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Volume XVI, Number 293 11th Waxing of Tabodwe 1370 ME Thursday, 5 February, 2009

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

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

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education stand-

ards of the entire nation

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

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

tution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 5Feb—Born in 1937 atKolkata, Shri M. HamidAnsari obtained a Mas-ters degree in PoliticalScience from AligarhMuslim University. Hejoined the Indian For-eign Service in 1961. Ina career span of overthree and a half dec-ades, he served as Am-bassador of India toUAE, Afghanistan, Iranand Saudi Arabia, asHigh Commissioner toAustralia and Perma-nent Representative ofIndia to the United Na-tions in New York.

(See page 8)

Profile of Shri M. Hamid Ansari,Vice-President of India

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Feb—Lt-Gen Khin Zaw of theMinistry of Defence, together with Chairman of ChinState Peace and Development Council Brig-Gen HoneNgaing, made an inspection tour of Haka-GangawRoad Project in Haka Township, Chin State, on 2February.

At the briefing hall in Bonzone Village, those incharge of Special Group (Road) (12) reported on workprogress. Lt-Gen Khin Zaw emphasized the impor-tance of meeting the standard in tarring the road.

He presented clothes and gifts to Bonzone, Lay-owun and Lonekywe villages that had played an activerole in regional development tasks.

The deputy superintending engineer of SpecialGroup (Road) (12) conducted Lt-Gen Khin Zaw alongthe road sections.

He inspected the 12th Mile mythun farm of UKyaw Lwin.

He had a meeting with departmental officials,townselders, social organizations and local people inHaka. The chairman of Haka Township PDC reportedon development tasks, and the chairman of Chin StatePDC, on sector-wise development of Chin State.

In his speech, Lt-Gen Khin Zaw said that thegovernment has designated 24 special zones and isimplementing the five rural development programmesfor equitable development of all parts of the nation;that Chin State has been enjoying smooth transport dueto the four all-weather roads; that local people are toequip themselves with nationalistic fervour and UnionSpirit; and that Chin State needs to meet the targetedacreage of tea farms to translate into reality the guid-ance of the Head of State. He called for extensivebreeding of mythuns to 100,000 heads in five years.

Chin State to become tea landHe presented clothes and medicines to local

people, and inspected Ulon tea farm of the MyanmaAgriculture Service, and called for growing tea on awider scale.

Lt-Gen Khin Zaw inspected Aukchin Maunghnantea factory and the 15th Mile mythun farm of U Ram MaKyon in Bwelontalan. He will hold a meeting withdepartmental officials and local people in Haka tocoordinate work for regional development.—MNA

Lt-Gen Khin Zaw of Ministry of Defenceinspects Kyawboke farm (Haka) in Ulon teafarm of the Myanma Agriculture Service.

MNA

Vice-President's wifeSmt. Ansari.

Vice-President Shri M. HamidAnsari of India.

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Thursday, 5 February, 2009* Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

The government has been building bridges,motor roads and railroads for ensuring smoothand secure transport in the whole country.

Rail transportation plays an important partin transport sector. After 1988, the Ministry ofRail Transportation built 1,210.51 miles ofrailroads, 49 bridges which are 180 feet andabove, 4,552 rail-cum-bridges and 325 stationsincluding yards.

Regarding Myanma Railways, the Head ofState gave guidance on construction of nationalrail networks. Therefore, the government isimplementing railroad special projects in statesand divisions.

Railroads will be built from Sittway,Ponnagyun, Kyauktaw, MraukU and Minbyato An in order to connect Rakhine State and thewest bank of Ayeyawady River. The railroadswill lead to those on the west bank of AyeyawadyRiver via An.

Dawei-Myeik Railroad ConstructionProject is being undertaken with the aim oflinking northern and southern parts of thecountry. On completion of the project, trainscan run from Myitkyina to Myeik.

Pyawbwe-Natmauk-Magway RailroadConstruction Project will link eastern partsand western parts of central Yoma. The peoplecan travel from Nay Pyi Taw to Taunggyi inShan State (South) through the newly-builtPyawbwe-Phayangazu railroad. They can gofrom Taunggyi to Saikkhaung, Namhsan andMongnai.

With the development of railtransportation sector, social, economic andtransport services will improve and thisconsolidates solidarity of the national racesand the Union spirit.

More railroad networksconsolidate solidarity

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Feb — The State Peace andDevelopment Council has confirmed the appointmentof the following heads of service organizations onexpiry of the one-year probationary period.

Name Appointment(a) U Tin Soe Director-General

Planning andAdministrativeDepartmentMinistry of ForeignAffairs

(b) U Min Lwin Director-GeneralConsular and LegalAffairs DepartmentMinistry of ForeignAffairs

The State Peace and Development Council hasappointed the following persons as heads of serviceorganizations shown against each on probation fromthe date they assume charge of their duties.

Name Appointment(a) Dr Cho Win Maw Managing Director

General Manager Myanma FoodstuffMyanma Industries

Foodstuff Industries Ministry of Industry-1Ministry ofIndustry-1

(b) U Kyee Soe Director-GeneralDeputy Director- Hydropower PlanningGeneral DepartmentHydropower Ministry of ElectricPlanning Power No. 1DepartmentMinistry of ElectricPower No. 1

(c) U Khin Win Director-GeneralDeputy Director- Dry Zones GreeningGeneral DepartmentDry Zones Greening Ministry of ForestryDepartmentMinistry of Forestry.—MNA

MYANMAR GAZETTETechnical training school(Thagara) takes shape

Myanmar Forestry School(PyinOoLwin) holds 103rd

graduation parade

Health Deputy Minister meets medical studentsYANGON, 3 Feb—Deputy Minister for Health

Dr Paing Soe, on 2 February, met MedicalSuperintendent Dr Daw Nu Nu Thar, rector, professors,specialists and medical students and house surgeons atYangon General Hospital. The deputy minister gaveinstructions on learning clinical medicine.

Afterwards, the deputy minister met withmedical students and house surgeons who are learningclinical medicine at Yangon West People’s Hospitaland gave instructions on facts that should be studiedand followed. The deputy minister fulfilled the needs.

MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Aung deliversaddress at 103rd graduation parade of

Myanmar Forestry School (PyinOoLwin).FORESTRY

Chargé d’ Affaires Mr Indika Premadasacordially greets Chairman of Civil ServiceSelection and Training Board U Kyaw Thuand wife, who attend ceremony to mark 61st

Anniversary Independence Day of DemocraticRepublic of Sri Lanka which falls on 4

February. —MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Feb—The 103rd graduationparade of Myanmar Forestry School (PyinOoLwin) ofForest Department was held at the parade ground ofthe survey school in PyinOoLwin on 2 Februarymorning.

Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen Thein Aungpresented awards to the outstanding trainees anddelivered an address.

At the hall of Myanmar Forestry School(PyinOoLwin), the minister made a speech at thecertificate presentation ceremony. Officials gave prizesto outstanding trainees. Director-General U Soe WinHlaing accepted cash donation from wellwishers.

Later, the principal of the school presentedcompletion certificates to the trainees.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Feb—Minister for Industry-2Vice-Admiral Soe Thein called for timely completionof the technical training school (Thagara) project duringhis visit to the project on 1 February.

The project is being implemented by KoreaInternational Cooperation Agency. During the visit,the minister inspected construction of the main building,lecture halls, practical rooms, workshops and offices.

The minister also inspected preparations forinstallation of machines and machinery at the trainingschool. He also urged officials concerned to growshady trees and to build sports ground and fulfilled therequirements.—MNA

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Kyrgyzstan to close US basein its airport

Iran stresses Iraqis can administer ownaffairs without foreign interference

Kurdish soldiers

escort suspected

insurgents at a

Peshmerga military

camp in Kirkuk, 250

km (155 miles) north

of Baghdad, on 3 Feb,

2009. Three suspected

insurgents were

arrested by the

Peshmerga soldiers

during a raid at their

hideout on Tuesday.

INTERNET

Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev(R) talks to his Kyrgyz counterpart

Kurmanbek Bakiyev during a signingceremony in Moscow on 3 Feb, 2009.

INTERNET

Residents sitting on a

sidewalk watch as US

soldiers of Bravo

Company, 1-18 Infan-

try Battalion patrol in

Mosul, about 390 km

(240 miles) north of

Baghdad, on 2 Feb,

2009.—INTERNET

MOSCOW, 4 Feb — Kyrgyz PresidentKurmanbek Bakiyev said here on Tues-day that his country will shut the UnitedStates military base in its capital airport,local media reported.

Russia and Kyrgyzstan, however,will continue cooperation with theUnited States on the anti-terrorist opera-tion in Afghanistan after the closure ofthe US airbase in the Central Asian state,RIA Novosti cited Russian PresidentDmitry Medvedev as saying.

“We could join our efforts to promotestability in the region, our countries willhelp the operations underway in the re-gion. We are ready for coordinated ac-tion,” Medvedev said, adding that thedecision to close the Manas base was upto Kyrgyzstan.

Some attacks by female suicide bombers in Iraq

The two countries also inked a dealto write off a Kyrgyz debt to Russia andan agreement on 150 million US dollarsof financial aid for Kyrgyzstan, RIA andInterfax reported. —Internet

BAGHDAD, 4 Feb—A look at some ofthe deadliest attacks by female suicidebombers in Iraq since the 2003 US-ledinvasion:

• 4 Jan, 2009: A woman hidingamong Iranian pilgrims in Baghdad’sShiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah killsmore than three dozen people andwounds at least 72 outside a mosque.

• 8 Oct, 2008: A suicide bomber blowsherself up near governmentoffices in Baqouba, northeast of the capi-tal, killing 11 people and wounding 19.

• 15 Sept, 2008: A woman blows her-self up among a group of police offic-ers in Balad Ruz, 45 miles northeast ofBaghdad, killing at least 22 people andwounding 33.

• 14 Aug, 2008: A female suicidebomber strikes Shiite pilgrims inIskandariyah, 20 miles south of thecapital, killing at least 18 people andwounding 75.

• 28 July, 2008: Female suicidebombers attack a Shiite pilgrimage inBaghdad and a Kurdish protest rally innorthern Iraq, killing at least 57 peopleand wounding nearly 300.

• 22 June, 2008: A female suicide

bomber strikes outside a governmentcomplex in Baqouba. At least 15 peopleare killed and more than 40 are wounded.

• 1 May, 2008: An Iraqi female sui-cide bomber imitating pregnancy deto-nates the first bomb in a double suicideattack that kills at least 36 people dur-ing a wedding procession in Balad Ruz.At least 65 people are wounded.

