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* Development of agriculture as the base and all-rounddevelopment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic sys-tem

* Development of the economy inviting participation interms of technical know-how and investments fromsources inside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be keptin the hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entire nation* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and preser-

vation and safeguarding of cultural heritage andnational character

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

the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace and tranquil-lity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitution* Building of a new modern developed nation in accord

with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 6July—Lt-Gen Min AungHlaing of the Ministry ofDefence accompanied byChairman of Shan State(North) Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of North-East Command Maj-GenAung Than Htut anddepartmental officials vis-ited Tatmadaw tea factoryin Namhsan, KyaukmeDistrict on 4 July.

Lt-Gen MinAung Hlaing gaveinstructions on produc-tion process, storage ofproducts and packagingof finished goods. Hethen visited tea planta-tion of a local farmer. Inmeeting with tea grow-ers, he called for exten-sive cultivation of tea that

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing oninspection tour of northern Shan State

is suitable to the region.Lt-Gen Min

Aung Hlaing also visitednew 50-bed Peoples’Hospital of Namhsan. Hethen met departmentalpersonnel of the town-ship and urged them tojoin hands with nativesfor all-round develop-ment of the region.

Yesterday, hemet officers and otherranks of Mantung Stationand presented the stationwith publications. Whilevisiting 25-bed People’sHospital of the township,he comforted the patientsand provided them withrefreshments.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 6 July — Parties that have been allowed to form political parties aresubmitting their applications to register as political parties to the Union Election Commis-sion. Regional Development Party (Pyay) submitted the application today.

Up to date, there are 43 parties that submitted their applications for formation andcontinued existence as political parties. A total of 36 of 39 parties that submitted theapplications for registration as political parties have been permitted to register and theremaining parties are under scrutiny.—MNA

Applications for registration aspolitical party submitted

Local residents clearingwaterway of Dahka River

Article: Reporter Tun Zaw (Sangyoung);Photos: Reporter Myint Aung (Ahlon)

Residents clearingwater hyacinth in

Dahka River.

Pathein hasimages of developmentwith beautiful scenes andneat and tidy residentialareas. On arrival at Patheinof Pathein District inAyeyawady Division, wewitnessed clearing of wa-ter hyacinth that is quicklygrowing in rivers andcreeks in the rainy season.

We, the news crewof Myanma Alin dailywoke up at 5 am to observethe clearing of water hya-cinth being undertaken bythe local people under closesupervision of Chairmanof Pathein District Peaceand Development CouncilU Than Swe.

Along our way tothe sanitation site, we sawsome farmers wereploughing their farmlandsand women were trans-planting paddy seedlingsin groups. We enjoyed thescene of lush and greenmonsoon paddy planta-tions and rubber plants.Indeed, these were the sig-nificant images of theAyeyawady Division, thegranary of Myanmar.

Taking over onehour by car, we arrived atDahka River betweenKangyidaunt andKyaunggon townships ofPathein District. We sawthe unexpected scene thatthe water hyacinth cov-ered almost the entire sur-face of Dahka River.

(See page 8)

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing of Ministry of Defence at 25-bed People’s Hospital of Mantung.—MNA

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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

The Ministry of Culture organized apaper reading session on archaeologicalevidences at its office in Nay Pyi Taw on 4July.

The findings of the archaeologicalresearch are believed to add to the Myanmarhistory.

Doing archaeological research on theMyanmar history from the origin of the raceto date through the prehistoric period andPyu Period, we have been able to discover theorigin of Myanmar people who were bornand who migrated from one place to anotherin the Myanmar soil, along with the Myanmarcivilization.

Myanmar archaeological experts andinternational primate experts carried out jointresearch in order to prove the proposal “Theorigin of Myanmar is Myanmar”. They havebeen working together yearly to find out thefossilized remains of Pontaung primates inPontaung rock layers.

The findings of the primates on theStone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Agegained from the archaeological research inMeiktila and Yamethin districts over the pastdecade are some evidences for the BronzeAge and the Iron Age as well as for theMyanmar culture and history.

Not only Myanmar but also foreignexperts participated in the paper readingsession. So, the advice, suggestions and queriesby experts and researchers, and the responsesby resource persons are profound evidencesfor the Myanmar history.

Maintain archaeologicalfindings

NAY PYI TAW, 6July — Ministry ofConstruction heldmonsoon tree plantingceremonies at its Nos(11) and (40) offices herethis morning.

Minister forConstruction U KhinMaung Myint, DeputyMinisters U Tint Swe andU Myint Thein, DeputyMinister for ElectricPower No (2) Dr. WinMyint, departmentalheads and staff familieswere present at theceremonies.

The minister anddeputy ministers planteda tree each and enjoyedthe participation of staff

Construction Ministry plants trees,releases fingerlings

families. A total of 700staff grew 1350 trees atthe ceremonies.

They later took partin fingerlings releasingceremony held at Dam

where 5400 fingerlingswere released.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 6 July—Ministry of Livestockand Fisheries held ameeting on promotion ofexport of meat atLivestock Breeding and

Livestock & Fisheries Ministry topromote meat export

Veterinary Department inInsein Township here thismorning, with an addressby Minister for Livestockand Fisheries U MaungMaung Thein.

Director-General Pro-fessor Dr Myint Thein ofLivestock Breeding andVeterinary Departmentexplained measures forpromotion of export ofmeat and future plans.Entrepreneurs submitedreports on measures tomeet export target andnecessities.

The minister co-ordinated essentials and

made concluding re-marks.

Also present at themeeting were depart-mental heads ofdepartments and enter-prises under the ministry,personnel from YangonCity DevelopmentCommittee and MyanmarLivestock Federation andmeat exporters.

MNA

MinisterU KhinMaungMyint

plants aGangawsapling atmonsoon

treeplanting

ceremonyof the

ministry.MNA

Minister U Maung Maung Thein addresses the meeting on promotion of meat export.—L & F

NAY PYI TAW, 6 July—Minister for Electric PowerNo. 1 U Zaw Min together with personnel concernedvisited Shwegyin Hydropower Project near KyauknagaVillage six miles north-east of Shwegyin in BagoDivision yesterday.

The minister heard reports on progress inconstruction of the project being implemented by theConstruction Group No. 4. The minister fulfilled theneeds and called for completion of works on scheduleand worksite safety. The minister then looked roundthe worksite and stressed the needs.—MNA

Construction of ShwegyinHydropower Project kicking

into high gear

Minister for Electric Power No. 1 U Zaw Mininspects construction of Shwegyin

Hydropower Project.—MNA

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People wait to enter a swimming pool in New York, the United States, on5 July, 2010. Hundreds of cooling centres, pools and beaches opened in

New York City on Monday as unusual summer heat hit the city. TheNational Weather Service said the temperature is expected to be 95 degrees

Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) or above on those days. —XINHUA

KABUL, 6 July— Another fivesoldiers with the NATO-ledInternational Security AssistanceForce (ISAF) were killed in separateImprovised Explosive Device (IED)attacks in Afghanistan’ s southernProvinces and western region,bringing to six the number of militarycasualties in a single day on Monday,ISAF said in a Press release onTuesday.

“Two ISAF servicemembers diedfollowing an improvised explosivedevice (IED) attack in southernAfghanistan yesterday,” ISAF said inthe Press release.

Five NATO soldiers killed in IEDattacks in Afghanistan

Oil is cleaned off of a laughing gull at the FortJackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center on5 July, 2010 in Buras, Louisiana. The center hashandled about 700 birds that were contaminatedby oil from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig

after it exploded on 20 April.—INTERNET

KABUL, 6 July— Three Taleban militants werekilled as their mine exploded prematurely inAfghanistan’s northern Kunduz Province, theAfghan Interior Ministry said in a Press released onTuesday.

“A group of militants were busy in planting amine on the road in Nahr-e-Sufi village, ChardaraDistrict on Monday afternoon when the devicewent off prematurely killing three on the spot,” thepress release added.

Taleban militants have yet to make comment.Chardara District in Kunduz Province has been

regarded as the hotbed of Taleban militants in northAfghanistan.

Xinhua

Premature explosion kills 3militants in N Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD, 6 July—A Taleban commander,with a 234,000-US-dollarprice on his head, hadbeen killed in a shootoutwith soldiers in Pakistan’sNorth Waziristan region,reported local media The

Taleban commander Ameerullah Mehsudkilled in Pakistan

NAIROBI, 6 July—Somali pirates havehijacked Greek- ownedship with 18 Filipino crewmembers on board, bothEU anti- piracy missionand a regional maritimeofficial confirmed onMonday.

European UnionNaval Force Somaliaspokesman John Harbourand East AfricaCoordinator of SeafarersAssistance Programme(SAP) Andrew Mwan-gura said the MT Motivatorwas seized in the northernBab Al Mandeb area in thesouthern Red Sea on

Somali pirates hijack Greek-owned shipwith 18 Filipinos

Pakistani childrencheck a dead babywhale trapped in a

shallow water alongthe coastal line of

southern Pakistaniport city of Karachi

on 5 July, 2010.XINHUA

An Iran Air plane atParis-Orly airport, on18 May, 2010. Iransaid on Tuesday thatclaims made by someIranian officials thatits passenger planeswere being denied

refuelling by airportsin Britain, Germanyand the United Arab

Emirates were “false.INTERNET

Two other foreign soldiers werekilled in western Afghanistan in similarattack while the fifth ill-fated trooperwas also killed in southern Afghanistan,the stronghold of Taleban militants, onthe same day Monday.

