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Volume XVIII, Number 272 14th Waxing of Pyatho 1372 ME Tuesday, 18 January, 2011

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Jan — A coordinationmeeting between the Union Election Commissionand secretaries of Region/State ElectionSubcommissions was held at UEC Office No. (22)here this morning.

UEC Chairman U Thein Soe made anopening speech, stating the Multiparty Democracy

UEC, Region/State Subcommissionsecretaries meet

General Elections 2010 for the respective Hluttawshad been held peacefully and successfully andinviting suggestions on how to improve work to bemore comprehensive based on the experiences.

The chairman also made concluding re-marks at the meeting.

MNA

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round develop-ment of other sectors of the economy as well

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

technical know-how and investments from sources inside thecountry and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural her-itage 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 Constitu-

tion* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

True patriotism * It is very important for everyone of

the nation regardless of the place

he lives to have strong Union Spirit.

* Only Union Spirit is the true patri-

otism all the nationalities will have

to safeguard.

Bluntly, human beings have yet to use solarpower on a massive scale. Instead, they turn to mineralfuel, which costs heavily.

In fact, the sun is a burning star with hydro-gen. With average surface temperature of about 6000K, the sun is like a plant producing power that ismillions of times the total power produced by nuclearreactors in many countries around the world.

When they touch solar photo voltaic-PV,protons in the sun’s rays produce electricity, which isdirect current (DC). Therefore, solar chips are indemand in the world to produce solar power. Solarpower can be stored in a battery. And with an inverter,the stored power can be used as alternating current(AC).

With the technical assistance of the Ministryof Education, Yangon Region Renewable EnergyCommittee has set up solar power lamp posts on roadsin the industrial zones in Yangon Region. Some of theposts have 30 LED-1 watt bulbs each; and some, 60

Sun, inexhaustible source of energy

Article & Photos: Dr Thant Sin(Yangon West University)

LED-1 watt bulbs each. Each of the about 20-foot-highposts has a 12 volts battery, a solar charger, and asensor.

A 30 LED-1 watt lamp post costs about 300,000kyats; and a 60 LED-1 watt lamp post, about 450,000kyats. The solar power-used lamps are DC ones. A solarchip is serviceable for over 10 years; and solar powerlamps, for over 10,000 hours.

Now, solar chips and LED bulbs can be pro-duced domestically. Soon, solar power can be pro-duced in rural areas. The international face value of asolar chip is about 20 US dollars a Watt.

(See page 7)

A solar power lamp post near HlinethayaIndustrial Zone in Yangon Region.

UEC Chairman U Thein Soe making speech at coordination meeting between UEC and secretaries of Region/State Election Subcommissions.—MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 18 January, 2011

Tuesday, 18 January, 2011

PERSPECTIVES* Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s Desire

Today, consumers around the worldcome to choose not only quality but also safefoods. The role of the meat and fish sector isbecoming more important in the nation’sfood security. Pedigree species of farm animalsare being produced with advanced methodsin the livestock and fisheries area.

Species of freshwater fish in demandinternationally are bred on a wider scale. In2009-2010 alone, the nation exported over90,000 tons of carp.

Total acreage of freshwater andsaltwater fish and prawn farms across thenation stands at more than 200,000, indicatinga seventy fold increase within a period of twodecades. Soft crab, a highly marketableaquatic animal, is farmed increasingly.

This year’s exportation of freshwaterand saltwater prawn, crab, eel and seaweedincreases by 61 percent, if compared with lastyear. Underwater soft crab breeding farmsin Taninthayi Region, Yangon Region,Ayeyawady Region and Rakhine State haveincreased to over 4000 acres.

In Taninthayi Region, over 300 acreshave been put under seaweed, which getshigh price in the international market. Thenation exported over 300,000 metric tons ofseaweed last year.

Mostly, Myanmar’s marine productsgo to her trade partners and EU countries.The nation is boosting production offreshwater and saltwater fish and prawnand crab. Myanmar’s marine products willbecome increasingly saleable in theinternational market if they meet standardsand are safe for human consumption.

Boost exportation ofmarine products

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Jan—The opening of a newtarred road in Aungmyethazan Township,Mandalay, took place at the archway of the facilityon 12 January.

Chairman of Mandalay Region Peace andDevelopment Council Commander of CentralCommand Brig-Gen Ye Aung, the MandalayMayor, and officials formally opened the road.Then, observed the documentary photos.

On 13 January, the commander attended theceremony to convey Nay Pyi Taw Maha MuniBuddha Image to be kept in Abhisanta Chamber in

New tarred road opened inAungmyethazan Township

Dhatucaya Datpaungsu Pagoda in Nay Pyi TawZabuthiri.

The commander donated offertories to themonks. The monks, the commander, officials andwell-wishers sprinkled parittas water onto theimage.

The decorated vehicle with Maha MuniBuddha Image on it left the pandal and wasdriven to downtown Mandalay through Yangon-Mandalay Highway for public reverence. Localsmade cash donations to the image.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Jan—A coordination meetingof Ministry of Transport was held at the ministryhere this morning, with an address by Minister forTransport U Thein Swe.

Directors-General, Managing Directors,rectors and principals from Departments,Enterprises, Universities and Colleges submittedreports on implementations by their respectivedepartment and so did regional in-charges.

Coordination meeting of Ministry of Transport held

Leader of administration team of SupervisoryCommittee for Operating Transport Services at fullcapacity reported their works.

After that, Deputy Minister U Nyan TunAung reviewed implementations of respectivedepartments.

The minister fulfilled the needs and made aconcluding speech.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Jan — Chairman of MyanmarOlympic Committee Minister for Sports Thura UAye Myint received Vice-Chairman Mr Seo OkSoo of Sports Council of Wonju, President Prof MrPark Young Il of Gang Won-Do Archery Federationand party from the Republic of Korea, who arearriving in Myanmar to be in joint training withselected Myanmar Archery team, at his office herethis afternoon.

MNA

Sports Minister receivesKorean guests

Minister for Sports Thura U Aye Myint receivesVice-Chairman Mr Seo Ok Soo of Sports

Council of Wonju, President Prof Mr ParkYoung Il of Gang Won-Do Archery Federation

and party from the Republic of Korea.MNA

Minister for Transport U Thein Swe addressing the work coordination meeting of theministry.—MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 18 January, 2011 3

ASEAN FMs call for lifting ofMyanmar sanctions

BAGHDAD, 17 Jan—A bomb planted near officesof the military wing of one of Iraq’s dominant Shiitepolitical parties exploded on Sunday, killing oneworker and wounding three people, police andhospital officials said.

The bomb was hidden outside a fence encirclingthe Badr Organization offices in a Shiite area ineastern Baghdad, police said. The organization wasonce one of Iraq’s most feared militias and is linkedto the Supreme Iraqi Council, a Shiite party withclose ties to Iran.

The blast killed one office worker and injuredanother, police said. Two passers-by were alsowounded. A worker at al-Kindi hospital confirmedthe casualties. A motive for the bombing was notknown.—Internet

Bomb kills one at Iraqimilitia headquarters

SALMON, 17 Jan—A mass of unusually moistPacific air swept the northern Rockies on Sunday,dumping wet snow in the mountains and heavyshowers in the valleys as forecasters warned ofincreased avalanche hazards in several states.

The threat of heavy runoff in the PacificNorthwest from the same warm, wet front alsoprompted the National Weather Service to postflood advisories across several counties inWashington State and southern Oregon.

Rainfall in the Northwest was expected to totalbetween 1 to 3 inches, while icy roads made drivingdifficult in parts of the Rockies.

Rain freezing on highway surfaces forced theclosure of a section of Interstate 94 northeast ofBillings in south-central Montana, according to thestate Department of Transportation. And freezingrain driven by high winds made for treacheroustravel conditions on I-90 in southwest Montananear Bozeman.—Reuters

Wet winter storm raisesavalanche alerts in Rockies

A car carrier lies on its side after several semitractor trailers were involved in an accident on

on 11 Jan, 2011, on Interstate 65 nearLafayette, Ind. Traffic in the south bound lane

was reduced to a crawl as the trucks were pulledback onto the road.—INTERNET

MINNEAPOLIS, 17Jan—Dozens of childrenand adults were strickenby respiratory problemsand nausea on Sundayfrom a chlorine leak at anindoor swimming poolnear Minneapolis, said aspokesman for the townof St Louis Park.

Eleven victims weretaken to area hospitalsfor treatment andevaluation, but “nobodyis believed to have anyserious injuries” and allare expected to recoveryfully, city spokesmanJamie Zwilling toldreporters.

Chlorine leak sickens dozensat pool near Minneapolis

Swiss whistleblowerRudolf Elmer is

planning to handover toWikiLeaks two CDscontaining data ofaround 2,000 bank

clients who may havebeen evading taxes,

according to aninterview publishedSunday.—INTERNET

LONDON, 17 Jan—Swiss whistleblowerRudolf Elmer is planningto handover to WikiLeakstwo CDs containing dataof around 2,000 bankclients who may havebeen evading taxes,according to an interviewpublished Sunday.

“The documentsshow that they are hidingbehind bank secrecy,possibly to avoid taxes,”Elmer, a former Swissbanker, told Swissnewspaper Sonntag.

The data is to behanded over on Monday,during a press conference

Swiss whistleblower tohand over bank data to

WikiLeaksin London.

The event will takeplace at the Frontline Club— a media club whereWikiLeaks operat-es inBritain — from 11:15 am(1115 GMT).

Elmer “will revealmore details of allegedabuses in the world ofoffshore financial cen-tres,” the Club said on itswebsite.

“As he did back in2007 he will pass thesaid documents andinforma-tion toWikiLeaks. Arepresentative fromWikiLeaks will beattending to accept thisinformation,” it added.

Sonntag said thatWikiLeaks founderJulian Assange wouldalso “participate” in thepress conference andthat “everything will bedone to ensure thatAssange is personallypresent.”