• 17 March, 2008: A female suicidebomber attacks a group of Shiite wor-shippers near a mosque in Karbala, kill-ing at least 49 people and wounding 73.

• 1 Feb, 2008: Two women strappedwith remote-control explosives — andpossibly used as unwitting suicidebombers — attack pet markets in Bagh-dad. At least 100 people are killed andmore than 100 are wounded.

• 7 Dec, 2007: A female suicidebomber attacks offices of a Sunni groupbattling al-Qaida in Iraq, killing at least15 people and wounding 35 inMuqdadiyah in Diyala Province.

• 11 April, 2007: A woman wearingan explosives vest beneath her robeblows herself up among 200 Iraqi po-lice recruits, killing 16 and wounding33 in Muqdadiyah.—Internet

Seven Polish soldiers stand trial forAfghan civilian deaths

WARSAW, 4 Feb—A military court in Warsaw startedthe trial of seven Polish soldiers accused of killingAfghan civilians in the village of Nangar Khel on 16Aug, 2007. The soldiers are accused of causing thedeath of 11 Afghan civilians, including women andchildren, by shelling their village with mortar fire,Polish news agency PAP reported on Tuesday.

Prosecutor Jakub Mytych read out an indictment thataccused the two officers, three enlisted men and twowarrant officers serving with NATO forces of violatinglaws that protect civilians in times of war, including theHague and the Geneva conventions.—Internet

TEHERAN, 4 Feb— Iranstressed here Tuesday that“the Iraqi people haveproved that they can ad-minister their own affairswithout the involvementof foreign forces.” For-eign Ministry spokesmanHassan Qashqavi madethe remarks in commentson the governorate elec-tions last weekend whichwas said to be held in apeaceful atmosphere.

On Saturday, around

7.5 million Iraqis, about51 percent of eligible vot-ers, took part in the elec-tions to choose the gov-erning councils in 14 ofthe 18 provinces in Iraq.“The Iraqi people throughactive participation in thecountry’s elections votedfor stability, security, na-tional unity as well as re-construction,” Qashqavihailed.

“Massive turnout of theIraqi people at ballot

boxes indicated that thenew Iraq can easily ad-minister its own affairswithout the involvementof foreign forces,” headded.

The Iranian official ex-tended the country’s con-gratulations to the Iraqigovernment and its Muslimnation on the successfulnationwide elections, de-scribing the move as “signof the people’s firm deter-mination in administeringtheir own affairs which willlead to democracy and thecountry’s national sover-eignty.” —Internet

Afghan intelligence breaksup Kabul bombing cell

KABUL, 4 Feb—The Afghan intelligence service hasbroken up a cell of suicide bombers allegedly respon-sible for six attacks in Kabul that killed 20 civilians, aspokesman for the agency said on Tuesday.

Agents arrested 17 people who were involved in thesuicide attacks in the capital over the last two years,said Sayed Ansari, the spokesman for the National Di-rectorate of Security. Three others are still on the runand believed to be in neighbouring Pakistan, he said.

The breakthrough came following an attack outsidea US military base in Kabul on 17 Jan, when a suicidebomber killed four Afghan civilians and a US soldier,Ansari said.

Militants use suicide bombings against Afghan andforeign troops, but the number of such attacks have de-creased in 2008 compared to a year before. The major-ity of the victims in such attacks have been civilian.

Internet

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TOKYO, 4 Feb —Japanwill dispatch two de-stroyers to waters off So-malia for a mission pro-tecting its commercialvessels against pirates,joining a growing num-ber of countries patrollingthose waters, an officialsaid on Wednesday.

The government willalso send a fact-findingmission to the regionahead of the deploymentof the 4,650-ton Saza-nami and the 4,550-tonSamidare, a spokes-

In this undated photo released by Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force anddistributed by Kyodo News, the JMSDF destroyer Sazanami is shown. Japansaid on 4 Feb, 2009 it will dispatch two destroyers, the 4,650-ton Sazanami

and the 4,550-ton Samidare, to waters off Somalia for a mission protecting itscommercial vessels against pirates.—INTERNET

Japan to send two destroyersfor anti-piracy mission

woman for the DefenceMinistry said on conditionof anonymity, citing de-partment policy. Each shiphas a helicopter aboard.

Japan previously hassaid it will join the fightagainst piracy, but the de-tails confirmed by the min-istry official on Wednes-day were the first mentionof how many ships wouldbe sent.

Somalia is locatedalong the Gulf of Aden,one of the world’s busiestwaterways, where pirates

made more 100 attacks onships last year and tookaway millions of dollarsin ransom.

Somali waters are nowpatrolled by more than adozen warships fromcountries including Brit-ain, France, Germany,Iran, the United States andChina.

South Korea has alsoordered warships sent tothe region to protect itsvessels and crews frompirates.

Internet

A sign advertising a car dealership is seen in Los Angeles on 3 Feb, 2009. USauto sales plunged to a 27-year low in January, a steeper-than-expected dropthat took the slumping US market below China’s for the first time.—INTERNET

This Herbert RiverExpress photo, on 3

Feb, shows the floodedIngham area betweenCairns and townsvillein north Queensland.

INTERNET

JERUSALEM, 4 Feb— Despite the recent debilitatingconfrontation with Israeli army in Gaza Strip, Hamasis no more likely to seek reconciliation with its secu-lar counterpart Fatah, leaving the Palestinian nationdivided and any chance for Israeli-Palestinian peacenegotiations unsettled.

Hamas boldly rejected Palestinian National Author-ity (PNA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ suggestion fornational reconciliation under the umbrella of the Pal-estine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Monday, andaccused Abbas of siding with Israel during its 22-day-long Cast Lead Operation in Gaza, which came to aclose on 18 Jan, killing about 1,400 Palestinians.

Internet

SYDNEY, 4 Feb—Floods ravaging northern Australiahave washed crocodiles onto the streets, where onewas hit by a car, authorities said in a warning to resi-dents on Wednesday.

More than 60 percent of the vast northeastern stateof Queensland has been declared a disaster area, andflooding after two recent cyclones has affected almost3,000 homes, they said.

The army has been called in to help with rescueand recovery efforts, while three reports of large croco-diles washed up from flooded rivers have come in fromhomes in the Gulf of Carpentaria region.

“I’m not sure if it’s the same crocodile movingaround — on the three sides of Normanton there’s beena large croc seen right up close to the water’s edge,”said mayor Joyce Zahner. “Hopefully he’ll stay in thewater and the kids will stay on the land,” Zahner toldthe Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

A crocodile measuring 1.6 metres (5.3 feet) long wasrun over by a car on a street in the nearby city ofTownsville on Tuesday, wildlife rangers said.—Internet

CHICAGO, 4 Feb—Ford Motor Co said onTuesday that its US saleswere 40 percent lower inJanuary than a year ago,fleet sales 65 percentlower, and retail sales toindividuals 27 percentlower.

Analysts believed thatFord’s sales figures maykick off the industry’s

Ford US sales plunge 40%fourth straight monthlydecline of more than 30percent.

But the second largestauto manufacturer in theUS said that the Januarysales for itself and theoverall industry were inline with company expec-tations, and that retail de-mand appears to be stabi-lizing.

Ford struggles to con-tinue operations withoutfederal assistance, whichmay reduce Ford Family’scontrol.

Ford burned 5.5 billiondollars in cash last quar-ter, and finished the yearwith cash reserves of 13.4billion dollars, the com-pany said last week in astatement.—Internet

MOSCOW, 4 Feb — ARussian Mi-24 helicoptergunship crashed in thesouthern region ofSaratov, killing all threecrew members on Tues-day, according to mediareports.

The Itar-Tass newsagency, citing Air Forcespokesman VladimirDrik, reported that the

DHAKA, 4 Feb— SaudiArabian Airlines moves tocut one-third of its passen-ger flights between thecountry’s major cities andBangladesh’s capitalDhaka in April, leadingEnglish daily The Finan-cial Express reported onWednesday.

The leading Arab car-rier has drawn a plan tocut back its flights to eightfrom 12 as the passengers’traffic slid on the back ofa freeze on manpower re-cruitment from Bangla-desh, the newspaperquoted travel traders assaying.

A Dhaka-based airlineofficial told the newspa-per that the carrier wouldimplement the plan fromApril this year.

Internet

Russian helicopter gunship crash kills threecrew members werekilled when the helicop-ter crashed at the Puga-chyov airfield.

The helicopter hasburned and the crew aredead,” Drik was quoted assaying.

He said the crashcaused no casualties ordamage on the ground.

The crash may have

been caused by a techni-cal failure, Interfax re-ported, citing a source inthe investigation commis-sion.

A final determinationwill be made after a de-tailed examination of theblack boxes that recordedthe helicopter’s flight fig-ures, Drik said.

Internet

Israeli-Palestinian peace remains dismal asHamas-Fatah reunion unlikely

Australian floods wash crocodilesinto streets

Saudi Arabiato cut one-third

of flightslinking

Bangladesh

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China bans tainted US peanutpaste foods

Iraqi security forces capture womanresponsible for recruiting suicide bombers

Russia, Belarus to buildcommon air defence system

MOSCOW, 4 Feb—Russia and Belarus signed anagreement on Tuesday to establish a common air de-fence system, local media reported.

The document was signed following talks in theKremlin between Russian President Dmitry Medvedevand his Belarussian counterpart AlexanderLukashenko. The creation of the joint air defence sys-tem should go together with the development of mili-tary relations between Moscow and Minsk,Lukashenko was quoted by Itar-Tass as saying.

Moscow will also consider granting an additionalloan of several billion rubles to Minsk and boost en-ergy cooperation with the close ally, said Russian presi-dential aide Sergei Prikhodko. —Xinhua

DPRK top leader calls forboosting agriculture

PYONGYANG, 4 Feb—Kim Jong Il, the top leader ofthe Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK),called on the people to make efforts to boost agricul-tural production, the official KCNA news agency saidTuesday.

Improving the agriculture industry is one of themost important tasks in building a great, prosperousand powerful nation, Kim said while visiting a farmin South Hamgyong Province, the KCNA said with-out giving the date.

Kim called on the rural people to cultivate seedssuitable to the domestic land and to rely on scienceand mechanization so as to greatly increase outputper unit area. —Xinhua

Oil prices rebound as OPECsignals further output cuts

NEW YORK, 4 Feb—Oil prices rebounded Tuesdayas Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) signaled it might cut more production to boostprices.

