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Volume XXI, Number 187 1st Waning of Thadingyut 1375 ME Sunday, 20 October, 2013 Volume XXI, Number 188 2nd Waning of Thadingyut 1375 ME Monday, 21 October, 2013

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Newly discovered asteroid has little

chance of hitting EarthINSIDE

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China’s pioneers to drive recovery

in solar equipment

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Europe’s bold vision hits trouble

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Gov’t encourages

more young

Japanese to work at

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ASEAN Neurological Association Convention

held in Brunei

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Hillary Clinton hits campaign trail,

endorses McAuliffe in Virginia

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Yangon, 20 Oct—President U Thein Sein inspected preparations for hosting the XXVII SEA Games at Wunna Theikdhi Stadium, here, this morning.

At the stadium, the President viewed a scale model of the stadium and souvenirs, con-struction of the football ground and progress of the stage where opening and closing ceremonies will be held. Patron of the Leading Commit-tee for Organizing the XXVII SEA Games Vice-President U Nyan Tun, Chairman of the Leading Committee U Tint Hsan and officials reported on progress of works.

At the hall, Chair-man of the Leading

SEA Games, glittering future for Myanmar youths: PresidentCommittee Union Min-ister U Tint Hsan submit-ted reports on progress of stadium, gymnasium and transit centres and holding the games.

For his part, the President said that fo-cuses of the State, ministries, athletes and people are now on suc-cessfully hosting the SEA Games. The State on its part lays down necessary policies, strat-egies and tactics for the games.

He stressed the need to make coordination among ministries for achieving success. He urged the athletes to pour out vigorous efforts in re-spective sports competi-tions to grab victory.

Tumultous applause from the people will help

the athletes to secure achievements. To be able to organize the games properly, the Leading Organizing Commit-tee needs to arrange the

games, he said.He pointed out that

hosting the SEA Games is to create better future for the youths.

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“Hosting SEA Games is to create better future for the youths. The XXVII SEA Games is great opportunity for Myanmar as a host in 44 years. With farsightedness to host more games, ar-rangements must be made for turning out excellent athletes. SEA Games will bring a glittering future to Myanmar youths.”

President U Thein Sein inspects preparations for hosting the XXVII SEA Games at Wunna Theikdhi Stadium.—mna

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Commander presents aid, cash awards to militia (local) troops

P y i g y i m a n d a i n g , 20 Oct—Commander of Coastal Region Command Maj-Gen Khin Maung Htay presented supplies to members of the militia (local) at the hall of local battalion in Pyigyimandaing Sub-Township on 17 October morning.

T h e c o m m a n d e r

presented rice, edible oil, salt and foodstuffs for four months worth K 3,120,000 to 60 members of people’s militia troops from Chaungkaphe, Kawye and Kandaw villages of Bokpyin Township and Mandaing, Lanphonkan and Taungnge villages of Pyigyimandaing Sub-Township.

Celebrating of 503rd birthday of Ketumati (Toungoo) discussed

Toungoo, 20 Oct—The third coordination meeting on celebrating the 503rd Founding Anniversary of Ketumati (Toungoo) City was held at the hall of Tawwin Ketumati Hotel on 17 October afternoon.

C h a i r m a n o f t h e O r g a n i z i n g L e a d i n g C o m m i t t e e D e p u t y Commissioner U Kyaw Thet of the district made a speech.

U Thein Zaw Win, Township Administrator, submitted the minutes of the previous meeting. Prof (Rtd) Dr Mar Mar Wai acted as MC.

C h a i r m e n o f t h e respective subcommittes submitted progress of their respective tasks.

With the assistance of Patron of the Organizing

Committee Chairman of CB Bank U Khin Maung Aye, the anniversary of Toungoo City has been held on a grand scale since its 500th anniversary held in 2010.

This year, the celebration will be held like that of previous years.

The responsible persons of the committee will organize the literary talks, merit sharing ceremony for completion of Sikhon encircled zedi and siairways, hoisting of umbrella at Kelazati Pagoda, 503 boys novitiation, 28-Buddha images procession, dawn meals offereing to over 1000 members of the Sangha, lighting adrift at river and entertainments and prize presentation.

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MBOA, MRG (Mandalay) jointly open mobile repairing course for orphan children

mandalay, 20 Oct—A press meet was held at Min Thiha Ko Cafe on 78th street between 31st and 32nd streets in Chanayethazan

Township of Mandalay on 17 October.

MBOA and MRG ( M a n d a l a y ) m a d e clarification on opening of mobile phone repairing course for orphans.

Myanmar Buddhist Orphans Association-MBOA opened the course as of 6 October to enable the orphans from various orphanages regardless of citizen and religion to learn mobile phone software & hardware.

The course was opened from 9 am to 12 noon as one section and from 3 pm to 6 pm as another section. Each section can hold 15 trainees.

The course lasts two and a half months. The courses will be conducted four times a year. There is no limit in educational qualification of the trainees but they must be above 12 years old. The application for the couse must be completed with one copy of citizenship scrutiny card, CV form, three passport sized photos and endorsement of the head of the orphanage to be sent to Mula Ngasoh Building at Pyigyimyetshin Monastery at the corner of 30th and 62nd streets.

“It is a free course for orphans. Training is being

conducted to them with the use of cent per cent teaching aids. The trainers totally give techniques to them,” a trainer of the training school of MRG (Mandalay).

“Now, the number of mobile users is growing day by day. The training course will give techniques to the trainees for winning job opportunities. Upon completion of the training, they will have capability to do their works for mobile phone service to the customers so as to earn incomes, said an official of MRG (Mandalay).

Kyemon-Thiha Ko Ko (Mandalay)

SEA Games logo with oil lamp lighting

mandalay, 20 Oct—The 14th Lighting Festival on Fullmoon Day of Thadingyut, o rgan ized by Se ik t a Thukha Youth, was held at Maha Lawka Yanhnein Aungdawmu Pagoda on 29th street between 63rd and 28th streets in Chanayethazan

Township of Mandalay on the Fullmoon Day of Thadingyut, yesterday.

The youths created the shapes of Oil mascots hailing the coming SEA Games together with Welcome to SEA Games.

Over 40 members of

the association participated in the creation of the shapes with the use of lights as of yesterday morning. Members of the association offered oil lamps to Aungdawmu Pagoda yearly.

Kyemon-Ba Oo (Mann)

Myanmar worker in Thailand gets compensation for loss of fingers

Bangkok, 20 Oct—Thanks to those who helped for labour affairs, a Myanmar worker who was injured at the paper box factory on

63rd Phetkasem Road in Bangkok of Thailand has received over 400,000 bahts for compensation on 10 October, according

to the Myanmar groups in Thailand.

Ko Min Soe, 27, son of U Aung Tin-Daw Than of Magyikyun Village of Hpa-an Township in Kayin State lost a half of his left palm at 7.30 pm on 8 January unexpectedly.

With regard to the incident, “When I was d i s c h a r g e d f r o m t h e hospital, I did not know to seek help. In February, Sayadaw U Jotika gave me te lephone number of the MAT group. So I got 400,000 bahts for compensation. I thanked all for their assistance and

helps,” said Ko Min Soe.Director of MAT U

Kyaw Thaung said, “We work together with lawyers for demanding the rights of workers. We demanded the compensation at the labour office. But, the owner refused to give it. We went to the court. So, we spent a long time for it.”

He continued that the worker holds passport and work permit only. He did not have parasakhun and bank account. So, he had to be content with the compensation they gave.

Kyemon-Soe Win (MLA)

Ko Min Soe, worker in Thailand, shows his left hand without a half of palm.

LabourAffairs

A f t e r t h a t , t h e commander presented K 300,000 as cash awards to Mandaing Militia (Local) Troop for its excellent performance in exposing and seizing one pistol and nine rounds from Mon State Rehabilitation Group. Kyemon-Pyigyimandaing

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Myanmar U-23 team to play against Korean club Guanju on 21 Oct

yangon, 20 Oct—Myanmar U-23 football team taking a joint-training in the Republic of Korea will play a tune-up match with Guanju club of Korea at Mokpo National Football Centre at 3 pm local standard time tomorrow.

The Myanmar youth team plans to take a joint training at Mokpo National

Football Centre in Mokpo of Republic of Korea during the 14-day period.

During the training period, Myanmar will play four tune-up matches with Korean clubs.

Guanju club had played with Myanmar U-22 team before the qualifier of the Asian U-22 Championship in 2012.

Myanmar U-23 team will leave for Japan to take more training in Osaka up to 10 November and to play tune-up matches with Japanese teams after completion of training in the Republic of Korea up to 31 October.—Kyemon-Maung Maung Zaw

National SportsAffairs

Monday, 21 October, 2013 3New Light of MyanmarWORLD

Egyptian security personnel and residents check the site of an explosion in Ismailia city, around 120 km, east of

Cairo, on 19 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

Car bomb near Egypt army intelligence

building wounds sixIsmaIlIa, 20 Oct—

A car bomb exploded on Saturday near an Egyptian army intelligence building in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, wounding at least six soldiers, security sourc-es said.

No group has claimed responsibility, but al Qae-da-linked militants in the largely lawless Sinai region have stepped up attacks on soldiers and police since the army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July.

The militants have on occasion extended their campaign into major cities. Military spokesman Ahmed Ali said in a statement the

bombing was “a continu-ation of the wave of cow-ardly terrorist attacks”, by groups he described as pro-moting strife.

Security personnel searching the area found another car bomb, which had not gone off, state me-dia and security sources said.

Heavy smoke could be seen rising from a building nearby. The force of the blast caused part of the mil-itary intelligence building’s outer wall to collapse.

Some security sources said the bomb was planted in a car belonging to a doc-tor who lived in a nearby building. In September the

Policemen and firemen work after a train from the Sarmiento line crashed at the Once Station, in Buenos

Aires, capital of Argentina, on 19 Oct, 2013. A spokesman of the Sarmiento line informed at least 40

people were hurt, five seriously, in the train crash pregistered early Saturday at the Once Station

in Buenos Aires. —Xinhua

At least 99 injured in Buenos Aires train crash

Buenos aIres, 20 Oct—At least 99 people were injured in a train crash at a Buenos Aires commut-er rail station on Saturday,

Car bomb, clashes kill over 30 near Syrian capital

A Free Syrian Army fighter stands atop of a tank after firing towards what the FSA said were locations

controlled by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in the eastern Hama countryside

on 16 Oct, 2013. .—ReuteRs

BeIrut, 20 Oct—Syr-ian rebels blew up an army checkpoint outside. Damas-cus on Saturday and more than 30 combatants from both sides died in the blast and ensuing clashes, a mon-itoring group said.

The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Hu-man Rights said 15 rebels and at least 16 soldiers were killed.

The British-based Ob-servatory said the check-point explosion, near the suburbs of Mleiha and Ja-ramana, was detonated by a suicide bomber from the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.

Nusra supporters on Twitter, however, said the bomber had intended to

Somali government soldiers gather at the scene of a suicide bomb attack within a military base tea shop in

Somalia’s town of Baladweyne on 19 Oct, 2013.ReuteRs

Suicide bomber kills 16 in Somali cafe attack aimed

at foreign troopsmogadIshu, 20 Oct—

A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people on Saturday in an attack on a cafe in a Somali town close to the Ethiopian border frequent-ed by local and foreign soldiers fighting al Qaeda-linked rebels.

Al Shabaab said it had carried out the bombing, in the town of Baladweyne, targeting troops participat-ing in an African Union peacekeeping force fighting the Somali Islamist group.

“A man with an ex-plosives jacket entered un-expectedly in the tea shop where soldiers and civilians sat ... and blew himself up,” said local elder Ahmed Nur, speaking from the scene of the blast.

At least 16 people were killed and 33 wounded, lo-cal politician Dahir Amin

Jesow told Reuters by tel-ephone from Baladweyne. “The death toll may rise.”

Somali and African forces pushed Al Shabaab out of Baladweyne, about 210 miles north of Moga-dishu, more than a year ago.

But while the territory that al Shabaab controls has greatly dwindled over the past two years, it continues to control large rural areas and some towns and has ratcheted up guerrilla-style attacks.

