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Volume XX, Number 237 15th Waning of Tazaungmon 1374 ME Thursday, 13 December, 2012

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New Light of MyanmarNay Pyi Taw , 12

Dec Vice-President of

the Republic of the Union

of Myanmar Dr Sai Mauk

Kham received Brazilian

Ambassador Mr. Jose Carlos

da Fonseca Junior at the

Credentials Hall of the

Presidential Palace, here, at

1 pm today.

Also present at the call

were Deputy Minister forForeign Affairs U Thant

Kyaw, Deputy Minister

for Transport U Han Sein,

Deputy Minister for Electric

Power U Myint Zaw, Deputy

Minister for Energy U Htin

Aung, Deputy Minister

for National Planning and

Vice-President

receives Brazilian

AmbassadorEconomic Development

Dr Daw Khin San Yi and

departmental ofcials.

At the meeting, they

had a cordially discussion on

aviation, trade, investment,

energy and infrastructural

development sectors between

the two countries.

MNA

Vice-President of the

Republic of the Union of

Myanmar Dr Sai Mauk

Kham and party pose

for a documentary photo

together with Brazilian

Ambassador Mr. Jose

Carlos da Fonseca

Junior.mna

Nay Pyi Taw , 12

Dec The 2nd edition of

the ASEAN-Indian Car

Rally -1012 was warmly

welcomed by sports athletes

and staff of the Ministry of

Sports as they reached here

Nay Pyi Taw welcomes ASEAN-India Car Rally

this evening.

T h e y w e r e a l s o

welcomed by Union Minister

for Sports U Tint Hsan and

diplomats.

Eight par t ic ipants

including four celebrities

from Myanmar participated

in it.

Its is a wonderful

journey and very enjoyable.

We rece ived warmly

welcome and enjoyed

hospitality of the local

people along the trip, said

Jyoti Kalash, the team leader

for India Car No.9 as he was

relaxing strolling out the

Zabuthiri Hotel where they

will stay for a night.

Myanmar celebrities

who took part in the rally

also won the Friendship

Award in the rally, bringing

the pride to the country as

they are showing their social

friendship spirit. We got the

Friendship Award presented

by Indonesia and we were

very happy to accept that

prize, said movie star Hsu

Pan Htwar.

The Thailand-Myanmar

leg of the rally was ugged

off on the Friendship Bridge

in Myawady at the border of

Thai and Myanmar at 9 am

yesterday.

They stopped over at

Hpa-an in Kayin State

yesterday evening. Along

the trip in Myanmar local

ethnic people, students and

the people welcomed them

as they wave miniature ags

of the ASEAN countries and

the rally.

The 2nd ASEAN-India

car rally had commenced

from November 26 to

December 20, 2012 to

celebrate the 20thAnniversary

of the ASEAN and India

relationship.

A total of 103 men and

eight women from ASEAN

countries took part in the

rally which started from

Jakarta, Indonesia since

November 26, driving across

ASEAN countries before

arriving India.

Myanmar wins Friendship

Award in ASEAN-India

Car Rally-2012

ASEAN-India Car Rally-2012 reaches Nay Pyi Taw.Photo ayemin Soe

Myanmar celebrity

Hsu Pan Htwar sits

behind the wheel as

she arrives

Nay Pyi Taw.

Photo ayemin Soe

An athlete holds

a miniature ags ofASEAN-India

Car Rally.

Photo ayemin Soe

By Aye Min Soe


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New Light of Myanmar

Magway, 12 Dec

RV Orient Pandaw tripple

dekker carrying globetrotters

made a stop at Magway for a

sightseeing tour of the town

recently.It is an eight-day trip

from Pyay to Mandalay.

Tourists visit Magway

Myathalun Pagoda, the

Statue of Bogyoke and

Kantha market and tour

around Magway by trishaw.

Trishaw ride for globetrotters in Magway

There are 45 trishaws

offering trishaw service to

tourists. Tour operators gave

us uniforms.

The ship carrying

tourists makes a stop thereat least twice a week. More

tourist arrivals have been

seen at the moment. Before

their arrival, our leader U

Myint Thein received a

phone call and we are asked

to be ready. The tour agency

pays the trishaw fares. It

cost K 3000. Visitors gave

us a generous tip. More

tourist arrivals make us

convenient, a trishaw driver

who gave them a ride said.Their trip includes

overnight stops at Sale,

Chauk and Bagan after

Magway.

A f t e r t h a t , t h e y

proceeded to Mandalay.

Kyemon

Kawlin, 12 Dec

There has been low rainfall in

Kawlin, Wuntho and Pinlebu

in Sagaing Region this year.

A sharp drop in paddy

output has eaused a major

headache for local paddy

merchants.Al though Kawlin ,

Low rainfall disrupts paddy outputWuntho and Pinlebu were

once recognized as granaries

of the Region each year,

unfavourable weather

patterns, outow of torrent

water and ooding led to

the fall in paddy output and

closure of rice mills in theareas.

Moreover, although

rice of Kawlin, Wuntho

and Pinlebu were once

transported to Myitkyina,

Tanai and Phakant, transport

of rice came to a halt when

those regions lack peace and

security this year. Kyemon

Monywa, 12 Dec

Local farmers in Monywa

chose growing of chilli

for this years winter

crops cultivation season

as chilli is Myanmar-India

border trades marketable

commodity. Now the region

has seen thriving chilli

Thriving chilli plantations in Monywaplantations which are grown

on a wider scale.

A chilli grower said

that onions were grown in

previous years in accord with

the border market demand.

This years rst priority was

growing of chilli; that Chilli

growing was easier than

onion growing; and that there

was no signicant difference

between the two winter

crops. Chilli plantations

are thriving at Monywa

Myauklak and Taunglak

regions where chillies are

commercially grown.

Kyemon

MeiKtila, 12 Dec The

whole Myanmar admire

of Independence architect

national leader Bogyoke

Aung San. After his death

in 1947, statues of Bogyoke

were built around the country.

Pictures of Bogyoke hang in

ofces and houses. A bronze

statue of Bogyoke Aung San

was built near Kandawgyi in

Yangon.

Several of Bogyoke

statues stand in public areas

like intersections or parks

in some townships as a

remembrance of BogyokeAung San.

There is a standing

statue of Bogyoke Aung San

built in 1990 in front of a park

on Meiktila-Kyaukpadaung

road in Nandawkon ward in

Meiktila. But it is unpleasant

to see that a commercial

signpost was set up in front

of the statue.

According to the locals,

they are expecting to remove

the signpost blocking the

view of the statue.Kyemon

Commercial signpost blocking the view of

Bogyoke statue in Meiktila

KyauKtan, 12 Dec

A vaccine for elephantiasis

will be given to those in

urban wards and villages

in Kyauktan Township of

Yangon South District from18 to 24 December.

However, pregnant

Elephantiasis vaccine for locals in Kyauktan

Townshipwomen, children under age of

two and those with diabetes,

kidney failure and other

diseases will be excluded in

the vaccination programme.

The elephantiasis vaccinesare to be taken for five

successive years.

For children, the vaccine

can protect them against

elephantiasis and help

improve brain development.

Thats why, parents

should provide their childrenwith the vaccine.

Kyemon

yaMethin, 12 Dec

Mandalay Region Electrical

Engineer U Pyu Win and

party made an inspection tour

of Yamethin to oversee the

already-installed self-reliant

transformer and power lines

at Hsedwin and Gwaykon

villages in the township

recently.

Now skilled employees

are installing meter boxes

and service power lines at

houses in the two villages.T h e e l e c t r i c i t y

availability scheme was

launched with the spending

of K 90 million under the

Availability of electricity to be realized in Hsedwin,Gwaykon villages in Yamethin Township

leadership of U Mya Win

and U Mya Hsan.

Accord ing to the

township electrical engineer,

the scheme has been

MawlaMyine, 12 Dec

A head-on collision

between a passenger bus and

a light truck occurred on the

approach road to Thanlwin

Bridge (Mawlamyine) on

the bank of Mottama at about

12 noon on 10 December,

leaving six dead including

a girl at age of three and 16

injured.

A passenger bus driven

by Than Zaw (a) Anyarthar

from Mawlamyine to Kyaikto

collided a head-on with alight truck driven by Maung

Zaw on the opposite direction

on the bridge. Six women and

a three-year-old girl died on

Head-on collision claims six

lives, including three-year-oldgirl

completed 95 per cent.

Villages are happy as

electricity will be available

in their villages soon.

Kyemon

Historic monastery in Inlay Lake in need of

repairnyaungshwe, 12 Dec

Inlay Lake is situated

in Nyaungshwe Township

which is an auspicious ground

for ancient historic pagodas

and religious edices. Inlay

PhaungdawU Pagoda built

by King Alaungsithu, Shwe

Intein and Alopauk Pagodas

built by King Thiri Dhamma

Asoka, Yadana Mannaung

Pagoda, Tarkhaung Pagoda

and Shwe Thantaung Pagoda

are among ancient pagodas.

Nyaungshwe Township

is made up of 23 village-

tracts including villages near

Inlay Lake. Ngapechaung

village, one of 23 village-

tracts, has an ancient

historical monastery called

Ngaphechaung Monastery.

It was built in accord with

the guidance of Nyaungshwe

Chieftain Sir Saw Maung.

