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President receives hero’s welcome on his return home

YANGON, 1 Oct—President of the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar UThein Sein left New York at8.30 pm local time and arrivedback here at 9.15 am todayafter attending the 67th UNGeneral Assembly held in NewYork of US on 27 September.

At Yangon Inter-

by the President of theRepublic of the Union ofMyanmar of Federation ofChambers of Commerce andIndustry (UMFCCI) andCEC members, Chairman ofMyanmar Motion PictureOrganization , Chairmanand executives of MyanmarMusic Association and

waving miniature nationalflags welcomed the Presidentalong the route to airport.The President also cordiallygreeted them from airport

SITTWAY, 1 Oct—A ceremony to donate12 power-tillers to local national races ofLaywady Peace Youth Team from Maungtawand Yethedaung townships of Rakhine Statethrough crew of up to date channel of the SkyNet Channel of Shwe Than Lwin Co washeld at Alodawpyae Monastery in Sittwayon 20 September.

Power-tillers donated to locals of Rakhine StateAbbot of the monastery Bhaddanta

Paññajota gave advice. Manager in-chargeU Nay Win Naing of the Sky Net handed overdocuments related to the power-tillers toRakhine State Minister for Agriculture andLivestock Breeding U Kyaw Thein andLaywady Peace Youth Team.

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Bayern’s Robben to miss BATE Borisov matchBERLIN, 1 Oct— Winger Arjen Robben

is recovering from a minor muscle problemand will miss Tuesday’s Champions Leaguematch in Belarus against BATE Borisov, theBundesliga club said.

Dutch international Robben did not playin Bayern’s 2-0 league win over WerderBremen on Saturday but his absence wasnot felt as the Bavarians cruised to their sixthwin in six league games.

Bayern, who opened their Group Fcampaign with a 2-1 victory over Valencia,have won nine straight games in allcompetitions this season.

“We want to have a perfect start in theChampions League as well,” captain PhilippLahm told reporters at Munich airport as theteam departed on Monday.

BATE stunned Lille 3-1 away in theirfirst game.

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national Airport people fromall levels of organizationscordially welcomed back thePresident who could bringhonour to the State bydelivering address at UNGeneral Assemby.

At the airport lounge,the President was welcomedby girls of national races and

actors by waving Myanmarnational flags.

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YANGON, 1 Oct— UnionMinister at the PresidentOffice U Tin Naing Theinobserved rural developmentand poverty alleviationtasks being implemented bythe Ministry of Coo-peratives through styling anew Korea village with thehelp of KOICA, in the eastvillage of Phaunggyi, HleguTownship, here, on 28September.

There, he was con-ducted by KoreanAmbassador to the Republicof the Union of MyanmarMr. Kim Hae-Yong, expertMr. Song, Jung Geun,Deputy Principal of theCooperatives TrainingSchool U Thaung Naing andU Kyi Win Naing, who

Republic of the Union of MyanmarUnion Election Commission

Nay Pyi TawAnnouncement No (39/ 2012)

1st Waning of Tawthalin, 1374 ME(1st October, 2012)

Two Defence Services PersonnelPyithu Hluttaw representatives substituted

According to the request made in accord with Section 33 of Pyithu HluttawElection Law to substitute two Defence Service personnel Hluttaw representativesnominated by the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services in the first multiparty democracygeneral election held on 7 November 2010, the Union Election Commission scrutinized andsubstituted the following two Defence Service Personnel Pyithu Hluttaw representativesstated hereunder in Notification No. 1/2011of the commission dated 20-1-2011 withpersonnel shown against them.

(1) Air 2195 (Substitution) Air 2584Major Htoo Aung Major Zaw Min Latt

(2) Air 2184 (Substitution) Air 2608Major Aung Myat Toe Major Than Htaik

By order,(Win Ko)Member

Union Election Commission

Korean-designed new model villagesunder implementation

recently paid a visit to ROKas an observer, and heardthe reports on im-plementation of the ruraldevelopment and moregenerating income pro-gramme. The Union Ministerinspected progress ofrepairing streets of the villageand the construction sitechosen for an assembly hallthereafter.

On 29 September, theUnion Minister cordiallygreeted rural people andasked them socio-economicstatus, expressing that theGovernment was followingthe best ways how othercountries were thenpracticing in implementingrural development andpoverty alleviation pro-

grammes.It was reported that

before starting a new Koreavillage, a total of sixvillagers from each villagewere sent to ROK to studyhow to implement a newvillage, choosing thosewhose ability is potential forbuilding model ones withunity. When selecting avillage’s head who caninfluence his authority onthe village is under decisionof the villagers.

In the evening, theUnion Minister held ameeting with Vice-Chairman of MyanmarGarment Entrepreneurs’Association Dr Aung Winand members includingfactory owners, urging themto make more investmentsin garment business that cancreate job opportunities atsome time when the economicsanctions had been lifted.

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ERIA capacity workshop starts with focus on MCDV

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Oct—Economic Research Institutefor ASEAN and East Asia(ERIA) explored “Globa-lization and DevelopmentStrategy in Myanmar towardsASEAN Economic Inte-gration” with MyanmarComprehensive Develop-ment Vision (MCDV) as the

base for discussion at NayPyi Taw Seminar andWorkshop 2012 at MyanmarInternational ConventionCentre here this morning.

Dr Kan Zaw, UnionMinister for NationalPlanning and EconomicDevelopment, lifted thecurtain of the two-day

capacity building seminarwith keynote speech.

“MCDV was drafted byMyanmar peoplethemselves,” ProfessorHidetoshi Nishimura, ERIAExecutive Director, said inhis opening remarks.

MCDV, which startedsince 2011 and envisionsdevelopment of Myanmarwithin the time frame of 20years, could become “a bible”of Myanmar’s economicdevelopment, said resourceperson Mr Toshihiro Kudo,Senior Researcher of Instituteof Developing Economics(IDE) under Japan ExternalTrade Organization.

He introduced “TwoPolar Growth Strategy” withfocus on two major cities withhighest potentials ofeconomic growth, saying the“forced” equitable growthwould ruin rapidity of thedevelopment.

ASEAN econnomicintegration is due to takeplace by 2015 with formationof ASEAN EconomicCommunity (AEC) andASEAN Free Trade Area(AFTA) and Myanmar willchair ASEAN a year ahead ofthe integration.

The Union Ministersaid in his speech thatdiploma courses on ASEANstudies would be opened on9 October to boost ASEANintegration. The three-month postgraduate coursewill be conducted by theMinistry of NationalPlanning and EconomicDevelopment, the Ministryof Culture and the Ministryof Home Affairs in HlaingCampus, according to auniversity teacher.—NLM

1st Upper Myanmar JobOpportunity Fair for job

seekersNAY PYI TAW, 1 Oct—

With the supervision ofLabour AdministrationDepartment under theMinistry of Labour, LookEast Organization Myanmarsponsored 1st UpperMyanmar Job OpportunityFair on 30 Septembermorning at the third floor of78 shopping mall, with anaddress by Union

Minister for LabourU Maung Myint.

The Union Minister metwith staff from MandalayRegion LabourAdministration Departmentat the office. Then heproceeded to Worker’sHospital (Mandalay) wherehe provided cash assistanceto the patients.

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International Day of OlderPersons –2012 celebrated

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Oct—“Longevity: Shaping theFuture” is the theme forInternational Day of OlderPersons–2012.

It was celebrated at themeeting hall of the Ministryof Social Welfare, Reliefand Resettlement this

morning.In Myanmar, Homes for

the Aged had beenestablished since 1915 inorder to look after the olderpersons. Although buildingHomes for the Aged are notfulfilled the requirements ofthe older persons, door todoor taking care system forolder persons had startedsince 2004 in cooperation ofNGOs and local socialorganizations in 154townships of the regionsand states.

Union Minister forSocial Welfare, Relief andResettlement Dr Daw MyatMyat Ohn Khin pointed outthat the right thoughts arenecessary to take care forthose older persons amonghuman beings.

The bill of national levelwork been plan for olderpersons has drawn to fulfill

the requirements of theolder persons.

The Union Ministerpresented cash assistancefor the older persons in theregions and states throughthe director-general of theDepartment of SocialWelfare, Relief andResettlement. The UnionMinister and DeputyMinisters U Phone Swe andDaw Su Su Hlaing acceptedthe donations for all homesfor the ages in every cornerof the nation.

The Union SWRRMinister and Union Ministerfor Labour U Maung Myintand deputy ministerspresented medicines andcash assistance to thoseolder persons.

UNFPA ResidentRepresentative MrMohamed S Abdel-Ahadread out the message sentby the UN Secretary-General.

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Venezuela’s Presidencyshows Venezuelan

President Hugo Chavez(R) participating in a

campaign rally inCabimas, Zulia,

Venezuela, on 30 Sept,2012.—XINHUA

Venezuela’s presidential candidates toconclude campaigns

CARACAS, 1 Oct—Venezuelan presidentialcandidates Hugo Chavez andhis rival Henrique Caprileson Sunday entered the laststage of their campaigns withrallies held in two of the largestcities, gathering thousands.

On his second visit sincelast July, Chavez, theincumbent president, led alarge caravan in Cabinas, akey oil producer in thenorthwestern Zulia state,which is governed by theopposition with over 2.3million eligible voters in thestate, accounting for 12percent of the total 18.9million. Capriles on Sundayclosed his campaign in

Caracas, capital of Venezuelawith 1.6 million voters, whichtakes up 8.4 percent of thetotal voters. The Venezuelanpresidential campaigns willend on 4 Oct with nationalvote held three days after.

Both candidatesscheduled on Thursday toofficially conclude theircampaigns. Chavez said hewould close in Caracas whileCapriles in the north Mirandastate, where he once served asthe governor, and northwestLara state. As rallies went on,authorities from Venezuela’sNational Electoral Council(CNE) verified 200 votingmachines with thecollaboration of 600 voters.

for their commitment,” saidCNE president TibisayLucena to official televisionVenezolana de Television.

The Integrated System of

Authentication, an indivisibledevice which confirms eachcitizen by their fingerprints,will be implemented in theelection.—Xinhua

“This verification is themost important one before thepresidential elections. TheVenezuelans who helped werevery glad and we thank them

Spate of attacks kills 34in Iraq

BAGHDAD, 1 Oct—A wave of gunfire and bomb attacks,including 12 car bombs, struck the Iraqi cities and towns onSunday, killing 34 people and wounding some 85 others.

In and near the Iraqi capital, eight car bomb explosionsand gunfire attacks killed up to 25 people and wounded 59others, according to the police reports.

One of the deadliest attacks occurred in Taji area, some20 km north of Baghdad, when insurgents successively blewup four car bombs in separate locations in the area, killing atotal of eight people and wounding 25 others.

Another deadly attack in Baghdad took place in KarradaDistrict in central the capital when a car bomb went off neara police patrol, killing a police officer and a policeman, andwounding five people, including two policemen.

Three more car bombs, roadside bombs and gunfireattacks in the capital killed at least 15 people and wounded29 others. In eastern Iraq, a suicide car bomber struck a policecheckpoint in south of the city of Kut, some 160 km southeastof Baghdad, killing five policemen, including two officers,and wounding six policemen.

In Iraq’s eastern Province of Diyala, a car bomb detonatedat a marketplace in the town of Khan Bani Saad, some 30 kmeast of Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding five others.

Separately, a roadside bomb went off near an army patrolin the city of Adheim, some 120 km north of Baghdad, killingone soldier and wounding four others.

Also in the Province, a car bomb explosion narrowlymissed the convoy of Mohammed Jawad al-Timimi, chief ofthe Kiyala’s traffic police directorate, who escaped the blastunharmed, but four passers-by were wounded instead.

In Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, a civilian waskilled and six were injured when a car bomb exploded nearan army checkpoint in eastern the provincial capital city ofMosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad.

In a separate incident, gunmen wounded Hamid Khalaf,a member of the town council in the town of al-Shora, some50 south of Mosul, while driving his car in the town.

Meanwhile, a police explosives expert was killed in themorning while he was trying to defuse a booby-trapped carat the city of Sulaimn Pek, some 160 km north of Baghdad.

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Residents inspect the site of a bomb attack in the town ofTaji, about 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, on 30

Sept, 2012. A string of car bomb blasts targeting mainlypolice checkpoints killed at least 17 people across Iraq

on Sunday, police and hospital sources said.REUTERS

Nigerian presidentsays winning waragainst corruption

ABUJA, 1 Oct— NigerianPresident Goodluck Jona-than said here on Sunday thefight against corruptionintensified by his admini-stration was yielding fruits.

The Nigerian leadermade the remarks at the inter-denominational service tomark the country’s 52ndanniversary of indepen-dence.

President Jonathan toldhis audience that corruptionwas one of the majorchallenges confronting thenation and hindering itsdevelopment.

He urged the citizens tojoin the government infighting corruption and toappreciate the government’sefforts to curb the vice.

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Japanese PM Noda revamps Cabinet, eightnew faces in

TOKYO, 1 Oct—JapanesePrime Minister YoshihikoNoda unveiled the newCabinet lineup here onMonday after accepting theministers’ resignation enmasse earlier in the day.

Noda announced at apress conference theappointments of ex- ForeignMinister Seiji Maehara asnational policy minister, andKoriki Jojima who was chiefof Diet affairs in rulingDemocratic Party of Japan(DPJ) as finance minister,among others, in a bid tobolster the waning publicsupport for his year-oldgovernment.

The premier also tappedMakiko Tanaka, anotherformer foreign minister whoused to enjoy huge publicpopularity for her sharp

tongue, as education minister.Hiroyuki Nagahama,

deputy chief Cabinetsecretary, and ShinjiTarutoko, former actingsecretary general of the DPJ,become the environmentminister and internal affairsminister.

Noda gave the posts ofhealth, labour and welfareminister and postalprivatization minister to ex-deputy transport ministerWakio Mitsui and MikioShimoji, secretary general ofthe DPJ’s coalition partnerthe People’s New Party,respectively.

