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Volume XVII, Number 285 12th Waxing of Tabodwe 1371 ME Tuesday, 26 January, 2010

Lahe Township witnessing signs of significant progress

* 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 the en-tire 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

Byline & Photos: Dedai(IPRD)Only with stability

and peace will it be pos-sible for a country to en-

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Jan — On the occasion of the anniversary of the Australia Day whichfalls on 26 January 2010, Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to HerExcellency Ms. Quentin Bryce AC, Governor-General of Australia.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Jan — On the occasion of the 61st Anniversary of the Republic Dayof India which falls on 26th January 2010, Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the StatePeace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitationsto Her Excellency Mrs. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, President of the Republic of India.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Jan — On the occasion of the 61st Anniversary of the Republic Dayof India which falls on 26th January 2010, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, Vice-Chairmanof the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a messageof felicitations to His Excellency Mr. Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Vice-President of theRepublic of India.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein sendsmessage of felicitations to Australian counterpart

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Jan — On the occasion of the anniversary ofthe Australia Day which falls on 26 January 2010, General TheinSein, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a messageof felicitations to His Excellency Mr. Kevin Michael Rudd, PrimeMinister of Australia.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Jan — On the occasion of the 61st Anniversaryof the Republic Day of India which falls on 26th January 2010,General Thein Sein, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar, hassent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Dr. ManmohanSingh, Prime Minister of the Republic of India.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe sends messageof felicitations to Indian President

Senior General Than Shwe felicitatesAustralian Governor-General

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye sends messageof felicitations to Indian Vice-President

Nantsalein Steel Suspension Bridge on Hkamti-Lahe Road Section.

Prime Minister General Thein Seinfelicitates Indian counterpart

joy development.To put it another way,

stability and peace are fun-

damental requirementsfor a region or a countryto implement develop-

ment tasks on a broadscale. However muchmanpower, machinery

and investment a nationuses for its development,it will never achieve its

goal if it is in no positionto restore those crucialrequirements. Therefore,I would say stability andpeace take centre statefor regional and nationalprogress.

For instance, there isa significant develop-ment gap between pastconditions of LaheTownship on NagaMountain Range inMyanmar that peace andstability could not be re-stored, and its prevailingconditions that it has be-gun to reap the fruits of

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Tuesday, 26 January, 2010

PERSPECTIVES

Boost national prestige,integrity through literature

* Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negativeviews

* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s Desire

Myanmar literature has flourishedthroughout successive periods. Men and womenof letters preserve a fine tradition of bringingdignity to own race and religious faith throughliterary works based on both mundane andsupramundane affairs, and making sustainedefforts to improve the mother tongue.

The government gives effectiveencouragement to Myanmar literary world byholding awarding ceremonies annually to honourliterati for their outstanding works.Organizations in many fields and well-wishersadd awards of all genres with the aim of helpingbring about literary works on building the nation.

Tun Foundation held its fourth AwardingCeremony (2009) at the Myanmar BanksAssociation in Yangon the other day. The genresincluded biography, health, archaic treaty(English) and reference (English), apart fromlife-long achievement award.

Indeed, literature serves as a driving forcebehind the bid to link the sectors of building thenation with one another. Literati are to help thepeople stay in touch with latest developmentsand expand their horizons; enhance thenationalistic spirit and national outlook of thepeople; and introduce classical works ofMyanmar and international affairs by creatingworks on information and knowledge.

Today, certain powerful countries useinformation technology as a tool to gaindomination over developing countries. Theyresort to all possible ways and means to makethe peoples of the Third World think highly ofWestern culture and lifestyles. Accordingly, thepeople have to overcome such attacks with ownliterary work and culture.

Literati and men of letters are, therefore,under a duty to write beneficial works ofliterature constantly, help preserve the nationalcharacter, and safeguard the national prestigeand integrity through the might of literature.

FM felicitates Australiancounterpart

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Jan — On the occasion of theAnniversary of the Australia Day which falls on 26January 2010, U Nyan Win, Minister for ForeignAffairs of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a messageof felicitations to His Excellency Mr Stephen Smith.MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Ministry ofForeign Affairs and Trade of Australia.—MNA

FM felicitates Indiancounterpart

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Jan — On the occasion of the61st Anniversary of the Republic Day of India whichfalls on 26th January 2010, U Nyan Win, Minister forForeign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar, has senta message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr S.M. Krishna, Minister of External Affairs of theRepublic of India.—MNA

Jewelry Trade Center (Yangon) openedYANGON, 24 Jan —

The opening ceremony ofJewelry Trade Center(Yangon) was held atKandawgyi Palace Hotelhere on 22 January.

General Manager ofthe hotel Mr Kennedy Hoexplained matters relatedto the center. The generalmanager and officials

formally opened thecenter and viewedshowrooms displayedinside the center.

An internationalstandard Jewelry TradeCenter had been opened inBangkok. The center has60 sale counters of variousentrepreneurs in Yangonand opens from noon to 8

pm. Its own website, www.j e w e l r y t r a d e c e n t e r.com, has been posted toenable fulltime sales.CCTV cameras have beeninstalled for securitypurpose and the internetaccess is available. Otherjewelry services will alsobe provided by JTC(Yangon).

YANGON, 24 Jan—Capital Hypermarket willorganize My DreamHome: Interior Design &Deco Fair 2010 from 27th

January to 2nd Februaryduring which furniture,bedding, toiletries,refrigerators, washingmachines, vacuumcleaners, irons,microwaves, blenders,electric thermo pots, ricecookers, ceiling, drawers,sofas, carpets, decorativeflower vases, office-usechairs and tables, lighting

My Dream Home at Capital Hypermarketand paints will be on salesat discount.

All the products arebranded ones ofPanasonic, INAX,

Ngwekyartaik, scene,Sein & Mya furniture,LEECO, Carpet Worldand so on.

MNA

Capital Hypermarket will organize MyDream Home: Interior Design & Deco

Fair 2010.—MNA

Theopening

cere-mony

ofJewelryTradeCenter

(Yangon)is in

progress.MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 25Jan— Ministers ofCulture and Fine Arts,and senior officialsfrom Laos, Cambodiaand Vietnam, who hadattended culture relatedroundtable meeting ofMinisters of Culture andFine Arts of Cambodia,Laos, Myanmar andVietnam (CLMV)yesterday afternoonvisited Myanma GemsEmporium and Na-t ional Museum andShwedagon Pagoda inYangon.

Ministers andofficials from Laos,Cambodia and Vietnamthis morning and thisafternoon left Yangon by

CLMV delegates concludes visit

air, and they wereseen off at Yangon

Ministers ofCulture and

Fine Artsand senior

officialsfrom

Cambodia,Laos and

Vietnam atYangon

InternationalAirport

before theirdeparture.

MNA

International Airportby officials from the

Ministry of Culture.MNA

Those who want tobuy the gems andjewelries may dialPh: 249255 to 249259,ext: 5115 and 5713.

MNA

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An elderly Yemeni man pushes a child sitting in a cart full of plastic containersas they head to fill them with drinking water in Sanaa on 23 January . Impover-ished Yemen is reeling under the threat of Al-Qaeda, northern Shiite rebels andsouthern secessionists, but a lack of water is putting its ancient capital at even greater risk, experts say.—INTERNET

Medvedev says 95% of newSTART treaty agreed

Fight over gas pipeline leaves11 dead in PNG

Three US soldiers killedin Afghanistan

KABUL, 25 Jan — Three American soldiers withthe NATO-led International Security Assistance Force(ISAF) were killed in Afghanistan on Sunday, takingthe total number of US casualties to five in two days,the alliance said in two separate Press releases.

“Three ISAF service members from the UnitedStates was killed today in an IED (Improvised Explo-sive Device) strike in southern Afghanistan”.

ISAF in another Press release also confirmed thedeath of two more American soldiers in similar inci-dent in the restive southern region. Two more US sol-diers with ISAF troops were killed on Saturday alsoin south Afghanistan.

Over two dozens of the NATO-led soldiers withmajority of them Americans have been killed in Af-ghanistan since early this year.

MNA/Xinhua

A gunbattle over lucrative profits from a gaspipeline planned by ExxonMobil in Papua New

Guinea has left 11 people dead and 270 propertiesdestroyed, reports said on Monday.

INTERNET

MOSCOW, 25 Jan — Thenew strategic arms reduc-tion treaty START has al-most been agreed upon byRussia and the UnitedStates, said Russian Presi-dent Dmitry Medvedev onSunday.

“Ninety-five percent ofissues have been coordi-nated. I have rather opti-mistic expectations regard-ing the treaty,” Medvedevtold reporters at KrasnayaPolyana, a ski resort nearthe Black Sea city of Sochi.

“As regards the docu-ment, US President Barack

Obama and I clearly out-lined the limits — what wemay not do and what theymay not do. Everything isclear here,” he said.

Russia and the UnitedStates have been workingon a successor to the Stra-tegic Arms ReductionTreaty START-1 that ex-pired on 5 Dec, 2009.

The START-1, signed in1991 between the SovietUnion and the UnitedStates, obliged both sides toreduce the number of theirnuclear warheads to 6,000and delivery vehicles to

1,600.Medvedev and Obama

agreed in July to slash eachcountry’s nuclear warheadsto 1,500 to 1,675 and deliv-ery vehicles to 500 to 1,000under a new START treaty.Disagreements remain onverification and control ar-rangements to be includedin the document. RussianForeign Minister SergeiLavrov said on Friday thatMoscow and Washingtonwould resume their armstalks “at the start of Febru-ary.”

MNA/Xinhua

PORT MORESBY, 25 Jan— A gunbattle over lucra-tive profits from a gas pipe-line planned byExxonMobil in PapuaNew Guinea has left 11people dead and 270 prop-erties destroyed, reportssaid on Monday.

The violence eruptedwhen a gang of villagersfrom the Erave district inthe Southern Highlands at-tacked a neighbouring clanin Pawale village withhigh-powered guns on theweekend, the Post Courierreported. “Hundreds ofwomen and children whofled are unaccounted forafter 270 houses and otherproperties were de-stroyed,” the paper said.

