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

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

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

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

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

ards of the entire nation

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

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

tution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectivesLt-Gen Ko Ko inspects Myaungmya JuteFactory, No (5) Chemical Fertilizer

Factory Construction Project (Pathein)NAY PYI TAW, 6 Aug — Lt-Gen Ko Ko of the

Ministry of Defence accompanied by Chairman ofAyeyawady Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of South-West Command Maj-Gen KyawSwe and officials visited Myaungmya Jute Factory ofMyanma Industrial Crops Development Enterprise on3 August.

Officials presented reports on production of

jute products and the commander made a supplementaryreport at the meeting hall of the factory.

Next, Lt-Gen Ko Ko gave necessary instructionsand looked into production process of the factory.

On 4 August, Lt-Gen Ko Ko inspected thrivingpaddy fields and broadcasting of natural fertilizer at UTo Gyi Village in Pathein Township.

(See page 7)

Bhamo-Katha Railroad Project,a fruitful result of stability and peace

Article: Myint Maung Soe;Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

A unit of heavy machinery building theaxis of Bhamo-Katha Railroad near

Kyaukkyi Village, Shwegu Township,Kachin State.

Since national reconsolidation in the nation,the government has been taking all measuresconstantly in its attempt to expedite the tasks forprogress of border areas that have seen peace andstability.

Now, peace and stability have been maintainedwell in border areas, and the government is improvingthe health, education and communication sectorsespecially transportation sector in border areas.

Progress of the transport sector has helpedgenerate a prosperous future of local people of border

areas, following dramatic development in the relatedfields such as education, health care and economy.

On our tour of Kachin State for some bylinesabout regional development, an itinerary took us toongoing Bhamo-Katha Railroad Project.

(See page 7)

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Friday, 7 August, 2009 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

Village libraries: constantsource of knowledge forrural people

In Myanmar, not only formal educationsystem but also informal education and self-study education systems are beingimplemented for all, regardless of age andeducation, to be able to learn. In the formaleducation sector, more and moreopportunities are being created for all school-age children to have access to education.And the youths of higher educationalinstitutions are now able to study advancedsubjects through information andcommunications technologies.

In the informal education sector also,steps are being taken for children well pastschool age and adults to be able to learn therudiments of reading and writing. Efforts arebeing made for all to be literate and, at the sametime, follow-up measures are being taken forthose who are already literate to acquire areading habit and help them read more andmore.

Nowadays, the people in rural areasare in a position to broaden their horizonsthrough reading as self-reliant libraries arebeing opened in villages. It is necessary notonly to open more and more village librariesbut also to strive for their maintenance andlong-term development. It is also necessaryto endow the libraries to keep them well-furnished and well-stocked and train peopleto become librarians.

A ceremony to donate cash, buildingsand newspapers and periodicals for self-reliance village libraries in Shan Stat (South)was held at the city hall in Taunggyi on 2August. The donations received were worthmore than K 100 million.

The number of new libraries is nowincreasing due to the combined efforts ofregional authorities, local people, well-wishers, social organizations anddepartmental personnel. If we strive formaintenance and long-term development ofnewly-opened libraries, they will become aconstant source of knowledge for ruralpeople.

NAY PYI TAW, 6 Aug—The State Peace andDevelopment Council has appointed FactoryManager U Yi Mon of Paper and Pulp Factory(Thabaung) under the Myanmar Paper and ChemicalsIndustries of the Ministry of Industry-1 as ManagingDirector of the Myanmar Paper and ChemicalsIndustries on probation on the date he assumescharge of his duties.—MNA

MYANMAR GAZETTERegional development

tasks of KyunsuTownship undertaken

NAY PYI TAW, 6 Aug—Minister for Industry-2Vice-Admiral Soe Thein and Minister for Livestockand Fisheries Brig-Gen Maung Maung Thein met localpeople from Kyunsu of Taninthayi Division on 31July. The ministers inspected progress of work fulfilledduring the past tours. And they presented awards tooutstanding students and assistance for regionaldevelopment.

On 1 August, the ministers attended prize-awarding ceremony held at Kyunsu Township andpresented awards to outstanding students. After that,they donated cash assistances to ShweannawaEducation Foundation of Kyunsu Township.

In the evening, the ministers inspected regionaldevelopment in Mayanchaung, Kattalu, Katan, Kapaand Kabin villages.

MNA

SWRR Minister inspects fire stationsYANGON, 6 Aug—Minister for Social Welfare,

Relief and Resettlement Maj-Gen Maung Maung Sweinspected the extended construction of five-unit firestation, construction of four-room staff quarters andsituation of Fire Bridge vehicles of Thayawady inBago Division (west) on 3 August morning.

The minister viewed the construction of four-unit two-storied fire station and the staff quarters ofGyobingauk.

The minister visited childcare centre inHtaukkyant and viewed the extended construction ofthe centre.—MNA

MANDALAY, 6 Aug—On behalf of NIPROCorporation (Japan), Managing Director of MyanmarYutani Co Ltd Mr Yoshinori Komaru donated Kyats20 million worth Haemodialysis Machine to the

NIPRO Corporation (Japan) donates Haemodialysis MachineDepartment of Nephrology of Mandalay GeneralHospital yesterday. Medical Superintendent ofMandalay General Hospital Dr U Maung Win acceptedthe donation and spoke words of thanks.—NLM

Minister Vice-Admiral Soe Thein presentingaward to an outstanding student from Kyunsu

Township.—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Maung Maung Sweinspects construction of fire station and staff

quarters.—MFS

UMFCCI delegation led by Executive U Aung Kyi Soe to attend SriLanka Myanmar Business Meeting to be held in Colombo, the

Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka being seen off at YangonInternational Airport on 4 August. (News Reported)—UMFCCI

Managing Director of Myanmar Yutani Co Ltd Mr Yoshinori Komarudonates Haemodialysis Machine to Medical Superintendent

Dr U Maung Win of Mandalay General Hospital.—NLM

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A man inspects a burnt vehicle at the site of a bomb blast in Ramadi, 100 kms (60miles) west of Baghdad. Eleven people, including a woman, died in violenceacross Iraq on Wednesday as officials said a teenage girl has been jailed for trying to copy her father and brother and be a suicide bomber.—INTERNET

A boy looks at a blood stain on a street after abomb attack in Baghdad’s Doura district,

on 5 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

KABUL, 6 Aug — Afghanforces in clashes withTaleban insurgents arrestedfive local commanders of theoutfit over the past two daysin northern province ofBaghlan and southernUruzgan Province, officialssaid on Thursday.

The troops capturedTaleban commander MullahAziz during an operationagainst insurgents in therelatively peaceful BaghlanProvince on Wednesday,said military officer AbdulAhad Khan.

Mullah Aziz, the officeradded, had acted ascommander of Talebanfighters in Baghlan-e-Markazi district and wasinvolved in carrying outseries of subversive activities.

In another incident, fourmore local Talebancommanders namely MullahLala, Mullah Hanan, MullahRabbani and MullahMujahid were arrested in thesouthern UruzganProvince, commander ofthe troops in the regionShir Mohammad Zazisaid.—Internet

Three killed in clashesin northern IraqMOSUL, 6 Aug —

Clashes between gunmenand Iraqi police in thecountry’s northern city ofMosul on Wednesday killeda policeman and twogunmen, a local policesource said. The clashes innorthern Mosul alsoresulted in the wounding ofa third gunman who wascaptured by the police, thesource told Xinhua oncondition of anonymity.

Mosul, some 400 kmnorth of Baghdad, is said tobe one of the last strongholdsof al-Qaeda fighters in thewar-torn country. Sporadicattacks are still common inBaghdad and other Iraqicities, despite the dramaticdrop of violence over thepast two years.—Internet

Roadside bomb kills 21 Afghan civilians

US soldier killed inAfghanistan

KABUL, 6 Aug — A US soldier was killed in a bombattack in western Afghanistan, the NATO-led forcesaid on Thursday, adding to a soaring foreign militarydeath toll in the fight against the Taleban.

The soldier from the International SecurityAssistance Force was killed on Wednesday, ISAFsaid in a statement. The soldier died when a patrolstruck a roadside bomb after troops “engaged”insurgents who were spotted planting bombs in anoperation “successfully neutralising their activity,”it added.

US military spokeswoman Lieutenant CommanderChristine Sidenstricker confirmed the soldier wasfrom United States. Last month was the deadliest forforeign troops in Afghanistan since the 2001 US-ledinvasion ousted the extremist Taleban regime frompower for sheltering Al-Qaeda following the 11September attacks.

Internet

KABUL, 6 Aug — Aroadside bomb hit civiliansriding a tractor to awedding in southernAfghanistan, killing atleast 20 people, officialssaid on Thursday. Hel-mand provincial policechief Assadullah Sherzadsaid women and childrenwere among the 21 deadand five wounded inGarmser district, whereroadside bombs arefrequently used to attackforeign and Afghan forces.

The Afghan Ministryof Defence said that theroadside bomb onWednesday morningkilled at least 20 people.Thousands of US Marinesand British soldiers arepushing into Helmand,one of the centers of theTaleban insurgency, inattempt to extendgovernment control andensure stability ahead ofthe 20 Aug presidentialelections.

The insurgents, who

pledge to disrupt the vote,have markedly ramped upattacks and dramaticallyincreased their use ofroadside bombs this year.The UN says civiliandeaths in the escalatingwar soared by 24 percent

during the first half of2009 compared with thesame period last year andblamed most of thecasualties on Talebanattacks launched withlittle regard for civilianlives.—Internet

Afghan troopsarrest five local

Talebancommanders

Hiroshima mourns atomic bombanniversary

HIROSHIMA, 6 Aug—Some 50,000 peoplegathered on Thursday at thepeace park in Hiroshima tomourn the 64th anniversaryof the atomic bombing ofthe city by US forces duringthe World War II.

Hiroshima MayorTadatoshi Akiba delivered

a peace declaration, callingfor the abolition of nuclearweapons by 2020.

“The hibakusha stillsuffer a hell that continues,”said Akiba.”The Japanesegovernment should supporthibakusha, including thosewho were victims of blackrain and those who liveoverseas,” he said.

It was reported onWednesday that theJapanese government aimsto come to an agreementwith all atomic bombsurvivors who have suedthe government forfinancial support to helpthem pay medical bills for

illnesses related to thebombings of Hiroshima andNagasaki.

Akiba also said “The year2020 is important as we wantto enter a world withoutnuclear weapons with asmany hibakusha as possible.We call on the world to joinforces with us to eliminateall nuclear weapons by2020.” Referring to themovements such as theenvironmentalists, Akibasaid, “Global democracythat respects the will of theworld and respects thepower of the people hasbegun to grow.”