Internet

Emergency perso-nnel were summoned tothe Foss Swim Schoolinside the KnollwoodMall shopping centre atabout 3 pm local timeafter 40 to 50 people inand around the poolbegan coughing andcomplaining of breathingdifficulties, Zwilling said.One or two of the victimsexperienced vomiting, hesaid.

A couple of storesadjacent to the swimschool in the shoppingmall also were brieflyevacuated as aprecaution. —Reuters

Rescue

workers and

police survey

a school van

damaged

after a bomb

explosion in

Peshawar

recently.

XINHUA

Explosion on bus in NW Pakistan kills 18PESHAWAR, 17 Jan —

An explosion rippedthrough a minibustraveling in a militant-infested area ofnorthwestern Pakistanon Monday, killing 18people, police said.There were conflictingreports of whether theblast was caused by abomb or by the gascylinder used to powerthe vehicle. The bus wastraveling between thecities of Hangu andKohat, which are locatedclose to Pakistan’slawless tribal region.

The explosion toreapart the vehicle, killingall 17 people on board,and tipped over a secondbus nearby, said Hangu

police chief AbdurRasheed. One person onthe bus that tipped overwas killed and 11 otherswere wounded, he said.

Rasheed said the blastoccurred when the gascylinder on boardmalfunctioned.

Internet

A damaged car at the site of a bombing thatwounded bodyguards of an official in Baghdad,

Iraq, on 16 Jan, 2011.—INTERNET

LOMBOK ISLAND (Indonesia), 17 Jan—Foreign min-isters of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations haveagreed to call on the United States and the EuropeanUnion to lift or ease the economic sanctions on Myanmar.

An unofficial 2-day ASEAN foreign ministerial meet-ing is discussing the schedule and the main agenda forthe official meetings to be held this year.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawaspoke to reporters after the first day on Sunday.

He said the foreign ministers had agreed to call onthe United States and the EU to lift or ease the eco-

nomic sanctions on the country, such as the ban on im-ports of Myanmar products and restrictions on invest-ment.

The agreement came after Myanmar held a gen-eral election last November, and ended the house arrestof Aung San Suu Kyi.

It is believed that ASEAN countries want to boostthe region’s economy by stressing that Myanmar is mak-ing progress towards democratization and by persuad-ing the United States and the EU to take a softer stanceon the country.—NHK

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NASA unveils extraordinary ideas forthe aircraft of 2025

WASHINGTON, 17 Jan—They are thesort of striking images that wouldn’t lookout of place in a scene from a sci-fimovie.

However, one of these could soonbe the face of modern aviation with theunveiling of a new generation ofpassenger aircraft.

NASA has revealed three conceptdesigns for quiet, energy efficient aircraftthat potentially could be ready for flight assoon as 2025.

Three companies - Lockheed Martin,Northrop Grumman and The BoeingCompany - came up with the designs and,at the end of last year, all three won acontract from NASA to research, developand test their concepts in 2011, meaningthese futuristic ideas could have thepotential to take flight.

Future flight? Boeing unveils itsinnovative design for a faster, bigger

and cleaner aircraft.—INTERNET

The designs came about after NASArevealed it was aiming to develop a line of‘super planes’ that are faster, larger,quieter - and burn fuel more efficientlyand cleanly than their present counterparts.

Criteria set by NASA meant thateach design had to fly up to 85 per centof the speed of sound, cover a range ofabout 7,000 miles and carry between50,000 and 100,000 of payload; eithercargo or passengers.—Internet

Robots design, build stuff;singularity must be near

PHILADELPHIA, 17 Jan—Do you ever get the feeling thatwe humans are quickly becoming obsolete? After all robotscan decorate cakes, play the piano, and even design and buildother robots. The next sign of our obsolescence comes fromthe University of Pennsylvania, where researchers haveprogrammed quadrotor drone bots that can design andconstruct buildings.

That’s right—the robots plan out the buildings. All thehumans are good for, according to Daniel Mellinger of theUPenn GRASP Lab, is to tell the robots what to make—thebots take it from there.

Granted, I don’t think flying bots will be building our citiesanytime in the near future, but it isn’t hard to imagine a futurewhere flying robots have a role in construction.

By the way, I dare you to not feel slightly unnerved by thebuzzing of the quadrotors’ engines—it makes them sound likea swarm of bees.—Internet

Russian teenage girlswork on laptop

computers while watingfor a public bus inMoscow. Like other

countries with adistinctive culture and

non-Latin script writing,the Russian net markethas allowed local web

sites to expand alongsideestablished international

players like Facebookand Google.

INTERNET

No-glasses 3D tech makes youblink really fast

NEW YORK, 17 Jan—No-glasses 3D isn’t really new, butit has plenty of limitations, like the fact that you either have tobe within a certain viewing angle to see it, or it may not beentirely safe for kids. If only there was a way to get glasses-free 3D without forcing you to wear glasses.

Enter this video, created by Jonathan Post, which showsan, um, entirely new way to do 3D without glasses. I’m notentirely sure how it actually works—or if it’s even real—butthis device causes your eyelids to blink very fast therefore doingthe job of 3D shutter glasses.

After all, what’s worse, looking silly wearing 3D glasses orlooking silly blinking your eyes really quickly? Apparently thisonly works with 120Hz screens, according to the YouTubevideo description. I’d love to know more about this device andhow it works—assuming that it actually exists—but I wonderwhat the side-effects would be. I’d imagine that after a 2-hourmovie that your eyes would feel pretty fatigued.—Internet

Tree disease threatensBritish forests

LONDON, 17 Jan—Britain’s at war with a treedisease threatening the country’s forests on a scale notseen since Dutch elm disease wiped out million oftrees, officials say.

Sudden oak death, Phytophthora ramorum, hasaffected almost 7,500 acres of forest in Wales, Devon,Cornwall, Somerset and Northern Ireland, TheObserver reported Sunday.

Authorities have embarked on a programme to fellthousands of trees in an effort to stop the spread of thedisease. The disease was named in the United Stateswhere it killed millions of oak trees in California.

It was unknown in the United Kingdom until it wasdetected in imported shrubs in a Sussex nursery in2002, the Observer said.

First showing up in British oak trees, the diseasehas jumped species and is now affecting commerciallyimportant Japanese and European larch trees as wellas several conifer species including Douglas fir, expertssay.—Internet

Mark Schnitzer,associate professor ofbiology and appliedphysics, right, and

Juergen Jung,operations director ofthe Schnitzer lab, in

front of the microscopesetup used to image the

deep brain.INTERNET

Choosing organic milk couldoffset effects of climate

changeThis is Gillian

Butler atNewcastle

University’sNafferton Farm,Northumberland,with some of the

farm’s cows.INTERNET

NEWCASTLE, 17 Jan—Wetter, cooler summers canhave a detrimental effect on the milk we drink, accordingto new research published by Newcastle University.

Researchers found milk collected during aparticularly poor UK summer and the following winterhad significantly higher saturated fat content and farless beneficial fatty acids than in a more ‘normal’ year.

But they also discovered that switching to organicmilk could help overcome these problems. Organicsupermarket milk showed higher levels of nutritionallybeneficial fatty acids compared with ‘ordinary’ milkregardless of the time of year or weather conditions.

The study, which is published in this month’s Journalof Dairy Science (January 2011), leads on from previousresearch undertaken nearly three years ago whichlooked at the difference between organic andconventional milk at its source — on the farms.

“We wanted to check if what we found on farmsalso applies to milk available in the shops,” said GillianButler, who led the study. —Internet

Scientists find inflammationimmune cell switch

LONDON, 17 Jan—Scientists have found aprotein that acts as a“master switch” todetermine whether certainwhite blood cells will boostor dampen inflammation,a finding that may help thesearch for new drugs forrheumatoid arthritis.

Many patients withrheumatoid arthritis aretreated with a class ofdrugs known as tumornecrosis factor (TNF)inhibitors made by variousdrug firms includingAbbott Laboratories,Merck & Co, Pfizer andAmgen

But around 30 percentof patients don’t respondto anti-TNF drugs, soexperts say there is anurgent need to developmore widely effectivetreatment options.

In this study, scientistsfrom Imperial College inLondon found that aprotein called IRF5 actsas a molecular switch thatcontrols whether certainwhite blood cells, knownas macrophages, willpromote or inhibitinflammation.

In a report of theirfindings in the journalNature Immunology onSunday, they said theresults suggest thatblocking the production ofIRF5 in macrophagesmight be an effective wayof treating a wide range ofautoimmune diseases, suchas rheumatoid arthritis,inflammatory boweldisease, lupus and multiplesclerosis.—Reuters

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A woman works at a Servier lab in

2004. France’s health minister

vowed Sunday to rebuild a more

transparent health care system

following a scandal over a diabetes

drug that was linked to more than

500 deaths.

INTERNET

In this 28 Dec, 2010 photo,Shamsah, 18-month-old, aPakistani girl whose right

leg is paralyzed from polio isheld by her mother at ahospital in Peshawar,

Pakistan. Pakistan has thehighest incidence of polio in

the world and is the onlycountry to record an

increase in cases in 2010 _136 (139), up from 89 in

2009, according to recentWorld Health Organization

figures.—INTERNET

The more you walk, the loweryour diabetes risk

MELBOURNE, 17 Jan—The more you walk, thelower your risk of diabetes,say Australian researchers.

The scientists tracked592 middle-aged adultswho participated in a studyto map diabetes levels

Fake cocainesending users to

hospitalsFORT LAUDERDALE, 17 Jan—A

product sold as a bath salt butintended for use as fake cocaine issending youths to emergency roomsin Florida and across the country,officials said.

Authorities have linked theproduct to at least two suicides inLouisiana, and to 21 calls to poisoncontrol centres in Florida, the SouthFlorida Sun-Sentinel reported.

