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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 objectivesSenior General Than Shwe sendsfelicitations to Chairman of DPRK

National Defence CommissionNAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept—On the occasion of the Day of the Foundation of the Democratic People’s

Republic of Korea, which falls on 9 September 2009, Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of theState Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitationsto His Excellency Mr. Kim Jong Il, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DemocraticPeople’s Republic of Korea.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept—On the occasion of the Day of the Foundation of the Democratic People’sRepublic of Korea, which falls on 9 September 2009, Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of theState Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitationsto His Excellency Mr. Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium Supreme People’s Assembly of theDemocratic People’s Republic of Korea.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe felicitatesPresident of Presidium Supreme

People’s Assembly of DPRK

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept—On the occasion of the Day of the Foundation of the Democratic People’sRepublic of Korea, which falls on 9 September 2009, General Thein Sein, Prime Minister of the Union ofMyanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr. Kim Yong Il, Premier of the Cabinetof the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Seinsends felicitations to DPRK

NAY PYI TAW, 8 Sept—The Ministry of Educationmarked International Literacy Day (2009) at itsassembly hall here this morning, with an address byChairman of the Myanmar Education Committee

Education For All, fundamental requirement fordevelopment of the whole human society

Secretary-1 addresses International Literacy Day (2009) commemorative ceremonySecretary-1 of the State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo.

Also present were Commander of Nay Pyi TawCommand Maj-Gen Wai Lwin, ministers, deputy

ministers, MEC members, resident representatives ofUN agencies, directors-general and departmental headsof SPDC Office, the Government Office and

(See page 8)

Secretary-1 General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo addressing International Literacy Day (2009) commemorative ceremony.—MNA

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Wednesday, 9 September, 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

Try to preserve Union Spirit in

training the youthSpecial Refresher Course No. 69 for

basic education teachers was opened at the

Central Institute of Civil Service (Phaunggyi)

in Hlegu Township in Yangon Division on 7

September.

In order to establish a peaceful and

developed nation, the government of

Myanmar is training its citizens to be well

qualified and able to keep abreast of advances

in science and technology.

Teachers in the basic education sector

shape the future of the nation because the new

generation youths they are training are the

future leaders of the nation. It is necessary for

basic education teachers not only to impart

knowledge to their students but to strengthen

their nationalistic fervour. For this, the

teachers themselves must have strong national

convictions and be able to see the past and

present history of our nation as well as of the

world from the right perspective.

Teachers are the major force of the

education sector and their main duty is to

train the new generation youths who are to

serve the future nation. In doing so, it is

important that they are nurtured in such as

that they become morally and ethically upright

citizens. Moreover, they will have to be trained

to be able to value and preserve the fine

traditions and culture of their ancestors.

We would like to call on teachers to

equip themselves with Union Spirit and try to

be role models for their students and keep the

fine traditions of national unity in carrying

out their duty.

Inner Mongolian performing arts group to

entertain in Myanmar

Deputy Construction Minister inspects towers in Monywa

NAY PYI TAW, 8 Sept— Minister for Social Welfare,

Relief and Resettlement Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe

together with Deputy Director-General of Fire Service

Department U Ko Ko Hlaing and officials on 5

September inspected PyinOoLwin Township fire

station in Mandalay Division, Nawnghkio Township

fire station in Shan State (North) and Hsipaw Township

fire station.

Next, the minister visited the self reliannt pre-

primary school of Social Welfare Department in

Hsipaw and fulfilled the needs.

On 6 September, the minister inspected construction

of 50-bed Namhsan Hospital and met with departmental

personnel, members of social organizations and the

Fire stations inspected

Deputy Minister U Tint Swe inspects construction of towers over the

Chindwin River in Monywa.—CONSTRUCTION

Entertaining of Inner Mongolian performing

arts group in Myanmar.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept—On the occasion of the

Day of the Foundation of the Democratic People’s

Republic of Korea, which falls on 9 September

2009, U Nyan Win, Minister for Foreign Affairs of

the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of

felicitations to His Excellency Mr. Pak Ui Chun,

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic

People’s Republic of Korea.—MNA

Foreign Minister sends

felicitations to DPRK

local people at the town hall. He then rendered assistance

to health care centres, schools and villages in Namhsan

region and inspected the site chosen for construction of

Namhsan fire station.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 8

Sept—Deputy Minister

for Construction U Tint

Swe inspected

construction of towers

over the Chindwin River

at Bellin, Ohntaw and

Nyaungpingyi in

Monywa on 5

September.

The Superintending

Engineer and Senior

Engineer reported on the

progress of task. Deputy

Minister gave necessary

instructions.

MNA

YANGON, 7 Sept — S

L Tosi Performing Arts

Group from Inner

Mongolia County of the

People’s Republic of

China will entertain at

Yangon National Theatre

on Myomakyaung Road

at 7 pm on 10 September

and at Mandalay National

Theatre at 7 pm on 12

September.—MNA

Tobacco

Kills

Minister Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe meets with departmental personnel, members of social

organizations and local people in Namhsan.—FSD

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Suicide bomber attacks Kabulairport base

ISAF soldiers secure the site of the car bomb, outside the entrance to themilitary airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 8 Sept, 2009. A car bomb ex-

ploded near the entrance to Kabul’s military airport early on Tuesday in anapparent attack on an international convoy, killing at least two civilians andwounding six, Afghan officials said. The Taleban claimed responsibility for

the blast.—INTERNET

KABUL, 8 Sept—A sui-cide car bomber detonatedhis explosives outside aNATO military base at theinternational airport in theAfghan capital on Tuesdaykilling at least one civilian,officials said.

Farid Raeed, an officialat the Ministry of Health,said one civilian was killedin the blast and seven oth-ers had been brought totwo hospitals in the capi-tal.

A nearby shopkeeperwho witnessed the blast

told Reuters the suicidebomber had detonated hisexplosives close to one ofthe entrances of the mili-tary side of the airport.

“A suicide bomber in a‘Surf’ car (off-road vehi-cle) exploded himself nearthe main gate (guarded) byNepali guards. There wasa (Toyota) Corolla carparked nearby and one per-son was injured inside,”said Izmarai.

“Another man was rid-ing his bicycle and fell tothe ground. The police car-

ried another wounded per-son away,” he said.

Zabihullah Mujahid, aspokesman for the Taleban,claimed responsibility forthe blast, and said the tar-get had been foreign sol-diers at the airport.

A police official, whoconfirmed the blast had noimmediate information oncasualties, but a private tel-evision channel said therewere a number of casual-ties among Afghans andforeign troops.

Internet

Tropical Storm Fred formsin eastern Atlantic

MIAMI, 8 Sept—Tropical Storm Fred formed in theeastern Atlantic Ocean on Monday with top winds of40 mph, but did not immediately threaten any land,the US National Hurricane Centre said.

Fred was the sixth named tropical storm of the 2009Atlantic-Caribbean hurricane season that runs fromJune through November. Forecasters said somestrengthening was expected in the next couple of days.

Tropical storms become hurricanes when their topsustained winds reach 74 mph.

Internet

Strong quake hits Indonesia; noinjuries, damage

JAKARTA, 8 Sept—The US Geological Survey says a6.1-magnitude earthquake has hit off the eastern coast ofthe main Indonesian island of Java.

Sutiyono from Indonesia’s Meteorological and Geo-physics Agency said there were no reports of causalitiesor damage. He also said no tsunami warning was trig-gered. Sutiyono, like many Indonesians, uses only onename. The temblor struck late Monday at a depth of about10 miles (15 kilometres) about 385 miles (620 kilometers)southeast of the capital, Jakarta.

Last week, a 7.0-magnitude quake shook Java, killingat least 64 people. Rescuers are still searching for bodies,but there is little hope of finding survivors.—Internet

Fire at newspaper buildingput out in Mexico City

MEXICO CITY, 8 Sept—Around 500 people wereevacuated from the offices of Mexican newspaperExcelsior on Monday after a fire broke out there. Nocasualties were reported.

The fire started in a store of paper and bubble wrapin a colour printing plant in the six-storey building.

A thick column of smoke was visible from the build-ing, part of which was used to store paint and chemi-cal products.

Firefighters and ambulances rushed to the scene tohelp control the fire.—Internet

Lita Casumlum, a ferry survivor, recuperates in a military hospital inZamboanga City in southern Philippines on 8 Sept, 2009. —INTERNET

Local residents look at destroyed vehicles after a car bomb attack in Ramadi,some 110 km west of Baghdad on 7 Sept, 2009. —XINHUA

Indonesian military plane crashes, killing fourJAKARTA, 8 Sept—A small Indonesian

military plane crashed on Borneo onMonday with nine passengers and crewaboard, killing four, the national searchand rescue agency said.

The Nomad P837 light aircraft was ona routine patrol when it lost contact withair traffic control at around 1 pm localtime (0600 GMT, 2 am EDT), said navyspokesman Rear Adm. IskandarSitompul.

Rescuers arrived at the scene andevacuated the survivors to a small islandoff the eastern coast of Borneo for treat-ment at a local hospital, said Anggit, aspokesman at the rescue agency, who

like many Indonesians, uses a singlename. There was no immediate word onthe extent of their injuries.

Witnesses said the plane was foundupside-down in a pond near the villageof Sekatak in East Kalimantan.

Sitompul said the plane was flyingbetween regional airports on the Indo-nesian half of Borneo island, which isshared with the country’s northernneighbour, Malaysia.

The Indonesian military has longcomplained that its fleet of aircraft areoutdated and poorly maintained due tounderfunding and a US ban, recentlylifted, on weapons sales.—Internet

Two policemen killed in bomb attack innorthern Iraq

KIRKUK, 8 Sept—Twopolicemen were killed andfour others injured in aroadside bomb explosionnear their patrol in northernIraq Tuesday, a local policesource said.

A police vehicle wasdestroyed by the blastwhich took place inthe areaof Taza in southern Kirkuk,some 250 km north ofBaghdad,the source toldXinhua on condition ofanonymity.

An earlier police report

from the neighboringSalahudin Province saidthat a police lieutenantcolonel and three of hispolicemen were killed in abomb explosion near theirpatrol in the town of Amerli,some 80 km east of theprovincial capital of Tikrit.