On Monday, ISAF confirmed thatanother soldier was killed inAfghanistan’s eastern provinces.

However, the military allianceavoided to disclose the nationalities ofthe troopers by saying “It is ISAFpolicy to defer identificationprocedures for casualties to therelevant national authorities.”

Xinhua

News on Monday.The report quoted a

military statement assaying that AmeerullahMehsud was one of thetop commanders in thePakistani Taleban.

He also went by thealias of Qari Gud, whichmeans “the man wholimps,” and Mazloo-myar, which means“friend of the oppressed”in the Pashtu language.

Mehsud was reporte-dly shot dead at acheckpoint in Miranshah,the main town of NorthWaziristan in northwestPaksitan’s tribal areas.

“His head money

Sunday. “In the earlyhours of 4 July, the MTMotivator reported it wasunder small arms fire froma pirate attack in thenorthern Bab Al Mandebarea in the southern RedSea. After notification ofthis attack, attempts weremade to make contactwith the Motivator but tono avail. The hijack wasconfirmed early on 5July,” Harbour said.

Mwangura toldXinhua that the MTMotivator, deadweight13,065 tonnes with a crewof 18 Filipino nationals onboard, is a Marshall

Flagged chemicalproducts tanker loadedwith lubricated oil. EUNAVFOR said it wasmonitoring the situationwhich came after a lull ofactivity in the pirate-infested waters of Somalia.Pirate attacks off theSomali coast havecontinued despite thepresence of severalwarships, deployed bynavies of the NATO, theEuropean Union, Russia,China, South Korea andIndia, in the region toprotect cargo and cruiseships against piracy.

Xinhua

BEIJING, 6 July— InBritain, civil servants arenow facing sharp cuts totheir “Golden goodbye”payments.

A newly-announcedplan, is expected to takeeffect in September.Currently, civil servantswho’ve served more than20 years, receivepayouts equivalent to 2years’ salary and 3 to 6years salary under

British civil servants to facepay cuts

certain conditions.According to the new

plan, these packagescould be brought into linewith those in the privatesector, equivalent to justmonths or even weeksseverance. 600-thousandpublic sector posts, couldbe eliminated in the nextfive years. The measuresaim to save 100 billionpounds.

Xinhua

was 20 million rupees(234,000 US dollars).Two soldiers were alsowounded in theshootout,” the militarysaid in a statement. Thegunbattle took place inMiranshah on Sunday, itadded. Mehsud was listed11 out of 19 most-wantedT e h r e e k - e - T a l e b a nPakistan (TTP)commanders for whomthe government lastNovember postedcombined rewards worth5 million dollars forinformation leading totheir capture, dead oralive.

Internet

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Our brains are more like birds’ thanwe thought

Chicken

SAN DIEGO, 6 July — For more thana century, neuroscientists believed thatthe brains of humans and othermammals differed from the brains ofother animals, such as birds (and sowere presumably better). This beliefwas based, in part, upon the readilyevident physical structure of theneocortex, the region of the brainresponsible for complex cognitivebehaviors.

A new study, however, byresearchers at the University ofCalifornia, San Diego School of

Medicine finds that a comparableregion in the brains of chickensconcerned with analyzing auditoryinputs is constructed similarly to thatof mammals.

“And so ends, perhaps, this claimof mammalian uniqueness,” saidHarvey J Karten, MD, professor in theDepartment of Neurosciences atUCSD’s School of Medicine, and leadauthor of the study, published thisweek in the Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences OnlineEarly Edition.

Generally speaking, the brains ofmammals have long been presumedto be more highly evolved anddeveloped than the brains of otheranimals, in part based upon thedistinctive structure of the mammalianforebrain and neocortex — a part ofthe brain’s outer layer where complexcognitive functions are centred.

Internet

Australian scientists discover DNApest-detection technique

BRISBANE, 6 July—Molecular biologist JaneOakey revealed onTuesday Queenslandscientists are using DNAtechniques to identifyoutbreaks of exoticpests and weeds.

DNA tests are usedto prove the existenceof pest animals ratherthan looking for the pestitself, she said.

Dr Oakey said oftenthe pests were too smallto see or lived in

environments that weredifficult to get to, suchas underneath largeboats.

“It’s been effectivewith the Asian greenmussels in Cairns,” shetold AustralianAssociated Press.

She said scientiststested plankton for theAsian green mussels ‘DNA from watersamples gathered bydragging a big netaround the port.

“The mussels growextremely quickly ...they make a mess of thebottom of boats and theyout-compete the nativemarine fauna,” she said.

Oakey said the DNApest-detection tech-nique could also beapplied to land pests.

Biosecurity Que-ensland will be using itto detect yellow crazyants and electric ants,she added.

Xinhua

E–books reading takes longer time than paperBEIJING, 6 July—It

takes a longer time toread books on a Kindle2 or an iPad compared toprinted pages, accordingto a recent study byproduct developmentconsultancy NielsenNorman Group.

US media reportedMonday that 24participants were givenshort stories by ErnestHemingway to read inprint and on iPads,Kindles. After reading,participants filled out abrief comprehensionquestionnaire to makesure no one hadskimmed through astory.

Overall, it took each

reader an average of 17minutes and 20 secondsfrom start to finish —enough time to getreaders fully“immersed” in thestories, Nielsenexplained.

The study found thatreading speeds declinedby 6.2 percent on theiPad and 10.7 percenton the Kindle comparedto print.

However, Nielsenconceded that thedifferences in the readingspeed between the twodevices were not“statistically significantbecause of the data’sfairly high variability”

Users also rated their

satisfaction with eachdevice. the iPad, Kindleand printed book scored5.8, 5.7 and 5.6, on ascale of 7, respectively.

The satisfactionratings on the survey arepromising for e-readermakers. However, giventhe reading speedcontrast, it was still tooearly to say printedbooks would be largelyreplaced by e-books inthe near future, Nielsennoted.—Xinhua

The mummifiedremains of JohannesOrlovitz, one of theVac mummies, is

displayed at the newMummies of the World

exhibit at theCalifornia Science

Centre in Los Angeles.The Orlovits familywas with a group ofmummies found in1994 in a forgottenchurch crypt in Vac,Hungary. —INTERNET

Apple missing opportunities inChina

A picture taken in 2009 shows a python. Apython, used by a South African

fortuneteller to control the progress ofteams in the World Cup, has been seized

by animal welfare inspectors, aspokeswoman said on Monday.

INTERNET

BEIJING, 6 July—The founder of ChineseIT giant Lenovo saidin an interview thatApple is missing hugeopportunit ies in theworld’s most populousnation because it doesnot understandmainland consumers.

“We are lucky thatSteve Jobs has such abad temper and doesn’tcare about China,”Lenovo chairman LiuChuanzhi told theFinancial Times.

“If Apple were tospend the same efforton the Chineseconsumer as we do, wewould be in trouble.”

Lenovo holdsabout 30 percent shareof the Chinese market,

which is one of thefastest-growing glo-bally, and is expectedto become the world’slargest within a year,the newspaper said.

Chinese consu-mers are as keen onApple’s sleek gadgetsas their internationalpeers , but off icialchannels for their saleare extremely limited,the report said.

The company has aflagship store inBeijing and a handfulof authorized resellersin the country’s largestcities. Apple is due toopen a s tore inShanghai on Saturday.

Xinhua

Science

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is one of Bollywood’s

preeminent leading ladies and former Miss

World. Rai has acted in over forty movies in

Hindi, English, Tamil and Bengali. Julia

Roberts calls her “the world’s most beautiful

woman”. —XINHUA

Ten nuclear reactors to usetop technology

BEIJING, 6 July—China, which is currentlybuilding the largest number of nuclear power stationsworldwide, is expected to use one of the mostadvanced technologies for constructing 10 of itsnuclear reactors, an energy official said on Monday.

The technology, called AP1000 from US-basednuclear power company Westinghouse, is a third-generation nuclear system. Compared with otherreactors already in use in China, those using thethird-generation technology are considered to besafer and able to operate longer.

The AP1000 technology will be used on sixreactors at three inland nuclear plants in Hunan,Hubei and Jiangxi provinces - the country’s firstbatch of inland nuclear power projects.

The technology will also be applied for twopairs of reactors, one in Sanmen in coastal Zhejiangprovince, and the other in Haiyang, Shandongprovince, said the official who did not want to benamed because of security issues.

Future inland projects are also set to use thesame technology and Chinese authorities areconsidering the AP1000 as a standard, he said.

Xinhua

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Scientists find plasma protein link toAlzheimer’s disease

WASHINGTON, 6 July—Higher concentrations ofclusterin, a protein in theblood plasma, appearsto be associated with thedevelopment, severityand progression ofAlzheimer’s disease,according to a report inthe June issue ofArchives of GeneralPsychiatry.

Individuals withAlzheimer’s diseasedisplay several findingsin their blood andcerebrospinal fluid thatmay reflectn e u r o p a t h o l o g i c a lchanges, according tobackground informationin the article. Forinstance, incerebrospinal fluid,individuals withAlzheimer’s disease

File Photo Show Alzheimer’s disease patientCarlos Alberto Henriques, 65, drinks water

through a syringe with the help of his wife MariaElvira Boavida (unseen) in their house

in Lisbon . —INTERNET

have lower levels ofamyloid-beta peptidesand higher levels of totaland phosphorylated tauconcentration, whichreflect the formation ofhallmark plaques andtangles in the brain.Similarly, numerous

Disney products areseen for sale at aflagship store in

Shanghai. The USentertainments giant

could start building itsplanned theme park inShanghai as early as

November, a yearafter Chinese

authorities gave thegreen light for the

project, a report saidon Tuesday.—INTERNET

McDonald’s chicken nuggets contain chemicalBEIJING, 6 July—

According to Britain’sDaily Mail newspaper,citing a CNN study,chicken nuggets sold inUS branches ofMcDonald’s contain achemical used in thechildren’s play item, SillyPutty.

