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Volume XIX, Number 56 Fullmoon Day of Nayon 1373 ME Thursday, 16 June, 2011

* Stability of the State, community peace and tran-quillity, prevalence of law and order

* Strengthening of national solidarity* Building and strengthening of discipline-flourish-

ing democracy system* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the Constitution

Four political objectives* Building of modern industrialized nation through the agricultural devel-

opment, and all-round development of other sectors of the economy* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms of technical

know-how and investment from sources inside the country and abroad* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in the hands of

the State and the national peoples

Four economic objectives* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entire nation* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and preservation

and safeguarding of cultural heritage and national char-acter

* Flourishing of Union Spirit, the true patriotism* Uplift of health, fitness and education standards of the

entire nation

Four social objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 15 June — Minis-try of Information awarded outstandingstudents of the employees of the minis-try, provided financial assistance forstudents at the 39th anniversary of thePrinting and Publishing Enterprise of theministry here today.

Union Minister for Informationand for Culture U Kyaw Hsan attendedthe ceremony held at the ministry andpresented awards, cash assistance andstationery to the students.

Speaking on the occasion, Un-ion Minister U Kyaw Hsan stressed theneed for encouragement of the ministryto promote education of their offspringregardless of difficulties and assistanceof the ministry for education of thestudents.

He also stressed the importanceof the human resource development forthe development of the country, encour-aging the students to become intelli-gentsia and to seek ways for gainingeducation opportunities not only at homebut also abroad.

He also urged the students to

MOI honours outstanding students,provides cash assistance for students

Seminar for Expediting e-Government Processes continues

Union Minis-ter for

Informationand forCulture

U Kyaw Hsanpresents prize

to MaungYazar Min, afive-distinc-tion winner

in matricula-tion exami-nation for2010-2011academic

year, at 39thanniversaryof the Print-

ing andPublishingEnterprise.

MNA

Union Minister for Communications, Posts and Telegraphs U Thein Tun addresses second-day session of Seminar forExpediting e-Government Processes.

MNA

HRD essential for national development

use their knowledge to overcome drugs,pleasures, gambling which are hin-drances to their education.

Outstanding employees of thePPE were also honoured during the an-niversary celebration.

The Union minister also urgedthe employees to work hard to achievemore success in the 2011-12 Fiscal Yearthan this year’s FY as the ministry laiddown 12 objectives and 14 directives forthe employees.

He also urged the employees tobe aware of dangers of destructive ele-ments while the country is on track todevelopment and has possessed goodfoundations for the development.

Afterwards, the Union ministerawarded the outstanding students andemployees.

Union Minister U Kyaw Hsanpresented stipends to students ofstaff at primary, middle, high school leveland university for 2011-2012 academicyear through Head of OfficeU Myint Htwe, Acting Director-General

(See page 8)

NAY PYI TAW, 15June—The Seminar forExpediting e-GovernmentProcesses went on for thesecond day at the Ministryof Communications, Postsand Telegraphs here thismorning.

Senior Adviser Pro-fessor Dr Aung Tun Thetfrom Myanmar ResidentRepresentatives Office ofUnited Nations, serving asthe chairman of the meet-ing, touched upon require-ments of more effective useand improving the e-Gov-ernment system.

(See page 8)

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 16 June, 2011

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

People’s DesireThursday, 16 June, 2011

Do research onscientific farming

In bringing about development ofagriculture and rural economy of Myanmar,most of those engaging in rural-basedagriculture, fish and meat and forestrybusinesses are farmers who occupy 70 per centof population of the nation.

Today, all the countries are striving forensuring food sufficiency of global peopleapplying bio-technology and Nano technology.In doing so, Myanmar is to conduct researchon high yield seeds of crops for cultivation andproduction purposes with the aim of competingin the international market and producing morefood.

For growing crops applying goodcultivation methods, agriculturists andagricultural companies share technologies tothe farmers by establishing model agriculturaleducative farms.

It is necessary to feed chemical fertilizersand natural fertilizers to crops on time to applyhigh yield quality crops and systematiccultivation methods for ensuring better qualityof various crops.

Continuous researches are to be conductedfor improvement of systematic cultivationmethods so as to boost production of crops.Agriculturists, staff and agricultural companiesshared outcomes of research to farmers at thefields, and thus, farmers are to join hands withthe agriculturists so as to achieve food sufficiencydue to boosting production.

Mohnyin stands first inmatriculation examination pass rate

MOHNYIN, 15 June— Mohnyin Township stoodfirst in matriculation examination pass rate in KachinState with 50.47 percent. The 1843 of 3652 studentswho sat for the exam passed it. Among them, fivestudents won six distinctions; 17, five distinctions;24, two distinctions; and 264, one distinction,according to Township Education Officer Daw KhinKhin Nwe.

The No.1 Basic Education High School haswon the best matriculation examination pass ratefor 13 years consecutively. Its pass rate is 58.52percent. The school’s year-by-year pass ratebecomes high, said schoolhead Dr Wathan MyatThin.—NLM001

NAY PYI TAW, 15 June — Union Minister forHotels and Tourism U Tint Hsan inspected constructionof booths and arch of Nay Pyi Taw Tourism and FoodExhibition in Thabyegon Market here today.

He gave necessary instructions to DeputyMinister U Htay Aung and responsible persons ofACE Construction Company which is undertakingthe construction of booths.—MNA

Thabyegon Market prepares to host Nay Pyi TawTourism and Food Exhibition

NAY PYI TAW, 15 June — Union Minister forInformation and for Culture U Kyaw Hsan receivedUNESCO Project Manager Mr Sardar Umar Alamand party at the ministry here yesterday afternoon.

Union MinisterUnion Minister forfor Information and forInformation and for CulturCultureerreceives UNESCO preceives UNESCO project manageroject manager

Also present at the call were Deputy Ministerfor Information U Soe Win, Deputy Minister forCulture Daw Sanda Khin and departmental heads ofthe Information and Culture Ministries.—MNA

Union Minister for Information and for Culture U Kyaw Hsan receives UNESCO ProjectManager Mr Sardar Umar Alam.—MNA

YANGON, 15 June —Union Minister forConstruction U KhinMaung Myint visited SteelWorkshop and inspectedpreparation for major repairof Jiang (Kawkareik)Bridge on Hpa-an-Kawkareik-MyawadyRoad on 13 June.

At Bridge Constr-uction Special Group (1)Office, he met the deputysuperintendent engineerand officials and gaveinstructions.

The Union ministerurged the staff of theministry in Yangon Regionto do away withmisappropriation and toadhere to financialregulations.—MNA

Yangon Region Construction Ministry staffurged to avoid misappropriation

Union Minister for Hotels and TourismU Tint Hsan inspects construction of booths of Nay

Pyi Taw Tourism and Food Exhibition.—MNA

Union Minister for Construction U Khin Maung Myint inspectspreparation for major repair of Jiang (Kawkareik) bridge.—MNA

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US and allies kill, injureIraqi people

BAGHDAD, 15 June— There has been daily casualties in Iraq since the USand its allies have invaded the country.

Casualties of Iraqi peopleThe total number of casualties as from the day they invaded the country to

15 June reached 706197 and the total number of seriously injured peoplereached 1279292, according to the news on the Internet.

No. Subject Number

1. Death toll of Iraqi people 706197

2. The total number of seriously injured people 1279292

Internet

Casualties of Afghan people in invasion ofNATO troops led by US

KABUL, 15 June—The NATO troops led by the US have invaded Afghanistanand they are there for a long time.

A number of Afghan people are killed and injured due to invasion of theNATO troops led by the US.

Casualties of Afghan peopleAccording to the Internet news, a total of 33969 Afghan people were killed

and 41508 injured seriously as from the day when the NATO troops led by theUS invaded Afghanistan to 15 June.

No. Subject Number1. Number of Afghan people killed 339692. Seriously injured Afghan people 41508

Internet

BASRA, 15 June—Five people were killed anddozens more were injured after a car bomb targeteda police battalion in southern Iraq’s Basra Province,the local Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported.

The vehicle loaded with explosives wasdetonated by a suicide bomber who was said to betargeting a Police Emergency battalion belonging tothe Interior Ministry’s Inspector-General in the port-city of Basra.

Three of the fatalities and most of the 29 injuredwere law enforcement agents with the PoliceEmergency battalion. Basra city is locatedapproximately 590 kilometres (366.6 miles) to thesouth of Baghdad.

Monday’s attack was the latest in a series ofattacks against police officers in Iraq. In early June,the Presidential Palace compound in Tikrit was thetarget of two separate attacks. The first took place atthe compound’s al-Farouq mosque after a suicidebomber blew himself up.—Internet

A police officer

takes in the

damage at the

scene of a

bombing in the

northern Iraqi

City of Kirkuk.

INTERNET

Security personnel inspect the siteof a bomb attack in Basra, 550 km

(342 miles) south of Baghdad, on 13June, 2011. A suicide bomber blew

up an explosives-filled vehicle at theentrance to a police unit in Iraq’s

southern oil port of Basra onMonday, killing five people and

wounding 15, police and officialssaid.—INTERNET

Blast hits police battalion insouthern Iraq, killing five

ME X I C O CI T Y, 15June—An Americanwas found among the193 corpses recoveredin April in mass gravesin Mexico near the USborder, a US officialsaid Tuesday.

Mexican authori-t i e s iden t i f i ed theremains of an Americanin San Fernando, atown 85 miles (137kilo-metres) from theborder wi thBrownsvil le , Texas,and alerted the US StateDepar tment , sa id aS ta te Depar tmentofficial who declined tobe named because hewas not authorized tospeak on the record.

The official did notident i fy the v ic t imbecause the family hasnot authorized it.

Mexican officialssaid many of the victimsbur ied in the massgraves in San Fernandowere mi-grants heading

An Afghan woman cladin burqa begs with herchildren near a newly

constructed building inKabul on

14 June, 2011.INTERNET

A wounded Afghan

man receives

treatment at a

hospital after a

suicide attack in

Kunduz on

10 June, 2011.

INTERNET

American found among massgraves victims in Mexico

to the US who werekidnapped off pass-engers buses, killed andburied by the Zetas drugcartel.

