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Volume XVI, Number 279 12th Waning of Pyatho 1370 ME Thursday, 22 January, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-rounddevelopment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participation interms of technical know-how and investments fromsources inside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be keptin the hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integ-rity and preservation and safeguard-ing of cultural heritage and nationalcharacter

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

standards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peaceand tranquillity, prevalence of law andorder

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 21 Jan—A ceremony to open aconcrete bridge in Kantha village of Budalin Town-ship, Sagaing Division, was held near the bridge yes-terday.

Chairman of Sagaing Division Peace and De-velopment Council Commander of North-West Com-mand Maj-Gen Myint Soe, Minister for Sports Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint, departmental heads at division,district and township levels, members of social organi-zations and officials attended the opening ceremony.The chairman of township PDC, wellwishers andmembers of social organizations formally opened thebridge.

The commander formally unveiled the sign-board of the basic education middle school (Branch).The commander and the minister made speeches on theoccasion. The commander presented exercise booksand the minister a set of TV and sports gear for theschool.

Afterwards, the commander and the ministermet with teachers of Monywa Education College andtrainees and made a speech on the occasion. Thecommander presented K 500,000 for uniforms and theminister handed sports gear for the college.—MNA

Kantha village getsconcrete bridge,BEMS (Branch)

Notwithstanding early morning, Labutta, thecommercial hub of the seaside area, was found livelywith activities. Labutta port was busy with a goodtrade of marine products along with sea-going trawl-

Labutta hustle and bustle with business activitiesArticle: Mawgyun Myint Aung (IPRD)

ers and vessels the whole morning.The entire town looked bright when the sun

rose. We left Labutta port by speedboat along theYway River. (See page 7)

Polaung model village is on path to development.

its likely cause.A group of 3,146 earth scientists sur-

veyed around the world overwhelminglyagree that in the past 200-plus years, meanglobal temperatures have been rising, andthat human activity is a significant contrib-uting factor in changing mean global tem-peratures.

Peter Doran, University of Illinois atChicago associate professor of earth and envi-ronmental sciences, along with former gradu-ate student Maggie Kendall Zimmerman, con-ducted the survey late last year.

The findings appear January 19 in thepublication Eos, Transactions, AmericanGeophysical Union.

In trying to overcome criticism ofearlier attempts to gauge the view of earthscientists on global warming and the humanimpact factor, Doran and KendallZimmerman sought the opinion of the mostcomplete list of earth scientists they couldfind, contacting more than 10,200 expertsaround the world listed in the 2007 edition ofthe American Geological Institute's Direc-tory of Geoscience Departments.—Internet

ZURICH, 21 Jan —Eight mechanical engi-neering students havetaken on something big:in the context of their fo-cus project, they are de-signing a sailing boat tosail autonomously across

Human-induced globalwarming is realSCIENCE DAILY, 21 Jan —While

the harsh winter pounding many areasof North America and Europe seem-ingly contradicts the fact that globalwarming continues unabated, a new sur-vey finds consensus among scientistsabout the reality of climate change and

To sail autonomously acrossAtlantic

the Atlantic.Design drawings

showing various views ofa sailing boat hang onmovable walls in the LCEworkshop, and a model –which would also not lookout of place at bathtime –

stands on the table. How-ever, the seven mechani-cal engineering studentsout of eight who are gath-ered together in the work-shop on Leonardstrasseon a Friday are not in amood for playing. Theaim is for the plan to betransformed in early sum-mer 2009 at the latest intoa four metre ocean-goingsailing boat weighing amaximum of 500 kilo-grams. This boat is in-tended to sail autono-mously and unmannedfrom Ireland to the Carib-bean, covering a total of7,000 kilometres in threeto four months. Thatwould be a world record.High-tech against prime-val forces.—Internet

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 22 January, 2009

Thursday, 22 January, 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 is laying foundations for

development of every sector while

undertaking the tasks for national progress.

Establishment of essential foundations in

every sector is meant to hand down precious

legacy to posterity.

At the same time, priority is being given to

national solidarity essential for the State.

Due to the efforts of the government

development gaps between one region and

another have gradually become narrower

and narrower and equitable development

has been made in all regions of the Union. The

national people now enjoy fruitful results of

development.

There has been a great number of dams,

motor roads, railroads, major bridges across

the rivers, hydropower stations and

workshops and factories nationwide.

Universities and colleges that will produce

human resources on whom the State can rely

and hospitals that provide health care services

have been opened.

Altogether 217 dams and 322 river water

pumping stations have been built in the time

of the Tatmadaw government since 1988.

The government is giving priority to the

regions which are in need of special care and

attention and carrying out the tasks for

development of local people, for alleviation of

poverty and for promotion of social life of the

people. Therefore, all the national people are

to actively participate in these efforts for

national development.

National progress throughall-round development

YANGON, 21 Jan—Minister for Agricultureand Irrigation Maj-GenHtay Oo inspected Balar-2water pumping station inMingaladon Township on19 January.

The station was builton Balar canal ofNgamoeyeik Dam byWater ResourcesUtilization Department.

The minister inspectedsupply of water to summerpaddy fields, waterpumping with the use ofpaddyhusk -poweredgasifier, irrigation andcultivation of summerpaddy.

Water ResourcesUtilization Departmentbuilt Balar-1 and-2 waterpumping stations for 1000-acre Balar model farmproject in Hlegu andMingaladon Townships.

This year Balar-2water pumping station will

Water pumping stations inspected inMingaladon, Hlegu Townships

supply water to 400 acresof farmland for cultivationof crops.

The minister went toLetpan water pumpingstation on NgamoeyeikCreek and Shantegyi Creeknear Letpan Village inHlegu Township. Heinspected irrigation and

ploughing for summerpaddy.

On completion of theproject, water will besupplied to 9,300 acres ofcultivable land. Theminister inspectedNgamoeyeik water pum-ping projects, irrigation andsummer paddy fields.

Ngamoeyeik waterpumping project beingbuilt near Moksoenyaung-bin Village in HleguTownship will suppy waterto 8,000 acres of land.

Altogether 700 out of2,000 acres of summerpaddy have been cultivatedin the township.—MNA

Cash donated to MWJA

YANGON, 21 Jan— The Monywa InvitationalGolf Tournament, jointly organized by Myanmar GolfFederation and Monywa Golf Club, continued atMonywa Golf Club in Monywa this morning.

After the third round, Min Naing (Srixon)was retaining his position at the top of theprofessional golfers division with 210 strokes. NaingNaing Lin (Point) and Kyaw Swa Lin (Srixon) tiedat the second position with 219 each. Soe KyawNaing (Srixon) was standing at the third positionwith 220.

In the men’s amateur golfers division, AungWin (Forest) was leading the competition with 217strokes, followed by Nay Bala Win Myint with 225and Tin Lin Ko with 228.

Future Engineering Group, More & More CoLtd and Cherry Yoma Co Ltd mainly sponsored thetournament with co-sponsors International BeveragesTrading Co Ltd together with undertakings of HanEven Management.

MNA

YANGON, 21 Jan—Donors U Khin Maung Thein,wife Susan Thein (Sagaing Sein Sein) and familydonated cash to Myanmar Writers and JournalistsAssociation at City Star Hotel on Maha Bandoola Park

Street this afternoon.CEC member Lt-Col Ohn Maung (Retd) of

MWJA extended greetings on the occasion. Next,writer Sagaing Sein Sein explained the purpose of thedonations. Wellwisher donated K 900,000 to MWJAand K 100,000 to Digital Library of U Htin Gyitotalling K 1 million. Vice-Chairman of MWJA U TinKha accepted cash donations, presented certificates ofhonour to the donors and spoke words of thanks.

MNA

Min Naing (Srixon) leading MonywaInvitational Golf Tournament.—MGF

Minister Maj-Gen Htay Oo inspects Letpan river water pumping projectin Hlegu Township.—MNA

Min Naing leadingMonywa Invitational Golf

STI Education invitestrainees for ACE course

YANGON, 21 Jan—STIEducation will conduct theAdobe Certified Expert(ACE) Course on 8February.

Trainees will beequipped with knowledgeto create animation,advertisement, specialeffects and many otherareas such as poster and

billboard designs.The course will be

extremely appropriate formedia designers, directors(movies and advertising),and publishing relatedoperations.

For more information,contact No. 7, Building 4,Myanmar Info-Tech,Hline Township and No.377, Upper ShwebonthaStreet, PabedanTownship, Tel: 250056,700273, 507046, 507048and 507151/52.—MNA

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Afghanistan seeks controlover NATO deployments

A man stands near a destroyed vehicle after Iraqi border patrol commanderCol Abdul Majeed Mohammed was killed by a bomb placed under his truck

near Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city, 550 kilometres (340 miles) southeast ofBaghdad, Iraq, on 20 Jan, 2009.—INTERNET

KABUL, 21 Jan—TheAfghan government hassent NATO headquartersa draft agreement thatwould give Afghanistanmore control over futureNATO deployments in thecountry—including thepositioning of some UStroops, officials said onTuesday.

The draft technicalagreement would put intoplace rules of conduct forNATO-led troops in Af-ghanistan and the number

of additional NATOtroops and their locationwould have to be ap-proved by the Afghangovernment.

The agreement—an at-tempt by Afghanistan togain more control over in-ternational military opera-tions—would also pro-hibit NATO troops fromconducting any searchesof Afghan homes, accord-ing to a copy of the draftobtained by The Associ-ated Press.

Afghan PresidentHamid Karzai, who metwith Gen David Petraeuson Tuesday and discussedhow to prevent civiliandeaths and the role of Af-ghan forces in US mis-sions, told legislators thathis government sent thedraft agreement to NATOabout two weeks ago. Asthe head of US CentralCommand, Petraeus over-sees the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan.

Internet

Taleban bomb kills Afghan police

LONDON, 21 Jan—Most voters in leading Eu-ropean countries believetheir governments shouldresist any request by in-coming US PresidentBarack Obama to sendmore troops to Afghani-stan, according to an opin-ion poll published onTuesday.

The Harris poll for theFinancial Times showed“clear majorities” in Brit-ain, France, Italy and Ger-many believed their gov-ernments must not sendmore forces to Afghani-stan if Obama asked themto do so, the newspapersaid. Obama, who will be

sworn into office later onTuesday, has said hewould make Afghanistanthe central front in hisfight against terrorism andhas committed himself tosending more US forcesto tackle a worsening in-surgency.