The raid was believedto be in retaliation for thekilling of a man ahead oftalks among Southern

Highlands landowners onthe sharing of profits fromthe 15-billion-dollar lique-fied natural gas pipeline, itsaid. Once complete, thepipeline operated by USenergy giant ExxonMobiland partners will transportLNG from the remoteSouthern Highlands to thePapua New Guinea capitalPort Moresby, from wherethe gas will be shippedabroad.—Internet

Policeman killed, eight bodies found in mass grave in IraqFALLUJAH, 25 Jan— A policeman was killed in a bomb attack and eight decom-

posed bodies discovered near the once volatile city of Fallujah on Sunday, a localpolice source said.

A roadside bomb went off near a police patrol in the town of Garmanear the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, killing a police-man and wounding two others, the source told Xinhua on condition of ano-nymity.

The blast destroyed a police vehicle, damaging several nearby civilian carsand buildings, the source said.

Separately, the police discovered eight decomposed bodies buried in a massgrave outside Fallujah, the source added.—Xinhua

ISLAMABAD, 25 Jan —A suspected US dronecrashed in Pakistan’stribal region, a Pakistaniintelligence official toldCNN.

The unmanned aircraftwent down about 8 pm(10 am ET) on Sundaynight near the village ofHamzoni in NorthWaziristan, the officialsaid. Hamzoni is about 5km (3 miles) west ofMiran Shah, a town well-known for Taleban and alQaeda activity.

The official said he didnot know whether the air-craft was shot down or ifit crashed because of me-chanical problems. Heasked not to be namedbecause he is not author-ized to speak to the me-dia. It was the second re-ported crash of a USdrone in Pakistan. In Sep-tember 2008, Pakistani

Suspected drone down in Pakistanofficials said a drone wentdown on the Pakistan sideof the border with Af-ghanistan, near Jalal vil-lage in the Angoor Addaregion of SouthWaziristan.

Internet

Ethiopian plane crashes into sea off BeirutBEIRUT, 25 Jan—

Ninety people, includingtwo British nationals, arepresumed dead after anEthiopian Airlines planecrashed into the sea todayminutes after taking offfrom Beirut during athunderstorm. Witnessesreported seeing a “ball offire” plunging into theMediterranean.

Among those onFlight 409, which washeading to the Ethiopiancapital, Addis Ababa, weretwo British nationals ofLebanese origin, as wellas the wife of the French

ambassador to Lebanon,Reuters reported. Themajority of the passengerswere Lebanese orEthiopian. Lebanon’smilitary said the aeroplaneappeared to have brokenup in mid-air before fallinginto the water, and thatthere was no realisticprospect of findingsurvivors more than 12hours after the crash.

The Boeing 737-800aircraft took off fromBeirut’s Rafik Hariri airportat around 2.30am local timeand disappeared from radara few minutes later, two

miles off Naameh, a coastalvillage.

The plane took off amidheavy rain, high winds andlightning. Poor weather alsohampered the rescue effortsby helicopters and navalships, although 24 bodieshave so far been recovered.Among the 83 passengersand seven crew listed asbeing on the plane were 54Lebanese nationals, 22Ethiopians, one Iraqi, oneSyrian, one Canadian andone Russian, as well as theBritons and the Frenchambassador’s wife, MarlaPietton.—Internet

A United Nations boat used in the search

operation is seen off Khalde beach, following the

Ethiopian.—INTERNET

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Seven killed as bomb blastsin north Afghanistan

M4.8earthquakehits north

China BEIJING, 25 Jan—An

earthquake measuring 4.8on the Richter scale strucknorthern China’s ShanxiProvince Sunday at 10:36am Beijing Time, accord-ing to China’s nationalseismological network.

The epicentre, locatedat the border area betweenHejin City and WanrongCounty, was at 35.5 de-grees north latitude and110.7 degrees east longi-tude with a depth of 12kilometres, the networksaid. —Xinhua

MOSCOW, 25 Jan—Res-cuers evacuated 11 peopleby helicopter Saturdaymorning from a Russiancargo vessel stranded in icywaters off the coast of east-ern Russia, an official said.

Russian officials say theevacuees have been flownon a privately owned heli-copter to the town ofNogliki on nearby SakhalinIsland, which lies to thenorth of Japan.

The Smolninsky refriger-ated ship was battered byheavy winds on Friday,freezing it over and caus-ing the vessel to list danger-ously to its port side in theSea of Okhotsk, whichseparates Russia’sKamchatka Peninsula from

UN panel chief won’t quit forHimalayan melt error

Around 1.3billionpeople

depend onthe waterthat flowsdown from

theHimalayan

glaciers,which

experts sayare melting

at analarming

rate.INTERNET

A foreign freighter docks at a wharf of Lianyungang Port, east China’sJiangsu Province, on 23 Jan, 2010. The unloading volume of imported

alumina at the Lianyuanggang Port has reached some 300,000 tons in Janu-ary, and its unloading volume of imported alumina totaled 2.6 million tons in

2009, ranking atop of the country.—XINHUA

People pose for photos with two cartoon figures atthe opening ceremony of an activity held for fansof the cartoon movie “Pleasant Goat and Big BigWolf” in Guangzhou, south China’s GuangdongProvince, on 23 Jan, 2010. Many fans took partin the ceremony which also marked the inceptionof the 5-day-long Pleasant Goat Carnival. It is said

that the second movie of the popular cartoonseries “Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf” is to bepremiered nationwide during the forthcoming

winter vacation. —XINHUA

Rescuers reach strandedRussian ship

NEW DELHI, 25 Jan—The head of a panel ofUnited Nations climatescientists said on Saturdayhe would not resign de-spite a recent admissionthat a panel report warn-ing Himalayan glacierscould be gone by 2035was hundreds of years off.

The claim, made in theIntergovernmental Panelon Climate Change’s vo-

luminous, Nobel-winningreport, came in a para-graph with several errors.Data indicates the icecould melt by 2350. Theassertion went virtuallyunnoticed until The Sun-day Times said the projec-tion seemed to be basedon a news report.

The scientists are in-vestigating how the fore-cast got into the report and

apologized on Thursdayfor the mistakes, addingthat they were not inten-tional. But the errors haveopened the door for at-tacks from climate changeskeptics.

But Rajendra Pachauri,who heads the panel, saidno action would be takenagainst the authors of thereport and he would notresign.—Internet

the mainland. The Sakhalinrescue centre’s spokesman,Nikolai Ivanov, said theSmolninsky still has 20crew members on boardand is making slowprogress to safer waterscloser to the shore, some 55kilometres (34 miles) away,in the hope of saving thevessel.—Internet

KABUL, 25 Jan—Seven civilians werekilled and anothersustained injuries as abomb, left over from thepast years of war, wentoff in Afghanistan’snorthern Faryab Prov-ince on Friday, said astatement of InteriorMinistry released hereon Saturday.

“The tragic incidentoccurred in Qaisar

District on Friday whenresidents found a bigbomb and wanted tomove it to a safe place,but suddenly it exploded,leaving seven civiliansdead and another in-jured,” the statementadded.

The bodies of the vic-tims have been handedover to their families, itsaid.

Xinhua

46 injured after planecrash lands in Iran

TEHERAN, 25 Jan—An Iranian passenger plane car-rying 157 passengers and 13 crew crash landed innortheastern Iran on Sunday injuring at least 46 peo-ple, state television reported.

The broadcast quoted Iran’s civil aviation spokes-man, Reza Jafarzadeh, as saying that no one was killedin the accident. He gave no indication of what mighthave caused the accident. The Taban Air plane caughtfire upon landing at Mashhad airport at 7:20 am localtime (0350 GMT). The injured have been taken tohospitals in Mashhad, the report added.— Internet

KABUL, 25 Jan — Af-ghan government on Sun-day blamed al-Qaeda net-work for organizing the re-cent deadly attacks in thecapital city Kabul that left15 dead and injured over70 others. “A terrorist ar-rested recently has con-fessed during an investiga-tion to his link with al-Qaeda and had led theseven terrorists that at-tacked Kabul last week,”a senior intelligence offi-cial Moha-mmad NaeemBalouch told newsmen ata Press conference on Sun-day.

He also added that 188terrorist networks havebeen unearthed andsmashed; but did not givedetails. The terrorists, headded, had used the ferti-lizer—ammonium nitratein making explosive de-

An Afghan sellercounts bags of fertilizer

at his shop in theAfghan capital Kabul,

on 24 Jan, 2010.XINHUA

Al-Qaeda behind recentbombing in Afghan

capitalvices to target governmentinterests.

In the recent attack onKabul, a suicide bomberblew himself up by deto-nating a bomb that wasmade from ammonium ni-trate, Balouch said.

Xinhua

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South Korean President startsvisit to India

Beijing ambitious to become “world city”ISS orbit successfullycorrected

MOSCOW, 25 Jan—The orbit of the InternationalSpace Station (ISS) has been successfully raised byabout 5 km on Sunday, said the Mission Control Cen-tre outside Moscow. The operation has thus createdconditions for the dockings between the ISS and Rus-sian cargo spaceships as well as US space shuttles,news agencies reported.

The space maneuver was carried out in automaticmode at around 12:02 Moscow Time (0902 GMT) andlasted about 150 seconds, said the Mission Control,when two thrusters of the Zvezda service module wereinitiated to raise the space station’s orbit.

The orbit of the ISS is corrected periodically to com-pensate for Earth’s gravity and to ensure successfulspacecraft dockings.

A tryout orbit correction has already been conductedearlier this month, when the space station was raisedby around 1.7 km. Russian cargo spaceship ProgressM-04M and US space shuttle Endeavour are sched-uled to be launched on 3 Feb and 7 Feb respectively.

Russia plans to launch four manned and six cargosupply missions to the ISS in 2010.—Xinhua

Yemeni rebelssay Saudi air

strikes killseven

SANAA, 25 Jan—Yemeni rebels said onSunday seven peoplewere killed and two oth-ers wounded in Saudi airraids against areas innorthern Yemen.