Kirkuk and Amerli aredisputed between the Iraqigovernment and northernIraq’s autonomousKurdistan region over thecontrol of ethnically mixed

areas outside the Kurdishregion. Sporadic attacks,including deadly ones, stillcommon in Baghdad andother Iraqi cities as part ofrecent deterioration insecurity which highlightsthe difficulties the Iraqigovernment faces in itsefforts to restore normalcyin the country after morethan two months of U.S.troops pullout of cities andtowns.

Xinhua

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GENEVA, 8 Sept—Theglobal economic outlookis still gloomy and noearly recovery from thecurrent recession can beexpected, a United Na-tions report said on Mon-day.

Despite some “greenshoots” of economic re-covery, “the economicwinter is far from over,”said the Trade and Deve-lopment Report 2009, re-leased by the UN Confer-ence on Trade and Deve-

A man collects black grapes during a traditional harvest at Read Hillsvineyards, near Negotino 120 km (75 miles) south from the capital of Skopje,

on 5 September, 2009.—XINHUA

The Rainbow Bridge over Tokyo port and the Tokyo skyline. Japan’s nextprime minister has vowed tough greenhouse gas cuts for the world’s numbertwo economy as he prepares to name key cabinet posts ahead of taking power

next week.—INTERNET

NEW DELHI, 8 Sept—India hopes to set up byDecember next year en-ergy efficiency targets formore than 700 industrialunits, which account for40 percent of India’s fos-sil fuel use, the country’shead of energy efficiencysaid on Monday.

Energy efficiency is afocus in India’s climate

CHANGCHUN, 8 Sept—The Chinese economy is ex-pected to grow 7.8 percent this year while the globaleconomy is likely to drop more than 2.5 percent, theUnited Nations Conference on Trade and Development(UNCTAD) said in a report released on Tuesday.

In the Trade and Development Report 2009, theUN agency said expanding domestic demand policieshad helped China resist recessionary pressures.

In the first half, the Chinese economy registered agrowth of 7.1 percent, of which more than 80 percentwas fueled by government investment.

Xinhua

JAKARTA, 8 Sept— In-donesian government-runsteel producer firm Kra-katau Steel and SouthKorean steel firm PohangSteel and Iron Company(Posco) would com-mence the construction ofa jointly-operated steelplant in Indonesia thatwould have productioncapacity of 5 million tonper year, an Indonesiansenior official said hereon Tuesday.

“Posco and KrakatauSteel have reported theirintention to construct thesteel plant with produc-tion capacity of 5 millionton per year. The con-struction will be dividedin two phases. The initialphase would have equalcapacity of 2.5 ton withthe second phase.

Xinhua

TEHERAN, 8 Sept—Venezuelan President HugoChavez sealed an agreement to export 20,000 barrelsper day of gasoline to Iran, state TV reported on Mon-day. The deal would give Teheran a cushion if the Westcarries out threats of fuel sanctions over Iran’s nuclearprogramme.

The two countries signed the agreement late Sun-day during a visit by Chavez, who pledged to deepenties with Iran and stand together against what he calledthe imperialist powers of the world.

Western leaders have threatened to impose furthersanctions against it should Iran refuse to bend to dead-lines for talks aimed at curbing Teheran’s nuclear ac-tivities. One idea that has been touted, though not yetformally proposed, is to cut off exports of gas station-ready fuel to Iran.—Internet

SINGAPORE, 8 Sept—Singapore’s retail industryhas achieved positive de-velopment in the past, andthe industry need to staycompetitive and prepareitself for the economic re-covery, a Senior Singaporeofficial said on Tuesday.

Singapore’s Ministerof State for Trade and In-dustry and Manpower LeeYi Shyan said that thecountry’s retail sector isonly half as productive asthat in the United Statesand Britain.

Smoke billows from the chimneys of a power station in New Delhion 2 September, 2009.—INTERNET

Global economic outlookstill gloomy, says UN report

lopment (UNCTAD).“Tumbling profits in

the real economy, previ-ous overinvestment in realestate and rising unem-ployment will continue toconstrain private con-sumption and investmentfor the foreseeable fu-ture,” said the report.

According to the re-port, the current crisis isunprecedented in depthand breadth, with virtuallyno economy left un-scathed. Given this back-

ground, global economyis expected to fall by morethan 2.5 percent in 2009.

Global economicgrowth may turn positiveagain in 2010, but it is un-likely to exceed 1.6 per-cent. UNCTAD econo-mists expect GDP in de-veloped nations to con-tract by some 4 percent in2009, and output in thetransition economies tofall by more than 6 per-cent.—Xinhua

India to set industry efficiency targets by Dec 2010change policy and settingtargets for energy-inten-sive industries marks astep towards initiating anational trading schemecentred on energy effi-ciency certificates.

Prime Minister Man-mohan Singh approvedthe national energy effi-ciency plan last month.The programme couldhelp India save about five

percent of its annual useof fossil fuel by 2015.

The scheme is amonga number of emissions re-duction measures Indiahas announced that couldbolster the nation’s posi-tion ahead of a UN gath-ering in Copenhagen atthe end of this year aimedat trying to win agreementon a broader pact to fightclimate change.—Internet

Venezuela to export gasoline to Iran

UNCTAD projects China’s economicgrowth at 7.8%

Indonesian,S Korean firmsto commence

construction ofjoint steel plant

Singapore retail industry urged to improve productivitySpeaking at the Singa-

pore Retail Industry Con-ference 2009 CEO Fo-rum, he highlighted an in-tegrated approach to im-prove productivity in theretail sector.

He said that the retailindustry should follow fourmain strategies to spear-head the productivity drive,namely establishing re-search and benchmarking,leveraging on innovation,raising service standards,and enhancing human re-source management and

practices.He urged the retail

sector to adopt best prac-tices, gleaned from over-seas and local establish-ments, to train staff, in-crease professionalism soas to delight customersand increase sales.

Singapore’s retail in-dustry generated about 35billion Singapore dollars(24.48 billion US dollars)in retail sales and em-ployed some 100,000workers in 2008.

Xinhua

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Tourism industry income during NationalDay holiday forecast to grow 25%

US jetliner makes emergencylanding, all on board evacuated

Heavy rains kill six in centralprovinces of Vietnam

HANOI, 8 Sept—Heavy rains and floods left sixpeople dead, three missing and nine injured inVietnam’s central provinces in the past three days,local newspaper the Labour reported on Tuesday.

Rains and floods made more than 11,600 hectaresof rice submerged and over 9,500 hectares of sugarcane, cassava and other crops damaged, said thenewspaper.

There were landslides in mountainous areas of theprovinces, causing many people to leave their houses.

The Steering Committee for Flood and StormControl of central provinces urged provincial authori-ties to evacuate locals to safe areas and provide foodand safe water to flood victims.—Xinhua

Two drowned, two missingin downpours in C MexicoMEXICO CITY, 8 Sept— Two people were drowned

and two others missing in downpours that hit cen-tral Mexico on Sunday, according to authorities.

Torrential rains flooded 20 neighbourhoods, in-cluding at least two municipal buildings in the sub-urb of Tlenepantla in Mexico City.

A 74-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man wereconfirmed dead while fire crews were still search-ing for one man and one woman who were reportedas missing.

Authorities have evacuated 1,500 people from theirhomes in the state of Mexico where the country’scapital city is situated.

The National Meteorology Service reported that84 millimetres fell on Sunday and said 18 of Mexi-co’s 32 states would experience strong or very strongstorms within the next 24 hours.—Xinhua

Photo taken on 5Sept, 2009 shows acorner of the New

Champions Village ofthe Dalian WorldExpo Centre, the

main meeting centreof the Annual Meet-

ing of the NewChampions 2009 inDalian, northeastChina’s Liaoning

Province.XINHUA

Russia to startconstructionon new spacecentre in 2011

MOSCOW, 8 Sept—Rus-sia will begin to build anew space centre in itsfar east in 2011, a govern-ment official said onMonday.

The three-stage con-struction project forthe new Vostochnystation will be completedin 2018, said Army Gen-eral Nikolai Abroskin,head of the FederalService for the Produc-tion of Special Construc-tion Work.

“In all, seven launchpads are to be built at thespace centre, includingtwo for manned flightsand two for space freight-ers,” the RIA Novostinews agency quoted theofficial as saying.

Russia now uses twocentres to launch carrierrockets and conductballistic missile tests:the Baikonur spacecenter in Kazakhstanand the Plesetsk spacecentre in northwest Rus-sia.

Xinhua

Hundreds of homes damaged in Albanian quake

BEIJING, 8 Sept—Chi-na’s tourism sector is ex-pected to reap a goldenharvest during theupcoming National Dayholiday in early October.

Industry income for theholiday is forecast to in-crease 25 percent year onyear.

Figures from ChinaTourism Academy (CTA)said on Tuesday the sec-tor’s income is expected

to top 100 billion yuan(14.64 billion US dollars)during the eight-day holi-day starting on 1 Oct.

Domestic tourist popu-lation this year is expectedto top 200 million, repre-senting an increase of 13percent over the same pe-riod last year.

The tourists’ averageconsumption is expectedto be about 500 yuan, upfrom 448 yuan in 2008,

said the CTA.The gradual recovery of

China’s economy coupledwith government effortsto expand domestic con-sumption has boosted thedevelopment of the sector.

China’s tourism indus-try on average makes up4 percent of the country’sgross domestic product,said the National TourismAdministration.

Xinhua

Soldiers evacuate flood victims in a neighbour-hood after heavy rainfall in Mexico City

on 7 Sept, 2009.—XINHUA

All items from Xinhua News Agency

WASHINGTON, 8 Sept—AUS jetliner made an emer-gency landing in Tampa,Florida on Mondayevening, after smoke wasreported in a bathroom.

The Southwest AirlinesFlight 1245 landed safelyat 5:38 pm eastern time(2138 GMT), a TampaInternational Airportspokesman told reporters.

All 129 people on board

were evacuated from theplane on the runway andtransported by three busesto the airport’s main termi-nal. Firefighters later con-firmed that there wassmoke in the cabin.

Soon after the plane’stakeoff, a pilot reported asmoke alert with a possiblefire in a bathroom. Theflight, which was flyingfrom Orlando, Florida to

Denver, Colorado at thetime, then decided to makean emergency landing inTampa. During the landing,emergency slides were de-ployed for passengers.

