess tournament, WinZaw Tun won a silverwhile Thailand the firstand Vietnam the third.

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PERSPECTIVESThursday, 17 November, 2011

Turning the page, reforms are takingshapes in political and economic arenas.Discussions turn into actions without hesitationand scenes of activities are across the nation.

At such time, a citizen who can work shouldwork contributing to the society. Every oneshould devote to social welfare putting all hisenergies. All are to take their parts in economic,education, health, social and philanthropicworks.

Looking at the global countries, theenergetic workforce is also the determiningfactor in differences in their growth apartfrom possession of natural resources andtechnological power. Our nation already hasnatural resources and national integrity andonly needs to equip with a sense of duty to beable to keep abreast of internationalcommunity.

Generally, almost every one does not eventhink about what his responsibility is. Onlywhen one knows well what his duty is, dutifulcan be he. For a person who does not knowwhat responsibility he shoulders, to performhis duty is highly unlikely. One should exert theequal amount of efforts for what he is paideven if he is not willing to do more than he ispaid for.

Whoever assigns the duty, once it is takenwith own commitment, it become yours. Andcompleting that duty means adding spiritualvalues to your soul. One who is imbued with asense of duty will all the way try to complete hisduty once assigned.

Having a sense of duty is maintaining owndignity rather than showing respect for others.Neglect of duty, demands for benefits,bureaucratic attitude and parasitic-to-powerattitude are acts of undutiful persons. Thosewho have a strong sense of duty try to bedutiful as best as they can with innovativemind. Persons with a sense of duty and habit ofassuming responsibility are urgently in need inlarge numbers in establishing a new nation.

Sense of duty and habit oftaking responsibility

Legal affairs discussed

NAY PYI TAW, 16 Nov—Pyithu HluttawCommission for Assessment of Legal Affairs andSpecial Cases met at Pyithu Hluttaw Meeting Hallin Hluttaw Building here this afternoon.

It was attended by Commission Chairman

Deputy Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker U Nanda KyawSwa, Deputy Commission Chairpersons U TheinSwe and U Htay Myint and commission memberswho discussed legal affairs.

MNA

Myanmar government donates US$ 50,000 forLaotian flood victims

NAY PYI TAW, 16Nov—A ceremony to

hand over the donationof the Government of the

Republic of the Union ofMyanmar to the

Government of the LaoPeople’s DemocraticRepublic, as humani-tarian assistance for thevictims of the recentfloods in Lao PDR, washeld at the Ministry ofForeign Affairs, here, at2.30 pm today.

After conveyingwords of sympathies, onbehalf of the Govern-ment of the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar,Deputy Minister forForeign Affairs U MaungMyint handed over US$50,000 to Ambassador ofLao PDR Mr NilahathSayarath who spokewords of thanks.—MNA

Deputy

Minister

U Maung

Myint hands

over US$

50,000 to

Ambassa-

dor of Lao

PDR Mr

Nilahath

Sayarath.

MNA

Meeting of Pyithu Hluttaw Commission for Assessment of Legal Affairs and Special Cases inprogress.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 16 Nov—Deputy Minister forForeign Affairs U Maung Myint received Diplomatsof European Union residing in Yangon and basedin Bangkok led by rotating chairman of EuropeanUnion and French Ambassador to the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar Mr. Thierry Mathou thisnoon at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and discussedmatters relating to promotion of relations andcooperation between Myanmar and EuropeanUnion.

MNA

Dy FM receives FrenchAmbassador

YANGON, 16 Nov— Yangon Mayor YangonRegion Minister for Development Affairs U HlaMyint this morning inspected progress of extensionof road at the corner of Bogyoke Nay Win Streetand Pagoda Road in Thanlyin Township, inflow ofwater and storage of water and progress ofdistribution of purified drinking water to SinkanWaterworks as well as testing to run waterworks inBanbwekon Dam in Kyauktan Township, collectionof drinking water with hygienic way in Sinkan Lakeat Sinkan Waterworks in Kyauktan Township.

Sinkan Waterworks is distributing a total of2,060,000 gallons of water to the township.

Then, he proceeded to his inspection tour ofDagon Myothit (Seikkan) Township in whichYangon City Development Committee is carrying

Yangon Mayor inspectsdevelopment tasks in Yangon

Region

out concrete paving work on Bago River Road,extension of Ayeyawun Bridge on Ayeyawun Roadin Dagon Myothit (South) Township, concretepaving work on Thanthuma and LaydaungkanRoads in Thingangyun Township, construction ofNgamoeyeit Bridge (Parami) construction project,which is connecting South Okkalapa and DagonMyothit (North) Townships, and progress ofconcrete paving work on Thanthuma Road in NorthOkkalapa Township.—MNA

A team led by Head of Thingangyun TownshipFire Brigade U Nyan Tun, Deputy

Commanding Officer U Khin Maung Tun ofTownship Auxillary Fire Brigade and

Administrator U Myint Soe of Ward (b)inspected fire preventive measures of each

house in Ward (b) on 12 November.KYEMON

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PARIS, 16 Nov—SixSomali men accused oftaking a French couplehostage on their yachtwent on trial in Paris onTuesday in France’s firstprosecution of allegedSomali pirates. They arefacing charges ofhijacking, kidnappingand armed robbery afterthey allegedly seized theyacht and its crew, Jean-Yves Delanne and hiswife Bernadette, bothaged 60, off the coast ofSomalia in 2008.

They face life inprison if convicted.

ISLAMABAD, 16 Nov—The death tollof a Wednesday morning’s US dronestrike in northwest Pakistan has risento 16, reported local media. At leasttwo local TV channels, namely ARY

DAVAO CITY (Philip-pines), 16 Nov—Anunidentified gunman shotand killed two Indiannationals engaged inmoney lending businessin southern Philippines,police said Wednesday.

Manjeat, 27, andSukhinder, 26, bothsurnamed Singh, andresident of CompostelaValley province, diedfrom gunshot woundsafter being attacked atPoblacion village in

BAGHDAD, 16 Nov—AUS soldier was killedduring a military operationin Iraq, the US militarysaid.

“A US servicemember was killedMonday while conductingoperations in central Iraq,”Xinhua quoted a militarystatement as sayingTuesday.

The statement did notgive details about how andwhere the incident tookplace. The name of thedeceased was alsowithheld.

This was the secondUS soldier to be killed sofar this month in Iraq.

The latest casualtytook the overall US toll inIraq since March 2003 to4,484, according to mediafigures released by thePentagon.

In October, USPresident Barack Obamaannounced that allAmerican troops stationedin Iraq will pull out of thecountry by the end of thisyear.

Xinhua

BRAZZAVILLE, 16Nov—An M18 type ofhelicopter belonging tothe Republic of Congo’sairforce crashed onTuesday morning,claiming the life of aRussian pilot, a sourcewithin the CongoleseArmed Forces (FAC) toldXinhua.

The information wasconfirmed by thespokesman of FAC,colonel Cyr PatrickMorapenda, who said thatthe Russian pilot lost his

This undated picture released on 20 Sept, 2008 by the French ministry ofdefence shows, in an unknown location, Jean-Yves Delanne (R) and his

wife Bernardette, who were seized by pirates off Somalia. The Six Somalimen accused of taking the couple hostage on their yacht went on trial inParis on Tuesday in France’s first prosecution of alleged Somali pirates.

INTERNET

Afghan policemen look at a pool of blood asthey investigate the site of a car bomb explosionin Qarabagh District north of Kabul on 15 Nov,2011. Five members of a family were woundedin the attack, according to a Ministry of Interior

Affairs Press statement.—REUTERS

A burning NATO oiltanker is seen in

southwest Pakistan’sDasht District on

15 Nov, 2011. At leasttwo NATO oil tankers

were torched asunknown militants open

fire on NATO oiltankers here on

Tuesday.—XINHUA

Six Somalis on trial in France for yachthijacking

US soldierkilled in Iraq

US drone strike death toll in Pakistanrises to 16

Map of Pakistan locating BaberGhar, where US drones fired a

salvo of missiles that killed at least16 people Wednesday.—INTERNET

and DIN News, quoted their ownunidentified sources as saying that 16people have been killed in the strikelaunched Wednesday morning by theUS drones in Pakistan’s northwest tribalarea of South Waziristan which bordersAfghanistan.

Two Pakistan Talebancommanders got killed in the strike,according to latest news reports.

The strike came at around 10:00am local time Wednesday when USdrones fired four missiles at acompound suspected of being a militanthideout in a hilly area of Jandola, aplace sitting far deep in SouthWaziristan on its eastern side borderinginner Pakistan, said the reports.

Wednesday’s strike is the third ofits kind in Pakistan since this monthand the 62nd of its kind (both countedon daily basis) in 2011. According to arecord kept by Xinhua, a total of 532people, most of whom are believed tobe suspected militants, have been killedin such strikes so far this year.

Xinhua

One killed, three injured after militaryhelicopter crashes in Republic of Congo

Two Indian businessmenshot dead in S Philippines

life and three other crewmembers escaped withslight injuries.

The aeroplanecrashed while landing atthe Bandondo locality(800 km north ofBrazzaville).

M o r a p e n d aexplained that the accidentwas caused by badweather conditions,affirming that thehelicopter had just takenoff a few hours fromBrazzaville.

“This aeroplane was

on a public servicemission. It had gone torescue some geologists ofthe Congo Miningcompany (a subsidiary ofan Australian firm) whichis specialized in miningactivities,” the militaryspokesman affirmed.

The area where theaccident took place isdensely forested. In June2010, 11 people lost theirlives when a planecrashed in the samelocality due to badweather.—Xinhua

Agusan del Sur ProvinceTuesday, according toSuperintendent MartinGamba, spokesperson ofthe Caraga regional policeoffice.

The victims wereabout to leave the premisesof a rice trading firm whenthe assailant fired at themseveral times using ahandgun. The suspectthen fled on a motorcycledriven by an accomplice.The police is investigatingthe incident.—Xinhua

The six, aged between21 and 35, were capturedand flown to France afterFrench special forcesstormed the yacht, theCarre d’As IV, andrescued the couple. Aseventh suspect waskilled in the raid.

One of the suspectswas a minor at the time ofthe crime but the courtgranted the defence’srequest to hold the trial inpublic and not behindclosed doors.

The suspects hadreportedly demanded aransom of $2 million (1.5

million) for the couple’srelease.

But in the Frenchcourtroom Tuesday onlyone of them admitted totaking part as an“underling” in thehostage-taking.

“I was in such afinancial situation, I havesix children, it was thenthat I crossed paths withsomeone who recruitedme,” said AhmedHamoud Mahmoud, afisherman who is accusedof being one of the leadersof the operation.

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Hong Kong shares down 1.94pct by midday

HONG KONG, 16 Nov—Hong Kong stocks fell375.37 points, or 1.94 percent, to closeWednesday’s morning session at 18,973.07.

Xinhua

Indian stocks open lowerMUMBAI, 16 Nov—Indian main stock index

Sensex opened at 16,872.30 points Wednesday,10.37 points or 0.06 percent lower from previousclose of 16,882.67 on losses of Asian stockmarkets. Capital goods, metal, banking and powersector lost 2.49 percent, 1.4 percent, 1.25 percentand 1.17 percent, respectively.—Xinhua

Accusation on yuan exchange rategroundless

BEIJING, 16 Nov—China’s Ministry ofCommerce (MOC) reiterated on Wednesday thataccusations on the exchange rate issue of Chinesecurrency is groundless and unreasonable. Manyeconomists, both from China and abroad, haveproved the exchange rate of yuan is not the majorcause of trade imbalance between China andUnited States and its exchange rate is now at areasonable level, MOC spokesman Shen Danyangsaid.—Xinhua

Australian wages rise slower thanexpected in Sept quarter

SYDNEY, 16 Nov—Wages for Australianworkers rose 0. 8 percent in the September quarter,slightly less than market forecasts, official datashowed on Wednesday. The Australian Bureauof Statistics (ABS) reported on Wednesday totalhourly rates of pay, excluding bonuses, rose 0.8percent in the September quarter. The wage priceindex (WPI) increased by 3.7 percent through theyear to the September quarter 2011 for allemployee jobs, the ABS said.—Xinhua

Study finds many patientsshun free heart drugs

Health

This 15 Nov, 2005 file photo shows 40milligram tablets of Lipitor, one kind of statinused for lowering blood cholesterol, in Glen

Rock, NJ. A study led by a Boston researcherand presented Monday, on 14 Nov, 2011 finds

that offering people free medicines after a heartattack can help cut the chances they will sufferanother one. It also saves them about $500 forhealth care over the next year without raising

costs for insurers.—INTERNET

ORLANDO, 16 Nov—Give people free prescriptiondrugs and many of them still won’t bother to taketheir medicine. Doctors were stunned to see thathappen in a major study involving heart attacksurvivors. The patients were offered well-establisheddrugs to prevent a recurrence of heart trouble,including cholesterol-lowering statins andmedicines that slow the heart and help it pumpmore effectively.

