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* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round devel-opment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms

of technical know-how and investments from sources insidethe country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept inthe hands of the State and the national 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

standards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peaceand tranquillity, prevalence of law andorder

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Vice-Senior General

Maung Aye and wife

Daw Mya Mya San

and party pay hom-

age to the Buddha

Image on the first

floor of

Laykyunsekkya

Standing Buddha

Image.—MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye inspects greening of Maha Bawdhitahtaung Sasana Region from the view deck.—MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and wife Daw Mya Mya Sanpay respects to Maha Bawdhitahtaung Laykyunsekkya

Standing Buddha Image, Thanbuddhe Pagoda in MonywaNAY PYI TAW, 31 Jan — Vice-Chairman of the

State Peace and Development Council Deputy Com-mander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Maung Aye andwife Daw Mya Mya San who were in Kanbalu ofShwebo District, Sagaing Division accompanied bySecretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Coun-cil General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo and wife,the Commander-in-Chief (Navy), the Commander-in-Chief (Air), senior military officers of the Ministry of

Defence, commanders, ministers and departmentalheads arrived in Maha Bawdhitahtaung Sasana Regionin Monywa Township by helicopter from Kanbalu at1:10 p.m. on 29 January.

They were welcomed there by Deputy Com-mander of North-West Command Brig-Gen Tin MaungOhn, the secretary of Sagaing Division PDC anddepartmental officials.Vice-Senior General Maung Ayeand wife and party paid homage to the Buddha Imagewhich is kept on the first floor of Laykyunsekkya

Standing Buddha Image.Next, they paid homage to Buddha Images and

religious paintings on the second and third floors of theStanding Buddha Image and viewed religious build-ings and greening of Maha Bawdhitahtaung SasanaRegion from the view deck on the third floor.

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and wife andparty cordially greeted pilgrims at the compound of theBuddha Image.

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Monday, 1 February, 2010

PERSPECTIVES

Try to improve regionaleconomy by boostingagricultural produce

* 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 Desire

As Myanmar’s economy is based onagriculture, the State is fulfilling allrequirements including irrigation water forboosting cultivation of crops in the agriculturalsector. Dams and reservoirs have been builtin large numbers for supply of irrigationwater.

Due to intense heat, scarcity of waterand little rainfall, local people in the aridregions including Sagaing Division once failedto boost agricultural produce.

But now, reservoirs, lakes and smalldams have been built in those regions. Asmany dams including Thaphanseik Dam havebeen constructed in Sagaing Division, morefarmlands have emerged, leading to anincrease in cultivation capacity.

Moreover, measures for tapping waterresources are being taken in KyunhlaTownship for improving its agriculturalsector. Needs for better transport, adequatesupply of irrigation water and boostingcultivation are also being fulfilled.

Thanks to Thaphanseik Dam, built bydamming Mu River, Sagaing Division hasenjoyed not only self-sufficiency in rice butalso surplus. For the local farmers, they willhave to extend sown acreage, increase peracre yield and use quality strains and modernagricultural methods in order to boostagricultural production. They need to growoil crops, long staple cotton, beans and globallymarketable crops in addition to paddy.

More than 200 dams have been builtnationwide for supply of irrigation water andregional greening. Local authorities andfarmers are to extend cultivation of paddyand double cropping by making use ofirrigation water. Only then, will the regionaleconomy as well as their living standardimprove more.

CPT Minister inspects communications facilities

N A Y PY I TA W, 31 Jan—Minister forCommunications, Posts and Telegraphs Brig-GenThein Zaw on 29 January inspected the autoexchange in Mawhan, Kachin State and met withservice personnel.

Next, the minister looked into the Pinherural exchange and attended to the needs.

Yesterday, the minister inspected the auto

exchanges in Mohnyin , Hopin and Pinbaw andfulfilled the requirements.

After that, the minister proceeded to NayPyi Taw where he attended the work coordinationmeeting at the meeting hall of the ministry.

It was also attended by Deputy MinisterMaj-Gen Thein Tun, departmental heads, chiefengineers and state/division managers.— MNA

Air Bagan Myanmar Masters 2010Golf Tourney continues

YANGON, 31 Jan—Air Bagan Myan-marMasters 2010 GolfTourney continued for thethird day at PunhlaingGolf Club here yesterdaymorning.

After the third day’smatch, Gavin Flint(Australia) led thetourney with 206strokes, followed byAung Win (Myanmar)with 210 strokes, Hsu

Chia-jen (China- Taipei)and Akhmal Tarmizee(Malaysia) shared thethird place with 211strokes each. The finalmatch of the tourneycontinues tomorrow atthe same venue, and it isopen to all golfenthusiasts.

The main sponsorof the golf tourney is AirBagan Ltd and thepresenting sponsor,

International BeveragesTrading Co Ltd (IBTC)with the support of MaxMyanmar, PunhlaingGolf Club, Hotel Yangon,MGF and MPGA.

MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw oversees auto exchange in Mohnyin.—MNA

Australian golfer

Gavin Flint leading

the tour in action.

MNA

F&R Minister meets officials of the ministry

Mr and Miss Myanmarsemerge for 2010

YANGON, 31 Jan —Myanmar Bodybuildingand Physical CultureFederation and MyanmarDistribution Group(MDG) Co Ltd jointlysponsored the 2010 Mrand Miss Myanmarscontest at MyanmarConvention Centre hereyesterday.

Of the 14 contestantsof the junior level MrMyanmar contest, MinZaw stood first, Tun Win

Naing, second and MaungMaung Kyi third. Amongthe eight participants ofthe senior level contest,Aung Swe Naing won theMr Myanmar, AungKhaing Win was firstrunner-up and Khaing Linthe second runner-up.

Miss Myanmar waswon by Swe Zin Phyo,while Wutyi Phyo wasfirst runner-up andNguwa Khaing secondrunner-up. — MNA

YANGON, 31 Jan—Minister for Financeand Revenue Maj-GenHla Tun met with seniorofficers and assistantdirectors of departmentsand enterprises of theministry in YangonDivision at CentralBank of Myanmar(Yangon branch) thisafternoon.

Next, the officials

reported to the ministeron completed andongoing department-wise tasks.

The minister saidthat the staff membersare to do their best withmight and main inserving the nationalinterest, realizing theobjectives and aims ofthe State; that they haveto keep touch in with

concerned of CentralBank of Myanmar,Myanma EconomicBank, Myanma ForeignTrade Bank, MyanmaInvestment andCommercial Bank,Myanma Insurance,Myanma Small LoansDepartment, CustomsDepartment, InternalRevenue Department,and Pension Department

modern information andc o m m u n i c a t i o ntechnology; and that allstaff members are inneed of adhering to rulesand regulat ions indischarging their duties.

The minister theninstructed the works inmeeting with themanaging directors anddirectors-general.

MNA

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Police discover weaponcache in Afghan capital,

foil possible terror attack

One killed, 11 injured in 5.0-magnitudequake in SW China

Suicide bomber attack killstwo, wounds 21 in Iraq

BAGHDAD, 31 Jan — Two people were killed and 20others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself upat a restaurant in a central city in Iraq on Saturday, localpolice said. The attack occurred at around 6:15 pm (1515GMT) near a restaurant in Samarra of Salahuddin Prov-ince, 120 km north of Baghdad, police said.

The source said local authorities imposed a curfewand launched an investigation into the attack.

Violence is likely to increase in the war-torn coun-try as the country is preparing for its parliamentaryelection in March.—Xinhua

Suicide attack kills 12 inPakistan’s tribal region

ISLAMABAD, 31 Jan— A suicide bomber killed atleast 12 people, including two soldiers, in northwestPakistan’s tribal region on Saturday, local officialssaid.

The bomber exploded his bomb at a check post ofsecurity forces at Khar, the centre of Bajaur tribal re-gion, they said.

The bomber detonated his bomb when the securityforces stopped for search, which also injured 25 peo-ple.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Butthe officials blamed Taleban militants for the attack.

The injured were rushed to the region’s main hos-pital, officials said. Several critically injured wereshifted to Peshawar, the capital of North West Fron-tier Province.

The security forces are engaged in operation againstTaleban militants in Bajaur and an army statement saidthat 10 militants and two soldiers were killed in anencounter on Friday.

All bazaars in Khar were shut down and theauthorities imposed curfew after the attack, localssaid. The security forces launched a search operationto apprehend suspected militants, they said.

Xinhua

Rescuers work on the rubble of a house destroyed in a quake in Moxi Town ofSuining City, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on 31 Jan, 2010. —XINHUA

CHENGDU, 31 Jan — One person waskilled, eleven were injured and morethan 100 houses collapsed in an earth-quake measuring 5.0 on the RichterScale in southwest China’s SichuanProvince early on Sunday.

The casualties were reported in threevillages of Moxi town, Suining City ineastern Sichuan after the quake joltedthe area at 5:36 am (Beijing Time), ac-cording to the Sichuan Provincial Earth-quake Administration.

More than 30 local seismologists andofficials, led by Lu Yipei, deputy direc-tor of the administration, have reachedthe quake-hit area to carry out further

investigation, the administration said.China’s national seismological net-

work said the epicentre was at the junc-ture part between Suining and TongnanCounty of Chongqing Municipality (30.3degrees north latitude and 105.7 degreeseast longitude), with a depth of about 10kilometres. Suining, a city with a popu-lation of 3.8 million, is 140 kilometreseast to Chengdu, capital of Sichuan.