Two people sufferedminor injuries anddeclined treatment.

The Southwest Airlinessaid its mechanics plan toexamine the Boeing-737plane.—Xinhua

An Albanian youth stands outside his damaged house in Shupenz, nearPeshkopi, some 200 kilometres (120 miles) northeast of Tirana, on 7 Sept,

2009. —XINHUA

TIRANA, 8 Sept—The5.4-magnitude earthquakethat struck northeasternAlbania on Sunday nighthave damaged hundreds ofhomes in Albania andneighbouring Macedonia,local media reported onMonday.

The Albanian Instituteof Seismology said thequake struck at 23:49, lo-cal time, with its epicenter

in Bulqiza district, about63 kilometers northeast ofthe capital city of Tiranaand near the border withMacedonia to the east.

Officials said 166houses were damaged se-verely and several hundredothers suffered minordamages at the epicenter.Local residents slept roughand refused to go inside infear of aftershocks. Alba-

nian Prime Minister SaliBerisha made a brief visitto the quake-stricken areaand assured the local resi-dents that the governmentwill help them to rebuildtheir homes.

Albanian emergencyservices used two helicop-ters to transport tents andfood to hundreds of peo-ple in the stricken area.

Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

Luxury massage chairs displayed in thewindow of a branch of the firm OSIM,

at a shopping mall in Singapore. OSIM,a maker of electronic massage chairsand other lifestyle products like air

purifiers, has over 1,100 outlets spreadacross 28 countries concentrated mainly

in the region.

Jetliner-versus-car raceheld in Singapore

A jetliner-versus-car race was held atSingapore’s Changi Airport with thePorsche 911 GT3 Cup car winning therace, the first-ever in Asia.

It was a close finish to the race as thePorsche crossed the finishing line justseconds ahead of a Boeing 747-200F,which was from a city state cargo carrier,Jett 8 Airlines.

During the race, which was organizedby Singapore’s Changi Airport Group,the race car and the cargo freight startedfrom a stationary point and competedover a distance of 1.7 kilometres.

The top speed of the aircraft in the airis 900 kilometres per hour while thePorsche 911 GT3 Cup car can reach 280kilometres per hour.

US to auction rare T-Rex skeletonA rare Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, among the most complete specimens in

the world, is to go on the auction block in Las Vegas in October, the auctionhouse Bonhams & Butterfields has said.

The T-Rex, which goes by the name “Samson,” is believed to be some 66million years old and was discovered in the midwestern state of South Dakotain 1992.

“We have been able to establish that we have approximately a 57 percentcomplete T-Rex, which means the third most complete ever found,” said ThomasLindgren, consulting co-director of Natural History in Bonhams & Butterfields.

“I think my estimate is going to be somewhere in the neighbourhood of sixto eight million dollars,” he said.

The owners of the 12-metre-long (39-foot-long) skeleton hope “a publicmuseum or institution would actually be the buyer ultimately,” he added.

Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into dinosaurs

Paleontologist and Carnegie Museumof Natural History scientific preparerAlan Tabrum works on 65 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex “Samson” atthe Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2004.

Larsson believes by flipping certaingenetic levers during a chicken embryo’sdevelopment, he can reproduce thedinosaur anatomy, he told AFP in aninterview. Though still in its infancy, theresearch could eventually lead to hatchinglive prehistoric animals, but Larsson saidthere are no plans for that now, for ethicaland practical reasons — a dinosaurhatchery is “too large an enterprise.”

“It’s a demonstration of evolution,”said Larsson, who has studied birdevolution for the last 10 years.

“If I can demonstrate clearly that thepotential for dinosaur anatomicaldevelopment exists in birds, then it againproves that birds are direct descendantsof dinosaurs.”

In this photo provided by the UtahOffice of Tourism, the temporarily

closed visitors’ centre at theDinosaur National Monument isseen, located 20 miles outside ofVernal, UT. The dinosaur ‘rockwall’ located inside the visitors

centre contains hundreds of fossils.

After years spent hunting for the buriedremains of prehistoric animals, a Canadianpaleontologist now plans to manipulatechicken embryos to show he can create adinosaur.

Hans Larsson, the Canada ResearchChair in Macro Evolution at Montreal’sMcGill University, said he aims to developdinosaur traits that disappeared millionsof years ago in birds.

KUALA LUMPUR, 8 Sept— Malaysia’s highestcourt ruled on Tuesdayagainst US fast food giantMcDonald’s, which haswaged an eight-year bat-tle to prevent local eatery“McCurry” from usingthe prefix “Mc” in itsname.

“It is the end of theroad for McDonald’s.McCurry can use the pre-fix,” said lawyer Sri DevNair who represented thefamily-owned restaurant,which serves upMalaysian favourites liketandoori chicken and fishmasala.

McCurry restaurant owner AMSP Suppiah andhis wife Kanageswary pose for a photo in front oftheir eatery as they celebrate a court victory overUS fast food giant McDonald’s in Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia, on 8 Sept, 2009.—INTERNET

PARIS, 8 Sept—Failed Slovakian low-cost carrierSkyEurope could be just the first casualty among thesmaller airlines finding it difficult to survive one ofthe worst slumps on record, analysts said.

“End of summer, early autumn, is a likely time forairlines to shut down. There are going to be more,”said Nick Cunningham of Evolution Securities.

“This winter is going to be very hard with very weaktraffic and even weaker yields,” Cunningham said.

“If you think an airline is not going to be viable,then you shut it down. There is no point” in continu-ing to run it, he added. Bratislava-based SkyEuropesaid last week that a court-appointed trustee had de-cided that a bankruptcy application was the only wayforward owing to “the lack of sufficient interim fund-ing to finance ongoing operations.”—Internet

FRANKFURT, 8 Sept—German industrial ordersrose sharply in July in aboost for Europe’s biggesteconomy even though theincrease was almostsolely due to a large orderfor armoured cars, ana-lysts said on Monday.

Industrial orders gained3.5 percent on a monthlybasis following a down-wardly revised 3.8-percentrise in June, another signthe economy was rebound-ing from its worst reces-sion in six decades.

BHUBANESWAR, 8 Sept— A herd of elephants inIndia has forced 500 vil-lagers to flee to reliefcamps after the wild ani-mals killed at least sevenpeople and trampled hun-dreds of homes, officialssaid on Monday.

Angry residents block-aded a major highway lastweek to demand actionagainst the marauding el-ephants, which have beencausing chaos for morethan a month.

The relief campsopened on Sunday nearthe villages of Simonbadiand Kirikutty, about 245kilometres (150 miles)from Orissa’s state capitalBhubaneswar in the eastof India.

“We have housed over500 people in two campswith adequate food and amedical team,” local ad-ministrator KrishenKumar told AFP after vis-iting the camps.

Internet

Malaysia’s ‘McCurry’ beats McDonald’sover trademark

“McCurry and Mc-Donald’s are two differ-ent businesses which selldifferent types of food andthey have different cus-tomers,” he said, rejectingMcDonald’s claim thatthe use of “Mc” in itsname could cause confu-sion.

In April, McCurryscored a David-and-Goliath victory when theappeals court overturneda 2006 high court decisionthat McCurry had ille-gally infringed on theburger chain’s trademark.

McDonald’s on Tues-day sought permission

from the federal court tocontest the appeals courtdecision, but judges de-nied the application andsaid the burger chain’spetition was “not properlyframed”.

“It is unfortunate wehave to dismiss the appli-cation with costs,” saidJudge Arifin Zakaria, whoheaded the three-memberpanel. Costs amounted to10,000 ringgit (2,845 dol-lars).

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More failures likely forsmaller low-cost carriers

Tanks drive German industrial orders upThe economy ministry,

which had initially re-ported the increase forJune as a much stronger4.5 percent, said the lat-est result stemmed froman unusual number of big-ticket orders, namely for405 armoured vehicles bythe military.

Without the 3.1 billioneuros (4.4 billion dollars)that deal contributed,overall orders would havefallen slightly from theprevious month’s level.

Foreign orders for

goods from Germany, oneof the world’s top export-ers, did in fact fall by 2.3percent in July while do-mestic orders surged 10.3percent.

On a sliding two-month basis designed tosmooth out volatility, in-dustrial orders increasedin June and July by 7.8percent from the April-May period however,with both domestic andforeign orders climbingby the same amount.

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Literacy: The Path to Empowering and uniting the NationThein Oak Sein

International Literacy day celebrated everyyear around the world is to emphasize the impor-tance of literacy to individuals, communities andsocieties at all levels. This year’s Internationalliteracy day, which falls on Tuesday, 8thSeptember, will put the spotlight on “ the Power of Literacy”,the empowering role of literacy and its importancefor participation, citizenship and social develop-ment. In addition, the Government of Union ofMyanmar and its people will honour all the admin-istrators, teachers, volunteers and other individu-als, who have worked hard to make learning envi-ronment to the children and adults alike to makethem able to read and write. To realize the impor-tance of literacy, the effects of literacy as a learn-ing tool must be observed. Helping individualsbecome literate in turn creates positive changes forthe community and society. Unprejudiced literacyprograms in all its manifestations can empower theindividual, help assuage ethic disparities, and ulti-mately facilitate the move towards a more unitednation.

The empowering role of literacy and making aliterate society can be first understood by under-standing the role of literacy. The skills of readingand writing open up many doors for an individual.Literacy can include access to information on sci-entific and technical development, easier for un-derstanding and communicating legal information,understanding health knowledge and medical in-structions, means of enjoying the benefits of hav-ing latest information, and making effective use ofmass media both for those seeking greater accessand those with no access.

Literacy is also interpreted as a foundation foruniversal life-skill for all walks of lives. As a tool,literacy has the potential to meet vital needs of thepeople, and to stimulate social, cultural and politi-cal and economic participation especially for thosedisadvantaged and underprivileged groups. Peopleuse their literacy skills to read and understandreligious texts, strengthen ties with family andfriends, make voices heard, get politically involvedand learn about the cultural heritages. Therefore,literacy skills are fundamental to informed deci-sion-making, personal empowerment, active andpassive participation in local and global socialcommunity. One can articulate that literacy’s ben-efits are transferable, and thus, confer individual,families, communities and nations. An empoweredindividual would have a greater and more positiveimpact on their community.