Xinhua

New Zealand’s unemploymentrate rises to 6%

WELLINGTON, 6 Aug— New Zealand’s unemploymentrate rose to a nine-year high of 6 percent in the three monthsto the end of June from 5 percent in the previous quarter,and is the largest quarterly increase since 1988, StatisticsNew Zealand saidThursday.

Official figures released by Statistics New Zealand onThursdayalso showed seasonally adjusted employmentfalling 0.4 percent to 2.17 million, while the number ofunemployed jumped by 48,000 in the 12 months to a 10-year high of 138,000.The jump in unemployment waslargely the result of 15,000 womenlosing their jobs.The number of males in full-time employment fell butthere was an increase in part-time jobs.—Internet

Citizens visit theHiroshima PeaceMemorial Park in

Hiroshima of Japan, on5 Aug, 2009, one day

prior to the 64thHiroshima A-bombing

anniversary. XINHUA

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JAKARTA, 6 Aug —Pohang Iron and SteelCompany (Posco), theworld’s second biggeststeel company fromSouth Korea, intends tobuild roll coil factory inIndonesia’s Cilegon ofBanten Province, thebusiness daily BisnisIndonesia quoted anofficial as saying onThursday.

The project thatpossibly would bematerialized together

Joffrey Ballet School students Alyssa Boysen (L) and Michelle Ludwigpractice in a fountain in Washington Square on a warm night in New York,

on 3 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

Women of the Hani ethnic group return home after picking fresh tea leavesat a tea plantation on the Nannuo Mountains in Menghai County of

Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China’s YunnanProvince, recently. The Nannuo Mountains, one of the most famous montane

tea fields, had a good harvest of tera this year. — INTERNET

NEW YORK, 6 Aug — The dollar fell back againstmajor currencies on Wednesday after technicalconsolidation a day ago, with investors waiting forrate decisions from Britain and the euro-zone.

The dollar has been falling in the previous sessionsas strong economic data hurt safety haven demandfor the US currency. It regained some grounds ascurrency trading on Tuesday was dominated by profittaking. Risk appetite remains relatively high amidimproving expectations for economic recovery,driving the dollar lower on Wednesday.

The European Central Bank and the Bank of Englandwill hold their regular monetary policy meetings onThursday. The central banks are both expected to keeptheir key rates unchanged at record lows.

Some latest reports showed that the UK economyis pulling out of recession. It cut expectations thatthe Bank of England would expand its quantitativeeasing polices on Thursday’s meeting.

US economic data released on Wednesday aremixed. A Commerce Department report US showedfactory orders rose by 0.4 percent in June, much betterthan an expected loss. The service sector shrank by0.6 points in July, the Institute of Supply Managementsaid. US private employers cut 371,00 jobs in July,worse than expected but better than the previousmonth, according to payroll firm ADP.—Internet

NEW DELHI, 6 Aug —India’s largest carmakerMaruti-Suzuki India(MSI) Thursday said itsexports are expected toachieve the one-lakh, or100,000, units’ mark inthe current financial yearwhich ends next March.

“Maruti cars areexported to over 100countries and the volumeof exports is likely to crossone lakh units in 2009-10,” MSI Chairman RCBhargava said in an

HANOI, 6 Aug —Vietnam raked in 245million US dollars fromexport of vegetables andfruits in the first seven

ROK’s Posco intends to buildsteel factory in Indonesia

with PT Krakatau Steel(KS), Indonesia’s biggeststeel company, willproduce hot rolled plate.The Industry Ministry’sdirector for metal industryI Putu Suryawirawan saidthat the new factory wasprojected to have installedcapacity of 2.5 milliontons a year with electricityneeds up to 500 megawatt(MW).

According to Putu, thetotal investment for theproject is predicted to

reach 2-2.5 billion USdollars.

“The current globaleconomic crisis is notobstacle for Posco toinvest in Indonesia,” saidPutu. The company’spresident director FazwarBujang added that theinvestment also would beused to complete thefactory’s infrastructure,like new port that iscapable to accommodateship containers loadedwith 200,000 tons ofmaterial.

Internet

RIO DE JANEIRO, 6 Aug— Brazil’s state-ownedoil and gas giant Petrobrashas become the fourthlargest company on theAmerican continent,according to a studyreleased on Wednesday byconsulting companyEconomatica.

According to the study,which included compani-es from all Latin Ameri-can countries and theUnited States, Petrobras’market value increased81.1 percent since thebeginning of this year,reaching 173.59 billionUS dollars, the highestamong Latin Americancorporations. Last year,Petrobras was already thelargest corporation inLatin America, but ranked17th on the complete list.

Internet

MEXICO CITY, 6 Aug —The Mexican governmentplans to invest 500million pesos (383,550US dollars) annually intraining bean farmers toreduce the nation’s impo-rts, Agriculture MinisterAlberto Cardenas said onWednesday.

“Via the (government-backed) Produce Found-ation, we are investingaround 500 million pesosa year to broadcast the

Dollar falls against majorcurrencies Brazil’s Petrobras

becomes fourthlargest company

on Americancontinent

India’s carmaker Maruti-Suzuki expectsto increase its export

interview here. “Exportsof small cars would be oneof the major elements inthe company’s futuregrowth strategy,” he said.“From a company whichwas started to produce onelakh cars a year, we havereached a production rateof 10 lakh cars a year,”Bhargava said, adding thatthe company has a marketshare of over 55 percent inthe cars and vans segment.

He said that thecompany did not have any

idle capacity and didnotlay off any of itsemployees during the lastfiscal year, whenthedomestic auto market wasgoing through a demandslump.”In 2008-09, wehad a small growth rate insales volumes.

But the companymade reasonable profitsdespite the impact ofhigher commodity pricesand weaker rupee,” Bhar-gava said.

Internet

Vietnam’s export turnover of vegetables,fruits remains stable

months this year, aboutthe same value during thesame period last yeardespite global downturn,according to the agri-cultural ministry onThursday.

In July, the country’sfruit and vegetable exportturnover was 35 millionUS dollars, said the

information center of theVietnamese Ministry ofAgriculture and RuralDevelopment.

In the first sevenmonths, Russia toppedthe list of the country’sforeign importers of thesegoods with 26 million USdollars.

Internet

Mexican Govt seeks to reduce bean importsknowledge that theNational Food and Pro-duce Research Agency isdiscovering,” Cardenassaid at the opening of theInternational Bean Con-gress and Fair held in thecentral Mexican state ofZacateacas. Mexicoproduced 1.12 million tonsof beans last year.Meanwhile, imports haverisen to 94,000 tons.Despite the large acreageof farmlands devoted to

beans, Mexico is still farbehind Brazil, the world’slargest bean producer, aswell as India, China andMyanmar, Cardenas obs-erved. The government hasalso laid out a 12-point planto help farmers, Cardenasadded. The plan includesimproving seed techno-logy, machinery invest-ment assistance, moderni-zing logistics and storagecenters, and promotingconsumption. — Internet

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A series of quakes rockseastern Indonesia

JAKARTA, 6 Aug—Three moderate earth quakes withmagnitudes of 5.4, 5.3 and 5.3 rattled eastern parts ofIndonesia earlier on Thursday, but no report of damageor casualty, Meteorology and Geophysics Agency saidhere.

The 5.4 magnitude quake struck at 00:30 am Jakartatime (1730GMT Wednesday) with epicenter at 117kilometres southwest Fakfak of West Papua, theagency said. About one hour later, the 5.3 quake joltedwith epicenter at 208 kms southwest Saumlaki ofMaluku and at 102 kms in depth, it said.

Some ten minutes after that, the last quake hit withepicenter at 58 kms southwest Tolitoli of CentralSulawesi and at 62 kms in depth, the agency said.Indonesia with over 230 million people laid on avulnerable quake-hit zone so called the Pacific Ringof Fire, where two continental plates stretching formWestern hemisphere to Japan meet that cause oftentriggers seismic and volcanic movements.

Xinhua

Indian telecom giant Airtel inks MoUwith Bhutan government

Panama Canal Authority signs agreement with US port

All items from XinhuaNews Agency

One killed, seven wounded in two shootings in Chicago

Official urges PNA to probe the reality of Arafat’s death

CHICAGO, 6 Aug—Oneman was killed and sevenother people wounded intwo shootings on thesouthwestern side ofChicago on earlyWednesday, police said.

In Chicago’s WestPullman neighbourhood,four men or boys wereshot in early hours onWednesday with one ofthem dying hours later at

Stroger Hospital in thesouth. The dead man wasidentified as AntoineHarris, 31. He was shottwice in the abdomen,police said. A reputedgang member, Harris hasbeen arrested more thantwo dozen times since1993, according to courtrecords.

Harris was one of twoshooting victims taken to

Stroger in serious tocritical condition. Theother, a 21-year-old man,suffered multiple gunshotwounds, police said.Earlier in the morning, agirl and three males, aged16 to 21, were shot on thestreet in the WestEnglewood neigh-bourhood, all of themwere taken to hospitals,police said. —Xinhua

NEW DELHI, 6 Aug—India’s telecom giantBharti Airtel has enteredinto an agreement with theBhutan government forcreating a new terrestrialcable network in theneighbouring country, saidan Airtel top officer onThursday. Airtel has inkedan MoU (Memorandum of

Understanding) with theRoyal Government ofBhutan to extend fiberconnectivity to theHimalayan Kingdom,Bharti Airtel ChiefExecutive Officer (CEO)and Joint ManagingDirector Manoj Kohliconfirmed on phone onThursday.

“At Bharti, we havealways believed in under-taking business projectsthat have a positive impacton the society at large. Thelaunch of Bhutan FiberConnect is reiteration ofBharti Airtel’s commit-ment to building a trulyglobal network,” Kohlisaid.—Xinhua

Thebackout

work of the13-storeycollapsed

building isunderway

in MinhangDistrict ofShanghai,east China,on 5 Aug ,

2009. XINHUA

Performers ofShe Huo, the

typicalnorthwestChina’s

Shaanxi folkart, perform

during arehearsal of the

60th MilitaryTattoo Festivalin Edinburgh,Britain, on 5Aug, 2009.

XINHUA

PANAMA CITY, 6 Aug—The Panama CanalAuthority (ACP) hassigned an agreement withPort Everglades of theUnited States to generatenew business, theManager of the PanamaCanal Authority (ACP),Alberto Aleman Zubieta,announced on Wednesday.

“The ACP and PortEverglades will work

together to promote thecommerce to Floridathrough the PanamaCanal,” Aleman Zubietasaid. Aleman Zubietaadded that this agreementwould allow the two sidesto exchange informationon their most recentmodernization efforts andmarket analyses.

