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Volume XVII, Number 110 14th Waxing of Wagaung 1371 ME Tuesday, 4 August, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round devel-opment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms

of technical know-how and investments from sources insidethe country and abroad

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—Lt-Gen Ko Ko of theMinistry of Defence attended the ceremony ofcompletion of ploughing and viewed transplantingskills contest in Ayeyawady Division at the 1000-acre

Lt-Gen Ko Ko attends ceremony of completionof ploughing, views transplanting skills contest

Rubber farms in Shwegyin Township toadd natural beauty to Bago Division

Article, photos: Reporter Peinzalok Thein Nyunt

model near Kyonwa village in Myaungmya townshipthis morning. Present on the occasion were Chairmanof Ayeyawady Division Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander of South-West Command

Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe, departmental officials at division,district and township levels, members of socialorganizations and locals.

(See page 8)

A rubber farm in Chedawyar Village, Shwegyin Township, Bago Division. (See page 7)

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Tuesday, 4 August, 2009* 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 DesirePERSPECTIVES

Actively participate in activities of

Nutrition Development Week and

World Breastfeeding WeekA ceremony to mark Nutrition

Development Week and World Breastfeeding

Week, organized by the Ministry of Health,

Ministry of Mines, WHO and UNICEF, was

held at the meeting hall of the Ministry of

Health in Nay Pyi Taw on 2 August.

The purpose of the simultaneous

launching of activities for World Breastfeeding

Week and Nutrition Development Week is to

provide health care services to children under

five and their mothers. The world breastfeeding

activities are to be held in the first week of

August and the nutrition development activities

from the first to the last week of August.

The motto for this year’s World

Breastfeeding Week is “Breastfeeding: A Vital

Emergency Response, Are You Ready?”.The

systematic breastfeeding during the nutrition

development weeks will help reduce the cases

of malnutrition, diarrhea and forsaking

children. And the object of holding these

ceremonies is to ensure feeding of vitamin A

tablets to all children under five in the nation,

to cultivate a habit of having balanced diet

among pregnant women, nursing mothers and

children and to prevent infection.

In the third week of August, iron tablets,

vitamin B and B-1 tablets will be distributed to

pregnant women and vitamin B-1 tablets to

nursing mothers for their nutrition

development.

Members of Myanmar Maternal and

Child Welfare Association, public health

workers, midwives and local people are to

actively take part in the activities of Nutrition

Development Week and World Breastfeeding

Week and make them a complete success.

Myanmar delegation members seen at Yangon International Airport

before their departure for Thailand to attend ASEAN Collaboration on

Sericulture Research and Development.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug

— Chairman of

Ayeyawady Division

Peace and Development

Council Commander of

South-West Command Commander views broadcasting

fertilizers at paddy fields in Ingapu

YANGON, 3 Aug — Arefresher course No. 4 fordistrict level judges wasconcluded at the SupremeCourt (Yangon) heretoday. Deputy Chief-Justice U Thein Soe madea speech at the concludingceremony. A total of 25trainees attended theeight-week course.

MNA

Refresher coursefor district level

judgesconcluded

South-West Command

Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe

accompanied by officials

viewed broadcasting

fertilizers at paddy fields in

Bok villagetract of Ingapu

Township and left

necessary instructions on

22 July.The commander

inspected the construction

of Thidakonpyin station

hospital in Yekyi Town of

Ngathaichaung Township,

looked into Digital Auto-

exchange office of

Myanma Posts and

Telecomm-unications, and

inspected the install-ation

of CDMA phone lines. On

arrival at Kyankhin cement

factory, the commander

heard the report presented

by the factory manager

and left necessary

instructions.

The commander

inspected Myinwataung

forest camp on Pathein-

Monywa-Ye U on 23 July.

MNA

YANGON, 3 Aug – Twomen who attempted to roba taxi driver at knife pointon Alanpya Pagoda Roadnear Bahan Roundabout inDagon Township werearrested within hours. Thetaxi driver, Aung KhinHsint, together with hisassistant Nay Min Aung,while driving his car withlicense plate AA/4443 fromNorth OakkalapaTownship to the city centre,were stopped and hired by

Attempted robbery exposedtwo young men at ThandaBus Stop for K 2,000 to goto a restaurant near YangonZoological Gardens inMingala Taung NyuntTownship at about 1.30 amyesterday. While the carwas on Alanpya PagodaRoad near BahanRoundabout, the man fromthe seat behind the driver’sseat started to threaten thedriver at knife point. Butassistant driver Nay MinAung grabbed the knife

from the man and they werelocked in a fight. As thedriver stopped the car, thetwo men got out of the carand ran off. Members ofBahan Police Force asinformed by the driversearched the surroundingareas with the help ofpassers-by, found Ye AungTun, 23, of NorthOakkalapa Townshipamong the tress beside thezoo and arrested him alongwith a six-inch knife.

According to theinvestigation, the accom-plice of Ye Aung Tun isTet Pu, who lives in thesame ward. A combinedteam of Dagon TownshipPolice Force and NorthOakkalapa Police Forceapprehended Tet Pu at hishouse. Dagon PoliceStation has filed a lawsuitagainst the suspects. Inorder not to cause similarcases, Yangon DivisionPolice Force is giving talkson crime prevention.

MNA

Myanmar delegation leaves for Thailand toattend ASEAN Collaboration on Sericulture Research and Development conference

YANGON, 3 Aug—AMyanmar delegation ledby Director U Maung Lwinof Cotton and SericultureDivision of the MyanmarIndustrial Crops Deve-lopment Enterprise underthe Ministry of Agricultureand Irrigation left here forThailand by air this mor-ning to attend the ASEANCollaboration on

Sericulture Research andDeve-lopment Conferenceand Silk Wear Show to beheld in Thailand from 4to10 August. He isaccompanied bySericulture Farm ManagerDaw Yi Yi Hlaing, KhaingTha Zin Silk Wear Centreproprietors U Aung Sheinand Daw Thitsa Shein.

MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe views villagers of Bok village-tract broadcasting fertilizers.—MNA

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Two Canadian soldiers killedby roadside bombs

in AfghanistanOTTAWA, 3 Aug—Two Canadian soldiers

were killed on Saturday in southernAfghanistan when a roadside bombexploded near a patrol, military officialssaid on Sunday.

The incident occurred approximately 15kilometres west of Kandahar City onSaturday afternoon, the Department ofNational Defence said in a press release.

The soldiers had dismounted from theirvehicle during their patrol when theytouched upon the bomb. Another soldierwas seriously injured and is in stablecondition in hospital. Since 2002, 127Canadian soldiers have been killed inAfghanistan mission.—Internet

New Utah uranium mine controversialSALT LAKE CITY, 3 Aug—Two US environmental

groups said on Sunday they want the US Bureau ofLand Management to prohibit mining in the Danerosuranium mine. The Salt Lake Tribune said the SouthernUtah Wilderness Alliance and Uranium Watch wantto block Utah’s first new uranium mine in 30 years.

The groups said they also want to prevent WhiteCanyon Uranium, an Australia-based company, frommining until Selma Sierra, the federal agency’s Utahdirector, decides whether the BLM has examined theenvironmental ramifications sufficiently.

“There are a lot of issues associated with uraniummining that were not adequately assessed before thepermits were issued,” said SUWA attorney LizThomas.“The project needs more thorough reviews ofits potential impacts on water and air,” said SarahFields, Director of Moab-based Uranium Watch. “Forinstance, the BLM did not look at the possible emissionsof radon.”

Internet

Gorillas found to be source of HIV for 1st timeBEIJING, 3 Aug—Researchers have discovered an HIV infection in a Cameroonian

woman which is clearly linked to a gorilla strain as against the previous researchthat showed the HIV, the main source of human infections, originated from a virusin chimpanzees, according to media reports on Monday.

HIV originated from a similar virus in chimpanzees called SimianImmunodeficiency Virus (SIV) which have been reported in other primates,including gorillas.

French doctors treating the 62-year-old Cameroonian woman who was living inParis said her case showed the infection was more closely related to SIV fromgorillas than HIV from humans, Nature Medicine reports.

Internet

Bomb blast in Afghanistan killsat least ten

KABUL, 3 Aug—TheTaleban killed at least 10people and critically in-jured a local police chiefin western Afghanistan’smain city on Monday witha remote-controlled bombhidden in a trash can, of-ficials said.

The bomb was set ona crowded street near afruit market in Herat.

It killed 10 civiliansand two police, accordingto Noor Khan Nekzad, a

spokesman for the Heratprovincial police.

The attack appeared totarget the police chief fornearby Injil district whowas driving into town,said Raouf Ahmedi, thetop police spokesman inwestern Afghanistan.

He said the districtchief, Mohammad Issa,was being transferred to aNATO-run hospital incritical condition.

Ahmedi said only 10

people were killed in theblast, including a woman,a young girl and six men.There was no immediateexplanation for the differ-ent police counts.At least 30 people wereinjured in the blast, whichblew windows out on a100-meter (yard) radius,he said.

A Taleban spokesman,Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, saidthe group had targeted thepolice chief.—Internet

Russia-led security group seekstransformation

A mountaingorilla, a

member of theMubare gorillagroup, searchesfor food in the

BwindiImpenetrable

Forest inUganda on

2 July, 2009.INTERNET

ALMATY, 3 Aug—The Russia-dominated Collective SecurityTreaty Organization (CSTO) isstanding at a crossroads andMoscow is trying to transformthe loose security alliance into afully-fledged group.

