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Volume XVII, Number 217 3rd Waxing of Nadaw 1371 ME Thursday, 19 November, 2009

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defenceinspects progress of Hlinethaya-Dalla-Twantay Road, regional development

YANGON, 18 Nov—Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Min-istry of Defence, accompanied by Chairman of YangonDivision Peace and Development Council Commanderof Yangon Command Maj-Gen Win Myint, this morn-ing heard reports on progress of construction taskspresented by the Senior Engineer at the briefing hall ofHlinethaya-Dalla-Twantay Road construction site inHlinethaya Township.

The commander and the superintending engineergave supplementary reports.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe gave instructions on comple-tion of construction tasks in the open season.

A visit to Muse at the upper reaches of Shweli RiverByline & Photos: Tin Htwe (MNA)

Visitors taking photographs near border post at Shwe Nandaw China-Myanmar Border Gatein Muse.

Our media crew of Myanma Alin daily last Sep-tember made trips to collect some facts for bylines andvisited Muse at the upper reaches of Shweli river.When we arrived Muse, the sun had already set as wedropped in Kutkai on our way to Muse.

Muse is a border town situated on China-Myanmarborder and it has a robust economy as105-mile tradezone is established in the town. We saw the night ofMuse bustling with street vendors, shoppers, andvehicles and motor bikes moving about in the townunder bright neon lights.

Looking from guest house on the bank of Shweliriver, we saw sky-rising buildings in Zhegaun andShweli at the side of the People's Republic of China.Shweli river separates China and Myanmar and theriver flows into Shweli of China about one mileupstream from Muse.

We observed harvesting of paddy with farmingequipment at 50-acre model monsoon Sinshweli paddyfield of farmer U Tun Shwe of Teinlong village inMuse Township the following day. Under the beamsof rising sun were endless ripe and brown paddy fields

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Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defenceviews broadcasting of paddy seeds at Tamangyi

Village of Twantay Township. —MNA

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participa-tion in terms of technical know-how and invest-ments from sources inside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must bekept in the hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and pres-ervation and safeguarding of cultural heritageand national character

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

of the entire nation

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

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

Lt-Gen Myint Swe viewed construction of theroad at the mile posts No. 1/4 and No. 1/5. Next, helooked into harvesting of monsoon paddy and cultiva-tion of summer paddy in Tamangyi Village of TwantayTownship.

After viewing the harvesting of monsoon paddyand sowing of paddy, Lt-Gen Myint Swe looked intocultivation of sunflower between green gram planta-tions in Kamapa Village of Kungyangon Township.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Myint Swe inspected valvesof Kungyangon Sluice Gate, storage of water andconstruction of a reinforced concrete bridge acrossKungyangon Creek.

While in Kungyangon Township, Lt-Gen MyintSwe and party oversaw the collective ploughing forcultivation of summer paddy in West Tawkhayan

Village. They also viewed progress of Cyclone Shel-ter.

At Lekkhokkon Station Hospital, they presentedrefreshments to the patients.

At the briefing hall of Dalla-Thahkut-Lekkhokkonroad section, Lt-Gen Myint Swe heard reports onprogress of construction works presented by theDistrict Senior Engineer and inspected roadworks at Wabalaukthauk Village of KawhmuTownship.

Later, he attended the monsoon harvesting andsowing of green gram and sunflower in NyaungngoktoVillage of Dalla Township.—MNA

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Thursday, 19 November, 2009 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

Today, the whole nation sees security, peaceand the rule of law due to the efforts the Tatmadawgovernment has been making to build nationalunity since its asumption of State duties.

In the meantime, the government has beenimplementing varieties of projects for regionaldevelopment in compliance with the guidance ofthe Head of State for ensuring equitable develop-ment of all parts of the Union. As part of the drive,it is improving major infrastructures especiallytransport, education and health ones.

With smooth transport, each region is eas-ily accessible from any other region across thenation. Moreover, national brethren of differentregions have been able to deal with one anotherfar more than ever. So, economic, education andhealth sectors will further improve, as a result.

Kangyi Bridge in mile post No 57/7 onEinmegyi-Myaungmya Road in Myaungmya Dis-trict, Ayeyawady Division built by Public Worksof the Ministry of Construction was put intocommission with a ceremony held at the pavilionnear the bridge on 15 November.

The facility has begun to help boost thetransport of Ayeyawady Division’s products suchas marine products and rice to other states anddivisions through the road network that coversthe whole nation.

Kangyi Bridge is of broad crest type with a24-foot-wide motorway and two three-foot-widepedestrian walkways on it. The main bridge is200 feet long and can withstand 60 tons of loads.The bridge is the 47th of its kind in AyeyawadyDivision, and the 232nd of its kind among theabove-180-foot bridges in the nation.

In its bid to improve the transport sector,the government is constructing roads and bridgesone after another to ensure smoother transportbetween states and divisions. Therefore, localpeople are duty-bound to maintain collectivelywith a sense of duty for durability of the transportfacilities.

For ensuring durability ofroads and bridges

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Nov—Chairman of SagaingDivision Peace and Development Council Com-mander of North-West Command Maj-Gen MyintSoe together with officials concerned attended thefinal match of 16th Commander-in-Chief (Army,Navy, Air) Wushu contest and prize presentationceremony held at the gymnasium of North-Westcommand in Monywa, Sagaing Division on 16 No-vember.

Also present were staff officers, Division, Districtand Township level departmental heads, commanding

NAY PYI TAW, 18Nov—Minister for Com-munications, Posts andTelegraphs Brig-GenThein Zaw, on 13 Novem-ber, visited overseas com-munication station inTaungdwingyi of MagwayDivision and Auto Ex-change in Magway.

On 14 November, theminister inspected instal-lation of mobile equip-ment in G.S.M (BTS) ofYenangyoung and visitedAuto Exchange stationand G.S.M mobile sys-tem operating room inKyaukpadaung andMeiktila.

The minister inspected

YANGON, 18 Nov—The 25 Selected MyanmarShort Stories of 22 Myanmar writers, translated bySayama Ma Thanegi into English, have been distrib-uted by UNITY Publishing house.

The book including arts of famous Myanmarartists was compiled by Myanmar famous writers.

The books are available at Unity publishinghouse at K 4,000 per copy.—MNA

Commander attends final of 16th Commander-in-Chief(Army, Navy, Air) Wushu contest and prize presentation ceremony

officers of regiments and units, officers and theirfamilies, contestants, referees and guests.

First, the commander and party enjoyed the finalmatch before prize presentation at which they pre-sented prizes to the winners.

Next, the commander and party went to Baelin-Ohntaw-Nyaungpinchan national grid project atChindwin River spanning tower construction site inMonywa where the commander heard reports on com-pleted tasks presented by in-charge engineer.

MNA

CPT Minister visits communication stations inMagway and Mandalay Divisions

construction of factories andoffices of companies in-vested in YatanarponMyothit project near

PyinOoLwin in MandalayDivision and arrival of ma-chines on 15 November andmet with officials, depart-

mental personnel and entre-preneurs at the meeting hallof Yatanarpon Teleport.

MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw inspects Auto Exchange in Magway.COMMUNICATION

NAY PYI TAW, 18Nov—The authorities ex-posed 199 drug relatedcases in October 2009.

They seized 62.8433kilos of opium in 42 cases,27.7073 kilos of heroin in48 cases, 2.5 kilos of mor-phine in one case, 0.8987kilo of opium oil in 11cases, 3.2621 kilos of low-grade opium in 15 cases,16.8233 kilos of marijuanain 15 cases, 640,122.5stimulant tablets in 44cases, 0.816 kilo of opiumspeciosa in six cases,0.00816 kilo of stimulant

Myanmar short stories incirculation199 drug related cases

exposed in Octoberpowder, 0.021 kilo of ICEin one case, 8371 litres ofchemical liquid in fourcases, 146 kilos of chemi-cal powder in two cases,six kilos of Ephedrine inone case, 410 ampoules ofdiazepam in one case, 700diazepam tablets, 7,000Tramadol capsules in onecase, three cases of failureto register and other fourcases.

Action was takenagainst 274 persons—231men and 43 women—in199 drug related cases ac-cording to the law.—MNA

YANGON, 17 Nov—The Coloured Photo Con-test entitled “The Integ-rity of Myanmar Images”to mark the 62nd Anni-versary Independence

Prize presentation for ColouredPhoto Contest on 6 December

Day which falls on 4 Janu-ary 2010 was held re-cently.

The Scrutiny Com-mittee has selected win-ners in the contest. The

prize presentation cer-emony will be held at themeeting hall of Printingand Publishing Enterpriseat No. 228 on TheinbyuStreet, here, at 11 am on 6

December.The winners are to

contact the organizingcommittee for the contest,Tel: 201936 or 371342.

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Invasion of US and allies kills, injuresIraqi people

BAGHDAD, 18 Nov— There has been daily casualties in Iraq since the US andits allies have invaded the country.

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

18 November reached 699,421 and the total number of seriously injured peoplereached 1,262,028, according to the news on the internet.

No. Subject Number1. Death toll of Iraqi people 699,4212. The total number of seriously injured people 1,262,028

Internet

Casualties of Afghan people in invasion ofNATO troops led by US

KABUL, 18 Nov—The NATO troops led by the US have invaded Afghanistanand they are there for a long time.

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

Casualties of Afghan peopleAccording to the Internet news, a total of 32,342 Afghan people were killed

and 38,022 injured seriously as from the day when the NATO troops led by theUS invaded Afghanistan to 18 November.