Tadamasa Kodaira andKeishu Tanaka wereappointed as the nationalsecurity committee chairmanand justice minister.

Among the ten Cabinet

appointees, eight are first-timers except Tanaka andMitsui.

“The revamped lineupwill strengthen thegovernment amid a pile ofproblems home and abroad,”Noda said.

Chief Cabinet SecretaryOsamu Fujimura, DeputyPrime Minister KatsuyaOkada, Foreign MinisterKoichiro Gemba, DefenceMinister Satoshi Morimoto,Industry Minister YukioEdano and ReconstructionMinister Tatsuo Hirano willstay in their current posts.

Transport MinisterYuichiro Hata and FarmMinister Akira Gunji whotook the portfolio in a Cabinetrevamp in June, will alsoretain their positions.

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US President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign eventat Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas, Nevada,

on 30 Sept, 2012.—REUTERS

Expectations game in full swing for US presidential debateoutside a local high school. “What I’m most concerned aboutis having a serious discussion about what we need to do to keepthe country growing and restore security for hard-workingAmericans. That’s what people are going to be listening for,”he said. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie predicted fellowRepublican Romney’s performance would alter the course ofthe campaign. Polls show Obama with a slight edge nationallyand in critical swing states that will decide the 6 Novemberelection. “This whole race is going to turn upside down comeThursday morning,” Christie told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

His comments strayed from the script of both campaigns,which have tried to play down their own candidate’s chancesand talk up their opponent’s, thus making it easier to claimvictory or explain a defeat after the face-off.

“I think what we need is a big and bold performance onWednesday night, and that’s what he’s going to give us,”Christie said of Romney on ABC’s “This Week.”

Romney comes into the debate still trying to recover froma leaked video where the former private equity executivedescribed nearly half of Americans as dependent upongovernment and who view themselves as victims.

“We’ve had some missteps, but at the end of the day, thechoice is really clear,” Romney’s vice presidential runningmate Paul Ryan told “Fox News Sunday.” Ryan tried to lowerthe stakes for Romney’s debate performance. “I don’t thinkany one event is going to make or break this campaign,” hesaid. Ryan said Romney would give a major foreign policyspeech in the days after the debate.—Reuters

ISLAMABAD, 1 Oct—At least three people were killed andtwo others injured in a US drone strike launched on Mondayin Pakistan’s northwest tribal area of North Waziristan,reported local media.

Local TV channel Dunya quoted unidentifiedgovernment sources as saying that US drones fired fourmissiles at a vehicle suspected of carrying militants in the MirAli area of North Waziristan early on Monday morning.

Identities of the killed suspected militants are not knownat this moment.

Monday’s US drone strike is the 31st of its kind (countedon daily) in Pakistan since 2012. So far this year, at least 222people have reportedly been killed in such strikes.

Xinhua

Three killed in US drone strikein NW Pakistan

WASHINGTON/LAS VEGAS, 1 Oct—Three days before thefirst presidential debate of the 2012 campaign, allies ofBarack Obama and Mitt Romney sought to influenceexpectations on Sunday, with the president describing hisdebating skills as “just OK.”

The Democratic incumbent and the Republican formergovernor of Massachusetts face off in Denver, Colorado, onWednesday for their first of three televised debates.

Advisers to both men have tried to lower expectations fortheir respective candidates, and Obama got into the actionduring a rally in Nevada. “Gov Romney ... he’s a good debater.I’m just OK,” the president told a crowd of about 11,000

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Tuesday, 2 October, 20124

Nokia, Oracle to announcemapping deal

HELSINKI, 1 Oct—Phone maker Nokia Oyj will announceon Monday a deal that will give Oracle Corp’s customersaccess to its mapping services, Nokia said on Monday.

Finland’s Nokia, which bought the world’s largest digitalmapping firm Navteq in 2008, has been looking for ways toboost the business and recently signed mapping deals withGroupon Inc and Amazon.com Inc.

Oracle is the world’s third-biggest software firm but alsosells hardware to corporate clients and in 2009 bought SunMicrosystems, the manufacturer of server computers anddeveloper of Java and Solaris software.

“Nokia has been on a mission for the last 18 months tosign mapping and location deals with large internet players.The deal with Oracle extends this and broadens the largeenterprise market for Nokia’s location services,” said analystMartin Garner from British consultancy CCS Insight.

In stark contrast with Nokia’s troubled phone business,sales at Nokia’s location business grew last quarter, althoughit still generates only 4 percent of group revenue.

Details of the deal may be unveiled later on Monday inSan Francisco at the OracleWorld conference, the Wall Street

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop introduces new Nokia phoneswith Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system at an event

in New York, on 5 Sept, 2012.—REUTERS

Journal said.Last week Apple publicly apologizedafter customer

complaints about errors in its maps which have been put onits latest phone operating system instead of Google Inc’smapping service.—Reuters

Tech Tablets, Turtles make “mostwanted” holiday toy list

SAN FRANCISO, 1 Oct—Tablet computers, turtles and anew take on a furry old-timer are the hot toys retailers andmanufacturers hope will spark a rebound from a dismal2011 holiday season, according to a closely watched “MostWanted” list released on Friday.

Competition will be stiff over layaway: who’s the earliest,with no fee or just a small fee.

“This year there is going to be more action early, and it’sthe battle of the layaway programmes,” said Jim Silver,editor in chief of TimetoPlay.com, which released its “MostWanted List” of toys on Friday.

Among this year’s hot toys is LeapFrog EnterprisesInc’s $99.99 LeapPad 2 Explorer tablet, an update on lastyear’s massive holiday hit.

The tablet made Time to Play’s Holiday 2012 MostWanted List, which is a hot read for toy industry executives.It was also featured on The Toy Insider, a holiday gift guidefrom a publisher that serves the toy and licensing industries,as well as gift lists from Walmart, Toys R Us and SearsHoldings Corp’s Kmart.

Time to Play’s list includes returning classics likeTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures; a princess weddingcastle playset for Hasbro Inc’s My Little Pony; Lego Friends;and an update of Hasbro’s furry 1990s toy, Furby.

Newer characters like Just Play’s Doc McStuffins couldbe a hit. The doll based on the Disney Junior show haslanded on lists from Time to Play, Toys R Us and Toy Insider.

Trotting out the same old toys year after year won’twork, industry insiders say.

“Parents want to feel like they’re making their kidshappy, so a lot of it is making sure they have those productsthat have value and innovation,” Hasbro’s head of U.S.marketing, Billy Lagor, told Reuters at the Time to Play 2012Holiday Showcase In New York.

Updated Furby dolls, for example, now can interact withone another.

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A Google employee poses with Nexus 7 tablets at apromotional event in Seoul on 27 Sept, 2012.—REUTERS

Tech

Two ancient human skeletonsfound in central Morocco

RABAT, 1 Oct—Moroccan researchers have discovered two human skeletons whichdate back to between 6,000 years and 14,000 years ago in a cave in central Morocco, theNational Centre for Archeology and Heritage said on Tuesday in a statement.

The bones were found separated by an archaeological layer of about 0.5 metre, thestatement said, pointing out, however, that the precise age of the skeletons needs to beconfirmed by radioactive dating.

The first skeleton, which dates back to between 6,000 years and 8,000 years ago,belongs to an adult man buried in a narrow trench in a sitting position with legs contractedsharply. The second skeleton is of an adult man who was buried on the first man’s rightside, and is estimated to date back to between 8,000 years and 14,000 years ago.

The statement added that the importance of this discovery is to refute the idea of acultural vacuum between the Neolithic period and the Late Stone Age, between thecultures of human communities dependent on hunting and the first agro-pastoral groupsthat followed.—Xinhua

US high-tech companies ramping upexports: survey

SAN FRANCISCO, 1 Oct—Most US high-techcompanies expect to exportmore cell phones, tablets andother electronics over thenext two years to growingmiddle-class populations indeveloping nations, citingfree trade pacts and risinglabor costs abroad, a surveyfound.

The survey of 125 high-tech manufacturers includedsenior supply chain and

HP unveils ElitePad 900 Windows 8 tablet with uniqueand versatile ‘Smart Jacket’ system.—REUTERS

ScienceMt Qomolangma’s biodiversity better thanexpected

LHASA, 1 Oct—Researchhas found that biodiversityin Mt Qomolangma, theworld’s highest peak, is beingbetter preserved thanexpected. The research onwildlife resources in anational nature reserve in MtQomolangma, which beganin 2009, is the mostcomprehensive programmein the region in two decades.

“It was aimed at findingout more about its wildliferesources, a major step towardbetter preservation,” said CaoTiantang, chief of MtQomolangma naturereserve’s ecology researchand protection center. Twoprevious biodiversityresearch programmes werecarried out in MtQomolangma, in 1975 and

the other from 1991 to 1993.“Their findings were

limited, given a lack ofequipment and little accessto traffic,” said Lhapa, aresearcher at the naturereserve. Lhapa and hiscolleagues often found theycould only use old data fromthe 1970s in their research.“Obviously, they do notrepresent the currentbiodiversity status and are indire need of updating.”

The ongoing research, a1.8-million yuan (283,911US dollars) project sponsoredby State ForestryAdministration and localforestry authorities, covered32,000 square kilometers inthe Mt Qomolangma naturereserve.

“Our biggest finding was

the discovery of nearly 120new vertebrates,” said HuHuijian, a leader of theresearch team.

The team found morethan 460 vertebrates in thenature reserve, compared with360 that were previouslyknown, he said.

Among other majorfindings were new snake andbird species. Hu said mostdiscoveries were found infour ravines on theHimalayas’ south face.“Warm currents from theIndian Ocean nurtured manywildlife species in theravines.”

Hu and his team areexpecting more findingshere. “We’ll carry out morefield trips, one ravine at atime.” Despite the tough

plateau climate, theresearchers found, theregion’s food chain was well-preserved and biodiversitywas better than most peoplecould imagine.

“There are huge varietiesof artiodactylous animals andcats, as well as 30 to 40 raptorspecies,” said Hu.

“We see many Tibetanwild donkeys, hares andmarmots in our field trips,”said Pan Hujun, 26, who hasspent two years studyingamphibians and reptiles inthe Mt. Qomolangma naturereserve. “It’s amazing howwell wildlife species thrivehere. This is indeed a holyplace with so manymysteries,” said Pan.

The Qomolangmanature reserve, created in1988, was recognized in1999 by the United Nationsas one of the world’s mostsuccessful examples ofsustainable development. Itsits at an average altitude of4,200 metres and is home tofive of the world’s 14 tallestpeaks measuring over 8,000metres. Scientists saybiodiversity research in Mt.Qomolangma is essential intheir study of global climatechange.—Xinhua

logistics executives inconsumer electronics,semiconductor, communi-cations equipment andelectronic component/accessories industries.

High-tech product salesand shipments are expectedto grow the most, by 22percent, in India, the MiddleEast and Africa, over the nextthree to five years, the surveysaid.

Increases are expected

to range from 18 percent inBrazil and 19 percent in therest of South America to 15percent in Eastern Europe,13 percent in Korea and 8percent in China and in otherAsian nations.

Lingering barriers toboosting exports include thedifficulty of managingspread-out global inventory,unstable global suppliers andsecurity concerns, the surveyfound.

“Additional progress infree trade agreements wouldbe a big winner, not only forthe high-tech space but forall US industry,” Rankin said.The high-tech companiesthat were surveyed sell andship 97 percent of theirproducts in North America.Within three to five years,that percentage will declineto 90 percent as demandmounts in emerging marketsfor their products.—Reuters

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Novartis’s smokers’ cough treatment getsEuropean nod

ZURICH, 1 Oct—Swissdrugmaker Novartis said onMonday the European

Injuries due to child abuse on the riseNEW YORK,1 Oct— More

kids were hospitalized forserious injuries resulting fromabuse in 2009 than in 1997,according to a new study,despite previous researchsuggesting fewer kids aremaltreated now than in thepast. Researchers found theincrease in serious injuries wasdue to more babies under ayear old being hospitalized.The number of abused, injuredkids and teenagers heldrelatively steady.

The findings are basedon a survey of records from2,500 or more US hospitalsconducted every three years.

“We’re looking at themost seriously injured kids,”said lead author Dr JohnLeventhal, a pediatricianfrom the Yale School of

Medicine in New Haven,Connecticut. “The kids whoget hospitalized for physicalabuse represent a very smallproportion of all the childrenin the country who arephysically abused,” he toldReuters Health - about two tofour percent.

They found the numberof children hospitalized forthose reasons increasedslightly between 1997 and2009, from 6.1 to 6.4 out ofevery 100,000.

Those children werekept in the hospital for a week,on average. Their most

common injuries werefractures, open wounds andtraumatic brain injuries.

Babies are known to beat the highest risk of physicalabuse. Based on this sample,the number of infants underone year old with a seriousabuse-related injuryincreased from 56.2 to 62.3per 100,000 each year.

“Infants tend to behospitalized at a much higherrate than older children, andI think it’s because the injuriesthey sustain are much moreserious,” Leventhal said.

ReutersAn employee smokes a cigarette beside the logo ofSwiss drugmaker Novartis AG in front of a plant in

Basel on 25 October, 2011. —REUTERS

A Penn State helmet sits on the turf before theirNCAA football game against Ohio University in State

College, Pennsylvania on 1 Sept, 2012.REUTERS

An employee checks on a steel product at a steelproduction factory in Wuhan, Hubei province,

on 2 August, 2012.—REUTERS

Traders are pictured at their desks in front of theDAX board at the Frankfurt stock exchange

on 28 Sept, 2012.REUTERS

Cancer trials show one year on Roche’s Herceptin is bestLONDON, 1 Oct—

Extending treatment withRoche’s breast cancer drugHerceptin to two years fromthe one year current standardis not worth while, trial datashowed on Monday, butshortening treatment to sixmonths also looks unlikelyto benefit patients.

The results of twokeenly-watched studies onHerceptin, knowngenerically as trastuzumab,banish a downside risk forRoche, but also limit its abilityto squeeze more value out of

the lucrative drug before itloses its patent from 2014.

