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Volume XVII, Number 127 2nd Waxing of Tawthalin 1371 ME Friday, 21 August, 2009

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

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

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

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

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

ards of the entire nation

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

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

tution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

YANGON, 20 Aug – Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence attended the opening of YangonExpo’ 2009 held at Tatmadaw Convention Hall on UWisara Road in Dagon Township here at noon today.

Chairman of Yangon Division Peace andDevelopment Council Commander of YangonCommand Maj-Gen Win Myint and officials formally

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry ofDefence attends Yangon Expo’ 2009

opened the expo.Lt-Gen Myint Swe and party observed personal

goods, cosmetics, foodstuff, electrical appliances andelectronics, computer and accessories, clothes, furnitureand medicines sold at the shops of the companies in theexpo today.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Aug—Lt-Gen Tha Aye ofthe Ministry of Defence together with Chairman ofKachin State Peace and Development CouncilCommander of Northern Command Maj-Gen SoeWin and officials attended the ceremony topresent prizes to the outstanding students in the2009 matriculation examination of KachinState at the town hall in Myitkyina at 9.30 am on 15

Lt-Gen Tha Aye inspects regional developmenttasks in Myitkyina, Mogaung, Mohnyin

Townships of Kachin StateAugust.

After giving the awards to prize winningstudents, schools, townships and teachers, Lt-Gen ThaAye of the Ministry of Defence, the commander andofficials posed for documentary photo together withthe prize winning students and cordially greeted thosepresent at the ceremony.

(See page 9)

Htotkawkoe withpotential for

all-round development

Article: Win Shwe (MyanmaAlin); Photos: Reporter Tun Zaw

(Sangyoung)

Corn is grown on a commercial scale inHtotkawkoe.

Along the over 20 miles long road sectionbetween Kawkareik Township and Htotkawkoe inKayin State are now flourishing rubber farms, addingto the total acreage of rubber farms in Kayin State.

(See page 7)

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Nay Pyi Taw (Yezin) 1.18 inchesHkamti 3.31 inchesMyeik 2.76 inchesPutao 1.73 inchesPyu 1.57 inchesKanbalu 1.46 inchesAn 1.42 inchesMogok 1.37 inchesMagway 0.78 inch

Noteworthy Amountsof Rainfall

Have positive attitude to things

KO TOE

Other countries give advice on means and ways to addressthe issue being faced by a country, which is very welcoming.And the country should take the advice. Here, the advice mustbe based on positive attitude. Instead if the advice is associ-ated with orders, pressures, coercion and punishments, it isnot true international relations.PAGE 8

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Friday, 21 August, 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

Revive traditional performing arts

and promote national characterThe government of Myanmar is reviving

national cultural heritage and preserving

national traits. It is with this end in view that

Myanmar traditional cultural performing arts

competitions is held every year.

The holding of Myanmar traditional

cultural performing arts competitions is to

ensure emergence of new generations of

artistes and musicians who will work for

uplift of national prestige and integrity and

preservation and safeguarding of cultural

heritage and national character.

The 17th Myanmar traditional cultural

performing arts competitions will be held in

Nay Pyi Taw and artistes from states and

divisions will take part in it. Now candidates

are being shortlisted for the competitions.

Present-day Myanmar performing artists

will have to preserve traditional performing

arts handed down to them by their forefathers.

Preserving traditional performing arts is not

going back to the past but reviving them.

Myanmar traditional cultural

performing arts competitions help promote

Myanmar music and dance and national

character. In other words, they help hand

down Myanmar traditional performing arts

to new generations of artistes and musicians.

The Myanmar cultural edifice has

splendidly existed for ages. Therefore, all

artistes and musicians are required to preserve

and safeguard cultural heritage and national

character by taking part in the competitions,

showing their artistic talent to the best of their

ability.

Commander

Maj-Gen

Tin Ngwe

and Mayor

Brig-Gen

Phone

Zaw Han

inaugurate

tarred

road.

MNA

Minister

Maj-Gen

Thein Swe

inspects

learning

system

with

teaching-

aids.

TRANSPORT

Deputy

Minister

Maj-Gen

Thein Tun

presenting 56

CDMA 450

telephones to

be used in 56

villages.

COMMUNICATION

NAY PYI TAW, 20

Aug—A ceremony to open

a new self-reliant tarred road

was held in Mahaaungmye

Township in Mandalay

Division on 10 August.

Chairman of

Mandalay Division Peace

and Development Council

Commander of Central

Command Maj-Gen Tin

Ngwe, Mayor Brig-Gen

Phone Zaw Han and

officials concerned

formally opened the tarred

road and they inspected

it.—MNA

Commander opens new self-reliant tarred road

Transport Minister inspects Marine Training Center (Dawbon)YANGON, 20 Aug—

Minister for Transport

Maj-Gen Thein Swe on

17 August arrived at the

Marine Administration

Department (Dawbon).

Director-General U

Maung Maung Oo of

Marine Administration

Department and officials

concerned reported to the

minister on arrangements

made for conducting the

courses namely Full

Mission Bridge Simulator

Course, Electronic Chart

Display and Information

System (ECDIS),

Simulator Course, Radar

ARPA (Automatic Radar

Plotting Aids) Simulator

Course and GOC (General

Operation Certificate)

Course (GMDSS), jointly

conducted by Marine

A d m i n i s t r a t i o n

Department and

Harmonious Unity

International Co., Ltd at

Marine Training Center

(Dawbon).

After that, the minister

inspected trainees learning

with teaching-aids at

GMDSS Simulator Room,

Radar ARPA Simulator

Room, ECDIS Simulator

Room, Full Mission and

Bridge Simulator Room.

MNA

Tasks of Myaing Auto-exchange inspectedNAY PYI TAW, 20

Aug—Deputy Minister for

Communications, Posts

and Telegraphs Maj-Gen

Thein Tun on 18 August

met with townselders,

teachers, students and local

people at Affiliated Basic

Education High School in

Kyauksauk Village in

Myaing Township.

The deputy minister

presented computer and

printer, exercise books and

stationery to the school of

Kyauksauk Village,

exercise books, stationery

and cash to the funds of the

school in Paikthin Village

and one set of computer and

printer to Myaing Township

Education Office.

He gave 56 CDMA-

450 telephones to be

TV Guide Vol: 1, No. 7 in

circulation

YANGON, 20 Aug—

TV Guide Volume 1, No.

7 will come out tomorrow.

The book carries a variety

of interesting items

including Miss Universe

2009 programme to be

presented by Star World

channel on 24 August as

well as forecasts for

English Premier League

football matches of Star

Sports and ESPN

channels through MRTV-

4 International channel.

Moreover, the

programmes of other TV

channels for a week are

presented in detail and

favourites are highlighted

along with programmes

by 5 Movies, 5 Series,

Cartoon Network and 5

Cartoon channels. TV

Guide covers the

programmes of Mandalay

FM and MRTV-4 Free

Channel.

Novel Light Express

(Tel: 391186, 243893)

publishes the weekly

every Friday.

MNA

installed in 56 villages for

ensuring better

communications in the

regions of Myaing

Township. Later, the

deputy minister inspected

tasks of Myaing Auto-

exchange.—MNA

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Book documenting warcrimes committed by UStroops in Iraq publishedLOS ANGELES, 20 Aug—A book has been published

recently by Iraq Veterans against the War, whichdocuments war crimes committed by US troops in Iraqand Afghanistan.

The book, entitled Winter Soldier Iraq andAfghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of theOccupations, was compiled by Iraq Veterans Againstthe War and freelance journalist Aaron Glantz whohas covered the Iraq war from the front lines. TheEnglish editionwas published in the Spring and theJapanese edition was published this month. Botheditions are selling well.

The book shows that well-publicized incidents ofAmerican brutality like the Abu Ghraib prison scandaland the massacre of an entire family of Iraqis in thetown of Haditha are not the isolated incidentsperpetrated by “a few bad apples,” as many politiciansand military leaders have claimed. They are part of apattern, the group says, of “an increasingly bloodyoccupation.”—Xinhua

Report says body ofal-Qaida suspect found

PESHAWAR, 20 Aug—The body of the son of a topaide of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was foundin a house in Peshawar, Pakistan, officials said. Theofficials identified him as Abdullah Noori, a suspectedal-Qaeda leader and son of Abdul Qadir, an Algerianidentified as bin Laden’s top aide, Dawn newspaperreported.

The body was found on Wednesday, the report said.Officials said the man was being treated for a kidneyailment by a private physician in a rented house in theTehkal area of Peshawar, capital of North WestFrontier Province, which has been the scene of muchmilitant violence. Police were quoted as saying thehouse was raided after they received information thatan important militant commander was hiding there.

The report quoted sources as saying the victim’sbody showed deep cuts, needle pricks on shouldersand wound marks on fingers. A urine bag was attachedto the body. The report said 10 people in the housewere arrested, but seven of them were later released.The other three were said to be foreigners, includingone Algerian, the report said.—Internet

Baghdad blasts kill 95, Iraqi security criticized

Hijackers threatened to blowup mystery ship-agencies

MOSCOW, 20 Aug—The hijackers of a cargo shipthat disappeared off the coast of France threatened toblow it up if their ransom demands were not met,Russian news agencies said on Wednesday. Russia onTuesday arrested eight people on suspicion ofhijacking the Arctic Sea off the Swedish coast andsailing it to the Atlantic Ocean, ending weeks of silenceabout the fate of a ship which has intrigued Europeanmaritime authorities.

Limited information from Russian officials hasfailed to satisfy sceptics who voiced doubts aboutwhether the piracy actually took place or was aconvenient cover story to conceal a possible secretcargo of arms or nuclear material.” The crew membershave already confirmed that the captors demanded aransom and threatened to blow up the vessel if theirorders were not obeyed,” Interfax quoted a RussianDefence Ministry spokesman as saying.—Internet

Six American troops killedin Afghanistan

KABUL, 20 Aug—The US military said onWednesday six American troops were killedin Afghanistan, as militants killed six electionworkers amid growing fears on the eve of thepresidential election that insurgents would mar thevote.

