Established 1914

Volume XX, Number 3 3rd Waxing of Kason 1374 ME Monday, 23 April, 2012

True patriotism * It is very important for every one of the

nation regardless of the place he lives tohave strong Union Spirit.

* Only Union Spirit is the truepatriotism all the nationalities willhave to safeguard.

Republic of the Union of MyanmarUnion Election Commission

Nay Pyi TawNotification No. 22/20122nd Waxing of Kason, 1374 ME

(22 April, 2012)

39 Defence Services Personnel PyithuHluttaw Representatives substitutedAccording to the request made in accord with Section 33 of the Pyithu Hluttaw

Election Law to substitute 39 Defence Services Personnel Pyithu Hluttaw representativesnominated by the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services in first multiparty democracygeneral election held on 7 November 2010, the Union Election Commission scrutinizedand substituted 39 Defence Services Personnel Pyithu Hluttaw representatives statedhereunder in Notification No. 1/2011 of the commission dated 20-1-2011 and NotificationNo. 5/2011 of the commission dated 29-1-2011with personnel shown against them.

(1) BC 26985 (Substitution) BC 14185Major Win Moe Khaing Brig-Gen Wai Linn

(2) BC 26996 (Substitution) BC 16413Major Thet Win Aung Brig-Gen Win Myint

(3) BC 27004 (Substitution) BC 17943Major Khin Zaw Moe Brig-Gen Tauk Tun

(4) BC 27012 (Substitution) BC 18280Major Kyaw Linn Brig-Gen Min Naung

(5) BC 30859 (Substitution) BC 17319Major Win Aung Col Aung Thiha

(6) BC 33046 (Substitution) BC 18029Major Win Ko Ko Col Aung Myint

(7) BC 33057 (Substitution) BC 18701Major Yarzar Linn Col Myint Han

(8) BC 33062 (Substitution) BC 19307 Major Thaw Zin Naing Col Khin Maung Tun(9) BC 33063 (Substitution) BC 19584 Major Tin Ko Linn Col Saw Min(10) BC 33079 (Substitution) BC 19642

Major Aung Aung Col Than Htut Thein(11) BC 33124 (Substitution) BC 20205 Major Than Soe Htaik Col Than Tun Oo(12) BC 33129 (Substitution) BC 20255 Major Zaw Aye Tun Col Kyaw Shwe(13) BC 33135 (Substitution) BC 21915

Major Yan Gyi Aung Col Hla Myint Soe(14) BC 33138 (Substitution) BC 16617

Major Kaung Htet San Lt-Col Saw Shwe(15) BC 33142 (Substitution) BC 18074

Major Win Min Thant Lt-Col Ngwe Soe(16) BC 33145 (Substitution) BC 19001

Major Aung Hsan Win Lt-Col Kyaw Myint(17) BC 33147 (Substitution) BC 20193 Major Myo Min Tun Lt-Col Nyi Nyi Lwin(18) BC 33160 (Substitution) BC 20231

Major Zaw Zaw Linn Lt-Col Pe Kyaing(19) BC 33178 (Substitution) BC 20991

Major Min Han Tun Lt-Col Khin Maung Win(20) BC 33180 (Substitution) BC 21470

Major Soe Thiha Lt-Col Win Naing(21) BC 33187 (Substitution) BC 21880

Major Aung Aung Latt Lt-Col Thein Htut(22) BC 33193 (Substitution) BC 21909

Major Kyaw Lin Lt-Col Tin Moe(23) BC 33208 (Substitution) BC 22100

Major Chan Min Latt Lt-Col Hla Soe(See page 2)

Republic of the Union of MyanmarUnion Election Commission

Nay Pyi TawNotification No. 23/20122nd Waxing of Kason, 1374 ME

(22 April, 2012)

20 Defence Services Personnel AmyothaHluttaw Representatives substitutedAccording to the request made in accord with Section 33 of the Amyotha

Hluttaw Election Law to substitute 20 Defence Services Personnel Amyotha Hluttawrepresentatives nominated by the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services in firstmultiparty democracy general election held on 7 November 2010, the Union ElectionCommission scrutinized and substituted 20 Defence Services Personnel AmyothaHluttaw representatives stated hereunder in Notification No. 2/2011 of the commissiondated 20-1-2011 with personnel shown against them.

(1) BC 24888 (Substitution) BC 13765 Major Myint Naing Than Brig-Gen Kyaw Oo Lwin

(2) BC 26982 (Substitution) BC 16736Major Win Min Brig-Gen Min Thein Zan

(3) BC 27105 (Substitution) BC 17974Major Thein Tun Tin Brig-Gen Aung San Chit

(4) BC 33061 (Substitution) BC 18959Major Sai Thura Brig-Gen Myat Kyaw

(5) BC 33066 (Substitution) BC 16601Major Pyae Phyo Kyaw Col Khin Soe

(6) BC 33067 (Substitution) BC 18020 Major Nay Tun Lin Col Aung Khin Zaw

(7) BC 33068 (Substitution) BC 19717Major Soe Thiha Kyaw Col Aung Kyaw

(8) BC 33082 (Substitution) BC 20331Major Aung Aung Col Thet Tun Aung

(9) BC 33099 (Substitution) BC 20808Major Zaw Min Thant Col Nay Myo Aung

(10) BC 33108 (Substitution) BC 18032Major Lin Aung Kyaw Soe Lt-Col San Win

(11) BC 33121 (Substitution) BC 19499Major Nyan Myo Kyaw Lt-Col Tun Lin Aung

(12) BC 33125 (Substitution) BC 21317Major Sithu Lt-Col Than Kyaw Soe

(13) BC 33127 (Substitution) BC 21503Major Yan Naung Soe Lt-Col Zaw Moe

(14) BC 33136 (Substitution) BC 23990Major Zaw Thant Lwin Lt-Col Zaw Moe Lwin

(15) BC 33155 (Substitution) BC 24192Major Nay Lwin Phone Myint Lt-Col Zaw Than Htaik

(16) BC 33156 (Substitution) BC 24927Major Aung Zaw Oo Lt-Col Ye Naing Oo

(17) BC 33162 (Substitution) BC 25863Major Kyaw Swa Win Khaing Lt-Col Hlaing Win

(18) BC 33166 (Substitution) BC 26019Major Kyaw Lin Lt-Col Kyaw Soe Oo

(19) BC 33205 (Substitution) Navy 3606Major Soe Hein Naung Cdr Kyaw Kyaw Htoo

(20) BC 33341 (Substitution) Air 2162Major Nanda Aye Lt-Col Soe Lin

By order, (Win Ko) Secretary

Union Election Commission

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PERSPECTIVES

Improve waste collectionsystem

Monday, 23 April, 2012

Today, local municipal authorities are callingon the people to follow the waste dumping wayssuch as dumping wastes including plastic bags atgarbage and designated dump sites.

Besides, as part of environmentalconservation and waste management which wasgiven low-priority attention, people are urged touse recycling bags instead of plastic bags, todump garbage directly into the vehicles and into

garbage tanks.However, there are garbage piles out of

garbage tanks and over piling garbage, tarnishingthe image of towns.

The constant dumping of domestic garbage atgarbage sites make the environment of the areahighly unsuitable for students of minor age, asyoung as three years old. A dumping spot hasvirtually become the breeding ground formosquitoes, flies, and germs, multiplying theirpresence in the environs of the locality that couldcause epidemics among minor students. The germsand bacteria rife in the environment especiallyduring the currently changing weather pattern andadvent of summer could cause harmful epidemicsamong residents.

Just conducting garbage campaigns to distribute

recycle bags and to urge the people to dump theirgarbage at designated sites is not enough to createhygienic environments and to clean towns.

It is clear that not only the people but also localmunicipal bodies are responsible for garbagedumping spots with piles of garbage for severaldays.

Today is the time for local municipal bodies toreally look again at our garbage collection systemand they should give priority to streamliningwaste collection and should open their eyes to thedanger its dump poses to the general health of itspeople.

Meanwhile, people are to cut back onhousehold waste through recycling, a reductionin unnecessary packaging materials, or simplyless wasteful consumption. Let’s work together!!!

(from page 1)(24) BC 33212 (Substitution) BC 22390

Major Aung Ko Latt Lt-Col Win Zaw Htay(25) BC 33214 (Substitution) BC 22403

Major Soe Min Aung Lt-Col Thein Htay(26) BC 33216 (Substitution) BC 22462

Major Kaung Myat Lt-Col Tun Linn Oo(27) BC 33229 (Substitution) BC 22613

Major Aung Teza Lwin Lt-Col Ye Htut(28) BC 33231 (Substitution) BC 22983

Major Sein Myint Lt-Col Myat Khaing(29) BC 33253 (Substitution) BC 23001

Major Hnine Khaing Lt-Col Saw Myint Win Aung(30) BC 33313 (Substitution) BC 23011

Major Soe Thura Lt-Col Kyaw Aung(31) BC 33326 (Substitution) BC 23174

Major Aung Kyaw Soe Lt-Col Htin Kyaw Soe(32) BC 33376 (Substitution) BC 24002

Major Kyaw Myo Tun Lt-Col Aung Khaing(33) BC 33450 (Substitution) BC 24850

Major Aung Myat Htay Lt-Col Than Naing(34) BC 34001 (Substitution) BC 24853

Major Oak Soe Hlaing Lt-Col Thein Win(35) BC 34024 (Substitution) BC 24983

Major Yazar Tun Lt-Col Myo Tun(36) BC 34111 (Substitution) BC 25258

Major Aung Naing Win Lt-Col Myo Myint Oo(37) BC 34126 (Substitution) BC 26839

Major Hein Htet Aung Lt-Col Kyaw Thiha(38) BC 34135 (Substitution) Navy 3686

Major Soe Win Naing Cdr Moe Hein(39) BC 34136 (Substitution) Air 1934

Major Kyaw Lwin Oo Lt-Col Khin Myint

By order, (Win Ko) Secretary

Union Election Commission

ASSISTANCE PROVIDED: A total of 20 retiredteachers were provided K 50,000 each at home throughthe fund of Thanlyin Basic Education High School No 1

old students committee on New Year Day, 17 April.Patron of the old teachers respect paying committee

U Tin Win, Secretary U Maung Maung Toe andcommittee members present cash assistance to SAT (Rtd)

Daw Aphein of 99 years old.—Kyemon

THANDAUNGGYI, 22 April—New buildings are underconstruction at Basic Education Primary Schools inThandaunggyi of Kayin State.

A one-storey four-classroom reinforced concretebuilding including toilet, 72 feet long and 23 feet wide, isbeing built at BEPS in Ward 1 of Thandaunggyi, spendingK 44.8 million.

Moreover, BEPS in Ward 3 is being facilitated with aone-storey four-classroom RV building, 120 feet long and 32feet wide, including toilet. It costs K 65.8 million.

In Ward 5, the BEPS is being provided with a one-storeytwo-classroom RC building, 72 feet long and 32 feet wide,including toilet. The facility costs K 42.3 million. All theconstructions have completed by 50 per cent.

The buildings will be opened before 2012-2013academic year with the assistance of UNHCR and Progressor Border Areas and National Races Department.

Ko Lwin (Swa)

New school buildingsextended in Thandaunggyi

YANGON, 22 April—Myanmar Sports Federationsmet at National IndoorStadium 1 (Thuwunna),Thingangyun Township herethis morning to discusspreparation for XXVII SEAGames to be hosted byMyanmar in 2013.

During the meeting,Secretary of MyanmarNational Sports CommitteeDeputy Minister for Sports UAye Myint Kyu highlightedthe need of urgentpreparations to host sportsevents and clinch medals by

Sports federations meet to prepare forXXVII SEA Games

Secretary of Myanmar National Sports Committee Deputy Minister forSports U Aye Myint Kyu delivering an address at work-coordinating

meeting on preparation for XXVII SEA Games to be hostedby Myanmar in 2013.—MNA

forming SEA Gamespreparation subcommittees.He noted that preparednessmeasures were needed sincethen to win victories inrespective sports events asthe success in the SEA Gameswas of national objective. Hecalled for exploration ofqualified athletes andintensive training for masteryof techniques and tactics. Hestressed sending of athletesaboard to receive joint-training and participation ininvestigational qualifiers is amust.

Next, Secretary ofMyanmar Olympic CommitteeDirector-General of Sports

and Physical EducationDepartment U Thaung Htaikcalled for unprecedentedvictories over sports events,suggesting hosting Olympicsports categories in the SEAGames.

Afterwards, presidents,vice-presidents andsecretaries of respectivesports federations discussedrequirement of coaches,number old selected playersand new blood, joint-trainingprogramme, and requirementor sports gear for trainingand sports competitions,followed by concludingremarks of the deputyminister.—MNA

Photo shows progress of construction site fornew building of Basic Education Primary

School in Thandaunggyi Township.

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TUNIS, 22 April — ThreeTunisian nationals were killedby forces loyal to SyrianPresident Bashar al-Assad,the local newspaperAttounissiya reported onSaturday. The three youngTunisian nationals infiltratedinto Syria with two others fromTunisia’s southern town ofBen Guerdane in March tojoin the Syrian opposition inits fight against the Syrianregime.

The families of thevictims asked the country’sforeign affairs ministry torepatriate the bodies of theirslain relatives, according tothe report. In February, fiveother Tunisians arrived inSyria through Turkey to joinanti-government fighters.Four of the five men werereportedly arrested while thefifth managed to escape, thenewspaper said.— Xinhua

SANAA, 22 April — AFrench official with theInternational Committee ofthe Red Cross (ICRC) hasbeen kidnapped by armed menin Yemen. He was seized lateSaturday around 30km (20miles) from the Red Sea portof Hodeida. It is not yet clearwho is responsible, but

French Red Cross official kidnappedin Yemen

kidnappings of westerners arenot uncommon in Yemen.

The ICRC said it had notheard from the kidnappers butit has issued a call for the aidworker’s immediate release.Reports say the man, who hasnot yet been named, was withtwo Yemeni drivers who werereleased shortly afterwards.

The Red Cross office in Sanaasaid he had been working inthe northern city of Saada.Last week, al-Qaedaannounced that it was holdinga Saudi diplomat kidnappedat the end of March.

Abdullah al-Khalidi, adeputy consul in Aden, wasabducted outside his home inthe southern port city on 28March. Al-Qaeda called formilitants held in SaudiArabian prisons to be freed inexchange for his release. ASwiss woman working as ateacher was also kidnappedin Hodeida in March. Frenchnews agency AFP reportedthat she is being held by al-Qaeda after being taken to thefar eastern province ofShabwa.— Internet

Iraqis clear the debrisfollowing a blast in

central Baghdad on 19April . Bombs exploded

in two minibuses inBaghdad on Saturday,

killing three people andwounding at least 17,

while a bomb attack ona governor’s convoywounded two guards,security officials said.