The modernization ofPanama Canal began on 3

Sept, 2007, at a cost ofabout 5.25 billion USdollars, according to theACP. Philip Allen, directorof Port Everglades, saidthat ports on the EastCoast of the United States,mainly in Florida,Georgia, South Carolinaand Virginia, would allbenefit from themodernization of thePanama Canal.—Xinhua

RAMALLAH, 6 Aug—Aformer aide of late Fatahleader Yasser Arafat onWednesday accused thePalestinian NationalAuthority (PNA) ofignoring the probes toknow who was behind thedeath of Arafat.

Bassam Abu Sharif, aformer advisor to Arafattold a news conferenceheld in Ramallah thatArafat died in France

when Jacque Chirac wasthe president. Sharifhinted that the formerFrench president knowsthe real reason behind thedeath of Arafat.

Arafat died of amysterious disease in aFrench hospital on 11 Nov,2004. The Palestiniansaccused Israel of poi-soning him through food,drinks or medicines that hereceived when he was

under siege into al-Muqata’a, the head-quarters of PNA inRamallah. “There is a realnonfeasance in having areal and serious probe andget to the truth thateveryone is eager toknow,” said Abu Sharif,who called on Fatah partyto immediately form aninquiry committee toinvestigate Arafat’s death.

Xinhua

Two ladies take a photo on the 3D picture with thetheme of 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China, on5 Aug , 2009. A large three-dimensional painting

created by Edgar Mueller was seen in the MeilongPlaza in Shanghai on Wednesday.—XINHUAÅ

Military alone no solution toAfghan problem

KABUL, 6 Aug — The new Secretary General of NorthAtlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Anders FoghRasmussen on Wednesday ruled out the military alone assolution to Afghan imbroglio. “We have to realize that thereis no military solution solely to the situation in Afghanistanand we need a broader perspective and comprehensiveapproach,” NATO’s top man told a joint Press conferencewith President Hamid Karzai here. He further stressedthat military efforts, hand in hand with a strong commitmentfrom the international community to reconstruction inAfghani-stan, is essential for having solution.

Meanwhile, NATO’s chief said that peace talks wouldbe held with “those who lay down their arms.”

He also said that more than 40 countries are present inAfghanistan and “I can assure you to remain in Afghanistan aslong as needed.” This is the first visit of Rasmussen toAfghanistan as NATO chief since assuming office on 1 Aug.The former Danish Prime Minister over the rebuilding ofAfghan national security forces said that the alliance wouldcontinue to train Afghan army and Afghan police until theytake charge of the security of their country from the internationaltroops. The NATO secretary general also expressed the alliancesupport for the coming on 20 Aug Afghan presidential electionby saying, “NATO-ISAF would do their best possible to ensuresecurity for the election.”—Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUMTest vision long before kindergarten

An Audi sedan written off by anelderly German woman as stolen twoyears ago has resurfaced — in herneighbor’s garage beneath a thick layerof dust. Police said on Thursday the 82-year-old from the northern city ofHildesheim took the car in for repairstwo years ago and had the mechanicsdrive it back to her house and park it inher garage.

She got the keys and papers from hermailbox, but when she went to get thecar it was nowhere to be found. So shereported it stolen.

17-foot python killedin Fla

Florida wildlife authorities said a17-foot, 2-inch Myanmar python wascaptured and destroyed on a privateproperty in Okeechobee County.

The Florida Fish and WildlifeConservation Commission said the 207-pound reptile, which was captured andkilled on Thursday, did not have a petmicrochip required for those snakesconsidered “reptiles of concern,” theOrlando (Fla) Sentinel reported on Friday.

“Its stomach contents wereexamined, but nothing identifiable wasfound inside,’’ the commission said in anews release.

Leopard mum Saia gives her hithertounnamed cub a wash in Hanover zoo.Saia gave birth to a male and femalecub at the end of May. After matingwith Saia leopard dad Yallah wasbanished to a separate enclosure for safety reasons.

Flames consume a replica of the

17th-century flagship Prins Willem

in Den Helder, northern

Netherlands. Fire has destroyed the

replica of the 17th-century flagship

of the Dutch East India Company.

The three-mast tall ship, which was

built in the 1980s, was moored for

many years at Holland Village in

Nagasaki, Japan, before it returned

to the northern Dutch port in 2003.

US vision experts say as much as 80percent of learning occurs through achild’s eyes and a vision test is neededlong before a child goes to school.

The Vision Center at Children’s Hos-pital Los Angeles experts advise notwaiting until kindergarten for a child’sfirst complete eye exam.

They recommend pediatricians per-form a dilated eye exam to detect anyserious eye problems within the first twomonths of life and every child have acomprehensive eye exam by age three.

Some of the more serious eye dis-

eases like lazy eye — amblyopia — orcrossed eyes — strabismus — are cor-rectable, especially when caught early.If a child is having trouble learning toread, parents should include a compre-hensive vision examination as one of thetools used to find out why.

“Generally, the earlier we diagnosevision issues, the better the outcome forthe child,” a pediatric ophthalmologistat the center Dr Mark Borchert said in astatement.

“Professional eye examination testsnot only measure distance of vision, butalso how accurately the eyes focus andhow well the eye muscles are working.”

A herd of wild horses grazes on apasture atop Krug Mountain inWestern Bosnia. Dozens of wildhorses graze peacefully atop a

Bosnian plateau where the silence isbroken only by neighing, a

breathtaking sight enthusiasts arefighting to preserve.

Woman finds ‘stolen’Audi in neighbour’s

garage

BEIJING, 6 Aug— Pandas are all the rage thissummer in Beijing.

A selection of panda dolls and costumes has beenselling like hot cakes among Beijing’s youth, ChinaNews Service reported.

The dolls, which include panda boys and girls,brides and grooms, were created by a group of youngpeople who have returned from their studies abroad.The designers plan to promote their brand “PandaTown” as the new “Chinese Barbie”.

The costumes also include western-styles to“panda” to international tastes.—Internet

JAKARTA, 6 Aug —Indonesia’s Minister forEnergy and MineralResources PurnomoYusgiantoro inauguratedthe operation of Geo-marine III research ship toconduct surveys onmarine geology in thecountry’s waters, localmedia reported on Thurs-day.

“We have been expect-ing the ship for so longbecause we only havemapped 25 percent oftotal Indonesia’s seawidth. We haven’t map-ped yet the rest 75 percentin the deep sea where our

CARACAS, 6 Aug —Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chavez said onWednesday that Colom-bian President AlvaroUribe “directs a warpolicy” by allowing theinstallation of seven USmilitary bases in Colom-bian territory. At a Pressconference, Chavez reaf-firmed his government’sdecision on severing dip-lomatic and commercialties with Colombia as heconsiders that the militarybases “target Venezuela.”

The US military basestarget the Orinoco oil

Panda dolls attractBeijing youth A selection of panda

dolls and costumes has

been selling like hot

cakes among Beijing’s

youth.

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Venezuelan President criticizes Colombia’sdecision on US military bases

strip, one of the largest oilreserves in the world, hesaid.” We feel threa-tened,” Chavez said. “It islike your known enemy isin your neighbour’shouse, well armed andcrazy.” “The Yankees donot have friends, theyhave interests,” he added.Chavez also said Colom-bia is a failed country,where drug traffickingactivities have prevailedat all social levels.

He rejected Colom-bia’s accusations ofVenezuela providingweapons for the Revolut-

ionary Armed Forces ofColombia (FARC), thecountry’s largest rebelgroup, saying the picturesof three ATK rocketlaunchers presented byColombia “do not havesupport” as those aresingle-use weapons.

Bogota has said abatch of Swedish-madeweapons bought byVenezuela during the1980s had ended up in thehands of the FARC,which has been fightingthe Colombian govern-ment for more than fourdecades.— Internet

Indonesia inaugurates research ship for marine surveybig natural resources lie,”said Purnomo at the shipinauguration in WestJava’s Cirebon regencyon Wednesday.

The minister washoping that the shipwould accelerate mappingprogram and naturalresources exploration inthe deep sea. According toBambang Dwiyanto, headof a research departmentof the ministry, theconstruction of theresearch ship was startedin April 2006 followingfund approval by FinanceMinister Sri Mulyani-Indrawati.

The 61.7 metre-longship has maximum speedof 13.5 knots withexploring power of 30days. The ship is alsocompleted with surveyequipments like navi-gation and positionsystem, survey tools forgeology, geophysics andoceanography, geologicaland geophysics labora-tory, electronic andmechanical garage, aswell as diving equipment.Total cost for the shipconstruction was 98billion rupiah (9.8 millionUS dollars).

Internet

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(from page 1)At the briefing hall, Lt-Gen Ko Ko heard reports

on agricultural production and paddy quality presentedby departmental officials and gave instructions onagricultural matters.

Then officials handed over books on methodsfor boosting paddy output to local farmers.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Ko Ko observed samples ofpaddy, rice and cooked rice.

At U To Gyi Village Basic Education PrimarySchool, Lt-Gen Ko Ko looked into learning of schoolchildren and presented cash donations for the school.

After hearing reports on academic andadministration matters presented by the headmistressand the division education officer, Lt-Gen Ko Ko gavenecessary instructions and spoke words ofencouragement.

Next, Lt-Gen Ko Ko went to No (5) ChemicalFertilizer Factory Project (Pathein) of MyanmaPetrochemical Enterprise in Kangyidaunk Township.

Lt-Gen Ko Ko inspectsMyaungmya Jute Factory, …

After hearing reports on facts about the project presentedby officials, Lt-Gen Ko Ko gave necessary instructions,presented gifts and viewed the scale model of thefactory.

Then Lt-Gen Ko Ko oversaw the worksite ofthe factory construction project and left necessaryinstructions.

MNA

Bhamo-Katha Railroad Project, a fruitful result of stability and peaceArticle: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

(from page 1)Under the

arrangements made bythe Bhamo DistrictPeace and DevelopmentCouncil, we visited theproject site, a 30-minuteboat drive from Shwegu.On arrival at the port inKyaukkyi Village-tract,we proceeded to theproject by motorcycle,which is about two milesfrom Kyaukkyi.

In an interview,Secretary U Hsan Oo ofthe township PDC said,

U Hsan Oo, Secretary of Shwegu TownshipPeace and Development Council.

U Kyaw Kyaw Naing, Kyaukkyi Village.

"Shwegu Townshipsection of Bhamo-KathaRailroad Project is beingimplemented by two

companies. They areMyanmar ShweTharaphu Company andAlloy Company. Now,

Myanmar Shwe Tharaphuis undertaking Kyaukkyi-Thayagon section. To beexact, the project has been

launched since 19 Junethis year. The companyhas 22 technicians andeight units of heavy

machinery. MyanmarShwe Tharaphu Companyhas a target to deal withgroundwork for 10 millioncubic feet of earth."