The Ngaphechaung

Monastery includes eightthree-tier buildings, one

one-tier building, a balcony,

27 altar rooms, six lacquered

Buddha Images, 66 Buddha

Images, 654 wooden pillars,

200 gold-pained pillars and

ve stairways.

Tourists visit there

whenever they arrived in

Inlay Lake. Tourists are very

pleased to see the brilliant

performance of clever cats

there.

Now, the weather-beaten

monastery sees damages to

its some parts.

So locals are expecting

to preserve the ancient

building by the Archaeology

Department.

Kyemon

the spot in the incident. The

other 16 injured passengers

were admitted Mawlamyine

General Hospital. Mon State

ministers, the commander of

Mon State Police Force and

ofcials were at the scene

and comforted the bus crash

victims.

Mottama Police Station

led a lawsuit against the

suspects.

Kyemon

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WORLD


Syrian Alawite village attacked, rebels ght

around capitalDamascus, 12 DecUp

to 200 members of President

Bashar al-Assads Alawiteminority were injured orkilled in an attack on their

central Syrian village onTuesday, activists said, whileto the south rebels and

state forces battled for theoutskirts of Damascus.

With a broad grouping

of governments opposed toAssad meeting in Morocco on

Wednesday, an ofcial in theSyrian Muslim Brotherhoodcriticized the United Statesfor designating an Islamist

rebel group as a terroristorganization, meaning it

would get no American help

in the ght against Assad.Casualty counts varied

for the attack on the villageof Aqrab in Hama Province,

but several activists saidthey could conrm 10 dead.The Syrian Observatory

for Human Rights said thecasualties came during aseries of explosions in the

town.Opposition activists

posted videos on YouTube

in which survivors saidpro-Assad militias had usedchildren as human shields

in the village. However,the accounts could not be

independently veried andthe events remained unclear.

Sectarian bloodshed haspreviously hit both HamaProvince, where Aqrab is

located, and neighbouringHoms Province. Bothwitnessed massacres of

hundreds of Sunni residentsbut Tuesdays incident, if

conrmed, would be the rstknown large-scale attack onAlawites. The opposition-linked Syrian Observatory

for Human Rights said 125had been hurt or killed but

said it was still trying to ndout what happened. Therewere no reports on Syrias

Syrian refugees warm themselves by a re at a refugee

camp in Atimeh, on the S yrian-Turkish border of the

Idlib Governorate on 10 Dec, 2012. Picture taken on

10 Dec, 2012.ReuteRs

state media.

An Alawite residentof a nearby village said theviolence began in Aqrab when

rebels attacked a checkpointrun by pro-Assad militiamen,known as shabbiha. We

dont believe there was a

massacre but we think thereare a number of hostagesbeing held. Clashes began

when rebels started shellingthe shabbiha checkpoint,he said by Skype. Reuters

Mexicos

ruling party

chooses new

leadermexicocity, 12 Dec

Mexicos ruling Institutional

Revolutionary Party (PRI)picked a new chairmanon Tuesday, handing the

task of steering the centristparty through a series of

key reforms to a close allyof President Enrique PenaNieto.

Cesar Camacho, likePena Nieto a former state ofMexico governor, will lead

the party that recaptured thepresidency after 12 yearson the sidelines, pledging to

curb drug violence and enacteconomic reforms in LatinAmericas second biggest

economy.We decide to be guided

by principles, not obedient

to dogmas, Camacho saidin speech to party membersin Mexico City following his

selection.The PRI ruled Mexico

from 1929 to 2000, often

becoming a byword forcorruption and heavy-handed

governance.Reuters

Gunman kills at least two at US Oregon mallsan Francisco , 12

DecAt least two peoplewere killed and more injuredon Tuesday when a gunman

opened re at a mall in theUS state of Oregon.

The shooting occurred

Tuesday afternoon at theClackamas Town CentreMall, about 17.7 km

southeast of downtownPortland, the most populouscity in Oregon.

Local po l ice said

the shooter has beenneutralized, but declinedto say whether it meant

the suspect was dead,immobilized or in custody.

According to local

newspaper The Oregonian,preliminary reports to theemergency dispatches said

a man with a semiautomatic

rie opened re near a Macys department store in the mall

at 3:29 local time.

The gunman, whomay have been wearing

body armor and camouageclothing, was also seen nearthe malls food court, saidthe newspaper.

A witness told TheOregonian that as many

as 60 shots were red andcrowds of shoppers wereseen running from the mall.

Xinhua

A still image taken from video courtesy of KATU-T V

shows rst responders at a shooting scene at Clackamas

Town Centre in Portland, Oregon, on 11 Dec, 2012.

ReuteRs

Cayman Islands Premier

McKeeva Bush speaks during a

jobs rally in Seven Mile Beach

outside Georgetown in this

25 June, 2011 le photo. The

leader of the Cayman Islandswas arrested on suspicion of

corruption on 11 Dec, 2012

in connection with a series

of police investigations in the

Caribbean offshore nancial

centre, authorities said.

ReuteRs

Cayman Islands leader ar rested in

corruption probeGeoreGtown,12 Dec

The leader of the CaymanIslands was arrested on

Tuesday on suspicion ofcorruption in connection

with a graft investigationin the Caribbean offshore

nancial centre, authoritiessaid.

Premier McKeeva Bushwas detained at his home by

members of the FinancialCrime Unit of the RoyalCayman Islands Police

Service, a police statementsaid.

The 57-year-old premier

is suspected of theft, allegedmisuse of a government

credit card and abuse of ofceover the alleged importationof explosive substances

without valid permits, it said. I t w o u l d b einappropriate ... to makeany further comment in

relation to these matters atthis time, the statement

said. Further updates willbe made available in duecourse.

A police spokeswomandeclined to elaborate on the

arrest.Leonard Dilbert, Bushs

chief of staff, said the

premier had been detainedon suspicion of wrongdoingpending an investigation

but had not been formallycharged with any crime.

It is important to

remind the people of theCayman Islands not to rushto judgment, he said. Being

suspected of having donesomething is far from ithaving been proven that you

did that thing.Bush was elected in

2009 as premier of the islandchain, a British OverseasTerritory with a population of55,000 people and a leading

global tax haven.The islands are home

to most of the worldshedge funds, offering taxadvantages and financial

secrecy to companies andinvestors.

Bush also holds theposition of minister of

nance and tourism. He isthe longest-serving memberof the Caymans LegislativeAssembly and was first

elected in 1984.Police searched Bushs

home after his arrest and set

up roadblocks restrictingaccess to his residence,

said a government ofcialwho requested anonymitybecause the investigation isstill ongoing.

Earlier this year, CaymanIslands Police Commissioner

David Baines said Bush wasthe subject of three policeinvestigations, two of theminvolving what he described

at the time as financialirregularities.Reuters

China advocates building, maintenance of

harmonious maritime order: UN envoy

Visitors pass by colourful

illuminations on the street

in Amsterdam, the Neth-

erlands on 11 Dec, 2012.The cultural festival of

light and water will last

until middle of January,

2013.Xinhua

uniteD nations , 12

DecChina advocated thebuilding and maintenanceof a harmonious maritime

order under which theinternational communitymust put emphasis on both

the proper protection ofthe ocean and its rationalutilization, a Chinese UN

envoy said here on Tuesday.Li Baodong, Chinas

permanent representative

to the United Nations,made the statement at ameeting of the 67th session

of the General Assembly oncommemorating the 30thanniversary of the opening

for signature of the UnitedNations Convention on theLaw of the Sea.

Li said China advocatesenhanced international

cooperation and coordinationin line with the spirit of theConvention in order to

safeguard peace, securityand openness of the oceanand promote the common

development of all countries.China highly commends

Commission on the Limits

of the Continental Shelf(CLCS) for its contributionto a balanced handling of

the legitimate rights andinterests of coastal statesand the overall interests of

the international community,Li said.

We su p p o r t t h e

Commission in continuing

to fulfi l l i ts mandatein accordance with theConvention and its own

rules of procedure in orderto maintain the qualitya n d p r o f e s s i o n a l i s m

of its consideration ofsubmissions, he said.

While congratulating

the International SeabedAuthority (ISA) on itsachievements over the past

year, Li said China has allalong strongly supportedthe work of the ISA and

promoted the effectiveand full participation ofdeveloping countries in

international seabed affairs.China values and

supports the important role

of the International Tribunalfor the Law of the Sea

in the peaceful settlementof maritime disputes, themaintenance of international

maritime order, and thedissemination of the law ofthe sea, Li said.

China also supportsthe adoption by the GeneralAssembly of the concrete

working recommendationsby the Ad Hoc Open-endedInformal Working Group on

marine biological diversitybeyond areas of nationaljurisdiction, said Li.

The relevant workshould proceed in ani n c r e m e n t a l m a n n e r

and fully accommodate

the legitimate needs ofall countries, especially

developing countries, formarine biological resources.

The Chinese diplomat

stressed that the key toaddressing the question ofgreenhouse gas emissions from

ships is to uphold the principleof common but differentiatedresponsibilities. He said

China also commits itselfto strengthening of the

conservation and management

of shery resources.Xinhua


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Sci ence & Technol ogy


Israeli archaeologists unearth elite

Stone Age society ScienceTech

Tech

Tech

Jerusalem, 12 DecAnexcavation of an ancient vil-lage in the north of Israel hasunearthed hundreds of arti-facts linking the residentsupper class to Mesopotamiaand other distant civiliza-tions.