The US consulate inMatamoros, across theborder from Browns-vi l le , re leased amessage when thegraves were beingunearthed saying theconsulate had receivedthree reports from UScitizens or their familiesregarding buses beingboarded by criminals.

“In a t leas t oneins tance , male buspassengers, includingan American citizen,were forcibly removedfrom those buses andhave yet to be located,”the message said.

I t i s not knownwhether the US citizenthe consulate reportedmissing was the onefound in one of the 47pits excavated.

Internet

Explosion rocksAfghan town in

central east regionMA I D A N SH A R, 15 June—

Explosion rocked Afghan town inWardak Province on Wednesday,casualties feared, an official said.

The blast happened in a gatheringattended by Vice PresidentMohammad Karim Khali l i andInterior Minister Bismil lahMohammadi in provincial capitalMaidan Shar, the official told Xinhuabut declined to give his name, sayingauthorized officials would talk tomedia.

Xinhua

Bombs kill 11; shell misses Afghanvice president

MAIDAN SHAR, 15 June—Suicide bombings near an Afghangovernor's office and anadministrative building killed 11people Wednesday, while a mortarshell narrowly missed one of thecountry’s vice presidents at apolice training centre outside thecapital. Attacks by Taleban-ledinsurgents are increasinglykilling, wounding or narrowlymissing senior Afghan govern-ment and NATO officials.

In the northeast, a suicidebomber exploded about 220 yards(200 metres) from the office ofGovernor Azizul Rahman Tawab,killing four police officers andfour civilians, said provincialspokesman Halim Ayar.

Another suicide bomberkilled three civilians, including a13-year-old boy, in an attack

against an administrative buildingin Paktia province, a restive areaof eastern Afghanistan.

The mortar strike in centralWardak province, near the capitalof Kabul, did not cause casualties,but it crashed down just next to abuilding where Afghanistan’ssecond vice president,Mohammed Karim Khalili, andInterior Minister Bismullah KhanMohammadi where attending apolice ceremony along withNATO officials.

A NATO service memberdied Wednesday in a bomb attackin southern Afghanistan, thecoalition announced. Twenty-eight international servicemembers have died inAfghanistan so far in June. Atotal of 234 have been killed thisyear. —Internet

Afghan police officers react as some duck for cover aftera mortar hit the compound of the National Police

Training Center during an inauguration ceremony incentral Wardak province, Afghanistan, on 15 June,

2011.—INTERNET

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Finishing touchFinally, we’re going

to disable programmesthat automatically runwhen your computerstarts. This can be a littledangerous, but it’s alsoone of the best ways tospeed up your computer— so proceed withcaution!

Click the Start (Flag)button, type “mscon-fig”and press Enter. Click theStartup tab and you willsee a (probably huge) listof programmes that load

How to make Windows fasterOne of the greatest things about buying a new Windows computer is turning it

on for the first time and being amazed at just how fast it is. It starts up quickly, andwhen you click to open a programme, it pops up nearly instantaneously. You can runmultiple programmes and keep a dozen web browser tabs open, and it still runsquickly — and it even shuts down in a matter of seconds!

But then... your new computer starts to slow down. First, it takes a littlelonger to boot up, but gradually the entire system grows sluggish, and eventuallyit gets to the stage where you have time to make a cup of coffee while your webbrowser loads. Your once-snappy computer has become old.

Fortunately, by performing a few simple tasks, you can speed it back upagain. You may not get it back to its good-as-new speed — and even if you do,as the state of the art marches forward, it will still seem a little slow comparedto newer and more powerful equipment — but you can definitely squeeze a fewmore months (or even years) out of it.

Before we startFor the most part, making the current versions of Windows (especially Vista and

Win7) faster will require you to disable some features. In most cases, you won’t evennotice these features are gone, but you should still proceed with caution. If yourcomputer is really, really slow, it’s probably better to get a handyman in to fix it — ormaybe consider it time to upgrade your entire system.

First stepsTo begin with, your

best bet is to disable theWindows eye candy.After all, what good is apretty interface if it’sunusably slow?

Click the Start(Flag) button, right clickComputer, and selectProperties. Click“Advanced systemsettings” and then,underneath thePerformance section,click the Settingsbutton. Select the“Adjust for bestperformance” radiobutton and click OK.

Click OK again andyou’re done. This willmake Windows lookrather plain — a lot likeWindows 98, in fact —but it should make yourcomputer feel a lot faster,too.

Next, we’re going todisable indexing, afeature that speeds upWindows’ Searchfunctionality. If youregularly use search tofind documents andphotos on your hard drive,you probably want to skipthis step, however. Clickthe Start (Flag) button,type “indexing options”and then press Enter.Click Modify, and you’llbe shown a list oflocations that are indexedby your computer.Remove the check markfrom all of the boxes andclick OK.

Aggressive actionWith those easy steps out of the way, you should now defragment and clean

up your hard drive. After that, clear your computer of malware. These processescan take up to a few hours and may require that you stop using your computerwhile they run, but you can set them up before you go to bed and let them runovernight.

If you use a laptop or netbook, you can opt to squeeze a bit more performance outof your computer at the expense of shorter battery life; if you work with your laptopplugged in, you need not worry. Click the Start (Flag) button, type ‘‘power options’’ andpress Enter. On the next screen, select the ‘‘High performance’’ radio button. Desktopusers can also enable ‘‘High performance,’’ but the performance boost will probably beless dramatic. You can also customize your power plan to change behaviors based onwhether your computer is operating on AC or battery power; we’ll cover doing thatanother time.

when you start your computer up. Now... the trick is to disable as manynonimportant programmes as possible. The problem is, there's no hard-and-fastway to work out which programmes are non-essential. Basically, if it soundsimportant, don’t disable it. If the programme has “monitor” in the name or“updater”, you can go ahead and disable it. If there’s anything you don’trecognize, go ahead and disable that too. If you’re unsure, you can type the nameof the programme into Google — you’ll be surprised at the wealth of informationthat you can find, even about the most esoteric of Startup items. When you’redone, click OK. The next time you turn on or reboot your computer, it shouldboot up a lot faster.—Internet

Google agrees to buy on-line ad firmAdmeld

SAN FRANCISCO, 15 June—Googleon Monday confirmed that it had signedan agreement to buy Admeld, an on-line advertising optimization firm, in adeal seen as the Internet search giant'slatest move to bolster its on-line displayad business.

Admeld, launched in 2007 andheadquartered in New York City, hasdeveloped a service that can help on-line publishers manage their ad space

more efficiently and profitably.Admeld now has more than 500

customers worldwide, among them areFOX News, IDG TechNetwork,Discovery and The Weather Channel,according to information posted on itswebsite. “By combining Admeld’sservices, expertise and technology withGoogle’s offerings, we’re investing inwhat we hope will be an improved era offlexible ad management tools for major

publishers, ” Neal Mohan, Google’s vice president ofdisplay advertising, said in a blog post announcingthe deal. ‘‘We believe that this investment will be animportant step to help on-line publishers, and willfurther improve and grow the display advertising

industry as a whole,’’Mohan noted.

On-line display adsusually appear in formsthat consist of images andmay be interactive.According to theInteractive AdvertisingBureau, a US tradeassociation, display-related on-line ad revenuein the United States totalednearly 10 billion USdollars in 2010.

Xinhua

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Japan’s ageing pets spark elderlycare boom

TOKYO, 15 June—Pets are said to be liketheir owners, and in fast-ageing Japan ageneration of greyingpooches and tabbies hassparked a boom in elderlycare for the four-leggedfriends.

Better pet food andveterinary services haveallowed dogs and cats tolive longer, spawning anindustry that ranges fromanimal diapers andwalking aids to 24-houremergency care andresearch into pet tissue-engineering. The marketis huge. Japanese keep22 million dogs and cats,according to the latestdata from the Japan PetFood Association —outnumbering childrenaged under 15 by about30 percent.

Japan’s populationhas been declining since2007 and the country is

Pets are said to be liketheir owners, and infast-ageing Japan a

generation of greyingpooches and tabbies has

sparked a boom inelderly care for thefour-legged friends.

INTERNET

greying, with one of theworld’s lowest birth ratesand highest l ifeexpectancies. Childrenunder 15 now make upjust 13 percent of thepopulation while almostone quarter of Japaneseare 65 or older, accordingto recent demographicdata. Japan’s petbusiness, including retailsales of the animals

themselves and food andother products, is worthabout 1.37 trillion yen(17 billion dollars) ayear, according to theYano Research Institute.

Many owners saythey want to take care oftheir beloved pets untilthe very end rather thanopt for euthanasia.

“Do you put an endto a family member’s lifebecause you areinconvenienced?” askedMichiko Ozawa, 67,recounting how shenursed her dog, amongrel named Shiro, ashe became senile andfinally died. After morethan a decade together,she opted against having17-year-old Shiro putdown, even though hehad lost his vision andstarted walking in circlesand dropping onto hisbackside rather thanwalk.—Internet

TV-watching boosts heart, diabetes,death risks

WASHINGTON, 15 June— A reviewof published studies in the past 40years has shown a higher risk ofdiabetes, heart problems and earlydeath among people who watch lots oftelevision, US researchers saidTuesday.

The results of the meta-analysisperformed by scientists at the HarvardSchool of Public Health are publishedin the 15 June issue of the Journal ofthe American Medical Association.

More than two hours per day ofTV-watching boosted risk of type twodiabetes and heart disease, while morethan three hours a day increased aperson’s risk of dying prematurely.

Each two-hour increment inviewing per day was linked to a 20percent higher risk for type twodiabetes; a 15 percent increased riskfor fatal or nonfatal cardiovascular

A review of published studies in thepast 40 years has shown a higher riskof diabetes, heart problems and earlydeath among people who watch lotsof television, US researchers said

Tuesday.INTERNET

disease; and a 13 percent higher riskfor all-cause mortality.

“While the associations betweentime spent viewing TV and risk of typetwo diabetes and cardiovasculardisease were linear, the risk of all-cause mortality appeared to increasewith TV viewing duration of greaterthan three hours per day,” the studysaid.

The habit of plunking oneself downin front of the television and watchingfor hours makes up about five hours ofdaily activity on average in the UnitedStates, but is also a prevalent practicearound the world.