Analysts had said theSwiss firm, the world’sbiggest maker of cancerdrugs, could lose up to $1.5billion in revenue from theblockbuster medicine in themedium term if six monthstreatment had been shown tobe just as effective.

Roche conducted astudy called HERAinvestigating the benefit ofusing Herceptin for two yearsrather than one, while anopposing French study called

PHARE looked whetherpatients get the same benefitfrom just six months.

Roche’s head of globalproduct development HalBarron said the HERA resultsanswered an importantquestion “and supportcurrent medical practice”.

Martine Piccart, whochairs the BreastInternational Group whichcarried out the HERA trial,added in a statement:

“It’s essential that ourclinical trials help usunderstand just how long

patients need to receive aparticular treatment.

“These results give usboth the evidence and thereassurance that it’s notnecessary to give patientswith early-stage HER2positive breast cancerHerceptin for more than oneyear.”

The Swiss drugmaker isalso due to present new dataon Monday on its experi-mental “armed antibody”drug known as TDM-1 as atreatment for HER-2 positivebreast cancer.—Reuters

Seeing “Kawaii” images helpimprove working performance

TOKYO, 1 Oct—Looking atpictures of cute animals enhancesperformance in work requiringconcentration, the finding of anexperiment released Thursdayshowed. The experiment called“The Power of Kawaii” wasconducted by a team led by aHiroshima University professor,with the participation of about 130college students. The word“kawaii” means cute in Japanese.

In the experiment, participantswere asked to perform two sets oftasks — picking up small partswith tweezers to retrieve them froma hole without touching itsperimeter and choosing designatednumbers from a line of numbers.

They were divided into threegroups and each was shown either

seven photos of kittens andpuppies, or of adult cats and dogs,or of sushi and other food. Thegroup seeing photos of kittens andpuppies had their accuracy andspeed improve 44 percent in thetask for picking up small parts and16 percent in the number findingassignment, according to the results.

In contrast, there was no before-and-after change in performance inthe other groups, the team said.

“The feeling that something isadorable has a function to prompt aperson to want to be closer to andknow more about the object,” saidNittono, a professor ofpsychophysiology and engineeringpsychology. “That perhaps createsthe effect of concentrating one’sattention.”—Reuters

Chinese children eating too much aluminumBEIJING, 1 Oct—More than 40 percent of 4-6

year-old Chinese children are exposed to excessaluminum from food additives, new research hasindicated. About 43 percent of this age group eat 1.6times the maximum daily consumption of aluminumsuggested by the World Health Organization,according to a survey conducted by the ChinaNational Center for Food Safety Risk Assessmentunder the Ministry of Health.

Children absorbed the hazardous substancemainly by eating puffed-grain foods, according tothe study results, released on Thursday. Exposure tohigh levels of aluminum may result in respiratoryand neurological problems.

Additives containing aluminum are widely usedin China’s food industry. Flour and flour productsincluding steamed bread, fried dough sticks, andnoodles are major sources of the element, said ChenJunshi, a senior expert with the centre.

Such additives are allowed in food processing,but producers tend to use more than the requiredamount to boost taste, Chen added.

The survey also showed that people living in

northern China consume 4.6 times the amount ofaluminum taken in by people in southern China, dueto the former’s dietary preference for flour products.

The country’s health authorities are consideringstricter regulations on the use of 13 kinds of foodadditives containing aluminum, according to Chen.

Reuters

HealthHealth

patients with chronicobstructive pulmonarydisease, more commonlyknown as smoker’s cough, inthe European Union.

Trials showed that thetreatment significantlyimproved lung function overthe first four hours aftermorning dosing whencompared to placebo, andthat this benefit was sustainedfor 24 hours over a 52-weekperiod, Novartis said.

The group said thetreatment will be availableto physicians and patients insome European Unionmarkets by year end.

Deutsche Bank hasestimated peak sales forSeebri Breezhaler at some$500 million.—Reuters

Commission had approvedits Seebri Breezhaler as aonce-daily treatment for adult

Euro, oil fall on Spain, growth worriesTOKYO, 1 Oct— The euro,

commodities and Asian sharesfell on Monday, weighed downby uncertainty about Spain’sbailout and concerns over aslowdown in demand that wasunderscored by sluggishbusiness activity data in Japanand China. Trade was subdued,with several Asian marketsclosed for holidays, including

China, Hong Kong and SouthKorea, “Investors are focusingon demand indicators beingweaker than expected,” saidNatalie Rampono, acommodity strategist withANZ in Melbourne.

The MSCI index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan<.MIAPJ0000PUS> fell 0.3percent. The Australian market

(.AXJO) was caught in choppytrade, rising as much as 0.6percent before ending flat.Taiwan stocks slid 0.6 percent(.TWII) after rising 5.7 percentin the third quarter.

Japan’s Nikkei stockaverage (.N225) fell 0.8percent to a three-week low aslocal profit warningsunderlined growth fears. US

crude fell 0.7 percent to $91.57a barrel and Brent fell 0.7percent to $111.61.

The euro fell 0.4 percentto a three week low of $1.28035while risk-sensitive currenciesalso fell, with the Australiandollar slipping 0.3 percent to$1.0340. London copper fell0.3 percent to $8,184 a metricton.—Reuters

Business

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Kenya navy shells Somali town after rebelsretreat

MOGADISHU, 1 Oct—Kenyan warships shelled thesouthern Somali port ofKismayu overnight after alQaeda-linked rebels said theyhad abandoned the city,residents said on Sunday.

Stunned by an assaultby sea, air and ground forceslate on Friday night, alShabaab rebels fled the citythat had been their key sourceof revenue, retreating tosurrounding forests andtowns.

However, there wereconflicting reports onSunday evening about howmuch of Kismayu AfricanUnion forces (AMISOM) now

controlled.The Kenya Defence

Force (KDF), part ofAMISOM, said it had seizedthe sea port, the policeheadquarters and the radiostation, but a source in theSomalia National Army toldReuters AMISOM was closeto taking control of thoseinstallations but had not yetdone so. The shells being firedby Kenyan warships may havebeen targeting remainingpockets of resistance ormilitary installations in thecity that was the rebels’ laststronghold.

“The ships were firingdeafening shells at the

outskirts last night but severalshells landed on houses,” saidSamira Ismail, a local motherof four. Al Shabaab said twochildren had been killed andother people wounded in theshelling, a statement rejectedas propaganda by Col CyrusOguna, a Kenyan militaryspokesman.

Kenyan and Somalitroops sent to retake Kismayufrom the rebels were on thetown’s outskirts, Oguna saidearlier on Sunday, and wereproceeding carefully in caseal Shabaab’s claim to haveabandoned the city was a ployto lure them into a trap.

Reuters

Soldiers of the Kenyancontingent serving with theAfrican Union Mission inSomalia (AMISOM) arepictured at their sector

headquarters in Dhobley,southern Somalia, in thison 30 Sept, 2012 handout

photo released by theAfrican Union-UnitedNations InformationSupport.—REUTERS

World War Two veteranWilbert Gauding, 92, ofRavenna, Ohio, standson the USS Yorktownafter touring the USS

Laffey with his family atPatriots Point Naval &Maritime Museum in

Mount Pleasant, SouthCarolina

on 11 Sept, 2012.REUTERS

Preserving old ships is dear to US veterans,costly for museums

MOUNT PLEASANT, 1 Oct—The Patriots Point Naval andMaritime Museum, a populartourist spot in SouthCarolina’s CharlestonHarbor, is facing the samechallenge as other US Navyship museums: keepingretired, once-storied warshipsafloat.

Its World War Twodestroyer, the USS Laffey, justhad a nearly $13 millionrestoration. The almost 70-year-old World War Twoaircraft carrier, the USSYorktown, will need eventualrepairs at a cost of tens ofmillions of dollars.

The USS Clamagore, a

anymore.” The nation’s 48Navy ship museums are tryingto balance preserving historyand sentiment with theexpense of maintaining huge,aging warships, a delicate actcomplicated by the fact thatmost do not get funding fromthe US Navy or othergovernment entities.

The ships needmaintenance that was oncedone daily by hundreds ofsailors, and a few needsignificant restoration to stayafloat. With the countrystrapped by budget woes,those ships may have to besunk if money cannot befound.—Reuters

1945 submarine at a docknearby, could roll over in thenext hurricane withoutextensive work to shore upits hull. While a veterans’group tries to raise enoughmoney to save the sub,museum officials are makingplans to have it towed to seaand turned into an artificialreef.

“Every ship cannot bekept as a floating museum,”said Robert “Mac” Burdette,executive director at PatriotsPoint, which as the country’soldest aircraft carrier museumdraws 230,000 visitors a year.“I wish they could. Themoney’s not there in the world

Major quake hits Colombia, noreports of death or damage

BOGOTA, 1 Oct—A large earthquake shook Colombia onSunday, rattling residents in the southwest of the Andeannation, but there were no reports of deaths or major damage,authorities said. The 7.1-magnitude quake had its epicentrein the southwestern province of Cauca with a depth of about103 miles, Colombian officials said.

“So far there are no reports that there has been damageto any part of the country, only reports that it was felt,” JaimeRaigosa, coordinator of the National Seismological Network,said. “Fortunately, the quake was deep.”

The US Geological Survey had reported a 7.4-magnitudeearthquake but then downgraded it to 7.1. The quake was feltin neighbouring Ecuador but authorities reported no damagethere. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said that notsunami was expected.—Reuters

Peru to host 3rd South American-Arab Summit to promoteSouth-South cooperation

LIMA, 1 Oct—Heads of state and government from LatinAmerica and the Arab world will meet in the Peruvian capitalof Lima for the third Summit of South American and ArabCountries (ASPA) scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.

The two-day event mainly focuses on promoting businessbetween the two regions, with a parallel CEO Summit attendedby both government and business leaders.

Thirteen heads of state and government among ASPA’s34 member countries will attend this year’s summit, includingJordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Qatar, Brazil, Colombia, Chileand host Peru. At the summit, the ASPA countries are expectedto reach agreements on improving political relations,increasing commercial ties and achieving larger investmentsbetween the South-South bloc and the rest of the world.

The “Declaration of Lima,” which calls for finding apeaceful solution to international conflicts, promoting bothregions as nuclear-weapon-free zones and furthering

economic ties, will be given a final touch by foreign ministersduring the ASPA Council of Foreign Ministries’ Meeting onMonday. It is expected that ASPA heads of state andgovernment will sign the declaration as the ASPA summit’sfinal declaration at the close of the summit.

Political issues will also be included on the summitagenda, especially the ongoing internal conflict in Syria, itseffects on its Middle East neighbours, and the wave of violentprotests sparked by an anti-Islamic film made in the UnitedStates. Participants may also discuss the need of reformingthe United Nations system, especially the overriding powerheld by its Security Council.

Host of the CEO summit Carlos Chiappori Samengo saidpresidents and top managers from some 140 companies in thefields of energy and mining, agriculture, technology andbanking, among others, have confirmed to attend the businessmeeting.—Xinhua

Turkish democracy is examplefor Muslim world: Erdogan

VIENNA, 1 Oct—A twin-engine Cessna aircraft crashed inTirol in western Austria on Sunday, killing six of eightpassengers on board, the Austrian Press Agency reported.

The plane departed from Innsbruck Airport at 6:50 amlocal time (0450 GMT) and was en route to Valencia in Spainwhen radio and radar contact with the plane was abruptly lostshortly after take-off. The plane had not made a distress call,though at 7:12 am the Innsbruck Airport reported to authoritiesthat the plane had lost control. Shortly thereafter a recreationalhunter near the scene of the accident heard engine noisefollowed by a crash and went to investigate.

The plane burst into flames upon crashing, but onesurvivor managed to escape from the wreckage where he wasmet by the hunter, while the other survivor found with severeburns in a forested area. Emergency services crew arrived atthe scene at 7:42 am where they discovered the six deadpassengers in the wreckage. Despite poor visibility whichforced helicopter aid to be cancelled, a 100-metre long swaththat the aircraft had made through the forest was visible. Thebodies of the deceased were transported to Innsbruck for anautopsy, while an aircraft accident board investigationplanned to determine the cause of the accident.—Xinhua

Six killed in plane crash inwestern Austria

ANKARA, 1 Oct—Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogantrumpeted Turkey’s credentials as a rising democratic poweron Sunday, saying his Islamist-rooted ruling party hadbecome an example to the Muslim world after a decade incharge. Addressing thousands of party members and regionalleaders at a congress of his Justice and Development (AK)Party, Erdogan said the era of military coups in the nation of75 million people was over. He vowed to forge a more diverseconstitution and turn a new page in relations with Turkey’s15 million Kurds, in a speech lasting almost two and halfhours and meant to chart the AK Party’s agenda for the nextdecade. “We called ourselves conservative democrats. Wefocused our change on basic rights and freedom,” Erdogantold thousands of cheering party members at the congress ina sports stadium in the capital Ankara.

“This stance has gone beyond our country’s borders andhas become an example for all Muslim countries.”

Leaders including Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi,Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev and MasoudBarzani, president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region,were among the guests.

Turkey’s Prime Minister and leader of ruling Justice andDevelopment Party (AKP) Tayyip Erdogan (R) and his

guest, Egypt’s President Mohamed Mursi greet theaudience during the AKP congress in Ankara on 30 Sept,

2012.—REUTERS

Under Erdogan’s autocratic grip, the AK Party has wonthree consecutive landslide election victories since 2002,ending a history of fragile coalition governments punctuatedby military coups and marking Turkey’s longest period ofsingle-party government for more than half a century.

Per capita income has nearly tripled in that time andTurkey has re-established itself as a regional power, with itsallies seeing its mix of democratic stability and Islamic cultureas a potential role model in a volatile region.—Reuters

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Egypt’s Copts to return to Sinai homes, saysgovernment

CAIRO, 1 Oct—Egypt’spresidency and prime ministersaid on Saturday securityforces in North Sinai wereworking to return CopticChristians living near Egypt’sborder with Israel to theirhomes after they fled in fear ofattack from Islamist militants.