The presidents of seven ex-Soviet states ended their secondinformal summit at a lakesideresort in Kyrgyzstan on Fridayafter concluding discussions oncooperation within the organiza-tion, as well as joint combatagainst extremism and terrorismin the region.

Just as CSTO Secretary Gen-eral Nikolai Bordyusha put it in

April last year, the security group-ing was going through a transfor-mation from a military-politicalgroup into a multi-functional in-ternational organization.

At the summit, Russia won anagreement to station more Rus-sian troops in Kyrgyzstan as theKremlin seeks more military in-fluence in Central Asia.

The memorandum signed be-tween Russian President DmitryMedvedev and his Kyrgyz coun-terpart Kurmanbek Bakiyev saidKyrgyzstan had “approved a pro-posal by Russia to house an ad-ditional Russian military contin-gent in Kyrgyzstan.”—Internet

The site of a bomb blast in Herat. A bomb targeting Afghan police guardsexploded in the heart of Afghanistan’s western city of Herat.—INTERNET

Two newly discovered pieces of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are seenfor the first time in public in a house where the master composer once lived,

in Salzburg on 2 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

SALZBURG, 3 Aug—Technically demandingand at times furiouslypaced, two newly identi-fied Mozart works un-veiled on Sunday are help-ing scholars complete theirassessment of the maes-tro’s very early achieve-ments. The childhoodcreations — an extensiveconcerto movement and afragmentary prelude —provide yet more proof theSalzburg native was a trueprodigy. And maybe a bit

Two new Mozart works presented in Austriaof a showoff.

“We have here the firstorchestral movement bythe young Mozart — eventhough the orchestral partsare missing — and there-fore it’s an extremely im-portant missing link in ourunderstanding of Mozart’sdevelopment as a youngcomposer,” said UlrichLeisinger, head of researchat the InternationalMozarteum Foundationafter a presentation of thepieces in Mozart’s native

Salzburg. Mozart, whowas born in 1756, beganplaying the keyboard atage 3 and composing at 5.By the time he died ofrheumatic fever on 5 Dec,1791, he had written morethan 600 pieces. Leisingersaid Mozart likely wrotethe two newly attributedpieces when he was 7 or 8years old, with his father,Leopold, transcribing thenotes as his son playedthem at the keyboard.

Internet

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A child experiences moon walking at the Euro Space Centre in LuxembourgProvince, some 130 kilometres southeast of Brussels, capital of Belgium,

on 1 Aug, 2009. —XINHUA

BEIJING, 3 Aug— In-creasing trade restrictionsagainst Chinese productssignify a discordant resur-gence of protectionism - adevelopment that will notonly hurt China, but alsohamper global economicrecovery.

Ministry of Commercedata show 15 countriesand regions initiated 60 in-vestigations against Chi-nese products for dumpingand over-subsidizinggoods and other suspectedreasons in the first half ofthis year. The number ofprobes and the value of the

Tourists enjoy thescenery on sand hillsin Wuhai City, north

China’s InnerMongolia Autonomous

Region, on 2 Aug,2009.—XINHUA

Greenhouses for vegetables were in flood in Changlin township of Xichongcounty, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on 1 Aug, 2009. Xichong county

had been suffering from rainstorm since Friday, which had damaged cropsand vegetables badly.—XINHUA

Trade barriers no solutionto crisis

goods, $8.276 billion, arerecord high.

Not surprisingly, thosetargeted were products ofthe steel, rubber, foot-wear, and aluminum in-dustries, in which Chinahas spent decades inbuilding up some advan-tages. Since last year, in-vestigations against Chi-nese steel products haveforced them to beat a re-treat from markets inmore than a dozen coun-tries and regions.

Complaints againstmade-in-China productshave spread like a conta-gious disease from the de-veloped markets to the de-veloping ones. It is to benoted here that a numberof countries have imposedincipient protective meas-ures such as increasingexport subsidies, fund of-fers and currency devalu-ations on the pretext of res-cuing their economies orissuing stimulus packages.

Internet

KIGALI, 3 Aug— In-vestments in Africa aredrying up because globaleconomic woes have hitthe continent hard, econo-mists say.

In one example, plansannounced last year byDubai World to invest$230 million in Rwandantourism have been scaledback to include only twoof eight proposed pro-jects, with a luxury hotelin Kigali hotel and an“ecolodge” in Akageraamong the portions beingdropped, The New YorkTimes reported on Sunday.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 3 Aug—Hundreds of thousands oflaid-off US workers will be exhausting their unem-ployment benefits in the coming months, figures indi-cate.

Projections issued by the National EmploymentLaw Project, a private research group, contend that asmany as 1.5 million workers who have lost their jobsand been unable to find work will lose their final bul-wark against foreclosures and destitution in the com-ing months, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

The group said many more workers will join tensof thousands who have already exhausted their ben-efits, even after they were extended in some states forup to 79 weeks.

“If more help is not on the way, by September ahuge wave of workers will start running out of theircritical extended benefits, and many will have noth-ing left to get by on even as work keeps getting harderto find,” Maurice Emsellem, a policy director of theemployment law project, told the Times.

The Times said calls for yet another extension ofbenefits are rising in the US Congress at a time whenthe national unemployment rate is approaching 10percent.—InternetBEIJING, 3 Aug—Chi-

na’s urban fixed asset in-vestment was likely to riseby 40 percent year on yearin 2009, Lian Ping, chiefeconomist of Bank of Com-munications (BOCOM),told Xinhua on Sunday.

Government figuresshowed that benefiting

BEIJING, 3 Aug—Zhang Qiang has made countlessfriends over the 20-some years working in differentethnic minority areas and promoting bilingual educa-tion.

One of them, a Uygur, told Zhang that he would neverhave had the opportunity to explore the world outsidehis small village if he had not learned Mandarin.

“This is why we promote learning Mandarin amongethnic minority people,” Zhang, now deputy directorof the ethnic education department at the Ministry ofEducation, told China Daily.

“We encourage them to master their own ethniclanguages first to preserve and develop their own cul-tures,” said Zhang, who worked for the education de-partment of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regionseveral years ago.

But Mandarin-learning programmes are also intro-duced in many schools to “help enhance educationquality, boost the local economy and improve com-munication among the Chinese of different ethnicgroups and with the outside world,” Zhang said.

Internet

Africaneconomies hit

by globalslowdown

China’s urban fixed asset investment to rise40% in 2009

from the massive gov-ernment spending in theconstruction of rai l-ways, roads and infra-structure, China’ urbanfixed asset investmentrose 33.6 percent in thefirst half of this year, thelargest increase in fiveyears.

“Investment will surgein the second half of thisyear in China due to abun-dant liquidity, and thiswould become a majordriving force for the grossdomestic product (GDP)growth,” Lian said.

Chinese banks lent arecord 7.37 trillion yuan(1.08 trillion US dollars)in the first half of this yearto shore up the economy,exceeding the full-yeartarget of five trillion yuan.

The country’s eco-nomic development wasexpected to accelerate thepace and expand at 9 per-cent in the third quarterand 9.8 percent in thefourth quarter, accordingto a report released here onSaturday by the BOCOM,the country’s fifth largestcommercial lender.

Internet

1.5 million to exhaust joblessbenefits

Bilingual education key fordevelopment

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China conducts stringenttests of would-be spacemen

BEIJING, 3 Aug—Noscars, no history of seriousillness in the last three gen-erations of your family,and no tooth cavities —China imposes toughstandards on its future as-tronauts.

They must be close toperfection to meet thestandards set for the menand women who will leadChina into outer space, onMonday’s China Dailyreported.

Officials from the No

454 Hospital of the Peo-ple’s Liberation Army inNanjing, capital of JiangsuProvince, was quoted byChina Daily as saying thatover the weekend they hadalready completed pre-liminary tests for candi-dates to carry out the coun-try’s future space missions.

The hospital is one ofthe five medical institu-tions across the countryconducting the secondround of tests for its sec-ond batch of astronauts.

An employee of the No.454 Hospital, who refusedto be named, said thatabout 100 hopefuls fromthe Nanjing Compound,all of whom are well-edu-cated fighter pilots, arevying to become China’sfuture astronauts.

These 100 candidateswill also be put throughabout 100 tests that pushthem to their mental andphysical limits before theycan go to the next round.

Xinhua

Children read books in a book bar in Fuzhou, southeast China’s FujianProvince, on 2 Aug, 2009. Students are enjoying their summer vacation in

China.—XINHUA

US pilot found dead 18 years after Gulf War

Plane loses contact inIndonesia’s Papua

JAKARTA, 3 Aug— A plane lost contact on Sundaywhile flying from Sentani airport in Jayapura, the capi-tal city of Indonesia’s Papua Province, to Oksibil, thecapital city of Pegunungan Bintang regency, theKompas daily reported on Monday.

