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Volume XVI, Number 159 10th Waning of Tawthalin 1370 ME Wednesday, 24 September, 2008

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round develop-ment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participation in termsof technical know-how and investments from sources insidethe country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 23 Sept—Senior GeneralThan Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council of the Union of Myanmar,accepted credentials of Mr Julius Georg Luy, thenewly-accredited Ambassador of the FederalRepublic of Germany to the Union of Myanmar,at Bayintnaung Yeiktha, here at 10 am today.

Present on the occasion were Secretary-1 ofthe SPDC Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung MyintOo, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs U MaungMyint and Director-General U Kyaw Kyaw of theProtocol Department.

MNA

Senior General Than Shweaccepts credentials of

FRG Ambassador

Senior General Than Shweaccepts credentials ofIsraeli Ambassador

NAY PYI TAW, 23 Sept—Senior General Than

Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Develop-

ment Council of the Union of Myanmar, accepted

credentials of Mr Yaron Mayer, the newly-ac-

credited Ambassador of the State of Israel to the

Union of Myanmar, at Bayintnaung Yeiktha, here

at 10.45 am today.

Present on the occasion were Secretary-1 of

the SPDC Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint

Oo, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs U Maung

Myint and Director-General U Kyaw Kyaw of the

Protocol Department.—MNA

Senior GeneralThan Shwe accepts

credentials ofMr Julius GeorgLuy, the newly-

accredited Ambassa-dor of the Federal

Republic ofGermany, at

Bayintnaung Yeikthain Nay Pyi Taw.

MNA

Senior General

Than Shwe accepts

credentials of

Mr Yaron Mayer,

the newly-accredited

Ambassador of the

State of Israel, at

Bayintnaung

Yeiktha in Nay Pyi

Taw. — MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 24 September, 2008

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

People’s DesireWednesday, 24 September, 2008

Today science and technology dominatesany other sector. At such a time, constantgeneration of human resources, like restorationof stability and peace, and national solidarity,has become indispensable in a bid to develop thenation and the people.

Students are, therefore, well nurtured andguided in order that they are fully qualifiedin their studies, and healthy with higheducational qualification, strong characterand moral sense.

In the drive for building economicinfrastructures, the government is takingmeasures for parallel development of theagricultural, industrial and IT sectors. Moreover,it is building a large number of infrastructuresin the information and communication,technology and industrial sectors.

Teachers are responsible for constantlynurturing the students to raise the educationstandard and broaden the horizons of the youthwith the aim of helping fulfil the requirementsfor national development.

Youths with high education standard are adriving force for creation of a peaceful andprosperous society. With that concept, thegovernment is building many educationinfrastructures and introducing modernnetworks to achieve the goal.

So, teachers and responsible persons areobliged to enhance cognitive development andsharpen the abilities of the students so as toensure sustainable progress in boosting thenational education standard and developmentof the nation and the people.

Expand horizons ofyouth for nationaldevelopment

YANGON, 23 Sept—The opening of the 16th

Commander-in-Chief(Air)’s Boxing Cham-pionship Tournamenttook place at ThuraMaung Thein hall ofMingaladon Airbase thismorning. On behalf of theCommander-in-Chief(Air), Com-mander ofMingaladon Airbase ColThein Naing opened thetournament afterdelivering an address.

It was also attendedby squadron leader andheads of department ofthe base, judges ofMyanmar BoxingFederation, Yangon

YA N G O N , 23 Sept—Chairman ofCommittee for Full Operation of Freight HandlingMinister for Transport Maj-Gen Thein Swetogether with committee members looked into BoAung Kyaw Container Yard on Strand Road hereyesterday.

He there looked into inspection of exportand import cargo by examining group, systematicputting of goods into containers, examining ofcontainers through X-Ray, unloading of importedcontainers from Sittway vessel of Myanma FiveStar Line. He also looked into unloading of oil

YANGON, 23 Sept –Chairman of YangonDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen WinMyint arrived at YangonDivision vegetable andpoultry and fish breedingspecial zone nearNyaunghnapin Village inHmawby Townshipyesterday afternoon.

Officials reportedon cultivation ofvegetables and physic nutand poultry farming.

The commanderand party inspectedpoultry farm andvegetable farms,

Commander visits Yangon Division vegetableand poultry and fish breeding special zone

Import, Export procedures need to be more speedycarrier vehicle and machinery and loading of logsonto foreign vessel in Sule No. 5 wharf.

Next, the minister and member looked intounloading of containers from the vessel at MyanmarIndustrial Port. The minister met with personnel atAsia World Port and gave instructions on cooperationof departments concerned for swift commodity flow,port security, minimizing wastages of cargo and safetymeasures.They then looked into inspection of cargocontainers by examining group and unloading ofcontainers from foreign vessel.

MNA

C-in-C (Air)’s BoxingChampionship kicks off

Command, DefenceServices (Air), MyanmarPolice Force and YangonCity DevelopmentCommittee, guests,managers and athletes ofthe teams.

The tournamentwill be held up to 26September. – MNA

harvesting andtransplanting of paddywith the use of powertillers.— MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Thein Swe inspects Bo Aung Kyaw Container Yard. — MNA

Commander Brig-Gen Win Myint inspectsthriving vegetable cultivation at YangonDivision vegetable and poultry and fish

breeding special zone.—MNA

Commander ofMingaladon Airbase

Col Thein Naingaddresses opening of16th Commander-in-Chief (Air)’s Boxing

ChampionshipTournament.

MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 24 September, 2008 3

Five Iraqi childrenkilled by bomb in

northern city MosulBAGHDAD, 23 Sept— At

least five children werekilled and two others in-jured on Monday when abomb hidden in a streetstall near the northernIraqi city of Mosul, localpolice said.

According to the police,the incident took placearound 6:30 pm(1530GMT) when the childrenwere playing near their

homes in the town ofHammam al-Ali, some 20kilometres south ofMosul.

The children were agedbetween seven and nineyears old. The twowounded were in criticalcondition and had beensent to Mosul for special-ist treatment, according toa local doctor.

Internet

US military deathsin Iraq war at 4,169

WASHINGTON, 23 Sept—As of Monday, 22 Sept,2008, at least 4,169 members of the US military havedied in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003,according to an Associated Press count.

The figure includes eight military civilians killedin action. At least 3,377 military personnel died as aresult of hostile action, according to the military’snumbers.

The AP count is two fewer than the Defence De-partment’s tally, last updated Monday at 10 am EDT.

The British military has reported 176 deaths; Italy,33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain,11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia,four; Latvia and Georgia, three each; Estonia,Netherlands, Thailand and Romania, two each; andAustralia, Hungary, Kazakhstan and South Korea,one death each.—Internet

19 hurt in vehicle attackin Jerusalem

JERUSALEM, 23 Sept— A man driving a black BMWplowed into a crowd of people at a busy Jerusalemintersection Monday evening, leaving 19 people hurt,an Israel Police spokesman told Xinhua.

Among those wounded, there were 15 soldiers andfour civilians, said Micky Rosenfeld, adding that no-body was killed in the vehicle attack.

All the victims sustained minor to moderate inju-ries and had been rushed to hospital for treatment. Thedriver was shot and killed by armed civilians, accord-ing to the police.

The perpetrator was not immediately identified, butRosenfeld said that according to the vehicle number,the car was from a village in East Jerusalem.

Internet

A damaged car is removed from the scene of anattack in Jerusalem on 22 Sept, 2008.—INTERNET

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, centre,arrives in Beijing at the start of an official visit

on Tuesday.—INTERNET

The Kauhajoen palvelualojen oppilaitos schoolwhere a shooting took place in Kauhajoki,

Finland, Tuesday, 23 Sept, 2008.—INTERNET

A worker feeds milk cows at a dairy farm in Wuhan,Hubei Province on 23 Sept, 2008.—INTERNET

Venezuelan President arrives in China

Gunman opens fire atschool in Finland, 9 dead

HELSINKI (Finland), 23 Sept — A gunmanopened fire at a vocational school for adults inwestern Finland on Tuesday before shooting himself,police said. Finnish media reported nine peoplewere killed and the gunman was wounded.

The shootings began just before 11 am localtime as about 150 students went to class in Kauhajoki,180 miles northwest of Helsinki. Witnesses saidpanic broke out as the hooded gunman entered theschool and began firing.

Jussi Muotio, superintendent of the Kauhajokipolice, confirmed that several people had beenwounded but could not immediately confirm thedeaths. “The incident is over now,” Muotio said.

The shootings happened almost a year afteranother gunman killed eight people and himself at aschool in southern Finland, an attack that triggereda fierce debate about gun laws in this Nordic nationwith deep-rooted traditions of hunting in the sub-Arctic wilderness.

Internet

2 bombs hit Baghdad,killing 1, wounding 7

BAGHDAD, 23 Sept—Two roadside bombsapparently targeting Iraqi security forces struck separateareas of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least onecivilian and wounding seven others, Iraqi officials said.

The first explosion occurred about 9 am in northernBaghdad as a police patrol passed through the area, butit missed its target and hit a civilian car instead, woundingfour people, a police officer said.

Another roadside bomb struck near an Iraqi Armypatrol in central Baghdad, killing one civilian andwounding three others, according to police and hospitalofficials. —Internet

BEIJING, 23 Sept — Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chavez arrived in Beijing Tuesday to meet withtop Chinese officials, state-run media reported.

Chavez is in China for meetings with PresidentHu Jintao, along with other “relevant state leaders,”according to the Xinhua news agency.

Their discussions are expected to include“bilateral relations and issues of mutual concern,”Xinhua reported.