No. Subject Number1. Number of Afghan people killed 32,3422. Seriously injured Afghan people 38,022

Internet

Afghan, NATO forces kill five Talebanmilitants, arrest 17 near Kabul

Afghan troops kill two Talebangroup commanders, detain six

in N Afghanistan KABUL, 18 Nov—Afghan National Security Forces

eliminated two Taleban group com manders and de-tained six others in a joint cleanup operation in north-ern Kunduz Province, said a statement of the DefenceMinistry issued here on Tuesday.

“Afghan National Army (ANA) troops from Corps209 Shahin launched a joint cleanup operation withAfghan National Police and National Security Direc-torate on Monday, killing Mullah Noorullah and AbdulHaq who were responsible for organizing subversiveactivities in Khan Abad district and other parts of theprovince,” the statement added.

Six more militants have been detained in the op-eration by joint forces, it further said.—Xinhua

Civilian killed, seven injured inIraq’s Diyala violence

KABUL, 18 Nov—Afghan NationalArmy (ANA) soldiers backed byNATO-led International Security Assist-ance Force (ISAF) eliminatedfive Taleban militants and detained14 others in separate operations outsidethe capital city Kabul, officials said onTuesday.

“Acting upon intelligence reports thejoint forces raided a compound in SyedAbad district of Wardak Province 40 kmwest of Kabul on Monday, killing fourrebels on the spot,” Shahidullah Shahidthe spokesman for Wardak provincialadministration told Xinhua.

A woman was also killed in the com-pound, while two more militants hadbeen arrested, he added, but did not sayif the woman was an associate militant.

In another operation, an armed mili-tant and a farmer were killed while threesuspects had been arrested by the jointforces in Nirkh district on the same dayin the same province, according toShahid.

No causalities have been reported on

joint forces, he stressed. The statement also said 12 suspect

militants responsible for anti-govern-ment activities were arrested in Mosahidistrict in south of Kabul province onthe same day Monday.

Xinhua

An Iraqi fire-fighter walkspast a destroyed vehicle fol-lowing a suicide car bombin the northern city ofKirkuk. Gunmen in Iraqiarmy uniforms launchedexecution-style attacks west

of Baghdad, killing 13members of a tribe who

took up arms againstAl-Qaeda.—INTERNET

Injured Afghan boy iswatched by his mother in thehospital in Herat, Afghani-

stan, after NATO andAfghan forces killed several

militants, including anarmed woman, in a searchoperation in the Shindanddistrict, western Afghani- stan, on 14 Nov, 2009.

INTERNET

In this photo taken on 14 Nov, 2009, a big crater is seen in the middle of twodestroyed government building the Ministry of Municipalities and Public,

with a huge Iraqi flag on it, background, and the Justice Ministry foregroundfollowing a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq. Recent bombings that hit

government buildings in downtown Baghdad killed more than 250 people andwounded hundreds more. The blasts also had a wider effect: slowing down

the government services Iraqis use on a daily basis.—INTERNET

Afghan police officers search cars coming into Kabul, Afghanistan,on 16 Nov, 2009. In an apparent response to calls from theinternational community to do more to fight graft, drugs andcronyism, Karzai government officials plan to hold a newsconference on Monday to underscore what it says are recentsuccesses of its Counternarcotics Justice Task Force.—INTERNET

BAQUBA, 18 Nov—Acivilian was killed andseven people injured onTuesday across Iraq’svolatile province of Diyalanortheast of Baghdad, pro-vincial police source said.A civilian was killed andthree others woundedwhen unknown gunmenopened fire on an orchardin northern the provincialcapital city of Baquba,some 65 km northeast of

Baghdad, the source toldXinhua on condition ofanonymity.

In a separate incident,three Iraqi soldiers and anofficer were injured by aroadside bomb explosionnear their patrol in thetown of Balad Ruz, some30 km southeast ofBaquba, the source said.

Separately, Iraqi secu-rity forces launched secu-rity operations across

Diyala, detaining 13 sus-pects and defusing fourroadside bombs, he added.

Diyala Provincestretches from the easternedges of the capital to theIranian border. It has longbeen a stronghold for al-Qaeda militants and othermilitant groups since theUS-led invasion of Iraq in2003 despite repeated USand Iraqi military opera-tions there.—Xinhua

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TEHERAN, 18 Nov—AnIranian Foreign Ministryspokesman said on Tues-day the report released bythe International AtomicEnergy Agency (IAEA)Chief Mohamed ElBara-dei shows the peacefulnature of Iran’s nuclearactivities, the semi-offi-cial Fars news agency re-ported.

“As predicted, MrElBaradei has recon-firmed that Iran’s nuclearactivities have not been

LA JOLLA, 18 Nov—Previous influenza infectionsmay provide at least some level of immunity to theH1N1 flu, US researchers found.

“The question we asked was, “Is the swine flu morelike the seasonal flu or like a totally new strain of in-fluenza where there would be no immunity?,”Alessandro Sette, director of the La Jolla Institute’sCenter for Infectious Disease in California, said in astatement.

“What we have found is that the swine flu has simi-larities to the seasonal flu, which appear to providesome level of pre-existing immunity.

This suggests that it could make the disease lesssevere in the general population than originally feared.”

The researchers used the Immune Epitope Data-base — a worldwide research tool developed andhosted by the La Jolla Institute — to conduct theirstudy.

Initially, the research team conducted the study us-ing computer modeling and later blood samples ofadults representative of the normal population.

“We found that the immune system’s T cells — in-fection-fighting white blood cells in the body’s im-mune system — can recognize a significant percent ofthe markers in swine (H1N1) flu,” Sette said.

“Nobody knows what level of immunity is suffi-cient for protection.

We do know that a T cell response is not enough toprevent being infected by the virus.”—Internet

A health officer administers an H1N1 vaccinationspray at Hardy Middle School in Washington

on 24 October, 2009.—INTERNET

IAEA report confirms “peaceful nature”of Iran’s nuclear programme

diverted from peacefulpurposes and no militaryactivities have been seenin Iran’s nuclear work,”Ramin Mehmanparastwas quoted as saying.

The report bears sucha fact, “although it bearssome ambiguities due tothe political pressures ex-erted by certain powers,”Mehmanparast told re-porters.

Meanwhile, Iran’s en-voy to the IAEA Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh said on

Tuesday that the latest re-port by the UN nuclearwatchdog proved theWest’s huge media hypeagainst Iran’s second en-richment plant was basedon “baseless allegations,”the satellite Press TV re-ported.

“The report confirmedthat no centrifuges hadbeen introduced into thefacility and that no nuclearmaterial had been used init,” Soltaniyeh was quotedas saying.—Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 18 Nov—Support for the USmission in Afghanistanhas slipped to a new low,with 44 percent of Ameri-cans now saying the warthere has been worth thecost, according to a re-cently released poll.

Amid mounting divi-siveness over what wasonce one of PresidentBarack Obama’s top for-

MOSCOW, 18 Nov—Russian aircraft manufac-turer Sukhoi announcedon Tuesday it would sup-ply the newest Su-35Sfighters to the RussianDefence Ministry fromnext year.

Sukhoi “has begun toimplement the contract ofsupplying 48 Su-35Smulti-role super-maneuverable fighters to

Sukhoi to supply newest Su-35S fightersto Russian Defence Ministry next year

the Russian DefenceMinistry,” said the com-pany in a statement.

The production ofparts and accessories forthe planes has begun.

The company is ex-pected to finish the pro-duction of the first Su-35Sfighter in 2010.

The fighter plane “willenhance Russia’s defenceability and renew its airforce’s equipment,” saidthe statement.

At the MAKS-2009

air show in August,Sukhoi and the RussianDefence Ministry signed acontract under which theRussian Air Force willbuy 48 Su-35S fighters, 12Su-27CM and four Su-30M2.

The aircraft deliveriesare to be completed by2015.

Prime Minister Vladi-mir Putin has hailed thecontract as “setting arecord in modern Russianhistory.” —Xinhua

Seasonal flu may givesome H1N1 immunity

Russia, US to follow new arms reductiontreaty before ratification

Majority in US see Afghanwar not worth cost

eign policy issues, the pollby The Washington Postand ABC News alsoshowed ratings for how hehas handled the missionthere eroding, to 45 per-cent approving of how heis dealing with Afghani-stan and 47 disapproving,compared to 63 percentapproval last year.

The numbers come asObama grapples withwhether to send more UStroops to Afghanistan toboost the fight against agrowing Taleban-led in-surgency, just a week af-ter a stopover at a USmilitary base in Alaska atthe start of his Asia tripwhen he told US troops hewill get “public supportback home” for the mis-sion.—Internet

MOSCOW, 18 Nov—Russia and the UnitedStates will abide by theoutline of the new treatyon strategic arms reduc-tion before it is ratified byboth parliaments, saidRussia’s top diplomat onTuesday.

Meanwhile, the twocountries are determinedto complete their work onthe new treaty before 5Dec, when the currentStrategic Arms Reduc-tion Treaty (START-1)expires, news agencies

cited Russian ForeignMinister Sergei Lavrovas saying.

Lavrov said it wouldtake some time to ratifythe new treaty, but evenif it could not be ratifiedbefore the deadline,“there was nothing to beconcerned about.”

Under the ViennaConvention on the Lawof Treaties, after signingan agreement or a treaty,the parties must refrainfrom any measures thatrun counter to the subject

and objective of thedocument, Lavrov ex-plained.

Russian PresidentDmitry Medvedev andhis US counterpartBarack Obama agreed ata July summit in Mos-cow on the outline of thenew treaty to replaceSTART-1, slashing theircountries’ nuclear arse-nals to 1,500-1,675 op-erational warheads anddelivery vehicles to 500-1,000.

Xinhua

A diver dressed as Santa Claus swims with dolphins at Hakkeijima SeaParadise in Yokohama, south of Tokyo on 15 Nov, 2009. The event will be

held until 25 Dec, 2009.—INTERNET

A herd of elephantsis seen at Addo

Elephant NationalPark outside Port

Elizabeth on 15 Nov,2009.