He added, "AlloyCompany has beencarrying out groundworksince 15 June this yearfor Thayagon-Minkyawgone sectionwith six units of heavymachinery and 36technicians. Thecompany also has a targetof 10 million cubic feetof earth to build an axisfor the railroad."

Simultaneously,other companies werecarrying out groundworkto complete the buildingof an axis for Kathasection. The project is due

to be completed by 2010.When Bhamo-

Katha Railroad sectionis completed, goods canbe transported by trainfrom Mandalay toBhamo. And tradeactivities can be carriedout with the People'sRepublic of Chinathrough Lwejel bordercheckpoint in BhamoDistrict. In addition, thetransport facility willhelp improve thetransport for theconvenience of localpeople of Bhamo Districtwhere waterways areonly source of transport.

In respect ofBhamo-Katha RailroadProject, U Kyaw KyawNaing, a local, said,"Local people of usnever dreamt about sucha railroad here. We thankthe government verymuch for restoration ofpeace and stability andfor the railroad."

Upon completion,the prudent project willhelp improve thetransport, economy,education and health careof the townships andvillages along the railroad.

*****Translation: MSMyanma Alin:

5-8-2009The axis of Bhamo-Katha Railroad near Kyaukkyi Village, Shwegu Township, Kachin State.

Lt-Gen Ko Ko of Ministry of Defence inspects construction of No. 5 Chemical Fertilizer Factory Project (Pathein) of Myanma Petrochemical Enterprise in Kangyidaunk Township.—MNA

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

Now, Myanmar’s politics is at a crossroads. Aconstitution has been approved. Myanmar is going tohold an election in 2010 in which representatives willbe elected to form legislative bodies at all levels inaccordance with the constitution. So, the people andthose who plan to form political parties to stand forelection have to prepare themselves for and holddiscussions about the election. And the people relishthe thought of enjoying a prosperous future of thenation. However, we cannot rest assured that thingswill go smooth, and we have not completed allpreparations yet. Certain persons are plotting to de-stroy all our hopes.

The greater momentum the State’s seven-stepRoad Map is picking up, the more active destructiveelements are to disrupt the programme. Now, theelection is going to take place as the fifth step of theRoad Map, but there have been many demands foramendments to the constitution as well as commentson the forthcoming election associated with the roleof a specific person and organization. What is worseis that certain persons are secretly as well as publiclydeceiving the people into staging mass demonstra-tions and violence if they will not have their demandsfulfilled.

Their attempts focus on democratization inMyanmar through violence or regime change, whichwas very common in the Bush administration. Thatway does not work, as evidenced by the situations inIraq and Afghanistan. The experiences gained inIraq and Afghanistan affairs have proved thatdemocracy cannot be imported, like a product. InIraq and Afghanistan, national reconstructiontasks show unsuccessful due to the fact that salientpoints in the histories and cultures of the countriesare not taken into consideration, internal securityand stability cannot be restored well, and democ-racy was introduced without institutionalization.

However, those opposing the seven-step RoadMap are trying to make political reforms throughregime change. They seem to keep on thinking thatdemocratization process will be successful here inMyanmar although it proved unsuccessful in Iraq andAfghanistan. The events in the Myanmar’s historyshow that such impractical approaches produce dis-advantages rather than advantages. In the post-inde-pendence period in 1948, the communists led byThakin Than Tun disagreed with the AFPFL govern-ment. However, Bruma Communist Party standingas a legal party had the right to stand for electionaccording to the 1947 constitution. If the party won inthe election, it could hold discussions in the parlia-ment to cease the disagreements. Then, they couldpresent them to the public. In other words, it had anopportunity to deal with the disagreements throughnegotiation in the frame of the law. Nonetheless,BCP did waste the unique opportunity, and tried tooust the AFPFL government through armed insur-gency, an illegal means. Therefore, BCP transformeditself from a legal into illegal party. BCP membersthen went underground with a plan that they had totriumph in next two years. Forty years after that, theparty collapsed into pieces.

In like manner, Myanmar Socialist ProgrammeParty proposed for a referendum in 1988 in order thatthe people could choose either of the two systems:

From stability and peace to democracyBa Nyar Aung

one-party system or multiparty system. According tothe 1974 constitution that was still in force at that time,provisions on changes in nation’s administrative ma-chinery could be amended only through the desire ofthe public. So, Myanmar Socialist Programme Party’sproposal served as a door to political reforms. Never-theless, those opposing Myanmar Socialist ProgrammeParty did not accept the proposal. They were in fearthat if a referendum was held, the ruling party mightwin. So, they deceived the people into taking to thestreets by generating public outrage and issuing made-up news. Then, the ruling government announced thatit would hold a multiparty election in next three monthsinstead of a referendum, but they did not accept it,either. They launched regime change programme,chanting slogans “Fight if democracy is not guaran-teed”, “Fight whether democracy is guaranteed ornot”, and “Form an interim government”. Later, anar-chy came to reign supreme and many innocent peoplewere beheaded and factories and mills were burntdown through mob rules. Even so-called democracyleaders were not in a position to control the anarchicacts. The situations forced the Tatmadaw to take overState duties. The political unrest also reflected thatattempts to make political reforms through violentmeans outside the framework of the law had adverseeffects, rather than positive results. If the drive forpolitical reforms had been carried out in the frame-work of the 1974 constitution, the tasks to makeMyanmar political reforms would have gone smootherand more rapidly.

Now, within the reach of the people is a goldenopportunity to realize democratization process in theframework of the constitution in Myanmar. Amidst alarge variety of challenges and disruptions the NationalConvention was completed to formulate a new consti-tution. The National Convention adopted basic princi-ples and detailed basic principles as a result of thoroughand frank discussions held by the representatives. Na-tional legal experts drafted the State Constitution (2008)based on the adopted principles. The constitution wasapproved by the vast majority of the voters in thereferendum. The constitution is the foundation for de-mocratization in Myanmar.

Only now are they demanding amendments to theconstitution be made before the election. They did nothave their demands fulfilled in the National Conven-tion, so they claimed that the new constitution did notmeet democracy norms. In fact, the National Conven-tion was attended by delegates representing the peoplefrom all strata of life, and various national races.Different delegates and delegate groups have theirdifferent businesses and different views. It was im-possible for the National Convention to satisfy allthe wishes of the entire people. It sought throughdiscussions the most appropriate way from amongthe different views. It is unreasonable to blame theNational Convention just because all their demandswere not satisfied there. Whether a constitution is

appropriate or not rests on whether it is designedto serve the nation’s interest or not. The govern-ment alone is not authorized to amend the constitu-tion because it is written with the principles adoptedat the National Convention and it has been approvedwith the massive support of the people. If the consti-tution is to be amended so, the minority disregard thewishes of the majority of the people, and such animprudent act is against democracy. Those demand-ing amendments to the constitution seem to be over-looking that point.

Another point is that it is absolutely unwise tocopy a constitution. Suppose it had been done so, theUnited Nations would have drawn a model constitu-tion for all countries. None of the constitutions of thewestern democracies is identical. So, a constitution isto be compiled according to the political background,economy, races and culture of a nation concerned. So,clearly, it is not wise to say that a constitution of acountry does not meet democracy norms as it is notsimilar to a foreign one.

Indeed, the State Constitution (2008) vests farmore opportunities than previous ones in legislativeand executive rights in order that national races will beable to manage tasks for regional development on theirown. Legislative bodies at all levels prescribed by theconstitution are the places where the major forces forMyanmar’s politics —Tatmadaw, political parties andnational races—can hold talks. The fundamental rightsof the citizens enumerated in the constitutions areidentical to the fundamental rights stipulated in theUnited Nations’ Universal Declaration of HumanRights. Those provisions will guarantee the peopleopportunities to enjoy democracy rights correctly.Likewise, the provisions on amendments give thepeople opportunities to amend the constitution step bystep with maturity of the people and political forces inpracticing democracy. These points indicate that thepeople can choose the most suitable way to exercisedemocracy in the framework of the law.

The constitution and the 2010 election serve asthe first giant step for practicing democracy cor-rectly and firmly. Many more steps are yet to betaken. A 1000-mile journey starts with the firststep. If the first step is in disorder, it will be hardto take more steps. Now, the first step has not beentaken, but certain elements are resorting to means tohinder it. The people of us are to be vigilant againsttheir attempts. If the first step is taken properly, theprocesses can go on smoothly and steadily. If thepeople learn lessons from the past historic incidentsin which the motherland and the people went throughthe hell of untold miseries triggered by the unlawfulattempts to make political reforms outside the frame-work of the law, the people of us will be able to keepon taking steps towards democracy regularly andsmoothly. That is the bounden duty of the entirepeople of us.

Translation: MS

If the people learn lessons from the past historic incidents in which themotherland and the people went through the hell of untold miseries triggered bythe unlawful attempts to make political reforms outside the framework of thelaw, the people of us will be able to keep on taking steps towards democracyregularly and smoothly.

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NAY PYI TAW, 6Aug—The prize-present-ing ceremony for offspringof staff of Supreme Courtand courts taking educa-tion in 2008-2009 aca-demic year and stipend-providing ceremony for2009-2010 academic yearwere held at meeting hallof Supreme Court here thismorning. Chief Justice UAung Toe spoke on theoccasion and presentedprize to the six-distinctionwinner.

Next, Deputy Chief

Prizesawarded tooffspring

of SC staff

Justice U Khin MaungLatt and Supreme Courtjudges and directors-gen-eral presented awards and

stipends to outstandingstudents. Afterwards, astudent spoke words ofthanks.—MNA

Yangon Command Commanderattends Commander’s shield chesstourney, prize-presenting ceremony

NAY PYI TAW, 6 Aug—Minister for CommerceBrig-Gen Tin Naing Theinand Minister for Commu-nications, Posts and Tel-egraphs Brig-Gen TheinZaw delivered speeches ata ceremony held at Townhall of Bhamo in KachinState on 3 August to meetwith executive members ofBhamo Chambers of Com-merce and Industry, de-partments andtownselders.

The ministers met lo-NAY PYI TAW, 6

Aug—Minister for En-ergy Brig-Gen Lun Thiinspected selling and dis-tribution of fuel at FuelStation No. (0702) inTaunggyi on 4 August andcalled for systematicmeasures on fuel sale, firepreventive measures andensuring smooth relationswith the customers. He

YANGON, 6 Aug—A head-on collision tookplace on Yangon-Manda-lay Road in SinbaungweTownship, Magway Di-vision, on 3 Augustevening. It left eight pas-sengers dead and 23 in-jured.

A Dyna truck on itsway from Aunglan toSinbaungwe collided headon with truck towed by

Health & Beauty Exhibition 2009on 18-20 September

YANGON, 6 Aug—Spring Commercial CoLtd will organize Health& Beauty Exhibition 2009at Tatmadaw ConventionHall on U Wisara Roadhere from 18 to 20 Sep-tember.