In Europe, people spend about 40percent of their daily free time — orthree hours — in front of the tube, andin Australia the average is 50 percentof daily free time or four hours, thestudy said.—Internet

Eurozone finance ministers fail to agree onnew aid for Greece

Ecuador, Turkey begintalks on trade

agreementQUITO, 15 June — Ecuador and

Turkey on Tuesday began the firstround of negotiations for a tradedevelopment agreement.

The negotiations started in theTurkish Capital of Ankara, and talkswere held between delegations of bothcountries, Ecuador’s Foreign Ministrysaid in a statement. Ecuador intendedto reach an agreement with favourableconditions for both sides as early asthis year, Ecuador’s chief negotiatorMentor Villagomez said.

“We encourage the agreement inorder to boost bilateral exchange, forwhich there is great potential,”Villagomez said in a statement.

Ecuador and Turkey first broachedthe subject in 2010 and decided to startformal negotiations that could in themedium term lead to a trade agreementbetween both countries. Ecuadorwanted to open new markets anddiversify exports to reduce its tradedeficit. Ecuador’s Central Bankrecently reported that the country’strade deficit in 2010 was 1.46 billionUS dollars, which accounted for 12 to13 percent of Ecuador’s gross domesticproduct.—Xinhua

BRUSSELS, 15 June— Financeministers of eurozone countries failed toagree on a new financing plan for Greeceat an emergency meeting Tuesday,fighting over the degree of private sectorinvolvement in additional rescue forAthens.

“There has been no result,” GermanFinance Minister Wolfgang Schaeubletold reporters after talks in Brussels whichended late Tuesday.

The emergency meeting of eurozonefinance ministers had been called to buildconsensus on the degree of private sectorinvolvement in the new rescue plan fordebt-laden Greece.

Germany, Europe’s paymaster, hasinsisted on significant involvement ofprivate bondholders if further aid toGreece has to be delivered.

(L-R) European Commissioner forEconomic and Monetary Affairs Olli

Rehn, German finance ministerWolfgang Schaeuble, Luxembourg

Prime Minister Jean-ClaudeJuncker, Finish Finance Minister

Jyrki Katainen and French FinanceMinister Christine Lagarde have a

talk prior to an extraordinaryEurogroup Ministers meeting on the

Greek problem at the EU Councilheadquarters in Brussels, capital of

Belgium, on14 June, 2011. —XINHUA

Schaeuble said last week that theholders of Greek debt should be forced toextend the maturities of their debt byseven years to prevent bankruptcy, a movecredit rating agencies said may amount toa default.

Germany’s position was backed byThe Netherlands.

The European Central Bank (ECB),however, warned that any forcedinvolvement of private bondholderswould create chaos in the financialmarkets. Instead, the ECB, supported bythe European Commission and France, ispushing for a plan under whichbondholders voluntarily agree to buy newGreek bonds to replace maturing debts,thus giving Greece longer periods to payback.

Xinhua

Emerging markets to redefine global economy by2025

JAKARTA, 15 June—Six majoremerging economies of Indonesia,Brazil, China, India, South Korea andRussia will account for more than halfof all global growth by 2025, a WorldBank’s official said here onWednesday.

Mansoor Dailami, manager ofemerging trend at the World Bank, saidthat these emerging economies willgrow on average by 4.7 percent a yearbetween 2011 and 2025. “On the otherhand, advanced economies are forecastto grow by only 2.3 percent over the

same period, but will remain prominentin global economy,” said Dailami in aseminar here. He said that the projectedchanges in the global economy are likelyto be positive for developing countries.“However, a key question is whetherexisting multilateral norms andinstitutions can accommodate thepassage toward multi polarity, “ hesaid.—Xinhua

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High brain waves linked to bettermemory recall

WASHINGTON, 15June—An Indian-originscientist and his teamhave explained why ourbrains recall past thingsbetter at some times thanat others.

“It’s been assumedthat the process ofretrieving a memory iscued by an externalstimulus. But we foundthat the levels of brainactivity before itemscame up were correlatedwith memory,” saidCharan Ranganath,professor at the UCDavis Centre forNeuroscience and De-partment of Psychology.

Ranganath and histeam including graduatestudents RichardAddante and AndrewWatrous, Andrew Yone-linas-professor of

Britain becoming increasingly lonelyplace for its people

LONDON, 15 June—A research hasshown that Britain is becoming anincreasingly lonely place for manypeople.

According to Opinium Research,the demands of modern life have ledBritons to feel miserable, as they areunable to see family members on aregular basis.

Feelings of loneliness are nowaffecting their health – they arefeeling isolated, depressed, anxiousand sad.

Mental health experts have

Come 2050, you can play golf infully transparent plane in open

skies!LONDON, 15 June—Airbus has unveiled a futuristic

concept for a transparent plane that may be everydayair transport in 2050.

With its see-through aircraft cabin, passengers ofthe future will get a window on the world as they flythrough the sky. They will be able to see everythingto the sides and in front of them. The concept cabinunveiled at the Royal Observatory in Green-wich,London, would be a bionic structure that ‘mimics’the efficiency of the bird bone, claimed the company.

It would provide strength where needed, and alsoallows for an intelligent’ cabin wall membrane, whichcontrols air temperature and can become trans-parentto give passengers open, panoramic views. Thecompany believes that mid-century pas-sengers mightbe able to enjoy a game of virtual golf or take part ininteractive conferences, while the cabin ‘identifiesand responds’ to travellers’ needs. In the ‘interactivezone’ there are virtual pop-up projections takingpassengers to whichever social scene they want to bein, from holographic gaming to virtual changingrooms for active shoppers. The ‘smart tech zone’ istailored towards the more functional-orientatedpassenger with what Airbus describes as ‘achameleon-style offering.’

It aims to meet individual needs ranging from asimple to a complete luxury service, but all allowing‘you to continue life as if on the ground’.

“Our research shows that passengers of 2050 willexpect a seamless travel experience while also caringfor the environment,” the Daily Mail quoted Airbusengineering executive vice-president CharlesChampion as saying.—Internet

The Wallow Fire continues to burn on 13 June,2011 in Eager, Ariz.—INTERNET

‘Superfruit’ Himalayanberry helps boost brain,fight obesity and ageism

A visitor watches works ofcontemporary Hungarian art at an

exhibition in Beijing, capital ofChina, on 14 June, 2011. TheHungarian contemporary artexhibition opened Tuesday in

Beijing, displaying 303 works by 33Hungarian contemporary artists,

including oil paintings, pendrawings, sculptures, textile,

enamelware , and so on.XINHUA

LONDON, 15 June—The sea buckthorn berry,which is grown in theHimalayan moun-tains,has hit shop shelves as anew superfruit to rivalbroccoli, apples andblueberries.

The berry, whichcontains vitamins A, B1,B2, E and up to 10 timesthe amount of VitaminC found in oranges, issaid to boost the brainfunction.

Antioxidants in theberries also help to fightobesity, teeth problems,acne, ageism, poordigest ion and con-stipation. It is also saidto keep the heart healthy.Aside from the berry, theleaves and stem can beused to t reat skin

psychology at the UCDavis Centre for Mindand Brain, and ArneEkstrom-assistant pro-fessor of psychology atthe Centre for Neuro-science, measured aparticular frequency ofbrainwaves called thetaoscillations in the brainsof volunteers during amemory test.

Theta waves areassociated with a brainthat is actively moni-toring something, Rang-anath said.

In the memory test,the volunteers had tomemorize a series ofwords with a relatedcontext.

They later had torecall whether they hadseen the word previouslyand the context in whichthe word was seen.

High theta wavesimmediately beforebeing prompted toremember an item wereassociated with betterperformance.

The work goesagainst the assumptionthat the brain is waitingto react to the externalworld, noted Ranganath.

In fact, most of thebrain is busy withinternal activity that isnot related to the outsideworld – and whenexternal stimuli come in,they interact with thesespontaneous patterns ofactivity.

The study waspublished in the journalProceedings of theNational Academy ofSciences, on 13 June.

Internet

Type 2 diabetes ups risk ofrecurrent stroke and heart

problemsWASHINGTON, 15 June—In a new study, type 2

diabetes was found associated with an increased risk ofrecurrent stroke or cardiovascular events amongpatients who have had an ischemic stroke or transientischemic attack (TIA).

“Type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated withincreased risks of both stroke and coronary heart disease(CHD),” said the study authors.

To come to the conclusion, Alfred Callahan fromVanderbilt University, Nashville, and colleaguesevaluated the risk of recurrent stroke or cardiovascularevents in patients with type 2 diabetes or metabolicsyndrome MetS.

In total, the study included 4,731 participants whohad experienced an ischemic stroke or TIA.

The researchers classified 794 individuals as havingtype 2 diabetes, 642 as having MetS and the remaining3,295 as having neither condition.

Patients with type 2 diabetes were more likely thanthose in the control group to experience another stroke,major cardiovascular incident, or revascularizationprocedure.

Those in the MetS group were not at increased riskof stroke or major cardiovascular events, but weremore likely than those in the control group to undergorevascularization procedures.—Internet

diseases.Known to be the

healthiest berr iesavailable, it is already ahuge hit in the US whereit has been hailed as aslimming aid.

It is now available inthe UK as the drink Pep.

“The grocery tradehas been asking us toinnovate. Thisingredient is new to theUK market,” the DailyExpress quoted SimonHardy, of DrinksBrokers, as saying.

Tony Ferguson offood product manu-facturers TheIngredients Con-sultancy, said: “You can,perhaps, classify seabuckthorn as a newsuperfruit.”—Internet

warned that the younger generation ismost at risk.

Of those who said they werelonely, the biggest group was under30 – 23 percent compared with anational average of 15 percent.

This is despite social networkingsites like Facebook.

“People who feel lonely shouldnot feel uncomfortable talking aboutit or asking for help,” the DailyExpress quoted Dr AndrewMcCulloch, of the Mental HealthFoundation, as saying.—Internet

Peopledonate bloodto mark the

eighth WorldBlood Donor

Day inLibreville,

Gabon, on 14June, 2011.