INTERNET

DAMASCUS, 22 April — Ahuge explosion on Saturdayrocked a Syrian military airporton the outskirts of the capital,the Syrian Observatory forHuman Rights reported. “Aloud explosion was heard atthe Mazzeh military airport inDamascus,” the Britain-basedmonitoring group said. Itprovided no further details.Activists however told AFPthat the army blocked the roadleading to the military airbase

A picture releasedby the official

Syrian Arab NewsAgency (SANA) in

December 2011shows a Syrian

military aircraft. Ahuge explosion onSaturday rocked a

Syrian militaryairport on theoutskirts of the

capital, the SyrianObservatory forHuman Rights

reported.INTERNET

Blast rocks Syria airbase: monitors

ThreeTunisianskilled inSyrianfighting

while snipers took positionson the rooftops of buildingsin the area.

Sporadic clashesbetween government troopsand army deserters haverocked Damascus in recentweeks, ahead of the ceasefirethat went into effect on 12April. Mazzeh, an upscaledistrict which houses manygovernment offices andembassies, is a Damascusneighbourhood that has been

hit by violence. The latestreport comes as a team ofUnited Nations observersmonitoring the shakyceasefire visited the centralSyrian province of Homs onSaturday, according to thestate news agency SANA.Monitors say more than 200people have been killed inSyria since the ceasefire towhich the government andrebels committed them-selves.— Internet

Jia Qinglin, chairman ofthe National Committee of

the Chinese People’sPolitical Consultative

Conference, addresses abanquet held by theChinese Chamber of

Commerce in Thailand inBangkok, Thailand, on 21

April, 2012.— XINHUA

BANGKOK, 22 April — China’s toppolitical advisor Jia Qinglin on Saturday saidChina will join hands with Thailand and othermembers of the Association of SoutheastAsian Nations (ASEAN) to promote eastAsian cooperation. Jia, chairman of theNational Committee of the Chinese People’ sPolitical Consultative Conference (CPPCC),made the remarks when addressing a banquetheld here by the Chinese Chamber ofCommerce in Thailand. More than 900 peoplefrom all walks of life attended the banquet. Jiasaid China had always supported ASEAN’sdevelopment and actively participated in eastAsian cooperation since the establishment oftheir dialogue relationship in 1991. As a bigcountry outside the region, China took thelead in joining the ASEAN Treaty of Amityand Cooperation, establishing strategicpartnership with ASEAN, signing free trade

China’s top political advisor vows morecooperation with ASEAN countries

agreement and supporting the establishmentof a non-nuclear zone.

The two sides celebrated the 20thanniversary of dialogue relationship last year,when the bilateral trade volume reached ahistoric peak of 362.8 billion US dollars. Chinawas ASEAN’s biggest trading partner and thetwo sides are sharing active cultural andpeople-to-people exchanges. China andASEAN, with their joint efforts, made importantcontribution for the peace, stability andprosperity of east Asia and the Asia-Pacificregion, Jia said. He added that the Chinesegovernment attached high importance to thestrategic partnership with ASEAN, and wasready to promote their comprehensiveexchanges and cooperation in the principle ofbuilding friendship and partnership withneighbouring countries.

MNA/Xinhua

Three killed, 17 injured in bomb attacks in IraqBAGHDAD, 22 April—

Three people were killed and17 others injured Saturday inseparate bomb attacks in Iraq,the police said.

In the morning, tworoadside bombs went offalmost simultaneously neartwo minibuses at the Shiiteneighborhood of Chikook innorthwestern Baghdad,killing three people andwounding 12 others, anInterior Ministry source toldXinhua on condition ofanonymity.

In eastern Iraq, Hisham

al-Hiyali, governor of Diyalaprovince, survived aroadside bomb explosionnear his convoy whiletravelling near the provincialcapital city of Baquba, some65 km northeast of Baghdad,a source from Diyala’soperations commandanonymously told Xinhua.

Three of Hiyali’sbodyguards were woundedby the blast, which alsodamaged one of his convoy’svehicles, the source said.

In the western provinceof Anbar, two policemen were

injured when a sticky bombattached to their car detonatednear the provincial capital cityof Ramadi, some 110 km westof Baghdad, a provincialpolice source anonymouslytold Xinhua.

MNA/Xinhua

NANJING, 22 April—Thirteen people were confirmeddead and 21 people injured after a collision between a tourbus and a truck on Sunday morning, Jiangsu provincialgovernment confirmed Sunday.

The accident occurred at 9:25 a.m. after a tour bus fromShanghai drove through the barriers in the middle of theexpressway and collided with a heavy truck coming in theopposite direction in the Changshu section of the YanjiangExpressway in Jiangsu Province.

Both vehicles were overturned at the scene, thegovernment spokesman said.

According to official reports, 33 passengers were aboardthe bus when the accident happened. Six bus passengersand the driver of the truck were killed instantly, and six otherpeople died after rescue efforts failed.

Among the 21 injured, four are still in critical condition.The tour bus left Shanghai People’s Square at 8:00 a.m.

and was heading to Shanghu in Changshu, for a peonyshow.

The cause of the accident is under investigation.Xinhua

Rescuers work at the scene of a bus-truck collision onthe Yanjiang Expressway in Changshu, east China’sJiangsu Province on 22 April, 2012. Thirteen people

died after a tour bus collided with a truck here onSunday morning, said traffic police in Jiangsu

Province. The injured, numbering more than a dozen,have been rushed to a local hospital for treatment.

XINHUA

13 dead, 21 injured in roadaccident in E China

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Science & Technology Science & Technology Science & Technology

JAKARTA, 22 April—Anew species of gecko withblack and gold bands like abumblebee and slender toestermed a “striking surprise”has been discovered deep in

The Bumblebee Gecko (Nactus kunan) is seen on ManusIsland, in this handout photo taken 29 May 2010, andreleased to Reuters by the US Geological Survey on 19

April, 2012. —REUTERS

The Bumblebee Gecko(Nactus kunan)

SVALBART, 22 April—Polar bears evolved as aseparate species far earlierthan previously thought,according to a new geneticstudy, which adds to worriesabout their ability to adapt in arapidly warming world.Research published onThursday found the Arctic’stop predators split off frombrown bears, their closestrelatives, around 600,000 yearsago - five times earlier thanscientists had generallyassumed.

The finding suggestspolar bears took a long time toadapt to their icy world andmay therefore struggle to adjustas the Arctic gets warmer andthe sea ice melts, deprivingthem of vital hunting platforms.Despite being a very differentspecies in terms of body size,skin and coat color, fur type,tooth structure, and behavior,previous research had indicatedthat polar and brown bearsdiverged only recently inevolutionary terms.

That assumption was

Polar bears are no new kidson the block

Rare alligator populationexpands in China

HEFEI, 22 April—Thenumber of criticallyendangered Chinesealligators living in the wildhas been growing over thepast few years, thanks tohuman efforts to aid in theanimals’ survival.

The Chinese alligator iswidely known as the Yangtzealligator because the animallives along the lower reachesof the Yangtze River. AnhuiProvince, where a naturereserve was set up over 30years ago to protect theextremely rare species, ishome to the majority of thecountry’s Chinese alligators.

The number of wildChinese alligators is currentlyestimated to exceed 150,excluding about 50 captive-bred animals that have beenreintroduced to the wild inrecent years, Wang Chaolin,deputy director of the AnhuiYangtze Alligator NatureReserve, said Wednesday,citing a recent census.

Wang said the numberstood at about 96 to 108 in

WASHINGTON, 22 April—For computer users, a fewmouse clicks could mean thedifference between stayingonline and losing Internetconnections this summer.

Unknown to most of them,their problem began wheninternational hackers ran anonline advertising scam to takecontrol of infected computersaround the world. In a highlyunusual response, the FBI setup a safety net months agousing government computersto prevent Internet disruptionsfor those infected users. Butthat system is to be shut down.

The FBI is encouragingusers to visit a website run byits security partner, http://www.dcwg.org , that will informthem whether they’re infectedand explain how to fix theproblem. After 9 July, infectedusers won’t be able to connectto the Internet. Most victimsdon’t even know theircomputers have beeninfected, although themalicious software probablyhas slowed their web surfingand disabled their antivirussoftware, making theirmachines more vulnerable toother problems.

Last November, the FBIand other authorities werepreparing to take down a hackerring that had been running anInternet ad scam on a massivenetwork of infected computers.

A polar bear mother and her cubs rest on a piece of driftice in the Barents Sea, northern Svalbard, late July

2011.—REUTERS

Hundreds of thousandsmay lose Internet in July

This undated handoutimage provided by TheDNS Changer Working

Group (DCWG) shows thewebpage. It will only takea few clicks of the mouse.

But for hundreds ofthousands of computer

users, those clicks couldmean the difference

between staying onlineand losing their

connections this July.INTERNET

LightSquared gains breathing space with Inmarsat paymentLONDON, 22 April—

Inmarsat (ISA.L) said it hadreceived an overdue $56.25million payment fromLightSquared, the US groupattempting to build a mobilenetwork using the Britishsatellite firm’s spectrum, andin return it would suspendfurther payments until 2014.

The agreement givesLightSquared, which is backedby Philip Falcone’s HarbingerCapital Partners, breathingspace to gain regulatoryclearance for the network,Inmarsat said in a statement

“Bumblebee” gecko discovered in Papua New Guinea: USGS

based on studying mitochon-drial lineage - a small part of thegenome, or DNA, that ispassed exclusively frommothers to offspring.

But after studying a lotmore DNA from inside the cellnucleus, using samples from19 polar and 18 brown bears,Frank Hailer of Germany’sBiodiversity and ClimateResearch Centre andcolleagues reached a verydifferent conclusion. Theyfound both polar and brownbears were much older, asspecies, according to a paperpublished in the journalScience on Thursday.

“Previous studiessuggested that polar bearswould have had to be evolvingvery rapidly, since they wereso young,” Hailer said in atelephone interview.

“Our study provides a lotmore time for polar bears toadapt ... It makes more sensefrom an evolutionarystandpoint that polar bearswould be older.”

His team’s calculations

put the moment when the twotypes of bears diverged in thePleistocene period, when theclimate record shows thatglobal temperatures reached along-term low. That could becoincidental but it suggeststhat the planet’s cooling mayhave triggered the split.

While the latest researchimplies that past polar bearadaptation was probably aslow process, it also meansthe animals have beenthrough warming phasesbefore. “If they go extinct inthis phase of warming, we’regoing to have to ask ourselves

what our role in that processwas,” Hailer said. “In previouswarm phases between the iceages polar bears were able tosurvive. The main differencethis time is that humans areimpacting polar bears as well.”

Genetic studies are animportant tool in researchingthe evolutionary history ofpolar bears, since the animalstypically live and die on seaice. As a result, their bodiessink to the sea floor, wherethey get ground up by glaciersor remain undiscovered,making fossils scarce.

Reuters

2005.Though the population

has been growing, theChinese alligator remainsthreatened by extinction, asthe population is far belowthe widely recognized 500-line separating “endangered”species and “criticallyendangered” ones, he said.

The Chinese alligatorwas originally scatteredthroughout eastern China.However, its wild habitat hasbeen reduced significantly byhuman activities, especiallyas land has been converted tosuit agricultural needs.

To restore the 230-million-year-old species’habitat, China has beenconverting farmland to forestsover the past few years, amove believed to have helpedincrease the alligator’spopulation.

Meanwhile, humanintervention can raise thefreshwater alligator’s survivalrate in the wild to 20 percentfrom the meager 2 percent,Wang said.—Xinhua

the tropical forests of PapuaNew Guinea, the USGeological survey said.

The lizard, whichmeasures about 13 cm (5inches) from head to tail and is

covered with rows of skinnodules that make it easier forit to conceal itself on the forestfloor, was collected on ManusIsland in March, 2010 anddescribed in a report publishedin the journal “Zootaxa” inApril. “We’ve officially namedit Nactus kunan for its strikingcolour pattern - kunan means‘bumblebee’ in the local NaliLanguage,” said Robert Fisherof the USGS WesternEcological Research Centre,who with biologists from thePapua New Guinea NationalMuseum discovered thegecko.

“It belongs to a genus ofslender-toed geckos, whichmeans these guys don’t havethe padded, wall-climbing toes

like the common house gecko,”he added in a statement.

Fisher found two onManus Island in 2010 andanalyzed their genetics toshow that the lizards were new.Two other species also foundon that trip are set for furtheranalysis. “This species was astriking surprise, as I’ve beenworking on the genus sincethe 1970s and would not havepredicted this discovery,”herpetologist George Zug ofthe Smithsonian Institution,co-author of the report on thenew find, said.—Reuters

“We started to realize thatwe might have a little bit of aproblem on our hands because... if we just pulled the plug ontheir criminal infrastructureand threw everybody in jail,the victims of this were goingto be without Internet service,”said Tom Grasso, an FBIsupervisory special agent.“The average user would openup Internet Explorer and get‘page not found’ and think theInternet is broken.” On thenight of the arrests, the agencybrought in Paul Vixie, chairmanand founder of InternetSystems Consortium, to installtwo Internet servers to takethe place of the truckload ofimpounded rogue servers thatinfected computers wereusing.—Interent

on Friday. LightSquared’splans were derailed when theUS Federal CommunicationsCommission in Februaryproposed to stop it frombuilding a high-speed wirelessnetwork after tests had foundthat the network could interferewith GPS services used byeveryone from farmers anddrivers to airlines and themilitary. The blow putLightSquared’s future injeopardy, and Falcone, whohas invested more than 60percent of his $4 billionHarbinger Capital Partners’

assets in the venture, hasconsidered filing for voluntarybankruptcy to salvage thecompany. Inmarsat, whosesatellites provide communi-cations for shipping andaircraft, said that under anamended cooperation dealwith the cash-strappedcompany, it had suspendedquarterly payments of nearly$30 million and an overduepayment of $29.6 million fortwo years. “As a result of theamendment announcedtoday, LightSquared will nolonger be in default in relation

to any payments under thecooperation agreement,”Inmarsat said.

LightSquared interimChief Operating Officer DougSmith said in a statement thatthe new agreement allows thecompany “to focus its effortson obtaining the necessaryregulatory approvals” for itsnetwork. The payments fromLightSquared have bolsteredInmarsat’s revenues againsta slowdown in its coreshipping business and lessuse of its services by themilitary.—Reuters

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Business & Health Business & Health Business & HealthWal-Mart silenced Mexican bribe inquiry

NEW YORK, 22 April—Wal-Mart Stores Inc, theworld’s largest retailer,squelched an internalinvestigation into allegationsof bribery at its Mexicansubsidiary instead ofbroadening the probe, theNew York Times reported onSaturday.

The Times said that inSeptember 2005, a senior Wal-Mart lawyer received an e-mail from Sergio CiceroZapata, a former executive atthe company’s largest foreignunit, Wal-Mart de Mexico,describing how the subsidiary

had paid bribes to obtainpermits to build stores in thecountry. Wal-Mart sentinvestigators to Mexico Cityand found a paper trail ofhundreds of suspectpayments totaling more than$24 million, but thecompany’s leaders then shutdown the investigation andnotified neither US norMexican law enforcementofficials, the Times reported.