“Our main target was Ethiopian and Djibouti troops who invaded our country,” said Al Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Abdia-sis Abu Musab. He put the death toll at 25.There was no independent word on whether foreign soldiers were among the casualties.

Reuters

blow himself up in the car, but instead got out before setting off the explosives inside. They said rebel forc-es had captured the check-point hit by the car bomb

and were battling to take a second one nearby.

Syrian state television reported the blast but gave no death toll, saying only that several people had

been killed or wounded in a “terrorist bombing”.

The Observatory, which has a network of activists across Syria, said Syrian fighter jets retali-ated by striking nearby op-position-held areas such as Mleiha. Video uploaded by activists showed a huge column of smoke billow-ing up from the scene, and the sound of fighter jets streaking overhead could be heard.

Rebels also fired rock-ets into Jaramana, a suburb held by the government, ac-cording to the Observatory. It said the air force carried out four strikes on adjacent rebel-held districts.

Reuters

Empress turns 79, shows joy over crown princess’

rare overseas triptokyo, 20 Oct.—Em-

press Michiko, on the occa-sion of her 79th birthday on Sunday, expressed her joy over Crown Princess Ma-sako’s first official overseas trip in 11 years.

“I was truly happy that the Crown Princess was able to visit the Netherlands and return home safely,” the empress said in a statement, referring to the princess’ visit with Crown Prince Naruhito in April to attend Dutch Prince Willem-Alex-ander’s coronation.

“I am glad to see that since the visit, she has con-tinued to be well, visiting disaster-afflicted areas and even attending ceremonies together with the Crown Prince,” the empress said in her response to written questions from reporters.

army launched a campaign against armed militants in Sinai, a desert region whose Bedouin population has long complained of neglect by successive governments in Cairo.

Egypt’s turmoil has in-tensified since the army de-posed Mursi and installed a new government, saying

it was responding to mass protests against the freely elected president’s rule.

Mursi’s Muslim Broth-erhood, once again out-lawed in Egypt as it was under ousted President Hosni Mubarak, called the Islamist leader’s overthrow a military coup.

Reuters

The crown princess, who has been suffering from a stress-induced illness for years, traveled with the crown prince in September for a day trip to Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, to visit people affected by the March 2011 earthquake, tsu-nami and nuclear disaster. Earlier this month, the crown princess joined the crown prince for a classical music concert in Tokyo.

As for her own health, Empress Michiko said she has begun to suffer pain and numbness in her arms and legs due to old age but assured the public that her current condi-tion does not need “constant medication or treatment” and she “will be able to continue” with her duties as she has “without much change.”

Kyodo News

officials said.There are 99 people

who were hospitalized for injuries after the train crash at the Once train station in

Buenos Aires, a local offi-cial said. Security Secretary of Argentina Sergio Berni said no fatalities had been recorded so far.

Argentine Transpor-tation Minister Florencio Randazzo said earlier at a Press conference that 80 people have been treated and that only eight re-mained “under observa-tion” after a Sarmiento Line train hit containment fences at the station in the Balva-nera neighborhood at 7:35 a.m. local time.

“None of them was seriously injured,” he was quoted by the official news agency as saying. Ran-dazzo ruled out technical problem being the cause of the train crash, as early re-ports indicated the train had

trouble braking when it hit the fence. He said the train known as “Chapa 5” had had an integral mechanical inspection that checks the break system, compression, bumper and general mainte-nance. The driver Julio Be-nitez had tested negative for alcohol before his work shift and Benitez did not commu-nicate with the control tower to warn of any failures, the minister added.

He also said the railway of the station where the ac-cident occurred was also inspected Friday night. But he said the train “traveled at a speed of 22 km per hour (kph),” higher than the regu-lated 12 kph in this section. The driver was also injured and taken into custody.

Xinhua

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Science & TechnologyNew Light of Myanmar

Newly discovered asteroid has little chance of hitting Earth

Washington, 20 Oct —US experts warned on Fri-day against any panic over newly discovered asteroid 2013 TV135, saying that the chance of an impact in the year of 2032 is extremely slim and could probably be “ruled out entirely” in the future. The space rock was discovered on 8 Oct, 2013 by astronomers working at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Ukraine. It made a close approach to Earth on 16 September, when it came within about 6.7 million kilometers, and could be back in Earth’s neighbourhood in 2032. At

least for the moment, ex-perts cannot eliminate the risk of an impact then.

“The odds of an impact in 2032, as calculated today after 9 days of observing 2013 TV135, are now 1-in-48,000, so a little higher than two days ago,” Jose Luis Galache, an astrono-mer with the US-based Minor Planet Centre, a branch of the International Astronomical Union, told Xinhua. “However, I would like to stress that the orbit we have computed after only 9 days of observations is very imprecise, so we can’t draw any conclusions

yet from these numbers,” Galache said. Earlier, US space agency NASA deter-mined the impact probabil-ity as being at only one in 63,000.

“As observations con-tinue, the impact prob-ability will be updated and there is a 99. 998 percent chance that the possibility of impact will be ruled out,” NASA spokesman David Agle said. Even if it did hit, it doesn’t mean the end for humans. “2013 TV135 is estimated to be about 400 metres in diameter.

While the impact of such an object would be destructive over a large re-gion, it would not rise to the level of a global disaster,” Agle told Xinhua. Galache, however, said the asteroid’s size is still not precisely known. He estimated that it’s between 300 and 700 metres wide. “At this size range, an impact with Earth would be destructive on subcontinental level, but

disastrous for the area af-fected nonetheless.

The crater left by the impact would be 5 to 15 km wide, with trees and buildings being destroyed by the heat and shock wave up to tens of kilometres away from the impact site. If the asteroid were to hit an ocean, it would create a tsunami with a wave height of several tens of metres,” Galache said. “We will con-tinue to monitor the aster-oid until we become certain the it will not impact, which is the most likely scenario. If at any moment we deter-mine that there will be an impact, or the impact risk is very high, then astrono-mers and engineers would come together to find the best way to move this aster-oid. Many different meth-ods have been proposed to move asteroids from their orbits, and we would pick the best one for this object,” he added.

Xinhua

The new Nexus 7 tablet is demonstrat-

ed during a Google event at Dogpatch

Studio in San Francisco,

California, on 24 July , 2013.

ReuteRs

Google shares break $1,000 barrier as mobile

pays offsan Frncisco, 20

Oct— Google Inc shares jumped past $1,000 on Fri-day as investors bet on the Internet company’s con-tinued dominance of the mobile and video advertis-ing businesses despite ag-gressive competition from Facebook Inc and Yahoo Inc.Shares of the world’s No 1 search company rose more than 14 percent to an all-time high of $1,015.46, swelling its market value by about $40 billion.

That vaulted Google past Microsoft Corp and Berkshire Hathaway Inc in

capitalization and brought it to No 3 among US com-panies, behind only Apple Inc and Exxon Mobil Corp Google, whose Android is the world’s most-used mobile software and You-Tube is the most popular video-streaming service, on Thursday reported a 23 percent jump in net revenue from its Internet business. Advertising volume soared 26 percent — the highest rate of growth in the past year — and more than made up for an 8 percent slide in ad prices.

Reuters

China’s pioneers to drive recovery in solar equipment demand

Bangalore, 20 Oct —As China’s solar panel makers venture into un-charted markets, the hand-ful of companies that sup-ply equipment for their plants are dusting off their order books to meet a re-vival in demand. GT Ad-vanced Technologies Inc (GTAT.O) and Meyer Burger Technology AG MBTN.S expect a new wave of orders from next year, when worldwide spending by solar compa-nies is forecast to rise for the first time since 2011.

“Demand is coming from many more countries than previously, and the emerging markets are wak-ing up to the potential from solar,” said Edward Guin-ness, co-portfolio manager at Guinness Atkinson Asset Management in London.

China is the world’s largest solar panel maker. Its com-panies, stung by a slow-down in the once-lucrative European market, are mov-ing into Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and southeast Asia, where demand for solar power is rising fast. Attracted by lo-

A worker inspects solar panels at a solar farm in Dunhuang, 950km (590 miles) northwest of Lanzhou,

Gansu Province on 16 Sept, 2013.—ReuteRs

cal incentives to invest in these markets, companies such as JinkoSolar Holding Co Ltd (JKS.N) and Cana-dian Solar Inc (CSIQ.O) view overseas production as a way around US and European Union tariffs on China-made solar products.

Reuters

Motorola looking to exit wireless LAN business

neW York, 20 Oct —Motorola Solutions Inc is exploring the sale of its underperforming wireless LAN business, which has grappled with declining share in a market dominated by rivals such as Cisco Sys-tems Inc, people familiar with the matter said.

An exit from the wire-less LAN market would come as Motorola, the pro-vider of data communica-tions and telecommunica-tions equipment, seeks to focus on its core govern-ment and public safety di-vision. Motorola Solutions, which succeeded Motorola Inc following the spin-off of the mobile phones busi-ness into Motorola Mobil-ity in 2011, provides com-munication services for the US government and other enterprise customers. Mo-

torola Mobility was later sold to Google Inc for $12.5 billion.The wireless local area network unit, which is under Motorola Solutions’ enterprise division, has struggled amid competition from top players including Aruba Networks Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co, as well as smaller players such as Ubiquiti Networks Inc.

“It’s a tough market. It’s being squeezed from the top by Cisco and from the bottom by Ubiquiti,” said one of the people familiar with the matter, adding that the talks are at an early stage. The people asked not to be named because the

matter is confidential. Mo-torola declined to comment. The Motorola unit’s rev-enues declined by a mid-single digit percentage point in the second quarter, fol-lowing a massive 30 percent decline in the first quarter.

Reuters

Greg Brown, Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions, speaks with the media after meeting with US President Barack Obama and other CEOs at the White House in

Washington on 5 Feb, 2013.—ReuteRs

Siemens shakeup returns power to country managers

The company logo of Siemens AG is pictured atop an office building in Berlin on 30 Sept, 2013. —ReuteRs

FrankFurt, 20 Oct—- Siemens’ new Chief Execu-tive Joe Kaeser is returning more power to lower-level managers around the world with the aim of making the engineering group more nimble. The company, Germany’s second-biggest by market value, said in a statement on Thursday it was doing away with a level of regional management it

calls “clusters”, introduced by former chief executive Peter Loescher in 2008, to return to a flatter hierarchy and make it easier to take quick decisions. “Eliminat-ing the clusters will make Siemens more streamlined and closer to the markets,” Siemens said as around 600 of its managers held an an-nual meeting in Berlin.

Kaeser, a 33-year com-

pany veteran, was named as CEO at the end of July after Siemens dumped Loescher four years before the end of his contract, following a series of profit warnings. Now he has to find a way to whip into shape a lumber-ing conglomerate with 78 billion euros ($105 billion) of annual sales and products ranging from gas turbines to high-speed trains and ul-

trasound machines. Under the new structure, manag-ers in countries that are most important to Siemens in terms of business vol-ume and growth prospects will report directly to the executive board members responsible for Siemens’ four main businesses — In-dustry, Energy, Healthcare and Infrastructure & Cities.

Reuters

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BUSINESS & HEALTHNew Light of Myanmar

Europe’s bold vision hits troubleBrussels, 20 Oct—

Barely a year after Euro-pean leaders set out an am-bitious vision for the euro zone’s future, progress has all but stalled and pressure is building for what may amount to a ‘make or break’ moment for the union.

The idea of a roadmap setting out steps towards the deeper integration of the euro zone came about in early 2012, when the debt crisis was at its peak and there were legitimate fears that Greece could be forced out of the currency union, or that the whole European project could disintegrate.

With the global eco-nomic debate dominated by the United States and, increasingly, China, the European Union risks los-ing its influence unless it can speak with one voice. Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, which brings to-gether the EU’s member states, was asked by lead-ers to draft a report detail-ing what was required to strengthen the single cur-rency and overhaul the monetary union.

The plan involved

Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, addresses the 68th United Nations General As-

sembly at UN headquarters in New York, on 25 Sept, 2013.—ReuteRs

working with three other top crisis-fighting figures -— European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, European Commission President Jose Manuel Bar-roso and then president of euro zone finance ministers, Jean-Claude Juncker -- on a document to be presented to leaders in June 2012.