The nations are also expected to signcooperation agreements in the areas of “justice, sports,and quality supervision and inspection.”

Internet

China removes 7,000 tonnes oftainted milk from retail outlets

BEIJING, 23 Sept— A total of 7,074 tonnes of tainteddairy products have been removed from retail outletsacross China, State Administration for Industry andCommerce (SAIC) said in Beijing on Tuesday.

They included 4,246.7 tonnes of milk powder and1,562.1 tonnes of liquid milk products contaminated withmelamine, SAIC statistics showed.

Up to Tuesday, 2.18 million inspectors from industryand commerce departments across China visited 6 milliondairy firms. The country has received 310,000 complaintsof tainted milk products and replaced 614.5 tonnes of milkfor customers.

Milk powder laced with the industrial chemicalmelamine has led to nearly 13,000 Chinese infants beingadmitted to hospital, 104 in a serious condition with kidneystones and agonizing complications. Four have died in pastmonths

The chemical, which was added illegally, makesthe protein content of milk appear higher than it actually.

Meanwhile, Agriculture Minister Sun Zhengcaisaid he would “battle” merchants blamed for sellingadulterated milk to dairy companies, acknowledging theproblem extended far beyond infant formula.

Sun singled out local “milk stations,” which collectfresh milk from farmers and sell it on. Their operators havebeen blamed for adding nitrogen-rich melamine to sub-standard or watered-down milk, fooling quality checksmeasuring protein, also rich in nitrogen. Many wereunregistered and unregulated, he said.

Dr Shigeru Omi, director of the World HealthOrganization (WHO) on Sunday said that China is nowtaking the issue “seriously” and has launched very intensiveinvestigation.

Recently, Gao Qiang, an official of Chinese HealthMinistry, said that the contaminated Sanlu baby milkpowder in connection with the country’s hundreds ofinfant kidney stone cases was only sold on the Chinesemainland and Chinese Taipei. “None of the milk powderwas exported to other countries or regions,” Gao said at aPress conference.—Internet

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IAEA finds no nuclearmaterial in Syria

Mobile oil vendor M Subramaniam reads a Tamil newspaper on his bullockcart at a street in Colombo, on 23 Sept, 2008.—INTERNET

China strengthensquality supervision

on export foodsand goods

BEIJING, 23 Sept —Chinese Ministry of Com-merce (MOC) on Mondayordered its local agenciesto step up quality super-vision efforts targeted atexport-oriented foods,dairy products, medicines,toys and furnitureproducts.

This notice came af-ter tainted dairy productssickened thousands of in-fants in the country.

”Local commerceagencies should set upspecial quality super-vision working groupsand establish export-ori-ented product qualityreporting system on thosefoods and goods thatmay affect consumers’health and safety,” saidthe MOC in a notice on itswebsite.

Internet

VIENNA, 23 Sept — The InternationalAtomic Energy Agency (IAEA) hasfound no trace of nuclear material inSyria’s Al-Kibar so far, but it wouldcontinue sampling in this area toanalyze, said Mohammed ElBaradei,IAEA director general, in Vienna onMonday.

ElBaradei also pointed out at anIAEA council meeting that Syria has notprovided IAEA supplement informationso far about its related nuclear activi-ties as requested.

In September 2007, Israeli AirForce struck over 100 kilometre deepinto Syria and bombed out a facility in

Syrian Al-Kibar. Then Israel claimed thatSyria was developing nuclear weaponsin that area, but Syria keeps denying thefacility is for nuclear activities. There-fore, IAEA began probing Syria and re-quired further explanation about it.

ElBaradei also noted on the councilmeeting Monday that IAEA can not makesure so far whether Libya is involved inactivities of nuclear weapon developmentin the country. Libya’s explanation of itsnuclear programme accords with the out-come of IAEA’s investigation, but IAEAwould continue normal security inspec-tion, so as to ensure Libya owns no se-cret nuclear materials. —Internet

Taking advantage of a

windy day kitesurfers

walk along Spanish

Banks while preparing

to head out into the

waters of English Bay

in Vancouver, British

Columbia, on 22 Sept,

2008.—INTERNET

Dubai ups ante with $1.5b hotelon palm island

Workers carry rolls of carpets as they pass the giant

aquarium at the Poseidon hall of the Atlantis hotel

which is a part of $ 1.5 billion resort in Jumeira Palm

Island in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on 17 Sept,

2008. — INTERNET

DUBAI, 23 Sept — It’sthe latest word in PersianGulf excess: a $1.5 billionresort boasting a $25,000-a-night suite and dolphinsflown in from the SouthPacific — all atop an is-land built in the shape ofa palm tree.

Envi ronmenta l i s t shave long criticized bothPalm Jumeirah island andsome of the features of theAtlantis hotel, set to openWednesday. And analystswonder if global financial

turmoil will crimpDubai’s big hopes fortourists.

Dubai is not blinking.The 113-acre resort onthe artificial island off thecoast is among the city-state’s biggest bets thattourism can help sustainits economy once re-gional oil profits stopflowing.

“You don’t build a bil-lion-and-a-half dollarproject just anywhere inthe world,” said AlanLeibman, president andmanaging director ofKerzner International,the hotel operator thatteamed with Dubai de-veloper Nakheel on theresort.

Internet

Typhoon kills three in Philippines,heads for China

HONG KONG, 23 Sept— A typhoon was gather-ing strength in the SouthChina Sea on Tuesdayand heading towardHong Kong after killingthree people in the north-ern Philippines and trap-ping 13 people in a goldmine.

The Hong Kong Ob-servatory raised its strongwarning wind signalnumber 3 with TyphoonHagupit edging west-northwest at about 30 kphtoward the south Chinacoast.

“The observatory willconsider the need for theNo 8 gale or storm signalaround dusk today,” itsaid.

The highest signal is10.

Hong Kong kindergar-tens were closed for theday and the city’s bustlingcontainer ports and termi-

nals were due to suspendoperations in the after-noon.

Hagupit, which means“lashing” in Filipino, wasestimated to be 380 km(236 miles) southeast ofHong Kong at 10 am (10pm EDT) and was ex-pected to make landfall inChina on Wednesday.

In the Philippines, thecoastguard rescued 21people from three cargoand fishing vessels thatsank in rough waters asHagupit passed the north

coast on Monday. In to-tal, three people werekilled and four weremissing.

Authorities in thenorthern province ofBenguet said 13 gold min-ers were trapped whenwater levels rose afterheavy rain.

Internet

Flooding deaths now 2,400 in

monsoon-hit IndiaNEW DELHI, 23 Sept

—The death toll frommonsoon floods in easternIndia rose to more than2,400 Tuesday asauthorities reported thatanother 32 people hadperished in the disasterthat has affected millionsof people.

The latest deaths inUttar Pradesh statebrought the countrywidedeath toll from the floodsto 2,404 since June,

according to the federalhome ministry's disastermanagement unit.

So far, no newdeaths have beenreported from the easternIndian state of Orissa,where 55 people havedied and more than 4.3million have been hit byfloods that haveinundated numerous vil-lages in 17 of itsdistricts. In the hill stateof Uttrakhand, police

rescued a seven-memberteam of stranded Austriantrekkers, authorities said.

In all, more than 20million people have beenaffected by floods indifferent parts of Indiasince June.

Most of the flood-related deaths —1,088—have been reported fromUttar Pradesh, India'sdensely populated state,according to the report.

Internet

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People watch performance in the Huai’an Drama Museum in Huai’an city,east China’s Jiangsu Province, on 22 Sept, 2008. The museum, featuring

vivid introduction on the local drama’s origin and development in Huai’an,opened to public on 22 Sept, 2008. —XINHUA

A surgeon holdsOpshora, the baby girl

born from a frozenembryo, at ModernHospital in Dhaka,

Bangladesh, recently.XINHUA

JIUQUAN (Gansu), 23Sept — Six taikonauts (as-tronauts) selected forChina’s Shenzhou-7 spacemission are in final train-ing for the launch some-time from 25 to 30 Sept,says a senior mission of-ficial.

The candidates for thethree-man mission re-hearse basic proceduresevery day and studymanuals to maintain theirskills, Huang Weifen,

Shenzhou-7 taikonautsin final training for liftoff

The undated photo shows technicians help the Shenzhou-7 manned space-ship to dock with the Long-March II-F rocket at an assembly plant. Thespaceship has been finished docking with the rocket recently. —XINHUA

deputy chief designer ofthe mission’s flight sys-tem, said on Tuesday.

The six taikonauts ar-rived at the Jiuquan Satel-lite Launch Centre onSunday, where they wereaccommodated in aguarded quarantine facil-ity to protect them fromhealth risks.

Staff who entered thecompound had to wearmasks and sterile uniformsand undergo health checks,

and were prohibited fromshaking hands with thetaikonauts, she said.

Doctors at the com-pound were closely moni-toring the physical andpsychological states of thetaikonauts before the finalcrew was announced, shesaid.

Three taikonauts willfly on the Shenzhou-7 air-craft. One of them willperform a spacewalk.

Xinhua

ANKARA, 23 Sept — Onesoldier of the Turkish secu-rity forces was killed and twoothers wounded in an explo-sion in southeastern Turkeyon Monday, the semi-officialAnatolia news agencyreported.

The report said the ex-plosion occurred near thewall of a building at Re-public Street in Yuk-

KATHMANDU, 23 Sept — Though Nepal Army andpolice began rescue operation in the flood-hit areas inKailali district in far-western Nepal on Monday, thou-sands of people were still locked up in their houses insome villages because of inundation following inces-sant rain since Friday, local media reported on Tues-day.