The exhibition pro-vides room for 150 pavil-ions. Local and foreign

hospitals, clinic, beautysalons, fitness centres andtraining centres on bodycare medicine, cosmetics,hair, skin and nail caregoods, advanced bodycare therapies and equip-ment, traditional cosmet-ics, and body building areinvited to the exhibition.

The exhibition is de-

signed to generate bestopportunities in whichcustomers and producersand distributors can dealwith directly, and thosecompanies wishing tostage their exhibits maydial Tel: 392593, 09-5198491, or 09-5004345,says Spring CommercialCo Ltd.—NLM

Commerce Minister, CPT Minister undertakeregional development tasks in Bhamo

cal people at Seinlon vil-lage of Lwejel and in-spected thriving monsoonpaddy and crops planta-tions along the Seinlon-Lwejel road.

After that, the minis-ters met with departmen-tal officials, townseldersand members of socialorganizations at Townhallof Lwejel and staff at bor-der trade camp and com-munication camp inLwejel.

On 4 August, Minis-

ter Brig-Gen Thein Zawdelivered an address atprize–presenting cer-emony held at townhall ofBhamo and presentedawards to outstanding stu-dents and teachers.

At Bhamo auto ex-change, the minister metofficials, townselders andmembers of social organi-zations from Bhamo Dis-trict and attended to theneeds after hearing thereports presented by thosepresent.—MNA

YANGON, 6 Aug—TheYangon Command Com-mander’s shield chesstournament was heldalong with prize-present-ing ceremony at the Com-mand yesterday after-noon, attended by YangonCommand CommanderMaj-Gen Win Myint, sen-ior officers of Command,officers and other ranks ofregiments and units and

participants.At the prize-present-

ing ceremony, the officialsconcerned presentedprizes to the winners.

Next, the commanderpresented the shield to thewinning team and con-cluded the ceremony.

The 1st work coordi-nation meeting of Lead-ing Committee for 17th

Myanmar Traditional Cul-

tural Performing ArtsCompetitions took placeat the meeting halll of theCommand in KyauktadaTownship. The com-mander delivered an ad-dress at the meeting.

Afterwards, thosepresent touched upon thematters for respective sec-tors and the commandergave necessary instruc-tions.—MNA

Energy Minister visits fuel station,storage and distribution branch

then viewed the coffeeplantation at the station.

At Storage and Dis-tribution Branch (A) ofMyanma Petroleum Prod-ucts Enterprise inShwenyaung, the minis-ter heard a report on stor-age and distribution of fuelby an official and gaveinstructions on distribu-tion of fuel and fire pre-

ventive measures andviewed Sein-ta-lonemango trees grown in thecompound.

Next, the ministeroversaw distribution ofoctane at Octane Branch(Heho) and left necessaryinstructions. He thenviewed thriving fruit treesat the staff plantation.

MNA

Eight passengers killed, 23 injured inhead-on collision on Yangon-Mandalay Road

Tipper lorry leading toAunglan, near Tharyarkonvillage in SinbaungweTownship, mile post No.(235/7) on Yangon-Man-dalay road, at 10.30 pm on3 August.

Seven out of fortypassengers on Dyna truckwere killed on the spotand one in Aunglan Peo-ple’s Hospital and 23 oth-ers were injured and 21

others in Aunglan Peo-ple’s Hospital and two inPyay People’s Hospitalwhere they are receivingmedical treatment andnecessary aid officialsconcerned, doctors andnurses.

Action is beingtaken against the driversYe Min Tun and Sit Ayeaccording to the law.

MNA

Chief Justice U Aung Toe presents award to asix-distinction winner.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw delivers a speech in meeting with execu-tive members of Bhamo Chambers of Commerce and Industry,

departmental officials and townselders.—CPT

Minister Brig-

Gen Lun Thi

inspects Storage

and Distribution

Branch of

Myanma Petro-

leum Products

Enterprise in

Shwenyaung.

ENERGY

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Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan receives Russian Ambassador Mr Mikhail Mgeladze.

MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Aung receives delegation led by CEO Dr Alan Robert Rabinowitz of Panthera Foundation.

FORESTRY

Chairman U Kyaw Thu of Civil Service Selection and Training Boarddelivers address in meeting with national races at the reception of Nos.9 and 10 MED 2-year course, Nos. 41,42 and 43 BED 4-year course,

Nos. 5 and 6 BED 2-year bridge course, No. 19 BED 1 year course andNo. 19 middle school teachership 1 year course on 5 August. (News

Reported) — MNA

Managing Director U Soe Win Aung ofShwelaminnagar Company presents 0.5 mil-

lion to owner Daw Khin Myat Htut of Citi Comwho sold Acer Notebook.—MNA

YANGON, 6 Aug—

Today the book of writer

Thein Than Win

(Mahlaing) awarded

Pakokku U Ohn Pe literary

award (first prize in

novel), organized by

Sarpay Beikman book

asso-ciation under the

Printing and Publishing

Enterprise, came out as

the 50th book of the

association. Those

members of the

Sarpay Beikman 50th book

in circulationassociation in Yangon

may take out the book at

No. (529/531), Sarpay

Beikman book association

on Merchant road and,

copies are sent to other

members by post.

Those wishing to be

members may contact the

secretary of the

association at No. (529/

531) on Merchant street

(Tel: 01-249031).

MNA

YANGON, 6 Aug—In gratitude for the service of

agents in July, Shwelaminnagar Company, sole agent

of Acer to Myanmar, organzied its lucky draw

programme at Acer showroom at the corner of Strand

road and Lanthit street in Lanmadaw Township, here,

today.

Managing Director U Soe Win Aung presented K

500,000 each to lucky draw winner Sai Lai Sae and

owner of Citicom Store Daw Khin Myat Htut.

The company will organize its lucky draw

programme for August and present cash awards to

winners.

MNA

Acer notebook: lucky draw

programme held

YANGON, 6 Aug—

Seven people were dead,

nine lost and eight injured

in a cargo ship fire broken

out in the river near

Danitaw, Botahtaung

Township here on 3

August.

The fire started in

engine room while Kyant-

Fire breaks out on cargo ship in

water near Danitaw

14 vessel was filling oil to

Sein Shwe Moe cargo ship

in the river near Danitaw,

Bothtaung Township at

about 4 am on 3 August.

In the accident, four

were dead, eight injured

and two are missing from

Sein Shwe Moe cargo ship

and three dead and seven

are still missing from

Kyant-14 vessel.

A u t h o r i t i e s

concerned are searching

the lost victims around the

scene. The injured were

sent to hospital and

necessary assistance is

being provided.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 6

Aug—Minister for

Forestry Brig-Gen Thein

Aung received Chief

Executive Officer Dr

Alan Robert Rabinowitz

and party from Panthera

Forestry Minister receives Panthera

Foundation CEO

Greening Department U

Khin Win, Deputy

Director-General of the

Planning and Statistics

Department U Kyaw Tun

and officials.

MNA

Foundation at the

ministry, here, yesterday.

It was attended by

Director-General of the

Forest Department U Aye

Myint Maung, Director-

General of the Dry Zones

Information Minister

receives Russian

Ambassador

NAY PYI TAW, 6

Aug—Minister for

Information Brig-Gen

Kyaw Hsan received

Russian Ambassador to

Myanmar Mr Mikhail

Mgeladze at his office

here at 4.30 pm today.

Also present at the call

were Director-General U

Khin Maung Htay of

Myanma Radio and

Television , Director-

General U Ye Htut of

Information and Public

Relations Department,

Managing Director U

Aung Nyein of Printing

and Publishing Enterprise,

Managing Director U Soe

Win of News and

Periodicals Enterprise,

Head of Office U Myint

Htwe of the Ministry of

Information and

officials.—MNA

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Moscow, 6 Aug —Turkey has agreed “inprinciple” to allow theSouth Stream gas pipelineto pass through itsterritorial waters, a seniorRussian official said onWednesday, ahead of avisit by Prime MinisterVladimir Putin to Turkey.

HOHHOT, 6 Aug—More than 100 people fell illWednesday after an ammonia gas leak at apharmaceutical plant in north China’s Inner MongoliaAutonomous Region, local police said.

The leak occurred at 9:40 a.m. when a truckcarrying 50 to 60 tons of liquid ammonia was unloadingat the workshop of Chifeng Pharmaceutical Factory inChifeng City, said Wang Suoyou, commissar of thefire control detachment of the city’s public securityauthorities.The leak had been sealed, Wang said.

Local public security, environment protection andwork safety authorities had set up a team to investigatethe accident. Authorities were also testing the city’swater supplies for ammonia contamination.About 300police officers were maintaining order on the site. Aninitial investigation suggested that the leak was causedby workers failing to operate the equipment properlyand old pipes. People within 2 kilometres downwindof the leak were evacuated. — MNA/Xinhua

Russia says Turkey agrees to startS Stream work

Over 100 ill after ammonialeak in north China

About 4,000 Indonesianmigrant women infected by

HIV/AIDS yearly

Director Scott Faris poses for photographs with characters from the"Walking with Dinosaurs" show during a photocall at the O2 Arena in

London, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009. The show premieres in London tonightand continues touring the UK until Aug.—INTERNET

Bulgarian astronomers find seven new asteroids.INTERNET

Putin’s trip follows asigning ceremony inAnkara last month fortransit agreements for therival Nabucco gaspipeline, a EuropeanUnion-backed projectdesigned to counterRussia’s strong influenceon European energy

supplies. “An agreement has

been reached in principleto start constructionwork,” Yuri Ushakov,deputy head ofgovernment staff, told anews briefing. He said theTurkish Government willalso give permission tobegin a feasibility study“within days”.

A Turkish Govern-ment source who declinedto be identified confirmedto Reuters Turkey willagree to allow the SouthStream gas pipeline topass through its territorialwaters. —MNA/Reuters

GENEVE, 6 Aug–Villagers from deeplyRoman Catholic southSwitzerland have forcenturies offered a sacredvow to God to protectthem from the advancingice mass of the GreatAletsch glacier. Globalwarming is making themwant to reverse theirprayers, and the Alpinefaithful are seeking thepermission of the pope.

Since the vow wasestablished in 1678, thedeal was simple: thecitizens of the isolatedmountain hamlets ofFiesch and Fieschertalwould pledge to leadvirtuous lives. Inexchange, God wouldspare their homes andlivelihoods from beingswallowed by Europe's

Villagers who worry from the advancingice mass of the Aletsch glacier

JAKARTA, 6 Aug— Some 4,000 Indonesianmigrant women workers who returned to Indonesiawere infected by HIV/AIDS every year, according tothe result of a survey carried out by health agency onWednesday.