INTERNET

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Green tech to boost China-Malaysia co-op KUALA LUMPUR, 18

Nov—Green technologycan be the new area whereChina and Malaysia canbuild collaboration in fu-ture, a Malaysian officialsaid on Tuesday.

Malaysian Energy,Green Technology andWater Minister Peter ChinFah Kui made this remarkwhile closing the WorldChinese Economic Forumnear here.

Chin said while greentechnology was believed

to be the new driver forMalaysia’s economy, italso provided new impe-tus for China, pavingways for both nationsto share knowledge to-gether.

Green technology couldalso play a role in sustain-ing cooperative relation-ship between the twocountries, added Chin.

Meanwhile, Chin saidMalaysia was committedtowards reducing theemission of greenhouse

gases in the country.Therefore, the Malaysiangovernment had drawnup the National GreenTechnology Policy wherethe cabinet ministerswere provided a venueto discuss matters pertain-ing to green technology.

The two-day forumdrew some 300 partici-pants China, Malaysia,Singapore, Australia,the United States andChina’s Hong Kong.

Xinhua

Chinese ophthalmologist (1st R) and his Vietnam’s counterpart check a patient’seyes in the northern Bac Giang Province of Vietnam, on 17 Nov, 2009. The free eyesurgery programme, named “Action for Bright Eye”, by Chinese optical doctors forVietnamese cataract patients living in Bac Giang was held on Tuesday.—XINHUA

Somali pirates releaseSpanish ship with 36 crewMOGADISHU, 18 Nov—Somali pirates on Tuesday re-

leased a Spanish trawler with 36 crew on broad afterreceiving more than three million US dollars in ran-som, a pirate commander said.

“The crew and the ship were released after our demandswere met. They paid more than three million US dollarsfor the freedom of the fishermen and their fishing boatwho were caught looting our resources,” Omar Ali, a pi-rate commander with the gang holding the released Span-ish trawler told Xinhua by phone from Harardheere, a pi-rate stronghold in north central Somalia.

The Spanish fishing ship, the Alakrana, had beenseized early last month off Somalia coast by Somalipirates who demanded the payment of a ransom andthe release of detained pirates in Spain.

During the holding of the Alakrana, Somali pirateshave threatened to harm the hostages if their colleaguescurrently on trial in Spanish courts were not released, amove that triggered a wave of protests in Spain demand-ing the Spanish government to help secure the releaseof the hostages.—Xinhua

The Spanish tuna fishing boat Alakrana sails near a Spanish warshipin the Indian ocean after it was freed from Somali pirates on 17 Nov,2009. Somali pirates on Tuesday freed a Spanish tuna fishing boat

hijacked last month and said a $3.5 million ransom had been paid forthe vessel and its crew.—XINHUA

China, Brazil toadvance militaryties to a new highBEIJING, 18 Nov— China and Bra-

zil vowed to advance military rela-tions to a new high as seniorofficials from both countries methere on Tuesday.

As strategic partners and large de-veloping countries, bilateral rela-tions between China and Brazilmade strides in recent years, said XuCaihou, Vice Chairman of China’sCentral Military Commissions.

In meeting with visiting BrazilianDefence Minister Nelson Jobim,Xu said China would like to workwith Brazil for new achievements ofthe bilateral ties and made new con-tribution to world peace andstability.

Xinhua

Poverty level of Brazilian childrenremains high

Little damage reported after 6.5-magnitudeearthquake hits Canada’s Pacific coast

RIO DE JANEIRO, 18Nov—Despite the de-crease in Brazil’s socialinequality indicators inthe past few years, recentstudies have shown thatthe poverty level of thecountry’s children andadolescents remains high.

According to Summaryof Social Indicators (SIS)released recently by theBrazilian Institute of Geo-graphy and Statistics(IBGE), some 26.2 per-cent of the Brazilian chil-dren lived in families withhousehold per capital in-come equal to half a mini-mum wage in 2008, downfrom 32.4 percent in 1998.

In 2008, Brazil’s mini-mum wage was 415 reais(244 US dollars). Thisyear, it increased to 465

reais (273 US dollars).The IBGE attributed the

improvement to the gov-ernment’s successful pro-grammes implemented inthe past years and thestabilization of the coun-try’s economy.

In the poorer northeast-ern region, 66.7 percent ofthe children, teenagersand youngsters still livedin poverty, while in thericher and more develop-ed southern region, thefigure fell to 28.7 percent,the report said.

The study highlightedthat household incomehelped determine schoolattendance rate, which in-creased as the level offamilies’ income did.

For children of four tosix years old, the rate of

school attendance was77.1 percent for familiesliving with a per capitalincome of half a mini-mum wage and the figurejumped to 98.8 percent forthose with a per capita in-come of three times of aminimum wage, accord-ing to the report.

The school attendancerate of teenagers aged 15to 17 in the poorest 20 per-cent families was 78.4percent and for teenagersin the richest 20 percentfamilies, the figure was93.7 percent. —Xinhua

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

A man visits photographyexhibition of youngphotographers with

China’s Xinhua NewsAgency in Angers ofFrance, on 16 Nov,

2009.—XINHUA

VANCOUVER, 18 Nov— Little damagewas reported after a 6.5-magnitudeearthquake struck the Queen CharlotteIslands region off Canada’s Pacific coastearly on Tuesday morning.

The earthquake occurred at 7:30 amlocal time (1530 GMT) near the south-ern tip of the Queen Charlotte Islands,off the central west coast of the prov-ince of British Columbia, and it has been

felt across the islands with a populationof about 6,000 people, according to Earth-quakes Canada.

Seismologist Stephane Mazzottireached by Canwest News Service saidseveral aftershocks were felt quickly af-ter the initial earthquake, but no injurieshave been reported and there is no threatof a tsunami.

Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

Jingle Cats First Meowel.

Brazilian doctor Drauzio Varella (L)

and Brazilian researcher Wilson

Volanazi talk as they inspect plants

in Sao Sebastiao de Cuieiras near

the Cuieiras river in the Brazil’s

Amazon rain forest o. Finding the

right material is no easy task in the

world’s largest rain forest that can

have up to 400 species of trees and

many more plants in a 2.5-acre (1-

hectare) area, and in a country

where suspicion of outside involve-

ment in the Amazon runs strong.

The mummifiedremains of

Djeher, who livedin the Ptolemaic

Era(304-30 BCE),

enter aCT scanner tubeset up outside of

the EgyptianNational Mu-

seum of Antiqui-ties in Cairo.

Dell Inc said it is using packagingmade from bamboo in shipping its com-puters, representing the personal com-puter maker’s latest move to be a greentechnology company.

Bamboo material is being used first incushions cradling Dell’s Inspiron Mini 10and 10v netbooks to protect the products in

An exhibition that featuresthe largest number of terracotta warriors ever to travelto the United States for a sin-gle show kicked off here onTuesday. The exhibition,“Terra Cotta Warriors: Guard-ians of China’s First Em-peror,” will officially open topublic on Thursday at the Na-tional Geographic Museum,which is the final venue of theexhibition’s four-city US tour,following Los Angeles, At-lanta and Houston.

Open through 31 March,2010, the exhibition includes15 terra cotta figures from thetomb of China’s First Em-peror, Qin Shihuang, whoruled from 221 BC to 210 BC.

“The First Emperor’s

Chinese Terra Cotta Warriors strideinto Washington museum

magnificent terra cotta armyis one of the great wondersof the ancient world,” saidTerry Garcia, National Geo-graphic’s executive vicepresident for Mission Pro-grams, in a statement.

“Visitors to the NationalGeographic Museum willhave the rare opportunity toexperience one of the great-est archaeological discover-ies of the 20th century as theystand face-to-face with theterra cotta warriors,” he said.

Xie Feng, minister of theChinese Embassy to theUnited States, said at onTuesday’s opening ceremonyand media preview that thereare three unprecedented fea-tures about the exhibition.

Dell greens computer packaging with bambooshipping and the company plans to expandthe use of bamboo packaging to more prod-ucts in early 2010.

Dell believes that bamboo, whichgrows fast and helps promote healthysoil, can be a sustainable alternative tomolded paper pulp, foams and corrugateoften used in packaging.

Bangladeshi conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna areshowing no signs of brain damage after their 27-hour headseparation.

On Wednesday, chief surgeon Leo Donnan said the chanceof the sisters coming out of the procedure unscathed was stilljust 25 percent, the Australian Associated Press reports onWednesday. “That was always a long-term prognosis and along-term view, not just from the surgery that was performedyesterday,” he said.

No evidence of brain damage forBangladeshi conjoined twins

Seized drugs and weapons are displayed during a presentation to the media inTijuana, Mexico, on 17 Nov, 2009. Army authorities arrested four suspects,including a US citizen, with weapons and drugs in Tijuana after responding

to an anonymous citizen tip. —INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 18 Nov—The US public debttopped 12 trillion dollarsfor the first time in history,Treasury officials dis-closed on Tuesday, mov-ing past a key barrier thatraised hackles in Con-gress.

Treasury data showedon Monday’s outstandingdebt at 12.031 trillion dol-lars, up from 11.999 tril-

ROME,18 Nov—China has set an example for theglobal fight against hunger by successfully feeding its1.3 billion people and offering to help poor countries,a senior UN official said on Tuesday.

“As the world’s most populous country, China hassuccessfully used nine percent of the world’s total ar-able land and 6.5 percent of fresh water resources tofeed 1.3 billion people, equivalent to 20 percent of theworld’s total population,” He Changchui, Assistant Di-rector-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Or-ganization (FAO), said in an interview with Xinhua.

