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Established 1914
Volume XVIII, Number 102 6th Waning of Second Waso 1372 ME Sunday, 1 August, 2010
* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round developmentof other sectors of the economy as well
* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms of
technical know-how and investments from sources inside thecountry 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 the entirenation
* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural her-itage and national character
* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education stand-
ards of the entire nation
* Stability of the State, community peace andtranquillity, prevalence of law and order
* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitu-
tion* 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, 31July—Chairman of theState Peace and Devel-opment Council of theUnion of MyanmarSenior General ThanShwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing and del-egation members of-fered gold foils andShwekyar robes to theBuddha Image a tMahabodhi Pagoda inBodh Gaya on 26 Julymorning.
The Senior Generaland wife, together withSPDC Member GeneralThura Shwe Mann andwife Daw Khin LayThet, SPDC Secretary-1 General Thiha ThuraTin Aung Myint Oo andwife Daw Khin Saw
Senior General Than Shwe, wife Daw Kyaing Kyaingvisit Mahabodhi Pagoda, Migadawun in Bodh Gaya
hea l th min is te r ,Myanmar Ambassadorto India U Kyi Theinand wife, departmentalheads, left the hotel inGaya for MahabodhiPagoda built by KingAsoka in Bodh Gaya ina motorcade at 5.10 am.
Senior Genera lThan Shwe and wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaingoffered meal, fruits,water, flowers, lightand joss sticks and paidhomage to the BuddhaImage at MahabodhiPagoda.
Later, the SeniorGeneral and wife of-fered Shwekyar robe toBuddha Image inMahabodhi Pagoda anddonated cash to theCommittee for Preser-vation of Bodh Gaya.
They then offeredShwekyar robe, meal,fruits, water, flowers,light and joss sticks to
bronze Buddha Imagein front of AparajitaGolden Throne andBodhi Tree and recitedreligious verses.
On arrival at theApara j i t a GoldenThrone and Bodhi Treewhere Gottama Buddhahad attained enlighten-ment , they of fe rShwekyar robe andpoured water on theBodhi tree.
Sen ior Genera lThan Shwe and wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaingpaid homage the Pa-goda and went aroundit in the clockwise di-rection.
Next, Senior Gen-eral Than Shwe, wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaingand party visited SattaHtana in the compoundof Mahabodhi Pagodaand fed the fish in theMusalinda Lake.
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Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar Senior General Than Shwe, wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaing and party pay homage to Dhammekha Pagoda.—MNA
Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Senior General Than Shwe and partybeing welcomed by Divisional Commissioner Mr. Ajay Kumar Upadhaya of Varanasi District
and officials.—MNA
Hnin , L t -Gen MinAung Hlaing of theMinistry of Defence,
Adjutant-General Lt-Gen Thura Myin tAung, ministers, sen-
ior military officers ofthe Ministry of De-fence , the deputy
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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 Desire
Goodwill visits fortifybilateral relations
On the goodwill visit to the Republic ofIndia at the invitation of Indian President MrsPratibha Devisingh Patil, Chairman of the StatePeace and Development Council Senior GeneralThan Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing on 27July attended the dinner hosted by the IndianPresident in their honour at the PresidentialPalace in Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.
Myanmar and India share a commonborder and have existed in peace for thousandsof years. Traditionally, the two countries aregood neighbours. The two peoples have closerelations to each other due to the close identity ofhistorical backgrounds, geographical features,cultures and religious customs and traditions ofthe two countries.
Since regaining independence, Myanmarand India have been maintaining goodneighbourly relations based on the FivePrinciples of Peaceful Coexistence. The friendlyrelations between the two countries have beenfurther cemented and they have boostedmultipurpose cooperation over the past decadethanks to reciprocal visits of State leaders of thetwo countries.
Myanmar and India, being neighbours,geographical and cultural relations between thetwo countries provide further impetus forbilateral friendly relations. Bilateral cooperationhas reached a milestone of cooperation andfriendship between the two peoples.
Friendly relations between the twocountries have been further cemented and theyhave boosted multipurpose cooperation thanksto reciprocal visits of State leaders of the twoneighbours.
Being aimed at bolstering the friendshipbetween the two governments and the two peoplesof Myanmar and India, the recent goodwill visitis believed to scale up the interests of the twonations in future.
YANGON, 31 July — Member of the StatePeace and Development Council Lt-Gen Tin Ayeand wife Daw Kyi Kyi Ohn attended reception tomark 83rd Anniversary of the founding of People’sLiberation Army of the People’s Republic ofChina held at Traders Hotel here yesterdayevening.
They were welcomed by Chinese MilitaryAttaché to the Union of Myanmar Senior ColonelGao Tiejun and wife.
SPDC Member Lt-Gen Tin Aye attends reception tomark 83rd Anniversary of Chinese PLA
It was also attended by Lt-Gen MyintSwe and wife Daw Khin Thet Htay, seniormilitary officers of the Ministry of Defence,embassy staff, ambassadors, charge’d affairesai, diplomats and their wives, officials andguests.
After the military show, Lt-Gen Tin Ayeand wife, Military Attaché Senior Colonel GaoTiejun and wife cut the anniversary cake.
MNA
Member of State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Tin Aye and wife Daw Kyi Kyi Ohnbeing welcomed by Chinese Military Attaché to the Union of Myanmar Senior Colonel Gao
Tiejun and wife at reception to mark 83rd Anniversary of People's Liberation Army of China.MNA
Information Minister U Kyaw Hsan enjoys match between Rail Transportation Ministry andInformation Ministry.—MNA
NAY PYI TAW, 31July—Round robinmatches of the fourth NayPyi Taw Inter-MinistryFootball Tournament wenton at designated venuesthis afternoon.
Inter-Ministry Football Tour continuesAmong the spectators
were Minister forInformation U KyawHsan, heads of department,and officials.
Energy Ministry andCulture Ministry held a 2-
2 draw in Group (E) matchheld in Nay Pyi Taw SportsGrounds; Sports Ministrytrounced Electric Power-1Ministry 7-0 in Group (F)in Nay Pyi TawPaunglaung Sports
Grounds; and RailTransportation Ministrybeat Information Ministry1-0 in Group (F) in NayPyi Taw Lewe SportsGrounds.
MNA
Mayor inspects upgradingof roads
YANGON, 31 July — Chairman of Yangon CityDevelopment Committee Mayor U Aung Thein Lininspected upgrading of roads here this afternoon.
The mayor inspected upgrading of roads inMingaladon Township and upgraded roads in NorthOkkalapa Township and preparation to upgrade roadsin South Okkalapa Township. During his tour ofinspection, the mayor fulfilled the requirements forthe roadworks.—MNA
Refresher course for judgesconcludes
YANGON, 31 July — A refresher course fortownship judges was concluded at the Supreme Courthere today.
A total of 39 judges attended the 8-week courseconducted by the Supreme Court (Yangon).
The ceremony to conclude the course tookplace with remarks by Chief Justice U Aung Toe.
MNA
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BAGHDAD, 31 July—Iraqi police say a roadsidebomb north of Baghdad has killed five members ofa family, including a 4-year-old girl.
Police spokesman Maj Ghalib al-Karkhi saysthe family was not the intended target of Friday’sbombing, which struck their car near the town ofBuhriz. The town is a former stronghold of SaddamHussein and is about 35 miles (60 kilometres) northof the capital.
While violence has dropped significantly inIraq, militants continue to attack members of theIraqi security forces, and civilians are often caughtin the middle.—Xinhua
Roadside bomb in Iraq killsfive members of family
QALAT, 31 July — One person was killed and29 others injured as a passenger bus collided witha tractor outside Zabul’s provincial capital Qalaton Saturday, spokesman for provincialadministration Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar said.
“The passenger bus was heading for Kabulwhen it collided with a tractor coming fromopposite direction in Muskin Abad area outsideQalat this morning, as a result one commuter waskilled and 29 others sustained injury,” Rasoulyartold Xinhua.
He added that the accident happened at 07:30am local time and all the injured including somewomen and children have been taken to Qalathospital.
