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INSIDEIndonesia summons

Australian Ambassador over

US-led spying claims

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Japan, Russia to agree to launch

high-level talks on cyberattacks

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electronic device use on flights

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US Navy cancels notice on possible F/A-18 fighter jet

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Airlines aircraft’s blackbox recovered

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Nay Pyi Taw, 1 Nov—Small and Medium Enterprises Development Work Committee meeting (2/2013) was held at the meeting hall of the Min-istry of Industry here this morning, with an address by Vice-President U Nyan Tun.

It was also attended by Union Ministers U Maung Myint, U Win Myint, U Win Shein and Dr Ko Ko Oo, the deputy ministers and departmental officials.

An inclusive move that can bring about economic growth is a key to poverty alleviation. Giving more encouragement to SMEs development could enable the country to achieve all inclusive economic growth pattern.

The President gave guidance on drawing law, bylaws and procedures for establishment of SMEs.

The Committee for

SMEs development could enable the country to achieve all inclusive economic growth pattern

drafting the SMEs De-velopment Law (bill) has drafted the SMEs Bill in accord with international SMEs laws in cooperation with experts from UMF-CCI, Myanmar Develop-ment Resources Institute (MDRI) and International Development Association. He called for swift action for passing the bill at Py-idaungsu Hluttaw.

Myanmar sees few SMEs compared with those of ASEAN countries, and market competitiveness re-mains weak due to a lack of SMEs law. SMEs ac-counts for 99.4 % in the total number of industries and factories in Industrial Zones. These factories and industries have been run in accord with the Private Industrial Enterprise Law promulgated in 1990.

He called for smooth functioning of SMEs estab-lishment and registration. It

needs to carry out the for-mation of mobile registra-tion team, opening of one-stop service center, access to online registration.

The Vice-President stressed the need to encour-age investors and develop-ers and to form management committees systematically, saying that establishment of industrial apartments for SMEs and cluster industries and upgrading of infrastruc-tures in the industrial zones are needed. It is required to establish microfinance in-stitutions and make neces-sary arrangements includ-ing establishment of mobile banking system for busi-ness transactions, he added.

He highlighted the de-velopment of SME data-base to ensure smooth flow of market information and easy access to the market and research works for pro-motion of SME. It is neces-sary to develop electronic

trading system and indus-tries encouraging foreign direct investment.

He continued that re-laxation of customs and trade rules and regulations in an attempt to boost the quality of goods and ser-vices, acquisition of proper technologies and gaining access to global supply chains are necessary. He pointed out the importance of opening technical train-ing schools and colleges for human resources develop-ment and taking measures for capacity building of staff.

He stressed the need to make quick steps to de-veloping SME, calling on those present to put more efforts in production of goods and services capable of competing with others in prices and quality.

Next, Deputy Minister Daw Lei Lei Thein, joint-secretary of work com-

mittee, Union Minister U Maung Myint, secretary of work committee and Dep-uty Minister U Myo Aung reported on work progress, ongoing tasks for the devel-opment of SMEs and SME development Law (draft). Then, the meeting came to an end with concluding remarks by the Vice-Presi-dent. —MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 1 Nov — Hundreds of Internally Displaced People-IDP are set to be provided with assistance from Japan through a UN agency in Myanmar, it is learnt.

Japanese Ambassa-dor to Myanmar Mr. Mikio

Japan provides US$ 6.9 million for Myanmar IDPsNumata presented US$ 6.9 million cash donation to IDPs in Nay Pyi Taw on 22 March, 2013.

According to the aid program in coopera-tion with JICA, the funds provided by the Japanese government will help UN-

HCR provide reliefs to IDPs across the country includ-ing the border areas with Thailand, Rakhine State and Kachin State. This donation is the largest received by UNHCR this year.

Mr. Ayaki Ito, UNHCR deputy resident representa-

tive, said that the funds will be of great benefit to affected persons number-ing about 220,000, pro-viding them with accom-modation and health care services. It is estimated that there are currently more than 430,000 IDPs in Myanmar.

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Vice-President U Nyan Tun delivers an address at Small and Medium Enterprises Development Work Committee meeting.—mna

LED Time Board for XXVII SEA Games erected at Nay Pyi Taw Water Fountain Garden.

Htein Lin tHaung

Saturday, 2 November, 20132 New Light of MyanmarLOCAL NEWS

Myanmar U-23 Team held a 1-1 draw with Chotum University Team at Mokpo International Football Training Center yesterday morning as last friendly match of Korean Tour.

At the first half of the match, Myanmar U-23 tried for getting goals but Chotum team controlled the

Myanmar U-23 Team plays a 1-1 draw with Chotum University

match with much football possession. At 37 minutes, No. 19 player from Chotum Team introduced the opener with net by passing Myan-mar defenders. Kyi Lin and Aung Thu threatened oppo-nent’s goal side with their long kicks.

Myanmar footballers could control the match at the second half and Cho-

tum’s goalkeeper saved the volley kick of David Dunn at 59 minutes. At 62 min-utes, Kyi Lin equalized the ball crossed by David Dunn in penalty area. Later, My-anmar U-23 team got many chances to achieve winning goals through the efforts of striker Kaung Si Thu and the match ended at 1-1draw.Kyemon-Maung Maung Zaw

NyauNgu, 1 Nov—One was dead and one injured in traffic acci-dent at the junction of NyaungU Airport Road on 29 October. The ac-cident occurred when Mandalar Min express bus driven by U Kyi Soe, 42, of Gyokechaung Vil-

One dead, one injured in NyaungU car accident

lage in Seikpyu Town-ship, collided with a Toyota Mark II driven by U Khin Maung Yin, 66, of Thiripyitsaya Ward-4 in NyaungU Township at the junction of Nyaun-gU-Kyaukpadaung road.

Ko San Htwe (a) Pae Hlaw from Mark II Toyota

died on the spot, and driver U Khin Maung Yin was rushed to NyaungU District Hospital for medical trea-ment.

The NyaungU Police Station has filed a lawsuit against the reckless driv-ers.—Kyemon-Ye Thura Aung (NyaungU)

yaNgoN, 1 Nov—My-anmar Para Sports team se-cured one gold, four silver and four bronze medals in the 3rd Asian Youth Para Sports Meets from 26 Oc-tober to 30 October in Kua-la Lumpur, Malaysia.

Myanmar athlete Tin

MiNbu, 1 Nov—A pier of Mann Oilfield Bridge on Mann Creek in Myanma Oil

yedashe, 1 Nov—Water level of Sittoung River exceeded its danger level and Yangon-Man-dalay Highway on exit

Sittoung River inundates Yangon-Mandalay Union Highway

Pier of Mann Oilfield Bridge slopes down, embankment breaks due to incessant rains in Minbu

an embankment between Kyauksan and Thankantan Villages suffered a breach due to incessant rains re-cently.

So, except people and motorcycles, vehicles were not allowed to pass the bridge, said a local.

The bridge built in 1975 measuring 14 ft wide and 360 ft long can with-stand 40-ton of load.

As an embankment between Kyauksan and Thankantan Villages was broken, tomato planta-tions grown by Kyecha and Mannkyo Villages were

Myanmar U-19 foot-ball team would participate in BIDC Cup to be held in Phnom Penh of Cambodia from 2 to 10 November. While Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam are in Group (A) of BIDC Cup, Cambo-dia, Laos and Malaysia are in Group (B). BIDC Cup is mainly sponsored by Bank for Investment and Devel-opment of Cambodia and organized by Football Fed-eration of Cambodia.

Myanmar plays against Vietnam in the first match of the Cup.

Myanmar U-19 football team to compete in BIDC Cup

Myanmar team com-prises manager coach U Nyi Nyi Latt, a German chief coach, assistant coach U Than Wai, goalkeep-ing coach U Mya Ko Min, goalkeepers Soe Arkar and Pyi Hlyan Aung, defend-ers: Nanda Kyaw, Naing Lin Tun, Naung Naung Latt, Myo Ko Tun, Htike Htike Aung, Aung Hein Soe Oo, Kyaw Kyaw Soe, midfielders: Shine Thura, Sai Nay Win, Aung Myat Soe, Yan Naing Oo, Soe Min Tun, Zin Phyo Aung, Nyein Chan Aung, for-

wards: Maung Maung Soe, Than Paing, Maung Maung Lwin and Khant Ko Ko Soe. As Myanmar U-23 football team are now on the visit to the Republic of Korea and Japan, My-anmar U-19 football team competes in the Cambodian cup aiming at grounding for the AFC U-19 Champion-ship-2014 to be hosted by Myanmar.—Kyemon-Sai Nyi Lay, Photo: Shine Htet Zaw

Myanmar para sports team wins one gold, four silver, four bronze medals

Myo won one gold medal in backstroke event (100 meters); Aung Phone, bronze in breaststroke event (100 meters); Nanda Lin, two silvers in 100 and 200 meters women’s track and field event; the team, one silver in blind

women’s chess event; the team, one bronze in blind men’s chess event and Yan Pu, one silver, Zee Ma Sar, one bronze and Ar Kite, one bronze in blind women’s singles chess event.—Kyemon-Tin Maung Oo(Ahlon)

and Gas Enterprise in Min-bu Township of Magway Region sloped down and

damaged, said a local.The embankment was

broken when the Mann creek caused the flood at about 2:30 pm on 28 Oc-tober. It was flown from Shwe Sett Taw. No house, human and animal were lost. Many snakes were seen in the water. The em-bankment was built with a view to preventing flood for oil wells. It was unable to prevent the flood. The farmlands beside Mann creek were damaged due to incessant rains, added a local.Kyemon-Magway Hla Myint

of Thagara in Yedashe Township was inundated by above two feet on 30 October commencing 28 October night.

It was learnt that ef-forts are being made for

smooth passing of vehi-cles without any danger by erecting water posts and members of Fire Brigade are giving a helping hand to the travellers round the clock.—Kyemon-(578)

Myanmar U-23 Team plays against Chotum University.

Mandalar Min express bus collides with a Toyota Mark II car at Junction of NyaungU-Kyaukpadaung road.

Yangon-Mandalay Union Highway on exit of Thagara in Yedashe inundated due to high water

level of Sittoung River.

National Sports

Natural Disaster

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Micronesian President Manny Mori (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands prior to

holding talks at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo on 31 Oct, 2013.—Kyodo News

Indonesia summons Australian Ambassador over US-led spying claims

Jakarta/Perth, 1 Nov — Indonesia summonsed Australia’s Ambassador on Friday to explain media re-ports his embassy in Jakarta was used to spy on South-east Asia’s biggest country as part of a US-led global spying network.

Indonesia this week called in the chief US dip-lomat in Jakarta over simi-lar allegations, while China on Thursday demanded an explanation from the Unit-ed States after the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported Australian embas-

sies across Asia were part of the US spying operation.

News of Australia’s role in a US-led surveil-lance network could dam-age relations with Indo-nesia, Australia’s nearest Asian neighbour and a key strategic ally.

“Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa has demanded an expla-nation from the Austral-ian Ambassador in Jakarta about the existence and use of surveillance facilities in the Australian Embassy here,” Indonesia’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

“The reported activi-ties absolutely do not re-flect the spirit of a close and friendly relationship between the two neighbours and are considered unac-ceptable by the government

of Indonesia.”The Herald said its

reports were based on US whistleblower Edward Snowden and a former Aus-tralian intelligence officer.

Snowden leaks to other media have detailed vast intelligence collection by the US National Security Agency (NSA) on allies, in-cluding German Chancellor Angela Merkel, prompting protests and a US review of intelligence gathering.

Natalegawa, in Aus-tralia for a meeting with his counterpart Julie Bishop and other regional foreign ministers, said the reports of spying by Australia and the United States were like-ly to be raised “in a more concerted way” by other countries.

Reuters

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa ad-dresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, on 27 Sept, 2013.—ReuteRs

Lower house passes bill for SDF rescue operations on land abroad

tokyo, 1 Nov — The House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill to allow the Self-Defence Forces to engage in rescue transportation of Japanese and foreign nationals by land during emergency situ-ations abroad.

The bill to revise the SDF law, crafted in re-sponse to a hostage crisis in Algeria in January that resulted in the deaths of 10 Japanese among other expatriate victims, will be sent to the House of Coun-

cillors for approval and is expected to clear the Diet before the extraordinary Diet sessions ends 6 De-cember.

At present, the law al-lows the SDF to transport Japanese nationals overseas only by sea and air.

A revised law will also enable the SDF to transport relatives and colleagues of Japanese nationals caught in trouble abroad, as well as government officials and medical staff in rescue mis-sions.