The OPEC warned on Tuesday it could cut outputsagain on March 15’s meeting. The cartel has agreed tocut its output by 4.2 million barrels per day since lastyear. Oil prices were also boosted by the equities mar-kets, after better-than-expected US pending home salesdata boosted sentiment about the economy.

Light, sweet crude for March delivery rose 70 centsto settle at 40.78 US dollars a barrel on the New YorkMercantile Exchange.—Xinhua

China’s first Antarcticinland research

station, the KunlunStation, officially

began operation on 2Feb, 2009.—XINHUA

All items from Xinhua News Agency

A villager makes alantern in Yangzhao

village, Jishan county,north China’s ShanxiProvince, on 3 Feb,

2009. Various lanternsare geared up for theimpending Chinese

Lantern Festival, whichfalls on 9 Feb.

XINHUA

BEIJING, 4 Feb—Chinahas banned food importsfrom 11 United States-based companies whoseproducts have been taintedwith peanut butter or pastethat contain salmonellabacteria, Wednesday’sChina Daily reported.

The blacklisted 11 foodmanufacturers include thePeanut Corporation ofAmerica (PCA), consid-ered the source of the con-tamination, and also thebreakfast cereal makerKellogg, according to theGeneral Administration of

Quality Supervision, In-spection and Quarantine(AQSIQ).

All companies sellingPCA’s peanut butter orpeanut paste products con-taminated with SalmonellaTyphimurium while beingprocessed at a Georgiaplant, were recently re-called by United States.

The Salmonella Typh-imurium bacteria cancause diarrhea, nausea,vomiting, stomach crampsand fever. The symptomsappear within 12 to 72hours. An inspection led

by the US Food and DrugAdministration (FDA) re-portedly found PCA’splant “not compliant withcurrent good manufactur-ing practices required bythe FDA”.

The investigation alsofound problems in clean-ing procedures, and thecompany failed to imple-ment steps to mitigate sal-monella contamination inthe facility as well. Some400 food products contain-ing PCA butter have beenrecalled across the UnitedStates. —Xinhua

Women drink cocktails at an ice bar during a photo opportunity in the AlphaResort-Tomamu’s ice village in Shimukappu town, Japan’s northern island of

Hokkaido, on 3 Feb, 2009. —XINHUA

Missing UAE shipfeared seized by

pirates off SomaliaNAIROBI, 4 Feb—A

Comoros-registered cargoship is missing off Soma-lia with 14 Indian crewaboard and a Kenyan mari-time official said on Tues-day he feared it had beenseized by pirates.

Andrew Mwangura,East Africa’s Coordinatorof Seafarers AssistanceProgramme (SAP), said theMV Jaikur II, owned by AlRashid Shipping Dubaiwent missing while sailingon Somali waters fromKenya. “The vessel leftMombasa a week ago with14 Indians headed forSomalia but it’s missing onSomali waters. We fear thepirates might have seizedit,” Mwangura told Xinhuaby telephone. If confirmed,the MV Jaikur II would bethe fourth vessel being heldby pirates this year in oneof the world’s most danger-ous waterways.—Xinhua

BAGHDAD, 4 Feb—Iraqi security forces cap-tured a woman said to beresponsible for recruiting80 female suicide bomb-ers, a senior officer saidon Tuesday. “Our securityforces have arrestedSamira Ahmed Jassim,51, also known as Um al-Mumeneen, or the moth-ers of believers, who con-fessed her responsibilityfor recruiting 80 as sui-cide bombers,” Major

General Qassim Atta toldreporters in Baghdad.

Atta said that Jassim,who was captured on 21Jan, confessed that she isaffiliated to the Ansar al-Sunna, an militant groupclose to al-Qaida network.

“The woman confessedresponsibility for 28 sui-cide attacks in differentareas in Baghdad andDiyala,” Atta said, with-out saying where thewoman was arrested.

Atta also showed re-porters a video tape ofJassim confessing duringinterrogation. She dresseda traditional black Abayaand talked about how sherecruit women and pre-pare them for the attacks.

Jassim sends thewomen to a farm whereterrorists provide the sui-cide bombers with bombsand then she take them tothe targeted places, ac-cording to Atta.—Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

Sculptor Antony Gormley is seenwith his sculpture Filter which has

recently been acquired byManchester Art Gallery with an

800,000 pound (US$112,600) grantfrom independent art charity TheArt Fund , Manchester, England.The sculpture is being shown in

public for the first time in the UKmaking Manchester Art Gallery one

of five regional galleries in thecountry to have an Antony Gormley

on permanent display.

The Russian-made GlobalSatellite Navigation System(GLONASS) will soon startoperating. The bill “RegardingNavigation Activity” wasapproved on Friday by theState Duma in the finalreading.

The bill creates the legalplatform for co-operation ofall users of the Russiannavigation system in differentspheres of economy andregulates the use ofGLONASS for Russiandefence and security purposes.

The document specifies thepowers of the President, thestate and regional governments,companies and individuals inthe navigation sphere. The newnavigation equipment will beinstalled on transport, militarymachines and arms samples,

A female wild boar and her youngsfeeding in the wild. A webcam set

up in an Estonian forest hasproven an unexpected hit among

Internet surfers who want to catcha glimpse of wild boars feeding

and frolicking in the snow,organizers said.

New navigation system authorised

regulated by Russiannavigation systems.

The installation ofnavigation systems on theDefence Ministry’s equip-ment will cost around 9.5billion roubles ($US 270million). About 46,000complete sets of thenavigating equipment andabout 600 control stations areplanned to be allocated toother state structures. Thecost of installation isestimated at 3.5 billionroubles ($US 100 million).

Scrap workersfind $128,000 in

safeWorkers at a steel

plant near Berlinfound 100,000 euros($128,500) in a safethat a bank had sentto be scrapped — butthey did the decentthing and gave itback.

An employee atGermany’s Post-bank had failed totake out the cashbefore sending thesafe to the scrap-yard. SpokesmanRalf Palm blamed“the carelessnessof an employeewhen a branch officemoved inDecember.”

A person rides a bicycle. Travelling towork by bike is both good for your healthand can boost a company’s profits, theDutch Transport Ministry said on Monday.

Fire station burns aftercooking mishap

A blaze broke out at a fire station inJapan this week after a firefighter left acooking stove burning as crew membersleft the station to respond to emergencycalls. Most of the duty staffers were out ona call when their colleague, alone at thestation and cooking dinner for the crew,was himself called out.

In his haste to respond to the call, heforgot to turn the stove off, said Seiji Hori,a Nagoya City Fire Department official.Ten fire trucks from other stations put outthe fire, Hori added. “We are an institutethat should be in a position to educatepeople about fire, so we are extremelysorry that such an incident happened,”Hori said, adding that they would considerordering-in for dinner from now on.

A customer checkingout Motorola phones at

a store. Motorolareported a huge fourth-quarter loss on Tuesday

and said it was sus-pending its dividend

and looking for a newchief financial officer.

INTERNET

CAIRO, 4 Feb —Hamasofficials said on Tuesdaythey are ready to committo a cease-fire with Israelfor at least a year in ex-change for a full openingof Gaza’s borders, as thegroup began a new roundof truce talks with Egyp-tian mediators.

At the same time, for-eign ministers of pro-USArab nations, includingSaudi Arabia, met in the

VILLAVICENCIO, 4 Feb— Colombia’s FARCguerrillas on Tuesdayfreed a former governorheld hostage for morethan seven years, the fifthcaptive released this weekby Latin America’s oldestsurviving left-wing insur-gency.

A Red Cross teamswooped by helicopter

BRNO, 4 Feb — ACzech hospital has beenordered to pay damages tothe families of two girlswho were switched atbirth and spent 10 monthswith the wrong parents.

A court in Brno set thedamages at a total of$150,000, Radio Praguesaid.

The hospital had of-fered the couples $13,000each, leading to the litiga-tion.

The girls were born inTrebic Hospital inMoravia. Months later,one of the fathers secretlyhad his ostensible daugh-ter’s DNA tested and dis-covered he was not thefather. Subsequent testing

LONDON, 4 Feb — Western powers have expressedserious concerns after Iran launched its first domesti-cally-made satellite into orbit.Iran says the satellite,carried on a Safir-2 rocket, is meant for research andtelecommunications purposes and insists its intentionsare peaceful.

But the US, UK and France have voiced concernsthat the technology used could lead to ballistic missiledevelopment.The move comes a day before officialsfrom six world powers meet to discuss a row overIran’s nuclear activities.

Iran is subject to United Nations sanctions becausesome Western powers think it is trying to build a nu-clear bomb.Tehran denies that claim and says its nu-clear ambitions are limited to the production of en-ergy.

The group of six — comprising the US, Russia,China, UK, France and Germany — has offered Iran apackage of incentives if it suspends uranium enrich-ment and enters into talks on its nuclear programme.

Internet

Hamas prepared for 1-year truce with open bordersUnited Arab Emirates ina show of unity in supportfor Egypt’s efforts toforge a long-term truceand against Iran, Hamas’most important ally.

Egypt is trying to me-diate a durable cease-firein place of the temporaryand increasingly wobblytruce that ended the Gazawar last month.

It has set a Thursdaydeadline for the Islamic

militant rulers of Gaza toaccept a deal. But the com-plicated details of an ac-cord appeared unresolvedwith border security ar-rangements a key obstacle.

“There is an agreementin principle about a calmfor one year,” said AhmedAbdel-Hadi, a Lebanon-based Hamas official.

Internet

Iran satellite move sparks fears

Colombian guerrillas release captive politicianinto the jungles of south-ern Colombia to pick upex-governor Alan Jara andferry him to the town ofVillavicencio where hisweeping wife and sonhugged the smiling poli-tician as he stepped ontothe tarmac.

The FARC freed threecaptive police officers anda soldier on Sunday and

another handover isplanned for later thisweek, fuelling speculationthat the weakened rebelswant to recover politicalcapital after a year of mili-tary setbacks.

Thin but in good spir-its, Jara said a rebel chiefgave him two minutes topack before marching himseven weeks to thehandover. After years inchains, suffering junglediseases and dodging armybombs, fellow hostagescheered him as he left.

“Every one of those2,760 nights in captivitywas suffering,” Jara toldreporters after his release.“That humidity rots eve-rything, and those outthere in the jungle are rot-ting. We have to get themout.”— Internet

Couples to get damages for switched babiesshowed his partner wasnot the girl’s mother.Thecompensation is beingsplit among the parentsand daughters accordingto an assessment of whosuffered the most psycho-logical damage. The fa-ther whose actionsbrought the switch to lightgets the least.