CNN reports that“McNuggets” sold toAmerican fast food lovers

contain di-methyl-poly-siloxane, an anti-foamingagent used in Silly Putty.They also have morecalories and fat than thosesold in the chain’s Britishrestaurants.

A spokeswoman forMcDonald’s puts thetransatlantic differencesdown to local methodsof food preparation.CNN reports that US

McNuggets also containa petrol-based chemicalcalled tertiary butyl-hydroquinone.

British McNuggetscontain neither. LisaMcComb, McDonald’sglobal media relationsmanager, says dimeth-ylpolysiloxane is used forsafety reasons to preventoil from foaming.

Xinhua

Women live longer, more likely disabledBARCELONA, 6 July—

Women may live longerthan men but they aremore likely to spend theextra years in disability,researchers in Spainsaid.

Lead author AlbertEspelt of the PublicHealth Agency ofBarcelona, Spain, andcolleagues based theirfindings on healthsurveys conducted bythe Public Health

A petrol station worker refuels a car in HongKong. Oil prices fell to fresh one-month lows in

Asian trade Tuesday, shadowing equitiesmarkets as weak US employment data continuedto put a dampener on trader sentiment, analysts

said.—INTERNET

Agency in Barcelonasince 1982.

“These are repres-entative of the non-i n s t i t u t i o n a l i z e dpopulation living inBarcelona,” Espelt said ina statement. “We sawdifferences in limitationsaccording to socioe-conomic position, whichremained steady over thecourse of time.” Theresearch team interviewed4,244 people age 64 and

older — 893 in 1992,2,140 in 2000 and 1,211in 2006.

The study, publishedin the Journal of Women’sHealth, found theprevalence of disabilityin people age 64 and olderincreased among women,but not among men. Theprevalence of disabilityin 2006 was 30 percentamong men and 53percent in women.

Internet

Childhood X-rays: ‘Less is best’NEW YORK, 6 July—A US radiologist advises “less is best” when it comes

to X-rays in children.Dr Helene Pavlov of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York says

children, who are still growing, are susceptible to the effects of ionizingradiation and suggests parents ask if a facility where X-rays are to be takenemphasizes ALARA — the acronym for “As Low As Reasonably Achievable.”

However, parents first need to talk to the doctor.“Ask what the doctor suspects is the problem and whether there is a non-

ionizing radiation imaging examination and expertise available, such as anMRI or an ultrasound examination that could be substituted for the specificcondition clinically suspected,” Pavlov says in a statement.—Internet

India’s growing digitaleconomy means that itwill have 500 percent

more e-waste from oldcomputers in 2020

than in 2007, and 18times more old mobilephones, according to aUnited Nations report.

INTERNET

Health

articles have suggestedthat levels of certainmetabolites and proteinsin the plasma mightrepresent responses tobrain changes inAlzheimer’s disease, butnone have beenreplicated.—Xinhua

LOS ANGELES, 6July—Depression inmultiple sclerosispatients may bebiological rather than apsychological reactionto the burdens of beingill, US researcherssuggest.

Their study,published in BiologicalPsychiatry, finds mul-tiple sclerosis patientsare more likely thanhealthy patients to havebrain atrophy —shrinkage — in threeareas of the braininvolved in mood andmemory tissues knownas the hippocampus.

MS depression may be rooted inbiologyMoreover, the

glandular system thatresponds to stress andregulates other physi-ological processes kno-wn as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axiswas more likelyoveractive.

“Interestingly, thisidea of a link betweenexcessive activity of thehypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis andreduced brain volumein the hippocampushasn’t received a lot ofattention, despite thefact that the mostconsistently reproducedfindings in psychiatric

patients with depression— but without MS —include hyperactivity ofthe hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axisand smaller volumes ofthe hippo-campus,” Dr.Nancy Sicotte of theUniversity of California,Los Angeles, said in astatement.

The senior studyauthor and hercolleagues used brainimaging on 29 patientswith relapsing remittingmultiple sclerosis andcompared them with 20healthy control subjectswho did not have MS.

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Philippines’ June inflation slows tofive-month low of 3.9%

MANILA, 6 July—Philippines’ inflationrate in June slowed to3.9 percent on lower fuelprices, showed the datareleased by the country’sNational Statistics Office(NSO) on Tuesday.

This is its slowestgrowth rate in fivemonths.

The June inflationrate was slower than the4.3 percent posted inMay but was higher thanthe 1.5 percent inflationposted in June 2009.

Since January, inflationstayed above 4 percentand peaked at 4.4 percentin March and April.

The NSO said thatprice adjustments in LPGand kerosene eased thefuel, light and water(FLW) index to 15.8percent in Junecompared with 16.2percent in May.

The heavily-weighted food,beverages and tobacco(FBT) index remainedat its May level of 3.1

percent. This, along withtuition hikes seen inseveral regions inclu-ding the NationalCapital Region (NCR),pushed month-on-month inflation toincrease to 0.2 percentin June from -0.2percent in May.

The NSO saidexcluding selected foodand energy items, coreinflation slowed to 3.7percent in June from 3.8percent in May.

Xinhua

S Korea to hold working-leveltrade talks with China

SEOUL, 6 July—South Korea’s trade ministrysaid on Tuesday it will hold working-level talkswith China this week on various pending issuesrelated to a bilateral free trade deal.

According to the ministry, the one-day meetingwill be held in Tangshan, Hebei Province of Chinaon Wednesday.

Seoul and Beijing have recently completed ajoint study on the feasibility of a bilateral free tradeagreement, which led to a sealing of a memorandumof understanding (MoU) to hold additional talks onthorny issues.

The two-way trade volume reached 73.7 billionUS dollars last year, with China importing 46.1billion US dollars, said the trade ministry.

In May, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and SouthKorean President Lee Myung-bak said to beef upefforts to settle a free trade agreement between thetwo countries.—Xinhua

Workers

shovel and

bag sand

oiled by

April’s

Deepwater

Horizon oil

rig explosion

and spill on

a beach in

Grand Isle,

La. on

5 July,

2010.

INTERNET

Steel moves heat up in Shanxi

A boat carrying suspected illegal immigrants isphotographed from a Border Protection

Command aircraft in Australian waters in thishandout photo taken recently.

INTERNET

A sales persondemonstates a Taser

gun in 2009 inChantilly, Virginia. ACanadian inquiry waswrong to conclude that

electrical stun gunscarry a risk of

“serious injury ordeath,” the US makerof Taser devices told a

Canadian court onMonday.—INTERNET

BEIJING, 6 July—China’s largest stainlesssteelmaker, Taiyuan Iron& Steel Group, hopes tofinalize details of aplanned acquisition ofZhongyu Iron & SteelGroup by earlySeptember, said a sourcefamiliar with the deal.

The consolidationmove would make it thefirst acquisition ofShanxi Province’s steelrestructuring plan.

“Taiyuan Steel andZhongyu discussedmerger details two weeksago, led by ShanxiProvince’s Economicand Information Com-mittee,” said the source.

“Taiyuan Steel wants

to conclude the deal intwo months to allow time(to begin) operationsbefore the peak seasonstarts in October.”

The deal will be thefirst acquisition byTaiyuan Steel as theState-owned mill hastaken the lead in ShanxiProvince’s 45 milliontons of capacityconsolidation, startingthis summer.

Beijing-based Shou-gang Group will lead theprovince’s capacityconsolidation for theremaining 15 milliontons.

Shougang paid 500million yuan ($79million) for a 90 percentstake in Shanxi’sChangzhi Iron & Steellast year and plans toinvest 19 billion yuan

over the next three yearsto boost its annual steelproduction capacity tosix million tons.

“We are talking withZhongyu about themerger, but (the details)have yet to be settled,”said Guo Juncai, vice-director of the Deve-lopment and PlanningDepartment of TaiyuanSteel.

Xinhua

Greece’s budget deficit dropped by41% in first six months

ATHENS, 6 July—Greek state’s budgetdeficit declined by 41percent in the first sixmonths this yearcompared to the sameperiod in 2009, Bank ofGreece announced onMonday. The budgetdeficit, which is the netbalance of the statebudget includingmovements in public

debt manag-ementaccounts, from Januaryto July 2010 dropped to11.450 billion euros(14.357 billion USdollars) from 19.685billion euros (24.683billion US dollars) at thesame period of last year,said a statement releasedby the Bank of Greece.

In regards toordinary budget reven-ues, from January toJuly this year, they wereincreased to 23.2 billioneuros (25.09 billiondollars) from 21.74billion euros (27.26billion dollars) the sameperiod in 2009, whileordinary budget expe-nditure declined to 30.2billion euros (37.87billion dollars) comp-ared to 35.6 billioneuros (44.64 billiondollars) during the firstsix months last year.

Xinhua

Business

A boy jumps into the sea to cool off on a hot summer day in

Civitavecchia, northern Rome, 5 July, 2010.—XINHUA

Japan sales of imported vehiclesup 11.7% in Jan-June periodTOKYO, 6 July—Sales

of new importedvehicles in Japan rose11.7 percent from a yearearlier in the first half ofthis year, the JapanAutomobile ImportersAssociation (JAIA) saidin a report Tuesday.