“We’re seeing teenagersexperiment with this,” said Dr NabilEl Sanadi, chief of emergencymedicine for Broward Health. “Theywill do stuff that they wouldn’tnormally do, like dive from a third-story window into a pool. It’s very,very dangerous.”

The products contain a chemicalcalled methylenedioxypyrovalerone,or MDPV. It stimulates the centralnervous system and produces a highsaid to mimic that from cocaine ormethamphetamine.

The Drug Enforcement Admi-nistration said the chemical can causeintense panic attacks, psychosis andaddiction.

Internet

Flu deaths in Britain double last yearLONDON, 17 Jan— The number of deaths from swine flu in Britain

this winter has doubled and the National Health Service is in gridlock,medical officials said.

Dozens of hospitals across Britain have canceled non-emergencysurgery to care for the high number of flu patients, The SundayTelegraph reported.

This winter 110 people have died from swine flu, twice the numberfrom a year ago and scores of hospital wards were closed because ofnorovirus, a winter bug that causes nausea and vomiting.

Hospitals in Cambridge and Norfolk were on “black alert” for morethan two weeks, meaning they could not accept non-emergencypatients. In the past 10 days, major hospitals in London, Liverpool,Surrey, Southampton, Derby, Peterborough, King’s Lynn and GreatYarmouth issued the same warning.

“My frustration is that so much of this is predictable,” said JohnHeyworth, president of the College of Emergency Medicine.

Internet

across Australia between2000 and 2005. Par-ticipants underwent ahealth examination at thestart of the study andprovided details about theireating and lifestyle habits.

The volunteers werealso given a pedometerand instructed how to useit.

Follow-up with theparticipants five years latershowed that a higher dailystep count was associatedwith a lower body-massindex (BMI), lower waist-to-hip ratio and betterinsulin sensitivity, evenafter adjusting for factorssuch as diet, smoking andalcohol intake.

These associationswere independent ofcalorie intake andappeared to be largely dueto a change in weight, saidthe researchers at theMurdoch Children’sResearch Institute inMelbourne.

They calculated that asedentary person whochanged his or her

behaviour and startedwalking 10,000 stepsevery day would achievea threefold improvementin insulin sensitivity,compared with a similarperson who walked 3,000steps a day, five days aweek.

The 10,000 steps perday is a popular guideline,but a more recentrecommendation is 3,000steps per day, five days aweek.—Internet

S Korean firms eye fresh gains at US auto showDETROIT, 17 Jan—South Korean

automakers Hyundai and Kia made astrong showing at this year’s Detroitauto show, turning heads with newmodels and vowing to build on lastyear’s gains.

Both Kia and Hyundai — whichshare manufacturing and engineeringfacilities but sell their vehicles separatelyin the United States — are looking formore growth this year after setting salesrecords in 2010, with Hyundai havingfinished the year with a 24-percent salesincrease.

“Today, customers do not believethat expensive cars with unnecessarytechnology are premium,” HyundaiVice Chairman Eui Sun Chung said in aspeech at the conference.

“Instead, they want their core needsfulfilled at an accessible price and witha car that exceeds their expectations,”he added.

Hyundai is considering buildinganother US assembly plant to keep pacewith rising demand, its US president andchief executive officer John Krafciksaid in an interview with AutomotiveNews, a trade publication.—Internet

South Korean automakers Hyundai andKia made a strong showing at this year’s

Detroit auto show, turning heads withnew models and vowing to build on last

year’s gains.—INTERNET

Home prices in 70 major Chinese citiesup 6.4% in December

BEIJING, 17 Jan— Home prices in70 major Chinese cities rose 0.3percent month on month inDecember and 6.4 percent year onyear, the National Bureau of Statistics(NBS) said Monday.

The annualized growth ratedropped from 7.7 percent inNovember, making December theeighth consecutive month of slowinggrowth from a peak of 12.8 percentin April last year, when thegovernment stepped up controls tocurb prices.

New home prices climbed 7.6percent year on year last month and0.3 percent month on month, whileprices for second-hand homes rose5 percent year on year and 0.5percent month on month, said astatement on the NBS website.

Property sales volume, in termsof floor space, was up 11.5 percentfrom a year earlier to 218.08 millionsquare meters last month, and thevalue of sales rose 21.9 percent tomore than 1.02 trillion yuan (about

J Crew received no rivaltakeover bids

PHILADELPHIA, 17 Jan— J Crew GroupInc received no rival takeover bids duringits “go shop” period and will remain withits original $2.86 billion buyout offerfrom TPG and Leonard Green, a sourcefamiliar with the situation said on Sunday.

Sears Holdings Corp, UrbanOutfitters Incand at least two otherprivate equity firms had been lookingat the financial books of J Crew duringthe “go shop” period that allowed JCrew to solicit other suitors, sourcespreviously told Reuters.—Internet

155 billion US dollars).Property sales for the whole of

last year surged 10.1 percent yearon year to 1.04 billion square meters,and the sales value was up 18.3percent to 5.25 trillion yuan, it said.

Property investment last yearjumped 33.2 percent year on year to4.83 trillion yuan. In Decemberalone, 557 billion yuan was investedin the real estate sector, up 12percent year on year.

Xinhua

File photo taken on 14 Nov, 2010shows a newly built residential

community in east China’sShanghai Municipality.—INTERNET

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Fresh rain hampers Brazil rescue, deathtoll rises

NOVA FRIBURGO, 17 Jan—TheBrazilian military sent troops andhelicopters Sunday to rescue strandedsurvivors of floods and landslides thatkilled more than 625 people but theoperation was stymied by more badweather.

After rains resumed in theafternoon, the air force had to callback helicopters that had been sent asa lifeline to 80 people stranded sinceWednesday in the village of Brejal, inthe mountains near Rio de Janeiro, aspokesman said.

“The weather conditions do notpermit us to advance in the rural areasand to help people who are isolated,”said Rio firefighter Colonel PedroMachado. “We can only make short

flights. The teams on the ground arealso having a lot of difficulty.”

The military had hoped toevacuate people in hamlets cut off byrivers of water and mud that carvedmassive destruction in the SerranaRegion just north of Rio de Janeiro.

Bodies that were buried underrubble and sludge would have to waituntil teams with heavy equipmentcould get to the communities,something that could take daysbecause roads were destroyed.

Soldiers, civil defence workers,police and rangers were seen gatheringin Nova Friburgo, reinforcing teamsthat so far have pulled 283 bodiesfrom decimated parts of the town.

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A destroyed house at Campo Grande neighbourhood in Teresopolis, some100 km from Rio de Janiero. The Brazilian military sent troops and

helicopters Sunday to rescue stranded survivors of floods and landslidesthat killed more than 625 people but the operation was stymied by more

bad weather.—INTERNET

Australia’s Brisbane facinghomelessness crisis

BRISBANE, 17 Jan—Australia’s flood-hit city ofBrisbane is facing a homelessness crisis, QueenslandPremier Anna Bligh warned on Monday.

Bligh said it was clear many people would behomeless for an extended period of time, and alloptions, including “work-camp” style hubs werebeing considered to accommodate them.

“We are currently looking at how we canprovide temporary accommodation. It may benecessary in some places to have, effectively, atemporary work-camp set up,” she told theAustralian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

On Monday, the grim search for bodies wascontinuing in the devastated Lockyer Valley, westof Brisbane. The death toll still stands at 18, most invalley communities. Police say grave fears are heldfor 14 others who remain missing from theToowoomba/Lockyer Valley area.—Internet

Death toll in natural gas blast risesto three in NE China, fire under

control

Photo taken on 17 Jan, 2011 shows the accident

site in Jilin City, northeast China’s Jilin Province.

An explosion occurred inside a building in the

city early Monday, causing three people dead

and nearly 20 people injured.

XINHUA

CHANGCHUN, 17Jan—The death toll inthe natural gas blast inan apartment block inJilin City, northeastChina’s Jilin Province,early Monday has risento three.

More than 20people were also injuredin the explosion, andthey were allhospitalized, said localsources. Fire-fighterswere trying to contain ablaze after the explosionripped though a buildingin Changyi Community

at about 6 am. The firewas said to have beenbrought under control by10 am.

The blast also causeddamage to a 500-meterstretch of road andshattered windows andcollapsed billboards.

A resident surnamedSun said local authoritieshad begun to evacuatepeople away frombuildings on JiefangRoad at about 11 pmSunday after localssmelled natural gas.

Internet

Philippine floods death toll reaches 51MANILA, 17 Jan—The death toll from nearly three

weeks of torrential rains that caused flooding andlandslides across large parts of the Philippines rose to51 on Monday, officials said.

Rescuers recovered four more bodies from a swollenriver on the central island of Negros at the weekend, theNational Disaster Risk Reduction and ManagementCouncil said.

The public has been warned, especially along thecountry’s eastern seaboard, to brace for more rain thisweek, which could worsen the crisis that began in lateDecember. The floods have affected at least 1.5 millionpeople, while 8,800 have sought shelter in evacuationcentres, the council said. Troops are supporting reliefand rescue operations in the 25 affected provinces.

Internet

Residents watch as a vehicle traverses a floodedroad in the town of Sto. Domingo, Albay

Province, southeast of Manila.INTERNET

Dong Qiaolan shows an artistically decoratedsteamed bun in Wenxi County, north China’s

Shanxi Province. Dong Qiaolan, 65, a woman inWenxi County, made two steamed buns with

artistic decorations for the upcomming Year ofRabbit in Chinese Lunar Calendar.—XINHUA

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CAPE CANAVERAL, 17 Jan—NASA officials say an astronautwho had been slated for a spacewalk on the upcoming shuttlemission has been hurt in a bicycle accident.

The space agency said in a release late Saturday that TimKopra will be OK. But officials are still evaluating if he’ll be ableto perform his duties when the shuttle Discovery launches to theInternational Space Station on 24 Feb. NASA did not releasemore details about Kopra’s injury, citing privacy concerns.