On last Monday, a passenger bus heading forKabul turned turtle in the neighbouring KandaharProvince leaving 22 dead and 25 others wounded.
Xinhua
Road accident leaves one dead,29 injured in S Afghanistan
A visitor takes a look at Honda Motor’s cars atits showroom in Tokyo on 30 July, 2010. Honda
Motor Co posted its best quarterly operatingprofit in two and a half years on Friday on brisk
sales in the United States, China, and otherAsian markets, and raised its forecasts despite a
sharp rise in the yen.XINHUA
KABUL, 31 July —In a summer of suffering,America’s military death toll in Afghanistan isrising, with back-to-back record months for USlosses in the grinding conflict. All signs point tomore bloodshed in the months ahead, straining thealready shaky international support for the war.
Six more Americans were reported killed infighting in the south — three Thursday and threeFriday — pushing the US death toll for July to arecord 66 and surpassing June as the deadliestmonth for US forces in the nearly nine-year war.
US officials confirmed the latest Americandeaths Friday but gave no further details. Five ofthe latest reported deaths were a result of hiddenbombs — the insurgents’ weapon of choice — andthe sixth to an armed attack, NATO said instatements.
US commanders say American casualties aremounting because more troops are fighting — andthe Taleban are stiffening resistance as NATO andAfghan forces challenge the militants in areas theycan’t afford to give up without a fight.
“Recent months in Afghanistan have seen toughfighting and tough casualties. This was expected,”the top US and NATO commander, Gen DavidPetraeus, said at his Senate confirmation hearinglast month. “My sense is that the tough fightingwill continue; indeed, it may get more intense inthe next few months.”—Internet
US casualties in Afghanistansoar to record highs
LOS ANGELES, 31 July — A deadly gas explosionobliterated an industrial building with such violentforce Friday that a worker was hurled into the street,car windows were shattered and a survivor had his hairsinged in the inferno.
One man died and another was critically injured inthe blast that was blamed on a gas line that had beentampered with and rerouted.
Jonathan Apol, 20, a welder at a neighbouringbusiness, was putting on his work overalls when theexplosion rocked the South Los Angeles street. He ranoutside in his boxer shorts and saw the buildingengulfed in flames. “It sounded like a plane hadcrashed in there,” Apol said. “It was like a bang, thentwo seconds later, two more bangs.”
Fragments of melting asphalt rooftop were sprayedacross the street, and smashed floor tiles were hurledat least 50 feet from the metalworking business.
Internet
Deadly gas explosion destroys building in Calif
China’s third-generation fighter planes ofthe Chengdu Military Zone take part in a
training with live ammunition oversouthwest China’s Tibet Autonomous
Region on 6 July, 2010.XINHUA
ISLAMABAD, 31July—Recovery workersfound the “black box”flight data recorderSaturday in the wreckageof Pakistan’s worst-everplane crash, and itappeared to be in goodcondition, officials said.
An analysis of thedata on the recorder couldprovide clues as to whythe Airblue flight crashedWednesday into the hillsoverlooking the Pakistanicapital, Islamabad,killing all 152 peopleonboard, including twoAmeri-cans. Therecorder’s decoding maytake weeks, however.
The black box wasfound during a difficultrecovery effort hamperedby rain, mud and a lack ofproper roads in theheavily forested MargallaHills. It has been handedto aviation officials, saidRamzan Sajid, a
‘Black box’ found in Pakistanplane crash wreckage
Pakistani investigators
search for evidence in
the wreckage of a
passenger plane at the
Margalla Hills on the
outskirts of Islamabad
on 31 July.
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spokesman for theCapital DevelopmentAuthority, a governmentagency. He said the boxwas found in wreckageof the plane’s tail section.Pakistan does not havethe proper expertise todecode informationstored on the recorder,so it plans to send it toanother country thatdoes, according to theCivil AviationAuthority.
Internet
TUNIS, 31 July— The Executive Council of theArab Atomic Energy Agency (AAEA) reaffirmedhere Friday that every country has the inalienableright to use and develop nuclear energy in peacefulways. Acquiring and developing nuclear technologyfor peace is the inalienable and unrestricted right ofall members of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty,the council said in a communique after its 45thplenary session. The council called on Arab countriesto draft a plan at an earlier date to facilitate theimplementation of relative resolutions adopted byArab leaders.
The AAEA meeting, held from 27 to 30 July atits headquarters in the Tunisian capital, was attendedby government representatives, nuclear scientistsand technicians from Arab countries. —Xinhua
Arab Atomic Energy Agencyreaffirms countries’ right to
peaceful use of nuclear energy
Los Angeles city fire fighters survey damage after
a suspected natural gas explosion at a welding
shop collapsed part of the building and hurled
two workers into the street, killing one and
leaving the other in critical condition on 30 July,
2010, in Los Angeles.—INTERNET
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China to launchfifth orbiter forits own “GPS”
ICHANG, 31 July —China will launch itsfifth orbiter into space,as part of its satellitenavigat ion andposit ioning networkknown as Beidou, orCompass system, in thenext few days.
An official with theXichang SatelliteLaunch Centre, insouthwestern SichuanProvince, who is notidentified, said on Fridaythat the satellite wouldbe launched on the LongMarch 3I carrier rocketin the coming days,adding that it would takeplace “at a proper time”.
If launched success-fully, the satellite willjoin four other satellitesin orbit to form a networkthat will eventuallyconsist of 35 satellites.
Internet
Antarctica experiment discoverspuzzling space ray pattern
WISCONSIN, 31 July—A puzzling pattern in thecosmic rays bombarding Earth from space has beendiscovered by an experiment buried deep under the iceof Antarctica. Cosmic rays are highly energeticparticles streaming in from space that are thought tooriginate in the distant remnants of dead stars.
But it turns out these particles are not arrivinguniformly from all directions. The new study detectedan overabundance of cosmic rays coming from onepart of the sky, and a lack of cosmic rays coming fromanother.
This odd pattern was detected by the IceCubeNeutrino Observatory, an experiment still underconstruction that is actually intended to detect otherexotic particles called neutrinos. In fact, scientistshave gone out of their way to try to block out all signalsfrom cosmic rays in order to search for the highlyelusive neutrinos, which are much harder to find.
Internet
Microsoft headquarters in Paris. Microsoft plans to argue before Japan’s FairTrade Commission that a tie-up between Yahoo! Japan and Google is anti-
competitive, local media said Friday.INTERNET
Hunt for Life’s building blocks in spacegets NASA boost
NEW YORK, 31 July—NASA has issued a newgrant that bolstersresearch into the cosmicbuilding blocks of life byfunding observations ofyoung solar systemsthroughout the universe,including our own.
The four-year grantsets aside $630,000 toexpand operations by theNew York Centre forAstrobiology located atRensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (RPI) inNew York. Scientists atthe centre study thechemical, geologic andphysical conditions on
ScienceRIM’s rumoured ‘BlackPad’ tablet
due in November?NEW YORK, 31 July—Rumours of a BlackBerry
tablet are heating up by the day, with Bloombergnow claiming that the BlackPad — yes, the BlackPad— will arrive in November, complete with an iPad-size screen and the ability to connect to the Internetvia either Wi-Fi or your Bluetooth-connectedBlackBerry.
Citing a pair of anonymous sources “familiarwith the company’s plans,” Bloomberg says thetablet will indeed be called the BlackPad (whichwould presumably explain BlackBerry-maker RIM’srecent acquisition of “BlackPad.com”) and wouldboast a display that’s “roughly” the same size as theiPad’s 9.7-inch screen. Rather than having its own,embedded 3G radio, the BlackPad would rely onWi-Fi or Bluetooth tethering to your BlackBerry toconnect to the Internet, Bloomberg’s tipsters claim— a nifty trick. I sure wish I could tether the iPad tomy iPhone for 3G data.
The article doesn’t go into detail about whatkind of processor would power the rumouredBlackPad, or whether it would run on the revampedBlackBerry OS 6 (which seems likely). It did note,however, that the BlackPad’s pricing would be “inline” with that of the iPad, which starts at $499 forthe 16GB Wi-Fi-only version.