But many European al-lies have been reluctant tocommit more troops to anincreasingly dangerous

operation. The FinancialTimes said 60 percent ofGerman respondents in thesurvey opposed Berlinsending more troops to Af-ghanistan. In Britain, thesecond biggest contributorto NATO’s mission in Af-ghanistan with more than8,000 troops, 57 percent ofthose polled rejected send-ing more forces.

Internet

Iraqi policemen foil suicide attack in N IraqMOSUL, 21 Jan— An Iraqi police force foiled

Tuesday a suicide bomb attack on their checkpoint inthe city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh Province, alocal police source said.

The policemen opened fire on a suicide bomberwho blew up his explosive vest near their checkpointin the Yarmouk district in western Mosul, woundingthree policemen, including one in a critical condition,the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Internet

A suicide

car

bomb

claimed

by the

Taleban

exploded

outside

the

German

embassy

in

Kabul.

INTERNET

KABUL, 21 Jan—TheTaleban claimed respon-sibility for a roadsidebomb that killed at leasttwo police officers inKandahar on Tuesday,while coalition troopssaid they killed 22 mili-tants, including twoTaleban commanders, inraids elsewhere.

Two police officersdied when a bomb target-ing their vehicle went offTuesday morning in thecenter of the southerncity of Kandahar, saidZulmai Ayoubi, thespokesman for the gover-nor of Kandahar prov-ince. The blast woundedtwo other officers and acivilian.

“I was just standing infront of the butcher shopwhen the IED exploded,”said resident AbdulKader.

Taleban spokesman

Qari Yousef claimed re-sponsibility for the attackand said the action killedfive police officers.

On Monday, coalitionforces conducted severalraids in eastern andsouthern Afghanistan, theUS military said.

Internet

Security personnel investigate the debris of a car after a suicide car bomb inHerat, on 21 Jan, 2009. A suicide car bomb killed two Afghan soldiers andwounded three more on Wednesday in the western province of Herat, the

Defence Ministry said.—INTERNET

US investigates Afghancivilian deaths claimKABUL (Afghanistan), 21 Jan—The US military

said on Wednesday that it was investigating an Af-ghan news report that a coalition operation may haveleft more than two dozen civilians dead. Two Afghanofficials said a government investigation found onlymilitants were killed. Afghan President Hamid Karzaihas long urged US and NATO troops to avoid civiliancasualties. The deaths could undermine his re-elec-tion bid this year, and also erode support that the for-eign forces need to help Karzai’s government extendits reach across the country. On Tuesday, the coalitionsaid a nighttime raid had killed 19 militants, includ-ing a locally feared leader, during an operation in theTagab Valley, a militant hotbed in Kapisa province just30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Kabul.—Internet

Europe opposes more troops for Afghanistan

Iraq willing to see US troopsleave early

BAGHDAD, 21 Jan—Iraq’s top spokesman sayshis government is willingto see a US troop with-drawal even before theagreed deadline at the endof 2011.

President BarackObama meets with topmilitary commanders onWednesday to discuss thewars in Iraq and Afghani-stan. He said at his inau-guration on Tuesday thathe will remove troopsfrom Iraq in a responsible

manner. Obama promisedduring the campaign tobring home all US com-bat troops within 16months said he wouldconsult with commandersfirst.

Iraqi spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Iraqis wereworried about a prematuredeparture. But he says thegovernment is willing tolet the US to depart before2012 and assume full re-sponsibility for security.

Internet

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Lorries pour down earth at the construction site of the Nan’ao bridge duringits groundbreaking ceremony in Nan’ao County, south China’s GuangdongProvince, on 20 Jan, 2009. The bridge of 11.08 kilometres across the sea will

connect Nan’ao County, China’s first 4A-class sea islet ecological touristresort, with Shantou, a city also in Guangdong.—XINHUA

JERUSALEM, 21 Jan—UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon said onTuesday that the rocketfire from the Gaza Strip atsouthern Israel was unac-ceptable and against hu-manitarianism.

The indiscriminatebarrage of rockets andmortar shells, whichhaunted southern Israelicommunities for years,was horrendous and unac-ceptable, said Ban duringa tour to the Israeli border

File photo shows containers stacked up at thesouthern port of Busan. South Korea’s exports fell

sharply this month as recession gripped manyoverseas markets, according to Customs Service

data released on 21 Jan, 2009.—XINHUA

Actors in costumes of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) have rehearsal of the rite ofworshipping the Heaven at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, on 20 Jan, 2009.

The Temple of Heaven Park will hold heaven worshipping ceremony during theChinese lunar New Year holidays, which begins on 26 Jan this year.—XINHUA

UN chief says Gazan rocket fireat Israel unacceptable

town of Sderot, a target offrequent rocket fire.

While noting that suchattacks against Israel vio-lated the basic humanitar-ian law, the UN chief alsourged the Jewish state tolift its crippling blockadeupon the impoverishedPalestinian enclave,where reside some 1.5million people, with somehalf of them refugees.

Earlier in the day, Banvisited the Gaza Strip,which braced for massive

devastation during Israel’sthree-week blisteringmilitary offensive startingon 27 December, 2008and described the scenesas “heartbreaking.”

Ban urged Israel andthe Gaza-ruling Hamasmovement to exercisemaximum restraint tomaintain the shaky cease-fire, which has roughlybeen kept in shape sincethe two sides separatelystaged their truces on Sun-day. —Xinhua

TEHERAN, 21 Jan — Iranian Foreign MinisterManouchehr Mottaki has expressed hope that the newUS President Barack Obama could choose the rightpath towards Teheran, local newspaper Iran Daily re-ported on Tuesday on its website.

The United States had no correct approach towardsIran and always was the “troublemaker,” Mottaki wasquoted by ISNA news agency as saying, according tothe Iran Daily report.

“But if Obama chooses the right path, compensatesthe past, ends hostility and hegemony, and revises pastpolitical mistakes, we would have no hostility,”Mottaki said on the eve of Obama’s inauguration asthe 44th president of the United States.

“We hope that angles of optimism would be cre-ated (with Obama) but the facts tell us we should notbe optimistic,” the Iranian foreign minister added.

Obama was sworn in on Tuesday as the 44th presi-dent of the United States on the west front of the Capi-tol in Washington, DC, becoming the first black presi-dent in the country’s history.

Obama said earlier this month that Iran would beone of the biggest challenges that his administrationwas to face, but Washington must be “willing to initi-ate diplomacy” with the country. —Xinhua

HANOI, 21 Jan — Vietnam plans to earn 5 billionUS dollars from its footwear export this year, a slightincrease over 2008, the local newspaper Pioneer re-ported on Wednesday, citing the Vietnam Leather andFootwear Association.

To realize the target, the association encouragedlocal exporters to develop new markets of great po-tential such as the United States, Russia, Japan, andBrazil rather just focusing on the traditional ones.

In addition, the association asked the sector to takesteps to improve export models and diversify prod-ucts for long-term development.

The sector’s export revenue reached 4.7 billion USdollars in 2008, according to Vietnam’s Ministry ofIndustry and Trade.—Xinhua

LOS ANGELES, 21 Jan—A food company based insouthern California an-nounced on Monday it wasrecalling peanut buttercookie dough that might betainted with salmonella.

The company, SweetSuccess Fundraising Inc,said the dough was dis-tributed as part of afundraising activity tothree southern Californiaschools, including two inthe Los Angeles area.

A total of 170 of thethree-pound tubs of frozen

MADRID, 21 Jan— Two Spanish military fighter-bombers crashed on Tuesday and killed three pilots,Spanish Defence Ministry said.

The two Mirage F-4 planes crashed during a train-ing flight between the localities of El Bonillo and Ossade Montiel, in the province of Albacete, southeast ofthe country. Spanish military authorities did not re-veal the causes of the crash.

Xinhua

Iran FM urges Obama tochoose “right path” towards

Teheran

Vietnam plans to earn $5 bln fromfootwear export in 2009

Fighter-bombers crash killsthree in Spain

California company recalls cookie dough forlikely salmonella taint

cookie dough, which sellfor 14 dollars apiece,could be affected, accord-ing to company spokes-woman Lilly Ceja.

“We didn’t think twiceto protect our reputation,”Ceja said, adding thatsafety was the company’stop priority.

But she refuted earlyreports which suggestedthat as many as 13 schoolsthroughout southern Cali-fornia were affected bythe recall.

State health officials

said no illnesses con-nected with the cookiedough have been reportedto date.

The recalled cookiedough was sold to SweetSuccess after 8 December.

The California Depart-ment of Public Health saidthe frozen cookie dough,which was packaged with-out lot codes or “use-by”dates, may have been madewith peanut butter that wasvoluntarily recalled by thePeanut Corporation ofAmerica.—Xinhua

All items from Xinhua News Agency

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Israel denies Gaza munitionshad depleted uranium

JERUSALEM, 21 Jan—Israel on Tues-day denied allegations it used depleteduranium munitions in Gaza, accusingthe Arab nations that made the reportof “particularly poor propaganda.”

On Monday, Arab nations asked theInternational Atomic Energy Agency toinvestigate reports that uranium traceswere found in victims of Israeli shell-ing during the three-week campaignagainst Hamas militants in the GazaStrip. “This is a particularly poor propa-ganda spin,” Yigal Palmor, spokesmanfor the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said onTuesday. “These accusations have been

raised in the past many times and havebeen proven groundless each time by in-dependent investigators.”

Similar allegations were raised afterthe 2006 war between Israel andHezbollah in Lebanon. Investigationsfound no proof depleted uranium muni-tions were used.

In a letter to the IAEA on behalf ofArab ambassadors accredited in Austria,Prince Mansour Al-Saoud, the SaudiAmbassador, had expressed “our deepconcern regarding the information ... thattraces of depleted uranium have beenfound in Palestinian victims.”—Internet

Palestinian men dig to find their belongings under the rubble of their housein Jabalia’s Ezbet Abdrabbo neighbourhood.—INTERNET

A tourist takes a photo of Singapore’s financialdistrict skyline, on 21 Jan, 2009. Singapore’s

economy could shrink up to 5 percent this year, itsworst ever performance, and face deflation, raisingmarket expectations of a one-off currency devalua-

tion by April.—INTERNET

Iraq rocked by bomb blastsBAGHDAD, 21 Jan—A series of blasts across Iraq

have killed five people and injured at least 14 others.Tuesday’s attacks were carried out in Baghdad,

Mosul and al-Zubair,�which lies near the oil-rich south-ern city of Basra, police sources said.