He, who is also FAO’s regional representative forAsia and the Pacific, said that in comparison with therest of the world, the Asia-Pacific region was facing abigger challenge of food security due to a large popu-lation and limited resources.

Xinhua

MACAO, 18 Nov—Some 42 tourists and three driv-ers were injured as three tourist coaches collided withone another on a narrow road in Macao, the MacaoPost Daily reported on Wednesday.

The accident occurred on Tuesday morning nearMacao’s landmark Ruins of St Paul’s Church, when acoach carrying 31 tourists lost control and crashed intothe rear of a coach with 26 passengers onboard, whichthen collided with another 38-passenger coach, thedaily quoted local traffic police report as saying.

Of all the passengers and drivers, 45 got injuredand they were rushed to a nearby local hospital imme-diately after the accident.

Most of the victims sustained minor injuries suchas bruising and minor whiplash, and all of them ex-cept two passengers were discharged from the hospi-tal last evening, according to the daily.

Xinhua

ANKARA, 18 Nov—One Turk was killed and 25people wounded in a boiler explosion in a southeast-ern province of Turkey on Tuesday, the semi-officialAnatolia news agency reported.

The explosion occurred in boiler room of the build-ing during maintenance of the government office inSilvan town of the province of Diyarbakir, accordingto the report.

Local officials were quoted as saying that two ofthe injured people were in serious condition and theywere transferred to hospitals in the city of Diyarbakir,while the other wounded people were under treatmentat Silvan State Hospital.

Xinhua

One killed, 25 woundedin boiler explosion in Turkey

FAO official says China setsexample for global fight

against hunger

45 people injuredin Macao traffic accident

US public debt tops 12 trilliondollars for first time

lion on Friday.The ballooning debt

reflects the massive defi-cit spending by the gov-ernment in an effort to re-vive an ailing economyover more than one year.

The public debt topped10 trillion dollars in Sep-tember 2008.

The debt is quicklyapproaching the statutorylimit of 12.104 trilliondollars, meaning Con-gress would have to raisethe ceiling to prevent ashutdown of government

operations.Senate Republican

Leader Mitch McConnellsaid the debt figures rep-resented unwelcome newsand that the 787 billiondollar stimulus planpassed earlier this yearfailed to keep unemploy-ment from topping 10 per-cent.

“This should serve asan urgent warning that thegovernment can’t keepspending money it doesn’thave,” he said.

Internet

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 19 November, 2009 7

A visit to Muse at the upper reaches of Shweli RiverByline & Photos: Tin Htwe (MNA)

(from page 1)lying beside Muse-Kutkai-Lashio road (Un-ion Highway).

In Muse, it is usual togrow monsoon paddy inApril, so the harvest isearlier than other regions.We learnt that reapingwith farming equipmentis less time-consumingand reduces waste thanreaping with sickle andthe paddy harvested canbe put under shelter in notime. Cows and buffaloes

had already been replacedby farming equipment ingrowing crops includingpaddy in Muse.

In Muse, apartfrom paddy, maize, corn,soya-bean, groundnut,sesame, sunflower,sugarcane, tea, coffee,pepper, banana and vari-ous edible crops are cul-tivated and as perennialcrops, rubber, mango,lemon, orange, grape-fruit, pineapple, lychee,walnut, plum, damson,

sweet chestnut and sweetsop.

Muse in Muse Dis-trict of Shan Sate (North)is sharing border with PRCin the east and north,Namkham Township inthe west, Kutkai Town-ship in the south and situ-ated at 2,700 feet abovesea level.

Muse has monsoonclimate and is dry and hotin summer with highesttemperature of 85 to 90degree Fahrenheit. The

township usually gets highrainfall in the rainy sea-son on the average rain-fall of about 58.54 inches.The cold season is severeand the lowest tempera-ture sometimes reaches at45 degree Fahrenheit.

Shweli river,Monekoe creek, Manhai(Teema) creek, andNampaw creek are watersources of Muse Town-ship. Precious woods donot grow in the townshipand such wildlife as deer,

snakes, tiger, wild boar,monkey, squirrel, fox, par-rot, brahminy duck, paddybird, crow, cuckoo, andowl inhabit in MuseTownship.

Shweli YadanaYeiktha, Shwethaminmonastery (Taung mon-astery), town hall, ShweNandaw building, clocktower, No.1 market of thetownship developmentcommittee and Hsin-byushin markets are fa-mous buildings of thetownship. The places thatare famous and alsocrowded are Nos. 1 & 2Shwethamin monasteryand Shwe Nandaw build-ing, Lwetainkham Pa-goda, Saw Mon Hla Pa-goda (Eindawya) 105th-mile trade zone and en-trance gate to the PRC.There are three China-

Visitors from the PRC queuing at Immigration and National Registration Department nearShwe Nandaw China-Myanmar Border Gate.

Myanmar border gates,Manwein gate (gate fortransport of goods), ShweNandaw gate of Muse andthe border gate (China-Myanmar).

Chairman U Nyunt Han of Muse TownshipPeace and Development Council explainscultivation of monsoon paddy of the township.

tarred road (18 miles) andMuse-Selant tarred road(7 miles). Muse has threeurban bridges, 34 ruralbridges and 62 borderposts.

tres, 11 rural healthbranches, and one borderdispensary.

Water fromYegantaung is supplied towards in Muse 24 hours

A harvester at work at 50-acre model Hsinshweli monsoon paddy fieldof farmer U Tun Shwe of Teinlong Village.

Motorbikes and vehicles on a downtown street in Muse.

Muse is 53 miles longfrom the east to the west,26 miles from the southto the north and covers anarea of 580.57squaremiles. Muse Township iscomposed of 19 wards,61 village-tracts, and 281villages with a total of127,986 inhabitants.

Muse Township alsopossesses 19 self-reliantdams. As inter-townshiproads, there are two roads,Lashio-Muse tarred road(112 miles), Muse-Namkham tarred road (19miles). Roads linking thetown and villages areMuse-Mongyu tarred road(5 miles), Muse-Kyukok

In the education sec-tor, Muse has five BasicEducation High Schools,two BEHSs (branch), twoBasic Education MiddleSchools, three BEMSs(branch), 12 Basic Educa-tion Post Primary Schools,and 44 Basic EducationPrimary Schools.

The health sector ofMuse Township is com-plete with one 100-bedPeople's Hospital, 16-bedPeople's Hospital, oneAIDS and STD (sexuallytransmitted disease) treat-ment centre, one oralhealth centre, one mater-nal and child health cen-tre, three rural health cen-

daily and the water ispiped to water storagetank on Yegantaung fromnatural spring four milesaway from Muse. Thewater storage tank canstore 1 million gallons ofwater.

The word Mu refers tobustling and se town, thusMuse means bustlingtown. The town Muse nowis bustling town as it means.Out of border towns, Musehas highest trade volumeand socio-economic statusof locals is makingprogress with great pace.

Translation: TKKMyanma Alin18-11-2009

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 19 November, 20098 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 19 November, 2009

NAY PYI TAW, 18Nov—Commander ofNay Pyi Taw CommandMaj-Gen Wai Lwin thismorning inspected the testplot for Ngwechi-6 longstaple cotton at Htangonregion near Razathingaharoundabout inNyaungbingyi Village-tract of PobbathiriTownship in Nay Pyi Taw

Commander looks into long staple cotton plantations

District and met with localfarmers.

Also present at theceremony to meet thefarmers were theChairman of the DistrictPeace and DevelopmentCouncil, senior militaryofficers, district levelofficials, chairmen ofTownship PDCs, thetownship manager of

Myanma AgricultureService, local farmers andresponsible persons.

An official explainedthe methods forcultivation of Ngwechi-6long staple cotton.

After givinginstructions, thecommander looked intothriving the cottonplantations.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18Nov—Minister forConstruction Maj-GenKhin Maung Myint on 16November afternoon metwith officials of theMinistry of Constructionand responsible personsof seven entrepreneurteams at Public Works(Yangon Division Office)in Dagon Township.

Maintenance of Aungzeya SuspensionBridge inspected

The minister gaveinstructions onmaintenance of 96-milePathein-Thalatkhwa-Mawtinsoon Road,construction of 74 under50 feet long bridges, 23under 100 feet longbridges and four above100 feet long bridges,totalling 101.

After inspecting

maintenance of AungzeyaSuspension Bridge and theapproach bridge, theminister looked intotarmacking of the roadsection between No. 5Highway of HlinethayaIndustrial Zone to milepost No. 1/5 on Dalla-Twantay Road and storageof tar.

MNA

YANGON, 18 Nov—Old students ofNo. 2 Basic Education High School inBogale will pay respect to their retiredteachers on 4 January, 2010.

All students and teachers areinvited to attend the ceremony whetherthey get invitation card or not.

Respect paying ceremony of Bogale No. 2 BEHS on 4 Jan, 2010The old students wishing to donate

may contact Headmistress of No.2BEHS Bogale (Ph: 045-45580), U TinHtut (Ph: 045-45353), U Than Chaung(Ph: 098590103), U Tin Ohn (Ph:098595289) and U Maung Gyi (Ph: 01-710073 and 09-5109267).—MNA

YANGON, 18 Nov—The 17th Annual GeneralMeeting of First MyanmarInvestment Co Ltd washeld at Sedona Hotel hereyesterday. Chairman ofBoard of Advisor Col WinMaung (Retd) of FMI Co.,Ltd presided over themeeting and delivered anaddress on the occasion.

A f t e r w a r d s ,Chairman of FMI Co., LtdManaging Agent U TheinWai extended thegreetings and explained

17th AGM of First Myanmar Investment Co Ltd held

the functions of FMI Co.,Ltd.

Officials replied thequeries raised byshareholders and guests.

A f t e r w a r d s ,responsible personspresented financial andannual reports for 2008-09, elected the CECdirectors for 2009-2010and assigned auditors.