Two troops were killed in gunfire in the south onWednesday, the US military said, while a thirdwas killed in an unspecified hostile attack. The USalso said a roadside bomb on Tuesday in the southkilled two troops, while another died of noncombat-related injuries. No other details were released. Thedeaths bring to at least 32 the number of Americantroops killed in the country this month, a recordpace. Forty-four US troops died in Afghanistanlast month, the deadliest month of the eight-yearwar.

Internet

A man flees the Iraqi Foreign Ministry buildingafter a massive bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, on

19 Aug, 2009. —INTERNET

An Iraqi family reacts after a massive bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, on 19Aug, 2009. —INTERNET

BAGHDAD, 20 Aug — A series ofblasts in Baghdad killed 95 people andwounded 536 in Iraq’s bloodiest day thisyear, prompting a rare admission ofculpability from Iraqi security forces leftto cope without US help.

At least six blast struck neargovernment ministries and other targetsat the heart of Iraq’s Shi’ite-ledadministration, weeks after US combattroops withdrew from urban centres inJune, thrusting Iraq’s security forces intothe lead role. “This operation showsnegligence, and is considered a securitybreach for which Iraqi forces must takemost of the blame,” Major GeneralQassim al-Moussawi, Baghdad’s

Undated photo of the Maltese-registered, Finnish-

chartered vessel, Arctic Sea.

INTERNET

MIAMI, 20 Aug—A Florida man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to threatening tokill President Barack Obama in an e-mail that said “the blood of Obama will rundown the streets” of the US capital, a federal prosecutor said.

Nathan Wine, 21, admitted to a judge in Tampa, Florida, that he had sent thethreatening e-mail to the US Army Recruiting Command on 5 November, the dayafter Obama won the US presidential election, US Attorney A. Brian Albrittonsaid in a news release.

Internet

Florida manpleads guiltyto threat tokill Obama

security spokesman, told Iraqiya state TV.The government said this month that

most of the city’s blast walls would beremoved within 40 days, a sign ofconfidence in its security forces after UScombat troops withdrew from urbancentres in June, and before elections duein January. Wednesday’s blasts were a rareexample of a coordinated attack onheavily guarded targets. In one blast, amassive truck bomb close to a security.

Checkpoint leading to the heavilyfortified Green Zone blew out thewindowns of the nearby Foreign Ministry,sending shards of glass through busyoffices, killing dozens of people.

MNA/Reuters

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LONDON, 20 Aug —London police havearrested two men inconnection with what isthought to be Britain’sbiggest jewellery heist.

Two gun-toting andsmartly dressed menwalked into an exclusiveGraff store in centralLondon and stole 43rings, bracelets, neck-laces and watches with aretail value of £40 million($80 million).

The MetropolitanPolice said the pair were

Performers from Japanese drumming troupe Tao perform during a mediaevent ahead of their forthcoming show at the Edinburgh International

Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland .—INTERNET

Passengers walk past a

thermographic camera

checking their

temperature upon

arrival at Jeddah

airport.

INTERNET

SEOUL, 20 Aug — South Koreahas called off the launch of its firstspace rocket just minutes beforethe scheduled blast-off due to asuspected problem with fuelpressure.

Officials said an automaticabort system was triggered duringthe countdown when weakpressure was detected in a fueltank.

It will now be several daysbefore another launch can beattempted.

The rocket, intended to placea satellite into orbit, has beendeveloped with the help of Russia.

The two-stage Korea SpaceLaunch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1), was

The 33m-high KLSLV-1 is SouthKorea’s first space rocket.

INTERNET

Two arrested over‘biggest jewellery heist’

arrested yesterday butwould not issue any moredetails for “operationalreasons” — includingwhether they were thesame two captured onvideo pulling off the raidearlier this month.

A record reward of upto £1 million ($2 million)has been offered to findthose behind the robberyin broad daylight onLondon’s swanky NewBond St A 50-year-oldman has already beenarrested over the robbery,

which police have saidwas well organized andcould have involvedaccomplices.

The two men, dressedin grey suits and whiteshirts, arrived in a blacktaxi and threatened staffwith handguns. As theyleft, they dragged afemale staff member withthem and fired a warningshot outside.

They left her behind asthey raced off in a blueBMW.

Internet

South Korea halts rocket launchset to blast off on Wednesday fromthe Naro space complex, 475kmsouth of Seoul.

But the countdown was haltedjust eight minutes before lift-off.”

The automatic launch sequenceautomatically turned off due to aproblem that was detected in thecountdown,” said Lee Sang-mok,the deputy minister of science andtechnology policy.

He said a valve had notfunctioned because of weakpressure inside one of the fueltanks.

The fuel would be extracted, aprocess that takes several days tocomplete, Mr Lee said.

Internet

MINNEAPOLIS, 20 Aug— A tornado struck neardowntown Minneapolis on Wednesday afternoon,tossing trees onto cars and damaging buildings buthurting no one, authorities said.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported CenturyLutheran Church near the Minneapolis ConventionCenter and a music store south of downtown wereamong the buildings damaged by the storm, whichtriggered a round of warning sirens as it developed.

A Twitter filed by the Electric Fetus music storesaid winds blew out two large windows and the roofhad caved on the back side of the building, thenewspaper said. “We are dealing with it now,”someone at the store tweeted. “No one was hurt.”

The church’s copper steeple was damaged, and twotents set up for a national church convention wereknocked down.“We’re thankful that nobody was hurt,”church spokesman Joe Bjordal told the Star Tribune.

Internet

Minneapolis hit by tornado

LOS ANGELES, 20 Aug — Talks are underway toremake The Beatles’ psychedelic animated classic“Yellow Submarine” in 3-D, according to trademagazine Variety.

Disney Studios is in talks with star US moviedirector Robert Zemeckis to make a new version ofthe 1968 flick, using 16 Beatles tunes.

The movie will include such Beatles classics as“All Together Now,” “All You Need Is Love,”“WhenI?m 64,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and “SgtPeppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

The producers hope their “Yellow Submarine”remake will be ready to open in time for the 2012Olympic Games in London, Variety said.

Internet

SYDNEY, 20 Aug — Qantas Airways has posted alarge drop in its annual profits, as it continues tostruggle with the economic downturn. The Australianairline said net income for year to 30 June fell 88%to 117m Australian dollars ($96.5m; £58.5m).

Qantas also announced A$1.5b of further cost-cutting measures, helping send the company’s sharesup by 5%.” There has never been a more volatile andchallenging time for the world’s aviation industry,”Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said.

The airline, like most others across the world, hasbeen struggling with falling demand during thedownturn, as well as the impact of the swine flu viruson international travel.”When most airlines arereporting losses, the Qantas group is reporting a profitfor the full year,” Mr Joyce said.—Internet

BERLIN, 20 Aug —Germany introduced acampaign on Wednesdayto put one million electriccars on the road by 2020,making battery research apriority as it tries toposition itself as a marketleader.

The programme, whichdraws on 500 millioneuros ($705 million) setaside in an economicstimulus package this yearbut leaves many financingdetails to the next govern-ment, was criticized as toovague.

“It is our aim to makeGermany into the marketleader for electric mobi-lity,” Karl-Theodor zuGuttenberg, the economyminister, said after thecabinet approved the plan.

He said one million byQantas detailed further cost cuts after slashing

jobs in the past year.—INTERNET

Qantas annual profit drops 88% 3-D version of“Yellow Submarine” on the way

Berlin seeks a millionelectric cars by ’20

2020 “is an ambitiousaim, but one that webelieve can be realized.”

Germany had morethan 41 million cars on theroad at the beginning ofthis year — only 1,452 ofthem electric cars.

The government plansto spend 115 million eurosfor eight test regions tosee how best to introducethe cars.

Internet

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Philippine economy expectedto grow 0.9% in Q2

Singapore launches 2009 heritagecoin set

Strong rains leave 500 homelessin central Chile

US researchers develop newway to boost biofuel production

WASHINGTON, 20 Aug—Researchers at Ohio StateUniversity have developed a new way to double theproduction of biofuel butanol, which might somedayreplace gasoline in automobiles, the university saidon Wednesday. The process improves on theconventional method for brewing butanol in abacterial fermentation tank, the university said in apress release.

Normally, bacteria could only produce around 15grams of the chemical for every liter of water in thetank before it would become too toxic for the bacteriato survive, said Shang-Tian Yang, professor ofchemical and bio molecular engineering at Ohio State.Yang and his colleagues developed a mutant strain ofthe bacterium Clostridium beijerinckii in a bioreactorcontaining bundles of polyester fibers. In thatenvironment, the mutant bacteria produced up to 30grams of butanol per liter.

Right now, butanol is mainly used as a solvent, orin industrial processes that make other chemicals. Butexperts believe that this form of alcohol holds potentialas a bio fuel. Once developed as a fuel, butanol couldpotentially be used in conventional automobiles inplace of gasoline, while producing more energy thananother alternative fuel, ethanol. Yang said that thisuse of his patented fibrous-bed bioreactor wouldultimately save money.—Xinhua

Plastic decomposesin oceans

BEIJING, 20 Aug—Plastic, believed to be along-lasting hard-to-break-down pollutant, doesdecompose in the oceans.

Katsuhiko Saido,a chemist at NihonUniversity, Chiba, Japan,presented his findings atthe annual meeting of theAmerican ChemicalSociety on Wednesday,according to media reports.Plastic in the ocean actuallydecomposes as it isexposed to the rain and sunand other environmentalconditions, giving rise toyet another source of globalcontamination that willcontinue into the future,said Saido in the statement.