According to the Times,current Wal-Mart ChiefExecutive Mike Duke andformer CEO Lee Scott, whonow sits on the company’s

board, were among seniorexecutives allegedly aware ofthe situation. Wal-Mart saidin a statement on Saturday itwas “deeply concerned”about the allegations in theTimes report and began aninvestigation into itscompliance with the USForeign Corrupt Practices Act(FCPA) last fall. The companyalso said it had disclosed theprobe to the US Departmentof Justice and the Securitiesand Exchange Commission.

“Many of the allegedactivities in The New YorkTimes article are more than six

years old. If these allegationsare true, it is not a reflection ofwho we are or what we standfor,” said David Tovar, vicepresident of corporatecommunications at Wal-Mart.

The company said it hadtaken steps in Mexico to boostinternal controls for strongerFCPA compliance. It declinedto make any executivesavailable for comment, andsaid the investigation wascontinuing.

In 2011, the Mexican unitreported total sales of 379billion pesos ($29 billion).Walmart’s fiscal 2012 sales,for the year ended January 31,were $443.85 billion.—Reuters

Qantas A380 jet, “NancyBird Walton,” will makeits first commercial flighton April 28 from Sydney

to Hong Kong.INTERNET

A sign for the Bank of America is seen outside a branchin Vienna.—REUTERS

BofA board $20 millionsettlement called inadequate

NEW YORK, 22 April—Bank of America Corp directors,who were sued by shareholders for allegedly paying too muchfor Merrill Lynch & Co in 2008, must defend a proposed $20million settlement of the claims in federal court in New York,court papers show. Calling the settlement “grosslyinadequate,” lawyers in a similar Delaware case have asked P.Kevin Castel, the judge overseeing the New York matter, toorder the parties agreeing to the deal to justify its terms.

Castel directed that parties submit necessary documentsby 4 May. The New York Times first reported that the Delawareplaintiffs objected to the settlement in New York as inadequate.

Damages in the case could reach $5 billion, according tothe plaintiffs in the case being handled in Delaware ChanceryCourt, the paper said. Larry Grayson, spokesman for BofA,declined to comment on the matter. Lawyers in the Delawarecase complained that if the settlement in New York wereapproved, their clients’ damages claims would be wiped outahead of a scheduled October trial, the newspaper said.

Court papers show the settlement was struck on 12 Aprilby lawyers representing two public employee pension fundsthat had sued the directors of Bank of America for breach offiduciary duty. The funds are the Louisiana Municipal PoliceEmployees’ Retirement System and the Hollywood PoliceOfficers’ Retirement System in Florida.

Bank of America has been the subject of much litigationover Merrill, including its failure to more quickly disclose thatMerrill was on its way to losing $15.8 billion in the fourthquarter of 2008 and was also paying out $3.6 billion in bonusesto employees.

MNA/Reuters

A worker walks through the “Action Alley” at a newWal-Mart store in Chicago, on 24 January, 2012.

REUTERS

Qantas A380 blowout plane returns to serviceSINGAPORE, 22 April—

Australia’s Qantas took itsrepaired A380 superjumboback to the skies on Saturday,resuming a 3,900 mile journeydramatically interrupted 18months ago when one of itsengines blew up overIndonesia.

After $140 million ofrepairs, the world’s largestjetliner took off for Sydneyshortly before midnight,carrying Qantas ChiefExecutive Alan Joyce andmembers of the crew thatsafely landed the crippledAirbus in Singapore with 440passengers on board.

“She’s running a littlelate... 18 months,” Joyce earliertold reporters under the leftwing of the big jet, which wassprayed by shrapnel as theengine blew apart shortly aftertake-off from Singapore inNovember 2010.

The return to service ofthe flagship European jetlinerends a harrowing episode forthe airline, planemaker Airbusand engine supplier Rolls-Royce . Investigators haveblamed the incident on a

potential manufacturing flawat Britain’s Rolls-Royce,which endured blunt criticismfrom Joyce following the Trent900 engine explosion.

Qantas and Airbus saidthe aircraft is safe and nearlyas good as new after goingthrough what they describedas the biggest repair job on asingle aircraft in aviationhistory. The only visiblescars are two patches of metalunder the left wing where itwas pierced by debris, someof which shot out at an anglethat narrowly missed the topof the fuselage.

“We believe this aircraftis as good as new. In the testflight that has taken place it isperforming better than a newaircraft would,” Joyce said.

The engine blowoutinitially prompted thegrounding of the entireQantas A380 fleet — sixA380s at the time — for overthree weeks. The aircraft hasundergone extensive repairsinvolving 70,000 hours ofwork in a hangar belonging toSingapore Airlines at ChangiAirport in Singapore.

With each aircraftcosting almost $400 million attoday’s list prices, theinsurance-paid repair bill of

A$139 million ($143 million)was cheaper than writing offthe damaged jet.

The plane, named afterAustralian aviation pioneerNancy Bird-Walton, beganthe 6-1/2 hour journey homeas flight QF32, the same callsign it was using at the time ofthe incident.

Qantas will stop usingthat call sign after Saturday’shomecoming flight. “It is veryimportant that everybody washere to fulfill the last flightthat was not completed 18

months ago,” Joyce said.Passengers on the

journey home includedRichard De Crespigny, thecaptain on the troubled flight18 months ago. “I haveabsolute complete confidencein the aircraft. I am verypleased that my CEO iscoming back on the flighttonight and I look forward tohaving my wife and twochildren also here on the A380as soon as possible,” DeCrespigny told reporters.

Reuters

Many people treated for cancer are worn out for a time,but new findings suggest that long-lasting fatigue may be

less common than thought — at least for women withearly-stage breast cancer.—INTERNET

Fatigue after early breast cancer often fadesthe problem a year later.

That suggests for most women with the disease post-treatment fatigue will fade with some time, the researchersreport in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

It’s well known that cancer patients often suffer fatigue.And some studies have concluded it’s common for thatweariness to last for years after treatment ends. Among breastcancer survivors, researchers have found that more than one-third have fatigue two to three years after treatment.

The reasons, though, have not been clear. And the newfindings support the idea that some cases of chronic fatiguein earlier studies may have had causes other than the canceritself.

Past studies have often been “cross-sectional,” meaningthey studied people at one time-point.

So it’s possible to catch some bouts of fatigue that arerelated to various causes, explained Dr. David Goldstein, wholed the new study.

That could mean lingering fatigue from a viral illness, forexample, or fatigue related to depression, according toGoldstein, of Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick, Australia.

“There are cancer survivors with true post-cancer fatigue,”Goldstein said in an email. It’s just that the number may be“less than previously thought.”

Reuters

NEW YORK, 22 April—Many people treated for cancer areworn out for a time, but new findings suggest that long-lastingfatigue may be less common than thought — at least forwomen with early-stage breast cancer.

The study, of 218 women treated for early breast cancer,found that almost one-third had “cancer-related fatigue” atthe end of treatment. But far fewer — six percent — still had

Kickboxing is a fun way to burn calories and tonemuscles. But experts say participants, especially beginners,should take precautions to avoid injury.

The American Council on Exercise offers thesesuggestions for people who are just starting to kickbox:

* Don’t wear weights or hold dumbbells when youpunch. Either can injure your joints.

* When kicking or punching, don’t lock your joints.* Don’t overextend when you kick.* Don’t give in to your peers and continue exercising

when you are tired.—Internet

Health Tip: Consider kickboxing

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6 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 23 April, 2012

Around 130 injured in Amsterdam traincollision

some light injured.National Police earlier

said approximately 125 wereinjured, 56 of them seriouslywounded, 13 in a very badcondition. Most of victimssuffered broken bones andsevere bruises. The cause ofthe disaster is still unknown,an investigation will bestarted. Due to the collisionno trains are driving in thewest side of Amsterdam,including the trains toSchiphol Airport.

MNA/Xinhua

AMSTERDAM, 22 April —Around 130 people wereinjured in passenger trainscollision on Saturday in westside of Amsterdam, capitalcity of the Netherlands. Theaccident happened at around18:30 (1630 GMT) when thetrain from Den Helder toNijmegen and the train fromAmsterdam to Uitgeest had ahead-on collision. Bothtrains were damaged.

“Around 130 peoplewere injured, and especially,there are 11 people who have

been stuck in the train forlong time, we just releasedthem out,” a spokesman ofthe resuce team told Xinhuaat location. “The search andrescure is still goingon.”According to the Dutchrailways company NS, allinjured have been out of thetrains.

The Dutch policeblocked the whole areaaround the Ambulances andtrauma helicopters are at thescene. Temporary medicalcentre have been built to treat

Police and otherrescuers searchvictims at the

accident site oftrains collisionin the west sideof Amsterdam,

the Netherlands,on 21 April,

2012. Accordingto the Dutch

National Police(KLPD),

approximately125 are injured,

of which 56people areseriouslyinjured.XINHUA

Russian naval flagship arrives in China for joint drill.

XINHUA

Four charged in Aboriginal shooting incidentof a repeat of 2004 riotsfollowing the death of TJHickey. The 17-year-oldHickey was impaled on afence as — according to hisfamily — officers chased himon his bicycle. Scores ofpolice were injured in a wildnine-hour standoff but aninquiry ultimately clearedthem. Aborigines areAustralia’s mostdisadvantaged minority,with a shorter life expectancyand much higher rates ofimprisonment and diseasethan the broaderpopulation.— Internet

SYDNEY, 22 April — Aman and two teenagers weredue to face court on Sundayafter a stolen car mounted acrowded footpath in centralSydney, leading to twoAboriginal youngsters beingshot by police. The incidentin the city’s red-light districtearly Saturday morningstoked fears of racial tensionsbut there were no reports oftrouble overnight in theimpoverished Aboriginalsuburb of Redfern, where theyouths came from.

After the car hit abystander police opened

fire, hitting the 14-year-olddriver in the chest and armwhile his passenger, 18, tooka bullet to the neck. Fourothers in the back seat, a managed 24 and three youths aged13, 14 and 16 were chargedlate Saturday with beingcarried in a conveyance, orjoy riding. Three were toappear in court Sunday andthe youngest at a later date.

The two with gunshotwounds remain in a seriouscondition, police said as theycontinued working to defusetensions with Redfern’sAboriginal elders amid fears

NEW DELHI, 22 April —India is to declare tea asnational drink by April nextyear, the country’s topplanner has said. “The drinkwould be accorded nationaldrink status by 17 April nextyear to coincide with the212th birth anniversary offirst Assamese tea planter andSepoy Mutiny leaderManiram Dewan,” India’sPlanning CommissionDeputy Chairman MontekSingh Ahluwalia was quotedby the local media as sayingSaturday.

Ahluwalia made theremarks in his address at thePlatinum Jubilee celebra-tions of the Assam TeaPlanters Association onJorhat in the northeasternstate of Assam. ManiramDewan was the country’s firstindigenous tea planter whoalso took part in India’sstruggle for the freedommovement, he said. India isthe largest producer andconsumer of black tea in theworld, with 83 percenthouseholds consuming thebeverage considered to bethe cheapest in the world afterwater.— Xinhua

India todeclare tea asnational drink

next year

China and Russia hold first navy exercisesterrorism drills.

China has 16 navalvessels and two submarinestaking part while Russia hasfour warships. China saidThursday that the exerciseswere aimed at upholdingregional peace. “This jointmilitary exercise is a longscheduled one betweenChina and Russia in order touphold regional peace andstability,” foreign ministryspokesman Liu Weimin told aregular news briefing. Chinaand Russia have togetherparticipated in four militaryexercises since 2005, someinvolving other countries aswell, Xinhua has said.

Internet

HONG KONG, 22 April —China and Russia on Sundaylaunched their first joint navalexercises amid tensionsbetween China and its Asianneighbours over regionalterritorial claims.

The six days of drills aretaking place in the Yellow Seaoff China’s east coast, theofficial China News Servicesaid, adding these were thefirst dedicated exercisesinvolving the two navies.Taking place near Qingdaocity off the coast of ShandongProvince, they were launchedby Russian and Chinesemilitary officials on Sundaymorning, the state-runXinhua news agency said.

The exercises come asChina boosts militaryspending and asserts claimsover disputed territory,including a chain of islands inthe East China Sea alsoclaimed by Japan. China andseveral Asian countries alsohave rival claims touninhabited islands in theSouth China Sea, which isbelieved to be rich in oil andnatural gas and straddlesstrategic shipping lanes vitalto global trade. The exerciseswill focus on joint air defence,anti-submarine tactics andsearch and rescue, Xinhuahas previously said. They willalso include simulated rescueof hijacked vessels and anti-

China steps up probe into contaminated drugcapsules

BEIJING, 22 April — More inspection teams have been sent to investigate the incident of contaminateddrug capsules and find out those held responsible, said the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) onSaturday. Inspection teams from several departments, including the police, health authorities and supervisionagencies, have been sent to Zhejiang, Hebei and Jiangxi Provinces to supervise the investigation of the case,said a statement from the SFDA.

China Central Television (CCTV) reported on last Sunday that several companies have been manufacturingdrug capsules with industrial gelatin, which contains a greater amount of chromium than edible gelatin andcan be toxic if ingested in excessive amounts. It named several medications that have been packaged in thecontaminated capsules. In response to the report, the SFDA ordered 13 medications produced by ninepharmaceutical companies named in the TV report to be suspended from distribution and use until they arecleared by a lab analysis. An overhaul has been carried out on the production of drug capsule makers,pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of gelatin for medical use, the statement said.

Those who refuse to cooperate in the investigation and try to cover up malpractice will be severelypunished, the statement said. Supervision agencies have started investigation into officials who might haveneglected their duty in this case, it added.‘ The SFDA also promised to timely inform the public the developmentof the investigation. Chinese police have detained 53 suspects and closed 10 industrial gelatin and gel capsulefactories believed to have been involved in producing contaminated medicine capsules, said the Ministry ofPublic Security in a Thursday statement.—Xinhua

Customers try new iPads in the Apple Retail Storein Seoul, South Korea, on 20 April, 2012. Apple’s

new iPad started selling in South Korea on Friday. XINHUA

Shocking! Moment of bullet breaks through glass.— XINHUA

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A vast majority of rural people are farmers whoselivelihood is agriculture. Agriculture plays a very importantrole in the country’s economy. In the past, Myanmarearned most of her foreign exchange by selling agriculturalproducts. Rice alone fetched more foreign exchange thanall the non-agricultural exports combined.

With poor transportation plus primitive methods offarming, the country’s rice per acre yield was low whencompared to that of her neighbours.

Although the farmers have to work hard day in, dayout, they could enjoy very few fruits of their labour. Theyhave been down-trodden and exploited by capitalists foryears countable by the thousand. This being the case, theyhad to live in abject poverty with little or no comfort letalone luxury. And their socio-economic status was as lowas could be. Myanmar used to export three million tons ofrice a year before World War II. Now she exports less thanone million tons of rice due to a variety of reasons.