“My God, we gave these people the medicinesfor free and only half took it,” said one of thestudy’s authors, Dr Elliott Antman of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

In fact, the researchers couldn’t even give thestuff away: They had trouble just signing up patientsto take part in the study. Nevertheless, Aetna, theinsurance company that footed the bill, thinks thisapproach will save money in the long run and plansto start offering certain heart drugs free to somepatients. In the study, patients offered medicines atno cost suffered fewer heart problems and saved$500 on average over roughly a year. It is no secretmany Americans don’t follow their doctors’

instructions. In one survey, one-third said theydidn’t fill a prescription or used less medicine thanthey should because of cost. The researchers in thisstudy wanted to see what would happen if theytook cost out of the equation.—Internet

Low vitamin D levels associatedwith recurrent inflammatory

spinal cord diseaseWASHINGTON, 16

Nov—Vitamin D levelsare significantly lowerin patients with recurrentinflammatory spinalcord disease, accordingto a study publishedonline Monday inArchives of Neurology.

Vitamin D is asteroid vitamin thatpromotes the intestinalabsorption and me-tabolism of calcium andphosphorus. In recentyears, low levels ofvitamin D have beenlinked to a variety ofautoimmune conditions,including multiplesclerosis (MS). How-ever, the importance ofvitamin D in mono-phasic or recurrent non-

Vitamin D levels are significantly lower inpatients with recurrent inflammatory spinalcord disease, according to a study published

online Monday in Archives of Neurology.INTERNET

Mental illness causes beingdiscovered

WASHINGTON, 16 Nov—One in 17 Americans hasa mental illness, such as schizophrenia, major depressionor bipolar disorder, US researchers say. However,science is only beginning to understand the underlyingphysical causes of mental illness. A series of findingswere presented at the Neuroscience 2011, the Societyfor Neuroscience’s annual meeting that include:

— Childhood anxiety and depression alter theway the amygdala — the part of the brain thatprocesses and remembers emotional reactions— connects to other regions of the brain. Thefindings might help explain how early-lifestress can lead to future emotional andbehavioral issues.

— In animal studies, a link was found betweentwo factors associated with schizophrenia,prenatal infection and impaired function of amolecule important in memory.

— Researchers identified a brain chemicalimportant to antidepressant response in mice.The findings might help in the design oftherapies for major depression.

— The connections between two specific areasof the brain might contribute to depression.Stimulating these circuits in rats had anantidepressant effect.—Internet

Fannie, Freddie cut lenders’risk in refinance programme

A sign in front of the Fannie Mae headquartersis photographed in Washington on 11 February,

2011.—REUTERS

WASHINGTON, 16 Nov—Fannie Mae and FreddieMac , the largest sources of US housing finance,both said on Tuesday they would relieve lendersfrom certain risks associated with refinanced loansin an effort to help a government programme reachmore distressed homeowners.

In new guidelines for the Home AffordableRefinance Programme, both companies saidseparately they are relieving lenders of certainrepresentations and warranties that are related tothe value and condition of mortgaged property.

HARP seeks to provide refinancing options forborrowers who have little or no equity in theirhomes. It is open only to loans sold to Fannie andFreddie.

The changes are designed to encourage lendersto participate by reducing their potential liabilityfor bad loans.

The Obama administration programme aims tohelp troubled borrowers get new loans at lowerrates. So far, it has helped about 894,000 borrowers,far fewer than the White House had hoped.

Fannie Mae, in its revised HARP guidelines,said, “The lender is not responsible for any of therepresentations and warranties associated with theoriginal loan.”

Freddie Mac said the changes in its policiesregarding representation and warranties is mainlyfor mortgages valued at more than 80 percent of aproperty’s worth.—Reuters

Health

Business

HealthMS spinal cord diseasesincluding transversemyelitis andneuromyelitis optica isunknown, according tobackground informationin the article.

Transverse myelitis(TM) is a disease of thespinal cord in whichthere is involvement ofthe myelin sheath thatprotects nerve fibers;symptoms include backpain and weakness in thelegs.

Neuromyelitis optica(NMO) is a disease ofthe central nervoussystem that affects theoptic nerves and spinalcord.

Xinhua

Business

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NASA hiring astronauts online — but where’s the rocket?WASHINGTON, 16 Nov— Looking for a job?

NASA is hiring astronauts. You can even applyonline at a giant government jobs website.

There’s only one hitch: NASA doesn’t have itsown spaceship anymore and is sending fewer fliersinto orbit right now.

“The experience is well worth the wait,”promised NASA flight crew operations directorJanet Kavandi as the space agency started a publicsearch Tuesday for new astronauts.

There will be flights, but not many, with thespace shuttle fleet retired. A handful of astronautseach year are launching on a Russian Soyuzspaceship to the International Space Station for six-month stays.

NASA needs about 55 astronauts, and with anew class of nine graduating earlier this month, theastronaut roster is up to 58. One of those newastronauts will get to fly to the space station as earlyas 2013, Kavandi said.

“We’re ready to serve, we’re ready to getgoing,” new astronaut Serena Aunon said Tuesday

NASA contractors ride a scaffold past theNASA logo on the side of the Vehicle Assemblebuilding Wednesday morning on 16 Dec, 2006

at the Kennedy Space Center in CapeCanaveral, Fla.—INTERNET

Disturbing images spread on Facebook due tospam attack

SAN FRANCISCO, 16 Nov—Disturbing graphiccontents like pornographic pictures and mutilatesanimal images are spreading across Facebook onTuesday in a likely widespread spam attack.

Technology news site ZDNet, first to report theattack, said that it started a few days ago and hasbecome an out-of-control exploit that has usersangry and disgusted.

The report said that the material is being spreadvia a “ linkspam virus” which appears to be aninnocuous story link. Once clicked, the user’snewsfeeds will be turned into unstoppable torrentsof pornographic and violent images.

Thousands of Facebook users posted theircomments on the issue on Twitter. “So Facebookwent from porn on my newsfeed to animal abuse.This is ridiculous and extremely sad! I’m not goingback on there for a while,” tweeted a Facebook user

Ballmer says “WindowsEra” everlasting

SAN FRANCISCO, 16 Nov—Microsoft chief SteveBallmer proclaimed an everlasting “Windows Era”as the software giant’s board easily won re-electionat an annual meeting of shareholders on Tuesday.

Ballmer along with Microsoft co-founder BillGates, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and sixothers saw their positions on the Microsoft boardsecured with more than 92 percent of votes cast byinvestors. In response to a question from astockholder, Ballmer downplayed the notion of a“post PC-era” marked by smartphones, tablets andother mobile devices supplanting desktop or laptopmachines powered by Microsoft Windows software.

While the types of computing devices peopleuse evolves so does Windows, he said regardingthe operating software at the heart of Microsoft’sempire.

“One of the remarkable things about Windowsover the years is that is has adapted,” Ballmer said.

“It will be a tablet machine; a reading machine,and a note-taking machine,” he said. “We are goingto have to push Windows into more form factors.”

The Windows 7 operating system and the latestversion of Office software have been selling atunprecedented rates to businesses while rivals Appleand Google have won consumers hearts when itcomes to smartphones and tablets.—Internet

Tech

at NASA headquarters.So to find candidates, NASA on Tuesday

unveiled what its personnel chief called its biggestever push to hire new astronauts — with dozens ofcheering elementary school students there to askquestions.—Internet

named Carley Frye.Internet security firm Sophos said in its company

blog that the material had flooded the world’s largestsocial network over the past 24 hours or more,noting that the company could face long termconsequences as the problem is likely to drive usersaway.

Facebook said in a statement to US media that ithas been aware of the reports and are investigatingthe issue.

Technology blog AllFacebook said that the socialmedia giant has been quietly taking down the images.

Some reports are linking the attack to thehacktivist group Anonymous. The group released aYouTube video last Thursday, claiming they hadwritten a virus targeting Facebook dubbed as “Fawkes Virus” and it is “spinning out of control.”

Xinhua

Huawei launches world’s first Cloud PhonesRange in India

NEW DELHI, 16 Nov—Huawei Devices, whichclaims to be among thetop 5 OEM handsetbrand worldwide, todayannounced the launch ofCloud Services for thefirst time in India.

The event wasmarked in the presenceof Chetan Bhagat, BrandAssociate unveiling thehighly awaitedMediaPad and two NewGeneration Cloudphones —Huawei Sonic& Huawei IDEOS X3for the tech and styleoriented Indianaudiences.

The explosivegrowth of content, multi-device ownerships,range of connectivityoptions, social

Huawei Sonic and Ideos X3 phones.—INTERNET

China’s coupled spacecraft carries outsecond orbit maintenance

BEIJING, 16 Nov—China’s jointassembly of the unmanned spacecraftShenzhou-8 and the prototype spacelab Tiangong-1 at 12:04 pm TuesdayBeijing Time carried out orbitmaintenance for the second time,according to the mission’s controlcentre.

While on Monday Chinacompleted its second space dockingtest during which the spacecraftShenzhou-8 disengaged fromTiangong-1 module after an around12-day flight together and then re-docked with it.

Shenzhou-8, launched on 1 Nov,rendezvoused and docked with thetarget orbiter Tiangong-1 on 3 Nov inan orbit 343 km above Earth, markingChina’s first space docking a success.Tiangong-1 has been in orbit since itslaunch on 29 Sept.

The coupled spacecraft performedits initial orbit maintenancesuccessfully on 4 Nov, and Tuesday’s

Graphic on China’s first orbitaldocking of two spacecraft,

succesfully executed on Thursdayin a major step towards a manned

space station.—INTERNET

maintenance is their last suchoperation before Shenzhou-8’s returnto Earth, according to BeijingAerospace Control Centre (BACC),which is in command of the mission.

Xinhua

Tech Science

networking services andany time anywhereaccess has driven theneed for Cloud Servicesworldwide, includingIndia.

Huawei Cloud+service offers 16GBCloud disk for storage,richer messaging withMessage+ to share texts,pictures, videos andvoice notes, Phone

Finder to locate, back-up and lock, CloudGallery to easier viewingand sharing, HuaweiStreams for integratedsocial phonebookexperience, HuaweiCloud+ services enableseasy downloads andsharing of content andanytime, anywhere, anydevice access.

Internet

Tech

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A staff member puts afine porcelain of theWedgwood classical

collection on the shelfin Beijing Hotel inBeijing, capital of

China, on 15 Nov, 2011.

XINHUA

Pirated software distributors seizedBEIJING, 16 Nov—

Investigators havecracked an onlinecopyright-infringementcase involving thesoftware giantMicrosoft, police heresaid on Tuesday.E c o n o m i c - c r i m e sinvestigators received acomplaint fromMicrosoft alleging thata host of variouswebsites in Zhaoqing, aCity in GuangdongProvince, had infringedon one of the company’scopyrights. In response,officials established atask force in August,according to HeGuangping, deputy

People transfer injuredpersons to a hospital insouthwest Pakistan’s

Quetta on 16 Nov, 2011. Atleast five people died and

11 others were injured,including two children,

when a tractor crashed intoa passenger van bound forZhob near Muslim Bagh inQila Abdullah District on

early Wednesday.XINHUA

Hong Kong seizes record haul of rhino horns

HONG KONG, 16 Nov—Hong Kong Customsofficers have seized a record haul of 33 rhinohorns along with ivory chopsticks and braceletshidden inside a container shipped from SouthAfrica, officials said on Tuesday.

Shooting reported at UC Berkeley

Expressway pile-up kills four,injures nine in NW China’s

XinjiangURUMQI, 16 Nov— Four people were killed and

nine others injured Tuesday in an expressway pile-up that involved 13 automobiles in northwestChina’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, localauthorities said Wednesday.