The seismologists saw a slim possi-bility of more strong quakes in the area,where there were only three minorquakes measuring 2.0 on the RichterScale in the past 20 years, the adminis-tration said.—Xinhua

An injured victim of a suicide bombing inBajur tribal region, is seen at a local hospital

in Peshawar, Pakistan, on 30 Jan,2010.—XINHUA

Anger as NATO airstrike killsfour Afghan soldiers

A view from the site where Afghan National Army and NATO troops clashed inWardak Province, southwest of Kabul on 30 Jan, 2010. NATO troops clashedwith their Afghan army allies and called in air strikes, killing four Afghan sol-diers and wounding six, Afghan provincial officials said on Saturday.—INTERNET

KABUL, 31 Jan—A joint US-Afghanforce called in an airstrike on whatturned out to be an Afghan army postafter taking fire from there before dawnon Saturday, killing four Afghan soldiersand prompting an angry demand for pun-ishment from the country’s defence min-istry. Both NATO and Afghan authori-ties described the clash around a snow-covered outpost in Wardak Provincesouthwest of Kabul as a case of mistakenidentity. NATO called the attack “unfor-tunate” and promised a full investiga-tion.

Nevertheless, the deadly strike threat-

ens to strain relations between NATOand the Afghan government at a timewhen both sides are calling for closerpartnership in the fight against theTaleban. The fighting came on the heelsof several cases of bloodshed betweenAfghans and Americans in recent weeks.NATO and Afghan officials said an Af-ghan interpreter angry over “job issues”shot and killed two US soldiers on Fri-day before he was gunned down by anAmerican service member in the samedistrict as the airstrike. NATO officialssaid the two attacks appeared unre-lated.— Internet

KABUL, 31 Jan —Police unearthed hugeweapon cache and foileda possible terrorist attackduring an operation inAfghan capital Kabul, thecountry’s Interior Minis-try said in a statement onSaturday.

“The operation wasconducted in the 6th pre-cinct on Friday night dur-ing which 34 Kalashnikovassault rifles, ammunitionand remote controls usedin detonating explosivedevices were found,” thestatement added.

However, no one hasbeen arrested, it said. Thediscovery of so manyweapons in the fortifiedcapital city has takenplace in the wake ofincreasing Taleban-ledsecurity incidents acrossthe country includingKabul.

Taleban militants on

18 January carried outmultiple suicide bomb-ings and firing in Kabulwhich left 15 people in-cluding 10 attackers deadand injured more than 70others with the majority ofthem civilians.

Xinhua

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Extreme cold damages Mongolia’s economy

WTO ministers reaffirm committmentto fight protectionism

Shell, Dow ChemicalCEOs hope to increase

investment in ChinaDAVOS, 31 Jan—The CEOs of Shell and Dow

Chemical, two oil and chemical giants in the world,have said they are willing to expand investment inChina as the country is increasingly important on theglobal stage.

Peter Voser, chief executive office of Royal DutchShell, told Xinhua in an interview on the sidelines ofthe Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forumthat Shell has significant investment plans in China,which is one of the company’s key countries.

“We are very optimistic that we will achieve a verycompetitive position there,” he said. “It is the biggestmarket in the world in the longer term and I think wehave all the businesses and all the products whichChina will need.”

Now, Shell has closely cooperated with Chinesestate-owned oil companies like CNPC and Sinopec.China is becoming the most important energy market,and the two (CNPC and Sinopec) are Shell’ s partnersin China, said Voser.

“They are very active in all the areas of upstreamand downstream,” he said. “We are very happy to col-laborate and work together with them within Chinabut also outside China. We are delivering our technol-ogy and our best products into China.”—Xinhua

Saudi to hostGulf-AfricaInvestment

Forumin April

RIYADH, 31 Jan—SaudiArabia is to host the Gulf-Africa Investment Forumon 24-25 April, SaudiPress Agency reported onSaturday.

Council of SaudiChambers (CSC), to-gether with the Gulf Re-search Centre, will organ-ize the meeting in Riyadh,which is expected to at-tract delegations of Gulfcountries and Africancountries, the reportquoted Secretary Generalof CSC Fahad S al- Sul-tan as saying.

Al-Sultan said themeeting, under the themeof “Gulf and Africa:Economic Partnership,”will discuss various in-vestment opportunities inAfrica and the relevantconcrete actions, al-Sul-tan added.—XinhuaChina is not only a market

but a resource

Artists with China’s Central NationalitiesOrchestra perform in a concert in Brussels,

capital of Belgium, on 29 Jan, 2010, as part ofthe Europe-China art festival.—XINHUA

A member of the Chinese anti-riot police team inHaiti holds an orphan in his arms as a doctor

cleans his wounds at the orphanage “solidarityand fraternity” in Port-au-Princes, capital of

Haiti, on 30 Jan, 2010.—XINHUA

ULAN BATOR, 31 Jan—Mongolia’s economy hasbeen hard hit by its pro-longed spell of extremecold weather and heavysnow, with the southernprovince of Dundgobi thehardest hit, a local officialsaid.

“A direct loss of 6.6million US dollars hasbeen suffered by theeconomy of Dundgobi

province due to extremecold and continuous snowblizzards,” DundgobiGovernor Sh. Turbat toldXinhua in a recent inter-view.

Almost all of the prov-ince is suffering from anatural disaster known asdzud, with snowfalldepths ranging from of20-90 centimetres.

The average tempera-ture in the province hasdropped to -36 degreesCelsius at night and -26

degrees Celsius duringthe day.

“We are trying our bestto overcome the winterdifficulties. The local gov-ernment’s priority is toprevent the loss of humanlives. Herders are losingtheir lives while trying tosave their livestock. Weare delivering to most af-fected areas fodder andforage to keep the herdersin their winter camp,”Turbat said.

Xinhua

DAVOS, 31 Jan—Chinais not only a huge marketbut also a huge resource,said Ben Verwaayen,chief executive officer ofAlcatel-Lucent, a globaltelecommunications cor-poration headquartered inParis, France.

It means “a lot of ourproducts and a lot of ourideas are coming fromChina,” the CEO toldXinhua in an exclusiveinterview.

“There is a lot of crea-tivity in the market and

there are a lot of entrepre-neurial people that havegreat ideas and a lot ofgood things are happeningin China.”

According toVerwaayen, China is anextraordinarily importantmarket. “We have beenaround in China for a longperiod of time,” he said.

The rise of China isone hot topic at the five-day Annual Meeting ofthe World Economic Fo-rum that began onWednesday. Many partici-pants agreed that it is timeto seek opportunities inemerging markets likeChina.

Xinhua

DAVOS, 31 Jan—Some17 WTO trade ministerson Saturday reaffirmedtheir committment to fightprotectionism despite theworld trade body’s long-time deadlock in the DohaRound trade-opening ne-gotiations.

The ministers at an in-formal meeting in Davossaid they would continueefforts “to resist protec-tionist pressures at home,”

and they recognized that“the opening-up of marketis the best to do to fightthe crisis,” Swiss Eco-nomics Minister DorisLeuthard told a Pressconference.

Leuthard, the host ofthe meeting, admitted thatthere was still no break-through in the eight-year-old Doha Round negotia-tions. But she said theWTO rules “are there as awhole,” and those ruleshave helped prevent“an even worse global

economic crisis.”“The opening-up of

markets is the best we cando to fight the crisis, tobetter stabilize our budg-ets and to contribute to therecovery of the globaleconomy which will in-duce overall job creation.The conclusion of theDoha Round will be astrong multilateral tool tothat purpose,” Leuthardtold reporters.

XinhuaPhoto taken on 28 Jan, 2010 shows a yurtcovered by snow in a county of Dundgovi

(Central Gobi) Province, Mongolia. —XINHUA

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Four Chinese snatch victoryat “Moscow Chess Open”

A girl is vaccinated in Bogota, capital of Colombia, on 30 Jan, 2010. The vaccina-tion operation in Bogota is said to be the most successful in Latin American coun-tries, as over 96 percent of the children here were vaccinated for free. —XINHUA

High-speed trains wait for departure at Guangzhou south railway station inGuangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province, on 30 Jan,

2010. The Asia’s biggest railway station came into use on Saturday, the firstday of Chinese spring festival transport rush of 2010. —XINHUA

UN starts ticket-for-food programme in Haiti

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

Hou Yifan (front), a 16-year-old Chinese girl participates in the tourna-ment. —XINHUA

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 31Jan—Up to 2.4 millionHaitians will get food ra-tions from the WorldFood Programme (WFP)which is organizing a 15-day emergency ticket-for-food programme in theHaitian capital.

More than a dozen dis-tribution spots will be setup in the city to facilitatethe project, a WFPspokesperson said on Sat-urday. “We will be form-ing 16 fixed distributionsites around the city. Weaim to reach 10,000 peo-ple at each site,” saidMarcus Pryor.

The UN body has sofar provided food toaround 650,000 Haitiansin the 18 days after thekiller earthquake hit theCaribbean island countryon 12 Jan.

The Haitian authori-ties said that the magni-tude-7.3 quake has de-stroyed the country’s food

supply system.Feeding an entire city

of millions of people isunusual to the WFP,which is more used toproviding food to refu-gees displaced by con-flicts and wars.