XINHUA

The image unveiled byAirbus on 14 June

shows the “play zone”of the new concept

cabin of thecompany.—XINHUA

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First mother-daughter wombtransplant planned

A pregnant woman insouthern France. Theworld’s first mother-

daughter uterustransplant could take

place next year inSweden, according the

head of aninternational research

team in the westernSwedish City of

Gothenburg saidTuesday.—INTERNET

took place in SaudiArabia in 2002.

His internationalteam of doctors at theSahlgrenska UniversityHospital has beenresearching the subjectfor a decade and hastested it on animals, hesaid, explaining therewere no particularcomplications intransplanting a wombfrom mother to daughter.

“There can just be anadvantage because theyare more similar in theirtissues so there could beless rejection in thatsituation,” he said.

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Swedish city of Gothen-burg said Tuesday.

“We have reached astage where we havestarted to plan for a humantransplant and we areinvestigating 10 pairs,most of those are motherand daughters,” MatsBraenstroem told AFP,adding the first of suchtransplants could takeplace “hopefully at thebeginning of next year.”

He added thattransplanting a wombfrom a woman to herdaughter would be aworld first, although auterus transplant betweentwo unrelated women

STOCKHOLM, 15June—The world’s firstmother-daughter uterustransplant could takeplace next year inSweden, the head of aninternational researchteam in the western

Visitors look

inside a Ford

SUV displayed at

the Shanghai

Auto Show in

Shanghai in April

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demand in emerging markets makes sense,said Jesse Toprak, an analyst withTrueCar.com. “Eighty percent of allgrowth will occur outside of NorthAmerica. So it’s smart to target growth inthese markets,” he told AFP.

Ford, which was the only major USautomaker to survive the 2008 downturnwithout resorting to a government bailoutand bankruptcy, has also profited fromthe troubles at General Motors andChrysler.

Ford’s rating was downgraded to junkstatus after it essentially mortgaged all itsassets to fund a massive restructuring, butthe number two US automaker has beenable to revitalize its lineup and businesspractices much more rapidly than itsDetroit rivals.—Internet

Asian markets down amid rate hike expectationsBANGKOK, 15 June—

Asian stock marketsmostly fell Wednesday asinvestors anticipated ratehikes by central banks inIndia and China to containstubbornly high inflation.

Oil prices hoveredabove $99 a barrel after areport showed US crudeinventories fell more thanexpected, suggestingdemand may beimproving. The dollar waslower against the yen butup against the euro.

Japan’s Nikkei 225stock average rose 0.1percent to 9,561.30.Honda Motor Corp gained1.3 percent a day after thecompany announced thatvehicle production inJapan is expected to beback at nearly normallevels by later this monthand, outside of Japan, byAugust or September.

Japanese manufac-turing was disrupted by ahuge earthquake and

Traders work on the floor of the New York StockExchange on 14 June, 2011.—INTERNET

Recharged Ford sets sights on AsiaDETROIT, 15 June—With its

turnaround in North America essentiallyfinished, Ford Motor Co is looking to thenext act in its comeback by building itsbusiness in Asia’s emerging markets.

Ford plans to grow global sales by 50percent over the next four years with astrong push into markets such as Chinaand India, chief executive officer AlanMulally said last week.

“We are rapidly making the transitionfrom fixing the fundamentals of ourbusiness to delivering profitable growthin all of our operations,” Mulally said inthe company’s recent annual report.

“To do this, we are investing in anunprecedented amount of new productsand technology worldwide.”

Ford’s plans to target growing

tsunami on 11 March butanalysts say the recoveryat Honda and otherJapanese automakers hasbeen remarkable.

Other markets fellamid expectations thatChina’s central bank willgo ahead with at least onemore interest rate hikethis month or next.

China’s May’sinflation rate of 5.5percent was the highestsince July 2008. Beijinghas made taming priceincreases a priority but

its measures could alsoslow growth in theworld’s second-largesteconomy.

Inflat ion is alsobuffet ing India’seconomy, the thirdlargest in Asia. TheReserve Bank of India,which has raised keypolicy rates nine timessince March 2010 in aneffort to tame inflation,is expected to raise ratesagain at a monetarypolicy review Thursday.

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Laos elects new state president,PM, NA chairperson

New Zealand’s Mount Taranaki has a warm glowlighting the snow peak as an ash cloud from a

Chilean volcano drifts across the Pacific, on 12June, 2011.—INTERNET

VIENTIANE, 15 June—The National Assembly(NA) of Laos on Wednesday elected GeneralSecretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary PartyChoummaly Sayasone state president, and memberof the party’s Political Bureau ThongsingThammavong prime minister.

At the First Session of the seventh Lao NA,which opened on Wednesday morning in the Laocapital of Vientiane, delegates also elected thebureau’s member Pany Yathotu President of theseventh tenure NA.

The delegates elected a vice state president, fourdeputy prime ministers and two vice presidents ofNA. They approved the structure of the Laogovernment, which includes 18 ministries and threeagencies equivalent to ministries, and elected theNA’s ten-member standing committee.

During the session which will last until 24 June,the 132-member assembly is to discuss issues on theNA’s apparatus, its directions and duties in theseventh tenure, and the performance of thegovernment and judicial bodies.—MNA/Xinhua

Goodsleepers

havebetter lifequality,

lessdepression

WASHINGTON, 15 June—Getting six to nine hours of sleep per night is associatedwith higher ratings for quality of life and lower ratings for depression, suggests aresearch abstract that was presented Tuesday at SLEEP 2011, the 25th AnniversaryMeeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC in Minneapolis,Minnesota.

Results show that people with a “normal” sleep duration of six to nine hours pernight had higher self-reported scores for quality of life and lower scores fordepression severity compared to short and long sleepers.

These differences were statistically significant in all comparisons. Amongpatients who reported having perfect health, there was a higher percentage of normalsleepers, who also had significantly lower scores for depression severity comparedwith short and long sleepers with perfect health.

“These results are important because they provide more information about theimportance of getting enough sleep, which is usually six to nine hours per night,” saidprincipal investigator Charles Bae, neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic SleepDisorders Centre in Ohio.—Xinhua

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(from page 1)U Thein Aung of Myanma Radio and Television,Director-General U Ye Htut of Information and PublicRelations Department, Managing Director U Ye Tintof Printing and Publishing Enterprise, ManagingDirector U Zaw Min Oo of News andPeriodicals Enterprise and Managing DirectorU Aung Myo Myint of Myanma Motion PictureEnterprise.

Deputy Minister U Soe Win presented goodpublic service medal to the staff for 2010-2011 andmodel factory award to the manager of Nay Pyi TawPrinting Plant.

Managing Director U Ye Tint of PPE gaveawards for factories to the factory managers, uni-forms for staff of PPE to Deputy General Manager(Admin) U Maung Win and cash for staff welfare toDeputy Director U Aung Kyaw Oo of Press Scrutinyand Registration Division.

Acting Director-General U Thein Aung ofMRTV, IPRD Director-General U Ye Htut, NPEManaging Director U Zaw Min Oo and MMPE Man-aging Director U Aung Myo Myint awarded out-standing staff from six branches of PPE, Nay Pyi TawPrinting Plant, Upper Myanmar Government Press,Photolitho Press, Aung San Press, Sarpay Beikman

(from page 1)The attendees

grouped into 10 andsought approaches toovercome challenges one-Government, andsubmitted their outcomes.

At the afternoonsession, Professor DrAung Tun Thet assessedthe reports.

Union Minister forScience and TechnologyU Aye Myint presentedconditions of e-Govern-ment processes around theworld, and called forprioritizing and scaling upe-Government processes.

Seminar for Expeditinge-Government…

Union Minister forCommunications, Postsand Telegraphs U TheinTun expressed thanks forall-round discussions,urging the scholars to tryto achieve the goal andenrich public knowledgeof e-Government system.

Chairman of theInternational MultilateralPartnership AgainstCyber Threats Mr DatukMohd Noor Amin and MsCherie Tseng of nationalTrust Council, IDA,Singapore, shared theirexperiences with theattendees.

Union Minister for Information and for Culture U Kyaw Hsan addresses 39th anniversary of the Printing and Publishing Enterprise.—MNA

Deputy Minister for InformationU Soe Win presents good public service

medal to a staff.—MNA

Managing Director ofAlpha Info-Tech (Manda-lay) U Ye Myat Thu pre-sented Myanmar’s tech-nical experiences.

MNA

YANGON, 15 June—President of Republic ofthe Union of MyanmarFederation of Chambersof Commerce and Indus-try U Win Aung and Vice-Presidents U Zaw MinWin and U Aung Lwinreceived Bangladeshi Am-bassador to MyanmarMaj-Gen Anup KumarChakma, mdc, psc at theoffice of RUMFCCI here

Bangladeshi Ambassador calls on President,Vice-Presidents of RUMFCCI

on 3 June.Both sides discussed

bilateral trading, promo-

tion of investments be-tween the two countries,and holding commerce

discussions among entre-preneurs of bothcountries.—MNA

RUMFCCI President U Win Aung receives Bangladeshi Ambassadorto Myanmar Maj-Gen Anup Kumar Chakma.—MNA

HRD essential fornational…

Director-General of Information and PublicRelations Department U Ye Htut awards an

outstanding staff.MNA

Press, GTC Press and Central Press and outstandingstaff for agriculture.

Today’s ceremony, awards for outstandingstudents of staff of the Ministry of Information,stipends, cash assistance and stipends for outstand-

ing students of PPE, cash for staff welfare, goodpublic service medal winners, model factory winnersand awards for agriculture on a manageable scaleamounted to K 14,861,000.

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Union Minister for BA &MID receives Daewoo CEO

NAY PYI TAW, 15June — Union Ministerfor Border Affairs andMyanma Indust r ia lDevelopment Maj-GenThein Htay receivedCEO & Chairman of

Daewoo InternationalCoporation Mr.DongHee Lee at the ministryhere this afternoon.

Also present at thecal l were DeputyMinisters for Myanma

Indust r ia l Deve-lopment U Han Seinand U Chan Maung andofficials of MyanmaIndust r ia l Develo-pment Ministry.

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Union Foreign Affairs Minister receivesAmbassadors of South Africa, IndiaNAY PYI TAW, 15

June—Union Ministerfor Foreign Affairs UWunna Maung Lwinreceived a delegation ledby Thailand-basedAmbassador of SouthAfrica to MyanmarMr Douglas HarveyMonroe Gibson, at the

ministry, here, at 2 pmtoday.