Archaeologist Yair Mi-levski, who headed the exca-vation together with NimrodGetzov at the Ein Tziporisite, near Nazareth, toldXinhua on Monday that thisdiscovery helps understandStone Age upper class socie-ty and commerce in the area.

We discovered somekind of elite part of societythat lived in this village andwho were in contact withother cities in the northernLevant even in Anatolia

and Mesopotamia, Milevskisaid.The artifacts unearthedbelong to the Calcolithic pe-riod, over seven millenniaago, and have been identied

as a part of the local WadiRabah culture.

The nd revealed that

this culture had strong com-mercial ties with other cul-tures as distant as Mesopota-mia and Anatolia, in currentTurkey.

This kind of commercewas not uncommon, butwhats special is that we havea large collection of items inthe same place, and mostprobably they were conduct-ing these exchanges throughterrestrial means, Milevskysaid. We think that theyhad barter deals, becausethey didn't have money, andsometimes this exchangewas coming from farawaysites since we also founditems made from Obsidiancoming from Anatolia andother parts of Turkey, as well

as other items from Syria andnorthern Levant region, theresearcher stressed.

Archaeologists believethat the luxury items discov-ered in Ein Tzipori were forthe upper classs consump-

tion and that the site was nota religious or afuent com-mercial settlement.

Among the artifacts arebowls containing hundredsof colored int beads, en-graved earthenware and pal-ettes decorated with ostrich-es, showing inuence from

Mesopotamia and Syria.We know that there are fewcases in the southern Levantwith such patterns on palettesor other artifacts, even in theNear East. We believe therewas a common backgroundof ideas or beliefs that re-ects continuous commer-cial activity, Milevsky said.

However, this part ofthe Ein Tzipor site that spans200 square meters will becovered by a road in less than

a year. Thats why we callit a salvage excavation, be-cause we dug to nd whatwe could before its coveredby road 79, which leads toNazareth, Milevsky said.

Xinhua

Custom-

ers use

comput-

ers

at an

internet

cafe

in

Sao

Paulo.

ReuteRs

Russia backs down on proposals to regulate the

InternetDubai, 12 DecA Rus-

sia-led coalition on Mondaywithdrew a proposal to givegovernments new powersover the Internet, a plan op-posed by Western countriesin talks on a new global tel-ecom treaty.

Negotiations on the trea-

ty mark the most sustainedeffort so far by governmentsfrom around the world toagree on how, or whether,to regulate cyberspace. TheUnited States, Europe, Can-ada and other advocates of a

hands-off approach to Inter-net regulation want to limitthe new treaty's scope to tel-ecom companies.

But Russia, China andmany Arab states, whichwant greater governmentalcontrol, have been pushingto expand the treaty beyond

traditional telecom operators.Representatives from

about 150 countries mem-bers of the InternationalTelecommunication Union(ITU) have been negoti-ating for the past eight daysin Dubai on the new treaty,which was last revised in1988, before the advent ofthe World Wide Web.

The Russia-led proposalcould have allowed coun-tries to block some Internetlocations and take control ofthe allocation of Internet ad-dresses currently overseen

by ICANN, a self-governingorganization under contract

to the US Department ofCommerce. An ITU spokes-man said this plan had nowbeen scrapped. It looks likethe Russians and Chineseoverplayed their hand, saidAmerican cyber security ex-pert Jim Lewis of the Centrefor Strategic and Internation-

al Studies.US Ambassador Terry

Kramer welcomed the deci-sion to withdraw the Russia-led plan. But he also said:These issues will continueto be on the table for discus-sion in other forms duringthe remainder of the confer-ence. China, Saudi Ara-bia, Algeria, Sudan and theUnited Arab Emirates hadco-signed the aborted pro-posal. The UAE insisted thedocument had not been with-drawn. It may come downto the wire, said a Western

delegate on condition of ano-nymity.Reuters

Japans Renesas secures $1.8 billion government-led bailout

Tokyo, 12 DecJapa-nese chipmaker RenesasElectronics Corp, hit byslumping orders and compe-tition from rivals like Sam-sung Electronics Co Ltd,secured a 150 billion yen($1.8 billion) lifeline from agovernment-led bailout onMonday.

The taxpayer-fundedInnovation Network Corpof Japan (INCJ), will pro-vide 138.4 billion yen inexchange for a two-thirdsstake in Renesas, the world'sbiggest maker of microcon-troller chips for cars.

Eight key manufactur-ing clients including ToyotaMotor Corp, Nissan MotorCo, Canon Inc and Panason-ic Corp will provide roughly12 billion yen. The bailout

was put together to counteran earlier bid by U\S private

Renesas Electronics Corps chips are pictured at the

companys ofce in Tokyo on 23 Oct, 2012.

ReuteRs

equity rm KKR & Co LPamid worries the rm's tech-nology could fall into foreignhands, sources familiar withthe talks have toldReuters.

lion yen of the total supporton research and developmentand capital spending relatedto its core microcontrollerbusiness. The company said

ing whether to agree to therequest but if it did supplythe extra money, Renesascould use it to expand abroadthrough mergers and acquisi-tions. The fact that clientsare putting up money is posi-tive since it means Renesas

will be able to gain somebusiness from them, saidAkira Minamikawa, vicepresident and principal ana-lyst at IHS iSuppli in Tokyo.

But domestic rms

inuence over the companycould prevent the rm from

expanding abroad, he said.Renesas president Yasu-

shi Akao denied that clients-turned-shareholders wouldexert inuence over the com-panys products. I dont seethis becoming a problem. Wehave the government fundholding a two-thirds stakeand this means they will take

leadership on this matter,said Akao.Reuters

Renesas, battling toavoid the fate of fellowchipmaker Elpida MemoryInc which was driven into

bankruptcy earlier this year,said it would spend 60 bil-

it was also requesting anoth-er 50 billion yen in supportfrom the government fund.INCJ CEO Kimikazu Noumi

told a joint news conferencethe fund was still deliberat-

Global climate

change predictions on targetScience

WellingTon, 12 DecPredictions of global climatechange made to a UnitedNations-organized panelmore than 20 years ago haveproved to be accurate, a NewZealand-US academic studyhas found.

The study comparedpredictions of global temper-ature rises to 2030 from the

rst Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change ( IPCC)Assessment Report pub-lished in 1990, with globalclimate change data gatheredover the past 20 years.

Authors ProfessorDavid Frame, director ofthe New Zealand ClimateChange Research Instituteat Victoria University, andDr Daithi Stone, of the Law-rence Berkeley NationalLaboratory in California,found the global climatewas responding largely aspredicted by the rst IPCC

report.Two decades later, datashowed the actual globalmean surface temperatureincrease was 0.35 to 0.39 de-grees Celsius, which was in

Honeywell sees slow 2013, to buy Intermec for

$600 millionreasonable agreement withthe 1990 predictions, Framesaid in a statement.

This was in spite ofunforeseen climate-alteringevents, such as the eruptionof the Philippines MountPinatubo in 1991, the col-lapse of the Soviet bloc in-dustry in the 1990s, and therecent rapid, fossil-intensivegrowth in economies suchas Asia. They concludedthat natural variability aloneseemed highly unlikely to

account for recent changes,even if the forecasting sys-tems signicantly underesti-mated natural variations.

Xinhua

File photo of a view of the corporate sign outside the

Honeywell In ternational Automation and Control Solu-

tions manufacturing plant in Golden Valley, Minnesota,on 28 Jan, 2010.ReuteRs

golDen Valley, 12 DecDiversied US manufac-turer Honeywell Internation-al Inc forecast a scal 2013prot mostly below Wall

Street's estimates on Mondayas sales cool in the aerospaceand transportation sectors.

The company, whosemany industrial products in-clude cockpit electronics andautomotive turbochargers,also said it would buy mobilecomputing device maker In-termec for $600 million, or$10 per share. The subduedforecast was not unexpected

on Wall Street, where sharesof Honeywell were down 0.2percent to $61.86 in middaytrading on Monday.

Chief Executive Of-cer Dave Cote, known for

his strong views on the per-ils of the US scal cliff of

automatic tax increases andgovernment spending cuts,did not mention it as a reasonfor the weaker-than-expectedforecast in a statement onMonday morning. Cote didnot participate in a confer-ence call with investors onMonday to discuss the deal

and forecast.The new forecast was

released a week earlier thanexpected due to the Intermecdeal, which gives Intermecshareholders a 25 percentpremium from Fridays clos-ing stock price. Honeywellexpects the deal to dent its2013 earnings by 3 cents to4 cents per share. The com-pany forecast a 2013 prot of

$4.75 to $4.95 per share, ex-cluding items, while analystson average expect $4.95, ac-cording to Thomson ReutersI/B/E/S.Reuters


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BUSI NESS & HEALTH


Business

Health

EUs Rehn says euro zone

must pursue structural

reforms

European

Econom ic and

Monetary A ffairs

Commissioner

Olli Rehn

addresses a news

conference at the

EU Commission

headquarters in

Brussels on 14 Nov,2012.ReuteRs

London, 12 DecEurope must continuewith its far reachingstructural reforms thathave helped to rebalancethe euro zone economy andrebuild condence, EUstop economics ofcial, OlliRehn, said in an opinion

piece in the Financial Timeson Tuesday.