The accident happened at about 9 pm on anexpressway that links Turfan with Urumqi, thecapital City of Xinjiang, according to the fire brigadein Fukang City.

Low visibility as a result of heavy fog andslippery road after the rain and snow during thedaytime were thought to blame for the pile-upaccident, sources with the fire brigade said. Thefour dead people were from a sedan that was stuckbetween two other vehicles, according to thesources.

The injured people were sent to a nearby hospital,but their conditions are not available. Police arefurther investigating the accident.

Xinhua

SAN FRANCISCO, 16 Nov—Anindividual was shot Tuesday afternoonat the University of California,Berkeley, local media reported. Theshooting occurred inside theuniversity’s Haas School of Business,The Daily Californian, a news-paperrun by students at the university,reported on its website.

The suspect, brandishing aweapon, was shot by law enforcementofficials and subsequently taken tohospital, Dan Mogulof, a spokespersonof the university, was quoted as saying.Police officers at the university saidthey responded to report of a man with

Officers found the horns along with 758 ivorychopsticks and 127 ivory bracelets in a haul wortha total of about HK$17.4 million (US$2.2 million)during a search Monday of a container declared ascontaining “scrap plastic”.

Senior Customs official Lam Tak-fai told RTHKradio the horns were carefully wrapped in multiplelayers of materials and hidden in the rear of thecontainer.

“We think the smugglers wanted to make it looklike waste plastic material so as to evade Customsdetection,” he said, adding the haul was believed tohave been destined for a neighbouring country.

Lam said rhino horns had been seized in HongKong in the past but never in such large quantities.

“Altogether, we have 86.54 kilogrammes ofrhino horns, it’s a record seizure so far in Customshistory,” he said.

Conservation group WWF said earlier this monththat rhino poaching in South Africa had hit a recordhigh, with 341 of the animals lost to poachers so farthis year as black-market demand for their hornssoars.—Internet

Russian police detain man with 72-year driving banMOSCOW, 16 Nov—Police in a Russian City have detained a 40-year-old

man, who is banned from driving for 72 years, or until the year 2077, RIANovosti reported. Sergei was detained Tuesday in Russia’s Chelyabinsk City.He has been brought to administrative reprimand 247 times, including 68 timesfor driving with a revoked driver’s licence, and 18 times for driving under theinfluence of intoxicants. “The total term of the suspension of his license is 72years,” police said in a statement.

Sergei, who still hopes to retrieve his licence, must live to the age of 112before getting it back. “Actually I think that being banned from driving for 72years is like facing the firing squad three times in a row,” Sergei said, adding thathe totally admitted his guilt and was ready to do anything to get his licence back.

Internet

A visitor poses for photos during the exhibition with the theme of “BeyondPlanet Earth” in New York City, the United States, on 15 Nov, 2011.

XINHUA

head of the GuangdongProvincial departmentof public security.Investigators found theserver for thosewebsites, the mostfamous of which isjujumao.cn, inZhaoqing.

“After investigat-ing, police discoveredthat the principalsuspect, whose surnameis Wang, establishedjujumao.cn in 2003 andlater registered otherwebsites to let netizensdownload piratedversions of Microsoft’sWindows XP andWindows 7 for free,” hetold a news conference

in Guangzhou, Capitalof Guangdong, onTuesday.

“Wang illegallyearned a large sum ofmoney by bundling thepirated software withadvertisements andother software.” In 2011alone, pirated versionsof Windows softwarehave been downloaded4,445 times fromWang’s websites, hesaid. “We’ve beenencouraged by theZhaoqing police’ssuccessful crackdownon online pirategroups,” said aMicrosoft statement onTuesday.—Xinhua

a gun inside the building and shot thesuspect. According to the campus’emergency response system, onesuspect is in police custody and nofurther suspects are involved.

Eyewitnesses at the scene said theshooting occurred in a computerlaboratory on the south side of thebuilding. Students and faculty wereevacuated from the building, andofficials at the university called it anisolated incident and said there is nofurther danger to students, local ABC 7television station said in a separatereport.

Xinhua

Ports and Maritime Command’s Lam Tak-fai shows seized rhino horns at the Hong Kong

Customs and Excise Department.—INTERNET

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NAY PYI TAW, 16 Nov—Mr Michael E Thurston, Charged’ affaires of the US Embassy paid a call on Union-levelInternal Peace Making Group leader U Aung Thaung andDeputy Group Leader U Thein Zaw in order to ask about theprogress of internal peace talks, at Amara Hotel in Nay PyiTaw Hotel Zone this morning.

MNA

US enquires

Myanmar’s progress in

building internal peace

Leader of Union-level Internal Peace Making Group U Aung Thaung and DeputyGroup Leader U Thein Zaw receive Charge d’ Affaires of the US Embassy Mr

Michael E Thurston.—MNA

Myanmar, Bangladesh tocooperate in fight against drug

YANGON, 16Nov—The 1st Myanmar-Bangladesh BilateralMeeting on Prevention ofIllicit Trafficking inNarcotic Drugs andPsychotropic Substanceswas held at Park RoyalHotel in Dagon Township

1st Myanmar-Bangladesh Bilateral Meeting on Prevention of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs

and Psychotropic Substances in progress.—MNA

here this morning.Chief of Myanmar

Police Force Kyaw KyawTun delivered an openingaddress and Director-Gen-eral of National NarcoticDrugs Control Departmentof Bangladesh MrKhandker Mohammad Ali

extended greetings.The meeting fo-

cused on cooperation inanti-narcotics campaigns,joint investigation of drugdealers, exchange of in-formation and joint probeof drug deals.

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NAY PYI TAW, 16Nov—A Myanmar del-egation led by UnionMinister for Finance andRevenue U Hla Tun at-tended the 8th ASEAN

Union F&R Minister attendsASEAN Finance Ministers’

Investor Seminar, US-ASEANFinance Ministers’ informal meeting

Finance Ministers’ In-vestor Seminar (AFMIS)held at Shangri-La Hotelin Jakarta of Indonesiaon 8 November and theUS-ASEAN Finance Min-isters’ informal meetingin Honolulu of Hawaii inthe United States ofAmerica on 10November. At the 8th

ASEAN FinanceMinisters’ Investor Semi-nar, Union Minister UHla Tun explainedprogress of Myanmar,economic developmentin the region and reformsand undertaking of pov-erty eradication.

The ASEAN financeministers issued a jointstatement at the joint

press conference on op-portunities of worldeconomy and ASEANeconomic development,challenges and progressof financial and mon-etary sector.

At US-ASEANFinance Mini-sters’informal meetingin Honolulu of Hawaiion 10 November, theUnion Minister also ex-plained development ofMyanmar, cooperation infinancial, monetary andeconomic sectors with re-gional countries, andpromoting cooperationin monetary andfinancial affairs betweenthe US and Myanmar.

MNA

(from page 1)In the Pan Jat

Silat, Myanmar’s HayMar Oo shared the bronzewith Vietnamese athletein the 65-70 kg event andMyanmar’s Thin MyatAye shared the bronzewith Malayian athlete in

Archer wins first gold…the 70-75 kg event.

On November16, Myanmar begged onegold, three silver and onebronze, and so far havecollected one gold, 12silver and 16 bronzemedals from 11 to 16 No-vember.— MNA

Myanmar female archer Aung Ngein taking part in women's indi-vidual compound event in XXVI SEA Games.

MNA

Silver medallist WinZaw Tun in ASEANChess event.—MNA

Silver medallist NilarSan in women'smarathon event.

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Silver medallists Than Than Nwe andShwe Zin Latt rowing even.—MNA

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(from page 16)In successive eras, it can be found thatthe Electrical Inspector was formedunder control of the ministries that didnot concern with production suppliers.Although there are many provisionsin the Electricity Law, many lossescan be found due to weakness offollowing the law. The departmentsare also to abide by the law and acceptinspection of Electrical Inspector.Therefore, the Electricity Law shouldbe amended and added.

The Industrial Supervision andInspection Department under theMinistry of Industry-1 has drawn thebill for amending the law. Therefore,Ministry of Industry-1, Ministry ofIndustry-2 and Ministry of ElectricPower No. 2 are to make concertedefforts for emergence of the improvedElectricity Law as soon as possible. Inaddition to the Ministry of Industry-1that compiled the law, the PyithuHluttaw should coordinate theemergence of amended ElectricityLaw and other laws by forming theone committee.

U Win Oo of Yebyu Constituencysaid that efforts are being made forconstruction of small-scalehydropower projects to generate 500kilowatts to be supplied to villages ofDawei District under the ruralelectricity supply and povertyalleviation. Although the Unionministries allowed region and stategovernments to undertake small-scaleelectricity generating tasks, thesegovernments delay to issue permitsdue to lack of separate laws.

Thus, it is not enough to allowprivate entrepreneurs for doingbusiness on electricity supply and salesunder the MIC Law. Therefore, No 1and No 2 Electric Power Ministriesare to jointly draw the separatethorough electricity law and theHluttaw should approve it.

With regard to the proposal, UnionMinister for Electric Power No. 2 UKhin Maung Soe said that the ministrywas extended with the aim of effectivelytaking responsibility of generating,feeding and supply of electricity to beable to rapidly supply electricitydemand in development task of theState.

In the past, the Electricity Act waspromulgated in 1910 for electricitysupply tasks of Myanmar, and 1948Electricity Act was enacted in 1948for formation of an electricity supplyboard of Myanmar. Under theinstruction of the Ministry of Industry,the Electrical Inspector drew anelectricity law in 1974. The ElectricityLaw was approved as law No. 7 ofPyithu Hluttaw in 1984. Moreover,the Ministry of Industry-1 under theagreement of the Cabinet issued the

Rules of Electricity Law 1985 basedon Electricity Rules 1937 of India.

Due to submission of the Ministryof Energy in 1990, the State Law andOrder Restoration Councilpromulgated the law amending theSections 30 and 31 of the ElectricityLaw as its law No. 3/90. In 2005, theYangon Electricity Supply Board wasformed for effective undertakingelectricity task in the area of YESBand then the Yangon Electricity SupplyBoard Law.

In 1984-85 when the MyanmarElectricity Law was being drawn, therewere one hydropower plant, six gaspower plants, 19 main power stationsand 1193.81 miles of national grids in

Myanmar electricity system. Atpresent, Myanmar has 17 hydropowerplants, 10 gas power plants, one coal-fired power plant, 154 main powerstations and 5756.51 miles long powergrids.

In the time of the State Peace andDevelopment Council, the PrimeMinister instructed the ElectricalInspector under Ministry of Industry-1 to be assigned under Ministry ofElectric Power No. 2 as the ministryconcerned should inspect electricalmatters. Moreover, the Office of thePrime Minister informed that theMinistry of Electric Power No. 2should take responsibility for realizingthe rules of Electricity Law inconformity with the current periodand Ministry of Industry-1 andMinistry of Industry-2 are tocoordinate with the EP-2 Ministry ifnecessary. Therefore, three ministriesheld many meetings.

In the time of the government ofthe Republic of the Union of Myanmar,instructions have been issued that if itis necessary to amend, add, revokeand redraw the laws inappropriate withthe current period, ideas of the UnionAttorney-General’s Office are to besought. Under the leadership of theMinistry of Industry that drew theElectricity Law in 1984, the workcoordination meeting was held on 9August, attended by officials ofMinistry of Electric Power No. 1, No.2, other ministries and the UnionAttorney-General’s office in additionto Myanmar Engineering Society andMyanmar Construction EntrepreneursAssociation and electricians.

The provision in the ElectricityLaw 1984 said that “it must beconcerned with exploration,

generating, feeding, supplying andconsumption of electricity across thenation and with electrical inspectionsto be free from danger of electricityfor above mentioned tasks.” TheElectrical Inspector under the Ministryof Industry-1 is running its functionsto be free from danger of electricityunder law and procedures. However,the law did not prescribe control ofelectric power system in conformitywith power plants, power station,control of national grids, generatingpower and consumption, generatingelectricity for supplying the demandof increasing power consumption,feeding of power, and drawing ofelectricity supply plan for extended

supply of electricity.Sub-paragraph (a) under

paragraph 4 energy, electricity,mining and forest sector underSchedule 2 of the region or statelegislative list in accord with theSection 189 of the Constitution saidthat “except the heavy electricityproduction and supply to be managedby the Union, the region or state thatdo not connect with national grid mayrun the small- and medium-scaleelectricity generating and supply.”Therefore, it is necessary to draw theplans of electricity supply to beundertaken by regions and states inline with the Electricity Law.