The focus was on four ‘building blocks’ that would complete monetary union: a “banking union” to strengthen the banking sector, a “fiscal union” to improve coordination of budget-related policy, an “economic union” to fur-ther integration and finally

a “political union” to make the project more demo-cratic. Van Rompuy pre-sented a preliminary report, grandly titled “Towards a Genuine Economic and Monetary Union,” to Eu-ropean leaders in June and they gave him the go-ahead to develop the ideas further, which took up much of the rest of 2012.

EU leaders’ largely un-equivocal backing for the plan gave Draghi the cover he felt he needed to deliver his pivotal pledge just a month later that the ECB was ready to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro.

Reuters

Boeing slows production of 747; little financial impact seen

New York, 20 Oct —Boeing Co (BA.N) said on Friday it was notching down the production rate of its biggest plane, the iconic bubble-top 747, due to slack demand. The slow-down won’t affect financial forecasts for Boeing, ana-lysts said, because produc-tion of the jet is so limited. Only about 50 planes, with a list price of $357 mil-lion, are currently on order. Analysts expect Boeing to report solid third-quarter results on Wednesday, and many predict its stock, cur-rently at record levels, will continue climbing.

The rate reduction re-flects declining use of the 747 and to a lesser extent its newer rival, the Airbus (EAD.PA) A380 superjum-bo. Rather than flying those large four-engine jets, many airlines prefer to fly slightly smaller twin-engine planes that are easier to fill and burn less fuel. The deci-sion also reflects Boeing’s prescience in deciding to build the 787 a decade ago. While Airbus developed the double-decker A380, which carries 525 people in some

A Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 touches down at Dulles In-ternational Airport outside Washington for the first time

on 1 June, 2012.—ReuteRs

configurations, Boeing cor-rectly predicted that airlines would want long-range, twin-engine planes that can fly direct, point to point routes, rather than carrying passengers through hubs where they would have to change planes.

“The A380 has more life since it is much newer,” said Ken Herbert, an ana-lyst at Canaccord Genuity Inc But with the twin-en-gine Airbus A350-1000 and Boeing 777X jets coming out, “the days of the quad engine are numbered, in my view.” Boeing focused on building the 250-seat 787, and extending its best-sell-ing 777 to fly farther and

carry about 368 passengers. Airbus is due to deliver the first of its A350 family, which will eventually carry up to 350 passengers, start-ing next year. The 747-8 carries 467 passengers in a typical configuration, and the company said it contin-ues to invest in the plane, which has engine technol-ogy derived from the 787.

But sales have been slow. Only 107 of the 747-8 model have sold, and 56 have been delivered. So far this year, Boeing has re-ceived just five orders for the 747-8. Five older orders were canceled, however, leaving no new orders.

Reuters

Pakistan polio outbreak puts global eradication at risk

loNdoN, 20 Oct—A Taleban ban on vaccination is exacerbating a serious polio outbreak in Pakistan, threatening to derail dra-matic progress made this year towards wiping out the disease worldwide, health officials say. Health teams in Pakistan have been at-tacked repeatedly since the Taliban denounced vaccines as a Western plot to sterilize Muslims and imposed bans on inoculation in June 2012.

In North Waziristan, a region near the Afghan bor-der that has been cordoned off by the Taleban, dozens of children, many under the age of two, have been crip-

A policeman stands guard as female polio workers wait to give polio vaccine drops to children in Lahore

on 20 Dec, 2012. —ReuteRs

pled by the viral disease in the past six months. And there is evidence in tests conducted on sewage sam-ples in some of the country’s major cities that the polio vi-rus is starting to spread be-yond these isolated pockets and could soon spark fresh polio outbreaks in more densely populated areas.

“We have entered a phase that we were all worried about and were afraid might happen,” Elias Durry, head of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in Pakistan, told Reuters in a telephone inter-view.

Reuters

S&P breaks record, Google’s stock tops $1,000 on earnings

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, on 17 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

New York, 20 Oct— The S&P 500 closed at a record high for the second straight day on Friday to cap its biggest weekly gain in three months as strong-er-than-expected earnings from Google, Morgan Stan-ley and others overshad-owed worry that earnings growth was faltering.

The reassuring signals on profitability augmented investors’ relief over the resolution earlier in the week of the budget im-passe in Washington that had threatened to trigger a potentially catastrophic de-fault on the US debt. The S&P 500 closed up 0.7 per-cent, while the Nasdaq rose 1.3 percent to finish at its highest since 2000.

It was the largest daily gain for the Nas-daq in a week. Google Inc (GOOG.O) grabbed most of the spotlight, with its shares gaining 13.8 percent to clear the $1,000 mark for the first time, ending the session at $1011.41. Its rise

came a day after the search engine company posted re-sults that beat forecasts and helped lead the S&P tech-nology sector to outperform all other sectors with a 1.8 percent rise.

“Washington and eve-rything that happened with

the budget talks has cleared out, and we are refocusing on earnings.

We have companies coming in next week that you think would beat num-bers or do pretty well. That should allow this kind of momentum to continue into next week,” said Daniel Morgan, senior portfolio manager at Synovus Trust Company in Georgia.

Morgan said he ex-pects Netflix and Apple, whose earnings reports are due next week, to perform like Google because they are new tech, unlike Inter-national Business Machines (IBM.N), which reported low revenue from earnings growth on Thursday.

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New York, 20 Oct— Older women who exercise regularly and don’t smoke may have a substantially lower risk of late-life dis-ability than their peers with less-healthy habits, say UK researchers. They found that among women in their 60s and 70s, behaviours like smoking, drinking and ex-ercise could account for up to 17 percent of a woman’s

Health habits tied to heart disease, arthritis riskrisk for disabling conditions like heart disease, arthri-tis and difficulty walking. “We set out to quantify the influence of current life-style on subsequent disabil-ity,” Lois Kim, lead author of the study and lecturer in medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told Reuters Health.

More than 2,500 Brit-

ish women between the ages of 60 and 79 filled out surveys as part of the British Women’s Heart and Health Study. The questionnaires asked about the women’s smoking, exercise, alcohol consumption and eating habits. Seven years later, the women reported on whether they had developed any of several disabling health problems. The study found

that women who never ex-ercised were about twice as likely to get arthritis and had about double the risk of developing problems walk-ing; they were also more likely to develop heart dis-ease. Women who smoked currently or in the past also developed heart disease at more than twice the rate of those who had never smoked.—Reuters

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Malala Yousafzai (C) and former British Prime Minister

Gordon Brown (L) attend a ceremony giving an honourary master’s degree to Malala by

the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Britain, on 19 Oct, 2013. Education campaigner

Malala Yousafzai on Saturday called for united efforts for education rights at the first public meeting of Global

Citizenship commission held at the University of Edinburgh.

Malala, 16, is an activist advocating girls’ education in northwest Pakistan and a survivor of an assassination

attempt by the Taleban last year. Xinhua

Evacuation advisory still in effect on disaster-hit

Izu OshimaTokyo, 20 Oct—The

evacuation advisory issued to some 2,300 residents on Izu Oshima Island was retained on Sunday morn-ing as expected heavy rain could worsen the situation on the island where a pow-erful typhoon left 27 dead and 21 missing earlier in the week.

The island south of To-kyo had heavy rainfall on Sunday morning. The Ja-pan Meteorological Agency forecast precipitation of about 40 millimetres per hour in the afternoon and warned of mudslides.

The municipal gov-ernment of Oshima issued the advisory on Saturday.

Oshima Mayor Masafumi Kawashima said on Sun-day morning that the advi-sory will be kept in place in view of the weather agen-cy’s warning, adding local authorities will continue providing information to islanders.

While the evacuation advisory is in effect, the search for the missing will continue to be suspended.

Typhoon Wipha, the 26th of the year, brought torrential rain to the is-land on Wednesday, lo-cated about 120 kilometres south of Tokyo, causing mudslides that destroyed houses and buried residents alive.—Kyodo News

Photo taken from Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, shows Mt. Fuji covered with a thin layer

of snow on 19 Oct, 2013.—Kyodo news

Iranian president criticizes unilateral sanctions against Teheran

Teheran, 20 Oct—Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani criticized on Sat-urday the unilateral West-ern sanctions against the Islamic republic over the country’s controversial nu-clear programme.

Making the remarks in a meeting with Giulio Haas, the new Swiss Ambassador to Teheran, Rouhani ex-pressed his country’s politi-cal will to pursue a win-win game following the latest round of talks between Iran and six major world pow-ers over Teheran’s nuclear work, according to Press TV.

Expressing hope that “effective” measures would lead to the ease of sanc-tions and the resolution of relevant issues, he said that “The Islamic Republic of Iran will make every effort to declare to the interna-tional community that all of

the country’s activities are in line with (international) regulations.”

Also, a senior Iranian lawmaker said that the West should take major steps to ease “completely illegal” sanctions against Iran, Press TV reported on Saturday.

“If new steps are to be taken (by Iran) while it is still under sanction pres-sures, it will definitely be unacceptable because con-fidence-building is a two-way street,” Chairman of the Majlis ( parliament) Na-tional Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaed-din Boroujerdi was quoted by Press TV as saying.

As a confidence-build-ing measure, Iran has never had any problems with the inspection to its nuclear facilities and the country’s nuclear sites have always been under the supervi-

sion of the United Nations nuclear watchdog (IAEA), said Boroujerdi.

Iran has offered further transparency over its nu-clear issue and, in line with this, the Islamic republic is considering to implement additional protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) which would oblige the country to open its nuclear sites for snap visits by UN inspectors.

In return, Teheran an-ticipates the ease of inter-national and Western sanc-tions which have hit the economy of the country. On Saturday, the vice chair-man of national security and foreign policy commis-sion of Iran’s Majlis also emphasized that the Iranian parliament will consider reviewing the additional protocol provided that all of the sanctions against Iran would be lifted.—Xinhua

6.5-magnitude quake hits off Mexico coast

Mexico ciTy, 20 Oct— An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale jolt-ed off the coast of Etchoro-po in the Mexican state of Sonora on Saturday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

The USGS initially de-termined the temblor at a magnitude of 6.8, but later downgraded it to 6.5. Mean-while, Mexico’s National Seismological Service said the quake was 6.3 degrees on the Richter scale, with the epicenter located 17 km from the northwestern city of Loreto, Baja California Sur state.

Emergency services in Mexico’s Sonora and Sinaloa states said there were no immediate reports of casualties and that it was not yet clear how the quake affected Baja California Sur.

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Nepal’s largest party proposes 11-state federal

model in election manifestokaThMandu, 20 Oct—

The country’s largest party UCPN (Maoist) has pro-posed a 11-state federal model in the new constitu-tion, according to sources with the party.

The party made the proposal in its election manifesto prepared for the 19 November Constituent Assembly (CA) elections. It proposed eight federal states in the hilly region and three in the Southern belt known as Terai\Madhes, and said it has made the proposal with consideration given to certain ethnic com-munity\ nationalities.

However, other par-ties have raised objection to the Maoist proposal, saying that naming the states by certain ethnic groups or na-tionalities will incur a con-frontation in the country. The party has proposed just three states in the southern belt where 51 percent of the country’s population reside.

Germany’s SPD leaders list key demands of Merkel for coalition

Berlin, 20 Oct—Lead-ers of Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) have listed their key demands of Angela Merkel ahead of a meeting on Sunday in which they will seek the backing of 200 core party members for launching for-mal coalition talks with the chancellor.

These include intro-ducing a nationwide mini-mum wage of 8.50 euros, equal pay for men and women, a financial transac-tion tax, greater investment in infrastructure and educa-tion, and a strategy to boost growth and employment in the euro zone.

No mention is made however of the tax increas-es for Germany’s wealthiest which the SPD had cam-

Social Democratic Party (SPD) party leader Sigmar Gabriel addresses the media after preliminary coalition

talks between Germany’s conservative (CDU/CSU) parties and the Social Democrats (SPD) at the Parliamentary

Society in Berlin on 4 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

paigned for during the elec-tion but which the chancel-lor has absolutely ruled out.

Merkel’s conservative bloc—her Christian Demo-cratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—emerged as the strongest political force in the 22 September election. But they fell several seats short of a parliamentary majority, forcing them to seek a coalition ally.