In order to overcomethe crisis and restorecondence, we mustcontinue to remove structuralobstacles to sustainablegrowth and employment;pursue prudent scalconsolidation; and turn boldthoughts into convincingactions when redesigning andrebuilding our economic andmonetary union, he said.In short, we need to stay thecourse and pursue decisivereforms in our member statesand deeper integration in theeuro zone.

He said decisions madeso far have begun to rebuildcondence, calm marketsand counter fears of a

collapse of the euro.Far-reaching structural

reforms are helping torebalance the euro zoneeconomy. Progress istangible, said Rehn, whois vice-president of theEuropean Commission,responsible for economic

and monetary affairs and theeuro.

Euro zone sentimentimproved for a fourthconsecutive month inDecember, as investorstook heart from pledges bythe European Central Bankand politicians to stand bythe euro. Rehn also saidthe European Commissionintends to explore furtherways to accommodatepublic investment in itsassessment of national scalplans.

Last week, Rehn urgedEuropean nance ministersand leaders meeting inBrussels this week to reachan agreement on plans forpan-EU banking supervision.

Reuters

Diageo weighs on FTSE after

Cuervo talks founder

The outside of the London Stock Exchange building is

seen in the City of London.ReuteRs

London, 12 DecTheFTSE 100 edged loweron Tuesday, consolidating9-month closing highs, withbeverages group Diageoweighing after it called offlong-running acquisitiontalks with Jose Cuervo.

Shares in Diageo fell1.2 percent on the newsbringing to a close its planto buy the worlds number 1

tequila brandand knocked2.1 points off the FTSE 100,which was down 7.58 points,or 0.1 percent at 08:06 am.

The index reached itshighest closing level in nearlynine months on Monday andis now capped by technicalresistance at 5,930, an intra-day high hit in September.

Reuters

Business

HSBC to pay record $1.9 billion US fne in moneylaundering case

A view

shows the

entrance to a

HSBC Bank

branch in

New York on

1 Aug, 2011.

ReuteRs

new York, 12 DecHSBC Holdings Plc hasagreed to pay $1.92 billion(1.19 billion pounds) to set-tle a multi-year US criminalprobe into money-laundering

lapses at the British lender,the largest penalty ever paidby a bank. HSBC admitted toa breakdown of controls and

apologised in a statement onTuesday announcing it hadreached a deferred-prosecu-tion agreement with the US

Department of Justice, as wasrst reported byReuters lastweek. We accept responsi-bility for our past mistakes.We have said we are pro-foundly sorry for them, andwe do so again. The HSBCof today is a fundamentally

different organization fromthe one that made those mis-takes, said Chief ExecutiveStuart Gulliver.

Over the last two years,under new senior leadership,

we have been taking concretesteps to put right what wentwrong and to participate ac-tively with government au-

thorities in bringing to lightand addressing these matters.The bank said it expected toalso reach a settlement with

British watchdog the Finan-cial Services Authority. USand European banks have nowagreed to settlements withUS regulators totalling some$5 billion in recent years oncharges they violated US sanc-tions and failed to police illicit

transactions. No bank or bankexecutives, however, havebeen indicted as prosecutorshave instead utilized deferredprosecutions. The deferredprosecution agreement, when

detailed by US Justice Depart-ment ofcials later on Tues-day, could yield new informa-tion about a failure at HSBCto police transactions linkedto Mexico, sources familiarwith the matter said. Details ofthose dealings were reportedthis summer in a sweeping USSenate probe. HSBCs set-tlement also includes agree-ments or consent orders withthe Manhattan district at-torney, the Federal Reserveand three US Treasury De-

partment units: the Ofce of

Foreign Assets Control, the

Comptroller of the Currencyand the Financial Crimes En-forcement Network.

HSBC said it would pay$1.921 billion, continue tocooperate fully with regula-tory and law enforcementauthorities and take further

action to strengthen its com-pliance policies and proce-dures. US prosecutors haveagreed to defer or forgo pros-ecution.

The settlement is the

third time in a decade thatHSBC has been penalizedfor lax controls and orderedby US authorities to bettermonitor suspicious transac-tions. Directives by regula-tors to improve oversightcame in 2003 and again in2010. Last month, HSBCtold investors it had set aside$1.5 billion to cover nesor penalties stemming fromthe inquiry and warned costs

could be signicantly higher.

Analyst Jim Antos of Miz-

uho Securities said the state-ment on Tuesday indicates

an extra $420 million for thesettlement costs, calling it atrivial gure in terms of thecompanys book value. Butin terms of real cash terms,thats a huge ne to pay,said Antos, who rates HSBCa buy.Reuters


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Thursday, 13 December, 2012

WORLD

6 New Light of Myanmar

Flor ida judge keeps GPS monitor on Trayvon Mar tins

killer

George Zimm erman (L) sits with defence coun sel at the

Seminole County courthouse for a hearing in Sanford,

Florida, on 11 Dec, 2012.ReuteRs

Sanford, (Florida), 12Dec A Florida judge onTuesday denied a requestfrom accused murdererGeorge Zimmerman to let

him remove his GPS mon-itoring device and travelfreely in the state pendinghis trial next June in theshooting death of unarmedblack teenager TrayvonMartin.

Zimmerman, 29, hasbeen conned to Semi-nole County under a $1million bond since July,when a judge concludedthat he had presented falseinformation about his as-sets and was a ight risk.

Zimmerman and his wife,Shellie, who is charged

with perjury for allegedlylying to the judge aboutthe couples nances, live

in hiding and in fear ofviolence, according to a74-page motion led by

his lawyer, Mark OMara.OMara said Zimmer-

man needed the exibilityto travel for his personalsafety and to be availableto assist his lawyers inmeetings with witnesses.

But Judge Debra Nel-son summarily denied therequest at a hearing deal-ing with a series of mo-tions led by OMara,

most requesting access topotential evidence.

At the time of theshooting on 26 February,Zimmerman was a neigh-borhood watch volunteerin a gated community in

the central Florida city ofSanford. Prosecutors sayhe pursued, confronted

and killed Martin, a black17-year-old who was re-turning with snacks to thetownhouse where he was

staying with his fatherto watch the NBA nals.Zimmerman is expected

to claim self-defence un-der Floridas controversialStand Your Ground law,which makes it difcult to

prosecute a shooter whoclaims self-defence.Reuters

nicoSia, 12 Dec TheHigh Court of Cyprus onTuesday ordered a retrial inthe case of four former air-line executives who had been

acquitted of multiple man-slaughter charges in a 2005plane crash, which has beendescribed as one of the mostbizarre aircraft accidentsever. The Court upheld byan appeal by the AttorneyGeneral against the verdictof a criminal Assize Courta year ago that cleared thenow defunct Helios AirlinesCEO, executive president,ight operations manager

and chief pilot of negligentlycausing the death of all 121people aboard the plane.

The Court said the trialcourt had committed errors

and the case must be retrieddespite being one of the most

Cyprus high cour t orders

retrial over 2005 air crashcomplex ever tried in Cy-prus. The Boeing 737-300jet on a ight from Cyprus

to Athens crashed near theGreek capital on 14 Aug,

2005, after ying pilotless incircles for about two hours.An inquiry into the accidenthas concluded that the pres-surization system of the air-craft had been left to manualafter an overnight inspection,leading to sudden depres-surization of the cabin aftertakeoff, which knocked outall crew members and thepassengers.

The report blamed thecrew for not checking thepressurization system beforetakeoff. The plane ew on

automatic pilot and crashed ashort distance from the Ath-

ens airport after it ran out offuelXinhua

Photo released on 11 Dec, 2012 shows Xi Jinping, gen-

eral secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)Central Committee and chairman of the CPC Central

Military Comm ission (CMC), visits th e residents com-

mittee of a community in Shenzh en, south Chinas

Guangdong Province. Xi made an inspection tour in

Guangdong from 7 to 11 Dec.Xinhua

Beijing, 12 DecChinese Vice Premier LiKeqiang on Tuesday metformer US President JimmyCarter, calling for the com-mon prosperity of the twocountries.

Li recalled the estab-lishment of China-US dip-lomatic relations in 1979,while Carter served as the

US president.Thanks to the joint ef-

forts of several generationsof leaders and people of thetwo countries, China-USrelations have become ma-

Chinese vice premier meets former US

president Car terture and gone beyond thebilateral scope, Li said.

The major trend of theties has remained strength-ening China-US coopera-tion though various prob-lems have cropped up,according to Li. As longas the two countries respecteach other, manage differ-ences and expand common

ground, they can seek com-mon prosperity, he toldCarter.

Saying China is work-ing toward building a well-off society, Li reafrmed

the countrys commitmentto deepening reform, fur-ther opening up, promot-ing sustainable and healthyeconomic development andpromoting social progress.

The vice premier saidChinas modernizationdrive will bring more bene-ts to people and offer huge

opportunities for Chinas

cooperation with other na-tions.

Li called on Carter tomake use of his inuence

and introduce the true Chi-na to US statesmen and peo-

ple. He also asked Carter toshare with US people theimportance of China-US re-lations to the two countries,Asia and the Pacic and the

whole world.Carter hailed the pro-

gress of China and U.S.-China relations over thepast decades.

As an old friend of

China, Carter said he iscommitted to boosting US-China cooperation and pro-moting the growth of bilat-eral relations.

Xinhua

MoScow, 12 decPresident Vladimir Putinwill need to mix fresh ideaswith his trademark patri-otism and tough-guy im-age on Wednesday whenhe lays out his plans to a

cynical population wearyof corruption and poor stateservices.