Saido reported that thedecomposing plasticsrelease potentially toxicchemicals such asbisphenol A and PSoligomer, which candisrupt the functioning ofhormones in animals.Thousands of tons ofplastic debris wind up inthe oceans every year,some of it washing up oncoasts, some being swirledby currents into the GreatPacific Garbage Patchbetween California andHawaii, said to be largerthan Texas. —Xinhua

Vietnam loses 1,224 hectaresof forest due to fire

HANOI, 20 Aug—The Vietnamese Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development said that fireshave caused damages to 1,224 hectares of forestin the country so far this year, up eight percent year-on-year, local newspaper the Labor reported onThursday.

Vietnam has recorded 235 forest fires so far thisyear, an increase of 18 percent compared to the sameperiod last year, said the newspaper.

About 1,054 hectares of planted forests have beenburnt in the country’s northern mountainous provinces,according to the newspaper.— Xinhua

MANILA, 20 Aug—ThePhilippine economy isforecasted to have ex-panded 0.9 percent inmaximum in the secondquarter of this year asconsumption remainsweak, the governmentsocio-economic planningagency said on Thursday.

The National Economicand DevelopmentAuthority (NEDA) saidthat the economy couldstill have fallen intorecession in the worst case

scenario as its forecastedfor the gross domesticproduct (GDP) growthis placed at -o.1 to 0.9percent from April to June.NEDA policy planningdirector Dennis Arroyosaid that despite the steadyinflow of remittances fromoverseas Filipino workers,a survey done by thePhilippine central bankrevealed that consumersentiment remains weak.

The global recession isdiscouraging consumers

from spending, he said.The NEDA predicted thatthe industry sector — onback of weaker manu-facturing and exports —contracted by 1.3 to 2.9percent in the secondquarter of this year. Theagriculture, forestry andfisheries sector is seen tohave grown 0.4 to 1.4percent, driven by theexpansion in thecommercial fisheries andaquaculture industries.

Xinhua

SINGAPORE, 20 Aug—The Monetary Authorityof Singapore (MAS) onThursday launched the2009 Heritage Orchids ofSingapore coin set. This isthe fourth set of coinsissued in tribute to one ofSingapore’s nationaltreasures, orchids. Orchidsare a significant feature ofSingapore’s heritage andthe orchid coin series haveproven to be popular withcoin collectors.

The coin set consists of

two coins featuringSpathoglottis Primroseand Vanda Amy.Spathoglottis Primrosewas the first hybrid of theSingapore BotanicGardens’ breeding pro-gramme initiated byRichard Eric Holttummore than 70 years ago.

With a distinctive lipfrom the influence of oneof its parent,VandaTricuspidata, the attractivehybrid Vanda Amy wasone of the earlier hybrid

registered and created byJohn Laycock in 1956, awell known lawyer andone of the foundingmembers of the presentOrchid Society of SouthEast Asia. He named theorchid after his daughterAmy, who was a citycouncillor in the periodbefore Singapore’sindependence. The coinswill be issued in apremium set fromThursday.

Xinhua

A number of visitorsview around the

internationalautomotive industry

exhibition in Dalian, acoastal city of northeast

China’s LiaoningProvince, on 19 Aug,

2009. —XINHUA

International trainees visit the pollution-free teabase in Xinchang County of east China’s

Zhejiang Province, on 19 Aug, 2009.XINHUA

All items from Xinhua News Agency

SANTIAGO, 20 Aug —Strong rains on Tuesdayand early on Wednesdayleft more than 500 peoplehomeless and 124 housesdamaged in the suburbsof Santiago, the NationalEmergencies Officesaid on Wednesday.

In the central area ofChile, lots of houses wereflooded, roofs collapsedand underground pass-

ages were damaged. Themost affected areas wereLampa, Baden Polpacioand Rungue.

There were trafficproblems at mountainregions. In Valparaiso,theborder pass was closeddue to the bad weather.

The total rainfallwas 48.4 mm untilWednesday morning.A cold wind would enter

the country on Thursday.The meteorologicaldepartment said the rainclouds were movingto Argentine, but therewould be weak showersin the region betweenValparaiso and Los Lagosuntil midday on Wednes-day.

Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

Staff members of vegetable science in-stitute of Zhengzhou carry a giantpumpkin in Zhengzhou, capital of cen-tral China’s Henan Province. The gi-ant pumpkins were cultivated by veg-etable science institute of Zhengzhoufrom imported new species. The big-gest one weighs some 126 kilogramms,and has a diameter of 2.46 meters.

Mommy is tired! : Abi, a 10 year-old Asian lioness, is pictured with

her two 10 week-old cubs atLondon Zoo.

Italian hotel mistakenlyoffers 1-cent weekend

You had to be quick, but what a deal.A four-star hotel near Venice

mistakenly offered the ultimate low-costvacation — a romantic weekend in theItalian lagoon city for 1 euro cent.

Not surprisingly, the Crowne Plaza inQuarto D’Altino, 15.5 miles (25kilometres) from Venice, receivedbookings for the equivalent of 1,400room nights on the night the rate wasposted on its Web site, the hotel chainacknowledged. And it seems thosebookings may be valid.

The hotel first thought the offer wasposted by a hacker, sales manager FulvioDanesin. But it turned out to be humanerror at the Atlanta, Georgia, offices ofIntercontinental Hotels Group, the hotel’smother company, he said.

The offer was supposed to be for atwo-night stay at half price. A night at the151-room hotel normally costs betweeneuro90 ($128) and euro150 ($214).

Hallelujah! Mich church wins $70,000 in lottery

Karoline Mueller’s painting“Bodyguards” on display at theSaxony ministry for finance inDresden, Germany. Mueller’s

painting is just one of the new takeson old classic paintings being shown

in the ministry. Students from theDresden Art Academy present theirworks under the title “Imitation” in

the atrium of the ministry, acollection of modern art based on

well-known paintings.

Pair of nuns help Mo policenab robbery suspect

Thou shalt not steal — especially withinsight of a convent. Police in Independence,Mo, are crediting a pair of nuns with helpingnab a gun-toting man suspected of burglari-zing two homes on Thursday morning.

Around 7 am, one of the women glancedout a window of the Sisters of St Francis ofthe Holy Eucharist convent and spotted asuspicious man walking through a soybeanfield. She and another nun headed outside tosee if the man was lost or hunting illegally.

They saw the man was carrying a shotgun,boxing gloves and other items. When theybegan to question him, the man ran intonearby woods.

One of the nuns gave chase, wearing herankle-length habit and flip-flops. He gotaway, but the 49-year-old nun was able todescribe him later to police, who madean arrest.

Divine intervention? Or just plain luck?No matter what the circumstances, aMichigan church is $70,000 richer courtesyof the Michigan Lottery. The CovenantLife Worship Center and its 25 membersin Haslett, Mich had one of the second-prize tickets in the Lucky 7s raffle held on4 May.

The $10 ticket was purchased at aconvenience store in Haslett, five milesnortheast of downtown Lansing. The lottery

Web site says the odds of a single ticketwinning $70,000 in Lucky 7s are one in55,556. Michigan Lottery officials saythe church will receive the full amount ofthe prize because it is a tax-exempt group.

Pastor Marilyn Parmelee tells theLansing State Journal that the prize moneywill go toward the church building fund,setting up a missionary fund andsupporting local community serviceprojects.

PARIS, 20 Aug — Anancient runway for flyingreptiles called pterosaurshas been found in France,say researchers writing ina Royal Society journal.

Led by Jean-MichelMazin, the internationalteam found a 150 millionyear-old landing strip in

SKOPJE, 20 Aug —Macedonia and Greecehave failed once again tosolve the 18-year-oldMacedonia name disputebetween the two neigh-bouring countries, anofficial said.

No agreement has yetbeen reached by officialsof Athens and Skopje butefforts are under way tosolve the name issue, theMacedonian news agencyMakfax said on Wednes-day, quoting MatthewNimitz, a UN mediator.

After meeting Greek

TUNIS, 20 Aug — TheTunisian woman whoclaimed to be expecting12 babies has beenexposed as a fraud withpsychological problems,the country’s HealthMinistry said. Known bythe initials “AF,” thewoman had told localmedical she was ninemonths’ pregnant with sixboys and six girls, TheDaily Telegraph reportedon Wednesday.

An investigation bythe Tunisian HealthMinistry revealed thewoman has “psycholo-gical problems and is un-likely even to be pregn-ant,” a ministry spokes-

Pterosaurs had well developed flying skills.—INTERNET

Athens, Skopje stalling on Macedonia nameAmbassador AdamantiosVassilakis on Tuesday inNew York, Nimitz said thenegotiations are in a deadend, the MacedonianMRT Online reported.

Vassilakis told Nimitzthat Greece cannot acceptthe Skopje proposal.

Macedonian Ambas-sador Zoran Jolevskiproposed the name “Republic of North Maced-onia” be used only inbilateral communicationbetween the two count-ries, but Greece insistedthis name is used world-

wide.The Athens authorities

argue the Macedonianame implies territorialclaims on the northernGreek region of the samename and the Skopjegovernment should usethe name of the “FormerYugoslav Republic ofMacedonia,” as it isrecognized by the UnitedNations. The unsolvedname issue is hinderingMacedonia’s efforts tojoin NATO and theEuropean Union.

Internet

Runway found for flying reptilesCrayssac in South WestFrance.

The “trackway” showshow the reptile landedfeet first, then stutteredbefore walking on allfours. It is still is notknown how they took off.

The pterosaurs had awingspan of one metre,

but their feet were only5cm long. Scientists thinkthey possessed many ofthe flying skills of modernday birds.

The researcherspublished their work inProceedings of the RoyalSociety B: BiologicalSciences. —Internet

Woman’s tale of carrying12 babies a hoax

man said.”Our staffinterviewed her at length,but even her pregnancyappears to be in herimagination,” the spokes-man said.