Three civilians were killed and eight others injuredafter a car bomb targeting a US patrol exploded in thecentral Baghdad district of Mansour.

The US military said two of its soldiers were amongthe injured. Police colonel Abdulmajid Mohammedwas killed after a bomb�planted under his car explodedas he drove to work in al-Zubair.

His driver, also a police officer, survived the explo-sion but was said to be in�a critical condition in hospi-tal. In another attack, Ammar Aziz Mohammed Ali,the deputy higher education minister, survived an as-sassination attempt in�Baghdad. “A roadside bombblew up as the�...�minister’s convoy was passing downal-Nidhal Street in central Baghdad without hurtinghim,” a government-issued statement said.—Internet

US seeks to suspend Gitmowar crimes trials

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, 21 Jan—The USmoved on Tuesday to halt the Guantanamo Bay warcrimes trials, filing a late-night motion to suspend pro-ceedings until President Barack Obama’s administra-tion completes a review of the system for prosecutingsuspected terrorists.

The motion, filed at the direction of Obama andDefense Secretary Robert Gates, will be consideredearly on Wednesday by the military judge hearing thecase of five men charged in the 11 Sept attacks. In themotion, a US military prosecutor says the “interestsof justice” would be served by a suspension in all pend-ing cases because a review of the system by the Obamaadministration may result in significant changes.

“The interests of justice served by granting the re-quested continuance outweigh the interests of both thepublic and the accused in a prompt trial,” prosecutorClay Trivett said in the motion.—Internet

Shoppers crowd a supermarket in Hanoi, Vietnam, on 15 Jan, 2009. Squeezedby the global slowdown, consumers and companies in China and other coun-tries that celebrate the Lunar New Year, which begins this year on 26 Jan, are

slashing their spending on traditionally lavish gifts, liquor and banquets.INTERNET

Obama’s Treasury nomineefacing Senate questions

UN wants

all Gaza

borders

opened

UNITED NATIONS, 21 Jan—UN humanitarian chief John Holmes said on Tuesdaythat he’s heading to Gaza and a top priority will be to get all border crossings openednot only for food and medicine but for desperately needed construction materialswhich Israel has refused to allow in since Hamas seized power in June 2007. Holmes,who expects to arrive in Israel on Wednesday, told reporters “it’s absolutely critical”that cement, pipes and other building materials are “unbanned” by Israel and al-lowed into Gaza to start rebuilding the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.

“Otherwise, the reconstruction effort won’t get off first base,” Holmes said. Holmessaid on Monday that hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid will beneeded immediately to help Gaza’s 1.4 million people and billions of dollars will berequired to rebuild its shattered buildings and infrastructure.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 21 Jan—With the country facing aworsening economic cri-sis, President BarackObama is hoping to winquick approval of hischoice of TimothyGeithner to be Treasurysecretary, but firstGeithner has to explainhow he missed paying$34,000 in payroll taxesearlier in the decade.

The Senate FinanceCommittee was sched-uled to hear from

Geithner on Wednesdaywith his tax mistake ex-pected to be among anumber of questions thatpanel members will pur-sue. The hearing is beingheld against the backdropof a worsening situationin the banking industry.Shares of major banksplunged on Tuesday asinvestors feared that anunraveling financial bail-out will force the new ad-ministration to intervenemore deeply into the na-

tion’s banking system.Many observers believethe Obama team willhave to pump moremoney into banks or cre-ate an entity to take overtheir toxic assets.

Such moves could dra-matically increase gov-ernment’s involvement inbanks, potentially threat-ening shareholderswhose holdings could bewiped out in the event ofa takeover.

Internet

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NEWS ALBUM

Karl Ferdinand Trunk performs with agoat during the opening ceremony ofthe 33nd Monte Carlo International

Circus Festival in Monaco.

Frenchman speaks nonstop for 124hours to set speech record

Australia lists world’s largest seaturtle as endangered

Frenchman Lluis Colet,pictured in 2004, broke theworld record for the longest

speech after ramblingnonstop for 124 hours about

Spanish painter SalvadorDali, Catalan culture and

other topics.

Frenchman Lluis Coletbroke the world record for thelongest speech after ramblingnonstop for 124 hours aboutSpanish painter SalvadorDali, Catalan culture andother topics.

The 62-year-old Catalanand local government workerspoke for five straight daysand four nights to set the

record in the southern Frenchtown of Perpignan.

Three notaries were onhand to recognize the featwhich allows Colet to enterit in the Guinness Book ofRecords.

The previous record washeld by an Indian man whodelivered a 120-hour speech.

Colet began speaking atPerpignan’s railway stationon Monday by reciting theworks of famous authors orusing some of his own writ-ing. He also spoke profuselyabout Dali, a painter he ad-mires, and Catalan culture.

Large crowds turned outin support of Colet, who re-ceived a rapturous applauseat the end of his speech.

“This is a big day for meand I dedicate this record toall those who defendCatalan language and cul-ture,” he said, his voicefainter after five days ofnonstop talking.

Colet had set the recordonce before in 2004 when hespoke for 48 straight hours.

Leatherback turtlehatchlings. Australia onSunday listed the world’s

largest sea turtle, theleatherback, as endan-gered due to the threats

posed by overfishing andthe unsustainable har-vesting of its eggs and

meat

Australia on Sunday listedthe world’s largest sea turtle,the leatherback, as endan-gered due to the threats posedby overfishing and the unsus-tainable harvesting of its eggsand meat.

The leatherback turtle,

previously listed only as vul-nerable, was one of a groupof plants and animals regis-tered as endangered by En-vironment Minister PeterGarrett.

The turtle, which aver-ages about 1.6 metres (5.2feet) in length and weighsbetween 250 and 700 kilo-grams (550 and 1,540pounds), is found in tropicaland temperate waters aroundAustralia.

“The uplisting is mainlydue to the ongoing threats theturtle faces from unsustainableharvesting of egg and meatand pressures from commer-cial fishing outside Australianwaters,” Garrett said.

Also upgraded to criti-cally endangered were ninespecies of snails, Bor-nemissza’s stag beetle,which is found on the south-ern island of Tasmanian,three types of orchids andfive other plants.

Woman allegedly hits manon scooter, goes to salonPolice said an elderly woman in Palm

Beach County crashed into a man on ascooter and then kept driving to make herhair appointment. Boynton Beach policespokeswoman Stephanie Slater said a 77-year-old woman was arrested for leavingthe scene of an injury crash.

The man suffered abrasions all overhis body. His injuries are not believed tobe life threatening.

Police said the woman was turningright when she pulled into the path of anoncoming scooter that had the right ofway. The scooter collided with her silverToyota, vaulting the man off the scooter,onto the windshield and then onto theroadway. Police spotted her car after shehad her hair appointment.

COLOMBO, 21 Jan — Atleast one police officer waskilled and 11 others injuredin an explosion in Sri Lan-ka’s troubled Eastern Prov-ince on Wednesday morn-ing, a police spokesmansaid. Police spokesmanRanjith Gunasekera saidthe explosion occurrednear a police station in theBatticaloa town at around7:30 am (0200 GMT).

“Due to the explosion,one police sergeant waskilled, another police of-ficer and 10 civilians wereinjured,” said the spokes-man, adding that threeschool children wereamong the injured.

Gunasekera said the

NEW DELHI, 21 Jan—Indian Prime MinisterManmohan Singh underwent medical tests on Tues-day and on Wednesday for heart-related problems at atop government-run hospital in New Delhi, the PressTrust of India reported.

The tests included an angiogram that revealed somearterial blockages in his heart and doctors were debat-ing the next course of action, PTI said.

The 76-year-old premier had visited the All IndiaInstitute of Medical Sciences on Tuesday for an “over-all medical checkup,” the report said.—Internet

CARACAS, 21 Jan— Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez challenged PresidentBarack Obama on Tuesday to remake US policy toward Latin America, but saidhe isn’t holding out much hope for major changes.

“No one here should have any illusions. It’s the US empire,” Chavez told sup-porters during a televised speech shortly after Obama’s inauguration.

The Venezuelan leader said he hopes Obama “looks to Latin America with anew view, with a new focus of respect toward the democracies and the changes” inthe region.

The leftist leader, who once called outgoing President George W Bush the“devil,” also said he’s glad to see the departure of a president “who filled theworld with terror.”—Internet

Skiers compete in Autrans, French Alps, during the31st ‘Foulee blanche’ (White stride), a 42-km-longcross country skiing race, the event which markedthe start of the resort’s Nordic season.—INTERNET

Indian Prime MinisterManmohan Singh.

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Indian PM undergoes heart tests

Explosion in E Sri Lanka killsone, injures 11

investigation was goingon and no suspect hasbeen arrested. The policeusually attribute such kindof explosion to the rebelLiberation Tigers of TamilEelam (LTTE), which isfighting with governmenttroops mainly in the north.

The LTTE was ex-pelled from the EasternProvince by the troops inJuly 2007, but abductions,assassinations and explo-sions are still occurring inthe province. Military of-ficials said the LTTE willbe totally defeated in theisland within months, thusbringing an end to one ofAsia longest civil wars.

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Chavez hopes for change, still wary of ‘US empire’

Teenagers wounded by grenadeexplosion in southern Philippines

MANILA, 21 Jan — Two teenagers were woundedwhen a grenade explosion, targeted at a military campnearby, hit an evacuation centre in the southern Phil-ippine province of Maguindanao on Tuesday night, amilitary spokesman said on Wednesday.

Julieto Ando, spokesman of the Philippine Army’s6th Infantry Division, said about 20 to 30 Moro IslamicLiberation Front (MILF) rebels attacked a camp at thevillage of Libutan in Mamasapano town. The camp isnear a school that houses a number of people displacedby the continuous fighting in the south.

Ando said the rebels fired at least two rounds ofM203 grenade launchers at the Army camp, one ofwhich unluckily hit the evacuation center, injuringMomina Sangutin, 14 and his elder brother, SalamudinSangutin, 15.

Quoting from initial information from the field,Ando said Momina sustained injuries in the left kneewhile Salamudin was hit in the left arm. He said thetwo were subsequently brought to a private clinic forprompt medical treatment.

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(from page 1)On our way to

Hlwasar and Pyinsalu,we held talks with somelocal authorities aboutprogress of seaside re-gions and developmentof Labutta District, tak-ing a sunbath on thedeck.