The successful completion of adult literacyprograms in many countries, including Myanmar,has shown that it has yielded benefits to the entirecommunity, similar to those generated by formalschooling. Human benefits are intrinsically valu-able and may also be instrumental in realizingother benefits for human development, such asimproving healthy living. Some other importantbenefits are the improvement in self-esteem andself-empowerment within the society, and the crea-tivity and critical reflection. A profound and im-

portant benefit of literacy is its ability to improvethe self-esteem of the individual. Newly literateindividuals will be able to take active roles incommunity building and cooperation. Improved self-esteem in individuals who have successfully com-pleted the programs has been reported across globalstudies.

National literacy programs are designed to allo-cate tools to allow participants to become authors oftheir own landing, developers of their own knowl-edge, and partners in dialogue about limited situa-tions in their life, as per UNESCO. In essence,literacy programs could contribute to broader socio-economic processes of empowerment provided theytake place in a supportive environment. Participantsof literacy programs in Namibia asserted that theirparticipation was geared towards learning how toread and write letters, to deal with money and tomaster English. Their desire to be self-sufficientand exert control over everyday life situations wasalso consistently represented. Quotations fromNamibians included – ‘keeping secrets’ and ‘beingcheated’ are some of the things they hope to avoidby becoming literate. Another study conducted onnewly literate women in Turkey showed that morewomen actively participated in community organi-zations. In addition, literate women in Nigeria re-ported being confident enough to participate incommunity meetings as opposed to the zero partici-pation observed by illiterate women.

Finally, the transition to widespread global lit-eracy was not uniform across all societies. Expan-sion in literacy however has left behind some ethnicand unreached populations, making more social andeconomic disparities. These social disparities canpotentially create unnecessary cultural tensions.The lack of cultural knowledge for the society as awhole has led to many communal tensions, andsometimes developing into social conflicts. Theseare all factors inhibiting national unity.

One method to combat this inhibition of na-tional unity is to promote literacy across all cultureswithin a nation. Although there is no direct correla-tion observed between increased literacy and longterm ethnic unity, some programs around the Worldlook promising. Literacy programs like formal edu-cation have great potential in allowing disadvan-taged ethnicities to catch up with more advancedminorities, opening the path to ethnic equality andnational unity. Ethnic disparities in formal educa-tion have been observed in Israel, China and Nepal.Improvements in both formal and informal educa-tion would reduce ethnic inequality. It has to besupplement with employment opportunities. Basedon the evidence, while ethnic equality is a muchdeeper and profound issue that cannot simply beeliminated by education expansion alone, ethnic-wide literacy is the first step into beginning thereconciliation step and has shown much promise.

In some conflict situations, literacy can be usedto promote peace. Literacy programs focused onadults, both men and women from rural communi-ties that are heavily affected be armed conflicts, like

those in Columbia, showed promising results forpeace development. The participating adults wereencouraged to write while they learned about theirexperiences on social and economic development.Various themes for development, such as citizen-ship, peace and cooperation, local leadership, werein particular focus. This approach allowed citizensto reflect upon their traumas, and as a community,moving towards a more constructive action.

Furthermore, literacy also has a broad in shap-ing a more positive community. Part of achievingnational unity is embracing not only improvedcross ethnic communication, but also on under-standing one another’s different cultures. Literacyhas proven to preserve and promote culture inpreviously illiterate communities. Essentially, thenew tools in the community have the potential toallow more individuals to participate in culturalactivities, and to make them writing their storiesfor more cross culture exploration. These benefitshave been observed in programs where culturalfolk tales that are normally passed on by mouth arewritten down in Botswana, Orang Asli communityin Malaysia, the Karan and Chin in Myanmar, theLimbu in Nepal, and the Maori in New Zealand.

Unity in the country can be achieved bywidespread use of the mother tongue to facilitatecross-culture sharing of ideas. Myanmar has manydifferent languages and scripts and certain valu-ables to the culture and history of its country insome ways have hindered inter-community co-operation and communication. For example, alarge proportion of the Kachin and Chin ethnicpeople in Myanmar write their own languages inthe Latin script, while learning Myanmar lan-guage and literature in Myanmar script as well asin English. Many ethnic groups have spokenlanguage of their own, but used Myanmar scriptfor writing. This is one of the major problemsthat hinder the social character or literacy. Wide-spread literacy of a united language will contrib-ute towards a united nation. Indonesian Govern-ment has introduced Bahasa Indonesia as na-tional language to make integration of thousandsof islands, where different ethic groups are hav-ing different dialects and languages. Researchthroughout the World has consistently shownthat learning to read and write in one’s ownmother tongue facilitates access to literacy inother languages. Thus, it is important to preservethe nation’s uniqueness that we call Myanmar bymaking all people of Myanmar to be literate forboth their own ethnic languages as well asMyanmar languages as a whole.

Literacy is a human right issue, as it is aninvaluable tool that very individual from everyculture deserves and needs. Literacy can bestow anindividual with confidence and self-esteem. Em-powering the individual can in turn empower thewhole society. Teaching ethnicities with educationprograms tailored to their needs to read and writewill help unifying the nation, and at the same timepreserving the culture.

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(from page 1)departments under theministry, rectors ofuniversities, principals ofeducation colleges,representatives fromsocial organizations,township educationofficers in Nay Pyi Taw,principals of basiceducation schools,prizewinners, studentsand guests.

Ma Htet WunNandi Aye and Ma PanThet Chei, eighthstandard students fromNay Pyi Taw PyinmanaNo (2) BEHS acted asMCs.

Students of NayPyi Taw BEHS (6) sangthe song “Our strength”in chorus to open theceremony.

The Secretary-1 inhis speech said that theUnited Nations hasmarked InternationalLiteracy Day on 8September annually since1966 to speed up literacycampaigns in nations.

Today, the worldhas seen remarkabledevelopment in scienceand IT, but millions ofpeople in the developingcountries remain illiterate.The majority of over 700million adult illiterates arewomen. One-fifth of theworld’s adult literatepopulation cannot read orwrite at all.

“Education ForAll” is the fundamentalrequirement for

Education For All,fundamental requirement…

Secretary-1 General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo awardsMa Nan Myat Mon Oo of UDNR who wins the first prize at essay

competition to mark International Literacy Day (2009).MNA

Secretary-1 General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo views boothson display at International Literacy Day (2009).

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development of the wholehuman society, so it isrequired to see to theglobal objective.

United NationsGeneral Assembly held inDecember 2001unanimously passed aresolution to designate theperiod from 2003 to 2012as United NationsLiteracy Decade.

Myanmar’s literaterate rose to 85 percent inthe times of Myanmarmonarchs, but thattumbled to its lowest levelof 35 percent in thecolonial period.Accordingly, massliteracy movements havebeen implemented as anational duty since thep o s t - i n d e p e n d e n c eperiod.

In 1948,Community EducationAct was enacted. Since1949, the CommunityEducation Council hadbeen conductingcommunity educationcourses and Three “Rs”Courses, thus raising theliterate rate to 57 percentin 1963. Meiktila Districtlaunched Three “Rs”Campaign under theleadership of theMyanmar LiteracyCentral Committee in1964, and that was thefirst of its kind. Since thenliteracy campaigns werecarried out on anexpansive scale yearly.As a result, the literaterate of the nation was on

sharp increase.During the period

between 1969 and 1983,Mandalay, Yangon,Magway, Bago andAyeyawady divisions andMon State heldceremonies to markliteracy of all of their localpeople. So, UNESCOawarded MyanmarMohammad Reza PahlaviPrize in 1971 and NomaPrize in 1983. Theachievements are largelydue to the massiveparticipation of the peoplein the literacy campaigns.

The Ministry ofEducation and theMinistry for Progress ofBorder Areas andNational Races andDevelopment Affairs co-organized Three “Rs”courses in border areas.In 2009, they conductedmore than 20,000 classesin states and divisions.

Owing to the“Education For All”campaign implementednationwide as a nationalduty, the literate rate ofthe people is on theincrease. In 2009, theliterate rate touched 94.89percent, so Myanmar isin the list of the countrieswith high literate rates inAsian and Pacific Region.

In order to scale upthe post-literacycampaign, 55,755 rurallibraries have beenopened with theassistance of the Ministryof Information.Moreover, 2574community learningcentres have beenestablished with the

assistance of socialorganizations and well-wishers to improve thesocio-economic life ofward and villagedwellers. Now, thenumber of rural librariesand community learningcentres in 64,817 villagesand 2891 wards stands at58,329.

With success infundamental literacywork, the per capitaincome of the people ison the increase and thenational developmentmomentum is gatheringmomentum. Therefore, itis needed to work hardsteadfastly to expedite theliteracy movements forhuman resourcedevelopment necessaryfor development of thehuman society.

The Secretary-1urged the entire people toparticipate in the literacycampaigns in accordancewith the theme of thisyear’s InternationalLiteracy Day “Literacyand Empowerment: ThePower of Literacy”.

In conclusion, heexhorted local authorities,social organizations andwell-wishers tocontribute towards thepost-literacy programmesbased on libraries toensure constant learning;to maintain the nation’sachievement in literacycampaigns at the globallevel; and to work hard incollaboration to bringabout a growing numberof highly-educatedpeople necessary forbuilding a peaceful,modern and developed

nation and ensuresustainable progress ofthe literacy movements.

Acting UNCoordinator MrMohamed Abdel-Ahadread the message sent bythe UN Secretary-General.

General Secretaryof the MyanmarUNESCO NationalCommission Rector ofYangon University ofForeign Languages DrMyo Myint read themessage sent by theUNESCO Director-General to mark theInternational LiteracyDay.

Students of NayPyi Taw Pyinmana No (1)BEHS sang the song“Nationalistic Vigour”.