The existing law does not compriseprovisions on supply of electricity inrural areas. Therefore, he said he hasreplied to promulgating the law forsupply of electricity in rural areas.Now, entrepreneurs and foreignershave been allowed to invest inelectrical sector of the State. Therefore,electricity from Shweli-1 and Tarpein-1 power plants is being sold at homefor domestic consumption and to thePeople’s Republic of China. Thus, itis necessary to prescribe clear andexact provisions for local and foreignelectricity sales. Moreover,Thaukyaykhat-2 and UpperBiluchaung Power Plant are beingimplemented with the investments ofentrepreneurs. There should besuitable laws for purchase of electricityfrom the power plants through powersystem as well as direct sales forconsumers.

As it is important that type ofelectricity (volt, frequency and circuit)must be in conformity with electricitydemand of consumers, powerconsumers are playing an important

role in the electrical sector.The government commenced to

draw the new Electricity Law for allministries, private entrepreneurs andpower consumers included in theelectricity generating, feedingsupplying, consuming, controllingpower system, selling electricity anddrawing power system plans.

As ministries concernedcommenced the tasks related to theproposal of U Kyi Tha, the proposalwill be put on record. The Hluttawapproved that the Hluttaw will providenecessary assistance for the task.

Member of the Bill Committee USoe Soe submitted the report of thecommittee concerning the Vacant,Fallow and Virgin Land ManagementBill approved by the AmyothaHluttaw.

He said that in reviewing theVacant, Fallow and Virgin LandManagement Bill, the Pyithu HluttawBill Committee found that AmyothaHluttaw has approved the bill with 15points in 34 paragraphs in 10 chapters.Depending on 12 points ofscrutinizing the bills and amendmentsof the Amyotha Hluttaw, the PyithuHluttaw Bill Committee will submitthe findings in line with Pyithu HluttawRule-44. The original provision ofparagraph 2 (b) in Chapter I said that“the Ministry means Ministry ofAgriculture and Irrigation of the Uniongovernment”, so the amendment ofAmyotha Hluttaw was perfect.

The ordinary provision inparagraph 2 (f) in Chapter I said that“the virgin land means new land andfallow land regardless of forests,bamboo grooves, bushes, smooth ornot geographical conditions. The wordincludes pasture lands, lake and landsof forest reserve officially cancelledfor carrying out agriculture andlivestock breeding tasks.” AmyothaHluttaw amended it as “the virginland means new land and fallow landregardless of forests, bamboo grooves,

(See page 9)

Bill Committee

Member U Soe Soe

submitting committee’s

report on Vacant,

fallow and Virgin

Land Management

Bill.—MNA

Union Minister for EnvironmentalConservation and Forestry

U Win Tun making clarification.MNA

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(from page 8)bushes, smooth or not geographical conditions. The wordincludes forest reserve, pasture land and lakes officiallycancelled for carrying out agriculture and livestockbreeding, production of mining, and other businesses inline with the law.” Therefore, the amendment and approvalof the Amyotha Hluttaw is more perfect.

The original provision in paragraph 2 (h) in ChapterI said that “the land tax means the money for tax to be paidto the State by the person with right of doing business onvacant, fallow and virgin lands in line with the law.” Theamendment of the Amyotha Hluttaw said that “the landtax means the money for tax to be paid to the State by theperson with right of doing respective businesses onvacant, fallow and virgin lands in line with the rules of thislaw.” Therefore, it was found that the amendment ofAmyotha Hluttaw was more perfect.

The paragraph 3 of Chapter II said that “the Presidentshall constitute the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin LandsManagement Central Committee with the Union Ministerfor Agriculture and Irrigation as Chairman, the director-general of Settlement and Land Records Department assecretary and suitable persons of ministries concerned asmembers with the aim of effectively managing the tasksconcerning the agriculture and livestock breeding on acommercial scale with the use of vacant, fallow and virginlands for development of the State economy.” TheAmyotha Hluttaw approved that “with the aim ofeffectively managing the tasks in line with the lawsallowed by the government for agriculture, livestockbreeding and mining tasks on a commercial scale, theVacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management CentralCommittee must be formed as follows:-(1) Union Minister Chairman

Ministry of Agricultureand Irrigation

(2) Union Minister Vice-ChairmanMinistry of EnvironmentalConservation and Forestry

(3) Deputy Minister (Agriculture) memberMinistry of Agricultureand Irrigation

(4) Deputy Minister (Irrigation) memberMinistry of Agricultureand Irrigation

(5) Deputy Minister memberMinistry of National Planningand Economic Development

(6) Deputy Minister memberMinistry of Livestock and Fisheries

(7) Director-General memberGeneral Administration DepartmentMinistry of Home Affairs

(8) Managing Director memberMyanma Agriculture ServiceMinistry of Agricultureand Irrigation

(9) Managing Director memberMyanma Industrial CropsDevelopmentEnterpriseMinistry of Agricultureand Irrigation

(10)Director-General memberPlanning and Statistics DepartmentMinistry of EnvironmentalConservation and Forestry

(11)Director-General memberMining DepartmentMinistry of Mines

(12)Director-General memberCooperative DepartmentMinistry of Cooperatives

(13)Director-General memberPlanning Department

Ministry of National Planningand Economic Development

(14)Director-General SecretarySettlement and Land RecordsDepartmentMinistry of Agricultureand Irrigation

(15)Director-General Joint SecretaryForest DepartmentMinistry of EnvironmentalConservation and Forestry

(b)The Union government shall reshuffle the committee.”The amendment of Amyotha Hluttaw was found to bemore appropriate.

The original text of paragraph (6), subparagraph (c) ofChapter (3) is “Protection of forest reserves and protectedpublic forests and conservation of natural regions, watershedareas and natural waters will have to be undertaken incoordination with the ministry concerned.” The amendmentof Amyotha Hluttaw is “(c) Protection of forest reservesand protected public forests and conservation of naturalregions, watershed areas and natural waters will have to beundertaken in coordination with Ministry of EnvironmentalConservation and Forestry and other ministries concerned.(d) Necessary suggestions for effective implementation ofland use policy of the State will be made to the Uniongovernment.” It should be kept as in the original.

The original text of paragraph (10), subparagraph (a)of Chapter (4) is “In Sub-section (4), rural farmers andthose who want to run manageable farm shall be allowedto use not more than 10 acres of vacant land, fallow landand virgin land.” The amendment of Amyotha Hluttaw is“It shall make arrangement to allow rural farmers andthose who want to run manageable farm shall to use notmore than 10 acres of vacant land, fallow land and virginland by any local authority concerned.” As it is found thatthe permitted land for rural farmers should be 50 acres,the subparagraph should be “It shall make arrangement toallow rural farmers and those who want to run manageablefarm shall to use not more than 50 acres of vacant land,fallow land and virgin land by any local authorityconcerned.”

The original text of paragraph (10) of Chapter (4)includes subparagraphs (a) and (b) to which AmyothaHluttaw added subparagraphs (c) and (d). The insertedsubparagraphs of Amyotha Hluttaw, “(c) The Uniongovernment shall allow mining in coordination withMinistry of Mines. (d) The Union government shallcoordinate with respective ministry for other permittedindustries in accord with the law,” make the facts complete.

The original text of paragraph (11) of Chapter (4)includes subparagraphs (a), (b) and (c) to which AmyothaHluttaw added subparagraphs (d) and (e). The insertedsubparagraphs of Amyotha Hluttaw, “(c) The Uniongovernment shall allow mining in coordination withMinistry of Mines. (d) The Union government shallcoordinate with respective ministry for other permittedindustries in accord with the law,” make the facts complete.

The amendment of Amyotha Hluttaw to paragraph(16), subparagraph (b) of Chapter (6) is “The reclamationand use of permitted land will have to be finished asdesigned within three years”. As fixed duration mayimpact on those who obtain the permit, it should be drawnas Rule. The original text, “The implementation will haveto be finished as designed within designated period”, ismore appropriate.

The original text in paragraph (16), subparagraph (e)of Chapter (6) is “It is required to adhere to regulationsissued by the central committee regarding the use ofvacant land, fallow land and virgin land at any time”. Theamendment of Amyotha Hluttaw is “It is required toadhere to regulations issued by the central committeeregarding the use of vacant land, fallow land and virginland”. The phrase “at any time” bares intended meaningand enables the central committee to issue orders anddirectives at any time. The subparagraph should be keptas in the original.

The original text in paragraph (17) of Chapter (7) is

“The central committee will have to form and task supportinggroups and separate groups for management of vacant land,fallow land and virgin land in respective Regions or Statesto review and coordinate cases regarding the use of vacantland, fallow land and virgin land”. The amendment ofAmyotha Hluttaw is “The central committee will have toform and task working groups and separate groups formanagement of vacant land, fallow land and virgin land inrespective Regions or States to review and coordinate casesregarding the use of vacant land, fallow land and virginland”. The phrase in amendment of Amyotha Hluttaw“working groups and separate groups” is more appropriate.

The amendments of Amyotha Hluttaw to paragraph(18) of Chapter (7) “The central committee shall formspecial group inclusive of respective departments to vetwhether those who obtain permit for the use of vacantland, fallow land and virgin land manage the land inaccord with designated rules”, to paragraph (19) “Thecentral committee shall reoccupy the least area of landfrom the permitted vacant land, fallow land and virginland if a situation arises”, and to paragraph (22),subparagraph (c) “Vacant land, fallow land and virginland which are not reclaimed till the end of the permittedperiod are deemed to be reoccupied by the State” are morecomplete than the original ones. The amendments ofAmyotha Hluttaw should be approved.

Regarding the amendment of Amyotha Hluttaw toparagraph (25), subparagraph (b) of Chapter (8) “Thecentral committee (a) shall coordinate with departmentsand organizations concerned for protecting againstdisturbance, invasion and encroachment on the vacantland, fallow land and virgin land, (b) coordinate in accordwith the law with local small entrepreneurs engaging infamily trade on permitted vacant and virgin lands not tosuffer loss”, the phrase “coordinate in accord with the lawwith” should be replaced with “designate appropriatecompensation at current price for”.

The original text in paragraph (30) of Chapter (10) is“Offences in Sections 27, 28 and 29 are cognizableoffences”. The amendment of Amyotha Hluttaw is“Offences in Chapter (9) are cognizable offences”. Theamendment of Amyotha Hluttaw should be approved.

Vacant Land, Fallow Land and Virgin LandManagement Bill would be sent back to Amyotha Hluttawwith amendments.

The discussion date would be announced and Hluttawrepresentatives who want to participate in discussion wereto submit their request not later than 18 November noon.

The Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker reported the Hluttawthat Assessment Commission of Existing Laws formed on28 August will be renamed to Studying, Examining andReviewing Commissions on Legal Affairs and SpecialCases. The commission will be formed with 15 members,including Chairman Deputy Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw,Vice-Chairman U Thein Swe of An Constituency and UHtay Myint of Myeik Constituency, members Ambassador(Retd) U Lin Myaing, Director-General (Retd) U ThanTun from Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Professor (Retd)Dr Aung Tun Thet, Lt-Col Aung Khin Thein of JudgeAdvocate-General Office of the Commander-in-Chief(Army) Office, Professor Dr Tin May Tun, Prfessor DrThida Oo, Director (Retd) U Tin Win of Supreme Court,Region Law Officer (Retd) U Khin Maung Oo, AdvocateU Myint Lwin, Advocate U Than Maung, Deputy Director(Retd) Daw Than Than Yi of Union Attorney-GeneralOffice. The secretary will be announced separately. Duties,authorities, rights and terms are as follow:-Duties and rights of the commission(1) The commission-

a. will have to suggest amendment, revoking anddrafting of laws after studying existing laws tothe Hluttaw through the Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker.

b. will have to report to the Hluttaw through theHluttaw Speaker after studying special cases, ifany, from legal standpoint.

c. will have to accomplish duties assigned by theHluttaw Speaker within designated period.