The industry bodynoted that 97,282imported vehicles,including those ofJapanese makers produ-ced overseas, were soldin Japan, marking thefirst rise in four years forthe January-June period,with the advance beingattributed to smallervehicles eligible for statesubsidies and tax breaks.

Sales of foreign-

brand passenger cars,trucks and buses climbed14.9 percent to 89,189units but those ofJapanese-brand vehiclesdeclined 14.5 percent to8,093 units in therecording period, JAIAsaid.

Volkswagen provedthe most popular foreign-produced vehicle inJapan, selling 24,862units, up 32.5 percent,whilst Mercedes-Benzcame in second withsales of 15,556 vehicles,a rise of 13.2 percent.BMW remained third,selling 14,184 vehicles,up 6.5 percent, theindustry body said.

Xinhua

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S African national parks sell soccer safari

Brazilian consumer confidenceremains high, survey shows

BRASILIA, 6 July—Brazilian consumersremain optimistic aboutpersonal income, inflat-ion, personal debt andthe financial situation oftheir country, said asurvey released by theNational Confederationof Industry (CNI) onMonday.

The positiveexpectations ofconsumers reached 114.6points, on a fixed basis of100 points (above whichindicates optimism), 4.1percent higher than thesame month last year, the

National Index ofConsumer Expectationshowed. The latestreading is also higher thanthe historical average of109 points.

There was improve-ment especially in theexpectation of fallinginflation and reducinghousehold debt. Howe-ver, optimism related toemployment and expect-ation of higher-valuepurchases has decreased.

According to FlavioCastelo Branco, CNImanager of economicpolicy, the result is

positive because thelower confidence relatedto employment can bejust an adjustment.

“In May thisindicator rose a lot, andthen the fall can be justan adjustment or even asingle event like theWorld Cup, for example.And confidence inpersonal financialsituation remained high,which means that therecent increase in interestrate did not impact onthe financial conditionof consumers,” he said.

Xinhua

File photo shows caution tape closing off an area of beach where oilfrom the Deepwater Horizon spill has washed ashore in Orange Beach,Alabama. Tar balls from the Gulf of Mexico spill have turned up on the

Texas coast, expanding the oil slick’s impact to all five Gulf states,officials said late Monday, as BP’s disaster costs soared above three

billion dollars.—INTERNET

Rescuers workat the site of a

buildingcollapse

accident at HuliDistrict ofXiamen,southeast

China’s FujianProvince, on5 July, 2010.

XINHUA

KRUGER NATIONAL

PARK, 6 July—As the sunset over the savannah atKruger National Park, afootball fan unfurled abanner from the side ofan open-air safari truck.

The guided tour wasabout to set out in searchof Africa’s “big five” —lions, elephants, rhinos,leopards and Capebuffalo — and theArgentina fan seized themoment to convey amessage to the world, orany animals that mightbe watching.

“Whatever happens,no matter what,” thebanner said. It showed apicture of Argentinacoach Diego Maradonalifting the World Cup —a dream soon killed byGermany as they sanktheir teeth into theAlbicelestes in theirquarter-final on Satur-

day. Kruger, one of thetop safari destinations inAfrica, has receivedmassive herds of footballfans as South Africahosts the World Cup.

The park is alwaysbooked to capacity inJune and July — wintermonths in South Africaand the best time for

A visitor waits at a water-hole at KrugerNational Park. Kruger, which booked its 22camps to capacity a year in advance, have

decided to allow more day-visitors in order toaccommodate the football crowd, raising the

number of daily entries permitted at each of its10 gates by 10 percent, to between 330 and 825

visitors.—INTERNET

seeing game, since thevegetation grows thinnerand animals becomeeasier to spot.

But South Africa’snational parks have seenrecord demand this yearas hundreds ofthousands of World Cupvisitors descend on thecountry.—Internet

Airbus to fly A400M, A380 atFarnborough Int’l Airshow

PARIS, 6 July—The European aircraftmanufacturer Airbus will present in-flightdemonstrations of its two flagships, the A400Mand the A380, at the Farnborough InternationalAirshow 2010 in Britain, according to a statementreleased Monday by Airbus.

The biennial Airshow, one of the world’s mosticonic global aviation events, is scheduled from 19to 25 July.

The A400M will conduct demonstration flightsfrom Monday to Thursday, while the A380passenger aircraft, the world’s most advanced inservice today, will have daily in-flight performanceduring the Airshow, the statement said.—Xinhua

Oil spill in N Philippinescauses water pollutionMANILA, 6 July—Covered with black sheen, the

shores of Talibayog village in Calatagan, a town innorthern Philippine province of Batangas, has beenmarred by oil spill since Sunday, local televisionABS-CBN reported on Tuesday.

The oil must have come from the cargo vesselsthat passed waters in the area, said Rodrigo deJesus, Calatagan chairman said.

What made matters worse are the newly-plantedmangroves that absorbed the oil. The mangroveswill die a few days from now, according to deJesus.

Aside from these, fishermen are worriedbecause they have been deprived of any catchbecause of the oil spill.

Xinhua

Air pollution alonghighways boosts asthma

LOS ANGELES, 6 July—Brief exposure to ultrafinepollution particles near a Los Angeles freeway canboost the allergic inflammation that makes asthmaworse, US researchers found.

Dr Andre E Nel of the David Geffen School ofMedicine at the University of California, LosAngeles, and colleagues said ultrafine particles areprimarily from vehicular emissions and are foundin highest concentrations along freeways.

The study, published in the American Journalof Physiology - Lung Cellular and MolecularPhysiology, found the tiniest air pollutant particles— those measuring less than 180 nanometers, orabout 1,000th the width of a human hair — inducedinflammation deep in the lungs.

Internet

A Spanish soccer

fan wearing an

animal headwear

watches the

FIFA World Cup

match between

Spain and Chile

on 25 June,

2010.

XINHUA

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(from page 1)It was a natural

barrier to the smoothand speedy flow ofcommodities andsecure and smoothtransport being under-taken by the State.Growing in the variousregions naturally, waterhyacinth became

Local residents clearingwaterway of Dahka…

barriers in the waterwaybecause the residents didnot clear them well.

We had an interviewwith the Chairman ofDistrict Peace and De-velopment Council whowas making closesupervision to clearingof water hyacinth. Heexplained that an

emergency medical unitis being kept open toprovide health care tothe local people.Volunteers would in-clude over 500 personsincluding Tat-madawmen, members ofMyanmar Police Force,Red Cross and FireBrigade, members ofsocial organizationsfrom Kangyidaunt andKyaunggon townships.

Duties were assigned tothe volunteers to watchthe rising water level dayand night. Arrangementshave been made to taketimely measures.

A large amount ofwater hyacinth weregrowing there due to thefact that fish breeders onboth banks of DahkaRiver blocked waterhyacinth in the river toserve their selfish

purpose. When waterhyacinth overwhelmedthe water surface of theriver, the fishingentrepreneurs failed toclear them in time. Now,the local authoritiesmanage to systematicallyclear the water hyacinth.

Officials explainedthat they will take actionagainst those who breakthe laws related to rivers,creeks and lakes after

clearing the waterhyacinth in the river.After observing theendeavours of the resi-dents and the local au-thorities, we put on recordthat it was a pleasant sceneof clearing waterhyacinth in the river aspart of serving the interestof the people.

Translation: TTAMyanma Alin:

5-7-2010

Local authorities manage removal of water hyacinth in Dahka River.

Officials discuss clearing of water hyacinth with the use of charts.

Transport Ministerinspects jetties for smooth

commodity flowNAY PYI TAW, 6 July—Chairman of the

Committee for Ensuring Expeditious Port ServiceMinister for Transport U Thein Swe together withofficials yesterday arrived at No. 3 Bo Aung Kyawjetty where he inspected checking exports andimports, systematic storage, checking containervehicles through X-ray machine, and loading andunloading of containers.

He also inspected unloading containers from avessel docking at No. 5 Sule jetty. Later, he oversawworks at the warehouse of Asia World jetty. Theminister then left necessary instructions.—MNA

Labour Minister attends meeting toapply certificates to workers

MWJA donates medicines to MRCSYANGON, 6 July—

Myanmar Writers andJournalis ts Asso-ciat ion made adonation of medicinesfor public at MyanmarRed Cross Society

today.Donated medi-

cines by the MWJAwere three plast icplaster boxes, oneHansaplast box, 69Paracetamol cards, 10

Pacidox cards, 53Dicotil cards fourAmoxici l l in boxes,three Cetir izineHydrochloride tabletboxes and two Cloxalinboxes.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 6 July — Minister forLabour U Aung Kyi met localindustrialists in Mandalay and addressedthe meeting for certification ofproficiency to workers at Kanaung Hallof Mandalay Industrial Zone on 3 Julymorning.

Mandalay Division in-ChargeDirector Daw Aye Aye Win discussedthe consideration of the skill levels ofthe labourers and Chairman of Industrial

Zone Administration Committee U AungKhine the situation of the zone. Theminister left necessary instructions.

The minister visited the proficiencytraining school of the Labour Departmentin Mandalay and viewed the conductingof Basic Computer Proficiency Course(2/2010) and preparation to openproficiency course for labourers. Hegave necessary instructions.

MNA

7th SEA U-18 Men’s Basketball Championship continuesYANGON, 6 July — Jointly

organized by Ministry of Sports, SouthEast Asian Basketball Association andMyanmar Basketball Federation, 7thSouth East Asian U-18 Men’sBasketball Championship continuedat National Indoor Stadium (1)Thuwanna here today.