News coverage fromlate 2007 when the storywas reported set off awave of DNA testingamong new parents in theCzech Republic. The casealso started a debate abouthow psychologicaltrauma should be assessedwhen victims seek finan-cial damages. —Internet

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Setse beach attracting attention of more touristsArticle: Maung Maung Htwe (MNA); Photos: Hla Moe (MNA)

On the tour of Mon State, we also dropped inSetse beach in Thanbyuzayat.

Our country is also known as Golden Land ofMyanmar due to a good number of beach resorts withnatural beauty. Of them, Ngapali, Chaungtha,Ngwehsaung, Maungmagan and Setse establish areputation among tourists at home and abroad.

Being journalists, we have been to such beachesas Ngapali, Chaungtha and Ngwehsaung several times.The beach resorts in our country have their specificcharacters; some are serene and some are picturesque.Setse beach resort can be compared to a charmingdamsel.

Setse beach is 10 miles west of Thanbyuzayat, 50miles from Mawlamyine and 237 miles from Yangon.The sandy beach stretches out two miles from east towest. Despite being part of Mottama Gulf, Setsebeach has never seen any attacks of large sea animals.It has 21 department-owned guest houses.

Now, plans are well under way to grace Setsebeach in order that its standard will be on a par withthat of its counterparts that tourists can visit forrelaxation.

The process consists of 10 programmes: to spruceup and make the beach pleasant and green; to arrangethe lodging houses and buildings in a well-organizedway; to nurture the trees in the compounds and onboth sides of the main road along the beach; toupgrade shops, restaurants and photo studios; tosupply adequate safe water; to keep public lavatoriesclean and tidy; to supply sufficient power supply; toensure smooth transport along the beach; to take

the interest and develop the region. When the projectis over, tourists may take a car trip to enjoy naturalbeauty and pleasant splashes of the waves along thebeach.

Apart from the ongoing projects, a long-term planwill come into force to transform Kyetthon Island,seven miles from Setse beach, into a pleasant and

unity and in harmony from time immemorial andwhich is blessed with various forms of naturalresources in abundance such as gold, silver, preciousstones along with fertile soil. Therefore, it is nowonder Myanmar is called Golden Land.

Translation: MSKyemon: 2-2-2009

Several projects are ongoing to spruce up Setse beach.

Some tourists enjoying themselves in Setse beach resort.

preparedness measures against natural disasters; andto launch other activities to beautify the beach.

As part of the drive to attract more attention of thevisitors, festivities including festivals such as hot airballoon festival, sand pagoda building festival andsports activities are held season-wise.

Moreover, a straight Setse-Kyaikkhami road isunder construction along the beach in order to add to

beautiful recreation centre in a bid to upgrade thebeach resort to a grand tourist destination.

Thanks to the ongoing projects beingimplemented under the long view, Setse beach isexpected to catch up with other famous beach resortssoon.

The Union of Myanmar is a multicultural land,where over 100 national races have been living in

Talks on boostingbusiness performance

on 8 FebYANGON, 4 Feb—Organized by

Myanmar Computer EntrepreneursAssociation, an educative talks on “Howadoption of technology can boostbusiness performance” will be held atMyanmar Info-tech on 8 February.

Mr Colin Glass, Chief ExecutiveOfficer, Spring Board4 Asia, will givethe talks. Members of the associationand those wishing to attend the talksmay contact Myanmar Info-tech in HlineTownship, Ph 652238 not later than 5February.

MNA

SCIENCEDAILY, 4 Feb — Picturethis: an accurate map of a largeunderground oil reservoir that can guide

Improving oil extraction with new mapping technology engineers' efforts to coax the oil fromthe vast rocky subsurface into wellswhere it can be pumped out for storageor transport.

Researchers in MIT's Departmentof Civil and Environmental Engineeringhave developed technology that cangenerate such a map, which has thepotential to significantly increase theamount of oil extracted from reservoirs.

The new technology uses the digitalimage compression technique of JPEGto create realistic-looking,comprehensive maps of undergroundoil reservoirs using measurements fromscattered oil wells. These maps wouldbe the first to provide enough detailabout an oil reservoir to guide oilrecovery in the field in real time.

Internet

The top image shows the oilsaturation map in a benchmark

reservoir model with knownproperties (referred to as the true

model). The bottom image shows anearly identical reconstruction of that

same reservoir map using theMcLaughlin/Jafarpour solution

approach, which took isolated datafrom 23 wells and simulated a 36-month recovery effort. Black dots

represent the wells, remaining oil isindicated in red, and blue shows the

water that remains undergroundfollowing water pumping.

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Public Notice1. The following medicines smuggled into Myanmar across the border areunregistered ones, with no quality guarantee.

Sr.No.

Medicine Company Country

1. Dexamethasone Tablet New Life Pharma Co Ltd Thailand (Dexamethasone 0.5 mg)

2. Periactin Tablet M & H Manufacturing Co Ltd Thailand (Cyproheptadine HC1 4 mg)

3. Stugin Tablet Bangkok Lab & Thailand(Cinnarizine 25 mg) Cosmetic Co Ltd

4. Tramacap Capsule New Life Pharma Co Ltd Thailand (Tramadol HC1 50mg)

5. Dicotil Tablet Picco Pharma Co Ltd Thailand (Loperamide HC1 2 mg)

(from page 1)Shri Ansari has

extensively writ tenseveral academic andnewspaper articles onissues of foreign policy,especially West Asia.

Shri Ansari hasserved as Vice-Chancellor of theAligarh MuslimUniversi ty during2000-2002. He hasbeen a Visi t ingProfessor, Centre forWest Asian and AfricanStudies, JawaharlalNehru University and

Profile of Shri M. Hamid Ansari, …at the Academy for ThirdWorld Studies, JamiaMilla Islamia in NewDelhi.

Shri Ansari has beenMember of the NationalSecurity AdvisoryBoard, Chairman of theAdvisory Committee forOil Diplomacy and Co-chairman of the India-UK Round Table. Hewas also the Chairmanof the Working Groupon Confidence BuildingMeasures across seg-ments of society in theState established by the

second Round TableConference of thePrime Minister onJammu & Kashmir.

Before his electionas the Vice-President ofIndia on 10 August,2007, Shri Ansari hasbeen Chairman of theFifth Statutory NationalCommission forMinorities during theperiod March 2006 toJuly 2007.

The Vice-Presidentand Smt. Ansari havetwo sons and adaughter. —MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Feb—Chairman of BagoDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of SouthernCommand Brig-Gen HlaMin, on 25 January,inspected distribution ofwater at Zaungtu diversionweir near Bawnatgyivillage, Bago Division. AtZaungtu hydropower

Commander inspects Zaungtu diversionweir and hydropower plant

station, superintendingengineer reported to thecommander on generatingand distribution of electricpower and the commanderleft the necessaryinstructions. Thecommander inspectedmain dam and waterintake.

On 26 January, thecommander inspected

summer paddy farmlandof farmer U Shwe Aye inNyaunglebin Township.He attended the openingceremony of Ahlevillage’s bridge incommemoration of the62nd Anniversary UnionDay and inspectedextension of Nyaung-bintha-Kanyaindaing roadin Pyu Township.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Feb—Chairman of Shan State(East) Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of TriangleRegion Command Brig-Gen Kyaw Phyo on 27January inspectedplantations of potato,summer paddy and

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Feb—Minister for Agricultureand Irrigation Maj-GenHtay Oo inspectedconstruction of the mainright canal of KhabaungDam being undertaken byConstruction (5) of theIrrigation Department andirrigated summer paddyfields in Ottwin Township,

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Feb—Minister for ElectricPower No.1 Col Zaw Min,on 3 February, arrived atShwegyin Hydropowerproject, near KyaukNagavillage about six milesnorth-east of Shwegyin in

YANGON, 4 Feb —U Tun Tun Sweplaying together with U Naing WinAung, U Myo Myint Tun and U Sein

Hole-in-One at Phan-khar-myay GolfCourse in Magway

Win scored hole-in-one at the hole No.11 at Phan-khar-myay Golf Course inMagway on 28 January.—MNA

Upgrading of road inspectedin Maha Aungmyay Township

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Feb—Chairman of MandalayDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of CentralCommand Maj-Gen Tin

Ngwe inspectedresurfacing of road in MahaAungmyay Township,Mandalay on 30 January.

Next, thecommander delivered an

address at workcoordination meeting toexceed the targets of plansat the meeting hall of theoffice of MandalayDivision PDC.—MNA

Villages in Shan State (East) enjoycumulative development

seasonal crops of U SaiYee Kao of Tonhsi Villagein Kengtung Township,and the post-primaryschool of Kattaik Village.

The commanderviewed the shops of thevillage and thedevelopment affairscommittee, and attended

to the needs forconstruction of Wanhsan-Wanhin-Naungshan inter-village road and educationand health care of thevillage-tract. He alsoinspected Yanlaw VillageBasic Education MiddleSchool.

MNA

Khabaung Dam irrigation systems tobenefit 100,000 acres of farmlands

Bago Division, yesterday.The director of

Construction (5) reportedsupply of water from thecanals. The minister calledfor completion of theprojects on schedule.

Now, irrigationsystems of KhabaungDam are underconstruction to benefit

some 100,000 acres offarmlands in Toungoo andOttwin townships throughKhabaung DiversionWeir. So far, the facilitieshave irrigated more than7000 acres of summerpaddy. The remainingsystems are due to beconstructed in the dryseason. — MNA

Shwegyin Hydropower projectcompleted over 73 percent

Bago Division, beingimplemented by No.4Construction of Hydro-power ImplementationDepartment. At thebriefing hall, the ministerfulfilled the need afterhearing the reports.

Afterwards, the ministerinspected earthwork,installation of pipe line andlaying concert. So far, theworks of ShwegyinHydropower project havebeen completed by 73.5percent.—MNA

Tobacco kills

Minister Maj-Gen

Htay Oo inspects

construction of

Khabaung dam.

A&I

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2. The people are, therefore, reminded to consume domestically-registeredmedicines only, not such unregistered ones.3. Pharmaceutical companies and drug stores are hereby prohibited fromimporting, distributing and selling unregistered medicines, fake medicines, andsubstandard medicines, or they will face action to be taken in accordance with theexisting law.

Ministry of Health

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NAY PYI TAW, 4 Feb— The third cash donationceremony for all-roundrenovation of Historic YanAung Myin Shwe Lat HlaPagoda was held at the inNay Pyi Taw Lewepagoda on 2 February.