“She’s claiming to benine months pregnantwith six boys and sixgirls, but there’s absolutenothing about her appear-ance which indicatesthis.”

The woman refused tobe examined by aphysician and “we can’teven contact her,” thespokesman said.

“She’s gone intohiding.”A doctor atNo’man al Adab Hos-pital, the only hospital in

Gafsa, where the womanlives, confirmed shehadn’t been under thehospital’s care and“undoubtedly” fabricatedher condition, the Britishnewspaper said.

“It may be that she’strying to make moneyfrom television,” thedoctor said.

“These kind of peoplecan make thousands fromappearing on program-mes. Perhaps that’s whatmotivated her.”

The woman’s husb-and, had hired a lawyer tohandle media inquiries,also has disappeared, thedoctor said.

Internet

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 21 August, 2009 7

(from page 1)Our news crew was

accompanied by thechairman of KawkareikDistrict Peace andDevelopment Council ona trip to Htotkawkoe towitness to what extent theregion had enjoyeddevelopment in varioussectors.

Once we enteredthe village, we saw lovelyhouses roofed withcorrugated iron sheets withbamboo matting walls andwooden floors set up inrows. Villagers growvegetables on a

Htotkawkoe with potential for all-round developmentArticle: Win Shwe (Myanma Alin); Photos: Reporter Tun Zaw (Sangyoung)

Vocational Education Centre teaches local women education oncottage industries.

A rural health centre with a labour room.

The gravel road to Htotkawkoe Village.

Houses are set up in rows.

manageable scale besidetheir houses. All theinternal roads have beenupgraded to gravelfacilities with lamp -posts.

So far, villagers andservice personnel havereclaimed more than 300acres of fallow lands. Thisyear, local farmers put over60 acres under monsoonpaddy. They are gearingup for extensive cultivationof paddy in wetlands withheavy machinery,combine harvesters andadvanced agriculturalmethods.

Up to July this year,the acreage of rubber farms

had surged to 248.25 from42 in 2007. Local farmersgrow corn and pigeon peasas mixed crops among teaktrees and rubber plants.

The TownshipMyanma AgricultureService has provided 6000young areca palms, 50 kiloguava saplings, 50grapefruit saplings, 50 limesaplings, 50 papayasaplings, 100 mangosaplings, 50 jackfruitsaplings, 50 djenkol beansaplings and 200 peppersaplings for the village. Inaddition, it disseminatesagricultural methods twice

a week.The self-reliant

basic education primaryschool (branch) has beenupgraded to a well-furnished affiliated basiceducation middle school.

Moreover, a new schoolbuilding has beenconstructed forconvenience of the youthof the village and nearbyareas.

Htotkawkoe has gota rural health centre, fiverural health centres. Themedical staff regularlymake field trips down to thegrassroots level to providehealth care, raise publicawareness of malaria anddangue hemorrhage feverand distribute free treatedmosquito nets.

The governmentprovided the village with

152 pigs, 66 goats, 1820chickens and four milchcows. The LivestockBreeding and VeterinaryDepartment gives healthcare to the farm animalstwice a week.

The Education andTraining Department underthe Ministry for Progress ofBorder Areas and NationalRaces and DevelopmentAffairs launched thebuilding of a vocationaleducation centre inHtotkawkoe Region on 1May 2009. It is due to beopened in forthcoming dryseason.

The region has seen19 all-weather gravel roadswith a total length of threemiles and one furlong. Thesix miles and six furlonglong road between Nabuand Htotkawkoe has beenupgraded to a tarred one.One 20,000-gallon and 121000-gallon tanks havebeen built for supply ofadequate potable water.

With an ipstartelephone, a 10-watt TVretransmitting station andthree daily newspapers,local people can study whatis going on in the nation andin the world.

Local people canbuy cloths, clothes, personalgoods, kitchen utensils andelectrical apparatuses at 10percent discount in WinThuzar Shop.

In its bid to build amodern, developed nation,mobilizing the massive

participation of thepeople, the governmentis working hard forequitable development ofall parts of the nation.Long ago, local people ofborder areas went throughreal tough times due tolack of stability and peace,but now they have risenfrom debt to wealth as aresult of peace andstability.

Translation: MSMyanma Alin:

18-8-2009

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence

views booths at the opening of Yangon Expo’

2009.—MNA

(News on page 1)

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 21 August, 2009

Every country has their internal issues, many

or few, to be addressed politically. Maybe a devel-

oped country with strong economy has only few

such internal issues, but there is no country that

does not have such issues. A developing country

with racial issues and border incidents has a large

number of internal issues to address. It is usual for

a country to do so, and this concept remains true.

In this regard, every country has to cope with

their domestic issues according to the objective situ-

ations. So, different nations have different ways to

work out their internal issues, and they cannot ig-

nore their problems. They try to serve the interest

of their people with own ways, figuring out their

local issues. Myanmar is one of such countries.

Myanmar has risen from a variety of adversities it

faced in last 20 years, restored stability and peace

and ensured development to the present degree.

Now, the country is putting huge efforts into the

democratic process, as aspired by the people.

Today is Global Age, so any countries, largeor small, cannot stand alone. Every country hasto deal with the countries with which they sharetheir borders, regional countries, international or-ganizations and other countries. That is to say,international relations is of great importance.Here, the ways world countries deal with eachother are different from one another, and thevolumes of friendship and contacts between onecountry and another are various. I mean all coun-tries ought to honour mutual respect for equalityand international rules and regulations promul-gated for international relations, but they shouldnot disregard social affairs and due considera-tion.

Other countries give advice on means and ways

to address the issue being faced by a country, which

is very welcoming. And the country should take

the advice. Here, the advice must be based on

positive attitude. Instead if the advice is associated

with orders, pressures, coercion and punishments,

it is not true international relations.

Today, certain powerful countries are doing the

same, in viewing the issues Myanmar is facing.

Some countries show their goodwill and stand on

the right side, whereas some are putting blame on

and denouncing Myanmar, voicing objections and

imposing economic sanctions against the country

with the intention of making things go as they wish.

Myanmar has to welcome any forms of positive

advice given with goodwill, respecting the law of

the country. I do not think it is wise if several

countries cooperating as a coalition punish and

impose economic sanctions against a particular

country in their interest. That is a means of op-

pressing a targeted country with force. And it is an

unjust way and one-sided relations without equal-

ity.

Have positive attitude to thingsKo Toe

During and after the trial against Daw Aung San

Suu Kyi and Mr Yettaw, our country came under

pressure put and attacks launched by elements inside

and outside the country, which is common knowl-

edge.

They claimed that the accused were charged, put

on trial and punished according to the expired con-

stitution, so the government took unjust action. In

reality, the laws remain in force so long as the ruling

government revokes and dissolves them and their

provisions are not contrary to the present constitu-

tion. I do not want to make further clarification to

that. Prison terms were sentenced to the accused as

the legal proceedings are in conformity with the law

and they were found guilty.

It is very welcoming that the Head of State com-

muted the terms with consideration. I would say it is

positive attitude showed looking forward to positive

results. All the four accused were somewhat privi-

leged. The order carries other privileges they can

enjoy if they abide by the restrictions put on them.

Halves of the sentences are commuted, the other

halves are suspended, and they can live in their home.

Moreover, they can enjoy amnesty if they honour

the rules. That is very encouraging for all.

However, certain elements are not complacent

about the highest compliances, but the countries that

understand the objective conditions of our country

and compliances show their optimism about the is-

sue and recognize the conditions. Whether the gov-

ernment can comply with the unfair demands or not

rests on the law. Making demands for unconditional

release of them ignoring that point is a way of op-

posing the law. They should understand that.

Another issue is Mr Yettaw’s case. In fact, he

has to serve his terms in our country. But, at the

request of US Senator Mr Jim Webb, the govern-

ment commuted the sentence to him by half and

deported him to his mother country. In that way,

Myanmar showed her humanitarian attitude, respect

to international relations and forbearance. So, that

should be recognized as a respect showed to human

rights without animosity but with genuine goodwill.

The release of Mr Yettaw reflects the government’s

understanding and forgive and forget attitude based

on personal affairs. And it also can be said that the

government did what should be done within the

framework of the law.

Although our country is acting in accord-ance with the law with constructive attitude, theWest Bloc and certain countries are voicing thatthey will impose more economic sanctions andtighten economic sanctions. A country disclosedthat it would launch one more Myanmar pro-gramme to help Myanmar people get involvedin democracy movements, apart from presenteconomic sanctions. I notice that they are im-posing some more economic sanctions againstMyanmar. Actually, that is not a positive ap-proach to the Myanmar issue. All what they planto do in that regard will harm no one except thecountry and the people. What is important is totake the public interest into consideration. Sup-pose they are really generous to our country,why are they trying to harm the public interestand development momentum of the nation? Onlywith necessary aid and relations with positiveattitude, will it be possible for them to contrib-ute to national development.

Anyhow, Myanmar will keep on working stead-

fastly according to the steps adopted to achieve the

goal of democracy. The follow-up plans will also

be implemented according to the law and proce-

dures. Every citizen who is eligible according to

the law and bye-laws will be able to participate in

the proceedings. The nation will go on the founda-

tions laid in accordance with the constitution.

Myanmar will consider and accept all the posi-

tive participations in pursuance of the national goal.

However, we will have to ward off any forms of

disruptions to national interest. Today, Myanmar is

trying its best for its all-round development, so those

with negative attitude should wake up and smell

the coffee, withdrawing their grudge towards the

nation.

Translation: MS

Myanmar will consider and accept all the positive

participations in pursuance of the national goal. How-

ever, we will have to ward off any forms of disruptions

to national interest. Today, Myanmar is trying its best

for its all-round development, so those with negative

attitude should wake up and smell the coffee,

withdrawing their grudge towards the nation.