According to The Himalayan Times daily, a rescueteam of Nepal Army said it rescued 200 persons andtook them to different temporary camps by the evening.

“Elders, children and patients from Thapapur andLalbojhi Village Development Committees (VDC)were rescued by helicopters,” Shanker Pandit, bat-talion commander of Nepal Army’s Barakh Battalion,said. But locals said only helicopters could rescue themarooned villagers.

“At least 400 villagers have been confined to theirhouses in Thapapur VDC alone,” a local of Thapapurvillage said. —Xinhua

Blast in SE Turkey kills one soldiersekova town of Hakkariprovince at 18:15 localtime (1515 GMT), leav-ing the soldier dead andanother soldier and oneTurkish citizen wounded.

The injured weretaken to Yuksekova StateHospital for treatment,added the report.

The militants of theoutlawed Kurdish Work-

ers’ Party (PKK) havebeen staging attacksagainst Turkish militaryand civil targets in easternand southeastern Turkey.

The PKK, listed by theUnited States and Turkeyas a terrorist group, tookup arms in 1984 with theaim of creating an ethnichomeland in southeasternTurkey. —Xinhua

All items from Xinhua News Agency

Thousands of Nepalese strandedby flood in far west region

KATHMANDU, 23 Sept— The third Indo-NepalPower Summit 2008 willbegin in Nepali capitalKathmandu on Tuesdayto explore the possibilitiesof hydropower project co-operation between Nepaland India.

According to The Hi-

CAIRO, 23 Sept— A group of 11 foreign touristsand at least four Egyptians have been kidnapped byunidentified gunmen in southern Egypt, local mediareported on Monday.

Egyptian Minister of Tourism Zuheir Garana toldthe official MENA news agency that the abducted foreig-ners include five Germans, five Italians and a Roma-nian.

Garana confirmed earlier in the day that the kid-napping of tourists occurred on Friday and efforts areunderway to rescue the abducted.

Xinhua

Indo-Nepal Power Summit2008 begins in Kathmandu

malayan Times daily,Deputy Prime MinisterBam Dev Gautam will in-augurate the two-daysummit. As many as 300delegates from Nepal andIndia are expected to par-ticipate in the meeting.

Indian Minister ofState for Commerce andPower Jairam Rameshand a 60-member delega-tion that includes leadingpower developers willgrace the summit.

The Nepal govern-ment is organizing thesummit in collaborationwith the Nepal IndiaChambers of Commerceand Industries and the In-dependent Power Produ-cers’ Association of Ne-pal, backed by India’sPower Trading Corpora-tion. —Xinhua

Foreign tourists kidnappedin S Egypt

Group claimsresponsibilityfor MarriottHotel blastISLAMABAD, 23 Sept—

A shadowy group hasclaimed responsibility forthe suicide bombingattack in Islamabad,private TV channel re-ported on Monday.

The group called“Fedayeen of Islam”claimed responsibility ina phone call to the Dubai-based Al-arabiya TVchannel, said the report.

Two suicide bombersdriving an explosive-laden truck launched theattack at the gate ofMarriott Hotel inIslamabad, leaving 53people dead and 266others injured.

MNA/Xinhua

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NEWSALBUM

Airline seeks bald menas walking billboardsNew Zealand’s national airline is

offering to pay bald travellers to usetheir heads — literally — in a newadvertising campaign.

Air New Zealand said it wants 70recruits to stand in lines in three airports— while wearing temporary tattooson the back of their heads so thedisplays can be seen by people liningup behind them.

The airline would pay 1,000 NewZealand dollars ($660) for eachwalking billboard, a company officialsaid.

A lucky cat owes one of its nine livesto a firefighter who revived it with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Al Machado rescued the cat from aburning apartment Tuesday, telling TheStandard Times of New Bedford that hesaw immediately that it needed air.

Machado began performing mouth tomouth on the animal as he carried itoutside.

A small frog is shown in the handsof a bicyclist along a stretch of the

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal just eastof Little Orleans, Md.

Mouth to meow-th: massfirefighter revives cat

Work takes place at a construction site of a residential development inSingapore on 23 Sept, 2008. Singapore’s annual inflation stood at 6.4 percentin August, slightly higher than expected, because of rising food and housing

costs but falling further from a 26-year high.—INTERNET

MOSCOW, 23 Sept —Russian warships haveset off for Venezuela forjoint exercises unpre-cedented since the ColdWar.

The fleet of ships,headed by the nuclear-powered Peter the Greatcruiser, set off from itsbase at Severomorsk inthe Arctic.

The ships are due totake part in joint ma-noeuvres with Venezuela

Russian Navy sails to Venezuela

Peter the Great headsthe fleet travelling

15,000 miles toVenezuela.—INTERNET

in November.The move is seen as a

rebuff to the UnitedStates, which is facingincreasingly fraught re-lationships with the twonations.

Russian Navyspokesman Igor Dygalosaid the ships set sail at1000 local time (0600GMT), and wouldtravel 15,000 nauticalmiles to reach their des-tination.

“It’s the nuclear-pow-ered guided missilecruiser Peter the Great,the anti-submarine war-ship Admiral Che-banenko and other ac-companying ships,” hetold the AFP newsagency.

Two Russian bomb-ers arrived in Venezuelalast week for trainingflights.

Moscow has intensi-fied ties with Venezuelaand other Latin Ameri-can countries recently asrelationship with Wa-shington has becomestrained.

Internet

GREEN BAY (Wiscon-sin), 23 Sept—BarackObama proposed reformson Monday to rein inpractices that led to theworst US financial crisissince the Depression,while White House rivalJohn McCain touted hisown remedies and ac-cused Obama of failing toprovide leadership.

McCain, the Republi-can presidential candi-date, pushed a plan he of-

NAIROBI, 23 Sept — African ministers responsiblefor energy from nine countries bordering the Nile willmeet in Tanzania this week to review how to economi-cally benefit from the waters that has been a source ofconflict in the region. A statement from the United-Nations-backed Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) said theministers responsible for electricity will discuss en-hanced cooperation towards regional power trade.

“The ministers responsible for electricity in the NileBasin countries will meet on Thursday in Dar es Sa-laam to review the Regional Power Trade Project(RPTP), one of the thematic projects under the SharedVision Programme of the NBI,” the statement said.

The meeting whose theme is “Enhancing Coop-eration towards Regional Power Trade,” will deliber-ate on progress made by RPTP since it was launchedin 2003 by the ministers responsible for electricity af-fairs. —Internet

Obama and McCain battle over US financial crisisfered last week calling foran independent panel tooversee a Wall Street bail-out that could cost asmuch as $1 trillion. Hesaid Treasury SecretaryHenry Paulson had toomuch power in the crisis.

“This arrangementmakes me deeply uncom-fortable,” McCain, an Ari-zona senator, told a gath-ering of Irish-Americansin Scranton, Pennsylva-nia. “When we are talking

about a trillion dollars oftaxpayer money, ‘trustme’ just isn’t goodenough.”

Wall Street has beenrocked by the worst finan-cial crisis since the GreatDepression, with globalcredit markets seizing upover concerns about theplummeting value of UShousing and securitiesbased on home mort-gages.

Internet

African energy ministers set to meetin Tanzania over power trade

A farmhouse cat has adopted achicken after she became the onlysurvivor of a fox attack in Middleton,near Leiston in Suffolk, Britain.

It’s an unlikely partnering,but thepair have become firm friends — evenlavishing affection on each other. Theincredible friendship blossomed justover two months ago when a fox killed13 chicks — leaving the chick Gladysasthe only survivor.

Cat and chick: best offriends

Woman fends off burglarswith musical instrumentA woman who lives near the Smoky

Mountains used a musical instrument toscare away two men who broke into herhome.

The Knoxville News Sentinel quoteda Sevier County Sheriff’s Office reportthat stated the victim awoke to find twomen in her home in Seymour on Saturdaymorning. Her child was asleep in thehome.

Deputies said the woman used part ofa brass musical instrument to hit one ofthe men and both intruders fled.

Zookeeper Thomas Doerflein, left,

kisses Knut, the polar bear cub, at

Knut’s first public appearance at the

Zoo of Berlin. Doerflein was found

dead in his Berlin apartment on 22

Sept, 2008. A spokeswoman for

Berlin police said Doerflein was

dead when authorities arrived at the

apartment and that they had no

information on the cause of death.

Doerflein was 44.

Identities during stopPolice in Hunterdon County say two

twin brothers attempted to switch theiridentities during a motor vehicle stop.

Readington Township police said apatrolman stopped Julio and JoselRodriguez of Bethlehem, Pa, at 2 amWednesday. The patrolman soon noticeddiscrepancies in the 18-year-oldbrothers’ stories after pulling them overfor failure to maintain a lane and a bro-ken brake light. Police said JulioRodriguez, who was driving, was tryingto avoid getting a ticket.

Both brothers were arrested andcharged with obstruction of justice.JulioRodriguez was also issued three trafficsummonses.

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Do not derail the democratic processKo Thayar

I had a complete picture of the incidents clarifiedat the press conference only after watching them onTV and reading the newspaper. Although I had watchedthe news of the press conference on TV, I did not getit. Only after I read the whole story inserted in thenewspaper with documentary photos and tables, wouldI be informed well. NLD members got involved in theterrorist scheme that cost many casualties of innocentpeople. At first, I did not believe my eyes. But, theconference proved the story true because that disclosedthe incidents with profound evidences.