The Secretary-1presented first prize foressay contest (open) toDr Nwe Nwe Soe (NweL a y - M y a n m a r s a r ) ,second prize, to Dr ThanWin (Maung Than Win-Yangon University) andthird prize to SeniorResearcher Dr KhinChaw Su Kyi; first prizefor education universityand college level essaycontest to fourth yearstudent Ma Nan MyatMon Oo of the BE.dCourse of the Universityfor DevelopmentNational Races, secondprize to trainee Ma NweNwe Tun of Pre-Teachership ProficiencyDiploma Couse of Hpa-an Education College,and third prize to first yearstudent Ma Thin Nu Sweof Pre-TeachershipDiploma Course of

Bogale EducationCollege; first prize forBEMS level essay contestto eighth standard studentMa Ei Phyu Phyu Kyawof No (2) BEHS inYenangyoung, secondprize to eighth standardstudent Maung ChanMyae Aung of Katha No(2) BEHS, and third prizeto eighth standard studentMa Win Pa Pa Hlaing ofMyawady BEHS; firstprize for BEMS levelposter contest to seventhstandard student MaKhaing May Thu ofYankin EducationCollege Practising Schoolin Yankin Township,second prize to seventhstandard student MaungThura Paing Soe ofPathein No (6) BEHS, andthird prize to seventhstandard student MaungAung Pyae of MahaAungmye TownshipBEHS (13).

Next, the videofilm on Myanmar’sliteracy campaign wasshown to those present.

Students of NayPyi Taw No (5) BEHSsang the song “EducationFor All”.

After theceremony, the Secretary-1 cordially greeted theresident representativesof UN agencies,prizewinning studentsand guests.

The Secretary-1and party and guestsobserved the booths onMyanmar’s literacymovements at theInternational LiteracyDay commemorativehall.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 8Sept — Lt-Gen Tha Ayeof the Ministry of Defence,Chairman of SagaingDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of North-West Command Maj-GenMyint Soe anddepartmental officialsinspected condition ofMonywa-Yargyi-KalewaRoad on 5 September.

Afterwards, theywent to Kyauktan Villagein Minkin Township andheld a meeting withofficials from theeducation and healthsectors and fulfilled therequirements. After themeeting, they providedmedicines and contributedcash to the funds of the

Lt-Gen Tha Aye inspects condition of Monywa-Yargyi-Kalewa Road, development tasks in Sagaing Div

hospital.During the visit to

Minkin Township, Lt-GenTha Aye and party

inspected condition ofroad at Mile Post No 85 onthe road and paddy fieldsat Myoma Village.

Lt-Gen Tha Ayeand party also went to KaleTownship and inspectedthe construction project of

Phaungku Bridge. Afterhearing reports at theproject, Lt-Gen Tha Ayeinspected the construction

works and fulfilled therequirements of theproject.

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NAY PYI TAW, 8 Sept — A ceremony to openSpecial Refresher Course No.35 for Basic EducationTeachers was held at the Central Institute of CivilService (Upper Myanmar) in PyinOoLwin Townshipyesterday.

On behalf of Chairman of the MyanmarEducation Committee Secretary-1 of the State Peaceand Development Council General Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo, Minister for Education Dr. ChanNyein delivered an opening address.

The opening ceremony was attended by Ministerfor Industry-2 Vice-Admiral Soe Thein, Minister forSocial Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Maj-GenMaung Maung Swe, Chairman of Mandalay CityDevelopment Committee Brig-Gen Phone Zaw Han,Deputy Minister for Labour Brig-Gen Tin Tun Aung,Judge of the Supreme Court U Han Shein, members ofthe Civil Service Selection and Training Board U NyiTun and U Kyaw Aung, departmental officials, therector, pro-rectors and heads of departments of the

Special Refresher Course No.35 for Basic EducationTeachers in upper Myanmar

CICS (Upper Myanmar) and trainees.Speaking on the occasion, Minister Dr. Chan

Nyein said the government set an educational goalwhich can help build a constant learning society througheducation that can overcome the challenges of today’sknowledge age. To achieve the goal, the governmenthas been implementing the 30-year long term planwhich is divided into five short-term plans.

The new education system is drawn to adapt topolitical, economic and social norms and to meet theinternational education standard, he added.

He continued to say that the long term educationplan is aimed at improving the living standard of everycitizen and ensuring development of states and divisionsthereby contributing to national development.

Development tasks are to be carried out with theaim of creating opportunities for equitable access tolearning and jobs, he added.

While the country enjoys the prevalence ofpeace and stability, the government has been making

efforts for the development of the country as part ofefforts for paving the way to the future State.

Efforts of the government for the prevalence ofcommunity peace and stability and national unity haveresulted in development of all regions and improvementof socio-economic lives of the people, he said.

He also urged the trainees to make efforts foraccomplishing the aims of the education goal joininghands with parents of students.

He also called on the trainees to make efforts forrealizing the objectives of the 30-year long term plan ofthe National Education Promotion Programme and tonurture and train the new generation youths to becomegood citizens.

The five-week course is being attended by1,314 teachers from education colleges and schoolsin Kachin State, Kayah State, Chin State, MandalayDivision, Sagaing Division, Magway Division,Shan State (South), Shan State (North) Shan State(East).— MNA

Lt-Gen Tha Aye of the Ministry of Defence inspects the construction project of Phaungku Bridge in Kale Township.MNA

Minister for Education Dr. Chan Nyein addresses opening ceremony of Special Refresher Course No.35 for Basic Education Teachers at theCentral Institute of Civil Service (Upper Myanmar).—MNA

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Provisional LeadingCommittee in Laukkai on6 September.

The commander gavea speech on thedevelopment of the regionand the minister, on thefuture programmes. TheChairman of KRPLCreported on the progressof tasks.

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North-East Command Commander and EP (2) Ministermeet KRPLC Chairman and officials in Kokang

YANGON, 7 Sept—Theopening ceremony ofKaytumati Lecture Hallwas held along with theconcluding ceremony ofManagement Course No.7for Middle-rankingOfficials at CentralInstitute of Civil Service(Phaunggyi) this morning.

It was attended byChairman of Civil ServiceSelection and TrainingBoard U Kyaw Thu,

Kaytumati Lecture Hall opensManagement Course No.7 for

Middle-ranking officials concludes

members U Hla Myint Ooand U Win Aung,Director-General U WaiMyint of Civil ServiceSelection and TrainingDepartment, andDirector-General U KyawZan Hla of PersonnelAffairs Department.Members of CSSTB UHla Myint Oo, U WinAung and Rector U WinMaung of Central Instituteof Civil Service formally

opened KaytumatiLecture Hall which canhold 100 trainees.Afterwards, Chairman UKyaw Thu of CSSTBunveiled the stone plaqueand looked round the hall.

Chairman U KyawThu addressed theManagement Course No. 7for Middle-rankingOfficials. A total of 72trainees from ministriesattended the course.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 8Sept—Laukkai in Kokangregion of Shan State(North) has restored peaceand stability. Students ofLaukkai Basic EducationHigh School No-1 are

Regional peace and stability prevailing in Laukkaipursuing their educationpeacefully. The shops inthe town were kept open,vehicles were runningregularly and the streetswere busy.

For the rest and

recreation of the localpeople and Tatmadawmembers of the localbattalions, a Tatmadawmobile public relationsunit performed music anddances yesterday. – MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 8Sept—Chairman of ShanState (North) Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of North-East Command Maj-Gen

Aung Than Htut andMinister for ElectricPower No (2) Maj-GenKhin Maung Myint metwith the Chairman ofKokang Region

Provisional LeadingCommittee and officials,officers of the commandand state leveldepartmental officials atthe hall of Kokang Region

Labour Minister meets entrepreneursNAY PYI TAW, 8

Sept—Minister forLabour U Aung Kyi helda meeting withentrepreneurs at the Unionof Myanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerceand Industry in Yangonyesterday.

Also present werevice-presidents, centralexecutives and secretaries

of the federation, andpresidents and secretariesof the brotherorganizations.

The minister stressedthe need of theentrepreneurs to deal withlabour agencies in linewith the existing lawswhen they need to recruitnew labourers. Heelaborated on work

efficiency courses, andprogrammes forentrepreneurs to cooperatewith the Myanmar WorkSkills StandardizationCommittee. The attendeesmade suggestions.

The ministerinspected the training hallsof Human ResourcesDevelopment Departmentof the federation.—MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Aung Than Htut and Minister Maj-Gen KhinMaung Myint meet with the Chairman of Kokang Region ProvisionalLeading Committee and officials, officers of the command and statelevel departmental officials at the hall of Kokang Region Provisional

Leading Committee in Laukkai.—MNA

Minister for Labour U Aung Kyi meeting with entrepreneurs at theUnion of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and

Industry.—MNA

Students of No.1 Laukkai BEHS learning peacefully in Laukkai inKokang Region of Shan State (North).—MNA

U Kyaw Thu, Chairman of CSSTB, unveils the stone plaque ofKaytumati Lecture Hall which can hold 100 trainees.—MNA

METTA is not selfMetta is patience.

Metta is benevolence.

Metta is not rivalry.

Metta is not arrogance.

Metta is conceit.

Metta does not give way to

impropriety.Metta is not self-seeking.

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BEIJING, 8 Sept—China’s demand forteachers in its nine-yearcompulsory education isexpected to drop by 1million or 12 percent fromthe figure in 2008,according to a reportreleased by the ChineseAcademy of SocialSciences Tuesday. Thereport listed a sharp dropin the number of studentsreceiving compulsoryeducation in primary andjunior high schools at thattime as a major reason forthe prediction.

By 2020, the numberof students receivingcompulsory education inprimary and junior high

Exhibitors walk during the 13th China International Fair for Investment andTrade (CIFIT) in Xiamen, southeast China’s Fujian Province, on 8 Sept, 2009.With the theme of boosting cross-border investment and pushing forwardeconomic recovery, this year’s fair has attracted 13,000 overseas businessmen,

a record number, the CIFIT organizing committee said.—INTERNET

DAKAR, 8 Sept—At least 159 people havebeen killed and more than 600,000 others affectedby the floods that begun in June in West Africa,the United Nations Office for the Coordination ofHumanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Tuesday inthe Senegalese capital Dakar.

“These torrential rains have caused the deathsof 159 people notably in Sierra Leone. Senegal,Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger and Sierra Leonewere among the most affected countries,”theOCHA communique indicated while noting theheavy losses of property as a result of the deluge.

In order to help the victims, the United Nationson Friday dispatched an emergence team toOuagadougou, where half of the capital is affectedby the torrential rains.

