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Volume XVII, Number 116 5th Waning of Wagaung 1371 ME Monday, 10 August, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development of other sectors of theeconomy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented eco-nomic system

* Development of the economy inviting partici-pation in terms of technical know-how andinvestments from sources inside the countryand abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economymust be kept in the hands of the State and thenational 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 stand-

ards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace andtranquillity, prevalence of law and order

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

tution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Aug — Accompanied byChairman of Bago Division Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander of Southern Command Maj-Gen Hla Min and officials, Lt-Gen Ko Ko of theMinistry of Defence visited the construction site ofWar Veterans’ housing in Oaktha satellite town inBago on 6 August morning. He next inspected the

Lt-Gen Ko Ko of Ministry of Defenceinspects education and agricultural

measures in Bago Division

The government is striving for thedevelopment of all parts of the Union includingborder areas in order to build up a new moderndeveloped nation. Due to the strenuous effort, theentire nation has become developed significantly.Peace and stability plus infrastructures, roads andbridges, dams and reservoirs, hospitals, schools anduniversities that were all just a dream in some casesin the past can be witnessed across the country today.

New Yatanarpon to emergeas a technology city

already-built houses and water supply tasks.At No. 1 Basic Education High School in Bago

Township, Lt-Gen Ko Ko met with the teachers and leftnecessary instructions. He also visited No. 3 BEHSand No. 2 BEHS, met with the teachers and gaveinstructions on academic matters.

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

(Issued at 18:00 hours MST Today)

A strong earthquake of intensity (7.1) RicherScale with its epicenter outside Myanmar (Japan)about (2800) miles Northeast of Kaba-AyeSeismological observatory was recorded at (17)hrs (33) min (20) sec MST on 9th August 2009.

Earthquake Report INSIDE

The news team of Myanma Alin Daily visitedthe construction site of Yatanarpon new town nearPyiOoLwin to write a byline about developments inMandalay Division. The project site is situatednear Pyinsa Village, 14 miles to the south ofPyinOoLwin. Companies concerned have startedimplementing the Yatanarpon Myothit (North) housingproject. Unlike other new towns, Yatanarpon new

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Yatanarpon Teleport in Yatanarpon in PyinOoLwin Township, Mandalay Division.

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According to their first-hand experiences, today’s people knowvery well that internal and external power-craving elements are justplotting to come to power, exploiting and making as the stepping-stonethe people who they claim they love so much at the expense of nationalinterest.

High time to rise from fantasy

KO MYANMAR

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 10 August, 2009

Monday, 10 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

For long-termdevelopment of self-reliantrural libraries

The government is improving theinfrastructures in various fields for equitabledevelopment of all states and divisions inpursuance of the goal of development of thewhole Union.

As part of efforts to realize the lofty aim,the government is setting up self-reliantvillage libraries to expand the horizons of thepeople, in addition to the rural developmentprogrammes on supply of potable waterbuilding, health care and education.

It is also carrying out follow-upprogrammes for sustainable development ofthe libraries. The donating of building, cash,newspapers and publications took place atCity Hall of Taunggyi in Shan State (South)on 2 August.

Today is the Age of Knowledge, so humansocieties make good use of the technologicaladvancements in productivity, education andhealth care. So, the government isestablishing self-reliant village libraries forenabling rural folks to catch up with theinternational community throughintellectual nourishment with a good habitof reading.

Responsible persons have not only toincrease the number of self-reliant rurallibraries but also to organize rural residentsto turn to reading all the more, maintain theperiodicals, raise the funds, and providebuildings for sustainable progress of thelibraries.

To build a modern, developed nationalso calls for higher intellectual and reasoningpower of the people. So the entire people areto work in concert for sustainabledevelopment and maintain the libraries instates and divisions with a sense of nationalduty.

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Aug—Chairman of MonState Peace and Development Council Commanderof South-East Command Maj-Gen Thet Naing Winattended the ceremony to complete ploughing held inMottama village, Paung Township on 31 Julymorning. The Commander made a speech at theceremony.

Commander attends ceremony to complete ploughingAfter that, the chairmen of District Peace and

Development Council gave reports on completion ofploughing.

The commander together with Mon State leveldepartmental officials released fingerlings into paddyfields and looked into agricultural educative booth.

MNA

Minister inspects development tasks in Ingapu TspNAY PYI TAW, 9

Aug—Minister forForestry Brig-Gen TheinAung inspecteddevelopment tasks inIngapu Township on 2August.

During the tour, theminister attended theopening of the digitalauto-exchange offices ofMyanma Posts andTelecommunications inMezaligon Village andHtugyi Village in thetownship.

At KonzaungVillage, the ministerattended the opening ofprimary school building

in Kayni Village.The minister also

visited Ingapu TownshipHospital and comforted

the patients. On 3 August,the minister inspected thebasic education primaryschool in Htanpinkan

Village and attended theopening of a primaryschool in SangyoungVillage.—MNA

YANGON, 9 Aug—Vice Presidents U ZawMin Win, U Aung Lwin,U Thaung Tin and U TunAung of Union ofMyanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerceand Industry together withJoint-Secretaries U TinMaung Win, Dr Myo Thatand Dr Pwint Hsan of the

UMFCCI receives delegation of CCPITSub-Councilfederation received adelegation led byChairman Mr Li Jiashouof China Council for thePromotion of InternationalTrade (CCPIT) fromYunnan Sub-Council athead office here on 25July.

At the meeting,they cordially discussed

matters on more andmore participation ofMyanmar businessmenyear by year in annualexhibition held inKunmin, India-Bangladesh-Myanmar-China businessmenmeeting to be held inYunnan Province.

MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Aung at digital auto-exchange office atHtugyi Village in Ingapu Township.—FORESTRY

Vice Presidents U Zaw Min Win, U Aung Lwin, UThaung Tin and U Tun Aung of UMFCCI receiveChairman Mr Li Jiashou of CCPIT from Yunnan

Sub-Council.—MNA

Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo addresses the meeting to coordinateboosting of agriculture production held on 5 August. (News Reported)—MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 10 August, 2009 3

The portable Castro: Cuba issuesFidel dictionary

Poll shows parents lacking flu infoWASHINGTON, 9 Aug — Thirty-nine percent of US

parents polled say they’ve received no flu informa-tion from schools, despite the risk of a fall H1N1 out-break, the Red Cross said.

"The spring H1N1 outbreak was a clear signal thateveryone needs to prepare — and that parents andschools should have plans in case the virus returns,"American Red Cross spokeswoman Suzy DeFrancissaid in a release Saturday.

Parents need to contact schools regarding plans forthe H1N1 virus and teach their children the impor-tance of hand-washing and covering their coughs andsneezes.—Internet

Suicide attack occurs outside French Embassy in MauritaniaDAKAR, 9 Aug—A suicide bomber detonated a bomb on Saturday near the French

Embassy in Mauritania capital Nouakchott, killing the suicide bomber himselfand wounding three other people, police said.

Police said the bomb exploded at a location, about 100 meters from the Frenchembassy.

The identity of the suicide bomber, about at the age of 25, was unknown so far,police said.

police said those injured in the attack had been rushed to a nearby hospital fortreatment.

Mauritania has been hit for several times by terrorist attacks since 2006 but thesuicide bomb attack was the first of its kind in the country. —Xinhua

An Iraqi man stands outside a shop damaged by a car bomb explosion inKirkuk, about 250 kms north of the capital Baghdad. Despite a marked

reduction in violence in recent months, attacks against security forces andcivilians remain common in Baghdad, Mosul and the ethnically divided

northern oil city of Kirkuk.—INTERNET

Filipinos salvage avehicle as they try to

move through floodwa-ter to higher ground in

Botolan district ofZambales Province.

Rescuers struggled toevacuate hundreds of

villagers caught byrampaging flash floodsin the northern Philip-pines on Saturday as

the death toll rose to 20,officials said.

INTERNET

Men are attacked after a right wing demonstration sparked violence inBirmingham, central England on 8 August, 2009.—INTERNET

HAVANA, 9 Aug —Cubans accustomed tohourslong speeches, thou-sand-word essays andlengthy interviews cannow get Fidel Castro at aglance, thanks to a newdictionary of ElComandante’s teachings.

“Unemployment” and“History” are among themyriad words for whichthe 339-page paperbackprovides definitions —based on snippets ofspeeches, columns andstatements dispensed byCastro during the 49 yearshe governed the commu-

nist-run island.The publication, which

the government says ismeant to provide guid-ance to Cuban thinkers,calls to mind the "LittleRed Book" of the lateChinese communistleader, Chairman MaoZedong.

Unlike the Chinesebook, however, the Cubandictionary with the red-dish-brown cover and thephoto of an elderly Castroin suit and tie is not smallenough — yet — to stuffinto one's back pocket.

Presented to the public

on Saturday, the work wascompiled by SalomonSusi Sarfati, an oratoryanalyst at the CubanCommunist Party's highideological school.

Castro turns 83 onThursday. He hasn't beenseen in public for threeyears, but publishes instate media frequentmusings on mostly inter-national issues, includingthe long-standing conflictwith the United States.

Castro turned powerover to his youngerbrother Raul in February2008.—Internet

NATO soldierkilled in

AfghanistanKABUL, 9 Aug — A

NATO soldier has beenkilled in an bomb blast insouthern Afghanistan, thealliance's International Se-curity Assistance Force an-nounced on Sunday, as thedeath toll mounts in the fightagainst the Taleban.