Realizing such general weaknesses, the governmentof successive eras had given top priority to themodernization and mechanization of agriculture the lengthand breadth of the nation. In this context, it had undertakena series of activities which include disbursing interest-

Towards modern, developed countryTowards modern, developed countryTowards modern, developed countryTowards modern, developed countryTowards modern, developed countryTowards modern, developed countryBy T.S. (NLM)

free agricultural loans or low-interest loans, sellingchemical fertilizers, pesticides and farm implements tofarmers at reasonable prices, launching agricultural banksand seed-banks to help the farmers, building dams andreservoirs in different regions, implementing river-waterpumping stations in some areas where water is scarce,introducing high-yield strains of paddy and other crops,disseminating modern agricultural methods to farmers sothat they can extensively engage in double and mixedcropping as well as summer paddy cultivation and seekingforeign markets for locally produced rice. Thanks to theendeavours of the government the living standard offarmers has improved remarkably.

Nowadays, economic, political and socialtransformation has been undertaken steadily in consistentwith the Constitution which is in line with multipartydemocratic practices. The door is always open for those whoare willing to participate constructively in the political processin accordance with the Constitution. As politics and economyusually go hand in hand, necessary amendments to therelevant laws and regulations are being made. Changes havetaken place in various sectors. Meanwhile, the mechanizationof farming is being introduced steadily with the extensive

use of high-yeild strains of paddy. More and more farmimplements are being imported or manufactured locally sothat the farmers can grow paddy all the more.

Being agro-based country, Myanmar is trying its bestfor the development of agricultural sector, especiallyboosting paddy output for domestic consumption andexport. With this end in view, the Ministry of Agricultureand Irrigation has taken steps for acquisition of necessarytechnology, methods, quality strains and cooperationwherever possible including from the internationalcommunity and international organizations. It is alsoseeking cooperation from countries enjoying highertechnology. As the method to grow Palethwe hybridstrains of paddy is the best for the time being, the ministryis mobilizing and educating farmers across the country towidely grow the hybrid strains. And the growing of Palethwehybrid strains of paddy with GAP system is demonstratedregion-wide, for hybrid paddy production technology iswidely used in the world.

At such a time, the participation of private sectors insuccessful cultivation of paddy is welcomed. And withprivate sector participation, the country will soon becomean agro-based modern and developed nation.

Cash and kind donated toShwebo Youth Development

CentreSHWEBO, 22 April—

Rector (Rtd) U Ye Myint Aungof Shwebo University, RectorDr Tin Tun Myint and facultymembers cooperated withPyae Kaday Construction Coin donating K 2 million andtwo sets of computer toShwebo Youth DevelopmentCentre.

Rector (Rtd) U Ye MyintAung explained the purposeof donation.

Rector Dr Tin Tun Myintand faculty memberspresented K 2 million and two

sets of computer to Principalof the centre Dr Than Tun andChairman of the CentreSupervisory Committee U TinWin.

Principal Dr Than Tunestablished Shwebo YouthDevelopment Centre in 1963and now admits 40 students.

The golden jubileeanniversary of the centre willbe held in 2013.

Any person may set uptrust funds for durability ofthe centre.

Kyemon

Vehicle donated to ThilawaSocial Association

YAMETHIN, 22 April—Aceremony donate a vehicle toThilawa social association ofYamethin in MandalayRegion was held atYanaungmyin SasanaBeikman on 14 March.

It was attended by RegionHluttaw Representative UKyaw Myint, DeputyCommissioner U Zaw Win ofDistrict GeneralAdministration Department,Township Administrator UMaung Maung and servicepersonnel of departments,members of Shwethin Homefor the Aged, Township MahaBonkahtein Committee,Township Bus Association,Thilawa Social Association,Union Solidarity andDevelopment Party andtownselders.

The deputy commis-sioner made a speech.Secretary of Thilawa SocialAssociation U Thein Lwinreported on tasks of theassociation and presentedgifts to four volunteers.

U Shwe explained thepurpose of donation.Chairman of Thalawa SocialAssociation retired TownshipEducation Officer U MyaThein spoke words of thanksand presented certificates ofhonour to wellwishers.Thilawa Social Associationof Yamethin has three vehiclesduring 10-year period of itsestablishment.—Kyemon

VEHICLES UNDER SURPRISED CHECKED: Underthe supervision of Commander of Sagaing Township

Police Force Police Captain Myint Swe,Commander of No 1 Police Station IP Hlaing MyintThan, SIP Thant Zin Htoo of District Traffic Rules

Enforcement Team and members surprisinglychecked vehicles and motorcycles at the corner ofMyoma Market in Sagaing recently. Photo shows

police members check motorcycles.KYEMON

Myanmar Libraries Foundation is givingencouragement to broadening the horizon of the peopleand developing self-reliant libraries across the nation.

Those wishing to donate cash and books to thelibraries may contact Myanmar Libraries Foundationat No. 228 on Theinbyu Street in BotahtaungTownship, Yangon, Tel: 01-371342, 01-201936 and01-398756.

MLF invites donation of cash,books

DISTRICTNEWS

Palethwe hybrid paddy grownin irrigated area

NAY PYI TAW, 22 April—A ceremony to grow Palethwehybrid paddy was held at the field of farmer U Aung Kyi Laywith the use of paddy transplanting machines in the irrigatedarea of Shwehlanbo river water pumping project beingimplemented by Water Resources Utilization Department inSingaing Township of Mandalay Region on 9 April.

It was attended by Sagaing Township Administrator UKhin Zaw, Manager of Singaing Township AgricultureDepartment U Aung Win and officials, officials ofShwehlanbo river water pumping project, administrators ofYwathaya, Meethwaybok and Kanauk villages and

local people.Use of paddy transplanting machine will solve

difficulties of female paddy transplanters.Assistant Director U Ye Win Tun of the project said,

“As the local people do not dare cultivation of high yieldpaddy strains through modern agricultural methods, paddytransplanting machines were bought to provide assistancefor growing paddy. Due to advantages of the machines, thelocal farmers will apply modern agricultural methods.”

Shwehlanbo river water pumping project is implementedto benefit 3000 acres of irrigated farmlands. Whileimplementing the project, paddy fields are being irrigated.Thus, the local people grow paddy twice or thrice a year.Moreover, the river water project contributes much togreening of the region.—Ko Htwe

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 23 April, 2012YANGON, 22 April—Union Minister for Electric Power

No.2 U Khin Maung Soe visited Ahlon Power Plant ofMyanma Electric Power Enterprise on Strand Road in AhlonTownship here this morning and inspected control room andoperation of three gas turbines at full capacity.

He then went to Ahlon sub-power station andinspected power inflow from control panels, powerdistribution of respective feeders, installation of power lines,and condition of 230/66/11 KV 100 MVA transformerNos 1 & 2.

The Union Minister then met the chairman ofYangon City Electricity Supply Board and division heads,deputy commissioners, district electrical engineers, managersof power stations in Yangon Region, managers of sub-powerstations, and personnel from Yangon, Bago and Ayeyawadyregions. On the occasion, he instructed sub-power stationmanagers to guard against unserupulous practices and calledfor full systematic power supply to the public. He urged themto monitor current power consumption and powerdistribution, calling for supervision of responsible personnelat different levels.

Next, Chief Engineer Dr Tun Naing of Power SystemDivision under Myanma Electric Power Enterprise and sub-power station managers explained power available anddistributed, coordinated by the Union Minister to fulfill therequirements.—MNA

Union Electric Power No.2 Minister visitsAhlon Power Plant, Ahlon Power Station

NAY PYI TAW, 22April — Kachin StateGovernment has presentedcash assistance to KIAmembers led by CorporalKyaw Hsan of Brigade (5) ofKIA who exchanged arms forpeace on 16 April as they arenot willing to engage inmeaningless armed struggle.

The ceremony toprovide them with assistancein cash was held at BasicEducation High School(Branch) at the village ofTalawgyi in MyitkyinaTownship on 20 April and itwas attended by MyitkyinaDistrict DeputyCommissioner U KhinMaung Cho, MyitkyinaTownship Administrator UThan Zaw Oo, Commander ofMyitkyina District PoliceForce Police Lt-Col Aye Thanand officers from Northern

Kachin State Government providespeace-loving KIA members with cash assistance

Command, members of thegroup who exchanged armsfor peace and local peopletotaling 1500.

At the ceremony, onbehalf of Kachin StateGovernment, District DeputyCommissioner U KhinMaung Cho extendedgreetings and welcomed themembers of the KIA andexplained peace makingefforts of Kachin StateGovernment.

Officials presented

K 4.3 million provided byKachin State Government, K8.6 million, 67 bags of rice,120 viss of edible oil, 250 vissof gram and 24 viss of saltprovided by NorthernCommand and aids fromRelief and ResettlementDepartment to the membersof KIA.

At the ceremony,the leader of the groupdisclosed how they wererecruited forcibly while theywere working at farmland,received military trainingunwillingly, rape cases,exchanged arms for peace aftercontacting the Tatmadaw andtheir commitment todefending the country whilejoining hands with theTatmadaw. He also expressedthanks for warm welcome byKachin State Government, theTatmadaw and the people andcash and aids for the membersof the group and families.

A f t e r w a r d s ,townselder U Than Shwespoke words of thanks forproviding the members of KIAwith cash and aids by KachinState Government, theTatmadaw and the people.

Local Shan ethnicwomen and men entertainedthe members of KIA withsongs and the ceremonyended.

MNA

MAWLAMYINEGYUN,22 April—The AyeyawadyRegion Chief Minister’sTrophy Inter-DistrictInternational BoxingChampionship 2012 reachedthe final match on 6 Aprilevening.

In the final matches,five matches for junior classand men’s open classook place at MawshwewaHall in Mawlamyinegyun

Labutta District clinches title in internationalboxing championship

Town-ship. After thetournament, Thet Aung(Pyapon District) secured thebest boxer award in the juniorclass and Thet Naing Oo(Labutta District) in the men’sopen class.

T o w n s h i pAdministrator U Htay Maungpresented championshiptrophy to the winner in thejunior class whereas DeputyDirector U Soe Nyunt of

Region Sports and PhysicalEducation Department themen’s open class trophy.

On behalf of theChief Minister of AyeyawadyRegion, DeputyCommissioner U Kan Win ofLabutta District GeneralAdministration Departmentpresented championshiptrophy to Labutta District teamin the tournament.

Kyemon

SCIENCE DAILY, 22April — A study appearingin the current issue of thejournal Science revealsthat polar bears evolved asearly as some 600,000years ago. An internationalteam led by researchersfrom the German Biodiversityand Climate ResearchCentre (BiK F) shows thelargest arctic carnivore to befive times older thanpreviously recognized.

Polar bears evolutionarily five times older andgenetically more distinct

The new findingson the evolutionary historyof polar bears are the result ofan analysis of informationfrom the nuclear genome ofpolar and brown bears, andshed new light onconservation issuesregarding this endangeredarctic specialist.

Polar bears areuniquely specialized for life inthe arctic. This fact isundisputed, and supportedby a range of morphological,physiological andbehavioural evidence.However, conductingresearch on the evolutionary

history of polar bears isdifficult. The arctic giantspends most of its life on seaice, and typically also diesthere. Its remains sink to thesea floor, where they getground up by glaciers, orremain undiscovered. Fossilremains of polar bears aretherefore scarce. Because thegenetic informationcontained in each organismcarries a lot of informationabout the past, researcherscan study the history ofthe species by looking atthe genes of today’s polarbears.

Internet

Polar bears inCanadian Arctic.

INTERNET

Union Minister for Electric Power No.2 U Khin Maung Soe inspects Ahlon Power Plant of MyanmaElectric Power Enterprise on Strand Road in Ahlon Township.—MNA

An official presents cash assistance provided byKachin State Government to Cpl Kyaw Hsan of

KIA Brigade-5 who exchanged arms forpeace.—MNA

The prizepresentationfor winners

inAyeyawady

RegionChief

Minister’sTrophy

InternationalBoxing

Championshipin Labutta.

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Gold panning enjoys anunprecedented boom

YEDASHE, 22 April—Some people are engagingin panning gold on amanageable scale at the landnear forest reserve in KalaywaVillage of ToungooTownship in Bago Region.

Since last two years, thepeople got 70 pieces of goldin sizes of yway seeds daily.Pieces of gold were sold inToungoo and to brokers.Some of them spent theirmoney on donations.

“We faced loss incultivation of paddy. So,family of us is panning gold

foils there,” said a local.They pan gold foil with

the use of hands or machines.A visitor made a remark

that it is necessary to supervise

the gold panning mine so asto conserve the degradationof ecosystem and fertile soilin next years.

Than Lwin

FREE EYECARE GIVEN: Chairman of U KhinMaung Zin and party of White Heart Group in

Mawlamyinegyun Township give optical glasses to eyepatients free of charge as donation in commemoration

of the New Year on 10 April.MYANMA ALIN

CASH AND KIND DONATED: Townshipcorrespondent Pathein Hla Kyi, wife Daw Mya Mya Winand family donated rice, salt, foodstuffs, exercise books

and ball-pens as New Year donations to children inPathein on Myanmar New Year Day, 17 April.

MYANMA ALIN

Two pieces of tusks seized from express bus

YEDASHE, 22 April—While stopping over at 115th-Mile Bus Stop over in PyuTownship, An express busthat left Yangon forMandalay along Yangon-Mandalay Expressway at2.30 pm on 18 April informedthe 115th-Mile Expressway

Police Station about somesuspected materials werecontained in some bags.

In-charge of the stationSIP Nay Lin and partygathered the passenger ofYazar Aung express bus inthe bus stop and thenannounced to search the bus

acting on tip off. The policeofficials ordered the bus todrive into the compound ofthe police station.

The authorities searchedthe bags and found two tusksof 26 inches in length and 8.5inches in diameter weighingtwo viss and 70 ticals fromthe bags of Maung San, 36, ofKanmyint Village,Htandawgyi Village-tract inBago Township and MaungMaung, 42, PinmakyanVillage of Mindon Village-tract in Yangon Region.

Pyu 115th-MileExpressway Police Stationopened file against themunder (pa) 46/2012, section380/54.—Ko Lwin (Swa)

Kyeeni Lake contributing to evergreen statusin Yamethin

Kyeeni Lake, locatedadjacent to Yamethin, wasdug in Myanmarmonarchical era. The lakehas 1525 acre feet of watersurface and 15 feet high andcan store 8066 acre feet ofwater. It is a lake dammed onthe south and the north sides.

The height of southernbund of the lake has beenraised more six feet so as to

store more volume of water.In the past, the lakeoverflowed water from thesouthern bund. The localpeople were worried aboutbreakdown of bund.

Thanks to better bundof the lake, local people andstudents from the villagesnear Kyeeni Lake such asKanswe, Kanmyint, Hmansi,Wadaw, Hteinkan and

Yonbinkwin villages enjoyfruits of smooth transportalong the bund.

The northern bund ofthe lake has been filled withretaining walls and gravels.

Scenic beauty of KyeeniLake can be seen with themagnificent background ofShan mountain ranges in theeast.