The 47-year-old Kopra lives in Houston and is a retired Armycolonel. He was one of two astronauts scheduled to go on aspacewalk during Discovery’s mission to the space station.

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In this undated file photoprovided by NASA, US astronaut

Tim Kopra poses for a photo.NASA officials say an astronaut

who had been slated for aspacewalk on the upcoming

shuttle mission has been hurt ina bicycle accident. The space

agency said in a release late on15 Jan, 2011 that Tim Kopra

will be OK.INTERNET

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(from page 1)Many coun-

tries are formingenergy audit teams toavoid unnecessarywaste of electricpower. On our trip toThailand on duty, wevisited the site nearHua Hin where thereis a large field of39,000 solar panels,which can generate6.697 megawatts.

Sun, inexhaustible sourceof energy…

With an invest-ment of 180 millionbahts, Bangkok SolarPower Company (BSC)was established on 7March 2007. Its plantsproduce power cables,inverters, transformers,and other electricalappliances. So far, its in-vestment has risen to2500 million bahts.

Yangon RegionRenewable Energy

Committee is now do-ing research to find outwhether imported solarpanels meet the stand-ard and how they can beused most properly toproduce power inMyanmar. Locally-pro-duced solar panels aregetting user-friendlyand reliable.

Today, LEDlamps and bulbs are inplace of fluorescentlamps and bulbs inhomes and factoriesworldwide. LED lampsneed only a few watts

One-watt solarpower lamps and two-wattsolar power lamps are pro-duced on a massive scale,each of which has a 4- or5-V battery and 30 LEDbulbs. If a solar panel isexposed to sunshine for 7hours, it produces electric-ity for about five hours,which is enough to givelight for a 10 square feetroom. A one-watt set in asolar lamp is sold for 5500kyats, and a two-watt set,for 10,000 kyats. It is very

beneficial to villagesthat have not got electricpower yet, rural healthcentres, trawlers, andnight shift workers.

Use of solarpower can also helpconserve theenvironment and saveState funds on electricpower. So, the peopleare urged to use solarpower in place of elec-tric power.

Translation: MSKyemon: 16-1-2011

A solar power lamp post in Thakayta Industrial Zone in Yangon

Region.

The solar panel field near Hua Hin, Thailand.

NAY PYI TAW, 17Jan — Outstanding publichealth staff and volunteerswere honoured at the cer-emony held by Ministryof Health and WorldHealth Organization atAnawrahta Hall ofNyaungU on 15 January.

Minister forHealth Dr Kyaw Myintaddressed the ceremony,underlining thecooperation of health staff,volunteers and the peopleto reduce mother and childmortality rate, and to fightagainst malaria, tubercu-losis and HIV/AIDS.

The minister, Di-rector-General Dr WinMyint of Health Depart-ment and District Chair-man U Yan Lin Aungpresented certificates ofhonour to outstandingpublic health staff andvolunteers from States/Regions.

The minister cor-

Outstanding public health staff,volunteers honoured

NAY PYI TAW, 17Jan—Third paper readingsession on hydropower de-velopment was held athydropower developmenttraining centre in thecompound of PaunglaungHydropower Plant inPyinmana Township, NayPyi Taw District on 29 and30 December last year.Scale models ofhydropower projects beingimplemented by theMinistry of Electric PowerNo. 1 were put on show atthe booth there.

Shwetaung Groupof Companies—HighTech Concrete TechnologyCo., Ltd, OctagonInternational Co., Ltd andOctagon International Serv-ices Co., Ltd—alsoshowcased products usedin hydropower projects. Formore information about theproducts, contact OctagonInternational Co., Ltd, Ahlon

Hydropower materials available atShwetaung Group of Companies

Tower, Strand Road, RiverView Garden housing,Ahlon Township, Yangon(Ph-01-216574 and 01-211430 (ext-121) and Fax-01-227716), Octagon In-ternational Services Co., Ltd,No. 1951, Bogyoke Street,Hlinethaya Township,

Yangon (Ph-01-687866and 01-687867 and Fax-01-687868) and High TechConcrete Technology Co.,Ltd, No.584, corner ofStrand Road and 7th Street,Lanmadaw Township,Yangon (Ph-01-227705and 01-227706).—MNA

and can thus save electricpower and reduceexpenses on electric bills.

And using solarpower lamp posts helpssave State funds onhydropower generatedwith hydropower plants,gas fired power plantsand coal-fired powerplants. Moreover, thatcan reduce carbon diox-ide emission, villain ofglobal warming that canlead to world climatechanges.

dially greeted the out-standing public healthstaff and volunteers from

States/Regions after theceremony.

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Minister for Health Dr Kyaw Myint presentscertificates of honour to outstanding public

health staff through State/Region representa-tives.—MNA

Shwetaung Group of Companies displaysproducts used in hydropower projects at paper

reading session.MNA

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YANGON, 17 Jan— Organized byMyanmar MusicAssociation (Central), thesecond ceremony to payrespects to doyenmusicians aged 80 andabove was held at CityHall here this morningattended by Minister forInformation U KyawHsan.

Information Minister U Kyaw Hsan attends respect-payingceremony of MMA (Central)

Writers and JournalistsAssociation, MyanmarMotion PictureAssociation, MyanmarTroupers Association andMyanmar TraditionalArtists and ArtisansAssociation, chairmenand members ofTownship MusicAssociation, well-wishers, musicians and

It was also at-tended by Chairman ofYangon CityDevelopment CommitteeMayor U Aung TheinLin, Vice-Mayor UMaung Pa, departmentalheads of the Ministry of

guests.Head of Office of

MMA CEC member UMyo Tint acted as MCand read out the agenda.

Explaining thepurpose of holding the re-spect-paying ceremony

(Naung) said that theassociation received morecash donations than theprevious years thanks togenerous wellwishers.According to theinstructions of the Infor-mation Minister, Gita

Information, doyen mu-sicians, the chairman ofMMA (Central) andmembers, responsiblepersons of Myanmar

and speaking words ofthanks, Chairman ofMyanmar MusicAssociation (Central) UMaung Maung Latt

Thingaha funds have beenset up for doyen musi-cians to be used for theirmedical purposes andproviding the needy

musicians with monthlycash assistance. Then, heexpressed thanks to thewellwishers, especiallyUnion Solidarity and De-velopment Party that do-nated K 50000 each todoyen musicians this year.The chairman continuedthat he was delighted tohear that the funds thathave been set up for literati,

singers and film stars andthat plans have been madeto donate cash every year.

Next, the MMAchairman introducedthose present to doyenmusicians.

Then, Secretaryof MMA Dr Ko Ko Lwinread out the list of namesof wellwishers.

Afterwards, the

minister and those presentpaid respects to doyenliterati.

Minister U KyawHsan presented K 50000each donated by USDPand K 200, 000 each andgifts by wellwishersincluding MMA (Central)to U Maung Maung(Banjo Maung Maung),

(See page 9)

Minister for Information U Kyaw Hsan and

party pay respects to doyen musicians.

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Minister for Information U Kyaw Hsan presents cash and gift to a doyenmusician.—MNA

Minister for Information U Kyaw Hsan presents cash and gift to a doyenmusician.—MNA

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(from page 8)U Tint Aung (BogaleTint Aung), U KyawHsan (Thukhi Aung),Daw Kyi Kyi (HinthaKyi) U Hla Aung (TayawU Hla Aung), U MaungThwin (Tayaw U Thwin)and U Hla Sein.

Next, the mayor,

the vice-mayor, depart-mental heads of the Min-istry of Information andofficials presented cashand kind to doyen musi-cians.

On behalf ofdoyen musicians,versatile artiste BogaleTint Aung spoke words

of thanks and called onthe musicians todischarge their nationalduties without fail whilestriving for the improve-ment of the music indus-try.

After the cer-emony, the minister cor-dially greeted the doyenmusicians.

CEC members ofMMA (Central) will payrespects to the musicianswho are unable to attendceremony.—MNA

Mayor U

Aung

Thein Lin

presents

cash and

gift to a

doyen

musician.

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Information MinisterU Kyaw Hsan attendsrespect-paying ceremony…

Soe explained pro-duction process ofrayon fibres and cotton,properties of rayon-made clothes, basicrequirements forestablishment of rayonmanufacturing plant,usage of raw materialsin rayon productionfrom eucalyptus pulp,and potential supply ofdomestic cottondemand if rayonmanufacturing plantsare established.

Director U Zaw Winof Forest Department ofMinistry of Forestryexplained availabilityof eucalyptus culti-vation at home and

agricultural assistanceof the ministry foreucalyptus cultivation.

The ministers thenanswered queries raisedby the entrepreneursand Minister U AungThaung madeconcluding remarks.

Next, Ministers andentrepreneurs viewedindustrial raw materials,local and foreign cotton,industrial raw materialsfrom which rayon fibrescan be produced,textiles made of 100%polyester, textiles madeof 100% cotton, andproducts of MyanmarTextile Industries.

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Ministries meet forproduction of high-quality…

(from page 16)Following the

improvement in socio-economic status,customers have becomemore aware of qualityof product, andinnovative designs inpurchasing dresses. Itcan be seen that onlycotton is used as rawmaterial in textile sectorof the nation. Withregard to production, 17factories underMyanmar TextileIndustries, two militarytextile factories, eight

private textile factoriescan only supply 15.50%of domestic demand forcotton, 10.44% forbrown cloth, and 3.16%of mechanized cloth. So,the local market iscritically in need of moretextiles and workshops.

Researches showthat rayon fibres can beproduced with pulpmade from bamboo,eucalyptus, reed, Kaing(reed of Saccharumspecies) and other trees.If rayon-cotton textilefactories can be set up

at home, not onlydomestic demand can besatisfied, butfashionable qualitytextile can be produced.The minister then urgedentrepreneurs to makeinvestment in textilesector for economicgrowth of the nation,adding that thegovernment will fulfillrequirements forestablishment of rayonmanufacturing plants.