The ISAF troop waskilled by an improvised ex-plosive device (IED) onSaturday, it said in a state-ment. Such homemadebombs are the main weaponof the extremist militants.

The more than 40-nationforce does not release thenationalities of its casualtiesbefore they are announcedby the home country.

There are more than100,000 international sol-diers in Afghanistan, nearlytwo-thirds of them in the USmilitary with British andCanadian forces also play-ing a role in the south, themost dangerous battle-field.—Internet

Fighting kills at least 17 inSomali pirate port

MOGADISHU, 9 Aug — Gun battles between clan mi-litiamen killed at least 17 people and wounded 30 onSaturday at a pirate stronghold on the coast of Soma-lia, witnesses said.

The fighting began overnight and intensified in themorning, forcing most of Haradheere's residents toflee, local man Farah Aden told Reuters by satellitetelephone.

"The two clans are fighting over land and a girlwho was raped in the forest. Unfortunately, the battlesspread into town ... Fighting is going on fiercely," hesaid.

Somalia has been torn by civil war since 1991, andthe government of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmedcontrols only small pockets of the rubble-strewn capi-tal Mogadishu.—Internet

Foreign forces face“unwinnable war” in AfghanistanUNITED NATIONS, 9 Aug. — Foreign

forces in Afghanistan are now facedwith a tough choice between a “com-pletely unwinnable war” or a peace-making mission that has a very longway to go, a high-ranking UN officialsaid.

“It’s a very difficult role,” RichardBarrett, head of the UN Al-Qaida-Taleban Monitoring Team, told Xinhuain a recent exclusive interview.

Currently, there are about 60,000American troops in Afghanistan — the

biggest contingent of foreign forces. ButAfghanistan is a huge country that isbigger than Iraq in both population andland size. And because of its geographi-cal conditions, it is a very difficult coun-try to conduct military operations, hesaid.

The foreign forces, in their efforts toestablish security to foster good govern-ance and the growth of institutions, aregoing to be spread “very thin,” Barrettsaid.

Internet

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China’s leading developer Gemdalesales volume up 86% in 7 months

BEIJING, 9 Aug—China’s Gemdale Group, a leadingproperty developer, announced on Saturday its salesvolume had surged 86.22 percent year on year in thefirst seven month of 2009 to 11.05 billion yuan (1.62billion US dollars).

Total home sales space of the company rose 88.27percent to 1.04 million square meters nationwide fromJanuary to July, boosted by the robust domestic propertymarket performance, said the developer in a statementto the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

For July alone, the Shenzhen-based developer solda total amount of 193,400 sq m of homes, up 156.5percent year on year, with the aggregate sales volumereaching 2.48 billion yuan, up 157.2 percent year onyear.

The Shanghai-listed firm’s shares had fallen 5.24percent to 16.81 yuan a share on Friday before therelease of the report.—Xinhua

Brazil actively develops green energy

Poland moots sell-down of KGHM stake

Monetary policy to remain unchanged

A Russian-made MiG-35 flies during an air show in Bangalore in 2007. Indiawill next week start fighter jet trials as the world’s six top aerospace giants vie fora 12-billion-dollar military contract, an official said on Friday.—INTERNET

A passenger liner leaves Xiuying port in Haikou,capital of south China’s Hainan Province, on 8 Aug,2009. Shipping services across south China’sQiongzhou Strait, separating the Hainan island andthe mainland, resumed on Saturday afternoon astropical storm “Goni” churned southward.—XINHUA

Firefighters mop up hotspots from a wildfireburning southeast of Kelowna, British Columbia,Canada. Despite the 793 fires still burning across

British Columbia, the center of Canada’s wineindustry, some people who earlier fled their homes

were able to return, according to provincial firedepartment spokeswoman.—INTERNET

Released German containerarrives in Kenyan port

BRASILIA, 9 Aug—Brazil has been focusingon the research anddevelopment of renewableenergy since the 1970s andhas achieved remarkableresults.

Latest research resultsrevealed that thanks to thecountry’s application of avariety of renewableenergy and its arduousefforts to protect its rainforest, the carbon dioxideemission in Brazil hasreduced 2 billion tons overthe past four years.

Covering a total areaof 8.51 million squarekilometers, Brazil has arangeland of more than200 million hectares, afarmland of 6.2 millionhectares and 100 millionhectares of unexploitedland. It has the naturalresources to expand theplantation of energy cropsin addition to ensuringgrain production.

The Brazilian autho-rities have been en-couraging its people to usefuel ethanol through

government subsidies,quotas and priceinterventions as well ashelping enterprises getloans from internationalfinancial institutions.

In cities and townswith a population of morethan 1,500, gas stationsare required to installethanol petrol pumps andthose who do not followthe rule will be punishedaccordingly.

As the interest in fuelethanol grows in manycountries, the Braziliangovernment has formulatedan even more ambitiousplan to produce fuelethanol. Under the project,Brazil’s annual fuel ethanolproduction aims to increaseto 35 billion liters in 2013,doubling its currentproduction of 17 billion,and about 10 billion will beexported.—Xinhua

BEIJING, 9 Aug—TheChinese government willnot change its stimuluspolicies because it couldderail its hard-woneconomic recovery,though record banklending in the first half ofthe year has raised fearsover credit risks and assetbubbles.

“The central bank isstill committed to a‘moderately loosemonetary policy’,” saidSu Ning, deputy governorof the People’s Bank ofChina (PBOC), at a press

conference in Beijing onFriday.

“When we say‘dynamic fine-tuning’, wedo not mean the monetarypolicy but the monetarypolicy operations. We willsharpen the focus andintensify the pace of thepolicies,” Su said.

The benchmarkShanghai CompositeIndex closed down 2.9percent on Friday,slipping for a third day,after a PBOCannouncement onWednesday said it would

“actively fine-tunepolicies” as the economyimproves, raising fears thatit could check liquidity.

July’s major growthfigures will be releasedearly next week, andinvestors are waiting tosee more signs of a solidrecovery.

The country’s bankshave lent nearly 7.4 trillionyuan (1.08 trillion USdollars) in the first half ofthe year - far higher thanthe initial full-year targetof 5 trillion yuan.

Internet

WARSAW, 9 Aug—Poland is consideringselling 10 percent of itsstake in KGHM group,Europe’s biggest copperproducer, in the comingyear, an economic adviserto Prime Minster DonaldTusk said on Saturday.

Speaking on TVN24television, Michal Bonisaid the government —which now owns 41.79percent of KGHM, whichis listed on the Warsawstock exchange — wouldremain the biggest

shareholder with justover 30 percent of shares.

In the face ofrecession, the treasuryministry unveiled on 22July an amendedprivatisation plan for2008-2011 — worth 36.7billion zlotys (8.9 billioneuros, 12.7 billiondollars) — thatenvisioned selling

between 10 and 41percent of KGHM.

Boni said: “Thisdocument, which will beput to the cabinet aftera full analysis andrecommendations, in-cludes the proposal ofprivatising KGHM by anappropriate level, that is,up to 10 percent.”

Internet

MOMBASA, 9 Aug—AGerman container ship,MVHansa Stavanger,captured by Somali piratesfour months ago docked atthe eastern Kenyan port ofMombasa on Saturdaywith all 24 crewmemberson board.

The ship was releasedafter a ransom of 2.7 millionUS dollars demanded bypirates was paid. It wascaptured off Somali coastin April and had been underthe mercy of the sea gangsuntil Monday when thepayment was made.

MV Hansa Stavengeranchored at the port ofMombasa some minutes tomid-day and took threehours to berth after local

and foreign journalistsdeclined to move awayfrom berth number 11 and12 where it was destined.

People said to be theship’s agents did not wantjournalists to take picturesof the ship and the crew atthe port.

The ship was escortedoff Somali waters by theGerman naval warshipFGS Brandenburg whichis part of a naval forceunder the banner ofEuropean Union naviespatrolling the Somali coast.

According to FGSBrandenburg’s com-manding officer TorstenItes, all the crew memberson board were well.

Xinhua

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All items from Xinhua News Agency

At least 12 killed inN India landslide

NEW DELHI, 9 Aug—At least 12 people were killedand 26 others trapped in a massive landslide in the north-ern Indian state of Uttarakhand early Saturday, reportedthe Press Trust of India. The landslide, triggered by heavyrains, took place in the district of Pithoragarh, where atleast seven houses were washed away, trapping 38 peo-ple in two villages, said the report.

Twelve bodies have been recovered so far while res-cue and medical teams were rushing to the spot. Opera-tion to clear the debris was hampered due to bad weatherand bad light, according to the report.

China, India hold 13th BoundaryTalks in New Delhi

Chinese StateCouncilor Dai

Bingguo (L, front)meets with Indian

Prime MinisterManmohan Singh in

New Delhi, India, on 8Aug, 2009. Dai is

Chinese special repre-sentative here attend-

ing the 13th meeting ofspecial representativesof China and Indian

on the boundary issue.XINHUA

NEW DELHI, 9 Aug—The 13th China-IndiaBoundary Talks wereheld on Friday and Sat-urday in the Indian capi-tal. Chinese SpecialRepresentative, StateCouncilor Dai Bingguoand Indian Special Rep-resentative, National Se-curity Advisor to thePrime Minister MKNarayanan exchanged in-depth views about rel-evant issues in an atmos-phere of frankness andfriendliness.

Dai also met withSonia Gandhi, Chairper-

son of the Indian CongressParty and Prime MinisterManmohan Singh duringhis visit in India.