(See page 10)

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(from page 9)d. will have to share duties within the

commission for special casescategorized by the Pyithu HluttawSpeaker.

e. will have to make suggestions ifrequested by the Pyithu Hluttaw.

(2) The commission shall invite responsiblepersons of related organizations and discusswith them.

(3) The commission members could freelymake discussions if not contrary toprovisions in the Constitution of theRepublic of the Union of Myanmar andPyithu Hluttaw Laws.

(4) Behaviours and words of a member in thecommission meeting are not to bepublicized. The commission will have toapprove the meeting record with detaileddiscussions. The records shall not bedistributed. Copy of the report of theHluttaw will have to be sent to the HluttawOffice to file as a case.

(5) The commission meeting could be convenedas and when necessary and the meeting isvalid if half of the members attend it.

Rights and opportunities of the commission(1) The commission members shall enjoy

allowances of Hluttaw representatives inaddition to rights designated by the Hluttawwhen they are in the commission-basedregion to perform the duty of thecommission and to attend commissionmeeting and whey they are traveling onduty.

(2) The commission members are immunefrom other laws regarding discussions incommission meetings apart from PyithuHluttaw Law.

The commission is Union-level institution inaccord with Sub-section (h) of Section (2) of PyithuHluttaw Law and its term is not more than one year.

The Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker explained that the

commission has done its functions about five monthsago. In so doing, occasionally encountering with irregularcases such as legal affairs, political and internationalaffairs, economic and social affairs is very likely. Withregard to legal affairs, it has been tried to include retiredpersonnel and currently discharging personnel fromjudicial departments, personnel discharging at and retiredfrom the Attorney-General Office of the Union andcourts at different levels, advocates and lawyers, andinstructors giving lectures on law in the commission.Likewise, ambassadors, directors-general, and officialsfrom the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry who haveexperience in political and international affairs areassigned to the commission to be able to deal withpolitical and international affairs.

So, the commission thanks to its comprehensiveorganizational structure can contribute greatly inanalyzing special cases which emerge occasionally.Hluttaws are mainly promoting the interests of thenation and the public. The commission was formed withselected members for it is assumed that the commissionmembers can contribute to not only the Hluttaw but alsothe national and public interests with their knowledge,experience and goodwill.

In seeking the approval of the Hluttaw with regardto the Environmental Conservation Bill, U Htay Myintof Myeik Constituency discussed that according to theconstitution, the main responsibility of the Hluttaws isdrafting bills. Amending bills at the Hluttaw includesprocess of submitting and approving of newly-draftedbills and amending and assessing the existing laws. Itneeds to take time to enact a new law making least errors.

Then amended paragraphs and sub-paragraphs ofthe bill are discussed and sought approval of the Hluttaw.Dr Sai Kyaw Ohn of Namkham Constituency madeamendment to Sub-paragraph (e) of Paragraph-2 of thebill and Union Minister for Environmental Conservationand Forestry U Win Tun replied that he had no remarksas the amendment made no difference in meaning.

As no representative raised objection to theamendment, it is passed. Member of the Bill CommitteeU Thein Tun Oo proposed that the Sub-paragraph (f) ofParagraph-2 should be left unchanged as first proposedby the ministry explain that the changing may lead tomisunderstanding and Union Minister U Win Tun repliedthat he seconded the proposal. All representatives showedsupport for the proposal and it was approved.

Again, Dr Sai Ohn Kyaw of Namkham Constituency

proposed that Sub-paragraph (p) of Paragraph-2 shouldbe left unchanged as proposed by the ministry sayingthat the amendment of Amyotha Hluttaw is unnecessaryand Union Minister U Win Tun approved the proposal.The proposal was then approved as no representativesrejected it.

U Thein Lwin of Chauk Constituency proposed toadd a sub-paragraph under Paragraph-3 and UnionMinister U Win Tun replied that the proposal is a goodsuggestion but it would be more appropriate to beincluded in by-laws. The proposal was approved by theHluttaw as no representatives turned it down.

U Thein Lwin of Chauk Constituency again proposedto amendment to Sub-paragraph (e) of Paragraph-3 andUnion Minister U Win Tun replied that the proposal isacceptable and the Hluttaw approved the proposal.

U Khin Maung Shwe of the Bill Committee madeamendment to Sub-paragraph (a) of Paragraph-4 andUnion Minister U Win Tun replied that he had no reasonto reject the proposal as it has certain relation.

U Khaing Maung Yi of Ahlon Constituency proposedto amend the same paragraph and Union Minister U WinTun said that the committee is formed representing theincumbent government and he is willing to accept ifHluttaw thinks the amendment is necessary and he hasno reason to reject as the amendment will be morecomprehensive.

U Thein Swe of An Constituency proposed thatthose amendments could be included in the by-laws andU Htay Myint of Myeik Constituency, U Htay Oo ofHinthada Constituency and U Soe Tha of TwantayConstituency seconded his proposal.

The Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker said that it needs toinclude chapters and paragraphs that can promote of theinterests of the nation and the people and that have notyet been included in the bill. Pyithu Hluttaw had a wishto supplement necessary paragraphs in coordinationwith related ministries and there are chances to write andsubmit new paragraphs that should be included in thebill. Proposals of amendment are to be send by 12 noon20 November and date for discussion will be fixed later.He urged Hluttaw representatives to take necessarymeasures in discussing the bill again.

The fourth day second regular session of FirstPyidaungsu Hluttaw will be held on 18 November.

Today’s session came to an end at 2 pm and the 49th

day session will be held after the Hluttaw has fixed adate.—MNA

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(from page 16)so as to produce seasonal crops, garden crops andperennial crops using land, (4) one who engages inagricultural process using land, and (5) one who sellssaplings, seeds and strains for production process relatingto agriculture using land.” As Hluttaw approved above-mentioned amendment, Paragraph 2 (c) of Chapter (1)shall be part of this bill.

In Paragraph 2 of Chapter (1) of the Bill Committee,Paragraph 2 (d) “lending farmland means handing overto others by way of setting period or facts that defineperiod or perpetual way without having profit or withprofit”. As Hluttaw approved above-mentionedamendment, Paragraph 2 (d) of Chapter (1) shall be partof this bill.

In Paragraph 2 of Chapter (1) of the Bill Committee,Paragraph 2 (g) “repair to gain progress by buildingmeans raising values of land at present land owner’sexpense or one currently using land’s expense or with hisor her working power. The amendment also comprisesplace for one who works agricultural process or buildings,canals, dams, lakes, wells, embankments, roads andother facilities, excluding, but, land clearing works andprocedures not for perpetual development. As Hluttawapproved above-mentioned amendment, Paragraph 2(g) of Chapter (1) shall be part of this bill.

In Paragraph 2 of Chapter (1) of the Bill Committee,

Paragraph (h) “guardian is defined as one who wasvested with authority to keep under-age person or lunaticor their possessions by authoritative court.” As Hluttawapproved above-mentioned amendment, Paragraph 2(h) of Chapter (1) shall be part of this bill.

U Khin Maung Yi of Ayeyawady RegionConstituency No. 6 submitted Paragraph 2 (k) of Chapter(1) “peasant organization is the one that is formed to helprural development in conformity with law.” As Hluttawapproved above-mentioned amendment, Paragraph 2(k) of Chapter (1) shall be part of this bill.

In Paragraph 3 of Chapter (2) of the Bill Committee,“household or person or organization that acts withincompetence of following rules will be vested withauthority. (b) head of household or a member or guardianmust be one who runs family trade in conformity withexisting farming laws before enacting this law. AsHluttaw approved above-mentioned amendment,Paragraph 3 (b) of Chapter (2) shall be part of this bill.

As Hluttaw approved the proposal submitted by USai Thant Zin of Shan State Constituency No. 4 toreplace the phrase “rights relating to using land” with thephrase “rights relating to permitted farms”, the headingof Chapter (3) shall be part of this bill.As Hluttaw approved the phrase prescribed in Paragraph4 (a) of Chapter (3) that “right to have such land in handand gain benefit of such farm”, Paragraph 4 (a) ofChapter (3) shall be part of this bill.

As Hluttaw approved the phrase prescribed inParagraph 7 (e) of Chapter (4) that “it is needed to

register at related department with fee when the processsuch as lending, exchange, pawning, inheriting ofcompletely handing over of lands is carried out”,Paragraph 7 (e) of Chapter (4) shall be part of this bill.

As Hluttaw approved the phrase prescribed inParagraph 11 (e) of Chapter (5) that “ward or village-tract management organization”, Paragraph 11 (e) ofChapter (5) shall be part of this bill.

In Paragraph 12 (a) of Chapter (5) of the BillCommittee, it is stated that “central farm managementorganization is to be formed with the Union Minister forAgriculture and Irrigation appointed as chairman, thedeputy minister for Agriculture and Irrigation as vice-chairman, director-general of Settlement and LandRecords Department as secretary, and departmentalofficials concerned as members”. As Hluttaw approvedabove-mentioned amendment, Paragraph 12 (a) ofChapter (5) shall be part of this bill.

In Paragraph 17 of Chapter (6) of the BillCommittee, Paragraph 18 “the ministry has right tosign bond in the presence of ward or village-tract farmmanagement organization in accord with prescriptionof this law, register bond at respective court, drawbylaw stated as this Session 11 necessary for farmmanagement organization so as to have regional priceof farm.” As Hluttaw approved above-mentionedamendment, Paragraph 18 of Chapter (6) shall be partof this bill.

In Paragraph 18 of Chapter (7) of the Bill Committee,(See page 11)

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(from page 10)it is stated that Paragraph 19 of Chapter (7) that “if thereis a failure to follow all rules or a rule of this sessions 7and 9, farm management organization formed by theministry has the right to launching an the farm withoutcompensation after launching an investigation”. AsHluttaw approved above-mentioned amendment,Paragraph 18 of Chapter (7) shall be part of this bill.

In Paragraph 22 of Chapter (9) of the Bill Committee,it is stated that Paragraph 23 of Chapter 9 “despite existinglaw, confiscated farms for national interest are to becompensated according to law. If farm is upgraded withbuilding, it is required to compensate for such building.As Hluttaw approved above-mentioned amendment,Paragraph 23 of Chapter (9) shall be part of this bill.

In Paragraph 26 of Chapter (10) of the Bill Committee,it is stated that “in confiscating farms in the interests ofnation, it is a must to confiscate required least measurementof farm. It is necessary to implement projects withinprescribed period as soon as possible. If projects areterminated, farms are to be given back to original farmowner.” As Hluttaw approved above-mentionedamendment, Paragraph 26 of Chapter (10) shall be partof this bill.

In Paragraph 27 of Chapter (10) of the Bill Committee,it is stated that “except order or summons of the Presidentor authorities appointed by the President, pasture land andcommon village land are to remain unchanged. AsHluttaw approved above-mentioned amendment,Paragraph 27 of Chapter (10) shall be part of this bill.

The Hluttaw decided to approve the paragraph-30 ofthe Chapter 11 that states “Ministry can leave any virginand vacant when necessary for the State. According to therules and regulations of the central committee for managingvacant and virgin land, when the term of land tax exemptionexpires, the land shall be a part of this law as the lands canbe used for the agricultural farming”, as a part of this bill.

Regarding the paragraph-34 (A) of Chapter 13expressed in the paragraph-31 of the Chapter 13 of the billcommittee, the Hluttaw decided to approve the amendedparagraph-34 (A) of Chapter 13 “the Ministry shall makenecessary rules and regulations for agricultural landmanagement with the agreement of the UnionGovernment” as a part of the this bill.

Regarding the paragraph-35 of Chapter 13 expressedin the paragraph-32 of the Chapter 13 of the bill committee,the Hluttaw decided to approve the amended paragraph-35 of Chapter 13 stated that “this law revoked the lawsamendment of the 1953 Land Nationalization Act, 1963Tenancy Law, the 1963 Farmers Rights Protection Lawand 1965 Tenancy Law. When the laws are revoked, thecases handled by the previous laws are not ceased. Theunfinished or remaining cases shall be handled in accordancewith the existing laws to be part of the this bill.

The Hluttaw also approved the newly addedparagraph-36 of the Chapter-13 submitted by U TheinHlaing of Sagaing Region Constituency No.8 stated that“agriculturlists associations are allowed to organize inaccordance with the laws enacted for improvement of thesocio economy of farmers.” as a part of the bill as majorityagreed with the new paragraph.