NLD recruited and sent people to the explosivescourse in the border and some NLD memberscommitted bomb blasts. Officials concerned managedto expose the bombers, otherwise the culprits kept oncommitting terrorist acts. I was shocked to the corewhen I learnt facts about the cash incentives and theplots designed to commit inhumane and ruthless acts.Is it their politics? Is terrorism means a correct solution?

NLD is giving only lip service that what it isdoing now is to introduce democracy and serve theinterests of the people. But, in practice, what it isclaiming is in contrary with what it is doing. Up tonow, it has done nothing beneficial to the nation andthe people.

After taking over State duties unavoidably, thegovernment launched programmes to transform thenation from the old system into democracy, as aspiredby the people. In order to satisfy the people’s wishes,it fulfilled necessary requirements such as restorationof security, peace and stability, tasks for nationaldevelopment and introduction of the market-orientedeconomic system. So far, almost all theinfrastructures have been built. At the same time,the government is implementing the State’s seven-step Road Map for transition to democracy. Allthe measures it is taking are designed to pave theway to democracy. It is required to wait for acertain period for a brighter future, and to taketime to achieve such a noble goal. However, it istaking longer than it should be, in that regard. It isbecause of the disruptions by anti-government groups,not because of the government. Due to NLD, forinstance, the National Convention launched in 1993was adjourned in 1996.

NLD’s acts were intended to hinder the ongoingdemocracy process. The programmes were beingimplemented in accordance with the agreementreached between the government and the politicalparties including NLD. When the convening of theNational Convention was in full swing, it showed itspessimistic attitude. Making unreasonable demands,NLD representatives turned their back on the NC oftheir own. That had adverse effects on the interests of

the nation and the people. In consequence, the processtook longer unnecessarily. It hindered the governmentfrom carrying out the process in compliance with thepeople’s desire. It is safe to say that NLD gave priorityto its own interests, rather than public interests.

When it knew that its acts to disrupt the NationalConvention did not work, it tried to prevent the Stateconstitution from being approved. It deceived thepeople through “Vote No” and “No Vote” campaign.It accused that the constitution was undemocratic, itwas formulated by the handpicked representatives andit was designed to prolong the government’s rule. Thegovernment is working hard to introduce enduring anddispline-flourishing democracy. The presentconstitution bestows all due rights on the peopleand prevents unnecessary consequences that cantrouble the nation. It is the most appropriate oneaccording to the prevailing conditions of the nation.It takes a period of time for the government to achievethe processes, and it is imprudent to hand over powerirresponsibly. An enduring constitution is a must forthe future of the nation. No one should hinder theprocess. The reason of why NLD was trying to disruptthe process for drawing an enduring constitution wasthat it would not be in a position to form a governmentas it wished, and to seek own interests at expense of theinterests of the nation; there would never be a puppetgovernment that would dance to the tune of its alienmasters; and the people would be further consolidated.Sometimes, I doubt if they are doing politics with ownviews and opinions, but it is out of the question. It isbecause alien visitors frequent the headquarters of theparty. Very often, they bring packets and largeenvelopes together with them into the headquarters.

Now, the State constitution has been adopted withthe approval of the people. The people realize that theconstitution is the most suitable and the safest one forthe nation. They believe that a democratic nation canbe built up only through the present constitution, sothey voted for it. However, NLD said it did not recognizethe constitution and would be opposed to the electionsto be held in 2010, thereby showing absolute disregardfor the desire of the people. Democracy is based on thedesire of the majority. Its words and deeds are incontrary with each other. The results mean that thepeople are in support of the ongoing process; it is themost appropriate programme; they call on thegovernment to keep on carrying out the programme; andthey have given mandate to the government.

The party is reiterating matters on the 1990 election.The number of remnant NLD representatives-elect isvery small. Of the NLD representatives-elect, someare serving their prison terms, some have resigned,some have changed themselves to independent

representatives-elect, some absconded to the border,some have passed away, and some have been expelled.The number of the remnant representatives-electdoes not meet the quorum for a parliamentary session.The previous elections were held more than 18 yearsago. According to the international procedures, theterm of a parliament is about four or five years. So, theprevious election results have expired for long.Sticking to the old results is nonsense.

But, that may be meaningful for the party.According to the approved constitution, they have nofuture. There is no unity of the members in the party.The people do not accept their acts. None of their actsyields good results. They have nothing to do, in thiscase. They are demanding for recognition of oldresults. I would like to advise them to act accordingto the mandate the people have just given. Maybe,they will enjoy some fruitful results. Otherwise, theirhope will dwindle away. They have politicalexperience to some extent. If they apply theirexperience, it will be beneficial to the people. If theydo something positive, that will serve the interests ofthe nation to a degree.

They are demanding a dialogue, which has beenoverdue long. They were given opportunities for adialogue long ago. They walked out of the NationalConvention, giving lame excuses. They should nolonger attempt to get rid of the results of the NationalConvention. The results came out only afterdiscussions held by many representatives, not by anindividual or few persons alone. It is too late to ask fora dialogue and to make some amendments to theconstitution. The National Convention was held byrepresentatives, and the constitution was adoptedwith the approval of 92.48 per cent of the entirepeople. That is to say discussions alone are notenough to amend it. Necessary amendments can bemade in accordance with the procedures when needarises in future. That point is enumerated by theconstitution, but only with the law will necessaryamendments be made.

Now, they should have given up makingunreasonable demands. The present mandate of thepeople is the only way they can choose. Thegovernment will go on following the procedures inaccordance with the people’s mandate. Thegovernment has announced publicly that it willsee to the State’s seven-step Road Map; it will holdelections in 2010; it will not stand any attempts todelay the process; and it will continue to implementthe process in accordance with the people’s wishes.

It took longer than it should to complete theNational Convention in the past. Now, they arehatching plots to disrupt the process. And theyshould cease misleading the people intomisunderstanding the process through demands andobjections. They should no longer destroy stabilityand peace, for which the people are in favour. Theyshould have stopped hatching plots designed todestroy the peaceful life of the people, and to getthem into crises. They should no longer prevent thenation from making good headway in the democratictransition process. They are exhorted to join handswith the people in the drive for transition todemocracy in a peaceful way. Now, the goal ofdemocracy is in sight. It is visible very clearly, notdimly. In conclusion, I would say do not make thedemocratic process deviate from its path.

Translation: MS

After taking over State duties unavoidably, the governmentlaunched programmes to transform the nation from the oldsystem into democracy, as aspired by the people. In order tosatisfy the people’s wishes, it fulfilled necessary requirementssuch as restoration of security, peace and stability, tasks fornational development and introduction of the market-orientedeconomic system.

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Maj-Gen Ohn Myint views spreading of fertilizer on rice field in Nyaungpingyi Village in Sintgaing Township . — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 23Sept—Maj-Gen OhnMyint of the Ministry ofDefence together withChairman of MandalayDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of CentralCommand Brig-Gen TinNgwe and officialsconcerned went on aninspection tour of YehsinLonethwe paddyplantation in Sintgaing ofMandalay Division thatbelongs to peasant U HlaTint yesterday.

They looked intoprogress in tarring theroads and streets inMandalay and paving thegravel roads. At Yan AungMyin hall of the CentralCommand, Maj-Gen OhnMyint met withservicemen and theirfamilies and oversawgreening and sanitation

Fertilizer-fed paddy thriving in Mandalay Div

tasks being carried out andprogress in repaving theroads.

At the NationalKandawgyi Gardens inChanmyathazi township,Maj-Gen Ohn Myint andparty inspected progress incarrying out sanitation andgreening tasks there andthen those in Taungthaman-

inn and its environs.At the entrance to

Mandalay InternationalAirport, Maj-Gen OhnMyint and party looked intocondition of No 1 district-to-district crossroad beingbuilt by Mandalay DivisionDevelopment AffairsCommittee and sign-boards.—MNA

YANGON, 23 Sept — The Calendar for 2009 (1370-71 ME) published by theInformation and Public Relations Department under the Ministry of Informationhas been in circulation.

With art paper covers and wood-free papers inside, the calendar carries 12pages each featuring public holidays and astrological influences.

It is available at the offices of IPRDs in townships of the states anddivisions.—MNA

2009 Calendar in circulation

NAY PYI TAW, 23 Sept— Singapore Associationof Myanmar (SAM)donated K 4.5 million toMyanmar Maternal andChild Welfare As-sociation here today.

President of SAM

SAM donates over K 4 mln to MMCWAMr Teddy and party,accompanied by Am-bassador of Singapore toMyanmar Mr Robert ChuaHian Kong, went to theassociation and donated K4.5 million to theassociation to be spent on

social welfare tasks of theassociation.

On behalf of donors,Ambassador Mr RobertChua Hian Kong handedover the cash to VicePresident of MMCWA DrDaw Tin Lin Myint. — MNA

Government taking…(from page 16)

highly-qualified humanresources and creatingconditions to achievelearning opportunity in allthe regions of the country.

The minister urged theteachers to serve thefunctions of the educationsector in earnest afterrealizing that they canweigh the pros and cons ofthe future of the nation andits peace.

Continuing, he said,the teachers are not only totrain the students to beproficient in education andprovide requirements fornational development butalso equip them with highmorale and other skills.

He said it is necessaryfor the education sector toprovide high qualification,technical know-how andthe strength of technologythat can satisfy the newrequirements formodernization of thecountry.

Just as 86.41 per cent

of basic education schoolsare in rural areas, 68.25per cent of students arerural people.

If the teachers arecapable of teachingstudents in rural regionskeeping pace with those atschools in cities, therewould be no developmentgap between rural regionsand urban areas in the verynear future.