Both sides agreed topress ahead with theframework negotiations inaccordance with theagreed political param-eters and guiding principleso as to seek for a fair andreasonable solution ac-ceptable to both countries.Prior to that, both sidesshould work together tomaintain peace andtranquility in the borderareas.

During the talks, the

two sides exchanged in-depth views on the furtherdevelopment of China-In-dia Strategic CooperativePartnership, as well as re-gional, international andglobal issues of mutualinterest. The Chinese sidepointed out that the Chi-nese Government andpeople value the strategicand cooperative partner-ship between China andIndia, the largest two de-veloping nations with acombined population ac-counting for 40 percent ofthe world’s total.

Xinhua

Hamas: Re-electing Abbas as Fatahleader reflects deterioration

Three bodies recovered from NYHudson River midair collision

GAZA, 9 Aug—Presi-dent Mahmoud Abbas' re-election as Fatah leaderreflects a state of politi-cal deterioration in thePalestinian party, Hamasmovement said on Satur-day.

“Selecting Abbas asa leader of Fatah dedi-cates the political deterio-ration and independencythat Fatah has been suf-fering from for years,”said Sami Abu Zuhri, aspokesman for Hamas.

“Fatah will not be bet-ter after electing Abbas,”added Abu Zuhri, thespokesman of Fatah’s bit-ter rival.

Delegates at Fatahgeneral conference in theWest Bank city of Beth-lehem have elected Abbasas a leader in an unop-posed voting.

Following his election,Abbas delivered a shortspeech in which heslammed Hamas for pre-venting the Gaza-based

Fatah members fromtraveling out of theHamas-controlled GazaStrip to participate inFatah’s first convention in20 years. “The conferencewill succeed in spite ofHamas,” Abbas said.

Hamas said it refusedto let the 400 Fatahinvitees from leavingGaza as a way of pressureto urge Fatah stop crack-ing down against Hamassupporters in the WestBank.—Xinhua Rescue officials search the site of a

crash between a helicopter and anairplane over the Hudson River,

between Hoboken, New Jersey, andNew York on 8 Aug, 2009.—XINHUA

Affected by typhoon"Morakot", strongtides surge on theQiantang River in

Haining, a city of eastChina's Zhejiang

Province, on 8 Aug,2009. —XINHUA

NEW YORK, 9 Aug—Three bodieshad been recovered before search op-erations were called off for the day af-ter a helicopter collided with a planeover the Hudson River with altogethernine aboard, the National Transporta-tion Safety Board said late Saturday.

The nine passengers were believedall killed during the collision.

According to local reports, searchand recovery operations will resume onSunday morning.—XinhuaBacterium may play role in babies’ colic

Japan marks 64th anniversary ofNagasaki atomic bombing

NAGASAKI, 9 Aug—More than 5,000 peoplegathered on Saturday inthe Peace Park in Naga-saki to mark the 64thanniversary of the USatomic bombing of thesouthwestern Japanesecity.

At the memorial cer-emony, Nagasaki MayorTomihisa Taue read thePeace Declaration, call-ing for worldwide nu-clear disarmament and

enhanced measures for nu-clear nonproliferation.

Lauding US PresidentBarack Obama’s statementon a world without nuclearweapons this April inPrague, Taue said: “...thegovernment of Japan, anation that has experi-enced nuclear devastation,must play a leading role ininternational society.”

“In a bid for thoroughelimination of nuclear ar-maments, we urge the

strongest efforts towardsthe Nuclear WeaponsConvention, which theUN Secretary GeneralBan Ki Moon last yearcalled on governments tonegotiate actively,” saidthe Mayor.

In his speech at theceremony, Prime MinisterTaro Aso reaffirmed Ja-pan’ s three principles ofnot producing, possessingor allowing nuclear weap-ons on its soil.—Xinhua

Xinhua

LOS ANGELES, 9 Aug—A bacterium normallyfound in the mouth, skinand intestines might belinked with colic in babies,a new study has found.

In the study publishedin the August issue of theJournal of Pediatrics, re-searchers at the Universityof Texas Medical Schoolat Houston analyzed dataof 36 babies, both breast-and bottle-fed. About halfhad colic.

The researchers foundthe bacterium Klebsiellaalong with gut inflamma-tion in the intestines of allbabies who had colic, acondition characterized byuncontrollable crying.

“We believe that thebacterium may be spark-ing an inflammatory reac-

tion, causing the gut in-flammation,” said Dr JMarc Rhoads, a pediatricsprofessor and the study’slead investigator.

“Inflammation in thegut of colicky infantsclosely compared to levelsin patients with inflamma-tory bowel disease,” hesaid.Babies without colichad more types of bacte-ria in their intestines, asign that certain types ofbacteria are beneficial topeople, Rhoads said.

Colic, which causes anotherwise healthy baby to

cry and scream often andfor long periods withoutany noticeable reason, hasno medically groundedtreatment or known cause,although bottle-fed babiesseem to get it more oftenthan breast-fed infants, ac-cording to the study.

Also, colic could possi-bly lead to other gas-trointestinal conditions inlater life, such as irritablebowel syndrome andceliac disease, the studysaid. The condition oftendisappears as suddenly asit presents itself.—Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUMCiqikou, an ancient town

of Chongqing

An ancient gate tower in Ciqikou, insouthwest China’s Chongqing

municipality.Ciqikou is an ancient street lo-

cated in a suburb of Chongqing. Por-celain was produced and exportedfrom here during the Ming and QingDynasties, that’s how it got its nameCiqikou. Houses in Ciqikou are madefrom bamboo and wood and are typi-cal of the type found in east Sichuan.The paintings on the houses are beau-tiful and delicate. Ciqikou was up-graded to the status of an ‘ancientstreet’ under Chongqing’s state pro-tection in 1998.

People watch bullfight game in

Lianglong Village in Hongshui

Township of Rongshui County,

southwest China’s Guangxi

Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Contestants assemble the navigationmodels in the National NavigationModel Education Competition inLingshui, south China’s Hainan

Province. More than 500 teenagersfrom 31 teams all over the countrytook part in the competition here.

Loudmouths gather forThai screaming contestShort shrieks, high-pitched yelps, and

drawn-out wails rang out in Thailand atan international competition aimed atsetting a new record for the loudestscream.

Russian Sergey Savelyev chimed inat 116.8 decibels — roughly as loud asan ambulance siren — to win Saturday’scompetition in the seaside town ofPattaya.

His effort fell short of breaking the129-decibel Guinness World Recordfor the loudest scream set in 2000 inLondon.

“I was only getting warmed up,” said33-year-old Savelyev, who said he’ll beback next year to compete in thecompetition hosted by Thailand’sRipley’s Believe It or Not Museum.

The Russian, who walked away witha check for 30,000 baht (US$900), wasone of 11 finalists from a field of 1,500competitors.

UAE ‘magicians’ arrestedfor bank note swindle

Two men were arrested in Abu Dhabifor swindling a large number of peoplewith claims they possessed “magicpowder” that doubled bank notes, a localnewspaper reported.

The men would show their victimswhat they said were the supernaturalpowers of the powder, which if sprinkledover a banknotes in a bag, would doublethe amount, The National cited theinterior ministry as saying.

After the victims handed over a largenumber of notes, the “magicians” wouldswap the money with fake notes coveredwith the powder, which lab tests showedconsisted of flour and washing powder,the paper reported.

“Caveman” fugitive caught after 16 yearsPortuguese police have recaptured a convict who had escaped in 1993 and had

been hiding in the caves in the mountains for 16 years receiving help from villagersnearby, local media said.

The 54-year-old former shepherd, thin and heavily bearded but healthy, wasarrested in the north of the country in a police operation dubbed “Cro-Magnon”in reference to Europe’s early humans who lived in caves thousands of years ago,Diario de Noticias daily said.

He had been convicted and sentenced to a 10-year term for accidentally killinga neighbor in a discussion over a sheep flock, but escaped after about 2 years inprison.

Local residents were quoted as saying the man, who only had a dog forcompany during his hiding, never harmed anyone while on the run. A local mayorsaid the village would hire a lawyer to try to alleviate his sentence.

Boats crash off Algerianport, one dead

ANNABA, 9 Aug—One person died and at least 11were missing after an Algerian coast guard boat col-lided with boats filled with possible migrants, officialssaid.

The collision occurred off the Algerian port city ofAnnaba after three migrant boats ignored calls that theystop, the BBC reported on Saturday.

More than 70 people have unsuccessfully tried toescape Algeria by boat during the past two days, Al-gerian radio said, adding that more than 400 peoplehad been intercepted by the Annaba coast guard thisyear. The Algerian newspaper El Watan reported twomigrant boats sank in the stand-off with the coastguards that began on Saturday.—Internet

ETA claims Spanishpolice deaths

Organic food movementgrows in China

BEIJING, 9 Aug — China's organic produce movementis growing steadily amid recurring health scares and adesire for a return to natural food, some growers say.

“The Chinese people are very aware that their food isrubbish,” said Romuald Pieters, director of SustainableDevelopment & Agriculture Creation, a consulting firmworking in China.

Last year’s contaminated-milk scandal reinforcedfears about China’s food supply, a legitimate concern ina country where most farms rely on toxic sewer sludgeto fertilize fields, the Los Angeles Times reported on Sat-urday. Fearful of the sludge, pesticides and chemicalfertilizers, a small group of growers have establishedorganic farms to sell produce and educate the publicabout healthier food, said Lejen Chen, owner ofGreen Cow farm, about 20 miles from downtownBeijing.—Internet

Health-care outbursts foreshadow a hot August

MADRID, 9 Aug — TheBasque separatist organi-sation ETA claimed re-sponsibility in a statementissued on Sunday for sev-eral attacks, includingthose that killed two CivilGuard officers and a po-lice inspector it called a“torturer”.