The government sub-mitted the bill to the Diet in April, but it was carried over to the current session for further deliberations.

Defence Minister Itsu-nori Onodera has indicated Japan will consider expand-ing the scope of weapons SDF personnel can carry, citing danger of land trans-portation in dangerous ar-eas abroad. Currently, the SDF law allows personnel to bring guns, rifles and ma-chine guns only.

Kyodo News

Zelaya’s wife to seek IMF deal if elected in Honduras

tegucicalPa, 1 Nov — The wife of ousted Honduran president Ma-nuel Zelaya will seek a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to resolve a mounting debt crisis if she wins next month’s presidential elec-tion, her running mate said on Thursday.

Juliette Handal, the vice-presidential candidate of Zelaya’s wife Xiomara Castro, said their leftist Liberty and Refoundation Party (LIBRE) would seek assistance from the IMF to help tackle the country’s bloated budget deficit.

“We’re going to seek an accord with the Inter-national Monetary Fund based on reality; it’s neces-sary, we’re very clear about this,” Handal told Reuters

Former Honduras president Manuel Zelaya leaves the funeral ceremony for Venezuela’s late President Hugo

Chavez, at the Military Academy in Caracas, on 8 March, 2013.—ReuteRs

in Tegucigalpa as her party presented its plan for gov-erning the country.

Honduras, the biggest exporter of coffee in Cen-tral America, is on track to post a budget deficit of at least six percent of gross

domestic product for the second year running.

The election will be held on 24 November, and latest polls show Castro and her conservative rival Juan Hernandez, head of Hondu-ras’ Congress, are running

neck-and-neck. Outgoing President Porfirio Lobo is constitutionally barred from running again after serving a four-year term.

A voter survey earlier this month gave Hernandez 28 percent support, com-pared with 27 percent for the 54-year-old Castro.

In 2010, the IMF agreed to provide some $200 mil-lion in financial support to the Central American coun-try to help it strengthen its public finances and stabi-lize its economy.—Reuters

Venezuelan leader says construction workers see Chavez apparition

caracas, 1 Nov — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said an im-age of his political idol and predecessor, the late social-ist leader Hugo Chavez, had appeared miraculously in the wall of an underground construction site.

In the latest of a series of accusations since taking office in April, Maduro also accused US-based social network Twitter of collud-ing with his foes in a “mas-sive attack” on his and oth-er prominent government members’ accounts.

Since his death from cancer earlier this year, Chavez has taken on mythi-cal proportions for support-ers, and Maduro has spoken of seeing his former men-

Japan, Russia to agree to launch high-level talks on cyberattacks

tokyo, 1 Nov — The foreign ministers of Japan and Russia plan to agree later Friday to launch high-level consultations to share information on countering cyberattacks, while con-firming plans to strengthen political dialogue between the two countries.

Fumio Kishida and his Russian counterpart Ser-gey Lavrov sat down for a meeting in Tokyo in the evening ahead of the first “two-plus-two” meeting of defence and foreign min-isters between Japan and Russia on Saturday. The series of ministerial meet-

tor’s spirit several times, including in the shape of a bird.

In the latest incident, Maduro said Chavez’s face briefly appeared to workers building a subway line in Caracas in the middle of the night.

“My hair stands on end just telling you about it,” Maduro said on state TV late on Wednesday, showing a photo of a white-plaster wall with marks that appear like eyes and a nose.

“Who is that face? That gaze is the gaze of the fa-therland that is everywhere around us, including in in-explicable phenomena,” added Maduro, who won an April election to replace Chavez after his 14-year presidency.

Maduro’s reverence for Chavez plays well with government supporters, who treat the charismatic former leader’s memory with religious adoration. The 50-year-old Maduro, who mixes Catholic beliefs with a penchant for Asian spirituality, has been a de-voted personal follower of Chavez since first meeting him at a jail in 1993.

Reuters

ings, including one between Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu on Friday, are aimed at preparing the ground for negotiations to resolve a long-running territorial dis-pute between the two coun-tries.—Kyodo News

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Science & TechnologyNew Light of Myanmar

US to allow expanded electronic device use on flights

Washington, 1 Nov — Airline passengers will soon be able to use cer-tain electronic devices throughout their entire flight after the US Federal Aviation Administration ended a long-standing ban

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta discusses the agency’s response and

recommendations from the Portable Electronic Devices Aviation Rulemaking Committee at Reagan National Airport in Washington on 31 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

on Thursday.Mobile phone calls re-

main barred under Federal Communications Commis-sion rules. But fliers will be free to keep smartphones, tablets and e-readers run-ning in “airplane” mode.

Delta Air Lines Inc and JetBlue Corp quickly filed plans with the FAA to show that their aircraft can tolerate radio signals from electronic devices, a condi-tion required by the regu-lator.The change is likely to boost the use of gadgets such as Amazon Inc’s Kin-dle readers or Apple Inc’s iPad.

“Most commercial airlines can tolerate radio interference from portable electronic devices,” FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said at a news con-ference at Reagan National Airport near Washing-ton, DC. “It’s safe to read downloaded materials, like e-books, calendars and to play games.”Passengers will be able to connect with an airline’s WiFi network and can use Bluetooth ac-cessories, such as wireless mouse and headphones.

Reuters

Oman reports first confirmed new coronavirus infection to WHO

geneva, 1 Nov — The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday said Oman reported its first lab-oratory-confirmed case of respiratory syndrome coro-navirus. The patient, 68, from Al Dahkliya region, became ill on 26 Oct and was hospitalized on 28 Oct. Preliminary epidemiologi-cal investigations revealed that he did not recently travel outside the country, said the WHO.

However, investiga-tions are currently ongoing to determine what expo-sures might be responsible for his infection, it said. Saudi Arabia has reported three additional confirmed cases, including one death. The three patients, a wom-an and two men, are aged from 49 to 83. One of them is a healthcare worker, ac-cording to the WHO.

All three patients re-ported having no contact

with animals prior to their illness, while one patient was reported to have been in contact with a previ-ously laboratory-confirmed case, it said. Globally, from

September 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a total of 149 laboratory-confirmed cases of the new coronavirus infection, in-cluding 63 deaths.—Xinhua

Panasonic raises full-year operating

profit forecasttokyo, 1 Nov — Pa-

nasonic raised its full-year earnings forecast as ex-pected, with strong sales of its automotive systems and eco-friendly technology powering its transformation into an industrial compo-nents supplier from a con-sumer electronics brand.

Panasonic Corp in-creased its operating profit forecast for the year to March to 270 billion yen ($2.75 billion) from a pre-vious forecast of 250 billion yen. That compares with expectations of 268.2 bil-lion yen, the average of 19 analyst estimates accord-ing to Thomson Reuters Starmine.

After a round of heavy restructuring that has seen Panasonic pull out of plasma TVs, smartphones and downsize its chipmak-ing segment, the Japanese company posted a net profit of 61.5 billion yen for the three months to September.

That compares with the mean estimate of 60.92 billion yen, according to five analysts surveyed by

A man looks at Panasonic Corp’s Viera televisions displayed at an electronics store in Tokyo

on 31 Oct, 2013. —ReuteRs

Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.Panasonic said on

Wednesday it would sharply increase its supply lithium batteries to US car-maker Tesla to nearly 2 bil-lion cells in the four years to 2017, a big step up from the 200 million cells it is supposed to have provided over the two years to this December.

The deal is testament to the speed with which Pa-nasonic has spun around its business after skipping its dividend a year earlier for the first time in six decades. It had suffered $15 billion in net losses over the previ-ous two years.

The company has also been active in selling off assets, agreeing recently to the sale of 80 percent of its healthcare unit to US buy-out firm KKR & Co for 165 billion yen. On Thursday, Panasonic also raised its full-year net profit forecast to 100 billion yen, against an average estimate of 75.52 billion yen, accord-ing to Thomson Reuters Starmine.—Reuters

Sony suffers TV relapse as Japan peers change channel

tokyo, 1 Nov — Sony Corp CEO Kazuo Hirai’s determination to stick to the consumer electronics that made the company’s fame will be put to the test in the months ahead as do-mestic rivals step up a shift to more profitable industrial technology.

On Thursday the home of gadgets from the Walk-man music player to the Cybershot camera warned it won’t meet previous full-year profit targets after slid-ing to a net loss of 19.3 bil-lion yen ($197 million) for July to September. Its TV operation relapsed into the red on weak sales.

Meanwhile Panasonic Corp raised its earnings forecast on strong sales of products like batteries to industry clients, and Sharp

Corp bounced to its first quarterly net profit in two years, helped by sales of solar panels. The big three in Japan’s electronics have been forced to review their strategy choices after rack-ing up combined aggregate net losses of about $38 bil-lion in the five years up to March this year.

While they struggled to rein in fixed costs in Japa-nese manufacturing that eat away at revenue, nimbler foreign companies like Ap-ple Inc, Samsung Electron-ics Co and Asian rivals grew richer and stronger.

Since Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai took the helm last year, Sony has prom-ised a rebound in hard-ware with a three-pronged strategy focused on mobile devices, imaging technol-

Logos of Sony Corp. are seen at an electronics store in Tokyo on 31 Oct, 2013. — ReuteRs

ogy and gaming. But the below-expectations perfor-mance in the second quarter stirred doubts about how Sony can anchor a turna-round by reviving fervor among consumers who now covet goods like Ap-ple’s iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy smartphone.”I still cannot see any fundamen-tal and believable strategy for the rebirth of Sony’s

electronics business,” said Makoto Kikuchi, CEO of Myojo Asset Management based in Tokyo, speak-ing after Sony announced its earnings.”On the other hand Panasonic, which is shifting its business away from consumer electronics, is reporting better-than-ex-pected results. The contrast is like night and day.”

Reuters

Google launches ‘KitKat’ software, sweetens features on range of phones

san Francisco, 1 Nov — Google Inc on Thursday unveiled the newest version of its Android smartphone software, aiming to allow more smartphone users ac-cess to its evolving menu of online services such as driv-ing directions voice-activat-ed search. The new “KitKat” version of Android will be able to run on inexpensive, low-end smartphones as well as the most advanced de- A Google logo

vices, Sundar Pichai, Google Senior Vice President of An-droid, Chrome and Apps said at a press event in San Fran-cisco on Thursday. “Now you have one version of the operating system which will run across all versions of An-

droid smartphones,” Pichai said, noting that smartphones sold in “emerging markets” often come loaded with older versions of Android, that lack many key features and capabilities.

The move could help

Google ensure that more us-ers have access to the grow-ing selection of profitable online services. It also could make the Android software more attractive to third-party app developers, who have been frustrated by what they call the “fragmented” nature of Android devices. Goog-le’s Android software runs on 80 percent of the world’s smartphones, according to industry analysts.—Reuters

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BUSINESS & HEALTHNew Light of Myanmar

Enrollment in Obamacare very small in first daysWashington, 1 Nov —

Enrollment in health insur-ance plans on the troubled Obamacare website was very small in the first couple of days of operation, with just 248 Americans signing up, according to documents released on Thursday by a US House of Representa-tives committee.

The Obama adminis-tration has said it cannot provide enrollment figures from HealthCare.gov be-cause it doesn’t have the numbers. The federal web-site, where residents of 36 states can buy new health-care plans under President Barack Obama’s law, was launched on 1 October.

“We do not have any reliable data around enroll-

ment, which is why we haven’t given it to date,” Health and Human Ser-vices Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told lawmakers on Wednesday. But the docu-ments, which are labeled “war room” notes and ap-pear to be summaries of issues with the problematic website beginning on 2 Oc-tober, indicate a mere six enrollments had occurred by that morning — the day after the website was launched and almost imme-diately crashed.

“High capacity on the website, direct enrollment not working,” the 2 Oc-tober notes said. By later that day, “approximately 100” enrollments had taken place.

Janet Perez (R) oversees specialists (top) as they help callers and potential customers find health insurance at a customer contact and call centre for HealthSource RI, Rhode Island’s health insurance exchange programme for the Affordable Care Act or “ObamaCare,’’ in Provi-

dence, Rhode Island on 25 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

“As of yesterday, there were 248 enrollments,” said the notes from the morning of 3 October.The docu-ments were released by the House Oversight and Government Reform Com-mittee, which has been de-

manding information from the administration about the website’s problems. The committee is chaired by Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican oppo-nent of Obamacare.

Reuters

‘Intensive’ exercise may benefit heart failure patients

neW York, 1 Nov — Some doctors caution people with heart failure against pushing themselves too hard physically. But a new analysis of past stud-ies suggests heart patients may actually benefit more from relatively intensive exercise.