It was attended byPatron of committee for

Donations for all-round renovationof historic Pagoda

all-round renovation ofHistoric Yan Aung MyinShwe Lat Hla PagodaCommander of Nay PyiTaw Command Maj-GenWai Lwin, Minister forProgress of Border Areasand National Races andDevelopment Affairs ColThein Nyunt, the deputy

ministers, members of thecommittee, officials, guestand wellwishers.

A total of 97wellwishers donated K261,103,220 including K21,733,150 donated by 36wellwishers who wereunable to attend theceremony. —MNA

YANGON, 4 Feb—Chairman of TaninthayiDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of CoastalRegion Command Maj-Gen Khin Zaw Oo,Minister for Livestock andFisheries Brig-GenMaung Maung Thein andMinister for Commu-nications, Posts andTelegraphs Brig-GenThein Zaw on 1 Februaryheard reports on trunk call

Development of Dawei, Launglon,Thayetchaung townships under inspection

and mobile commu-nications and future taskspresented by officials atAuto-exchange andMicrowave Station inDawei.

They inspected thesite for construction ofLaunglon Auto-Exchangeand visited MaungmaganBeach. Next, they viewedthe site for construction ofthe bridge in Yebyu.

On 2 February, theyinspected Thayetchaung

Auto-exchange, the sitefor new exchange and thelibrary in ThayetchaungTownship.

In Dawei, they heardreports on progress inconstruction of Dawei-Myeik railroad byofficials. In the evening,Minister Brig-Gen MaungMaung Thein metdepartmental personnelunder the ministry atDawei District FisheriesDepartment.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Feb— Chairman of Shan StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofEastern Command Brig-Gen Ya Pyae met withdepartmental personnel,townselders and localpeople at the hall ofNamhsan Township on 21January.

After hearing reportson supply of electricity atKengtawng hydropowerstation presented byofficials, the commandergave necessary instructionsand looked into distributionof electricity at control room

Commander meets departmentpersonnel in Namhsan Township

of main power station(branch).

Next, the commanderoversaw road works at milepost No (206) on Namhsan-Kunhing road.

On 26 January, thecommander delivered anaddress at the openingceremony to provide freemedical treatment to clefpalate and cleft lips patientsat Sao San Tun Hospitaland comforted patients.

Next, the commanderand party looked intomaintenance ofNyaungshwe-Shwenyaungroad section.

At the meeting hall ofNo (2) Military Hospital inAungban, the commanderattended the ceremony tohand over Topcon ManualOperation Microscopedonated by InternationalBeverages Trading Co Ltdand inspected operationtheater and intensive careunit of the hospital.

Next, the commanderlooked into construction oflow-cost housing complexnear Thamongkham villageon Kalaw-Taunggyimotorway and attended tothe needs.

MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Khin Zaw Oo, Ministers Brig-Gen MaungMaung Thein and Brig-Gen Thein Zaw inspect library in Nyaungzin

model village.—MNA

Deputy Minister Dr Paing Soe makes speech at the meeting of the WorkCommitte for Upgrading Nay Pyi Taw National Herbal Garden.—MNA

Acting Director-General Dr Win Myint makes speech at the ceremony to open the 29thConference of Myanmar Dental Association and the 10th joint meeting of FDI-MDA.—MNA

Ways sought for development ofNational Herbal Garden

YANGON, 4 Feb — Theopening of the 29thConference of MyanmarDental Association washeld in conjunction withthe 10th joint meeting ofFDI-MDA at TradersHotel here this morning

Opening of MDA Conference, FDI-MDA joint meeting heldwith an opening addressby Acting Director-General Dr Win Myint ofHealth Department.

The acting director-general and Chairman ofMDA Prof. Dr Thein Htutopened the medicine and

medical equipment booth.Next, a respect-paying

ceremony followed.Then the chairman of

the association, FDIRepresentative Dr. W.Keung Leung andchairman of reception

committee Prof. Dr PwintPhu delivered addresses.

Next, officials read outannual reports and paperreading session followed.

The session and jointmeeting is held up to 6February. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Feb—The Work Committee forUpgrading Nay Pyi TawNational Herbal Garden helda meeting at the garden herethis morning.

Chairman of thecommittee Deputy Minister

for Health Dr Paing Soe inhis speech said that theMinistry of Progress ofBorder Areas and NationalRaces and DevelopmentAffairs, the Ministry ofForestry, the Ministry ofHealth and the Ministry ofAgriculture and Irrigationare pursuing a common goalof upgrading the garden incompliance with theguidance of the Head ofState. All are to work hardtogether for its developmentas it is a pride of the nation,he said, calling for

sustainable progress of thegarden.

Deputy Minister forProgress of Border Areasand National Races andDevelopment Affairs ColTin Ngwe delivered anaddress. Director-General ofthe Traditional MedicineDepartment Dr Tin Nyuntgave an account of ongoingwork for progress of thegarden. Members of thework committee madesuggestions about workprogress done department-wise.—MNA

All this needs to be known

* Do not be frightened wheneverintimidated

* Do not be bolstered wheneverflattered

* Do not be softened wheneverappeased

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(from page 16)Indeed, the Myanma

Five Star Line is aninternational levelshipping line and it hashad (the InternationalStandard Organization)ISO 9001:2000 and thecertificate ofInternational SafetyManagement.

In line with themotto of the Ministry ofTransport: “To uplift theeconomy throughtransport service”,vessels of MFSL aretransporting heavymachinery, machines,machine spare parts, rawmaterials, locomotivesand carriages from therespective ports toMyanmar through thefree on board (FOB)system.

Beginning 1994,the MFSL has beenrunning the Yangon-

Coastal and overseas shippings contributingto development of transport sector

Article & Photos: Soe Maung (MFSL)

MV Bago of Myanma Five Star Line loaded with containers.

S i n g a p o r e - Y a n g o ncontainer transport route.At present, theorganization extended itscontainer transportservice along theYangon-Pot Kilan-S i n g a p o r e - Y a n g o nroute. Moreover, the planis under way to extendthe container transportroute in the ASEANregion.

As the MFSL hasmore opportunities toundertake thetransportation of exportand import commoditiesof the country,arrangements are beingmade to buy new vesselsfor its fleet.

To implement the aimfor ensuring easy andsmooth transportation ofMyanmar coastal regionsand speedy flow ofcommodities laid down bythe State Peace and

Development Council,a jetty that measures 220metres by 19.5 metres, thepassenger lounge, thewarehouse and thecontainer yard were builton 33.257 acres of landnear Bago River inThakayta Township.

For the coastaltransport services, salesof tickets for coastalroutes, berthing of thepassenger ships, loadingand unloading ofcommodities ofdepartments concernedand private entrepreneursfrom coastal liners arebeing carried out.

The coastal linersunder the MFSL aretransporting over 50,000passengers and over100,000 tons ofcommodities yearly.

The MFSL isrendering services for theentrepreneurs in the

transportation of exportand import goods byconventional vessel.

In implementing FourEconomic Objectives of

the State, the MFSL isundertaking the local andforeign transport servicesfor development of thetransport sector in line

with the market-orientedeconomic system.

*******Translation: TTAKyemon: 31-1-2009

CARDIFF, 4 Feb —Cardiff University re-searchers, who are part ofa British-German teamsearching the depths ofspace to study gravita-tional waves, may havestumbled on one of themost important discover-ies in physics, accordingto an American physicist.

Centre for ParticleAstrophysics in Illinois isconvinced that he hasfound proof in the data ofthe gravitational wave de-tector GEO600 of a holo-graphic Universe – andthat his ideas could ex-

Holographic Universeplain mysterious noise inthe detector data that hasnot been explained so far.

The British-Germanteam behind the GEO600,which includes scientistsfrom the School of Phys-ics and Astronomy'sGravitational PhysicsGroup, will now carry outnew experiments in thecoming months to yieldmore evidence aboutCraig Hogan's assump-tions. If proved correct, itcould help in the quest tobring together quantummechanics and Einstein'stheory of gravity.

In order to test thetheory of holographicnoise, the frequency ofGEO600´s maximumsensitivity will be shiftedtowards ever higher fre-quencies. The frequencyof maximum sensitivityis the tone that the detec-tor can hear best. It isnormally adjusted to of-fer the best chance forhearing exploding starsor merging black holes.

Even if it turns outthat the mysterious noiseis the same at high fre-quencies as at the lowerones, this will not consti-tute proof for Hogan's hy-pothesis. It would, how-ever, provide a strong mo-tivation for further study. The sensitivity ofGEO600 will then be sig-nificantly improved byusing 'squeezed vacuum'and by the installation of amode filter in a newvacuum chamber. Thetechnology of 'squeezedvacuum' was particularlyrefined in Hannover andwould be used in a gravi-tational wave detector forthe first time.—InternetView through one of the tubes of GEO600.

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Feb—Shwepyae NgweshanBridge crossing Po ThaAung Creek linkingZeetaw Village in NattalinTownship and MagyeebinVillage in PaungdeTownship was opend atZeetaw Village in NattalinTownship on 1 February.

Deputy Minister forEnergy Brig-Gen Than

Bridge, rural road inauguratedin two townships

Htay attended theceremony and met localpeople and presented cashfor maintenance of thebridge.

The deputy ministerattended the openingceremony of earth roadlinking Wanetyon Villageand HtaukkyantkwinVillage in NattalinTownship. He met local

people at Basic EducationPrimary School inWanetyon Village andpresented cash formaintenance of the road.

The deputy ministeralso met with local peopleat BEPS in PanntinlayVillage of ZigonTownship and presentedcash donation for theschool.—MNA

Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Than Htay cuts ribbon to open earth roadlinking Wanetyon Village and Htaukkyantkwin Village in Nattalin

Township.—MNA

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A model displays

gold thread made

wedding dresses,

designed by

Japanese

designer Yumi

Katsura and

tiaras, and priced

30 million

Japanese Yen in

Tokyo, Japan, on

4 Feb, 2009.

INTERNET

JAKARTA, 4 Feb—The Indonesian Fisheries andMaritime Affairs Ministry is improving the fisheryproducts’ quality to prepare for EU’s inspection.

An EU inspection team is to come to Indonesiafrom 23 Feb till March 6 for a regular evaluation.

EU Team will evaluate how the Indonesian fisheryindustry has improved on a control system and fisheryproduct cultivation,” the ministry’s head of Data andInformation Center Soen’an Hadi Poenomo told Xinhuaon Wednesday.

According to Soen’an, the evaluation tour willcover fishing vessels with the equipment, cold storage,laboratories, production units and auctions.—Internet

A giant snow sculpture of Disney characters

draws the crowds at Odori park in central

Sapporo, Japan. The week-long 60th Sapporo

Snow Festival runs from on 5 February.