In the statement re-leased to the pro-inde-pendence Basque dailyGara, a regular channel

for ETA communications,the group claimed the 19June car bomb attack thatkilled 49-year-old policeinspector Eduardo PuellesGarcia in the Basquetown of Arrigorriaga.

The statement alsoclaimed the 30 July carbomb attack outside a po-lice barracks on the Medi-terranean island of Ma-jorca that killed twomembers of the CivilGuards paramilitary po-lice.

It said Puelles was“the chief of police op-erations against numer-ous leftist independenceactivists and against pro-independence youths forthe past decade, and thecoordinator of differentoperations against ETA.”

“Sometimes, as themost experienced anddespicable torturerin the commissariat ...he was also pressuredindepedence activistsinto collaboratingby threats,” said thegroup.

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DES MOINES, 9 Aug — Loud outbursts,hot tempers and pleas for civility at townhall meetings around the country on Sat-urday foreshadowed a long, hot August asDemocratic lawmakers returning homefaced resistance to proposals to reform thenation’s costly health care system.

At a meeting in Des Moines, Sen TomHarkin of Iowa, was interrupted severaltimes by people in the audience shoutingcriticism and questions, even though hesaid he didn’t expect Iowans to take partin what he called “scare tactics, misinfor-mation and obstruction.”

“As we have seen in recent days, op-ponents are pulling out all stops to kill thereform effort. This is a shame,” Harkin said.

But his words didn’t stop some in theestimated crowd of 200 from disrupting

the meeting, where uniformed police offic-ers were present. Des Moines police said noone was arrested.

At one point, a man from the audienceyelled: “This is not health reform, this is con-trol, control over our lives.”

Harkin responded to one man shoutingcriticisms by saying, “As I said, there is anationally coordinated effort to disrupt thesemeetings.” The man responded that no onehad sent him to the meeting.

Similar exchanges have recently takenplace at town halls nationwide, as Demo-cratic lawmakers return home for the Au-gust recess to rally support for PresidentBarack Obama’s top domestic priority —revamping a costly health care system thatleaves millions without insurance.

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A baby Japanese monkey is nursed by its mother atthe Yokohama zoological gardens Zoorasia, south

of Tokyo, Japan, on 9 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

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New Yatanarpon to emerge as a technology cityArticle: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

(from page 1)Afterwards, Lt-Gen Ko Ko and party inspected

scattering of natural fertilizers into Pauktapin qualitystrain plantation in Daik U Township.

After hearing reports by officials concerned, Lt-Gen Ko Ko gave instructions on extending cultivationof quality paddy strains and distribution of those strainsto farmers. They then viewed display of quality paddystrains, beans and pulses and various kinds of oil cropseeds.

Later, Lt-Gen Ko Ko and party visited a monsoonpaddy plantation at the entrance to NaunglaybinTownship and inspected spreading of fertilizers andpaddy cultivation tasks.—MNA

Lt-Gen Ko Ko of Ministryof Defence inspects…

A technological building emerging together with new Yatanarpontown project.

Beautiful scene of New Yatanarpon Town.

(from page 1)town is being built withthe use of hightechnology. The town liesnear Mandalay-LashioRoad and can overlookthe sceneries ofMandalay. The weatherwas cool and pleasantwhen we, the news team,arrived in PyinOoLwinalthough it was in theafternoon. Then we wentalong the concrete road

and saw a large building.At the top of the buildingis a signboard reading‘Yatanarpon Teleport’.

Entering thebuilding, we first saw astone plaque which says‘The construction of theteleport started under thedirective of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil on 30 June 2006and successfully openedin December 2007. This

means the most importantmain building ofYatanarpon new towncould be constructed.Apart from YatanarponTeleport, there are othertechnological buildingsunder construction. Theproject includes ahardware factory,software factory andproduction factories.Many of modern andmarvelous technological

buildings have beenconstructed nearYatanarpon Teleport.

Now, 16 companiesare investing inconstruction of the towntogether with housings.The project area is 10000acres and 2200 acres arebeing used as the firstphase of the project. Roadsand bridges at someconstruction sites havebeen built.

Upon completion

of the new town project,software and hardwarefactories will emerge. Soin the future, the sectorsof producing anddistributing technologicalequipment andtechnological teachingwill improve there.

Inside YatanarponTeleport building, mapsare displayed showingconnection of domesticphone lines andinternational phone lines

and the towns andvillages where GSM,cellular and CDMAservices are beingprovided.

As Yatanarponnew town project is beingundertaken in Myanmar,a technology city willemerge soon, creatingtechnological oppor-tunities for the localpeople to pursue.

Translation: STMyanma Alin: 9-8-09

Lt-Gen Ko Ko inspects the quality paddy strains, beans and oil crop seeds on display.—MNA

Clean and tidy road in new Yatanarpon town project.

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High time to rise from fantasyKo Myanmar

Everyone has their dreams and they have theright to fulfil their dreams. Here, they are required totake care in realizing their dreams but not at theexpense of others.

I would like to present a well-known tale that isabout the experience of a young monk who indulgedhimself in a fantasy, while giving a massage to thepresiding abbot.

In his fantasy, the monk thought that the abbotwas at the old age, so the abbot might present the silkrobe a rich disciple had offered him recently to himas he always gave him a massage; that if so, he shouldnot use the robe as it was very expensive; that so hewould leave the religious order after getting rid of therobe; that he would make an investment in a businesswith the money he would gain from sale of the robe;that later, he became to get on with his business andgot married to a woman; that then he enjoyed eco-nomic development with a paddy field and got chil-dren; that one year he gained a bumper harvest ofcrops, and in the end of Buddhist retreat, his wife, hisbaby and he went by bullock cart to the monastery tooffer a bag of rice and a tin of edible oil to the abbot;that at a uphill site on their way, the bullock cartmoved quickly, and unexpectedly the baby his wifewas holding in her arms dropped off the cart; and thatthen he was angry and struck his wife’s nape with hiselbow for her recklessness …

While giving a massage with his two elbowsover the nape of the abbot, his fantasy went too farand he accidentally hit the abbot’s nape with hiselbow.

So, the abbot reminded him, saying, “Hey, hey,monk, the one who is negligent is your wife, but theone who hurts in his nape is me.”

Then, he was shocked and frightened and ranaway as the abbot knew all of his fantasy.

Similarly, some are indulging themselves intheir fantasy; some, in the fantasy of the 2010 elec-tion; and some in the fantasy to disrupt the 2010election.

I also have heard of a clandestine scheme toincite mass protests taking advantage of Daw Suu’scase.

It seems to me that a budget allotment has beenpassed for a project. Some expatriates are makingrally cry and showing off their prowess going aroundthe world. They are like a drunkard Po Htwar whostays inside the house while he is broke, but when hehas some money, he is drunk himself into oblivionwalking with a stagger along the street with his

longyi (nether garment) around his shoulder and usingbad language.

I learnt from a foreign radio broadcast that a so-called veteran leader of 1988 mass protest as well as anex-BCP UG who a western country provided fertilesoil said that he was very active in all the protests; thattheir revolution has been mature enough; that he wouldtake a leading role in the forthcoming protest; and thathe had contact with internal networks.

In the website he has put on the Internet, he saysregarding underground activities that when the crowdtake to the streets, do not take frontlines; watch and seethe conditions staying a little distant from the crowd;go into hiding as soon as possible if the situation is notfavourable; never let yourself caught; take the last seatwhile taking a bus in order that no one can shadow you;you can carry on the revolution only if you are notarrested; it is important to leave others in the lurch; andask the persons you have organized and dear-devilsfrom your ward to hold the flag in the frontline of thecrowd.

So, I wonder what sort of frontline so-called de-mocracy activists will take. It seems to me they willtake the frontline or front row in front of TV to watchthe programmes when Myanmar sees riots, or they willdeceive the people into taking to the streets, and createanarchic riots across the nation, and when the admin-istrative machinery of the government is no longereffective, and the government of democracy activistsis formed, they will rush back to the nation fromabroad to take the frontline.

While the renegades are with the hope of comingto power, sacrificing the lives of others, a group ofpeople in the nation are plotting to seize the power.Their tactics are that they make unreasonable demandsto persuade the people to take to the streets, using

monks as a human shield. Then, following the prac-tice of hunter Sonuttho, they plan to shoot with anarrow through the body of Elephant King Hsaddanwhich is like the country and seize the tusk which islike the power and hand it over to Queen CulaSubhadda.

According to their first-hand experiences, to-day’s people know very well that internal and exter-nal power-craving elements are just plotting to cometo power, exploiting and making as the stepping-stone the people who they claim they love so much atthe expense of national interest.

In fact, the entire people and members of theSangha except those who are completely under theinfluence of covetousness, envy, ill will and animos-ity know well that every time Myanmar sees attemptsto seize power through mob rules and anarchic sensecause untold miseries, and harm the life of the people.

As the saying that goes “Happy with what otherstell”, some are indulging themselves in the fantasy ofgetting rich, thus bothering themselves. That does notharm others much, so it can be said that is not too bad.

It is rather foolish of those, who are power-craving with the hope of coming to power one wayor another by stirring up unrest and deceiving thepeople into their schemes, to create strong negativeimpact on the entire nation. They should have real-ized that their plants will never come to fruition inpractice.