Next, Minister U SoeThein explained mattersrelated to marketcompetition, supply oflabourers, technicalcooperation andChairman of MICMinister U Maung

Maung Thein assistancefor investors.

Next, Managing-Director Dr Aung Kyaw

Minister for Industry-1 U Aung Thaung addressing coordination meeting on high-quality cottonand textile production.

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Ministers U Aung Thaung, U Soe Thein and entrepreneurs viewindustrial raw materials and textiles.—INDUSTRY-1

EP-1 Minister meets Chinese guestsNAY PYI TAW, 17 Jan—

Minister for ElectricPower No. 1 U Zaw Minreceived Chairman of theBoard Mr Feng Ke ofUnion Resources &Engineering Co Ltd(UREC) and GeneralManager Mr Zhu Dongruof China Gezhouba Water& Power Co Ltd from the

People’s Republic ofChina at the ministry herethis morning.

The minister and theChinese guests holddiscussion aboutcooperation. Also presenton the occasion wereDeputy Minister U MyoMyint and departmentalheads.—MNA

Minister U Zaw Minreceives Chairman

of the Board MrFeng Ke of UREC

and GeneralManager Mr ZhuDongru of China

Gezhouba Water &Power Co Ltd from

China.—MNA

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S Lanka warns of highfood prices after floodsCOLOMBO, 17 Jan— Sri Lanka warned Monday

that food prices could shoot up after devastatingfloods in the north and east of the country destroyedrice and vegetable crops.

Disaster Management Minister MahindaAmaraweera said vegetable prices had alreadybeen affected because of the impact on growingareas that were swamped by unusually heavymonsoon rains.

More than a million people were displaced bythe floods that began nine days ago and at least 40people have died.

“We have a buffer stock of rice that is good forthree months. That means there will be no immediateimpact on the price of rice, but vegetables arealready going up in price,” Amaraweera said.

Sri Lanka’s annual inflation rose to 5.9 percentin December compared to 3.4 percent a year earlier,with the issue set to figure in local governmentelections due by March.

Sri Lanka recently began importing chickenand eggs in a bid to stabilise local prices, but theminister said it would not be practical to importvegetables too.—Internet

BMW’s art painted sportmotor M3 GT2 is shownduring the first day of

the 89th EuropeanMotorshow in Brussels,capital of Belgium, on

15 Jan, 2011. The showwill pressent commercial

vehicles, recreationalvehicles, motorcycles,

motor parts and services.XINHUA

Irandiscovers

majornatural gas

fieldTEHERAN, 17 Jan—

Iranian Oil MinisterMasoud Mirkazemi saidthat a major natural gasfield called Khayyamhas been discovered insouthern Iranian oilfieldof Assalouyeh, the state-owned IRNA newsagency reported onMonday.

The minister toldreporters on Sunday thatthe gas field is located inthe east of Assalouyehopposite Lavan Island onthe Persian Gulf shore,according to the report.

“The in-situ capacityof the gas field is 260billion cubic metres and80 percent of its reservescan be exploited,”Mirkazemi was quotedas saying.

Iran and Qatar sharea huge natural gascondensate field, theSouth Pars-North Domefield, in the Persian Gulf.According to theInternational EnergyAgency, the field holdsan estimated 50.97trillion cubic metres ofin-situ gas and some 50billion barrels ofcondensates.—Xinhua

Gang’s terror felt far from drug war on US borderIXTEPEC (Mexico), 17 Jan— A priest

who shelters stranded migrants needspolice protection. A chopped-up bodyturns up with a threatening message.Beheadings are on the rise. The localpress is too frightened to write about anyof it.

This is not northern Mexico, wheredrug gangs fight for turf along the USborder and the Mexican governmentwages an open battle against them. Thisis the south, where the brutal Zetas cartelis quietly spreading a reign of terrorvirtually unchallenged, all the way to theborder with Guatemala — and across it.

Just as they have done in the north,groups claiming to be Zetas have set upcriminal networks to control transit routesfor drugs, migrants and contraband suchas pirated DVDS, intimidating thepopulace and committing gruesomemurders as an example to theuncooperative.

Four years ago they started preying

In this photo taken on 9 Jan, 2011,migrants from Central America

headed northwards towards the USrest at a temporary shelter in

Chahuites, in Mexico’s southernstate of Oaxaca.—INTERNET

on the south, Mexico’s poorest region.They moved into Oaxaca, Chiapas andother southern states and then northernGuatemala, where attacks ontownspeople became so commonplacethat the government last month sent in300 troops to regain control of the borderprovince of Alta Verapaz.

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Toyota developing alternative electric motorTOKYO, 17 Jan—

Toyota Motor Corp,maker of the popularPrius hybrid car, isdeveloping a new typeof electric motor to cutits dependence on rareearth metals and lowercosts, a companyspokesman saidMonday.

Artists perform the drama Snow White and

Seven Dwarfs in Jilin, northeast China’s Jilin

Province, on 16 Jan, 2011. Artists in Jilin

adapted several stage dramas such as Snow

White and Seven Dwarfs, Beauty and Beast and

Little Red Riding Hood for the people in Jilin.

The drama will be performed on the holidays

and weekends from 16 Jan to 21 Aug free of

charge. —XINHUA

Authorities destroypirated DVDs andother publications

seized during acrackdown in

Beijing. China willstep up its fight toprotect intellectualproperty rights bytargeting online

piracy, state mediasaid Monday.

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Indonesia’s coal-fired power plant inCentral Java to be operated by 2016

JAKARTA, 17 Jan— Indonesiaexpected to operate a coal-fired powerplant in Central Java valued at 3 billionUS dollars by 2016 following recentenactment of a presidential decreeand a finance ministerial decree aboutlaw umbrella on infrastructure projectsguarantee conducted by governmentand private sector, a press statementsaid here on Monday.

Bambang Dwiyanto, publicrelation manager of PT PerusahaanListrik Negara (PLN), state-run powercompany, told reporters that thedecrees will allow PLN to resumetender process of the power plant inline with schedule. “Hopefully, apower purchase agreement contract

The new technologywill help free the world’sNo 1 automaker fromrelying on China, whichproduces 97 percent ofthe global output of rareearths needed for manyhigh-tech products,including the currentgeneration of hybridg a s o l i n e - e l e c t r i cmotors.

Beijing sent shockwaves through Japan’shigh-tech sector late lastyear when it blockedexports of the exoticmetals after a diplomaticspat, and prices havesoared as Chinagradually tightens itsoutput.

“Toyota is alwayslooking for a reductionin resources and in termsof costs,” said spoke-sman Paul Nolasco.

The company hasnot released any specificuses or timeline for thenew motor, he said.

Toyota has bet bigon gasoline-electric

hybrid technology, andan executive said lastyear it will begin sellinga completely electricvehicle in 2012 in theUS, Japan and Europe.The company is alsoworking on an electricsport-utility vehicle withUS luxury electric carmaker Tesla.

Analysts saidproduction of suchvehicles was still smallenough that there waslittle short-term risk froma shortage of rare earths,but this could changequickly.

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between PLN and independent powerprojects (IPP) could be signed in themiddle of this year so that the coal-fired power plant of Central Java couldoperate by 2016,” said Dwiyanto in astatement.

He said that the power plant wouldbe constructed to anticipate highdemand rate of electricity of 8-9percent per year to support nationaleconomic growth of 6-7 percent peryear.

Besides, he said, currently,Indonesia has low electrification ratioof 58 percent in 2006 and 65 percentin 2010 whereas the government’starget is 91 percent by 2019.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, 17Jan—One year after adevastating earthquakehit Haiti, killing at least250,000 and leavingabout 1.5 millionhomeless, about half ofthe refugees still live intents, with no immediaterelief in sight.

Q u a k e - a f f e c t e dHaitians have been livingin “provisional” campsset up by internationalaid organizationsworking in Haiti sincethe quake on 12 Jan,2010. Life in refugee

SINGAPORE, 17 Jan— Singapore’s fertility rateslumped to a new low in 2010, meaning the city-state must keep bringing in foreign workers tosupport economic growth as the population ages, asenior cabinet official said Monday.

The resident fertility rate — or number ofbabies born per woman per year — dipped to 1.16last year, down from the previous record low of1.22 in 2009, said Deputy Prime Minister WongKan Seng.

The rate is well below the 2.1 babies needed forthe population to replenish itself naturally.

“The key hurdle to achieving a sustainablepopulation lies in our weak local fertility rate,” saidWong, who also oversees a body that coordinatespopulation policies.

“For more than 30 years, we have not beenhaving enough babies to replace ourselves,”he said in a speech to a forum organised by theInstitute of Policy Studies.

While the government has pledged to putthe interests of Singaporeans first, the countryneeds to continue employing foreign workers,Wong Deputy Prime Minister Kan Seng said.

He said the government would continueencouraging couples to produce more children,but admitted that raising the fertility rate wouldtake time.

“For the foreseeable future, we will need to tapon immigration to augment our population, tosupport economic growth and to mitigate the impactof ageing,” he said.—Internet

800,000 Haitians remain inrefugee camps

Bottles of Asahi beers aredisplayed in a supermarket

in Shanghai. Japan’sbeverage industry saw beershipments fall to a recordlow last year amid sliding

demand in the greyingnation, data showed on

Monday, with AsahiBreweries recapturingtop spot.—INTERNET

Singapore fertility rate fallsto record low

CARACAS, 17 Jan—Venezuela has detainedthree foreign drugsmugglers wanted byInterpol and will expelthem in a few days,Interior Minister Tarekel Aissami said onSunday.

One of them isColombian GloriaRojas, 56, a member ofMexico’s Los Zetasdrug cartel who is alsowanted by a New York

Paramilitary policemen use shovels to break theice as spotted seals rest on a frozen lake at

Dongpaotai Park in Yantai, Shandong Provinceon 17 Jan, 2011.—INTERNET

Venezuela nabs three foreigndrug smugglers wanted by

Interpol

Participants runduring the Mumbai

Marathon in Mumbai,India, on 16 Jan,

2011. Thousands ofthe city’s residents

alongside athletes tookpart in the marathon.