Several details of the Bloomberg story are atodds with what we heard from one wireless analystearlier this month, who predicted that the BlackBerrytablet would come with built-in Wi-Fi and a smaller,7-inch display.—Internet
A shopper looks at a smartphone at a shop inTaipei on 19 July. Software security experts warn
that mobile phones are tempting targets for hackersin a world where people eagerly invite strange
applications onto handsets packed with personaldata.—INTERNET
Smartphones tempting newtargets for hackers
LAS VEGAS,31 Julay—Software security expertswarn that mobile phones are tempting targets forhackers in a world where people eagerly invite strangeapplications onto handsets packed with personal data.
Briefings on Thursday at a Black Hat computersecurity conference were devoted to threats tosmartphones, mobile personal computers used foranything from banking and shopping to pinpointingpeople’s whereabouts.
“Right now, it is one of the hottest topics thereis,” said John Hering, founder and chief executive ofLookout Mobile Security.
Smartphone owners are seldom far from theirhandsets, which they trust with passwords, telephonenumbers, Internet browsing, banking, shopping,navigating, and more.—Internet
Twitter offers help in findingaccounts to follow
New York, 31 July—The micro-blogging servicebegan rolling out a new feature Friday called“Suggestions for You” which directs users to otherTwitter accounts they may find interesting.
“With more than a hundred million users on Twitter,there are sure to be at least dozens of accounts out therethat will reflect your interests,” Twitter said on itsofficial blog. “The trouble is finding all of them,” it said.“Today we’re beginning to roll out a simple, but powerfulnew feature to help address that.” Twitter said the“Suggestions for You” algorithms find other accountsof potential interest using various factors, including“people you follow and the people they follow.”
Internet
This picture, taken on 18 July and released by Japanesecollege Chiba Institute of Technology shows the crawlerrescue robot “QUINCE” during a demonstration at thecollege campus of Narashino city in Chiba prefecture,
suburban Tokyo.—INTERNET
Technology
Hackers at theinfamous DefCongathering held in
Las Vegas areproving that old-
fashioned telephonesmooth talk is an
effective rival to slicksoftware skills whenit comes to pullingoff attacks on com-
puter networks.INTERNET
Earth that allowed life toform. They use thisresearch to steer the huntfor alien life elsewhere,be it on Mars or in anothersolar system altogether.By studying new planetsthat have just recentlyformed, scientists hope tolearn more about thedifferent types ofenvironments prevalent inthe galaxy, as welldetermine the odds thatplaces beyond Earth arehabitable.
“We are looking forthe conditions of life,rather than life itself,” saidRPI physicist Douglas
Whittet, director of thecentre.
The researchers arealso investigating howplanets, including Earth,gather the materials theyneed for life to take hold.
Chemicals critical tothe foundation of life firstformed from moleculescooked through stellarprocesses, Whittet said.These chemicals mayhave formed in clouds ofgas surrounding stars andthen piggybacked theirway to Earth on meteoritesthat crashed into ourplanet.
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Menopause treatment could harm kids,pets, FDA warns
WASHINGTON, 31 July— Evamist, a drug usedto reduce menopause-related hot flashes inwomen, may harmchildren and pets whohave skin contact withthe drug, the US Foodand Drug Administrationsaid on Thursday.
The product, whichis sprayed on the skinbetween the elbow andwrist and on the inside ofthe forearm, contains anestrogen hormone called
estradiol. Evamist wasapproved for use in theUnited States in 2007.
Since then, the FDAhas received e ightrepor ts of adverseevents in children aged3 to 5 who wereunintent ional ly ex-posed to the drug. Theadverse events include:premature puber ty ,nipple swell ing andbreast development infemales ; and breas t
Health tip: Is yourblood sugar high?
WASHINGTON, 31 July — Hyperglycemia, themedical term for high blood sugar, is a prime cause ofcomplications among people with diabetes.
You may have high blood sugar and not evenknow it. The American Diabetes Association offersthis list of common symptoms:
* Blood or urine tests that reveal high levels of glucose.
* Feeling a frequent need to urinate. * Excessive thirst.
Internet
Black teens may needhigher vitamin Dsupplementation
WASHINGTON, 31July— Among blackteens, vitamin Ddeficiency is associatedwith arterial stiffness —a risk factor for heartdisease and stroke — butadequate sup-plementation mayresolve the problem, anew study has found.
Sunlight triggers thebody to produce vitaminD, but nearly all of the44 male and femaleblack teens in the studywere v i tamin Ddeficient even thoughthey lived in a sun-
soaked region, theresearchers reported inar t ic le tha t wi l l bepublished in the Journalof Clinical Endocri-nology & Metabolism inOctober. According tothe US Nat ionalInst i tu tes of Heal th(NIH), having dark skincuts down on theamount of vitamin D theskin can make.
Certain foods alsoprovide vitamin D, suchas fortified milk andsome types of f ish,according to the NIH.
Internet
Health
Merck’s 2Q net drops on highercosts, charges
NEW YORK, 31 July—Drugmaker Merck & Coon Friday reported a 52percent drop in second-quarter net income,weighed down by bigrestructuring chargesfrom buying Schering-Plough Corp, genericcompetition and otherfactors.
Merck, the world’ssecond-biggest drugcompany by revenue, beatanalysts’ profitexpectations by 3 cents ashare, but came up shorton revenue and slightlyreduced its sales forecastfor the year. Given thosefactors, a 2010 income
Regulators close banks in Fla, Ga,Ore, Wash
WASHINGTON, 31July—Regulators onFriday shut banks inFlorida, Georgia,Oregon and Washington,lifting to 108 the numberof US banks to fail thisyear as the industry hasstruggled to cope withmounting loan defaultsand recession.
The Federal DepositInsurance Corp tookover the banks: BaysideSavings Bank in PortSaint Joe, Fla, with $66.1million in assets; CoastalCommunity Bank, basedin Panama City, Fla, with$372.9 million in assets;NorthWest Bank andTrust, based in Acworth,Ga, with assets of $167.7million; Cowlitz Bank inLongview, Wash, assetsof $529.3 million; andLibertyBank, based inEugene, Ore, assets of$768.2 million.
Centennial Bank, asubsidiary of HomeBancShares Inc based inConway, Ark, agreed to
In this file photo made 15 April, 2009, theMerck logo is seen in the lobby of Merck &
Company, Inc.’s world headquarters inWhitehouse Station, N.J.—INTERNET
forecast now below WallStreet expectations andseveral pressures thatcould affect its full-yearresults, investors droveshares down in morningtrading. Leerink Swannanalyst SeamusFernandez termed it a“slightly disappointingquarter.”
The maker of allergymedicines Singulair andNasonex and cholesteroldrugs Vytorin and Zetiasaid its net income was$752.4 million, or 24 centsper share. That’s downfrom $1.56 billion, or 74cents a share, a yearearlier.—Internet
Dollar sinks to8-month low vsyen as growth
slowsNEW YORK, 31
July—Weakening USeconomic growth andworried comments fromFederal Reserve officialsdrove the dollar to an 8-month low Fridayagainst the Japanese yen.The dollar dropped to86.34 yen in late NewYork trading from 86.98yen late Thursday,sinking as low as 85.93yen just after thegovernment said growthin the US gross domesticproduct fell to its weakestpace in nearly a year.
That’s the yen’shighest level against thedollar since November2009. The dollar wasmixed in trading againstother major currenciesafter the government saideconomic growth slowedduring the spring.
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assume the assets anddeposits of BaysideSavings Bank andCoastal CommunityBank. State Bank andTrust Co, based inMacon, Ga, is assumingthose of NorthWest Bankand Trust.
Florida and Georgiaare among the states withthe highest con-centrations of bankcollapses and where themeltdown in the realestate market brought an
avalanche of souredmortgage loans. Thefailures of BaysideSavings Bank andCoastal CommunityBank brought to 20 thenumber of Florida banksthat have fallen this year.Northwest Bank andTrust was the 11thGeorgia bank to fail.
Also high on the listof failure-heavy statesare California andIllinois.