The chairpersonspoke words of thanks andthe meeting was ended.First Myanmar

Investment Co., Ltd (FMI)is Yangon-based publiccompany and makesinvestments in economicorganizations. Thecompany is makinginvestments in such sectoras financial services,banking, automobilesector, land reclamationfor house settlement,agricultural, industriesand servicing. FMITrading Centre in Yangonis doing share exchangeof FMI Co., Ltd.—MNA

YANGON, 18 Nov—With the aims ofdeveloping Informationand CommunicationTechnology andnurturing Myanmarnetwork professionals,NetInfo technologytraining school will openMCTS and MCITPcourses for professionalnetworking.

The candidates must

Want to study computer networking technology?be between 18 and 25years old graduates andthey are to pursue thecomputer Networkingtechnologies.

The school willaccept three men andwomen for the course.They have to attendseven training courses atthe NetInfo to obtainseven computernetworking certificates

recognized by inter-national community.

Those wishing toattend the course mayregister at NetInfotechnology trainingschool at Room-1, Hall-2, Myanmar Info-Tech,Hline Township, Yangon,Tel: 507045 and 652248,not later than 27November.

MNA

YANGON, 18 Nov—The 2nd Asian U-18 Men’sHockey Tournament,organized by the MyanmarHockey Federation underthe supervision of theMinistry of Sports,

Asian U-18 Men’s Hockey Tournament continuescontinued at Theinbyuartificial turf hockey pitch,here, today.

Pakistan beat Malaysia4-3 in the first match; Koreapassed through China(Taipei) 8-0; and Japan and

Singapore played a 1-1draw.

On 20 November, thefixtures were drawn forMyanmar vs. Sri Lanka,Pakistan vs. Japan andKorea vs. Malaysia.—NLM

Pakistaniand

Malaysianteams

tussling theball in firstmatch of

Asian U-18Men’s

HockeyTournament.

MHF

Commander Maj-Gen Wai Lwin views thriving Ngwechi-6 long staplecotton plantation on test plot in Htangon region of Pobbathiri

Township.—MNA

Minister for Construction Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint inspectstarmacking of Dalla-Twantay Road.—CONSTRUCTION

Chairman of FMI Co Ltd Managing Agent U Thein Wai extendsgreetings at 17th Annual General Meeting of First Myanmar Invest-

ment Co Ltd.—MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 19 November, 2009 9

New and developing Nay Pyi Taw Tatkon with educational buildingsArticle: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

(from page 16)“About 3,000 stu-

dents are pursuing edu-cation at our school. Itcan be said that thenumber of middle schoolstudents at our school isthe largest in MandalayDivision. Our schoolcould produce the stu-dents who passed withflying colours in the pre-vious matriculation ex-

amination. At present,new school buildings areunder construction," ex-plained Chairman of theSchool Board of TrusteesU Tun Kyi.

We arrived at No. 1Basic Education MiddleSchool (Nyaunglunt). Inan interview, Headmis-tress Daw Than Tin said,"Our school has 1190 stu-dents and 30 teachers. We

A two-storey building of Magyibin Basic Education Middle School (Branch) in Nay Pyi TawTatkon.

Daw Khin MyintHlaing, Headmis-

tress, MagyibinBEMS.

Daw Than Tin, Head-mistress, BEMS(Nyaunglunt).

U Zaw Win, Head-master, BEHS No. 1.

Photo shows a two-storey new building at NayPyi Taw Tatkon BEHS No. 1.

Students seen at new building of Nay Pyi Taw Tatkon BEHS No. 2.

One-storey building of Nay Pyi Taw Tatkon BEMS (Nyaunglunt).

have two new schoolbuildings. One of two wasbuilt with the contributionof the Ministry of HomeAffairs and another onewith the local people anddepartmental personnel.Thanks to construction ofthe new buildings, the stu-dents can see good pros-pects.”

At Magyibin BasicEducation Middle School(Branch), we had an inter-view with HeadmistressDaw Khin Myint Hlaing.She explained, “DiamondStar Company donatedand opened the two-sto-rey reinforced concretebuilding in May 2008.Before construction ofsuch building, the Minis-try of Home Affairs do-

nated a school building. Atotal of 784 students are

pursuing education at theschool. These new schoolbuildings reflect the im-provement of future edu-

cation for the schoolchil-dren.”

Today, developmentof Nay Pyi Taw Tatkoncan be seen in all aspects.Significantly, the devel-oping infrastructurescontribute much to thestudents of the region inpursuit of education.

Translation: TTAMyanma Alin:

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Residents salvage through the remains of their charred houses after a fire inMandaluyong City, Metro Manila, on 17 November, 2009.—XINHUA

Toy soldiers are displayed for sale by a street hawker in front of the Taj MahalHotel, ahead of the first anniversary of the militant attacks in Mumbai that

killed 166 people, on 16 November, 2009. The hotel was one of the sites of theattacks.—INTERNET

Mexican striker dies ofsuspected heart attack

ATHENS, 18 Nov—Mexican international strikerAntonio De Nigris died of suspected heart attack atthe age of 31, his Greek first division club Larissaannounced on Monday.

The official cause of death will be announced bythe General University Hospital of Larissa followingan autopsy. Local press reports said that De Nigrishad complained of not feeling well during the night ofSunday to Monday and his wife called for anambulance. De Nigris was pronounced dead on arrivalat the hospital.

He had joined Larissa in the summer fromAnkaragucu and played in six league matches for theclub.—Xinhua

US health care reformstill faces strong

opposition WASHINGTON, 18 Nov—More Americans areopposed to the health care reform bill, which wasrecently passed at the House of Representatives, thanthose who support it, according to a survey released onTuesday. The poll conducted by CNN and Opinion Researchshowed that about 49 percent of Americans polled saidthey opposed the legislation, while 46 percent approvedit. “Roughly one in three Americans opposes the Housebill because it is too liberal, but one in 10 oppose thebill because it is not liberal enough,” said CNN pollingdirector Keating Holland. The 2,000-page bill, combining three differentversions drafted by different House committees, wouldcost 1.1 trillion US dollars over next 10 years, butwould extend insurance coverage to 96 percent ofAmericans, including 36 million uninsured currently,and eventually cut the federal deficit by roughly 30billion dollars. The poll found that 30 percent of intervieweeswanted the Senate to pass the House bill with minorchanges, while 22 percent wanting a bill passed at theSenate with major changes. Another 28 percent saidthat the Senate should start working on a completelynew bill.—Xinhua

Long prison sentences toattackers of Indian doctor

The Russian flagged icebreaker cruise ship KapitanKhlebnikov is seen from the air near Antarctica inthis undated photo released on 16 November, 2009by the travel company Quark Expeditions,

which organised the trip.—INTERNET

MELBOURNE, 18 Nov—Terming the street crimeagainst Indians as “cowardly” and “despicable”, aVictorian court today handed out long imprisonmentsentences to attackers of an Indian origin doctor.

Haikerwal State County Court Judge Joe Gullacitoday jailed 20-year old Alfer Azzopardi who bashedMukesh Hairkerwal with serious blows with a baseballbat, for 18-and-a-half years with a minimum of 13-and-a-half years, media reports said today.

Former chief of Australian Medical AssociationHaikerwal was walking through a park in the baysidesuburb of Williamstown on 27 September last yearwhen he was set upon and bashed by the men.

Another co-accused Michael Baltatzis, 20, ofGlenroy, who together with Azzopardi took part in 23armed robberies over a two-month period, was jailed for16-and-a-half years and must serve 10-and-a-half yearsbefore being eligible for parole.—Internet

A university student fires a homemade mortar againstthe National Assembly building during a protest in

Managua, on 17 November, 2009. —INTERNET

CHICAGO, 18 Nov—Many people in theUnited States are still notbeing screened for highlevels of so-called badcholesterol, and whenthey are found to haveit, are often nevertreated, US researcherssaid on Tuesday.

They found one infive people in the UnitedStates have high levels

Many in US still lack cholesterol tests,drugs

of LDL or low-densitylipoprotein, the bad kindof cholesterol that canbuild up in the arteriesand cause heart attacksand strokes.

And while commonmedications known asstatins, such asAstraZeneca’s Crestor orPfizer Inc’s Lipitor, canlower LDL cholesteroland reduce the risk ofheart attacks and strokes,nearly two thirds ofpeople in the study withhigh LDL were neveroffered these drugs. “Wefound 60 percent of peoplewith high levels of LDLcholesterol didn’t knowabout these conditions,”said Dr Elena Kuklina ofthe US Centres for DiseaseControl and Prevention,whose study appears inthe Journal of theAmerican MedicalAssociation.

Kuklina andcolleagues studied rates ofLDL cholesterol in morethan 7,000 adults between1999-2000 and 2005-2006 who offeredcholesterol testing.

MNA/Reuters

US Army suicides set to hit new high in 2009WASHINGTON, 18 Nov—Suicides in the US Army will hit a new high this year, a top

general said on Tuesday in a disclosure likely to increase concerns about stress on USforces ahead of an expected buildup in Afghanistan. The findings, released as PresidentBarack Obama inches toward a decision to send up to 40,000 additional troops toAfghanistan, show the number of active-duty suicides so far in 2009 has already matchedlast year’s record of 140 deaths.

“We are almost certainly going to end the year higher than last year,” General PeterChiarelli, the Army’s vice Chief of Staff, told a Pentagon briefing. “This is horrible, andI do not want to downplay the significance of these numbers in any way.” Another 71soldiers committed suicide after being taken off active duty in 2009 — nearly 25 percentmore than the end-year total for 2008. Some had returned home only weeks before takingtheir own lives.

The figures applied only to the US Army. Data from other branches of the armedservices was not immediately available.