A regional conference on human rights andthe climatic change will be held in Lome, thecapital of Togo on 15-16 Sept. , OCHA said.

This meeting is organized by the UnitedNations , the Economic Community of WestAfrican States (ECOWAS) and the Togolesegovernment “to present a common position ofWest Africa’’ to the global summit in Copenhagenin December.

Xinhua

Tamara the lioness roars at visitors in front of her

cubs in their enclosure at Jordan’s Zoo near

Amman on 7 September, 2009. Tamara’s

cubs are a month old.

INTERNET

An actor from the “TallBrothers” street theatreperforms in a parkduring the annual CityDay celebration inMoscow on 6 September,

2009.—INTERNET

SHANGHAI, 8 Sept—A policeman in Shanghai wascritically injured after being stabbed during a disputemediation Tuesday, a police source said.

The policeman was stabbed in the back by a man,surnamed Chen, at about 9 am in the Yangpu Districtand was in critical condition, having suffered lungdamage.

The dispute happened after Chen, 46 and divorced,poured water over his floor and the water infiltrateddownstairs.

He also stabbed a neighborhood committee officialin the arms.

Chen later set fire on his home, which was put outby firefighters, before he was detained by specialpolice.Further details of the case are not immediatelyavailable.The case is under police investigation.

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HEFEI, 8 Sept—Atotal of two people diedand 18 are missing after aboat capsized in YangtzeRiver in east China’sAnhui Province Tuesday,an official said.

The accidenthappened at 6.45 am inTongling City in Anhui.The official said 40people were thrown intothe water when the boatcapsized.

The official said 20people had been saved,two bodies had beenfound while the other 18remained missing.Investigation into thecause of the accident isunderway.—Xinhua

China’s demand for primary, junior highschool teachers to reduce by 1 mln by

2020schools could decrease bymore than 18 million, orabout 11 percent from thefigure in 2008, the reportsaid. Junior high studentsis expected to number41.57 million in 2020, a15 percent drop from2008, while primarystudents could number93.5 million.

China’s nine-yearcompulsory educationcovers primary and juniorhigh school, according tothe Law on CompulsoryEducation. China’s familyplanning policy, whichwas formulated in theearly 1970s, encourageslate marriages and latechildbearing, and limits

most urban couples to onechild and most ruralcouples to two children.

In the first half of the21st century, China willwitness a peak in its totalpopulation, working-agepopulation, and elderlypopulation, according tothe National Populationand Family PlanningCommission.

One third of China’stotal population, about 437million people, will becitizens over 60 years oldin 2050, while itspopulation of 16 to 60-year-olds will hit the peakof 990 million in 2016,government figuresshowed.—Xinhua

Two dead, 18missing aftership capsized

in YangtzeRiver

Floods kill 159, affect600,000 in West Africa

Shanghai policeman seriouslyinjured in dispute mediation

Brazil to buy French military jets,technology

BRASILIA, 8 Sept—Bra-zil on Monday deepenedits military relationshipwith France by announc-ing plans to acquire 36 ul-tra-modern Rafale fighterjets — along with thetechnology to build itsown.

It will be the first for-eign sale and a much-needed shot in the arm forthe Rafales’ maker,Dassault Aviation, whichhitherto had failed to findany international buyerfor the plane.

The imminent con-tract, worth an estimatedfour to seven billion dol-lars, will supply Brazil’sair force for the next threedecades and give it themost advanced multi-rolecombat aircraft in Latin

America.The public statement

that talks had begun toseal the pact was issuedon Brazil’s IndependenceDay by visiting FrenchPresident NicolasSarkozy and BrazilianPresident Luiz InacioLula da Silva.

“We are definitivelyconsolidating a strategicpartnership we started in2005,” Lula said in a jointnews conference inBrasilia.

The deal adds to 10billion dollars’ worth ofagreements Brazil has al-ready struck with Franceto buy five submarines(one to be converted tonuclear power) and 50military transport heli-copters.—Internet

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV ASIANA BREEZE VOY NO (4)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV ASIANABREEZE VOY NO (4) are here by notified that thevessels will be arriving on 9.9.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of S.P.W.7 where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: EASTERN CAR LINERSINGAPORE PTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

INVITATION TO TENDERTENDER NO. 4 T (C)/ PASA/PW/2009-2010

1. Sealed Tender is invited by the Public Works, Nay PyiTaw, Myanmar. The Ministry of Construction for thesupply of STRAIGHT ASPHALT 80/100 Grade MetricTon (10000) in Drum.2. Tender Closing Date is (30-9-2009 at 16:00 hr).3. Tender Documents and detail specification are avail-able at the Public Works, Procurement section StoresDivision, No (40) Public Works, Nay Pyi Taw (8.9.2009)on Payment of (FEC-1000). To enquiry contact PhoneNo-067 407577, 067-4075814. Only bid from tenderer who has purchased tenderdocuments officially from Public Works will be acceptedfor evaluation.

Managing DirectorPublic Works

Ministry of Construction Ph:067 407577, 407581

Myanma Pharmaceutical Industries

Invitation To Tender for Machinery1.Sealed tenders are invited for Myanma Pharmaceuti-

cal Factory (Sagaing) for supply of Fluid Bed Dryer.2. From (8-9-2009), Tender forms and detail specifi-

cations are available at Myanma PharmaceuticalIndustries mentioned address as follows;

Myanma Pharmaceutical Industries Ministry of Industry No. (1)

Office No. (41)Nay Pyi Taw

Phone No: 067 408144, 067 408187

Column piece stolen fromarchaeology site

OLYMPIA, 8 Sept—The Greek Culture Ministry saidan investigation has been ordered into the theft of alarge column fragment from an archaeological site.

The ministry said a guard at the site of Ancient Ol-ympia in the western Peloponnese reported the sixthcentury column capital, the decorative top of the item,had been removed with no indication of how it wastaken without authorities noticing, eKathimerini.comreported on Monday.

The Culture Ministry said Georgia Hatzi, directorof the 6th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiq-uities, was suspended as a result of the theft and MariaVlazaki, a senior official with the ministry’s GeneralDirectorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, wassent to the archaeological site.—Internet

Researcher using melonsto create ethanol

LANE, 8 Sept— A US Agriculture Department re-searcher in Lane, Okla., says he has discovered a wayto turn watermelons into ethanol.

Chemist Wayne Fish said while investigating howto enrich the health benefits of watermelon, he dis-covered the sugar in the juice from cull watermelonscould be transformed into ethanol, The (OklahomaCity) Oklahoman said on Monday.

Fish said a fermentation unit could use cull or dis-carded watermelons to create ethanol for transporta-tion fuel. He is working on a 2010 pilot project fo-cused on a mobile unit that can be transported to wa-termelon growing sites.

“We’re looking at a mobile unit that could be movedfrom grower to grower, that in a three-month seasoncould turn out 20,000 gallons,” Fish said. “The wholeproduction process can eliminate transportation costs.”

The chemist at the department’s Lane research serv-ice laboratory told the Oklahoman there is an advan-tage to getting ethanol from watermelons as opposedto corn. “As compared to the starch in corn, whichfirst has to be broken down before it can be fermented,we were able to go directly to the fermentation,” Fishsaid.—Internet

Nearly $50 mln spent tofight Los Angeles wildfireLOS ANGELES, 8 Sept—The cost of fighting the 245-

square-mile (382-square-km) wildfire in Los Ange-les approached 50 million dollars on Monday, fireofficials said. As the fire was still raging in remoteareas, the true overall cost of the largest blaze in LosAngeles County would be far greater, the NationalForest Service (NFS) said.

“We won’t know the true costs until the fire’s out,the heavy rains come and the roads are fixed,” NFSService information officer Nathan Judy said. “Wewon’t know those costs for some time.”

The estimated cost of fighting the Station Fire as ofMonday evening was 49.5 million dollars.

Closely monitoring the costs of fighting a monstrousblaze like the Station Fire is vital, but those costs areonly a fraction of the final tab shared by individualsand taxpayers, according to authors of an April 2009report by the Western Forestry Leadership Coalitionin Colorado. “The millions of dollars spent to extin-guish large wildfires are widely reported and used tounderscore the severity of these events,” the authorssaid in their report. “Extinguishing a large wildfire,however, accounts for only a fraction of the total costsassociated with a wildfire event. —Xinhua

Large-scale stage play ThePoem of Kungfu in NineVolumes is staged in the

Dongnan Theater inWenzhou City of east

China’s Zhejiang Province,on 7 Sept , 2009. Blended

with elements of dance, thekungfu show gave totallyfresh experience to the

audience.—XINHUA

Ecuador, Chile to boost bilateral cooperationQUITO, 8 Sept—Ecuador and Chile have agreed to expand cooperation from poli-

tics to the economy and commerce through their second foreign ministerial meetingthat began Monday in Quito. An official statement from the meeting said the twocountries expected the meeting to strengthen bilateral ties, which in turn would makepolitical dialogue more viable and allow integration in commerce and culture.

On the agenda of the Quito ministerial meeting was evaluation of existing bipar-tite accords concerning companies and trade. The meeting, chaired by EcuadorianForeign Minister Fander Falconi and joined by Chilean Foreign Minister MarianoFernandez, will also assess Jose Miguel Insulza’s candidacy for secretary-generalof the Organization of American States.—Xinhua

Tea art master Li Wei dis-plays Kungfu tea at DalianShangrila Hotel in Dalian,northeast China’s LiaoningProvince, on 7 Sept, 2009.As an offical reception ho-tel of the Annual Meeting ofthe New Champions 2009,or Summer Davos, DalianShangrila Hotel will supply

a lot of famous Chinesefoods for foreign guests to

enjoy the Chinese taste.XINHUA

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Singapore reports 18th

A/H1N1 related deathSINGAPORE, 8 Sept— Singapore’s Health Ministry

on Monday reported the country’s 18th flu A/H1N1related death case.According to a statement by theministry, a 61-year-old Chinese male with a medicalhistory of hypertension, diabetes, and end-stage renalfailure died on Sunday.The cause of death was flu A/H1N1 infection with chronic renal failure and diabetes,and hypertension, the statement said.