Philippines secured victoryover Myanmar 108-39, Malaysia beatSingapore 60-51 and Thailand wonover Laos 71-44.

Singapore plays againstPhilippines, Myanmar againstThailand and Malaysia against Laostomorrow.—MNA

Minister for Transport U Thein Swe inspects warehouse of Asia World Jetty.—MNA

Minister for Labour U Aung Kyi addresses meeting for certification ofproficiency to workers.—MNA

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Nationality youths trainingcentres…

(from page 16)The training

centres run with six ob-jectives as follows: —

for nationalityyouths (a) to consolidatenational unity and equipthemselves with a strongsense of Union Spirit,

(b) to convinceof Our Three Main Na-tional Causes: Non-dis-integration of the Union,Non-disintegration ofnational solidarity, andPerpetuation ofsovereignty,

(c) to preservecultures, traditions and

A hairdressing course.

Trainees learning practically at a knitting course.

customs of national races,(d) to equip them-

selves with a sense of gen-erating development ofborder areas and improv-ing the living conditionsfor national races,

(e) to equip them-selves with a sense ofworking with might andmain for building the na-tion into a peaceful, mod-ern and developed one,

(f) to carry out de-velopment tasks in theirhome regions.

In the 2009-2010academic year, 157 stu-dents completed primary

education; 1765 students,middle school education;and 776 students, highschool education, total-ling 2698 students in the28 training centres.

In summer vaca-tion, the students have tolearn vocational educationto earn their living afterschool.

Under supervisionof the Education and Train-ing Department andcooperation of the princi-pals, teachers, course in-structors, and staff mem-bers of the training centres,carpentry course, masoncraft course and hairdressingcourse are conducted formale students, and tailoring

course and knitting course,for female students.

Trainees can joinvarious vocational trainingcourses according to theirage and taste. In compli-ance with the guidance ofthe Head of State onproviding not only schooleducation but also voca-tion education to improvethe living conditions fornationality youths in bor-der areas, the training cen-tres nurture the youth ofnational races for theirmental and physical devel-opment.

Male trainees cancontribute towards devel-opment undertakings intheir home towns with theexperiences and knowl-

edge they have gainedfrom the training centres.Similarly, female traineeswill be able to run ownworkshops with what theyhave learnt in the trainingcentres.

By attending sum-mer vocational trainingcourses, nationality youthscan acquire vocational skillsand become betterconvinced of natures ofvocational jobs.

To organize vo-cational training courses,the training centres hireoutsider course instructorsand borrow trainees nec-essary equipment andtools. The training centresmake significant contribu-tion towards regional de-

velopment.The drive for

building a modern, de-veloped nation rests a loton strong nationaleconomy and human re-source development.Natural resources andstrength of human re-sources are to be com-bined in harmony in en-suring development ofthe whole Union. There-fore, the youth of nationalraces in border areas areto be imbued with astronger sense of UnionSpirit or nationalistic spiritand work harder in theinterest of the nation andtheir regions.

Translation: MSKyemon: 5-7-2010

1. The Regional Development Party(Pyay), headquartered at No 415at the corner of Pwesar Street andStrand Road in Kyaungkyi-ohdanWard, Pyay Township, Bago Di-vision, on 6 July 2010 submittedits application for registration as apolitical party under Article 5 ofPolitical Parties Registration Law.In its application, it is mentionedthat the party will use its name,flag and seal described hereunder.

Public announcement forremonstration

2. It is hereby announced in accordwith Political Parties Registra-tion Rules 14 (d) that if there isanyone who wants to remon-strate about the name, flag andseal of the party, they mayremonstrate with the Union Elec-tion Commission with firm evi-dence within seven days fromthe date of the announcement.

Flag of the Regional DevelopmentParty (Pyay)

Seal of the Regional DevelopmentParty (Pyay)

NAY PYI TAW, 6 July — Ministerfor Progress of Border Areas and Na-tional Races and Development AffairsU Thein Nyunt attended the monsoontree planting ceremony held at theministry office here this morning.

The minister planted a mango

PBANRDA holds monsoon treeplanting ceremony

tree at each plantation of DevelopmentAffairs Department, Education andTraining Department and Progress ofBorder Areas and National RacesDepartment and viewed the participa-tion of staff. A total of 1263 trees weregrown at the ceremony.—MNA

Minister U Thein Nyunt plants a mango tree at monsoon tree plantingceremony. —MNA

Union Election Commission

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Indonesia allocates $110 mln fornew international terminal

JAKARTA, 6 July—State airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I has allocatedmore than 1 trillion rupiah (110 million US dollars) in new investment tofinance the expansion of the international terminal at Ngurah Rai InternationalAirport in Bali, the Jakarta Post quoted an executive as saying on Tuesday.

“The expansion project, to be financed with the company’s own funds,was expected to begin in the third quarter of this year,” Angkasa Pura IPresident Director Bambang Darwoto said in Jakarta on Monday.

Currently, the airport’s international terminal covers around 15,000square meters. The airport’s domestic terminal covers a larger area at around70,000 square metres. Under the planned expansion, Angkasa Pura wouldswitch the domestic terminal with the international terminal to enable it to copewith the increasing number of international passengers, Bambang said.

The new international terminal would be then expanded to 120, 000 sqmetres and equipped with new accommodation facilities, he said.

By 2013, the aiport’s terminals would cover a combined area of 190,000square metres, and would be able to accommodate up to 20 million passengersa year.—Xinhua

Light plane crashes inBudapest, 3 killed

BUDAPEST, 6 July—A light plane crashed inBudapest killing all three on board Monday,according to the Budapest fire services.

The Cessna 172 jet, which was fueled upbefore take-off from Farkashegy airport inBudapest, crashed into a small field in the northwestern Obuda district of the Hungarian capital.

The plane exploded into flames on impact.No one was injured on the ground at the scene ofthe crash. The cause of the crash is not yet known.

Xinhua

Three killed in privateaircraft near New York City

NEW YORK,6 July—Three people were killedon Monday in the crash of a private aircraft nearNew York City, authorities said.

A spokeswoman for the Federal AviationAdministration told Xinhua that all three peopleaboard the aircraft, a Cirrus SR-22 which wasdestroyed, were killed.

The crash occurred about 5:30 pm EDT (2130GMT) less than 1 km from the Essex CountyAirport at Caldwell in the US state of New Jersey.The airport is just about 28 km west of New YorkCity. The single engine aircraft apparently justmissed US Highway 46 and crashed on approach ina grassy area, bursting into flames, said TomKaminsky, a traffic reporter aboard a WCBS Radiohelicopter who flew over the scene.—Xinhua

Military plane crashes, 11killed in Romania

BUCHAREST, 6 July—One more dead was foundin the burnt cabin of the military plane crashedMonday evening when taking off at Tuzla Airportin southeastern Romania, increasing the toll to 11.

Three were seriously wounded, with one ofthem in coma. They were transported to hospital inConstanta, the largest Black Sea port city.

Fourteen were on the An-2 utility aircraft,including 4 crew members and others parachutejumpers.—Xinhua

S Korea sees recordnumber of travelers in the

first half of 2010SEOUL, 6 July—The combined number of South

Koreans going abroad and foreigners visiting SouthKorea in the first half of 2010 hit 20 million for thefirst time, government data showed on Tuesday.

According to the Ministry of Justice, the totalnumber of travelers entering or leaving the countryincreased 21 percent to 20.36 million in the firsthalf of the year, compared with the same period ayear before. South Koreans going out of the countryrose by 31.7 percent while incoming foreignersgrew by a mere 8.7 percent.

The ministry attributed the drastic surge inSouth Korean travelers going out of the country toa recovery in travel demand on the back of animproving domestic economy. Overseas travelssuffered shrinkage last year in the face of theeconomic downturn coupled with the swine fluscare.

Despite growth over 8 percent from the yearbefore, foreign travelers coming to South Korearemained just 68 percent of South Koreans goingabroad, signaling a continuation of a tourism deficit.

Among foreign travelers, Chinese touristsregistered a 38.3 percent increase from the yearbefore. Their number is forecast to rise furtherwhen the South Korean government’s measures torelax visa requirements for the Chinese areimplemented in the second half of the year.

If the current trend continues, the ministryexpects the total number to exceed a record high of40 million in the latter half of the year.—Xinhua

Nepal’s garment exports toUS sink to zero

KATHMANDU, 6 July—Long plunging garmentexports to the United States have hit rock bottomwith not one piece being shipped in June. Nepal’sready-made garment manufacturers received zeroorders from the US during the month, TheKathmandu Post daily reported on Tuesday.

Statistics of the Garment Association of Nepal(GAN) show that garment exports in the first sixmonths of 2010 recorded a decline of 38.9 percent.

According to GAN, exports to the US amountedto 2.19 million US dollars during the review period.Exports during the first six months of 2009 wereworth 3.59 million dollars.

Exports to the US have been consistentlydeclining since the elimination of quotas in globalapparel trading in 2005. The decline in exports tothe US in the last four years has pushed Nepal’sgarment industry to the verge of collapse.

Xinhua

An Airbus A330-300 aircraft in a hangar inJakarta airport on July 2009. Russian flag

carrier Aeroflot said Monday its boardapproved the purchase of 11 Airbus A330-300

long-haul planes.—INTERNET

A man reads documents at Madrid’s stock exchange, on 27 May.European equities steadied on Monday after last week’s sharp losses,

while trading was thin with Wall Street shut due to a US public holiday,analysts said.—INTERNET

People talk at a furniture and chinaware booth

during the Summer Fair in Moscow

on 4 July, 2010.