INTERNET

UNITED NATIONS, 4 Feb—The United Nations saysthat 52 civilians have been killed in the past day offighting in Sri Lanka.

A UN spokesman also said that cluster bombs hadhit a hospital, which has been subject to several attacks.

The military denies responsibility for the attacks.There has been no comment from the Tamil Tigerrebels. Meanwhile President Mahinda Rajapaksa saidthe rebels would be “completely defeated in a fewdays” and asked people who had fled to return.

The 52 civilians the UN reported killed were inSudanthirapuram, in Mullaitivu District. Theorganization said another 80 were injured.

Some reports said a makeshift hospital had beenhit there but this has not been verified.

The UN also said the last major hospital in rebel-held territory - in the town of Puthukkudiyiruppu - hadbeen hit by cluster bombs. It said the hospital had beenevacuated after 16 hours of shelling. It is not clear whofired those shells.

The Sri Lankan government has previously ruledout any ceasefire and has vowed to crush the rebels.

Internet

Panasonic expects net loss of$4.2 bln, to cut 15,000 jobs

Indonesia improves fisheryproducts quality for EU

inspectionTOKYO, 4 Feb—Japan’s electronics giantPanasonic Corp. saidWednesday it willconsider cutting about15,000 jobs worldwide bythe end of March next yearas part of the cost-savingmeasures to combat theglobal economic crisis.

Panasonic, formallyMatsushita ElectricIndustrial Co., also said itwill close down 13domestic and 14 overseasproduction bases by theend of March this year.

The Osaka-basedcompany expects a net lossof 380 billion yen (4.2billion dollars) in thecurrent fiscal year throughMarch because of theongoing global economiccrisis, its first red ink insix years.

Panasonic reportedWednesday a net profit of

65.38 billion yen for itsgroup business in theApril-December period.The net profit for the firstnine months of fiscal 2008represents a 70 percentplunge from a year earlier.

The projected loss forthe whole of fiscal 2008 isa sharp contrast with arecord-high 310 billionyen profit the firmprojected in April lastyear.—Internet

Hamas police ‘seize aid for Gaza’

UK soldier arrested for givingcivilian killing figures in

Afghanistan

Dozens dead’ inS Lanka fighting

GAZA, 4 Feb—Hamaspolicemen have seizedthousands of blankets andfood parcels that weremeant to be distributed toPalestinian civilians inGaza, UN officials say.

A UN spokesman saidpolicemen raided a UNwarehouse on Tuesdayafter officials refused to

hand over the aid to aH a m a s - c o n t r o l l e dministry. The UN said itwas the first time its aidhad been confiscated byHamas.

It condemned theaction and demanded thegoods be immediatelyreturned. Hamas deniedits men had taken any aid.

UN spokesmanChristopher Gunness saidHamas police took 3,500blankets and over 400food parcels.

The Hamas Social

Affairs Minister in Gaza,Ahmed al-Kurd, deniedthat members of theIslamist movement hadremoved aid from a UNbuilding. However, hesaid his ministry was indispute with the UN reliefagency about how aidshould be distributed.

About half thepopulation in the GazaStrip are dependent on UNfood aid, since Israelimposed a blockade onthe territory 19 monthsago.—Internet

Sarkozy and Merkel said they hoped aNATO summit in April would bringcloser “cooperation with the US andprogress on strategic and arms-control

issues”.—INTERNET

German troops to be stationed in Francefor first time since WW II

BERLIN, 4 Feb—French PresidentNicolas Sarkozy and German ChancellorAngela Merkel have confirmed that a

German battalion will shortly bestationed on French soil for the first timesince World War II.

The hundreds of German troops willbe serving in the Franco-German brigadeset up in 1989 and which currently has2,300 French soldiers and 2,800 Germantroops stationed side-by-side insouthwest Germany.

“After the tragedies of our commonhistory, everyone will understand thehistoric significance of this new step inFranco-German friendship,” they wrote.

Sarkozy and Merkel also said theyhoped a NATO summit in April wouldbring closer “cooperation with the U.S.and progress on strategic and arms-control issues”.—Internet

Syria says US must lift sanctionsto renew ties

WASHINGTON, 4 Feb—The UnitedStates must lift its sanctions on Syria ifPresident Barack Obama wants tonormalise fractured ties, a senior Syrianofficial said on Tuesday. In principle, tohave normal relations between Syria andthe United States, sanctions should belifted. This is going to be a very importantpart of any dialogue between Syria and theUnited States,” Abdullah al-Dardari,Syria’s deputy prime minister for economicaffairs, told Reuters in an interview.

It was the first time Syrian authoritieshave publicly linked rapprochement withthe Obama administration to a lifting ofsanctions, which have taken their toll onthe country’s economy and contributed toyears of international isolation.

In general, we hope to see a differentpolicy in Washington because the previouspolicy failed completely and Mr. Obamahas been promising change,” Dardari said.

The deputy prime minister, who isSyria’s point man on major projects, saidthe impact of sanctions had been limitedwith foreign direct investment stillincreasing by some 30 percent a year, buthe said they had been a psychologicaldeterrent for some foreign investors.Dardari said Syria was feeling the strain ofthe global economic downturn, even if theimpact on its nascent banking sector hadbeen limited, and was eager to attract moreforeign investment — particularly from itsmain trading partners in Europe and otherArab states.—Internet

WAHINGTON, 4 Feb—A Senior British Army officerhas been arrested in Afghanistan for allegedly supplyingcivilian killing figures to a human rights campaigner,British media reported. Lieutenant-Colonel OwenMcNally, 48, was held on suspicion of breaching theOfficial Secrets Act. According to The Sun newspaper,Lieutenant-Colonel Owen McNally, 48, had access tothe figures through his work for Nato’s InternationalSecurity Assistance Force, which is in Afghanistanoccupation. The campaign group Human Rights Watchsaid last year that civilian deaths in Afghanistan fromUS and Nato air strikes nearly tripled to at least 1,633between 2006 and 2007. UK Defence Ministry said ina statement: “We can confirm that a British Armyofficer has been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicionof breaching the Official Secrets Act. He is beingreturned to the UK for questioning.—Internet

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Employee for Japanese weather forecasting company Weathernews, MayukaNakatani, displays some of the 500 pod-shaped pollen counting robots called“Pollen-robot”, which are ready to be used as nationwide monitors to observe

pollen levels ahead of the coming hay fever season, at the company’s head-quarters in Chiba City, suburban Tokyo.—INTERNET

Chemicals used todisrupt cancer

DALLAS, 4 Feb — US medical scientists have iden-tified two chemical compounds that can possibly dis-rupt the growth of many types of cancer and degen-erative diseases.

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centerresearchers screened a chemical library of 200,000compounds to find the chemicals that can be used tostudy and possibly manipulate cellular pathways.

“The identification of these chemicals and their tar-gets within this cellular pathway represents an impor-tant step in developing therapeutic agents,” said As-sistant Professor Lawrence Lum.

Using cultured mouse cells, the researchers studiedbiochemical reactions within cells controlled by a classof proteins called Wnt that help control embryonicdevelopment in many animals, including humans.Misregulation of cellular responses to Wnt proteins isassociated with a broad range of diseases, includingcancer, Alzheimer’s and polycystic kidney disease, andtype 2 diabetes, the scientists said.—Internet Nanotubes used to spur bone growth

HIV expert callsfor access to HIV

drugsROME, 4 Feb — The co-discoverer

of the HIV virus, Luc Montagnier, sayspoor nations need better access to HIVdrugs.While receiving an award inRome on Monday, he bemoaned thedisparity among nations in treating pa-tients with human immunodeficiencyvirus, which causes AIDS, ANSA re-ported.

‘’There is still a great disparity oftreatment between the countries of theSouth and the countries of the North andonly 30 percent of the world’s poor haveaccess to HIV drugs,’’ said Montagnier,a 2008 Nobel Prize winner.

‘’The AIDS epidemic is currently un-der control in the north of the world andmany efforts have been made to spreadthe results of scientific research to thecountries of the south but there are stillgreat difficulties in those countries.”

Internet

Al Hicks of the Department of EnvironmentalConservation photographs hibernating bats in an

abandoned mine in Rosendale, NY. White nosesyndrome is killing more bats over a larger areathis winter, reaching south into New Jersey and

Pennsylvania and leaving caves in hard-hit areaslike New York with decimated bat populations.

INTERNET

In this photo released by the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park, Ramir, a6-week-old Indian rhinoceros, drinks three bottles of milk from one of his

caretakers, Marcia Diehl.—INTERNET

SAN DIEGO, 4 Feb —US scientists say they areusing nanotubes and stemcells to help acceleratebone growth in patientswho undergo orthopedicsurgery.

The University of Cali-fornia-San Diego re-searchers said they placedmesenchymal stem cells

on top of very thin tita-nium oxide nanotubes tocontrol bone buildingcells. Mesenchymal stemcells can be directly sup-plied from a patient’s ownbone marrow, the scien-tists said.

“If you break your kneeor leg from skiing, for ex-ample, an orthopedic sur-

geon will implant a tita-nium rod and you will beon crutches for aboutthree months,” said Pro-fessor Sungho Jin. “Butwhat we anticipatethrough our research isthat if the surgeon uses ti-tanium oxide nanotubeswith stem cells, the bonehealing could be acceler-ated and a patient may beable to walk in one monthinstead of being oncrunches for threemonths.”

The research — said tobe the first of its kind touse stem cells attached totitanium oxide nanotubeimplants — also includedProfessors Shu Chien andAdam Engler, as wellSeunghan Oh and otherresearchers.

Internet

Scientists buildcomplex cellmicrotissues

SAN DIEGO, 4 Feb — US biomedical en-gineers say they have built complex-shapedmicrotissues in a Petri dish by assemblingsmall blocks of living cell clusters.

The Brown University scientists saidtheir achievement, using a 3-D Petri dishthey invented, helps advance the field oftissue engineering and could reduce theneed for some animal research.

Professor Jeffrey Morgan, who led theresearch, said it has enormous implica-tions for basic cell biology, drug discov-ery and tissue research. He said the tis-sues created in the lab are more like natu-ral tissue and can be constructed to havecomplex lace-like patterns similar to avasculature — the arrangement of bloodvessels in the body or in an organ.

“We think this is one step toward us-ing building blocks to build complex-shaped tissues that might one day betransplanted,” he said.—Internet

Arterial disease pain helpedby exercise

ROTTERDAM, 4 Feb —Patients with leg paincaused by arterial diseasemay be able to foregotreatment of the affectedartery by participating inh o s p i t a l - s u p e r v i s e dexercise. Various treat-ments are available, in-cluding drug therapy orendovascular reva-scularization — a mini-mally invasive techniquethat widens and restoresblood flow to the affectedartery — for intermittentclaudication is a painfulleg condition affectingsome patients with periph-eral arterial disease.