The SPD, which came a distant second to Merkel, was seen as the most like-ly partner from the start; however the party is tak-ing a stubborn approach as it struggles to avoid the mistakes it made during its ‘grand coalition’ with Mer-kel from 2005-2009.

It emerged from that legislature with its worst election result since World War Two, making many

grassroots members highly skeptical about another such union.

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At a public programme organized to unveil the par-ty’s election manifesto, par-ty senior leader Baburam Bhattarai said his party put forward such proposal in order to empower certain nationalities of the country that are facing suppression by some upper groups.

The issue of federalism was one of the contentious issues among the political parties during the constitu-tion drafting process since 2008. Other major parties such as Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN-UML, how-ever, have proposed only seven states, insisting that it is not economically vi-able to go for more states in the federalism. In its mani-festo, the UCPN (Maoist) has also proposed a directly elected president as head of state, arguing that for the management of federalism a powerful president is re-quired.

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MPF launches emergency,complaint-handling

phone linesNay Pyi Taw, 20 Oct—

Myanmar Police Force under the Ministry of Home Affairs has put hot lines into place at Myanmar Police Force HQ and region/state police stations to enable the public to submit tip-offs and complaints over illegal acts, misappropriation and corruption.

The public may reach the numbers for their information and complai- nts but are requested to avoid manners causing disruptions to these phone lines. Myanmar Police Force HQ, Nay Pyi Taw Police Force, Kachin, Kayah, Kayin, Chin, Mon, Rakhine and Shan State Police Forces, Sagaing, Taninthayi, Bago, Magway, Mandalay, Yangon and A y e y a w a d y R e g i o n Police Forces, Offices of Commanders of East, West, South and North District Police Forces in Yangon Region, No (1) Police Station in Taunggyi, Office of Deputy Commander

of State Police Force in Lashio, and Kengtung Police Station in Kengtung have emergency numbers of 199.

Phone numbers recei-ving complaints from the public are Myanmar Police Force HQ (067-412222 and 067- 412444), Nay Pyi Taw Police Force (067-550333), Kachin State Police Force (074-21444), Kayin State Police Force (058-23355), Sagaing Region Police Force (071- 24996), Tanin-thayi Region Police Force (059-23998), Bago Region Police Force (052- 23999), Magway Region Police Force (063- 28099), Mandalay Region Police Force (02-61444), Mon State Police Force (057-24987), Rakhine State Police Force (043- 22833), Yangon Region Police Force (01-2302199), Shan State Police Force ( 0 8 1 - 2 1 2 5 4 5 5 ) and Ayeyawady Region Police Force (042-23844).

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Rural bridge on Gyopin-Ywathitgyi road collapses in

Singu TspSiNgu, 20 Oct—No 1

bridge on Gyopin-Ywathit rural gravel bridge in Singu Township collapsed due to erosion of the torrent water.

The collapse of the bridge caused blockage of vehicles and bullock carts. Therefore, transport of

commodity delayed.T h e b r i d g e w a s

eroded by Pauk Creek and Chaungson Creek from Gyopin Village.

Local people hope to repair of the bridge for regular transportation in the region.—MMAL-433

Chinese-Myanmar entrepreneurs discuss development of Rakhine State

SiTTway, 20 Oct—The economic delegation of the representatives of China-Myanmar friendship association and entrepre-neurs of Sittway held a talk at the hall of Sittway Hotel on Sittway Beach on 16 October afternoon.

It was attended by Vice-Chairman of the association Mr Geng Zhiyuan and

members and entrepreneurs from Sittway, political parties and observers.

C h a i r m a n o f Entrepreneurs Association in Sittway U Tin Aung Oo, Vice-Chairman of China-Myanmar friendship association Mr Geng Zhiyuan, Central Committee m e m b e r o f R a k h i n e Nationalities Development

Party U Khin Maung Gyi extended greetings. Adviser to the Sittway Entrepreneurs Association U Soe Paing explained the geographical conditions of the state, business resources, opportunities for businesses with the use of visual aids. Next, both sides held discussions.

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Japan-Myanmar International Forum on Fire and Disaster Management held

yaNgoN, 20 Oct—The Japan-Myanmar Inter-national Forum on Fire and Disaster Management was held on the first floor of the Fire Research and Dissemination Unit at No 275/B on Pyay Road in Myenigon of Sangyoung Township, Yangon Region, on 17 October morning.

It was attended by Deputy Minister for Home Affairs Brig-Gen Kyaw Zan Myint, Director-General Mr

Murota Tetsuo of Urban Prevention and Disaster Management Department of Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan and officials, Director-General U Tin Moe of Fire Services Department and officials, officials under the Ministry of Home Affairs and guests.

Deputy Minister for Home Affairs Brig-Gen Kyaw Zan Myint made a speech, and Director-

General Mr Murota Tetsuo extended greetings.

Off ic ia l s o f bo th countries exchanged gifts in commemoration of the forum.

Next, they posed for a documentary photo.

Director-General Mr Murota Tetsuo of Japan, Director U Kyaw Thura of Fire Services Department, Vice-President of FDMA College Mr Kadokura Tonu of Japan, Deputy Directors U Kyi Win and U Thein Tun Oo of FSD discussed fire preventive measures and preparedness of disasters, rescue works and public welfare tasks.

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yaNgoN , 20 Oct—Under the supervision of the Myanmar Cricket Federation, the Inter-club Cricket Tournament will be held at Shwe Pin Lone Cricket Oval here in the third week of November.

T h e c l u b s f r o m embassies, individual cricket players and players from all departments may register at the Myanmar Cricket

Inter-club cricket tournament in third week of November

Federation at Aung San Stadium, not later than 5 November.

For further information, anyone may con t ac t President of MCF U Kyaw Kyaw (Tel: 09 5414289), Vice-President U Maung Maung (Tel: 09 73242811), Secretary U Kyaw Min (Tel: 09 73112768) and MCF (Tel: 01 393247).

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17 migrant workers handed over to Myanmar officials

Tachilek, 20 Oct—A ceremony to hand over 10 male

and seven female Myanmar workers to Myanmar side was held at No 1 Myanmar-Thailand Friendship Bridge in Tachilek of Shan State (East) on 18 October.

The ceremony was at tended by township departmental officials, Police Captain Yin Yin Aye and party of Anti-Human Trafficking Squad and Thai officials.

The combine team checked those workers at Maha Muni Monastery

in Macaokham Ward of Tachilek.

The Myanmar workers were arrested by Thai officials for staying in Thailand without travel documents. They were not human trafficking victims. Under the arrangement of the Township Administrator, those migrant workers were handed over to their parents and relatives at 2 pm.

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Volunteers

N A T I O N A L

Normally, a volunteer is a person who of his or her own free determination undertakes or expresses a willingness to undertake a commu-nity or social service.

The work of volunteers or volunteering is any activity that involves spending time, un-paid, doing something that aims to benefit the environment or someone (individuals or groups) other than, or in addition to, close rela-tives. Central to this definition is the fact that volunteering must be a choice freely made by each individual. This can include formal activ-ity undertaken through public, private and vol-untary organizations as well as informal com-munity participation.

It is also considered an altruistic activity and is intended to promote good or improve human quality of life. In return, this activity can produce a feeling of self-worth and respect. There is no financial gain involved.

Mother Teresa, who is still admired and re-spected by many for her humanitarian services, once said: “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” Yes, every one should keep such a kind of love in his or her heart. Because “love” she mentioned in her quote is the willingness to serve the interest of mankind at any cost.

Almost all the global countries have volun-teers or volunteer services. For example, uni-versity students were the volunteers doing the sanitation work, even cleaning the toilets during the SEA Games in Indonesia.

We are also going to host the SEA Games in December, and a large number of volunteers will take part for the success of the Games. What’s more, 5th of December is the Interna-tional Volunteer Day.

Here, not only the volunteers but also every one of us should have the volunteer spirit for the success of the Games and raising our nation’s image internationally.

Nay Pyi Taw, 20 Oct—The ministry will give a helping hand in the realiza-tion of the ways and means brought about by the work-shop, Union Minister for Information U Aung Kyi said in his address at the opening of a workshop on promotion of literature and development of publishing industry and a book fair at UMFCCI building, here, this morning.

He called on printers and publishers to increase the publications not only for national races in regions and states but also for for-eign countries. He empha-sized avoidance of expres-sions that could undermine national unity and strength, saying that expressions in-tervening the freedom of an individual or an organi-zation can be viewed as a sign of freedom of expres-sion in literature and great-

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SEA Games, glittering...out excellent athletes. He expressed his belief that the SEA Games will bring a glittering future to Myan-mar youths.

Chairmen of the work committee Union minis-

ters reported on progress of works in their respec-tive sectors, and the Presi-dent gave necessary in-structions.

Next, the President and party viewed round booths at the social zone at the sta-dium.

A total of 33 sports events in the XXVII SEA Games will be held in Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon, Man-dalay and Pathein (Ngw-ehsaung) from 11 to 22 De-cember with 4350 medals for the winners.

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er transparency, but such expressions could weaken the unity and strength of the country. He stressed the need to develop the sense of

responsibility and account-ability not only for own interest but for the sake of others and the whole peo-ple.

Chairman of Myanmar Publishers and Printers As-sociation Dr Tha Tun Oo extended greetings at the opening ceremony.

Next, U Kyi Min, or-ganizing committee chair-man, explained points to be discussed at the workshop and U Myint Tun, MPPA secretary, gave an account of the workshop.

After the opening cer-emony, the Union minister

and party viewed round books and publications on display at the book shops.

Also present at the cer-emony were Deputy Minis-ter U Ye Htut, departmental heads, guests and readers.

The workshop runs till 22 October and participants take part in discussions on Myanmar literature and publishing sector.

Various kinds of books will be available at the book fair in which more than 50 book shops will be kept open from 9 am to 5 pm daily.

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Union Minister for Information U Aung Kyi visits book fair at UMFCCI Building.—mna

President U Thein Sein observes display of sports trophies and statues at sporting spirit booth at Wunna Theikdhi Stadium.—mna

50000-ton MV Stadt Solingen chartered by RK Shipping Trading Pte Ltd of Singapore

anchored at Myanmar International Terminal Thilawa on 19 October

morning as Myanma Port Authority allows vessel under 50000 tons and nine meters draught at

jetties.—Kyemon

Nay Pyi Taw, 20 Oct—Deputy Minister for Immigration and Popula-tion U Kyaw Kyaw Win inspected arrangement of immigration counters for convenience of entry and exit for the athletes who will take part in 27th SEA Games and installation of machines at foreign arrival and departure inspection counters at Nay Pyi Taw International Airport yes-terday noon.

He called for carry-ing out immigration tasks in line with the norms and standards of International Civil Aviation Organiza-

Immigration inspection counters opened at Nay Pyi Taw International Airport

tion, showing hospital-ity towards passengers and timely completion for installation of machines ahead of SEA Games.

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Dawei traditional troupes release hot-air baloons to mark end of Bhddhist retreat

D a w e i , 20 Oc t—Dedicating to the Lord Buddha, the multi-coloured lights were lit at the end of Buddhist retreat in traditions of Myanmar.

A ceremony to release hot-air baloons was held in the precinct of Lawka-marazein Pagoda in Dawei of Taninthayi Region on 18 October evening.

Chief Minister of Taninthayi Region U Myat Ko, Speaker of Taninthayi Region Hluttaw U Htin Aung Kyaw and region ministers, region, district and township level departmental officials, members of rel igious associations and Buddhist people.

Dawei t r ad i t iona l cultural troupes released

five hot-air baloons created as elephant, banana and triangle shapes. At night, the pagodas and monasteries, government

offices, residences and shops were illuminated with colourful lights.

The local people in

groups and individals p a r t i c i p a t e d i n t h e Thindingyut lighting festival in Dawei.—Kyemon-Kyaw Kyaw Latt

Traditional activity of setting alms bowl adrift river

Dawei , 20 Oct—A ceremony to set alms bowl adrift Dawei River was held at the ceremony in traditions of the local people in Dawei of Taninthayi Region yesterday morning.

The ceremony took place at the jetty of Dawei River in Daungngu Tanga ward of Dawei, Taninthayi Region, in the early morning.