INTERNET

A highway is blocked after a landslide inChongqing Municipality on 5 July, 2010. No

vehicle or people were buried in the landslide.XINHUA

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News Album

The Missouri man who turned a lake into a“noodle” soup of swimmers Sunday says he alwayswanted to set an off-the-wall world record.

Pete Pierce convinced 920 people to jumpinto Weatherby Lake in Platte County usingStyrofoam “noodle” toys to keep them afloat,falling just short of the record of 940.

“I’ve always said I’d like to set frivolousworld records,” Pierce told the Kansas City (Mo.)Star. “This fits into my goal. It’s just fun.”

Pierce’s first noodle party occurred in 2007.The folks at Guinness World Records told himthey didn’t have a category for most peoplefloating on noodles in a lake so he formed theNoodle World Authority, which acts as thesanctioning body for the record.

Noodle party at Mo lake justmisses mark

A goat called Bertalyte is judged during a goat“beauty contest” in Ramygala, about 150 km

(93 miles) from the capital Vilnius,on 5 July, 2010.

Australian John P Coutis gestures during aspeech in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s

Zhejiang Province, on 4 July, 2010. Anenthusiastic speech, titled with Don’t say

Impossible to Ourselves, was staged in the citySunday by John, an exceptional person who

was born with a severe disability that renderedhis legs useless. John has spoken throughoutAustralia and other countries and regions to

encourage and inspire audience.

A sea lionkeeps the

balance ofa soccer

ballduring ashow at

ShinagawaAqua

Stadiumin Tokyo

on 6July,2010.

A New York judge ordered a couple to dividetheir home with a wall but an attorney for one halfof the couple says they already live “like there wasa wall.” Pinchs and Nechama Gold, an OrthodoxJewish couple, have been married for 21 years butNechama Gold says her husband verbally abusesher and their five children, the New York Postreported Monday. Judge Eric Prus Thursdayordered the Golds to divide their 3,000-square-foothome in two while the divorce proceeds — givingthem two weeks to decided where to put the wall orleaving it up to the court to make the decision, thenewspaper said.

Abe Konstam, an attorney for Pinchs Gold,told the Post: “They’ve been living like there wasa wall up for two years now. This just helps themcompletely avoid each other.”

Judge orders wall in feudingcouple’s home

China’s making ofbronze ware has a long-standing history. Oneexample is the Si-Mu-Wu quardripod, whichis a widely knowntreasure at the NationalMuseum.

But what we aregoing to tell you aboutnow is a piece of bronzeware that’s not very big.In fact, it’s a small one,

2800-year-old bronze tellslong story

about the size of anincense burner. But itwas made during thesame period as the SiMu Wu, and has asimilar long story to tell.

Now on exhibit atthe Urban FootprintPavilion at the WorldExpo, the bronze warepiece belongs to theYangtze River andYellow River Hall.

BOGOTA, 6 July—Director of Colombia’sNational Office of Prevention, Luz Amanda Pulido,said on Monday that heavy rains in the countryhave killed 48 people until 30 June, left eightpeople missing and 170,000 victims.

Pulido said that these deaths are recorded in thefirst half of this year during the rain season inColombia, adding that 27 of the 32 departments ofthe country have been affected by the rains.

The most affected departments were Antioquiain the northwest, Arauca in the northeast and thecities of Barranquilla, Cartagena and Soledad in theCaribbean.—Xinhua

Colombia reports 48 deathsin rain season HOUSTON, 6 July —

US officials confirmedMonday that tar ballsfrom the Gulf oil spillhave reached the shoreof Texas, the firstevidence that the spillhas reached all five USGulf states.

The Texas GeneralLand Office confirmedthe tar balls found alongthe shores of CrystalBeach on BolivarPeninsula, Texas, arefrom the Gulf spill,according to local TVchannel Khou.

Tar balls have alsobeen reportedly foundon the west t ip ofGalveston Island,Texas, but officials didnot confirm that theballs are also from thespill.

Texas LandCommissioner JerryPatterson said crewswere removing tar ballsfound on the BolivarPeninsula andGalveston Island on

Gulf oil spill reaches Texas shoreSmoke rises from the

BP oil spill site, as

natural gas is burned

off, while the drilling

of two relief wells

continue in the Gulf

of Mexico, on 4 July,

2010.

XINHUA

Sunday.State officials

performed tests onsamples collected fromthe tar balls andconcluded that the oilwas from the Gulf spill,after hearing reports oftar balls washing up onbeaches in Texas overthe weekend.

Texas GovernorRick Perry said onMonday that his officewill take steps to handlethe situation and try toreduce the impact of theoil on the state’sbeaches.—Xinhua

RAFAH, 6 July — Egyptian authorities seized onMonday 500 kg of explosives in the Sinai Peninsulacity of Rafah near borders with Gaza strip.

Border guards have discovered ten bags filledwith a total of 500 kg of TNT in addition to anotherone packed with mortar shells and anti-tank missilesin an arms cache in Rafah, a security source toldXinhua on the condition of anonymity.

The ammunition could be part of the remnantsof battles that took place in the peninsula during thesecond half of the 20th century, the source said,noting that no one have been arrested in connection.

Such left-over weapons are found and collectedby locals who remove the TNT from the armsbefore selling them, he expounded. —Xinhua

Egyptian authorities seize 500kg of explosives in Sinai

Singaporeans upbeat aboutbusinesses performance

SINGAPORE, 6 July—Around 95 percent ofbusinesses in Singapore said their business hadperformed as expected or better than expected, asurvey found on Tuesday.

According to the latest findings by recruitmentgroup Ambition, the results reflect a significantimprovement in business performance.

Some 90 percent of respondents expectedbusiness growth for the rest of 2010 whilst none ofthe respondents expected their business wouldcontract.

The survey which polled 445 Singapore-basedhiring managers and human resources professionalsacross 12 industry sectors in April and May, alsofound the job market begun shifting from employer-driven to candidate-driven.—Xinhua

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An estimated 750,000people in the UK

suffer from a formof dementia.

INTERNET

Depression may doubledementia risk, say researchers

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BANGMUNNAK VOY NO ( 128)

Consignees of cargo carried on MVBANGMUNNAK VOY NO ( 128) are hereby noti-fied that the vessel will be arriving on 7.7.2010 andcargo will be discharged into the premises of S.P.W(6) where it will lie at the consignee’s risk andexpenses and subject to the byelaws and conditions ofthe Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Daynow declared as the third day after final discharge ofcargo from the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admittedafter the Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S PHULSAWAT SHIPPING CO.LTD

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SPRING RETERIEVER VOY NO ( )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV SPRINGRETERIEVER VOY NO ( ) are hereby notified thatthe vessel will be arriving on 7.7.2010 and cargo willbe discharged into the premises of B.S.W (1) where itwill lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subjectto the byelaws 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 DALIAN CHUN ANSHIPPING

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA RAHMAT VOY NO ( 111)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTARAHMAT VOY NO ( 111) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 7.7.2010 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject tothe byelaws 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 ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Somalia has been racked by violence for morethan two decades.

INTERNET

Lady Gagawill tourthe UK

again inNovember

andDecember

2010.INTERNET

Lady Gaga sets Facebook record with 10 million fansLONDON, 6 July—Lady Gaga has become the first living person to have more

than 10 million fans on Facebook with her tally standing at 10,673,476 (5 July).According to new research by online site Famecount, the star recently over-

took Barack Obama (9,824,885) to claim the number one spot.Despite setting the new record, she’s still only in sixth place overall.Above her are Texas Hold ‘em Poker, Michael Jackson, Mafia Wars, Facebook

and the US TV show Family Guy.Daniel Dearlove from Famecount said: “Lady Gaga has seen her fan base

across Facebook more than double this year and is currently the fastest growingstar.—Internet

East African leaders urge UNto provide Somalia force

Israel confirmseasing of Gaza

blockadeLONDON, 6 July—Israel

has confirmed details ofwhat goods it will allow toenter the Gaza Strip withthe easing of its blockade.

Consumer goods arebeing allowed but a“blacklist” of items includ-ing weapons and materi-als that could have amilitary use will be barredor limited. Hamas, whichcontrols Gaza, dismissedthe concessions as of nouse and said the blockadeshould be fully lifted.

Israel says its blockadeof the Palestinian territoryis needed to prevent thesupply of weapons toHamas.—Internet

LONDON, 6 July—EastAfrican leaders have re-newed their calls to theUN to replace the belea-guered African Union(AU) peacekeeping mis-sion in Somalia.

At a meeting in AddisAbaba, Ethiopia, Soma-lia’s president said a radi-cal strategy to end almosttwo decades of crisis in

the country was needed.The leaders of the re-

gional grouping Igad alsoagreed to deploy 2,0000more AU peacekeepers toSomalia.

AU troops have beenfighting militants whocontrol most of southernSomalia.

The UN-backed gov-ernment only runs a fewparts of the capital,Mogadishu.

It is under constant at-tack from hardlinemilitant groups who con-trol much of southern So-malia.—Internet

TENDER INVITATIONSealed Tenders are invited by the Myanma

Ceramic Industries for extension works of 200 Tons/hourLimestone Primary Crushing Plant in the existing CementFactory (Kyaukse).

Tender documents shall be available from 12th,July, 2010, during the office hour, at the PlanningDepartment, Myanma Ceramic Industries Tender closingdate 13th, August, 2010.