As we were somedistance to Hlwasarmodel village, we foundsome fishermen at workin groups in the river,and some of them wavedto us.

After an hour’sdrive, we arrived at thedestination. So far,Myanma Ahla Co hasbuilt 84 houses inHlwasar model villageto improve the livingstandard of local people.Seven houses werefound under construc-tion. Hlwasar model vil-lage was lovely in an at-tractive way.

The roads in thevillage were clean andtidy. Each house had 10small rows of 10 species

Labutta hustle and bustle with business activitiesArticle: Mawgyun Myint Aung (IPRD)

In Hlwasar model village, each house has 10 small rows of10 species of vegetables.

of vegetables, thus earn-ing extra incomes from thevegetable rows.

Pyinsalu is in LabuttaDistrict. It is constitutedwith three wards and 16village-tracts. Up to now,Max Myanmar Co Ltd hasbuilt 362 houses for localpeople, and is building 57houses.

We had a good time inPyinsalu. Being close toBay of Bengal, Pyinsaluhas temperate climate. Itsmain roads are straight.The town has green andlush groves of trees andlandscaping plants.

On its left side is arural housing area inwhich houses are built inrows. Every road has theirsignboards. So, it waspleasant to view the town.

In Pyinsalu also, eachhouse has 10 small rowsof 10 species of vegeta-bles such as gourd, roselle,coriander, egg plant, pea,water cress and lady's fin-ger plant. They earn extramoney from the vegeta-ble patches. Fishermen

have restored their busi-nesses and got regular in-comes. So, they are doingwell in their businesses.

We visited the sitesaround Pyinsalu, whichwas found attractive withthe sea in the background.

Next, we left Pyinsaluby speedboat for Thitpokvillage of Pyin Alan vil-lage-tract. The scenesalong the way were natu-rally beautiful in a differ-ent way. Now, Thitpokmodel village has 250houses built by Wah WahWin Co, and 100 otherones are under construc-tion.

The village was es-tablished from a distancefrom the river. The mainroad passes through themiddle of the village.There, each house has 10small rows of 10 speciesof vegetables.

Then, we proceededto Polaung model village.The village was so lovelythat it was like a colourfulpicture. It is the nearestvillage to the Bay of Ben-

gal. So, it is the gateway tothe sea.

So far, Wah Wah WinCo has built 400 houses inPolaung model village ofPyin Alan village-tract.The houses were foundlovely and durable andwere built through goodplanning.

Then, we returned toLabutta from Polaungmodel village which has

possessed all characters ofa model village. On theway to Labutta, we held ameeting with Chairman ofLabutta District Peace andDevelopment Council UAye Maung Kyi. He said,“Now, these regions havedeveloped a lot with highliving standard of localpeople. And trade is nowgood. What we have to doto improve the present liv-

ing conditions is to worktogether.”

When we got to theYway River in the eastof Labutta, it was sun-down, and we enjoyedthe beauty of sunset. Thedevelopment of Labuttais, indeed, very encour-aging.

Translation: MSKyemon: 14-1-2009

*****

OTTAWA, 21 Jan —Scientists at the Centrefor Addiction and MentalHealth (CAMH) havedetected evidence thatDNA may not be the onlycarrier of heritableinformation; a secondarymolecular mechanismcalled epigenetics mayalso account for some

PHOENIX, 21 Jan —Biodesign Institute incollaboration with colle-agues at the Mayo Clinic,Arizona, and theUniversity of Arizona,reveal a tantalizing linkbetween differingmicrobial populations inthe human gut and bodyweight among threedistinct groups: normalweight individuals, thosewho have undergonegastric bypass surgery, andpatients suffering thecondition of morbidobesity—a serious, oftenlife-threatening conditionassociated with diabetes,cardiovascular disease,cancer and psychosocialdisorders. Obesity affectsaround 4 millionAmericans and, each year,some 300,000 die fromobesity-related illness.

A collaborationaimed at uncovering thelinks between themicrobial composition of

Heritability may not belimited to DNA

inherited traits and diseases.These findings challengethe fundamental principlesof genetics and inheritance,and potentially provide anew insight into the primarycauses of human diseases.Your mother's eyes, yourfather's height, yourpredisposition to disease--these are traits inherited

from your parents.Traditionally, 'heritability'is estimated by comparingmonozygotic (geneticallyidentical) twins todizygotic (geneticallydifferent) twins. A trait ordisease is called heritableif monozygotic twins aremore similar to each otherthan dizygotic twins. Inmolecular terms, heri-tability has traditionallybeen attributed tovariations in the DNAsequence.

CAMH's Dr. ArtPetronis, head of theKrembil Family Epige-netics Laboratory, and histeam conducted acomprehensive epige-netic analysis of 100 setsof monozygotic anddizygotic twins in the firststudy of its kind. Said Dr.Petronis, “We investi-gated molecules thatattach to DNA andregulate various geneactivities. These DNAmodifications are calledepigenetic factors.”

Internet

Microbe composition in gut mayhold key to a cause of obesity

the human gut and morbidobesity began when Dr.John DiBaise, agastroenterologist at theMayo Clinic, Arizona,became interested in boththe underlying mecha-nisms of obesity andplausible alternatives togastric bypass surgery—still the only reliable long-term treatment for theextremely overweight.DiBaise turned to BruceRittmann, Ph.D., anenvironmental engineer

and a member ofNational Academy ofEngineering, whoseCenter for Environ-mental Biotechnologyuses its expertise toexamine microbialpopulations importantfor cleaning up pollutantsand generating renewa-ble bioenergy. Rittmanninvited Rosa Krajma-lnik-Brown, assistantprofessor of civil andenvironmental engineer-ing, to collaborate andapply her microbialecology expertise to thisproject.—Internet

Scientists reveal a tantalizing link betweendiffering microbial populations in the human gut

and body weight among three distinct groups.

Dr. Art Petronis, head of the Krembil FamilyEpigenetics Laboratory at the Center for

Addiction and Mental Health, has revealed newevidence that DNA may not be the only carrier of

heritable information.

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 22 January, 2009

NAY PYI TAW, 21 Jan—Minister for ForestryBrig-Gen Thein Aung accompanied by Chairman ofKayah State Peace and Development Council Brig-Gen Win Myint looked into construction of newDawsawbee village library in Loikaw Township, on19 January and presented K 1.2 million to the funds forthe construction.

The minister looked into Kayah State traditionalmedicine hospital and presented cash for the hospital.

The minister then went to National YouthDevelopment Training School of Ministry for Progressof Border Areas and National Races and DevelopmentAffairs and provided the school with exercise booksand bags of rice.

In the afternoon, the minister attended theopening ceremony of Myittamon pre-primary schoolof Dawsalaiklin Village in Dimawhso Township andvisited the school.

The minister later proceeded to Kontha villagelibrary and viewed the demonstration on using naturalwaste bio-digesters.

The natural waste bio-digester is put in 10square feet wide ground. About five family memberscan cook lunch and dinner daily and three bulbs canbe lit for about four hours at night with the waste ofa cow. Measures are being taken for supply ofelectricity to the rural areas with bio-gas from wastesof animals.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 21Jan—Deputy Minister forEnergy Brig-Gen ThanHtay on 18 January held ameeting with theheadmistress and schoolboard of trustees of theBasic Education PrimarySchool of KyetsudawVillage in Kanaung,Myanaung Township andprovided cash to the

Villages of Myanaung Tsp on threshold of development

YANGON 21 Jan—Under co-arrangements of theMyanmar Fisheries Federation and the Myanmar PrawnEntrepreneurs Association and with sponsorship ofArsha Thar International Co Ltd, Dr Tin Lat (MATCollege) will give talks on “Risk Management withResponse to Current Economic Situation” at MFF onBayintnaung Road in West Gyogon, Insein Township,here, at 2 p.m. on 24 January.

Anyone interested may attend the talks.—NLM

MMC holds meeting

YANGON, 21 Jan — Mr Erik Gudbrand Solheim,Minister for the Environment and DevelopmentCooperation of Norway, Ms Ulla Pedersen Tornaes,Minister for Development Cooperation of Denmark,and party held a meeting with President of MyanmarRed Cross Society Prof Dr Thar Hla Shwe andexecutives of MRCS, officials of International

YANGON, 21 Jan—Taunggyi round of IBTCOpen Golf Champion-ship, jointly organized byMyanmar Golf Feder-ation and Myanmar PGAand InternationalBeverages Trading CoLtd, will be held on a grandscale at Ayethaya Golf

President of MRCS Prof Dr Thar Hla Shwe holds meeting with Mr Erik Gudbrand Solheim,Minister for the Environment and Development Cooperation of Norway and Ms Ulla Pedersen

Tornaes, Minister for Development Cooperation of Denmark, and party.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Aung views demonstration on using natural waste bio-digesters atKontha village in Loikaw Township.—MNA

school. In his tour ofKanaung People'sHospital, he madedonations for all-roundrenovation of the facility.

In meeting withofficials of Ohbo Village,the deputy ministerdiscussed programmes forshifting the village BEPS.He inspected ThayetpinseBridge under construction

in Thayetpinse Village.He viewed Thabyepin

(North) BEPS inThabyegon Village-tractand construction of goldenjubilee hall of ThabyegonVillage BEHS.

At Thabyegon village,the deputy minister helddiscussions on regionaldevelopment tasks withofficials, members of

school boards of trustees,and local people, and madedonations to ThabyegonStation Hospital, Thabye-gon BEHS, Lantar VillageBEMS Branch, andWunlothaik VillageBEPS.

On arrival at ThebyuVillage, he inspectedThebyu Bridge spanningMa Mya Creek. He alsoprovided cash to primaryschools of Hsinbon, Pantoeand Anyarsu villages.

He viewed HsinbonVillage BEPS and ruralhealth care branch andprovided cash to BEPSsand post-primary schoolsof Kanyutkwon, MyepyaThayetkon, Zankywe andHsinlu villages.—MNA

YANGON, 21 Jan—Myanmar MedicalCouncil held the meeting(1/2009) at the hall of

Myanmar MedicalAssociation here on 19January, with an addressby Chairman of MMC

Professor Dr Kyaw MyintNaing. The meetingdiscussed formation ofexecutive committee andsubcommittees of themedical council, generalmatters and future tasksof the council.—MNA

Development tasks gainingmomentum in Kayah State

Risk management for currenteconomic situation on 24 Jan

Scandinavian Ministers meet with MRCSCommittee of the Red Cross, International Federationof Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the officeof Denmark Red Cross Society today.