The Twin Otter plane, belonging to the national flightcarrier Merparti Nusantara Airways, was estimated tohave lost contact in 100 nautical miles from Sentani.The plane carried 13 passengers and three crews. Thevictims’ families have arrived at Sentani airport to seekcertainty of their destiny. However, until on Sundayevening they still got no news. Merpati was still try-ing to contact the lost plane via radio. The companyplanned to deploy five planes on Monday for thesearching operation.—Xinhua

Forest fire erupts in central SyriaDAMASCUS, 3 Aug—A forest fire erupted on Sunday

afternoon in the forests of Abu Kbeis in HamaGovernorate in central-western Syria and north of Da-mascus, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.Fire fighters, civil defense teams and helicopters are fight-ing for controlling and extinguishing the flames, the re-port said. Commander of the Hama Fire Department MajThaer al-Hasan said the fire was large and difficult toextinguish due to rough terrain in the fire area and hard-ness of enveloping the fire, despite the massive effortsmade by rescue teams, SANA said.—Xinhua

One injured in small planecrash in eastern Canada

OTTAWA, 3 Aug—A man was slightly injured afterhis small plane crashed in a lake in eastern Canada onSunday, reports reaching here said.

The plane went down in Lake Panuke, located nearHalifax, capital of Nova Scotia Province, in the morn-ing. Cottagers nearby saw the plane crash and con-tacted police, a rescue official said.

The middle-aged man suffered minor injuries in thecrash. He is now in hospital. —Xinhua

China Southern Airlines opensDhaka-Guangzhou flight

Rescuers search forbodies of the victims

in mudslides inJinyang of southwest

China’s SichuanProvince, on 1 Aug,

2009. —XINHUA

BEIJING, 3 Aug—Theremains of the first Ameri-can casualty of the firstGulf War have been found,the Pentagon revealed onSunday. US Navy CaptainMichael “Scott” Speicherhad been shot down in theopen hours of the Gulf Warbut his fate remained amystery. It wasn’t clear ifhe had died in the crash orif he had been taken cap-tive. His remains were dis-covered in the desert sandsof Anbar Province by mili-tary researchers actingupon information handedto them by an Iraqi. Ac-

cording to the Pentagon.the Iraqi had disclosed thata number of other local Ira-qis had witnessed theplane crash and that agroup of Bedouins hadburied the pilot. Led to theburial place by a numberof witnesses, the US mili-tary team found a jaw bonewhich matched the dentalrecords of CaptainSpeicher.

The Iraqi governmentunder the leadership ofSaddam Hussein persist-ently refused to discuss thecase, thus fueling the theorythat Captain Speicher had

been captured. PresidentClinton also added to thebelief Captain Speicherwas alive when he declaredthe US had new informa-tion and changed the pilot’sstatus from “killed in ac-tion” to “missing in action”.In autumn 2002, as the USprepared for a second warin Iraq, the navy againwithout explanationchanged his status to “miss-ing/captured,” leadingsome critics to speculatethe Bush administrationwas trying to build a casefor invasion.

Xinhua

People act as Chinese chess pieces in Xuzhou of Jiangsu Province, east ofChina, on 2 Aug, 2009. International grandmasters of Chinese chess Lu Qin

and Xu Tianhong played a match here on Sunday, as actors performed aschessmen simulating the game. Lu won the game. —XINHUA

All items from Xinhua News Agency

DHAKA, 3 Aug—ChinaSouthern Airlines Com-pany Limited openedDhaka-Guangzhou flighton Sunday. A Boeing 737-800 carrying 17 passen-gers from Guangzhou ar-rived at Zia InternationalAirport in Bangladesh’scapital Dhaka early morn-ing on Monday.

Gao Bo, China South-ern Airlines Bangladeshrepresentative, told

Xinhua while receivingthe inaugural flight thatthey have only one flightat the beginning. “Hope-fully we will increase thenumber of flight verysoon,” he said.

Gao Bo said in order toattract passengers, theysell the ticket at very fa-vourable price at the be-ginning. “One returnticket from Dhaka toGuangzhou is only 19,000

taka (about 271 US dol-lars). The normal price isaround 590 US dollars,”he said.

Iqbal, a Bangladeshibusinessman who tookthe inaugural flight toGuangzhou, told Xinhuawhen checking in that theopening of Dhaka-Guangzhou flight willbring convenience forhim.

Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUMCigarette packaging design impacts safety

Drunk men allegedly stealwater for outdoor slide

Two men face theft and publicintoxication charges after allegedlystealing water from a fire hydrant foran outdoor water game. PottawattamieCounty Sheriff’s Department spokes-man Sgt Dwayne Ritchie said the menwere arrested after a trailer pulledbehind the pickup they were drivingblew a tire, sending the pickup andtrailer into a ditch.

According to authorities, the trailerwas hauling a 15-hundred gallon tankfilled with water allegedly stolen froma fire hydrant in Underwood. Ritchiesaid a witness saw the men filling thetank from a city hydrant and reportedthe action to police.

Ritchie said the men indicated theywere going to use the water for a waterslide.

Man sleeping in dumpstergets picked up with trash

Authorities said a man, who had beensleeping in a Dumpster, sustained minorinjuries after he was picked up by agarbage truck along with the trash.Authorities said that when firefightersand paramedics arrived, they heard KevinHallaran, 52, banging on the metal sidesof the sanitation truck asking for help.

Hallaran had been sleeping inside aDumpster behind a restaurant on Sundaynight and had been unknowingly dumpedalong with the garbage from restaurantsand other businesses into the truck earlyon Monday.

A majority of consumers say ciga-rettes are less hazardous when thepacks display words such as “silver”or “smooth,” Canadian researchersfind.

Study leader David Hammond ofthe University of Waterloo calls forfor the list of words banned from ciga-rette packaging to be expanded be-yond the current prohibition of“light,” “mild” and “low-tar.” Ham-mond also suggests that other packdesign elements may need to be elimi-nated to prevent consumers errone-ously believing that one brand is lessharmful than another.

“Our study found that commonlyused words not covered by the bans,as well as other packaging design el-ements such as color, the use of num-bers and references to filters, were justas misleading, which means there’s aloophole that needs to be closed,”Hammond says in a statement.

The researchers studied the percep-tions of 312 smokers and 291 non-smokers recruited in a shopping mallusing nine pairs of fictitious cigarettepacket replicas. Each pair differed inonly a single design aspect — either aword such as “silver” versus “full-flavor.”

A 12-day-old Nile hippopotamusplays with its mother, Chombi, atMalaysia’s National Zoo in Kuala

Lumpur on 29 July, 2009.The baby hippopotamus has not

been given a name.

Li Enhai, a Chinese chef who has setthe Guinness world record in which

he made a 2,852-km-long noodlewith one kg of flour, presents his skill

in noodle stretching at the openingceremony of a local hotel in

Keshikten city of north China’s InnerMongolia Region.

Thousands of young

people wait for the

beginning of a free

concert at the Angel of

Independence in

Mexico City, on 2 Aug,

2009.

INTERNET

SHANGHAI, 3 Aug—Heavy rain lashed Shang-hai on Sunday, causingdelays of more than 20international flights, avia-tion authorities said.

Some parts of Shanghaireported rainfall of nearly200 millimeters, three daysafter it was lashed by theheaviest rainstorm in al-most 70 years.

CINCINNATI, 3 Aug— Two residents of Green Town-ship, Ohio, say their family home was infiltrated byup to 70,000 honey bees.

Susan and Doug Hayes said while they have hadproblems with bee swarms around their home since2007, they were unprepared to learn tens of thousandsof them were residing within their home’s walls, TheCincinnati Enquirer reported on Saturday.

“I love nature, bees are important to our ecosys-tem” said Susan Hayes, whose home underwent a thor-ough bee removal at the hands of beekeeper Bill Jones.“It breaks my heart that I destroyed their home, butthey were destroying mine.”

Jones was unable to simply exterminate the inva-sive insects since honey bees are considered endan-gered.

Using a so-called bee-vac machine that sucks thebees into a box without injuring them, Jones was ableto clean out the house’s walls.—Internet

MASERU, 3 Aug—Anenvironmental expert inLesotho says US compa-nies’ wastes are healthrisks to the country’s peo-ple, who are alreadyplagued by AIDS andother diseases.

The Sunday Times ofLondon reported Chinesecompanies serving largeforeign garment manufac-turers — notably Gap Incand Levi Strauss & Co —were polluting watersources and dumping andburning toxic and other-wise dangerous materials,contrary to regulationsprohibiting such activi-ties.

Tseliso Tsoeu, an envi-ronmental expert on

Heavy rain lashes Shanghai, causing flight delaysMore than 20 out-

bound flights at ShanghaiPudong International Air-port have been delayedand dozens inboundplanes failed to land in therain.

Following the heavyrain, water in the TaihuLake near Shanghai hasrisen 0.28 metre above thealarming level.

The water level is un-der control, but more ty-phoons in August couldcomplicate flood controlefforts, local maritime au-thorities said.

Floods in northwesternQinghai province andsouthern Guangxi prov-ince have damaged someroads and disrupted traf-fic.—Internet

Garment makers’ waste toxic in AfricaLesotho’s Council ofNongovernmental Or-ganizations, said Lesotholaw bans discharge of“any poisonous, toxic orchemical substance intoour waters.”

“The Chinese havecome here and have ba-sically done what theywanted,” Tsoeu said.“They make enormousprofits from employingblack Africans on behalf

of respectable westerncompanies who adver-tise the highest stand-ards of production butin reality don’t reallyknow what is going onhere.”