To keep abreast of theinternational community,efforts are to be made toeffectively usedevelopment in-frastructures created by thegovernment and firmlygrasp such opportunitiesas learning opportunitiesfor the entire mass ofstudents including ruralchildren and opportunitiesfor each and every citizenthat could bring prosperitybased on education.

Regarding the peopleas its offspring, thegovernment has beentaking possible measures

in all seriousness in shapinga future state that can servethe long-term interest ofposterity.

In conclusion, theminister urged the teachersto strive for successfulrealization of the nationaleducation promotionprogrammes capable ofsafeguarding such goodfoundations as stability ofState, development andperpetuation of the Unionthrough the educationsector and to make constantefforts for the emergenceof highly qualifiedintellectuals andtechnocrats who are able tosafeguard the already-achieved developmentinfrastructures in theinterest of posterity.

Afterwards, Minister UThaung and party cordiallygreeted trainee teachers.

The five-week coursewas attended by 1,305trainee teachers of basiceducation schools in upperMyanmar.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe receives Mr Julius Georg Luy, the newly-accredited Ambassador of Federal Republic of Germany (News on page 1). — MNA

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Inter-School Football Tourney kicks offYANGON, 23 Sept—

Yangon Division Inter-School FootballTournament of No. 3 BasicEducation Departmentunder the Ministry ofEducation for 2008-2009

academic year opened inAung San Football Groundhere yesterday morning.Among the specators wereYangon Division Peaceand Development CouncilChairman Yangon

Command CommanderBrig-Gen Win Myint andMinister for Sports Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint.

After the openingceremony, No. 3 BEDwomen’s football selected

team (U-16) played againstSouth District women’sselected team (U-16).

A total of 18 teamswill compete in thetournament.

MNANAY PYI TAW, 23 Sept—Minister for Electric

Power No 1 Col Zaw Min looked into natural pozolanproduction factory near Ngayangon village, 2 milesaway from Popa in Mandalay Division on 21September.

At the briefing hall, the factory managerreported on construction of 500-ton pozolan productionfactory, test-run of Performance Test run, Blaine Test,output per hour, supply of raw materials, stockinventory, and production of finished goods. Theminister gave instructions to run production lines atfull capacity.

The minister looked into installation of dustcollector in old factory, operation of Ball Mill andinstallation of machines, equipment of air compressorroom, storage of machines in sub station in newfactory.

The minister and party inspected systematicpacking of finished goods at 5000-ton capacity finishedgoods store and gave instructions on total qualitymanagement, minimization of wastages, worksitesafety and cleanliness of the factory and itssurroundings.—MNA

YANGON, 23 Sept— The 2008 Annual Colour Photo Contest of Myawady Magazine will be held underthe title of a pleasant nation.

Entries of photographers are to be sent to Myawady Literary House, at No. 75/B, Pyay Road,Sawbwagyigon, Insein Township, Yangon not later than 31 December.

The list of winners will be announced in the newspapers, radio and television by the last week ofJanuary 2009, and handsome prizes will be given at a ceremony.

For further information, contact the executive editor of Myawady Magazine (Tel :01-642203) duringofficer honours.—MNA

Myawady Magazine Colour Photo Contest to be held

YANGON, 23 Sept— The Netherlands-based OralHealth Department, a partner of the World HealthDepartment, has recognized the six companiesincluding Cool and 3D that produce Myanmar-madetoothpastes with sufficient fluoride.

Certificates were presented to the six companiesat a ceremony held at the Ministry of Health in Nay PyiTaw on 12 September in recognition of theirachievements, for they produce toothpastes with therequired amount of fluoride meeting the standard ofWHO. The toothpastes are able to whiten teeth andprevent oral diseases.—MNA

Certificates presented totoothpaste companies

Minister Col Zaw Min inspects natural

pozolan factory near Ngayangon village in

Mandalay Division.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe receives Mr Yaron Mayer, newly-accredited Ambassador of Israel, at Bayintnaung Yeiktha in Nay Pyi Taw.(News on page 1)—MNA

Commander Brig-Gen Win Myint and Minister Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint attend opening ofYangon Division Inter-School football Tourney.—MNA

New natural pozolanfactory starts

production

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1. Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

2. Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

3. Keeping genuine patriotism based on nationalsolidarity alive and dynamic

4. Turning out younger generation who willcontinue to safeguard the national culture andcharacter

Objectives of the 16th MyanmarTraditional Cultural Performing

Arts Competitions

YANGON, 23 Sept —“Progress has been made tosome extent as the functionsof Press Scrutiny andRegistration Division werereformed graduallybeginning 2005. Thedivision has laid down fourobjectives and 21 principleson press scrutiny for thosefrom literary world toparticipate in the tasks ofthe development of literaryworld and in the nationalinterest.” said Minister forInformation Brig-GenKyaw Hsan in meeting withstaff from PSRD of Printingand Publishing Enterpriseon Wingaba Road in BahanTownship yesterday.

First, Director of PSRDU Tint Swe reported on its

Mutual understanding between PSRD andliterary workers exists: Information Minister

functions, reformedmeasures and tasks to beundertaken and securitymeasures. The already-achievedsuccess means that there ismutual understandingbetween the Ministry ofInformation and literaryworkers. Closer and warmerrelations and mutual respecton work are to be built forwider understanding andconfidence between PSRDand literary workers, theminister said. The more the literaryworkers understand thecorrect objectives andmeasures taken by thedivision, the more they willserve the national interest,he added.

He said the literaryworld and the mediaeffectively contributetowards the full realizationof Our Three MainNational Causes and thetwelve objectives.

He spoke of the needto be aware of the dangerof fire and sabotage ofdestructionists.

Managing Director ofNews and PeriodicalsEnterprise U Soe Win,Managing Director ofMyanma Motion PictureEnterprise U Aung MyoMyint, Deputy Director-General of MRTV UThein Aung, GeneralManager of PPE U Ye Tintand officials were alsopresent.—MNA

YANGON, 23 Sept —STI has organized seminarand workshop on Logisticsand Supply ChainManagement with thecontribution of expertsfrom abroad and at homesince early 2007. DiplomaCourses have been in fullswing where renownedacademic and fieldpersonnel haveempowered trainees in thehundred.

STI Education andSIMM (SingaporeInstitute of MaterialsManagement) is jointlytaking steps forward toconduct Diploma inLogistics and SupplyChain ManagementCourse next month forthose who are in seniormanagement positions orfor those who will beassuming senior positionsin the very near future.

Executive Diploma

Introduction to Executive Diploma in Logisticsand Supply Chain Management Course on 4 Oct

comprised seven moduleswhere five modules willbe at STI, Yangon and twomodules will be covered atSIMM, Singapore. FiveModules in STI will belectured by trainers fromSIMM and at home.

While attending twomodules at SIMM, thetrainers will haveopportunities of hands-onexperiences, that is, visitsto industries and logisticssites in Singapore.

Teaching metho-dologies include e-lear-ning platform and casestudies, critical analysis,case presentation,submitting reports andprojects.

Assessment coversindividuals as well as groupassignments followed byfinal examination for eachmodule.

If you are a graduateof any university, have at

least three years of workingexperience in an industryafter graduation, pass anEnglish test beforeadmission to the course andif you are prepared to visitSingapore, then you areeligible to join this excitingprogramme.

In commemorationof first intake inMyanmar, SIMM willaward scholarship to thetrainees.

Press conferencewill be held at ParkroyalHotel on Alanpya PagodaRoad, here, at 10 am on 4October.

Every one maycontact Building 4, Room7 in Myanmar Info-Tech,Hline Campus, Yangonand No 337, UpperShwebontha Street,Pabedan Township,Yangon (Ph: 250056,700273, 507046/48,507151/52).— MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 23Sept—The AnnualGeneral Meeting 2008 ofHinthada District UnionSolidarity andDevelopment Associationwas held at the hall ofBEHS-1 , Hinthada, on21 September.

AGM of Hinthada District USDA heldCEC member of

USDA Deputy Ministerfor Energy Brig-GenThan Htay delivered anaddress at the meetingand presented cash forregional developmentundertakings.

CEC member and

officials presented prizesto the outstandingstudents in thematriculationexamination2007-2008, and sixschools for best pass rate.

According to theagenda, second section ofmeeting continued. —MNA

Minister Brig-Gen

Kyaw Hsan meeting

with staff of Press

Scrutiny and

Registration

Division.

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Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Than Htay delivers an address at annualgeneral meeting of Hinthada District USDA.

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Crude prices surge over 20% onweak dollar, short squeeze

Typhoon Hagupit lashes Hong KongHONG KONG,23 Sept

— Typhoon Hagupitlashed Hong Kong withheavy rain and strong

winds Tuesday evening,suspending flights anddisrupting public transportas workers hurried home.

The Hong KongObservatory issued anumber eight tropicalcyclone warning at6:00pm (1000 GMT), aswinds of 63 kilometres (40miles) an hour hit thesouthern Chinese city.

The observatory saidthat the typhoon wascentred about 210kilometres south-south-east of the territory andwas forecast to move westor northwest towards theSouth China Sea.

It also expectedflooding to occur in low-lying areas overnight dueto the combined effect oftyphoon and high tide.

A total of 47 flights inand out of Hong Kong hadbeen cancelled by 4:00pm, a Hong Kong AirportAuthority spokeswomantold AFP.—Internet

Magician David Blaine performs a stunt in Central Park in New York on 22Sept, 2008. Blaine plans to hang upside down without a safety net for 60

hours.—INTERNET

Traders in the oiloptions pit work at theNew York Mercantile

Exchange. Crudeprices soared over 20percent Monday, thebiggest ever one-day

gain on record.INTERNET

NEW YORK, 22 Sept— Crude prices soaredover 20 percent Monday,the biggest ever one-daygain on record, on shortsqueeze and concernsabout the outlook of theUS dollar.