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 21 August, 2009 9

(from page 1)Afterwards, Lt-Gen

Tha Aye of the Ministryof Defence inspectedprogress in extending therunway of MyitkyinaAirport and thrivingtapioca plantation inMyitkyina Station.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye andparty viewed maintenance

Lt-Gen Tha Aye inspects regional development…of Mawphaung Bridge,broadcasting of fertilizersat the farmlands of farmerU Maung Nyunt inMyataung Village ofMogaung Township andconstruction ofNantkhwin Bridge onShwebo-Myitkyina Road.

At Hopin GeneralAdministration Depart-

ment, Lt-Gen Tha Ayelooked into office worksand sanitation andbeautifying tasks at theoffice and its environs. Lt-Gen Tha Aye instructedofficials concerned to joinhands with the localpeople for carrying outdevelopment tasks of thetownship.

The Director of theMinistry of Healthpresented medicines forHopin Hospital andLonton Station Hospitalthrough the medicalsuperintendent of HopinHospital.

At the hall of MohnyinDistrict Peace andDevelopment Council, Lt-Gen Tha Aye met withdepartmental officials andKachin State levelofficials.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20Aug —The final matchand prize presentationceremony of DefenceServices Commander-in-Chief’s ShieldTatmadaw (Army, Navy,

Tatmadaw Sepak TakrawTournament concludes

and Air) Sepak TakrawTournament took placeat Shan State Gymna-sium in Taunggyi on 14August.

Chairman of ShanState Peace and Develop-

ment Council Commanderof Eastern Command Maj-Gen Yar Pyae watched thefinal match and presentedprizes to the winningteams.

MNA

Construction Minister receives MD ofNorthern International (Holdings) Co

NAY PYI TAW, 20Aug—Minister for Con-struction Maj-Gen KhinMaung Myint received

Managing Director Mr YuXian Feng of NorthernInternational (Holdings)Co Ltd at the Ministry of

Construction, here, yester-day evening.

Also present at the callwere Deputy MinisterBrig-Gen Myint Thein andofficials.

They discussed mat-ters related to bridge con-struction.

MNA

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs signsCondolence Book for Former President of ROK

UMFCCI to hold talks

NAY PYI TAW, 20Aug—The 38th MyanmarPolice Force Chief’s ShieldVolleyball Tournamentwas opened at PaunglaungSportsground here yester-day morning. At the cer-emony, Police Brig-Gen

YANGON, 20 Aug—Deputy Minister for Min-istry of Foreign Affairs, UMaung Myint signed Con-dolence Book opened at

the Embassy of the Re-public of Korea, No 97,University Avenue, BahanTownship, here at 1400hrs today, for the passing

away of Mr. Kim Dae-June, Former President ofthe Republic of Korea on18 August 2009.

MNA

MPF Chief’s shield volleyball tournament launchedSoe Win Myint, on behalfof the Chief of MyanmarPolice Force, extendedgreetings. Next, athletesfrom State/Division battal-ion, unit and training schoolrecited the four vows andthen Ayeyawady Division

Police Force played againstMagway Division PoliceForce. Up to 28 Aug, 32-teams from State/Divisionbattalion, unit and trainingschool will participate inthe championship shieldcontest.—MNA

Lt-Gen Tha Aye ofMinistry of Defencepresents prize to anoutstanding student.

MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myintreceives Managing Director Mr Yu Xian

Feng of Northern International(Holding) Co Ltd.—CONSTRUCTION

DeputyMinister U

MaungMyint signsCondolence

Book atKorean

Embassy forthe death of

formerPresident of

ROK MrKim Dae-

June.MNA

Police Brig-Gen Soe Win Myint extending greetings at the 38th Myanmar Police Force Chief’sShield Volleyball Tournament.—MNA

YANGON, 19 Aug—Union of Myanmar Federa-tion of Chambers of Commerce and Industry willorganize talks on establishment of ASEAN Free TradeArea (AFTA) at UMFCCI Office Tower on MinyeKyawswa Road in Lanmadaw Township at 2 pm on 22August.

Assistant Director U Thein Myint Wai of theMinistry of Commerce and Director U Kyaw Win ofthe Ministry of Finance and Revenue will give talks onmatters related to AFTA.

The industrialists and entrepreneurs includinginterested persons may attend the talks.—MNA

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 21 August, 2009

YANGON, 20 Aug—Chairman of YangonDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Maj-Gen WinMyint accompanied byofficials visited SanpyaAgricultural Zone (1) inDagon Myothit (East)Township yesterday.

After hearing reportson construction of wateroutlet channel presentedby officials at the briefinghall, the commander gave

Commander performs regionaldevelopment work in Dagon Myothit

(East), (South) and (Seikkan) Townshipsnecessary instructions andinspected the site chosenfor construction of thewater outlet channel.

At plot No-3, thecommander looked intocultivation of monsoonpaddy, spraying ofinsecticide and dredgingof drains.

Next, the commanderand party oversawupgrading of road sectionat the junction on No (2)Highway, site chosen forconstruction of sluice gate

at plot No-2 of SanpyaAgricultural Zone (2) inDagon Myothit (South)Township and plot No-9in Dagon Myothit(Seikkan) Township,thriving monsoon paddyplantations, broadcastingof fertilizer and sprayingof insecticide, conditionof Kannar Road in DagonMyothit (Seikkan)Township and water outletchannel and left necessaryinstructions.

MNANAY PYI TAW, 17 Aug

—Myanmar War VeteransOrganization erected abillboard heralding theconference for 2009 of the

MWVO erects billboard for conference-2009

organization in Mandalay on11 August.

Chairman of Man-dalay Division Peace andDevelopment Council

Commander Maj-Gen TinNgwe unveiled the billboarderected in front of the CityHall in Mandalay.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Aug— Myanmar Academy ofMedical Science held itsmid-year meeting for

MAMS holds mid-year meeting2009 at the University ofNursing (Yangon) here on17 August.

At the opening

address, Minister forHealth Dr Kyaw Myintexpressed his delight forthe achievement in

medical science ofMAMS.

President of MAMSDirector-General (Retd) of

the Medical ResearchDepartment (UpperMyanmar) Dr. Thein Tundelivered an openingaddress and the chairman,vice-chairman and thesecretary of MAMS readthe reports of the academyat the meeting.

The meeting endedwith concluding remarksby the president ofMAMS. After themeeting, Minister Dr.Kyaw Myint visitedlaboratories of the Foodand Drug Administration.

MNA

YANGON, 20 Aug—Dr. Kyaw Win, ProjectManager of FXB, donated books to libraries under theInformation and Public Relations Departmentyesterday.

Director (Production) of the Information andPublic Relations Department U Aye Kywe accepted400 copies of “Victims of Human Trafficking andHIV” worth K 480,000 written by Police Col WinNaing Tun handed over by Dr Kyaw Win at YangonDistrict (West) IPRD.

Wellwishers have been contributing books tolibraries at district/township IPRDs.—MNA

Books donated to libraries of IPRD

YANGON, 20 Aug—With the assistance ofNibban Electric &Electronics, IEMSCompany Limited willlaunch “Electronic &Living ‘09’ Exhibition atTatmadaw ConventionHall on U Wisara Street

Press conference on “Electronic &Living ‘09’ Exhibition held

from 3 to 6 September.The press conference on“Electronic & Living ‘09’Exhibition was held atGolden Duck Restauranton Strand Road here.

Managing DirectorU Thet Lwin Shwe ofIEMS Companyexplained the purpose ofthe exhibition. ManagingDirector U John Lwin ofStars & Models Int’l,Marketing Manager DawThida Toe of NibbanElectric & Electronics andDirector U Aung Aung ofShwelamin NgagaCompany gaveexplanations and repliedto the queries.

A total of 120booths have already beenregistered. New modellaptops from ShwelaminNgaga Co, computerized

medical equipment fromAustra-lasia Marketing,Trade and Technology,solar energy use powersupply systems fromEarth Computer System,online UPSs from GoldenLion/IEM, brandedlaptops and iphones fromKMD/Lucky Bird, TheinMin/Blu Ray/King

Empire/Trust Net CiticomCyber City/Do Do Ko Ko,software systems fromSmart dictionary/SM3 andother items are available.Stars & Models Int’l willdisplay items at theexhibition and launchadvertising campaign witha demonstration.

MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe unveils the billboard erected in front of theCity Hall in Mandalay.—MNA

DirectorU Aye

Kywe ofIPRD

acceptsbooks

donatedby Dr

Kyaw Winof FXB.

MNA

Managing Director U Thet Lwin Shwe ofIEMS Co Ltd at the press conference.—MNA

Minister Dr Kyaw Myint delivers address at

Myanmar Academy of Medical Science at its

mid-year meeting for 2009.

HEALTH

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RIO DE JANEIRO, 20 Aug—TwoBritish tourists were sentenced by aBrazilian court on Wednesday to eightmonths of community service for forginga luggage theft.

Both aged 23, Shanti Andrews andRebecca Turner will have to work sevenhours a day for eight months. They werealso demanded to pay a fine of 12,090reais (6,535 US dollars). The two youngwomen were arrested on July 26 in Rio,after reporting their luggage was stolen.Their abnormal calmness when expensive

WELLINGTON, 20Aug—A New Zealandman has been dubbed theLord of the Ring after hesearched and found hiswedding ring more than ayear after it slipped off hisfinger and sank to the seafloor.

The ring was lost for16 months in the harbourof the country’s capitalcity, Wellington, beforeAleki Taumoepeau foundit shining on the sea floor,the DominionPostnewspaper reported onThursday. “The whole topsurface of the ring was

Brazil’s court sentences UK touristsfor forging luggage theft

belongings were lost aroused policesuspicion.