“Each family will beallotted 60 pounds (27kg) of rice. Only female

heads of household willbe allowed into the distri-bution area to bring thefood out,” the WFPspokesperson said. “Wewill be loading and trans-porting during the nightbecause of the densepopulation and trafficwithin Port-au-Prince.”

Xinhua

Canada, US bolster cooperation onaviation security

MOSCOW, 31 Jan—Four out of five Chineseplayers won their conteston the first day of the In-ternational Chess Festi-val “Moscow Open2010” here on Saturday.

Hou Yifan, a 16-year-old Chinese girl whoparticipated in the tour-nament for male players,said she won the gamerather easy.

The InternationalChess Festival, hostedby Russian State Social

University for the sixthconsecutive year, pre-sented a prize totallingfive million rubles(164,635 US dollars).

Some 1,226 playersfrom 30 countries, in-cluding 100 masters,have participated in thefestival.

The “Moscow Open2010” consists of sixtournaments, which aredevoted to the Victory inthe Great Patriotic War in1945.—Xinhua

OTTAWA, 31 Jan—Ca-nadian Minister of PublicSafety Vic Toews andTransport Minister JohnBaird met here on Fridaywith Jane Holl Lute, USdeputy secretary of Home-land Security, to promotethe cooperation and coor-

dination between the twoneighbouring countries onaviation security measuresand standards.

They also exploredways to enhance globalaviation security to protectpassengers around theworld following the at-tempted bombing of a USflight on 25 Dec, 2009.

“Canada is a full part-

ner with the United Statesin securing aviation inNorth America,”saidToews, “It is important thatwe continue to work to-gether to develop and im-plement effective andcomplementary measuresand standards to ensure thesafety and security of ourcitizens.”

Xinhua

Hijacked Cambodiancargo ship no pirate attack

NAIROBI, 31 Jan—A hi-jacked Cambodian cargoship is being held off So-malia’s Berbera port bybusinessmen owing to adeal which has gone sourand not pirate attack, a re-gional maritime officialconfirmed on Saturday.

Andrew Mwangura,East Africa’s Coordinatorof Seafarers Assistance

Programme (SAP), saidthe MV Layla-S whichwas seized on Wednesdayafter it unloaded at the portin the semi-autonomousregion of Somali land has14 crew members onboard from Pakistan, In-dia, Sri Lanka, Somaliaand Syria.

“The ill-fated Cambo-dian flagged cargo shipMV LAYLA-S is beingheld hostage in portBerbera by Somali busi-nessmen owing to a dealwhich has gone sour,”Mwangura said by tel-ephone from Mombasa,east Kenya.

“It is said that the ves-sel has link with Syrianand UAE business men.We are informed that shewas taken by gunmen af-ter discharging her cargo,”he said. Piracy has be-come rampant off the coastof Africa, especially in thewaters near Somalia,which has been without aneffective governmentsince 1991.—Xinhua

China’s largest clean diesel motor plantin production

BEIJING, 31 Jan —Chi-na’s largest clean dieselmotor plant has gone intoproduction in Inner Mon-golia. It marks a giant stepforward, for China’s autoparts industry. The newplant is a subsidiary ofHaw Tai Automobile. Itwill manufacture dieselmotors, complying witheuro five emission stand-ards. It’s China’s firstclean diesel engine forautos. And could reduceenergy consumption by aquarter, compared with

gasoline engines of thesame size.

Xu Hengwu, Directorof Haw Tai Motor Plant,said, “Considering the na-tional energy strategy andthe urge to cut carbon di-oxide emissions, dieselmotor markets will expe-rience rapid growth in thenear future.” Diesel mo-tors are relatively environ-mentally-friendly. Carspowered by diesel enginesmake up over 50-percentof market share in Europeand the figure is increas-

ing in North America, Ja-pan and South Korea.However, China haslagged behind with a mar-ket share close to zero.

This new plant, with aproduction capacity of300-thousand for the firstphase, is making a break-through. Zhao Jingguang,Dep. Party Secretary ofFoton Motor Co, said, “Itis a trend that traditionalengines will develop intolow-emission and environ-mentally-friendly motors.

Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

HK to inspect 4,000 “over aged” buildingsafter collapse incident

India grudgingly accepts consensus atLondon Conference on AfghanistanNEW DELHI, 31 Jan — India is grudgingly accepting

the reality that other major participants at the LondonConference on Afghanistan this week have reached a con-sensus to clear a way for new negotiations with theTalebans, the Times of India reported on Saturday.

The paper quoted Indian Minister of External Af-fairs SM Krishna as saying that India is “willing to giveit a try” if the Talebans meet the three conditions putforward by the participating countries at the conference.

The three conditions are acceptance of the AfghanConstitution, severing connections with Al-Qaeda andother terrorist groups, and renunciation of violence andare accepted in the mainstream of Afghan politics andsociety.

Xinhua

A visitor views a porcelain at aceramic painting exhibition openingat the Zhejiang kiln ceramics galleryin Hangzhou, capital of east China’s

Zhejiang Province.

Visitors take photos in front of the chocolate terracotta

warriors array in Beijing, capital of China. The Chocolate

Wonderland, a chocolate theme park in the Olympic

Green, was officially opened to the public, in which 560

miniature chocolate terracotta warriors were displayed.

This handout picture released by Meon HDTV Productions on 29 January,shows a recent picture of the tunnel plus Opus Reticulatum discovered by ateam of British documentarists near Bracciano, some 30 kilometres north of

Rome. The film-makers have discovered the source of a Roman aqueductbuilt by the emperor Trajan in the early second century AD.—INTERNET

Abbas to respond to US peaceoffer after talks to Arabs

RAMALLAH, 31 Jan — Palestinian President MahmoudAbbas will respond to a US offer to resume peace talkswith Israel after he consults with Arab states, a Palestiniannewspaper reported on Saturday.

“The response will be in 10 days,” the Jerusalem-basedal-Quds daily quoted Abbas as saying. The offer suggeststhat Washington mediates in indirect talks between Israeland the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).

The Palestinians want Israel to completely stopsettlement activities in the West Bank and East Jeru-salem before going back to the negotiations that havebeen stalled since December 2008. According toAbbas, Israel rejected US President Barack Obama‘s proposal to halt the settlement and offered anotherplan in which settlement’s building would stop for10 months only in the West Bank.—Xinhua

China’s Ping An Insurance forecastsover 1500 pct profit increase in 2009BEIJING, 31 Jan — Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of

China, the country’s second-largest insurer, said in a state-ment to the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Saturday thatits net profit in 2009 would grow over 1500 percent overthe 2008 level.

The company did not give the exact figure of its esti-mated profit, but according to the statement, its net profitin 2008 stood at 662 million yuan (about 96.93 millionUS dollars) with earnings per share at 0.09 yuan.

The result is an unaudited one, and specific figureswill be released in the upcoming annual report, it said.

Ping An attributed its soaring profit to its rapid andsound development in its insurance, banking and invest-ment business, and a change in China’s accounting stand-ards required by the Ministry of Finance from the end oflast year.—Xinhua

HONG KONG, 31 Jan — Plans of ex-tensive and comprehensive inspection ofroughly 4,000 buildings aged 50 years andover will be carried out in a month, saidthe website of the HK Special Adminis-trative Regional government on Saturdayafter a building collapse incident.

“This is a comprehensive check acrossthe territory of all the buildings of thisage, which we believed are more or lessof similar construction, which is rein-forced concrete framed construction,”said Secretary for Development, CarrieLam, after inspecting the scene of thebuilding collapse case in Ma Tau Wai

Road on Saturday. A five-storey apart-ment building of more than 50 years oldin Hung Hom, Hong Kong’s KowloonDistrict, collapsed suddenly around 1:30pm local time ( 0530 GMT) Friday after-noon. Four people were confirmed deadand two others injured.

“We are going to set up 40 teams of pro-fessional and technical staff to go out tovarious parts of Hong Kong, Kowloon andthe New Territories to inspect these 4,000buildings. The target is to complete thesecomprehensive inspection within a month.We will then follow up with the needed re-medial action,” she added.—Xinhua

Stray dogs kill 13 animalsat Bulgaria zoo

The director of Sofia’s zoo says apack of stray dogs killed 13 of its ani-mals. Zoo director Ivan Ivanov says anunknown number of dogs leapt througha fence and attacked eight mouflon, fourfallow deers and a doe.

Ivanov told The Associated Press theincident occurred last week and was themost serious in the zoo’s recent history.He believes freezing temperatures andhunger had driven the dogs.

Two fallow deers and one mouflonmanaged to escape and survived be-fore security guards intervened. Thedogs also escaped. Ivanov said thatnew animals of the same species havebeen already transported to Sofia. Thezoo is the largest in the country with1,310 animals of 274 different spe-cies.

Mom says teen on solo sail is dyslexicThe Australian teenager now in the midst of a solo, non-

stop around-the-world sail suffers from profound dyslexia,her mother says. Julie Watson told The Brisbane Courier-Mail her daughter, Jessica, 16, was diagnosed with dyslexiawhen she was still in preschool. She struggled with schoolbecause she could not learn to read.

When Jessica was 11, her mother read her “Lionheart: AJourney of the Human Spirit” by Jesse Martin, who in 1999became the youngest person to sail alone around the world with-out stopping. Julie Watson said her daughter “went very quiet,you could see the cogs turning.” “She realized he was an ordi-nary person with vulnerabilities and humanness,” Julie Watsonsaid. “And that’s why he wrote the book: so people realizedyou don’t have to be superhuman to go around the world.”