The Hlutaw decided the correction of the billcommittee stated that “The 2011 Land Act (UnionHluttaw Law No.——, 2011) —— (Day), —— (Month),—( 1373 ME), —— (Day), —— (Month), ——(2011),the Union Hluttaw enacted this law”, as part of the bill.In the discussion session, U Soe Myint of the ConstituencyNo (6) of Magway Region discussed the proposal toconstruct sluice gates at necessary places for perpetuityof the Ayeyawady River and to implement the projectson maintaining the water course at downstream ofthe river.

U Myo Myint of Mandalay Region ConstituencyNo.6 seconded the proposal saying that as the task tomaintain the river is gigantic, the plan should be drawn

Amyotha Hluttawrepresentative

U Khin Maung Yi ofAyeyawady RegionConstituency No (6)

participates indiscussion.—MNA

Amyotha Hluttawrepresentative U ZawMyint Pe of MandalayRegion ConstituencyNo (5) partakes in

discussion.MNA

step by step while giving priority to the funds.U Saw Tun Mya Aung of the Constituency No 5 of

Kayin State also seconded the proposal and suggested thata reservoir should be constructed upstream of the river toirrigate farmland while sandbanks along the river shouldbe dredged to prevent erosion, and river water pumpingprojects should be constructed along the river when hydropower is abundant, and industries would be boomingalong the river.

Dr Aye Maung of Rakhine State Constituency No 1suggested to draw a master plan to maintain the river andto draw a special plan to maintain the basin of the river.

U Hla Swe of Magway Region constituency No 12suggested that it is sine qua non to implement a tame riverproject so that there is abundant of water in the AyeyawadyRiver in the summer and no floods in the rainy season, theriver can handle over-2000-ton ships and farmers cangrow crops in islands in the river.

Dr Banya Aung Moe of Mon State Constituency No7 suggested to invite experts, NGOs at home abroad andgovernmental departments to be able to make detailassessment to the long-term project of conserving theriver. He stressed the need for carrying out the conservationtasks systematically and cost effectively.

U Zaw Myint Pe of Mandalay Region ConstituencyNo 5 seconded the proposal and suggested that to be ableto use the Ayeyawady River effectively, a group ofexperts should make assess where and which kind of damswill be constructed over the river, to carry out thedevelopment projects while conserving the river, to makeefforts for attracting assistance from foreign countries orinvestment as part of win-win cooperation.

Dr Myat Nyana Soe of Yangon Region ConstituencyNo 4 suggested to calculate the risk to security of thepeople when dams are destroyed by disasters such asearthquakes and record rains. He also suggested not todamage the environment and socio-economy when damsare built. He also suggested to release reports on assessmentof the experts and and to consider the voice of the people.He also urged the ministries concerned to be wise whenthey handle every thing.

U Sai Paung Nap of Shan State Constituency No 12said that people are worried that the Ayeyawady Riverwould disappear when dams are built on it. It is discoveredthat in developed countries, sluice gates over rivers canstore fresh water, can help navigation and can conservethe rivers. Besides, they can help for the navigation,irrigation and hydro power generation.

He requested the ministries concerned to make goodassessment to types of dams and sites.

U Khin Maung Yi of Ayeyawady Region ConstituencyNo 6 suggested to make assessment to the river by riverconservation experts at home and abroad to consider theproposal while ministries concerned has taken the mainduty to make assess and conserve the river. The Hluttawshould decide whether the proposal should be approved.

Regarding the proposal submitted by U Soe Myint,Deputy Minister for Transport U Win Shein said thatthe big rivers such as the Ayeyawady, Thanlwin,Chindwin, Sittoung are flowing in Myanmar and thereare many tributaries and creeks in the country. Twothird of the country’s area lies in the tropical region,and the rivers in Myanmar are fed by monsoon rain asthe country is located in the Asian Monsoon Region.The rainfall from May to October has reached 90% or95% of the rain fall in a year and the rain fall is heavyin July, August and September. Therefore, the waterlevel in rivers rises in May and June and reaches its peakin July, August and September and decreases in October.Last year’s average rain fall is 29.02 inches in PakokkuTownship and 178.23 inches in Kyaukphyu township.The average rain fall per year in Myanmar in 10 yearsis 96 inches, falling around 58 million cubic feet.

Of them, about 22 million cubic feet equivalent to 38per cent the total rainfall had flowed into the sea throughthe rivers. The remaining 62 per cent of the total rainfallhas sunk into the soil and evaporated.

The flowing rate of the Ayeyawady River has reached

40393 cubic meter/second in the rainy season and 2102cubic meter per second in summer. Therefore, the rivercauses floods in the rainy season and it is difficult tohandle ships in some places of the river in summer.Therefore, the system of the river needs to be maintainedin summer for navigation.

The reason why rivers are damaged is nature andactivities of the man. Floods, bad situation for navigationin summer, erosion and sand banks in rivers show thatrivers are damaged.

Around 278 tons of sand are silted up the AyeyawadyRiver every year and 131 tons of sand the Chindwin Riverevery year, limiting the navigation along the rivers.

To over come the hardships to navigation in summer

along the Ayeyawady River, the Water Resources andRivers System Development Department has applied thebed regulation way.

As about 38 per cent of the total rainfall in Myanmarflows into the sea, it is beneficial to construct a damproject to store the water. However, if the catchmentarea is damaged due to the environmental degradation,the amount of water flowing into the rivers can bedecreased.

Myanmar’s rivers which are beneficial to the countryare experiencing the floods in rainy season and droughts insummer. Therefore, low head dams along the rivers cancontrol the flowing and can help regular flow of the rivers,decreasing floods in June and August and preventingerosion in rainy season and helping navigation in summer.The systems of building dams to control flow of rivers needheavy investment and produce enormous benefits. To reapthe such benefits in the navigation, it is necessary to carryout bed regulation along the rivers section by section.

Therefore, plans should be made to calculate thebenefits and risks of sluice gates on rivers by experts.Building dams to store water is the integrated waterresources management and could help generating hydropower, irrigation and navigation. To implement theseprojects, physical model and numerical model should bebuilt to get the safety designs of the facilities not todamage the environment. Therefore, long-term plansshould be drawn and implemented systematically to buildsluice gates on the Ayeyawady River and to maintainnavigation along the river in the interests of the State.

The Hluttaw agreed to approve the proposal toconstruct sluice gates at necessary places for perpetuityof the Ayeyawady River and to implement the projectson maintaining the water course at downstream ofthe river as majority seconded the proposal.

The Speaker of Amyotha Hluttaw sought the approvalfrom the representatives to send message of condolencesto Japan for Mr. Takeo Nichioka, Speaker of the upperhouse of Japan, passed at the age of 75 on Saturday, 5,November, 2011, and the Hluttaw agreed to send themessage of condolence to Japan.

The regular session ended 5:10 pm.MNA

Amyotha Hluttaw sessioncontinues for 47th…

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Bago Region, Ayeyawady RegionHluttaws hold first second regular sessions

NAY PYI TAW, 16Nov— The seventh dayof the first secondregular session of BagoRegion Hluttaw was heldat the hall of BagoRegion Hluttaw at 10 amyesterday. It wasattended by Bago RegionChief Minister U NyanWin, Speaker and Vice-Speaker of Bago RegionHluttaw U Win Tin, and74 representatives.

At the Hluttaw, theregional representativesasked 34 queries, andthe respective regionalministers, secretary ofBago Regiongovernment, BagoRegion Chief Justice,

advocate-general, BagoRegion auditor-general,answered them. TheHluttaw came to an endat 2 pm yesterday.

The fifth day of thefirst second regularsession of AyeyawadyRegion Hluttaw was heldat the meeting hall ofAyeyawady Region at10 am yesterday,attended by Speaker ofAyeyawady RegionThayay Sithu U San Sintand 66 representatives.

At the Hluttaw, therepresentative regionalministers answered 18queries asked byregional representatives.There were one bill and

four proposals tabled tothe Hluttaw. The Hluttawcontinued today.

At 10 am today, thesixth day of the firstsecond regular sessionof Ayeyawady RegionHluttaw was held at themeeting hall ofAyeyawady RegionHluttaw, attended bySpeaker of AyeyawadyRegion Hluttaw ThayaySithu U San Sint and 69representatives.

At the Hluttaw, theHluttaw representativesasked 25 queries, andthe representativeministers answeredthem. The report on 100-day development tasks

Devotees continue to crowd atUppatasanti Pagoda to pay obeisance

to Sacred Buddha Tooth RelicNAY PYI TAW, 16

Nov—Flock of pilgrimscontinued to visitUppatasanti Pagoda topay obeisance to SacredBuddha Tooth Relicconveyed from thePeople’s Republic ofChina today from dawn

to dark.Doctors from Health

Department under theMinistry of Health areproviding free medicalcare to devotees fromvarious regions.

Union Minister forFinance and Revenue UHla Tun and wife DawKhin Than Win paidhomage to the SacredBuddha Tooth Relic thismorning donated K500,000 for the toothrelic.

Since theconveyance of SacredBuddha Tooth Relicfrom China to

Uppatasanti pagoda on6 November evening tothis evening, donationsat the centers amountedto K 255818820, FEC83, USD 3131, RMB2034, Thai baht 4289,Philippine Peso 500,Malaysian ringgit 335,Indonesia rupiahs200500, India rupee312, Vietnamese dong141,000, Cambodian riel2000, Singapore dollar85, Korean Wan 4807,£ 5, Japanese ¥ 4000,Sri Lanka rupee 100 and822 items of jewelleryworth about55232460.—MNA

tabled on November 11,2011 by AyeyawadyRegion government wasapproved by the Hluttawrepresentatives andrecorded by the Hluttaw,and two motions weretabled to the Hluttaw.The Hluttaw ended at 4pm today.—MNA

Man smuggled scorpions, snakes from ChinaSTOCKHOLM, 16 Nov

—A Swedish courtsentenced a man to 60hours of communityservice for smuggling 41scorpions and eightsnakes from China.

Authorities said the28-year-old man, who isa snake breeder, wasstopped at StockholmArlanda Airport andinspectors discovered 41

scorpions, five vipers andthree Chinese grasssnakes in his luggage, theSwedish news agency TTreported Monday.

Investigators said thecreatures were kept inplastic containers andtwo of the snakes did notsurvive the trip fromChina.

The man, who wasconvicted of smuggling

Rarest dolphin spotted in NZ harbourafter two-year disappearance

WELLINGTON, 16 Nov—One of the world’ssmallest and rarestmarine dolphins has beenseen in the harbour ofNew Zealand’s capital,more than two years afterthe last sighting,conservation officialsannounced Tuesday. TheHector’s dolphin wassighted in Wellingtonharbour on Monday andreported the country’sDepartment of

Conservation (DOC), saida DOC statement.

The person whospotted the dolphin said ithad “spent about fiveminutes zooming underand around the boat (withthe engine in neutral)before disappearing,”said the statement.Meanwhile, a spectatoron shore reported seeingtwo dolphins.

“It is really excitingto see the return of this

very special New Zealanddolphin,” DOC KapitiWellington biodi-versityprogramme ma-nagerPeter Simpson said in astatement.

“The next step is totry and get a high qualityphotograph and geneticsample of the dolphin tosee if it is the same or adifferent individual fromthe one that visited us in2009,” he said.—Xinhua

in Attunda District Court,told the court he hadreceived the animals as agift.

Prosecutors saidauthorities had prev-iously intercepted acourier package sent tothe man from HongKong with five snakes intwo containers marked“toys.”

InternetA model shows ajeep, made in the

United States, at the2011 Dubai

international autoshow in Dubai, the

United ArabEmirates (UAE), on10 Nov, 2011. The

five-day carexhibition, the biggest

in the Middle East,was opened on 10

Nov.—XINHUA

YANGON, 16 Nov—The Chinese delegationled by Vice-Chairman ofthe Internal and JudicialAffairs Committee of theNational People’sCongress of the People’sRepublic of China Mr. BaiJingfu this morning paidhomage to ShwedagonPagoda.