Researchers found people with heart failure had a 23-percent improve-ment in heart function af-ter taking part in relatively high-intensity exercise programmes. That com-pared to a 7-percent im-provement among those in low-intensity programmes.

“I think we need to open up our eyes and really ask ourselves, ‘Does high intensity equal higher risk or does it mean higher re-wards?’” said Neil Smart, the study’s lead author.”

I personally think it’s not higher risk,” he told

Reuters Health. “I think it means higher rewards.” Smart is an associate pro-fessor at Australia’s Uni-versity of New England in Armidale, New South Wales.

About 5.8 million peo-ple in the United States have heart failure, accord-ing to the National Insti-tutes of Health (NIH).The condition occurs when the heart can’t take in enough blood or adequately pump enough blood to the rest of the body. There’s no cure, but the NIH says doctors can help people manage the condition to improve the quality and length of their lives.

One strategy that has been tested among peo-ple with heart failure is exercise training, such as the kind that exists within cardiac rehabilitation pro-grammes.—Reuters

AIG earnings point to room for improvement

neW York, 1 Nov — American International Group Inc reported earn-ings nearly in line with ex-pectations on Thursday, but the stock fell after hours as analysts still saw room for improvement in the insurer, which almost went under during the financial crisis. AIG, which saw sour de-

rivative bets threaten the company’s future five years ago, saw stronger commer-cial lines business. Analysts said they had expected bet-ter results in its consumer lines business.

The company also matched its 10-cent divi-dend of the second quarter and said that it bought back

$192 million in stock in the three months ended 30 September. AIG “is becom-ing a normal company,” Sanford C Bernstein & Co analyst Josh Stirling said. “They’re making great pro-gress in fixing their under-writing in their commercial lines business, but still have more progress to make in consumer lines. They re-ally need to get margin improvements in both,” he said. Commercial under-writing saw net premiums earned edge down 2 percent to $5.142 billion from the year-ago quarter, but the combined ratio improved to 100.2 from 106.0.

A combined ratio be-low 100 indicates an under-writing profit, meaning an insurer is receiving more in premiums than it is paying out in claims. In its consum-er underwriting, AIG saw a 6 percent dip in net premi-

ums earned to $3.27 billion. That combined ratio rose to 99.9 from 98.8 in the third quarter of last year. And the company also benefited from factors beyond its con-trol, such as a favourable tax rate, noted Meyer Shields of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. “I think the stock’s going to have a tough day tomorrow,” he said. BMO Capital Markets analyst Charles Sebaski pointed to stalled progress in the prop-erty and casualty unit. “We did not see any meaningful improvement in the P&C underwriting,” he said.

Net premiums earned in the company’s property casualty unit fell 4 percent to $8.43 billion in the quarter ended 30 September, while the combined ratio im-proved 3.4 points to 101.6, indicating the business is still not booking an under-writing profit.—Reuters

A man exits the AIG headquarters offices in New York’s financial district, on 9 Jan, 2013. — ReuteRs

Asia factory sector upbeat, led by ChinaBeijing, 1 Nov —

Asian manufacturing ac-tivity picked up in October led by China, where factory sector growth hit its fastest pace in 18 months off the back of new orders, pur-chasing managers’ reports showed on Friday. The

to pick up gradually and domestic demand growth remaining solid, we expect GDP growth to comfortably exceed the government’s bottom line in the coming quarters,” Louis Kuijs, an economist at RBS, said of the China PMI in a client

An employee stands next to coils of steel inside a factory in Dalian, Liaoning Province, on 18 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

surveys provide a more upbeat view of world de-mand following a month in which a political standoff in Washington over the US debt ceiling and the sixth straight cut in IMF global economic forecasts had raised fresh concerns about the health of the global economy.

China’s official pur-chasing managers index (PMI) rose to 51.4 in Oc-tober, up from 51.1 in Sep-tember and above expecta-tions for a reading of 51.2. A PMI reading above 50 suggests expansion from the previous month, while a figure below 50 points to contraction. “With global demand momentum likely

note. The China PMI of-fered some support to weak Asian markets on Friday and data elsewhere in Asia also pointed to brighter eco-nomic prospects.

The HSBC/Markit PMI for South Korea showed factory activity ex-panded for the first time in five months and separate data showed the country’s exports in October hand-ily beat expectations to hit a record high of $50.5 bil-lion. Factory activity in major exporter Taipei, key to many global tech sup-ply chains, was running at its fastest pace since March 2012, an HSBC/Markit PMI showed.

Reuters

US Navy cancels notice on possible F/A-18 fighter jet orderWashington, 1 Nov —

The US Navy on Thursday canceled a notice about a possible order of up to 36 more Boeing Co (BA.N) F/A-18 fighter jets or EA-18G electronic warfare planes after the posting on a federal procurement web-site sparked confusion this week. The pre-solicitation notice, which first became public this week, had trig-gered renewed questions about the Navy’s commit-ment to the $392 billion radar-evading F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme by Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N).

Boeing has sought for years to sell the Navy more

of its F/A-18E/F Super Hor-nets for use on aircraft car-riers, as a hedge in case the more capable carrier vari-ant of the F-35 fighter jet runs into further delays or technical challenges. Navy officials this week said they had no plans to buy more Super Hornets or EA-18G Growlers in fiscal 2015 de-spite the notice on a federal procurement website. They said the notice was meant to ensure the “proper acquisi-tion process” was in place if more US or foreign orders materialized.

But the posting caught Pentagon officials by sur-prise, since the current Navy budget calls for F/A-

A US Navy F/A 18 Hornet aircraft prepares its tailhook to catch an arresting wire in a landing maneuver during a tour of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier on patrol in the

South China Sea on 23 May, 2013. — ReuteRs

18 funding to end in fiscal 2014, with production of the planes to end in 2016. It was not immediately clear why Naval Air Systems

Command, or Navair, de-cided to cancel the notice, which was first posted on 17 October.

Reuters

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Xi stresses gender equalityBeijing, 1 Nov — Chi-

nese President Xi Jinping on Thursday underlined the importance of gender equality, calling for full play to be given to the role of women in order to help achieve the great rejuvena-tion of the Chinese nation.

Xi made the remarks while meeting with the newly elected leadership of the All-China Women’s Federation.

The president also expressed his congratula-tions and greetings to the new leadership following the 11th National Wom-en’s Congress, which con-cluded in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Thursday.

Xi said that China has attached great importance to gender equality in dif-ferent periods of develop-ment over recent decades.

Noting that China is facing a more arduous task in economic and social development, he said that the country needs more contributions and wisdom from women than ever be-fore.

Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) speaks during a meeting with the newly-elected leaders of the All-China

Women’s Federation (ACWF) in Beijing, capital of China, on 31 Oct, 2013.—Xinhua

Xi called for the pro-cess of China’s develop-ment to be integrated with promotion of gender equal-ity, which will ensure wom-en to exercise their rights of democracy in accordance with law, take part into eco-nomic and social develop-ment and share the fruits of reform.

The president asked women’s federation of-ficials at all levels to learn more about the situation at grassroots level in order to better help women.

Xi urged authorities at

all levels to attach more importance and offer more assistance to women’s fed-erations, to improve the environment for women to develop livelihoods, and to severely punish those who infringe on women’s rights.

Shen Yueyue, vice chairwoman of the Stand-ing Committee of the Na-tional People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, was reelected president of the All-China Women’s Federation on Wednesday.

Xinhua

Mexican Congress passes watered-down tax reform

Mexico city, 1 Nov — Mexico’s Congress on Thursday passed a package of measures aimed at bol-stering the country’s weak tax revenues, but only after watering down a plan that is expected to have a moder-ate impact at best.

The bill, which in-cludes higher taxes on the rich as well as levies on junk food and stock market gains, is a central plank of an economic program span-ning energy to telecoms that aims to ramp up growth in Latin America’s No. 2 economy.

Facing a Thursday deadline, the ruling Institu-tional Revolutionary Party (PRI) pushed the package through with the help of leftist lawmakers, making final tweaks in the Senate to pare back a planned income tax increase.

The lower house then gave final approval to the bill that President Enrique Pena Nieto is now expected to sign into law.

Mexico has the lowest

tax revenue in the 34-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Devel-opment (OECD), restrict-ing its ability to spend on health, infrastructure and social programs needed to boost living standards and growth.

Before the bill was pre-sented last month, senior PRI officials said it would seek to raise the tax take by 4 percent of gross domestic

product. Yet even before the Senate changed the bill, the government was admitting it was likely to bring in added revenues of barely 2.7 percent of GDP by 2018. “The (reform) was reduced to a simple tax code focused on more, bigger taxes for those who have always paid,” said Al-fredo Coutino, Latin Amer-ica director for Moody’s Analytics.—Reuters

Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks during a welcome ceremony for Ireland’s President Michael

D. Higgins at the National Palace in Mexico City on 21 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

John Roos (R), former US Ambassador to Japan, receives an award from the Japanese Chamber

of Commerce and Industry of New York at a New York hotel on 30 Oct, 2013, for his contributions to promoting friendship between Japan and the United

States.—Kyodo news

Final report on Syria’s chemical weapons expected in early December

United nations, 1 Nov — A UN fact-finding group is expected to present its final report on Syria’s chemical weapons in early December as a number of samples from Syria are still being studied in designated laboratories, UN spokes-man Martin Nesirky said here on Thursday.

“The final report is expected to be finalized in early December, after all information gathered by the UN Mission has been evaluated,” Nesirky said at a daily briefing here.

“A number of samples are still being analyzed by

the designated laboratories and the results are expected to be provided to the UN Mission early next week,” he said.

On 16 September, Ake Sellstrom, head of the UN team to investigate the al-leged use of chemical weap-ons in the Syrian conflict, presented an initial report to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, confirming that sarin gas was used out-side the Syrian capital of Damascus on 21 August. The UN team is mandated to find out whether chemi-cal weapons were used in the Arab country, but not

who used them.“Prof. Sellstrom is cur-

rently working on the final report in coordination with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and World Health Organization experts that were part of the UN Mis-sion,” Nesirky said.

Samples collected by the UN team in Syria were transferred from The Hague to laboratories for analy-sis on Sept. 2. They were gathered from the site of the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Ghouta area of Damascus, which alleg-edly killed more than 1, 000

China’s 11th National Women’s Congress concludes

Beijing, 1 Nov— The 11th National Women’s Congress concluded in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday, call-ing on China’s women and women’s organizations to contribute more to the country’s development.

Held every five years, the four-day congress passed a work report de-livered by the 10th Execu-tive Committee of the All-

China Women’s Federation (ACWF), deliberated on and adopted amendments to the federation’s con-stitution, and elected the 11th ACWF Executive Committee.

Vice Premier Liu Yan-dong conveyed congratula-tions on the success of the congress on behalf of the State Council, urging en-hanced policies to promote gender equality and ensure

Taiwan’s prosecutor-general indicted in probe of leaked secrets

taipei, 1 Nov—Tai-wan Prosecutor-General Huang Shih-ming was in-dicted Friday on charges he leaked classified infor-mation of an investigation into the influence-peddling allegations against Legis-lative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng. The spokesman of the Taipei District Pros-ecutors’ Office Huang Mo-hsin told reporters the prosecutor-general violated the Communica-

tion Security and Surveil-lance Act by divulging de-tails of the ongoing probe when he briefed President Ma Ying-jeou on 31 Au-gust.

The indictment came following an interroga-tion last month of Huang Shih-ming, President Ma, Premier Jiang Yi-huah and former Presidential Office Deputy Secretary General Lo Chih-chang on their roles in the alleged leaking

of details of the investiga-tion into the Wang case.

Wang faces a maxi-mum sentence of three years if convicted. Ma is the second sitting head of state to testify before pros-ecutors as a witness. Then President Chen Shui-bian was summoned to attend a hearing as a witness in an alleged vote-buying case in eastern Hualien County in January 2004.

Kyodo News

that women have equal op-portunities in the sectors of the economy and educa-tion.

Shen Yueyue, newly elected chairwoman of the ACWF, said at the clos-ing ceremony that women from all ethnic groups in the country should make more contributions to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Xinhua

people.The UN said the analy-

ses would be conducted in laboratories in Europe “strictly adhering to the highest established stand-ards of verification rec-ognized by the Organiza-tion for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.”