Gap Inc Senior VicePresident of Global Re-sponsibility Dan Henklesaid the company orderedan investigation when itlearned of complaints.

Internet

Ohio home may have housed70,000 bees

An auction tag placed on a catfishsculpture is on display at 20th CenturyProps in North Hollywood, California.Hollywood's second-largest prop houseis going out of business with its ownersaying he has fallen victim to film andTV production leaving California forother US states that lure producers withtax incentives and fewer restrictions.

Loneliness driveselderly to theft

TOKYO, 3 Aug. — Isolationand loneliness drive many eld-erly people to shoplift and manyjuveniles see shoplifting as agame, research conducted byTokyo police indicated.

Japanese law enforcement hasseen a rapid rise in shoplifting bythe elderly. The number of eld-erly people convicted of theft in2007 was 31,573 — a three-foldincrease over 1998.

Tokyo police surveyed 1,050people involved in shopliftingcases between April 20 and June30, the Kyodo news agency re-ported. Police said they found,out of a group of 204 people age65 or older, 24 percent said theywere driven to shoplift by feel-ings of loneliness.—Internet

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 4 August, 2009 7

Rubber farms in Shwegyin Township toadd natural beauty to Bago Division

Article, photos: Reporter Peinzalok Thein Nyunt

(from page 1)On my recent tour

of Shwegyin Township,in Bago Division, toinform the public myfirst-hand knowledge ofregional development, Inoticed rubber farmsthriving in the township.

In Myanmar, BagoDivision has the largestrubber farming acreageafter Taninthayi Divisionand Mon State. Rubbergrows well even at theregions standing at analtitude of more than2000 feet.

Shwegyin Townshiplies at an altitude of 96feet with an area of605,084 acres. It has avast area of vacant landsto grow rubber.

I interviewedManager U San Yu Kyiof Shwegyin TownshipMyanma Perennial CropsEnterprise and AssistantManager U Min Swan Yifrom the Ministry ofIndustry-1. U San Yu Kyisaid that ShwegyinTownship was working

U San Yu Kyi,Shwegyin TownshipMyanma PerennialCrops Enterprise.

Assistant Manager U Min Swan Yi from theMinistry of Industry-1.

The Ministry of Industry-1 receives orders for rubber grafts in Shwegyin Township.

hard to put 30,000 acresunder rubber to contributetowards Bago Division’starget of meeting 100,000acres of rubber farms; thatup to 2008-2009, thetownship had grown23,795 acres of rubber andtapped latex from rubberplants of 3529 acres; thatthe township produced1,672,675 pounds ofrubber latex with per acreyield of 473.98 lbs; thatthe township was tryingto hit the target of 10,000acres of rubber farms by2009-2010; that theTownship Myanma

Perennial CropsEnterprise was pursuingthe target of 78,800saplings, and the Ministryof Industry-1, 50,000saplings, and privateenterprises, 177,500saplings and 97,500 graftsof high-yield rubberspecies; and up to 15 July2009, the township hadgrown 3532 acres of

rubber; and that thecommon rubber strains inthe township were BPM-

24, RRIM 623, RRIN 717,PB 260, BP 235 and GT-1.

He said that to boostproduction of rubbercalled for use of advancedagricultural methods andsuitable rubber strains, sothey were working incooperation with theMyanma AgricultureService for choosing high-

yield strains and advancedagricultural methods,keeping a fixed distance

between two plants andbetween two rows ofrubber, growing cropsamong rubber plants toearn incomes before thefarms were at harvest,keeping the moisture ofthe soil, and firepreventive measures.

He added that due totheir turning to high-yieldrubber species, localrubber farmers weremaking higher profits,leading to higher livingstandard and furtherregional development;and that farming rubberon a massive scale was alucrative business and itcontributed to environ-mental conservation.

Assistant Manager UMin Swan Yi said that theMinistry of Industry-1 had997 acres of 62,122mature rubber plants and292 acres of young rubberplants; and that they had atarget of 60,000 rubberseedlings and 25,000grafts for 2009-2010.Then, he conducted usround the rubber farm.

We then visited thefarm of U Aye Lwin inChedawyar Village-tractin Shwegyin Township.He said that he started hisrubber farming with 25acres in 2005-2006; thathe also had a 100-acrerubber farm in InganiVillage; that the rubberstrain he chose was BPM-24, and was expected toyield latex at the age ofsix to seven years.

He conducted usround his farm. He addedthat their region hadmany gold mines; that heused to be gold miner;and that gold mining wasnot much reliable for him,so he had made up hismind to farm rubber on alarge scale.

Without any doubt,rubber farms inShwegyin Township willadd natural beauty andattraction to BagoDivision in the nearfuture.

Translation: MSMyanma Alin:

2-8-2009

A seis-

mic map

of the

Salton

Sea

area.

Newly discovered faults illuminate earthquake hazardSAN DIEGO, 3 Aug —

New research by a team ofscientists from Scripps In-stitution of Oceanographyat UC San Diego and theU.S. Geological Survey(USGS) offers new insightinto the San Andreas Faultas it extends beneathSouthern California'sSalton Sea. The team dis-covered a series of promi-

nent faults beneath the sea,which transfer motionaway from the San

Andreas Fault as it disap-pears beneath the SaltonSea. —Internet

Dementia induced and blocked in Parkinson's fly model

Turmeric powder.

ST. LOUIS, 3 Aug —Parkinson's disease iswell-known for impair-ing movement and caus-ing tremors, but many pa-

tients also develop otherserious problems, includ-ing sleep disturbances andsignificant losses in cog-nitive function known asdementia.

Now researchers atWashington UniversitySchool of Medicine in St.Louis have modeled Par-kinson's-associated de-mentia for the first time.

Scientists showed that asingle night of sleep lossin genetically altered fruitflies caused long-lastingdisruptions in the flies'cognitive abilities compa-rable to aspects of Parkin-son's-associated demen-tia. They then blocked thiseffect by feeding the flieslarge doses of the spicecurcumin.—Internet

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 4 August, 2009

YANGON, 3 Aug—Organized byMon State Traffic Rules EnforcementSupervisory Committee, the educativetalks on traffic rules was held at theroom-15 of Mawlamyine University on31 July.

Law officer Daw Thit Thit Winof Mawlamyine Township talked onpenalties for vehicles and member of

YANGON, 3 Aug—Deputy Di-rector-General Dr. Soe Thein of Edu-cation and Training Department underthe Ministry for Progress of BorderAreas and National Races and Devel-opment Affairs looked into the progressin construction of the Women’s Voca-tional Training Schools inMyainggyingu, Hlaingbwe Townshipand in Htotkawko, Kawkareik Town-ship, Kayin State on 27 and 28 July.Director U Aung Kyaw Min of Devel-opment Affairs Committee of KayinState reported on matters related toconstruction in progress.

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug — Minis-ter for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi metwith Vice Minister of National En-ergy Administration for China Mr LinQi and party arriving in Mandalay toattend 27th ASEAN Ministers on En-ergy Meeting at Mandalay Hill ResortHotel in Mandalay on 28 July morn-ing. They cordially discussed the en-ergy sector of two nations.

Also present at the call wereDirector-General of Myanma Oil andGas Enterprise U Aung Htoo and offi-cials from the Ministry of Energy.

Energy Minister meets Chinese, Thai delegates

The minister also received Min-ister of Energy of Thailand MrWannarat Channukul and party arriv-ing in Mandalay to attend 27th ASEANMinisters on Energy Meeting at SedonaHotel in Mandalay on 28 July. Theycordially discussed matters on bilateralenergy plans.

Also present at the call were DeputyMinister for Energy Brig-Gen Than Htay,Director-General of Energy PlanningDepartment U Soe Aung and officialsfrom the Ministry of Energy.

MNA

Vocational Training Schools and Youths Training

School inspected in Kayin State

On 29 July, the Deputy Direc-tor-General inspected the ongoingcourses at the Women’s VocationalTraining School in Pha-an, mess, hostelsand the greening of the school. On 30July, the Deputy Director-General metwith students of the Nationality YouthsDevelopment Training School and en-couraged them. He also inspected hos-tels, mess and tree plantation in sur-rounding areas of the school. Afterwards,he met with staff and urged them to trainthe students to become outstandingyouths with high nationalistic spirit.

MNA

YANGON, 3 Aug— No.8 Vol-ume.6 of Shwe Naing-Ngan Journalcomes out today.

It covers reports on launching ofthe rail transport from the Nay Pyi TawRailway Station, rehabilitation in StormNargis-hit areas after 14 months andothers, articles on print media and poli-tics and other articles and local and for-eign news.

The journal is available at Sarpay

Educative talks on traffic rules heldMon State Traffic Rules EnforcementSupervisory Committee traffic policecaptain Myint Aye on traffic rules.

Next, traffic police captainMyint Aye presented a tape on trafficrules and pamphlets to Rector Dr HtayAung and the latter spoke words ofthanks.