Chinese delegation led by Vice-Chairman ofthe Internal and Judicial Affairs Committee of

the National People’s Congress of PRCconcludes visit

Two Poles rescued from Colombian jungleaccording to an officialreport posted on thewebsite of the Air Force.

The two men,identified as ThomasJefrys and MaciesTaracin, were found safeand sound, the report said.

According to theiraccounts, their boat wasoverturned by a surge ofwater as they weretraveling along the riverfrom the province’s capitalto the Town of Cartagenadel Chaira, leaving themadrift for days.

BOGOTA, 16 Nov—Two Polish scouts whogot lost for five days in thethick jungle of southernColombia have beenrescued by a ColombiaAir Force emergencyteam, authorities saidMonday.

After trudgingthrough the dense junglein the southern Provinceof Caqueta, the rescueteam on Sunday spottedone of the Polish scoutsnear the Yari river and theother still in midstream,

One of them latermade it to shore and useda satellite phone to call afriend in Germany whomade the necessaryarrangements through theconsulate of that country,the report said.

The Poles told localmedia that they had eateninsects and plants tosurvive, adding thatdespite their ordeal, theywould not hesitate to visitthe South Americannation again in future.

Xinhua

After they had offeredflowers, water, light, josssticks and cash donationsto the pagoda, they signedthe visitors’ book.The Chinese delegationenjoyed the luncheonhosted by Yangon RegionHluttaw Speaker U SeinTin Win at Sedona Hotelhere at noon, together

with Yangon RegionChief Minister U MyintSwe, Yangon RegionHluttaw Deputy SpeakerU Tin Aung and ChineseAmbassador to theRepublic of the Union ofMyanmar Mr. Li Junhua.The Chinese delegationleft Yangon thisafternoon.—MNA

School bus accident kills 19in NW China

LANZHOU, 16 Nov—Nineteen people,including 17preschoolers, died in aschool bus accidentWednesday morning in

northwest China’sGansu Province, thelocal government said.

The accidenthappened at around 9:40am in Yulinzi Township

of Zhengning County,in the City of Qingyang,the provincial worksafety bureau said in aPress release. Thebureau did not revealmore details. It said thecause of the accident isunder investigation.

Xinhua

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV ORIENTAL AMBER VOY NO (023)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV ORIENTALAMBER VOY NO (023) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 16.11.2011 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: SONGWON ENTERPRISECO LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

Deer collisionhotspots now include

major roads andmotorways

in central and low-land Scotland, Scot-

tish Natural Heritagefound.

INTERNET

Scotland may cull deer in greater numbersto reduce road accidents

LONDON, 16 Nov —Deer cause an estimated7,000 collisions a year,with experts blaming newlowland and urban wood-lands for populationsurge. Wild deer may beculled in much largernumbers across lowlandand urban Scotland to limittheir rapidly increasingpopulation and reverse a

steep rise in road acci-dents. Wildlife expertshave found that the growthin new lowland and urbanforests and green spaceshas led to a surge in deernumbers, which has in-creased the rate of crashesand collisions on motor-ways and major roads inh e a v i l y - p o p u l a t e dareas.One recent study forScottish Natural Heritage(SNH), the governmentwildlife agency, estimatedthere are at least 7,000collisions and crashescaused by deer and at least65 injuries for motorists

across Scotland a year,many more than in previ-ous years.

Experts fear there is amuch greater risk ofdriver fatalities and mul-tiple-vehicle crashes af-ter the study found thatmajor roads and motor-ways in central and low-land Scotland, includingthe M9 near Stirling, theM90 near Dunfermline,the M8, the A1 north ofBerwick, roads aroundGlasgow and its satellitetowns, and Aberdeen hadbecome hotspots for deercollisions.—Internet

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV DAN JIANG VOY NO (043)Consignees of cargo carried on MV DAN JIANG

VOY NO (043) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 17.11.2011 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Daynow declared as the third day after final discharge ofcargo from the Vessel.

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S INTERASIA LINESPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

Man-mademeat maycome soon

BEIJING, 16 Nov — It isnot a sci-fi that humanscan nurture meat like veg-etables. Scientists at Ox-ford University’s WildlifeConservation ResearchUnit are researchingin-vitro meat—burgers orsausages grown inlaboratory Petri dishesrather than made fromlivestock, according to aReuters report last week.

They are nurturing stemcells got from leftoverlivestock meat fromslaughterhouses.

To make them growup to meat, Mark Post,one of the researchers inthe project, said they feedthe stem cells with sugars,amino acids, lipids, min-erals and all other neces-sary nutrients. By now,pale muscle-like stripshave been produced. Buteach strip, 2.5 cm longand less than a centimeterwide, is hardly seen withnaked eyes.—Internet

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA TEGAP VOY NO (609)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA TEGAPVOY NO (609) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 17.11.2011 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Daynow declared as the third day after final discharge ofcargo from the Vessel.

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

INVITATION TO OPEN TENDERLocal Sale of (340.15) Metric Tons of CathodeCopper in United States Dollar.

RESERVE PRICE : US$ 8040/Metric TonCLOSING DATE & TIME : 20th November, 2011

at 18:00 hrs

Tender documents are available at the followingaddress, Any queries can be done between (9:30)AM and (4:30) PM before tender closing date.

No.(1) Mining EnterpriseMinistry of Mines, Building No. (19), Nay Pyi Taw.Ph: 067-409380, 409383 Fax 067-409379

As the leading aviation event in the Middle East, thebiannual Dubai airshow runs until Thursday. Or-ganizers said fair this year will be the biggest yet andexpects some 55,000 professional visitors. — XINHUA

Amelia Hempleman-Adams camps infreezer for Antarctic trip

LONDON, 16 Nov — The daughter of explorer DavidHempleman-Adams has taken to a supermarket freezerand braved temperatures of -27C as she prepares fora trip to the Antarctic. Amelia Hempleman-Adams,16, of Wiltshire, is hoping to become the youngestperson to ski to the South Pole. She will join her fatheron the expedition which begins on 18 Novemberwhen they leave the UK.—Internet

The daughter of explorer David Hempleman-Adams has taken to a supermarket freezer and

braved temperatures of -27C.—INTERNET

Study links Parkinson’s disease to industrial solventLONDON, 16 Nov — An

international study haslinked an industrial solventto Parkinson’s disease.Researchers found a six-fold increase in the risk ofdeveloping Parkinson’s inindividuals exposed in theworkplace to trichloroeth-ylene (TCE). Althoughmany uses for TCE havebeen banned around theworld, the chemical is stillused as a degreasing agent.The research was based on

analysis of 99 pairs of twinsselected from US datarecords. Parkinson’s canresult in limb tremors,slowed movement andspeech impairment, but theexact cause of the disease isstill unknown, and there isno cure.

Research to date sug-gests a mix of genetic andenvironmental factors maybe responsible. A link has

previously been made withpesticide use. The re-searchers from institutesin the US, Canada, Ger-many and Argentina,wanted to examine theimpact of solvent expo-sure — specifically sixsolvents including TCE.They looked at 99 sets oftwins, one twin with Par-kinson’s, the other with-out.—Internet

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Germany down the Netherlands 3-0 at soccer friendly

Denmark coach criticizes 24-team formatat UEFA Championship 2016

Venezuela’s coach sees Brazilon horizon

Venezuela’s SalomonRondon, left, controls theball under pressure fromBolivia’s Jaime Roblesduring a 2014 World Cupqualifying match in SanCristobal, Venezuela, on15 Nov, 2011. —INTERNET

SAN CRISTOBAL, 16Nov—Venezuela arepicking up points in theSouth American qualifi-ers at a rate that will surelysee them through to theirfirst World Cup finals in2014, coach Cesar Fariassaid on Tuesday.

Venezuela beat Bo-

livia 1-0 to join Uruguayand Argentina on sevenpoints in the top places ofthe South American groupstandings they could pre-viously only dream ofreaching. “If Venezuelacan maintain this (points)average, we will surelyreach the World Cup,”Farias, who has set hisheart on steering his teamto the Brazil finals, toldreporters.

Central defenderOswaldo Vizcarrondoscored the only goal witha header from a corner inthe 25th minute and Ven-ezuela, who are showingtheir fourth place at thisyear’s Copa America inArgentina was no fluke,then hung on under con-stant if rather lightweightpressure from Bolivia in asecond half downpour.

Internet

Germany’s scorer Mesut Oezil, center,and his teammate Sami Khedira,right,celebrate their side’s third goal during afriendly soccer match between Germanyand the Netherlands in Hamburg, Ger-many, on 15 Nov, 2011. In theforeground is Dutch player Klaas-Jan

Huntelaar.—INTERNET

BERLIN, 16 Nov—Germany sealedthe first victory since 1996 against theNetherlands attributed to a faultless per-formance by the German team againstlax Dutchmen in front of home crowd inHamburg on Tuesday.

Germany staged from the start offen-sively minded soccer whereas the Neth-erlands seemed idealess throughout thematch. With only 14 minutes into thematch, Germany opened the scoringafter a terrific combination when strikerThomas Mueller finished the assist fromMiroslav Klose.

The “Elftal” was shocked by theearly deficit so that Germany were ableto double the lead only ten minutes laterwhen top striker Klose headed home a

Ireland, Portugal, Croatia, Czechsreach Euro 2012

LISBON,16 Nov—No cruel hand of fate was going to deny theIrish this time. Knocked out of World Cup qualifying two yearsago by France with the help of Thierry Henry’s hand ball, Irelandclinched a berth in next year’s European Championship onTuesday night, the first major tournament for the Irish in a decade.

Ireland’s 1-1 tie against visiting Estonia won the home-and-home playoff on 5-1 aggregate.

“We missed out two years ago in terrible circumstances. So toget to a major championship now is an amazing feeling. It’s bigcelebration time,” Irish winger Aiden McGeady said after Irelandearned a berth along with Portugal, Croatia and the CzechRepublic to complete the 16-nation field.

A capacity crowd of about 51,000 roared approval as coachGiovanni Trapattoni’s squad did a victory lap around Dublin’syear-old Aviva Stadium.—Internet

Portugal’s Fabio Coentrao, centre,evades Bosnia’s Adnan Zahirovic asPortugal’s coach Paulo Bento, right,

looks on during their Euro 2012 play-offs second leg match on 15 Nov,

2011, at the Luz stadium in Lisbon.Portugal defeated Bosnia 6-2 to

qualify for the 2012 finals.—INTERNET

Japan’s Sawa in running foranother football award

Japan’s midfielderHomare Sawa walks overthe pitch wrapped in hernational flag after theFIFA Women’s FootballWorld Cup final matchJapan vs USA on 17 July,

2011 in Frankfurt amMain.—INTERNET

South Korea to hostPresidents Cup in 2015

South Korea’s Y. E. Yangwatches his ball after hehit from the rough of the7th hole during the thirdand final round of theSingapore Open golf

tournament, on 13 Nov,2011 in Singapore.

INTERNET

MELBOURNE, 16Nov—South Korea willbecome the first Asiancountry to host the Presi-dents Cup in 2015.

US PGA Tour com-missioner Tim Finchemsaid Wednesday at thisyear’s Presidents Cupthat an as-yet undecidedKorean club will host thebiennial tournament be-tween the United Statesand an International teamof golfers representingnon-European countries.

Internet

Canada’s SimeonJackson battles for theball with Thrizen Leader(L) of St Kitts and Nevisduring their 2014 World

Cup qualifying soccermatch in Toronto, on 15Nov, 2011.—INTERNET

Canada 4-0 St Kitts and Nevis:Dwayne De Rosario ties scoring record

KUALA LUMPUR, 16Nov—Homare Sawa is inline for another footballhonour after leading Ja-pan to the Women’s WorldCup title this year. ThreeJapanese players wereshortlisted Wednesday forthe Asian Football Con-

federation’s Women’sPlayer of the Year awardincluding Sawa, who wonthe Golden Boot andGolden Ball awards dur-ing the World Cup in Ger-many, goalkeeper AyumiKaihori and Aya Miyama.

Sawa and Miyama havealready been included ona shortlist of 10 candidatesfor FIFA’s Women’sWorld Player of the Year.