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Shoppers are seen in a New York store in May2010. US economic growth slowed dramatically to2.4 percent in the second quarter of this year, the
Commerce Department has said, stoking fears thatthe recovery is losing steam.—INTERNET
Business
Visitors play transformer-themed video games at the2010 Cybertron AnnualMeeting in the Shanghai
East Asia Exhibition Hall inShanghai, east China, on
July 30, 2010. The meeting, hailed as a
festival for globaltransformer fans, showcasesgenerations of transformer
toys.—XINHUA
Boys do physical exercises at the training campin Shenyang,capital of northeast China’s
Liaoning Province on 29 July, 2010. Over 100chubby boys from various cities in China attend a
special weight-losing programme in the cityon Thursday.—XINHUA
enlargement in males.In add i t ion , the
FDA’s Cen t re fo rVeterinary Medicine
has rece ived tworeports of dogs beingexposed to Evamist.
Th i s may l ead tom a m m a r y / n i p p l een la rgement and
swelling of the vulvus.Internet
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Bob Burnquist of Brazil seems to float overpalm trees during the Skateboard Big Air Finalon 29 July, 2010 at the X Games, held at Los
Angeles Memorial Coliseum inLos Angeles.—INTERNET
JAKARTA, 31 July—Favourable domesticbusiness climate andgood return resultingfrom public listed-companies pushedIndonesian shares to anall-time high in the lasttwo days, an executivetold Xinhua in anexclusive interview onFriday. Anton Gunawan,executive vice presidentand chief economist inBank Danamon Inter-national, one ofIndonesia’s prominentbanks, said that thecondition has beentriggering foreign capitalinflow.
“We don’t havemany countries withfavourable businessclimate currently as theyhave not yet fullyrecovered from the crisis.Besides, we still haveconcerns about the crisisin Europe and the UnitedStates performance isdeclining again,” saidGunawan.
That is why, he said,foreign investors keeplooking for Asianemerging markets withgood performance.
Xinhua
Favourablebusiness climate,
good returnpush Indonesian
shares to all-time high
A colony of humanembryonic stem cells.Scientists have shownfor the first time that it
may be possible toreplace a human hip orknee with a joint grownnaturally inside the bodyusing the patient’s stem
cells.INTERNET
Fireworks are seen as people celebrate theopening of the 12th China International Beer
Festival in Dalian, northeast China’s LiaoningProvince, on 29 July 2010.
XINHUA
KINSHASA, 31 July— Almost
90,000 people have fled fighting in
eastern Congo in the past month, aid
agencies said, underscoring a
worsening security situation despite
the official end of Congo’s 1998-2003
war. Conflicts between rebel groups,
former militias and army troops
simmer in Democratic Republic of
Congo, and more than 1.9 million
people are still displaced, up from 1.6
million in 2009.
Thousands flee Congo clashes, securityworsens
“The displaced are in need of
protection, food, water, shelters,
medicine and non-food items,”
OCHA, the United Nations aid
coordination body, said in a statement
on Friday.
The aid agency said nearly 90,000
people have fled their homes in Beni
territory in the north of Congo’s North
Kivu province in the past month as a
result of the army launching an attack
on Ugandan rebels.—Internet
ACCRA, 31 July— A ministerial committee set up to probe into the spillage oftoxic substances into Ghana’s oil fields by Kosmos energy has decided to imposea fine of 35 million US dollar on an American oil drilling company.
Deputy Minister for Environment, Science and Technology, Edward Omane-Boamah, told Xinhua on Friday that the decision to impose the fine on KomosEnergy was made after the conclusion of investigations by the committeeinvestigations.
The committee found that Kosmos Energy was responsible for the spillages,occurred in December 2009 and in March and May this year.
Kosmos discovered the Jubilee Oil Field at the Gulf of Guinea’ s Tano Basin,about 12 km from the Ghanaian coastline and 95 km southwest of the port city ofTakoradi, in 2007 and has been expecting an area of over 1,760 square kilometresever since.—Internet
US oil company fined 35 m dollars foroil spillage off Ghana coast
A firefighter works
to extinguish fire at
a building outside
the town of Vyksa,
some 150 km (93
miles) southwest of
the Volga city of
Nizhny Novgorod,
29 July, 2010.
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Wildfires sweeping Russia killatleast 25
MASLOVKA, 31 July—Wildfires sweeping acrossEuropean Russia killed atleast 25 people on Fridayand forced the evacuationof thousands in the hottestweather since recordsbegan 130 years ago.Fanned by strong winds,fires ripped through woodsand fields that have beenscorched for weeks by aheatwave, incineratinghundreds of woodenhouses.
“We don’t knowwhere to go,” said GalinaShibanova, 52, standingoutside her burning homein the town of Maslovka inthe Voronezh region, about500 km (300 miles) southof Moscow.
(1500 GMT).”Russia has been
sweltering since June in aheatwave that hasdestroyed crops andpushed thousands offarmers to the verge ofbankruptcy.
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“We called theemergency services, andnot one person answeredthe phone,” saidShibanova, a gold crucifixaround her neck reflectingthe nearby flames. IgorVlasnev, head of theVoronezh region fireservices, told Reuters thesituation was expected toworsen on Saturdaybecause of risingtemperatures.
“Everyone is waiting,and wishing, for rain,” hesaid. “The forecast fortomorrow is that thesituation will worsen bothin terms of temperature andwind conditions, which areexpected to change (onSaturday) after 7:00 pm
NANNING, 31 July— Construction on the firstphase of a nuclear power plant started in GuangxiZhuang Autonomous Region on Friday.
The project in Guangpo Township,Fangchengang City, will have six one-million-kilowatt generators once complete.
It will be the first such facility in an ethnicminority area.
The first phase of the project involves investmentof 26 billion yuan (3.87 billion US dollars) andconstruction of two CPR1000 pressurized waterreactors, according to Shu Guogang, generalmanager of the project’s contractor.
Upon completion in 2015 and 2016, the twogenerators will produce up to 15 billion kwh ofelectricity annually, easing power shortages in theBeibu Gulf region of Guangxi.
The project will also reduce coal consumptionby 6 million tonnes per year and cut greenhouse gasemissions by 14.82 million tonnes per year,compared with coal-fueled power plants of similarcapacity.
The project’s main funders are GuangxiFangchenggang Nuclear Power Co Ltd, which isjointly run by China Guangdong Nuclear PowerHolding Corp, and Guangxi Investment Group CoLtd.
The first phase of the project will create 965,000jobs and increase production at related sectors,especially equipment manufacturing andconstruction, by 92 billion yuan, according to Shu.
“The project will improve energy supply andsecurity and promote economic development inGuangxi,” Guo Shengkun, Party chief of Guangxi,said at the project’s ground-breaking ceremony.
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YA N G O N, 31July—The Central Insti-tute of Civil Service(Phaunggyi) held theclosing of Special Re-fresher Course (71) forBasic Education Teach-ers at Yadana TheinkhaHall in its compound inHlegu Township, here,this morning.
On behalf ofChairman of theMyanmar EducationCommittee Secretary-1of the State Peace andDevelopment CouncilGeneral Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo, Minis-ter for Education DrChan Nyein made aspeech, saying that theeducation sector is at theheart of nurturing theyouth into human re-sources capable of en-suring national develop-ment and safeguarding
Conclusion of Special Refresher Course (71) for Basic Education Teachers
the nation.In the process, ba-
sic and higher educationsectors are being pro-moted in combinationfor improving the na-tion’s education into in-ternational level, “edu-cation for al l” pro-gramme, and continuous
generation of highly-educated people.
Only when edu-cation projects alsocover far-flung areaswill it be possible tonarrow then close downthe development gapbetween one region andanother.
He urged theteacher trainees to re-gard education promo-tion plans as a nationalduty in their charge ofduties.
The ministerawarded outstandingtrainees and presentedcompletion certificates
to the trainees.Also present on
the occasion were Min-ister for Labour U AungKyi, Auditor-General ULun Maung, Chairmanof the Civil Service Se-lection and TrainingBoard U Kyaw Thu,Chairman of Yangon
City Development Com-mittee Mayor U AungThein Lin, deputy min-isters, CSSTB membersU Hla Myint and U WinAung, heads of depart-ment, the rector, pro-rec-tors, deans, instructorsand trainees.