At the meeting held at MRCS on Strand Road,they discussed matters related to rehabilitation tasksincluding health and social works in the storm-affectedareas. — MNA

IBTC Open Golf ChampionshipResort in Taunggyi ofShan State (South) from26 to 29 January.

Professional golfersand those in amateur level(Handicap 0-12) areallowed to compete in theevent. The championshipwill be held according toSaint Adnrew’s rules andlocal rules. Prizes will begiven to Hole-in-Onescorers.

Those wishing toparticipate may enlist atMyanmar Golf TrainingRange at 9th Mile (Tel-01-651374 and 09-2037671)and Ayethaya Golf Resortnot later than 2 p.m. on 24January.—MNA

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YANGON, 21 Jan—Aceremony to honour sciencestudents who passed 2007-2008 school yearmatriculation exam withflying colours in YangonDivision was held at No. 2BEHS in Sangyoungtownship here on 19January, attended byChairman of Yangon

Outstanding students honoured

Commander Brig-Gen Win Myint presentsaward to an outstanding student of Yangon

Division.—MNA

Minister Brig-GenThein Zaw inspects

digital auto exchangein Toungoo.

CPT

Deputy Director-General Dr Soe Thein inspects Vocational EducationSchool for Women in Dunbun village, Phakant Township.—MNA

Division Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen WinMyint.

The Commander andresponsible personspresented prizes tooutstanding students ofYangon Division for 2007-2008 school year

matriculation exam. TheCommander presented giftto Headmistress Daw KhinLay Myint of Sangyoungtownship No. 2 BEHSwhich stood top in exampassing rate in the wholecountry for 2007-2008academic year and theceremony came to close.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 21 Jan— Minister forCommunications, Postsand Telegraphs Brig-GenThein Zaw inspected thesite for new Yeni autoexchange andconstruction of newMyohla and Swa digitalauto exchanges and

Better communications for Bago Division (East)Yedashe auto exchange on17 January.

The ministerinspected GSM andCDMA (450) controlrooms at digital autoexchanges in Toungoo andgave instructions onmaintenance of equipmentand better

communications.On 18 January, the

minister attended thecoordination meeting onensuring smooth, securecommunications at themeeting hall ofHanthawady internationalexpedite mail service.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 21 Jan—Deputy Director-GeneralDr Soe Thein of the Education and Training Departmentunder the Ministry of Progress of Border Areas andNational Races and Development Affairs inspectedNational Races Youth Training Schools (1) and (2) inMyitkyina, Kachin State, on 7 and 8 January.

He viewed academic matters, management,agricultural work, progress in constructing a schoolbuilding, mess and hostels, and met with officials.

He looked into Vocational Education School forWomen in Dunban Village, Phakant Township on 9January, and Vocational Education School for Womenin Dawphonyan, Bhamo Township on 11 January.

MNA

National Races YouthTraining Schools inspected

YANGON, 21 Jan—Thetrainees from B.Ed. four-year course No. 40 of theUniversity forDevelopment of NationalRaces led by Pro-RectorU Htay Lwin (Academic)together with supervisorfaculty members arrivedat Central Institute of CivilService (Upper Myanmar)in Zeebingyi ofPyinOoLwin Townshipon 19 January morning.

At Padamya Hall,member of Civil ServiceSelection and TrainingBoard U Soe Oo extendedgreetings. Pro-Rector UNay Win (Training andAcademic) of CICS

UDNR trainees visit CICS, training schools,farms in PyinOoLwin Township

explained training andmanagement of the CICS(Upper Myanmar).

Rector of CICS(Upper Myanmar) UAung Hsan Win and twotrainees of excursiongroup exchanged com-memorative pennants.

At Myanmar PoliceForce Central TrainingDepartment, DeputyCommandant Police ColKyaw Htay extendedgreetings and explainedbrief history of MPF andfacts about the trainingdepartment.

At Central FireFighting Training School,Principal U Thaung Zin

greeted them.Yesterday, the

trainees visited DoekwinAgriculture Farm of theMinistry of Agricultureand Irrigation and theNational KandawgyiGardens.

At Myanmar ForestryTraining School, Principalof the school U Myaextended greetings. Thetrainees visited the school.

In the afternoon, theyvisited Yatanarpon Tele-Port in YatanarponMyothit of PyinOoLwinTownship. Director-General U Tin Htwe ofDirectorate ofTelecommunicat ions

extended greetings andexplained construction ofthe new town and ITprogrammes.

MNA

SAY NO TO DRUGS

YANGON, 21 Jan— Psychology old students todayextended an invitation to attend the talks on “UsingCognitive Behavioral Therapies to Enhance Healthand Well Being” to be given by Dr Benjamin Weinstein,Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Consultant,Psychological Services International, at Judson Centre,No.601, Pyay Road (Near Kanbawza Bank) at 3.00p.m. on 24 January (Saturday).

NLM

Scientific Talks on 24 Jan

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For sustainable exploitation of marine resources

(from page 16)He added,

“Myanmar started tobreed Tiger species sea

Article: Maung Maung Htwe (MNA); Photos: Thaung Myint (MNA)

U Hla Maung Shwe,President of

Myanmar PrawnEntrepreneursAssociation.

U Hnin Oo, President of

Myanmar Crab En-trepreneurs Associa-

tion.

A soft crab that is in high demand in international market.

Some freshwater prawns in Hsamalauk freshwater fish andprawn farm.

methods to breeders andshrimp producers as muchas we can. Freshwater

water prawn is in higherdemand than any othermarine products at homeand abroad.”

President of theCrab Entrepreneurs Asso-ciation U Hnin Oo said,“Our association was es-tablished on 21 August1999. We reconstituted theassociation for the ninthtime as a state and divi-sional level fishery asso-ciation under theMyanmar Fishery Federa-tion in 2007. The execu-tive committee has 21members.

“We exported12,530 tons of crabs and

prawn in 1998, and car-ried out a trial test forproduction of Vannameispecies sea shrimps inlate 2001. Our countryhas farmed freshwaterprawns for over a cou-ple of decades.

“We provideloans and feedstuff oncredit to sea prawnbreeders, and farming

prawn is in demand in lo-cal and foreign markets.We had four shrimp breed-ing farms in 2004, but nowwe have 20.

“We exported21,061 metric tons offreshwater and sea prawnsand earned 109.7 millionUS dollars in 2007-2008.We export freshwater andsea prawns most. Fresh-

got 27.9 million US dol-lars in 2007-2008. In2008-2009, we estab-lished a crab farm with anarea of 1039 acres in theKyauktan Prawn Farm andwe breed soft crabs. Weconduct courses on breed-ing and producing crabsunder foreign experts.Now, we have a plan toestablish a crab farm in

Chaungtha. We opened acrab wholesale centre inMyawady on 25 Septem-ber 2007.

“Under the instruc-tions of the minister forLivestock and Fisheries,we donated more than20,000 crab traps to

Labutta and Hainggyi-gyun in cooperation withINGO and MFF in orderthat local crab trappers canrestore their businesses.Now, we are trying toachieve our plans includ-ing to earn more foreignexchange, to improve liv-

ing conditions of crabtrappers, to stabilize thecrab market, and to in-crease soft crab breed-ers.”

Translation: MSMyanma Alin: 20-1-2009

LONDON, 21 Jan — Language in humans hasevolved culturally rather than genetically, accordingto a study by UCL (University College London) andUS researchers. By modelling the ways in whichgenes for language might have evolved alongsidelanguage itself, the study showed that genetic adapta-tion to language would be highly unlikely, as culturalconventions change much more rapidly than genes.Thus, the biological machinery upon which human

Language driven byculture, not biology

language is built appears to predate the emergence oflanguage.

According to a phenomenon known as theBaldwin effect, characteristics that are learned ordeveloped over a lifespan may become graduallyencoded in the genome over many generations, be-cause organisms with a stronger predisposition toacquire a trait have a selective advantage. Over gen-erations, the amount of environmental exposure re-quired to develop the trait decreases, and eventuallyno environmental exposure may be needed - the traitis genetically encoded.

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Crabs are bred on a commercial scale in Kyauktan Crab Farm.

An example of the Baldwin effect is the developmentof calluses on the keels and sterna of ostriches.

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TOKYO, 21 Jan—Japan’s ruling LiberalDemocratic Party andcoalition partner NewKomeito Party basicallyagreed on Tuesday to agovernment plan todispatch the Maritime Self-Defence Force (MSDF) foran antipiracy mission offSomalia, local mediareported. The Article 9 ofcurrent Japanese pacifistConstitution after WorldWar II only allows theMSDF to protect shipsflying Japanese flags orcarrying Japanese nati-onals. Kyodo News said thegovernment seeks to sendthe mission under theprovision of the Self-Defence Forces law toprotect Japanese ships.

MNA/Xinhua

KUWAIT, 21 Jan—Kuwait will contribute 500million US dollars to a proposed two-billion-US-dollar fund to support Arab companies through theglobal financial crisis, the Gulf Arab oil exporter'sruler said on Monday.

“I am glad to announce the contribution of Kuwaitwith 500 US dollars million of its capital,” SheikhSabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah told leaders at the openingof an Arab economic summit in Kuwait. “We arelooking forward to (your) support for this initiative.”

The new fund would support small and medium-sized Arab companies, Sheikh Sabah said. Arab leadersmet in Kuwait on Monday to find ways to counter theimpact on the Arab world of the collapse in oil prices,the global economic slowdown and the credit crunchbut a three-week Israeli offensive in Gaza overshadowedthe event and highlighted Arab differences over thePalestinian situation.—MNA/Reuters

This photo released by Volkswagen shows the 2009Volkswagen CC.—INTERNET

China participates in UNpeacekeeping operations

BEIJING, 21 Jan—China activelyparticipated in the UN peacekeepingoperations, says a white paper on thecountry’s national defence in 2008 issuedhere on Tuesday.

“The People’s Liberation Army(PLA) has sent 11,063 military personneltimes to participate in 18 UNpeacekeeping operations since 1990,”says the paper issued by the InformationOffice of the State Council. Eight losttheir lives on duty, says the White Paper.