Server Djeparov isamong six men shortlistedfor the AFC player award.The 2008 winner fromUzbekistan is in the run-ning against Iran defenderHadi Aghily, Japan pairShinhi Kagawa andKeisuke Honda and SouthKorea’s Koo Ja-cheol andYeom Ki-hun.—Internet Tiger and

ex-caddie in thesame match

MELBOURNE, 16 Nov—The Presidents Cup wastedno time delivering thematch everyone wastalking about—TigerWoods against ex-caddieSteve Williams in theopening session at RoyalMelbourne.

Oh, yes, and three otherplayers will join them.

US captain Fred Cou-ples and International cap-tain Greg Norman, hope-ful of putting an end to athree-month soap operainvolving Woods andWilliams, put themtogether in the last ofsix foursomes matchesThursday.

“I think it’s great forthe tournament,” Normansaid. “It needed to bedone.”

Internet

Denmark’s Coach Morten Olsen,centre among Daniel Agger, left,

and Simon Poulsen, right, during atraining session at Helsingor Sta-dium, north of Copenhagen, Den-mark, on 9 Nov, 2011.—INTERNET

COPENHAGEN, 16 Nov—Denmark’snational football coach Morten Olsensaid Monday that it was a mistake toexpand from 16 to 24 the number ofteams competing in the final round ofthe UEFA European Football Champi-onships 2016. Olsen said the expansionrisks making the tournamentuninteresting, while encouraging poorathletic performance.

“It is commercially a smart decision,

and probably the reason for the en-largement,” Olsen told Danishnewspaper Jyllands-Posten. “But Ibelieve the Championship becomesrather diluted because of it,” he added.“I know this world is all about makingmoney, but the tournament is devaluedwhen nearly half of all UEFA mem-bers play in the finals,” Olsen said.

Internet

TORONTO, 16 Nov—Canada concluded thesecond round ofCONCACAF World Cupqualifying on Tuesday

with a 4-0 win overSt Kitts and Nevis in frontof 10,235 at BMO fieldin Toronto.

The two sides sharedthe spoils in their firstencounter last week, butCanada made no mistakethis time as JoshSimpson, Dwayne DeRosario, Olivier Occeanand Tosaint Rickettsnetted for the Canucks.

“It’s a great perform-ance all around,” DeRosario said in a post-match interview withSportsnet. “These guyswanted to show the fansthat we can score. Weproved it tonight.”

Internet

S P O R T S

cross to mark his 63rd goal at 113 inter-national caps.—Xinhua

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 17 November, 2011 15

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

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MYANMAR INTERNATIONAL

Programme Schedule(17-11-2011) (Thursday)

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am)MSTOverseas Transmission - (17-11-11 09:30 am ~ 18-11-11 09:30 am) MST

Local Transmission* Opening* News* Kahtein Festival, Let's take part merrily* News* The Hills of Phowin Taung and Shwebataung* News* School on the Internet Asia Project* News* Songs for you* 100 Shuttle Silk Fabric and its Key Notes

Oversea Transmission* Opening* News* Kahtein Festival, Let's take part merrily* News* The Hills of Phowin Taung and Shwebataung* News* School on the Internet Asia Project* News* Songs for you* 100 Shuttle Silk Fabric and its Key Notes

* News* Kaung Mhu Lon and its Spectacular

Surround* People Utilities & Electronic Exhibition

with IT Zone* News* MI People's Celebrities "Ye` Taik, Phyu

Phyu Kyaw Thein"* Music Gallery* News* Preserving Myanma Handicrafts* News* Wonderful Resort in Myanmar* Myanmar Movie "Guilt Over Love"

Weather forecast for 17th November, 2011

7:00 am 1. Paritta by

Venerable MingunSayadaw

7:25 am 2. To Be Healthy

Exercise7:30 am 3. Morning News

7:40 am 4. Dhamma Puja Song7:55 am 5.Nice & Sweet Song8:05 am 6. Health Programme8:10 am 7. Dance of National

Races8:20 am 8. Myanmar Traditional

Cultural Performingarts Competitions

8:25 am 9. Dance of Variety8:35 am10. Documentary8:40 am11. International News8:45 am12. Musical

Programme4:00 pm 1. Martial Song

4:05pm 2. Musical

Programme4:20 pm 3. Cute Little

Dancers4:30 pm 4. Music on Winter

Songs4:45pm 5. University of

DistanceEducation(TV Lectures)- First Year (Myanmar)

5:00pm 6. Songs for

UpholdingNational Spirit

5:05pm 7. One Village and

One Product

5:20pm 8. Teleplay (Traffic)5:40pm 9. Science and

Environment6:00 pm10. Evening News6:15 pm11. Weather Report6:20 pm12. Myanmar Series6:35 pm13. Approachaing

Science DiscoveryWorld

7:00pm14. TV Drama Series8:00 pm15. News16. International News17. Weather Report18. Documentary19. TV Drama Series20. TV Drama Series

Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas

Sr.

No. Regions/States

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 30/86 13/55 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

2 Kayah 27/81 12/54 Generally fair weather

3 Kayin 35/95 20/68 Partly cloudy

4 Chin 20/68 04/45 Partly cloudy

5 Upper Sagaing 31/88 18/64 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

6 Lower Sagaing 34/93 19/66 Generally fair weather

7 Taninthayi 35/95 20/68 Likelihood isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

8 Bago 33/91 20/68 Generally fair weather

9 Magway 33/95 20/68 Generally fair weather

10 Mandalay 33/91 20/68 Generally fair weather

11 Mon 35/95 19/66 Partly cloudy

12 Yangon 35/95 21/70 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

13 Rakhine 33/91 18/64 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

14 Southern Shan 26/79 9/48 Partly cloudy

15 Northern Shan 28/82 12/54 Partly cloudy

16 Eastern Shan 29/84 11/52 Partly cloudy

17 Ayeyawady 34/93 23/73 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers 60%

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 35/95 17/63 Partly cloudy

19 Neighbouring Yangon 35/95 22/72 Partly cloudy

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 33/91 19/66 Generally fair weather

Summary of

observations at 09:30

hr MST on today

During the past (24) hours, rain or thundershowers has been isolated in Upper Sagaing, Yangon and

Regions and Kachin State, weather have been partly cloudy in Mandalay, Ayeyawady Taninthayi Regions

and Rakhine State and generally fair in the remaining Regions and States. Night temperatures were (3°C)

above November average temperatures in Rakhine, Kayah and Mon States, (4°C) below November average

temperatures in Taninthayi Region, (6°C) below November average temperatures in Upper Sagaing Region

and about November average temperatures in the remaining Regions and States.The significant night

temperature was Hakha (5°C), Namsam and Pinlaung (7°C) each. The noteworthy amount of rainfall

recorded was Cocogyun (1.14) inches.

Bay Inference Weather is cloudy in Southern Bay and partly cloudy in the Andaman Sea and elsewhere in the Bay of

Bengal.

State of the Sea Seas will be moderate in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Likelihood of isolated or thundershowers in the Southern Myanmar areas.

LONDON, 16 Nov—Scotland Yard’s cyber-crime unit helped fend offan attack on the officialwebsite of Britain’s royalwedding in April, thedivision’s chief saidTuesday.

Det Supt CharlieMcMurdie told a Londoncybersecurity conferencethat action was taken tosafeguard the site, whichreceived 15 million hitswhen Prince Williammarried Kate Middletonon 29 April. McMurdiemade the comments inpassing at the RoyalUnited Services Institute,a defencethink-tank.Asked for moreinformation by The Asso-ciated Press, she said herunit had “been called in”to deal with an attack.

She declined to go intoany further detail, but a

Hackers tried to attack royal wedding website

Scotland Yard spokesmanasked about the case saida 16-year-old had beendetained on 10 Oct inrelation to “a suspectedattempt to encourageothers to commit adistributed denial-of-service attack.” Suchattacks work by bom-barding websites withbogus traffic in an attemptto overwhelm them.

The spokesman saidthe teenager is out on bailand has yet to be charged.He spoke anonymously

in line with force policy.The royal wedding was amassive Internet event,with providers saying itmay have been the mostheavily live-streamedevent ever.

Many websites,including the BBC andYouTube’s royal channel,occasionally struggled tocope under the strain of thetraffic. The official royalwedding website said that,at its peak, it was handlingmore than 2,000 requests asecond.—Internet

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Thursday, 17 November, 20117th Waning of Tazaungmon 1373 ME

Pyithu Hluttaw session continues for 48th dayOne proposal discussed, information to enlist given, formation ofOne proposal discussed, information to enlist given, formation of

commission submitted, approval for one bill soughtcommission submitted, approval for one bill soughtNAY PYI TAW, 16 Nov—The 48th day session of

the Pyithu Hluttaw was held at Pyithu Hluttaw Hallof Hluttaw Building, here, at 10.15 am today,attended by Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw Thura UShwe Mann and 369 Pyithu Hluttaw representatives.

One proposal was discussed, information forenlisting given, formation of commission submittedand approval for one bill sought.

Two Hluttaw representatives discussed theproposal submitted by U Kyi Than of GwaConstituency that it should not amend or add theElectricity Law.

U Aye Mauk of Mahlaing Constituencydiscussed that electricity was used by Burma RubyMine in Mogok in 1908 for the first time. In 1910,supply of electricity was added in Yangon andMandalay. To be free from danger of electricity,the Electricity Act (1910) was enacted and theElectricity Rules was issued in 1937. As an electricitysupply board should be formed, the ElectricitySupply Act was promulgated in 1948. TheElectricity Law as the Law No. 7 of Pyithu Hluttawwas enacted in 1984 and then electricity rulesissued in 1985.

Although the law and rules were in conformity

with a designated period, the Electricity Law 1984must be amended compulsory due to improvementof electricity consumption, use of modern electronicequipment and supply system. Such law is beingrealized by Electrical Inspector-EI under theIndustrial Supervision and Inspection Department

of the Ministry of Industry-1.Electrical Inspector is taking responsibility as

medium to inspect and suggest prevention againstdanger of electricity and to avoid loss ofopportunities between producers and consumers.

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Aung Myint

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Amyotha Hluttaw session continues for 47th day

NAY PYI TAW, 16 Nov—Amyotha Hluttawsession continued for the 47th day at AmyothaHluttaw Hall of Hluttaw Building here at 1 pm,attended by Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker U KhinAung Myint and 204 Amyotha Hluttawrepresentatives.

Approval was sought for one bill and oneproposal was discussed.

Hluttaw representatives discussed mattersrelated to the Farmland Bill sent and approved byPyithu Hluttaw. As the order of Hluttaw, officialsof Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation wereinvited to discuss and scrutinize again. And report

was sent to Chairman U Mya Nyein of BillCommittee.

In searching approval of Hluttaw for theFarmland Bill sent and approved by Pyithu Hluttawto approve it paragraph by paragraph, Paragraph2 (a) of Chapter (1) of the Bill Committee prescribesthat “farmland means virgin lands suitable forfarming and land suitable to grow perennial treesand nipa and garden lands, lands suitable to growvegetable and flowery plants, designated lands,alluvial land, and land on which residentialbuildings are constructed without permission thatcan be used as the wish of the State, excluding

residential building within the boundary oftownship and village, religious buildings andprecinct, and private land unable to be used fordeveloping purpose”.

As U Ohn Tin of Rakhine State ConstituencyNo. 10 submitted to take out the phrase “used asthe wish of the State” of Paragraph 2 (a) ofChapter (1) to search approval of Hluttaw, theapproval of Hluttaw was sought. It is decided notto take out that phrase as the representatives whoopposed the proposal outnumbered other ones.

So, it is decided that Paragraph 2 (a) of Chapter(1) shall be part of the bill.

In Paragraph 2 (b) of Chapter (1) of BillCommittee, as amendment “right for farming isdefined that as the State is original owner of all lands,giving permission for farming in conformity withthis law and bylaw, rule and regulation of this law sothat agricultural production capacity develop,excluding exploring gems, mines, petroleum, gasand natural resources below and above ground” wasapproved by Hluttaw, it was decided that Paragraph2 (b) of Chapter (1) shall be part of the bill.

“Peasant is defined as anyone who falls withinthe competence of following points in Paragraph 2(c) of Chapter (1) of the Bill Committee. (1) Oneusing land by oneself or by oneself consistently asown major profession, (2) one who supervisesagricultural process all along as own majorprofession, (3) one who invests capital and carriesout growing process all along by oneself or manages

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Approval sought for one bill, one proposal discussedApproval sought for one bill, one proposal discussed

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