The Shiite rebels knownas Houthis said that Saudiair forces have carried outsix raids in northernYemen during whichseven citizens were killed,two wounded and twohouses destroyed.

The group added in astatement posted on theInternet that Saudi forcescontinued shelling thegroup’s whereabouts withheavy artillery, referringto 626 rocket-attackswhich allegedly targetedareas in northern Yemen.

Xinhua

Nine Latin American countriesmeet on rebuilding quake-hit Haiti

CARACAS, 25 Jan—Foreign ministers of nine mem-ber nations of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Ameri-cas (ALBA) met here on Sunday to discuss how tohelp rebuild Haiti, which was battered by a 7.3-mag-nitude quake on 12 Jan, Venezuelan President HugoChavez announced.

In his nationwide televised on Sunday TV/RadioProgramme “Hello, President,” Chavez said the meet-ing will work out a mid- and long-term strategic planto rebuild Haiti, including the rebuilding of hospitals,waterworks as well as projects to boost farm, foodand fishing production.

According to the Hatian Interior Ministry, the deathtoll had surpassed 110,000 in the devastating quake,which had also injured some 200,000 people and leftmore than 600,000. Haitian officials estimated that thefinal death toll could reach 200,000.

Xinhua

A tsunami of destructionthreatens worldwide heritageBEIJING, 25 Jan—Three decades of aggressive de-

velopment, illegal mining, natural disasters and crimehave had major implications on China’s sites of his-torical and cultural importance.

An examination carried out by the State Adminis-tration of Cultural Heritage (SACH), revealed that newbuildings, roads and reservoirs have replaced sites,which were previously listed as places of national her-itage. The report even unveiled that illegal mining inInner Mongolia destroyed a large part of the GreatWall. Heritage places were recorded in 1982 and ac-cording to officials from SACH, some 30,995 itemsfrom this list has vanished.

It is not just large-scale construction and infrastruc-ture projects which are causing the destruction of Chi-na’s heritage. Natural disasters and crime is also con-tributing to the country’s vanishing ancient relics.

Xinhua

NEW DELHI, 25 Jan—South Korean PresidentLee Myung- Bak on Sun-day began a four-day visitto India during which thetwo countries will explorethe possibilities of a civilnuclear pact and signagreements in variousfields, including IT andcivilian space, reportedthe Indo-Asian NewsService.

Lee began his visit fromChennai, southern India,where he visited the

Hyundai factory near theTamil Nadu capital andmet Korean businessmenbefore flying to NewDelhi in the evening, saidthe report quoting officialsources.

Lee will also be theguest of honour at the Re-public Day parade in theIndian capital on Tuesday,according to the report.

Indian Prime MinisterManmohan Singh willhold talks with Lee onMonday on a wide range

of bilateral, regional andglobal issues, includingthe intensification of eco-nomic ties and coopera-tion in sphere of civiliannuclear cooperation andspace technologies, ac-cording to the report.

Closer cooperation incombating global finan-cial recession will also bediscussed in the context ofthe G20 summit Seoulwill host later this year,according to the report.

Xinhua

Chinese exploration team members look for meteorolites in Grove Mountains ofAntarctica, on 24 Jan, 2010. Chinese expedition team has made China’s posses-sion of Antarctic meteorolites exceeding 10,536 pieces on Saturday. —XINHUA

BEIJING, 25 Jan—Beijing is no longercontent to be only an international city,and intends to become a “world city,”Mayor Guo Jinlong said on Monday.

Guo gave no agenda for the objectivewhen he announced the plan on the open-ing day of the third session of the 13th

Beijing Municipal People’s Congress.Huang Yan, director of Beijing Munici-

pal Commission of Urban Planning, toldXinhua on Monday that the governmenthoped to achieve the transformation of

Beijing into a “world city” by 2050.The international community generally

regarded a world city as having a per-capita gross domestic product (GDP) ex-ceeding 15,000 US dollars a year, whileBeijing had just surpassed the 10,000-USdollar mark in 2009, said Huang. Huangsaid a world city usually had a globalinfluence in terms of politics, economyand culture. It was usually favoured byinfluential international organizations tobase their headquarters.—Xinhua

Workers break the ice at the Yalu River in Dandong City, northeast China’sLiaoning Province, on 23 Jan, 2010. Local section of the Yalu River was

frozen due to continued cold wave that gripped the city recently. —XINHUA

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

Smoke rises hundreds of metres into the sky

following an explosion in the area near Baghdad’s

Palestine Hotel. Three massive blasts in quick

succession shook Baghdad, with the first near the

Palestine Hotel followed minutes later by two loud

explosions near the international Green Zone.

XINHUA

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NEWS ALBUM

A family of elephants walk at the Ol

Pejeta wildlife conservancy near

Nanyuki town, 350 km (217 miles)

north of the capital Nairobi, on the

slopes of Mount Kenya.

Skydiver plans heightrecord

An Austrian parachutist famous forjumping from Malaysia’s PetronasTowers says his next goal is a worldrecord for highest parachute jump.

Felix Baumgartner said he wants toskydive from a balloon at 120,000 feetabove the ground to destroy the102,800-foot record set 50 years ago byAmerican Joe Kittinger, the BBC re-ported on Friday.

Baumgartner said he expects the fallwould cause him to become the firsthuman being to exceed the speed ofsound (768 mph) without the aid of amachine.

“One of the unknowns is how a hu-man body will react approaching super-sonic speeds,” he said. “The effects ofthe transition from subsonic throughtransonic to supersonic velocity andback again are not known. This is justone of the things we’ll learn.”

S Africa steps up security after poachers kill 14 rhinosPoachers have killed 14 rhinos in

South Africa this year, the nationalparks authority said on Friday, an-nouncing military patrols in the world-famous Kruger National Park.

“These poachers are members ofwell-resourced syndicates and are also

A male white rhinoceros at a gamefarm in Malelane in 2004. Poachershave killed 14 rhinos in South Africathis year, the national parks author-ity said, announcing military patrols

in the world-famous KrugerNational Park.

involved in chilling crimes like humantrafficking, arms smuggling, prostitutionand drug trafficking,” said DavidMabunda, chief of the South AfricanNational Parks (SANParks) in a state-ment.

“They are dangerous criminals.”Rhino poaching has intensified in

South Africa with 14 slaughtered —seven in Kruger and seven in the NorthWest province — in the first two weeksof January. Last year, 122 were killednationwide.

SANParks said plans were on forsoldiers to patrol the borders of Krugerand to camp in specific areas. Krugershares about 450 kilometres (280 miles)of international borders with Zimbabweand Mozambique.

BINDURA, 25 Jan—In adusty field in northernZimbabwe, villagers clapand sing as they receivedesperately needed seed

A tractor and trailer

bring farm workers

back from the fields in

Zimbabwe, in 2000.

INTERNET

BEIJING, 25 Jan—Chi-na’s gross domestic prod-uct growth is likely togrow about 9.5 percent in2010, largely driven bystrong domestic con-sumption and corporateinvestment, a govern-ment researcher said inremarks published onMonday.

Zhang Liqun, aneconomist at the Develop-ment Research Centre, a

Hunger looms as Zimbabwe’s planting season ends

DHAKA, 25 Jan—The Bangladeshi government isworking to cut poverty to 15 percent of its populationby 2021, the country’s local Government Minister SyedAshraful Islam said on Sunday.

Inaugurating the 2nd ministerial meeting of theCentre of Integrated Rural Development for Asia andthe Pacific (CIRDAP) in Dhaka, he said Bangladeshwants CIRDAP to play a vital role for poverty allevia-tion and development of poorer nations. Islam calledupon the delegates of 14 countries, participating in thefive-day meeting of the CIRDAP in Dhaka, to extendall possible support in promotion of agriculture sectorand rural development in particular.—Xinhua

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 25 Jan—A 4.7-magnitude after-shock rocked Haiti on Sunday, but caused no seriousdamage.

When the quake occurred at 16:51 pm (2151 GMT),some scared residents ran into the streets and yelledfor help. However, the majority remained calm, ap-parently having got used to frequent aftershocks.

The latest aftershock toppled some buildings whichhad already been severely damaged.

It also partly exposed some bodies hidden underthe rubble of a residence in northern Port-au-Prince.Neighbours dug out the bodies and buried them.

According to the US Geological Survey, theepicenter of the quake lies30 km west of Port-au-Prince, with a shallow depth of 4.1 km.

Over 100 aftershocks have hit Haiti after the dev-astating quake on 12 Jan , which has killed more than110,000 and left 3 million homeless.—Xinhua

and fertilizer for theircrops, their only source offood and income.

In this poor village inBindura district, about 70kilometres (45 miles)north of Harare, familieslive and die by the seedsthey plant and the rainsthat fall.

Donors have given 74million dollars in aid toZimbabwe’s traditionalsustenance farmers, awindfall for communitieslike Bindura.

The UN Food and Ag-riculture Organizationpredicts that donor-funded projects couldproduce 450,000 tonnesof grain, about one-quar-

ter of the nation’s needs.“We had no hope of

getting seed, and at thesame time we did notknow how we would getseed in time” for theplanting season, saidChristopher Mafusire,who received 10 kilos ofseed from the scheme.

The 67-year-old saidhe could now plant twoacres of land, whichshould be enough to feedhis family — if rainscome on time.

“This village had hun-ger, but now we will notstarve,” Mafusire said.

Many Zimbabweanfarmers aren’t so fortu-nate.—Internet

Bangladesh aims to cutpoverty rate to 15% by 2021

4.7-magnitude aftershockjolts Haiti

China economist sees 2010 GDP up 9.5 percentthink-tank under the StateCouncil, said he saw lit-tle chance of serious in-flationary pressure thisyear; the headline con-sumer price index (CPI)was likely to rise at most3 percent.

“I expect domesticconsumption to grow at afairly fast pace this yearon the back of consistentpolicies to boost car andowner-occupied home

sales,” Zhang was quotedas saying by the officialChina Securities Journal.