Nine Christian familiesliving in Rafah near Egypt’sborder with left their homeson Friday after militantsmade death threats andgunmen attacked a Coptic-owned shop.

Analysts say Islamistswith possible al-Qaeda linkshave gained a foothold in Sinaiand the departure of thefamilies could fuel concernsabout religious tolerance and

Vehicles line up to pass atollgate in Hefei, capital of

east China’s AnhuiProvince, on 30 Sept, 2012.

More than 660 millionpeople are expected to

travel during the week-longMid-autumn festival and

National Day holidaystarting 30 Sept, an

increase of 8.8 percentfrom the same period last

year, according to theMinistry of Transport.

XINHUA

Guantanamo’s last Western detainee returnedto Canada

detention and hearing, andthe reluctance of Canadianofficials to accept his return.

“I am satisfied theCorrectional Service ofCanada can administer OmarKhadr’s sentence in amanner which recognizes theserious nature of the crimesthat he has committed andensure the safety ofCanadians is protectedduring incarceration,”Toews said in Winnipeg,Manitoba.

A US war crimes tribunalin 2010 sentenced Khadr, now26, to 40 years in prison,although he was expected toserve just a few more yearsunder a deal that includedhis admission he was an alQaeda conspirator who

Technicians work onThai Airways

International (THAI)’sfirst Airbus A380 at

SuvarnbhumiInternational Airport inBangkok, Thailand, on

29 Sept, 2012. THAI willinaugurate commercialservice with the A380 in

early October on theBangkok-Hong Kong

and Bangkok-Singaporeroutes.—XINHUA

Al-Qaeda suicide bombing injures 13 in Yemen’ssouth

ADEN, 1 Oct — At least13 pro-government tribesmenwere injured when suspectedal-Qaeda suicide bomberblew himself up nearby ahospital in the troubledsouthern Province of Abyanon Saturday, a Yemenisecurity official told Xinhua.

The suicide bombertargeted a group of pro-government militia at theentrance to a public hospitalin the town of Lawder inAbyan, killing himself andinjuring at least 13 people atthe scene, the local security

murdered a US soldier.Khadr pleaded guilty in

2010 to charges that includedmurdering American Armymedic Christopher Speer witha grenade in a 2002 firefight,conspiring with al Qaeda tocommit terrorist acts, makingroadside bombs to target UStroops in Afghanistan,spying on American militaryconvoys and providingmaterial support forterrorism.

Khadr was the firstperson since World War Twoto be prosecuted in a warcrimes tribunal for actscommitted as a juvenile. Hewas the youngest prisoner stillat Guantanamo, but youngerboys were previously heldthere.—Reuters

the rise of militancy after theoverthrow of PresidentHosni Mubarak.

“The Coptic families quittheir homes pre-emptivelybut the governor of NorthSinai has given orders toreturn them to their homesand this is being carried outnow,” said Yasser Ali,presidential spokesman.

Two armed men riding amotorcycle opened fire on aCoptic-owned shop in Rafahon Wednesday but no onewas injured.

Prime Minister HishamQandil said militants had nottried to force the Copticfamilies from the border townand they had left of their ownaccord. However, death

threats against the Copts hadbeen printed on flyerscirculating in the desert area.

“We must uproot fearand provide all securitymeasures to every citizen,”Qandil said.

Israel has voiced concernabout security in Sinai, whereat least four cross-borderattacks have taken place sinceMubarak was toppled inFebruary 2011.

Egypt’s new president,Mohamed Mursi, has vowedto restore order. But efforts toimpose central authority arecomplicated by theindigenous Bedouin popula-tion’s ingrained hostility tothe government in Cairo.

Reuters

official said, requestinganonymity.

The leader of the pro-government militiamen,Mohammed Aidarous, whobacked an all-out armyoffensive in Abyan Provinceagainst al-Qaeda in mid-June,was likely the targeted personin the bombing, but hesurvived the attack safely andunharmed, the securityofficial said.

A witness near theseven told Xinhuaanonymously saying that “aman wearing an explosives-

packed vest blew himself upamong a gathering of pro-government tribal fightersleaving scores of peopleinjured.”

Although the al-Qaedamilitants are usually heldresponsible for such armedattacks and bombings, nogroup has yet claimedresponsibility for the bombblast.

The Yemen-based al-Qaeda offshoot had exploitedYemen’s yearlong securityvacuum during protestsagainst the long-time ruler

Saleh and controlled severalsouthern cities for more thana year before they were drivenout by a US-backed offensive.

On 20 June, Yemen’smilitary officials announcedseizing al- Qaeda’s last bastionin the country’s troubledsouth following the armyoffensive.

However, local militaryand anti-terrorism experts saidthat the Yemeni al-Qaedabranch is still a major threat tothe impoverished Arabcountry.

Reuters

Egypt

Yemen

WINNIPEG, 1 Oct—Theyoungest prisoner and lastWesterner held in theGuantanamo military base,Omar Khadr, was sent to finishhis sentence in his nativeCanada on Saturday, theCanadian government said.

Canadian Public SafetyMinister Vic Toews said thatKhadr, who was a 15-year-old fighting in Afghanistanwhen captured in 2002, hadbeen flown from GuantanamoBay, Cuba, to a military basein Trenton, Ontario andtransferred to the province’sMillhaven maximum-security prison. Khadr’s casehas been controversial bothin Canada and abroad givenhis age when he wascaptured, the nature of his

7.1-magnitude quake hitsColombia

BOGOTA, 1 Oct— An earthquake measuring 7.1 on theRichter scale jolted Colombia at 11:31:31 local time (16:31:31GMT) on Sunday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. Theepicentre, at a depth of 162.1 km, was determined to be at 1.972degrees north latitude and 76.329 degrees west longitude in arural region of La Vega city, Colombian Southwest Province ofCauca. It was 9 km west-northwest of Isnos town.

Carlos Ivan Marquez, an expert from Colombia’s NationalRisk System, said so far there are no reports of victims or materialdamage, but that emergency units began inspection operationsin the zones where the earthquake hit the hardest.

Marquez said the earthquake was felt in 12 provinces incentral, south and southeast Colombia, where it caused panicamong habitants of high buildings. Also, the earthquake wasfelt in towns of northern Ecuador. “I inform that authorities arealert before any situation. So far, no serious event has beenreported,” said Marquez. The USGS had reported the earthquakeat a magnitude of 7.4, but revised it to 7.1 later.—Xinhua

Photo taken on 30 Sept, 2012 shows stewardesses of theUnited Arab Emirates (UAE) carrier Etihad Airways

during the opening ceremony of World RouteDevelopment Forum in Abu Dhabi, capital of the

United Arab Emirates (UAE). The three-day WorldRoute Development Forum, which brings together

around 350 air transport leaders and 3,000 delegatesfrom 80 countries, focus on sustainability and

consolidation in the industry.—XINHUA

Palestinian authority aims to securitize $200 million of debt SomaliaGAZA, 1 Oct— Palestinian authorities are aiming to

securitize an initial $200 million of some $1.3 billion worthof government debt by the first quarter of 2013 to help reducestate borrowing from local banks, a top banker said onSunday.

“The Ministry of Finance is much more ready forsecuritizing the old debt rather than creating new debt, becausewe are not even rated,” Palestinian Monetary AuthorityGovernor Jihad al-Wazir said ahead of a Monday meeting ofArab central bankers in Kuwait.

“This will be only to the primary market, only to the banks,not to the public and not to overseas public,” he told reporters.

The Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA), whichoversees operations in both the West Bank—where thePalestinian Authority is based—and the Gaza Strip controlledby the Islamist group Hamas, will manage the securitization onbehalf of the Finance Ministry.

“What is important about this is that it will transfer someof the existing debt that is direct borrowing from the government

into securities which are tradable between the banks,” Wazirsaid.

“It will add to stability, it will generate an interbank marketand additionally as an incentive it will be used as dailycollateral in our payment system.”

The securitization would likely see the PMA convert achunk of outstanding Palestinian debt into bonds or othertradeable securities that would then be sold to local banks, inorder to cut its direct borrowing requirements.

The Palestinians, a stateless people, do not have theirown currency and the Israeli shekel is used for most day-to-day cash transactions.

The PMA, which has reserves of $1 billion, regulatesbanks operating in the Palestinian territories, occupied byIsrael in a 1967 war.

The government budget deficit was likely to be around$1.3 billion this year, up from a $950 million gap projected inthe budget, Wazir also said, adding $1.36 billion was a red linefor state borrowing from banks.—Reuters

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It was in the early period of post-WorldWar II that Myanmar regained independenceand was on a mission to rise back from theravages of war. The parliamentary period ofMyanmar during the time saw the adoptionand implementation of the two-year SorrentoVilla plan from 1948 to 1950, and the eight-year Pyidawtha Plan from 1952 and 1960.

Both plans were for national rehabilitationand nation-building as WWII destroyed manylives and a large volume of property when itspilled into the country between 1942 and 1945.But the newly independent nation was notfortunate enough to fully recover from theravages of WWII. Both plans could not fullyrealize their goals, mainly because of theinstability caused by ideological or racialdifferences.

Unfortunately, these differences were notsolved through talks and compromises, insteadwith guns. So, there broke out the armed civilstrife that was burning in the country for over60 years till now. The main outcome of civilwar is that it drained away much of thecountry’s resources. Myanmar got boggeddown in a quagmire of multi-colour insurgency,while many other newly independent countrieshad well started their development drive.

The governments all along the post-independence history of Myanmar were busytrying to end the internal armed conflict throughtheir own means. The government in officefocuses on lasting peace, and in accordancewith its adopted motto “From War to Peace”,it is addressing the longstanding hardships ofthe ethnic nationalities. Up to now, it has signedceasefire agreements with 10 armed groups.At the initial stage, both the Government PeaceWork Committee and Kachin armed group(KIA) are on their trust building mission throughinformal talks.

The government fully believes that genuinedemocracy cannot flourish without the cessationof all armed conflicts. In fact, any loss of lifeand property from either side is a loss of thecountry. So, let’s all realize the motto “FromWar to Peace”.

“From war to peace”

NATIONAL

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Oct—The special session 2/2012 of theFirst Magway Region Hluttaw continued for the third dayat the Region Hluttaw Hall at 10 am today, attended byMagway Region Chief Minister U Phone Maw Shwe, RegionHluttaw Speaker U Ye Myint, the Deputy Speaker, RegionMinisters and Hluttaw representatives.

At the session, they decided to send Magway RegionHluttaw’s suggestion on draft constitution of MyanmarHluttaw Affairs Organization.

MNA

Magway Region Hluttawcontinues its third day special

session

President U Thein Sein being welcomed back by national races girls at Yangon InternationalAirport.—MNA

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President receiveshero’s…

of Yangon Command Maj-Gen Hsan Oo, Deputy Ministerfor Foreign Affairs U Thant Kyaw, Dean of DiplomaticCorps Singaporean Ambassador to Myanmar Mr RobertChua and military attaché.

The delegation members—Union Ministers Lt-GenThein Htay and U Khin Yi, Deputy Minister Dr Win Myintand departmental heads—also arrived back on the sameflight.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Oct—A Myanmar Tatmadaw shootingteam led by Maj-Gen Ngwe Thein of the Office of theCommander-in-Chief left here by air on 27 Septembermorning to take part in the 22nd ASEAN Armies ShootingChampionship to be held in Brunei.

They were seen off at Nay Pyi Taw Airport by Lt-GenMyint Soe of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief,Adjutant-General Lt-Gen Khin Zaw Oo, Chief of ArmedForces Training Lt-Gen Yar Pyae, senior military officers ofthe office of Commander-in-Chief, and Commander of NayPyi Taw Command Maj-Gen Maung Maung Aye.—MNA

Myanmar Tatmadaw shooting teamleaves for Brunei

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I don’t remember the story,but girls with short pants

from beginning to the end.

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OPINIONThe State and Region Sanghanayaka Committees

in the Republic of the Union of MyanmarAccording to the resolution of the First Successful

Congregation of the Sangha of All Orders of 1980, thedifferent levels of the Sangha Organizations throughoutthe country could be formed and the very first unity of theSangha of All Orders could be reconstructed within one-hundred year in the history of Buddhism of Myanmar. Thedifferent levels of the Sangha Organizations are as follows:-1. State Ovadaçariya (Patron) Committee of Sangha2. State Central Working Committee of the Sangha of

All Orders3. State Sanghamahanakaya Committee4. State/Region Sanghanayaka Committees5. Township Sanghanayaka Committees6. Ward/Village-tract Sanghanayaka Committees

These different levels of the Sangha organizationrepresent over five-hundred thousand members of theSangha in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar who arestriving to carry out the purification, perpetuation andpropagation of the Buddha Sasana. Out of the six differentlevels of the Sangha Organizations, the State and RegionalSanghanayaka Committees have been formed throughoutthe seven States and the seven Regions of the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar since 1980. Each committee consistsof nine members of the Sangha including Chairman andSecretary elected by the majority of the members of theSangha who are residing in limited place of respectiveStates or Regions. The general election of the State/Regional Sanghanayaka Committees shall be held inaccordance with principles of the Sangha Organizationsafter five year’s term.

There are altogether 49 State/Regional SanghanayakaCommittees which have been formed throughout thecountry since 1980. They are carrying out the noble tasksof the purification, perpetuation and propagation of theBuddha Sasana under the guidance of the StateSanghamahanayaka Committee of the Republic of theUnion of Myanmar. The annual plenary meeting of theState/Regional Sanghanayaka Committees shall be heldin accordance with the principles of the SanghaOrganizations.