“The data was obtained from migrant workersarrival center in Jakarta International Airport. Thenumber could double as migrant workers who arrivedin other arrival centres in the country were notdetected,”Bob Mont-house, the director of Bali HealthFoundation (Yakeba) that carried out the survey wasquoted by Antara news agency as saying.

Besides Jakarta airport, Indonesia also providesmigrant workers arrival centres at Surabaya, Medanand Makassar international Airports, he said. Bobsaid that most of Indonesian migrant women workersinfected by HIV/AIDS were working in factories,textile manufactures, plantations and house maids.

“They were infected by HIV/AIDS due to theirfree lifestyle, being raped by their employers or bytheir colleagues,” he told reporters in the capital cityof Bali Province, Denpasar. He said that most of thosemigrant workers did not know that they were alreadyinfected by HIV/AIDS.

MNA/Xinhua

largest glacier as itexpanded toward thevalley with heavy wintersnows.

Times have changed,and the once-fearsomeAletsch is melting amidtemperatures that are 0.7degrees Celsius (1.3Fahrenheit) warmer thanin the 19th century. Thepastor at the ErnerwaldChapel has warned hisflock that a new dangerthreatens.—Internet

The Aletsch glacier, the largest in the Alps is pictured in 2007. RomanCatholics in two southern Swiss Alpine communities want to give up acentennial tradition of praying for the retreat of mountain glaciers and

switch to prayers against climate change instead.—INTERNET

Indonesia’s culture,tourismdevelopment on right track

JAKARTA, 6 Aug — Indonesia’s culture and tourism are developing welldespite of the world’s financial crisis that wrecked many countries, the JakartaPost quoted minister as saying on Thursday.

Minister for Culture and Tourism Jero Wacik said that Indonesia’ s movie andmusic industry grew significantly compared with the previous year while touristarrivals was expected to keep growing this year. “No less than 90 films are inproduction this year alone, up from 27 last year, 21 in 2004 and only six in 2001,”Wacik told the daily on Wednesday.

He said that the revival of the domestic film industry has been followed by there-emergence of local films and festivals, which had died out in recent years.Meanwhile, Indonesia’ music industry has grown at the extraordinary rate with acountless number of new songs composed and produced.

However, he admitted that something that had not been in his priority list wasthe fight against the rampant practice of cassette and compact disk piracy.

MNA/Xinhua

The best time to

plant a tree

was 20 years

ago.

The second best

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Union of MyanmarNay Pyi Taw Development Committee

Invitation for Tender1. Tenders are invited for Nay Pyi Taw Development

Committee for supply of the following-Inscription Quantity

Information & Communications 1 Lot Equipments and accessories2. Tender should be submitted to the following address not

later than 16:00 hours on 17th August, 2009. For futuredetail information, please contact to Telephone No.067-414202, 067-414204, 067-414205.

SecretaryProcurement Party

Nay Pyi Taw Development Committe

Malaysiareports four

more A/H1N1flu deaths

KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Aug— Malaysia reported fourmore death resulted by theA/H1N1 flu onWednesday, bringing thetotal number of fatalitiesin the country to 12,according to the MalaysianHealth Ministry.Amongthe four latest fatalities,three died over the past 48hours in the Malacca State,including a three-year-oldgirl. The fourth fatalityinvolved a six-year-oldboy who died onWednesday. MalaysianHealth Minister LiowTiong Lai warned that therecent haze blanketing theMalaysian sky wouldworsen the flu situation.

He reminded the peopleto immediately isolatethemselves once theynoticed any flu symptoms.

Over the past 24 hours,Malaysia reported 16 newcases of the flu, bringingthe total number to 1,476.According to Malaysia’senvironment authorities,six areas recordedunhealthy air quality in thecountry as of 11 am onWednesday.

Xinhua

Woman installs cell phoneshielding device at homeBEIJING, 6 Aug—A woman in Guiyang,

capital of Guizhou Province, installed adevice in her house that shields cellphone signals in a bid to stop her husbandfrom going out with his friends to getdrunk at nights. The woman surnamedHuang, 33, said she was frustratedbecause her husband, the chief of anadvertising firm, received phone callsfrom friends every night asking him tocome out for a drink.

“Each night my husband would returnhome drunk, which is why I installed thedevice,” Huang said. However, on Sunday,her husband figured the reason for notgetting phone calls off late and decided tostay in office after work to receive phonecalls from his friends.— Xinhua

Drug feud kills 42 in ColombiaBOGOTA, 6 Aug — Feud between rival drug groups

in Colombia has resulted in heavy clashes that killedat least 42 people, including several civilians, a regionalpeace advisor said on Wednesday. The clashes tookplace in the northern part of Colombia’s southwesternstate Narino, said Xavier Hernandez, peace advisor tothe local government.

Hernandez added that the two responsibleparamilitary groups are Los Rastrojos and AguilasNegras, who were feuding over control of drugtrafficking routes and a drug-planting area of 5,000hectares of coca. Fabio Trujillo, secretary of the Narinostate government, told Xinhua via telephone: “Wehave received information about the deaths, and thelocal government has begun to look into recent clashesof similar types,” Trujillo said.

Peace advisor Hernandez added that a specialinvestigation team consisting of the Peace Office ofNarino, the United Nations and the Organization ofAmerican States would arrive in the troubled areas thisweekend.Currently, Colombia is the world’s largestproducer of cocaine, according to the UN Office onDrugs and Crime.—Xinhua

Two killed in helicopter crash in CanadaOTTAWA, 6 Aug—Two people were killed in a

helicopter crash on Wednesday morning in centralCanada’s Quebec Province, police said.

The accident happened in the community of Mont-Laurier in northwestern Quebec. The town was just hitby a major tornado on Tuesday. About 40 houses weredamaged and many trees uprooted. The victims are thepilot, who lived in the area, and a passenger.

Xinhua

Three killed, nine injuredin Pennsylvania shooting

WASHINGTON, 6 Aug—Three people were killed andnine others injured when a man opened fired in aPennsylvania fitness center, authorities said onWednesday. Police said the 48-year-old man walkedinto a fitness center near Pittsburgh on Tuesday nightand fired up to 52 shots at a dance exercise class,killing two women and wounding nine others beforefatally shooting himself.

“He walked right into the room where the shootingsoccurred as if he knew exactly where he was going,”Allegheny County police Superintendent CharlesMoffatt said at a press conference on Wednesday. “Ithink he went in with the idea of doing what he did.”

Witnesses said the gunman, who was wearingworkout gear, walked to the back of the room, putdown a bag before coming up with two guns andopening fire on the class. Moffatt confirmed that atleast two guns were discovered at the crime scene anda note was also found in the man’s bag. Moffatt did notdisclose the details of the note.

Xinhua

Plane engine fire injures eight in FrancePARIS, 6 Aug—Eight people were slightly injured on Wednesday

when the engine of a Vueling Airline plane caught fire just beforetake-off from Paris Orly Airport, local media reported. The AirbusA320 owned by the low-cost Spanish carrier was preparing to fly toAlicante in Spain when the fire occurred. All passengers and crewswere evacuated from the plane. The injuries were caused whenpeople escaped from the plane via emergency exits. An official fromOrly airport said “the alarm was triggered at 10:35 am (0935 GMT)and it was over at 11:09 am”—Xinhua

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China’s HenanProvince,on 4 Aug,

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Malaysiareports four

more A/H1N1flu deaths

KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Aug— Malaysia reported fourmore death resulted by theA/H1N1 flu onWednesday, bringing thetotal number of fatalitiesin the country to 12,according to the MalaysianHealth Ministry.Amongthe four latest fatalities,three died over the past 48hours in the Malacca State,including a three-year-oldgirl. The fourth fatalityinvolved a six-year-oldboy who died onWednesday. MalaysianHealth Minister LiowTiong Lai warned that therecent haze blanketing theMalaysian sky wouldworsen the flu situation.

He reminded the peopleto immediately isolatethemselves once theynoticed any flu symptoms.

Over the past 24 hours,Malaysia reported 16 newcases of the flu, bringingthe total number to 1,476.According to Malaysia’senvironment authorities,six areas recordedunhealthy air quality in thecountry as of 11 am onWednesday.

Xinhua

Woman installs cell phoneshielding device at homeBEIJING, 6 Aug—A woman in Guiyang,

capital of Guizhou Province, installed adevice in her house that shields cellphone signals in a bid to stop her husbandfrom going out with his friends to getdrunk at nights. The woman surnamedHuang, 33, said she was frustratedbecause her husband, the chief of anadvertising firm, received phone callsfrom friends every night asking him tocome out for a drink.

“Each night my husband would returnhome drunk, which is why I installed thedevice,” Huang said. However, on Sunday,her husband figured the reason for notgetting phone calls off late and decided tostay in office after work to receive phonecalls from his friends.— Xinhua

Drug feud kills 42 in ColombiaBOGOTA, 6 Aug — Feud between rival drug groups

in Colombia has resulted in heavy clashes that killedat least 42 people, including several civilians, a regionalpeace advisor said on Wednesday. The clashes tookplace in the northern part of Colombia’s southwesternstate Narino, said Xavier Hernandez, peace advisor tothe local government.

Hernandez added that the two responsibleparamilitary groups are Los Rastrojos and AguilasNegras, who were feuding over control of drugtrafficking routes and a drug-planting area of 5,000hectares of coca. Fabio Trujillo, secretary of the Narinostate government, told Xinhua via telephone: “Wehave received information about the deaths, and thelocal government has begun to look into recent clashesof similar types,” Trujillo said.

Peace advisor Hernandez added that a specialinvestigation team consisting of the Peace Office ofNarino, the United Nations and the Organization ofAmerican States would arrive in the troubled areas thisweekend.Currently, Colombia is the world’s largestproducer of cocaine, according to the UN Office onDrugs and Crime.—Xinhua

Two killed in helicopter crash in CanadaOTTAWA, 6 Aug—Two people were killed in a

helicopter crash on Wednesday morning in centralCanada’s Quebec Province, police said.

The accident happened in the community of Mont-Laurier in northwestern Quebec. The town was just hitby a major tornado on Tuesday. About 40 houses weredamaged and many trees uprooted. The victims are thepilot, who lived in the area, and a passenger.

Xinhua

Three killed, nine injuredin Pennsylvania shooting

WASHINGTON, 6 Aug—Three people were killed andnine others injured when a man opened fired in aPennsylvania fitness center, authorities said onWednesday. Police said the 48-year-old man walkedinto a fitness center near Pittsburgh on Tuesday nightand fired up to 52 shots at a dance exercise class,killing two women and wounding nine others beforefatally shooting himself.

“He walked right into the room where the shootingsoccurred as if he knew exactly where he was going,”Allegheny County police Superintendent CharlesMoffatt said at a press conference on Wednesday. “Ithink he went in with the idea of doing what he did.”