Chief Minister of Taninthayi Region U Myat Ko and officials formally opened the ceremony.

After that, the Chief Minister, the deputy speaker of Region Hluttaw, region ministers and officials enjoyed the ceremony to set

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alms bowl adrift the river.Such ceremony is held

on the fullmoon day of Thadingyut annually.

The local people also participated in the ceremony wih the use of small and large bowls the whole night on a grand scale.—Kyemon-Kyaw Kyaw Latt

Poem-Cartoon Festival marks Thadingyut lighting festival

ManDalay, 20 Oct—The First-ever Cartoon Plus Cartoon lighting festival commenced on Strand Road (Lower) in West Daewun Ward of Chanayethazan Township in Mandalay on 18 and 19 October.

It was organized by the Dhammikadana meal offering association and S u n d a y R e f r e s h m e n t Donors Group.

They displayed 120 cartoon hot-air lanterns of

29 cartoonists and 100 poem lot-air lanterns of 58 poets of Mandalay.

“We offered cartoon hot-air lanterns and poem hot-air lanterns to dedicate to the Lord Buddha on the fullmoon day of Thadingyut in Mandalay. At Wakhingon Pagoda Pujaniya, a similar ceremony was held on the fu l lmoon day of Tazaungmone last year. This year, the cartoonists and poets will pay homage to

the Pagoda with the creation of cartoon and poem hot-air lanterns,” said ceremony organizer Cartoonist Lay Shu.

The ceremony was enjoyed not only by the local people but also by people from Mandalay at all corners.

“I think everybody like cartoons. Although we can read the poems and cartoons at newspapers and journals regularly, the opportunity to enjoy the works of poems and cartoons at the hot-air lanterns is for the first time for me,” said Ko Aung Aung of West Aungnan Ward.

On the fullmoon day of Thadingyut, cartoon lovers donated cash to the fund of cartoonist health and funeral service association.

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Fire breaks out at downtown Yangon

yangon, 20 Oct—A fire broke out at Samsung Showroom on middle block of Pansodan Street in Kyauktada Township on 18 October evening.

T h e f l u o r e s c e n c e lamp’s heat engulfed the paper boxes of refrigerator at room 4/5 on the ground floor of five-storey building at No 203/205 on middle block of Pansodan Street at 7.50 pm.

Under the supervision of Director-General U Tin Moe of Fire Services Department, 184 members of Fire Services Department a n d 6 8 m e m b e r s o f Auxiliary Fire Brigade joined hands with the local people in putting out the fire with the use of 22 fire engines including one fire engine from Kyimyindine Townsh ip , two f rom Thakayta Township, three

from Tamway Township, one from Tamway Branch, one from Thakayta Branch, one from Dawbon Township, one from Thingangyun Townsh ip , two f rom Hline Township, one from Mayangon Township and two from the headquarters, one search lighting vehicle, four ambulances of Yangon Region Red Cross Society, one BA Tender and four control vehicles.

The fire could be totally put out at 9.18 pm.

In the incident, as smoke blew from the signboard near air-conditioners, the firemen difficultly put it out till 10 pm. However, Fire Pvt Naing Aung Lwin of Tamway fire station branch suffered injury at the right ring finger and Fire Pvt Zaw Min Oo also suffered dislocation of the joint from the left shoulder.

A local gave remarks that the firemen tried hard with all-out efforts in putting out of fire. However, he said that the firefighters did not have adequate equipment such as laud speaker to connect with one another of firemen in the works. Thus, it is necessary to provide the firemen with necessary equipment, he said.

In the outbreak of fire, the showroom lost refrigerators, TVs, DVD playes, washing machine, air-conditioners, fans, rice cookers, irons, speakers worth K 2.2 million, the building K 1 million and furniture K 900,000.

Kyauktada Myoma Police Station opened a file of lawsuit against U Tin Maung Latt, owner of the showroom under the law.

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Western Canada train hauling fuel derails, burns; no injuries

Calgary, 20 Oct— A train carrying crude oil and liquefied petroleum gas derailed and caught fire in Western Canada on Sat-urday, in an accident that brought back memories of a deadly crash in Quebec this summer.

But Saturday’s ac-cident, in open country just outside the tiny settle-ment of Gainford, Alberta, caused no injuries, and emergency services said they were opting to let the fire burn itself out rather than approach the blaze.

The 134-car mixed freight train was operated by Canadian National Rail-way, Canada’s largest rail-road, and was heading from

A train derailment in Gainford, Alberta is

seen in this aerial photo courtesy of the RCMP

and Parkland County, on 19 Oct, 2013.

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Alberta’s capital, Edmon-ton, to Vancouver, on the Pacific Coast.

CN Chief Operating Officer Jim Vena said 13 cars had derailed, and three, all carrying flammable liq-uid petroleum gas, caught fire. The derailed cars that carried crude oil had not leaked or caught fire, he said.

“CN will clean this up, remediate any damage,” Vena told an evening news conference, noting that both the track and the train had been inspected in the last few days. It was too early to say what caused the ac-cident, he said.

Rail safety has become a central issue in Canada

since the July disaster in Lac-Megantic, Quebec,

when a runaway train car-rying crude oil exploded in giant fireballs in the center of the lakeside town, killing 47 people. A key focus in the rail safety debate is the

booming volumes of crude oil shipments by rail as pipelines fill to capacity and producers seek other ways to get their oil to refineries.

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Maldives police halt presidential vote,

supporters stage sit-inMale, 20 Oct— Mal-

dives police forced a halt to a presidential election on Saturday, in what the lead-ing candidate’s supporters said was a new coup as he called on them to block the streets in protest.

The Indian Ocean ar-chipelago which has been in turmoil since February 2012, when then-president Mohamed Nasheed was ousted by mutinying police, military forces and armed demonstrators.

The election was due to be held on Saturday, after a vote in September was an-nulled over allegations of fraud.

However, there had been confusion over wheth-er it could go ahead as some candidates had still not signed a new voter register in accordance with a Su-preme Court ruling early on Saturday to allow the elec-tion.

Just hours before polls were due to open for the vote that Nasheed looked set to win, police sur-rounded the secretariat of the Elections Commission, forcing a delay condemned by the international com-munity.

Police said they could not support an election held “in contravention of the Supreme Court verdict and guidelines”. Police Chief Superintendent Abdulla

Nawaz said he had acted due to concern about “any unrest that may occur in the country as a result of letting the election proceed”.

Nasheed’s supporters have staged violent pro-tests since he was ousted, and masked men this month fire-bombed a television station that backs Nasheed, who came to international prominence in 2009 after holding a cabinet meeting underwater in scuba gear to highlight the threat of cli-mate change.

“There has been a coup in the Maldives, and the coup backers, in order to maintain that coup, are committing bigger and big-ger atrocities day after day,” he told supporters staging a sit-in at two road junctions that brought Male to a halt.

“I call on you to block these streets ... Let us shut down Male. Male can’t function, we must suc-ceed.”

Security forces cor-doned off part of Male that included the president’s of-fice and the Supreme Court, while Nasheed’s supporters blocked other streets with ropes, human chains, mo-torbikes and trucks, a Reu-ters reporter said.

Ahmed Khalid, 33, an artist at the protest, said: “The police are in control of this country. This is a coup.”—Reuters

A supporter of presidential candidate Mohamed Nasheed, who was ousted as president in 2012, holds up a placard during a protest against the Maldives police,

in Male on 19 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

New cold front to hit N China on

MondayBeijing, 20 Oct—Chi-

na’s top meteorological authority said on Sunday that a new cold front will sweep China’s northern re-gions on Monday, bringing high winds and temperature drops.

Most parts of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Re-gion and areas in the north-east of the country will see temperature decline by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, according to the forecast by the National Meteorologi-cal Centre (NMC).

The cold front is also expected to bring small to medium snow to Inner Mongolia starting on Tues-day.

Cold fronts and high winds in recent periods have lessened smoggy air conditions in the north of the country. The weekends at the Chinese capital Bei-jing are clear due to influ-ence of such windy weath-er.—Xinhua

American contestant, Joey Chestnut, poses after winning the 4th Annual World Poutine Eating Championship at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto, Canada, 19

Oct, 2013. American contestant, Joey Chestnut, won the champion after eating 24 lbs, 48 boxes of poutine.—Xinhua

New storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast threatens battered Acapulco

MexiCo City, 20 Oct— Mexico issued storm warn-ings on its Pacific coast on Saturday evening as a new tropical depression formed around 200 miles south of Acapulco, a city still re-covering from devastating floods that hit the country last month.

Luxembourg to hold early general elections

luxeMBourg, 20 Oct— Much is at stake as early general elections are to be held on Sunday in Luxem-bourg, the world’s last re-maining Grand Duchy and second largest international investment hub after the US.

The center-right Chris-tian Social People’s Party (CSV) is projected to top the poll, even though its frontrunner Jean-Claude Juncker, the country’s prime minister for the past 18 years, resigned over a spying scandal in July which resulted in the snap election.

Juncker, who denied any wrongdoing, was found of failing to inform the par-liament of irregularities and illegalities conducted by the country’s secrete services

between 2004 and 2009.Still, he is seen by

many as a trustworthy politician who has been protecting Luxembourg’s national interests in Europe and elsewhere. He is also a founding father of the euro and the first president of the Eurogroup of Eurozone fi-nance ministers.

His party has always had the largest share of seats to form a coalition government, and Juncker is very likely to continue serv-ing as the prime minister, unless other major parties form an alliance against the CSV.

Joseph Daul, chairman of the European Parlia-ment’s largest party group EPP, strongly supported Juncker in a statement on Friday, calling him “a

steady hand for Luxem-bourg” and “the architect of the country’s economic success.”

Luxembroug’s parlia-ment, or the 60-member Chamber of Deputies, is elected for a five-year term by proportional representa-tion in four constituencies, namely the north, the south, the east and the center.

Each voter has as many votes as there are members to be elected in his or her constituency. More than 600 polling stations will be open from 8 am to 2 pm on Sunday.

The prime minister, to be appointed by the Grand Duke after the elections, is usually the leader of the party or the coalition of par-ties gaining the most seats in the parliament. —Xinhua

The Miami-based Na-tional Hurricane Centre said tropical depression 17-E was expected to strengthen to a tropical storm by Sun-day and could be blowing hurricane-force winds late Monday, threatening the coastline with heavy rain-fall.

Mexico suffered its worst flooding on record when tropical storms Ma-nuel and Ingrid converged from the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico in mid-Sep-tember, killing more than 150 people and causing es-timated damages of around $6 billion.—Xinhua

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A local worker checks the quality of yellowfin tuna at the fish port of General Santos City in the southern

Philippines on 16 Sept, 2013. —Kyodo News

M4.4 quake hits Ibaraki, neighbouring prefectures

Tokyo, 20 Oct—An earthquake with a pre-liminary magnitude of 4.4 shook Ibaraki and its neigh-bouring prefectures on Sun-day morning.

No tsunami warning was issued after the 10:07 am quake. Its focus was around 50 kilometres un-

Gov’t encourages more young Japanese to work at UN

Tokyo, 20 Oct—The Foreign Ministry hopes a new guidance programme will encourage more Japa-nese youth to apply to and successfully join the United Nations, in which Japan remains underrepresented relative to its financial contribution. The minis-try, together with the UN Information Centre in To-kyo, will hold sessions with recruitment managers from the Secretariat and several UN agencies, giving advice on the recruiting procedures and exams and holding mock interviews, starting on Tuesday.

According to the min-istry, Japanese personnel at or above professional level at the 193-member United Nations numbered just 764, accounting for 2.4 percent

of the total as of January despite Japan being the sec-ond-largest contributor to the United Nations’ regular budget for 2013.

Japan’s contribution of $276 million, or about 27 billion yen, comprises 10.8 percent of the budget, put-ting it behind only the Unit-ed States with 22 percent.