They dicussedpromotion of bilateralrelations and cooperationbetween Myanmar andSouth Africa.

Likewise, IndianAmbassador to MyanmarDr Villur Sundararajan

Seshadri called on theUnion Minister, at thesame venue at 3 pmtoday. At the call, bothsides cordially discussedpromotion of mutualrelations and mutualinterests between the twocountries.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 15June—Thailand-basedSouth African Ambass-ador to Myanmar MrDouglas Harvey MonroeGibson and party called

Union Commerce Minister receivesSouth African Ambassador

Union Sports Minister encourages selectedMyanmar sportspersons

NAY PYI TAW, 15June—Chairman ofMyanmar National SportsCommittee Union Ministerfor Sports U Tint Hsan thismorning went to Nay PyiTaw City Hall whereselected Myanmar cyclistswere in training for XXVISEA Games.

At PaunglaungSportground in Pyinmana,

the Union Ministerencouraged athletescompeting in record-settingrace and presented prizes towinners.

Director-General UThaung Htaik of Sports andPhysical EducationDepartment and PresidentU Tha Htay of MyanmarCycling Federation alsopresented prizes.

Afterwards, the UnionMinister encouragedtentatively selected playersfrom Myanmar VolleyballFederation and MyanmarBadminton Federation.

The Union Ministerlater viewed Ngalite Damset for hosting rowingcontests in XXVII SEAGames.

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on Union Minister forCommerce U Win Myintat the Minister’s officehere this afternoon. Atthe call, they held discus-sion on trade andeconomic cooperationbetween the twocountries.

Also present at thecall were DeputyMinister Dr Pwint Hsan,departmental heads andofficials from Directo-rate of Trade andMyanma AgriculturalProduce Trading.

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All this needs to be known* Do not be frightened whenever

intimidated* Do not be bolstered whenever flattered* Do not be softened whenever appeased

Union Minister for Border Affairs and Myanma IndustrialDevelopment Maj-Gen Thein Htay receives CEO & Chairman of

Daewoo International Corporation Mr. Dong Hee Lee.—MNA

Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Wunna Maung Lwin receivesThailand-based Ambassador of South Africa to Myanmar Mr Douglas

Harvey Monroe Gibson.—MNA

Union Minister for Commerce U Win Myint receives Thailand-basedSouth African Ambassador Mr Douglas Harvey Monroe Gibson.

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Union Minister for Sports U Tint Hsan encourages selected Myanmarcyclists in training for XXVI SEA Games.—MNA

Mohnyin establishes advancedfarming production societyMOHNYIN, 15 June—

As part of efforts to formthe farming productionsociety based on 500 acresof farmlands in accordwith the instruction of the

Kachin State ChiefMinister, a total of 71farmers established theadvanced farmingproduction societygathering 500 acres in

Mohnyin Township on 5June.

In line with thedirectives of the Ministryof Agriculture andIrrigation, the farmersplan to grow Hsin-ayekari-3 paddy strain on500 acres of farmlands soas to produce 100 baskets

of paddy per acre. Aresponsible person of thesociety said that theysubmitted requirements offuel for power-tillers andthreshers, fertilizers andagricultural loans toKachin StateGovernment.

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Myanmar Ambassadorpresents Credentials to Her

Majesty Elizabeth IINAY PYI TAW, 16 June—U Kyaw Myo Htut,

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary ofthe Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the UnitedKingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,presented his Credentials to Her Majesty Elizabeththe Second, by the Grace of God of the UnitedKingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland andof her other Realms and Territories, Queen, Head ofthe Commonwealth, Defender of the faith, on 2 June2011 at the Buckingham Palace.—MNA

Myanmar Ambassadorpresents Credentials to

French PresidentNAY PYI TAW, 16 June—U Kyaw Zwar Minn,

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary ofthe Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the FrenchRepublic, presented his Credentials to His ExcellencyMr Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic,on 6 June 2011 in Paris.—MNA

Union Minister at President OfficeU Thein Nyunt presents prize to athree-distinction winning student.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 15 June— A ceremony to honourteachers in Kyaungywa Village Basic Education HighSchool in Maubin Township, which plucked the highestpass rate in Ayeyawady Region, as well as studentswho passed in the matriculation exam last year withflying colours took place at the school on 13 Junemorning.

On the occasion, the headmaster handed over thehighest pass rate shield presented by the AyeyawadyRegion Chief Minister to Union Minister at the PresidentOffice Chairman of Nay Pyi Taw Council U TheinNyunt.

Afterwards, the Union Minister honoured theefficient teachers of the school including the headmaster,and three students with three distinctions each.

`The Union Minister and wife then donatedschool uniforms and exercise books 875 studentsstudying in the school.

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Ayeyawady Region retainshighest pass rate inmatriculation exam

NAY PYI TAW, 15 June — Applications arebeing submitted to the Union Election Commission forformation of political parties.

On 13 June, 17 including Dr Than Htike Ooapplied for formation of the People Democracy Party.

Regarding the application, the commissionhas requested related ministries to vet the applicants asto whether the application meets the provisions ofArticles (4) and (6) of Political Parties RegistrationLaw or not.— MNA

Seventeen apply forformation of PeopleDemocracy Party

Two dead, several feared trapped after buildingcollapses in Nairobi

NAIROBI, 15 June—Atleast two people werekilled and several othersare feared trapped after abuilding under con-struction collapsed in asuburb of Nairobi, thecapital and largest city ofKenya, officials said onTuesday.

The six-storey build-ing along North AirportRoad in EmbakasiConstituency, whichconsists of the eastern andsoutheastern suburbs ofNairobi, collapsed ataround 11 am local time. Itis situated next to theKenya Builders Com-

pany.“So far, two people

have lost their lives whilesix others were rescuedfrom the collapsed buildingand taken to KenyattaNational Hospital,” aspokesper-son for theKenya Red Cross Society(KRCS) said. “There arefears that more people couldstill be trapped in thebuilding.”

The relief agency saidits personnel remains onthe site and is working withothers to coordinate therescue and evacuationefforts. A photo from thescene showed hundreds ofonlookers as rescue effortscontinued.

The cause of thecollapse was not imme-diately known.

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Rescuers work at the site of a collapsed building inNairobi, capital of Kenya, on 14 June, 2011. A six-

storey building under construction in Nairobicollapsed on Tuesday, killing at least two people and

leaving 14 missing, officials said.—XINHUA

Australian pilot killed after blimp bursts intoflames, crashes in Germany

BERLIN, 15 June—A Goodyearblimp burst into flames Sundayevening in the western region ofGermany, killing the pilot, whilethree passengers were able to survivethe accident, local media reported.

Spiegel Online reported that firesbroke out in both engines of the blimpas it was attempting to land in thetown of Reichelsheim, in the districtof Wetteraukreis, which is located inHesse. The airship was beingoperated by tire company Goodyear.

An airship crashed inGermany and caught fire on

12 June, killing the pilot. TheDAPD news agency reportedthat police said the aircraft’sthree passengers were able toescape unharmed from theaccident Sunday evening

near Reichelsheim, outsideFrankfurt. —XINHUA

It was not immed-iately clearwhat caused the accident, but Germanauthor i t ies have launch-ed aninvestigation to determine the cause.

In May 1937, the Germanpassenger airship the LZ 129Hindenburg caught fire and crashedwhile attempting to dock at theLakehurst Naval Air Station in NewJersey. Of the 97 people on board, 35died. One person on the ground wasalso killed.

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NAY PYI TAW, 15June—U Than Nyein,Governor of the CentralBank of Myanmar underthe Ministry of Financeand Revenue met adelegation led byExecutive Director MrRyota Sugishita of DaiwaInstitute of Research Ltdof Japan at the hall ofCBM, here, this morning.

They discussedmutual cooperationbetween the twonations.—MNA

Central Bank of Myanmar Governormeets DIR Executive Director

Governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar U Than Nyein receivesExecutive Director Mr Ryota Sugishita and party of Daiwa Institute

of Research Ltd of Japan.—MNA

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A woman holds a copy of the book “The Diary of aFighter, Ernesto Che Guevara”, during its

presentation in Havana, capital of Cuba, on 14 June, 2011. —XINHUA

GermanE coli

outbreakclaims firstchild victim

BERLIN, 15 June—Germany’s E colioutbreak claimed its firstchild fatality on Tuesdaywhen a two-year-old diedfrom the bacteria in thenorthern city of Hanover,taking the death toll to 37.

German healthauthorities have linkedthe epidemic, thedeadliest of its kind inmodern history, tocontaminated beansprouts and shoots from aGerman organic farmsold to consumers andrestaurants across thecountry for eating insalads. Germany’s maindisease control centre, theRobert Koch Institute,said the number of newinfections appeared to beon the wane.

More than 3,200people have so far beentaken ill with the E colistrain, about a quarter ofthem developing acomplication calledhemolytic uremic syn-drome, which affects theblood, kidneys andnervous system. Whilecases have been reportedin other countries, allhave been traced back tovisits to northernGermany and all but oneof the fatalities have beenin Germany.

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Photo illustration of aMinke whale. Japanese

whale hunters havefound traces of

radioactive caesium intwo of the ocean giantsrecently harpooned offits shores in the Pacific

Ocean, a fisheriesagency official said

Wednesday.—INTERNET

Japan finds radiation traces inwhales

TOKYO, 15 June—Japanese whale huntershave found traces ofradioactive caesium intwo of the ocean giantsrecently harpooned off itsshores in the PacificOcean, a fisheries agencyofficial said Wednesday.

Two minke whalesculled off the northernisland of Hokkaidoshowed readings of 31becquerels and 24.3becquerels of caesium perkilogramme, he said,adding that the cause maybe the accident at theFukushima nuclear plant.

The level is far belowthe country’s recently-setmaximum safe limit forseafood of 500 bec-querels per kilogramme,he said.

“There is no dataavailable to comparewhether the readings for

radioactive materials arehigher than normal,” hesaid.

“We will continue tomonitor the develop-ment, as we do for allseafood and marine life”that is caught off thePacific coast, he said.