China, as a permanent member ofthe UN Security Council, has consistentlysupported and actively participated inthe peacekeeping operations in line withthe spirit of the UN Charter, according tothe white paper. “Our active participation

accords with the purpose of our foreignpolicy to safeguard world peace andpromote common development,” saidKui Yanwei, a senior officer with thepeacekeeping affairs office of theDefence Ministry.

China’s participation in the UNpeacekeeping operations helps regionalstability and world peace, and is alsoconducive for improving the PLA'scapability of accomplishing diversifiedmilitary tasks, he said. As of the end ofNovember 2008, China had 1,949military peacekeeping personnel servingin nine UN mission areas and the UNDepartment of PeacekeepingOperations, according to the whitepaper.—MNA/Xinhua

Four puppies rest in their carrier at Seoul

National University’s school of veterinary

medicine in Seoul, on 16 Jun, 2008.—INTERNET

S. African Airways crewarrested after drug find

LONDON, 21 Jan—British Customs officersarrested the entire crew ofa South African Airwaysplane on Tuesday afterfinding cannabis andcocaine in baggage atLondon’s HeathrowAirport, officials said.

The crew of 10women and five men,including the pilot andstewardesses, was heldafter arriving on a flightfrom Johannesburg, aspokesman for HerMajesty’s Revenue andCustoms (HMRC) said.

Officers seized 50kilos (110 pounds) ofcannabis, worth about

150,000 pounds (210,700US dollars), and four kilosof cocaine, with anestimated street value of160,000 pounds, in threepieces of luggage that hadarrived on the flight fromSouth Africa, HMRC said.

“Those arrested arenow being held in custodyand will be interviewedby HMRC investig-ation officers,” HMRCspokesman Bob Gaigersaid. South AfricanAirways, owned by theSouth AfricanGovernment, could notimmediately be reachedfor comment.

MNA/Reuters

Obama’s classmates inIndonesia to hold party

JAKARTA, 21 Jan—Dozens of old friends of thenewly- elected USPresident Barack Obama inIndonesia will hold a partyat their elementary schoolwhere they studied withObama, a school teachersaid here on Tuesday.

Barack Obama spenthis childhood in Indonesiaand studied at SDNMenteng 01 in Jakartafrom 1969 to 1971 as hermother Ann Dunhammarried to a JavaneseSutoro. More than 30 ofObama's classmates andthe school teachers willhold the party on

Wednesday at school, saidAhmad Solihin, a viceprinciple of the school.

The US Ambassadorto Indonesia Cameron R.Hume and a number offoreign attaches would bepresent at the party, hesaid. During the event,there would be culturalperformances, saidSolihin.

“We will performtraditional music, singtraditional songs and thenational anthems of thetwo countries as well ashaving some nice food,”Solihin said. In addition,another celebration would

also be held in Ritz CaltonHotel in the Indonesiancapital on Tuesdayevening.

Obama planned tosend a special message toIndonesians during hisinauguration ceremonyon January 20, thecommittee for hisinaugural celebration wasquoted by the JakartaPost as saying.

Maya Soetoro,Obama's Indonesian half-sister, confirmed that shewill send her greetingsfrom Washington. Theschool teachers and USDemocratic Party arm inIndonesia will alsoconduct an inauguralcelebration in J.W.Marrriot Hotel in Jakarta,said Solihin.

MNA/Xinhua

Japan’s rulingparties agree todispatch navy to

Somalia

Kuwait donates $500m to$2b Arab fund

UK Father jailed formurdering sons in car

LONDON, 21 Jan—Afather who stabbed his twoyoung sons to death beforetrying to set their bodiesalight was jailed for aminimum of 21 years onTuesday.

Ashok Kalyanjee, 46,had admitted murderingPaul Ross, six, and hisbrother Jay, two, at anearlier hearing and wassentenced at the HighCourt in Paisley.Kalyanjee had collectedthe boys from their motherin Glasgow before drivingthem to a lay-by andcutting their throats lastMay, the PressAssociation reported.

“This is as grave acrime as can be imagined,”said the judge, LordBrailsford. “The victims

were defenceless and nodoubt they trusted you andassumed you would takecare of them as a fathershould.” “One of thevictims witnessed whathappened to his brother. Icannot imagine thesuffering he must haveendured.” Kalyanjee hadpoured petrol over his sonsand himself and tried toset his silver Mercedes onfire. But the vehicle failedto go up in flames andpolice found Kalyanjee atthe wheel with a largeblack-handled knife andthe dead boys in the car.Kalyanjee, who wasdivorced from the boys'mother, Giselle Ross, lefta suicide message on adictaphone found near hiscar.—MNA/Reuters

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R \eg. No. 4/3244/2008 forInt’l Class 18 & 4/3245/2008 for Int’l Class 25 &4/3246/2008 for Int’l

Class 28Used in respect of:-Bags; boston bags; shoebags; back packs; carry bags;toiletry bags; shopping bags;belts made of imitationleather; belts made ofleather.(International Class18)Clothing; footwear; head-gear; articles of clothing forgolfers [other than golfgloves]; articles of clothingfor playing golf [other thangloves]; articles of sportsclothing for use in playinggolf [other than gloves]; golfclothing [other than gloves];golf footwear; golf trou-sers; golf wear [other thangloves]; sports clothing[other than golf gloves];sports garments [other thangolf gloves]; sports gloves[other than golf gloves];sports uniforms [other thangolf gloves or helmets];sportwear [other than golf

gloves or helmets]; water-resistant jackets for playinggolf; waterproof pants forplaying golf; socks; caps[headwear]; face-protectingvisors [headwear]; hat-mak-ing visors; sun visors; sunvisors [headwear]; visors[clothing], arm socks; jack-ets [clothing]. vests; belts[clothing]. (InternationalClass 25)Games and playthings; gym-nastic and sporting articlesnot included in other classes;apparatus adapted for use inthe game of golf; apparatusfor use in golfing; apparatusfor use in the game of golf;articles for playing golf;articles for use in playinggolf; articles of sports cloth-ing [gloves] for use in play-ing golf; bag stands for golfbags; caddie bags for golfclubs; club (golf-) hoods;covers (shaped-) for golfbags; covers (shaped-) forgolf club heads; covers(shaped-) for golf clubs;divot repair tools [golfaccessories]; golf bag travelcovers; golf bags; with orwithout wheels; golf ballmarkers; golf clothing[gloves]; golf club bags;golf club covers; golfgloves; golf tee bags; golftees; golf wear [gloves];grips for golf clubs; headcovers for golf clubs; pitchmark repair tools [golf ac-cessories]; sports clothing[golf gloves]; sports gar-ments [golf gloves]; sportsgloves [golf gloves]. (Inter-national Class 28)Any unauthorised use,imitation,infringementsor fraudulent intentions ofthe above marks willbe dealt with according tolaw.

Tin Ohnmar TunB.A (LAW) LL.B, LL.M (U.K)

P.O.Box. 109,Ph: 723043

(For. SKRINE, Malaysia)Dated: 22 January, 2009

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GATI MAJESTIC VOY NO (91509)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV GATI MAJES-TIC VOY NO (91509) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 22.1.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up 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 GATI COAST TO COASTPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV XIANG DA VOY NO (9003)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV XIANG DAVOY NO (9003) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 22.1.2009 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 up 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 CHINA SHIPPING(MALAYSIA) AGENCY SDN BHD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Drivewithcare

MRSA risingin kids’ ear,nose, throatinfections

CHICAGO, 21 Jan—Re-searchers say they foundan “alarming” increase inchildren’s ear, nose andthroat infections nation-wide caused by dangerousdrug-resistant staphgerms. Other studies haveshown rising numbers ofskin infections in adultsand children caused bythese germs, nicknamedMRSA, but this is the firstnationwide report on howcommon they are indeeper tissue infections inthe head and neck, thestudy authors said. Theseinclude certain ear and si-nus infections, andabcesses that can form inthe tonsils and throat.

The study found a totalof 21,009 pediatric headand neck infectionscaused by staph germsfrom 2001 through 2006.The percentage caused byhard-to-treat MRSA bac-teria more than doubledduring that time from al-most 12 percent to 28 per-cent. “�In most parts of theUnited States, there’sbeen an alarming rise,”said study author Dr.Steven Sobol, a children’shead and neck specialist atEmory University.

The study appears inJanuary’s Archives ofOtolaryngology, releasedMonday. It is based on na-tionally representative in-formation from an elec-tronic database that col-lects lab results from morethan 300 hospitals nation-wide.—Internet

Boat carrying up to 35migrants capsizes off TunisLA MARSA, 21 Jan—A boat carrying up to 35 Tuni-

sians trying to travel illegally to Italy capsized onMonday near Tunis after hitting a rock, officials said.

Most of the passengers were unaccounted for.Civil Protection officials said that seven of them

managed to swim ashore at the resort town of LaMarsa, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Tunis,the Tunisian capital, and alerted authorities about theothers. A government official in Tunis put the numberof known survivors at five.

Civil protection officials on the scene said the boat,carrying people aged 20 to 30, hit a rock and capsized.

A military helicopter, army boats and the TunisianNational Guard joined divers to search for the miss-ing, but by nightfall none had been recovered.

The government official and civil protection offi-cials said the boat had reportedly been stolen by theTunisians, most believed to be from two northern Tu-nis suburbs, la Goulette and Kram.—Internet

Donate Blood

A security officer guards two Vietnam Airlines’aircrafts at Hanoi airport in 2007. Vietnam Air-lines reported on Thursday that its 2008 pre-taxprofits fell to 14 million dollars, from 23 million

dollars the previous year.—INTERNET

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N Korea can work with Obama

Threat temporarily closesUS consulate in Dubai

A technician inspects pipeline equipment and gaspressure at the gas metering station in Pisarevka,Russia, on the border with Ukraine, on 20 Jan,

2009. Russian natural gas began flowing onTuesday into Ukraine after a nearly two-week

cutoff that left large parts of Europe cold and darkand underscored the continent’s vulnerability and

dependence on Russia’s energy.—INTERNET

SEOUL, 21 Jan —North Korea is ready towork with new US Presi-dent Barack Obama torid the Korean peninsulaof nuclear weapons, apro-Pyongyang newspa-per published in Tokyosaid in a commentarymonitored on Wednes-day.

North Korea on Tues-day accused South Koreaof driving the peninsulaback to war and at theweekend threatened towipe out its neighbour, aburst of rhetoric that ana-

lysts said might be aimedat grabbing Obama’s at-tention.