Hlaing Than Tint

Trust-fund set up for maintenance of pagoda,monastery

MINDAT, 22 April—Aceremony to offer gold foilsto MyatheindanHsutaungpyae Pagoda, sharemerits for construction ofMyatheindan Monasteryand set up K 4.5 million trust-fund of Myatheindan Pagodaand MyatheindanMonastery was held at the

monastery in Yanpan Villageof Mindat Township in ChinState on 12 April.

Present on the occasionwere Chin State ChiefMinister U Hong Ngai and

state ministers, wellwishersU Shein Lein Tan, Daw SheinLein Ewe and U Shein LeinAung and otherwellwishers.—TownshipAdministration

Talks on traffic rules given tolocal vehicle owners, drivers

MAWLU, 22 April—Under the supervision of theIndaw Township PoliceForce Commander, a talk ontraffic rules was held nearMawlu railway station inMyamarlar Ward 5 in MawluRegion of Indaw Township,Saganig Region on 13 Aprilmorning.

It was attended byCommander of Mawlu PoliceStation IP Sein Gaung andpolicemen, vehicle owners

and drivers.Commander of Mawlu

Police Force IP Nay Wintalked bout reduction oftraffic accidents, traffic rules,and punishments for trafficrules offenders.

After that, the authoritiesof Mawlu Region TrafficRules EnforcementSupervisory Committee gavetalks on traffic rules anddisciplines for pedestrians.

Kyemon

Ye Zarni Library, Pre-PrimarySchool opened in Paungde

BAGO, 22 April—Aceremony to open Ye ZarniLibrary and Pre-PrimarySchool was held in thecompound of Paungde PoliceStation in Paungde Townshipof Pyay District in BagoRegion (West) on 24 Marchmorning.

Commander of

Township Police ForcePolice Captain San Waiformally opened the libraryand the school.

The talk was alsoattended by police veteransand families of police forcewho were served with lightrefreshment.

Kyemon

Trucks, express buses rund at night due to hightemperature

YEDASHE, 22 April—Trucks and express buses

running along Yangon-Mandalay Highway daily

changed their schedules oftransport to night time due

to high temperature in April.A driver of truck said

that day temperature causesoverheat of engines andbreak down of tyres, and sothey prefer to run theirvehicles at night.

“Suffering fromdiabetes, I cannot drivevehicle under hightemperature. As I am worriedabout unfitness, I drive myvehicle at nightcomfortably,” he continued.

The number of vehiclesrunning along Yangon-NayPyi Taw-Mandalay

Expressway now declines atday time. They go along theexpressway at night. Mostof the vehicles stop over atshady areas and restaurantsat day time. In consequence,the restaurants can earnincreased incomes.

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Computer therapy helps young out of depressionWELLINGTON, 22 April—

A computer game designed tolift teenagers out of depressionis as effective as one-on-onecounselling, New Zealanddoctors reported on Thursdayin the British Medical Journal(BMJ). Researchers at theUniversity of Auckland testedan interactive 3-D fantasygame called SPARX on a 94youngsters diagnosed withdepression whose average agewas 15 and a half.

SPARX invites a user totake on a series of sevenchallenges over four to sevenweeks in which an avatar hasto learn to deal with angerand hurt feelings and swapnegative thoughts for helpfulones. Used for three months,SPARX was at least aseffective as face-to-faceconventional counselling,according to severaldepression rating scales. Inaddition, 44 percent of theSPARX group who carried

Computer therapy helps young out of depression:— INTERNET

out at least four of the sevenchallenges recoveredcompletely. In theconventional treatmentgroup, only 26 percentrecovered fully.

“Use of the programmeresulted in a clinicallysignificant reduction indepression, anxiety andhopelessness, and animprovement in quality oflife,” according to the studyled by Sally Merry, an

associate professor at theDepartment of PsychologicalMedicine. The adolescentsalso gave a high rating toSPARX, saying they likedbeing able to use it at homeand to learn at their own pace.Eighty percent said theywould recommend thecomputer therapy to others,although the treatment-as-usual group had similarlyhigh approval ratings.

Internet

Kitten gets new legs and lease on lifeSOUTH FARGO, 22 April — Corky, a stray

cat born with a rare congenital birth defectwas set to be euthanized in Fargo, ND. Hewas given a new lease on life when he waspicked up at a local shelter, Cat’s Cradle, atthe end of March. Corky was born with agenetic deformity called bilateralarthrogryposis of the tarsus, where his legswere backwards and overlapping. Cat’sCradle co-founders Gail Ventzke, AmberSchaffer and Carol Stefonek fell in love withthe kitten when they were scheduled to pickup two others. They took him immediatelyto get radiographs to see what they weredealing with and realized they needed tooperate right away. They called around to a“couple different vets and they didn’t wantto touch him,” said Ventzke. They took himto the Casselton Veterinary Service where DrDan Burchill agreed to operate on the 8-month-old kitten. Unaware of his condition,Corky was a “happy, healthy, engaging, funcat who dragged his back legs around,” saidBurchill.

After considering all options, likeamputating him and putting him in a wheelchair, Burchill determined he would be ableto surgically fix his legs. A rare disease incats, the condition was more common in

cattle, said Burchill. After practicing for 17years, he had performed the surgery before ondogs, but never cats. “Dr Burchill is ourhero…he customized the surgery for Corky,”said Ventzke. The operation took four hoursand cost roughly $1,000 an hour includingmedication and surgical fees. It was successful,and Corky’s more severely affected right legis doing “fabulous.” The left leg had a fewanatomy problems and was stabilized with apin. Estimated to cost only $2,500, the surgerycosts have not affected Ventzke. She says“We’ll fund raise until we cover it. He’s sucha great little guy, he’s such a great spirit andhe has a great purpose and we’ll do whateverwe can to get him back up on his feet.”Corky’s rehab, which includes acupunctureand hydrotherapy, is slow and steady.

Internet

A 30-year-old Nepali mountaineer died on Saturdayattempting to scale Mount Everest, seen here in February,a government official said, in the second death this seasonon the world’s highest peak. Namgya Tshering Sherpa fellinto a deep crevasse while climbing towards Base CampTwo, more than two-thirds of the way up the 8,848-metre

(29,029-foot) mountain.— INTERNET

Nepali climber, 30, dies in fallon Everest

Toronto boy and mother found safe afterOntario wide Amber Alert issued

TORONTO, 22 April — Amissing Toronto boy whowas the subject an Ontario-wide Amber Alert is now backhome with his much relievedfather. The Toronto PoliceService said eight year oldJoshua Low and his mother,Jessica Yi Qing Low-Zhen,45, were located Saturdaynight after Ontario ProvincialPolice issued an Amber Alerthours earlier.

Detective Mark Charukof 33 Division said police

Kenya rangers gun downsuspected elephant poachers

NAIROBI, 22 April —Kenyan rangers shot dead fivesuspected elephant poachersin a night-time firefight in thenorth of the country, theKenya Wildlife Service(KWS) said on Saturday.“Five suspected poacherswere last night gunned downand one escaped during afierce exchange of fire withKenya Wildlife Servicerangers at Chepareria in WestPokot County,” it said.

An elephant forages at the Tsavo-east National park lastmonth. Kenyan rangers shot dead five suspected

elephant poachers in a night-time firefight in the northof the country, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) says.

INTERNET

KATHMANDU, 22 April — A 30-year-old Nepali mountaineerdied on Saturday attempting to scale Mount Everest, agovernment official said, in the second death this season onthe world’s highest peak. Namgya Tshering Sherpa fell intoa deep crevasse while climbing towards Base Camp Two,more than two-thirds of the way up the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) mountain, said Gyanendra Kumar Shrestha of the NepalTourism Board.

“He slipped from the snow and fell 40 metres into thecrevasse. His body has been recovered near Camp Two,which is located at a height of 6,500 metres,” Shrestha toldAFP. Namgya grew up in the shadow of Everest and conqueredthe peak in 2010 and 2011. He was part of the support teamfor an expedition of mountaineers from the Netherlands,Canada, Ecuador and Norway, said trek organiser RoshanSharma Bhattarai. More than 3,000 people have climbedEverest, which straddles Nepal and China, since it was firstconquered by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953and every year hundreds more set out in April to attempt theclimb.

Around 300 people have died trying to reach the summit.

On Wednesday, the son of fabled Everest climber Ang RitaSherpa was killed by suspected altitude sickness whileattempting to scale the mountain. Karsang Namgyal Sherpa,an experienced climber who had conquered the peak severaltimes, collapsed at Everest base camp, said trek coordinatorDambar Parajuli.— Internet

Two rangers werewounded in the firefightwhich went on for more than40 minutes, the KWS said,adding that it had recovered50 kilograms (110 pounds)of elephant tusks and threeassault rifles at the scene.Trading in ivory was bannedin 1989 under theConvention on InternationalTrade in Endangered Speciesof Wild Fauna and Flora.

Internet

Rare Egyptian scrolls found in Australian collectionCANBERRA, 22 April — A

British historian said onSaturday he had unearthed atrove of Egyptian Book ofthe Dead fragments by a topancient official afterchancing upon a scrap onshow in an Australianmuseum. John Taylor, aworld-famous Egyptologistfrom the British Museum, saidhis discovery began with ashred of papyrus on displayat Queensland Museum’snew mummies exhibitionbearing the distinctive

hieroglyphs of Amenhotep.The 15th century BC

figure, son of Hapu, wasEgypt’s chief architect and isamong those credited withdesigning and constructingthe Great Temple of Amun atKarnak, near Luxor — one ofmodern Egypt’s most visitedlandmarks. Excited andintrigued, Taylor said heasked if there were any moresuch fragments in themuseum’s archives and wasshown into the conservationlab. “After a very short period

of time it became apparentthat we did indeed have manyfragments of the Book of theDead of this extremelyimportant man,” he told TheWeekend Australiannewspaper.

“This is not the papyrusof just anybody, this is one ofthe top officials in Egypt atthe peak of Egyptianprosperity,” added Taylor,describing it as a “once in alifetime” find. The fragmentswere donated to the museumby a private citizen in 1913and are not normally on publicdisplay, but had been broughtout to accompany the BritishMuseum’s touring mummiesexhibition, which Taylor washere to open. He said therewere pieces of Amenhotep’sscroll scattered across globalinstitutions including theBoston Museum of Fine Arts,British Museum and NewYork’s Metropolitan

Museum of Art.The Australian

specimens would bephotographed to try anddetermine where they fit inthe scroll, which Taylor saidcould be up to 20 metreslong — among the largestand most significantEgyptian burial scriptsrecorded.— Internet

File picture shows a papyrus with hieroglyphs (R) andhieratic script (L) from the Library of Alexandria.

INTERNET

used their “investigativetechniques” to find the two,then brought them back tothe station where the boy waslater reunited with his father.Detective Charuk saidmother and son were both in“very good health,” however,the mother was taken to YorkRegion Hospital to beassessed by doctors after she’dbeen questioned by police.

Charuk said Low’sparents had recentlyseparated, and Saturday’s

Amber Alert indicated policehad received informationthat led them to be concernedfor the safety of both the boyand his mother. The Alertcalled it an abduction case,but Charuk told TheCanadian Press that policedid not, at this point, expectto lay charges. Police saidthe boy and his mother hadleft the family’s Toronto areahome on 13th April, morethan a week before the AmberAlert was issued.— Internet

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New Mexico fat cat weighs in at nearly 40 poundsALBUQUERQUE, 22 April

— Meow can’t help butwaddle. He’s one super-sizedcat. The 2-year-old orangeand white tabby tips the scaleat nearly 40 pounds, and theSanta Fe Animal Shelter is ona mission to get the felineback into shape. Meow’s 87-

year-old owner could nolonger take care of him, so thepet was turned over to a shelterin southeastern New Mexicothat called the Santa Fe shelterfor help. “The thing with thiscat is when you look at it,certainly it’s obese. You seethat. But it’s a sweet looking

cat. His face is very sweet.It’s just incredibly fat,”shelter spokesman Ben Swansaid on Friday.

Meow has been placedwith a foster family. He’ll beon a special diet so he canstart shedding some pounds.The goal is for him to lose at

least 10 pounds so he can beput up for adoption. Theshelter plans to post updateson Meow’s weight loss on itsFacebook page. It’s not clearhow the feline was able togain so much weight in justtwo years. Adult catstypically weigh betweenseven and 12 pounds. “If yougo online, you’ll see a lot offat cats and these are peoplewho have fed them just onething, like meat or somethingthat’s not nutritionallybalanced,” Swan said. “Thenthe cat refuses to eat anythingelse and then they just getfatter and fatter and fatter.”

Meow has one thinggoing for him. He’s not thefattest cat out there. Thatrecord belongs to Himmy, atabby from Australia thatweighed almost 47 pounds.The shelter said GuinnessWorld Records has sincestopped acceptingapplications for the recordover concerns it wouldencourage people tooverfeed their animals. InMeow’s case, the shelter isawaiting blood test results tomake sure he doesn’t haveany additional healthproblems.— Internet

This 19 April, 2012 photo provided by the Santa Fe Animal Shelter veterinarian Dr.Jennifer Steketee holds Meow, a 2-year-old tabby at the shelter in Santa Fe, NM

Meow, arrived at the shelter weighing in at over 39 pounds, after his elderly ownercould no longer care for the feline. The shelter plans to put the cat on a special diet so

he can lose weight gradually. Adult cats typically weigh between 7 and 12 pounds. INTERNET

Microsoft quarterly earningstop estimates

SAN FRANCISCO, 22 April— Microsoft on Thursdayreported a modest revenueincrease and profit decline inits quarterly earnings withnumbers still toppinganalysts’ estimates. For thequarter ending on 31 March,the software giant reportedquarterly revenue of 17.41billion US dollars, a 6 percentincrease on a year-on-yearbasis. Net income and dilutedearnings per share for thequarter were 5.11 billiondollars and 60 cents per share,compared with 5.23 billiondollars and 61 cents per sharefrom the same period last year.

While more consumersare choosing Apple orGoogle-powered tabletsinstead of Windows PCs,Microsoft was expected toreport a modest sales increaseand profits decline. Analysts

polled by Thomson Reutersexpect the Redmond,W a s h i n g t o n - b a s e dcompany to report earningsexcluding items of 57 centsper share, down 7 percentcompared to last year, onrevenue of 17.18 billiondollars, up 5 percent on ayearly basis.

“We’re driving towardexciting launches across theentire company, whiledelivering strong financialresults,” said Steve Ballmer,chief executive officer atMicrosoft. “With theupcoming release of newWindows 8 PCs and tablets,the next version of Office,and a wide array of productsand services for theenterprise and consumers, wewill be delivering exceptionalvalue to all our customers inthe year ahead.”— Xinhua

OSAKA, 22 April — Onepeople was killed and 11 otherswere injured when an explosionrocked a chemical plant inYamaguchi Pre-fecture insouthwestern Japan earlySunday, local Press reported.The explosion occurred ataround 2:00 am local time at aplant belonging to leadingJapanese company MitsuiChemicals , killing a 22-year-old worker and injuring 11other workers at the site.