China’s GDP last yeargrew 8.7 percent. Themedian 2010 GDP fore-cast of economists polledby Reuters last week was9.5 percent, the same asZhang’s.

Zhang said enterpriseswould take the baton fromthe government to drivefixed-asset investment,which would rise about 20percent this year com-pared with 30.1 percent in2009.

Internet

16-year-old girl starts solo sail around globe

Abby Sunderland, 16, looks outfrom her sailboat, Wild Eyes, as sheleaves for her world record attempt-

ing journey at the Del Rey YachtClub in Marina del Rey, Calif

Sunderland is attempting to be theyoungest person to complete a

nonstop, unassisted solo-circum-navigation

of the globe by sea.

Stolen dog reunited with ower after trekA stolen German shepherd made it most of the way home to northern Italy

before a veterinarian recognized a tattoo identifying his original owner.Rocky, who was battered, thin and dirty after a two-month trek of almost 400

miles from Salerno near Naples to Pisa, got to travel the last few miles to Tuscanyin comfort, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. Ibrahim Fwal, who adoptedRocky from the pound in Carrara five years ago, came to fetch him and drove himhome on his motor scooter.

A 16-year-old has set out to becomethe youngest person to sail around theworld alone.

Abby Sunderland of Thousand Oakssailed into the sunny Pacific Ocean on Sat-urday after being delayed a few days by aseries of violent storms in California.

Her boat-builder father, Laurence,along with other family members andfriends, cheered at the Del Rey Yacht Clubas they watched the 40-foot craft calledWild Eyes depart.

She plans to be at sea for five or sixmonths. She will be alone but able to com-municate via satellite telephone and a blog(at abbysunderland.com). The currentrecord holder is 17-year-old Mike Perhamof Britain, who took the mark last yearfrom Abby’s then-17-year-old brother Zac.

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Learned men taking part in successful realization of Ministry ofInformation’s objectives honoured

YANGON, 25 Jan—A ceremony to honour learnedmen who had participated in the successful realizationof Ministry of Information's objejctives was held atthe Studio-A of Myanma Radio and Television onPyay Road, here, this morning with an address byMinister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan.

Also present on the occasion were heads ofdepartment, technicians who had contributed theirservices in success of the objectives, staff of MRTVand guests.

In his address, Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsansaid that the ministry has been discharging duties ofinformation of the State, literary and arts in accord

with the policies laid down, adding that literati andartistes have been actively participating in the drivefor succeful realization of of the ministry’s objectives.The minister stressed the necesssity for artistes tocontinue participating in the process.

Next, the minister presented prizes for 129 artisteswho had contributed their services in National LiteraryAward Scrutiny Board, Sarpay Beikman ManuscriptScrutiny Board, Pakokku U Ohn Pe Literary AwardScrutiny Board, Myanma, the Panel of Judges forPromoting the Standard of Myanma Motion Picturefor 2008, Motion Picture Censorship Board for 2008and Video Censorship Board for 2008, MRTV Old

Songs Scrutiny Board, Modern Musics ScrutinyBoard, Myanmar Classial Songs Scrutiny Board andMyanma References Scrutiny Board through U TinKha (Tekkatho Tin Kha), U Myint Thein, U MaungHlaing, Daw Po Po Kyi, U Min Naung and Dr ThawKaung.

Afterwards, Chairman of Myanmar MusicAsiayon U Maung Maung Latt spoke words of thanksand the ceremony came to an end.

After the cereomy, Minister Brig-GenKyaw Hsan cordially greeted those present on theoccasion.

MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan awards prizethrough U Myint Thein.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan cordially greets scholars.—MNA

(from page 1)the efforts the Tatmadawgovernment has beenmaking with heart andsoul for national develop-ment. I served as a gov-ernment servant for nineyears in that townshipcommencing November1979. In the time of theTatmadaw government,Lahe Township has seensigns of remarkable de-velopment, according tomy firsthand experiencesduring my tour of dutiesfor five more times in thetownship, and one timein Leshi.

Previously, an about56 miles trip from Khamtiin northern Sagaing Divi-sion to Lahe Townshiptook travelers about sixdays because conflictsand instability were ram-pant in the region and they

Lahe Township witnessing signs of significant progressByline & Photos: Dedai (IPRD)

creeks along the road havebeen reconstructed, two ofwhich are above-180-footones: Hwehtaik Bridgeand Nansalein Bridge. Dueto the bridges constructedby the government, thecommodity flow in the re-gion has become swift, andthere is no need to usemules, horses and oxen totransport goods.

As to the educationsector, the basic educa-tion middle school in thetownship has been up-graded to a high school.Lahe Township is in oneof the special regions forprogress of border areasand national races. So, ithas witnessed a goodnumber of youths train-ing centres and vocationaltraining centres forwomen.

Regarding the com-

munication sector, it hadno telegraph office, postoffice, and auto exchangesin the past. Now, it hasbeen equipped withmanual telephones, iP Startelephones, post office andtelegraph office. It has gota TV retransmitting sta-tion, an office of the Infor-mation and Public Rela-tions Department, and 96self-reliant village librar-

had to get protection ofsecurity forces. In the proc-ess, provisions and per-sonal goods were carriedon the backs of mules,horses and cows. And itwas needed to take greatcare to travel from one vil-lage to another. The devel-opment rate of the regionwas at the bottom.

Now, Lahe Townshipon Naga Mountain Rangehas enjoyed developmentfar better than that in thepast. The roads in down-town township are alltarred ones. The 56-miletrip has been reduced to a7-8 hours drive. People cantravel from one place toanother in the township atany time as a result of peaceand stability. Much ofHkamti (Hsinthay)-LaheRoad has been tarred. Theold bridges spanning the

ies, thus broadening thehorizons of local people.

Owing to the 0.05-megawatt hydropower sta-tion, the urban wards haveeasy access to electricpower. In addition, somevillages have hydropowergenerators.

The township has alsoenjoyed the urbanizationprogramme, as supportedby a growing number of

fine houses.Such tangible results

are largely due to stabilityand peace, reflecting thedrive the government isin pursuit of with benevo-lent attitude towards thepeople for equitable de-velopment of all parts ofthe Union, regardless oflocation.

Translation: MSKyemon: 25-1-2010

The office of Lahe Township Information and Public Relations De-partment.

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 26 January, 2010

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Jan—Lt-Gen Khin Zaw of theMinistry of Defence, accompanied by Chairman ofTaninthayi Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of Coastal Region Command Maj-GenKhin Zaw Oo, inspected Kawthoung-Bokpyin RoadSection on 23 January.

He called for greater regional development inmeeting with officers and other ranks and their fami-lies at Bokpyin Station.

He inspected Kawthoung-Bokpyin-Myeik RoadSection, and the bridges, culverts, oil palm farms andsaplings along the road section.—MNA

Kawthoung-Bokpyin-Myeik Road Section under construction

YANGON, 25 Jan — A ceremony to donate fivefire engines, one rescue vehicle and one ambulance byJapanese Government to the Ministry of Social Wel-fare, Relief and Resettlement was held at Fire ServicesDepartment (Headquarters) in Mayangon here thismorning.

Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar Mr YasuakiNogawa, who explained the purpose of donation,

Fire engines, vehicles donated to Fire Services Department

YANGON, 25 Jan—Minister for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi arrived at Swiber Conquest Pipe LayBarge that was starting to lay 24-inch gas pipelines atMyanma offshore oil field this morning.

At the meeting hall aboard the Swiber Conquestvessel, Superintendent Mr. Ed.Farner and Project Man-ager Mr.Rajesh Parchal reported to the minister onprogress in laying gas pipelines offshore Myanmar.After hearing the reports, the minister discussed tech-nical ways of laying gas pipelines with technicians andthen he instructed them to lay pipelines technically andto make efforts in laying pipelines at sea round theclock to complete in time during the open season.

Next, the minister looked into welding of 24-inch pipelines, checking the joint weld by means ofautomatic ultra sonic test, heat shrink sleeve coating,foam injection and laying a series of gas pipelines andthen met technicians in the control room aboard PipeLay Barge.

Afterwards, the minister aboard the helicopterinspected progress in building Pipe Line Centre atDaw Nyein Land Fall and connecting 24-inch pipe-lines between Daw Nyein and Pyapon with the use ofHDD (Horizontal Directional Drilling machine).

The 24-inch pipelines laying task covers 85miles inland and 93 miles offshore totalling 179miles. Now 50 miles have been covered in layingpipelines inland and offshore pipelines laying taskstarted on 23 January and all the works will becompleted on schedule.

MNA

Energy Minister inspectsprogress in laying 24-inch

gas pipelines offshore

YANGON, 25 Jan—Seven Diamond DragonTrading Co Ltd, distribu-tor of Storm, Galanz,Amby London, Saigonand Ladyfirst branded cos-

Seven Diamond Dragon Trading Co Ltdlaunches new products

handed over documents related to vehicles to U MyintTun, Director-General of the Fire Services Depart-ment. Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettle-ment Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe expressed thanks.

The minister and officials later viewed the vehi-cles which were donated for cyclone damaged regionsin Ayeyawady Division. The total amount of donationis 124,536 US dollars.—MNA

Lt-Gen Khin Zaw looks into condition ofKawthoung-Bokpyin road section.—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe inspects five fireengines, a life vehicle and an ambulance donated by the Japanese

government.—MNA

Director U Sai Hu of Seven Diamond Dragon extends greetings at theceremony to launch new products.—MNA

Australian Ambassa-dor to Myanmar Ms.

Michelle Su-WenChan greets Minister

for National Plan-ning and EconomicDevelopment U SoeTha and wife at thereception to markNational Day ofAustralia on 25January.—MNA

metics, to express itsthanks to retailers, organ-ized a lucky draw pro-gramme at Chatrium Ho-tel here yesterday.

Director U Sai Hu of

the company extendedgreetings and introducednew products. It was fol-lowed by lucky draw pro-gramme and then lunch.