Please contact Phone No. 067-408386, 067-408296, Fax 067-408064 for further information.

Myanma Ceramic Industries Building No (41) Nay Pyi Taw Union of Myanmar

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BUNGA MAS 11 VOY NO ( 112)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV BUNGAMAS 11 VOY NO ( 112) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 6.7.2010 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.P 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 8am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Daynow declared as the third day after final discharge ofcargo from the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admittedafter the Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S MALAYSIA INTERNATIONALSHIPPING CORPORATION BERHAD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Fire causes Toronto blackoutsand disrupts royal dinner

LONDON, 6 July—A fire at a transformer station inToronto has plunged parts of the Canadian city intodarkness.

Some 250,000 people were left without electricityfor more than an hour during a heatwave, officials say.

The underground system was affected and therewas chaos on the roads during the evening rush houras traffic lights went out.

The blackout also briefly disrupted preparations fora state dinner for Queen Elizabeth II in the city.

However, the dinner, which was to be hosted byCanadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the RoyalYork Hotel, went ahead after a short delay.—Internet

LONDON, 6 July—Having depression maynearly double the risk ofdeveloping dementialater in life, new researchsuggests.

Experts know thatthe two conditions oftenco-exist, but it is not clearif one actually leads tothe other.

Now two studiespublished in the Ameri-can journal Neurology

suggest depression doesmean dementia ismore likely, althoughthey do not showwhy.

And the researchersstress that the findingsmerely reveal a link, nota direct cause.

They say more stud-ies are needed to findout why the two condi-tions are linked.

They believe brainchemistry and lifestylefactors like diet and theamount of social time aperson engages in mayplay a role.

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Michael Jackson’s Thriller Livecoming to China

BEIJING, 6 July—Oneyear to the day after hisdeath, fans can once againenjoy the magic ofMichael Jackson’s musicat Thriller Live. “This is it.See you in July!” Thiswas Michael Jackson’slast words to his fans at atthe O2 Arena in Londonin March 2009. But theKing of Pop would neverfulfill that promise as hedied on 25 June last year.But this July, Jackson’sfans in China will have anopportunity to enjoy

Jackson’s music inBeijing and Guangzhouat Thriller Live, aspectacular made-in-

A Michael Jackson fanwaits next to electronic

posters at theAustralian premiere ofthe documentary “This

Is It”, in Sydney 28October, 2009.

XINHUA

London show.It includes more than

two hours of non-stop hitssongs delivered by anexceptional cast and liveband and features eye-popping multi-mediaeffects and dazzlingchoreography by award-winning dire-ctor GaryLloyd. There is a narrativethread to the first half,beginning with Jackson’searly years as a teensensation to hisbreakthrough solo albumOff the Wall andbeyond.—Xinhua

SYDNEY, 6 July—Ajudge ordered Australianband Men at Work onTuesday to hand over aportion of the royaltiesfrom their 1980s hit“Down Under,” afterpreviously ruling itsdistinctive flute riff wascopied from a children’scampfire song.

But the penalty — 5percent of the song’sroyalties — was far lessthan the 60 percentsought by publishingcompany LarrikinMusic, which holds the

copyright for the song“Kookaburra Sits in theOld Gum Tree.”

“Kookaburra” waswritten more than 70years ago by Australianteacher Marion Sinclairfor a Girl Guidescompetition, and thesong about the nativeAustralian bird has beena favourite aroundcampfires from NewZealand to Canada.

Sinclair died in 1988,but Larrikin filed acopyright lawsuit lastyear. In February,

Federal Court JusticePeter Jacobson ruledMen at Work had copiedtheir song’s signatureflute melody from“Kookaburra.”

On Tuesday,Jacobson ordered Menat Work’s recordingcompany, EMI SongsAustralia, and “DownUnder” songwritersColin Hay and RonStrykert, to pay 5 percentof royalties earned fromthe song since 2002 andfrom its future earnings.

Internet

Australian rockersMen At Work have

been found guilty ofplagiarising

“Kookaburra Sits InThe Old Gum Tree”,

whose rights areowned by Larrikin, by

copying its openingbars in a flute riff.

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Secret cinemareincarnates films

BEIJING, 6 July—Have you ever fancied being aGhostbuster, Goonie, or Blade Runner? A group offilmmakers and artists came together with theirpassion for cinema and social media to form SecretCinema. It’s a near monthly event in the Britishcapital that invites people to put on fancy costumesand screen legendary films in secret locations.

Obscure places used for the now three-year-oldevent could be as wide ranging as a disused car park,a derelict movie theatre or a junk yard. Participantsfirst buy tickets without knowing which film theywill be seeing and are sent clues every week with thefinal week instructing people of a variety of costumesthey can wear. Films which have been screened inthe past include “Bugsy” where participants wereasked to dress in 1940s attire, “Wings of Desire” in1980s bohemia, or the most recent “Blade Runner”which saw people dressed cyber punk, future neon,Arabian, Oriental, Futuristic, or PVC.—Xinhua

DENVER, 6 July—Internet search engines pride themselves as being neutralproviders of information.

But as competition mounts to own the connection between fans and onlinecontent, tech behemoths like Microsoft and Google increasingly are turningto their search engines to help drive their entertainment content strategies.

In June, Microsoft launched a new entertainment vertical to its Bing searchengine, which among other things aggregates full-track streaming from Zune,details on upcoming tours and buy links within the results for any artist, albumor song search.

Google put together a similar package last year and is now building amusic download service of its own that would be tied to its search engine andAndroid mobile operating system.—Internet

Fresh faces, new-look veterans enterEmmy spotlight

Colombian actressSofia Vergara fromthe comedy series“Modern Family”arrives at the 16th

annual Screen ActorsGuild Awards in Los

Angeles on 23January, 2010.

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BEIJING, 6 July—The epic “King Gesar” has been passed down orally inChina’s ethnic groups since ancient times, mainly in regions where ethnicTibetans and Mongolians live. Hailed as the most voluminous oral epic in theworld, “King Gesar” was listed as a World Intangible Heritage in 2009. Andnow, the legend can be seen on DVD, bringing it to a much larger audience.

“King Gesar” is about the legendary hero’s feats to defeat demons, beattyrants and invaders, and create a harmonious life for his people.

The story has been most popular among Tibetan and Mongolian ethnicgroups. And the DVDs are a recording of the epic as it has prevailed with theMongolian minority.

Siqin Menghe, vice secretary of “King Gesar” protection team, said,“After 30 years of efforts, the protection of the Tibetan version of “KingGesar” has made big breakthroughs, while the protection of the Mongolianversion has lagged behind. This production fills in the gap a lot.”—Xinhua

Google, Bing search engines turn to music

“King Gesar” DVDs release

Band penalized for copied riff in‘Down Under’ hit

Film, TV industry bedrockof US economy

LOS ANGELES, 6 July—The film and TV industryis the bedrock of the USeconomy and one of thefew industries that havea trade surplus withforeign countries, whichis significant for theUnited States as it faces ahuge deficit andrecession. In a recentinterview with Xinhua,US Congressman AdamSchiff said the export ofmovie and TV productshas become a veryimportant component of

the US economy.At Walt Disney

Studios in SouthernCalifornia, US Immigra-tion and Customs Enfor-cement (ICE) AssistantSecretary John Mortoncalled the US film andTV business the“bedrock” of the USeconomy. “Its creativityand imagination havemade American entertai-nment one of our greatestexports over thedecades,” he said.

That explains why

the United States hasstepped up efforts to fightpiracy in the industry.

According to Mort-on, last year, the ICElaunched 1,479investigations and seized62 million US dollars incounterfeit merchan-dise. He said withcontinued coordinationbetween industries, USlaw enforcement willmake a bigger dent in thecounterfeit and piratedgoods that threaten theUS economy.—Internet

LOS ANGELES,6 July—Fresh faces andveteran players in newroles are expected tograb the spotlight whennominations areannounced on Thursdayfor the primetime EmmyAwards — the highesthonors in the televisionindustry.

But potential Emmynewcomers, like “Glee”star Jane Lynch andSofia Vergara of comedy“Modern Family,” alongwith old hands JuliannaMargulies of “The Good

Wife” and Edie Falco’spill-popping “NurseJackie” will be joined byactors from Emmyfavourites like comedy“30 Rock”, and dramas“Mad Men” and “House”after a strong TV season.

The winners of the62nd Emmy Awards,organized by theAcademy of TelevisionArts and Sciences, willbe announced on 29August in Los Angeles.Jimmy Fallon will hostthe ceremony.

TV insiders hope the

nominations will injectfresh blood andexcitement into a fieldwhich has beendominated in recentyears by the same little-watched contenders. In2009, “Mad Men” wasnamed best drama for asecond year, and “30Rock” best comedy fora third.

“This year, there aretwo serious threats in therace for best comedyseries — Fox’s ‘Glee’and ABC’s ‘ModernFamily’ — which willrevitalize the Emmys,and both have anexcellent chance ofwinning,” said TomO’Neil of awards websiteTheEnvelope.com.

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Nigeria lifts ban on national teamABUJA, 6 July—Nigeria's government on Monday lifted a two-

year ban it imposed on its national football team after a dismal WorldCup showing, avoiding a collision with world governing body FIFAin the process.

The government issued a statement saying the country's footballfederation apologised to the president and informed him that the na-tional team would be disbanded with the aim of building a new one.

"Based on these assurances, and the appeals of well-meaning Ni-gerians, including former leaders, President (Goodluck) Jonathan hasdecided to review the earlier two-year ban on the country from allinternational football competitions," it said.