“Change is not the mo-nopoly of American poli-ticians,” the ChosonSinbo newspaper said,adding it was too early toconclude whether Obamawould opt to improve tieswith Pyongyang.

North Korea pledgedto scrap its nuclear armsprogramme in return foraid and an end to its in-ternational ostracism in adeal signed in 2005. Buttalks to implement the

agreement have beenstalled over how to verifythe North’s nuclearclaims.

“What is certain isthat (the North) is readyto respond to any choicethat the enemy statemakes while it watchesthe launch of the new ad-ministration,” the paper,which has close contactswith Pyongyang’s lead-ers, said in a story postedon its website a fewhours before Obama of-ficially took office onTuesday.—Internet

DUBAI, 21 Jan — TheUS Embassy in AbuDhabi has announcedthat its consulate in theneighbouring city ofDubai will be closed onWednesday due to secu-rity information providedby authorities.

The embassy an-nouncement says theconsulate — located inthe Dubai World TradeCenter — will be closedfor American citizenservices and visa inter-

views. The statementdoesn’t elaborate on thenature of the security in-formation.

Dubai and Abu Dhabiare part of a confedera-tion of seven city-statesmaking up the UnitedArab Emirates. Thecountry is a close US ally.

Dubai is a major finan-cial centre in the MiddleEast and home to largenumbers of expatriatesfrom around the world.

Internet

US reaches deal on Afghansupply routes to troops

Bomb threat on NJturnpike not credible

BHP Billiton to cut 6,000 jobs

ISLAMABAD , 21 Jan —Russia and neighbouringCentral Asian nationshave agreed to let sup-plies pass through theirterritory to American sol-diers in Afghanistan, less-ening Washington’s de-pendence on dangerousroutes through Pakistan, atop US commander saidon Tuesday.

Securing alternativeroutes to landlocked Af-ghanistan has taken onadded urgency this yearas the United States pre-pares to double troopnumbers there to 60,000to battle a resurgentTaleban eight years afterthe US-led invasion.

Meanwhile, the Paki-stani army said it hadkilled 60 militants in astepped up offensive

close to the Afghan bor-der, a lawless region con-sidered a likely hidingplace for Osama binLaden and other al-Qaedaleaders. Washington haslong urged Islamabad totake the fight to the insur-gents sheltering there.

US and NATO forcesget up to 75 percent oftheir “non-lethal” suppliessuch as food, fuel andbuilding materials fromshipments that traversePakistan, a volatile, nu-clear-armed country.

The main road throughthe Khyber Pass in thenorthwest of the countryhas occasionally beenclosed in recent monthsdue to rising attacks bybandits and Islamist mili-tants.

Internet

BHP Billiton’s Olym-pic Dam copper and

uranium operation atRoxby Downs in SouthAustralia. The world’s

biggest miner, BHPBilliton, said on

Wednesday it wouldcut around 6,000 jobsbecause of the globaleconomic downturnand weakening de-mand for its prod-ucts.—INTERNET

WOODBURY HEIGHTS, 21Jan — A bomb scare shutdown a 30-mile stretch ofthe New Jersey Turnpikeon Tuesday night, snarlingtraffic for hours before

state police determined thethreat was not credible.

State police spokesmanSgt Stephen Jones saidtroopers took a 27-year-old Massachusetts maninto custody following acar stop around 6:15 pmon Tuesday in the south-bound lanes of the turn-pike in Woodbury Heightsabout six miles south ofExit 3.

Jones said state policestopped the car after re-ceiving a tip from federalauthorities that the drivermight be armed and dan-gerous, and possibly car-rying a bomb. Jones saidthe original tip came froma member of the man’sfamily. “Indications arethis was erroneous infor-mation, albeit credible-sounding information, andat this point it seems to in-dicate that this was not alegitimate threat,” Jonessaid.—Internet

SYDNEY, 21 Jan — Theworld’s biggest miner,BHP Billiton, said onWednesday it would cutabout 6,000 jobs becauseof the global economicdownturn and weakening

demand for its products.“These are very serious

types of decisions and wedon’t take them lightly,but at the end they arenecessary and they are thecorrect decisions,” saidchief financial officerAlex Vanselow.

The cuts representabout six percent of theAnglo-Australian miner’sglobal workforce of41,000 employees and60,000 contractors.

They include 3,400jobs in Australia mostly incoal and nickel produc-tion, 2,000 base metalsjobs in Chile and 550 po-sitions at the Pinto Valleycopper mine in the US,

Vanselow told reporters ina conference call.

BHP, which recentlywalked away from its hos-tile takeover bid for rivalRio Tinto citing the im-pact of the global finan-cial crisis, said the cutswould mean a one-off costof 500 million US dollars,without elaborating.

The group said itwould indefinitely sus-pend operations at itsRavensthorpe nickelproject in western Aus-tralia, citing “diminishedprospects for profitabil-ity” as the outlook fornickel continued to dete-riorate.

Internet

A Palestinian girl stands amongst the ruins of destroyed houses on the out-skirts of Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, on 19 Jan, 2009.—INTERNET

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14 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 22 January, 2009

S P O R T SAnderson agony takes shine

off United triumphMANCHESTER, 21 Jan—Brazilian midfielder

Anderson is facing an anxious wait for the result ofX-rays on a suspected broken left ankle after beingcarried off during Manchester United’s League Cup4-2 semi-final victory over Derby County.

Goals from Nani, John O’Shea, Carlos Tevez andCristiano Ronaldo, with two late strikes from GilesBarnes in reply for Derby, secured a 4-3 aggregate vic-tory for United at Old Trafford here on Tuesday as theybooked their seventh League Cup final appearance, atWembley on 1 March. But the win was marred by sev-eral injuries, the most serious concerning Anderson,Rafael (hamstring) and Jonny Evans (ankle).

And with the likes of Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinandand Patrice Evra already sidelined, the cost of this vic-tory was a high one for the English, European andworld champions.—Internet

Manchester City’sBrazilian .—INTERNET

Federer in charge as Jankovic andDjokovic hit form at Australian Open

Marat Safin of Russia signs auto-graphs after defeating GuillermoGarcia-Lopez of Spain, 7-5, 6-2,6-2, on the third day of theAustralian Open in Melbourne, on 21 January.—INTERNET

Relief as tennis crowd behavesat potential powerkeg matchMELBOURNE, 21 Jan—A potential powerkeg match

between Croatia’s Marin Cilic and Serbian JankoTipsarevic has passed off largely trouble-free at theAustralian Open with the boisterous crowd behaving.

The big-serving Cilic won in four sets 6-2, 6-3,4-6, 6-3 and will now play 11th seeded Spaniard DavidFerrer in the third round.

Organisers will be breathing a sigh of relief that thematch ended without incident with recent AustralianOpens marred by a number of race-related problemswith Serbs and Croats among the worst offenders.

Police numbers have been boosted this year withofficers issued with containers of capsicum foam totarget any troublemakers.

Tipsarevic said that once he saw the draw he askedorganisers to ensure the match was played on ashowcourt to lessen any chance of trouble.

Despite the 3000-seat court being packed to capac-ity for the entire match, the cheering was mostly goodnatured and the large group of police and security per-sonnel gathered there had little to do.—Internet

Serbian tennis fans attend the Janko Tipsarevic ofSerbia versus Marin Cilic of Croatia match on thethird day of the Australian Open in Melbourne, on21 January. The potential powerkeg match passedoff largely trouble-free with the boisterous crowdbehaving and Cilic winning in four sets.—INTERNET

Williams sisters lookingominous at Australian OpenMELBOURNE, 21 Jan—Serena and Venus Williams

looked in ominous form as they powered through thefirst round of the Australian Open on Tuesday, but Rus-sia’s Elena Dementieva struggled against an unheraldedopponent.

Serena overpowered China’s Meng Yuan 6-3, 6-2while older sister Venus downed Germany’s AngeliqueKerber 6-3, 6-3.

However Dementieva, who crushed Serena at lastweek’s Sydney International, was forced to fight for twohours before finally seeing off German Kristina Barrois.

Dementieva said she feared her Australian Open dreamwas evaporating in the Melbourne Park heat before sheground out the 7-6 (7/4), 2-6, 6-1 win.—Internet

Japan to call up VVV Venlo’sHonda for Bahrain match

Real Madrid to hold freshvote at end of season

MADRID, 21 Jan—Real Madrid will hold fresh elec-tions at the end of the season following allegations

Nadal awesome as Murraymotors through in Melbourne

MELBOURNE, 21 Jan—Spanish world number oneRafael Nadal began his Australian Open in awesome

Spain’s Rafael Nadalplays a stroke during his

men’s singles matchagainst Christophe

Rochus of Belgium atthe Australian Opem in

Melbourne, on 20 January. Nadal was in

imperious form, winning6-0, 6-2, 6-2.—INTERNET

New president of Real Ma-drid football club VicenteBoluda speaks at SantiagoBernabeu stadium in Ma-drid on 16 January. RealMadrid will hold freshelections at the end of theseason following allega-tions that voting at theSpanish giants’ annualgeneral assembly lastmonth was rigged, Boluda

has said.—INTERNET

M E L B O U R N E,21 Jan—A domi-nant RogerFederer set up aAustralian Openthird-round clashwith Marat Safinas top seed JelenaJankovic and de-fending cham-pion NovakDjokovic showedglimpses of theirbest form.

The tennis big guns were joined in the next roundby Serb glamour girl Ana Ivanovic and Russian thirdseed Dinara Safina.

Swiss great Federer, who is seeking a record-equal-ling 14th Grand Slam title here, let loose with someinstinctive shot-making as he beat Russian qualifierEvgeny Korolev 6-2, 6-3, 6-1.—Internet

fashion on Tuesday whileAndy Murray enjoyed theeasiest of starts to hisquest for a first GrandSlam title.

Last year’s runner-upJo-Wilfried Tsonga led aparade of seeds into roundtwo but Australian hopestook a hit as LleytonHewitt crashed out in hisworst result since 2002.

The new-look Nadal,who replaced his usualvest and baggy pants withT-shirt and above-kneeshorts, destroyed Bel-gium’s ChristopheRochus in the mismatchof round one.—Internet

that voting at the Spanishgiants’ annual general as-sembly last month wasrigged, the club’s newpresident Vicente Boludahas said.

“The logical and thebest thing for the club isfor the elections to beheld in the first or the sec-ond week of July,” he toldSpanish public televisionTVE in an interviewbroadcast late Monday,adding he ruled out beinga candidate.