In 2008, there were 268 active-duty suicides across the US armed forces, most in theArmy. The military’s suicide rate among active-duty soldiers was about 20 per 100,000,nearly double the national US rate of 11.1 suicides per 100,000 people, as reported by theUS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.—MNA/Reuters

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Bamboo scaffoldingstudents developing

their skills at theConstruction IndustryCouncil (CIC) training

academy in HongKong. Nicknamed“spiders” for their

gravity-defying skills inweb-like constructions,Hong Kong’s bambooscaffolders have risenabove predictions that

their trade woulddisappear.—INTERNET

India to have ‘billion’ mobile users soonHONG KONG, 18 Nov—

India could have more thanone billion mobile phoneusers by 2015, with thebulk of that growth in ruralareas, one of the country’stop telecom executives saidon Wednesday. ManojKohli, chief executive ofIndia’s biggest mobilephone group Bharti Airtel,told an industry conferencein Hong Kong that his firmis aiming to almost doubleits customer base to 200million people in the nextfew years.

“Achieving a billionplus (Indian mobile users)

by 2015 is possible,” hetold the Mobile Asia Con-gress, the region’s largesttelecom industry gather-ing.

“The largest growth willhappen in the rural mar-ket,” he said, adding thatpricing wars between pro-viders were knockingdown rates in the Indianmarket and making phonesaffordable to more people.

Competition in India hasbecome even more aggres-sive as new players un-leash deeper price cutswith innovative per-sec-ond billing plans that have

pushed call costs down toless than a cent a minute.

“There is hyper-compe-tition like no other place inthe world,” he said.

India is the world’s sec-ond-biggest cellular mar-ket with more than 400million users, lagging be-hind only China, whichhas over 600 million users.

Rural customers are alsoseen as key to growth inChina, said ChangXiaobing, chairman ofChina Unicom, one of thenation’s three majortelecoms operators.

Internet

Iran to add 14 mln litresof gasoline to daily outputTEHERAN, 18 Nov—Iran’s oil minister said on Tues-

day that his country will add 14 million litres of gaso-line to its daily output, the official IRNA news agencyreported.

Masoud Mirkazemi said the production of gasolinein Iran’s three petrochemical plants would decreasethe amount of imported gasoline by 14 million litresper day, the report said.

At a ceremony, Mirkazemi announced the initia-tion of the operational phase of the project aimed atraising gasoline output in the three petrochemicalplants of Imam Khomeini Port, Bu-Alisina andBorzuyeh, all situated in southern Iran.

“The project will discourage the enemies from ef-forts to limit Iran’s access to gasoline in the market,”he said.

He added that although the import of gasoline hasbeen misused as a lever to put pressure on the Iranianpeople, there are various companies who are ready toextend their supply agreements with Iran.

Western countries have threatened to impose gaso-line sanctions on Iran over its defiance to comply withthe UN resolutions to halt its disputed nuclear activi-ties. However, Iran’s governor of the Organization ofthe Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)Mohammad-Ali Khatibi downplayed the threat.

“The rainy season has ended in most countries ofthe world and gasoline consumption will resultantlyslide to the minimum level. Thus, a large number ofgasoline suppliers are vying hard with each other in abid to sell their gasoline to Iran,” the semi-officialFars news agency quoted Khatibi as saying on 26 Oct.

Xinhua

Algerian Airlines buysseven Boeing 737 jetsDUBAI, 18 Nov— Algerian Airlines has ordered

seven Boeing B737-800 jets, the US aircraftmanufacturer announced in a statement releasedat the Dubai Airshow on Tuesday.

The value of the deal was not disclosed, but itshould range between 493 million dollars and 553million dollars, according the catalogue prices.

The Algerian carrier has been a client of Boeingfor 40 years. Its fleet comprises 15 B737 and threelong-haul B767 planes.

InternetAn Algerian Airlines aircraft at Algiers International

Airport.—INTERNET

TCL to launch 8.5 GLCD production line

BEIJING, 18 Nov—TCL Corp, China’s leading TVmaker, has announced to launch a 8.5 generation TFT-LCD production line in alliance with the governmentof Shenzhen City, southern Guangdong Province, ChinaDaily reported on Wednesday.

TCL said that the thin film transistor-liquid crystaldisplay (TFT-LCD) production line would be set up withan investment of nearly 24.5 billion yuan (3.59 billionUS dollars). TCL and Shenzhen government-ownedShenchao Technology Investment Ltd would form a 50-50 joint venture with each investing 5 billion yuan.

The remaining 14.5 billion yuan would be raised viabank loans and other methods, said Li Dongsheng, TCLChairman. Construction of the TFT-LCD panel projectis scheduled to begin in January and production likelyto start in the third quarter of 2011. The new venture islikely to get full returns from its investment in 10years.—Xinhua

GM says 10,000 jobs couldgo in European shake-up

LONDON, 18 Nov—US carmaker General Motorscould cut between 9,000 and 10,000 jobs as part of itsrestructuring of its European operations, Nick Reilly,interim head of GM’s European business, said on Tues-day.

The company must reduce its production across Eu-rope by between 20 and 25 percent as part of the 3.3billion euros ($4.9 billion) plan, although final detailshave yet to be decided, he told a news conference.

Reilly said he hoped to announce the full restruc-turing plan for Europe within three weeks after talkswith governments and unions.

The company is prepared to put up some of its owncash to help fund the restructuring, but hopes to re-ceive money from European governments too, headded. The company has about 2 billion euros of itsown money to invest in the restructuring.—Internet

Petrobras announces oildiscovery in Angolan watersRIO DE JANEIRO, 18 Nov—Brazilian state energy com-

pany Petrobras and state oil company Sonangol an-nounced on Tuesday new oil discovery in Angolan wa-ters. According to Petrobras, the discovery was madethrough well Manganes-01, located in block 18/06, indeep waters 200 km away from the country’s capitalcity of Luanda.

The Manganes-01 well was drilled at a depth of 1,500 metres from the waterline and was proved withthe existence of a reservoir of excellent quality in an82-meter column in sandy Miocene reservoirs, accord-ing to the company.—Xinhua

The Intel logo is advertised on a computer at an electronic store in Phoenix,Arizona on 17 Nov, 2009.—INTERNET

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 19 November, 2009

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GATI MAJESTIC VOY NO (92010 )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV GATI MA-JESTIC VOY NO (92010 ) are here by notified that thevessels will be arriving on 19.11.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR:M/S GATI COAST TO COASTPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

Gene may explain whychimps can’t speak

LOS ANGELES, 18 Nov—US researchers say they mayhave discovered why humans, who are genetically re-lated to chimps, developed language and speech abili-ties while chimps did not.

A UCLA-Emory University team of scientists saysit suspects part of the answer lies in a gene calledFOXP2 that, when mutated, can disrupt speech andlanguage in humans. The researchers say they’ve foundmajor differences between how the human and chimpversions of FOXP2 work, perhaps explaining why lan-guage is unique to humans.

The scientists said their findings provide insight intothe evolution of the human brain and may point topossible drug targets for human disorders character-ized by speech disruption, such as autism and schizo-phrenia.

“Earlier research suggests the amino-acid composi-tion of human FOXP2 changed rapidly around thesame time that language emerged in modern humans,”said Dr Daniel Geschwind of UCLA. “Ours is thefirst study to examine the effect of these amino-acidsubstitutions in FOXP2 in human cells.

Internet

Legislation to stop sunbed useby children

LONDON, 18 Nov—Health experts in England say leg-islation to stop sunbed use by children is urgentlyneeded. In a letter to the British Medical Journal,Catherine Thomson of the Cancer Research UK andChris Twelves of Leeds Institute of Molecular Medi-cine & St James’s University Hospital in Leeds say atthe current rate of sunbed use more than 250,000 11- to17-year-olds in England are at increased risk of devel-oping malignant melanoma.

Thomson and Twelves say a study involving 3,101children has established 6 percent of teens ages 11-17had used a sunbed and the average age of first use is 14.

A second study with 6,209 children in six cities foundsunbed use highest in Liverpool (51 percent) and Sun-derland (48 percent) among girls ages 15-17, with morethan 40 percent using sun beds weekly.—Internet

US supercomputers lead the worldWASHINGTON, 18 Nov—

The United States earnedeight of the top 10 spots onthe latest list of the world’sfastest supercomputers.The National NuclearSecurity Administrationearned three of the top10 spots: Roadrunner (No2, Los Alamos NationalLaboratory); BlueGene/L (No 7, Lawrence Liver-more National Labora-

tory); and Red Sky (No.10, Sandia National Labo-ratories/National Renew-able Energy Laboratory).

In addition, the NNSA’sDawn platform at Liver-more was ranked as the 11th

fastest in the world. The No1 spot went to the JaguarCray supercomputer lo-cated at the Oak Ridge Na-tional Laboratory. No 3 wasthe Kraken Cray

supercomputer at the Na-tional Institute for Compu-tational Sciences at the Uni-versity of Tennessee. Thesixth fastest super-computerwas located at NASA’sAmes Research Center, No8 at the Argonne NationalLaboratory near Chicagoand No 9 at the Texas Ad-vanced Computing Centerlocated at the University ofTexas.—Internet

In this 11 Nov, 2009 photo, wrecker driver GilbertHarrison, with MCH Towing, attaches a towing cableto a Bugatti Veyron that was driven into the water near Omega Bay in La Marque, Texas.—INTERNET

ABU DHABI, 18 Nov— The United Arab Emirates (UAE) military said on Tues-day that it has inked deals worth a combined 2.7 billion dirhams (about 734.3million US dollars) for early warning and training aircraft as the country contin-ues to ramp up its military capabilities, reported Maktoob Business, a leading busi-ness news website in the region.