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NAY PYI TAW, 31July — Minister for For-estry U Thein Aungtoured two townships inSagaing Division on 27July to assist in thegreening project in thearid region.
During the tour, theminister visited three vil-lages where every house-hold has planted threeteak trees and 20 hardwood trees under the ar-
Forestry Minister inspects greening project
YANGON, 31 July—As part of raisingawareness of dangeron roads, educativetalks on traffic ruleswill be held at schoolsand wards in
Talks on traffic rules to beconducted in Chaungzon Tsp
Work Proficiency Course No. 38for staff officers of township
Internal Revenue Departmentconcludes
NAY PYI TAW, 31 July—Work ProficiencyCourse No. 38 for heads of township Internal RevenueDepartment under Ministry of Finance and Revenueconcluded at the department here yesterday morning,with an address by Minister U Hla Tun.
Also present on the occasion were Governorof the Central Bank of Myanmar U Than Nyein,heads of departments and enterprises under theministry, departmental personnel and trainees. Theminister delivered an address and awardedoutstanding trainees. The four-week course coveredpolicies, rules, regulations and procedures on financeand taxation and international taxation procedures.
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Head of Pyin OoLwin District Information and Public RelationsDepartment Daw Than Than Wai and Chairman of Mankyigaing
Village Peace and Development Council U Than Lin Naing formallyopened Shwe Padauk-1 Library at the village in Amarapura Township,
Mandalay, on 18 July, 2010.—TOWNSHP IPRD
rangement of the ForestDepartment as part of thegreening project.
Meanwhile, hardwood trees are plantedon one acre in every vil-lage as part of the ruralhousing project and 3480hard wood trees and 522teak trees have beenplanted in ChaungUTownship.
Before his tour ofinspection, Minister U
Thein Aung met withemployees of theMyanma Timber Enter-prise and the Forest De-partment in Monywa andcalled for making effortsfor achieving targets ofthe ministry.
The minister alsoinspected plywood fac-tories and saw mills inMonywa and Sagaingduring the tour.
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Chaungon Town-ship,Mon State.
Mon State TrafficRules EnforcementCommittee andChaungzon TownshipPolice Force have
organized thecampaign which willstart in the first weekof August in threewards, 42 villages andat schools.
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Minister for Education Dr Chan Nyein addresses the concluding of Special Refresher Course No. 71 for basic educationteachers on behalf of the SPDC Secretary-1.—MNA
Minister U Thein
Aung inspects loading
of logs in Sagaing.
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A Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council SeniorGeneral Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing and familydonate cash for construction of new building for Bodh Gaya
Myanmar Monastery, Bodh Gaya Sasana Nuggaha Associationand 22 Myanmar monasteries in India.—MNA
Chairman of the State Peace and Devel-opment Council Senior General Than
Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing andfamily pay homage to Bronze BuddhaImage in front of Aparajita Golden
Throne and Bodhi Tree.—MNA
Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Senior General
Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaingand party pay homage at the site whereBuddha delivered Dhamacakka to the
five Panca Vaggi in Migadawun.—MNA
(from page 1)Secretary and
members of the Commit-tee for Preservation ofBodh Gaya presented rep-lica of the pagoda, bookspublished by the commit-tee and a bronze BuddhaStatuette to the SeniorGeneral as Dhamma giftsat the committee office.
Later, the SeniorGeneral signed the visi-tors’ book of the commit-tee.
Next, Senior Gen-eral Than Shwe, wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaing andparty paid homage to theBuddha Image in theMahabodhi Pagoda.
Senior General Than Shwe, wife DawKyaing Kyaing…
Next, PresidingSayadaw Agga MahaSuddhamajotikadhajaBhaddanta Naninda ofBodh Gaya MyanmarMonastery administeredNine Precepts to the con-gregation, and membersof the Sangha recitedpartitas.
Senior GeneralThan Shwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing offeredrobe, requisites and cashdonation to the BodhGaya Myanmar Monas-tery Sayadaw.
SPDC MemberGeneral Thura ShweMann, Secretary-1 Gen-eral Thiha Thura Tin Aung
the congregation led bythe Senior General andwife.
Senior GeneralThan Shwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing and fam-ily donated cash for con-struction of new build-ing for Bodh Gaya Mon-astery, Bodh GayaSasana Nuggaha Asso-ciation and 22 Myanmarmonasteries in India atthe ceremony.
Likewise, entre-preneurs who were mem-bers of the goodwill visitof the Head of State pre-sented cash donations forconstruction of newbuilding for Bodh Gaya
They visited BodhGaya Myanmar Monas-tery in Gaya and donatedrobes, eight essential req-uisites and cash to 22monasteries in the Repub-lic of India includingBodh Gaya MyanmarMonastery.
The donation cer-emony was opened withthe recitation of threetimes of Namo Tassa bySayadaw, members of theSangha and congregation.
Myint Oo and ministerspresented robes, requisitesand cash donations to themembers of the Sangha.
Next, the congrega-tion led by the Senior Gen-eral and wife received thesermon delivered by theBodh Gaya MyanmarMonastery Sayadaw andshared the merits gained.
The ceremonycame to an end with therecitation of BuddhaSasanan Siram Titathu by
Monastery and for BodhGaya Sasana NuggahaAssociation.
After the cer-emony, Senior GeneralThan Shwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing offeredday meal to members ofthe Sangha led by theSayadaw.
In the afternoon,Myanmar delegationmembers led by SeniorGeneral Than Shwe andwife Daw Kyaing Kyaingleft Gaya by special flight
of Air India and arrivedin Varanasi.
They were wel-comed by DivisionalCommissioner Mr. AjayKumar Upadhaya ofVaranasi District and of-ficials.
Next, the SeniorGeneral and wife andparty went to Migadawunand paid homage to thesite where Buddha deliv-ered Dhammacakka to thefive Panca Vaggi.
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Senior General ThanShwe, wife Daw KyaingKyaing…
(from page 8)Presiding Sayadaw
Agga MahaSuddhamajotikadhajaBhaddanta Wunnadhajaof Migadawun MyanmarMonastery in Varanasiexplained past existenceof a pagoda at the sitewhere Buddha deliveredDhammacakka.
The Senior Gen-eral, wife Daw KyaingKyaing and party offeredShwekyar robe toDhammekha Pagoda andpaid homage to the pa-goda.
Afterwards, they
offered robes and provi-sions to members of theSangha led by theSayadaw.
In the evening, theSenior General and partyleft Varanasi by specialflight of Air India and ar-rived at Palam Airbase inNew Delhi where Minis-ter of State Mrs. PrenutKaur of the Ministry ofExternal Affairs of Indiaand officials welcomedthem.
Then they pro-ceeded to ITC MauryaHotel in a motorcade.
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Photo
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fifth
Sattaha
Ajapala
Banyan
Tree in
Mahabodhi
Pagoda
compound.
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Photo shows first Sattaha Bodhi Tree and Golden Throne in MahabodhiPagoda compound.—MNA
Photo shows second Sattaha Animisa Pagoda in MahabodhiPagoda compound.
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Photo shows third Sattaha Ratanacar Krama in MahabodhiPagoda compound.
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Photo shows fourth Sattaha Ratana Gara in Mahabodhi Pagodacompound.
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Well-wishers donate cash for building new Bodh Gaya Myanmar Monasteryand to Bodh Gaya Sasana Nuggaha Association.—MNA
Photo Shows sixth Sattaha Musalinda Lake in Mahabodhi Pagoda compound.MNA
Photo Shows seventh Sattaha Rajaratana Linlon Treein Mahabodhi Pagoda compound.—MNAChairman of State Peace and Development Council Senior General Than Shwe
and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing present cash donation to Committee for Preserva-tion of Bodh Gaya.—MNA
Mahabodhi
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Images reflectingpagodas and sites ofreligious significancewhere Senior GeneralThan Shwe and wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaing
and party visitedduring their goodwillvisit to the Republic
of India.