The fact-finding group, which was created in March at the request of the Syrian government, was initially set to investigate the al-leged March 19 chemical attacks on Khan al-Asal in the northern province of Aleppo and two other un-disclosed sites.—Xinhua

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Yangon, 1 Nov—A ceremony to donate Eco Solar Light by Asiana Ai r l ines o f Republ ic of Korea was held at Theingoktara Gardens pavilion at the west archway of Shwedagon Pagoda this

ROK’s Asiana Airlines donates Eco Solar Light

morning. Yangon Region Chief

Minister U Myint Swe said the donation would contribute not only to local people but also to foreigners.

Next, CEO Mr Yoon

Young Doo of Asiana Airlines explained the purposes of the donation.

CEO Mr Yoon Young Doo and Region Minister for Social Affairs Dr Myint Thein exchanged notes after signing it.—MNA

naY PYi Taw, 1 Nov—Vice-Chairman of Myanmar O l y m p i c C o m m i t t e e Deputy Minister for Sports U Zaw Win addressed a coordination meeting between the ministry and sports federat ions for successful organizing the

27th SEA Games at the Ministry of Sports, here, yesterday morning.

In the afternoon, the deputy minister explained preparations for the regional sports events in meeting with journalists of Thai Journalists Association-

TJA of Thailand at a meeting hall of the committee in Wunna Theikdhi sports ground and answered the queries raised by the Thai journalists. Later, the deputy minister conducted them round the sports ground.

MNA

Deputy Sports Minister meets individuals of sports federations

n a Y P Y i T a w , 1 N o v — A c e r e m o n y to s ign Memorandum of Unders tanding on

Myanmar, India sign MoU on enhancement of information technology skills

St r eng then ing Ind ia -Myanmar Cent re fo r Enhancement of Information Technology Skills-IMCEITS

between the governments of Myanmar and India took place at the Ministry of Science and Technology, here, yesterday afternoon.

D i r e c t o r - G e n e r a l U Kyaw Swa Soe of Advanced Science and Technology Department and Indian Ambassador to Myanmar Mr. Gautama Mukhopadhaya signed the MoU.

The MoU is aimed at conducting more training courses a t IMCEITS, turning the centre into an Authorized Training Centre for Development of Advanced Computing-CDAC in India to be able to present internationally-recognized joint certificates to trainees and making c o n t r i b u t i o n s t o t h e development of ICT sector in Myanmar.—MNA

n a Y P Y i T a w , 1 Nov— FIFA/MA Football Festival-2013 was launched at Kyauktaing Sports Ground in Pathein yesterday.

At the launch, FIFA Gross roo ts Ins t ruc tor

Dato’ Yap Nyim Keong presented a football with the signatures of his trainees to Ayeyawady Region Chief Minister U Thein Aung who accepted 300 footballs presented by MFF President U Zaw Zaw.

In 2010, similar U-12 F o o t b a l l t o u r n a m e n t was held in Yangon and Mandalay in 2012, it is

learnt. I n P a t h e i n ,

Ayeyawady Region, this year tournament would be participated by 250 students of basic education schools under by 32 coaches—six from MFF, six from Pathein Football Academy and 20 from the Ministry of Education.

MNA

FIFA/MA Football Festival-2013 kicks off

Precious gems mine found in Chin State

Fa l a m , 1 Nov—A chrysoprase mine was found by En-Jin Company in Falam of Chin State.

It is a semi prious stone. The departments concerned approved the semi precious stone, said Dr Lal Ram Pamna of En-Jin Co.

“We have informed the authorities of our findings. We hope to receive the permission of mining soon,”

said the director.Accord ing to the

findings through photos, the chrysoprase is green colour and can be used at home decoration.

The semi precious stone can be produced from the mine on a hill of Falam Township in Chin State, and it can be sold at K 20000 per viss.

MMAL-Htan Ngar

Relief camps opened for flood victims due to rising Sittoung River water level

Yedashe, 1 Nov—As water level of Sittoung River rises on 29 and 30 October, people from 51 villages are facing floods along the bank of the river in Yedashe Township.

Authorities concerned open four relief camps in Thagara, two in Swa and three in Yedashe.

The flood victims from Wedaunt , Kyaunggon, Chaungkyo, Kyuzaung, Ayethukha and Letpankhon villages are accommodated at the relief camps.

A total of 277 flood victims of 55 households are taking shelter at the Dhammayon of Thadawya Pagoda, 151 from 48 households at Zaydan Ward monastery, 301 people from 62 households of the school at No. 84 Infantry Regiment and 345 people from 87 households at Ngakhonma Chaungma Dhammayon.

Likewise, 909 people f r o m v i l l a g e s a l o n g Swa Creek are being accommodated at two

Dhammayon of Pariyatti Monastery of Swa and 331 at Uyinchaung Monastery.

As of 30 October morning, the water level of Sittoung River is still rising, so people from East Kyweyaingbyin Villages were evacuated to the safer places. A total of 426 people were given shelters at the Dattaw Phayagyi Dhammayon, 242 at the

monastery in Bodawgon Monastery and over 100 at the Dhammayon of Myolekyaung by car.

R e g i o n H l u t t a w representatives, Township Administrator U Htay Kyaw, Commander of Township Police Force Police Major Nyan Win and officials, townselders, wellwishers and people donated packets of rice,

foodstuff and purified drinking water to the flood victims.

Staff of Township Health Department give health care services to the flood victims. Due to overflow of Sittoung River, a total of 17619 people from 51 villages are facing floods,and 49 basic education schools are closed temporarily.—MMAL-Phyo Lwin Aung (Yedashe)

Tatmadawmen and people carry out evacuation of flood victims in Yedashe Township.

Director-General U Kyaw Swa Soe and Indian Ambassador Mr. Gautama Mukhopadhaya

exchange notes.—mna

Deputy Minister for Sports U Zaw Win meets officials and responsible persons of sports federations.—mna

Mining

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Saturday, 2 November, 2013

Peace and progressA little over two years ago, to end the decades-

long internal armed conflict was mind-boggling, but now with leaders of ethnic armed groups hold-ing talks on nationwide ceasefire pact, hopes are high that lasting peace can be finally built in the country.

The President said that the government is holding nationwide ceasefire pact signing ceremo-ny because it wants to comply with the demands of ethnic armed groups, reaffirm all existing agree-ments and carry out the tasks required to start the peace dialogue process immediately after the sign-ing the peace deal.

After years of mistrust and suspicion, it would normally be difficult and take time to rebuild trust between the government and ethnic armed groups but the fact that the new era has resurrected the long-lost practice of finding solutions through ne-gotiation plus political tolerance is undeniable.

When we talk about peace in Myanmar’s context, it should not be about who wins or who loses between the government and ethnic armed groups, it should be about the people’s will. The most important thing is to bring all kinds of hos-tilities to an end on Myanmar’s soil as soon as pos-sible so that people can restart a normal life.

Peace and progress are the two sides of the same coin. At a time when foreign investments are being invited to spur the national economic growth, we need to take into account that inves-tors crave stability and peace more than anything else.

The analysis of the recent political discussions and debates on the constitution indicates that democratic practices have begun to take shape in our country, which is undoubtedly an encourag-ing sign for national reconciliation. It is our na-tional duty for all of us to do everything we can to make sure that these democratic practices are consolidated and become deeply rooted in our so-ciety.

The Anandacandra Stone Inscription is named after its engraver, a pow-erful devoted Buddhist Rakhine king who reigned in the latter part of Vesali Period, which is believed to have been contempo-rary with Srikhetra, which flourished between the 4th

and the 9th centuries A.D. It is now kept on the 40-foot high Mound of the Shitthaung Temple about half a mile north of the Mound of MraukU Palace. At the southern tip of the mound, there is a flight of stair-case, which is 8 feet in width and 35 feet in length, leading from the foot of the mound up to the first levelled ground about 16 feet high above the foot. The Anandacandra Stone Inscription is housed in a shed on the left side of the top of the stair-case. It contains a long list of the names of ancient Rakhine kings who had ruled in Rakhine from many years before the birth of Christ up to the 9th year after the accession of King Anan-dacandra who ruled at the beginning of the 8th cen-tury A.D. Two distinctions of it are that it is engraved in three types of ancient Indian scripts belong-ing to three different eras and that it bears the regal years of the all the kings recorded.

The Anandacandra Stone Inscription is an elongated fine-grained sandstone monolith meas-uring 9 feet and 7 inch-es in height and 2 feet and 4 inches in width. It is said that King Min-bagyi (AD.1531-1553) of MraukU Dynasty shifted it to the Mound of the Shitthaung Temple from Letkhat Hill south of the Mound of Vesali Pal-ace about 5 miles north of MraukU. The eastern, western and northern faces of it are inscribed in San-skrit with three different North Indian scripts be-longing to three different eras which are separated from each other by a lapse of 200 years. The scripts written on the eastern face are considered the earliest. Although there are about 100 lines, most of them are damaged and consequent-ly illegible. Very few lines are legible. Paleographi-cally, these scripts are ten-

A Study on the Anandacandra Stone Inscriptiontatively assigned between the 3rd and the 6th centuries A.D. There are four lines written in the scripts be-longing to the A.D. 6th cen-tury in the upper part of the northern face. Under these lines are found 69 lines in scripts which are thought to belong to the 10th cen-tury A.D. Most of them are erased due to weathering. But the remnant scripts sug-gest that they might be the proto-Bengali scripts. On the western face are found 71 lines written in proto-Nagari script. As these scripts remain nearly intact, they are clearly legible. This face records the names of ancient Rakhine kings with their regnal years and the eulogy on King Anan-dacandra in 65 verses and a line in prose. (Although the engravers of the scripts on the eastern and north-ern faces are unknown, it is known according to the stone inscription that those on the western face were inscribed by King Anan-dacandra. The times of the accession of King Anan-dacandra and of engraving the Anandacandra Stone

tion, Dr. Johnston, having meticulously studied the scripts on the western face, remarks thus:

“…The Anandacan-dra Stone Inscription is in close affinity with the Yas-ovamadeva Stone Inscrip-tion at Nalanda in terms of the shape of the scripts and the rhyming system, which can be exactly assumed to have been inscribed at the beginning of the 8th century A.D. The most striking dif-ference between the two inscriptions is that the letter “jha” in the Nalanda Stone Inscription is just in the process of the change but that in the Anandacandra Stone Inscription is already changed. So the latter must have been engraved a few years after the former…”.

He continues as fol-lows:

“…In view of other archaeological and textual documents, the date of en-graving the Anandacandra Stone Inscription should be placed at the beginning of the 8th century A.D. Some coins struck by some kings mentioned in this stone in-scription are available to

scripts on the Anandacan-dra Stone Inscription and the coin of Dhammacan-dra are compared, it can be said that those of the former came directly from Nalanda shortly after the Nalanda Stone Inscrip-tion…”

The above extract means that Dr. Johnston, on the basis of the nu-mismatic and epigraphic evidences and literary reference, placed the date of inscribing the Ananda-candra Stone Inscription on the threshold of the 8th

century A.D, a little later than that of engraving the Yasovamadeva Stone In-scription, or probably at the end of the 7th century A.D.

Again, Dr. Sircar, in corroboration of Dr. John-ston, sensibly and pru-dently guessed at the date of inscribing the Ananda-candra Stone Inscription as follows:

“…Johnston pointed out that the Anandacan-dra Stone Inscription was identical to the Yasavam-adeva Stone Inscription in terms of the shape of the scripts and the writ-ing style. King Yaso-vamam sent his envoy to Chinese Emperor in A.D. 731. He was defeated by Kashamian King Lalita-diyamuttapita (AD.726-60). King Yasovamam passed away in A.D 754. Therefore, his regal years can be estimated to span a length of time from A.D 725 to 754. It is estimat-ed that he must have in-scribed the Nalanda Stone Inscription at the begin-ning of his regal period. The reason is that Nalanda was then outside his terri-tory. It was located in the territory of King of Bengal and Bihar. King Yaso-vamam had killed him in A.D. 733, just before Kashamian king waged an attack against him. There-fore, it is logical to assume that he probably inscribed the Nalanda Stone Inscrip-tion between A.D.725 and 733. So it is justifiable to consider that the Ananda-candra Stone Inscription was incised in A.D.729. If this assumption is accept-ed, the year of accession of King Anandacandra can be tentatively regarded as A.D. 720…”

(To be continued)

Inscription were estimated by modern scholars on the scrutiny of the scripts used on this face. So it is to be noted that the age of the Anandacandra Stone In-scription mentioned in this article is referred to as the time of engraving the west-ern face).