The officers then decided to checktheir hotel, where they found the reportedstolen objects, including a camera and acell phone. Andrews and Turner stayed inprison for five days before being grantedhabeas corpus. The two claimed that theyhad a laptop stolen when travelling fromFoz do Iguacu in Brazil’s southern regionto Rio. They added other objects to thestolen-list, expecting to get the luggageinsurance money.—MNA/Xinhua

Elephant keepers assist Motola, a 48-year-old female elephant who lost part of her

left front leg after stepping on a land mine 10 years ago, after attaching her with

an artificial leg at the Elephant Hospital in Lampang province, northern Thailand

Sunday, 16 Aug, 2009. Motola became a symbol of the plight of today’s elephants,

and her injury sparked international sympathy and donations.—INTERNET

An Alamosaurus towersover the Dinosaur Trailat the North CarolinaMuseum of Life andScience in Durham.

INTERNET

New Zealand man’s love runs deep insearch for ring

glowing,” Taumoepeau,an ecologist, said.Taumoepeau had beenmarried for just threemonths when he lost thewedding ring whileconducting anenvironmental sweep ofthe harbour.

He roughly markedthe spot where the ringhad flown from his finger,but was unable to find itdespite returning to thearea many times.Taumoepeau’s wifeoffered to buy anotherring, but he refused,pledging to find the ring.

But, equipped with newglobal satellite basedcoordinates and offeringup a quick prayer, he foundthe ring after an hour’ssearch.

“I couldn’t believe thatI could see the ring soperfectly,” Taumoepeausaid. He said those withhim on the boat at the timethe ring flew off his fingerhad likened it to a similar,slow motion shot from TheLord of the Rings, muchof which was filmed inWellington by localdirector Peter Jackson.

MNA/Reuters

This handout photo obtained on 19 Aug, 2009

courtesy of NationalGeographic.com shows a

squirrel looking at the camera. The rodent, which

first made its appearance in this holiday photo

taken by an American couple in Canada, has gone

on to become a Web sensation.

INTERNET

ADEN (Yemen), 20Aug—A car transporting100 million rials (497,000US dollars) to Yemen’scentral bank in Aden wasstolen at gunpoint, a policesource told Reuters onMonday.

The vehicle,belonging to the ArabBank’s branch in thecountry’s southern city,was hit in the rear byanother car, and unknowngunmen stole both thebank’s car and cash, thesource said. No furtherdetails were immediatelyavailable.

MNA/Reuters

BRUSSELS, 20 Aug—Four children from onefamily were killed in a housefire in a Dutch town earlyWednesday morning,Radio Netherlandsreported. The children, agedone, four, six and eight, diedin their sleep in an atticbedroom in the centralnorthern town of Kampen.Their mother and 10 otherbrothers and sisters wererescued. The father, a bargecaptain, was away inGermany. He has nowreturned to his family.

The fire brigade werecalled to the house at around2:30 a.m. (0030 GMT) onWednesday and 30 firefighters extinguished theblaze. The fire brigadesuspected that the fire startedin the stairway to the atticwhere the four children weresleeping. —MNA/Xinhua

BUENOS AIRES, 20 Aug—The former manager of aBuenos Aires nightclub was sentenced to 20 years injail on Wednesday over a fire that killed 194 people,the deadliest blaze in Argentine history.

Relatives of the victims, who held a candlelit vigilin front of the court, wept and held up family photos asthe verdict was read out at the end a year-long trial.Scuffles erupted outside the courtroom and manyrelatives said they were disappointed by the acquittalsof members of the Callejeros rock band that played atthe Cromagnon club on December 30, 2004.

“The judges lacked courage by not punishingeveryone who was responsible for this. I’mdisappointed,” Diego Rozengardt, whose brother diedin the fire, said as he left the courtroom. Band memberswere acquitted, but the group’s manager, a seniorpolice officer and city government safety officialswere also given prison terms.—MNA/Reuters

Visitors play Sony PlayStation 3 video gamesduring the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3

in Los Angeles .—INTERNET

Manager gets jail time forArgentine night club fire

Gunmen steal$497,000 inYemen bank

car raid

Four childrenfrom one family

die in fire inNetherlands

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 21 August, 2009

Women took violent revenge onwrong man

Vietnam’sA/H1N1 flucases rise to

1,676HANOI, 20 Aug—

Vietnam confirmed 101more cases of A/H1N1influenza, raising the totalnumber of flu patients inthe country to 1,676, saida report of the website ofVietnam’s Ministry ofHealth on Thursday.

Among the newly-reported cases, 82 were inthe south, five in the northand 14 in the centralhighland provinces ofVietnam, said the report.Vietnam has reported twodeaths of the A/H1N1 flusince its outbreak.

Xinhua

DAYTONA BEACH, 20 Aug — Police in Florida said they arrested a homelessman accused of stealing several bottles of beer and a cooler from a yacht clubbar.

Daytona Beach police spokesman Jimmie Flynt said Scott Riley, 28, allegedlybroke into the Halifax River Yacht Club’s Tiki Bar Sunday night and took thebeer and cooler to a shrub across the street from the club, the Daytona BeachNews-Journal reported on Wednesday.

Flynt said police found Riley passed out in the shrub next to the bottles andcooler, which was labeled “Halifax River Yacht Club.”Riley was arrested chargedwith burglary. He was taken to the Volusia County Branch Jail in lieu of $2,500bail. Flynt said investigators believe Riley may be linked to another nearbyburglary.

Internet

Post-tonsillectomy codeine could be fatal

Bermuda gets heads up on BillMIAMI, 20 Aug—Hurricane Bill was moving across

the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday at Category 4 strengthas forecasters said Bermuda should monitor the storm’sstrength. At 11 pm EDT, the National Hurricane Centersaid the center of the storm was about 315 miles northeastof the Leeward Islands with maximum sustained windsnear 135 mph. The storm was moving toward thenorthwest at about 17 mph and that general motion wasexpected to continue until later Friday, when Bill isexpected to take a turn toward the north-northwest.

Hurricane force winds extended outward up to 85miles from the center of the storm and tropical stormforce winds extended outward up to 230 miles,forecasters said. Large swells associated with thestorm will affect the islands of the northeast CaribbeanSea, the Bahamas and Bermuda Thursday and Friday.Large swells should start affecting parts of the USeast coast Friday and Saturday.The NationalOceanographic and Atmospheric AdministrationWednesday began a three-day project of flyinghurricane hunter aircraft over the eye of the storm tocollect data used in model forecasts.—Internet

GRIMSBY, 20 Aug—Three women were finedby a British judge forsavagely beating aman they mistakenlybelieved had whistled atthem. Authorities saidRichard Tailby, 22, waswalking with friends inGrimsby, England, whenone of his companionswolf-whistled at the threewomen, identified asVanessa Delaney, 38,Claire Edwards, 25, andSally Pawson, 24, the DailyMail reported onWednesday.

The women mistakenlyidentified Tailby as thewhistler and chased him toa nearby parking lot, whereEdwards grabbed the manin a headlock while theother two women punchedand kicked him to theground.”He managed toget up and run a shortdistance before they caughtup with him and continuedby punching him to hishead and face,” prosecutorTeresa Rae said of the 16May incident, which leftTailby with a bruised earand eye, a cut lip and

grazing and swelling on hishead.

All three womenadmitted to being drunk atthe time of the incident.Grimsby Magistrate MikeCorry sentenced Pawsonand Edwards to 150 hoursof unpaid work each, whileDelaney was given a night-time curfew for threemonths and a supervisionorder for one year. Corryalso ordered each of thewomen to pay $160 incompensation and courtcosts.

Internet

LONDON, 20 Aug—Adoctor in Canada warns theuse of codeine to treat painfollowing a tonsillectomycould prove fatal for somechildren. Dr GideonKoren of the Universityof Western Ontario in-vestigated the death of a 2-year-old boy following atonsillectomy. Koren saidenlarged tonsils are usuallytreated with antibiotics,but tonsillectomies areperformed in the case ofsleep apnea, in which thechild stops breathing whileasleep.

The toddler, who had ahistory of snoring andsleep-study-confirmedsleep apnea, had theoperation at an outpatientclinic and was takenhome. The mother wasgiven syrup of codeineand instructed how toadminister it to her childfor pain relief — and onthe second night aftersurgery, the childdeveloped a fever andwheezing, and was founddead the next morning.“The child was found tohave the ultra-rapid

metabolism genotypewhich causes the bodyto metabolize codeine ata faster rate, producingsignificantly higheramounts of morphine,”Koren said in a statement.

If the apnea doesn’t goaway, codeine will alsosuppress the child’sbreathing, Koren said.”This demonstrates theneed to keep childrenin hospital under surve-illance for at least 24hours to see if the apneapersists,” Koren said.

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Children affected bylead poisoning from the

Dongling Lead andZinc Smelting Co plant

receive medicaltreatment at a hospitalin Fengxiang county,West of Xi’an, China,

on 19 Aug, 2009.INTERNET

This NOAA satellite image released on 19 Aug,2009 shows Hurricane Bill as it moves west-

northwest through the Atlantic.INTERNET

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Woman’s house mistakenlysold by bank

HOMESTEAD, 20 Aug — A Florida woman said herbank, Washington Mutual, mistakenly auctioned offher house while she was attempting to modify herloan. Anna Ramirez said she was shocked to beevicted Aug. 12 by a man who had purchased herHomestead house from Washington Mutual, despitethe fact that the home should not have been for sale,WPLG-TV, Miami, reported on Wednesday.

Washington Mutual acknowledged the house wassold in error and went with Ramirez to court to reversethe sale. However, the Miami-Dade County Clerk ofCourt’s Office never filed the judge’s order andRamirez had to return to court Thursday to receivefurther assistance from a judge, the report said.“Ihave to make sure that you get back in the housebecause I did reverse the sale but the information theowners received was that the sale wasn’t totallyreversed,” Judge Israel Reyes said.