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Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing paying homage to the Buddha Image in MahabodhiPagoda at Bodh Gaya.—MNA
The night scene of Mahabodhi Pagoda at Bodh Gaya .—MNA
Senior General Than Shwe, wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing and family offer Shwekyar robe and gold foils toMahaparinibana Reclining Buddha Image.—MNA
Senior General Than Shwe and wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaing arrive…
(from page 16)When the special
flight arrived at GayaAirport, Myanmar Am-bassador to India U KyiThein and In-charge ShriAnil K. Sharma of Pro-tocol Department of theMinistry of External Af-fairs of India welcomedSenior General ThanShwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing.
Next, Senior Gen-eral Than Shwe, wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaing anddelegation memberswere welcomed by In-dian Ambassador toMyanmar Dr. VillurSundararajan Seshadriand wife, Superintend-ent of Police Mr. DaljeetSingh and District Mag-istrate Mr. Udai Kumarat the boarding bridge.
Then twoMyanmar children pre-sented Senior GeneralThan Shwe and wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaingwith a bouquet.
Afterwards, Sen-ior General Than Shwe,wife Daw KyaingKyaing and delegationmembers were wel-comed by wife ofMyanmar Ambassadorto India Daw Mar MarShein, Consul-General USein Oo of ConsulateGeneral of the Union ofMyanmar to the Repub-lic of India in Kolkataand wife Daw SandarHlaing, staff of MyanmarEmbassy and Consulate
General and their fami-lies.
The Senior Gen-eral and wife and partyleft the Gaya Airport forthe Royal Residency Ho-tel in a motorcade.
In the afternoon,Myanmar delegationmembers led by SeniorGeneral Than Shwe andwife Daw Kyaing Kyaingtogether with Indian Am-bassador to Myanmarand wife and the In-charge of Protocol De-
The Senior Gen-eral and wife and partyproceeded toMahaparinibana Pagoda.
Senior GeneralThan Shwe, wife DawKyaing Kyaing and fam-ily offered Shwekyarrobe to MahaparinibanaReclining Buddha Im-age.
Next, they offeredgold foils and paid hom-age to the Buddha Im-age.
Then they paid
partment of the Ministryof External Affairs flewover to Kusinayon wherethey were welcomed byDistrict CommissionerMr. SBSL Ramdarao andofficials.
homage to the pagodaand arrived in KusinayonMonastery where theywere welcomed by localschool children.
Senior GeneralThan Shwe, wife Daw
Kyaing Kyaing and fam-ily paid respects to Pre-siding Sayadaw AggaMaha Pandita AggaMaha Suddhama-jotikadhaja BhaddantaNannisara of Kusinayon
Monastery and pre-sented robes, eight req-uisites and cash dona-tions to members ofSangha.
Next, members ofthe Sangha led by the
Sayadaw recited parittas.The Kusinayon
Monastery Sayadaw pre-sented Buddha Image,Buddha’s relics and rel-ics casket to Senior Gen-eral Than Shwe as aDhamma gift.
Next, Senior Gen-eral Than Shwe, wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaing andparty left Kusinayon byhelicopter and arrivedback in Gaya in theevening.
Senior GeneralThan Shwe, wife DawKyaing Kyaing and partyvisited Mahabodhi Pa-goda in Bodh Gaya andoffered flowers, water,light and joss sticks tothe Buddha Image of thepagoda.
Senior GeneralThan Shwe, wife DawKyaing Kyaing and partyarrived back at the hotelat 9.30 p.m.
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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV XIANG XIU VOY NO (1040 W)
Consignees of cargo carried on MV XIANG XIUVOY NO (1040 W) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 1-8-2010 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.
Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the Vessel.
No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.
SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY
AGENT FOR: M/S CHINA SHIPPING(MALAYSIA) AGENCY SDN-BHD
Phone No: 256908/378316/376797
Damp houselinked to kids’risk of nasal
allergiesNEW YORK, 31 July –
Children who live indamp, water-damagedhomes may be morelikely than other kids todevelop nasal allergies, anew study suggests.
Researchers foundthat of nearly 1,900 Finn-ish children they fol-lowed for six years, thosewho lived in homes withdampness or mold prob-lems were more likely todevelop allergic rhinitisduring the study period.
Allergic rhinitis re-fers to symptoms of con-gestion, sneezing andrunny nose caused by al-lergens such as pollen,dust, animal dander ormold.
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Pregnancy-related diabetes likely to recur
Sun Yanling introduces her embroidery made withhuman hair in Mudanjiang City, northeast China’s
Heilongjiang Province, on 30 July, 2010. Sun,citizen of Mudanjiang, processes human hair intothreads that she uses for embroidery. — XINHUA
Photo taken on 17 July, 2010 shows unique blue-throated bee-eaters in Hong’an County of central
China’s Hubei Province.— XINHUA
Paris Rosen hits the ground afterfailing to land a jump at the Moto X
Best Trick final on 30 July, 2010 at XGames 16 in Los Angeles.— INTERNET
12-year-old girl injuredon Wis ‘free fall’ ride
MADISON, 31 July—A 12-year-old girl at an amuse-ment park plunged more than 40 feet to the ground onFriday, seriously injuring herself when a safety netunder a “free fall” attraction failed to catch her.
Police declined to identify the girl or to elaborateon her injuries, but said she was from out of state andwas visiting the Wisconsin Dells with her family. Thearea is a popular Midwest tourist destination knownfor its amusement parks.—Internet
Firefighters spray water on burning plants asflames race across the desert floor in Palmdale,
Calif, on 30 July, 2010.— INTERNET
Calif wildfire jumps aqueduct, approaches homes
The pill equally effectivein obese, thin women
School offers differentpath to medicine
NEW YORK, 31 July—A number ofstudents are pursuing medical schoolthrough a programme that bypasses“hard science” prerequisites and rigor-ous entrance tests, educators say.
The Humanities and Medicine Pro-gramme at the Mount Sinai medicalschool in Manhattan offers places toabout 35 undergraduates a year if theystudy humanities or social sciences in-stead of the traditional pre-medicalschool curriculum, and maintain a 3.5grade-point average, The New YorkTimes reported on Friday. For genera-tions of pre-med students, the traditionalpath has always been organic chemis-try, physics and the Medical College Ad-mission Test, known by its dread-induc-ing acronym, the MCAT, the Times said.
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NEW YORK, 31 July—Despite studies suggest-ing that birth control pillsmight not work as well inobese women, a newstudy suggests that theyprevent pregnancy thesame no matter what awoman weighs.
As long as a woman-heavy or thin—took thepill consistently, DrCarolyn L Westhoff of
Columbia UniversityMedical Centre in NewYork City and her col-leagues found, it pre-vented her ovaries fromproducing eggs. Westhoffand her team report theirfindings in the August is-sue of Obstetrics &Gynecology. Studies havefound that obese womenare 30 to 40 percent morelikely to get pregnantwhile taking the pill thanwere normal-weightwomen taking it, perhapsbecause excess weightmight blunt its effective-ness. Overall contracep-tion failure rates are esti-mated between 2 and 8percent per year.
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PALMDALE, 31 July—Ahuge wildfire in the highdesert wilderness north ofLos Angeles jumped anaqueduct on Friday, rush-ing toward hundreds ofhouses as firefighters alsotried to keep flames fromdamaging power linesthat bring electricity toSouthern California.Some 2,000 structureswere threatened and300 homes were evacu-ated, Gov ArnoldSchwarzenegger said.
Destiny Brown, 19,
stood beside her family’stan Ford Taurus waitingfor her mother and sistersto finish packing so theycould leave their home ina smoke-clogged DeltaRidge subdivision on theoutskirts of Palmdale.”Inever thought it wouldhappen. I only thoughtit’s on TV. It’s really
scary,” the 19-year-oldsaid of the flames thatburned just out of sight.When their home filledwith smoke, the familydecided it was time to go.Brown said she was es-pecially concerned abouther 10-month-old brotherwho has asthma.
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NEW YORK, 31 July –Pregnant women with ahistory of pregnancy-re-lated diabetes, also calledgestational diabetes, havea good chance of develop-ing the condition again,suggests a large new study.Researchers found that therisk of having gestationaldiabetes during a futurepregnancy increases witheach previously affectedone — from 41 percent
after the first to 57 percentafter two pregnanciescomplicated by gestationaldiabetes.