It is found that Dr. Johnston, a professor of the Oriental Studies Depart-ment from Oxford Univer-sity and Dr. Sircar, a direc-tor from the Department of Indian Archaeology, were the scholars who read this stone inscription(the scripts on the western face) most comprehensively and thor-oughly. It is estimated that Dr. Johnston must have read it between 1935 and 1942. However, he did not read the original stone in-scription but just the rub-bings of it. When he died in 1942, the draft of his translation remained. It was edited by G.H. Luce and then contributed to the Bull. S.O.A.S. Vol. XI. with the title “Some Sanskrit Inscriptions of Arakan”. Regarding the time of in-scribing the stone inscrip-

us. Out of them, the coins struck by King Devacandra and King Dhammavijaya can be paleographically assigned to the beginning of the 5th century A.D and to the beginning of the 7th

century A.D. respectively. The stone inscription men-tions that King Devacandra reigned for 22 years and that the interregnum be-tween the demise of King Devacandra and the acces-sion of King Dhammavi-jaya was 177 years. King Dhammavijaya reigned for 36 years. King Ananda-candra ascended the throne of Vesali 19 years after the passing away of King Dhammavijaya. When he inscribed this stone inscrip-tion, he had attained the nine-year regnal period. The interregnum between the times of striking the coins by King Devacandra and King Dhammavijaya was 235 years. The time lapse between the coin of King Dhammavijaya and the Anandacandra Stone In-scription was 64 years. So it is hard to date this stone inscription later than the 7th century. Again, if the

Nay Pyi Taw, 1 Nov—A ceremony to donate UNIREN Spray by Unison Laboratories Co Ltd (Thai-land) for selected Myanmar athletes to achieve success in 27th SEA Games was held at the meeting hall of the Ministry of Sports, here, this morning.

The managing director

UNIREN Spray donated to selected Myanmar athletes

of the company explained the purpose of donation and presented the Unison spray worth K 10 million through Deputy Minister for Sports U Zaw Win. The deputy minis-ter then attended the second day coordination meeting with the sports federations on successfully holding 27th

SEA Games.—MNA

Dr. Saw Mra Aung

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Township Administrator’s Cup wraps up

Paung, 1 Nov—In the final match of Paung Town-

National Sports

ship Administrator’s Cup U-23 Inter-Village/Ward

Football Tournament tak-ing place at Myoma Sports

Ground in Paung, Uttatar Village emerged champion with a 2-1 win over Thebyu-gon Village on 30 October.

After the match, Town-ship Administrator U Naing Myint presented champion-ship shield and cash award K 300,000 to first prize winner Uttatar Village team.

Mon State Hluttaw rep-resentative U Maung Lan and Township Medical Officer Dr Maung Maung Lwin gave best player awards to the respective players in places.

Concrete contractor U Cho presented K 100,000 as special award to the cham-pion team.

Kyemon

Kalay bustling with water way passengers

Kalay, 1 Nov—Kalay is the populous city in upper Sagaing Region and it is a road junction town.

Kalay is a destination

good transport service such as flights, motor roads and water way transport through Kalay-Mandalay-Yangon flight, Kalay-Gangaw rail-

road, Kalay-Mandalay-Mo-nywa-Yangon motor road and Kalay-Kalewa-Monywa and Homalin-Hkamti water way transport.

In the rainy season, the local people rely on motor ways. However, damaged parts are stretching along Kalay-Monywa-Yagyi Road and Kalay-Gangaw Road. Due to difficulties in the transport, Kalewa water way tansport can attract larger number of passengers.

That is why, water way transport service can be given to the passengers along Kalay-Kalewa-Monywa wa-ter way.

At present, speed boats are giving smooth and swift transportation to the local people along the water way. Up and down ships and speed boats are giving better trans-port to the passengers along Homalin-Hkamti route and Kalewa-Monywa-Mandalay route along Chindwin River.

Kyemon-Joe Net

Rural, urban areas in Toungoo in flood

Toungoo, 1 Nov—As Sittoung River rose its water level on record, the low-lying wards of Toungoo and villages along the bank of

Sittoung River were flooded unexpectedly.

Higher water level hit Wards 1, 8, 9, 10, 19 and 20 and villages such as

Shansugyi, Alekyun and so on along the river bank. According to the statistics on 31 October, a total of 30 relief camps were opened

for giving shelters to 10846 flood victims from 2701 households.

On foot deep water covered Yangon-Mandalay Highway, and Toungoo-Loikaw motor road was inundated from No 3 police station to 4th miles gate.

Bago Region govern-ment provided rice and ed-ible oil to the flood victims and Township Development Supportive Committee, so-cial organizations and well-wishers, packets of rice, rice, edible oil and instant noodle packets to them.

Toungoo District Health Department assigned nurses at the relief camps for pro-viding health care services to the victims.

Due to floods, 33 basic education schools including No 1 Basic Education High School and two BEMSs in Toungoo were closed tem-porarily. Likewise, a total

of 11546 acres of farmlands of 3960 farmers from 14 vil-lages fell under the floods.

According to the ob-servation at 12.30 hr MST, water level of Sittoung River reached 711 cm, exceeding 111 cm over 600 cm of danger level of Toungoo,

according to Department of Metrorology and Hydrology of Toungoo District.

It is the highest water level setting a record during 40 years. In 1973, the water level of the river had reached 725 cm of the town.

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Taninthayi Region Chief Justice inspects jails, police

custodies

MyeiK, 1 Nov—Tan-inthayi Region High Court Chief Justice U Myint Win and district level officials inspected Myeik Jail on 28 October.

At the hall, Assistant Di-rector U Nyunt Win of Myan-mar Correctional Department reported on convenience of prisoners and inmates, supply of water, health and sanitation at the jail.

The Chief Minister viewed Myaik Jail, custody of Myeik Myoma Police Force, and temporary cus-tody of the court in Myeik.

On 29 October, they oversaw Hsinbyushin ag-ricultural and livestock breeding work camp in Taninthayi Township, and Myoma police station.

They also inspected welfare of the jail and rights of receiving medical treat-ment. On 30 October, the Chief Justice met district and township judges and instructed them to strive for reclining of criminal cases at the courts in Myeik District.

Kyemon-Myeik Dis-trict IPRD

Book show held in Yaksawk

yaKsawK, 1 Nov—Yaksawk Township Infor-mation and Public Relations Department of Shan State (South) held the book show for free borrowing of books from the library of depart-ment and raising reading habit on 29 October.

It was attended by de-partmental personnel, mem-bers of Township Develop-ment Supportive Commit-tee, ward/village authorities, members of social organiza-

tions, teachers and students.A total of 3500 books,

State gazettes, newspapers, weekly news journals, maga-zines and publications at the book show.

Head of Township IPRD Daw Mu Mya Saw and staff served the visitors for borrowing of books free of charge and giving pamphlets to them.

The book shows run from 29 to 31 October.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas chairs the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee meeting, in the West Bank city of Ramallah,

on 31 Oct, 2013.—Xinhua

Police detain 50 over riot by Nigerians in W India

New Delhi, 1 Nov—Indian police have arrested at least 50 people in a riot in the western state of Goa, which was triggered by the death of a Nigerian drug dealer in a turf war, said lo-cal media on Friday.

The rioters blocked a national highway Thursday night and Friday morning, demanding the arrest of the assailants who killed the

Nigerian man in a group clash at Parra, Bardez, Goa, said local TV channel Times Now.

The victim and his at-tackers were suspected to be fighting over drug trade in the coastal belt of north Goa.

Infuriated by the mur-der, several Nigerians start-ed rioting demanding arrest of the assailants.

Police sources told the TV channel earlier that the attack took place in Parra which is a hub of Nigerian activities, mostly illegal.

A big gang in four and two wheeler vehicles descended at Parra where many Nigerians stay and attacked a group of Nigeri-ans with weapons, said the report.

Xinhua

Flight diverted to Phoenix after undisclosed threat

New York, 1 Nov—A United Airlines commuter flight carrying 47 people from San Francisco to San Antonio was diverted to Phoenix on Thursday after an undisclosed threat was made against the plane, au-thorities said. After making the unscheduled landing at about 4:45 p.m. local time, the plane was sent to an isolated portion of the air-port, where its passengers

were evacuated while local police investigated, authori-ties said.

The threat, which came on Halloween, was found on the plane, said Sergeant Steve Martos, a spokes-man for the Phoenix police department. He did not re-lease further details.

An initial search of the aircraft by investigators and police dogs did not turn up any dangerous materials,

Martos said. But he said further investigation by his department’s bomb squad was still ongoing.

The FBI will inves-tigate the threat, Martos added. Julie Rodriguez, a spokeswoman for Phoe-nix Sky Harbor airport, said that no flight delays or roadway restrictions were expected as a result of the unscheduled landing or the investigation.—Reuters

Ex-vice governor gets life for graftBeijiNg, 1 Nov— A

former vice governor of northeast China’s Jilin Province was sentenced to life imprisonment on Fri-day for taking bribes

Tian Xueren pocketed over 19 million yuan (more than 3 million US dol-lars) in bribes, according the verdict by Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s

Court.Tian had traded jobs

and contracts for bribes be-tween 1995 and 2011, tak-ing advantage of his posi-tions as deputy party chief of Changchun city; party chief of Jilin city and Yan-bian Korean autonomous prefecture; vice governor of Jilin; and chairman of the board and party chief

of the Bank of Jilin.The ruling confiscates

all his personal assets and he is deprived of his politi-cal rights for life.

Tian was expelled from the Communist Party of China and dismissed from all his posts for “se-vere disciplinary and legal violations” in July 2012.

Xinhua

A Pakistani policeman checks a motorbike rider on road due to security high alert after twin bomb blast in southwest Pakistan’s Quetta, on 31 Oct, 2013. At least

four people were killed and 14 others injured when a bomb blast followed by a gas cylinder explosion hit Pakistan’s southwestern provincial capital of Quetta

on Wednesday, said police officers.—Xinhua

Advancing relations with India priority for Australia

CaNBerra, 1 Nov—Advancing relations with India is a priority for the Australian government, Australian Foreign Minis-ter Julie Bishop said Fri-day, one day after talks with her Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid in Perth, West Australia on ways to enhance the Strategic Part-nership between the two countries.

Australia and India agreed to a Strategic Part-nership in 2009.

And India is Aus-tralia’s fifth-largest export market and a significant investor, the largest source of skilled migrants to Aus-tralia and the second larg-est source of international students.

“Advancing relations

with India is a priority for the Australian govern-ment...Our discussion fol-lowed very productive talks between Prime Min-ister (Tony) Abbott and Prime Minister ( Manmo-han)Singh at the annual Leaders’ Meeting in Bru-nei on Oct. 10 October,” Bishop said in a statement Friday.

According to her, she and her counterpart reaf-firmed the commitment of both countries to finalize a Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement to enable the sale of Australian uranium to India and announced that the third round of ne-gotiations would be held in Delhi in the week of 25 Nov.

She briefed Khurshid

on the Australian govern-ment’s commitment to open trade and investment policies and welcomed fur-ther Indian investment into Australia.

“We agreed that con-clusion of a high-quality Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement would underpin a further significant expansion of the trade and investment relationship to mutual ben-efit,” she said.

Bishop said they dis-cussed the importance of building a strategic rela-tionship on energy security and indicated that the two sides were working to fi-nalize dates for the second ministerial meeting on en-ergy security.

Xinhua

Indian bombing suspect dies of injuries

New Delhi, 1 Nov—A bombing suspect arrested after the serial blasts that hit the eastern Indian city Patna last Sunday has died of the injuries he suffered when he was planting the bomb at the railway sta-tion’s public toilet, said police.

“Ainul alias Tarique

A man from the special force

team shows his ability during the graduation

ceremony of the first batch of

police officers higher qualifi-cations cam-

paign in Tripoli, Libya, on 31 Oct, 2013.

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died due to his injuries at a hospital in Patna, late Thursday night,” said a po-lice officer.

Before his identity was disclosed by the police, he was believed to be a victim.

Earlier police reports said another suspect died of injuries but the man turned out to be a victim

of the blasts, which took place when Indian opposi-tion Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candi-date Narendra Modi was addressing a huge rally of supporters in Patna.

Six people were killed and 83 injured in seven bomb blasts in Patna.

Xinhua

Flooding sweeps Texas,

killing 2houstoN, 1 Nov — A

strong storm battered cen-tral and southeast Texas Thursday, killing at least two people and causing high water, flash floods, and power outages across the U.S. state.

Central Texas was the hardest-hit area where the storm dumped more than a foot (305 mm) of rain, according to the National Weather Service, which issued a flash flood warn-ing through Thursday af-ternoon for more than ten counties across Texas.