INTERNET

camps is hard, and whatmakes it worse is thatthere is little hope thatthings will changeanytime soon.

In a camp inside theyard of the PrimeMinister’s office, whichis one with better livingconditions compared toothers in the country,Pierre Beauvais, amember of the camp’sorganizational commi-ttee, told Xinhua that atotal of 5,133 peoplefrom 577 families havebeen living there since

the earthquake.The Haitian National

Police and the UnitedNations Police (UNPOL)said that all camps in thecountry have around-the-clock surveillance,and that press reportsabout increasing crimein these camps are untrue.However, a police-woman in the camp inthe Prime Minister’s yardtold Xinhua Sunday thatmaintaining order insidethe camp is not theirprimary concern.

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tribunal for cocainesmuggling, he toldreporters.

Canadian RobertStead who tried totraffick heroin to US,Canada and Europeanmarkets, was detainedin the Margarita Islandon 13 Jan, said theminister.

Dutch Anton Herb-am Merk, 61, wasdetained on 14 Jan. Heis also wanted by theDutch government forlinks to severalColombian criminalgroups and drugtrafficking.

Xinhua

CHENGDU, 17 Jan—General Electric Co (GE)announced Monday itwill build an innovationcentre here in Chengdu,capital city of southwestSichuan Province,focusing on the country’slocal health care market.

According to GE, theChengdu innovationcentre will be differentfrom traditional researchand development cen-

GE to build innovation centre focusing onhealth care in SW China

tres, as it will combineresearch and develo-pment sections withmarketing ones.

The centre isexpected to open thisyear, and is currentlyrecruiting 380 engineersfor research anddevelopment in areassuch as health care,petroleum, natural gasand automation.

According to GE, the

centre will develop tailor-made products or servicesfor Chinese after studyinglocal medical conditionsand people’s consumptioncapacity.—Internet

File photo shows liquified natural gas storage tanks atthe Woodside operated North West Shelf Gas Venture

near Karratha in Western Australia. Australia onMonday gave BP permission to explore for oil and gasoff its south coast, saying the company had agreed to

integrate lessons learned from the Gulf of Mexico spillin its operations.—INTERNET

Australian gov’t gives BPpermission for new oil exploration

in South AustraliaCANBERRA, 17 Jan—Australian federal govern-

ment on Monday gave global oil and gas companyBP permission to explore for new oil reserves offthe Australian coast for the first time since the Gulfof Mexico spill disaster.

Resources Minister Martin Ferguson announ-ced seven new oil and gas exploration permits tofour companies to operate in Western Australiastate and South Australia, in a 682 million USdollars investment boost over the next three years.Four permits were handed to BP Exploration(Alpha) in the Ceduna basin off South Australia.

The remaining three, in the Carnarvon Basinoff Western Australia, were awarded to Wood-sideEnergy, Riverina Energy and Finder No 4 Pty Ltd.Ferguson said that the nation’s energy security willbe greatly enhanced by opening up new geologicalfrontiers and reducing our dependence on imports.

The permits were the first in these areas to beissued since the April 2010 blowout at BP’sMacondo well that killed 11 workers and spewedalmost five million barrels of oil into the Gulf ofMexico.—Internet

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV CSC TAI HAI VOY NO (6)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV CSC TAIHAI VOY NO (6) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 17.1.2011 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of S.P.W-7 where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subjectto the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: EASTERN-CAR LINER(SINGAPORE) PTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BANGSRIMUANG VOY NO (95)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV BANG-SRIMUANG VOY NO (95) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 18.1.2011 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject tothe byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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


AGENT FOR: M/S WONGSAMUT OCEANSHIPPING CO, LTD

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV CHANA BHUM VOY NO (424)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV CHANABHUM VOY NO (424) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 17.1.2011 and cargo willbe discharged into the premises of M.I.P where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subjectto the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S REGIONAL CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Brazil rains kill more than600 as epidemic feared

Two locals walkthrough floodwater in

the suburb of NewFarm in Brisbane,

Australia.—INTERNET

A man watches the speech of Hezbollah leaderHassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon, on 16

Jan, 2011.—INTERNET

Rescue workers walk through a forest to searchfor victims after a landslide in Teresopolis on

15 Jan.—INTERNET

NOVA FRIBURGO, 17Jan—Rains that devas-tated a mountainous re-gion north of Rio de Ja-neiro have killed at least626 people, Brazil’sCivil Defence agencysaid on Sunday, as fearsof more storms anddisease outbreaksovershadowed rescueoperations.

Nearly five days afterrains sparked floods andmassive landslides inone of Brazil’s worstnatural disasters, thedeath toll continues to

rise steadily as rescuersdig up corpses buried byrivers of mud and reachmore remote areas.

TV images showedrescue workers lookingfor people undermounds of debris, a taskmade difficult by morerain since Saturday.

The government hasmade available 586 mili-tary personnel for rescueoperations, 8,000 foodbaskets and 7 metrictons of medicine andother supplies, it said ina statement.—Internet

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BILLION VOY NO (123)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV BILLIONVOY NO (123) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 18.1.2011 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of S.P.W-1 where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subjectto the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S PHULSAWAT SHIPPINGCO, LTD

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

Hezbollah defends bringingdown Lebanon governmentBEIRUT, 17 Jan—The

leader of Hezbollah onSunday defended thedecision to bring downLebanon’s Western-backed government,saying the Shiite militantgroup did so without re-sorting to violence andwill not be intimidatedby world reaction.

In his first commentssince the governmentcollapse on Wednesday,Sheik Hassan Nasrallahalso said his bloc will notsupport Saad Hariri re-

turning to his post asprime minister in talksMonday on forming anew government.

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Australia sayseconomic cost offloods to top other

CANBERRA, 17 Jan—Floods devastating huge ar-eas of Australia’s easternseaboard, including the na-tion’s third-largest city, lookset to be the costliest naturaldisaster ever in a countryknown for climatic ex-tremes, Treasurer WayneSwan said on Monday.

The floods in the majorresource state of Queens-land, which have sweptthrough an area the size ofSouth Africa, and overnightin 46 towns in Victoria statewould not delay a promisedreturn to surplus in 2012-13, Swan said. But the hugerebuilding and cleanup costcould force difficult spend-ing cuts.

The estimated cost ofrebuilding the worst hitQueensland State alonestood at A$10 billion ($9.8billion), The Australiannewspaper said on Mon-day, and the damage billwas rising fast as recordflooding moved south tonorthern and western Vic-toria.—Internet

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An alleged lookout shot in a Florida robberyattempt has been charged with shooting himself,authorities say.

Tavian Canady, 20, of Riviera Beach,charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder with a firearm and five counts ofattempted armed robbery, was ordered heldwithout bond by Palm Beach County CircuitJudge Ted Booras, The Palm Beach Postreported.

When officers found Canady and two othermen shot 10 Dec in Jupiter, they initiallydetermined he was one of the robbers and wasshot by one of his cohorts, the Palm Beach

Accused robber chargedin own shooting

A Minnesota astronomy professor set off awave of zodiac confusion by saying the astrologycalendar is wrong and adding a new sign,Ophiuchus.

Parke Kunkle of the Minneapolis Communityand Technical College said an exact reading of theEarth’s orbit around the sun indicates many zodiacsigns are off by as much as a month and he said theanalysis called for the creation of a new sign forbirthdays between 29 Nov and 17 Dec, Ophiuchus,the serpent holder, The Miami Herald reportedFriday.

Professor adds newzodiac sign

Bosses at Washington’s cash-strapped public transportation service aremulling selling “naming rights” for Metro stations as a way of filling a budgetgap, a spokesman said Friday.

“We’re looking at a possible $72 million dollar shortfall in our budget forthe upcoming year, and so we’re looking for creative ways to try to close thatdeficit,” Metro spokesman Steven Taubenkibel said.

“One idea would be station naming rights,” where corporate entities buythe right to have their brand associated with one of Metro’s 86 stations.

Facebook and Twitter erupted with suggestions when the announcementwas made.

McDonald’s could sponsor McPherson Square near the White House, oneMetro rider suggested. It could become Big-MacPherson Square.

Wheaton, in the Maryland suburbs, could become Wii-Wheaton if it weresponsored by the popular interactive video game. Cream of Wheaton, a playon the name of a hot breakfast cereal, has also been suggested.

Metro trains arrive at the Gallery Pl - ChinatownStation in Washington, DC 2010. Bosses at

Washington’s cash-strapped publictransportation service are mulling selling

“naming rights” for Metro stations as a way offilling a budget gap, a spokesman said Friday.

County Sheriff’sOffice said.

He is beingcharged with threeshootings he did notactually carry out —including his own —under a law that holdssomeone taking part ina crime can be chargedwith all its results. Theother robbery suspectshave not been arrested,the sheriff’s officesaid.

“I defined the zodiac by the constellations thatare in the background when you look at where thesun, moon, and stars are,” Kunkle said. “Ophiuchushas been around a long time, and the sun has beengoing through Ophiuchus for thousands of years.”

However, many astrologists dismissed Kunkle’sanalysis.

“It holds no water,” Jeffrey Brock, director ofFlorida’s Astrological and Metaphysical ResearchCentre, said of Kunkle’s findings. He said it was a“completely unfounded” attempt to discreditastrology.

Next stop on DC Metro: Big-MacPherson Square?

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BEVERLY HILLS, 17Jan— Annette Bening,who played a lesbianmother in “The Kids AreAll Right,” and ChristianBale, who portrayed adrug-addicted boxer in“The Fighter,” wonGolden Globe trophieson Sunday.