Any member of the Sangha in order to be elected as amember of State/Regional Sanghanayaka Committeesshall have possessed the following qualities:-1. Shall be of (20) vasas of monkhood.2. Shall be well-versed and learned in Pariyatti, Scriptures

and Tipitaka Canons.3. Shall be worthy of and respected by members of the

Sangha and devotees.4. Shall be desirous of carrying out the purification,

perpetuation and propagation of the Buddha Sasana.5. Shall have a superior’s qualities such as being vigilant,

tolerant and forgiving.6. Shall be a member of Sangha who resides in the State

or Region where the election shall be held.7. Shall be a member of Sangha who actually is able and

competent to take responsibilities lying upon him.8. Shall be willing to construct the unity of members of

Sangha and Sangha sects in the States/Regions.9. Shall be free from the dispensation of justice (bribery).10. Shall be a member of Sangha who is not expelled from

as member of the State/Regional SanghanayakaCommittees because of any reason in connection withloosing qualities.

11. Shall be a member of Sangha who is not punished underany penal law.The members of the Sangha of having possessed the

above-mentioned qualities are only eligible to be electedas member of the State/Regional SanghanayakaCommittees.Functions and duties

The State/Regional Sanghanayaka Committeesare responsible to take the following functions and dutieswhich lead to the purification, perpetuation and propagationof the Buddha Sasana. They are as follows:-1. They shall have to carry out their functions in accordance

with the principles of different levels of SanghaOrganizations and the procedures of different levels ofSangha Organizations, the procedures of the settlementof Vinayadhammakamma Adhikara Disputes Act andother decisions and Instructions which were approvedand adopted by the plenary meeting of the State CentralWorking Committee of the Sangha of All Orders.

2. They shall have to carry out their functions mainlyleading to the purification, perpetuation andpropagation of the Buddha Sasana and the unity of themembers of the Sangha.

3. They shall have to make monks and novices(Samaneras) in respective States and Regions to obeyand follow the instructions of the StateSanghamahanayaka committee.

4. They shall have to prepare the name-list of annualrecords and data of members of the Sangha residing inrespective States and Regions and said it to the StateSanghamahanayaka Committee.

5. They shall have to submit their work-done reports tothe State Sanghamahanayaka Committee from timeto time.

6. They may have to give the instructions to the townshipand ward/village-tract Sanghanayaka Committees asit is necessary.

7. In accordance with the instructions of the StateSanghamahanayaka Committee, they shall have todecide and settle the disputes relating to Pariyatti andPatipatti affairs occurring in their respective Statesand Regions.

8. They shall have to supervise the election of thetownship Ovadaçariya (patron) Committees ofSangha, the formation/limitation of the townshipSanghanayaka Committees and the election of theState and Regional Working Committees of theSangha.

9. They shall have to be in consultation with the respectivestate and regional authorities concerned. Whenconducting the matters concerning with them in caseof the Sasana Affairs.

10. They shall have to submit the reports of the importantmatters out of the matters that have been done in a yearto the annual meeting of the State and RegionalWorking Committee of the Sangha for approval.

11. They shall have to inform the StateSanghamahanayaka Committee within five daysabout the falling of vacancy of any respective ofSanghasammutti, any member of Vinayadhuras, anymember of State and Regional SanghanayakaCommittee, and State and Regional Ovadaçariya(Patron) Committees of the Sangha, and any memberof the State Levels of Sanghanayaka Committees assoon as it is known.We all Buddhists throughout the Republic of the

Union of Myanmar are ready to support and provide the fourkinds of requisites to the members of the Sangha of the Stateand Regional Sanghanayaka Committees who are carryingout the noble tasks of the purification, perpetuation andpropagation of the Buddha Sasana and always pay respectto them. We wish that may all the members of the Sangha ofthe State and Regional Sanghanayaka Committees behealthy and wealthy to carry out the noble tasks of thepurification, perpetuation and propagation of the BuddhaSasana more than ever before.

Ba Sein (Religious Affairs)

NAY PYI TAW, 1 Oct — Union Minister for Home AffairsLt-Gen Ko Ko called on policemen to ensure the rules of lawas role models for citizens.

In his address at the 48th founding anniversary of theMyanmar Police Force held at the headquarters of theMyanmar Police Force here today, he also said that thedemocracy system will be developed if the judiciary pillar

Union Home Affairs Minister attends 48th

Anniversary of MPF

is upright and those law enforcement bodies follow therules of law and act within the framework of law.

The Union minister, Deputy Ministers for Home AffairsBrig-Gen Kyaw Zan Myint and Police Maj-Gen KyawKyaw Tun honoured outstanding policemen and acceptedcash donated by wellwishers to MPF.

MNA

The World Heart Day of Yangon Region was markedat University of Nursing in Lanmadaw Township on 29September, with a speech by Yangon Region Chief MinisterU Myint Swe.

Yangon Region marksWorld Heart Day

News inBrief

Union Minister for Home Affairs Lt-Gen Ko Ko speaking 48th Anniversary of MPF.—MNA

Land management course providedFarmland Law and Vacant, Virgin and Fallow Land

Management Law course was opened at Thuwunna Hall inThaton on 27 September. A total of 67 trainees fromKyaikto, Bilin and Thaton townships are attending thetraining course.

Refresher course for private schoolfounders, supervisor opened

The private school founders and supervisors refreshercourse, jointly organized by Basic Education DepartmentNo 1 and No 3, was opened at Sabei Hall of Basic EducationHigh School No 2 in Sangyoung Township on 30 September.

Production of urea molassesintroduced

Deputy Minister for Livestock and Fisheries U KhinMaung Aye inspected production of urea molasses formilch cows of Livestock Breeding and VeterinaryDepartment in Mandalay Region on 28 September.

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Kong Lingyou picks winter jujube fruits in a familyorchard in Kongdian Village, Huanghua, north

China’s Hebei Province, on 28 Sept, 2012. InHuanghua, cultivation of winter jujube has been

practiced for over three millennia. Today, sales ofwinter jujube fruits is a main source of income for

local farmers. —XINHUA

Africa must have duerepresentation in SecurityCouncil: ministers

UNITED NATIONS, 1 Oct—The reform of the United Nationsand its Security Council is one of the topics widely discussedduring the week-long General Debate of the UN GeneralAssembly, which entered its fifth day here on Saturday, andAlgerian and Mauritanian foreign ministers have brought thetopic to their specific goal — Africa should get a permanent seaton an expanded Security Council.

African ministers, when taking the floor at the UnitedNations General Assembly on Saturday, called for expandingthe Security Council to include permanent representation fortheir continent and stressed the vital role of socio-economic inensuring peace. “The working methods of the Security Councilmust be revised to ensure democratization, and its membershipmust be expanded to include new permanent and non-permanentmembers of the developing world, particularly Africa, the cradleof civilization,” Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelcisaid in his remarks to the annual high-level debate.

It has been widely agreed on among UN member states thatthe United Nations and its Security Council need to reform, butdisagreements abound as to how to proceed with the reform.Ever since January 2009, the UN members have started toengage with each other via inter-governmental talks, now thekey platform for UN reform, so as to learn the stance of otherparties. However, there are still a series of disagreementsconcerning some core issues like the enlargement of the SecurityCouncil and the veto power.—Xinhua

Nuclear weapons are no“guarantee of security”

UNITED NATIONS, 1Oct—Kazakhstan said here onSaturday that nuclear weaponsare unable to guarantee acountry’s security orindependence, the world mustunite in tackling the threat ofproliferation of nuclearweapons and technology. TheKazakh acting foreignminister, Kairat Umarov, madethe statement as he was takingthe floor at the General Debateof the 67th session of the UNGeneral Assembly, whichopened here on Tuesday.

“The threat of pro-liferation of nuclear weaponsand technology, along withthe spectre of their acquisitionand use by terrorist entities,has been one of the mostdaunting challenges tohumanity, “ he said. “It is ourstrong view that the possessionof weapons of mass destructionis not a guarantee of security orgreater independence, “ hesaid. “Kazakhstan’s ownrecord goes to show thatcountries reap huge benefitsfrom the renunciation ofnuclear weapons.” The Central

Chen Meng (L), a Chinese young painter with autism,and Dou Yixin, an autism-caring person from Beijing,pose for photo at the exit of Mohe County, northeast

China’s Heilongjiang Province, on 27 Aug, 2012. ChenMeng initiated an activity with Dou Yixin to raise funds

for children in poverty with autism this August. Theyplanned to travel through 11 municipalities andprovinces from the northernmost Beiji Village innortheast China’s Heilongjiang to south China’s

Hainan on foot or by scooter. They arrived in Harbin,capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, on

Wednesday night. XINHUA

DAMASCUS, 1 Oct— Four Turks were among other gunmen,who were killed on Saturday by the Syrian troops near Syria’snorthwestern Province of Idlib, the state-TV said, as clashesand violence continued elsewhere.

The confrontation took place at the town of Taftanas inthe countryside of Idlib, the state-TV said. The Syriangovernment has repeatedly accused Turkey of facilitatingthe inroads of armed groups into Syria.

Meanwhile, the raging clashes between the governmenttroops and the armed rebels in the northern Province ofAleppo have taken the lion’s share of the headlines onSaturday. The state-run SANA news agency said the Syriantroops have carried out qualitative operations at Sheikh Lutfidistrict in Aleppo, killing and injuring scores of “terrorists”— a term used by the Syrian government to brand the rebels.

The troops also killed scores of armed men at theDistricts of al-Sakhour, Khan al-Asal and near al-Hamzamosque in Aleppo. In Tal al-Zarazir area, 22 armed men werekilled by the Syrian troops, according to SANA.

Meanwhile, a Syrian military source stressed on Saturdaythat the Syrian troops have wrested back control over tworebel-held areas in the fighting-stricken Aleppo Province.The unnamed source, who was quoted by SANA, said theSyrian troops are in full control over the al-Amirieh and TalZarazir districts in Aleppo. “Our forces will proceed ineliminating the terrorist mercenaries in all areas of Aleppo,”the source said.

The battles in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and commercialhub, have been raging since Thursday when the armed rebelsannounced the commencement of the “decisive battle” in abid to bring down Aleppo.—Xinhua

Four Turks killed in clashes withSyrian troops near Idlib, battlesdrag on elsewhere

Israeli soldiers kill Palestiniannear border: radio

GAZA , 1 Oct—The Israeli army on Saturday killed aPalestinian near the fence of the border with northern GazaStrip, Israeli Radio reported. The radio quoted an Israeli armystatement as saying that the Israeli army forces shot dead aPalestinian who approached the border area.

Palestinian security or medical sources did not makeany comment on the report, but said two Palestinian fishermenwere shot on Friday by Israeli naval forces near a beach innorthern Gaza Strip. One of the fishermen was in criticalcondition and died later Saturday, they said. The Israeli armydenied the claim of shooting Palestinian fishermen, but saidits naval forces opened fire at a fishing boat that violated thelimited area of fishing.

Israel is imposing a tight blockade on the sea, air andground of the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by Hamas movement.It has built up a 300-metre no-go zone along the borderlinebetween the coastal enclave and Israel.—Xinhua

Asian nation closed down itsnuclear weapons siteSemipalatinsk, one of thelargest test sites in the worldand located in the country’snortheast, in 1991. As a resultof this, the acting foreignminister said, Kazakhstan has“won more friends and (has)become a more prosperous,stable and influential country.“This year, we will completethe project to enhance physicalsecurity of the formerSemipalatinsk test site,” hesaid. “We view this project,which is being implementedjointly with the United Statesand Russia, as our significantcontribution to the global non-proliferation regime.” Umarovsaid that Kazakhstan fullysupports a proposal by UNSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon to adopt a nuclearweapons convention, notingthe suggestion of his country’spresident that, as an importantstep in that direction, theUnited Nations should adopt aUniversal Declaration of aNuclear Weapon-FreeWorld.—Xinhua

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Middle East

Qatar’s modern future rubs up against conservative traditions

Construction cranes and bulldozers operate at a realestate construction site being built by Qatar’s Lucilleproperties in Doha on 25 September, 2012.—REUTERS

DOHA, 1 Oct— Qatar isspending massively tomodernize its capital aheadof the 2022 World Cup,leading conservative Qataristo worry about how this willaffect the Islamic nature ofthe Gulf state. Trucks can beseen speeding around Doha’sbusiness district, carryingbuilding materials for the$150 billion makeover thatwill give the city a new metro,airport, seaport and roads.

In the busy years leadingup to the soccer tournament,Doha will see an influx offoreign companies,professionals and workers.With them will come a freshflood of foreign cultures andlifestyles, and that is causingconcern. “This is the realchallenge for us: to maintain

our culture while building thecountry we will become,” said33-year-old Abdulrahman,who like other Qatari citizenspreferred to be identified onlyby his first name.

Exploiting its immensenatural gas resources has injust over 15 years transformedQatar into one of the world’swealthiest nations, with a percapita annual income for its250,000 citizens of well over$90,000. Though led by aruling family viewed as highlyprogressive by Gulf standards,the fact remains that mostQataris are very conservative.Most practice Wahhabism, theaustere form of Islam alsopracticed in Saudi Arabia.

For them, concern thatWestern norms will start toinfiltrate society is a

continuous and pressingreality, especially given thefact that they are an extrememinority in their own country,which is home to some 1.7million people, many of themworkers from south Asia. “Wewelcome the expats, and wewant them here. But we willnot permit any disrespect toour religion or culture,” saidSalma, a 25-year-old Qatari.“This is your home, for now.But it is our home forever, andwe will not bend to your ways.”

Qatar’s Emir, SheikhHamad bin Khalifa al-Thani,60, seized power from hisfather in a bloodless coup in1995. He and his second wifeSheikha Mozah have gaineda reputation as modernizers inrecent years and raised thecountry’s profile significantly

with the launch of the AlJazeera television networkand successful hosting the2006 Asian Games, as well astheir role in initiating thecountry’s World Cup bid.

The street protests whichswept four Arab heads of statefrom office since early lastyear and strengthenedIslamists throughout theMiddle East have not beenseen in Qatar, thanks partly toits staggering wealth but alsoto its foreign policy: becauseQatar aggressively aided theLibyan rebels, its governmentis seen as on the “right side” ofthe Arab Spring.

But the governmentcannot ignore the fact thatmuch of the Qatari populationmay be resistant to the changesbrought by rapid expansion.