Lead author SandraSpronk of the UniversityMedical Center in Rotter-dam in the Netherlandssaid 151 patients with in-termittent claudicationwere randomly assigned toundergo revascularizationor hospital-supervised ex-ercise. Supervised exerciseconsisted of 30-minute,semi-weekly sessions ofwalking on a treadmill.Follow-up was performed

after six and 12 months.“The results from our

clinical trial demonstratethat after six and 12months, patients with in-termittent claudicationbenefited equally from ei-ther revascularization orsupervised exercise,”Spronk said in a statement.

Internet

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File photo shows Toyota Motor workers on a car assembly line at thecompany’s Kyushu plant in Miyata City in Fukuoka prefecture. New vehicle

sales in Japan fell to the lowest level in four decades in January as thedeepening recession depressed consumer sentiment, an industry group

said on Monday.—INTERNET

People look at a bullin Tlacotalpan inMexico’s state of

Veracruz on 1 Feb,2009. Ten half-tonne

bulls charged down thewinding colonial streets

of the small Mexicantown of Tlacotalpan on

Sunday, kicking atscreaming spectators in

a chaotic version ofSpain’s famous

“Running of the Bulls.”INTERNET

A tourist makes a path in the snow on a ridge,some 3,200 metres (10,499 feet) above sea level,in the mountains outside Almaty on 1 Feb, 2009.

INTERNET

NASA, Google launch virtualexploration of Mars

WASHINGTON, 4 Feb —NASA and Google an-nounced Monday the re-lease of a new Mars modein Google Earth thatbrings to everyone’s desk-top a high-resolution,three-dimensional view ofthe Red Planet.

Besides providing arich, immersive 3D viewof Mars that will aid pub-lic understanding of Mars

science, the new mode,Google Mars 3D, alsogives researchers a plat-form for sharing datasimilar to what GoogleEarth provides for Earthscientists.

The mode enables us-ers to fly virtually throughenormous canyons andscale huge mountains onMars that are much largerthan any found on Earth.

Users also can explorethe Red Planet through theeyes of the Mars roversand other Mars missions,providing a unique per-spective of the entireplanet.

Users can see some ofthe latest satellite imageryfrom NASA’s Mars Re-connaissance Orbiter andother probes orbiting theRed Planet. Viewers canlearn about new discover-ies and explore indexes ofavailable Mars im-agery.—Internet

US study insulin possiblenew treatment for

Alzheimer’s disease

Hormone level during pregnancy mayidentify women at risk for postpartum depression WASHINGTON, 4 Feb —

Women who have higherlevels of a hormone pro-duced by the placentamidway through theirpregnancy appear morelikely to develop postpar-tum depression, accordingto a report in the Febru-ary issue of Archives ofGeneral Psychiatry.

Postpartum depres-sion (PPD) is more seri-ous than “baby blues”and begins within four to

six weeks of givingbirth, according to back-ground information inthe article. Risk factorsinclude a history of de-pression, stressful lifeevents, a lack of socialsupport, low self-es-teem, depression, andanxiety or stress duringpregnancy.

However, these riskfactors explain only a por-tion of the differences be-tween women who de-

velop PPD and those whodo not.

“Endocrine risk fac-tors for PPD have beenidentified as well, includ-ing changes in reproduc-tive hormones duringpregnancy, a history ofpremenstrual syndromeand a history of oral con-traceptive-induced moodchanges,” the authorssaid.

Internet

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WASHINGTON, 4 Feb —A Northwestern Univer-sity-led research teamreports that insulin, byshielding memory-form-ing synapses from harm,may slow or prevent thedamage and memoryloss caused by toxic pro-teins in Alzheimer’s dis-ease.

The findings, whichprovide additional newevidence that Alzheim-er’s could be due to anovel third form of dia-betes, was published onMonday in the onlineedition of the Proceed-ings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences.

Internet

Australian researchers makebreakthrough in treating malaria

WASHINGTON, 4 Feb —A team of researchers atAustralia’s Monash Uni-versity has made a majorbreakthrough in the inter-national fight againstmalaria, which claims thelife of a child across theworld every 30 seconds,according to a report pub-lished on Tuesday in theUS Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sci-ences.

The team, based at theMonash University ARCCenter of Excellence inStructural and FunctionalMicrobial Genomics, has

been able to deactivate thefinal stage of the malariaparasite’s digestive ma-chinery, effectively starv-ing the parasite of nutri-ents and disabling its sur-vival mechanism.

This process of starva-tion leads to the death ofthe parasite, which is con-tracted by half a billionpeople and causes around1 million deaths a year.

Leading ProfessorJames Whisstock saidthe results had laid thescientific groundwork tofurther develop a specificclass of drugs to treat

the disease. “About 40 percent of

the world’s population areat risk of contractingmalaria.

It is only early days butthis discovery could oneday provide treatment forsome of those 2.5 billionpeople across the globe,”Whisstock said.

“Drug-resistant ma-laria is an ever increasingproblem, meaning thatthere is an urgent require-ment to develop newtherapeutic strategies,”Whisstock said.

Internet

Chinese infant recovers frombird flu infection

TAIYUAN, 4 Feb —A 3-year-old girl has become theyoungest person ever in China to recover from birdflu infection.The girl, identified only by her surnamePeng, was hospitalized last month in north China’sShanxi Province after being diagnosed with the H5N1strain of avian influenza.She was discharged on Tues-day from the No 4 People’s Hospital in Taiyuan, theprovincial capital of Shanxi.Holding the baby girl inhis arms at the hospital, father Peng Zhiwen said, “Iam so excited, but above all, I should thank all peoplewho have shown care for my daughter.”

She is the first of eight people infected with bird fluin China since the beginning of the year to recover,said Gao Guoshun, chief of Shanxi Provincial Depart-ment of Health.

Internet

NASA postpones Discovery’slaunch by at least one weekWASHINGTON, 4 Feb —

The US National Aero-nautics and Space Admin-istration (NASA) haspostponed space shuttleDiscovery’s launch by atleast one week to give en-gineers more time toanalyze potential prob-lems with a valve thatkeep fuel flowing in Dis-covery’s main engines, apress release from theNASA said on Tuesday.

Discovery’s STS-119

mission to the Interna-tional Space Station origi-nally had been targetedfor 12 Feb. During a re-view of Discovery’sreadiness for flight,NASA managers decidedon Tuesday to plan alaunch no earlier than 19Feb.

The valve is one ofthree that channels gase-ous hydrogen from the en-gines to the external fueltank. —Internet

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S P O R T S

Arshavin completes Arsenal switchLONDON, 4 Feb—Russia forward Andrei Arshavin completed his transfer to

Arsenal from Zenit St Petersburg on Tuesday, the English Premier League club said.The move had been awaiting confirmation from the Premier League after the clubs

failed to announce an agreement before Monday’s 5 pm transfer window deadline.

Andrei Arshavin

Atletico hire Resino as coachto replace Aguirre

MADRID, 4 Feb—Atletico Madrid have hired AbelResino as coach to replace Javier Aguirre, who steppeddown after agreeing to end his contract, the PrimeraLiga club’s president Enrique Cerezo said on Tuesday.

Cerezo said in an interview with Cadena Ser radiothat the club had reached an agreement with formerAtletico goalkeeper Resino, who is coach of seconddivision Castellon.”We have chosen Abel because webelieve he is the right solution for the current situa-tion,” Cerezo said.

Atletico have not won a match this year and slippedto seventh in the standings after a 2-1 home defeat byReal Valladolid on Sunday.The 49-year-old Resinoalso had brief spells as coach of Levante and Ciudad deMurcia, and takes charge just over three weeks beforethe first leg of the club’s Champions League last 16 tieagainst Porto.

Earlier on Tuesday, Aguirre said he had steppeddown after agreeing with Cerezo to end his two-and-a-half year term as coach.Aguirre joined the Madrid sidefrom Osasuna in 2006 and became the first coach sincethey returned to the top flight in 2002 to last more thanone campaign.—Internet

Milan chief says Beckhamwants to stay

David Beckham

FIFA says thirteen nations,11 bids for World Cups

World Cup organizers say PortElizabeth bang on schedule

The Port Elizabethstadium, which initiallyhad construction delays,will now be ready wellbefore the 2010 WorldCup in South Africa,

organizers said onTuesday.—INTERNET

Upset specialists Burnley knockWest Brom out of FA Cup

LONDON, 4 Feb—Steven Thompson scored twice asBurnley claimed their fourth Premier League scalp ofthe season on Tuesday with a 3-1 victory over WestBromwich Albion in their FA Cup fourth round replay.

The Championship (second division) side had al-ready beaten Arsenal, Chelsea and Fulham in theLeague Cup before falling to Tottenham Hotspur in thesemi-finals.The Premier League’s bottom side, whoshared a 2-2 draw with Burnley at the first attempt, gotthemselves back into the game in the 60th minute whenDutch defender Gianni Zuiverloon shot from the edgeof the penalty area into the bottom left

Burnley will go on to face Arsenal or Championshipside Cardiff City, whose replay was postponed due tobad weather.There is more FA Cup fourth-round re-play action on Wednesday when Everton host Mersey-side rivals Liverpool and Sunderland visit BlackburnRovers.—Internet

Tsonga and Ferrer cruiseto victory in South Africa

Fowler joins Australian A-League club Fury

JOHANNESBURG, 4 Feb—The Port Elizabeth sta-dium, which initially hadconstruction delays, willnow be ready well beforethe 2010 World Cup inSouth Africa, organizerssaid on Tuesday.

“We, 2010 FIFA WorldCup Organizing Commit-tee South Africa are de-lighted with the progressmade with the construc-tion of the Nelson MandelaBay Stadium,” organizingcommittee presidentDanny Jordaan said.”It isextremely exciting to see abrand new 2010 FIFAWorld Cup venue takingshape so many monthsahead of its FIFA WorldCup completion deadline.”

The venue had been theonly new stadium chosenfor this year’s eight-na-tion Confederations Cupin June before being dis-carded in July 2008 be-

cause of problems.About40,000 of the 48,000 seatshave already been in-stalled, more than half ofthe 36 beams which sup-port the roof have beenput in position, as well asmost of the columns andother supporting struc-tures.