In reality, they do not have their ways blocked tothat degree at which they have no choice but toprovoke public outrage and use violent means tocome to power. They have an opportunity to come topower by organizing the people, recognizing theirtrue desire through the election to be held in accord-ance with the constitution approved with the supportof the vast majority of the voters.

So, they should have chosen a peaceful way todemocracy to win the heart of the people so as to servethe public interest, instead of unfair means to seizepower, sacrificing the people. If so, that will bebeneficial to all, the nation, the people and them-selves. I wish they gave up the fantasy of coming topower through the conspiracies that pose great threatto the nation.

Translation: MS

They should have chosen a peaceful way to democracy to

win the heart of the people so as to serve the public interest,

instead of unfair means to seize power, sacrificing the people.

If so, that will be beneficial to all, the nation, the people and

themselves. I wish they gave up the fantasy of coming to

power through the conspiracies that pose great threat to the

nation.

In fact, the entire people and members of the Sangha except

those who are completely under the influence of covetousness,

envy, ill will and animosity know well that every time Myanmar

sees attempts to seize power through mob rules and anarchic

sense cause untold miseries, and harm the life of the people.

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YANGON, 9 Aug –Head of Maubin TownshipInformation and PublicRelations Department UHtein Lin visited BawaAlinyaung Library inKawatkin Village on 6August and operation ofbook borrowing card

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Aug—Chairman of MandalayDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of Central

Central Command Commander attends workshopon educating traffic rules in Mandalay Division

Command Maj-Gen TinNgwe addressed theworkshop on educatingtraffic rules in MandalayDivision at No 14 Basic

Education High Schoolin Mandalay on 26 July.

The commanderpicture cosmic books ontraffic rules.—MNA

YANGON, 8 Aug—Yangon City DevelopmentCommittee and YangonDivision TuberculosisDepartment jointlyconducted TB ControlCourse at Phyo Cetana(Free) Clinic at the cornerof Insein and KyaikwaingPagoda Roads inMayangon Township inYangon (North) Districtthis afternoon.

Chairman of YCDCMayor Brig-Gen Aung

TB Control Course openedThein Lin delivered anopening address.

Head of YangonDivision Health DepartmentDr Hla Myint touched uponNational TB Control Plan.Fifty trainees are attendingthe two-day course. —MNA

Launch of book borrowingcard system discussed

system.He met with members

of library committees of thelibraries in the village-tractand discussed maintenanceof the library buildings,books and furniture and useof book borrow cardsystem.— MNA

Commander, Minister attend openingof new school building

NAY PYI TAW, 9Aug—Minister forIndustry-1 U AungThaung inspected theproduction process ofvarious kinds of steelwares, steel medicalequipments and steel pipesproduced by the EnamelWare and Steel WareFactories (Minsu) ofMyanmar General andMaintenance Industrieson 7 August morning.

The Minister visitedthe Pharmaceuticalfactory (Innyoung) ofMyanmar PharmaceuticalIndustries and looked intoproduction process of thefactory and he also

inspected the productionof purified drinking waterat the Mya Thida purifier.

Then he inspected theproduction process of theFinished Textile FactoryPaleik and flannel andpoplin samples of thefactory of MyanmarTextile Industries.

Afterwards, theminister together withChairman of MandalayDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of CentralCommand Maj-Gen TinNgwe and wife theMandalay Mayor andwife attended theopening ceremony of

new school building ofNo 19 Post PrimarySchool in PyigyidagubTownship. The donor UKyaw Win (KyawPadetha Company),Head-mistress Daw KhinThuza and member ofschool board of trusteesU Thein Hla cut theribbon to open the newschool building.

The Commanderpressed the button to openthe stone inscription, andthe Commander, theMinister and the Mayorgrew trees at designatedplaces to commemorateopening of new schoolbuilding.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9Aug—Minister for RailTransportation Maj-GenAung Min together withDeputy Minister U PeThan arrived atInntawkywe station inKyaukpadaung Townshipand inspected stockpile ofgravels to be used inpaving Yangon-Pyay-K y a u k - p a d a u n g -Myingyan railway line

Minister inspects upgrading tasks of Yangon-Pyay-Kyaukpadaung-Myingyan railroad section

and grinding of gravelson 7 August.

Upon arrival atNyaungto station inKyaukpadaung- Hsatthwarailroad section, theminister and party lookedinto progress in paving therailroad and substituting60 pound weighing railswith 75 ones.

On arrival atPyinmakan station, they

oversaw stockpile ofgravels and the worksiteof paving rail linesbetween Ngaminmay andKanthaye stations.

At Ngaminmaystation, the minister andparty inspected progressin carrying out theearthwork. Afterinspections, the ministergave necessary in-structions.—MNA

Commander

Maj-Gen

Tin Ngwe

presenting

picture

books to an

official.

MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Aung Min inspectsupgrading tasks of Kyaukpadaung-Hsatthwa

railroad section.—MNA

Mayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin addressesopening ceremony ofTB Control Course.

MNA

YANGON, 8 Aug —The coordination meetingon organizing MyanmarHealth ResearchConference took place atMedical ResearchDepartment (LowerMyanmar) on ZiwakaStreet in Dagon Townshiphere yesterday, attendedby Deputy Minister forHealth Dr Paing Soe,

Coord meeting on organizing MyanmarHealth Research Conference held

rectors of the Universitiesof Medicines, Universitiesof Pharmacy, Universitiesof Medical Technology,Universities of Dental andUniversities of Nursing.

The deputy ministermade an opening address.After hearing a report andreview of previousconference presented byDeputy Director-General

of Medical ResearchDepartment (LowerMyanmar), the deputyminister gave necessaryinstructions.

Next, those presentreported matters related toholding the conferenceand the meeting came toan end with concludingremarks by the deputyminister. — MNA

CPT Minister meets officials from YatanarponTeleport Company (Yangon Branch)

YANGON, 9 Aug—Minister for Com-munications, Posts andTelegraphs Brig-GenThein Zaw on 7 Augustattended a workcoordination meeting onensuring better com-munication systems ofauto-telephones held at theInternational Tele-

communication Centre inMayangon Towhship hereand gave necessaryinstructions.

On 8 August, theminister met with thosefrom Yatanarpon TeleportCompany (YangonBranch) touched uponworks to be carried outthere and inspected the

autorooms.On 9 August morning,

Minister Brig-Gen TheinZaw attended a ceremonyto present prizes tooutstanding and made aspeech.

After that, the ministerand officials concernedprizes to outstandingstudents. —MNA

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Hopang has risen from obscurity to urban lifeArticle: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

U Khaing Min, StaffOfficer of Hopang

General Administra-tion Department.

A new two-storey building under construction in Hopang Basic Education High School.

(from page 16)Hopang in Kachin

State used to be a village.Now, it has been urban-ized as a result of theTatmadaw government’sdrive for nationalreconsolidation.

Seeing Mandalay-Myitkyina Railroad andS h w e b o - M y i t k y i n aRoad, Hopang enjoyssmooth transport.Hopang in Mohnyin Dis-trict is the closet regionto Indawgyi region, witha distance of only 27miles between the tworegions. Mogaung is 40miles north of or an over-one-hour train drive fromHopang. Phakant andLonkhin, the lands ofjade, are accessible fromHopang. On our wayfrom Mohnyin toMogaung, we dropped inHopang.

Now, Hopang hasbecome an affluent townwith all characteristics ofa town such as fine roads,markets, houses and largebuildings. It sees a goodnumber of sites wherebuildings are under con-struction, which reflectsthe arrays of urbaniza-tion.

When asked aboutregional development,Head of Hopang General

Administration Depart-ment U Khaing Min toldthe Myanma Alin, “Ourtownship is constitutedwith four wards, eight vil-lage-tracts, and 22 vil-lages. It was upgraded to atown from a village on 1October 2002 due to peaceand progress. Now, ourtownship’s developmentin the health care, educa-tion, communication andtransport sectors is far be-yond the developmentlong ago.”

Head of Hopang In-formation and Public Re-lations Department DawMya Tin conducted ournews crew round the town.On arrival at the basic edu-cation high school, we sawa new two-storey build-ing under construction.We learnt that in 2009, the

matriculation pass rate ofthe school was 40.94 percent, and many of the suc-cessful candidates weredistinction winners. Now,the youth of the town haveeasy access to education.

Next, we proceededto Nantyin Creek cross-ing wooden bridge thatlinks Hopang and HsinboTownships. Daw Mya Tinexplained that due to thewooden bridge, it had be-come very convenient forlocal people to travel be-tween Hsinbo Township

and Hopang; that previ-ously, local people ofHopang had to passthrough Myitkyina whenthey traveled to HsinboTownship; and that then,it took passengers onlyabout two hours to travelto Hsinbo Township.

An itinerary took usto Hopang People’s Hos-pital, which used to be astation hospital. Now, ithas been upgraded to a16-bed facility providingbetter health care to localresidents.

On a visit to HopangMicrowave Station, welearnt that it was put intocommission on 28 July1998; and that Hopangauto exchange equippedwith 700 exchange phoneswas opened on 18 Febru-ary 1996, and cellularphone line providing serv-ice for 527 phones, on 28April 2008.

Hopang’s main busi-ness is agricultural farm-ing. Now, it has launchedthe practice of growingpaddy two times in a rainy

season to achieve its goalof being the fourth gra-nary of Kachin State.Other businesses includejade mining in Phakantand Lonkhin, gold min-ing and trading goods.

Thus, it is no exag-geration to say that thecollaborative efforts thegovernment, the peopleand the Tatmadaw havebeen exerting earnestlyhave plucked up Hopangobscurity from.