Jessica is now trying to break Martin’s record. She is onboard her yacht, the Pink Lady, halfway across the South At-lantic. “She has struggled all along with perception and peoplesaying: ‘How could she do that if she can’t even spell?’ But youdon’t have to accept that as a limitation,” her mother said.

Unknown WWI soldier buried as massgraves give up secrets

An unknownWorld War I sol-dier was buried inF r o m e l l e s ,France, on Satur-day, the first ofsome 250 bodiesrecovered from astring of massgraves datingback to a bloody— and largely

pointless — battlethat claimed thou-sands of lives in asingle night.About 2,300 Brit-ish and Australiantroops were killed,and thousandsmore wounded,captured or leftmissing in actionwhen they were

ordered to chargeinto German ma-chine guns on July19, 1916.

Nearly a cen-tury later, the bat-tle of Fromellesremains the dead-liest 24-hour pe-riod in Australianmilitary history,the country’s min-ister for veteransaffairs, Alan Grif-fin, said.

A carnival reveller participates in an afternoon parade in theIpanema neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro January 30, 2010.

Thousands of revellers gathered for the annual “Band ofIpanema” samba parade through the beachfront area, in the

city’s most famous street party of the year.—INTERNET

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Haiti detains Americans taking kidsacross border

Second major storm of winterhits Washington

Body of lottery winner found buriedin Florida

American citizens pose for a photo at police headquarters in the internationalairport of Port-au-Prince, on 30 Jan , 2010. Ten Americans were detained byHaitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border

into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents.INTERNET

Colombian police seize cocaine-stuffed cookies

A policeman and hissniffer dog walk around

packages in 2008.Colombian sniffer dogssmelled something that

was just not right:cocaine-stuffed cookiesthat were about to beshipped to Barcelona,police said on Satur-

day.— INTERNET

BOGOTA, 31 Jan — Co-lombian sniffer dogssmelled something thatwas just not right: co-caine-stuffed cookies thatwere about to be shippedto Barcelona, police saidovernight. A total of fivekilograms of the drugwere concealed in 10packs of cookies,counternarcotics policesaid in a statement.Notyour average biscuit, “thecream was taken out ofthe cookies and replaced

with compressedbleached cocaine to avoidsuspicion fromcounternarcotics units,” itadded.

Colombia is theworld’s biggest producerof cocaine, with around430 tonnes in 2009 —around half of global pro-duction — according tothe United Nations Officeon Drugs and Crime.Spain is one of the topports of entry for drugs tobe smuggled in Europe,

including hashish fromNorth Africa and cocainefrom Latin America.

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PLANT CITY, 31 Jan —The body of a formertruck driver’s assistantwho won $17m in a lot-tery in 2006 has beenfound buried under a con-crete slab in a backyard inFlorida. Abraham Shake-speare, who was barelyliterate, went missingnine months ago aftercomplaining of being ex-ploited by hangers-onwho tried to take hismoney.

His body was found on

Friday behind a home be-longing to the boyfriendof a woman who be-friended him in 2007. Po-lice believe he was mur-dered, but have not yetarrested anyone.Hillsborough Countysheriff’s detectives usedfingerprints to identifyMr Shakespeare’s body,which they found coveredby a concrete slab in abackyard in Plant City.

Police do not yet knowhow he died, but they be-

lieve the woman, namedDorice Donegan “Dee-Dee” Moore, may be ableto shed light on what hap-pened. A tip-off led detec-tives to the grave behindthe home of Ms Moore’sboyfriend Shar Krasniqi.Mr Shakespeare boughtthe winning ticket at astore in the town ofFrostproof but his brother,Robert Brown, said he of-ten wished he had neverwon.

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WASHINGTON, 31 Jan—For the second time thiswinter, snow blanketedWashington on Saturdayas a winter storm movedeastward to the Carolinasand Virginia. The capitalgot up to 8 inches, TheWashington Post re-ported. Snowfalls of afoot or more were re-ported in Virginia. Thestorm moved acrossMaryland and Delawareand dumped severalinches of snow on the

southern Jersey Shore,KYW-TV, Philadelphia ,reported.

Washington averages8 inches of snow a win-ter. This year, more than17 inches had fallen be-fore Saturday’s storm,most of it in a record-breaker in December. Thestorm moved in from thewest, where many areaswere still coping withsnow and ice. PresidentBarack Obama declaredan emergency for the en-

tire state of Oklahoma,The Oklahoman reported.

In that state, 140,000homes had lost power onSaturday, and some resi-dents have been withoutelectricity since Thursday.In the southern moun-tains, 11 inches of snowfell on Friday inAsheville, NC, CNN re-ported, almost twice theprevious record of 6inches, set in 1930. Thestate asked drivers to stayoff the roads.— Internet

Babies thrown from flat to escape fire

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 31 Jan— Ten Americans weredetained by Haitian policeon Saturday as they triedto bus 33 children acrossthe border into the Do-minican Republic, alleg-edly without proper docu-ments. The Baptist churchmembers from Idahocalled it a “Haitian OrphanRescue Mission,” meantto save abandoned chil-dren from the chaos fol-lowing Haiti’s earthquake.

Their plan was toscoop up 100 kids and take

them by bus to a rentedhotel at a beach resort inthe Dominican Republic,where they planned to es-tablish an orphanage.

Whether they realizedit or not, these Americans— the first known to betaken into custody sincethe 12 Jan, earthquake —put themselves in the mid-dle of a firestorm in Haiti,where government leadershave suspended adoptionsamid fears that parentlessor lost children are morevulnerable than ever to

child trafficking.“In this chaos the gov-

ernment is in right now wewere just trying to do theright thing,” the group’sleader, Laura Silsby toldThe Associated Press atthe judicial police head-quarters in the capital,where the Americans werebeing held pending a Mon-day hearing before a judge.Silsby said they only hadthe best of intentions andpaid no money for the chil-dren.

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The fire engulfed a three-storey apartment block on a busy commercial strip.INTERNET

NEW YORK , 31 Jan —Five people are dead andthree have been injured ina Brooklyn blaze that in-vestigators suspect was in-tentionally set. Some peo-ple trapped in the buildingwere forced to toss at leasttwo children out of win-dows, one of whom - atwo-month-old girl - suf-fered a skull fracture whenshe hit the ground, TheNew York Post reported.

The raging inferno ap-peared to have been set justinside the front door of thebuilding around 2:30 am onSaturday local time, andspread quickly up stairs thatled to two crowded apart-ments above a Japaneserestaurant, officials said.“The fire spread up throughthe staircase and right upthrough the roof,” the FireDepartment City of NewYork (FDNY) Commis-

sioner Salvatore Cassanosaid. “It’s a very unusualplace for a fire to start. It’svery likely to be incendi-ary.” Officials said asmany as 20 people —mostly Guatemalan immi-grants — lived in the apart-ments.

Many managed to es-cape down a rear fire es-cape but the intense blazetrapped several others.

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Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and wife Daw Mya Mya San…(from page 1)

They offered flowerand water to the StandingBuddha Image at theprayer hall.

Afterwards, they paidrespects and presented pro-visions to SayadawBhaddanta Aggavamsa ofGantgawtahtaung Monas-tery in PyinOoLwin andfive presiding Sayadawsof the BawdhitahtaungSasana Region at BuddhaShwekyaung where MahaBawdhitahtaung Sayadaw

Agga MahaSuddhamajotikadhajaBhaddanta Narada livedin.

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and party vis-ited ThanbuddheKatkyaw Pagoda and of-fered flower and water tothe Mingala Buddha Im-age which is being kept at

the Pagoda.Next, they paid hom-

age to Buddha Images atthe Pagoda.

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye presentedcash donation to the mem-bers of the Board of Trus-tees of the Pagoda andaccepted Dhamma gifts.

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and partysigned the visitors’ bookof the Pagoda.

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and wife and

party arrived in Monywain the evening.

On 30 January morn-ing, Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and wife andparty arrived inAlaungtaw Kassapa Na-tional Park in Kani Town-ship of Monywa Districtby helicopter. They werewelcomed by Col Aung

Moe of North-West Com-mand, directors-generalof the Ministry of For-estry, division/district/township level depart-mental officials and re-sponsible persons of thepark.

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye and wife andparty offered alm, flower,water and fruit and goldfoils to the recliningAlaungtaw Shin MahaKassapa Mathe Image atAlaungtaw Kassapa build-

ing.Vice-Senior General

Maung Aye and wife pre-sented cash donation tomembers of the Board ofTrustees of the pagoda andaccepted Dhamma gifts.

Next, Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye andwife signed visitors’ bookand offered golden lotus

robe to the reclining Bud-dha Image.

At Alaungtaw Kassa-pa Cave, Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye andwife and party offeredalm, flower, water, fruitand lights and paid hom-age to the Alaungtaw ShinMaha Kassapa Mathe Im-age.

Next, they offeredgold foils to the cave.

Vice-Senior Gen-eral Maung Aye and wifeand party enjoyed per-formance of tame el-ephants of the Forest De-partment at the compoundof the building.

Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye pouredscented water on Bo Treeat the compound of theAlaungtaw Kasapa Im-age. Minister for ForestryBrig-Gen Thein Aunghim round the AlaungtawKasapa National ParkEducative Booth.