“It’s a very delicate linethey must balance. But theone thing the governmentcannot do is appear un-Islamic. It’s game over if theydo,” said an analystspecializing in security issues,who like other analysts notnamed in this article askednot to be identified because ofthe political sensitivity of the

topic. So far, the policy hasbeen working.

“The pace of economicexpansion in Qatar over thelast decade is almost withoutprecedent. It is remarkablethat the traditionallyconservative society hashandled these changes aswell as it has,” said one Doha-based economist.—Reuters

Qatar

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Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Leung Chun-ying (C) and other guests propose a toast during a reception to mark the 63rd anniver-sary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, at Hong Kong Convention and

Exhibition Centre in Kong Kong, south China, on 1 Oct, 2012. —Xinhua

Kathmandu, 1 Oct—At least two people were killed and dozens have gone missing when five moving vehicles were hit by a landslip along the Mechi Highway on Sunday night, local media reported on Monday.

Two bodies have been found and search for the rest is on the way. Ac-cording to the police, five among the missing are In-dian nationals. However, their identities are yet to be ascertained.—Xinhua

Two killed, dozens missing

in Nepal landslip

US Ospreys deployed to Okinawa amid local dissent

toKyo, 1 Oct—US MV-22 Osprey aircraft were deployed Monday to an air base in Okinawa amid strong local opposi-tion, on local media said. Despite lingering safety concerns, the first tilt-rotor transport aircraft arrived at the US Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station, located in a densely populated area in Gi-nowan, Okinawa Prefecture, from a base in southwestern Japan, the country's leading news agency Kyodo News reported.

Six Ospreys departed from the Marines' Iwakuni air base in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Monday morning, a day after po-lice forcibly removed local residents and activists who staged a sit-in in front of the Futenma base gates.

‘‘Going ahead with the move while the anxieties of the people of the prefecture remain unaddressed is beyond my com-prehension,” Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima said. ‘‘It is disappointing and extremely regrettable.” The Marines plan to begin operating Ospreys on full scale at the Futenma base this month. The military aircraft which can take off and land like a helicopter and cruise like an airplane had its test flight for the first time in the nation at the Iwakuni base on 21 Sept after the central government confirmed its safety.—Xinhua

Six dead, 14 injured in bus fire near Beijing

tianjin, 1 Oct—Six peo-ple, including five German nationals and a Chinese driver, died and 14 others were injured after a tourist bus rear-ended a container truck and caught fire Monday near Beijing, police said. The bus, which had a li-

cense plate from Beijing, was carrying a group of German tourists and was driving on an expressway linking the capital with the neighboring port city of Tianjin when the accident hap-pened at around 8:30 am, said police authorities in Tianjin.

Police said the tour group was organized by the Beijing-based China Youth Travel Service. The bus driver died at the scene. The identities of the other victims are still un-known. It is also unclear how many people were traveling in the bus. Witnesses said they saw a few people escape from the flames.

Photographs posted by witnesses on the web showed the whole vehicle was en-gulfed in flames and dark smoke. The injured passen-gers are being treated at the People's Hospital in Tianjin's Wuqing District. The Ger-man Embassy in Beijing has sent personnel to Wuqing. The wreckage of the bus has been removed from the road after the flames were extinguished. Police were cleaning up lug-gage. The cause of the acci-dent is under investigation.—Xinhua

Cell phone photo taken on 1 Oct, 2012 shows the site of a road accident which claimed 6 lives on a pivotal express-

way linking Beijing with Shanghai near Beijing, capital of China. Six people, including five German nationals and a Chinese, were killed and 14 others injured after a tourist

bus rear-ended a container truck and caught fire on Mon-day morning on the expressway. —Xinhua

Cambodia, United Arab Emirates seek possibilities to expand trade, investment ties

Phnom Penh, 1 Oct— Cambodia's Minister of Com-merce Cham Prasidh on Mon-day met with visiting Minister of Foreign Trade of the Unit-ed Arab Emirates Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi to discuss ways to strengthen and expand bilateral trade and investment ties.

The meeting would pave the way for cooperation between the two countries

An aerobatic display is staged to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, in Liuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on 30 Sept, 2012. Mid-Autumn Festi-val, which falls on 30 Sept this year, is a traditional Chinese festival, with the conven-

tion of family reunion and eating mooncakes. —Xinhua

Afghan police kill 38 Taleban militants in 24 hours

Kabul, 1 Oct—Afghan police backed the army and the NATO-led forces have killed 38 Taleban fighters and injured nearly two dozen others over the past 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said in a statement released here on Monday. ‘‘During the past 24 hours, Afghan National Police backed by the army and the NATO-led Coalition Forces launched nine joint cleanup operations in Faryab, Sar-e-Pul, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Wardak, Logar, Paktika and Pa-ktiya provinces during which 38 armed Taleban rebels have been killed, 23 wounded and 10 others arrested,” the statement contended. However, it did not say if there were any casualties on the security forces. Taleban militants have yet to make comment.—Xinhua

Asian factory sector struggles to shake off euro malaise

beijing/toKyo, 1 Oct—Asia's manufacturers are continuing to struggle in the face of tepid demand from the United States and Eu-rope, according to business surveys and data releases on Monday that underlined the fragility of the global econ-omy.

More data later is ex-pected to confirm that the euro zone is mired in reces-sion while the prospects of a firmer US recovery remain delicately balanced.

Equity and commod-ity markets slipped in Asia, where China's official manu-facturing purchasing man-agers index (PMI) showed factory activity contracted for a second straight month in September and a survey of Japan's big manufacturers showed sentiment worsening over the past three months.

Adding to signs that the region's vast factory sector is flagging in the face of strong global headwinds, Taipei's PMI fell to its lowest in 10 months and South Korea re-

in halal food and rice deals in the future, Cham Prasidh said in the meeting. He said that for halal food, Cambo-dia planned to negotiate with Malaysia for cooperation to produce halal food products to export to Dubai.

On the rice side, Cambo-dia wanted Dubai investors to broker Cambodian milled rice for countries surround-ing the Persian Gulf, he said.

Sheikha Lubna said her visit to Cambodia was to widen trade and investment opportunities between the two countries, adding that the bilateral trade volume was 89 million US dollars last year, up 121 percent year-on-year.

"The trade volume is still small, there are more op-portunities to strengthen and expand our bilateral trade ties," she said.—Xinhua

ported a small year-on-year decline in exports. ‘‘I don't see troubles stabilizing as yet. It will take a while long-er until global demand shows signs of stabilization,” said Saktiandi Supaat, foreign exchange research head at Maybank in Singapore.

The China survey, the most closely watched by investors, underscored ex-pectations that the motor of the global economy in re-cent years almost certainly endured a seventh straight quarter of slowing growth.

Overall, September’s manufacturing PMI rose to 49.8 in September from 49.2 in August, which had been the lowest reading since No-vember 2011. A PMI reading above 50 indicates expansion and below 50 contraction.

‘‘The data continues to reinforce the hard landing that we have predicted for China, because this is the second consecutive month of a sub-50 reading,” said Prakash Sakpal of ING in Singapore, which forecasts

China's economic growth will be close to 7 percent in both the third and fourth quarters of this year. The of-ficial data followed a private-sector PMI survey on Satur-day by HSBC that showed overall factory activity shrank for an 11th consecu-tive month in September.

Two cuts to interest rates, an easing of compul-sory bank reserve require-ments that freed about 1.2 trillion yuan ($190 billion) for lending and approval of more than $150 billion worth of infrastructure pro-jects have so far failed to arrest the decline in China's overall growth.

China's annual eco-nomic growth could ease to 7.4 percent in the third quar-ter, the seventh consecutive quarter of slowdown, before picking up to 7.6 percent in the final three months, ac-cording to the latest Reuters poll. That would leave 2012 growth below 8 percent, a level not seen since 1999.

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argentina president's image slides further as Cpi, crime weigh

Buenos Aires, 1 Oct—argentina president Cristina Fernandez's popularity continued its downward slide

term, Fernandez had a 64.1 percent popularity rating while campaigning on promises of deepening the interventionist policy model of her late husband and predecessor as president, Nestor Kirchner.

the 24.3 percent popularity rate for September is the lowest of Fernandez's second term. It had been at 38.1 percent in July.

but the economy has been seen slowing sharply due to high inflation, a sluggish world economy, waning demand from top

trade partner Brazil, a drought-hit 2011/12 grain crop and new trade and currency controls that have dented confidence.

argentina clocked zero growth in the second quarter of 2012, its weakest year-on-year performance since the third quarter of 2009, when the world was gripped by financial crisis. the survey of 2,259 argentines by polling company Management & Fit found that 60.6 percent of interviewees disapproved of the peronist leader's management.—Reuters

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de

Kirchner delivers a public address at the John F Kennedy Jr Forum at Harvard University in

Cambridge, Massachusetts on 27 Sept, 2012.

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italy business lobby head against second monti government

CAiro, 1 Oct—Egypt signed a deal on Sunday to loan $1 billion from turkey, half of the aid package ankara promised Cairo earlier this month, Egypt's state news agency reported.

president Mohamed Mursi signed the loan agreement with turkish prime Minister recep Tayyip Erdogan after giving a speech at turkey's ruling aK party conference.

“president Mohamed Mursi and prime Minister recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed on signing a loan worth $1 billion dollars from Turkey,” MENA state news agency said, quoting Egypt's finance minister. It did not give further details of the agreement.

in his conference speech, Mursi spoke of strong regional policy ties with turkey and praised it for being the first country to back the Egyptian revolution which toppled Hosni Mubarak and led to the Muslim Brotherhood winning power.

Officials of Mursi's Freedom and Justice party have said they do not look to turkey and its aK party as a political model.

However, analysts say Egypt's new Islamist rulers are taking notes from turkish party's success in building a regional economic powerhouse which has delivered strong growth.—Reuters

egypt signs $1 billion turkish loan deal

rome, 1 Oct— Italy needs a strong political government, not another technocrat administration when prime Minister Mario Monti's term ends in the spring, the head of the country's main employers' confederation said on Sunday.

talk of Monti being reinstalled after the elections has been swirling in Italy and the prime minister said in New York on thursday that if no clear winner emerges from the vote he would be willing to

Italy's Confindustria newly appointed chairman Giorgio Squinzi gestures as he speaks during a news conference in Rome on 22 March, 2012.—ReuteRs

carry on if asked to.However, the

unelected former European commissioner also made it clear that he would not be a candidate at the election. Many politicians, especially on the centre-left which leads in the polls, are cool to the idea of Monti continuing.

“i don’t think a non-candidate can run the next government, because what we have seen in these months is a government experience which has honestly shown a lot of difficulties,” Confindustria president Giorgio Squinzi told Rome daily Il Messaggero.

“we need safe political leadership which wins the majority of votes and has stability, a programme, and the ability to carry it out.”

angelino alfano, the national secretary of Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right people of Freedom party was also hostile to the idea of Monti carrying on unless he ran at the elections.

“I think we have to respect the election result,” alfano said in an interview with Sky Italia television channel.

“How would a second Monti government come about? It’s technically unexplainable.

Reuters

in September, sinking to 24.3 percent from 30 percent in august, according to a poll published on Sunday, as high inflation and worries over

crime weighed.as recently as

september 2011, a month before winning her second

Chicago fed warned on high-frequency trading, seC slow to respond

new York, 1 Oct—More than two years ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago was pushing the US Securities and Exchange Commission to get serious about the dangers of superfast computer-driven trading. Only now is the SEC getting around to taking a closer look at some of those issues.

Critics of the SEC say the delay is part of a pattern of inaction in dealing with the fallout from high frequency trading and shows that the regulator doesn't yet fully appreciate how fears of machine-driven market meltdowns are driving investors away from US markets.

Even as the SEC gears up for a meeting on

The seal of the US Securities and Exchange Commission hangs on the wall at SEC headquarters in Washington, on 24 June, 2011.

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baghdad to make payments to ease Kurd oil conflict

BAghdAd, 1 Oct—Oil payments from Baghdad to Iraq’s Kurdish region will be transferred today, Kurdish Energy Minister ashti Hawrami said on Sunday, offering hope that a long-running conflict between the central government and autonomous region is easing.

Baghdad and Kurdistan agreed earlier this month to draw a line under a dispute over oil payments after the latter pledged to continue exports and baghdad said it would pay foreign companies working there.

tuesday to discuss software glitches and how to tame rapid-fire trading, the eighth public forum it has had in two years on market structure issues, regulators in Canada, australia and Germany are moving ahead with plans to introduce speed limits to safeguard markets from the machines.

One item up for discussion is whether regulators should require trading firms and exchanges to deploy a “kill switch” so that they can quickly shut down a runaway high-speed computer program. that's one of the seven recommendations the Chicago Fed made to the SEC in its 25 March, 2010, letter.

The Chicago Fed said exchanges and other trading platforms should install more

risk controls, even if it slowed down trading, including a “kill switch” at the trader workstation level.

Reuters

Kurdistan has riled Baghdad by signing deals with foreign oil majors, such as Exxon and Chevron, contracts the central government rejects as illegal.

“payments will be transferred to the Kurdish regional government today: that’s what I’ve been told in Baghdad today,” Hawrami told reporters in the Iraqi capital.

Small oil producers like London-based Genel Energy and DNO of Norway have been in the region for about a decade. Majors including Exxon, Chevron and total are newer arrivals.

“this is great news. payments are crucial for us to keep oil flowing” said an official with a company operating in Kurdistan.

the oil contracts row, however, is part of a broader battle between the Baghdad government and Kurdistan over oil rights, territory and regional autonomy that is straining Iraq’s uneasy federal union. Hawrami was in Baghdad for the meeting of a special committee formed earlier this month to try to resolve differences over the country’s long-awaited oil and gas law. Iraqi Oil Minister abdul-Kareem Luaibi, who also attended, described the talks as “very positive”.—Reuters

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ENTERTAINMENTMonsters party tops box office with

“Hotel Transylvania”LOS ANGELES, 1 Oct—

Family film “HotelTransylvania” brought newlife to movie box offices witha chart-topping $43 million inUS and Canadian ticket salesduring the weekend, a recordfor a September opening.