Light, sweet crudefor October delivery,which expires Monday,was up 16.37 dollars tosettle at 120.92 dollars abarrel, after rising as highas of 130.00 dollars perbarrel on the New YorkMercantile Exchange.

”The fact that oilexperienced its biggestone day price spike everhas to do with a shortsqueeze of massiveproportions taking place,”Wall Street Strategies’senior research analystConley Turner toldXinhua.

”In fact, theapproximately 20 percentmove suggests that someinstitutionsare on thehook for making a wrongbet on the direction of the

commodity and massiveunwinding is takingplace,” added the analyst.

Crude prices hadtumbled from record highsof 147.27 dollars a barrel,which was set on 11 July,weighed down by growingevidence that high energycosts and economic woeswere curbing globaldemand.

Investors’ concernsabout the outlook of theUS currency also push theprices higher.

The US dollar fellsharply Monday asconcerns grew thatTreasury Secretary HenryPaulson’s 700-billion-dollar rescue plan willfurther burden USfinances.

The new rescueplan would increase the

public debt limit to 11.3trillion dollars from 10.6trillion dollars. The jumpin federal debt would benegative for the dollar.

The US dollar waslower against other majorcurrencies Monday. InEurope, the euro traded at1.4689, up from 1.4470late Friday in New York.

”It is clear that theUS dollar had peaked invalue some days ago andis now falling. Oil tradersare pumping money intothe commodity as the tradeof choice now is to selldollars and buy oil,” saidTurner.

In London, BrentNorth Sea crude forNovember climbed 6.43dollars to settle at 106.04dollars a barrel.

Internet

A graphic showing the path of Typhoon Hagupitheading towards the South China coast. TyphoonHagupit lashed Hong Kong with heavy rain and

strong winds Tuesday evening, suspending flightsand disrupting public transport as workers

hurried home.—INTERNET

Global warming poses grave health threat toAsia- Pacific

MANILA, 23 Sept— Global warming is expected topose grave challenges to Asia Pacific region in years tocome, a senior World Health Organization (WHO)official warned Tuesday.

In his final address to the Regional Committee,WHO Western Pacific Regional Director Dr ShigeruOmi said climate change would expand the range ofmosquitoes that carry malaria and dengue to areasother than their natural Southeast Asia habitat.

He said that some low-lying island states in thePacific were at risk from rising ocean levels, while heatwaves and droughts elsewhere were among the manyfactors contributing to the global food crisis.

In a wide-ranging valedictory address at theWHO Regional Office here to Health Ministers andsenior officials from the 37 countries and regions thatmake up WHO’s Western Pacific Region, Dr Omi,who will step down early next year after serving 10years on the post, said significant progress had beenmade on a number of health fronts, including the fightagainst communicable diseases.

He said, for instance, the number of daily deaths

2009 named European Year ofCreativity and Innovation

BRUSSELS, 23 Sept— The European Parliament onTuesday backed a European Commission proposal todesignate 2009 as the European Year of Creativity andInnovation.

The European Year of Creativity and Innovationis a major initiative involving European Union (EU)member states, EU institutions and a wide range ofstakeholders.

Each member state will designate a nationalcoordinator who will be responsible for the year’sactivities at the national or regional level. The EuropeanCommission, the EU’s executive body, will coordinateactivities at the EU level.

Internet

from tuberculosis in the Region has dropped from 1,000to 600 as a result of a non-stop battle against the disease.

Tobacco control, fight against HIV/AIDS,measles and maternal mortality are singled out by DrOmi as fields where impressive progress had beenmade.

He said, however, much work remains to bedone on issues such as health care financing andbuilding up human resources and the preparation foraverse effects of climate change.

”I must be honest. We have not been as successfulin this area as we have with communicable diseases,”he said.

In an address that ranged across his 10 years inoffice, Dr. Omi said that the most difficult decision hehad been involved in was the issuing of travel advisoriesagainst a number of countries and areas at the height ofthe SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) threatin 2003.

”SARS awakened the global public healthcommunity from a kind of slumber,” Dr Omi said.

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GATI ZIPP VOY NO (80509)Consignees of cargo carried on MV GATI ZIPP

VOY NO (80509) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 24.9.2008 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

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

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SIRI BHUM VOY NO (308)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV SIRI BHUMVOY NO (308) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 24.9.2008 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of M.I.P where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S REGIONAL CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV PHU MY VOY NO (807)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV PHU MY VOYNO (807) are hereby notified that the vessel will bearriving on 24.9.2008 and cargo will be discharged intothe premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie at the consign-ee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws andconditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S EAGLE SHIPPING CO., LTDPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

Saturn’s rings are older thanthought, say astronomers

Vietnam’s 1st oil refinery to bein operation next year

HANOI, 23 Sept—Con-struction of Vietnam’sfirst oil refinery namedDung Quat is more than97 percent complete andthe project is on track tobe fully operational in thefirst quarter of next year,local newspaper Youthsreported on Tuesday.

The refinery is expectedto complete trial operations

and begin producing fuel,oil and gasified liquids inFebruary 2009, the news-paper quoted Truong VanTuyen, Deputy GeneralDirector of the VietnamNational Oil and GasGroup, the refinery’s inves-tor, as saying. The outputof the refinery would meetone third of the domesticfuel demand, he said.

Vietnam currently hasno processing capacity ofcrude oil. It imported 9.6million tons of petroleumproducts totalling 9.1 bil-lion US dollars in the firsteight months of this year,up 13.7 percent and 94.3percent, respectively, ac-cording to the country’sGeneral Statistics Of-fice.—Internet

PARIS, 23 Sept—Sat-urn’s rings are more mas-sive and far older thanpreviously thought, as-tronomers reported onTuesday.

The estimate is made bya University of Coloradoteam, harnessing a pow-erful computer model andusing data from the USspaceprobe Cassini in or-bit around the beringedgiant. The team computedgravitational forces andcollisions in a sample ofmore than 100,000 icyparticles in one of Sat-urn’s rings.

Rather than orbiting

smoothly around theplanet, as had been theprevious assumption, theparticles tend to aggregatein denser clumps, theysaid. As a result, the massof material in the ringscould be three timesgreater than thought.

The fragments also givean indicator of the rings’age, because they are re-duced by repeated orbitalcollision over time, andby impact from meteor-ites, which also producedust. Saturn’s rings couldbe “billions of years old,”compared with a previousestimate of around 100

million years, said leadresearcher Larry Espositoin a Press release.

He added it was un-likely that Saturn wouldbe the lone planet in ourgalaxy to have huge rings.

“We humans are not justlucky to see rings aroundSaturn. This would leadus to expect massive ringsalso to surround giantplanets circling otherstars,” he said.

The findings were to bepresented on Tuesday atthe European PlanetaryScience Congress inMuenster, Germany.

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An investor monitors aelectronic price board

at a securities com-pany in Chengdu, inChina’s southwesternprovince of Sichuan

on 22 Sept.INTERNET

Montreallaunches public

bike systemOTTAWA, 23 Sept—Canada’s Montreal

launched its public bike system Sunday,offering bikes to residents in a bid tobuild an environmentally friendly publictransit system.

By launching the system named “Bixi”,the city joins Paris, Barcelona, and Lyonto become the first North American cityto have a public bike system.

Starting next spring, a total of 2,400bicycles will be available to the public atmore than 300 locations across sixMontreal districts. Residents will be ableto borrow bicycles from one station anddrop them off at another. “You grab it,you ride it, you bring it back,” Montreal’smayor Gerald Tremblay told TheCanadian Press. “It will become anemblem for Montreal.” — MNA/Xinhua

Breast cancer patients may haveintense radiation

BEIJING, 23 Sept — In-tense radiation therapy ofthree weeks after surgeryfor early breast cancer

patients cures the dis-ease just as well asstandardradiation of fiveweeks, according to a

studyas quoted by mediareports Tuesday.

The study results sug-gest that breast cancer pa-tients could elect treat-ment fora shorter periodand get back to theirnormal life morequickly,researchers saidat the American Societyfor Therapeutic Radiolo-gy and Oncology.

There are some182,000 women dia-gnosed with thediseaseeach year in theUS.Manyin the earlystage chooseto have thecancerous tissue removed,a surgery known as alumpectomy, the re-searchers said.

The operation is typi-cally followed by wholebreast radiation, used tokill any lingering malig-nant cells which typicallytakes five to seven weeks,they added. —Internet

India to build 27Special Economic

ZonesMUMBAI, 23 Sept — Indian Board of

Approval on Special Economic Zones(SEZs) Monday formally approved 17SEZs, reported leading businessnewspaper Business Standard on itswebsite.

One SEZ in west state Maharastra isreported to spread across 1,271 hectaresand see investments of over 1.25 billionUS dollars.

Another significant SEZ that wasformally approved was a 1,804 hectaresSEZ by JSW Bengal Steel in WestBengal. This SEZ would see aninvestment of 3.8 billion US dollars.

Other 10 SEZs also received in-principle approvals from the Board ofApproval.– MNA/Xinhua

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World leaders renewpromises to help Africa

UNITED NATIONS, 23Sept —World leaders andtop officials on Mondayrenewed pledges to helpAfrica dramaticallyreduce poverty, butAfrican governments toldrich nations they arelagging on previouspromises of increased aid.

In a political declarationafter a UN meeting onAfrica’s developmentneeds, countries pledgedto mobilize resources toend poverty, hunger andunderdevelopment.