Next, Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye andparty offered alms tomembers of the Sanghaled by Phowintaung

Popakyaung SayadawMaha Suddhamajotika-dhaja Bhaddanta Sumanaat Nayaka building.

Vice-Senior General

Maung Aye, wife andparty left Monywa by heli-copter and arrived in Man-dalay in the evening.

MNA

Laykyunsekkya Standing Buddha Image in

Maha Bawdhitahtaung Sasana Region.

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Maung

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Vice-Senior General Maung Aye offers gold foils to recliningAlaungtaw Shin Maha Kassapa Mathe Image.—MNA

U Thu Kha’s centenary birth markedYANGON, 31 Jan—The

Myanmar Motion PictureAssociation organized aceremony to mark the cen-tenary birth of late writer-cum-film director U ThuKha at its office on

Religious Affairs Ministerinspects plantations

NAY PYI TAW, 30Jan—Member of CentralOrganizing Committee forMyanmar War VeteranOrganization Minister forReligious Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maung

inspected 1000-acre hy-brid farm and arrangementfor water supply to plan-tations in Homakha Vil-lage, Nawnghkio Town-ship of Shan State (North)on 24 January.

The minister alsolooked into plantations,breeding farms and test-planting Ngwechi-6 cottonfields in the compound ofMWVO Training School,Mandalay.—MNA

Wingabar Street in BahanTownship yesterday.

Grandchildren andmovie professionals paidrespects to the picture ofthe late film-directing gen-ius as a gesture of their

admiration.The works he had cre-

ated while alive such asfilms, plays, songs, andliterary works were dem-onstrated.

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Easy access from one place to an-other may bring about higher…

(from page 16)Then Chairman of Mandalay Division PDC Com-

mander of Central Command Maj-Gen Tin Ngwemade a supplementary report on development ofSingu Township and progress in agricultural, educa-tion, health and road transport sectors, availability ofdrinking water and irrigation water, rice and edibleoil sufficiency in the township.

Afterwards, Minister for Construction Maj-GenKhin Maung Myint reported on completion of feasi-bility study on construction of Ayeyawady Bridge(Singu-Kyaukmyaung), emergence of new eightbridges across Ayeyawady River in the time ofTatmadaw government, works being carried out forconstruction of Sinkhan, Pakokku, Malun andNyaungdon Bridges during 2009-10 fiscal year andworks to be done for construction of Singu-Kyaukmyaung Bridge across Ayeyawady River.

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye said in re-sponse to the report that the road transportation is thebasic need for development of the nation. Easy accessfrom one place to another may ensure bring aboutsocio-economic status and broaden the horizons ofthe national races. It may also secure better friendshipamong the national races. So, the government builtmotorways and railways and constructed bridgesacross Ayeyawady, Thanlwin and Chindwin rivers ina short period of time. Now, we are here to observesituations to built Ayeyawady Bridge (Singu-Kyaukmyaung) which will link eastern and westernparts of Ayeyawady River.

The project will start soon. The government is

striving not only for transportation sector but fordevelopment in economic, education, health andsocial sector.

Local people from Singu and Kyaukmyaungregions are to make endeavours for self-sufficiencyin rice and boosting agricultural production. Vice-Senior General Maung Aye cordially greeted theattendee.

On arrival at Shwe Mudhtaw Pagoda in Singu,

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and party offeredflowers, water and fruit and paid homage to theBuddha Image.

On behalf of Vice-Senior General Maung Aye,Secretary-1 General Thiha Thura Tin Aung MyintOo donated cash for the pagoda through PagodaBoard of Trustees and accepted Dhamma gift.

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye inspected align-ment for Ayeyawady Bridge (Singu-Kyaukmyaung)from the view deck of the pagoda. Minister Maj-GenKhin Maung Myint reported on progress of feasibil-ity study and facts about the bridge.

In response to the report, Vice-Senior GeneralMaung Aye called for the systematic study on condi-

tions of water flow and banks.Vice-Senior General Maung Aye inspected the

Singu jetty.Afterwards, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye

viewed Nwenyein village, Kyaukmyaung model vil-lage on west bank of Ayeyawady River in ShweboTownship of Sagaing Division and alignment for thebridge by helicopter and arrived in Mandalay in theafternoon.Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and partyinspected development of Mandalay and upgradingof downtown roads in a motorcade and arrived here inthe evening. — MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye meets withdepartmental personnel, members of social

organizations, townselders and locals.—MNA

Bird’s eye view of

alignment for

Ayeyawady Bridge

(Singu-Kyaukmyaung)

linking the eastern and

western parts of

Ayeyawady River.

MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye cordially converses with departmental personnel, members ofsocial organizations, townselders and locals.—MNA

The government built motorways and

railways and constructed bridges across

Ayeyawady, Thanlwin and Chindwin riv-

ers in a short period of time.

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S Korea confirms sixthoutbreak of FMD

SEOUL, 31 Jan—South Korea confirmed on Satur-day the sixth outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease(FMD) in a local cattle farm north of Seoul, localmedia reported.

The farm, located in Pochen in GyeonggiProvince, about 45 kilometres north of Seoul, isabout 3.8 kilometres away from where the firstoutbreak was reported on 7 Jan, South Korea’s Min-istry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheriessaid.

The animals in the farm reported blisters onFriday, the ministry added.

Quarantine authorities decided to cull all 81 headsof dairy cattle in the farm, and also plan to kill andbury livestock within a 500-metre radius of the farmto prevent further spread of the highly infectiousvirus.

The fifth outbreak of the FMD also reported inPochen region on Tuesday, and 63 heads of livestockwithin the 500-metre radius of the outbreak site wereculled.

Xinhua

Delhi book fair showcases booming bookmarket in Asia

DR Congo lakewreckage kills nine

KINSHASA, 31 Jan—A small fishing boat coupledwith two canoes with 42 passengers on board over-turned and left nine dead on Lake Tanganyika inKatanga Province of the Democratic Republic ofCongo (DR Congo), a local radio station said on Fri-day. Citing a maritime police source based at Tembwe,68 km from the scene of the wreckage, the radio saidthe overloading, bad weather and the drunkenness ofthe crew members were the main causes of the acci-dent, which occurred between Monday night and Tues-day morning. The nine victims included seven chil-dren.

The news of the accident arrived quite late at themaritime services at Tembwe because there were dif-ficulties in accessing the Kabumba locality along LakeTanganyika, the same source said.

Maurice Nkulu Ngoy, a judicial police officer atKalemie police station, told the radio that similar ac-cidents occur very often as some people do not haveproper navigation documents, they are not registeredand they escape from paying taxes and take risks bynavigating through insecure conditions. —Xinhua

Ginkgo: Risk of seizuresin epileptics

Tourists visit a market during the Mazayina DhafraCamel Festival in Zayed City in Al Gharbia, United

Arab Emirates, on 30 Jan, 2010.—XINHUA

India submitsemission

mitigationactions to UN

NEW DELHI, 31 Jan—India on Saturday submit-ted its domestic emissionmitigation actions to theUnited Nations Frame-work Convention on Cli-mate Change (UNFCCC),reported local daily TheHindu on Sunday.

India told theUNFCCC that to link upwith the Copenhagen Ac-cord, it would try to re-duce the emissions inten-sity of its gross domesticproduct (GDP) by 20 per-cent to 25 percent by 2020in comparison to the 2005levels, said the report.

The domestic mitiga-tion actions will be en-tirely voluntary in natureand will not have a legallybinding character, accord-ing to the report.

Xinhua

Raynald Fortin com-petes during theGrande Viree dog sledrace in the streets of theOld Quebec at the Que-bec Winter Carnival in

Quebec City on 30Jan, 2010.—XINHUA

NEW DELHI, 31 Jan—The 19th biennial DelhiWorld Book Fair waslaunched on Saturday inNew Delhi, with a nine-day festival deemed asone of the biggest bookfairs in Asia.

About 1,200 publishersand exhibitors are partici-pating in the fair. Amongthem, 35 foreign publish-ers are showcasing booksfrom 15 countries. Whilemany of the publishers areregular at this festival,some are attending it forthe first time.

This is Turkey’smaiden participation inthe fair and it is being rep-resented by the RNK pub-lishing.

“We are participatingbecause both India andTurkey share a lot in com-mon. We feel we should

enhance and exchangecultural experiencesthrough books. Our stallhas a range of books butthe main attraction is‘Risale Nur’ written byBediuzzomon Said Nursi,“ said Tahiri Kumru, arepresentative of theTurkish publishing house.

The fair, organized bythe National Book Trust,provided a common plat-form to find new distribu-tors and publishers whoseek copyright trade, en-hanced book trade and ex-change of information.

Xinhua

BONN, 31 Jan—Anherbal remedy may raisethe risk of seizures in peo-ple with epilepsy, Germanresearchers warn.

Eckhard Leistner andChristel Drewke ofInstitut fur Phar-mazeutische Biologie,Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat, saythe remedy — pills or teasfrom the leaves or raw orroasted seeds of Ginkgobiloba used to treat an ar-ray of maladies includingAlzheimer’s disease andblood vessel blockages —contains potentially toxicginkgotoxin that may af-fect a chemical signallingpathway in ways that trig-ger epileptic seizures.