The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant hasleaked radioactive waterinto the Pacific since itwas battered by the 11March earthquake andtsunami, which disabledcooling systems, trig-gering reactor melt-downsand explosions.

The Japanese publicand some marine lifeexperts have voiced fearsthat radioactive materialin the sea can concentrateamong large marinecreatures at the top of thefood chain that live for along time.

The government hasbanned fishing in areasnear the crippled nuclearplant, and local govern-ments and fishing coo-peratives are conductingregular radiation screen-ings of seafood along thePacific coast.

Japan hunts whalesunder a loophole to aninternational moratoriumthat allows killing the seamammals for “scientificresearch”.

Japan also argues thatwhaling is an integral partof the island-nation’sculture, and whale meat issold openly in shops andrestaurants.

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US man trapped in Russia for 77 yrsspeaks English again after stroke

LONDON, 15 June— An American man who was trapped in the Soviet Union 77years ago - and was forced to learn the Russian language to survive his epicCommunist ordeal - has again started speaking in his native English after sufferinga stroke.

Kenneth Edwards, now 95, recently suffered a stroke, which left him unable tocommunicate with his Russian family and children.

“I am having to learn Russian all over again,” the Daily Mail quoted him assaying in a halting American accent.

“I say something in Russian to him, and he replies only in English,” said hiswife Zoya, 79. “I only understand what he wants to say by his intonation.”

Edwards rarely used English after his idealistic left-wing father Willard movedhis family from Alabama to the USSR in 1934.

His return to speaking English instead of his word perfect Russian has stunnedlocal doctors.

In 1992, when he had a reunion in Moscow with his younger sister Marjorie,he had trouble speaking to her because he had forgotten much of his English. Hehad told her: “I have a Russian wife and Russian children. I speak only in Russian.I think only in Russian.”—Internet

Ash forces flights to west Australiacity canceled

SYDNEY, 15 June— Several airlinesplanned to ground flights to the westernAustralian City of Perth on Wednesdayafternoon because of a volcanic ashcloud — announcements that came justas mainland air travel had been gettingback to normal on the fourth day ofdisruptions.

More than 70,000 passengers hadbeen at least temporarily stranded evenbefore the latest cancellations.

The ash from a Chilean volcanohas forced national carrier Qantas andbudget airlines Jetstar and Tiger tocancel flights to and from the islandstate of Tasmania and New Zealandsince Sunday. Flights to the southerncities of Melbourne and Adelaide alsowere canceled, but air travel to and

People sleep at JorgeNewbery Airport where

flights were canceled dueto an ash cloud that

reached Buenos Airesfrom the Chilean

Puyehue-Cordon Caullevolcano grounding airtravel in Buenos Aires,Argentina, on 14 June,

2011.INTERNET

from both cities was back to normalWednesday.

Virgin Australia and Air NewZealand have continued service frommainland Australia to New Zealand andTasmania by changing flight paths toavoid the ash cloud — a move Qantassaid it would not take. But Virgin saidWednesday the ash would be too low toavoid on flights to and from Perth, whichis the largest city in Australia’s westand the gateway to the remote region.“The ash plume is forecast to be at alower band level of approximately15,000 feet and with this in mind, VirginAustralia will suspend all services intoand out of Perth as a precautionarymeasure,” Group Executive SeanDonohue said in a statement.—Internet

271 Picasso works foundwith French couple

LONDON, 15 June —A French couple havebeen found to illegallypossess 271 works bySpanish artist PabloPicasso worth up to 80million pounds (USD 131million).

Pierre Le Guennec,71, claimed Picasso gavehim the vast treasure troveof paintings and sketcheswhen he was working asan electrician at the

artist’s house in southernFrance, the Daily Expressreported.

Le Guennec stashedthem in his garage fornearly 40 years.

He and his wifeDanielle reportedly tooka suitcase full withpaintings to Picasso’sheirs in Paris in Octoberlast year to have themauthenticated. Just afterart experts proved theworks were genuine,police swooped on thecouple at their home inMouans-Sartoux andarrested them onsuspicion of receivingstolen goods. They werereleased without chargebut an investigation hasbeen launched. They areset to face trial later thismonth.—Internet

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Bangladesh plans special force to protect tigers

Anthony van Dyck paintingto be auctioned at Sotheby’s

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV NP GLORY-4 VOY NO (005)Consignees of cargo carried on MV NP GLORY-4

VOY NO (005) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 16.6.2011 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand 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: M/S FREIGHT OVERSEAEXPRESS

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV AN ZE JIANG VOY NO (148)Consignees of cargo carried on MV AN ZE JIANG

VOY NO (148) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 16.6.2011 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of S.P.W(6) where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S COSCO SHIPPINGCO LTD

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA RUKUN VOY NO (585)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA RUKUNVOY NO (585) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 16.6.2011 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Sundarbans is home to about 400tigers.—INTERNET

DHAKA, 15 June — Bangladesh issetting up a special force to save thecritically endangered Royal Bengal Ti-ger and other animals.

The 300-member force will be de-ployed mostly around the Sundarbansmangrove forests, one of the last refugesof the tigers.

The decision came months after theyseized three tiger skins and a large quan-tity of bones, the biggest haul of illegaltiger parts in decades.

The Sundarbans forests stretch be-tween Bangladesh and India. Around400 tigers still live in the area. Until nowpoaching has not been considered as thechief threat to the tiger population inBangladesh.

But the arrest of a poacher with tigerskins and bones earlier this year raisedfears that an organised poaching groupwas operating in the mangrove forests.

Officials admitted they did not haveenough manpower, resources and train-ing to counter the poachers, who theysaid were using increasingly sophisti-cated techniques to trap the tigers.

Minister of Environment and ForestsHasan Mahmud said that the setting up ofthe new wildlife force was long overdue."The forest department staff in Bangla-desh need more training, because nowthe poachers are very sophisticated," hesaid.—Internet

Philip Mould boughtVan Dyck's Portrait ofa Young Girl last year.

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Timberland to be bought byWrangler owner VF for $2b

Timberland is best known for its rugged boots.INTERNET

LONDON, 15 June — VFCorporation has an-nounced a $2bn (£1.2bn)deal to bring together someof the best-known outdoorand action sports brands.The company that ownsWrangler jeans has agreedto buy Timberland, which

is famous for its leatherboots.

Timberland will join astable that includes suchbrands as The North Face,Vans, Reef, Jansport andEastpak.

VF said that if the dealis approved by sharehold-ers and regulators, itshould be completed bythe end of September.

It added that the agree-ment had been approvedunanimously by theboards of both companies.

VF said it would betargeting revenue growthof 10% a year atTimberland, which willcontinue to be based inNew Hampshire.

"We believe theunique, rugged outdoorpositioning of theTimberland brand willperfectly complement thepremium, technicalpositioning of The NorthFace brand," said EricWiseman, VF's chief ex-ecutive.

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LONDON, 15 June —Sotheby's London is to auc-tion a portrait of a monk,credited to Anthony vanDyck, that was previouslythought to have beenpainted by Rubens. Thework, owned by the sameFrench family for at least200 years, was known asConfesseur de Rubens.Sotheby's says experts no-ticed brushwork more char-acteristic of Rubens' pupilVan Dyck. Meanwhile, adealer who rediscoveredVan Dyck's A Portrait of aYoung Girl, in 2010, hasspoken of his find.

The artist's Portrait of aCarmelite Monk, which isestimated to sell for£600,000-£800,000 whenit is auctioned on 6 July,was among artworks val-ued for a family by the

Sotheby's Paris office. Theauction house's GeorgeGordon said that the waythe monk's head wasturned to one side createdan impression of sponta-neity as opposed to themore formal compositionof Rubens' portraits.

Internet

India sees cut in new HIV casesbut battle not over

NEW DELHI, 15 June—Radhe Shyam looks everyinch the family man as he cradles his chubby, four-month-old baby in his arms and glances lovingly at hiswife and two other daughters.

Shyam, his wife and one of his three daughters,however, are HIV positive. The couple’s youngest isalso likely to be carrying the virus, although that willbe confirmed only when she is tested once she is 18months old.

The 42-year-old and his family are among theestimated 2.3 million people in India living with HIV.Daily life for people with the virus is hard, particularlydue to the stigma it still carries in the socially conservativecountry.

“I was working as a cook and doing well for myselfbut my life changed for ever in 2008 when I was foundto be HIV positive,” said Shyam, who lives in the east ofIndia’s capital, New Delhi.

“I lost my job and still can’t find another onebecause the moment people come to know about mydisease, they step back. My wife is illiterate and we havethree children to take care of,” he told AFP, fightingback tears.—Internet

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Jennifer Aniston causes Theroux, Bivensbreakup

NEW YORK, 15 June—Heidi Bivens’ publicist hasconfirmed the Hollywoodcostume designer hasended her 14-yearrelationship with actor andwriter Justin Theroux.

Official word of thesplit comes amid weeksof reports claimingTheroux is romanticallyinvolved with his“Wanderlust” co-starJennifer Aniston. “Heidiis heartbroken. She wascompletely blindsided.She and Justin had beentogether for years, theyhad a home. Then he metJennifer and everything

Jennifer Aniston at theArclight Cinerama Domein the Hollywood section

of Los Angeles on 16 Aug,2010. Aniston is rumoured

to be the root of thebreakup.INTERNET

changed. At first heclaimed he and Jen werefriends,” one insider toldthe New York Post.

However, anothersource insisted, “Thingswere already overbetween him and Heidibefore he got close toJen.”

“Heidi and Justin havebeen together for 14 years,”Bivens’ publicist told thePost. “They met when shewas 20 years old and he 24,and yes, she just movedout of their home lastweekend. She has nocomment.”

Internet

Hefner-Harriswedding canceled

LOS ANGELES, 15 June —USpublishing mogul Hugh Hefner sayshis 25-year-old fiancee, Playboyplaymate Crystal Harris, has canceledplans for their weekend wedding.

The twice-divorced Hefner, 85, andHarris were set to exchange vows infront of 300 guests Saturday at thePlayboy Mansion in Los Angeles,People.com reported.

“The wedding is off,” Hefner saidvia Twitter Tuesday. “Crystal has had achange of heart.”

“I heard the sad news this morning,”Harris’ manager Michael Blakey toldPeople.com.