Internet

“We are delighted to have signed AndreiArshavin, he is a player I have admired for along time,” manager Arsene Wenger told theclub’s website (www.arsenal.com).

“He is a versatile player with great experi-ence, who will add real quality to our squad.Andrei is an exciting impact player with a hugeamount of ability and has been an influentialforce with both Zenit St Petersburg and theRussian national team in recent seasons.”

Internet

The FIFA sign at its headquarters inZurich, Switzerland. —INTERNET

GENEVA, 4Feb—Eng-land, Aus-tralia, theU n i t e dStates andSouth Koreawere amongthe 13 coun-tries to haveformally ex-pressed theirinterest in

hosting the 2018 or 2022 World Cups, FIFA said onTuesday.

The 11 potential bids include joint efforts byBelgium and the Netherlands, who have alreadylinked up to stage Euro 2000, and from 1982 WorldCup hosts Spain and Euro 2004 hosts Portugal. Indo-nesia, Japan (2002 co-hosts with South Korea),Russia, Mexico, the venue for the 1970 World Cup,and Qatar were the other countries that cameforward by Monday’s preliminary deadline, worldfootball’s governing body said in a statement.

One nation noticeable by its absence from this listis China, who decided to pull out of the race due tothe serious problems and low standards of the gamein the country, state media reported. The 13 poten-tial hosts now have to firm up their interest andregister their bids by 16 March.

Internet

MILAN, 4 Feb—DavidBeckham wants to stay atAC Milan after his loanfrom Los Angeles Galaxyfinishes on 9 March, theSerie A club’s chief ex-ecutive, Adriano Galliani,said on Tuesday.

The 33-year-oldmidfielder, who has beenin fine form for Milan,moved to Italy during thelong US close season on atwo-month loan deal to tryto stay in the frame for aplace in the Englandside.Galaxy have insistedBeckham return in Marchbut he has said he is torn.

“We are working tokeep him and I think hewould like that too,”Galliani told Gazzettadello Sport.”Milan will doeverything to haveBeckham even afterMarch. It is clear that it’sour wish to have him untilthe end of the season or ona permanent deal.”

For technical reasons,his loan is actually untilJune meaning Milan cantalk to Galaxy outside ofthe transfer window,which closed on Monday.However, there is a writ-ten agreement that he goesback to the United Statesin March.

“There’s a hope but con-tracts should be honoured,”Galliani added. “If Galaxywant to talk, we would bevery happy to try. But...they are in the right.Beckham must return toAmerica on 9 March . Let’swait.”—Internet

SYDNEY, 4 Feb—Former Liverpool andEngland striker RobbieFowler has signed a two-year deal with new Aus-tralian A-League sideNorth Queensland Fury,according to the club. The33-year-old forward,whose goal-scoring ex-ploits once saw him idol-ised on the red half ofMerseyside, will be theFury’s marquee player asthe club makes its debut

in the A-League this sea-son.

Fury officals describedthe signing as a majorcoup, which showed theclub, based in Townsville,was intent on making asuccessful start.

“Robbie is a legitimateinternational superstar ofthe game and there’s nodoubt he will give us

every chance of win-ning,” Fury chairmanDon Matheson said.“It’staken a lot of work tomake this happen, but itwas worth it because Ireally believe having himplaying for NorthQueensland Fury willchange the way peoplethink about the A-League.”—Internet

JOHANNESBURG, 4 Feb—Big guns Jo-WilfriedTsonga of France andDavid Ferrer of Spaincruised into the secondround of the rain-inter-rupted SA Tennis OpenTuesday. Top seed Tsongagradually took control ofBrazilian Thiago Alves torecord a 6-4, 6-1 centre-

court win in 54 minutes atMontecasino entertain-ment centre in a plush sub-urb of the South Africanfinancial capital.

And after trailing 2-0 inthe opening set, secondseed Ferrer won 12 gamesin a row to overcome IsraelDavis Cup star Dudi Sela6-2, 6-0 and set up a clashwith German Simon Greul.

There were also wins forCzezh Ivo Minar, Portu-guese Frederico Gil, Swissqualifier Marco Chiudinelli,Belgian Kristof Vliegan andFrenchman Jeremy Chardyon courts that were a carpark just three monthsago.ATP tournament ten-nis is back in South Africaafter a 14-year absence in-duced by a lack of fundsand the crowds have fallenin love with charismaticMuhammed Ali-lookalikeTsonga.—Internet

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Kachin, Shan and Mon States, upper Sagaingand Taninthayi Divisions and generally fair in the re-maining areas. Night temperatures were (3˚C) to (4˚C)below February average temperatures in Rakhine State,upper Sagaing and Magway Divisions, (7˚C) to (8˚C)below February average temperatures in Chin State andBago Divisions, (3˚C) above February average tempera-tures in Mon State and Taninthayi Division and aboutFebruary average temperatures in the remaining areas.The significant night temperatures were Hakha (-3˚C),Loilem (1˚C), Pinlaung, Heho and Ann (3˚C) each,Namhsan (4˚C).

Maximum temperature on 3-2-2009 was 93˚F.Minimum temperature on 4-2-2009 was 61˚F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 4-2-2009 was 63%.Total sunshine hours on 3-2-2009 was (9.5) hrs approx.

Rainfall on 4-2-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4)mph from Northwest at (11:30) hours MST on3-2-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea and South Bay and fair elsewhere in theBay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 5th February 2009:Weather will be partly cloudy in Kachin State, upperSagaing and Taninthayi Divisions and generally fair inthe remaining areas.

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuationsof decrease of night temperatures in the Chin State.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 5-2-2009: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 5-2-2009: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 5-2-2009: Generally fair weather.

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A competitor shows a “peonies” carved by him duringa food carving competition in Qingdao, east China’s

Shandong Province, on 4 Feb, 2009.—INTERNET

PARIS, 4 Feb—The smallest planet yetfound outside the Solar System has been detected by aFrench space telescope.

The rocky world is less than twice the size ofEarth.

Only a handful of planets have so far been foundwith a mass comparable to Earth, Venus, Mars orMercury.

The discovery was made by Corot, an orbitingobservatory with a 27cm-diameter telescope to searchfor planets orbiting other stars.

About 330 of these “exoplanets” have beendiscovered so far. But most of them have been gasgiants similar to Jupiter or Neptune.

The new find, Corot-Exo-7b, orbits its Sun-likestar once every 20 hours.

Because the planet is so close to its parent star, itstemperature is between 1,000 and 1,500C - far too hotto support life.

The vast majority of exoplanets have beendiscovered using the radial velocity method.

This looks for spectral signs that a star is wobblingdue to gravitational tugs from an orbiting planet.

But the method favours the detection of largeplanets orbiting close to its parent star.—Internet

Telescope sees smallestexoplanet

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11th Waxing of Tabodwe 1370 ME Thursday, 5 February, 2009

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Feb — Myanma MotionPicture Outstanding Award (Academy Award) Pres-entation Ceremony for 2007 will be held at the NayPyi Taw City Hall Theatre at 6 p.m. on 7 February.The ceremony will be broadcast live on MRTVprogramme starting from 5.30 p.m.—MNA

Academy AwardPresentation on 7 Feb

YANGON, 4 Feb—Arrangements are being madeto hold good-wise discussion between the Union ofMyanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce andIndustry (UMFCCI) and Thai entrepreneurs atUMFCCI here on 19 February.

Thai entrepreneurs from 16 companies will dis-cuss simple materials such as electrical equipment,construction materials, pharmacies, health care andcosmetics, packaging materials, gifts and decoration,stationery, sport gears, handbags, slippers and lather,nylon rope and plumbing fixtures. Likewise, arrange-ments will be made to sell materials at the discussionfor Myanmar entrepreneurs who want to export theirmaterials.

Interested Myanmar entrepreneurs may registerat UMFCCI by 6 February. For further information,may contact IRD of UMFCCI and Ph-214344, 214349and Ext-203.—MNA

Myanmar, Thai entrepreneursto promote trade

BEWARE OF FIRE

The transport sector plays an im-portant role in undertaking the develop-ment of country. Among the inland, avia-tion and waterway transport sectors, thewaterway transport is vital for the smoothflow of commodities. The waterwaytransport includes inland water and over-seas services. Actually, the Myanma FiveStar Line that transports export and im-port commodities is contributing to thedevelopment of the nation.

The Myanma Five Star Line wasestablished in 1959 and it launched thetransport service with the use of rentedvessel. At present, the organization isrunning its functions with 16 cargo ves-sels and nine coastal liners, totalling 25in carrying out the local and foreigntransport services.

Coastal and overseas shippings contributingto development of transport sector

Article & Photos: Soe Maung (MFSL)

Photo shows ocean-liner MVMagwe of Myanma Five Star

Line.

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high that it is possibly covered in lava or watervapour.

About 330 exoplanets have been discovered sofar, most of which are gas giants with characteristicssimilar to Jupiter and Neptune.The new find, COROT-Exo-7b, is different: its diam-eter is less than twice that of Earth and it orbits its staronce every 20 hours. It is located very close to itsparent star, and has a high temperature, between 1000and 1500°C. Astronomers detected the new planet asit transited its parent star, dimming the light from thestar as it passed in front of it.

The density of the planet is still under investi-gation: it may be rocky like Earth and covered inliquid lava. It may also belong to a class of planetsthat are thought to be made up of water and rock inalmost equal amounts. Given the high temperaturesmeasured, the planet would be a very hot and humidplace.—Internet

COROT discovers smallesttransiting exoplanet ever

PARIS, 4 Feb — COROT has found the smallestterrestrial planet ever detected outside the Solar Sys-tem. The amazing planet is less than twice the size ofEarth and orbits a Sun-like star. Its temperature is so

today’s electric hybrids and almost just as economi-cal.

The Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyotahas built a car, the “Prius”, which is seen as a conceptfor the future. It uses an electric hybrid engine to savefuel while still offering the usual drivability stand-ards. However, this vehicle has a serious disadvan-tage. It is expensive and is unaffordable especially forconsumers in up-and-coming countries such as Chinaand India that are increasing rapidly their mobilitydemands. In addition, the battery needed by the elec-tric hybrid as an energy storage device is heavy andexpensive. Last but not least, the technology in thecoupling between the gasoline engine and the electricdrive is very complicated.Simpler and cheaper

This is why Lino Guzzella, Professor ofThermotronics, does not think the electric hybrid isthe only solution.—Internet

Pneumatic hybrid engine muchcheaper than electric hybrids

ZURICH, 4 Feb — A pneumatic hybrid enginecould be used to power vehicles in the future. Thebenefit of this technology: it is much cheaper than

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