MNA

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Bawga Thiri express bus terminal in Nay Pyi Taw standing at core transportByline: Myint Maung Soe, Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

YANGON, 25 Jan —Minister for ConstructionMaj-Gen Khin MaungMyint on 24 January in-spected the constructionof Yazudaing Bridge No(1) on Maubin-Y e l a e k a l a y - S h w e -taunghmaw-Kyaikpi-Mawlamyinegyun andthe road which linksYazudaing Bridge Nos (1)and (2).

The minister alsoviewed the earth workfor the construction of

Minister inspects construction of Yazudaing Bridge No (1)

(form page 16)The Nay Pyi Taw De-

velopment Committee ismaking efforts withadded momentum to turnthe Nay Pyi Taw into acity of international level.

Bawga Thiri expressbus terminal is one of in-frastructures already inplace in Nay Pyi Taw. Theexpress bus terminal is agateway to all express ply-ing to and from Nay PyiTaw and its nearby cities,cities of upper and lowerMyanmar, Lashio of ShanState (North) andTaunggyi of Shan State(South).

Our news crew ofMyanma Alin daily ar-rived there to write a bylineabout better transport theNay Pyi Taw is enjoying.

Acting Head of Rev-enues Department of NayPyi Taw DevelopmentCommittee U Kyaw SoeWin in the interview said,

“Our Nay Pyi Taw Devel-opment Committeeopened Bawga Thiri ex-press bus terminal at thejunction of Yangon-Man-dalay detour andYazahtani Road near NayPyi Taw Pyinmana on 8December 2006. The pur-pose of building the ex-press bus terminal is toensure smooth transpor-tation and swift commod-ity flow between Nay PyiTaw and other cities. Theexpress bus terminal in-cludes brokerage houses,bus stations, food centresand work shops. First pri-ority of our Nay Pyi TawDevelopment Committeeis to become the Nay PyiTaw developed. So, everycar passing through thisexpress bus terminal hasbeen given exemptionfrom paying the tax”.

Head of Division ofNay Pyi Taw Develop-ment Committee’s Rev-

enues Department Admin-istrator of Bawga Thiriexpress bus terminal UAung Myo Myat ex-plained to us, “According

to our motto saying thatclean, tidy, beautifyingand greening are a must,we are making efforts onkeeping the compound

green and pleasant forever, adding that the num-bers of 28 fire extinguish-ing posts are erected forfire prevention.”

We had learnt that atotal of 82 brokeragehouses out of 90 havebeen opened in the ex-press bus terminal. Thosehouses are filled with vari-ous kinds of materials likeconstruction materials,electric materials andfoodstuff from Yangonand Mandalay for trade,from which materials aredistributed retail andwholesale to the marketsin Nay Pyi Taw.

Moreover, there are 64bus stations in Bawga Thiriexpress bus terminal for buslines plying in downtownNay Pyi Taw and betweenNay Pyi Taw and other cit-ies. Names of the bus linesrunning in downtown NayPyi Taw are Tawwin,Arrmanthit and

Shwemyodaw. Tawwinbus line is plying betweenNay Pyi Taw and Nay PyiTaw Tatkon, Nay Pyi TawLewe, Yeni, Swa andThawuthti. In addition, thetrips between Nay Pyi Tawand Toungoo, Meiktila,Magway, Taunggyi,Yangon, Seikpyu and Man-dalay are being plied. Andother bus lines are makingtrip between Nay Pyi Tawand Mandalay, Yangon,Monywa, Myingyan,Taunggyi, NyaungU andLashio.

Entrepreneurs will-ing to launch the busi-ness in Bawga Thiri ex-press bus terminal maycontact Revenues De-partment of Nay Pyi TawDevelopment Commit-tee. On the whole, travelingfrom one place to anotherand swift commodity floware booming at a rapidspeed thanks to inaugura-tion of Bawga Thiri ex-press bus terminal.

Translation: ZZSMyanma Alin:

24-1-2010

Construction Minister Maj-Gen Khin

Maung Myint inspects progress in building

Yazudaing Bridge No (1).

CONSTRUCTION

Lt-Gen Myint Swe views research posters and medicines and medical booths at the opening ceremony of Myanmar HealthResearch Conference (2009). (News on page 16)—MNA

“Measures are beingtaken for greening.”

U Kyaw Soe Win(Acting Head of

Department)Nay Pyi Taw DC’s

RevenuesDepartment

“High class auto workshop is kept open.”U Aung Myo Myat (Head of Division Rev-

enues Department)

the approach road onKyaikpi bank. He calledthe officials for complet-

ing of approach road intime with the accom-plishment of the bridge

and for meeting set stand-ards.

MNA

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Indian labourers unload waste from a tannery onto the banks of the Gangesriver in Kanpur in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on 13 Jan. Environ-mentalists have accused tanneries of dumping waste directly into the sacred

river Ganges.—INTERNET

Women clad in Japanesekimono look at clothingsdisplayed outside a storein Tokyo on 25 Jan, 2010.Japanese manufacturers’confidence has recoveredto its highest level sincethe global financial crisishit, but remains weakoverall due to concernsabout deflation and slug-gish domestic demand, aReuters poll showed. INTERNET

The remains of one oftwo destroyed tents sitsatop some of the 200

vintage and collectableautos at the Russo-SteeleAuto Auction on 22 Jan,2010, in Scottsdale, Ariz.

The remnants of thebiggest storm to hit

Arizona in nearly twodecades lingered over the

state on Friday afterdrenching California,

while authorities in bothstates continued to tallythe damage.—INTERNET

S Korea considers holding G20 summit in NovSEOUL, 25 Jan—South Korea is

strongly considering holding the G20summit on 15 Nov, immediately follow-ing the summit of the Asia-Pacific Eco-nomic Cooperation (APEC) forum inJapan, local media said, citing govern-ment officials on Monday.

“We think it would be desirable tohave delegations fly into Seoul imme-diately following the APEC forum inYokohama of Japan, which will finishon 14 Nov,” a finance ministry officialwas quoted as saying by Yonhap newsagency.

This year’s APEC forum takes placein Yokohama on 6-14 Nov, making itmore convenient to have the G20 sum-

mit held in Seoul to better accommodatethe busy schedules of officials partici-pating in both meetings, another un-named senior government official toldYonhap.

The official said the Convention &Exhibition Centre (COEX) in Seoul isthe strongest candidate venue to hold thesummit, citing its capacity to hold world-class events and proximity to a numberof high-end hotels.

In September last year, South Koreawas selected as the host country of thefifth G20 summit, where the Group of20 advanced and emerging economiesconvene to address global economic is-sues.—Internet

Two dead in Beijingchemical plant explosionBEIJING, 25 Jan—Two workers were killed in an

explosion at a Beijing chemical plant late Sunday,witnesses and the local government said on Monday.

The blast happened around midnight at a workshop ofFRST Chemical Co in Yongshun township of TongzhouDistrict, a manufacturing town in the eastern suburbs ofBeijing. “I heard a bang and saw the place was on fire,”said a resident surnamed Lu, who lives close to the plant.

Lu said he saw two walls of the factory compoundhad collapsed, and windows were broken in buildingsat least 20 meters from the site.

A Tongzhou district government spokesman con-firmed two workres died in the accident, which hap-pened at 11:42 pm.—Xinhua

Patients often unaware of radiation risks Pair first to cross Antarctica unassistedNEW YORK, 25 Jan—Americans are

receiving more medical radiation thanever before, experts say, but while itsaves countless lives, serious, even fa-tal mistakes can happen.

With radiation therapy being deliveredby technologically complex machines,risks from software flaws, faulty pro-gramming, inadequate safety proceduresor poor training can lead to cripplingmistakes, The New York Times reportedon Sunday. The average lifetime radia-tion dose is seven times what it was in1980, but patients often are unaware ofrisks, the Times said in an analysis basedon a review of public and private recordsand interviews with physicians, research-ers, government regulators and others.

Hospitals often place too much trustin the new computer systems and soft-

ware, said Dr Howard I. Amols, chief ofclinical physics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York.

Since there is no single agency over-seeing medical radiation, regulators andresearchers can only guess how oftenradiotherapy accidents occur. Accidentsare under-reported, records show, andsome states do not require they be re-ported at all.

In June, the Times found, a Philadel-phia hospital gave the wrong radiationdose to more than 90 patients with pros-tate cancer — then did not report it.

“My suspicion is that maybe half ofthe accidents we don’t know about,” saidDr Fred A Mettler Jr, who has investi-gated radiation accidents around theworld.

Internet

ATLANTA, 25 Jan— AnAmerican—who hadnever cross-country skiedbefore—and a Norwegianwoman together becamethe first to cross Antarcticaunassisted, records show.

Ryan Waters, 36, a na-tive of Cobb County, Ga,now living in Boulder,Colo, and Cecilie Skog,35, a native of Alesund,Norway, reached theSouth Pole on New Year’sEve and arrived at theirdestination on Thursday atthe Ross Sea, completingtheir 70-day, 1,000-mileexpedition, The Atlanta

Journal-Constitution re-ported.

Others have traversedthe continent, but with theassistance of kites or dogs.Waters and Skog did it allalone, each pulling 300pounds of equipment asthey skied in temperaturesas cold as minus 50 de-grees.

“The mental part wasthe most difficult part. Itwas so many days of con-

stant skiing and at timesit was hard,” Waters said.

Waters currently livesin Boulder, Colo., wherehe runs his own businesscalled Mountain Profes-sionals, Waters’ parentssaid.

Waters worked as a geo-logist for a number ofyears before focusing onhis passion for explora-tion, the newspaper re-ported.—Internet

Japan manufacturers’mood brightens

TOKYO, 25 Jan—Confidence among Japanesemanufacturers has recovered to its highest level sincethe financial crisis hit, as strong exports to resurgentAsian markets raise hopes of a steady global recov-ery, a Reuters poll showed.

The Bank of Japan, which wraps up a two-day rate-setting meeting on Tuesday, will likely decide to con-tinue monitoring economic improvements and hold offon new policy initiatives while keeping interest ratesnear zero to help get the country out of deflation.

“Asian economies have proved to be stronger thanpreviously thought with no signs of a slowdown yetto emerge.