As of December, US personnel made up 9.5 per-cent of the workforce at the United Nations, while France and Britain, although contributing less financially than Japan, outnumbered it in the headcount with over 5 percent each. Although UN staff take an oath to work without interference from the policies of their home countries, in practical terms members are likely to bring their countries’ ways

of thinking to the job.Boosting their repre-

sentation in the Secretariat, regional headquarters and field offices would allow Japanese personnel to take on liaison and coordination roles and act as information points on issues of interna-tional policy spearheaded by Japan, such as human security. If, however, Japan remains underrepresented, “Our international contri-bution cannot be properly understood with our faces unseen,” a Japanese For-eign Ministry official said.

The UN Young Profes-sionals Program examina-tions, held annually since 2010, are designed to re-cruit staff from underrepre-sented member states. They consist of a written and oral test.—Xinhua

A colored glaze artwork by

Japanese artist Genta Suzuki is displayed during his exhibition in Taipei, southeastChina’s Taiwan, on 19 Oct , 2013. The exhibition

of Genta Suzuki was opened here

on Saturday, and will last until on 6 November.

XiNhua

Storm Nari kills at least 19 in Vietnam

Hanoi, 20 Oct — At least 19 people were killed by storm Nari which hit Vietnam’s central region earlier this week, said a report by Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control on Saturday.

According to the committee, as of Saturday

morning, the disaster has left three other people missing and 116 others injured. As many as 603 houses were collapsed while over 98,000 houses were inundated. The agricultural sector has recorded over 16,000 hectares of rice fields and other crops were destroyed, while 5,000 hectares of forests were affected.

The storm and its aftermath have caused a total loss of 1.068 trillion Vietnamese dong (50.6 million US dollars), said the committee. Local authorities have mobilized armed forces to help local people overcome the consequences of the storm, the 11th to hit Vietnam so far this year.

Xinhua

The Badaling section of the Great Wall is seen crowded with tourists coming to admire the scenery of

fall foliage in Beijing, capital of China, on 13 Oct, 2013.—XiNhua

ASEAN Neurological Association Convention

held in BruneiBandar SeriBegawam,

20 Oct—Some 300 del-egates from the ASEAN member states took part in the 10th Biennial ASEAN Neurological Association (ASNA) Convention held at the Rizqun International Hotel here Saturday.

The ASNA Conven-tion which held once every two years aims to stimu-late medical professionals to continue their academic pursuits and present it in both regional and inter-national meetings in the future and further on to publish their studies in in-ternational journals.

The 300 delegates in-clude neurologists, trainee neurologists, physicians,

Allied Health Profession-als, specialty nurses and non- neurologists who are interested in the field.

The organization would hold meetings, workshops, joint research, exchange fellowship and also form subspecialty chapters such as “Stroke” and “Child Neurology So-ciety (CNS)”.

The convention is or-ganized by the Department of Internal Medicine of Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha (RIPAS) Hospi-tal under the Ministry of Health. Present at the open-ing ceremony was Minister of Health Pehin Dato Haji Adanan Haji Mohd Yusof.

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Malaysian PM keeps leadership lineup in party elections

kuala lumpur, 20 Oct—Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak re-ceived a boost for his lead-ership after his current leadership lineup has been retained in the party elec-tions of the United Ma-lays National Organization (UMNO).

Official polling results announced early Sunday saw the three incumbents —Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Rural and Regional Development Minister Shafie Apdal and Defence Minister Hisham-muddin Hussein—retained their posts as vice presi-dents, the most senior posi-tion open for contest in the party elections on Saturday.

Mukhriz Mahathir, son of Malaysia’s former and longest serving Prime Min-ister Mahathir Mohamad, embarked on a close race with Hishammuddin but fell just short to unseat the veteran minister, who is

also a son of a former prime minister and a cousin of Najib.

Meanwhile, several current cabinet ministers are leading in the race of the 25-member Supreme Coun-cil, the power pinnacle of Malaysia’s most influential political organization.

The polling results mean most UMNO mem-bers chose to keep the cur-rent party leadership, as Najib has retained his party presidency unopposed ear-lier together with his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin.

Najib has refrained from spelling out his favors in the vice president elec-tion.

But the overwhelming support for the three incum-bents in the central Pahang state and the southern Johor state, headed by Najib and Muhyiddin respectively, shed some light on the pref-erences of UMNO’s top leader.

Najib has been push-ing for government and economic transformation program since assuming of-fice in 2009. His approval ratings are routinely well ahead of his government’s.

However, Najib still need to seek support from his fellow party members after the general election in May, when the UMNO-led ruling coalition retained power with a reduced ma-jority.

Last month, the prime

minister announced new initiatives to boost the priv-ileges for the country’s eth-nic Malays majority, who make up the major support-ing base of UMNO.

Oh Ei Sun, a political analyst and former politi-cal secretary to Najib, said in an interview prior to the UMNO elections that Najib would be able to better fo-cus on his reform agenda if Hishammuddin secured the vice president post instead of Mukhriz.—Xinhua

PLA in army civilian

personnel drive

Beijing, 20 Oct— The Chinese People’s Libera-tion Army (PLA) is to run its first unified recruitment of army civilian personnel from the public, a move to attract talents and improve employment transparency, announced a circular on Saturday. The circular was posted on the website of the centre for professional and technical personnel which is administrated by the PLA General Political Depart-ment.

The army civilian posts will cover professional and technical stations, including teaching, scientific research, engineering, health, culture, sports and libraries, as well as non-professional posts such as management and lo-gistics services, it said.

Xinhua

derground off the coast of Ibaraki in the Pacific Ocean, according to the Japan Me-teorological Agency.

Intensity 4 on the Japa-nese seismic scale of 7 was registered in Hitachinaka and Tokai, Ibaraki Prefec-ture.

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Freed Lebanese, Turkish hostages fly home after deal

Beirut, 20 Oct—Two kidnapped Turkish pilots arrived in Istanbul after leaving Lebanon on Sat-urday and nine Lebanese hostages freed from Syria landed in Beirut, complet-ing a hostage exchange af-ter months of uncertainty.

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan greeted the Turk-ish Airlines pilots on the tarmac as they disembarked from a Qatar Airways jet and were met with cheers from family members.

The Lebanese, seized by Syrian rebels in May 2012, were freed and left northern Syria for Turkey a day earlier as part of the deal negotiated by Qatari mediators.

At Beirut International Airport, friends and rela-tives ululated and cheered as the men walked onto the tarmac.

“The situation is worse than you can imagine, we paid a heavy price,” said

One of the nine newly released Lebanese hostages, who were held by rebels in northern Syria, gestures as he

is welcomed by his relatives upon his arrival at Beirut international Airport, 19 October, 2013.—ReuteRs

one of the hostages, who was walking with a cane, apparently from an injury sustained in captivity.

The hostages’ release may in fact be a three-way deal, Lebanese security sources said. They said the release of the Lebanese was originally contingent on the Syrian government’s free-

ing of prisoners in state de-tention centers.

An opposition moni-toring group, the Syr-ian Observatory for Human Rights, said the government had released dozens of pris-oners over the past few days as part of that agreement.

Turkish Foreign Min-ister Ahmet Davutoglu said

the release underscored Turkey’s diplomatic clout.

“The success of this process, which has been conducted under the in-structions of our prime minister, proves once again the regional importance of Turkey,” Davutoglu said in a Twitter post before the pi-lots landed in Istanbul.

The kidnappings high-light how complex and regionalized Syria’s 2-1/2-year conflict has become. The civil war has acquired sectarian dimensions that have pulled in its neighbors.

Sunni Muslim coun-tries such as Turkey largely back the Sunni-led uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.

Shi’ite Iran backs As-sad, as does the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which is Shi’ite and sup-ported by Teheran. Assad is from the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam.

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China offers opportunity for Ecuador, other Latin American countries

Quito, 20 Oct—Chi-na’s strength and vigor have contributed to offer-ing opportunities for the development of Ecuador and other Latin American countries, Ecuador’s Min-ister of Security Homero Arellano said Saturday.

“The rise of China gives my country and the region a new opportunity of mutual benefit,” Arel-lano told Xinhua in an ex-clusive interview, adding that the region should seize the momentum.

“Our bilateral relations are close and profound in various fields, and I think it is clearly a historic mo-ment for our two countries.

There has not been a better time than this throughout the history of Ecuador,” said the minis-ter.

In recent years, China has become a strategic partner of Ecuador, a coun-try in which over 70 Chi-nese companies have busi-ness.

Hydroelectricity and security projects have highlighted the participa-tion of these Chinese com-panies in helping develop the key sectors in the South American country.

On security, Arellano

spoke highly of the role of Chinese state-owned enterprises, especially the China National Electron-ics Import and Export Cor-poration (CEIEC), which is building the integrated security service system “ECU-911” in Ecuador.

The ECU-911 system, a flagship project of the Ecuadorian government in which a technology plat-form brings together all se-curity agencies to respond to emergencies with a sin-gle telephone number, is expected to be finished in 2014.

It includes two na-tional command and con-trol centers, five regional centers and eight provin-cial centers, and is likely to

Birds fly over the Yellow River estuary wetland natural reserve in Dongying, east China’s Shandong Province, on 19 Oct, 2013.

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be extended to other Latin American countries.

“The Chinese com-panies have been success-ful in Ecuador. They have shown great professional capabilities,” said the min-ister.

Arellano said that the National Plan for Good Living implemented by the Ecuadorian government is to lay down a solid founda-tion for a new Ecuadorian society, which is more eq-uitable and more caring, and where violence is erad-icated and family values are treasured.

In this regard, the min-ister said: “I find great sim-ilarities between the pur-suits of our two countries.”

Xinhua

China FM defends Middle East oil imports

Beijing, 20 Oct—The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman on Wednes-day denied that China’s in-creasing crude oil imports from the Middle East were against any third-party in-terests.

Speaking at the minis-try’s daily media briefing, in response to a question on the matter, Hua Chunying said the energy coopera-tion between China and the Middle East is transparent

and mutually beneficial, which is in the interests of both sides and isn’t against any third-party interests.

As a permanent mem-ber of the United Nations Security Council, China has always played a posi-tive and constructive role in the peace, security, devel-opment and prosperity of the Middle East, Hua said. According to the spokes-woman, it is clear to all that China has made tremendous

efforts in supporting coun-tries in the region to ex-plore development paths in line with their own national conditions and improving their peoples’ livelihood. Promoting peace and devel-opment in the Middle East contributes to the safety of global energy supply and is in the common interests of all parties, Hua noted, vow-ing that China will make unremitting efforts in this regard.—Xinhua

Monday, 21 October, 2013

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Freida Pinto stars as a stripper in racy music video

New Delhi, 20 Oct—After Miley Cyrus disman-tled the ghost of her Disney princess image in spectacu-lar bump-and-grind fashion at the MTV Video Music Awards, Freida Pinto is the latest good girl gone bad, making a provocative ap-pearance in the video for the Bruno Mars single Go-rilla.

Set in a seedy strip club, the video stars Freida as the ‘new girl in town’ and the object of the other strippers’ envy.

In the course of the video, Freida strips from her black leather dress to her underwear and then proceeds to writhe around a pole as Mars croons nearby. She later makes out with him in the back of a car, and then sets a guitar on fire.

All in the most sugges-tive manner possible.

It seems that Freida, best known for starring in hard-hitting films like Slumdog Millionaire and Miral, was looking for a change of image. It’s safe to say she’s found it. —PTIFreida Pinto

Tom Hanks: No Batman, Iron Man; want to play The Flash

MuMbai, 20 Oct—Hol-lywood actor Tom Hanks has never slipped into a su-perhero cloak, but he does want to don one such role.

The 57-year-old rues nobody has asked him to play such a role so far, re-ports huffingtonpost.com.

During an interview

with new webiste Showbiz 411, when a fan asked why he’d never starred in a big superhero movie, Hanks said: “They don’t ask me, man. I keep trying. Come on, I can do it. I can do it. Even let me play a bad guy, let me play the bad guy against Batman. I’ll do

anything, call me. They’ve never asked. What do I got-ta do? God, I want to throw a shield at somebody.”

“I want that. And I don’t want to play the guy in the suit who tells the superheroes what’s going on, I don’t want to be that guy. ‘Well, you know ‘Bat-

man’, ‘Captain America’, ‘Iron Man’, here’s what we’ve discovered,’ I don’t want to be that guy. I want to get in there, I want to play ‘The Flash’ or some-thing like that. They’ll never give me a chance,” he added.