According to a statement released during the Dubai Airshow, which opened onSunday, the UAE Armed Force has signed an 814.4-million-dirham agreementwith Sweden’s Saab for two 340 early warning aircraft and a 1.89-billion-dirhamdeal with Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland for 25 basic training aircraft, the reportsaid.—Xinhua

Four killed inVietnam by

war-era bombHANOI, 18 Nov—Four

men were instantly killedwhen a bomb left overfrom the Vietnam Warblew up as they weretrying to open it to removeexplosive material, policesaid today.

The dead were agedbetween 24 and 27 andwere two pairs ofbrothers, said NguyenVan Dieu, a policeofficial in southern TayNinh Province.

“They were killedon the spot. Districtpolice are investigatingwhat sort of bomb it was.The accident area was atarget of US attacks inthe war,” the officialfrom Don Thuancommune told AFP ofyesterday’s explosion.

Over 10,500 peoplehave been killed inVietnam’s centralprovinces by bombs leftover from the war, whichended in 1975, accordingto an earlier report bythe Vietnam Veterans ofAmerica Foundation andVietnam’s Ministry ofDefence.

Internet

UAE signs $734.3 m deals to buyEuropean military aircraft

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A worker waters poinsettia plants at the Serre des Iles greenhouse in Levis,on 17 Nov, 2009. Poinsettia is a popular plant that originated from Mexico

and Guatemala. —XINHUA

NASA, Microsoft launch Web site on MarsLOS ANGELES, 18 Nov—

NASA and Microsoft Corphave collaborated to createa Website to allowearthlings to becomeMartians, NASA’s JetPropulsion Laboratory(JPL) announced onTuesday.

By surfing the “Bea Martian” Website,internet users can have funwhile advancing theirknowledge of Mars, theJPL said in a Press release.

The public will be ableto participate as citizenscientists to improveMartian maps, take part

in research tasks, andassist Mars science teamsstudying data about theRed Planet.

The Web site will alsoenable the public toexplore details of thesolar system’s grandestcanyon, which resides onMars, call up images inthe Valles Marineriscanyon before moving onto chart the entire RedPlanet.

The collaboration ofthousands of participantscould assist scientists inproducing far bettermaps, enabling smoother

zoom-in views and easierinterpretation of Martiansurface changes.

By counting craters, thepublic also mayhelp scientists determinethe relative ages ofsmall regions on Mars,according to the release.

In the past, countingMartian craters has poseda challenge because of thevast numbers involved.By contributing, Websiteusers will win gamepoints assigned to arobotic animal avatar theyselect.

Xinhua

New therapy for brain cancer is developed

Russia registers 5,613A/H1N1 flu cases

MOSCOW,18 Nov— A total of 5,613 A/H1N1 flucases have been officially confirmed in Russia as ofTuesday, said Health Minister Tatyana Golikova.

Golikova was quoted by news agencies as sayingthat to date 5,613 people in 74 federal districts wereregistered to have been infected with the virus, 98.9percent of whom have been confirmed by lab tests.

Among them 132 people were in severe infection,she added.

Official death toll from the H1N1 virus in thecountry currently stood at 16.

Russia has launched a vaccination campaign againstthe H1N1 flu in five regions on 9 Nov, during whichmunicipal service personnel involved intransportation, water and heat supplies, as well ascommunication will be inoculated first.—Xinhua

Over 107,000 flu casesreported in Poland

WARSAW, 18 Nov— A total of 107,250 people wereinfected with seasonal flu or the A/H1N1 flu in Polandbetween 1 Sept and 15 Nov, Health Minister EwaKopacz said on Tuesday.

In the corresponding period of last year, the numberof flu cases amounted to 24,843, Kopacz said after ameeting of the influenza pandemic committee.

According to a report by the National Institute ofHygiene, last week saw a drastic rise of flu cases inPoland, with the number of registered new casesreaching over 41,000, against 3,600in the same periodof 2008. On 8-15 Nov, the average daily number ofreported cases per 100,000 persons reached 13.5, oneof the biggest amount of cases in this time of the yearin the past several years.

Xinhua

51 French schools closedon A/H1N1 flu

PARIS, 18 Nov— Some 51 French schools have beenclosed till Tuesday noon due to possible spread of A/H1N1 flu or emergence of confirmed cases, according toFrench Education Ministry. The series of closure hasaffected 16 school districts in France, totaling 116 classes.According to official statistics, the latest number was justupdated from that of Tuesday morning when 32 schoolswere registered closed on the H1N1 flu risk, impacting124 classes.

Since the epidemic outbroke in France, the governmenthas granted the regional prefects right to close classes oreven schools if three flu cases emerge in the same classduring one week or cross infection are possible fordifferent classes sharingsame activities.

Two schools and a kindergarten were announcedclosed on Monday due to suspected H1N1 flu cases insouthwestern France.—Xinhua

NEW YORK, 18 Nov—US scientists say they’vedeveloped the world’s firstbrain cancer treatment thatinvolves directly sprayinga chemotherapy agentonto the tumor.

Neurosurgeons at NewY o r k - P r e s b y t e r i a nHospital/Weill CornellMedical Center said thebreaching of the blood-brain barrier has been amajor obstacle in treating

glioblastomas — braincancers — becauseintravenous chemo-therapy agents cannoteffectively reach braintissue from the bloodstream. The neurosur-geons said their newprocedure involves usingmicro-catheters that spraythe drug directing onto thetumor, in hopes of haltingits growth and spread, aswell as avoiding common

side effects associatedwith IV chemotherapy,such as nausea andfatigue.

Glioblastoma is thesame cancer the late SenTed Kennedy, D-Mass,had, and is diagnosed in10,000 new cases eachyear in the United States,with a median survivaltime of about 15 months,researchers said.

Internet

Largest-ever yellow fever vaccinationcampaign to begin in Africa

Early oceans more temperate than thoughtSTANFORD, 18 Nov— US scientists say the scalding-hot sea that many of us were

taught covered the early Earth might, in fact, never have existed.Stanford University researchers who analyzed isotope ratios in 3.4 billion-year-

old ocean floor rocks say their findings suggest the early ocean was much moretemperate and spread across the globe much sooner in Earth’s history than has beengenerally theorized. Professor Page Chamberlain, who led the study, said thefindings also mean the chemical composition of the ancient ocean was significantlydifferent from today’s ocean, which in turn might change interpretations of howthe early atmosphere evolved.“By looking at both oxygen and hydrogen in theseancient rocks we were able to put some constraints on how different the ancientocean composition may have been from today, and then use that composition totry to determine how hot the ancient ocean was,” said researcher Michael Hren, thelead author of the study.—Internet

GENEVA, 18 Nov—The largest-ever yellowfever mass vaccinationcam-paign is set to kickoff next week across threeAfrican countries —Benin, Liberia and SierraLeone, the World HealthOrganization (WHO)said on Tuesday.

The week-long eventwill target 11.9 millionpeople across the threecountries, all of which are

at high risk of yellowfever outbreaks, theUN agency said in astatement.

The campaign, sup-ported by the WHO, theUnited Nations Children’sFund, Mdecins sansFrontires and otherpartners, is the first inwhich yellow fevervaccination drives will besimultaneously launchedacross several countries.

“High vaccinationcoverage will preventoutbreaks of yellow fever,a disease that is verydifficult to diagnose in theearly stages of infection,”said William Perea,coordinator of WHOEpidemic Readiness andIntervention Unit.

“A single dose of thevaccine offers fullprotection,” he said.

Xinhua

An artist’s concept of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is shown in thispublicity illustration on 17 Nov, 2009.—INTERNET

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S P O R T SKuyt ‘disappointed’ by Italy

over Van Persie tackle

Roddick pulls out of MastersLONDON, 18 Nov – America’s Wimbledon finalist

Andy Roddick withdrew from the season ending ATPMasters tournament on Tuesday with him explainingthat he had not recovered from a knee injury.

The 27-year-old has been suffering from the kneeailment since the Shanghai Masters in late October.

He will be replaced in the eight man draw bySweden’s Robin Soderling while Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is first reserve for the tournamentwhich begins here on Sunday.

The draw for the two groups is on Wednesday.Internet

Andy Roddick, seen here in September 2009,withdrew from the season ending ATP Masterstournament on Tuesday with him explaining that hehad not recovered from a knee injury.—INTERNET

Giving new definition to beingon tour

S Africa goal droughtcontinues against Jamaica

BLOEMFONTEIN, 18 Nov—Goal-shy 2010 World Cuphosts South Africa flopped again on Tuesday whenheld 0-0 by Jamaica in a lacklustre friendly.

Bafana Bafana (The Boys) have not scored for 385minutes and the first African nation chosen to stagethe international football showpiece ended a 17-matchschedule this year with just nine goals and fourvictories.

The closest a match watched by President JacobZuma came to producing a goal was midway throughthe first half when New York-based Jamaicanmidfielder Dane Richards had a shot cleared off theline.

Richards burst through the middle, evading threetackles, and slipped the ball past goalkeeper RowanFernandez only for captain Aaron Mokoena to rescuehis team.

Jamaican goalkeeper Dwayne Miller foiled the bestSouth African chance on 10 minutes, using his rightfoot to block a close-range shot from Katlego Mphelaafter Benni McCarthy created a rare opening.

Internet

vSiphiwe Tshabalala(L) of South Africa fights for

the ball with Jamaica’s Jamal Campbell-Ryceduring their international friendly football matchat the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein. The

match ended on a goalless draw.—INTERNET

Dutch striker Dirk Kuyt

Damien Jordan fromAustralia tees off onthe 18th hole duringthe final round of the

Australian Masters golftournament at

Kingston Heath GolfClub, in Melbourne,

Australia, on 15 Nov,2009. Jordan finishedthe tournament at 11over par.—INTERNET

Confident Irish ready to fightfor World Cup place

Chelsea stars Ballack, Drogbato miss friendly

BERLIN, 18 Nov—Both Germany captain MichaelBallack and his Chelsea team-mate Didier Drogba areout of Wednesday’s friendly as the mourning Germansprepare to take on the Ivory Coast.