The researchers re-viewed 10 studies andthey say there is evidence

Ginkgo can interact withanti-seizure medicationsand reduce their effective-ness.

The researchers urgerestrictions be placed onthe use of the top-sellingremedy.

“It is therefore impor-tant that the large numberof G. biloba product usersand their healthcare pro-viders be made aware ofthese risks, in order to en-able them to make in-formed decisions aboutthe use of these prepara-tions,” the study says.

The review is pub-lished in the Journal ofNatural Products.

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Tourists enjoy themselves at the Fortaleza Can-yon in the Serra Geral National Park in RioGrande do Sul, southern Brazil, on 28 Jan,

2010.—XINHUA

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Chile’s public universitiesoffer 200 places

for Haiti studentsSANTIAGO, 31 Jan—The 25 Chilean public univer-

sities on Friday offered 200 places for Haitian stu-dents to begin or continue their higher education.

The Chilean universities are making this offer asmany students’ studies have to be interrupted due tothe massive earthquake on 12 Jan, said Juan ManuelZolezzi, rector of the University of Santiago.

He said the Chilean universities will also offerpsychological support, Spanish lessons and otherbenefits for Haitian students.

Xinhua

S African business donatesto Haiti victims

JOHANNESBURG, 31 Jan—A South African businesshas donated five million rands (675,000 US dollars)to Haitian earthquake victims.

On Friday the Cape Town-based company pre-sented a check to Imtiaz Sooliman from the SouthAfrican humanitarian aid organization Gift of theGivers, which sent two search and rescue missionsto the stricken Caribbean country.

“Our only hope is that these funds find their wayto the most vulnerable members of the communityand somehow help them in their quest to rebuild theirshattered lives,” Nazeem Ebrahim, Oasis GroupHoldings marketing director told the media in CapeTown.

A quake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale hitHaiti on 12 Jan, killing an estimated 200,000 peo-ple.—Xinhua

Macao Red Cross receives nearly380,000 USD for Haiti victimsMACAO, 31 Jan—The Macao Red Cross said on

Friday that it has so far received more than 3 millionpatacas (379,747 US dollars) in donations fromlocal people for earthquake victims in Haiti.

The Kiang Wu Hospital Charitable Association, alocal charity, donated some 380,000 patacas (48,101dollars) to the Macao Red Cross for the Haiti disas-ter relief, according to a spokesperson of the RedCross.

The money will be used to assist the quake reliefoperations in Haiti, where local officials has esti-mated that over 100,000 people were killed in thedisaster, and the Macao Red Cross will later discusswith the Red Cross Society of China and the Inter-national Committee of the Red Cross on the way thedonations will be delivered.—Xinhua

Antibiotic displays unexpected results

California lists moon junkas historical resource

NY fears Central Parkrabies outbreak

Chinese fishing boats areseen near the dried riverbanks of Yangtze, inWanxian, southwest Chi-na’s Chongqing municipal-ity. Officials warned that240,000 people were suffer-ing from water shortages ina mountainous region insouthern China that hasbeen hit by a five-month-long drought, according to

state media reported.INTERNET

A rusted shopping cartlays on the rocky shore ofthe San Gabriel Riverwhere it flows into thePacific Ocean on 25 Jan,2010, in Seal Beach, Calif

after a week of storms.INTERNET

Newly assembled cars are seen a car park outsidethe Changan Ford Mazda Automobile Co Ltd build-ing, in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipal-ity. China will continue to boost its auto sector in2010, but expects sales to grow more slowly afterovertaking the US as the world’s largest auto mar-ket last year, according to state media.— INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 31Jan—Seeking to pre-serve the site wherehumans first set foot onthe moon, a Californiastate panel on Fridayregistered a collection of106 objects left by theApollo 11 mission as anhistorical resource.

The move by the stateHistorical ResourcesCommission marks thefirst such designationfor cultural artefactslocated other than onEarth, said LisaWestwood, part of ateam of scholars andmuseum professionalswho applied for the list-ing.

The group hopesthat placing the moonobjects on California’sregistry of historiclandmarks and resourceswill lead ultimatelyto designatingTranquility Base as aUnited Nations WorldHeritage Site.

“We are elevating the

profile of this resource,and instilling upon thepublic, which could in-clude space travellers atsome point, a sense ofsite stewardship and theimportance of preserva-tion,” said Westwood, anarchaeologist whoteaches at Chico StateUniversity.

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NEW YORK, 31 Jan—Aspike in the number ofrabid raccoons recoveredin New York’s CentralPark has led to warnings arabies outbreak couldspread to humans.Sincethe beginning of Decem-ber, health officials haveconfirmed 28 rabid rac-coons in or near the park,compared with only threefrom 2003 through No-

vember, CNN reported.Authorities say they can’texplain the increase.

Health and parks de-partment officials said theywere working to increasesurveillance and vaccinatewild raccoons in the 843-acre Central Park, as wellas in the city’sMorningside and River-side parks. Officials urgepark visitors to keep petson a leash and to stay awayfrom raccoons.Most of thecases have been in thenorthern portion of CentralPark, between 79th and110th streets, officials said.

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ST LOUIS, 31 Jan—Anantibiotic that can causehearing loss in people ac-tually protected the earsof young mice given ex-tended low doses of thedrug, scientists in Mis-souri said.

The study by theWashington UniversitySchool of Medicine in StLouis raises importantquestions about whatmechanisms cause hear-ing loss and what mecha-nisms could be protec-tive, William Clark, the

study’s lead author wrotein the current issue of theJournal of the Associa-tion for Research inOtolaryngology.

The study arose fromconcerns about how toprotect ailing infantsfrom noise aboard medi-cal helicopters. Ailingbabies often receive theantibiotic gentamicin, amild antibiotic that isclosely related to kan-amycin, which can causehearing loss.

Researchers were con-

cerned the noise and theantibiotics would interactsynergistically to causegreater hearing loss,Clark said.

Studies on youngmice, which have similarinner-ear anatomy to thatof humans, showed hear-ing loss from noise. Micetreated with kanamycinin low doses, however,were protected from sen-sory cell damage andhearing loss, the studyfound.

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA TEGAP VOY NO (493)Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA TEGAP

VOY NO (493) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 1.2.2010 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron reactsafter being crowned Miss America

on 30 Jan, 2010 in Las Vegas.INTERNET

Snow causesGerman trafficchaos with three

deathsDUSSELDORF, 31 Jan —

Heavy snow and highwinds have caused trafficchaos across Germanywith at least three deathsreported nationwide. Con-ditions closed some motor-ways and caused long traf-fic jams on many others.North Rhine-Westphalia,which includes the cities ofCologne and Dusseldorf,recorded 300 accidents onFriday night and Saturdaymorning.

Public transport insome areas has been shutdown and police have ad-vised people not to travelif possible. The trafficchaos in North Rhine-Westphalia led to one deathand 40 more people in-jured, while in Bavaria an-other two people werekilled on frozen roads.Flights at some airportswere cancelled or delayed.

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Miss Virginia wins 2010 Miss America crown

With many roads almost impassable, someGermans used alternative transport.— INTERNET

Snow storm that covered South heads off to sea

A snow plow clears the road on 30 Jan, 2010, in Peagram, Tenn. A winterstorm brought several inches of snow to Tennessee.—InternetA snow plowclears the road on 30 Jan, 2010, in Peagram, Tenn. A winter storm brought

several inches of snow to Tennessee.—INTERNET

Peugeot follows Toyota in car recall

LAS VEGAS, 31 Jan – Miss VirginiaCaressa Cameron won the 2010 MissAmerica title Saturday night after strut-ting in a skintight yellow dress, beltingBeyonce’s “Listen” from “Dreamgirls”and telling kids they should get outsidemore often.

Cameron, a 22-year-old fromFredericksburg, Va., won a $50,000scholarship and the crown in Las Vegasafter a pageant that started with 53 con-testants. She outlasted her opponentsin swimsuit, evening gown, talent andinterview competitions.

Cameron is broadcast journalismstudent at Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, and wants to become ananchor.

When asked during the interviewportion of the competition her thoughtson fighting childhood obesity, Cameronsaid parents should curb television andvideo games.

“We need to get our kids back out-side, playing with sticks in the streetlike I did when I was little,” she said.“Expand your mind, go outside and getto see what this world is like.”

Cameron said her win was a testamentto her family’s strength.

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PRAGUE, 31 Jan —Peugeot Citroen, Europe’ssecond-biggest carmaker,is recalling some carsmade with Toyota in Eu-rope. “For Peugeot 107sand Citroen C1s, we aregoing to carry out an iden-tical campaign asToyota,” a spokesmansaid. The Japanese car gi-ant has now recalled mil-lions of cars worldwidewith faulty pedals.

Both models are madein a Czech plant, a jointventure with Toyota thatassembles around 200,000Peugeot and Citroen carsevery year.Peugeot said

“under 100,000” cars willbe recalled. It did not saywhen the recall would be-gin. Toyota is recalling upto 1.8 million cars acrossEurope, including about220,000 in the UK, follow-ing an accelerator prob-lem.

Rival carmakerHonda has also an-nounced the recall of646,000 cars globally tofix a switch defect thatcould cause a fire. TheJapanese carmaker saidon Friday that it was notaware of any accidentsresulting from the issueand that only a limited

number of incidents in-volving accelerator ped-als had been reported inEurope.