Gestational diabetestypically strikes duringlate pregnancy and ischaracterized by highblood sugar that resultsfrom the body’s impaireduse of insulin. While itrarely causes birth de-fects, complications canarise that threaten the
health of both mom andbaby. “Because of the si-lent nature of gestationaldiabetes, it is important toidentify early those whoare at risk and watch themclosely during their prena-tal care,” lead researcherDr Darios Getahun ofKaiser Permanente South-ern California MedicalGroup, in Pasadena, toldReuters Health in anemail.—Internet
BEIJING, 31 July—China’s National Bureauof Statistics has an-nounced that the coun-try’s economic outputrose by over 10 percentin each of the past twoquarters even as much ofthe world economy re-mains mired in slowgrowth. Another indica-tor of China’s rapid re-bound from the global
economic crisis is thesale of luxury goods,with the total amount ris-ing to $9.4 billion by theend of last year. Chinanow accounts for morethan a quarter of theworld’s purchases ofluxury goods. At thispace, it will soon bypassthe US to become the topmarket for such productsafter Japan, even though
its per capita income isstill much lower than inAmerica. Indeed, ac-cording to Du Junfei, aprofessor of NanjingUniversity, while pur-chases of luxury goodsamount to 4 percent ofconsumer ’s assetsworldwide, the figure inChina is as much as 40percent or higher.
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BEIJING, 31 July —Tsui Hark’s martial-artsthriller “Detective Deeand the Mystery of thePhantom Flame” will bethe only Chinese-language film to competefor the top honour at thisyear’s Venice Inter-national Film Festival,organizers haveannounced.
“Detective Dee” is afictional account of Di
Chinese film “Detective Dee” amongGolden Lions candidates
Andy Lau as detectiveDi Renjie in the film
“Detective Dee and theMystery of the Phantom
Flame.”XINHUA
The Black Eyed Peasperform at the “GoodMorning America”
Summer Concert Seriesin the Central Park ofNew York, the United
States on 30 July, 2010.
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Jennifer Steele says herBeijing catwalk
experience will help herenter the International
fashion industry.XINHUA
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, 31July—“Jersey Shore”cast member Nicole“Snooki” Polizzi hasbeen arrested in the NewJersey beach townwhere the MTV show isbased.
Seaside HeightsPolice Chief ThomasBoyd says Polizzi wasarrested at around 3:25pm Friday and chargedwith disorderly conductafter other beachgoersreported she wasbothering them.
Polizzi wasprocessed at policeheadquarters and
Snooki of ‘Jersey Shore’ arrested in NJbeach town
Nicole ‘Snooki’Polizzi , a cast
member of MTV’s‘Jersey Shore’ realityseries is shown at the
New York StockExchange.INTERNET
Renjie, a legendarydetective and officialliving in the TangDynasty of ancient Chinawho was sometimescompared to SherlockHolmes.
Andy Lau plays thedetective, supported byCarina Lau, LiBingbing, Tony LeungKa-Fai and Deng Chao.
The f i lm wil lcompete for the Golden
Lion with 21 otherfeatures that includeAscanio Celestini’s “LaPecora Nera”, AntonyCordier’s “Happy Few”and Darren Arono-fsky’s “Black Swan”.
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Singer CarrieUnderwood performs
on NBC’s Today Showin New York on30 July, 2010.
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released on a summons.MTV spokeswoman
Emily Yeomansdeclined comment onthe arrest, which cameone day af ter thepremiere of the show’ssecond season.
Telephone mes-sages left for SallyAnnSalsano, execut iveproducer a t “JerseyShore” product ioncompany 495 Pro-duct ions , and PamLaLima, co-executiveproducer , were notimmediately returned.
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Nick Afanasiev,native of Moscow andnow lived inCalifornia, has become
Nick Afanasiev has world’s secondlongest tongue
Nick Afanasiev.
The National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration says a giant hailstone that fell incentral South Dakota has broken US records, eventhough the man who found it says it meltedsomewhat while waiting to be evaluated.
The NOAA’s National Climate ExtremesCommittee says the hailstone found in the town ofVivian on 23 July measures 8 inches in diametreand weighs 1 pound, 15 ounces. The committeesays the South Dakota ice chunk breaks recordsset by hailstones discovered in Nebraska andKansas.
Ranch hand Leslie Scott says the hailstonewas about 3 inches larger when he found it. Scottsays he put it in the freezer but that he couldn’tprevent some melting because of an hours-longpower outage that followed the storm.
Cincinnati police say a speeding driver tried to flee arrest while obeyingred lights. Police said a 26-year-old woman was going 78 mph in a 55 mphzone early Friday on Interstate 75 when an officer tried to pull her over.Police said she exited the highway to drive home.
Police say that when the woman reached local streets, she drove thespeed limit and stopped at red lights. They used sticks that punctured hertires, just yards from her home.
She told police she feared having her car impounded, which they did.Police said she resisted, and they used a stun gun before charging her
with resisting arrest, failing to comply with police, speeding and drivingunder suspension.
At 91 years old, thecountry’s oldest mailcarrier is finallyhanging up his keysafter driving morethan 1.1 million milesdelivering mail inTennessee. Accordingto the US PostalService, rural carrierMancel Prince willmake one more lap ofhis nearly 100-mileroute before he retireson Friday in Decherd.
Prince was born inTennessee and served inWorld War II, theKorean War and inVietnam before retiringas a command sergeantmajor after 34 years. Hereturned home after hismilitary career andbegan working as a mailcarrier.
He earned aMillion-Mile SafeDriving award for 35years of accident-freedriving.
Ohio driver in chase stoppedat red lights
an Internet hit–scoringmore than a millionYouTube views byshowing off tricks likelicking nose, elbow,twisting and even writingmessages with his“longest tongue in theUS”.
Nick Afanasievgained massive attentionfrom San Diego’s FOX 5television station.Afanasiev’s tonguemeasures just 3.5 inches,just 0.36 inches shorterthan Stephan Taylor, the
man who claimsbragging rights to theworld record for theworld’s longest tongue.
He’s hoping theattention will helpfurther his acting career.He says that most guystell him that he’ll be a hitwith the ladies, but mostgirls are scared of it.
Country’soldest mail
carrier retiresat 91
Giant South Dakotahailstone breaks US records
This photo provided by the NOAA NationalWeather Service shows a hailstone that was
found by a ranch hand in Vivian, SD, on23 July, 2010.
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U19 restore France’s faithin football
England ‘keeper James joinsBristol City
City defender Garrido joins Lazio
UEFA uphold Europa Leagueban on Real Mallorca
Wenger tells Fabregas to stay and win title
Brazilian goalkeeper chargedwith murdering ex girlfriend
Langer shoots 68, takes earlysecond-round lead
SAMMAMISH, 31 July—Bernhard Langer overcamea shaky front nine with an eagle and birdie on the backnine Friday to take the clubhouse lead at 3 under inthe second round of the US Senior Open.
After a fog delay of more than two hours broughtplay to a halt just before 8 am local time, Langer shota 2-under 68 making a number of key putts on theback nine when his round easily could have slippedaway.
“You never quite know. It’s the type of golf coursethat any hole can get to you,” Langer said. “You justgot to be careful and hit good shots.”
Langer trailed first-round leader Bruce Vaughanby a shot. Vaughan had a late tee time on Friday.
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Real Mallorca’s bid tokeep their place in thisyear’s Europa Leagueappeared to have endedon Friday.—INTERNET
MADRID, 31 July—Real Mallorca’s bid tokeep their place in thisyear’s Europa League ap-peared to have ended onFriday when UEFA, foot-ball’s governing body inEurope, rejected their ap-peal against a ban.
“The UEFA appeals
body has today dismissedthe appeal lodged bySpanish club RCDMallorca and upheld theUEFA control and disci-plinary body’s decisionnot to admit the Spanishclub to the UEFA clubcompetitions for the 2010/11 season,” UEFA said ina statement.