Bening was namedbest actress in a comedyin the tale of two childrenof lesbian parents whosearch for their spermdonor father. Baleclaimed the honour ofbest supporting actor forboxing drama “TheFighter.” In another keyfilm award, Melissa Leoplaying the mother ofChristian Bale’s characterin “The Fighter” was

Bale, Bening among early Golden Globe winnersnamed best supportingactress.

Among other earlywinners, Facebook film“The Social Network,”which was alsonominated for best drama,took home two honours.One went to Nine InchNails frontman TrentReznor and Atticus Rossfor best score and asecond to writer AaronSorkin for best screen-play.

“Toy Story 3” wasnamed best animatedmovie for what directorLee Unkrich called “”ananimated movie that beatwith a human heart.”

Denmark’s “In aBetter World” was namedbest foreign languagefilm. But it was Beningand Bale who broughtmajor starpower to theearly awards with Beningthanking her cast,including Julianne Mooreand Mark Ruffalo, andBale poking modest funat the Hollywood ForeignPress Association(HFPA), which hands outthe Golden Globe

Awards.“Now I know who

you are, and suddenly Irealize how wise andperceptive and specta-cular you guys are,” Balequipped.

The Golden GlobeAwards, which aregiven out by the nearly90 members of theHFPA, are one of themajor Hollywoodawards shows leadingto the film industry’smost-prized honors, theOscars, which arehanded out by theAcademy of MotionPicture Arts andSciences.

The night’s top Gol-

den Globe is best filmdrama, and in thatcategory, “The King’sSpeech,” which exa-mines British KingGeorge VI’s stammeringproblem, will competewith “The SocialNetwork,” the Facebookfilm that has swept manyearly honours inHollywood’s awardsseason. Three othershope to deliver aknockout punch and winbest drama includingboxing movie “TheFighter,” which had sixnods, ballet movie“Black Swan” andthriller “Inception.”

Reuters

This Monday, on 13 Dec,2010 file photo shows thesuit John Lennon wore inthe photo on the cover ofThe Beatles’ Abbey Road

album, left, and a blazer hewore during his video for thesong ‘Imagine,’ at BraswellGalleries in Norwalk, Conn.The seller’s former landlord

has sued the gallery thatauctioned the late Beatle’ssuit for $46,000, trying to

get at the proceeds to satisfya rent debt.—INTERNET

NEW YORK, 17 Jan—A New York City landlordhas a message for the collector who recently soldthe suit John Lennon wore on the cover of theBeatles’ “Abbey Road” album: You never give meyour money.

The seller’s former landlord has sued the gallerythat auctioned the late Beatle’s suit for $46,000,trying to get at the proceeds to satisfy a rent debt.

Braswell Galleries was told before the 1 Jansale that a court had determined in 2009 that sellerBiond Fury — a psychic and memorabilia collector— owed more than $21,000 in rent for his formerManhattan apartment, according to landlord MarkArrow’s lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a Manhattan statecourt. Arrow’s lawyers say they told the Norwalk,Conn.-based gallery not to go through with thesale, and that the gallery should now have to forkover at least $21,463.

Internet

NYC landlord wants moneyfrom Lennon suit auction

British actor Colin Firth,star of the film ‘ The

King’s Speech’,

Actress Claire Danes poses with her award for bestactress in a miniseries or made for ‘Temple

Grandin.’

According to Kunkle,the astrology calendar

calls for a new sign,Ophiuchus, the serpentholder, for brithdaysbetween 29 Nov and

17 Dec.

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United back on top ofPremier League after Spurs draw

We can beat drop, saysHoullier after derby draw

Qatar storm into Asian Cupquarter-finals

Uzbeks hold China to reachAsian Cup last eight

Italian Serie A title rivals close in,Milan stumble

Marseille misfit Gignacfinally hits target Nervy Sharapova into

Australian Open second round

Birmingham City’sBelarussian AlexanderHleb (centre) collides

with Aston Villa’s JamesCollins.—INTERNET

BIRMINGHAM, 17 Jan —Aston Villa managerGerard Houllier is opti-mistic their PremierLeague point against Bir-mingham City can be aspringboard to survival.

Roger Johnson hadgiven Alex McLeish’steam a 49th-minute leadin Sunday’s derby at StAndrews when he lashedhome from 12 yards.

But Houllier’s menfought back to claim a de-served 73rd-minute lev-

eller when James Collinshooked home with the aidof a deflection off LiamRidgewell.—Internet

Qatari players celebrateafter forward Mohammedal-Sayed (R) scored histeam’s second goal againstKuwait during their 2011Asian Cup group A foot-ball match at Khalifa Sta-dium in the Qatari capital Doha.—INTERNET

DOHA, 17 Jan — Qatarstormed into the AsianCup quarter-finals for onlythe second time in theirhistory on Sunday with acommanding 3-0 victoryover Gulf champions Ku-wait, who were eliminatedfrom the tournament.

They went through af-ter Uzbekistan drew 2-2with China to top GroupA, allowing Qatar to fin-ish second and make thelast eight for the first timesince 2000. Captain BilalMohammed got the open-ing goal on 11 minutes af-ter a blistering start fromthe 2022 World Cup hostswith Mohamed El Sayedscoring the second fiveminutes later.

Brazilian-born substi-tute Fabio Cesar put thegame beyond doubt fourminutes from time with abeautifully weightedfreekick that left the goal-keeper stranded.

Internet

Tottenham Hotspur’sGareth Bale (left) fightsfor the ball with Man-

chester United’s RafaelDa Silver.— INTERNET

LONDON, 17 Jan — Ten-man Manchester United re-turned to the top of the Pre-mier League here Sundayafter holding Tottenham toa 0-0 draw in a match thatfailed to live up to expec-tations.United’s hard-earned pointsaw them reclaim top spotfrom Manchester City ongoal difference, althoughSir Alex Ferguson’s un-beaten side have twogames in hand over theirbitter local rivals.

An open encounter atWhite Hart Lane neverquite caught fire, andUnited were forced onto thedefensive in the final stages

after fullback Rafael DaSilva was sent off for hissecond yellow card.

The result leaves Spursin fifth place on 37 points,eight points off the leadand one point behind Chel-sea, who occupy the fourthChampions League spot.

Internet

Results on 16 & 17 JanuaryAsian Cup - Group B

Jordan 2 – 1 Syria Saudi Arabia 0 – 5 Japan

England - Premier LeagueBirmingham C. 1 – 1 Aston Villa Sunderland 1 – 1 Newcastle U. Liverpool 2 – 2 EvertonTottenham H. 0 – 0 Manchester U.

Italy - Serie A Cagliari 3 – 1 Palermo Brescia 2 – 0 Parma Catania 1 – 1 Chievo Cesena 0 – 1 AS RomaGenoa 2 – 4 Udinese Juventus 2 – 1 Bari Lazio 1 – 0 Sampdoria Lecce 1 – 1 AC Milan

Spain - Primera Division Valencia 2 – 0 Deportivo La Coruna Almeria 1 – 1 Real Madrid Barcelona 4 – 1 Malaga

Germany - Bundesliga I. Eintracht Frankfurt 0 – 3 HannoverKaiserslauter 1 – 1 1 FC Cologne

Uzbekistan’s players cel-ebrate with forward Al-exander Geynrikh (C)after he scored his team’ssecond goal againstChina during their 2011Asian Cup group A foot-ball match at the Al-Gharafa Stadium in theQatari capital Doha. INTERNET

final Group A game at theAl Gharafa Stadium hereon Sunday.

Having fallen behindearly on, Uzbekistanequalised and then wentahead early in the secondperiod through a finelong-distance effort fromone-time CSKA Moscowforward AlexanderGeynrikh.

Schalke midfielderHao Junmin brought theEast Asian championslevel with a magnificentfree-kick but despite sus-tained pressure Chinacould not find a winnerthat would have broughtqualification down tohead-to-head records.

Internet

Barca open four-point gap,Real held by Almeria

AC Milan’s Swedishforward Zlatan

Ibrahimovic (L) fights forthe ball agains Lecce’s

Algerian midfielderDjamel Mesbah during

their Italian Serie Afootball match at Lecce’s

comunal stadium.INTERNET

of their title rivals baggedlate winners to close in onthe Serie A leaders on Sun-day.

Zlatan Ibrahimovicscored a wonder goal to giveMilan the lead in the southeast only for UruguayanRuben Olivera to snatch ashare of the spoils for rel-egation-threatened Lecce.

Milan’s lead at the topwas pegged at four pointsfrom Napoli, who wereheld to a goalless draw athome to Fiorentina on Sat-urday, and Lazio who en-joyed a late winner againstSampdoria.—Internet

Maria Sharapova ofRussia serves during herwomen’s singles matchagainst TamarineTanasugarn of Thailand. INTERNET

MELBOURNE, 17 Jan —Former Australian Openchampion Maria Shara-pova recovered from someshaky moments againstThailand’s TamarineTanasugarn to cruise intothe second round 6-1, 6-3.

The 2008 winner onMonday lost her openingservice game to the 33-year-old Tamarine but hitback to win the next sixgames, wrapping up thefirst set in just 26 minutes.

The glamorous Russianbroke again in the firstgame of the second set be-fore going off the boil,dropping the next three

games to go 3-1 down.Tamarine had game

points to make it 4-1 butSharapova, seeded 14th,fought back, breaking herformer doubles partner toget the set back on serve.

Internet

S P O R T S

Marseille’s forwardAndre-Pierre Gignac(front) is congratulatedby teammates after hescored a goal during theFrench L1 footballmatch Marseille versusBordeaux at the Velo-drome stadium in Mar-seille, southern France. INTERNET

PARIS, 17 Jan —French internationalstriker Andre-PierreGignac finally justifiedhis 18-million-euro trans-fer fee on Sunday whenhe scored his first homeleague goal for champi-ons Marseille in a 2-1 vic-tory over Bordeaux.

It was only Gignac’ssecond league strike ofthe season — his first wasat St Etienne in October— although he had hit aChampions League hat-trick against Zilnia at theStade Velodrome.