Thirteen years after herose to power, and morethan two decades after thecollapse of the Soviet Un-ion, Putin still seems to besearching for an overarch-ing idea to unite Russians.There is no imminent threatto his ruleoppositiongroups who accuse the au-thorities of stiing dissent

have failed to build enoughmomentum to pose a seri-ous challenge to the state.

But public condence

is low. While some guresin government have fallenfoul of corruption scandals,high-prole probes have

not convinced Russians that

Putin needs more than r hetor ic to win over

weary nationPutin will uproot rampantgraft.

Pressure is growing onthe government to translatesky-high oil and gas incomeinto improvements in roads,schools, police, pensions,

housing and healthcare thatmillions nd wanting.Abroad, Putin has

sought to revive Russias20th century status as acounter-balance to US he-gemony, but political ex-perts say Putins ideologicalmessages are wearing thin.There is a gap betweenthe peoples pragmatic de-mands and government at-tempts to feed them abstractideologies such as patriot-ism, anti-Westernism, neo-industrialization, said ana-lyst Pavel Salin. Citizenswant concrete action, con-

crete success from govern-ment institutions they dealwith every day.

Putin is likely to cut acondent gure in Wednes-

days annual Kremlin ad-dress, nine months afterweathering the biggest op-position protests of his ruleand winning a third term aspresident after four years asprime minister. The speech

to lawmakers and a nation-wide TV audience comesthree days before opponentsstage what they hope willbe the rst big protest in

Moscow since September.People want to see

promises that salaries willbe increased, ination

curbed, a solution to prob-lems with housing, medicalcare and education and an-swers to the question of cor-ruption raised by the recentscandals, said Lev Gudkov,director of independentpolling agency Levada. Pu-tin has not ruled out seeking

another six-year presiden-tial term in 2018 and seemsdetermined to put his stampon Russia for decades tocome.Reuters

Egypts presidential ofce renews call for absent

par ties to join in dialogue Wednesdaycairo, 12 DecEgyp-

tian presidential ofce re-newed its call for the absentparties in the previous na-tional dialogue last Satur-day to join in a new one onWednesday, ofcialMENA

news agency reported onTuesday night.

The presidential of-ce said in a statement that

it had called for the absentparties to join in a newround of national dialoguescheduled for Wednesdayevening, in order to reachlarger participation andagreement among differ-ent political forces, and tocomplete President Mo-hamed Morsis call for thedialogue.

During the previous di-alogue last Saturday, whichwas called for by Morsi, the

participating parties agreedto modify the disputed con-stitutional declaration is-sued on 22 Nov.

The statement added

that a second round of talkwas held on Tuesday, whichlasted about ve hours, dur-ing which the participatingparties discussed some ar-ticles of the draft constitu-tion. Morsi issued early

Sunday a new constitution-al declaration after a mara-thon dialogue on Saturdaybetween Morsi and some

national and political forcesat the presidential palace inCairo, ruling that the previ-ous one issued on 22 Novhas been wholly cancelled.

The new constitutionaldeclaration also ruled that

the upcoming draft consti-tution referendum will startas planned on 15 Dec.

Xinhua

Japan an d the United States hold a joint n uclear

disaster drill at the US Navys Yokosuka base in

Kanagawa Prefecture on 11 Dec, 2012.Kyodonews


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China, Maldives pledge str engthened

military tiesBeijing, 12 DecChi-

nese Defence Minister Li-

ang Guanglie on Tuesdayheld talks with MohamedNazim, the Maldives min-

ister of defence and nation-al security, with both sides

pledging strengthened mili-tary ties.

They exchanged views

on regional security aswell as relations betweenthe two countries and their

militaries.Liang said during

their talks that China and

the Maldives enjoy a longhistory of friendship andsound development of bi-

lateral relations.He said China will con-

tinue to develop friendly,

cooperative and mutually

benecial relations with theMaldives under the prin-

ciple of building a good-neighbourly relationshipand non-interference in in-

ternal affairs.China has always

positively developed its

military relations with the

Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie (R) shakes

hands with Mohamed N azim, the Maldives minister

of defence and national security, in Beijing, capital of

China, on 11 Dec, 2012.Xinhua

Maldives and hopes to en-

hance communication andcooperation, promote theconstruction of both mili-

taries and safeguard region-al peace and stability., thedefense minister added.

Nazim hailed the twocountries good relationsand thanked China for its

assistance to the Maldives.

He said the Maldiveswill always adhere to theone-China policy and is

willing to cement relationsbetween the two countriesand their militaries.

Prior to their talks, Li-ang held a welcoming cer-emony for Nazim.Xinhua

The hague, 12 Dec

The Dutch railways com-panies NS and ProRail aresubject to increased super-

vision of the Inspectorate

for Environment and Trans-port (ILT) in response to a

frontal collision earlier thisyear in Amsterdam.

The ILT is part of the

Dutch Ministry of Infra-structure and Environmentand oversees compliance

with laws and regulations.It has demanded measures

to reduce the risks andtherefore both companiesare placed under stricter su-

pervision on Tuesday.According to the ILT,

national Dutch railways

Dutch railways under str icter

supervision after collisionNS and ProRail, which

regulates the infrastruc-ture, took excessive risksin the schedule during the

collision in April this year,

where one was killed and190 others wounded.

Due to maintenance ofthe railways, the timetablewas adjusted and one train

missed a red light to end upon the same track as an on-coming train.

According to the in-spection, ProRail and NS

trusted too much on the redsignal as the last safe barri-er, despite previous recom-

mendations.Following the investi-

gation into the train crash

near Amsterdam, the Dutch

safety board OVV on Tues-day declared in a report thatthe NS has not done enough

to make the trains as safe as

possible. According to theresearch council, the NS

has the legal duty to do so.NS and ProRail reacted

that they drew some les-

sons from the collision. Thecompanies will take meas-ures on safety, planning,

technology and the trainingof drivers.

The NS will also installan additional warning sothat alerts will be given to

drivers when they are ap-proaching a red signal.

Xinhua

Photo taken on 11 Dec, 2012 shows an icefall in the

Taihang Mountains, north Ch inas Hebei Province.

Xinhua

Snow storm claims four lives in SerbiaBelgrade, 12 Dec

Four people have died

across Serbia in the relent-less snow storm that along

with frigid temperatureshas snarled trafc, closedschools and led to power

outages in the country, localmedia reported on Tuesday.

Hardest hit by the snow

storm is the northern Prov-ince of Vojvodina, in which

four people have died inweather-related incidentsand where most of 60 Ser-

Pr o-secession gunmen kill two

soldiers in southern Yemenaden, (Yemen), 12

DecAt least two soldiers

were killed on Tuesdaywhen masked gunmen rid-ing on motorbikes attacked

a military checkpoint inYemens southern Provinceof al-Dhalea, a government

ofcial toldXinhua.A group of masked

gunmen suspected of be-

longing to an armed factionof the pro-secession South-ern Movement attacked a

military checkpoint in al-Dhalea Province, leaving

President of Japanese main opposition Liberal

Democratic Party (LDP) Shin zo Abe (2nd L ) delieversa speech during a campaign for December 16 lower

house election in T okyo, capital of Japan,

on 11 Dec, 2012.

Xinhua

A Hong Kong dragon and lion dance team performs at a Press conference in Hong

Kong, south China, on 11 Dec, 2012. The preparatory Committee of Hong KongDragon and Lion Festival announced at the Press conference on Tuesday that a

dragon and lion dance festival would be held on 1 Jan, 2013.Xinhua

UN to open new ofce for sustainable energy

in ViennaVienna, 12 DecVi-

enna is to become home to

a new United Nations (UN)ofce for sustainable en-ergy, the Austrian Foreign

Ministry said on Tuesday.Michael Spindelegger,

Austrias foreign minister,

said the ofce in Viennawas another important sig-

nal toward worldwide af-fordable and sustainable ac-cess to sustainable energy.

Vienna will therebybecome the energy-hub ofthe United Nations and will

be further developed as animportant UN seat, he

added.Spindelegger said sus-

tainable energy was an es-sential condition for thereduction of global poverty

and for the achievementof the eight UN Millen-nium Development Goals

(MDGs) established in2000, set to be met by 2015.

Vienna already hoststhe Vienna Energy Fo-rum every two years, and

the Global Forum on Sus-tainable Energy (GFSE)was also launched in the

city.The new UN ofce

will be headed by currentUnited Nations Industrial

Development Organization(UNIDO) Director-GeneralKandeh Yumkella, who

will leave for the new rolein mid-2013.

Xinhua

bian schools closed due tothe snowfall, Radio Televi-

sion Serbia said.Although the main

international transit routerunning the length of Serbiaremains slow but passable,

a section near the Bulgarianborder was closed for more

than ve hours due to anoverturned transport truck.

With the exception of

trucks carrying food stuffs,all other heavy vehicleshave been ordered off main

roads by Serbian police.

Trafc on many regionalroads has been restricted topassenger vehicles with full

winter equipment.Over the weekend, some

travelers were stranded for up

to 22 hours on roads beforethey could be reached byemergency crews. Predrag

Maric, head of emergencysituations, offered his apol-

ogy for the hell enduredby stranded passengers,explaining that a convoy

of 30 transport trucks hadblocked the highway and

only eight snow removalvehicles were available to

deal with the heavy snow-fall.