Translation: MSMyanma Alin: 7-8-2009

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Aug—Minister for Agricul-ture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo met withFrench Ambassador to

A&I Minister meets French Ambassadorthe Union of MyanmarMr Jean Pierre Lafosseat his office here on 4August.

They held discussions

on development of agri-cultural sector.

Also present at the callwere departmental heads.

MNAYANGON, 9 Aug—

Central executive ofMyanmar FloriculturistsAssociation orchid expertDr Saw Lwin and mem-ber of Research Commit-tee U Nyan Tun, on 3August, left here by air toattend Jahor InternationalOrchid Festival 2009 to

Myanmar delegation on tour ofMalaysia, Singapore

be held in Jahor Bahru,Malaysia. They will ex-hibit Myanmar OrchidSpecies and read a paperon “Booming orchid-based tourism in futureMyanmar” at the paperreading session at the fes-tival.

The Myanmar delega-

tion then will proceed toSingapore from 8 to 11August to hold discussionsabout follow-up measureswith Singaporean orchidexperts from SingaporeanBotanical Garden for or-chid research tour of north-ern Myanmar in 2010 andstudy tour.—MNA

New Rainfall Record(Issued at (12:30) hrs MST on

9th August 2009)The amounts of rainfall (199) mm (7.83) inches

observed at (09:30) hours MST on 9th August, 2009 inToungoo is the 24 hours new rainfall record at thestation for the month of August during last (45) years.The former record of the station was (179) mm (7.05)inches on 8th August 2009.

MINISMINISA

Minister Maj-Gen Htay Oo holds discussions with French AmbassadorMr Jean Picrre Lafosse and party.—MNA

CorrigendumPlease read “Kayin

State” instead of“Kachin State” that ap-pears in the byline oncolumn (1) on the frontpage of this daily on 6August 2009. Error isregretted.—Ed

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Bull-Run' team members launch their makeshift aircraft made in the shape ofBuran, the Russian space shuttle, into the Moskva River during the Red Bull Flugtag

Moscow 2009 competition in Moscow, Sunday, on 9 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 9Aug—Forty prisonerswere sent to hospitals aftera riot broke out at theCalifornia Institution forMen in Chino.

Prison spokesman Lt.Mark Hargrove toldKTLA-TV the riot startedabout 8:30 p.m. Saturday.He said the situation wasunder control as of Sundaymorning. About 80officers responded to theriot.

Hargrove says theinmates' injuries rangefrom stab wounds andslashes to head trauma.Some injuries wereconsidered life-threatening.

No prison staffmembers were injured.

The prison has sevenunits that house about 200inmates each. At least oneunit caught fire.—Internet

The scene of a bomb attack in Mosul in this handout photo provided by the police,on 8 Aug, 2009. A suicide car bomber killed 38 people as they left a Shi'ite Muslimmosque just outside the volatile northern Iraqi city of Mosul, officials said onFriday, while a series of bombs in Baghdad killed six Shi'ite pilgrims. Picture

taken on 8 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

INDONESIA, 9 Aug—Australia and Indonesia willmake a submission on usingrainforests to offset carbonemissions from pollutingindustries at climate changetalks beginning today inGermany.

The submission,obtained by The Age, statesAustralia is building asatellite receiving stationnear Darwin to monitordeforestation in Asia andthe Pacific.

The second jointsubmission to UN climatenegotiations from the twocountries reflects the RuddGovernment's desire to useAsian and Pacific forests asa cheap emissions offset forlocal industry through''REDD'' - reducingemissions fromdeforestation and forestdegradation - carboncredits. It outlines the extentto which Australia isworking with Indonesia toready the country to sellcarbon credits based on

Australia, Indonesia in carbontrading plan

40 inmateshurt in riotat Calif.'s

Chino prison

carbon stored in forests,including holding''technical sessions'' forofficials on how to monitorthe REDD program.

Australia andIndonesia are alsodeveloping two REDDdemonstration projectsunder a $200 millionAustralian-funded global

forestry-carbon program topresent to the climatenegotiations in Copenhagenin December. Environmentgroups are expressingconcerns over the make-upof REDD the draft text of anew climate agreementbefore the UN, ahead of thediscussions starting todayin Bonn.—Internet

Villagers gather at the rubble of housesbelonging to supporters of Pakistani Taliban

chief Baitullah Mehsud.—INTERNET

DHAKA, 9 Aug—Over6,000 people die insnakebites every year intropical Bangladeshagainst a global statisticof some 150,000 deaths,national news agency BSSreported on Saturdayquoting a nationwidesurvey carried outrecently.

The study found thatthe phenomenon is an “oldand ignored public healthproblem” as 86 percentsnakebite victims stillreport to traditionalhealers and only threepercent to doctors for wantof access to treatmentfacilities, the BSS said.The survey carried outwith World Bankassistance identified thesouthwestern coastalBarisal division, about170 kilometres fromcapital Dhaka, as the mostsnakebite-prone area

Moscow, 9 Aug—Indian and Russianscientists are close to finaldevelopment and testingof the air-launchedversion of the BrahMossupersonic cruise missile.

A top Russiandefence official said a newtakeoff engine forlaunching of the missilein air and at extreme highaltitudes had beendeveloped. AlexanderLeonov, Director of theRussian Machine

Snakes kill over 6,000Bangladeshis every year

where 2,667 people arebitten.

Northeastern Sylhetdivision, 240 kilometresfrom Dhaka, has thelowest record of snakebiteincidents a year. Thereport found that 27percent victims werebitten while walking inrural roads and another 27percent were exposed tosnakes while they tookdips in water bodies,according to the BSS.Experts said 80 species ofsnakes with 22 of thembeing venomous are seenin Bangladesh. Accordingto a global statistic, somethree million people arebitten every year and ofthem 150,000 die whileSouth Asia, SoutheastAsia and sub-SaharanAfrica report the highestnumber of bites, the BSSsaid.

MNA/Xinhua

India, Russia close to final testing of air-launched “BrahMos”Building Research andProduction Center, said:“we are ready for testlaunches.”

Leonov was quoted assaying by the ITAR-TASSnews agency that the initialtest firing of the missilewould be undertaken fromthe Sukhoi-30 MKI, but didnot specify the exact dates.After testing, the IAFwould be launch customersfor the air launchedBrahMos cruise missile,which will make the Indian

Air Force, the only forcein Asia to have such acapability.

The BrahMos isalready inducted in its shipto shore role and land-to-land versions in the IndianNavy and Army. Leonovfor the first time disclosedthat Moscow and NewDelhi were also “veryclose” to designing andtesting of the submarinelaunched version of theBrahMos missile.

MNA/Xinhua

Survey: Gas pricesnationwide jump 16 cents

CAMARILLO, 9 Aug —The US price of gasolinejumped nearly 16 cents a gallon during the past twoweeks to $2.64.

That's according to the national Lundberg Surveyof fuel prices released Sunday.

Analyst Trilby Lundberg says it appears the rate ofincrease is slowing.

The latest average price of regular gasolineis $1.20 below the price at the same time lastyear.

The average price for a gallon of mid-grade was$2.77. Premium was at $2.88.

Charleston, S C., had the lowest price, $2.38 for agallon for regular.

Honolulu was the highest at $3.07.Internet

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Guinness record refreshed inone-year anniversary of

Beijing Olympics

Shanghai gets green lightfor Pudong Airport

bonded zone

In this undated file photo released by the Central Australian Camel IndustryAssociation, ranchers in Alice Springs, central Australia use a truck to chase

and catch a camel roaming wild on the property. Mere months after theAustralian government ordered the shooting of thousands of kangaroos to

help control their population, officials are now considering sendingmarksmen into the Outback in helicopters to take aim at another fast-

growing group of pests: camels.—INTERNET

Australia considers mass killings of camels

BEIJING, 9 Aug— TheGuinness world recordfor the number of peoplepracticing Taiji, ormartial arts shadowboxing, together wasbroken here on Saturdaywhen China marked thefirst anniversary of theBeijing Olympics. A totalof 33,996 people from allwalks of life gathered atthe Olympic areabetween the Bird’s Nestand the Water Cube, thetwo symbols of theGames, in the morningand practicing Taiji

together in the drizzle tomark the one-yearanniversary of theBeijing Olympics.

The performance ranin five minutes and 49seconds and the numberof the performersshattered the previousrecord of 30,648.

A representativefrom the Guinnessheadquarters in Londonpresented the certificateof the record to LiuJingmin, vice mayor ofBeijing.

Xinhua

SHANGHAI, 9 Aug—The State Council, orCabinet, has givenapproval for a bondedarea for PudongInternational Airport, alocal official said onSaturday. Jiang Liang,governor of the PudongNew Area, told reportersthat the tax-free zonecovers an area of about 4square km. Chen Xuyuan,president of ShanghaiInternational Port

(Group) Co., said themove will help promoteShanghai to build itselfinto an internationalcentre of shipping.

Pudong now has twoharbors, one airport andthree bonded areas.

The PudongInternational Airporthandled 2.63 milliontonnes of cargo last year,ranking third in theworld.

Xinhua

China lifts blockade aroundplague-stricken town

BEIJING, 9 Aug —Ablockade around a remotenorthwest Chinese townwhere deadly pneumonicplague killed three peopleand sickened nine waslifted after no newinfections were reported, anofficial said on Sunday.

The blockade of Ziketanin an ethnically Tibetan areain Qinghai province endedSaturday night after 10days, said a governmentspokesman who wouldonly give his surname,Wang.