“We live in the 21stcentury, we have to makechanges so that the vot-ing system works betterand represents the mem-bers of the club,” headded.

Internet

TOKYO, 21 Jan—Japanwill call up Dutch leagueside VVV Venlo’sKeisuke Honda for anaway game against Bah-rain in the final qualify-ing round of the 2011Asian Cup in Qatar.

“We must wait untiltwo days before thematch against Australia(in the World Cup quali-fier) to call up Europe-based players,” said Ja-pan coach TakeshiOkada after beatingYemen 2-1 in the GroupA opener on Tuesday inKumamoto.

“But we will have twogames against Bahrainand Finland before Aus-tralia. Honda does nothave a game to play inthis period, so I’ve askedthe team to let him joinus for Bahrain and theyokayed it. I’d like tothank them.”

Japan coachTakeshi Okada

It will be the first timethe 22-year-old midfielderhas played for his coun-try since his debut againstBahrain in June last yearduring World Cup quali-fying.

Honda has scored 10goals in 20 games, mak-ing him the fifth highestscorer in the Dutch leaguethis season.

Internet

City’s Brazilian dream turnssour as Robinho walks out

LONDON, 21 Jan—Manchester City’s Brazil-ian dream was rapidlytaking on a nightmarishtinge on Tuesday as thecollapse of the bid to signKaka was followed byconfirmation thatRobinho had walked outof a club training camp.

City chief executive

Garry Cook confirmedthat the star striker had leftCity’s base on the Span-ish island of Tenerife inwhat he termed a “breachof club discipline,” al-though the player insistedhe had informed the clubof his plans.

“I had made Man-chester City aware that Ineeded to return to Brazilbecause of a family mat-ter,” Robinho told theBBC. “I will return to theclub and hope to sort thisout as soon as possible.”

He also attempted todispel suggestions his exitmay in some way havebeen linked to the break-down of the Kaka deal.

Internet

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 22 January, 2009 15

WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Kachin and Shan States, upper Sagaing, Man-dalay and Taninthayi Divisions and generally fair in theremaining areas. Night temperatures were (5˚C) belowJanuary average temperatures in Mon State, (3˚C) to (4˚C)below January average temperatures in Chin and KayinStates, (3˚C) to (4˚C) above January average tempera-tures in upper Sagaing, Mandalay and Taninthayi Divi-sions, (5˚C) above January average temperatures in KachinState and about January average temperatures in the re-maining areas. The significant night temperatures wereLoilem (0˚C), Pinlaung (2˚C) and Namhsam (4˚C).

Maximum temperature on 20-1-2009 was 91˚F.Minimum temperature on 21-1-2009 was 59˚F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 21-1-2009 was 82%.Total sunshine hours on 20-1-2009 was (9.3) hrs approx.

Rainfall on 21-1-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye)was (4) mph from East at (07:30) hours MST on 21-1-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea and South Bay and generally fair else-where in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 22th January 2009:Weather will be partly cloudy in Kachin and Shan States,upper Sagaing and Taninthayi Divisions and generallyfair in the remaining areas.

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofslight decrease of night temperatures in the SouthernMyanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 22-1-2009: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 22-1-2009: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 22-1-2009: Generally fair weather.

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* Signature Tune* Song of Myanma Beauty and Scenic Sights* Arts of Myanmar Traditional Tapestry* Travelogue “Ngapali”* Myanmar Orchestra, A Blend of Arts!* Weaving Industry of Lotus Cloths* Song of Myanma Beauty and Scenic Sights

Abroad Transmissions

* Signature Tune* Song of Myanma Beauty and Scenic Sights* Central Glass Pavilion* New Transport Facilities Disigned for Regional

Development* Min Sone Hill and its Star Tortoises* The Art of Aesthetic Mosaic* Oxen Brothers* Myanma Indigenous Ornamental Fish (Part-2)* Engineered Floors made with Unique Technology* Myanmar Modern Song* Arts of Myanmar Traditional Tapestry* Travelogue “Ngapali”* Myanmar Orchestra, A Blend of Arts!* Weaving Industry of Lotus Cloths* Sights to see in Pyin-Oo-Lwin* Expendition of Rare Crocodile Species Inhabiting in

Fresh And Seawaters (1)* Classical Songs in Myanma History: Phone Moe Thun

Laung* Song of Myanma Beauty and Scenic Sights

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MRTV-3Programme Schedule

(22.1.2009) (Thursday)

Transmission Times

Local Transmission - (09:00am ~ 10:00am) MSTAbroad Transmission(Europe) - (15:30pm ~ 23:30pm) MSTAbroad Transmission(North America) - (23:30pm ~ 07:30am) MST

Nine baby lions, born in early December to twomothers, meet the public at the Serengeti wildlife

park in Hodenhagen, western Germany.—INTERNET

TOKYO, 21 Jan—Toyota Motor Corp named AkioToyoda, grandson of the company’s founder, to headthe company and lead it through the global crisis thathas slashed demand for cars worldwide.

Toyoda, 52 and currently executive vice president,will replace 66-year-old Katsuaki Watanabe aspresident in June as part of a reshuffle of topmanagement at the world's largest automaker, Toyotasaid in a statement on Tuesday.

Watanabe, whose second two-year term ends inJune, will become vice chairman as Akio becomes thesixth Toyoda to head the company.

Toyota and its rivals are grappling with slumpingsales in North America, Europe and Japan amid aspreading recession in rich countries, with sales alsoslowing in emerging markets such as China andRussia.

The sharp downturn in the US has pushed rivalsGeneral Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC to the brinkof collapse.

Toyoda will be taking the helm of an automakerin far better shape but hurting nonetheless. Toyota isheading for its first-ever consolidated operating loss inthe year to March 31, hit also by a stronger yen, afterreporting record high earnings last year.

MNA/Reauter

Toyota founder’s grandson tohead firm amid crisis

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Aquatic re-sources are abundant inthe rivers and creeks andthe waters along theMyanmar's coast stretch-ing more than 1200miles.

Edible marinecreatures such as fish,prawns, mussels, andcrabs are for the growingpopulation of the nation.

Minister forLivestock and FisheriesBrig-Gen MaungMaung Thein in his ad-dress to the annual meet-ing of the brother asso-ciations under theMyanmar Fishery Fed-eration on 17 Januaryurged responsible per-sons to seek ways forensuring sustainableexploitation of water re-sources of the nation,while boosting produc-tion of goods; that in that

Article: Maung Maung Htwe (MNA); Photos: Thaung Myint (MNA)

Take FirePreventiveMeasures

regard, the Fisheries De-partment had issued rulesand regulations designedfor conservation of ma-rine resources; that thedrive covered closed sea-son, closed area, gear,fishing method for re-spective species, and pro-hibitions against fishingsuch aquatic creatures ascrabs, eels and lobstersthat various educativeprogrammes were beingcarried out to meet theobjective; and that underconservation measures,the department had re-leased over 6.8 millioneels and over 10,000crabs into rivers, creeksand lakes up to October2008.

When askedabout functions of theMyanmar Prawn Entre-preneurs Association,Chairman of the associa-

tion U Hla Maung Shwetold the Myanma AlinDaily, “The MyanmarPrawn Entrepreneurs As-sociation was formed on4 May 2004. That is thefirst-ever national levelfishery association underthe Myanmar FisheryFederation. The associa-tion intended to dissemi-nate advanced prawnfarming methods, to con-tribute toward the gov-ernment’s projects for ex-tensive prawn farming, tohelp improve living con-ditions of prawn breed-ers, and to organize ex-perts, companies and citi-zens engaging in prawnfarming.

Now, it is in itssecond term from 2007 to2010 with two patrons,nine advisers and 32 ex-ecutives.”

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YANGON, 21 Jan—The opening ceremony of the17th Conference of Ear, Nose and Throat specialistswill be held at the hall of Myanmar Medical Associa-tion on Theinbyu Road here at 8.30 am on 4 February.In addition, clinical seminar and paper reading sessionwill be held on 5 and 6 February and workshops onRhinoplasty and Micro Vascular Surgery on 2 and 3February at Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital.

Ear, Nose and Throat specialists from Statesand Divisions may watch surgical operations to beperformed by specialists from Tan Tock Seng Hospi-tal of Singapore from 2 to 4 February.—MNA

Ear, Nose and Throatconference on 4 February

YANGON, 21 Jan— According to the 08 hr 14min and 14 sec hr MST of Kaba Aye Observatorytoday, a moderate earthquake measuring 4.7 Rich-ter Scale shook centering Myanmar ocean, thedistance of 85 mile from the south of Kaba Ayeobservatory said Meteorology and HydrologyDepartment.—MNA

Moderate earthquake

ter City failed this week if they tried to lure his team-mate Kaka away from the San Siro.

City were prepared to smash the world transferrecord to take Kaka to England but were rebuffed asthe Brazilian opted to stay at Milan.

However, Emerson feels the pulling power ofhis former club Madrid, who have long been linkedwith a move for Kaka, means they would stand amuch better chance of landing his compatriot if theywere to launch a bid.

“I’ve said all along that Madrid have wantedKaka for the last two years. To be a real top player youhave to play for Madrid. If Kaka has the chance to goto Madrid, he shouldn't think twice about it,” saidEmerson, who spent a season at Madrid before join-ing Milan in 2007.—Internet

satellite data are being used to identify undergroundwater resources in the drought-prone country.

Due to the rainfall variability in time and inspace, during recent years the rain-fed agriculturestruggles to meet the requirements of food security inthe Sahel area.

ESA’s WADE (Water resources Assessmentusing SAR in Desert and arid lands in West AfricanEcosystems) project, funded by the Data User Ele-ment (DUE), uses ERS and Envisat Synthetic Aper-ture Radar (SAR) imagery to map and monitor thelocation and extent of surface water bodies and toidentify potential areas for water infiltration.

Having access to these maps will help localwater authorities to better manage their water re-sources, lead livestock to water and improve theirwater storage capacity.

Internet

Satellites help locatewater in Niger

Madrid would tempt KakaMILAN, 21 Jan—AC Milan midfielder Emerson

believes Real Madrid could succeed where Manches-

AMSTERDAM, 21 Jan — Like most sub-SaharanAfrican countries, Niger faces problems meeting itswater needs. As part of ESA’s TIGER initiative,

For sustainable exploitation of marine resources

Freshwater prawns fetch more foreign exchange than any other marine products.

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