Emergency personnel in helicopters and boats res-cued more than 100 people stranded in vehicles, stuck in trees, and on their roof-tops.

In Austin, Texas’ capital city, at least two people died because of the floods, more than 1,000 homes evacuated and a few schools called off classes due to the extreme weather, officials said.

The largest city of Tex-as, Houston, was also hit hard by the severe storm.

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Tokyo, 1 Nov—For-eign Minister Fumio Kishi-da said on Friday that leg-islation may be introduced to parliament during its ordinary session from early next year to ratify an inter-national pact on compensa-tion for nuclear accidents.

“We will work to sub-mit (relevant bills) at an ap-propriate time next year,” Kishida told reporters, not-ing that the move is aimed at enabling the participation of foreign companies in decommissioning or clean-up efforts at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear

Japan eyes joining pact on compensation for nuclear damage in

2014power plant. In a meet-ing in Tokyo the previous day, Kishida conveyed to visiting US Energy Secre-tary Ernest Moniz Tokyo’s intention to join the 1997 pact, under which compen-sation for damage result-ing from a nuclear accident may be partially paid for with funds contributed by participating countries.

Japan is now seeking to join the accord in part because it would eliminate the risk of foreign firms in-volved in an accident in the course of their work at the Fukushima plant being sued

overseas, where they might face punitive damages.

Moniz welcomed the Japanese move and agreed with Kishida that the two countries should coordi-nate closely on Japan join-ing the treaty, according to Japanese officials. The nu-clear compensation pact is known formally as the Con-vention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage. The treaty, with Argentina, Morocco, Ro-mania and the United States as signatories so far, will enter into force once Japan joins it.—Kyodo News

An earthquake surveyor checks the earthquake data in Taipei, southeast China’s Taiwan, 31 Oct, 2013. A 6.7-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan’s Hualien at 8:02 pm Thursday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.

Xinhua

VienTiane, 1 Nov —One of the blackbox units has been recovered from the wreckage of Lao Air-lines flight QV301 which crashed into the Mekong on 16 October, Yakua Lopang-kao, Director General of the Lao Civil Aviation Depart-ment told Xinhua Friday.

The aircraft, a French made twin engine ATR 72-600, was carrying two blackbox units when it crashed in bad weather kilometres from its destina-tion of Pakse International Airport.

According to Lao Civil Aviation Department Di-rector General Yakua Lo-pangkao, the unit recovered is responsible for recording

DaVao CiTy, (Philip-pines), 1 Nov — One person died and hundreds have fled to higher grounds as flood-ing spawned by torrential rains in parts of Davao city in southern Philippine on Thursday night, authorities said on Friday.

The flooding started shortly after 9 pm on Thurs-day and continued up to the early hours on Friday as heavy rains pelted many parts of Davao City, said Jed Clamor, spokesperson of the Southern Mindanao regional police.

Local radio reported that floodwater in Agdao

Photo taken 16 Oct, 2013 in Yokkaichi,

Mie Prefecture, shows Masafumi Inagaki, an

administrative scrivener who provides free con-sultations to foreigners

over procedures to apply for a visa or to marry

Japanese among other issues. Inagaki became a scrivener in his 50s to

support foreign residents who he believes are

socially vulnerable yet will become important members of fast-aging

Japanese society.Kyodo news

Crashed Lao Airlines aircraft’s blackbox recovered

performance parametres and inputs sent to the air-craft’s electronic systems. The data will provide offi-cials with insight into the fi-nal tragic moments of flight QV301.

The aircraft’s manu-facturer and the French avi-ation accident investigation agency will take the unit back to France to collate the data. Full analysis of the blackbox unit’s information could take up to a month.

Officials in Pakse are also closing in on the other blackbox unit, which re-mains submerged at the crashsite. The second unit is responsible for recording radio transmissions made to and from the plane as well

as cockpit conversations and ambient sounds.

Lopangkao previously told Xinhua that the re-covery efforts were made extremely difficult by the depth of the river and the strong wet-season current. The murky Mekong water offers almost zero visibility and a dangerous environ-ment for recovery divers who are forced to navigate the riverbed by touch.

The flight took off from Lao capital Vientiane at 2:45 pm (0745 GMT) on 16 October and was sched-uled to land at Pakse Inter-national Airport in Cham-passak province a little over an hour later.

Xinhua

One killed, hundreds flee as floods batter S Philippine city

and Buhangin Districts were several feet high, al-most submerging houses.

“The floodwaters start-ed to rise around 9 pm and was already chest-deep when we started to evacu-ate to a nearby gymnasium hours later,” said Elena Capuyan, a resident of Ubalde village, in Agdao.

Chief Inspector Clamor told Xinhua by text message a 57-year old man identified as Gil Arsena died after be-ing crushed by a concrete wall that collapsed due to the raging flood in Tigatto village, Buhangin District.

Xinhua

Hanoi, 1 Nov—Viet-nam sent more than 70,200 workers abroad in the first 10 months of 2013, which is positive sign for the set target of 80,000 workers sent abroad 2013 to be ful-filled, according to the Min-istry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs ( MOLISA).

In October alone, near-ly 7,500 Vietnamese work-ers, including 2, 900 wom-en, were employed abroad,

Vietnam sends over 70,200 workers abroad in 10 monthsreported the ministry’s De-partment of Overseas La-bour on Friday.

The department’s sta-tistics showed that China’s Taiwan still ranked as the largest market for Vietnam-ese labourers in October with over 4,300 workers. It was followed by Japan, Ma-laysia, Laos and Cambodia.

In 2012, Vietnam sent 80,000 workers overseas, down 10 percent as sched-

Relief workers carry relief materials at Yaoyingtu Village of Chaganhua

Township in Qianguo County, northeast China’s Jilin Province, on 31 Oct, 2013.

Over 1,000 tents from Changchun, Songyuan and other regions were

transfered to the quake-hit areas in Qianguo County on Thursday night. Two earthquakes, 5.5-magnitude and

5.0-magnitude respectively, jolted Songyuan City of Jilin Province at 11:03 am and 11:10 am on Thursday, causing ten people injured and serious economic

losses.—Xinhua

uled. Of which, Japan, South Korea, China’s Tai-wan and Malaysia account-ed for 70 percent.

South Korea is the third largest market, hiring over 10,000 people. How-ever, since August 2012, this country tightened re-cruitment for Vietnamese workers due to a large num-ber of illegal over-staying workers. According to the National Committee for

Overseas Vietnamese under Vietnam’s foreign ministry, there are about 4.5 million Vietnamese who are living, studying or working in 100 countries and regions, and 500,000 are guest workers.

Remittances sent home by overseas Vietnamese in 2012 reach over 10 billion US dollars, an increase of 20 percent compared with the average 10-15 percent in previous years.—Xinhua

DHaka, 1 Nov — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday laid the foundation stone of the country’s first- ever metro rail project.

The foundation lay-ing ceremony took place in Gazipur on the outskirts of capital Dhaka on Thursday evening.

Bangladesh in Febru-ary this year signed a loan deal with the Japan Interna-tional Cooperation Agency (JICA) to finance the 20.1- km metro rail service pro-ject scheduled to be imple-mented in three phases by 2022.

Of the total cost of 220 billion taka, JICA, a gov-ernmental agency of Japan which is responsible for

Bangladesh PM lays foundation stone of

first-ever metro rail projectthe technical cooperation of its official development assistance programs, will provide about 165 billion taka, while the Bangladesh government will provide the rest.

In the first phase, 11 kilometres would be com-pleted by 2019 and 4.4 kilo-metres by 2020.

The remaining 4.7 kil-ometres was expected to be completed by 2022. Japan in 2011 expressed its inter-est to fund Bangladesh’s first metro rail, which will transport 60,000 passengers an hour, after a feasibility study found overhead con-struction of Dhaka’s first mass transport system is possible.

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Overseas Chinese welcome Chinese navy warships upon arrival at the port of Buenos Aires, on 30 Oct,

2013. Chinese missile destroyer Lanzhou, missile frigate Liuzhou, and comprehensive replenishment ship Poyanghu arrived at the port of Buenos Aires

on Wednesday.Xinhua

‘Nationalism and xenophobia’ on rise ahead of European elections

Brussels, 1 Nov— Eu-ropean Commission Presi-dent Jose Manuel Barroso has warned against nation-alism, xenophobia and rac-ism ahead of European Par-liament elections next year, when anti-EU and protest parties are expected to do well.

Opinion polls months ahead of the vote, which takes place in all EU coun-tries on 22-25 May, sug-gest candidates on the far left and far right will gain support as voters express

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso looks on at a

news conference after a Tripratite Social Summit ahead of an EU leaders

meeting in Brussels on 24 Oct, 2013.ReuteRs

frustration with Europe af-ter three years of financial turmoil, contracting growth and job losses.

“We have to be honest that the crisis and the rise in unemployment is an oc-casion for populist forces to become more aggressive and gain some votes,” Bar-roso, a former center-right prime minister in Portugal, told Reuters in an inter-view.

“What we don’t like is the discourse that is some-times behind anti-European

slogans, a discourse that is promoting what I call negative values, things like narrow nationalism, protec-tionism and xenophobia. That is a concern.

“We should not forget that in Europe, not so many decades ago, we had very, very worrying develop-ments of xenophobia and racism and intolerance. So I think everybody that has European principles should be worried about some of these movements.”

Reuters

Chinese FM calls for new progress in China-Italy ties

rome, 1 Nov—Visit-ing Chinese Foreign Minis-ter Wang Yi on Wednesday called for inaugurating a new phase of all-round co-operation between China and Italy.

China and Italy have achieved fruitful results in their comprehensive strate-gic partnership in the past decade, with great develop-ment potential in their rela-tions and broad prospects for cooperation, Wang said on the sidelines of the fifth plenary session of the Sino-Italian Governmental Com-mittee.

China and Italy should carry out mutually ben-eficial cooperation and ex-pand common interests, he stressed.

Wang said that the

governmental committee should strengthen its func-tion to fully display its lead-ership, enhance cooperation in key areas, enrich bilateral cultural exchanges, and consolidate the public opin-ion basis.

The committee should also improve its operating mechanism to better guide the development of the bi-lateral ties, said the top Chi-nese diplomat.

For her part, Wang’s Italian counterpart Emma Bonino hailed the strategic cooperation between Italy and China, noting that both sides should focus on the long-term perspective and promote all-round coopera-tion in a persistent way to achieve more.

Xinhua

Brazil marks 10th anniversary of poverty reduction programme

rio de Janeiro, 1 Nov — Brazil on Wednesday marked the 10th anniver-sary of a key poverty re-duction programme, with President Dilma Rousseff vowing to “sweep poverty out of our country.”

The programme, called Bolsa Familia, or Fam-ily Pocketbook, was intro-duced by former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva,

who joined Rousseff at a ceremony.

The initiative basically aids poor households with a government cash subsidy, while the recipients have to keep their children in school in return.

Hailing it as a “simple” but effective idea, Rousseff said the effort has not only helped reduce poverty, but also contributed to the

country’s economy.“Never before has a

program boosted the econ-omy so much: For each real invested in the programme, the impact on GDP is 1.78 reals,” the president said.

The programme cur-rently aids up to 14 million Brazilian households and, according to Rousseff, has since its launch helped lift 36 million Brazilians out of

Claims Day NotiCEmV kota tampaN Voy No (557)Consignees of cargo carried on MV kOTa TaMPaN

VOY NO (557) are hereby notified that the vessel will be arriving on 2.11.2013 and cargo will be discharged into the premises of a.W.P.T where it will lie at the consignee’s risk and expense s and subject to the byel-aws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

No claims against this vessel will be admitted after the Claims Day.

shippiNg agENCy DEpartmENt myaNma port authority

agENt for: m/s aDVaNCE CoNtaiNEr liNEs

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Claims Day NotiCEmV malaCCa highway Voy No (167s)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV MaLaCCa HIGHWaY VOY NO (167S) are hereby notified that the vessel will be arriving on 2.11.2013 and cargo will be discharged into the premises of M.I.P.L where it will lie at the consignee’s risk and expense s and subject to the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

No claims against this vessel will be admitted after the Claims Day.

shippiNg agENCy DEpartmENt myaNma port authority

agENt for: m/s k liNE shpg Co ltD. Phone No: 256924/256914

NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF CITY GOLF RESORT

FOR PAYMENT OF MONTHLY FEES

1. It is found out that some members (Myanmars/ Foreigners) of the City Golf Resort, Yangon City Development Committee, have failed to pay their monthly fees for various reasons.2. According to paragraph (9) of the rules and regula-tions of the City Golf Resort, those members (My-anmars / Foreigners) who fail to pay their monthly Fees for a period of one year and over shall cease to be a member of the Resort, and so they are intimated to come and clear their outstanding dues by (28-2-2014) at the latest. If failed to do so, it is hereby notified that their membership shall be annulled in accordance with the rules and regulations of the City Golf Resort.