Belgrade Mayor Dragan

Dilas also apologized to citi-zens for the shortage of citytransit vehicles on the roads

over the past days. Homelessin the Belgrade shelter slept

in hallways, as there wereinsufcient beds to meet thedemand.Xinhua

at least two soldiers killed,the local government of-

cial said on condition ofanonymity.

Two soldiers were

shot on their chests anddied on the spot, the gov-ernment source said, adding

that two others were seri-ously injured in the armedattack. The attack targeted

a key checkpoint near anarmy base in central al-Dhalea Province, according

to the ofcial.Xinhua

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Thursday, 13 December, 20128 New Light of MyanmarARTI CLE


Stand up for our beloved

farmersMost Myanmar people used to idolize

far mer s as great contr ibutor s to the society and

the nations breadwinner s. Many often addr essfarmers as Uncle Peasant. But it is a pity that

the farmers of our country enjoy only meagre

living standar ds. The har dworking farmer s lived

in ru r al ar eas where utility services simply mean

just their ch ores. Fr om dawn to dusk , their faces

are always wet with elbow grease. But many

of them never gure out how much their hard

work is worth and complaint against their less

protable business.

Ofcial gures of the Ministry of Agriculture

and Irrigation for more than a decade show

constant increases in agricultural production

of the country for all kinds of crops. Not even

a slight decline. It means the agro-industry

is thriving and the peasants are committedthemselves to working har der and ha rd er. There

should be an an swer to the question why they do

ear n less if they continue to invest more efforts

in farming. Farmers who do not have access

to the market directly have depended largely

on brokerages. Most of the prots of farming

went into broker ages as there was no regulation

nor mechanism to stand up for farmers. The

rich got richer and the poor got poorer. The

government which is committed to bringing

about development of rural areas to root out

the poverty needs to add ress the issue urgently.

After years of deprivation, farmers now

become far m worker s, losing their far ms out to

companies and bu sinessmen who have substantialresources, according to a survey. Some of the

farmers abandoned their farms for well-paid

overseas jobs. The ofcial gures indicate that

national entrepreneurs are granted more

than 1.3 million hectres to run large-scale

commercial farming while only 0.01 percent

ar e reclaimed for terr ace farming. Due to the

natu r e of business, the bigger companies often

swallow the smaller ones.

The agro-industry needs nancial, technical

and other resources what the companies

can offer. But, it would bear more adverse

consequences than fr uitful outcomes if regulators

fail to protect the rights and a ddr ess the concern s

of the farmers.

All the Buddhist

people throughout the


Myanmar know that the

First concrete unity of the

Sangha of All Orders in


of Myanmar could be

established within one-

hundred year after the

First Congregation of the

Sangha of All Order had

been successfully held

in 1980. It was clearly

found in the history of

Buddhism that it was

impossible to carry out the

purication, perpetuation

and propagation of the

Buddha Sasana without the

unity of the Sangha.It was found that

multifarious sects and

ganas of the Sangha

appeared and separately

existed in the Republic

of the Union of Myanmar

before the First Con-

gregation of the Sangha of

All Orders. According to

the confuse and contended

situation of different sects

and ganas of the Sangha of

All Orders, many unlawful

views (Adhammavadas)

which lead to endangers

and destroy the true

teachings of the Buddha

appeared in the Union of

Myanmar in those days.

A need was felt that the

Buddhist people through-

out the country worries

about this situation. Some

farsighted learned monks

and devotees of those

days tried to establish the

unity of different sects

and ganas of the Sangha

Orders, and but they were

not successful because of

being not encouraged and

supported by the British

Colonial Government atthat time.

The farsighted learned

monks and the authorities

concerned tried to hold the

very First Congregation of

the Sangha of All Orders in

order to establish the unity

of the Sangha which ever

leads to the purication,

The State Sanghamahanayaka Committee of

the Republic of the Union of MyanmarBa Sein (Religious Af fairs)

perpetuation and propaga-

tion of the Buddha Sasana

in 1965. However, it was

not successful because of

unstable political and social

situation at that time.

According to the strong

wishes of the most of the

members of the Sangha,

the Buddhist people and the

Government of the Republic


to establish the unity of the

Sangha of All Orders for

unanimously carrying out

the purication, perpetua-

tion and propagation of the

Buddha Sasana (The true

teachings of the Buddha),

the thorough and systematic

necessary arrangements tohold the First Congregation

of the Sangha of All orders

for the purication, per-

petuation and propagation

of the Buddha Sasana were

made in advance by the

farsighted and learned chief

monks and the Government


of that time. And so, the

First Congregation of the

Sangha of All Orders for the

purication, perpetuation


B u d d h a S a s a n a w a s

successfully held in 1980.

The congregation was

attended by the Sangha.

Samuti representatives

who represented the whole

members of the Sangha of

All Orders throughout the

country. According to the

resolutions of the Successful

First Congregation of

the Sangha of All orders,

the very rst unity of the

Sangha of All Orders of the


Myanmar could be formed

and established within one-

hundred year in the history

of Buddhism of the Republicof the Union of Myanmar.

In accordance with

the resolutions of the

Congregation, the different

levels of the Sangha organi-

zations which take ofce

and settle various matters

relating to the members of

the Sangha could be formed.

They are as follows:-

(1) The State Sangha-

mahanayaka Committee.

(2) The State / Regional

Sanghanayaka Committes

(3) The Township San-

ghanayaka Committees and

(4) The Ward / Village-tract

Sanghanayaka Committees.

Of the four different

levels of Sangha Organi-

zations, the State Sangha-

mahanayaka Committee

co m p r i s in g 4 7 ch i e f

members of Sangha Orders,

is the highest level of the

Sangha Committees of the


Myanmar.

Functions and duties of theState Sanghamahanayaka

Committee

(1) Taking responsibilities

of the unity of the Sangha

and carry ing out the

purification, perpetuation


Buddha Sasana

(2) Instructing the super-

vising the Theravada Bud-

dhist monks to behave and

dwell in accordance with the

Vinaya Rules

(3) Car ry i ng out i t s

functions and duties in

accordance with the adoptedand prescribed rules and

regulations of different levels

of the Sangha Committee,

procedures, settlements

of Vinayadhammakamma

A d h i k r a n a D i s p u t e s

Act, other decisions and

instructions

(4) Accord i ng to the

above-ment ioned sub-

para (1) (2) and (3), the

State Sanghamahanayaka

Com-mittee shall have

to supervise and instruct

the Sangha Committees at

different levels.

(5) Instructing and super-vising the matters relating

to the administration of the

respective Sangha Com-

mittees at different levels.

(6) Occasionally notifying

the Dhammavinaya gazette

concern ing the whole

members of the Sangha

(7) Being able to make

suggestions, prescribed

canonical text and its

curriculums relating to

the Government Pariyatti

e x a m i n a t i o n s , a n d

supervise and amend the

systems of the Pariyatti

examinations,


scrutinization, decision,

permission and prohibition

regarding different views

and opinions on Buddhism


scrutinization, devision

and prohibition of talks,

wr i t i n g s , t each in g s

and displays which are

contradictionary to and

imcompatible with thePitaka Cononical Texts


scrutinization, decision

an d p ro h ib i t i o n o n

practices of Patipatti

which are contradictory to

and incompatible with the

Pitaka Canonical Texts,

(11) If the funct ions

and activities carried

o u t b y r e s p e c t i v e

Sangha Committees at

different levels were not

in agreement with the

basic principles of the

Sangha Committees, theplenary meeting of the


Committee shall cancel

these funct ions and

activities by approval of

at least 75 per-centage

of members of the State

Sangha Maha Nayaka

Committee who attend the

meeting.

According to the

functions and duties of the


Committee, it is found that

various matters relating to

the members of the Sangha

or Sangha Committees canonly be decided and settled

by members of the Sangha

themselves. Any matters

relating to the members

of the Sangha cannot be

decided and settled by any

civil courts or authorities

concerned.

*****

Emergency medicines kits distr ibuted to

villages in Kayin StateNayPyiTaw, 12 Dec

The Ministry of Health

provided kits of Myanmar

traditional medicines for

emergency use to villages in

Kayin State on 1 December.

At the ceremony, Kayin

State Chief Minister U

Zaw Min, Deputy Minister

for Health Dr Win Myint

and Chairman of Nippon

Foundation Mr Sasakawa

presented the packages to

the village representatives

from Hpa-an, Hlaingbwe

and Thandaung Townships,

and Speaker of Kayin State

Hluttaw U Saw Aung

Kyaw Min, State Social

Affairs Minister U Chit

Hlaing, Director-General

of Traditional Medicine

Dep ar tm en t Dr Tu n

Naing Oo and State

Government Secretary

U Myo Aung Htay, the

village representatives

from Kawkareik, Kya-in-

Seikkyi, Myawady and

Phapon Townships. The state

chief minister, the deputy

minister and the Nippon

Foundation chairman visited

herbal garden near Hpa-an

industrial zone.MNA

Lottery.Yes, its low in

possibility! But I

just tr y it.

Myay Zar


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9New Light of Myanmar

Lashio, 1 2 Dec

T h e K a n b a w z a C u p

Golf Tournament will be

organized at Hsinshweli

Golf Course in Lashio from

15 to 18 December.