The animated 3-D moviefeaturing the voices of AdamSandler and Selena Gomezfinished ahead of new sciencefiction film “Looper,” whichtook in $21.2 million fromFriday through Sunday.

The police drama “Endof Watch,” which tied with

Actor Adam Sandler poses with mascots of charactersfrom ‘’Hotel Transylvania’’, as he arrives on the red

carpet for the film’s gala presentation at the 37thToronto International Film Festival, on 8 Sept, 2012.

REUTERS

has struggled throughseveral weeks of sluggishattendance.

In “Hotel Transylvania,”Frankenstein, the InvisibleMan and other monstersgather for a party at a high-end resort operated byDracula. Their celebration isdisrupted when a boydiscovers the hotel and fallsin love with Dracula’sdaughter but must deal heroverprotective father.

The film’s domestic salesfar exceeded distributor SonyCorp’s prediction for $25

incredible result,” said RoryBruer, president of worldwidedistribution for Sony Corp’sSony Pictures studio, addingthat the studio had hoped forsomething in the $30 millionrange, which he noted “in thismarket would have beenextraordinary.”

The hefty take easilybeat the September openingrecord of $35.65 million for“Sweet Home Alabama,”which had stood for 10 years.

“Hotel Transylvania”cost $85 million to produce.

Reuters

Anne Hathaway marries inBig Sur

Hathaway, 29, knownfor roles in “The Devil WearsPrada,” “The PrincessDiaries” and “The DarkKnight Rises,” married jewelrydesigner Shulman at a privateestate on the rugged PacificOcean coastline south of SanFrancisco, according toreports in People and Usmagazines which includedpictures of Hathaway in awhite gown with veil and train.

The couple becameengaged last November andmarried on Saturday nightbefore more than 100 invited

US actress AnneHathaway.—REUTERS

guests, with Hathawaywearing a custom Valentinogown, People said. It was thefirst marriage for each.

“They were posing forpictures after the wedding andseemed giddy and on anadrenaline high,” Us quoteda witness to the wedding assaying.

Hathaway wasnominated for an AcademyAward for her role in “RachelGetting Married” and will nextbe seen in the upcoming filmadaptation of “LesMiserables.”

Reuters

LOS ANGELES, 1 Oct—Actress Anne Hathawaymarried fiance AdamShulman at a wedding on thescenic coast of Big Sur,California, celebrity mediareports said on Sunday.

Christie’s offers Bond items on 50th anniversaryLONDON, 1 Oct—

Christie’s will offer 50 items ofJames Bond memorabilia overthe coming week in a charitysale that culminates in a liveauction next Friday, the 50thanniversary of the release ofthe first 007 movie “Dr No”.

The auction, which willraise funds for a range ofcharities including UNICEF,is one of a series of eventsbeing held around the worldto mark the anniversary ofone of the world’s longest-running and most successfulfilm franchises.

Fifty lots will be up forsale, many of them comingfrom EON Productions, thecompany behind the movieseries.

Of the total, 40 will besold online between 28September and 8 October

and 10 of the star items havebeen reserved for the liveauction on 5 October,“Global James Bond Day”,at Christie’s offices in SouthKensington in London.

All lots will go on publicdisplay there from Saturdayuntil 4 October. Admittanceis free.

“I think what we wantedto do was to celebrate the50th anniversary in ameaningful way and letpeople have the opportunityto buy some of the things inour archive that we couldraise money for charityfrom,” said Michael G.Wilson, who along withBarbara Broccoli is guardianof the Bond films.

“There’s a lot of things... from 1,000 pounds ($1,600)on up, really,” he told

Reuters. “There’s plenty ofthings for a whole range ofcollectors.”

Among the highlightsfor him was a one-third scalemodel of an Aston MartinDB5 used in the filming of“Skyfall”, the next Bondadventure which hits the

screens in October.The car was used in

earlier Bonds and has becomeclosely associated with thefictional double agent.

“In Skyfall we go back tothe old Aston Martin, the DB5,we bring that out of mothball,”Wilson said.—Reuters

The original SolexAgitator used by

Christopher Lee in the film“The Man With TheGolden Gun”, is seen

during a media preview of“50 Years of James Bond -the Auction”, at Christie’s

in London on 28 Sept,2012. The piece is

estimated to sell for 1,200 -1,800 GBP ($2,000-3,000)at an online-only auction

from 28 to 8 Sept Oct.REUTERS

Films Divisionto organize

film festival onGandhi

MUMBAI, 1 Oct—FilmsDivision of India is celebratingMahatma Gandhi’s 143rdbirth anniversary byorganising a festival of filmsand art called ‘BAAPU’.

The event, between 2 and5 October, 2012, will havescreenings of films on thefather of nation, such as‘Gandhi’, ‘The Making of TheMahatma’, ‘Gandhi MyFather’, ‘Maine Gandhi KoNahin Mara’, ‘Lage RahoMunna Bhai’.—PTI Auditioned 400 girls before

signing Alia Bhatt: KaranJohar

NEW DELHI, 1 Oct— Indian director-producer KaranJohar, who is launching Mahesh Bhatt’s daughter Alia in hisupcoming film “Student Of The Year”, says the newcomerwasn’t the first choice for the movie.

The 19-year-old debutante plays the role of a rich bratnamed Shanaya Singhania in the film, which also stars newbiesVarun Dhawan and Siddharth Malhotra.

“We screen tested over 400 girls from across Mumbai andother cities.—PTI

“House at the End of theStreet” for the top spot lastweek, landed in third placewith $8 million, according tostudio estimates. The bigturnout for the top filmshelped revive a box office that

million-plus from the NorthAmerican (U.S. and Canadian)market. The movie added $8.1million from internationalmarkets, for a global debut of$51.1 million.

“It’s absolutely an

Actress Lindsay Lohan attends the White HouseCorrespondents’ Association annual dinner in

Washington on 28 April, 2012.REUTERS

Lindsay Lohan assaulted in a New York hotel,man arrested

NEW YORK, 1 Oct—Actress Lindsay Lohan wasattacked by a man in a NewYork hotel on Sunday, herspokesman said, in whatmedia reports described as ascuffle over her demands thatphotos of her be deleted fromhis cellphone.

Lohan suffered minorinjuries following the Sundaymorning attack, spokesmanSteve Honig said in astatement.

Her assailant wasarrested, Honig said. Aspokeswoman for the NewYork City Police Departmentdid not immediately comment.

Celebrity websiteTMZ.com, citing sourcesclose to the actress, identifiedthe attacker as a man Lohanmet at a New York nightclub.

The two began arguingin Lohan’s hotel room aftershe noticed he was takingpictures of her with hiscellphone, TMZ and E! Newsreported.

Lohan told police the man

threw her to the ground,climbed on top of her andtried to choke her beforesomeone else pulled him off,TMZ said.

Honig declined commenton the media reports.

The 26-year-old actress,who has been in and out of

court, rehab and prison inrecent years, was arrested inNew York last week after apedestrian told police that hercar struck him in an alley. Shewas charged with leaving thescene of an accident, amisdemeanor.

Reuters

Alia

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SPORTSGasquet wins all-French final in Bangkok to

end droughtBANGKOK, 1 Oct—

Richard Gasquet won his firstATP title in more than twoyears when he continued hisdomination of Gilles Simonby swatting aside his Frenchcompatriot 6-2, 6-1 to claimthe Thailand Open onSunday.

The indoor hardcourttitle was the seventh ofGasquet’s career and the easyvictory improved his recordover Simon to 6-0.

The 250 rankings pointswill also help improve theworld number 14’s chancesof reaching the season endingWorld Tour finals in Londonin November for the top eightmen.

Fourth-seed Simonstarted brightly by breakingGasquet in the opening gamebefore unravelling in the

Thailand Open tennis tournament men’s singles winnerRichard Gasquet (R) of France lifts up his trophy next to

runner-up compatriot Gilles Simon in Bangkok on 30September, 2012. —REUTERS

Real president tightens defences againstnon-members

lopsided contest in theThailand capital with hisfailure to win points on hisserve letting him down.

“I played against aFrench player who is also my

friend so of course it a littlebit strange but for me it’s atitle and I’ve had some toughmatches this week so I’m veryhappy to win,” Gasquet toldreporters. —Reuters

MADRID, 1 Oct—Real Madrid presidentFlorentino Perez has won the backing ofmembers for statute changes that will make itharder for outsiders to seize control of thewealthy La Liga club.

The changes, approved at a generalassembly in Madrid on Sunday, will meanpresidential candidates will have to havebeen club members for at least 20 years, upfrom 10 years.

They must also personally provide aguarantee worth 15 percent of the club’sbudget —around 75 million euros (59.6

million pounds) — rather than relying on anythird party as has sometimes happened in thepast.

A construction magnate and one ofSpain’s richest men, Perez told members hehad nothing against “sheikhs or Russians”and was attempting to protect the club and its70,000 members, who legally own the Spanishchampions and elect the president.

“Sincerely, not just anyone can comehere and take over the club, however muchgift of the gab he has, and run it into theground,” Perez said.

“This is not a petanque club, it’s the mostimportant sporting institution in the world,”he added.

“If a sheikh, a club member, wants toprovide the guarantee let him come and do it,but it must be in his name.

“A third party cannot guarantee acandidacy because it is against the spirit ofsport and against us.

“I don’t want to think badly of anyonebut this is a matter for our members and notoutsiders.”—ReutersReal Madrid president Florentino Perez

Europe win Ryder Cup with stunning comeback

Team Europe golfer Luke Donald of England reacts tohis sand shot that won his match against US golfer

Bubba Watson on the 17th green during the 39th RyderCup singles golf matches at the Medinah.— REUTERS

MEDINAH, 1 Oct—Inspired by the spirit of SeveBallesteros, Europe’s bigguns all delivered as JoseMaria Olazabal’s playersproduced an astonishingcomeback to win the RyderCup by 14-1/2 points to 13-1/2 at Medinah Country Clubon Sunday.

Needing to claim eightpoints in the concludingsingles to retain the trophy,Europe won six of the firsteight encounters beforeGermany’s Martin Kaymersecured the vital point toretain the Cup by beatingSteve Stricker one up.

After Stricker had coollyholed his par putt from eightfeet at the last, Kaymer buriedhis five-footer for a matchingpar before thrusting his armsskywards in delight.

“It’s indescribable,” theGerman told reporters. “I wasso nervous the last two, threeholes. I loved it. It’s amazing.”

With the chance of a tieresting on the final match,Tiger Woods astonishinglymissed a three-foot par putton the 18th green to halve hiscontest with Italy’s FrancescoMolinari, handing Europeoutright victory.

Europe, who sent outtheir best players early,emulated the miraclecomeback achieved by theUS at Brookline in 1999 whenthey also overhauled a deficitof 10-6 on the final day.

The Americans had beenbidding to triumph in thebiennial competition for onlythe second time in six editions.

“We believed in ourhearts we could win this,”

Englishman Luke Donaldsaid. “It’s been done beforeand we believed we couldturn it around.”

The Europeans drewinspiration on Sunday fromtheir beloved Ballesteros,

who died last year aged 54after a battle with cancer, withevery player wearing the navyblue colours favoured by theSpaniard in the final roundsof tournaments.

Reuters

US 13-1/2 Europe 14-1/2 -Ryder Cup result

MEDINAH, (Illinois), 1 Oct— Completed scores afterSunday’s concluding singles matches between hosts theUnited States and holders Europe in the 39th Ryder Cup atMedinah Country Club in Medinah, Illinois:

Europe beat the US by 14-1/2 points to 13-1/2Match 1 Luke Donald (Europe) beat Bubba Watson

(United States) 2&1Match 2 Ian Poulter (Europe) beat Webb Simpson (United

States) 2upMatch 3 Rory McIlroy (Europe) beat Keegan Bradley

(United States) 2&1Match 4 Justin Rose (Europe) Beat Phil Mickelson (United

States) 1upMatch 5 Paul Lawrie (Europe) beat Brandt Snedeker

(United States) 5&3

Team Europe golfer Ian Poulter of England celebratesafter winning the Ryder Cup during the 39th Ryder Cup

singles golf matches at the Medinah Country Club inMedinah, Illinois, on 30 September, 2012.

REUTERS

Tottenham’s Bale eyes foreign move “in the future”LONDON, 1 Oct—

Tottenham Hotspur’s flyingwinger Gareth Bale finds theidea of one day playing abroadappealing despite signing anew four-year deal with thePremier League side in June.

The 23-year-old

Welshman has long beencoveted by top Europeannames such as Inter Milan.

“I’d never be scared ofit,” he told Saturday’sGuardian newspaper whileadmitting he did have a fear ofspiders.

“It’s something I’d liketo experience. It’s in the futurebut if something did come upI would obviously look at itwith interest.”

Spurs visit ManchesterUnited later and are stillgetting used to life under newcoach Andre Villas-Boas, whoruffled too many feathers atChelsea last season and wasgiven the sack.

Reports have also saidhis training methods have notwon universal approval attheir London rivals but Balesaid the Portuguese was agood listener.

“For example, if we feelwe are working too hard intraining, if we say that to him,then he’ll ease off. He’s stilllearning as well as a manager,”Bale said.

“Sometimes it just takesa bit of time.”

The left winger alsosought to clear up confusionover why he pulled out ofBritain’s Olympic squad inJuly only to appear forTottenham in pre-seasonfriendlies at the same time asthe Games footballtournament.

“I had a problem with myback. I just wasn’t expectingto recover that quickly,” saidBale, who added that BritishOlympic defender MicahRichards is the toughest rightback he has faced despite theManchester City man’scontinual England snub.

Richards, who has won13 caps, last played for thenational team in Februaryand was not selected for Euro2012 under coach RoyHodgson who wasappointed in May.

ReutersTottenham Hotspur’s flying winger Gareth Bale.