Glasses of windows ofsome 100 houses near the plantwere broken due to theexplosion, the report said,adding that firefighters are stilltrying to extinguish the firecaused by the blast.

MNA/ Xinhua

One killed, 11injured in

chemical plantexplosion in

Japan

SkyePharma asthma drug wins Europeanbacking

LONDON, 22 April —SkyePharma said on Fridayits lead product, asthmatherapy Flutiform, had beenrecommended for approvalby European regulators,doubling the value of thegroup’s shares.

Flutiform was referredto the European MedicinesAgency (EMA) last year aftermember states could notreach unanimous agreementon the drug, which willcompete with Glaxo-SmithKline’s Advair andAstraZeneca’s Symbicort inthe multi-billion dollarrespiratory drugs market Apositive opinion from theEMA is usually rubberstamped by the EuropeanCommission in a matter ofmonths.

Shares in SkyePharma,which has partneredMundipharma in deve-

loping the drug, more thandoubled to 85.5 pence,valuing the group at about22 million pounds.

“This is the end of along struggle for thecompany,” said Singeranalyst Shawn Manning.“It’s highly unlikely that itwill get this stamp ofapproval and not getapproved.” He saidFlutiform could have salesin Europe of $200 millionwithin five years, assumingit won “a modest” 7 percentshare of combinationtherapy patients.

“We estimate 10percent will go toSkyePharma, so it’s a goodsolid contributor,” he said,adding that the positiveopinion also opened thedoor to markets in LatinAmerica and Canada.

Flutiform is a

combination of twocommonly prescribed drugsto treat asthma, thecorticosteroid fluticasonepropionate and the beta-agonist formoterol fumarate,in a metered dose inhaler.SkyePharma’s chiefexecutive Peter Grant saidthe decision was a strongendorsement of the group’scapabilities in developingcomplex respiratory pro-ducts.

“It is also good newsthat we are now on track fora new treatment option to beavailable for many patientssuffering from asthma acrossEurope,” he said.

Earlier on Friday,SkyePharma received a $10million payment from PaciraPharmaceuticals followingthe launch of post-surgicalpain drug Exparel in theUnited States.— Reuters

Developing world lags behind in nutritionWASHINGTON, 22 April —

Developing countries arelagging far behind WorldBank nutrition targets amida spike in global food prices,according to a report releasedFriday by the World Bank.Coupled with a fragile globaleconomy, the rise in foodprices has stalled progress inpoor countries toward theBank’s millenniumdevelopment goals — a setof goals that all UN member

states aim to achieve by 2015including reducing childmortality rates, eliminatingextreme poverty andcombating HIV/AIDS,according to the WorldBank’s Global MonitoringReport 2012.

The World Bank’s 2015goals “will not be met in anydeveloping region,” said thereport co-written with theInternational Monetary Fund(IMF). Speaking to reporters

on Friday, Jos Verbeek, leadauthor of the report at theWorld Bank, said the impactof the food price increasedepends very much on local,regional and socioeconomicfactors, with some groupsfeeling the sting and others,such as some farmers,benefiting. The poorest of theworld’s poor have been themost severely affected, withmillions prevented fromclimbing out of poverty

because they must spend anincreasing amount of theirincome on food, Verbeeksaid. This deprives them ofthe chance to use excess cashfor investments or education.

These are most oftennon-farmers, urban andfemale-headed households.Females tend to live more inurban areas and often cannotgrow their own food, he said,unlike their ruralcounterparts, who can growsubsistence crops when timesget tough.—Internet

New purple crab species foundin Philippines

This handout photo released by Hendrik Freitag, ofGermany’s Senckenberg Museum of Zoology shows one

of the four new species of freshwater crab found inremote areas of the Palawan island group.— INTERNET

MANILA, 22 April — Fournew species of freshwatercrab, bright purple in colour,have been discovered in thebiologically diverse butecologically-threatenedPhilippines, the man whofound them said on Saturday.The tiny crustaceans burrowunder boulders and roots instreams, feeding on deadplants, fruits, carrion and smallanimals in the water at night,said Hendrik Freitag ofGermany’s SenckenbergMuseum of Zoology. Foundonly in small, lowland-forestecosystems in the Palawanisland group, most have purpleshells, with claws and legstipped red.

“It is known that crabscan discriminate colours.Therefore, it seems likely thatthe colouration has a signalfunction for the socialbehaviour, e.g. mating,”Freitag told AFP by email onSaturday. “This could explainwhy large males of variousInsulamon species are morereddish compared to thegenerally violet females andimmature males.” Scientistsbegan extensive investiga-tions of similar freshwatercrabs in the area in the late

1980s, when one new specieswas found — the Insulamonunicorn, Freitag said. Morefield work led Freitag toconclude there were four otherunique species.

“Based on available newmaterial, a total of five speciesare recognized... four of whichare new to science,” Freitagwrote in the latest edition ofthe National University ofSingapore’s Raffles Bulletinof Zoology. The carapace ofthe biggest, Insulamonmagnum, is just 53 millimetresby 41.8 millimetres while thesmallest, Insulamonporculum, measures 33.1 by25.1 millimetres. The two othernew species were called

Insulamon palawense andInsulamon johannchristiani.The four slightly differ fromthe first find, and from eachother, in the shapes of theirbody shells, legs, and sexorgans. US-based Con-servation International liststhe Philippines as one of 17countries that harbours mostof Earth’s plant and animal life.Reptiles, birds or mammalslikely prey on the crabs, and itis possible people in remoteareas also collect them for food,Freitag said. —Internet

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Hailstorms kill 29 in ChinaBEIJING, 22 April—Hailstorms had killed 29 people across

China from March to 20 April, according to statistics releasedby the Ministry of Civil Affairs late Friday. Hailstorms hadstricken 270 county-level areas across 24 provincial regionssince March this year, the ministry said.

As of 2:00 pm Friday, hailstorms had affected 3.072 millionpeople, and resulted in direct economic losses of 3.38 billionyuan (536.7 million US dollars). Of the 29 deaths, ten werereported by Jiangxi, seven by Zhejiang, three by Xinjiang, twoby Hunan, two by Guizhou, and one respectively by Hebei,Inner Mongolia, Fujian, Guangdong and Yunnan.

Xinhua

Visitors try ridingtricycles at the

Earth Day activityin New York, theUnited States, on20 April, 2012.Many energy-

saving andenvironmental

friendly productsare shown at the

activity.XINHUA

Russialaunches spacefreighter to ISS

MOSCOW, 22 April — ARussian Soyuz-U rocketcarrying a Progress M-15Mcargo ship blasted off to theInternational Space Station(ISS) on Friday, according toRussia’s Federal SpaceAgency, Roscosmos. Therocket was launched from theBaikonur space center inKazakhstan at 16:50 Moscowtime (1250 GMT), Rosoc-osmos said.

The Progress M-15Mwill deliver about 2.4 tons offuel and scientific equipmentto the ISS as well as oxygen,food and clothes for the crew.After orbital insertion, theProgress cargo ship willperform two days of freeflight, making rendezvousburns and preparing fordocking. The space freighteris due to dock to the ISS’sPirs docking module at 18:40Moscow time (1440 GMT) onSunday in automatic mode,according to Roscosmos.

MNA/Xinhua

Airline execs convicted over 2005Greece crash

the accident.Investigators have said

the failure to switch a valveaffected the oxygen supply tothe aircraft shortly after theplane took off from Cyprus’sLarnaca airport . The aircraftflew on autopilot in Greek airspace for two hours before itran out of fuel and smashedinto a hillside. Greek air forcepilots who trailed the aircraftsaw a lone man at the controlsof the plane, apparently tryingin vain to avert the disaster.

Reuters

Members of the Greek police elite force walk past a tailof the Cypriot Helios airliner that crashed at

Grammatiko village, some 40 km (25 miles) northeast ofAthens, on 15 Aug, 2005.— INTERNET

ATHENS, 22 April —Three executives of a defunctCypriot airline and a Britishengineer were each sentencedin absentia to 10 years inprison on Friday for their rolein Greece’s worst air crashthat killed 121 people, courtofficials said. The HeliosAirways Boeing 737-300crashed into a mountain nearAthens in 2005 after its oxygensupply failed and the pilotsand most of the passengersfell unconscious.

An Athens court found

the defendants guilty ofmanslaughter and negligencecharges, officials toldReuters. Lawyers for the four— Helios’s former chiefexecutive officer, its chief offlight operations, the firm’sBulgarian head pilot as wellas a British engineer who hadinspected the plane before ittook off, said they hadappealed against thedecision. The ruling came fourmonths after a Cypriot courtacquitted the three executivesduring a separate hearing over

Woman’s Coca-Cola ‘habit’ cited in deathalso said Harris had “toxic levelsof caffeine” in her blood,though it’s not clear if thoselevels came exclusively fromCoke or from a combination ofother sources, including coffee.Karen Thompson, aspokeswoman for Coca-ColaOceania, defended the safetyof her company’s products in astatement:

“We concur with theinformation shared by thecoroner’s office that thegrossly excessive ingestionof any food product, includingwater, over a short period oftime with the inadequateconsumption of essentialnutrients, and the failure toseek appropriate medicalintervention when needed,can be dramaticallysymptomatic.” Harris

WELLINGTON, 22 April —When people attributesomeone’s untimely death to aCoke overdose, they’re usuallynot talking about the world’smost popular soda. But expertsin New Zealand say NatashaHarris’ 2-gallon-a-day Coca-Cola consumption “probably”contributed to her death. Thesoda company responded tothe alleged connection bynoting that even waterconsumption can be fatal inexcessive amounts.

“The first thing shewould do in the morning wasto have a drink of Coke besideher bed and the last thing shewould do at night was have adrink of Coke,” Harris’ partnerChris Hodgkinson said in adeposition. “She wasaddicted to Coke.”

Hodgkinson testified thatHarris drank between 2.1gallons and 2.6 gallons ofCoke every day. The 30-year-old Harris died of a heart attackin February 2010. Accordingto New Zealand’s FairfaxMedia, pathologist Dr DanMornin testified on Thursdaythat Harris likely suffered fromhypokalemia (low potassiumlevels), which he believes wascaused by her overall poornutrition, including theunusually high levels of Cokeconsumption.

Though in fairness to thesoda manufacturer, it was alsorevealed that Harris made otherquestionable health choicesbefore her death, includingsmoking a reported 30cigarettes per day and havingpoor eating habits. Dr Mornin

Experts say NatashaHarris Coca-Cola habitprobably contributed toher death .— INTERNET

reportedly experienced highblood pressure in the monthsleading up to her death. Hodg-kinson called emergencyservices and tried mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but wasnot able to revive Harris aftershe collapsed in her home.

Internet

$1 million for a penny; one ofworld’s rarest coins sold at auction

WASHINGTON, 22 April—One of the first pennies everproduced by the US Mint was put up for auction Thursdaynight and reportedly sold for more than $1 million. Bids for the1792 Silver Centre penny reached $1.15 million on Thursdaynight, according to Heritage Auctions, which conducted thesale. The US Mint itself was founded in April, 1792. If youdon’t have $1.15 million on hand, there are more affordable rarecoins available. The Canadian Mint recently began selling alimited-edition glow-in-the-dark quarter featuring a dinosaurskeleton for around $30.

And the website ThinkGeek offers electromagneticallyshrunk quarters for $25, or 100 times their actual value ascurrency. ABC News reports that the rare penny is made ofcopper with a small silver plug at its center. It was an experimentby the then-fledgling US Mint, which shelved the pennybefore it could go into mass circulation. The US Mintdetermined the penny was too large and heavy for practicaluse. Todd Imhof at Heritage Auctions told ABC that unliketoday’s legal tender which bears the inscription, “In God WeTrust,” the copper-silver penny reads “Liberty Parent ofScience & Industry.”

“At the time, industry and science reflected anenlightenment mindset,” Imhof said. “People believed freedomof thought and industrial growth would bind and unify thenew country, not religion or God.” An anonymous collectorwho has owned the coin for 10 years sold the penny. “Withcollectible items, for an item to sell for over a million dollars itis an unusual event,” Imhof said. However, Imhof also said acoin of the same type sold for close to $3 million over a yearago. Still, the $1.15 million sale is one of only 30 $1 million-pluscoin sales in history.— Internet

An image of a computer screen shows the bidding for a1792 Silver Centre Cent coin on 18 April, 2012 in

Schaumburg, Illinois.— INTERNET

Iraq’s second Gulf oil terminal comes online

View of the Khor al-Umayah oil terminal on the outskirtsof Basra in 2009. Iraq’s second of five floating Gulf oil

terminals came online on Friday, adding 900,000barrels per day to the country’s export capacity,

according to the Southern Oil Company. —INTERNET

BASRA, 22 April — Iraq’s second of five floating Gulf oilterminals came online on Friday, adding 900,000 barrels perday to the country’s export capacity, the head of the SouthernOil Company said. “A ship with a capacity of 2 million barrelsof oil has docked at the second floating oil terminal,” andpumping has begun, Dhia al-Mussawi told a news conferencein Basra.

The first of the floating terminals began exporting oil inMarch. With the new platform, Iraq’s export capacity from thesouth will be 3.5 million barrels per day (bpd), Mussawi said,adding that “this is an important step; it is a very important dayfor us in the Southern Oil Company.” Iraq currently producesabout 2.15 million bpd from the south, though that figure is setto rise to 2.75 million bpd by the end of the year, Mussawi said.

Oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad has said that theeventual goal is for Iraq to be able to export five million barrelsper day of oil from the south alone, he said. Oil sales accountfor the vast majority of Iraqi government income and aroundtwo thirds of gross domestic product. The country exportedan average of 2.1 million bpd in 2011, according to Oil MinisterAbdelkarim al-Luaybi.— Internet

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NEW YORK, 22 April—ABC’s “Good Morning America”outperformed NBC’s the “Today” show for the first time in 16years, drawing 31,000 more viewers last week than its rival inthe lucrative television morning show market.

“Good Morning America,” co-hosted by GeorgeStephanopoulos and Robin Roberts, beat out “Today,”drawing almost 5.17 million viewers and was ranked No 1 in themorning slot for the week of 9 April, according to Nielsenratings data on Thursday.

“Today” co-host Matt Lauer was away on vacationduring that week.

Morning TV shows are crucial to the networks for theirpopularity with advertisers and profitability compared tomore expensive shows such as dramas and comedies.

The rivalry between the morning shows has been heatingup in recent weeks. Katie Couric guest hosted “Good MorningAmerica” two weeks ago, and NBC responded by bookingSarah Palin to drop in to co-host “Today.”

Couric famously embarrassed Palin during the 2008presidential race when the then Republican vice presidentialcandidate struggled to name which newspapers she regularlyread.