“We stress that eradi-cating poverty, par-ticularly in Africa, is thegreatest global challengefacing the world today,”they said.

The meeting expressed

concern that commitmentsby rich industrializednations of doubling aid toAfrica by 2010 will not bereached, while alsowelcoming new aid flowsfrom emerging economiesand the private sector.UNSecretary General BanKi-moon called themeeting on Africa todraw attention to a dangerthat the region wouldfail to meet UN-agreedMillennium DevelopmentGoals set in 2000 to halveglobal poverty by 2015.

Ban urged concertedglobal action, warning thatnot one African country wason track to meet all of thegoals, although he notedsome progress on health andeducation. — Internet

Exercise may help pregnantwomen stop smoking

LONDON, 23 Sept —Physical exertion mayhelp pregnant womenstop smoking, re-searchers said onTuesday, after two smallstudies showed a quarterof women who exer-cised regularly whileexpecting a baby quitsmoking.

The British scientistssaid the quitting rate wasabout the same as forpeople who use nicotinereplacement.

Nicotine — one of themost addictive substancesknown — can lead tolower birth weight, higher

infant mortality and islinked to learning dif-ficulties and health pro-blems in childhood.

An estimated 17 per-cent of British womenand 20 percent of womenin the United States saythey smoke during preg-nancy, the researcherssaid.Nicotine patches areone way to help smokersgive up, but there areworries they may harmthe fetus, leavingexercise as a healthyalternative for pregnantwomen, the researcherssaid.

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Visitors roam around to look at the photo worksat 2008 Pingyao International PhotographyFestival in Pingyao of north China’s Shanxi

Province on 21 Sept, 2008. —INTERNET

Heavy children mayhave more headachesNEW YORK,23 Sept —

Overweight childrenand teenagers may beat elevated risk ofdeveloping chronicheadaches, a new studysuggests.

The good news,researchers found, is thatweight loss may, in turn,cut headache frequency.

The study, whichincluded 913 childrenand teens with headachecomplaints, found thatas the children’s bodymass index increased,so too did the frequencyof their headaches.

Body mass index, orBMI, is a measure ofweight in relation toheight. Studies of adultshave suggested a linkbetween BMI andchronic headache, withsome indicating thatobesity may be a riskfactor for chronic dailyheadaches.

Little, however, hasbeen known about therelationship betweenweight and headachesin children.

The current study, ledby Dr Andrew D Hersheyof Cincinnati Children’sHospital Medical Centre,involved patients seenat one of seven USpediatric headache cen-tres.

The researchers as-sessed 913 children andteenagers and then fol-lowed a subgroup for upto 6 months.

Of the whole studygroup, 17.5 percentwere overweight orobese, while another 33percent were at risk ofbecoming so.

In general, the resear-chers found, the fre-quency of the children’sheadache bouts in-creased in tandem withtheir BMI.

Internet

Reef could provide clues to evolution

A handout photo obtained, shows the NorthernFlinders Ranges where Australian scientists saidthey had discovered a reef that was under water650 million years ago in an outback mountain

range and could provide fresh insight into earlylife on earth.—INTERNET

SYDNEY, 23 Sept —Australian scientists saidMonday they had dis-covered in an outbackmountain range a reef thatwas under water 650million years ago andcould provide freshinsight into early life onearth.

The University ofMelbourne researcherssaid the find could revealfossils of the earliestexamples of primitive

ancient reef complexes —and it also contains fossilswhich may be of theearliest known primitiveanimals,” he said.“Thereis a good chance that thenew fossils and organismsfound in the reef willprovide significant insightinto the evolution of earlymulti-cellular life.

“It could prove that lifetook more complex formsmuch earlier in historythan we previouslythought.”The reef wasdiscovered in the NorthernFlinders Ranges inoutback South Australia,said Giddings and hiscolleagues, AssociateProfessor MalcolmWallace and Estee Woonfrom the university’sSchool of Earth Sciences.

It is the only known reefcomplex of this age any-where in the world, withthe closest being reefsaround 800 million yearsold located in ArcticCanada, they said.

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Ilulissat Icefjord, western Greenland. Flying lowover the vast, white expanse of the glacier, one of

the biggest and most active in the world, theeffects of global warming in the Arctic are

painfully visible as the ice melts at an alarmingrate.—INTERNET

Acupuncture beats drugto treat hot flashes

WASHINGTON, 23 Sept —Acupuncture works as wellas a drug commonly usedto combat hot flashesand other menopausalsymptoms that canaccompany breast cancertreatment, and its benefitslast longer, without bad sideeffects, researchers said onMonday.

They tested acupunc-ture, which began in Chinamore than 2,000 years agoand involves insertingneedles into the body,against the Wyethantidepressant Effexor, forhot flashes in breast cancerpatients.Acupuncture wasjust as effective as Effexor,also called venlafaxine, in

managing symptomsincluding hot flashes andnight sweats, according toresearchers led by DrEleanor Walker of HenryFord Hospital in Detroit.

After 12 weeks oftreatment, symptoms werereduced for 15 additionalweeks for women who hadundergone acupuncture,compared with two weeksfor those who had takenEffexor, Walker said.

There were no bad sideeffects with acupuncture,and women reportedincreased energy, overallsense of well-being andsexual desire, the re-searchers said.

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animal life and also helptrace the pattern of globalclimate change.

The reef is believed tohave existed for betweenfive and 10 million yearsduring a period of tropicalclimate squeezed betweentwo major ice age events,said researcher JonathanGiddings.“It provides asignificant step forward inshowing the extent ofclimate change in Earth’spast and the evolution of

The first cell phone running Google Inc.’s mobilesoftware looks something like Apple Inc.’s iPhoneand has a large touch screen, but it also packs atrackball, a slide-out keyboard and easy access to

Google’s e-mail and mapping programs.—INTERNET

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S P O R T S

Juventus goalkeeperGianluigi Buffon, seenhere in August 2008,faces 10 days on the

sidelines after injuringhis groin, the club saidon Monday.—INTERNET

Juve’s Buffon out for 10 days

Jankovic insists she has nothingto prove on tennis court

World number two JelenaJankovic, seen here, said Mondayshe feels no extra pressure due toher lack of a Grand Slam trophy,as the chase for the top spot in the

women's game continues at theChina Open.—INTERNET

EU to bolster UEFA crackdownon soccer betting: Platini

UEFA chief MichelPlatini

Hull sign SteliosLONDON, 23 Sept — Stelios Giannakopoulos joined

Premier League new boys Hull City on a permanent

Greek midfielder SteliosGiannakopoulos,seen

here in June 2008,joined Premier Leaguenew boys Hull City on a

permanent contractMonday.—INTERNET

Blues brothers Carvalho andDeco sidelined

LONDON, 23 Sept — Chelsea's Portugal internationalpair of Ricardo Carvalho and Deco are both set to missmatches for the London club through injury it wasannounced Monday.

Defender Carvalho is set to be out for up to a monthafter a knee injury forced him off 11 minutes into theclub's 1-1 Premier League at home to reigning cham-pions Manchester United at Stamford Bridge on Sun-day. Playmaker Deco was injured during the warm-upto that match with what the Blues said Monday was aupper thigh muscle tear and will be out "for approxi-mately two weeks," according to a club statement.

The statement added: "A scan has shown thatCarvalho strained a medial collateral ligament in hisknee. It is expected to be three-to-four weeks until thecentral defender is back in action."—Internet

Chelsea’s Portugal international pair of RicardoCarvalho(R) and Deco, seen here at a training

session in August 2008, are both set to missmatches for the London club through injury it was

announced Monday.—INTERNET

Derby day as goal-crazyAtletico face Getafe

Atletico Madrid's Argen-tinian Sergio Leonel"Kun" Aguero. A fierceMadrid derby is the high-light of the midweek fix-tures in the Spanish firstdivision as the league'stop-scorers Atletico Ma-drid travel to unbeatenneighbours Getafe onWednesday.—INTERNET

ROME, 23 Sept —Juventus goalkeeperGianluigi Buffon faces 10days on the sidelines af-ter injuring his groin, theclub said on Monday.

Buffon was injured inSunday's 1-0 win atCagliari and will missmatches against Cataniaon Wednesday and Napolion Saturday.

He is also a doubt fornext Wednesday's Cham-pions League trip toMinsk to play BATEBorisov of Belarus.

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BEIJING, 23Sept — Worldnumber twoJelena Jankovicsaid Mondayshe feels no ex-tra pressure dueto her lack of aGrand Slamtrophy, as thechase for thetop spot in thewomen's gamecontinues at theChina Open.

J a n k o v i cand fellow SerbAna Ivanovictop the draw here. New world number three DinaraSafina, who captured the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyoon Sunday, withdrew due to injury.

Internet

PARIS, 23 Sept —UEFA president MichelPlatini said Monday theEuropean union is to bol-ster the efforts of Euro-pean football's governingbody to crack down onbetting in football.

"We are going to rein-force our activities re-garding betting and bol-ster our inspectors,"Platini said in an inter-view for Tuesday publica-tion with French newspa-per Dauphine Libere.

"We already have anearly warning system,which tells us there issome kind of irregularitysurrounding a match.From there, we investi-

gate. We have had an in-quiry into some 15 or 16matches - 14 cases re-solved and there was aproblem with one or two.We're looking into thosea little more closely," saidPlatini.—Internet

Li Na crashes out of ChinaOpen tennis

BEIJING, 23 Sept — Olympic semi-finalist Li Nacrashed out of the China Open in the first round Tues-day despite high hopes in Beijing for home-grown suc-cess. Li, China's highest-ranked player, who alsoreached the fourth round of the US Open, slipped to a6-1, 7-6 (7-4) defeat against Italy's FrancescaSchiavone in just under two hours.