MNA

Shwe Naing-Ngan Journal in circulationBeikman Building on Merchant Street inKyauktada Township, PannshwepyiBook Store of the Printing and Publish-ing Enterprise and the book store of theNews and Periodicals Enterprise onTheinbyu Street,Botahtaung Township.Those wishing to send manuscripts maycontact No.8, 2nd floor of Pangyan Towerat the corner of Dhamma Zedi Road andBarkara Road in Sangyoung Township,Ph: 538302.—MNA

(from page 1)Lt-Gen Ko Ko explained agricultural matters andmade a speech on the occasion. Next, the head ofDivision Land Records Department briefed Lt-Gen

Lt-Gen Ko Koattends ceremony…

Ko Ko on cultivation of monsoon paddy and thecompletion of ploughing. Afterwards, district chair-men presented respective reports on completion ofploughing to the commander.

The division manager of Myanma AgricultureService later explained rules of the competition andmarking scheme. Next, the competition of transplant-ing skills followed and Lt-Gen Ko Ko encouraged the

contestants and inspected monsoon paddy model farmand pilot farms.

Viewing educative booths on farming and farmimplements, Lt-Gen Ko Ko and party presented powertillers to the farmers. Next, they put fish into the farmlands. Afterwards, Lt-Gen Ko Ko and party presentedprizes to winning teams at the end of the transplantingskills competition.—MNA

Lt-Gen Ko Ko of Ministry of Defence views transplanting skills contest in Ayeyawady Division.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi receives Vice Minister Mr Lin Qi ofNational Energy Administration for China of PRC.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi receives Minister for EnergyMr Wannarat Channukul and party of Thailand.—MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 4 August, 2009 9

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug

— Minister for Culture

Maj-Gen Khin Aung Myint

attended the opening

ceremony of concrete

bridge in Kyutawwa

Village of Pyawbwe

Township, Mandalay

Culture Minister attends opening ceremonies of

bridge and artesian well in PyawbweDivision yesterday. The

minister formally opened

the bridge and unveiled the

stone inscriptions.

Next, the minister

attended the opening

ceremony of artesian well

sunk by Ministry for

Progress of Border Areas

and National Races and

Development Affairs. The

minister unveiled the stone

inscriptions, sprinkled it

with scented water and

opened the taps of the

well.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3

Aug—Myanmar Maternal

and Child Welfare

Association held a

ceremony to mark

Nutrition Development

Week and World

Breastfeeding Week for

MMCWA marks ceremony of Nutrition

Development Week and World Breastfeeding Week

2009 at the meeting hall

of the association in Nay

Pyi Taw Lewe Township,

here this morning.

Present on the

occasion were Deputy

Minister for Health Dr

Paing Soe, President of

MMCWA Daw Nila

Thaw, Vice-President Dr

Daw Wai Wai Tha and

executives, officials of the

Ministry of Health,

resident representative of

UNICEF Dr Siddharth

Nirupan, chairpersons

MMCWA of of Nay Pyi

Taw Pyinmana, Nay Pyi

Taw Tatkon and Nay Pyi

Taw Lewe townships and

members, pregnant

women and guests.

Deputy Minister Dr

Paing Soe made a speech

on the occasion, saying that

effective performances of

the MMCWA (Central)

and associations at state,

division, district and

township levels were

recognized for all-round

development of 60 percent

of the State’s population

of mothers and children in

the health, education,

economic and social

modern developed one.

Next, the Deputy

Minister, the president of

MMCWA, the vice-

presidents and executives

presented iodized salt,

iron tablets, vitamin

tablets and cloths to

welfare sectors. The World

Breastfeeding Week

activities are held in the

first week of August and

the Nutrition

Development Week from

the first to the last week of

August. Health

development tasks for

children under five and

their mothers were carried

out across the country at

the same time. All

associations at different

levels in collaboration with

the Ministry of Health

would undertake the

activities of World

Breastfeeding Week for

2009.

The Ministry of

Health is always making

efforts for the emergence

of healthy human

resources. Only if the

human resources have

developed, will the State

surely reach the new

pregnant women who

were present.

Afterwards, the

Deputy Minister and those

present viewed photos on

activities of the

associations at different

levels.

The president of

MMCWA made a speech

at the second session.

Next, Nay Pyi Taw Lewe

and Nay Pyi Taw Tatkon

township associations

demonstrated on

breastfeeding and

nutrition development.

Afterwards, Deputy

Director Dr Daw Aye Aye

Thaw of Nutrition

Department of the

Ministry of Health talked

on breastfeeding and

nutrition development.

Gifts were presented to

officials of the ministry and

those who participated in

the demonstation.—MNA

Deputy Minister

Dr Paing Soe gives a

speech at the

ceremony to mark

Nutrition

Development Week

and World

Breastfeeding

Week 2009.

MNA

Minister Maj-Gen

Khin Aung Myint

attends opening

ceremony of

concrete bridge at

Kyutawwa village in

Pyawbwe

Township.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—It was

reported that two powered schooners

sank and six people were missing due to

strong winds in Gwa and An townships

a few days ago.

While the powered schooner was

leaving Panlinmaw village for

Kyunnanttha village in Gwa township,

it was sunk by the strong winds and five

Two powered schooners sunk by strong

winds, six missingpeople were missing at 8.30 am on 25

July.

Similarly, another powered

schooner leaving Tattaung village for

Taungsitha village at 1.30 pm on 29 July

was sunk by strong winds near

Taungsitha village jetty in An township

and U Soe Shwe Thein, helmsman, was

missing.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—A hired van

six passengers on board with U Zaw

Tun Aung at the wheel left Mongshu,

Shan State (South) for Taunggyi. When

the car arrived at a place between

Mongnaung and Wanphon in

Insurgents shoot vehicle, one

innocent person deadMongnaung township, two insurgents

wearing camouflage uniforms shot U

Kyaw Win, aged 56, seated at the front

of the car to death at 1.45 pm on 31 July.

Tatmadaw columns are in pursuit of

these two insurgents.—MNA

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.

The second best time is now.

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 4 August, 2009

Commander Maj-Gen Yar Pyae addresses the ceremony to provide buildings, funds, publications and periodicals for self-reliant village librariesin Shan State (South).—MNA

Locals watch MRTV-3 and MRTV-4 programmes with DTH systemreceiver in Pyinnya Gonyaung self-reliant library of Innge village in

Pintaya Township.—MNA

Installation of DTH system receiver in Pyinnya Gonyaung self-reliant library in progress.—MNA

Self-reliant village libraries erected for rural residents to enhance

reasoning power, catch up with international community

Cash and kind donated to self-reliant village libraries in Shan State (South)

NAY PYI TAW, 3

Aug—The donation of

buildings, cash and

publications to self-reliant

village libraries in Shan

State (South) took place

at City Hall of Taunggyi

yesterday morning. In his

address, Chairman of Shan

State Peace and

Development Council

Commander of Eastern

Command Maj-Gen Yar

Pyae said that the

government is setting up

self-reliant libraries in all

villages to widen the

horizons of the people, apart

from such rural areas

development programmes

as supply of safe water,

health care and education,

calling for follow-up

programmes for sustainable

progress of the already-

established libraries. He

exhorted local people to

keep on working in harness

for development of wards

and villages concerned in

carrying out tasks

mobilizing the four major

forces to achieve the goal.

Minister for Infor-

mation Brig-Gen Kyaw

Hsan said that today is

the Age of Knowledge, so

societies are making good

use of technological

advancements in pro-

ductivity, education and

health care; that in

compliance with the

guidance of the Head of

State, self-reliant village

libraries are being erected

for enabling rural residents

to enhance their intellectual

and reasoning power and

catch up with international

community; that in order to

meet the goal, it is required

to implement the five work

programmes—to organize

rural people to turn to

reading; to maintain

publications and to raise

funds to scale up the number

of publications; to provide

buildings for villages where

there is no specific building

for library; to furnish

libraries; and for the

Information and Public

Relations Department to

equip libraries with

competent librarians—in

combination with the four

forces, namely, local

authorities, local people,

well-wishers and social

organizations; and that

service personnel and the

entire people have to pursue

the lofty goal as a national

duty. He called for learning

lessons from the untold

miseries the people went

through from 1948 until

1988 and stepping up

prosperous objective

conditions in implementing

the public goal of building

a modern, developed

democratic nation with

flourishing discipline. The

commander presented cash

donations and publications

to the libraries through the

minister. The minister

presented cash donations,

publications and DTH TV

sets to the libraries through

Head Daw May May Ni of

Shan State IPRD.

Secretary of Shan State

PDC U Yan Myo Aung

presented cash donations

to 336 libraries through U

Naing Tun of the News and

Periodicals Enterprise for

subscribing newspapers for

six months.

IPRD Director-

General U Ye Htut accepted

publications donated by

Director of Shan State

Immigration and National

Registration Department U

Thaung Shwe and Shan

State Judge U Win Myint;

K 4 million by Yadana Tun

Co Ltd; cash donations and

publications by Taunggyi,

Loilem and Lingkho

district PDCs; publications

by Taunggyi Township

Union Solidarity and

Development Association;

K 260,000 and publications

by Shan State NPE and

newspapers agents in the

(See page 11)

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Self-reliant village… (from page 10)

state; K 100,000 by Shan State Myanma Motion Pic-ture Enterprise and video entrepreneurs; and cash andkind and publications by Taunggyi, Nyaungshwe,Kalaw and Hopang Township PDCs.

Daw May May Ni accepted cash donations byYwangan and Pintaya Township PDCs andKyauktalone Township General Administration De-partment; publications by Yaksawk, Hsihseng andPinlaung township PDCs; TV sets, radios and videoplayers by Naungtaya Township GAD, and VCDplayer by Indaw Township GAD.