Both Peugeot modelsare made in Kolin, east ofPrague, and are made forthe the European marketmainly, the Peugeotspokesman said. The plantalso makes the ToyotaAygo. The Peugeot 107,Citroen C1 and the Aygoare essentially the samecar with different stylingand fittings. The Frenchcarmaker has no otherjoint ventures withToyota.

Internet

RICHMOND, 31 Jan – Awinter storm that crossedin a nearly straight linedumping snow, sleet andice this week from north-ern Texas to Washingtonwas heading off the Atlan-tic coast early on Sunday.

More than 5 inches ofdry, fluffy snow was re-ported in Washington butit was finishing up by lateSaturday night, NationalWeather Service fore-caster Matthew Kramarsaid.

The storm left a wakeof damage beginning innorthern Texas and Okla-homa, where snow and iceshut down interstates and

snapped power lines tothousands of customers.

It left roads icy andsnowpacked across theSouth, and thousandswere without power as iceaccumulated. Althoughpolice said they had toclear hundreds of wrecksovernight, there were nodeaths or serious injuriesreported.

A central Tennesseewoman was killed when atree weighed down withice crashed into her mo-bile home early on Satur-day, Maury County offi-cials said. In southernMaryland, one person wasfound dead after a house

fire in Accokeek that fire-fighters said they had ahard time getting to be-cause of the snow. PrinceGeorge’s County fire de-partment spokesmanMark Brady said the win-ter storm and snowfallmade driving conditionshazardous.

In northern Virginia,the weather caused sev-eral mult i-vehiclecrashes along Interstate81 in ShenandoahCounty, Virginia StatePolice said. Four peoplewere hospitalized withnon-life threatening in-juries.

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Vitamin D deficiency mayworsen asthma

Vitamin D may fight Crohn’s disease

Diabetes may be linked to pollutants

Secondhand smoke a danger to smokers

Standard refrigerators good for vaccinesGAITHERSBURG, 31 Jan—Experts at a US government agency say standard-size

freezer-less refrigerators do a good job maintaining ideal temperatures for storingvaccines.

However, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology inGaithersburg, Md, say they cannot recommend small dormitory-style refrigera-tors for vaccine storage.

“Among the many recommendations that we have made, we think one of themost positive upshots of this research is that medical clinics in most cases neednot spend several thousand dollars on a pharmaceutical grade refrigerator simplyfor the purpose of storing vaccines,” Gregory Strouse, a physicist at NIST, says ina statement.

The researchers also advise that to keep vaccines 2 to 8 degrees Celsius or 35 to46 degrees Fahrenheit include:

— Keeping vaccines off the door shelves, away from the refrigerator walls, andout of crispers because these areas can be areas non-optimal temperatures.

— Keeping water bottles on the door shelves provides thermal “ballast” thathelps mitigate temperature rises caused by power failure, leaving the door ajar orhigh temperature in the room.

— Vaccines kept in their packaging retain their temperature longer.—Internet

Zoltan Veres performs during the Al-Ain International Aerobatics Show at theGulf Emirate’s Airport.—INTERNET

A refugee from Port-au-Prince moves towards a tent village set up by Franceand various NGOs. Haiti’s desperate earthquake survivors faced a new deadly

threat as the United Nations reported a rise in cases of diarrhoea, measlesand tetanus in squalid tent camps for victims.—INTERNET

Copper calles at a recycling plant. Two SouthAfrican ambulance drivers have been arrested

after cramming their vehicle full of stolen coppercables and using their emergency lights to try toget away, police said on Thursday.—INTERNET

WINNIPEG, 31 Jan—There is growing evi-dence diabetes — espe-cially among indigenouspeople — may be linkedto environmental pollut-ants, US and Canadianresearchers say.

One-out-of-four indig-enous adults living on re-serves in Canada havebeen diagnosed with type2 diabetes, The Dominionreports.

More than a dozenpublished studies show a

diabetes link to persistentorganic pollutants, includ-ing polychlorinatedbiphenyls, carcinogenichydrocarbons, or dioxinsand synthetic pesticidessuch as DDT.

Environment Canada’sNational Pollutant Re-lease Inventory says thereare 212 indigenous com-munities in Canada livingnear or downstream frompulp mills and other facili-ties that produce dioxinsand furans.

In 2006, Dr Dae-HeeLee and colleagues foundpeople with the highestrate of exposure to persist-ent organic pollutantswere roughly 38 timesmore likely to have diabe-tes than those with thelowest rate of exposure.

However, people whowere obese but did nothave high levels of per-sistent organic pollutantswere not at increased riskof developing diabetes.

Internet

GENOA, 31 Jan—Peo-ple who have a health riskfrom smoking have anadditional risk frombreathing environmentaltobacco smoke —secondhand smoke — re-searchers in Italy found.

Maria Teresa Piccardo,Anna Stella and FedericoValerio of the NationalCancer Research Institutein Genoa, Italy, studiedthe exposure of newsa-gents in the city to harm-ful cigarette smoke.

“Newsagents werechosen because theywork alone in smallnewsstands, meaningthat any tobacco smokein the air they breathe isstrictly correlated to thenumber of cigarettessmoked by that newsa-gent,” Piccardo said in astatement. “We studiedthe contribution environ-mental tobacco smokemade to carcinogenexposure in 15 activesmokers.”

LOS ANGELES, 31 Jan—Lower levels of VitaminD may worsen asthmaand hinder response tosteroid treatment, a newstudy finds.

For the study, re-searchers at the NationalJewish Health (NJH) inDenver took the vitamin

D levels of 54 asthmaticsand assessed lung func-tion, airway hyper-re-sponsiveness, which isthe prevalence of airwayconstriction, and re-sponse to steroid treat-ment.

The study found thatpeople with low levels of

vitamin D in their blooddid worse on the tests thatevaluated lung functionand airway hyper-respon-siveness.

In those with vitaminlevels below 30nanogrammes per millili-tre (ng/ml), airway hyper-responsiveness almostdoubled, compared tothose with more D intheir blood.

Low vitamin D levelswere also associated witha worse response to ster-oid therapy and increasedproduction of the pro-in-flammatory cytokine,TNF-alpha. This raisesthe possibility that lowvitamin D levels are tiedto increased inflamma-tion of the airways, theresearchers noted.

The study was pub-lished in the Jan. issue ofthe American Journal ofRespiratory and CriticalCare Medicine.

Xinhua

MONTREAL, 31 Jan—Canadian researchers sayvitamin D can counter theeffects of Crohn’s disease.

Researchers at Mon-treal’s McGill UniversityHealth Centre and Uni-versity of Montreal foundvitamin D acts directly onthe beta defensin 2 gene,which encodes an anti-microbial peptide and theNOD2 gene that alertscells to the presence ofinvading microbes.

Both Beta-defensin andNOD2 have been linkedto Crohn’s disease — anautoimmune disorder inwhich a defect in innateimmune handling of intes-tinal bacteria leads to in-flammatory bowel dis-ease. “Our data suggests,for the first time, that vi-tamin D deficiency cancontribute to Crohn’s dis-ease,” study leader DrJohn White of McGillsays in a statement.

White suggests siblingsof patients with Crohn’sdisease who have not asyet developed the diseasemake sure they are vita-min D sufficient.

“It’s something that’seasy to do, because theycan simply go to a phar-macy and buy vitamin Dsupplements,” he says.

The study findings arepublished in the Journalof Biological Chemistry.

Internet

The study, publishedin EnvironmentalHealth, found environ-mental tobacco smokemay have a significantimpact on smokers’health. For someone whosmokes 14 cigarettes aday, one’s ownsecondhand smoke re-sulted in exposure theequivalent of smokingan extra 2.6 cigarettes.

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S P O R T SMancini tells City to keep up

United standard

Murray hoping for bestvs Federer in Aussie final

MELBOURNE, 31 Jan—Andy Murrayunderstands what it will take to beat RogerFederer in the Australian Open final andfinally fulfill the hopes of an entire na-tion. “I’m going to need to play my bestmatch ever,” Murray said on Saturday.“That’s what I plan on doing. If I do, I’vegot a good chance of winning.” The solu-tion to ending a 74-year Grand Slamdrought for Britain sounds simple intheory.

While Murray leads Federer 6-4 in ca-reer head-to-head matches, he lost theironly meeting in a major at the U.S. Openfinal. And the only two matches thatMurray has lost in his last nine againsttop-10 players have been to Federer. Yetthe 22-year-old Scot was so unruffled thathe seemed almost bored as he explainedwhy he believes he can handle Federer,who has won more Grand Slam singlestitles than any other man. “I’ve played hima lot of times so I know the way you needto play against him,” Murray said. “It’snot going to be too many surprises on thecourt tomorrow.”— Internet

Andy Murray of Britain kicks atennis ball during a training sessionat the Australian Open tennis cham-pionship in Melbourne, Australia, on

30 Jan, 2010.— INTERNET

Runner-up Justine Henin of Belgium(R) poses with winner Serena

Williams of the US at the awardsceremony for their women’s singlesAustralian Open final.— INTERNET

Serena insists she’s not one of the greats — yet

Monaco’s forward Chu Young Park(L) celebrates with defender DjimiTraore after scoring a goal during

their French L1 football matchagainst Nice at the Louis II stadium

in Monaco.—INTERNET

Park’s brace maintainsMonaco’s unbeaten run

PARIS, 31 Jan—A double by Korean international ParkChukoung inspired Monaco to a 3-2 victory over Nice on Satur-day to extend their unbeaten run to seven league matches. Park’sbrace, and one by Brazilian star Nene, ended a 14-year winlessrun against their opponents who are deep in relegation troublehaving not won in their past nine games, a run which included aCup exit at the hands of lower league Plabennec.