REUTERS

Match 6 Dustin Johnson (United States) beat NicolasColsaerts (Europe) 3&2

Match 7 Zach Johnson (United States) beat GraemeMcDowell (Europe) 2&1

Match 8 Sergio Garcia (Europe) beat Jim Furyk (UnitedStates) 1up

Match 9 Jason Dufner (United States) beat Peter Hanson(Europe) 2up

Match 10 Lee Westwood (Europe) beat Matt Kuchar(United States) 3&2

Match 11 Martin Kaymer (Europe) beat Steve Stricker(United States) 1up

Match 12 Tiger Woods (United States) halved withFrancesco Molinari (Europe)

Reuters

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GENERAL Tuesday, 2 October, 2012 15

(2-10-12 09:30 am ~3-10-12 09:30 am) MST* News* World Tourism Day 2012* News* Medicinal Properties of

Frangipani Flower* News* World School Milk Day* News* ASEAN Economic

Community (AEC)Workshop Series 3 AECBrainstorming TourismInvestment, Logistics andSMES

* News* Chiz Co Co’s Leftovers

from Century

Focus Myanmar TV Programme* News* Peace Education

Symposium* International Day for the

Preservation of the OzoneLayer 2012

* News* Wathan Film Festival

(Nargis Special Screening)* News* Potent Noni, Organic

Medicine* Myanmar Movie

“Love and its dignity”

MYANMARINTERNATIONAL

2. To Be Healthy Exercise7:50 am 5. Nice & Sweet Song8:05 am 7. Songs Of Yester Years8:15 am 8. Song Of National Races8:25 am10. Selected Songs For 19th

Myanmar TraditionalCultural PerformingArts Competitions(2012)(Oldies & MonoClassial)(Basic EducationLevel) (Women)

4:00 pm 1. Martial Song4:10 pm 2. Musical Programme4:35 pm 4. Teleplay (Traffic)4:45 pm 5. University of Distance

Education (TV Lectures)-Third Year (Public Policy)

5:00 pm 6. Songs For Upholding

National Spirit5:05 pm 7. The Mirror Images of

The Musical Oldies5:15 pm 8. Road to 27th SEA

GAMES (Judo)5:30 pm 9. Sweet Melody6:20 pm13. Kyae Pwint Myaye Yin

Khone Than6:35 pm14. Sing A Song8:00 pm16. News20. Bakery World21. TV Drama Series22. India Drama Series

7:00 am 1. Paritta By Venerable

Mingun Sayadaw- Uppatahandi Paritta

7:25 am

MYANMAR TV(2-10-2012, Tuesday)

DISTRICT NEWS

16 killed in traffic accident innorthern Mexico

MEXICO CITY, 1 Oct — At least 16 people were killed whena truck and a van had a head-on collision in northern Mexico’sCoahuila state, local media reported Sunday.

Witness said the truck invaded the opposite lane of thehighway Viesca-Matamoros and directly hit the van shortlybefore 22:00 hours on Saturday (0300 GMT Sunday), asreported by the local newspaper “El Universal” quoting theCoahuila state police.

The driver of the truck fled the scene after the accident.At least 16 people were killed in the traffic accident, among thedead were two girls just a few months old and another of 3years who were traveling with the family to the nearby townof Hidalgo Congregation.

The Red Cross ambulances immediately arrived at thescene and firefighters were given the task of rescuing thevictims who were among the twisted iron bars. The bodies ofthe victims were taken by forensic services for furtherexamination.

Spokesmen for the State Police reported that the vehicleinvolved was a tractor-trailer closed box owned by Mexicofreight, and a Ford Ranger pick-up.—Xinhua

Passengers queue at awaiting room of therailway station in

Changchun, capital ofnortheast China’s Jilin

Province, on 1 Oct, 2012.The railway

transportation in Chinais expected to send ninemillion passengers on

Monday, the second dayof the eight-day “Golden

Week” holiday.XINHUA

Death toll ofminibuscrash in

Zimbabwerises to 15

HARARE, 1 Oct— Thedeath toll of a commuteromnibus crash in easternZimbabwean province ofManicaland has risen to 15 astwo more passengers died inhospital, police said onSunday.

Nine died on the spotwhen a commuter omnibusthey were travelling incollided head-on with ahaulage truck along theHarare-Mutare highway,while four others werepronounced dead onadmission at Rusape GeneralHospital. Two others died lateon Saturday.

National traffic policespokesperson AssistantInspector Tigere Chigomeconfirmed the accident,saying that the omnibus hit acow and encroached onto theopposite lane, resulting in theaccident.

The accident comesbarely four days after anotherfatal accident took placewhere six people were killedwhile 12 others were injuredon on September 24. Theaccident occurred in themorning when a Mbare-bound commuter omnibusoverturned alongChitungwiza Road.

Four people died on thespot while one died onadmission to ChitungwizaCentral Hospital. The sixthperson died on his way toParirenyatwa Hospital fromChitungwiza Central Hospital.

Xinhua

Israel frees two Hamaslawmakers in West BankRAMALLAH, 1 Oct— Israeli authorities on Sunday released

two lawmakers in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) inthe West Bank.

Local rights groups’ sources told Xinhua that Israelreleased Samir al-Qadi and Abdel Rahman Zeidan, who arealso members of the Islamic Hamas movement in the WestBank.

After spending 16 months in an Israeli jail under theadministrative detention, al-Qadi was released at an Israeliarmy checkpoint near the southern West Bank city of Hebronand Zeidan was released at an Israeli checkpoint near Ramallah.

Hamas members in the PLC said in a press statement thatthe Israeli attempts to keep Hamas lawmakers imprisoned inits jails “ is a poor attempt to deprive the Palestinians of theirparliamentary rights.”

Hamas, which dominates the PLC with 74 out of 132 seats,said in the statement that it calls on the Arab and internationalparliaments to pressure Israel to release all the Palestinianlawmakers and PLC members from its jails.

Xinhua

Monaco wins in Malaysia for year’sfourth title

KUALA LUMPUR, 1 Oct—Argentine Juan Monacobattled for more than threehours to defeat FrenchmanJulien Benneteau 7-5 4-6 6-3in the Malaysian Open finalon Sunday for his fourth ATPtitle of the year.

Monaco, ranked 11th inthe world, kept alive his hopesof qualifying for November’sseason-ending World Tourfinals in London as one of thetop eight ranked players.

“I celebrated with myteam in the locker room andtonight I’ll have Malaysianfood with my team,” Monacotold reporters after his seventhATP title.

“I think we played a great

Juan Monaco ofArgentina celebratesafter defeating Julien

Benneteau of France intheir final match at theMalaysian Open tennistournament in KualaLumpur, Malaysia,Sunday, on 30 Sept,

2012.—REUTERS

match, with a lot of ups anddowns. I got a little nervouswhen I had chances, but Inever gave up.

“He surprised me a littlebit with his comeback in thesecond set. In the final set, Iknew I had to be moreaggressive and I am happythe way I finished the match.”

Benneteau, 30, ranked34th in the world, lost hisseventh career final and willcontinue his quest for his firstATP title.

“I was very focused onthis game, because I wantedto win this final,” Benneteausaid.

“The fans were great,there were a lot of French in

the crowd. It was a niceatmosphere and the game wasa good level.”—Reuters

Tennis

Township Administrator’sCup concludes

MYAUNGMYA, 1 Oct—The Myaungmya TownshipAdministrator’s Cup U-25 Inter-Village/Ward FootballTournament 2012 reached the final match on 23 September.

In the afternoon, the final match was held at MyomaSports Ground where Ward 3+Moksokwin Village B teambeat Moksokwin A team.

Deputy Commissioner U Aung Myin of MyaungmyaDistrict General Administration Department, the Commanderof District Police Force and Ayeyawady Region Minister forFinance and Revenue U Win Ko Ko presented prizes to thewinning teams and best players in respective places in thetournament.

Myanma Alin

Two Kenyan police shot dead near Somaliaborder

GARISSA, 1 Oct—Twopolice officers were shot deadin Kenya on Sunday in thenorthern town of Garissa closeto the border with Somalia,police said, hours after a childwas killed in a grenade attackon a church in Nairobi.

Kenya has been hit by aseries of grenade and gunattacks since it sent troopsinto Somalia last October inpursuit of Islamist al Shabaabmilitants whom it blamed for

kidnapping its securitypersonnel and Westerntourists.

The killing of the policeofficers and the attack on thechurch came days afterKenyan troops launched asurprise offensive on thesouthern Somali port ofKismayu, al Shabaab’s laststronghold, forcing the rebelsto flee.

Most of the inhabitantsof Garissa, where the police

officers were shot, are ethnicSomalis and the town islocated only 180 km (111 miles)from Kenya’s border withSomalia. Herman Ndiema,Garissa’s deputy police chief,told Reuters the two officerswere killed as they walked toa technical college they hadbeen assigned to guard. Theirkillers drove up to them in ataxi, shot them dead, and thenjumped out to steal their guns,he said.—Reuters

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Tuesday, 2 October, 20122nd Waning of Tawthalin 1374 ME

Republic of the Union of MyanmarPyidaungsu Hluttaw

Announcement No. (4/2012)1st Waning of Tawthalin, 1374 ME

(1st October, 2012)Fifth Regular session of First Pyidaungsu

Hluttaw summonedUnder the Section 79 of the Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar

and Article 13 of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law, it is hereby announced that the fifth regularsession of first Pyidaungsu Hluttaw will be convened at 10.00 am on 7th waxing ofThadingyut, 1374 ME (22 October, 2012).

Sd/Khin Aung MyintSpeaker

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw

YANGON, 1 Oct—Myanmar delegationled by Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw andSpeaker of Amyotha Hluttaw U Khin AungMyint left here by air this afternoon to attendthe 7th Asian-Europe ParliamentaryPartnership (ASEP-7) to be held from 3 to 5October in Lao People’s Democratic Republicand to pay a goodwill visit to Australia from7 to 12 October.

The Myanmar delegation was seen off atYangon International Airport by Chairman ofAmyotha Hluttaw ASEAN Political andSecurity Community Committee U Nyunt Tin,Secretary of Amyotha Hluttaw Finance andLegal Affairs Commission U Myint Thein,Deputy Speaker of Yangon Region Hluttaw U

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker and partyto attend ASEP-7 meeting

Tin Aung, Laotian Ambassador to MyanmarMr. Nilahath Sayarath, Charge d’ Affaires aiof Australian Embassy to Myanmar Ms. RuthStewart and officials.

Members of Myanmar delegation wereChairman of Amyotha Hluttaw PublicAccounts Committee U Thein Win, Secretaryof Amyotha Hluttaw Local and ForeignWorkers’ Affairs Committee U Saw Maw Tun,member of Amyotha Hluttaw Bill Committee USoe Myint, Secretary of Amyotha HluttawInternational Relations Committee U HtayMaung, member of Amyotha HluttawEconomic and Commerce Committee Dr SoeWin and Director-General of Hluttaw Office UKyaw Soe.—MNA

MADRID, 1 Oct—LionelMessi wants to beremembered as a good friendand colleague to his teammates rather than as the bestplayer in the world, theunassuming Argentine saidin an interview on Monday.

The 25-year-oldBarcelona forward has wonthree consecutive WorldPlayer of the Year awards,and is expected to be in therunning for a fourth this year,after scoring anunprecedented 73 goals inall competitions last season.

“I prefer to win titleswith the team ahead ofindividual awards or scoringmore goals than anyoneelse,” Messi told Spanishdaily EL Pais. “I am moreworried about being a goodperson than being the bestfootball player in the world.When all this is over, whatare you left with?

“When I retire, I hope Iam remembered for being a

Specialists make field trip tograssroots level

KYAUKSE, 1 Oct—Medical Superintendent DrYin Thanda Lwin,specialists and nurses ofKyaukse General Hospitalof Mandalay Region on 22September provided schoolhealth care services inYanponhnit Village.

Health personnelexplained dysentery,diarrhoea, tuberculosis anddengue hemorrhagic feverdiseases.

Messi wants more than justaccolades

decent guy. I like to scoregoals but I also like to havefriends among the people Ihave played with.”

Messi is expecting thebirth of his first child, a boyto be named Thiago, in thenext month, but does notseem to have been distractedon the pitch.

He has netted 10 goalsin all competitions so far,under Pep Guardiola’sformer assistant TitoVilanova.—Reuters

The medicalsuperintendent donated K182,000 and Chairperson ofKyaukse District Maternaland Child WelfareSupervisory CommitteeDaw Aye Aye Win K 50,000to the fund for constructionof village gravel road.

Later, specialists andhealth personnel providedmedical treatment to 658patients.

Myanma Alin

Myanmardelegation

led bySpeaker ofPyidaungsuHluttaw andSpeaker ofAmyothaHluttaw

U Khin AungMyint to

attend the 7th

Asian-Europe

ParliamentaryPartnership(ASEP-7)being seenoff at theYangon

InternationalAirport byofficials.

MNA

YANGON, 1 Oct—Myanmar Wrestling Federation istraining its athletes as part of efforts to achieve victoriesin the XXVII SEA Games 2013.

Myanma Alin news crew held an interview with in-charge of wrestling event U Thurein Tun (AssistantDirector) of the federation at National Indoor Stadium-1 in Thuwunna recently. The in-charge said, “Ourfederation took part in the wrestling event of the XXVISEA Games with five men athletes. They secured fivebronze medals. The federation opened wrestling sportsto 50 trainees from 5 to 14 September 2012. The Turkishcoach picked out outstanding athletes among the traineesand then managed training for 30 men and womenathletes as of 20 September.”

He continued, “The athletes are under two trainingsessions from 7.30 am to 9.30 am and from 3.30 pm to 5pm daily. The federation hired Turkish coach Mr NureddinKurt for training. Best 10 players among those who aretaking part in the training session will be sent to Turkey inDecember and January and to take joint exercise with worldclass Turkish athletes. Our athletes will take part in themen freestyle, men Greco Roman and women freestyle inthe wrestling event of the SEA Games.”

In the XXVII SEA Games, Vietnam, Thailand,Indonesia and the Philippines may be main rivals forMyanmar in the wrestling event.—Myanma Alin

Wrestlers under training forXXVII SEA Games

Qatar’s modern future rubsup against conservative

traditions

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