After the ceremony, the commander and the min-ister observed the wall magazine.

The donations of cash and kind amounted to K101,911,500.

Now, with the DTH TV receivers donated byIPRD, Shan State (South), Taunggyi District, PintayaTownship, Inn-nge Village Pyinnya Gonyaung Libraryreceive programmes with sharp pictures and clearsound from MRTV, MRTV-3 and MRTV-4.

MNA

YANGON, 3 Aug—President of Union ofMyanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce andIndustry U Win Myint received United Nations Un-der-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of Eco-nomic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pa-cific Dr. Noeleen Heyzer and party at the office ofUMFCCI on 1 August.

Also present at the call were Vice-PresidentsU Zaw Min Win, U Aung Lwin, U Thaung Tin, U MyaHan and U Htun Aung; Secretary-General Dr. MaungMaung Lay; Joint-Secretaries U Myint Soe, U TinMaung Win, Dr. Myo Thet, Dr. Pwint Hsan and CECmembers.—MNA

UMFCCI President receivesUN Under-Secretary-General

Confluence of Maykha and Malikharivers, a picturesque place in Kachin StateArticle: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

(from page 16)We left Myitkyina

from its northern exit,along the road leading toPutao. The tarmackedroad goes as long asmore than 10 miles fromMyitkyina, so we noticed

that the fine road wascoping with a stream oftraffic especially motor-cycles. It is very conven-ient for local people totravel between the twotownships due to the

transport facility. Thetarmacked road is linkedwith a three-mile gravelroad, which is fine enoughfor motorcycles, three-wheel motorcycles androbust trucks.

Soon after that, we

found the 12-foot-widetarred road built byMyitkyina District PublicWorks. We made head-way as it was a fine facil-ity, passing through manyvillages including

Kyeinkharan andTanphaye, which have arural station hospital andbasic education schools.Tanphaye Village has anaffiliated basic educationhigh school along with anew building under con-struction.

About one mile eastof Tanphaye Village isthe confluence of theMaykha and Malikharivers. To the north fromthe village isSumprabum.

The confluence re-sort is over 27 milesnorth of Myitkyina. Justas we approached the re-sort, we enjoyed thenatural beauty of theAyeyawady River flow-ing swiftly through theimpressive mountainsand forests. There, wesaw a motorized boatmoving downstream the

Ayeyawady River fromthe mouth of the MalikhaRiver, and two motorizedboats with goods and pas-sengers moving upstreamthe Maykha River. Welearnt that the vessels’destination was Tiyanzutfor gold mining. Up-stream the Maykha Riverare In-gyan-yan, and up-stream the Malikha Riverare Liyan and Lapha re-gions in Sumprabum. In-charge U Zaw Twe of theresort said that the conflu-

ence resort received aflow of local and foreigntourists.

At the resort, we sawa string of restaurants andlodging houses. Near theport downstream the con-fluence were a chain ofrestaurants. The place wasfound teeming with holi-daymakers and gold min-ers.

The confluence is sopicturesque that it is likean artistic picture. TheMaykha River and the

Malikha River flow vig-orously into theAyeyawady River. Thefoot of lush mountainranges were covered withgathering mist, thusforming an impressivenatural scenery.

So, it is safe to saythat the confluence of theMaykha River and theMalikha River is wellworth a visit as it is a landof awe-inspiring sites.

Translation: MSMyanma Alin: 2-8-2009

Some food stalls at a port in the confluence ofthe Maykha and Malikha rivers.

Restaurants and lodging houses with country styles in the confluence.A motorized boat moving downstream the Maykha River.

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan presents cash,publications, DTH system receivers for

self-reliant libraries.—MNA

President U Win Myint of UMFCCI receivesUN Under-Secretary-General and ExecutiveSecretary of Economic and Social Commis-sion for Asia and the Pacific Dr. Noeleen

Heyzer and party.—MNA

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 4 August, 2009

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GATI MAJESTIC VOY NO (90410)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV GATI MA-JESTIC VOY NO (90410) are here by notified that thevessels will be arriving on 3.8.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

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

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV PULAU CEBU VOY NO (21)Consignees of cargo carried on MV PULAU CEBU

VOY NO (21) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 3.8.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of S.P.W.6 where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm 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: EASTERN CAR LINERSINGAPORE PTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/ 256914

Somali piratesrelease

Malaysian shipNAIROBI, 3 Aug—So-

mali pirates have freed aMalaysian tugboat and its11 Indonesian sailors aftera ransom was paid to endthe second longest hijack-ing off the coast of Soma-lia, a maritime watchdogsaid on Monday.

The tugboat TBMasindra 7 and its at-tached Indonesian bargeADM 1 had been operat-ing under a contract fromFrench oil giant Totalwhen it was seized eightmonths ago on December16, said Kenya-basedEcoterra International.

“The Malaysian tugboatTB Masindra 7 with itsattached Indonesian bargeADM1 is free,” the non-governmental organisa-tion said in a statement.The crew of 11 was “allright, given the circum-stances”, said the state-ment, adding that “a ran-som was paid”.

Somali pirates attackedmore than 130 merchantships last year, a rise ofmore than 200 percentover 2007, according tothe International Mari-time Bureau. Internationalnavies have been de-ployed to the region tostop the pirates, who stillhold about 15 ships and200 sailors. In the longesthijacking, a Nigerian tug-boat was released in Junearound 10 months after itwas captured.

Internet

Profit in China’s steelenterprises to hit 20 b yuan

in JulyBEIJING, 3 Aug—Chinese steel mills’ profit in July

is expected to exceed 20 billion yuan (2.93 billion USdollars), as the monthly growth of steel prices rose toan eight-year high, analysts said on Monday.

Steel prices jumped in July, prompting profit in steelenterprises to expand, according to Xu Xiangchun,chief analyst with industry information providerMySteel.com.

The benchmark index of MySteel.com. for domes-tic steel prices rose 11.9 percent in the month.

Net profits in hot-rolled coil and cold-rolled coil areestimated to stand at 600 yuan and 1,400 yuan pertonne, as their prices gained by 376 yuan and 473 yuanper tonne in July, respectively, said Xu.

Full-year profit of China’s steel makers will reach100 billion yuan if steel price remains stable in thesecond half, said Xu.

A revival in demand and the government’s continu-ous economic stimulus will help stabilize the steelprices, said Qi Xiangdong, vice secretary-general ofthe China Iron and Steel Association (CISA).

Profit in China’s 71 major steel enterprises totalled3.55 billion yuan in June, expanding from May whenthey turned profitable after seven-month losses.

Internet

50 Palestinians evicted from their Jerusalem homes

Donate Blood

Israeli workers unload the belongings of a Palestinan family in a street afterthey were evicted from their house in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of

Sheikh Jarrah, on 2 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

JERUSALEM , 3 Aug—Is-raeli police evicted twoPalestinian families ineast Jerusalem on Sunday,then allowed Jewish set-tlers to move into theirhomes, drawing criticismfrom Palestinians, theUnited Nations and theState Department.

Police arrived beforedawn and cordoned offpart of the Arab neigh-bourhood of SheikhJarrah before forcibly re-moving more than 50 peo-ple, said Chris Gunness,

spokesman for the UNagency in charge of Pal-estinian refugees. UNstaff later saw vehiclesbringing Jewish settlers tomove into the homes, hesaid. Israeli police cited aruling by the country’sSupreme Court that thehouses belonged to Jewsand that the Arab familieshad been living thereillegally.Gunness said thefamilies had lived in thehomes for more than 50years.

The status of east Jeru-

salem is one of the mostexplosive issues in the Is-raeli-Palestinian conflict.Israel took control of eastJerusalem in the 1967Mideast war and annexedit, a move not recognizedby any other country.Since then, Israel has toboosted the Jewish pres-ence there, buildingneighbourhoods whereabout 180,000 Jews live.The Palestinians want eastJerusalem as the capital oftheir hoped-for state.

InternetChina urges Australia torespect law over Rio case

SYDNEY, 3 Aug—A top Chinese offi-cial has called on Canberra to respectChina’s legal system, saying a miningexecutive held in Shanghai would havebroken Australian law if his allegedcrimes had occurred here. Chinese au-thorities detained Australian citizenStern Hu and three other employees ofmining giant Rio Tinto on 5 July andaccused them of bribery and stealingstate secrets during iron ore contractnegotiations.

China’s Vice Foreign Minister, LiuJieyu, who is visiting Australia, de-fended his government’s highly-conten-tious arrest of Hu and urged Canberra

not to interfere in the case.” The facts ofthe case would constitute a violation ofAustralian laws were the facts (to) hap-pen here in Australia,” Liu told the Aus-tralian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)late on Sunday.

“The Chinese government respects theindependent judiciary of the Australianjudicial system. I think we would expectthat the same from other countries,” hetold the public broadcaster.