The entire German squad was in Hanover onSunday at the memorial service for goalkeeper RobertEnke who committed suicide last Tuesday aged just32 after a long battle against depression.

The game at Schalke 04’s Veltins Arena inGelsenkirchen will be full of tributes to the Hanovergoalkeeper as both sides use the match to prepare fornext June’s World Cup.

A minute’s silence will be observed, the Germanyplayers will wear black armbands, Enke’s NumberOne shirt will be on the German bench and a videomontage of his career will be played before kick-off.

German coach Joachim Loew, who has been deeplyaffected by Enke’s suicide, said he is not sure whowill face the Ivory Coast and will see how his sidetrains.—Internet

Atletico coach down withswine flu

MADRID, 18 Nov—Atletico Madrid coach QuiqueSanchez Flores has gone down with the H1N1 swineflu virus, the Spanish club announced on Tuesday.

“Tests have confirmed that the coach is sufferingfrom the flu,” Atletico reported in a statement on theclub’s website.

“The manager is following the appropriate treatmentand a good recovery is predicted,” the club added.

First team training has been handed to assistantcoach Fran Escriba in the absence of 44-year-oldFlores - who was only appointed to the post on October23 after Abel Resino was sacked.

Atletico, struggling in third from bottom of the table,play Deportivo La Coruna in the Spanish league onSunday.—Internet

Angola prepare glitzy show for Nations Cup draw

LONDON, 18 Nov—Dutch striker Dirk Kuytsaid he was “dis-appointed” by the lack ofrespect Italy showedduring last weekend’sfriendly which saw fellowNetherlands forwardRobin van Persie sustainan injury.

The Arsenal striker wasstretchered off the pitchafter being tackled by 221

Italian defender GiorgioChiellini 14 minutes intoSaturday’s goalless drawin Pescara and could beout of action for up to sixweeks. Van Persieabsolves Chiellini ofblame but Kuyt said thechallenge on the strikerwas symptomatic ofItaly’s over-physicalapproach to what was onlya friendly international.

“I was very dis-appointed (by Italy),”Kuyt told Sky Sports.

“We played a friendlyagainst a big country andif you see the way theykicked us it’s very sad,very sad for the Dutchteam and also very sadfor Robin because he wasin great form,” theLiverpool forwardadded.—Internet

MELBOURNE, 18 Nov—Tiger Woods first made hismove in the AustralianMasters in the middle ofthe opening round, gettinghis name on theleaderboard next to aplayer named “Jordan”that even some of the localfans did not recognize.

Damien Jordan, the lastplayer to get into the field,was worth getting toknow.

The 29-year-old rookiefulfilled one part of hisdream by making itthrough Q-school lastyear on the AustralasianTour, a goal that had beenput on hold when heenlisted in the Army andserved two tours in Iraq.

Internet

PARIS, 18 Nov—Irisheyes should be smilingahead of the Republic’sWorld Cup playoff clashagainst France here onWednesday despitethe visitors trailing by agoal, according to teammanager GiovanniTrapattoni.

“I’m confident,because in football everymatch is different. Fromthe opponents to thecircumstances, nothing’sever the same,”Trapattoni told reportershere on Tuesday.

“I’ve told all myplayers to be confident.We can believe inourselves.”

Statistics are firmlyagainst the men from theEmerald Isle, whohaven’t beaten Franceaway since 1931 and,notably, haven’t beaten atop ranked team in officialcompetition since a win

over Turkey in qualifiersfor Euro 1992. But with aplace in the World Cup atstake, it’s no surprise theRepublic - aiming toqualify for the first timesince 2002 when theymade it to the secondround - want to believe ina dream finale to theircampaign.—Internet

LUANDA, 18 Nov—Popstars, politicians and apresident are among thoseexpected to attend theAfrican Nations Cupdraw being staged bytournament host Angolahere on Friday.

The event, featuringCongolese artist PapaWemba and otherAngolan singers, is beingheld at a shiny new glass-and-steel conventioncentre in the purpose-builtsouthern suburb ofTalatona.

African FootballConfedation (CAF)president Issa Hayatouand members of hisexecutive committee canalso expect a rare publicappearance fromPresident Jose EduardoDos Santos, ruler of thisoil-rich country for 30years.

Representatives fromthe 16 qualifiers forthe 10-31 January

tournament will also bepresent to witness a splitinto four groups fromwhich the winners andrunners-up advance to thequarter-finals.

Portuguese ManuelJose, coach of the hostnation, said he did notmind who the PalancasNegras (Black Antelopes)come up against in thefirst round.

Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr. M.S.T.During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowers have beenfairly widespread in Mon State, scattered in Shan State,isolated in Kachin, Kayah, Kayin States, upper Sagaing andTaninthayi Divisions and weather has been partly cloudyin the remaining areas. Night temperatures were (5°C)above November average temperatures in Shan, Chin andMon States,(3°C) to (4°C) above November averagetemperatures in Kachin and Rakhine States, upper Sagaing,Mandalay, Magway, Bago, Yangon, Ayeyawady andTaninthayi Divisions and about November averagetemperatures in the remaining areas. The noteworthyamounts of rainfall tecorded were Paung (0.98) inch,Mudon (0.75) inch, Ye (0.63) inch, Machanbaw, Kengtungand Mawlamyine (0.47) inch each, Putao, Kawkareik andKyaikkhame (0.43) inch each and Loikaw (0.39) inch.

Maximum temperature on 17-11-2009 was 97°F. Minimumtemperature on 18-11-2009 was 70°F. Relative humidity at(09:30) hours MST on 18 -11-2009 was 85%. Total sun shinehours on 17-11-2009 was (8.0) hours approx.

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Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in the AndamanSea and South Bay and generally fair elsewhere in the Bayof Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 19th November 2009: Rainor thundershowers are likely to be scattered in Mon State andTaninthayi Division, isolated in Kachin and Shan States,upper Sagaing Division and weather will be partly cloudyin the remaining areas. Degree of certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Strong easterly wind with moderate torough sea are likely attimes Deltaic, Gulf of Mottama, offand along Mon-Taninthayi Coast. Surface wind speed inthe strong wind may reach (35) to (40)m.p.h. Seas will bemoderate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation oflikelihood of isolated light rain in the Nothern Myanmarareas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for19-11-2009: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for19-11-2009: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for19-11-2009: Partly cloudy.

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Magnitude Quake rattlesCanada’s west coast

VANCOUVER (British Columbia), 18 Nov — A 6.6magnitude earthquake rattled residents on the westcoast of Canada on Tuesday, but did not cause damageor trigger a tsunami, US and Canadian officials said.

The underwater quake was centered 260 kilometres(162 miles) southwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbiaat a depath of 10 kilometres (6.2 Miles), off thesouthern tip of the Queen Charlotte Islands, the USGeological Survery said.

It was quickly followed by a 5.7 magnitudeaftershock. “It was felt over a very broad area,” saidJohn Cassidy, a senior researcher at the PacificGeoscience Centre in Sidney, British Columbia,Canada’s main earthquake research center on thePacific Coast.

Earthquakes are common in the area where thePacific and North American tectonic plates meet, andthe temblor appears to have been the result of the twoplates sliding against each other, geologists said.

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3rd Waxing of Nadaw 1371 ME Thursday, 19 November, 2009

★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

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

People’s Desire ■ VOA, BBC-sowing hatred amongthe people

■ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

■ Do not allow ourselves to be swayed■ By broadcasts designed to cause

troubles

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

and violence

New and developing Nay Pyi Taw Tatkon with educational buildingsArticle: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

Photo shows new school building donated by staff of Max Myanmar Company for No. 1 BEHS in Nay Pyi Taw Tatkon.

Nay Pyi Taw Tatkonenjoying fruits of agricul-ture and transportationsectors is formed with fivewards, and the Yangon-Mandalay Highwaypasses through it.

Nowadays, the devel-opment undertakingssuch as local roads, lamp-posts, departmental of-fices and residentialbuildings can be seen inthe developing metropo-lis. Now, the town’seconomy improves intrading various kinds ofcrops.

We, the news crew ofthe Myanma Alin daily,arrived at Nay Pyi TawTatkon to write bylineson regional development.Along the trip to the town-ship, we saw lush andgreen neem trees andtoddy-palms which arethe symbols of Anya(tropical) region.

Especially, we wit-nessed the developingscenes of basic educationschools in the region.

While in Nay Pyi TawTatkon, under the arrange-ments of Chairman U NayAung of Township Peaceand Development Coun-cil, we had an opportunityto visit the basic educa-tion schools.

On arrival at BasicEducation High SchoolNo. 1, Headmaster U

Zaw Win explained theprogress of the school tous. He said. “Our schoolhas 3,415 students fromthe kindergarten to thematriculation with 117teachers. The school has55 classrooms. Thenumber of students at ourschool is the largest inNay Pyi Taw. So, new

school buildings wereconstructed with the con-tributions of the State andthe local people. Thegolden jubilee anniver-sary of the school fell in2007. To mark the goldenjubilee anniversary of theschool, alma matersfunded the constructionof 140 feet by 30 feet

two-storey building withthe assistance of the gov-ernment. Moreover, theconstruction task wascompleted for a one-sto-rey four-classroombuilding donated by staffof Max Myanmar Com-pany. Construction anddonation of new schoolbuildings contributes

much to teaching thestudents.”

We proceeded to Ba-sic Education HighSchool No. 2 of the town-ship. All the school build-ings are one storey each.Among them, we sawthree new school build-ings.

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