“The split was a mutual decisionand the two remain good friends.”

Internet

Identical twins Karissa andKristina Shannon, Hugh Hefner

and Crystal Harris (L-R) arrive forthe 37th annual AFI Lifetime

Achievement Awards honoringDouglas at Sony Pictures Studiosin Culver City, California on 11

June, 2009. The wedding betweenHarris and Hefnerhas been called off.

INTERNET

Wheaton, Lee to guest star on ‘Eureka’NEW YORK, 15 June—

Felicia Day, Wil Wheaton andStan Lee have booked guestappearances on the US series“Eureka,” Syfy said Tuesday.

Day will begin her seven-episode arc 18 July.

Lee, creator of the Spider-Man comic books, will make acameo appearance in theepisode airing 24 July.

Wheaton will return laterin the season for sevenepisodes, reprising his rolefrom last year as Dr IsaacParrish, the cable network said.

Eureka is a cozy, PacificNorthwest town, which servesas home to a secret communityof geniuses assembled by thegovernment to conduct top-secret research, a synopsissaid.

Internet

Japanese musician YoshikiHayashi and comic book creator

Stan Lee arrive at the 68thannual Golden Globe Awards inBeverly Hills, on 16 Jan, 2011.

INTERNET

Simpson to be mentor on ‘Fashion Star’

UNIVERSAL CITY, 15 June—USsinger and fashion designer JessicaSimpson is to serve as a celebrity mentoron the new reality competition series“Fashion Star,” NBC said.

The show was created to find thenext big brand in fashion. Supermodel

billion-dollar lifestylebrand under her belt sheis sure to be an excellentmentor to our up-and-coming designers.”

“Jessica Simpsonhas built an incrediblefashion business and is aperfect mentor to ouraspiring designers,”added Ben Silverman,chief executive officerand founder of theproduction companyElectus. “She willcomplement the buyers,Elle Macpherson and[an] amazing format.”

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Singer Jessica Simpson.

and businesswoman ElleMacpherson will be theshow’s host.

Simpson’s involve-ment in the show wasannounced Monday byPaul Telegdy, executivevice president ofalternative program-ming at NBC andUniversal MediaStudios.

“NBC is delighted towork with singer,designer, actress andpop-culture icon JessicaSimpson,” Telegdy saidin a statement.

“With an almost

Street closed due to bee swarmNew York police said they had to divert traffic from a

Chinatown street when approximately 15,000 bees swarmed thearea.

Police said they closed Mott Street between Bayard and PellMonday and the road was reopened at about 5 pm after a policedepartment beekeeper captured the insects, the New York DailyNews reported.

The department said the swarm was only the latest in a recentstring of bee incidents in the city. Police said a mailbox in theLittle Italy neighbourhood was swarmed about two weeks ago anda second swarm was spotted around a Washington Heights fireescape a few days later.

Hospital’s first babyreturns as a nurse

N e w s A l b u m

The first baby ever born at a Texas hospitalsaid she is going to work at the facility alongsidethe nurse who helped deliver her.

Cameron Fox, 23, the first baby born at TexasHealth Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest FortWorth, said she was hired last week as a registerednurse in postpartum, where she will take care ofbabies once they have been delivered with thehelp of nurse Eileen Wilson, who helped deliverFox in 1987, the Fort Worth Star-Telegramreported.

“It’s wonderful that she came back to workhere,” Wilson said.

“I remember the day she was born, but that’sabout it.”

Fox said she is hoping to eventually work inlabor delivery.

“It’s surreal and so cool,” Fox said.“I’ll be one day working with the person who

has known me from Day One.”

Rep Weiner gets an action figureA Connecticut company has created an action figure of

embattled US Rep Anthony Weiner, D-NY, that comes in bothPG-13 and R-rated versions.

Herobuilders of Oxford said the Anthony Weiner actionfigure released Monday comes in a PG-13 version dressed ingym clothes with “Tweet This” printed on his shorts and ananatomically correct R-rated version “for adults only,” the NewYork Daily News reported.

The figures join other merchandise created in the wake ofWeiner’s picture-sending indiscretions on Twitter, including T-shirts, mugs and bumper stickers. Madison, founder of dating Website SugarSugar.com, issued a public statement offering $50,000 toWeiner’s private parts to serve as spokesman for the site. “Despite

A pet dog sleeps in the coat of its ownerduring Woofstock, the largest outdoorfestival for dogs in North America, inToronto, Canada, on 11June, 2011.Launched in 2003, Woofstock wouldattract thousands of dog lovers and

visitors this year.vigorous efforts, Mr Weiner has notresponded to my ministrations,”Madison said.

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New Asian football boss plays downpermanent role

Large crowd expected for Mavs parade on Thursday

Under-achieving Puel destinedfor Lyon exit

Dunga, Klinsmann on Algeriashortlist — source

Trip to Haiti puts golfin perspective for McIlroy

Ankle problem flares againfor Clijsters

Injured Hewitt faces Wimbledon fitness race

Pakistan ready to host BangladeshWorld Cup qualifier

China's Zhang Jilong (pictured, L) hassaid that it was "not yet time" to thinkabout permanent leadership of the AsianFootball Confederation, just days afterarriving in Kuala Lumpur to stand infor suspended president Mohamed bin

Hammam (C).—INTERNET

KUALA LUMPUR,15 June—Asia's care-taker football chief insists he is not think-ing about taking over full-time and isonly in "temporary" charge after beinghanded the role by an explosive corrup-tion scandal.

China's Zhang Jilong said it was "not

yet time" to think about permanent lead-ership of the Asian Football Confedera-tion (AFC), just days after arriving inKuala Lumpur to stand in for suspendedpresident Mohamed bin Hammam.

"It's not yet time for me to mentionabout this and to think about this," Zhangtold AFP when asked if he wanted to bepresident full-time, in his first interviewto Western media since being appointed.

But Zhang, 59, did not rule out run-ning for the job after bin Hammam wasbarred from football over sensationalclaims he used cash-stuffed envelopes tobuy votes in the FIFA presidential raceagainst Sepp Blatter.

"What the (AFC) executive commit-tee entrusts me to do at this particularmoment is work together closer with allthe members of the executive committeeand the administration," Zhang said atAFC House in the Malaysian capital.

Internet

Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki,center, of Germany, raises his MVP

trophy followed by teammates asthey exit the charter with ownerMark Cuban carrying the NBA

Championship basketball trophyafter the team's arrival at Love

Field in Dallas, on 13 June,2011.—INTERNET

Belgian Kim Clijsters

DALLAS, 15 June—Five years after aparade drawn up to celebrate the DallasMavericks' first NBA championship back-fired, new plans are in place for a ridethrough the city's streets.

About 250,000 people are expected toturn out Thursday to cheer on DirkNowitzki, Jason Kidd, Jason Terry and therest of the 2011 champs. Everyone will bethere, from the players to the coaches, thefront office to franchise founder DonaldCarter, who accepted the championshiptrophy when the Mavs beat the MiamiHeat for the title on Sunday night.

"The parade is going to be amazing,"said Nowitzki, the finals MVP. "We'regoing to enjoy the heck out of that."

In 2006, the Mavericks won the firsttwo games of the NBA finals and localofficials were so excited that they releasedthe route of a parade in case the team wonit all. Their foe — which happened to bethe Heat — used it as motivation to win thenext four games.—Internet

Lyon's coachClaude Puel

Former Brazil coachDunga, pictured in 2010,and ex-Germany man-ager Jurgen Klinsmannare on the shortlist to takeover as coach of Algeria.

INTERNET

S P O R T S

ALGIERS, 15 June—Former Brazil coachDunga and ex-Germanymanager JurgenKlinsmann are on theshortlist to take over ascoach of Algeria, a sourceclose to the Algerian Foot-ball Federation (FAF)claimed on Tuesday.

"Jurgen Klinsmann andCarlos Dunga are on the listof five coaches chosen bythe FAF's candidature com-mittee to succeed Abdelhak

Benchikha at the head ofthe Algerian national side,"said the source, quoted bythe APS news agency.

The FAF committee re-portedly whittled down theshortlist after receiving 43applications for the job andthe source said that furthertalks with the remainingcandidates would be "ini-tiated shortly".

Meanwhile, FAF presi-dent Mohamed Raouraouafirmly denied reports of anapproach to the formerFrance coach RaymondDomenech, in an interviewin Tuesday's edition of theAlgerian daily Liberte.

A statement fromDomenech's advisors sentto AFP on Monday claimedhe had been approached bythe FAF but had not madean application for the postvacated by Benchika.

Internet

Australia'sLleyton Hewitt

Rory McIlroy, of North-ern Ireland, chips to thesecond green during apractice round for the USOpen Championship golftournament in Bethesda,

Md, on 14 June,2011.—INTERNET

BETHESDA, 15 June—The sight of Rory McIlroyburying his head in thecrook of his arm on the13th tee is the lastingmemory from his dread-ful day at the Masters.

A disheartening scene.Nowhere near as devas-tating, though, as some ofthe images golf's budding

superstar recently saw.McIlroy, known as

well for his implosion inthe final round of the Mas-ters as the gracious way hehandled it, traveled lastweek to Haiti, a placewhere green jackets andgolf trophies mean noth-ing — on a mission to theisland country that is onlystarting to recover fromthe deadly earthquake thathit last year.

"I remember drivingpast the presidential pal-ace," McIlroy said, "andthe dome on top is justhanging off. I was justthinking to myself, if theycan't even repair the (pal-ace), then they can't doanything. They just needso much help."

Internet

LYON, 15 June—Lyonwill on Wednesday begin aprocess to dismiss coachClaude Puel, thereby bring-ing an end to threetrophyless years marked byon-pitch disappointmentand mounting fan discon-tent. Club officials will ac-company Puel to a hearingof the legal affairs com-mittee of the French Pro-fessional League (LFP),where a 'conciliation hear-ing' will lay the ground-work for his dismissal.

The meeting, con-firmed by sources close tothe club, will map outgrounds for the termina-tion of Puel's contract a

year before its scheduledexpiry date, which couldearn him up to four mil-lion euros ($5.8m) in com-pensation.