PTI

Tom Hanks says

that he always wanted to do a super-hero

movie.

As body ages, Jackie Chan longs for Hollywood’s full embrace

beverly hills, 20 Oct—Jackie Chan wasn’t in the mood for proclama-tions.

The Hong Kong mar-tial arts film star, who de-clared last year at France’s Cannes film festival that he was retiring from ac-tion films, now says that after more than a decade of contemplating quitting, he is going to let his body decide.

“When I was 40-some-thing the media would ask me and then I said another five years, and then five years and five years until now,” the Kung Fu actor said in an interview pro-moting his 2012 Chinese action film “Chinese Zodi-ac,” which will be released in US cinemas on Friday.

“Six more months and I’m going to be 60,” Chan said. “And I (will) see how far I can go until my body tells me, ‘Stop.’”

Chan, famous for per-forming all of his high-flying and physically pun-ishing stunts, has appeared in more than 100 films and now writes, produces and directs his own films in Asia.

“I get hurt,” the actor said after 50 years of flips, kicks and punches. “It gets really tiring, not like it used to be.”

The only real outward sign of aging in Chan are some crow’s feet around the eyes. He is obviously in great shape still, but won’t reveal his secrets for stay-

Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan poses during a promotional event for his film ‘’Chinese Zodiac’’ in Beverly Hills, California on 16 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

ing that way.But as Chan starts to

enter his twilight years he laments how Hollywood typecasting may force him to begin using a stunt dou-ble for his acrobatic scenes as he believes Hollywood studios would never cast him in dramatic roles.

“I hope the audience, after they say, ‘Jackie, that’s a double!,’ they for-give me,” Chan said in his trademark broad-grinned and animated style.

“Then I can continue (my career) because poor me, nobody in Holly-wood hires me to make a ‘Kramer vs Kramer’ (or) like ‘Sound of Music’—actually I’m a pretty good singer —and nobody hires me to do this kind of film,” Chan said, referring to the 1979 family drama and 1965 musical, both Oscar winners.

“All we think about Jackie Chan: Chris Tucker, ‘Rush Hour’ one, two, and three ... always action-comedy, action-comedy,” he said about the “Rush Hour” buddy-cop film se-

ries with comedian Chris Tucker that helped Chan cement his place in Holly-wood 15 years ago.

Chan has already added “dramatic actor” to his resume with the 2011 Chinese historical drama “1911” about the revolu-tion that overthrew China’s final imperial dynasty.

“I really hope some-day in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama,” Chan said. “I (would) re-ally appreciate it.”

But that is never going to happen, Chan believes.

“Why?” he asks rhe-torically with a sigh. “Be-cause the audience is just not used to seeing Jackie Chan doing drama.”

Chan’s ideal roles would be in films such as 1988 Oscar-winner “Rain Man,” which starred Dus-tin Hoffman as a savant and Tom Cruise as his yup-pie brother together on a road trip, or 1982’s “Toot-sie,” also starring Hoffman as an actor who dresses as a woman to land acting roles.

Reuters

Actress Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman gives son piggyback ride

los aNgeles, 20 Oct—Actress Natalie Portman was spotted giving a piggy-back ride to her two-year-old son Aleph.

The Black Swan ac-tress showed a simple style,

wearing jeans, oxfords and a quilted avy coat, reports eonline.com.

Her son, who appears to have grown up a lot since he was last spotted mid-Au-gust, flashed a smile while he was perched atop his mother’s shoulders.—PTI

Michael Fassbender won’t campaign for Oscar

los aNgeles, 20 Oct—Michael Fassbender has decided not to campaign for the Oscar this year de-spite having a strong role of an evil plantation owner in McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave.

The actor, who had previously campaigned for his role as a sex addict in Shame without much suc-cess, told GQ that he would be busy working instead of promoting the movie, which has a strong Oscar buzz.

“You know, I get it. Everybody’s got to do their job. So you try and help and facilitate as best you can. But I won’t put myself through that kind of situa-tion again. It’s just a grind.

Michael Fassbender.

And I’m not a politician. I’m an actor,” Fassbender said.

The actor would be busy filming his produc-tion company’s first feature

in New Zealand and then shooting Macbeth with Marion Cotillard.

“I’m going to be busy working. I just don’t really have time.”—PTI

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London, 20 Oct—Ar-senal played with the style, pace and confidence of their glory days of nearly a dec-ade ago to crush Norwich City 4-1 and underline their Premier League title cre-dentials at the Emirates Sta-dium on Saturday.

The Gunners, without a trophy since 2005, gave their fans renewed hope that

Arsenal cruise, Chelsea win amid controversy

Arsenal’s manager Arsene Wenger reacts during their Champions League soccer match against Napoli at the

Emirates stadium in London on 1 Oct, 2013.ReuteRs

Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard (L) shoots to score a pen-alty during their English Premier League soccer match against Newcastle United at St James’ Park in Newcas-

tle, northern England, on 19 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

Chelsea’s Samuel Eto’o appeals to the linesman after he thought Cardiff City goalkeeper David

Marshall (R) had carried the ball outside the area

during their English Pre-mier League soccer match

at Stamford Bridge in London, on 19 Oct, 2013.

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Changed Rooney should not be judged on past, says Hodgson

London, 20 Oct—Eng-land striker Wayne Rooney has the potential to be one of the standout players of the 2014 World Cup in Bra-zil and should not be judged on his past disciplinary problems, said manager Roy Hodgson.

The Manchester United forward has been in terrific form for his country, scor-ing in their last two World Cup qualifiers to take his tally to seven goals in his six games in the campaign as England finished top of their group.

However, the 27-year-old’s performances at past major tournaments for Eng-land have been less than stellar.

Rooney, who played in the 2006 and 2010 World Cups, has yet to find the net at the finals and has a less than perfect overall

disciplinary record in in-ternationals, having twice been sent off.

“If the question is, do I believe Wayne Rooney has got the ability and can be a star at the World Cup play-ing for England playing like he is at the moment?, I would say: ‘Yes of course I believe it, of course I think he can do it’,” said Hodg-son at a media briefing this week.

“You can’t keep judg-ing people on the past and errors they’ve made in the past. If there’s been tem-perament errors, he’s been lambasted for them and paid the penalty for them but you can’t keep on drag-ging that up,” added the 66-year-old.

Rooney was infamous-

ly sent off against Portu-gal in the quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup after stamping on Ricardo Car-valho and pushing his then-United team mate Cristiano Ronaldo.

England lost the match 3-1 on penalties to go out of the competition.—Reuters

England’s Wayne Rooney

Putting problems leave McIlroy off the pace in KoreaSeouL, 20 Oct—Rory

McIlroy’s search for an elu-sive first victory of the year

is set to continue after a cold putter left the for-mer world number one 10 strokes off the pace after the penultimate round of the Korea Open on Saturday.

The 24-year-old Northern Irish-

man, who has

Rory McIlroy attends at a news conference ahead of

Koron Korea Open Golf Cham-

pionship in Seoul on 15 Oct, 2013.

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the famine could end this season with Jack Wilshere and substitute Aaron Ram-sey scoring outstanding goals as they moved two points clear at the top.

Arsenal’s record sign-ing Mesut Ozil also scored his first league two goals for the club he joined for 42.5 million pounds ($68.80 million) from Real Madrid at the start of the season.

Across London, Chel-sea beat Cardiff City 4-1 to move into second place but the win was marred by

their controversial equaliser which came after Samuel Eto’o kicked the ball away from keeper David Mar-shall who was bouncing it before clearing.

The ball ran to Belgian forward Eden Hazard who scored to cancel out Car-diff’s 10th minute opener.

In the second half referee Anthony Taylor sent Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho from the dug-out because the Portuguese continually lambasted the officials complaining Car- diff were time-wasting.

Liverpool slipped one place to third after drawing 2-2 at 10-man Newcastle United, while Manchester City climbed to fourth after winning 3-1 at West Ham United with two goals from Sergio Aguero and a late strike by David Silva.

Champions Manches-ter United finished the day in eighth place after South-

ampton scored at the death to force a 1-1 draw and si-lence the home fans at Old Trafford.

With the top teams having all played eight matches, Arsenal have 19 points, Chelsea and Liver-pool 17, with Manchester City on 16. Manchester United are eight points off the pace.

Reuters

Webb Simpson stays four ahead in Vegas

LaS VegaS, 20 Oct— Former US Open cham-pion Webb Simpson moved closer to a fourth victory on the PGA Tour as he main-tained a commanding four-shot lead after Saturday’s third round of the Shrin-ers Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.

Though not quite matching the high standard of play he produced over the first two days at the TPC Summerlin, the American finished strongly with four birdies in the last seven holes to card a four-under-par 67.

That left Simpson at 19-under 194 in the second event of the PGA Tour’s 2013-14 season, with 26-year-old rookie Ches-son Hadley alone in second place after eagling the par-five 16th on the way to a 67.

Former US Ryder Cup

player Jeff Overton (68) was a further stroke back at 14 under, one ahead of fel-low American Jason Bohn (69).

Simpson, however, commanded the spotlight as he recovered from an early bogey to stay atop the lead-erboard on another ideal day for low scoring in the high Nevada desert where

there was barely a breath of wind.

“The greens were a lit-tle more firm, a little burned out and a little faster, and I think I was a little too ten-tative,” Simpson told Golf Channel when asked to ex-plain his slow start to the third round.

“The speed of my long putts kind of hurt us on the front (nine). I would run them four or five feet by, or leave them short. I couldn’t really get a feel for it but fi-nally on the back nine I got some birdies going.”

Four ahead overnight, the 2012 US Open cham-

pion briefly dropped back into a tie for the lead with Bohn at 14 under after run-ning up a three-putt bogey at the par-four third.

However, he immedi-ately recovered with bird-ies at the fourth and fifth to move two strokes clear, then parred the next four holes to reach the turn with a three-shot advantage at

16 under. Simpson made another misstep at the par-four 11th, finding the left rough off the tee and failing to reach the green in two on the way to a bogey for his lead to be cut to two.

Once again, though, he quickly rebounded with consecutive birdies, sinking a 12-footer at the par-four 12th and a 25-footer at the par-five 13th to regain a four-stroke cushion.

Simpson said that a chat with his experienced caddie Paul Tesori helped him regain consistency af-ter his wayward swing on the 11th tee.—Reuters

Former US Open champion Webb Simpson.

slipped to sixth in the world rankings after a disappoint-ing season, hit three bogeys and a double bogey against a lone birdie in a four-over-par 75 to sit tied 13th at one-over.

South Korea’s Kim Hyung-tae took a healthy four-stroke advantage into the final round after an error-free five-under-par 66 which took his three-day total to nine-under at the Woo Jeong Hills Country Club near Cheonan, south of Seoul.

McIlroy, the top draw at

the one billion Korean won ($940,300) event, missed some birdie chances on the front nine to reach the turn at level par for the day.

But a double bogey on the 10th and another bogey immediately after destroyed his round. “I just think the story of the day is that I missed a lot of putts, missed a lot of chances for birdies at the start of the round and then missed a few short ones for pars in the middle and end of the round,” he told reporters.

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Barca, Atletico stumble and miss out on record

Madrid, 20 Oct —Barcelona and Atletico Madrid dropped their firstpoints of the season on Sat-urday, missing the chance to equal the record for the best-ever La Liga start.

Champions Barca, who visit AC Milan in the Champions League on Tuesday, were held 0-0 at Osasuna. It was the firsttime they failed to score in a domestic league game in 65 matches since a 0-0 draw at Villarreal in Janu-ary 2012.

Atletico also lost 1-0 at Espanyol as Real Ma-drid’s record nine straight wins to kick off the 1968-69 campaign remained in-tact.

Third-placed Real won 2-0 at home to Mala-ga, Carlo Ancelotti’s side closing within three points

of leaders Barca ahead of next week’s ‘Clasico’ at the Nou Camp and two points shy of Atletico.

Real won thanks to a goal from Angel Di Maria and a stoppage-time Cris-tiano Ronaldo penalty, won by world record signing Gareth Bale who was a late substitute.

Barca were unable to breach a well-drilled Os-asuna defence in Pamplona and Atletico were thwarted by an Espanyol side who have made a strong start to the season under Mexican coach Javier Aguirre.