Police had set upcheckpoints around thefarming town of 10,000people, sealing it off toprevent the spread of thedisease that can kill in as fewas 24 hours if left untreated.Wang said nine patientswere recovering and in

stable condition though theywere required to stay for fivedays in a hospital forobservation. Another 332people quarantined forhaving “direct or indirectcontact” with the patientswere released. The outbreak,first detected July 30, killedthree people who wereneighbors. Most of the othersickened people wererelatives of the first victim,a 32-year-old herdsman whobecame ill after burying hisdog. China has had previouscases of plague, a diseasethat circulates mainlyamong small animals likerats and mice but can alsoinfect humans. Experts havesaid most cases in China’snorthwest occur whenhunters are contaminatedwhile skinning infectedanimals.—Internet

SYDNEY, 9 Aug—Thousands of camels inAustralia’s remoteOutback could be killedby marksmen inhelicopters under agovernment proposalaimed at cutting down thepopulation of the havoc-wreaking creatures.

First introduced intoAustralia in the 1840s tohelp explorers travelthrough the Australiandesert, there are nowabout 1 million camelsroaming the country, withthe population doublingevery nine years.

They compete with

sheep and cattle for food,trample vegetation andinvade remote settlementsin search of water, scaringresidents as they tear apartbathrooms and rip upwater pipes.

Last month, the federalgovernment set aside 19million Australian dollars($16 million) for aprogram to help slash thepopulation. Besidessending in sharpshootersin helicopters and on foot,officials are consideringproposals to turn some ofthe creatures into tastytreats such as camelburgers. Hunters in the

United States have shotwolves from helicoptersin Alaska in an aerialpredator control programthere. More than 800wolves have been killedas part of the pro-gramme, which has beena point of nationalcontroversy since it wasinitiated five years ago.

Glenn Edwards, who isworking on drafting theAustralian government’scamel reduction program,said the population needsto be slashed by two-thirds to reducecatastrophic damage.

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People take part in the traditional summer carnivalin the southern Bosnia-Herzegovina’s town ofCapljina, 100 miles south from Sarajevo, on 8 Aug,2009. Over 1,500 festival goers took part in the

event.—INTERNET

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Scientists alter cells toproduce insulin

Powerful bladdercancer cells found

Local residents are evacuated in CangnanCounty, east China’s Zhejiang Province, on 8

Aug, 2009. The province has evacuated around317,000 people to avoid the approaching Typhoon

Morakot so far. —XINHUA

Biodiversity boomedduring global warming

Distressed family mem-bers are seen waiting out-side the Shipping Corpo-ration of Polynesia officeon Queen Salote Wharffor a survivor list to be re-leased after the MV Prin-cess Ashika ferry wentmissing off the waters ofNuku’alofa, on 6 August. INTERNET

Hong Kong reports 199 new influenzaA/H1N1 cases

HONG KONG, 9 Aug—Hong Kong confirmed 199 new cases of influenza A/H1N1 on Saturday, bringing the total to 5,407 in the region, local health authori-ties said. A spokesman for the Department of Health said the new cases involve101 males and 98 females, aged between one year and 79 years.

According to the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, a total of 64 confirmed casesare currently staying in public hospitals for treatment. Among them, 57 casesare in stable condition, three in serious and four in critical condition.—Internet

S Africa reports secondswine flu death

JOHANNESBURG, 9 Aug—South Africa on Satur-day reported its second swine flu death, five daysafter announcing the first fatality in sub-SaharanAfrica.

“A 15-year-old boy died on Thursday.The NICD (National Institute for Communica-

ble Diseases) confirmed yesterday that it was thevirus,” said health spokesman Fidel Hadebe.

South Africa reported its first infection in Juneand had nearly 600 confirmed cases on 3 August.Tests results following the death of a 22-year-oldstudent confirmed the A(H1N1) virus.

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BERLIN, 9 Aug—Ateam of European and USresearchers say they'regetting closer to alteringpancreatic cells to pro-duce insulin to cure Type1 diabetes.

Altering cells to pro-duce insulin would helpdiabetics metabolizesugar and reduce or elimi-nate the need for daily in-sulin injections, the LosAngeles Times reported onSaturday.

A team of scientists ledby Patrick Collombat, aresearcher at the MaxPlanck Institute for Bio-physical Chemistry inGermany, reprogrammedpancreatic cells in dia-betic mice by activating a

gene known as Pax4, theTimes reported.

In mice trials, Pax4converted cells that nor-mally made a hormonecalled glucagon into cellsthat made insulin, the Eu-ropean and US research-ers wrote in the journalCell. For reasons un-known, the gene therapyworked best on mice lessthan 1 month old, com-pletely counteracting thesymptoms of Type 1 dia-betes, Collombat said.

Future trials are to fo-cus on how to activate thePax4 gene and then turnit off so it doesn't producetoo much insulin,Collombat said.

Internet

BALTIMORE, 9 Aug—Aset of powerful cells inbladder tumors seem tobe responsible for thecancer growing andspreading elsewhere,scientists in Baltimoresaid.

The findings couldhelp researchers developnew ways of locatingand attacking similarcells in other types ofcancer, scientists atJohns Hopkins Univer-sity School of Medicinesaid on Friday.

Scientists have longsuspected that a subsetof cells in canceroustumors act much likestem cells, which spurorgan development early

in life and remainpresent to repair orreplace injured andaging tissues, Dr DavidBerman reported inthe July issue of StemCells.

The power cells foundin bladder tumors aresimilar to stem cells,with both having an un-limited lifespan and apropensity to migratethrough tissues.

If scientists had a wayto identify and targetcancer cells with theseproperties, the popula-tion that sustains tumorsand makes them growcould be eliminated,Berman said.

Internet

Salmonella outbreak sickens at leastnine in two US states

Chinese residents gather to remove a fallen treeblocking a road in Changle, in southeast China’sFujian province, on 8 August, as Typhoon Morakothits mainland China. 473,300 residents of the coastalprovince of Zhejiang reportedly had been moved,while more than 480,000 people were evacuatedfrom neighboring Fujian Province.—INTERNET

DENVER, 9 Aug—Aglobal warming spanfrom 53 million to 47million years agostrongly influenced thebiodiversity of westernNorth America, geolo-gists said.

The warming spurreda biodiversity boom ofplants and animals, theresearchers reported thisweek in the Proceedingsof the National Academyof Sciences.

“Today, the middle ofWyoming is a vastdesert, and a few ante-lope and deer are all yousee,” geologist MichaelWoodburne, of the Mu-seum of Northern Ari-zona, said.

Fifty million years

ago, however, when tem-peratures were at theirhighest, that area ofWyoming was a tropicalrain forest teeming withlemur-like primates,small horses, forest ro-dents and other mam-mals, Woodburne said.“In fact, there were morespecies of mammals liv-ing in the western part ofNorth America at thattime than at any othertime,” he said.

Woodburne's researchinto global warming wasaided by Gregg Gunnellof the University ofMichigan Museum ofPaleontology and Rich-ard Stucky of the DenverMuseum of Nature &Science.—Internet

LOS ANGELES, 9 Aug—An outbreak of salmonellahas sickened at least ninepeople in the US states ofCalifornia and Colorado,health officials said onSaturday.

Health departments inthe two states linked theoutbreak with ground beefproducts that may betainted with salmonella.

The California Depart-ment of Public Health said

that three people in Or-ange County and two inTulare County reportedfeeling ill. Colorado healthofficials say at least fourpeople there were hospi-talized for related ill-nesses. All are recovering.

The tainted beef prod-ucts are being recalled bya company in Fresno, Cen-tral California after the USDepartment of Agriculture(USDA) issued a food

safety warning earlier thisweek.The recall involved825,769 pounds of groundbeef produced between 5June and 23 June this year.

This was the biggestbeef recall so far this year.

The beef has beendistributed by Beef Pack-ers Inc to retail distribu-tion centers in Arizona,California, Colorado andUtah.

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Atletico Madrid claimsprestigious win in Liverpool MADRID, 9 Aug—Atletico Madrid achieved a pres-

tigious pre-season win with a 2-1 win against Liver-pool in the mythical Anfield Stadium. First half goalsfrom Atletico strike pair Diego Forlan and KunAguerowere enough to give the Spanish side the win, whileLucas Leiva gave Liverpool a consolation goal late inthe second half.

The game had been billed as another sentimentalreunion for Liverpool' s Fernando Torres and hisformer club, after the Spanish forward missed out onlast season's Champions League clashes due to injury.Liverpool, playing without midfielder Xabi Alonso,who was sold to Real Madrid earlier in the week, suf-fered the loss of central defender Jamie Carragherthrough injury after just 15 minutes.—Xinhua

Lazio downs Inter Milan 2-1 to winItalian Super Cup at Bird’s Nest

BEIJING, 9 Aug—Coppa Italia champions Lazio sankSerie A winner Inter Milan 2-1 by two quickfire goalswithin four minutes to take the Italian Super Cup at anearly full-packed Bird's Nest here on Saturday. "Laziowon the game, I should congratulate them. But I couldonly see one team on the pitch. In the latter part of thesecond half, the most people I saw on the pitch wastheir team doctor," said Milan boss Jose Mourinhoironically.

The match was held coinciding with the anniver-sary of the opening of the 2008 Beijing OlympicGames. Jose Mourinho used a 4 - 4 -2 formation withnewly signed Eto'o paired Diego Milito in the frontline. Milan took the upper hand in the first half againsta cautious Lazio, but Sulley Muntari and Lucio wastedtwo good chances.