Witnesses said the gunman, who was wearingworkout gear, walked to the back of the room, putdown a bag before coming up with two guns andopening fire on the class. Moffatt confirmed that atleast two guns were discovered at the crime scene anda note was also found in the man’s bag. Moffatt did notdisclose the details of the note.

Xinhua

Plane engine fire injures eight in FrancePARIS, 6 Aug—Eight people were slightly injured on Wednesday

when the engine of a Vueling Airline plane caught fire just beforetake-off from Paris Orly Airport, local media reported. The AirbusA320 owned by the low-cost Spanish carrier was preparing to fly toAlicante in Spain when the fire occurred. All passengers and crewswere evacuated from the plane. The injuries were caused whenpeople escaped from the plane via emergency exits. An official fromOrly airport said “the alarm was triggered at 10:35 am (0935 GMT)and it was over at 11:09 am”—Xinhua

Touristssightsee theYuntaishan

World Geoparkin Jiaozuo, acity in central

China’s HenanProvince,on 4 Aug,

2009. XINHUA

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Samsam Bubbleman, a US professional bubble-maker creates what hesays the world’s largest free-floating soap bubble in a London park. The“bubbleologist” said his bubble will replace the current Guinness World

Record holder, a 9.486-square-meter bubble created in Minnesota in2005. —INTERNET

Windows 7 reported bug not likely“showstopper”

BEIJING, 6 Aug —Microsoft is looking intoreports of a potentialbug in the final versionof Windows 7, an issueappearing neither widespread, nor the“showstopper” as claimedby some, media quotedMicrosoft’s top Windowsexecutive as saying onThursday.

The issue, noted onseveral enthusiast sites thisweek, involves a fairlyarcane process used tocheck for problems in aparticular disk. Undercertain scenarios, the sitesuggested Windows 7would siphon off all the

available memory toperform the scan,potentially crashing thesystem.A report went sofar as to characterize theissue as a potential“showstopper” that mightderail the product’s launch,while others such asZDNet’s Ed Bott havedownplayed the threat.

However, in thediscussion on one of theblogs, top Windowsexecutive Steven Sinofskysaid, “While we appreciatethe drama of ‘critical bug’and then the pickup of‘showstopper’ that I’veseen, we might take a stepback and realize that thismight not have that defconlevel,” Sinofsky wrote on

the site. “Bugs that are sosevere as to requireimmediate patches andattention would have tohave no workarounds andwould generally be suchthat a large set of peoplewould run across them inthe normal course of usingtheir PC...So far this is notone of those issues.”

Microsoft finalized thecode for Windows 7 twoweeks ago and is preparingto release it to developersin Microsoft’s MSDN andTechnet programmes onThursday, as well as makeit available to some largebusinesses on Friday. Thoseplans are continuing, aMicrosoft representativesaid.—InternetMozilla fixes more Firefox holes

A girl wearing a face mask takes aphotograph along Whitehall in

London. —INTERNET

Argentinareports 337

total deaths ofA/H1N1 fluBUENOS AIRES, 6 Aug

— Argentine HealthMinistry Wednesdayreported the A/H1N1influenza death toll in thecountry rose to 337. ViceHealth Minister MaximoDiosque told local mediathat they were testingother 400 deaths todetermine whether thesevictims had died of A/H1N1 flu.He saidArgentina had registereda total of 762,711 flucases, of which 93percent were A/H1N1flu.—Internet

A/H1N1 flu death tollreaches 19 in Ecuador

QUITO, 6 Aug — Ecuador’s Health Ministry reportedon Wednesday that the A/H1N1 influenza death tollhas risen to 19, and that the number of infected patientswas 666.According to the ministry, among the 19deaths, four were in the province of Pichincha. Guayas,Azuay, Chimborazo and Loja each reported threedeaths, while Tungurahua, Cotopaxi and Imbabura hadone casualty each.—Internet

A/H1N1 flu death toll hits134 in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, 6 Aug — Brazil’s health authoritiesannounced five new deaths due to A/H1N1 flu virus onWednesday, bringing the total death toll to 134. Of thefive new victims, three died in the southeastern state ofSao Paulo, and two in the southern state of Parana. Sofar, Sao Paulo state has the largest number of casualtiesat 53.

Over half of the victims were women, and at least14 of them were pregnant. According to the BrazilianHealth Ministry, the lethality rate of A/H1N1 flu was23.5 percent among patients who have at least one ofthe risk factors such as pregnancy, brain or heart diseaseor are under the age of two or over 60.— Internet

BEIJING, 6 Aug —Mozilla, the companybehind the popularFirefox browser, hasfinally resolved a numberof security flaws.

The Firefox updatereleased on Mondayfixes a recently disclosedflaw in the way Firefox3.0 and other programshandled SSL certificates,which are used for secureonline communications.

The SSL certificateissue could allow anattacker to use a “null tointercept SSL com-munications between thebrowser and a site. Suchtraffic is normallyencrypted so that itwould only appear as

indecipherable letters andnumbers to any digitalspies. However the flawcould allowa so-called“man-in- the-middle”hijack if an attacker hadaccess to a network.

Firefox 3.0.13 fixesthis problem, along withfurther certificate pro-blems also reportedrecently. Firefox 3.5 wasalready protected fromthese errors, but a new3.5.2 browser updatefixes other security holes,including a javascript bugthat could potentiallyhave allowed malicioususers to install malware.

Last month a majorsecurity flaw wasreportedly found in

Firefox 3.5. Efforts byMozilla to patch that holeinitially failed leavingusers vulnerable toattacks. The remoted e n i a l - o f - s e r v i c evulnerability affectedFirefox versions 3.5.1and prior.

According to SecurityFocus the vulnerabilitycame about through thesoftware’s Unicode texthandling system, whichallowed a remoteattacker to executearbitrary code simply byembedding it into a website.

As soon as the visitorhit an affected page, thesoftware would crash,leading to a denial ofservice attack, and undercertain conditions thecode would be executedby Windows.

InternetBEIJING, 6 Aug — If wealthy countries

which worry about their shrinking birthrates get just a little richer, the birth ratesshould head up again, according to astudy in the latest issue Nature as quotedby media on Thursday. The study wascarried out in 24 countries over 30 years,looking at the fertility rates and ameasure of education, income andlifespan called the human developmentindex.

“Our analyses show that at advancedhuman development index levels, furtherdevelopment can reverse the decliningtrend in fertility,” Hans-Peter Kohler ofthe University of Pennsylvania andcolleagues wrote in the journal. TheUnited States and the Netherlands areboth approaching this point, Kohler’steam said, and immigration can further

boost fertility. “Low fertility means fewer babies,

and eventually a smaller workforce thatwould have to pay higher per capitacosts of infrastructure and social supportsystems,” Shripad Tuljapurkar of theStanford Center for PopulationResearch at Stanford University inCalifornia wrote in a commentary. “Formany rich countries, population declineis a serious concern.”But the reportshows that policymakers can plan for arosier future.

“Whereas a decade ago Europe,North America and Japan were assumedto face very rapid population aging andin many cases significant populationdeclines, our findings provide a differentoutlook for the 21st century,” Kohler’steam wrote.—Internet

STOCKHOLM, 6 Aug — A Europeanhealth agency said Wednesday that1,016 new A/H1N1 flu cases werereported in European countries withinthe last 24 hours.

Of the new cases, 786 were confirmedin Germany, 136 in Norway,26 inSwitzerland, 25 in Austria, 19 inRepublic Czech, six in Slovenia, five inSlovakia, four in Romania, tworespectively in Poland and Lithuania, theEuropean Center for Disease Preventionand Control (ECDC) said in its dailysituation report.

The total number of confirmed casesof the A/H1N1 flu virus in the EuropeanUnion (EU) and European Free TradeAssociation (EFTA)countries rose to28,908, with 1,538 cases in Spain and11,912 in Britain, 719 in France and7,963 in Germany, the ECDC said.

Internet

1,016 new A/H1N1 cases confirmed in Europe

Study says births may riseif wealthy countries wealthier

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S P O R T SWASHINGTON, 6 Aug — Chinese tennis ace Zheng

Jie booked a Los Angeles Championship third roundclash with world number one Dinara Safina of Russiaafter she beat Russian Elena Vesnina on Wednesday.Safina sailed into the third round of the 700,000 USdollars WTA event with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Slovakia’sDaniela Hantuchova.

Poland’s Urszula Radwanska upset Slovakian sev-enth seed Dominika Cibulkova 6-4, 6-7 (6-8), 6-4 andwill face either China’s Li Na or Canada's AlexandraWozniak in the third round. Other seeded winners in-cluded Russian Number five Nadia Petrova, whoousted Israel’s Shahar Peer 6-4, 2-6, 6-3, and Polisheighth seed Agnieszka Radwanska, who eliminatedJapan’s Ai Sugiyama 6-2, 6-1.—Internet

MADRID, 6 Aug—Spain midfielder XabiAlonso completed his

AKRON, 6 Aug— Winning at least one major titlehas always been the yardstick for a good year accord-ing to Tiger Woods but for 2009 he is prepared to re-lax his goal.

The American world number one has not clincheda major victory since the 2008 US Open at TorreyPines, having then been sidelined for eight monthswhile having reconstructive knee surgery.

“This year I think just being able to come back andplay and be successful again has been a tremendousstep in the right direction,” Woods told reporters atFirestone Country Club on Wednesday.

“If you would have asked me at the beginning ofthe year before I even played whether I’d have fourwins by now, I couldn’t see it because walking 18 holeswas going to be a task.”

PARIS , 6 Aug — Scot-tish giants Celtic broughtto an end an unwantedrecord on Wednesdaywhen they overcame adeficit away from home inEuropean competition forthe first time beating Dy-namo Moscow 2-0 toprogress 2-1 on aggregatein their ChampionsLeague third preliminaryround clash.

Substitute GeorgiosSamaras was their hero inMoscow as the Greek in-ternational’s late goaledged the former Euro-pean Cup winners towithin one round of mak-ing the lucrative groupstages and also ended a 22match winless streakaway from Glasgow inEuropean competition.

LONDON , 6 Aug —Chelsea striker Didier Drogbasigned a new three-year contract with the PremierLeague club on Wednesday.The 31-year-old is nowtied to Chelsea until 2012 after extending his currentdeal, which had a year to run, by a further two years.

LONDON , 6 Aug – Ar-senal captain CescFabregas admits the clubare in a “difficult mo-ment” after going fouryears without winning atrophy.

After a disappointingcampaign marred by inju-ries and poor form,Arsene Wenger’s teamended last season gratefulto finish fourth and securea place in the ChampionsLeague qualifyinground.The close-seasonhas offered little respitefor the Gunners asWenger sold EmmanuelAdebayor and Kolo Toure

SUNDERLAND, 6 Aug — Sunderland finally com-pleted their club record 10-million-pounds (17-million-dollars) swoop for Tottenham striker Darren Bent onWednesday.