The only goal of the game at Espanyol’s Cor-nella-El Prat stadium in Barcelona came in the 54th minute when the ball de-flected into the net off theoutstretched leg of Atleti-co goalkeeper Thibaut

Courtois.Argentine Lionel Mes-

si, who had not played since the end of last month due to a thigh strain, came off the benchforthefinal25min-utes of Barca’s game but not even the World Player of the Year could conjure a goal for the champions.

“We knew it was going to be tough,” said captain Carles Puyol after making his first appearance in al-most eight months follow-ing knee surgery.

“It’s always difficultplaying at this stadium,” the 35-year-old told Canal Plus.

“We were missing some effectiveness in the finalpassbutit’sonemorepoint. Now we have to re-cover from this and prepare well for Tuesday.”

Barca dominated Os-

asuna, who sat back look-ing to catch the visitors on the break, and came closest to scoring midway through the second half when Ney-mar just failed to get on the end of a low Martin Mon-toya centre.

Cesc Fabregas had two golden chances but fluffedan attempted chip before sending a wild shot sailing over the crossbar.

Real warmed up for Wednesday’s Champions League game against Ju-ventus with a victory.

It was hardly the spar-kling display coach Ance-lotti wanted to dispel doubts after some unconvincing performances this term but the Italian was happy about a general improvement from his expensive squad.

“Today I am pleased,” Ancelotti told a news con-

ference. “Everyone was focused on defending, we pressed well and recovered possession quickly.

“That was the differ-ence compared to other matches - we did not give them chances and were well positioned.

“We have to keep it going and do things bet-

ter but today the team per-formed well. We started the week on a positive note.”

Ronaldo was comfort-ably Real’s most danger-ous player at the Bernabeu and the Portuguese forward curled a shot against the crossbar in the eighth min-ute against defensive Mala-ga.—Reuters

Barcelona’s Neymar (L) backpasses to teammate Li-onel Messi (R) during their Spanish first division soccer

match against Osasuna at Reyno de Navarra stadium in Pamplona on 19 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

Hillary Clinton hits campaign trail, endorses McAuliffe in Virginia

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waves to the audience at an event to endorse Virginia

gubernatorial candidate and former DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe (R) at The State Theatre in Falls

Church, Virginia, on 19 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

alls ChurCh, (Vir-ginia), 20 Oct—Hillary Clinton returned to the campaign trail on Saturday to endorse old friend Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor’s race, urging vot-ers to reject the “scorched earth” politics that led to the recent government shut-down.

At her first overtlypolitical appearance since leaving her post as secre-tary of state in February, the former Democratic sen-ator and first lady said theoutcome of the bitter gov-ernor’s battle would show whether voters were ready to choose common sense over ideology. She received a hero’s welcome from the packed crowd in a theater in Falls Church, a Washington suburb, during an appear-ance certain to heighten

speculation about a possible 2016 presidential bid.

Clinton focused on praising McAuliffe, the former national Demo-cratic party chairman and a longtime friend, as a strong leader who could rise above the divisive politics of the federal shutdown and debt ceilingfight.

While she never men-tioned McAuliffe’s Re-publican opponent, Vir-ginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a staunch anti-abortion and social conservative, Clinton said the Republican agenda was being driven by its most conservative members.

“When politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when they operate in what I call the ev-idence-free zone with ide-ology trumping everything

else, we see that families in Virginia and across the country have felt the conse-quences,” Clinton said.

“The whole country is watching this election, watching to see whether the voters of Virginia lead the way of turning from di-visive politics and getting back to common sense and common ground,” she said.

McAuliffe, a close ally of Clinton’s husband, for-mer President Bill Clinton, and co-chairman of Hillary Clinton’s failed 2008 presi-dential campaign, holds a solid lead over Cuccinelli in recent polls before the November 5 election.

That lead has been fueled by a commanding double-digit advantage among women — an edge that Clinton’s appearance at a ‘Women for McAu-liffe’ rally in the politically moderate northern Virginia suburbs was designed to ex-ploit.

The free tickets to the rally were snapped up quickly and the crowd of more than 700, many wear-ing “Ready for Hillary” buttons, began lining up hours before the event.

“It’s been my dream to see Hillary,” said Kerry Tousignant, a recent col-lege graduate and a volun-teer coordinator at a domes-tic violence non-profit inAlexandria, Virginia.

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AC Milan without injured Balotelli for

Udinese clash

Italy’s Mario Balotelli lies on the field during their 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match against Armenia at

San Paolo stadium in Naples on 15 Oct, 2013.ReuteRs

roMe, 20 Oct—Mario Balotelli will miss AC Mi-lan’s match against Udinese in Serie A on Saturday (1845 GMT)because of a thigh injury which could also keep him out of the Champions League clash with Barcelona on Tuesday.

“Mario Balotelli is suffering an injury to the vastus intermedius muscle

of the right thigh,” Milan said on their website (www.acmilan.com). “The player will be monitored in the coming days in order to bet-ter define the extent of theproblem and determine the prognosis.”

It will be the fourth match in a row that Balo-telli will miss for Milan

after he was suspended for three games following an aggressive outburst in the aftermath of their 2-1 defeat against Napoli.

Brazilian Kaka, who has been out of action since last month with a thigh in-jury, has been included in the 21-man squad for Satur-day’s game at the San Siro.

“He has a maximum of

25 minutes in him,” coach Massimiliano Allegri told a news conference on Friday. “It’s a gradual recovery and we don’t want to risk a re-lapse.”

Milan are languishing in 12th place in Serie A after winning two of their opening seven games.

Reuters

2nd Waning of Thadingyut 1375 ME Monday, 21 October, 2013 New Light of Myanmar

Singapore-based com-panies have started making investment in the wood-based industry and construc-tion sector of Myanmar, ac-cording to the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration.

Singapore-based Wood Craft International Pte Com-pany and Uni Global Power Pte Company will cooperate with Myanmar-based Glob-al Star Company and Nature

S’pore-based companies begin making to investment in construction, finished-wood industries

By: Khin Lay Myint Aung

Link Company on a joint-venture basis, an official of the DICA said.

“Myanmar Investment Commission issued the per-mit to them on 2 October to produce finished-wood products and to invest in infrastructure development including hotels, apart-ments, office, city marts etc through the BOT system” he added.

Regarding the invest-

ment in Myanmar’s con-struction industry under the BOT system, Nature Link Company and Uni Global Power Pte Company will work together under the joint-venture system for in-frastructure development in Yankin Township.

Foreign investment has reached over USD 2436 million this mid-year and so far 31 countries have made investment in the country,

according to the statistics.China stood the larg-

est investor in Myanmar with USD 14.189 million, followed by Hong Kong with USD 6446 million; South Korean with USD 3037 million and Japan with USD 274 million. Some Asian countries are also ranked top among big-gest investors in Myanmar. Myanma Alinn: 15-10-13

Trs: AMSA worker seen at finished-wood industries.

Nay Pyi Taw, 20 Oct—Union Minster for Immi-gration and Population U Khin Yi made an inspection tour of Laukkai Township where he observed entry-exit measures being car-ried out by the staff of the Immigration and National Registration Department at Yanlonkyaing Myanmar-China border checkpoint on 13 October.

In meeting with Ko-kang Self-Administered Zone Leading Body Chair-man U Pei Sauk Chein, he coordinated matters related

Union I&P Minister’s inspection tour of

border checkpoints in Laukkai

to managing immigration at the checkpoint and fulfilled the requirements.

On 14 October morn-ing, the Union minister also inspected activities of im-migration officers who are dealing with the entry and exit of the people of Myan-mar and China at Chinsh-wehaw border checkpoint and left necessary instruc-tions.

Next, he visited Nam-ting creek crossing bridge linking Chinshwehaw of Kokang region to Namtit of ‘‘Wa’’ region.—MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 20 Oct—Union Minister for Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development U Ohn Myint met officials and experts from the Institute of Management Consult-ants Thailand (IMCT) at the meeting hall of Yangon Region Fisheries Depart-ment this evening.

In meeting with them, the Union minister said that the ministry has been undertaking rural devel-

Myanmar, Thailand discuss rural and human resource development

opment tasks by drawing strategy framework, add-ing the ministry adopted eight-point scheme of rural development to implement food security, production of safe food, rural electrifi-cation and supply of clean drinking water and devel-opment of education, health and socioeconomic status to be able to reduce poverty rate from 26 to 16 percent in 2015. Only when for-eign organizations provide

technical and financial as-sistance, will development of rural areas be achieved quickly, he added.

The representative of IMCT discussed matters on offering consultancy services to government or-ganizations and private en-terprises in Myanmar, ca-pacity building programme for advisors of Myanmar, establishment of eco villag-es, farm house bank model, tax-free market and effec-

tive water supply manage-ment system with the use of Netherlands technology.

Institute of Manage-ment Consultants My-anmar Co Ltd links with International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI) and is conducting internation-ally-recognized Certified Management Consultants (CMC) courses in coopera-tion with IMCT.

MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 20 Oct—According to the observa-tion at 17:30 hrs MST today, the low pressure area over

Weather Forecast for 3rd Dekad (10 days) of October

2013Bay of Bengal condition

A low pressure area may form over the South Bay of Bengal and further intensify into a depres-sion. Weather will be partly cloudy to cloudy in the An-daman Sea and Bay of Ben-gal.Rain conditions and rainy days

Rain conditions are

likely to be above normal in Shan, Kayah, Kayin and Mon States and about nor-mal in the remaining Re-gions and States.

Rainy days are ex-pected about 5 to 7 days in Kayah, Kayin and Mon States and about 3 to 4 days in the remaining Regions and States.

NLM

Low pressure still persistsSouthwest Bay of Bengal still persists, the Meteorol-ogy and Hydrology Depart-ment announced.—MNA

yaNgoN, 20 Oct — “There are no fights be-tween the government and KNU in the territory of KNU and no more inten-tionally-caused conflicts after an agreement was signed. Both sides had already said the incident cannot paralyze the peace process and peace will be achieved without fail. The incidents are nothing to do with KNU (Central). Sus-pect Saw Myint Lwin is just a member of paramilitary. I met him as an in-charge of KNU this morning and he confessed simply that he got involved in the inci-dents as he was asked to do so by some businessmen in a regional economic organi-zation. Such incidents are due to an individual motive, have nothing to do with KNU (Central), KNU CEC member Pado Mahn Nyein Maung said at a press con-ference at Myanmar Peace Center, here, this evening.

“There arose many sto-ries about KNU in connec-tion with recent incidents. KNU (Central) is respon-sible to make public its at-titude. KNU has always

KNU holds press meets on recent bombings in some regions

tried hard to establish peace through successive periods, but in vain. At the time of President U Thein Sein, KNU trusted the President and the more than 60-year-old civil war could be put to an end.

We believed that on-going process is moving steadily towards peace. In meeting with the President and the Commander-in-Chief for three times each, we built more trust one af-ter another. We had made resolutions for peace.

We met the Union ministers and senior mili-tary officers in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. We were convinced that peace pro-cess will continue and we, in turn, iterated that KNU (Central) will strive for peace without fail. As our desires are similar, peace process will continue with dignity.

Saw Nay Toe and Saw Myint Lwin attempted to blast more bombs, but their attempts failed. The incidents are intended to

disrupt the ongoing peace process between the gov-ernment and KNU just like attempts to create racial and religious conflicts. We will cooperate with the govern-ment to arrest Saw Nay Toe,” he added.

Next, Pado Mahn Nyein Maung answered the queries raised by local and foreign correspondents.

It was also attended by CSC Du Palaya and District Chairman Pado Saw Shwe Moung, members of MPC and diplomats.—MNA

People offer rice, alms to members of Sangha in Homein

HomeiN, 20 Oct—Rice offering ceremony took place in Homein Sub-Township of Langkho Dis-trict yesterday morning.

The local people of wards donated rice and alms to 94 members of the

Sangha.Local people partici-

paed in offering of rice and alms to members of the Snagha in Homein Sub-Township yearly.

MMAL-Ye Naing (IPRD)

KNU CEC member Pado Mahn Nyein Maung at press conference at Myanmar Peace Center.—mna