No charges have yet been laid againstthe accused employees, but China hastold the Australian government it has“sufficient evidence” that they stole statesecrets.—Internet

Offices of miner Rio Tinto in Shanghai. A top Chinese official has called on Canberrato respect China’s legal system, saying a mining executive held in Shanghai would

have broken Australian law if his alleged crimes had occurred here.—INTERNET

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People take part in an activity named “Slowup” alongside the Lake ofGeneva in Geneva, Switzerland, on 2 Aug, 2009. People could ride or walkon the 26-km-long road alongside the Lake of Geneva on Sunday, while thepassage of motor vehicles was forbidden on the road. The activity aimed at

improving the awareness of environment protection.—INTERNET

Singapore reports 6th A/H1N1 related death SINGAPORE, 3 Aug— Singapore reported on Sunday

the country’s sixth case of Influenza A/H1N1 relateddeath.

According to Singapore’s Ministry of Health, thefatality is a 29-year-old Indian female with no otherknown underlying medical conditions other than beingoverweight. She was admitted to local hospital on 25 Julywith a four-day history of flu-like symptoms and havingfainted that morning. She was transferred to the intensivecare unit on 26 July because of low oxygen saturation.She passed away Sunday morning and the cause of deathis pneumonia with renal failure, with Influenza A/H1N1infection as a contributing factor—Internet

Iraq registers 58 A/H1N1 flu casesBAGHDAD, 3 Aug—The number of A/H1N1 flu

cases in Iraq increased to 58, including 38 casesdetected among the Multi-National Forces in Iraq, anofficial Iraqi newspaper reported on Sunday.

“The total number of swine flu cases registered inthe country climbed to 58 after detecting ten newcases for Iraqi students who returned from the UnitedStates where they studied,” the state-run newspaperof al-Sabah quoted Ihsan Jaafar, spokesman of theIraqi Health Ministry, as saying.—Internet

Vietnam’s A/H1N1 flu casesrise to 936

HANOI, 3 Aug— Vietnam’s Ministry of Health hasconfirmed 68 more cases of A/H1N1 influenza, raisingthe total number of flu patients in the country to 936,the local newspaper the People’s Army reported onMonday. Among the newly-reported cases, 57 patientswere detected in the south, two in the north, nine in thecentral highland provinces of Vietnam, said the ministry.

Amid the increasing cases of A/H1N1 flu, theNational Steering Committee for Human A/H1N1Influenza Prevention of Vietnam put forward measuresto prevent the community-level transmission in thecountry.—Internet

67 new A/H1N1 flu casesconfirmed in Europe

STOCKHOLM, 3 Aug—A European health agency saidon Sunday that 67 new A/H1N1 flu cases were reportedin European countries within the last 24 hours. Of thenew cases, 29 were confirmed in Portugal, nine each inthe Czech Republic and Luxembourg, eight each inSlovenia and Hungary, and four in Poland, the EuropeanCenter for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) saidin its daily situation report.—Internet

Kids: Wear bright colours on walk to schoolCINCINNATI, 3 Aug — A

US safety expert advisesparents not let a child un-der age 10 to cross the streetalone and be sure childrenwear brightly colouredclothing when walking.

Injury prevention coor-dinator Susan Laurence ofTrauma Services atCincinnati Children’s Hos-pital Medical Center inOhio also says bright col-ours might make a childmore visible to traffic.

“As children begin pre-paring to return to school,it’s important for parentsand children to go oversafety tips together,”Laurence says in a state-ment. Laurence recom-mends parents help chil-dren:

— Choose the safestroute and walk it withthem.

— Learn to recognizeand obey all traffic signalsand markings, to cross at

corners or crosswalks andbe sure to look in all di-rections.

— Remember never toenter the street from be-tween parked cars or frombehind bushes or shrubsand to be extra alert in badweather.

— Cross the street onlyat a corner or crosswalk.

— Be extra alert in badweather.

— Never dart out intotraffic.—Internet

Pluto likely to remaina pariah

Tourists enjoy sand

bath in Suma Bay

beach in

Lianyungang, east

China’s Jiangsu

Province, on 1 Aug,

2009. Thousands of

people flocked to the

bathing beach to cool

themselves.

INTERNET

Swimmers take water and prepare to cross over the Qiantang River inHangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, on 2 August, 2009. A

total of 1300 swimmers took part in the activity of crossing over theQiantang River on Sunday.—INTERNET

Sleep linked toParkinson’s dementia

ST LOUIS, 3 Aug— A single night’s sleep losscaused long-lasting cognitive disruptions in fruit fliescomparable to Parkinson’s-associated dementia, USresearchers say.

The study, published in the journal Sleep, modeledParkinson’s-associated dementia in genetically alteredfruit flies. The researchers not only found a single nightof sleep loss causes long-lasting disruptions in the flies’cognitive abilities comparable to aspects of Parkinson’s-associated dementia, but they are able to block thiseffect by feeding the flies large doses of the spicecurcumin.“Clinical trials of curcumin to reduce risk ofParkinson’s disease are a future possibility, but for nowwe are using the flies to learn how curcumin works,”study author Dr James Galvin of Washington Universityin St Louis said in a statement. “This should help us findother compounds that can mimic curcumin’s protectiveeffects but are more specific.”—Internet

RIO DE JANEIRO, 3 Aug—Pluto’s lowered celestialstatus will probably stickat an upcoming meeting ofastronomers in Rio deJaneiro, an Americanastronomer predicted onSunday. Pluto was reducedfrom a full-fledged planet— the ninth in the Earth’ssolar system — to dwarfplanet at a meeting of theInternational AstronomicalUnion three years ago inPrague, Czech Republic.

The Houston Chroniclereported Stephen Maran,co-author of the recentbook “Pluto Confidential,”says politics may keep theonly planet discovered byan American astronomer,Clyde Tombaugh, fromregaining its formercelestial status.

Maran suggests themeeting in Prague, comingduring the Iraq war, wastainted by a bit of anti-Americanism, and theunion twisted the knife bydeciding dwarf planetssuch as Pluto were notplanets.“No resolutionwas submitted in the past

months, so it is unlikelythat the Pluto issue, or anyother solar system namingmatters, will come beforethe General Assembly,”said Robert Williams, anastronomer in Baltimorewho is the group’spresident-elect.

In Prague, a majorityof the 424 who attendedvoted to lower Pluto tothe level of a dwarf planet.Pluto was stripped of itsname and given theidentifying number of134340.

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S P O R T SWenger calms Wilshere hype

Arsenal’s English mid-fielder Jack Wilsherecelebrates scoring thethird goal against Ran-gers during the Emirates

Cup competition at theEmirates Stadium in

London. Arsenal won 3-0.—INTERNET

Aston Villa stun Juventus towin Peace Cup

Aston Villa’s Nigel Reo-Coker(R) vies with Juventus’s MauroCamoranesi during the final of

the Peace Cup Andaluciafootball match at Olimpic’s

stadium in Seville. Aston Villaovercame Italian giants

Juventus to win the Peace Cupon 4-3 penalties.— INTERNET

Spurs’ Redknapp eyes top four finishHONG KONG, 3 Aug—Spurs boss Harry Redknapp

insists his side can break into the Premier League’s topfour this season but admits it will be tougher than everwith mega-bucks Manchester City an added threat.

Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenalhave monopolised the top four places in the league forthe past four seasons — and with it the lucrativeChampions League qualification berths. Redknapphas tipped Manchester City, bankrolled by their AbuDhabi billionaire owners, to make a major impact thisseason but is confident that with a few additions to hissquad, Spurs can be challengers.—Internet

English PremierLeague team

Tottenham Hotspur’sKyle Naughton (L)succumbs to a clash

with Hong Kong clubSouth China’s KwokKin Pong (R) during

their PanasonicInvitation Cup footballmatch at Hong Kong

Stadium on 2 August .INTERNET

Davydenko brushes asideFerrero to win Croatia Open BELGRADE, 3 Aug—Russian top seed Nikolay

Davydenko eased to the Croatia Open title on Sundayas he thrashed Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-3, 6-0Sunday in Umag.

Davydenko, fresh from German Open victory, wonnine straight games to close the match in just 51minutes for his 16th career title. He had returned toplaying in Hamburg last week after missing nearlyfour months due to injuries.

He didn’t drop a set all week in Umag and is now18-3 since the French Open.Fifth seed Ferrero wasplaying in his first event since reaching the Wimbledonquarterfinals.—Internet

Tiger Woods holds upthe championship

trophy after winning theBuick Open PGA golf

tournament at WarwickHills in Grand Blanc,Michigan on 2 Aug,

2009.INTERNET

Man United deny stealingFrench teen

MANCHESTER, 3 Aug—Premier League championsManchester United have dismissed claims they stole16-year-old midfielder Paul Pogba from French clubLe Havre.

United have been accused of offering very largesums to the parents of the teenager, who has captainedthe national team at under-16 level, to induce him toend a contract he has until the end of this season.

In an angry statement Le Havre said: “This act iseven more unacceptable as it comes from a club withsuch stature.”—Internet

Premier Leaguechampions Man-

chester United havedismissed claims they

stole 16-year-oldmidfielder Paul

Pogba from Frenchclub Le Havre.