"Today, I think I was in a hurry and I made manyfaults," the 29th-ranked Li said.—Internet

Olympic semi-finalist LiNa, seen here, crashedout of the China Open

in the first roundTuesday despite highhopes in Beijing for

home-grown success.She lost to Italy’s

Francesca Schiavone6-1, 7-6 (7-4).

INTERNET

contract Monday.The 34-year-old Greek

midfielder left top-flightrivals Bolton Wanderersduring the close season.

He had been trainingwith Hull as a free agentbut has now signed a dealthat will keep him at theKC Stadium until the endof the season.

Greek internationalGiannakopoulos spent fiveseasons with Bolton be-fore Wanderers managerGary Megson decided thenorth-west club could dowithout him.—Internet

MADRID, 23 Sept — Afierce Madrid derby is thehighlight of the midweekfixtures in the Spanishfirst division as theleague's top-scorersAtletico Madrid travel to

unbeaten neighboursGetafe on Wednesday.

Atletico lie fifth after a4-1 hammering ofRecreativo Huelva at theweekend and Getafemidfielder Manu delMoral admits his team arewary of the threat posedby in-form ArgentineSergio "Kun" Aguero.

"Even though he is soyoung Aguero is living upto the high expectations atAtletico and we will haveour work cut out to stophim and Atletico," saidMoral.—Ineternet

Former Olympian Abdur-Rahim retires from NBA

SACRAMENTO, 23 Sept—Sacramento Kings for-ward Shareef Abdur-Rahim announced his re-tirement Monday, ending

a 12-year NBA career thatincluded winning anOlympic gold medal.

The 31-year-oldAbdur-Rahim has beenbattling problems in hisright knee, which forcedhim to miss almost all oflast season.

Abdur-Rahim's pro-duction had dwindled inrecent years after achiev-ing stardom early in hiscareer. After being draftedthird overall by the Van-couver Grizzlies out ofCalifornia in 1996, hequickly became the Griz-zlies' best player, averag-ing 20.8 points over hisfive seasons in Vancou-ver.

While with the Griz-zlies, he was a member ofthe US Olympic Team thatbrought home the goldmedal in 2000 in Sydney,Australia.—Internet

Sacramento Kings'Shareef Abdur-Rahim

(left) at a match in NewJersey. Abdur-Rahim

has announced hisretirement, ending a 12-

year NBA career thatincluded winning anOlympic gold medal.

INTERNET

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudyin Kayah State, and lower Sagaing Division, rain or thun-dershowers have been isolated in Kachin State, scatteredin Shan State, Mandalay and Magway Divisions, fairlywidespread in upper Sagaing, Bago,Yangon andTaninthayi Divisions and widespread in the remainingStates and Divisions with isolated heavyfalls in RakhineState.The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded wereSittway (3.86) inches, Thandwe (2.60) inches, Gwa (2.13)inches, An (1.73) inches, Hpa-an (1.30) inches and Magway(1.22) inches.

Maximum temperature on 22-9-2008 was 80˚F.Minimum temperature on 23-9-2008 was 67ºF. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 23-9-2008 was 100%.Total sunshine hours on 22-9-2008 was (Nil).

Rainfall on 23-9-2008 was (0.71) inch at Mingaladon,(0.75) inch at Kaba-Aye and (1.14) inches at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2008 was (95.55) inches atMingaladon, (106.93) inches at Kaba-Aye and (124.41)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (8) mph from Southwest at (23:10) hoursMST on 22-9-2008.

Bay inference: Weather is cloudy in the North Bayand monsoon is moderate in the Andaman Sea and else-where in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 24-9-2008: Rain orthundershowers will be isolated in Kayah State, lowerSagaing, Mandalay and Magway Divisions, scattered inKachin and Shan States, fairly widespread in Chin State,upper Sagaing, Bago and Yangon Divisions and wide-spread in the remaining States and Divisions. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seasare likely at times off and along Rakhine Coast. Surfacewind speed in squalls may reach (35) to (40) mph. Seaswill be slight to moderate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofincrease of rain in the Southern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 24-9-2008: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for24-9-2008: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for24 -9-2008: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershow-ers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

Tuesday, 23 September, 2008

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MANILA,23 Sept—Dr Shin Young-Soo of theRepublic of Korea was nominated Monday as the newdirector of the World Health Organization (WHO)Western Pacific regional office to take over outgoingDr Shigeru Omi of Japan, who will retire next yearafter serving 10 years on the post.

The Regional Committee for the Western Pacific,WHO's governing body in the Region, nominated DrShin at its annual meeting held in Manila September22-26.

Dr Shin, 64, is currently Professor at the Collegeof Medicine at Seoul National University. Dr Shin hasmade significant contributions to health-relatedorganizations at global, regional and national levelsduring his three decades of public service, WHO saidin a Press release.

Dr Shin is expected to take up the new post on 1February, 2009.

The outgoing Dr. Shigeru Omi, 59, has served twoterms as the WHO Western Pacific Regional Officechief. He assumed the post in 1999 and was reelectedin 2004.—MNA/Xinhua

Islamabad hotel blast targetspolitical leadership

ISLAMABAD, 23 Sept – The Pakistani Adviser toPrime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik Mondaysaid the suicide blast outside the Marriott Hotel inIslamabad was targeting political leadership.

"The suicide blast was aimed at targeting politicalleadership but the government foiled the maliciousdesigns of the terrorists by changing the venue of"Iftar" dinner hosted by Speaker of the NationalAssembly from the Marriott Hotel to the Prime MinisterHouse," Malik said while talking to media persons atthe Chaklala Air Base near Islamabad.

Two suicide bombers rammed an explosive-ladendumper into the gate of the Marriott Hotel, killing 53people and injuring 266 others on Saturday.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani earlier saidthe blast targeted the Parliament House and PrimeMinister House.

He said the incident could have been averted ifthere was an effective disaster management systemand well-equipped fire brigade team.—MNA/Xinhua

Spread of Hepatitis E virus inN Uganda reduces by 50%

KAMPALA, 23 Sept — The fight against an outbreakof the deadly Hepatitis E in war-ravaged northernUgandan has made substantial progress as the numberof new cases and deaths are declining by half, anofficial said here on Monday.

Stephen Malinga, Uganda's Health Minister, toldreporters that since the six-million-US-dollaremergency response was launched in late July, thesituation in Kitgum District, where the virus struckfirst late last year, has much improved.

“Only two new deaths were recorded in the weekending 14th September, bringing the cumulativenumber of deaths to 124, indicating a case fatality rateof 1.5 per cent,” said the minister. That is quitereasonable in any epidemic," he added.

MNA/Xinhua

Spinning her wheels : Brittany Mercer performs onher giant wheel as she prepares for her graduationperformance from the National Institute of Circus

Arts (NICA), in Melbourne.—INTERNET

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YANGON, 23 Sept—Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the

Ministry of Defence, accompanied by Chairman of

Yangon Division Peace and Development Council

Commander of Yangon Command Brig-Gen Win

Myint, Chairman of Yangon City Development

Committee Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin, Vice-

Mayor Col Maung Pa and officials, this morning

went to the tax-free markets in Mayangon, Yankin,

Tamway, Thakayta, Dagon Myothit (South) and

Dagon Myothit (North) townships here. During his

tour, he inspected shops and sale of food stuff and

personal goods, eggs, vagetables, fish, meat, dairy

products, kitchen items, rice and edible palm oil.

MNA

Tax-free markets thriving in Yangon

NAY PYI TAW, 23Sept – The special re-fresher course No. 32 forbasic education teacherswas opened at YadanaHall of Central Instituteof Civil Service (UpperMyanmar) inPyinOoLwin Township,Mandalay Division yes-terday morning.

On behalf of Chair-man of Myanmar Educa-tion Committee Secretary-1 of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Lt-Gen Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo, Ministerfor Science and Technol-ogy U Thaung delivered aspeech.

Also present were

Government taking every possible measure inshaping future state in long-term interest of posterity

the ministers, Chairman ofCivil Service Selectionand Training Board DrThan Nyun, members ofCSSTB, the Chairman ofMandalay City Develop-ment Committee Manda-lay Mayor, heads of de-partments, the rector ofCICS (Upper Myanmar),the pro-rector, heads of

departments, course in-structors and trainee teach-ers.

On behalf of theSecretary-1, Minister UThaung said the govern-ment is implementingall-round developmentplans for promotion of na-tional education, nurturing

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Just as 86.41 per cent ofbasic education schools arein rural areas, 68.25 percent of students are ruralpeople.

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“He’s a similartype – left-footed, intelli-gent runs and a good fin-isher – there are similari-ties with Eduardo.”

Vela was namedby British tabloid The Sunas one the 20 young play-ers to watch in 2008. He is

ARSENAL, 23Sept—Arsenal managerArsene Wenger has de-scribed highly-ratedCarlos Vela as in a simi-lar mould to Croatia in-ternational Eduardo, whois currently out recover-ing after a horrific legbreak.

Mexico interna-tional Vela had facedwork permit problemsand as such his stint withthe Gunners was delayeduntil this season. The 19-year-old has now estab-lished himself inWenger’s plans.

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the younger brother ofAlejandro Vela, whoplays for Cruz Azul inthe Primera Division deMexico.—Internet

MinisterU Thaung delivers

an address atopening ceremonyof special refreshercourse No. 32 forbasic education

teachers inPyinOoLwin

Township. — MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Ministry of

Defence visits a tax-free market in

Tamway Township.

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