“We congratulate our friends at ‘Today’ for the greatestwinning streak in broadcasting history and for their excellence

The ABC’s “Good Morning America” anchors (L to R)Robin Roberts, Sam Chapman, Josh Elliott, LaraSpencer and George Stephanopoulos, celebrate

becoming No. 1 ranking in the week of 9th April in NewYork in this 19 April, 2012 handout photo.—INTERNET

“Good Morning America”breaks “Today” show’s streak

and leadership during this historic run. It’s a special day forABC News,” Ben Sherwood, ABC News President, said in astatement.

Stephanopoulos tweeted, “What a milestone!” “Today”noted in a statement it still beat “Good Morning America”among 25-45 year-olds coveted by many advertisers.

Reuters

LOS ANGELES, 22 April—Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combstopped a list of hip hop’swealthiest artists compiled by

Diddy beats Jay-Z, as Forbes’ richest hip hop artist

Sean “P Diddy” Combs isbeing interviewed at the

13th annual Warner Brosand InStyle after partyafter the 69th annual

Golden Globe Awards inBeverly Hills, California

on 15 January, 2012.INTERNET

NEW YORK, 22 April—Colton Dixon, the youngsinger from Tennessee knownfor his flamboyant hairstyle,became the fifth person votedoff top-rated TV singingcontest “American Idol” onThursday night.

“I wasn’t myself lastnight,” said Dixon, whoseWednesday performance ofLady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”was roundly criticized by theshow’s judges. Dixonthanked them for their honestfeedback, and assured themhe would incorporate it into afuture album.

Host Ryan Seacrestdescribed the singer as “aclass act” as he left the stage,and judge Jennifer Lopezshook her head when Dixon’sdismissal was announced.

Forbes on Wednesday,beating out contemporariesJay-Z, Dr Dre, Birdman and 50Cent.

Combs’ net worth wasestimated at $550 million,including high returns fromhis investment in Ciroc vodkaas well as clothing lines SeanJohn and Enyce, record labelBad Boy, marketing companyBlue Flame and numerous techstart-ups.

The “I’ll Be MissingYou” rapper, 42, beat out hiphop mogul Shawn “Jay-Z”Carter, who came in at No 2with a net worth of $460 million.

Carter, 42, who is marriedto R&B superstar Beyonce,

continued to rake insubstantial earnings frommusic and tours after signinga $150 million deal with concertpromoters Live Nation in 2008,as well as investments in theNew Jersey Nets basketballteam, the 40/40 club chain andnumerous other businessventures. Pioneering rapperDr Dre, 47, who has workedwith top artists includingEminem and 50 Cent, took theNo 3 position, with a net worthof $260 million, a bulk of whichcomes from his headphonecompany, Beats Electronics,which he co-owns withInterscope Records founderJimmy Iovine.—Reuters

Colton Dixon voted off of“American Idol’’

Finalists (from L-Rstanding): Elise Testone,Jeremy Rosado, JoshuaLedet, Jermaine Jones,

Jessica Sanchez, ShannonMagrane, Heejun Han,

Phillip Phillips, Erika VanPelt, Colton Dixon, (from

L-R front): HollieCavanagh, Skylar Laine

and Deandre Brackensickpose at the party for thefinalists of the televisionshow “American Idol” inLos Angeles, California

on 1 March, 2012.INTERNET

Though Lopezdescribed Dixon’sperformance as “exciting,”she questioned whether hechose the right song for hisvoice, and mentor JimmyIovine said he sounded“completely wrong.”

Thursday was Dixon’sfirst - and last - time in theshow’s bottom three, wherehe was accompanied bycontestants Hollie Cavanaghand Elise Testone, both of

whom had found themselvesin danger of elimination inprevious weeks.

Contestant JessicaSanchez, who was saved byjudges last week afteraudiences voted her off theshow, received enough votesto stay out of the bottom three.

Reuters

HOLLYWOOD, 22 April—US country music star TaylorSwift is considering playingthe role of music legend JoniMitchell in the upcoming film“Girls Like US,” Variety

Swift considering Joni Mitchell role

Singer Taylor Swift.

reported.Swift has been linked to

the role for several months asother actresses haveauditioned to play fellowmusic legends Carly Simonand Carole King, theentertainment trade magazinereported Friday.

Alison Phil, who was inWoody Allen’s “Midnight inParis,” auditioned to playKing, Variety said.

“Girls Like US,” whichwould be produced by SonyPictures and Di BonaventuraPictures, has yet to be greenlit,though production has beenscheduled to start later thisyear.

Internet

A Kansas veterinarianwhose family rescued a pigletthat fell from a livestock trucksaid the animal quickly madefriends with the family’sLabrador retriever.

Shane Tonn, aveterinarian at the NewtonAnimal Hospital, said hiswife, Stacie, saw the pigletfall from a livestock truck onUS Highway 50 on 29 March

Veterinarian’s family rescues baby pig

A veterinarian’s rescued piglet has made friends with thefamily dog.

Rome prosecutors saidthey are investigatingallegations the mouths of twoTunisian men were sealed withduct tape as they weredeported.

Prosecutors said theyopened an investigation afterfilmmaker FrancescoSperandeo posted a photo toFacebook of the two menbeing deported on an Alitaliaflight with their mouths tapedshut and their hands cuffedwith plastic bands, ANSAreported Thursday.

“The indifference of theother passengers” was theworst part, Sperandeo said.

He said the officers toldhim the methods they wereusing were “normal.”

Tunisiandeportees’

mouths tapedshut in Italy

A New York state man who began working for the USPostal Service when he was 70 is now 92 and the oldest postalworker in a district including eight states.

Officials said Charles Cook, of Pittsford, who works as asupervisor at the mail processing centre in Henrietta, is theoldest employee in a district including Ohio, Pennsylvania,Kentucky, Tennessee, Delaware, and portions of New York,West Virginia and New Jersey, the Rochester (NY) CourierDemocrat reported Thursday.

“I say, ‘If you think I’m going to be replaced and they’regoing to bring in some greenhorn to do my job, you’re crazy,’”Cook said. “I’m going to be here for another 25 years.”

Cook said he began his career with the Postal Service aftera doctor told him when he was 70 he should seek out a job witha lot of physical activity to extend his life.

Man, 92, still working at post office

and brought the animal to hisoffice, The Wichita Eaglereported Thursday.

Tonn said the piglet wasunconscious for about twodays but was able to eat froma syringe when it woke up.He said the pig, which theydubbed Mu Shu, quicklybonded with the couple’sblended family of fourdaughters and their 5-month-

old yellow Lab, Hunter.“Where Hunter comes

in is his constant stimulationof her, licking her, nudgingher,” Tonn said.

He said the family didnot notice Mu Shu was blindfor a few days after theaccident, but Hunter seemedto recognize the piglet washaving trouble and wouldlead her around the house.

“He realized she wasblind, but we didn’t,” Tonnsaid. “All along, he’d beenher eyes.”

Tonn said Mu Shu hassince recovered her sight andis now a permanent memberof the family.

“We’re not going tomake Mu Shu pork out ofher,” he said.

Workers at an upscaleNew York hotel said thefacility was flooded withliquid concrete from aconstruction project nextdoor.

Hotel staff at Le ParkerMeridien, which costs anaverage $600 per night, saidconcrete began to flow intothe hotel from a 29-storeyconstruction project nextdoor around 11:30 amWednesday.

Officials said there were

Liquid concrete floods upscaleNew York hotel

no injuries, and workersmoved quickly to remove theconcrete in wheelbarrowsand hose down furniture onthe sidewalk outside.

A construction workerfrom the hotel project nextdoor said the concrete flowedinto Le Parker Meridien whena wooden retaining wallfailed.

An official with the cityDepartment of Buildings saidinspectors will determinewhether the retaining wall

was properly built.Contractor DiFama Concretewas issued a partial stop-work order Tuesday for usingan unlicensed craneoperator.

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14 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 23 April, 2012

Real defeat Barcelona in Camp Nou to virtually assure title

MADRID, 22 April —Real Madrid took a huge steptowards assuring the BBVAPrimera Liga title on Saturdaynight as they defeated titlerivals FC Barcelona 2-1 in theCamp Nou Stadium. SamiKhedira and CristianoRonaldo scored Madrid’sgoals in a game they deservedto win with a fine display ofpressing football and pace onthe break. Alexis Sanchezscored a goal whichmomentarily gave Barcahope, but the fact is that withMadrid leading by sevenpoints with four matches leftto play, it need a disaster tostop Madrid claiming the title.

Real Madrid coach JoseMourinho kept faith with theside that was narrowly beatenaway to Bayern Munich onTuesday while Barca madechanges with Alexis Sanchezand Cesc Fabrigas rested and

Real Madrid’s Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo(L) celebrates after scoring during the Spanish League“El clasico” football match Barcelona vs Real Madrid

at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on 21 April,2012. Real Madrid won 2-1.— XINHUA

Thiago Alcantara andCristian Tello brought in.There had been pre-gamespeculation over whether ornot Madrid would try andplay a defensive game, butthat was soon shown to bemistaken as Madrid went forthe match from the off.Mourinho’s side pressuredBarca high up the field, lookingto force errors in distributionand stop Barca’s midfieldgetting control of the ball.

Ronaldo saw a headerbrilliantly tipped over byBarca keeper Victor Valdesafter 4 minutes, while KarimBenzema had an effort alsosaved by the Barca keeper. Inreply Dani Alves saw IkerCasillas come quickly off hisline to make a brave save athis feet. It wasn’t a surprisewhen Madrid opened thescoring on 17 minutes: Barcahad already struggled to

defend set pieces andalthough Valdes did well tosave Pepe’s header from acorner, Khedia was able toforce the ball home from closerange, although TV replaysshowed he may have beenslightly offside.

Barca were finding it hardto combine their usual passes,but Xavi almost equalized on25 minutes he found space inthe Madrid area following aMessi pass, but this time itwas Casillas who made a finesave. Overall through Madridlooked comfortable whenBarca were in possession andalways looked threatening onthe break. The second halfkicked off with no changeseither in players or tactics andMadrid continued to lookcomfortable as Barca beganto probe for a way through.They finally carved out anopening 10 minutes into the

Real Madrid’s Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho (L) andBarcelona’s coach Josep Guardiola react during the

Spanish League “El clasico” football match Barcelonavs Real Madrid at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona

on 21 April, 2012. — XINHUA

half, but Tello sliced high andwide.

That was the sign forBarca to take more control inmidfield as Madrid began tosit slightly deeper in their ownhalf, although chances werestill few and far between. Xavifired wide after 67 minutes,directly before being replacedby Alexis as Barca tried toinject some pace. It turnedout to be an inspired move asAlexis scored the equalizerafter Messi had opened upthe Madrid defence. Casillasmade two fine saves, butAlexis followed up to score.Barca’s joy lasted just over aminute before Ronaldo putMadrid back in front, finishinga quick break by roundingValdes to make it 2-1 to thevisitors. It is a goal that lookslike being worth the leaguetitle.

Xinhua

Arsenal’sRobin vanPersie fires

a shottowards

goal againstChelsea at

the EmiratesStadium.INTERNET

Emirates stalemate for Arsenaland Chelsea

Gunners and Blues cancel each other out asboth have to settle for a draw

LONDON, 22 April —Arsenal and Chelsea canceleach other out as both haveto settle for a goaless draw.Arsenal and Chelseacancelled each other in theBarclays Premier League asthey played out a goallessdraw at the Emirates Stadium.

With both clubs in thehunt for a top-four berth anda place in next season’s UEFAChampions League it was a

tight encounter, thoughRobin van Persie and LaurentKoscielny both hit thewoodwork for Arsenal in thefirst half.

The Gunners alwayslooked the likelier to take thethree points, but Chelseadefended magnificently andPetr Cech made two more finesaves from Van Persie to helpearn his side a draw.

Internet

Ai Miyazato wins LPGA Tourevent in Hawaii

KAPOLEI, 22 April —Japan’s Ai Miyazato won theLPGA LOTTE Championshipon Saturday for her eighthcareer LPGA Tour title,birdieing three of the last sixholes for a 2-under 70 and afour-stroke victory. Miyazatofinished at 12-under 276 atwind-swept Ko Olina. Sheopened with rounds of 71, 65and 70 to take a three-strokelead in the final round.

Meena Lee, ahead earlyon the back nine and tied for

the lead after a birdie on No 15,had a 70 to tie for second withAzahara Munoz at 8 under.Munoz finished with a 71. Thewhirlwind finish still hadMiyazato a little flustered. “I

Ai Miyazato, of Japan,watches her drive off the

third tee in the final roundof the LPGA LOTTEChampionship golf

tournament at Ko OlinaGolf Club, on 21 April,

2012, in Kapolei, Hawaii.INTERNET

Dortmund earn Bundesliga titleafter beating ‘Gladbach

DORTMUND , 22 April —Borussia Dortmund werecrowned German leaguechampions for the secondconsecutive season onSaturday having proved theirworth by beating main titlerivals Bayern Munich homeand away. Dortmund’s winat home toMoenchengladbach left thedefending champions eight

points clear with two gamesremaining and they will bepresented with theBundesliga shield in their finalgame at home to Freiburg on5 May.

Jurgen Klopp’s teamsuffered the last of their threeleague defeats backSeptember and have nowextended their record for thelongest unbeaten run in a

single German league seasonto 26. Having amassed 75points, they can still beat therecord of 79 for the mostleague points won in a seasonwhich Bayern achieved twicein the early 1970s. Thechampions have dominatedBayern in both the table andon the pitch of late as theBavarians have lost their lastfour matches againstDortmund and not beaten thechampions, home or away,since February 2010.

After beating theBavarians 1-0 at Munich’sAllianz Arena last November,thanks to a single goal fromGermany’s teenage star MarioGoetze, Borussia backed it upwith another 1-0 win overMunich in Dortmund on 11April.

This is the first time for 16years Bayern have beendenied the German title fortwo seasons running whenDortmund last earned back-to-back titles in 1994/95 and1995/96 before winning the1997 Champions Leaguetitle.— Internet

(From L) Dortmund’s Moritz Leitner, Mario Goetze andMats Hummels celebrate with a mock trophy after their

German first division Bundesliga match againstBorussia Moenchengladbach, in Dortmund, westernGermany, on 21 April. After winning the match 2-0,

Dortmund were confirmed as German league championsfor the second consecutive season.— INTERNET

Curtis rallies to maintain PGATexas Open lead

SAN ANTONIO, 22 April —Former British Open winnerBen Curtis managed toovercome a pair of doublebogeys in the third round ofthe PGA Tour’s Texas Opento stretch his lead to threeshots. Curtis, who is chasinghis fourth US PGA title, onSaturday fired a one-over 73for a nine-under 207 total onthe TPC San Antonio’s OaksCourse. Even though it hasbeen six years since his lastwin, Curtis is confidentheading into Sunday’s finalround.