Xinhua

Members of the Lazio team celebrate with the trophyafter the Italian Super Cup soccer match againstInter Milan at the National Stadium in Beijing,

capital of China, on 8 Aug, 2009.—XINHUA

Valencia beat Arsenal in friendlyVALENCIA, 9 Aug—Spain's Valencia defeated Arse-

nal 2-0 in a friendly on Saturday, but the match wasovershadowed by the death of Espanyol skipper DaniJarque.Michel, in the 75th minute, and David Villa,with a goal in stoppage time, gave the Spaniards vic-tory at the Mestella.

Villa had earlier missed a penalty when the scoreswere level at 0-0.Before the second-half kicked-off, aminute's silence was held in honour of 26-year-oldJarque who died from a heart attack while at anEspanyol training camp in Italy.The players also woreblack armbands for the final 45 minutes.—Internet

Bayern post 1-1 draw againstHoffenheim

BERLIN, 9 Aug—German football giant BayernMunich had their ambition snubbed at the Bundesligaopener as they were tied 1-1 in an away game againstHoffenheim on Saturday.

Ivica Olic put Bayern in front in the 25th minute inwhat was also his first league appearance for the recordchampions. ChineduObasi leveled for the hosts in the41st minute, set up by fit-again strike partner VedadIbisevic. Bayern were thus unable to present new coachLouis van Gaal with a debut Bundesliga victory onthe occasion of his 58th birthday.

Bayern Munich missed several key players throughinjury, like playmaker Franck Ribery, strikers MiroslavKlose, Luca Toni and defender Martin Demichelis. Theopener from Olic was virtually the only highlight of afirst half to forget for the visitors. There was earlycontroversy in the 11th minute when Hoffenheim's newcentral defender Josip Simunic headed the ball off thepost and Bayern keeper Michael Rensing appeared toclear it only after it had crossed the line. The referee,however, did not give the goal. —Xinhua

Bayern Munich’s Ivica Olic (2nd L) scores a goal dur-ing their German Bundesliga soccer match against TSG

Hoffenheim in Sinsheim on 8 Aug, 2009.—XINHUA Pennetta, Stosur reach LAtennis final

LOS ANGELES, 9 Aug—Italy's Flavia Pennettabrushed aside a shaky serve to book her spot in theLos Angeles Women's Tennis Championship final byrallying to beat Russian Maria Sharapova. Pennetta,who had lost in her two previous meetings againstSharapova, posted a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 semi-final victory atthe Home Depot Center.

"I didn't put a lot of my first serves in so I just tried toget my second serve in and play the point. She was mak-

Samantha Stosur of Australiahits a forehand to Sorana

Cirstea of Romania in the LAWomen’s Tennis Champion-

ships at the Home Depot Centerin Carson, California.

INTERNET

England just like Brazil, says Lampard

Frank Lampard

Espanyol captain Jarque diesof a heart attack

MADRID, 9 Aug—Spanish football was in shock onSaturday night following the death of Espanyol foot-ball club captain Daniel Jarque from a suspected heartattack. Jaque, who was just 26 years old, apparentlypassed out while he was speaking on the phone to hisfamily from the hotel where he and his teammates werestaying just outside of Florence in Italy.

Despite all the efforts of the club doctor, ambu-lance workers and doctors to revive him, Jarque neverrecovered consciousness and was pronounced dead anhour later. It is a terrible loss of a player, who hadspent all his career with the Barcelona based club af-ter joining them as a 12-year-old.—Xinhua

LONDON, 9 Aug—Eng-land midfielder FrankLampard believes his in-

ternational teammates,who have moved confi-dently to the brink ofqualifying for the WorldCup finals, would notlook out of place playingfor Brazil.The Chelseaman insists that FabioCapello's team are servingup football with a flair andstyle which would notlook out of place in Bra-zil or even Europeanchampions Spain.

Internet

ing a lot of mis-takes," Pennettasaid. Pennetta willface AustralianSamantha Stosur inSunday's final atthe hardcourt facil-ity in south centralLos Angeles.Stosur swept pastRomania's SoranaCirstea 6-3, 6-2 injust 62 minutes.

Internet

Chelsea win over Man-Unitedin penalty shoot-out

C h e l s e aclinched theCommunityShield aftera series ofwell-takenpenalties.

INTERNET

LONDON, 9 Aug—Carlo Ancelotti celebrated thestart of his Chelsea reign with silverware as theyclaimed the Community Shield with victory overManchester United in a penalty shoot-out at Wembley.Nani's angled strike gave the Premier League champi-ons an early lead - but Ricardo Carvalho's headedequaliser and a hotly-disputed strike from FrankLampard looked to have given Chelsea victory.

Wayne Rooney added an extra layer of drama to ahighly-entertaining encounter when he slid home acomposed finish to level for United with almost thelast action of normal time.

United felt justice had been served after they fellbehind to Lampard's goal with 20 minutes left, scoredwith defender Patrice Evra lying injured after he wasfouled by Chelsea substitute Michael Ballack, an of-fence missed by referee Chris Foy.But Rooney's goalwas not to prove the platform for a United victory -with Chelsea delivering an emphatic performance inthe spot-kick decider.—Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudy inKayah State and lower Sagaing Division, rain have beenisolated in upper Sagaing Division, scattered in MandalayDivision, fairly widespread in Kachin and Shan States,Magway, Bago and Yangon Divisions and widespread inthe remaining areas with locally heavyfalls in Kayin, MonStates and Bago Division, isolated heavyfalls in RakhineState and Magway Division.The noteworthy amounts ofrainfall recorded were Nay Pyi Taw (Yezin) (0.59) inch,Taunggu (7.83) inches, Thandwe (5.99) inches, Taunggu(Aviation) (5.82) inches, Hpa-an (5.52) inches, Thaton(5.00)inches, Kyeikkhame (4.76) inches, Mudon (4.57)inches, Theinzayat (4.53) inches, Mawlamyine (4.41) inchesand Minbu (1.93) inches.

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Likelihood of Pakistan’s Talibanleader’s death ‘90 percent’

WASHINGTON, 9 Aug—The United States believesPakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed ina drone attack last week, President Obama’s nationalsecurity advicer said on Sunday. “We think so,” Gen.Jim Jones told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” adding, “Weput it in the 90 percent [likelihood] category.” Pakistan’sforeign and interior ministers said on Friday thegovernment was still waiting to conduct DNA analysisto confirm the identity of a man killed on Wednesdayin an unmanned aerial vehicle strike.

The suspected US drone targeted the home of Mehsud’s father-in-law, Mulvi Ikram ud Din, in Pakistan’sSouth Waziristan tribal area, an intelligence officialsaid. Taliban officials have denied reports of Mehsud’sdeath.

Speaking to “Fox News Sunday” about reports thatMehsud was killed, Jones said, “All evidence that wehave suggests that,” but he emphasized that If Mehsudwas killed, it means that US cooperation with Pakistanis “having a good effect and that we’re moving in theright direction,” Jones said. “Mehsud was a very badindividual, a real thug responsible for a lot of violence,a lot of innocent people losing their lives.”—Internet

Volunteers from Delaware’s Marine Mammal &Sea Turtle, Stranding Response Team work to savea 22-foot Minke whale that was stranded onSaturday at Cape Henlopen State Park. Too weakto survive, the whale was euthanized.—INTERNET

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NAY PYI TAW, 9 Aug—According to the 15:30hr MST observation today, the water level of BagoRiver at Bago is 845 cm. It may reach its danger level910 cm during the next 48 hours. Similarly, accord-ing to the 12:30 hr observation today, the water levelof Sittoung River at Toungoo is 684 cm and it hasexceeded by 84 cm (about three feet) above itsdanger level. It may remain above its danger level600 cm during the next 48 hours commencing noontoday.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Aug—The Airport Health Department transferred a 40-year-old man who had returned from Malaysia to Waibargi Specialists Hospitalyesterday as he was found ill with flu symptoms such as fever, sneeze and cough.After giving him a medical check-up, the National Health Laboratory confirmedthat he was found infected with New Influenza A (H1N1). The male patient hadarrived back Myanmar by flight No MH-740 on the same day.

The authorities concerned are keeping 143 passengers who flew togetherwith the patient on the same flight as well as 131 airport staff under surveillanceat their respective places.

The number of patient infected with the virus has so far risen to 17 and 10 outof whom were discharged from the hospitals as they fully recovered from illness. Thespecialists are taking intensive care of remaining seven patients.—MNA

One more patient found infected withNew Influenza A (H1N1)

Number of patients infected with the virus reaches 17

Looking different ‘helpsanimals to survive’

A prime example of anexuberant polymor-

phism is the HawaiianHappy-face Spider,

which has been studiedby Dr Geoff Oxford and

colleagues.

SCIENCE DAILY, 9 Aug—In the animal king-dom, everything is not as it seems. Individuals of thesame species can look very different from each other—what biologists term ‘polymorphism.’

Sometimes the number of distinct visible forms—‘exuberant polymorphisms’ — in a single animalpopulation can reach double figures. Butwhy?Scientists at the University of York have devel-oped computer models that may help to explain howthis level of variation arises and persists.A primeexample of an exuberant polymorphism is the Hawai-ian Happy-face Spider, which has been studied by DrGeoff Oxford and colleagues in the Universityís De-partment of Biology.—Internet

Hopang has risen from obscurity to urban life

Nantyin Creek spanning bridge links Hopang and Hsinbo Township in Kachin State. (See page 10)

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