Singapore reported its first confirmed case of fluA/H1N1 on 27 May. The country’s first A/H1N1related death case was reported on 18 July .—Xinhua

Hand sanitation paved withgood intentions

Second A/H1N1 deathreported in US state of AlaskaSAN FRANCISCO, 8 Sept— A 10-year-old boy in

Alaska died of A/H1N1 influenza last Friday night,representing the second such death for residents in theUS state, local media reported on Monday.

The boy had been healthy before he died, and hisquick decline concerns professionals, Alaska’sAnchorage Daily News said in a report.According tothe newspaper, doctors are checking whether anopportunistic bacterial infection may have invadedthe boy’s flu-weakened system.—Xinhua

A/H1N1 flu death tolljumps to 512 in ArgentinaBUENOS AIRES, 8 Sept— The Argentine Health

Ministry announced on Monday that the number ofdeaths in the country for the A/H1N1 influenzaincreased from 465 to 512 over the last 10 days, withthe number of confirmed cases standing at 8,384.

Among the deaths, the adults between 50 and 59-year-old represented the most affected group, saidthe ministry in a report.

“There are no differences according to gender, butthere is a difference between the rates for age groups,”the Ministry said.So far, only four out of the total 24provinces in the country — Formosa, La Rioja andCatarmaca in the north, and Tierra del Fuego in thesouth — have not reported deaths of the flu. —Xinhua

Vietnam confirms 3rd deathof A/H1N1 influenza

HANOI, 8 Sept— The Vietnamese Ministry of Healthconfirmed that a 56-year-old woman living in Ho ChiMinh City died of A/H1N1 influenza, the third deathof the flu in the country, local newspaper the NewHanoi reported on Tuesday.The woman was admittedto the Gia Dinh People Hospital last Thursday withfever and coughing, said the newspaper. She wastreated with Tamiflu drug immediately and tested forA/H1N1 influenza.—Xinhua

Honduras’ A/H1N1 fludeath toll rises to 12

TEGUCIGALPA, 8 Sept— The de facto HonduranHealth Ministry said on Monday that the number ofdeaths of A/H1N1 flu rises to 12 in the country and theconfirmed infected cases reach 429.

The victims include a one-year-old boy and a 43-year-old female, Epidemiology Health director MarcoAntonio Pinel said. The boy was from SantiagoPuringla municipality of La Paz Department in thenorthwest of the country. While the female patientwas from Goascaron in Valle, south of the country.

Xinhua

Virus might be one cause ofprostate cancer

Scientists find three new gene linksto Alzheimer’s

A competitor attempts to tear off the head of akilled goose attached to a rope, which is repeatedlyraised and lowered into the harbour, during fiestasin the Basque fishing town of Lekeitio on 6 Sept,

2009.—XINHUA

VVClowns interact withthe public during a

clown festival inValparaiso City, about

75 miles (121 km)northwest of Santiago,

on 7 Sept, 2009. Clownsfrom Brazil, Argentinaand Spain took part inthe festival.—INTERNET

Liver cells used for drugtoxicity screen

WASHINGTON, 8 Sept—A virus known to causeleukemia and tumors inanimals can be found insome prostate tumors andmight be one cause ofprostate cancer, USresearchers reported onMonday.

They found xenotropicmurine leukemia virus-related virus or XMRV in27 percent of the humanprostate tumors theylooked at, especiallyaggressive tumors.

The findings, publishedin the Proceedings of theNational Academy ofSciences, may offer waysto better identifydangerous prostate tumorsand to make drugs orvaccines to treat or evenprevent prostate cancer.

BOSTON, 8 Sept—Drug toxicity testing mayimprove because a newprocess helps keepcultured liver cells alive,US researchers suggest.

The report, publishedin Proceedings of theNational Academy of

Sciences, describes howliver cells grown in a high-oxygen environment andin a culture medium freeof animal-derived serumquickly began to functionas they did within the liver.

“Finding a better wayto culture liver cells hasbeen a major stumblingblock in the developmentof predictive drug-discovery tools,” seniorauthor Yaakov Nahmiasof Massachusetts GeneralHospital says in astatement. “We needed todevelop an environmentin which liver cellsbehave as they do in thebody.”

Internet

LONDON, 8 Sept—Scientists have foundthree new major geneticlinks to Alzheimer’s,affecting up to 20 percentof people with the brain-wasting disease, and saidon Sunday it was the mostsignificant such discoveryin 15 years.

Two large studiesfound that the three newgenes join the better-known APOE4 gene assigni-ficant risk factors forthe most common causeof dementia.

“If we were able toremove the detrimentaleffects of these genesthrough treatments,we could reduce theproportion of people

developing Alzheimer’sby 20 percent,” JulieWilliams, a professor ofN e u r o p s y c h o l o g i c a lGenetics at Britain’sCardiff University, told anews conference inLondon.

Alzheimer’s disease

affects more than 26million people globally,has no cure and no goodtreatment. The need foreffective remedies ispressing, with the numberof cases forecast to gobeyond 100 million by2050.—Internet

MANHATTAN, 8 Sept—Students may say theywash their hands ascollege campuses preparefor H1N1 flu but in realitythey don’t, US researcherssaid.

Douglas Powell, anassociate professor of foodsafety at Kansas State

University, Ben Chap-man, an assistant pro-fessor at North CarolinaState University andresearch assistant BraeSurgeoner observed handsanitation behaviorduring an outbreak ofwhat was believed tobe norovirus, which

sickened nearly 340students at the Universityof Guelph in Ontario.Hand sanitation stationsand informational posterswere stationed at theentrance of a residencehall cafeteria.

The study, published inthe Journal of Environ-mental Health, said theresearchers observedthat even during a high-profile outbreak, studentsfollowed recommendedhand hygiene proceduresjust 17 percent of the time.

Internet

“Our analysis of 233cases of prostate cancersand 101 benign controlsshowed an association ofXMRV infection withprostate cancer, especiallywith more aggressivetumors,” Dr Ila Singh ofthe University of Utah andColumbia University inNew York and colleagueswrote.

Viruses have recentlybeen found to cause somecancers — notably thehuman papillomavirus orHPV that causes cervicalcancer and some cases ofpenile, anal and head andneck cancers.

Merck and Co andGlaxoSmithKline nowmake vaccines to preventHPV infections.

Internet

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S P O R T S Malouda out of squad, Henrydenies criticising coach

French national soccerteam’s midfielder

Florent Malouda (L)vies with defender

Sebastien Squilacciduring a training

session, on 6 Sept, 2009in Clairefontaine,

southern Paris, one dayafter France’s WorldCup 2010 qualifying

football match againstRoumania.—INTERNET

Lampard warns Englandto keep cool against Croatia

Frank Lampard

Man Utd warn Le Havre overPogba claims

MANCHESTER, 8 Sept—Manchester United on Mon-day warned Le Havre they will take action if the Frenchclub do not stop repeating claims that financial induce-ments were offered to Paul Pogba’s family to lure theteenager to Old Trafford.

United officials have written to Le Havre following asustained assault by the Ligue 2 side, which came in thewake of a transfer ban imposed on Chelsea last week fora similar infringement of transfer regulations.

“In response to the wholely unfounded commentswidely reported in the media of Le Havre AC President,Jean-Pierre Louvel, Manchester United wish to categori-cally confirm that as a matter of club policy and in ac-cordance with the applicable football regulations, we donot offer inducements to the parents of players who signfor the club such as monetary payments or the purchaseof houses,” said United in a statement.—Internet

Argentina and France mustbe in World Cup, says Torres

MADRID, 8 Sept—The 2010 World Cup will sufferif Argentina, France and Portugal fail to qualify, Liv-erpool’s Spanish international striker Fernando Torressaid on Monday.

“A World Cup without Argentina, France or Portu-gal would not be the same. I would like them all totake part,” the 25-year-old told a news conference twodays after Spain beat Belgium 5-0 in a qualifier in LaCoruna.

“We also struggled to qualify for the 2008 Eurofinals and then we won the tournament,” he added.

“National squads change from one day to the otherdepending on the status of their players. They can gothrough a bad moment now and in the summer be oneof the favourites.”—Internet

Teen titans Oudin, Wozniackimake final eight

Melanie Oudin of theUS reacts after winninga point against NadiaPetrova from Russia

during their 4th roundUS Open match at theUSTA Billie Jean KingNational Tennis Centerin New York.—INTERNET

Americans routed at US Open,Federer on form

NEW YORK, 8 Sept—It was a bleak day for US ten-nis on Monday as for the first time in the 41-year Openera no American made it into the quarter-finals of themen’s singles.

The last to fall was giant John Isner, who was top-pled by Spain’s Fernando Verdasco 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.

It means that the home winless streak will stretchto six years, making it the worst for American mensince the Open era started with a win for Arthur Ashein 1968. Top seed and defending champion RogerFederer, meanwhile, moved a step closer to a record-equalling sixth straight title with a routine 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 win over outclassed Tommy Robredo of Spain.

In the last eight, he will play the man be beat inParis to end his French Open jinx, Robin Soderling,who moved on when Nikolay Davydenko abandonedwith a thigh strain when trailing 7-5, 3-6, 6-2.

Internet

Beckham may seekPremiership return

LA Galaxy’s DavidBeckham warms up

before a friendly soccermatch against Barce-

lona at the Rose Bowl inPasadena, California on1 Aug, 2009.—XINHUA

Robinho ruled out of Chile match

Brazilian forwardRobinho

African teams vie to completeW Cup line-up

JOHANNESBURG, 8 Sept—Cameroon, Tunisia, Alge-ria and Ivory Coast are looking good to join Ghanaand hosts South Africa and complete the African line-up at the 2010 World Cup.

Ghana become the first African team to secure aplace at the first World Cup to be staged on the ‘DarkContinent’ with a 2-0 triumph win over Sudan in Accraat the weekend courtesy of goals from Sulley Muntariand Michael Essien.

Cameroon, Algeria and Ivory Coast also took maxi-mum points during the fourth series of games in thefinal qualifying round while Tunisia hit back twice toforce a 2-2 draw with Nigeria.

The impact of recently hired French coach Paul leGuen on Cameroon has been immediate and if the ‘In-domitable Lions’ defeat Gabon for the second time infive days Wednesday they will become Group A lead-ers.—Internet

Spain’s

forward

Fernando

Torres

LONDON, 8 Sept—Former England captainDavid Beckham saidthrough a BBC radio in-terview on Monday thathe may seek a Premier-ship return to keep hisWorld Cup hope alive.