“So it’s not totally their fault.”Ramirez, who hasmoved back into her home, said many of her belongingswere damaged by movers and she is seeking a lawyerto take her case.—Internet

Preventing illnesssaves money

ROCHESTER, 20 Aug — Increasing costs are causingmany Americans to think twice before seekinghealthcare, a US newsletter reports. However, theMayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource advises thosewho want to save money on healthcare to thinkseriously about giving up expensive and unhealthyhabits.

“Smoking is the single greatest cause ofpreventable death and illness in the United States,”the newsletter says. “Drink alcohol in moderation, ifat all.”The newsletter advises fostering good healthhabits, including:

— Maintaining a healthy weight. This helpsprevent and control serious and costly healthconditions, including diabetes and heart disease.

— Flossing and brushing teeth daily.— Using seat belts and bike helmets.— Wearing sunscreen.— Washing hands frequently with soap and

water.— Internet

Tiger Brewer, an eight year-old British boy, attached to the wings of hisgrandfather’s biplane, in Cirencester, in southern England, as he became the

youngest ‘wing walker’ in the world.—INTERNET

Alien art at the Science Museum in London.Lemon-headed aliens, scrambled fighter jets and

mysterious lights over a cemetery were amongdetails of some 800 UFO sightings released by

British authorities.—INTERNET

Babies in magazines may be at SIDS risk

WASHINGTON, 20 Aug— US Geological Surveyscientists say they havedetected mercurycontamination in everyfish sampled in 291streams across the United

More stars exist than thought

Gene variations relatedto brain changes

SAN DIEGO, 20 Aug — US and Norwegian scientistssay they’ve shown gene changes are linked with brainstructure changes in healthy people, as well as thosewith brain disorders.

A research team from Ullelval University Hospitaland the University of Oslo, both in Norway; theUniversity of California-San Diego; and the ScrippsTranslational Science Institute in La Jolla, Calif.,examined 944 healthy people, as well as patientswith Alzheimer’s disease and those with psychoticdisorders. A genetic analysis and a structural magneticresonance imaging study were completed for eachperson.

Researchers focused on the MECP2 gene that isassociated with brain development, as well as regionssurrounding the gene.”Common variations in theMECP2 region result in changes to brain structure,even in healthy individuals,” said UC-San DiegoProfessor Anders Dale, a study co-author who said theresearch is the first to show such structural brainchanges are seen in both healthy and brain-disorderedindividuals.

Nicholas Schork of the Scripps Institute, anotherco-author, said the variation in the MECP2 generesulted in “reduced surface area in the brain’s cortex,the area that plays a key role in memory, attention,perceptual awareness, thought and language.”

The study appears in the online edition of theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Internet

This Jan. 25, 2004NASA Galaxy Evolution

Explorer compositeimage shows Z

Camelopardalis, or ZCam, a double-starsystem featuring a

collapsed, dead star,called a white dwarf, acompanion star, and a

ghostly shell around thesystem.—INTERNET

PASADENA, 20 Aug —Data from NASA’sGalaxy EvolutionExplorer spacecraft mayforce astronomers todiscard the assumption thatstars of certain sizes formin certain quantities. Fordecades, astronomers havebelieved the proportion of

small to big stars was fixed.For every star 20 or moretimes as massive as thesun, for example, thereshould be 500 stars withthe sun’s mass or less.

But that belief, based onyears of research, has beenshattered with data fromthe spacecraft’s ultraviolet

telescope. That dataincludes proof that smallstars come in even biggerbundles than previouslybelieved, NASA said. Forexample, in some places inthe cosmos, about 2,000low-mass stars may formfor each massive star.

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WASHINGTON, 20 Aug — What doctorsrecommend to prevent sudden infantdeath syndrome is not always depictedin women’s magazines, US researchersfound. SIDS researchers Dr RachelMoon, a pediatrician, and Brandi Joynerat Children’s National Medical Centerin Washington analyzed pictures ofsleeping infants in 24 magazines withwide circulation among 20- to 40-year-old women.

The researchers evaluated pictures— including articles and advertisements— for sleep positions, including whetheror not a baby was placed on its side orstomach rather than on its back, as wellas hazards in infant sleepingenvironments, including soft bedding.

The study, scheduled to be publishedin the September issue of Pediatrics,found more than one-third of photos inwomen’s magazines depicted babies inunsafe sleep positions and two-thirds ofsleep environments depicted in thesemagazines were unsafe.

“The most important thing for momsto realize is that what they see inmagazines may not be what’s best fortheir baby in real life,” Moon said in astatement.To reduce the risk of SIDS,the American Academy of Pediatricsrecommends babies be placed on theirbacks when sleeping, on a separate sleepsurface from their parents, withoutblankets pillows, or other soft bedding.

Internet

A gondolier rows his gondola in front of SanGiorgio Maggiore church in Venice 29 Aug, 2006.

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Mercury fishcontamination common

States.The USGS saidabout a quarter of the fishwere found to containmercury at levelsexceeding the USEnvironmental ProtectionAgency’s criterion for theprotection of people whoconsume average amountsof fish. More than two-thirds of the fish exceededthe EPA level of concernfor fish-eating mammals,the scientists said.

“This study shows justhow widespread mercurypollution has become inour air, watersheds, andmany of our fish infreshwater streams,” saidS e c r e t a r yof the Interior KenSalazar.“This sciencesends a clear message thatour country must continueto confront pollution,restore our nation’swaterways, and protect thepublic from potentialhealth dangers.”

The USGS study foundsome of the highest levelsof mercury in fish in the“blackwater” streams inNorth and South Carolina,Georgia, Florida andLouisiana.

Internet

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S P O R T SIndonesia to host ASEAN

Para Games in 2011JAKARTA, 20 Aug— Indonesia will host the sixth

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)Para Games in 2011, Indonesian ambassador to Ma-laysia Da’i Bachtiar was quoted by the Antara newsagency on Thursday as saying.

He said that Indonesia has prepared Bandung andSemarang, the capital cities of West Java and CentralJava provinces to host the sport event.

Da’i officially received the ASEAN Para Gamesflag from Malaysian Minister of Sports and Youth Af-fairs Ahmad Shabery Cheek on Wednesday night af-ter the closing of the fifth ASEAN Para Gamesat BukitJalil Stadium, Selangor, Malaysia.

The sport event for the disabled was commencedon 15 Aug.

Thailand team won the games with 157 gold med-als, followed by Malaysia with 94 and Vietnam with73. —Xinhua

National Games’ torch travelsin NE China

CHANGCHUN, 20 Aug— The torch of the 11th Na-tional Games reached northeast China on Wednesdayand traveled in Changchun City, capital of Jilin Prov-ince on Thursday.Han Changfu, governor of Jilin Prov-ince, lit the torch named Ruyi which is an S-shapedjade that represents luck in ancient China, and handedit to Zhao Peifeng, chief of Jilin Administration ofSports who passed the torch to the first bearer Li Jiajun,a silver medal winner of Winter Olympics.

The other four bearers in Jilin leg were MengYan, Wei Yanan, EMeidie and Zhang Jing who wereathletes specialized in 400m hurdles, marathon, freecombat and short track speed skating respectively. Jilinis the fifth leg of the 11th National Games’ torch relayand the next stop is Harbin in HeilongjiangProvince.The torch will arrive in Jinan, capital of eastChina’s Shandong Province and the host of the Games,after two-month tour of the country. The Games willofficially open on 16 Oct and end on 28 Oct.— Xinhua

BURNLEY, 20 Aug – SirAlex Ferguson insists heis not concerned aboutManchester United’sgoal-scoring problemsdespite managing just onegoal in their first two Pre-mier League matches.

The champions beatBirmingham 1-0 on Sun-day but slipped to an em-barrassing 1-0 defeat atBurnley in their secondmatch of the season onWednesday.

Ferguson is still get-ting to grips with lifewithout CristianoRonaldo and CarlosTevez as United havefailed to convince at thestart of the campaign.

The United managerfelt his side still createdplenty of chances againstthe Clarets and thinksthey could run riot atWigan on Saturday if theycome up with a similarnumber of opportunities.

Ferguson, who sawMichael Carrick’s penaltysaved at Turf Moor, in-sists his team will quickly

TORONTO, 20 Aug – World number one Diana Safinawas eliminated while Serena Williams, MariaSharapova and Kim Clijsters advanced to the thirdround of a two million-dollar WTA hardcourt tourna-ment here.France’s Aravane Rezai rallied to oust Rus-sia’s Safina 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Safina made 17 double faultsand struggled after losing last Sunday’s WTA final inCincinnati to Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic.

Lyon, Atletico Madrid shine inChampions League play-offs

PARIS ,20 Aug — French side Lyon stormed closerto a 10th successive Champions League group stageappearance on Wednesday while attack-mindedAtletico Madrid also seized control of their play-offtie in hot and hostile Greece.

Lyon, who were forced into the qualifying compe-tition after losing their seven-year grip on the Frenchtitle last season, crushed Anderlecht 5-1.The Frenchwere 4-0 ahead at the break with Miralem Pjanic,Lisandro Lopez, with a penalty, Michel Bastos andBafetimbi Gomis all on target.

Anderlecht, beaten in Champions League qualify-ing for the last two seasons, pulled one back throughMatias Suarez in the 58th minute, but Claude Puel’sLyon side restored their four-goal advantage inside fiveminutes with Gomis grabbing his second of thenight.—Internet

MADRID ,20 Aug – Real Madrid striker AlvaroNegredo has ended weeks of speculation about hisfuture and agreed to join Primera Liga rivals Sevilla,Spanish sporting dailies said Thursday.