International Sports

don’t know what happened,”said Miyazato, a 15-time winneron the Japan LPGA. “I justfocused on my game. I waspretty nervous toward the endbecause I know everyone isplaying so well. I had to finishreally strong.”— Internet

Ben Curtis plays a teeshot during the thirdround of the Valero

Texas Open at the AT&TOaks Course at TPC SanAntonio, on 21 April , in

San Antonio, Texas.Curtis managed toovercome a pair of

double bogeys in the thirdround to stretch his lead

to three shots. — INTERNET

“In the past when I’veplayed in these circumstances,that’s what I did: I just focusedon my game and if at the end of18 holes it’s good enough towin, great,” Curtis said. “Ifnot, I have to shake the guy’shand that won and moveforward.” Matt Every wasalone in second after a one-over 73 as the American seekshis first Tour win. SouthKoreans Noh Seung-Yul (68)and Charlie Wi (71) were tiedfor third with American JohnHuh.

Internet

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 23 April, 2012 15

(23-4-12 09:30 am ~24-4-12 09:30 am) MST

MYANMARINTERNATIONAL

MYANMAR TV

(23-4-2012) (Monday)

Focus Myanmar TV Programme

7:00 am 1. Paritta By Hilly

Region MissionarySayadaw

7:40 am 2. Nice and Sweet Song8:00 am 3. Song Of Natioanl

Races8:25 am 4. Teleplay (Health)8:40 am 5. International News4:00 pm 6. Martial Song4:20 pm 7. Musical Programme4:35 pm 8. Documentary5:00 pm 9. Songs For

Upholding NationalSpirit

5:15 pm10. Myanmar Language5:30 pm11. Teleplay (Agri)7:30 pm12. TV Drama Series8:00 pm13. News14. World’s Stars15. India Drama Series

R/489 Printed and published by the New Light of Myanmar press in Nay Pyi Taw, the News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information.

Weather forecast for 23rd April, 2012Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas

FISH RELEASED: Patrons of Yangon Region Women’sAffairs Organization, Chairperson of Yangon Region

Maternal and Child Welfare Supervisory Committee andWAO Daw Thaung Mya and responsible persons

released fish into Mingala Lake near Bronze BuddhaStatue in Bahan Township on Myanmar New Year Day,

17 April.—TOWNSHIP GAD

Respects paid to the aged inInsein Township

YANGON, 22 April—The 32nd ceremony to receive theprecepts and serve refreshment was held at the pandal in WestYwama Ward in Insein Township of Yangon Region in MahaThingyan period.

The 32nd respect paying ceremony was held at theDhammayon of the ward. Chairman of the organizingcommittee Vice-Chairman of Township Writers andJournalists Association U Bo Kyi (Dr Bo Thanmani-Taungdwingyi) and ward administrative member U MyintKyaing made speeches.

After paying respects, they presented cash assistanceand gifts to 46 older persons of above 70 years old.—Kyemon

NewsMyanma TraditionalKite Flying &Fighting ContestCharming MyanmarSilk FabricNewsMusic GalleryNewsNational Races fromShan State "Gon Shanand Li Shan"News"Thingyan Road Trip2012" Day (2)Mawlamyine & SetSae BeachNewsWorking & Living inMyanmar (Jade andGem)NewsCulture StageNewsYouth & Technology(Chin TwinTechnology TrainingSchool)NewsYatana Thinga City &Shwe BonYatanamingalar PalaceMyanmar Movie"Misdeed"

Sr. No. Regions/States

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 36/97 24/75 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

2 Kayah 35/95 22/72 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

3 Kayin 38/100 24/75 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

4 Chin 24/75 17/63 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

5 Upper Sagaing 36/97 24/75 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

6 Lower Sagaing 41/106 24/75 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

7 Taninthayi 36/97 22/72 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

8 Bago 39/102 25/77 Partly cloudy

9 Magway 42/108 28/82 Partly cloudy

10 Mandalay 40/104 29/84 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

11 Mon 36/97 28/82 Partly cloudy

12 Yangon 39/102 24/75 Partly cloudy

13 Rakhine 35/95 26/79 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

14 Southern Shan 32/90 20/68 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

15 Northern Shan 34/93 17/63 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

16 Eastern Shan 36/97 20/68 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

17 Ayeyawady 38/100 26/79 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 40/104 26/79 Partly cloudy

19 Neighbouring Yangon 39/102 24/75 Partly cloudy

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 40/104 29/84 Partly cloudy

Summary of

observations at 09:30

hr MST on today

During the past (24) hours, rain or thundershowers have been scattered in Taninthayi Region, Kachin and Shan States, isolated in Upper Sagaing and Mandalay Regions, Chin State and weather has been partly cloudy in the remaining Regions and States. Day temperature were (5°C) above April average temperatures in Kachin State, (3°C) to (4°C) above April average temperatures in Upper Sagaing and Magway Regions, Chin State and about April average temperatures in the remaining Regions and States. The significant day temperatures were Chauk (45°C), Minbu and Bawlakhae (44°C) each. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Moegok (1.18) inches, Thipaw (0.51) inch and Hkamti (0.43) inch.

Bay Inference Weather is partly cloudy in the North Bay and partly cloudy to cloudy in the Andaman Sea and elsewhere

in the Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea Seas will be moderate in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Continuation of likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers in Northern Myanmar areas.

LONDON, 22 April—Wilson Kipsang and MaryKeitany, both from Kenya,won the men’s and women’sraces at the LondonMarathon on Sunday.

Kipsang led for the final11 kilometres with a time of2:04:44. Keitany won for thesecond successive year in2:18:37.

Kipsang’s performance

Wilson Kipsang andMary Keitany winLondon marathon

Kenya’s Wilson Kipsangcrosses the finish line towin the Men’s LondonMarathon in London,

April 22, 2012.REUTERS

saw him finish more than twominutes clear of fellowcountryman Martin Lel, whofinished second, and 2010winner Tsegaye Kebede.

Keitany set a relentlesspace to pull away fromcompatriot Edna Kiplagat inthe final three miles and wonby more than a minute, withPriscah Jeptoo coming in third,the BBC said.

She is thought to haveset a new personal best and anew Kenyan record on theway to defending her crown.

Approximately 36,000runners took part in the event.

Xinhua

Mary Keitany of Kenyaposes for photographers

after winning the women’ssection of the LondonMarathon on 17 April,

2011.—REUTERS

PUL-E-KHUMRI, 22April—Heavy rains andfloods have claimed the livesof seven people anddestroyed dozens of housesin Baghlan province 160 kmnorth of capital Kabul overthe past two days, a localofficial said Sunday.

“At least seven peoplehave lost their lives in Burkaand Dahnai Ghori districtsover the past two days due toheavy rains and flooding,”head of Natural DisasterDepartment in Baghlanprovince Mohammad NasimKohzad told the media. Morethan 100 houses have alsobeen damaged in both districts,he said, adding heavy rain isstill continuing. The rain andflood have also damaged theproperties in the neighbouringKunduz province, accordingto an official. Some 500 houseshave been damaged andhundreds of people are lefthomeless in Imam Sahibdistrict of Kunduz province,due to heavy rains andflooding in the past two days,district governor ImamudinQurishi said.—Xinhua

Flood kills 7in N Afghan

province

Wolves 0-2 Man City

Carlos Tevez, right, hugsSamir Nasri after theFrenchman seals allthree points for ManCity against Wolves.

LONDON, 22 April—Goals from Sergio Agueroand Samir Nasri sawManchester City relegateWolves and move to withinthree points of leadersManchester United.

Both sides had earlychances before City tookcontrol and Aguero slidthem ahead from GaelClichy’s superb cross.

six superior to that of theirlocal rivals and all eyes willnow be on that meeting atEtihad Stadium.

Suddenly, though, theyare very much back incontention and it promisesto be a thrilling end to thecampaign.

The same can not be saidfor Wolves, who drop intothe Championship after threeyears in the top flight.

Terry Connor’s sidehave lost a club-record ninesuccessive home games andare without a win of anydescription since 4 February.

Carlos Tevez fired justover the bar after only 17seconds and at the other endSebastien Bassong’s shot wasdeflected narrowly wide.

Aguero then drilledacross the face of goal beforeDavid Davis forced Hart into

a fine save with a powerfuleffort from 18 yards.

Tevez took a quick free-kick, squared for Nasri andhe benefited from Bassongpulling a hamstring tocoolly slot past De Vries.

Wolves were furiouswith referee Lee Probert’sdecision to penalise Davisfor his challenge on Tevez,but their protests were invain. —Internet

Aguero celebrates hisgoal with Carlos Tevez

Liverpool 0-1 WBAJoe Hart made anexcellent save to denySteven Fletcher as Wolvesworked hard to level, butNasri slotted in to earn hisside a vital win in the titlerace.

If City beat United athome on 30 April they willbe top with two games left.

Their goal difference is

PeterOdemwingie

of WBAcelebratesscoring his

goal againstLiverpool at

Anfield.INTERNET

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Monday, 23 April, 20123rd Waxing of Kason 1374 MENAY PYI TAW, 22 April—Union Minister for

Construction U Khin Maung Myint, in meeting withbuilding, airport, road/bridge special groups in YangonRegion and staff from district and township offices atYangon Region Superintending Engineer’s Office of PublicWorks yesterday morning, called for disciplined andresponsible performance, goodwill and devotion to work,systematic distribution of machinery and vehicles,allocation of fund in line with financial rules and regulations,and observance of civil servants code of conducts.

Deputy Minister U Kyaw Lwin also called on them towork hard, demanding speed, quality and cost effectiveness.

Next, Deputy Managing Director (Administration) UKyi Win Oo reported on personnel affairs, SuperintendingEngineer U Thein Hsaing on construction of roads andbridges in Yangon Region, and district engineers-in-chargeon construction works in districts concerned.

The Union Minister then visited Department of HumanSettlement and Housing Development where he urged thestaff to work hard with a sense of duty.

Deputy Minister U Kyaw Lwin reported to the UnionMinister on works divisions the Yangon Region DHSHDwould undertake and, Director-General U Min Htein onorganizational set-up and directors from divisions on worksof respective divisions.—MNA

Union Construction Minister meets staff

Union Minister for Construction U Khin Maung Myint meets staff of Yangon Region Department ofHuman Settlement and Housing Development.—MNA

YESAGYO, 22 April—Sowing of paddyseeds was held on 10 acres of Palethwehybrid field in Nyaungsauk Village-tract inYesagyo Township of Pakokku Districtrecently.

Township Manager U Sein Maung ofYesagyo Township Agriculture Departmentand an official of OISCA of Japan explainedcultivation of Palethwe hybrid paddy strainin detail to farmers.

“OISCA training school purchasedpaddy seeds at K 3300 per pyi from Nay PyiTaw. So, we cost K 231,000 for 10 acres offarmlands as seven kilos of paddy seeds are

Cultivation of Palethwe hybridpaddy demonstrated

to be used for one acre. Moreover, weprovided one bag of Armo compoundfertilizer per acre for the 10-acer paddy field.We have disbursed K 100,000 per acre asagricultural loans to farmers for five months.Furthermore, we will give other necessaryassistance to the farmers,” said AssistantManager Daw Ni Ni Soe of the OISCAtraining school.

Palethwe hybrid paddy will be grownthere for the first time this year. The paddystrain produces over 200 baskets per acre.The seeds will be distributed to local farmersof the township.—Ei Mon Swe

NAY PYI TAW, 22 April—In grantingpermit for taking charge of collecting bridgetolls for 2012-2013 fiscal year, the Ministryof Construction has no longer granted permitto the person who could offer the biggestamount of money at the auction with sealedtender system. Instead, it has granted permitto those who are allowed to engage in thebusiness to pay 85 percent of their bridgetolls collected at BOT bridge toll gates tothe State, based on the floor price collectedduring a year.

Bridges have been categorized intovarious levels – bridges 180 feet to less than1000 feet long as normal level (D), bridges1000 feet to less than 5000 feet long as

Calculation tables issued to pay BOTbridge tolls at a set rate

project level (C), bridges 5000 feet to lessthan 8000 feet long as project level (B) andbridges 8000 feet and above as project level(A). The business can be done only withbidding system and the contract includestypes of vehicle, types of axle and types ofbridges prescribed by the Ministry ofConstruction. Moreover, the ministry hasissued calculation tables for the public anddrivers/owners so that bridge tolls can bepaid at a set rate. The Ministry ofConstruction requested that the public anddrivers/owners are to pay charges of roadsand bridges exactly and they must be readyto pay the charges with respective currencynotes.—MNA

Everton shock United asdraw revives title race

MANCHESTER, 22 April—Everton twice came from two goalsbehind to share the points in anextraordinary 4-4 draw away toleaders Manchester United thatreignited the Premier League titlerace on Sunday.

Everton, who last won at OldTrafford 20 years ago, took a 33rdminute lead when Nikica Jelavicheaded in Tony Hibbert’s cross asthe visitors looked to bounce backfrom their FA Cup semi-final defeatby cross-town rivals Liverpool. ButUnited were level before the breakwhen Wayne Rooney, against hisformer club, powered in a headerfrom Nani’s cross. Danny Welbeck’ssuperb curling shot past former

Manchester United forward DannyWelbeck (left) scores the second goal

during the Premier League match betweenManchester United and Everton at Old

Trafford in Manchester.—INTERNET

United keeper Tim Howard gave SirAlex Ferguson’s men a 2-1 lead beforeNani’s clever finish on the hour madeit 3-1. Everton, however, would not liedown and Marouane Fellaini’s firsttime shot from Tony Hibbert’s crosscut United’s lead to 3-2. But whenWelbeck teed up Rooney for theEngland striker’s second goal in the69th minute, it appeared United hadwrapped up all three points. Evertonthough had other ideas with Jelavicscoring his second seven minutesfrom time and, two minutes later, SouthAfrica’s Steven Pienaar swept inFellani’s cross. United almost wonthe match in the fifth and final minuteof stoppage time but Howard savedfrom Rio Ferdinand.—Internet

MONACO, 22 April—Rafael Nadal finally managedto beat Novak Djokovic in a final, thrashing the top-ranked Serb 6-3, 6-1 on Sunday to win the clay-courtMonte Carlo Masters for the eighth consecutive yearand end a run of seven straight defeats to his rival in titlematches.

Nadal was hardly troubled by Djokovic this timeand broke the Serb’s serve five times in a one-sidedmatchup. He thrust his hands in the air after clinchingvictory in style with an ace that flew past the beleagueredDjokovic, who beat Nadal in an epic Australian Openfinal this year. Nadal had promised to be aggressiveand, after Djokovic held his opening service game atlove, the Spaniard was relentless in running the Serb allover the court. It was his first title since last year’sFrench Open.—Internet

Spain’s Rafael Nadal plays areturn to Novak Djokovic of

Serbia during their final matchof the Monte Carlo Tennis

Masters tournament in Monaco,Sunday on 22 April, 2012.

INTERNET

Nadal beats Djokovic to winMonte Carlo final

The ABC’s “GoodMorning America”

anchors (L to R) RobinRoberts, Sam Chapman,

Josh Elliott, Lara Spencerand George

Stephanopoulos, celebratebecoming No. 1 ranking in

the week of 9th April inNew York in this 19 April,

2012 handout photo.

Ai Miyazato winsLPGA Tour

event in Hawaii

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