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mV haN hoNg Voy No (13114E)Consignees of cargo carried on MV HaN HONG

VOY NO (13114E) are hereby notified that the ves-sel will be arriving on 2.11.2013 and cargo will be discharged into the premises of H.P.T where it will lie at the consignee’s risk and expense s and subject to the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

No claims against this vessel will be admitted after the Claims Day.

shippiNg agENCy DEpartmENt myaNma port authority

agENt for: m/s shaNghai hENgxiN shippiNg Co, ltD.

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

Claims Day NotiCEmV baNgkaChai Voy No (123)Consignees of cargo carried on MV BaNGkaCHaI

VOY NO (123) are hereby notified that the vessel will be arriving on 2.11.2013 and cargo will be discharged into the premises of a.W.P.T where it will lie at the consignee’s risk and expense s and subject to the byel-aws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

No claims against this vessel will be admitted after the Claims Day.

shippiNg agENCy DEpartmENt myaNma port authority

agENt for: m/s woNgsamut oCEaN shippiNg

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

poverty.The president dis-

missed criticism of the program, saying only those who do not understand or do not want to understand how the Bolsa Familia works criticize the initia-tive.

She added that the pro-gram will exist as long as there is poverty in Brazil.

Xinhua

Saturday, 2 November, 2013

ENTERTAINMENT

13New Light of Myanmar

Michael Fassbender doesn’t consider himself

handsome

German-Irish actor Michael Fassbender

Los AngeLes, 1 Nov—German-Irish actor Michael Fassbender says he never thought of himself as a good looking man.

The 36-year-old, who has worked in movies like Shame and Inglourious Basterds, dealt with acne during his teens, reports fe-malefirst.co.uk.

“I’ve never really thought of myself as good looking. I think of myself as, you know, alright,” Elle magazine quoted Fassbend-er as saying.

“I used to have bad acne as a teenager, so all of this is a bonus now, the fact that I don’t have pimples anymore,” he added.—PTI

Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher finalise divorce?

Los AngeLes, 1 Nov—Actors Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher have re-portedly signed their di-vorce papers.

They have come to an agreement to finalise their divorce after a near two-year court battle, and are expected to file the docu-

ments imminently, reports femalefirst.co.uk. The duo ended their marriage in 2011 and Kutcher filed for divorce in November last year. “Ashton and Demi have finally signed their divorce agreement. They are about to file paperwork with the court that will for-

mally end their marriage,” New York newspaper quot-ed a source as saying.

Kutcher and Moore ended their six-year-long marriage when the former was caught cheating on her. He is currently in a relation-ship with actress Mila Ku-nis.—PTI

Ashton and Demi ended their marriage in 2011.

Lady Gaga: I am not

conventionally beautiful

Los AngeLes, 1 Nov—Pop star Lady Gaga, who has often made headlines for her bizarre costumes and make-up, says she was never conventionally beau-tiful.

The 27-year-old singer opened about her notions of beauty and personal strug-gle in an interview, report-ed Glamour magazine.

When asked if she con-siders herself beautiful, she replied, “Not convention-ally beautiful.”

“I’ve always been OK with that. I’m not a super-model. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know that what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside. I’m confident in who I am,” Gaga said.

Pop star Lady Gaga

Katy Perry tops Billboard in worst week for album sales since 1991Los AngeLes, 1 Nov—

Pop singer Katy Perry shot to the top of the weekly Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday with her latest album, “Prism,” al-though overall album sales for the week were the low-est since the publication be-gan charting in 1991.

“Prism,” Perry’s fourth studio album, which fea-tures the lead single “Roar,” sold 286,000 copies in its first week, according to fig-ures from Nielsen SoundS-can, making it the biggest sales week by a female artist this year. It came in ahead of Miley Cyrus’ “Bangerz,” which sold 270,000 copies in its first week earlier this month.

The success of Perry’s latest album has been aided by the popularity of “Roar,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

But the opening week sales of “Prism” did not come close to the year’s biggest debuts, led by Jus-tin Timberlake’s “The 20/20 Experience,” which opened with 968,000 cop-ies in March. New albums from Jay Z, Kanye West and Daft Punk also opened with bigger sales earlier this year.

Overall album sales for

the week ended on 27 Oc-tober fell to a record low of 4.5 million units.

Album sales have gen-erally been lower this year compared with last year, partly because of listeners finding new digital plat-forms to consume music, often for free.

Other new albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart, which measures physical and digital sales, include girl band Fifth Harmony at No. 6 with its “Better Together” EP, hip

hop DJ Khaled at No 7 with “Suffering from Success,” and rockers AFI with “Bur-ials” at No 9.

On the Billboard Digi-tal Songs chart, which measures digital single sales, New Zealand new-comer Lorde reigned at No. 1 with “Royals.” Swedish DJ Avicii’s “Wake Me Up” climbed two spots to No. 2 and Lady Gaga’s new sin-gle, “Do What U Want,” with R&B singer R Kelly, rounded out the top 3.

Reuters

Pop singer Katy Perry

Gaga also explained the hurdles she faced being a woman in a male-domi-nated industry.

PTI

Cast members of “Last Vegas’’ (L-R) Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Mary Steenburgen, and Robert De

Niro, attend the premiere of the movie in New York, on 29 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

Buddy comedy ‘Last Vegas’ hits jackpot with

senior star wattageLAs VegAs, 1 Nov—

Oscar-winning actor Mor-gan Freeman has a conun-drum at 76 years of age: he gets plenty of job offers, but the roles tend to be serious and they only beget more serious roles.

“I would do anything that got me out of gravi-tas,” said the actor, who has played the likes of a prison inmate in 1994’s “The Shawshank Redemp-tion” and Nelson Mandela in 2009’s “Invictus” over a prolific career.

So when the script for senior buddy comedy “Last Vegas” rolled his way, Freeman snapped it up. And so did three more of Hollywood’s top actors

— Robert De Niro, Mi-chael Douglas and Kevin Kline — in what turned out to be an embarrassment of casting riches for a film of somewhat modest means. It opens in US theaters on Friday.

Incredibly, consider-ing their long and varied careers, the four had never worked together and had barely socialized.

“Between professional screenings and this or that, we know each other and say hi, but we didn’t have the intimacy that you are witnessing,” Douglas said, joking alongside his three co-stars while promoting the film at a Las Vegas ca-sino.—Reuters

Saturday, 2 November, 2013

SPORTS14 New Light of Myanmar

Murray will only return in Australia if in the shape to win

London, 1 Nov —Andy Murray will only play at next year’s Australian Open if his back has recov-ered enough for him to win the title.

Wimbledon champion Murray, runner-up to No-vak Djokovic in Melbourne this year, ended his season early last month when he

Wimbledon champion Andy Murray poses with his girlfriend Kim Sears, and his Officer of the Most Excel-

lent Order of the British Empire (OBE) medal after receiving it from Prince William during an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London on 17 Oct,

2013.—ReuteRs

had surgery on his lower back and will miss the ATP World Tour finals in Lon-don next week.

The world number four has begun his rehabilitation but said he will not be tak-ing any risks.

“You don’t come back just to play a match,” Murray was quoted on the

BBC’s website on Thurs-day. “If I come back I want to be in the shape to win it.”

“I’d be disappointed to miss the Australian Open because it’s a grand slam - it’s a tournament all the players want to play in,” added the 26-year-old.

“I can look at this in a lot of positive ways, if I do get myself ready for it I will have had a long lead up and training block to get myself in the best possible shape.”

Murray also missed the French Open with back problems but said surgery had been a tough decision.

“It was a hard decision to have surgery, to realise I was going to miss a period of time was frustrating,” he said.

“You realise how much you miss from competition where you’re away from it. It will be hard missing London, but I’ll just have to make the best of it.”

Reuters

new York, 1 Nov—Golf Channel television pundit Brandel Chamblee was out of order earlier this month when he implied world number one Tiger Woods had cheated, Rory McIlroy said on Thursday.

In a column, former US PGA Tour winner Chamblee graded several golfers for their seasons. Of Woods, he wrote: “He won five times and contended in majors and won the Vardon (Player of the Year) Trophy and ... how shall we say this ... was a little cavalier with the rules”.

Woods has threatened to sue Chamblee over his remarks and world number six McIlroy jumped to the defence of the 14-times ma-jor champion by urging the Golf Channel to take action against the pundit.

“He was out of line and something should be done about it (by) the Golf Chan-nel, that’s who Brandel is

Pundit was out of line with Woods cheat remarks

employed by and they are the ones that can deal with it,” the Northern Irishman told reporters after taking the first-round lead at the WGC-HSBC Champions Tournament.

“I’ll let the Golf Chan-nel executives think what the right way is,” added McIlroy, referring to Chamblee’s full-time em-ployer although the com-ments were made on golf.com which is not affiliated to the TV network.

American Chamblee, who has been an outspoken critic of Woods’s swing, has already announced he will stop his golf.com col-umn at the end of the year and instead write only for golfchannel.com.

Woods has been in-volved in a few rules con-troversies this season, most notably at the US Masters in April where he dropped his ball in an incorrect spot after taking a penalty from

Rory McIlroy

a hazard at the 15th hole.The 37-year-old Amer-

ican was given a retrospec-tive two-stroke penalty.

Organisers allowed the infraction to go unpun-ished on the day it occurred before a Masters official received a telephone call about the violation from former US Golf Associa-tion rules director David Eger.—Reuters

Milan losing touch with Champions League spots

AC Milan’s coach Massimiliano Allegri smiles as he walks during a training session at the Milanello train-ing center in Carnago, northern Italy on 21 Oct, 2013.

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MiLan, 1 Nov — AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri knows if his team do not start picking up points soon the unthinkable will happen and they will lose touch with third place and Champions League football next season.

Milan, who host Fioren-tina on Saturday (7:45 p.m. British time), have taken one point from their last two games to renew the al-most inevitable speculation about Allegri’s future, some-thing he has had to live with throughout the last two sea-sons.

After his side were held 1-1 at home by Lazio on Wednesday, leaving them 13 points off third spot, Allegri produced the familiar lines Milan fans have become tired of hearing recently.

He complained about

injuries, said they performed well, failed to take their chances, lost concentration and made no real mistakes apart from the goal they conceded. And he said they would fight on and do better

next time.“The team played well,

created chances and didn’t give anything to Lazio,” he said. “And after we went ahead we had a couple of situations which we should

have made more from.“We will only get out of

this with hard work but, of course, we are getting further away from third place. The teams ahead of us are travel-ling at an amazing speed and if we carry on like this, it will be impossible to overtake them.

“We must get back to winning... if we play like this, the team has a good chance of getting good results... There are reasons for not get-ting results but we have had a lot of injuries.” Milan are 10th in the table with only 12 points from 10 games, including a mere three wins.

They need to finish third to earn a place in the Cham-pions League playoff round, something they did by the skin of their teeth last season with a 2-1 win at Siena in their last game.—Reuters

Chelsea sign Burkina Faso teenager Traore

London, 1 Nov— Chelsea have agreed to sign 18-year-old Burkina Faso midfielder Bertrand Traore on a four and a half year contract, the club said on their website (www.chel-seafc.com) on Thursday.

He joins from Bur-kinabe club Association

Jeunes Espoirs De Bobo-Dioulasso, having had a trial spell with Chelsea on their pre-season tour of Asia.

Traore made his inter-national debut in 2011 at the age of 15 and now has 10 caps.

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Bertrand Traore

Madrid, 1 Nov —Atletico Madrid kept pace with leaders Barcelona and restored their five-point lead over third-placed city rivals Real when Diego Costa and David Villa each scored a penalty in a 2-1 win at Gra-nada in La Liga on Thurs-day.

Atletico, King’s Cup winners last season, have won 10 of their 11 league games this term, a record

Costa, Villa keep Atletico on Barcelona’s heelsonly bettered by unbeat-en champions Barca, and their only setback was this month’s 1-0 defeat at Es-panyol. Transformed into genuine title contenders by Argentine coach Diego Simeone, they have 30 points in second place, with Barca, who won 3-0 at Celta Vigo on Tuesday, on 31 and Real, 7-3 winners at home to Se-villa on Wednesday, on 25. Spain forward Villa won

both of Atletico’s penalties at Granada’s Los Carmenes stadium, La Liga top scorer Costa netting the first in the 38th minute for his 12th goal of the campaign.