Leaders Bordeaux, meanwhile, were held to a 0-0 draw by sec-ond from bottom Boulogne - a late goal by Bordeaux’s Moroccaninternational striker Marouane Chamakh was ruled out for an in-fringement. Bordeaux saw their eight-point lead reduced to sixwhen surprise packages Montpellier beat Marseille 2-0 later onSaturday, second-half goals by Karim Ait-Fana and an own-goalby Benoit Cheyrou enough to take the points. Park — who onFriday signed a contract extension tying him to Monaco until 2013- struck in the 19th minute with a header from a corner by Nene.

Internet

Benitez plays down HicksLiverpool talks

Zola desperate for McCarthyto boost relegation battle

LONDON, 31 Jan—West Ham manager GianfrancoZola hopes South African forward Benni McCarthywill provide a major boost to his struggling side’s bidto avoid relegation. Zola’s team drew a blank in Sat-urday’s 0-0 draw with Blackburn at Upton Park andremain too close to the Premier League’s bottom threefor comfort.

With new co-owners David Sullivan and DavidGold willing to back Zola in the transfer market, theItalian has lined up a 2.5 million pounds move forMcCarthy, who is out of favour at Blackburn. Zolaexpects the deal to be done before Monday’s trans-fer deadline and is confident the former Porto for-ward will fire the 15th placed team away from thedrop zone.

Internet

Redknapp expects Pavlyuchenko to stayBIRMINGHAM, 31 Jan—Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has revealed that

Roman Pavlyuchenko will not be joining Birmingham after completing the fivemillion pounds capture of Portsmouth’s Younes Kaboul. Redknapp has rejected areported 10 million pounds bid for Russia international Pavlyuchenko, who missedthe trip to St Andrews with an injury and appears set to remain at White Hart Lanebeyond Monday’s transfer deadline.

Spurs’ hopes of enhancing their bid for a Champions League place were dentedas Liam Ridgewell’s late equaliser cancelled out Jermain Defoe’s goal to earn a1-1 draw on Saturday. — Internet

MELBOURNE, 31 Jan—SerenaWilliams insisted on Sunday she doesnot think of herself as one of the sport’sgreats despite claiming her 12th GrandSlam title at the Australian Open. TheAmerican beat Belgium’s Justine Heninin a classic women’s final 6-4, 3-6, 6-2to win her fifth Australian Open title andmove alongside Billie-Jean King on 12Grand Slam singles successes. She isnow six titles behind Americans ChrisEvert and Martina Navratilova andseven behind Helen Wills Moody in the

all-time Grand Slam stakes.Australian Margaret Smith Court,

who presented Williams with her trophyon Saturday, is the all time leader on 24,with German Steffi Graf on 22. ButWilliams said she did not think her namebelonged on the same page as the greatsof the game. “I don’t even think of meas a great, I think of me just as normal,”the 28-year-old said.”I remember whenI won eight and I thought it was so cool— eight grand slams!”Now I’ve got 12and, oh my gosh, it’s so cool.”As wellas her five Australian titles — a recordin the Open era — she has also won oneFrench Open, three Wimbledons andthree US Opens.

Internet

LIVERPOOL, 31 Jan—Liverpool manager RafaelBenitez insisted he had nodefinite plans to meet withco-owner Tom Hicks af-ter his side beat Bolton tostay on course for aChampions League spot.Hicks made a rare 5,000-mile visit to Anfield towatch Liverpool maintaintheir chase for a top fourfinish thanks to goalsfrom Dirk Kuyt and anown goal from Bolton for-ward Kevin Davies hereon Saturday. The Texan’spresence came one dayafter Benitez talkedopenly about interest in

his services from Italianclub Juventus, a develop-ment that has cast yetmore doubt about theSpanish manager’s futureon Merseyside.

Yet Benitez claimed nomeetings with Hicks hadbeen arranged, althoughthe manager added hewould be open to suchtalks. “Maybe I will seehim. I knew he was herebut I was just concernedwith what was happeningon the pitch,” said Benitez.“If he is around, I will seehim, no problem.” Hicks’sattendance could also havebeen related to the trans-fer window, which closeson Monday, althoughBenitez insisted he wasunlikely to launch a last-minute foray into the mar-ket.— Internet

MANCHESTER, 31 Jan—Roberto Mancini has urgedhis Manchester City play-ers to put their midweekLeague Cup disappoint-ment behind them whenPremier League strugglersPortsmouth visit Eastlandson Sunday. Mancini and hissquad have been lickingtheir wounds sinceWednesday’s crushingsemi-final defeat to Man-chester United at OldTrafford, but the Italian hasbeen making a good job ofhiding his hurt in the hopethat this will give his play-ers the lift they need.

Mancini says he wasproud of his side and be-lieves City will have notrouble in securing Cham-pions League qualificationfor the first time if they canmaintain the same levels

that saw them push Sir AlexFerguson’s men to the verylimit. Mancini said: “Thatgame is now in the past, butafter the game on Wednes-day we still feel that we arestrong.”United scored lateand won the game, but westill think we played verywell. For us, the most im-portant thing is that we didwell and showed that wecan win. I’m happy aboutthat, but disappointed forthe players.”— Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Kachin, Shan and Rakhine States, upper Sagaing,Mandalay, Bago, Yangon, Ayeyawady and TaninthayiDivisions and generally fair in the remaining areas. Nighttemperatures were (3 °C) below January averagetemperatures in Kachin and Rakhine States, (5 °C) belowJanuary average temperatures in upper Sagaing Division,(7°C) below January average temperatures in Chin State,(4°C) above January average temperatures in Kayah State,Bago and Taninthayi Divisions and about January averagetemperatures in the remaining areas. The significant nighttemperatures were Haka (-2°C), An (3°C) and Machanbaw(4°C) .

Maximum temperature on 30-1-2010 was 98°F.Minimum temperature on 31 -1-2010 was 61°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 31-1-2010 was 54%.Total sun shine hours on 30 -1-2010 was (9.7) hours approx.

Rainfall on 31-1-2010 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010was (Tr) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and (Nil) at CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was(4) mph from Southeast at (18:30) hours MST on 30-1-2010.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 1st February 2010:Weather will be partly cloudy in Kachin, Rakhine and ShanStates, Sagaing and Mandalay Divisions and generally fairin the remaining States and Divisions.

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days:Likelihood of slightdecrease of night temperatures in the upper Myanmarareas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for1-2-2010: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for1-2-2010: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for1-2-2010: Partly cloudy.

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A tiger doll waves to people at Qianmen Streetof Beijing, capital of China, 31 Jan 2010. Artperformances have started in Beijing for the

upcoming Spring Festival which falls on 14 Febthis year, the year of tiger. —INTERNET

Bayern rout Mainz totop Bundesliga

BERLIN, 31 Jan—Bayern Munich reclaimed thetop place of the Bundesliga after the German giantsthrashed Mainz 3-0 for their seventh successiveleague win on Saturday.

Belgian defender Daniel van Buyten headed thehosts’ first in the 58th minute and Mario Gomezdoubled the score with his ninth goal of the season,slotting home from close range. Arjen Robben thencurled in a free kick four minutes from time. In-formBayern have now won their last nine matches in allcompetitions, piling up 42 points from 20 matches inBundesliga, one ahead of Bayer Leverkusen.

Undefeated Leverkusen can retake the top spoton Sunday when they face Freiburg (1630 GMT).Third-placed Schalke 04 snatched a 2-0 win overHoffenheim to move level on 41 points withLeverkusen.

Schalke striker Kevin Kuranyi took his goal tallyto 11 this season when he grabbed the lead on 19minutes and Lukas Schmitz made it 2-0 four minutesafter the restart with a deflected shot.

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★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

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

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

■ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

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

troubles

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

and violence

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye inspects alignmentfor Ayeyawady Bridge (Singu-Kyaukmyaung)

NAY PYI TAW, 31 Jan— Vice-Chairman of theState Peace and Development Council Deputy Com-mander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, ac-companied by Secretary-1 of the State Peace andDevelopment Council General Thiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo, the Commander-in-Chief (Navy), the Com-mander-in-Chief (Air), senior military officers of theMinistry of Defence, the commanders, the ministers

and departmental heads, arrived in Singu Township,PyinOoLwin District by helicopter this morning.

They were welcomed by Col Win Zaw of CentralCommand, Col Aung Kyaw Moe of the local station,the secretary of Mandalay Division PDC and chairmenof district and townships.

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye met with depart-mental officials, members of social organizations,townselders and local people at the hall in Singu.

The chairman of Singu Township PDC explainedarea of the township, numbers of households andpopulation, land utilization, agriculture and food suf-ficiency, projects being carried out, education andhealth tasks and establishment of self-reliant librariesin each and every village in the township.

Next, a local reported on development of SinguTownship and requirements needed to fulfill.

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Vice-Senior General Maung Aye inspects alignment for Ayeyawady Bridge (Singu-Kyaukmyaung).—MNA

Easy access from one place to another may bring about highersocio-economic status and broaden horizons of national races

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