The golf course is

located on Lashio-Namtu

Road. The golf course

constituted with 18 holes

Kanbawza Cup Golf Tourney 15-18 Decturns out a lot of golfers

who brought prestige of the

nation, said a veteran golfer

U Ba Khin of over 70 years

old in Lashio.

In-charge of the golf

course U Than Aung said,

All golfers from the

state will take part in the

tournament. So far, a total

Illegal timber extractions seized in

Mawlamyine TownshipNayPyiTaw, 12 Dec

Concerted efforts are being

made for preservation of

natural forest resources with

momentum and focusing

on searching and arresting

those who committed illegal

extraction of timber from

the natural forests and forest

reserves in Mon State.

Myanma Alinn Daily

reported recently that as an

operation, a departmental

team led by Director U

Chit Paw of Mon State

Forest Department searched

and arrested illegal timber

extraction along the banks

of Attaran and Gyaing rivers

from 27 November to 5

December.

The team seized 21 logs

of illegal timber and other

woods weighing 5.06 tons

and arrested two owners.

Action is being taken

against the two persons under

the Forest Law.

Myanma Alinn

Railroad sections to

Myitkyina inspected

MyiTkyiNa, 12 Dec

Kachin State Minister for

Transport U Kaman Tu

Naw, accompanied by

State Engineer of Myanma

Railways, rail track senior

engineer and ofcials, made

a trip to inspect the railroad

section to Myitkyina by RGC

on 4 and 5 December.

The minister looked

into rail tracts on Myitkyina-

Mohnyin railroad section,

maintenance of Nankway

Bridge, Bridges No 719 and

715, Bridge No 698, Bridge

No 684, Bridge No 681 and

Bridge No 673.

On 5 December, he

inspected rail tracks between

Mohnyin and Nantsiaung

railway stations, prevention

of erosion at rail tracts, line

clearing points and railway

trafc lights at the entrance

to the railway stations and

bridges. The State minister

also viewed the sites for

digging of drains along the

both sides of railroads where

water and swamps are.

Myanma Alinn

of 51 golf teams have got

registration to take part in

the cup. The tournament

will be categorised as inter-

club scratch event, inter-

club handicap, individual

scratch event, senior scratch

event and individual junior

handicap event.

Myanma Alinn

Nay Pyi Taw , 12

DecVice-President of


of Myanmar Dr Sai Mauk

Kham met a delegation ledby Mr Marovenic A. Semaan,

Chairman of Petrofac Ltd,

at Credentials Hall of

Presidential Palace, here,

this evening.

At the call, they had

a cordial discussion on

opportunities for Myanmars

agricultural development

in t ransforming in to

mechanized farming system,

Vice-President

Dr Sai Mauk Kham r eceives

Chairman of Petrofac LtdMyanma tourism develop-

ment and investments in

Myanmar.

Also present at the

call together with the Vice-President were Deputy

Minister for Foreign Affairs

U Thant Kyaw, Deputy

Minister for Electric Power U

Myint Zaw, Deputy Minister

for Energy U Htin Aung,

Deputy Minister for National

Planning and Economic

Development Dr Daw Khin

San Yi and departmental

heads.MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 12 Dec

Chief of the General

Staff (Army, Navy and

Air) General Hla Htay

Win received Director Lt-

Gen Chai Shaoliang of

Political Department of

Chengdu Military Region

of the Peoples Republic of

China and party at Zeyathiri

Beikman, here, yesterday

morning.

Also present together

with General Hla Htay Win

Bronze statues cast in honour of Grandma

Daw Oo Zun, Myanma Alinn U Tin

yaNgoN, 12 DecIn

commemoration of the 80th

anniversary of Hninzigon

Home for the Aged, two

bronze statues of Daw Oo Zun

who established the Home

and Myanma Alinn U Tin

who succeeded the tasks of

the Home will be opened on

1 January, 2013.

As of January 1933,silk merchant Daw Oo Zun

(a) Nun Daw Sumala of

Mandalay established the

Daw Oo Zun Home for the

Aged in Hninzigon Ward

of Thingangyun Township

in Yangon Region to

accommodate older persons.

In 1943, Manager of

Myanma Alinn daily U Tin

took the responsibility of

Chairmanship of the Home

for the rst time at No 21

on Kaba Aye Pagoda Road

in Bahan Township due to

assignment of Daw Oo Zun.

He was the rst-ever chairman

General Hla Htay Win meets Director of Political

Department of Chengdu Military Region of PRC

were Lt-Gen Aung Than

Htut of Commander-in-

Chief (Army) Ofce, Chief

of Staff (Navy) Commodore

Tin Aung San, Chief of

Staff (Air) Maj-Gen Khin

Aung Myint, Commander

of Nay Pyi Taw Command

Maj-Gen Maung Maung

Aye and senior military

officers of Commander-

in-Chief (Army) Office.

Lt-Gen Chai Shaoliang was

accompanied by Maj-Gen

Zhang Bing, Maj-Gen Li

Jicai and ofcials, Chinese

Military Attach to Myanmar

Sr-Col Xiong Shaowei.

T h e y h e l d

comprehensive discussions

on strengthening bilateral

friendship between the two

armed forces and peace and

stability in border regions.

After the meeting, they

exchanged gifts and posed

for a documentary photo.

MNA

of the Home.

In honour of the founder

and first successor, the

museum was established

and their statues will be kept

there, said Vice-Chairman of

the Home Major Aung Than

(Rtd).

A four-storey building

to mark Grandma Daw Oo

Zun and another four-storey

Hninzimyaing Geha Building

in honour of Myanma Alinn

U Tin have been constructed

with the stone plaques.

Since the Home was

moved from Hninzigon Ward

of Thingangyun Township,

there were 45 older persons

at the Home. Now, the home

accommodates 100 grandpas

and 140 grandmas. Since

its establishment, the home

has given care to 2300 older

persons, said the vice-chairman

of the Home.

As the 80th anniversary of

the Home falls on 1 January

2013, the bronze statues of

Grandma Daw Oo Zun, founder

of the Home and Myanma Alinn

U Tin, successor of founder,

will be kept in their honour at

the entrance to the Home on a

grand scale.Myanma Alinn

Bronze statues of Hninzigon Home for the Aged

founder Grandma Daw Oo Zun and her successor

Myanma Alinn U Tin.

Time and

Tide Waits

for No Man

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham meets

Mr Marovenic A . Semaan, Chairman of Petrofac

Ltd, at Creden tials Hall of Presiden tial Palace.

mna


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WORLD

10 New Light of Myanmar

Drunk policemen shoot minibus

dr iver in St PetersburgSaint PeterSburg, 12

DecTwo drunk police

officers are suspected ofopening re at and injureda minibus driver on Monday

night, authorities said onTuesday.

While full details of the

incident remain unclear, thepair are believed to shoot at

one of St Petersburgs manyminibuses on their way backto the base, according to the

Ghana police assure post-election secur ityaccra, 12 Dec Ghana

police on Tuesday said theyhad put in an elaborateprogramme to ensure peace

and stability in the WestAfrican country to forestallany acts of violence following

the 7 December polls.Director of PublicAffairs for the Ghana

Police Service and DeputySuperintendent of Police(DSP) Cephas Arthur

told journalists here thecomprehensive operationalprogramme was to ensure

peace before, during and afterthe countrys presidential

and parliamentary elections.

We have our men onthe ground to ensure peopledo not take the law into their

own hands, DSP Arthursaid.

Ghanaians went to the

polls on Friday and Saturdayto elect a president and a275-member legislature.

Accord ing to theElectoral Commission (EC),the presidential election was

won by incumbent JohnDramani Mahama with50.70 percent of the total

valid votes cast, while hisclosest challenger, Nana

Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,

obtained 47.7 percent of thevotes.

The main opposition

party New Patriotic Party(NPP), just after theannouncement of the election

results by EC ChairmanKwad wo Afar i -Gy anon Sunday, accused the

ruling National DemocraticCongress of rigging theelection.

Subsequently, the partyrejected the outcome andstated its decision to head

for the countrys SupremeCourt.Xinhua

Afghan border policemen take part in their train ing

at a training centre in Herat Province, western

Afghanistan , on 11 Dec, 2012.

Xinhua

Relatives

celebrate

after a couple

registered

their

marriage in

Vladivostok

in the

Russian Far

East on 12

Dec, 2012.

Many couples

registered

their

marriages

to mark the

date, which

can be written

as 121212.

Kyodonews

UN agency says Syrians refugees keep rising, exceeding

half a millionunited nationS , 12

DecSyrian refugees havekept on the rise, with the

number exceeding half amillion, according to the UNRefugee Agency (UNHCR).

The information wasdisclosed by UN spokesman

Martin Nesirky at a dailynews brieng held here onTuesday.

Syria has been sufferingfrom a long-standing crisiswhich broke out in March

2011, and has sent a largeinflux of refugees intoits neighbouring Turkey,

Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.More than half a

million Syrian refugees

have now been registered orare awaiting registration infour surrounding countries

and North Africa, saidNesirky, quoting statistics

given by the UN RefugeeAgency (UNHCR). Sincethe beginning of November,

the number of registeredrefugees region-wide hasrisen by about 3,200 a day,

including both new arrivalsfrom Syria and those whohad already been in the

asylum countries for sometime but had not sought helpthrough registration.

UNHCR predicted thenumber of those who comeforward to register would go

up as the conict in Syriacontinues, resources were

depleted and host countriesand families could no longersupport them.