The 34-year-old soc-cer icon, who is under afive-year deal with LAGalaxy of the UnitedStates’ Major SoccerLeague, managed tospend five months on loanwith Serie A’s AC Milanlast year.

The American seasonshuts down between No-vember and March, andBeckham told BBC thathe has several options fora return to the EnglishPremier League.

“Everyone knows Iwill be planning to comeback to Europe,” he said.“I don’t know (if it willbe in England), there area few options, put itthat way.”

Xinhua

PARIS, 8 Sept—1998World Cup winnersFrance’s increasinglyfraught qualifyingcampaign for next year’sfinals deepened onMonday when captainThierry Henry denied hehad criticised coachRaymond Domenech infront of the rest of thesquad.

Squad-mate and fel-low 2006 World Cup fi-nalist Florent Maloudaalso revealed that he hadonly learnt he was noteven among the substi-tutes for last Saturday’squalifier with Romania atthe Stade de France whenhe entered the dressing-room and he saw therewas no shirt for him.

Internet

WALFORD, 8 Sept—Frank Lampard haswarned England to keepcool if Wednesday’s cru-cial World Cup qualifieragainst Croatia threatensto turn nasty.

Fabio Capello’s teamcan book their spot at theWorld Cup with a victoryover the Croatians atWembley, but the visitors

are desperate for threepoints themselves as theyfight for second place.

With England still soreover Croatia’s rough tac-tics during their 4-1 winin Zagreb last year andCroatian coach SlavenBilic claiming thatCapello’s outfit are aflawed team that lack“Englishness” it is certainto be a fiesty occasion onWednesday.

But Chelsea midfielderLampard doesn’t want histeam to let any Croatianprovocation distract themfrom the goal of reachingthe finals in South Africa.

Internet

SALVADOR DE BAHIA, 8Sept—Brazilian strikerRobinho was ruled out onMonday of already quali-fied Brazil’s 2010 WorldCup qualifier with Chile

on Wednesday.The Manchester City

star has a bruise on hisright leg according to theBrazil coaching staff andwill join suspended duoKaka and Luis Fabiano onthe sidelines while there isalso a doubt over Elano,who has a foot problem.

Brazil coach Dungawill be left with just twofit strikers in Nilmar andAdriano, in a squad nowreduced to 17 which is ahuge boost for Chile whocan qualify regardless ofother results should theybeat the Brazilians.

Internet

NEW YORK, 8 Sept—Powerhouse teen phenom-enons Melanie Oudin andCaroline Wozniacki ralliedMonday to complete anouster of Russian starsfrom the US Open and ad-vance to their first GrandSlam quarter-finals.

The unseeded Oudin,who turns 18 on Septem-ber 23, ousted 13th seedNadia Petrova 1-6, 7-6 (7/2), 6-3. It was her third tri-umph in a row after losingthe first set to a seededRussian rival. “I didn’tthink I started off too welland Nadia served unbe-lievable, but I stayed inthere with her in the sec-ond set and she gave me afew free points and I gotmy confidence and I be-lieved I could do it and Idid it,” Oudin said. Dan-ish ninth seed Wozniackiblasted sixth seed SvetlanaKuznetsova 2-6, 7-6 (7/5),7-6 (7/3), never trailing ineither tie-breaker andkeeping the pressure uponthe 2004 US Open cham-pion all night.—Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, rain have been Scattered in KayahState and Mandalay Division, fairly and widespread inShan State and Magway Division and widespread in theremaining States and Divisions with locally heavyfalls inRakhine State, Mandalay and Ayeyarwady Divisions,isolated heavyfalls in Chin State and Lower SagaingDivision.The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded wereMaubin (7.40) inches, Thandwe (4.61) inches, Hakha (3.51)inches, Maungdaw(3.15) inches, Pathein (3.04) inches,Phyarpon (2.88) inches, Gwa (2.60) inches, Kyauktaw (2.36)inches, Belin (2.32) inches, Falam (2.24) inches, Myauk-U(2.17) inches, Ayadaw (2.12) inches, Khayan and Minkin(2.01) inches, Mandalay (1.93) inches, Shwebo (1.89)inches, Sagaing (1.18) inches, Monywa (0.71) inch andAunglan (0.27) inch.

Maximum temperature on 7-9-2009 was 85°F.Minimum temperature on 8-9-2009 was 69°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 8-9-2009 was 96 %.Total sun shine hours on 7-9-2009 was (Nil) hour approx.

Rainfall on 8-9-2009 was (0.71) inch at Mingaladon,(0.47) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.36) inch at CentralYangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (93.35) inchesat Mingaladon, (104.29) inches at Kaba-Aye and (110.24)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (7) mph from Southwest at (18:30) hoursMST on 7-9-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is strong to vigorous in theAndaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 9th September 2009:Rain or thundershowers will be scattered in Kachin, Shanand Kayah States, Lower Sagaing, Mandalay and MagwayDivisions, fairly widespread in Chin State and Upper SagaingDivision and widespread in the remaining States andDivisions with likelihood of isolated heavyfalls in Rakhineand Mon States and Taninthayi Division. Degree of certaintyis (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 (40) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Moderate to Strongmonsoon.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for9-9-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for9-9-2009: One or two thundershowers. Degree of certaintyis (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for9-9-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

WEATHERTuesday, 8th September, 2009

Chocolates are pictured during the opening of theNestle Chocolate Centre of Excellence in Broc nearFribourg on 7 September, 2009. The ChocolateCentre of Excellence is dedicated to the researchand development of chocolate products.—INTERNET

JAPAN, 8 Sept—Beijing Olympics gold medalistEvgenia Kanaeva of Russia won gold medals inrope and hoop disciplines of the ongoing 29thrhythmic gymnastics world championships held inMie Prefecture of Japan on Tuesday.

The 19-year-old, dubbed “queen of rhythmicgymnastics”, finished performances with 28.35and 28.325 in rope and hoop respectively. Hercompariot Daria Kondakova took the silver medalsin both competitions.

Kanaeva is on her way to repeat the success ofBelgrade Universiade two months ago, when shetook home all five individual golds.

Individual competition will run through on 11Sept and group disciplines will be held on 12 and 13Sept. Russia remains the strongest team in bothindividual and group competitions.

Internet

Beijing Olympic championKanaeva wins rope, hoopgolds in rhythmic worlds

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NAY PYI TAW, 8 Sept— The number of peoplewho returned to Kokang has reached 15607, accord-ing to data on 8th September at 6 pm.

Local people who left Kokang region havereturned to Kokang through Yanlonkyaing andChinshwehaw border check-points as from 29th

August as stability has prevailed there.The administrative machinery in the region has

returned to normal.—MNA

One more found infectedwith A (H1N1)

Number of patients withvirus reaches 34

NAY PYI TAW, 8 Sept—A 31-year-old man wastransferred to Insein General Hospital through Town-ship Health Department on 7 September as being illwith flu symptoms. Serum of the patient was exam-ined at the National Health Laboratory and found tobe New Influenza A (H1N1) positive.

Ten family members who came into contact withthe patient are being kept in home quarantine.

Altogether 31 passengers who flew togetherwith the patient on the TG-701 flight and 135 airportstaff are under surveillance at their respective places.

The number of the patients with the virus hasreached 34 in Myanmar and 30 were discharged fromthe hospitals as they had fully recovered from theirillness. The remaining four are being given specialtreatment by specialists and they are not in criticalcondition.

The National Health Laboratory detected 231flu-suspected persons and 34 found to have beeninfected with the virus.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 8 Sept – Members of the specialanti-drug squad and local police force of Shan State(North), at about 7.30 pm on 29 August, searched thecheck point No. 3 of the loyalists to U Phon Kya Shinat Yanlonkyaing in Kokang Special Region (1) andseized a machine used in printing tablets, 12 iron rodsbearing the words “WY”, 12 plain iron rods, 10 ironmortars and a flask beside the brick wall of a dormi-tory near the gate.

Also in Laukkai Township, members of thelocal security force seized 3,000 stimulant tabletsbearing the words “WY” from the store behind thehouse of U Phon Kya Shin in Si Aw village at aboutnoon on 3 September.

Similarly, responsible personnel of special anti-drug squad of Mandalay, acting on tip-off, searchedthe house at number Ma-6/4 of U Phon Ta Shwin onTheikpan Road, between 60th and 61st streets, inward No (1) of Chanmyathazi Township, at 2.45 pm

Drugs seized in Shan State (North)and Mandalay Division

on 28 August, and seized 320 grams of caffeine in ahandbag under the bed in a room. When the house wassearched again at about 10 am on 29 August and 1September, 194 rounds of ammunition, a magazine,an air gun, a raw jade weighing 3.4 kilos and 425 cutpieces of raw jade were seized.

Moreover, at about 5.30 pm on 2 September,members of Kunlon special anti-drug squad and localsecurity force searched a building in Tainkyarkyinevillage in Laukkai Township that had connection withU Phon Kya Shin and seized 154400 stimulant tab-lets, 196 kilos of ephidrine, two kilos of solution forproducing tablets, a machine used in printing tablets,90 gallons of acetic en-hydrate, 45 kilos of solidsodium hydroxide, four moulds for printing tablets,14 gallons of chloroform, a Suzuki car without li-cence and accessories used in producing tablets. In-vestigations are being made to expose those involvedin the incident. —MNA

BERLIN, 8 Sept—More than two million peoplein Europe now have fibre broadband direct to theirhome, suggests a survey.

The latest figures on superfast broadbanddelivered by fibre to the home (FTTH) shows 18%growth over the last survey compiled in late 2008.The continued growth suggests that the global eco-nomic downturn has not hit plans to build a fibreinfrastructure.

Sweden tops the list of nations rolling out thetechnology, with 10.9% of its broadband customersusing fibre.

Karel Helsen, president of Europe’s Fibre-To-The-Home Council, said the growth matched predic-tions that were revised when the credit crunch startedto make itself felt. “The numbers in 2009 are in linewith the latest forecasts,” said Mr Helsen. —InternetThe benefits of fibre to the home go beyond speed

Home fibre plans survive downturn

Local people return toKokang as stability prevails

in Shan State (North)

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