That supports projections that the global economywill continue to recover,” said Masamichi Adachi, asenior economist at JPMorgan Securities Japan.

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Sino-Kazak Pipeline transports20 mln tons of oil to China

Oil stays below $75 in Asia asstock markets fall

Sam’s Club cuts 11,200 jobs,ten percent of workforce

KUALA LUMPUR, 25Jan—Oil prices stayed be-low $75 a barrel in Asia onMonday, dampened byfalls in regional stock mar-kets and on Wall Streetover President BarackObama’s plans to restrictbig banks.

Benchmark crude forMarch delivery dipped 2cents to $74.52 a barrel atmidday Kuala Lumpurtime in electronic tradingon the New York Mercan-tile Exchange. The con-tract lost $1.54 to settle at

$74.54 on Friday.The Dow Jones in-

dustrial average fell forthird straight day on Fri-day, losing 4.1 percentover the week. It was theworst showing for themarket since it began itsrecovery last March,partly due to disappoint-ing earnings results andObama’s plan for tighterregulations.

Most Asian stock mar-kets also were down onMonday.

“The plan has caused

both equities and com-modities to consolidateconsiderably last week.Details of the plan aren’tavailable but as more newscome out, we can expect alot of volatility in oil pric-ing,” said Victor Shum, anenergy analyst with con-sultancy Purvin & Gertz inSingapore.

He said the correctionwas not unusual and sometraders may view thelower prices as a buy op-portunity.

Internet

URUMQI, 25 Jan—TheSino-Kazak Pipeline haspiped more than 20 milliontonnes of crude oil fromKazakhstan to China sinceit became operational in2006, according to the re-gional government ofXinjiang.

Last year, the pipelinecarried 7.73 million tonnesof crude oil into China, up26 percent year-on-year,the inspection and quaran-tine bureau in the north-western Xinjiang UygurAutonomous Region said

in a Press release on Mon-day.

The volume makes upabout 4 percent of thecountry’s crude imports,which is estimated ataround 204 million tonneslast year.

The Sino-Kazak pipe-line runs 2,798 kilometresfrom Atasu in Kazakhstanto the country’s largest oilrefinery plant in Dushanzi,in Xinjiang, via the AlatawPass.

It was jointly devel-oped by the China Na-

tional Petroleum Corpora-tion (CNPC) and theKazakh state energy com-pany, Kazmunaigaz, and isdesigned to transport 20million tonnes a year.

It has linked China withthe oil fields of the CaspianSea and helped ease Chi-na’s reliance on the Straitof Malacca, a traditionalroute for 80 percent of thecountry’s imported oil.

Last year, China’s reli-ance on foreign oil for thefirst time topped 50 per-cent.—Xinhua

File photo shows a Sam’s Club employee helping a customer in the photodepartment in Naperville, IL. Giant US retailer Wal-Mart announced this

weekend that it will eliminate about 11,500 jobs at its Sam’s Club megastoresin the United States.—INTERNET

SAN FRANCISCO, 25Jan—Sam’s Club, thewarehouse club divisionof Wal-Mart Stores Inc iscutting roughly 11,200jobs, or about 10 percentof its workforce, as itoutsources in-store prod-uct demonstrations andeliminates positions usedto recruit new businessmembers.

Sam’s Club Chief Ex-ecutive Officer BrianCornell said on Sundaythat the retailer would

outline charges associatedwith the job cuts in Feb-ruary, when it releasesfourth-quarter results. Hesaid he did not expect any“material impact” on itsfinancial results.

“We look at this as aninvestment in the in-clubexperience,” Cornell saidin an interview. “This isnot a cost-cutting movefor us in the short term.We really hope it will becost neutral for our opera-tion. It’s an investment in

building loyalty, enhanc-ing the member experi-ence and driving futuregrowth.”

Cornell took the helmat Sam’s Club on 3 Aprillast year and has beenlooking for ways to boostits sales and increase itsmembership ranks. Mem-bers pay an annual fee toshop in its clubs and getdiscounts on everythingfrom bulk-sized packagesof toilet paper to raspber-ries.—Internet

China Faw Group sets 2010 salestarget at 2.3 mln units

HP to launch music service in EuropeHELSINKI, 25 Jan—

Hewlett-Packard, theworld’s biggest maker ofPCs, will launch a digitalmusic service across keyEuropean markets on Mon-day, hoping to benefit fromconsumers’ rising appetitefor new types of musicdownload services.

The MusicStation serv-ice will be preloaded on 16of HP’s personal computer

models in Britain, France,Germany, Italy, Spain,Sweden, Switzerland,Netherlands, Belgium andAustria. The service hasbeen developed and is man-aged by British digital mu-sic firm Omnifone. HP runsa similar service in UnitedStates with RealNetworks’Rhapsody.

Such new subscriptionservices helped to lift salesof digital music 12 percentlast year to $4.2 billion, in-dustry trade body IFPI saidlast week. “As the world’s

biggest PC vendor, HP hashuge opportunity to createa viable competitor toiTunes due to its scale,”said Rob Lewis, chief ex-ecutive of Omnifone.

Apple’s iTunes — witha pay-per-download busi-ness model — is the lead-ing digital music distribu-tor. Consumers pay around10 euros ($14.13) a monthfor access to all music inHP’s service. They can trythe service for free for 14days, and keep 10 trackseach month.—Internet

CHANGCHUN, 25 Jan—China Faw Group Corphas set its sales target for2010 at more than 2.3million units, an increaseof 18.3 percent from ayear earlier, an executivesaid on Sunday.

Jin Yi, Faw Group’sDeputy General Man-

ager, told the 2010 pur-chase convention that thenation’s No 2 carmakeralso targets a sales rev-enue of 290 billion yuan(42.5 billion US dollars),up 11.2 percent from2009.

The carmaker reportedstrong sales last year

thanks to cuts in purchasetax and subsidies on smallcar purchases. It sold 1.95million units last year,with a sales revenue of260.8 billion yuan. Thetwo figures recorded an-nual growth of 26.9 per-cent and 23.4 percent, re-spectively.—Xinhua

A man tries the AcerAspire One netbook at

a computer mall.INTERNET

Man who tried to open airplane door releasedDENVER, 25 Jan—A

man accused of attempt-ing to open an airplane’sexterior door while inflight has been releasedafter investigators deter-mined it wasn’t a terror-ism matter, authoritiessaid on Sunday.

The incident occurredon Saturday on a UnitedAirlines jetliner en route

from Washington, DC, toLas Vegas. The plane,which had more than 100people aboard, was di-verted to Denver Interna-tional Airport.

FBI spokeswomanKathy Wright said apassenger tried openingone of the front doorsof the airplane and mayhave tried to open the

cockpi t door beforepassengers restrainedhim. The man wastaken in to cus tody,questioned and releasedfor a medical evalua-tion, she said.

Authorities will decideon charges after review-ing the incident, Wrightsaid.

Internet

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Sudan underscores importance ofChina-Arab energy co-op conference

Moderateearthquake hits off

Solomon IslandsHONG KONG, 25 Jan—A

5.6-magnitude earthquakestruck off the Solomon Is-lands on Sunday night, ac-cording to the US Geologi-cal Survey website. Theepicentre of the earthquakewas 160 km southeast ofthe town of Gizo, NewGeorgia Islands and at adepth of about 10 km. Ittook place at 10:19 pmHong Kong Time (1419GMT), according to thewebsite. No tsunami warn-ing was issued as yet andthere was no report of casu-alties and damage.

Xinhua

HK reports 63rd fatalityfrom influenza A/H1N1

HONG KONG, 25 Jan—The Hospital Authority ofHong Kong announced on Sunday another fatal caseof influenza A/H1N1, bringing to 63 the total numberof fatal cases of the flu.

A 20-year-old male patient with severe congenitalheart disease was admitted to Medical and Geriatricward of United Christian Hospital on 20 Jan for feverand flu symptoms. His condition deteriorated and wastransferred to the Intensive Care Unit on the same day.He was prescribed with Tamiflu and antibiotics andrequiring ventilation support.

Positive result for A/H1N1 flu was confirmed on21 Jan. His condition remained critical and he suc-cumbed at 5:15 am on 24 Jan.

The case has been reported to the Hospital Author-ity Head Office and the Centre for Health Protection.

Xinhua

Boy, seven, raises 50,000 pounds in a day for Haiti

Young visitors at the 10th Ani-Com and Games Hong Kong test out computergames in 2008. Bone-bending rickets can now be added to the list of ills linked

to children spending uncounted hours before a computer screen, Britishresearchers said on Friday.—INTERNET

KHARTOUM, 25 Jan—Sudanese Minister of En-ergy and Mining al-ZubairAhmed al-Hassan on Sun-day highlighted the impor-tance of the second China-Arab Conference on En-ergy Cooperation, due tobe held on 26-28 Jan inKhartoum. “The confer-ence is a true fruit of theSino-Arab cooperationand reflects seriousness ofthe Chinese government toenhance its partnershipwith the Arab states,” al-Hassan said at a Press con-ference in Khartoum.

“The conference comesas part of the exchange ofbenefits between China

and the Arab states in thefield of energy,” he added.

He further said that thepartnership between Chinaand the Arab states in fieldof energy has made strides.

He said the forumwould discuss a number ofworking papers in thefields of energy, petro-leum, renewable energies,including solar energy,wind energy and nuclearenergy, adding that “therewill be an objective scien-tific discussion on thesetopics.”

The Chinese Ambassa-dor to Sudan, Li

Chengwen, speaking at thePress conference, said thatthe conference camewithin the framework ofthe Sino-Arab coopera-tion, adding that “the con-ference enhances the Sino-Arab ties, particularly inthe economic, commer-cial, cultural and educa-tional fields.”

“There is a wide coop-eration between China andthe Arab states in field ofenergy. It is a cooperationthat we all benefit fromthrough exchange of expe-riences,” he said.

Xinhua

LONDON, 25 Jan— Aseven-year-old boy toldSunday how he raisedmore than 50,000 poundsin a day for survivors of theHaiti earthquake by doinga sponsored bike ride.