INTERNET

Carragher wary of rejuvenated Owen

Liverpool defenderJamie Carragher,

admitted he was waryof the threat posed by

former teammateMichael Owen at

Manchester United.INTERNET

Beckham ready to turn othercheek to abusive fans

David Beckham of theLos Angeles Galaxy

walks onto the pitch fora warm up before a

friendly match againstFC Barcelona at the

Rose Bowl in Pasadena,California.INTERNET

Bartoli upsets Williams tocapture Stanford tennis

Marion Bartoli ofFrance returns a shot toVenus Wiliiams duringthe first set of their final

match of the Bank ofthe West Classic in

Stanford, California.Bartoli upset Williams

6-2, 5-7, 6-4.—INTERNET

LONDON, 3 Aug—Arsenal manager ArseneWenger attempted to puta lid on the growing hypesurrounding teenagestriker Jack Wilshereafter the 17-year-oldproduced a sensationaldisplay against Rangers.Wilshere scored theopening goal in the 3-0win over the Scottishchampions which gavethe Londoners theEmirates Cup and was adanger all afternoon, atimely display in front ofwatching England coachFabio Capello.

Internet

LIVERPOOL, 3 Aug—Liverpool defender JamieCarragher admittedSunday he was wary of thethreat posed by formerteammate Michael Owenat ManchesterUnited.Carragher believesthat United boss Sir AlexFerguson could havepulled off a masterstrokein signing the 29-year-oldstriker who had an injury-plagued spell at relegatedNewcastle.

“Signing Michael Owenwas a clever piece ofbusiness by United and hehas started really well inpre-season,” Carraghertold the Sunday Mirror.”Ina way I’m pleased he’s gota big move to a big clubbecause he came in for alot of criticism atNewcastle.”Why? Whatdid he do wrong upthere?—Internet

SEVILLE, 3A u g — A s t o nVilla overcameItalian giantsJuventus to winthe Peace Cup onpenalties onSunday after bothsides had failed toscore at the end ofextra time.

The Italians,who beat RealMadrid 2-1 inFriday’s semi-final, put MartinO’Neill’s up-and-coming team under intense pressure in a fast-pacedgame, played in the southern Spanish city of Seville,in which both sides failed to convert a host of chances.Inthe end, Carlos Cuellar scored for Villa while NicolaLegrottaglie missed the last spot-kick to give theEnglish Premier League side a 4-3 win on penalties.

Internet

LOS ANGELES, 3 Aug—David Beckham says

after two clashes withabusive football fans justdays apart, he’s ready toturn the other cheek andwalk away if it happensagain.

“He insulted my wife,”Beckham said of aspectator at recent MLSgame in Kansas City. “Ifyou insult my familymembers I am going tostick up for my wife andfamily.”But if it happensagain I wouldn’t evenlook at him. It is not worththe time and energy.”

Internet

WASHINGTON, 3Aug—World numberone Tiger Woods liftedhis 69th PGA Tour titleon Sunday as theAmerican seized theBuick Open. Woodsclinched a three-under 69on Sunday after finishingat 20-under 268, leadingRoland Thatcher by threeshots who fired a 64.Greg Chalmers (68) andJohn Senden (70)followed in third andfourth places.

It was Woords’ thirdvictory in the Buick Openand fourth this season .On Sunday, he chaseddown and caught Thatcherwho finished in a muchearlier group. Woodsmade a birdie at number

STANFORD, 3 Aug—Marion Bartoli avenged aWimbledon loss to VenusWilliams, winning amarathon final at the WTABank of the West Classic6-2, 5-7, 6-4 at theAmerican’s expense.Frenchwoman Bartoli wasbeaten by Williams for theAll England club final twoyears ago.Bartoli’s bittermemory was still fresh asshe struck back in the three-set thriller lasting two andthree-quarters hours innorthern California.

“It was great to play

Venus again,” said theFrenchwoman, “I have alot of good memories fromWimbledon.” Bartoli lostthe title match here a yearago to CanadianAleksandra Wozniak. Shewas unable to beat Williamsin straight sets while leadinga set and 5-4, failing to serveout the victory. Bartoli willmove up two spots in therankings to 12th on Mondayafter claiming her secondtitle of 2009 and the fifth ofher career.—Internet

four to take the sole leadand he doubled his leadwith a short birdie putt onnumber seven.— Internet

Woods wins Buick Open title

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudyin Lower Sagaing Division, rain have been isolated in KayahState, Mandalay and Magway Divisions, scatterd in RakhineState, fairly widespread in Shan State and Upper Sagaingand widespread in the remaining States and Divisions withisolated heavyfall in Mon State and Taninthayi Division.The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Nay PyiTaw (Pyinmana) (0.23) inch, Thaton (5.27) inches,Lounglon (4.69) inches and Dawei (2.79) inches, Hpa-an(2.13) inches and Minbu (0.07) inch.

Maximum temperature on 2-8-2009 was 86°F.Minimum temperature on 3-8-2009 was 69°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 3-8-2009 was 100%.Total sun shine hours on 2-8-2009 was (1.1) hours approx.

Rainfall on 3-8-2009 was (0.90) inch at Mingaladon,(0.98) inch at Kaba-Aye and (1.10) inches at CentralYangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (74.13) inchesat Mingaladon, (82.44) inches at Kaba-Aye and (85.04)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (6) mph from South at (21:30) hours MSTon 2-8-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is moderate to strong in theAndaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 4th August 2009: Rainwill be isolated in Kayah State, lower Sagaing and MagwayDivisions, scattered in Mandalay Division, fairly widespreadin Kachin, Chin, Shan and Rakhine States and Upper SagaingDivision and widespread in the remaining States andDivisions with likelihood of isolated heavyfall in MonState and Taninthayi Division. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seasare likely at times off and along Myanmar Coasts. Surfacewind speed in squalls may reach (35-40) mph.

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

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for4-8-2009: Isolated rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for4-8-2009: One or two rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for4-8-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain. Degree of certaintyis (60%).

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Two visitors look at the miniature of rocketAriane 4 made by European Space Agency, at

the Euro Space Centre in LuxembourgProvince, some 130 kilometers southeast of

Brussels, capital of Belgium, on 1 Aug, 2009.INTERNET

China steel makersstriving for unified price

BEIJIJNG, 3 Aug—China’s steel industryassociation said on Friday that it plans this year tounify the spot and long-contract prices for thecountry’s iron ore imports.

It will also set a ceiling for charges levied byimport trading firms, as part of an effort to regulatethe market.

The proposal was the top item of discussion atthe steel industry body’s two-day semiannualmeeting, said Luo Bingsheng, deputy chairman ofthe China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), at apress conference.

The term prices negotiated with global minersshould become a benchmark unified price, and theimport agencies could charge 3-5 percent incommission on top of the term prices, Luo said.

The move aims to regulate excess iron oreimport by steel makers and trading firms, whichdistorted the supply and demand balance anddisrupted the annual contract talks, Luo said.

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★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

People’s Desire■ We favour peace and stability■ We favour development■ We oppose unrest and violence■ Wipe out those inciting unrest and violence

Shwegyin Riverwater level to fall

below danger levelNAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug — According to the

12.30 hr M.S.T observation today, the water level

of Shwegyin River at Shwegyin is 7.6 cm and it

has exceeded by 16 cm (about 0.5 foot) above its

danger level. It may fall below the danger level

(700 cm) during the next 48 hours commencing

noon today.

MNA

Seventh patient infected withA(H1N1) discharged

Remaining six getting betterNo more infected patient found

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Aug—Of the 13 A(H1N1)-infected patients, six weredischarged from hospitals as they had recovered from their illness. The remain-ing seven were still under treatment – three at Waibagi Hospital, two at YangonGeneral Hospital, one at Yangon East Hospital and one at Insein GeneralHospital.

The seventh 25-year-old infected man was discharged from the hospitaltoday and surveillance measures against the patient’s family members werehalted. Now there are only six patients being treated—two at Waibagi Hospital,two at Yangon General Hospital, one at Yangon East Hospital and one at InseinGeneral Hospital. They are kept in separate rooms of the hospitals and they aregetting better now. The Ministry of Health continues screening flu-suspectedpersons and no more patient has been found.—MNA

Confluence of Maykha and Malikha rivers, a picturesque place in Kachin State

Article: Myint Maung Soe; Photos:Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

The confluence of the Maykha River and theMalikha River.

Kachin State in the northernmost part ofMyanmar is an area full of mountain ranges, naturalforests, rivers, creeks and lakes, where theAyeyawady River flowing from north to south rises.

The region where the Maykha River and theMalikha River meet to form the Ayeaywady River,Sumprabum and Putao are famous tourist attrac-tions in Kachin State.

On our recent tour around Kachin State, ourmedia crew from the Myanma Alin dropped in theconfluence of the Maykha and Malikha rivers, ac-companied by Township Reporter U Hla Than Myint(Maung Pyone Myint, Balu) and U Sein Win ofMyitkyina District Red Cross Society.

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Human language and dolphin movement patterns

Scientists have shown for the first time that thelaw of brevity in human language also extends to

other animal species.

ABERDEEN, 3 Aug —Two researchers from thePolytechnic University ofCatalonia (UPC) and theUniversity of Aberdeen inthe United Kingdom have

shown for the first time thatthe law of brevity in humanlanguage, according towhich the most frequently-used words tend to be theshortest, also extends to

other animal species. Thescientists have shown thatdolphins are more likely tomake simpler movementsat the water surface.

"Patterns of dolphinbehaviour at the surfaceobey the same law of brev-ity as human language,with both seeking out thesimplest and most efficientcodes", Ramón Ferrer iCancho, co-author of thestudy published in the jour-nal Complexity and a re-searcher in the Departmentof Languages and IT Sys-tems at the UPC, tellsSINC.—Internet

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