Mallorca, who wereexcluded from the compe-tition last week on thegrounds that they havefailed to meet the finan-cial criteria set down byUEFA for clubs wishingto enter European compe-titions, indicated that theywould appeal to the Courtof Arbitration for Sport(CAS).—Internet
Spanish defender JavierGarrido has joined
Italian club Lazio fromManchester City.
INTERNET
MANCHESTER, 31 July—Spanish defenderJavier Garrido has joinedItalian club Lazio fromManchester City, the Pre-mier League club an-nounced on Friday.
Garrido moved to Cityfor 1.5 million poundsfrom Real Sociedad in2007 but struggled to es-tablish himself as a first-team regular at Eastlands.
The arrival of defend-ers Jerome Boateng andAlexander Kolarov dur-ing pre-season meantGarrido was pushed evenfurther out of City’s plansand boss Roberto Mancinihas allowed him to leave.
A statement on Man-chester City’s website
confirmed: “JavierGarrido has joined SerieA club Lazio after threeyears with City. He leavesfor Italy with the bestwishes of everyone at theclub.”—Internet
England goalkeeperDavid James.
INTERNET
BRISTOL, 31 July—England goalkeeper DavidJames completed a sur-prise switch to second tierside Bristol City on Friday.
James agreed a one-year contract with an op-tion for a further year’sextension after rejectinginterest from Scottish gi-ants Celtic because hepreferred to join a teamnear his Devon home.
The 39-year-old, whowas available on a freetransfer after leaving Port-smouth, passed a medical
with Steve Coppell’s sideand will watch their pre-season friendly againstBlackpool at Ashton Gateon Saturday.
Former Liverpool,Aston Villa and Manches-ter City star James, whohas 53 caps for his coun-try, played three times forEngland at the World Cup,including their 4-1 last 16defeat against Germany.
Internet
French forwardAlexandre Lacazette
celebrates after scoringFrance’s victory goal
against Spain.INTERNET
PARIS, 31 July—A dra-matic late goal from sub-stitute AlexandreLacazette earned hostsFrance a 2-1 victory overSpain in the final of theUnder-19 EuropeanChampionship in Caen,northern France on Friday.
The 19-year-old Lyonforward headed homebravely from close range inthe 85th minute to completea stirring comeback that re-stored some gloss to Frenchfootball after the embarrass-ment of the senior side’sWorld Cup fiasco.
“It’s magic, it’s mag-nificent!” said Francestriker Cedric Bakambu,
who finished the tourna-ment with three goals.
“For the second half,we told ourselves that wehad nothing more to lose.We’re at home, we’ll giveeverything. Most of all, thefans were with us, and itwas fantastic.”—Internet
Real Madrid seal five-yeardeal for Khedira
MADRID, 31 July—Real Madrid announcedon Friday that they had
reached a deal withStuttgart to sign theirGerman internationalmidfielder SamiKhedira, who shone dur-ing the World Cup, on afive-year contract.
The club released nofinancial details concern-ing the deal.
Khedira was undercontract with Stuttgart un-til 2011. The defensivemidfielder played sevenmatches during the WorldCup in South Africa andscored the winning goal inthe third-place play-offagainst Uruguay.
Internet
Arsene Wenger has toldunsettled captain CescFabregas.—INTERNET
LONDON, 31 July —Arsene Wenger has toldunsettled captain CescFabregas to forget about adream move to Barcelona
and focus on helping Arse-nal win the PremierLeague.
Wenger is determinedto keep Fabregas eventhough the Spainmidfielder has made itclear he would love to re-turn to the club he left tojoin Arsenal as a teenager.
Barca have gone publicwith their interest inFabregas and are willing topay around 30 millionpounds (36 million euros)
to sign the 23-year-old,leaving Wenger with thepossibility of having anunhappy player on hishands if the transferdoesn’t happen.
Internet
Real Madrid announcedon Friday that they had
reached a deal withStuttgart to sign theirGerman international
midfielder SamiKhedira.—INTERNET RIO DE JANEIRO, 31 July
—Bruno Souza, a Brazil-ian star goalkeeper sus-pected of having his ex-girlfriend killed, was onFriday formally chargedwith her murder, officialssaid.
The footballer, whoplayed for Rio de Janei-ro’s Flamengo team, wasalso charged with kidnap-ping, hiding a body, form-ing a criminal gang andcorrupting minors, policein the state of MinasGerais told a media con-ference.
Even though the bodyof the alleged victim, 25-year-old Eliza Samudio,has not been found, policewrapping up an initialphase of their probe onThursday determined thatSouza masterminded herdeath.
Internet
Brazilian footballerBruno Fernandes de
Souza(C).INTERNET
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Maximum temperature on 30-7-2010 was 91°F.Minimum temperature on 31-7-2010 was 75°F.Relative humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 31-7-2010was 85%. Total sun shine hours on 30-7-2010 was(2.7) hours.
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Bay Inference: Monsoon is moderate to strong inthe Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.
Forecast valid until evening of the 1st August2010: Rain or thundershowers will be scattered inKayah State, lower Sagaing, Mandalay andMagway Divisions, fairly widespread in Chin andShan States and upper Sagaing Division andwidespread in the remaining States and Divisions withlikelihood of isolated heavy falls in Rakhine, Monand Kayin States, Ayeyawady and TaninthayiDivisions. Degree of certainty is (80%).
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Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouringarea for 1-8-2010: One or Two rain orthundershowers. Degree of certainty is (80%).
Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 1-8-2010: One or Two rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (80%).
Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 1-8-2010: Isolated rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (80%).
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in Madrid on 30 July, 2010.—XINHUA
MANSGUA, 31 July— A magnitude-5.0 earthquakehit the western coast of Nicaragua on Friday, with noimmediate reports of casualties or damage.
According to the United States Geological Survey(USGS), the quake occurred on Friday morning, at about8:41 local time (1441 GMT). The epicentre was locatedsome 75 kilometres southwest of the country’s capitalcity Managua, at a depth of 96.2 kilometres. The tremorwas strongly felt in Managua. In 1972, a strong earthquakedevastated the Nicaraguan capital, killing at least 10,000people according to official estimates. —Xinhua
Moderate earthquake hitswestern Nicaragua
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Only with stability and peace will the nation developOnly with stability and peace will democratization process be successful
Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracyRiots beget riots, not democracyDemocracy can be introduced only through constitution
VOA, BBC-sowing hatredamong the peopleRFA, DVB-generating publicoutrageDo not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles
People’s DesireWe favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence
6th Waning of Second Waso 1372 ME Sunday, 1 August, 2010
NAY PYI TAW, 31 July—Chairman of theState Peace and Development Council of the Unionof Myanmar Senior General Than Shwe and wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaing accompanied by delegationmembers left here for India by special flight ofMAI at 9 a.m. on 25 July to pay a goodwill visit tothe Republic of India at the invitation of Presidentof the Republic of India Mrs. Pratibha DevisinghPatil.
Senior General Than Shwe, wife Daw KyaingKyaing and entourage: Member of the SPDC Gen-eral Thura Shwe Mann and wife Daw Khin LayThet, SPDC Secretary-1 General Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo and wife Daw Khin Saw Hnin, Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing of the Ministry of Defenceand wife, Adjutant-General Lt-Gen Thura MyintAung and wife, Minister for Industry-2 U Soe Thein,Minister for National Planning and EconomicDevelopment U Soe Tha, Minister for Commerce UTin Naing Thein, Minister for Science and Technol-ogy U Thaung, Minister for Foreign Affairs U NyanWin, Minister for Communications, Posts and Tel-egraphs U Thein Zaw, Minister for Information UKyaw Hsan, Minister for Health Dr Kyaw Myint,Minister for Religious Affairs Thura U Myint Maung,Director of Medical Services of the Ministry ofDefence Maj-Gen Than Aung, Deputy Minister forHealth Dr Paing Soe and departmental heads arrivedin Gaya of the Republic of India at 10 a.m. localstandard time.
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Senior General Than Shwe and wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaing arrive in Gaya, India
Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing being welcomed byIndian Ambassador Dr. Villur Sundararajan Seshadri and wife, Superintendent of Police
Mr Daljeet Singh, District Magistrate Mr Udai Kumar.—MNA
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