Charlie Simpson setout to collect just 500pounds for a UN Chil-dren’s Fund (UNICEF)appeal by cycling five

miles around his localpark in London — but hisefforts inspired hundredsof people to donateonline.

He started hisfundraising efforts afterseeing shocking images ofchildren being pulledalive from the rubble inthe Caribbean nation.

“I just think it was quite

sad when I saw the pic-tures on the TV,” said theyoungster.

His mother, Leonora,helped him create a spon-sorship form and said thedocument quickly spreadaround the Internet andthe enormous sum wasdonated in one day.

“He really felt stronglyabout this and thought thatsomething had to bedone,” she said.

“But what started off asa little cycle round thepark with his dad hasturned into something alot bigger than that and wecan’t believe it.

“I am extremely proudof our Charlie, he’s donereally well. He’s workedhard and he’s raised a phe-nomenal amount ofmoney so we couldn’t askfor anything more.”

Internet

A/H1N1 flu death toll reaches 248 in EgyptCAIRO, 25 Jan—Egypt

on Sunday registered fourmore death cases of influ-enza A/H1N1, bringingthe nationwide death tollto 248, said the HealthMinistry in a statement.

The dead cases camefrom the governorates of

Port Said, Alexandria,Cairo and Assiut, said thestatement.

Up till now, Egypt hasreported more than15,600 cases of the novelflu, according to theHealth Ministry.

Egypt confirmed its

first influenza A/H1N1death case on 19 July of a28-year-old Egyptianwoman, who was backfrom Saudi Arabia aftermaking Umrah (pilgrim-age to Mecca at any timeof the year).

Xinhua

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Algeria says USreassures over reconsid-ering terror watch listALGIERS, 25 Jan— A senior Algerian official said

on Sunday his country received reassurance fromWashington over the reconsideration of its 14-nationterror watch list, Pan-Arab al- Jazeera TV reported.

Following talks with the US Deputy Assistant Sec-retary of State Janet Anderson, Algerian Minister Del-egate for Maghreb and African Affairs AbdelkaderMessahel said his country has got reassurance fromthe United States over the measures which apply toAlgerian citizens during his meeting with the US sen-ior official and in a phone call from US Secretary ofState Hillary Clinton to Algerian Foreign MinisterMourad Medelci.

Messahel said that Sanderson told him the policywill be reconsidered and will be submitted formodification.The report, however, did not mentionwhat kind of modifications will be introduced.

Faysal Metawi, an Algerian journalist and Ana-lyst, ruled out the possibility that the United Stateswill clear the name of Algeria from the terror watchlist. But he expected that the security measures ap-plied to Algerian citizens in US airports would bereconsidered.

Algeria criticized on 13 Jan, the United Statesand France for including it on the list of countries,the citizens of which will submit to extra securityscreening in airports describing the decision as “in-correct approach” that reflects a “double-standardpolicy,”—Xinhua

Indian Navy increases fleetof fast attack craft along

coast areasNEW DELHI, 25 Jan— The Indian Navy said on Sun-

day after the Mumbai attacks in November 2008, it isaugmenting its fleet of fast attack craft, reported thePress Trust of India.

The report quoted a senior navy officer as sayingthat this year the Indian Navy has commissioned sixnew fast attack craft which can attain a speed of 70km per hour, in order to enhance security along thecoast.

The Indian Navy has also planned to commission50 to 60 intermediate and small fast attack craft whichwill be deployed at various ports along the eastern andwestern coastal areas of the country, the report quotedRear Admiral P Murugesan of the Eastern Fleet assaying.

At least 170 people were killed and over 300 in-jured in the Mumbai attacks, when 10 terrorists landedby the sea to stage coordinated attacks in the Indianfinancial capital.

Xinhua

The Chocolate Wonderland will finallyopen to the public on the square at thenorth side of the Bird’s Nest Stadium

on 29 January.—XINHUA

World Chocolate Wonderland to Open in Beijing FridayBEIJING, 25 Jan —The Chocolate Wonderland will finally open

to the public on the square at the north side of the Bird’s Nest Sta-dium on 29 January. As the first chocolate theme park in China, theChocolate Wonderland will feature artifacts made from 80,000 kilo-grams of chocolate.Aside from enjoying a visual feast of choco-late-made famous Chinese sculptures, visitors will also be able tolearn how to make chocolate and taste their creations during thethree-month display.

The 20,000-square-metre chocolate wonderland consists of fiveindoor halls, including the World’s Chocolate Hall, World’s CandyHall, Wonderland Theme Hall, Sweet Experience Hall and SweetGift Hall, and outdoor activity areas Sweet Stage and Sweet Shop-ping Street.—Xinhua

A baby receives a vaccine against the so-called swine flu (H1N1) in December2009 in Paris. France is in “tough” talks with drug companies to cancel

orders for millions of swine flu vaccines and insists on scratching the dealsinstead of renegotiating them, its health minister said on Friday.—INTERNET

China’s PolyReal Estate2009 profitsurges 50%on property

boomBEIJING, 25 Jan — Poly

Real Estate Group Co, Ltd,China’s leading propertydeveloper, estimated onSunday its profit shot uparound 50 percent in 2009boosted by strong sales androcketing property prices.

The profit was expectedto total 2.24 billion yuan(329 million US dollars, theShanghai-listed companysaid in a statement on theexchanges’s website.

Earnings per sharestood at 0.91 yuan, it said.

The company is yet toannounce its annual reportof 2009.

China saw rare propertyboom in history last year assales sizzled by 75 percentto 4.4 trillion yuan. Pricerose the most in 15 years to4,695 yuan per square me-ter, up 24 percent year onyear, according to data re-leased by the National Bu-reau of Statistics.—Xinhua

Japan ‘may rethink’ USFutenma Air Base after poll

A deal to move the USbases from Okinawahas hit strong opposi-

tion.— INTERNET

TOKYO, 25 Jan — Ja-pan’s Prime Minister YukioHatoyama has said the re-sult of a weekend mayoralpoll could fuel a major re-think about US militarybases in Japan. Residents of

the Japanese city of Nago,on Okinawa, chose a can-didate opposed to the host-ing of an American air base.The Futenma base wasoriginally scheduled tomove to Nago from a morecrowded part of Okinawa.

Talk of moving the baseout of Japan altogether hasthreatened the long-stand-ing US-Japan security alli-ance. Mr Hatoyama saidthe results of Sunday’selection reflected the will ofthe people, and that Japanwill continue to re-examineits commitment to relocatethe air base. “The countrywill start from scratch onthis issue and take respon-sibility to reach a conclu-sion by the end of May,” hetold reporters. — Internet

ALGIERS, 25 Jan—Algeria and Qatar signedon Sunday an agreementon the mutual visaexemption, Algeriannews agency reported.

Algerian ForeignMinister MouradMedelci and QatariMinister of State forEnergy and IndustryAffairs Mohammed binSaleh Al Sada signed theagreement, during ameeting held in Algiers

Qatar, Algeria signagreement on visa

exemptionwithin the framework ofthe 4th round of meetingsof joint Algerian-Qataricommittee.

The agreementcovers citizens of the twocountries carrying bothdiplomatic and privatepassports.

MNA/Xinhua

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S P O R T S

Cristiano Ronaldo hero and villainas Real Madrid beats Malaga

MADRID, 25 Jan—Cristiano Ronaldo scored his firsttwo goals of the year and was sent off as Real Madridbeat Malaga 2-0 in another slightly disappointing dis-play. The Portuguese winger scored his first two goalsof 2010 after 35 and 39 minutes of the match. Boththe goals followed good collective moves in what wasan otherwise poor display from Real Madrid, butRonaldo undid all of his good work with a moment ofmadness in the 70th minute of the game.

Under pressure from Malaga defender Mtiglia, heswung his arm and caught the defender full in the face,for which he was shown a direct red card. Tests latershowed he had broken the defender’s nose and the RealMadrid player should now expect a suspension of be-tween four and 10 games for aggression.—Xinhua

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo (R) slides to tackleMalaga’s Patrick Jan Mtiliga during their Spanish

first division soccer match at Santiago Bernabeustadium in Madrid on 24 Jan, 2010. — XINHUA

Algeria stun Nations Cupfavourites Ivory Coast in thriller

CABINDA, 25 Jan—Algeria clawed back from thebrink of elimination to stun title favourites Ivory Coast3-2 on Sunday and reach the Africa Cup of Nationssemi-finals. The winners fell 2-1 behind on 89 min-utes to a brilliant Abdulkader Keita goal only forMadjid Bougherra to level in stoppage time and un-marked substitute Hamer Bouazza headed a 92nd-minute far-post winner. Drama continued to the endwith television replays suggesting a late shot fromIvorian defender Kolo Toure that found the net waswrongly judged offside by an assistant referee.

Ivory Coast coach Vahid Halilhodzic was furiousand distraught in equal measure. “This is a huge dis-appointment, of course,” said the 57-year-old Bosnian-born former Yugoslavian international. “We were notgood this evening (Sunday) and we are obliged to con-gratulate Algeria. Great teams do not let a 2-1 lead afew minutes before full-time slip like that.”

Internet

Watson wins season-opening MitsubishiKAUPPULEHU-KOHA, 25 Jan—This time around, age

prevailed. Tom Watson became the 13th oldest playerto win on the Champions Tour, birdieing the final twoholes Sunday for one-stroke victory over senior new-comer Fred Couples in the season-opening MitsubishiElectric Championship.

“This is what I live for in my career — to do what Idid today,” Watson said. “I don’t think I’ll have toomany more, but I had this one.” The 60-year-oldWatson, coming off a win with Jack Nicklaus in theChampions Skins at Kaanapali, closed with a 7-under65 to finish at 22-under 194 for his 13th ChampionsTour title and his first victory in 34 career starts inHawaii on the two tours.— Internet

Panamanian Soccer Federationnames best player and coach of 2009

PANAMA CITY, 25 Jan_The Panamanian Soccer Fed-eration (Fepafut) chose forward Orlando “Papi”Rodriguez and coach Gary Stempel as the player andcoach of the year in Panamanian soccer, local mediasaid on Sunday.