The 23-year-old was last month linked withTottenham and then more recently with Hull City andZenit St Petersburg and finally with newly promotedSpanish side Zaragoza.

LIVERPOOL, 20 Aug –Rafael Benitez pledgedhis 100 per cent commit-ment to Liverpool afterrumours that he was set toquit Anfield.

Benitez, whose sidecruised to a 4-0 victoryover Stoke at Anfield, wasspeaking after pre-matchwhispers swept Mersey-side claiming that theSpaniard was ready to quitover lack of transfer fundsgiven to him by the club’s

LONDON,20 Aug— Tottenham left-back BenoitAssou-Ekotto signed a new four-year contract withthe Premier League club on Wednesday.

Assou-Ekotto, 25, scored his first goal for Spurswith a superb strike in on Sunday’s 2-1 victory over

Serena, Clijsters, Sharapovaadvance, Safina falls

Serena Williams of theacknowledges the crowd

after defeatingYaroslava Shvedova ofKazakhstan during the

Rogers Cup at theRexall Center in To-

ronto, Ontario, Canada.Williams won 6-3, 6-2.

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Safina joined theseeded scrapheap inCanada that also includesnumber three VenusWilliams, bounced Tues-day by Ukraine’sKateryna Bondarenko.Safina blamed her servicestruggles on a number ofissues.

“Ball toss was a disas-ter,” moaned the Russian.“I don’t move my legs.I’m jumping backwardsinstead of jumping for-wards. I’m kicking it toomuch instead of hitting itmore. I drop my head. Idon’t hold the left arm.

“I know this all, andI’m still so stupid that I’mcontinuing to do it.”

Internet

Fergie keeps cool despiteUnited’s shock defeat

Manchester Unitedmanager Alex Fergusonleaves the pitch after hisside were beaten 1-0 by

Burnley during theEnglish Premier

League match at TurfMoor, Burnley.

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bounce back from losingtheir second match of theseason.He said: “I’m surewe’ll get a response onSaturday. We’re all disap-pointed it was a bad result.

“It was a terrific pitchso that’s no excuse. Wejust should have done bet-ter with it.”

Internet

Benitez rubbishes rumoursof Liverpool exit

Liverpool’s Spanishmanager Rafael

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Real striker Negredo

to sign for Sevilla

Real Madrid strikerAlvaro Negredo.

The Marca newspapersaid Sevilla, which quali-fied for this season’s Eu-ropean Champions Leagueby finishing third behindBarcelona and Real, willpay 15 million euros (21million dollars) for theplayer, who is set to signa four-year contract laterThursday.

It said the club willhave an option to buyback the striker for 18 mil-

Tottenham left-backBenoit Assou-Ekotto.

Assou-Ekotto signs new dealwith Spurs

Liverpool and boss HarryRedknapp is delightedwith the Cameroon de-fender’s progress.

“He has done verywell,” Redknapp said atthe end of last season.

“He was injured lastyear but I have been veryimpressed with him as hehas been in great form. Hehas looked an outstandingleft-back.”—Internet

lion euros in the first year and 21 million in the sec-ond.

Another paper, AS, put the transfer fee at 14 mil-lion euros with a buy-back option of 17 million overthe two seasons.—Internet

American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett.” Iam 100 per cent committed to the club,” Benitez said.

“I was told about the rumours before the game.Maybe it’s something that can happen here. But I amstaying here for the fans, the staff and the players.”

After watching his side coast to their first victoryof the campaign, Benitez also said he was on the brinkof signing Greek defender Sotirios Kyrgiakos fromAEK Athens for two million pounds.The former Rang-ers players is due to undergo a medical in the next 24hours with a view to joining the club ahead of nextMonday’s home game with Aston Villa.—Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudy inYangon Division, rain or thundershowers have been isolatedin Kayah and Kayin States, Ayeyawady Division, scatteredin lower Sagaing, Mandalay and Bago Divisions, fairlywidespread in Shan and Rakhine States, Magway Divisionand widespread in the remaining areas with isolatedheavyfall in upper Sagaing Division. The noteworthyamounts of rainfall recorded were Nay Pyi Taw (Yezin) (1.18)inches, Hkamti (3.31) inches, Myeik (2.76) inches, Putao(1.73) inches, Phyu (1.57) inches, Kanbalu (1.46) inches, An(1.42) inches, Moekok (1.37) inches and Magway (0.78)inch.

Maximum temperature on 19-8-2009 was 92°F.Minimum temperature on 20-8-2009 was 72°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 20-8-2009 was 79%. TotalSun shine hours on 19-8-2009 was (10.3) hours approx.

Rainfall on 20-8-2009 was Nil at Mingaladon, Kaba-Ayeand Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (81.30)inches at Mingaladon, (92.87 ) inches at Kaba-Aye and (93.70)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (4) mph from South at (18:20) hours MST on19-8-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is weak in the Andaman Seaand Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 20th August 2009: Rainor thundershowers will be isolated in Kayah, Kayin andMon States, lower Sagaing, Mandalay, Yangon, Bago andAyeyawady Divisions, fairly widespread in Shan andRakhine States, Magway and Taninthayi Divisions andwidespread in the remaining ares. Degree of certainty is(80%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation of weakmonsoon.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for21-8-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for21-8-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for21-8-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

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Medvedev calls for tougher“terrorism” trials

Moscow, 20 Aug—Insurgents arrested in theturbulent North Caucasus region should be triedelsewhere in Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev saidon Wednesday, part of a series of moves to tackle agrowing wave of attacks.

In a tough speech to security officials following abomb attack on a police station in Ingushetia in which25 people were killed, Medvedev said insurgentsshould be wiped out “without emotion or doubt”. Healso proposed curbing the types of cases that can beheard by juries, a move activists said could strike a fatalblow to efforts to reform the country’s weak courtsystem. Intensifying violence in the North Caucasus,where Russia has fought two wars with Chechenseparatists since the early 1990s, is viewed by theKremlin as a security threat that spread through thecountry.

“Some time ago we got the impression the situationin the Caucasus concerning terrorist attacks hadimproved,” Medvedev told the meeting in the southernRussian city of Stavropol, according to an officialtranscript. “Unfortunately, recent events show this isnot so,” he said, referring to Monday’s attack, thedeadliest in the North Caucasus in four years. “We mustcontinue fighting terrorists without sentiment, killingthem without emotion or doubt.”—MNA/Reuters

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

★ Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracy★ Riots beget riots, not democracy★ Democracy can be introduced only through constitution

People’s Desire ■ VOA, BBC - sowing hatred among thepeople

■ RFA, DVB - generating public outrage■ Do not allow ourselves to be swayed■ By broadcasts designed to cause

troubles

■ We favour peace and stability■ We favour development■ We oppose unrest and violence■ Wipe out those inciting unrest

and violence

One more New Influenza A (H1N1) infected patient foundNumber of patients with virus reaches 24One patient discharged from hospitalNAY PYI TAW, 20 Aug—Township Health Department transferred a 23 years old man who had returned

from Singapore to Yangon General Hospital on 19 August as he was found ill with flu symptoms. After givingmedical check-up, the National Health Laboratory confirmed that he was infected with New Influenza A(H1N1). The 24th male patient had arrived back Myanmar by flight No. MI 520 on 16 August.

A total of six family members who had been in contact with the patient are being kept in homequarantine.

Authorities concerned are keeping 128 passengers who flew together with the patient on the same flightas well as 131 airport staff under surveillance at their respective places.

Today, a 23 years old woman infected with virus was discharged from North Okkalapa Hospital as shehas fully recovered from illness, and surveillance measures against her five family members were stopped.

So far, Myanmar has seen 24 A (H1N1) infected patients and 19 have been discharged from thehospitals after recovering from their illness. The remaining five patients are being given treatment byspecialists.

Up to now, the National Health Laboratory carried out lab tests for 181 flu-suspected people and 24were found to have been infected with A (H1N1).—MNA

Danger water level ofSittoung River

YANGON, 20 Aug—According to the 12:30 hrMST observation today, the water level of Sittoungriver at Madauk is 1115 cm and it has exceeded by 45cm (about 1.5 ft) above its danger level. It mayremain above its danger level 1070 cm during thenext 48 hours commencing noon today.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20Aug—The prize presen-tation for outstanding stu-dents and teachers washeld at the hall of MonState in Mawlamyine on17 August morning.

After delivering anaddress, Lt-Gen Khin Zawof the Ministry of Defencepresented the best pass ratestate across the nation toMon State and prizes tooutstanding students in thematriculation examination2009.

Next, he explainedacademic matters. Chair-man of Mon State Peaceand Development Coun-

Lt-Gen Khin Zaw of Ministry of Defence honours outstanding students in Mon Statecil Commander of South-East Command Maj-GenThet Naing Win reportedon accomplishments ofthe education plans of thestate and the Mon StateEducation Officer on therespective sector.

Lt-Gen Khin Zaw, thecommander and officialsawarded outstanding stu-dents and teachers.

On 18 August, Lt-Gen Khin Zaw viewedconstruction of No. 1 two-storey modern market onStrand Road inMawlamyine and gaveinstructions on timelycompletion of the con-

struction task.At the office of Per-

ennial Tree Applied Re-search Division ofMyanma Perennial CropsEnterprise near Hpa-aukVillage of Hpa-an Town-ship, officials submittedthe reports on tasks of theresearch division.

Lt-Gen Khin Zawviewed conducting of re-search work and growingof saplings and cultiva-tion of oil palm plants.

Yesterday, Lt-GenKhin Zaw looked into con-ditions of Mawlamyine-Thaton-Kyaikto Road.

MNA

The News and PeriodicalsEnterprise has been deliveringits three dailies to sales agents intowns throughout the countryat the cost of K 50 per copy.

Lt-Gen Khin Zaw of Ministry of Defence awards an outstanding stu-dent.— MNA

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