Remi Garde, the cur-rent head of OL's youthtraining centre and aformer club captain, hasbeen widely tipped to as-sume control of first-teamaffairs.—Internet

ROSMALEN, 15 June—US and Australian Openchampion Kim Clijsters'build-up to Wimbledonsuffered a huge blow onTuesday as she appearedto have re-injured her trou-blesome right ankle.

The 27-year-old Bel-gian looked to have in-jured her ankle during ashock 7-6 (7/5) 6-3 hum-bling by Italian qualifier

Romina Oprandi in thesecond round of the WTAtournament here and couldhinder her chances atWimbledon, which getsunderway next week.

Internet

EASTBOURNE, 15 June—Australia's LleytonHewitt made a dramaticmid-match exit whiletrailing 2-6, 0-3 to OlivierRochus in his first-roundmatch at Eastbourne onTuesday.

Hewitt, the formernumber one and 2002Wimbledon champion,left the court after 40 min-utes of his opening match

in the Wimbledon warm-up event. The 30-year-oldhas yet to make a success-ful comeback from springfoot surgery, losing earlylast week in Halle, Ger-many, where he was de-fending the title, and fail-ing to complete his open-ing match here at Devon-shire Park.

The Aussie said he hadtweaked his ankle during

the quarter-final loss atHalle last week and felt itwas useless to go on in thematch with Belgium'sRochus.—Internet

KARACHI, 15 June—Pa-kistani football said onTuesday it is confidentnext month's home WorldCup qualifier againstBangladesh will go ahead,promising tight securityfor the match.

After the first leg oftheir Asian zone qualifierfor the 2014 World Cup inDhaka on 29 June, the twosides were scheduled tomeet in Lahore on 3 July.

But arrangements raninto trouble after Bangla-desh asked FIFA, the

game's ruling body, to re-locate the match due tosecurity fears. FIFA hasapparently rejected the re-quest in a move welcomedby Pakistan Football Fed-eration (PFF) secretaryAhmed Yar Khan Lodhi."We hosted Palestine andMalaysia earlier this yearand both the teams re-turned happy, so we haveproper security arrange-ments in place and we areconfident that the matchwill go ahead," Lodhi toldAFP.—Internet

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

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30hr. M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, rain has beenisolated in Lower Sagaing Region and Kayah State,scattered in Mandalay Region, fairly widespread inMagway Region and Kachin State and widespread inthe remaining Regions and States with regionallyheavyfalls in Bago, Yangon and AyeyawadyRegions, Rakhine and Mon States and isolatedheavyfalls in Kachin and Kayin States. Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded wereKayan (5.51) inches, Thandwe (5.32) inches, Putao(5.20) inches, Bilin (5.12) inches, Theinzayet (5.04)inches, Thaton (4.49) inches, Maubin (4.41) inches,Gwa (4.37) inches, Sittway (4.29) inches, Yangon(Minglardon) (4.06) inches and Paung (3.20) inches.

Nay Pyi TawMaximum temperature on 14-6-2011 was 84°F.

Minimum temperature on 15-6-2011 was 76°F.Relative humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 15-6-2011was (92%). Rainfall on 15-6-2011 was (0.12) inch.

Nay Pyi Taw (Airport)Maximum temperature on 14-6-2011 was 84°F.

Minimum temperature on 15-6-2011 was 73°F.Relative humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 15-6-2011was (84%). Rainfall on 15-6-2011 was (0.24) inch.

Rainfall on 15-6-2011 was (0.12) inch at Nay PyiTaw, (3.90) inches at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) and (Nil) atMandalay. Total rainfall since 1-1-2011 was (16.06)

Wednesday, 15th June, 2011

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am)MSTOversea Transmission - (16-6-11 09:30 am ~

17-6-11 09:30 am) MST

Local Transmission* Opening* News* Myanmar Toys....For Your Eye-catching* News* Tigers Futsal League (2011) Press Conference* News* Nay Pyi Taw Gems Emporium’s offer to the world* Miss Enat 2011 & Miss Enat Working Lady 2011* News* Mazali Salad & Vermicelli Soup

Oversea Transmission* Opening* News* Myanmar Toys....For Your Eye-catching* News* Tigers Futsal League (2011) Press Conference* Live Concert* News* Nay Pyi Taw Gems Emporium’s offer to the world* Miss Enat 2011 & Miss Enat Working Lady 2011* News* Mazali Salad & Vermicelli Soup* News* Education Seminar* News* Offering 9900 Light at Prominent Pagodas* Music Gallery* News* Artist Hla Tun Aung’s Milestone* News* Lifestyles Along The Ayeyawady (Mandalay to

Pyay)* Myanmar Movies “The Magician’s Flower”

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Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas

7:00 am 1. Paritta By

Venerable MingunSayadaw-UppatasantiParitta

7:30 am 2. Morning News

WEATHER inches at Nay Pyi Taw, (33.82) inches at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) and (13.39) inches at Mandalay.Maximum wind speed at Nay Pyi Taw was (17) mphfrom Southwest at (12:30) hours MST on 15-6-2011.

Bay Inference: Monsoon is vigorous in theAndaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of the 16th June2011: Rain will be scattered in Lower Sagaing,Mandalay and Magway Regions, Kayah State,fairly widespread in Shan State and widespread inthe remaing Regions and States with likelihood ofisolated heavyfalls in Bago, Yangon, Ayeyawadyand Taninthayi Regions, Rakhine, Mon and KayinStates. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the Sea: Squalls with rough seas will beexperienced at time off and along Myanmar Coasts.Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (40) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuationof increase of rain in Coastal Areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouringarea for 16th June 2011: Isolated rain. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 16th June 2011: One or two rain. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 16th June 2011: Isolated rain. Degree of certaintyis (80%).

7:40 am 3. Programme in

honourof “Full Moon Day

of Nayon”8:10 am 4. Dhamma Puja Song8:20 am 5. Dhamma Puja Song8:40 am 6. Nice & Sweet Song8:50 am 7. Health Programme8:55 am 8. International News3:30 pm 1. Myanmar National

League MNLGrand Royal Cup(2011) (Delay)(Southern MyanmarFC & RakhapuraUnited FC)

5:00 pm

2. Musical Programme

5:15 pm

3. Cute Little Dancers

5:25 pm

4. University Of

Distance Education

(TV Lectures) -

Fourth Year (Law)

5:40 pm

5. Songs for Uphold

National Spirit

5:45 pm

6. Songs of National

Races

5:50 pm

7. Science and

Environment

6:00 pm

8. Evening News

6:15 pm 9. Weather Report

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Science

Discovery World

7:00 pm12. TV Dramma Series

8:00 pm13. News

14. International News

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16. Documentary

17. TV Dramma Series

18. TV Dramma Series

19. “Maha thamaja

Day of Thida Gu”

20. Metta Bhavana By

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Veteran striker NunoGomes leaves Benfica

LISBON, 15 June—Veteran Portuguese strikerNuno Gomes, 35, announced on Wednesday that heis leaving Benfica for the second time.

“I’ve been informed that Benfica havedefinitively decided not to prolong my contract,”announced Gomes, who won 77 caps for Portugal,on his website.

“I now feel free to analyse all the propositionsthat could be forthcoming and choose my future.”

Benfica said they had offered Gomes a back-room role at the club but Gomes said he hoped tocontinue playing “for at least an extra season”.

The former Benfica captain made just six leagueappearances last season but still managed to scorefour goals.

Gomes began his career with Boavista in 1994and joined Benfica in 1997, returning to the Lisbonclub in 2002 after two seasons with Fiorentina inItaly.

He won two league titles with Benfica and is alsothe fourth-highest goalscorer in the history of thePortuguese national team with 29 goals.—Internet

VeteranPortuguese

striker NunoGomes, 35,

hasannouncedthat he isleaving

Benfica forthe second

time.

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

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

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

People’s DesireWe favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

Fullmon Day of Nayon 1373 ME Thursday, 16 June, 2011

ASEAN Dengue Day, WorldMalaria Day marked

Noteworthy amounts ofrainfall

(15-6-2011)

Kayan 5.51 inches Thandwe 5.32 inches Putao 5.20 inches Bilin 5.12 inches Theinzayat 5.04 inches Thaton 4.49 inches Maubin 4.41 inches Gwa 4.37 inches

Union Minister for Health Dr Pe Thet

Khin delivers an address at the ceremony to

mark ASEAN Dengue Day and World

Malaria Day (2011).—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 15June—Seventy-five percent of denguehaemorrhagic fevercases around the worldis in Asian and Pacificregions, and SoutheastAsia makes up 52% ofthe dengue-prone areasin the world, andIndonesia, Thailand andMyanmar suffer dengueoutbreaks most, saidUnion Minister forHealth Dr Pe Thet Khinat the ceremony to markASEAN Dengue Dayand World Malaria Day(2011) at the Ministryof Health here thismorning.

He said that thedisease causes not onlysocial but also economicburden, so the 15th of Junewas designated asASEAN Dengue Day atthe 10th ASEAN HealthMinisters’ Meeting heldin Singapore in 2010.

Previously, denguecases were found only in

urban areas, but now thedisease also breaks outin rural areas andvillages, he said. In 1970,the death rate of denguepatients was over six inevery 100, and itdecreased to about oneper cent in 2010, he said,adding that in the past,the vulnerable group wasunder 15 and the mostvulnerable werepreprimary and primaryschoolchildren. How-ever, he said that denguecases are also found oftenin middle and elderlypeople.

He added that thetheme of this year’sASEAN Dengue Day is“Dengue is Everybody’sConcern, CausingSocioeconomic Burden,But It’s Preventable”.About 50 million peoplearound the world suffermalaria, and about onemillion of them dieyearly, and in SoutheastAsia about 5000 peoplepick up the disease andabout 100,000 die ofmalaria a year, he said.

The malaria outbreakrate in 1990 has beenhalved by 2015, but all

should not be complacentabout the achievement ofthe UN Millennium Goal,he said.

Dengue preventiveand control measures arebeing carried out with theaids of WHO, UNICEF,3 Diseases Fund, GlobalFund and JICA in schoolsand wards, he said, callingon the people to takepreventive measuresagainst dengue.

After the ceremonythe Union minister andguests visited thecommemorative pavi-lion.—MNA

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