The awards were given on Saturday during a meet-ing between the Fepafut and the media. Rodriguez waschosen for his outstanding performance in soccer clubArabe Unido while Stempel was awarded for his workin both Panamanian soccer national team and the soc-cer club San Francisco. — Xinhua

Wenger defends selection policy as Arsenal crash out

Arsenal’s Brazilian midfielderDenilson (L) vies for the ball against

Stoke City’s Dean Whitehead (R)during the FA Cup fourth round

football match.— INTERNET

New Manchester Cityrecruit Patrick Vieira

Vieira rates World Cupchances as ‘100 percent’

Nine-man Interstun Milan togo nine clearMILAN, 25 Jan—Nine

man Inter Milan movednine points clear at thetop of Serie A after a 2-0victory over arch-rivalsAC Milan in a pulsatingderby at the San Siro onSunday.

The championsplayed for more than anhour with a numericaldisadvantage afterWesley Sneijder was sentoff but they dominatedthroughout to earn arichly deserved victory.Inter coach JoseMourinho said that deci-sion showed that the au-thorities are ganging upon his club.

Internet

Scunthorpe United’s Cliff Byrne(R) tackles Manchester City’sBrazilian forward Robinho

during their English FA Cupfootball match at Glandford Park

in Scunthorpe.— INTERNET

Mancini admits he won’t stop Robinho leaving

Chinese tennis player LiNa gestures after victoryin her fourth roundwomens singles matchagainst Danish opponentCaroline Wozniacki atthe Australian Opentennis tournament in

Melbourne. Li Na won6-4, 6-3.— INTERNET

Djokovic, Venus stride intoAustralian Open quarters

MELBOURNE, 25 Jan—Novak Djokovic and VenusWilliams strode into the Australian Open quarter-fi-nals on Monday while Li Na ensured China has twoplayers in the last eight of a Grand Slam for the firsttime. Third seed Djokovic, the 2008 winner, joinsSpanish defending champion Rafael Nadal, Britishfifth seed Andy Murray, American seventh seed AndyRoddick and 14th seeded Croat Marin Cilic safelythrough.

Also staying in the hunt was in-form Russian sixthseed Nikolay Davydenko, who was stretched to thelimit by Spanish ninth seed Fernando Verdasco be-fore prevailing 6-2, 7-5, 4-6, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3.— Internet

STOKE, 25 Jan—Arsene Wenger de-fended his right to field a weakened teamin Arsenal’s 3-1 FA Cup fourth round de-feat at Stoke and insisted his desire tolift the Premier League title had beenbehind his decision. Wenger made nine

changes at the Britannia Stadium but willrecall the likes of William Gallas, Tho-mas Vermalaen, Gael Clichy, AndreyArshavin and Eduardo for the crucialleague trip to Aston Villa on Wednesday.

This disappointing defeat leavesWenger still waiting for his first trophysince 2005 but the Frenchman places farmore importance on the league.After thevisit to Villa Park, the Gunners - cur-rently two points behind leaders Man-chester United with a game in hand - facethree more crunch encounters against SirAlex Ferguson’s champions, then Chel-sea and Liverpool.And Wenger insistedinjuries left him with no alternative butto operate a rotation policy ahead ofthose matches.He said: “I wanted to winthis game and I don’t regret the team Ipicked, I did not have much choice.”

Internet

PARIS, 25 Jan—NewManchester City recruitPatrick Vieira says he hasa “100 percent chance” ofplaying for France at nextsummer’s World Cup fi-nals, despite having notrepresented his countrysince June 2009. “As I’m

an optimist, I’m going tosay 100 percent,” he saidin response to a questionabout his chances of play-ing in South Africa on theCanal Football Club tel-evision show on Sundayevening.

“The desire is there, it’smy goal. In my head, Idon’t see myself missingthe World Cup.” Vieira,who has yet to play for hisnew club, admitted that hehad received “no guaran-tees” from France coachRaymond Domenech,who he met shortly beforeChristmas, and concededthat the situation “is not assimple as that”.

Internet

SCUNTHORPE, 25 Jan—Manchester Citymanager Roberto Mancini admits he won’tstop Robinho leaving if the Brazil forwardis not happy at Eastlands. Robinho told aBrazilian radio station over the weekend thatCity’s directors are happy to let him returnhome to join Santos on loan before the trans-fer window closes on February 1.

After watching Robinho score City’s fi-nal goal in their 4-2 FA Cup fourth roundwin at Scunthorpe on Sunday, Mancini de-nied any knowledge of an imminent exit forthe former Real Madrid star but did con-cede that he would let him leave if he isn’thappy. Robinho, who cost City a club record32.5 million pounds last season, has repeat-edly produced below-par displays andMancini appeared to run out of patiencewhen he replaced the winger after sendinghim on as substitute against Everton earlierthis month.—Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, light rain has beenisolated in Taninthayi Division, weather has been partlycloudy in Kachin, Rakhine, Kayin and Mon States, upperSagaing, Bago and Yangon Divisions and generally fair inthe remaining areas. Night temperatures were (5°C) to(6°C) below January average temperatures in Kachin andChin States, (4 °C) below January average temperatures inupper Sagaing Division, (3°C) to (4 °C) above Januaryaverage temperatures in Kayah, Kayin, Mon and RakhineStates, Magway, Bago and Taninthayi Divisions and aboutJanuary average temperatures in the remaining areas. Thesignificant night temperatures were Haka and Loilem(0°C) each, Putao, Machanbaw and Namsang (2°C) eachand Lashio (3 °C). The noteworthy amounts of rainfallrecorded was Myeik (0.08) inch.

Maximum temperature on 24-1-2010 was 95°F.Minimum temperature on 25 -1-2010 was 64°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 25 -1-2010 was 63%.Total sun shine hours on 24 -1-2010 was (7.5) hours approx.

Rainfall on 25-1-2010 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010was (Tr) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and (Nil) at CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was(4) mph from West at (15:30) hours MST on 24-1-2010.

Bay inference: Weather is generally fair in North Bayand partly cloudy in the Andaman Sea and elsewhere inthe Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 26thJanuary 2010:Light rain are likely to be isolated in Shan, Kayah, Kayin,Mon States, Yangon, Bago, Ayeyawady and TaninthayiDivisions and weather will be partly cloudy in the remainingStates and Divisions. Degree of certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days:Likehood of isolatedlight rain in the lower Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for26-1-2010: Partly cloudy to cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for26-1-2010:Possibility of isolated light rain. Degree ofcertainty (40%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for26-1-2010:Partly cloudy.

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In this on 10 Jan. 2010 photo, members of theBrothers of The Third Wheel Trikers club pose

in front of the Lyons Valley Trading Post duringa club ride in San Diego. They are among a

growing group of aging motorcyclists taking uptrikes; three-wheeled motorcycles that providestability and nearly all the comforts of a car

while still allowing riders to feel the wind in theirface.— INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 25 Jan—Robert Mosbacher, whoserved as US commercesecretary under formerPresident George HWBush and helpedchampion the NorthAmerican Free TradeAgreement, died onSunday at the age of 82.

Mosbacher died inHouston after a yearlongbattle with pancreaticcancer, the formerpresident said in astatement.

“Together we shareda journey that led to thepresidency, themountaintop of Americanpolitics, and there weworked together to help

Former US CommerceSecretary Mosbacher dies

America more fullyembrace the worldaround us and competein the newly emergingglobal markets that thewaning Cold War madeaccessible,” Bush said.

Mosbacher, likeBush, was raised in anaffluent US Northeastfamily and made hisfortune in the Texas oilindustry before movinginto Republican politics.

He became a majorfundraiser for Republicanpresidential candidatesfrom Gerald Ford to JohnMcCain and help Bushduring his presidentialraces in 1980, 1988 and1992. —MNA/Reuters

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★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

★ Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracy★ Riots beget riots, not democracy★ Democracy can be introduced only through constitution

People’s Desire ■ VOA, BBC-sowing hatred amongthe people

■ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

■ Do not allow ourselves to be swayed■ By broadcasts designed to cause

troubles

■ We favour peace and stability■ We favour development■ We oppose unrest and violence■ Wipe out those inciting unrest

and violence

Myanmar Health ResearchConference (2009) beginsYANGON, 25 Jan—The Myanmar Health Re-

search Conference (2009) was opened at the Depart-ment of Medical Research (Lower Myanmar) on ZiwakaRoad in Dagon Township here this morning, withaddresses by Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Ministry ofDefence, and Deputy Minister for Health Dr Paing Soe.

After the opening ceremony, Lt-Gen MyintSwe, Chairman of Yangon Division Peace and Devel-

opment Council Commander of Yangon CommandMaj-Gen Win Myint, and the deputy minister visitedthe poster contest and pavilions of medicines andmedical equipment.

Local and foreign experts submit 92 papers, 20posters and six topics to the conference that goes on till29 February. Anyone can attend it as observers.

MNA

Inter-State/DivisionMen’s Football

Tourney (Open) goes on

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Jan—The 55th Inter-State/Division Men’s Football Tournament (Open) (2010)continued in the zones in Ayeyawady Division thisafternoon.

In Hinthada Zone, Mon State outclassedRakhine State 4-1; In Myaungmya Zone, MandalayDivision hammered Shan State (East) 7-0; in PatheinZone, Taninthayi Division and Kayah State held athrilling 8-8 draw; and in Maubin Zone, Kachin Stateand Kayin State tied at 2-2 draw.

Tomorrow fixtures are Yangon Division vsBago Division in Hinthada Zone; Shan State (South)vs Chin State in Maubin Zone; and Shan State(North) vs Sagaing Division in Myaungmya Zone.

MNA

Loilem (0o C)Putao (2o C)Machanbaw (2o C)Namsang (2o C)Lashio (3o C)

Significant nighttemperatures (25-1-2010)

Bawga Thiri express bus terminal in Nay Pyi Tawstanding at core transport

Byline: Myint Maung Soe, Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

Express buses seen at Bawga Thiri express bus terminal. (See page 9)

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