Nigeria last Wednesday slapped a two-year ban from internationalcompetition on the squad after the traditional African powerhousefinished bottom of their group in South Africa with just one pointfrom three matches.

Jonathan also ordered an audit into how the funds allocated forthe team at the World Cup were used.—Internet

Nigeria’s defender Rabiu Afolabi(R) and teammates look dejectingafter being knocked out.—INTERNET

FIFA President JosephBlatter answers journal-ists after the creation ofthe FIFA Ballon d'Or(Golden).—INTERNET

Ballon d’Or and FIFA playerawards merge

French soccer strikerSidney Govou poses in

front of thePanathinaikos Athens

emblem at theirtraining.—INTERNET

Govou delight at Panathinaikos moveATHENS, 6 July—French international winger Sidney Govou ex-

pressed his delight at joining Panathinaikos Athens on Monday as hemet his new teammates for the first time.

"I had a remarkable welcome from the fans at the airport when Icame and I want to thank them. I promise to give my best for the teamand to bring only joy to the fans," said Govou, who has signed a three-year contract with the Greek champions.

The 31-year-old met his teammates who were training for the firsttime this season, but did not practice as players who have taken part inthe World Cup have been granted extra days off, which include Govou'steammate Djibril Cisse and Brazilian defender Gilberto Silva who werenot present and will join the team on 15 July.

"During the World Cup I had a long talk with Cisse and he told methat Panathinaikos was a great club. I also found out about the team onmy own. The fact that Panathinaikos will play in the Champions Leaguethis season also helped me decide to join the club," Govou said.—Internet

Argentina’s LionelMessi reacts as he

leaves the field at theend of the World Cup

quarterfinal.—INTERNET

Rooney, Ronaldo, nowMessi - stars misfire in Cup

Tiger bogeys way to 7-over-par round in Ireland

Soeda topples Dent in ATPHall of Fame

Northern Ireland's DarrenClarke, left and Tiger Woods

converse on the practice greenduring the JP McManus.

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Japan’s Go Soeda hastoppled eighth seed

and former championTaylor Dent in the first

round.—INTERNET

Man Utd upbeat overFerdinand fitness for opener

England’s injured RioFerdinand watches as

his teammates take partin a training session atthe Royal.—INTERNET

Brazil sack Dunga, playersface angry backlash

MANCHESTER, 6 July—Rio Ferdinand could be fitin time for ManchesterUnited's opening PremierLeague game of the 2010/11 season, the club indi-cated on Monday. Reportsin the British press sug-gested Ferdinand might beout of action for severalmonths with the knee liga-ment injury that meant thecentral defender missed thewhole of England's lacklus-tre World Cup campaign inSouth Africa.

But United, on Mon-day, estimated Ferdinand'srecovery would take 10weeks from the time hesuffered the injured injury.

Ferdinand was injuredin a training ground colli-sion with England col-league Emile Heskey inRustenburg on 4 June andthe 31-year-old had to re-linquish both his place inthe squad and the cap-taincy.—Internet

Brazil's coach Dungareacts during their 2010World Cup quarter-finalmatch against the Neth-erlands.—INTERNET

RIO DE JANEIRO, 6July—Brazil coachDunga was sacked onSunday following theteam's World Cup quar-ter-final exit with charis-matic Luiz Felipe Scolari,who won the title in 2002,immediately being tippedto take over.

"The cycle of work

started in 2006 and whichculminated with the elimi-nation of Brazil in theWorld Cup in South Af-rica is finished," said astatement from the Brazil-ian football confederation(CBF).

"The CBF announcesthe dismissal of the tech-nical commission of theBrazilian team. The newcommission will be an-nounced at the end ofJuly."

Dunga, 46, who skip-pered Brazil to the 1994World Cup, had been na-tional team coach since2006.

Internet

ADARE, 6 July—Tiger Woods looked just asout of form in a celebrity pro-am as he did onthe PGA Tour. The world's No. 1 golfer ar-rived Monday in Ireland just hours after his46th-place finish at the AT&T National in Penn-sylvania and shot a 7-over 79 in the first roundof the J.P. McManus Invitational Pro-Am.

The unranked event in County Limerick fea-turing Hollywood celebrities and Irish billion-aires was his first overseas event since revela-tions of his extramarital affairs surfaced lastyear.—Internet

JOHANNESBURG, 6 July—The European Footballerof the Year and FIFAWorld Player of the Yearawards will be mergedinto the FIFA Ballon d'Or,award organisers FranceFootball and FIFA an-nounced here onMonday.

French magazineFrance Football has beenawarding the Ballon d'Or(Golden Ball) to the bestplayer in Europe since1956, with eligibility ex-tended to players fromany club in the world in2007. The FIFA award hasbeen running since 1991.

"The winner is footballbecause as of January of

next year we will haveone single trophy for thebest player in the worldand this will be the GoldenBall," said FIFA presidentSepp Blatter at a pressconference here.

Internet

CAPE TOWN, 6 July—Rooney, then Ronaldoand now Messi.

They were supposedto light up the World Cupafter scoring a total of 114goals for their clubs this

season, but left South Af-rica with only one goal in13 matches.

Wayne Rooney huffedand puffed but failed toscore before England wassent packing by Germany.Portugal's CristianoRonaldo scored — once,in garbage time — butdidn't run much at all be-fore being eliminated bySpain. Argentina's LionelMessi couldn't producethe magic when itcounted, against the Ger-mans in the quarterfinals.

All 25 or younger andconsidered three of theworld's best players, theywere the World Cup's big-gest disappointments.

Internet

NEWPORT, 6 July—Japan's Go Soeda toppledeighth seed and formerchampion Taylor Dent inthe first round of the ATPHall of Fame tournamentMonday - and admittedhe could barely believehe'd pulled off the upset.

“I saw the draw -Taylor Dent,” said the 25-year-old, who broke Dentin the final game to sealthe 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 victory.“I can’t believe I wonthis.”

“I’m happy,” saidSoeda, who notched hisfirst ATP Tour-levelmatch victory since 2008

in Beijing.”The victory comes not

long after Soeda made hisATP grasscourt debut asa qualifier at Wimbledon,where he fell in the firstround.

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, Weather has beenpartly coldy inKayin State, rain or thundershowershave been isolated in lower Sagaing, Magway andTaninthyi Divisions, scattered in Mon State, upperSagaing, Mandalay, Bago and AyeyawaydyDivisions, fairly widespread in Shan and RakhineStates and widespread in the remaining States andDivisions. The noteworthy amounts of rainfallrecorded were Nay Pyi Taw (Lewe) (0.20) inch,Maungtaw (2.72) inches, Katha (2.05) inches,Hkamti (1.53) inches, Loikaw (1.30) inches,Cocogyun (1.14) inches, Machanbaw, Taungggyiand Haka(1.11) inch and Pakokku (0.43) inch.

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Bay Inference: Monsoon is weak to moderate inthe Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of the 7thJuly2010: Rain or thundershowers will be widespreadin Kachin and Chin States, fairly widespread inShan and Rakhin States, upper Sagaing,Ayeyawaydy and Yangon Divisions, scattered inKayin and Mon State Mandalay, Bago andTaninthayi Divisions and isolated in the remainingareas. Degree of certainty is (80%).

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Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for7-7-2010: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 7-7-2010: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degreeof certainty is (80%).

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BEIJING, 6 July— Local fashion is making amassive showing at the ongoing World Expo inShanghai. A fashion industry forum opened thisweek to probe the development potential for localfashion enterprises.

The forum has taken the case of the RongchengCounty in Hebei Province as an example. Thesmall county assembled about eight hundredcompanies in the rag trade.

Topics like how to form a benign competitiveenvironment for these companies so as to boostthe overall development of the fashion industry inthe county were discussed.—Xinhua

Dancers from China’s Beijing Friendship Songand Dance Ensemble perform in the Chinese

dance drama “Dream of The Red Chamber” atthe Cairo Opera House in Cairo, Egypt, on

5 July, 2010. —XINHUA

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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

11th Waning of First Waso 1372 ME Wednesday, 7 July, 2010

With a view to helping expedite the projectsthe government has been implementing for equitabledevelopment of all parts of the nation, 28 national-ity youths training centres in border areas were setup under the Education and Training Departmentof the Ministry for Progress of Border Areas andNational Races and Development Affairs. They arePutao, Myitkyina (1), Myitkyina (2), Bhamo, Lashio,Kunlong, Tangyan, Kengtung, Lwemwe, Panglong,

Nationality youths training centres in border areas

Byline & photos: Tin Aung Aye(Education/Training)

NAY PYI TAW, 6 July—The Public are in-formed that exceptionally high Spring of from20.1 feet to 21.2 feet high above the datum areexpected to occur in Yangon River during theperiod 12th July to 17th July 2010. It is not seriousbecause the hightide have reached up to 21.9 feethigh above datum in the year 2008 and 2009,and the warning is issued only because high tidereaches over 20 feet high above datum.—MNA

Myanma Port Authoritywarning of hightide

A practical session at a mason craft course.

Loikaw, Hpa-an, Tiger School, Sittway, Pakokku,Mindat (1), Mindat (2), Matupi, Kanpetlet, Kalay,Haka, Thantlang, Falam, Tiddim, Tonzang, Hkamti,Leshi, and Lahe.

(See page 9)Darwinian concept of natural

selection figures into theory aboutcore of physical reality

Researchers believe they’ve opened a door toa clearer view of how the common, everyday

world we experience through our sensesemerges from the ethereal quantum world.

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