The 25-year-old had become increasingly frustratedafter Tottenham’s transfer demands forced him to waitfor over a week to move to the Stadium of Light.

The England international even criticised Spurschairman Daniel Levy on the Twitter website beforebeing forced to apologise for his comments.

But Bent was able to put pen to paper on a four-year contract with Steve Bruce’s team after the lastfinancial details were agreed between the two clubs.

“Steve Bruce finally has his man as Sunderlandhave confirmed the 10 million pounds signing of Spursstriker Darren Bent,” a statement on Sunderland'swebsite confirmed.

Bent becomes the Black Cats’ fourth close-seasonsigning after the arrivals of Fraizer Campbell, LorikCana and Paulo Da Silva.Bent’s fee surpasses Sun-derland’s previous biggest deal — the nine millionpounds capture of Scotland goalkeeper Craig Gordonfrom Hearts.

Internet

Liverpool agree deal forRoma star Aquilani

Liverpool are set to signItaly midfielder AlbertoAquilani, from Romaafter agreeing a trans-fer fee with the SerieA club.—INTERNET

Alonso completes move to Madrid

Real Madrid’s XabiAlonso attends his first

training session atValdebebas training

grounds outside Madridon 5 Aug, 2009.

INTERNET

transfer from Liverpool toReal Madrid after passingthe routine medical onWednesday.

It was reported that the27-year-old moved toReal on a fee of 43 mil-lion US dollars to becomeReal’ s eighth signing.

Alonso made his firstappearance as a Madridplayer on Wednesday atthe club’s training groundfor a session with his newteammates. The club saidhe would be officially pre-sented at an evening newsconference.—Internet

Recovering Woods relaxesmajor standard for 2009

Tiger Woods.INTENET

Since returning to thePGA Tour for the WGC-Accenture Match PlayChampionship in late Feb-ruary, Woods has triumphedfour times in 11 starts, mostrecently at the Buick Openon Sunday.—Internet

Chinese star Zheng meets worldNo 1 Safina in LA championship

Drogba signs new three-yeardeal at Chelsea

Chelsea striker Didier

Drogba, signed a new

three-year contract with

the Premier League

club on Wednesday.

INTERNET

The Ivory Coast inter-national looked on hisway out of StamfordBridge last season afterbeing dropped by LuizFelipe Scolari, but heplayed his way back intoform under Guus Hiddinkand scored in Chelsea’sFA Cup final victory overEverton.

He was also involvedin a controversial clashwith referee Tom Henn-ing Ovrebo followingChelsea’s ChampionsLeague semi-final exitagainst Barcelona whichearned the former Mar-seille star a three-matchEuropean ban.—Internet

Celtic make history, Shakhtarcrash out of Champions League

Greek internationalGeorgios Samaras,

scored a goal in addedon time on Wednesdayto give Scottish giants

Celtic a superb 2-0victory over Dynamo

Moscow in their Cham-pions League thirdpreliminary roundsecond leg clash to

progress 2-1 on aggre-gate.—INTERNET Internet

Fabregas admits Arsenal arein a “difficult moment”

Arsenal captain CescFabregas.

to Manchester City andstruggled to find big-name replacements.

Fabregas, 22, is the lat-est Arsenal star to be linkedwith a move away from theEmirates Stadium as ACMilan prepare a 30 millionpounds (50.8 million dol-lar) bid for the Spainmidfielder.—Internet

Berlusconi says AC Milanchasing ‘a top class striker’

Holland’s Klas-JanHuntelaar, could be one

of the targets for ACMilan as the Italian

club is on the lookoutfor a ‘top class striker’

for the new season,according to club owner

and Italian PrimeMinister Silvio

Berlusconi.INTERNET

ROME , 6 Aug — ACMilan are on the lookout fora 'top class striker' for thenew season, club ownerand Italian Prime MinisterSilvio Berlu-sconi said onWednes-day.The Serie Aclub have been very quieton the transfer market thissummer, but Berlusconiwarned this is about tochange.

“The club have freedup funds and commis-sioned (club vice-presi-dent) Adriano Galliani topurchase a top striker,”Berlusconi told a pressconference at the club’sMilanello base.

Internet

Sunderland signsEngland striker Bent

LIVERPOOL , 6 Aug — Liverpool are set to sign Italymidfielder Alberto Aquilani from Roma after agreeing atransfer fee with the Serie A club.

Anfield boss RafaBenitez moved quickly toland Aquilani, who willtravel to Merseyside laterthis week for a medical, af-ter reluctantly selling Spainmidfielder Xabi Alonso toReal Madrid for 30 millionpounds.It is believed Liver-pool have agreed to payaround 20 million pounds(50.8 million dollars) forAquilani, who rejected in-terest from Chelsea and Ar-senal to join his childhoodheroes Roma when he was16.

The 25-year-old, who

has 11 caps for Italy, maytake a while to find his feetin the Premier league as hehasn’t played since Marchdue to injury.

Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudy inMagway Division, rain have been isolated in lower Sagaingand Mandalay Divisions, scattered in Shan State, fairlywidespread in Kachin State and widespread in the remainingStates and Divisions with locally heavyfall in Rakhine State,isolated heavyfalls in Mon State and Taninthayi Division.Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Dawei (5.00)inches, Thandwe(4.49) inches, Kyaukpyu (4.25) inches,Kyeikkhame(3.35)inches, Shwegyin(2.79) inches, Pinlaung(2.56)inches, An (2.40) inches, Hakha (2.36) inches andNyaungU (0.16) inch.

Maximum temperature on 5-8-2009 was 89°F.Minimum temperature on 6-8-2009 was 72°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 6 -8-2009 was 93%. Totalsun shine hours on 5-8-2009 was (1.8) hour approx.

Rainfall on 6-8-2009 was (1.26) inches at Mingaladon,(0.12) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.16) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (77.13) inches at Mingaladon,(85.43) inches at Kaba-Aye and (88.35) inches at CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5)mph from Southwest at (12:30) hours MST on 5-8-2009.

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

Forecast valid until evening of 7th August 2009: Rainwill be isolated in Kayah State, lower Sagaing and MagwayDivisions, scattered in Mandalay Division, fairly widespreadin Kachin,Chin, Shan, Kayin States and upper Sagaing Divisionand widespread in the remaining States and Divisions withlikelihood of isolated heavyfalls in Kayin, Mon States andTaninthayi Division. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seas arelikely at times off and along Myanmar Coasts. Surface windspeed in squalls may reach (35-40) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation of strongmonsoon.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for7-8-2009: Isolated rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for7-8-2009: Some rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for7-8-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain. Degree of certainty is(60%).

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Wild elephant attacks kill 120people this year in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO, 6 Aug—Wild elephant attacks haveleft 120 villagers dead so far this year in Sri Lanka,a local English newspaper reported on Thursday.

The Island quoted Jayantha Jayewardene, themanaging trustee of the Biodiversity and ElephantConservation Trust as saying that on average 65humans and 125 elephants were killed each yeardue to the human-elephant conflict prevalent inmany parts of the country.

He said measures had been taken to reducehuman-elephant conflict through educatingchildren in rural schools.

Wildlife officials said the island’s elephantpopulation has shrunk to 4,500 from 12,000 acentury ago due to poaching, deforestation, droughtand starvation.

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Polar bear Knut catches a croissant thrown tohim at his snow-covered enclosure at the zoo in

Berlin in February 2009. Fresh snowfall isforecast over the next few days. Knut the polar

bear, who became a worldwide media sensationas a cub in 2007, will soon be joined in Berlinzoo by Gianna, a female companion originally

from Italy, German reports said.—INTERNET

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★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

People’s Desire■ We favour peace and stability■ We favour development■ We oppose unrest and violence■ Wipe out those inciting unrest and violence

■ VOA, BBC - sowing hatred among the people

■ RFA, DVB - generating public outrage

■ Do not allow ourselves to be swayed

■ By broadcasts designed to cause troubles

NAY PYI TAW, 6 Aug—Nine of the 14 patients infected with new influenza A(H1N1) were dischargedfrom the hospitals as they had fully recovered from illness. The remaining five patients are receiving thetreatment: one at Waibagi Specialist Hospital; two at Yangon General Hospital, one at Yangon EastHospital and one at Insein General Hospital.

Of the18 family members who came into contact with fourteenth patient, a 3 and half years old boy,cousin of the patient, was transferred to Yangon Children’s Hospital yesterday through township healthdepartment. Public Health Laboratory detected him and he was found to be infected with new influenzaA(H1N1).

The tenth patient, 57-year-old man infected with virus, was discharged from the hospital for he hadfully recovered from the disease. Surveillance measures against family members were halted today. Thereare five patients – one at Waibagi Specialist Hospital, one at Yangon General Hospital, one at YangonChildren’s Hospital, one at Yangon East Hospital and one at Insein General Hospital — have been kept atseparate rooms of the hospitals and they are getting better.

Up to now the number of patients infected with the virus has reached 15 in Myanmar and 10 of themwere discharged from the hospitals. The remaining five are being treated by specialists.

The National Health Laboratory detected 132 flu-suspected persons and 15 were found to be infectedwith the virus.—MNA

One more person found infected with A(H1N1)

Fifteen have been infectedwith virus in Myanmar

Tenth patient infected withA(H1N1) discharged

YANGON, 6 Aug—The Meteorology and Hy-drology Department announced that according tothe (12.30) hrs MST observation today, the waterlevel of Sittoung River at Madauk is (1103) cm andit has exceeded by (33) cm (about 1 foot) above itsdanger level. It may remain above its danger level(1070) cm during the next (48) hours commencingnoon today.—MNA

Danger water level of

Sittoung River

YANGON, 6 Aug—The ASEAN U-19 Foot-ball Tournament took place at Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam this evening.

In the Group-B, host Vietnam beat Myanmar3-1.

Kyaw Ko Ko scored the only goal forMyanmar at 37th minute of the first half.

Myanmar has secured three points with onewin and one loss.

On 8 August, Myanmar play against Malay-sia as the last match.—MNA

ASEAN U-19 FootballTournament

Indeed, the State Constitution(2008) vests far more opportunitiesthan previous ones in legislative andexecutive rights in order that nationalraces will be able to manage tasks forregional development on their own.Legislative bodies at all levels pre-scribed by the constitution are theplaces where the major forces forMyanmar’s politics: Tatmadaw, po-litical parties and national races canhold talks. The fundamental rights ofthe citizens enumerated in the consti-tutions are identical to the fundamen-tal rights stipulated in the United Na-tions’ Universal Declaration of Hu-man Rights.

From stability andpeace to democracy

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