His goal on Sundaycame in the 23rd minutewhen Taye Taiwo floatedover a cross to the far post

where Gignac was wait-ing to slot home with hisright foot.

Internet Barcelona’s forwardDavid Villa celebrates hisgoal during the Spanishleague football match FCBarcelona.—INTERNET

MADRID, 17 Jan — Bar-celona opened up a four-point gap at the top of theSpanish first division onSunday when they stagedanother sensational dis-play of attacking footballto sweep aside Malaga 4-1.

Motivated by RealMadrid’s shock 1-1 drawat bottom side Almeriaearlier in the day, Barce-lona were quickly out ofthe blocks and AndresIniesta scored the open-ing goal after just sevenminutes.

World Player of theYear Lionel Messi wasrunning circles aroundthe Malaga defence andthe little Argentine set upDavid Villa to double theadvantage, while Pedro

Rodriguez added a thirdbefore the break.

Malaga had more pos-session in the second halfand they pulled a goalback through a fine Dudafree-kick.

But Barcelona raisedtheir level again, and Villalatched onto a XaviHernandez pass to notchup his second of the night.

Internet

ROME, 17 Jan — ACMilan were held to a 1-1draw at lowly Lecce as three

DOHA, 17 Jan —Uzbekistan reached theAsian Cup quarter-finalsafter drawing 2-2 withChina in a topsy-turvyand fiercely contested

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R/489 Printed and published by the New Light of Myanmar press in Nay Pyi Taw, the News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar.

Tuesday,18 January

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr. M.S.T.During the past 24 hours, rain has been widespread inKachin State, sacttered in Upper Sagaing Region, isolated inChin and Rakhine States, Taninthayi Region and weather hasbeen partly cloudy over the remaining States and Regions.Night temperatures were (3°C) above January averagetemperature in Kachin, Shan, Rakhine and Mon States, (7°C)above January average temperature in Mandalay Region andabout Janauray average temperatures in the remaining Statesand Regions. The significant night temperatures were Haka(4°C), Namhsan and Heho (5°C) each. The noteworthyamounts of rainfall were Haka (1.34) inches, Myitkyina (0.78)inch, Putao (0.71) inch, Machanbaw and Maungtaw (0.63)inch each.

Nay Pyi Taw Maximum temperature on 16-1-2011 was 88°F.

Minimum temperature on 17-1-2011 was 62°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 17-1-2011 was (91%).Rainfall on 17-1-2011 was (Nil) .

Yangon (Kaba-Aye)Maximum temperature on 16-1-2011 was 88°F. Minimum

temperature on 17-1-2011 was 65°F. Relative humidity at(09:30) hours MST on 17-1-2011 was (67%). Total sunshinehours on 16-1-2011 was (9.1) hours (Approx).

Rainfall on 17-1-2011 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-

WEATHERMonday, 17th January, 2011

Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2011 was(1.97) inches at Mingaladon, (1.42) inches at Kaba-Aye and(2.95) inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed atYangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph from Southeast at (17:30)hours MST on 16-1-2011.

Bay Inference: Weather is partly cloudy over theAndaman Sea and South Bay and generally fair elsewhere inthe Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of the 18th January 2011:Rain are likely to be isolated to scattered in Kachin, Chin, Shanand Rakhine States, Sagaing, Mandalay, Yangon andAyeyawady Regions and weather will be partly cloudy overMon and Kayin States, Magway and Taninthayi Regions andgenerally fair in the remaining States and Regions. Degree ofcertainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmar waters.Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood of isolated

rain in the Upper Myanmar areas.Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area

for 18-1-2011: Likelihood of isolated rain. Degree of certaintyis (60%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for18-1-2011: Likelihood of isolated rain. Degree of certainty is(60%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for18-1-2011: Likelihood of isolated rain. Degree of certainty is(60%).

Weather outlook for third weekend of January 2011:During the coming weekend, weather will be generally fair inNay Pyi Taw, Yangon and Mandalay Regions.

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am MSTOversea Transmission - (18-1-11 09:30 am ~

19-1-11 09:30 am MST

Local Transmission* Opening* News* Monastry Yot Son Kyaung (Sa-Le)* News* Secret Places for Yummy Foods* News* Record Album* ART treatment to cover three more

townships* News* Myanmar Traditional FestivalOversea Transmission* Opening* News* Monastry Yot Son Kyaung (Sa-Le)* News* Secret Places for Yummy Foods* News* Record Album* ART treatment to cover three more

townships* News* Myanmar Traditional Festival* News* Cultural Trail from China to ASEAN* News* Precious Gems and Valuable Art* Myanmar Handiwork, Painting Art* Musical Gallery* News* Reed Mats* News* Serenely Pleasant Pindaya* Myanmar Movie “Story of a flower”

MYANMAR INTERNATIONAL

Programme Schedule(18-1-2011) (Tuesday)

7:00 am 1. Paritta By Hilly

Region MissionarySayadaw

7:25 am 2. To Be Healthy

Exercise 7:30 am 3. Morning News 7:40 am 4. Dhamma Puja

Song 7:50 am 5. Nice & Sweet Song

8:00 am

6. Dance Of National

Races

8:10 am

7. Songs Of Yester

Years

8:20 am

8. Teleplay (Forest)

8:40 am

9. International News

8:45 am

10. Musical Programme

4:00 pm

1. Martial Song

4:10 pm

2. Musical Programme

4:20 pm

3. Myanmar Traditional

Cultural Performing

Arts Competition

4:35 pm

4. Teleplay (Traffic)

4:40 pm

5. University Of

Distance Education

(TV Lectures)

-Second Year

(Economic)

4:55 pm

6. Songs For

Upholding

National Spirit

5:00 pm

7. The Mirror Images

Of The Musical

Oldies

5:15 pm

8. Sweet Melody

5:30 pm

9. Star Garden

6:00 pm

10. Evening News

6:15 pm

11. Weather Report

6:20 pm

12. Kyae Pwint Myaye

Yin Khone Than

6:40 pm

13. Sing A Song

7:10 pm

14. Music Series

8:00 pm

15. News

16. International News

17. Weather Report

18. Just for Laughs

19. TV Drama Series

20. Movie Quiz

Freezing weather pounds SWChina again

GUIYANG, 17 Jan — Snow and icy rain hit southwestChina’s Guizhou Province again Monday as the coldsnap was moving eastward, said meteorologicalauthorities. Electricity cables were coated in ice in 11counties or cities in the province, said the GuizhouMeteorological Observatory spokesman. More snowand icy rain are expected for Guizhou over the next twodays.

In neighboring Sichuan Province, snow covered itscapital Chengdu for the fifth time this winter on Monday,the most times in the last 10 years, said the province’smeteorological observatory spokesman.

Heavy snow in Guangyuan City of Sichuan forcedthe Beijing-Kunming Expressway to close for threehours on Sunday, according to traffic police. Freezingweather and icy rain will spread from southwest Chinato eastern China over the next three days, plungingtemperatures in more provinces, said the NationalMeteorological Center.—Xinhua

Rescuers clean fuel oil spilling out of a sunkenvessel on the reservior of the Three Gorges

Dam in Yichang, central China’s HubeiProvince, on 17 Jan, 2011. The vessel carrying1,000 tons grit sunk as it moved near the Three

Gorges Dam early Monday. Eight crewmembers on the vessel were rescued after the

accident.XINHUA

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Only with stability and peace will the nation developOnly with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracyRiots beget riots, not democracyDemocracy can be introduced only through constitution

VOA, BBC-sowing hatredamong the peopleRFA, DVB-generating publicoutrageDo not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles

People’s DesireWe favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

14th Waxing of Pyatho 1372 ME Tuesday, 18 January, 2011

Talks for sustainableprogress of libraries held

YANGON, 16 Jan—Kyauktan TownshipInformation and PublicRelations Departmentand KyauktanTownship Writers andJournalists Associationco-organized talks onsustainable develop-ment of libraries andp o s t - l i t e r a c ymovements at basiceducation middleschools in PandawModel Village and

Myaingthaya ModelVillage respectivelyhere on 13 and 14January.

Principals deliveredaddresses. TownshipIPRD Staff Officer UMyint Ngwe gave talkson sustainabledevelopment of librariesand post-literacymovements.

Literary talks weregiven by Township WJAPatron U Tun Shein

(Than Win Shein) andChairman U Soe Win(Hmawwun Win Myat),Maung Ni Hmaing(Kyauktan), Maung YayChan (Kyauktan), ThanWin Tun (Swa), andMaung Yin Hmwe(Hmawwun).

The Township IPRDstaff officer and writerThan Win Sheinpresented publicationsto the schools.

Township IPRD

Ministries meet for production ofhigh-quality cotton and textiles

NAY PYI TAW, 17 Jan—Ministry of Industry-1held work coordination meeting on production ofhigh-quality cotton and textiles at the ministry herethis morning, attended by Minister for Industry-1 UAung Thaung, Minister for Industry-2 U SoeThein,Chairman of Myanmar InvestmentCommission Minister for Livestock and Fisheries UMaung Maung Thein, departmental heads, thepresident of the Union of Myanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerce and Industry and

industrialists, the chairman of Textile EntrepreneursAssociation, owners of textile factories, andentrepreneurs.

Speaking on the occasion, Minister U AungThaung said that the meeting is in fact to inviteentrepreneurs to make investment in production ofhigh-quality textiles at home. The government has setup industrial zones and there are altogether 107,635small, medium and heavy industries across the country.In 18 industrial zones, there are 9,711 factories and

Significant night temperatures

(17-1-2011)

Haka (4°C)

Namhsan (5°C)

Heho (5°C)

workshops and with the assistance of the government,one foundry and three lathe and mould workshopshave been established in Mandalay, Taunggyi andAyethaya and Monywa industrial zones.

(See page 9)

Staff officer U Myint Ngwe of Township IPRD gives talks on

sustainable development of libraries and post-literacy movements.

TOWNSHIP IPRD

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