Villa converted his spot kick in the 78th before Atletico fullback Felipe Luis was shown a second yellow card and sent off and Odion Jude Ighalo pulled a goal back for the home side in the first minute of added time.

“I am delighted with the ef-fort the players are putting in,” Simeone said at a news conference. “It’s not easy to win, win, win and continue winning,” the former Atleti-co and Argentina midfielder added. “What really pleases me is that the team knows how to suffer when it has to suffer because we will have to do so to keep fighting at the top of the table.”

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Atletico Madrid’s Diego Costa (R) is challenged by Granada’s Dimitri

Foulquier during their Spanish First Division soccer match at Nuevo Los Carmenes stadium

in Granada on 31 Oct, 2013.

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Four members of the Seventh Chinese medical aid team in Ecuador take part in the ceremony of receiving “The Star of the Armed Forces” medals in Quito, Ecuador,

on 31 Oct, 2013. Ecuador’s military Thursday conferred its highest honour on four Chinese medical aid workers, Zhang Guolong, Ma Baojia, Gao Changming and Li

Chunpeng, recognizing their great contribution.—Xinhua

Santiago, 1 Nov—A strong earthquake jolted northern Chile on Thursday with no reports of casualties so far.

The quake was reg-istered 6.4 on the Richter scale, with its epicenter lo-cated on the coast 67 km southwest of the city of

Strong quake rattles northern Chile, no reports of casualties

Coquimbo at a depth of 7 km, according to Chile’s National Seismological Centre. Initial reports from the US Geological Service said the epicentre of the 6.6-magnitude quake was located near the city of Co-quimbo, about 500 km north of capital Santiago. News

reports said telephone lines were knocked down and electricity was cut off, but so far there were no reports of casualties. The Chilean Navy’s Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service ruled out any possibility of a tsunami affecting Chile’s coasts. —Xinhua

Nadal on track for elusive Paris Masters titlePariS, 1 Nov — World

number one Rafa Nadal broke the stubborn resist-ance of Poland’s Jerzy Janowicz’s to win 7-5, 6-4 and reach the last eight of the Paris Masters on Thurs-day. In the semi-finals of the Paris event—one of only three Masters titles the Spaniard has yet to win —Nadal faces local favorite Richard Gasquet who, along with Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, have completed the ATP World Tour finals lineup.

Both players won their third-round matches at Bercy but it was Canadian Milos Raonic’s defeat by Tomas Berdych that sent them into next week’s sea-son-ending showdown in London.

They join Nadal, No-vak Djokovic, David Fer-rer, Juan Martin del Potro,

Berdych and Roger Federer in next week’s showpiece. All eight reached the Paris Masters quarter-finals on Friday. World number two Djokovic and 17-times grand slam champion Rog-er Federer, who is ranked sixth, also advanced.

Nadal, who has yet to win the Miami and Shang-hai Masters either, broke decisively in the 11th game of the opening set and, after an early trade of breaks in the second, got the upper hand when he took Janow-icz’s serve again in the fifth game.

The Pole, who broke into the limelight by reach-ing last year’s final at Bercy where he lost to Ferrer, con-tained his frustration but Nadal’s top spin was even-tually too much to handle.

Djokovic dispensed with his Darth Vader mask

and proved too strong for American John Isner in a 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-2 victory.

The Serbian, who en-tered the Bercy arena last year imitating the infamous Star Wars villain, survived a barrage of aces from the towering Isner before ruth-lessly taking him apart.

“I know, I know. It’s my fault. I was not prepared enough... so I’m going to have to be pretending that I’m myself this year. No Darth Vader,” Djokovic, who watched nine aces fly by him in the opener, told a news conference. Federer showed glimpses

of his brilliant best as he outclassed German Philip Kohlschreiber 6-3, 6-4 to advance.

A day after securing his place at the World Tour finals, the Swiss won com-fortably to set up a clash with Argentine Juan Martin del Potro, who beat him in the Basel final last week.

“It wouldn’t be nice to lose once more against him. If it happens I will accept it, but if I win I will have something extra for Lon-don,” Federer told a news conference.

“I have an idea of my tactics, my gameplan. Now it’s important to be able to do it, actually do it on the court.” Compatriot Waw-rinka and Gasquet qualified for London after Raonic, who only had a slim chance of snatching one of the last two spots, lost 7-6(13),

6-4 to Czech sixth seed Berdych.

Seventh seed Waw-rinka, Djokovic’s next opponent, beat Spaniard Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 6-2 while Gasquet, who knew he had qualified for the London event before his match, breezed past Ja-pan’s Kei Nishikori by the same score.

Wawrinka is eighth in the ATP Race to Lon-don with Gasquet in ninth spot. The cut off point for qualification was lowered to ninth after British world number four Andy Murray pulled out of the season finale because of lower back surgery. Third-seed-ed Spaniard Ferrer con-tinued his bid to become the first man to retain the Bercy title by demolishing France’s Gilles Simon 6-2, 6-3.—Reuters

Novak Djokovic of Serbia hits a returns to Pierre-Hugues Herbert of France during their second round men’s singles match at the Paris Masters tennis

tournament at Bercy stadium in Paris, on 29 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

Bulgarian Customs seize 73 kg of heroin hidden in car

Sofia, 1 Nov — Bul-garian customs had seized 73.38 kg of heroin, the larg-est haul of heroin found in a car in the past five years, the National Customs Agency said on its website on Wednesday.

Inspectors found the drugs at Kapitan Andreevo

checkpoint in southern Bul-garia in a Bulgarian car. The car was driven by a Bulgarian citizen, who was entering his country from Turkey, the agency said.

The heroin, split into 140 packets wrapped in car-bon paper, was hidden in a specially built secret com-

partment in the back seat, the agency said.

Bulgaria is a popular transit country for drug trafficking. In the past two months, customs officers have seized 178 kg of drugs in total, including 100 kg of heroin.

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Nay Pyi Taw, 1 Nov—Four Bills including the Myanmar Engineer-ing Council Bill sent back by Pyithu Hluttaw was ap-proved at today's session of Amyotha Hluttaw.

Regarding the Myan-mar Engineering Council Bill, MP U Soe Myint of Magway Region Constitu-ency No.6 said this law is in urgent need. The engi-neering students are facing difficulties in landing a job and have to wait for getting certificates even after they have got the degree. This is due to lack of that law. This law should be enacted.

Under ASEAN Free Trade Agreement, the workers as well as engi-neers will have opportuni-ties to work freely in the ASEAN countries. Under the bill approved today, certificates will be issued to the engineering stu-dents soon after they have

Amyotha Hluttaw approves Myanmar Engineering Council Bill

completed their course. This certificate will give them a chance to work in any ASEAN countries. In the olden days, they had few employment opportu-nities due to lack of this certificate. After the enact-ment of this law, there will be more job opportunities in ASEAN countries, he added.

Union Minister at Pres-ident Office U Soe Maung replied to the question on systematic appointment of staffmembers in township offices, which is raised by MP U Tun Zaw (a) Ko Pauk of Bago Region Constitu-ency No. 12. The Union Minister said Section 257

of the Constitution states that "The Region or State Government may, for ena-bling the performance of the functions to be carried out in accord with the Un-ion Law for Civil Services and in co-coordination with the Union Government in advance: (a) form Civil Ser-vices organizations relating to the Region or State as necessary; (b) appoint the required number of Civil Services personnel.

The vacant posts of lower division clerk in Okpo Township Law Of-fice, Thayawady District, Bago Region have been filled on 30 September, 2013, he added.—MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 1 Nov—Deputy Minister for En-ergy U Myint Zaw replied that over K 1200 million as compensation for confisca-tion of farmlands, horticul-tural lands and croplands to farmers in Kyaukpyu Township, regarding the question on oil and gas tasks and clearance of water course jointly conducted by CNPC Company of China and the government in Ma-daykyun region raised by U Ba Shein of Kyaukpyu Constituency at today’s Pyithu Hluttaw session.

The deputy minister said that compensation worth over 4020 million kyats have been given to farmers for permanently confiscated farmlands and over K 148 million for tem-porarily confiscated lands in Rakhine State from 2010 to 2014. Moreover, com-

Unlawful Association Act should be amended in conformity with

political progresspensation has been given as over K 85 million for farmlands damaged in 2012 rainy season and over K 63 million in 2013. A total of 209 farmers of An Town-ship have got more than K 37 million for 61.112 acres of farmlands.

Water course was dredged to have 27 metres draught for 300,000-ton vessels that will anchor at the oil port. Clearing the water course did not change condition of water ways and natural fishing blocks.

Questioner U Ba Shein said, “Factories and pipe-lines were built around Kyaukpyu and jetties con-structed at Maday Island. Construction tasks may beget impacts on natural rocks of fish. Anchoring of ocean liners in the water course causes loss of fish-ing blocks for fishermen.

I would like to know con-fiscation of farmlands and creation of jobs for people.”

U Sai Bo Aung of Muse Constituency asked whether there is plan to amend or revoke the 1908 Unlawful Association Act. Deputy Minister for Home Affairs Brig-Gen Kyaw Kyaw Tun replied that de-terrent action will be taken against those who com-mitted the terrorist activity that may disrupt the rule of law and peace and stabil-ity. As the terrorist activity may occur at any time, the Unlawful Association Act should not be revoked. In conformity with the pro-gress of political progress, the law should be amended.

The Hluttaw discussed and approved the bill amending the 1954 state memorials act.

MNA

UCSB Chairman attends workshop on Strengthening

Social Protection and Gender Mainstreaming

Nay Pyi Taw, 1 Nov—After attending the workshop on Strengthen-ing Social Protection and Gender Mainstreaming towards Effective and Ef-ficient Civil Service held at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta of Indonesia on 29 and 30 October, at the invitation of the ASEAN Secretariat in Indonesia, the Myanmar delega-tion led by U Kyaw Thu, Chairman of the Union Civil Services Board (UCSB) arrived back to Yangon by air via Singa-pore yesterday.

On 29 October, the UCSB Chairman delivered the opening remarks at the opening session of the workshop and also served

as Moderator in one session in which the outcomes of the group discussions were reported.

During the visit, the chairman held cordial and wide-ranging discussions with the Deputy Secretary-General and responsible persons from the ASEAN Secretariat regarding the 17th ASEAN Conference on Civil Service Matters which is being currently chaired by the UCSB during the year 2013-2014 and enhancing efficiency and administrative matters of the Civil Service.

The UCSB Chairman also delivered the closing remarks at the conclusion of the workshop held on the evening of 30 October.

MNA

Villagers from Nant-sawlaw of Monyin

Township actively

partaking in paving concrete

on Nantyin Creek bridge on 28 Octo-ber.—NLM

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Out of two Bayint-naung bypasses, a new Bayintnaung bypass link-ing south and north, which is crucial was commodity flow, was put into service as of 31 October.

The newly-inaugurated Bayintnaung bypass and a bypass which is under construction on Thamaing railway station street com-prised two-lane motorway and four-lane motor roads each. Bayintnaung bypass is 1444 ft long and Tha-maing bypass, 1669 ft long.

Plans are underway to expand Bayintnaung Road under Bayintnaung bypass to eight-lane motorway

Newly-opened Bayintnaung bypass commissioned into service

Byline: Saw Thein Win

and the western side of Thamaing railway station from Bayintnaung Bridge to the junction will be ex-tended into six-lane mo-torway and from the junc-tion to Thamaing railway station street section into a

four-lane one.The newly-opened

Bayintnaung bypass allows containers, timber-loaded vehicles, trucks and passen-ger buses and can withstand 75-ton of load. East and west Thamaing railway sta-

tion bypass that can with-stand 60-ton of load comes into operation soon.

*****Kyemon: 1.11.2013

Translation: KHS

MahlaiNg, 1 Nov—Construction of a sesame grinding factory near Kangyi Village, 1.5 miles to Mahlaing, has been com-pleted by 90 percent.

The factory will pur-chase sesame from farmers in Yangon and Mandalay at current prices and create

Mahlaing to export sesame powder to ROK

jobs for local people.A plan is underway to

grind sesame, groundnut and sunflower. Farmers do not need to sell their prod-ucts, spending transport charge. Sesame powder will be exported to Repub-lic of Korea.

Kyaw Kyaw (Mahlaing)

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