According to theagency, only about 40 percentof registered Syrian refugees

across the region actually livein refugee camps, said the

spokesman. The majority

Police arrest

suspects inBonn bomb

scareberlin, 12 DecPolice

have arrested two suspectswho are believed to haveplanted explosive devices

in Bonn central railwaystation, local media reportedon Tuesday.

Spiegel Online said twoSalafist terrorist suspects

identied as Omar D andAbdirazak B have alreadybeen arrested. Both are

reportedly well-known toauthorities as extremists whowere detained in 2008 due to

a terrorist attempt.On Monday, a bag with

no apparent owner was

found on a platform of Bonncentral railway station, andthe authorities shut down

the station due to the alarm,causing many delays andcancellations. The station

was reopened on Mondayevening.

The bags contents were

described by investigatorsas potentially explosivematerial, although no

detonator was found. Thepolice conducted a search

across the state of NorthRh in e-Wes tp h a l i a o nTuesday.Xinhua

live outside camps, oftenin rental housing, with hostfamilies, or in various types

of collective centres andrenovated accommodation.

UNHCR is stepping up

its outreach activities in theregion to provide registration

and to help those who needit, he said.

L a s t w e e k , U N

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited refugee campsin Jordan and Turkey to

express his solidarity andto help highlight the needfor more funding.Xinhua

Algeria to help Libya reinforce internal securityalgierS, 12 Dec

Algeria will help Libyastrengthen security, Algerian

Prime Minister AbdelmalekSellal said on Tuesday atthe end of a two-day visit of

his Libyan counterpart AliZaidan.

Algeria will extend a

helping hand to Libya in termsof security to reinforce theauthority there, Sellal told

reporters at the InternationalAirport of Algiers while

sending off Libyan PrimeMinister Zaidan.

Zaidans visit is a new

beginning for the bilateralrelations, Sellal said.

During the visit, the

Libyan PM discussed thecooperation with Algeriain the military and security

fields. Earlier Monday,after meeting with AlgerianP r e s i d e n t A b d e l a z i z

Bouteika, Zaidan said thetwo countries have agreed

to boost border securitycooperation to thwart arms

inltration.Libya and Algeria share

convergent visions on most ofthe issues of common interest,

including border security andcounterterrorism, Zaidansaid. Previously, Algeria

agreed to send a delegation ofpolice experts to Libya to helprestructure and train Libyan

police forces.Xinhua

Colourful illuminations are seen projected on a

building in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 11 Dec,

2012. The cultural festival of light and water will

last until middle of January, 2013.Xinhua

authorities.

One of the bullets struckthe driver in the arm, causinghim to lose control of hisvehicle, said the authorities.

The two shooters, a38-year-old warrant ofcerand a 25-year-old sergeant,

have been taken into custody,and police said they have

launched a investigation intothe incident.

Xinhua

Police conduct dawn raids in Sydney as

investigation into shooting continuesSydney, 12 DecMore

than 100 police officersconducted dawn raids in

Sydneys southwest onWednesday, arresting sixmen over a drive-by shooting

in July, the New South Wales(NSW) Police said.

Po l i ce sa id t h ey

executed search at six homesin Merrylands, Punchbowl

and Bankstown at 6 am(local time) on Wednesdayand arrested six men.

The operation relatesto a drive-by shootinginvolving an exchange of

gunre between three menin Broughton Street in OldGuildford in Sydneys west

on 21 July, the NSW Policesaid in a statement.

The shooting resultedin a woman suffering minor

injuries after a stray bulletentered her home. The incidentis being investigated by the

Middle Eastern OrganizedCrime Squad under StrikeForce Sevenoak, police said.Two men remain before

the court in relation to theincident.Xinhua

US now recognizes Syrian opposition coalitionWaShington, 12 Dec

President Barack Obama saidon Tuesday that the UnitedStates now recognizes anewly formed coalition of

Syrian opposition groups, amove aimed at ratcheting up

pressure on Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assad.

Weve made a decision

that the Syrian OppositionCoalition is now inclusive

enough, is reflective andrepresentative enough of theSyrian population, that we

consider them the legitimaterepresentative of the Syrian

people in opposition to theAssad regime, Obama saidin an interview with Barbara

Walters of ABC News.The move, which was

widely expected, could givenew international legitimacyto the rebels fighting to

overthrow Assad, but stopsshort of authorizing US arming

of the opposition, somethingObama has steadfastly refusedto do.Reuters


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11New Light of Myanmar

China to open rst subway crossing YangtzeWuhan, 12 Dec

Chinas rst subway lineto cross the Yangtze River,the countrys longest water-way, is expected to start testrun this month in the centralcity of Wuhan, local of-cials said on Tuesday.

Subway trains have

run through the 27.73-kmtunnel for Wuhan Line 2,which links Wuchang and

Hankou two major areasof the city over the pastthree months. But passen-

gers will only be allowed toboard the trains on 28 Decwhen the test run starts, of-cials with the Hubei pro-

Commun ity catering staff prepare meal at a community dining room in Donggaodi

sub-district of south Beijing, capital of China, on 11 Dec, 2012. Local sub-district

ofce took measures and established 4 community dining rooms and 3 food trucksserving the aged citizens exclusively. Around 2,000 senior citizens beneted from

the convenience-for-people measures since 2011.Xinhua

vincial transportation bu-reau said.

The subway line hasrecently passed the experts

assessment, they said.It will be Wuhans rst

subway, which is estimated

to transport at least 600,000passengers daily by 2015.

As a key transportationroute, the line is expectedto handle half of the citys

cross-Yangtze trafc ow,easing gridlock on bridgesover the river.

The construction costsaround 14.9 billion yuan(2.37 billion US dollars),

according to estimates by

previous reports.

The 6,300-km YangtzeRiver, which originates innorthwest Chinas Qing-hai Province and owsthrough 10 provinces andmunicipalities before emp-tying into the East ChinaSea, is a major transport

link between the west andeast China. More than 100bridges across the river are

in use.Wuhan lies at the in-

tersection of the Han and

Yangtze rivers. Its cityproper is divided into threemajor areas by the rivers.

Xinhua

SKoreas jobless rate falls to 2.8 pct

in NovemberSeoul, 12 DecSouth

Koreas jobless rate fell to2. 8 percent last month dueto strong job creation in

the manufacturing sector, agovernment report showed

on Wednesday.

India asks Pakistan to hand over Mumbai

attacks mastermind

The unemployment

rate stood at 2.8 percentin November, down 0. 1percentage point from the

same month last year, ac-cording to Statistics Korea.

From a month before, the

rate was unchanged.

After peaking at 4.2percent in February, thejobless rate has trended

down to 2.8 percent that isnearly at a full employment

level.Xinhua

neW Delhi, 12 DecIndia will demand that Pa-kistan hand over the allegedmastermind of the Mumbai

terror attacks, Lashkar-e-Toiba founder Haz Saeed,during Pakistani Interior

Minister Rehman Maliksvisit later this week.

I am quite sure that

when he (Malik) will comehere, I will discuss with him

this issue, Indian HomeMinister Sushilkumar Shin-de told media on Monday.

Malik is likely to beginhis three-day visit to India

this Friday. India has givenPakistan at least seven dos-siers containing evidence

of Saeeds involvement inthe 2008 Mumbai attacksin which over 170 people

were killed and more than

300 others injured.India last month ex-

ecuted Mohammed Aj-mal Amir Kasab, the onlymilitant caught alive in theMumbai massacre, after the

countrys Supreme Courtupheld his death penaltyhanded down to him by a

special court which in 2010convicted him for his rolein the attacks.Xinhua

A soldier f rom Yanchen g border detachmen t plays

with a red-crowned crane which comes here to

overwinter at national nature reserve of rare birds in

Yancheng, east Chinas Jiangsu Province, on 11 Dec,

2012. The reserve was set to protect rare birds suchas red-crowned cranes since 1980s. Over the past

30 years, soldiers here have been protecting the rare

birds and wetlands.Xinhua

Port Klang, (Malay-sia), 12 DecMalaysianSelangor state customs

department crippled an at-tempt to smuggle 24 tonesof African elephant tusks

worth 60 million ringgit(19.6 million US dollars) in

the countrys largest seizureof illegal ivory to date, thedepartment said on Tues-day.

The shipment, boundfor China from the Lomeport in Togo, had berthed at

Malaysias port Klang nearKuala Lumpur on Friday.

Selangor Customs di-rector, Azis Yacub saidthe tusks were concealedin piles of wood carried in

two containers that weredeclared as Mahogany oortiles on immigration docu-ments.

The seizure, fourth of

such in the country, wasmade on Monday after au-thorities received a tip.

The tusks, Azis said,cost 2,500 ringgit per kilo-

Malaysia makes largest

seizure of illegal ivory worth

20 mln USD

15 killed in road accident in SW PakistaniSlamabaD, 12 Dec

At least 15 people includ-ing four soldiers were killedand 25 others injured when

a coach collided with amilitary vehicle in Khuzdar

in central Balochistan prov-ince of southwest Pakistanon Tuesday afternoon, re-ported local Urdu TV chan-nel Samaa.

But there is no ofcial

conrmation about the g-ures. Deputy Commissionerof Khuzdar Mansoor Khan

earlier told local media thatonly ve people were killedand 16 others were injured

in the accident.All the injured have

been shifted to a military

hospital in Khuzdar, saidrescue workers.

Hospital sources sai

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